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How this Mercer Artist went from fan fiction to screenplays
Serena Golden, Photography Editor
February 12, 2020
She started writing short fiction when she got to Mercer, and now she writes long fiction and poetry. This semester, Beak is even learning to write screenplays.
Mercer Artist: Freshman plunges into the music world
Chance Allen, Staff Writer
November 23, 2019
Freshman Michael "Micha" Williams isn't necessarily new to the scene, but he's curating new music that's appealing to many students here at Mercer.
Mercer Artist: Poet Kate Lemon is writing about you
Serena Golden, Photography Editor
November 6, 2019
Kate Lemon wasn't a poet until her freshman year of college. She started writing at the request of late Mercer professor and Guggenheim Fellow Anya Silver after turning in an essay for her introductory poetry class.
Mercer Artist: Visual artist Avery Lario is finding balance between science and art
Jules Tollett, Lead Arts & Entertainment Writer
September 10, 2019
While some people think that there is really no way for a person to be involved in both art and science, Lario has found that her science classes have helped her art.
Mercer Artist: Vanae Hatcher
Nadia Pressley, Arts & Entertainment Editor
August 13, 2019
When she came to Mercer her freshman year, junior Vanae Hatcher had a goal -- she wanted to get a degree that would allow her to get a job helping people. She discovered art psychotherapy, the use of creativity to help people express themselves and their emotions through art.
Mercer Artist: Amelia Rivers, a musician navigating the Tempest
Jules Tollett, Staff Writer
April 10, 2019
Pianist Amelia Rivers, a freshman, is a Music Arts major as well as an English major. Rivers' musical inclinations don't end with the piano, however. She is also a vocalist, and a member of Mercer's top choral ensemble, the Mercer Singers. An active member of both the Townsend School of Music and the Co...
Mercer Artist: Sammi Godwin creates her own representation
March 27, 2019
"Performance Art" Pain is performance art For women who crack open Their ribs, letting their hearts breathe And strumming their entrails. When Mercer junior Sammi Godwin wrote that poem last January, she did so after dwelling on how much art is born from pain and the voyeuris...
Mercer Artist: Self-taught sophomore loves going hands-on through her artwork
February 12, 2019
Karen Wessells is a sophomore information science and technology and Spanish major at Mercer University. However, outside of her official areas of study, she is also a talented artist who uses her craft to keep herself busy. Wessells said that she uses many different mediums to create her artwork, inclu...
Mercer Artist: Ali Austin, a visual artist with a love for digital art
Julianna Tollett
November 29, 2018
Ali Austin is a second year student at Mercer University. While she is majoring in psychology, her passion is art. Austin specializes in visual art through a variety of mediums. These mediums include traditional pencil and paper drawings, painting with both acrylic and watercolor paints, digital art,...
Mercer trombone player dreams of the big screen
September 11, 2018
The arts and entertainment industry is a business with a lot of overlap. Many musicians play several instruments. People who act can often sing and dance as well. Mercer Sophomore Jacob Serrett is no exception to this trend. Serrett began his time at Mercer as a trombone performance major after playing the ...
Mercer Artist: Caleb Brown
Jayla Moody, Contributing Writer
March 30, 2016
Caleb Brown, a senior psychology major and art minor from Fayetteville, Georgia, came to Mercer University to study physical therapy and to play football. "I just decided to pursue art full time in January, and now in March I've already reached over half of my goals," Brown said. Brown has bee...
Mercer Artist: Mattias Palm
Jenna Eason, Photography Editor
February 25, 2016
Half-Swedish, half-Danish Mattias Palm came to Mercer University to become a double bass performance major. With both parents playing for orchestras, Palm began his training on the double bass at the age of 9. "I've always wanted to be that as well, an orchestra musician," Palm said. P...


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Insects, birds and mammals carry out most of their behavior in a predetermined, instinctive way. But where do their mysterious, complicated behavioral patterns come from?
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Presenting dozens of behavioral examples and adapting the book's basic idea to the screen with compelling visuals and footage of animals in the wild, Nature's I.Q. the documentary entices the audience to question what they thought, and were taught, to be unshakeable truth.
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Fresh Faces Making Runs for Governor
When voters in 36 states elect governors next month, they will choose a new wave of state leaders who stand to make a powerful impact on K-12 education.
Twenty states are guaranteed to elect new chief executives, since several incumbents decided not to run again and others have reached term limits. The onslaught of potential new governors includes 10 women in nine states who are major-party nominees.
Depending on how incumbents fare, Nov. 5 could usher in the most significant turnover of governors in at least 16 years. And just about every candidate has an aggressive education agenda. Many want to spend more money on schools. Some are stressing school choice.
"Education is the high priority," said Jim Watts, a vice president of the Atlanta- based Southern Regional Education Board who monitors state politics. "The bad thing is, we don't have much money to spend."
Indeed, tight economic times are making it harder for newcomers and incumbents alike to propose expensive new programs. But that hasn't stopped them from trying to get voters' attention by promising to raise teacher pay, shrink class sizes, or rescue low- achieving schools.
Republicans say they're able to talk about education with new confidence. President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" Act of 2001 is taking hold, placing new requirements on states for testing K-12 students and for raising teacher quality.
And that is good news for all GOP candidates, argues one prominent Republican veteran who is fighting for a third term.
"For the first time in modern history, Republicans are looked at positively on education, and I think that's because of the president," Gov. John G. Rowland of Connecticut, who is being challenged by Democratic former State Comptroller Bill Curry, said last week. "[President Bush] put us all in a pretty good light."
Republicans hold 27 seats, compared with the Democrats' 21, while two are held by Independents.
For their part, many Democrats are proposing to emulate education plans that have won political favor for their party's governors in other states. The early-childhood program started by former North Carolina Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. has proved deeply influential, as have other states' successes with class-size-reduction plans and with lotteries or new "sin" taxes to aid schools.
"We've watched and learned from other governors," said first-term Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, who is running neck-and-neck against U.S. Rep. Bob Riley, a Republican.
Woman Power
Some candidates and analysts suggest the record number of women who could be elected to governorships this year could alter the way governors view their work on education. They note that women candidates are more likely than their male counterparts to have helped in classrooms while their political careers developed.
"I've been involved in education for life," said Democrat Kathleen Sebelius, the state insurance commissioner and former lawmaker who is seen as leading in the race for governor in GOP-leaning Kansas. "I served as a room mom, worked on the board of the PTO, was chair of the teacher-appreciation committee at Topeka High. That perspective kind of adds to my policy lens on education."
The candidates' positions in Kansas offer an example of how this year's races are focused on education and, more precisely, spending on education.
And voters there certainly have two different platforms on school finance to choose from as they try to decide who will replace outgoing two-term Gov. Bill Graves, a Republican.
Ms. Sebelius and her Republican opponent, State Treasurer and former Speaker of the House Tim Shallenburger, have both made money for schools a central issue in their first-time bids for governor. A commission appointed by Gov. Graves determined that the state needs to spend hundreds of millions more dollars to improve schools.
But Mr. Shallenburger contends the state should rework the school finance formula Ms. Sebelius helped craft as a legislator, and change current laws to allow more Kansans to raise local property taxes for schools if they wish.
"There's no reason we should prohibit people who want to pay more from doing it," he said.
Ms. Sebelius counters that drastically changing the formula would be unfair to school districts that depend heavily on state funding. "No distribution method works unless you put the resources into it," she said.
Besides the race in Kansas, women could win in eight other states: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Rhode Island. Five states have women as governors now.
Both major-party candidates in Hawaii are women. Democratic Lt. Gov. Mazie Hirono faces former Maui County Mayor Linda Lingle, a Republican.
While the Hawaii race focuses on education themes familiar to voters in many other states, there's one issue that is unique to the Aloha State: whether to create local school districts.
Ms. Hirono says she favors improving Hawaii's existing, one-district system of schools, while Ms. Lingle proposes to split the system into seven districts with independently elected school boards.
Connecticut's Gov. Rowland, who is the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, sees a bright future for Ms. Lingle, who narrowly lost to retiring Democratic Gov. Benjamin J. Cayetano in 1998. "I think she's dynamite. She's a national player, a moderate woman running in a hugely Democratic state," he said.
In a race that is getting national attention, Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend faces U.S. Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
Though Ms. Townsend, the eldest child of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, belongs to the country's most famous Democratic political dynasty and is running in a Democratic-majority state, recent polls show her in a close contest with her Republican opponent.
Both candidates back the Maryland legislature's plan to spend billions more dollars on public schools during the next decade. ("Md. Schools Get Big Hike in Funding," April 17, 2002.)
In their effort to replace outgoing two-term Democratic Gov. Parris N. Glendenning, Mr. Ehrlich and Ms. Townsend are pitching different approaches to finding that money—a task that could be complicated by the state's budget shortfall.
Mr. Ehrlich wants to legalize slot machines at horserace tracks to raise extra money, while Ms. Townsend opposes them. And while her platform calls for expanding preschool programs and lowering class sizes, she wants to raise cigarette taxes to narrow the $1.7 billion shortfall.
Money Matters
Newcomers and veterans alike are trimming their plans to reflect the impact of gaping budget shortfalls.
"You can talk about education, but unless you have the money, you can't walk it," said Gov. Siegelman of Alabama, who wants to raise education spending, while his Republican opponent has been critical of the governor's handling of the state's budget crisis.
The battle in Michigan is about money. The outcome could also shape the long-term legacy of outgoing Republican Gov. John Engler, who led a major school-finance-reform movement early in his nearly 12-year tenure.
Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus, this year's Republican nominee, favors keeping that system, which has increased the state's share of school funding and led to more equalized spending in districts. But his Democratic rival, Attorney General Jennifer Granholm, wants to tweak the system to allow for greater spending in school districts that have that ability.
Her plan "would widen that gap again," argued Sage Eastman, a spokesman for Mr. Posthumus' campaign.
The lieutenant governor, who is running for governor for the first time, wants to focus on improving children's reading skills rather than increased spending, Mr. Eastman said. Mr. Posthumus also backs the current state ban on teacher strikes, Mr. Eastman said, and constraints on union negotiations with school districts. Ms. Granholm's views appear more friendly to organized labor.
Choice Issues
While the reality of slimmer state budgets has tended to keep this year's gubernatorial platforms fiscally modest, other issues are emerging to help voters distinguish between the different campaign messages.
In Pennsylvania, two old acquaintances are running against each other for governor.
Former Philadelphia Mayor Edward G. Rendell, the Democrat, faces Republican Attorney General Mike Fisher. The two candidates worked together on death-penalty legislation in Pennsylvania when Mr. Rendell was a prosecutor and Mr. Fisher was a state legislator.
The winner will fill the spot held for nearly two full terms by Republican Gov. Tom Ridge, who became President Bush's homeland security director last fall. Gov. Mark S. Schweiker, the former lieutenant governor who succeeded Mr. Ridge, did not seek the job in his own right.
Mr. Fisher favors expanded school choice, including vouchers, and wants to direct spending on schools to help more children master basic skills.
Mr. Rendell, who opposes vouchers, wants to move Pennsylvania toward state-financed preschool for all 4-year-olds with a $25 million commitment next year. He also wants more state spending on K-12 education, less dependence on local property taxes in the state, and higher cigarette taxes.
"Ed has never said that funding will cure every ill, but you can't cure some of them without the funding," said Mr. Rendell's campaign spokesman, Dan Fee.
In another race in which school choice is an issue, former U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon, the Republican candidate for governor in Arizona, wants to provide vouchers to students in failing schools, and expand an existing scholarship program that is underwritten by state tax credits, which helps poor families pay private school tuition.
Mr. Salmon's opponent, Democratic Attorney General Janet Napolitano, wants to focus on teacher recruitment and early childhood programs.
Several other GOP candidates have school choice planks in their platforms. But candidates are avoiding vouchers as a central issue—despite last June's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the Cleveland voucher program—because the topic is still volatile, said Gov. Rowland of Connecticut.
"I think they play big, certainly in the urban settings," Mr. Rowland said. But he added: "I don't think you'll see anybody running [primarily] on the issue."
Other races have newcomers as well as political veterans running to fill seats being vacated by incumbents.
Two- term New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican, will step down because of term limits. Replacing him will be either former U.S. Rep. Bill Richardson, a Democrat and former energy secretary under President Clinton, or Republican state Rep. John Sanchez. Both candidates want the state to focus its education spending on classroom instruction, while Mr. Sanchez favors school choice and Mr. Richardson wants to build more small schools and work on dropout prevention.
The fraternity of governors also will lose arguably its leading celebrity to someone new. Independent Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, the former TV wrestler and surprise winner four years ago, is not running this year. Challengers for his seat include Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe; Republican state House Majority Leader Tim Pawlenty; and Independence Party candidate and former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Penny.
One veteran governor offered up a suggestion last week for newcomers to governors' seats.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican seeking a second full term against Democratic State Treasurer Jimmie Lou Fisher, quoted an old-time gospel song to explain how every governor wants to implement programs but can find little money right now.
"Everybody wants to go to heaven," Mr. Huckabee said, "but nobody wants to die."
Vol. 22, Issue 5, Pages 1, 22Published in Print: October 2, 2002, as Fresh Faces Making Runs for Governor
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According to Diana Olick of CNBC, PMI Mortgage Insurance recently signed on to the "Responsible Homeowner Reward" program - a program that reward homeowners for paying their mortgages every month, on time, for the next 5 years.
It sounds like a pretty innovative way to encourage homeowners who are underwater to stay in their house and keep paying their mortgage (something they likely want to do anyway).? These underwater mortgages are particularly concerning, because a homeowner might conclude that it makes more financial sense to hand over the collateral (the house) to the Bank and default on the mortgage.
But Diana Olick comes down hard on this idea:
But current borrowers are current?plain and simple. Why do they need a bonus for fulfilling their financial obligations?? Credit card companies charge you a heaping fee the minute you're a minute overdue, but now mortgage lenders and even mortgage insurers are so afraid of their customers, or have so little faith in them, that they're paying them to pay up? They are literally willing to pay insurance on previously signed legal contracts?
Maybe Diana isn't aware, but credit card companies pay a "bonus" for paying them off on time as well.? The bonus is in the form of frequent flier miles, award points, savings contributions, or cash back.
It is interesting that so many people find it immoral to renegotiate a contract, if that contract involves a single individual or family, and a house.? But businesses renegotiate contracts all the time!? They renegotiate debt servicing arrangements, payment terms, maturity of the debt obligations, etc.? And sometimes it makes sense to proactively offer to renegotiate terms with your customers, rather than to wait for them to make a drastic move.
An intelligent incentive to keep current on mortgage payments sounds sensible to me - I'd like to see more creative (and relatively inexpensive) ideas like this, not less.


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The rooms have retro floral bedding and large windows. Guests are offered free parking at the property. The motel also has air conditioning and heating.
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IIROC only collected eight per cent of fines against individuals in 2016
The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) published its annual Enforcement Report on April 19. The report shows the regulator was only able to collect eight per cent of the fines against individuals across the country, an almost 50 per cent drop from 2015.
Total sanctions imposed by IIROC on disciplined individuals increased year over year - $3.12 million in 2016 up from $2.95 million in 2015, noted the report. However, while IIROC collected 100 per cent of the fines it imposed against firms, the regulator says its inability to collect from most sanctioned individuals demonstrates its need for more enforcement authority. "This collection rate illustrates the importance of IIROC obtaining additional legal authority from various provincial and territorial governments to improve fine collection and other enforcement actions," said the regulator in an announcement.
Unsuitable investments top complaint
In terms of enforcement activity during 2016, IIROC reports that it completed 138 investigations compared to 124 in 2015. The regulator began 55 proceedings in 2016, a 25 per cent increase from 2015.
IIROC also saw a year-over-year increase in the total number of complaints received with 1,459 in 2016, compared to 1,341 the year prior. Unsuitable investments continued to be the top complaint received and prosecuted by IIROC with suitability cases representing 37 per cent of complaints and more than 40 per cent of its regulatory prosecutions.
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Earlier this year, the Prince Edward Island Office of the Superintendent of Securities granted IIROC the legal authority to collect disciplinary fines directly through the Supreme Court of PEI. On March 31, the Ontario government announced its intention to introduce legislative amendments to give IIROC the ability to pursue the collection of disciplinary fines directly through the courts.
"We appreciate the ongoing support of our regulatory and government partners in our quest to strengthen our enforcement abilities and to ensure a consistent level of investor protection across Canada," said IIROC President and CEO Andrew J. Kriegler.
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Normally the scalp exfoliates every 20-30 days. However, several factors such as hormonal imbalances, stress, pollution, mechanical or chemical effects and unsuitable shampoos unbalance the scalp flora promoting development of the microorganism Malassezia furfur, which in turn causes inflammation and intensive exfoliation. Celery seed natural extract is the main active ingredient in this line. It is clinically proven to hinder development of Malassezia furfur yeast and reduces flaking within the very first weeks.
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Donald Cole, a rancher from west-central Missouri, called me the other day after reading about the plight of ranchers in critically dry California. Many have been forced to send their cattle to greener pastures out of state, or to buy expensive hay from other areas and have it shipped here.
Apparently Missouri is having a better time of it.
"We did have a good hay crop and plentiful pasture," Cole told me.
He wanted to know if the California ranchers would be able to take his hay. "I don't know if it's feasible or not — it may well not be," Cole said. "But we had four years of drought out here and I know how it feels. My heart goes out to them."
Alas, Central Valley cattleman Duane Martin Jr. told me that Missouri was simply too far away to justify the cost of freight.
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Here are some of the art projects that my students, ages 5 -12, have done. I generally teach by example and so I do all the projects along with the students. This way they can see how I do things and ask any questions that they may have about how to do it. We have used tempera, water colors, papier mache, pastels, colored pencils, charcoal, clay and collage. Some of the subjects we've explored are self portraits, still life, landscape, decorative arts, sculpture, copying the masters and a lot of animals. I am so proud of the beautiful things the kids have made!
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GRAND FORKS, N.D., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The Spirit Lake tribe Tuesday sued the NCAA for blocking its attempt to let the University of North Dakota use the sports nickname Fighting Sioux.
Tribal attorney Reed Soderstrom said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court challenges the NCAA's policy banning the use of Native American names and imagery by collegiate athletic teams.
He said the suit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association was brought on behalf of more than 1,004 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe "in direct response to their attempt to take away and prevent the North Dakota Sioux Indians from giving their name forever to the University of North Dakota" despite a tribal vote in 2009 and a "sacred and religious spiritual ceremony" by tribal leaders in 1969 that granted "perpetual use" of the name to the school.
"However, the NCAA has unilaterally decided that the name 'Fighting Sioux' is derogatory to the very people who feel honored by the name -- the North Dakota Sioux tribes," Soderstrom said in a statement posted on the tribe's Web site. "The NCAA has declared, without input from the Dakota Sioux, that UND will be prevented from hosting any post-season sporting events; and is encouraging other universities to boycott UND if the university does not remove the name 'Fighting Sioux' and the accompanying logo honoring the traditions and customs of the proud Dakota Sioux people. These actions are a violation of the religious and first amendment rights of the Dakota Sioux tribes, and show the NCAA believes it knows the interests of the North Dakota Sioux community better than Sioux people themselves."
Soderstrom noted while the NCAA considers "Fighting Sioux" derogatory, it allows the University of Illinois to use "Fighting Illini" and Florida State University to use the name "Seminoles" with an Indian mascot.
"Inexplicably, the NCAA fails to accept the tribal vote and the sacred religious ceremony as endorsements of the name 'Fighting Sioux' by the North Dakota Sioux Nation," he said. "The NCAA's actions violate Native American civil rights, equal protection rights, and religious rights."


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Indiana Team Wins 8-Ball World Championship
Believe the Hype of Evansville, Ind., defeated Make It Work of Harahan, La., in the finals of the 2016 World 8-Ball Championship. The victory earned Believe the Hype $25,000 in 1st Place prize money, while Make It Work took home $15,000 as Runners-up.
Believe the Hype ousted Just Making Friends of Miami, Fla., in the semifinals while Make It Work defeated Beat Em With Sticks of Midwest City, Okla. Just Making Friends and Beat Em With Sticks each received $7,500 in prize money for making to the final day of competition.
Controlled Chaos of Hilliard, Ohio, were presented the Sportsmanship Award in the 8-Ball division.
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A day after a report claimed that money parked by Indians in Swiss banks rose over 50 per cent to CHF 1.01 billion (Rs 7,000 crore) in 2017, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said how all of it can be assumed to be black money, adding that strong action would be taken against anyone found guilty of wrongdoing.
"India would start getting details of bank accounts from Switzerland under a bilateral treaty," he said.
Referring to the rise in Swiss bank deposits by Indians, Goyal said, "The data that you alluded to will come to us, so how are you assuming that this is black money or this is illegal transaction?"
India has a treaty with Switzerland under which the Swiss government would provide all data from January 1, 2018 till December 31, 2018. India would get data as the accounting year ends, Goyal said.
Around 40 per cent of this money is because of the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS), Goyal said, citing media reports.
The scheme was introduced by former Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Under the LRS, an individual could remit up to USD 2,50,000 per year.
"We will have all information. If someone is found guilty, the government will take strong action against them," Goyal said.
Earlier on Friday, Congress attacked the ruling government over the Swiss bank report. The Congress posted on its official Twitter handle: "One of PM Modi's long-standing campaign promises of bringing back black money falls flat. While you sit and wait for your promised Rs 15 Lakh, more capital has flown the coop."
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In today's post, we're going to examine five attribution models that can be used to prove the ROI on your inbound marketing initiatives, and even take a look at how marketing leaders such as Joe Chernov and Sujan Patel show blog attribution at HubSpot and When I Work. According to the Content Marketing Institute, one of the top areas that B2B marketers are eager to learn more about are the key metrics they need to measure, and how they should be tracked to show the ROI of their efforts. Let's start by looking at these two astounding facts from the same study:
70% of B2B marketers are creating more content than they did one year ago, even those who say they are least effective (58%) and those without any type of strategy (56%)Measurement is a key area where B2B marketers are struggling: Only 21% say they are successful at tracking ROI
There's clearly a huge disconnect in the number of companies that adopt content marketing as a part of their larger inbound strategy and those that are able to provide clear attribution of these efforts to their company's pipeline.
How to Calculate Inbound Marketing ROI with Attribution Modeling
First-Touch Attribution Model:
Since blogging is so effective at driving traffic from organic search, social media and referrals, a first-touch attribution model is perhaps the simplest way to apply credit to a given marketing tactic. This method is one of the simplest methods to implement as the first step in understanding the success of your inbound efforts. However, a first-touch model doesn't show the entire picture or value of an asset as a prospect continues to engage with your content over time. Nonetheless, it is an important place to start when illustrating blog attribution.
To leverage this model, website visitors must be cookie'd when they are still anonymous on their first visit using a platform such as HubSpot. In using this model, you can report on overall monthly blog-generated leads. If you are using this model alone, 100 percent of the revenue is then attributed to the asset that generated this first view or click. This looks like:
First-Touch Attribution Model
And we can see that this is one of the models that Sujan Patel uses at When I Work:
However, as Sujan hinted at in his response to Matt's question on the AMA, the clear drawback of this model is that visitors are engaging with much more of your content, especially in a complex buying journey. This means that many of your assets would not get credit for a final sale, so that it results in your content being undervalued. In turn, this overvalues the first-touch channel that is responsible for building awareness. Enter: last-touch attribution modeling to help fill in this gap.
Last-Touch Attribution Model:
A last-touch attribution model gives credit to the last post viewed before a contact converted on a landing page and became an engaged lead. A last-touch model is beneficial for looking at your most influential posts for driving leads at the top of the funnel.
In a last-touch model, 100 percent of the revenue is attributed to the last-touched post, and looks like this:
Last-Touch Attribution Model
Again, this is now only showing your posts that are helping you convert visitors to leads, but it's not necessarily showing you the posts that are bringing visitors to your site, as Joe Chernov pointed out in his inbound.org AMA:
Thus, by looking at both first-touch and last-touch attribution we are able to get a better idea of the blog posts that are helping us drive leads. A combination attribution model looks like this:
First- & Last-Touch Attribution Model
This model is a great place to start for companies to better understand how their blog is contributing to your pipeline. But again, it does fall short in undervaluing the role the rest of your content plays over the entire sales cycle.
Multi-Touch Attribution Models:
With the inherent drawbacks of each of these three simpler models, sophisticated marketing teams have turned to more complex multi-touch and omni-channel attribution models to track their marketing efforts.
Linear Attribution Model:
If you have a complex buyer's journey, a linear attribution model allows you to attribute each touch with equal importance. This model aligns well with the way that buyers are making decisions today as prospects are consuming more content than ever before making a purchasing decision. This will also address any concerns about unfair attribution given to the first or last touch.
Time-Decay Attribution Model:
A time decay attribution model gives the most weight to the last touch, and then slightly less revenue credit moving back to the first touch, and looks like this:
This is not a great model for content marketing, especially blogging, as it is undervaluing the first touches at the top of the funnel where your blog is serving as an attraction engine, and rightfully deserves credit for doing so. However, this model can be great to help identify key sales-enablement content if reps are using blogs and content offers throughout the sales process.
Bonus! Take your B2B reporting to the next level with account-based attribution:
In a complex buying process, there are often different stakeholders, including champions, gatekeepers and decision-makers. To take your attribution reporting to the next level, you can use account-based attribution to see the pages that all the different stakeholders in a business visited before the final buying decision was made.
Ultimately, you need to make a decision on which attribution model to use based on which questions you're trying to answer about your content and the role it plays at each stage of the funnel.
Topics: Inbound Marketing, Reporting & ROI


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November 16, 2016
Nothing about the Donald Trump phenomenon is playing out as pundits expected. The political talking heads repeatedly underestimated his victory chances through the Republican primaries and general election. And now market developments are fooling the economic prognosticators. The dollar is super-charged, rising overnight by 1.7% against the ruble, 1.2% against the Australian dollar and Polish […] More
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Today is a quiet day from a data-release standpoint, so investors will be looking to testimonies by Fed Chairperson Yellen and ECB President Draghi for direction. Yellen reprises yesterday's Humphrey-Hawkins semiannual appearance before congress, this time testifying to the House Financial Services Committee. Draghi will be speaking before the EU parliament. The ECB took a […] More


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2001 – Jayson Noftle, a gifted architectural rendering artist, ventured out on his own from Focus Architecture to further develop his talents & skills, and his business acumen. Using his wide spectrum of styles & mediums for renderings, he started West Coast Illustration. Jayson quickly developed a reputation for completing projects on time & budget. As a result, Jayson attracted many clients, who over time began requesting advice on more than just renderings – graphic design, branding, marketing & creative materials, etc.
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If you have started to create your blog but still stuck on what to do next, this will help you know What technical information is useful when setting up a blog
You don't need to be a technical whizz when it comes to setting up a blog
There are lots of videos and tutorials you can watch to take you through the step by step process
Thats assuming you want to do it yourself, as there are a lot of designers who do this for a living too
As well as the actual set up, there are a number of other useful technical processes that are worth implementing yourself
What Plug ins to use
They help you to customise your blog and add in some useful information and applications
There are so many plugin, have a look thorough what is available and install ones you want to try
Remember to activate your plugins after installing
You can always de-active a plugin at a later stage or immediately if you don't feel it is right for your site
By law, you need to let visitors to your website know that you use cookies. You are using cookies if you are using Google Analytics, display advertising or affiliate marketing
The best and easiest plugin I have found for this is one called Cookie Law Info
I also recommend installing Jetpack, it is a plugin that comes with loads of handy features
If you try it and decide it isn't for you just de-active
Yoast is one of the best plugins I have used in order to drive traffic to my blog
After you have installed it, as you are writing your blog posts there is a traffic light system. It will prompt you to change things in your post to turn the light green, which means it is great for search engines to find it
It also looks at your readability and gives you suggestions on improving it
This is a must have plugin for protecting your blog from spam comments, people or bots will leave comments with all kinds of spam on your blog posts
An about page tells both your readers and any potential sponsors/brands more about you
It offers a brief snapshot of your personality and what they can expect to get from your blog
Mine is here
Privacy policy
If you are using Adsense, Google Analytics to track your views, or even Jetpack stats then you need a privacy policy
According to the Advertising Standards Agency, you need to declare your sponsored posts and affiliate links on your blog
I have my disclaimer as the page footer on each of my pages and a sponsored post will always state its sponsored, either within the text or at the end of the post
Google Analytics
You should register for Google Analytics
You can pick a plugin where you just need to place your tracking id into it once and it will track everything
It is a great idea to collect email addresses of people whoo read your content, this plug in allows you to create a pop up prompting readers to subscribe
Even if you aren't currently doing anything with these email addresses it is still a good idea to collect them
These are just the tip of the iceberg and as your blog develops you may we find you add more and more plug ins to your site
Hopefully this helped give you more of an understanding of what technical information is useful when setting up a blog. There is still so much more to learn too
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A small shout out to my colleague Daniel Dunn who wrote an excellent article about how IBM has used technologies like Calico for tenant isolation and how a vault model is used to secure and store sensitive information. The article covers "the vault", encryption, and secure connections and gives some great examples of what IBM is doing in all three of those areas. Great article and a quick read to understand how this first class SaaS platform secures your information.
A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords for database and SFTP servers, and SSL certificates. This kind of data should not lie around and be publicly available in plain text. In fact, it must not be stored in plain text in any location. To store secrets the secure way by limiting access is always a challenge, but IBM Digital Commerce addresses this by making use of a vault management system to store and access secrets. – link


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The Duke of Cambridge will meet young homeless people on a visit to the North East today.
WIlliam is expected to visit the Centrepoint base in the Monkwearmouth area of Sunderland where he is scheduled to take a tour of the centre for homeless people aged between 16 and 21.
Working with Sunderland City Council, the centre can house up to 18 young people at any time. Residents can stay and receive high-level support for up to three months.
The service also offers training facilities to help young people with basic skills such as cooking, and to access further learning opportunities.
During the visit, the Duke will hear how Centrepoint is working together with The Prince's Trust, the youth charity founded by his father, the Prince of Wales, to support under-25s affected by homelessness and unemployment.
William will also officially open Haven Leisure Point Centre in South Shields. Its facilities include a competition swimming pool, two dance studios and an amphitheatre.
His trip to the North East will culminate in attending a Diana Award Inspire Day training workshop event at the leisure centre. The award, set up in memory of his mother, recognises young people who have made a positive impact on the lives of others.
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"Our Biotech Future: Careers, Health Information, and More" at the Univision Health Fair 2017
Saturday, June 17, 2017
11:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m.
Campus of East Los Angeles Community College
1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez
Monterey Park, CA
Free and open to the public, visit the USC booth at the Univision Health Fair on the campus of East Los Angeles Community College, where visitors can receive information about careers and training programs in the growing field of biotechnology and the health-related professions. Information about and representatives from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, and USC concurrent enrollment programs will be available on site.
(12:25 – 12:55 p.m.)
Dr. Rene Sotelo of Keck Medicine of USC will speak about advice for patients and families about staying in good health, and advice for young students interested in careers in health, medicine, and biotechnology.
Rene Sotelo MD is one of the most expert and experienced laparoscopic/robotic surgeons, of international renown. Hailing from Latin America, he is a pioneer in robotic surgery for complex urinary fistulae in females and males, benign prostate enlargement and inguinal lymph node dissection for cancer. He has helped develop the novel concepts of single-port "belly-button" and natural orifice surgery. Dr. Sotelo's experience with advanced robotic and laparoscopic surgery exceeds 2,300 personal cases, making him among the most experienced in the world.
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The WB Network and Spelling Television's 7TH HEAVEN has earned an early 10th season pick-up, which will make it the longest-running family drama in television history. The announcement was made jointly today by David Janollari, President of Entertainment for The WB and executive producer Aaron Spelling, who is also the Chairman and CEO of Spelling Television, Inc.
The previous record for longest-running family drama was shared by 7TH HEAVEN, �The Walton's� and �Little House on the Prairie,� which each aired for nine consecutive seasons.
�This is a great day for everyone involved with this historic series, especially the loyal fans that have made this appointment television on Monday nights for almost a decade,� said Mr. Janollari. �The longevity and consistent quality of 7TH HEAVEN is a testament to the commitment to excellence of Aaron Spelling, Duke Vincent, series creator Brenda Hampton and a fabulous ensemble cast led by Stephen Collins. An entire generation of pre-teens and teens has grown up watching this show with their parents and learned valuable life lessons. Through the prism of a loving traditional family, the storylines serve as a jumping off point for important family discussions. The bottom line is, this is a series that makes you proud to be a broadcaster.�
�The WB's 10th year pick-up of 7TH HEAVEN has put me into 8th heaven!� said Aaron Spelling. �But seriously, we're thrilled that this pick-up will make 7TH HEAVEN the longest running family show in television history. We can't thank the WB enough for its support!�
7TH HEAVEN, which debuted on August 26, 1996, has been The WB's most-watched series for seven consecutive seasons (since the 1998-99 broadcast season). The show garnered the network's largest audience ever on February 8, 1999, when 12.5 million viewers tuned in to watch the birth of the Camden twins. This season, 7TH HEAVEN is again the network's most-watched series in households and total viewers and is also strong in young demographics, ranking second in 12-34 and teens and first in 18-49 amongst all series on The WB.
7TH HEAVEN has been extremely successful in relating stories that are affecting families today and opening up avenues for discussion. Some of the series' compelling storylines have focused on religious tolerance, gun control, the Holocaust, voting, drug use and teen sexuality. The series has won numerous awards, including being named best drama in the Teen Choice Awards three times, and being hailed as �The Best Show You're Not Watching� at the inaugural TV Guide Awards.
�Every day, I'm stopped on the street or in the market by someone who tells me how important 7TH HEAVEN is to their family � that the show prompts tough, essential talk between kids and parents,� said series star Stephen Collins. �They also tell me we make them laugh and cry. It's a gift to work on this show, and to know that we' ll break a record or two is the icing on the cake. 7TH HEAVEN has never been media-sexy. We don't win the big awards, and whoever is flavor-of-the-month will always get more attention on the red carpet. However, as Lou Gehrig once said, �Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.��
�I think everyone is overlooking the show's most noticeable achievement � after nine seasons, Stephen Collins still has his hair,� said series creator and executive producer Brenda Hampton. �At this point in time, there is every indication that he will still have it for the tenth season, so we're looking forward to another year of success. He is our lucky charm.�
7TH HEAVEN stars Collins as Reverend Eric Camden, Catherine Hicks as Annie Camden, Barry Watson as Matt Camden, David Gallagher as Simon Camden, Beverley Mitchell as Lucy Kinkirk, Mackenzie Rosman as Ruthie Camden, Nikolas and Lorenzo Brino as Sam and David Camden, George Stults as Kevin Kinkirk and Tyler Hoechlin as Martin Brewer.
The series was created by Brenda Hampton (�Mad About You,� �Blossom�) who also serves as executive producer, along with Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent. 7TH HEAVEN is produced by Spelling Television, Inc., a Paramount/Viacom company.


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The government will promote a new agricultural paradigm with the goal of transforming Taiwan's agriculture and expanding the organic farming industry, Premier Lin Chuan said during a visit today to the Haifeng organic cultivation area in Pingtung County.
Agricultural reform is high on President Tsai Ing-wen's policy agenda, the premier said. To revitalize Taiwan's farming communities, the government has mapped out plans to acquire land and capital as well as to increase young people's involvement. There are 6,600 hectares of organically certified farmland in Taiwan currently, a figure that Lin hopes will climb to 10,000 by the end of 2017.
The premier also commended Pingtung County for using organic ingredients in student school lunches, adding that the county has set a good example by providing organic lunches at least once a week. Eleven cities and counties across the nation have adopted similar practices, laying a sturdy foundation for the development of organic farming in Taiwan.
According to the Council of Agriculture, 11 farmers and 11 hectares of land at the Haifeng organic cultivation area have been certified, primarily for the production of organic fruits and vegetables. To put business on a sounder footing, the Pingtung County Government has designated the county's vegetable and fruit cooperative to manage the cultivation area, guiding organic farmers on pest control and organic certification and providing them with a range of marketing channels.
The cooperative has also been providing around five metric tons of vegetables per week to elementary and junior high schools in compliance with the county's organic school lunch program.
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Like lots of you out there, I love watching movies. I love funny films, drama, quirky, action – you name it, I'll watch it, however, there are instances in a lot of movies where I cringe and think, 'Not again. Why, oh why is this happening? Please stop, now!" Here are my top moments in films where I want to slap the director about the head and scream.
5. Maybe it's just me, but why does the gorgeous, twenty something woman with a hot body, awesome personality and face to die for, always fall in love with the fat/old/bald/emotionally retarded guy who was a loser but manages to win her anyway, thus making him into a wonder guy. Is this reality? The majority of times, in reality, this only happens if the guy is rich or famous (or both), period.
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UC Monitoring Magic is Just a Few Clicks Away
What goes on in a unified communications (UC) infrastructure to deliver those thousands of calls, online meetings, and corporate town hall videos every minute of every day is amazingly complex. Users don't really care how it happens or why; just as long as it works any time from anywhere they happen to be. To them, it is magic.
' Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'
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Monitoring CPU usage on Android
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Wow, almost year since the last entry? Time to fix that, especially when it's such an important day — Anodia is available in the Apple AppStore for the exactly 1024 days!
Today I would like to share some of our experience with CPU usage on Android. As every platform is different, there are system specific aspects that we need to take care of. We noticed that Anodia on Android is using lots of CPU power when suspended, even though we've done the same logic as on iOS and Windows Phone. It turns out that we faced two problems:
First was related to our usage of OpenAL. Unfortunately there is no native support for OpenAL on Android, so we used apportable openal-soft port. It uses OpenSL as a backend, but as it turned out, OpenSL thread is quite busy even when all audio sources are suspended (~25% CPU usage on Sony Xperia Tipo) . Fortunately calls to alcSuspend/alcResume in game activity onPause / onResume methods solved this issue.
Second issue was related to listening for accelerometer data. On Android it's required to unregister all listeners when suspending an activity. Otherwise it will consume CPU even when application is not used. In our case listening to accelerometer data caused ~3% CPU usage on Sony Xperia Tipo.
And that's all, there is one simple lesson: adb shell top -m 10 and monitor tool from sdk are quite useful when it comes to monitoring CPU usage.


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Mon, 31 October 2016
This week, The Principled Uncertainty Podcast will be releasing one episode per day to celebrate Halloween, and to kick things off, we present: The Mysterious Death of Elia Lam.
This one is really bizarre. Elisa Lam, a Canadian tourist, checks into the Cecil Hotel on January 26, 2013. She's originally paired with someone else in a hostel-type room, but due to some odd behavior, she is moved to her own room.
Lam disappears shortly thereafter. A few weeks later, guests at the Cecil Hotel begin complaining of the smell and taste of the water coming from the taps. An investigation leads to the discovery of Lam's body. In the Water Tank. That people had been drinking from.
Okay, so here's where it gets really weird. Lam's body was found floating in that tank on the hotel roof. She was nude, and her clothes were floating beside her. It seems really inexplicable, given how difficult it is to reach the roof.
During the investigation, surveillance footage of Lam's last known moments was uncovered. This is perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the whole case, as Lam's movements are so...just...weird. She hides in the corner of the open elevator, pressing herself against the wall.
Eventually, Elisa Lam works her way out of the elevator and begins half-convulsing in the doorway, making alien movements as she appears to have a very insistent conversation with...no one.
It's one of the most bone-chilling stories I have ever seen, and I go into all the known details in this brief episode.
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Direct download: Ep241-Elisa_Lam.mp3
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Fri, 28 October 2016
William Desmond Taylor was a big deal. A director in the pre-talkie era of Hollywood, Taylor was a giant in the film industry. He worked with the likes of the greats of that time: Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford, Jack Pickford, Wallace Reed, and Douglas MacLean.
In February of 1922, the houseman found William Desmond Taylor murdered. He had been shot to death, and the resulting furor over his passing went well beyond the tabloids of the era. In context, the murder of William Desmond Taylor was yet another bargaining chip for the growing moral majority of the time period to argue against films as a valid form of creative expression directed at the youth of America.
See, Hollywood -- Tinseltown, as it was widely known -- was not the innocent place one might imagine. There were plenty of scandals, even back in the Roaring Twenties. Not only did you have the death of William Desmond Taylor, but there was also the Fatty Arbuckle rape trial to contend with. Stars were going to secret rehabs to dry out of their cocaine addictions. People were ODing and ending up cast aside.
It was a wild time. And William Desmond Taylor's murder was at the center of it all. To make matters worse, the crime was never officially solved, so this podcast episode is all to do with the unsolved murder of William Desmond Taylor.
However, there's a twist to this story that I would rather not spoil for the casual listener. It's the thing that makes this particular Hollywood murder something of an anomaly, and it's almost fit to be put on screen. The William Desmond Taylor book from which I've drawn most of my research is, of course, William J. Mann's 'Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood.' It is a fantastically-researched book, on par, in my opinion, with Erik Larson's 'Devil in the White City.'
Direct download: Ep239-WilliamDesmondTaylor.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:44pm CDT
Thu, 20 October 2016
You wouldn't believe how many people would like to start a podcast but absolutely don't know how. Of those people, the ones who actually get to the point of hitting 'Publish' have no idea how they got there.
Me, for example. I started podcasting in 2010 after discovering The Nerdist Podcast, the Giant Bombcast, and the Gamers with Jobs Podcast. I was in grad school at the time, and I suddenly decided I wanted to do it.
I had no idea what I was doing, so I made A LOT of mistakes. Lots and lots and lots of mistakes.
I think that's why I'm qualified to talk about how to launch a successful podcast. Listen to this podcast episode, and you will be guaranteed to avoid the major pitfalls people fall into when trying to start their own show.
If you want to start a successful, rewarding, and ultimately enjoyable podcast, give this episode a listen. We have five kick-ass tips for the beginner podcaster -- or those looking to refine your podcasting process.
I'm joined this week by Jeremy, the host of one of my very favorite shows, Lopez Radio. He's a great guy, and he actually was the person to give me a swift kick in the ass about getting the right equipment for podcasting.
For this episode, I leaned heavily on the work of John Lee Dumas, who is the host of the DAILY Entrepreneur on Fire Podcast, as well as the author of several books on the subject, including Podcast Launch: How to Create, Grow, & Monetize Your Podcast. Visit him online at @JohnLeeDumas on Twitter.
Direct download: Ep238-5_Steps_Successful_Podcast.mp3
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Social Distortion
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Social Distortion concert tickets are on sale. You can find the list of Social Distortion tour dates here.
Social Distortion (sometimes referred to simply as Social D or SxDx) is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness (vocals, guitars), Jonny Wickersham (guitars), Brent Harding (bass) and Scott Reeder (drums). They are often credited as one of the leading bands of the 1980s hardcore punk explosion. The group briefly disbanded in 1985, due to frontman Ness' drug addiction, but reformed around 1986 and have continued being active today, even after the death of longtime guitarist Dennis Danell, who succumbed to a brain aneurysm in 2000. Since their inception the band lineup has been a virtual revolving-door of talent, with many members coming and going – Ness has been the only constant member. To date, Social Distortion has released six full-length studio albums, two compilations, one live album and two DVDs. The band released its debut album Mommy's Little Monster in 1983, which was quite popular in the United States. Social Distortion did not release their second album, Prison Bound, until 1988. That album attracted the attention of Epic Records, who signed the band in 1989 and issued their highly successful self-titled third album a year later, which peaked at number 128 on the Billboard 200, and featured their well-known hit singles "Ball and Chain", "Story of My Life" and the cover of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." Their most recent studio album, Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll, came out on September 28, 2004. They also released their first Greatest Hits compilation on June 26, 2007. As of February 8, 2010, Social Distortion is in the studio recording their next album, which is likely due for release this fall.
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About us
Who are we?
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is one of five United Nations regional commissions, administered by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The UNECE Sustainable Transport Division works to facilitate the international movement of persons and goods by inland transport modes. It aims to improve competitiveness, safety, energy effciency and security in the transport sector. At the same time, it focuses on reducing the adverse effects of transport activities on the environment and contributing effectively to sustainable development. It is:
- Centre for multilateral transport standards and agreements in Europe and beyond, e.g. regulations for dangerous goods transport and road vehicle construction at the global level
- Gateway for technical assistance and exchange of best practices
- Promoter of multi-country investment planning
- Substantive partner for transport and trade facilitation initiatives
- Historic centre for transport statistics
How do we work?
- Provide secretariat services to the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) and its subsidiary bodies
- Give technical assistance to countries in transition
- Undertake analytical work on critical transport issues
- Support the development of infrastructure investments of regional importance
The Inland Transport Committee (ITC) (click to open as PDF)
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UNECE member States
UNECE has 56 member States: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Nether-lands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uzbekistan
UNECE was established in 1947 with the mandate to help rebuild post-war Europe, develop economic activity and strengthen economic relations between European countries, and between Europe and the rest of the world. During the Cold War, UNECE served as a unique forum for economic dialogue and cooperation between East and West. Despite the complexity of this period, significant achievements were made, with consensus reached on numerous harmonization and standardization agreements.
In the post-Cold War era, UNECE acquired not only many new Member States, but also new functions. Since the early 1990s the organization has focused particular attention on analyses of the transition process, using its harmonization experience to facilitate the integration of Central and Eastern European countries into global markets.
For more than six decades, the UNECE Inland Transport Committee (ITC) has provided a platform for intergovernmental cooperation to facilitate and develop international transport while improving its safety and environmental performance. The main results of this persevering and critical work are reflected in more than 50 international agreements and conventions which provide an international legal framework and technical regulations for the development of international road, rail, inland navigation and intermodal transport, as well as dangerous goods transport and vehicle construc-tion. Considering the perspectives of both the transport service providers and their regulators, UNECE offers a balanced approach to and treatment of facilitation and security issues alike.


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Intrusion detection in the ICS environmentPosted: June 6, 2016 Filed under: Industrial Control Systems Security, Penetration Test | Tags: ICS, SCADA Leave a comment
There are many network traffic analysis tools out there but how many of them understand industrial protocols like Modbus, Profibus or DNP3? More importantly, how effective are these solutions in the industrial control systems environment?
In this post I would like to share a quick summary of security vendors in this domain.
Please note that this space moves quickly so the list may not be up-to-date by the time you are reading this. That being said, I hope it provides a high-level overview of vendors and capabilities in this space.


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WPP Drops Final Complaint in Legal Battle Over U.S. Army's Advertising Business
Decision follows McCann withdrawal
The agency fight for the U.S. Army's advertising business is over after more than four years of RFIs, relaunches, internal investigations and legal disputes.
Today, WPP's Possible officially withdrew its bid protest against the government from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, meaning it will no longer contest the decision to award the account to Team DDB in November.
"Pursuant to Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) of the Rules of the Court of Federal Claims, Possible hereby submits this notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice of all claims asserted against Defendant United States of America in Possible's Complaint," read the document filed by Washington, D.C., firm Wiley Rein.
The filing opened by stating that Possible filed its initial claim on Dec. 19 and waited until Jan. 8 for Senior Judge Eric G. Bruggink to unseal it, thereby making the complaint public in a heavily redacted form.
Spokespeople for Possible, DDB and WPP declined to comment, as did the lead counsel representing Possible at Wiley Rein and the Latham & Watkins, LLP lawyer representing intervenor-defendant DDB, which joined with WPP in requesting access to "protected material" in the initial complaint.
Army Public Affairs declined to comment.
The decision by the WPP legal team comes less than a week after McCann Worldgroup, which had been incumbent on the Army business for 12 years, decided to end its fight by filing a similar voluntary dismissal. In that case, McCann argued it had been eliminated from the review thanks to an unidentified disk missing from its final presentation materials.
Possible, on the other hand, claimed the Army had not judged its pitch fairly, ignoring the agency's own "highly innovative" technological assets and awarding the business to DDB only because that shop offered cheaper fees.
"At a price that, upon information and belief, was lower than the incumbent contract, DDB will likely be unable to perform the basic requirements of the contract," read that complaint, claiming the Army had declined to use its own Independent Government Cost Estimates in deciding which agency could best handle the business.
The most important number to emerge from the the most recent round of legal wrangling was $136 million, or the fees charged over the 10-year contract in DDB's winning pitch. This total was confirmed to be lower than the fees charged by incumbent McCann, but WPP's final number remained hidden in the legal documents. According to the Army, total spend over that period will amount to approximately $4 billion.
Today's news marks the end of a significant investment of time, money and manpower by three major holding companies. The review began in 2014, then went through a series of starts, stops and contract extensions before officially reopening in January 2017.
Later that year, a note to Omnicom and WPP executives from anonymous individuals claimed to demonstrate a "conflict of interest" created by a personal relationship between a top McCann account manager and an Army marketing lead. It led to the suspension of the latter executive, who subsequently resigned from the Army.
The review also occurred in the middle of an internal audit launched by former Under Secretary of the Army Patrick J. Murphy after the Army's marketing department requested additional funding. Its final draft found millions in spending on various programs with little or no measurable return during fiscal year 2016.
The Trump administration later withheld 50 percent of the Army marketing budget from its 2019 defense spending bill pending the results of a report from Secretary of the Army Mark T. Esper, who has been tasked with updating the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on the Army's success in enacting recommendations made by the Army Audit Agency.


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