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They're actually giving us loads of time and analysis. Keown & Kilbane full of praise for our development as a club, defending and the winning goal move.
Worth watching on iplayer.
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Yup. It was very good and highlighted how well drilled our defence is... plus I loved the opening 'Grandstand' sequence. Nostalgia central."You? You look like your face fell in the cheese dip back in 1957."06-10-2018, 12:20 #3
Very nice extended clips and analysis there. Good to see us being taken seriously. Disappointed with the lack of dildo footage tho.Buy The Ticket,Take The Ride - Hunter S. Thompson06-10-2018, 12:34 #4
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Ahem, ahem.
Locadia in the opening credits.Say hello to my liddle friend.06-10-2018, 12:59 #5
......or so I've been told........06-10-2018, 13:07 #6
006-10-2018, 13:24 #7
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Loved the 'Grandstand' theme tune at the start.
Brilliant analysis and sums up Chris Hughton and the players attitude for me, play as a team whatever happens and stick together even when the going gets tough.
Good to look back on the key moments...
The Murray block from Arnautovic (certain goal),
Bruno's block/tackle off the toe of the same player,
Kayal nicking the ball off them and setting up the goal
Murray's movement and deft finish for the goal, plus his general game play #legend
The Albion in general for defensive qualities that can go unseen...
and I'm still uncertain as to whether Locadia's goal should stand, he did appear level with the defender.
Great win, onwards to Newcastle. UTA06-10-2018, 13:26 #8
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m8tc06-10-2018, 13:29 #9
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No longer 'under the radar', then?
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Study Identifies Genes Associated with Facial Features
The face is a very complex structure, requiring much genetic input to be put together. That is why it is impressive that researchers at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Holland, recently discovered and revealed five genes that help control the width of the human face. Although hundreds of genes involved in shaping the face remain to be identified, the findings represent an early step toward facial reconstruction with DNA.
A couple of years ago, researchers at the aforementioned center wondered whether it would even be possible to identify which versions of a gene would lead to a broad nose or a wide forehead. If it was, they reasoned, then eventually a computer program could build a composite of an individual's face based on DNA. This would be a groundbreaking advancement. If you can get into the genetic shape of the nose, eyes, lips and so forth, with a program it could be of great value.
Identifying the Genes
Before the researchers could start identifying the genes, they needed to break down the face into discrete, measurable features that could be assessed in each individual. Looking at MRI images, they picked out nine landmarks on the face. The distances between different pairs of landmarks in a given face were traits for the team to evaluate — for example, the spacing between the eyes or the distance from the tip of the nose to its base.
Once this was done, the research team examined the DNA of five groups of people to see whether any particular variants of a gene were associated with each trait. Each group contained between 545 and 2,470 individuals. Three other groups of people were subsequently evaluated as well, as a way to independently test the genetic correlations derived from the first five groups.
According to their research, published in PloS Genetics, five genes emerged as important to facial features. The genes influenced traits such as the width of the face, the distance between the eyes, and how far the nose sticks out.
One gene, called PAX3, had already been linked to the shape of the face in children, giving the research team confidence that their approach to finding relevant genes worked. Other researchers had previously tied two of the other genes, one on chromosome 2 and one on chromosome 3, to facial problems such as a cleft lip or malformed jaws. The final two genes were, on the other hand, newly connected to facial development.
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Unfortunately, on the downside, the work confirms what many had suspected; there are no common variants with large effects. It is, in fact, likely that there are many hundreds or thousands of these variants, each having a small influence on the face.
That many more genes are involved, each contributing a little bit toward building the face, means that this is just the first step of a long journey. The findings are certainly very exciting, but require a lot more research, simply because our DNA is so complex. The good news, on the other hand, is that the researchers behind the findings are determined to hunt for other genes.
While the variability in this particular study only explains a very tiny proportion of the variability in facial shape, the team is optimistic that within two to five years, some form of facial reconstruction with DNA will be possible. This could, help patients in need of advanced facial reconstruction.
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1 small Thai pepper, minced
1 tsp. minced ginger
1 garlic clove, minced
1 Tbsp. olive oil
3 Tbsp. soy sauce
1/4 cup water
1 Tbsp. arrowroot powder or cornstarch
2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
1 16-oz. pkg. firm tofu, drained and cut into 1x1/2-inch pieces
1 tsp. soy sauce
2 carrots, cut into 2-inch strips
1 red pepper, sliced
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1/2 medium onion, sliced
1/2 cup yellow squash, sliced into 1/2-inch-thick pieces
Cooked lo mein or soba noodles
I did vary my recipe a bit with different vegetables and I added some brown sugar for a bit sweetness. I also didn't go to the process of transferring the sauce and tofu to a separate bowl. Maybe it does something special I'm not aware of but the step just seemed silly to me and I was hungry.
I didn't make it with noodles but with rice because I'm in love with my new rice cooker.
I then proceeded to chop up my ginger, garlic and peppers. I didn't have red peppers (or well I did as I discovered the other day but I didn't remember when I made this) so I used milder green ones as those where the only ones I thought I had. As a huge garlic lover I can never just put in 1 clove, that's just silly!
After that I heated some oil
And sliced my tofu.
Then I stir-fried the ginger, garlic and peppers.
Added the soy sauce, water and cornstarch, be careful to stir this in very quickly or you'll get lumps!
I then added my tofu which I had fried in a bit of oil in another pan first but you can also skip this step I guess, depends on how you like it.
I served it over the rice and enjoyed it a lot! It was super easy and quick to cook so definitely going to make it again on days I need a quick dinner because it doesn't require any special ingredients and you can basically make it with any kind of veggies you have at home.


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Trevor Ringland, whose voters will be crucial in deciding the battleground of East Belfast, yesterday said that he could not back the DUP.
Mr Ringland won 7,300 votes in the constituency as a joint Ulster Unionist-Tory candidate in 2010.
If it was Gavin himself no problem, but you are voting for the DUPTrevor Ringland
As an analysis of the seat in Saturday's News Letter shows, neither the Alliance incumbent Naomi Long nor the DUP challenger Gavin Robinson can win without picking up a large proportion of Mr Ringland's vote five years ago.
The News Letter asked the former Ireland rugby international how he would vote in this year's contest.
"I said I would stay out of it," he replied, adding that he was still involved with the Northern Ireland Conservatives and that neither the DUP nor Alliance "do it for me".
Pressed on how he would vote in a straight Naomi-Gavin fight, with no other contestants, he responded: "That's a good question."
He went on to say that both were good candidates, and "the sort of people we need to see in the Province's politics".
Then he added the bombshell: "Taking the NI Conservatives out of it, and taking my desire to see normal politics out of it completely, I could not vote for the DUP."
The comments are significant because they challenge the widespread assumption that in a unionist electoral pact, supporters of the Ulster Unionist Party in the greater Belfast area will automatically transfer to the DUP before the Alliance.
Such a calculation has been at the heart of the decision to run a single candidate against Naomi Long.
Mr Ringland did not explicitly say he would support Naomi, but when presented with a limited two-way contest, the only candidate whom he specified that he could not support was the DUP man.
Mr Ringland added: "If it was Gavin himself no problem, but you are voting for the DUP. To what extent would he be controlled by that narrow unionist position in the DUP?
"I don't think my votes would automatically transfer to the DUP. The vast majority of people who vote for me don't like the DUP, they have been about more constructive unionism.
"That is the contradiction about Gavin. He is a more constructive unionist but is in a party that is not a great example of that, to say the least, over the years. They don't have the capacity to reach out beyond a certain type of unionist."
Asked to predict where his 7,300 votes will go, he said: "I don't know. A significant number might not bother voting. A significant number like me would not be able to vote for the DUP."
But Mr Ringland was also critical of Alliance. "I want a party that is committed to putting Northern Ireland first, but is also about constructively arguing the constitutional question."
He said the two candidates "should actually be in the same party promoting Northern Ireland first as part of the UK, but both want all of the people in NI to do well, with good relations across these islands".


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YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY 2007 reTail eMail MarKeTiNG STUdy iNTrodUCTioN A lack of any substantial data on the email marketing practices of retailers first prompted Silverpop to undertake its groundbreaking review of retail email in 2005. Silverpop revisits the practices of online marketers in its "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study." In addition to examining 100 of the top U.S. online retailers, this latest report also focuses on 50 top U.K. online retailers. Email marketing is making strides in the United Kingdom as well as in the United States, and both sets of marketers can benefit by taking a look at how retailers have changed their approaches in the last two years and by comparing their own practices to those of their colleagues both at home and abroad. MeTHodoloGy To conduct the "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study," Silverpop studied the email marketing practices of 150 top online U.S. and U.K. retailers. (A full list of companies reviewed can be found in the Appendix.) Researchers visited each company's Web site and registered a new email account. They studied any confirmation and marketing messages that arrived, and examined each company's opt-out processes. The study was carried out from a recipient's point of view, and the results are a comparison of recipient-observable practices. The Silverpop "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study" defines three major areas: I. registration Practices–Examines how marketers attract new subscribers to their email programs at their Web sites, and how they manage the registration process from the moment someone indicates interest through subscription completion and confirmation. II. email Creative–Reviews the marketing messages companies send and compares various aspects such as message design, offers and personalization. III. Opt-out Practices–How retailers manage the opt-out process from the moment subscribers make a request to when they are removed from the list. eXeCUTive SUMMary Email marketing continues to grow in importance. Despite concerns over an ever-present wave of spam, both email senders and recipients are more enthusiastic about the channel than ever. According to Forrester Research, 97 percent of consumers and 94 percent of marketers use email. Customers that connect to retailers through email spend more online than their non-email counterparts, buy on impulse in response to email pro- motions and are more likely to tell others about the email promotions they have received.1 Clearly, maximizing the effectiveness of email campaigns can have a solid impact on a company's sales goals. Customers who subscribe to email messages are a desired group, with incomes on average $7,500 higher than those who don't subscribe.2 The findings from Silverpop's "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study" enables marketers to evaluate their own programs and identify best practices. Key findings from the study include the following: I. registration Practices: • Overall, more companies are working harder to grow their email address lists. In 2005, 75 percent of companies offered email sign-ups on their home pages, but in 2007 that number jumped to 80 percent. • Unfortunately, U.K. marketers are probably missing out on generating as many opt-ins as they could. Thirty-five percent of U.K. retailers buried registration information within the Web site, compared to just 14 percent of U.S. retailers. • A growing number of companies provided a reason why a Web site visitor should offer up an email address. In 2005, three out of four compa- nies offered incentives such as sales information, prizes, news, etc. That number jumped to 92 percent in 2007. • Fifty-eight percent of U.S. retailers who stated a value proposition offered notices of sales and promotions, versus 33 percent of U.K. retailers, who were more likely to offer newsletters. • Slightly more companies give subscribers more choices than they did two years ago. In 2005, 22 percent of companies offered multiple sub- scription choices compared to 27 percent in 2007. 1 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY II. email Content and Creative: • The growing concerns surrounding renderability have prompted more companies to include links in their marketing emails to view the mes- sage in a browser window. In 2005, 59 percent of the email reviewed by Silverpop included such links compared to 78 percent in 2007. • U.K. marketers need to do a better job at delivering image-rich messages to subscribers. Only 45 percent of U.K. companies included browser links in promotional emails. • Whereas two years ago the postcard-style format was the most popular among retail emailers, in 2007 the styles are more varied. Overall, 30 percent used a letter or newsletter format to communicate to customers and prospects; 26 percent used the postcard style, and 19 percent of the emails featured a single pane of text and art at the top with rows or columns beneath. • While the formatting of the emails changed, incentives to purchase have remained largely the same. When incentives are offered, a percent- age off price is most often given, followed by free or discounted shipping. III. Opt-out Practices: • Most companies (73 percent) send email recipients wishing to opt out to a Web form. New in 2007 is the increased number of companies offering pre-populated forms–59 percent in 2007 compared to just 30 percent in 2005. • While companies made it easier to opt-out with pre-populated Web forms, they also gave more reasons for registrants to stick around. One- third of opt-out links led to a preference center, allowing recipients to change their subscription options. Just 12 percent of opt-out links in 2005 led to preference centers. • Surprisingly, overall opts-outs seem to be taking longer than they did two years ago. In 2005, eight out of 10 companies provided instant opt- outs. In this most recent study, seven out of 10 did. Observing email marketing practices from the recipient perspective provides valuable insight for marketers wishing to deliver a user-friendly experi- ence. The findings from Silverpop's "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study" can provide marketers with industry benchmarks upon which to evaluate their own programs. i. reGiSTraTioN PraCTiCeS The steps marketers take to encourage Web site visitors to sign up for emails and the messages sent confirming each new subscription are arguably the most important interactions companies have with their email customers. There exists a unique opportunity at the outset of an email relationship to demonstrate value and a sincere desire to fulfill subscriber needs, thereby distinguishing your program from those of competitors. Marketers who carefully cultivate their email marketing programs and treat email subscribers with respect stand to reap huge rewards. According to an October 2006 economic-impact study published by the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing returned an astonishing $57.25 for every dollar spent.3 The same study found that the return-on-investment for non-email-related online marketing was $22.52, or less than half. But email marketing works, and more companies are pulling together the resources to capitalize on this cost-effective and highly efficient marketing channel. More than 80 percent of business-to-consumer email marketers surveyed by the independent research firm MarketingSherpa in Novem- ber 2006 said the impact of email is increasing, and those same companies have increased their email marketing budgets nearly 25 percent on average from 2006 to 2007.4 When considering registration practices, Silverpop's study focuses on the three major steps in the on-site email registration process: • motivating Subscribers. How do retailers encourage Web site visitors to sign up for their catalogs, newsletters and sales promotions? • exchanging Information. What customer data do retailers gather at opt-in, and what do they provide in return? • Confirming new email relationships. What are marketers saying and doing in that first crucial communication with new email subscribers? Motivating Subscribers Where retailers Place the Call-to-Action Since the "2005 Retail Email Marketing Study," a notably higher percentage of U.S. marketers are including registration requests on their Web site's home page. More than half of U.S. (57 percent) and U.K. (53 percent) retailers studied featured prominent subscription requests on the home page. A smaller percentage (29 percent of U.S. and 12 percent of U.K. marketers) featured subscription requests less prominently on the home page, making 2 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY Figure 1: Location and Prominence of Opt-In Requests visitors hunt for them. Interestingly, 35 percent of U.K. marketers and 14 percent of U.S. marketers buried their opt-in off-page, such as behind a catalog 20% Off page request or log-in prompt. (See Figure 1) Total 24% Secondary 56% Primary 35% U.K. Best Practice Tip: Not only should marketers 12% 53% liberally sprinkle prominent email invitations throughout their Web site, they should always 14% U.S. 29% promote their email programs above the 57% fold on the home page. Forrester Research 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% recommends that marketers place an email capture in a navigation bar throughout the Web site.5 What retailers Offer Nearly every retailer studied–90 percent of U.S. and Figure 2: Opt-in Incentives: U.S. vs. U.K. 95 percent of U.K. marketers–offered a value propo- sition in exchange for an email subscription. Of those, 4% 53 percent of U.S. and 29 percent of U.K. marketers Prize 4% offered announcements of sales and promotions. (See 15% U.K. Catalog or other direct mail 29% Figure 2) Interestingly, news appeared to be emerging 44% Insider information as an incentive for consumers to register to receive 4% Sales and promotions emails. Twenty-six percent of U.S. and 44 percent of 2% U.K. retailers offered newsletters. And, the percentage News 5% of U.S. retailers who offered newsletters as an incen- 5% U.S. None 53% tive to register more than doubled from the previous 26% Silverpop study. (See Figure 3) 9% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Best Practices Tip: Successful communi- Figure 3: Opt-in Incentives cation is the art of conveying emotion, and perhaps the growing appeal of newsletters in retail email marketing is their storytelling 2% Prize aspect. Marketers who examine and test the 5% 8% wording of their opt-in requests, forms, pref- 2007 Catalog or other direct mail 8% erences and even their service agreement 31% None language may uncover myriad opportunities 46% Insider information to dump stale, empty phrases in favor of 2% short, evocative sentences that enable people News 12% 25% 2005 to feel as well as to know. By assiduously Sales and promotions 2% speaking in terms of customer benefit, even 14% the smallest details become opportunities 45% to elicit emotion rather than merely convey 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% information. As marketers increasingly use newsletters in their retail efforts, however, they must be careful to provide actual news and not thinly disguised advertisements in newsletter format. Silverpop's "2005 Retail Email Marketing Study" found a sizable number of companies that purported to offer newsletters but actually only sent advertisements dressed up as newsletters. This practice can backfire on marketers as subscribers, exceedingly sensitive to unwanted advertising, feel misled and walk away. 3 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY exchanging information Once marketers motivate a Web site visitor to click onto an email opt-in form, they must capture the right balance of information in order to initiate an email relationship. They may do this by collecting personal or demographic information in order to send highly personalized messages, or by offering preferences that allow a subscriber to select only those communications he or she wishes to receive. Some marketers may ask only for an email address to make the sign-up process quick and painless, and collect additional information in email preference centers, through surveys or by using Web-site behavior such as page views and purchases to target and trigger relevant communications. Amount of Data requested Figure 4: Registration Data Requested The Silverpop Retail Email Marketing Studies divide the amount of data retailers request during registration into 61% three categories: 2007 29% 10% • email Address Only. 37% Email address only • Short Profile. Four to five lines that usually attempt to 2005 39% Short profile record a user's postal address in addition to an email 24% address. Extensive profile 53% U.K. • extensive Profile. More than five lines that attempt 33% 14% to record more extensive information such as tele- 64% phone numbers, personal interests and demographic U.S. 27% information. 9% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Depending on the requirements of their programs, market- ers should ask only for the bare minimum needed in order Figure 5: Subscription Options to begin sending relevant communications. In order to maximize email list growth, more companies are asking for 6% only an email address. In 2007, 61 percent of companies >5 2007 21% reviewed required only an email address compared to 37 73% 2 to 5 percent in 2005. U.S. retailers were more likely to seek 3% 1 2005 only an email address than were U.K. marketers. (See 19% 78% Figure 4) 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% Subscription Options Example A: Subscriber Options The overwhelming majority of companies give subscrib- ers only one email messaging option (i.e., a newsletter or sales alert), and only a few offered more than five choices. All-in-all U.S. retailers are offering fewer selections than they were in the 2005 Silverpop study. While marketers never want to overwhelm subscribers with too many choices, providing a variety of messages to choose from is an excellent way to engage a wider range of recipients. Marketers without a mechanism for giving customers a choice of the kind of information they wish to receive are forced to accommodate the broadest possible range of interests in a single email, which may lead to everybody being slightly pleased, but nobody being completely pleased. Targeting different subscribers with the material they select not only enhances response and ROI, it can reduce opt-outs and preserve list size, since recipients can opt-out of selected communications instead of having to opt-out from all of a marketer's emails. 4 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY Confirming New email relationships People who ask to receive a company's emails are highly engaged with the company at that moment. Best Practice Tip: Let Web site Marketers can use this time to cement the relationship by sending a confirmation message right away. visitors who register to receive your Not only does a confirmation message serve to inform a subscriber's been added to the email list, it emails know that you will be sending provides an opportunity to unsubscribe if the person has been added in error. them a confirmation message, even if they don't need to respond to the The Silverpop "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study" found that nearly three out of four (73 percent) email. That encourages recipients to marketers sent emails to new subscribers to confirm their registrations, compared to just 43 percent look for it in case it winds up in the in 2005. However, even though more marketers sent confirmations, only 17 percent of U.S and 35 junk folder. percent of U.K. marketers let users know in advance to expect such a message. Branding in Confirmation messages Because they arrive at a time when recipients are most engaged with the brand, confirmation messages present a great opportunity for marketers. One way to reinforce a positive brand impression is to use a company or brand name in the subject line of the confirmation message. Example B: Branded Confirmation Message with Incentive to Buy Best Practice Tip: Immediately make the effort to bond with a new email registrant. Rather than just send a generic, text based confirmation message, send an HTML message that includes strong branding and incentives to buy. Compared to the Silverpop 2005 study, where 76 percent of market- ers placed their company or brand name in the email subject line, retailers in 2007 appear to have fallen back slightly. Only 66 percent of U.S. retailers and 56 percent of U.K. retailers used their company or brand name in the subject line of their confirmation message. Most retailers promote products or services in their confirmation messages. However, U.K. retailers are considerably more restrained than U.S. retailers. The "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study" found that three out of four U.S. marketers sent a confirmation message that also showcased offers for products and/or services or displayed shopping links, but less than half of U.K. marketers did. Personalization The simplest form of personalization–calling someone by name in the subject Figure 6: Personalized Confirmation Messages line–has been shown to boost open rates by 2 percent over using their name in the message alone. And, personalizing both the subject line and message with a 2007 46% recipient's name has been shown to boost open rates nearly 6 percent over an email with no personalization at all.6 2005 25% U.K. Yet, virtually no company that sent a confirmation message in the "2007 Retail 60% Email Marketing Study" personalized the subject line with the recipient's name. U.S. 42% However, 42 percent of U.S. marketers and 60 percent of U.K. marketers did 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% personalize the confirmation message itself, compared to just 25 percent of U.S. marketers who did so in the 2005. (See Figure 6) White List requests Being added to a recipient's address book helps ensure delivery. Yet in 2005, only 22 percent of retailers made such a request. U.S. marketers, at least, have embraced white listing. In the "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study," 60 percent of those who sent registration confirmations asked recipients to add them to their white lists. However, only 12 percent of U.K. marketers who sent confirmations did so. 5 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY ii. eMail CreaTive Best Practice Tip: As with most relationships, email As with other forms of marketing, persuasion is still a key element to success in email relationships begin best with a name. But more campaigns. Successful emails combine compelling calls to action, rich, eye-catching marketers need to take personalization seriously. imagery and appropriate timing to reach consumers when they are most likely ready Personalization has been proven to work. Jupiter- to buy. First, of course, a message must be opened. Research found marketers that employ personaliza- tion in email campaigns are 40 percent more likely Branding and Personalization to have average conversion rates of more than 3 While the "From" address is critical to spur more opens, including the company or percent compared to those who don't personalize product name can go a long way to boost rates as well. JupiterResearch found that 35 messages.8 percent of email subscribers open messages because of subject line content.7 Yet fewer companies are bothering to include branding in the subject line. In 2005, 51 percent of companies included a brand, company or product name in the subject line. In 2007, 41 percent did. As was the case two years ago, more companies use their own name rather than those of recipients, although the practice of personalizing email is improving. In 2005, only 5 percent of promotional email messages reviewed by Silverpop included personalization. In 2007, the number increased to 31 percent. Incentives to Buy Figure 7: Featured Offers According to JupiterResearch, 67 percent of consumers find a sale price to be a compelling motivation, and 55 percent are enticed by Discounted shipping 1% free shipping.9 Silverpop found that when retailers offer a reason to buy, it's most likely a savings of some kind. Only 28 percent of the Gift 3% messages had no compelling reason to make a purchase, a number Dollar off 7% not much changed from 2005, when 27 percent offered no incentive. There was little difference in featured offers between U.S. and U.K. Free Shipping 9% companies. (See Figure 7) Multiple offerings 12% email Images Other Because it's estimated that recipients skim the average email in 16% less than three seconds, it's important to send visually stimulating Percentage off 24% promotional messages in order to grab attention and keep it. Creative None elements must make an impact and make it fast. 28% 0% 10% 20% 30% But the increasing use of email clients that block images by default makes it difficult to get pretty pictures to prospective customers. A best practice is to offer a link in the email to view the message in a separate browser window so the images will display properly, and more companies are doing just that. In 2005 only 41 percent of the emails studied offered a click-to-view link; that number rose to 71 percent in 2007. Figure 8: Layout Formats email Formats The issue of renderability and image blocking has had 12% an impact on layout styles of retail emails as well. In Mixed rows and columns 13% 2005, the single pane design similar to a postcard 2007 Varied cell size 19% was a favorite, with 43 percent of the companies us- 26% Single pane - rows 30% ing that format. To avoid sending messages that look and columns below like nothing more than a big blank box when images 24% Postcard 2% are blocked, marketers are now using a wider variety 2005 17% of layout styles, with the letter/newsletter format Letter/Newsletter 44% slightly surpassing the postcard style in usage. (See 13% Figure 8) 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 6 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY Example C: Newsletter Format Example D: Postcard Format Example E: Single Pane--Rows or Columns Below Example F: Mixed Rows and Columns Example G: Varied Cell Size 7 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY Forward-to-a-Friend Link Example H: Prominent Forward-to-a-Friend Link Word-of-mouth is often a company's most powerful market- ing tool, and email marketing makes it tremendously easy for satisfied customers to let their friends and family know about companies, products and services they like. The forward-to-a- friend viral potential of email has proven to be very successful for a wide range of companies. Yet retailers, especially those in the United Kingdom, fail to take advantage of this opportunity to expand their customer base. Only 14 percent of promotional messages from U.K. companies included a forward link, while 44 percent from the U.S. did. iii. oPT-oUT PraCTiCeS Figure 9: Types of Opt-outs On the surface, opt-out seems like a simple process. How- ever, if that's all a company is doing–removing addresses from lists–its opt-out program should be re-evaluated. 73% Web form More can be done than just allowing customers to walk out 69% Off page the online door. 14% Secondary One click 17% Despite the fact that marketers hate to lose contact with 12% Reply based potential customers, few work aggressively to hang on to 14% those considering leaving the fold. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% There are three basic ways to handle opt-outs. Following is a description of each: Example I: Opt-out Preference Center • reply-based. The message instructs the user to reply to an email with the word "unsubscribe" or "remove" in the subject line or message body. • Single click opt-out. The user clicks on a single link within a message and is immediately opted-out. A Web page pops up to confirm the opt-out. • Web-based form. The user clicks on a link in the message and is taken directly to a Web page. When choosing an opt-out system, there's a fine balancing act between ensuring the right address is removed and angering the recipient with a multiple-step opt-out process. Silver- pop found in its "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study" that little has changed in the type of opt-out mechanisms used. (See Figure 9) New in 2007, marketers are making it easier to opt-out by sending users to a Web form that's pre-populated with appropriate data. Of those with Web-based opt-outs, just 30 percent included pre-filled forms in 2005, compared to 59 percent in 2007. Preference Centers While you should never put obstacles between your customers and an easy opt-out process, it's beneficial both for the sender and recipient to offer options. Since 2005, more companies take recipients to a preference center, allowing them to change their subscrip- tion options rather than simply opt-out. Two years ago, only 12 percent of companies gave customers the chance to change their preferences rather than simply opting-out. In 2007, that number increased to 32 percent. (See Example I) Time to Handle Opt-outs Ultimately, the handling of opt-out requests must be done quickly and efficiently. To do 8 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY Figure 10: Time for Opt-outs to Take Effect otherwise risks damaging a company's reputation and the good will of its customers. While most companies never sent another email after the opt-out was submitted, 30 percent continued to send messages 6% >10 for several days. Seven percent of U.S. companies even continued to 4% 2007 send messages past the 10-day CAN-SPAM cutoff. 6 to 10 19% 71% 1 to 5 8% CoNClUSioNS 0 4% 2005 6% Silverpop's "2007 Retail Email Marketing Study" reveals that U.S. 82% retail email marketers have made significant strides in best practices 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% in the last two years. But to truly achieve engagement with customers in increasingly crowded inboxes, both U.S. and U.K. marketers need to take their email campaigns to a higher level. Tailoring messages to meet the needs of a targeted audience requires segmenting mailing lists and testing various offers, formats and timing. To continue making inroads into email marketing best practices, marketers should: • Place opt-in requests prominently on the home page • Provide strong incentives to register • Send personalized confirmation messages • Ask to be white listed • Always include a browser view link • Rely less on postcard-style formats • Consider including a Forward-to-a-Friend link • Give recipients considering opting out a reason to stay by sending them to a preference center These tactics help marketers take full advantage of email's unique ability to engage in a truly win-win communications program. Implementing them will take your email program to the next level. FooTNoTeS: FiGUreS: eXaMPleS: 1. "Email Marketing Comes of Age," 1. Location and Prominence of Opt-in A. Subscriber Options Forrester Research, March 2007 Requests B. Branded Confirmation Message with 2. "Growing Your Retail E-mail List," For- 2. Opt-in Incentives: U.S. vs. U.K. Incentive to Buy rester Research, August 2004 3. Opt-in Incentives C. Newsletter Format 3. "Power of Direct," Direct Marketing 4. Registration Data Requested D. Postcard Format Association, October 2006 5. Subscription Options E. Single Pane – Rows or Columns 4. "Email Marketing Benchmark Guide 6. Personalized Confirmation Messages Below 2007," MarketingSherpa, January 7. Featured Offers F. Mixed Rows and Columns 2007 8. Layout Formats G. Varied Cell Size 5. "The Best and Worst of Email Market- 9. Types of Opt-outs H. Prominent Forward-to-a-Friend Link ing In 2006," Forrester Research, 10. Time for Opt-outs to Take Effect I. Opt-out Preference Center December 2006 6. "Email Metrics Report," MailerMailer, July 2006 7. "Effective E-Mail Marketing," Jupiter- Research, Volume 3, 2004 8. "E-mail Marketing Content Best Prac- tices," JupiterResearch, November 2005 9. "The ROI of Email Relevance," Jupi- terResearch, Vol. 1, 2005 9 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
YOur PArTner FOr emAIL mArkeTIng SuCCeSS STUDY aPPeNdiX: Companies Studied U.S. Companies American girl Fabulous Furs In the Swim/Cortz, Inc. nFL Anthropologie Famous Smoke Shop Indiana Botanic gardens nike, Inc. Appleseed's Fire mountain gems J&P Cycles nordstrom Allied electronics Footlocker.com/eastbay J. Crew Office Depot AllState Legal ForplayCatalog.com JC Penney Direct Patagonia Bass Pro Shops Frederick's of Hollywood L.L. Bean, Inc. PetSmart Brookstone galeton gloves Lab Safety Supply, Inc. restoration Hardware Burger's Ozark Country Hams garden Botanika Labelmaster rugs Direct Cabela's, Inc. Ventures Lakeshore Learning materials Sears roebuck & Co. California Car Cover Co. go Ahead Vacations Lands' end Sephora Camping World, Inc. godiva Chocolatier Learning resources Skymall, Inc. Cash's of Ireland golfsmith Lehman's Hardware Smithsonian Catalogue Caswell-massey Company, Ltd. gopher Sport Lenox Collections Swanson Health Products Charley's greenhouse & garden griot's garage Inc. Lorman education Services Talbots Cigars International H 2 O Plus martha Stewart The Home Depot Coldwater Creek Harley-Davidson motor mauna Loa macadamia The metropolitan museum of CompuSA Company mediBadge, Inc. Art Cornerstone Brands Harrington's of Vermont miller Brewing Company The Popcorn Factory International Harry and David motoSport Outlet Things remembered, Inc. Creative Irish gifts Inc. Hat World, Inc. mrs. Fields TravelSmith Cutco Cutlery Hershey Direct musician's Friend urban Outfitters Direct Cutter & Buck Hewlett-Packard Company nasco International Venus Swimwear Inc. Drs. Foster & Smith Hicktory Farms Inc. national geographic Williams-Sonoma Duluth Trading Company Highlights for Children Inc. naturalizer World's Finest Chocolate Inc. Dutch gardens Home Shopping network neiman marcus Direct Yankee Candle Company eddie Bauer Home Honey Baked Ham Company newark InOne U.K. Companies Amazon uk Dell emeA marks & Spencer Tesco Amazon.com easyJeT.com myTravel uk Tesco Direct Apple Computer ebookers.com next The Orange Shop Apple itunes expedis O2 Shop Thomas Cook Argos First Choice Packard Bell uk Thomson Holidays ASDA Flybe.com Play.com Thomson Holidays Destinations B&Q HmV.co.uk PX World e-Commerce thomsonfly.com bmibaby.com HP QVCuk Ticketmaster uk British Airways InterContinental Hotels group ryanAir Toys r us uk Carphone Warehouse Jet2 Screwfix Direct Travelodge uk Comet uk John Lewis Stores Superbreak Woolworths uk Currys lastminute.com Symantec Store Debenhams Littlewoods Online TalkTalk For more information about Silverpop's email marketing products and services, please contact us at: 866-SILVPOP (745-8767) or firstname.lastname@example.com Visit us at www.silverpop.com 10 www.silverpop.com 1-866-SILVPOP (745-8767) © 2007 Copyright Silverpop. All rights reserved. The Silverpop logo is a registered trademark of Silverpop Systems Inc.
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The Nikon D800 is the long awaited followup to Nikon's extremely successful D700, undeniably the best camera I had ever used, and the camera that full-filled all my wildest full-frame photography dreams. I honestly felt no need to upgrade from the D700, but once business picked up and one camera body wasn't cutting it any more, it was either purchase a second D700 or try to get my hands on one of the new 36mp D800s, which was hard to get at the time.
If you were to ask me what the best all around DSLR in the world is, under $5000...I would say the D700. While it doesn't have the high megapixel count of the D800 or the D3X, and some of the popular Canon cameras, or some of the features of the more costlier options such as the D3s or D4, it is a very capable full-frame professional camera that has, what I feel, the perfect combination of features and image quality for it's price. It has an excellent low-light performance and it is equipped with the same 51-point AF system that is found in Nikon's other professional D3/D3s/D3x cameras, which completely destroys the AF system of anything Canon put out until the release of the $3500 5D MarkIII.
When it came time for me to purchase a second camera body, I was faced with the decision to either go with another D700, or a new D800, making the D700 my back up, and also Sandi's camera. We decided to go with the D800, but only because we knew that if the D800 didn't live up to all the hype, as long as it was at least "as good" as the D700, we couldn't go wrong for just an extra few hundred dollars.
After going back and forth for a few weeks, whether or not the extra megapixels were worth the extra money, and if my laptop and memory cards could handle the extra file size, I got a call that a local camera store had just got a couple D800s in, I instantly gave into temptation, drooling over the thought of 36 megapixels, and drove out to pick one up. Was it the right decision? That's honestly a tough call to make right now. Yes, its true, its not so cut and dry, and after just a couple months of owning both, it would be difficult to say which I prefer over the other. I will try to answer that question again in a few more months, right now it still has that new car smell.
I plan on putting a review together, comparing these 2 cameras, to hopefully help anyone deciding on which one to go with, and more importantly, which camera better fits their needs. First off, I wouldn't necessarily call the D800 the replacement for the D700, I don't believe that the D800 I recently purchased was ever meant to replace the D700, I could be wrong, but I believe that they are actually 2 different tools, and if your considering purchasing one of them, you really do need to decide which better suits your needs. Any photographer that works in high volume environments (sports, weddings, photojournalism) I would actually recommend sticking with the D700 unless you can fork over the extra coin for the D4. Not really shooting many more than 200 images per photo shoot right now, with engagements and portrait sessions being the bulk of our work, Im not really feeling the real crunch of the monstrous file sizes that come along with each press of the shutter. I will be able to make a better judgement at the end of October after I put it through the paces of shooting a full wedding.
Im really not sure what Nikon had in mind, but as I see it, these really are two different cameras, intended for two different purposes. Yes, the image quality of the D800 is astounding, and it has the ability to pull detail out of the shadows unlike anything I've ever seen before, but the noise performance is about the same as D700, and at 77MB per image (14 bit uncompressed) it's a bit of a ridiculous resource hog, making a joke of your 8G, or even 16G memory cards. I've already needed to upgrade my laptop to a new Dell XPS with an i7 processor, all my memory cards, and that is just what I could afford for now. For right now though, using this camera for portrait work, and some landscape and nature work, this camera is no joke, there really isn't anything on the market that can touch it, as far as image quality goes. If I was shooting sports, forget it. Its no slouch, but you would have had a better chance spotting one at the speed walking event in the Summer Olympics than in the masses trying to capture Husein Bolt mid stride. Once the weddings start rolling along and size limitations start to become more obvious, I think I will start to see the down side to this camera, if you can call it that. The good thing is, I will still have the D700 to use along side of the D800 when volume becomes a factor, and with any photographs smaller than a billboard, and any images viewed on a average sized monitor, no one will be able to tell the difference between the two.


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Ohio Senate candidate Ted Strickland joked about the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday, saying it came "at a good time" for union workers since he was unable to cast the deciding vote in a March case that ended up in a 4-4 deadlock.
According to a video posted on YouTube Tuesday by NTK Network, Strickland made the remarks in Cleveland, telling AFL-CIO members that Scalia's death "saved labor" from a terrible decision in the case, which could have dealt a blow to the ability of public-sector unions to collect fees from those who decide against joining the union and pay for collective bargaining activities.
"In about three and a half months, we'll make a decision about who occupies the executive branch, what party controls the Senate, and growing out of those two decisions will be the future of the United States Supreme Court," the former governor told attendees. "And my friends, a lot of average citizens out there don't understand the importance of that court.
"I mean, the death of Scalia saved labor from a terrible decision," Strickland said to cheers, with laughter soon filling the room as he made the joke. "And I don't wish anyone ill, but it happened at a good time because once that decision had been made, it would have been tough to reverse it."


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The Visitor, 1979 though not widely released until 2013, is an Italian/American art/exploitation produced by Ovidio G. Assonitis who gave us the Beyond the Door series as well as being onetime CEO of the infamous/legendary Cannon Pictures, and here we see his common strategy of mimicking blockbuster films. It was directed by Guilio Paradisi, who worked on 8 1/2, under the name of Michael J. Paradise which adds to the whole late-70's New Age ambiance.
This is a "bad" film. I use that term not so much in a pejorative term, but rather as descriptor or to set expectations, though previously I used the term "art/exploitation" film. I prefer this term for many films in the 70's, produced as b (or lower) independents that are, by definition, exploitation films but had loftier artistic ambitions, and a few succeeded as both. Stephen Thrower, who has written at length about exploitation films, writes that "there are exploitation films of real class, and others of awesome ineptitude: nevertheless, even the latter can sometimes achieve a kind of insane apotheosis" (Nightmare USA, 11). The Visitor doesn't quite reach that level, as some "bad" movies do, but it comes close.
The first sequence of The Visitor, in which John Huston stands in a saturated, alien environment is a work of art. It's gorgeous, otherworldly, and the best part of the film. The next scene, in which Jesus (unnamed but it's gotta be Jesus) tells a story about a fallen alien being is also incredible, but from this point on the film changes from being a version of Lord of Light into a bizarre, but by-the-book, evil child movie which is disappointing.
The film has all the markers of cult-classic: it has technical deficiencies, cringe worthy and unintentional dialogue (the most flawed attempt at sexual innuendo in film history?), and awkward transitions between different tones. What, for me, the film lacks or keeps it from being a transcendentally bad film is that it tends to lack a consistent earnestness in its cosmology while focusing too much on it's narrative. A film like Turkish Star Wars, for me the greatest bad movie ever made (and I'll be presenting on that film at PCA/ACA in April [shameless plug]) has a consistent, and kind of insane, political and theological framework, though there is a major disconnect between its use of Western films and its somewhat moving intentions which disrupt the film in numerous ways.
For me, my interest in these sorts of films, is explained in some ways by Philip K. Dick's novel VALIS. While Dick is most famous his more sci-fi stuff, and for having many of his works adapted into films (in the early 2000s especially) his late period (post-1974) is some of his more neglected and to me most interesting work.
Personal interpretation of public art
I recently read that Brian Wilson was so freaked out upon seeing Seconds (1966) that he didn't see another movie until ET. Apparently he felt that the whole movie, about a "Mr. Wilson," which features a few important scenes on a beach, was about him (It is also interesting that Fats (the character from VALIS) and Wilson [insert Brian Wilson fat joke, and did Dick know about this?] were both mentally fragile, used drugs, and in their own personal apocalypses, of which cinema plays a role, enact a failure of the promises of the 1960's.)
As strange as it may sound, and I guess I'm closer to spending a year in my bed listening to "Be My Baby" than most people (btw, is there a better possible song to choose to listen to 100 times a day?), that is the experience I've been looking for in movies.
In fact, the primary reason I think I watch movies is to experience something similar to Wilson and, Fats. Last year I completed a task that took over a decade: to track down the movies and TV episodes that scared and perhaps scarred me as a child, from Making Contact to an episode of The Equalizer. My fascination with these texts (about a dozen of them) was that they effected and affected me more than anything I've experienced since. They were not merely movies but they extended into a realm of experience. In some ways, my relationship with my favorite genre, the horror movie, is typical of any addiction: I want to find something that makes me feel the same way those movies made me feel as a kid.
I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way. Years ago, John Carpenter made a fascinating episode of the terribly inconsistent Masters of Horror series called "Cigarette Burns." It deals with a lost film that allegedly possesses terrible powers that tie in with apocalyptic dread and heavenly messengers. And that something about the material on the film allows for heavenly visions that mortals are not able to withstand. The episode makes explicit themes in a number of literary predecessors to this type of horror, where searches for truths, ancient truths, lead to madness. This may explain why House of Leaves is one of my favorite books in that it documents several characters' object of obsession, as well as acting as an object of obsession itself as a physical, textual work.
In VALIS, Horselover Fat, is fascinated by a nearly incomprehensible movie (based on the author's own fascination with The Man Who Fell to Earth, and in the novel there is an irony in that he finds so much meaning in what is the vanity project of a rock star; commercialized and commodified). However, the incomprehensible nature of the film, within the understanding of the universe portrayed in the novel, ceases to become a singular work itself but rather becomes a transmission of greater meaning.
And this seems to be the great equation in this type of cinema: Experience > Narrative
"If they could just get across to the dream-time!" Kevin shouted. "That's the only real time' all the real events happen in the dream-time! That actions of the gods!" (VALIS, 47)
This type of filmmaking has been a staple of the avant-gardes and those surrealist inclined/influenced filmmakers and art films. But these are safe; like framed works in an art gallery, they end at the frame. The obscure fevered films, the (failed) exploitation works, are far more effective because they feel like transgressive experiences. When you watch a film by a gifted director you feel like you're being guided by someone who has put much thought into their work. In these exploitation works you very well could be guided by a madman, or, as illustrated in some films, the person who is knowledgeable to unleash a demon or monster but not knowledgeable enough to control it.
"put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours" (VALIS, 115)
And it is that lack of control that is key. It is the illusion of lack of control compounded by the extra-textual possibility of lack of creator control.
Cinema as dream was an early and has been a consistent metaphor for the experience of watching a movie, though perhaps of late because of changing technologies one that isn't used much anymore. But it is an analogy that fits well with this type of filmmaking these films resist formal, technical, and narrative expectation and often trying to make sense of them only occurs in a secondary revision. An example: in Obayashi's Hausu, one of the definitive works of this film style (though is it a style? Probably not…), he uses a two-shot that is both shots in the two shot; rather than edit between the shot-reverse shot he shows you both of them at the same time. It took me a few times to figure out what was going on, how to make sense of what I was seeing, and on a physical level just where on the screen do I look?
However, these movies, unlike avant-garde works, have to make some narrative sense, however fractured or incomprehensible. And that allows for a confusion. That what we are seeing is someone else's dream, one that uses symbols that are meaningful to them but completely unknown or that signify something entirely different to ourselves: a private dream language (cf. Finnegan's Wake). Or perhaps as illustrated by Brian Wilson's fear, that this is a personal dream under the control of someone else.
"There was information transfer," I said.
"In the film?" Kevin asked. "As a story line? Or do you mean from the film and audio track to the audience?" (VALIS, 144)
My use of the word fevered, outside of a reference to Artaud, as well as the idea of experience>narrative suggests the lack of an important hope/fear of the film in VALIS, and for many people, of dreams: communication. Fevered seems random and personal. But in VALIS the film is thought to transmit a gnostic, cosmic mystery of sorts and for Brian Wilson, Seconds served the same purpose: a cosmically created film to tell him that he wasn't really himself. In both cases the personal experience has been mediated by an outside, and higher, power. Gnostic suggests a specific paradigm and tradition that may be correct for Dick (I haven't read his Exegesis but from what I understand about Dick, while it is possible in VALIS to read the experience as an over-interpretation [as is House of Leaves], or as a satire of New Age spiritualism, Dick experienced a similar experience to Fat's in which a series of symbols and signs provided spiritual realization) but not this sort of cinema as a whole. It seems that the tension between transmission, of sending a message or narrative, and nonsense (in Wittgenstein's use of the word; non-sense not nonsense) allows for a space for transcendent reflection. That the seeming incoherent sequence of images provide new forms that, like matter, can be reformed and repurposed. However, in a film that is specifically doing this, like Frampton's Zorn's Lemma, there is a consistent logic; a new way of sequencing images, of organizing matter, but one that has organization (Frampton wrote incredibly complex equations for such sequencing). But these narrative films, in their narrative failures, lose such central logic and this seems to allow certain viewers, who are looking to do so, to order and sequence the various elements of the film into their own new vision.


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CLEARWATER BEACH — After four years of planning, one of the world's top luxury hotel brands — JW Marriott — finally could be coming to Clearwater Beach.
Sales are to begin this week for 36 fully furnished JW Marriott Residences, the first of their kind in the United States. They would occupy four upper floors of what also would be a 166-room JW Marriott hotel, one of only about 75 worldwide.
It would be Tampa Bay's first five-star hotel.
"This is a big deal," hotelier Uday Lele said Monday of the $120-million project that would replace his DreamView Resort at 691 S. Gulfview Blvd. "I feel that to have this name brand come to Clearwater Beach will benefit all of Tampa Bay in a very big way."
Previous coverage:Tampa Bay is enjoying a hotel boom. Could a five-star be coming?
Lele's Enchantment LLC is announcing its affiliation with Marriott at a time of unprecedented hotel activity in the Tampa Bay area. Two large new resorts — Opal Sands and the Wyndham — recently opened on Clearwater Beach, and at least 27 other bay area hotels, including several upscale ones, are planned or under construction with a total of 4,000 rooms.
Early last year, Lele said he was in talks with Marriott International about the project. At the time, though, the world's largest hospitality company said only that while it considered Tampa Bay "a great destination for our JW Marriott Brand," it had no specific plans for the area yet.
But on Monday, Marriott confirmed that it had given Lele the green light to launch sales of the condos on the Multiple Listing Service under the JW Marriott name. The one-, two- and three-bedroom units, ranging from about 850 to 1,350 square feet, will be priced from $550,000 to $1.3 million and could be occupied by the owners for a month at a time, Lele said. When rented out, the condos would serve as suites for the hotel and be managed by Marriott.
The 166 traditional hotel rooms would occupy the rest of the 15-story building, which would have an infinity pool, outdoor decks at various levels and a Spa by JW. Plans also call for two restaurants, one similar to the market- style Burlock Coast Seafare & Spirits in Fort Lauderdale, the other serving Peruvian-Japanese fusion cuisine.
The rooms, residences and restaurants all would have views of the 300-foot private beach, which faces Sand Key across an inlet and also looks toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Because of a jog in the coastline, ''in the morning you can see the sun rise and in the evening you can see the sun set," Lele said. "This is a very special spot, so tranquil and serene."
Construction could start this fall after the existing hotel is razed and would take about two years, Lele said. He said he has obtained a construction loan.
An expert on the hospitality industry said Lele's affiliation with Marriott would help the viability of the project, which would be Tampa Bay's first five-star hotel under a brand name.
"The location is a very good one," Lou Plasencia, CEO of Tampa's The Plasencia Group, said Monday. "Anything in that area I think will do well given the amount of visitor traffic that Clearwater Beach has seen of late. Visit St. Pete/Clearwater would welcome any new hotel in that area, especially one of this caliber."
JW Marriott ranked No. 3 in the luxury segment in J.D. Powers & Associates 2016 North American Guest Satisfaction Study, behind Ritz-Carlton (another Marriott brand) and Four Seasons. The JW chain has two hotels in Miami, one in Orlando and the recently opened JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort in Southwest Florida.
Lele said he realized he wanted to affiliate with Marriott after visiting several of its hotels and conversing with a waitress who had been with the company 25 years. She told him Marriott had arranged for her to stay with the company when she had to move to another state to take care of an ailing relative.
"Many other brands approached me because of the uniqueness of the site," Lele said. "What attracted me to Marriott was its family values and the honor of having (the founder's) name on the hotel."
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What it lead to was this
Surprisingly it also lead to this
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This is my portion of the decluttering, there's another bag and some accessories not in this picture too.
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Sardar Patel College of Engineering is founded in 1961 as a government-aided engineering college by Kulapati Dr. K. M. Munshi under the management of the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. The foundation stone of the college was laid on 17 September 1961 by Yashwantrao Chavan, who was then the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The college was inaugurated by the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962.


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Laser-cut sheet metal, press-formed, welded and gloss painted in a range of colors
The limited edition of "Policromi" produced by Galerie Italienne and made by Marzorati Ronchetti is a family of objects and furnishings with bright colors, including tables and chairs, stools, seating and small tables, and a curious candy dish with the ancestral form of a folded paper boat, a universal childhood pastime. Every piece in the series "is conceived a bit like a work of origami.You start with steel sheets; they are etched or cut by laser, then shaped and welded. The various pieces are designed with a particular geometry that creates a mutable perception effect: looking at the objects from different positions, their weight and form seem to change, creating an image that is always different." (M. Zanuso). The careful crafting of each single piece is joined by the perfect painting of the parts that conceals the essence of the steel material under intense colors that remind us of a Harlequin mask.


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Come for the faces, stay for the heart. That approach will make TimeLine's revival of Sarah Ruhl's IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY even more satisfying. Set in upstate New York in the 1880s -- at the dawn of electricity and peak of "hysteria" diagnoses for women -- Dr. Givings treats patients with an electric vibrator in his so-called "operating theatre." In the living room next door, his wife Catherine refuses to be sidelined.
As characters enter and exit these rooms, their faces project the humor and the pain of constricting 19th social norms. They grin, stare, implore, challenge and eye-roll like silent movie stars. Beneath the layers of costume designer Alison Siple's gorgeous period clothing, their human hearts beat with overwhelming power. Sarah JHP Watkins' handsome lattice-framed set interplays the fussiness of 1880s décor with the quest for illumination, both personal and scientific.
Female myths explode IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY
IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY takes the issue of sexuality and puts it right on Dr. Givings' examining table. And just about everywhere else onstage. This is an era when orgasm dares not say its name, mostly because it doesn't have a name just yet. Certainly not for women. But the euphemisms to describe sexual climax – as a cure for depression, anxiety and other conditions – keep the comedy flowing.
Thanks to Thomas Edison's invention, Dr. Givings can now restore his patients to health with something that, according to Catherine, looks more like a farming tool than a medical device. Just plug the vibrator in, flip the switch, and let it release the body's pent-up fluids. In other words, rather than recognizing women as sexual beings, men need electrical equipment to fix them "down there."
TimeLine Theatre's production sends a strong message
Director Mechelle Moe keeps the farcical elements of Ruhl's script in balance with its strong message: When men repress women, society overall suffers. Once we adjust to the outrageous vibrator obsession on stage, we notice how much loneliness and loss accompanies it. Lively and intense Catherine (Rochelle Therrien) cannot adequately nurse her newborn; Elizabeth (Krystel McNeil), the dignified and grounded black woman brought in to feed the baby, has just buried her own infant.
The cast has no weak links. In a small but critical role, Dana Tretta as Dr. Givings' unmarried assistant Annie tends to his patients and their invasive treatments with professional efficiency. Tretta builds a potent presence for this woman whose intellectual curiosity, emotions and sensuality run deep. When she meets Dr. Givings' doleful but vibrant patient Sabrina (Melissa Canciller) in the line of duty, the unmet needs of these two women rise to a surface that has no place for them.
Science and desire in the crossroads
As the story progresses, we begin to understand how males also damage themselves when they diminish females. In the evolving role of Dr. Givings, Anish Jethmalani presumes himself to be governed by science until Catherine invades his protected space and liberates his heart. IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY catches America at the moment when electrical power pushed the nation forward as a world leader. But that simply cannot compete with the untamed electricity of the body and soul.
Now through December 16
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Fridays at 8:00 PM
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Sundays at 2:00 PM
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About the Author
Susan Lieberman is a playwright, journalist, teacher and script consultant who commits most of her waking hours to Chicago theatre. She is currently working on a commission for BBC Radio.


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text: Josh Heyes Back to 'Postgraduate Research' Doctoral Researcher Current Status Second year Research Topic The lived sexual theo-ethics of Christian young men: challenges for relationships and sex education in England. Research Suumary The issue of school-based sex education – who should teach it, to whom, in what way, and why – continues to raise deeply rooted political and moral disagreements, unsurprisingly, given England's morally pluralistic and multi-cultural society. My research engages critically with the academic and political debates by bringing them into conversation with research on religious young people's lives. My own empirical project involves in-depth narrative interviews with a small group of Christian young men, of diverse denomination and demography, on their experiences of romantic relationships and sexuality. I foreground what I call their 'sexual theo-ethics', analyzing in detail intersections between theological and non-religious lived moralities, as they seek to make sense of their experiences through story-telling. By understanding the unique (as well as the familiar) ethical challenges faced by religious young people in their sexual and romantic lives, my research will enrich the conversation about how sex education might engage with cultural and moral diversity. It will also show how these sex-ethical negotiations, observable in performed narratives, challenge and extend theoretical conceptions of the complex and emergent nature of religion and non-religion in England. Research Interests Religion and Sexuality Sexual ethics English sex education Christian theology and philosophy Secularization theory Narrative research methods Research Supervisors Dr Toni Stolberg Dr Sarah Hall Source of Funding ESRC Membership of research and professional organisations British Sociological Association (BERA) Sex Education Forum British Educational Research Association (Sexualities and Gender) Publications and conference presentations 'Ordinary ethics and moral education', (Paper to be given at the Philosophy of Education Research Seminar Series, University of Birmingham, March 2018). 'Towards a virtue ethical approach to relationships and sex education' (Paper given at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues Seminar Series, July 2017) The emergence of sexual rights frameworks in globalized sex education discourse: locating religious rights and sexual citizenship' (Paper given at 'Education in a Changing World', University of Warwick, May 2017). 'Feminist post-structural approaches to research in relationships and sex education – a critique along with some provocations for Christian education' (Paper given at 'Christian Education and Contemporary Culture' Canterbury Christ Church University, July 2017). '"I liked it, but I was also disgusted…" Challenging British sex and relationships education through Christian young men's experiences of romantic relationships' (Paper given at University of Birmingham PG Education Conference, October 2016) Phenomenology in Sex and Relationships Research" (Social Sciences: Different Approaches, Different Solutions? University of Nottingham 2016) "I liked it, but I was also disgusted…" Challenging British sex and relationships education through Christian young men's experiences of romantic relationships (Birmingham PGR Education Conference 2016) Contact Details Email: email@example.com