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Bill Dwyre
4:35 PM CST, December 14, 2012
For more than two years, Alfredo Angulo was boxing's version of Elvis. He had left the building.
Now he is back, trying to return to the level that got him fights with the likes of Kermit Cintron and James Kirkland, as well as a lucrative offer to fight Sergio Martinez. But the baggage he will take into the Sports Arena ring Saturday night when he goes against Jorge Silva in a prelim of the Amir Khan-Carlos Molina card is heavier than most.
Angulo's story, told in complete detail, is "War and Peace." James Cameron would have to make the movie because the tale is titanic. Here, you'll only get the CliffsNotes.
He is 30 years old. He fought on Mexico's Olympic team in 2004 in Athens. His amateur record was 95-15, and he turned pro a few months after Athens.
His current record, mostly at 154 pounds, is 21-2-1 with 18 knockouts, and he was doing well in midsummer 2010, when he upset once-beaten Canadian Joachim Alcine in Rancho Mirage. Then it all unraveled. After Alcine, he fought twice in 2011, both bouts in Mexico. He didn't return to a U.S. ring until Nov. 10 of this year, fighting on the Abner Mares undercard at Staples Center and winning with a one-punch knockout in the first round.
The fact of his missing-person gap is simple. He was in an immigration detention center in El Centro, Calif., for almost eight months — January to August 2012. The explanation for that, however, is not simple. His stay there is both complicated and controversial.
Angulo fought for promoter Gary Shaw. He was in the United States on a work visa, arranged for by Shaw. Somewhere along the line, the visa expired. Angulo says it was Shaw's responsibility to keep him informed and his paperwork current. Shaw denies that, although several boxing officials called Angulo's version "the common procedure."
Shortly after Angulo beat Alcine, Shaw got an offer for Angulo to fight Martinez. Shaw says he offered the boxer $750,000 for the fight, but that Angulo demanded $1 million and stopped speaking to him. Angulo says that by that time he had stopped trusting Shaw and wanted to take care of his immigration situation before he did anything else.
"I never got proper paperwork on anything from Shaw," Angulo says. "He believes that because we are Mexican fighters we don't know much."
In the aftermath of their breakup, Shaw publicly called Angulo "an absolute liar," and adds now, "His nickname is El Perro — beware of the dog — and that fits him fine."
Angulo hired immigration lawyers, who advised him to return to Mexico to straighten out his situation. He did so, fought twice in Mexico, including a brawl with Kirkland that he lost, and then went to the immigration processing center in El Centro in January of this year to pursue a new U.S. work visa. The expectation, according to his lawyer/adviser/girlfriend Lucy Haro, was that he would have to stay two or three days, "maybe as many as five."
He walked out Aug. 14.
Even that was two weeks after he finally won his court case and the judge called him "a credible person."
Haro is among the least likely persons you'd expect to be involved in boxing. She would pass, in size and looks, for a Laker girl. She has her law degree from Pepperdine, saved her money and bought a restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard, near Westwood, named Qusqo. She was born in the United States of Peruvian-born parents and her restaurant specializes in Peruvian dishes.
She met Angulo at the Wild Card Gym of famed boxing trainer Freddie Roach, who told her to "never trust anybody in boxing." She was there, working out to keep in shape for another passion, boxing.
"I always wear a helmet," she says.
Angulo, dark eyes and hair tightly braided in rows that go to a pony tail, has a menacing look. He is known as a brawler, a one-punch artist, and his trademark is a dog collar, per his nickname, that he wears into the ring for fights. Until you get the choirboy smile, his appearance can be scary.
Haro was not scared. During Angulo's eight-month stay in El Centro, she made the four-hour drive from Los Angeles several times a week to file motions, make arguments and keep heat on U.S. immigration officials who, she says, were "abusing power." There were never any criminal charges against Angulo, she says, and other immigration experts she has asked agree that his eight-month detention was unheard of.
Angulo says his detention prison was a large room with 65 beds. He says he was allowed to go into the yard a couple of hours each day, but even that had drawbacks.
"It was usually 115 degrees," he says, "and the shoes they gave us were paper thin. Your feet just burned."
Nor was food a highlight.
"We got powdered eggs once in a while," he says, "but the big deal was every other Friday. We got pizza and three buffalo wings. Always three."
Angulo, a legal U.S. resident now, feels deprived of prime time in his boxing career. At 30, he is fighting for his friend, Oscar De La Hoya and his Golden Boy Promotions, and being handled by top trainer Virgil Hunter, Andre Ward's trainer.
"I want to win all five titles in my weight class," he says, "and I think I have three years to do that."
Shaw finds that laughable.
"He'll never be a great fighter," he says. "Maybe a good one. We'll see when he goes against somebody really tough."
No surprise there. It's boxing. They're always fighting.
Copyright © 2014, Los Angeles Times


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Orlando Writer Takes Aim At Ex-UF Coach Meyer… Again
May 24th, 2012 04:08 PM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink
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Tags: Bhodi Tree, Jeremy Fowler, Ohio State, Ohio State Michigan
Mike Bianchi of The Orlando Sentinel must have a clear-cut morning routine:
* Wake up.
* Drink a cup of coffee.
* Find a way to call out Urban Meyer as a liar.
No one takes shots at the ex-Florida coach like Bianchi. (Well, okay, The Sporting News' Matt Hayes is in the running, too.) Today the Orlando writer has jumped all over Ohio State's coach for something he said a week ago.
On May 24th, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer wrote that Meyer had this to say about college football's drive toward a playoff:
"I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but I think the ideal setup is what we've had the last decade of football. I can understand why [the change] is happening, but I was not one of the screamers or yellers saying it was broke before."
Ah, but Bianchi went back through The Sentinel's archives and found a Meyer quote from 2006. At the time, it looked as though Florida might miss out on the BCS Championship Game — which it won, by the way — in favor of an Ohio State-Michigan matchup. This was the coach's take back then:
"If that (Ohio State-Michigan rematch) does happen, all the presidents need to get together immediately and put together a playoff system. I mean like now, January or whenever to get that done… I do believe as time wears on and you kind of sit back and look, that the only thing justifiable is to (add a playoff)."
Bada boom bada bing, further proof that Meyer's a liar.
We simply look at Meyer's quotes and shrug our collective shoulders. People change their minds over time. One quote came from 2006 and the other from 2012. Heck, this writer once favored an eight-team college football playoff before arriving at the conclusion that a four-team format would probably do a better job of protecting the sport's regular season.
So perhaps Meyer sat beneath his own personal Bhodi Tree and achieved some form of playoff enlightenment. (A little shout out to all our Buddhist readers.) The more intriguing issue is why Bianchi continues to pen so many anti-Meyer pieces.
It's one thing to repeatedly update one's views regarding a playoff system, transfer policies, or — ahem — a nine-game SEC football schedule, for example. But to consistently go after one ex-coach time and again? The word vendetta comes to mind.
Perhaps this all traces back to the over-the-top tirade Meyer launched against former Sentinel writer Jeremy Fowler back in 2010. Whatever the reason, it's clear that any and every time Bianchi finds an opportunity to question Meyer's honesty, he'll take it.
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love the iznik bowl.
Maybe this is doable in other parts of the country but cheese and wine garden party is not so ideal in where i am..-Northern NJ.
I did that once and all the cheeses melted and got sweaty..didn't look so appetizing...=(
I hear you, ClintonAve, but this was in Brooklyn! I think the key is to eat the cheese as fast as we did. :)
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Scenes similar to this are common for Pandora, a dock-jumping Staffordshire terrier who is among the dogs that participate in the sport throughout the Reno/Sparks area. Some dogs even jump competitively.
Splash Dogs, a nationally recognized group, travel around the West Coast holding competitions to see which canine in a given area can leap the furthest from a dock into the water. And, with summer having arrived, many of the competitors consider the sport a great way to keep dogs cool and in shape during the scorching season.
"She took to it right away," said Lisa Keyes, Pandora's owner. "She was jumping in about an hour and a half."
Together, Pandora and Keyes have gone to jumps in Nevada, California and other states across the West.
As in any sport, there are stars. Pinka, a 30-pound "unknown rescue," has won six competitions in a row this year, and was the 2009 Splash Dogs Pro Division Champion. Her owner, Suzy Nicholson, said she is half Belgian Malinois, half terrier.
According to Nicholson, Pinka was a natural with the sport.
"She started jumping the first time I took her out," Nicholson said.
Since then, the two have gone to the Sparks Marina each weekend and practiced. Nicholson uses a tennis ball to usher her dog into the water.
Both Pandora and Pinka belong to a local group, the High Desert Diving Dogs (HDDD). Natalie Jane-Schricker, the group's president, has been participating in dock jumping with her 4-year-old golden retriever Katie for about three years now. Similar to the other competitors, she said her interest began when she had a young puppy full of energy.
"We went to a trainer, jumped at the Sparks Marina," Schricker said. "She loved it. One trainer invited us to the state fair, and she's been jumping ever since."
The HDDD has about 60 members and has been meeting since 2004. The members generally meet every Saturday morning at the Sparks Marina and practice with one another.
When asked why a pet owner should get his or her dog involved in the sport, each member answered with a similar response.
"It's really a great bonding experience with your dog," Keyes said. "The way she reacts and listens now is so much better than before."
"It's a lot of fun. It's great. The dogs just love it," Schricker said. "This is crack for dogs."


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Stylishly coordinate your jewellery look with this darling sterling silver diamond pendant and stud earring set. This set features stunning sterling silver work with three perfectly placed diamonds for an aesthetic and a price point that is impossible to resist. • Sterling silver • (3) round shaped white diamonds (0.05 ctw), bezel set • Average gram weight is 2.20 • The earrings and pendant measure approximately 1/8" in length • The chain measures approximately 18" in length • The earrings have post & butterfly backings and are for pierced ears only • The chain has a spring ring clasp • Diamond clarity: I2 I3; colour: IJ • Nickel free • Country of Origin: China
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Just received this set. Real nice little diamonds. The illusion setting of each piece really sparkles and represents approx a one full carat stone. It's very cute. Perfect gift for my granddaughter. Nothing shabby. Nice fine chain, too.
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Total waste of money. Photo shows the sterling silver that shines,and not the "diamond". The so called diamond is so small,one could think it is part of the sterling silver, and the pendant does not stay on properly.Do not waste your money on this!
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Although the price is reasonable,the pendant doesn't lay flat on the neck.It twists and flips around so that the diamond face doesn't show as well as it should. It is OK for everyday wear,along with earrings,but was looking for something small and sparkly to wear.The photo suggests that the cut and face would do just that. I have kept it and wear it casually. I got what I paid for.Photo suggests a lovely cut,but I think that it is just in the silver,not in stone.
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After a barrage of pressure to release his tax forms, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney reported his income, confirming what most already knew: He's the wealthiest of the GOP candidates, earning $43 million over the past two years.
While much of Romney's assets comes from his tenure at Bain & Company and investment firm Bain Capital, the presidential contender grew up in relative wealth as the son of American Motor Corporation CEO and former Michigan governor George W. Romney. As such, Romney is also no stranger to high-end real estate, having owned properties in Massachusetts, Utah, New Hampshire, and most recently La Jolla, CA.
Mitt Romney spent the first five years of his life in this 5,500-square-foot home (above) in the upscale Detroit Palmer Woods neighborhood before moving to Detroit's Bloomfield Hills suburb. Although Detroit real estate has been hard hit in the past few years, Palmer Woods real estate remained steady as a high-end neighborhood. However, even an upscale location couldn't save Romney's childhood home from foreclosure or the wrecking ball. After falling into disrepair in 2009, the house was one of 3,000 Detroit homes razed in the city's renewal plan.
According to property records, Romney and his family purchased the 7-bedroom, 6.5-bath home in Belmont in 1989 — five years after Romney founded investment firm Bain Capital. The Romneys' home sold for $3.5 million in 2009 — 293 percent more than the 1989 purchase price of $890,000.
Situated on 2.44 acres and within 25 minute drive from downtown Boston, the 6,434-square-foot Colonial was an ideal home base for Romney, his wife Ann and their five sons for 20 years.
In 1997, the Romneys plunked down $3 million for a summer home situated on 11 acres of lakefront in New Hampshire. The 3-story, 6-bedroom contemporary sits along Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, "the oldest summer resort in America."
With a 5,400-square-foot main house and additional guest house, the estate is worth an estimated $10 million. Home to the Romney crew — children and grandchildren — each summer, some wonder if the GOP candidate's familiarity with the state helped him clinch the New Hampshire primary.
In 1999, the Romneys picked up another vacation home. This time, the family decided on a mountain ski home in Park City, Utah. At the time, Romney was working as CEO and President of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where he is credited with establishing critical credibility for the scandal-plagued organizing committee. Romney's leadership in the Olympics was largely viewed as a success, leading him to write "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership and the Olympic Games" about his experience.
More chalet than cabin, Romney's 7-bedroom, 9.5-bath home sits at the end of a cul-de-sac on nearly 11 acres. A premier destination for snow sport enthusiasts, Park City real estate doesn't come cheap. Romney's home was no exception; the 9,514-square-foot home sold in 2009 for a little under the $5.25 million asking price.
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text: Non-Uniform Emergence Concerns May Be Over Exaggerated As long as corn plants in a field emerge within four to five days of each other, Emerson Nafziger says non-uniform emergence shouldn't be an issue. Published on: Apr 24, 2013 Only 1% of the Illinois corn crop was planted by April 14, compared to 38% on that date in 2012. With soils still cool, excess rain, and a drop in temperatures last week, corn planting is unlikely to be early in 2013, says University of Illinois crop sciences professor Emerson Nafziger. "Wet soils warm more slowly than dry soils, so with soils both wet and cool, we need to be ready for some 'patience-requiring' weather," Nafziger says. Cool soils alone are not much threat to corn seed, but soils that are both cool and wet slow germination and emergence and provide an advantage to soil microbes that can attack corn seed. Under such conditions, producers may be inclined to set planting depth a little shallower. That sometimes helps, but seeds should never be placed less than about 1.25 inches deep, and planter settings should seldom be less than 1.5 inches deep.Non-Uniform Emergence Concerns May Be Over Exaggerated "Remember, too, that soil close to the surface both warms faster during the day and cools down faster at night, so the overall effect of shallower placement on temperature experienced by the seed and seedling might not be very predictable," Nafziger warns. Unlike last year's crop, which was planted in mid-March and suffered frost damage the second week of April, this year's crop is in little danger of frost damage. As April progresses, chances of frost drop to very low levels by the end of the month in all but the northern edge of Illinois. "That doesn't mean zero chance," adds Nafziger. "We had frost through much of central and northern Illinois the first week of May in 2005, but frost through mid- or even late April is not likely to damage corn this year because most corn will not have emerged." The corn planted on April 5 in the planting date study at Urbana germinated and sent out its radicle (root) by April 10, by which time it had accumulated about 70 growing degree days, but the weather cooled after that and only about 30 more GDDs accumulated over the next week. Based on the crop's needing about 110 GDDs from planting to emergence, it will be in the ground approximately three weeks by the time it emerges. "Over the past 10 years, the GDD accumulation for April at the Champaign airport has ranged from 210 to 344, with an average of 263," he says. "We're on track to accumulate normal GDDs this April, but April temperatures don't always increase steadily, so later planting doesn't always mean warmer temperatures after planting." ~~~PAGE_BREAK_HERE~~~ Non-uniform emergence The variability in daily accumulation of GGDs during April means that emergence can take anywhere from one to three weeks. Having corn take 20 days or more to emerge is not necessarily a problem if both emergence percentage and emergence uniformity – the time between first and last emergence within a field – are good. Under cool temperatures, it is normal for emergence to be spread over four or five days in a field. People often worry that non-uniformity of emergence will reduce yield. Plants that lag in their development tend to stay behind and often lose the competition for light, water, and nutrients. Although it is not true that such plants end up as "weeds" – that they reduce the yields of remaining plants -- the larger plants do not make up for the yield lost from the plants that get left behind. Non-uniform emergence is a problem if it is related to factors such as seedling damage, soil crusting, or low seed vigor. However, uniformity is also affected by temperature (GDD accumulation rates), as is the time between planting and emergence. "I suggest that we consider emergence to be 'uniform' if it occurs over the time it takes to accumulate 20 or 25 GDD, whether that is one day or five days," Nafziger advises. "As with other aspects of corn development, basing events on 'thermal time,' or GDDs, works better than using time measured in hours or days. The practical effect is that, once it warms up, plants that emerged in 110 GDD and those that took 130 GDD to emerge will differ very little in their stage of development. Once we get to June, 20 GDD is only one day's accumulation." Although it takes patience to wait until wet soils dry out before planting, remember that it is still early, and yield potential is not yet at risk from delayed planting. "While planting date responses vary among years and sites in our research, we can consider the planting date response to be flat for the month of April, with losses starting to pick up slowly in early May," Nafziger said. He cautioned that the damage related to working or planting into soils that are too wet can more than offset the gains related to early planting. "While we hope to get much of our crop planted by the end of April, what happens after planting remains a lot more important to the corn crop than the exact date we are able to plant," he concludes. "We need look back only one year to see that early planting does not guarantee high yields." Source: University of Illinois


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Tiffanie Burns' Three-Run Blast Propels the Saints in PBC Tournament Opener
COLUMBUS, GA – The No. 2-seeded Saints softball team escaped with a 7-6 win over Georgia College on Saturday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the 2012 PBC Tournament at Cougar Field.
The No. 11 team in the country found themselves with the bases loaded and nobody out in the bottom of the seventh inning, in prime position for some sort of walk-off hit. Katherine Martin would be the batter with the golden opportunity, and after forcing a full count, the junior first baseman drew a walk-off walk advancing the Saints (44-7) to the semi-finals tomorrow morning.
It didn't seem as if the game was going to go North Georgia's way, as they struggled to get the Georgia College (25-24) hitters out all afternoon. But after a double play was turned in the top of the seventh inning with no one out in the inning, all the momentum was going their way heading into the bottom half.
The Saints half of the seventh started with a Rochelle Shuman single up the middle, which was followed by a Hilary Cox walk, bringing Karlie Gillam to the plate.
Then, Bobcats head coach Jamie Grodecki made an interesting coaching decision, intentionally walking Gillam to load the bases with still no outs. Soon enough, the decision would backfire, bringing the Georgia College season.
Tiffanie Burns was the one who started the double play, and she was also the one that put the Saints in position for a win as well.
Burns connected on a three-run home run with a 2-0 count in the bottom of the sixth inning, which turned out to be the play of the game. Burns finished 2-for-3 with three RBI's, including the biggest blow of the game with the home run.
The Saints found themselves behind 3-0 early in the first inning, when Jessica Coan gave up a three-run blast off the bat of Haley Burnett. Coan didn't have her best stuff in the opening game of the tournament, but her offense came through in the end to get her out of the loss column.
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After a leadoff walk to Pilar Harden, Rochelle Shuman reached on an error by the Bobcats, bringing the First-Teamer Hilary Cox up to the plate. The senior then banged a line drive off the wall in left-center field, bringing Harden in.
Karlie Gillam then grounded out to bring in Shuman, allowing the Saints to close the gap to just one run, trailing 3-2.
Callie Fernandez would bring the tying run in to score in the bottom of the second inning, knotting the game at three runs a piece all the way to the fourth inning.
Georgia College would score one run in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, while the Saints would respond with three of their own on the Burns home run.
Picking up the win was Melissa Dickie (18-0) who came in relief of Coan and pitching two innings allowing just two hits. The PBC Freshman of the Year put North Georgia in prime position for a walk-off victory.
The win kept two Saints streaks alive, as they have now won 13 straight PBC Tournament games and 14 consecutive games overall this season.
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Oh, yes, I forgot about the school snack thing. I came up in arms because the 1st grade teacher was lackadaisical about a snack and I basically said, "If you don't want a screaming lunatic by lunchtime you had better plan a snack time every.single.day." I would insist on a second snack if she needed it--even if you got the doctor involved. If Saturday goes better with snacks in the morning and the afternoon, you may be able to get a dr. order for food!
I'm interested in her boredom with food. Can you find salami without nitrites/preservatives? Would that be an alternative? (probably expensive) ALL of my kids, even not the HSC ones are very picky about food; more like won't move outside their comfort zone.
Is SHE a planner? Could SHE fill out a chart together with you to determine:
a morning (school) snack, lunch, afternoon/after school snack? For the whole week?
Hope this all isn't redundant. You can just ignore these ideas if they aren't useful for you. I hope you can figure it out. The tantrums, meltdowns, and hours of family time used up in conflict are really difficult. I have been there.
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1. Integration of the "i" (as in iPad, that is)
For a device that's already two years old, the iPad is as hot as it was when it was introduced. In fact, it is one of the most popular holiday corporate gifts this season, according to our informal survey of incentive merchandise industry experts.
Patrick Payne, CEO of Vancouver, B.C.–based mobile meeting guide developer QuickMobile, has seen an uptick in the number of corporations renting iPads and iPod Touch devices in bulk for attendees. Some companies even buy the devices for them, like Hilton Worldwide did for the 2,000 hotel owners attending its Worldwide Global Partnership Conference. The iPads were pre-loaded with two custom-built apps—a meeting guide and a virtual concierge. Hilton also pre-loaded them with a link to the company's intranet, a printer app enabling printer use throughout the resort, and excerpts from the latest books written by conference speakers (including Richard Branson). Hilton offset the cost of the iPads and apps with sponsor support from AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, and Apple.
2. Scaled-down SMM
More companies are taking a modular approach to their strategic meetings management software, choosing specific functionalities rather than enterprise-wide solutions. At the same time, more SMM technology vendors are forging partnerships with major meeting management companies.
"For many companies, deploying all the advanced components of an enterprise strategic meetings management program from the start is prohibitively expensive and complex," according to Anil Punyapu, Cvent's vice president of enterprise sales and partnerships. As a result, Cvent has released a new product called ProStart—a scaled-down, less expensive version of its meeting management software—through BCD Meetings & Incentives, the Chicago-based independent meeting and incentive management company. Competitor StarCite created a similar partnership with Twinsburg, Ohio–based Experient, releasing a streamlined software package under the brand name MeetingComplete.
3. Innovation Abounds
In late October, EIBTM chose the winner of its annual Technology Watch contest—ITN International, for its Citywide Attendee Credential System, which allows attendee name badges to be used as transit and city tourist attraction passes as well. ITN has been a pioneer in the use of near-field communication technology for events in much the same way as Hipmunk, the 2011 winner of GBTA's People's Choice Awards, has been a pioneer in travel search technology. Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein founded his company just weeks after his graduation from MIT in June 2010. And the brand-new IMEX America exhibition in October selected three up-and-coming technology companies to demonstrate their products at the show: ViridiSTOR's GreenBox, which takes a "library approach" to storing conference materials on a USB; EventMobi, an interactive mobile show-guide app that awards points to users for actions such as attending sessions and scanning QR codes; and EventPilot, a mobile conference application.
4. Cvent Funding Makes Headlines
In what The Wall Street Journal called "the largest private investment in a software company since 2007," Cvent raised $136 million in funding in July. Cvent offers cloud-based software services for meeting site selection, online event registration and management, e-mail marketing, and Web surveys, and its online marketplace connects meeting planners with 150,000 meeting venues worldwide.
In a guest appearance on the Tech Crunch blog in July, Cvent founder and CEO Reggie Aggarwal talked about company's first days in 1999: "I was 30 years old, living at home and borrowing money from my parents to fund my dream—I was like the Indian George Costanza. I wasn't taking any salary and quickly ran up $250,000 in credit-card debt. But lucky for me, as a law grad, credit-card companies practically begged me to open lines of credit. So, just before quitting law, I signed up for 10 cards to bankroll my idea. Everyone had a start-up back then. I thought it would be easy. It wasn't."
5. GPS and QR Codes at Meetings
You thought it was only for the car. But André Mika, senior vice president, digital creative, at event marketing agency TBA Global, New York, N.Y., sees growing use of GPS by meeting organizers. Here's an example: You're walking down a hallway past 10 breakout rooms. Point your smartphone at a room and it tells you who is in that room. Go in, and now the meeting planner knows you're there, so she sends you a note: Do you want to download the PowerPoint presentation from this session? Or don't go in, because you see that your colleague is already listening to that session, so it would be better to attend the session across the hall.
And just as QR codes have taken off in advertising, they have found applications at meetings. One example: A QR code outside a breakout room for people to scan to receive the session presentation, speaker bio, link to an evaluation form, or join a LinkedIn group on the session topic. Another: During a familiarization trip of the Disney Dream in April, the hosts set up QR codes at all the major attractions on the ship they wanted attendees to see. This way, people could do their own site inspections using their smartphones.
6. EventCamp Momentum
Everyone is talking about the EventCamp conferences—"unconventional learning experience for event professionals"—spawned in New York in February 2010 out of a Twitter discussion. This volunteer-driven meeting for event professionals looking to integrate technology and new media into meetings and special events grew into several regional EventCamps around the country and in Europe in 2011. The 2012 National Conference is scheduled for February 11–13 in Chicago.
Why all the buzz? Because first efforts at engaging participants through social media can be risky, says Jessica Levin, CMP, manager of communications and member services at accounting firm association Moore Stephens North America Inc., and one of five founders of EventCamp. "We are trying things that planners can't always do in 'real life' because of the fear of failure." With each event, she says, "We hope to push the boundaries of what is possible."
For example, in August, EventCamp Twin Cities (ECTC11) had general sessions and breakouts in Minneapolis, plus concurrent "pods" of local participants in Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and two "corporate pods" hosted by businesses. It also included a Twitter channel for virtual participants, a real-time Skype connection for the pods, and streaming video for both.
EventCamp is also about learning as you go: When there were tech snags during the closing session at ECTC10, organizers met about what had gone wrong and created a post-event whitepaper for attendees to download.
7. App Happy
The average smartphone owner spends more time using apps on that phone than talking on it, reports mobile research firm Zokem. And by 2013, according to research from Gartner, more people will access the Web via mobile devices than with laptops.
Apps are becoming standard fare at association meetings and making their way into corporate meetings as well. Among the many features they can provide: agenda management, conference alerts and updates, appointment scheduling, attendee list distribution, audience polling, conference programs, session handouts—and that's just the beginning.
While native meeting apps (apps that attendees download on their smartphones) can cost $2,500 to $50,000, depending on complexity, mobile Web apps can be much less expensive. It depends on what you're after—a low-budget solution that puts meeting basics on attendees' phones, or a full-featured communications tool you'll use year after year.
8. Gaming Explosion
Companies are adding elements of gaming to everything from training to teambuilding to incentives. Experts from Maritz Loyalty & Motivation, a division of Maritz Inc., Fenton, Mo., are focused on incorporating game mechanics into employees' online relationships with their companies, while on the medical education side, CME providers are spicing up symposia by turning the learning into a trivia game. There's no part of the industry that isn't being affected by the gaming phenomenon.
At its 2011 Sustainable Meetings Conference in February, the Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC) became the first meetings industry association to integrate an online multi-player game into a face-to-face event, which was followed by a whitepaper tracing the success of the experiment, called "Game ON!"
Why the surge in popularity? According Elizabeth Valestuk Henderson, chair of the GMIC conference program committee, the total concentration that people bring to online games can be applied to learning. "If you watch gamers, they're completely immersed in what they're doing," she said. "They're working in teams. They're solving problems. There is growing interest in applying the theory and practice of gamification in business environments."
9. Growth in Hybrid Events
In October, the Professional Convention Management Association announced it was investing an undisclosed amount of money in the Virtual Edge Institute, a Pleasanton, Calif.–based organization that offers research and education on virtual events. "PCMA recognizes the fundamental changes that are taking place, and we see the tremendous opportunity to be a leader in the discussion on behalf of our members as they shape the future of the meetings industry," said Deborah Sexton, president and chief executive officer, PCMA, speaking at an October 6 virtual press conference.
Both organizations are leaders in the hybrid movement. PCMA had co-located with Virtual Edge during its January annual conference in Las Vegas, which was designed so viewers could log into the live sessions and hold discussions in a networking lounge all week. And the Virtual Edge Institute launched a program this year to train and certify event marketers, meeting professionals, tradeshow managers, and others in digital events. The first classes for the new Digital Events Strategist Certification program were held in June in partnership with PCMA.
10. Social Media Merges with Meetings
Twitter feeds, Facebook promotions, LinkedIn groups—the big three social media sites have become staples for many in the meetings industry. You can't attend a meeting any more without a Twitter hashtag, and at last count, Meeting Professionals International's feed had close to 9,000 followers. On the incentive side of the industry, companies now use Facebook to build excitement around the program (replacing those promotional mailings of baseball caps and coffee table books). A LinkedIn success story: SPIN (Senior Planners Industry Network), which started as an online group, has turned into a live one, spawning regional think tanks, webinars, and its first annual SPINCon conference this June in St. Paul.
But this is only the tip of the iceberg, with other technologies that have applications for events, such as Foursquare, gaining ground. Foursquare marked its two-millionth user in July, and is adding approximately 15,000 worldwide users per day. At the annual South by Southwest Music & Media Festival in Austin, Texas, Spin magazine used Foursquare to interact with readers, awarding badges to those who "checked in" at performances of bands that editors recommended.
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