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Do you need to define your CRM cycle? Take this easy quiz:
1) Do you have customers?
Yes: You need a CRM plan.
No: You need a business plan. Or maybe a loan.
If 100 percent of your communications focus on getting the sale, you're the business equivalent of a pick-up artist. That's a short-sighted plan which ignores the lifetime value of a customer in favor of the quick hit of a weekend sale.
Communication shouldn't end at the sale. Customer relationship engagement means keeping your clients engaged, even if they've recently purchased or performed whatever action constitutes a conversion for your business. It's about cultivating a meaningful, personal relationship with your customers.
Your post-sale or post-conversion message doesn't need to be an upsell, like an add-on or extending a warranty. You can offer insights on how they can get the most out of your product or service. Provide suggestions for maximizing the life of your product. The key is identifying the ideal touchpoints in your customer lifecycle, then crafting a communication schedule to coincide with them to keep you present in the customer's mind.
Unfortunately, people often think they "can't do CRM" because they confuse the process of CRM with buying a pricey CRM software. The most sophisticated $50,000 a year CRM software won't help you engage customers if you don't have a thoughtful plan for inspiring and retaining their loyalty.
If you do have a well-considered plan to keep in touch with customers, sent at the right frequency, with messaging which speaks to their needs, you can manage it even with the most basic tools. You just need information you or your sales team probably already has:
Who are your customers?
What's important to them?
When are logical opportunities to connect with them?
The bottom line? Relationships are important to your business. Unless your strategy is to compete on price, you want customers to choose you because they like you. So put some time and effort into those relationships. If you do, your customers will be your brand's BFFs.
Kate Morrison, Director of Marketing
Kate's background includes marketing, advertising and brand management in the resort and casino industry. While Kate takes a scientific approach to marketing, she has a personal fascination with the supernatural, from stage magic and horror movies to tarot cards and haunted houses.]]>
One of the most common forms of premium content is the webinar. Translating your expertise into a webinar can demonstrate thought-leadership while collecting valuable business leads.
However, a webinar is only one way to attract leads. A webinar has a fairly high barrier to entry. It requires a technical solution to handle livecasting the presentation as well as real-time Q&A, and a presenter who is engaging, knowledgeable and a good multitasker. It also requires a focused promotional effort to attract an audience. If you've never done premium content to attract and capture leads, a webinar isn't the best starting point.
There are other easier forms of gated premium content you can use to build content assets as a solid business resource. Here are a few ideas to consider.
Developing a clear blueprint for your business' most complex work process is not just a way to seize an advantage over less-efficient competitors. If you can distill that process into a worksheet or checklist, you can create value for your prospects.
A white paper can be an expanded set of case studies summarizing what you've learned from a number of projects. Turning your learning experiences into business advice can be another great way to attract leads.
Is client education an important part of your business model? If the lessons have intrinsic value for your customer, you can translate that education into a multi-part email course. Developing educational content in text format is a good basis for more sophisticated webinars or seminars later. Delivering the lesson privately via email helps encourage recipients to reply with their questions.
Do people in your customer's industry have to look up certain specifications or formulas over and over again? If you compile a handy reference sheet, and design it as an eye-catching PDF, it can be fantastic lead-bait (and link bait).
Almost everyone has a Kindle or e-reader. If you have a popular blog series, or a group of related articles, you might consider compiling and formatting them into a non-fiction e-book that's available for download.
These are just a few ways to upgrade your content strategy with premium offerings. The more valuable the content, the more willing your audience will be to part with their precious contact information and permission to continue marketing to them. The most important thing is to make sure you're delivering quality and value.
Kat French, Copy Director
Katina loves getting in your head: crafting copy that pushes people to action and absorbing your brand's personality and voice. A published author, she uses the same skills for structuring a novel to organize your content strategy. A big kid, she wears wheeled sneakers, has an extensive collection of comic books, and her hair has been violet, aqua and pink in an effort to hide her secret identity as a grown-up wife and mom.]]>
The average American consumes eleven hamburgers per day.
Put down the knife (and fork. You do eat a hamburger with utensils, right?) I'm not talking about a juicy patty of meaty deliciousness. I'm talking about the user interface hamburger. Whether you know it by that name or not, it's been helping you consume the web better for years. As mobile overtakes the desktop as the most popular way to access the web, its value is only going to grow.
The hamburger is the name of the three little horizontal lines in the top-right corner of your favorite mobile site experience. Back in 1981 the Xerox Star's UI became the first to employ the mighty hamburger. The icon didn't really gain much ground until around 2007 with the insurgence of smartphones.
As the treatment gained momentum, its variations — with dots and variable length lines — faded in favor of what has now become ubiquitous: three horizontal lines of equal length and spacing. It takes a bit of imagination to picture it as a hamburger, but a few developers did. No particular person is credited with the name "hamburger menu," but it's become a common term in the digital world.
As responsive web design becomes more prevalent, many websites have started using list icons to replace a traditional set of navigation links altogether.
So, back to the stats.
The average user views around 90 sites per day according to Pew Research. A growing 13 percent or so of current websites are responsive, based on various tests and datasets. That means we're looking at a whopping 11.7 hamburgers per day.
Just like the spread of the Big Mac to 35,000 McDonalds franchises worldwide, the hamburger menu is crossing cultures, finding its way to desktop experiences as well. Check out popular sites like The New York Times, Slate and Upworthy, all proudly displaying their menus with the UI minimalist's favorite morsel.
I've got a hunch why news sites were among the first to embrace the hamburger. The whole point of a news site is to deliver a continuous stream of fresh content. Users want to be able to access that content without poking around the navigation forever. Then again, isn't that the same experience we're all seeking, on any website? Give us relevant content up front. Don't make us dig for it.
A large navigation is a poor substitute for a well-guided UX, created as a fallback for users who feel forced to find their own way. Targeted, relevant content presentation allows us to shrink the real estate devoted to navigation.
We've got a ways to go before the hamburger replaces the standard nav at the top of the UI food chain. For now, there's nothing holding responsive websites back from using both methods interchangeably. I predict this beefy little icon will gain ground for many years to come.]]>
An API sets the ground rules for an exchange of information between two computer systems. In other words, an API defines how two computer systems should carry on a conversation.
Let's say a company develops a service to create a map when provided with an address. This is a very simple conversation. One system sends the address to the mapping API on the other system, which sends back a map showing a marker at the location of that address. If you've ever visited a web page with an embedded map, this type of conversation took place to display the map for you.
Other common APIs are:
Analytics: Track the number of times a web page has been viewed.
Payment Services: Handle payment processing for e-commerce sites.
Geolocation: Determine a user's zip code using their IP address.
We recently redesigned a website for an allergist which shows the current pollen counts for three different regions in Kentucky, provided by a private API. We're able to regularly request the most up-to-date information, and display that information on their beautiful, responsive homepage. This exclusive information is valuable to the client's prospective patients and helps position them as a helpful resource.
The bottom line about APIs? They save you from having to reinvent the wheel to provide useful, timely information on your website. If there's data your audience wants or needs that you'd like to provide on your site, it's worth finding out if an API already exists or could be created to provide it, and get the conversation going.
Brad Bishop, Back-End Developer
He started working in programming during college, but took a break from his keyboard when he signed up for the Peace Corps after graduating from Berea. These days, he eats, sleeps and breathes programming. Well, he also eats his homemade, vegan dark chocolate, but serves it up with a side of PHP. Brad brings three decades of computer programming experience to the OOHology team, but has yet to share a single piece of chocolate.
All too often, what you see of a brand's visual assets is not what you get when you encounter the company in the real world. The best logo and identity in the world won't do you any good if you can't deliver the experience they promise. Let's look at a couple of familiar examples.
You've seen them. The happy Walmart ads with the bouncing happy faces and cheerful, sometimes ecstatic shoppers. Their new logo looks like sunshine and the colors make you think of a warm summer day. However, the reality we all know and experience is that of lackluster service, often-questionable cleanliness, and a desperate feeling of "how quickly can I get out of here?"
On the other hand, Target, or Targét as my friends affectionately call it, has avid followers and self-proclaimed addicts, including me. Their catchy, high-impact advertising presents a brand image that's revolutionary, fun and premium — and their products and in-store customer experience matches that brand perfectly. Their designer collaborations have resulted in record sellouts and website crashes, keeping shoppers wondering what they'll come up with next. Their stores are well lit, organized and their prices prove to be the lowest time and time again. I enter the store looking for toothpaste and walk out with a $100 shopping cart full of new treasures. You guys know what I'm talking about.
When you step into OOHology, you'll quickly realize we live what we preach. Our meetings start with our diverse drink menus *cough* sake bombs *cough* and break with a custom OOHology sorbet. Would you like a mojito? Let me go out back and pick your mint from our Garden of OOHden.
Our creative process is just like our brand. Delightfully disruptive. We'll challenge you and your company to make sure you show your business off to its best advantage. We'll dig deep, interviewing key stakeholders from the CEO to front-line employees to your most loyal fans. This ensures we get an accurate 360-degree view of your brand.
We start with this rich, realistic picture of your total brand experience, and design the visuals to highlight your genuine strengths. We define your brand voice as honest and authentically you. Sometimes it does take a little extra brainpower, but in the end, we will make sure you are delighted.
A brand is not a logo, a tagline or a billboard. A brand is a living, breathing thing. It needs to course through the veins of every employee, and be injected into everything you do. We can create any design you can imagine, but the end result is a failure if the reality you deliver doesn't match the image we create. Our job isn't creating a great brand from nothing. It's uncovering and showing off the greatness that's already there.
Stephanie Shih, Account Management Director
Stephanie's official role is fearless leader of our account managers, but she also serves as our party planner, culture queen, gardener and office mom. She has extensive experience in large format printing and project management. Stephanie has a love for the outdoors, and enjoys skiing, hiking, swimming and running. Above all else, though, Stephanie is known for being momma to OOHology mascot, Scooter.
It actually is easier to get content onto the web than it was five or ten years ago. But modern content management systems still suffer from feature bloat, bad administrator user experience, and poor support for vital content-related business functions.
That's one of the reasons we developed WAX, our own CMS. We listened to our customers' complaints and built something better. We don't want clients to love the public-facing part of their site, and then cringe at the thought of facing the part supposedly designed for them.
Open source platforms that originated as blogging solutions are great for blogging, but often lack essential business-related features. They also present users with a cluttered dashboard containing submenus they'll rarely, if ever, need to access. At the other end of the spectrum, budget-busting commercial CMS solutions can cost six or seven figures, between setup fees and licensing. That's out of reach for many mid-sized companies.
We developed WAX to be the right-fit, affordable solution for practical content management. Instead of treating site administrators' user experience as an afterthought, WAX presents users with exactly the dashboard they need. Nothing more, and nothing less.
WAX's modular design means if you need e-commerce, it's there, with full support to handle sales and promotional pricing, shipping variables, and a complex product database. If you need to track email leads generated by your site's forms, including the ability to easily export them into your CRM solution, it's available.
Custom content types common to most businesses, like staff bios, events and case studies, can have tailored update pages. With WAX, your most common content management tasks — including media uploads and embeds — are fast, easy and don't require a call to IT or your web host.
Because it's an open source solution, any professional developer should be able to understand the code and make changes at a future date. Using a proprietary CMS to hold clients hostage isn't a business practice which fits our philosophy. We'd rather just keep you satisfied with our work.
Coming up with great content is a tough enough challenge. Getting it onto your website should be the easy part.
Kat French, Copy Director
Katina loves getting in your head: crafting copy that pushes people to action and absorbing your brand's personality and voice. A published author, she uses the same skills for structuring a novel to organize your content strategy. A big kid, she wears wheeled sneakers, has an extensive collection of comic books, and her hair has been violet, aqua and pink in an effort to hide her secret identity as a grown-up wife and mom.]]>
Reserve your judgment as you read this, whatever your political bent or feeling about illicit substances and those who purvey them. Sit down, shut up and listen. After all, it's just supply and demand.
So, what can you learn from a drug dealer about marketing, branding and customer service?
Whether you hock black tar heroin or shiny black Benz's, you have no business selling a product or service you're not an expert on. It's important to know why your product or service is superior and be able to prove it. In the business, we call this your market differentiators. Are you selling on quality? On value? Or maybe just on price? Do you know your product as well as Walter White knows his?
Dealers of illicit substances innately possess some combination of fearlessness, irreverence and craziness. The price of getting caught is extremely high. The price of crossing their competitors or suppliers is even higher. They are bold. They are fully dedicated. There is no room for doubt, indecision, or squeamishness. Just like the business world. Are you as fearless and decisive as you should be?
See a need, fill a need. That's how many business concepts begin. Drug dealers follow the same route as Steve Jobs and create a need consumers don't even know they have. Did you need that iPhone in 1995? Nope. Drug dealers offer products their clients don't want to live without. Do you keep your clients coming back by innovating? How addictive is your product, service or brand?
A cardinal rule of business: be there when the customer needs you. If a drug dealer can be available, so can you. You don't even need a burner phone. Sure, it's unlikely that your customers will suffer a painful withdrawal. If you're not around when they go looking, they'll just go elsewhere to get their fix. Are you accessible when and where your clients need you most?
One careless move, and Pablo Escobar's empire was gone. You, the legitimate business person, have much more grace but there's a lesson here nonetheless. If you are not constantly improving, you are creating cracks that can be exploited. What have you done lately to improve your processes and increase efficiencies?
I'm not condoning rubbing out your competitors in the mortal sense. I am suggesting you own your territory, whether it's the block, the city or the entire country. Own your search engine results, own your vertical and own your industry. Are you the only provider people think of when they need your offerings?
Your employees are the face of your business, especially those with direct client interaction. You must surround yourself with people you trust. You may not have the charisma of El Chapo, but you can develop his leadership skills. Would your employees take a proverbial bullet for you?
It's generally true that 10% of your clients cause 90% of your problems. You need to know who to do business with and who to avoid. It is possible to provide excellent customer service to your good clients while simultaneously telling the bad ones "no." Do you have the moxy to tell a customer to hit the road?
All businesses need a support network. Strategic alliances with other businesses and partners are crucial to building a proper referral base. You'll need mentors, ambassadors and industry influencers to create symbiotic, win-win relationships that lead to success. Who's in your network and why are they not referring you?
This one is not for everyone, as it requires a damn good product or service. If it's that good, it sells itself. You just gotta let them sample your wares and convert them to raging fans. Then they'll tell their friends and you'll get the chance to turn them into raging fans. And so on. How are you letting people sample your wares? How are you giving them a taste of what it's like to do business with you?
You should have a full arsenal of marketing weapons and they should all be the highest caliber you can afford. If you want to outgun your competitors online and in the real world, you'd better be packing the right tools, and have the right team of mercenaries backing you up.
You have at your disposal something that drug dealers don't: The ability to openly and aggressively market your product or service in the light of day. You can proudly display your sign on your store, put your real name on your business card, publish your own content online and openly tell the world how great you and your gang are. So, are you taking advantage of that or are you operating in the shadows?
Hit me up if you need a dose of reality. And of course, the first hit is free.
Mark Palmer, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Mark is responsible for the overall design and creative strategy for our client work. His ambidextrous thinking combines process and intuition to come up with fresh creative concepts and dynamic digital strategy. His unique combination of skills and boisterous personality inspire him to create the project concept, ensure his team brings it to life, and get the required results. In his free time, Mark enjoys pontificating, globe-trotting and copious amounts of bourbon.
I love Godzilla.
No, not in a creepy way. I mean I'm a gen-Xer who grew up watching the giant Japanese lizard stomp his way through a half-dozen low-budget monster movies. My emotional attachment has nothing to do with reason, logic or production values. That rubber suit is hilariously awful in retrospect, but I still don't want the new version to mess up my childhood memories. I'm emotionally invested, and that raises the stakes.
Your brand is like a Godzilla movie. You've established an emotional bond with your audience. Straying too far from the essence of the brand can alter how they feel about it. True brand love transcends rational concerns like price, practicality and even product quality in some cases. Customers might justify their emotions with facts, but the real appeal is elusive and personal.
That's why a rebranding project is even more harrowing than a startup's initial launch. For established companies, their brand wasn't formulated by an agency; it grew organically. Often, it grew out of a family business, so their entire family history is tied up with the brand. That's more emotional baggage than even a 350 foot tall mutant lizard would want to carry around.
When I think of successful rebranding projects, they have one key ingredient in common with successful movie reboots: respect. Just like a movie reboot will go off the rails if it doesn't respect what made the original popular, a rebranding project will go sideways if approached without a healthy respect for the history and legacy of the brand.
That isn't to say you shouldn't change it. A great brand is timeless, but it must also be current and relevant. It speaks to new and emerging generations of customers as eloquently as it did their predecessors. It's a tricky balancing act which requires a studious approach.
We talk with those who built the brand, the ones who are now responsible for it, and the most loyal, long-term customers. We make sure nothing crucial hits the cutting room floor, and only add in new elements which are sure to resonate with your core audience of fanboys (or fangirls).
The end result is a brand reboot our clients consider a monster success.
After all, anything else would be a disaster.
Kat French, Copy Director
Katina loves getting in your head: crafting copy that pushes people to action and absorbing your brand's personality and voice. A published author, she uses the same skills for structuring a novel to organize your content strategy. A big kid, she wears wheeled sneakers, has an extensive collection of comic books, and her hair has been violet, aqua and pink in an effort to hide her secret identity as a grown-up wife and mom.]]>
Between Scooter our office security guard, Tiaq our betta fish, and all the weekly animal-related social posts, it's clear: OOHligans love our pets. Our beloved furry coworkers and family members make OOHology a brighter place.
In fact our passion for pets is so well-known, I often get emails just to see how Scooter is doing! It doesn't just stop at the office, though. Many of us have adopted animals from local humane societies and volunteer our time to benefit these rescues.
With all this animal magnetism in the office, it just made sense to take things a step further. This week OOHology extended its employee benefits to include an adoption program with the Kentucky Humane Society!
OOHology will sponsor the adoption of any pet by our employees from the Kentucky Humane Society. This is just another way we can help out our favorite companions in the community, and also promote the adoption of animals from local rescues. Personally, I think this will be the best employee perk we have.
Since today is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, we encourage everyone to consider fostering or adopting a pet from your local humane society or shelter. And the next time Human Resources asks "What new benefits should we offer?" consider suggesting pet adoption sponsorship. Pets add so much to our lives, and every pet deserves a loving home.
We can't wait to add to our growing animal family!
Stephanie Shih, Account Management Director
Stephanie's official role is fearless leader of our account managers, but she also serves as our party planner, culture queen, gardener and office mom. She has extensive experience in large format printing and project management. Stephanie has a love for the outdoors, and enjoys skiing, hiking, swimming and running. Above all else, though, Stephanie is known for being momma to OOHology mascot, Scooter.
The announcements fell into three main categories, each of which we've outlined below. While the AdWords updates aren't quite ready to be rolled out to everyone, Google did say to expect them in the coming months.
Google introduced a holistic solution to advertising mobile apps, which stretches across the company's vast network, including search, YouTube, Google+, etc. This new cross-platform feature will be integrated into AdWords for a simple and familiar user experience.
Google noted as many as 60 percent of apps are never installed, and 80 percent of apps downloaded are only opened once. Alarming information, especially if you're advertising an app as part of your marketing efforts. With these new innovative ads, Google will suggest keywords for your app's ads based on insights from Google Play. Google will also offer more relevant targeting based on users' app download history. For example, if you're advertising a calorie counting app, your ad might be served to a person who recently downloaded a running app.
Google also introduced App Deep Linking, which will allow advertisers to link to a specific spot within an application. This means marketers can finally link ads to the most relevant page within apps, such as a news topic a user is searching for.
All of this activity will be measured through conversions, engagements and in-app purchases.
We were particularly excited to hear that Google is building a platform to track offline conversions that originate from online ads. Google is implementing the pilot program with clothing retailer, Express, however few details were provided about the actual implementation.
While working on offline conversion tracking, Google noted three key principles they must adhere to: delivering great consumer value, protecting user privacy and delivering actionable insights for marketers. By measuring and including in-store transactions, Express' return on ad spend increased 102 percent. The offline impact of online advertising was actually higher than their existing measured online impact. This improved online and offline reporting will allow advertisers to bid based on full value and deliver better, more relevant and better targeted ads.
Offline conversion tracking is a feature that all businesses can benefit from, not just those who sell physical goods. As details around exactly how this will work emerge, this will be an innovation worth following closely.
Major improvements are coming for those who manage large-scale AdWords accounts. Soon, users will be able to change bulk campaign settings, automate bids to maximize conversions, and create spreadsheets and graphs with live data right inside of AdWords. This will help reduce errors and increase efficiency for any account that has a large number of campaigns or ad groups.
A new tool called Drafts & Experiments will allow users to stage ideas in a lab before implementing. Once you're happy with your creation, you can publish the draft into your original campaign, or run it as an experiment. The latter option can then be compared to the actual campaign, making it easy to decide if you should update your overall campaign.
Many of these changes will be powerful assets for your digital advertising campaigns. While these changes aren't quite ready to be rolled out to everyone, our team of Google experts are already getting prepared. Contact us if you want to learn how today's AdWords updates can help improve your online advertising.
Jay Vasse, Marketing Strategist
Jay is an Online Advertising and SEO Shark. He develops marketing plans, manages PPC, trains clients on our in-house content management system, and keeps the company supplied in chocolate. Jay graduated from Bradley University with a degree in Interactive Media.


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Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., and 100% owned subsidiary MES Technoservice Co., Ltd., have received an order from a Taiwan shipowner for fuel-efficiency
The Royal Australian Navy operated Sail Training Ship, Young Endeavour, is undergoing maintenance work in preparation for a 12-month world circumnavigation. It
Maritime Reporter & Engineering News was founded by John J. O'Malley (1905-1980) in 1939, and today ranks as the world's largest audited trade publication in the world serving the maritime industry,
Taking full advantage of one of the summer's hottest days, twelve administrators and staff at the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College today took the Ice Bucket Challenge,
Fighting a fire at sea is one of the greatest dangers facing seafarers. As a result, Videotel, a provider of maritime e-Learning and part of KVH Industries, Inc.
EU Naval Force Warship 'FGS Berlin' has conducted local maritime capacity building in the Seychelles informs EUCAP Nestor.
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This Underdog image was made by my then-11-yr-old older son to put on the jerseys of the Roaddawg tournament he and his friends played in one year ("The Underdawgs"). Having watched the way the 'Canes were underestimated and given no credit throughout the '09 playoffs for weeks on end, I thought it seemed an apt avatar for blogging here.
Formerly a bona fide hockeymom, living in Chapel Hill with 2 sons (ages 12 and 16) and my 8 year old daughter. Both boys played a combined 9 years with the Hillsborough Sharks house League (affiliated w/ RYHA). I was delighted to serve as a team manager every year.
I also have a fishtank I write about from time to time. Note: Hockey tank was a casualty of the lockout.
My boys played at intermission as Mighty Mites at a 'Canes games, and my older boy was once a "Starter of the game", standing next to Ruutu while KK sang the Anthem. He also attended Canes camp where Ron Francis coached his team for the final game, with John Forslund doing the play-by-play. I think the accessibility of the Canes players within the community is one of things that has made me such a dedicated Caniac.
The 13th and 14th ranked teams go head-to-head and look to gain some traction in the standings.
A two game win streak sure helps the mood around this place. Video links of Skinner, Cole, Lowe and more.
Exchanging offensive upside for a hard checking grinder for the game in Philadelphia tonight
It will be Cam Ward back in goal as the Canes looks to break the streak of 135 minutes without a goal scored.
But nothing happening today says Rutherford. All the latest links.
The pressure on the Hurricanes to win increases daily with this month's heavy schedule.
It's Jeff Skinner's 100th game and his first bobble-head night, as Peter Laviolette's Flyers are in town with Giroux and Jagr leading the Philly team on the scoresheet this season.
Three losses in a row, with 5 tough games ahead. Links and clippings for your Wednesday afternoon
Will a change of scenery help change the energy the Canes bring tonight?
Which forward prospect will step up and fill the void in November?
Center Jussi Jokinen suffered a lower body injury last night.
The Carolina Hurricanes lineups and links in the Gameday preview
The usual fare of links and Canes news.
Zach Boychuk is recalled from Charlotte to fill in for Anthony Stewart as the Canes work to regain the momentum lost over the weekend.
After 6 of the first 8 games were played on the road, it's now time to take advantage of home ice.
The Canes conclude their 4 game road trip tonight, aiming to bring their points total to 7 out of 8. No word on who will start in goal.
The Canes face the St Louis Blues tonight, going for their 4th win in a row. Game Preview and links.
The 18 year old Swedish native was Carolina's 2nd round pick in the 2011 Entry Draft this past June.
Ward's words from the postgame Tuesday carry worldwide and other notes and links about the Canes from St Louis and from elsewhere in the puckwebz.
And now there are seven.
Carolina looks to extend their 2-game win streak at the Garden tonight.
It's that time of year again.
With Dalpe out, Sutter42 will be on the plane to Boston this afternoon.
From a late night tweet from the player himself, confirmed by TSN's Bob McKenzie and others. Nothing official from Hurricane's front office.
It's the last home game for awhile, as the Canes try to break through in the Win column early in the season.
At 0-1-1, will Game 3 of the 2011-12 season get the Canes in the win column? Today's matinee in Newark starts at 1pm ET.
Tonight's Game 1 is built on the bitterness of the loss in Game 82.
Morning links to get you ready for Opening Night.
All the links from this week's players making the rounds with local radio and TV, plus more roster news, season forecasts, and a request from Kitchener, Ontario to give them a click for a good cause.
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1984 Wimbledon Championships
|1984 Wimbledon Championships
|25 June - 8 July
|Grand Slam (ITF)
|Church Road
SW19, Wimbledon,
London, United Kingdom
|Men's Singles
|John McEnroe
|Women's Singles
|Martina Navratilova
|Men's Doubles
|Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
|Women's Doubles
|Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver
|Mixed Doubles
|Wendy Turnbull / John Lloyd
|Boys' Singles
|Mark Kratzmann
|Girls' Singles
|Annabel Croft
|Boys' Doubles
|Ricky Brown / Robbie Weiss
|Girls' Doubles
|Caroline Kuhlman / Stephanie Rehe
|Wimbledon Championships
The 1984 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon in London in England. It was the 98th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 25 June to 8 July 1984.
Men's Singles[edit]
John McEnroe defeated Jimmy Connors 6–1, 6–1, 6–2
- It was McEnroe's 7th career Grand Slam title and his 3rd Wimbledon title.
Women's Singles[edit]
Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert-Lloyd 7–6(7–5), 6–2
- It was Navratilova's 26th career Grand Slam title and her 5th Wimbledon single's title.
Men's Doubles[edit]
Peter Fleming / John McEnroe defeated Pat Cash / Paul McNamee 6–2, 5–7, 6–2, 3–6, 6–3
- It was Fleming's 7th career Grand Slam title and his 4th and last Wimbledon title. It was McEnroe's 14th career Grand Slam title and his 7th Wimbledon title.
Women's Doubles[edit]
Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver defeated Kathy Jordan / Anne Smith 6–3, 6–4
- It was Navratilova's 27th career Grand Slam title and her 11th Wimbledon title. It was Shriver's 8th career Grand Slam title and her 4th Wimbledon title.
Mixed Doubles[edit]
Wendy Turnbull / John Lloyd defeated Kathy Jordan / Steve Denton 6–3, 6–3
- It was Turnbull's 9th and last career Grand Slam title and her 3rd Wimbledon title. It was Lloyd's 3rd and last career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Wimbledon title.
Boys' Singles[edit]
Mark Kratzmann defeated Stefan Kruger 6–4, 4–6, 6–3
Girls' Singles[edit]
Annabel Croft defeated Elna Reinach 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Boys' Doubles[edit]
Ricky Brown / Robbie Weiss defeated Mark Kratzmann / Jonas Svensson 1–6, 6–4, 11–9
Girls' Doubles[edit]
Caroline Kuhlman / Stephanie Rehe defeated Viktoria Milvidskaya / Larisa Savchenko 6–3, 5–7, 6–4
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|Preceded by
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Time sure flies. I can hardly believe I've been here in Germany for slightly more than a year now! It only hit me when I was checking the calendar and then got an email reminder from the PhD office that I need to set a date and arrange for my 1st annual thesis review committee. Which I did by the way, as right now I've to prepare a report and a presentation scheduled for Nov 6.
Things seemed to pass by a blur. I haven't gotten much travelling around done, as most people who are overseas are apt to do. I mean, I did go on a Phd retreat in Prague and bits of Dresden but that's about it. I think I've come to realise I'm just not the "travelly" kind of person, which is you know the complete opposite of folks that harbours dreams of "travelling around the world and exploring different sights and sounds". I mean, it's not that I hate sight-seeing but it's something that I'd prefer tagging along to someone's invitation rather than me logging on to lonelyplanet.com or lastminute.com to hop on the next cheapest plane to a "cosy, sleepy hamlet with unique traditional delicacies that will surprise travellers".
Another thing I'm bad is photos. As some of you who follow this blog would be well aware by now, I'm terrible at uploading photos and keeping them updated. I just tend to snap some photos here and there, and then completely forget about them. Most of my photos are untagged and left to rot in the camera until one fine day I decide to transfer them to my PC. Now that I have a smartphone, things are a bit easier of course thank to the auto-upload feature of G+. However, since I'm also not that great at social media either... you can see where this is going. :)
Anyway, here are some quite old pics from my last trip to Aberdeen, Scotland. I was there from around March-May last year for an attachment at the University of Aberdeen, working with Dr. Sam Martin on ferritin genes in salmon. Yep.. these photos are more than a year old.
If I remember correctly, this is the King's building/college of the university.
The long street across the university where I can walk from my hostel to the town centre. A bus ride to town cost 2 pounds, and after a while I figured it's cheaper to do the 15-minute walk to town and take bus ride home after buying stuff.
The famous St. Andrews cathedral. It is open free to public at certain times.
As usual, my favourite part of old churches - the painted glass windows!
On a train ride to Glasgow to visit a friend, passing by the Stirling station.
Passing the Perth station. Guess I learned that it is not just a place in Australia! :P
Most of the time the train passed by many large fields and farmlands.
Cheap and large, juicy berries! My favourite strawberries and blueberries were great too! Bought 2 packs of each.
One of the best meals I've had in Aberdeen. The cafe is called Grub and is located on thatthat street stretching from the university to the town area. The panini with brie and cranberry was really delicious! For the complete meal set I picked a hot chocolate and yoghurt with muesli (which were pretty good too). Came to about 4 pounds.


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In drought-stricken California, salmon migrate to Pacific Ocean in trucks
MARE ISLAND, Calif. - In drought-stricken California, young Chinook salmon are hitting the road, not the river, to get to the Pacific Ocean.
Millions of six-month-old smolts are hitching rides in tanker trucks because California's historic drought has depleted rivers and streams, making the annual migration to the ocean too dangerous for juvenile salmon.
"The drought conditions have caused lower flows in the rivers, warmer water temperatures, and the fish that would normally be swimming down the rivers would be very susceptible to predation and thermal stress," said Kari Burr, fishery biologist with the Fishery Foundation of California.
California has been trucking hatchery-raised salmon for years to bypass river dams and giant pumps that funnel water to Southern California and Central Valley farms.
But this year state and federal wildlife agencies are trucking nearly 27 million smolts, about 50 per cent more than normal, because of the drought, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Each spring, the Coleman National Fish Hatchery usually releases about 12 million smolts into Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River near Redding. But this year, it trucked 7.5 million of them to San Francisco Bay because the drought had made the 300-mile swim too perilous.
On a recent morning, a small convoy of tanker trucks carrying Coleman hatchery fish pulled up to the docks of Mare Island north of San Francisco Bay. There, the trucks unloaded 750,000 smolts that gushed out of long plastic pipes into floating netted pens.
The silvery smolts, just inches long, acclimated to the water in the net pens before Fishery Foundation boats took them out to the bay, where the fish were released and pulled to the ocean by tides.
Trucking the smolts ensures a large number will survive and grow to be the California king salmon prized by fishermen and seafood lovers. But skipping the river journey means the migratory fish won't know how to swim home to spawn in three years.
"Because that imprinting cycle is broken, it's unlikely that many fish will make it back to Coleman. In other words, they stray. They won't find that scent to where home is," said Scott Hamelberg, who manages the Coleman National Fish Hatchery.
The federal hatchery in Shasta County did release 4.5 million smolts into Battle Creek in April after rain temporarily improved river flows. Hamelberg hopes at least a small number of them will return in a few years and serve as broodstock for future generations.
The state-run Nimbus Fish Hatchery near Sacramento usually releases 3 million of the 4 million Chinook smolts it raises into the nearby American River, but this year it's releasing all of them into the bay.
"Because of the conditions this year and the mortality, it's better to put them straight into the bay and get them back in three years," said fish technician Gregory Ferguson, who was herding the smolts in ponds toward pumps that sucked them into the truck tanks headed for Mare Island.
The commercial and recreational fishing industries have been pushing for the expanded trucking program to increase the chances of a decent salmon season in 2016, when the smolts released this year will be adults.
"I actually make my living just trolling for salmon, so it's pretty important for me," said John Terry, commercial salmon fisherman from Aberdeen, Washington, who was unloading his catch at San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf at the start of commercial salmon season. "We need the help."
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Strong line-up of former Watford FC players to face Arsenal Legends at Watford Observer Fun Day
Updated 5:00pm Friday 13th June 2014 in News
This year's Watford Observer Fun Day will feature a showdown between a stong line-up of former Watford FC players and Arsenal Legends.
The event on Sunday, July 6 starts at 11.30am at the Bushey Sports Club and there will be lots to do for all the family until 5pm, including funfair rides, craft stalls and bouncy castles.
The highlight of the day will be at 1.30pm when the charity football match between the Arsenal Legends and the Watford FC OFPA (Official Former Players' Association) will kick off.
The Arsenal Legends Charity Team is made up of ex-pros from the Gunners and a collection of stars from televison, music and other sports.
The Watford side will be managed by Ian Bolton and will feature:
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It's 420! Time to take mile-long walks into the woods, lock yourself up in the basement, climb into your treehouse, or go wherever the hell it is you have to hide out to smoke weed these days.
It's true that a predictable combination of brown hair and brown eyes plagued the Sakatawas, though Steve never had much trouble circumventing this mundanity. No, Steve had done quite well for himself all things considered, and life would continue to march along in his favor for some time before tragedy took its toll.
If the '60s had LSD and the '80s had cocaine, my generation has prescription pills. Adderall, Xanax, Ambien, Vicodin—these are the things that make many 20-somethings world go 'round.
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On the bus I sipped gin and started to feel shitty. I passed out and when I was in New Jersey near Manhattan, I woke up and felt great. I called my roommate and told him that we had to party as soon as I got back. At my apartment, the two of us railed the rest of the Ativan and drank a 24oz can of Bud each. I was feeling tired, so I bought an Adderall off of him and took that.
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Our spot in Paradise is conveniently located within 100 yards of the Balboa Pier, Balboa Fun Zone, Newport beach, Newport Harbor, and all the dining and night life you and the kids need. The property sleeps 10 easily, or more. A very private second story flat with 2000 square feet of living space. Fully furnished 3 bedroom 2.5 bath condo with 2 car garage and in-unit laundry for your vacation enjoyment. All sleeping rooms feature brand new queen size beds, flats screen TV's, fresh linens, plenty of closet and storage space, bathrooms come equipped with fresh towels and all the comforts of home. 3rd bedroom has a built-in wet bar for entertaining or can be a kids hang out and game room. The huge kitchen and family room is perfect so you can spread out and enjoy the upgraded features such as the 50 inch flat screen HD TV, stereo with built in speaker system throughout, remote fireplace in living room, new furnishings include a large lazy boy couch and huge dinning table that seats 12, breakfast bar, and don't forget wrap around private deck. Kitchen is fully stocked, all you need is the food. You can't beat the amenities in this home, or the convenient location. Walk or ride to the famous Newport Wedge. Property is literally feet to the sand and water, either beach or harbor, Balboa Pier. Plenty of kid and adult entertainment within walking distance, including the Worlds Famous Balboa Fun Zone. 10 minute bike ride to Newport Pier or down town Newport Beach or Balboa Island. Also included for your vacation enjoyment are beach cruiser bikes, body boards, beach towels, beach chairs, ice chest. Everything you will need to have a wonderful vacation on the sand or at the harbor. Restaurants are of abundance as is the night life. You are literally in the middle of the action or relation, its your choice.
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London - Haile Gebrselassie, one of the world's all-time great distance runners, will find himself in the unusual position of pacemaker at this year's London Marathon.
Organisers have said on Monday the Ethiopian athletics hero would be the "lead pacemaker" when the latest edition of the London Marathon takes place on April 13 -- just five days short of Gebrselassie's 41st birthday.
Twice an Olympic and four-times a world 10 000 metres champion, Gebrselassie also broke the marathon world record on two occasions.
This year in London, officials hope he will pace the elite men's field to the 30km mark in "world-record speed".
It will be the first time in his career Gebrselassie has run as a pacemaker and London race director Hugh Brasher said Monday: "We are delighted to announce that Haile Gebrselassie has agreed to run as a pacemaker in this year's race.
"Haile is an icon of distance running, a man who has broken 27 world records on the track and road during his long and brilliant career, and we can't think of anyone better to set our elite men up for a crack at the world marathon record.
"Everyone knows how difficult it is to break the world record on London's course, especially with such a competitive field, but with Haile pacing and four of the fastest marathon runners in history in the race, there's a real chance we will see something special."
The stellar line-up that will take their cue from Gebrselassie includes Britain's double Olympic and world champion Mo Farah, the current marathon world record holder Wilson Kipsang, the reigning London Marathon champion Tsegaye Kebede, the world and Olympic marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich, and the London Marathon course record holder Emmanuel Mutai.
Following his track exploits, Gebrselassie made his marathon debut in London in 2002.
He first broke the marathon world record in September 2007 at the Berlin Marathon and a year later on the same course became the first man to run quicker than two hours four minutes when he clocked 2:03:59, a record that stood for three years.
Kipsang set the current world record of 2:03:23 at the Berlin Marathon in September.
For all his success elsewhere, Gebrselassie never won the London Marathon, finishing third in 2002, ninth in 2006 and then dropping out in 2007 due to asthma problems.
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(01/09/14) - Good news on the job front in the Great Lakes Bay Region.Morley Companies announced it will be hiring another 300 workers over the first six months of the year.The company hired at least that many people last year, and the plan is to keep hiring.Morley Companies had about 400 associates in 2009. By the end of this year, it could have more than 2,000.Twenty-one-year-old Zach Schatzer of Bay City had a job this past summer, but wanted to join a company that could lead to a career. He applied once at Morley, didn't get the job, but was offered a position the second time he applied."I have already been promoted once, and I absolutely love the company," Schatzer said. The Fortune 500 clients of Morley seem to agree, which keep giving Morley projects, so the company keeps hiring. Jill Gushow says Morley has new clients as well, so the help wanted sign is back out, if it ever was taken down."Everything from entry level, providing customer service via the phone or via Web chat, to more technical positions," Gushow says.Morley does everything from event planning, to theater services, to contact help centers, by phone and on the Web, a diversified company which credits its associates for the job growth."We are able to find talented individuals who we can put to work immediately," Gushow said. Saginaw Township Manager Rob Grose says Morley's success has had a ripple effect in the township and the entire region."The more employees obviously that we get into the Bay Road corridor, the more, there are spin-offs, to the restaurants, to the retailers, to the medical, dental," Grose said. Morley's good news comes a month after TRW announced it was closing its Saginaw plant - 600 people will be out of work."There may be many positions that will be good fit, so we encourage people, take a look at Morley," says Gushow.
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Argentina have made six changes ahead of their Test with France on Saturday with Rodrigo Roncero one notable omission.
The veteran prop will retire from international rugby prior to the inaugural Rugby Championship and next weekend's second Test against France looks set to be his final hurrah for the Pumas. He scored a try against Italy last weekend and helped Argentina to their 37-22 win but his place in the side has been taken by Eusebio Guinazu.
Other changes see Romain Miralles start at fullback with Joaquin Tuculet switching to outside centre. Manuel Montero comes in on the wing in place of Agustin Gosio with Felipe Contepomi captaining the side at inside centre.
Tomas de la Vega starts at No.8 in place of Leonardo Senatore with Julio Farias coming in at blindside. Esteban Lozada gets the nod in the locks with Nahuel Tetaz and Bruno Postiglioni partnering Guinazu in the front-row.
Argentina team:
Replacements: Andres Bordoy, Pablo Henn, Rodrigo Bruno, Rodrigo Baez, Tomas Cubelli, Benjamin Urdapilleta, Facundo Barrea
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