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Fancy a double-height flat at the top of Centre Point? Yours for £23 million, if you don't mind waiting three years. A second request for permission to turn the world-famous tower into a 34-storey block of flats was submitted to Camden council last week by developer Almacantar.
Planning documents reveal a huge duplex on floors 33 and 34. The 1960s block will contain 82 flats. Planning permission allowing, the conversion will be finished by 2016.
Almacantar boss Mike Hussey won't comment on prices. But one leading developer working nearby says the 7630-square-foot penthouse should sell for £3000 a square foot; hence the £23 million guess.
A second guess comes from Knight Frank, which agrees, adding that the lower-floor flats should fetch between £2000 and £2500 a square foot. With one caveat: Centre Point is not exactly the sort of spot from which to pop out for a quiet evening stroll.
"The tower is an amazing London landmark, says Stephan Miles-Brown, head of residential development at Knight Frank. "But its location, particularly at street level, is not without its challenges.
"Almacantar will need to "re-imagine" the building and undertake some "state-of-the-art" place-making to change public perceptions. If it can clear these hurdles, I can envisage sales averaging £2500 with the upper floors and penthouses achieving north of £3000."
The planning documents reveal that the 460-foot tower contains 131,000 square feet of sellable space — worth, let's say, £2500 a square foot, a number that gives a total value for the units of £327 million. Almacantar and its 25% partner Frogmore publicly give £350 million as the end value.
That includes 16 affordable units, shops and a club complete with pool on the first and second floors. The consortium paid receivers £120 million for Centre Point in March 2011.
"We have presented an urbane and intelligent solution for the long-term future of this iconic listed building," says Hussey.
But, he adds: "We should not lose sight of the complexities of working with this asset and the challenge to respond to the demands that the new transport hub will place on the public realm."
On track for prices boom
House prices within the "walk-zones" of Crossrail stations will rise by 40%-43% between now and when the line opens in 2018, Knight Frank says in a report today.
"The biggest beneficiaries will be Tottenham Court Road and Farringdon," says Gráinne Gilmore, Knight Frank's head of UK residential research.
"Tottenham Court Road station is set to be transformed by new developments, giving the junction a much-needed face-lift," adding 40% to prices, Gilmore says.
She adds that prices in Farringdon will rise 43%, as the area is "set to become one of the biggest transport hubs in London."
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Online search giant Google exceeded forecasters' expectations with reported revenues of $14.42 billion for the last quarter of 2012. This is an increase of 36 percent over the comparable quarter in 2011, and an 8 percent increase over the previous quarter.
The company also said it achieved record earnings in fiscal 2012 of $50 billion, which Google CEO Larry Page said at a news conference was "not a bad achievement in just a decade and a half."
Net income in the fourth quarter (using GAAP), which takes into account a net loss from discontinued operations, totaled $2.89 billion, compared to net income of $2.71 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Google also said gross total consolidated revenues for the quarter would have been $15.24 billion, or a 44 percent increase year on year, had it included revenues from set top box division Motorola Home in its calculations.
In late December, Google announced that it would sell Motorola Home to Arris Group for $2.35 billion in cash and stock. Google already warned analysts earlier this week that, as U.S. law requires, it would break out financial results from Motorola Home as a separate line item in its 2012 consolidated statements, making its net income look smaller for the final quarter and the 2012 fiscal year.
Revenue from Google's core Internet business, totaled $12.91 billion, or 89 percent of consolidated revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2012, the company said, representing a 22 percent increase over fourth quarter 2011 revenues of $10.58 billion. Minus traffic acquisition costs, the business saw net revenues of $9.83 billion, up from $8.13 billion a year earlier, making it come in slightly higher than expected, according to analysts polled by Reuters.
Within that business, Google-owned sites generated revenues of $8.64 billion, or 67 percent of total Google revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2012, an 18 percent increase over fourth quarter 2011 Google sites revenues of $7.29 billion. Google partner sites generated revenues of $3.44 billion, or 27 percent of total Google revenues, a 19 percent increase from fourth quarter 2011 of $2.88 billion. Other revenues from Google Inc. were $829 million, or 6 percent of total Google revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2012. This represents a 102 percent increase over fourth quarter 2011 other revenues of $410 million.
Looking at the advertising business, the aggregate cost per click, which indicates the amount advertisers pay Google, was down 6 percent year on year and fell for the fifth consecutive quarter. But the decline was not as drastic as some analysts had expected. "We implemented policy changes this year that improved CPC growth but lowered network revenue," said Google senior VP and CFO Patrick Pichette during the online press conference. "We made changes based on what was good for users and advertisers."
Aggregate paid clicks, which include clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of its network members, increased approximately 24 percent over the fourth quarter of 2011 and 9 percent over the third quarter of 2012. Traffic acquisition costs, the portion of revenues shared with Google's partners, increased to $3.08 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to $2.45 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Google also said that revenues from outside of the U.S. totaled $6.9 billion, representing 54 percent of total Google revenues in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to 53 percent in the third quarter of 2012 and 53 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Nikesh Arora, senior vice president and chief business officer, also spoke positively of the growth in revenue from Google subsidiary YouTube. He said viewers watched 4 billion hours of video and Google struck $8 million in advertising deals last year. Top advertisers also spent 50 percent more on YouTube advertising in 2012 than the previous year.
Google subsidiary Motorola Mobile contributed to 11 percent of consolidated revenues in the fourth quarter of 2012 with a total of $1.51 billion in revenues. Google acquired the maker of mainly Android devices last year for $12.5 billion. Pichette said the company was "pleased with the velocity of change" at its new subsidiary and that it was working with a product pipeline of 12 to 18 months.
At 4.7 billion, Pichette said that Google's operating cash flow was very strong and something the company was pleased with.
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ClickZ Intelligence presented The State of Digital Advertising 2017 webinar on 27 April 2017 in partnership with Marin Software. What are the challenges currently facing advertisers, and how can these challenges be overcome?
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"You cannot succeed in analytics and marketing unless they are central to business operations and are helping business answer the questions that will drive dollars to the top or bottom line," says Kerem Tomak, Sears Chief Digital Marketing & Analytics Officer.
Has advertising arrived on Google Home?
Google sparked a small firestorm last week as reports surfaced that its intelligent assistant device Google Home delivered an unsolicited advertisement to unsuspecting owners.


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Blackpool pier was a pier in Blackpool, Lancashire, on the northwestern coast of England on the Irish Sea. When Neville Longbottom was a young child, his great-uncle, Algie, shoved him off the end of this pier in an attempt to make him show evidence of having magical abilities, which nearly caused him to drown.
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- There are in fact three piers in Blackpool: North Pier, Central Pier, and South Pier. The novel does not specify which of them Neville was pushed off.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Mentioned only)


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Police Blotter: RFD: auto fire 'suspicious'
Police were c[auth] alled to the 100 block of West Hendricks Street, Monday, after a vehicle was set on fire. The vehicle sustained damage to the front end. The Roswell Fire Department put out the blaze before police arrived. The firefighters told officers that the fire "appeared suspicious." The investigation is continuing.
•Police responded to a call from Red Brick Pizza, 625 N. Main St., Monday, where subjects stole two surveillance cameras and a commercial air conditioning unit.
•Police were dispatched to the Church of Christ, 1512 S. Main St., Monday, after subjects cut through a chain link fence to gain access to two air conditioners. According to police reports, the subjects removed the working mechanisms from inside of each. Cost of damages, repairs and replacement was estimated at $12,400.
•Police were called to the 900 block of East Mathews Street, Monday. The victim reported that sometime between Friday and Monday someone entered the unlocked vehicle and took a 9 mm handgun, valued at $288.
•Police were dispatched to West Byrne Street, Monday. Investigation revealed that unknown subjects pried open a window to gain entry into a residence and stole five firearms of unknown make, jewelry and some DVDs.
•Police were called to the 1200 block of West McGaffey Street, Monday, where subjects entered a vehicle and removed a suitcase containing a computer and a teacher's school books.
•Police were dispatched to the 1400 block of West Second Street, Saturday, after someone broke the passenger window of a vehicle and took $4,000 cash and some costume jewelry.
Anyone having information about these or any other crimes is asked to contact Crime Stoppers, 888-594-TIPS (8477). Callers may remain anonymous and could be eligible for a reward.
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The healthy side of honey
The natural sweetener can have implications in health and wellness.
BakingBusiness.com, Nov. 1, 2011
by Rebeca López-García
Honey is a sweetener, thus it is mainly composed of sugars. The average is 38.5% fructose, 31% glucose, 7.2% maltose, 1.5% sucrose and 0.5% free amino acids, vitamins, minerals and protein.
These other compounds give honey its unique functionality and health profile. Depending on its source, honey contains a variety of phytochemicals that may serve as a dietary source of antioxidants, as well as other compounds such as organic acids and enzymes. In general, darker honeys have been shown to be higher in antioxidant content than lighter honeys. (See "Honey's Antioxidant Activity" below.)
Honey also contains a variety of oligosaccharides that may function as prebiotics or compounds that help increase populations of Bifidobacteria important to gastrointestinal health.


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Catch a Falling Star
Catch a Falling Star is the forty-seventh episode of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.
At federal prison, Jennifer Nocturne appears and wants to talk again to Carl Nesmith, attracting the guards' attention. One of the guards asks to scan Jennifer, but she refuses and says she always gets to walk away easily at the airport, and so the guard lets her go. Another guard asks for her autograph. Then she enters the room. While talking on the phone, Carl told her about their "plan", when she shows him a disc. Jennifer then acts as if she was angry at him and demands to get out of there immediately. Upon entering the limousine, suddenly an explosion occurs at the building. There, Carl appears, holding an iron bar and asking Jennifer's driver for the keys and gets his sunglasses. Then he gets in Jennifer's limousine, and as they drive off, Captain Nemesis talks about getting revenge on Ben.
Meanwhile, Ben and Gwen do an investigation on Jennifer, by going to her mother, Mrs. Nocturne, who Gwen found out about via a tabloid. There, she doesn't want to answer questions until Ben turns into one of his aliens. So reluctantly, he transforms into Humungousaur. Then Mrs. Nocturne demands that he "does something strong". After lifting her trailer home that she lives in, Gwen asks Mrs. Nocturne questions about Jennifer, who reveals that Jennifer got on a talk show when she was 14, and dropped out of high school, after which she never returned home. Her dad had never been seen by her. Ben drops the trailer home, and storms off claiming that coming there was a waste of time. Gwen asks for something of Jennifer's so she can track her. Mrs. Nocturne throws her an old doll. Gwen and Ben return to track Jennifer down.
Ben and Gwen track Jennifer and Nesmith to a cheap motel, where Ben transforms into Goop to go under the door and let them in. They enter, and no one is home. Ben and Gwen split up, where Gwen goes and asks the manager, while Ben stays behind. Suddenly, Ben is attacked by Captain Nemesis. They fight, and Ben kicks off Nemesis, claiming that he was trying to make it a fair fight but, "you've gone and ruined it" (because Nesmith takes up a stick). Ben transforms into Clockwork, and uses his time-ray to age the piece of wood that Captain Nemesis is holding to dust. Jennifer then attacks Clockwork by surprise, shooting Clockwork in the arm with the Captain Nemesis glove that Ben found in the room before. Clockwork's arm is broken, the Ultimatrix shuts down and he falls to the ground. Gwen finds him and bangs on the Ultimatrix chest plate until Clockwork transforms back into Ben.
Meanwhile, Jennifer (after she cut her hair and dyed it black so no one recognizes her), and Captain Nemesis go to a veterinarian called Dr. Pervis to perform plastic surgery to get his face changed so that no one would recognize him as Captain Nemesis. The scene then cuts to Ben and Gwen in Ben's car, driving back from the emergency room. Ben wakes up to a cast on his arm, and sees that his arm is broken. Gwen then claims she called Kevin to show her how to hack to Jennifer Nocturne's phone records, and she sees that Jennifer wired money to a vet doctor named Dr. Pervis.
After Ben transforms into Swampfire and melts the door, they head to the back where they find Dr. Pervis in the freezer, dead. The scene then cuts to Jennifer and Captain Nemesis (with his face bandages on) in a field with Jennifer trying to feed him. After Jennifer says that they should slip out of the country, Captain Nemesis claims that they can't because Ben will keep looking for him. After he tears off all his face and hand bandages, he then zaps and kills a person in a blue car that tried to help and see if they were okay.
The scene then cuts to Ben and Gwen in Ben's car with Ben driving one handed. Gwen then tried to track Jennifer via the doll that Mrs. Nocturne gave her. Gwen then claims that Jennifer's aura is getting weaker because she is "losing touch with herself". She also says that Jennifer is suffering from Stockholm syndrome, which is where the captured victim starts to identify with the person that they captures them and start to cope with the fact they are captured. After stopping at a crime scene where Captain Nemesis killed the person who tried to help them earlier, Ben and Gwen start to talk about why Captain Nemesis is doing this, and killing all these people. Gwen then says that she found a note for Ben, daring him to follow him.
The scene then cuts to Captain Nemesis and Jennifer breaking into an office building, blasting every guard in sight with the Captain Nemesis glove blaster. They walk into an elevator, and Nemesis presses a combo of elevator buttons to get to the secret basement floor, where they find a giant sized Captain Nemesis suit. Ben and Gwen see all the guards defeated. As Ben claims he tore some stitches in his arm, they go to the basement via Gwen cutting a hole in the bottom of the elevator. They hop down and quietly talk to Jennifer about helping her. She claims aloud that she loves him, and Captain Nemesis overhears them. After a brief fight between Gwen and Captain Nemesis, she gets knocked out by the blast, and Ben takes her to a corner of the basement with her clothes ripped. Ben talks to her and promises to get out of here, she says "I know", and then Ben tears off his cast and transforms into Eatle. He fights Captain Nemesis, and is soon covered by a piles of rocks via the shot that Captain Nemesis took with his glove.
Eatle then eats the rocks, then uses it as an energy beam to beat the beam on Captain Nemesis's glove. Soon, Jennifer surprises Eatle by getting into the big Captain Nemesis suit and beating Eatle until he transforms back into Ben. After Jennifer almost kills Ben when he is unconscious, Gwen sneak attacks Jennifer with a strong mana attack, and then uses two electrified pipes to shock Jennifer and shut down the suit. She falls out the suit, hurt, as Captain Nemesis carries her in his arms. Gwen says that Jennifer needs to go to a hospital. Captain Nemesis agrees and tells her to act like she got kidnapped against her will, and that he will be going back to prison. She cries and agrees as the episode ends.
Noteworthy Events
Major Events
- Captain Nemesis returns.
- Jennifer Nocturne is revealed to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and helps Captain Nemesis escape from prison.
- Ben first transforms into Clockwork.
- Ben Tennyson
- Gwen Tennyson
- Maureen Nocturne (first appearance)
- Dr. Pervis (first appearance; death)
Aliens Used
- Humungousaur
- Goop
- Clockwork (first appearance by Ben)
- Swampfire
- Eatle
Naming and Translations
|Kapj el egy hullócsillagot
|Catch a Shooting Star
|Portuguese (Br)
|Pegando Uma Estrela Cadente
|Catching a Falling Star
|Spanish (HA)
|Atrapa Una Estrella Fugaz
|Catch a Falling Star
|Spanish (Spain)
|Atrapa Una Estrella Fugaz
|Catch a Falling Star
- Eatle's transformation sequence is shown for the first time.
- Carl Nesmith had changed his alias to Overlord prior to this episode, yet he is never referred to as such.
- It is revealed that Kevin likes to work on the Rust Bucket more than going out on missions, which is why he never appeared in this episode.
- When Ben's arm is still in a sling, his transformation as Swampfire reflects this, as shown by the thinner vines on his right arm.


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WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Prominent Republicans in Congress, many of them key political figures in their home states, agreed today that Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio had picked up strength as a possible candidate for the Presidency by his forceful fight to make the Taft-Hartley labor bill law.
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UPDATE - install guide below
Note for MkII/MkIII/Corrado/B3/B4/Passat owners:
Yes you can use the R32/Audi TT bushings on your OEM control arms!!! For Passat, you may need to replace the control arm bushing sleeves (part #191407190A)
Background: Why bushings?
# The front suspension lower control arm (LCA) bushings, especially the donut-shaped unit towards the rear of the LCA, wear out over time. This causes the whole front suspension to move around 1/8" to 1/4" under load, thus changing the toe angle and making braking and extreme handling maneuvers less precise.
# To restore your car to factory spec, replace these bushings with OEM units specified in the shop manual. To improve the handling response beyond OEM spec, you can upgrade to the stiffer Audi TT/R32 unit. Folks report that they don't add any harshness but do firm up steering and braking a little bit.
# Polyurethane bushings are not a good choice for an LCA application because of binding issues and lubrication requirements. They do feel stiff for a few months and then wear out much faster than OEM rubber resulting in sloppy handling. They are often brightly colored in red or yellow to attract folks and close the sale. You'll be wise to avoid them for this application.
# For the ultimate in stiff rides or for racing, you don't want a bushing at all. You want a spherical bearing. Generally, these bearings are not suitable for street use because of added noise/vibration and potential maintenance issues. Vendors such as http://www.h2sport.com and http://www.srsvw.com offer bearing kits for your LCA.
Why not just get the R32/Audi TT control arms outright instead of messing with bushings?
# Yes, the Audi TT LCA will fit MkIV cars but...
# You need to modify the LCA (drilling + thread tapping) to use your existing MkIV sway bar. Otherwise, you must get Audi TT-style front struts and the Audi-TT style swaybar+endlinks, or run no front swaybar at all.
# The TT LCA is a few pounds heavier. While this is good for durability and off-road/rally driving, this actually decreases performance potential.
# The TT LCA offers a little more camber adjustment than the standard MkIV LCA. This is good for performance tuning, but most alignment shops don't know about this adjustment and won't adjust it because it is not in their standard book. You have to go to a performance tuner to have them make the proper camber adjustments.
# For upgrades on your R32/TT LCA see http://public.fotki.com/mcphil...stall/
Front bushing description
# This bushing is supposedly OK to replace with poly because binding isn't really an issue, but you won't gain anything since the OEM bushing is already quite stiff. This bushing only needs to be replaced if it is obviously worn or damaged.
# Note that R32 and late-model Audi TT LCA's have an entirely different bushing in this position. See http://public.fotki.com/mcphil...stall/
# The original MY 1998-1999 Audi TT had smaller bushings similar to the GTI, but this setup was replaced in a factory recall that dialed in more understeer and added a rear wing to give more downforce at high speed.
# Part number: 357407182
# Price $5
# http://www.parts4vws.com/catal...07182
# http://worldimpex.com/item_detail.html?sku=5043
# http://worldimpex.com/item_detail.html?sku=269277
# http://www.parts.com/shoppingc...20GTI
Another option for Mk1 Audi TT & MkIV R32 folks
# http://www.modshack.info/defcon.htm
Rear bushing aka donut bushing description
# This bushing frequently develops obvious cracks and should be replaced. It is NOT ok to replace with poly due to binding issues.
# Part numbers: 8N0407181
# Price: $15-$25 each
# http://www.ecstuning.com/stage...=3754
# http://worldimpex.com/item_detail.html?sku=81148
# http://www.parts4vws.com/catal...07181
# http://www.ecstuning.com/stage...=3893 (heavy duty? This is actually the same as the Audi TT bushing but manufactured by Meyle instead of Boge. The rubber appears to be softer and smoother than the Boge brand bushing.)
# http://www.trademotion.com/par...13799
Control arm install write-up for MkIV
# 13mm, 16mm, 17mm, 18mm sockets
# 18mm deep offset wrench (makes getting the nut for the rear-position bushing a LOT easier - $15 at sears)
# floor jack (2nd floor jack may be needed to jack up motor)
# bottle-jack
# jack stands
# torque wrench
# breaker bar
# ratchet and socket extensions
# Torx T25 screwdriver
# Some cars will require the motor mount removal tools: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2357867
Part 1 Uninstall:
# loosen wheel lugs
# Jack up front-end of car and secure with jack stands
# Remove front wheel
# Loosen swaybar link bolt with 16mm socket. There is some pre-load on the bar so be careful when it snaps out. You may use the bottle jack here to position the spindle/balljoint to a better angle.
# Loosen the three 13mm balljoint bolts - don't lose the triangle top nut plate. You may re-use the bolts. The Bentley shop manual says to replace them, the ETKA does not, so its up to you.
# Loosen 18mm rear-position LCA bolt. This one has a LOT of torque on it, so use a long breaker bar. Note that you have to secure the nut on top with a deep offset wrench or similar. Most regular wrenches or ratchets just won't fit! Again, you may re-use the nut and bolt.
# Loosen 18mm front-position LCA bolt. This also has a LOT of torque. Re-use the bolt. (Note there is some risk in performing this step. In some cars, the bolt is rusted into place and when loosened the nutsert welded to the subframe breaks off. If this happens you have to cut a hole into the subframe and weld the nutsert back into place, figure out how to hold he nutsert stationary while tightening the bolt, or replace the subframe outright. This is not an often occurrence but be aware of the risk. Using some penetrating oil overnight *should* reduce this risk.)
# Use the bottle jack to move the spindle up and down until you can slide the ball joint out of the control arm. It helps to have a second pair of hands here. Note that the balljoint can rotate quite a bit, so use that to your advantage.
Part 2: Swap bushings
At this point, you may take your old LCA's and extract the old bushings and replace with new bushings using one of the following methods:
# take control arms to a local machine shop
# http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2797381
# http://faculty.ccp.edu/faculty...x.htm
# If you have a spare set of control arms to swap in, skip to part 3...
Part 3 Re-Install:
# Slide the new control arm into place
# Insert the rear position bolt and fasten it with the nut. Don't torque it down yet.
# Insert the balljoint inside the end of the LCA, and secure with the three bolts and top nut-plate. Don't torque yet.
# Insert the front-position 18mm bolt and torque it to 52 ft-lbs +90°.
# Torque the rear-position 18mm bolt to 52 ft-lbs+90°. Make sure to hold the nut in place with the deep offset wrench again. (This part is difficult on the passenger side because there isn't much clearance.)
# Torque the three 13mm bolts to 15 ft-lbs. To get maximum negative camber, the bolts should be further out towards the edge of the LCA. Pull the spindle+brake rotor to get it in the position you want. There is about 2mm of leeway on the MkIV control arm, and about 5mm leeway on the Audi TT/R32 control arm.
# Position the bottle jack to allow swaybar link to meet up.
# Torque swaybar link 16mm bolt to 33 ft-lbs.
# Remove bottle jack.
# Re-install wheel.
# Remove jack stands and floor jack.
# Torque wheel lug bolts to 89 ft-lbs.
# Get wheel alignment to check camber and toe.
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Pic of VR6 problems on passenger side: Note plastic trim piece and oilpan blocking the bolt. Note 2nd jack to raise motor.
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Posted by Kerry Bodine on May 31, 2011
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My research director Harley Manning has a lot of quips that we affectionately call Harleyisms. One of them goes like this: All ads promise one of three things — you're gonna get rich, you're gonna live forever, or you're gonna get (um, I'll be polite here) some nookie.
While this might have been somewhat true during the golden age of advertising, I've noticed a new ad trend over the past several years: More marketers are advertising the customer experiences that their companies deliver. Here are a few examples:
- Apple's iPhone and iPad ads put viewers in the perspective of holding the devices in their own hands, all while demonstrating how easy they are to use and the real-world value they provide (like finding the best price on a book or getting step-by-step cooking instructions).
- JetBlue promoted its customer experience in a series of hilarious ads that poke fun at the draconian policies employed by its competitors.
- Virgin America's San Francisco subway ads say, "LAND WITH AN EMPTY INBOX. SFO -> DALLAS FORT WORTH WITH WIFI."
- San Francisco bus ads for Saint Francis and Saint Mary's hospitals promise: "ER WAIT TIME: UNDER 30 MINUTES."
Other marketers are using their company websites to highlight aspects of the customer experience. For example:
- United.com lists multiple ways that the airline "will continue to streamline our websites, our airport presence, and our overall operations until we complete our integration" with Continental.
- Ally Financial displays the number of minutes that customers will currently wait to talk with a live person directly underneath its toll free number. (As I'm writing this, it's zero.)
These Marketing Communications Mark A Distinct Shift In The Values Of Both Consumers And Companies
Customers have begun to demand better and better interactions with companies — and they're willing to vote with their wallets if they don't get the kind of customer experiences they're after. (My husband has a t-shirt that sums this up: "I will pay for good design.") At the same time, top-level execs have finally started to realize that great customer experiences translate into metrics like brand equity, word-of-mouth awareness, incremental revenue, cost savings, and employee retention. These new values are increasingly being reflected in the outward communications from the marketing department.
The Big Takeaway: Customer Experience And Marketing Must Collaborate On Communication Efforts
Forrester defines customer experience as how customers perceive their interactions with your company. These perceptions are obviously shaped by customers' personal interactions at each and every touchpoint. And if you follow our research, you know that many companies are creating customer experience teams to work with the folks throughout their organizations who are responsible for delivering these interactions.
But customer perceptions are also shaped by the expectations they have coming into those interactions. That's where marketing comes in. Traditional ads — rife with catchy slogans and empty promises of money, life, and love — at best do little to set consumers' expectations about the type of interactions they'll have, and at worst set sky-high expectations that the organization just can't deliver on.
The solution? Marketers and customer experience professionals need to work hand-in-hand to ensure that marketing communications set appropriate expectations about the type of products, services, and support that customers can expect. As this starts to happen, companies will reap the benefits of improved customer perceptions.
Do you have other examples of ads starring customer experience? If so, please share!
Time - The Fourth Dimension?
Comment from Fatemeh Khatibloo on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 00:46
Love this post, Kerry, as I've been thinking about many of the same things.
In a sense, wouldn't you say that we've added a fourth (or a third-and-a-half) dimension to the "benefits" spectrum? It seems to me that Harley's "live forever" value USED to be about time. I suspect that today, it's more oriented towards health.
1. Wealth
2. Health
3. Nookie
4. Time
I think the convergence of customer intelligence, market insight and customer experience can help a brand define its relationship with those four values in a really meaningful way.
But what they really want...
Comment from Kerry Bodine on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 10:19
hi Fatemeh!
Interesting. I always thought about the "live forever" part in terms of health, at least from this advertising perspective.
Although people value these four things greatly, I believe they're less interested in brands that make empty promises about them -- and more interested in those that can deliver something real and tangible (i.e., a good customer experience) in the here and now.
Zappos.com ads highlight the call center
Comment from Kerry Bodine on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 10:34
To keep the list in the post short, I omitted a set of my favorite commercials -- the ones from Zappos.com that highlight their call center customer experience.
From what I understand, they were half staged by Zappos.com's ad agency. In one commercial, an agency gal calls up and wants to exchange a gift of Nike workout clothes for a deep fat fryer, explaining that she's "going in a different direction."
But the reaction and response of the call center agent -- who wasn't aware the call was fake -- are completely genuine. She even puts a rush on the order.
Great post Kerry. I would add
Comment from Lee Silverstein (not verified) on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 16:59
Great post Kerry. I would add another category; you're going to get sick. Seriously, when did "Gout" suddenly become a national health crisis?
As far as ads that highlight the customer experience, you can't overlook Southwest Airlines. I love how they throw the "no fees" right in the face of their competitors. Good for them! Good for their customers too!
Southwest commercial
Comment from Kerry Bodine on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 17:06
Ah yes, Southwest. Here's a one of their "no fees" commercials. Thanks, Lee!
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The SyncMaster S27A850D is the first of a new breed, and marks the début of Samsung's Plane to Line Switching, or PLS, panel technology. The physical differences are evident from the off. Where most 27in monitors are thick-set affairs, the Samsung's LED backlighting and external power supply make for a slender, elegant profile.
A tubular stand eases up and down by 150mm, and also swivels round into portrait orientation. You need two hands to guide the panel into position, but the large base keeps it stable on a desk.
Connectivity is excellent. There are two dual-link DVI sockets, a DisplayPort input, and a three-port USB 3 hub alongside audio inputs and outputs.
Brightness and proximity sensors automatically adjust brightness and activate standby mode, and the PLS panel itself draws precious little power.
There's no doubt Samsung's fledgling panel technology does many things right. The PLS panel delivers vivacious, larger-than-life images, and while black levels aren't deep enough to rival VA panels, the measured contrast ratio of 826:1 is still competitive. Viewing angles are superb, too, and an effective overdrive circuit keeps ghosting to a minimum.
It isn't a perfect showing, however. Colour accuracy lags behind the best, with an average Delta E of 3.8 and a maximum deviation of 6.9. Contrast is merely on a par with the competition, hitting 826:1. Far more disappointing is the backlight leakage: in darker movie scenes, an obvious glow seeps into the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
Yet, for a technology still in its infancy, it's an admirable first outing. Consumers may prefer cheaper established IPS monitors but businesses after a flexible, high-quality display should place the S27A850D high on their shortlist.
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Despite the Punjab government's claim of carrying out developmental works in the state, the Patiala solid waste management project has been in the pipeline since 2010, when it was proposed under the tenure of then mayor Ajitpal Singh Kohli.
The 20 acre land in Dudhar village acquired by the civic body in 2013, on the basis of a blue print, is the only progress in the project.
However, the civic body had sent the proposal to state government in last December for further development, but the state authorities are yet to reply to this. With the project stuck between meetings of the Patiala municipal corporation authorities and the state government which is not taking efforts in propelling it forward, hopes of a solid waste management plant in Patiala district is fading.
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The proposed route crosses mostly pasture land and forest land and follows current easements held by power companies with high lines, though it does cross under the Pine River north of Norway Lake.
Lorraine Little, senior manager of U.S. Public Affairs with Enbridge, said the project timeline involves contacting and notifying landowners in 2013 and 2014 as well as filing proper permits and refining the route. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission must approve the route before any work can be done.
If approved, construction could start in late 2014 and be complete in early 2016.
Little said 2,400 landowners along the route (more than 95 percent across three states) agreed to allow surveyors on their property. Contract negotiations have not begun.
Pine River Township residents Jim Coffland, Bruce Eveland, Duane Eveland and Cory Borman are just a few local property owners along the proposed route.
"It doesn't bother me. Whatever works out best for our community," said Coffland. "I talked to them not too long ago. At that time it wasn't too sure or anything like that. They've been corresponding but it hasn't been too serious. They told me it would be 2016 before the oil would start flowing through."
"If they get the gas cheaper, I'm more than glad to," said Bruce Eveland.
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"I think it's progress," Coffland said. "We have to accept that it's something they are going to do, something they have to do and we'll do it."
At a recent presentation at Happy Dancing Turtle, Marty Cobenais of the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe, member of the Northstar Chapter of the Sierra Club and recently a member of the Indigenous Environmental Network of Bemidji, talked to approximately 15 residents about the environmental impact of pipelines constructed and operated by Enbridge. Cobenais shared a list of Enbridge-owned pipelines that he said have ruptured.
One example of an Enbridge Pipeline leak is the 2010 tar sands spill into Michigan's Kalamazoo River. This resulted in a leak of 800,000 gallons of tar sands, according to an article by National Public Radio.
In spite of this, Little said Enbridge has a safety record better than 99.99 percent.
Cobenais contended pipelines like the Sandpiper would not decrease fuel costs. He said local refineries are already at capacity and wouldn't likely be able to accommodate crude from the Sandpiper, suggesting that the crude would be sold on the world market, which would not likely reduce fuel costs.
Little disagreed, saying there isn't enough oil in America's existing pipelines to meet demands from U.S. refineries, and Enbridge does not "own, produce, refine or sell oil on the world market."
Construction of the pipeline would be beneficial to the area by creating temporary jobs for workers from the area assisting in design, surveying, environmental assessment, project planning and welding, as well as equipment operators and truck drivers.
Cobenais said only about 10 percent of workers on the Alberta Clipper and Keystone pipelines were recruited locally and expected the same for the Sandpiper. Little said that number would be more like 50 percent recruited from local union halls.
Before construction of the pipeline can take place, Enbridge must receive approval from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MNPUC) in the form of a certificate of need and a route and site permit. Enbridge filed for a certificate of need Nov. 8. Dan Wolf, MNPUC assistant executive secretary, said Enbridge's application will be examined over the course of the next year.
Items the MNPUC considers include: whether the project is necessary, where the pipe would run and under what terms and specifications, whether the project has approval of local government and support of local landowners, and whether the project would pose a threat to the environment.
As part of the permit process, Enbridge met with Cass County Board committee members Sept. 9. Enbridge gave a presentation at the annual Cass County Association of Townships meeting Oct. 3. The county board took the position Sept. 17 that it was not the board's place to endorse or oppose any route proposed by a private utility company. The board directed concerned citizens to make their concerns known to the MNPUC.
Along the route, Smoky Hollow Township in Cass County agreed Sept. 17 to "respectfully decline endorsing any pipeline route and report the same to Carlton County and Enbridge Energy, LLC."
The Cass County Board noted that landowners who do not want so sell easements to Enbridge could have their property taken through condemnation or eminent domain.
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I saw a wk2 recently with a red brake calipers....It was not the new SRT..it was an overland ...is there any way to get red calipers on 2011 wk2 other than painting them...if so how long the paint last? has anyone done that? thanks for the response.
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Just paint em, pretty easy
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/\ /\ I second painting them.
Personally I recommend taking the pads and retaining clips out and making sure that the paint jobs looks good.
Whether you use a brush on kit, aerosol engine paint or, aerosol brake caliper paint all of them will hold up for years.
My last car I used Duplicolor engine paint to paint the calipers and the calipers still looked good up to when I traded it in and it was on there for 6 + plus.
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Duplicolor FTW!
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Thanks for all the great responses..
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I used VHT Engine paint (which I think is duplicolor now)
I did it when I did a brake job and this worked out really well as I took everything off & remounted for prep & paint. No need to disconnect the brake line
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My 9 week old German Shepherd puppy has Parvo
Okay, I'm going to try and keep this brief. Early December our Labrador died at a good old age of 14. We decided to get another German Shepherd puppy (we already have a black, long haired GSD who is 9 named Harmony) we named our new pup Eloise. She was beautiful, energetic and we all loved her. After 3 days she got very ill, vomiting , diarrhea. I read up on parvo so knew we had to take her to the vets. We took her 4 times in the space of a week, and every time they said she didn't have parvo (she had no temperature and no blood in poo) unfortunately she died suddenly, and we were heartbroken. We rang the vets a while later and asked if it was safe to get another puppy, they said it was as they were sure Eloise didn't have parvo.
Fast forward, we now have a beautiful German Shepherd puppy named Serenity. Energetic, playful, beautiful. And then it happened, she showed the same systems as Eloise did. I noticed this and rushed her straight to an emergency veterinary hospital who said she did in fact have parvo. Heartbroken doesn't even describe how we feel.
She has been there for a day now (brought her yesterday night at 11:30) has been on antibiotics and had a plasma transfusion. The vets say they're keeping her for a minimum of 3 days.
I'm not quite sure why I'm writing this, but stories of encouragement of dogs who have survived with parvo would be lovely.
I can't believe this is happening, this Christmas has been horrible.
Oh my gosh. I can't imagine, especially since we have had our pup for only 6 days. My heartfelt sympathies go out to you and your family.
This almost has to be environmental. Where is she going potty?
I'm so sorry. I've never had a dog with Parvo, but I'll be sending prayers out for your Pup.
Our Daisy had parvo as a puppy. not as young as your Serenity though. It itook three days but after plasma and blood she came through it. My prayers and thoughts are w/ you . There is alot more they know about parvo in the 14 years since Daisy had it.
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My boy had parvo at 8 weeks old. Spent 5 days at the vets. He's now a perfectly healthy, huge, 85 lbs, GSD male that doesn't take crap from anything. I know its rough, but each day that goes by is a good sign. Once they can make it 3-4 days its a great sign. Still could go bad, but generally at that point the dog will pull through.
I strongly suggest spraying your whole house down with a bleach solution. 1 cap to 1 gallon of water is what the suggested solution is. Bleach is the only thing that kills parvo.
hang in there, your pup will be home soon.
Someone had mentioned a bleach solution, thats a great idea, i would clean everything with a bleach mix before she comes home. I feel terrible for you, i hope she has a speedy recovery.
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Hardwood floor is a floor coating materials which are very popular and always be the first alternative for house flooring. Besides the color is warm and gives the impression of "welcome" in a room, this material is not too hard to get it because it is always available in all home furnishing store or materials store. Wood is one of the materials that come from nature then it always gives good atmosphere though. This kind of material can also be applied to any room in the house. By using wood as flooring, it can be ascertained that room becomes increasingly warmer. First, it is because the color is a warm color, which gives a soft and welcome effect. In addition, the wood can absorb the cold and reduce humidity. Then you would not be wrong to use wood as flooring material in your home. Below we will explain about some kind of flooring in the house.
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Hardwood floor will more often be applied to the floor of the bedroom and the living room. It may be caused by the function of the room. Bedroom and the living room is a room that will be frequently used to relax and enjoy the time than the other room in the house. Sometimes the wood is also applied in the kitchen, but only at certain points to give highlights on the area. Wood usually applied to the cooking area it may not be too slippery, and you know the slippery floor will endanger the people. In addition you can also choose the parquet based on the type of wood. You also can specify whether matte or glossy finishing it will be. Nowadays is the time where technology is also increasingly easier human's life especially to make the wood as the flooring material. If you cannot find the type of wood or motif you want, you can coat the hardwood with natural motifs of vinyl.
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In this post, we'll look at some of the challenges and decisions technical communicators face when designing a website for their business. To help illustrate this, we'll include some examples of technical communication companies' websites.
Designing a website for your technical writing business: how hard can it be?
One of the first decisions you have is whether you design and build the website yourself or get someone else to do all or some of it for you. Technical communicators can suffer from "cobbler's shoes"—you're so busy with work for your clients that you neglect using your professional skills to help yourself.
The visual aspect
Creating the graphics, in particular, can be a big issue. Do you have the skills to create the "look and feel" for your site, and can you create professional looking images? You'll need to decide if you want to use a graphics designer, license stock images, or create some yourself.
We used stock images for a number of years. Unfortunately, you can often find the image you've chosen appearing in lots of other places. I remember walking into a bookshop in Germany and seeing one of "our" images on the cover of a self-improvement book. They can also be very generic, as can be illustrated by the "meeting full of handsome happy people" image above.
You also need to decide what imagery to use. If you want to move away from the perception that technical communicators only write manuals, you probably shouldn't have a picture of a manual as your main image.
The Content Rules Inc website uses images of a cow, balloon, lion, and a compass as a metaphor for what they do. It's an approach I like, but you obviously need to come up with metaphors that makes sense to the reader.
If you adopt this approach, you also need to be aware that Nielsen Norman Group has found that, if done incorrectly, auto-forwarding carousel images can annoy users and reduce visibility.
At the moment on our website, you'll see a few lines of text at the top of Home page. We don't have an image, but we're in good company, as it's the approach that's used by Kristina Halvorson on her website BrainTraffic.com:
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The writing aspect
As technical communication experts, you'd think the writing aspect would be straightforward. However, that also has its difficulties.
The real challenges lie in defining the purpose and audience for your website. Are you "selling" or "telling"? Technical, enabling, information-rich content is becoming more important in the sales process and to your search engine rankings. However, your website will need "selling" as well as "telling" copy, which means you will need a writer who has some marketing copy expertise.
People will expect a high standard from you—it's very embarrassing if your website contains any typos.
Who is your audience?
Another issue is defining your audience. Are you speaking to managers who have budgets to spend? If so, how much do they know about technical communication, such as the tools and technologies? You might need to explain how these will solve their problem. Are you selling to Google—is your goal to be ranked highly in the search engines?
What do you want readers to do?
You might want your readers to:
- Contact you
- Buy or download something
- Recommend you
- Be reassured you're credible.
For example, Danielle M. Villegas's TechcommGeekMom.com website demonstrates her expertise and builds trust with potential clients. Content Rules Inc. encourages visitors to download one of their free ebooks, an idea we decided to adopt on our site as well.
Defining the purpose of your website will help you decide whether you need to create an online brochure, a community, a blog, or something else.
The advantages of being in a niche
If you are in a niche, it's generally easier to create a clear message. For example, if all you do offer is training in RoboHelp, you can focus on selling that single service.
Often, technical writing companies have multiple product offerings and a number of different audiences. For example, Cherryleaf offers writing services, recruitment services, training, and consultancy. We sell to technology companies, but a recruitment enquiry might come from someone in HR. A technical writer will book one of our training courses, but a project manager is likely to be the person engaging our documentation team. It means there's a danger you'll end up with a confusing message.
You also need to be aware you are solving someone's problem. You need to understand the issue from their viewpoint, in order to communicate your solution in terms that will make sense to them. Being so close to the solution makes this very hard to do.
Design dilemmas
Website design is evolving over time, as we understand more about usability, the technology develops, and fashions change.
One of the most popular designs at the moment is to have a single column layout "above the fold", followed by a a long page of content below. Right at the end of the page, you often see three columns containing dynamically changing content (such as a list of links to blog posts).
We've recently changed our website design to this single column layout (previously it had a skinny right hand column for related information).
If you have more than a few pages of content, it can pose some navigational challenges. In most situations, you're relying on users clicking inline hyperlinks, or finding information via the search box or drop down menus.
To TOC or not to TOC
It's very tempting for technical communicators to provide a table of contents—it's what they do in Help files, so why not do it on a website as well?
Two-column layouts work less well than single-column layouts when viewed on a mobile device, which is why many websites have moved to a single column layout.
It's also hard to design a table of contents that works for all the different types of people who will visit your site. One solution is to offer faceted navigation.
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Should it be an example of your work?
Some technical communications companies use their website as an example of their own work. A Dita consultancy might write and publish their website using DITA software. A Doc-to-Help expert might design their website so it looks like a Help file.
One of the criticisms of DITA is the output can look a bit dull. If you look at the websites of the technical communication companies that specialise in DITA, you often see them using WordPress as the CMS for their website. If your site is there to promote your company, this may be a sensible choice. DITA is designed to provide a solution to technical content—it's not really optimised for marketing content. Also, we don't know if these companies are creating their content in DITA and using a DITA-WordPress tool to upload this content into WordPress.
You can design great looking websites using technical authoring applications. MadCap Software, Atlassian, and Componize all "eat their own dog food," and use their own software to create their websites. MadCap Software's site is a great example (although I suspect you'd have to create the website on your PC and then upload the files to your website each time you wanted to make a change):
MadCap Software's website. Image: Paul Pehrson
What is your definition of a great website?
Our website is there firstly to generate leads and sales. We measure its success by how many enquiries it generates for us. Some companies don't care about website design, as long as it serves the purpose of selling products. I couldn't find any extreme examples of this from the technical communication community, so let me use LingsCars.com as an example. Lings Cars is a very successful car leasing company whose website works despite/because it breaks the rules of good design:
Don't let your software platform limit you
Over time, we've moved our website from Author-it to Drupal, and then onto WordPress. Each time, we've had to stop ourselves from thinking about our website as a software issue and not an information design issue. It's easy to limit yourself, by assuming your authoring platform can only do this or that. If you step back and define what you want, you'll often find there is a way of doing it with a plugin or another way of extending the software.
For example, you can extend WordPress's functionality, so that it supports reusable blocks of content, embedded objects and faceted navigation.
Which technical communication websites have got it right?
Which technical communication sites do you think work the best? What are their weaknesses? User feedback has been enormously helpful to us in the past, so I'm sure everyone would welcome constructive criticism.
Ellis Pratt is sales and marketing director at Cherryleaf. Ranked the most the influential blogger on technical communication in Europe, Ellis is a specialist in the field of creating clear and simple information users will love.


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430 -> 430N at purhcase?
I've been looking at various Laredo X models and it seems about half come with the Nav (430N) and half don't. Since I'd rather drive off the lot instead of ordering, I'm limited to looking at dealer inventory to find some the kit that I want; some of which probably can't be added at the dealership (OR I for example) and others that can (Tow package).
One option that I wasn't clear on - and my local sales(wo)man couldn't answer immediately was whether or not a standard 430 radio (sans Nav) could be upgraded to the 430N (with Nav).
Anyone know? TIA.
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That's unfortunate. I was hoping/expecting it to be a software update plus an antenna upgrade.
Appreciate the info.
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Economics Without Ecocide: Building a Whole Earth Economy
Peter G. Brown, Professor, McGill University School of Environment; Co-author, Right Relationship
The economy is damaged and needs fixing. But Brown argues that we're not asking the right questions to clarify what a healthy economy really is. Starting from first principles, he exposes antiquated and perhaps dangerous assumptions that underlie current answers to basic economic questions and analyzes shortcomings of many reform efforts. He recommends re-conceptualizing and redirecting the economy in support of a flourishing earth.
MLF: Business & Leadership
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program
Cost: $8 members, $15 non-members
Program Organizer: Tom Waller