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The government has reiterated its resolve to continue invest in science, technology and innovation to attain sustainable social economic development.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology, Dr Florens Turuka underlined that the government is taking measures to make sure that the said areas are well developed for the benefit of the country.
"Today's world calls for heavy investment in these areas and the government has vowed to do just that…" Dr Turuka told journalists in Dar es Salaam.
He noted that one of the measures taken is to strengthen existing academic and research institutions in the country as well as opening new ones.
"We want to strengthen the academic and research institutions to create a strong cadre of scientists who enjoy international repute…" envisioned the deputy minister.
Giving an example, he reported that the government has already spent Tshs 42 billion in building The Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Tengeru, Arusha region.
Dr Turuka said that, NM-AIST which was opened by President Jakaya Kikwete in November last year and enrolls only masters and PhD scholars to train a pool of professionals in agriculture, water, energy, environment and ICT sectors.
"Already, over 183 students are attending studies from the 2011/12 academic year…" he said.
Also, in March 2012 Mbeya University of Science and Technology (MUST) was established after getting consent from the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU). Enrollment at this centre has risen from 597 in 2005/2006 to 3,125 students in 2012/2013.
Explaining other measures taken by the government, the Permanent Secretary said that the government in 2009/2010 sponsored 295 professionals to undertake studies at Masters and PhD levels in five public universities spending at least 6.4 b/-.
The universities that enrolled the sponsored students are University of Dar es Salaam, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) Ardhi University and NM-AIST.
Explaining further measures, he said that an ICT Centre of Excellence was built in 2011 and houses PARAM-Serengeti, a Super Computer with an extremely high processing capacity, one of only three in Africa. Others are in South Africa and Ghana.
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It's over, it's a wrap, that's all she wrote. If you haven't heard by now, Bad Boy's Da Band have been disbanded by their boss.
During the season finale of "Making the Band," a frustrated P. Diddy gave up on his handpicked protégés and shut Da Band down. P.D. said he would continue to work with Ness and Babs, calling them hip-hop's next Bonnie and Clyde.
To no one's surprise, before Diddy dispersed his troops, he kicked out the collective's outcast, Dylan. "I'm tired of his ass, y'all tired of his ass, we all tired of his ass," Diddy said during the a confessional portion of the show. "It's over."
It seemed like every episode this season found Dylan getting scolded by Diddy and his bandmates for missing shows and perceived laziness. Some even called him selfish. On Tuesday the self-proclaimed rebel of Da Band said despite Diddy's mandated separation, he and his unit are still together.
"People gotta realize that us six had to walk for cheesecake," Dylan rationalized. "It's us six that read the Russell Simmons book outside. Us six lived through that hazing period. No matter what any label or CEO wants to say, Da Band are family. We came in it together; we're always gonna be working together in the future."
Despite being ousted, Dylan said he's still signed to Bad Boy and has continued to work in the studio on his own. His new mixtape, a collaboration with DJ Sickamore called Life After Diddy, hits the streets this week, and the Brooklyn rapper has promised to give his side of what we've seen on TV.
"Dylan is a lyricist," he said. "It's more than just a TV thing. The end of 'Making the Band' on TV is the beginning of Dylan's career."
One track in particular he feels everyone will be talking about is a message to the man he lived with, Sean Combs.
"Dear Diddy" is "real controversial," he said. "It's Tupac's 'Ambitionz Az a Ridah.' The music is responding to everything he said negative towards me. This is how I feel. It's not one of those things where it's a killing beef. It's just we have creative differences. I felt disrespected, [so now] you're gonna feel disrespected."
"There's two sides to every story," Sickamore interjected. "Even though he's going against MTV and Puff Daddy, you can't just sit down and die. You have to let everyone know your side."
"I've got love for the label still," Dylan jumped back in. "I just have to air a few things out and get it off my chest."
We've all seen what usually happens when a hip-hop artist strikes out against their label CEO — nothing. Foxy Brown publicly dissed Def Jam and hasn't come out with an album since. Even Bad Boy's Hoodfellaz have yet to be heard from since they went against Diddy's wishes and made a mixtape dissing Da Band last year.
Dylan isn't worried.
"We're taking it day by day," he said. "There's enough labels who I can go to or have been hollering. My main thing is to be heard through this mixtape. This is where we started, this is who I feed off. I'm not a Hollywood dude, I live for the streets. This is our music. When it comes to Diddy, I feel like if he's not going to use me for anything, why keep me? If you gonna use me, then we can work."
Dylan said it's been months since all six Da Band members were with Diddy together, but just two weeks ago all six of them performed at a show.
"We still do things together," he said. "I'll be with Babs and Sara in Indiana on Saturday. We're Da Band. We're the ones who couldn't brush our teeth for a week during hazing. It was a constant thing from the cheesecake walk to having to dance in the club till the lights come on without drinking or nothing. When you put people together like that, how can you on the outside say 'You're not together.' You made them family. They not gonna get along every second of the day, but they always gonna be together."


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- Title
- A professional development framework for teaching in higher education
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- Brown, Natalie; Bower, Matt; Skalicky, Jane; Wood, Leigh; Donovan, Diane; Loch, Birgit; Bloom, Walter; Joshi, Nalini
- Abstract
- This paper outlines a professional development framework for teachers in higher education, based on the United Kingdom Professional Standards Framework. The framework outlined in this paper has been designed to align with a range of other evolving models of tertiary teaching standards, extending these to identify performance indicators at three different levels of operation: teaching classes, coordinating units and, leading programs. The model is generic in terms of its overall design, but explicitly incorporates disciplinarity within the levels of operation to enable application to a variety of fields. The way in which this framework will be tailored for teaching mathematical sciences, as part of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Project, is also discussed.
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- Research and Development in Higher Education: Reshaping Higher Education: proceedings of the 33rd Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Annual International Conference (HERDSA 2010), Melbourne, Australia, 06-09 July 2010 / M. Devlin, J. Nagy and A. Lichtenberg (eds.), Vol. 33
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- Higher education; Professional development; Teaching
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By Stephanie Ciccarelli
May 7, 2008
Mark Magdich from Fort Wayne, Indiana flew in and gave a whirlwind talk featuring audio recording equipment and basic concepts of home recording for voice actors.
Discover the benefits of investing in quality gear and learn about standard technologies you should have in your studio.
If there's anyone who knows the scoop on hardware and software for home recording, it's a hardcore rock musician, and the audience at Voice Coaches certainly had access to one of the most knowledgeable people in the business, Mark Magdich of Sweetwater Sound.
With the advent of new, more efficient technologies the costs associated with building a top tier audio recording studio have plummeted, making some aspects of the previously unattainable multi-million dollar studios of a decade ago available for somewhere in the neighborhood of a few thousand dollars today.
Now, you'll find that you can "plug and play" with the aid of simplified digital audio recording devices, specifically using USB microphones and cables.
Now, having the equipment is one thing, but understanding how it works is another.
Something you should be aware of is "Signal Flow" sometimes referred to as the "Signal Chain." The Signal Flow encompasses a series of steps that begins with your voice (reading a line) all the way through how your voice is recorded using recording software.
The Signal Flow operates as follows:
Voice -- Mic -- XLR Cable -- Audio Interface -- USB / Firewire Cable -- Computer
With proper equipment and studio setup, you'll get good, clean audio which is a very good investment if you are going to take voice acting seriously and work in this friendly yet competitive industry.
Mark elaborated on some basic recording techniques and practices including editing and exporting your audio, likening it to a word processor.
As he put it, there are many parallels such as:
The beauty of digital audio recording is that you can start and stop the process at your leisure and combine the best parts of each recording into your final take.
Once you're through with the editing of the file you'll want to export it from your recording program. Once exported, the audio is ready to send to your client via email or bounce down on CDs to mail out and promote your voice.
For reference purposes, I've included the current US pricing (May 3, 2008) for certain items listed here courtesy of Mark Magdich's presentation notes as provided in the Voice Coaches 2nd Annual Advanced Marketing and Conference workbook:
One of the sweet things about Sweetwater Sound is that they have fanatical support and many of the products they sell have long warranties, long meaning 5 years of coverage!
If you are interested in purchasing audio recording equipment from Sweetwater Sound or learning more about how they can serve you, check out their website as linked in this sentence.
Best wishes,
P.S. That's Mark arriving in a limo with the lovely Anna Bourgeois as his personal welcoming committee. As I've said before, Voice Coaches does it up right.Related Topics: Audio, Audio Recording Equipment, garageband, Hardware, industry, Mark Magdich, Microphones, Software, Sweetwater Sound, Voice Coaches
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Author of "Where The Wild Things Are", Maurice Sendak, Dead at 83 [VIDEO]
Maurice Sendak, the award-winning author and illustrator of children's books, has died. Sendak, most recognized for "Where The Wild Things Are", died of complications from a stroke. He was 83.
Just hearing the name "Where The Wild Things Are" sparks memories of my 1st grade teacher, Mrs. Carlson, reading the book to our class. Some of the kids in my class got scared. Most of us sat "criss cross applesauce", paying close attention as Mrs. C read through each page.
Needless to say, "Where The Wild Things Are" is among my favorite children's books. And I'm not alone. The story of a child who doesn't seem to fit in anywhere finding friends in a fantasy world of monsters stands the test of time, and will always have relevant messages. As proof, it was made into a movie in 2009.
The book was actually met with mixed reviews when it was published in 1963, but quickly gained in popularity and in 1964 was awarded the highest U.S. honor for children's literature, the Caldecott Medal.
Although "Where The Wild Things Are" was his biggest success, Sendak wrote some 20 books in all and illustrated dozens. His most recent, the picture book "Bumble-Ardy", was published in September, 2011. In 1996, Congress and then-President Clinton presented Sendak with the National Medal of Arts.


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In 2008, Odyssey developed SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-Bound) Objectives to demonstrate measurable results. For the past seven years we have gathered data on objectives related to the academic progress, program retention, graduation rates and college matriculation of our high school students. To determine how well we are accomplishing these objectives, Odyssey tests each child at the beginning and end of the summer. The testing is designed for each grade level based on state teaching standards from the national curriculum, Common Core. The tests are also created from the Georgia online assessment website to ensure standards and instruction are aligned with the state expectations.


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Improving Chronic Illness Care
One of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's priorities is improving the quality of care delivered to people with chronic illnesses. Improving quality of care was one of the three priorities approved by the board in 1972, shortly after the Foundation became a national philanthropy and it has been a Foundation concern ever since. Among its other efforts, the Foundation has supported quality measurement standards developed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, commissioned major studies on quality of care by the Institute of Medicine, and funded The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which is the subject of the previous chapter in this Anthology.
In this chapter, freelance journalist Irene Wielawski, a frequent contributor to the Anthology series, explores a Foundation-supported initiative called Improving Chronic Illness Care, a pioneering effort spearheaded by Edward Wagner, M.D., of the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle to provide medical care for chronically ill people, whatever their condition. In tracing the history of the Foundation's efforts to improve quality of care, Wielawski concludes that many of the Foundation's past efforts focused on specific illnesses such as asthma, diabetes, or depression. In contrast, the chronic care model developed by Wagner, around which the Improving Chronic Illness Care Program was built, applies to a broad range of chronic illnesses and serves as a roadmap for physicians to organize their practices to meet the often complex needs of chronically ill people.
In fact, the chronic care model calls for a structural change in the way people with illnesses are cared for, and the participation of nurses, social workers and patients themselves. This chapter highlights how difficult it is to change what goes on in physicians' offices and to modify practices that have been entrenched for many years. The challenge is now one of moving an apparently effective way of improving quality from an experiment carried out primarily in health maintenance organizations to the mainstream of health care practice.
To Improve Health and Health Care, Volume X
- 1. Acknowledgments
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- 3. The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
- 4. Improving Chronic Illness Care
- 5. Increasing Health Insurance Coverage at the Local Level
- 6. The Partnership for Long-Term Care
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NJ black churches open to gay congregants
Black churches in New Jersey might not support marriage equality, but acknowledge there are LGBT people in the pews
Black churches in New Jersey might never be the vanguard on marriage rights, but the institution is starting to be more accepting of gays and lesbians in the pews.
The Star Ledger interviewed a number of black church leaders in the Newark area. The ministers know there are gays and lesbians in the choir and running Sunday school programs. The Rev. Ronald Slaughter of St. James AME offered that 60 to 70 percent of churches have gay congregants.
"They (the congregations) may not know it, but they can't be judge or jury at the door," he said.
In a Pew Research poll from last year, only 30 percent of blacks nationwide favor same sex marriage; 59 are opposed. This stands in stark contrast to whites, who are roughly divided.
The numbers also indicate a generational divide, with younger citizens supporting gay marriage more than their elders. Thirty seven percent of blacks, aged between 18 to 40, support marriage for gays. Only 20 percent of blacks aged 50 and older feel the same.
The ministers interviewed made a distinction between ministering to the gay community and advocating for same-sex matrimony.
"My ministry is not defined by advocacy of gay people." said the Rev. M. William Howard of Bethany Baptist.
He added two important points: his sermons address bigotry against gays and lesbians. No church is prepared to adequately deal with gay marriage because no church is ready to deal with sexuality.
"Church — not just the black church — is still wrestling with how it addresses sexuality."


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Transforming Europe's largest consumer payments acceptance network
Duke Street has acquired a 69% shareholding in the Payzone Group, Europe's largest consumer payments acceptance network, at an enterprise value of €104 million, as part of the AIM-listed company's financial restructuring. The deal values the business at 3.6x 2009 EBITDA.
The Payzone Group comprises two businesses, Payzone (formerly known as Alphyra) and Cashzone (formerly known as Cardpoint). The Payzone business manages terminal networks in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Greece and Romania, which process a variety of electronic transactions. The main services include mobile phone top-up, utility top-up, bill-payment solutions, electronic gift vouchers and electronic funds transfer processing. The Cashzone business deploys branded independent ATMs in the convenience sector in the UK and Germany.
Origination and execution
Duke Street had been tracking both Cardpoint (since 2006) and Alphyra (since 2007), while they were both stand-alone businesses. The merger in 2007 brought considerable strain on the combined group, as it was badly executed and provided limited strategic benefit. Duke Street initiated contact with Payzone's largest shareholder, Balderton Capital, in early 2008 to see if it could help restructure the business. As the value of sterling collapsed and trading deteriorated in early 2009, the company appointed Rothschild to consider a range of new financing options. Duke Street's long association and knowledge of the business made it the ideal partner to complete a successful restructuring.
The financial restructuring reduces Payzone's level of senior secured debt from approximately €300 million to €77 million. As part of the process, Payzone's seven bank lenders become shareholders in the restructured group. Duke Street's equity investment provides significant growth capital to develop the business.
Duke Street sees attractive opportunities to grow both Payzone and Cashzone thereby further strengthening the leading market positions they already hold in their respective markets. In Payzone the growth is expected to come from launching new payment services such as cash-less parking/prepaid cards and targeted complementary acquisitions. The independent ATM markets in both the UK and Germany are fragmented and Cashzone is well placed to lead a consolidation of the sector. In addition there may be opportunities to selectively expand the ATM networks in both countries.
The original strategy was always to exit Payzone and Cashzone separately. We only successfully sold the Cashzone ATM business to a trade buyer after a long and complex exit process.


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Fiji's United Peoples Party Chooses Dissolution
By Indrani Krishna
SUVA, Fiji (Fijilive, Jan. 28, 2013) – Fiji's United Peoples Party (UPP) has been wound up. In a statement signed by Mick Beddoes, party vice president and acting general secretary Margret Rounds and executive members Mike Campbell, Seraphina Mock and George Hicks, the UPP said it will not be re-established, but has encouraged all its supporters and members to joinSoqosoqo Duavata ni Lewevanua (SDL), Fiji Labour Party (FLP), or National Federation Party (NFP) as direct individual financial members.
In an interview with FijiLive following the announcement, Beddoes said he has not decided on the party he will be joining adding that he will be making an announcement soon in that regard.
He said in encouraging members to join other political parties, the UPP will be keeping with its beliefs in promoting multiracial politics in Fiji, a position they refused to compromise on following the 1987 coup and the end of the Alliance Party.
By joining the other parties as direct members, the UPP says supporters will effectively help to alter the 'DNA' of these parties ethnic mix through a more natural process that in time would hopefully yield a more 'multiracial' structured political entity, which in turn would encourage a meaningful shift in policies and objectives to properly reflect its increasing multiracial membership.
In the statement, Beddoes said the UPP was grateful and appreciative of the loyalty and dedication of the members and supporters of the party over the many years.
In particular Beddoes said, he was humbled and thankful to his constituents for their confidence in him by electing him twice to Parliament in 2001 and 2006.
The UPP statement said that although it was by comparison a small political party, its contribution in terms of Fiji's national politics was equal to that of the major parties.
The UPP said that the minority community will always have an important role to play in fostering improved relations among all of the people of Fiji.
"Although the challenge ahead of us may seem insurmountable at times, we need only reflect on the risks and challenges that our forefathers faced as they journeyed to the unknown islands of Fiji in order to establish a place that we now all call home."
Beddoes told FijiLive that "at the time of winding up UPP did not own any assets."
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Jon Placak, 5th Force Support Squadron education specialist discusses financial aid with Staff Sgt. Latoya Gantt, 5th FSS noncommissioned officer in charge of formal training, at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Nov. 13. Gantt is currently pursuing a degree in marketing and management. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Stephanie Sauberan)
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-- Central Michigan University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Minot State University, Park University and the Minot Air Force Base Education office staff observed American Education Week at Minot AFB, N.D., Nov. 18-22.
American Education Week began as a joint effort between the National Education Association and the American Legion after World War I as a way to strengthen education in the nation, said Carey Williams, ERAU campus director here.
The week of activities began with an open house on Monday, which offered Airmen, and their guests, cupcakes, cookies and hot apple cider. A free pizza lunch was hosted Nov. 20 and the event wrapped up Nov. 22 with a drawing for prizes, such as sweatshirts and T-shirts.
Throughout the week, Airmen had the opportunity to visit with school representatives and register for the Spring I term classes, which begin in January. In addition, counselors were able to better explain the importance of seeking an education while in the Air Force and the process for obtaining a Combined Community College of the Air Force degree, whether it be for their specific Air Force Specialty Code or not.
The CCAF is an important tool to have whether a member decides to stay in for 20 years or return to the civilian work force, said Jon Placak, 5th FSS education specialist.
"I try to let people know that they don't have to pursue a degree in their AFSC," said Placak. "Once you complete your CCAF, nothing is stopping you from pursuing a degree in the field of your choosing. Just because you're an aircraft maintainer doesn't mean you can't be going to college for psychology."
"We've been getting calls from people applying to work who need proof of their CCAF," said Placak. "It definitely gives them a competitive edge when it comes to getting their foot in the door."
Depending on their career field, most Airmen are able to get their CCAF degree in as little as twelve classes, stated Brigitte Mikula, MSU campus director.
"They already have many of the necessary credits from Basic Military training and technical training," said Mikula.
In the last five years MSU has become a national test center on base for electronic testing and offers a variety of College Level Examination Program tests including the five general education credit courses required to obtain a CCAF degree. Those courses are speech, English composition, math, social science and humanities. The education center here offers a variety of CLEP tests, which can amount to approximately $750 in savings per course.
"While a CCAF degree is not mandatory for promotion to senior enlisted ranks, it is required for senior rater endorsement," said Jerome Williams, 5th Force Support Squadron chief of education and training.
Senior rater endorsements are more crucial than ever for promotion nowadays.
It is important for Airmen to seek out their CCAF degree not only to help them promote but also to better prepare them for fulfilling leadership roles, explained Williams.
With the changing job market, competition for high paying positions within the workforce will only increase, said Williams. Having a degree, like the CCAF, will give Airmen an edge against the competition should they choose to separate from the Air Force.
At any given time throughout the year, approximately 33 percent of base personnel, including dependents, attend university classes offered at the education center. This includes both in residence and online courses.
Barbara Larrison, Park University campus director, also explained that for Airmen at Minot AFB who work odd shifts or deploy to the missile field, the education center also offers educational opportunities to fit their schedule.
Airmen are able to work with squadron leadership and university representatives to create learning groups to meet to fulfill class requirements that fit their schedules.
"It's important for people to know that we offer a variety of class types from in residence teaching, to online and even small squadron centric classes when we have a large enough group interested in attending," stated Larrison.
All classes offered to military members are offered to their dependents as well, said Larrison. In many cases, dependents are offered the class at the same rate as military personnel.
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Current TA guidelines stipulate that members must maintain a 2.0 grade point average after completion of fifteen semester hours when seeking an undergraduate degree and a 3.0 GPA after completion of nine semester hours when seeking a graduate degree. If the member fails to maintain their GPA their tuition assistance can be revoked and they become ineligible for further financial assistance through TA.
For more information about educational opportunities at Minot AFB or TA, contact the Base Education Office at 723-2772.
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NORTH VERNON — Faith and a combination of modern and alternative medicine have afforded Mary Evelyn Speer eight more years with her ever-growing family.
In 2002, after a routine mammogram, doctors found a lump in Speer's breast. For the Jennings County woman, there was no doubt the lump was cancer.
"I knew it when I'd seen it," she said.
While waiting for a scheduled biopsy, Speer, 71, consulted Solomon Wickey in Jefferson County, an Amish herbalist and iridologist.
Iridology is an alternative medicine technique in which diagnoses are made by observing the patterns, colors and other features of a patient's eyes, specifically their irises.
Wickey agreed that the lump was cancerous.
Speer and her husband had been seeing Wickey for years with positive results.
Wickey is the subject of June Naugle's book "Solomon's Touch: The Life and Work of Solomon J. Wickey."
"He said that he would help me, and I believed that he could," she said.
Non-traditional route
Wickey prescribed a strict four-month detoxification diet that prohibited Speer from eating sugar, salt, dairy products and meat.
Speer dined on fresh fruits, vegetables and little else and drank a pint of fresh carrot and celery juice every morning.
"I started on the diet right away. … I didn't cheat once, and it was very hard," she said.
Resisting the temptation to eat a bowl of cereal with milk over her prescribed diet of fruits and vegetables was not always easy.
"If it's your life; you can do it," she said.
Speer returned to the hospital for the biopsy and instead instructed her doctors to remove every trace of growth.
Rather than undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatments, Speer put her faith in God and Wickey's diet. A Christian all her life, she felt led by God to trust the Amish man's judgment.
The fact that Speer is allergic to many medications also factored into her decision for alternative treatment.
Speer's six children were split on how they felt about their mother's cancer-fighting strategy. Some felt she should go the traditional medical route, while others believed the diet could work, but each supported their mother.
"I've got enough faith in her faith that it's going to be OK," said her daughter, Kristina Johnson, recalling her feelings at the time.
Today, Speer is cancer-free and grateful for the added time she has to spend with her family, particularly her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
"I'm very blessed and thankful that I'm here. … I've had eight years I might not have had," she said.
She is quick to credit prayers from friends and family with her recovery.
Throughout the experience, Speer says she never felt the terror or fear she thought would come with breast cancer.
"I knew that God led me exactly the way I went. I never had the fear that I hear you have."
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Dr. David Thompson with Southern Indiana Surgery knows patients who have done well with follow-up treatments similar to Speer's.
He also knows a patient whose colon cancer worsened after following a similar regimen over traditional treatment methods.
While he doesn't have a problem with patients choosing non-traditional cancer treatment options, he doesn't recommend them.
"As a physician, I'm just here to give them their options," he said. "We try and recommend things that are going to be based in scientific research."
At this point, there are few if any long-term studies into the cancer-combating effects of diets such as Speer's or the use of herbs.
On the other hand, radiation and chemotherapy treatments have years of studies from which to draw, according to Thompson.
"We know they work," he said.
In some cases, no further treatment is needed after a tumor is removed.
"Sometimes we don't recommend additional chemotherapy or radiation," he said.
Speer has nothing against modern medicine.
Up until a few years ago, she frequently consulted with an oncologist, and she regularly visits a traditional doctor in Columbus.
Wickey now lives near Fort Wayne, but Speer still visits him a few times each year.
Overcoming breast cancer has been a humbling experience and one that served to strengthen her faith and discipline.
Speer pointed out that while the diet worked for her, it is not for everyone.
"(Others) have to feel right about what they do. I felt right about what I did, and that's why I did it."
Her best advice to others diagnosed with breast cancer is don't despair.
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Chicken Cordon Lou
After being on hiatus for nearly a year, Rescue Me finally had its 5th season premiere last week. This is clearly one of television's rawest and gutsiest programs and I love the fact that the writers have thrown political correctness out the window. Drama and dark humor pair well in this series about post-911 firemen and the host of ghosts and dysfunctions that affect them. Aside from Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary,) my favorite character is Lieutenant (Lou) Kenny Shea (John Scurti.) The crass and witty banter between Tommy and Lou is delightfully quick and oozes sarcasm and the aforementioned political incorrectness. Funny. Stuff. I've actually spent the past week renting and rewatching the first four seasons, and that is why this particular blog post came to be.
Lou is known around the firehouse for his cooking skills and this recipe for Chicken Cordon Lou is how I would imagine him to whip up this dish for Tommy, Franco, Mikey and Sean. While the method is a far cry from the traditional chicken cordon blue technique, the result was a very tasty dish with all the basic ingredients plus a few more. Tossed together and thrown in a casserole dish, this makes for a relatively quick and easy weekday dinner.
Chicken Cordon Lou.... (Chicken Cordon Blue Casserole)
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 3/4" cubes
1/2 pound ham, chopped into bite size pieces
2 Tbsp olive oil, divided
salt and pepper
1/2 onion, diced
1 bell pepper, diced
1 garlic clove, minced
1 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp flour
1- 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 chicken bouillon cube
1/4-1/2 cup fat free half and half
2 ounces reduced fat swiss cheese, shredded
3 ounces Gruyere cheese, shredded
1-2 tsp fresh thyme, finely chopped
handful of chopped parsley
1 cup brown rice, cooked according to package directions
1 cup panko bread crumbs
1 Tbsp butter, melted
Season chicken breast cubes with salt and pepper. Heat one tablespoon oil in skillet and brown/cook chicken cubes, approximately 5 minutes. Add in ham pieces and lightly brown. Remove from pan and set aside. Heat other tablespoon oil and butter in skillet. Add onion and bell pepper. Season with salt and pepper and saute until onion is translucent, 4-5 minutes. Add garlic and saute for another minute or two. Sprinkle veggies with flour and stir to combine. Cook over medium heat for a few minutes so flour loses raw taste. Stir in broth and bouillon, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until thickened. Remove from heat and add half and half and cheeses. Stir until smooth. Add in thyme and parsley. Combine sauce with chicken, ham and rice. Pour into greased casserole dish. Combine panko with melted butter and spread evenly over casserole. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 30-40 minutes.
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This one is a keeper; my family loved it. I did make one substitution though and used a delicate egg noodle instead of rice. Thanks for yet another good recipe.
- August 27, 2009 at 9:30 AM
- Kelley said...
I'm a fellow Buckeye female who is also a "Rescue Me" fan. As a matter of fact, I have the John Scurti Fan page at Facebook. Please feel free to visit and post other Lou-related recipes.
- October 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Mags @ the Other Side of 50 said...
Welcome to my blog Kelley and thanks for commenting!
Hubby and I are both so bummed that Rescue Me is finished, aren't you?
- October 18, 2011 at 5:55 PM
- Kelley said...
Yes, I'm bummed that "Rescue Me" is over. One thing is certain,I will never look at Duncan Hines Red Velvet cake mix the same way again.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Union officials and economists say simultaneous construction of two metro Atlanta stadiums will bolster the local construction industry, which was hobbled during the recession.
Ken Simonson, chief economist of the Associated General Contractors of America, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that $1 billion in non-residential construction typically translates to about 28,500 jobs, and about a third of them are in the construction field.
With the Atlanta Falcons planning to build a new $1 billion stadium and the Atlanta Braves looking to build a $672 million stadium in Cobb County, CEO of the Associated General Contractors of America Mike Dunham says the projects will have a substantial impact on the region's construction industry.
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Stokley signed a one-year deal with the Broncos Monday. In June, he'll turn 36, the same age as Manning, whom he played with in Indianapolis from 2003-06.
Stokley's first stint with the Broncos (2007-09) was best known for his "Immaculate Deflection" catch that stunned the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2009 season opener. Down 7-6 with 28 seconds left, Kyle Orton's underthrown pass to Brandon Marshall was tipped by cornerback Leon Hall and into the hands of Stokley, who raced for an 87-yard TD and a 12-7 win in Josh McDaniels' head coaching debut.
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Is baby lactose intolerant and what to do....
My sister was nursing and her pediatrician recommended that she cut out dairy because her DD was showing signs of being lactose intolerant. Now she's switched to formula and she accidentally got the milk-based one. DD isn't acting like stomach is upset anymore (not spitting up so much, for example), but she's extremely fussy, and my sister is not sure whether she should switch to soy-based. Our SIL told her that if she just switches, and baby isn't lactose int. my sister could make her become lactose int. Is this true? Should she switch? Has anyone had this problem and what was your solution? We need some help, please. (Sister doesn't have a computer, that's why I'm asking for her). ANY advice is welcome and appreciated on this. THANKS!!
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I'm a nutritionist for the WIC program, and i advise mom's all the time on issues like this. Babies are not lactose intolerant. They can have an allergy to milk protein. Breastmilk is like 90% lactose, so if she was breastmilk, my guess is she has no issues with lactose. Babies may be fussy when first switching from breast milk to formula because it is different proteins and their stomaches are very sensitive. I would give it a few more days before switching to soy. Do some research on soy, it is not an alternative that I would switch to. Lots of hormones are in the soy and there are studies that show it can put females into puberty sooner than babies that had cow's base formula. It is not true what your SIL said. There is a lot of misinformation on this, so I'm only giving you information that is research based, not opinions. Hope this helps.posted 01/21/2011 by s_atch
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I'll just push through the initial embarrassment and say it: I drive a –cough, cough, cough–Volvo cross-country wagon.
Now for the disclaimer: It's 11 years old and has 140,000 miles on it and I bought it last fall for just $5200.
My last car was a used Volvo wagon as well. That car rocked as a family car. It had built-in booster seats and a jump seat, facing backwards, in the back. (Older kids loved to sit backwards.) I could comfortably carry six passengers in that car if I had too. A mini van for cowards.
When that car died, a painfully slow and expensive death, I tried, really I did, to switch to a smaller, more gas efficient– Japanese– car but, alas, every car I tried was lacking a certain driving pleasure. Compared to my smooth and heavy, road hugging Volvo, they all felt like toys. So when my mechanic showed me this impeccably- maintained Volvo at a bargain price, I jumped in it.
And I was pleased. For all of one month. Then I realized my kids, and sometimes even my mom, can't fasten their own seat belts. Ugh!
When I think of the precious minutes I've spent, bent over my child, rain, sleet, and snow sliding down my bare lower back and into my crack, damn low-rise jeans, wrestling with either the harness straps of a car seat or the bleep bleepin' seat belt — the one that stops if you tug it too hard and you have to slowly feed it all the way back to get it to come out again, the one that requires superhuman restraint to pull it gently, gently, as far as you need it, the one that somehow gets ridiculously twisted, and the one I've threatened to hang myself with– I could scream.
I've been buckling kids into cars for more than ten years now, not quite as long as I've been on birth control, but still, and every time I find myself rushing, always rushing, late for school, or soccer, or ballet, I'm a cliché, ready to throw the car into reverse, only to hear a tiny voice in the back say, "Mommy, I can't get my seatbelt to work," I have a really hard time keeping my shit together.
So I put the car back in park, get out, open the back door and, while whispering sweet nothings in my child's ear, lovingly buckle her in. Well I do that at least one time out of ten. The other nine times, I don't want to talk about right now.
Full disclaimer, I should also be writing to the child car-seat maker that hates me. The car seat, a Britax, which I always loved, was perfect when I was still using the five-point harness. But now that Isla's graduated to using it like a booster seat, it's too bulky for her to comfortably reach around to buckle herself in.
As I write this, I'm wondering why I let her badger me into ditching the harness belt…
So my question today is, am I the only one whose car, and child car seat, hates them?
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She writes, "USD/JPY eased back to its 240 minute cloud and saw a strong rebound. It is possible that this is the only correction that we will see, however the intraday Elliott wave count is indicating a deeper retracement to 91.40 and possibly 89.55 is likely prior to another leg higher. We also note that the daily RSI has not confirmed the new high. The 240 minute cloud is located currently at 92.18/71."
She notes that the market has recently met its target of 93.32/96 - the 38.2% retracement of the move down from 2007 and she is wary of a small retracement towards trend line supports. Overhead she notes the 2010 high at 94.99 then the March 2009 spike low at 95.77. Jones feels that the market will find some support at the 20 day ma at 91.40 and the 2 month up channel at 90.66, while above here the market will remain immediately bid. She writes, "This support is reinforced by the 88.79 4 month up trend."


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I've opined in the past about the impacts of SDN on the networking market at large, covering topics like commoditization and pricing mix and suggesting that there would be increasing pressure to size the SDN market as companies jockey for position and investors and analysts look for a scoreboard they can use to assess progress.
As the old adage goes, if you want something done right, do it yourself. So Plexxi has joined up with the premier SDN online community SDNCentral and one of the top venture capital teams Lightspeed Ventures to size the SDN market.
The big punch line is that SDN is going to have a much larger impact on network spend and in much shorter time than other industry estimates have shown. We expect that between 30 and 40 percent of total networking spend could be influenced by SDN over the next six years, which means the total SDN market could reach $35B by 2018.
We have published the full results as an infographic, and a report that outlines the measurements and assumptions can be found here.
As we were going through the data gathering and analysis, there were a few major takeaways for me:
- The SDN market is growing much larger and much faster than anyone had anticipated. I think the numbers most cited by folks show the SDN market at something like $3.5B in 2015. We concluded that the market will grow to nearly 3x that size by 2015 and to a full 10x that size by 2018.
- The number of SDN companies is a lot higher than I had thought. SDNCentral has some 225 companies registered as SDN companies. Even though some of these are certainly SDN-washing, it still means that we have seen an industry with near 0 SDN companies in 2009 climb to over 200 in just 3 years.
- The amount of VC money being poured into this space is massive. Would you believe that the total VC investment has increased 50x over 3 years? Sure, some of this might be dumb money, but it means that a lot of people are betting a lot of money on the growth of this space.
This last point is particularly interesting to me. My personal conclusion here is that the competitive landscape is shifting in the kind of way that we only see maybe once in a generation. What has been a virtual monopoly for a couple of decades is quickly becoming a hotly contested space. The new technology has brought with it an influx of new money and new people, which will ultimately deliver new solutions based on new ideas. We haven't seen this competition perhaps ever, and it should serve both customers and investors well. The new companies will loosen the stranglehold that years of a dominant incumbent have brought to networking. That will force everyone – including Cisco – to return to innovation and value as a means of competing. This can only spell goodness for consumers.
And the fact that SDN is acting as a conduit for adjacent spaces to enter the networking foray could make things really interesting. Obviously EMC and VMWare have been on a collision course with Cisco since they acquired Nicira, but Oracle has been active in the SDN space of late. And companies like IBM might leverage their systems integration skills to also enter the space. We could see a colossal clash of the titans before much longer, which would alter even more this rapidly changing space.
And then juxtapose this upon changes that are already happening within the IT space more broadly. The convergence of IT silos, the rise of software-defined everything, and the emergence of a DevOps population could add different twists to this story. For the first time that I remember in my dozen years in the industry, we will see real strategic work at play. No more chasing the next MPLS or multicast feature; we should see real product moves shaping the industry.
Oddly enough, this will actually make it harder for customers in the short run. Until the winners and losers are sorted out, customers will need to decipher the various SDN messages to determine what will ultimately emerge. But I feel confident in saying that whoever the winner, whatever the solutions, we will wind up in a dramatically different place than we started. And I for one cannot wait.


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According to the holiday shopping survey from distribution software-provider Symphony EYC (formerly Aldata), only 5.6 percent of respondents used their mobile phone to actually buy groceries during the past 12 months. Yet supermarkets continue to launch and tweak their mobile apps.
The just-released mobile app upgrade from Wegmans promises to help more quickly build virtual shopping lists while also helping save money and time.
Among the new features:
Other original features built into the app include checking store locations and hours, refilling prescriptions, watching cooking videos, reading the latest posts from Wegmans' Fresh Stories blog, browsing recipes, rating and reviewing products and recipes, and checking nutrition information and Wellness Keys for Wegmans brand products and recipes.
Other supermarket apps in the marketplace enable shoppers to scan and self-checkout in aisles, see the store's weekly circular, download coupons, gain meal planning and cooking tips, and track loyalty card points.
At least according to the Symphony EYC survey of 1,000 shoppers, supermarket apps are missing what shoppers wanted most: being able to compare prices with other stores.
Others features ranking high in the survey as far as importance for mobile grocery shopping:
What's the likelihood that in-store grocery shopping with mobile apps will be common over the next three to five years?
I would think that because the industry keeps talking about them, we'll keep building them. However, unless they do unique things (like price comparisons vs. other stores in the area), I don't see them as a big deal. Then again, I don't use my phone for everything either.
Apps are valuable when they save time, save money and make the shopping experience easier. The ideal grocery app needs to easily merge recipes from any source into a shopping list, automatically grab manufacturer coupons and apply them to purchases, help customers locate products in-store, update and redeem loyalty points/rewards, and quickly check out.
To date, grocers have not been able to produce the ideal app, but we are headed in that direction. Given a few more years we'll get there.
For a variety of reasons, creating strong, relevant apps for in-store grocery shoppers is a logistical challenge:
It'll happen eventually...just not to the level most customers might imagine. Me, I'd be happy if my local Publix just stopped re-stocking during the busiest time of the day. All those dollies real do get in the way.
A mobile app that serves as a substitute for scanning a loyalty card (or entering one's phone number at the checkout lane) is a convenience but not a game-changer. And, as the panel discussed last week, offering discounts through new technology is not really a driver of loyalty anyway.
It would be interesting to see a food retailer really prepared to think outside the box of convenience: For example, how about entering your grocery list from the store website or mobile app, scanning your barcode upon arriving at the store and finding your order ready for pickup? This would take work to execute in a cost-effective way but might help redefine loyalty.
So much of this is the curve—that is, there's an adoption curve that will take a certain amount of time to reach fruition, no matter what a supermarket does. It's likely longer than other areas of retail, due to demographics and the more utilitarian nature of food shopping vs. say, fashion shopping. Newspapers weren't immediately affected by the Internet, but after 5-10 years of the general public online, the effect set-in. Given enough time for old habits to die and generational shifts to keep evolving and the idea of an app/digital assistant to help shoppers will become the norm.
While I haven't personally reviewed supermarket apps, the general direction of the Wegmans example is good. It wouldn't take much effort to meet the features of the wish list presented, just willingness on the store's part. Price comparisons are really tricky and can backfire, so that's an unlikely feature unless provided by a 3rd party shopping comparison app.
Ken Lonyai, Digital Innovation Strategist, co-founder, ScreenPlay InterActive
Sounds like Wegmans gets it. It's all about simplifying the shopping experience and saving money. To do this you need to fully integrate the mobile app with frequent shopper data, be able to set up a list on your PC or tablet and bring that into the store on your mobile phone. I think we can put the gamification and badge nonsense to rest now....
The more that the app relates to the end-to-end process of eating, the more it will become common.
BigOven is a sample of an end-to-end, cloud-based app that goes backward from the recipe to the grocery list. It also does what all future apps will do—links together all of the tech platforms that a person(shopper) uses—tablet, PC, and phones(s).
Life is end-to-end and the best apps are too!
Tom Redd, Global Vice President, Strategic Communications, SAP Global Retail Business Unit
As soon as a grocer moves their loyalty card over to the mobile app and then allows a customer to select coupons from the Sunday FSI by entering a code, then the use of the mobile device should show signs of life in the store. Then give the customer the opportunity to check inventory status or to ask for help from their phone while in the store and route the request to either staff or a manager on their mobile device.
The next generation uses texting, so why not get the store ready for that too? Lastly, add games to the shopping trip. If a customer sees a spill and reports it on their mobile device, they get points. Let all grocers take Feargal Quinn's approach to knowing thy customer.
I think we'll get there. It's taken a couple of iterations to get mobile right when the retailer has a sophisticated online presence, so I have to imagine that the learning curve is even steeper in grocery, where "sophisticated" is almost never used to describe "online."
I have to say that I have come to realize, through acquisition and testing of multiple apps, that a shopping list app is surprisingly complex. And grocery retailers won't necessarily be able to learn from the best practices of other retailers that have cracked their own mobile code—the shopping process for groceries is significantly different than that for say, apparel. The apps should reflect that.
Absolutely. In my research comparing mature Millennials versus mature Baby Boomers, I noted a significant difference in mobile app attitudes and behaviors. Not surprisingly, the younger generation uses apps more for buying products and getting coupons, as well as for gathering information on products, services, and the retailer itself.
A review of the Symphony research leads one to conclude that these apps need to be more than discount vehicles. Consumers are looking for enhanced shopping convenience and connectivity. A needed feature is the ability to provide feedback (complain or compliment) via the mobile app. Such a feature addresses both the need for convenience and the need for connectivity.
Richard J. George, Ph.D., Professor of Food Marketing, Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph's University
I'm interested that the number 1 thing shoppers want is the ability to compare prices: apps are walled gardens and since grocery loyalty is generally a bit of a fiction (location of store is the biggest "loyalty" driver) having to go to a different app for each store you shop seems counter-intuitive to what shoppers want and what FSIs have allowed them to do for years-find out who has the best price on what.
Seems to me to be an opportunity for Google or another wider market player to step in. Shoppers want aggregation and one stop solutions—not a series of 20 apps on their phones all related to grocery shopping
Lisa Bradner, Chief Strategy Officer, Geomentum/Shopper Sciences
The grocery shopping experience for many is a repetitive process at a defined set of stores. Most even buy the same SKUs on each trip and have memorized where these items are located in their set of stores. With that being the norm, mere shopping lists and store and product locators are not going to move the needle on shopper use of the application as they do not significantly improve upon the shopper's already streamlined regiment.
However, when NFC technologies and other real time connectivity is possible within the stores themselves, an application can then provide directed coupons savings to shoppers to a specific store and even in a specific aisle. Taking the application all the way to full utility, competing the purchase on the app and avoiding or expediting the checkout line is nirvana.
Pricing comparing across retailers will remain problematic. Most retailers have no desire to facilitate cross shopping or potentially highlighting a pricing disadvantage.
Anytime technology reduces time, simplifies the process, and/or adds incremental savings, the technology has a great chance of gaining traction. So far, many of these apps fail to meet these criteria.
I agree with Mark Heckman (as I usually do) about the routine nature of grocery shopping, but let me put another spin on it: the fact that mobile apps are (and always will be) generally ineffective for grocery shoppers is a *good* thing: that means that customers are familiar with the store and comfortable to handle any problem-solving tasks on their own, without relying on expensive technology. All retailers should aspire to get their customers to that level of comfort and familiarity.
In short, mobile apps are a solution to a non-problem for most grocery shoppers.
Peter Fader, Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School of the Univ. of Pennsylvania
Any feature that customizes the shopping experience (i.e. personalized offers) enhances the in-store shopping experience and might prove to be a traffic driver.
The objective of the apps should always be to extend the shopping experience to the consumer's cupboards. It it gives the consumer the feeling of organization and more efficient shopping, the app will be utilized.
Carlos Arámbula, Strategist, One Ninth & Co-founder of MarcasUSA, One Ninth, MarcasUSA LLC
This is a fast moving area that requires constant forward momentum and experimentation to stay in the game. I applaud Wegmans for applying their app for more than just delivering deals. Grocery chains need to find ways to add value beyond price.
Smartphone/tablet apps that have real utility to make shopping easier and more enjoyable, along with social media that is sharable, are great tools to stay engaged with the shopper out of the store.
Bill Chidley, Senior Vice President, Interbrand Design Forum
There is still too much "pain" to use a grocery focused mobile app when measured against the potential "gain" for doing so for most consumers.
Until someone crosses that pain/gain chasm, it won't be possible to drive adoption sufficient to impact the business.
In the short term, retailers will need to think hard about supporting mobile apps that have so little adoption (currently) and provide little (or no) impact on retailers' bottom line.
Tim Belvin, CTO, VisibleBrands
Again this is not a one size fits all. The best app will depend on the individuals shopping behavior. For example, my husband does the shopping in our house and I never know when he will be stopping by a store. He likes to be spontaneous. We use a great app that allows me to put items on the shopping list for each of his favorite stores that then syncs to his app. When he arrives at the store, he can look and see what I may be out of or want from that store.
We've never been much into coupon use, however with the app, he can also see if there is a coupon for any of the items on the list. That's all we really need or want.
Lee Kent, Sharing Insights for Success in Retail, YourRetailAuthority
Mobile shopping apps will take off when they eliminate "checkout." It is the wallet function that will be KING!!!
Herb Sorensen, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor Kantar Retail; Adjunct Ehrenberg-Bass, Shopper Scientist LLC
The apps will never be embraced as long as they focus on what the store wants them to do rather than what the consumer wants them to do. If an app were to help me to find items on my list in the store, scan them to check them off and tender my transaction for me when I leave so that I don't have to stand in line, I would use it every time.
It would be nice for grocery stores to move staff from behind the counter out into the aisles to help customers and offer advice rather than wasting payroll hours on performing transactions that often no longer require human interaction. From a first things first point of view the app would have to work well in the store so my recommendation is to start with high speed in store WiFi.
I guess the more important question is "how, if at all, will increased app use benefit (food) retailers?"
Most of the suggestions here seemed designed to make shopping more organized, quicker and on budget; all things which would be great for consumers, but bad for retailers as it would reduce impulse buying. Maybe they should hope app use DOESN'T become more common.
I finally went with a friend to try out the Stop & Shop handhelds the other night. During NRF, I spoke with one of the vendors involved with the Stop & Shop project and finally realized that the thing that really made it work was the advent of reusable shopping bags. Allowing the customer to scan and bag as they shopped seemed the perfect answer. My friend is a real efficiency freak and in her 40 years of grocery shopping has always been annoyed by the number of times she had to handle grocery items between the shelf in the store and the shelf at home. We both had high hopes for the experience.
I had also read the Wegmans announcement of their new version of their shopping tool. I liked the features it offered and the ability to build a shopping list using the camera on the consumer's smart phone. Ultimately, a Bluetooth scanner attached the trash can and linked to the phone will allow people to simply wave the item by the scanner as they throw away the container and upload the list when they are ready to go shopping.
With all the anticipation, we were disappointed with the experience. The handhelds were really "dumb" terminals. For customers used to their smart phones, the handheld seemed both clunky and stupid. Since we were in a new store, we needed help finding things but the terminal could not do that. We did get a lot of discount offers, but they were not always synced with our current location in the store.
In general there is a lot of discussion of "BYOD" for workers. I think retailers are even more challenged to let their customers use whatever device they own. It seems like Stop & Shop has focused on the in-store experience and Wegmans has focused on the pre-sell experience. The ultimate answer will be a solution that spans both aspects, allowing the customer to prepare their order then execute it right there from the device they chose.
Bill Bittner, Principal, BWH Consulting
Persistence pays with consumer adoption of new technologies. With grocery being such a high frequency category, the rationale for downloading and using the apps is there and with Wegmans and Safeway among the major brands pushing these, word of mouth should start growing. The key is to make sure that the in-app experience is well designed and the benefits of use are clearly explained.
Okay, lets see how many panelists I can irritate today. It is absolutely insane the number of ways mobile apps can help or hinder your business, and I appreciate the genius ideas that we continue to see flowing into our business circle. As an independent supermarket owner, this task would require a huge effort to adapt, maintain, and keep it fresh; plus accuracy of pricing is critical.
The Wegmans of the world, and other big chains can try and experiment with these ideas, at a fraction of the cost that I can, so let them work out the bugs. Running the day to day operations, of procuring deals, setting up the ad campaigns, and trying to keep the word out in my community about our store is an endless job, which I accept. Adding the mobile app technology and thinking this is the way to go, makes me pause and think, hmmm, is the way I do business today not good enough for the future? Maybe, but the nuts and bolts of running this store are way too important right now to create this mobile app program, right now.
Someday, as the smoke clears, and a simple system that really has a proven track record is available to someone like me, I'll pursue it, but it won't keep me from doing what I believe is right until then.
Embracing technology is important, but so is keeping the customers happy, with the proven track record we have. This will be a bonus to our store once it becomes more user friendly, so hoepfully I won't be too late to the party.. Enjoy the Game this weekend!
What's hot? Geo-fenced apps, like the ones that Macy's and Walmart offer, will usher in the next wave of features. In-aisle messaging and promotions will prompt impulse purchasing, at least to the extent that retailers won't want to miss those opportunities.
But beyond this, the killer app will include payment on the same device as the list and scan. With Google Wallet and Isis, we are nearly there. The payments of the future will include accounts for both fiat currency and shopper points. Combined with personalized promotions, this kind of comprehensive shop-n-pay app will be such a useful tool to sellers, that we are bound to see them pervade the market.
Liz Crawford, SVP, Strategy & Insights, Head of ShopLab, Match Drive
I believe I can tell from the comments which respondents actually food shop. The apps may become common, but shoppers visit too many stores and yet know how the aisles are organized in each by heart; cooks collect recipes from dozens of sources and not first from supermarkets, and foodies need to see the tomatillos aren't yellow—and parents that the bananas don't have "icky" brown spots—before they buy.
Grocery shopping is complex on an easy day. Most grocers will invest and do it uselessly. While there are interesting possibilities, Wegman's shoppers will love their apps because they love Wegmans—and so on—no app will ever turn a shopper's least favorite local store into a store of choice.
Hannah Roveto, Strategist, Tier One Partners
Consumer adoption of mobile apps is accelerating. In-store apps already drive sales in retailers across the globe. The challenge is to have apps that matter, as the article states. Long-term usage of the apps required constant and consistent evolution to stay ahead of consumer trends.
Ralph Jacobson, Global Retail Industry Analytics Marketing Executive, IBM
Sure, there will be more mobile apps. The feature of adding prices from chosen items is useful. An additional feature might be to add recipes for items chosen in real time, e.g. you bought products x,y and z, if you bought product 'w', you could make "****"
Will in-store grocery shopping with mobile apps be fairly common in the years ahead? Let's think TCS: total customer solution. In February alone we have the following:
Each one represents a problem waiting for a solution, a problem representing a social opportunity. Instead of promotions, why not offer shopper-specific solutions? There are hundreds of these events throughout the year.
Instead of coupons, how about solutions? Vendors can collaborate to create them. It's not real until there is an acronym - MVCMRSS - multi vendor collaborative mobile retail sales solutions. Don't forget to join our next working group meeting at the Hilton in Chicago.
Vahe Katros, Consultant, Plan B
One thing I've not seen—in any of the responses—is the "Health and Wellness" aspect. In that, whatever the app does, it should be able to factor in: 1) Chronic Food Conditions, 2) Food Related Diseases, and 3) Food Allergies. Yes, there are apps that address parts of the above, but they don't "integrate" with any other functions.
While I agree with what most have said re: Checkout, Coupons, Price Specials, etc., I believe the real value will come from an app that KNOWS its users.
Gregg London, Owner, Gregg London Consulting
Getting the application right, for the consumer is the key. That has not happened yet, but its closer today.
The real hurdle facing grocery is that the products and the product packaging on the shelf (particularly the nutritional facts) do not match the images and data in the database that the device and application rely on. 25% of the products on shelf at Walmart have no image at all and another 39% have packaging that differs on shelf vs. the HH. Until we solve this (and no the TSD effort is not the answer) these applications will not meet consumer needs.
Mike Spindler, Managing Partner, Panther Mountain Companies, LLC
Eventually, leveraging mobile apps in-store will become commonplace. For that to happen, though, those apps must deliver on the personalized experience that customers are requesting—customized products, coupons, recipes, loyalty programs, etc.
The current generic version does not deliver sufficient benefit vs. existing online mobile services to make a difference.
A number of great comments in this string. To date, mobile apps in supermarkets have been disappointing and in reality the Wegmans effort detracts from the cause rather than help. IMO as noted, it will be the convergence of wallet, loyalty, offers, recipes, solutions and self scan that will truly bring value.
Below you will see an approximate (not weighted) average of thousands of user ratings between iOS and Android. This tells the story of where the value is created. You will see COT has a major impact on the usability. We have a long way to go in supermarkets.
Zappos - 4.7
Walgreens - 4.4
Walmart - 4.4
Amazon - 4.3
Target - 3.9
My Web Grocer - 3.5 (ShopRite, Winn-Dixie, Brookshire's, etc.
Safeway - 3.4 (Just For You)
Kroger - 3.3
Wegmans - 3.1
Steve Frenda, Managing Director, Strategy and Development, In-Store Marketing Institute
The mobile grocery services market is still in its early stages and many retailers find themselves frustrated and overwhelmed by the choices around which technology to incorporate into their stores.
Consumers on the other hand have become so reliant on mobile—apps in particular—that the focus of rolling out a mobile solution for grocers should depend solely on convenience and customer service.
Many decision makers in the grocery industry don't know:
Shoppers are looking for offers and coupons, deli orders, recipes and the ability to make a shopping list. More advanced features are often ignored over simpler, more basic functionality.
Provide your customers with easy-to-use tools which save them time and money. That is what we know matters most to grocery shoppers.
Alexa Davis, CEO, Gourmet Apps
Key missing features include personalization—for both special offers that are related to products on the shopping list and product suggestions that are relevant to that shopper. For the retailer, comprehensive analytics that help understand who is buying what, which offers they respond to, etc. provide deep insights into how to better increase revenue, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.
Todd Sherman, Managing Partner, T3C Partners