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New York City 2014: The Science House (45 minute keynote)
A New Wireless Registry for 50 Billion Things
When Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, took the stage at CES in Vegas this year and announced that there was a difference between The Internet of Things (IOT) and the Internet of Everything (IOE), many cried "semantics". But there is a difference and one that ripped across the US to the National Retailer Federation (NRF) Big Show at the Javits Centre in New York.
IOT, according to Chambers, is made up of billions of connected objects; however, IOE are the smart networks that are required to support all the data these objects generate and transmit. What will help move the IOT into the IOE and drive what Chambers predicts to be a $19 trillion in new revenue by 2020?
IOE requires a universal solution to tie the billions of sensor data into an intelligent device and system agnostic solution.
To our detriment, we are so focused on the idea of a hardware (IOT) solving all our problems that we neglected that simple insight that all these hardware solutions require a method of managing the people and service behind them.
The industry needs a wireless domain (DNS) naming solution that can provide profile, tools and privacy controls to enterprise and the consumer.
When I was invited to sit on a panel at the launch of the new wireless registry (www.wirelessregistry.com) at the NRF show and I realized that this registry could be the silver-bullet platform.
50 Billion Things
When Cisco, Qualcomm, IBM and other set up shop at NRF to talk retail, the IOT verse IOE discussion continued. Brand agencies such as Ogilvy were pitching a solution using Qualcomm's wireless Gimbel platform to solve retail engagement in the store. Qualcomm's Gimbel platform is essentially an IOE riding on Apple's IOT's iBeacons? Mobile Location Analytics (MLAs) companies that collect consumer behavioural analytics, are a big data IOE play riding on the IOT emitting from the phone and anchored to its MAC address
There are a proliferation of IOE solutions using different technology that require different CAPEX and resources.
Presently there are an estimated 10 billion sensors globally. This is predicted to grow to 50 billion sensors by 2020. Imagine the wireless noise we can anticipate as we move from city to city, street to street, aisle to aisle.
There are barriers everywhere:
- On the consumer side we have option paralysis but more importantly simple human inertia.
- On the retailer and brand side we have incumbent investments and IT budgets to navigate.
- On top of all this stasis we have the DC beltway privacy folk crying "do-not-track".
How will the consumer navigate this noise? How will the retailer, brand, entertainment provider select from the exploding list of vendors selling various solutions using LTE identification, WiFi MAC identification, Bluetooth MAC, IMEI, etc.
My Wireless Name
The phone in 2014 is becoming less of a Cracker Jack container that acts as a repository of millions of sundry apps, and more of an intelligent device that performs as a server that can manage our world through smart profiling and APIs.
Think about it. We have been hoodwinked by the OEMs to believe that an application store tethered to a phone can deliver any service, entertainment, widget. The app store was a marketplace to the world: clocks, measuring tapes, cash registers, coupon dispensers, shopping lists, ad infinitum.
Google's acquisition of Nest is good example of the changing landscape where the app will live in the IOT and the device will simply be the profile and the auto-controller. The 94Fifty smart basketball, the Sensible Baby smart sensor monitor, the remote Vibeasy vibrator: all use the phone as the remote control manager.
A service such as The Wireless Registry can offer a naming protocol that can work agnostically with all the in-market sensor solutions and offer a central repository for a retailer, brand, and entertainment provider's identity. Any existing wireless signal (SSID) that a coffee shop or a big-box retail transmits can now have a name (Starbucks, GAP, Walmart) with an accompanying sophisticated profile. A consumer that has a phone, tablet and PC can now attach a personal name and wireless profile to their MAC addresses.
When the retail and consumer wireless signals bump in the proximal world, the consumer profile can do a simple look up can see what offers, services, commerce is available to them based on their specific identity. The consumer can also block unwanted solicitation answering Jules Polonetsky and the Privacy Commission's concerns around "do-not-track".
Now the consumer is in full control of their identity and the phone becomes an intelligent server interacting with the world of wireless signals based on that consumer preferences.
While this solution can interface with existing apps on the phone, ultimately the profile and preferences can be baked into the OS as part of the devices DNA.
Until later. Yours truly from my MAC address aka "MOBILEGUY"
Drones, Bras, Tattoos & Path to Purchase
There must be the equivalent of Moore's Law for the speed of turning mobile intent-into-action and mobile path-into-purchase. Technology and patents are rippling through the marketplace that drive measurable efficiencies for brands, retailers and their consumers.
This week Amazon predicted that small, unmanned drone aircraft could be delivering packages within a year. Many have viewed the fun look-see video showing a web purchase and immediate dispensing of a 2.3 kilograms box into the carriage of a buzzing drone and after a short flight, a smiling kid waiting for the package at the doorstep.
(And before we tackle any ensuing U.S. Federal Aviation Administration regulatory issues of landing a package in a backyard ball hockey game or logistical issues such as possible "drone chasers" who maybe on the hunt to pick up drop offs nationally, let's talk bras. . . )
While Bezos was pitching Drones, Microsoft announced research on sensors built into female lingerie, which collects EKG activity near the heart that predicts a "cookie snack attack" and sends a notification to the smartphone.
The month before, Motorola joined other patent holders such as Nokia/Microsoft that are positioning epidermal haptic feedback tattoos to speed up the connection between wanting-to-connect to the phone and connecting.
All of the above future-facing ideas are attempting to do one thing: anticipate intent and eliminate barriers.
In short, these solutions optimize the process of turning mobile intent-into-action and mobile path-into-purchase.
From purchase to delivery, from munchies to mobile warning, from tattoo sensor activation to phone activation is ideally all one blink, no needless hesitation, no undue thought.
In The Impulse Economy book, I spent 300 pages discussing the value of impulse. All mobile action is predicated on a paving a smooth path. Any bump en route drives precipitous drop off and abandonment.
Intent to take action (such as buy, opt-in, download) is a fragile thing and on a mobile device this dance between the seller and the buyer is even more perilous.
A Better Mouse Trap
The entire purchase process is like designing a good mouse trap. We see a call-to-action (trap well positioned at the mouse entrance); the good price or value proposition (cheese); quick ramp up to the product (platform) and a fast trigger mechanism to close the deal (hammer).
While our response may be based on previous advertising or experiential conditioning the sale is all based on how well the brand has built the process. Many brands focus on the pickup and well they should but sitting pretty on the physical or virtual shelf is not good enough. P&G labeled the sitting pretty moment: FMOT – the "First Moment Of Truth".
(No not "Follow Me On Twitter")
This is the moment when the customer sees the product and in a 5 x 5 (5 seconds by 5 foot) moment throws that product into the shopping basket. But we know that many shoppers will leave their shopping baskets and exit the store if the line is too long or the checkout is too cumbersome.
Moreover, shopping is not a linear process. We may research the product in what Google calls the ZMOT (zero moment of truth) and only rebuy the product if the product performs in the kitchen, livingroom or bathroom. (What the FMOT folk at P&G call the Second Moment of Truth)
Coining a new efficiency law
But for all this shopping science, the consumer is very grounded in decision and reward. To close a deal, buy a product, opt-in to affinity programs, the industry needs to find ways to speed up the purchase cycle.
We know the famous Moore's Law shows that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. Martin Cooper coined the mobile spectrum equivalent of Moore's Law that spectral efficiency has doubled every 30 months since Marconi patented the wireless telegraph in 1897.
There is a mobile path-to-purchase law to be coined.
Intent-to-action efficiency doubled every X months. As an industry, ideas that work are the innovative ideas that drive this efficiency, optimize process and speed up the loop from call-to-action to action.
What is X?
Wild Turkeys and Mobile Innovation
Part II: Wild Turkeys (continuing from the Nov 26th post)
Here are three tips on identifying elusive innovation and finding a black swan. I had just returned knobbly kneed from a trip through South Asia and Russia. I attended three conferences and was just decompressing on Thanksgiving and felt obligated to continue the turkey analogy from the previous post.
1. Bottling Innovation
On the road at various industry events, the keynote always seems to start with innovation. The word has been peppered into panels and keynotes as in the place of the term "technology." It is as if by magically by using the word "innovation" it will prime the techno-entrepreneur's pump.
This is not a bad thing. It certainly gets the attention of the patriarchs. The Moscow Open Innovation Forum was keynoted by Dmitry Medvedev, prime minister of Russia, accompanied by the prime ministers of France and Finland. The World Summit Awards in Colombo, Sri Lanka, was opened by the country's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Innovation is associated with fresh ideas and out-with-the-old. At each event, the youth innovators are marched out bushy-tailed and bright-eyed. Mr. Medvedev and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson posed smiling with the winning youth delegates.
The challenge is that while we all want to celebrate innovation, it is a difficult to bottle it. We find it hard to present it as a formula. Disruptive innovation is central for businesses that want to survive and stay competitive.
Incumbent players such as the wireless carrier want to appear light-footed and on the next wave, but the discussion generally gravitates to bemoaning the OTT competitors – that are never in the room – and proposing that the ecosystem is not sustainable.
There is unquestionably innovation, creativity and energy in the room, but we tend to present "wow," and not the ingredients to cook up the same "wow" at home.
We chase mobile ideas to improve our retail business when, in fact, the sexiest thing about innovation is the resulting customers, sales and EBITDA.
2. Digital Inequality
Clearly, innovation is fueled by connectivity. I met with the Nikolai Nikiforov, Russian minister of communications and mass media and the youngest person in that country's history to take over a ministerial position at the tender age of 29.
We talked about "digital inequality" in Russia and as well as other nations and how this is one of the biggest inhibitors of innovation. How can Russia future-proof its mobile network infrastructure to allow for universal access to high-speed Internet for the data-dependent business, education, health and entertainment services that will appear over the next decade?
"Electromagnetic spectrum is the crude oil of last-mile connectivity." Mr. Nikiforov wants high-speed fiber with wireless relay into every community of 500 and above. The challenge is finding the funds and partnership.
When Peter Diamandis, the charismatic cofounder of Singularity University, took the stage, connectivity became a firebrand. "We have not started." In ten years distance will mean nothing.
"Where you live and where you work do not need to be the same," Mr. Diamandis said.
3. Crowd-Sourcing Innovation
So, for those of us that cannot cook up innovation, we know there is abundant creativity out there that we can tap into and global access and connectivity is making this possible.
Apple has shown us that by creating a marketplace for ideas, developers have risen to the challenge. The app store is a case study in innovation: The smarts of Steve Jobs to provide an SDK and audience and the smarts of app shops globally in designing for every possible user need.
So there is much talk about how to best crowd-source innovation globally. After all the discussion of innovation and digital access, we can focus on harvesting business ideas that work.
Mr. Diamandis showed how his first X-Prize challenge of $10 million to build a reusable rocket to take humans into orbit generated more than $100 million in R&D.
This ability to link innovation with connectivity allows entrepreneurs such as Sascha Haselmayer, CEO of CityMart, to build a crowd-sourcing engine for more than 80 cities globally. His engine allows for ideas to be vetted and adopted all through a remote online process. Sascha's engine is a blueprint for crowd sourcing retail innovation.
So innovation has a retail formula and it is:
Black Swan innovation = connectivity for all + a readily accessible global market place
Mobile Black Swans and Turkeys
Part I: Tame Turkeys
On the return flight home for Thanksgiving this week, I read Nassim Taleb's book The Black Swan and decided that tis the season to draw profound parallels between innovation and poultry.
And so while busy stuffing the family turkey I thought about how this all applied to my world of consumer engagement, retail sales and payment.
Here are my insights:
- Chickens: Bertrand Russell's wrote an anecdote about the benevolent farmer in 1912. The fat and happy chicken thinks the farmer is a benevolent protector until it is hauled away to the slaughter house.
- Turkeys: Nassim Taleb, in his book The Black Swan, says that the same holds true for the Thanksgiving turkey. However, he adds that the surprise for a turkey is not a surprise to its butcher.
- Swans: So the black-swan question for the marketing community is: How do we play the role of the butcher not the turkey?
Moving your retail business from a step-by-step evolutionary growth to revolutionary, black swan transformation is not easy. In fact, it may be impossible. Corporations find it difficult to reinvent from within. However, to be aware of the nature of outliers and revolutionary innovation is a good first step.
You can rename your CIO: Chief Innovation Office, your CTO: Chief Transformation Officer and your CDO: Chief Disruption Officer. However this is all for nought if they cannot identify swans or at least the turkeys.
Look to social media. There is a succession of ever faster black-swan innovations starting with email and ending in SnapChat's self-destructing messaging. Microsoft did not anticipate Google search, Google did not anticipate Facebook communities; Facebook did not anticipate Twitter micro-blogging; the same holds true for Instagram's social picture publishing or SnapChat's peek-a-boo messaging. The same applies to retail as well as broadcast, payments, health, advertising to name a few rudely disrupted verticals.
Retail payments is a classic chase-the-tail solution mashup. But payment vendors have been more astute. The FIs ran a two-sided business to establish MasterCard and VISA credit services. The FIs have fought to be a part of any POS and prepaid activity in retail. With the emergence of digital payment, payment incumbents have aggressively invested and acquired companies in the mobile POS space (VISA/Square) and as well as in the cloud (VISA/Playspan).
VISA's purchase of PlaySpan was particularly forward thinking. PlaySpan allowed gamers to buy virtual swords and pumpkin seeds for their virtual battle grounds and farms without leaving the game. Frictionless commerce engineering: meet VISA's present day V.me.
But even leviathans like VISA and MasterCard have been sidelined to commodity commerce rails.While they make nice transactional revenue, Amazon, iTunes, PayPal and Playstore and other consumer commerce portals have made the card credentials second fiddle. They discount the interchange and grab the CRM and big data.
Shopper marketing, Shopper engagement all follow similar twists. But not always evolutionary:
SMS was the black swan technology revolutionizing communication for the unsuspecting (but delighted) wireless carriers. We all thought QR codes, mobile apps and NFC would supplant this messaging channel. WhatApp, Skype and Viber all have eaten away at the peer-to-peer traffic; however, for brands, SMS, and for some successful apps, the notification channel, remains the main opt-in and content delivery channel of choice.
Black swan on the horizon? iBeacons, WiFi Direct or LTE Direct? Maybe.
Proximity engagement is essential for a brand or retailer to drive path into purchase. Shopkick and Beacons are valuable but are ultimately broadcast solutions. Future solutions such as LTE Direct promise to extend the retail network and add more intelligence and peer to peer interactivity to this engagement.
However, in all the above cases it is difficult, if not impossible, to identify one strategy, vendor, agency that will bring revolutionary black swan ideas.
When attending events whether speaking or listening, it all seems so easy. Innovate they say. . .
Well so my friends, the innovator's dilemma maybe just to avoid becoming the turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Interview on Twitter, Blackberry & disruptive business models
While the market complains that the it is an overhyped initial public offering. Many of the detractors are using Twitter to voice their concern. Ironic, isn't it? Post IPO, the stock will most likely rise to $30 and wait for Twitter to show some lift in advertising revenue. This will come as the media dollars need a home and their are few options for the digital buyer.
Twitter has moved from a microblog to a trend-crowd-sourcing destination.
1 in 5 have accounts but more and more will use the service to scrap instant and succinct info from the web. With this as a unique value prop, Twitter will capture revenue and drive profit over the next 48 months. http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip1036995
Andrew Hsu: The Invention of TOUCH & What's Next
Bill Gates stood on the stage at the (now-defunct) Comdex show in Las Vegas in 2000 with his schoolboy smile touting the new "tablet PC." Penned on the tablet in Bill's handwriting was "Tablet PC is SUPER COOL!" Behind the stage a backlit sign read "experience the evolution".
Microsoft evolution never became a revolution because the company's disparate and factional divisions failed to work together to vision and implement a turnkey experience.
The revolution happened in 2007 with the launch of the iPhone.
(As with most industries) evolution is often interrupted by black-swan revolutions. Sound (voice communications), touch (pinch and zoom navigation), sight (Heads Up Display [HUD]) all changed the way consumer used the phone and is one of the gating factors in technology adoption.
Knowing what technology will help us evolve and what technology revolutionizes is more of a human insight that a science. Ergonomics help us rearrange the digital furniture; however, changing the way we connect with this communication device is profoundly human. What is beyond touch, what is the next revolution?
A Short History of Touch
Although Gates told reporters off stage in Las Vegas that how excited everyone was in Redmond (Developers were checking the tablet out to play with – "a very good sign," he said) 6 months later warehouses were still full of the Tablets. Q2 shipments had plummeted 25% with a meager 100,000 total units sold. Mike Magee, technology writer for the Inquirer wrote despondently that "This is another classic case of IT firms thinking they know what technology people will like, and failing to take off the blinkers."
Touch appeared back in 1971 over a ten year period began to appear in the form of infrared technology (such as the Hewlett Packard 150) which show up in various military applications. The IR matrix of beams are used to detect a finger touching the screen.
But the IR technology was expensive and the technology gained more mainstream adoption was "resistive touch".
It was a simple concept. Resistive touch screens were built using two layers of conductive material (Indium Tin Oxide). The two layers were separated by a small pocket of air. An action was triggered when a stylus, or other object, pressed the top layer into contact with the bottom layer.
The limitation was it was like a pin board. You could tell the device where you were move the point of contact. But it did not have multi-touch functionality essential to pitch and zoom navigation.
Mass-market adoption was not an option:
- The screen wore out
- Required a stylus pen for accuracy
- The air pocket made the screen appear hazy
- OEMs had to build a clunky hole in the casing (as the top of the resistive sensor had to be exposed to user's input)
This is the technology that Bill Gates was holding up at Comdex in 2000*. The unit's resistive touch stylus was used to input into clunky dialogue boxes to input text and commands. The entire project was "resistive". The Office team refused to build for the unit adding to the painful UX.
*[A technogeek aside: Microsoft's Surface touch solution uses Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR)]
Meeting Andrew Hsu
In 2013, I ran an event on connect screens in New York. I wanted to tell a story about the importance of the screen in the evolution of mobile phone design and adoption. I invited Professor Donnell Walton from Corning Glass, as well as representatives from Microsoft's Surface team, Google Glass and was looking to find a speaker to explain "touch". Maybe I could locate someone from the scuttled Apple Newton team?
I found, much to my surprise (like an anthropologist that finds that we did not evolve directly from monkeys) that the precursor to the 2007 Apple iPhone was a skunk works project headed up by an engineer called Andrew Hsu.
Andrew developed and patented a capacitive touchscreen suitable for mobile devices way back in 1999. He developed a system which computes the location of a user's fingers based on how they change the capacitance values of an invisible matrix of electrodes. The capacitive touchscreen did not suffer from the various user experience drawbacks of the resistive touchscreen – it does not wear out, it does not cloudy the underlying display, and it does not require a big hole to be cut into the device casing. But most importantly, it enables natural finger input.
This capacitive touch is not a mouse click. It is not a data poke with a Stylus. Andrew Hsu's touch allowed us to communicate in a very human way with pointing and pinching space.
Don Norman is often quoted about touch.
"We've lost something really big when we went to the abstraction of a computer with a mouse and a keyboard, it wasn't real . . . swiping your hand across the page . . . is more intimate. Think of it not as a swipe, think of it as a caress."
While mobile success is almost always based on interface and usability, it took seven years for Andrew Hsu to convince the industry to adopt the technology. Revolutions come in simple packages: text messaging, Apple's mobile application SDK, gesture-based gaming.
We talk about the consumerization of technology; touch was the humanization of technology. In a world where data appeared cerebral and uninviting, we suddenly can interface in this data and content as we do with real object. The physical world became extensible and less scary.
From Click to Pinch & Zoom
In 2006, handset manufacturer LG trialled launched capacitive touch with their designer Prada phone. The LG phone had all the correct ingredients – capacitive touchscreen for intuitive finger input, high resolution display, and one of the first graphics co-processors in a handset. Prada brought style to the table and LG brought the insight that touch that would ultimately inspire the new mobile consumer.
But we had to wait one more year.
When Jobs returned to Apple he shut down the Newton project. This legacy 1993 technology had poor handwriting recognition and had little traction in the market. But Andrew Hsu's capacitive touch appealed to Steve Jobs UI sensibilities.
As a post Newtonist, Jobs once said "we are born with five styluses on each hand".
When he introduced the iPhone, we knew that being able to move large format data on a small screen with a pinch and zoom changed the way the consumer saw their mobile device. Where Steve Job went further than touch was his insight in designing a full edge-to-edge screen that had the dimensions of a letter size piece of paper. The screen called out to be touched, worked on and paged through.
Although touch revolutionize the phone and lines weaved around the block for new product releases of Apple new "human" interface, the consumer was still nose-to-screen, bumping into lamp posts while elegantly navigating data a hundred miles away.
"Bump" (the file exchange application recently acquired by Google) and other application including NFC payment extending this love of tactile interface by promote social touch between other phones and public devices such as POS.
Gesture: Moving Beyond the Cool?
While touch is an important sense, sight is essential for navigation. The next revolution is to make data come to live seamlessly in the real world.
When we talk about HUD, we think of the new Google Glass and the opportunity to integrate data into our line of site. In parallel, see the world and the data behind it. Integrated cyborg solutions like Google Glass and future visions of embedded epidermal circuit (seen in Total Recall).
Microsoft had the lead in a new HUD interface using gesture. XBOX Kinects was the one product that Microsoft was seeing growth in the consumer sector. However, the leviathan was unable to make this a multiscreen strategy fast enough.
Moving gesture elegantly to PCs and window phones never happened. There is a Kinect for Windows but it lacks the software for controlling the interface.
The Leap motion controller is a step forward. A small multiscreen sensor box not tied to console in the dean but with the ability to tether like a dongle to a wide variety of screens and deliver better sensitivity to Kinect. It has multiple commands down to finger level accuracy.
Andrew Hsu still believes that touch is less ambiguous on the consumer navigation intent. "How can you disambiguate between "accidental" and intentional gestures. The beauty of touch interaction is that you basically get user intent for "free" – a user typically only touches the device when he/she wants to interact with it. The cases of accidental activation are much lower and easier to reject."
Arguably HUD is a solution looking for a problem. Like the inspired Seque cycles, the inventor's goal was to develop an urban consumer transport vehicle but he failed to get significant adoption. The Segue has now found a home with urban tourist touring groups and airport police. Why? It provided an elevated view with minimal multitasking: Ideal for tourists and law enforcement.
Andrew agrees: "What these technologies really need to address is what sort of "problem" they are trying to solve. That is, with capacitive touchscreens, there were certainly a number of value propositions that arguably were superior to the previous (resistive) solution that helped transform/enable touch input. Natural gestures (HUD) is still looking for a compelling value proposition"
Google Glass is a platform without a certain home. Will "super cool" it has not inspired the consumer. We have not seen the "a-ha!" that Jobs brought to the touch. We know new more intuitive human interfaces are coming. But we need a Steve Jobs to take the technology and humanize it for intuitive consumption.
Gary Schwartz is the CEO of Impact Mobile. Having been at the frontlines of the mobile industry for over a decade, Gary is the author of two books, "The Impulse Economy: Understanding Mobile Shoppers" and "Fast Shopper. Slow Store: A Guide to Courting and Capturing the Mobile Consumers," both of which highlight the current state of the mobile commerce space and chronicle the significant impact that mobile is having on consumers, retailers and brands. Gary is also a chair emeritus for the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Mobile Entertainment Forum NA and global director of the Location Based Marketing Association.
BNN Interview: Challenges with Twitter's biz model pre-IPO
BNN 5 minutes: The Business News : October 4, 2013 : Challenges Facing Twitter's Business Model and its Upcoming IPO [10-04-13 12:20 AM]
- Positive: Twitter is NATIVELY mobile and will not have the same questions that FaceBook had on its IPO – i.e. What is your mobile strategy?
- Positive: Twitter has an owned-content advertising model which is less impression based and more brand ENGAGEMENT.
- Challenge: Twitter is an social aggregation hub. We see lots of auto-twittering without visiting the social platform from third party sites. (See page 61 in their S-1 filing) Referred to as blind tweeters (syndicated from other sites), these are a big slice of their user base. This is an impression-based advertising challenge.
- Challenge: Twitter is an advertising company. Specifically, mobile advertising with 65% of the revenue coming from small screen. The mobile advertising space is in a bubble. Same old story: Big growth in revenues, but no profits. The breaking bubble is evident in Jumptap's exit to Millennial Media.
- Challenge: Although the US is Twitter's home it needs global growth. There will be global pressure from competitors like SINA WEIBO in China and LINE in Japan.
The 2014 Ad Game Changer: Digital Maps
Gary Schwartz (16 September, 2013)
Of all the widgets and long-forgotten apps on your phone the one with most mobile mindshare is your map app. We have become a mobile society, and in the 2010s, map apps personify our wanderlust. When we open our mobile map, we have intent, direction and purpose. It is vitamin "M": the ultimate upper and highly addictive.
And map real estate is hot: Apple buys Locationary, Embark and HopStop; Google buys Waze; Bing is rumored to be in talks with FourSquare; Zillow, the map real estate tycoon, buys EasyStreet, and indoor mapping app company, Aisle411 raises a hefty seed round in the valley. As OEMs beef up their services, we are entering a new phase of map building. Location has always been a data grab. Now, the industry is starting to focus on monetising subway stops, street corners and highways across the world.
The principal challenge is that maps are a new and unique advertising paradigm, and the incumbent search business models, mostly designed for the web's previous era as a stationary, desktop experience may need to be adjusted.
Galileo to Google
Google Maps, the grand daddy of digital mapping, was born in 2004 as a skunk works project by two Danish brothers in Australia.
First designed as a heavy client app, in 2004 the software came full circle as Lars Rasmussen and his brother were acquired by Google after making a web-based pitch. The same year, Google acquired Keyhole, Inc. and proceeded to use Keyhole's mark-up language to launch Google Earth in 2005.
During the next five years, Google started to revolutionize digital maps. It is quite possibly the most exciting innovation effort by the company. Not since map mavericks Ptolomy, Copernicus and Galileo has mapping accelerated so profoundly. Within a few short years Google has redefined the way we see the world around us.
Google Maps rolled out road directions in North America in 2006 and their PC-based maps became the pre-GPS automotive assistant. However convenient and customizable, Google maps for the desktop were a print-on-demand version of London's A-Z pocket maps. In many ways, a Google map printed out before a trip was no different from John Ogilby's 1675 Britannia detailed strip maps that travels bought to find their way from Norfolk to Newmarket with inns, stables and other points-of-interest as well as clear directions and distances clearly marked. They balanced behind the horse on the coach seat as our laser-printed version would sit on our car dashboard.
But the small screen was the true game changer. The capacitive screen touch invented by Andrew Hsu, combined with the pinch-and-zoom mobile interface developed by Apple made complex map navigation simple, user friendly and, most importantly, mobile.
With multiscreen map adoption, Google Maps expanded. The company launched in Latin America and Asia, and started the subterranean mapping of subways in 2007. In 2008, a view from space; in 2009, a POV from the street and 3D rendering. And more. Google mapped canals and bike paths, endangered forests and the ocean floors, the moon and Mars and the ultimate conquest, Macy's in-store experience.
This was phase one: Build a dominant innovative platform with simple APIs, establish market stickiness and trust by the point-A-to-point-B public.
Now add metadata
Google+ Local launched in 2012, allowing users to post reviews and images into pages hosted by third party sites. This year maps are becoming more customized, providing location-specific information on points-of-interest. While Google has maintained a focus on road navigation with its 2013 acquisition of the crowd sourcing road-warrior Waze software, the operative term on the new Google map is "explore." Explore photos, recommendations, and restaurants.
Maps plus Google Glass makes the possibility of on-the-go exploration more immersive. Using the Google Mirror API developers can feed real-time GPS info and pre-rendered map images into the eye window of Glass wearers for "dexterous" driving, cycling or walking to the local mall. Glass becomes "a Segway for your head." And taking maps to the edge of utility: Google Sky (which maps the stars based on your GPS location and vision angle) can be integration with Google Glass to show the outlines of constellations through a transparent filter to view the night sky.
And then at the end of this epic journey, Google announces local advertising. Google Maps now allows short sections of advertisements to be placed directly onto the map itself. Local advertising is one of Google's core business and Google Maps ad purchases are made through the same Google AdWords auction that buyers are already very familiar.
For Google this is simply a terrestrial version of browser-based search. When a consumer enters "Starbucks" in her browser, she finds links to buy "Starbucks Instant Coffee Bundle" on Amazon.com. When a consumer enters Starbucks in Google Maps, she finds local Starbucks to get the real deal (or if Tim Hortons is bidding, an ad for a competitively located Timmy's coffee store.) Both these use cases involve path to purchase. One is virtual, the other is proximal.
Google hopes Map-based ads will follow the same digital success that Google has had with its search-based ads. Instead of auctioning AdWords at point-of-search, Google auctions ads at point-of-navigation.
Ptolemy what? There has to be more than just that. We're just not fully there yet.
Don't forget the Big Apple
Apple recognized the value of maps and knew that they had a Trojan Horse lurking in their mobile operating system in Google Maps. Google's map app had become the dominant phonetop service with the most unique visitors of any app in-market. When Apple launched and preloaded its own proprietary map app in August 2012, Google's traffic dropped making Facebook the winning app for unique impressions as well as time spend.
(After a few geographical faux pas) Apple started to establish its own relationship with the map consumer. But Google Mappers are loyal. When Google launched its new map app for iOS 6 in December there was a 30 per cent rush of Apple folk upgrading to the new operating system (MoPub.com). Affinity to a map app had influenced these consumers' mobile behaviour. Quite remarkable.
However, Apple is committed to build a map following. While the company no longer needed to pay licensing to Google, which was good, the key reason for ousting Google Maps was that maps had become a data pillar. By replacing Google, Apple had direct access to a wealth of consumer data and potential advertising revenue.
Yahoo! Maps, Bing Maps, Nokia Maps, and MapQuest all use the NAVTEQ electronic map feed (best known for its automotive navigation services), and like Apple now, they own their own consumer data layer, which is crucial for generating advertising and marketing revenue on maps.
Bing is the major map contender. In September, the company added 13 million square kilometers (316TB) of aircraft and satellite photography to its service. Microsoft's large investment in Facebook in 2007 ($240 million) led to the 2013 decision adopt Bing as FaceBook's mapping and search provider. To do this effectively, and compete with the market-leader, Google, Bing needs to beef up and differentiate its map offerings. Bing has already rolled out "Local Scout" which helps consumers find food and fun across all its screens. Rumors of a FourSquare acquisition (or possibly financing) may be part of this grand strategy.
(Microsoft acquisition of Nokia did not come with their HERE maps assets. Nokia's HERE maps include road networks, traffic patterns and urban landscapes and as licensed by major properties such as Garmin, Oracle and Amazon.com. Will Nokia take the lead as the premier mapping and location services across different screens? Will they just sell off the asset to Apple after the Microsoft acquisition is complete?)
And the open-source mapping movement is also growing. Washington D.C.-based startup, MapBox, provides more custom navigation and interesting APIs built on top of Open Street Maps. Open is good and allows developers greater flexibility and affordability; Foursquare uses MapBox's services to display its users' check-in histories. However MapBox is not preloaded on your Android or Apple phone and while they have an iOS mapping SDK they have no Android footprint. MapBox will certainly play a roll as an embedded technology in sites all over the web; however, it is unlikely that they will be a standalone consumer utility on top of your phone and tablet.
With the proliferation of WiFi networks in retail, vendors such as Cisco drive mobile mapping solutions for shoppers that join the free network. The maps allows for hyper-local, custom mapping that includes restroom as well as promotional information on retail stores.
All of these digital map offerings are entering the mainstream at a time when advertisers are questioning consumer engagement on mobile, and trying to understand how best to follow their consumer in a contextual and relevant manner. Brands and retailers are re-evaluating the way we sell and, more importantly, engage across multiple screens. Their assumptions on path-to-purchase, built during the era of the desktop web, are no longer fully valid and reliable. The classic consumer narrative of home-to-store has changed and retailers and brand can no longer simply hire a Director of Shopper Insights and hope for the best.
Advertising and marketing is about providing a consistent message at aisle, and checkout, wherever the shopper finds the retailer. If the advertisers wants to get back in the game, possibly the most exciting place to be right now is on the map. When the consumer and shopper opens their map app when they have intent to meet someone, go somewhere or buy something. All this drives commerce. Maps provide unadulterated path-to-purchase.
Narrative: Going beyond advertising
So what is the new advertising paradigm for maps? Maps have layered functionality: terrain, roads, satellite, traffic, public transport and images. Then there is the exploration layer: recommendations and general points-of-interest. And now Google has provided an additional local advertising layer.
However, the adding an advertising layer may not prove to be effective in a map environment. There is more value to the exploration layer. Yes, maps help us move in a utilitarian fashion from Point-A to Point-B and that is why Waze and other transit acquisitions have been so important. But maps also have a very non-utilitarian function.
Maps help the consumer simply "explore" and is what will ultimately connect map users to brands and content owners. Maps tell stories because precisely they have a beginning and an end, and are defined by intent and clear purpose.
Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook already situate the user's photos and comments at a latitude and longitude: a country, a city, a bar. However these social graphs are not map applications and location is an important but secondary metatag.
The opportunity is to build a new bespoke map layer for brands and content owners. Think map first.
Startups such as Findery and CityMaps have map based UGC (user-generated content) engines. Where is the content input engine for brands? How can brands visualize content and actively map this data across all their customers' screens?
One company called Mapiary, based out of Singapore, is developing the tools to allow brands and retailers to layer rich navigation onto the map. How can Unilever's Becel margarine be more relevant to power walkers globally? Or how can Heineken weave narrative into a city pub crawl? Diageo, can map a DJ tour for Smirnoff. The NYTimes can map their 36-Hour travel series in a rich contextual manner. This is new digital cartouche and as important as the underlying map.
Where is the new vision of brand advertising? After all the innovation that Lars Rasmussen (Google Maps) and John Hanke (Google Earth) brought to maps we surely need to go beyond paid search models and allow owned content to become a rich and valuable layer in the 2014 map.
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Cigarettes, guns and alcohol are everybody's idea of a good time, so an invitation to a late-July pints-and-pistols fest at a well-known Anaheim bar seemed merely the height of neighborliness—until we turned out to be the only guests, armed or otherwise.
The e-mailed invitation—from email@example.com—was a hoax, one of several in recent weeks directing recipients to "Bring your cigarettes and your GUN" to a smokers and Second Amendment rights rally at Anaheim's Loose Moose Saloon "to put up an armed response to the Tobacco Nazis."
Loose Moose owner Dave Koontz says, "I don't want anything to do with [the e-mail]." He figures JonyLuck intends to drive away his customers; Koontz claims the e-mail is behind a unusual drop in business during days on which the Loose Moose is supposed to be OC gun-nut headquarters. On July 31, the day we turned out, customers were outnumbered by bartenders.
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I always seem to have networking issues and I need to settle them. I think I get confused with routers, hubs, switches and the DHCP stuff. I currently have a fios router, an time machine (that serves as my wireless access point) and a few other random wireless AP to boost the signal around the house. I have my fios router handing out ips (I think) and it only has four ports so I have some servers plugged into it (unraid being one) and some into the time machine. Sometimes i get ip conflicts when I open my computer and it wont connect to the internet. Should I get a nice switch and use that for everything? How would the Time Machine and fios router work with that? Thanks.
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Only one device in your network should be handing out DHCP addresses. Probably easiest to leave that with your FIOS router. All other devices need to have DHCP turned off.
You can add a switch if you like, do you need extra port capacity?
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The 2012 NFL draft is the most important draft in Minnesota Vikings history.
The Vikings own the third overall pick and are mulling over three players; Morris Claiborne, Matt Kalil and Justin Blackmon.
Blackmon would fill the huge gap as the No. 1 option at wide receiver. Claiborne would give the Vikings a shut-down corner to stop Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford and Jay Cutler six times per year. Kalil would give the Vikings the left tackle they so desperately need.
Most fans are calling for Kalil but the Vikings may not be looking that way. General Manger Rick Spielman told the media that trade talks are "heating up."
If the Vikings do trade down, they must not go back too far because they desperately need a top-10 talent on their team.
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|2016 craft shows not all updated
This is what the Doggon Fancy stand looks like
*You will find over 1000 different fabric patterns at the craft shows*
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Lititz Rotary Craft Show
Located in the Lititz Springs Park and downtown streets
Lititz, PA
My tent will be located on Broad Street/501 just before the square
Show hours are 8:00 - 4:00pm on Saturday
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Mt. Gretna Summer Craft Market
Mount Gretna, PA
My tent will be located in space # 9 along road
Show hours are Sat 9:00 - 6:00pm, Sun 9:00 - 5:00pm
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32th annual Covered Bridge & Arts Festival
Located at the Knoebels Amusement Resort
Elysburg, PA
Show hours are 10:00 - 6:00pm
We are located in spot 4/30 near the BIG ferris wheel and in front of the restrooms.
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LINE MOUNTAIN 24th annual Holiday Craft show
Located at the Line Mountain middle/senior High School,
185 Line Mountain road / Route 225, Herndon, PA
Show hours are 9:00 - 2:00pm on Saturday
You will find me in space # 126
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Holiday Happening fundraiser
Show is located in the Reading Hospital's 5th avenue lobby
West Reading, PA
hours are Thursday 7:30am-4pm
Fun and unique vendors here. Super busy show!
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ART on HERSHEY
Hershey, PA
Show hours are 10:00 - 5:00pm Saturday
|March 19, 2016
25th Annual Central Dauphin Spring Craft Show
Located at the Central Dauphin High School
Harrisburg, PA
Show hours are 9:00 - 3:00pm on Saturday
This show benefits the Band Boosters. We are in space 42 this year
|December 3, 2016
26th Annual ELCO Band Christmas Craft Show
Show is located in the ELCO High School,
Myerstown, PA
hours are Saturday 9am-3pm
Doggon Fancy will be in the Cafeteria with Santa
|September 17, 2016
27th annual Hegins Valley Arts & Crafts Faire
Located at Hegins Park, Park Lane
Hegins, PA
Show hours are 9:00 - 3:00pm on Saturday
All original hand made arts and crafts at this show!
|May 7, 2016
29th annual Danville Spring Fling
Downtown Danville
Danville, Pa
website: Spring Fling Website
Show hours are 9:00 - 5:00pm
|November 13, 2015-pending
Holiday gift shopping at the Good Samaritan Hospital
Located in the class rooms on the first floor,
Lebanon, PA
Show hours are 7:00 - 4:00pm on Friday
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Carlisle Expo Center 2014 Holiday Craft & Fine Arts Show
Located at the Carlisle Expo Center 100 K Street,
Carlisle PA 17013
Show hours are 9:00 - 4:00pm on Saturday
This show benefits Hannah's Loved Ones / March of Dimes
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Holiday Shopping Event
Show is located in Lebanon PA
( this is a show for our customers and family so please contact me for the address )
hours are Sunday 1pm-5pm
This is a one stop shopping trip with 14 hand picked vendors from the area. Making
sure you will have the best Christmas gifts for family and friends this season!
|September 10, 2016
36th annual Danville Fall Arts & Crafts Fair
Downtown Danville
Danville, Pa
Show hours are 9:00 - 5:00pm
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Annual Family Fun Fair & Marketplace
event located at That Fish Place That Pet Place, 237 Centerville Rd
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website:Centerville Pet Rescue's Fun Fair
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Drosophila neuroblasts, the stem cells of the developing fly brain, have emerged as a key model system for neural stem cell biology and have provided key insights into the mechanisms underlying asymmetric cell division and tumor formation. More recently, they have also been used to understand how neural progenitors can generate different neuronal subtypes over time, how their cell cycle entry and exit are coordinated with development, and how proliferation in the brain is spared from the growth restrictions that occur in other organs upon starvation. In this Primer, we describe the biology of Drosophila neuroblasts and highlight the most recent advances made using neuroblasts as a model system.
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Quicker Lemon Angel Food Supreme Recipe
Boxed angel food cake speeds prep time but retains the cake's home-baked taste. And the no-cook version of sauce uses handy prepared lemon pie filling and whipped topping for fuss-free fixing and old-fashioned results.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Greendale, Wisconsin
- 1 package (16 ounces) angel food cake mix
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
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- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 cup whipped topping
- 1. Prepare cake batter according to package directions, adding lemon peel and extract. Bake according to package directions. After baking, immediately invert pan and cool completely. For the sauce, combine the pie filling, milk, lemon juice and extract in a bowl; beat until smooth. Fold in whipped topping. Serve with cake. Store sauce in the refrigerator. Yield: 12 servings.
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Having pushed Trump's buttons again in the third US presidential debate, Clinton will now make a full court press for her closing argument to the American people.
By Bruce Wolpe
To say Turnbull has had yet another bad week doesn't tell half of it. It's been little short of disastrous and there will be more fallout.
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The Gable Tostee case raises questions about how common death by falling is — and how many such incidents are homicides.
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In the absence of any more sophisticated options, drug consumers are resorting to drug testing kits they can access themselves.
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U2: No line on new album
Despite the release of new track, "Invisible," during the Super Bowl, it looks like U2 won't have an album out in 2014, after all.
At least that's the word from Billboard, which reveals that the band is going back into the studio with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder and Paul Epworth, best known for his work with Adele.
The band heavily campaigned for its Oscar-nominated song, "Ordinary Love" from "Mandela- Long Walk to Freedom," and had previously noted that writing the song took them out of their studio groove for the album, their first since 2009's "No Line On the Horizon." (Trivia note: There were five years between "Line" and U2's 2004 album "How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," the band's longest stretch. However, if Billboard is right and we don't see a new U2 until 2015, this will be the longest amount of time between sets for the Irish band).
The group has been working with Danger Mouse as producer, and Billboard says he is still the "central producer." At what point do we think they'll bring in Steve Lillywhite to close out the project?
Part of the issue seems to be that the band is struggling to figure out way to stay relevant. Bono has mentioned to the press several times that the band was "really close to the edge of relevance," most recently telling The Hollywood Reporter, "to be relevant is a lot harder than to be successful."
"Invisible," what many believed to be the first single from the new set, peaked at No. 15 on Billboard's Rock Songs chart.
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Ministerial Committee Approves Tougher Stand on Stone ThrowersMonday, June 1st, 2015
The Knesset's Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a bill on Sunday (May 31) proposed by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to increase the severity of the punishment for stone throwing. The bill, initially proposed by the previous justice minister, Tzipi Livni, will amend the existing law to cover cases in which the stone thrower's intent to inflict casualties cannot be proven – as in cases of attacks on buses or police vehicles, when the aim may be "merely" to harass or draw attention. Shaked's aim is to diminish the current disparity between the maximum punishment stipulated by law (20 years) and the relatively light sentences given in practice – a result of the difficulty in proving intent. The new bill will make it possible to convict stone throwers without proving their intent to injure; the penalty in these cases will be up to 10 years in prison.
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This isn't confirmed yet, but apparently some stores have not yet begun their Black Friday sales.
What are these napping merchants waiting for?
That's no way to bust open the door on holiday shopping.
There once was a time when holiday sales pretty much stuck to the days they were named for. Presidents Day sales happened, oddly enough, on Presidents Day. After-Christmas sales started, you know, after Christmas.
Then, big retailers discovered that the Friday after Thanksgiving really was the biggest shopping day of the year. And their instinct for more-more-more got the better of them.
Trying to elbow aside the competition, stores started opening earlier and earlier on Friday morning. Some pressed that to the point of ridiculousness, swinging the doors open one second after midnight Thursday night.
"Technically, it's Friday now," their oh-so-clever managers tittered to themselves -- and to the long lines of bargain-hunting lunatics stretching out to the parking lot.
Which only encouraged the stores.
So this year, Target is starting Black Friday at 9 p.m., seriously cutting into dinner-digestion time. On Thursday. Kmart, Wal-Mart and Sears have pushed their openings up to 8 p.m. Thursday, stomping roughshod over the pumpkin pie and the after-dinner drinks.
Those lay-a-beds at Costco aren't opening until 9 a.m. Friday. But just you watch: If they hype it right, they can claim they're opening extra-early for Black Friday 2013.
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ASKED AND ANSWERED: John Bruckner, National Grid's president of Long Island transmission and distribution, has been promoted to chief of the firm's U.S. electric operations? For such great work keeping LI connected during Sandy? . . . Don't Twinkies last forever, even though the brand won't? So we should stock up now for the next big storm? . . . Sandy-Dune Road? If Southampton piles up Sandy sand to raise Dune Road, shouldn't the storm at least get some credit? . . . How many LI school districts will dump their February breaks to make up for all the missing Sandy days? . . . What impact will that have on the ski economies of New Hampshire, Utah and Colorado? . . . LI cellphone providers say service is "pretty much back to normal?" And this is something to brag about? . . . How much good did the "odd-even" gas rationing really do? Or did it just add another not-today to all the post-Sandy waiting? . . . You understand that Gilberto Valle of Forest Hills is only an ALLEGED cannibal cop, right? Merely ACCUSED of plotting to abduct women and eat them? You're not jumping to any conclusions, are you? . . . Smithtown is promising to pick up storm debris by Christmas? Don't mean to sound impatient, but isn't Christmas, like, five weeks away?THE NEWS IN SONG: Are you tired of the family yet? "Shopping" by Barenaked Ladies tinyurl.com/shopmore
They're getting paid to be here. We understand that. But some out-of-state utility workers have really gone the extra mile reconnecting Long Island. Who did more than diesel mechanic Lee Snoddy, 38, of Turkey Creek, La.? Snoddy was in his truck in New Hyde Park on Tuesday when he saw a man grab a purse from an 80-year-old woman at a bus stop near Jericho Turnpike. Her 82-year-old husband gave chase but fell and hit his head. Snoddy ran from his truck, chased the suspect and retrieved the woman's purse. Then two of Snoddy's colleagues, Brent Bernard and Robbie Jarman, tackled the man and held him for police. Nassau cops charged Brian Maher, 29, with two counts of robbery. Thanks, guys. Come back any time.
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Banned Book List in Local Libaries
In our Facebook Story of the Day, you wanted to know what books are banned in local libaries.
Every year, the American Library Association posts a list of banned books and many of the books listed are percieved as objectionable because of how they discuss topics such as sex, profanity, religion, or racism.
The Dougherty County Pubic Library System does not have a banned book list, but they did share with us how they determine which books they bring into their system.
Erin Hunt of the Dougherty County Library System says "We do have a selection process where they look at reivews from publishers from professional reviewers and then we see how it would fit into our and see how people could find it useful."
Books found on the banned list include 'Beloved', 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Awakening'; however, those books are all included the Dougherty County Library System.


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It's incredible…it's now been a decade since we first poured the concrete foundation for our vibey, country getaway studio!! We're stoked to announce Beach Road also now has its own Wikipedia page – check it out here!
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All shook up
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake woke up most Kenai Peninsula residents early Saturday morning. The May 10 shaker hit at 6:16 a.m. and was 54 miles deep. According to the U.S. Geologicl Survey, the epicenter of the quake was about 20 miles northwest of Anchor Point and was felt as far north as Anchorage. It is the largest earthquake so far this year.
Jocelyn Shiro offers "Kids C.A.M.P."
Mary Jo Cambridge, owner of the Alaska Training Room, indicated that there are "windows of opportunity" for children ages 8-11 to develop power, speed, agility and coordination before puberty. If not utilized, these "windows" do not present themselves again until after puberty.
In addition to teaching and choreographing dance, Jocelyn Shiro has been a pediatric physical therapist for more than 25 years. She has helped children attain, maintain, or regain the ability to move their bodies. Shiro will use obstacle courses, partner and group activities and games to achieve C.A.M.P. goals while having fun.
Register at www.Alaskatrainingroom.com. Space is limited.
Ribbon-cutting ceremony planned
Kachemak Bay Equestrian Association will sponsor its annual grand opening of Cottonwood Horse Park on Scenic View Drive with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon on May 26.
The final mortgage payment on the facility has been made. Riding demonstrations in English and Western, Pony rides, face-painting, food and lots of other fun activities will be available for the whole family.
Homer youth honored for volunteerism
Alaska's top two youth volunteers of 2014, Katherine Dolma, 18, of Homer and Leah Smith, 13, of Palmer, were honored in the nation's capital for their outstanding volunteer service during the 19th annual presentation of The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. Katherine and Leah – along with 100 other top youth volunteers from across the country – each received $1,000 awards and personal congratulations from Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker at an award ceremony and gala dinner reception held at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
In addition to their cash awards, they each received an engraved silver medallion and an all-expense-paid trip with a parent to Washington, D.C., for four days of recognition events.
Katherine, a senior at Homer High School, launched a three-day nature camp for fifth- and sixth-grade girls in her community who have experienced traumatic events. After Katherine and a friend presented the idea at a Rotary Peace Forum in Hawaii, they returned home determined to create a camp that would enable them to both share their love of the outdoors with other young people and help girls recover from difficult experiences.
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- 11 D.C.-area coffeehouses every coffee lover should visit
- Tired of going to the same old grab-and-go chain for a cup of joe, but don't know where else to go? Here's a look at some of the area's best coffeehouses — Starbucks not included. Culture in a cup.
- Holy Cow! Pastor offers free prayers at coffee houses
- Coffee is not exactly Thomas Rusert's cup of tea. ADVERTISEMENT. Nevertheless, every Thursday morning Pastor Thomas indulges himself in a steaming cup of java at local coffee houses.
- Coffeehouse Challenge aims to percolate Conversation Week
- Three coffeehouses in Sun Prairie are working together to stimulate conversations during Conversation Week, March 13 - 20, 2016 to benefit those in poverty right here. Eric Jensen of Starbucks Coffee, Leanne Eithun of What's Brewin' Coffee Bar and Jeff ...
- Bewley's hunts new acquisitions among UK and US coffee houses
- Bewley's, which is owned by the Campbell Bewley group and recently decided to buy all of its coffee under fairtrade terms, has been in fierce expansion mode in recent years. Photo: PA. Bewley's is still on the acquisitions trail and plans to buy more ...
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