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Explore the Entrepreneurship.org Resource Center to find resources. Designed with entrepreneurs in mind, our resource center allows you to find materials to grow great ideas.
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Greg Louganis back in US diving fold on own terms
Greg Louganis knows what it's like to be perfect. And he's concerned that kind of pressure will be the undoing of a lot of athletes at the London Olympics.
He's trying to make sure the stress of winning medals isn't heaped on the shoulders of American divers, who have been chasing his standard of excellence since Louganis became the sport's icon in the 1980s. The U.S. has been blanked in diving in two consecutive Olympics, and hasn't won a gold since 2000.
The man who won four Olympic gold medals and resembled a Greek god while spinning off the 3-meter springboard and 10-meter platform is back in the fold at his first games with USA Diving working as an athlete mentor.
"I'm hoping it's not too little, too late," Louganis said at last month's U.S. diving trials near Seattle.
He came on board last year - late in the four-year Olympic cycle - after being invited by Steve Foley, an Australian who had taken over as USA Diving's high performance director from Ron O'Brien, Louganis' former coach.
It marked a reunion between Louganis and the sport's U.S. governing body after years of separation, which he attributes to not being invited and not feeling welcome.
Louganis thinks it was made possible because he stopped coaching after briefly working with a diving club in Fullerton, Calif., last year. Not coaching meant he wasn't a threat to other coaches, who feared Louganis' reputation would lure their divers away. He thought doing both would be a conflict of interest.
"I'm not coaching dives, I'm observing and making recommendations of what I see, of what they may be able to add to enhance their training programs," he said.
More important to Louganis, and what he most enjoys, is being able to share his experiences, including successes and failures, with the current generation of U.S. divers. He will be in London during the games and afterward he'll attend a camp for young British divers.
"I make myself available to kids to be able to talk about their home life, their school, their boyfriends, girlfriends, their potential professional life after diving, agents," he said. "I have those experiences that some of the other kids might be going through that I can share; it opens the door to say I'm a safe place because I've been there."
Where he's been was about as low as a person can go. Louganis revealed much of his personal turmoil in his 1995 autobiography, "Breaking the Surface." There was emotional abuse by his father, physical and sexual abuse by a partner, depression, addiction to alcohol and painkillers, and the most shocking details of all - he was gay and HIV positive, something he chose not to disclose to the U.S. Olympic Committee before the 1988 Seoul Olympics and was later harshly criticized for.
"I've been to those dark places, but I came up on the other side," he said. "It gives an opportunity of realizing that there might be something else."


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Hoosier Men Take Fifth at Wisconsin adidas Invitational
Andrew Poore and Samantha Ginther led the way for Indiana on Friday.
2010-11 (R-JUNIOR): Cross Country: Led the Hoosiers and placed second at the Indiana Open to begin the season with a time of 25:30.50 ... took the individual title placing first with a time of 24:33.7 at the Indiana Intercollegiate while leading IU to the team championship as well ... finished 20th in the adidas Invitational at Wisconsin en route to a team championship in the event ... paced Indiana crossing the line in eighth place in the Chile Pepper Fesivial at Arkansas with a time of 29:39.30 ... named Big Ten Runner of the Week on Oct. 19 ... was third on the team and placed 15th at Big Tens with a time of 24:09 ... came in 12th place at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional ... crossed the line in the 69th position at the NCAA Championships as IU finished in seventh place, its best finish since 1977 ... named Academic All-Big Ten. Indoor: Qualified for NCAAs in the 3,000m and 5,000m, events in which he ran times of 7:54.37 and 13:40.73 respectively ... took sixth in the 3,000m at Big Tens and then took seventh in the 5,000. Outdoor: Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 5,000m, where he clocked a time of 13:43.06 ... won the Big Ten 1,500m title and took fourth in the 5,000m ... clocked a PR of 1:52.08 in the 800m ... ran on Indiana's DMR and 4xMile relays at Penn Relays finishing fourth and third respectively ... earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
2009-10 (R-SOPHOMORE): Cross Country: Redshirted ... named academic All-Big Ten. Indoor: Helped IU qualify for NCAAs in the distance medley relay, running the lead leg at the Alex Wilson Invitational, where the Hoosiers clocked a time of 9:32.73 for third all-time at IU ... took fifth at Big Tens in the 3K, finishing in 8:11.25 to earn four Hoosier points ... clocked a PR in the 3K at the Meyo Invitational, finishing in 8:07.27. Outdoor: Advanced to the NCAA Championships in the 5,000m, finishing 11th with a time of 14:05.07 at the NCAA East Preliminary Round ... advanced to the East prelims with a time of 13:56.21 at the Stanford Invite, good for 10th in IU lore ... ran PRs in the 800m (1:52.90) and 1,500m (3:44.11 at the Border Battle: "Kentuckiana" ... ran the lead leg of IU's DMR at the Penn Relays, finishing in 9:43.25 for ninth place ... named Academic All-Big Ten.
2008-09 (SOPHOMORE): Cross Country: Was the second Hoosier to cross the line, finishing in 31st place with a time of 24:12.4 at Pre-Nationals ... wrapped up the Hoosier top-five with a time of 32:34.8 for 51st place at the Great Lakes Regional. Indoor: Earned All-America honors as a carry on the distance medley relay team ... ran the 3,200m leg on the seventh-place team at NCAAs ... recorded an automatic NCAA qualification at the Alex Wilson Invitational in the DMR, finishing in 9:31.81, which is the second-fastest time in school history ... took ninth at the Meyo Invitationa with a career best and team best time of 4:04.47 in the mile ... finished sixth in the 3,000m invitational with a career best time of 8:17.62 at the Gladstein Invitational. Outdoor: Redshirted.
2007-08 (FRESHMAN): Was the second Hoosier to cross the finish line at the NCAA Championships with a personal-best time of 31:26 for 111th place overall ... also recorded a personal best at the Pre-Nationals 8K meet with a time of 24:33 ... was a redshirt during the indoor season ... was an NCAA Mideast Region qualifier in the 1,500-meters during the outdoor season ... posted personal-bests in the 800 (1:54.77 - Indiana Invitational ), 1,500 (3:45.71 - Alabama Relays) and in the 5,000-meters (14:09.83 - Stanford Invitational) ... was the anchor of IU's 1,600-meter Sprint Medley relay team that crossed the finish line in 3:25.27 at the Alabama Relays ... ran the opening leg of IU's Distance Medley Relay team that won the Drake Relays in 9:49.38.
PREP: Owns personal-best times of 1:54 in the 800-meters, 4:04.98 in the mile and 8:57 in the 3,200-meters ... was the 2006 Georgia state runner-up in cross country and the 2005 state champion ... finished 11th at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships with a time of 15:36 in the national meet and placed second in the south regional meet with a time of 14:51 ... was a four-time letterwinner in both cross country and track and field ... helped McEachern reach a state championship in track in 2007 ... was a part of three cross country and three track and field regional titles ... earned All-America status three times ... was a three-time state champion in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter run ... placed second in the mile at the Nike Outdoor National meet in 2007 ... was a third-place finisher in the mile in 2006 and 2007 at the Nike Indoor Nationals ... owns nine regional championships in the 1,600-meters, 3,200-meters and 5K.
PERSONAL: Born Dec. 22, 1988 ... biology major ... son of Gerry and Jean Hubers.
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Ever wonder how dana would react if one of his fighters stated publically that he's outlived his usefulness to zuffa and that it was time for him to step down as UFC president?
That would probably be hilarious.
Ever wonder how dana would react if one of his fighters stated publically that he's outlived his usefulness to zuffa and that it was time for him to step down as UFC president?
That would probably be hilarious.
All manner of men came to work for the News: everything from wild young Turks who wanted to rip the world in half and start all over again -- to tired, beer-bellied old hacks who wanted nothing more than to live out their days in peace before a bunch of lunatics ripped the world in half.
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Hey Riv, instead of banning people will you start calling for their retirement from posting? Please!
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Lorenzo Fertitta > Dana White
Any fighter > Dana White
Not only brazilians can do this stuff
Mentioning War Machine reminded me of his surprise mouth full of semen story, and the questions that went along with that. I then laughed, thanks Snigs.
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It was a comment and many other fighters that DW said should retire got more fights. In Riches case he has something between his ears so he should be able to run his own bussiness very well. I would enjoy seeing Rich as a spokesmen for the UFC maybe even do reffing. If theres strippers miz I might freqent a juice bar
So you think guys would be in on a plan that means that they get constantly badgered about retiring, and it would get even worse if they lost their next fight. Rich hasn't been getting knocked out right and left, so there is no reason to think that he is more likely than anyone else to get a serious injury. I think Dana says things like this because he is constantly spouting off, and once it's out there he sticks to it because he is arrogant and stubborn. There is a small chance that it is a marketing ploy that is unknown to the fighter, but I doubt that. I do not think he cares about Rich.
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Apr 16, 2010
FLL WorldFestival Atlanta 2010
FLL Opening Ceremony, with ice.
LEGO show and help point.
Interview on the Moon, with Steven C. for Moonbots.org
Jay's Raching Machine
SUMO BOTs, from Bryan Bonahoom (sorry about misidentifying them previously)
Bryan, Chris, Steve, and Mantis, in real and on the NXT Box.
Flow chart of the AI program.
13 year old wrote a AI program in NXT-G.
please feel free to stop by and talk with us.
8 comments:
- chiwiluvr said...
nice.I like the picures.
- Apr 17, 2010, 8:42:00 AM
- James Floyd Kelly (Jim) said...
My camera died on Day 1... Chris Smith managed to get some good photos and I took 2 before it died... argh! (Disclaimer: I dropped it about a week ago so I should have known...)
- Apr 17, 2010, 10:01:00 AM
- Robotica said...
live video:
- Apr 17, 2010, 3:00:00 PM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
Thanks for the pictures. I'm looking forward to hear (and see) from your experiences. :)
And one day, maybe ...
Enjoy the time.
(Besides, Martyn, I didn't find any WorldFestival videos any more on the nasa page you cited :( )
- Apr 17, 2010, 6:03:00 PM
- NXTPuny said...
Awesomeness, The pictures were cool. and the creations were neato.
- Apr 19, 2010, 5:11:00 AM
- Rohan said...
I was there! Most amazing experience ever. Three days of a robtics and LEGO saturated atmosphere was heaven on earth
- Apr 20, 2010, 12:03:00 PM
- bazmati/bazmarc said...
Hello everyone sorry for not responding sooner,, it's been a blast these past few days at the LEGO booth and the weeks before that as i was creating wall-e3 and now i'm back to work :( OK i owe you a video of Wall-E3 just need to find the time!!
This FIRST event... my first... was awesome and meeting so many MCP's, LEGO staff and all you Fan's of LEGO Mindstorms was an overwhelming experience. I can't wait do it again next year!
please check my blog regularly for upcoming video and pictures links of the event and of Wall-e3
- Apr 20, 2010, 3:48:00 PM
- megamindstorm101 said...
wait that picture at the end is the ai program? that thing is one heck of a big program.
ai for what?
I wish I could be there.
wow the wall-3 is really nice good job bazmarc
- Apr 22, 2010, 3:39:00 PM


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Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio offers a flat rebate to builders of residential single-family Energy Star certified homes that receive gas service from the company. In order to qualify, homes must either meet Energy Star version 2.5 standards or meet a HERS rating of 70 or less. In addition, homes must use natural gas for all space heating and water heating. Furnaces, boilers and water heaters are also offered through this program and are subject to additional efficiency requirements.
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Company extends financing to help businesses drive growth with advanced technologies: Cloud, Business Analytics and PureSystems
Attention, IBM Business Partners: IBM has announced that is providing IBM Business Partners worldwide with $4 billion in financing for credit-qualified clients over a period of 12 months. This financing, through IBM Global Financing, can make obtaining credit easier and more accessible to enable IBM's global partner ecosystem and their clients to acquire advanced technologies such as cloud, analytics and PureSystems.
Not only that, but you can get access to credit within minutes. IBM is also launching a new mobile app as another step to simplify the way IBM's Business Partners can apply for and secure financing for their clients within minutes via any mobile device — anytime, anywhere. Read more about this potentially life-changing opportunity.
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60 Minutes to a Healthy HeartEvent Details: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., February 28, St. Louis County Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
If you have questions about your heart health, the next 60-Minute Check-Up, sponsored by SLUCare, the physician practice of Saint Louis University, and the St. Louis County Library, is for you. Michael Lim, M.D., director of SLUCare cardiology will discuss advancements is diagnosing heart disease, and seven ways you can limit your risk for heart disease.
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The 60-Minute Check-Up will be held from 2-3:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 28 at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters, located at 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
At the event, Lim will explain two common diagnostic tests - the cardiac stress tests and CT angiography, a minimally invasive medical test that provides images of the patient's arteries - and their benefits. Participants will also learn how to make sense of their cholesterol reading.
"In the past, we stressed keeping your overall cholesterol below 200, but what's more important is how your cholesterol breaks down. This includes your good and bad cholesterol, as well as triglyceride levels," Lim said.
Lim also will introduce seven simple steps participants can incorporate into their daily lives to limit their risk for a heart attack. These steps include: regular exercise, eating a heart-healthy diet and not smoking.
Also at the 60-Minute Check-Up, St. Louis County Library reference librarian Christina Pryor will talk about library resources available to help people improve their health, and SLUCare will provide complimentary heart disease risk assessments.
The Community Health Literacy Series is a part of the department of internal medicine's yearlong centennial celebration. The free events are designed to provide information to keep you healthy, as well as resources to help you learn more about health-related issues.
Because space is limited, reservations are recommended. To reserve your spot, call the St. Louis County Library at 314-994-3300.
The next 60-Minute Check-Up "Kidney Disease and Hypertension: Facts and Fantasies" will be held on Monday, March 28.
Read more about the department of internal medicine's yearlong centennial celebration.
Learn about SLUCare's new "Who Are We?" campaign designed to reintroduce the practice to the region.
SLUCare, the physician practice of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, is the only academic medical practice in St. Louis that is fully accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Inc. This accreditation is a voluntary process through which the quality of SLUCare services and performance is measured against nationally recognized standards. To schedule an appointment, call 314-977-4440 or 1-866-977-4440. More information is available at www.slucare.edu.


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|The Big Picture
How looking beyond the immediate sale to focus on Customer Lifetime Value can help ensure the success of your car wash for years to come.
|June 2015
|The Heart of the Matter
A growing body of research has revealed the growing influence of emotions in shaping buying decisions. Learn how getting customers to feel connected to your car wash can help your bottom line.
|May 2015
|Reaching Customers Offsite
The line between online and in-store is blurring as more customers opt for an omni-channel shopping experience. Almost 1 out of 5 Americans now orders items online and picks up their purchase at a store. What does this click-and-collect trend mean to your car wash?
|April 2015
|Words and Deeds
Customers may always be right, but blindly listening to them can quickly lead to shrinking sales as companies from McDonald's to Walmart have learned. Understanding what customers want requires observing their actions, not just hearing their words. Learn what this means for your car wash.
|March 2015
|Seeking Experience
Quality and price are certainly important factors in attracting customers, but businesses that want to lock in loyalty must also focus on the buying experience. The divergent paths of Starbucks and McDonald's illustrate this point. What does this mean for your car wash?
|February 2015
|Customers Are People Too
At a time when a growing number of Americans are feeling cut off from the big institutions around them, personalizing your marketing message can resonate with customers and increase their loyalty. Companies like Coca-Cola, and Kroger have demonstrated this in convincing fashion recently. What can your car wash learn from their experience?
|January 2015
|Menu Meltdown
Consumers are demanding more options, but they also want faster service. This has created a catch-22, for many businesses like McDonald's that expanded their selections to offer customers greater variety, but then were punished for the loss of speed that resulted from their more complex menus. Learn how your car wash can walk the fine line between choice and speed.
|December 2014
|Turning Cocoons into Butterflies
Consumers are "cocooning" and spending more time at home; a trend that has impacted everything from ticket sales at movies and sporting events to restaurant traffic and retail store visits. Can the right marketing mix get these homebodies to visit your car wash more often?
|November 2014
|Inquisitive and Impulsive
Sometimes consumer behavior is a study in contradictions. Today's shoppers methodically research items online before buying, but at the same time they remain as prone as ever to making impulsive purchase decisions. Successful car wash marketing appeals to both sides of the customer.
|October 2014
|Reaching The Reluctant Consumer
Discretionary spending and enthusiasm for shopping have dipped since the recession ended. Learn how your car wash can move forward even as customers cut back.
|September 2014
|Thriving in the Age of Reinvention
Business as usual has become highly unusual in today's volatile market. From Walmart to McDonald's, leading companies are busily reworking longstanding strategies to keep up with changing consumer demands. Is there a lesson in this for your car wash?
|August 2014
|Rethinking Time
Customer expectations and technology are both moving at an accelerated rate. Satisfying the former hinges on your ability to keep up with the latter. Doing this will require car wash operators to view product life cycle timeframes from a new perspective.
|July 2014
|Back in the Money
Average Americans may still be belt tightening, but the affluent are spending again. With the 5% wealthiest Americans accounting for 38 cents of every retail dollar, car washes that market to them can be richly rewarded.
|June 2014
|Marketing in a Post-Ad World
With 8 out of 10 Super Sunday commercials failing to influence buying decisions and almost 2 trillion online display ads never being seen, is it time to reexamine the rule that "advertising pays"?
|May 2014
|The Wisdom of Crowds
Overwhelmed by choices everywhere they turn, consumers are trying to simplify their purchase experience by following the lead of the crowd when making buying decisions. Learn how the rise of "Social Proof" shopping has created a new opportunity for car washes that sell monthly passes.
|April 2014
|Look Who's Talking
All word of mouth advertising is not created equal. Car washes that sell monthly passes are in a unique position to supercharge their WOM with brand ambassadors for their sites.
|March 2014
|Online Is Always On
The online shopping experience doesn't end when computers or smartphones are turned off. Every minute on the Internet changes the way shoppers view off-line retailers like car washes. How you meet the expectations of these techno shoppers can determine your future success.
|February 2014
|Thriving in the Age of "Dinostores"
Traffic at brick and mortar stores, which had been declining for years, reached a new level of low last holiday season. Although your car wash is not a typical "store," there are still many reasons why you should address the trend that is turning consumers off to shopping.
|January 2014
|Longing to Belong
Consumers have stopped "going it alone," and are joining membership groups like Costco and subscription services like Netflix in record numbers to make shopping more manageable. What does this trend mean to your car wash?
|December 2013
|Secret to Success...
From Starbucks to McDonald's, top marketers are offering "hidden choices" that aren't on their in-store menus. Can this strategy attract new customers to your car wash?
|November 2013
|Getting Personal
Today's consumers value autonomy and privacy at the point-of-sale, which is why they've embraced self-pay terminals. However, when it comes to receiving marketing messages they expect a relationship with retailers that is more personalized than ever. How can you meet these seemingly conflicting demands?
|October 2013
|Upselling 2.0
The art of upselling has come a long way since McDonald's began asking "do you want fries with that?" New technology has made the entire process of bumping up customer purchases less disruptive and more effective. Learn how your car wash use these tools.
|September 2013
|Happy Days
Businesses have always looked at customer satisfaction as the key to growing market share, but more researchers now believe you should first focus on raising employee satisfaction to increase sales. Learn what this means for your car wash.
|August 2013
|Three's Company
Want to sharpen your marketing message? Instead of focusing on what customers buy, look at how they make their purchases. When you do, you'll discover that they tend to fall into one of three groups, each of which requires its own marketing strategy
|July 2013
|Dynamic Pricing
In this era of "showrooming" flash sales, online comparison shopping sites, and location-based mobile coupon apps, fixed prices are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Is it time to rethink your car wash pricing strategy?
|June 2013
|How Cash Lost Its Cool
Cash was once king, but my how the mighty have fallen! Greenbacks will account for only 2% of point-of-sale payments in 2013 for households earning $60,000 or more. What does cash's decline mean to your car wash? Maybe a lot more than you imagine.
|May 2013
|Psychology of Consumption
Consumers may say they base their buying decisions on rational considerations like price and quality, but recent research suggests that there are also deeper psychological forces at work on us when we make many purchases. Will channeling these intangible factors have a real effect on your bottom line?
|April 2013
|Know Me, Sell Me
When competition heats up, it's tempting to worry about your competitor's next move, but that's when savvy markets refuse to be distracted by rivals and instead focus their attention on learning more about their customers.
|March 2013
|The New Productivity Paradox: Growing Without Getting Bigger
From McDonalds to Home Depot, leading retailers are discovering that they can use new technologies to grow their business without increasing their size. Learn what this means for your car wash.
|February 2013
The crisp efficiency of technology may grab all the headlines, but marketers from Disney to Kroger are using some of high tech's softer features to woo customers. Learn what this means for your car wash.
|January 2013
|Act Now!
Limited time and seasonal special promotions may be the hottest marketing tool of 2013. Learn what this means for your car wash.
|December 2012
|Youth Movement
Your customer base is getting younger, but is your marketing keeping up? Learn how savvy marketers are adjusting their messages to reach a new generation.
|November 2012
|Viral Marketing 2.0
Word-of-mouth has always been critical to attracting customers. Then the Internet arrived and extended its reach further. Now the rise of social media has added a "native content" element to the mix, making the viral power of this venerable form of advertising even more potent. Learn what this can mean for your car wash.
|October 2012
|Deal, No Deal
Although many consumers prefer the convenience of flat-rate monthly pass plans, others enjoy the sport of deal hunting. Learn how you can keep the latter group returning to your car wash by making shopping fun with spontaneous specials.
|September 2012
|Simplicity Sells
From Amazon to McDonald's, market leaders have always focused on making the buying process simpler for customers. Now more than ever, keeping things simple is the surest way to win market share.
|August 2012
|Good Impulses
E-commerce, social media, and other high-tech wonders have redefined retailing, but old-fashioned impulse shopping is stronger than ever. Applying today's digital tools to this classic retailing principle can give you new ways to reach car wash customers.
|July 2012
|Experience Required
Over half of US consumers changed their brand preferences in 2011. Although loyalty programs are critical to stemming this customer drain, they aren't enough by themselves. The key to building loyalty involves something more complex – providing customers with a positive experience.
|June 2012
|No Laughing Matter
From auto insurance to stock trading, formerly staid products and industries are reshaping themselves with a new breed of humorous advertising. Can putting some fun in your car wash's marketing have you laughing all the way to the bank?
|May 2012
|Word of Mouth Shouts Out
According to a Harvard study, customers who are referred to a business by friends are 16% more profitable than other customers. How you can generate more Word-Of-Mouth for your car wash?
|April 2012
|The New Rules Of Retailing
The recession may, or may not be ending, but one thing is certain: it has led Americans to rethink the way they make purchase decisions. Understanding the new mindset of consumers is critical to developing an effective growth strategy.
|March 2012
|Off The Clock
With more demands made on their time than ever, consumers are less likely to follow predictable routines. Thanks to the 24/7 convenience of the internet, they can now disregard their clocks and follow their own shopping schedules. Savvy retailers from McDonald's to Macy's have adjusted their strategies to compete in a clockless market. Is this a wake up call for carwashes?.
|February 2012
|The Heart Of The Matter
Making an emotional connection with skeptical consumers in today's crowded marketplace is often essential to earning their business. SiteWatch isn't a box of chocolates, but it can help you win over the hearts of customers who follow their feelings when making purchase decisions.
|January 2012
|In Search Of Stability
Worried about the economy... Insecure about their jobs... And uncertain about the future... Consumers are craving predictability when they shop. The car wash that gives it to them is likely to win their loyalty.
|December 2011
|Time Is Money… Even In A Soft Economy
Time Is Money… At least at McDonald's where a 7second improvement in transaction speed can bump up sales 15%. Read what this means for car washes.
|November 2011
|Back To The Future
How barter is replacing cash as the currency of choice in internet and social media advertising.
|October 2011
|Making Your Car wash "Part Of The Conversation" In A Facebook® Driven Market
Consumers trust one another much more than businesses when they seek advice about purchase decisions. So how do you make your car wash part of their conversation?
|September 2011
|Reach More Customers By Giving Them More Control
Today's "autonomous customers" are independent & suspicious of traditional sales pitches. Give them more control over how you sell and market to them.
|August 2011
|Finding Your Voice On Facebook
Facebook has passed Google and newspapers in importance as a media platform and is closing in on TV.
|July 2011
|Small Wonders: Bigger Isn't Always
Smart marketers from Best Buy to Chiquita Bananas are "thinking small" to deliver more convenience to customers.
|June 2011
|Flat Pricing Paradox: Lowering Prices Can Increase Monthly Pass Profits
Can lowering prices actually increase the profitability of your monthly pass program? Research from Ivy League business schools suggest it might.
|May 2011
|The Power of Partnering: Affiliate Marketing and the Carwash
Going it alone doesn't always make sense when reaching customers. Learn why affiliate marketing may be right for your carwash
|April 2011
|When Word-Of-Mouth Becomes World-Of-Mouth
The Internet is spreading customer opinions faster than ever. Learn how to manage your reputation in this environment
|March 2011
|You've Got to Give to Get
"Earned Discounts" Can Be A Win-Win For Your Carwash And Its Customers
|February 2011
|How to Get the Price "Right"
Even When Everything Is Always on Sale
|January 2011
|When "Click" Meets "Brick"
Reaching Carwash Customers in the Multi-Channel Age
|December 2010
|Casting A Wider Net: Diversifying Your Marketing Strategy Keys Growth
Going beyond focusing on key groups of core customers, companies are offering more choices to appeal to a more diverse mix of consumers
|November 2010
|Putting The "Custom" In Customer Service
When it comes to customer service, fast and friendly aren't always enough by themselves anymore
|October 2010
|Double Duty
High Tech Tools Do More Than Help You Run Your Carwash More Efficiently, They Also Send An Important Message To Customers About Your Commitment To Your Business
|September 2010
|Peak Performance: Managing Your Carwash During Its Busiest Periods
Making Short-term Sacrifices for the Sake of Achieving Long-term Goals
|August 2010
|Time To Rethink Your Ideas About Customer Service
When Services Becomes Convenience
|July 2010
|Profitable Performance Creating An Entertaining Experience Makes Customers Happier – And More Loyal
Entertaining Your Customers Reaps Rewards
|June 2010
|Listening To Self-Pay Customers "Pays Off"
Learning New Ways Of Communicating With Self-Pay Customers Can Be Critical To Your Carwash's Future
|May 2010
|Marketing From Within
The Decline Of Traditional Advertising Has Lead More Retailers To Turn Inward When Reaching Out To Customers
|March 2010
|Your Customers Have Changed. Is Your Carwash Keeping Up?
How Your Carwash Responds to Changes is Likely to Determine Its Future Success
|February 2010
|Reaching the "Car-Cooning" Customer
Respecting Your Customer's "Space" (Inside the Vechicle)
|January 2010
|Bridging The Digital Divide
Meeting Expecations of Millenials
|December 2009
|The New Pricing Paradigm
The Rules of Pricing Have Been Rewritten
|November 2009
|The Future Isn't What It Used To Be
The Future Is Now
|October 2009
|Growth Strategy For Challenging Times: What Price Loyalty?
How To Make Sure Your Most Frequent Customers Are Also Your Most Profitable Ones
|September 2009
|Growth Strategy For Challenging Times: Invest
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- The Big Picture
- The Heart of the Matter
- Reaching Customers Offsite
- Words and Deeds
- Seeking Experience
- Customers Are People Too
- Menu Meltdown
- Turning Cocoons into Butterflies
- Inquisitive and Impulsive
- Reaching The Reluctant Consumer
- Thriving in the Age of Reinvention
- Rethinking Time
- Back in the Money
- Marketing in a Post-Ad World
- The Wisdom of Crowds
- Look Who's Talking
- Online Is Always On
- Thriving in the Age of "Dinostores"
- Longing to Belong
- Secret to Success...
- Getting Personal
- Upselling 2.0
- Happy Days
- Three's Company
- Dynamic Pricing
- How Cash Lost Its Cool
- Psychology of Consumption
- Know Me, Sell Me
- The New Productivity Paradox: Growing Without Getting Bigger
- Soft-Tech
- Act Now!
- Youth Movement
- Viral Marketing 2.0
- Deal, No Deal
- Simplicity Sells
- Good Impulses
- Experience Required
- No Laughing Matter
- Word of Mouth Shouts Out
- The New Rules Of Retailing
- Off The Clock
- The Heart of the Matter
- In Search of Stability
- Time Is Money… Even In A Soft Economy
- Back To The Future
- Making Your Car wash "Part Of The Conversation" In A Facebook Driven Market
- Reach More Customers By Giving Them More Control
- Finding Your Voice on Facebook
- Small Wonders: Bigger Isn't Always Better
- Flat Pricing Paradox
- The Power Of Partnering
- When Word-Of-Mouth Becomes World-Of-Mouth
- You've Got To Give To Get
- How to Get the Price Right
- When Click Meets Brick: Reaching Carwash Customers in the Multi-Channel Age
- Casting A Wider Net: Diversifying Your Marketing Strategy Keys Growth
- Putting The "Custom" In Customer Service
- Double Duty - High Tech Tools Send An Important Message About Your Commitment To Your Business
- Peak Performance: Managing Your Carwash During Its Busiest Periods
- Time To Rethink Your Ideas About Customer Service
- Profitable Performance Creating An Entertaining Experience Makes Customers Happier – And More Loyal
- Listening To Self-Pay Customers "Pays Off"
- Marketing From Within
- Your Customers Have Changed. Is Your Carwash Keeping Up?
- Reaching the "Car-Cooning" Customer
- Bridging The Digital Divide
- The New Pricing Paradigm
- The Future Isn't What It Used To Be
- Growth Strategy For Challenging Times: What Price Loyalty?
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So, I was uploading a video & pic to facebook (taken on my phone, uploaded via computer). Uploaded the video first, no problem. Uploading the photo - BAM:
It will NOT let me back into my account on my desktop pc, it is literally forcing me to download & install McAfee and scan:
Tried multiple browsers, I can get in on my phone but not on my desktop computer. What kind of bull**** is this? I've already spent way too much time trying to remedy this and I absolutely refuse to submit to this kind of barbaric malware-esque attempt at marketing.
For the record, my desktop is not infected with anything, nor were either of the two files I uploaded (checked with Virustotal.com to be sure!).


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Aug 27, 2009
Why the NXT isn't perfect
I think this is a really important point: not just about the NXT, but life in general (especially with teaching). Real life is messy, unexpected, and constantly surprising - very often, if you expect perfection (in anything), you can end up frustrated. Especially for folks who are used to everything being pre-prepared, and exactly as advertised, every time.
That's not real life.
The NXT is in a rather unique spot. Billed and marketed as a toy, it's both far more and far less than that.
Far more in that it is, in every sense of the word, real engineering, and real robotics (as some of us have immense fun pointing out to "sheet metal" robotic hobbyists). And that means it has the same real-life problems. The world the NXT is interacting with is messy: specular reflections and saturation levels for color sensors, variable sound reflectivity and geometry for US sensors, uneven floors and variations in friction and surfaces for motors, sampling frequency for light sensors and sound sensors, etc.: the list goes on and on. Here is a product that unleashes an entire life-long (as some of us can attest to) world of learning and growing, because it makes no secret of being able to "cut it" in the real world.
It's also far "less" than a toy. It will work in unscripted ways. It will not always work the same way twice. It will challenge and puzzle the user, not passively entertain them. That's actually a problem, in that some people will get frustrated because, billed as a toy, they expect it to "just work".
I don't think, in my experience, you can have both of these constraints perfectly satisfied. And I don't expect them to be. NXT-G, for instance, makes some things very easy for the novice user... while frustrating the heck out of anybody who wants to take the NXT to a higher level (try trig... and no, tossing floats into the mix isn't the solution. Or arrays, a basic ability for any language, crippled in NXT-G). Having a color sensor that can selectively switch bright LEDs on and off looks great, but compromises in other ways on what the sensor can actually detect: color.
So which do you satisfy? Is it a flexible, messy real-world toolkit, or a safe, controlled, entertainment toy? I'd say you accept some compromises... while using the unique abilities to teach young minds. Making a kid (and some adults!) understand that the world is not simple, and that it doesn't work like a video game, is perhaps one of the most important lessons I think you can teach them. Too much in school ends up being "This Is The Answer", when often you later find out "this is an approximation, or a rule of thumb, or a good idea... but not an absolute truth".
That ability to be flexible, to find solutions to hard problems that no one has just given you a solution for, is something that I find really lacking in the people around me (both in grade school, where I help out, and even more so in college, where I actually teach). And the NXT is the ideal tool to work on these skills.
The next time you or your students complain about how the NXT "isn't working", or "isn't doing what it 'should'", you might want to realize that you've just been handed an amazing, rare, golden opportunity. Not the opportunity to "solve the problem", but something much more useful - to teach (or learn) how do find solutions to problems.
Brian Davis
7 comments:
- BlueToothKiwi said...
An excellent thought provoking post!
There are a large proportion of people who go through the standard 'education' system and schooling, where everything works perfectly and all the science experiments are rigged and orchestrated and nothing ever goes wrong; And many people growing up spending a big part of school life following step by step instructions that invoke reproducible outcomes.
And you enter the real world and things are not perfect.
The real challenge for mentors / adults who work in the community is to harness that discovery mentality and build the foundation for the next generation of engineers, architects and scientists.
- Aug 27, 2009, 9:53:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Enjoyed the essay, Brian... dead-on.
- Aug 27, 2009, 12:02:00 PM
- Nathan said...
Wow. That really makes me think.
Half the fun (if you have a trivial amount of patience) is getting your creation to work the way you want it to. If it doesn't, and I get upset, I leave it and come back to it later or tomorrow.
Most people buy a toy, turn it on, and watch it "just work". If it doesn't, they assume it's a problem with the toy. With Mindstorms, it's your problem. The NXT is just doing what it was told to do, either by programming or sensor input.
Going back to read it again...
- Aug 27, 2009, 11:31:00 PM
- Tim said...
Sounds like what we need is "A Whack on the Side of the Head". Sorry, it was a good book on how to be creative. It went over mental locks, and how to "unlock" them. things like "The Right Answer", "That's Not Logical", and "Follow the Rules". The last of the three I mentioned describes things like an art teacher who gives the assignment of drawing a house with a lawn and a tree, does not specify that he wants it to be what you would see the majority of the day, and flunks a student who latter explained that he drew what his house looked like when he watched the sunrise.
- Aug 28, 2009, 12:20:00 AM
- Dave Parker said...
Well said. Although I realize the reality of marketing, I often wish that the front of the NXT box did not have a big picture of the AlphaRex model. That is not a good represenatation of what you are getting. More accurate would be something like a picture of all the cool parts you get, then in the background maybe teen and parent sitting in front of a computer puzzling (happily) over a program, with some home-built looking contraption on the desk next to them. Then small pictures of 10+ example things that you can build with the kit in a sidebar. OK, so you can tell I didn't major in marketing... LEGO Education gets closer to the truth, though.
- Aug 28, 2009, 7:08:00 AM
- GrizzledGeezer said...
Excellent essay.
Part of the problem is the way MindStorms is marketed: "Build robots that do what you want them to!" (or something like that).
The implication is that MindStorms is free of limitations, inconsistencies, or quirks that might keep your design from working the way you expect. The best example perhaps is the tendency of brick-based models to fall apart, without proper reinforcement.
The original MindStorms included projects in which the user was "graded" according to how quickly or well they figured out how to get things working. I complained bitterly to LEGO about this (I wrote a long letter about problems with RIS 1.0 that LEGO promised to consider) and it was removed, though I doubt my comments were the reason.
As Dr. Land said: "Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted."
- Aug 30, 2009, 10:59:00 PM
- Pe-ads said...
Hear, hear! Jolly good, old man!
Thanks for a good essay.
- Sep 1, 2009, 9:25:00 PM


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The estrogen level of Girls Night: The Musical did everything it could to blow the roof off of the palatial Hanover Theatre Wednesday night. Louise Roches funny and touching celebration of indomitable female friendship is part anthem, part confessional and all party.
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Its one big, R-rated bachelorette party for women of all ages at Stoneham Theatres bawdy, raunchy musical, Girls Night: The Musical, that swept the British Isles since 2003, and has North Shore women dancing in the aisles, singing anthemic womens songs with gusto. The play has toured the US since May 2007.
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- Number of Discs: 5
- Run Time: 868 Minutes
- Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
- Studio: Paramount
- DVD Release Date: February 17, 2009
- Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
- Cast: Donna Douglas, Irene Ryan, Nancy Kulp, Harriet MacGibbon, Buddy Ebsen, Raymond Bailey, Max Baer Jr., Roy Roberts, Ray Kellogg, Larry Pennell
- Genre: TV Series
- Color: Black & White
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The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 offers more hilarious episodes of this hit TV show that premiered in 1962. The Beverly Hillbillies sprang onto the American landscape like bubblin' crude, turning into television's number one show faster than any sitcom in history. A supreme television classic, The Beverly Hillbillies DVDs from season three contain a CBS-TV folklore favorite that ran for nine years and still holds the record for TV's highest-rated half hour. From the creative genius of TV pioneer Paul Henning (The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show, Love That Bob, Petticoat Junction), comes the story of poor Ozark mountaineer Jed Clampett and his kin, striking it rich with oil and headin' for Beverly Hills, California. With the Beverly Hillbillies Season 3, you join the feistiest Granny of them all, wise Uncle Jed, his critter-loving daughter Elly May and love-crazy Cousin Jethro in their unrefined, legendary quest for an idyllic West Coast existence. Welllll, doggies!
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A nice little video of a bot doing some damage here. Can anyone translate or give us a rough description of what is being said? Thanks.
Aug 18, 2006
You have to love a bot that's all about destruction...
Posted by: James Floyd Kelly (Jim) at 11:00 PM
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They need a tripod:-)
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Sergiusz Bazanski posted a comment:
Ok, here's what the kid says (I'm polish, so I understand it ;) )
"This robot is for destruction. Eee... It's name is 'Taran' (Ram), and it is just about to destroy the pyramid.
I'll present you the kingdom (pointing at the lego figures on the pyramid). This is the king, these are the royal messagers, and these are ordinairy guards (I think).
Let's go! (turns on the robot). I want everyone to clear the way ("clear the way" is heard in the background).
(After the destruction)
So, the king is no more, so are (unfinished).
Holy ... (another kid)
Thank you! (the first kid)"
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That may not be common knowledge, but three seventh graders at a local private school can say it in Mandarin, English and Spanish.
Amelia Talkington, 12, Katherine Kozan, 12, and Vicky Wu, 13, students at Renascence School International were recently named Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP) award winners. The program selects high achieving middle school students and lets them take college entrance exams.
If they score well the students are granted access to distance learning programs and other resources from Duke.
"We're really excited to get our students involved with this," said Principal Laura Stahl. "It will open a lot of opportunities for them."
Talkington, Kozan and Wu did better on those exams than 82 percent of college-bound high school seniors. While most of their reactions were low key, Talkington said she "jumped up and down," when she saw her scores.
"It wasn't too hard," Kozan said of the SAT and ACT tests that often befuddle kids on their way out of high school.
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During a school visit Thursday, pre-k students were throwing a stuffed toy at a board and trying to hit the right Mandarin word while their teacher encouraged them in the foreign language.
Young students absorb foreign languages much easier than their older counterparts, and within a short amount of time can speak in any language without having to translate it in their heads back to English, school officials said.
"It is like parachuting down to a foreign country where no one speaks any English," Stahl said.
Stahl added that Talkington chose the curriculum for the nonprofit school by finding the curriculum used by the best schools in the world and adapting it.
While the foreign language immersion is a big part of the school, the students also get plenty of English, math and science.
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Lakes Rocks a perfect start to West Cumbria festival season
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TEN acts, one stage, eight hours of non-stop music and almost perfect weather - they said Lakes Rocks and it did.
From the polished performances of South Quay and Vertigo, to the raw acoustic talent of I Am Spartacus and the youthful exuberance of The Buoys, there was something for everyone at the event in the car park of Lakes College, Lillyhall.
Organised by college workers Gavin McKew and Jeanne Gate, about 200 people enjoyed music in the sunshine and endured occasional showers of rain at the first Lakes Rocks event.
Run with clockwork precision, band followed band at the event on Saturday, and other acts included Mazzoni, Shore, Gavin McKew, Kalmer, Feed Me and a special appearance by David Eldon, who performed an acoustic set.
The crowd appreciated all the acts but performance of the day must go to The Buoys, who had people dancing in front of the stage.
Impressive performances from almost all of the acts saw next to no cover songs, most performing their own songs.
It was a standout showcase from some of the area's best live acts and proved that West Cumbria does have talent and we're not afraid to prove it.
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Well the end of the road for Project C5X has finally come. As most of you know, this project began almost 2 1/2 years ago, and we have been on a long journey to upgrade Project C5X on a lot of different levels. That journey included a Mid America Motorworks (Performance Choice) interior upgrade, Pfadt sway bars and coilovers, an American Car Craft stainless steel accessories package, a Baer brake upgrade, basic engine add-ons including Dynatech headers, Mid America Motorworks exhaust and air intake, an Elite Engineering tunnel plate, and an MTI shifter install. Almost all of our installs, and 100 percent of our dyno work, was done by Next Level Performance in Altamonte Springs, Florida, and Geoff Skorupa and crew have done a superb job! We covered lots of editorial ground, but what we really want to do now is to bring this project to a close by installing the last go-fast parts on the car and produce some real horsepower on the dyno.
Before we can really say goodbye, we need to cover the installation of our new LS1X World Warhawk heads and custom grind C4orce Comp Cams hydraulic roller camshaft and valvetrain. To backtrack just a little, most Corvette owners realize that the LS1 is the perfect candidate for making power. The LS engine has been one of the most easily modified engines ever built and with every new LS generation, Chevrolet keeps improving the breathing ability, thus making it that much easier to make easy gains with very little effort. The original LS1 engine is still residing in Project C5X and we always knew we could make some good power with our almost-stock LS1 engine.. so early on, we decided the most prudent use of our time and energy would be to build the stock engine we already had instead of swapping in a brand new LS stroker.
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DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — Exploring the historic Lakeside Hospital is a bit like stepping into a time machine.
Remnants of a bygone era can be found in almost every corner.
Several rooms still have numbers over the doors as well as the vintage call lights used by patients to alert the medical staff. A dumbwaiter tucked into the wall of the second-story hallway still connects the two floors.
The Florida Chautauqua Center plans to breathe new life into rambling red-brick building on Circle Drive.
The nonprofit group that coordinates the annual Florida Chautauqua Assembly recently purchased the old hospital to serve as its new headquarters.
"It's a huge step," said Dennis Ray, chairman of the board of the Florida Chautauqua Center. "We're going to use every inch of it."
Ray and his wife, Brenda, and the organization's founder, Diane Pickett, secured multiple no-interest loans to finalize the purchase of the 11,372-square-foot building.
"We're also hoping to be eligible for a number of grants," Ray said.
The building was a hospital from sometime in the early 1930s to the 1970s. It needs a new roof and cosmetic repairs to its front columns.
Ray said he and other Chautauqua leaders want to preserve as much of the old hospital as possible while refurbishing the interior.
"We're painstakingly and intentionally taking it slowly," he said. "We're not destroying or removing anything until we can connect it to its history."
Ray said many elements, such as the large surgical scrub sinks, numerous bathrooms and even an unused stairway will be kept and restored.
The first task will be to spruce up the exterior, said Christopher Mitchell, president of the Florida Chautauqua Center.
"We plan to cut down overgrown brush around the building, provide some immediate cosmetic fixes to the outside and provide a fresh coat of paint to areas in desperate need of improvement," he said.
The group already has begun cleaning up the second floor, which was the living quarters for the building's previous owners. A portion of the first floor is being used as a doctor's office.
Ray and Mitchell envision the building as a cultural center that will showcase Chautauqua artifacts and documents from the original assemblies from 1885 to 1927.
"We intend to keep a section of the building open for tours, galleries and a multi-purpose exhibition hall for visitors," Mitchell said.
The building also will house offices and host receptions for the assembly's annual speakers and visiting faculty.
"This means that we are going to be able to revive many of the functions and traditions of the original Chautauqua," Ray said. "We're really excited about the potential it has. We want it to be something the entire community can enjoy."
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Save on a large selection of men's clothing at JCPenney—we offer options for any event, occasion or season. Stay casual in t-shirts, tanks, and Henley shirts or pick up a solid pique polo for a simple way to look good in any situation. Head to the beach or hang out by the pool with a new swimsuit or board shorts. Keep warm during the cold months with an huge offering of outerwear, including men's jackets, coats, sweaters and hoodies. Stay casual for lunch in a nice pair of Dockers pants. Channel your inner sports star and gain an instant advantage in comfortable, breathable athletic clothes from all your favorite brands. Got a big job interview right around the corner? Dress with confidence in a nice pair of pants and button-up dress shirt. Or top it off with a trendy suit or sport coat to ensure a good first impression. Whether you're shopping for work, recreation or a special occasion, our collection of men's clothing has something to fit your style at an affordable price.
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