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Typically, the larger an animal is, the less money per pound it costs.
Luke, 62-pound grand champion meat goat, sold for $3.10 per pound, or a total of $192.20.
Its owner, 11-year-old Stacey Jones, said she spent about an hour per day taking care of her goat, which got its name from being born on Palm Sunday.
She said she was happy with Luke's selling price.
"I wasn't expecting that much," Stacey said.
While Stacey said she'll miss the goat, "I think I'll raise another one."
Derek Wiles said he wasn't sad after his 55-pound dairy goat sold for $2 per pound.
In fact, the 14-year-old was smiling after the auction.
"I wasn't expecting anything, as long as it got sold," he said.
Derek said he didn't think he'd be upset over selling the goat.
"Nah, I don't get real emotional," he said.
Building work at St Mary le Port in Bristol will have a "minimal impact" on the nearby Castle Park which had been under threat, a councillor has said.
Earlier in the year protests took place at the park to try to persuade councillors to turn the plans down.
Following consultations a revised plan for the work is to be drawn-up.
A campaigner said the council had been surprised by the extent of feeling. "The whole plan should be thrown out and started again," she said.
Historian and author Barb Drummond who has been leading the Save Castle Park campaign added: "It's a good that we've got some sort of result but the council needs to look hard at how the city is developed and the understand the importance of public green spaces."
Developers Deeley Freed said it recognised there still was "considerable concern" about the loss of green space at Castle Park.
"Our aim is still to provide a vibrant mixed use development featuring food retail, improve connections between Broadmead, the Old City and Redcliffe, enhance the setting of St Mary le Port church and provide benefits to the area," a spokesman for the company said.
Iranian-born Mazi will dust off your dance shoes.
The Underground, 110 N. Nevada Ave.
Sat., Aug. 16 at 8 p.m.
Dancing is one of the top two forms of exercise on Earth.
Don't get me wrong, I am a sucker for a good game of tennis and I have been skiing since I was 5, but neither of those activities can ever hope to compete with my passion for dance. Why not? Tennis and skiing carry the competitive sports stigma. They are both practiced professionally with specific rules and objectives ...
Dance infatuates me due to the simple fact that it has no specific objective, except for the pure physical pleasure of those experiencing it. Anyhow, following nearly a decade of dance-club-proximate residence in Denver, you can imagine the culture shock my kicks experienced upon recently migrating to a quiet ranch nea...
Luckily, Chemistry, the newly christened weekly club night on Saturdays at The Underground downtown, has spontaneously materialized to prevent the dust from accumulating on my shoes.
Actually, the event did indeed exist in a previous incarnation called Deep Saturdays, and current Chemistry promoter John Barnhart was immensely involved in, even integral to, its success.
The grand re-opening was kicked off last week with Colorado's own DJ duo the Floorfillerz. Although the floor may not have actually been completely full on its first night back in action, guest DJ Mazi has plans to finish the job on the 16th.
Mazi Namvar was born 29 years ago in Iran. After dragging the lad through the lands of Greece, China, Japan, and Germany, his mom and dad eventually settled down in Chicago. Given that Mazi is now a house music fanatic, their decision to land in the house music capital of the universe couldn't have served his virgin ea...
Curious about those sonic collaged broadcasts, Mazi sleuthed his way to a nightclub to conduct further investigation. The vinyl buying habit that afflicts all DJs followed soon after, and he formed his first label, Shroom Records, to satisfy his need to produce music.
A disc jockey pal talked Mazi into making "booty house" to get his foot in the door with other labels.
What other ingredients does Barnhart have in store for the immediate future of his Chemistry project? Godfather of techno Frankie Bones (East Music Group) on Aug. 30, Colorado disc jockey collective milehighhouse on Sept. 6, and Casa Del Soul's Little Mike on Sept. 27. Rotating local residents will include Christopher ...
If you're as passionate about dancing as I am, you can't afford to miss Colorado Springs' only weekly electronic music event ambitious enough to rock your body with airdropped national-caliber talent. Let the Chemistry experiment commence to explode.
There hasn’t been a year in recent memory packed with as much change as we have witnessed in 2017. This groundswell of disruption stands poised to continue into the year ahead as the lines between culture and commerce, and the public and private sector, continue to evaporate. As our new age of business continues, the C...
Emotional engagement is proving to be more critical to achieving winning results.
1. We are in an experience economy. Antiquated rules of engagement no longer apply.
The old rules of business were ruled by what was dubbed TQM, or Total Quality Management. Winning companies would win or lose based off of their ability to deliver a quality product seamlessly and consistently. This, in their view, would drive customer loyalty and assure a category or market leadership position. Today,...
Consequently, marketers are being tasked with crafting interactions with customers instead of mere transactions. To do this, they must not lead the customer journey with the “sale” but rather the carrot that will drive to it. That carrot must be translated into the ability to transform storytelling into a vital busines...
Emotional engagement is the sister to rational engagement. Rational engagement is based on the stimulation of the mind, whereas emotional engagement is based upon the stimulation of the heart. In today’s age of brand experience, it seems that emotional engagement is proving to be more and more critical to achieving win...
In order to be able to master the new art of emotional engagement, you can no longer tell customers what you care to, or create the experiences you desire them to have. You must tell them the stories they crave to hear, and provide the moments that they seek to feel connected and emotionally engaged. This significant p...
When thinking about how to gain competitive advantage in the marketing realm in the year ahead, think about capturing key insights and then use those insights to transform storytelling into a strategic business competency that generates content experiences that bring the brand to life.
2. In the age of experience, EVERYONE is a customer.
Pivoting from a product centric approach to one that is experience-based, B2B companies are harnessing creativity and technology to tell winning stories that will help educate and inform on the new age of business transformation upon us. To do this, they are using storytelling to optimize the customer experience throug...
Increase audience awareness of the scope of what GE does and highlight positive experiences with the brand.
Support pipeline for young engineering and business talent.
Drive interest among the next generation of potential shareholders. The company needs to attract the next generation of shareholders.
Today, consumers want to be a part of a brand that does more than give them immediate gratification from a product or service. They want to become a part of a brand that they believe in – a brand voice – one that can enrich their daily lives in ways that create meaningful and impactful engagement. Conveying the corners...
Casper’s founders believed if you’re going to convince consumers to trust you that sleep is a pursuit as worthy of obsession as exercise or eating, you have to approach the story arcs (of empathy and education) differently. Casper is combining science, design thinking, branding, and a winking sense of humor to redefine...
According to Harvard Business Review, 89% of executives surveyed said a strong sense of collective purpose drives employee satisfaction ; 84% said it can affect an organization’s ability to transform; and 80% said it helps increase customer and employee loyalty. To operationalize your purpose-driven narrative into mant...
The executive team began to see trends that employees were anxious that slow decision-making and a lack of risk-taking might be weighing on Gore’s entrepreneurial endeavors. At Gore, a company built with innovation at its core, the risk of an innovation slowdown was particularly serious. Strong leadership, rooted in th...
3. We are in an era of purposeful business driven by collaboration, inclusion, and the notion of leaving the world a better place. Empathy is the NEW BLACK.
The collaborative purpose economy we are living in has elicited a call to action to business leaders to contribute to the world as much as their own bottom-line, and do so in ways that bridge the gap between the public and private sectors to activate real change. This paradigm shift has instigated a pivot point where b...
Creativity is defined as the ability to make the complex elegantly simple, so for that reason, we see the definition for customer engagement that is authentic and measurable, as a simple formula that we call The New Inclusion Equation: Access + Ideas = Purposeful Action. What this translates to as we move forward, is t...
Smart organizations will approach the creation of winning experiences by finding their purpose and then using it as a creative and aspirational theme with which to engage. Consequently, an approach to building + operationalizing brand purpose will be increasingly valuable in achieving desired business outcomes. Transfo...
With internal audiences, the idea of brand purpose can be married with internal culture to deliver best-in-class storytelling and content experiences to employees with an eye on retaining them and turning them into brand advocates. Similarly, when applying this notion to B2B or B2C experience, a brand’s purpose must be...
Part of Apple’s 2017 brand push included an empathic plea to “open your heart to everyone.” The Designed for Ian spot within this campaign celebrates the brands sense of purpose, and the world’s new sense of inclusion. Look for more of this in 2018.
4. Stop worrying about Artificial Intelligence. Start focusing on Augmented Intelligence.
Many CMOs and other senior executives today have been inundated with messages and directives about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the past year, many of which have been inaccessible and confusing. With that in mind, it’s important to understand that the best path to the future will not be powered by AI as a stand-alon...
When thinking about how to fold AI into marketing efforts in the year ahead, it’s important to think backwards in the sense of looking at what you are trying to achieve, and then introducing the best pieces of AI technology that can heighten your current brand experience.
Most critical to such an approach will be realizing that AI is not just about harnessing the insights big data can provide on the science side of the marketing house, but having the vision to understand how AI can be used to positively impact the creative process as well.
Currently only .5% of data is used to generate advertising or creative at the world’s leading brands, according to Forrester. This creates a huge opportunity for smart marketers to harness data-driven storytelling that informs content experiences to achieve brand leadership and market distinction.
The explanation comes from a lecture that Vonnegut did where he mapped the narrative arc of popular storylines against an XY axis graph and was able to draw a direct through line to Cinderella and the Old Testament, and what united them, and therefore made them so engaging. In the world of AI in 2017 then, wouldn’t thi...
What they were able to do with the help of AI was identify narrative patterns that had resonance around these themes, which then enabled them to develop story arcs under each of the six categories that would drive meaningful engagement around specific scenarios. The key takeaway from the research was that scientists co...
So, what this is all means is we can and should think about how to leverage cognitive technologies to attain the insights that will help us push into the emotional levers that are resonating with customers. This will empower us to produce creative works of content that connect and procure meaningful customer engagement...
5. Don’t just be smart. Be emotionally intelligent.
As Simon Sinek told us all this year, it is much more important today to focus on the why and who as opposed to the what. In a world where products have become increasingly commoditized by price point, and consumers are looking for experiences that enable them to vote with their wallets, connecting on a deeply emotiona...
In the year ahead, it won’t just be important for brands to continue to be more purposeful, collaborative, inclusive and empathic in all their engagement efforts, rather, what will separate the winners from the losers, will be those who make a commitment to sharpen their Emotional IQ.
Research across hundreds of brands in dozens of categories shows that the most effective way to maximize customer value is to move beyond mere customer satisfaction and connect with customers at an emotional level – tapping into their fundamental motivations and fulfilling their deep, often unspoken emotional needs. Th...
On a lifetime value basis, emotionally connected customers are more than twice as valuable as highly satisfied customers. These emotionally connected customers buy more of your products and services, visit you more often, exhibit less price sensitivity, pay more attention to your communications, follow your advice, and...
We are not all the same. Care for and customize your models and people will respond. One size fits all does not work in the realm of emotional engagement.
AI only works and connects emotionally when it’s trained on good data. Using a known brand such as Watson or Google Cloud is great, but if you don’t train it on real-world data that is like your customer when you introduce it to real people, it won’t work — or worse. We currently use natural language understanding and ...
Use true care when looking at programmatic techniques. These affect people psychologically. Just because someone gives you 110% ROI by throwing hurtful content at anyone, doesn’t mean you should do it. Care about people and they will respond to your brand and emotionally engage.
The food icon details her years at Gourmet magazine, and offers recipes to accompany her story—joining a literary lineage that includes Nora Ephron and Gabrielle Hamilton.
So begins Reichl’s eighth book, which details the decade she spent as Gourmet’s final editor in chief. It’s a succulent, insider gambol through cloak-and-dagger meetings with various corporate members of Gourmet’s (and V.F.’s) parent company, Condé Nast, leading up to her appointment; wild years of alternately wooing a...
Food is a writer’s friend, an ample canvas onto which one might project philosophy and humor in equal measure. What’s at once more mundane, more universal, more sensual and intimate than the food we eat? It’s obviously a concept that’s captivated other artists, too: painters from Wayne Thiebault to Pieter Bruegel have ...
Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that the list of great recipe-plus books—memoir/novel-plus-recipes; recipes-plus-personal essays—is long and rich. There are, like Reichl’s, the insider accounts by food world icons: James Beard’s classic 1964 Delights and Prejudices: A Memoir With Recipes, Anthony Bourdain’s 2000 Kitche...
One of the most famous in the recipe-plus genre is Nora Ephron’s thinly veiled fictional account of her own marriage to reporter Carl Bernstein, Heartburn, published in 1983. Its protagonist, Rachel Samstat, is herself a cookbook-plus-prose writer navigating the unfortunate circumstance of discovering her husband’s aff...
My own early introduction to these literary cookbooks was through Polly Horvath’s children’s book, Everything on a Waffle, which I read when I was nine, and which instantly enchanted me with its combination of what I already knew to be two of life’s great pleasures: eating and books. In the book, 11-year-old plucky, po...
Perhaps recipes and books work so well together because of the temperamental bonds between foodies and readers. My dad is able and ecstatically willing to spend hours poring over cookbooks and bringing all manner of delicacies to life, while my mom is an ardent reader. It was she who introduced me to the late, great fi...
It’s a genre that consumes itself, perpetuating more recipes, more writing, more art. Adam Gopnik once investigated, for the New Yorker, the merits of including recipes in novels by recreating ones that appear in books by Günter Grass, Robert B. Parker, and Ian McEwan. “The recipes in these books are not, of course, me...
There is a particular symbiosis in the merger of cooking and writing—a confluence and a counterbalance. While writing a book often takes years before anyone, including the writer, can derive satisfaction from the project, cooking usually takes just a couple of hours before the fruits of one’s labor can be enjoyed. And ...
Which brings us to writers using cooking as a work-avoidance technique. Just a few pages into The Letters of Sylvia Plath, published in 2017, we encounter a letter to Plath’s mother that describes the young poet’s first meal cooked in her and her new husband Ted Hughes’s shared apartment: “rare (!) roast beef, buttery ...
Cook the noodles in boiling water until al dente (the time will vary with the type of noodle). Drain, toss with a half tablespoon of peanut oil, and set aside.
Peel and mince the ginger (you should have about two tablespoons).
Chop the white parts and slice the green parts of the scallions.
Mix the sugar and the two kinds of hot bean paste, and set aside.
Heat a wok until a drop of water skitters across the surface. Add a tablespoon of peanut oil, toss in the ginger, and stir fry for about half a minute, until the fragrance is hovering over the wok.
Add the pork and white scallions and stir-fry until all traces of pink have disappeared. Add the bean sauce mixture and cook and stir for about 2 minutes.
Stir in the green scallions and noodles, and quickly toss. Add a drop of sesame oil and turn into two small bowls. This makes a perfect snack for two.
Recipe from SAVE ME THE PLUMS by Ruth Reichl, published by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2019 by Ruth Reichl.
Rainy season in Costa Rica this year will begin one to two weeks earlier than in 2010, according to the National Meteorological Institute (IMN).
IMN said the early arrival of precipitation is caused by the La Niña phenomenon.
The estimated dates for the beginning of rainy season in 2011 are Tuesday in the South Pacific, April 28-30 in the Central Valley, May 1-15 for the North Pacific and May 16-20 for the Central Pacific. The Central Pacific is the only region that will enter rainy season later than usual this year.
Five injured in axe attack at a train station in Dusseldorf. Two suspects arrested.
At least five people were injured on Thursday evening in an axe attack at a train station in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The station has been sealed off by armed police and trains are not stopping at the station, according to The Telegraph.
Local police said two suspects were arrested.
The motive for the attack is not yet clear, but Germany has been under a high-threat terrorist alert following a series of attacks which hit the country in the past year.
In the first attack, a 17-year-old Afghani with an axe attacked passengers on a train in Wurzburg before being shot dead by security forces.
Most recently, terrorist Anis Amri drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the attack.
India vs Australia 1st ODI Highlights: The series has started with an upset as Australia defend a total of 288 despite Rohit Sharma scoring 133.

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