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Guns collected in Seattle buyback program to be turned into "peace bricks"on May 7, 2013 @ 12:13 pm (Updated: 11:23 am - 5/8/13 )
He unveiled his "Weapons to Words" campaign Tuesday morning.
"It's a program that asks kids in Seattle to come up with a short quotation on the subject on gun violence," said the mayor. "The quotations will be engraved on plaques using steel that has been upcycled from the guns recovered in our guns buyback program."
The bricks will then be placed at Seattle parks. Chihuly Studio will help design the plaques and the city's Office of Arts & Culture will create a panel to select the winning students' entries.
"We were inspired by the idea that we could take these weapons that we recovered, 750 at the first gun buyback, and do something meaningful with them, something symbolic," said McGinn.
The project is privately funded.
"Our city has been through a lot lately. Gun violence has left many in our community wondering what they can do to help," said McGinn.
Entries will be accepted from first through 12th grade students until Sept. 15. Quotes can be submitted to seattle.gov/mayor
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Prospecting Up-sells with Behavioral AnalyticsMatt Shanahan
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In paid content, one of the challenges for corporate sales is finding demand for content that can be monetized – finding a good lead. Our research shows one of the best sources for leads is within existing individual subscribers where several individuals are sharing the access to the paid content. The charts below show a typical example of how to identify an individual subscriber that is a lead for an up-sell to a corporate or group agreement.
The first chart shows the daily use profile for two different individual subscribers by graphing the total number of reports accessed over a 90-day period. Each daily use profile is color coded based on the unique devices used to access the reports. The daily use profile with just the blue color shows how one subscriber's account accessed reports via a single device. The daily use profile with multiple colors shows how the other subscriber's account accessed reports via five devices (each color representing a distinct device).
Whereas the daily use profile with one color represents a loyal subscriber, the daily use profile with five colors is a prospect for an up-sell because of unmonetized demand of multiple users sharing one subscriber's account. But how can you be sure the multi-color profile isn't simply a raving fan?
The number two is a good start. In the hourly use profile for each account, the shared account has twice as many active hours as the individual account. Additionally, some devices are active earlier than other devices (e.g., purple vs. orange) but overlap on their activity which means they are used in different time zones. Also, note the individual account profile shows inactivity for lunch in the middle of the day. There are no low activity hours for the shared account rather it peaks at the periods of most overlap between devices.
Looking at the quarterly use profile, it becomes clear that each of the shared account devices were active throughout the period. Unlike the individual account which had ten inactive work-days during the period, the shared account had no inactive days. Digging deeper into the quarterly profile, the shared account consumes three times the content as compared to the individual account.
The Implication
The shared account exhibits usage profiles with monetizable demand for content. Corporate sales has a number of avenues to pursue the lead either directly, through procurement, or even through compliance. Properly engaged, this lead will convert with high probability.
Click-through Rates: The Metric for Missed ExpectationsMatt Shanahan
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Click-through rate (CTR) is often used to describe the advertising performance on a publisher's site. CTR for an ad is defined as the number of clicks on an ad divided by the number of times the ad is shown (impressions), expressed as a percentage. If the ad sales team for a publisher claims 1 million monthly unique visitors with 4 million page views and a CTR of 0.2% (or 8,000 click-throughs), the buyer might think those click-throughs are all distributed across the million unique users to yield 8,000 unique conversions. The buyer and the seller are wrong.
Here's the problem: CTR doesn't take into account audience engagement, not to mention the fact that other advertisers are competing for the click-through on the same page. To demonstrate the weakness of CTR as a performance metric, let's assume a single advertiser buys the entire inventory for the month. The advertiser buys all 4 million page views from the 1 million uniques to have an expected 8,000 unique visitors click through to the advertiser's site. But two factors skew actual unique conversion from the CTR's expected unique conversions: CTR differences between visitors and click-through qualification.
• Scout Analytics research shows that the advertiser's desired conversion target, the loyal audience, usually comprises 20-30% of the visitors who generate 70-80% of the page views. This means that the available audience for the advertiser is really 200,000-300,000 visitors not 1 million. The remaining 700,000 audience members - those generated from search - are irrelevant to the advertiser.
• Scout Analytics research also finds that click-through behavior varies by engagement, with loyal audience members delivering the majority of click-throughs because of relevance. For a myriad of reasons, the 700,000 irrelevant fly-bys still generate click-throughs, but at a lower CTR. For this example, let's assume their CTR is half that of a loyal audience.
• Finally, Scout Analytics research shows that some audience members are more "clicky" than others - meaning they click on ads more frequently. The clicky audience not only generates click-throughs more frequently, but often do so on the same ad, distorting the CTR further. (This example assumes 10% of the loyal audience is twice as clicky as the average loyal audience member.) Click-throughs from clicky audience members need to be de-duplicated.
After solving a couple of simultaneous equations, the CTR of the average loyal audience is 0.217%; the clicky audience's CTR is 0.434%; and the fly-by CTR is 0.109% The graphic below shows what these CTRs do in delivering conversion rates. The horizontal calculation follows traditional CTR thinking to yield the expected 8,000 unique conversions. The vertical calculation, called Audience Conversion Rate (ACR), follows a methodology of tracking unique audience conversions by qualifying the click-throughs as in-market and unique. Rather than getting 8,000 target audience members to click through, the advertiser would actually get 6,087, a full 24% short of the expected 8,000.
The more relevant ACR metric measures the number of unique audience members that clicked through divided by the total number of loyal audience members. Looking at the above example, the publisher is actually producing 2% ACR (i.e., 6,087/300,000). Not only is the 2% rate more representative of publisher and media performance, it is also a better value proposition to the advertiser. This makes your ad sales more productive.More...
3,044 Reasons Why CTR is the Wrong Metric for Media Buying and SellingMatt Shanahan
Click-through rate or CTR is often used to describe the advertising performance on a publisher's site. CTR for an ad is defined as the number of clicks on an ad divided by the number of times the ad is shown (impressions), expressed as a percentage. If the ad sales team for a publisher claims a million monthly unique visitors with 4 million page views and a CTR of 0.2% (or 8,000 click-throughs), the buyer might think those click-throughs are all distributed across the million unique users to yield 8,000 target audience members. The buyer and the seller are wrong.
Here's the problem: CTR doesn't take into account audience composition. To demonstrate the weakness of CTR to communicate performance, let's assume a single advertiser buys the entire inventory for the month. The advertiser bought all four million page views from the one million unique to have an intended 8,000 target audience members click-through to the advertiser's site. What skews CTR to be a poor metric of performance? Engagement.
· As shown by Scout Analytics research, the advertiser's target, the loyal audience, is usually 20-30% of the visitors who generate 70-80% of the page views. This means that the available audience for the advertiser is really 200-300,000 visitors not 1,000,000. The remaining 700,000 audience members generated from search are statistically irrelevant to the advertiser.
· Scout Analytics research also finds that CTR varies by engagement with loyal audience members delivering the majority of the click-throughs, but for odd reasons, irrelevant fly-bys still generate click-throughs. These 700,000 irrelevant fly-bys typically have a much lower CTR. For this example, let's assume their CTR at half the CTR of a loyal audience.
· Finally, Scout Analytics research shows that some audience members are more "clicky" than others. The clicky audience not only frequently generates click-throughs but often on the same ad distorting the CTR further. This example assumes 10% of the loyal audience is 5X more clicky than the average loyal audience member.
After solving a couple of simultaneous equations, the CTR of the average loyal audience is 0.177%; the clicky audience's CTR is 0.885%; and the fly-by CTR is 0.089%. Rather than getting 8,000 target audience members to click through, the advertiser would actually only get 4,956, or 3,044 short of the expected 8,000 – a full 38% short.
A more relevant metric would be audience conversion rate (ACR) or the number of unique audience members that clicked through divided by the total number of loyal audience members. Looking at the above example, the publisher is actually producing 1.65% ACR (i.e., 4,956/300,000). Not only is the 1.65% a more representative of publisher and media performance, it is also has a better value proposition to the advertiser and makes ad sales more productive.More...
The Only Thing Worse Than a Fly-By…Matt Shanahan
This post is republished with permission and originally appears here.
...is a scraper! Or at least scrapers that aren't monetized properly. Scrapers are users or automated services that systematically consume media content - especially news. Their motivations are usually commercial in nature such as a media monitoring service, advertising verification, or lead sourcing. A scraper can be identified by the fact that their volume of consumption is several standard deviations or more higher compared to the rest of the audience - even compared to fans.
It's not uncommon for scrapers to make up less than 0.1 percent of an audience and generate 10-15 percent or more of the page views (i.e., ad inventory and revenue capacity). The graph to the right illustrates the behavioral difference between the largest segment of visitors, fly-bys, and the smallest segment, scrapers. On average, scraper behavior generates 100-150 times more page views than their percentage of the total audience represents.
So why is a scraper bad for publisher revenues? Aren't page views good?
The first reason is that scrapers devalue a publisher's ad inventory by lowering conversion rates for advertisers. Page views delivered to scrapers are like page views delivered to bots. An advertiser that purchases a scraper page view is wasting their money.
Therefore, mixing scraper page views with regular audience page views produces lower conversion rates. As advertisers see the lower rates, they move their advertising dollars to higher performing sites.
The second reason is that scrapers decrease sell-through rates and CPMs. Many publishers do not have 100 percent sell-through rates and as a result, it is harder to negotiate ad rates with advertisers because the publisher is trying to get all the inventory sold. In the case of selling inventory without scraper page views, the publisher creates scarcity along with higher quality (see first reason) to raise prices. Because scrapers reduce sell-through rates and CPMs, they hurt a publisher's revenue.
The third reason is that unmonetized scrapers represent lost revenues. Remembering that scrapers have economic motivations to consume media, publisher can provide a different value proposition. Rather than monetizing their behavior like the rest of the audience, scrapers can be charged for direct licensing of the content. The beauty of direct licensing is that the publisher typically gets a multiple over the ad revenue these scrapers would have produced, and for the ones that don't license the content, they are at least blocked from devaluing the ad inventory and lowering CPMs.
While some publishers try to identify and stop excessive consumption, the bar is often set too high.More...
Building a Loyal Audience? That's a Business ModelMatt Shanahan
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As I pointed out in my previous post, advertisers don't buy page views they buy audience. A publisher's business model has to produce and monetize an audience. So what kind of audience is profitable? A loyal one. Here is the proof...
The Revenue Model

Because audience engagement is the unit of monetization and because each member engages differently, the revenue contribution and profitability of each audience member varies. For example, assume a fly-by audience member generates on average three page views. With a $30 RPM, each fly-by is worth $0.09 in revenue. Now compare that to a loyal fan generating 100 page views a month or $3 of revenue per month (i.e., $36 per year).Â
The revenue model can be plotted as shown in the figure above. Charting audience versus their revenue contribution illustrates the revenue model for a publisher. On the left, highly engaged fans contribute good revenue and on the right, each fly-by generates a small incremental amount of revenue.
The Cost Model

Aside from advertising sales, the two primary costs in digital media are associated with producing audience members namely audience development and editorial. Since a target audience is finite, acquiring new audience members becomes increasingly expensive as the size of the audience grows, due to the decreasing number of potential audience members remaining. Additionally, as the audience grows so does diversity and the need for a broader range of content at a larger editorial cost. The increasing cost to acquire and engage the audience is represented along with the revenue model in the following chart.
The Profit Model

Of course profits are made when the cost model is below the revenue model. For the fly-by to be profitable, the cost to produce the content and acquire the page views of the fly-by needs to be below $0.09. Acquiring an audience of 30M fly-bys per month would only generate $2.7M in revenue per month or a little more than $32M per year but the costs of that are likely to be much higher (e.g., Demand Media cost model).
By contrast, the cost to produce the content and acquire the page views of the loyal fan needs to be less than $3 per month to be profitable. Research by Scout Analytics shows the importance of a loyal audience to profitability in a revenue model. A loyal audience is made up of all visitors minus the fly-bys and usually constitutes about 20 percent of the unique visitors but are responsible for about 80 percent of all page views. This means that 80 percent of the revenue capacity (i.e., ad inventory) comes from a loyal audience while about 20 percent come from fly-by visitors. So even though fly-bys make up the vast majority of unique visitors, their revenue contribution is astonishingly low. In other words, generating revenue from fly-bys is the same as chasing page views, but building loyal audience is building a business model.
Counting Page Views? Don't Call It A Business ModelMatt Shanahan
This post is reprinted with permission and originally appears here.
Measuring the number of page views as a key performance indicator (KPI), is a growing practice among publishers. In fact, editorial and development teams are increasingly being rewarded for boosting page views, with some publishers even shaping their entire site just to generate page views.
That is not a business model! Let me prove it with an extreme example.
Any publisher can deploy bots to generate page views for their site. No advertiser will pay for those page views, because the page views have no advertising value. While page views could be used as a KPI by the editorial team to generate more content for bot consumption, no revenue is coming through the door to keep them employed.
The right metric for publishers should be revenue performance indicators (RPI), which means the metrics tie directly to the business model. Many publishers are looking to build recurring revenue streams from loyal audience members, and in this case, RPIs such as audience size, loyalty, and level of engagement are meaningful. However, some publishers are relying on non-recurring revenue from SEO acquired visitors, and in this case, RPIs such as percentage share of search and time on site become more relevant. In paid content, RPIs such as price per article or price per device become critical. And for all of these business models, average revenue per user (ARPU) is the RPI for benchmarking efficiency and profit (see my post on ARPU here).
While correlating user behavior to the business model is the only way to judge revenue performance, surprisingly few publishers can differentiate between a page view that is aligned to the business model vs. a page view that is not. Consequently, many publishers are chasing low value page views and jeopardizing their long-term viability. Might as well hire some bots.....More...
What About an Ad Wall?Matt Shanahan
This post is reprinted with permission and originally appears here.
In the pursuit of earnings, publishers have done two things - intensified SEO efforts, which creates fly-by ad revenue and established paywalls, which create fan subscription revenue.
Remember these definitions:
• Fly-by - Someone who visits once.
• Occasional - Visitor to the site two to three times per month.
• Regular - Visitor to the site one to two times per week.
• Fan - Visitor to the site more than two times per week.
Some fans are willing to subscribe through a paywall, and fly-bys are commodity impression to be bought and sold through exchanges, but what about the other 15-25 percent of the audience?
The barbell focus on fans and fly-bys for revenue optimization overlooks a significant untapped opportunity in between the two groups. The regulars and occasionals as we call them represent an opportunity for publishers to create differentiated advertising products for advertisers such as an adwall.
Users have to give time to get time, that is the underpinning of attention economics and online advertising. Advertisers underwrite user access to media or other digital goods in exchange for a moment of their attention.
I was reminded of this exchange on a recent flight from New York. After take-off, I decided to use the in-flight Internet access which normally costs $9.95 for that route but was being offered for free if I would watch an advertisement. For me, the exchange of 30 seconds of my time for four hours of Internet access was a no-brainer. In gaming, companies like WildTangent are allowing users to watch advertisements in exchange for virtual goods to extend their playing time online. In exchange for watching the latest episode of a TV show, the Hulu user watches advertisements.
These are all examples of adwalls where there is an exchange for watching an advertisement, i.e. the user is given access to digital media, games, etc. Unlike interstitials that are frequently dismissed, the adwall requires viewing and acknowledgement or no access is provided. Adwalls are intended to optimize revenue from the regulars and occasionals that make 15-25 percent of the audience. To illustrate the idea, let's consider a couple of different scenarios of how fly-bys might react to an adwall vs. regulars.
The first scenario is Demand Media. Demand Media is a company built on SEO. The Demand Media audience is mainly fly-bys. How much is an article on "how to window shop" worth? Would a fly-by be willing to watch a 30 second advertisement in exchange for access to the article they are likely to look at for at best a couple of minutes? For most people, the answer is likely to be no. In this case, the adwall turned away traffic that could have been served by commodity ads from an exchange.
The second scenario is The Times of London. While some loyal fans have signed up through the paywall, many others have not. Surely, many non-subscribers and previous readers would be willing to watch a 30 second advertisement for a one day pass. In this case, the adwall extended the revenue stream that otherwise would have been a lost opportunity.
Finally, ad units like adwalls are unlikely to erode any existing paywall revenue because the fans that would pay for access would also likely pay to avoid the adwall for convenience sake. It actually has the chance to generate paywall revenue. As our CTO stated, he would gladly pay Google $10 a year to get rid of the ads in YouTube.
This post is less about the merits of an adwall per se and more about the merits of targeting higher value ad units to engaged audience members to optimize revenue. An adwall without targeting would most likely end like slate.com. The slate.com adwall probably failed because it did not target the adwall to certain audience members or around specific differentiated content. Consequently, the give-to-get equation was out of whack.
Digital media cannot rely on a paywall to generate all the earnings for shareholders. Advertising needs to generate more revenue and an adwall is an example of just that. It creates a differentiated product for advertisers, a reasonable value of exchange for the audience and incremental revenue for the publishers.
Matthew Shanahan is the SVP of strategy for Scout Analytics, which creates actionable revenue opportunities for digital publishers by tracking and
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Observation of Graphene Bubbles and Effective Mass Transport under Graphene Films. Stolyarova, E; Stolyarov, D; Bolotin, K; Ryu, S; Liu, L; Rim, KT; Klima, M; Hybertsen, M; Pogorelsky, I; Pavlishin, I; Kusche, K; Hone, J; Kim, P; Stormer, HL; Yakimenko, V; Flynn, G, NANO LETTERS, 9, 332-337 , (2009)
Observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene. Bolotin, KI; Ghahari, F; Shulman, MD; Stormer, HL; Kim, P, NATURE, 462, 196-199 , (2009)
Performance of monolayer graphene nanomechanical resonators with electrical readout. Chen, CY; Rosenblatt, S; Bolotin, KI; Kalb, W; Kim, P; Kymissis, I; Stormer, HL; Heinz, TF; Hone, J, NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, 4, 861-867 , (2009)
Measurement of discrete energy-level spectra in individual chemically synthesized gold nanoparticles. Kuemmeth, F; Bolotin, KI; Shi, SF; Ralph, DC, NANO LETTERS, 8, 4506-4512 , (2008)
Temperature-dependent transport in suspended graphene. Bolotin, KI; Sikes, KJ; Hone, J; Stormer, HL; Kim, P, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 101, 096802 , (2008)
Ultrahigh electron mobility in suspended graphene. Bolotin, KI; Sikes, KJ; Jiang, Z; Klima, M; Fudenberg, G; Hone, J; Kim, P; Stormer, HL, SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS, 146, 351-355 , (2008)
Imaging electromigration during the formation of break junctions. Taychatanapat, T; Bolotin, KI; Kuemmeth, F; Ralph, DC, NANO LETTERS, 7, 652-656 , (2007)
Measurement of scattering rate and minimum conductivity in graphene. Tan, YW; Zhang, Y; Bolotin, K; Zhao, Y; Adam, S; Hwang, EH; Das Sarma, S; Stormer, HL; Kim, P, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 99, 246803 , (2007)
Temperature dependence of anisotropic magnetoresistance and atomic rearrangements in ferromagnetic metal break junctions. Shi, SF; Bolotin, KI; Kuemmeth, F; Ralph, DC, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 76, 184438 , (2007)
Anisotropic magnetoresistance and anisotropic tunneling magnetoresistance due to quantum interference in ferromagnetic metal break junctions. Bolotin, KI; Kuemmeth, F; Ralph, DC, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 97, 127202 , (2006)
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last round of Wikileaks was a total snoozefest, and with Julian Assange facing trial, we're pretty sure we're never going to get the leaks we were hoping for.
Here's our list of dream Wikileaks, the truths that would have blown our minds and given us something worth talking about at cocktail parties.
The Colonel's Secret Recipe
Since the 1930s, the late Colonel Sanders has had poor people and stoners all across the world wondering what eleven "herbs and spices" make up his secret chicken recipe.
After the formula was broken free from the safe in Louisville, Kentucky where it was held for over sixty years, KFC diehards and norms alike now know exactly what makes up their munchies:
- Parsley
- Blue dot candy
- Garlic powder
- Sawdust
- Whatever can be shaken out of the toaster at the time
- Packets of pepper swiped from the condiment station at McDonald's
- Corn syrup
- Celery salt shaken mad liberally
- Margarine spray
- Flour
Biggie and Tupac Are Alive
Just as white kids in the suburbs have suspected for years, Biggie and Tupac are totally still alive and totally kickin' it on a private island. Together! Makes total sense, right?
How could they have recorded all of those posthumous albums before they died? They didn't! They have been recording all of those crappy tracks on this Thug Island.
This is how it went down: Biggie put a hit out on Tupac and Tupac found out, faked his death and had a hit put out on Biggie. Then Biggie found out that Pac was still alive and realized that they were equals. That's the moment they decided to retire from the game together and move to a remote location. However, being the high-spirited hustlers that they are, they were unable to stay out of the studio, thus all the postmortem hits.
What Michele Bachmann Was Looking At
The Tea Party's response to the State of the Union Address was made even more uncomfortable than it would have been normally by representative Michelle Bachman's blank off-camera stare throughout the entirety of her speach.
What folks at home couldn't see was the Magic Eye poster that was hanging up directly to the left of the camera man. Bachmann, a longtime Magic Eye enthusiast, was captivated by the puzzle and couldn't break her gaze until the secret image of an ice cream cone came to her.
The Contents of the Briefcase at the End of Pulp Fiction
While most Quentin Tarantino fans believe that the glowing briefcase in the final scene of 1994's Pulp Fiction contained the soul of the film's villain, Marsellus Wallace. However, the golden glow was actually a promotion for the Nickelodeon television series The Secret World of Alex Mack which premiered just one week before the film's release.
The Secret World of Alex Mack was about a teenage girl who was doused with chemical waste while walking home from school. From that day on, Mack had a range of superpowers and a special yellow glow.
When Tarantino was approached about the alternative marketing concept by Nickelodeon execs over a private dinner, he agreed that the natural choice was to fill the empty briefcase with that famous golden light.
Why Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman Broke Up
In 1999, while packing for a day at the beach, Nicole Kidman asked Tom Cruise to remember to throw her SPF 45 in his tote bag. When they arrived at Zuma Beach after sitting in two hours of traffic, Tom discovered that he'd forgotten to pack the sunblock like his wife had asked. Not wanting to take the blame, Tom played dumb when Nicole asked if he'd brought it, claiming that she'd never mentioned it to him.
Driving home sunburnt later that afternoon, Nicole told Tom that she thought he was "irresponsible" and "inconsiderate" and that he'd "always been that way." Tom pretended to sleep while she voiced her feelings, but mentally banked her concerns as attacks on his character.
Whenever the couple would argue after that, Nicole would always bring up that day at the beach, and Tom would always vaguely refer to times he felt verbally abused by her. After two years of having the same fight, they decided to part ways.
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The best service WikiLeaks could perform for mankind would be to put its considerable investigative prowess to good use and tell us once and for all where the other sock goes when it turns up missing from the dryer.
By BarbaraAnn
I wish they would leak every single detail of Julian Assange's personal and public life. Then perhaps he could know and feel the invasive sting and vulgarity of his obscene work!!
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You're an idiot. Just bury your head in the f#%&in' sand and wait for your f#%&in' prom.
By luke deslandes
your comments sadden me. I believed the lies that sent us to war, the lies that were told to the entire world. American servicemen and women under orders from successive administrations have illegally tortured people unlawfully imprisoned human beings including US citizens. we have been fed bullshit about Korea, trying to make me hate my brothers and sisters of China when after exposure through wiki-leaks the Chinese administration seem quite comfortable with the idea of a united Korea. United States representatives (not exclusively) cannot be trusted i will never believe them until we have a level of disclosure that will restrict or hold these tyrannical actions to account.
Do you truly believe that your government and institutions deserves your trust? u are manipulated and with an attitude like yours will remain a prisoner in a stagnant dam holding back the flows of progress. I will pray for you.
P.S. Bradley Manning is an AMERICAN HERO never forget this. US service personnel protect men, women and children they are honorable and stand up for everything that is great. we cannot allow the govt and interest groups to dishonour our brave our defenders in the appalling way that wikileaks has revealed.
By Paul
The FDA and the American Cancer Society/Lung/Heart Associations, and legislators taking kick backs from the tobacco companies. They are badmouthing electronic cigarettes and refuse to acknowledge them as safe and effective alternatives to smoking.
Now, ask yourself; why are analog(regular)cigarettes,and other tobacco products (pipe tobacco, cigars, chew, snuff, and snus) still easily available, while there are legislators trying to push to have these devices banned (they are already banned on most airlines and airports)in this country or regulated as "tobacco" or pharmaceutical products, when they are not tobacco or pharmaceutical products?
Simple: Money...and in the case of government...revenue from taxes!
It never fails; we get a magic bullet to help quit smoking, and the corporate big wigs and corrupt government agencies/officials try to take it away from us!
By John
I wish wikileaks would just let all the documents showing criminal activity out now...we deserve to see everything.
By baps
This is some of the dumbest shit I've ever read. Was this article your idea?
By Aniala
Dearest author:
You've clearly tried to hitch a ride on the wikileaks sensation sweeping the internet but it would seem that you are either completely unaware of the wikileaks significance upon our trying times or you are deliberately steering focus away from cataclysmic events and revelations. If you have even one ounce of humanity, compassion and the drive of self preservation, I beg you to explore the cables of wikileaks, the painstaking efforts made to get this damning information of murderous, tyrannical governments carelessly slaughtering and torturing men women and children out into the public, know that the ripples are reaching far and wide. Learn about which you speak and speak of it in a respectful manner... else blood is on your hands, dear.
If you wish to be taken seriously as a journalist, might I suggest a retraction.
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I just finished reading the book "Sit and Get" Won't Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain" by Marcia Tate. I really enjoyed all the different strategies that she shared. I am often looking for different approaches to use in my ICT workshops in order to engage my attendees and learned quite a few through this short book. I am also going to try her Professional Learning Plan Template to prepare for my future workshops.
Here are a few of my notes, they of course make much more sense when you have read the book. Included are some other ideas when I was discussing the book with a peer. Some of these are more obvious than others, but I was looking at applications specifically for technology workshops.
These 20 Strategies approach multiple intelligences in adult learners.
- Brainstorming and Discussion
- Music, rhythm, rhyme and rap
- Drawing and Artwork
- Project and Problem Based Instruction
- Field Trips
- Reciprocal Teaching, Cooperative learning and Peer Coaching
- Games
- Role-Plays, drama, pantomimes and charades
- Graphic Organizers
- Storytelling
- Humor and Celebration
- Technology
- Manipulatives and Models
- Visualization
- Metaphors, analogies and similes
- Visuals
- Mnemonic Devices
- Work Study and action research
- Movement
- Writing and reflection
- Always greeting educators with a handshake and exchange of names
- use sound clips at the end of learning components (Music – Alleluia, Celebration)
- cartoons with subject references
- break up presentations with audio, video and/or images
- use music clips to enhance PowerPoint slides within a theme
- play calming music as participants enter the room
- play i.e. "Welcome Back" from Welcome Back Kotter when coming back from breaks
- For Answers to questions of group – Use thumbs up/thumbs down, use group hum – louder the more you agree
- Use body parts to stimulate analogies or physical objects during presentations.
Ideas for Activities during Workshops:
- Snowballs – educators put questions on paper at beginning of workshop, crunch them and throw them around the room, they answer the questions at the end of the workshop by writing on the papers.
- Use of Beach Ball – share ideas of what was learned at the session by throwing a ball around the room, if it drops start again.
- At beginning of a session brainstorm what educators expect to learn at the session and then cross them out as they are accomplished through the session or change presentation to suit.
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The habits you instill in your children will have a lifelong effect on both their health and their wallets. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "risk factors for chronic diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, type II diabetes mellitus and osteoporosis can develop early in life," and those diseases exact a tremendous social, emotional and financial cost.
Unfortunately, most American children are learning habits that put them squarely at risk for chronic diseases. Screen time is up, physical activity is down and childhood obesity has tripled over the last 30 years. And obese teenagers are 16 times more likely to become severely obese in adulthood than teens who are near normal weight.
The good news is that parents can be very influential in the development of healthy habits. "Children of those who exercise are far more likely to exercise, just as 90% of kids whose parents smoke will start smoking as teens, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2012)" says Deborah Gilboa, MD, a family physician better known as Dr. G. "Basically, anything we want our kids to do, we have to plant the seeds of action while they are children."
Below are several ideas to help parents put their children on a healthy track for the future.
1. Proper Nutrition. You won't have much luck getting your kids to eat hummus if you're munching on potato chips. So begin by modeling healthy eating habits. Involve your kids in meal planning and cooking. Talk to them about what foods are healthy and why, and let them make choices based on nutritional goals. Dr. G challenges her children to plan meals around the USDA's MyPlate guidelines which helps people plan balanced and healthy meals.
Lloyd N. Werk, MD, a pediatrician at Nemours Children's Hospital recommends the Nemours 5-2-1-Almost None formula. "Kids should eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, limit screen time to no more than two hours a day, get at least one hour of physical activity a day and drink almost no sugary beverages," Dr. Werk says.
2. Physical Activity. The National Association for Sport and Physical Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommend that children participate in at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day. You may want to consider exercising with your kids. "They can ride a bike while you run. They can do an exercise video with you. They can even use an electric treadmill, if you show them how," Dr. G says. Signing them up for sport instruction may also be helpful. Research has shown that kids who have quality physical education and instruction are more likely to be involved in physical activities in the future.
3. Stress & Anger Management. Stress and anger both decrease immune response and increase susceptibility to acute and chronic illnesses. According to the Mayo Clinic, stress increases the risk of obesity, heart disease, sleep problems, digestive problems, depression and memory impairment. Teaching your children how to manage their anger and stress can keep them healthy, both now and into adulthood. Begin by brainstorming some stress management techniques. "Help your kids develop long lists of things they can do to feel better when they're upset," Dr. G says. Aim for healthy activities. Walking, biking, running, reading, and talking with friends are all good choices.
4. Good Sleep Habits. Lack of sleep increases the risk of obesity, heart disease and behavioral and learning problems. Between ages one and 10, most kids need between 10-14 hours of sleep a night and teens need 8.5-9.5 hours. Help your children recognize – and respond – to their own sleep cues. Encourage them to shut down all electronic devices at least one hour before bedtime as glowing screens can fool the brain into thinking it's time to be awake. Also, help your children link their daytime mood and energy level to their nighttime rest – when kids realize they're more alert and happy after a good night's sleep, they're more likely to prioritize adequate shuteye.
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Traditional style 3 bed villa with large west facing terrace two minutes walk from the beach and amenities and only 15 minutes from the airport/railway station at Perpignan.
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This title covers the law of business associations for introductory courses. It discusses all forms of business organizations, including agency, general partnerships, closely held corporations, publicly held corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and limited liability companies. The material on the unincorporated business forms has been completely revised and updated to reflect the centrality of these forms of business organization in modern law practice and in the economy generally. Among other state and model statutes, the Revised Uniform LLC Act (2006), the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (1997), the Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2001), and the Third Restatement of Agency (2006) are thoroughly discussed and cited. The casebook also covers fiduciary duties; corporate and other organizational governance; transactions by partners, directors, managers, and others; indemnification and insurance; and federal securities law, including insider trading and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. It also covers topics such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, and new regulations about full disclosure by registered publicly held companies.
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American Spectrum Realty, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: AQQ) ("The Company"), a real estate investment, management and leasing company, headquartered in Houston, Texas announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, American Spectrum Realty Management, LLC ("ASRM"), has been awarded the management and leasing assignment for the Newport Marina Apartments.
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Florida's consumer confidence, a popular barometer of the state's economy, is gauged through a survey of roughly five-hundred Floridians each month. Consumer confidence is determined by asking five standard questions about each respondent's financial situation and outlook for the economy.
Source: The University of Florida's Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR)
Florida's measure of foreclosure activity counts the total number of homes throughout the state that received a foreclosure filing each month. These foreclosure filings encompass new default notices, foreclosure auction notices, and bank repossessions (REOs).
Source: Realty Trac
Florida's Index of Retail Activity is one barometer of current economic conditions. The index uses sales tax returns to gauge consumer purchasing across Florida. It includes all types of business activity, including autos and accessories, durable and nondurable consumer goods, tourism and recreation, building investment, and business investment.
Source: The Florida Legislature's Office of Economic and Demographic Research
Florida's Leading Index measures current activity to predict the future pace of economic growth. The index takes into account both state and national level data, including housing permits, initial unemployment claims, interest rates and supplier delivery times. A higher reading translates into stronger expectations for the future.
Source: Philadelphia Federal Reserve
This graph shows the year-over-year net change in nonagricultural payroll employment by industry. Essentially, it demonstrates the number of jobs gained or lost based on changes in employers' payrolls. The industry categories are derived from the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
El unemployment rate is the percentage of unemployed persons en el labor force. Only persons who both desire a job and have actively sought work in the past four weeks are counted as unemployed.
Source: United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
A monthly survey of employers is taken by the government to determine total nonagricultural payroll employment, which essentially measures how many jobs exist. This survey, known as the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey, polls around 141,000 employers nationally.
El labor force is the sum of all employed y unemployed persons of working age. The unemployment rate is simply the percentage of the labor force that is unemployed. These statistics are determined through the Current Population Statistics (CPS) survey, which polls roughly 60,000 households across the nation each month.


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Checking in on The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and Other Jim Henson Company Franchises
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We took it straight to the top of the company.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge will air in 2014.
Miss Piggy and the gang are joining Kermit in the museum.
Featuring almost 400 Muppet mementos.
Brought to you by the letters N, Y, and M.
Basically Sesame Street for intellectuals.
Some of Goldman Sachs's clients really ARE Muppets.
Yeah, we prefer Sesame Street, too.
Fun fact: Kermit had magical powers in his former life.
Here's Time Piece, a trippy way to spend the next nine minutes.
Iowa Public Television, 1969.
Creative guys, these guys.
The script topped last year's "Black List" of best unproduced screenplays.
And there's one about foul-mouthed pets.
Jim Henson's nutty puppet party made a sublime art of the cameo, picking people who could very well have been Muppets themselves.


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Heifer International's Response to Charity Navigator Rating
- Charity Navigator is one of the primary charity rating services along with BBB Wise Giving Alliance. Recently, Charity Navigator revised its rating of Heifer International from three stars to two stars (based on a four star system) for our fiscal year 2012 results. In contrast, the BBB Wise Giving Alliance awards Heifer its highest rating.
- Charity Navigator evaluates two dimensions …accountability/transparency and financial. Heifer received four stars for accountability/transparency and one star for financial results. The composite score resulted in the two star rating for FY12 only. Heifer received three stars overall for the previous eight years of rating.
- Accountability/transparency measures include the presence of an independent board, conflict of interest policy, whistleblower policy, published audited financials or a privacy policy, and a published IRS Form 990. Charity Navigator gives Heifer four stars, its highest rating, for accountability/transparency.
- Financial measures include program, administrative and fundraising expenses (as a percent of total expenses or, alternatively, the functional allocation). Other considerations include fundraising efficiency (percentage of fundraising expenses to total revenues), revenue and program expense growth (over three to five years) and the working capital ratio (the ratio of current assets to current liabilities). Charity Navigator gives Heifer one star for the financial dimension.
- Charity Navigator's financial dimension is based on the IRS Form 990 and does not value periodic growth investments needed to scale up program impact, diversify fundraising, or build global systems. These investments to diversify revenues and integrate operating systems will yield substantial efficiencies and better information for decision making in support of scaling up program impact. Investments typically require an exception to functional allocation, or the percentages of an organization's funds spent on programming versus fundraising and administrative costs.
- Charity Navigator ignores joint support cost allocations in its financial dimension, despite the fact that joint support costs are in line with generally accepted accounting principles – this negatively impacts charity ratings now and in the future. For the year ended June 30, 2012, Heifer identified joint costs of approximately $11.4 million, of which $4 million was allocated to program spending. Joint support costs occur when an expense can be considered both fundraising and program/education based on criteria of purpose, audience and content. Examples of joint support costs include World Ark magazine and the Gift Catalog.
- Prior to fiscal 2012, Heifer's board approved the FY12 budget with an exception to its executive limitation on functional allocation. This exception enabled short-term investments in fundraising and administrative costs that will yield exponentially more impact long-term. The one star financial rating partially reflects this temporary functional allocation change as well as the effects of a natural growth in revenue and program expenses. Periodic investments in Heifer's growth strategies – scale up program impact, diversify and increase fundraising and build global systems – will yield exponentially more missional impact long-term.
- The IRS Form 990, including the functional allocation, determines the financial rating. Despite this, the chief executive officers of three rating services, including Charity Navigator, issued a recent joint letter entitled "The Overhead Myth" that states in part: "The percent of a charity's expenses that go to administrative and fundraising costs − commonly referred to as overhead − is a poor measure of a charity's performance … In fact, many charities should spend more on overhead. Overhead costs include important investments that charities make to improve their work − investments in training; planning; evaluation; and internal systems; as well as efforts to raise money so they can operate their programs."
- According to "The Overhead Myth" letter: "The people and communities served by charities don't need low overhead, they need high performance." Heifer International is committed to running an efficient, high performance organization. Periodic investments are necessary for exponential long-term growth. Clearly, the most important measure of a charity is impact. It is why we exist…and none of the rating services currently address how effective a charity is in its programmatic mission. This is a significant gap that provides opportunities for us to engage in dialogue that leads to greater understanding across the nonprofit sector.


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Laugh your socks off at Emperors Palace with Those Indian Guys 2
07 July 2011
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Following the sell out success of the hilarious comedy hit show Those Indian Guys, comes Those Indian Guys 2 – Bigger and Browner on stage in 64@ The Palace at Emperors Palace from 5 – 7 August.
Performed by hilarious comedians, Kaseran Pillay and Sans Moonsamy, Those Indian Guys 2 is an action packed comedy performance that tells the story of two zany friends and their adventures. This uniquely South African show is a series of side-splitting skits filled with a mixture of comedic styles that is guaranteed to have you in stitches. Originally created and written by Pillay and Moonsamy, this show consists of an innovative set and interesting costumes that help the comedians transform into amusing characters.
The show is a must-see and tickets are R120 per person. For bookings contact the Emperors Palace Box Office on 011 928 1297/1490 or Computicket on www.computicket.com or 083 915 8000.


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