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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
The 2012 Google Analytics Summit theme is "Next Generation Measurement", and considering the bombshell Google dropped on day 1, it couldn't be more fitting.
Google Analytics is set to make a seismic change to its very core, shifting from sessions to users. "Sessions don't spend money," as Google Analytics Principal Engineer Sagnik Nandy put it, "users do."
For too many years, dealer website reporting systems have looked at visits in a vacuum, focusing on single visitor sessions in a short-sighted attempt to understand customer behavior and falling out of touch with today's automotive consumer who jumps from one web device to another, desktop to mobile, mobile to tablet, and reaches dozens of touch points before purchasing a vehicle or getting one serviced. With the release of "Universal Analytics", Google is set to redefine automotive marketing's relationship with web data to accurately capture customer behavior across every device, every visit, and every action - even when new and used vehicle shoppers go offline. Gone are the days of looking at Internet sales leads and service appointment requests as the primary goal; showroom traffic and sales are what matters, and that's exactly what this next generation of dealer website measurement targets.
With Google's new Universal Analytics, visitors are given a clean and simple User ID that replaces the current mountainous number of tracking cookies packed with reams of confusing variables and micro formatted data. This unique User ID is like a customer number in your DMS, but it is stored on Google's end, and is identifiable across any number of devices and locations. So if your customer first visits your dealership's website on her home desktop after receiving a promotional email, then returns a week later on her iPhone, but waits a month before seeing a display ad from your store's online advertising and finally converting by pulling turn-by-turn directions from work to the dealership on her work laptop, all of those interactions will be attributed to a single visitor. And that initial, month-old email will be given credit, along with the last-touch display ad, and any other touch points in the sales process.
For businesses with the right technology, User IDs will be sent directly to your CRM software. When customers walk in after visiting virtually, you will be able to log every visit and view them in Google Analytics. You now track all customer points of contact - online and offline - and finally get the complete picture of a customer's journey from seeing an article your dealership published, researching your make and models, to purchasing on your showroom. A reporting trail that provides the insights and metrics for car dealers to learn which marketing channels actually bring you sales… While ignoring those that generate leads to nowhere!
Marketing and Advertising Channel Attribution Gets More Accurate
Google's Universal Analytics includes a new attribution modeling tool that uses a data-driven model to assign value to touch points in the sales process. Every interaction is now weighted according to its frequency and position in the purchase process, instead of always being given equal credit. And a more complete picture of every sale can now be more accurately configured with cost data that users upload directly into Google Analytics and update daily. Track the effectiveness of your dealership's entire ad spend to realize the true profit on every sale - all without leaving Google Analytics and wrestling with dozens of media and advertising reports.
Analytics no longer begins with a single online session only to end with a disconnected form submission that depends on an email address that blocks messages from your dealership as spam. It begins the moment a customer first engages with your dealership's websites, blogs and online assets. And it never stops... Welcome to the new marketing reality of Universal Analytics from Google.
About the Author:
Matthew Kolodziej is the Director of Analytics at String Automotive Solutions, which is the only Google Analytics Certified Partner supplying dealership websites in the automotive space.
About String Automotive Solutions:
www.StringAutomotive.com 877-227-8525 Auburndale, MA
String Automotive provides North America's most innovative auto dealers with highly effective and uniquely customer focused dealership websites. Based in Massachusetts and having been many car dealer's "best kept secret" for automotive digital marketing over the past 7 years, String has developed a reputation for being focused on driving dealership sales and profits.
We don't do templates, and we don't follow the industry. We look outside the automotive industry and take inspiration from empirical data, experiments and enterprises that are on the cutting edge of web design and technology.
Yet, your dealership is distinctive and your website should differentiate you at first glance.
Your dealership is focused on attracting and retaining customers. Your showroom is spotless. Your sales force is attentive and informative. And your customer care representatives are courteous and knowledgeable. In other words, you ensure that your customers have a great experience at your dealership and that they would recommend your dealership to others.
Before visiting your showroom, most of your customers visit your website and interact with your business - often without your knowledge. They form an opinion of you and get a first impression. Your website should be elegant and easy to use, yet rich with informative content. We study our designs carefully and constantly improve them by observing car shoppers using them in blind tests. We observe in study after study, year after year, what impresses visitors and what turns them off.
Most dealer website are busy, confusing and designed to compete with their competitors' websites. Our clients don't compete with or follow their competitors, and they don't mimic the next door neighbor's website that is designed to scream messages at visitors and keep them on the site as long as they can. Our clients play a different game. Click here and we'll explain...
A Google Analytics Certified Partner, or GACP, is an accredited web analysis and optimization expert. Google awards the partnership only after a rigorous application and interview process, and few companies make the grade. String Automotive is the only GACP web provider geared specifically to car dealers.
Google Analytics provides unbiased, actionable insights into how users reach your site, how they engage with it, and who they are.
GA takes the guesswork out of search engine exposure, third-party lead provider effectiveness, and accurate lead attribution. With Analytics, you know exactly how much traffic comes from organic and paid search and your third-party referrers, as well as which traffic sources are actually generating leads.
Analytics also unlocks valuable information on where your customers live, the devices they use to navigate your site, and which pages receive the most visits. This just scratches the surface of the data that Google Analytics delivers. Let String Automotive be your guide on deep dives into the data to help grow and evolve your business.
String Automotive provides best-in-class Google Analytics deployment with advanced technical implementation and easily digestible reports. GA tracking code is automatically inserted into every dynamically generated webpage, complete with custom variables to track more granular data, and event tracking to monitor conversions.
We provide management with direct access to GA site profiles, along with custom reports and advanced segments tailored to present you with exactly the KPIs you want to track most. And our Analytics experts are available to help you parse and examine data that requires a deeper dive.
Drawing upon our past partnership with Google as a Google Website Optimizer Authorized Consultant, String Automotive has also been awarded the Content Experiments Specialization.
In 2012, Analytics absorbed Google Website Optimizer, enhanced its features, and renamed it Google Analytics Content Experiments. Its core function of conversion rate optimization remains the same in Content Experiments, which means that String Automotive is also the only web provider for car dealers with a proven track record of Google-partnered conversion optimization. We test and improve our page designs constantly to maximize conversions and bring you more leads.
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Yago... You always make me smile, but I just want to say that when you and I speak, I believe that most of the time I encourage you to make business and product moves that you were considering before we spoke and what i provide you with is often more confirmation than creation. In any event, you thrive in a very competitive space and I know your success has not come easy, it is the result of a lot of hard work and making the right decisions. For that I applaud you and your team.
Hopefully, you do not get angry with me for "plugging" your product, but I would not hesitate to invest money in having your company market my inventory on Craigslist and elsewhere online. Integrity trumps technical wizardry every time (in my book).
Ralph you are always so politically correct!
I thought about some of the things here and with a choice to pay and be endorsed by you or being simply your friend I would chose to be your friend.
If I pay and I get endorsed as Tim claims people may think that is enought to buy from me or not (I don't believe it is...).
As your friend, I've to come to admire the fact that you will look into a person's business and open your knowledge like a book with all the intention to help and asking for nothing in return.
Agree with them or not, I have had more good business ideas about my business and how to do things better in the 5 minutes that i can get of you when i find you than with almost any other person.
I don't take that lightly, so thank you for that.
Tim Martell has earned my respect on a level that provides me with exactly what he describes, the willingness and ability to disagree with him in public and still respect his knowledge and expertise enough not to take it on a personal level, or resort to name calling and personal attacks like I have seen other discussions devolve towards... And, which I will take action to remove from the community.
Timothy Martell - I sincerely want to thank you... Your posts, the ideas you stimulated and the success of this blog post in generating traffic made it clear to Chris Cento and the team at String Automotive that they should become an ADM sponsor. I recommended their product because of my direct experience with the String team over a period of several years, before they elected to purchase advertising space, and if they cancel their ads next month, I will still recommend their product. The two are separate issues... Although, I will not accept advertising from companies whose products I am either unfamiliar with or do not believe offer a genuine and real value to car dealers. I have turned away more than twice the number of advertisers than those you see with ads on ADM. And Tim, if you are skeptical of that, go ahead and refer a supplier to purchase some advertising on ADM or dealerELITE that I am either unfamiliar with or do not believe in their products and then ask them what happened. There are plenty of them to choose from.
Yago De Artaza Paramo - I believe you are well aware of the respect and admiration I have for both the business you have built and the astute sense of perspective you bring to every discussion we have ever had... There are few people out there that have been "In The Trenches" as you have Yago, delivering real results and being held accountable for those results by dealers as much as you have. I always appreciate your sense of perspective and simply want to say thank you for participating in this community and expressing your expert opinions... You Rock! And, you can put me down as a charter member of the Yago De Artaza Paramo fan club...
Tom Gorham - Thank you, as always I respect your integrity and outspoken willingness to back up a friend. These are traits we share... I have recommended many products over the past 5 years that ADM has been active. The only products I recommend are those I have direct experience with, and which I have seen serve dealers well in achieving their business objectives. I am not sure why my positive recommendation of String Automotive has stirred Tim Martell's wrath, but given his silence about other products I have written about in the past, it is my sincere belief that there is more to Tim's displeasure with String Automotive than meets the eye. Given the fact that both companies operate out of Massachusetts, it is my suspicion that transparency is not being served as Tim states, and that there is some sort of beef between Tim and the people at String Automotive that I am simply not aware of.
Tim, I appreciate your last paragraph. "I would think most dealer's would say thank you because they have two perspectives to consider. I have been operating under the presumption that, THAT was the point of ADM in the first place. Perhaps I am mistaken... Remember, FREEDOM comes at a price -- both to those who benefit from it as well as those who provide it."
I have, at times, had and expressed opposing views to my friends here on ADM including Ralph and one of my best friends Keith Shetterly. We have always handled that with respect and courtesy and remain good friends. I have not and would never question their motivations, ethics and character. I know better.
I've never met you but I can tell by your writings that you are well educated and an intelligent person. You may even mean well, but then again, I can't tell if that's so because you are not straight-forward. (No offense intended) Your words always leave me feeling that there is a double meaning that, if I'm clever enough, I might "get it".
I didn't jump into this conversation to put you down. I only wish to put things into perspective. The man you are are criticizing gives you this space to do so. Disagree with him, but do so without questioning his integrity. If he had no integrity, your post would never show on this page.
Yago, thank you for setting me right. I applaud your candor.
@Tom Gorham my intentions where the oppposite of what you understood. I was being sarcastic about Ralph and Tim's 50K friends.
This is Ralph's venue so if you don't like that he endorses someone go take a hike. Some people don't understand that even though this is a great and open forum Ralph also works for a living and he has to answer to those that bring him business and pay the bills. That is the way the world works.
Furthermore tim always screams "transparency" of self and programs. His 50,000 fake social media scam proves that both are absent.
Tom I have no idea where you are coming from with this. Read my first post. There is nothing arrogant or sarcastic about what is written. In any case, there is no rational person that can say they can derive tone from the written word. Any tone or inflection is the presumption of the reader and in no way reflects that of the author, only the author can ever say for sure. It is for this reason that I constantly remind my own employee's that when they communicate about an issue they do so either in person or by phone, because people's own emotional baggage leads them to completely misinterpret the intention of written communications on a frequent basis.
There is no hidden agenda here, and I am not a website vendor so I have no dog in this fight. My only interest is, as always, transparency. Any time the issue of transparency is raised, some how people's ego's get bruised. I can't understand why that is. I have been operating under the presumption that the whole point of ADM was so that dealers could learn from experts and other industry professionals about relevant automotive marketing content.
The article that was written here was very interesting. For some ODD reason rather than comment or contribute to that information, Ralph decided to put up an info-mercial for the company that employ's the author. In this "info-mercial" for string, Ralph details a long working relationship with their company over a 3-4 year period. So I wanted to do a little research. After all as a vendor that provides services complimentary to website vendors I am always looking for an alternative to the two goto vendor's I normally recommend, dealer.com and vin solutions.
During very preliminary research my finding raised some red flags. Anyone can build a nice looking website (even if many still choose templates), but few provide websites to the automotive retail sector that also keep in mind the marketability of those sites.
That 30,000 ft view research I did would suggest that it is not an area of focus for string which seems odd given the ringing endorsement Ralph gave. All I did was provide that information and suggest that even when automotive Guru's like Ralph give something a thumbs up, it is still wise to do your own research. That's it. I could just have easily have said, "even when automotive guru's like myself give endorsements..." Though I find it presumptuous and arrogant to refer to oneself as an expert, I find that experts are never short of a few people to back up their expertise. The point is, this was not an indictment on Ralph OR String and I made it really clear that the limited info I shared was in no way a statistically valid sample - merely it was the example String gave of their work and their own website.
I have always suggested that it is prudent for a dealer to not only measure an example of a vendor's client base, but also the vendor itself. It stands to reason if they can't market themselves effectively they may not be very skilled at marketing the dealer. At least, I have always felt that to be the case. Goes to the whole, "practice what you preach" mentality.
For whatever reason, Ralph decided to respond in a very defensive way claiming there was no hidden agenda (an issue I never even raised). Then post later in a separate blog that he is pleased to announce that String is now a sponsor of ADM while lighting me up for not being a sponsor of ADM! Seriously? Do I really need to connect the dots here? Look, I'm not even saying I have an issue with that! As long as there is transparency that you are endorsing a paying client do whatever the hell you want. I'm as much a republican capitalist as they get. I'll never begrudge someone making a buck.
So where does Ralph's defensiveness about this come from? Or is he just mad that I did some research? If transparency is something Ralph would rather not have on his forum, then he should defend that. Otherwise I don't see his beef with me here.
Tom, all I am is transparent. Hell the last time a called out a vendor for selling something that couldn't possibly produce ROI, I ran a full audit of my own services the next day and threw out a product my company was selling.
My passion gets me in trouble all the time. I don't care, its not going to stop me from saying what I think is right. Even if it means I have to reexamine what I am doing in the context of something I say. I am not afraid to look in the mirror and make sure I pass my own smell test.
I am passionate about dealers. And the more time I have spent as a vendor talking to other vendors... Hearing what they say about dealers behind their back... Selling s*** that doesn't have a chance in hell at making any money for anyone but the vendor... the more appalled I become day after day at the incredible volume of snake oil being sold.
So how the hell can you tell me that Ralph is forthright and I am not transparent when the guy writes what would appear to be unsolicited infomercial about a company in one post then the next day announces they are a new sponsor in another and all I did was raise my hand and say, "hey, did anyone see this?"
And Ralph knows better than anyone, what we write here is about the topic at hand. Ralph and I can take shots at each other and he knows we're still friends when we get off our soap boxes. I have tremendous respect for Ralph Paglia. It is because I respect him that I cut him even less slack than I would someone else.
Ralph Paglia is one of the most influential people in the automotive marketing community. I feel that comes with an added responsibility to make c r y s t a l clear any and all motivations when it comes to recommending a service provider that a dealer might consider spending their hard earned money with.
Personally, I choose to never blur the lines. Its a personal choice. I also completely understand why others do not make that choice. I simply wanted the comfort of NEVER being questioned when I recommend a vendor that sells a product that I do not offer. We accept NO kickbacks, bird dogs, or anything else. When I recommend something its because its what I believe, period.
Ralph may very well believe in his heart that his assertion about string was not motivated by the fact that they are a sponsor. But because he takes their money, I think he has an obligation to disclose that. Which it seems clear he is now doing. Is asking for that bashing him? And wether or not his motivations are clear, should we not challenge the assertions made by the experts we respect? Is it bashing Ralph because I did some research on String and found less than favorable results?
I would think most dealer's would say thank you because they have two perspectives to consider. I have been operating under the presumption that, THAT was the point of ADM in the first place. Perhaps I am mistaken... Remember, FREEDOM comes at a price -- both to those who benefit from it as well as those who provide it.
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Five years. Five long years.. (pensive pause). I can't believe it either.
I think it's gone pretty quick though. Actually, every week passes by so quickly that I'm finding myself far behind with updating posts. Generally my enthusiasm has waned a tad, and I become every day just that little bit more cynical of these people I live and work amongst.
The new working year started great when I got thrown a bone of an extra twenty yen an hour. This is pretty much the norm. Oh, until I found out others were getting more.
It was great that I got a bonus for sticking it out after "the big one". (That was a joke. Are you kidding? They used that as an excuse NOT to give us the stipend anymore). How fantastic is that?
After the Kanto area manager gave a morale boosting speech of how bad we were doing compared to Kansai, one can get the feeling that if they didn't need native English teachers they'd rather do without us.
They say the aim was two and a half different schools.. I get four. Two of those are at schools pretty far away, and were definitely NOT requested so, so much for request surveys.
My Wednesdays at the moment are lonesome affairs at the park. No one I know has the same day off, so it's going to be great in the Summer going to the beach. Right?
I've been meeting at lot of new people at the bars, but rather than being the Charisma Man I thought I was, I'm excellent free English practice. Even the boys think so too.
Japanese men are so wonderful. I don't know how a woman can turn down a man that spits on the street. It must be hard swallowing one's own saliva. 難しい ね
The smoking is really getting to me. It's great having smoke blown into my face, or even how they thoughtfully rest a lit cigarette on the tray to let wisps of smoke waft towards me. I look forward to the day Japan taxes the crap out of cigarettes and bans smoking INDOORS just as Australia did many, many years ago. Likely not going to happen in my lifetime.
It's going to be stinkin' hot in my new apartment. I haven't been searched by police on the street, but I have had a house call, because they want to know where I live, even though the ward office and the government actually already have those details. hmm.
Good things? Yeah for sure!
I love having two empty seats next to me on the train. Reverse racism has its benefits too! Although I have had solo outings at the park, I still find it calming.
Apart from the kids classes where I've felt like I'm just babysitting, I've enjoyed the majority of my lessons. Still wish I'd learnt more Japanese in this time.
Best thing I did was shave my head. It was cathartic. Totally necessary. I think I need to do one crazy thing every year to keep me sane.
I think my time in Japan is limited. I'm really hoping there won't be a year six post. The payoff is virtually non-existant, and the rewards are few. I'm here because I don't know what I want to do, and I've made some good friends here. And.. one my best friends.
I don't want to lose that.
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Five Years
Five years. Five long years.. (pensive pause). I can't believe it either.
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Saturday, 5 May 2012
Tokyo Gate Bridge
Although it's great having a week off for Golden Week, it's been not so great weather to do something interesting.
On the first Sunday it was a beautiful day. Just about hot enough to go to the beach, Instead, along with quite a few co-workers I headed to Yoyogi Park to drink, eat inari and play a bit of guitar. The "usual", except for the breaking of my first string in Japan. (I've been EXTREMELY lazy changing strings while I'm not doing any pro gigs.)
The days following had mostly rainy days keeping me inside. Today was an exception. A top of 26 degrees C and the brightest full moon of the year.
A couple of things we had in mind. First going to Wakasu to see not only the new Tokyo Gate Bridge and the large windmill power generator, but also to see the resurrected 1/1 scale Gundam model in Odaiba.
Our way there from Yotsuya was plotted there with the great assistance from Google Maps and my ever helpful iPhone GPS :
The purple line you see on the map shows the 16km journey to Wakasu to be an almost straight bee-line there. We went by Tsukiji, where I've been telling myself for ages to go check out the famous fish markets.
In many parts of the trip, it was hard not to miss the Tokyo Sky Tree.
Further along I saw the Tatsumi International Swimming Center. Just like Pacifico in Yokohama, it reminded me of the Sydney Opera House with its white and quirky architecture.
As we hooked a right turn from Shin Kiba we noticed quite a few people around here.
While the new Tokyo Gate Bridge is the big current news, I was actually a little more interested to see the windmill. As we were getting closer and closer, I was keeping a sharp lookout for those enormous blades.
Around Yokohama there is also a wind power generator that could teasingly be seen from Minato Mirai. It's in Suzushigecho, but it's on US Army property so prohibited to get up close. What makes this one different is that it is situated unobstructed in the middle of Wakasu park!
I took a LOT of photos. I even made a video to show its slow rotation and the swooshing sound. If it couldn't be cool enough, it even has Astroboy on it. This video gives a more moody interpretation of this windmill than mine.
From there we made our way to Tokyo Gate Bridge. This has only recently been opened (12 Feb 2012), so interest is still very high. There is an elevator to take you up to the walkway, but the long line made it easy to just use the stairwell.
First thing I noticed was the wind. It's SO windy up there. Much more so, than the Rainbow Bridge. Secondly, there is a non-stop passing of planes on their way to Haneda Airport. The view is quite nice though. You can see a great panoramic view from here.
From the bridge it looks like there are also two other wind power generators on the artificial island coming off the other side of the bridge, but we only went half way, so hard to say if it's possible to get close. One day I may go to the Kamisu wind farm but it's pretty far away from Tokyo in Ibaraki prefecture.
While it may be possible to go to Odaiba from the other side, we went back towards Shin Kiba. Before going back however, we decided to have a short look around the narrow jetty, where there were plenty of fishermen. Be careful of the rush on the waves coming through the grate!
I had a bit of deja vu going to Odaiba via Shin Kiba. There we were passing the wasteland of a Tokyo industrial area. Seemed quicker this time. I was sober at least.
I had to ask some otaku boys where Gundam was. Strangely enough they only knew where it was when I mentioned the building it was next to.
SO where is Gundam?
You can find it if you look for Aomi on Google Maps, about a 5 minute walk from Daiba Station on the Yurikamome line. It's outside the new Diver City ("Diversity", get it?).
Funnily enough it is not far from where it was temporarily displayed in Shiokaze Park back in 2009. I always thought Odaiba was a perfect place for Gundam, so it's great to see it back.
I didn't know about it, but there is an Oktoberfest here too. Food and drinks were crazily overpriced, but by looking at the crowd, it looks like they don't really mind. They didn't notice it wasn't anywhere near October either.
We explored nearby. The Tokyo International Exchange Center looks like a PCB or computer circuit board to me. I don't know if that was the architect's intention, but it looked fitting in Tokyo's odaiba area.
Speaking of things looking like other things, the Maritime Museum does a pretty good job of looking like a ship. We went further along the Telecom Center area seeing other interesting buildings, harbour cranes and some.. cats.
As it got darker we went along the Daiba waterfront.
I still find it hilarious that they have a Statue of Liberty here. In front of the cool Fuji TV building.
Making our way back, we went via the Rainbow Bridge. Maybe it's just because it's the holidays, but it seems like more people are trekking across the bridge than when I first crossed it. My little "secret" is out.
Inside of going through Tamachi, and the hilly Roppongi area, I find it much easier going north to Shiodome and Shinbashi where although a little longer, is flatter and easier to manage.
Wow. Long post. Well, it's been a while since I last posted, so I guess this makes up for it.
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Manthan Systems Selected by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore in a First-of-its-Kind Call-for-Collaboration Aimed at Helping the Country's Growing Retail Industry
02 Jul, 2012, 01:00 BST
BANGALORE, India, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Retail organizations in Singapore can begin using Manthan's Customer Analytics solution for greater customer insights to achieve customer-centricity
Manthan Systems, a global leader in the retail Business Intelligence and Analytics space, today announced its selection by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), a Singapore Statutory Board, to participate in its innovative data and analytics program for the retail and wholesale sector. Manthan beat numerous global solution-providers in a highly competitive call-for-collaboration to emerge as one of the selected vendors that will offer comprehensive customer analytics assistance via a shared services platform to help retailers streamline performance and improve bottom-line.
Data and analytics is a key focus area for IDA and take an integrated approach in catalysing the growth and competitiveness of key economic sectors in Singapore through greater adoption of data and analytics.
IDA's project is a pioneering model of public-private partnership and a unique government led initiative to improve operational efficiencies and enhance revenue growth across various industry verticals. Manthan will begin the project by implementing its game-changing Customer Analytics (CA) suite on a Software-As-A-Service (SaaS)-based model at leading Singapore retail organizations - NTUC Fairprice, NTUC Unity Healthcare and CK Tang, and Singapore's largest multi-merchant loyalty program provider NTUC Link.
Manthan's Customer Analytics solution finally presents a means by which retailers can connect with their customers to explore key parameters such as customer loyalty, sales transaction and stores' data to gain critical insights and spot customer trends and opportunities. With these insights, leading retailers can aim to improve promotion effectiveness, deploy targeted campaigning, optimize the mix of marketing spends, drive customer retention and increase loyalty - all through a single interface. With its focus on customer insights, the solution has a track record of increasing retail customer response rates by 2 to 5% and reducing customer churn by 8 to 12%.
Says Mr. Atul Jalan, CEO, Manthan Systems: "Manthan already has a notable presence in Singapore with our solution in use at one of the country's leading electronics retailers - Courts. But the IDA project opens up the market and provides a tremendous boost to our growth plans in the region."
Besides the solution implementation at leading retail organizations, Manthan is taking steps towards the setting up a world class Center of Excellence (COE) in Singapore.
"Manthan's proposed COE will comprise of senior professionals/experts from across the world in the fields of retail, technology, statistics and marketing sciences. Our vision is to leverage these efforts to make Singapore a global analytics hub," says Jalan.
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28 - 30 November 2012
Rome, Italy
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The sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) took place on 28-30 November 2012 in Rome, Italy. The meeting was held back-to-back with the International Roundtable on Transboundary Water Resources Management in the Southern Mediterranean (Rome, 26-27 November 2012).
The Meeting of the Parties to the UNECE Water Convention adopted several decisions and a new programme of work that mark a crucial turning point in the globalization of the Convention. Some 330 participants, representing Parties and non-Parties from the UNECE region and beyond, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations attended the sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties.
A unanimous desire to enable accession to the Convention for all UN Member States
At the sixth session, Parties adopted a decision on simplifying the procedure for the accession of non-UNECE countries to the Convention. Any future request for accession by any member of the United Nations will be considered as approved by the MoP, once the amendments to articles 25 and 26 to the Convention enter into force for all the Parties that adopted them in 2003.
This decision reconfirms the conviction of the Parties that the Convention is an effective instrument beyond the UNECE region, as well as the unanimous desire to enable accession by non-UNECE countries as soon as possible, without distinction from the procedure for UNECE countries. With this decision, it is expected that non-UNECE countries will be able to accede to the Water Convention as of the end of 2013. Countries outside the UNECE region were encouraged to join the Convention by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Establishment of an Implementation Committee
The Implementation Committee for the Convention was established. The Committee will render practical case-tailored assistance to prevent water-related disputes and support Parties in their efforts to implement the Convention. Its nine members were elected by consensus to serve in a personal capacity. They represent a good mix and balance of competences to accomplish the Committee's tasks and include a number of outstanding lawyers and water management experts.
A new programme of work to further strengthen water cooperation
Parties adopted the new programme of work for 2013-2015. Work on support to implementation and accession, NPDs and adaption to climate change in transboundary basins will remain the cornerstones of the work under the Convention. In addition, in order to answer to today's challenges, new areas of work were included such as quantifying the benefits of transboundary cooperation, a thematic assessment on the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus and activities related to the opening of the Water Convention. Two decisions on cooperation with global partners— with GEF and UNESCO— were adopted, which will reinforce the implementation of the Water Convention.
Signature of the Dniester Treaty between the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine
During the meeting, the signing ceremony of the new bilateral Treaty between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on Cooperation in the Field of Protection and Sustainable Development of the Dniester River Basin took place.
High-level segment
Twentieth anniversary of the Convention and its opening to all United Nations Member States
The high-level segment was held in the morning and early afternoon of Wednesday, 28 November 2012. It was divided in three main parts: the opening session and the parts on the main achievements and remaining challenges for the Convention, and on the views on and expectations for a globalized Convention.
The first part consisted of statements by the high-level panellists focusing on the specific achievements under the Convention since its adoption in 1992, the remaining challenges and the prospects for the future, in particular in view of the global opening of the Convention, followed by a moderated discussion.
The second part focused on the views and expectations for the Water Convention in view of its forthcoming globalization, followed by a moderated discussion.
For more information, see the programme for the high-level segment as well as the statements of the opening session, statements by panellists and interventions from the floor (in the table below).
|Opening session
|Message of Mr. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, to the sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention
|Speech by Mr. Andrey Vasilyev, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
|Special session on the twentieth anniversary of the Convention and its opening to all United Nations Member States
|Part 1: Main achievements and remaining challenges for the Convention
|Ms. Lea Kauppi, Director General of the Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
|Mr. Ahmet Muhammedov, Deputy Minister of Water Economy, Turkmenistan
|Mr. Peter Kovacs, State Secretary for Water, Ministry of Rural Development, Hungary
|Mr. Uladzimir Tsalka, Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Belarus
|Mr. Arben Demeti, Deputy Minister of Environment, Forests and Administration of Waters, Albania
|Ms. Marina Seliverstova, Head of the Federal Agency for Water Resources, Russian Federation
|Interventions from the floor (compilation)
|Part 2: Views on and expectations for a globalized Convention
|Mr. Mohanad Al-Shaibani, Minister of Water Resources, Iraq
|Mr. Ramesh Chandra Sen, Minister of Water, Bangladesh
|Mr. Moncef Rekaya, Director, Water Resources Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Tunisia
|Mr. Sujiro Seam, Deputy Director of Global Public Goods, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
|Mr. Ivan Zavadsky, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, Global Environment Facility
|Mr. Alejandro Iza, Head of the Environmental Law Programme, International Union for Conservation of
|Interventions from the floor (compilation)
The following members were elected to serve in the Implementation Committee of the Water Convention:
|Mr. Johan Gerrit Lammers
|Half term
|Ms. Vanya Grigorova
|Full term
|Mr. Saghit Ibatullin
|Half term
|Mr. Kari Kinnunen
|Full term
|Mr. Stephen McCaffrey
|Full term
|Ms. Anne Schulte-Wülwer-Leidig
|Half term
|Mr. Aliaksandr Stankevich
|Full term
|Mr. Attila Tanzi
|Half term
|Mr. Ivan Zavadsky
|Full term
The Meeting of the Parties elected its Bureau as follows:
|Mr. Massimo Cozzone (Italy)
|Ms. Maria Galambos (Hungary)
|Mr. Serik Akhmetov (Kazakhstan)
|Ms. Lea Kauppi (Finland)
|Co-Chair of the Working Group on IWRM
|Ms. Heide Jekel (Germany)
|Co-Chair of the Working Group on IWRM
|Mr. Rafig Verdiyev (Azerbaijan)
|Mr. Harry Liiv (Estonia)
|Mr. Philippe Meunier (France)
|Mr. Vladimir Ivlev (Russian Federation)
|Ms. Dragana Milovanovic (Serbia)
|Ms. Sibylle Vermont (Switzerland)


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As in 2013 and 2014, fierce competition means that the Dutch construction sector is still affected by price wars, leading to on-going pressure on margins.
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- A less gloomy performance outlook
- High level of payment delays
- Insolvencies expected to increase further in 2015
Despite some positive developments (increased sales of and higher prices for private homes sold and increased building permits in Q4 of 2014) the Dutch construction market remains weak, as demand is still very low compared to the (pre-crisis) period before 2008. Due to continued tight mortgage lending practices and banks´ restrictive loan policies towards construction companies we do not expect a robust rebound in the short-term, despite signs that the deterioration has bottomed out.
The immediate outlook for residential and both private and public non-residential construction is less gloomy than in the past. However there is still overcapacity in office buildings. At the same time construction businesses dealing with utility and public works still show no improvement. Businesses active in the utility construction subsector still show decreasing revenues with strong pressure on their margins, while specialised construction companies record stable revenues at least. The persistent low construction volumes and subdued private spending still affect the construction materials segment, and we expect many businesses in this subsector to report negative results for 2014. However, as many companies have anticipated the difficult business circumstances expected in 2014 and 2015 and have reorganised accordingly, they could report better results in 2015.
We have seen a deterioration of payment behaviour over the last few years, especially during the significant performance downturn in 2012 and 2013. Due to the adverse economic situation and more restrictive bank lending, payment periods in the sector have increased to an average of 60 days. In 2014 we noticed that some of the larger Dutch construction businesses took advantage of their market position by stretching payments to their suppliers. However, we have recorded a decrease in notifications of non-payments over the past six months and expect payment behaviour to be stable in 2015.
As in 2013 and 2014, fierce competition means that the Dutch construction sector is still affected by price wars, leading to on-going pressure on margins. The liquidity of many companies has weakened due to losses and impairments, straining both solvency and liquidity. As a result, businesses´ focus is still on cash flow and working capital - and on tighter credit management.
In 2014, 1,062 construction companies became insolvent, a 34% year-on-year decrease after massive increases in previous years. Mainly carpentry companies, electricians, painters and other specialised construction companies recorded decreases. However, despite this decline we noticed that several large (top 10) construction companies had more financial troubles than in 2013. In 2015 we expect construction insolvencies only to level off, in line with the overall Dutch business insolvency development. The GDP growth forecast of 1.3%-1.6% does not seem to be enough for another substantial decrease in insolvencies this year. Despite the fact that many Dutch construction businesses went bankrupt in the last couple of years there is still overcapacity in the market, and a consolidation has yet to take place.
When assessing a buyer's creditworthiness, we require up-to-date financials, and details of the 2015 order book and payment experience. Additionally we seek details on the company's financing (covenants/securities) and the maturity dates of bank loans. Our aim is still to maximise the insurance cover we can give our customers, and in this respect third party securities, if available, can help. Compared to 2013, our risk acceptance of buyers in the Dutch construction sector already increased in 2014.


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hi , I've just joined the forum. My husband has IGA Nephropathy,has just been put on the donor list and is likelyto start CAPD in the next few months. THe last few weeks he has noticed a considerable reduction in energy and is struggling through the work day. He also has had a cough since CHristmas which the GP has treated with 2 lots of anti-biotics and steroid nasal spray for the phlegm - with no effct. THe GP also suggested consulting a homeopath for something to improve his immune system, but having read some of the posts suggesting it takes much longer to get over coughs colds etc before dialysis I am wondering if there is any value in this. Any thoughts on homeopathic treatments to boost immunity?


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Without a doubt the world's most reticent superstar, Elliott Smith was born Steven Paul Smith in Omaha, Nebraska on August 6, 1969. His father Gary Smith was in medical school at the University of Nebraska, and his mother Bunny was an elementary school teacher. When Elliott was one year old his parents divorced, and he moved with his mother to Dallas, Texas. That same year, his father was drafted, assigned to the U.S. Air Force, and sent to the Philippines as a physician. By the time Elliott was 5, both his father and mother had remarried and his father and stepmother moved to Portland, Oregon. From the age of four to thirteen, Elliott lived with his mother, stepfather and two half- siblings in Duncanville, TX (a suburb of Dallas).
At fourteen, Elliott moved to Portland, Oregon to live with his father, stepmother, and two half-sisters. Elliott started to write and record songs at home in Portland on a four-track recorder. He attended Lincoln High School and graduated in 1987 as a National Merit finalist. While in high school he formed his first band, Stranger than Fiction. Elliott attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts and graduated in 1991 with a major in political philosophy. He then moved back to Portland and formed the band Heatmiser along with Neil Gust, his friend and fellow-musician from Hampshire College.
Elliott released his first solo album, Roman Candle in 1994. He followed with the self-titled Elliott Smith (1995) and Either/Or (1997), all issued on the independent label Domino. He also recorded three albums with Heatmiser in the early '90s: Dead Air and Cop and Speeder (both on Frontier) and Mic City Sons (Virgin/Caroline). In 1997 director and Portland resident Gus Van Sant used some of his songs in the film 'Good Will Hunting' (Van Sant had been a friend and fan of Smith's since hearing Roman Candle). One of those, 'Miss Misery', went on to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Song in a Motion Picture. Elliott performed 'Miss Misery' on the Academy Awards telecast March 23, 1998. Elliott signed a contract with DreamWorks Records in 1998 and quickly released XO, his fourth solo album.
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Roma Women's Access to Justice, or simply named JUSTROM3, is a Joint Programme between the European Union and the Council of Europe, with a focus on addressing multiple discrimination and improving access to justice of Roma women in four different countries.The third phase will run until August 2021 with specific objectives around 3 pillars. Read more about JUSTROM3.
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COVENTRY CITY'S winless run now stands at nine games after a lone Gary Hooper strike saw Scunthorpe arrest a similarly lengthy sequence without victory.
Hooper's first-half effort proved to be enough for Nigel Adkins' men, who ended a string of six games without success and kept a first home clean sheet of the season.
Read Alan Poole's live text analysis from the game here...
The Iron did well to overcome the early loss of goalkeeper Joe Murphy, and despite handful of scares were able to protect their lead and leapfrog the Sky Blues in the Coca-Cola Championship standings.
Having rescued a point against Leicester last weekend with a last-gasp equaliser, Scunthorpe started crisply and Cliff Byrne flashed a header just wide after five minutes.
It was Coventry, though, who should have twice taken the lead inside 10 minutes, with Republic of Ireland striker Leon Best culpable on both occasions.
The first chance came when Best found himself one-on-one with Murphy after a slip by Rob Jones, but he fired straight at the goalkeeper rather than squaring to Clinton Morrison.
Then, just 30 seconds later, Best found himself in a similar position after being sent clear by Aron Gunnarsson and, after his first effort was blocked by Jones, his second was superbly saved by Murphy.
The keeper's afternoon ended there, though, as his knee crashed into the post as he saved Best's drive, a collision that saw him leave the field on a stretcher.
After a six-minute delay, replacement goalkeeper Josh Lillis had to make a fine save from Morrison's strike, while at the other end Kieren Westwood produced an impressive one-handed save to keep out a Martyn Woolford header.
A goal did arrive 30 minutes in, with Hooper lashing home his seventh of the season.
City defender Richard Wood was drawn out of position, Paul Hayes took advantage and backheeled a loose ball into the space vacated by Wood and a rampant Hooper barely looked up as he drilled home from the edge of the area.
Grant McCann went close to making it two with a low free-kick before the half-time whistle, and his side continued to impress after the restart, with Hooper not giving the Coventry defence any breathing space.
Read Alan Poole's live text analysis from the game here...
Coventry appeared much more focused after the resumption, but were unable to force their way through a Scunthorpe defence which was now looking more solid after its early wobbles.
Woolford and Martin O'Connor both took aim from distance for the home side as they tried to extend their lead, something Hayes should have done with 13 minutes remaining.
He again linked up with Hooper, with his strike partner's backheel playing him into the area, but Hayes could only drive his angled shot across the face of Westwood's goal.
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Koch Industries is the second largest [PDF] privately-held company in the United States with $115 billion in annual revenue. The Koch conglomerate owns a wide variety of industrial subsidiaries, including Flint Hills Resources, Georgia-Pacific, INVISTA, and Molex. Koch Industries has a presence in nearly 60 countries, conducting business operations in the fields of petroleum refining, fuel pipelines, coal supply and trading, oil and gas exploration, chemicals and polymers, fertilizer production, ranching and forestry products. The company employs 100,000 people globally, 60,000 of which are in the United States (down from 80,000 U.S. employees in recent years, despite several multi-billiondollar aquisitions and mergers).
The vast majority of Koch Industries' assets are controlled by Charles G. and David H. Koch, two of four sons of the company's founder, who each own 42% of the company stock. According to 2014 Forbes rankings, the Koch brothers are tied for the 24th richest person in the world, and for fourth richest American, each worth $36 billion. Their combined wealth puts them behind only Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in U.S. richness. Bloomberg estimates each brothers wealth exceed that of Forbes, at over $52 billion each.
The Political Economy Research Institute ranks Koch Industries as the fourteenth worst air polluter in the U.S. in their Toxic Release Inventory, above oil giants like BP, Shell and Chevron and large coal utilities like American Electric Power and Duke Energy. CARMA reports that Koch releases about 200,000 tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide annually.
Koch Industries environmental crimes, violations, and contamination include:
- Two chlorine dioxide chemical leaks from a Koch-owned cellulose facility in Taylor County Florida in May, 2014.
- Subsidiaries of Koch Carbon have accumulated massive piles of petroleum coke in U.S. cities like Detroit and Chicago, where the toxic dust has blown into peoples' homes from a 5-story-tall pile of petcoke. Petcoke is a byproduct of refining tar sands that is usually burned like coal. Petcoke, which is more carbon-intensive than coal, is typically exported and burned in other countries with little to no air or climate regulations. While Detroit's mayor ordered Koch to move its petcoke pile, Chicago regulators and politicians have not acted with the same urgency despite sustained local protests from community members, nurses, and threats of lawsuits from environmental groups. In response, Koch claims it will add protections to its unlined pile, which could take two years.
- Facing "enormous" cleanup costs for soil and groundwater contamination and high crude oil prices, Flint Hills announced in 2014 that it would permanently close its North Pole refinery outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. Koch blames contamination on the refinery's previous owner, Williams Companies.
- Ongoing releases of benzene and other chemicals from Koch's oil refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, where refinery communities experience high rates of illnesses.
- Hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic chemical contamination from Koch-owned Georgia-Pacific facility in Crossett, Arkansas, as reported in 2011.
- In 2009, the US Justice Department and EPA announced in 2009 that Koch Industries' Invista subsidiary would pay a $1.7 million penalty and spend $500 million to fix environmental violations at facilities in seven states, in an agreement with the US EPA and Department of Justice.
- In May 2001, Koch Industries paid $25 million to settle with the US Government over a long-standing suit brought by Bill Koch - one of the brothers bought out in 1983 - for the company's long-standing practice of illegally removing oil from federal and Indian lands.
- In late 2000, the company was charged with covering up the illegal releases of 91 tons of the known carcinogen benzene from its refinery in Corpus Christi. Initially facing a 97-count indictment and potential fines of $350 million, Koch cut a deal with then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to drop all major charges in exchange for a guilty plea for falsifying documents, and a $20 million settlement.
- In 2000, the EPA fined Koch Industries $30 million for its role in 300 oil spills that resulted in more than three million gallons of crude oil leaking into ponds, lakes, streams and coastal waters.
- In 1999 a Koch subsidiary pleaded guilty to charges that it had negligently allowed aviation fuel to leak into waters near the Mississippi River from its refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota, and that it had illegally dumped a million gallons of high-ammonia wastewater onto the ground and into the Mississippi.
- Koch's negligence toward environmental safety has led to tragic losses of life. In 1996, a rusty Koch pipeline leaked flammable butane near a Texas residential neighborhood. Warned by the smell of gas, two teenagers drove their truck toward the nearest payphone to call for help, but they never made it. Sparks from their truck ignited the gas cloud and the two burned alive. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that "the probable cause of this accident was the failure of Koch to adequately protect its pipeline from corrosion" and the ineffectiveness of Koch's program to educate local residents about how to respond during a pipeline leak.
The inability of Koch companies to avoid pollution incidents stands in contrast with Charles Koch's "Guiding Principles" of his trademarked corporate management theory, "Market-Based Management," which states, "Strive for 10,000% compliance with all laws and regulations, which requires 100% of employees fully complying 100% of the time." This also excludes from consideration the ways in which Koch is permitted to legally pollute.
Formaldehyde, Cancer, and David Koch
While David Koch, a victim of prostate cancer, has donated millions to cancer research institutions and is a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board, Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific is actively working to downplay the dangers of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
Financing of climate science denial front groups:
Koch Industries and the Koch family spend millions of dollars on lobbyists to fight climate and energy legislation, millions more on politicians, and still more millions on organizations denying climate change. Through the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation as well as Koch Industries and the other Koch family foundations, numerous and substantial donations go to organizations that deny, skepticize or belittle the significance of global warming. Compared to ExxonMobil, which has spent over $27.4 million on skeptic groups since 1998, foundations linked to Koch Industries have spent over $70 million in traceable contributions to the same network of organizations, with addition untraceable funding funnelled through organizations like Donors Trust. Key Koch-backed organizations include the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which was founded and remains chaired by David Koch, the Cato Institute, which Charles Koch co-founded and David Koch remains a board member after an attempted coup, the Institute for Humane Studies, which is chaired by Charles Koch, and the Reason Foundation, of which David Koch is a trustee.
Koch Industries is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and part of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force. Through ALEC, Koch works with state legislators to distribute anti-environmental model bills across the country that delay policy solutions to climate change, block clean energy, prevent EPA from regulating coal pollution, fasttrack coal mining projects and other dirty energy initiatives. Koch's support for ALEC is unique; Charles Koch helped bail ALEC out during financial trouble in the late 1990s; Koch lobbyist Mike Morgan has severed on ALEC's private enterprise board for over a decade (see PR Watch references, paragraph 6).
Koch Industries was the 2011 inductee for Corporate Accountability International's Corporate Hall of Shame for "spending over $50 million to fund climate change denial and influencing the Supreme Court's decision to allow unlimited corporate dollars to flow into federal elections." Koch Industries is the sixth member of the Hall of Shame, after Monsanto, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Blackwater and Halliburton.
Political Expenditures:
Koch Industries is a major political contributor, spending over $22 million on federal political candidates since 1999.
Koch Industries has spent $79 million on federal lobbying since 1998, when disclosure became mandatory.
Koch Industries spent $1 million to promote California Proposition 23, intended to undermine the states clean energy and climate law, through subsidiary company Flint Hills Resources. Koch also pushed Prop 23 through one of their beneficiary front groups, the Pacific Research Institute, which published and promoted reports that made favorable economic arguments for Prop 23 using >flawed methodologies>.
Koch worked behind the scenes during the 2010 "Rally for Jobs" astroturf events, coordinated by the American Petroleum Institute in order to create political pressure against clean energy and climate legislation in the interest of the oil and gas industry. Groups such as Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, which are both heavily funded by the Koch brothers and founded by David Koch, were partner organizations in promoting the rallies.
Support for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
In conjunction with $43,000 in 2010 political donations from Koch Industries to Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Koch-founded and -financed Americans for Prosperity has coordinated support for the Governor's union busting efforts. Wisconsin's budget crisis has been inflamed by corporate tax cuts initiated by Gov. Walker, who then used the lack of income to justify taking bargaining rights from Wisconsin union workers and cutting the salaries and benefits of state employees. This process was advised by the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has received over $500,000 from Koch Industries since 1997, and over $1.4 million from ExxonMobil. Koch Industries holds numerous business operations in Wisconsin.
International bribes and trading with Iran:
Bloomberg Markets Magazine reports that Koch Industries, through a French subsidiary, sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, and also appears to have bribed companies in countries like Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, India and Nigeria to solicit business contracts from 2002-2008.
Role in Keystone XL tar sands pipeline:
Koch Industries has been involved in tar sands operations for half a century. Koch refines 25% of tar sands crude oil entering the U.S. and operates a terminal at the proposed pipeline's origin in Hardisty, Alberta. Koch Industries has repeatedly denied any financial interest in TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. After 6 months of public insistence that Koch Industries had nothing to do with Keystone XL, news emerged that Koch's wholly-owned subsidiary Flint Hills Resources told Canada's Energy Board it has "direct and substantial interest" in a government filing. Flint Hills owns Koch's Pine Bend refinery in Rosemont, Minnesota, whichcan process 339,000 barrels of oil per day, and "is among the top processors of Canadian crude in the United States. Koch has continued to deny any financial link to TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline, although Americans for Prosperity (which was founded by the Kochs, chaired by David Koch and funded by over $5.6 million from Koch foundations) bussed pipeline supporters to testify at State Department Hearings in Nebraska.


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New sanction guidelines set to take effect on Aug. 27 were the topic of a CFP Board webinar Tuesday, during which speakers offered examples of their application and attendees discussed their effects on planners.
The webinar was presented by Christopher Beard, chairman of the 2012 disciplinary and ethics commission (DEC), which is in charge of sanctioning certified financial planners; Michael Shaw, managing director of professional standards and legal for the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards; and Adam Zajac, CFP Board's adjudicatory counsel. During the presentation, the guidelines were presented as a means of ensuring "consistency, fairness and transparency in the disciplinary aspect of CFP Board's mission."
While the DEC will continue to rely on anonymous case histories, the guidelines offer an additional tool, according to Beard, that will assist it in reaching decisions that are "fair, consistent and transparent." Although the sanction guidelines offer recommended sanctions for specific instances of conduct, the commission will continue to use its own judgment and experience in considering the facts of each case.
Suggestions received during the public comment period on the guidelines resulted in increases to some proposed penalties; forgery, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty all saw suggested penalties raised to a suspension of a year and a day.
Mitigating and aggravating circumstances will be considered by the DEC, once the CFP has had the opportunity for a hearing. Factors that will get heavy consideration when deciding a penalty include repeated instances of behavior and whether the individual was working with older clients.
While the number of revocations of the CFP mark has increased substantially over the past five years, in the interests of fairness, the DEC does not simply take it away when considering violations.
One aspect of the webinar that drove home the responsibility of the DEC was the polling of attendees on four separate scenarios of violations. There was substantial disagreement on whether the behavior in each scenario should result in suspension, revocation of the mark, a public letter of reprimand or private admonishment, and in each case the presenters discussed the mitigating or aggravating circumstances that led to the decision.
The anonymous case histories to be used in assisting the DEC to reach its decisions will be available online, according to the presenters, and will be searchable by conduct, sanction and rule violation.


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Sweet muppet Jesus, how am I just finding out about this now?!? Toby Froud, better known as the stripey pajama-wearing baby abducted by David Bowie in Labyrinth, has followed in the footsteps of his father and conceptual artist for both The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, Brian Froud, by writing and directing his own short film in conjunction with Heather Henson's puppet company Ibex Puppetry, called Lessons Learned.
Successfully Kickstartered last year, the 15 minute short features a wide array of strange and gobliny creatures who would look right at home in the elder Froud's universe. For those of you willing to make the trek to Portland, you can catch a screening at the Portland Film Festival later this August, but keep a close eye on your own local indie theaters, since the print has already started on the festival circuit and will be included as part of Heather Henson's touring Handmade Puppet Dreams.
For more information and behind-the-scenes photos head over to Toby's own production site, the aptly named stripeypajamaproductions.com.


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Martin Luther King? Barack Obama? Theodore Parker? Freemason Commander? Seth Brooks? Jacob Kohn?
Dear Quote Investigator: Civil rights champion Martin Luther King, Jr. once delivered a powerful speech with this resonant line:
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
I was told that this metaphorical framework has a long history that stretches back to the 19th century. Could you examine this topic?
Quote Investigator: Theodore Parker was a Unitarian minister and prominent American Transcendentalist born in 1810 who called for the abolition of slavery. In 1853 a collection of "Ten Sermons of Religion" by Parker was published and the third sermon titled "Of Justice and the Conscience" included figurative language about the arc of the moral universe: 1
Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Jefferson trembled when he thought of slavery and remembered that God is just. Ere long all America will tremble.
The words of Parker's sermon above foreshadowed the Civil War fought in the 1860s. The passage was reprinted in later collections of Parker's works. A similar statement using the same metaphor was printed in a book called "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry" with a copyright date of 1871 and publication date of 1905. The author was not identified: 2
We cannot understand the moral Universe. The arc is a long one, and our eyes reach but a little way; we cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; but we can divine it by conscience, and we surely know that it bends toward justice. Justice will not fail, though wickedness appears strong, and has on its side the armies and thrones of power, the riches and the glory of the world, and though poor men crouch down in despair. Justice will not fail and perish out from the world of men, nor will what is really wrong and contrary to God's real law of justice continually endure.
In 1918 a concise instance of the expression similar to the modern version was printed in a book titled "Readings from Great Authors" in a section listing statements attributed to Theodore Parker: 3
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Here are additional selected citations in chronological.
Continue reading The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, But It Bends Toward Justice
- 1853, Ten Sermons of Religion by Theodore Parker, Of Justice and the Conscience, Start Page 66, Quote Page 84-85, Crosby, Nichols and Company, Boston. (Google Books full view) link ↩
- 1905 [Copyright 1871], Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, Compiled by Albert Pike, XXXI GRAND INSPECTOR INQUISITOR COMMANDER, Section XXXI: Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander, Start Page 825, Quote Page 838, Charleston. (Google Books full view) link ↩
- 1918, Readings from Great Authors by John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, and Theodora Goldsmith, Section: Justice: Theodore Parker, Start Page 17, Quote Page 18, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York. (Internet Archive) link ↩


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World Sustainable Energy Days: 24- 26 February 2016 in Wels, AUSTRIA
For more than 20 years, experts from all over the world have gathered in Upper Austria to attend the conference - in 2015, the event attracted over 750 participants from 64 countries.
2016 the World Sustainable Energy Days will take place from 24-26 February, presenting up-to-date information on technology trends, markets and policies in 6 separate conferences:
- European Pellet Conference : The world's largest annual conference on pellets: technology and policy trends, markets and financing; including "World Pellet Technology Forum", "Pellet Market News Worldwide", "Pellet Technology Outlook" und "Pellet Business Cooperation Platform"
- European Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Conference : High efficiency buildings supplied by renewable energy: technologies, policies, financing, best practice examples (new construction and renovation)
- Young Researchers' Conference: Energy Efficiency and Biomass : Two conferences presenting the work and achievements of young researchers in the fields of biomass and energy efficiency
- European Energy Efficiency Watch Conference : Update on the implementation of the EU energy efficiency policies
- Energy Efficiency Services Conference : Financing and operator models: energy performance contracting and other integrated services for refurbishment of buildings and lighting
- Smart Facade Materials Conference: Latest research results on building facades: novel insulation materials, smart windows, active facades, energy harvesting, embodied energy of facade materials
Other focal points:
- Cooperation Platform offers the opportunity to find new business partners in bilateral meetings (biomass & energy efficiency).
- Poster-Presentation on successful projects concerning energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.
- Trade Show "Energiesparmesse" : Leading tradeshow on renewable energy and energy efficiency with around 100,000 expected.
- Technical Site-Visits : "Pellets and Wood Chips" and "Nearly Zero Energy Buildings"
Detailed information on the conference as well as registration, programme, hotel reservation etc. can be found on the conference website .
Conference Languages (simultaneous translation): English, German
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- Conference programme (English/German) [pdf, 1,275.4 kb]


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CELTICS: Knicks defeat Celtic easily
BOSTON >> J.R. Smith scored 32 points, Carmelo Anthony added 29 and the New York Knicks extended their winning streak to five games with a 100-85 victory over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night.
The win moved the Knicks into second place in the Eastern Conference, percentage points ahead of the Indiana Pacers. The Celtics, who could face the Knicks in the first round of the playoffs, lost their fifth game in a row and remained in seventh.
Neither team led by more than four points in the early going and the score was tied 35-35 early in the second quarter. The Knicks then scored the next 14, led 58-44 at halftime and stayed comfortably ahead the rest of the way, leading by as many as 17 points.
The Celtics, playing their second straight game without Kevin Garnett, were led by Jeff Green with 19 points and Paul Pierce with 16. But they committed 20 turnovers, while theKnicks, who have the fewest average turnovers in the NBA, had just eight.
Garnett is expected to miss about two weeks with inflammation in his left ankle. Starting guard Courtney Lee also sat out his second game in a row with a sprained left ankle. Starters Rajon Rondo and Jared Sullinger already are sidelined for the season.
The Knicks were without two key big men. Tyson Chandler has a bulging disk and missed his seventh consecutive game, while Amare Stoudemire was sidelined for the 10th game following knee surgery that is expected to keep him out four more weeks.
Steve Novak began New York's 14-0 surge with a 3-pointer, Anthony hit a 19-foot jumper and Smith followed with a tip-in. Anthony then converted an alley-oop from Pablo Prigioni before Prigioni made a reverse layup and Novak ended the run with another 3.
Brandon Bass' layup with 7:47 left in the second quarter had tied it at 35, but the Celticsdidn't score again until Jordan Crawford made a pair of free throws with 3:53 left in the half. Boston went without a field goal until Green's layup with 3:27 remaining made it 49-37.
The Celtics cut the lead to 69-62 on a layup by Pierce with 5:21 left in the third quarter, but the Knicks scored the next nine points to open a 78-62 lead.
Anthony began the spurt with two free throws, Jason Kidd scored his first points of the game on a 3-pointer, Kenyon Martin dunked on a follow-up and Anthony hit two more free throws.
The Knicks led 84-69 entering the fourth quarter and took their biggest lead, 91-74, on a 3-pointer by Novak.
NOTES: Smith and Anthony combined for 34 of the Knicks' first 44 points. ... New York's reserves led Boston's 27-7 in the first half. Jason Terry was the only non-starter to score for Boston in the half. ... With Lee sidelined, Crawford made his first start for theCeltics in 17 games since being traded from the Washington Wizards and finished with 14 points. ... Boston is one away from its longest losing streak of the season. ... The teams meet again on Sunday in New York.