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This update analyzes the trends and patterns in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's publicly available enforcement actions.
Leveraging the analysis in our December 2014 White Paper, CFPB Enforcement by the Numbers...more
Manatt Defeats Motion for Class Certification in TCPA Complaint Against Network Telephone Services -
A team of Manatt litigators secured a major victory for Network Telephone Services, Inc., on Jan. 12, 2016, in the U.S....more
SPECIAL FOCUS: FTC Issues Revisions to the Telemarketing Sales Rule -
On November 18, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a final rule setting forth a number of key amendments and clarifications to its...more
New York AG Asks Court to Bench DFS -
In the continuing drama surrounding Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS), New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman responded to lawsuits by DraftKings and FanDuel by seeking a preliminary...more
On November 18, the FTC announced that it approved, by a 3-1 vote, final amendments to the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) that ban telemarketers from using certain payment methods that are commonly used by scammers. Per the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized changes to its telemarketing sales rule (TSR) that will prohibit sellers and telemarketers from creating or accepting remotely created payment orders or checks, cash-to-cash...more
The Missouri Attorney General's Office recently filed a complaint in the Eastern District of Missouri against Charter Communications, Inc. ("Charter"), a cable, internet, and telephone company. The complaint alleges...more
On Monday, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster filed a lawsuit against Charter Communications, Inc., alleging that the cable, internet, and telephone service provider's third party telemarketers made thousands of...more
This past July marked the fifth anniversary of the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a period marked by sweeping changes to the regulatory and administrative environment in which financial...more
On September 15, the CFPB announced a preliminary injunction obtained against World Law Group and its senior leaders for allegedly running a debt-relief scheme that charged consumers costly and illegal upfront fees. According...more
A Florida federal district court has entered a preliminary injunction against several companies and an individual who were named as defendants in a complaint filed by the CFPB in August 2015 charging them with violations of...more
Today we're taking a look at the CFPB's recent enforcement case against Citibank, N.A. ("Citibank") and two of Citibank's subsidiaries, Department Stores National Bank ("DSNB") and Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA) ("CCSI...more
FDA Wants to Pour Some Sugar on the Nutrition Label -
Adding to the proposed changes to the Nutrition Facts label—the first tweaks in 20 years—the Food and Drug Administration has suggested yet another: adding the...more
In a July 14, 2015 letter to PayPal, the FTC indicated that consent language buried within a "lengthy user agreement" does not satisfy the requirement under the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) that companies obtain prior...more
Earlier this year, PayPal announced planned changes to its User Agreement that would have, among other things, given the company broad rights to contact people by phone or text messages. The provision stated, in part...more
The CFPB has announced a proposed settlement with Student Financial Aid Services, Inc. (SFAS) to resolve charges that the company engaged in unlawful sales and billing practices in connection with offering fee-based financial...more
FTC And Florida AG Team up Against Medical Alert Systems -
Together with the Florida Attorney General, the Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Lifewatch for allegedly using deceptive robocalls to urge older...more
In a complaint filed yesterday in a California federal court, the CFPB alleges that two related companies offering a biweekly mortgage payment program and their individual owner engaged in deceptive telemarketing acts or...more
It's been a rough couple of weeks for debt-relief services firm Morgan Drexen. You may recall our previous post about the CFPB's action against Morgan Drexen in the Central District of California and the alleged antics that...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 10 state Attorneys General announced the filing of a complaint and proposed stipulations against Caribbean Cruise Line (CCL) and several other companies that, respectively, alleged and...more
We don't know about you, but we've been following the contentious litigation between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and debt-relief services company Morgan Drexen pretty closely. The CFPB filed its lawsuit in...more
On December 11, 2014, the CFPB filed two actions against debt relief companies. Complaint for Permanent Injunction and Other Relief, Consumer Fin. Prot. Bureau v. IrvineWebWorks, Inc., No. 8:14-cv-1967 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 11,...more
On December 4, the CFPB fined a New Jersey-based debt-settlement service provider $69,075 in civil monetary penalties for alleged violations of the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The CFPB alleged that the firm charged...more
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Providing a lesson in how not to handle a privacy policy, car service app Uber is now facing questions from the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the...more
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Indiana State makes its second-consecutive postseason appearance, tying the longest streak in school history. ISU made back-to-back WNIT appearances in 2004-05 and 2005-06.
The Sycamores last hosted a WNIT game at the Hulman Center on March 20, 2006 when ISU fell to Indiana, 62-68. ISU is 1-5 all-time in the tournament with the lone win coming back in 2005 when ISU downed Illinois, 72-60, at the Hulman Center.
The Golden Eagles lead the all-time series 1-2, as the two teams played a home-and-home series in 2007-08 and 2008-09. ISU first matched up with Marquette in the 1981-82 season at the Sycamore Classic in a 77-47 victory.
The Sycamores are 20-11 on the season and earned an automatic berth into the WNIT after winning a share of the Missouri Valley Conference regular season title. ISU fell in the MVC tournament semifinals to Drake on Saturday.
Marquette is 21-10 overall on the season and finished fifth in the Big East with an 11-7 record. They fell to No. 1 seed DePaul, 100-90, in the Big East Tournament semifinals.
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Turkey, in order to ensure equality between its citizens regardless of their ethnic identity or religion, is in a period where it has signed its names to important reforms, so the statement made by the main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) İzmir representative Birgül Ayman Güler actually aren't saying anything new.
She is trying to explain the extent of the discomfort felt by a community described as nationalistic, which has heard that the obstacles in front of the use of the Kurdish language could be lifted, the fear of schism produced by this discomfort and a worry. Güler is saying that Turks will not accept equality with Kurds without maintaining their own rights, and they also believe everyone is not entitled to the same rights they have.
Her approach exceeds the racism of old hate speech about Turkish-Kurdish equality. However, she says those who call her racist are ignorant. In the context of equality and all that is tied to that idea, she is providing, in her own way, a "scientific" explanation for why Parliament is wrong to Kurds the right to defend themselves in their mother tongue.
She is arguing that everyone under the sun has tripartite identity: clan, people, and nationality, and that a people who have not yet attained the status of nationhood can't receive equal rights with a people who have received nationhood. But she isn't content with this argument. With an announcement that equality is a step towards the destruction of the Turkish state, she calls on the Turkish people to use "their right to defend themselves against attacks."
Today according to the legal norms between nationalities in effect in most countries, especially those in the European Union, we are face to face with a typical case of racism. Those who espouse racism are interesting because they don't even realize they are behaving racist. Turkey is changing, but the Kemalists want to bring the discussion for ethnic equality to the country in order to block this change.
If Kemalists acknowledged a set of rights for a group of people, the Kurds in Turkey and other ethnicities, they believe it would destroy the nation-state. They write that they can not permit the existence of a second nation on Anatolian soil with rights like Turks. Because of this they fear Turkey's democratic progression. They meet the government's changing of laws that previously expressed a singular vision of the nation-state towards turning the nation into one that shows respect to everyone's ethnic identity and religion with great concern and worry. Today they want to defend the power of the Republican period and assimilationist politics.
Kemalists miss the days of the Turkish ethnic identity being the only identity and the Turkification politics that were applied in Turkey for 30 years. They support the massacres that were committed during those years as "civilizing projects embarked on as a revolutionary step.
When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan apologized in Parliament for the 1938 Dersim Massacre, CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, himself from Dersim and whose family lost 29 people in the massacre tried to justify the massacre by the Kemalist republic by saying "they are normal things among the course of revolution." For all these reasons, it is difficult for the CHP to move towards accepting and respecting different cultures and beliefs.
The angry speeches that CHP representatives make from their pulpit in Parliament reflect the school of thought that dominates the CHP. It shocks even those who are already shocked by this speech and says, "I am only expressing the matters that are a part of my party's platform." I don't think the racism in the CHP party's platform is defended out in the open, but for those who vote for the CHP, it is clear there is an important segment directing the party that is influenced by racism.
Is there even any use in requesting that this woman apologize to the citizens of the Turkish Republic who don't enjoy equality with Turks, or even her resignation? In my opinion, there isn't. Because she didn't stumble. She was only speaking the feelings of her party and the feelings of an important segment that votes for her party. Because within the CHP and society there are quite a few Birgül Ayman Güler's.


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This week's story that the NPA (Newspaper Publishers' Association) has served notice on the NRS (National Readership Survey) shows just how contentious and traumatic it is ensuring that our media research systems keep up with the tide of technological development. Rumour has it that the rift has been caused by frustrations over the pace of reform. It's hard for collaborative JICs to meet perfectly the agenda of each of their diverse stakeholders but it's worth trying. I'm sure all parties involved regret that they are now effectively washing their dirty laundry in public. But at least they have their hands in the sink and I am sure it will all end up smelling of roses.
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Spot the difference – 1957 vs. now
The one thing that HRH Queen Elizabeth II is probably most proud of in her now diamond-encrusted reign is, of course, the development of British TV over her reign into the world-class industry it is today. Her coronation was the prompt for many British families to invest in their first TV set, so they could gather round and squint at tiny TV screens that the average tablet would now put to shame. Three years of set growth later, and the jewel in HRH's TV crown, commercial TV, was born in 1955. She must be thrilled at how well it has performed since then.
Most irritating things in media: 'Wastage'. No. 5 in an occasional series
As a household committed to recycling – at least in spirit – most of the Alps' waste ends up on our compost heap or in collectable crates. So not actually wastage at all.
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Ofcom's 'most missed' media misses the point
Which would you miss most: your iPod, iTunes or music itself? Let's say you are only allowed to take one with you to a desert island. Stupid question right?
Today, you may have read about a survey by the usually very helpful and insightful Ofcom. It asked a similar sort of question. It found that young people say they are more likely to miss mobile phones or 'the internet' above TV. This is the first time TV has not come top of Ofcom's most missed for younger people (it is still top overall). Inevitably, this has been seized upon by some as a worrying sign for TV. Read more on Ofcom's 'most missed' media misses the point…
Calm down dear, it's only a commercial
Knickers are getting twisted again. The Rasputin-like myths around TV ad-skipping will not lie down and die.� If 'ad-skipping' is a problem, how come we're watching a record number of TV ads at normal speed in the UK (2.6 billion a day)?� The answer is the bleeding obvious: ad-skipping is not such a problem.
But you wouldn't know that if you listened to some of the commentary around recent developments in TV, namely the arrival of product placement in UK-originated programmes from next Monday; a recommendation by a House of Lords committee that the number of minutes of TV advertising should be reduced; and Ofcom's announcement this week that terrestrial commercial television broadcasters will be allowed longer advert breaks during dramas.
We thought we had done a reasonable job explaining the (minimal) impact of digital recorders like Sky+ or Freeview+ on the number of ads being watched, but we were maybe a bit too optimistic. Some recent commentators have insisted on making a link between ad-skipping and changes to TV advertising, as though every change is some sort of reaction to ad-skipping. But there is no link.
What makes it all the more irritating is that the facts are so freely available, and not just from us, should anyone bother to check. Ad-skipping seems to be the one issue where commentators don't feel they should check the facts; instead they rely on what they reckon might be happening based on what they and their circle are doing.
If anyone reading this has been asked to write an article, appear on a radio phone-in show or a 24 hour news channel on the subject of TV advertising and they suspect they might get asked about the topic of ad avoidance please, please ring us for an up-to-date briefing.
In the mean time, here, once more with feeling, are the facts:
* Linear TV viewing in the UK reached a record high in 2010 of over 4 hours a day per viewer on average.� An additional 1%-2% is watched on-demand online.
* Commercial TV accounts for nearly two-thirds of viewing, so the viewing of ads – at normal speed – has never been higher.
* The average UK viewer watches 46 ads each a day at normal speed (and collectively the UK watches 2.6 billion a day).
* The number of TV ads watched is about 35% higher than in 1999 and 23% higher than 2005.
* Recorded viewing represents just 7.3% of all TV viewing. 92.7% of the TV watched in the UK cannot be fast-forwarded.� Two-thirds of ads are fast-forwarded in recorded viewing, so overall 4.8% of ads are lost to 'zipping'.
* In homes that own a digital recorder (48% according to Ofcom), recorded viewing is higher, but still only 14% (this has decreased from 16% two years ago).
* According to data from Sky+ households, when people get Sky+ they watch 17% more TV and, as a result, watch more ads than before they owned one.
* BARB does not count any ad unless it is viewed at normal speed, so those that are fast-forwarded are free to advertisers, though clearly there is value in seeing them.
* 'Zapping' ie switching channels at ad breaks has always been a way of avoiding ads but the minute by minute BARB measurement properly accounts for this so advertisers only pay for people watching their ad.
* Research by Thinkbox and others has shown that viewers invest in digital recorders because they enjoy watching TV and want to capture more of it, not because they militantly want to fast-forward the ads.
* Many people, of all ages, enjoy lots of TV ads and will go online after seeing them on TV and watch them again, recommend them to friends, comment about them on Twitter, or join a Facebook groups for them.� Unsurprisingly, they like good ads a lot more than average ones (though even the average ones work and make brands famous ref our heading).
4 hours a day could be peak time for TV (or it could not)
In case you've missed it – and, if you have, it's here – we're now watching over 4 hours of live, linear TV a day. This is the most since records began. This really is remarkable and is worth taking a moment to consider.
There are many reasons for linear TV's pretty spectacular performance (in one year it has increased, on average, by 2 hours a week per viewer). The take-up of new TV technologies like DTRs; on-demand TV services – which we now know lead people back to watching linear TV; the economic and weather climates; the new measurement system introduced by BARB in January last year…and of course fantastic TV shows.
The press releases Thinkbox issues on a quarterly basis announcing the BARB figures have been rather similar for the last couple of years. Every one announced that live, linear viewing has increased on the same period the year before. The good news for TV was getting predictable. The only real difference between the announcements was the new evidence that was constantly emerging about how technologies and activities that people predicted might harm live viewing were in fact strengthening it.
Now however, it is not quite so predictable, so we're making a prediction: live, linear TV viewing could well have reached its peak. We fully expect to issue a press release in the not too distant future announcing that linear TV viewing levels have either stayed the same or, perhaps, dipped a little from their current record high.
When this inevitably does happen, please don't be alarmed or tempted to start reheating decline of TV narratives (interesting blog from Ad Contrarian on that topic here). Linear TV viewing has to stabilise at some time; we're never going to get to 25 hours a day.
But remember that, alongside our daily dose of 4 hours linear TV, we're also consuming extra helpings of on-demand TV via devices other than our TV sets (BARB estimates there is an additional 1% of TV viewed via other devices).
TV is now a solar system, not a single planet, and it is expanding as a whole.
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Now then, now then
Jimmy Saville, among his many gifts, was acutely aware of how time slips away from us, perpetually moving us from now… to then.� Hence his catchphrase, which was, I'm sure, a profound comment on the nature of existence itself rather than the irritating and patronising tic that some would have us believe.
Either way, Sir Jewellery draws our attention to the importance of 'nowness'. It would be nice if you commented on this blog once you've finished it, but if you don't do it now, then I suspect you never will, because the moment will have gone. Now will have become then.
'Nowness' is one of the reasons that watching TV as it is broadcast is so compelling.� The latest figures from BARB for the first half of 2010 show that time spent watching linear broadcast TV viewing has increased again. Even in those homes with digital recorders, the percentage of their viewing to 'live' linear TV has increased slightly to 86.3% from 83.7%.� Of the 13.7% that is time-shifted, over 80% happens with 7 days and a whopping 38.3% is VOSDAL (viewed on the same day as live).� I didn't just make up that VOSDAL acronym by the way; it is an official BARB descriptor.� BARB doesn't even publish any viewing past 7 days' shifting or include it in TV numbers.
Let's be honest, we all know that the longer something sits on our planner the less and less likely it is to get viewed.� I've got an episode of Gardeners' World from this March, all about planting a wild flower meadow, waiting for me.� I wouldn't like to bet on its chances of being viewed before meadow planting season comes round again.
On-demand TV services also show the magnetic force of the schedule with over 50% of catch-up viewing in Virgin homes taking place within a day of the� original programme being aired.� In fact, many normal people call on-demand TV players 'catch-up' TV because that is the overwhelming motivation for using them.� They are trying to get back to watching 'now'.� Even if you choose to never watch linear TV, the schedule will be the biggest influence over what you watch on-demand.
Nowness – and attempts to either get ahead of it or catch-up with it – is why sneak previews are popular, why live music events are booming, why we want to see the latest cinema release the first weekend, why Peter Mandelson's memoirs so boosted The Times circulation (although the supporting TV campaign had more than a little to do with it). It is also, sadly, a motivation behind the piracy that robs media companies – and creative people along with them – of some of their income.� And that's why actual live 'live' TV is even more attractive – the talent shows, the sport, the news – and not just because we might want to interact or participate. �
It's about the conversations. Twitter and Facebook updates are emblematic of our desire to connect in real time and share our experience of now.� As such, they are a brilliant window into the fact that, even for the fancy media and advertising types that I follow, 'now' includes watching a lot of telly.� 'Social TV' is the trendy phrase to use; it's making watching TV as it's broadcast even more magnetic. �
Broadcast TV is a real time event that sucks people into its stream, that's shared with our families, that's talked about in the moment as well as the next day round the watercoolers and coffee machines.� This was true back when Jim was trying not to drop cigar ash on his shell suit; the internet is just making it even easier to enjoy TV 'now'.
Most irritating things in media: 'Interruption'. No. 4 in an occasional series
Right then.� So far, we've had a dig at digital, a pop at passive, and blown a long raspberry at long-form video; it's time now to get irate because of the way we obsess about 'interruption' in our industry.
This is a quote from Dr Samuel Johnson (the real one, not the even-more-amusing @DrSamuelJohnson on Twitter) in 1759 from The Idler:
"Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick." (I'm guessing that 'pathetic' doesn't mean crap but more pathos-provoking).
It's interesting that even 250 years ago there were apparently too many ads, but even more so is that he identified the need to 'cut through' the noise with magnificence and eloquence and emotion; surely still three ingredients of all good� brand communication.
In a way, Johnson was also talking about the notion of interruption. Interruption in advertising, we are so often told, is a bad thing. Johnson's contemporaries may have been captured by it, but sophisticated, empowered consumers do not want to have commercial messages thrust at them; they need to be engaged by modern brands and to start conversations with them.
I'm not going to argue that engagement isn't key and that conversations with consumers aren't a great ambition for a brand to have.� But I do believe that you can't expect people to 'pull' a brand until it has 'pushed' in some way; you can't have a conversation until you've been introduced.
There is a myriad of ways a brand can choose from to push themselves in front of people for the first time – including retail facings, PR, doordrops, posters etc. etc. – but all involve occupying either a consumer's space or time. But, without making that overture on their own terms, brands would be entirely subject to random and commoditised searching, which is no way to be the guardian of a brand.
All brand communications are essentially a form of interruption but some have greater potential for annoyance: the inserts that drop out of a mag, a pop-up, branding on a public venue, unsolicited mail, whether off- or online.� None of those are ever expected and rarely reward the space and time that they occupy.� Print, online and outdoor ads are arguably much less annoying but perhaps only because they are more easily edited out or ignored.
Is this an unresolvable conundrum? Is it simply impossible for a brand to create impact and get noticed without being a pain? �
Broadcast ads are a slightly different case I'd argue; radio and TV ads are not unexpected, at least not on commercial channels. I would argue they are not even interruption because, with a few exceptions, the content they appear within is constructed specially to contain them. Like the doors and windows of a house, they are part of the overall design and are in-built, not rammed in.� It doesn't stop them from being annoying on occasions though.
There will always be a vocal minority who avoid all advertising per se, be it TV, radio, banners, pop-ups or posters. There will always be some who reach for their remote when the TV ads appear (although we know from BARB that people are watching more TV ads at normal speed than ever before at a time when many have intuitive technologies that enable them to avoid them should they really wish).
But lots of people enjoy lots of TV ads a lot. Lots of them. We've plenty of footage of them doing just that: dancing, clapping, salivating, singing, searching, smiling, reciting the dialogue. They don't mind being interrupted if we make it worth their while (cf. Bill Bernbach). In fact the word interruption wouldn't even occur to them unless the ad was bad. Even the less entertaining ads are welcome if they are relevant, timely and tell viewers something they want to know (e.g. 10% off tomorrow).
Even when ads are not welcomed with unbridled joy, many of our research projects have revealed that most people understand and accept the implicit commercial contract whereby advertising subsidises the programmes they love. This contract is reinforced when broadcasters make their content more accessible and convenient.
How many 'conversations' with brands would we all have to have in order to reach even a tenth of the audience reached by the 2.45 billion TV ads seen every day in the UK? There are around 7,800 brands advertising on TV, divide that by the population and, even if each of us had conversations with 10 brands, the average brand would only have around 70,000 'friends' and precious little opportunity to influence the other 53 million members of the population.
Engagement has to start somewhere. Few brands can sit around waiting for consumers to come along and engage with what they're up to. The problem is not a structural one but qualitative and tonal.� As Martin Boase said, so long as brands interrupt with grace and charm they will become welcome guests in the nation's living rooms, and ones who might be invited into other areas of people's lives too.�� Let's stop worrying about the interruption part and start obsessing instead on the engagement.
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What are we reaching for?
I attended the Mediatel 'Future of Online' seminar recently, where much was made of the launch of UKOM, the online industry's attempt to get a measure of exposure and reach with the aim of attracting more brand display revenues. It has been a tortured process.
Now, this may seem strange, given that TV achieves levels of reach that other media channels can only dream about, but I think we need to think beyond exposure and reach in terms of planning integrated media campaigns.
Yes, I know that commercial TV delivers nearly three quarters of the UK population every day and well over 90% every week, across the vast majority of target demographics, but comparisons with other media based on such data disguise the real impact each medium creates. This camouflage comes from the media measurement systems themselves.
All of the main metrics – reach, frequency, impacts, impressions, ratings – are based on the concept of opportunity to see/listen/read, and yet the difference between opportunity and delivery will vary hugely depending on the media measurement vehicle.
TV measures the audience in the room whilst the set is on, minute by minute, so that we can be confident that all of those featured in the measurement will have had some exposure, even if they had their backs to the screen – especially as BARB carries out coincidental checks to make sure who is reported to be in the room at any moment in time is in fact present.
Press readership, meanwhile, is based on anybody who has spent at least two minutes reading or looking at any printed copy in the past 12 months, whether or not they even opened the page on which the ad appears; consequently, actual exposure to the ad itself requires a much greater leap of faith.
My understanding is that online 'reach' will fall somewhere between these two extremes. My point is that, when these reach numbers are placed in a media plan, they are generally considered to be equivalent in value and impact.
Results from a really interesting study by the Television Bureau of Canada helps to put some of this disparity, or false equivalence, into perspective. They observed people watching TV, reading newspapers, listening to radio and interacting online in as natural a context as possible. They used a wide range of biometric and cognitive measures, including eye tracking, in order to determine how long each ad was 'processed'. On average, the TV advertising generated more than three times the engagement of radio ads (and, possibly connected with this finding, almost three times the next day adjusted recall levels). TV ads achieved 40% more next day recall and 80% more engagement than online video (via pre-rolls). TV delivered five times the next day recall and twelve times the visual attention of online display in general. Against press, meanwhile, TV achieved more than five times the total advertising engagement.
The problem with the media measurement vehicles is that they cannot account for these differences in engagement, attention or recall, and so if an overall reach figure is achieved from a mix of media channels, it will treat them all as equal. There is nothing quite like a spreadsheet for providing the appearance of consistency and equivalence, however what happens in the lives of the consumers they reach, and the brands advertising in those media, will provide a very different story.
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Three momentous things began on Friday 1 January 2010: a new decade, a World Cup year, and a brand new BARB contract. Days very rarely get bigger than that for me.
So, BARB has changed – what it does and who is doing it – and the thought of this originally filled me with fear, not joy. I have been closely involved in monitoring previous changes to BARB supply and still wake up screaming with memories of being drowned in computer printouts during the interminable 'parallel runs', when the old and new services were run simultaneously in order to pick up any major inconsistencies in the data.
Happily, those nightmares should now become a thing of the past and I will sleep as contentedly as Simon Cowell, as data processing provides the analysis far more effectively (and paper-free!). More importantly, the consistency of data between the two panels this time round has been nothing short of remarkable,
If you think about it, a totally new panel of viewers, with several significant changes in methodology�(e.g. panel controls, data collection hardware, calculation procedures etc.) and�a new supplier structure offered the potential for massive disruption in the TV industry's trading currency. And yet, if we look at the data being produced by the new panel, the differences are both minimal and explainable. During the parallel run, daily viewing patterns, reach, channel shares and live vs. timeshift viewing levels were impressively similar. Now that we are beyond the parallel run and into the new panel's full reporting phase, the consistency has continued and the continued rise in viewing can be related to the extreme weather conditions (totally consistent with the increases we saw during the snowfalls of Feb 09).
And, in addition to fantastic consistency, the new panel and contract terms mean we will be able to start measuring on-demand TV viewing in the home soon, with the possibility of measuring TV on other devices at a later stage.
Efficient trading of TV airtime is reliant on an audience currency which is both accurate and consistent. Whenever a new panel is introduced, both of these attributes are placed under severe threat. I've even known MDs of broadcasters who have lost their jobs because they failed to predict the levels of change! So, we should applaud not only the BARB executive and their shareholders, but both the previous and the new teams of suppliers who have obviously excelled themselves over the years in producing data that is both reliable AND accurate.
We have often boasted of having the best audience research system in the world here in the UK, and at times like this such claims are really put to the test. The frustration for BARB and their suppliers is that they only come under the spotlight when things go wrong; rather like boiling a kettle or taking a Tube.� Having experienced plenty of failures from other services during the first weeks of 2010, I feel we should place the spotlight on BARB's quiet success; one service that didn't falter.� Not only does it reinforce our faith in the data (massively important for any currency) but it also provides us with one less headache following the new year celebrations!


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Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
I love this for eyebrows, but for some reason it always stings my eyes when I use this under my eyes and for my eyelashes. It never absorbs and leaves me with blurry vision and tears forever when I wake up. Will keep using for eyebrows though!
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
I have extremely sensitive skin and will get flesh-coloured bumps all over my face from bathing in certain town water, that has a lot of additives and chlorine. Castor oil keeps the skin under the eyes from getting darker, and helps keep wrinkles at bay and maintained. I use the Home Health brand and it's great. It's a very thick oil, but it still works well for hydrating skin under the eyes. I also add it to my body lotion. If I use it on my face other than under my eyes, I have a tendency to break out, so I just don't use it on my face, but that doesn't take away from how well it works as an under-eye moisturizer and anti-aging tool.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Oily, Tan, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I have oily skin and naturally decent lashed both in length and thickness. I do dab this around my lash line with a q-tip to just condition the lashes. However, since castor oil is pretty thick and rich, I don't use it in my skin or brows as it can clog pores, for those I use jojoba oil especially in the summer. My mother is the primary user though as she uses it as a hair pack and it has helped with shedding for her. As with any oil, I would suggest that everyone do a spot test to ensure they are not allergic to castor oil. Also, the whole Ricin that people are complaining about is only found in the seeds of castor plant and is boiled off and left as a waste product after processing of castor oil. The only people to be likely poisoned from Ricin present in castor seeds are the workers at processing plants for castor oil.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Neutral
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I don't use this on my eyelashes because they are already incredibly long, they reach my eyebrows when I look down. But I do use it on my eyebrows and on my hair and feet.
I used to have thick eyebrows but one day I went to get them shaped and the lady who normally does my brows wasn't there and this other lady completely waxed off my brows from the arch onward, and the hair never grew back again. I found out about castor oil 6 months back and after using it continuously on my brows, night and day my arch has finally begun to come back, it hasn't grown fully (length) but it is now way thicker than it was before it got waxed off.
As for my hair, after I turned 15 my hair started falling out quite a lot, it got me scared as I thought I was balding, so I started using shampoos and conditioners designed to help stop hair fall, it did improve slightly. I also would never go for haircuts cause just trying to grow my hair an inch would take months. But when I discovered castor oil, I thought if it helps hair growth it will definitely help reduce my hair loss. I have been using castor oil mixed with virgin coconut oil as castor alone is incredibly thick and is a nightmare to wash out. I use it once or twice a week and I have noticed that my hair loss has reduced dramatically and my hair has grown 3 inches longer in just a month, which was a huge shocker to me.
Not only is it great for hair growth but I use it on my feet as it is a thick oil it penetrates the dry skin there amazingly, really, you can use it on anywhere that you might have very dry skin, say the back of your elbows etc, but don't use it on your face as it might make you grow more facial hair.
Age: 25-29
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Castor oil is the best! It is not only good for brow & lash growth...but also hydrates the brows and lashes you already have. I have taken a break from castor oil (thinking I did not need it) and saw a sharp decline in my brows and lashes (especially my bottom lashes) I have since been a castor oil devotee.
I use disposable mascara wands to apply. This helps to evenly distribute the oil, and carefully apply to lashes!
Age: 44-55
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I haven't yet tried castor oil for eyelash/eyebrow growth, but I can say this much if you have eczema this oil works wonders. I have eczema inside my ears and nothing has helped with the insane itchiness and flakiness as when this skin condition flares up. I have scratched my ears until they've bled, as they itch so bad during a flare up. I've tried it all - tea tree and lavender oils, shea butter, argan, coconut, and olive oils, Lotrimin, etc. - nothing has cleared up this aggravation until I tried castor oil. I've rubbed the castor oil inside my ears for the past few nights and the results are amazing. No more itch and the flakiness is clearing up entirely. Wow. I don't know if this will work for everyone with eczema or dermatitis, but it's worth a shot. I buy the castor oil from the health food store which is cold pressed and hexane free. It's only around $7 a bottle and it should last a very long time. I also use a 10% blend of castor oil with Apricot Kernel oil for the oil cleansing method. Works great. I'm going to try this oil on my eyelashes and eyebrows and see if it really works for hair growth.
Age: 18 & Under
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Hair: Blond, Other, Other
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I bought a bottle of this at a hair stall about a year ago and have been using it nearly everynight since. I like to use it on a Q-tip on my eyelashes after removing my makeup as I find it takes off any excess mascara or eyeliner very well.
However, I also noticed that my eyelashes have definitely been healthier, stronger and longer since beginning using it. I've used a couple of cheap eyelash growth serums in the past that have done nothing for me so it's great to have found something equally as inexpensive but actually effective. I still have about 1/4 of a bottle left after a year too so it lasts a long time.
The one thing I would say is be careful getting this on your skin as I'm pretty sure it's been the cause of a couple of breakouts when I have accidentally done this. Because of this I wouldn't use it on my eyebrows as I think it would break me out a lot.
Age: 44-55
Skin: Normal, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
This is a great cheap do-it-yourself trick to keep eyelashes healthy. I rub it on my lashes and around my eye area. It keeps my lashes healthy, and they seem stronger and fall out less. Here's a tip.: to keep oil from getting contaminated pour a little in a glass or disposable shot glass and apply with a Q tip or disposable mascara wands that can be cheaply bought in large bags. You oil and application tools will always be fresh and clean.Can't go wrong with this natural product far as I can see.
Age: 56 & Over
Skin: Oily, Fair, Not Sure
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Eyes: Blue
This stuff is awful. How can anyone tolerate it on their eyelids? Based on the reviews I read, I purchased a bottle of hexane-free, cold-pressed castor oil. After two days of use, my eyelids were swollen and incessantly itchy. I developed a rash on the upper and lower lids, and my eyes were inflamed. I did some online research and discovered that castor oil contains ricin--a deadly poison. Ricin can also cause a severe allergic reaction and lead to cornea damage after prolonged use.
I'll stick with my Boots No. 7 Fanomenal Lash Serum. It's slow-acting, but it works. More importantly, it doesn't irritate my eyes.
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I had been trying to grow out my naturally thick, but over plucked brows since July. The growth was very patchy and certain hairs would not grow. I had read that castor oil could help, but didn't get around to buying any until 2 weeks ago when I got frustrated with the patchiness, and waiting for the hairs to grow back. I was amazed to find several hairs had sprouted the morning after the first application, and have continued to do so daily, unlike the months before, when new hairs would appear only after a few weeks. Therefore I am certain this is not a coincidence. I just wish I'd starter using this at the start of my brow growing journey - they would have been on point by now!! I'd recommend this to anyone trying to grow brows, although I have read that it will only encourage growth where hair previously grew naturally, there is nothing to loose. I also makes the hairs look glossy and thick.
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Along those lines, an abundance of tutorials have been posted on the Linux Journal web site in the past month or two. In the spirit of continuing education, I'll take this opportunity to point out a few of these how-to articles, starting with Jos Hartman's "Building an Office Network from Spare Parts" (www.linuxjournal.com/article/6207). This tutorial outlines how Jos and some other members of his church built their office a new Linux-based network (from donated computer parts) that spans 40 kilometers. When they were finished, they'd built an office LAN, an internet server and a backup/testing server.
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Thursday, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced the cap selections for the plaques of 2014 inductees Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas, Tom Glavine, Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Bobby Cox.
Unsurprisingly, Cox and Glavine will be wearing Braves caps on their respective plaques.
Also obvious was the selection of Thomas sporting a White Sox hat. Torre gets a Yankees hat, which isn't terribly surprising considering he was selected as a manager, not a player.
The other two -- La Russa and Maddux -- are going to get plaques with blank caps.
Here's the rationale, via the Hall of Fame's official website.
"The Museum staff works with each inductee by suggesting an appropriate logo option, or no logo at all," said Jeff Idelson, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. "For those whose most compelling contributions clearly took place with one team, a logo makes sense. For those whose careers were built significantly among multiple teams, not having a team logo is equally acceptable. Regardless of the selection, a Hall of Famer belong to every team for which he played or managed, as well as every fan who followed his career."
La Russa managed the White Sox for eight seasons, the Athletics for 10 years and the Cardinals for his final 16 seasons. He won three pennants and a World Series with the A's while taking home three pennants and two World Series in St. Louis. He won manager of the year twice in Oakland and once in St. Louis. Not choosing between the A's and Cardinals make some sense here.
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Braves: 194-88, 2.63 ERA, 163 ERA+, 1.05 WHIP, three Cy Youngs
Cubs: 133-112, 3.61 ERA, 112 ERA+, 1.25 WHIP, one Cy Young
It seems logical to say that Maddux should be wearing a Braves cap and that the plaque itself could mention his involvement with the Cubs. But here is Maddux's statement:
"My wife Kathy and I grew up in baseball in Chicago, and then we had just an amazing experience in Atlanta with the Braves. It's impossible for me to choose one of those teams for my Hall of Fame plaque, as the fans of both clubs in each of those cities were so wonderful. I can't think of having my Hall of Fame induction without support of both of those fan bases, so, for that reason, the cap on my Hall of Fame plaque will not feature a logo."
Fair enough. I wouldn't argue with my all-time favorite player, so rock that blank cap, Greg's plaque.


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This is described in the Java version, but it does not seem to be in the dot.net port, is there a reason for this as I would have imagined lots of people doing document work would want it.
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Either it is not widely used as you think, or no one is willing to port it
This is, at least, on my list of things to include in 3.0.3, but only if I can find the time to do it. The entire Highlighter project has a lot of changes between what is in it now and what needs to be for it to be the same as Java's highlighter in 3.0.3. This isn't a top priority for 3.0.3. If you'd like to port it yourself or parts of it to help make sure it's in the next release, we'd welcome it and include it, otherwise, we'll try and get it in ourselves, time permitting.
I'll try to take a look at this over the weekend.
I pushed some changes already, namely porting these files:
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It's all a moot point though, because the real problem is that Highlighter relies on another contrib project we've never ported: MemoryIndex. In theory it shouldn't be too bad, it's only one file (46KB, though...yikes!). I've actually had to comment out parts of the ported Highlighter because it relies on this and we don't have it. So until we port that, Highlighter can't really be done.
Ported this and the tests. It's actually quite fast.
For some reason the FVH is considerably slower than this (even with the PhraseLimit). It might not be an issue with FVH, since we're using a far different version than java is at 3.0.3, but we should probably look it over just in case.


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Note that the benefit of signing is that those bundles are actually secured. In my case, only signed bundles can be accessed at runtime – this can be checked using Bundle#getSignerCertificates(). So the verification is important to ensure that only signed code can be accessed at runtime.
I initially tried using a JarInputStream instead of a ZipInputStream, which would only partially work, as it won't handle the Bundle-ClassPath correctly wrt to signatures.
I guess the only way is to do the same as Equinox, i.e. wrap the InputStream of the content entry and perform the check against the digest stored in the manifest when the end of the stream is reached.
I guess I'm not sure what you are saying. Basically, everytime a bundle is installed or reloaded we verify its signatures on all its entries. Not only when it is installed the first time.
Doing a check everytime an entry is loaded from the jar doesn't make much sense to me. We verified the entries already - why do it again?
The only reason I can see would be that you don't trust your own cache (i.e., somebody could manipulate entries inside the cache while the framework is running) and in that case, all bets are off anyways. Besides, It'd be teribble slow too, I imagine.
That's exactly the reason, to make sure bundles are not modified.
I don't think all bets are off because you can verify the signatures. Signatures of trusted sources can't be changed unless you know the private key to sign those. So either you unsign the bundle (and it will be known because the bundle won't return signatures) or you sign it with a different source which you'll know too.
The cpu consumption would only be there for signed bundles, and that's only about computing the checksum of the zip entry, which is quite fast, there's no real cryptography involved here, so I don't think that's a problem. Besides, that's a decision for the user to take.
The use case, to give a bit more background, is to give a trusted framework to a third party so that it will use it, but we need to ensure some stuff can't be modified by this third party. We don't trust the third party to not hack with our framework, so we need to secure it.
Imagine a payment application where you provide a service that will do some billing. You don't want the third party to start hacking the bundle in order to bypass the billing for example
One question though, did the check changed from 3.x to 4.x ?
Could that be the case that in 3.x the check was only done at installation time and not when reloaded ?
If you assume that they can modify the bundles at run time, then you can't assume they are not modifying the framework JAR at run time too. So, they could just modify away any checks that we do.
Here's the problem I have.
#1 I install a signed bundle. Signatures are verified, all good.
#2 Stop Felix
#3 Tamper with the jar (change a class in the jar without changing the signatures)
#4 Restart
The restart happen with no exceptions. It may be a timing issue because the activator of the security stuff isn't started yet or something else, but that happens.
I thought it was because the check was only done at installation time, which is not the case according to what you say (as it should be done when restarting too).
Still, there's a problem.
How are you verifying the signatures? I assume you have a BundleSignerCondition or something?
Not sure, I'm not designing this myself, I can ask.
I guess if bundles were actually verified when restarting, that would really help at least, though, it looks to me that in terms of performance doing the check at runtime instead would be more efficient (and more secured obviously).
Also, if the signatures are checked when the revision is created, only, I think there's still a hole: I could stop and refresh the bundle (signature check when refreshing). At this point, the bundle is unresolved and I can tamper with it easily. Then I restart the bundle, there's a good change I can change the contents without being noticed.
I think the way it is supposed to work is like this:
1. The framework assigns signer certificates to a bundle when it is installed or reloaded.
1.a) If the bundle is improperly signed then no certificates will be granted to it.
2. Permissions are granted to the bundle based on its signer certificates.
2.a) Properly signed bundles will get their correct permissions assigned to them since they have the correct certificates.
2.b) Improperly signed bundles will get default/no permissions assigned to them since they do not have the correct certificates.
The only case that might be an issue is if you have a condition that says only bundles signed by Foo can be installed. In this case, if the cache was messed with, you might see bundles with no Foo certificate installed. The framework won't delete these bundles, but it doesn't give them certificates either. In that case, you can delete them yourself or make sure their permissions are empty.
Bundle permissions are not really the concern here.
I think there are two problems here:
- the fact that bundles are not checked when the framework restarts (the security provider is registered too late), so they should, but they're not
- the fact that after a bundle has been verified successfully, it can be tampered in the cache before resources are actually loaded (especially while in the installed state, before being resolved)
In terms of security and performances, I still think that checking the signatures lazily at runtime when resources are loaded instead of at installation time would be better imho.
Regarding the theory, I can see that there are bigger or smaller attack windows depending on what we do.
However, if you give the framework to an untrusted third party which has full access to the framework cache there is no way you can guaranty anything. This is not the only point of attack, there are tons of others and I don't even see a way to eliminate them completely no matter how hard we would try.
If you can trust your cache then our approach is fine.
I guess it would really help if you could figure out what it is they do exactly. Let's try to figure out if we can address their concrete problem first.
The security provider it not installed too late.
I don't know why you think that - are you assuming the framwork would somehow reject bundles that are not signed correctly by itself? That is not the case no matter what.
Ok, after talking about this via skype some more I think we identfied a bug that is involved in all of this. I'll try to get to it asap and report back. Hopefully, it will address this issue somewhat (although, it will not fix the underlying issue which is that we can't have an untrusted cache).
I commited a patch to trunk in r1366063. Can you try whether that helps you any? Thanks.
It seems to work from my first tests, though a spurious exception is printed when the security provider checks its own bundle.
I think the reason is that the Module associated is the one from the host (i.e. system bundle) which has no content. Not really sure though.
I suppose that one needs to be bypassed somehow.
java.io.IOException: Missing entry
at org.apache.felix.framework.security.util.BundleInputStream.readNext(BundleInputStream.java:160)
at org.apache.felix.framework.security.util.BundleInputStream.<init>(BundleInputStream.java:89)
at org.apache.felix.framework.security.verifier.BundleDNParser._getDNChains(BundleDNParser.java:240)
at org.apache.felix.framework.security.verifier.BundleDNParser.getDNChains(BundleDNParser.java:209)
at org.apache.felix.framework.SecurityProviderImpl.getSignerMatcher(SecurityProviderImpl.java:74)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.setBundleProtectionDomain(Felix.java:851)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.init(Felix.java:801)
at org.apache.karaf.main.Main.launch(Main.java:277)
at org.apache.karaf.main.Main.main(Main.java:480)
The exception itself is harmless but it really looks bad
I'll do more thorough checks later.
I've fixed the exception in http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1366177&view=rev
Good catch, last minute refactoring where i was moving the creation from the bundleimpl to felix. Thanks.