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The U.S. men's national soccer team visited the National 9-11 Memorial at Ground Zero on Monday. The group visit was the idea of its German-born head coach Jurgen Klinsmann, who wants to forge a deeper bond between the players and the country they represent, according to the New York Times.
"For us, as a soccer team representing the United States, it's a wonderful opportunity," Klinsmann said. "Yes, we are only representing soccer, but we have a generation of people with dual citizenship. This gives us a deep sense, a deep connection, of who we represent — a very special country, an amazing country."
Team USA was in New York City ahead of Tuesday's friendly against Ecuador at Red Bull Arena in nearby Harrison, N.J. The group took a guided tour of the eight acre memorial and museum. Players shared personal memories from that tragic day and posed for a team photos.
"This is the first time I've actually been back, and it's pretty emotional," goalkeeper and New Jersey native Tim Howard said. "They've turned what was a huge tragedy into something very beautiful here with the memorial."
The National 9-11 Memorial opened on Sept. 11, 2011 – a decade after the twin towers fell — and it is believed that the U.S. men's national soccer team is the first sports team representing the country to visit the site as a group.
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One of the best parts of working on our book Eat Good Food was going on "field trips" to meet and photograph some of the producers whose fruits, vegetables, cheeses, breads, and other products we sell at the Market. Our goal in doing so was not just to put a face to these products, but to explain what exactly makes the products so good. This video was taken on one such visit, when we went to Firebrand Artisan Breads' facility in Emeryville, CA.
It was amazing to watch owner Matt Kreutz working with naturally leavened dough (i.e. no commercial yeast used) and a wood-fired oven. He works by hand in small batches, and really "babies" each loaf, giving it more or less time in the oven depending on what it needs. In this video, you'll hear Dabney and I asking him questions in the background, and you'll also see our photographer France off to the side. (She's also the one with the accent, if you couldn't guess.)
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An estimated 50 barrels of oil spilled from a pipeline operated by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC into a waterway outside Houston, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Shell clean-up crews were working to clear the crude out of Vince Bayou, a waterway that connects to the Houston Ship Channel, which leads into the Gulf of Mexico, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Steven Lehman. The spill was contained but the total amount of oil was still being verified, Officer Lehman said.
"That's a very early estimate--things can change," Officer Lehman said.
On April 3, about 700 barrels were found to have leaked from the West Colombia pipeline because of an unknown cause, with up to 60 of those barrels emerging in the bayou, Shell spokeswoman Kim Windon said. The pipeline had been shut down and isolated on March 29 after alarms alerted the company that oil may have leaked from the line.
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Likud acted Tuesday to ban Rabbi Meir Kahane's extremist Kach party from running in the Knesset elections next November.
Deputy Minister Ronni Milo disclosed that Likud will ask the Central Eletions Committee to reject Kahane's list, because of Kach's racist views. He said Likud would never cooperate with "a racist party" or take it as a coalition partner.
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'Amber Behind Bars: An MTV Special' will see Dr. Drew having a discussion with the troubled reality star about what life has been like in the Rockville Correctional Facility.
Amber Portwood's troubled life will once again get highlighted on a TV show. The star of "Teen Mom" will appear in an MTV special that will feature her and Dr. Drew having an intimate discussion about what life has been like since she got locked up in the Rockville Correctional Facility in June this year.
The mother of one will open up about her relationship with her daughter Leah, ex-boyfriend Gary and her family, as well as share her hopes for the future. Titled "Amber Behind Bars: An MTV Special", the half-hour interview will premiere Tuesday, October 9 at 10 P.M. ET/PT.
In a season 4 finale special of "Teen Mom", Portwood said in a statement, "Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing with my life. I guess I just got lost. I went to jail because I had an addiction to opiates. You live and you learn, and that's real"
"I'm not a normal 21-year-old - I'm a mother," she added. "Which means I have to grow up quicker and start acting like a mother.... Right now my number one priority in life is dedicating my life to being sober, to being a sober person. And to show my daughter that people make mistakes but you can always come back."
MTV canceled "Teen Mom" earlier this year after four seasons. The network will air a "Farewell Special" on Tuesday, October 2 at 10 P.M. ET/PT.


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CONCORD, N.C. -- The All-Star Race drama between Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch caused quite a stir this past weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway, particularly between the drivers involved.
In case you have a very short memory, Busch said Hamlin should have pulled over and let him pass when he had a run at the start of the final 10-lap segment. Hamlin basically said Busch was full of himself, crowding him more in his Friday afternoon interview session than he ever has on the track.
There were a lot of other insults in between that make you wonder whether this spat truly is over.
But don't expect the same sort of drama in Sunday's Coca-Cola 600. It's a different animal, two races within one with the change between night and day. It's as much about preserving machine as it is about who has the fastest car.
You're much more likely to see a driver check out and leave the field behind than see two cars battling for position at the end. You definitely shouldn't see teammates running each other into the wall -- unless maybe it's on a green-white-checkered finish for the victory.
"It's always a different race in the All-Star Race," Hamlin said. "It doesn't matter if it's the Shootout at the beginning of the year or the All-Star Race or the Showdown beforehand. It's everyone for themselves.
"If that same situation happens at halfway of Sunday's race, for sure I see [Busch] coming, I'm moving over and letting him go because I've got 300 more miles to make it up."
There's a different protocol in points races, particularly in the longest race of the year. You don't want to do something that is going to cost you in the standings, something that could kill your shot for the 10-race Chase at the end of the season.
"In the All-Star Race, you race a certain way there because of what it is," four-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson said. "I wouldn't anticipate those guys letting it carry over or letting a situation like that build in a points race.
"I could be wrong, but just everybody drives so different in the All-Star Race, and that's why you saw the aggressive moves."
That doesn't mean the 600 won't have its own drama. Your car can be junk for 300 miles, but with the temperature change and the right setup adjustment, you can be running for the win at the end.
Fuel mileage, two tires versus four and even rain also are factors. Who will ever forget David Reutimann a year ago standing beside his car in the rain for more than an hour waiting to be declared the winner?
That only two of Richard Petty's 200 career wins came in the 600 tells you how tough it can be.
"There's just so many things that you go through in a 600-mile race," Kevin Harvick said. "The track is very temperature-sensitive, so your car has to be very adjustable and do things that you normally wouldn't do in a weekend, adjustmentwise, for pit stops, and just trying to anticipate when the track is going to take those swings."
No team was better at that from 2003 to 2005 than Johnson's, winning three straight 600s and five of six races overall at CMS. The 48 crew followed that with a second in 2006.
Johnson's Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon also is one to watch. He, too, has won the 600 three times.
"I love this race," Gordon said "I think it is too long, but I just love the racetrack. I like how things change a lot during the race."
It's like a chess match, with crew chiefs and drivers hoping to make the right move at the right time that will checkmate the competition. It doesn't always work that way. Sometimes adjustments work the other way and a car that was dominant early isn't a factor at the end.
"The biggest part is that if you're going to be fast at night, you won't be the fastest in the day," said Kasey Kahne, who won this race in '06 and '08. "Usually we start off too loose in the day and you bide your time. Six hundred miles is such a long time that you can make little adjustments throughout.
"You try to stay calm and make your moves later in the race. I have been lapped early here and come back to run well at night. You just have to be patient and work hard."
That doesn't mean you always race hard, particularly when a teammate is involved. But chances are there will be teammates involved at the end, whether it's Gordon and Johnson or Hamlin and Busch.
The four have won eight of the 12 races thus far and make up four of the top five drivers in laps led. Hamlin and Busch have won five of the past seven, and both qualified for Sunday's race in the top nine, so you really expect them to be up front at the end of this marathon.
"He's gonna try everything he can to beat us, and we're gonna try everything we can to beat him," Hamlin said of Busch. " Right now, I feel like we have the two best teams and cars, and the way we're running right now, as far as championship caliber is concerned.
"We don't need to let anything derail; we just need to move on from that."
David Newton covers NASCAR for ESPN.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bea Piazza is an estate agent and she can't find a house to buy. She wants a little two-bedroom Victorian cottage in Weybridge and has been looking since last August. She has sold her own property and moved in with family while she waits. Her funding is in place and she is ready to go — but where to? In six months of searching she has found only six properties to view, and none to buy.
The shortage of houses for sale is the worst in recent memory. "I am in lettings but I know all the sales agents and they are saying they have nothing to sell. People are just holding back on putting their houses up for sale," Bea says. Estate agents Jackson-Stops & Staff, for whom she works, say that of their queue of buyers, 41 per cent are in an equally strong position — renting, cash-in-hand, or with nothing to sell. "The lack of choice leaves them having to renew their tenancy agreements, which removes them from the market for another six months," says Susie Hall at the firm's Weybridge office.
Sellers should take note. This may be the best time to sell a house this year. "Demand for prime property is escalating among both affluent families and City bankers planning to channel their bonuses into bricks and mortar, so the next couple of months will be the best time to sell in 2010," says Andrew Smith, head of research at Primelocation.com, where interest is up by 25 per cent. All over the country, agents are struggling to find enough houses to sell to increasingly desperate buyers with money to spend. In Kent, Jackson-Stops & Staff, which has offices in Sevenoaks, Cranbrook and Tunbridge Wells, has 1,500 buyers on its lists with about 150 properties to sell. "Some are getting rental cabin fever," says negotiator Gavin Selby. "Some sold well at a good price and have been looking for up to two years."
In Savills' office at Winchester, where buyers flock for the good commute, excellent schools, pretty countryside and congenial city life, the supply of properties is only 65 per cent of what it was two years ago. Nor does it look likely to improve in the spring. "At the £1.75m to £2.25m level I have never seen such a shortage of stock," says the office head Steven Moore. "For every house that launches above £1.5m we have six buyers, and demand for anything within striking distance of the city centre is running very high, whether it's a £500,000 terrace or a £1m town house."
It isn't only the rich commuters who are feeling the lack of choice. The imbalance between buyers and sellers can be seen nationwide. The National Association of Estate Agents reports the number of people searching for a house soared by 25 per cent during 2009. The average estate agent had 251 buyers on its books before Christmas, compared with 200 a year earlier.
In their offices across London, Winkworth estate agents have found that the number of properties in each branch has dwindled from about 55 at the beginning of last year to 37 today. Meanwhile, pressure is increasing as buyers from the financial sector are flexing their muscles again, accounting for about 15 per cent to 20 per cent of enquiries, compared with just 5-10 per cent last August.
There are bonuses to be spent too, but it doesn't matter how big they are if there aren't the properties to buy. "I think interest rates are one of the factors keeping stock levels low," says Ian Dickson, who sells houses in Hammersmith. "Would you move if you had a tracker at one per cent and the best deal you could get on a new mortgage was five?"
In Berkshire, around the hot spots of Newbury and Kintbury, there is such pressure from buyers that agents who traditionally launch some of their finest houses at Easter have persuaded sellers to put them on the market now. Mark Jamieson of Strutt & Parker estimates there are around 10 buyers to every house for sale.
Mike and Judith Lane have just put The Lodge, their large four-bedroom Victorian villa in Bassett Down, Wiltshire, with an annexe, large garden and tennis court, on the market at £850,000 as one of the Strutt & Parker early launches. "We want to move to the south coast and we sense there isn't a lot of property around," says Mike. "We love the house but we don't have to move, so it is a question of taking advantage of the opportunity without any desperation." Already brochures are being snaffled and a viewing has been fixed. "The shortage will be my problem, though, when we come to find somewhere to move. But if everyone made the move they wanted this year it would get the economy going again," he says.
Early-bird buyers tend to be determined that they will make the move this year. One reason is that hopes and dreams kept on hold for the past year are now emerging as a potent force. "There is a sense of both buyers and sellers wanting to get on with their lives and a degree of pent-up demand from the last 18 months," says Crispin Holborow , head of country houses at Savills.
The winner in the new game is the buyers' agent, as house-hunters are turning to them in droves. Robin Gould of Prime Purchase says that in Hampshire and Surrey they are struggling to cope. The flood of enquiries is so high that they have had to turn people away in case of conflict of interest between clients. In highly competitive central London, selling agents W A Ellis say they now have more than 140 buying agents asking to see properties on behalf of clients before anyone else gets a foot in the door.
"Finders have been telling me they have been turning business away because they can't service all the buyers," says the firm's Simon Godson. "So out of desperation, people are deciding to cough up the fees, which are not inconsiderable, to pay a finder, but even then they are hitting a brick wall. Our property listing is the shortest I have known it for 12 years. This means that prices are at 2007 levels, and the other problem is that buyers think they should be lower."
The proliferation of buying agents means that a secret market is effectively operating in the higher price bands. "We estimate that in the market above £3m, around 60-80 per cent of buyers are now represented by finding agents. Five years ago that was probably only 30 per cent," says Tom Hudson of Middleton Advisors.
"If you know where to dig and who to speak to, you can find houses. On our books 30 per cent of clients are open market and the rest are private." The fees include an upfront payment of £2,700 plus 2.75 per cent of the negotiated price of the house.


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COLUMBUS (AP) Two Ohio high school stars and a prep school player from Milwaukee signed letters of intent Wednesday to play basketball at Ohio State.
Jamar Butler, a 6-foot-2 guard from Lima Shawnee and Matt Terwilliger, a 6-9 forward from Troy, committed to the Buckeyes along with 6-7 Jermyl Jackson-Wilson, now playing at Fork Union (Va.) Military Academy.
All three will be freshmen at Ohio State in 2004-2005.
Butler averaged 30 points and eight assists a game as a junior at Shawnee. Terwilliger, who played alongside Butler on a Cleveland AAU team, averaged 17 points and nine rebounds as a junior.
Jackson-Wilson graduated from Milwaukees Rufus King High School spring 2003. He averaged 10 points and 12 rebounds a game as a senior. His high school team won the Wisconsin state title with a 26-0 record.


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The Western Regional House of Chiefs have held its end-of-year general meeting in Sekondi to deliberate on development at issues and review performance in the management of chieftaincy problems in the Region.
The President, the House, and Omanhene of Wassa Akropong Traditional Area, Nana Bassanyi 111 decried the many chieftaincy disputes and conflicts pending before the House for resolution. He said such conflicts constitute a major assault on peace and tranquillity in the region, which send negative signals to both local and foreign investors.
Regrettably, he said the region is already deprived and such negative actions complicate the already volatile situation by not only halting the development process by also destroy the little gains made.
He called on the Chiefs to their ranks to forge ahead with a common purpose for the service of the people.
The President urged the chiefs to support the governments Golden Age of Business initiative to make the private sector a true engine of growth.
He noted that the House of Chiefs can support this effort by the creation of land banks to help make land available to potential investor in the various traditional areas in view of the peculiar nature of the region which arable land, and naturally endowed resources.
He noted that the Regina urgently needs an enabling environment devoid of chieftaincy disputes to attract the needed support for Government, District Assemblies and investors not only to develop the Region and help create employment for the youth.


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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I fell in love at first sight with a guy at a Christmas party on the night of Dec. 5 and he seemed crazy about me too. We were together for 11 days and nights at his apartment or my house. I thought, "This is it. This is the love of my life." When it slipped out that I loved him, he suddenly drifted away from me -- just stopped calling or coming over completely. At first he'd take my calls, but now he won't. He was nothing but kind and sweet and loving -- and then he was gone, saying he "just wasn't into it" anymore. I feel like I was hit by a Mack truck and I throw up at night. He re-ignited all the feelings of hope that I had lost about love, and then he left me, just like that. It hurts so badly! I know it was only a short time, but it was perfect -- what I always imagined a real love relationship could be. Please help me. -- Broken-Hearted, age 24
Dear Broken: Infatuation -- where you fall for somebody instantly, thinking they're perfect -- parades as love. It exists on fantasy. But when one or the other person says "I love you," the fantasy shatters and the other runs. Some people, perhaps like this guy, really love the beginning of a relationship when they can be a prince for a few weeks, before they wear themselves out. A while later, they're after another person in the same way. The only long-term match for that type of person is someone who's hard-to-get, because they really don't want to be gotten. True love can't happen until you get to know a person to a depth -- the good, the bad, their qualities, their moods, their faults, the way they relate to family and friends, and their ability to work, pay bills, support themselves and possibly children, not to mention their ability to love others and be good parent. He wasn't The One -- just a guy who loves short term romance and dramatics.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I read about the Horrified Mother who saw the child get slapped in the face on the bus. I would like to pass on something I learned from my daughter when she was six years old. I was particularly frustrated with her and hit her quite hard (not in public). She was always quite logical and did not cry easily. She looked me in the eye and said cooly, "How would you like it if I was the mother and you were the child and I hit you like that?" That really got to me and it was the first and the last time I hit her. I would suggest a similar statement to a parent when witnessing their public humiliation of children. In an even voice --"I saw you hit your child. How would you feel if you were the child and she was your mother and she hit you like that?" It may not stop the abuse but it at least raises the question. Hope this helps a bit. -- Learned From It, Winnipeg
Dear Learned: Your daughter was an amazing little person to turn it around like that and make you see reason, and also feel empathy for her. If only more kids were able to reason with people bigger and stronger than they are. I grew up in era where everybody spanked their kids, so we got spanked. My parents grew up in an era where kids were actually beaten, so my dad got beaten by his dad and strapped by his teachers. I had my kids at a time when people had (by and large) stopped spanking their kids and they turned out just fine with time-outs and the occasional grounding. We are closer as a family than people of my parents era, because there is no fear factor. There's no need to be violent with kids.
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Marketing for Libraries
Marketing in libraries, especially academic libraries, can be a rather controversial topic. However it is important that libraries creatively and successfully advertise their services and programs. Below are three important topics in marketing libraries from an academic library perspective.
Services to Market[edit]
In order to survive in an increasingly competitive market academic libraries must promote the many helpful, and unique goods and services they have to offer. Many patrons may not realize all of the newer services now available in the library, such as remote access to reference help, and electronic databases. Patrons may also not fully understand the value in traditional reference services, especially now that the Internet has opened the doors to so much more information, both great and terrible, that must be evaluated and waded through. Other great, but lesser known services such as interlibrary loans, information literacy classes, and instructions should also be marketed to students and faculty alike in order to increase the use, and awareness of the value the academic library gives to its campus. Included in this section are resources that address the many services that the academic library has to offer, and also ways in which the library can implement marketing strategies to best promote them.
Challenges and Opportunities in Marketing[edit]
One of the main challenges facing academic libraries is decreasing funding. Like every other university department, libraries do not have the funds to do everything they would like to do. While this makes finding resources more difficult, shrinking budgets also mean that academic libraries cannot neglect marketing. When the budget is being allocated, libraries are competing against needs for university classroom and lab space, faculty, staff, and student services (Spalding & Wang, 2006). The library can no longer assume that administrators, faculty, and students are aware of the valuable services and products available.
With the growth of the Web, academic libraries no longer have a monopoly; the idea of the internet as a substitute to the library is attractive to both students and cash-strapped administrators (Wolpert, 1998). And compared to search engines that use highly developed algorithms to help searchers despite poorly constructed queries, users rank libraries poorly in terms of convenience and ease of use. For most, the cost of the product is too high, although in terms of time and effort rather than cash (Wisniewski & Fichter, 2007).
Specialized audiences also provide challenges for academic libraries. Distance learning is rapidly growing, and these students do not have access to the stacks, on-campus databases, or physical reference desk. Libraries must determine how to serve this audience while maintaining "brand identity" (Wolpert, 1998). At the opposite end of the spectrum are international students who come to the university to study. These students face language barriers, cultural difference, and a new teaching style. They also have little or no experience with the academic library and the services available (Mu, 2006). In all instances, academic libraries are faced with the challenge of making their services visible; one of the biggest challenges is tailoring awareness and marketing efforts to meet the needs of diverse groups of patrons.
Marketing Resources[edit]
As academic institutions become aware of the pressing need to promote library services more efficiently and effectively, the examination of marketing strategies and application to library settings have become key factors. To initiate a public relations campaign, Germain (2000) introduces the concept of forming a committee that includes members of the different target audiences. The committee would focus on information needs analysis, strategy planning, implementation of outreach programs, and evaluation of efforts.
Identifying specific target audiences within the larger user base reemphasizes the reality that an academic library serves diverse types of clientele (Helton & Esrock, 1998). Further, identifying the special needs that are particular to specific groups helps to narrow the focus on marketing strategies to better impact the target audience. For example, the information needs and challenges specific to international students differ greatly from needs of graduate students (Mu, 2006), necessitating different forms of promoting library services.
In addition, Wisniewski and Fichter (2007) emphasize the need to pick a target resource to promote. They also suggest utilizing a 12 month marketing calendar, underscore the use of visuals, and stress, "Don't promote a thing; promote a benefit" (p. 55). Davis-Kahl demonstrates various marketing plans to jumpstart the process.
The following includes a brief summary of several marketing tips compiled from the above sources:
Target audiences
• Students, faculty, university administration, library administration, and potential donors.
• Student subgroups - incoming freshmen, other undergraduate students, graduate students, and international students.
Locations to market the library
• Dining halls, office cafeterias, dorms, local coffee shops, faculty lounges, library wall space, academic lectures, student health center, international student center, etc.
• Academic institution's home page
• Library's home page
Promotional and Publicity Ideas
• Mouse pads, table tents, postcards, brochures, bookmarks, newsletters, door hangers, bumper stickers, library survival kits, etc.
Collaborate With These People
• Resident assistants, faculty secretaries, deans, faculty members, student services, student organizations, other academic departments (such as the business or athletics departments), etc.
Key Websites and Resources
• ALA's @ your library Campaign for America's Libraries website at [1].
• Academic and Research Library Campaign website at [2].
• OhioLINK's Idea Gallery – a collection of promotional and publicity materials at [3].
• Creating a Marketing Plan for your Academic and Research Library at [4].
Davis-Kahl, S., Duke, L., & Tucker, T. (2004). Creating a marketing plan for your academic and research library (ppt). Retrieved November 1, 2007, from [5]
Germain, C.A. (2000). 99 ways to get those feet in the door. College & Research Libraries News, 61(2). Retrieved November 1, 2007, from database.
Helton, R., & Esrock, S. (1998). Positioning and marketing academic libraries to students. Marketing Library Services. Retrieved November 1, 2007, from [6]
Mu, C. Marketing academic library resources and information services to international students.
OhioLINK (n.d.). Idea gallery. Retrieved November 1, 2007, from [7]
Spalding, H. H., & Wang, J. (2006). Marketing academic libraries in USA: Challenges and opportunities. Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal, 22. Retrieved November 1, 2007, from [8]
The New Media Consortium (NMC) (2006). Horizon report 2007. Horizon Project Emerging Technologies Initiative. Retrieved November 1, 2007, from [9]
Welch, J. M. (2005). The electronic welcome mat: The academic library web site as a marketing and public relations tool. Journal of Academic Libraries 31(3). Retrieved November 1, 2007, from database.
Wisniewski, J. & Fichter, D. (2007). Electronic resources won't sell themselves: Marketing tips. Online, (31)1, p54-57. Retrieved November 1, 2007, from database.
Wolpert, A. (1998). Services to remote users: Marketing the library's role. Library Trends. Retrieved November 1, 2007, from [10]


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Avinash Kaushik is an analytics rockstar. As weird as that may sound, his enthusiasm pulses through his analytics blog which makes you want to be a better data analyst – no easy feat.
Shane Johnson, the president of Triangle AMA steps up to get things started. After some intro talk, he introduces Jim Hazen from Capstrat to introduce Avinash.
Avinash starts out talking about the company he started with his friend, MarketMotive. He has way too much energy for 9am. He is 100% engaged right out of the gate.
He thinks back to the good old days when nobody looked at data and any decisions could be held up by "gut feeling". Now he has more data than God wants him to have.
Just looking at user clickstream is crazy, there's just too much data. That's why people who do clickstream analysis die young. Everyone on the internet has ADD, and they're all coming to our website.
Measuring Success
If all you're measuring is hits (how idiots measure success) you're missing out. You need to measure what's important. Things like bounce rate (aka I came, I puked, I left).
Also look at the top 20 homepages on your site. What about those pathetic pages that couldn't even get 1 entry – kill them, and be glad about it.
He jumps into the SAS site where he points out that there a million places to download whitepapers – why? It's text, why isn't it on your site as text, why are your forcing me to download a white paper? It's like it's 1962 and you're going to mail me information. It's not just SAS though, all the big companies do this.
Question this type of behavior. "This sucks! This cabal of crap needs to end!"
Nobody likes a selfish lover.
Are you looking at your website? Avinash pulls up the old Expedia site where 1 small widget does all the work, and 80% of the site is just pimping other services. He talked with them and said that as a visitor, he needs to be satisfied first!
- Stink less
- Segment or die
- All data in aggregate is crap
- Love your loyalists
- Find the relationships between website purpose and customer intent
- Look at revenue, who is buying more than normal, and why?
- What's important? Is your new campaign working?
How do you focus?
Intelligence. If we could get rid of the human factor, all of this would get so much easier
To get rid of humans, tools Google Analytics are just glorified data pukers. This drove Avinash crazy. He challenged the GA team to come up with a algorithm to bring out the most useful data – enter weighted data (aka magic button). By eliminating the stupidness from the equation, you can focus on the things that will give you the best possible ROI.
Try running a tag cloud for a graphical interpretation of what your site is delivering. How big should your brand be? How about main keyword?
He uses the Mormon church as a magnificent example of great search cloud. All the words they want associated with them are present, those they don't want are nowhere to be found.
It's very important to move beyond the top ten rows of data!
Try comparing content produced to content consumed. Fix where needed.
It's important to have multiple goals for your website. Track both micro and macro conversions. Don't forget to measure economic value. There are lots of other things happening that contribute.
Find out what channels drive what conversions. Even though channel X may not contribute to macro conversion, it opens up the funnel so that more people can find the macro conversion point.
Rock Social
Shout marketing. We yell our brains out and hope people listen – it scales when we can make more people listen. The problem is the old-school shout marketing world has passed.
What metrics are important? How about retweets as a way of showing value or the follower retweet %. Tweet things of value to your followers. Work on that!
On twitter only 10% of your followers see each tweet, you read that right, only 10%.
Listen, truly listen
How are you listening to your customers/followers/fans?
You can find out almost everything about your visitors by finding out the answers to three questions:
- Primary purpose: why are you here?
- Task Completion: could you complete your task?
- If you couldn't complete your task, why not?
Did a Hippo create your site?
HIPPO = Highest paid person's opinion
To compete with HIPPO's you need to learn how to be wrong very quickly. Enter A/B testing.
Avinash Kaushik uses the Obama 2008 campaign site as an example of great A/B testing. From baseline to best was a 40% increase in conversion.
Don't sacrifice functionality for sexy.
Don't ask, "what channel gets credit for the sale?" – ask, "if I only had $100,000, how would I allocate it?" Figure out the right media mix. It's all about experimentation. Experiment or die.
I can't summarize all the great questions, but here's a couple.
If I'm not a full-time analytics analyst, how much time should I spend on data analysis?
Line of site model. Look at; Price Strategies. Cost Strategies. Market Share Strategies. Market Size Strategies. Then figure out the KPI for those strategies. Email him for the cool presentation handout.
Norm Cloutier from McClatchy challenged one hypothesis that scrolling is bad because his test shows that 70% of visitors scroll down. Avinash says, maybe they scroll because your site sucks. He admits that he could be 100% wrong. The only way to know for sure is to experiment.
What tools do you help you analyze Twitter analytics?
He likes 2 in particular – klout and Analyze Words because they are slightly more nuanced.


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Kareena Kapoor to reveal her fashion secrets in book
Glam Kareena Kapoor is set to reveal her fashion and beauty secrets in a new book releasing this December. In Style Diary of a Bollywood Diva, Kareena takes readers into her...bollywood Updated: Sep 05, 2012 17:04 IST
Glamorous leading Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor, is set to reveal her fashion and beauty secrets in a new book releasing this December.
In Style Diary of a Bollywood Diva, scheduled to hit stands this year end, Kareena takes readers into her fabulous life giving insights into her style, fitness and beauty,
Fondly known as Bebo, the actress writes about her journey from a chubby teenager who accompanied actress and elder sister Karisma on shoots into one of the hottest leading ladies in tinsel town, according to publishers Penguin Books India.
Kareena, who will turn 31 later this month and who had previously written a forward to her personal dietician Rujuta Diwakar's book, talks about her fitness routine including how she came to acquire her much talked about "Size Zero" figure in the new book.
The actress, who is busy promoting her soon to be released film Heroine where she is seen sporting uber glamorous gowns and who own her own clothing line also gives tips to replicate her iconic looks from Pooh's sexy red choli and pants in Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham and Geet's T-shirt-salwar in Jab We Met.
The book by Kareena is the first to be launched under the Shobha De imprint of Penguin that includes celebrity memoirs, guides and biographies — with a focus on lifestyle, business, cinema and commercial fiction.
The initiative involves noted author Shobhaa De handpicking authors, titles and subjects. Following Kareena many other celebrities from the fashion, film and lifestyle world have been lined up for books under the imprint, according to a source in the publishing house.
LATEST ON KAREENA KAPOORKareena Kapoor catwalks on Dubai beach to promote Heroine
In a dramatic arrival to promote herupcoming film Heroine, Kareena Kapoor flew in on a sea-plane, reached the shore in a motorboat and then sashayed down the red carpet laid out on a blistering beach here.
The 31-year-old actress then made her way to an air-conditioned boat for a press conference, all in a fancy promotional act for her film, set to release on September 21. READ MORE
Kareena Kapoor to promote Heroine in a cruise
It looks like producers UTV are going the whole hog to promote the Kareena-starrer, Heroine. The production house has organised a special interaction with the media on board a cruise ship in Dubai. And that's not all, apparently, Kareena will make a filmi entry at the event, by landing in a seaplane.
"We want to match the vibe and the style of the promotion with the glitz and glamour of the film itself. We have always set a benchmark with our overseas romotions," insists Amrita Pandey, executive director, syndication, international distribution and media distribution, studios, Disney UTV. FULL STORY
Kareena gets the brandwagon for Heroine
Women-centric films have caught the right attention in recent times, thanks to unique content and strong roles. But for Heroine, Kareena Kapoor has gone a step ahead and managed to bring as many as eight brands on board - said to be the most for any female-oriented Hindi movie so far.
According to industry sources, an estimate of at least Rs.20 crore of brand-spends will be blocked for promotions of Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine, releasing on September 21.
Lakme, Head and Shoulders and Monarch Universal are the brands Kareena endorses and have associated with the film, apart from others like Cera, Rupa, Jealous21, Sugar Free and Cocoberry which have come on board for in-film integration and various media associations. MORE ON THIS
NEW SONG: Saaiyaan from Kareena's Heroine delights
Madhur Bhandarkar hasn't really needed strong music for his films, for he compensates for everything that his movie lacks in his plot, direction and acting.
For his movie Fashion (2008), there were two very strong songs in the film that eventually came to become big musical hits- Kuch Khaas Hai and Mar Jaawan.
This time around, it seems that Madhur Bhandarkar had to focus on music, given that his upcoming movie, Heroine, is about an Indian film industry or Bollywood actress, and Bollywood is defined by its songs.And he has focussed pretty well. REVIEW INSIDE
Kareena Kapoor ups brand value
Brands have long been associated with films — an actor picks up a can of cola, making sure that the brand name faces the camera; or the leading lady only wears clothes sold at a certain store. But now, Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine, starring Kareena Kapoor, is set to take this association to a whole new level by getting eight brands on board. No female-centric film so far has featured so many brands. While some of them — Lakme, Head & Shoulders and Monarch Universal – are brands that Kareena herself endorses, other brands like Cera, Rupa, Jealous 21, Sugarfree and Cocoberry will be integrated in the film and associated with its promotional activities. READ STORY
Bebo's song get 1mn hits
Actor Kareena Kapoor's peppy number Halkat Jawani from Heroine is grabbing eyeballs. It has crossed over one million hits on YouTube. The video has received a stupendous response.From Ganesh Acharya's choreography to Kareena's svelte looks, viewers have praised the song for all its aspects.Heroine will release Sep 21. Though the song is being called as an item number, the makers say that it is a situational song.
Being part of Heroine was my destiny: Kareena
Actress Kareena Kapoor feels she was destined to do director Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine and says the film is very close to her heart.
Bhandarkar first offered the lead role to Kareena but she couldn't do it due to date issues and it went to Aishwarya Rai. However, Aishwarya subsequently opted out due to pregnancy.
And the film once again landed in Kareena's lap and she said: "Being a part of Heroine was my destiny. The first time I couldn't do it because I didn't have dates and second time I was happy that the film came back to me. I had no second thoughts about it and agreed to do it. STORY INSIDE
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Last week, I opined that investing becomes more challenging amid frothy market conditions. Stock prices are on the upswing and most investors are challenged when it comes to selling positions. Rising markets have a tendency to make most investors believe they are smarter than the market and that overconfidence often leads to poor decision making – namely, holding out to sell positions at the top.
The Federal Reserve added another layer of difficulty last week by announcing another round of stimulative monetary policy. As expected, the market cheered and the S&P 500 was off to the races. As of Friday, the S&P stood a level not seen since 2007. But before complacency kicks in for the rest of year, remember that stock prices in the long run respond to earnings growth. For what it's worth, it's likely that stock prices will remain elevated; not only does QE3 provide a price floor but, unfortunately, it also provides the market with a belief that at any sign economic weakness, the Fed will step up.
The third quarter is coming to an end and that means another earnings season is around the corner. And while the major headlines last week were about the new iPhone 5 and QE3, some other worthy information was released. Both FedEx (FDX) and Intel (INTC), two economic bellwether stocks, announced that third-quarter earnings were tracking lower than previously estimated. More so, according to an analyst at Thomson Reuters, 88 companies have already announced that results will come in below previous forecasts. After two-plus years of corporate profit growth, many analysts are starting to believe that growth will become more and more difficult against a generally sluggish global economy.
The fear, of course, is that sluggish or declining growth in the U.S. will keep many companies from hiring new workers. If so, the Fed will have its work cut out for it as Bernanke is now more focused on stimulative efforts to reduce unemployment and not so much inflation anymore. Unfortunately, the Fed doesn't do the hiring, corporations do. Ad because most CEOs are still taking a very cautious approach, any indications that profits are going to be harder to come by is more than enough for them to put a halt to any hiring.
According to an equity analyst at Goldman Sachs, profit margins for S&P 500 companies peaked at nearly 9% last year; margins are expected to decline to 8.7% in 2012. Even so, 8.7% is still a strong number that against this economic backdrop could be subject to further declines. If so, shrinking margins are likely to lead to shrinking earnings multiples. When multiples compress, stock prices drop -- even against bullish earnings news.
Whether the Fed stops with QE3 or QE6 doesn't really matter; those are temporary measures. The more permanent long-term measure is earnings growth. Against a record high stock market, investors should immediately shift their focus from what QE3 means for short-term stock prices and start thinking about what a slowdown in earnings means for prices in the longer.


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CABARET, THE WIZ and More Set for DTC 2010-2011 Lineup; Season Announced
Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty announced today the company's 2010-11 season slated for the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. DTC's 52nd season will include two classics never seen before at DTC, a wildly funny comedy, two musicals, a world premiere, and two grand dames of theater.
"In the past year, Dallas Theater Center has thrown open the doors of our new home at the Wyly Theater - welcoming record-breaking, sold-out crowds filled with people of all ages and experiences, coming together to see world-class theater and then engaging in lively conversation about what they see onstage," says Moriarty. "We want to inspire these conversations in the most dynamic way possible: by constantly redefining the relationship between the actor and the audience in the most surprising and meaningful ways we can imagine. Next season, we will expand our exploration of space with every play being presented in its own unique configuration. From the historic and intimate Kalita Humphreys Theater to the breathtaking flexibility of the Wyly, which virtually cries out to be reconfigured, attacked and conquered anew each show, audiences can expect to be constantly surprised and engulfed by each production."
The 2010-2011 season is as follows: In the Potter Rose Performance Hall: Henry IV (Sept. 10 - Oct. 10); Rain (Nov. 5 - Dec. 5); Dividing the Estate (March 11 - April 9, as part of the Foote Festival); Cabaret (April 22 - May 22); The Wiz (July 8 - Aug. 14, in association with Dallas Black Dance Theater). In the Kalita Humphreys Theater: A Christmas Carol (Nov. 26 - Dec. 24); Arsenic and Old Lace (Feb. 4 - March 13).
The season opener Henry IV will feature former DTC company member RAndy Moore as Falstaff, one of Shakespeare's most beloved characters. In the classic Arsenic and Old Lace, Fort Worth native and Tony Award-winning actress Betty Buckley and Tony Award-nominated actress Tovah Feldshuh, two of theater's grand dames, come together to create not-to-be-missed performances as the murderous eccentric aunts.
In the second season in its new home, the Wyly Theatre, DTC continues established collaborations such as with SMU Meadows School of the Arts and Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts with the Skokos Learning Lab - and embarks on exciting new partnerships with theaters and institutions across the metroplex to produce engaging work such as the citywide Foote Festival celebrating the late Texas playwright Horton Foote, and a significant collaboration with Dallas Black Dance Theater, jointly producing The Wiz in the summer of 2011.
"Growth and expansion does not happen in a vacuum," says Moriarty. "At Dallas Theater Center, we believe that theaters, arts organizations, and our city itself will best grow and prosper when we all work together."
Continuing the popular Pay What You Can initiative, DTC patrons will be able to purchase tickets to the first performance of each production for the amount of a donation they choose.
"At the first performance of every play in our season, every single seat in the theater is available for as much, or as little, as you can afford. For as little as one penny, anyone can see world-class professional theater at Dallas Theater Center," says Moriarty.
Season subscriptions go on sale May 1 and begin at $90.
2010-2011 Season Lineup
Henry IV Sept. 10 - Oct. 10
by William Shakespeare
directed by Kevin Moriarty
Potter Rose Performance Hall, Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
Shakespeare's most popular play during his lifetime, and one of his greatest achievements as a writer, comes to life on stage for the first time in DTC's history. Featuring Shakespeare's most beloved comic character, Sir John Falstaff, Henry IV is filled with riotous comedy, battlefield action, and a moving story of a profligate boy who must learn to become a man and a king.
Set in England in the 1400's, Henry IV tells the story of a country in the midst of a bloody civil war, led by the ailing King Henry IV, who is desperately struggling to fight off rebel armies. Meanwhile, his son, Prince Hal, is found drinking in bars with lowlifes, highwaymen and other members of the London underworld, including Sir John Falstaff (played by former DTC company member RAndy Moore), a charming, drunken and obese knight who has befriended him as a second father. Unwilling to accept his responsibility as heir to the throne, the young prince must finally reconcile with his dying father, abandon his dissolute lifestyle, and change from a prodigal son to one of the most powerful leaders in English history.
Rain Nov. 5 - Dec. 5
by ReGina Taylor
directed by Ethan McSweeny
World Premiere
Co-Production with the Goodman Theatre
Potter Rose Performance Hall, Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
After her marriage falls apart, Iris makes her annual trip home to Dallas for her mother Rose's birthday. For Iris, home is a place where nothing ever changes, a refuge from the storm. But change is afoot in her mother's house, and Iris and Rose must learn to weather the storm together. Laced with humor, Rain is a moving portrait of family, motherhood and the ties that bind one generation to the next.
From ReGina Taylor, author of the critically-acclaimed Crowns and Drowning Crow, Rain will have its world premiere in Dallas before going onto performances at Chicago's Tony Award-winning Goodman Theatre.
A Christmas Carol Nov. 26 - Dec. 24
by Charles Dickens
adapted by Richard Hellesen
music by David de Berry
directed by Matthew Gray
Kalita Humphreys Theater
No holiday story compares with A Christmas Carol, and no production has more humor and humanity than DTC's staging of this heart-warming classic. Filled with traditional and original songs of the season, A Christmas Carol is DTC's most popular production and appeals to a broad family audience every year.
*Community Partner: North Texas Food Bank
Arsenic and Old Lace Feb. 4 - March 13
by Joseph Kesselring
directed by Scott Schwartz
Kalita Humphreys Theater
First produced on Broadway in 1941 and as a Hollywood film in 1944, Arsenic and Old Lace is one of the funniest and most often performed plays of the American theater. This farcical black comedy revolves around two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of homemade elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and "just a pinch" of cyanide; their brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of their home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and their other brother, a murderer who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein, to conceal his identity and now looks like the famous horror film actor, Boris Karloff.
Legendary Broadway actors Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh join forces to create a fresh, new production of this hilarious comedy.
*Associate Producing Partner: Charles Schwab
*Assistant Producing Sponsor: Gardere Wynne Sewell
Dividing the Estate March 11 - April 9
by Horton Foote
directed by Joel Ferrell
Potter Rose Performance Hall, Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
Part of the DFW Foote Festival
In this human comedy about a family that must confront its past as it prepares for its future, matriarch StElla Gordon is dead set against the parceling out of her Texas family's land despite the financial woes brought on by the oil bust of the 1980s. An award-winning Broadway hit comedy in 2009, Dividing the Estate is filled with sharply but affectionately drawn characters acting with foxy cunning and hypocritical virtue.
The great Texas playwright, Horton Foote, was known for his rich characterizations and wry humor, deftly combining the claustrophobia of Tennessee Williams' southern families, the physical and psychological dysfunctions of Eugene O'Neill's clans, and the humor and pathos of small town Southern life portrayed by Flannery O'Connor. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his play, The Young Man from Atlanta, and two Academy Awards for his screenplays of To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, Horton Foote was one of America's most observant playwrights and a Texas treasure. DTC is partnering with theaters and arts organizations throughout the Metroplex to produce the region-wide Foote Festival from March 14 - May 1, 2011.
*Assistant Producing Partner: Jackson Walker
Cabaret April 22 - May 22
music by John Kander
lyrics by Fred Ebb
book by Joe Masteroff
directed and choreographed by Joel Ferrell
Potter Rose Performance Hall, Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
Since its Broadway premiere in 1966, Cabaret has won a staggering number of stage and screen awards, including 8 Oscars and 13 Tony Awards. Set in pre-war Weimer Berlin at the infamously decadent Kit Kat Klub, the show follows the fortunes of the club's star, Sally Bowles, and an impish emcee, who sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside the footsteps of Hitler's stormtroopers grow louder and louder. The entire Wyly Theatre will be transformed into the Kit Kat Klub in a fully immersive, fresh new production of this sexy and provocative musical classic.
The Wiz July 8 - Aug. 14
book by William F. Brown
music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls
directed by Kevin Moriarty
Co-production with Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Potter Rose Performance Hall, Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
A high-energy and thoroughly delightful reimagining of The Wizard of Oz with an African American cast, this joyful family musical won seven Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway, including Best Musical and Best Score. With a score filled with a dazzling, lively mixture of rock, gospel and soul music, The Wiz starts with a tornado and keeps lifting from there, as young Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion become friends, "Ease on Down the Road," and come face to face with the great Wiz himself, ultimately learning that there's no place like home.
In a unique collaboration, DTC - Dallas' oldest, continuously operating professional theater - joins forces with Dallas Black Dance Theatre - Dallas' oldest, continuously operating professional dance company - to dance, sing, laugh and celebrate in this boisterous and exuberant musical.
*Assistant Producing Partner: Vinson & Elkins
One of the leading regional theaters in the country, Dallas Theater Center (DTC) produces new, contemporary and classic plays and musicals to an audience of more than 90,000 North Texas residents annually. DTC is a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and presents its mainstage season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. DTC engages, entertains and inspires a diverse community by creating experiences that stimulate new ways of thinking and living by consistently producing plays, educational programs and other initiatives that are of the highest quality and reach the broadest possible constituency.


text: Lime Energy Co. (NASDAQ: LIME) today announced that on December 21, 2012, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Lime Energy Co. (the "Company") determined that the Company's consolidated financial statements on Form 10-K for the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2009 (the "2008 - 2009 financial statements") may no longer be relied upon. The Audit Committee made that determination based on information discovered in the course of the Company's internal investigation of the misreporting of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2011 and the quarter ended March 31, 2012 (the "2010 - 2012 financial statements" and collectively with the 2008 - 2009 financial statements, the "affected financial statements") previously reported in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 17, 2012. The Company's management and the Audit Committee believe that some portion of the Company's revenue for 2009 and 2008 was recognized earlier than permitted under generally accepted accounting principles. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company's management or the Audit Committee that would cause them to believe that any of the misreported revenue recorded for 2009 and 2008 should not have been recorded in a later period. The Company cannot make a reliable estimate of the magnitude of the misreported revenue or the effects on the 2009 or 2008 financial statements at this time. The Company does expect that the misreporting will require restatement of the 2009 financial statements, in addition to the restatement of the 2010 - 2012 financial statements. The Company expects to promptly determine whether a restatement of the 2008 financial statement will be necessary. The Company also expects that it will be able to complete the restatement of the affected financial statements and disclose results from its internal investigation during the first quarter of 2013.


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The violations occurred under head coach Frank Haith, who is currently coaching at Tulsa.
Miami and Missouri left in NCAA shambles and Haith just moves along. This is where NCAA's powerlessness comes into play.
— Dana O'Neil (@ESPNDanaOneil) January 13, 2016
Here's a release from the school:
For the past nineteen months, the University of Missouri has worked collaboratively with the NCAA enforcement staff to review potential violations in its men's basketball program. In December 2013, the NCAA enforcement staff received information regarding potential violations involving a then men's basketball student-athlete. A verbal notice of inquiry was provided to the institution on April 14, 2014.
Through the collaborative investigation, it has become evident violations of NCAA bylaws occurred dating back to 2011. There are four levels of violations in the NCAA enforcement process, ranging from Level I and Level II, considered major infractions, to Level III and Level IV, which are secondary in nature. The violations based on supporting evidence which both the university and the NCAA agree occurred, include:
•Level I - A donor (Representative #1) to MU Athletics provided impermissible benefits to three men's basketball student-athletes and one prospective men's basketball student-athlete from 2013-2014. The impermissible benefits included compensating student-athletes for work-not-performed at a business through a summer internship program. Through the internship program, the donor also provided other impermissible inducements and extra benefits including housing, cash in the amount of $520, local transportation, iPads, meals and arranged for the use of a local gym for the student-athletes, all in violation of NCAA bylaws.
•Level II – A second donor (Representative #2) was discovered to have provided impermissible benefits to 11 student-athletes and three members of one student-athlete's family from 2011-2014. The benefits included providing student-athletes with a "friends & family" reduced rate at a hotel as well as meals and a ride on a recreational boat. A Missouri men's basketball student-manager also provided transportation for multiple student-athletes to the hotel from the Missouri campus, all in violation of NCAA bylaws.
•Level II – Because the University of Missouri did not fully vet the summer internship employment opportunity and follow-up to request documentation at the conclusion of the 2013 and 2014 internships with Representative #1, the institution was cited with a failure to adequately monitor the internship program.
•Level III – A former associate head men's basketball coach assisted in the relocation of a prospective student-athlete by providing the phone number of the prospect's mother to a donor (Representative #2) to arrange for rental housing. The family paid a market rate for the rental. However, the actions of the former associate head coach are in violation of NCAA bylaws.
•Level III – Representative #1 had multiple impermissible recruiting contacts with a prospective student-athlete and paid for a meal for a non-scholastic coach, in violation of NCAA bylaws.
Once NCAA violations were substantiated in this process, the university took action to hold student-athletes, staff and donors who were involved accountable. Those actions are:
•Restitution and withholding from competition for impermissible benefits received by student-athletes was imposed as necessary.
•The former associate head men's basketball coach was prohibited from off-campus recruiting for a period of three months while the review process was underway.
•The university permanently disassociated Representative #1, prohibiting him from receiving tickets, making donations or otherwise representing the university.
•The university disassociated Representative #2 for a period of two years, prohibiting him from receiving tickets, making donations or otherwise representing the university.
•The university vacated all wins from the 2013-14 season.
•The university will pay the NCAA a fine in the prescribed amount of $5,000.
•The university self-imposed the loss of one men's basketball scholarship in 2015-16 and an additional scholarship loss to be incurred no later than the 2017-18 season.
•The university placed restrictions on the recruiting activities of the men's basketball staff during the years of 2014-15 through 2016-17.
•The university imposed a one-year postseason ban for the 2015-16 men's basketball season, which prohibits the team from participating in the 2016 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament, and any other postseason competition sanctioned by the NCAA. As such, the university will not receive any revenues from the 2016 SEC or NCAA men's basketball tournaments.
Complete Release
Statements from Interim Chancellor Hank Foley, Director of Athletics Mack Rhoades, and Head Men's Basketball Coach Kim Anderson.
Chancellor Hank Foley
"The University of Missouri has high expectations for every member of our community, including our faculty, staff and students, and those same expectations are applied to those who support our endeavors. It is clear from our collaborative investigation with the NCAA that a former member of our athletics staff and members of our donor community violated NCAA bylaws and we take those actions seriously. We have an obligation to adhere to all NCAA and SEC rules as a member institution and we will continue to improve our education and oversight to ensure that we compete with integrity."
Director of Athletics Mack Rhoades
"We have already taken many proactive steps to address concerns, including appropriate self-imposed sanctions. We will win at Mizzou and do so with integrity and class. I am satisfied the University fully cooperated with the NCAA and will continue to do so. We must do better and we will. Our working relationship with the current men's basketball staff is strong and I am confident in their commitment to upholding our standards and values for Mizzou Athletics."
Head Men's Basketball Coach Kim Anderson
"We are obviously very disappointed that the actions of a few individuals have put our program in this situation. However, I am appreciative to Mack Rhoades and our staff for their guidance and support throughout this process. I hurt for our kids more than anything and for our only senior Ryan Rosburg in particular, but I am confident we will overcome this and be stronger as a team and as a staff because of it. We are committed to representing this great university and state with honor and integrity and that's what we are going to do."
Mack Rhoades will join Kim Anderson at his regularly scheduled media availability Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Mizzou Arena press room. Rhoades and Anderson will provide brief comments regarding today's announcement. However, per NCAA bylaws, neither Rhoades nor Anderson are not permitted to discuss details of the NCAA review until the completion of the process.


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Archinect - News 2017-08-19T15:02:45-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150005621/get-one-of-ten-free-advertisements-in-the-first-issue-of-ed-archinect-s-new-print-magazine Get one of ten free advertisements in the first issue of 'Ed', Archinect's new print magazine! Nicholas Korody 2017-05-02T15:31:00-04:00 >2017-05-02T16:02:23-04:00
The first issue of Ed, Archinect's new hybrid print/digital magazine, is entitled "The Architecture of Architecture" and seeks to investigate the forces that determine and delimit the possibilities of architectural practice and thought. In short, the issue endeavors to make visible the limits of architecture, to probe its normative assumptions, and to propose alternatives for the discipline and profession. Find out more here.

A constitutive part of the 'architecture of architecture' in the 21st century is self-promotion, branding, and other forms of identity-production. We'd like to critically interrogate this imperative, without necessarily issuing a single or reductive judgment. To that end, we're including 10 free advertisements in the inaugural issue of Ed, both solicited and selected from an open call that is now open.

We welcome a range of approaches in these advertisements—from the polemical to the self-promotional. You can take this as an opportunity to sell your practice, sel...
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Mr. Greenberg expects its future clients' new offices can expect similar results. In R/GA's first five months in its more "connected space" employee retention is up 5%. The ultimate goal and "magic number" will likely be akin to the higher retention rates of tech companies, like Google and Facebook. Those companies are growing in cities like New York and forcing agencies like R/GA to offer more desirable workspaces if they want to keep their talent, explained Mr. Greenberg.

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If someone told you today that a new, brightly lit neon sign was going up across the street from where you live, you might react with disgust at the thought of such a commercial eyesore invading the skyline of your community. Yet when some older sign or billboard is threatened, everyone is suddenly up in arms, rushing to its defense. How does something as mundane as outdoor advertising grow to become considered an essential piece of the urban fabric?

"They become landmarks, loved because they have been visible at certain street corners — or from many vantage points across the city — for a long time," writes Michael J. Auer in the brief. "Such signs are valued for their familiarity, their beauty, their humor, their size, or even their grotesqueness. In these cases, signs transcend their conventional role as vehicles of information, as identifiers of something else. When signs reach this stage, they accumulate rich layers of meaning. They no longer merely advertise, but are valued in and of themselves. They become icons."

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Visual pollution: inside the global movement to ban urban billboards

Rethinking Billboards

A Lost Cause? Alfredo Jaar's "A Logo for America" Coming to Times Square Again

 https://archinect.com/news/article/134193637/visual-pollution-inside-the-global-movement-to-ban-urban-billboards Visual pollution: inside the global movement to ban urban billboards Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-08-13T16:21:00-04:00 >2015-08-16T12:17:15-04:00
In 2007, [São Paulo] Mayor Gilberto Kassab implemented the Clean City Law, labelling outdoor adverts a form of "visual pollution". In a single year, the city removed 15,000 billboards and 300,000 oversized storefront signs. [...] The ubiquity of outdoor advertising means that we have come to take it for granted; accepting both its presence and its purpose as natural features of the urban environment.

Previously on Archinect: Rethinking Billboards as homeless shelters, and as land art projects in Art + Architecture: The Los Angeles Nomadic Division Sets Up Camp.
 https://archinect.com/news/article/127593879/aia-launches-second-video-in-look-up-campaign-featuring-a-blind-architect AIA launches second video in "Look Up" campaign featuring a blind architect Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-05-19T20:33:00-04:00 >2015-05-26T20:46:25-04:00
Entitled "An Architect's Story", the video features Chris Downey, a blind architect and founder of "Architecture for the Blind" in San Francisco. The piece, which debuted at the AIA National Convention last week, focuses on Downey's approach to architecture before and after unexpectedly becoming blind in 2008, and features talking-head interviews with Downey, one of his clients, and a student of his at UC Berkeley.

The documentary piece is starkly different in approach and style to the first installment of the "Look Up" campaign. Yes, both have the kind of generically-inspiring music one would have equal luck finding in either a Koch Industries' ad or the trailer for a young-adult romantic drama. But while the first spot, tasked with framing the "Look Up" identity, tended towards cinematic, fast-cut clips of dramatic or cerebral moments to churn up excitement about the profession, "An Architect's Story" is more focused on personal perspective. It strives to take Downey's insights fro...
 https://archinect.com/news/article/120599250/all-work-and-all-play-archinect-sessions-episode-16-with-jimenez-lai-and-robert-ivy-ceo-of-the-aia "All Work and All Play": Archinect Sessions Episode #16 with Jimenez Lai and Robert Ivy, CEO of the AIA Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-02-12T19:40:00-05:00 >2015-04-02T22:03:34-04:00
What do Robert Ivy FAIA, EVP/CEO of the AIA, and Jimenez Lai, of Bureau Spectacular, have in common? Other than they're both architects, not so much! What better way to celebrate a profession at the crossroads than featuring interviews with both in our latest podcast episode.

Paul, Amelia, Donna and Ken spoke with Ivy about the AIA's newly launched "I Look Up" (#ilookup) public awareness campaign for architects, and Jimenez Lai joined us in studio to discuss his latest Graham Foundation-funded collaboration, Treatise: Why Write Alone?.

Treatise is currently being exhibited at the Graham Foundation in Chicago through March 28, and its eponymous publication launches March 18.

As always, you can send us your architectural legal issues, comments or questions via twitter #archinectsessions, email or call us at (213) 784-7421.

Listen to episode sixteen of Archinect Sessions, "All Work and All Play" with Jimenez Lai and Robert Ivy FAIA, EVP/CEO of the AIA:

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Robert Ivy, CEO of the American Institute of Architects, has just announced that the organization will begin placing 30-second ads on national cable networks and news channels. The ads will begin airing on February 8th and will feature their recent "Look Up" campaign.

The campaign is a 3 year plan to "share the value that architects bring to communities".
 https://archinect.com/news/article/108098517/dronevertising-makes-real-life-pop-up-ads 'Dronevertising' Makes Real Life Pop-Up Ads Alexander Walter 2014-09-03T13:49:00-04:00 >2014-09-03T13:51:32-04:00
It was only a matter of time before someone saw the commercial potential of drones. Their compact size and swift mobility makes them ideal vehicles for transporting goods and information around the crowded streets of a city. Amazon has recently been testing the potential for drone deliveries, but Russian creative agency Hungry Boys' campaign has brought a new dimension to both advertising and drone use.

Related: Martha Stewart in the age of drone photography
 https://archinect.com/news/article/105324500/a-lost-cause-alfredo-jaar-s-a-logo-for-america-coming-to-times-square-again A Lost Cause? Alfredo Jaar's "A Logo for America" Coming to Times Square Again Alexander Walter 2014-07-29T14:07:00-04:00 >2014-08-04T21:56:58-04:00
When Alfredo Jaar's glittering "A Logo for America" video first played on a Times Square billboard in 1987, it riled up New Yorkers. [...] shows the words "This is not America" inside the outline of the United States. "A Logo for America" will receive a second life this week; beginning on August 1, the video will pop up on Times Square signs and screens between 11:57 pm and 12:00 am. But this 2.0 version loses some of the video's original intent to reach a broad—and hopefully attentive—audience.

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Billboards are commanding territory all over the world, offering just a blaring message in their occupation. Some designers have been looking at how to better use this advertising infrastructure, with Slovakia's Designdevelop proposing a use for the space as small-scale residences for the homeless.

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The new Orange Barrel HQ will reuse existing concrete storage silos and a renovated 10,000-sqft warehouse with a new 10,000-sqft addition. OBM President Pete Scantland says they're aiming for LEED Platinum certification with the project. Solar panels will be located on the back side of a 120-foot tall structure rising above the new offices, while the front side will provide a showpiece advertising space.

 Orange Barrel Media is a nine-year-old outdoor wallscape mural design and advertising firm that serves markets in New York, Boston, Charlotte, Columbus, Denver, Cleveland and Cincinnati. Yesterday, they announced a new headquarters in Columbus that includes an innovative solar-panel advertising tower and 20,000 square feet of space on a former concrete mixing plant adjacent to Downtown.

 The new development was designed by George Acock of Acock Associates with Landscape Architecture done by Keith Meyers and his team at MSI+KKG.
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Beautiful executed ads for 3M Noise Cancelling Headphones. Made by Grey, São Paulo, Brazil.

 Advertising Agency: Grey, São Paulo, Brazil
 Executive Creative Directors: Guy Costa, Alexandre Scaff
 Art Director: Daniel Prado
 Copywriter: Alexandre Scaff
 Illustrator: Leandro Esparca
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Nancy Merris, who is also known to Pat to friends, celebrated her milestone birthday surrounded by her family in Halesowen and was over-the-moon to get a telegram from the Queen.
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