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So said C.S.Lewis and while one small cup of tea a day is plenty for me, I do feel sad when a good book is finished. My real love will always be children's books, the feel of the paper, smell of the ink, the weight of a hardback in my hand, and the charm and colour of the illustrations.
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Avviso: Questo post è stato originariamente pubblicato il 30 novembre 2012 da Alex Bayley su infotrope.net, con licenza CC BY 3.0 Unported, ma allo stato non è più disponibile. Sperando di non incorrere nelle ire dell'autore, lo ripubblico sul mio blog, perché è un interessante analisi su quanto sia complicato lavorare con i dati aperti e su cosa può andare storto (hint: molte, molte cose).
Disclaimer: This post has been originally posted on November 30, 2012, by Alex Bayley on infotrope.net, under a CC BY 3.0 Unported license, but it is currently unavailable. Hoping not to bother the original author, I republish this post on my blog, because I think it is an interesting analysis about how complicated working with open data is and about what can go wrong (hint: lots of things, seriously a lot).
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A few times on the Growstuff mailing list or IRC channel, someone's excitedly suggested that we should import data from another CC-licensed data set. Each time, I say, "Trust me, that's pretty complicated," but I've never actually sat down and explained the full gory details of why.
The following is something I wrote up for our wiki so that I could point people at it next time the subject comes up. I thought it might be interesting to a wider audience, too, so that's why I'm posting it here.
Importing data is hard
This is a bit of a rant by Skud, who used to work on Freebase, a large open-licensed data repository which imported data in bulk from a range of sources, including Wikipedia, Netflix, the Open Library Project, and many more. She's had a lot of experience in this area, and learnt a lot about the weird complications of mass data imports.
The simple case
They have a database. You have a database. Your fields are the same. Their API is easy to use and their license is compatible.
- map their fields to ours, eg. their "name" is our "system_name"
- import data
Their fields aren't the same
What if the fields aren't quite equivalent? For instance, let's say they have measurements in imperial and we use metric. We'll need to have ways to convert them. That's actually a really simple example. Import incompatibilities are more often at a semantic/ontological level. Growstuff has the idea of "crops" and "varieties" but what if the other database only has "plants" with no distinction? Or what if they have crops and varieties but draw the line somewhere slightly different to where we do? These sorts of incompatibilities are more common than not, and massively complicate any import effort.
Some of their data is bogus
Nothing against that other database – some of everyone's data is bogus! But we need to check it. What "bogus" means will vary from place to place, but it might be spam entries, duplicate records, simple errors, or it might be cruft from their own broken imports. We need to look carefully at every import and make sure we're skipping as much of this as possible. And this is largely a manual process, since what the bogosity will never be the same twice. You can do this by sampling, of course, but you still need to look at something on the order of a hundreds of records, and know what you're looking for. Could you spot a mixed-up scientific name on a randomly chosen herb? I couldn't.
The stub problem
Let's say we want to import from a database of plant life that lists 10,000 edible plants and their nutritional content. Growstuff has 300 crops at present. We import everything! Now we have 9,700 pages with nothing but nutritional data. Nobody on Growstuff is using them, they have no pictures, they have no planting data, they have no discussions (except maybe spam comments that nobody cleans up because nobody notices). Our "newest crops" page, usually a source of interest, is now just a wasteland of grey placeholder images.
Should we have imported all 10,000 plants, or just the nutritional data of the 300 we already have? Or something in between? The answer is usually "something in between" – you might want that data if and only if you can get other partial data from other imports to make it more interesting.
The best way to do this is to import the 300 and make a note of the 9700. Then later, you can cross-correlate the notes you've made from various data imports and re-import those that have, say, at least 3 useful data sources and a picture. But that's pretty complicated. (Also, see the discussion of repeated imports, below.)
Don't forget the license
Let's assume that their data is licensed compatibly – that means CC-BY-SA or CC-BY in our case, since we're CC-BY-SA and none of the other clauses (ND, NC) are compatible with us. (Ignoring CC-0 and public domain stuff for now – those don't need attribution at all.)
So by importing, we have to credit them. Now we need some way to represent that in the database. If we do this at the object level, it's fairly simple: each thing in the database (crop, etc) has many licensors, each of which includes a name for the work (eg. "Katie's Plants"), a license (eg. CC-BY), a licensor name (eg. Katie Smith), and a URL to link to the original data.
Now we have to display them on the page. Where? Probably at the bottom somewhere: "Some information on this page came from: Katie's Plants (that would be a link) – CC-BY Katie Smith; SuperPlantDB under CC-BY-SA SuperPlants Inc; etc."
The license chaining problem
Now imagine that the data on those sites came from other sites. For instance, let's say Katie's Plants previously did an import from Freebase.com, and SuperPlantDB did one from Wikipedia. We not only need to credit Katie's Plants and SuperPlantDB but also those places.
Some questions to consider:
- Are those second-degree sources, their licenses, licensors, etc available via the API? When Freebase imported images from Wikimedia Commons, we encountered this problem, because the license metadata had to be scraped from inconsistently-formatted HTML. Getting this wrong leads to complaints from licensors whose licenses we're violating.
- Do we know what part of the data on Katie's Plants was sourced from Freebase? Maybe it was the international names, but we're importing medicinal uses and not touching that part of her data. Does Katie's license notice express this? Probably not – there's no requirement in the CC licenses for the attribution to be at the field level, and our own attribution notices definitely don't operate at this level of detail. Because we don't have the detail, this means we end up with attribution inflation: pretty soon, every page on Growstuff has a hundred attributions at the bottom of every page.
Sure, we could just choose not to chain licenses, or to do it in some restricted way… but the moral high road here is to respect everyone's license and attribution, and besides, if you only attribute some contributors, where do you decide to draw the line?
The infectious NC clause problem
This is a subset of license chaining problems. Let's say Growstuff (a commercial entity using CC-BY-SA) imports from Katie's Plants (a non-profit entity using CC-BY-SA) which imports in turn imports from Hippie Herbs (a non-profit entity using CC-BY-NC – note the "non-commercial" clause).
Katie's fine – she imports from Hippie Herbs' data with impunity because she's non-profit. She attributes them on her site, and Hippie Herbs is happy. She doesn't have to use the same license as them because they don't have a "SA" (Share Alike) clause.
Now Growstuff comes along and wants to import data from Katie's Plants. Katie's Plants is CC-BY which is compatible with Growstuff… but what about the data that originally came from Hippie Herbs? We're commercial, so we're not meant to use it.
But how do we tell what's what? Katie probably doesn't attribute HH at the level of individual bits of data, so we can't extract just the ok-for-commercial-use bits.
Basically, if you believe in license chaining (and as I said, it's definitely the moral high road to take, so I think we should) then you have to be constantly vigilant for the taint of NC-licensed data anywhere in the sprawling tree of ancestors to your data.
What if we already have some data? (the merge case)
The simple case is fine for a green-field import with no existing data, which is described above. But let's say we're importing data into an area where we already have some contributions from Growstuff members.
- map the fields as before
- for each piece of data imported, compare with Growstuff
- is Growstuff's field empty? IMPORT!
- are the two the same? no-op!
- do they differ?
- If they differ, do we trust our own community or the import source? Or do we need to adjudicate?
Let's say we decide to adjudicate. We now need to build an app to let people vote on which one is "correct" – probably best of three or something like that. Freebase did this (multiple times) and I was involved in some of it. We called them "data games" and had leaderboards for who'd voted the most. We couldn't get enough throughput, though, and sometimes by the time something had been adjudicated, another community member had edited the field on our site, thus invalidating the whole thing. We ended up paying people in developing countries to churn through these votes for us (we used ODesk, but you could use Amazon's Mechanical Turk or whatever). However, they needed training, and weren't cheap – even after all the work of setting up the voting queue, there was still considerable expense.
Do we let people edit the data after import?
This came up quite often with Freebase because sometimes they would import from "authoritative sources" who licensed their work specially to Freebase but didn't generally have a CC license or an open community editing process. For instance, the time when I was talking to some people from the BBC, and one (an older dude) said, "If we gave you our programme data, we wouldn't want anyone to edit it because we are the experts on our programmes." This was pretty silly of course – another, younger BBC dude immediately turned to him and said "Ha ha ha, I've got two words for you: Doctor Who." – but sadly these situations are common when you're dealing with closed/non-community-based/"authoritative" data sources who don't understand the power of crowdsourcing information.
But even when dealing with compatibly CC-licensed sources with open developer communities, there can still be some problems around the "authority" of the data and how it's attributed.
Take the case where Katie's Plants community have spent heaps of time editing their data and are very proud of it. We import it to Growstuff, then our community looks at it and decides that bits of it are wrong and change it.
Do we leave the license link to Katie's Plants intact? Most likely yes, because our data has theirs in its DNA, so to speak. But what if we essentially deleted all the data from there? This might happen if, for example, we'd imported a picture from Wikimedia Commons then found that the picture was incorrect or inappropriate, so we blew it away. Now we should probably remove the license note. But how do you tell when data has been completely removed as opposed to modified or built upon?
In the Katie's Plants example, what if Katie's high quality medicinal plant information gets mixed up with ($DEITY forbid!) low-quality data from less experienced Growstuff members or from yet another import? What implications does this have for Katie's site and their reputation? Under the license we're allowed to mess it up because there is no "No Derivatives" (ND) clause, but socially/culturally they'll be pretty unhappy if we do, and we can expect some backlash.
Repeat imports
Great news! Katie got a government grant and some fantastic press coverage, and her database has expanded enormously. We want to re-run the import. But now consider this case:
- Katie's plants, original: "Tomato – red"
- Growstuff, original: "Tomato – red, yellow, green, black"
When we first imported, we put it to adjudication and found that Growstuff's data was better, so we went with that.
Now we re-import, and Katie's data has changed:
- Katie's plants, changed: "Tomato – red, yellow, green, striped"
So of course we put it through adjudication again. The correct answer is probably a union of the two sets.
Now, Katie's database is growing fast, and so is Growstuff. We want to do a regular import from there – perhaps monthly. But somehow along the way, we've ended up with different ideas of tomato colour. Every month, their data is different to ours, and we have to keep re-adjudicating the same question: what colour/s are tomatoes? Boring. Our community is tired of playing the voting game, and/or it's costing us money with our Mechanical Turk people.
So we decide to implement a check: if nothing's changed on either side since the last adjudication, leave it. But now we have to implement change tracking, not just on Growstuff, but on Katie's Plants as well. We need to keep a history of changes for every site we import. This is in addition to the infrastructure we've had to build to automatically run imports at regular time intervals.
How do we make our data available in return?
Obviously we have an API for people to access our data under CC-BY-SA. But keep in mind the license-chaining effect: if anyone uses data from Growstuff, they will also be constrained by the licenses of all the data sources we import. We will need to make that license information available in the API alongside our data, and make sure all our API docs and related materials explain the necessity of license chaining.
Take a look at Freebase's Attribution Policy. They use CC-BY, but because of attribution chaining, they can't just say that – they need a whole page with a wizard to help people figure out how to attribute something on the site. It's incomplete, too: Freebase decided that they would only require license chaining for "content" as opposed to "facts" (a complicated issue in itself) which means images Wikipedia-based descriptions. They don't require chained license information for other data sources. This is dubious in terms of the legality and culture of how Creative Commons works – there's no really firm guidelines on this, but in my opinion the most moral/ethical stance is to always chain your attributions, and Freebase has chosen otherwise. In the past, this has caused some concern from the owners of other data sources that were imported to Freebase. Even Wikipedians have complained that Freebase doesn't enforce their Wikipedia attributions strongly enough. This sort of thing can lead to reputation problems, if not legal ones.
Just the facts, ma'am
One final complication. Various courts have ruled that "facts" aren't copyrightable. For instance, the fact that the crop "Corn" has the scientific name "Zea mays" can't be copyrighted. Even if you have thousands of these facts all together, they can't be copyrighted, because they're not a "creative work". They're just a statement of fact.
This actually throws the whole idea of CC-licensing collections of data into doubt. And yet we have nothing better, so we do it anyway.
Some data projects have come up with various justifications for this. For instance, Freebase says that the arrangement of the facts is a creative work – that what's CC-licensed is their schema. That's pretty creative in itself! The thing is, none of this has really been tested. And so most open data projects have some kind of Terms of Service which explains what they think the CC-license is for and how it's meant to be used. These generally say, "By accessing our data via our website or API, you agree to behave as if this CC license applied to it (even if there's not a very strong legal basis for that outside this TOS)."
The original idea of CC licenses was to stop people having to write their own terms and conditions of use for their work, and standardise in such a way that people could easily re-use creative content. Yet for data projects, we end up having to make up our own TOS just to apply a CC license, and we're back where we started – having to peer at a bunch of legalese and figure out what the hell it means.
Of course once you get into the complexities of license chaining described above, you now also have TOS chaining – if Growstuff uses Katie's data under their TOS, and Katie uses Hippie Herbs' under their TOS, is Growstuff now subject to Hippie Herbs' TOS? No idea! I am not a lawyer! I don't want to be one! I just want to make a website about growing food!
Importing data is hard! That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, but we should go into it with an awareness of the potential potholes, and carefully weigh up whether importing something is the best choice for us at any given time.
Final note
Katies Plants, Hippie Herbs, and SuperPlantDB are all made-up examples. Any resemblance to actual open data projects is coincidental. Freebase, Wikimedia Commons, and the BBC are real, though.


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SCF Real Estate LLC, an entity affiliated with St. Louis-based SCF Marine Inc., has bought Presidents Island acreage from Lone Star Industries Inc. d/b/a Buzzi Unicem USA for $1.2 million.
The industrial-zoned property is on the northwest corner of Jack Carley Causeway and where West Trigg Avenue would be if extended. The site is a lowland area on the Mississippi River, and the north side fronts the river. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2011 appraisal was $885,800.
Lone Star, a concrete company, bought the land in 2000 for $1.1 million.
SCF Marine Inc. is part of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based SEACOR Holdings Inc. In August, related company SCF Development filed a $7.3 million permit application with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for new construction on about 10.5 acres at 486 Jack Carley Causeway.
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Delta Air Lines reported March consolidated passenger unit revenue was up 13 percent compared to the prior year on strong demand, especially among business travelers.
The global carrier with a hub at Memphis International Airport posted a load factor for the month of 79.7 percent compared to 76.4 percent for March 2011.
The 54.4 million average seat miles for the entire Delta system compared to 43.3 million revenue passenger miles.
Average seat miles are a way of measuring the airline's total capacity by multiplying all seats available on every airline route and then multiplying that by the length of the route.
Revenue passenger miles are a measure of how many of the seats were occupied and paid for. It is the number of seat miles for which someone was in the seat with a paid ticket.
Delta's average seat miles dropped by 3.4 percent from a year ago while its revenue passenger miles increased by 2 percent.
The largest cuts in Delta's capacity were in its regional international flights, which were down 16 percent from a year ago. Transatlantic cuts in capacity, which Delta announced earlier, came to a 10 percent reduction.
The largest percentage increase in Delta's revenue passenger miles was the 12.6 percent increase in its Pacific flights.
– Bill Dries
MAA has completed the acquisition of Adalay Bay, a 240-unit apartment community in Chesapeake, Va.
Developed in 2002, Adalay Bay's units average 1,026 square feet. The acquisition marks MAA's fourth community in Virginia.
The purchase was funded by a public offering of $1.96 million shares of common stock earlier in the year.
MAA is a Memphis-based, self-administered, self-managed apartment-only real estate investment trust, which currently owns or has ownership interest in 48,777 apartment units throughout the Sunbelt region of the U.S.
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The Downtown Memphis Commission wants to find a firm that can help guide a branding initiative for Downtown's South Main Historic Arts District.
According to a summary from the DMC, "the selected firm will develop a consistent brand image and offer implementation strategies for the district that would support a multi-faceted marketing plan to bring more patrons, foot traffic, awareness, identity and vibrancy to the District."
The arts district was established in the 1990s and was able to start attracting artists with affordable rents and unique architecture. Today, that neighborhood is more a center of retail. And more than 2,000 people now live in the district.
The deadline for firms to submit proposals is May 4 at 3 p.m.
– Andy Meek
The National Civil Rights Museum will screen a documentary on the final years of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Wednesday, April 4, 44 years to the day of his assassination.
The noon screening of "Citizen King" is one of several events at the museum, which is built on the site of the Lorraine Motel, where King was shot.
A 5:30 p.m. program will include a keynote speech by the Rev. Frank Thomas, senior pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, and a wreath presentation by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on the balcony where King was standing when he was shot. Jackson was with King at the time of the assassination.
The Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis is now the fourth largest liver transplant program in the nation.
The institute, which is operated by physicians at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, also set new records last year for transplant volumes and patient survival rates.
The facility's 140-person team has become recognized as one of the top 10 overall transplant programs in the nation. Last year, 270 transplants were performed, up 13 percent more than the previous year. The 2011 numbers included 122 kidney transplants, 138 liver transplants and 10 kidney/pancreas transplants. Additionally, adult patient survival rates improved to 90 percent for liver transplants and 97 percent for all transplants combined in 2011.
UTHSC College of Medicine alumnus Dr. James Eason, who along with his team performed a 2009 liver transplant on the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, leads the institute.
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Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has said his budget amendment includes funding for a more rapid decrease in food tax cut and extra money for local jails.
Haslam also announced this week that weekend negotiations resulted in an agreement from the Tennessee State Employees Association to support the governor's plan to overhaul state civil service rules.
While Haslam's bill would still eliminate laid-off state workers' rights to bump more junior colleagues, the measure would still take seniority into consideration in staffing decisions. It will also give state employee organizations a role in devising a new evaluation system.
Haslam said his budget amendment reflected only a small percentage of funding proposals submitted to him.
Haslam's original plan was to trim the sales tax on food from 5.5 percent to 5 percent over three years. He announced Monday that the timetable for that cut has been reduced to two years. The governor acknowledged that part of the reasoning for the $3.3 million move was that registers in supermarkets are set up to adjust taxes by a quarter percentage point, making the more gradual reduction more difficult to accomplish.
Increasing the state's daily payment to local jails by $2 a day is designed in part to help break an impasse over Haslam's proposal to require incarceration for repeat domestic violence convictions.
The governor said his administration has submitted its final budget plan far earlier than usual to accommodate legislative leaders' hopes to wrap up the session this month.
– The Associated Press
Supporters of a proposal that would prohibit students from dressing in an "indecent manner" at school say they would like to revisit the measure should it become law and make it stricter.
The measure was sent to the governor on Monday after it passed the Senate 29-0 and the House 81-9.
The legislation seeks to prohibit students from exposing "underwear or body parts in an indecent manner that disrupts the learning environment."
A stricter version of the proposal failed to pass the Legislature three years ago. That measure targeted individuals who wear pants below the waistline and imposed a fine of up to $250 and 160 hours of community service.
Under the current proposal, school districts would decide a less severe punishment.
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Why Arguing That Google Is In The Best Position To Stop Infringement Is Wrong
from the it's-not-and-it-makes-no-sense deptWhile we did cover Google/YouTube's own filing in Viacom's appeal of YouTube's victory at the district court concerning its liability for infringing videos on the site, we did not cover the various "friend of the court" (amici) briefs filed by a variety of folks in support of YouTube's argument. If you'd like to see them all, Michael Barclay has put them all together in a single page, including his own (excellent) analysis of the key points raised in the briefs. Eric Goldman also does a nice job discussing many of the briefs and the key issues raised by them. If you want to understand what people are saying, read those two pages, and you should be in great shape (though, if you were reading both of their blogs already -- as you should -- you'd already be ahead of the game).
However, I did want to focus in on one particular brief, by law professor Michael Carrier, author of an excellent book on innovation (and how the law interferes with innovation), addressing the issue of "least cost avoidance," when it comes to stopping copyright infringement (pdf and embedded below).
It's one of the key arguments often made by content industry folks in arguing that tech companies and ISPs should be responsible for somehow policing their systems for infringement: that those service providers are in the best position to stop the infringement. For many years, we've always explained why this didn't make sense from a pure liability standpoint. These service providers aren't the ones doing the infringement and thus -- fundamentally -- it makes little sense to pin the liability on a party that didn't perform the law-breaking action. The response from the content industry is often to point to the concept of the "least-cost-avoider principle," which shows up in various aspects of the law, in which courts will sometimes shift liability around to put it on those in the best position to stop the law breaking at the lowest cost. And, in fact, this was found in some of the arguments supporting Viacom.
Carrier's amicus brief does a wonderful job debunking the argument. He does brush over a key point, that I wished got more attention: that it's incredibly unlikely that the service providers really are the least-cost-avoiders in these circumstances, since they have no clue what's really infringing and what's not (as demonstrated by Viacom's own confusions over staff members uploading promotional clips to YouTube...). However, for the purpose of making his point, he goes even further, suggesting that even if it's true that YouTube would be the least-cost-avoider, such a least-cost-avoider makes no sense in the context of copyright and innovation.
The brief points out that least-cost-avoider rules are used in tort law, in particular involving accidents -- which are situations in which no beneficial externalities are created as a result:
In these settings, lowering the costs of preventing accidents makes sense. Accidents do not offer any benefits for society. And the only downside to requiring actors to prevent accidents is that their costs will increase.But that's not the case in copyright law. In copyright law, infringing on copyright may certainly hurt some parties, but it also creates positive externalities and can lead to certain innovations. In fact, entire books have been written on how infringement is often a driver of innovation. Thus, taking the "least-cost-avoider" principle (even assuming it's true, which remains in question) could potentially cause serious harm:
More important, requiring parties to take measures to reduce accidents will not have detrimental effects on third parties. No third parties will suffer collateral consequences if a driver is forced to slow down to the speed limit. Or if a barge fortifies its hull to prevent oil spills. Or if a manufacturer reduces the use of asbestos in its products. In short, the harms from the application of the least-costavoider principle in tort law are observable and do not threaten adverse unanticipated effects across other sectors of the economy.
The least-cost-avoider standard would result in innovative technologies becoming less useful and more cumbersome. Application of such a standard would have made some of today's leading technologies just a shadow of the invaluable innovation they ultimately became. For example, courts could have required photocopier manufacturers to modify their copiers to prevent the copying, absent a copyright owner�s approval, of "any document displaying a ©."The brief goes on to note that, to copyright holders, pretty much every disruptive innovation first appears as some evil form of infringement that must be stopped. Applying this kind of principle would likely have stifled all sorts of beneficial technologies before they could have gotten off the ground.
It is understandable--if short-sighted--to not recognize the benefits of disruption. But it is not appropriate to reengineer the law to block disruptive innovation. The Constitution promotes the "Progress of Science and useful Arts." It does not guarantee that copyright owners are entitled to protect their existing business models against the onslaught of innovation.In other words, even if we assume that service providers are the lowest cost providers of stopping infringement, that doesn't mean that's the best way to "Promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." There's a lot more in the brief, but wanted to post this as a key piece of the puzzle in responding to claims that it makes sense to put the burden on service providers based on such a principle. While I tend to disagree that service providers are the least cost avoiders in the first place, even if they are, the potential net harm on innovation they can cause should be a huge concern in shifting liability.
The disruptive innovation unleashed by new technologies reveals the difference between tort law and copyright law in the application of the least-cost-avoider standard. There is no legitimate fear in tort law about eliminating valuable activity from society by overdeterring fast drivers or brittle boat hulls filled with gasoline. In contrast, there is monumental concern with stifling disruptive innovations by saddling them with the burdens of copyright owners.
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Two Lancaster County men were hospitalized after sustaining injuries in a one-vehicle crash Wednesday night, March 28.
Doug A. Fells, 29, of Kershaw was driving a 1988 Ford Mustang with Christopher Adam Hunter, 32, of Lancaster as the front-seat passenger, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol.
Fells was traveling north on Farmbrook Road at 8:40 p.m. when he came upon a right-hand curve. The car ran off the right side of the road and collided with a tree, said Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Billy Elder.
Police are searching for an armed man who stole several items from a Lancaster pharmacy last weekend.
Lancaster police officers responded to Walgreens, at 1101 Gillsbrook Road, shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, March 24, about a robbery that just occurred, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
More college students than even before will have a chance to work for the city of Lancaster as a summer intern.
The city is now accepting applications for its annual internship program, which will run from May 29 to Aug. 6. This year, the ten-week program will include five students – two more than had been involved in years past.
Shelia Thompson, the city's human resources assistant who helps organize the program, said she's pleased City Council approved the two additional positions this summer.
The S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) has initiated the investigation of a Lancaster County EMS employee.
In a brief statement issued Tuesday afternoon, SLED spokeswoman Kathryn Richardson confirmed a tip The Lancaster News received earlier in the day, but refused to release any specifics.
"We have an investigation in Lancaster involving an EMS worker," Richardson said. "The investigation is continuing and it would be inappropriate to discuss any details."
There are few leads, but plenty of rumors, in the investigation of two shooting deaths outside a Lancaster nightclub on Friday, March 23.
Lancaster County Sheriff's Office Maj. Matt Shaw said investigators have very little information to go on in the murders of Jonathan Duvall Reid, 25, and Azor Lee Cloud, 30.
Both were found shot outside the "The Café" nightclub on Old Landsford Road in Lancaster just before 11 p.m.
Lancaster County commemorated the life of its most famous son Saturday, March 24, at the annual Andrew Jackson Birthday Celebration.
Held at Andrew Jackson State Park, the event drew hundreds of visitors for an experience that not only honored the seventh U.S. president's life, but the era in which he was born.
HEATH SPRINGS – Most of the talk at town council's March 20 meeting centered on protection for Town Hall – whether it's from insects or burglars.
Council voted unanimously that evening to accept a bid from Rollins Pest Control of Jefferson.
For $1,500, the company will install termite bait traps at the recently renovated Town Hall on Duncan Street. And for $485, the company will perform once-a-year monitoring and servicing.
Lancaster County's unemployment rate was unchanged from December to January, while the state's rate fell slightly during that time span, according to figures released earlier this month by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.
The January rates didn't appear until March because of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual benchmarking and revision process.
Dozens of officers combed the area around two Chesterfield Avenue crime scenes late Monday, afternoon, March 26, as they searched for suspects in a shooting incident.
Officers responded to the 700 block of Chesterfield Avenue at 4:19 p.m. after receiving a 911 call about a fight with shots fired, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
The Lancaster Police Department and Lancaster County EMS responded to a possible shooting along the 700 block of Chesterfield Avenue near 903 Discount Beverage just after 4:15 p.m. Monday. Check back later for updates.
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Now I put my makeup on at 6.30 in the morning and I want it to last all day into the evening, that means - for eyes at least - longlasting primer, paint pot, eyeshadow, mascara, sometimes liner. And try as I might, Bioderma cannot get it off at the end of the day without me rubbing the skin around my eyes fiery red.
Now if I were a professional makeup artist and had to do several looks on a model within one day, where makeup durability is not so much an issue, then yes, this product would come handy because it does remove (non-waterproof) makeup without leaving a greasy residue on the skin, perfect for quickly moving on to the next look. But when you aim for all-day, longlasting... less than impressed!
Repurchase? YES!
Burt's Bees Replenishing Lip Balm with Pomegranate Oil
Really liked this lip balm, it has a sweet smell (I'd guess pomegranate, though have no idea how that smells). It moisturizes well and feels comfortable on the lips, it leaves a barely visible tint of pink on your lips, which I liked.
Repurchase? YES! (But first I need to use up my gazillion other lip balms)
Make Up Forever Liquid Lift Foundation
A solid foundation, I liked it. Very suitable for dry skin, would definitely not recommend this for oily skin since it feels very moisturizing and has a dewy finish (which I personally really like, especially in the winter, when my skin gets extra-dry). It gives light to medium coverage, I would say, and looks very natural. It would also be appropriate for mature skins (which, let's face it, I am not 16 anymore!).
Repurchase? NO! Even though I liked it, I didn't love it enough to be repurchasing. But I rarely repurchase foundation anyway.
Have you tried any of these products? Do you agree with me or don't you? Do you hate me for not liking Bioderma? :o)
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Basically, we're talking about germination, plant growth, and final seed development. But knowing the details and sub-steps within these major stages gives the grower an opportunity to adjust fertilizing and irrigation, and better estimate the eventual yield. According to some sources, there are at least five scales to measure wheat growth, with the one called Feekes listing eleven stages of growth, and Zadok dividing the growth sequence into one hundred steps. Fascinating. How could this not intrigue even the most jaded guest?
The first surprise is what goes on underground before the first green shoot emerges. The initial (radicle) roots emerge from the seed (caryopsis)
to be followed by a whole different set of (coronal) roots. A scholarly journal describes how these help support winter wheat.
"The anchorage of winter wheat, Triticum aestivum L., is provided by a cone of rigid coronal roots which emerge from around the stem base. During root lodging this cone rotates at its windward edge below the soil surface, the soil inside the cone moving as a block and compressing the soil beneath. A theoretical model of anchorage suggested that lodging resistance should be dependent on the diameter of the root-soil cone, coronal root bending strength and soil shear strength." Those roots are no slouches. Both kinds can grow at nearly an inch a day, and, by the time the wheat is mature, the root system can extend 4' to 8' laterally, and downward.
Now, before your dinner guests can change the subject, tell them how wheat begins growing upward. It starts within a stiff protective tube of greenery, called the coleoptile. That will get their attention.
As the stem grows, a series of leaves appear.
At about leaf number four (we're now at 14 on the Zadok scale), tillers begin forming. These are side shoots that emerge from the main stem, put down roots, and grow upward in parallel with the primary stem. A few of them eventually set seed. The whole process of stem elongation then becomes relatively normal, taking us through Zadok 37. And it is here that the flag leaf appears. It is the final and uppermost leaf, quite different from the previous 8 or 9 leaves, because it contains the embryonic seed head or spike.
When the head is just a swollen area (making the flag leaf look as though it is expecting), the plant is entering the boot stage, and our wonderful little grains of wheat are beginning to take shape. From Zadok 41 to 58, the spike gradually emerges from its wrapping in the flag leaf, and those individual, would-be grain kernels begin flowering.
Although the plant has been growing now for several months, the flowering (inflorescence) stage takes only a few days. If you are beginning to lose your audience, here is another surprising thing about small grains: the flowers open first at the center of the head and progress toward the top and the bottom of the spike. This leads us to pollination (anthesis), which is when you can get the attention of those interested in sex. Tell them, discretely, that most wheat is self-pollinating, and it is a very brief process, with pollination of individual florets completing in less than five minutes. Thus it is quite rare that pollen from another plant enters the picture. The process is completed for the entire crop in less than ten days, empowering a considerable percentage of the little grains along each stalk to begin maturation into tasty wheat berries (caryopsis once again), most of which are identical to the seed we planted.
The final stages of spike growth, Zadok numbers 71 through 100, are some months away for us in LABB. As described in an article on the botany of the wheat plant, "the recently fertilized grain is creamy white in color and when squeezed exudes clear liquid. It grows rapidly, attaining its maximum length in about ten days, and becomes green in color as chlorophyll is formed. At this stage, the exudate becomes milky as starch grains are deposited. As growth proceeds, the endosperm becomes firmer (the soft dough and the hard dough stages) until, at physiological maturity, the green color is replaced by golden-yellow, which deepens as the grain desiccates to dead ripeness."
So we can look forward to seeing the seeds swell, the colors deepen, and the individual berries be tested -- pressed between thumbnail and forefinger, as they progress from milk stage to dough stage to hard kernel stage. They gradually firm up until Zadok stages 91 ("hard to split by thumbnail"), 92 ("cannot split by thumbnail"), and 93 ("kernel loosening in daytime").
And we all, including our dinner guests, will be pleased that harvest time has finally arrived.


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Did you know your MacBook Pro has a motion sensor? The hardware in your Mac – no matter which Mac you own – has some great features that you might have not even ever realized. We keep coming across fun apps that show some of the more unique ways you can use your Mac's hardware, so we decided to put them together in a roundup.
Before we start though, we would like to point out that there are a couple handy articles throughout this roundup. These articles will help you enhance and customize the way you use some hardware features on your Mac. The rest of the roundup is filled with fun and useful apps that can make your Mac even more useful. With that, let's begin!


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Vehicles made between 1994 and 2000, about 25 percent of the current U.S. light duty vehicle fleet, can burn gasoline fuel blends containing up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) with no negligible impact, reports Ricardo, Inc. (www.ricardo.com), the international technology and strategic consulting provider to the automotive and energy industries.
In the new study conducted for the Renewable Fuels Association (www.ethanolrfa.org), Ricardo, Inc. analyzed vehicles manufactured by six automakers (General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda and Nissan).
Ricardo concluded that the use of E15 would not adversely affect fuel system components in properly engineered vehicles when compared to E10. Ricardo reviewed vehicle calibrations from the 1994-2000 model year timeframe to analyze the potential effects on the drivability, catalytic converter durability and on-board diagnostic system when E15 fuel was introduced to vehicles. The following table demonstrates the impact of increasing blends from 10 percent to 15 percent:
"The analysis provides conclusive evidence for the EPA that there is no reason to limit the availability of E15 to newer vehicles only," said Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association. (The EPA has previously reported that it would approve E15 for 2001 and newer vehicles only.)


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DALLAS, TX: Trains always make great Christmas gifts, especially when they're life-sized! The Kansas City Southern Railway has generously donated a surplus boxcar to the Museum of the American Railroad to be added to its permanent collection.
The 50-foot all-steel boxcar is a gift that will also serve a very utilitarian function. The car will be used to load many items from the Museum's collection for transportation to Frisco next year. Large items other than cars and locomotives such as a steam boiler, a 10,000 lb electric generator from Dallas Union Terminal's power plant, and other related items will be loaded into the car as the Museum prepares for its move north.
Upon completion of the Museum's move to Frisco, the car will become part of the permanent collection as an important piece of American history. Railroads have been, and continue to be, the lifeline of the nation's commerce through their freight operations. The KCS boxcar will join an earlier running mate, a 1920s wood boxcar donated by the line in 1967 – both pieces having contributed to the growth and development of the Southwest.
Our sincere thanks to the Kansas City Southern Railway, its main offices in Kansas City, Missouri, and the line's Dallas operations. KCS and the Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad are providing free transportation of the car to Dallas. The Museum continues to benefit from the generosity of the railroad industry through contributions of significant pieces of rolling stock and archival material.
With the addition of the Smithsonian locomotive earlier this year, the Museum of the American Railroad now rosters 38 pieces of historic railroad equipment. The collection is maintained for the education and enjoyment of North Texans as well as visitors from around the world.
For more information, contact the Museum at (214) 428-0101.


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Hi guys, since I am a fan of the original anime series. So here are my reasons and opinions on why I prefer the original over the reboot.
My Childhood
I grew up with the original and I used to watch it in English dub, but upon watching it again recently in English. I found out that they actually cut out a number of things until the recent re-dub of the 90's version, despite that I am currently watching the original Japanese dub.
About Sailor Moon Crystal
Hi guys, many years ago I watched this movie and strangely I only like this movie, so here are my thoughts on the film.
The Story-Line
Okay, when I first read the movie on IMDb after not seeing it for years. I was amazed that some of the scene were either shortened or omitted, but I am very happy that like my Sakura Wars review that I wrote earlier on, the movie deals about forgiveness, friendship and teamwork.
The Characters
Apart from Disney, Sailor Moon was also part of my childhood and I knew all of the characters very...
Ive been A Fan Of Sailor Moon Since I Was 5 And Now Im 19. Ive Seen Every Episode But The One Where The Voice Actors Spoke English, For Me Personally I Did Not Like It. I Thought It Was Not Original. I Didnt Really Get Into To It That Much.
The First Episode Of Sailor Moon Christal Is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! I Cant Wait To See The Next Episode. It Brings Me Back To My Childhood. The Animation Is Much More Fluent Than It Was When It First Came Out. The Voice Actors And Actresses Did A Great Job With The Characters They Were Put With. The Transformation Sequence Was Cool And The...
We know they're there. In the Stars arc, Seiya said that any planet, regardless of size, that had life, also had a Senshi. I interpret this to mean anything big enough to possibly hold a kingdom, so that excludes microscopic asteroids but includes larger ones. The ones large enough to have names are probably large enough for kingdoms, at least that's what I'm going on. This article will list all of the named asteroids/minor planets and dwarf planets and what I think Senshi from each would be like.
Chibiusa was asleep in bed, having nightmares of the future. She was tossing and turning and whimpering. She couldn't relax.
When morning came, Chibiusa woke up to discover she'd wet Usagi's bed. She was sure Usagi would be furious. Before she could even think to do anything though, Usagi walked in the door and saw the wet spot on the bed. Chibiusa started crying and hid her face, certain Usagi would strike her. However, Usagi wasn't mad at all. She simply said, "It's okay, Chibiusa. I'll wash the sheets. Let's just get you cleaned up,...
Fumio Osano, the Sailor Moon manga's Kodansha editor who is known by his nickname "Osabu," confirmed in response to a question on his Twitter account that the new Sailor Moon anime has been delayed. The anime was previously announced as debuting this summer.
Osabu has not yet given further details, but a more formal announcement is expected soon. When asked if the anime would broadcast in winter 2014, he responded, "Not 2014. Perhaps."
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My name is Amanda and I have a favor to ask some people of. I am hoping to animate my stories which just so happen to be a Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z crossover. I need voice actors, most roles are open for each universe as of late! Here is the link to the like page which will have all of the information!
You will need to read the notes that are some where on there if you want to know more. Please help I'll greatly appreciate it too :)
It's the first day of 2013, so what a better day to make my SM 2013 wish list? Except for maybe 6-6-12 when it was announced, but I found out 3 days late, so that date was out. And I've been a lazy bum ^_^
1) First and foremost, I want to Senshi's Eternal forms, the Sailor Quartet (with Eternal forms, of course), and Sailor Cosmos. These were all of the things that made the manga different and better than the anime. They were vital to the story! I think that there isn't a doubt that these will show up, being the new anime will be loyal to the manga. Toei just needs to quit being...
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Authorities are investigating the shooting deaths of a man and a woman at an Eden Prairie apartment last weekend as a murder-suicide.
Police say 29-year-old Derrick Williams shot his wife, 26-year-old Anitra Williams, and then killed himself in the Eden Place complex in the 8600 block of Magnolia Trail.
Authorities say the shooting apparently stemmed from a domestic dispute.
Police were called to the apartment last Saturday morning and found the couple's bodies. The apartment building was evacuated for several hours.
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The Tequesta of Biscayne Bay
- The students will be able to identify characteristics of the Tequesta tribe.
- The students will be able to compare and contrast this tribe to the Calusa tribe.
- The students will be able to explain why the Tequesta did not become a large or powerful tribe.
Sunshine State Standards Benchmarks:SS.A.1.2.1 - SS.A.1.2.3 - SS.A.6.2.6 - SS.B.1.2.1
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Suggested Activities:
- Have the students identify the southeastern coastal area on a map of Florida. Label Biscayne Bay, the Miami River, and the Everglades. The students can also add pictures of the various plants and animals they used for food.
- Using a Venn diagram have the students compare and contrast the types of food eaten by the Tequesta Indians and the Tocobaga (or Calusa).
- Have the students research more about the Tequesta Indians, such as the type of homes they lived in, the clothes they wore, etc., using the web sites provided.
- Complete and review FCAT questions.
(Note: Actual FCAT practice passages are wrtten at the students' independent reading level. These Florida History selections are written at the students' instructional reading level. Therefore, students should not be asked to complete the questions until after receiving class instruction on the vocabulary and content of the passage. Students should also read the Florida History selection independently before answering the FCAT questions and be permited to return to the selection for rereading as they answer.)
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In this brilliant polemic, Russell Jacoby argues that violence erupts most often, and most savagely, between those of us most closely related. An Indian nationalist assassinated Mohandas Gandhi, "the father" of India. An Egyptian Muslim assassinated Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. An Israeli Jew assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister and similarly a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Genocide most often involves kindred groups. The German Christians of the 1930s were so closely intertwined with German Jews that a yellow star was required to tell the groups apart. Serbs and Muslims in Bosnia, like the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, are often indistinguishable even to one another.
This idea contradicts both common sense and the collective wisdom of teachers and preachers, who declaim that we fear—and sometimes should fear—the "other," the dangerous stranger. Citizens and scholars alike believe that enemies lurk in the street and beyond, where we confront a "clash of civilizations" with foreigners who challenge our way of life. Jacoby offers a more unsettling truth: it is not so much the unknown that threatens us, but the known. We attack our brothers—our kin, our acquaintances, our neighbors—with far greater regularity and venom than we attack outsiders.
Weaving together the biblical story of Cain and Abel, Freud's "narcissism of minor differences," insights on anti-Semitism and misogyny, as well as fresh analysesof "civil" bloodbaths from the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in the sixteenth century to genocide and terrorism in our own time, Jacoby turns history inside out to offer a provocative new understanding of violentconfrontation over the centuries. "In thinking about the bad, we reach for the good," he says in his Introduction. This passionate, counterintuitive account affords us an unprecedented insight into the roots of violence.


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Kate in "Madeleine", p. 71:
"At 10 pm I went back to the apartment myself. I entered the sitting room via the patio doors, as Gerry and Matt had done, and stood there, listening, for a few seconds. Then I noticed that the door to the children's bedroom was open quite wide, not how we had left it. At first I assumed that Matt must have moved it. I walked over and gently began to pull it to. Suddenly it slammed shut, as if caught by a draught.
A little surprised, I turned to see if I'd left the patio doors open and let in the breeze. Retracing my steps, I confirmed that I hadn't. "
Kate states that she entered the apartment through the (unlocked) patio doors.
Not yet having entered the children's room, she then noticed that the door to this room was "open quite wide".
She then says that she "walked over and gently began to pull it to".
She has not yet entered the room.
Imo it makes no sense to "pull the door to" of a room which one is going to enter.
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The act of "walking over" may have been meant to include entering the room - walking over to the door and entering the room - since the door was already wide open. Kate didn't have to open the door to enter the room, thus the physical description of walking over and entering the room was one action.
To satisfy details, the writer could have included, "I stepped over the threshold of the door," but they didn't because it was implied.
I have edited many papers and a few books, and it is amazing what people will leave out in their writing, thinking the reading audience knows what they mean. This type of writing omission is common and one reason I have always cautioned writers to read their works from the point of view of an objective third person, an unknowing other, someone who doesn't already know the details and actions contained in the work.
When we write, we know what we are thinking as we see the scene in our heads. The trick is to describe it so that others see the same scene.
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From the PJ police files:
Witness statement of Gerald Patrick McCann, on the 4th of May 2007, at 11.15 a.m.
Thus, at 9.05 pm, the deponent entered the club, using his key, the door being locked, and went to the children's bedroom and noted that the twins and Madeleine were in perfect condition.
Kate in "Madeleine", p. 71:
"I entered the sitting room via the patio doors, as Gerry and Matt had done."
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What's on the minds of CEOs? According to a report of over 1700 global CEOs, generating greater consumer insight is the top priority -- even more than operations, competitive intelligence, financial analysis or risk management. The study also found that the best performing firms excel at accessing data, drawing meaningful insights, and transforming this into action. Given this, it's no surprise these CEOs agree that deeper customer insight will come from a much better use of data and analytics.
CMOs are often the firm leaders trying to transform data into customer understanding. While there are a myriad of analytical tools that can be leveraged, a recent study indicated that more than 70% of CMOs feel they are underprepared to manage the explosion of data and "lack true insight." Additionally, a 2011 CMO Council report found that CMOs are overwhelmed and under pressure to make sense of the endless volumes of data. Together, these reports suggest that CEOs and CMOs are struggling to be able to convert data into consumer insight that can ultimately drive business performance.
According to Frank Wheeler, CMO of Nuveen Investments, some people may not fully understand the complexity of what's involved. "Often, there are multiple data systems that need to be integrated, an analytical capability that needs to be developed, and an advanced technical expertise needed to transform the data into useful information. What's missing is an end-to-end understanding of how to get the right data, understand it, and then turn it into a growth-driven plan."
The Problem: Dropping the Baton
Dr. R. Sukumar, Founder and CEO of Optimal Strategix Group, an analytically-centered research and consulting firm, reinforces how difficult it can be to get the right data, understand it, and then convert it into business growth. "The challenge is that this requires people with highly specialized training. As a result, these capabilities are usually outsourced to individual companies, such as marketing research or consulting firms. However, the problem is that these firms are typically experts in only one area, which can lead to a lack of cohesion throughout the process – ultimately yielding less than optimal results."
Where does Dr. Sukumar suggest starting? "CEOs and CMOs need to approach this in a strategic, integrative manner." In other words, rather than trying to pass a heavy, complicated baton across different specialists, what is needed is an end-to-end, comprehensive solution. Below are 3 key solutions that can help leaders generate more insight.
3 Solutions to Help Leaders Transform Data into Growth
Oftentimes, the poor use of data and analytics is due to a lack of executive focus and prioritization. According to recent research published in Sloan, the inability to make data and analytics a priority largely stems from inadequate understanding of how to use analytics to improve the business. Some suggestions on how to address this challenge can be found in an earlier post.
With this widespread lack of understanding, it is no wonder that data and analytics initiatives are often devalued. And without the initial prioritization, companies won't devote the necessary level of executive management needed to successfully leverage data and analytics.
Prioritization by senior executives at the beginning of the process can help ensure focus and optimal results. Denise Campbell, Project Director with OxfordSM a strategic marketing and capabilities consultancy, agrees, "One of the biggest challenges companies face in generating insights is at the beginning of the process. Taking the time to clarify the business challenge at the executive level and thinking through this from a customer perspective will help generate key questions that can guide the analysis. This is critical to be able to successfully generate and develop high-quality insights."
Having the right structure and the right resources can make or break a firm's ability to transform consumer insight into business growth. In fact, recent Accenture research suggested that a majority (51%) of Fortune 500 firms "have more opportunities to use analytics to improve the business than they have analytical resources to exploit them." The problem, it seems, is that companies don't have the time, talent, or capability to turn data into knowledge.
Assembling the right team usually requires external resources to support the employees already on staff. Ideally, it's preferable to partner with one firm who can ensure end-to-end cohesion. Once these internal and external resources are in place, companies are then better equipped to implement a smart plan for generating consumer insight.
Fortunately, Christine DeYoung, Managing Director at Stanton Chase International, sees a greater emphasis being placed on the analytical mind of top executive talent. DeYoung says, "Companies everywhere are realizing they need CMOs who understand how to utilize and leverage the necessary data to accelerate growth. These executives need to have the capability to create an end-to-end system for determining the data that is needed, generating the insight, and then turning this into profitable business growth."
3. Connecting the Dots: Using an Integrated Approach
Once generating insight from data is prioritized and the right people are on board, the key is to design an integrated program that ensures there aren't any batons dropped along the way. This process requires a leader who can "develop a unified customer insight tool box with information that is integrated from conception to launch. Today's disparate streams of data lack connectivity and aren't designed to understand the mind of the customer from beginning to end," suggests Dr. Sukumar.
The challenge with integrating the strategic, analytical, and methodological capabilities is that they require such specialized skills that assimilation alone can require a unique capability which most firms don't possess. As a result, firms outsource some of this activity across consulting firms, marketing research firms, and analytical firms and then are challenged to implement it.
Addressing this need for a comprehensive approach, David's Bridal CEO, Robert Huth, has undertaken an extensive effort to integrate all of the consumer touch points in one system. "It has taken years of effort to integrate systems and information to provide greater consumer insight. You have to figure out how to merge store data, financial data, customer shopping data, online data, and so on. And then you have to generate insight. It isn't easy, but it's necessary." Huth indicates that it began by mapping out all of the consumer touchpoints and then determining the consumer information that they either had access to or wanted to get at each of the touchpoints.
As the number of different studies indicates, using data and analytics to drive business growth is difficult, but important. It requires strategic thinking, prioritization, and resources from the very top of the firm to ensure smart plans are developed that can be excellently executed. And despite the complexity and difficulty, the firms that can figure this out will simply have a competitive advantage and for that reason, it's worth the effort.
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For Ursula Linne-Mclaren, nursing and taking care of others is a calling, and she has built a new family of patients and co-workers at UC San Diego Health.
As a case manager, she helps patients suffering from cancer at Moores Cancer Center. If they are feeling sick, she will give them a call. If they are hungry, she gets them a snack. When they need a prescription filled, she walks to the pharmacy to make sure they have the drugs they need when they leave their appointment.
"I treat my patients like they are super special, like they are family because that is how I would want to be treated," Linne-Mclaren said.
In addition to offering a personal touch, Linne-Mclaren is happy she belongs to an institution that offers the latest medical treatments. The doctor who she works for, Peter Curtin, will not rest until he can offer patients the latest and best treatments, she said. With his help, she has worked with insurance companies to make sure new drugs on the market are made available to her patients.
"I liked UC San Diego because it is a teaching hospital," Linne-McLaren said. "That means we have the latest and best standards of care and I am proud to be part of that. As a Magnet designated health system, the nurses here are a higher caliber. We have higher standards that we hold ourselves accountable for."
She shares this caring attitude with her co-workers. "If you are having a bad day, someone will give you a hug. We take care of each other."
The nurse, who graduated from nursing school in 1987, has maintained relationships with some of her patients for many years.
"We get to see the results of the work that we do every day-a mom who is able to go to her kids' graduation or a dad seeing a new grandchild being born. Patient survival varies following stem cell transplant. Some of our patients remain cancer-free for only a few months, and others stay in a remission for the rest of their lives. For them every day is a total gift. This is why I am here. My patients teach me every day is a gift and you have to be thankful for everything you get every day. That is why I love it."


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University ranks No. 23 on the Peace Corps' 2013 Top Colleges for small schools list, with 14 alumni serving overseas. Since the agency was founded in 1961, a total of 267 Bucknell alumni have served in the Peace Corps.
The annual list recognizes the highest volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the United States for small, medium, large and graduate institutions. The 2013 list marks Bucknell's first appearance on the national rankings since 2009.
Bucknell alumni are serving as volunteers in Burkina Faso, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Liberia, Mozambique, Nepal, Panama, Paraguay, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Vanuatu. They work in areas including agriculture, education, environment, health and youth development.
"I am in my third year as a Peace Corps volunteer in Vanuatu," said Nancy Miyake, a 2009 Bucknell graduate who is working to build a primary health care infrastructure in the Pacific Islands nation. "I started out working in a rural community in a northern island of the country, assisting in the management of a dispensary health facility, working on community water and sanitation projects, and teaching parents about reproductive health. I worked my way up to a position with Save the Children Australia, an NGO that runs programs nationally and across the South Pacific."
The Peace Corps ranks top colleges annually according to the size of the student body. Small schools have fewer than 5,000 undergraduates, medium-sized schools have between 5,000 and 15,000 undergraduates and large schools have more than 15,000 undergraduates. Rankings are calculated based on fiscal year 2012 data as of September 30, 2012, as self-reported by Peace Corps volunteers.
More than 8,000 volunteers are working with communities in 76 host countries on projects related to agriculture, community economic development, education, environment, health and youth development.
"Every year, graduates of colleges and universities across the United States are making a difference in communities overseas through Peace Corps service," said Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet. "As a result of the top-notch education they receive, these graduates are well prepared for the challenge of international service. They become leaders in their host communities and carry the spirit of service and leadership back with them when they return home." The next application deadline is Feb. 28. Bucknell students interested in learning more should contact Peace Corps recruiter Kimberly Helm at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Since President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by executive order on March 1, 1961, more than 210,000 Americans have served in 139 host countries. Today, 8,073 volunteers are working with local communities in 76 host countries in agriculture, community economic development, education, environment, health and youth in development. Peace Corps volunteers must be U.S. citizens and at least 18 years of age;Peace Corp service is a 27-month commitment. The agency's mission is to promote world peace and friendship and a better understanding between Americans and people of other countries Visit www.peacecorps.gov for more information.
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