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Rock-Tenn Co. (RKT) reported revenue growth of 67% in its fiscal third quarter thanks in part to last year's acquisition of Smurfit-Stone, which should keep it poised for even more growth moving forward. With low valuation metrics, including a low price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of 0.6, this Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy), paper and packaging company is a compelling value pick.
Fiscal Third Quarter
On July 24, Rock-Tenn posted a third-quarter fiscal 2012 profit of $58.2 million or 81 cents per share, compared with a loss of $30.1 million or 60 cents per share a year-ago. The results were boosted by a solid double-digit growth in sales.
Adjusted earnings (excluding items) of 95 cents per share, however, missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.02. The company had to contend with higher costs and a supply outage in its corrugated packaging business during the quarter.
Revenues soared 67% year over year to $2.3 billion, buoyed by last year's acquisition of leading paperboard maker Smurfit-Stone. The $3.5 billion acquisition has reinforced Rock-Tenn's corrugated packaging business and helped it to boost its market share in the profitable containerboard and corrugated business.
The company witnessed growth across the board in the quarter with sales from the core Corrugated Packaging division more than doubling year over year to $1.5 billion, driven by the Smurfit-Stone buyout. Growth was also witnessed across the Consumer Packaging and Recycling and Waste Solutions divisions.
Rock-Tenn will report its fourth quarter results after the closing bell on November 1. In its third quarter commentary, the company said it expects earnings of roughly $1.35 per share for the fourth quarter. Analysts polled by Zacks are currently expecting earnings of $1.37 on an average.
Earnings Momentum on the Move
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2012 is up 0.4% in the past 30 days to $4.47 per share, as five of 10 estimates were revised upward. As for fiscal 2013, seven estimates out of ten have lifted the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 13.6% to $7.27 per share, representing an estimated year over year growth of 62.6%.
A Value Stock
Rock-Tenn has plenty of reasons to be labeled a value stock. In addition to having a low P/S, the stock has an attractive forward P/E ratio of 10.0. It also has a low price-to-book (P/B) ratio of 1.5. (A P/S ratio lower than 1.0, a P/E below 15.0 and a P/B ratio under 3.0 generally indicate value.) Moreover, the company has a 1-year ROE of 10%, which is higher than its peer group average of 4.8%.
The stock has performed reasonably well so far this year, generating a year-to-date return of roughly 25%.
Founded in 1936, Rock-Tenn Co. is among the leading integrated manufacturers of corrugated and consumer packaging and recycling solutions in North America. The company has emerged as the second-largest maker of containerboard in North America following the Smurfit-Stone acquisition. Rock-Tenn, which has a market cap of roughly $5.1 billion, operates in more than 240 locations across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and China.
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06 March 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Cognigram by CogState enters Canada market
The computerized tool enables accurate detection of early cognitive impairment
Singapore: Australia's CogState has rolled out Cogniram, a computerized tool that enables accurate detection of early cognitive impairment, for physicians in Canada in conjunction with its partner Merck Canada. Cogniram is now being used in medical practice, outside the context of clinical trials.
Cogniram is available at eight testing centers in large Canadian cities with full Canadian distribution expected by the end of 2013. After only a short time on the market, over 150 physicians have expressed an interest in referring patients for testing with Cogniram. It costs approximately $120 per test session.
Cogniram is meant to help doctors detect the early stages of cognitive decline associated with a neurodegenerative disease, such as Alzheimer's disease. When a doctor recommends that a patient takes Cogniram, the patient is referred to a center to undertake the computerized test under the supervision of qualified personnel. Following the test, the results are provided to the referring physician.
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Mr Brad O'Connor, CEO of CogState, said, "Our launch into the general healthcare market is a momentous event for CogState and the first step in driving change in the way physicians manage testing the cognition of their patients, particularly when it comes to detecting the earliest signs of dementia and Alzhiemer's disease. Canada is an important market and to date we are extremely pleased with the investment Merck has made and with the early interest they are generating in Cogniram."


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Last Friday, fishing columnist Al McGlashan of Australia's Daily Telegraph discovered the carcass of a giant squid floating off the coast of Australia. Discoveries like this are uncommon in and of themselves, but two things about this particular find made it especially rare.
One: this squid was fresh. Judging from its vibrant color (squid carcasses are often rotten and off-white in hue by the time anybody finds them) and missing tentacles, McGlashen speculates it had recently come out on the losing side of a battle with a sperm whale, the massive invertebrates' only known predator.
Two: it was being devoured in massive chunks by a blue shark.
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The Holy Martyr Basiliscus was a nephew of the Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit (February 17), and he suffered together with his brothers Eutropius and Kleonikos during the persecution of the emperor Maximian Galerius (305-311). The holy martyrs Kleonikos and Eutropius (March 3) were crucified, but the martyr Basiliscus was sent to Comana where he was detained in prison.
The governor Agrippa arrived in the city of Amasea, and started a persecution against Christians. Saint Basiliscus in prison prepared himself for his impending ordeal. The Lord appeared to him in a dream, promising the martyr His help, and foretold his martyric death at Comana. Saint Basiliscus asked the prison guards to let him go to his native village to bid his relatives farewell. They let him go, since they respected him for his holy life and working of miracles. Arriving home, Saint Basiliscus saw his family one last time, and urged them to stand firmly in the Faith.
When Agrippa learned that Saint Basiliscus had gone to see his relatives, he went into a rage. He chastized the prison guards, and he sent a detachment of soldiers after the martyr, headed by a cruel magistrianum (adjutant of the governor). Meeting Saint Basiliscus, who was actually on his way back, the magistrianum placed heavy chains on him, and shod him with metal sandals with nails driven into the soles, and set off to Comana.
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The earth shook, and a spring of water came forth from the fissure. The magistrianum, the soldiers and Troana, rushed out of the house, frightened by the earthquake. Shaken by the miracle which had taken place, they set the martyr free. Sick people from the village came to the holy martyr and received healing through his prayers.
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It's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about Fenway Park. A century after it was built, fans still gush about this "lyric little bandbox," as John Updike called it. To guys like Ed Carpenter, Fenway is history and home, magic and mystique.
"I love this place," he says, tearing up. "I mean, it's not mortar and bricks and seats."
Carpenter first started coming to Fenway with his dad in 1949, when he was 6.
"We walked up this ramp right behind this home plate," he recalls. "I can still see everything was green, emerald green. It was love at first sight."
Those were the years of the "Ted Sox," when the famous lefty Ted Williams consistently slugged 'em up and over Fenway's right field wall, until his very last at bat in 1960.
"This is pretty cool. I got goose bumps," says 19-year-old construction worker John Corbett, trying to bang out a kink in one of Fenway's cranky old garage doors — the very same doors that now open for Big Papi once opened up for Pedro and the Babe.
"There's a lot of history here," he says from the top of his ladder. "That's what's the cool thing about it. It's one of a kind."
Green Monster Looms
Fenway has been called the 10th player of the Boston Red Sox — its single most enduring star. Players and owners come and go, but Fenway remains, familiar and timeless. The right foul line is still marked by Pesky's Pole, the old Citgo sign still shines over the park, and the iconic Green Monster still keeps score in left field.
"Today, when I walk in the park, I don't feel no different at all," says 94-year-old Lou Lucier, a former Red Sox pitcher, and now the oldest living Red Sox player. He can still remember taking the mound for his first Fenway game in 1943.
"Oh, Jesus," he says. "To tell you the truth, it didn't feel too good."
To a pitcher especially, Lucier says, that Green Monster in left field loomed large.
"That fence is so damn close, you get on the mound, you turn around, and seems like it's at second base," he says.
Even worse, all the nooks and crevices in the Green Monster, and that funky triangle deep in center field, made Fenway feel like a pinball machine.
"I thought, 'What the heck kind of a baseball park is this?' " Lucier says. "The way the ball bounces off that wall ... Sheeeez."
Today that wall has become one of the most visited tourist attractions in the city of Boston, and new "Monster seats" installed on top of it are so popular you can only get them through an online lottery.
"These have been called the most unique seats in baseball," announces Carpenter, who recently came out of retirement to start a new career as a Fenway tour guide. Even his visitors from New York "oooh" and "ahhh."
Inside the wall, during games, he explains, three people crammed into just about 8 feet of windowless, non-air-conditioned space still change the score by hand. "The only way to see what's happening here at the ballpark," Carpenter says, is to look through little peepholes about the size of mail slots.
Highs And Heartbreak
It was through one of those peepholes that a camera captured Carlton Fisk in the 1975 World Series wildly waving his arms to make his line drive to the left stay fair.
Over the years, the Fenway faithful have celebrated countless similar highs. Fans reveled in the stunning strikeouts thrown by Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez, and cheered countless batters like Jim Rice and Carl Yastrzemski blasting balls out of the park. When Yaz whacked his 3,000th career hit in 1979, it was one of the many times "all hell [broke] loose at Fenway Park!" — as the game announcer put it.
But sit anywhere at Fenway, from the grandstand on down to the first-base line, and you can also feel decades of heartache seeping from the seats: crushing losses in the postseason to the Cardinals in '67, the Mets in '86 and the Yankees in '78 with that famous home run hit by Bucky Dent.
Boos or cheers, there's something about the way Fenway is nestled into the ground, below street level, that seems to contain and multiply the energy when the crowd erupts.
"When the place breaks out into 'Sweet Caroline,' it's just transporting," says Bob Caputo, producer of the documentary Inside Fenway Park: An Icon at 100. "You feel like you're going to just lift off."
The Soul Of The City
Indeed, Fenway is as intimate as it is intense. In a ballpark this small, with seats just inches from the foul lines, fans here literally become part of the game. You can lean over the dugout seats and bump elbows with a coach. And when you yell out at a batter or heckle the pitcher, he can definitely hear you.
"Every game is electric. And you can just feel that," says Fenway fan Dan Wilson. "The ballpark itself is the soul of the city."
Shoehorned in the center of the city, Fenway has been about much more than just baseball. High school kids played football here. Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy campaigned here. Duke Ellington, Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney sang here.
You could call it an accident of history — or divine intervention — that Fenway managed to live to see 100.
The ballpark survived a fire in the 1930s and barely escaped the wrecking ball in the 1960s, when massive new "concrete doughnuts" were all the rage. By the time "small" became "big," and "retro" was new again in the 1990s, when Fenway facsimiles like Camden Yards were all the rage, the real Fenway was falling apart, and owners said there was nothing more that they could do.
Team owners said they needed the revenue that would come from more seats in a new stadium in order to survive. They drew up plans for a new ballpark, adjacent to the old, and had even lined up the political support they needed to start building.
But as news reporters commenced the "official Fenway death watch," a group of die-hard Fenway faithful continued picketing outside the park, trying to sell fans and owners on their plan to make the ballpark viable.
"We were vilified for a number of years there," says Wilson, who helped lead the group Save Fenway Park. "We were standing in the way of a shiny new stadium. We were made fun of, we were looked at as being just dreamers."
Indeed, plenty of more ornate ballparks, like Ebbets Field, had already been razed. Fenway's plain red brick exterior was so unimpressive that when Clemens, the pitching ace, first arrived, he didn't believe he could possibly be in the right place, and he asked his cabbie to turn around.
Fenway's Reprieve
By 2002, when the team owners put the Sox up for sale, only one group of bidders was promising to resuscitate Fenway rather than replace it. That group, headed by John Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino, would eventually get their chance.
"We made everyone who worked on the ballpark take the Fenway Park equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath. Rule 1: Do no harm," says Lucchino, now the ballclub's president and CEO.
The team would spend $285 million on a massive rehab of the park, fixing the field so it would no longer flood, adding state-of-the-art video screens, and updating everything from the players' clubhouse to mezzanine bathrooms.
And over 10 years, the Sox slowly added more than 14,000 new seats, a hundred or a handful at a time. They wedged them in everywhere they possibly could — from the top of the Green Monster, and on a new roof in right field, down to renovated boxes behind home plate and new rows on the field along the first and third baselines.
"It was really remarkable," says Caputo, the filmmaker. "It was like some sort of sleight of hand, because they made the ballpark bigger and more comfortable, but still made it look and feel the same."
In one especially crafty trick, the Sox created broad new concourses, with plenty of room for new concession stands, by borrowing room from next-door buildings and city streets. Today, a few hours before each game, they roll out turnstiles and barricades to the ends of Yawkey Way, making that temporarily an official part of the ballpark, allowing Fenway to gain tons of square footage without building an inch.
'Miracle Of 2004'
When the Sox finally broke the Curse of the Bambino and won the World Series in 2004, it seemed to the Fenway faithful — and Lucchino — nothing less than an act of God.
"It does seem fair, doesn't it," chuckles Lucchino, "that the baseball gods would approve of the way that we approached this sacred, this hallowed ground of baseball, and then allow us the miracle of 2004."
Sure, there are gripes about baseball's highest average ticket prices, and seats that are still squished and facing away from the field or smack into a steel beam. But there are more than enough fans, like Steve Pell, who forgive it all as part of Fenway's charm.
"When you're sitting there at a game and you're watching the Red Sox play," Pell says, "your tush forgets what you are sitting on."
Today, the nation's oldest ballpark holds a major league record for nine years of consecutive sellouts. "And we're still counting," says Lucchino. "We have fans who crave the experience and keep filling up the ballpark."
Owner John Henry may sum it up best, with one of his favorite expressions when he shows up at the office. "Ahh, Fenway Park," he says. "It never gets old!"
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block.
The Boston Red Sox take on the New York Yankees tomorrow at Fenway Park. The game comes 100 years to the day after their first matchup at the very same ballpark. Fans jammed an open house at Fenway today to wish the park a happy 100th birthday.
NPR's Tovia Smith has this look at Major League Baseball's oldest and, for many, most beloved ballpark.
TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE: It's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about Fenway.
SMITH: This lyric little bandbox, says John Updike gushed.
SMITH: Fans coo about its magic, its mystique and its soul.
ED CARPENTER: I love this place. I mean, it's not mortar and bricks and seats. It's...
SMITH: Even a grown man like Ed Carpenter...
CARPENTER: I'm going to start tearing up. If you'll bear with me.
SMITH: ...still gets weak in the knees recalling his first time here.
CARPENTER: We walked up this ramp right behind home plate and I can still see it. Everything was green, emerald green. I remember going - it was love at first sight.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Everybody quiet now here at Fenway Park. One on one to Williams.
SMITH: Those were the years of the Ted Sox, the famous lefty slugging them up and over Fenway's right field wall until his very last at-bat.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: And there's a long drive to deep right. That ball is going and it is gone. A home run for Ted Williams.
JOHN CORBETT: This is - this is pretty cool. I got goosebumps.
SMITH: Nineteen year old construction worker, John Corbett felt it trying to bang out a kink in Fenway's same old metal doors that once opened up for Pedro, Big Papi and the Babe.
CORBETT: A lot of history here. That's what's the cool thing about it. It's one of a kind.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: And now the Boston Red Sox.
SMITH: Today, the players are new, but Fenway's right foul line is still marked by Pesky's Pole, the old Citgo sign still shines over the park and the iconic Green Monster still keeps score in left field.
LOU LUCIER: Today, when I walk in the park, I don't feel no different at all.
SMITH: At 94, the oldest living Sox player, Lou Lucier, can still remember taking the mound for his first Fenway game in 1943.
LUCIER: Oh, Jesus, it didn't feel too good.
SMITH: To a pitcher especially, that Green Monster in left field loomed large.
LUCIER: That fence is so damned close, you get on the mound and you turn around it seems like it's at second base.
SMITH: Even worse, all the nooks and crevices in the monster and that funky triangle deep in center field made Fenway like a pinball machine.
LUCIER: I thought, what the heck kind of a baseball park is this? The way that ball bounces off that wall. Gee.
CARPENTER: This is probably my favorite section of the ballpark.
SMITH: Today, Ed Carpenter leads Fenway tours up to the new seats on top of the Green Monster.
CARPENTER: What do you think? Pretty neat?
SMITH: During games, inside the wall, three people in just about eight feet of space still change the score by hand.
CARPENTER: Only way to see what's happening here at the ballpark. Look at the words, at bat. It looks like a mail slot. Those are peepholes.
SMITH: It was through one of those peepholes that a camera captured Carlton Fisk in the '75 World Series waving his line drive to stay right.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: ...left field. If it stays fair, it's gone. Home run. The Red Sox win.
SMITH: The Fenway Baseball has had highs, from stunning strike-outs thrown by Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez to balls blasted by Jim Rice and Carl Yastrzemski.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: There goes a ground ball. Base hit. Number 3,000. Yastrzemski's got it and all hell breaks loose at Fenway Park.
SMITH: But sit anywhere at Fenway from the grandstand on down to the first base line and you can also feel decades of heartache seeping from the seats.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Finally.
SMITH: Losing in the post-season to the Cardinals in '67, the Mets in '86 and the Yankees in '78.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Home run. Home run for Bucky Dent. Home run and the Yankees win it, three to two.
SMITH: The thing about a park as small as Fenway, fans literally become part of the game.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Boo. Go back to Florida.
SMITH: Dis a player here and he could actually answer you.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Bye-bye, baby. Yeah, you hear me.
SMITH: It is as intimate, says fan Dan Wilson, as it is intense.
DAN WILSON: Every game is electric and you can feel that. The ballpark itself is, you know, the soul of the city.
SMITH: Shoehorned in the center of Boston, Fenway has also hosted high school kids playing football. FDR and JFK campaigned here. Duke Ellington, Bruce Springstein and Paul McCartney sang here.
SMITH: You could call it an accident of history or divine intervention that Fenway has lived to see 100.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: The future of Fenway doesn't look too good.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: The Fenway death watch has officially commenced.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: This ballpark probably won't be here in just a couple years, but...
SMITH: Fenway barely escaped the wrecking ball in the '60s when massive new concrete doughnuts were all the rage. By the time small became big and retro was new again in the '90s and Fenway facsimiles like Camden Yards were all the rage, the real Fenway was falling apart and owners had given up on it.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #5: It's time to look for some alternatives. And, economically, we need the revenue of a new stadium to complete.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #6: Babe Ruth pitched here.
WILSON: Help save Fenway.
SMITH: Back then, Fenway faithful like Dan Wilson were a minority.
WILSON: When it's gone, it's gone, folks.
We were vilified for a number of years there. We were standing in the way of a shiny, new stadium. We were made fun of. We were looked at as being just dreamers.
SMITH: Indeed, plenty of more ornate ballparks like Ebbets Field had already been raised. Fenway's red brick exterior was so unimpressive when Roger Clemens first arrived, he didn't believe he could be in the right place and he asked his cabbie to turn around.
By 2002, when the Sox were sold, Larry Lucchino and his partners were the only bidders promising to resuscitate Fenway rather than replace it.
LARRY LACCHINO: We made everyone who worked on the ballpark take the Fenway Park equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath, which - rule one, do no harm.
SMITH: Over 10 years, the Sox managed to maintain Fenway's field while squeezing in thousands of new seats a handful or 100 at a time atop the Green Monster on a new right field roof, behind home plate and in new rows on the field.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: And the wait is over. After 86 years, the Boston Red Sox are the champions of the baseball world.
SMITH: When the Sox finally broke the curse of the Bambino in 2004, it seemed to the Fenway faithful and Lucchino nothing less than an act of God.
LACCHINO: It does seem fair, doesn't it, that the baseball gods would approve of the way that we approached this sacred - this hallowed ground of baseball and then allow us the miracle of 2004.
SMITH: Sure, there are gripes about baseball's highest average ticket prices and seats that are still squished and facing away from the field or into a steel beam. But to fans like Steve Pell(ph), that's Fenway's charm.
STEVE PELL: When you're sitting there at a game and you're watching the Red Sox play, your tush forgets what you're sitting on.
SMITH: Today, the nation's oldest ballpark has sold out for a record nine years. A century after Fenway was built, as its owners like to say, it never gets old.
Tovia Smith, NPR News, Boston.
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Adapted from Afra, A. & Quigley, J. (2013). 'Children's constructions of 'porn' in an Irish primary school: Implications for boys. In M. Leane & E. Kiely (eds.). Sexualities and Irish Society. A Reader. Dublin: Orpen, 321-346.
Today I'd like to get started with presenting some of the findings relating to the porn aspect of 'porn and hookup culture in an Irish primary school'. Beforehand though I will introduce the participants and then set the context in which 'porn' emerged.
There were twenty-four participants in total, eleven boys and thirteen girls, aged eleven and twelve and all forming one group of sixth class. Two of the boys identified as British and the rest as settled Irish. All eleven boys were white. Of the thirteen girls one was South-East- Asian-Irish, a second was white continental-European-Irish and a third girl was black African-Irish. The remaining ten girls were white and settled Irish. All participants were physically and intellectually normatively abled. The large primary school where fieldwork took place was located in a high-economic-status suburb of Dublin and was under the patronage of the Catholic Church. All names used throughout the presentation of findings are pseudonyms.
Contextualization of Findings
"Porn" had been discovered by school staff as a result of a violent fight between two boys (David and Anthony) that involved an escalation of one boy taunting the other with "gay porn" (Anthony's words) from a mobile phone to imply that he was "gay" (participants' word).
It was hoped that raising the topic of an anti-bullying programme during focus group discussions would encourage the children to talk about porn. The decision not to confront participants more directly about the topic was based on previous discussions during the year about kissing (called "meeting") and the Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) curriculum that had led some children to feel "awkward". This short extract exemplifies the necessity to have allowed individual children to take control over whether to talk about porn or not:
AA What was the talk about?
Ava About the word in, I don't like saying it. The word in em
Lily [laughs]
Ava [laughs] It's a bit weird.
Lily [laughs]
AA What was the word? 'Sex'?
Lily Yeah
Lily Remember, we're twelve.
Evidently, sex-related topics could be terribly difficult to discuss for some. Below, I move on to some of the ways that those children who did dare to transgress the norm of 'childhood innocence' constructed 'porn' with their talk.
Porn as something that shouldn't be spoken about:
Discussing the recently delivered anti-bullying programme during interviews had prompted some children to talk about the 'porn fight' thus leading to an extended discussion of porn. However, one of the ways to construct 'porn' was as 'unspeakable':
AA What was the fight about? … Or how did it get started?
Mikey David just kept on like- like it wasn't the first time David had ever
Mikey like annoyed Anthony.
Graham He just [kept on doing it
Mikey [annoying him and annoying him [and annoying him
Graham [and then Anthony just
Graham acted out. He acted and then just…
Alison And what exactly was David doing to annoy Anthony do you know? …
Mikey Calling him names and just … just calling him gay and like all that
Mikey I think he was texting him stuff, was he?
Graham Yeah I don't know
The specific details about how David was "annoying" Anthony, i.e. by watching porn in the classroom and by taunting him with "gay porn", were omitted from Graham and Mikey's accounts. When probed, Mikey diverted attention away from porn by emphasising the purpose to which David had been using it as a means, namely to ridicule Anthony as "gay". The "just" of "just calling him gay" functioned to reassure the researcher, an adult woman, that there was nothing more to know about. Shortly after, Mikey conspires to share the 'secret' of porn, "I think he was texting him stuff, was he?" but Graham refuses to take the discussion in this direction by explicitly though ambivalently claiming ignorance, "Yeah I don't know."
Five boys in total spoke about porn and even then two out of the five subsequently withdrew the relevant sections from their transcripts. Evidently, it was extremely challenging to try to co-produce verbal data with the boys about it. The extracts below shed some light on the stigma preventing frank discussion.
Porn as "sick" and "sort of perverted"
Alison Ok. So how do kids your age manage to get pornography?
Brian Emmm…
Rory That's David
Brian That's David
Anthony It's called-
Brian No one else has porn on the phone
Alison Ok
Anthony It's pretty sick like literally this is all you have to do [takes his
Anthony phone out of his pocket]
Alison Don't get it now
Rory [laughs]
Anthony I'm not. Oh yeah like I'd do that.
Above we witness the marginalization of David as strange at best and "sick" at worst for being the sort of boy who would be in possession of porn on his cell phone. The stigmatization and pathologization of porn continues below:
I remember em one of my friends he was looking it up. And I was like 'aw stop that's sort of perverted' and like he said 'aw it's grand' and I took his phone and … somehow or other I went in. I took the phone for the whole night like off him and I went in to settings and I eh deleted his eh browser so he couldn't look it up coz I said 'eventually one day your mam and your dad are going to take your phone and look at the addresses.' Like you're able to enter addresses. Then all of a sudden they're going to see like porn horn and all this crazy cack so …
The seeming ease with which porn can be accessed along with any desire to do so is obstructed by more than merely getting caught. Anthony has pathologized the downloading of it on to a phone as "sort of perverted", as well as describing the actual contents as, "crazy cack". Through his construction of it as being only "sort of perverted" and not absolutely so, while his friend defines it as not at all perverted , "aw it's grand", we are witness to the pushes and pulls of 'porn' as produced by overlapping and competing discourses. This is a point of similarity with the existing literature in that it is normative to admit to familiarity with mobile-phone porn whilst simultaneously denying possession of it on one's own phone (Bond, 2010).
In next month's post I will present further the discourses that guided the aforementioned constructions of porn in the way that they did. Meanwhile, the main thing to note is that the boys were not free to discuss porn with the researcher because of a stigma attached to it making it shameful and pathological. I recommend that we stop to wonder how discourses on the 'premature sexualization of childhood' that are linked to the 'sexualization of culture' inadvertently exacerbate the stigma through the panic they stir and anxiety they rouse thus endangering the very children they aim to protect.
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This summer we've spent quite a bit of time at the beach. For a little while, we rented a condo right by the water. Sounds wonderful, right? Well, truth be known, living at the beach has its downfalls.
Let me break it down for you. First off, be prepared to sweep EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Sometimes twice a day! No matter how much you and your little ones rinse off before going in the house, that sand mysteriously creeps right on in.
Second of all, sunscreen. Figuring out the right SPF is a tricky thing. You want to tan, but not burn. Is SPF 50 enough or perhaps 60 or even 100?! Then what about the face? Should it be higher or lower than what you use on your body? So many decisions! Also, you might as well buy stock in sunblock because you'll be buying tons of it.
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After rolling his ankle while chasing a loose ball, Florida senior point guard Scottie Wilbekin stayed in the locker room in the closing minutes the last time Florida played at Connecticut.
There was no TV, so Wilbekin was spared the heartbreak of watching UConn senior guard Shabazz Napier's buzzer-beating shot. He learned of the outcome when a staff member arrived back before the rest of the team.
"It feels like it was forever ago," Wilbekin said of UF's 65-64 loss to Connecticut on Dec. 2.
Florida will have a chance to avenge that loss, and perhaps one more, in a rematch with Connecticut on Saturday in a Final Four filled with familiarity. Oliver Stone couldn't have written this script. If the favored Gators get by the Huskies at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, they will face either a rematch with a Wisconsin team that beat the undermanned Gators 59-53 last November or attempt to go 4-0 on the season against Southeastern Conference rival Kentucky.
"It makes it easier to prepare for UConn 'cause we already played them once," Florida sophomore guard Michael Frazier II said. "But we're not really focused on the other two teams 'cause we're only promised one more game."
Florida coach Billy Donovan said that familiarity will help both teams in the UConn matchup.
"It gives you at least a reference point of what you're dealing with there," Donovan said. "I think from a preparation standpoint, both teams kind of know each other. We're not in the same league. We've played each other once. It was a long time ago, early December, both teams were out there competing, and both teams have an idea of size, length, speed, quickness."
The Gators (36-2) have won a school-record 30 straight since the Connecticut loss. But they've seen few guards since as explosive as Napier, who scored 26 points in the last meeting. Only Kansas freshman phenom Andrew Wiggins, who declared for the NBA draft on Monday, scored as many points (26) against the Gators this season.
"He is a great scorer," Donovan said of Napier. "He can do it by himself. He doesn't need necessarily a lot of help or a lot of screening. He's been a big shot maker his whole entire career."
In its last meeting with Connecticut, Florida played the entire game without injured freshman point guard Kasey Hill and the final 3:01 without Wilbekin. At the time, the Gators trailed 57-55. With Frazier running the offense at point guard, Florida actually played strong on the offensive end, with Patric Young scoring seven straight points and Frazier hitting an inside short jumper to put Florida up 64-63.
But Florida missed Wilbekin more on the defensive end of the floor. With Wilbekin out, Florida was forced to play zone defense on its second-to-last defensive possession, which helped Connecticut grab two offensive rebounds before Napier converted a four-point play. Napier wound up scoring the last six points for the Huskies.
While the Gators have rolled since, Connecticut has taken a different path to its sixth Final Four appearance in school history. The Huskies were 7-0 at the time they beat the Gators, but went 19-8 in their next 27 games. Connecticut came into the NCAA tournament a seven seed after losing 71-61 to Louisville in the American Athletic Conference tournament finals and needed overtime to beat St. Joseph's 89-81 in its first NCAA tournament game. But since, UConn has knocked off higher seeds Villanova (77-65), Iowa State (81-74) and Michigan State (60-54) to earn a trip to Arlington.
"They're playing their best basketball right now, and I think we're doing the same," Wilbekin said. "That's what you have to do to be in this position, in the Final Four. I don't expect anything less than them to play their best game."
After breaking through the Elite Eight barrier, Florida players face a new challenge — managing the Final Four.
While no current UF player has been to a Final Four, Donovan has been part of a Final Four as a player, assistant coach and head coach. He said the most important part is to manage distractions such as ticket requests and extra media requests.
"There is obviously an enormous amount of attention placed on the event, and our guys just need to understand that we're there to play basketball," Donovan said. "We've been fortunate enough to get an opportunity to play another 40 minutes. Sometimes with all that takes place in the Final Four, you can really, really get distracted on some of those things.
"It will be very important that we keep ourselves focused mentally and emotionally, and even physically on things that we need to do to get ourselves prepared to play on Saturday."
Frazier said his family is pretty good about not hounding him too much for ticket requests. Each player gets six tickets for the Final Four, but players can ask from more from teammates if they have less than six family members or friends coming.
"I do a pretty good job of handling it well before the game starts so I don't have to worry about it," Frazier said.
Wilbekin earned more accolades Monday when he was named a third-team Associated Press All-American. The 6-foot-2 Gainesville native is averaging 13.4 points and 3.7 assists and has been terrific in the NCAA tournament, where he is averaging 16.7 points, 3 assists and 1.5 steals in four games.
In addition, Florida senior forward Casey Prather and senior center Patric Young were named honorable mention to the AP All-American team. The 6-foot-6 Prather, UF's leading scorer at 13.8 points per game, also was named to the Wooden All-American team Monday.


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I have just posted a collection of guides with suggestions on installing and customizing BibleWorks 9.
- The installation guide is intended for a Windows computer. If you are wanting to install BW on a Mac, Matt Day has provided a very helpful guide to make it work in the most effective and economical way. After installation, you can return to Parts 2 and following in my guides for further customization.
- BibleWorks comes with a collection of excellent How-To videos. Some of my guides overlap with them, but my focus is more on customization and personalization than on use of the program. In customizing, however, you will discover quite a few ways to use the program. Further, my guides are available as DOCX or PDF files or some slideshows if you're the sort who would rather read directions than watch a video.
- If you are already running BW9 (or BW8), Parts 2 and following may still be useful for you.
- I'm working on another guide for installation if you are already using BW on one system and moving to a new system or installing BW on a second system and want the new installation to match the existing one. NOTE: Your BW license allows you to install the program on 2 systems as long as they will not be used concurrently.
The incentive to compose these guides is for the seminary students in my Greek and Gospels classes. Please note that many of the suggestions I make in the guides are subjective and are particularly oriented to my intended audience. Still, my suggestions arise from quite a few years of experience with BibleWorks. I hope you find them useful.
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These Centres play a crucial role in promoting all three pillars of the Aarhus Convention, namely Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in environmental matters. They improve awareness among the public and governmental authorities by disseminating environmental information and carrying out numerous educational and training projects relevant to the implementation of the Convention. By providing a venue where members of the public can meet to discuss environmental concerns, the Aarhus Centres strengthen environmental governance. They assist the public with participating in environmental decision-making and facilitate access to justice on environmental; matters sensitizing the public and governments to their shared responsibility for their natural surroundings.
Since 2002, OSCE has been supporting the establishment of Aarhus Centres and Public Environmental Information Centres (PEICs) in several countries, including Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Serbia and Tajikistan. (Map)
In this initiative, the OSCE partners primarily with the Governments of the participating States where these Centres are located as well as the leading environmental NGOs in these countries. The Aarhus Centres are usually based on an agreement between the relevant OSCE field operation and the Ministry for Environment in the respective country and managed by a board consisting of an equal number of representatives from government and civil society.
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Last night's CBS Television News magazine, 60 Minutes, aired a segment that correspondent Lesley Stahl described as "explosive" in promos for the piece. The segment discussed the new scientific research that is creating a stir in the medical community.
Stahl interviewed psychologist Irving Kirsch, associate director of the Placebo Studies Program at Harvard Medical School. Kirsch's research challenges the effectiveness of antidepressants. He said the difference between the effect of a placebo and the effect of an antidepressant is minimal for most people.
His specialty research has been the study of the placebo effect, — the usage of an unmedicated pill. Apparently, the fake pill creates an expectation of healing that is so powerful, symptoms are actually alleviated. During the segment, Stahl also spoke with psychiatrists who disagreed with Kirsch's findings as well as another doctor whose own studies confirmed Kirsch's analysis.
During the Kirsch interview, Stahl asserted, "But people are getting better taking antidepressants, I know them. We all know them."
Kirsch responded, "People get better when they take the drug, but it's not the chemical ingredients of the drugs that are making them better. It's largely the placebo effect."
The segment illustrated how powerful the mind is over the body; and some patients with cases of osteoporosis and Parkinson's disease even experienced improvements. Patients who took placebo pills actually had changes in blood pressure and brain chemistry.
As well, the segment touched on placebo surgery and its startling success. This surgery is a faked operative intervention without the actual surgical corrective step thought to be therapeutically necessary. Also, mentioned was the fact that positive physical changes even took place when doctors merely showed genuine care for patients.
Is this report "explosive?" Yes, because 17 million Americans take antidepressants. It puts a billion dollar pharmaceutical industry under a microscope.
And, yes, as well, because the report is quite thought provoking for those in the scientific community who have never before recognized the broad impact the mind has on physical health. However, it is not so explosive for those who already had indications of this phenomenon.
For quite some time, physicians and researchers have noticed and studied, in limited degree, expectations of betterment (the placebo effect) and fear of suffering (the nocebo effect) and how they influence health for better or worse.
Perhaps these revelations could point researchers in new directions. It could be asked, "To what extent does consciousness affect health? Are there limits to the mind controlling the body? And, is it possible to govern thought so that one could expect health on a consistent basis?"
A pioneer in the mind/health connection in the late 1800s, Mary Baker Eddy, confronted these questions. Her final analysis, many feel, was also quite explosive.
Kirsch challenging the effectiveness of antidepressants and uncovering the human mind's role in healing is big, but just think of the debate that took place, and is still taking place, when it is suggested that spirituality has a part in health care.
Eddy, years ago, experimented with differing healing methods, including homeopathy and the use of placebos. During her research, she discovered that as medications were diluted by attenuation, patients' improvements increased. She recognized that the drug had no intrinsic power of its own. The human mind was empowering the medication. Eddy's and Kirsch's findings seem to be similar on this point.
Yet, Eddy's research went further. She felt there was something missing. And she felt that she uncovered the missing key during her own struggle with a serious physical challenge. She realized that the human mind could do marvelous things. However, she also felt it was the cause of most pain and disease. The real cure she said was in the spirit or mind of God (Christ) that Jesus utilized. She discovered during her own healing that both the human mind and body are subordinate to this divine mind.
While putting into practice what she learned, Eddy became known as a Christian and mental healer. Cures of acute, chronic, and organic disease as well as functional difficulties were documented. She taught others to heal. She then began calling her wholly mental and spiritual system of healing Christian Science.
Lesley Stahl's 60 Minutes piece also brought up a moral issue. While promoting this story, Stahl was asked, "Should doctors be prescribing sugar pills?" Stahl said that she had asked this question throughout her reporting, and had learned it would not be an ethical practice.
Eddy, answering this question years ago, deepened the discussion when she wrote, "The only objection to giving the unmedicated sugar is, it would be dishonest and divide one's faith apparently between matter and mind, and so weaken both points of action; taking hold of both horns of the dilemma, we should work at opposites and accomplish less on either side."
Stahl's 60 Minutes segment will cause much discussion. This is a good thing. Hopefully, we can glean something new from the conversation. For some, it will be that the human mind governs our bodies more than we knew. For others, it might be an introduction to how mind/thought governed by the divine is even more helpful. Each has broad impacts on everyone's physical care.
– Keith Wommack is a Syndicated Columnist, Christian Science practitioner and teacher, husband, and step-dad. He has been described as a spiritual spur (since every horse needs a little nudge now and then). Keith's columns originate at: KeithWommack.com
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The National Trust has long published a technical bulletin called Views, which contains all sorts of research ranging from car park design to Repton red books. Now the most recent issues of Views have been made publicly accessible for the first time.
One of the articles in issue 47, by National Trust gardens curator Chris Gallagher, is about the rediscovery of the vistas in the Crom demesne in Co. Fermanagh.
As Chris explains, the park at Crom was designed by William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/2-1843) from the mid-1830s onwards. Gilpin was working in the Picturesque tradition and was adept at sensitively combining the man-made and natural elements of a landscape.
The trees planted and arranged by Gilpin have obviously matured since then, and some of the Picturesque vistas he contrived have become overgrown. Chris's research has identified many of these half-lost views.
One of the purposes of vistas was to create a greater sense of connectedness between the different parts of a landscape.
It is hoped that Chris Gallagher's findings will lead to more of these crucial vistas being opened up again, while obviously also preserving Crom's character as a place of great and mysterious natural beauty.
By the way, William Sawrey Gilpin was also responsible for the garden at Scotney Castle, which I have featured earlier. And these photographs of Crom remind me of a previous discussion about different types of beauty.


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Gift Guide: Digital cameras change to beat smartphones
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Samsung's new Galaxy camera looks like a phone. But it's a camera that's only for sale via wireless company AT&T. And there's no phone access with it.
It's the new world of digital cameras, where manufacturers are struggling to come up with cool devices that match the ease and instant sharing capabilities of smartphones. The latest cameras this holiday shopping season are trying really hard to morph into mobile devices.
The reason is easy to grasp. Camera sales are down 30% so far this year, according to Chris Chute, an analyst with research firm IDC. He says the "drastic" drop is due to the popularity of the smartphone, which has replaced most point-and-shoot cameras as the camera consumers take with them when they leave home.
The Apple iPhone and Android smartphones from Samsung, LG and HTC have improved to the point where for most folks, phone shots are as good as what they snapped with their digital cameras despite lacking superior flash and better zooming ability.
To stoke sales, camera manufacturers are going back to the basics — appealing to the folks who built the photo industry back in the 1950s and 1960s. They are targeting their latest products to photo enthusiasts and hobbyists who lust after the latest technological advance.
"The industry has gone full circle," Chute says. "The upshot is cooler cameras with more bells and whistles."
Manufacturers are dreaming up smaller, lighter and much sharper cameras that do things the old Nikon F and Pentax Spotmatics of years past could never dream of.
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Samsung's new Galaxy camera (not to be confused with Galaxy S III smartphone) will be available from AT&T beginning Friday for $499. The camera has a 4.8-inch LCD screen on the back — larger than what's seen on most phones and cameras, but smaller than tablets. It has a 21x zoom lens, built-in Android software and a full range of apps.
Customers will need a data plan to use the camera wirelessly and take advantage of the apps. While it's not a phone, if you plug a headset into the earphone jack and use a voice app such as Skype, you can make calls over the Internet.
In all, Samsung has 10 Wi-Fi-enabled cameras this year.They connect to either a Wi-Fi network or via your smartphone. The $300 WB850F point-and shoot-camera, for instance, connects to a Wi-Fi network to transmit photos, or to your phone to send them that way.
"If you're taking pictures of a kid on a soccer field, or a recital in a low light, the images won't be as good on a smartphone as they would be with a camera," says Jay Kelbley, a product manager with Samsung.
By emphasizing Wi-Fi on most of its models, "We're making sure the camera is interoperable with the devices they carry with them. We want the camera to be your smartphone's best friend."
Nikon's Coolpix S800c point-and-shoot camera has built-in Android software that lets you connect to the Google+ and Facebook social networks and check your e-mail from the back of the camera — if you have a Wi-Fi connection.
Nikon also has Wi-Fi adapters (selling for $59.95) that attach to three of its existing cameras — the $800 compact V2, and its $2,100 D600 and $600 D3200 single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras. They enable the cameras to connect to the Internet to transmit photos via a Nikon smartphone app.
Canon's $2,100 6D SLR (due out in December) and Sony's $400 DSC-HX30V have built-in Wi-Fi, and connect to apps to transmit photos.
One of the hottest growing categories for cameras is the tiny rugged "actioncam," which can be attached to surfboards, bike helmets and even dog collars. GoPro, which makes the best-selling Hero cameras, just released the Hero3, sporting higher resolution for photos and video and a tiny camera body. The line starts at $199 (for a lower-resolution model) and goes up to $399 (with higher res and built-in Wi-Fi.) Competitors include a new model from Contour, the $399 Contour+2 and Sony's $199 AS10 (no Wi-Fi) and $269 AS15 with built-in Wi-Fi.
With Contour+2 and the AS15, you use smartphone apps to compose and record the video or still image only. You can start the recording on the phone, but you can't see playback.
GoPro introduced a smartphone app as well in October but needs to update it for the Hero3. The company says that will happen this week for the entry-level models, but not until December for the top-of-the-line Hero3.
Mirrorless cameras
These cameras are for folks who want something better than a point and shoot, but don't feel like lugging a big SLR. Sony dominates the category with its NEX series, which start at $500 for the NEX-5N. The cameras have full-size image sensors, like SLRs, with bodies on par with a point and shoot. Manufacturers make it happen by removing the mirror, standard for SLRs to help compose images through a viewfinder. Mirrorless cameras ditch the viewfinder in favor of composing on the LCD.
Two new mirrorless cameras are making photographers drool:
• Sony RX1. Available in December, the RX1 is a pricey $2,799 "full-frame" compact camera. This means that you get a wider point of view and more pixels to work with than most cameras, resulting in a sharper image. The 24-mega-pixel sensor promises great results in low light. The camera is clearly aimed at pros and enthusiasts who want a small alternative to SLRs with comparable quality.
• Canon EOS M. Canon's first mirrorless camera is smaller than its best-selling Rebel, and like most mirrorless cameras, it has interchangeable lenses. If you already have a Rebel and a host of lenses, you could pick up the M and use your glass on both cameras. The $800 price tag might scare off traditional Rebel customers, but the camera has many of the same attributes of the Rebel — in a smaller package. While it doesn't have the flip-screen LCD, like the Rebel (great for video shoots), the M does have a hot shoe for an accessory flash and can shoot full 1080p HD video on the same 18-mega-pixel sensor as the Rebel cameras.
While both Canon and Nikon, the market leaders, have low-priced SLRs to appeal to the lower end of the market (Canon's $499 Rebel T3 and Nikon's $600 D3200) the big news is SLRs are sharper, cooler cameras with full-frame sensors — for better resolution and a wider point of view.
The jewel of the full-frame movement is the Canon 5D Mark III, which began selling in March for $3,500. It produces sharp, sharp photos and videos, in the lowest of light, thanks to its big imaging chip and processor and 61-point focus points.
Nikon responded with the relatively bargain priced D600, a $2,100 full-frame SLR that has many of the best features of the 5D Mark III — so now Canon has a lower-priced full-frame version as well, the $2,100 6D, which ships in December.
The showdown: The D600 is 24 mega-pixel (to the 6D's 20 MP) with a 61-point focus system (11-point for 6D) and can shoot up to 5.5 frames per second (4.5 frames for 6D).
The other new pro-level camera to look at is Sony's $2,799 A99.
It is the full-frame answer to the A77 and A55 models of past years, pitched as the "lightest" camera of its class, at just 1.6 pounds. The camera promises better range for shooting in low light than the 6D or D600 and smoother video, with improved autofocus.


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For anyone buying or selling a property , it doesn't really matter too much what's happening market wise, writes property market analyst and commentator Kate Faulkner.
When prices are going up, it's easier to sell your property, and although you may have to pay out more for the inevitably larger property you are buying you still get to move and, over the long-term, will benefit as prices rise.
You also do well if prices are falling, as although you may not get as much for your property you should save money due to the property you are buying being cheaper. For example, if you sold your £150,000 home for 10 per cent less than it was originally worth (selling it for £135,000) and bought a £300,000 home for 10 per cent less than it was originally worth (buying it for £270,000), overall you will save £15,000.
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that the property you are selling and the one you are buying are both moving in the same direction price wise, so it's important to understand the individual markets for the property you are selling.
To decide whether now is the right time to buy and sell, you should ask yourself: * How many similar properties are for sale?
* What percentage of properties are sold versus for sale?
* How long will it take to sell your property?
* What do buyers of your property want – a wreck or a show home?
Once you have a good idea on the answers for your own property, you can then find out the same information for the type of property you want to buy.
If you are looking to trade up to a larger property, whether the market is falling or stable, it is important to make sure that you:
* Don't financially overstretch yourself
* Have a deposit of at least 10 per cent and ideally 25 per cent
* Understand the increased costs of running and maintaining your new home
* Make sure you can afford the property when interest rates return to five per cent
* Understand how much 0.5 per cent increases in mortgage rates will affect your mortgage payments


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Spanning the Globe
This story appears in the August 2000 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
When BackWoods Grocery Inc. opened its Internet storefront for business in July 1999, its order form clearly stated that it didn't accept international orders. But that warning didn't stop an English-speaking customer in Switzerland from placing an order for $71 in merchandise, eight percent higher than the company's average sale.
The online outdoor specialty retailer and distributor, which sells more than 400 kinds of food and cookware for outdoor enthusiasts, was quickly thrust into the world of international e-commerce. "We panicked at first, but then we realized it was hard to turn it down," says Lisa Beckham, 31, president of the Atlanta company which she founded with her husband, Paul Beckham, 31, and brother, Curtis Bishop, 26.
The trio originally thought the process of shipping products overseas-especially food products-would be too complicated because of tariffs, duties, customs and other issues. The order from Switzerland was about to change their minds.
Like Beckham, many U.S. entrepreneurs find themselves unprepared to do global e-commerce-even though they know people worldwide can access their Web sites. But because foreign customers offer new opportunities for continued growth, it pays to develop some kind of plan for dealing with-and even reaching out to-foreign customers.
Melissa Campanelli is a technology writer in Brooklyn, New York, who has covered technology for Mobile Computing & Communications and Sales & Marketing Management magazines. You can reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Foreign Shipping Regulations
One of the biggest obstacles faced by U.S.-based entrepreneurs is figuring out foreign shipping regulations. "Processing an international order is cumbersome because of the regulations that each country imposes on what you can and can't send into a country," Beckham says. "Furthermore, you can't use flat-rate shipping charges like you can in the U.S. because the costs are more difficult to estimate."
Before sending the order to Switzerland, she began researching the intricacies of sending products overseas. Although UPS remains her main domestic shipper, she quickly learned that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is cheaper and provides more information when it comes to U.S. Customs Regulations. Beckham visited her local post office, where she retrieved a country-by-country listing that highlighted which products were allowed in which countries and explained various other regulations.
When she visited the USPS Web siteand entered shipping information into a global-shipping section, Beckham was able to access the many different options the agency offered for sending products overseas. Its lowest-priced service ships products in 11 weeks; more expensive rates deliver faster.
Beckham let her customer in Switzerland choose the method of shipment. To deal with the foreign currency issue, Beckham decided to accept credit-card payments for orders in U.S. dollars only. The customer's credit-card issuer calculated the exchange rate.
Beckham's research on international service paid off: Fifteen days after BackWoods shipped the order to Switzerland, it received another international order for $245. Currently, 2 percent of the company's orders come from Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
|Learn the art of fulfilling Web site orders. Check out "We've Got A Secret" to refine your shipping skills.
Shipping Resources
Beckham isn't the only entrepreneur who's found that fulfilling orders for international customers is both tricky and time-consuming. In fact, about 85 percent of the retail, Internet and manufacturing companies that have online presences can't fulfill orders internationally, according to a report titled "Instant Global" by Forrester Research. The report notes that because of the complexity inherent in shipping products across borders-including the inability to price total delivery costs-global fulfillment is currently the biggest impediment standing in the way of penetrating global markets via the Internet.
But that's not such a big problem once you have access to the right resources. Aside from the USPS, the SBAalso offers information about global business. It has publications that explain foreign tariffs and customs, and provides assistance in finding translators to interpret e-mail questions in foreign languages. Or log on to the Department of Commerce's Commercial Services division Web site, which includes market research on 90 countries and a video webcast library with programs on market opportunities and tips on doing business overseas.
|Slim down your shipping costs. Read "Special Delivery" to find out how to get the best deals.
Another resource to take advantage of are professional logistics companies that handle international shipments. Before choosing one, make sure it can explain tariffs, duties and customs issues for foreign countries. Logistics firms usually have relationships with carriers that can handle international orders, including the postal service and DHL Worldwide Express, which has an international air-delivery network linking more than 635,000 destinations in 230 countries and territories.
Although businesses can work with these carriers directly, outsourced logistics companies may offer more competitive prices, because they consolidate freight and ship in bulk.
"Localizing" Your Web Site
When the volume of overseas orders begins to rise, it's probably time to translate your Web site into a foreign language or even take the extra step to "localize" it (transform the entire Web site into a foreign version).
Localization requires a translation software program or service. Two popular translation software companies are Systran Softwareand Lernout & Hauspie. Both systems offer link services that you can embed in your Web site, allowing visitors to hit a button and receive a translated page. These services may cost from $200 to more than $1,000 per month, depending on fees designed by the provider.
|Expand your horizons-read "Going Global" and stretch your Web site's global reach.
Instead of merely translating a site, however, you'll need to develop a site that includes local payment systems, legal information and freight costs. Localization services can help with these issues--find them by doing a basic Internet search. Lernout & Hauspie offers a popular service that assigns consultants to companies--but the company's services can cost several thousand dollars per month, depending on languages or content. So when choosing localization or translation services, look for someone who understands the particular foreign culture and who can ensure your site translations are clear and inoffensive.
"You should get someone involved who knows the language and can help you avoid saying something that you didn't realize you were saying," says Jim Foley, an international-trade specialist in Peoria, Illinois, and author of The Global Entrepreneur. If localizing your site is too costly, try a low-cost affiliate marketing program instead. That way, your company piggybacks on a Web site that sells complementary products in the foreign market.
But remember, says Chris Anne Wheeler, vice president of Information Services for ActivMedia Research, a marketing firm in Peterborough, New Hampshire, that specializes in e-commerce issues for companies, "Spending large amounts in those foreign markets where e-commerce is behind that of the U.S. shouldn't be the focus of your marketing activity."
Get Ready For Global Expansion
As overseas shipments continue to grow, it's important to prepare for a potential explosion in global growth. It may be necessary to use a fulfillment company, or even a carrier such as DHL, to hold inventory in a foreign country. This arrangement allows your company to fulfill orders in small batches as needed and save on international freight costs.
However, if you're seriously thinking of expanding your reach internationally, Foley says you should start relatively small. Begin by focusing on the areas where you are receiving the most unsolicited orders, then expand from there.
For now, Beckham will be holding off on adding translation software to her site or setting up deals with carriers. "It depends on how much growth we see," she says. "Right now, we have no plans to do this, but if our international orders got up to about 15 percent, certainly we would do it based on the country."
Contact Sources
- ActivMedia Research LLC, email@example.com, www.activmediaresearch.com
- BackWoods Grocery Inc., 120 Interstate N. Pkwy., S.E., Ste. 304, Atlanta, GA 30399, www.backwoodsgrocery.com
- Leslie Banks, email@example.com
- Bradley University, International & NAFTA Trade Centers, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Forrester Research, www.forrester.com
- Lernout & Hauspie, (888) LERNOUT.


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This Website Is Made of Real Bacon [VIDEO]
Ruby on Rails. PHP. HTML. Bacon? Yup, pork belly just became an honorary member of the list of things you can use to make a website.
Bleacher Report — among the web's most popular sports sites with more than 25 million monthly unique visitors — went all-bacon beginning Friday morning. After navigating to BleacherReport.com, users can click a yellow button on the homepage to switch to a bacon-draped version of the site, in which its links and images remain but the rest of the layout is made of the greasy fried meat.
The funniest part? It's not just some digital wizardry, but actually a photograph of a physical replica of the site made with real bacon. The stunt is a promotion for Kraft Homestyle's latest flavor, sharp cheddar and bacon. The premise is that everything, in fact, goes better with bacon. Even websites.
The bacon model and parallel Bleacher Report site were built by a team at the digital ad agency CP+B. "We know people hate banners about as much as they love bacon, so it made sense to use one to offset the other," CP+B creative director Tom Markham says. "And we're lucky enough to work with a client who knows that sometimes you've got to do unexpected things — like build a website entirely out of meat."
Bacon-loving web surfers will be able to "baconize" Bleacher Report all day Friday and Saturday, and again on April 7. Check out the video below for a behind-the-scenes look at how the bacon-based site was created.
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