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|March 8, 2014 04:00 PM EST
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation case study examines how Dell has recognized the value of social media for more than improved interactions and brand awareness. Dell has successfully learned from social media how to meaningfully increase business sales and revenue.
The data, digital relationships, and resulting analysis inherent in social media and social networks interactions provide a lasting resource for businesses and their customers, says Dell. And this resource has a growing and lasting impact on many aspects of business -- from research, to product management, to CRM, to helpdesk, and, yes, to sales.
To learn more about how Dell has been making the most of social media for the long haul, BriefingsDirect sat down with Shree Dandekar, Senior Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics at Dell Software. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Here are some excerpts:
Gardner: Businesses seem to recognize that social media and social-media marketing are important, but they haven't very easily connected the dots in how to use social media for actual business results. Why?
Dandekar: It's not that businesses don't realize the value of social media. In fact, many businesses are looking at simple, social media listening and monitoring tools to start their journey into social media.
The challenge is that when you make these investments into any kind of a listening or monitoring capability, people tend to stop there. It takes them a while to start collecting all the data on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter. It takes some time for them to make some meaningful sense out of that. That's where the dynamic comes in when you talk to an enterprise business. They've really moved on.
So, there are several stages within a social media journey, the very first one being listening and monitoring, where you start capturing and aggregating data.
From there, you start doing some kind of sentiment analysis. You go into some kind of a social-media engagement, which leads to customer care. Then, you go into questions like social return on investment (ROI) and then, try to bring in business data and mash up that together. This is what's known as Social CRM.
So, if you say that these are the six stages of social-media maturity model or a social-media lifecycle, some of the enterprise businesses have really matured in the first three or four phases, where they have taken social media all the way to customer care. Where they are struggling now is in implementing technologies where you can derive an actual ROI or business value from this data.
Listening and monitoring
Whereas, if you look at some of the small businesses or even mid-sized companies, they have just started getting into listening and monitoring, and the reason is that there are not many tools out there that appeal to them.
I won't name any specifically, but you know all the big players in the social media listening space. They tend to be expensive and require a lot of reconfiguration and hands-on training. The adoption of social media in the small-sized business or even mid-sized businesses has been slow because these guys don't want to invest in these types of tools.
By the way, here is another big differentiator. If you look at enterprises, they don't shy away from investing in multiple tools, and Dell is a great example. We have a Radian6 deployment, social-media engagement tools, and our own analytic tools that we build on top of that. We tried each and every tool that's out there because we truly believe that we have to gain meaningful insights from social media, and we won't shy away from experimenting with different tools.
Mid-sized companies don't have the budget or resources to try out different tools. They want a single platform that can do multiple things for them – essentially a self-service-enabled social-media intelligence platform.
If I start with listening, I just want to understand who is talking about me, who my influences are, who are my detractors, what are my competitors talking about, and whether or not I can do a quick sentiment analysis. That's where I want to start.
Gardner: Dell has been doing social media since 2006, so going quite a ways back. How important is this to Dell as a company and how important do you think other companies should view this? Is this sort of a one-trick pony, or is there a lasting and expanding value to doing social media interactions analysis?
Dell was built on the value of going direct to consumers and the blog had to communicate and live by those same values.
Dandekar: In addition to leadership from the top, it took a perfect storm to propel us fully into social. In July 2006 when pictures and a report surfaced online out of Osaka, Japan of a Dell laptop spontaneously combusting due to a battery defect (which happened to impact not just Dell, but nearly every laptop manufacturer), it was a viral event of the sort you don't want. But we posted a blog titled "Flaming Notebook" and included a link to a photo showing our product in flames – which caused some to raise an eyebrow.
I will pause there for a second. How many of you would do that if something similar happened to your business? But Michael Dell made it crystal clear: Dell was built on the value of going direct to consumers and the blog had to communicate and live by those same values.
This is 2006, when the internet and the true value of blogging and everything was just becoming more relevant. That was a turning point in the way we did customer care and the way we engaged with our customers. We realized that people are not only going to call an 800 support number, but are going to be much more vocal about it through sources like social media blogging on Twitter and Facebook.
That's how our journey in social media began and it's been a multi-year, multi-investment journey. We started looking at simple listening and monitoring. We built a Social Media Command Center. And even before that, we built communities for both our employees and our customers to start interacting with Dell.
Idea Storm
One of the most popular communities that we built was called Idea Storm. This was a community in which we invited our customers to come in and share ideas product improvements they want. This community was formed around 2007. To date, there have been close to 550 different ideas that we got from this community that have been implemented in Dell products.
Similarly, we launched Employee Storm, which was for all the employees at Dell, and the idea was similar. If there are some things in terms of processes or products that can be changed, that was a community for people to come in and share those ideas.
Beyond that, as I said, we built a Social Media Command Center back in 2010. And we also stood up the Social Media and Communities University program. We started training our internal users, our employees, to take on social media.
Dell firmly believes that you need to train employees to make them advocates for your brand instead of shying away and saying, "You know what, I'm scared, because I don't know what this guy is going to be saying about me in the social media sphere."
Instead, we're trying to educate them on what is the right channel and how to engage with customers. That's something that Dell has developed over the last six years.
Social media has become a core part of our DNA, and it fits well because of the fact that our DNA has always been built on directly interacting with our customers.
Gardner: You've taken a one-way interaction, made it two-way, and then expanded well beyond that. How far and wide do the benefits of social media go? Are you applying this to help desk, research, new products, service and support, or all the above? Is there any part of Dell that doesn't take advantage from social media?
Dandekar: No, social media has become a core part of our DNA, and it fits well because of the fact that our DNA has always been built on directly interacting with our customers. If a customer is going to use social media as one of their primary communication channels, we really need to embrace that channel and make sure we can communicate and talk to our customers that way.
We have a big channel through Salesforce.com where we interact with all the leads that come in through Salesforce.
Taking that relationship to the next level, is there a way I can smartly link the Salesforce leads or opportunities to someone's social profile? Is there a way I can make those connections, and how smartly can I develop some sales analytics around that? That way, I can target the right people for the right opportunities.
Creating linkage
That's one step that Dell has taken compared to some of our industry competitors, to be very proactive in making that linkage. It's not easy. It requires some investment on your part to take that next step. That's also very close to the sixth stage that I talked about, which is social CRM.
You've done a good job at making sure you're taking all the social media data, massaging it, and deriving insight just from that. Now, how can you bring in business data, mash it up with social data, and then create even powerful insights where you can track leads properly or generate opportunities through Twitter, Facebook or any other social media sources?
Gardner: Shree, it seems to me that what you're doing is not only providing value to Dell, but there is a value to the buyer as well. I think that as a personal consumer and a business consumer I'd like for the people that I am working with in the supply chain or in a procurement activity to know enough about me that they can tailor the services, gain insight into what my needs are, and therefore better serve me. Is there an added-value to the consumer in doing all this well, too?
Dandekar: The power of social media is real-time. Every time you get a product from Dell and tweet about it or say you like it on Facebook, there is a way that I can, in real-time, get back to that customer and say I heard you and thanks for giving us positive or a negative feedback on this. For me to take that and quickly change a product decision or change a process within Dell is the key.
The power of social media is real-time.
There are several examples. One example that comes to mind is the XPS 13 platform that we launched. The project was called "Project Sputnik." This was an open-source notebook that we deployed on one of our consumer platforms XPS 13.
We heard a lot of developers saying they like Dell, but really wanted a cool, sexy notebook PC with all the right developer tools deployed on that platform. So, we started this project where we identified all the tools that would resonate with developers, packaged them together, and deployed it on the XPS 13 platform.
From the day when we announced the platform launch, we were tracking the social media channels to see if there was any excitement around this product.
The day we launched the product, within the first three or four hours, we started receiving negative feedback about the product. We were shocked and we didn't know what was going on.
But then, through the analytics that we have developed on top of our social media infrastructure, we were able to pinpoint that one of the product managers had mistakenly priced the notebook higher than that of a Windows notebook. The price should not have been higher than that of a Windows notebook, and that's why a lot of developers were angry. They thought that we were trying to price it higher than traditional notebooks.
We were able to pinpoint what the issue was and within 24 hours, we were able to go back to our product and branding managers and talk to them about the pricing issue. They changed the pricing on dell.com and we were able to post a blog on Engadget.
Brand metrics
Then, in real time, we were able to monitor the brand metrics around the product. After that, we saw an immediate uptick in product sentiment. So, the ability to monitor product launches in real time and fix issues in real time, related with product launches, is pretty powerful.
One traditional way you would have done that is something called Net Promoter Score (NPS). We use NPS a lot within Dell. The issue with it is that it is survey-based. You have to send out the survey. You collect all the data. You mine through it and then you generate a score.
That entire process takes 90 to 120 days and, by the time you get it, you might have missed out on a lot of sales. If there was a simple tweak, like pricing, that I could have done overnight, I would have missed out on it by two months.
That's just an example, where if I had waited for NPS to tell me that pricing was wrong, I would have never reacted in real-time and I would have lost my reputation on that particular product.
Gardner: How extensive is your listening and analysis from social media?
Dandekar: Just to cite some quick stats, Dell has more than 21 million social connections through fans on Facebook, followers on Twitter, Dell community members, and more across the social web.
We talked about customer care and the engagement centers, and I talked about those six stages of the social media journey. Based on the Social Media Command Center that we have deployed within Dell, we also have a social outreach services team that responds to an average of 3,500 posts a week in 14 languages and we have an over 97 percent resolution rate.
We talked about Idea Storm and I had talked about the number of ideas that have been generated out of that. Again, that's close to 550 plus ideas to date.
Then, we talked about the Social Media and Communities University. That's an education program that we have put in place, and to date, we have close to 17,000 plus team members who have completed the social media training certification through that program.
Social-media education
By the way, that's the same module that we have started deploying through our social media professional services offering, where we've gone in and instituted the Social Media and Communities University program for our customers as well.
We have had a high success rate just finding some of the customers that have benefited through our social media professional services team and also deploying Social Media Command Center.
Red Cross is a great example where we have gone and deployed the Social Media Command Center for them to be much more proactive in responding to people during the times of calamities.
Clemson University is another example, where we've gone and deployed a Social Media Command Center for them that's used for alternate academic research methods and innovative learning environments.
Gardner: Tell me a little bit about Dell's SNAP.
Dandekar: SNAP stands for Social Net Advocacy Pulse. This was a product that we developed in-house. As I said, we have been early users of listening and monitoring platforms and we have deployed Social Media Command Centers within Dell.
It takes a long time to get to that ease of use ability for anybody to go in and look at all these social conversations and quickly pinpoint to an issue.
The challenge, as we kept using some of these tools, was that we realized that the sentiment accuracy was really bad. Most of the times when you take a quote and you run it through one of the sentiment analyzers, it pretty much comes back saying it's neutral, when there's actually a lot of rich context that's hidden in the quote that was never even looked at.
The other thing was that we were tracking a lot of metrics around graphs and charts and reports, which was important, but we kind of lost the ability to derive actual meaningful insights from that data. We were just getting bogged down by generating these dashboards for senior execs without making a linkage on why something happened and what were some of the key insights that could have been derived from this particular event.
None of these tools are easy to use. Every time I have to generate a report or do something from one of these listening platforms, it requires some amount of training. There is an expectation that the person who is going to do that has been using this tool for some time. It takes a long time to get to that ease of use ability for anybody to go in and look at all these social conversations and quickly pinpoint an issue.
Those are some of the pain points that we realized. We asked, "Is there a way we can change this so we can start deriving meaningful insights? We don't have to look at each and every quote and say, it's a neutral sentiment. We can actually start deriving some meaningful contact out of these quotes."
Here is an example. A customer purchased a drive to upgrade a dead drive from a Dell Mini 9 system, which originally came with an 8 GB PCI solid state drive. He took the 16 GB drive and replaced the 8 GB drive that was dead. The BIOS on the system instantly recognized it and booted it just fine. That's the quote that we got from one of the customer's feedback.
Distinct clauses
If I had run that quote through one of the regular sentiment analyzing solutions, it would have pretty much said it's neutral, because there was really nothing much that it could get from that it. But if you stop for a second and read through that quote, you realize that, there are a couple of important distinct clauses that can be separated out.
One thing is that he's talking about a hard drive in the first line. Then, he's talking about the Dell Mini 9 platform, and then he's talking about a good experience he had with swapping the hard drive and that the BIOS was able to quickly recognize the drive. That's a positive sentiment.
Instead of looking at the entire statement and assigning a neutral rating to it, if I can chop it down into meaningful clauses, then I can go back to customer care or my product manager and say, "Out of this, I was able to assign an intensity to the sentiment analysis score." That makes it even more meaningful to understand what the quote was.
It's not going to be just a neutral or it's not going to be a positive or negative every time you run it through a sentiment analysis engine. That's just one flavor.
You asked about sentiment gravity. That's just one step in the right direction, where you take sentiment and assign a degree to it. Is it -2, -5, +5, or +10? The ability to add that extra color is something that we wanted to do on top of our sentiment analysis.
I can really mine that data to understand how I can take that and derive meaningful insights out of that.
Beyond that, what if I could add where the conversation took place. Did it take place on Wall Street Journal or Forbes, versus someone's personal blog, and then assign it an intensity based on where the conversation happened?
The fourth area that we wanted to add to that was author credibility. Who talked about it? Was it a person who is a named reputed person in that area, or was it an angry off customer who just had a bad experience. Based on that, I can rate and rank it based on author credibility.
The fifth one we added was relevance. When did this event actually happen? If this event happened a year or two back, or even six months back, and someone just wants to cite it as an example, then, I really don't want to give it that high rating. I might change the sentiment to reflect that it's not that relevant based on today's conversations.
If I take some of these attributes, sentiment, degree of sentiment, where the conversation happened, who talked about it and when and why did that conversation happen and then convert that into a sentiment score, that's now a very powerful mechanism for me to calculate sentiment on all these conversations that are happening.
That gives me meaningful insights in terms of context. I can really mine that data to understand how I can take that and derive meaningful insights out of that. That's what SNAP does, not just score a particular quote by pure sentiment, but add these other flavors on top of that to make it much more meaningful.
Make it usable
Gardner: Have you considered productizing this and perhaps creating a service for the smaller companies that want to do this sort of social analysis and help them along the way?
We also want to make sure we're bringing tools to market to service those mid-market companies as well.
Dandekar: We're still working through those details and figuring out as we always do the best ways to bring solutions to market, but for us, mid-market is our forte. That's an area where Dell has really excelled. For us to be in the forefront of enterprise social media is great, but we also want to make sure we're bringing tools to market to service those mid-market companies as well.
By the way, we have stood up several solutions for our customers. One of them is the Social Media Command Center. We've also stood up social media professional services and we offer consulting services even to small- and mid-sized companies on how to mature in a social media maturity cycle. We are also looking at bringing SNAP to market. But if you're talking about specific software solutions, that's an area that we're certainly looking into, and I would just say, "Stay tuned."
Gardner: We'll certainly look for more information along those lines. It's something that makes a lot of sense to me. Looking to the future, how will social become even more impactful?
People are increasing the types of activities they do on their mobile devices and that includes work and home or personal use and a combination of them, simultaneous perhaps. They look to more cloud models for how they access services, even hybrid clouds. It's stretching across your company's on-premises activities and more public cloud or managed service provider hosted services.
We expect more machine-to-machine data and activities to become relevant. Social becomes really more of a fire hose of data from devices, location, cloud, and an ever-broadening variety of devices. Maybe the word social is outdated. Maybe we're just talking about data in general?
How do you see the future shaping up, and how do we consider managing the scale of what we should expect as this fire hose grows in size and in importance?
Embarking on the journey
Dandekar: This is a great question and I like the way you went on to say that we shouldn't worry about the word social. We should worry about the plethora of sources that are generating data. It can be Facebook, LinkedIn, or a machine sensor, and this fits into the bigger picture of what's going to be your business analytics strategy going forward.
Since we're talking about this in the context of social, a lot of companies that we talk to -- it can be an enterprise-size company or a mid-market-size company -- most of the time, what we end up seeing is that people want to do social media analytics or they want to invest in the social media space. Some of their competitors are doing that, and they really don't know what to expect when they embark on this journey.
A lot of companies have already gone through that transformation, but many companies are still stuck in asking, "Why do I need to adopt social media data as part of my enterprise data management architecture?"
Once you cross that chasm, that's where you actually start getting into some meaningful data analytics. It's going to take a couple of years for most of the businesses to realize that and start making their investments in the right direction.
It's going to take a couple of years for most of the businesses to realize that and start making their investments in the right direction.
But coming back to your question on what's the bigger picture, I think it's business analytics. The moment you bring in social media data, device data, the logs, sources like Salesforce, NetSuite -- all this data together now presents the unified picture using all the datasets that were out there.
And these datasets can also be datasets like something from Dun and Bradstreet, which has a bunch of data on leads or sales, mixing that data with something like Salesforce data and then bringing in social media data. If I can take those three datasets and convert that into a powerful sales analytics dashboard, I think that's the nirvana of business analytics. We're not there yet, but I do feel a lot of industry momentum going in that direction.
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Dog Fighting
This has been floating around in the news for the last several months. Looks like the hammer is finally coming down on the NFL's fastest quarterback.
Obviously there won't be anyone here that's going to argue in support of dog fighting. I'm wondering if anyone can explain the mindset of these type of people?
Is this a southern thing? Is it a racial thing? Is it a spoiled professional athlete thing? What makes people think fighting dogs could in any way be acceptable. I remember when rumors concerning Michael Vick and big time dog fighting first came out, that Clinton Portis, another NFL player, implied that it was really no one's business whether Michael Vick was fighting dogs, because he was a role model that contributed to the community. He basically was stating why would anyone care.
I have heard rumors on talk radio that other athletes could be involved. I heard comments today that Vick allegedly has been involved personally even with the hanging, electrocution, and/or drowning of losing or injured dogs.
It's mind blowing. This guy has millions of dollars, a legion of fans, and is under the public microscope. Yet he feels that fighting dogs is a worthwhile past time.
Here's an article.
Here is a link that might be useful: Michael Vick indicted for dog fighting.
As I understand , dog baiting/fighting has been going on for hundreds of years. Regions of central Europe, Russia, and even the Far East had dog fighting hundreds of years ago. Rural areas of the East, South, and West Coast all have histories of dog fighting. The same areas often participate in cock fighting.
The Romans had bull baiting, human fights to the death and other atrocities.
It is a shame, but some folks are simp[ly excited by terrible things.
I posted an opinion on the Pets forum also, and this is going to be the last time I address this issue. My stomach can't take it.
The people who are getting their kicks out of doing this are not only sick, they are mentally and spiritually bankrupt. Each time a terrible act is done to an animal, the damage to the spirit is unmeasurable. Over time, one sinks so low, rebounding to a positive way of living is nearly impossible.
True other populations present and past have found enjoyment in watching torture, but this does not make it right. In order for each of us to have peace, we must make it. Engaging in such heinous acts is inhuman.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a member of any type of animal rights group, as a matter of fact, I deplore them and their tactics, mainly because they refuse to address this issue. PETA would rather chastise people who eat honey (because it disturbs the bees) than get involved with a serious subject like this.
This whole thing is so abhorent to me. I can not understand how any one can do such cruel things. Everything about it discusts and saddens me, and I heard on the news that some of the dead animals found, were ones advertised as missing pets. These were either found or stolen, then used as "practice" by the fighting dogs. Every one found guilty of being invilved with this inhuman activity, should be executed.
Men have been fighting animals (and each other) and betting on the outcome for thousands of years.
Entire towns used to celebrate and picnic at hangings.
Bullfighting to the death still goes on today in Mexico and Spain.
It is hoped that we might learn that these "blood sports" are sick and disgusting as the centuries pass.
We had a NBA player here caught with fighting dogs. I believe that there should be zero tolerance for drugs and dog fighting within professional sports.
My favorite (short) video about pit bulls and dogfighting.
CAUTION: some photos may be difficult to take. But they are brief, and the video is a great educational tool.
Here is a link that might be useful: What is Man Without the Beasts?
In the Atlanta Journal this week, an article about M. Vick stated that both Peta and the Humane Society are pushing for Vick's dogs to be destroyed. Is this because of liability if one of his dogs bite someone? I'm having a hard time understanding why these 2 organizations are taking such a stance.
It makes sense to me that they would have to be destroyed. Unsocialized dogs that were trained to fight and be aggressive are a danger to everyone. As sad and unfair as it is for the dogs, who have already suffered so much, how could you risk them killing someone? At least their deaths will be humane and they won't live in the horrific circumstances they would have endured with Vick. Here's the link to what the Humane society says about it on their website.
Here is a link that might be useful: Vick's dogs
Regarding Vick's dogs, what Deb18 says is very true. Even if it were possible to rehabilitate the dog, I would be afraid that any saved dogs could end up in the hands of yet another dog-fighting ring.
As horrible as dog fighting is, there is enough money involved that an unscrupulous person might adopt one of these dogs, under the pretense of trying to rehabilitate it or give it a loving home. And sometime later turn around and sell it [for a profit] to a dog fighting ring.
Many shelters euthanize all pit bull and pit bull mix/type dogs because of the risk that they may end up in the hands of someone who fights them.
The nation is flooded with pit bulls and pit bull mixes/types. Our local animal control reported recently that 40% of the dogs going through their doors are pit bulls or pit bull mixes/types. They do not automatically euthanize here though.
Dogfighting has been going on for hundreds of years but this fad that every young tough man needs a scary dog is relatively new. I think a large percentage of them must also be involved with drugs. Using the dogs to scare rivals or protect their cash.
Dog popularity does go in cycles and German Shepards and Rottweilers and Dobermans also have been popular and have had major problems with the media but the pit bull situation is far worse.
My friends completely sweet, dog, kid and cat safe but big and scary looking American Staffordshire Terrier was stolen from their backyard. Then dumped when it was discovered he was not aggressive in any way. (the perps were caught, he didn't just wander off) So lucky he wasn't used for bait but it was just some punk who wasn't really a big time criminal or dog fighter who took him.
I think, like the ACLU, there are individuals and groups, who try to marginalize PETA and other animal rights groups, by painting them as extremists, when in fact they often represent the feelings and beliefs of the mainstream.
The Humane Societ of the United States is a national organization that has made dogfighting one it's priorities. The group, lead by Wayne Pacell, has had a strong presence in the south re: efforts to enact legislation in southern states and was widely quoted re: the Mike Vick case here in Atlanta newspapers. If you are interested in learning about the issue of dogfighting and efforts that this group is involved in, as well as how you can get involved, go to their website: hsus.org.
PETA has also had involvement in dogfighting. They have conducted undercover investigations that have lead to legal action and changes in laws. PETA has had many successes working with corporations, government, and individuals to help raise awareness and advocate for laws that are not cruel to animals. For example, several juice companies (including Welch's)recently agreed to stop experiments on animals. PETA is a wonderful organization that has made a profound impact on animal welfare. It is true that there are those who focus on some of PETA's "wild tactics" to get attention or some of the issues that relate to vegan lifestyle, meaning awareness of exploitation of all animals, including bees, but busting down the honey bee business has not been a focus of work for PETA, if at all. If you have not really familiarized yourself with all PETA does do, visit their webstie at PETA.org.
I have spent hours researching PETA on their own website. The HSUS too.
While working against dog fighting is totally admirable most of their goals are extreme.
No pets, no milk, no meat, no leather, no honey, no fishing, no aquariums, no zoos, no riding horses, no uses of animals by man in any way. Death is better than enslavement.
No pets, no milk, no meat, no leather, no honey, no fishing, no aquariums, no zoos, no riding horses, no uses of animals by man in any way. Death is better than enslavement.
I agree. I also agree with handymac. As much of a 2nd ammendment advocate as I am, I refuse to have anything to do with the NRA because of its extreme views. Some times, extreme views are needed, though, to counter extreme views from others to the opposite extreme. The name Sarah Brady comes to mind.
Much as I hate to admit it, PETA HAS done some good. But for the most part, as buyorsell888 said, their views are crackpot, to say the least.

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Brighton's Deputy Mayor Cllr Denise Cobb last night uncovered a giant running shoe created entirely of sand, to celebrate the recent appointment of Chestnut Tree House as Local Charity Partner for the Brighton Marathon 2015.
The marathon-themed 1.9m x 2m running shoe sculpture was created especially for Sussex's only children's hospice, Chestnut Tree House. Chestnut Tree House's aim is to recruit 300 runners, one for each child the charity currently cares for.
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Meet the man who'll be juggling his way around the Brighton Marathon
He calls it "joggling" - running and juggling at the same time - and Kevin Williams plans to do it for the entire 26 miles of the Brighton Marathon.
All the more amazing considering that five years ago he suffered a massive brain injury after a fall. He awoke from a two week coma with no idea who he was.
The damage to his brain was so severe, Kevin had to relearn to live from scratch. His only asset a basic muscle memory.
We caught up with him training on Brighton seafront. You can sponsor him here.
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Amanda Chalmers was born with cystic fibrosis and will run the Brighton Marathon less than two years after undergoing a double lung transplant.
The 26-year-old University of Brighton graduate could hardly walk up the stairs before her life-saving operation in September 2012. She'll be raising money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
We caught up with her while training in nearby Preston Park. You can sponsor her here.
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As the Brighton Marathon was taking place last year, Andy and Emily Squires from Hove had just been told their 8 month old son, Thomas, had meningitis. As they watched the race from the hospital window, they vowed that whatever happened, they'd take part in this year's event.
Another chance to see this report by Charlotte Wilkins.
Marathon thank you
As many runners out there will know we are nearing the marathon season and many are in training ahead of the Brighton marathon which takes place in April.
When the race was under way last year, Andy and Emily Squires from Hove had just been told their 8 month old son, Thomas, was suffering from meningitis.
As they watched the crowds from a hospital window, they vowed that whatever happened, they'd take part this year. Charlotte Wilkins has their story.
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You have to understand that the French law defines marriage as "a union contracted with a view to found a family" so you can't legalize gay marriage in France without, de facto, legalize gay-couple adoptions and artificial procreations with donors (sperm donor or surrogate mothers) for gay couples. What's more, France is one of the only countries in which the State has imposed its strict monopoly on the institution of marriage, which means that it doesn't recognize any value to a religious marriage. Hence all the controversy!
It is worth reflecting on, that a big share of former Communist Party voters now vote for le Pen. As for gay rights, they are down trodden in the former Socialist countries of eastern Europe, but in the west opposed by the religious right. It is a bit bewildering, isn´t it.
@HILDEGARDE MARIE CLAUDE DOMINIQUE II.I am describing yours,and you know what i mean.You are screwed,it's only a question of time.Your Mali is Vitry,your Niger Sarcelle.But you cannot withdraw from there.
Are we not seeing this in the UK? The minority ruls I thank you FirozaliA.Mulla DBA This is today
Catholic by... what?Tradition?You must go back to Grignon de Montfort,Bernadette Subiroux and Therese Lisieux..or should we include JOHN PAUL II,beatified with the old sarkodelinquential method of corruption?He could be considered french anyway,due to his attempted(and uselsss,indeed) intrusions in the daylife of Italy.France has a big problem.nNot the homosexuality,unfortunately widespread also in the armed forces,but the continuously spreading Banlieues.Walter Lacqueur writes about BALCANIZATION OF FRANCE:the next islamic country in Europe,after Turkey
are you describing your patry?
Today is a sad day of British politics. The turbo martinet Maria Miller promoting Basingstoke as the gay capital of Britain may have cost Mr. Cameron the next election. The labour represented by a lady of discreet intellect talk on the spot about a democratic mess. It's not about Lily and Elfredaor or Sid and Archibald it's about law. Divorce law, tax law, and inheritance and and… These women have damaged democracy.
If god didn't want humans to do it, we wouldn't be able to do it. It's the worlds worst hubris to assume that we actually know god's plan. Until such time as I am struck down by lightning I will continue to beleive that all men and women were created equal by god. Not just those that fall under an arbitrary traditional sense of morality.
France and gay marriage. Pink pride in Paris. Notra dam it. "850 ans de la cathédrale". The political system in France is like a spider. The body of the spider being Paris, the rest are just legs. With the decision on gay marriage the leg may get restless and contribute to a restless-leg syndrome.
it seems that the "gay marriage" is a generalised political occupation, in the US, UK... it's also in the actualities
Hollande's government is in the global wave.
'Marriage (also called matrimony or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that establishes rights and obligations between the spouses, between the spouses and their children, and between the spouses and their in-laws.' [Wiki]
Something is missing from this definition. The children of unisex unions come into existence by the grace of God, Amazon, or the stork. I'm still trying to work out which…
By all means, a civil partnership or union is 'a good thing'. What gives pause is calling it 'marriage'. And the non-fruit of such so-called marriages - remember God, the stork, or Amazon is the silent third partner of our dubious trinity - how are the so-called children of the so-called marriage going to react, years later, to the news that they were created different. Deliberately so. By people who pushed the idea of 'entitlement' in to the point of plain silliness.
"What gives pause is calling it 'marriage'."
Yes indeed it does, not least to this happily married heterosexual.
Yet (a) homosexuals are saying they need the impedimenta of marriage, including the name; and (b) an honest appraisal of risk, taking into account long started experiences, says none of my rights and none of the children's rights will be impaired, whatever the crazies chant.
Who am I to deny others what gave me a happy life?
How forgotten, in the rancid ranks of the obdurate right, the catholic and cardinal virtue of charity!
My quibble is a semantic one firstly, Dominique: call it a 'civil partnership' or 'life-union' by all means. But one cannot call a unisex couple 'married' without doing violence, mistreating, wrenching apart the meaning of words. It's dishonest, uncouth.
You write: 'Yet homosexuals are saying they need the impedimenta of marriage, including the name' [Dominique II] Granted, by all means, but let's not call it 'matrimony' [c.1300, from Old French matremoine "matrimony, marriage" and directly from Latin matrimonium "wedlock, marriage," from matrem (nom. mater) "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + -monium, suffix signifying "action, state, condition."]. The baying hounds of the anti-gay horde could be silenced if the words 'Wedding', 'Marriage', and 'spouse', 'husband' and 'wife' are avoided. The reactionaries in this instance are the sensitive, injured parties. There is no need for the politically correct to OVER-correct for the sins of the past. In both France and the UK, we are experiencing disturbing political instability all about words. Insubstantial stuff.
You write: 'Yet . . . (b) an honest appraisal of risk, taking into account long started experiences, says none of my rights and none of the children's rights will be impaired, whatever the crazies chant.' [Dominique II]
As I suggested earlier, a great risk is knowingly incurred as soon as 100% artificial means are employed so that a single-sex couple can have children of the union. The idea of Pat and Mary or John and Edward undertaking procreation is rather perverse and provocative, to me at least. By all means let them continue to fulfil any parental role they may previously have had. Similarly, with regard to fostering and adopting: there's no shortage of children needing taking care of. However, what the French call 'la Gestation par autrui' [GPA] ('gestation on behalf of others'… and how much more satisfactory than timid 'surrogacy'!) is likely to prove a lively can of political worms, which might even threaten the process of social liberalism.
At the risk of sounding like the Rome Pontiff, there ARE limits which have to be respected. Now there are 101 matters on which the Roman Catholic Church must be challenged and overcome. But single-sex 'Marriage' or the Right to Surrogacy for such unions are two steps too far.
I think I should have written medically-assisted procreation, la procréation médicalement assistée (PMA). One thousand sorries.
Orwell's novel becoming reality in" the best possible world" of Aldous Huxley
See, in Germany they already export their elders,
and soon they will be told to get into the "merry go round" for leaving the place
Because 'social model' health and welfare are unaffordable. It's a crushing verdict on welfare-state innocence in the Heartland of Europe. See the extensive and exceptional coverage on Scandinavia in TE. What a boon the mag is.
because the people live too old, just define a age for going into the "merry go round"
"See the extensive and exceptional coverage on Scandinavia in TE."
boff, some 5 million inhabitants countries aren't a solution for us
Not so long ago TE was praising China statist capitalism too, you're the lost one that wants to eliminate statism on TE
Twenty-seven million prosperous Scandinavians is more than a match for any number of French dogmatists.
The pic isn't accurate, it's not a winter time pic
It's an old one, taken at an earlier demo by the crazies. I find it quite cute. And moving.
Any chance they'll allow polygamy?
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Obviously it's a human rights issue. More mundanely, I am not sure how gay individuals getting married affects those are not gay. But in this time of economic crisis can't the financial case be made? When allowing marriage equality, a country becomes more competitive in several capacities. Most tangibly, marriage license receipts and speeding on weddings increase drastically, usually by a percentage point (which represents hundred of millions of dollars). But is also means intelligent and educated people may be more willing to live and work in a country where their same-sex partner has benefits and rights. I think it would be prudent for the The Economist, a politically and economically liberal publication to mention this on articles regarding marriage-equality.
Unfortunately, the social division being reported here is not terribly unusual: A comically homogenous but ostensibly grass-roots movement with a dodgy spokesperson materializes to demand that others' civil rights be abridged because of religious doctrine.
We in California have learned that we must dig to uncover the beneficiaries and secret funders of "populist" displays of anti-gay sentiment. The Mormon church spent big to demote gays to second-class citizenship in our Constitution via Proposition 8. Now we must pray that the US Supreme Court upholds the district court's unassailable ruling that "Prop. Hate" is unconstitutional.
Instead of framing this story as a colorful contest between street protesters, why doesn't TE report on the identities of the organizations that foment social division, prejudice, and inequality? Here's a hint: they inevitably call themselves "conservatives," have scriptural "proof" of their righteousness, and stand to benefit politically and financially from the social divisions they foster. The poster child for this Rovian strategy is America's GOP, which cynically co-opted the religious "right" with such divisive tactics.
Homosexuality has always existed, gay marriage have never been a regular feature. There is a reason for that. If you open your eyes you will see a glaringly major secular objection to gay marriage.
I'm sorry, but I cannot see any reasonable basis for denying any adult the right to marry the person of his or her choice and to receive all the ensuing financial and social benefits. Whether their rationalizations are secular or religious, those who seek to withhold anyone's rights--that do not infringe on others' rights--generally have an ulterior motive, such as political power or naked animus.
In Barjot's case there was no need for an in-depth inquiry, one week was enough for the centrist weekly Marianne to expose the complete phoniness of her campaign until part of the church hierarchy and various genuine crazies jumped aboard.
btw her monicker is not of her own doing, it was devised by her husband (who goes by the tasteful name of Basile de Koch) when they both half-thrived as publishers of rightist spoofs of leading newspapers. It certainly was not her name when she studied at Sciences Po under François Hollande!
Slavery once was defended on the same lines.
I wonder where racial minorities fit into this debate (they've figured prominently in the gay-marriage debates in the US for years). Many of them probably see it beyond the pale, but I've also known my share of gay black and Arab Frenchmen - not to mention that immigrant families are unlikely to trust the French right wing. Yet none of the coverage I've seen has mentioned anyone of color. Are they sitting this one out?
There has been some participation from Muslim organisations in the "anti" marches and anecdotally there seemed to be a fair amount of non-white youths in the "pro" marches. Which actually mostly mirrors the rest of French society - old and religious people against, young for.
I saw more young people in the anti marches.
Obviously they don't want to follow the sad example of the Netherlands, Argentina, South Africa and Spain. where mass fornication in the streets and mass homosexual rape in the schools are now reimbursed by the nanny state. As we all know.
That would be an interesting study for France. Studies show that Black Americans are actually more anti-gay marriage and anti-homosexual than White Americans. Hispanic Americans are somewhat in favor of gay-marriage.
Asian Americans are pretty much pro-gay marriage.
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Preferably straight off the dog and cat, and off the ground itself. Don't want to spray chemicals. Guinea fowl?? I read they peck ticks off the dogs, what about fleas?
We have used several of these methods and haven't had a flea on our dog or 16 cats-ever!
Borax/Baking Soda inside
DE outside
Here is a link that might be useful: Natural Flea Prevention
I wouldn't use Borax. Food-grade DE is safe for indoors and outdoors and there's no risk of it harming the dogs if it gets in their water bowls or if you or your children breathe it in or accidentally ingest it.
Just coat your yard in Food-grade DE powder. Then lay a paper-thin layer of it on our carpet, vacuum, and then sprinkle another thin layer over the carpet. Apply it liberally in nooks and crannies where the vacuum can't reach regularly. If you have a really bad infestation, you'll need to flea comb your dogs at least twice a week outside or into warm, soapy water.
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I was appalled when the official Master of ceremony made a negative comment about police in general when talking to newly sworn citizens. While explaining the process of applying for US passport and the need to submit the US citizenship certificate together with the application (which could make some people anxious because they won't have their greencard any more while waiting for the passport), he said: " If some nasty policeman stops you, you can tell him proudly "I am a US citizen now".
I felt very embarassed that a US official (a white male, by the way) would characterize a police officer as a "nasty", which creates a bad stigma and negative perception of police officers by newly made US citizens.
At the same meeting the chief editor of Oakland Tribune ( black male) who was a guest speaker at the ceremony commented negatively on US flag and said that prior to Barack Obama being elected president he couldn't "look at the flag" or something along those lines.
I am appalled that such comments were done by official people at the official ceremony where a thousand immigrants were naturalized.
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Let me solve this problem for everyone...XD9...pick your barrel length.
If the pain is lacking so is the discipline...
"the only 911 call I need is chambering a round" - Mr. Muller, MO car dealer
In this order, if I were forced to just one 9mm...
2) Browning Hi Power (without mag drop saftey)
3) M&P9 (without mag drop safety)
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5) XD9 (any size preferably duty sized for me)
I have owned the first four and shot all 5. All are excellent but its very hard to beat a 1911 in 45acp, P7M8 & the Hi Power. Very smooth, very short first shot + reset & very accurate. If we are talking money wise, I would go with the M&P9 or the Glock 19. I went from (for duty use) a P7 to a Glock 19 to Springfield 1911 to Glock 19 to a Kimber Tactical Pro Carry II to the M&P9. Which one do I like the best for all round shooting? The P7, the Hi Power & the M&P9.
If you were to ask me which one in 45acp, it would have been Kimber 1911 Tactical Pro Carry II, Springfield TRP series 1911, Springfield XD & M&P45.
im going to jump on the HI-POWER bandwagon here as well... not that i dont love me all kinds of 9mm pistols, but it pretty much has the best of all features considering this thread says theorhetically you only get ONE pistol. might as well make it try to fit best into all the molds...
-its slim and comfortable so you could carry it
-its a proven design so you know it should be reliable
-it has decent to high capacity for target and fun shooting
-good trigger (with the right stuff, of course :P)
-universally good pointability and grip comfortability
-ease of ammo access and parts available
-durability... if i only get one, i want one that is going to last me a while
And Plus 1 for the new guy - first he comes in by way of Google, then he posts an introduction without a link to some ridiculious website and THEN he loves the Hi-Power.
I might have to keep him around as defense against you Glock Jackals.
I love the Hi Power, it's one of John Brownings better designs, though it wasn't finished by him and stated previously.
IF you end up getting one, take it to a gunsmith and have the magazine disconnect job done on it, it should cost about $50. That's the only "flaw" in the design that I would change....
Good reliable firepower, ammo available everywhere and it will go bang everytime. What more could you want? Oh yeah, it's not made of plastic.
I guess I'll have to go through the entire rest of my life blissfully ignorant of not having a "wonder9" instead of my obsolete century old design (1911 .45) and hope I can do the job if ever needed.
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The Baker boys have beaten their dad on the race track.
Brothers Scott and Ryan Baker of Waimauku won gold and bronze in the North Island TQ Midget Championship.
They were chased by their father Lawrence in 10th place during his first race in three years.
"I'd rather be beaten by them than by anybody else," Lawrence says.
"But by the same token I'm always happy if I beat them as well."
The 52-year-old had been racing a TQ midget at Western Springs for more than 25 years.
He stopped driving to recover from hip replacement surgery in 2010.
"I never said I was going to retire," the 1995 TQ midget Auckland champion says.
His return to the Western Springs Speedway this month saw him master a new car, the lightest competitor at 261 kilograms running on smaller 10-inch wheels.
"That was only my second meeting in the new TQ," Lawrence says, who works as a car restorer in Waimauku.
"I was just thrown in the deep end."
Gold medal winner Scott, an accountant, says he got a jump on the start and managed to open up a small gap on second place.
"This allowed the second-place car to catch right up to the back of me again.
"One of the lap cars slipped wide so I tried to go up the inside but the door closed and we had contact, spinning the lap car around and bringing on the yellows."
The yellow light warns drivers to slow down and bans passing.
"This helped a lot as it gave me clear track where I could pull away from second place again," he says.
Scott, 24, and Ryan, 21, a university student, have found the balance of good-natured competition.
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Earlier in the season the siblings crashed together fighting over second and third places.
at a race night in Western Springs. They were both trying to overtake the leader.
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"An article about the race says Scott's landing would have got a 10 at the world diving champs for technique.
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He is grateful to wife Christine, who cheers the lads from the sidelines and keeps their race suits clean.
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Potentially the Android market version may only be initially available to devices that identify themselves as the Galaxy Note, but tomorrow it will supposedly be available for Android, iOS, Mac and PC.
And I would imagine the free APK will be immediately distributed for Sideloading anyway.
Regardless, not as big a deal as it was made out. Not that I care anyway, just saying
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