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35,000 miles, Owned for 2 years from new. Dealer sales-lady lied about UConnect and rebate for multi-vehicle purchase.
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I bought a new caravan about a month ago. Previously I have owned four Dodge Caravans and liked them. This one has power to burn but the overall quality and design features are very poor in my experience.
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I certainly didn't expect to own a van at the age of 29, but with the kids and the dog, it was necessary.
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I have some granite that is failing to maintain stain protection using Stonetech Bulletproof sealant. So, I have to keep removing stains every few months and then reapplying the granite sealer. This is a huge pain.
Has anyone had HydroShield applied to their granite and/or shower doors? It is warranted for 5 years on granite and 3 years on shower glass.
A Google search of HydroShield mostly results in links only to places selling the product. I cannot find any real reviews.
What you are looking for is called a stone sealer; a sealant seals joints between materials.
Stone sealers usually consist of fluoro-carbons, fluoro-Teflon, acrylic polymers, etc. A google search for HydroShield granite sealer reveals that it is a solvent-based flouropolymer. I doubt that it is any better than the other sealers.
Sealers only reduce the rate of absorption of a stone and that allows more time to clean up a spill. If you have chosen a light porous stone for a kitchen you will probably have to clean up more quickly and reseal it every 2 or 3 years. Denser dark granites don't usually need a sealer.
I would pay no attention to the warranty. It probably gives you a rebate or another bottle of the stuff that failed if you are willing to go through the hassle of proving a claim. It's offered only for the advertising value.
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Ask the company that installed your counter for a recommendation. If they didn't warn you of this problem they owe you.
I don't see any reviews at all, good, bad, fake or otherwise.
There are not dealers in every state and they require professional application, so it is not a widely known product. The warranty says that if the coated granite surface stains within the five year period, they would either refund your purchase cost or recoat the surface at their expense. Right now, I cannot even go 5 months between reapplication of the current granite sealer. If I only had to reapply every 2 or 3 years, then I wouldn't be looking at this, but reapplying every 3 months for the last 4 years is way too much work and makes me really regret getting granite in the kitchen and bathrooms.
The company that installed the counters went out of business a few months after the installation.
Hydro Shield is NOT your everyday over the counter granite sealer. Most of those products are what is called a penetrating sealer that "soak" into the granite and protect under the surface. Hydro Shield Penetrates but also chemically bonds to surfaces at the molecular level eliminating microscopic peaks and valleys where corrosion and stains begin. This causes the liquid to sit on the surface with a higher contact angle. The Hydro Shield warranty is backed by your local authorized installer with a true warranty. Hydro Shield has been tested to last up to 15 years on Granite. Hydro Shield is opening new areas all the time. Hopefully someone in your area becomes a licensee soon. The product REALLY works! I personally have not found another sealer that works as good or better.


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Every day 20 unusual lions greet visitors at a tiny animal park in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. These lions, which have spent generations in captivity, are not like most African lions (Panthera leo leo). For one thing, they are slightly smaller than the wild lions found elsewhere on the continent. For another, the males carry distinctive [...]Keep reading »
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African elephants face two terribly contradictory threats: In some parts of the continent the animals are being hunted into extinction for their valuable ivory tusks, but in other countries elephants are so heavily overpopulated that they pose a threat not just to themselves but to entire ecosystems. South Africa faces the latter problem. There are [...]Keep reading »
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As a nation's population ages, more and more older people may draw from support systems such as Social Security, yet fewer workers may be around to pay into those systems. The problem is more dire than we think. The ratio of workers to retirees will drop precipitously in numerous countries worldwide this century, potentially sending [...]Keep reading »
Imagination + a Little Movie Magic = a Volkswagen Hover Car Silently Navigating City Streets [Video]
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A year ago, Volkswagen in China launched a marketing campaign called The People's Car Project (PCP), which invited Chinese customers to submit ideas for cars of the future. Participants were able to tinker with designs on a Web site that Volkswagen set up for that purpose, or they could upload their own designs. Wang Jia, [...]Keep reading »
DNA Fingers Real-Life Captain Ahabs for Precipitous Decline of Gray Whales
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Tens of thousands of whales were slaughtered each year for decades from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s, in the service of lighting city streets, painting ladies' lips and providing multitudinous other modern conveniences. This monomaniacal hunt led many species to the brink of extinction. But recent research has suggested that gray whale (Eschrichtius [...]Keep reading »
Royal Society Calls for Redistribution of Wealth and More Birth Control to Save the Planet
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During the 352-year life span of the Royal Society, the human population has risen from less than one billion people to seven billion and counting. That boom has been supported by science and technology—Watt's coal-fired steam engine, Haber and Bosch synthesizing nitrogen fertilizer, Fleming's discovery of penicillin—and continues today as the world's population expands at [...]Keep reading »
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An additional 150 people join the ranks of humanity every minute, a pace that could lead our numbers to reach nine billion by 2050. Changing that peak population number alone could save at least 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere each year by 2050, according to a new analysis—the equivalent of [...]Keep reading »
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For decades, apocalyptic environmentalists (and others) have warned of humanity's imminent doom, largely as a result of our unsustainable use of and impact upon the natural systems of the planet. After all, the most recent comprehensive assessment of so-called ecosystem services—benefits provided for free by the natural world, such as clean water and air—found that [...]Keep reading »
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Two typical German shepherds kept as pets in Europe or the U.S. consume more in a year than the average person living in Bangladesh, according to research by sustainability experts Brenda and Robert Vale of Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. So are the world's environmental ills really a result of the burgeoning number of [...]Keep reading »
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When it comes to feeding Earth's masses of people who regularly go hungry, a few things are clear: communism's large-scale, collective farms don't work, and breeding for specific traits in staple crops can boost yields, sometimes significantly. After all, two of the most significant agricultural successes of the past 50 years—a period marked by explosive [...]Keep reading »
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For months I've been writing about how hydraulic fracturing is shifting our energy mix from oil to natural gas. From environmental impacts to geopolitics, new horizontal drilling technologies are transforming the 21st century energy landscape. But the most important energy source for the future isn't oil or gas – at least, according to Exxon. It's [...]Keep reading »
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Canadian firm provides German military with fast jet airborne training servicesDiscovery Air Defence Services Inc. announced Tuesday that it had completed its inaugural flight in Wittmund, Germany providing fast jet airborne training services to the German Armed Forces.
Kilford: Canada's first de-radicalization programThe success of de-radicalization programs is particularly hard to measure. As it turns out, this was about the same conclusion reached in Canada some 60 years ago.
Defence companies not welcome in Germany - firms treated like "smut" says executiveIt seems that some defence industry executives don't feel welcome in Germany. Tom Enders, the chief executive of Airbus Group, told a German newspaper that the country doesn't seem to appreciate companies building defence systems.
German military unable to meet NATO medium-term readiness targetGermany's military is unable to meet its medium-term readiness target should NATO call on its members to mobilize against an attack, the Associated Press reports.
Ottawa loses another Second World War heroAs he approached his assigned target — a heavily fortified Nazi U-boat base on the coast of occupied France — bomber pilot Donald Cheney knew he would be flying into a heavy storm of shrapnel.
Letter: Pride in my native country GermanyKathy Back was touched when German Chancellor Angela Merkel proudly embraced everyone of Die Mannschaft — the German team — after the World Cup win.
Cohen: Reasons for Germany to cheerWhen Mario Götze scored the winning goal in the World Cup Final in Rio de Janeiro, the stadium exploded. Angela Merkel did not. Watching from the stands, the Chancellor smiled tightly and clapped robotically.
Germany's fans hit the streets after dramatic World Cup win (with video)As the World Cup came to a close on Sunday, Germany's fans poured onto the streets of Ottawa waving flags, honking horns and turning the ByWard Market into a sea of black, red and yellow to celebrate a 1-0 extra-time victory over Argentina.
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The five-story Stonebridge Office Building and two-story office/retail building in the Flats
The consolidation of many Cuyahoga County employees into new headquarters from offices the county rented or buildings it is disposing of may trigger the conversion to apartments of two buildings at the Stonebridge complex in the Flats.
Doug Price, CEO of Willoughby-based K&D Group, said his company is "running the numbers" and likely will convert its five-story Stonebridge Office Building, 2019 Center St., and a two-story office/retail building, at 2020 Center St., to apartments.
The trigger for developing a new plan is the departure of employees from the Cuyahoga County Department of Public Works to the new county building at 912 Prospect Ave. from the Stonebridge office building. The county had leased space for the department in the building since its 2001 opening. Another major tenant, Cleveland.com, exited to join other Northeast Ohio Media Group operations at the former Plain Dealer building at 1801 Superior Ave.
"We just have Lucca's (Italian restaurant) and one small office tenant in the building," Price said. The empty building across the street may also go to apartments, Price said, because he believes the office market is "too tough" to try to refill the space with businesses.
He should know. K&D Group's recently announced plan to buy the Leader Building, 530 W. Superior Ave., for future conversion to apartments, is part of a trend of developers snapping up old office buildings to repurpose them for residential. K&D also has converted three other downtown office buildings to apartments, including the just opened Residences at 1717 in the one-time East Ohio Gas Building on East Ninth St.
The hip-roofed building at 2020 Center, a former tool and die shop, primarily was designed as a nightclub and coffee shop in 2007 to provide services to tenants at the eight surrounding Stonebridge apartment and condo buildings. However, the concept proved no stronger than the cavalcade of short-lived restaurants and nightclubs before K&D acquired it. The piazza building also went in as K&D developed the 12-story Stonebridge Plaza condo building next door.
The 2020 Center building also went into service at a time K&D had an aggressive plan to add more apartment buildings on Center Street north toward Lake Erie, but it abandoned that approach in the recession and housing bust. In all, K&D developed more than 500 dwelling units at Stonebridge before it shifted its attention to developing residential rentals on the other side of the river in Cleveland's central business district.
Geoff Coyle, managing partner of the Ostendorf-Morris Co. unit of Hanna Chartwell LLC, declined to talk about efforts to market the Flats office space for K&D.
Instead, he said, "I don't think anyone knows better how to size up the opportunities for development of apartments in Cleveland than (Doug Price and Karen Paganini)."
As far as the fate goes of other rented spaces in older office buildings the county will vacate in its consolidation drive, Coyle said it is too soon to tell.
However, there is some irony in K&D's move to put apartments in the building. At the time it developed offices at Stonebridge in the Flats, Price called it a diversification move for the company.
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Aaron's apartment is really small but really cozy and very nice, also a bit special: it's in the old classic Paris house in Montmartre on a top floor, so you can see La Basilique du Sacré Cœur and Effeil Tower - the gorgeous view, especially at night. All you may need for not very long stay is in the flat and it is very good for two people as maximum. The apartment is very well situated between a few subway stations and at a walking distance to Gare du Nord. Aaron himself is very attentive and kind. I'd like to stay at his apartment once more!
The flat was lovely and clean and quite central! You can see the Eiffel Tower from the window! The place had everything you needed and was a short walk to restaurants, bars, shops and the metro. Aaron was really helpful and easy to contact!
Aaron est un hôte génial, très arrangeant et à l'écoute, son appartement est fabuleux. Rien à re-dire!
Perfect apartment for a short visit. As there was two of us, it was slightly cramped as we had a lot of luggage.
But still ideal for the two of us.
Rather clean apartment. In a nice area with a good amount of shops, restaurants and close enough to a metro station.
Communication was not great with host after booking when we needed to know details, was a bit stressful getting a reply that did not answer any questions.
Overall stay was pleasant and convenient.
Aaron's flat is cute!! Very comfortable although small!! Very clean and nice!! The location is great! Very close to metro Cadet, close to Gallery Lafayette, Montmartre (that close so you can easily walk there). The neighborhood is quite with lot's of good cafés on the streets around (in the district). You can see Eiffel Tower which is just perfect for this small but cute place!! Aaron is very easygoing and flexible what made our stay just great!!
Das Studio von Aaron ist sehr gemütlich und perfekt ausgestattet-man hat alles was man für ein paar Tage in Paris braucht. Die Lage ist optimal, sodass man am Leben im Herzen von Paris teilhaben kann! Die Übergabe war unkompliziert. Wir haben wundervolle Tage genossen und würden jederzeit wiederkommen.
Deuxième séjour dans l'appartement d'Aaron, toujours aussi petit :-)) (je parle de l'appartement ! ) mais toujours aussi sympa (là je parle de l'appartement mais aussi d'Aaron !), quant au quartier, il est aussi parmi mes préférés à Paris. Tutto bene.
Great place to stay. Awesome little apartment with everything you need, quick metro to center of Paris. You can see the Eiffel Tower right from you window. Aaron was great, very happy with this renting experience.
This is a great little apartment to stay in. The listing description is accurate, although the stairs feel like there are more than 6 levels! It is a very small apartment but had everything we needed. The area is really lovely,not a touristy area which makes it feel very nice and we had no problems contacting Aaron who was very nice and it was fine getting the key even though he wasn't around.
Квартира Аарона маленькая, но очень уютная! Очень чистая и милая. Соответствует фото на 100%. Я просто влюбилась в это место! Район потрясающий: очень близко к метро, рядышком настоящая французская пекарня, супермаркет. Квартира находится на 6-м этаже, к нему ведет деревянная винтовая лестница - очень по-французски!
Аарон всегда на связи, вы можете позвонить ему или написать по imassage/watsap. Кровать так же очень удобная. А еще вас ждет приятное открытие - вид на Эйфелеву башню! Это потрясающе!!
Если будем в Париже вновь, обязательно остановимся здесь!
Спасибо Аарон!
Aaron apartment is small but very cosy! You can feel yourself like being at home. Apartment is absolutly the same as on photos. The best location: shops, cafes, metro very close. One min walk to glorious bakeries. And you have important benefit - view to the Eiffel tower!! It's amazing!
Aaron is very cute. And it's very easy to communicate with him. He can answer for all your questions. If we have ever come to Paris again, we'll stay only here!
I highly recommend it!! Thank you, Aaron!


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The youngster's mother, Charlene Gillingham Barber, posted photographs of the meeting on the Facebook page and wrote, "The entire interaction was like old friends having lunch. Jayden did not get star struck but was well aware of who we were with! They talked movies and superheroes and he [Bale] was genuinely happy to hear about everything Jayden wanted to tell him.
"Christian, his wife and daughter are three of the most beautiful people we have ever met! Christian made these arrangements for us personally and ensured we were treated like royalty. I don't have even one negative thing to say about them. I can tell you that they were just as impressed w [with] Jayden as Jayden was w [with] them."
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It's that time of year! The time where we look back on the past 365 days, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and think how much we can't wait to do it all again next year.
As the Earth wraps up another revolution around the biggest star in our solar system, we get together with friends, family, and loved ones and countdown the final seconds of the year. "Auld Lang Syne" is a staple for any New Year's Eve because it captures the bittersweet taste of the holiday so well. Originally written as a Scots poem by Robert Burns, "Auld Lang Syne" encourages us to remember and cherish our long-lasting friendships while also embracing the present and future. Don't worry about the pronunciation of the titled lyrics though, you'll probs be too busy getting a midnight kiss to sing along anyway.
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I have a 7x30 area - running east to west. I am going to plant fruit trees. If it were you how would you go about it - what size/kind of trees, spacing,pruning,grafting,etc would you do? I am looking for maximum yield, for the most part. I posted something similar and got good advice, but I would like some more ideas. How would you plant out fruit trees in a 7x30 area running east to west?
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late august. Usually orchards run N/S to maximize light efficiency. I'd also see if I get early morning sun as this helps keep disease down and help with your choices. Looks like dwarf/ semidwarf might be good. What types of fruit do you like? Could you post a picture?
I cannot post a picture at the moment. I know it at least gets 4-5 hours at the minimum.it gets sun from about 12-1 to 6-7 I would say. I am also going to plant several trees north/south in the north - center of my yard.. For now I am just figuring out this east/west strip.. I like all fruit, but have limited space. I intend to plant apples,pears,peaches,apricots,plums,cherries.. What would u do?
Raw, I would start reading books on fruit culture, pruning and placement. It all takes time, but the knowledge you will glean will be very good. After reading, your questions will be answered in a far simpler form and your understanding will be easier as well. Mrs. G
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I grew plants last years just not that familiar with fruit trees, I know exactly where the sun is on my property - it runs east/west parallel with trees I would like to plant. It gets sun from 12-2 to 6-8 depending on time of year. I was hoping someone with some expertise who plants fruits trees all the time would chime in...
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Jul 15th
This month marks the 30th anniversary of starting my first job in corporate America. I know. I don't look that old. Right??? Thanks for humoring me.
So I have been a bit nostalgic about my career (so far) and the changes I've seen. I rarely spend time on this blog looking BACK, but if you'll oblige me this once, I'd like to make a few observations about the changing nature of work that may surprise you:
Of course this is the most obvious difference … and I'm not the type of person to re-state the obvious! But to set the stage, there was no:
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- Personal computers
My first corporate job was to be in the office by 6:30 a.m. every morning to create a global executive summary of economic, industry, competitor, and customer news. I read paper magazines and newspapers, cut out the important articles with scissors and taped them to paper for photocopying. I typed summaries of the articles on a new-fangled device called a "word processor" which then printed the document so it could be faxed to corporate offices around the world. The advent of personal computers and the Internet has been so profound that I could not possibly even cover it if I wrote for a month. When email was introduced, my boss fought it tooth and nail. You see, some things never change.
I count myself lucky to have witnessed the tail-end of the "MadMen" period of business culture. When I started my career in 1982, it was a white-skinned, starched-collar, chain-smoking, Ivy League, martini-swilling group of guys running corporate America. I was taken to many business lunches to drink at the all-men, all-white private business clubs that were in every major American city. I am proud to say that when the chairman of my company, Charles Parry, took his rotation as the president of the private club in Pittsburgh, he walked through the front door with our company's treasurer, an African-American, and smashed that rule forever. I was so proud of that! Today, business is for everyone. But it was not that long ago that business was an elitist, blue-blooded sport.
The reaction time in business has accelerated mightily. Back in the early 80s you had more time to think and gather your response because you could duck and hide behind the slow communication network. If people wanted information from you, they basically had to call you on the phone. The OFFICE phone. So there was no ubiquitous availability like we have now. If a reporter needed information for a controversial story, there were endless ways to delay and turn the situation around in your favor. It was an important skill! Because of the relatively slow communications, there was a lot more downtime built into the decision-making processes.
The political world was radically different then. Russia (USSR) and Eastern Europe were closed markets. There was little trade with China and certainly no China supply chain strategy other then British-controlled Hong Kong. Other than Europe, America still had a very U.S.-focused market and supply chain. We still made stuff here. The lack of real-time communication options was a big hurdle to global trade.
Company life back then was pretty rigid. I wore a suit and tie to work every day until around 1992 when "casual Fridays" started to loosen things up. It was a 9-5 world. There was no working from Starbucks … I think you could make an argument that mobile devices created Starbucks. As a young employee, my first office had a leather couch and a globe. Yes, I'll admit … that was cool. But there was a big trade-off. All this rigidity and lack of technology made for a real lack in …
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Here are the number of friends I had who started their own company in the 1980s — zero. To start a company then, you generally had to MAKE something. That meant investing in manufacturing assets — which also meant securing a bank loan, physical work space, employees, and a support infrastructure. To start something new, you had to have experience, money, and connections.
Compare this to my recent profile of Xavier Damman, the founder of Storify. He does not have a college degree and never worked for a company. Xavier wrote computer code in his apartment in Belgium, teaching himself how to create a start-up company by searching the Internet. After 18 months he had the foundation of his company in place to the point where he got $3 million in venture capital funding so he could move to San Francisco and build his company. Now that is cool.
I think a major shift in work life is represented by the growing emphasis on personal accountability.
When you joined a company, you embarked on a "career path" that relied on building a personal network and gathering enough company-sponsored training programs to propel you to the next level. Companies viewed employees as long-term strategic investments. Honestly, this created a lot of dead weight in the company structure.
Today, corporate cultures are built on flexibility and viewing employees as interchangable parts. Employees are responsible for their own training and career path. If you don't remain relevant, you will be jettisoned and replaced.
The bottom line
Other than being able to strategically hide from my boss through elaborate games of telephone tag, there is really only one thing I miss from "the old days." Today we maintain business relationships through email, text messages, maybe even Facebook or an enterprise social media utility like Yammer. I have customers who I have never met. Back then "team building" was a physical activity like golf, fishing, or dinner at a nice restaurant. Nobody has time for physical events any more and I miss that. It was a lot of fun and it created life-long friendships. You really could have relationship-based selling. I think those days are gone, for the most part.
Well, I have written nearly 1,000 blog posts and this is the first one about "the old days" and it may be the last. Obviously this could have been a VERY long article, but I kept it to a minimum and hope you found it mildly interesting. What are some other major changes that you've observed in how business works today?
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It's not just ROI. It's RELEVANCE!
Jul 12th
The other day I was driving home from a family vacation using an iPhone app called "Navigon." This is an excellent GPS and mapping application that gets me where I want to go without the expense and hassle of having schlepping another device.
So I was wondering … why am I not using a mapping application from Rand McNally, the dominant market leader in all things maps for decades? For most of my life a well-worn copy of a Rand McNally atlas of United States maps was a fixture in my car. Can you even name another company that made U.S. road maps? Certainly, Rand was the gold standard for getting you to where you wanted to go.
The company has a minor entry in the GPS device market and are usually grouped under the "other" category in the analyst reports. A search for Rand McNally in the iTunes app store delivers one sad little entry that allows you to "vote for the best small towns of 2011 — right from your mobile device!" Wow.
Sad. Sad. Sad.
I can imagine the conversation among the Rand McNally executives five years ago … "Digital? Are you CRAZY??? Do you know what the ROI is on our paper maps? Why in the world would we ever cut into that profit margin? Nobody seems to be able to demonstrate an ROI on digital maps!"
It's probably the same conversation that echoed through the halls of Kodak … "But we make so much money on film! What is the ROI for sharing digital photos on the Internet? It's folly!"
I wonder what the ROI of bankrupt is?
And yet, if you have ever given a speech, a webinar, or a class on social media marketing, I can almost guarantee you have received this question: "But how do we measure the ROI of this stuff?"
Look, I'm a true-blue ROI guy. Frankly, money is one of my favorite things. I'm a measurement fanatic and a data geek. But pull up a chair and let me give you a dose of reality here. If you don't have a digital strategy, your business is going to die.
And by digital, I don't mean "a website." In the last two years, 68 percent of the Fortune 100 companies had a year-over-year decline in their website page views. Why? Because people are not looking for you on websites any more (unless you work for Amazon, eBay or Etsy of course). For most companies, having a website is simply not enough these days.
Every business exists to create shareholder value. But please don't overlook the possibility of not even existing in two years because you are milking an Excel spreadsheet for all its worth. There are lots of bright people out there that want your company to die. Be them, or hire them. Just don't hold on to old business models until the banks are nailing your door shut.
It's not just ROI. It can't be just ROI. It's relevancy. Don't be Rand.
The Secret Sauce for Creating Gold Medal Relationships
Jul 11th
By Stanford Smith, Contributing {grow} Columinst
My wife and I are infected by Olympics fever.
We watch the Olympic trials together every night. Inspired by track and field hopeful we have intensified our jogging and 5K training schedules. Our children have been enrolled in gymnastics and registered for mini-triathalons in an attempt to see if there is a future gold medalist in our midst.
We've got it bad.
The #1 reason for our obsessive devotion to the Olympics is NBC's superb ability to tell a story. These stories pull the audience into the life of the Olympian. We feel connected to Gabby Douglas' life, challenges, and triumphs as she lines up for her vault. Missteps and wobbles (on the rare occasion they happen) hurts us as if it were our own child or friend. We pump our fist and smile with pride when she sticks her dismount like we trained alongside her for years.
It occurred to me that businesses pay an enormous amount to earn the same loyalty and devotion from its consumers. You would think that the billions would translate into cult-like dedication. In some cases it has, try attacking Apple or criticizing Southwest Airlines and you'll see what I mean.
But, most businesses have failed, despite their healthy ad budgets to achieve a fraction of the love my family shows to future Olympians we just met last night.
Here are a few causes:
1. Weak Storytelling:
I believe that consumers want to connect with the people behind the business. They enjoy hearing about the local grocer who only buys produce from farmers in a 10 mile radius. They want to know why a laptop was built with aluminum versus plastic. They care about a company's effort to fight adult illiteracy in their community.
The problem is that businesses have their heads up their arses. They think that abstract soundbites and clever taglines are stories. They aren't.
2. Wrong Hero
Have you ever seen a business Twitter stream choked with self-congratulatory tweets? How about the commercial that waxes eloquent about a company's commitment and 100 years in business? While this information has some merit, it's missing a key component – the customer. Customers pay attention to companies because they solve specific problems.
Successful companies craft their stories around the customers and position them as the hero. Their social media strategies create close bonds with their customers directing them to information that enriches their lives. In these stories, the company is the mentor and ally supporting and guiding the customer.
Pop quiz – who is the hero in the Harley-Davidson story? The motorcycles or the rider? Yep, the hog rider. The motorcycle is a prop that helps the rider live out their dreams of conquering the open road and connecting with other rebels.
3. Monologue versus Dialogue
It's shocking that some companies still question the merit of openly interacting with their customers. Even now companies hide behind perfunctory press releases and turn-off their blog comments. This behavior supposes that customers need to be handled like a live grenade. Customer dialogue is confined to hermetically sealed focus groups and choreographed performances.
The problem is that customers expect transparency. In fact, customers distrust businesses that can't empower their employees. Look to Comcast for a powerful lesson in employee trust and customer dialogue. Comcast knows that the "cable company" isn't on the list of beloved companies. They seem to have the most to gain from carefully staging every interaction.
To Comcast's credit, they committed to a different course. They put their reputation on the line by interacting with customers through their Twitter channel. At any time you can contact a comcast rep via Twitter. These reps are empowered to send offer advice and check on repair status. These conversation happen in plain view for customers and competitors to observe. While Twitter hasn't completely rehabilitated Comcast's reputation it is building the company's position as a customer-centric organization.
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That's the secret sauce and it's critical that you use it now before your competitors do. Right?
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Anyone purchased or used any fonts from a site called Fonts For Flash, fontsforflash.com? They appear to be connected to FlashLoaded because the latter's popup appears on their site. Anyhow I purchased FFF Calypso, a $15 bitmap font set at 8px, and some of the characters are corrupted, the attached images shows the upper line set with the live font and the Y is corrupted, that's the correct font size. The lower line is made of letters cut up from their specimen sheet.
I tried mailing them but got an error message saying "Mail Inbox quota full". They're retailing fonts that are corrupted and not taking emails?
OK, FlashLoaded appear to have taken over the site, they emailed me with really helpful support and are going to look into both the wrong support address and the font problem so it seems safe to buy from fontsforflash.com
Sorry for the triple post. Fontsforflash.com contacted me directly following this post and told me that the fonts are not intended for use in Photoshop and offered a refund. Personally I've never heard of a bitmap font that can only be used on one application, a font is a font. Incidentally, I checked the font in a trial FontLab against one of the 04b bitmapped classics and found discrepancies.
The 04b fonts are accurately lined up to the guides and grids in the glyph window with only positive values in the metrics. FFF Calypso was not lined up to the grid or guides and had a small negative value of -7 on the left hand side of each glyph.
Most importantly, each pixel of the 04b font is a multiple of 150 or 125 units, in FFF Calypso its the same but the problem characters had at least one point that didn't add up to round multiples of 125. I think its easy to correct but it looks like Photoshop is showing the errors and Flash doesn't detect them.
Overall as fontsforflash say, guaranteed to work as expected in Flash only.
I remember a few years ago there were issues in Flash with «normal» bitmap fonts that would fit pixels perfectly – the counters would fill up. Flash couldn't interpret the outlines correctly. That led to special bitmap fonts for Flash where the bitmap «dots» were a bit smaller (or larger?) than the actual screen pixels; with antialiasing switched off, they would still display as full pixels, but the counters were saved. Something like that. I don't know if this is actually still an issue in Flash today, and I wasn't aware that these fonts don't work right in other apps, but maybe that's what's behind this curious story.
> Personally I've never heard of a bitmap font that can
> only be used on one application, a font is a font.
There are some very tricky aspects to grayscale pixelfont design, involving how an application decides exactly what shade of gray a pixel should be. Photoshop and Flash do it differently, and it's quite difficult to figure out a scheme that yields the same results in both apps.
Until they pulled the plug I worked with a company called Ultrafonts. Unlike others, they had figured out the technical issues, and Mana* was one of the resultant fonts; it works identically in both Photoshop and Flash. I actually have the source code to the Ultrafonts software, but I've never tried firing it up.
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How long should I feed my bees sugar water in there second year?
I can't find much info about this. Anyway though, my bees survived the winter and are doing well. Quite a few less than the end of last year, but that's expected, I still have a good number. Someone told me to put my feeder back on, so I have been feeding them 1-1 sugar water since the beginning of April. Someone also told me not to keep the feeder on too long, but I don't know how long too long is.
I'm new to beekeeping, and googled "online beekeeping course," and ended up at this site. They have a seven or eight lesson email course-free. Lots of good info, not really a course, just a series of emails that you read at your leisure. One of them address feeding and overfeeding. I'm not going to quote anything from there, as, the internet is full of opinions. Will let the experienced folks address your question.
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I am not a bee keeper of the honey bee just the gentle mason bee. But with mason bees if you have a bee that emerges earlier than your surrounding are ready for such as no spring flowers. then you leave out the feeder for a while just until you see the flowers and such in full swing. then you cut them off so they work to get pollen and not getting to lazy.
Here is a link that might be useful: TheItalian Garden
It depend on the honey store, lift up your box from one side and if it feels heavy then nothing to worry about. On a warm day I would do a inspection and you might want to put a couple of honey frames, which are on the outside, ..move them them in a little.
Generally, you can feed all you want until you super up, which means, girls have stocked the brood boxes with sugar honey,..then all they do is, bring the real thing up into honey super and you'll be harvesting more honey.
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Screenshot showing the new title, after censorship, published in Southern Weekly
In the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, hundreds protested on Monday against censorship and in support of the newspaper 'Southern Weekly' (Nanfang Zhoumo), known for its reformist views and edgy reporting. The uproar kicked off late last week, when staff members discovered a New Year's editorial calling for political reform was replaced at the last minute by an article praising the new country's leaders. They blame the provincial propaganda chief Tuo Zhen for forcing through the change, and are calling for him to resign.
Photograph of protesters outside Southern Weekly's offices in Guangzhou, Monday 7 December (@Ben663 and Twitter.com/Benfilm63)
Gathering outside the newspaper's offices, the protesters waved placards with words like 'democracy', 'freedom of speech' and 'election' written on them. Others carried bouquets of flowers and laid them down near to the entrance.
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"The southern weekly has a good reputation among the readers"
Lu Haitao lives in Shanghai.
The original title 'Chinese dream, constitution dream' was replaced by 'We are nearer to the dream than ever before'. The staff couldn't have written it, because there several clear mistakes. The new editorial said "we meet our readers for the 1057th time", when it was in fact the 1507 th issue. Also, it said the Great Flood of China happened two thousand years ago [Editor's note: it is said to have happened 4,000 years ago].
Screenshot showing the new, censored title published in Southern Weekly
It is rare to protest against censorship. Usually the protests are about environment, livelihoods, concrete things like that. This time people protest about press freedom. 90 staff members signed the strike announement. Readers, interns, scholars and former journalists also showed their support and joined the protest. Some of them demonstrated outside the newspaper's office.
Southern Weekly has a good reputation among the readers. It is regarded as the most outspoken media in China.
Photo montage of students holding signs reading 'Cheer up Souther Weekly' (Monday January 7)
Students demonstrated on their campus holding up cardboard signs to show their support. The signs said 'Cheer up Southern Weekly'. The incident is strictly censored online, but other media still showed their support to Southern Weekly. For example, the news portal Sina used the characters of the title to compose 'Cheer up Southern Weekly', reading from top to bottom.
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"Words like 'Southern'
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The words like 'Southern' and 'Weekly' are censored on Weibo. Searching '289', 'Guangzhou Avenue', that is the address of Southern Weekly, will not display any results.
On the evening of Sunday January 6th, the operator of Southern Weekly's Weibo account posted that he had to hand out the password and that he would not be responsible for the future posts [Editor's note: he did not say precisely who he gave his password to]:
Screenshot of Weibo post by operator of Southern Weekly's Weibo. Translation:
Fengduan: I have already assisted Mao Zhe, the manager in charge of new media in Southern Weekly, to hand out the password of Southern Weekly's Weibo account. I will not be responsible for the announcement and all contents sent by the account in the future. Thank you for understanding. Wu Wei
6 Jan, 2013, 21:18:00
Minutes later, the Southern Weekly's official account posted an announcement, saying that the congratulations were written by their own staff, the rumours on line were not true, and the staff apologised for the mistakes in the article.
Screenshot of second Weibo post, sent less than three minutes later, from Southern Weekly: Translation:
To the readers: The congratulations in new year special edition on 3rd Jan, was written by our editor in accordance to the theme "seeking the dream", the cover and introduction of special edition were drafted by our person in charge, the rumours on line are not true. Since time constraints and negligence, we apologize for the mistake in the article to the readers.
6 Jan, 2013, 21:20:42
And yet, staff members published two open letters online demanding a thorough investigation into the incident, restoration of the editors' and journalists' Weibo accounts, and the resigination of Tuo Zhen. The
first letter
signed by the newspaper's journalists, and the
was signed by scholars, journalists and students. They were widely spread online
The authorities have not responded the incident. Many media and web portals received the notice from the propaganda department to not report it.
Censorship is meticulous in China: orders are usually conveyed orally, by phone, sometimes by SMS, making it difficult to collect evidence that censorship is going on.
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