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How is bullying defined? – Bullying is an intentional behavior that hurts, harms, or humiliates a student, either physically or emotionally, and can happen while at school, in the community, or online. Those bullying often have more social or physical power, while those targeted have difficulty stopping the behavior. The behavior is typically repeated, though it can be a one-time incident.
Students often describe bullying as when someone makes you feel less about who you are as a person.
Note: Definitions vary greatly. These are not legal definitions. Find your states law and definition at StopBullying.gov
Conflict vs. Bullying – Bullying is different from conflict.
Bullying is done with a goal to hurt, harm, or humiliate. With bullying, there is often a power imbalance between those involved, with power defined as elevated social status, being physically larger, or as part of a group against an individual. Students who bully perceive their target as vulnerable in some way and often find satisfaction in harming them.
In normal conflict, children self-monitor their behavior. They read cues to know if lines are crossed, and then modify their behavior in response. Children guided by empathy usually realize they have hurt someone and will want to stop their negative behavior. On the other hand, children intending to cause harm and whose behavior goes beyond normal conflict will continue their behavior even when they know it's hurting someone.
What is the difference between bullying and harassment? – Bullying and harassment are often used interchangeably when talking about hurtful or harmful behavior. They are very similar, but in terms of definition, there is an important difference.
Bullying and harassment are similar as they are both about:
The distinction between bullying and harassment is that when the bullying behavior directed at the target is also based on a protected class, that behavior is then defined as harassment. Protected classes include race, color, religion, sex, age, disability and national origin.
How does peer pressure impact bullying behavior? – Peer pressure occurs when a peer group or individual encourages others to change their attitudes, values, or behaviors to conform to those of the influencing group or individual.
Peer pressure can impact bullying behavior both in positive and negative ways. For example, the influence can have negative effects if a peer groups bullying behavior encourages others to laugh at someone. It can also be negative when the group views other individuals as not worthy to be part of their group. The impact of negative peer pressure can create environments in which individuals are intimidated to speak out on behalf of someone being hurt or harmed.
Peer pressure can also be positive and healthy. For example, when the peer group encourages kind and inclusive behavior, such as inviting others to join them at the lunch table or letting someone know that they care what is happening to them. The action of peers encouraging each other to reach out to those who are struggling can have a positive impact on the group and other individuals who want to speak out against bullying.
Can a friend be bullying me? – Friends will sometimes have bad days. Friends will sometimes disagree. Friends will sometimes hurt each other's feelings, have an argument, or simply need time away from one another. This is normal and can happen in any friendship, no matter how close. If you are experiencing treatment from a friend that hurts you and you have asked that friend to stop, but it still continues, then that is not friendship. That behavior could be bullying. Friendship behaviors do not include hurting someone on purpose or continually being mean even when asked to stop. A friend will change or be remorseful for her behavior if she finds out she's hurting you. If you aren't certain if what is happening is part of a normal friendship or if it is bullying, talk to an adult you trust and get help sorting out the relationship. And yes, it is okay (and the right thing to do) to ask for help.
Why use the term "bullying prevention" instead of "anti-bullying"? – PACERs National Bullying Prevention Center uses the term bullying prevention instead of anti-bullying to place the emphasis on a proactive approach and philosophy, framing bullying as an issue to which there is a solution. While the use of anti does appropriately indicate the concept of being against bullying, the focus on prevention recognizes that change is ultimately about shifting behavior and attitudes, which can happen through the positive approach of education, awareness, and action.


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HAMPSTEAD – England – Ed Miliband may have two kitchens in his multi-million pound mansion which he shares with his family, but he has made an announcement that he keeps one kitchen sparse so as to remind him of socialism.
"Our main kitchen of course has an Aga and all the mod cons, but our socialist kitchen upstairs is where we eat our gruel and plan the campaigns for the people of Britain, you know the masses that I keep hearing about," Miliband said from the sparse kitchenette whilst munching on a piece of lettuce.
During the interview, for BBC1, Miliband was also asked how he acquired such a luxurious property and if he paid the right amount of taxes from the sale of a previous property bought for him by his mother.
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Had to laugh at this survey which "found that a surprising majority—almost 60 percent—of American teenagers thought things like water-boarding or sleep deprivation are sometimes acceptable".
Laughed because I take it we're supposed to be shocked but the only people likely to be so are those who never talk to any actual teenagers. Teenagers are, as James rightly reminds us, mostly idiots - and tend to be, in my experience, fairly bloodthirsty.
For example, discussions about the death penalty in your average class are usually quite illuminating. Opinions will usually break down as follows: some against, some in favour, and some in favour of slow lingering torture before the death penalty is administered. "What was that thing called that they did to William Wallace? Hung, drawn and quartered? Yes, that - we should bring that back."
But at least you get a debate - whereas with a bunch of graduates, opinions on matters like this tends to be much more homogeneous. Better in some respects, one could argue? But definitely less interesting.
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Good news from the steel firm Corus. No, it isn't intending to keep its Teesside steelworks open after all, but it is proud to announce that it will invest €35m in one of its facilities in France, having won a contract from the state-owned railway company, SNCF. We could do something similar in this country, of course, had we not privatised the railways.
Ryanair fails to spot an open goal
What's going on at Ryanair? It has been two days now since the British Airways strike was announced, yet the Irish budget carrier still hasn't dispatched a press release revelling in its rival's misery. Normally it gets something out within minutes. Instead, the vacuum has been filled by BMI, which wants the world to know that it "will do all we can to assist passengers who have been caught up in the dispute".
Why Accenture should have raised Tiger's pay
Top marks to Campaign magazine's Rory Sutherland, who makes this point on his blog about Accenture's decision to dump Tiger Woods. "Surely Tiger's decision to outsource sexual services to a range of competing providers is in line with management consultancy's established best practice?" he writes. "The arrangement where he could have anything from nil to three girls on call at any one time allows for better load-balancing, enabling him to handle the peaks and troughs of demand better than under the previous inflexible arrangement."
Bankers can't depend on beating bonus tax
Eversheds makes a good point about Alistair Darling's new bank bonus tax. Though it applies to awards made in the 2009-10 tax year, the detail of the legislation governing the charge isn't due until after that period has ended, the City law firm points out. It may be tougher to dodge this one than expected then.
No need to put these goodies on expenses
Happy news for freeloading MPs. Cadbury's is taking its campaign against a Kraft buyout to the House of Commons today, and promises free chocolate all round.
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Addressing the age-old question "What is real?", Dr. Hawkins discloses many levels of reality, and how what is real at one level is not real at the next. So what is real? Does reality exist independently of observation? And what if emotions have nothing to do with reality? We mentally process and edit products of the linear world, so all information is tentative at best. Dr. Hawkins also reveals the life-altering declaration made by under 1% of humanity. He explains the difference between reality and truth, and how to increase the likelihood of making choices that lead toward truth. Find answers to these provocative issues in this enlightening seminar.
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Pro-democracy lawmakers and activists gather in Hong Kong island's Causeway Bay shopping district to promote plans for an unofficial referendum on democratic reform, May 25, 2014.
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I seen a doctor for a check up and I told him I was going to see a dentist and he told me That I mightr want to mention to the dentist that I had a purple spot under my tongue what does that mean she acted very concerned
Most "purple spots" under the tongue represent varices (also known as varicose veins). These are common and harmless. You should see your dentist so that he or she can confirm this, however.
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Cristale, Joyce and Katsoyiannis, Athanasios and Chen, Chang'er and Jones, Kevin C. and Lacorte, Silvia (2013) Assessment of flame retardants in river water using a ceramic dosimeter passive sampler. Environmental Pollution, 172. pp. 163-169. ISSN 0269-7491
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Novel brominated (BFRs) and organophosphorus (OPFRs) flame retardants were monitored in river water using the ceramic dosimeter passive sampling device with HLB (hydrophilic–lipophilic balance) as sorbent. Laboratory calibrations were performed to determine sampling rates for each compound using the Archie's law exponent. The passive sampling device was used to determine the presence of 6 BFRs in the River Aire (United Kingdom), selected according to their ubiquitous presence in the River Aire. Passive sampling integrated river water concentrations ranged from 0.010 to 5.6 μg L−1 for all OPFRs, while BFRs were not detected with this specific passive sampler configuration. Decreased sampling rates were evidenced after 3 weeks of deployment, probably due to fouling. Good agreement between integrated and snapshot water concentrations was obtained, indicating the efficiency of the passive sampler for the monitoring of OPFRs in river water.
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ceramic dosimeter ; Passive sampler ; Organophosphorous flame retardants ; Brominated flame retardants ; River water |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre |
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Early into a Friday night game at Turner Field in Atlanta at the end of July, an in-house TV spot took over a center-field video screen the size of Iowa, reminding fans to head to Braves.com for all their essentials: To get a second look at a diving catch, replace an old ballcap or secure seats for an upcoming game.
An inning later, a disembodied voice boomed throughout the ballpark, threatening to shake loose thousands of empty seats upstairs.
Derek Schiller listened to that booming voice night after night this season. And then, morning after morning, the Braves' ranking sales and marketing executive scrolled through the sales reports that lit up his computer screen.
In the five days leading up to that game in July, 547 sellers moved 2,004 tickets for $48,801 on StubHub. Nine out of 10 tickets cost less than they would have at Braves.com.
Yet almost half those tickets (45 percent) fetched more than the sellers paid for them if they were bought as season tickets — a near certainty, considering 92 percent of the baseball tickets sold on StubHub come from season accounts.
Ninety percent of the buyers got a deal, half the sellers charged more than they paid, a quarter of them made money and the Braves were left with about 20,000 unsold seats.
StubHub's deal with MLBAM served as a template for the company to sign other partnerships in sports.
The downside is that the partnership has changed the ticket market in ways that most teams are only beginning to understand, and that some fear could compromise their business at its foundation if they don't make changes soon. Increasingly, buyers are bypassing the teams and heading directly to StubHub. Some teams say the wide selection of good seats to all games has cost them season-ticket holders.
Last year, pressured by clubs that endured a frosty renewal season, including the previously StubHub-friendly New
"I don't believe there is any bigger obstacle or issue, any bigger threat to the professional team sports marketplace and industry as a whole, than what you guys are looking into," Schiller said when told of a SportsBusiness Journal project that tracked more than 7,000 StubHub transactions for MLB games played on the first Friday in August. "This is the single biggest issue facing our industry.
"The amount of dollars at risk is growing near exponentially. And we absolutely as an industry — and not just baseball — need to manage it."
This season, almost 8 million MLB tickets sold on StubHub, according to industry sources. That was an increase of almost 2 million over last year. StubHub sales rose for at least 25 of 30 teams. While the gap between the busiest and slowest sellers was vast, on average MLB clubs watched about 3,000 tickets per game, or about 10 percent of their average gate of 30,000, move on StubHub.
While he would not reveal a specific number, Schiller confirmed that the Braves were close to the average. The club also saw an almost identical decline in single game sales.
Schiller says the data deserves more study. He understands that every ticket that resold was, in fact, sold in the first place by the Braves, and that was a plus. So was the share the Braves received from the StubHub sale. Each ticket throws off $5.20 in fees and 20 to 25 percent in commissions, and baseball gets about half of that take. Still, Schiller can't help connecting the dots between those that sold twice and those that didn't sell at all.
And it troubles him.
Once thought of as a place where fans could pay a premium for great seats at hard-to-crack events, the secondary market has revealed itself to be something far more worrisome to many teams: a flea market where buyers have their pick from thousands of seats to many games, often at prices that compete with, or even beat, the prices offered by the teams.
The handful of teams in baseball, the NHL and NBA that play mostly to sold-out houses see their ticket prices hold firm on the resale market. But for many games on many nights, StubHub is the place fans go to score a deal.
"It's a dumping ground," said Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard, whose company has battled StubHub fiercely in the public forum. "The scalpers are still making their money. They're buying season tickets, making their money off the Yankees game and dumping everything else. Good for the scalpers and good for Stub. But it's killing the teams."
Not everyone sees it that way.
For a few MLB teams, such as the Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants, StubHub offers a chance to continue to make money from ticket sales, even after most of their seats have been sold. The Giants, who played to 99.8 percent capacity this season, saw about 11,000 tickets per game resell on StubHub.
"The secondary market is like anything else. You can benefit from it or you can get hurt by it. I understand that it hurts when you see your tickets out there for $2 for a particular game. It's absolutely painful. It's bad for the brand. Nobody wants to see that. But you can't close your eyes to it. You have to work to understand it and you have to adapt to it. You really don't have any choice, because the secondary market is here and it's not going away."
That long has been the mantra of one of the deal's chief architects, MLBAM Chief Executive Bob Bowman. The secondary market was coming like a freight train whether MLB welcomed it or not, and StubHub was at the front of it. Better to ride on that train than under it. Painted as a StubHub defender by the clubs, Bowman says it's time for the industry to consider whether the path it chose five years ago is right for it today.
The good news, Bowman said, is that the mountain of data that MLBAM has compiled in its five years with StubHub gives the league a far clearer picture of how the ticket market works than it would have if it kept StubHub at arm's length. He long has argued that the greatest value in that deal was in the data, not the dollars. Now he gets the chance to prove it.
"It's not just price and supply and who runs it," Bowman said. "It's those issues plus 30 more all interacting at the same time. Trying to wrestle this to the ground is not easy."
A tale of two markets
To better understand the resale market for baseball tickets, SportsBusiness Journal logged and analyzed all StubHub sales — not listings, but tickets sold — in the five days leading up to the 15 games played on the first Friday in August.
From Monday morning up until three hours before game time, sellers moved 21,466 tickets in 7,384 transactions worth $1,229,500, including fees. Nine games exceeded 1,000 tickets sold, with six of those eclipsing 1,900. Five games broke $100,000. Forty-four percent of tickets sold for less than the single-game face price.
It was one day out of 162, and captured only sales made in the final five days. A snapshot, not an MRI.
Still, based on conversations with senior executives from teams and ticketing companies, many of the revelations gleaned from that snapshot reflect the broader problems they face.
Prominent among them: There are two StubHubs.
On that week, there was the StubHub of the Giants, Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins and Pittsburgh Pirates,GETTY IMAGES
Teams whose tickets are in high demand, such as the Giants, are more likely to embrace the league's StubHub partnership.
And then there was the StubHub of the other two-thirds of the teams — the Los Angeles Angels, Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles, Arizona Diamondbacks, Florida Marlins, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Tampa Bay Rays, Colorado Rockies and Kansas City Royals — each of which saw upward of 69 percent of their tickets sell for less than the face price. More than 80 percent of tickets were under face for six of those 10 games.
The Angels were a game out of first place at the time. The Diamondbacks were on their way to winning the NL West. The Rangers would make the World Series. The Mets were hosting the Braves.
It was the first weekend in August. Kids were out of school. Rain wasn't a factor anywhere. And yet scores of tickets flipped on StubHub at a discount.
At the offices of the Angels, the team's vice president of marketing and ticket sales listened to the roll of clubs that saw thousands of tickets sell for less than face on that night and sighed in resignation.
"We did it to ourselves," said Robert Alvarado, who this season watched an average of 4,100 of his tickets sell on StubHub for each game. "StubHub was a small player. And we blew it up. They're legitimate now. And it's killing us.
It's killing us.
Alvarado spun back to an industry meeting four years ago, when news circulated that MLB would sign a lucrative deal to integrate StubHub as its official reseller. The Angels, who were happy with the resale site they were running for their season-ticket holders, were vocal opponents of the deal.
"I was one of two or so people that spoke up," Alvarado said. "StubHub was going to throw this big check on us. We were going to capture names of buyers that we weren't capturing before. And I remember, I said, 'Mark my words: Heaven help us. Heaven help us because the customer isn't going to know the difference between the primary and the secondary once we're a few years into this thing.'
"I don't see myself as a prophet, but it happened. We got screwed."
Alvarado remains a harsh critic of the deal. But he concedes that it came to be for reasons that sounded attractive to many, and still resonate today.
"They paid baseball a fair amount of money; a lot of money," said Bob DuPuy, who was president of MLB when the owners made the deal. "There was a realization that someone was going to serve as the secondary market for tickets. Better to get paid and have it be StubHub than to not get paid and have it be Hubstub."
Whether it was resignation to the inevitable, or the recognition of an opportunity, MLB's deal with StubHub has changed the world for many teams; none more so than those in baseball, with all its seats and games.
For StubHub, the baseball deal mirrors a marked upward tick for the company as a whole and the secondary ticket market at large. When StubHub signed the MLBAM deal in 2007, its website averaged 2.5 million unique visitors. Today, it's more than 12 million. StubHub's brand awareness stands at 65 percent, the second-largest such figure of any ticketing company, trailing only industry giant Ticketmaster.
"StubHub paid a lot of money to get that kind of Kleenex brand preference," said Dave Butler, CEO of Paciolan, the No. 2 brand on the primary ticketing side. "Some may not like it, but they've won that war."
The MLBAM alliance, of course, isn't solely responsible for the lift. But StubHub has used the baseball deal as a template for an array of subsequent pacts with teams and leagues, particularly within college sports. For a company that started more than a decade ago as Liquid Seats and was openly derided by team and league executives as simply electronic ticket scalping, the shift has been striking.
"Not all these deals in the industry have worked out," said Greg Bettinelli, a former eBay Tickets executive who was one of the principal architects of the StubHub-MLBAM deal. "But with baseball, everybody got paid, barriers were broken down, and the fan had a better experience."
Now a senior vice president for Nordstrom-owned discount outlet HauteLook, Bettinelli said none of the principals involved could have fully foretold the downward ticket price pressure that would beset the deal, and secondary ticketing in general. Since 2007, average ticket sales prices on StubHub, regardless of sport, have fallen each year, dropping from $112 per ticket in 2007 to $104 in '08, $94 in '09, $84 in '10 and $82 thus far this year.
While a tumble in discretionary spending is to blame for some of that, Schiller and others more often point to the flood of ticket postings as the root.
"By creating an ease of integration and credibility, we have allowed for a great deal of amateur resellers to get into that marketplace, and now we've got this tremendous volume of tickets showing up," Schiller said. "The casual fans can see they can make money. And in a lot of ways they have become smarter than many of the teams themselves. They're better at selling tickets. They don't have the issues and handicaps the teams have. It's something very problematic for the industry now that we made it credible."
Here's what often happens:
A ticket broker — either professional or semi-pro — buys season tickets. Or a fan plans to sell enough games to finance part, or all, of his cost. Both hold tickets to games they have no intention of attending.
Brokers might expect to make money on most Red Sox games, because they're all sold out. But in most cases, they
"If a season-ticket holder or avid fan sees that they can get a ticket for less than full price, that becomes a problem," said Adam Kanner, a former NBA executive who is CEO and co-founder of ScoreBig, a recently launched online reseller that would allow teams and concert promoters to unload discounted tickets blindly, a la Priceline. "This is why the secondary market is dangerous. If the secondary market were still focused on what it was built to do — sell stuff for more and provide season-ticket holders with a convenience — then there's some uncaptured opportunity for the teams, but it still solves a real problem. Instead, it has become the problem."
The root of that problem, teams and ticketing companies say, is that clubs traditionally haven't priced tickets in a way that reflects demand.
That has been the drumbeat of Ticketmaster for the past year. This summer, Hubbard embarked on a road show in which the company met with about 1,000 clients in six weeks. The secondary market and its impact on pricing was only a small part of what they discussed. But, in Hubbard's mind, nothing was more important.
"First of all, they have to price their tickets better," Hubbard said, pointing to improvements some Ticketmaster clients saw when testing dynamic pricing last year. "In many cases, they're underpricing the premium games and overpricing the non-premium games. You have to address that. And, oh by the way, set the season-ticket prices up front in a smarter way. The good news in this for the teams is that a lot of them are charging too little for their season tickets. If the broker is buying it, it's not the right price."
It's not an issue for all teams, but it's a key point for some. Among the 15 games played on Aug. 5, five showed sizable opportunities for sellers to use discounts they got purchasing season tickets to undercut the teams. To smoke those out, SportsBusiness Journal identified sales where the purchase price was below the single-game price offered by the teams, but high enough for the StubHub seller to turn a profit. Five teams saw it occur on more than one-fourth of their StubHub sales — the Orioles (25 percent), Angels (30 percent), Rockies (33 percent), Diamondbacks (42 percent) and Rangers (53 percent).
Looking at those clubs and those particular tickets, more closely, it's clear that it happens because of wide gaps between their season-ticket prices and single-game prices. When a team offers a season-ticket incentive, such as the Angels' "Buy 2 at Window Price, Get Two Free" program, or the Braves' "Buy 3, Get 1" deal, it creates even more profit potential for resellers.
"The teams, including the Atlanta Braves, caused some of our issues," Schiller said. "It doesn't mean that we like it. But we were inadvertently the cause of certain increases in the secondary market, just by the way we sold our tickets and priced our tickets and distributed them.
"We have to look at all those things."
The good news, Schiller said, is that some of the fixes might be relatively easy.
One that is catching on rapidly — first in the NBA and now in baseball — is variable pricing of season tickets. The season-ticket price remains the same, but the price shown for each game varies. Season-ticket holders might see a price of $32 on their seats for most weekend games, but $55 when the Yankees are in town and $18 for most weeknight games. That allows the team to price single-game seats to low-demand games as low as $18 without raising the ire of the season customer who previously would have thought of that as lower than what he paid.
Interestingly, the ticket executive from the team that has won biggest with dynamic pricing thus far has his doubts about that. While dynamic pricing allows the Giants to move down on prices when seats don't sell, they have promised season-ticket holders they would always get the lowest price.
"If anything scares me about dynamic, it's that in a down time you have to push the envelope on floors," Stanley said. "We've committed that we'd never go below the face value we set for that game at the start of the season. Well, there are times we may miss on that. Maybe we have the game [in the wrong price category].
"I'd like to get to a point where the season-ticket holder looks at the ticket as a whole package. We'd never go below what the package cost. If your ticket said $10 and I sell it for $8, you don't care because if you bought your $800 ticket package one ticket at a time it would be $1,000. We have to get beyond the idea that there's a value on each ticket and get fans to see it as a package."
What's next?
Lou DePaoli's view of the secondary market changed almost a decade ago, when his wife's younger brother saw his number come up on the Boston Red Sox waiting list. He bought season seats in the bleachers in right field, above the Sox bullpen, about 15 rows up. Then a single high school teacher who had recently finished work on his master's degree, DePaoli's brother-in-law went to about 60 of 81 games for each of the first few years.
"He's a baseball fanatic, so he went to as many as he could," said DePaoli, the Pittsburgh Pirates' executive vice president and CMO. "And then it hit him. I don't need to go to 60. What if I went to 40 and sold the rest? What if I only took 20? What if I sold the Yankees games? I'll go watch the A's on a Tuesday and my profits will pay for everything, plus cover 25 percent next year. I can go to all the baseball I want to, and make money, too.
"He teaches AP economics now. He uses his tickets as an example of supply and demand."
DePaoli suspects he is an outlier on much of the current debate around StubHub. He doesn't mind others making money on his tickets, so long as it keeps them coming back to buy more. While many teams profess a distaste for brokers, DePaoli embraces them, targeting them for season tickets and contacting them to offer a package when he sees them hitting high-demand games. He says he is drop-dead sure that he has made more sales as a result of leads generated via StubHub than he has lost when its listings beat his price.
"I know a lot of people think the sky is falling," said DePaoli, whose club sees about 2,100 tickets move on StubHub per game. "I don't see it that way. It's something you have to be aware of and work within. It's not going to be the end of season tickets. It's not going to wipe out our single-game sales.
"How flexible are you to changing your business model? How do we appropriately price our tickets? That's what this is."
Derrick Hall, president and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks, takes a similar view.
"When you finally realize that the secondary market is actually an incentive to sell season tickets — which is what we're all in the business of doing — then you embrace it and you use it," Hall said "We don't hit our numbers without StubHub. So as much as we could complain — and it's a great excuse to take to the owner, because he knows the other owners are hearing it — you can't have it both ways."
Based on conversations with other team executives, many see it as more than that.
One point generating debate is the desire, shared by many teams, that the next iteration of MLB's resale market include a floor on prices. They want to keep sellers from listing tickets below season prices on their official marketplace — StubHub, or whatever they choose next. Even one team that has benefited from high StubHub demand — the Twins — says it favors a floor.
Alvarado, of the Angels, says he would oppose any deal that didn't include a floor.
"If StubHub doesn't want to alter that model, we'll have to look elsewhere," Alvarado said. "I believe the majority of teams will put their foot down and say we're not going to do this without a hard floor."
The president of StubHub, Chris Tsakalakis, acknowledges the company has heard those concerns from some teams, but said there is no interest from his camp in any sort of price floors or other pricing controls.
"If we were to impose price controls, floors or ceilings, that would just open things up to a competitor who would not," Tsakalakis said. "Market pricing by its very nature is free, and trying to control it just means you push it to other avenues."
StubHub, for its part, would like to renew the MLBAM deal.
"Baseball has been a very good partner, and we are very keen to continue the relationship if that's what ends up happening," Tsakalakis said. "We'd definitely like to remain in partnership with them."
It could well go that way. Or MLBAM could launch its own branded secondary market. It could allow teams to choose their own official resellers, as they do in the primary market, and marry the two. Bowman said one thing that is clear is that clubs likely would be best served in this next go around if each has more latitude to choose what's right for them.
"We have to manage this issue," said the Braves' Schiller. "Doing the SWAT analysis, this is threat No. 1. But it also is an opportunity. Because if we become smarter in the way we manage this part of the business, it can lead to increased revenue and ticket sales.
"And if we don't, we're going to head the other way."
Mariners @ Angels
Attendance: 38,727
654 sales 2,074 tickets
$53,794 in sales
Sold below face: 91%
See detailsBraves @ Mets
Attendance: 30,607
675 sales 1,927 tickets
$119,767 in sales
Sold below face: 76%
See detailsBrewers @ Astros
Attendance: 25,811
115 sales 358 tickets
$11,835 in sales
Sold below face: 84%
See detailsBlue Jays @ Orioles
Attendance: 18,770
209 sales 616 tickets
$22,398 in sales
Sold below face: 77%
See detailsYankees @ Red Sox
Attendance: 38,006
537 sales 1,248 tickets
$304,761 in sales
Sold below face: 0.5%
See detailsReds @ Cubs
Attendance: 42,245
561 sales 1,499 tickets
$115,158 in sales
Sold below face: 27%
See detailsDodgers @ Diamondbacks
Attendance: 27,215
252 sales 683 tickets
$23,712 in sales
Sold below face: 69%
See detailsPhillies @ Giants
Attendance: 42,165
1,419 sales 3,862 tickets
$280,521 in sales
Sold below face: NA
See detailsCardinals @ Marlins
Attendance: 19,303
97 sales 343 tickets
$10,531 in sales
Sold below face: 93%
See detailsPadres @ Pirates
Attendance: 37,766
575 sales 2,016 tickets
$56,996 in sales
Sold below face: 14%
See detailsA's @ Rays
Attendance: 15,168
195 sales 491 tickets
$19,799 in sales
Sold below face: 91%
See detailsIndians @ Rangers
Attendance: 37,842
650 sales 1,932 tickets
$80,079 in sales
Sold below face: 73%
See detailsNationals @ Rockies
Attendance: 35,034
345 sales 1,165 tickets
$29,801 in sales
Sold below face: 78%
See detailsTigers @ Royals
Attendance: 28,565
255 sales 895 tickets
$20,385 in sales
Sold below face: 92%
See detailsWhite Sox @ Twins
Attendance: 41,364
845 sales 2,357 tickets
$151,898 in sales
Sold below face: 7%
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About our ticketing project
The idea for this project was born shortly after I became a first-time StubHub customer in April. I bought four tickets to a Saturday night baseball game at prices below the team's. When they arrived, I saw that, based on the price printed on the ticket, the seller — who was a broker — had turned a small profit. While I celebrated my savings, I knew this couldn't be good for the team. I wondered how often it happened. We decided to take a look.
From there, baseball writer Eric Fisher and I used the data as the premise for some questions. Teams told us that while what we had was merely a snapshot, it reflected some of the key issues that they face. So we started asking more questions. What we heard back framed the story in this issue.
You'll find far more data — including an analysis of each of the 15 games — on our website, sportsbusinessjournal.com. Click on a game and you'll find the numbers behind the numbers, including how much fans saved by buying on StubHub and how much sellers likely made or lost while flipping their tickets. You'll also find a few surprises, such as the fact that on the day before the Boston Red Sox game against the New York Yankees at Fenway, someone sold six tickets near the back of the right-field boxes for $50 each, which was $2 under face and $147 below the average price for the other 211 tickets sold in that section. Apparently, even Santa sells on StubHub.
— Bill King
Ticket market could find fortune in FAME
Let me begin by stating that I am not opposed to what has been referred to up until now as the secondary ticket market. The so-called secondary ticket market has become primary because it met the needs of consumers in ways that the teams, at the time, were unable or unwilling to do. These sellers provide:
■ Access/availability: No matter what the event, there are always tickets available — for a price.
■ Customization: Secondary ticket market inventory permits the buyer to create a ticket plan that fits his/her budget, business/entertainment needs. Unlike ticket plans offered by the team, secondary ticket market buyers can determine the number of games they wish to attend, select a variety of seating locations, and elect to include premium amenities such as club access or food for some games but not for others.
■ Authenticity: The secondary ticket market historically lacked the perception that it was a safe and legitimate place to buy tickets. Ironically, the primary market, through sponsorship agreements such as the MLB/StubHub relationship, has granted that legitimacy and authenticity and even promotes it in ballparks.
■ Convenience: The potential buyer can shop numerous secondary ticket market sites and compare prices, utilize tools such as virtual views to compare seating locations, and even negotiate in the form of bidding for the tickets on various sites.
The combination of all of these factors has led to what some have described as the "death of season tickets" and a secondary market that buyers are turning to first when looking to purchase tickets. It has proved to be much more flexible and accommodating in terms of meeting their needs.
So what can the teams and other venues do to become "primary" once again? There are a variety of possibilities, but many of them might be perceived as more restrictive and the result might be to lose even more buyers to the secondary market. So I looked to my own experiences both as a season-ticket holder (with the Orlando Magic, Pittsburgh Pirates and University of Central Florida baseball) and as a Hilton time-share owner. What I envision is a program called FAME — Flexible Account Management and Execution.
Program elements
Just as a time-share owner has a base level of days to utilize during the course of the year, a season-ticket holderDoes the time-share market hold the key for a new approach to selling tickets?
So if I have 7,200 points, that may translate to one-week prime-time in a one-bedroom unit or possibly two weeks in a non-prime-time studio unit. I could also elect to invest in a penthouse for four nights in New York City during the holidays. All of these options would exhaust my point allotment. But as you can see, I was able to move up or down depending upon my needs and interests.
In the FAME model, we would view the amount paid for the season tickets similarly to the flexible points in my Hilton example. Therefore, if I purchased season baseball tickets and spent $10,000, I would have access to the 81 games in the seat location that I purchased, or I would be able to use the $10,000 as points to be allocated for games that I would choose to upgrade or downgrade in consultation with my account representative, or a combination of the two. I can choose to attend whenever I want, except that if I do not choose to upgrade or downgrade, I am utilizing the tickets I bought whether or not I attend. So there is a "breakage" in terms of failing to manage my tickets. And in some cases, teams with available inventory might offer redemption nights to utilize tickets for games that have been missed.
The value of the games that I may choose to upgrade and utilize might come at a higher cost, possibly exhausting my account balance prior to the end of the season. This enables the team to sell me additional games or points, particularly if the team is involved in a pennant chase. Another value is that it permits buyers to vary their experiences by sitting in different locations with varying amenities. For example, a business owner holding club-level seats might wish to upgrade to entertain a client and would like to do that at the "Home Plate Club." If inventory is available, then the transaction can take place and the buyer would work with their representatives to return to inventory the buyer's original seats for that game and the appropriate number of seats/games to make up for the additional cost of the upgrade. This sampling program may result in that buyer purchasing a more expensive seat location the following year.
Another option might be to convert a number of games into a group night for employees, a church group or perhaps the son or daughter's little league team. While this might be considered a downgrade, it is a fantastic sampling program for the team because it may bring in people who have never attended a game before.
It provides a higher level of control to the buyer than any other season-ticket product currently on the market, and that control is shared with the team, thus making the team the primary outlet. Another benefit for the team is that these tickets have been purchased at the season-ticket-holder rate, but when tickets are turned back in to the team for resale, they can be sold at the variable or dynamic rate, or even the day-of-game rate — in all cases probably higher than the original cost. This creates another profit center to be augmented by convenience fees for the exchange or the upgrade, but let's not be excessive or once again we will drive them away.
Can it be executed?
I spoke with a number of teams who liked the concept, but I reached out to John Walker, president and CEO of Tickets.com, to find out what it would take to execute.
"The key to offering this type of flexibility to your subscription buyers is in the execution," Walker said. "Traditional ticketing software has been designed with fairly rigid architecture that forces sales to occur in specific ways within the system so that sales activity can be audited and reported on very easily. This has limited the ability for organizations to experiment with alternative ways to price and sell their products. Attempts to configure 'flex dollars' packages in ticketing systems have been extremely cumbersome, and typically require a box office, call center or customer service agent to handle the transferring and fulfillment of event tickets from within the 'flex' package/account. Although this approach provides an opportunity for a team to offer a personal, concierge-like service for VIP customers, it doesn't scale."
Walker said that the goal at Tickets.com is to make technology more flexible and robust to allow experimentation in packaging, price and event allocation, while solidifying the reporting of data involved. He used the company's ProVenue offering as an example. It allows the changing of any price for any particular ticket at any time, he said, unlike traditional systems that require the creation of a new ticket type every time a price is changed.
"This can be done with bulk and automated tools, eliminating the need for staff to manually update prices individually," Walker said. "The key to the FAME-style offering is allowing fans to self-manage their account given the business rules established by the team for upgrades, exchanges, etc. We have already developed tools that enable fans to manage certain aspects of their tickets easily online, making it more convenient for fans to distribute and keep track of their tickets. The FAME concept would require additional development, but is certainly something that ProVenue's flexibility will allow."
I am hoping one of my clients or readers will agree to beta test the FAME concept in 2012. While it may not be the final solution, it is a start for the fans and the teams to work closer together buying and selling an entertainment solution that works for everyone.
Bill Sutton (email@example.com) is a professor and associate director of the DeVos Sport Business Management Program at the University of Central Florida and principal of Bill Sutton & Associates. Follow him on Twitter @Sutton_Impact.
Colleges jump on secondary bandwagon
Last season, StubHub processed more than 3,500 transactions for tickets to home football games at Clemson University. For the most part, the school had no idea where those tickets were going.
Since then, the Tigers have made StubHub their official fan-to-fan marketplace, and while it's still hard to distinguish whether they are ticket-selling partners or competitors, Clemson officials are confident they are better off embracing the secondary ticket giant.
Every time a Clemson ticket moves on StubHub, the school collects data about the buyer and a transaction fee from StubHub, which also pays an annual sponsorship fee. Sponsorships range from $75,000 at smaller schools to the $300,000 to $400,000 range at larger schools.
"Sure, there are some concerns, but we think it's doing the job of putting people in the seats," said Travis Furbee, Clemson's assistant athletic director and manager of IPTAY, the school's booster group. "Before, those tickets might have been sitting in a desk drawer, going unused."
Clemson University is among the schools that have signed partnerships with StubHub, but could the deals harm annual fundraising?
Other schools, such as Oklahoma, have created their own ticket exchange on their official websites and, for now, are resisting StubHub.
"We've looked at it and we've decided not to do it," said Joe Castiglione, Oklahoma's athletic director. "We're constantly trying to measure our own effectiveness versus other secondary businesses, and this is what we're sticking with. But we have to be always mindful of how the market is changing."
StubHub had a handful of deals with universities before, but its presence within the college space has grown significantly in the last year thanks to a partnership with Paciolan, a ticketing software company that already had a 30-year foothold with hundreds of college relationships.
The deal between StubHub and Paciolan allows ticket holders to resell their tickets by logging in to StubHub's online site and entering a bar code number, which StubHub verifies as a legitimate ticket. The ticket is then resold, a new bar code is issued for the ticket, and it's digitally delivered to the buyer, making a Friday night or Saturday morning transaction conceivable.
That buyer's contact information is then shared with the school's athletic department, which typically adds the buyer to mailing lists for its booster club marketing.
"I tell presidents and ADs all the time that the secondary market is going to happen with you or without you," said Paciolan CEO Dave Butler. "The universities that are participating are getting revenue from sponsorships and fees, and the season-ticket holders like it. They're also growing a database of buyers that could bring in new donations in the future. Some schools with a more limited demand don't view this as such a big issue. We let the schools make the choice."
The relationship between Paciolan and StubHub, which created a safer, more seamless method of transferring tickets, has hastened StubHub's ability to find new college deals.
"It's not about revenue," said Clint Gwaltney, North Carolina's associate athletic director for ticketing. "It's about customer service. We knew tickets were already going to StubHub and now we can track it. It prevents a lot of issues on game day."
What this will do to the ticket market in the next five to 10 years remains to be seen. Donations to athletic departments are typically attached to season-ticket purchases. The higher the donation, the better the location of the ticket.
Clemson's season-ticket holders on the 40-yard line are required to make a $700 donation to have access to those tickets, and many contribute more, Furbee said.
But if a season-ticket holder instead can go to StubHub and buy a similar ticket without having to make the donation to the athletic department, that could threaten a school's ability to raise funds.
School administrators say the strong affinity between college fans and their team has prevented defections from the base of booster club members.
"Does it chip away at annual fundraising?" Clemson's Furbee said. "That's something that's in the back of your mind, it's something you need to be cognizant of."
But Gwaltney also knows of cases where season-ticket holders use the secondary market to resell tickets at a higher price than face value. Do that enough times and those fans cover the cost of their donation.
Often, fans follow a pattern of behavior that they've developed over years.
"When we have inventory and the secondary market is flooded with tickets under face value, some people will go to StubHub and get them, but we still have a group buy them for face value from our office," Gwaltney said. "We've also seen people go to StubHub and buy tickets for twice the face value when he could have bought through us for face value."
While schools might continue to wonder if they're letting the fox into the henhouse by driving business to StubHub, many come back to the same conclusion.
"StubHub is not going away," Gwaltney said.
Senior writer Bill King contributed to this report.


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Thursday, 14 February 2013
Contrary to what seems to be popular opinion (at least on Twitter this morning), I rather like Valentine's Day. Whether I'm single or attached for it, it's an excuse to embrace all things kitsch and get baking (for boyfriend, colleagues, whoever!).
This year I baked LOTS of neon pink sugar hearts (had to change up the colour levels to convey exactly how fluorescent they are in real life) using this simple recipe, a heart cutter and some very strong red food colouring gel - guaranteed to fill the recipient with love and E-numbers.
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Oh yum! You made those? They look absolutely delicious and what a sweet thought baking for everyone. We just do a nice dinner at home and a movie. Spend some nice time together but avoid the 'I should buy something' aspect of the day :) I hope you had a great day.


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Everyman Band was an American jazz fusion group active in the early 1980s and featuring Marty Fogel on saxophones, Bruce Yaw on bass, Michael Suchorsky on drums and David Torn on guitar.[1] The band's origins lay in Lou Reed's backing band in the late 1970s with various members (with the exception of Torn) appearing on Coney Island Baby (1975), Rock and Roll Heart (1976), Street Hassle (1978), and The Bells (1979) and the live album Live: Take No Prisoners (1978).[2] Michael Suchorsky continued playing with Reed until 1980's Growing Up in Public album and tour.
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A grand jury will hear a case against an Anniston man charged with shooting another man to death in June.
Lonnie Spinks, 32, is charged with capital murder in connection with the June 25 death of Marlin Monroe Jones, 55, of Hutto Hill Road.
Calhoun County District Judge Chris McIntyre in a preliminary hearing Thursday spoke briefly to Spinks, his attorney and District Attorney Brian McVeigh before sending the case to a grand jury, to be heard in August.
Spinks was in the Calhoun County Jail on Thursday. His bond was set at $100,000.
A press release from Anniston police states there was an argument between Jones and others at a residence on the 3500 block of West 14th Street, an area known as Central City.
Jones and three others were driving away from that residence when Spinks shot into the vehicle, hitting Jones in the lower left portion of his back, according to the release.
Jones pleaded guilty to murder in 2008 in connection with the deadly stabbing of an 18-year-old man in 2004. Jones was sentenced to 20 years, serving four of those years in prison. He was to remain on probation for the remainder of that sentence.


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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Free Postcards Giveaway!
I got a bunch of promotional postcards printed from Vistaprint, to hand out over the weekend. I made three different designs - two Everywoman magazine covers (one wartime, one early 50s) and one from my "Marilyn" pin-up beach photo shoot. Anyway, to celebrate Vintage this weekend I'm offering these up as a giveaway for all followers!
Any follower is entitled to one, and if you post a link back to this giveaway on your blog or twitter, and/or Like my new facebook page you can have more! Just email me your postal address and I'll pop one (or more) in the mail for you.
This is so much fun - I'm already picking out more images to make into postcards in the future, so this probably won't be the last giveaway of this type.
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- Lynn DoeAugust 17, 2010 at 11:57 PM
They are really nice postcards :) Have invited lots of friends to your facebook wall, so hope they like them too :0)
ReplyDelete This is cool ~ will definately post about this on my blog!
b. of Depict This!Oh, and I 'liked' your page on FB too.... ^__^
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was the fortieth President of the United States and the thirty-third Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric . His start in politics occurred during his work for GE; originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.
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Mexico's cost advantage over China, other economies will boost exports and U.S. manufacturers
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State of Logistics 2016: Pursue mutual benefit California's ports may face new political pressures during "Peak Season" CEMA forecasts 7.5% growth in conveyor industry for 2017 Schneider National officially rolls out IPO U.S.-NAFTA freight up again in January, reports BTS More NewsWithin five years, higher manufacturing exports due to a widening cost advantage over China and other major economies could add $20 billion to $60 billion in output to Mexico's economy annually. And due to the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), U.S. manufacturers of components for everything from automobiles to computers assembled in Mexico also stand to benefit, according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
The key drivers of Mexico's improving competitive edge are relatively low labor costs and shorter supply chains due to the country's proximity to markets in the U.S. Another important advantage is that Mexico has 44 free-trade agreements—more than any other nation—allowing many of its exports to enter major economies with few or no duties.
A tipping point was reached in 2012, when average manufacturing costs in Mexico, adjusted for productivity, dropped below those of China. By 2015, BCG projects, average total manufacturing costs in Mexico are likely to be around 6% lower than in China and around 20 to 30% lower than in Japan, Germany, Italy, and Belgium.
"Mexico is in a strong position to be a significant winner from shifts in the global economy," said Harold L. Sirkin, a BCG senior partner. "That is good news not only for Mexico, which relies on exports for around one-third of its GDP. It's also good for America, since products made in Mexico contain four times as many U.S.-made parts, on average, as those made in China."
The research is part of BCG's ongoing "Made in America, Again" series on the changing global economics of manufacturing, produced by its Operations and Global Advantage practices. BCG has previously released research predicting that rising U.S. exports, combined with production "reshored" from China, could create up to 5 million new U.S. jobs in manufacturing and related services by the end of the decade, thanks largely to significant labor- and energy-cost advantages over Western Europe and Japan and rising costs in China.
Global companies are expected to continue moving production to Mexico despite concerns over crime and safety. Research by the World Economic Forum has found that companies view violence and corruption as the most problematic factors of having operations in Mexico—as well as significant costs of doing business. Another drawback is the perception that Mexico lacks enough skilled workers.
But the cost advantages of producing in Mexico are becoming so attractive that many companies are finding ways to mitigate these perceived risks. "When the economics are a wash, U.S. manufacturers often keep production in the U.S.," said Michael Zinser, a BCG partner who leads the firm's manufacturing work in North America. "But when the economics are compelling, companies will invest in additional security and training to address these issues."
Mexico's labor costs are especially competitive when productivity differences with other economies are factored in. By 2015, for example, average manufacturing-labor costs in Mexico are projected to be 19% lower than in China, where wages are rising rapidly, and around 30% lower when adjusted for output per worker. In 2000, Mexican labor was 58% more expensive than in China. Mexico will also have lower energy costs than many other economies. Average electricity costs are around 4% lower in Mexico than in China, for example, while the average price of industrial natural gas is 63% lower.
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I've been on a mission today to find some good spots to build links, and I've found another great site with a lot of content and users that provides a do follow back link as well as revenue sharing. Xomba has been running for just over 2 years and the site has show very impressive growth. The site provides a great place to write some content, share bookmarks and in the end get that do follow link. I'd just like to mention if anyone from Xomba reads this post, I'd just have to mention that I think it's time to redo the site design lol…it looks like it's still back in 06! So what are you waiting for? Go sign up now.
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Yup, we're in the middle of redesign. The main thing is people actually make money using Xomba. We have people who make 100 dollars a month to a few at 70-100 dollars a day.
That matters more thna design to us. However, we are hard at work with redesign. New features are coming up every week, plus we are working on a whole new theme that should make it look like 2009.


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kwyjibo precisava de um novo design de página da web e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 11 designs enviados por 9 designers freelancers.
Looking for a new website layout for Fresh Fish House. We need pages for store locations as well as ecommerce. Please see design brief for more info and logo.
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Desired Color Scheme:
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