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"Sixteen" introduces Chaeryeong from Kpop Star 3
She might seems familiar to you because she"s none other than one of the sisters who joined K-pop Star 3 along with Lee Chae Yeon.
Chaeryeong joined JYP Entertainment in June last year and is now ready to show what she"s got as she turns 14 this year.
She"s has become more beautiful and more confident this time as she introduces herself as the innocent girl of Sixteen.
Contestant Nam So Hyun Continues Her Fierce Competition At "KPop Star 4" Despite Bully Scandal
The talented contestant Nam So Hyun continues her competition at "K-Pop Star 4" despite her recent bully scandal.
A representative from "K-Pop Star 4″ told Star News on January 10, "Contestant Nam So Hyun made it to the third round, and we have contacted her school regarding the rumors of her behavior. There was no issue. We are hesitant, but we will be airing her third round segment."
They continued, "We talked to her school about the online post, and the school told us that she has never caused any trouble," adding, "we tried to find the person who originally posted the accusation, but since they wrote it anonymously, we cannot find them. Nam So Hyun herself did not know who wrote the piece."
They also commented, "We understand that this is a sensitive issue. We hope that Nam So Hyun is not hurt any more than this."
Previously, an anonymous individual posted an accusation on an online community board, claiming that Nam So Hyun has been a bully in school.
Nam So Hyun is the younger sister of "K-Pop Star 3″ contestant Nam Young Joo, who made it to the top 10.
See also: K-Pop Star 4 Contestant Nam So Hyun Iljin Rumors Spread
Mysterious Netizen Releases Images and Criticism for 'KPop Star 4''s Nam So Hyn, Sparking Controversy
Lately, the netizen, who previously accused "K-Pop Star –Season IV" 's contestant, Nam So Hyun, of bullying and stealing money from friends, has shared more images and additional criticisms.
On December 15th, the mysterious netizen has shared a long post titled "K-POP Star Nam So Hyun's true nature," along with a photo. She asserted that Nam So Hyun was once a bully with proofs of photos and screen captured records. She again added more photos and proofs on her original post reinforcing her argument.
The netizen explained, "Some people say I also was one of the bullies, but me and my friends never smoke cigarettes or took away money from juniors. And they also say I made these all up, but since other victims also posted evidential photos supporting me, there seems to be a lot more than myself."
Previously, this netizen introduced herself as a middle school classmate with Nam So Hyun and said, "When I first heard that Nam So Hyun will be a part of K-Pop Star 4, I was dumbfounded. Some people say even though one has a bad past, it does not matter if they never harm other people. But she did a lot of harm to others including myself."
"It was so ridiculous that she acted to be innocent in K-Pop Star. When she went to high school later on, she tried to maintain her image saying she never smoked or drank. I decided to post all these because I don't think it is right to be successful for a person who used to give other people a lot of pain and pressure."
The netizen also added, "Nam So Hyun forced her juniors to bring her money. She got caught drinking alcohols and smoking cigarettes when she was going to middle school. Moreover, we had to sell her used clothes for her, and if we could not, we had to gather money and buy it from her."
After reading the post of Nam So Hyun's school year classmate, other netizens reacted, "Is that true?", "If it is true, Nam So Hyun should not be in K-Pop Star 4 anymore," "So disappointed," and "That is why you always have to be nice to others."
Nam So Hyun is the little sister of Nam Young Ju, who featured in K-Pop Star 3. Nam So Hyun has been gaining her popularity with her pure image and pretty appearances.
Below is a capture of the netizen's post. The original post on Pann can be found here.
KPOP STAR 3's Kwon Jin Ah Lends Voice For Toy's Forthcoming Album "Da Capo"
The former contestant of KPOP STAR season 3, Kwon Jin Ah has been confirmed to lend her voice for Toy's upcoming album, "Da Capo".
Being dubbed as the "dark horse", the third winner of KPOP STAR season 3 has garnered love of people for her strong voice and noticeable talent.
Since signing with Antenna Music last year, she has worked with Yoo Hee Yeol several times, including on her first OST single "I Only See You" in June 2014
This time, the two have collaborated on Toy's seventh album Da Capo, which has already topped an impressive number of music charts with its title track "Three People". The attention that the album has received has also had a positive impact on Kwon Jin Ah's career as a budding artist, as "She Said" is currently being used as the background song for a Korean coffee CF featuring model Kim Woo Bin.
Below is the most recent photo of Kwon Jin Ah, taken with Yoo Hee Yeol and KPOP STAR Season 3 runner-up Sam Kim. Both Kwon Jin Ah and Sam Kim, who are living in separate homes in Seoul to continue their activities as Antenna Music artists, are looking forward to finding new roommates through the upcoming KPOP STAR Season 4, set to premiere this November!
In the meantime, Toy and Kwon Jin Ah's collaboration track, "She Said," is available through music sites such as MelOn, Bugs, and Naver.
Source: Chic News, MK News
"Kpop Star 3" Nam Young Joo releases a seductive concept poster
"Kpop Star 3" Nam Young Joo flaunts once again the fruit of her labor through a sexy concept poster.
Earlier today, the singer released a gray-scale poster showing a silhouette of her curvy body behind a shower curtain while holding a mic. A representative describes the photo as a reflection of Nam Young Joo"s debut concept which is "sexy without too much exposure".
In comparison to her image from "Kpop Star 3", the singer looks more confident and sexier after losing 11kg in one month as a part of her debut. Meanwhile, Nam Young Joo released her debut single "6:09" on September 16.
"Kpop star 3" Almeng sign with YNB entertainment
Almeng, a duo made up of Choi Rin and Lee Hae Yong in the survival audition program K-Pop Star 3has signed an exclusive contract with YNB Entertainment, aiming at their official debut as singers.
During "Kpop Star 3". Almeng impressed viewers and the judges by their hip hop style with perfect bond. They were eliminated from Top 6 but received many good comments from JYP and Yang Hyun Suk.
A rep of YNB entertainment stated, We saw some potential in the group through the audition program and felt there was a hope, so we signed a contract. We will help them show their best side
YNB also hinted that the two may release their official debut album later this year but has not decided a specific date yet.
Calling all hopeful artists! SBS show "KPOP STAR" will be holding its 4th round of global auditions around the U.S.!
Famous audition show "KPOP STAR 4" is holding global auditions throughout the summer within five locations in the U.S.!
The application process opened on June 1st, but the program will be accepting applications until the day of the audition, which depends on your closest location. The dates and locations that the auditions will be held are as follows:
Hawaii – Tuesday, July 29th at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort
Houston, Texas – Saturday, August 2nd at Stratford High School
Los Angeles, California – Saturday, August 2nd at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center
New York, New York – Saturday, August 9th at the Queens Theatre at the Park
Seattle, Washington – Saturday, August 9th at The Westin Seattle
The official paper application is downloadable from the official site, and you must keep a copy as well as email it to the respective address of your chosen location. It is preferred that you fill out the application in Korean, though it is not necessary. However, knowing the Korean language itself is important during filming for the show. The respective email addresses for each location are listed below:
Houston: [email protected]
Los Angeles: [email protected]
New York: [email protected]
Seattle: [email protected]
Necessary items to bring to the audition are an official ID (any passport, driver license, etc.), the application along with a picture, and the agreement form, which you can download from the official website. However, walk-in applications and auditions are also allowed, as long as all the forms and identification are brought in for validation. Further details and notifications of qualification may be revealed later via phone or email.
YouTube auditions are allowed as well, though the staff prefers that those who wish to audition show up in person to perform their segment. However, if the five set locations are too far, you are allowed to send in a video of any length. The steps are:
Log-in to YouTube with your personal ID and upload your video Copy the URL of the video Visit http://tv.sbs.co.kr/kpopstar4; click the [YouTube Audition] button; click the [YouTube Submission] button below Type in email and password (4 digits) to log-in Put the necessary information (make sure it is all correct) on the submission page before pasting the video URL in. Click [Submit] In order to re-access your application, just click back to [YouTube Submission] and log-in again with your email and password. "KPOP STAR 4" will then notify you of your admissions status via phone or email.
You still have relatively two to three weeks to perfect your skills for the upcoming auditions, so make sure to practice hard and arrive at your respective location (or send in your video) by the right date and at the right location!
Good luck to all those who have been planning to or will audition for this next season of SBS's hit audition show, "KPOP STAR 4"!
Source: SBS "KPOP STAR 4" Official Website
"KPOP STAR 3" contestant Kwon Jinah takes first steps as a musician with an OST song!
After signing with Antenna Music, Jinah is finally releasing her first song!
Kwon Jinah, most famously known for winning third place on the popular audition program, "KPOP STAR Season 3", has announced that she will be participating in the OST for the SBS drama, "You Are Surrounded". The drama stars top actors, like Cha Seungwon, Lee Seungki, and Go Ara. Kwon Jinah will be singing a song titled "I Only See You" which will be released on the 19th.
This will be Kwon Jinah's first release after finishing "KPOP STAR" and signing with Antenna Music. The song was lyricized by the company's founder, Yoo Heeyeol, and composed by Park Saebyul.
The soft piano instrumental with Kwon Jinah's melodic and soulful voice fit perfectly with the scene, which showed Daegu (Lee Seungki) reminiscing his childhood.
"Kpop Star 3″ Almeng sing "Let's Forget" for "Three Days" OST
"K PopStar 3″ Almeng made a surprise participation in the "Three Days" OST.
Almeng that received attention in SBS "Survival Audition Kpop Star – Season 3″ with catchy and fresh songs will be releasing the OST of SBS Wednesday/Thursday drama "Let"s forget".
Through "Kpop Star 3″ Almeng showed unique sounds and was able to reinterpret melodies and was in the Top 6. Producer Song Dong Woon who paid attention to this chose them as the singers for the "Three Days" OST.
"Let"s forget" sung by Almeng was composed Park Sung Ho and Oh Chang Hoon and was edited by Urban Unplug as a hip-hop song as the aggressive yet pure rapping of Choi Lin and the soft sounds of Lee Hae Yong are making a great harmony.
Meanwhile, "Three Days" OST features a blockbuster lineup APink Jung Eun Ji, Fourman Shin Yong Jae and Baechigi.
Top 8 Singers Decided for "Kpop Star 3," Former Amercian Idol Han Hee Jun Wows Judges
The top 8 contestants for the music audition show "Kpop Star 3" have been chosen. The top 8 were chosen from the top 10. The top 10 was split into two groups of five, and the top three contestants of each group would move on to next round. The last four contestants face elimination, and the audience chooses who they believe should move forward to the live show. The top two vote receivers will move forward. The show airs on SBS at 4:55pm KST on Sundays.
Group A consisted of Sam Kim, Jjarimongddang, Kwon Jin Ah, Bernard Park and Almeng. Group B consisted of Han Hee Jun, Bae Min Ah, Nam Young Ju, Jang Han Na, and Something. Former American Idol Han Hee Jun ranked first in his group.
Episode # Group Order Name Song – Original Artist Rank Result 15 A 1 Sam Kim That XX - G-Dragon Elimination Candidate Top 8 2 Jjarimongddang BrownCity - Browneyed Soul 2nd Top 8 3 Kwon Jin-ah See Through – Primary 1st Top 8 4 Bernard Park Words I Want to Say - Kim Tae-woo Elimination Candidate Top 8 5 Almeng Miss Cigarette - Song Chang-sik 3rd Top 8 16 B 1 Han Hee-jun Regrets - Kim Gun-mo 1st Top 8 2 Bae Min-ah Day by Day - As One 3rd Top 8 3 Nam Young-ju Behind You - Park Jin-young Elimination Candidate Eliminated 4 Jang Han-na Caution – Tashannie 2nd Top 8 5 Something 21st Century Chameleon- Self-Written Song Elimination Candidate Eliminated *chart from Wikipedia
Below is Bae Min Ah's performance of As One's Day By Day.
Here is Han Hee Jun's emotional performance of "Regrets" by Kim Gun Mo.
You can watch more performances on Kpop Star 3′s Youtube channel.


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"Is He Toxic Or Am I Just Hyper-Sensitive?"
"Is He Toxic Or Am I Just Hyper-Sensitive?"
"Is He Toxic Or Am I Just Hyper-Sensitive?"
Being in what I call a "pain cycle" is being in a love relationship where the pain of loving that person overtakes the positive aspects of the love you share.
Examples of pain cycles are relationships where you feel like you are on an emotional rollercoaster. Where you feel betrayed or your emotional and physical needs in love are not being met and you deeply suffer, as a result.
Pain cycles can even be relationships where the other person isn't toxic in and of themselves but the situation is: he's married, you are having casual friends with benefits situations out of fear of getting hurt. See, pain cycles are not just painful relationships; they are also painless, somewhat unfulfilling relationships that you stay involved in, in order not to seek out quality, deep connections with men where you may REALLY experience pain. It's that FEAR OF FUTURE pain that can make these casual relationships pain cycles.
However, the types of pain cycles where your partner is toxic can be very scary, deeply damaging and downright exhausting. Here are five signs of a noxious man and some ways to spot these personality pitfalls right away:
1. He's a CRYING CROCODILE: Noxious men only cry crocidile tears. They lack real empathy and compassion. They may ball their eyes out if something hurtful is done to them, but when YOU are in emotional or physical distress, they don't seem too concerned. They may act empathic and say the right things, but you can tell that they aren't really showing understanding. Or remorse if they've done you wrong.
If you think your man doesn't seem to care much for the pain and suffering of others, including YOU, and you are seriously wondering if you should be entrusting him with making you feel safe, ask him questions like "If you found a wallet on the street, would you try to contact the owner?" Or "Do you think most people would do harmful things to others if it benefited them and if they knew they could get away with it? Would you and what would you do?" Be subtle but watch his expressions.
2. He's a ROYAL WANNABE: A toxic man is entitled. He is the important factor in everything. It's all about him and his needs. A lot of men act a wee bit self-important, especially successful men who love power, but a toxic man takes it to the extreme.
Does he truly listen to your needs, or take your requests into consideration? Does he charm you and sweet talk you, but never really HEAR you and SEE you?
His relationship with his family is a big sign of whether a man feels entitled or not. Does he do for his parents, and willingly so? Does he care about his sister's problems, and share his concerns for her to you? Does he constantly whine and bitch about his family to you and TO THEM?
Watch the way he treats people in a position of service toward him: waiters, store clerks, valet guys. Does he seem to treat people like they are bottom-feeding servants instead of dignified human being who are offering a service for which one must always be respectful back?
If your man is snapping his fingers at a waiter or exploding at the manager of a restaurant over something rather trivial, listen to the way he talks to him or her, and remember, he will talk to you like that one day I guarantee it. This brings me to my next toxic trait…
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MASHPEE — The Mashpee town election is Saturday and includes contested races for two seats on the Board of Selectmen and two seats on the Mashpee School Committee.
Voting will take place at the gymnasium at Quashnet School, 150 Old Barnstable Road. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Board of Selectmen candidates:
John J. Cahalane
- Age: 67
- How long lived in town: 40 years
- Property owner or renter: Owner
- Occupation: Marketing consultant
- Education: Bachelor's degree in business administration, Boston University.
- Political experience: current chairman of Board of Selectmen; member of Human Services Committee; 14 years on Mashpee Affordable Housing Authority; six years on Mashpee Sewer Commission.
- Other community service: Served with the 102nd Intelligence Wing, Air National Guard; member of many Mashpee community service committees.
Why are you running? What most motivates you?
"I've been a selectman for a long time now, and I think the town is well managed and in good shape. I'm part of a team that makes that happen. In my opinion, Mashpee is probably one of the best places to live and work on the Cape at this point. I'd like to stay in office to help make the town an even better place."
What are the two most pressing issues in your town and how would you address them?
"The most pressing is our nitrogen mitigation and need for sewers. The town is already well on its way to attack the issue; we're in the final stages of a plan now. We're also using shellfish propagation as an issue, and that could save the town millions of dollars.
"The other pressing issue is to maintain our fiscal responsibility with our town services, always keeping in mind we have many people on fixed incomes and younger families. We need to keep the tax base stable and as free of increases as possible."
What action taken by the Board of Selectmen in the past year do you most disagree with and how would you have handled it?
"For the most part, keeping in mind we just came through a major recession and we didn't have a single layoff or (Proposition 2�) override, I think overall we're doing a very good job. As far as any specific issues, there may be a few I disagree with, but you can't always have it your own way. There's nothing I can think of that's affected the town negatively."
How do you differ from the other candidates? What sets you apart?
"No. 1, I've been a resident for 40 years. I have the history of the town, I know it inside and out and I know why Mashpee has been so successful. I would like to be considered part of the reason it has been so successful."
Andrew Gottlieb
- Age: 51
- How long lived in town: On and off since 1963, permanently since 2012
- Property owner or renter: Owner
- Occupation: self-employed consultant and small-business owner
- Education: Bachelor's degree, Harvard University; Master of Business Administration, Boston University.
- Political experience: Mashpee selectman, 1987-1991; Mashpee water commissioner, 1987-1988; Mashpee Sewer Commission, 1987-1988; served in Gov. Mitt Romney's Cabinet as chief of the Office of Commonwealth Development; former executive director of the special legislative commission on water supply.
- Other community service: Current chairman of Mashpee/Wakeby Lake Management Committee; former Mashpee assistant harbormaster; former trustee of Cape Cod Community College; youth baseball and boys and girls hockey coach.
Why are you running? What most motivates you?
"I'm at a time in my life where I'm fortunate to have the ability to come back to the place I consider home, and I found I wanted to serve the community. (I have) a desire to keep Mashpee an appealing, affordable community in which people can come, raise a family, live, work and retire if they see fit."
What are the two most pressing issues in your town and how would you address them?
"First and foremost are the economic challenges. I think we need to really look at how we're going to provide a good quality of life for the families who want to stay here. We need to look at ways we can attract businesses to the community and properly scale commercial development to create more job opportunities that hopefully are not as seasonal in nature. I think there's a real opportunity to provide meaningful tax relief to year-round residents by creating a residential property tax exemption for full-time, owner-occupied homes.
"The second piece is dealing with the wastewater. Done wrong, it's enormously expensive. Not dealing with it threatens the economic underpinnings of Cape Cod and Mashpee. I think the town needs to be aggressively engaged ... to come up with the most economical solutions for the watershed that we possibly can."
What action taken by the Board of Selectmen in the past year do you most disagree with and how would you have handled it?
"I think the board has failed to take a leadership stance on important issues, including the petition to withdraw from the Cape Cod Commission and not looking aggressively enough to relieve tax burden. ... I don't see an aggressive policy in place to try and mitigate the impact of our relatively high tax rates on working families and families with fixed incomes. Maintaining the status quo on the economy and property taxes isn't good enough."
How do you differ from the other candidates? What sets you apart?
"I offer a unique mix of local political experience ... and much broader perspective from my work in state government, which gave me the opportunity to work across all the communities in the state and learn what best practices are out there that are applicable to the town of Mashpee."
Tom O'Hara
- Age: 62
- How long lived in town: 20 years
- Property owner or renter: Owner
- Occupation: building contractor
- Education: high school, continuing education courses at Bentley University.
- Political experience: currently on Board of Selectmen; three years on Planning Board, including serving as chairman; Design Plan Review Committee; sewer commissioner, Community Preservation Act Committee.
- Other community service: Air Force reserves, 1970-1977, stationed for a short-term activation at U-tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand; active volunteer on several Christmas season activities.
Why are you running? What most motivates you?
"I was certainly questioning whether I was going to run again. I was on the fence, but during that period of time I became agitated by mitigation proposed by the Cape Cod Commission on a brand-new assisted-living facility being built at Route 151 and Old Barnstable Road. It was so outrageous ... it made me want to pull papers (to run again). I'm here for the Cape, I want my family to be able to live here, I want my children to live here and I don't want anything driving jobs away."
What are the two most pressing issues in your town and how would you address them?
"Jobs is the most pressing issue right now. We need to get more jobs and have more career opportunities so people can afford to live on the Cape. As much as I'm not happy with the Cape Cod Commission, they need to start working with the local economic development officials to knock on doors and see what's out there. They could probably do a much better job than the individual towns in bringing businesses to town.
"The addiction problem also bothers me. It's got a lot to do with crime and suicides. The best I can do is be supportive of the department heads, police in particular, and the schools, and give them the funds that are available. If they need money to fight this issue, I need to be behind them."
What action taken by the Board of Selectmen in the past year do you most disagree with and how would you have handled it?
"I can't think of anything. The Board of Selectmen has done a great job this year."
How do you differ from the other candidates? What sets you apart?
"I'm an independent voice, a strong voice and I'm not afraid of asking questions. I don't go along to get along; I do discuss the issues and try to do my homework so I have some understanding of what I'm voting on. I'm not there to make decisions just on what I feel is right, I'm going to do it based on what my residents tell me they'd like to see happen."
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Shaking Off Inertia … Stirring Up Innovation: Jerry Lee,
Radio Ink
's Radio Executive Of The Year (01/07/08)
When the subject of successful single station owners is raised, Jerry Lee's name is usually the first mentioned. An enthusiastic advocate for radio, Lee's involvement in industry initiatives like the Radio Ad Effective Lab and his outspoken support for more and better research, improving audience measurement, and exploration of new revenue streams set him apart as a man whose influence in radio goes far beyond the reach of WBEB-FM/Philadelphia, the now-legendary station he's run since the outlet's earliest days.
Along with his passion for radio, Lee also works tirelessly on other issues close to his heart, including criminology and providing a helping hand to children in need. In his rare moments of down time, Lee enjoys one of his most prized possessions, an Aston Martin DB5 built specifically for the James Bond movie
. And like the superspy, just about everything Lee touches turns to gold. So as his station enjoys top-of-the-heap success in Philly, radio would do well to listen up when he discusses his ideas for how the industry as a whole can resolve its struggling revenue growth simply by hunkering down. "We've got to get back to the basics of how to sell radio," he says. "Our problem isn't PR right now. People on the outside think this is a very glamorous business. I don't see any problem attracting people to this industry, but I do see a big problem in training. Because radio is a very solid product, it's a great business."
At a time when radio is finding its way in a changing media world, Lee's pioneering vision and hard work set him apart as one of radio's most vibrant leaders. For the reasons mentioned above and many, many more,
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RADIOINK: What is your outlook for 2008?
I don't think we'll see much growth in '08. I think it will continue that way unless we become proactive as an industry. We've got a phenomenal product, but we're not banding together to focus on it.
RI: Proactive how?
For example, Erwin Ephron just conducted a PPM study in Houston on the effectiveness of using TV and radio together. The results found that if an advertiser took 25 percent out of the TV budget and gave it to radio, the reach for the campaign would increase by 30 percent. This is a helluva story, but as an industry we won't do anything with it. I don't know why, but we just don't glom onto things and run with them. If we did nothing in 2008 but told that story over and over and over again, it would make us a lot of money.
RI: Why don't industry leaders realize we need to tell this story?
The radio industry is being run so lean that nobody has time to plan or think. Everything is about this week, this month. As a result, people are either not willing or don't have the time to worry about the future.
In radio, we seem to have a very short attention span, so we need to spoon feed information to people. Some major research done in the early '50s showed that 97 percent of the population can only handle seven new things at a time, plus or minus two. Some people can only handle five, but nobody in the 97 percent can handle more than nine. People are being pulled in so many directions that we don't have the time to take one simple idea and really drill it into people. We need a lot of repetition to get to people.
Another thing we don't do — and I'm not faulting anybody here — is make use of the RAB. They have phenomenal material on their website, but the number of people using more than 2 or 3 percent of that material is probably close to zero. It's our own fault; we don't make it a priority to use this great ammunition. We're not willing to make sure that all of our sellers know this information and hold them accountable for it. We have a major accountability problem in radio.
RI: Accountability is a big buzz word these days with the rollout of PPM. How can radio improve its accountability to advertisers?
There is a way, but nobody's doing it yet. It's so obvious; I'll give you a real-life example in Philadelphia. When PPM came out in April, the first client we heard from was Geico. They're the largest national advertiser in Philadelphia, probably the whole country. They'd already booked the third and fourth quarters, so this is existing business. After seeing the data, they called and said the average quarter hour is down 30 percent with PPM, so we want you to revise our buy and lower your price by 30 percent. We told them no. We were the only station in the market that told them no, so they went out and bought the other stations at a lower rate. I won't say what the number was, but they took 25 percent off our buy and placed it at other stations. The other 75 percent we kept at our rate.
But there is a bigger problem here: In this Gieco buy, the PPM had just come out. There were a few stations whose AQH didn't go down the 30 percent in PPM — they actually stayed flat; these stations should have jacked their rates up 30 percent because they were the same in PPM as they were in the diary.
The problem is that nobody is managing this; market managers aren't getting instructions from headquarters on managing rates. If these companies had said to their managers: We're going to change the compensation based on your pricing in the marketplace, they would have solved the problem. Plus, most of the big groups in the major markets control a demographic. CBS, for example, controls men in Philadelphia.
When you control demographics, you can get a disproportionately higher rate for that group because you have the negotiating power. Advertisers can't go anywhere else to get those people. If you realize that, you can say no.
Just this week, a major advertiser told us through their buying service that they want diary rates, which meant they wanted about a 30 percent discount. In this case, we were in tight with the client, so we said no — and we got our rate. Most stations would have said: OK, I'm not going to give you 30 percent, but I'll give you 15 percent.
RI: Is that because you knew you had the demo they're trying to reach?
We would have done it anyhow. We did it with Geico; we took a bath of about $125,000 because we did not lower our price. If you control a demographic, you can control the pricing, but for some reason the big groups just don't understand that.
Nobody is leaning back, taking a breath, and saying: How do I strategize this? There are not enough bodies out there; everybody is working their tail off. Nobody has a chance to say: Wait a minute, let's address this differently. We control this demographic, let's put our foot forward and refuse this buy and see what happens. Right now, if you don't meet your budget, you get penalized, so no sellers are going to change their ways because they are trying to meet their budgets. But if the group heads told their market leaders: We're going to hold you accountable for pricing as a group; some stations have to go up and down, but we're going to hold you responsible — this wouldn't happen, if they're incentivized on that basis.
RI: Do compensation packages for sellers and market managers need to be changed?
It needs to be totally changed. Especially under PPM, we need a reset for the radio station between management and their sellers. It's really between the sales manager of the station and the market leader. For example, if you went down 50 percent when the market is down 30 percent, then you shouldn't be expected to be even next year. If you're only down 20 percent, you're doing well for that particular format. If another station in your group is flat — which means it's up 30 percent because the whole market is down 30 percent — then we expect a 30 percent increase in rates. Unless you're willing to say to me, I can't do it, but I can do it over two years or whatever increment. But there is no plan, and it's a severe problem. Unless somebody comes to grip with this, the future, instead of being very bright, is going to be very dicey.
RI: Is there is a short-term bridge while radio is in limbo between the diary and PPM?
The short-term fix of taking 25 percent out of TV and putting it into radio can be done right now, without PPM. You can do some modeling based on Philadelphia and Houston to give advertisers an approximation of what's going to happen, and they can see in the real world what sales are getting.
RI: What are your thoughts on Arbitron's delay of the next phase of the PPM rollout?
I'm upset about it, but it was the right thing to do. It would be too costly to try to fix it on the run. One way Arbitron can fix it is to use the Neilson method of going door to door in certain demographic areas of the city where they're having a poor response rate and ask consumers to carry the PPM. You wouldn't want to do this for every group because it becomes ridiculously expensive, and I don't know the cost factor for doing it in a limited basis, but I know it will work.
Arbitron is obviously trying every other way of getting cooperation rates up because they've got to run a business. It's good that they're delaying now because they can do all their experimenting in Philadelphia and New York without it being on line. They can experiment and can get it right, then roll it out.
RI: Why not get going and tweak on the run?
The problem is bigger than they thought. They had no idea they'd have cooperation rates like this. They were getting so much bad PR, so they did the right thing. It's a very costly thing for them to do, but it was the right thing to do, no question.
RI: Is doing more to promote combining radio and online advertising another area where radio should focus more attention?
Radio and the Internet is a perfect combination — dynamite. To me, it's quite simple. Until you have the desire to buy a product, you're not going online to try to find it. Radio stirs up emotion for a product, and then you go to the web to find everything about it, and how to get it. We shouldn't be fighting the Internet — the Internet is phenomenal. Our mantra is don't worry about selling radio time, worry about getting results for the client. Recommend to the client that they do other things. It's not about selling radio time. Radio is just one piece of the solution for the advertisers; whatever it takes for the client to make money.
I'd like to see the industry resurrect their old work organization. For example, we've had a group in Philadelphia called Pro Radio that's been inactive for 30 years. We got it back together so that we're all telling the same story about PPM, and it's starting to perform. What I want to do with this group is set up a 25,000-member web panel. All the stations could advertise to their audience to be part of this panel, and we could ask questions of consumption of radio listeners once or twice a month. We can then find out who they P1 and P2 to, and what their purchases have been. This could be dynamite; we could show cause and effect: The station being advertised on got this result, this number of actual sales; the ones who weren't being advertised on were business as usual. Things like this can put the industry over the top.
There's a system I want to put in place, I call it the Las Vegas money machine. In Las Vegas, they have a tax on hotel rooms, and 100 percent of that tax is spent for one purpose — to bring more people into Las Vegas. So it's become a perpetual money machine. The more people they bring in, the more money they have to spend to bring more people in, and it goes around in a circle.
What I am proposing is that as a local industry here in Philadelphia — and I can see this being done all over the country — we go out and create new business, and from that new business we put 20 percent into a kitty to do this consumer panel and other things to build the industry.
RI: Will cross-town rivals agree to cooperate like that and share money?
Absolutely! I have no question in my mind. I got all the stations together in person to discuss this web panel. Asked if they would run an incredibly heavy schedule in January to get recruits, they all said yes. It's not yet 100 percent final, but it looks like we're going to do a pilot program. That will be delayed for a year just to do a proof of concept, but the feeling I'm getting from the groups here is that they're very interested in working together. I hope to make Philadelphia the proving ground for the country so this idea of setting up a money machine can be replicated all over the country. Once you set up this money machine, you can do anything under the sun, and it will just keep breeding more and more money. You could hire one or two full-time salespeople who do nothing but sell for Pro Radio. You can use it to hire the best copywriters in the country. This stuff will work big time, and radio will go through the roof.
Another thing I'm working on to jumpstart this whole money machine idea — I think this is a killer — is saying to an advertiser: We want to give you 2 million dollars in advertising in Philadelphia for the next 12 months. Don't change the way you're spending money now, and we will overlay 2 million dollars. At the end of six months, if we can't show you through our web panel and your own internal audits that you've made enough money to pay for at least the first month of advertising, walk away. You owe us nothing. Assuming that it's paying for at least the first two months of advertising, starting in the seventh month, you'll pay us two months of advertising each month until we're whole again.
RI: How are other stations feeling about taking those kinds of risks?
I've gotten the go-ahead from one group in Philadelphia. The reason it's not a big risk is because we're calling this delayed billing. We're not saying they're getting it for free. We're stacking the deck. We will not let a client do this unless they agree to work with us to produce a winning commercial. We also have to agree on their profit. We've got to have all those things up front so we know what success is. Once we do that, the odds of failure are very, very low. Don't forget, we're not talking about them making a profit, we're talking about them making enough additional sales to pay for the advertising. You're not in business to break even; in advertising, you'd better get three or four or five dollars to one for your spend.
The panel would also be used for testing commercials. Right now, I'm only testing people who are listeners of my radio station, but commercials that work with my audience may not work with some other audience. The best way to do radio is for certain products to have several different campaigns customized to the particular demographic.
We did a study in 2005 and found that only 19 percent of all radio commercials on the air in Philadelphia, both national and local combined, were any good. That means over 80 percent are lousy. This is a golden opportunity for radio to go out and hire people. We're now becoming very aggressive and going to clients to say: We've had this testing service around for the past three years, and we've tested over 2,400 commercials — and your commercial doesn't test well. It's time to do something about it, and here's what we'll do: We'll work with your agency and give them resources they don't have. We have contacts all over the country who can write great radio commercials. We will pay for the first commercial to be produced, we will test it, and we won't come back to the agency until we have a winning commercial. Then the agency can go to the client and say here's what I've done.
RI: If radio is being run so lean, how can they spend more money on creative?
This is where the Las Vegas money machine comes in. You take that 20 percent of new business that the local group has created — brand new stuff, they wouldn't have had otherwise unless they aggressively went after them as an industry — and use that for the panel for hiring outside people to write this copy. It takes away all the money problems.
RI: How will auction services from Google and eBay affect the value of radio advertising and how it is sold?
Again, it's relatively simple. Right now, Google is not only going in at a low rate, but they're charging a 50 percent commission. That's not gonna fly. If they get down to a reasonable commission, say 15 or 20 percent, they've got a viable product. I have talked to them at length about using the lowest unit rate as the bottom rate that you'll let anybody bid on. If they do that with a 15 or 20 percent commission, overnight, it will be a successful program. But they haven't gotten to that point yet. Hey, it's nice to go in and say I want 50 percent. Why not?
RI: Can these services bring new money to radio?
Yes, I think they can. But within five years, most of the selling nationally is going to be over the Internet. I'm not recommending it, but I think this will be reality. All inventory will be posted on the station's website, and there will be a central source where every agency goes to choose what they want to buy with no human intervention at all. I'm not advocating this, I just think it will happen. So the value of the national and local reps will be the ability to help the client make money by developing ideas for producing results. With our web panel of 25,000, we'll be able to show cause and effect. This is a major added value for advertisers: We can experiment, and we can actually see if it has made a difference in who's buying the product and the amount of product they're buying.
RI: What about new money from podcasting and other digital media?
I choke when I hear things like that. You're playing with pennies. There's a rule in life, it's called the Perado Principle or the 80/20 Rule: 20 percent of the activities produce 80 percent of the results. That podcasting stuff is in the 80 percent that produces 20 percent. We've got to get disciplined and spend our time, energies, and money on things that have the big payoff and make the client successful. If we spent our time training salespeople how to sell, that's the 20 percent that produces 80 percent. We have a tendency in this industry to provide some training, and say, OK, I've done it, I've trained them. We don't ask for feedback on what they really learned, or if it has changed their ability to bring in more money.
One of the things I want to talk to the RAB about is their fabulous website that very few people are using. I would like the RAB — in fact I'd be willing to volunteer to head up a committee to do it — to work on ways of making the information stick. Xerox was the only company I ever came across that knew how to teach people so it actually stuck. They would take three days to teach what somebody else would teach in one day. They used role play, audio, video — when you walked out of a Xerox learning course, you had it for life. Most training doesn't work because we don't do enough to embed it in the people's psyche so that it becomes part of them. You go through a training program on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and return to work on Monday. Tuesday is a crisis, and by Wednesday, you have forgotten everything you've learned. When companies send their people to a seminar, it is nothing more than a freebie for entertaining their people, not for learning anything. Any training that is provided needs to be regurgitated back within 24 to 36 hours or it won't stick. I'm doing it, but nobody else is.
RI: How do you convince sellers that those days of training are worth losing time in front of clients?
We need to parcel out learning in very small chunks. Right now we're training our entire sales force on how to use Google to learn everything about the clients. After a 45-minute seminar, we break up into two teams of no more than five people each. One of our tech people sits with each team and watches them as they try to find information on key clients. Obviously they are not going to do it right, so we help them along by asking have you tried this, have you tried that. The following day they come back with different clients and demonstrate that they can get this information. Now they've learned it, and it doesn't take a lot of time.
In life, I use research. I'm involved in so much research around the world, it's ridiculous. You can get to the bottom of anything by using research. I did an experiment a number of years ago where I found that the easiest way to make sales is over lunch. I tried over the years to teach our salespeople the power of selling over lunch; I had a whole system for selling over lunch, a real system that nobody uses. For the next month the salespeople would be setting up all these lunches, and all of a sudden their billing would go way up — and then they would stop doing it. They would say, well it really wasn't the lunch, it was something else that made the sale. But it really was the lunch, and I couldn't get people to see the cause and effect.
RI: As chair of the Radio Ad Effectiveness Lab, do you think that information is getting used enough?
We've got a long way to go there. We've got phenomenal information and research, but people are not being trained properly how to use it. It should be used on every sales call.
RI: Why aren't they excited about using this data?
They're too anxious to make the sale; they're trying to bring the business in for this week rather than approaching it in a way that will change people's perception of the station and radio, so they can make more money in the long run.
RI: What's next for RAEL?
It hasn't been announced yet, but we're toying with a couple of studies. The last study we did with Gallop and Robinson used the smile muscle and the frown muscle to determine engagement. From the existing knowledge we have, we can do three reports out of that, which we're going to do. Basically, we've slowed down because we're trying to figure how to best make money with the knowledge we have. We've got this pot of money — $4.4 million, we're up 17 percent this year in donations — but we have to use it in a way that actually produces dollars. Actually, I'm asking RAB if they would like to appoint me to be the person responsible for building sales for the radio industry, so we'll see whether they decide to do that. I'm passionate about it, and I think I know quite a bit about it.
RI: What are the growth opportunities for HD Radio?
The big opportunity for HD is model year 2011. According to Texas Instruments, in the 2011 model year HD will be standard equipment in cars. They're building modules that can incorporate all kinds of features for less money than the modules now cost. For less than a dollar each, automakers can add this modular system to vehicles. They're around $30 now, and to the car company that is a horrendous amount of money. It may be more than that, and they won't consider it beyond in limited models. At a dollar, it's automatic. They have to do it at a dollar because somebody else will do it. To me, minimum penetration of maybe 35 percent is key; once we get to 35 percent, we can do things. Say you're running your format on your main channel and it starts to wane and you've got to replace that with a new format — you just automatically drop that old format into your HD channel and you're going to make money. I think that's where a lot of money will come from in the future for HD Radio. Once your mainstream has gotten to a point where it's no longer viable, you have to change, and it will be viable on your HD2.
RI: What about opportunities for data applications? Is that another case of pennies?
Right now it is, but it could be something later; it depends on technology, how much they're able to do. Right now, I look at my radio station and it's literally a gold mine. I can come up with an idea and get another 200, 300, 400, 500 thousand dollars. Why should I be spending my time looking at something I can maybe make $10,000 on? With the same amount of energy, I can make a half million dollars. It just doesn't make any sense.
RI: The FCC is under fire for making changes to their cross-ownership limits, but you've been an outspoken supporter of consolidation. Why?
I think the American public is better off with consolidation. We've got more formats than we had before in markets. People complain that stations sound the same from Philadelphia, Chicago, New York. Who is traveling across the country? And so what if you go visit your friend in Chicago and you hear the same announcer? Who the hell cares? And, they're saying it's homogenized because of that? It is ridiculous.
RI: Local talent have been the victims along the way, though.
It's like the number of people who have lost jobs because of products that are no longer manufactured in this country. Unemployment is very low in this country because we have found other ways of employing people. People in manufacturing are not employed in the same type of job they had before their company shifted their production elsewhere. They're into a totally different area. It's the same thing here. It's not a God-given right to be a DJ. So our business is shrinking people-wise as the rest of the country is shrinking people-wise industry by industry.
RI: What are the chances that Congress will adopt a performance royalty for radio?
I have faith in [NAB President & CEO] David Rehr. He won't let it happen.
RI: Would it be fair to pay performers some form of royalty?
Absolutely not, it would be ridiculous. Because we are already taking care of the performers by playing their music on the air and making them into viable commodities; selling product, selling records, concert performances, etc.
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is that after fairly brief refit, command of the Enterprise was turned over to Will Decker and he took her out again. Years and many missions later, Decker brought the Enterprise back to Earth (by this time Kirk is already CoSO) and the rebuild process began.
Two things from TMP work against this, however.
First, when Scotty is speaking to Kirk in the travel pod, he refers to Decker as an "untried captain," which certainly wouldn't be true if Decker had been out there commanding the
for a number of years.
Second, when Kirk is explaining to Decker why he is taking command, he cites his experience of "five years out there dealing with unknowns like this." If Decker had also been out there for several years, Kirk's experience wouldn't be a factor.
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Rich Harden's brief tenure in Texas was pretty similar to the rest of his time in MLB -- injury plagued. In 2010, Harden made 18 starts for the Rangers and racked up just 92 innings despite earning $7.5 million for the season. But you can't say the Rangers weren't warned. Harden had missed at least seven starts every season since 2005, and one of the first injuries he ever suffered at the big league level happened back in 2004, when he strained his shoulder in spring training while trying to turn off his alarm clock.
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Pardon my ignorance, but what will the leak of the appldr keys allow us to do in addition to the lvl0 keys?
Pardon my ignorance, but what will the leak of the appldr keys allow us to do in addition to the lvl0 keys?
I'm a noob for now, but sooner or later I'll figure this stuff out
just been into town and found dishonoured for only £17. took it too the till and only got charged £12 on the receipt. then to top it all off the woman gave me wrong change. instead of change for £15 she gave me change for £20 (I said nothing and left) i've effectively just paid £6 for a new game.
something just had to go wrong today. (probably won't be able to get it working)
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How do i put 3.70 keys to scetool?
Read the previous page and you will find a keys file, use that.
Thank you i found it
What can we do with these keys? Patch games,right?
Why don't you give The Amazing Spiderman a try? PLz devs.. I want to play that game
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If you work with an installation where forms in MS Dynamics AX are opened in the background then the following code fix might help out here: "Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This mail message assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and the tools that are used to create and debug procedures." Add a new static, client-side method to Classes\Application, as below:
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DLLFunction DLLFunction;
container con = WinAPI::getVersion();
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But let's give Obama and company benefit of the doubt for the moment, just for the sake of argument. Let's argue that the Government taking from us 1.3 trillion dollars in taxes will turn things around. How then should it be spent? What has emerged from the House and Senate proceedings is a slab of pork spending so large in scope the average tax-payer will gasp with offense when the final list is revealed. (Among the items, millions for condoms, hundreds of millions of STD awareness, even rumored water parks for Florida.)
But since this is imaginary land and we're pretending that taxing us 1.3 trillion dollars will solve the problems let's consider another way of using the money.
Most people do not realize that 1.3 trillion dollars is more money than if you spent one million dollars a day since the birth of Christ right up to present day. If you break it down across the raw population of America (not voters, not taxpayers, not even just adults - but EVERYONE) it would average out to be roughly $4290 per person. A married couple would garner a touch more than $8500. A family of four comes in at just over $17,000.
At a dinner party in Chicago this past friday evening I asked the four couples gathered around the table what they would do with that amount of money coming back to them from the government. Each of them mentioned housing projects, fix-me-up stuff, goods they were in need of, and some mentioned paying off debt. There were also mentions of new home electronic big ticket items, and the ladies around the table all day-dreamed momentarily of being able to do a spa day. Long story short, every item they talked about would have employed someone like a contractor, plumber, or electrician. They would have added to the welfare of commerce--big ticket items, new transportation, etc. And some would have even helped solidify the crumbling credit market by paying off credit card balances and putting cash back into the system.
If this was the case with merely five couples of very modest means, imagine the heat that would warm the economic engine from an entire nation responding this way.
America would've never seen this kind of stimulus put in place before. The largest tax cuts that President Bush instituted were roughly $1500 per family. The amount of fluidity this plan would free up would be more than ten times that amount.
President Obama knows this to be true. He also could predictably determine the outcome.
Put another way, do you know any struggling families of four that could use $17,000? Think it would mean anything to them?
President Obama's bad missteps this past week were confounded not by just horrendously partisan policy-making, but the arrogance with which he penned an op-ed in the Washington Post and gave a retreat address to House Democrats, some of whom are pleading with him not to pursue the federal spending and replace it with tax relief, or credits, or whatever Obama's term for it would be this go around.
President Obama is not a King, he is a servant. He's the foot washer. He's the errand boy that we hired to administrate the nation for the next four years. His power exists only at the discretion of "We The People." And when he spurns the majority of the nation on the single greatest domestic issue facing our lives for the next twelve months or longer. He'd be wise to stop wagging his finger at us, and begin some of that "listening to us" that he promised us in nearly twenty four months of campaigning.
It might be good to keep in mind the comparative value of $17,000 per family vs. condoms, STDs, and water parks as we move forward in the days to come.
It might even be better to let your Reps and Senators know how badly you could use that financial reimbursement for the taxes that kill you month after month.
I would also find great intrigue as to what YOUR family would do with that money, so e-mail me here to let me know personally.
President Obama works for us--it's a message he needs to be reminded of repeatedly. He is our servant.
And if we do not remind him, we have only ourselves to blame for the consequences that will result.
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Legislative transparency constitutional amendment proposed in California
A constitutional amendment to increase legislative transparency has been proposed in California. According to the Los Angeles Times:
A bipartisan group of California lawmakers concerned by the past rushing of legislation has proposed asking voters to require all bills to be in print and online for 72 hours before final passage.
Sen. Lois Wolk (D- Davis) and Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen (R-Modesto) have introduced identical bills with the aim of improving transparency in the Legislature.
Wolk noted that in the last two-year session, the Legislature considered nearly 5,000 bills. 'While most of those proposals were publicly shared and well-vetted, some were not,' Wolk said. 'Last-minute changes to bills can leave legislators unsure of what they are voting on, and prevent the public from weighing in on proposals.'
California Senate Constitutional Amendment 10 would require that:
No bill may be passed in either house until the bill, in the form to be voted on, has been made available to the public, in print and published on the Internet, for at least 72 hours before the vote.
Despite widespread support in Washington, no bill has been introduced or considered by our Legislature to improve legislative transparency since the hearing on SB 5419 in 2011.
On the first day of session a broad based coalition of good government, media and business groups signed a letter encouraging state lawmakers to adopt the Washington Policy Center's proposed legislative transparency reforms that would:
- Provide mandatory public notice and waiting periods before legislative action;
- Ban title only bills; and
- Subject the legislature to the same transparency requirements that are placed on local governments.
Since that letter was delivered the Association of Washington State Hispanic Chambers of Commerce and Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce have added their support.
WPC's legislative transparency reforms have also been endorsed by former State Auditor Brian Sonntag and Attorney General Rob McKenna.
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Slow play is a virulent epidemic everywhere from the PGA Tour to the local muni. It is one of the biggest challenges the golf industry faces as it struggles to find and keep its customers. Too many people are leaving the game because it has become too time consuming and too expensive.
Everyone involved in golf needs to find a way to make the game take less time to play. The question is, why is it taking so long to play a round of golf? Is the average golfer just too bad to be expected to play any faster? Can anything be done on a consistent basis to speed up play at every level?
According to the National Golf Foundation, the number of rounds played in the United States has been on a steady decline for the last 12 years. In the year 2000, roughly 518,000,000-rounds of golf were played in this country. By 2005 that number had fallen to 499,000,000. Last year there were about 463,000,000-rounds, down from 475,000,000 in 2010.
Slow play is a huge factor in that 12-year trend. While the game has become increasingly expensive, especially in the Tiger Woods era, our nation's economy was not mired in fiscal calamity from 2000 to 2005. People weren't necessarily forced, en masse, to leave the game because they couldn't afford it. The nauseating truth is that even with fewer players playing on the golf courses of America, the pace of play is often still at a crawl.
The golf industry is trying to stem that tide. Seemingly every golf event on television has one or two commercials for, "Play it Forward," golf's newest campaign against slow play. Golf legends and celebrities are asking people in those spots to try golf from the forward tees. The idea is that playing rounds of golf from tee boxes that are 700, 1,000, or 1,500-yards closer than the back tees, will make the game faster, easier, and more enjoyable. But will just making the courses shorter make enough of a difference in the battle against slow play? The "sellers" of golf have to be much more proactive than a catchy campaign with a logical premise in their fight against slow play.
As recently as last year, golf legend Jack Nicklaus and TaylorMade Adidas Golf CEO Mark King both advocated golf courses doubling the diameter of the hole on the greens and shortening what's known as a round of golf to 12 holes from the traditional 18 holes. Both of these measures are also intended to make the game easier, faster to play and more fun. It would be like playing basketball with a hoop that is twice as big on a goal that is a foot lower. The golf purists throw up in their mouths, but the industry has to do as much as it can to make the game easier for people who don't have much time to practice, and who have recently taken up the game. There are too many people who are fired up to play golf, but are driven away by the difficulty of the game. So what would be wrong with having a few designated beginners' courses set up with bigger cups and fewer holes? There is nothing wrong with that. The beginners and hackers need to swallow their pride and play those courses.
Golf is a tough game. To keep their rounds moving along, beginners need to have a "pick up" number for every hole. How much does it really matter what might happen for them on any one hole after they have hit 10-shots? There's no excuse for being bad and slow. The bad player who takes five practice swings before each shot and mimics his pre-shot routine after Jim Furyk's has to be stopped. If a player can't get to the green and get the ball close enough to the hole to at least have a gimme after 10-shots, he needs to be on the driving range or putting green with a PGA professional getting his full attention. And while he's there, he needs to ask the pro to help him to develop a quick, easy, and repeatable pre-shot routine that will help him to pull the trigger even when he's flustered and wants desperately to stand there and take five or six practice swings.
Some of the more difficult golf courses have taken the proactive step of not allowing players below a certain skill level to play on some courses. Asking a player to show proof of a 7-handicap or better, or whatever the course chooses it to be, will help to alleviate the problem of lesser skilled players being bludgeoned by a wicked-tough course and holding everyone up behind them. This is another really good move. Obviously this is easier to pull off at a facility that has several courses and can designate beginners and bad players to play the least challenging of their courses. This is another way the sellers can speed up the game. I can't tell you how many times I have been at a brutal golf course and gotten behind a foursome where every single one of the players were hitting it sideways, taking countless practice swings, chunking it, whiffing it and hitting every other bad shot in golf's gamut. I wonder what compelled them to bring their six-hour round to that course rated 74.5. Ignorance is not an excuse. If you are horrible, go to an easy course and "play it forward!"
In the summer months, golf courses will block off entire morning tee times several times a week and close down driving ranges so the junior golfers have free reign of the facilities without having to deal with other players. They will also close the course entirely just for the women's association to be able to use the courses and facilities. This needs to be expanded to include beginners of all ages and sexes. It would be the perfect scenario for people new to the game or are just bad at it to be able to play at a pace and ability similar to everyone around them. New players and bad players who are frustrated and embarrassed by holding up groups behind them, or who are oblivious to holding those groups up, need to be able to get out on the course and not cause a complete traffic jam behind them while they work to improve their play.
The golf industry has to allow for the game to grow by making the beginners more comfortable. But it also needs to accommodate the better players in a meaningful way. Blocking off a couple of hours of tee times, especially on busy days, for a "scratch game" or for the better players will help to organize the courses and be pro-active in preventing a log jam of good players stuck behind bad players.
According to the USGA, the average handicap index of an American male golfer in 2012 is 14.3. Data from the NGF also shows that nearly 65 percent of golfers do not shoot below 90 on a regular basis. The USGA has estimated that that percentage would be as high as 90 percent of golfers if the rules of golf were to be strictly followed. What that means is that most golfers are


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Big Ten Network documentary returns to 1993 UW glory
If you watch the Big Ten Network documentary "Big Ten Elite" on Tuesday night, about the 1993 Wisconsin football season, you'll be reminded about how weird that season really was.
Weird not because the Badgers returned to the Rose Bowl after an absence of 31 years.
Weird because the season included a game the Badgers had to win against Michigan State, played in Tokyo of all places.
And weird because of the incident following the victory over Michigan at Camp Randall when 70 people were injured in a surge to the field that left many trapped in a pile.
Seeing those images again, you wonder how no one died in the incident.
Former coach and current AD, Barry Alvarez, one of the many figures interviewed for the documentary, generously gives credit to those who helped engineer UW's change of fortunes, including the former chancellor Donna Shalala.
"Donna had the philosophy and the thinking that we had a world-class university, but not a world class athletic department," Alvarez says in the piece. "Why shouldn't we have a world-class athletic department?"
Among the players interviewed in the documentary are quarterback Darrell Bevell, running backs Brent Moss and Terrell Fletcher, linebacker Chris Hein, wide receiver J.C. Dawkins, kicker Rick Schnetzky and linebacker Yusef Burgess.
Former UW offensive coordinator Brad Childress, who was instrumental in recruiting Bevell, also was interviewed. Comedian and writer Jeff Cesario of Kenosha, who attended UW, is also in the mix.
The radio voice of the Badgers, Matt Lepay, narrates.
"Big Ten Elite" about the '93 team is scheduled to debut at 7 p.m. Tuesday on the Big Ten Network. It will replay several times.
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