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Will Kim Kardashian from the TV reality show, "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" be on the cover of Vogue Magazine? The rumors ran rampant on Sunday, but on February 3, 2014, Radar Online reports that was all they were, rumors.
Jezebel started the story on Sunday night when a source reportedly told them that Vogue was in LA. allegedly they were shooting pictures of Kim at that moment. However, another source told Radar Online that the rumors were not true.
It's no secret that Kanye's been rallying hard to get his future wife on the cover of that prestigious, elite magazine for a long time. He continues to seek out Vogue's Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour. He aims to convince her to put Kim's face on the cover of Vogue. While Kanye and Kim were in France several weeks ago, they were seen with Franca Sozzani, who is another Vogue Editor-in Chief.
Anna Wintour apparently is not interested in caving in to Kanye wishes or demands. In fact, Radar Online reports that she is not a fan of Kim or having any reality TV star featured on the front cover of Vogue.
One can say that Kanye has persistent in getting what he wants. He may just have to leave that on his 'someday list,' or start his own magazine where he can feature Kim or himself on every cover.


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Auks (Alcidae)
Craveri's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus craveri) - HBW 3, p. 715
French: Guillemot de Craveri
German: Craverialk
Spanish: Mérgulo Californiano Alioscuro
Taxonomy: Uria Craveri Salvadori, 1865, Raza Island, Gulf of California.
Sometimes placed in Brachyramphus. May be conspecific with S. hypoleucus, but little evidence of hybridization in San Benito Is, where both breed. Monotypic.
Distribution: Numerous islands in Gulf of California (N to Consag Rock), and probably islands along Pacific coast of Baja California N to San Benito. Winters at sea in Gulf of California and along coasts N to S California (Monterey Bay) and S to Sonora.
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30 June 2016British Politics This Weekhttp://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/24e95f20-d70d-40dd-9049-8a3b8cee2256?in=13:41:10&out=13:41:32http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/24e95f20-d70d-40dd-9049-8a3b8cee2256?in=13:49:14&out=13:50:32
28 June 2016Morrissey Shows ConfirmedFriday August 19ISTANBUL (Turkey) KüçükÇiftlik ParkMonday August 22TEL-AVIV (Israel) Heichal HatarbutWednesday August 24CAESAREA (Israel) The Ancient Roman Amphitheater
26 June 2016A Wall In Miami, June 2016
26 June 2016Harrods, LondonMorrissey's Autobiography continues to be a strong seller in the UK.
This photograph taken by Linder Sterling, June 2016.
25 June 2016Chiddy Bang video 'All Over'
22 June 2016Morrissey in GermanyMorrissey will play Berlin Tempodrom on 16 August. This will be the only Morrissey show in Germany in 2016.
16 June 2016Please, somebody, tell me it's just a bad dream ...Pete Shelley has allowed McDonald's to use Buzzcocks' What do I get? to TV advertise McDonald's new Big Flavour (the flavour being sawdust) Chicken Wraps?!
In the words of another Buzzcocks song: oh shit...
14 June 2016Damien Dempsey discusses Morrissey at 8:20
13 June 2016Hate-rosexualityAlthough the gunman who massacred 49 people at an Orlando gay club is said to have been 'repulsed' by homosexuality, he nonetheless left behind a slew of self-adoring 'selfies'; a handsome man gazing enchantedly at his own face. It is therefore acceptable for him to lovingly admire his own maleness, but it is not OK for other men to like other men. Does Islamic scripture say it is fitting for a man to sit alone taking adoring photographs of himself? I doubt it.
Meanwhile, Donald Thump, probably America's next President, reacts to the Orlando massacre by explaining how, if the people within the club were themselves armed with guns, then there would have been fewer casualties. This, of course, is his way of avoiding any words of support to the Orlando gay community (it is their own fault for going into a nightclub without hand grenades). Donald Thump would therefore probably claim that the massacred children of Sandy Hook would still be alive today if only they'd had the common sense to carry sawn-off shotguns to school. The Thump response to Orlando is therefore anti-gay and pro-gun possession. Ann Coulter will be waving her baseball cap and cheering. It's all going so well for America!
Unfortunately, CNN obliged the gunman once again with a flashing flood of publicity - which is all he ever wanted, and which will encourage the next shooter to prepare for international fame. Why show the gunman's face? Nobody needs to see it.
The larger disaster is the two leading faces in the presidential race, as the world prepares to shake its head in disbelief when the new president is named. Clinton is the face and voice of pooled money (and will therefore repay the established elite with whatever they want if she is elected), and Donald Thump is George Wallace - hating just about anyone who doesn't happen to be Donald Thump. Surely this is not 2016 America?
Thump's only achievement so far is in making Sarah Palin seem intelligent, which, admittedly, is so difficult as to be a colossal strike in his favor.
The true victory of the presidential race has been the independent success of Bernie Sanders, whose approach has been so sane and intelligent and measured that he has been therefore all but entirely ignored by the U.S. media, who cannot understand anyone who is not blood-thirsty. This is because Bernie Sanders is human, and one who unusually did not gain his position because of several billion invested dollars. His many primary successes in the presidential race have been headlined as LOSS FOR CLINTON, whereas a Clinton win has not ever been headlined as LOSS FOR SANDERS. Bernie Sanders has been pushed out by the media because the idea of a self-made man who does not crave international war is completely alien to such as Fox News. The idea of a man who is popular because he calls for world peace and for rescue of the environment cannot provide outraged headlines for CNN, who have devoted their online news page to Donald Thump long before Thump was even a logical contender. Thump doing absolutely nothing has been more newsworthy to CNN than Sanders' state-to-state victories.
Ballot papers for 2016 should include a NO CONFIDENCE IN EITHER NOMINEE box, and it is this box that would collect the most votes.
Clinton and Thump may be popular with the party faithful - but the party faithful aren't that large, and are not America, therefore a sad day looms in November - a day that only Bernie Sanders could have saved - had he been allowed his rightful share of media support. But, clearly, the presidential election really is none of your business. Did you ever seriously think it was?
June 2016.
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Say Hello to World War III, Obama Just Signed another Executive Order
Say hello to the Executive Order from the President regarding Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions Set Forth in the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 and Additional Sanctions with respect to Iran New sanctions fall under Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2012 New sanctions close loopholes on the existing sanctions against Iran Adds penalties for those companies who aid Iran's business sectors.
Punishes parent companies of subsidiaries that violate sanctions. So, in other words, the Israeli Zionists have ordered that Iran be cut off from the world and the bank accounts of anyone who violates this dictate seized.
And how is this international outrage to be enforced? Ooohhh, I see, that's why we have been deploying our troops all around the world, to Australia, to South America, to Africa, and most recently (today) to Jordon on the Syrian border.
It looks like an escalation to invasion to me (sanctions are an act of war). This will be an invasion that could lead to World War III. Does it make sense? Oh yes, it makes sense, dollars and cents. But the Nobel Peace Prize winning Barack the Ordained One Obama wouldn't purposely lead the United States into World War III, would he? Of course he will, oy, I'm telling you. This is an act of war, as sanctions, by definition, represent just that.
War can only be declared by Congress. This Executive Order violates the Constitution. It is an act of treason. This is our lives we are talking about here. Are we going to allow this dictator to precipitate the deaths of millions of us as a result of his soviet socialist insurgency? I guess it has been a while.
Maybe the sheeple need to be taken out and slaughtered like the herd animals they are, again, so we can remember why World War I was the War to End All Wars, until we forgot. But surely World War II….nope, we forgot again.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. God bless the Republic, death to the international corporate mafia, we shall prevail.
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The entire article is nothing more then propoganda. The U.S. has always been the worlds police. This is nothing new. Why don't you try using more energy to do something worth while, rather then constantly searching for the next consiracy theory. I do appreciate how informed this page keeps me, but I refuse to be a sheep and live in a state of fear like I feel this article is intended to make me. I am neither left or right wing. I try to be open minded, aware, and informed so I can carry on intelligent thoughts/decisions, and I urge you to do the same. That is all.ReplyDeleteReplies
I do not think this article is meant to make you live in fear. Possibly you already are living in fear. Our media & our leaders have created a fear factory , it's all around you everywhere you look. They want us to be scared , scared of everything .. You know tell on your neighbors, tell on your mom and dad.. Be scared of the quite guy down the street..Delete
The leaders want a brainwashed army to do what they say.. Chip your kids, yourself, your car.. Put chips in everything - Be scared.. they fill the air waves with everything negative possible to make you subliminally fearful.. to get the nerves firing..
" Terror is all around you " Remember? this is the mentality that has made us "the world police".. reminds me of some one from history I think they called him.. hmmm Hitler? I wont even get into the banking Rothschild "Red Shield" centralized bank thing..
In reality it's a form of propaganda of some kind.. But YES sanctions are a form of indirect war fare that kind that starves a country in to submission or aggression. It has happened time and time again.
I'm sure most people who read these article are open minded that why they are reading them in the first place.
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2013 at 9:13 PM
I am sorry but calling Barack Obama a socialist - for something that is so common in America's favorite Disney Land - Europe? And Europe is moving far far far away from the left, but never mind.ReplyDelete
So to me all that Barack is a socialist and a puppet of Israel does not sound like open-mindedness.
It sounds more to me like someone who is not able to handle it's own very personal issues is looking for an escape way into criticising the big evil world.


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I have a company that WANTS to be windows but the Owner....loves his MAC so I now need to migrate all the C:/Users/? folders to the shared drive in a clean way. I have a few ideas of how to do it but was unsure if there was a best practice.
The users keep saving important documents on their desktops and even with begging/pleading/arguing I can not seem to force this habit away so I need to move the users folders to a drive that is a RAID/Share for redundancy reasons.
They all RDP into Windows Server 2008 R2 and access a Windows based software but save important documents in their personal folders and NOT ON THE SHARE...even with the above pleadings...


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Luis Aguirre, Universidad Catolica Argentina
Wayne Archer, University of Florida
Arindam Bandopadhyaya, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Chris Barry, Texas Christian University
Robert Battalio, University of Notre Dame
Scott Bauman, Northern Illinois University
J. Carr Bettis, Arizona State University
Richard Bliss, Babson College
Arnoud Boot, University of Amsterdam
Laurence Booth, University of Toronto
Alexander Butler, University of South Florida
Paul Chaney, Vanderbilt University
Anna Danielova, Mcmaster University
Hazem Daouk, Cornell University
Kenneth Eades, University of Virginia-Darden
W. Michael Fagan, Raritan Valley Community College
Kathleen Fuller, University of Georgia
Neal Galpin, University of Melbourne
James Gentry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jason Greene, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Daivd Haeberle, Indiana University
Richard Haney, Texas A&M University
Giora Harpaz, CUNY-Baruch College
Brian Hatch, University of Cincinnati
Pankaj Jain, University of Memphis
Pab Jotikasthira, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Pal Korsvold, Norwegian School of Management
Herwig Langohr, INSEAD
Glen Larsen, Indiana University
Dennis Lasser, SUNY-Binghamton
Charles Linke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Leonard Lundstrum, Northern Illinois University
Terry Maness, Baylor University
Dubos Masson, Indiana University
Richard Mendenhall, University of Notre Dame
Robert Mettlen, University of Texas at Austin
Todd Milbourn, Washington University-St. Louis
Robert Nachtmann, University of Pittsburgh
Bruce Olson, Miami University of Ohio
Robert Phillips, University of Richmond
Eugene Pilotte, Rutgers University
Anoop Rai, Hofstra University
Ramesh Rao, University of Texas at Austin
Bruce Resnick, Wake Forest University
Steve Rich, Baylor University
Rodney Roenfeldt, University of South Carolina
Lee Sanning, University of Wyoming
Richard Shockley, Indiana University
Sooyoung Song, Chung-Ang University
Craig Tapley, University of Florida
Lee Tavis, University of Notre Dame
Ramabhadran Thirumalai, Indian School of Business
Gregory Udell, Indiana University
Andrew Waisburd, Texas Christian University
If you do not find the school that you are looking for, try
Google. Another good source in which to try to find a specific
person is the International Directory of Finance and Economics Professionals,
maintained by Ivo Welch at Yale.
A more comprehensive printed guide is written each year by James Hasselback and is printed and distributed
free of charge by Prentice-Hall. You can typically pick up a copy of Hasselback's
Guide to Finance Faculty by asking your Prentice-Hall sales rep or by dropping by a Prentice-Hall booth at a finance
A more comprehensive printed guide is written each year by James Hasselback and is printed and distributed free of charge by Prentice-Hall. You can typically pick up a copy of Hasselback's Guide to Finance Faculty by asking your Prentice-Hall sales rep or by dropping by a Prentice-Hall booth at a finance convention.


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Krista from The Happy Housie had a great idea this year for keeping track of guest's glasses at her wintertime gatherings. "It can be pretty tough to keep track of your wine glass at big dinners and events," she acknowleges, "You put it down for a second to do something and suddenly there are three other wine glasses that look exactly the same as yours!" To overcome this problem, she made drink charms.
Drink charms are little objects that can be easily slipped over a wine glass stem, to help party guests identify their own glasses or goblets. Krista crafted hers from wood slices. She had her husband cut the ones she used out of branches from their yard, but says you can find these at craft stores, too. She drilled a small hole in each slice before painting one side with chalkboard paint. Then Krista strung some jewelry wire through each slice and added a jewelry clasp to each one, so the charms could be easily taken on and off the glasses. She used a chalk pen to write numbers on hers, but mentions that you could write names or initials, too. So charming!
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A corn-based bubble is building on the horizon, with expectations of a
large oversupply of high-priced ethanol that has nowhere to go.
The phenomenon is a product of environmental requirements and
subsidies that are currently leading refiners to buy ethanol at record
prices, according to analysis from the U.S. Energy Information
Refiners and other parties that produce fuels are required by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to buy supplies of ethanol to blend
with their gasoline. For each gallon of ethanol they blend into their
fuel, refiners get a credit, also known as a Renewable Identification
Number, or RIN.
Refiners need to acquire a set amount of RINs annually to meet EPA
requirements, and can also do so by buying RINs from other parties.
Ethanol mandate: Unusual allies fight renewable fuel standard
While the current supply of corn-based ethanol is down, because of a
drought that affected production, output is expected to grow to levels
that will leave the country with an oversupply of the fuel that will go
unused unless something changes.
That's because the EPA is requiring refiners to buy more ethanol at a
time when fuel makers say they can't blend any more of it into their
The nation's consumption of gasoline is falling and refiners say they
can only replace 10 percent of their main gasoline blend with ethanol.
Ten percent of the nation's expected 2013 gasoline consumption 13.3
billion gallons, a volume of ethanol that would fall within the mandate
this year. But 10 percent of gasoline consumption will likely fall short
of mandates in the future, EIA analyst Sean Hill said.
Study: Climate change trend likely to thwart biofuel goals
While the EPA and U.S. Department of Energy have insisted that
gasoline blends including as much as 15 percent ethanol is safe for most
vehicles, automakers and the oil industry have disagreed.
Without marketing more of a higher blend of ethanol, refineries could
be left blending ethanol into gasoline that is not used, just to meet
EPA requirements, Hill said.
An alternative could be for refiners to start making more E85, which is a blend of gasoline with 85 percent ethanol, Hill said.
But most gasoline stations do not sell E85 and the majority of fuel
makers have no way of changing retail stations to sell more of that
A 19-year-old survived a dangerous sodium overdose after drinking more than a quart of soy sauce on a dare, according to a case study in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
After drinking a quart of the sodium-heavy condiment, the teenager
slipped into coma with seizure-like activity. He was rushed to the
hospital, where doctors determined he was suffering from hypernatremia, a metabolic condition in which there is a salt imbalance in the bodily fluids.
Eventually doctors determined that he had ingested 160 to 170 grams of
sodium from the soy sauce, a potentially lethal dose for his weight and
build. He had effectively overdosed on sodium.
"He didn't respond to any of the stimuli that we gave him," Dr. David J. Carlberg, who treated the patient as an emergency room physician at University of Virginia Medical Center, told LiveScience. "He had some clonus, which is just elevated reflexes. It's a sign that basically the nervous system wasn't working very well."
According to the NIH, severe hypernatremia can result in excessive
sodium in bodily fluid, which causes excess water to flow into cells to
balance sodium levels.
While some cells can handle the swelling, in brain cells the excess
swelling can lead to neurological damage or death. Other symptoms
include mental confusion, convulsions, fatigue, and nausea.
While in the past, doctors slowly lowered sodium levels in patients
suffering from hypernatremia in order to protect the body from further
shock, in this case doctors worked quickly to lower the patient's sodium level
as soon as possible to protect his brain. They quickly tried to flush
the salt from his system with a water-and-sugar-based solution in an
effort to protect his brain from lasting damage.
Eventually the doctors were able to stabilize the patient, even though
he remained in a coma. After three days he woke up from the coma without
suffering any lasting neurological damage.
While death from sodium is incredibly rare, it is not unheard of.
According to the case study's authors, in ancient China, salt overdoses
were one traditional way to commit suicide.


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Episode 7. Ups and Downs of Family Life
Dear descendants, now that I have told you at great length — too great, perhaps — about the good times I have with Aunt Jane, I must be honest and show you my other side, the lazy and procrastinating side, to use the Latin verb that my great-aunt now sprinkles generously through her conversation.
Well over a month ago, a boy named Drummer who is in my class, a shy, serious, friendly type, approached me and said that his father, who lives in Perth Amboy and works as a clerk for my father, has just launched his own little business: a conveyance that will carry the latest news three times a week, as fast as possible, from New Jersey to Philadelphia and back. Would I like his father to include short messages for me in the bag, telling me what is happening to the Governor?
What could I answer but "yes, thank you, I would be very interested"? In fact, I don't really want to know. I have not revealed yet how angry my father was when he found out that the allowance he gave me "to last until Christmas" was all spent long ago, and angrier still when I would not tell him where it had gone. How could I explain the moonstone earrings that had not even been offered to a high-society girl he might approve of, but to my dear little waitress at the City Tavern? I could have reminded my father of all the money he had borrowed from Grandfather over the years and never paid back, but it would only have made matters worse, so I remained silent and let him fume.
But now the time has come to find out how things are going with him. Would he possibly be in a better mood?
And so, I open the bottom drawer in which the messages are hidden under some dirty clothes. The earliest one informs me that my father has lost some of his friends and supporters in the course of November, but that he sticks to his decision to remain in his post, even though he mentions his fear of being led some day "like a bear through the country to some place of confinement in New England." He understands that the Continental Congress wants to get rid not only of him, but of all the remaining governors, in order to create a single government for the thirteen colonies. Only four Loyalist governors are still in place: those of New York, Virginia, Georgia, and New Jersey.
The British Navy, I learn, has stationed warships in many harbors along the coast, ready to pick up the Loyalist officials who feel endangered by the rebels. One of those officials, no less than the former Attorney General and current Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, Father's strongest supporter, has already climbed aboard, leaving behind his wife and thirteen children!
The next slip of paper informs me that Father, in late November, convened the New Jersey Assembly in Burlington. At that point, fear for their own safety had already led two of the five New Jersey congressional delegates to resign, whereupon Father asked the members of the Assembly to warn him as soon as they felt that he, too, was in personal danger. Even though his request had put the Assembly in a sour mood — didn't he trust them? — they assented. Still another message tells me that, in a move to placate England, Grandfather has been replaced as New Jersey's colonial agent. One more petition to the King, hoping for "restoration of Peace and Harmony" is to be prepared, even though the previous petition has never been answered.
I have to stop and think. This separate new petition, when sent, will break, of course, the unanimity of the drive for independence. Indeed, as I learn from the next bit of news provided by Drummer, as soon as they heard about it, three important figures from the Continental Congress galloped to Burlington on December 5, five days ago, and demanded to be heard by the New Jersey Assembly. They pleaded their cause — the cause for independence — for about one hour, and won over the Assembly. Their names? John Dickinson (of Pennsylvania), John Jay (of New York), and George Wythe (of Virginia).
That, I guess, might mark the beginning of Father's downfall, but does he understand it? He decided, as always, to stand firm.
What amazes me is that nobody in this house ever pronounces my father's name. And yet they must know. Grandfather certainly does, and Uncle Richard too. But Sally? Jane? Come to think of it, there are so many mysteries in this family.
— Who was Father's mother?
— Who was my own mother?
— Who gave Grandfather those "Hutchinson letters" that provoked such a drama in the Cockpit?
— How did Father, still so young and inexperienced, obtain the post of Royal Governor?
— Why was Grandfather's wife never made aware of my existence as long as she lived?
Just as I'm feeling resentful about all the secrecy, I remember that I, too, have a well-kept secret: Abigail!
Talking of Abigail, I'm a little worried about her behavior these last few weeks. She doesn't jump for joy anymore when we meet, but looks worried. Walking at a distance ahead, she turns back frequently, hurries on, and does not become herself again until we reach the bank of the river. Then she pulls out her earrings from a secret pocket inside her skirt, looks around again, and throws her arms around my neck.
At times, I think I feel her trembling, but that may be the cold, since she only wears a thin shawl around her shoulders. I've asked her time and again to let me buy her a lovely ruby-red warm shawl I saw in a shop, but she always shakes her head. No, her parents would want to know where it came from. There would be a scene ... She seems more and more in love with me these days, but also very sad. I don't dare ask questions. Anyway, where would I find the money for the shawl? Aunt Jane? Aunt Sally?


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(Application of the rank-nullity theorem) Suppose $S,T: V\to V$ are linear transformations of a finite dimensional vector space $V$, and that the composition $ST\colon V\to V$ is invertible. Show that then $T$ is one-to-one, and deduce that it is invertible. Show also that $S$ is invertible. Deduce that $ST$ is invertible if and only if $TS$ is invertible.
I'm not remotely sure how to apply the rank-nullity theorem here. Also, I thought it was self-evident that T and S would have to be invertible since as far as I know the inverse of a composition involves the composition of inverses (and if a matrix is invertible it's definitely one-to-one).
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I was wondering, if you use gparted to copy a entire partition from one hard drive to another, if the system were to crash, obviously it would for lack of better term, mess up the drive you're copying to, but would it, again for lack of better term, mess up the drive being copied from.
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The hard drive being copied from would be fine. Gparted is just reading the data, which is non destructive.
Its no different than if you were copying a a piece of paper to another with a pen. If your brain crashed (thats a different issue) nothing would happen to the paper being read from. However, you might scribble all over the paper being written on.
Sorry, not the best analogy in the world, but it works...


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Management journals long have been a staple of the B2B marketing mix. Yet readership of their online editions varies greatly from firm to firm. We looked at several dozen online management journals of B2B firms, and five in-depth: those for which viewership numbers could be determined (the online publications of McKinsey, Booz & Co., Boston Consulting Group, Roland Berger and Korn Ferry). We found that three are attracting hundreds of thousands of monthly viewers but the other two generate only in the low thousands.
Why the gap? We believe it's because professional services and other B2B firms with small online audiences have largely transported the print publishing model of "closed monologue" to the online world. Those with the largest audiences have a much different online model—"open dialogue," which engages the audience more fully and generates much more interest in the firm's services.
But that's not the only big benefit of open dialogue. It can also help B2B firms understand which content is resonating with prospective customers. By tracking and analyzing the right measures, smart B2B marketers can better focus thought leadership investments and greatly increase their ability to generate leads efficiently.
By Robert Buday, Jeff Pundyk and Tim Parker
After years of hoping to see their firm's management journal sitting on clients' office credenzas, many B2B firms have invested heavily to put their content online. But their online audience remains small, which leaves these firms wondering what happened to the audience growth they were promised. And they're also questioning whether they can abandon the print version.
So what should these firms do? To answer that question, we looked closely at the online journals of dozens of B2B firms over the last five months, from consultancies and executive recruiters to software vendors and architecture firms. Examining five in particular—those with their own URLs (which enables us to assess their online viewership)—we found significant differences. The ones with the greatest traffic appear to view their online journal as part of a larger discussion, a place to contribute, convene and aggregate to and from a network of credible sources. We call this an "open dialogue" model. In contrast, the B2B firms with small numbers of online readers have largely carried the print publishing model online. They see their online journals as a platform for delivering a "closed monologue" in which they do all the talking and no listening.
This closed monologue model is severely limiting. The online world provides unprecedented capabilities for doing far more: attracting many more prospects and deepening their interest in a B2B firm's expertise. But that's not all. A much larger and much more engaged online audience provides B2B firms with a significant new advantage, one few are exploiting. Stronger viewer engagement gives marketers unprecedented data on exactly which content is most appealing. B2B firms can then rapidly redirect their thought leadership marketing activities -- webinars, seminars, microsites, press outreach and more -- to content that will attract the most client interest.
Online technology, and particularly the fast-evolving tools of social media, today gives B2B firms new opportunities to turn their online journals into powerful business development tools. But this is only possible if they make the leap from the old print model to one that promotes extensive open dialogue.
In this article, we explain the differences between the closed monologue and open dialogue models for online journals, and why the latter has the potential to markedly improve a B2B firm's thought leadership marketing and business development activities. We offer ways to increase online dialogue with your audience. We explain how to measure such engagement, and then use that data to recalibrate your marketing activities. Lastly, we talk about how to drive more traffic to your online journal.
You will note that we don't go into the critical issue of how to produce compelling content. Many of our other articles on this website address that issue. Without compelling articles that provide novel, proven ways to solve business problems, B2B firms won't attract many viewers to their online publications, regardless of how many opportunities they create for open dialogue. However, strong content is no longer enough.
Online Journals: Moving from the Publishing Model to a New One
B2B marketers have a tremendous opportunity in front of them, but only if they stop regarding their online journals solely as vehicles for blasting their ideas out to the market. The goal of the closed monologue model is to attract clients through impressing them with a B2B firm's expertise. The articles typically spotlight the firm's professionals—the consultants, lawyers, accountants, researchers or others. Occasionally, B2B firms will interview client executives or others who are recognized for expertise on certain issues (management gurus, academics, etc.), as do the publications of firms like McKinsey, Bain, Booz and Boston Consulting Group.
Readers who wish to comment on articles are usually relegated to "letters to the editor" that run in future editions. (Some B2B management journals have no "letters to the editor" sections.) The subtext of this model is to publicly show just how smart the firm is.
On the other hand, the subtext of the open dialogue model is very different: to show the firm is an important player in a large and vigorous network of experts and ideas. To gain a larger audience, B2B marketers need online publications that bring a number of opinions to the table on each issue (but especially, of course, the journal publisher's) to enrich the discussion, to move it from closed to open. Google's year-old online management journal Think Quarterly lives this philosophy. The site is home for a theme-based quarterly journal with contributions from inside and outside Google, a video-based section that features the perspectives of industry leaders, and an insights section that houses custom studies and data-rich content. Site visitors are given many opportunities to comment, share and contribute. Google engages its audience by creating multidirectional conversations—dialogue rather than monologues about how to solve certain problems—and gets the credit as a thought leader by setting the agenda, convening the experts, aggregating best of breed content and publishing its own points of view.
Shifting the model of B2B online journal from closed monologue to open dialogue flies in the face of much of today's wisdom on thought leadership marketing. Many advisors have told B2B firms to publish articles that establish thought leadership. But we believe that this publishing model is limited. The open dialogue model is not at all constrained by the limitations of print publishing, only by the limitations of the print publishing mindset.
The open dialogue and closed monologue models share the same goal: to attract clients to the firm by showing off the firm's expertise on solving clients' problems. B2B firms are not in the media business. They don't publish journals to profit directly off those journals in the way that Fortune or Harvard Business Review do; B2B firms publish journals as marketing tools to attract clients. The open dialogue model better serves that purpose.
B2B firms must still showcase their expertise. However, their expertise does not sit in a vacuum. When they find other articles that shed additional light on their chosen topics (especially to confirm their own points of view), they should summarize and then link to this content. The Web's capability to link effortlessly to other articles on topics makes this easy—so easy, in fact, that your readers will be doing it with or without your help. McKinsey's What Matters online site—a different site than its core McKinseyQuarterly.com site—has taken this to the extreme. The site features more non-McKinsey authors—186 in all—than McKinsey authors, ranging from former US President Bill Clinton, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson and IT guru Don Tapscott to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actor Matt Damon. (Note: The latest content on the site is from December 2011, which makes us wonder whether the firm will be deemphasizing it.) Forbes.com, the online version of the venerable business magazine, has attracted a flock of external voices as well. Its Leadership section publishes the views of many more outsiders than Forbes staffers. In fact, the site goes so far as to link to articles in competing publications that it thinks are interesting. It's hard to argue with Forbes.com's tactics: It has commanded an online audience of 30 million unique monthly viewers.
A B2B firm should encourage its extended network—the people in its sphere of influence—to contribute their views, all for the purpose of opening (and thus enriching) the dialogue. Having an eclectic range of voices on any issue no doubt can raise people's understanding it. They can make for a rich source of perspectives on any issue. These voices could include clients, academics, research firms, trade associations and alliance partners. And, by doing so, the firm can position itself as an important player in the community, sharing not just what it knows, but who it knows. We don't suggest giving your competitors digital space—only people in your circles who aren't trying to take work away from your firm.
This shifts the role of the B2B firm from one of publishing content to convening expertise and experiences. That broader role not only enables a B2B company to generate a broader discussion on any issue (more than it alone can provide). It also enables an issue to be discussed indefinitely: until it runs out of commentators. Unlike online newspapers and magazines published by media companies, articles of B2B firms address much longer-lived issues: how to create better customer segmentation, respond to a class-action lawsuit, account for derivatives or deal with some other business issue.
Given that the sources of knowledge can be wide and diverse, it follows that the communication on any issue becomes multidirectional—authors commenting on what the B2B firm's authors wrote, and viewers who don't want to pen long articles nonetheless being given a chance to comment on them briefly. Booz & Co. permits readers of its online journal strategy+business to provide such comments; so does BCG in its newly revamped online publication BCG Perspectives. But these comments pale in comparison to the ones that online B2C publications such as The New York Times are generating with their articles. The Times can generate 300 to 500 reader comments a day on each opinion article. Each comment, in turn, can generate hundreds of "recommendations" from other readers who endorse the view presented. We find the comments often are more enlightening and entertaining than the columnists themselves. They thus draw more people to the online publication; and they enable readers to feel like they are contributing to an ongoing conversation—a dialogue where a firm can get market feedback on its thinking, products and services.
The open dialogue model of the B2B online journal is one of multidirectional conversations. Alas, many other B2B online publications continue to keep the communication one-directional. If anything, it only increases the pressure for each and every article to have exceptional content.
The tools of publishing in the print world are, of course, words and graphics (pictures, illustrations, charts, etc.). They are the very same tools that vast majority of online journal publishers use in their online editions. Essentially, most journal publishers still "print" their content online. The tools for presenting content in the open dialogue model can do far more. Not only can B2B firms present words, pictures and graphics, they can offer interactive graphics, videos of authors talking about their articles (and the subjects of those articles as well), and polls to gauge viewers' opinions. (See sidebar on how online tools that can foster an open dialogue.) Ernst & Young has embraced video in its digital presence. E&Y's banking practice teamed with Knowledge@Wharton to do a series of videos featuring E&Y experts in conversation with Wharton professors. The result puts the firm's experts in great company, shares their significant knowledge and extends E&Y's reach to Wharton's audience.
These online tools enable B2B firms to better demonstrate the effectiveness of their ideas. Bloom Group research has shown that prospects wanting to "kick the tires" of a professional firm's expertise are looking for examples on how clients have benefitted. So case study write-ups are essential. Better yet is to let prospects see your clients directly recommending your approach in an online video. The consulting firm Innosight does this well on its corporate website with several "impact" videos. One features its work on Chevrolet's electric vehicle, the Volt, here.
The online world also enables viewers to try on a B2B firm's ideas—not just read about them. Since professional services firms are in the business of diagnosing and solving organizational problems,allowing online viewers to see whether some ideas might fit them can be a good way to build interest. Management consultancy Booz & Co. uses online diagnostic tools. One here helps executives assess their company's decision-making effectiveness. BCG Perspectives features similar interactive tools, one of which it calls an "e-intensity index"—a way for policymakers and executives to determine the adequacy of a country's Internet infrastructure, here.
Measuring Engagement to Actively Recalibrate Marketing Programs
The ability to extensively measure audience engagement with a B2B firm's content can provide an even bigger source of value in its thought leadership marketing programs: determining what other marketing activities to bring to bear to quench the thirst of hungry viewers. Online statistics provide valuable insights on their audience's interests. This data allows the B2B firm to align its thought leadership marketing to those interests and thus invest more wisely in webinars, seminars, micrositea, videos, LinkedIn groups and other activities that can nurture interest in their expertise.
Online publications provide their owners with new data for measuring viewer engagement with each piece of content. Forbes.com uses its measures of online reader interest in each article to determine what types of articles to write. "You can track the digital news consumer's first click, second and each one after that," said Lewis DVorkin, chief product officer of Forbes Media, in his blog. "You know how far down the screen they scroll. And most important, you learn what they think as the social conversation evolves."
By social conversation, DVorkin is referring to viewer engagement. This means not just how many are reading an article but, more importantly, their interest in each article as determined by how many do something with the article after reading it. When mass-market online publishers talk about engagement, they focus on actions that tie the reader to the site. They measure how thoroughly readers complete their profile or how frequently they comment over a period of time, the number of email signups and frequency of visits. All of this is interesting and useful information. However, the B2B marketer can use measures of engagement in a much different way: to determine where to invest precious content development and marketing dollars.
While it's not an exact science, measures of content engagement can tell us which topics and perspectives are the "best sellers," and can help guide where to invest in additional thought leadership marketing activities. Broadly speaking, we see four dimensions to content engagement:
- Topic trending: This is an external measure, using such tools as Google, Twitter, and social tracking to understand which topics are already in the zeitgeist, both globally and locally. This tool that can help B2B firms pick the topics they want to weigh in on. The advantage is an existing and identifiable audience for trending topics; the burden, of course, is to say something fresh on a topic that is already well covered. To be sure, B2B firms can't cover trendy topics that don't relate to their business. But high-interest topics that are also issues that they can address should be high on their agenda.
- Readership: The articles that elicit the most visits, page views, time on page, PDF downloads, and printer-friendly views (an important measure since many readers will read offline) are the foundation for a growing body of knowledge. This dimension of readership indicates interest. But it leaves open questions as to what about the article is drawing the reader.
- Feedback: This can add a lot of flavor to the readership dimension. If an article is generating an unusual amount of online comments, email responses, "recommends," and other feedback, it's a good bet that the article should not be the last word on this topic. What's more, the nature of the feedback can speak volumes. B2B firms that solicit feedback are obligated to read and respond, and in so doing build a picture of whether and how the firm can take the discussion farther through more content or other marketing efforts. This is a form of customer service and can provide insight into service/product development in addition to help guide further content development and content marketing activities.
- Sharing: These measure the degree to which a viewer lets others know about content that he likes. Use of digital pass-along tools such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, to name the big three, creates a virtuous cycle. They stand both as a proxy for high interest and help build audience. And, as any cycle should, it brings B2B firms back to the larger trends. Sharing tools allow content to become an active part of the larger discussion, wherever it may be taking place. Those articles that are shared the most are among the highest value, both to the B2B firm and to its readership. In addition, there is an emerging set of "social listening" tools– including advances to Google analytics—that can help identify top referring sites and engagement from those sites to specific pieces of content. This promises to deepen the analysis significantly.
These four measures can be crucial in making the hard choices of exactly where to invest in content development and marketing. Putting the relative value aside for a moment, think of the various content types in a hierarchy based on investment. The hierarchy could look something like this, starting with the lowest level of investment required:
Higher engagement in a topic means more willingness to overlook the cost (time and money) of engaging further in it
Now, let's return to the measures of engagement to help determine which topics should get the highest level of investment. While every site differs based on a number of factors including frequency of publishing, variety of content types and, of course, what functionality is available, the four dimensions can work together to build a quantitative and qualitative picture of where the greatest interest lies—and the greatest opportunity.
To oversimplify, imagine testing an idea with a simple blog post. You may help choose the topic based on trending data, assuming you can move the discussion forward. This may be as small of an investment as writing a short post—6-10 paragraphs with a simple chart and a few links to related content on your site or on other sites.
In this case, let's say there is high readership, low feedback and a sprinkling of "shares." And let's assume that the topic is trending well worldwide. That's a scenario that likely justifies an additional investment to, say, to create a full article with an interactive chart or brief video as a complementary component.
What do our measures of engagement tell now? Does readership, feedback and sharing indicate that you're on to something, that this might be a ripe topic for a webinar or maybe with a relatively low investment to do a simple poll on the topic? If it does, then a B2B company could develop additional marketing programs to further boost audience engagement in popular content. For example, it could hold a live video chat between the author(s) and a small group of people who commented on the article. (In November 2011, The New York Times began using social networking site Google+ to hold live videoconferences where readers can chat with reporters. Two reporters conducted a 29-minute online video "hangout" with several readers. You can see a recorded version here. Since then, the newspaper's sports section has been doing its own video "hangouts" with viewers.)
Or a B2B firm could devote a microsite to a popular piece of content, aggregating all the articles it has written on it, curating content from other sources, and providing other content on the issue. (We've written previously about the power of topic microsites, which you can find here.)
To generate even greater levels of audience engagement (which also require greater investment of resources), B2B marketers could consider online discussion groups and seminars. Several consulting firms have created special LinkedIn groups to nurture discussion and relationships. One of them (Knowledge Architecture) has used a LinkedIn group that it runs (KA Connect) and a yearly conference for group members to create exceptional levels of engagement with its target audience: executives in the architecture, engineering and construction industry. (You can read a Q&A that we did with the firm's CEO here.)
Every B2B firm faces the risk of poor returns on thought leadership marketing investments such as seminars, microsites, and webinars. Online measures like the ones we outlined above allow firms to test, learn, and invest in marketing activities with the greatest return. That means they can stop guessing about what is and is not of interest. Over time, through benchmarking your experience, these measures will become more refined and more effective.
A word of caution: There will be some topics that B2B companies need to cover regardless of how well the articles do against these measures. Some issues are so tightly aligned with brand and business considerations that there is simply no choice. Still, even for those articles, these measures can help to determine if there are more engaging online approaches to those topics.
Online Management Journal as Client Engagement Tool
The role we describe here for the B2B online management journal is a much more prominent one than many of these publications are playing today in the marketing and business development mix. A B2B firm can turn its online journal into a highly effective tool for increasing customer engagement—for attracting prospects into its circle, raising their interest in the firm's expertise, and ultimately making them much more likely to buy its services.
Moving today's online journal to the model we describe requires planning that goes far beyond setting an editorial calendar. B2B marketers need to build audience feedback and sharing tools, create metrics of engagement, and determine the mix of marketing activities that will generate higher levels of engagement.
Yet getting there, more than anything, requires shifting the publication mindset from closed monologue to open dialogue. And capitalizing on the data that a B2B online journal can provide on audience engagement with your content requires a more integrated approach among thought leadership and other marketing programs. In fact, marketers will have to take down the walls that separate their publishing activities from their other marketing programs, including any paid media, PR activities and other online communications programs.
Most B2B firms have made the first step; they are online. The online journal can be a powerful tool—one that is both a dynamic brand builder and an analytic guide to smart marketing initiatives—but only for those willing to join the open world and listen as well as they write.
About the Authors
Robert Buday and Tim Parker are principals of Bloom Group. Buday can be reached at (email) email@example.com and at (Twitter) @bbuday. Parker can be reached at (email) email@example.com. Jeff Pundyk is the founder of Rebound Media and was publisher of McKinsey Quarterly from 2000 to 2011. He can be reached at email@example.com.
Creating a Discussion
There are two issues here. First, giving up control. Second, being criticized. The first is a problem for many institutions who value their reputation and like to control the message and don't want anyone altering it . But even harder is getting institutions to understand that allowing criticisms (at least well thought out ones) actually shows strength. The key is to moderate these comments and to ensure each message moves the discussion forward and avoid the constant back and forth that makes many online discussions worthless.
On "Creating a Discussion"
Charlie -- We've seen the control and criticism issues with our clients. They are big issues to address. Our sense is that when the authors of articles begin to see that engaging potential clients in these kinds of online interactions actually produces phone calls, emails asking for phone calls etc. (that is, leads), these objections will subside.
How has your organization addressed these issues?
The Three C's
Great piece, but it demonstrates what's wrong with most pieces of online content produced by management consulting firms ... it's way too long! Content may still be king, but today's TL world is all about community, connections and curation. This means creating more transmedia content which blends light text, interactive graphics and video, where appropriate, to compel readers to converse and connect at a visceral level. It's all about value exchange ... time spent for benefit received. To create key moments of engagement, content must open minds to best ideas and practices, regardless of whether they are in-house conceived or adapted from credible third parties; hence, curation is critical. Culling and presenting these concepts in abbreviated but engaging form (with links to full treatments wherever they reside and the ability to share it with colleagues across social media) is key to creating a true online destination, a virtual place that reinforces why clients do business with your firm and why prospects should consider engaging you!
On "The Three C's"
Alan -- First, glad you liked the article. I totally agree with all your points (except for the one about article length) -- particularly that thought leadership today is about the three C's you point to (community, connections and curation).
But I think one of the challenges for professional services firms that have publications with multiple articles (like Cognizant does with the Cognizanti Journal) is deciding which of the articles in any one publication merits a full treatment of the three C's. If you have, say, 10 articles per issue and 2-4 issues per year (as McKinsey does), it would be great to nurture extensive open dialogue among viewers (even competitors), as well as have a place on the web page for each article that links to other articles on the same topic (what curation is all about).
I imagine most marketing functions in professional firms wouldn't have the time to create an online community and do continual curation of articles for every article they publish in a year -- especially if they publish, say, 20+ articles/year. Maybe it's easier if you already have a gated online community (like Cognizant, Palladium Group and a few other professional firms have).
If a professional firm has an online publication with multiple articles per issue, and if a couple of articles (maybe even just one) generates a substantial number of comments, "shares," and "recommends," then perhaps only those articles are worthy of going the next step (where curation and generating more connections comes in): a microsite on the topic. (We wrote about this two years ago. You can find that article here.)
I love your comment about the need for content curation -- of presenting not just your firm's best content on a topic but also the best ideas and practices of credible third parties on that topic. In my mind, that helps show your viewers that you are a) well-versed with what others have said on the topic, b) open-minded and confident enough in your expertise to debate with others who may have diametrically opposed views, c) aware of the value you bring to viewers by creating one online place where they can become well-versed on the issue at hand (which, of course, saves them lots of time -- not having to scour the web for hours on end to find the few articles with any substance). I agree that content curation (done well) is a BIG service to the viewer, which keeps him coming back to your online article (if you keep updating the page with new articles written internally and externally on the topic).
On the need to present content in abbreviated but engaging forms (with links to longer treatment), we plead guilty to that charge. This is a long article. We hoped the three-paragraph intro summarized it well, but perhaps it did not. But I disagree that long pieces of online content are no longer read. Lewis DVorkin of Forbes.com (which runs both very short and very long articles) wrote about the myths of online viewers no longer reading long articles here.
Many of the long articles I read from consulting firms are not worthy of one's time. Only a few merit a complete read. But I view those (rare) articles as gems that were worth every minute of my time reading them.
Alan -- from your experience, what the keys to getting online community viewers to weigh in on Cognizanti Journal content? This is an issue that I know many professional firms struggle with.


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The Washington men's basketball team is one month away from the official start of practice on October 14. UW is coming off one of the finest seasons in school history.
The Huskies posted a 29-6 record, tying the school record for wins in a season. They won the Pac-10 Conference Touranment for the first time and became the first UW squad to receive a No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies won two postseason games to advance to the Sweet 16.
Senior forward Bobby Jones is one of the key returning members of that team. He spent part of his summer in Colorado Springs, Colo. training with the U.S. junior national team which won the championship at the World University Games in Turkey.
Jones spent a few minutes talking with GoHuskies.com
GoHuskies.com: How has your summer been?
Bobby Jones: "It's been busy. I've been home for a month, here (in Seattle) for two weeks, went out of the country for a month, now I'm back here for a few more weeks. Now I'm just getting ready for school to start. We're doing some conditioning. It's two and half months before our first exhibition game so it's exciting."
GoHuskies.com: You haven't had official practices yet, but have played pick-up games. Which of the new players have impressed you?
B.J.: "I knew (Jon) Brockman was going to be good, but Harvey Perry and Justin Dentmon are good too. They are going to be key contributors to our team because we lost some guys in those positions. They are going to have to slide in and be able to take that role. Maybe not that big of a role, but they are going to have to be able to contribute at some point in the season."
GoHuskies.com: Is Jon Brockman as intense and physical as his reputation says he is?
B.J.: "Every time I play against the dude he only plays at one speed and that's hard all the time. I expect that from him after seeing him play for the last month. When I came in people would say I was relentless and I took that as a compliment and I hear people calling him relentless and a hard worker and hard-nosed. And it's really true. He takes hits and he just keeps playing and doesn't make any excuses."
GoHuskies.com: You have one year left in your collegiate career. Does it feel like the time has gone by fast or slowly?
B.J.: "A little bit of both. At this moment I can't believe I'm on the way out. I remember when I was a freshman coming in and being nervous. It feels good. Every end has a beginning so it's just time to move on, but not before we have a big season."
GoHuskies.com: What are your thoughts on your college career?
B.J.: "I think I've gotten better since I've been here. That's all I want to do is get better from year to year. As long as we keep winning and getting deeper and deeper into the tournament, I can't ask for more."
GoHuskies.com: Will you be a leader this year as one of the few seniors?
B.J.: "Will (Conroy) was a great floor general last year and with his personality he was always a team-oriented player. But now Brandon and I have to be more vocal than we were last year. I try to lead by example more than vocal but being as we have so many young guys, somebody is going to have to talk to them and let them know this season is going to go as perfectly as you planned. You have to have patience and work through it and we have to encourage them."
GoHuskies.com: What area of your game did you work on improving this summer?
B.J.: "You always want to improve on your shooting. I can never reach a point where I can say that I can't get any better with my shot. I want to work on my ball handling to create for myself and others. I need to make sure I'm in shape when the season starts because I don't want to get into foul trouble and I've worked on that."
GoHuskies.com: What was the World University Games tryout like?
B.J.: "I was pretty confident. Going in we only had 14 people try out and only two got cut. So I figured if I couldn't make the team at least that would be pretty sad on my part. Once I made the team I was happy that I was going and I had never left the country before. I got to play with players I see on ESPN all the time and they probably have never seen me before. So it was just a great experience getting to know these players and living with them for a month. On top of winning the gold medal."
GoHuskies.com: What was it like having other Pac-10 players on the team?
B.J.: "I already knew Chris [Hernandez] from high school. There was already a connection there. And Matt Haryasz is a good guy. Of course we talked trash amongst each other and grouped up and trash talked to other conferences. I feel comfortable around those dudes because those are dudes I played against."
GoHuskies.com: The U.S. team won the championship. Where is your gold medal right now?
B.J.: "It's hanging on my doorknob in my room. I'm getting one of my jerseys framed as we speak and I'm going to have it signed by the whole team. I don't know, I might send it back home to my parents."
GoHuskies.com: What was the competition like against all of the foreign teams?
B.J.: "Just aggressiveness and the way they play physical is different from here. It's real frustrating and just the little things they do are totally different. But at the same time it made me smarter and I'll be able to pick some of the stuff they do and try to use it here and see if I can expand my game. It's a different type of game over there. All they do is shoot. The bigs shoot, the guards shoot, everybody shoots. There isn't one dominant big man."
GoHuskies.com: Do you feel that playing for that U.S. junior national team will raise your national profile?
B.J.: "I hope so. If not I certainly have a lot of the apparel and the USA stuff to keep as a memory. They asked me to come out for the team because the like me and they like the way I play. They didn't just do that just to do it. They could've used any player in the nation. I feel like maybe next year people are going to be looking at me more and that's just added pressure, but it's good pressure to have."
GoHuskies.com: Your time at UW is nearing the end. What do you plan to do after college?
B.J.: "I'm on pace to graduate. As a basketball player I'm still experiencing different things and different places. I'm an English major and I want to do some writing and maybe write a book. And maybe this basketball thing can work out."


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Courtney Love, the former front woman of "Hole," believes she has found the missing airplane that disappeared 10 days ago from Malaysia. According to a March 17 report by Rolling Stone, Courtney Love posted a photo of the airplane on her Facebook page.
The photo shows some wave-like images. Love wrote "oil" and "plane" on the photo. She also drew arrows to what she believes to be the oil and plane. Courtney Love even initialed the photo with "C-L."
Kurt Cobain's widow used Tomnod to find the missing Malaysian airplane. Tomnod is ans online satellite imagery map website.
Courtney Love even posted the coordinates of the "oil and plane" she believes she found. According to her post, the missing Malaysian airplane is "like a mile away from Pulau Perak."
Courtney Love was careful to start her post with "I'm no expert." The then adds the Internet link to the map and adds "prayers go out to the families #MH370 [sic]." She ended her post with "but what do I know?"
With so many theories and ideas floating around the world about the missing Malaysian airplane, the singer and actress just might be on to something. Based on the information that is coming from the authorities, they do not appear to have any idea where Flight 370 could be at this time.
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Splash of orange liqueur
Add all ingredients into a glass. Mix to combine. Add ice and serve.
Super simple. Super good. I could easily make this for a crowd. Keep this drink in mind for your next party!


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Liberal High School officials have announced the schedules for the spring parent-teacher conferences to be held Thursday, March 25th, and Friday, March 26th. According to LHS principal Keith Adams, the Thursday session of the conferences will be held from 7:45 A.M. to 11:45 A.M. and 12:45 P.M. to 3:25 P.M. and again from 6:00 PM until 9:00 P.M. Friday morning conferences will be held from 7:45 AM until 11:15 AM. All conferences will be held in the teachers' classrooms. Students will not attend classes either day.
"These conferences will provide parents and teachers with an excellent opportunity to meet each other face-to-face and discuss progress towards academic goals ," stated Adams. "They will be able to spend a few minutes discussing expectations and student progress."
According to LHS head counselor, Vivian Dirks, parents will be handed the grade report for the first nine-weeks when they enter. They will then be able to discuss those grades and the attendance records with individual teachers. We also encourage the parents to discuss their student's pre-enrollment for the next year with the counselors.
The doors to the main (#1) entrance will be open on the southeast corner of the building. Parents are asked to enter those doors and proceed to the table where school personnel will be stationed handing out the grade reports. Then, they may proceed to the classrooms to meet with teachers. Counselors will be available in the commons and office to give any assistance necessary. All parents/guardians are encouraged to attend. Please call the high school at 620-604-1200 with any questions regarding the conferences.
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Meichun Hotel (Kunming Guanshang)
- Location:
- Address: North of the Guandu Square, Guandu District, Kunming
- Tel: 0871-5100396 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: 昆明美春大酒店(关上店)
- Lowest Price: $49
Opened in 2009, the Meichun Hotel (Kunming Guanshang) is located near the Guandu square of Kunming. It is 10 minutes' walk away from the Baohai Park, 3.8km away from the city center, 4.7km away from the Railway Station and 5.1km away from the Kunming Airport.
The Meichun Hotel(Kunming Guanshang) offers a total of about 100 guest rooms, including standard room, deluxe single room, suite, etc. The restaurant in the hotel provides guests with a variety of foods. Apart from these, the Meichun Hotel(Guanshang Road) also provides night club, massage, sauna and so on.
- Prices not include 18% service fee and tax.
- Payment Method: pay using our secure online payment service or pay at the hotel at some hotels.
- Triple/quad occupancy may require an extra bed at extra cost.
Hotel Amenities
|Hotel Services
|Wake Up Call,
|Room Amenities
|Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Color Television, Telephone, Bath and Shower, Free for Internet
Hotel Amenities: Deposit Box at Front Desk, Fire Detector
Dining Facilities: Cafe, Bar, Lounge Bar
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- Please drive me to Meichun Hotel (Kunming Guanshang), thank you!
- 请送我到昆明美春大酒店(关上店),谢谢
- Address: North of the Guandu Square, Guandu District, Kunming
- 地址: 昆明 官渡区 官渡广场北侧
- Tel: 0871-5100396
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