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Richard Stephen Lasse
Position: LB
Height: 6-2 Weight: 222 lbs.
Born: November 13, 1935 in Quincy, MA
High School: Weymouth, Worcester Academy
College: Syracuse (school history) (Lasse college stats)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 6th round (68th overall) of the 1958 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 12 (6581st overall since 1950)
Other SR Links: College Football at Sports-Reference.com


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Got 2 clicks. Google Adwords says "Social Media" as general keywords are worth $5.14 CPC on average. So I guess I brought $10 worth of online advertising value with me.
Oh, and I did some link tracking this time (it's something I forget to do while in a rush) for this chat.
@Arilla -- see you!
@Ariella - Thanks for joining us!
I'm going to hop off chat now. It's been an informative session! Bye.
@Ariella @smkinoshita - Ha!
@smkinoshita a Freudian slip there?
Sorry, that should be 'network marketing'.
This is based off network advertising, where it takes a lot of work over a long period of time for few results and then it explodes.
@maogutileo - I'm @MitchWagner on Twitter. Thanks for joining us on the chat!
@Maogutileo good day to you!
@smkinoshita there is a strong element of the bandwagon effect on social media. People see s/o has a large following and feel that person must be worth connecting with. Sometimes that is true, but not at all times.
My feeling is that one doesn't get faster follower growth via more followers, but rather the natural growth curve is steep. Don't have the numbers to confirm this theory though.
@Mitch @ Paul @ Ariella..thanks so much for all the info ....whats your Twitter account ? mine is @maogutileo...feel free to follow it :), going out walking with my coworkers to vent out thoughts! good day yall
@Mitch good to know.
Well, I was on the side that garbage followers are garbage followers. I think the reason why it appears that more followers = faster growth is the fact that the followers are growing as a result of word of mouth.
Ariella - I'm a fan of tweetdeck, but it's not easy to use, and the latest version is somewhat flaky.Still, it's my desktop twitter client of choice. I'm on a Mac.
@Mitch, so that's it! So I should go with TD then? I don't want people to think I'm ignoring them.
Ariella - HootSuite seems to not show posts more than a few hours old if it wasn't running during that time. That drove me back to Tweetdeck, flaky though the new TD can be.
@Mitch I try to thank people for RTs. But I can only do it when I see the mentions on HS. Apparently, not every single mention comes through.
Paul, thanks for coming and for the excellent insights!
@smkinoshita - Often these discussions of whether something is a good strategy lose sight of the bigger issue: "Compared with what?" Buying followers might work, but are there other, more effective ways to spend money? Even a relatively small amount of money?
Awww! OK! Thanks Paul!
@Paul I agree it is somewhat contrived, but I'm sure he has something set up like that or he would have to be completely tied in to Twitter
The titles was in reference to the test run of posts with dif. titles.
Sorry, everyone. Have to jump off for a call with a paying client. Duty first!
Paul - Auto-thank-yous sound like rubbish. I agree. I respond when I have something to say. If someone has simply tweeted out a link to my work, I generally don't say anything at all. If they say they liked it, I thank them. Maybe I should acknowledge links more often, though.
@Paul -- I just saw a conversation on Reddit's Marketing thread where one person argued that buying followers was useful to help grow the account. The counter argument was that it wasn't worth it compared to doing it organically due to the number of garbage followers. What do you think?
@Areilla Sorry, not sure what you're referring to here à@Paul so did the formulaic titles that use words like "secret" and numbers for lists win?
@Paul a form of exponential growth
@Areilla Auto thank-yous? Sounds a little too contrived for me.
@Maogutileo - I do not get such a high volume of @mentions that it's a problem. I use Tweetdeck and check a couple of times a day. I have friends with literally hundreds of thousands of followers, and for them I imagine it's a whole different problem. (Indeed, I was irked that one friend didn't respond to my @mention -- I can be George Constanza like in my petty vanity -- but then I searched on her twitter handle and realized she probably didn't even SEE my @mention in the flood.)
And by "they", I mean "the audience". :)
@Mitch I'm guessing the former for RTs. Sometimes I'll respond instead of just RTing and that does not always get a response from him, which leads me to conclude that there is a setup to automatically respond to the RT with his his handle.
At the IBM seminar I'm listening to about customer analytics they just mentioned Watson! Heh, I love it considering how much I've read about it on The CMO Site/IE. :D
I've noticed that follower counts tend to grow faster the more followers you have. I've added about 300 in the last month. I'm beginning to track milestones to see if that's the case
@Paul so did the formulaic titles that use words like "secret" and numbers for lists win?
Ariella - It may be entirely automated, or partly automated with a script he triggers when spotting a RT.
Mitch...how do you catch up with peoples messages, tweets,? having such a long list of followers? how do you select which ones to answer and who to ignore
@Ariella -- sort of, except it's more like having some critics built-in.
@Paul -- I'm planning on using customized URL's so I can identitfy which headline does what.
Paul - It occurs to me that retweeting other people's links to @TheCMOsite's articles is a way to acknowledge them *and* keep up traffic in what can be a somewhat quiet account. Hmmm....
@Paul I think there must be an app for that. One of the Tweeters has an almost instantaneous response to RTs that thanks the person and adds "glad you liked it." The formula never varies and it is so fast that he would have to be looking out for the mentions at all times.
@Paul @Ariella: thats sick..lol, to much computer intelligence analysing everything....good for marketing though
Paul - I retweet or acknowledge comments either when it seems appropriate, or when it occurs to me to do so. I can be sloppy.
@smkinoshita One company I spoke with had a great idea for evaluating blog content. They split their e-mail list and used different headlines for the same content, then measured which headlines got the highest CTR
@smkinoshita a sort of test audience like for movie runs?
Ariella - "DH"? "Dear Husband"?
@Ariella -- Funny thing you mention that! I'm planning on seeing if I can appoint a few people I know to represent my target market for a blog. I'm seeing if they'd be interested in becoming sort of "Judges" based on how interesting the information is to them. These are people I've already networked with who are interested in my subject matter, so I'm hoping they'll take interest in being an "official" judge. The concept is that it presents an article, and then there are people making their judgement known, so those engaging on social media may have different viewpoints to engage.
@Mitch Wagner Re: Building a following. That's what we were talking about originally, right? :-) You make an important point: being a good citizen in any social network means paying attention to what others are saying, whether through a retweet, comment or just a thank you. I'm not as good at that as I should be. I probably retweet or acknowledge about one third as many comments as I should.
@Paul reverse search process. Maybe because people have gotten into the habit of just writing DH instead. But real human men still write "wife?"
@Paul - reminds me of some early spam-blocking research. A particular shade of red in email had a high correlation with spam. Legitimate emailers, even email marketers and newsletters, didn't use that shade of bright red, but spammers did.
@Mitch Wagner @Ariella Re: spotting fake reviews. And the correlations can be bizarre. For example, the use of the word "husband" has a high correlation with fake reviews.
@Paul as a blogger since 2005, I would say that the quality of the comments definitely have gone down. Yes, a controversial post may still draw more attention and reaction, but otherwise, people don't bother to say anything.
One tip occurs to me on building social following: Listen to the conversation. Be SEEN to be listening. Respond to interesing comments, follow-back interesting people.
@areilla Here's one article on how Watson works. It isn't search. It's natural language processing built on top of search. In many ways it's search in reverse. The engine can plow through millions of documents and look for common threads that humans would never see
Paul - And Google is taking on criticism by surfacing answers to questions more often, rather than links to pages where you can find the answers.
@Areilla Which could be why corporate blogging is down, according to recent research by UMass Dartmouth. Businesses believe they can get the same results using easier tools and perhaps the quality of comments has declined
@Mitch fascinating. There was just a study on detecting the lies in online dating profiles based on linguistic patterns, as well.
@Ariella - I can't locate a link to any articles but I remember reading one or two. They do some sophisticated language analysis of posts -- fake posts use different words in different patterns than real ones.
@Mitch...correct...in most of the cases, but also the search engines helps narrowing the search, by me inputing "sushi restaurant" in the search box..and not just restaurants
@Mitch Wagner I think the future of search is fascinating. If anyone watched the Watson Jeopardy Challenge last year, that computer found information that could not easily be discovered by search.
@Paul that would be interesting. Do you know of any articles about how such algorithms work?
@Maogutileo - That assumes your friends have the same tastes in food that you do.
@Paul I was thinking that social media can be both a boon and a bane to blogs. on the one hand, they can spread your links far and wide. On the other hand, I get the impression people are often not reading whole posts and not bothering to comment b/c they feel they've expressed enough agreement by linking and liking.
Paul - Exactly so, re: social and search. Also, some questions blend fact and opinion. "What model laptop should I buy?" for example.
@Mitch...Search must move towards social just like Google plus my world is doing it. mixing social with search is a more personal experience, I will prefer to go to a particular restaurant cause my friends have +d or liked it ..than by a random recommendation over Foursquare or Yelp
@Areilla Phony reviews are a huge problem for rating sites like Yelp and Trip Advisor. They've actually come up with some very sophisticated algorithms for identifying fakes. I recently interviewed someone at Yelp about that and came away pretty impressed.
Is Yelp being eclipsed by other review services? What direction is the momentum going in?
@Mitch Starbucks is trying to set up some locations with individual character, like its flagship location near Times Square. I'm sure the products are all the same, but the atmosphere woudl be different.
@Mitch -- Agreed. And the separation will be very useful.
@Mitch Wagner Re: search I don't think you can frame it as an either/or distinction. Social media and search are inextricably intertwined. Blogs never would've taken off if it hadn't been for Google
@smkinoshita - My theory is that search continues to be useful when you're looking for facts, social media for opinion. Is that restaurant I went to a few years ago still open? What's the address? Is it still any good? Two of those three questions are factual, and best answered through search.
@Mitch Yelp emails me regularly, but just about everything is in Queens. I'm not far from Queens, it's true, but my very own neighborhood characterizes itself as "a unique shopping village."
@Mitch Wagner I've found that discovery is the principal advantage of Foursquare. If I'm in an airport, I use it to find the best place to eat, get a beer or find a good Wi-Fi signal
@Mitch -- I don't see social media replacing search. There are some things you don't need to ask the world about or want the world to know about, especially when it's merely a curiosity.
Ariella - That's especially interesting considering you live near a major Yelp center.
@Paul perhaps someone has to run some studies on what can happen to businesses who get bad online reviews. Would they stoop to posting phony good ones to counter the negative ones?
@Maogutileo Agree completely. That's why you have to pick your spots. If you're a small business and you want to rock on Foursquare, then focus on doing that
@Mitch -- No, mostly because they don't know about them.
@Paul -- I just remembered why I don't use Yelp. It's check-in is less automatic than Foursquare's.
Paul, that Harvard research sounds extremely interesting. And it matches my anecdotal observation -- big chains really aren't paying attention to Yelp. Which makes sens. If a consumer is looking for "coffeeshops" on Yelp, why does he need a review of Starbucks? Starbucks is always the same.
So I'm working on a blog post about whether social media will replace search, or make search less important at least. What does everybody think?
I've found Yelp does not cover a lot of local businesses in my area. No one has bothered to submit a review. I think if people did, the reviews could be a good consumer resource.
@Areilla Absolutely. Although I haven't seen any good research into that. Interestingly, the Harvard study found that chain restaurants are relatively immune to Yelp reviews. The impact is mainly on independent businesses
@smkinoshita - Do people use the Foursquare discovery features much, as far as you can see?
@Paul -- If there's an offer associated with it, it only unlocks if I'm the mayor. I have to show them my phone screen.
@Mitch ha, my town mayor would not want anyone else to have the distinction in the park, particularly as it was recently named in his honor.
@smkinoshita agree, there is so much potential for businesses..but there are so many technology around that businesses go crazy trying to catch up with all of them...twitter, faceb., + .... too many and few resources...small local business in particular
@smkinoshita How do you prove that you're the mayor? Do they just know you or do you need to check in every time you enter the premises?
Ariella - I check in when I arrive, when I'm there, or sometimes when I'm leaving if I forget at the other two times.
@Paul -- I like Yelp too, but haven't used it much. I guess I'm a sucker for Foursquare's gaming element.
The two places I'm mayor of on Foursquare are the local park (maybe I'll get a free duck or something) and a Mediterranean restaurant run by lovely people who have difficulty managing phone orders, let alone social media.
@Paul but it does have the potential to go the other way, too, doesn't it? A business may be trashed in a Yelp review, as well.
@Mitch Wagner a Harvard professor did a study a couple of years ago concluding that a one-star advantage on Yelp is good for about a 10% increase in business for independent restaurants
@Mitch so you only check in when you're on route or arrive, not otherwise?
@Mitch Wagner Yelp is awesome for local businesses. I recently had my carpets redone and chose the vendor based upon Yelp reviews. The guy told me Yelp has been an enormous business driver.
@Mitch: From a consumer standpoint. From a business standpoint, Foursquare ROCKS. Especially places to eat. And gyms can make good use of it too.
Ariella - Hard to compare the two. Twitter is continuous, but Foursquare is only valuable when you're going somewhere.
@Mitch -- Happily, one of my favourite businesses (that I'm not involved in) is using Foursquare and I get 10% off as I'm the mayor!
@Mitch Wagner I went to Boston University, which is a big, impersonal school. However, LinkedIn floats my first level connections to the top and I can see who they know who might be useful to me.
@Mitch a big place, indeed.
Paul - Exactly!
@Mitch as habit-forming as Twitter is in the study that was circulated about it being more addictive than other things?
Ariella - I'm SUNY Stony Brook myself.
@Mitch Wagner Del Mar also made the distinction of being a mayor matter. It gives people a goal to shoot for.
Paul - Interesting. What kinds of marketers should use Yelp?
@Mitch there was (is?) a CUNY group on LI. I had joined when I first came on, but there was so little activity that I dropped it.
Paul - boredom isn't necessarily a liability in a game. Consider Everquest. i'm hooked on Foursquare myself, and check in regularly, though I'll be the first to admit I have no idea why, except that it's self-reinforcing. It becomes habit.
One channel that doesn't get as much recognition as it should as a social network is Yelp. They have amazingly detailed user profiles and some of their members have posted more than 3000 reviews
Paul - where did you go to college? I attended a large, impersonal public university. Which only makes the connections smaller -- I don't know that I'd feel a connection to someone just because they attended the same school, but I do feel a connection to people who worked on the college paper.
Maogutileo That's precisely the problem with foursquare. The value proposition isn't clear and as a game it gets boring pretty quickly
@Mitch. I think Linked in for an SEO/linked building works good having a good base of Network, to get a strong relationship with techs/webmasters/managers and get links from potential sites
@Mitch Wagner LinkedIn Alumni is a stroke of genius. College connections are so powerful and are a great starting point for forming relationships
@Maoguteleo -- My feelings exactly. Companies aren't using it, they're not marketing it, despite the fact it has fantastic potential returns.
@Paul s/o should develop an app that will tweet based on voice for people who don't type so quickly.
Paul - Two things interested me about Del Mar: (1) It wasn't just a discount coupon. It showed imagination and had real value. (2) It didn't cost Del Mark much other than time. And of course I expect they publicized the heck out of the winner on their other social media channels.
It will be for our marketing company. My goal is to increase visits to the contact page and increase inquiries, and the plan is to inspire other businesses. I also hope to inspire the local government with a 'feel good' atmosphere with our small businesses.
@Mitch Wagner I'm a huge LinkedIn fan. They do an outstanding job of mixing and matching the information they gather about members in ways that makes it easy to find interesting people.
Haven't really used Foursquare that much...but considering the comments it seems like its not a customer fault, but the company not leading the customers to do what they want the app to be used for...maybe not firm or clear idea of what they offer with this service???
@Mitch Wagner Re: Live Tweeting. It helps to be a fast typist :-). I'd say 8 to 10 tweets an hour is reasonable. I've recently been experimenting with live blogging, which is more intense.
@Paul -- Do you have any tips when developing a social branding strategy? I just did one. I'm shooting for a once-a-week video format ideally, but it has to be approved. I plan to incorporate memes, headline-article format and 2 sentence summaries, and all the content will be spotlighting innovative SMB's in London that I want to offer tweaks to.
@Ariella - That's been my experience on LinkedIn too. I have some ideas for mining it for leads that I'm eager to try -- but other work always seems to take priority. Including following-up on leads we got through other channels.
@smkinoshita Seems to me that Foursquare has never achieve its potential. People simply don't talk about it anymore
@smkinoshita @Mitch, I would think this guy would become a customer, and some of his friends may try the place out, too.
@Mitch Wagner Their recent changes to the check-in process have made that feature almost useless, anyway. They drive you to the top commercial establishments
@smkinoshita - The rainy-day foursquare is clever -- but did it result in gaining customers?
@Paul really, I find it easier to establish some contact on G+. If you don't already have a basis of connection or know the individual's email, you are sometimes sort of locked out of establishing the connection.
@Ariella -- partially. He didn't get the note until he got home, but he thought it was pretty cool. Los Comales got props for that.
@Paul Gillin - People do seem to like the livetweeting. Of course the problem I have is I have to take notes for my stories.... how often do you tweet while livetweeting. how many tweets per hour, say?
@Mitch Wagner Del Mar is a great example.
@Mitch -- It's not Foursquare's fault, really. It's people not being creative. Once a few strong leaders show them the way, others will follow through.
@smkinoshita, well, I'm sure that worked.
@Paul -- funny you mention that, but it was the OTHER point of discussion with my boss.
@smkinoshita - I recall a recent Q&A with Foursquare's CEO -- they're trying to move beyond the check-in. Which is great. But I recall an older interview with him saying the same thing. Moving beyond the check-in seems to be a problem for them. And very, very few people do check-in, despite the high visibility for Foursquare itself.
By "customized" though -- I chose cheddar jalepaneo soup because it was hot, cheesie and spicy... perfect for a rainy day. If I got the guy to come in, I wanted to make sure it was well worth the effort and that he'd get a warm, fuzzy feeling associated with Los Comales.
@Areilla I've found LinkedIn is a poor place for conversation but a great place for finding contacts. I can reach people through LinkedIn that I would never reach through any other means
@Mitch all too often, any contact will be a pretty blatant sales call type thing. Of course, some people do that with DMs on Twitter, too. I sometimes remove them, then.
@Paul -- stuff like Groupon. It has to be managed. SMB's get killed when they don't understand what they're getting into.
Paul: Here's an interesting Foursquare use: Del Mar Thoroughbred Club
@smkinoshita Explain Flash Deals?
@Paul -- not only are they too infrequent but they're not customized! There's so much potential but businesses aren't using it, so customers don't use it.
@Mitch I have very few conversations on LI. Once in a while someone will be kind enough to comment on one of my links in some groups, but that is a rare event.
@smkinoshita I've found that deals on foursquare are too few and far between. I'm not in the habit yet of checking in on a regular basis
@Mitch -- I'm the innovator of the company. We don't even offer it yet as a service, but I already think we shouldn't just offer Foursquare help, but Flash Deal services too.
OK, I will not batch up my replies like that again. It was a bad idea.
@Ariella - Hello, my Google+ pal! I am *still* not using LI well I thin.
@smkinoshita - Tweets from a regular employment agency - ha!
@Paul - Re: Google+. I've been finding it very valuable lately, lots of personal conversation. As with other social media, it depends on who you connect with, and you have to put in the time. I can't blame anyone for deciding it's not for them -- so many possible channels.
@smkinoshita How did you connect with the guy in the library? Foursquare doesn't have a messaging function
@Maogutileo - That's a very good point about the kind of business account you have. My personal account is just that, personal, but it reflects my professional life (because that is such a big part of my life). However, on the branded accounts I manage (and have managed) I keep it strictly business, with the occasional -- businesslike -- humorous aside or reply. Also, welcome to the chat!
@smkinoshita - Ah. I can see where a full-service marketing company would be very interested in 4sq. I'm surprised they're not on top of it already, actually.
Great chat! I'm having trouble keeping up! I now have two windows open....
@Ariella -- he didn't notice until he got home.
@Areilla You make a good point about popular figures. It pays off to build relationships with people who have big followings. A single link on twitter from them can add 20 or 30 followers in a few minutes.
@Paul -- it's funny but it's true. Businesses aren't using Foursquare, but if they did, they could friend people and learn more about their customers. If customers did, they'd watch for deals and visit the choicest place and be more attached to their mayorships.
@smkinoshita what doyou mean that he didn't get it until too late?
@smkinoshita "I've found that Foursquare needs marketing support itself just to be known of its advantages." LOL
@Paul, generally I will add on people if I find that I'm intersted in something that they originally shared that came to my attention from one of my connections.
The most interseting thing that happened on Foursquare was something I did with Los Comales. A guy had check into the library, and it was drizzling. He had never been to Los Comales, so I invited him down (checking with Ana first) for a free cheddar jalepaneo soup. He didn't get it until too late, but was so impressed he tweeted it with a screen shot.
One particularly effective follower-building tactic for me on Twitter has been to report from conferences. I set up my laptop with a bunch of hash tags and transcribe good quotes and tweet them. I've gained as many as 100 followers in a couple of hours that way
@Paul I don't know if I followed a strategy per se. I simply follow people who have posts that interest me, and most of them follow me back. I believe I got a boost early on from a pretty popular figure there who reshared several of my posts and shared a circle that included me.
@Mitch Wagner I just don't see what politics has to do with my business. Declaring an affinity for any party or cause seems irrelevant to what I'm trying to do and can drive good people away.
@Paul -- I've found that Foursquare needs marketing support itself just to be known of its advantages.
@Areilla Care to share some strategies for building a G+ following?
@Paul -- Druxy's has a mayor's special. They're a franchise, but I don't know how centralized everything is.
I've found that people don't really respond much to links on FB. On Twitter they tend to RT if they like it, and on G+, they are more likely to comment or at least plus it.
@smkinoshita Would love it if you could share some links to companies that are doing cool stuff on Foursquare. I haven't seen much that's very creative.
As for politics, I'm not partisan in the narrow meaning of the word -- I'm not a cheerleader for the GOP or the Dems (or any other party, for that matter). While some people are offended by political talk, others are drawn to it even when they disagree. My big concern there isn't that people will find politics offensive -- it's that they'll be bored.
I treat my Facebook account as a personal mix. I try to keep my posts geared in a way that if a potential employer checked me out they'd be OK with it.
@Paul but I've noticed the search ranking effect when I look for blog posts of my own. They come up on my G+ link before the blog itself --even though blogger, the platform I use is also from Google.
@smkinoshita Mitch makes a good point. Don't spread yourself too thin. Choose a place where you think you can really make a difference. I've chosen Twitter, but others may prefer Facebook, LinkedIn or something else.
Starting early makes a difference. I joined twitter five years ago when it was easier to build a following. If you wanted to build a large following on Pinterest, for example, now is a good time to start.
@Paul - Regarding sharing personal information: I do share some, but it's not personal-personal. If I say (as I have) that my wife says that my researching whether to buy an iPad 3 looks more like someone trying to talk himself into buying an iPad 3, that's not really personal. It's just smalltalk.
@Paul I get the most interaction on G+, followed by Twitter, followed by FB and LI. And I have far more connection on FB still.
@Mitch -- depends on what you want to use the social media for.
@Paul -- I have a professional marketing account using my own name, and I have an entertainment account that uses the name of my web comic (@supertempscomic). I recently renamed my comic account because I kept getting accidentally tweets for a temporary employment agency.
@smkinoshita - That said, there are often valid reasons for maintaining multiple accounts. For a time I hosted a podcast, and I kept an account just for that, on the theory that people might be interested in JUST podcast updates, and not drink from the @MitchWagner social media firehose (at that time I was tweeting EVEN MORE than I do today, hard as that is to believe). And in other cases, I am merely the custodian of accounts, as with the @TheCMOSite account and other branded accounts I've managed over the years.
@Mitch Wagner I'm on Google + because I've heard it's good for your search rankings. However, I've had very little interaction with people around that platform. Anyone have a different experience?
@smkinoshita I like the idea of using different accounts. I don't personally do it, but if you want to talk about personal things, I think it's best to keep them separate from your professional identity
Mitch: I guess it depends on the projection you need for your business, are you trying to project a personal type of approach..or more professional....in my point of view ..a business account should stick to sharing interesting post from around the web, depending on the type of niche and what the business do...not mix it with personal tastes or likes
@Paul -- I was just showing what Foursquare is, how consumers use it, and how businesses use it. I used The Tea Haus as an example as Los Comales is closed this week as Ana is away.
@Mitch: Actually I work at a full-service marketing company. I have a strong I.T. background though, so I can see where you might think that. ;)
@Paul I do the same.
@smkinoshita - I'm not Paul but ... it's hard enough to build a quality following on ONE social media account, let alone multiples.
@Mitch Wagner I made the conscious decision to limit the amount of information I share about my personal life and biases. I never tweet about politics and only rarely about my family.
Scott: You work in IT, correct? What company do you work for?
Ana just trusts me to do whatever. She's off at a family event this week.
@smkinoshita Are you using foursquare for any interesting programs?
Paul: Have you been doing much on Google+?
Boss boss. Los Comales is more a partnership.
Hi Mitch!
@Paul -- I use different social media accounts for each interest cateogry. What do you think?
Scott: Your boss as in Los Comales, or in your main job?
Hi, Scott!
@Mitch Wagner Those are all good choices. When possible, I try to add a bit of commentary to the tweet, such as "Sad statement on the condition of B2B marketing."
Paul: That raises a good question. Should a person use social media accounts to reflect ALL their interests, or should they keep it professional? Particularly interesting question if the persons interest include controversial subjects such as politics.
Sorry for lateness; was showing how Foursquare could be useful for marketing to my boss (live demo)
I write a lot, and I make it a point to share links to new articles on Twitter and, if appropriate, on Facebook. I also invite comment when possible.
A couple of my favorite feeds are AdAge and ClickZ. The Consumerist is a good source of ideas for marketing failures.
Tweeting about everything you do is tricky, in my view. It can alienate people just as much as it can attract them.
Paul: Those are good sources. I also like the Web site techmeme.com, as well as subscribing to a ton of RSS feeds.
I subscribe to several newsletters that deliver good material every day to share. They include MarketingCharts.com, Bulldog Reporter, MediaPost and Editor & Publisher. I try to spend a few minutes every day pulling some nuggets out of those and tweeting them.
Yes, it's easy to attract new followers if you just post scurrilous items.
Several of them are encapsulated here. I guess my most basic rule is to be interesting. The goal is to attract the people you want to follow you, not just anyone.
What are some of your tactics?
Great, Paul! Jump right in -- sounds like you have ideas lined up so I'll just get out of your way. :)
There are no absolute rules to building a social media following, so I'll go over some tactics that worked for me, but I'm just as interested in hearing your ideas.
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Katie Couric's talk show topic turned personal yesterday when the TV host admitted to struggling with bulimia in her younger years.
"I wrestled with bulimia all through college and for two years after that," Couric said during the episode that dealt with eating disorders, ABC News reports. "… I know this rigidity, this feeling that if you eat one thing that's wrong, you're full of self-loathing, and then you punish yourself, whether it's one cookie or a stick of gum that isn't sugarless, that I would sometimes beat myself up for that."
Guests on the show included singer and X Factor judge Demi Lovato, who has struggled with eating disorders, and Cynthia Bulik, an eating-disorders specialist, according to the network.
"It's like you can look into the future and someone can say, 'This is possible. Recovery is possible. I can change my thoughts that way,' " Bulik said. "And just the honesty behind saying, 'Yeah, I do still struggle. And these thoughts do come into my mind sometimes.' But just knowing that you can get past that, and learning strategies from someone who's been there, that's what it's all about in terms of recovery."
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Scratch is an introductory programming language targeted at kids, in which they can drag and drop code tiles to form their programs. I recently learned that Scratch will communicate to other programs over a network socket via a simple protocol, and wrote a program to stand between an extended variation of Scratch and the NXT to allow you to control the NXT from that simple environment. My write-up on the results is here.
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This candy find was exciting to me for three reasons: the first, was it's currant flavored. Second, it's made by Katjes. Third, they're gummis. Three things I really, really like. So it was a no brainer that I nabbed them up. Since I was at a Cost Plus World Market, a store not in my area, it was either buy them now or risk never seeing them again.
The bag is a nice size, and very eye-catching with it's brilliant green and red color scheme. The colors are extremely saturated and it's almost blinding to look at, yet attracts the eye at the same time.
The gummis themselves are really cute. They're little nubbins, with the base maybe the diameter of a dime. They're brilliantly red with a nice coating of granulated sugar.
The flavor right away is very fruity. It has a rich jammy flavor that's a little like raspberries, a little like cherries, and a little like cranberries. It's very nice. They're not so much sour, as they are tart, which is the sour level I tend to prefer anyways. The have a nice chew that reminds me of gum drops, slightly soft but still very chewy. They're not as hard as DOTS or as soft as gummi bears.
Overall, I liked these, but I'm not sure I'd buy them again. I think my flavor preference sits more with black currants, but that's just me. These are still and awesome candy and I'd recommend them to you if any of my flavor descriptions appealed to you.
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If you unplug a storage device or removable drive from your computer while it's transferring or saving information, you might risk losing some information. Windows provides a way to help you safely remove such devices.
Most USB devices can safely be unplugged and removed. When unplugging storage devices, such as USB flash drives or external hard drives, make sure that the computer has finished saving any information to the device before removing it. If the device has a small light that shows when it's use, wait a few seconds after the light has finished flashing before unplugging it.


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The rotary diversified diet, used in the management of environmental illness, consists of eliminating prohibited foods from the diet and rotating remaining non-prohibited foods and their "food families" within a regular cycle. We assessed the adequacy of nutrient intakes in 22 women prescr...
We conducted in-class written surveys of fourht to eighth grade children's eating and smoking behaviours in southwestern Ontario (n=870) and Charlottetown (n=423) in order to facilitate local school boards' and health units' planning of health education initiatives. Using chi-square a...
Presents information on a study which assessed adherence to a rotary diversified diet, a treatment for environmental illness. Design; Subjects and setting; Statistical analyses; Results; Applications.; Presents information on a study which assessed adherence to a rotary diversified diet, a treatment...
This review outlines the state of knowledge and research gaps in the area of determinants of healthy eating among children and youth. The article is structured around individual and collective determinants that affect healthy eating in children and youth. We defined healthy eating as "eating pr...
Given the increase in the number of Canadian jurisdictions with school nutrition and/or physical activity policies, there is a need to assess the effectiveness of such policies. The objectives of this paper are to 1) provide an overview of key issues in monitoring and evaluating school nutrition and...
Le présent article traite de l'état actuel des connaissances ainsi que des lacunes observées au niveau de la recherche portant sur les déterminants de la saine alimentation chez les enfants et les jeunes, c.-à-d. les déterminants d'ordre individuel et collectif qui influencent la saine aliment...
The rotary diversified diet, which involves food elimination and rotation of remaining allowed foods, is commonly used in the management of environmental illness. No studies have considered patient adherence while evaluating the effectiveness of the diet in controlling symptoms.O...
Changes in children's lunch-time food group intakes over 5 years of school nutrition policy implementation
Objective: to assess food group consumption during school lunch over five years of school nutrition policy (SNP) implementation according to food source (home versus school). Methods: Grade 5/6 elementary school children in Prince Edward Island completed validated lunch time food records during an i...
Association between duration of community-based group membership and sustainable livelihoods for Kenyan Women dairy farmers
Kenyan community leaders called for strengthened sustainable livelihoods for farmers and in 1992 formed a self-help dairy group that was reorganized in 2009 to form the Wakulima Dairy Ltd. (WDL). At WDL, members sell surplus milk to the dairy and, through nongovernmental organization (NGO) partnersh...
A province-wide school nutrition policy and food consumption in elementary school children in Prince Edward Island.
OBJECTIVE: Although the majority of Canadian provinces have indicated that they have adopted new school nutrition policies, there have been few if any systematic evaluations of these policies. In Prince Edward Island, a nutrition policy for elementary schools was adopted province-wide in 2006. In th...
Purpose: The study was conducted to identify the enabling and barrier factors in the development of nutrition policies in Prince Edward Island elementary and consolidated schools. Methods: A document review and in-depth interviews were conducted with key stakeholders (n=12). Results: Principals were...
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Purpose: Prince Edward Island adolescents' food use was examined, as were possible associations between food use and grade, sex, and academic performance. Methods: Participants (n=325) were purposively selected from four junior high schools. Dietary data were collected using an adaptation of the 200...
MacLellan et al seek to summarize the findings of the Prince Edward Island (PEI) Nutrition Survey. A random sample of 1,995 adults aged 18-74 were interviewed in their homes and weights, heights, and waist circumference measurements were obtained. Results show that almost one third of PEI adults are...
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Purpose: We assessed principals' perceptions about the level of school nutrition policy (SNP) implementation in Prince Edward Island elementary schools, objectively evaluated how closely elementary schools are following SNP regulations for types and frequency of foods offered at school, and explored...
Background: Schoolteachers can affect students' eating habits in several ways: through nutrition knowledge, positive role modeling, and avoidance of unhealthy classroom food practices. In this study, the knowledge, attitudes, and eating behaviors of prospective teachers as determinants of intended...
School nutrition policy adherence and weight status in elementary school children in Prince Edward Island
The majority of Canadian provinces have adopted school nutrition policies (SNP) in an effort to improve children"s eating habits and reduce childhood overweight and obesity. While a number of provinces have implemented SNPs, there has been little in terms of evaluation across the country. All elem...
This research study entitled Building Healthy Mi'kmaq Communities in Prince Edward Island is important because at the outset of the study, little or no research had been undertaken with the Mi'kmaq communities of PEL The purpose of the study was to focus primarily on the determinants of he...
Personal health practices around physical activity as perceived by aboriginal children of Prince Edward Island
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After graduating he joined the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College as Research Assistant and worked on particle tracking for high order elements.
Dr Coppola studied for his PhD in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Yale University, focusing on counter-flow turbulent diffusion flames under intense turbulence.
In 2006 he joined the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London as a member of the Cardiovascular Mechanics group, where he worked on cardiovascular diseases and medical technology.
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The Search charm uses Bing Smart Search so you can search your PC, the web, and OneDrive, plus some apps and the Windows Store. You can search once to get results from everywhere, and you can go back to your search results without having to search again.
Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search.(If you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, and then click Search.)
Enter your search term. As you type, you'll see a list of search results and suggestions.
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Swipe in from the left edge of your screen. (If you're using a mouse, move your pointer into the upper-left corner of your screen and click.)
If you're on the desktop, you can tap or click the taskbar button for the search results page to go back to it.
By default, the Search charm searches the apps, files, and settings on your PC and OneDrive, plus the web. But you can choose to search for only one type of result, like settings, files, images on the web, or videos on the web. And if you're in an app when you open Search, you can choose to search only that app (this might not be available in some apps).
You can delete the search history that's stored by the Search charm, choose how much of your search info is shared with Bing, and filter adult content out of your web search results.
Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings, and then tap Change PC settings.(If you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, click Settings, and then click Change PC settings.)
Tap or click Search and apps, then tap or click Search. All of the settings for the Search charm are here.
Deleting your Windows search history doesn't delete the search history that particular apps save. For info about deleting search history in an app, look on the app developer's website or in help for that app.
You can choose not to get search results and suggestions from Bing when you use the Search charm. If you turn this setting off, the Search charm will only search the apps, files, and settings on your PC and OneDrive. (You might want to do this if you're using a metered Internet connection.)
Tap or click Search and apps, then tap or click Search.
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Published: Friday, July 12, 2013 at 8:32 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 12, 2013 at 8:32 p.m.
A 63-year-old Supply woman bitten by a shark Thursday afternoon at Holden Beach was in good condition Friday night at Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center, a hospital spokesman said.
Barbara Corey was in 3 to 4 feet of water in the 200 block of Ocean Boulevard East about 3:20 p.m. Thursday when she felt something bite her right foot and begin thrashing around, according to a news release from the Holden Beach Police Department. After being assisted to shore, she found a bite wound on her right foot, the release said.
Holden Beach police, Brunswick County EMS and emergency responders from Tri-Beach Fire Department assisted at the scene.
Coastline Rescue took Corey to the hospital.
The news release expressed the town's concern for Corey and said the bite was considered an "isolated, chance occurrence."
Tips on reducing the risk of shark bites can be found at the International Shark Attack File website: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/Attacks/relariskreduce.htm
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ZF-7767: IIS7 ignores blank key/value pairs
I had to convert a ZF application that sat on a Linux/Apache machine to a Windows 2008/IIS7 machine. Everything seemed to work, with one minor exception. Using the LAMP stack, if the URL had a blank value, such as /index/index/key1//key2// then the PHP variables are blank:
$key1 = $request->getParam ( 'key1' ); //$key1 == '' (blank) $key2 = $request->getParam ( 'key2' ); //$key2 == '' (blank)
However, since I moved to IIS7, /index/index/key1//key2// gives me the following values:
$key1 = $request->getParam ( 'key1' ); //$key1 == 'key2' (not desired behavior) $key2 = $request->getParam ( 'key2' ); //$key2 == '' (blank)
I fixed it by overwriting the REQUEST_URI Server in my bootstrap file with the following code:
if (isset($_SERVER["IIS_WasUrlRewritten"])) { $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER["UNENCODED_URL"]; }
Please let me know if you would like me to send you my php.ini file or any other IIS related file.
Can you tell me how you have your project setup? Which url rewriter, rules, etc? I have IIS7 installed on vista (should effectively be the same I would think)
Thanks! Ralph
Hello Ralph, I've attached my web.config file, hopefully that will help. There is nothing special about my settings, I just installed the PHP binary and everything else, I believe, should be the default. If you need anything else, please let me know.
Patch attched
Hey Henry, can you test the patch I've provided up above and let me know if it works for you?
Fixed in trunk in r18308 and in release branch 1.9 in r18310
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ZF-2788: Add option to disable loading default decorators in Zend_Form
Currently, decorators for the various Zend_Form object are always loaded; default decorators exist and are loaded by default. In some cases, you may not want this: * If using Zend_Form in models for input filtering, and allowing re-purposing the model for use with a web service * When using Zend_Form::setElementDecorators() (no need to load decorators twice!) To accomplish this, a new flag should exist, 'loadDefaultDecorators'; when true (the default), the default decorators will be loaded; otherwise, they will not. Additionally, the protected _loadDefaultDecorators() method should be made public, to allow loading them on-demand.
Added new configuration flag, disableLoadDefaultDecorators. For instance:
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As the publics concern about girls' aggression and violence is rising, this document reviews the objective evidence regarding youthful female violence, makes suggestions about what is occurring, and suggests ways to address the issue positively.
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TUCSON, Ariz. – Wildcat women's soccer defeated Hawaii 4-1 Friday night at Murphey Field at Mulcahy Stadium.
The Arizona (5-1-3) offense came out ready to play with Hayley Estopare scoring the first goal for the Wildcats in the first minute, crediting Jazmin Ponce with the assist. Just two minutes later, Ponce scored off a free kick from a penalty made by Hawaii.
"I thought we started the half strong going up 2-0 within five minutes," head coach Tony Amato said. "We took our foot off the pedal for a few minutes and they started getting into the game and that caused us some problems and went 2-1."
Hawaii's Kama Pascua scored in the 17th minute to record the only goal for the Rainbow Warriors. In the 23rd minute, Ponce scored her second goal of the night and recorded her sixth of the season. The only goal of the second half came from sophomore Hannah Wong in the 52nd minute.
The Wildcats outshot Hawaii (3-4) 20-12, Ponce leading the team with seven, three on goal.
"The last 15 minutes of the first half we were really composed and controlled and that carried on through the rest of the match," Amato said. "We are happy with it overall. We knew it was an important game since it's the last one before we kick off the Pac-12 and we really wanted to win it and we are proud of the girls for the effort they put in tonight."
In the net, goalkeeper Gabby Kaufman recorded a total of six saves while Rainbow Warriors goalkeeper Monk Berger recorded five saves of the 20 shots she faced.
Up next, Arizona will begin Pac-12 competition against UCLA on Sun., Sept. 29 at 2:00 p.m. MST at Murphey Field at Mulcahy Stadium. The game will be broadcasted on the Pac-12 Network.
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One of the funniest farces by the all-time grandmaster of the form, Paradise Hotel centers on an unhappily married engineer, Benoit Pinglet, who arranges a secret rendezvous with his business partner's gorgeous young wife, Marcelle. When the lovers arrive at a notorious Parisian love hotel, their plans become complicated by the hotel's oddball staff and eccentric guests—including Pinglet's lascivious maid and the young philosophy student she's set her sights on, a thick-headed friend of Pinglet's with four beautiful daughters, plus Marcelle's husband to boot! A classic, fast-paced bedroom farce full of hilarious mistaken identities ensues.
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Rule out Vernon Carey moving to guard for Dolphins
Vernon Carey is being paid by the Miami Dolphins as if he's an elite tackle, and that's the position South Floridians should expect this hometown product to play in 2011.
It gets under my skin every time I hear, or see someone talking about drafting an offensive tackle and sliding Carey inside to guard because it's the dumbest most unrealistic idea EVER.
Most of you proposing this slide have no idea how that whole process works, or what it takes to become the effective pulling guard the Dolphins desperately lack.
Just because Carey played the position for one season at the University of Miami (and hated it) and played a little guard in his rookie season with the Dolphins in 2004 doesn't mean he can do it seven years later.
Carey's older now, and his body doesn't react or respond like it once did. He's a drive-blocker, a bulldozer, not a pulling guard. That means he's a tackle, not a guard.
We talked about that topic (on and off camera), and his rehab from offseason knee surgery in this video.
Head coach Tony Sparano, an offensive line guru, has told us moving Carey inside is not an option on the table now.
I've repeatedly stressed it won't happen for a number of reasons, starting with the FACT he's a tackle, and wants to remain a tackle.
So can we please squash the Carey can move to guard talk? Dead it!
If the Dolphins opt to draft another tackle early, which I don't think will be considered, this regime would likely release Carey, eating some of the initial investment they made re-signing him in 2009, and start over with an unproven player like Boston College's Anthony Castonzo, Colorado's Nate Solder or Wisconsin's Gabe Carimi
That approach would insert a question mark into a line that presently has concerns at three other spots: left guard, center and right guard. Would that be idea?
Of course Carey's knee issues, and weight (around 340) should be a concern moving forward. But Carey has already begun working out with Jake Long and the boys at Nova. He spent a month training in Arizona with PTI (Richie Incognito was there with him) building an offseason program specially designed for him, helping to speed up his rehab.
Carey said he's working out twice a day to get ready for the season, and that workout includes his usual spinning classes.
None of this means he's going to be the starting tackle for the next five seasons. But what it does hint at is that the Dolphins should be set at right tackle for at least 2011.


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I was asked recently to have lunch with a previous colleague. I was, at first, glad to hear from her. I wanted to catch up, see what she has been up to, and share with her what I have been doing lately as well. When I walked into the restaurant where we said we would meet, I could see her sitting across the room near the window, phone stuck to her ear. She seemed to be engrossed in a heated conversation. I walked quickly to the table and plopped down in the seat in front of her with this huge smile on my face. She (I'll call her Jenny — not her real name) put her hand up without looking at me to let me know the conversation she was having was much more important than seeing me right now. I had a flashback of our days in the office together and the flashbacks were not encouraging. I suddenly realized I had made a mistake by meeting up with her, but I couldn't leave now. When the waitress approached our table, I ordered a ginger ale. Jenny placed her phone down for a moment and asked the waitress to come back. I cancelled my ginger ale. I was taking medication for a nasty cough and was not supposed to mix the meds with alcohol, but I had feeling I would need a good high.
After at least 10 more minutes on the phone, she ended her passionate conversation and sighed heavily. "Oh, I cannot believe my boyfriend, he can be such an idiot!" she said. "I am really going to need a drink." She sighed heavily again and applied lip gloss. I cleared my throat and said, "Well, hello Jen, how have you been?" She then leaned over the table and gave me a quick peck on the cheek. "Oh honey, don't ask, really, really tired, very busy," she said. "I hate my job, I hate my man, and I hate my freaking apartment. The landlord is an a—hole." She proceeded to tell me for the next 15 minutes why she thought so. When the waitress came back to our table, Jenny ordered a glass of wine, and I ordered the same. "So how have you been?" Jenny finally got around to asking me. I tried to catch her up on what I have been up to, but her phone kept going off. Every time it did, she picked it up. She kept the conversations brief, but with each phone call, her mood seemed to just go south. After the fourth call she received, I said, "Jenny, you invited me here because you wanted to catch up, so let's do that." Jenny said, rolling her eyes,"Sorry, I forgot how sensitive you were." Oookay. I asked about her job, she told me she hated it and told me why. I asked about her sister, and she said she was a pain in the ass. I even asked about her cat, who I knew she loved, hoping to turn the conversation around and perhaps add a little laughter. She told me the cat was getting old, pissing all over the house and she wanted to throw her out the window.
I finally said, "Jen, you're a little negative tonight. Why don't we find something positive to talk about? Life is very short; we shouldn't spend so much of our time elevating the negatives. Think of all you have and just be grateful." I will never forget her response: "Oh my gosh, you are so killing my bitch buzz right now." It was not the evening I was hoping for. I only ordered an appetizer and told Jenny that I needed to leave because of a headache, which was true. I did not say I would keep in touch or "let's do this again" because that would have been a lie, and I did not want to get together with her again.
After leaving the restaurant and heading home, I started thinking about things that were going to aggravate me when I got home. My husband probably left a sink full of dishes instead of putting them in the dishwasher. He probably didn't walk the dog, and I would have to do it. I needed to call my mom about something and really didn't feel like it at that moment. Wait a minute. What just happened? Did Jenny's negativity rub off on me? Did I catch the Bitch Buzz?
If you are ever around a negative person for any length of time, you will feel your self being drawn into their very negative and seemingly hopeless world. Nothing you say will bring them out of this dark cave of theirs because they like it there. They also enjoy bringing others into their very uninviting space. Is the Bitch Buzz contagious? Absolutely, if you allow it to be. Now, we all have bad days, but ask yourself: Do you handle your bad day or does your bad day handle you? Do you hang around people whose conversations are mainly about slandering others or building others up? Do you know people who seem to thrive on drama? Do you feel exhausted having spent time with them? Have you noticed that you begin to reflect negativity after you have been in their presence? These people can be toxic to your health and your mental state of mind.
I know a lot of people, but I do not have a lot of friends and that is by choice. Do you I prefer to stay in a positive light, reflecting on life's little gifts? Talking to someone I know who is positive when I am having a bad day or just writing my cares in my prayer journal that no one else will read except for me and my God, helps me to move on and not focus on my fleeting and often trivial problems. If you are around people who enjoy the Bitch Buzz or if you are that person who loves staying in the negative, think about this — words are powerful and very persuasive to the human spirit. Use them wisely. Do yourself a favor and take a break from those who thrive on the Bitch Buzz. And if you find yourself around one of these toxic spitfires, simply ask them: "You're alive, how bad can you're bad day be?"


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Radius Health has obtained $91 million to fund Phase III trials with an injectable formulation of its osteoporosis candidate BA058. The firm separately announced a deal with 3M Delivery Systems to develop a transdermal delivery formulation of the molecule based on the latter's Microstructures Transdermal System microneedle technology.
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Bring the kids to the Utah State Fair for some farm work and Victoria Justice's concert, and then sign them up for cotillion. They'll thank you for that second idea later on.
Utah State Fair
The fair is already underway, and there's plenty to do with the kids at the event. In fact, the fair has a whole section of their website dedicated to kids activities, but are our favorites.
Little Hands on the Farm Exhibit
Kids can dress up like farmers and then get to work, scooping up feed for the chickens and gathering eggs in the chicken coop. Later, they can pick apples in an orchard, plant veggies, ride a tractor, groom the sheep, milk the cow and take their produce to the farmers market. Of course, most of these activities require a big imagination due to the fake... well, mostly everything, but it's been a favorite of kids at the fair for years. It's free, too.
Victoria Justice
Any kid older than seven and under 14, especially a girl, who watches TV knows Victoria Justice, even if you don't. Aside from acting in her own Nickelodeon show, Victorious, Justice is a singer, and she just released her new album Make It In America. She takes the grand stage at the fair at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 10. $22 in advance, $27 on the day of the show. Click here for tickets.
Something else your kids know and you don't—her single, "Freak the Freak Out."
Jon D. Williams Cotillion
Social skills are an often overlooked part of a child's education, so to separate your kids from the pack, sign them up for cotillion. They'll learn the art of social dance, communication skills and set them on a path for leadership in school and their future.
Cotillions will be held this fall and winter at Park City's Temple Har Shalom and the Country Club at Salt Lake City for kids ranging from fourth to eighth grade.
Cost is $200 or $240 per student depending on age. Click here for registration.


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Stay informed of current and historical rainfall data for up to seven days with this wireless, self-emptying rain gauge. Rainfall amounts over the past hour, day and week are stored, giving you a useful tool for irrigation decisions. System also includes remote temperature sensor. Monitor temperatures in up to three remote locations with additional sensors. Includes programmable excessive rainfall alarm. Features backlit display, rain gauge installation level, clock and alarm clock with snooze. Receiver, rain gauge and temperature sensor require two "AA" batteries each (not included). Additional temperature sensors sold separately (Item No. 162411). Imported.


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MOSCOW, Idaho – University of Idaho sophomore distance runner Hannah Kiser was selected on Thursday as a Capital One Academic All-District honoree for the first time in her career.
Kiser, who had a breakout year in cross country and indoor track and field in 2011-12, was voted to the District 7 First Team and will now move on to the Capital One Academic All-America ballot.
A Second-Team All-America honoree in indoor track and field and an NCAA qualifier in cross country who broke one school record and three Western Athletic Conference records this season in addition to her three WAC titles and four First-Team All-WAC honors, Kiser holds a 4.0 grade-point average as a double-major in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Idaho.
"She is as dedicated and as successful academically as she is athletically," said Idaho director of track and field/cross country Wayne Phipps. "Academics is always her first priority and for her to be a double-major with a 4.0 GPA and be competing and training all year round is just an incredible accomplishment."
In the fall, Kiser led the Vandal women to their second-consecutive WAC team cross country crown with a runner-up finish at the WAC Championships. She was a U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-West Region honoree after finishing 13th at the NCAA West Region Championships.
After finishing 85th at her first career NCAA Cross Country Championship, Kiser was also selected as a USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic honoree.
Kiser carried that momentum into indoor track and field, where she broke Idaho school record and the WAC all-time record in the 3000m with a time of 9:07.23 during the season. At the WAC Indoor Championships, she ran the anchor leg of Idaho's champion distance medley relay that ran a WAC meet-record 11:41.67, then followed it up with a meet-record 9:45.11 to win the 3000m and an individual title in the mile run, for good measure.
She was an automatic NCAA qualifier for Idaho in the 3000m, where she finished 13th and was honored as a USTFCCCA Second-Team All-American in the event.
On the eve of her NCAA Indoor Championships race, Kiser also learned that she had been selected as a 2012 IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellow. The program, funded by a National Institutes of Health grant, is a 10-week fellowship that allows undergraduate students to work full-time in biomedical research facilities in the state of Idaho.
Kiser redshirted the 2012 outdoor track and field season.
Capital One Academic All-District honors are nominated and voted upon by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). To be eligible, a student-athlete must have reached sophomore standing both academically and athletically, and have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.30.
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Marko is a Part Time Assistant Professor of Media and Design, and a Masters Thesis I & II and Major Studio I & II Instructor at Parsons MFADT Design & Technology Program. He is working currently on new R&D projects on novel hardware/software hybrids and collaborative workflows related to immersive multisensory interactive storytelling in context of future of cinema, as well as a novel anti violence wearable technology project for Asia with an interesting multidisciplinary team, to tackle related complex wicked and super wicked problems step by step, facing tens of millions of women in their daily lives.
Previously, Marko worked from 2007 to 2012 as a Senior Technology Manager at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, and til 2015 as the Director of Technology and Research. He has visualized R142 subway cars in 3D for New York City MTA and Antennadesign, and has worked in concept design and R&D related to virtual/augmented reality, 3D, immersive interfaces at ESI Design and NEC Princeton R&D Labs.
Marko worked as the AV and Media Producer and Technology Consultant in "Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future" touring international exhibition, as well as the Curator and Technology Advisor in "SAUMA: Design as Cultural Interface" exhibition. Marko has consulted and betatested for corporations such as Apple, Arkaos, Lightwave, Sseyo, Stereographics, Videodelic and Virtus. He is an avid electronic musician, synth bass player and maker of electronic musical instruments.
Here are examples of Marko's thesis student's projects in the 2015 MFADT Final exhibition "Designing Multiplicity".
Here are examples of Marko's thesis student's projects in the 2014 MFADT Final exhibition.
Here are examples of Marko's thesis student's projects in the 2013 MFADT Final exhibition.
Here is a list of all students and projects Marko has guided since 2001.
Masters (M.P.S.) from NYU Tisch Institute of Film & Television's Interactive Telecommunications Program 3.916 GPA
Bachelor in Music (B.M.) with Summa Cum Laude Honors, in Music Technology from NYU School of Education Music Technology program 3.966 GPA
Diploma in Media Arts. Center for the Media Arts, School of Audio Engineering, New York. 4.0 GPA.
Longtime member of ACM (Association of Computer Machinery).
Longtime member of SIGGRAPH (ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques).
Longtime member of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers).
Lifetime member of Pi Kappa Lambda, National Music Honors society.
Mention of curation of Sauma Exhibition, AIR scent installation in "Senses and the City: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Urban Sensescapes", edited by Mădălina Diaconu, Eva Heuberger, Ruth Mateus-berr, Lukas M. Vosicky. LOT Verlag, January 13, 2011. ISBN 3643502486.
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future book, Exhibition AV and Media Producer, Exhibition and book project production and research team member, Yale University Press, May 31, 2011. ISBN 0300122373.
Translation of "MAKE: Arduino Bots and Gadgets" from Finnish original for O'Reilly/MAKE publications. Make Publications, April 11, 2011. ISBN 1449389716.
Mention in New York Times: Future Flashback: The Prefab from Another Planet, July 28, 2005.
Book cover: 3D Visualization of the New York City R142 Subway car in: Evolution of New York City Subway Cars: An Illustrated History of New York City's Transit Cars, 1867-1997. By Gene Sansone. February 26, 2002. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801868866.
Foreword in "F2F: New Media Art from Finland" publication. Publisher: Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, 2002. ISBN 0-9724881-0-3.
3D visualization of the new Bombardier/Kawasaki R142 Subway Car for NYC MTA and Antennadesign in:
- AXIS design magazine, # 78, Tokyo, Japan. 1999
- DESIGN NEWS magazine, #241, Tokyo, Japan. 1998
- "Evolution of New York City Subways" by Gene Sansone. New York City Transit Museum Publications. 1997.
Jury and Guest Critic Duties, Public Speaking
Subreviewer: ACE 2015: 12th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Iskandar, Malaysia, November 2015.
Member of Jury: Pasadena Center College for Art & Design, Summer 2015 Research Residency, Media Design Practices/Lab+Field
Visiting Guest Critic: Krzysztof Wodiscko's Architecture of Cultural Prosthetics class at Harvard School of Architecture, December 2014
Member of Panel at "Gimme More" Augmented Reality Exhibition Panel, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, February 21st, 2013
FATLAB Fat Gold Exhibition: FAT Public Access Tech Support Call in Show with Eyebeam Director of Technology and Research Marko Tandefelt, April 4th, 2013
Advisory Council Member: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), 2008 – 2011
Member of Jury: Eyebeam Residency and Fellowship Jury, 2010 - 2015
Visiting Guest Lecturer at Krzysztof Wodiscko's class at MIT Advanced Visual Studies studies program, now MIT ACT, 1999
Future of digital cinema, immersive multisensory interactive storytelling, virtual and augmented reality, computer visualization, electronic music, sensor based musical instruments, tactical disruptive media, transportation, electric vehicles, sustainability, hybrid multimaterial rapid prototyping, longerterm impact of open source technologies, human factors, presence, belonging, connectivity, affective interfaces, metacognition, cognitive biases, lego and empathy in design, power of collaboration and codesign, empowering open communication, cleaning the planet.
Nominated for Distinguished University Teaching Awards at The New School for Design in Spring 2011
Artist Pioneering Award in Interactive Media, NYU Tisch School of the Arts 1999
"Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges" by NYU 1996
Founder's Day Award NYU 1996
Dean's Circle for students with highest GPA, NYU School of Education, 1994, 1995, 1996
Presser Honors, for the student with highest GPA in class, NYU School of Education Music Department., 1995, 1996
My Parsons MFADT Design & Technology Masters student's Awards and Honors:
Ars Electronica Golden Nica, Red Dot, IF, AIGA Award, Adobe Web Design, Golden Web, Cologne Design Award, Nokia Mindtrek, Good Design Award, Future Everything Award, 4.0 Schools Pitch Night Audience Choice Award, Maker Faire's Editor's Choice, Maker Faire's Best in Class, New School New Challenge Grant
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Yeah, sorry I missed you guys. For some reason I was thinking the meeting place was on Mines trail parking, but then realized that you were meeting all the way on the Mines trail side. Stll had a good ride.
Saw a rider on a black/white camber. he said he saw you going up Stiles. I thought this was a newbie ride.
Anyway, I came up Joice to norred to Mine to Hidden springs. Then counter-clockwise around Ridge, Ohlone trail and back up Hidden springs. Then down Stiles and back up Fortini up mine and out to Bernal HIll loop and back home. Strangely the ST side was much wetter than the Almaden side. Going down Ridge was pretty slick and my tires got packed up. But bombing down Stiles cleaned them out nicely.
Kinda strange I can hardly bend over to tie my shoes, but I can still do anything on the MTB with just mild discomfort. I guess adrenaline and endorphins are my friends.
Thanks Stripes, but I think I'm mid-pack at best with this group.I haven't had the pleasure of seeing/riding with them yet, But I hear some of them wear spandex on their MTB's. I'm not fast enough to wear spandex
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Retreading truck tires involves a series of precise steps — including inspection, preparation, and repair — to return them to perfect operating condition.
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Shearography: Determines conditions within the casing by subjecting casing to a vacuum while lasers measure surface anomalies (ie: expanding pockets of air). An animated visual of the anomalies aids in determining the casing's condition. At the end of the initial inspection, information such as casing condition, casing age, and fleet specifications are considered to determine if the tire can be retreaded.
Buffing: The casing is inflated to operational pressure. This process removes the worn tread surface, trues up the roundness, and prepares the surface for a new tread.
Repair: Removing all injuries identified during initial inspection and replacing the material with structurally sound materials to return the casing to a useful life.
Enveloping: Encases the uncured, built tire in an elastic envelope in preparation for curing.
Curing: An autoclave-type device applies heat and pressure, and over time causes the bonding layer in the built tire to cure. This permanently adheres the new tread to the prepared casing.
Final inspection: A final visual check assures the retreaded tire is ready for service.
Curious about how the retread process works? Watch this step-by-step slide show, from tire inspection to bonding. "Rethinking retreads," PW May 2011.
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text: Jann Wenner launched Rolling Stone magazine in 1967, providing music fans with a forum for news, reviews, articles and interviews. Prior to Rolling Stone, coverage of rock and roll was largely patronizing, myopic or aimed at the teenybopper market. Wenner's brainstorm was to launch a national magazine with music as its main but not exclusive focus, written by and for those who took rock and roll as seriously as it deserved. Wenner's genius has been evident in the way he's nurtured and sustained his protean creation over the decades. With Wenner at the helm, Rolling Stone has tracked and adapted ...full bio