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Image Recognition technology is a goldmine for marketers
Nov 19th
By Kerry Gorgone, {grow} Contributing Columnist
I am admiring a stranger's purse. I surreptiously take a photo of it on my phone and instantly get a "buy now" option from my favorite store.
My family is enjoying some pizza around the dinner table. I post our happy moment on Instagram. Moments later I get a tweet from the national pizza chain thanking me for buying their pizza and offering a coupon for a future purchase.
My son tries on an Angry Birds baseball cap. He looks so cute and I post a photo on Facebook. I notice that Facebook starts to show me ads for Angry Birds games and merchandise.
Sound a little far-out? This type of contextual marketing is happening now and image recognition technology promises to be a goldmine for smart marketers.
Image recognition and marketing
People upload nearly 2 billion photos per day to Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, WhatsApp and Snapchat. From that vast sea of images, marketers can glean nuanced data about social influence, brand sentiment, purchase behavior, and much more.
Using sophisticated application programming interfaces (APIs), developers have made it possible for users to take a picture of an object or person, and immediately learn where to buy the object shown, or where to connect with the person photographed.
Consider how the hospitality industry could improve customer service if they knew who was checking in—knew them from their online presence, as opposed to just their photo ID. Some hotels are already experimenting with facial recognition in an effort to provide faster check-in.
Image recognition and big data
Image recognition eliminates barriers between you and your target market, enabling frictionless mobile commerce and greater engagement.
The overlay of geographic and demographic information, combined with the rich insights offered by the social graph, offers marketers a valuable mix of data. They can use it all to create marketing communications that target the right people at the right time (and in the right place) to convert.
Brands can use image recognition to create a seamless shopping experience for consumers: just take a photo of something you're interested in, and land immediately on a mobile optimized landing page where you can buy it.
Macy's launched an app in September of this year that enables shoppers to take photos of outfits they like. The app then searches Macy's inventory for a match.
Less than two months after Macy's launched its image search app, Neiman Marcus debuted a similar app, through a partnership with Slyce. "Snap. Find. Shop." enables users to take pictures of shoes or handbags that catch their eye. The app then compares the pictures with Neiman Marcus' inventory of shoes and handbags, and returns a list of offerings that present the closest match.
Image recognition enables engagement
Image recognition can do more than facilitate frictionless commerce: it also has the potential to drive consumer engagement with brands. People can upload pictures of themselves with the product in a store, then share using a hashtag or mentioning the brand on various social networks.
Logo recognition—a more targeted use of image recognition technology—can help brands better understand how their products live in the world, how consumers use them, view them, integrate them into their everyday experiences.
For the first time, brands can gain insight into why people like certain items more than others, and how they're using them, without having to conduct expensive psychographic research using surveys, focus groups, or interviews.
But what about privacy?
There's no such thing anymore. At best, privacy is a cherished illusion, and it's fallen by the wayside as people volunteer more personal data in the interest of greater personalization and convenience.
But seamlessly integrating facial recognition with mobile technology, especially wearables like Google Glass, has hit a few speed bumps.
Facebook slapped Nametag with a cease and desist letter after the company launched CreepShield, an app that enables users to scan the profile photos of potential dates so they can say no to the creeps in advance.
Lest you think Facebook has your privacy interests at heart, I should point out that Facebook's own facial recognition technology is already well developed, but I digress.
However creepy the instantaneous nature of facial recognition technology might seem, the reality is that your information is already public, available for analysis.
Being smart about image recognition
Much like mortgage records and bankruptcy filings, information about your comings and goings in public areas is public information. And like mortgage records and bankruptcy filings, it's easy to index and search with modern technology.
Consequently, if you're out for a run and someone's interested in knowing more about you, they can take a picture of you on their phone, run it through an app like NameTag and immediately gain access to your public social profiles and online photos.
Suddenly, taking the time to tighten up your privacy settings becomes a higher priority.
But even setting all of your social profiles to private won't entirely insulate you from the prying eyes of strangers: your friends can always upload and photos of you online, too. So, the modern digital consumer is like the boy with his fingers stuck in the dam: information will burst forth one way or another.
Proceed With Caution
For marketers who manage to avoid coming across as creepy, this data goldmine can help to inform product development, channel selection, content marketing, mobile behavior, and more.
The key to using image recognition for marketing is not to creep people out. Just because you have and use information doesn't mean you have to advertise it, so to speak.
Marketers, image recognition is here. How will you use it?
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone is a writer, lawyer, speaker and educator. She's also Instructional Design Manager, Enterprise Training, at MarketingProfs. Kerry hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast. Find her on Google+ and Twitter.
Can Marketers Predict and Measure Influence, Down to the Dollar?
Oct 22nd
By Kerry Gorgone, {grow} Contributing Columnist
Social scoring and ROI are two hot topics for marketers, and right now they're largely separate considerations. But what if you could know which people were truly influential in terms of driving revenue for your brand?
Instead of guessing based on follower counts or shares, what if you could dig deep into customer data and predict which customers would drive more spending through social media? Marketers have been wondering about this for years. In his 2012 book Return on Influence, Mark Schaefer predicted that companies would seek to assign dollar values to influencers.
Even then, Schaefer saw influence as having a direct and measurable impact on the bottom line. "As companies begin to connect the dots between online influence and offline activities, real dollar values can be placed on customers and the demonstrated impact of their influence."
The Crowded Landscape
The options abound for enterprises interested in a predictive analytics tool: with so many vendors in the space, it's easy to find comprehensive articles like this one that compare the features and limitations of each possibility.
Major players like IBM, Dell and Oracle are facing increased competition from start-ups claiming to have cracked the code for measuring and predicting social influence on revenue.
Newcomer Ninja Metrics, for instance, superimposes purchase data over a customer's social graph. Their algorithm purportedly enables companies to see who influences whom, and specifically how much money people spend as a result of their influential friends' purchases.
Blue Yonder, another contender, has a team of scientists powering its software, which pairs predictive analytics with automation to create "automated, high-performance forecasts for buying behavior." If that sounds like a risky proposition, that's because it is. Given the wildly variable nature of consumer psychology and behavior, any solution offering full automation must be carefully scrutinized.
Although automation in this area may be fraught with risk, predictive modeling does provide some potentially powerful data. Armed with accurate predictions of consumer behavior, companies could drive customer acquisition and retention, increase consumer spending, and reduce churn. But any tool is of questionable benefit unless its predictions can be tested against actual results.
How does it work?
By examining spending correlations between users, predictive analytics software determines who drives others to make purchases. Depending on the tool, companies can parse the data extremely fine to figure out exactly how much revenue users bring in because of their social interactions.
Using analytics, it may be possible to adjust the lifetime value of existing customers upward (or downward) based on the amount of money they bring in above and beyond their own spending.
But according to Dmitri Williams, CEO of Ninja Metrics, the classic big spenders (or "whales") aren't necessarily the same people who drive social spending.
"Classic whales may spend for enjoyment or conspicuous consumption," explains Williams. "That's different from people who are extremely tied in with their friends, and spend money to enjoy their company. "
With "social whales," spending is about the relationship. "They don't necessarily wind up spending a lot for that," says Williams, "but they cause a lot of people to join them and share in the experience with them: there's a very different sociology to the spending pattern."
Is this really new?
Start-ups often tout their analytics and modeling tools as revolutionary, but predictive modeling has been around for 15 years or more, according to Burke Powers, a senior managing consultant and practice lead for the IBM Business Analytics Solution Services team.
"It's the same idea as when ice cream parlors used to give coupons to cheerleaders," says Powers. "The cheerleaders had the social influence to bring their friends in, turn the parlor into a cool place, and drive business. Predictive modeling uses the same process, only now it's online."
Businesses have long tried to use social influence to drive sales, and they've never had more data at their disposal. "The impact of social influence on selling has been widely studied," says Powers. "Marketers can compile full psychological profiles, do product profiling, create complex, actionable clusters of data—all this data can be added to the social graph and used to predict customer behavior, so the technology is there."
Social Scoring vs. Quantifiable Influence
In order to drive actual revenue, predictive modeling and influence measurement would need to go well beyond social scoring services like Klout, Kred and PeerIndex.
"[These services] assume influence,'" Williams observes, "based on who's being retweeted the most. But that's not anything you can really prove. As a scientist, you can't publish that."
The key, according to Williams, is to think about the friendships themselves, rather than the relationship between the brand and the customer. "People enjoy products and services together," he explains, "so what's really important is their relationship: if you can reinforce that, you can sell more."
The question, as Powers sees it, is less about identifying "social whales," and more about determining what kind of influence these people have. Can they influence others to come to a business (and stay)? Use a product or game? Influence them to buy? And how can companies channel influence into sales? Without the ability to act on this insight, companies are unlikely to see the value, according to Powers.
Can you measure influence?
Theoretically, predictive analytics could revolutionize marketing.
Marketers could target "social whales" based on quantifiable, provable influence, identify which key users are at risk to stop using the product or service, and test the impact of win-back messaging, marketing campaigns, coupons and other tactics all the way through to the individual spend.
So why don't more companies use predictive modeling? Because it has the potential to be creepy if used without thinking about how customers will react, explains Powers.
"The technology exists, but many companies are still coming to terms with the complexity and working out how to implement in a customer-friendly way," he says.
Essentially, with enough data, it's possible to predict influence, but you might creep out the influencers or those being influenced. Powers's prediction: "There are going to be a lot of mistakes made before best practices are well understood."
The mystery of "which 50% of your marketing works" could finally be solved, but can businesses effectively use this knowledge without being ham-fisted about it?
What do you think? Can you measure influence to such a granular degree, and is it worth the cost of collecting the data you'd need to power this type of algorithm?
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone is a writer, lawyer, speaker and educator. She's also Instructional Design Manager, Enterprise Training, at MarketingProfs. Kerry hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast. Find her on Google+ and Twitter.
Case Study: Denny's flips its audience with a sassy social media strategy
Sep 29th
By Kerry Gorgone, {grow} Contributing Columnist
If your image of Denny's restaurants as a place to take grandma for the dinner buffet, think again. The restaurant chain is re-inventing itself, led by a sassy social media strategy.
My compliments to the chef at Denny's: the iconic diner chain has embraced modern consumers with a newly invigorated social strategy, serving up a never-ending buffet of shareable, bacon-fueled content (with a heaping helping of pop culture zeitgeist).
Creating an experience worth sharing
Companies hoping to make a connection with their customers have long looked to social media as a quick way to connect and inform. The challenge: creating content and an experience worth sharing (and then showing a return on investment).
As Denny's has proven through their use of Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, and other channels, breakfast can be a surprisingly compelling topic.
"One of the things we try and do in our diners is feed people what they want when they want it," explains Kevin Purcer, Senior VP of Digital Strategy at Erwin Penland, leader of Denny's social team. "It's why we are open 24 hours and why we have such a large selection of customizable menu items.
"We really try and live that same ethos in social," explains Purcer, "and feeding people what they want when they want it requires us to be in the conversation when it is happening."
Denny's Twitter feed reads like a reference guide of notable entertainment and industry events from recent months: characters from the Scandal season finale replaced by strips of bacon; Jack Bauer leaps a breakfast counter to fight Russian bad guys; and in a clever spoof of Apple's acquisition of Beats by Dre, Denny's reports "BREAKING: Denny's Buys Beets for $3 Billion, Makes Huge Salad."
BREAKING: Denny's Buys Beets for $3 Billion, Makes Huge Salad
— Denny's (@DennysDiner) May 29, 2014
Instead of calls to action and campaign codes, Denny's social content riffs on Lil Jon song lyrics, the World Cup, and asks people to "click the link below" by showing a picture of a sausage… link. (See what they did there?)
click the link below pic.twitter.com/RSrQBlb4Hl
— Denny's (@DennysDiner) July 29, 2014
Purcer states that Denny's aims to "bring the experience of a diner booth to life online." Whether you're visiting the diner during the early breakfast hours or a late night run, sharing a fun experience with friends and family isn't complete without some harmless fun and plucky references to the world around us.
Mashed potatoes and mash-ups
Denny's Tumblr offers its audience a stream of eminently shareable pop culture riffs, mashed up – or "hashed up," perhaps? – with bacon, sausage, hash browns, and the rest of the breakfast menu. Notable events like Shark Week and the San Diego Comic Con received the Denny's treatment with animated GIFs aplenty, alongside topical references to Kickstarter, nursery rhymes, the Atari 2600, Doctor Who, and more.
But has this youthful and plucky presence brought in more diners, increased revenue, or impacted other metrics?
"We are working towards measuring the impact of our approach on sales, evaluating different methods of incorporating social into attribution modeling," Purcer explains. "We try to understand how it is affecting the brand: does our social audience have a higher favorability, willingness to recommend, etc.?"
They may not have the mechanisms in place yet for measurement, but the organization believes in the inherent value of connecting with customers through social media and content marketing. "We believe at our core that social has the biggest ability to impact brand health as much as any other medium," says Purcer.
Data does show that the bacon and humor infusion have had strong, positive results. Follower numbers on Twitter and Tumblr have doubled and tripled, respectively, in less than a year.
In addition to drawing new followers and interacting with customers by sharing user-generated content, Denny's has also shared laughs with other brands in fun and friendly encounters. A recent Twitter exchange found the Denny's gang arguing with NBC's Parks and Rec team over which was greater: waffles or pancakes?
No doubt, Ron Swanson monitored this debate with great interest.
When Denny's spoofed the Atari arcade classic Asteroids (with a ketchup bottle shooting hash browns, entitled "Hashteroids," of course), perhaps they expected some retweets from the 40-somethings who still recall playing the game in person.
But as great brands do, Atari responded personally. Soon enough, a collaboration between the two brands ignited.
"That post inspired a full partnership with Atari in conjunction with our Greatest Hits Remixed menu module that launched this summer," recalls Purcer. "We created merchandising, digital ads and even three real mobile game remixes of classic Atari titles – all with a Denny's spin, of course."
Social media history is littered with brands desperately trying to cater to younger audiences, either with awkward pop culture references, ill-conceived hashtags, or both. Misunderstanding the target audience is a classic mistake many companies will be happy to leave out of their #throwbackthursday posts.
But never has a brand been so deliciously devoted to its audience without constantly hammering followers with its officially trademarked product names, or scheduled Buffer posts reminding to consume and obey. The Denny's approach is to share the same kind of content you'd share while you waited for your Grand Slam to arrive, or in between bites of some lovely, tasty bacon.
Stated simply by Purcer, Denny's goal with its social channels is "to make people love us and make them hungry."
Marketers are always looking for an angle to make content enticing, engaging, and irresistible. In Denny's case, you can't ask for a better secret weapon than bacon.
Except more bacon.
feeling down? have a bacon. *cradles you like a newborn while you eat a bacon*
— Denny's (@DennysDiner) April 17, 2014
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone is a writer, lawyer, speaker and educator. She's also Instructional Design Manager, Enterprise Training, at MarketingProfs. Kerry hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast. Find Kerry on Google+ and Twitter.
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The Facebook Other Folder and the Strangers Who Love Me There
Aug 27th
By Kerry Gorgone, {grow} Contributing Columnist
This is a story about sex, drama, money, and hope. In other words, a typical day in Faceook's "Other" Folder.
In November of 2010, Facebook started sorting users' messages for them, funneling communiqués from anyone who wasn't a friend (or friend of a friend) into a message folder labeled "Other." The results have been pretty weird.
At the time, there was no public outcry (mostly because no one realized what had happened). For many people, it was a year or more before we discovered the Other folder and saw the assortment of missed connections. Here's one of mine:
Hi Dear, I like the texture and the color of your eyes. Can we be friends and get to know each other better.. I will hope to hear from you.
If anyone can explain what the "texture of my eyes" is, Facebook message me. I'll see it when I clean out my Other folder again in six months!
But I had also missed a message from someone at Johnny Cupcakes (one of my favorite brands), wanting my address so they could send a gift after I posted a photo in response to one of Johnny's Facebook photo challenges. When I stumbled upon the message months later, I was nonplussed, to say the least.
The Bizarro World of the Facebook Other Folder
And while some people miss out on legitimate business opportunities because Facebook hid messages from them (as Mark Schaefer has pointed out), the Other Folder is also the home of some of the most bizarre messages you will ever see.
Hi, I am opening a dental clinic in Serbia …
HALLLLLOOOO you beautiful sexy beast …
I would laak for to be yor friend …
The exchange on Mark's Facebook page got me wondering about these "Others." Who are the people who send messages to complete strangers on Facebook? What can they hope for? Does sending typo riddled form messages to people who've never heard of you ever produce an actual result?
In an effort to find some answers, I did the unthinkable.
I replied to some of my Other messages.
Let's meet the "Others"
A proposition not without risk, given that the vast majority of Other messages fall into one of two categories: spammers seeking money, and strangers trying to get lucky.
I sent a straightforward inquiry to six people who had sent unsolicited messages over the past six months, explaining that I was writing a blog post about people who sent Facebook messages to strangers. The sex seekers weren't interested in having any exchange that would be fit to print, so I'll focus on a couple of the "entrepreneurs" here.
First up, Fariz from India. Here's his original message:
hiiii my name is fariz am from INDIA ,am just 23 am very interesting in charity then i start a charitable society in INDIA (CREDO charitable society )but now our society facing a big financial problems. please if you can any financial helps ? am expecting your reply,, thank u
So, a college "graduator" and fledgling social business owner sent 20 messages to strangers on Facebook (although he did not explain how these 20 were selected), and received 3 replies including mine. Funds raised: zero. But then, he hadn't invested all that much. Dennis, another aspiring businessman wrote from parts unknown to drum up support for his charity.
Well its not really about writing strangers, yes i do get some response that are positive, and yes i had a few success and i started my none profit org through inspiration from a group of youngster
and i know it may look strange to write to people you have never met and my question to you is how do we make that connection with the write people who we need to give us a push start?
thanks, dennis
After I established my credentials as a blogger, Dennis replied again (and sent me a friend request, which I did not accept). I admire his moxie, but no. Just, no. If previous events have taught us anything, it's that Facebook is wide open to tweaking its newsfeed algorithm, so why is their system for sorting private messages so obviously flawed?
But as Jon Taffer has been known to say on Spike TV's Bar Rescue, "I embrace solutions," so here are some tips for dealing with Facebook Others.
Sex with Strangers
Facebook saves overt sexual overtures to the "Other" folder, the same place it files perfectly appropriate messages from business prospects and acquaintances. Apparently, Facebook, you think I might want to hear from strangers interested in "making dirty, sexy chat with me." I don't. Seriously.
Why not look for keywords relating to sexual overtures in messages from non-connections, then funnel those into a folder labeled "Junk" or "Spam" or "Rated R" or something? It's a pretty safe bet that very few people want those kinds of messages from people they don't know (or even people they know, but that's another issue altogether).
You're Collecting Mountains of Data: Use It
For some reason, Facebook, you seem to think think that I don't want to hear from a brand I openly support and frequently post about (like Johnny Cupcakes). But I do. If you track my Likes and comments (and I know you do, because I see the targeted ads), why not use this data for private message filtering? I don't want to miss messages from a representative of a brand if I've engaged with them on their page. Helpful hint: posting to a brand's page generally means I'm interested in hearing from that brand.
Let's be Friends
Facebook, you seem to think that I don't want messages from people I'm not connected with just because we're not connected. Not necessarily the case. Before I joined MarketingProfs full-time, I taught a graduate course in marketing. Now and then, a former student will send me a message through Facebook, even though we aren't connected there. It's months before I see them.
Unless a message contains keywords indicating that it may be inappropriate, or links that raise a red flag that it might be spam, I'd appreciate the chance to review messages myself. This would ensure that legitimate business opportunities reach me, and that I'm able to expand my online connections with people I actually do know personally, but haven't friended yet.
As long as you're messing with my newsfeed algorithm, privacy settings, and display, I'd appreciate if you could make some changes that would actually help me, Facebook. Sorting out the "Other" folder would be a fantastic place to start.
Thanks in advance.
And if you haven't checked your "Other" messages folder in Facebook, you might want to. Or not. What is the most bizarre message you have received?
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Mohit Raina, who plays God Mahadev in Nikhil Sinha's Devon Ke Dev. Mahadev was seen in a different mood yesterday at the launch of Suhana Sinha and actor-singer Amit Tandon's new venture 'Play around.'
Along with many television stars, Mohit too was present there at the launch of this new venture too. He was seen enjoying the moment and he wished the best to Nikhil, Suhana and Amit for their new venture.
TellyBuzz spoke to Mohit at the event to know his views regarding
the kids' play arena. Mohit said, "It's a very nice and a spacious place for
the kids to enjoy. I wish I was a kid, then even I could come here to enjoy (smiles). They have worked very hard towards this and I
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nice article! <3
mohit bacha banega to humara kya hoga..??! :O :p
and to all those people who are bashing him here , i have a message for you - why dont you go get a life huh?! say you dont like him.and then you take the pain to come and comment HERE?! funny things people do nowadays! LOL!
Doing well u surely deserve all the happiness.
rockstar!! love you.. keep up the great work!!!
Mohit you are the current star on tv and your hard work and dedication has paid off and u stand tall today. U can take time out to chill sometimes even if that means being a kid ;)
@ rainbowgal ...ok now i got u ..u r just a mental case n u dont need to go salon bt u need a good psychiatrist ..-D
what is this actually?? i mean the comment below mine :o
looks like someone got out of mind
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Keep it up dude. U rock and deserve to have a good time.
mohit u r looking super hot in red..
That is a happy smiling face. Keep it up Mohit.
mohit you look amazing in red and agree that its great to be a kid and play.
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DALLAS (AP) - The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum has recreated the 2001 White House holiday displays in a new exhibit.
The exhibit, "Home for the Holidays: Christmas at the White House," opens Monday. The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 5, includes original decorations, photos and videos.
White House public tours were suspended in 2001 due to heightened security after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, so this will be the first time the public can see the displays in person.
The exhibit includes models of the family homes of American presidents, including George Washington's Mount Vernon and Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch. Holiday gowns worn by former first lady Laura Bush will also be shown, as will the 2001 White House Christmas card featuring a painting of the White House's second floor.
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Freshman Rachel Updike posted a 39.350 all-around score to qualify for the 2012 NCAA National Gymnastics Championship.
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Fayetteville, Ark. - Freshman Rachel Updike is headed to the 2012 NCAA National Gymnastics Championships in Duluth, Ga., after earning a 39.350 all-around total at the Regional meet. No. 19 Mizzou earned a fourth place finish at the 2012 NCAA Fayetteville Regional with a team total of 195.450. The UCLA Bruins took first at the meet with a 197.225 followed by Arkansas who scored 196.825 and Boise State (196.050).
By the luck of the draw, the Tigers started the meet on vault. Mizzou came out strong, putting up a 48.775 team total. Tori Howard was the first competitor for the Tigers and she stuck her vault for a 9.700 score. Brittani Price followed for a 9.700 as well. Freshman Kelsy Landreth posted a 9.525, while Mary Burke recorded a 9.675 on her vault. Both Updike and Katelyn Trevino put up 9.850 scores to close out the rotation on a high note. After the first rotation the Tigers were in third place. UCLA took an early lead, posting a 49.075 on bars followed by Maryland who recorded a 48.875 on the beam.
After a bye, Mizzou was headed to the uneven bars. The Tigers put up a 48.625 on the event to bring the team total to 97.400, a score that put the team in fifth at the meet. Mackenzie McGill started off the rotation earning a 9.700 on her routine, and freshman Colleen Mulcahy recorded a 9.700 score as well. Taylor Medrea put up a 9.675 on the event, while both Updike and Heizelman recorded 9.725 scores. Mary Burke posted a 9.775 on her bar routine to contribute to the team total as well.
The Tigers advanced to balance beam in the fourth rotation to put up a 48.800 on the event. Updike performed a solid routine to lead the Tigers, and she posted a 9.875 score. Burke followed, earning a strong 9.850 as well. Howard recorded a 9.750 while Kappler earned a 9.700 in the lead-off position. Medrea recorded a 9.625 on the event as well.
MU took one more bye before heading to the floor, Medrea led off the rotation with a great floor routine. She earned a 9.800 score, and Trevino followed her to score a 9.775. Always energetic, Howard hit her passes on floor to put up a 9.850 and give the Tigers a boost. Updike had a great showing for the Tigers as well as she put up a 9.900 score to tie for third on the event. Burke followed in the lineup, earning a 9.875 for her routine. Briana Conkle was the final competitor for the Tigers and she scored a 9.825 on her routine.
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IBISWorld: Consumers Will Spend More On Dad This Father's Day
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According to market research firm IBISWorld, dads can look forward to even more electric razors in paternal celebration this month but afternoons out and tools as well. The company estimates that Father's Day spending will increase 2.1% this year to $13.2 billion versus the occasion in 2012.
The gradual economic rebound has left Americans with more discretionary income, IBISWorld asserted, which will influence not only how much consumers spend on Father's Day in the United States but also how they spend it. In fact, the market research firm suggests, traditional gifts will give way in this latest giving season to presents that reflect economic improvement, such as those associated with home improvement projects.
IBISWorld research suggests that 2013 spending on clothing and automotive products actually will decline and gift card sales will come in flat versus last year's period. Although spending on his day will gain, dad can't necessarily expect more than token recognition. Still some fathers will be a bit better entertained this June. The categories that will gain the most in the current Father's Day period, the IBISWorld study suggests, will be greeting cards, up 9%, special outings, up 3.5%, electronics, up 3.1%, and home improvement, up 2.7%.
The catch-all Other category in the research also gained, up 1.9%, so that dad should look for more in the way of books, CDs, personal care products and sporting goods.
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I swear, if I just walked out of ballet class in my flimsy little dance shoes, my dance teacher would yell at me!
Apparently the reason she wore those shoes is because she had to show the judge those were the shoes she was wearing that night when she alledgedly slugged a taller woman in the face – she couldn't have reached the girl in those shoes…the judge agreed.
That doesn't explain why she didn't just change into them in the courtroom, or why she was wearing those shoes out to a club where the accusations took place, but then again I've seen her barefoot more often than not so I guess I am not suprised!
When does she ever NOT wear the ballet shoes? That woman has more problems than any of us could ever imagine, I suspect.
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Famed Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz explains where his original rap name, "Tity Boi," came from and reveals that changing his name definitely helped his career. He also speaks about working on his music after "Duffle Bag Boy" with Lil Wayne, explaining why he felt it was Wayne's time to shine on the album.
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After witnessing the horrors and difficulties of war, coming home often is the hardest part of a tour of military service for veterans and soldiers. Chandler and Gilbert are trying to ease the transition.
Both cities have implemented an Operation Welcome Home program that honors and celebrates veterans through ceremonies, gifts, dinner and surprises for both the service member and his or her family.
"Some veterans, especially if they have faced a lot of combat, have a hard time," Chandler City Councilmember Nora Ellen said. "We completely understand, but we want to make sure each one feels very special and very honored."
Since Ellen brought Operation Welcome Home to Chandler, the city has honored eight soldiers and their families in two separate ceremonies, the last of which was on April 21. At the Chandler ceremonies, veterans and their families are escorted to the Chandler Council Chambers and surprised with gifts. In the past, the veterans have received items from or signed by state legislators, U.S. congressional representatives and city officials.
Ellen said she worked to bring the program to Chandler because she wanted the honoree and other veterans to know that the community supports them and appreciates what they did for them.
"Without what they are doing in sacrificing their life, we would not have the things we have," she said. "Our veterans are very important to me and our city."
Gilbert's Operation Welcome Home is operated in partnership with the Small Business Alliance and the town, which gives more community members and businesses an opportunity to be involved and show their appreciation for the honorees. The program, originally started by Gilbert Councilmember Jenn Daniels, has recognized more than 20 veterans and their families. On April 17, the city honored three more veterans.
Gilbert and sponsoring businesses work together to provide honorees and their families with a day of pampering, limo ride to the event, delicious dinner and ceremony afterward.
Lisa Rigler, president of the Gilbert Small Business Alliance, said the organization decided to partner with the town to make sure the program remains in tact and grows over the years.
In the past, Operation Welcome Home had issues finding honorees because of the humility instilled into the veterans in their military training, but now the program is growing because previous honorees are joining the committee.
"Sometimes they don't get the recognition they deserve," Rigler said. "But honorees usually don't want to be recognized because they always feel like somebody did more than they did. They don't feel deserving of what they actually do deserve."
In addition to honoring the veterans, the Small Business Alliance coordinates an educational program for all fourth- and fifth-graders in both the Higley and Gilbert school districts. The program will share the importance and traditions behind honoring veterans and soldiers.
While it's obvious that veterans and their families benefit from the program, Rigler said everyone else involved also does from their interactions with honorees and the stories they tell.
"We get to meet the honorees and that's the biggest benefit," she said. "When you meet them and their families it just brings visibility to the honorees, but we just get so much pleasure out of it."
Betty Julien, aesthetician at Frankie D's Salon and Spa in Gilbert, said the spa provides hairstyling, makeup, manicures and pedicures to the honoree or their family members to make them feel beautiful for the special ceremony. She said interacting with the honorees and their families has affected her deeply. Their sacrifice, stories and optimism have inspired her and other employees.
"Most of these people are really uplifting people and they actually give back as much as we give just by listening to them," Julien said. "I think it works both ways."
Julien's son was in the Marines for 10 years. Her father was also at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked, and several of her friends served in Vietnam. Each of these important people in her life had difficulties readjusting to civilian life. She was even unaware her father had been at Pearl Harbor until she read it in his obituary.
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Malnutrition is an alarming problem in Panama that not only affects those who suffer from it, but it also affects the development and well-being of the country at large. Marlene Franco's thesis project, Alimentando el Futuro (Feeding the Future), is dedicated to eradicating child malnutrition in the area of Kankintu, located in the Ngäbe Buglé indigenous reservation of Panama, a district with the highest levels of malnutrition and poverty in the country. This condition affects more than half of the children under five living in this area, which means that one of four of these children will contribute little or nothing to the development of the nation.
Franco traveled to Panama to conduct hands-on research. She identified three main audiences: the international, national, and local communities. Then she created Alimentando el Futuro to draw attention to the plight of Kankintu. The first audience is comprised mostly of the various NGOs whose mission includes alleviating malnutrition, the second is defined by Panama's middle class, those who have a vested interest and the means to contribute. Franco then created the means for change: a comprehensive campaign, gallery and website dedicated to "filling the spoon." 32 Panamanian artists were each asked to decorate a wooden spoon to help spread the word and raise money for Nutre Hogar, a non-profit and NGO dedicated to the prevention of childhood malnutrition. The artists painted and sculpted them. Finished spoons were displayed in an exhibition to raise awareness for malnutrition, and were then auctioned. A powerful symbol of undernourishment, Franco used images of empty spoons in much of her marketing and collateral materials, including handouts, a donation kit for grocery stories and other establishments. The message: "Help me fill the spoon, not only with healthy food, but also education, hope, and opportunities to make the country grow and be more healthy."
An outreach campaign and a gallery exhibition Alimentando el Futuro at Galeria Mateo Sariel in Panama City, Panama raised over $2500 US through the sale of Alimentando el Futuro spoons—both unadorned and customized by local artists. Inquiries to the gallery continue.
Profits from the exhibition made it possible to assist Nutre Hogar directly. The funds were used to produce educational materials about nutrition habits to enable villagers to become self-sufficient in their fight to prevent malnutrition.Franco's work was covered by the highest circulation newspaper in Panama, La Prensa, Ellas (a magazine by La Prensa), and El Panama America. There remains much to be done to eradicate malnutrition in Kankintu and the rest of Panama, but Franco's work thus far has set the wheels in motion, using design to generate both awareness and action. Phase 1 of the project is complete and continues to receive media attention. Franco's project will be featured as one of 20 artists in The World Bank 2012 exhibit El Cambio (About Change) in Paris and Washington DC.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH-- A Panama City Beach Police Officer, responsible for a standoff earlier this month, has decided to retire.
Bay County Sheriff's Deputies answered a call regarding an intoxicated man causing a disturbance at the Palm Cove subdivision on July 16th.
They say 43-year old Beach Police Sergeant Jeff Heath was armed, acting irrationally and possibly suicidal. Heath retreated back into his home, setting off an hour stand-off, with Sheriff's Office SWAT Officers outside.
It was Heath's boss, Chief Drew Whitman, who entered the house and talked Heath into surrendering. Wednesday Whitman confirmed Heath won't be returning to the department.
"Sergeant Heath decided to do an early retirement, he was approaching his 20 year mark, he's done a great job for the city the years prior and he just thought it would be best for him to be with his family and his kids to move onto another chapter of his life," Panama City Beach Police Drew Whitman said.
Heath's official retirement date will be September 8th. At the time of his arrest, Sheriff's investigators said heath was facing some home and work-related stress. He is still facing one count of shooting a firearm into a dwelling.
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