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I have been under the weather with a terrible cold. When I get colds there is no quick fix because of my low immune system. Today I managed to get myself together and go bowl and I really felt good. I came home and rested to go back tonight. I had so much fun being around people and bowling 218 my last game. But the secret is no matter how you feel as long as you aren't contagious push yourself out to be around people. It is the best medicine you can have. Love the Spark people site & learn.
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2. High-range RFID chips with unblockable signal that can be utilized in identity cards, allowing you to ensure that, for example, there are no child predators around you.
3. Huge SSD drives capable of storing years worth of voice or even video data, enabling your phone to constantly record everything so you can easily upload it to your social network account along with your GPS tracks and everything, along with an AI that categorizes, indexes and subtitles everything for you.
4. AI-powered cameras integrated in light bulbs that are capable of turning on the lights and alerting the police automatically when you're being attacked in your own home.
5. Algorithms that can predict criminal behaviour based on any readily available data with as few false positives as possible.
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"For many small and medium enterprises, the future of their business relies on finding new customers, new suppliers and new markets," says Karen Buls, director of SME products, marketing and sales strategy for American Airlines. "Even in a difficult economy, many small businesses are predicting an increase in their travel needs over the next 12 months."
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Berlin - Beer sales rose in Germany, Europe's biggest producer, in the first half of the year thanks to a big jump in demand during the soccer World Cup in June, the Statistics Office said on Thursday.
The increase is good news for brewers in Germany, whose sales have suffered for most of the last two decades.
Around 48 million hectoliters of beer were sold in the first six months of the year, an increase of 4.4. percent from the same period last year, said the Office.
"The rise in sales in the first half of the year was driven by (a sharp increase) in June, when the World Cup tournament began in Brazil," said the Office.
In June alone, 9.7 million hectoliters of beer were sold in Germany, a 14 percent increase compared to last year.
Germany won the World Cup for the fourth time on July 13, triggering ecstatic celebrations involving a lot of beer drinking across the country.
Since the tournament ended in the second half of the year, this period may also see a year-on-year rise in sales, helped as well by the Munich Oktoberfest beer festival.
Despite a long and proud tradition of beer drinking and brewing in Germany, sales have slumped by more than a third in the 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall as young people have turned to spirits and soft drinks.
The last annual rise in beer sales was in 2006 when Germany hosted the World Cup, according to the DBB brewing association.
However, Germans still drink more beer per head than most of the world, trailing only their neighbours in the Czech Republic and Austria.
About 83 percent of total beer sales so far this year were intended for domestic consumption, said the Statistics Office.
In a fragmented market with many private brewers, Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owns Beck's, and Carlsberg are the two international majors with a significant presence in Germany.
The Radeberger Group, which owns Jever, Berliner Pilsner and the Radeberger brand, sells the most beer in Germany.
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They still have ULA to worry about--and in the same way they went after Ares Constellation--they are going after Musk. The October 1 2012 issue of Aviation week has a cover story on Dream Chaser with loads of private spaceflight coverage. Sadly, there was a nasty little op-ed piece on page 10 called "FALCON 9 CALLED INTO QUESTION." I believe this was the same guy who also called RS-68 inefficient. He called Falcon aerodynamically unstable--which I don't buy--then fusses about thousands of pounds of unused kerosene due to the engines 2.2 mixture ration when 3.45 would be better. The fuel rich mixture allows for cheap engines.
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The F-1 and RS-27 on the Delta and Atlas used the same mixture ratio as the Merlin, about 2.2:1, which gives close to the optimal specific impulse for most pressure ratios but with a much lower nozzle exit tempertaure (for 1000 psi sea-level, 1900K at 2.2:1 vs. 2300K at 2.5:1 vs. 2500K at 2.7:1) and a lower chamber temperature (3550K at 2.2:1 vs 3700K at 2.7:1). I don't know that anyone has ever even tried running at a 3.45:1 mixture ratio because the specific impulse would be significantly lower (280 vs 300, for example) as would the exhaust velocity. Those are guestimates because I've never seen an RP-1 mixture chart that went past a mixture ratio of 3:1.
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Feb. 5, 2004 – It was a record-breaking year for two events benefiting the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center. The "Reach for the Stars" Cancer Gala and the Charles Matthew Espiritu (CME) Foundation Golf Outing brought in a total of more than $200,000.
The fifth annual "Reach for the Stars" Cancer Gala was the most successful ever. The sellout event raised more than $170,000. "Swinging on a Star," the theme of the event, was held at the Starlight Roof at The Chase Park Plaza last fall. Dozens of guests, including key civic and philanthropic leaders, enjoyed an evening that included an oral auction featuring such items as a cruise to the Celtic Isles donated by INTRAV and Clipper Cruise Line. Last year's major event sponsors included GlaxoSmithKline, Energizer, Roche Laboratories, Cardinal Health, Kirberg Roofing Inc. and Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals.
To date, the "Reach for the Stars" Cancer Gala has raised more than half a million dollars in support of cancer care and research, with the past four years' net proceeds benefiting the Siteman Cancer Center.
During its fourth annual golf outing held last fall at the Far Oaks Golf Club in Fairview Heights, Ill., the CME Foundation raised $40,000 in net proceeds to assist Siteman cancer patients and their families with lodging needs. The CME Foundation was formed in 1997 to honor the memory of Charles Matthew Espiritu and to realize his dream of helping patients who must travel away from home for cancer treatment. Major sponsors of the golf outing were the W.R. Persons Charitable Trust and Thompson Coburn LLP.
Mark your calendars for the next "Reach for the Stars" Cancer Gala, scheduled for Nov. 13 at the Coronado Ballroom in Grand Center. For more information about the event, call the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation office at 314.286.0600.
This year's annual CME Golf Outing will be held Sept. 29. For more information about the tournament and the CME Foundation, call Joyce Hallmark-Tanurchis at 314.533.6019.
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Late last year, I moved from my outside office and into my home office full-time. After almost twenty years, I went from taking a twenty-minute commute to a big, fancy building… Read more »
I am besieged by the age-old problem of both not having enough time to do what I want with Twitter and getting lost in its maze of messages. For some productivity… Read more »
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One of the perks of being based in central Connecticut is that New York City is only a few hours away by car or train. What follows is a "typical" day of playing hooky in the city.
8:17 a.m.: Awake (sort of) after snoozing my alarm several times. I don't really like having to wake up at a decent time on my day off.
9:12 a.m.: My boyfriend, Andrew, and I are driving to the New Haven train station to catch a 10:10 train, but we get stuck in traffic near Hartford. Hope we still make it on time, otherwise lunch plans are kaput.
9:52 a.m.: We get to the station in plenty of time, but the parking garage next to the train station is full, so Andrew drops me off to go get tickets and snacks while he finds a new place to park. He makes me promise not to leave without him. I guess, if I must.
10:02 a.m.: Andrew arrives, and we board the train with tix and water in hand.
10:10 a.m.: On our way to The City!
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If you have ever been to a concert, you know that things sometimes go wrong. Singers flub their lines, they fall down, and sometimes they get injured. These kinds of things happen all the time, but some just stand out. I hit Google to find some of the worst on-stage artist mishaps.
You know, I can understand it if a young, relatively new singer messes up the Star-Spangled Banner. They're alone in a big field and it isn't easy singing in front of thousands of people. However, Christina Aguilera is a veteran (as far as the music industry goes). So it was shocking to many when she flubbed it big time at this year's Super Bowl. Unfortunately her attempt to cover up the missed words by making the melody more superfluous than it usually is at these kinds of events only made the mistakes more obvious.
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Two Fort Lauderdale men are accused of beating another man with a baseball bat.
Jose Camacho and Oscar Ordunec were arrested Sunday on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
A Broward Sheriff's Office arrest report claims the suspects used an aluminum bat to strike the man in the face several times.
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Homelessness in Edmonton is exacerbated by our boom and bust economy: people come expecting to find work easily, but things don't turn out as they'd hoped once they get here. So homeless Edmontonians could be men, women or children of any age – but they're more likely to be men.
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- More than 40% of people who are homeless are Aboriginal
- Many struggle with one or more mental illnesses and/ or addiction
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The 2012 homeless count, conducted by Homeward Trust volunteers, confirmed the downward trend in the numbers of homeless - a downward trend that only began in 2010 after the launch of the Plan to End Homelessness. Before that the numbers of homeless counted had been rising exponentially since 1999.
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- 2,174 Edmontonians are homeless - a decrease from the 2,421 counted in 2010 - substantially fewer than the 3,079 people counted in 2008.
- 279 are children and youth under 18 - or 13% of the total number of homeless people counted.
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Apple's announcement that its July earnings were significantly different from the year-ago quarter will not likely result in changes to revenues just reported, according to UBS analyst Ben Reitzes. "We just spoke to Apple about this confusing statement, which was an answer to a year-over-year comparison question required by the SEC - this comment refers to 3Q06 versus 3Q05," Reitzes said. "However, we believe there will be a 'tug-of-war' for shares near-term as investors balance solid fundamentals for upcoming products with concerns over options backdating, restatements and the potential impact on Steve Jobs." The filing reference to the July quarter (FY3Q) is required by the SEC because of significant changes in revenue and earnings from the year-ago quarter.
The analyst believes that new products are still the key moving into 2007 which will include a new iPod nano in September, a revamped video iPod in October or November, and the rumored "iPhone" some time in 2007.
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Kandie Holton was never the type of person to accept assistance. It was her pride, she said, that kept her from asking for help and accepting it when it was offered.
But after her 20- month-old son, Elijah, suffered a rare stroke last March, her opinions have begun to change. The family was approached by the charity organization THANKS, who wanted to lend a hand.
THANKS, or Tailgaters Helping Aid Needy Kids' Spirits, is known for helping Monroe County families who have sick or ailing children. Since 2001, they have chosen a local family each year to support with fundraisers and other generous contributions.
They selected Elijah and the Holton family to be their sponsor family this year after hearing about Elijah's stroke. Proceeds from the 14th Annual Snowball Tournament and Winterfest, which takes place Friday through Sunday at Ida Fireman's Park on Lewis Ave. in Ida, will go to the family.
"THANKS has opened my eyes — they are really here to help our family and ( Elijah)," Mrs. Holton said. "It's reassuring to me and I've been able to accept that it is okay to need help."
Elijah's stroke occurred on March 29. It happened at his brain stem and his motor skills were returned to that of a newborn. Elijah had to relearn everything.
He spent several months in Toledo Children's Hospital recovering and underwent two surgeries in April — one to remove a piece of his skull to relieve pressure on his brain and the other to install a permanent shunt to drain fluid from the same area.
After he was released from the hospital, a spaghetti dinner benefit was held at the Monroe Moose Family Center and sponsored by volunteers from Crosswalk Community Church and Monroe Outreach Assembly of God. Nearly $ 6,000 was raised for Mrs. Holton and her husband, Daniel. It was through this fundraiser that THANKS learned about Elijah and his story.
Now 2, Eli, as his family calls him, has been making great progress.
Mrs. Holton said it seems the stroke affected Elijah only physically, but not cognitively. He still attends therapy three to five times a week and he needs to wear glasses now to see clearly. But the youngster is beginning to walk again, she said, and probably will need only ankle braces to regain proper motion.
"We're just trying to get back to normal," Mrs. Holton said.
So far, THANKS has assisted the family with medical expenses. During the holidays, they also bought Christmas presents for not only Elijah, but his siblings as well: Shelbie, 9; Madison, 7; Carlie, 5, and Eli's twin sister, Mollie, 2.
Once their charitable relationship with THANKS has come to an end, Mrs. Holton hopes to return some of what the organization has given her.
"I really want to get involved now," Mrs. Holton said. She plans to attend this weekend's Winterfest and softball tournament. "I want to learn more about THANKS so we can support them in any way that we can."
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Why Ill Bill Is Still the Illest
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On Friday, October 4th, veteran underground MC Ill Bill plays the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa, California. He's one of the few New York underground MCs to have a 15+ year consistent career as both a solo artist and in a group that's seen him outlast several generations of contemporaries and maintain one of indie-rap's most loyal fanbases. In honor of Friday's show, here's a look back at what makes Ill Bill so ill.
Non-Phixion featuring Necro - "I Shot Reagan" 1998
While he's had demo tapes in circulation since the early '90s, Bill first had a national platform as part of MC Serch's assembled rap collective Non-Phixion. Landing on Geffen Records, the group put out one single "Legacy" on Fatbeats before parting ways with Serch and mobilizing independently. Among their early singles, the group seemed to finally capture their sound on the 1998 single "I Shot Reagan." Regularly seen in Best Hip-Hop Cover Arts lists, "I Shot Reagan" allowed the cult of Non-Phixion to begin brewing nationally.
Non-Phixion - "Rock Stars" 2002
After numerous delays and label changes, Non-Phixion's debut The Future is Now finally dropped in spring 2002. Widely considered a classic of the early-2000s underground rap era, it featured production from Large Professor, Pete Rock, Necro, The Beatnuts and "Rock Stars" produced by DJ Premier. The signature Premier scratch-hook acts as the perfect balance as each of the members play to each others' strengths and puts Bill's cynical brutality on full display.
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This recipe for sea bass with crab mayonnaise uses orange to cut the sweetness of the crab. Perfectly balanced for summer eating.
1 live brown crab, about 1kg/2lb 4oz, placed in the freezer an hour before cooking
2 fennel bulbs, trimmed and halved
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
light rapeseed oil, for cooking
4 x 200g/7oz filleted sea bass portions
1 orange, peel and pith removed, segmented and diced
olive oil, to drizzle
2 eggs, yolks only
1 lemon, zest, finely grated, and juice
300ml/11fl oz light olive oil
2 tbsp chopped tarragon
salt and freshly ground black pepper
50ml/2fl oz double cream
125ml/4fl oz crab stock
Bring a large pan of water to the boil (big enough to submerge the crab).
Season the water liberally with sea salt to make it as salty as seawater. When the water comes to a rolling boil, lower the crab into it and cook for 15 minutes.
Carefully lift the crab out of the water, place on to a board and leave until cool enough to handle.
Prepare and extract the meat from the crab. (You can save the shells to make stock for future use).
Blend the brown crab meat in a food processor until smooth and save for the crab mayonnaise.
Pick through the white meat removing any shell and cartilage. Set aside in the fridge until needed.
Preheat the oven to 200C/375F/Gas 6.
Cut each fennel half into 6 or 8 wedges.
Heat a non-stick frying pan over a medium heat and add a drizzle of rapeseed oil. When hot, add the fennel wedges and cook for two minutes on each side until golden-brown.
Season with salt and pepper and transfer the fennel to an oven tray and bake in the oven for four minutes. Then set aside and keep warm.
Meanwhile, heat an ovenproof non-stick frying pan and add a drizzle of rapeseed oil. When hot, place the sea bass, skin side down, in the pan and season with salt.
Cook until the skin starts to turn golden-brown, then transfer the pan to the oven to cook for four minutes.
When ready, take out the fennel and keep warm.
Remove the fish from the oven and flip the sea bass fillets over – they will finish cooking in the heat of the pan.
For the mayonnaise, whisk the egg yolks, lemon zest and juice in a bowl and slowly add the oil drop by drop to begin with, then in a steady stream, whisking constantly, until it has all been incorporated.
In a mixing bowl, mix half of the mayonnaise with the white crab meat, two tablespoons of brown meat, the chopped tarragon and salt and pepper to taste. Keep in the fridge until needed.
For the sauce, whisk the double cream into rest of the mayonnaise and thin down with the crab stock. Keep cool until serving then just warm through.
To serve, spoon the crab mayonnaise into the centre of four warmed plates, top with the fish and place the fennel alongside. Spoon the crab sauce around the fish. Finish with the orange pieces and a drizzle of olive oil. Serve at once.
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I would choose louisa. It sounds more french and evocative. No matter where you go world wide, louisa sounds pretty off the tongue. Here in the U.S. louise is a very southern name that is said in an AWFUL NASAL manner. Something like : Lou-Wayz, but simply by adding the A, it miraculously corrects everyone's speech. I'm wondering if each name provokes a certain image and that image adjusts the way the name is said. As I said, louise is very southern country women, and louisa is a slinky evocative french flapper girl. So I would choose Louisa. Hope this helps.Tcc
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I think both are beautiful, but Louisa is my favorite.My future ladies:
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Four real-life examples of how specific actions in customer care can drive customer loyalty and preference higher.
Social technology is transforming operational policies across the organization, and so the opportunity for social media is clearly present across all three fundamental consumer touch points: the sales process, the actual product or service experience, and post-sale and service processes. If you're looking for ways to control social media - to influence or change the conversations on the social web - these three touch point collections are the way to do it. In fact, they are the only way to do it.
Radian6, Alterian, NetBase, Collective Intellect, and over a dozen others have the marketing and PR needs of social media monitoring and campaign management well covered. [Disclosure: I serve on the Marketing Advisory Board for NetBase.] There are tools ranging from "free" to "considerably more than free" for nearly every application. For the actual product or service experience platforms like Salesforce.com's "Force Ideas" platform - on which were built well-known innovation and product re-engineering social sites including "Dell IdeaStorm" and "My Starbucks Idea" - serve to link customers directly with internal product and service design teams.
Next up: customer care, and not a moment too soon. Consider the following, each being a direct experience of mine in just the past 10 days. Multiply these by a few hundred million…and you'll quickly realize that - taken as a whole - these experiences and the stories they generate can easily equal or exceed the net influence of a single Super Bowl ad at a cost that is generally lower! Of course, driving influence is sort of soft as metrics go, so let's cut to the chase here: attention paid to customer care can drive sales. You can measure that. Attention paid to customer care can also reduce your ad spend requirements, but that's a story for a different column. The focus here is customer care.
My first customer service experience involves two big brands: Continental Airlines (now rebranding itself as United) and Expedia. A group of us were traveling together for business: being employed in a start-up, we all wear Iots of hats and I got tasked with booking travel. No sweat, I thought. Normally, I'd go straight to Continental.com (where I am Platinum Elite), knowing, for example, that even if I make a mistake I've got 24 hours to change or cancel non-refundable tickets without cost. But…I chose to go to Expedia as it seemed like it would be easier to book a group of four. Long story short, I booked Continental's "PM" flights outbound instead of "AM" flights. My mistake, clearly.
I called Expedia, and got placed on hold. In the interim, I called Continental. The agent I spoke with said "Normally, no problem to change these…except that you booked them on Expedia. You have to change them there." Meanwhile - I'd now been on hold for 10 minutes at Expedia - I'd heard the Expedia message: "We cannot refund change fees that are imposed by the airlines." If true, it meant I was out $600 for my mistake. I tweeted Expedia, and called Continental back. I'd now been on hold with Expedia for over 20 minutes.
Continental answered promptly: I explained the situation, and the service agent looked at my history and spoke with her supervisor. She transferred the booking from Expedia to Continental and authorized a full credit for my errant purchase. She also thanked me for my business. At the 45-minute mark, I hung up with Expedia. I also tweeted about the process, and sometime later got a tweet back from Expedia asking me to contact the company. Ironically, I heard from others via Twitter who'd had the same experience with Expedia long before I actually heard from Expedia. The next day I emailed Expedia: five days later I got a note back restating Expedia's policies, and pointing out that since the dates of the actual travel had now passed, it considered this closed.
Crazy as it seems, the above is not a criticism of Expedia, per se. The brand has fans, and it is well regarded in its market. Instead, it is a candid look at how Expedia has prioritized sales and cost control over customer care, and as a result has created a very negative experience for a measurable number of customers. The responses to my tweets from others in my network made it clear that my experience was hardly isolated.
Consider the operational decisions that drove my experience: first, I made a mistake, so I own that component. Second, Expedia's phones are clearly overloaded, and its call-abandonment rates are non-zero: when I tried to reach it, I couldn't. Evidently, Expedia is choosing to disregard at least some customers needing help in favor of lowering costs and protecting margins. Hey, it's Expedia's business, but it's certainly not how Zappos is run, and Zappos seem to have done pretty well by any financial measure. Finally, Expedia's own customer advocacy policies are clearly out-of-touch: in this case, the airline was willing to waive the penalties (and did!). All Expedia had to do was commit to a sufficient staffing level that it would have had the resources to go to bat for a customer. Alternately, Expedia could have worked out - in advance - the same policies as the airlines would have offered. Expedia has not done this.
Look at this example through the same lens as marketing and PR, and at the tools they would apply to social media. Now connect that to customer care: while the tools used by marketing that support active listening are well-developed, at big-brand customer-care scale, they break down: despite the online demos to the contrary, looking through a list of discovered conversations and manually assigning them for follow-up simply does not work when there are 1,000 or more posts to be reviewed. Instead, the result is exactly the experience that I had with Expedia: a day late and a dollar short. (In my case, five days late and $600 short, but I guess that's just inflation applied to an old saw.)
Most importantly, there is a revenue case to be made here: it's not just about the fuzzy warmth of customer love, or the potential brand damage caused by some teed-off hack with WordPress. As I noted in a prior article, I have routinely opted to pay more to fly on Continental, out of my pocket, personally, precisely because Continental has consistently taken care of me. Loyalty is a two-way street: Continental gets this, and has earned my business as a result. Expedia had the opportunity to do the same with a new customer. #FAIL.
The next experience involves The Teaching Company and its "Great Courses" programs. You've probably seen these advertised in The Economist or The Atlantic. I purchased one of the courses on DVD and one as an "audio download" to compare the two formats. What I found was that the audio download was more useful for me: the DVD "visual" content was satisfactory, but the pure utility of being able to listen to the lectures while driving, for example, made the audio download much more attractive to me. I've written about exactly this benefit to audio podcasting as a component of executive thought leadership programs, and it surely applied here.
So, I figured it was worth a call to see if I could exchange the DVD set for its audio download equivalent. What happened next was a perfect example of how to run a customer service department in a way that builds loyalty and drives sales. First, the phone was answered - by a person - on the second ring. Vicki introduced herself, and I recounted the above. She said, "We actually have a new option for customers expressing this same issue: You can purchase the audio download as an upgrade to your DVD subscription for five dollars per module." My course had five modules, so for $25 and less than five minutes on the phone, I was not only happier, I had actually spent more. I talked with Vicki for a moment about how attractive that option would be for all customers: if The Teaching Company made the audio download option a part of the visible ordering process - "Check here to add the audio download option: $5 per module" - then, instead of wondering which format is the best choice and possibly delaying the actual purchase, a lot of customers would probably just buy the audio download upgrade along with the DVDs. It would not surprise me at all to see this innovation as part of its ordering process very soon.
The final example involves Mercedes-Benz of Austin. In a prior blog post, I talked about an experience in which a mix-up resulted in our getting about $1,500 of repair work (AC system - not repairing is not an option in Texas!) done for about $800. Ask yourself: "Would your auto dealer have done this?" So, last week, when my wife's car needed tires, I did the due diligence and called around: the exact same Michelin tires, for a set of four, totaled about $150 more at the Mercedes dealer versus the other local tire stores. Now, guess where the tires are going to be replaced? If you said "Mercedes-Benz of Austin," you are correct. The appointment is Monday, August 29.
Look back at these four real-life examples. In three cases, a customer was treated well, by a trained and thoughtful customer service team. In these cases there is clear proof that specific actions drove customer loyalty and preference higher, and, that the customer not only spent more but also recounted and shared the experiences on the social web. What would your mornings be like as a marketing professional if they all started with that story? Compare this with the Expedia case: despite my attempts to reach the company (even using the channels it recommended), it was not until five days later (!) that Expedia offered an email summary, which in effect said "Oh well." For those of you who subscribe to the Net Promoter methodology, how likely do you think I am to recommend Expedia? How likely do you think I am to recommend (and continue to buy myself) United, The Teaching Company, or Mercedes? It's not rocket science.
The bottom line is this: if you want to "control the conversations" on the social web and win in a tough economy, spend some time in customer care. That is where many - in fact, along with stories about the product or service itself, I'd bet most - of the conversations on the social web about brands, products, and services are born. Put measures in place that track the upsell, acquisition, and retention gains as a direct result of customer care actions. In the battle for "good profits and true growth," customer care is your highly visible secret weapon.
Dave is the VP of social strategy at Lithium. Based in Austin, Dave is also the author of best-selling "Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day," as well as "Social Media Marketing: The Next Generation of Business Engagement." Dave is a regular columnist for ClickZ, a frequent keynoter, and leads social technology and measurement workshops with the American Marketing Association as well as Social Media Executive Seminars, a C-level business training provider.
Dave has worked in social technology consulting and development around the world: with India's Publicis|2020media and its clients including the Bengaluru International Airport, Intel, Dell, United Brands, and Pepsico and with Austin's FG SQUARED and GSD&M| IdeaCity and clients including PGi, Southwest Airlines, AARP, Wal-Mart, and the PGA TOUR. Dave serves on the advisory boards for social technology startups including Palo Alto-based Friend2Friend and Mountain View-based Netbase and iGoals.
Prior, Dave was a co-founder of social customer care technology provider Social Dynamx, a product manager with Progressive Insurance, and a systems analyst with NASA| Jet Propulsion Labs. Dave co-founded Digital Voodoo, a web technology consultancy, in 1994. Dave holds a BS in physics and mathematics from the State University of New York/ Brockport and has served on the Advisory Board for ad:tech and the Measurement and Metrics Council with WOMMA.
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Impact of movement training on upper limb motor strategies in persons with shoulder impingement syndrome
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The goal of this study was to evaluate the short-term effects of supervised, feedback driven training by a physiotherapist, on motor strategies in persons suffering from subacromial impingement syndrome.
The study was conducted on 33 patients and called for an initial visit, during which a DASH questionnaire on disability of the upper limb was given and a training session was conducted with a physiotherapist to demonstrate how to execute a series of movements correctly: reaching objects on different planes in space (frontal, sagittal, transverse). The physiotherapist commented on the patients' performance and corrected it, using techniques such as visual feedback with mirrors, until the proper motor strategy was achieved. The strategy was quantified based on speed of execution, kinematic and electromyographic analysis.
A second visit was held 24 hours later in order to assess the long-term effect of the training.
During, immediately afterward, and 24 hours later, the electromyographic activity of the muscles analyzed proved significantly lower than the basal. From the kinematic point of view, the total range of motion of the trunk and the final position of the trunk, shoulder, and clavicle was improved during and immediately after training, but this value returned to the basal level after 24 hours.
Using correct motor strategies also significantly reduced pain during and immediately after, as well as on the day after exercise.
In conclusion, training integrated with visual, verbal, and tactile feedback from the therapist modifies a patient's movement strategies and temporarily improves certain aspects of kinematics. In addition, a single session did not prove sufficient to bring about permanent changes to the motor patterns.
This study, despite certain limits tied to the research methodology, demonstrates the potential of motor training in rehabilitation for subacromial impingement syndrome.


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Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is a congenital malformation of the aorta. The condition is also known as aortic coarctation. Either name indicates a constriction of the aorta.
The aorta is the largest artery in your body. With a diameter about the size of a garden hose, the aorta leaves the left ventricle of the heart and runs through the middle of your body, through the chest and into the abdominal area. There, it branches out to deliver freshly oxygenated blood to your lower limbs. A constriction or narrowing of this important artery can result in decreased flow of oxygen.
In CoA, the constricted part is generally near the top of the aorta and acts like a kink in a hose. As your heart tries to pump oxygen-rich blood to the body, the blood has trouble getting through the kink. This causes high blood pressure in the upper parts of your body and reduced blood flow to the lower parts of your body.
CoA is generally diagnosed and treated shortly after birth through surgery. These children usually grow up to lead normal, healthy lives. However, if your child is not diagnosed with CoA until he or she is older, your child is at risk for high blood pressure and heart problems. He or she may require close medical monitoring.
Without treatment, CoA patients generally die in their 30s to 40s of heart disease or from complications of chronic high blood pressure.
CoA is one of several common types of congenital heart malformations. CoA may occur alone, or together with other abnormalities in the heart. CoA is seen more frequently in boys than girls. It is also associated with other congenital heart defects, such as Shone's complex and DiGeorge syndrome. While it is known that CoA begins during fetal development, its causes are still not fully understood.
In the past, doctors thought that CoA occurred more often in whites than in other races. However, more recent research suggests that differences in the prevalence of CoA may be due to different rates of detection. Studies suggest and that all races are equally likely to be born with the defect.
Fortunately, the chances of your child being born with CoA are fairly low. CoA affects only about 6 to 8 percent of all children born with heart defects. And congenital heart defects only occur in approximately .009 percent of all babies born each year.
Symptoms in newborns vary with the severity of the constriction of the aorta. About half of newborns with CoA exhibit no symptoms. The rest may have trouble breathing and be poor feeders. Other symptoms are sweating, high blood pressure, and congestive heart failure.
In mild cases, children may exhibit no symptoms until later in life. When symptoms do begin to show, they can include:
CoA is usually discovered during the newborn's first examination. Your doctor may detect differences in blood pressure between the baby's upper and lower extremities, or hear characteristic sounds of the defect when listening to your baby's heart.
If CoA is suspected, your doctor may order additional tests, such as an echocardiogram, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or cardiac catheterization (aortography) to get a more accurate diagnosis.
CoA is generally treated soon after birth using balloon angioplasty or surgery. Balloon angioplasty involves inserting a catheter inside the constricted artery and then inflating a balloon inside the artery to widen it. Surgical treatment may involve removing and replacing the "crimped" portion of the aorta. The surgeon may instead choose to bypass the constriction with a graft or creating a patch over the narrowed portion to enlarge it.
Adults who received treatment in childhood may require additional surgery later in life to treat any reoccurrence of CoA. Additional repairs may be needed to the weak area of the aortic wall. Left untreated, persons with CoA generally die in their 30s or 40s of heart failure, ruptured aorta, stroke, or other conditions.
Chronic high blood pressure associated with CoA increases the risks of heart damage, aneurysms, stroke, and premature coronary artery disease. Chronic high blood pressure can also lead to kidney and liver failure, and loss of eyesight through retinopathy. Patients with CoA may need to take drugs, such as ACE (angiotensin-converting-enzyme) inhibitors and beta-blockers to control high blood pressure.
CoA patients should follow a healthy lifestyle. Moderate daily aerobic exercise is helpful for maintaining healthy weight, cardiovascular health, and controlling blood pressure. Strenuous exercise, such as weightlifting, put additional stress on the heart and should be avoided. CoA patients should minimize their intake of dietary salt and fat. Anyone with CoA should NEVER smoke any kind of tobacco products.


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Tsunami warning has been issued after a strong 8.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued an expanding regional tsunami warning for the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, New Caledonia, Tuvalu and Kosrae.
A tsunami watch is in effect for Kiribati, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Howland and Baker, Pohnpei, Tokelau, Australia, Samoa, Indonesia, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, American Samoa, Tonga, Chuuk, Niue, Cook Islands, Wake Island, Guam, Northern Marianas, Yap, Palau, Jarvis Island, Minamitorishima, Palmyra Island and Johnston Island.
Details to follow.
Holy mackers! an 8.3 ? That's higher then the Japan quake!
The oar fish predicted this!!!!
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, initially estimated at a magnitude 8.3, occurred at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6 miles).
Never the less my 'guess' is Chile high 7, lo 8 in April and either preceded or followed quickly by low to mid 7 in Santa Cruz/Vanuatu
looking at around April 21 just because there is more often one around that date than not.