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It took us three years of e-mails, phone calls, meetings, discussion and drafting documents to come up with the Carnegie-Knight Initiative. It consists of three main elements:
1. A "research and policy" piece that will be run out of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's JFK School. Here, we have in mind a vehicle through which schools can collectively speak out on critical media issues of the day. That means journalism educators can have more voice. For example, as Judy Miller from the New York Times goes to jail over refusing to release anonymous sources and Matt Cooper from Time Magazine does not, or the case of "60 Minutes and Dan Rather's coverage of Bush's National Guard service. These would be examples where journalism schools and universities might want to weigh in on the discussion and debate.
2. An experimental curriculum reform element that encourages journalism programs to match-up reporters with scientists, urban planners, economists, historians, social scientists, legal scholars, foreign policy experts or public policy specialist to co-teach courses.
3. News 21 laboratories, or "incubators" at UC Berkeley, USC, Northwestern and Columbia, which will hire our best recent graduates to experiment with new kinds of multi-media reporting that combine television, radio and the web in new and innovative forms of interactive journalism. (Berkeley will begin by coordinating News 21.)
Some wonder if this "initiative" is not just a caucus of self-righteous and self-designated elitist deans forming itself into a priesthood to get some grants to the exclusion of other university programs. I hope that is not the case.
This is not an exclusive club
First, I should say that UC is a public university and that The Graduate School of Journalism there, where I am Dean, is itself far from being a well-endowed (or a well-heeled) institution. However, we do hope that it is at least a pretender to the aristocracy in terms of excellence in education.
Second, I should also note that there are stipulations in the research part of the grants (to be administered by Alex Jones at the Shorenstein Center) that require two thirds of the funds go to universities other than the five initiators. Moreover, Carnegie is also making four $100,000 grants available to other journalism schools each year for the kind of curriculum experimentation that we ourselves are committed to trying. So, in this way, we hope to serve as a prime mover rather than as some exclusive group that brooks no intruders.
In short, we seek to become ever more inclusive as the situation evolves. After all, the object is to gain some kind of broad, critical mass, not limit the effort in an exclusive way.
Speaking personally, I can say that the experience of working with Geoff Cowan (USC), Alex Jones (Harvard), Nick Lemann (Columbia) and Loren Ghiglione (Northwestern) has been a truly wonderful one. Even though we compete for the best students, there has been little sense of competition in our dealings with each other. Instead, there has been much welcomed collegiality, a common recognition that we confront shared problems due to the fact that journalism is rapidly changing and that aspects of "the media" are in a very uncertain, even parlous, state of grace.
"Our involvement was hardly optional"
What we can do to help is uncertain. But, I think we all felt that rather than just whine, we should at least make an effort to form some new civil society-based coalition where the sum was greater than the parts. Moreover, we felt that since we were all from big research universities, which comprise the largest pieces of civil society real estate in America, we ought to do what we could to engage these august institutions collectively in the debate over the media. After all, we are all in education, and the most fundamental job of journalism is to educate the public. So, we certainly have a dog in this fight!
And finally, we recognized that, since there are fewer and fewer workplaces in the broadcast media of such excellence that our graduates are truly eager to join them, we had to either get involved, or in effect confront the prospect that we were training students for the kinds of jobs that did not really exist. So, in a sense, as we pondered the situation, we felt that our involvement was hardly optional. Like it or not, we were involved.
Now, let me address your question about a "New Church" and a "priesthood" marching under the standard of a bogus mythology propagated by Watergate and the kind of hero worship and celebrity kultur that developed around the likes of Woodward and Bernstein.
Frankly, getting this effort together has been a lot of hard work, and usually it hardly felt like an establishmentarian priesthood in quest of a lot of grant money. Yes, these are good universities and excellent journalism programs. But, there are others equally as good. To get this effort organized took thousands of hours of grunt work both on the part of the five universities and the two foundations.
An understandable yearning for press heroes
I think it fair to say that that only way we felt part of a priesthood was in so far as we have truly came to enjoy each other's company and derived a certain measure of energy and possibility from the thought of working in concert. And, we actually have learned a good deal from each other. But, that was part of whole purpose from the outset.
(And parenthetically, Jay, let it be known that we would wish for nothing more than your presence in whatever watchdog priesthood of media we may come to comprise!)
But, in reading your blog entry, the larger question you address is not so much whether we as the founding schools of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative have anointed ourselves as "priests," but whether the whole last few decades of journalism have not been ginned up on an almost chiliastic vision of a second journalistic coming in the trans-substantiated form of Carl and Bob.
I take your point about the need for a healthy skepticism about heroes of all sorts who invariably get delaminated from the contexts in which they arise as well as from those others who sustain them. They are often turned into larger than life figures, albeit, with a few toes of clay. But, let's be honest. There is something about every fraternity, profession, and even society, that does seem to need to lionize and mythologize certain people so that they become iconic hood ornaments. I have just finished reading the Odyssey and the Iliad again, and despite all the mortal flaws of these Homeric heroes – and Greece was the birthplace of western heroes and hero-worship -people seemed to need heroes and to be inspired by them.
In this sense, it may be fair to say that Woodward and Bernstein have become unreal personifications of latter-day people's yearnings (with a little help from Hollywood and "the media") to believe that somewhere in the Fourth estate there are/were dragon slayers who are/were diligent, trustworthy, efficacious and often bigger-than-life. This hardly surprises me. People do want to believe. Being able to identify, or create, heroes, helps them believe. It also sustains and exhilarates them.
It is true that much of the rest of the press were less than aggressive about the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Nixon administration. But, then it is also true that they have not been able to get much traction against the shameless spin-mongering and outright distortions of the Bush Administration. And, let's not even raise the question of the war in Iraq and WMD.
The P.R. apparatus and the propaganda of the state
Indeed, speaking as someone who has studied China and other Marxists-Leninist states for the last 45 years, there are haunting similarities between the public relations apparatus of the current administration and the propaganda apparatus of Leninist political parties. They include ultra-loyalty and obedience to the supreme leader; extreme party discipline; an absolute imperative to stay on-message (fidelity to "the correct line"); maximizing the use of state organs for propaganda purposes; and a poorly evolved appreciation of the essential role that the Founding Fathers of this country imagined for the press as an independent watchdog over all kinds of power (whether state, ecclesiastical, corporate, etc.)
I am not saying that there is a comparison between our government and that of a Leninist state like China, but I am saying that the role and acceptance by our state of the media as a legitimate and necessary institution is weaker now than ever before. I am also suggesting that because of their commercial/corporate backgrounds, when it comes to the question of "communications," many in the higher reaches of government have a keener appreciation of public relations than of independent, hard-hitting and often abrasive investigative journalism. Their tendency is to want to use communications as "the mouthpiece" of the state and party, rather than to see the most important role for communications as one of opposition and challenge to established power centers.
This almost religious veneration of Woodward, Bernstein, Bradley, Graham means that people did, and still do, feel a deep need to believe that someone can, and will, stand up to these prevailing centers of power and propaganda. The Watergate hearings were cathartic, because sclerotic Washington did finally rise for one grand moment to dig in the Washington manure pile and get past the spin and PR to search out truth and fact from falsehood. And, yes, by now we have forgotten many of those other figures like Sen. Sam Ervin or Sam Dash who played such important parts in the saga. What we remember instead is their personifications.
"Bereft of good models… despondent about their profession"
Al Pacino played Lowell Bergman (who is on our faculty at UC Berkeley) in "The Insider," the story of Lowell's joust for "60 Minutes" against the tobacco industry. And, yes, Lowell, who is an excellent investigative journalist, but still a mortal, comes out looking something like a journo-Godhead. Sure, you can say that Pacino's version of Bergman—just like Redford and Hoffman's version of Woodward and Bernstein—is a somewhat glossy, incomplete, idealization of what really happened. But, what else is new?
Are we as citizens not entitled to take some heart in a few inspiring stories of valorous deeds just like all those who have gone before us who believed in good kings, kind monks, patriotic warriors or dedicated political figures? Look at children's books? Heroes abound! I just read my kids a book on Hannibal as seen through the eyes of his nephew, and it was a terrific story. Is it an historical distortion? Sure! The nephew probably never existed and certainly didn't write a book! I know it isn't journalism, but is that impermissibly warped story telling?
From the Bible on down men have sought exemplars. Sure, they may only tell part of the story, and sure young journalism students and acolytes should not be lulled in visionary stupor by such mythologized, heroic examples. But it all seems quite understandable to me, especially in this age of extreme skepticism, doubt and cynicism that people yearn for some hopeful models for human action even polish up, or invent, a few larger than life inspirations.
In any event, I don't think journalism schools have used this mythology to sell soap!
Indeed, what I worry about is not so much that the next generation of journalists will be swayed by or sell out to press mythology, but that they will end up so bereft of good models and so despondent about the state of their profession that they may lose all hope and idealism. Then what? After all, if you are going to be a journalist, repayment must come in some other currency than dollars. One of those alternative currencies journalism trades in is "able to make a difference."
"I don't experience myself as 'a priest'"
I realize that such a phrase may sound a trifle corny to grizzled veterans, but this is one of the animating spirits of our trade for many good journalists. God knows, most of us are not being paid so well—at least compared to other professions—that we do not look for some compensatory sense that what we do is worthwhile.
In short, I do not share Greg Lindsay' critique that "journalism school professors" (our professors are almost all journalists!) sell students "a mindset, a worldview, and ideology" that is somehow erroneous and corrupting. (See Lindsay's essay for Media Bistro.) That is a gross over-simplification. At least here at Berkeley, I do not think our students are all lathered up like religious zealots for "good old fashion shoe leather reporting." We want them to have good ethics and ideals, but we also want them to be sophisticated, world traveled, realistic and skeptical.
Whatever one believes about the animating mythologies of journalism and its role in society, who among would deny its importance? Who among us would deny that things are rapidly changing and that there are dysfunctional links in the whole food chain of reporting? What I mean by this is that the chain on which information is vectored to the public and then digested by society and the powers-that-be is broken.
As a journalist, or a dean, I don't experience myself as "a priest,' much less as a member of some new church. I experience myself as someone who has been around the journalistic block a few times, seen some real problems with our profession; and wants to do what I can to keep this institution in good running order. I also see great uncertainty for our students in terms of where they can expect to matriculate and find dignified places of work that will sustain them, even rudimentarily, in their future lives. If you are about to go into television these days, things don't look so great.
The assumption that the press matters is under threat
Final thought: As I survey the landscape, what worries me most is that I think one of the oldest assumptions about journalism—namely, if the story can be told, something will happen for the better—is slowly being rendered inoperable. (But, maybe it never was operable, and I am in some mythology myself!)
I prefer to think that the chain once existed, more or less, and now has acquired some major breaks it in. In other words, we can no longer blithely assume that if a reporter does his/her shoe-leather investigations and writes or produces a good revelatory story that an editor will welcome it; the publisher will publish it; producers will air it; readers and viewers will become better informed; the collectivity of citizens will demand action; hearings will be held, commissions formed laws passed, court cases will be adjudicated; and reforms will be made. Isn't that the way things are or were supposed to work? And, if not, how the hell are they supposed to work?
Alas, we can no longer assume that journalists have this catalytic ability. We have in too many ways been bull-dozed aside. (I think this is the real message of Judy Miller going to jail.) We still can, to some degree, do our thing, but we are increasingly maligned, marginalized and presumed by many power centers (government, state, church, etc) to be troublesome, negative, unpatriotic and unreliable. Now, we are even threatened with jail.
The assumption that the press matters, can have an effect when it does its job and should be protected is what is under threat. Our problem is not so much that we are lost in a mythology of the press. It is that we are threatened with being dislodged from the presumption of Americans that we have a necessary role to play in the life and governance of this country.
We Have Been Bull Dozed Aside.
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Oh, my, is the the spin flying this week! And I'm not talking about the US Presidential debates.
To fully appreciate this latest spin, I need to take you back a bit to April of this year. This is when, prompted by a motivation to start raising his company's cred, Sun president Jonathan Schwartz started tossing the "proprietary" label at Red Hat.
Naturally, this caused quite a stir, since initially no one could figure out how a company with open source products could be proprietary. Red Hat itself came out with just this very argument, and a lot of folks in the tech community seemed to agree. I read one decent argument in July from Ian Murdock's blog that made a fairly good case for a proprietary Red Hat. Basically, the proprietary nature of the Linux company was inherent in its business practices, not its product line.
Okay, that was a bit of a stretch, but I can buy that argument. What I don't buy is why this is such a bad thing. I thank every company, open source products or no, is going to try to maneuver itself into a better market position. Sun will. Novell will. Heck, I will, whenever I come up with my Million Dollar Invention. Guess what? It's capitalism. Red Hat encourages vendor lock-in. I have very little doubt that most Linux companies are going to try to do the same thing.
Now, that said, let's move up to this month, when CNET's George Colony had a sit-down with Schwartz and CEO Scott McNealy. In that interview, Schwartz laid out in clear detail Sun's plan for dominating the server market. Naturally, the first two steps in their plan revolved around attacking Red Hat.
Step 1, according to Colony's article, is to equate Linux with Red Hat. Er, okay. Red Hat is proprietary, and now it represents All Linux? Well, that's certainly a change in tactic. You can't use the business practice argument for Red Hat anymore, since--if you say it represents Linux--business arguments cannot apply across all distros. How Debian works is way different, in business terms, from how Gentoo works, from how SUSE works, and so on. Therefore, Red Hat represents Linux in the sense of code, right?
Well, as far as technology, I think many would agree that Red Hat is far different from Debian, Gentoo, SUSE, and the rest. There is shared commonality in the kernel, of course, but things diverge wildly from there.
But, let's say, for the sake of argument, you can make a valid point that Red Hat is Linux. After all, if you can forget about the GPL, the entire philosophy of open source, and every other Linux distribution that has existed since the Dawn of Time (or, more literally, 1991) you can probably make that assertion. Of course, you would have to give up that whole notion of Red Hat being proprietary, since if there's one thing Linux is not, it's proprietary.
Giving up that train of thought is fine, because everyone changes their mind once in a while. This leaves Sun with a strong tactic with which to attack Red Hat.
Except for (and now we're up to this week)... they're still pushing that proprietary line! As late as yesterday, Sun's flacks were running out this line out, when they e-mailed me this unsolicited bit of spin about Red Hat's acquisition of Netscape technology:
As you can see in point 1, the proprietary label is still being trotted out. Which seems in direct contradiction to the notion that Linux equals Red Hat. The whole missive is just darned strange, especially that bit about "taking retreads to [the] open source sector." I would submit that the recent skyrocketing success of Firefox, itself of Netscape ancestry, and therefore another "retread," could easily blow this argument out of the water.
But, on my main point: while I don't really buy either one of Sun's lines about Red Hat, I think the point is made that clearly they should only use one at a time. In their zeal to make up for lost market share, Sun is trying a multi-pronged approach--and each prong contradicts the other.
In other words, they look dumber than a doorknob.
I will fully acknowledge that Sun has made great contributions to the open source community, as some other pundits have pointed out of late. I certainly would not argue that. But, let's be clear: Sun has turned a corner on its attitude about Linux and is on the throes of launching a major business and PR attack against the Linux technology, all while trying not to completely alienate the open source community and its developer resources.
They are counting on the fact that Linux is not the whole of open source and that they will be able to provide vendors and developers and end-users a better open source experience than Linux with an open Solaris.
This will be a neat trick. Because, while Linux is not the whole of open source, it should be noted that many in the open source community--Linux, BSD, Hurd, etc.--will not look kindly on an outright attack by a commercial entity on an open source project. Because they know the next target might be them.
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The Greece and Italy psychology program is a tour that students who wish to discover the cultures of Italy and Greece with a balance of classroom activities and first-hand observational experiences can take advantage of. Students who apply should be eager to make cross-cultural comparisons between Italy, Greece, and the U.S. through cultural excursions to historic sites like the Pantheon, the Colosseum, and three-day Greek island cruise. It promises to be an amazing and unforgettable experience! Interested students should see a important Admission Information below.
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PSY 330: Cross Cultural Psychology
This course is for those students that have an interest in or wish to enhance their understanding of how culture influences behavior and thought. There is no language requirement or pre-requisites and the course can be used as a university elective. The class will meet at least four times before departure for instructional and group building activities and will hold regular one-hour meetings on the tour.
An exciting line up of bucket-list destinations await you on the Italy/Greece Tour including: Rome, The Vatican City, Florence, Pompeii, Delphi, Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, Ephesus/Turkey, and more!
Visiting the Vatican City will give you the chance to explore the beauty of St. Peter's Basilica which is considered the most renowned piece of renaissance architecture. The site has a long history and has proved to be important in the daily lives of natives as well as a site of pilgramage for artists all over the world.
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Issue: Must you always pay employees for their unused vacation time when they depart your organization?
Risk: An unclear vacation policy could allow terminated employees to sue you and collect additional pay.
Action: Make sure your vacation policy is crystal clear and defines every situation in which an employee "leaves."
Now's a good time to carefully review your policy on whether employees receive pay for unused vacation time when they depart your organization.
Pay special attention to describing whether your policy applies to all cases of separation (i.e., firing, resignation, layoff) or just certain situations. As a recent case shows, if your policy appears ambiguous, courts will likely interpret the policy in favor of employees.
Recent case: When EDS fired Robert Hutchins, the company refused to pay him for his four weeks' worth of unused vacation time. It cited a written Q &A policy that read: "What if I leave EDS? Can I get paid for any unused vacation?" The answer: "If you leave the company, you do not receive vacation pay for unused vacation time."
Hutchins filed a complaint with the Massachusetts attorney general claiming he should be paid for the unused vacation time. The attorney general's office agreed.
EDS fought that ruling in court, arguing that the term "leave the company" referred to any type of separation (firing or resignation), so the policy should block payment of unused vacation time. But Hutchins said employees believed the policy only referred to voluntary resignations, not firings.
The state supreme court sided with Hutchins, saying the policy was too vague. (Electronic Data Systems Corp. v. Attorney General, No. SJC-08927, Mass. Sup. Jud. Ct., 2003)


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Red Sox bring in Butterfield as third-base coach
Red Sox bring in Butterfield as third-base coach
A native of Bangor, Maine, Butterfield was named Boston's third-base coach on Tuesday, taking the same role he held with the Blue Jays for most of the last decade.
Butterfield is the second former Blue Jays coach to follow Farrell to the Red Sox in a week's span. Torey Lovullo was named Boston's bench coach on Friday.
Butterfield first became the Blue Jays' third-base coach in June 2002. He moved up to bench coach in September 2007, and then went back to coaching third for the '10 season.
Butterfield has a baseball pedigree, and his time in the American League East dates back even before his Toronto's days. His father, the late Jack Butterfield, served as vice president of player development and scouting for the Yankees, with whom Brian Butterfield coached first base from 1994-95. That was under current Orioles manager Buck Showalter, who also took Butterfield with him to the D-backs from 1999-2000.
Briefly, Butterfield went to college in New England, at the University of Maine. He then attended schools in Florida ahead of playing five Minor League seasons, during which he hit .249.
Evan Drellich is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @EvanDrellich. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The idiosyncratic Eels' 10th album is the latest in the prolific band's history. The brand-spanking new Wonderful, Glorious lives up to its title's adjectives, full of lead Eel Mark Oliver Everett's soul-baring aplomb, catchy hooks, and even a newfound optimism. COURTNEY FERGUSON
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Subtropical Storm Gabrielle moved toward the East Coast, where a tropical storm warning was in effect for North Carolina's shoreline Saturday.
"It's going to get a little gnarly," said 51-year-old Sharon Peele Kennedy, a lifetime resident of the Outer Banks who works at the Hatteras Harbor Marina in Hatteras, N.C.
"We're securing, but not too fast," she said. "There's no evacuation issue at all. This is just a little breeze."
The National Hurricane Center forecast called for Gabrielle to brush North Carolina's Outer Banks this afternoon, with maximum winds of between 60 and 65 mph, before curving back out into the Atlantic. Forecasters don't expect the storm to become a hurricane.
A tropical storm warning was issued from Surf City, N.C., to the Virginia state line. A tropical storm watch also was issued northward to Cape Charles, Va., along the Atlantic Coast and to New Point Comfort peninsula, along the Chesapeake Bay.
Forecasters dropped a tropical storm watch along South Carolina's coast that stretched to Edisto Beach, just southwest of Charleston, S.C.
Tropical storm warnings were already posted for offshore waters.
"It's not expected to get too strong. There are a lot of negative factors working against it - a lot of dry air aloft," said James Wingenroth, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Morehead City, N.C. "It's just not looking at this point that it's going to be anything more than a strong tropical storm."
Gabrielle formed along an old frontal boundary that stalled about midway between the Southeast coast and Bermuda, drawing the attention of coastal residents for the past few days. It finally spun into a storm late Friday evening.
Officials urged residents and visitors to the Outer Banks, a popular beach vacation spot, to get ready for the storm by securing loose items outside their homes and to remain indoors as the storm blows through.
"The greatest danger will be flooding in low lying areas and on roads, such as Highway 12 on the Outer Banks," said North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley. "The most deaths during tropical storms occur when people drive into flood waters and drown. Rip currents will be strong in the ocean. The safest place to be will be indoors."
Subtropical storms are hybrid systems and typically weaker than hurricanes. They share the characteristics of tropical storms, which get their power from the warm ocean, as well as storms that form when warm and cold fronts collide.
Forecasters said Gabrielle could bring between 2 and 4 inches of rain to eastern North Carolina with some areas receiving as much as 6 inches.
The rain will be welcome in the parched Carolinas. Of North Carolina's 100 counties, seven are in exceptional drought, 66 are in extreme drought, 20 are in severe drought and seven are in moderate drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley asked Friday that all of the state's local governments to immediately enact voluntary or mandatory water restrictions.
Earlier this week, South Carolina officials urged water systems to conserve water as nearly all the state was declared to be in an extreme drought.
The only two counties not included - Jasper and Beaufort - have, in essence, already gotten some rain from Gabrielle.
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The fifth annual Flipping Marvellous Pancake Race took place on
Tuesday 28th February, 12.30pm - 2pm
at More London, London Bridge City, SE1
It's not often you find estate agents, estate managers and consultants all frantically searching for oversized wheat sheaves or pink cow's udders… but that's exactly what happened this Shrove Tuesday in and around The Scoop at London Bridge City.
London Bubble brought together a diverse business community from across SE1 for the Flipping Marvellous Pancake Race. Highly competitive and fun, the event also raised money for Young Theatre Makers - Bubble's training programme to get young people back into work and education.
Now in its 5th year, the race challenged teams to hunt, gather and flip their way around London Bridge City, cheered on by their colleagues. Each team was joined by a young person from Bubble as part of the programme's aim to develop an innovative model of corporate engagement.
Participating businesses included Source8, London Bridge City, Hudson Fuggle, St George, Team London Bridge and Knight Frank. London Bridge City flipped their way to victory. Supporting businesses included Knight Frank, Absolutely Starving, Cote Brasserie, The Bridge, M&S and Majestic Wines who all generously donated prizes. Knight Frank was also the ingredients sponsor for the race.
Click on IMAGES below to see more photos from the event.
If your organisation is interested in taking part next year call us on 020 72374434 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
We suggest a donation of £250 but organisations are free to donate as little or as much as they wish. It is not a barrier to participation in this fun challenge.
A London Bridge City and London Bubble Theatre Company initiative in aid of Young Theatre Makers.


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Living dangerously in a second nuclear age
Many academic conferences and government panels have been convened this year to recall the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. This was the most dangerous crisis of the Cold War, and it's surely worth studying for this reason.
But the Cuban Missile Crisis gets too much attention. Focusing on any single crisis distorts the central problem of the Cold War for the United States. The Cold War was a long-term competition, stretching over five decades.
Looking only at one single crisis is like studying an NFL football game by looking at the highlight play. It's a five-second video clip. It's fascinating to watch. But however important it is, it doesn't obviate the importance of the game plan, creative thinking of coaches and players, and performance on the field in the rest of the game. It doesn't incorporate blunders (fumbles and blown plays) or good advisers (injured players).
The pattern in the Cold War was not for a straight line development of nuclear dangers, either up or down. There were periodic changes in its intensity. Just recall how the 1970s were built around arms control and stabilizing the nuclear relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter built their foreign policies around détente. But in the 1980s this was followed by the Ronald Reagan build-up, nuclear threats by both sides, accidents like the shooting down of Korean Airliner 007, and serious nuclear mishaps inside the Soviet command and control system.
Today we are in a second nuclear age. There are regional competitions in the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. They are long term, and now, they too have a nuclear context.
For example, in the Middle East, Iran seems unlikely to voluntarily give up its atomic program. Israel is restructuring its nuclear deterrent, putting more of it on submarines so that it cannot be taken out by any Islamic country with missiles and the bomb.
In South Asia, Pakistan is rapidly building up its stock of nuclear weapons. It is the fastest-growing nuclear country in the world today. India has deployed a "triad" like the superpowers did 50 years ago. New Delhi is placing nuclear weapons aboard bombers, missiles, and submarines.
In East Asia, North Korea has about a dozen nuclear weapons, a long-range missile program, and a large stock of chemical weapons. China is radically overhauling its own nuclear posture, fielding mobile missiles, stealth aircraft, and anti-satellite weapons. It now has a much more agile nuclear force.
We need to take a step back from these national details to look at the broader picture. The political differences which drive conflict in these three regions show no signs of resolution. But more, they now have a nuclear context. Like the first nuclear age, the second seems positively likely to have ebbs and flows in the intensity of the competition and in the dangers associated that come with this.
Instead of the Cuban Missile Crisis as a metaphor for nuclear dangers, a better one for the second nuclear age is that it's like the man who dodges cars to cross a busy freeway. He may get away with this once or twice, but if he does it repeatedly he's bound to get hit. In the second nuclear age, there are three regional freeways, not just one as in the first nuclear age. In the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, nuclear weapons are deployed out in the open. And the number of countries with the bomb is more likely to increase than it is to decrease.
A good question comes out of this way of framing the problem. Is it even possible to have these regional rivalries stay limited?
They may make it through one crisis. Maybe even two. But if they try it enough times, as in the Cold War or with the metaphor of the man crossing the highway, the odds of the rivalry staying restrained go down sharply. The missile crisis is interesting to analyze, but it misses the key point that in a long-term competition there are likely to be many, repeated crises. We may need a lot more luck to get through the second nuclear age than we needed in the first.
Paul Bracken is professor of management and political science at Yale University and the author of the new book The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics (Times Books).


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Donna Summer, one of the primary forces in the 1970s disco genre and the voice behind such hits as "Heaven Knows," "I Feel Love," "Love to Love You Baby," "She Works Hard for the Money," "Last Dance" and others, died Thursday at the age of 63. Summer had been battling cancer.
"Early this morning, surrounded by family, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith," the singer's family said in a statement. "While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Words truly can't express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time."
A Boston-area native, Summer was cast in the Broadway production of "Hair" at the age of 18, prior to embarking on a disco and pop career that lasted four decades. She won five Grammy awards over the course of her career.
Summer is survived by her husband and three daughters.


text: BANGKOK, June 30 (Reuters) - Thai shares hit a nine-month high on Monday, heading for their best quarterly gain in more than a year as PTT extended its rally after the appointment of new directors, while quarter-end buying lifted large caps in Southeast Asia. Shares of Thailand's top energy firm PTT were up 1.3 percent at midday after climbing 1.9 percent to an eight-month high of 318 baht, and adding to their strong gains from late last week. The stock was the most actively-traded on Monday. "The market is awaiting further development on the country's energy pricing reform while casting spotlight on a change in PTT's board of directors," strategists at broker Phillip Securities wrote in a daily report to clients. The SET index was up 0.3 percent at midday, having risen 8.1 percent so far in the April-June quarter amid strong buying interest from domestic investors as Thailand's military government tries to revive the domestic economy. The Bank of Thailand has forecast the economy will expand 5.5 percent in 2015, with 1.5 percent growth seen for 2014. The central bank is due to release May economic data later in the day. Elsewhere, Indonesia's main index rose 0.3 percent and the Philippine's' key index edged up 0.1 percent, amid active buying in shares of Bank Rakyat Indonesia and Philippine Long Distance Telephone. Vietnam's benchmark VN Index rose 0.2 percent, led by gains in shares of top firm PetroVietNam Gas. Vietnam is set to fall 2 percent on the quarter, its first loss in four quarters, while other Southeast Asian stock markets are on track for quarterly gains. For Asian Companies click; For South East Asia Hot Stock reports, click; SOUTHEAST ASIAN STOCK MARKETS Change at 0632 GMT Market Current Prev Close Pct Move TR SE Asia Index* 427.31 426.16 +0.27 Singapore 3255.13 3271.05 -0.49 Kuala Lumpur 1880.11 1880.93 -0.04 Bangkok 1487.89 1483.24 +0.31 Jakarta 4857.87 4545.13 +0.26 Manila 6848.63 6842.15 +0.09 Ho Chi Minh 580.13 578.82 +0.23 * The Thomson Reuters South East Asia Index is a highly representative indicator of stocks listed in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. (Reporting by Viparat Jantraprap; Editing by Anupama Dwivedi)


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2 years of preschool or one? *edited*
So my son has a late august b-day. SO I know I want to wait until he turns 6 to start kindergarten but what I can't decide is if i should still start preschool when he is 4 and then he would have to repeat the same preschool when he is 5. or if i should just wait until he is 5 to start preschool? what have you ladies done... any thoughts opinions... insight would be great! thanks ladies.. my son will be 3 this yaer so I have a little bit to figure it out but i'm one who likes to have things figured out in advanced lol.
EDIT: I live in a very small town, surrounded by a whole lot of small towns. The only preschool option is thru the school. So it would be 4 1/2 days and it would be the same agenda each year. So he would literally be repeating the same year over. :)
Even if it is same curriculum each year, it doesn't mean that your son wouldn't learn new things by repeating the curriculum. I'm sure kids are lots of different levels, and so if the teacher accounts for those in the preschool, your child could still learn a lot even if the curriculum is repeated.
Have you toured the preschool and observed how a class is run?
I'm not really sure. my DD starts this fall. So I'll get a better idea of it then. I've looked at the rooms when iwas in the school. I'm going to talk to the teachers about it as well and see what they think. but I wont do that until like a year from now probably. I wish we had a daycare that did preschool type of thing i would do that for a year and then the school prek for a year and then kinder. :)
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My son went to a daycare with age appropriate pre-school activities.
I think two years would be more beneficial than one. Have you toured the pre-school? Do they work on the kids based on their level? Usually at that age, kids levels are all over the place, and so if the program is designed to challenge your child no matter what level his is, I would go ahead and plan on two years of pre-school.
ds is born in march 15th. he is now 5 and starts kindergarten in september. dd is 3 and turns four in oct 13th. she will be in prek until she is almost 6yrs old. so she will get the same stuff 3 yrs. should be interesting but i think it will be ok. i thought they would be at the most 1 yr apart in school as they are 17 months apart
I would start him in preschool at age 4, and at the end of the year, decide if you want him to repeat another year of preschool or start kindergarten. I would also work with him throughout this next year, and decide if he is ready for preschool next year. Kids can grow and advance so much in one year! My dd is in preschool this year and turned 5 last week. She will be considered a younger kindergartener. She is reading on a first grade level, so if I did hold her back until she turned six to start public kinder, it would only hurt her. She is already bored out of her mind in class, one more year of preschool would be torture on her!
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Both of my children did 3 & 4 year pre-k so they had 2 years of school already by the time kindergarten started at 5.
She has a September birthday, so she started kindergarten early, when she was a month away from turning 5. And I have a December birthday, so I was 5 and 8 months when I started.
If our parents had waited to start her in school until she was almost 6, we'd probably have ended up two grades apart in school.
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ds is born in march 15th. he is now 5 and starts kindergarten in september. dd is 3 and turns four in oct 13th. she will be in prek until she is almost 6yrs old. so she will get the same stuff 3 yrs. should be interesting but i think it will be ok. i thought they would be at the most 1 yr apart in school as they are 17 months apart
My daughter (May birthday) did 2 years of preschool (3's and 4's classes). My sons are Oct and Jan birthdays. They are doing 3 years of preschool (2.5's, 3's and PreK).


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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has stopped an alleged scam by Construct Data/Fair Guide that tried to get ATA Trade Show exhibitors to pay $1,717 annually to be included in an online "exhibitor directory" that had no connection to the Show
This effort by Construct Data/Fair Guide doesn't exclusively focus on ATA Trade Show exhibitors. It targets retailers, local associations, home-based businesses and others that exhibit at any number of trade shows in North America.
The company allegedly tricked small-businesses and nonprofit organizations into collectively paying millions of dollars in recent years to have their companies listed in an online directory. It sometimes succeeded, even though most exhibitors had no interest in being included, and didn't realize they were being charged.
A federal judge this month granted an FTC request to temporarily stop Construct Data/Fair Guide's solicitations. The FTC is seeking to permanently halt the alleged scam and require the defendants to refund fees paid by unsuspecting exhibitors.
Maria Lewis, ATA Trade Show coordinator, said about 12 to 20 exhibitors have contacted her in recent years after being solicited by Fair Guide. Typically, they asked Lewis if they should agree to the listing. Lewis informed them that Fair Guide is not affiliated in any way with the Trade Show, and repeatedly advised ATA members not to provide any information.
The ATA's official "Show Guide and Membership Directory" is published annually by Zebra Publishing, a longtime ATA partner. Additionally, official Trade Show vendors are qualified as such by the ATA's "show service provider" logo.
"We are working with all our partner vendors this year to make sure this logo appears on their documents, forms or other materials they may provide to Show exhibitors," said Lewis. "We want the exhibitors to get used to looking for it and recognizing it as a stamp of approval."
Fortunately, most ATA members did not cooperate with Fair Guide. "Two or three had their credit cards charged, but most just filled out only the information form," Lewis said. "We heard from our members when they received a bill for $1,700 and started panicking. If they didn't provide their credit card information, they had nothing to worry about."
According to the FTC, the defendants send mailings to exhibitors, mention a specific trade show or exhibition, and make it appear they're merely asking recipients to update and check the accuracy of information for the "exhibitor directory" for the show or exhibition. The mailings include a form stating the recipient's basic information was listed in the directory for free, and instructs them to confirm its accuracy or make corrections on the form.
The form falsely suggests the parties have an existing business relationship, and that the directory listing is related to the recipient's participation in the named trade show or exhibition.
Many recipients don't notice a statement, buried in fine print at the bottom, that by signing and returning the form they agree to pay $1,717 annually for three years. Often, the person returning the form is not authorized to enter into contracts for their employer.
According to the complaint, long after the form is signed, returned and the defendants' 10-day cancellation period expired, the defendants send an invoice demanding payment of $1,717 to a foreign bank account. Those challenging the invoice are told the order cannot be canceled. Late payment notices follow, with late fees added. Some organizations pay just to end the harassment.
The FTC's complaint was filed against Construct Data Publishers, which also does business as Fair Guide, Wolfgang Valvoda, and Susanne Anhorn.


text: A few days before I got my tank, I started working on a sump. I originally got my idea from here. Its a simple sump and cheap too, only cost me 50 bucks where it usually costs around $200-300. First, I got the actual sump, a 32 gallon Rubbermaid. That cost about $5. Next, I got the drawers. They are modified to fit under the stand. Pic. This pic shows how I modded them. I cut a third of the bottom drawer clean off then fitted it back together. It fits on under my iron stand but it might not in a wooden one. :| Ok! So you wanna know how to make it? There's 2 ways. In one, the water goes through the skimmer first, then drips into the sump and if pumped into the tower (of drawers). Next its pumped back into the tank. This method is better but its hard to find a wide enough skimmer input (needs to be 1 inch). The other way (which mine was designed as) is to make the water go through the tower first, then drip into the sump, be pumped back up to the tank while another pump pumps the water into the skimmer. The process: 1. Take a 1 inch 90 degree of PVC (or better yet a curve) and connect it to the overflow. 2. Make the skimmer output drip into the sump. Get a good pump (one that can take 2' of head and still pump 400 gph). 3. Get a tube, connect it to the pump, and cut a hole big enough for your tube in the top (or side it there is no room because of a stand) of the top drawer. Start with a small hole and then get a drill bit a little bigger then a little bigger until you have a good sized hole. Add a 90 if you came in from the side. 4. In the first and second drawers, drill lots (I did about 70) of 1/8th inch holes. Center them in the middle. 5. Add media. For the top drawer add blue material as seen here. Also add carbon. 6. For the second drawer, add things with alot of surface area. Pic. See it in action! Now you have an operating sump! Some Pix: 1 2 3 Tip: If you experience an overflow of water in the top level, raise it off the plastic. Pic. I hope you enjoyed this, and I hope this article saves people mucho dinero! :D


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Report NEP-IFN-2013-06-16This is the archive for NEP-IFN, a report on new working papers in the area of International Finance. Vimal Balasubramaniam issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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- Marcel Fratzscher & Marco Lo Duca & Roland Straub, 2013. "On the International Spillovers of US Quantitative Easing," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1304, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
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Zach Britton has completed eight innings, and the Mariners are stuck on three hits and no walks.
No runs, either.
Britton has struck out four, and he's the first Orioles starter to finish eight innings since Jeremy Guthrie on opening day. Unfortunately, the Orioles haven't scored for him tonight.
Britton has thrown 98 pitches, including 69 for strikes. He needed only eight pitches to complete the eighth, getting a fly ball, line drive and grounder up the middle that Brian Roberts backhanded before making the off-balance throw - the second time he's made that play tonight.
Roberts is 1-for-4 and has hit into a double play, so the slump isn't over. He just grounded out with pinch-runner Felix Pie on second base and one out in the bottom of the eighth.
Meanwhile, Kevin Gregg is warming in the bullpen, so Britton might be done. What an impressive performance.
If only he could be rewarded for it.
Instant update: Britton is back out for the ninth.
Meanwhile, brother Buck Britton drove in all five runs tonight for Single-A Frederick in it's 5-4 win over Lynchburg.
Tonight's attendance: 19,082
Update II: Britton retired the side in order in the ninth, leaving his pitch count at 108 (76 strikes). He left the mound to a well-deserved standing ovation. Britton blanked the Mariners on three hits, walked none, struck out five and faced only two batters over the minimum.
The last Orioles complete-game shutout came from Chris Waters on Sept. 16, 2008 in Anaheim.
Meanwhile, we have extra innings here. And Gregg is coming into the game.


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The recipients of this year's prestigious Healthcare Heroes awards, Jennifer Seitel and Deisy Salas, were honored at the annual Community Collaborative Breakfast, sponsored by the Fallbrook Healthcare District, on Jan. 26 at Fallbrook Public Utility District.
Jennifer Seitel was recognized for her dedication in educating young people by coordinating the K-12 Think First program and personally speaking to youth at assemblies about making good decisions in order to avoid life-impacting debilitating injuries.
She emphasizes the importance of seat belts, car seats, helmets for bike riders, and advises children of the life-changing events associated with the use of alcohol and drugs. She shares her message with approximately 6,000 youth each year. The Think First program is also supported by North County Fire Protection District and other community volunteers.
Seitel, who survived a tragic automobile accident at the age of 16, was left paralyzed from the neck down. Through sheer will and determination, she now walks with the assistance of canes.
"She exemplifies courage and encourages those she teaches and works with," said Fallbrook Healthcare District board members. "She is a remarkable human being."
Deisy Salas, a high school senior, was honored as a healthcare hero for her volunteerism, commitment and consistency to numerous endeavors that focus on the health and wellbeing of members of the community.
Salas, who began getting involved in community projects through the AVID program at Fallbrook High School, has volunteered her time with the Fallbrook Youth Prevention Group (a program of North Inland Community Prevention Program that focuses on educating youth about the dangers of alcohol use), the Fallbrook Food Pantry (which provides food for the hungry), and the GANAS (Guide, Advise, Nurture and Support) mentoring program for at-risk youth (affiliated with the Fallbrook Citizens' Crime Prevention Committee). She has also volunteered her time to the Fallbrook Sheriff's substation.
"As a spokesperson, volunteer and positive example, [Deisy] approaches her task with conviction and courage," said program coordinators. "We encourage her and youth like her to know that this community stands behind her with pride and encouragement."
According to Fallbrook Healthcare District administrator Vi Dupre, the Healthcare Hero awards are meant "for those who possess qualities of selflessness, dedication and perseverance, and who demonstrate extraordinary service to foster the health and well-being of the people of the Fallbrook community." The individuals are nominated, reviewed, and recommended to the Fallbrook Healthcare District by people of the community who are witness to their service.
At the event, special recognition was also given to the Save Our Southwest Hills (SOS) organization, "for its steadfast courage and fortitude in their quest to stop the Liberty quarry – to preserve the land, water, air, and wildlife and to protect the health and well-being of the people of this generation and those to come."
The eight-year battle by opponents of the quarry ended in 2012 when the Pechanga Tribe purchased the land it was to be constructed on.


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Automation provided for pulp mill in Uruguay
The $1.9 billion Montes del Plata pulp mill in Southern Uruguay will receive process and quality control as well as process information systems by Honeywell
Honeywell Process Solutions has been chosen to provide the process control, quality control and process information systems – including warehouse management – for a new pulp mill in Uruguay. Located in Uruguay's southern state of Colonia, the $1.9-billion facility will produce 1.3 million tons of plantation-based pulp annually once it becomes operational in the first half of 2013.
The Montes del Plata project is expected to become the country's largest-ever privately executed investment. It will be owned and operated by a joint-venture between Finnish pulp and paper company Stora Enso and Chile-based Arauco.
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The project will incorporate Honeywell's Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), which will be deployed across the entire mill to tie critical subsystems together. This approach will streamlines operations and provide operators with the most-relevant information they need to make decisions in the control rooms and on the mill floor. Also included in the project scope is Honeywell's newest quality control system (QCS), Experion MX, and Honeywell's Process Information Management System.
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"In today's healthcare environment, medical equipment manufacturers are being driven to reduce costs while continuing to develop superior products that respond to increasingly complex medical device needs," said Anthony Kalaijakis, strategic medical market manager, Molex. "The MPC system provides them with a competitively priced option that does not sacrifice the high quality electrical performance needed in a full range of medical equipment applications including portable and digital devices such as catheters, defibrillators and monitors."
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Reds' ticket staff tops 'mystery shopper' list
The Cincinnati Reds and their season-ticket sales staff scored the highest mark among MLB clubs in this year's mystery shopper survey conducted by research firm IntelliShop exclusively for SportsBusiness Journal.
The survey, now in its third year, features two dozen professional mystery shoppers calling each club multiple times over a six-week period during spring training to inquire about buying season tickets. The shoppers then evaluate how well the agents performed through the sales process, including touting the benefits of full- and/or partial-season-ticket ownership; assessing the needs of the prospective buyer; closing the sale; and overall ability to engage the prospect emotionally (see methodology, below).
The season-ticket sales staff at nearly every MLB club scored higher this year than team staffers did in the inaugural study two years ago. In Cincinnati, by nearly doubling its 2011 score, the Reds' sales staff unseated the staff from the San Diego Padres for the top spot in the ranking. The Padres finished No. 2 this year after ranking first in 2011 and 2012. Mark Schueler, director of premium and season-ticket sales with the Reds, said Cincinnati's gains are the result of an increased focus on personnel training and better use of technology.
"The first year this survey was done [in 2011] we were pretty much middle of the pack, so it was a real eye-opener to us," said Schueler, who is in his sixth season with the club. "So we've just really changed the culture here. We brought in [ticket sales consultant] Charlie Chislaghi after each of the last two seasons to train and re-energize the staff, and our CRM software — and, really, our ability to use it — has come a long way in the past year."
Schueler said both season-ticket sales retention and new sales were up slightly this spring over a year ago, though he declined to provide specific figures. The Reds have a 14-person sales staff and an eight-member client-services team.
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Rank TEAM 2013 avg.
2011 1 Cincinnati Reds 69.0% 67.0% 35.1% 2 San Diego Padres 66.1% 68.2% 62.7% 3 Houston Astros 64.8% 60.6% 40.5% 4 Oakland Athletics 64.0% 63.5% 50.8% 5 Miami Marlins 62.0% 56.6% 35.4% 6 New York Yankees 60.9% 53.8% 52.9% 7 Cleveland Indians 60.1% 61.9% 58.8% 8 New York Mets 58.3% 57.8% 46.9% 9 Los Angeles Dodgers 58.0% 60.2% 42.7% 10 Washington Nationals 56.0% 51.9% 44.8% MLB average 51.3% 51.0% 43.0%
Source: IntelliShop
The Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics and Miami Marlins also saw big upward movement in the rankings from 2011, making things a little more crowded at the top. In 2011, only the Padres scored above a 59 percent overall score. This year, seven of the 27 clubs measured topped that rate.
The Reds, Marlins and Colorado Rockies saw their overall scores jump more than 26 percentage points in two years. For the Rockies, the increase brought the club from last place in the 2011 survey to No. 13 this year. The Marlins and Reds were ranked No. 19 and No. 20, respectively, in 2011.
In south Florida, industry sales veteran Andy Silverman was hired in 2010 to help shape the culture of the Marlins' sales staff to prepare for the opening last spring of Marlins Park. Silverman in 2000 helped build the sales staff for the then-expansion NHL Columbus Blue Jackets, and in 2003, he began work retooling the MLB Texas Rangers' sales staff as executive vice president of sales and marketing after a run of last-place finishes on the field for that club.
"Andy Silverman does a great job," said Marlins President David Samson, acknowledging that the team does still have obstacles to overcome, with attendance lagging and public criticism high for the Marlins in year two at the ballpark. "Whether you are in a position where you have 5,000 or 25,000 season-ticket holders, those are still your most avid and long-term fans."
Samson said the sales staff has doubled in size since Silverman began with the Marlins, growing from 11 to 22.
Chris Denove, IntelliShop senior vice president, said almost every MLB club has some amount of "low-hanging fruit" in terms of ways the teams can easily improve the overall phone-sales experience. Those improvements, in turn, can quickly bring in more revenue.
In other findings from the survey:
■ Callers to the Pittsburgh Pirates spent the least amount of time on the phone between making the call and when an agent came on for assistance: 9 seconds. The leaguewide average was 1 minute 16 seconds, a 40-second improvement over last year's league average.
■ Callers to the St. Louis Cardinals clearly enjoyed their phone sales experience. A full 100 percent of the callers to the Cardinals deemed their sales experience "above average" or "one of the best" phone sales experiences they've ever had.
IntelliShop, an Ohio-based market research company, provides customer-focused research services such as mystery shopping and customer satisfaction surveys. The company has an in-house staff of about 50 employees and it retains and manages panels of nearly 400,000 "mystery shoppers" brought in as topic-specific independent contractors.
IntelliShop educated its "shoppers" on the teams and on the physical layout of each team's ballpark. It also trained the shoppers to sound disappointed that the season seats they wanted would cost as much as they did once they learned that the quoted price was more than their budget. This allowed IntelliShop to measure which alternatives the sales agents used to overcome the price objection. The time and day of each call was randomized; the goal was to speak to as many agents at each club as possible.
The survey consists of 27 mostly objective, multiple choice questions. One question — "Which of the following 'selling points' did your agent mention as a reason for buying season tickets (or a partial-season-ticket plan)?" — had 11 answer options, all of which could have been checked off by the caller. More subjective topics included evaluating volume and clarity of the sales agent's voice, the agent's ability to retrieve and access information, and background noise.
IntelliShop conducts about 200,000 mystery shops and 230,000 customer surveys a year. The firm does have the Cubs as a client but has no other MLB team clients.
Assessment of call experience (top 10 teams)
REDS PADRES ASTROS ATHLETICS MARLINS YANKEES INDIANS METS DODGERS NATIONALS MLB AVG. Agent mentioned at least one "selling point" as reason to buy season/partial-season tickets* 89% 78% 67% 89% 56% 78% 100% 67% 56% 56% 51% Made an effort to engage in small talk outside the immediate discussion of the ticket sale 78% 78% 67% 67% 44% 56% 78% 44% 67% 22% 41% Expressed a positive outlook for the team 56% 56% 33% 44% 22% 33% 44% 56% 44% 22% 29% Strong effort to convince caller to come to the stadium and sit in the seats before buying 78% 78% 67% 44% 56% 100% 22% 22% 44% 11% 27% Strong effort to convince caller of the benefits of alternative ticket options once determined he/she couldn't afford the full-season plan in the seats desired 78% 78% 78% 78% 89% 56% 78% 89% 67% 89% 56% Asked who will be going to the games with him/her (spouse, kids, clients, etc.) 11% 56% 22% 44% 44% 56% 22% 44% 22% 33% 24% Personality of the agent was "truly exceptional"** 78% 67% 78% 44% 67% 33% 67% 56% 44% 33% 38% Considered an "above-average" experience compared to other telephone sales calls or "one of the best" ever had 88% 89% 77% 67% 78% 56% 66% 67% 66% 67% 53%
* Agents were given credit for mentioning any one of 11 specific selling points, all of which could have been checked off by the caller. Among those options were "Get exclusive access to special areas in the stadium," "Able to sit in the same seats for playoffs and/or World Series," and "Have access to preferred parking."
** Defined as being "unusually engaged and enthusiastic — someone who sounds like they really love their job and dealing with people."
Source: IntelliShop