Running ads can be expensive, and there are so many factors to consider. Are you targeting the right audience? And running the ad effectively? And is this the right advertising campaign for your business?
It’s even harder for small businesses that have to compete against larger companies with bigger budgets.
Or insanely large budgets.
If you’re unsure which ads work best for you, you’re at the right place. With digital media, there’s a way to create effective ad campaigns on a shoestring budget. Here, we’re going to show you seven different cost-effective ad types for small businesses. For each of these ad types, we’ll let you know the function and the reasons it performs well for small business. And we’ll explore examples of companies that leveraged these ad types successfully.
But first, we need to look at why these ad types are digital and what the benefits of advertising online are.
Although traditional marketing is critical for many small businesses, the seven different ad types below will be in a digital format.
It costs less to reach the same number of people using digital than traditional channels.
Now, let’s get into those cost-effective ad types!
Actually, one more thing! Did you know you can view all your cost data (even from non-Google platforms) in Google Analytics? Learn how here.
Google has a lot of advertising streams, but the one we’re talking about here looks like this.
These are search ads, one of the most popular forms of PPC. You only pay when a viewer clicks on the ad.
These ads appear in Google search results and will help you buy your way to the top of the search for a keyword, without any SEO strategies needed.
Google Ads uses an auction-based model. The auction determines whether the ad will show and, if it does, which position it ranks on the search page.
How does it work?
Google Ads rewards businesses with high-quality ad campaigns with low click-through costs and stronger ad placements.
While the average cost per click (CPC) on Google Ads ranges from $1 to $2, it depends on your location, industry, and keywords.
The Berwick Shellfish company, a fresh seafood family business, was looking to drive direct sales through their website. Graham received over 250,000 page impressions in a year, a 12% increase in mailing list sign-ups, and 70-80% of his online sales, all from Google Ads.
Facebook is one of the best platforms to advertise on as a small business owner. It’s the world’s most popular social network, with over two billion monthly active users. Plus, each of those active users accesses the site eight times per day on average.
Best of all, you can target your Facebook ads to a specific audience of your choosing.
We recommend exploring video on Facebook, especially since social video is shared 1200% more than images and text combined.
Like Google, Facebook Ads is an auction-based model. The average CPC on Facebook is $1.72. However, this varies depending on the industry.
The average cost per action rate is $18.68. Once again, this differs between different industries.
Broccoli Pizza & Pasta, a fast-growing Italian restaurant founded in 2011 in Dubai, with over 135 stores in six countries, created a high-energy Facebook three-day campaign for National Pizza Day in 2019.
They reached 9.26 million people in three countries, which resulted in a 31% boost to their sales. They also had a 2x higher return on ad spend compared to their previous campaigns by using video and immersive full-screen ads.
Like Google, Amazon has many advertising options. The one we’re going to focus on here is Sponsored products.
Sponsored product ads are driven by manual keywords (words users type in the search bar) and automatic keyword targeting (Amazon’s systems target keywords for your campaign).
Amazon is now the third largest seller of ads in the US, just behind Google and Facebook.
So if you are selling products, it would be a no-brainer to advertise on Amazon so that you can reach over 100 million Amazon Prime members.
But if you’re selling a local service, probably best to skip this option and move on to the next.
According to Rob Sieracki from Practical Commerce, the average CPC on Amazon rarely exceeds $0.35.
This makes running ads on their platform even more cost-effective than Google Ads and equals some of the lowest cost-per-clicks on Facebook Ads.
Just Paper Roses, a small but growing business that created paper flowers for all occasions doubled the units sold in 30 days after joining Amazon advertising. They also increased the visibility of products, which included high-margin orchids and had higher sales that offset the ad spend.
There are over 610 million business professionals on LinkedIn.
If you are a local business selling a service to busy professionals, other companies, or enterprises, then you need to leverage LinkedIn ads.
While there are many types of LinkedIn Ads, we’re talking about sending a Sponsored InMail.
Sponsored InMail ads are different from the Google, Facebook, and Amazon ads we explored earlier. The Sponsored InMail ads allow you to enter conversations and promote content like webinars, ebooks, and other assets with key decision-makers, which are a great way to nurture a relationship, especially if it involves an expensive or ongoing purchase.
Sponsored InMail campaigns also work as a bidding auction to reach a target audience.
You can buy LinkedIn’s Sponsored InMail messages on a cost-per-send basis (you will be paying per unit for the delivery of each Sponsored InMail.) There is a minimum total campaign budget of $25.00.
Using the example above, it will cost you from $780 to $900 to send 3,900 to 18,600 messages to a specific target audience in 30 days.
According to AltaVista’s current Sponsored InMail campaign, their:
VistaVu Solutions is a business management software company that targets oilfield services. Within one week, the InMail campaign had a conversion rate of 23.8%.
The Display Ad and InMail campaign together generated compelling results. 19 out of the 20 leads captured just in the first week, moved in the sales funnel as qualified leads. The company’s cost-per-lead was also one-fifth the price of the company’s standard benchmark.
Not only did VistaVu receive more leads, but the lead quality was unmatched.
If you have a location-centric local business, Google Maps marketing may be perfect for you.
Google Maps marketing is the process of using Google Maps to bring in more customers to your door.
With over one billion people using Google Maps, there’s a good chance that your customers are using it, too.
But that’s not all.
84% of consumers conduct local searches.
75% of users who search up for a product, service, or location nearby are likely to visit a store within the next 24 hours.
And 28% of these searches end up as an actual purchase.
Google charges advertisers on a pay-per-click basis.
While it depends on your industry, it can cost from $25 to $150 to rank at the top of the Google Maps search listing.
When searching for hotels in Seattle, Four Points by Sheraton, a hotel chain’s Google Map Ad appears at the top with a purple ad pin. As you can see, the hotel’s price deal, rating, description, and Wi-Fi status appear at the top of the Google Map search listing.
Google display ads are the visual banner ads you see on advertising-supported websites. You can find them almost everywhere.
Display ads function a lot like paid search ads. They have a headline, text, and URL. But they also contain ad design—like graphics, video, or audio—that helps them jump out on the page.
Instead of appearing on search engine results, display ads appear on websites relevant to your service or product.
With Google Display Ads, you can choose to set the price you want to pay. Like Google search and Facebook Ads, Google Display Ads works via an auction approach.
You can choose to pay via:
Ads on the Google Display network generally have lower clickthrough rates.
The average cost per click of an advertisement on the Google Display Network is under $0.58.
Julian Bakery, a family business that produces specialty bread in La Jolla CA, used the Google Display Network. It increased their conversions by 35% and impressions by 330%. In three years that the company has advertised with Google, they have grown from 10 to 35 employees. Their revenue also doubled from last year.
A Google Shopping ad is a product listing that has your brand, product’s image, name, and price.
At times, they can also include reviews or other exclusive perks, like a discount or free shipping.
As you can see in the example, Google shopping ads appear before paid and organic search listings.
The price of Google Shopping Ads will depend on the amount of visibility you’d like for your products. You can dictate your daily budget and your PPC bids.
But if you’re looking to set your bids competitively, take a look at WordStream’s shopping ads benchmarks.
Paper Culture, a small stationery company that sells 100% post-consumer recycled products turned to Google Shopping Ads to complement their Google Ad campaign.
As the fifth item on the right in the example above, Paper Culture used the image-centric approach of Google Shopping Ads. They managed to increase their ROI 3x compared to other channels and saw a decrease in their cost-per-lead by up to 50%.
Online advertising can be extremely affordable for small businesses, especially since you can set daily budgets for your campaigns. You can leverage Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Amazon’s network to advertise your products and services, and get in front of the masses.
Better yet, these platforms allow you to target your specific niche and audience.
So if you’re a small business keen to increase sales, make sure you take advantage of one, two, or more of these seven cost-effective ad types to find out what works for you.
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SMITHFIELD – A Cranston native who has spent the last 16 years in the nation’s capital as a global business development executive will return home to lead the John H. Chafee Center for International Business at Bryant University.
The university announced Tuesday that Andrew Gelfuso has been appointed the Chafee center’s new director and will start on July 1. Gelfuso takes over the role once held by Mark S. Murphy, a former longtime Providence Business News editor who left the center at the end of January after serving as director for more than two years.
Bryant said Gelfuso has more than 20 years of experience driving top-line growth initiatives via executive management, trade missions, international expansion and global public and private deals within Washington, D.C. Gelfuso for 16 years served as vice president with Trade Center Management Associates and director of the World Trade Center at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
In that role, Gelfuso grew the trade office and advanced its congressional mission to promote trade in new ways. Gelfuso, Bryant said, is known for developing strategic global relationships at top government levels, business and nonprofit sectors.
In leading the Chafee center, Gelfuso will help maintain strong relationships with various state offices, including R.I. Commerce Corp. He will also foster world trade through collaborating with Bryant’s academic programs, partnerships with state and federal entities and outreach to the business community, the university said.
The incoming director will also play a major role in administering the Rhode Island State Trade Expansion Program grant, which Bryant says is a national export initiative that makes matching fund awards to states to assist small businesses expanding into global markets, as well as develop business training, consulting services and other programs offered by the Chafee center.
“My hope is that the relationships that I have developed globally during my time in Washington, D.C., as well as my early career experience with the center, will benefit its clients and create new connections and opportunities for the university and the state,” Gelfuso said Tuesday in a statement.
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3.5 adventurous stars
I liked this story of people who challenged a mountain and through climbing it learned more about themselves and who they are. The descriptions of the scenery were done well. All the climbers from Sara to Dr Reddy and his son to Wilder Carson and his wife Vida, to Virgil Adams and his wife Hillary, to the Sherpas, made this story a harrowing tale. Everyone of the climbers had a history from Sara climbing to honor her mother who perished in a mountaineering episode, and the others we learn of the determination and drive one must possess to attempt a climb such as this where the weather and the sheer environment can kill you.
I stand in awe of people like those portrayed in this book. I have never or would I ever engage in mountain climbing even though I realize it is a feat that consumes some knowing full well the dangers that such a task can hold within it.
Mysterium, Mount Sarasvati, is part of the Indian Himalayas and is the tallest peak in that range. To climb to this peak is an achievement of great peril to the climbers. They suffer from lack of oxygen, the freezing cold, the constant fear of both falling and avalanches, and frostbite that inhabits their everyday. It makes one realize their frailty as they try to conquer what perhaps never should be conquered. It is also a place where one comes face to face with their own frailty, the ghosts that often haunts one, and the realization that life is often treacherous and dangerous.
The one issue I had with the book was that I felt it was too wordy, overwritten at times causing this reader to not become as engaged as one should be in a novel of this sort. I do appreciate the tone Ms Froderberg was trying to strike but at times I had to force myself to continue this journey. Perhaps better editing would have helped.
However, I do recommend this book to anyone who enjoys adventure, to those who relish the ultimate challenge, to those who set a lofty goal among the clouds.
Thank you to Susan Froderburg., Farrar, Straus and Giroux and NetGalley for a copy of this novel.
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Lovely review, Marialyce! I agree with everything you said about this one.
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Thanks Jennifer! I only wish it had been a bit better in the editing department. I can understand a lot of people shutting this one down.
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Fantastic review Marialyce! 💜
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Thanks so much!

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Every month, Culturez-vous presents a playlist with a selection of the latest music releases! In this new selection : Alban Claudin, P.R2B, November Ultra, Babx, Nicolas Maury, Danube, Poppy Fusée, Dana Gavanski, David Sztanke, Lesneu, Simonde d’Opale et Joel Lyssarides. You can also find this playlist on Youtube, Deezer and Spotify ! Enjoy your listening!
Every month, Culturez-vous presents a playlist with a selection of the latest music releases! In this new selection : Annael, Oete, Mathieu Saïkaly, Rone, Fakear, Stromae, Lucy Dacus, Chevalrex et Pi Ja Ma, Maxence Cyrin, Animal Triste, La Belle Vie, Anna Majidson, Maud Lübeck, Corde et Princess Chelsea. You can also find this playlist on Youtube, Deezer and Spotify ! […]
To discover the sound heritage of Versailles: this is the objective of the “cartes blanches électro” that the most famous château in France has been organising for three editions now. 350 years after Lully, Versailles continues to inspire musicians who draw on the richness of the castle’s “sounds” to compose their melodies. Nowadays, electro composers […]
Like every month, Culturez-vous offers a selection of music chosen from the latest releases. In this 86th playlist, 15 new tracks to discover, with : Cats on Trees, Yael Naim & Albin de la Simone, Lonny, Laurent Bardainne, Tirgre d’Eau Douce and Bertrand Belin, Florent Marchet, Pauline Bisou, Teho, Lesneu, A Panda Do Sol, Emma […]
Classical music is surrounded by a lot of preconceived ideas: too expensive, too elitist, too boring… However, classical music is much more accessible than we think. So how to choose a classical music concert without taking risks? The Philharmonie de Paris has set up a “first steps” offer: a selection of great classics at special […]
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Hubbard Park / East Peak Rock Climbing
Slightly wet out but great boulder
Located near Meriden. These are some decent boulders visible from I-691 on the north side of the highway just before the pedestrian bridge of hubbard park. Take a left off of exit 4 on the 691 westbound. then take a left on W Main St and head downhill about 1/2 mile and the park entrance will be on the left. Park at the trailhead at the back of the pond area.
There are about 12 good boulders in this area, some smallish and some highball. The rock is traprock and the holds are big diamond shaped traprock on the ends of the boulders, and a more smeary, textured surface on the faces/backs of the boulders. Someone else has climbed here as I found chalk on some of the more obvious lines. There are some genuinely fun problems here, be sure to check it out.
I will try to get out and take some photos of some of the more obvious lines. If anyone has climbed here or knows who did the FA's or has beta for this area please add it here. Also, if this was someones secret spot, I'm sorry, I figured it was fair game since its in plain view from the highway.
From the parking area, take the trail northwest along the highway for about 10 minutes to the pedestrian overpass. Cross the overpass and head up the trail towards the tower, but veer off to the right after about 150 yards of uphill. From here you are traveling cross country about 300 yards to the boulder field. You will be within earshot/view of 691.
Climbing Season For the CT Bouldering area.
Weather station 3.3 miles from here
Featured Route For Hubbard Park / East Peak
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Jun 30, 2011
Hand's down, one of the best bouldering locations in CT. Some real potential here.
By Nick Votto
Oct 11, 2011
OK so the secrets finally out here....a couple friends and I started putting problems up here about 12-13 years ago. We've got 20-30 good problems in the area and a bunch of other not so good ones. Even this spring we put up a couple new ones after bouldering here half of our lifes. Its a good spot and if anyones interested I'll show them around as I'm back in my hometown for a bit and live 10 minutes away.
By Morgan Patterson
May 3, 2012
Always looked never stopped... nice work!

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Affiliation: Erciyes University, Türkiye, Engineering Faculty
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Affiliation: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
This research holds significant importance in the realm of digital well-being, addressing the increasing concern over digital addiction. By analyzing user feedback on digital well-being systems, the study provides valuable insights into the effectiveness of these systems in moderating digital habits. It contributes to understanding how digital detox applications can mitigate compulsive smartphone use, thereby enhancing mental health. The study stands out for its unique approach to clustering user feedback on two popular digital well-being systems, Space and Google Well-being app. This original approach provides a novel perspective on user interaction with digital well-being tools, distinguishing it from existing literature which primarily focuses on general usage patterns and the impact on mental health. The purpose of this research is to systematically analyze and cluster user feedback on digital well-being systems. It also incorporates information retrieval techniques like topic modeling to extract main topics from these reviews. This methodology allows for an in-depth understanding of user feedback, going beyond mere statistical analysis to capture the nuances of user experiences and expectations. The findings of this research have significant implications for software developers and stakeholders in the digital well-being domain.
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ABC’s Of Mindfulness
Mindful & Co – Kids presents 26 beautiful poems (A-Z) to introduce your little one to the magical world of mindfulness. Starting at ‘Awareness’ and finishing off at ‘Zzz’, we make mindfulness fun, creative and easy with this helpful resource that eases them gently into this new place of exploration.
Studies have found that colouring in improves stress management and is a practical alternative to relaxation breathing. When combined with breathing techniques, meditation and mindfulness, the simple act of colouring in has the potential to become a fun yet mindful ritual that improves one’s wellbeing.
The Mindful & Co – Kids range teaches children to connect with themselves and the world around them, giving them the tools to embrace scary situations and big life decisions while feeling assured and safe in their choices.
Having spent over two years conducting research on the scientific benefits of mindfulness as part of her Master’s degree, Mindful & Co founder Jacqueline Yeats holds the firm belief that mindfulness has the ability to help youths overcome stress, anxiety, and depression.


Building Community Value Welcomes
Michael Alan Williams
Building Community Value (BCV) is proud to welcome Michael Alan Williams to our team this summer as our Harvard Fellow. Michael will support BCV’s executive team in all real estate development projects, whether in the planning or implementation stages, and in administration of our community-based programming, including our real estate training program Better Buildings, Better Blocks.
Michael is a native Detroiter and recent MBA graduate from the Harvard Business School (HBS). He is passionate about making the communities in which we live more beautiful, equitable, and sustainable, with a special focus on economic and social justice for Black communities. Michael has participated in and led civic engagement and community development projects in Detroit as well as South Africa, Germany, Poland, and Vietnam.
In his most recent role before business school, Michael served in the New York City Mayor's Office as the sole senior analyst for OneNYC - a comprehensive, multi-billion dollar plan funding over 200 initiatives to address New York's profound social, economic, and environmental challenges. This fall, Michael will partake in an HBS-sponsored leadership fellowship as special assistant to the CEO of The Kresge Foundation.
Michael is thrilled to return to his hometown and engage in the equitable development of Detroit's neighborhoods through BCV.


A principal's hand-holding punishment brought wide media scrutiny, but many students stand on his side.
A federal appeals court has upheld a $1 million jury award against a New York district in a case involving persistent racial harassment of a student by his peers.
An updated version of the federally produced guide addresses how parents can address the drug-related issues their kids face now.
Cigarette smoking among 12- to 17-year-olds dropped from 2002 to 2010 in 41 states; but nearly 20 percent of high school seniors report smoking hookah.
Parents in Santa Clarita Valley, Calif., have been enrolling enough of their children in a random drug testing program that the school wishes to expand it.
Rather than their depression, behavior problems such as issues with attention, delinquency, and substance abuse hurt these students' grades.
In all, the agency said it received 28,971 complaints from 2009 to 2012, more than in any previous four-year period in its history. More than half were about disability issues.
About 1 in 15 people living in the United States who has HIV is 13 to 24 years old--and more than half of these young people don't know they have the disease, new CDC estimates show, and the agency says schools must work harder to prevent HIV's spread.
Only one of every two dogs is actually eating students' homework, according to a new installment of a biennial study of student character.
A Frontline documentary offers a wrenching account of the impacts of poverty on three American families and their young children.


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The monsters of glass and concrete overshadow the golden domes of ancient temples and distort the unique face of the capital.
Saving the drowning is up to the drowning, says popular wisdom. Kyiv residents are increasingly growing to get accustomed to live by this principle. For years, the city councilmen have abused their powers and enjoyed brazen impunity, handing out the precious land in the historical center of Kyiv.
Corrupt civil servants followed the lead by issuing (not for free) permits and approvals for the construction in the city areas that used to be considered architectural sanctuaries. In recent years, dozens of glass and concrete monsters mushroomed next to the ancient temples in the very heart of Kyiv. The new buildings destroy the unique historical architectural ensemble of the city, overshadow the golden domes of cathedrals and monasteries, and ruin the unique face of the nation’s capital.
The concerned residents of Kyiv and community activists, for sure, have never stood indifferent. However, the numerous appeals to the authorities that be, the protest rallies often accompanied by the demolition of the hated construction fences would produce only temporary effect. Dozens of protracted lawsuits failed to defend most of what activists considered illegal allocation of historic land.
It was the case, in particular, with Landscape Peyzazhna Alley, the park on Honchar St. 1-3 and 5-7, and the project on 10/1 Striletska St. One important breakthrough was when the NGO Civic Position won a lawsuit to recognize the entire territory of the buffer zone surrounding St. Sophia Cathedral as the territory of historical and cultural significance, and hence especially valuable land. The verdict of the court explicitly banned the city council from allocating land plots in the buffer zone without the consent of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Seemingly, a victory. However, neither the council nor city authorities who have used to getting enormous "fees" from influential developers were prepared to renounce the usual practice and lose steady sources of income. So the shameful practice of shady land deals continued. As outraged Kyiv protested, the city council continued to vote for the scandalous land acquisitions, officials lined their pockets. The destruction of Kyiv continued.
Realizing the futility of wait for help from corrupt government, the concerned citizens addressed the international community with numerous appeals and petitions - first of all to UNESCO, an influential international organization whose purpose is to protect the world’s historical and cultural heritage. The response was instantaneous: after hearing the shocking truth about the state of conservation of cultural heritage in Kyiv, UNESCO and ICOMOS immediately sent its experts to look into the situation in the city. Their findings proved to be eye-opening for Ukraine: the problem does exist and it needs to be addressed immediately.
However, the corrupt Ukrainian officials snubbed the decision of UNESCO. After that, UNESCO has taken stringent measures and issued a warning: at its 34th session held in Brazil (2009), the organization proposed to include the object number 527 on the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv - Pechersk Lavra" to the list of endangered objects, without discussion. The Ukrainian delegation then managed to convince the UNESCO committee that their comments will be taken into account and the situation will be rectified. The threat died down but nothing has changed.
The government has recovered from the shock and continued to plunder the lands so high raisers kept mushrooming. The following year 2010 saw an almost a historic event: for the first time in the history of independent Ukraine representatives of NGOs NGO Civic Position (Maryna Solovyova and Iryna Nikiforova) and Save Old Kyiv (Ihor Lutsenko and Maria Lebedeva) attended the session of the for UNESCO Committee in the capacity of observers. Admittedly, the presence of public observers at the Committee sessions along with the official delegations is a common practice in all countries, but to our official delegation at the session the appearance of the activists came as a nasty surprise.
The reason was simple: it turned out that Ukrainian delegation liedduring the meeting, to put it mildly. To be exact, they lied through the mouths of the Russian delegation, because Ukraine is not a member of the Committee and therefore not entitled to vote. So, at 36th and 37th sessions, representatives of the Russian delegation said that the buffer zones of St. Sophia and Lavra are not being overbuilt, there are no high raisers built at all, and the infamous high raiser in Klovskyi Descent is quite unobtrusive (the videos of session meetings can be found on the UNESCO official website). Ukraine’s official written reports to the Committee contained the same outright lies about "improvements" that allegedly took place in Kyiv. The information about the positive changes was totally far-fetched and fabricated to appease UNESCO, while the government did not change its ways a bit. Meanwhile, the World Heritage Committee, just as any European institution, is used to trust the information provided by official government agencies.
And then the community made a desperate step – with the assistance of MP A. Hrytsenko representatives of Hromadska Posytsia arranged for an official meeting with the Director of the World Heritage Centre Kishore Rao. During the conversation, which lasted over an hour, activists showed a documentary footage that clearly illustrated what actually was going on in Kyiv and provided relevant papers and photographs. Mr. Rao was genuinely shocked by the information that in the buffer zone of St. Sophia alone over 50 land plots were allocated for construction. UNESCO again promised sanctions for Ukraine.
It should be emphasized that the community of Kyiv in no way seeking St. Sophia and Lavra to be included into the so-called "black list" of UNESCO. We want only to put an end to the destruction of the historic centre so that cultural identity of ancient Kyiv maintained, because only strict guidelines and warnings of UNESCO are capable of stopping the arrogant developers and officials with their insatiable appetites.
As the city activists brought the real situation to the attention of the Committee, the official Kyiv assures the Committee that everything’s fine, and the problem is non-existent but continues the destruction of the city’s historical and cultural heritage. Certainly, UNESCO is not a police institution and not a punitive body. Preservation of cultural and historical heritage is a primary function of the state. Nothing will help if Ukraine is in no hurry to protect its own treasures. In Europe, they even coined a term "Kyiv syndrome" to denote a situation when government is not merely fails to protect its own cultural heritage, but with its actions or inaction actually facilitates destruction.
Therefore, the concerned citizens just have no choice but keep drawing public attention to the problems and try resolving them without relying on the help from the state. Unfortunately, the changes that are underway in Ukraine have not touched upon the disastrous situation with the protection of cultural heritage. Officials involved in the malicious destruction of Kyiv, retain their jobs, so urgent and decisive action is needed.
It is necessary, first, to demand lustration and dismissal of corrupt officials that have lined their pockets or obeyed criminal orders and issued permits and approvals for the construction of high rises with underground parking in the security zones St. Sophia Cathedral and Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, and who are still working in the Department of Cultural heritage, [the architectural watchdog agency] Derzharhbudkontrol, the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO and other agencies, one way or another involved in these abuses.
Secondly, it is necessary to take full and comprehensive control of new appointments to the newly elected city council and mayor’s office.
Unfortunately, inertia, and perhaps lack of awareness of Kyiv people resulted in the fact that the new city council is full of the same notorious faces. These include an ex-mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko, during whose tenure the land free-for-all has developed and gained force; it is the members of [another ex-mayor and tycoon] Chernovetsky’s "young team" that finalized and perfected the land schemes.
The fiercest outrage of the heritage activists was caused by the recent appointment of Vitali Klitschko’s adviser Ihor Nikonov, one of the most aggressive developers of the city.
It was Nikonov’s corporation KAN Development that is responsible for the destruction of Kyiv’s scenery landmark, the panoramic view of the right bank of the Dnieper, where the golden domes of the monastery rise on a background of green hills. Currently, the scenic slopes are built with apartment blocks so the domes of the Old Rus monastery are being lost on their background.
In addition, the influential oligarch is implementing its construction projects on the sites of kindergartens (11b Mazepa St.) and schools (32-34 Riznytska St.), in violation of the effective legislation and recommendations of UNESCO. By his own admission, he wants to build “a real high raiser in Kyiv" (as if the 140-meter high "corn" on Klovsky 7 is not high enough?)
Do you think he is capable of advising the new mayor to reduce the number of storeys of the building or on Klovskyi Hill or 17-23 Honchar St., as required by UNESCO? Or cancel the illegal allotment of plots right next to the walls of St. Sofia and Lavra?
The question, unfortunately, is rhetorical. It seems like Kyiv syndrome is not just incurable but highly contagious among the new generation of Kyiv authorities. Or maybe it's the routine summer aggravation of the disease?
We believe Kyiv residents must join forces and seek the cure together.
P.S. The official website of the UNESCO has recently posted a draft resolution on Kyiv that is planned to be adopted at the 38th session of the Committee (15-25 June). The resolution is based on the official report on the state of conservation of cultural heritage in Kyiv, submitted by the National Commission for UNESCO in Ukraine. The document gives a strong impression of deja vu, claiming that the changes in this area are so positive and sweeping that the Committee does not even plan to consider St. Sophia and Lavra until 2016. Exactly the period that developers require to wrap up the job.
So it looks like the fight is bound to rage on.

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Plastic. Chlorine. Synthetic Materials. Toxic Chemical Additives. Dyes. Fragrances.
No, thank you!
It can be easy to overlook what goes in our bodies other than what we put on our plates, but what about the feminine hygiene we use? Most women will use around 17,000 pads and/ or tampons in a single lifetime. And since tampons are considered a “medical device” by the Food and Drug Administration, manufacturers are not required to issue a full disclosure of what is in their tampons. I repeat, the companies dictating what we put up close and personal with our lady bits are not held accountable for the scary chemicals they use.
One pack of normal sanitary pads can contain the same amount of plastic as four plastic shopping bags; this adds up to the equivalent of 4,857 plastic shopping bags per woman over the course of a single lifetime. Synthetic and plastic-laden sanitary pads are not just bad news for our planet but also our health. Anything we put inside can easily be absorbed through the mucus membrane and then into our bloodstream. Here are a few unacceptable toxins that might be in your tampon.
PESTICIDES & GLYPHOSATE
Cotton is one of the world’s most heavily sprayed pesticide crops. Non-organic cotton is sprayed with Round-Up, (i.e. glyphosate) when the bud is open so that the herbicide enters the plant completely... so isn’t going to just be washed off in the processing of the cotton. Glyphosate is a cancer-causing agent that the World Health Organization recently ruled as “probably carcinogenic.”This alone is beyond frightening.
One pack of normal sanitary pads can contain a lot of plastic. Not only is this terrible for the environment, but for your body as well. We hear about the dangers of BPA in plastic water bottles all the time, but what about its presence in our pads?
SYNTHETIC DYES, CHEMICAL ADDITIVES + FRAGRANCES
Conventional tampons have odor neutralizers containing an undisclosed mixture of chemicals that have been linked to endocrine disrupters, allergies, rashes, cancer, birth defects, dryness, and infertility.
Commonly known brands of tampons are often guilty of chlorine bleaching, a process which exposes women to toxic dioxin and heavy metal residuals from the dyes used to color the withdrawal cord. Choosing organic cotton that’s free from chlorine bleaching not only avoids women’s exposure to potentially carcinogenic chemicals, it also protects the health of farmers and communities living near cotton fields and ensures fair and safe working conditions. Organic cotton helps protect our soils, wildlife and water sources, and produces up to 94% less greenhouse gases than conventional farming.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a report stating that dioxins are known to cause cancer, and has also determined that people exposed to high levels of dioxins may be at risk for increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), and reduced fertility. Tell me how angry this makes you?
We spent a year researching the best organic options and Natracare is #1 on our list. Period. No pun intended. Not all feminine hygiene products are created equal. Natracare pads and tampons are made from only sustainably-sourced, organic and natural plant-derived materials, and are outspoken and actively involved in helping save women's lives, and their fem environmentalist founder, Susie Hewson, is a powerhouse. She started this mission offering a healthy alternative in feminine hygiene, a better option for the planet.


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Reading the above article I wonder why there are people still using the social network also known as Myspace 2.0: Electric Boogaloo. Why are we supporting a social networking site that is ACTIVELY censoring those who are exercising their free speech? When did Facebook suddenly become a mouthpiece of the government?
Facts about Facebook
-Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook President calls you (if you use Facebook) a dumb muthafucker.
-Mark Zuckerberg and his sister attended Bildeberg, the sinister collection of the power structure behind the curtain, out of the public eye, to determine who will be your next presidential candidate, among other anti-human agendas, like the rotten cancer planning its next move against your body.
-Facebook launched investment stocks that are now crashing, knowing all along this was going to be another Bear Stearns or LIBOR type scandal, to rip off those uninformed enough to invest in them.
-Facebook has been exposed for allowing pedophile networks to advertize openly for users to trade their pics and has been extremely uncooperative with watchdog groups sending repeated emails to them to take these groups down. This despite their active banning of groups talking and posting harmless stuff like breastfeeding.
-Facebook has been selling your private data to corporations to boost sagging profits, evidently after their investments didn't rip off nearly enough people as they hoped.
This list is not exhaustive, not by a long shot.
As David Icke said in his Wembley speech and numerous times, protests are good, but the powers that be don't listen and don't care, such as the anti-war protests before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and more recently college students in the UK protesting about rising tuition fees. They don't care, they laugh at us, and in the case of Bildeberg 2012 openly talked about how fast they can crash the economy so that the protestors will have no money to go over and bother them.
Their arrogance will be their undoing, but it is you, the user of facebook, what will you do in the face of all this? I used to post infowars and other alternative news sources for friends to see, but virtually no one read those as facebook has descended to being a cesspit where so much unimportant stuff is being posted, people don't go there expecting serious news its not a place to spread the word, from personal experience. Hence the reason why I left.
I am issuing a DIRECT order, not as a General of some army, not even an officer, but a citizen of Humanity who is using his God given rights to Free Speech, to all Soldiers of Freedom in the world, you are to disable your facebook accounts immediately and spread the word to others to do the same. Failure to follow this order marks you as the Enablers of Tyranny and Enemies of the Lulz.


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Lugnuts Home Game – vs. West Michigan Whitecaps – Capital City Market Kids Day – Copa de la Diversión
Every Sunday is a Capital City Market Kids Day! Kids can run the bases after the game and there is a soft baseball giveaway! Head over to Capital City Market after the game for a post-game party! | Presented By Capital City Market
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The Lugnuts will become the Los Locos de Lansing as they celebrate their Hispanic/Latino community in Lansing!


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Directed by Jeff Orlowski
Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem that sustains us. Yet with carbon emissions warming the seas, a phenomenon called “coral bleaching”—a sign of mass coral death—has been accelerating around the world, and the public has no idea of the scale or implication of the catastrophe silently raging underwater.
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★★★★★ review by Siân on Letterboxd
What an absolutely gorgeous film. I've never seen ocean cinematography quite like this (but I'm not surprised considering how gorgeous Chasing Ice is). The doc manages to be informative, urgent, and even fun at times. This is thanks to the incredibly passionate team behind the project, including self-proclaimed coral nerd, Zack. I want to marry him, like I'm sure every other person in the audience did. Despite the urgency and general hopelessness (it DOES document the death of corals, after all), Chasing Coral is imbued with a sense of hope and a call to action.
★★★★ review by kwang on Letterboxd
SXSW Film #7
The Audience Award winner for Best Documentary at Sundance plays at SXSW, and I was fortunate to catch this informative and alarming look at the devastating state of coral reefs as a result of climate change and carbon emission. Until more individuals and corporations around the world switch to renewable energy, the underappreciated and lively coral reefs will not see another day. If you are able to, I would recommend watching this in IMAX when it comes out, is you will be swept away by the underwater photography.
★★★★ review by kbranoz on Letterboxd
A beautiful movie that is hopefully viewed as a call to action instead of a obituary to the world's coral reefs. It's tragic that science and nature documentaries are political in 2017, but unfortunately that's the state of the world.
★★★★★ review by Rolmar Baldonado on Letterboxd
Important, powerful & very well-made film! The corals are dying & climate change is frighteningly real!
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The seven- day warning strike by workers under the aegis of the Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) will end soon, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has assured.
NAFDAC Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola, during a media interaction with journalists, explained that the Director General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has enjoyed a good work relationship with the union and its members since she assumed office years ago.
Prof Adeyeye, who condemned the action of the union leaders preventing senior management staff from gaining access to their offices, said she was not happy that the union went ahead to begin a strike when a meeting was already scheduled with the management of the Agency for next week Tuesday.
“Seriously speaking, it’s being resolved and before the expiration of the seven days, the strike would be called off.
‘’The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, has enjoyed a good work relationship with the Union and its members since she assumed office over three years ago due to her staff-friendly management style.
“In 2018, shortly after Prof Adeyeye assumed office as DG NAFDAC, N484, 956,344.43 was total debt owed staff for good Manufacturing inspection travels for 2015 – 2017.
‘’Even though the debts were incurred before her appointment as DG, she directed that the debts bepaid forthwith in 2018.
That was the year she paid a total debt of N3.2billion she inherited from her predecessor out of which N2, 141,016,305.07 was paid to the Federal Government in 2018. (FIRS) and N548, 026,195.07 was paid to the government as missed unpaid operating surpluses for 2015-2017.
“Whatever the issues are, the management and the union would have to sit and discuss to arrive at a mutually beneficial position in the overall interest of our country.
‘’Health workers are in the essential service sector, hence Prof Adeyeye will never treat any matter that affects
NAFDAC staff welfare with kid gloves. “It’s unfortunate that the Union had scheduled a meeting with the management for next week Tuesday only to embark on strike on Thursday.
‘’They should have waited for the outcome of the meeting before going on strike.
‘’This is the position of the DG when I spoke to her last night.
She also said it is wrong for the Union leaders to prevent senior management staff from gaining access to their offices.’’
It would be recalled that the workers’ union demanded payment of promotion arrears owed its members for 2018 and 2019 promotions, upward review of job-specific allowance in line with the minimum wage, immediate payment of all pending financial claims, better working environment, immediate resumption of payments of suspended severance allowances to retirees, better modalities in the payment of covid-19 palliatives, among other demands.


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Iconic Rent Star Adam Pascal to Join Broadway's Something Rotten!
Pascal is set to return to the Great White Way.
Adam Pascal, one of the iconic original cast members of Rent, will return to Broadway on November 7 as the new William Shakespeare in the Tony-nominated musical Something Rotten!. Will Chase, who took over the role this summer from Tony-winning originator Christian Borle, departed the production on October 9. The role is played in the interim by Eric Sciotto.
Pascal was seen on Broadway earlier this year as Chad in Disaster! Along with originating the role of Roger in Rent, he has also been seen in Memphis, Cabaret, and Chicago.
A tribute to musical theater, Something Rotten! is set in 1590s England and follows Nick and Nigel Bottom, a pair of brothers desperate to write a play, but are stuck in the shadow of William Shakespeare. When they're told by a local soothsayer that the future of theater involves, singing, dancing, and acting at the same time, they set out to write the world's first musical. Casey Nicholaw directs and choreographs the production, which received 10 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical. It is written by Wayne Kirkpatrick, Karey Kirkpatrick, and John O'Farrell.
The current cast includes Tony nominee Rob McClure (Nick Bottom), Josh Grisetti (Nigel Bottom), Leslie Kritzer (Bea), two-time Tony nominee Brad Oscar (Nostradamus), Catherine Brunell (Portia), David Beach (Brother Jeremiah), Edward Hibbert (Lord Clapham/Master of the Justice), Gerry Vichi (Shylock), and André Ward (Minstrel).
Something Rotten! will end its run at Broadway's St. James Theatre on January 1, 2017. After beginning previews March 23 and opening April 22, the production will have played 742 performances.


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Week 51: Painkiller (explored~)
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Named after this song, this version is a cover by Chthonic, it's not the original by Judas Priest.
It may be named after the song but it has nothing to do with the song.
I wanted to take something else but bad weather and an excessive amount of school work made me unable to do so.
Plus I've been helping out with styling backstage these few days so it really eats into my time.
(it's a load of fun though!)
The syringe is real, shot in my bathroom, grainy intentionally.
If anyone is wondering, it's apple cranberry juice in the syringe, and yes, I did drink it by injecting it into my mouth drop by drop hehe.


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Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Buys Industrial Asset for $52M
- Aug 26, 2020
The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has just acquired the industrial building at 2300 Pellissier Place in the City of Industry, a suburb of Los Angeles, from Haralambos Leasing Co. in a transaction valued at $52.1 million. The purchase of the approximately 255,900-square-foot warehouse wraps up a decade-long search for a suitable property, with Newmark Knight Frank having guided the nonprofit organization on the lengthy and challenging quest.
The closing of the 2300 Pellissier transaction comes at a vital time for the area’s Food Bank, as residents in the Los Angeles area grapple with COVID-19-induced food insecurity. Originally developed in 1969, 2300 Pellissier sits in the San Gabriel Valley region, roughly 15 miles east of the Food Bank’s downtown Los Angeles-area headquarters. The property occupies more than 11 acres and features ample parking, truck and trailer storage and nearly 25,000 square feet of high-end mezzanine office space.
With its large size and desirable quality, 2300 Pellissier is the type of asset that had consistently eluded the Food Bank in the highly competitive metropolitan Los Angeles industrial market, which has long held the title of one of the tightest—if not the tightest—industrial markets in the U.S. And the COVID-19 health crisis hasn’t had much of an impact on the market’s status. “While negative absorption is likely this year, Los Angeles is perhaps the most resilient industrial market in the country,” according to a second quarter 2020 report by NKF.
Industrial market resilience
If there’s a question as to whether the global pandemic has dampened the investment community’s robust appetite for the Los Angeles industrial market, well, John McMillan, vice chairman with Newmark Knight Frank, told Commercial Property Executive, “It hasn’t.” McMillan and colleagues Jeff Sanita, Danny Williams and Greg Stumm represented the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in the 2300 Pellissier transaction, while Lee & Associates’ Peter Bacci and Jack Kline stood in for the seller.
“After a very brief pause from mid-March to early April, [investment activity] picked up right where it left off, and the appetite for industrial is arguably even larger than before now, as it has performed better than any other asset class through the pandemic,” McMillan continued. “We’ve been getting calls from institutional office and retail landlords a few times a week for the past few months too. They’re trying to get their arms around the industrial sector, given they still have significant funds to invest, and are considering diversifying. If some or all of those groups start to enter the market, it will get even more competitive to acquire quality industrial assets, especially in the infill markets.”


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"It's comforting to remember there's a whole world filled with software developers to choose from. With the help of the Internet, brands can partner with a software development firm from anywhere without sacrificing quality.” - Gabriel Shaoolian, Founder and CEO of Top Software Development Companies
NEW YORK (PRWEB) May 21, 2019
At least 43 percent of United States-based companies outsource software development projects to experts around the world.
However, each software outsourcing region provides different expertise, pricing structures, and pros and cons. So, how can businesses choose the best software development outsourcing company for their brand needs?
Top Software Development Companies – a B2B website that ranks the leading software development firms by location, expertise, cost and more – determined the top 10 software development countries to outsource projects to in 2019.
Each country was chosen based on its average cost, general skill sets, historically proven expertise, and more.
The top 10 software development outsourcing countries, in alphabetical order, are:
China’s outsourcing market grows 30 percent year-over-year. Software developers in the region are particularly known for development projects in Python, Shell, functional programming, and more.
Hungary is the fifth best country to outsource to in order to find the best software developers. Their leading software development solutions include building databases, and writing code in Shell, C++ and JAVA.
What's more? India has the highest number of software developers in the world and is the second-largest English-speaking country in the world. This enables brands to have better collaboration throughout software development projects.
4. The Philippines
The Philippines has over 112,000 IT and engineering graduates each year and has a literacy rate of over 95 percent. This means that software companies here will likely have an easier time seamlessly working with international brands.
Poland belongs to the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the UN, NATO, the Paris Convention, the Berne Convention, the Hague Agreement, the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and the Madrid Protocol, meaning they can safely house and transfer sensitive data that software projects often require.
Russia has 3500 engineers for every one million people. Their leading software development projects include software solutions written in JAVA, C++ and SQL.
7. South Korea
South Korea houses many large-scale tech companies, such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Hyundai Motor Company. Software development projects are also more than 50 percent of the country’s outsourcing market.
Taiwan was one of the first countries that North American professionals outsourced to. Some of their leading software development solutions are algorithms, data structures, functional programming and databases.
Eastern Europe has over one million software developers, with 42 percent being based in Poland and Ukraine. Ukraine’s leading software projects include security and distributed systems, although there are experts across all areas.
Vietnam has a historically strong tech industry. In addition, software developers in the area also incorporate emerging technology such as artificial intelligence and AR/VR.
Read the full report here: https://www.softwaredevelopmentcompany.co/2019/05/10/the-top-10-software-development-countries/
“Many brands don't have the expertise or manpower to execute large software development projects themselves – which is why they need to outsource them to developers who can handle them,” says Gabriel Shaoolian, Founder and CEO of Top Software Development Companies. “However, it can be comforting to remember that there's a whole wide world filled with qualified software developers to choose from. With the help of the Internet, brands can partner with a top-rated software development firm from anywhere on the planet without sacrificing quality.”
Plus, Top Software Development Companies ranks the best local and global software developers. Brands can explore the top software development companies from around the world that suit their business needs at: softwaredevelopmentcompany.co
About Top Software Development Companies: Top Software Development Companies ranks top-rated software development agencies based on local and global location, average hourly rate, experience, expertise and more.
Brands can find software developers who can grow their brand in areas such as Custom Software Development, Software Development Outsourcing, Enterprise Software Development, eCommerce Software Development, and more.


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I frequently attend social gatherings hosted by a friend and his wife. Yesterday he asked me what sort of healthy snacks they could provide that would help me stay on my weight loss program. As it happens, due to my tendency towards compulsive overeating I try to avoid between meal snacking. I really should only be eating because I'm actually hungry. Still, it's a legitimate question. What sort of snacks can we eat that are healthy? (Photo courtesy of the USDA Agricultural Research Service)
A lot of traditional snack foods aren't particularly healthy. Potato chips, corn chips, tortilla chips, attendant dips, crackers, pretzels, cheese sticks, fried or otherwise, bagels, with or without cream cheese, cookies and candy are all bad for us consisting, as they do, largely of starch, fat, salt and/or processed sugar.
These days some nutritionists say we shouldn't snack at all and that the way to avoid snacking is, instead of eating 3 big meals, we should eat 5-6 fist-sized meals over the course of a day. That works out to eating about once every 3 hours. Unfortunately I don't know of too many employers who would looking kindly on their employees taking 3 meal breaks during the course of a day.
So what kind of snacks can we eat that's not bad for us? Fruit, raw vegetables and nuts (little or no salt added please) are all good. In moderation of course. Gorging on anything, even relatively healthy food, is never a good idea. Want a tasty snack? How about apple slices dipped in 100% natural peanut butter? Want to talk about convenience? Few things are more convenient than a piece of fruit like an apple, peach or pear that you can eat without any special preparation beyond washing it off. Many grocery stores sell ready-to-eat celery sticks and peeled baby carrots not to mention containers of pre-sliced cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon. Nuts are also quite convenient though I would stay away from honey roasted and flavored varieties that may have a lot of added salt and/or sugar.
When I was a child, my grandparents had both a pear and a peach tree as well as some fig trees. One of their neighbors had black walnut and pecan trees. Some of my fondest memories growing up are of Sunday visits with them when we would sit out on the front porch, where they had a porch swing, or at the kitchen table snacking on freshly picked fruit and nuts. I look at modern housing developments, houses packed together tightly on small lots with little room for trees and nary a porch to be seen and I feel sorry for the people that live in them. Sure, they've got their Wiis and their X-Boxes, Playstation 3s and big screen tvs, and all the other amusements that modern life affords. Yet sometimes there's just no substitute for a lazy Sunday afternoon swinging on the front porch talking with friends and family while watching the world go by or stepping out into the backyard and picking fruit right off the tree.

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One of the root problems facing our beleaguered world is that many of our contemporaries are belaboring the past as a burden, believing that the legacy and traditions of Western Civilization are a millstone around modernity’s neck. Cast off the shackles of the past, with its outmoded morality and outdated way of doing things, and we shall be free. Such is the credulity of what Evelyn Waugh called our “deplorable epoch.” The irony is that such unbelievable nonsense is believable only if we are ignorant of the lessons that the past teaches, an ignorance which is itself the consequence of believing that the past has no lessons to teach and contains nothing worth learning. Thus, it is intriguing that the West is seen metaphorically by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as a millstone, as is clear from the title of these posthumously published sketches of his first years of exile there following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974. It is perilous, however, to misread the metaphor. The millstone which the West represents is not the burdensome sort that hangs around the neck but the grinding sort that refines the meal into flour. Nor is it the “West” of Western Civilization but the “West” of 20th-century geopolitics. It’s not the West of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; nor is it the Christian West, the West of the Church, the West of Christendom. It’s the West of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Henry Kissinger; the secular West, the West of Wall Street, the West of the New York Times. The one West has nothing whatever to do with the other, except insofar as they are deadly enemies, and it’s crucial at the outset, if we are to understand Solzhenitsyn’s perspective, that the two Wests are never conflated. Solzhenitsyn is a friend and champion of the former and an indefatigable enemy of the latter.
Having oriented ourselves correctly we will see that the two metaphorical millstones between which Solzhenitsyn finds himself being ground are the Eastern millstone of Soviet communism and the Western millstone of secular liberalism. As for the book itself, it’s a gift for all those who admire Solzhenitsyn and especially those who recall the period that he sketches, enabling us to see his early years of exile, first in Switzerland and then in the United States, through his own eyes.
The Foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney, arguably the greatest living expert on Solzhenitsyn’s life and work, at least in the English-speaking world, raises with an appropriate degree of nous and gravitas the curtain on what follows, setting the scene and providing the context, as do the lines of the song that Solzhenitsyn selects as the epigraph to his sketches:
Thou distant land,
Land unknown to me,
Not of my own free will have I come to thee,
Nor was it my brave steed that brought me here:
What brought me here was misfortune.
These melancholic lines, the song of an exile in Pushkin’s novel The Captain’s Daughter, paint a picture, as only poetry can, reminding us, lest we forget, that the sketches of life in the pages that follow are drawn by an exile longing to return home. But the exile longs to return not to Soviet tyranny but to a renewed and revitalized Russia, liberated from the communist yoke, a Russia that had not yet emerged from under the rubble but which Solzhenitsyn, as a true prophet, knew was there beneath the surface, awaiting her resurrection.
Among the aspects of Between Two Millstones that will be of particular interest to European readers are Solzhenitsyn’s first impressions of Western Europe. Take, for instance, his description of Cologne:
We soon reached the train station . . . without my having seen much through the window, and hurried to the platform . . . getting there just two minutes before our train was to pull in. . . . But what two minutes! Right before me, in full view and in all its perfection, was that work of beauty, no, that miracle, the Cologne Cathedral! More than its intricate ornamentation, it was its spiritual depth that struck me, its towers and spires striving up to the heavens. I gasped, and stared with my mouth open, while the reporters, ever alert and already on the platform, took snapshots of me staring. And then the train pulled in and swallowed us up.
These are not the words of the modern iconoclast who bewails our Western heritage as a millstone around our necks! Solzhenitsyn confesses to having a fondness for Germany, which he attributes to his enjoyment of studying German and his learning of German poems by heart, and to his reading of books of German folklore, as well as The Song of the Nibelungs, Schiller, and Goethe. He was, however, disappointed by his first impressions of the Rhine, which “seemed dirty and industrialized, no longer poetic.” Even the Lorelei Rock, which was pointed out to him, had been spoiled, sullying his romantic vision of its timeless charm. “It must have been idyllic before it had been spoiled in this way. But the main beauty of the area, the centuries-old huddling houses and narrow streets, could not be seen from a passing train.”
Finding himself homeless and searching for a suitable place to settle with his family, he thought that Norway might prove to be a sort of home away from home, or at least a place that might remind them of home even if it could never be a substitute for it. Its “wintry northern land, long nights, [and] wood throughout the home” eased his exiled heart, and in the works of Ibsen and Grieg he detected “a certain similarity with the Russian character and everyday Russian life.” Had he been familiar with the works of Sigrid Undset, that greatest of Norwegian writers, he would have felt there a kindred spirit beyond the faint echoes to be found in the dour northernness of Ibsen.
Much of Between Two Millstones is the venting of Solzhenitsyn’s spleen against the Western media, which is not surprising considering the scandalous way in which he was treated at their hands. Take, for instance, this riposte against the New York Times for suggesting that he was “not a democrat”:
And yet I am much more of a democrat than the New York intellectual elite . . . [I]n my view, democracy means the genuine self-government of the people, from the bottom up, while these people see it as being the rule of the educated classes.
Here we find an allusion to the political philosophy that Solzhenitsyn would articulate brilliantly in Rebuilding Russia, a vision of society rooted in the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity that harmonizes with Western thinkers such as E.F. Schumacher, G.K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc, and which dovetails with the Catholic social teaching to be found in papal encyclicals by successive popes, from Leo XIII and Pius XI to John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
Much more could and should be said. There are descriptions of Solzhenitsyn’s attendance at Russian Orthodox services, resonant with images of worshipping in the catacombs; there are his views on nuclear weapons which the present writer believes to be naive and wrongheaded; we read further of his much-publicized falling out with fellow dissident Andrei Sakharov; his fear for the safety of his children; his stumbling upon the grave of Rilke; his pilgrimage to Shakespeare’s Verona; his sickened astonishment at the profusion of communist graffiti in Italy (“A dose of the real thing might have opened these people’s eyes”); his admiration for the Swiss model of democracy; his views on tensions between Russia and Ukraine; his disdain for neoconservative Russophobia; his disgust at the ugliness of New York City; his experience on Meet the Press; and, most welcome of all, his response to the fallout of his Harvard Address.
If there’s one negative dimension to the book it’s the pervasive tone of po-faced self-justification. For those who do not know Solzhenitsyn, such a tone might appear arrogant or pompous, though it must be said that his pomp is never without circumstance. What is missing is the human side. Instead of the public persona of the prophet and man of letters, it would have been good to see the sense of humor and the humane warmth that I witnessed when interviewing him in Moscow in 1998. The mischievous glint in the deceptively boisterous China-blue eyes; the infectious chuckle. The serenity. Dare one even suggest, the sanctity? It is true that the Solzhenitsyn of 1998, four years after his return to Russia after twenty years of exile, was much mellower than the Solzhenitsyn of two decades earlier, the warrior in the heat of the fray whose sketches these are. Perhaps, one day, his own family, his wife and three sons, might collaborate on a memoir that will reveal the private man, the father and the husband. Until such time we must be grateful for these sketches and the insight into the times that they offer, as well as the all-too-rare and occasional glimpses of the lovable man behind the publicly impenetrable mask.
[Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (University of Notre Dame Press) 480 pp., $35.00]

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Earlier this summer, Slipknot announced a limited collaboration capsule with streetwear originators, Brooklyn Projects.
The first run proved wildly successful with demand quickly depleting the supply of co-branded merch.
The limited capsule with Slipknot features a variety of tees boasting artwork that brings two respected brands together. The designs utilize the band's timeless imagery from their Self-Titled and Iowa eras and prominently features the band's signature nonagram, paired with BP's skate-centric esthetic.
The collection continues the relationship between the streetwear stalwarts and Slipknot. Last year, the two entries partnered to host the Roadshow kickoff event in Los Angeles. Watch the recap video HERE.
The collection was initially only available through Brooklyn Projects but has now be restocked and will be available via the Knotfest webstore.
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Review by: Alice Fulton, author of BARELY COMPOSED, MacArthur Fellow - January 15, 2017
"You will meet your god in the present moment," Cathryn Hankla writes, and her poems, emanating from that promise, contemplate and honor the largest questions. The multiverse of this quietly mind-blowing book is composed of imagined constellations. There's a profound delicacy throughout, a candor tempered by compassion. Reticence has seldom seemed so provocative or quietude so dazzling.


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1 onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 green jalapeno pepper, seeded and very finely chopped
salt and pepper
1 teaspoon cumin
1, 25oz can of crushed tomatoes
3/4 cup of crumbled Feta cheese
A generous handful of chopped fresh parsley
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Add the onion and saute for 5 minutes on a low heat until golden.
Add the garlic and the pepper. I only used half the pepper as I don't like it too hot - let your preference be your guide.
Add the chopped parsley and cumin, saute for a further few minutes until the onion is beginning to caramelize. Don't burn the garlic!
Pour in the tomato sauce, bring to the boil and turn down to a simmer.
Simmer away for a few minutes.
Crack the eggs, one at a time, into a small dish or bowl, make a little well for each one in the tomato sauce and slip them in. Cover and let the eggs poach in the sauce. This won't take long - around 3-5 minutes.
While the eggs cook, warm your pita bread.
Take the pan off the heat, sprinkle with as much feta cheese as you wish and top with more chopped parsley.
Serve with the warmed pita bread and green salad for a killer lunch or easy supper.


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