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Stephen Colbert, Racism and the Weaponized Hashtag
Last Wednesday, Stephen Colbert — in his persona as "Stephen Colbert," the rock-ribbed right-wing pundit of his Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report" — aired a segment satirizing the decision by Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, to set up a fig-leaf nonprofit foundation designed to "help address the challenges that plague the Native American community." His newly launched Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation has distributed winter coats and shoes to several tribes, purchased a backhoe for Nebraska's Omaha Tribe and claims to have over forty other projects in process to help build a brighter future for Native Americans.
For a franchise reportedly worth $1.8 billion with operating profits of over $100 million annually, handing out shoes and buying a $100,000 backhoe is a cheap price to pay to defray ongoing negative PR from the many Native Americans who have been pushing for the team to change its 77-year-old name — which many people see as a corrosive ethnic slur and a reminder of a centuries-long history of broken promises and genocide.
Colbert stepped into the fray by declaring that, inspired by Snyder, he was launching the "Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever," a reference to a fatuously fake parody stereotype character, "Ching-Chong Ding-Dong," that he's adopted on air a few times to satirize knee-jerk mockery of Asian dialect (most recently in 2011, when Rush Limbaugh used a string of nonsense to mimic the speech of then-Chinese-president Hu Jintao).
When contacted, neither Comedy Central nor Colbert had any additional comment to offer on the segment.
This is when things got weird. And ugly. An unknown individual running "The Colbert Report's" social media feed decided to tweet just the "punchline" of the segment, without any of its buildup or context, making it seem like a random racialized anti-Asian attack. The tweet prompted a social media outcry, initiated by Suey Park (of #NotYourAsianSidekick fame), and the hashtag #CancelColbert rapidly became a trending topic on Twitter — and remained there for over 24 hours, fueled not just by the original angry reactions by Park and other Asian Americans, but by a strange brew of vile personal attacks on Park by Twitter's ever-lurking troll population, stunned responses from fans of Colbert wondering why the comedian was coming under such sudden and vitriolic attack — and more than a handful of plaintive tweets by Native American activists who'd just seen their own issue totally eclipsed by the high-volume collateral rage of Asian America's fast-fingered keyboard brigades.
Portland, Oregon based writer and blogger of Navajo and Yankton Dakota descent Jacqueline Keeler pointed out that the explosion of attention given to #CancelColbert had meant that Natives had essentially been "edited out" of the conversation, with "one tweet supporting Native people for every 100 for #CancelColbert." "Native people are messaging me that they feel their work has been co-opted," she posted. "90,000 [people] go to stadiums EVERY SUNDAY in redface — how much hashtag trending would that equal in#CancelColbert terms? If our allies did that much twittering for us as they do for a satirical skit, redface would be banned from stadiums tomorrow."
All of this illustrates both the power and the limitations of Twitter as a tool for social change — and, I think, marks the beginning of the end of Asian America's fascination with hashtag activism.
Twitter may be the most powerful amplifier for individual voices that history has ever seen. Messages that resonate accrue retweets and co-signatories, a shout builds into a roar, and a roar into a revolution. The rippling power of Twitter has destroyed candidacies. It has toppled governments. It's played a historic role in reshaping the political landscape of the Middle East. And for Asian Americans, as demonstrated by the #NotYourAsianSidekick phenomenon, it has offered a unique tool to bring widespread visibility to issues and ideas within our community that have long been ignored by the general public.
That's because social media is, in many ways, our mainstream media. Our disproportionate representation on college campuses and in technological and professional fields; the post-immigrant comfort we have with long-distance relationships and distributed virtual communities; and yes, our lack of access to traditional modes of media like film and television — all of these have conspired to focus our attention and energies on emerging digital platforms. According to Social Media Today, Asian Americans are 36% more likely to be regular users of Facebook. Over half of online Asian Americans visit YouTube weekly, versus 30% of non-Hispanic whites. And nearly one in five Asian American internet users is an active user of Twitter.
So it was inevitable that Asian Americans would eventually flex our muscles on this most viral of social sharing services in a way that the rest of the nation would finally notice. The trending hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick provided that moment — a burgeoning collection of angry voices sharing their frustrations with the lack of representation and respect given to Asian Americans in mainstream society and mainline feminism that spiraled its way onto the radar screens of shocked non-Asian editors and reporters, who never saw this upwelling of rage and resistance coming from a community they'd perceived as quiescent.
#NotYourAsianSidekick generated hundreds of news headlines and blogposts and enthusiastic responses — both positive and negative. It turned freelance writer and social activist Suey Park into an unexpected celebrity, hotly in demand as a speaker and an interview subject. And it established a kind of template for subsequent Twitter-based campaigns to follow, from a movement among academia's most underpaid, overworked teaching professionals, #NotYourAdjunctSidekick, to #NotYourStockWoman, an initiative urging working women to share actual photographs of themselves in response to an effort by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In organization to correct the ludicrously unreal or surreal images of female professionals seen in most stock photography.
The latter was promptly jumped on by Park and other #NotYourAsianSidekick voices as an example of "white colonialism" of their movement, and an attempt to "commodify" women of color. "Hey @LeanInOrg @sherylsandberg, please at least pay for the things you appropriate and steal," tweeted Park. "CORPORATE FEMINISM THINKS IT CAN OWN AND STEAL EVERYTHING. #NOTYOURSTOCKWOMAN." But this is perhaps a pointer to the biggest problem with the kind of reactive firestorms that hashtag activism has enabled. Though Park's tweets and those of others assumed that #NotYourStockWoman was an official social media initiative of the nonprofit Lean In organization and its partner Getty Images, in actuality it was a user-participation program proposed by WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, when the latter interviewed LeanIn.org editor Jessica Bennett:
"Here's how WNYC is getting in on the project: We're inviting you to send in your own personal photo that you think represents updated, modern, real working womanhood. Take the photo, and then tag it #NotYourStockWoman on Instagram or Twitter. We'll feature our favorites on the website, and maybe we can even convince Getty and Lean In to feature some of them as well."
None of the photos were sent directly to Getty Images or Lean In; the way that image rights work would have made such user-submitted photographs impossible for Getty to use in any case. But among the thousands who followed Park's initial tweets, the perception that Lean In and Getty were collaborating to generate profits off of freely contributed images from diverse women had already been frozen as reality.
Twitter's greatest assets are also its most intransigent liabilities. Twitter's 140-character format leaves almost no room for sourcing — so the slogan-as-fact is its default manifestation. Even when links to primary materials are included, they're rarely read by those who choose to respond or retweet, because the default means of participating in a Twitter "conversation" is the clicking of a single button. Reflexive resharing advances Twitter's desire to be as fluid and frictionless a social distribution medium as possible — but it is a huge liability for factchecking. Or critical thinking.
The Twitter medium also provides little room for nuance or accommodated compromise. Conversations — which only recently were given some kind of connective tissue on the platform, eliminating the interleaved chaos that was the prior version's standard — are disjointed into brief soundbites without room for caveats, and the lack of threading means that people are often mistakenly retweeting out-of-context comments or angrily responding to the wrong people. As a tool for debate, it's a terrible mess: Imagine trying to host a dialogue using nothing but bumper stickers and t-shirts — or, if you're antiquarian enough to know the reference, Burma-Shave highway signs.
And as a mechanism for generating a groundswell of opinion, it's as dangerous as it is potent. Twitter platform offer no markers to indicate why a hashtag is trending. Is something trending because it's popular, or because it's hated? Is it being fueled by fanboy enthusiasm, or the flames of a thousand trolls? It doesn't really matter. The algorithm that determines what trends only cares that the tag is being repeated and repeated and repeated again, regardless of reason or source.
Which is what has brought us to a moment where a directive can go out — "trend this" — and ten thousand users will jump into the pool at once, causing a mighty enough splash to draw further attention from onlookers. Once something has been labeled as evil, exploitative or wrong, any attempts to provide counterpoint are defined as a symbol of "internalized racism/sexism/homophobia" or "tone policing" or "respectability politics" on the part of the critic. Voices without a multitude of retweeters behind them are often cowed or bullied into silence. Factual errors and sourcing mistakes are frequently swept under the rug. Sweeping rhetoric and grandiose statements — the better to draw attention by — become the primary stuff of dialogue. The lurking trolls of the Internet are magnetically drawn to these loud and colorful gestures and respond with disgusting, personal and often pornographic or violent rejoinders, which both further fuel the firestorm and provide a kind of validation for the campaign's leadership: We must be hitting a nerve because the enemy is attacking us in force.
In short, we have arrived at the era of the weaponized hashtag — where loosely organized and barely controlled social mobs swarm institutions and individuals at a scale large enough so that the trending of the hashtag itself becomes news, often overwhelming discussion of the topic that originally spawned it. The example of #CancelColbert is instructive: The original incident occurred. The hashtag launched, and began trending. Stories broke in Buzzfeed, Gothamist and other online sources, and then in traditional media like USA Today. Huffington Post Live had Suey Park on as a guest, during which the host, Josh Zepps, was aggressively patronizing toward Park — and Park responded with equally vehemence, before launching #CancelZepps as an addendum to #CancelColbert. Park and a fellow Twitter organizer, Eunsong Kim, wrote an essay for Time.com, "We Want to #CancelColbert," articulating the rationale behind the launching of the campaign (but not the specific demand to have "The Colbert Report" canceled; some participants in the hashtag have since clarified that they did not want the show off the air per se, but simply to generate as much heat as possible).
Meanwhile, references to the Washington Redskins and its owner Dan Snyder have essentially faded from view. There is not a single mention of either in Park and Kim's Time.com piece, which is focused on the plague of racism among white liberals. Conservative firebrands like Michelle Malkin (famous for her outrageous book, "In Defense of Internment," scurrilously asserting that the government's World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans was warranted) seized the opportunity to publicly cosign the reframed narrative, without comment from the hashtag's initiators.
Billionaire Republican Snyder couldn't have asked for a better outcome — or paid for one.
The hashtag's initiators surely didn't want this as the outcome of their efforts. But an avalanche can't be steered. And this is far from the first time that online backlash by Asian Americans to offensive events has had unintended consequences. Those episodes have mostly been due to the lucrative attention such campaigns have drawn to the original perpetrators. This is a different and more toxic chapter in the narrative: We're now seeing savvy co-optation of Asian American online rage by those individuals that have the least interest in advancing Asian American causes.
This isn't doesn't alter Twitter's usefulness as a tool for generating attention and aggregating momentum. It does underscore that Twitter works best when it points to larger, deeper and more sophisticated perspectives and conversations beyond the platform — on venues that allow for more than 140 characters worth of context and distinction. Those perspectives certainly existed in the torrent of inchoate rage around #CancelColbert, including strongly supportive posts like those by Jenn Fang's on her blog Reappropriate and Brittney Cooper on Salon.com. These essays explored the differences between the way that tweets and full-length comedy sketches play, and call out the unfortunate nature of Colbert's decision to use mockery of one group to highlight the mockery of another. They're thoughtful and provocative; they have the potential to change minds and alter opinions, including mine — though I still feel that the #CancelColbert campaign was a dismaying distraction from the fight against the eight-decade-old horror that is the Redskins' name, and a weird exercise in "me first" advocacy for Asian Americans, I'm more conscious of the issues that made this episode problematic.
But the limitations of Twitter as a stand-alone mechanism for advancing social change and disruptively progressive conversation have been laid bare. And as rapidly as it rose, the day of the triumphalist trending tag is seemingly coming to a close. Twitter is a force multiplier and a sample booster, but where Asian Americans are concerned, it seems clear that hashtag activism is clearly #NotYourAllinOneSolution.


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When the word 'art' is mentioned a person is more apt to think of a beautiful canvas print creatively painted by a patient artist. Or art is thought of as an outstanding framed photograph taken in the blink of an eye with the soft click of a camera lens.
However, I was introduced to a different kind of art, an art that is a little more involved in that it could actually be classified as craftsmanship. Craftsmanship involves wood, various supplies, tools and most importantly, a steady hand.
Neighbor Mark Ratliff was kind enough, after admiring some of his work, to walk me through the procedure from start to finish of making a wooden collectible suitable for wall hanging. Ratliff set up his "scroll saw workshop."
In a room off of his carport, he took up the craft as a hobby after he and his wife Mary, both teachers, retired and relocated in the Bluffton area. Ratliff taught math in the public school system for 30 years.
Now after living in the area quite a number of years and serving 23 years in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, he's looking forward to having more time to spend on his hobby after his 25-year retirement from the Coast Guard.
For hanging wooden pictures, a thin sheet of Baltic Birch plywood that comes in various thicknesses, sizes and colors is normally used. These special sheets of wood can be purchased from craft stores.
Patterns, if you have a certain project in mind, can be found and downloaded on the Internet at www.scrollsawer.com. Another website that you can obtain free downloads of patterns is scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com, plus the "Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts" magazine has pull-out patterns in each edition along with other informative tips.
After deciding on a pattern, materials needed other than the wood are: sandpaper, spray adhesives, masking or clear packaging tape, odorless turpentine and a soft cloth and small brush. After assembling all of these, it's time to get started.
First using a sheet of sandpaper, usually a 220-grit, lightly sand the sheet of Baltic plywood brushing off any excess sawdust.
Secondly, cover the entire front area to be cut with masking or clear packaging tape. This process lubricates the saw blade and prevents any burn or scorch marks by the saw blade cutting at a high speed.
Next using adhesive spray, coat the back of the pattern before placing it down on the tape side of the plywood aka the blank.
This is where the use of special tools comes in. Using a drill press and different size drill bits, holes are drilled in multiple spots in the gray area of the pattern, this being the section that will be discarded.
Next comes the scroll saw. It is an intricate piece of machinery in itself that houses the tiny, extremely sharp saw blades and a crook neck nozzle blowing air on the pattern being cut to keep the area clean.
The scroll saw helps to not distract the crafters eye as he painstakingly moves the plywood around while guiding the saw blade from hole to hole to cut out the gray area of the pattern.
After completing the design, the top of the work is brushed with odorless turpentine. After waiting a minute, the pattern and tape can be peeled away from the wood.
Any residue left can be wiped away with a cloth dampened with the turpentine then sanded lightly if necessary. The fuzz on the underside created by the saw blade can be sanded off or burned off with a butane torch being careful as to not burn the wood.
Now the project is ready to be finished with a choice of lacquer, tung oil or wipe-on poly. Tung oil is especially good for 3D cuttings as the entire piece can be submerged.
For flat projects such as portraits, a soft cloth dampened with tung oil or wipe-on poly can be used to rub the finish into the wood grain thus creating a natural appearing surface free of brush marks.
Ideas are endless for the scroll saw craftsman. Other than wall hanging pictures, wooden puzzles, toys, Christmas tree ornaments, mantel clocks, designed light switch covers, inlay magnets and many numerous projects can be created, it's only left to a person's artistic imagination.

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I feel that it is time to share a secret. When I left on my vacation just over a week ago, I was fighting a battle with a deep-rooted addiction. I feel able to admit this, since over the course of my holiday I was able to go through cold turkey, conquer the addiction, and face the world clean.
It's decaffeinated coffee for me from now on.
Addiction—even to something as benign as filter coffee—is an unlikely topic for an economist to tackle, because most economic theory is predicated on rational behavior, and addiction seems to be quintessentially irrational.
The logical response appeared in 1988. "A Theory of Rational Addiction" was published by Kevin M. Murphy and Nobel laureate Gary Becker, and has defined economists' approaches to addiction ever since. The theory is easy to state: Addicts choose their poison despite knowing that it is habit-forming and dangerous, and they do so because they expect the highs to outweigh the lows.
Even other economists are skeptical. "They don't know what they're talking about," opined Thomas Schelling when I met him shortly after he, too, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Schelling had spent years trying to kick his tobacco addiction.
Yet perhaps the rational addiction approach is not quite as absurd as it seems. Some habits are rational to acquire. Dating my girlfriend was habit-forming enough to ask her to be my wife. So far, I have no regrets.
It seems absurd to compare the decision to drink coffee or start dating with the decision to smoke cigarettes or inject heroin, but if Becker and Murphy are right, the difference is not of kind but of degree.
Rational addicts should behave in certain ways. They should, for instance, respond not just to current price increases but to expected future price hikes. If heroin is likely to get more expensive, rational addicts should consider trying to quit before that happens. Addicts may even be more sensitive to lasting price shifts than nonaddicts. And since addiction is self-reinforcing, when the rational addict wants to quit, cold turkey is the efficient way to do it.
Economists have found some evidence to support these ideas: Pamela Mobilia finds that betting at racetracks falls in anticipation of increases in bookies' takings; Nilss Olekalns and Peter Bardsley find that coffee addicts show similar foresight; Philip Cook and George Tauchen found that when some U.S. counties raised taxes on alcohol, liver cirrhosis fell more sharply than overall consumption, suggesting that it was the alcoholics who cut back most.
My own addiction was perfectly rational: I am working on a new book, and as deadlines loomed, I drank more and more coffee, even though I was becoming dependent on the caffeine. Manuscript submitted, I went cold turkey on holiday, knowing that the headaches and sluggishness of mind would be both less painful and less important while wandering around the Welsh coast.
That is only caffeine, of course. But even heroin users can addict themselves and then quit as circumstances dictate. Psychiatrist Lee Robins found that almost half of American soldiers used heroin or opium while in Vietnam, but rather fewer were actually addicted, and almost 90 percent of those kicked the habit upon returning to the United States. I have absolutely no desire to try heroin myself, but it seems that both the decision to start and the decision to try to quit were, like my coffee habit, rational responses to circumstances.
I can't help noting that a large number of British cabinet ministers decided to smoke marijuana at college and then quit later. Whisper it softly, but perhaps not only addicts are rational, but politicians, too.


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Let $(\Omega, \mathbb{A}, \mathbb{P})$ be a probability space and $X_1, X_2, \ldots, X_n$ independent real random variables. Prove that the sum $X_1 + X_2 + ... + \ldots X_n$ is $\mathbb{P}$-almost surely constant iff each $X_i$ is $\mathbb{P}$-almost surely constant.
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About 3 weeks ago i started work on branch 5 for Sabayon 5 and i must say that i made good progress! So i hear you ask, what it means a "branch" well let me try to explain how it all works.
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As you might already know, Sabayon Linux is based on Gentoo Linux.
Now in Italy we have this huge computer that hosts basically 2 enormous Gentoo installs, we call these "chroots". It's 2 chroots because we support 2 architectures amd64 and x86. So as you might guessed, yes all packaging that goes into entropy is done twice. These 2 chroots form one branch.
How i do it? Well I simply login the Italian server and connect to one of the chroots. When I log in to a chroot ( yes its the chroot command, but we saved them in screen sessions to get access to them quickly ) I use all the commands any Gentoo user would. I operate my make.conf, package.use and package.mask files to have my enormous tree compiled to be best performing for a great amount of machines and people. Day to day i check for relevant packages that we want to have updated in e.g. Entropy. When i'm done emerging those updates and their depends i use tools written by Fabio Erculiani aka "Lxnay" to create packages. This is done fully automatically and there is nothing difficult about that really. So once its all packaged and i did my quality checks its all ready to get pushed out to the people as I say. From the server in Italy things get uploaded to the distribution server from where everything, again automatically, gets spread to servers world wide. Pretty cool huh?
Branches :
So we have these chroots I'm working on day 2 day and at a certain point there are some important updates that require allot of packages to be recompiled. Think of a new python version, new xorg version and some other lower-level stuff like the compiler itself.
At some point it just makes sense to stop doing the day 2 day updates, copy the whole thing and from the copy do the important updates and the heavy recompiling. This new copy would be the new branch. Does it mean that the previous branch is closed? Well basicly from my side it is, i only do updates on it when there are security risks involved, we are Linux and we want to keep people safe. The goal is to keep the old branch available to users for at least a year. This will give them the time to migrate to the new branch. (By either installing a new DVD release or use equo hop to jump into the new branch.) So yeah, its possible to keep on working on the same system and just hop into the new branch.
When a new branch is created and the first disc is released there are already newer updates almost everyday. At some point it would be enough to trigger like 300 updates after a new install on a users pc. This can be even within 6 weeks or so. At some point we create a new snapshot which is basically as much as : Take Release 1, equo upgrade it to the latest available packages, put is all on a disc.
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Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Chris Brown And Demi Lovato's Group Date To See 'Pirates Of The Caribbean'!
The four besties were so excited to be hanging out together that they were all jumping up and down and walked out of the film early, multiple sources confirm to HollywoodLife.com!
What a dose of star power! After Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez had their Victoria's Secret mall date they met up with Selena's renewed BFF Demi Lovato and Justin's friend Chris Brown for a midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides at ArcLight theaters in Sherman Oaks, California. We spoke to four eyewitnesses who all confirmed they saw the gaggle of celebrity friends. "They left the movie before it ended, and were so amped up to be hanging out they kept jumping up and down," a source tells HollywoodLife.com.
The foursome and six other friends showed up at midnight. "They didn't buy any concessions they just went straight to the movie at midnight. Two hours later they all walked out of the theater before the film even ended," one of our eyewitnesses reveals. Did somebody have a curfew to make? We do know Demi said she was tired earlier in the night!
"Barely anybody bothered them. One girl approached Selena and said she was a 'Wizards of Waverly Place' fan. Selena smiled and took a picture with her," explains another onlooker. "It didn't look like any of them even had bodyguards."
"Everyone in the theater couldn't believe they were all here together. It was so surreal, and a little random. They were all jumping up and down around each other like kids. Selena and Demi were especially affectionate with each other. They all looked really to be hanging out together. If you didn't recognize them you'd think they were a bunch of regular high schoolers," explains our fourth eyewitness.
All four sources agree that everyone in the group was in high spirits, and apparently Selena and Justin didn't show any PDA but were just content hanging out with their "loud" group of friends.
This sounds like such an amazingly fun time! We are so excited to hear that the friendship between Selena, 18, and Demi, 18, is still going strong, it is so sweet how happy they were to be together. Chris, 22, and Bieber, 17, filmed their "Next 2 You" music video on Friday, and it seems like they are building a strong bond. Now Justin and Selena are off in Hawaii together, but they had quite the send-off in LA before the Billboard Awards on Sunday!
Do you guys wish you had been there to see this star-studded movie date?
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BOSTON, Mass. – Led by Brooke Nemethy's (Oviedo, Fla.) match-high 10 kills and .667 attack percentage, volleyball notched their second conference win of the season as they defeated the University of Southern Maine by the final of 3-0 Thursday evening at the Reggie Lewis Center.
The Beacons defeated the visiting Huskies by the finals of 25-7, 25-14, and 25-18. With the win UMass improves to 8-4 on the year, 2-0 in the Little East Conference. Southern Maine fell to 4-8, 0-2 in conference play.
For Nemethy her 10 kills came on 15 attempts, with freshman Molly Witzmann (Encinitas, Calif.) finishing second on the team with eight kills on 15 attempts (.333). Blair Boyer (Encinitas, Calif.) stepped up and finished with five kills in two sets. Southern Maine saw Annie Mitchell and Madalyn Terry each score four kills in the contest.
Setters Megan Pollock (Wilton, Calif.) and Emma Rocha (Boynton Beach, Fla.) finished with 16 and 12 assists respectively, while for the Huskies Bridget Burns put-up five assists.
As a squad the Beacons scored 10 aces, with Rocha tallying four of those, two of which helped the Beacons to the second set victory. Christine DuPuis led the defense with a match-high 11 digs, while Demi Ruder posted nine digs for the Huskies.
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Major Developments in US Policy on Antibiotic Use in Food Animals
All of APUA's work on this important health issue is made possible by the generous support of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Developments in Regulating Antibiotic Use
FDA Releases Two Guidelines to Limit Use of Antibiotics in Meat Production
On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 the FDA released the final FDA Guidance for Industry #213 and draft Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD). This is the first time since 1977 the FDA has taken broad action against the use of antibiotics in livestock. Once fully implemented, these policies will eliminate the use of medically important antibiotics for growth promotion. Still, the Obama administration will need to eliminate the use of antibiotics for other sub-therapeutic purposes, such as the use of low-dose antibiotics in healthy animals to account for unsanitary conditions and overcrowding.
This is a step in the right direction that will help the US catch up with EU regulations on agriculture. APUA played a major role in promoting this policy change by documenting the science as evidence and publishing in journals such as Microbiology. Our comprehensive FAAIR (Facts About Antibiotics in Animals and their Impact on Resistance) reports, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) were used as evidence and expert opinion in testimony by advocacy groups. Although these guidelines are only voluntary, they still show progress toward our goal of eliminating sub-therapeutic antibiotic use in food production. See the New York Times coverage, with a quote from our president, Dr. Stuart Levy here.
FDA bans unapproved use of Cephalosporins
On January 4, 2012, FDA issed an order of prohibition on certain extralabel uses of cephalosporin drugs in cattle, swine, chickens, and turkeys, to become effective April 5, 2012. FDA took this action to preserve the efficacy of cephalosporin drugs for treating human disease, including pneumonia, septicemia, meningitis, and infections of the urinary tract, bones, and upper respiratory tract. Cephalosporins are used against life-threatening infections and are considered drugs of last resort for people with sever foodborne illness. They are also the only class of antibiotic that carry no warnings against use in children or immunocompromised patients. With the exception of cephapirin (an older antibiotic drug not believed to contribute significantly to antibiotic resistance), the prohibited uses of cephalosporins included: Use at unapproved doses, frequencies, durations, or routes of administration, Use in species or production classes outside the ones specifically designated on the label, and Use for disease prevention.
Federal Court Rules FDA must ban use of penicillins and tetracyclines for growth promotion
In May 2011, a lawsuit was filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT), Public Citizen, and Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) against the FDA for failing to ban the use of penicilins and tetracyclines in food animal growth promotion despite having formally recognized in 1977 that the use of penicillin and most tetracyclines is not shown to be safe and may pose a risk to human health.The March 2012, Federal Court ruling compels FDA to take action on its own safety findings by withdrawing approval for most non-therapeutic uses of penicillin and tetracyclines in animal feed, unless the industry can prove in public hearings that those drug uses are safe. FDA must schedule hearings to let drug manufacturers make their case, and if the drug manufacturers cannot prove that the use of antibiotics in animal feed is safe, FDA must withdraw approval for those drug uses. Further court proceedings will likely be required to establish a timeline for FDA to act, and FDA could appeal the decision.
Issuance of FDA Regulations
In April 2012, the FDA issued two long-awaited guidances for the regulation of antibiotic use in food animal production – final Guidance #209 and draft Guidance #213 and also announced proposed changes to the Veterinary Feed Directive Program.
Final Guidance #209: ("The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals") recommends that food animal producers voluntarily phase out the use of medically important drugs for growth promotion or feed efficiency. It also recommends phasing in, over a period of three years, veterinary oversight of all medically important drugs being used in therapeutic situations (which include disease treatment, control, and prevention). This is the first time that the FDA has officially designated growth promotion as an "injudicious use" of antibiotics.
Draft Guidance #213: ("Recommendations for Drug Sponsors for Voluntarily Aligning Product Use Conditions with Guidance for Industry #209") asks drug companies to comply with Guidance #209 by removing growth promotion from the lists of FDA-approved uses on their products' labels. Within three months of issuance of the final Guidance #213, companies will have the option of applying to list therapeutic uses (including disease treatment, control, and prevention) on their products' FDA labels instead. Three years from the date of publication of the final guidance, the FDA plans to evaluate how many companies have adopted Guidance #213, and how long it took them to do so, as they consider their next actions.
Veterinary Feed Directive; Draft Text for Proposed Regulation: The proposed changes to the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) program are designed to make it consistent with the above guidances and to transition certain new animal drug products containing medically important antimicrobial drugs from an over-the-counter (OTC) status to a status that requires veterinary oversight. The FDA is concerned by the ability of producers, particularly those with smaller operations in remote locations, to have adequate access to veterinary services. Therefore, as steps are taken to phase in the changes discussed in this document, FDA recognizes the need to concurrently engage key stakeholders on this broader issue. Therefore, FDA intends to work collaboratively with U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to engage the veterinary community and other stakeholders to explore strategic approaches (e.g., new models, pilot programs) to address this issue.
Federal Court rules on another five classes of medically important antibiotics
The Federal Court directed FDA to reexamine its decision to deny two Citizen Petitions filed in 1999 and 2005, which asked the FDA to stop the unnecessary use of medically important antibiotics on livestock. The Petitions cover five classes of antibiotics in addition to the two—penicillin and tetracyclines—implicated in the March decision from the Court. The Court wrote:
"[T]he statutory scheme requires the Agency to ensure the safety and effectiveness of all drugs sold in interstate commerce, and, if an approved drug is not shown to be safe or effective, the Agency must begin withdrawal proceedings. The Agency has forsaken these obligations in the name of a proposed voluntary program, Guidance # 209, and acted contrary to the statutory language.
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[FDA] must evaluate the safety risks of the petitioned drugs and either make the finding that the drugs are not shown to be safe or provide a reasoned explanation as to why the Agency is refusing to make such a finding."
Federal Court Rules that FDA cannot delay banning the use of penicillins and tetracyclines for growth promotion
In a follow-up to the ruling from March, a Federal Court ruled in August that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot delay regulatory proceedings for penicillin and tetracyclines use in livestock.
The court action
1) ensures that action is not delayed further until after the resolution of an appeal by FDA of the court's original decision to mandate these proceedings and
2) imposes a deadline for the completion of the proceedings. FDA will have approximately five years to complete proceedings.
Developments in Collecting Data on Animal Use of Antibiotics
In August 2008, Congress passed the Animal Drug User Fee Amendments of 2008 requiring the animal drug manufacturers to report to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the quantity of antimicrobial drugs sold or distributed annually for use in food animals. The data includes the dosage form, the target animal, and the approved indication for use (such as growth promotion or therapy).
However, FDA shares only a limited summary of these data with the public, but withholds almost all of what companies report. The Government Accountability Project (GAP) submitted a Freedom of Information Actrequest for this data to the FDA in February 2011. Upon denial, GAP appealed to the Public Health Service, which includes the FDA. Following a one-year delay, the appeal was denied in September 2012. A lawsuit has followed.
In October 2012, Representative Waxman of California has proposed a bill called the "Delivering Antibiotic Transparency in Animals (DATA) Act." It could provide the FDA with important information about the types, purposes, and quantities of antibiotics being fed to livestock. Information would be gathered from drug manufacturers as well as feed mills.
APUA's stance
In an April 2012 press release, APUA agrees that the FDA guidances may encourage leadership among large food animal producers to reduce inappropriate antibiotic use on farms, but cautions that "there is a need for strong monitoring of their implementation."
"FDA's guidance documents, including this draft guidance, do not establish legally binding responsibilities. Instead, guidances describe the FDA's current thinking on a topic and should be viewed only as recommendations… the use of the word 'should' in FDA's guidances means that something is suggested or recommended, but not required."
In May 2012, APUA convened a National Stakeholder Meeting in Washington, DC to discuss antibiotic use in food animals, including alternatives to antibiotic use and incentives to adopt them .
Other groups (including the National Resource Defense Council, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Keep Antibiotics Working, and the American Academy of Pediatrics) have taken similar or harsher stances on the FDA's actions. Considering the sheer volume of antibiotic use in food animals (accounting for 80% of all antibiotics sold in the U.S.), it may be that voluntary compliance falls short of addressing the problem. According to these groups, overuse must be reduced through required cooperation from the entire industry and a clear plan for monitoring drug use to measure the guidances' effectiveness.
As a comment to the Draft Guidance #213, APUA wrote an organizational letter to the FDA commissioner detailing our recommendations for the strengthening of this Guidance. In addition, APUA developed a leadership statement addressed to President Obama and FDA Commissioner Hamburg asking that the FDA and congress take action to reduce antimicrobial use in food production. APUA reached out to colleagues for support and this statement was signed by 21 leaders in science and medicine including 4 Nobel Laureates and 5 ASM Presidents.
APUA also signed on to a joint-letter to the FDA Commissioner Hamburg encouraging the FDA to include representatives from the public health community and consumer groups in the stakeholder dialogue over the proposed changes to the VFD.
Why does this matter?
It is now known that constantly exposing food animals to sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics (i.e. during growth promotion) is a potent selector for drug-resistant bacteria, which can then enter the food chain and infect humans. While final Guidance 209, draft Guidance 213, and the VFD may constitute the most sweeping action the FDA has taken to protect public health from antibiotic resistance, there are serious gaps in these measures that must be addressed.
Final Guidance 209 and draft Guidance 213 designate "growth promotion" as an injudicious use of antibiotics, but not "disease prevention" – the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics when a herd or flock is not actually sick. Many antibiotics are currently FDA-approved at the same dosages for both growth promotion and disease prevention, so in practice they are identical. If growth promotion is discouraged but disease prevention is not, producers can continue practicing inappropriate antibiotic use simply by calling it disease prevention. This is also why it is important to collect data from feed mills and drug manufactorers with specifics on what the intended use (ex. "growth promotion", "disease prevention", etc.) and by the percentage of antimicrobials being sold over the counter, or by prescription or veterinary feed directive. Given the FDA guidances, there may soon be a decrease in sales for growth promotion but a corresponding increase in sales for disease prevention, that could mean the drug companies are just changing terminology. With no expanded requirements for reporting, no one outside of the FDA will be able to see this data.
The FDA needs to clearly define the differences between antibiotic use for treatment, for control, and for prevention, and state once and for all which uses are acceptable and which are not. If industrial farms can improve conditions and change animal husbandry practices without using antibiotics, the FDA should encourage that first. The FDA must also lay out a clear outline of how it intends to monitor the results of the voluntary guidances and measure their effectiveness.
What can I do to help?
Motivated citizens: address your comments to President Barack Obama and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg via the "Take Action" link at The Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming: Urge FDA to Strengthen Measures to End Overuse of Antibiotics on Industrial Farms.
A few months ago, with the help of responsible citizens like you, APUA and Pew mobilized over 32,400 signatures in support of the FDA's ban on cephalosporin use in food animals.
Past work by APUA on the issue
Other Resources
Timeline of European Policy on the Use of Antibiotics in Food Animals till 2008
APUA Policy Brief #1 "Preserve Antibiotics for the Future"
APUA Policy Brief #2 "How Epidemics of Untreatable Infections Develop"
APUA Policy Brief #3 "Reduce Antibiotic Use to Delay Antibiotic Resistance"
APUA Policy Brief #4 "Antibiotic Misuse in Food Animals–Time for Change"
APUA Policy Brief #5 "Public Health Consequences of Antibiotic Use for Growth Promotion"


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I have no comment on the buildings but I do see the 4 teams who finished at the bottom of the pack in Turin. Nary/Jamie, Brrendon/Rachel, Stacy/Kerri, and Mark/Bopper. Mark and Bopper seem to claiming a vehicle while the rest are running past. could be that vehicle takes them to the speedbump while the others are running for a clue.
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- Men's basketball team hosts Skyline semifinal Thursday with conference player of year A.J. Matthews leading the charge -
The 7-foot, 215-pound Matthews was already impossible to miss on this small campus. Yet after leading the nation in rebounds and double doubles, the junior center has grown into Farmingdale's main attraction this side of Adventureland.
"It was a bumpy road," Matthews said. "I ended up going to one school after another. I feel right now I'm settled here. I'm not the type of guy who likes big campuses. You know everyone here. And you don't get lost going to class every day."
If the Farmingdale State men's basketball team can win two games in three days to capture the Skyline Conference Tournament title, it will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament – the program's first since 2009.
After a 20-5 regular season and second-place finish behind rival St. Joseph's (Patchogue), the madness begins Thursday when No. 2 Farmingdale State hosts No. 3 Mount St. Mary (20-6) at 8 p.m. The Skyline championship is Saturday at the higher seed.
Teammate Joshua Smith, a junior guard, was named a Skyline first-teamer this week. But so much will fall on the tall shoulders of Matthews. He's not only the conference player of the year, Rams Coach Erik Smiles called him the best player he's coached.
"Hands down, no doubt about it," Smiles said. "We've had some great ones here, but A.J. is by far the most special talent I've ever coached."
The numbers tell the story. Matthews leads the conference in scoring (22.1 points) and tops the nation with 16 rebounds per game. His 4 blocks is third in D-III and .628 field goal percentage ranks fifth.
But what really stands out are his 23 double doubles (points and rebounds) in as many starts. Not only does it lead D-III, but no other player in the county – from Division I on down – has recorded a double double in every game played.
Smiles credits his polished game backed by unreal athleticism. "He does a great job of finishing with both hands, right or left," Smiles said. "The other thing that stands out is his footwork and coordination for a 7-foot kid. That really stands out compared to other kids his size."
Matthews said his focus this season has been on the defensive end of the court. The result: Farmingdale State is one of the top five D-III teams in the nation in field goal defense and blocked shots.
"When it comes to playoffs, I just want to win," Matthews said.
Everyone on campus is excited to see where Matthews' journey takes him next. Only this time an entire school is along for the ride.
Women Earn No. 2 Seed: In the women's bracket, Farmingdale State (14-9) also earned the second seed and will host No. 3 SUNY-Old Westbury Thursday at 6 p.m. The championship is Saturday at the higher seed.
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1 in 10 U.S. deaths blamed on salt
Study finds salt more dangerous than sugary drinks
On the heels of a study linking sugary drinks to 25,000 U.S. deaths a year, new research suggests salty food is even more dangerous, ABC News reported.
The new study, by the same Harvard research team, linked excessive salt consumption to nearly 2.3 million cardiovascular deaths worldwide in 2010.
One in 10 Americans dies from eating too much salt, the researchers found.
See how hidden salt is sabotaging your diet
"The burden of sodium is much higher than the burden of sugar-sweetened beverages," said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and author of both the salt and sugary drink studies. "That's because sugar-sweetened beverages are just one type of food that people can avoid, whereas sodium is in everything."
The study, presented Thursday at the American Heart Association's annual meeting in New Orleans, adds to mounting evidence that packaged and processed foods containing high levels of salt for flavor and shelf life can take a heavy toll on cardiovascular health.
"It's really amazing how pervasive it is," Mozaffarian said of salt. "For the average person, it's very hard to avoid salt – you have to be incredibly motivated, incredibly educated, have access to a range of foods and do all the cooking yourself."


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FRESHMAN (2010): One of just four Broncos to start in all 21 games, playing a key position in the Bronco attack ... named to the All-WCC Freshman Team ... totaled 24 shots, which ranked third on the team ... scored three goals which tied for fourth among team leaders in that category ... put eight shots on goal and scored two game-winners ... scored his first collegiate goal at Sacramento State (Sept. 26), helping SCU tie that game 1-1 ... essential part of helping SCU go unbeaten in 12 straight games from Sept. 19 through Nov. 5 ... assisted in a goal during a 2-1 victory at St. Mary's (Oct. 10) ... scored the game-winner at USF (Oct. 22) ... had a season-high four shots two different times, vs. LMU (Oct. 15) and vs. Gonzaga (Nov. 14) ... the victory against Gonzaga (Nov. 14), in which he scored his third goal, gave SCU the WCC title ... played 59 minutes in the Broncos NCAA tournament match at Sacramento State (Nov. 18).
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From The NPD Group, via Eric Lai at Computerworld, comes news of virtual software with real profits. Sales of Mac virtualization software in North America are up 50 percent so far in 2008, with estimated sales for the year ranging between $15 and $20 million. Parallels reports a million copies of Parallels Desktop have been sold since introduction in 2006, while VMware says a quarter million copies of Fusion were sold in 2007, the year Fusion was introduced. No doubt that number is significantly higher now, and will likely increase with the advent of Fusion 2, not to mention Parallels Desktop 4.
These figures are astonishing, even if one assumes the market share for Macs in North America is near 10 percent. There is also Apple's non-virtualization solution for running Windows, though Boot Camp requires users to run one OS at a time?hardly an ideal solution for businesses with a few Windows programs or software developers wanting to test applications. Still, it would seem unlikely that those two examples could account for the sales success of virtualization software for the Mac. NPD analyst Michael Redmond believes it's about all about Intel.
"Clearly, the performance gains of [Macs] moving to Intel processors are encouraging more users to experiment with virtualization," he said in an e-mail.
That's an interesting thought, but perhaps it's not so much wanting to experiment with Windows as an insurance policy for Mac OS X?Windows as a last resort, if you will. Looking at data from Net Applications, it's clear Mac OS X has been making steady, if slow, progress in market share. There does not seem to be any evidence to suggest widespread use of Windows in lieu of Mac OS X on Macs, but there might be an opportunity for Apple here.
Opinion: it would be crazy for Apple to allow Mac OS X to be run on PCs. Natively. However, it's common knowledge that the only thing stopping Parallels and VMware from running Mac OS X on PCs is Apple. Allowing OS X to be used through Parallels and Fusion for running virtually on a charcoal gray turd from Dell could act as kind of free taste of the Mac Experience.


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...is next to impossible, I have discovered. It seems that when eating out during the next two weeks, you need to carry not only a ton of cash, but also a stiff jaw that doesn't drop upon receiving the final bill.
I understand prices always rise during such high-profile events, and I'm sure in Athens, Torino, and Sydney more than a few locals simply stayed home more than usual. But I was ((and still am) determined not to become a hermit during the biggest party in China's 5,000+ years of history.
So I have sucked it up and tried to forget the almost doubling of prices at my local (albeit quite famous) Peking duck place. And the $12 Carlsberg and $11 Evian on "Sanlitun Super Bar Street" I just attributed to the area being a tourist magnet. But two nights ago we headed to Duck de Chine, an elegant new Peking duck restaurant whose bird a trusted foodie friend said was on par with my current favorite Da Dong's, and about the same price of around 200 RMB ($29) per duck including pancakes and condiments.
After we got seated, however, we learned that they were only offering 3- to 4-course set menus for the duration of the Olympics, at the equivalent of $124 a person (!!!) In China. For New York prices.
If you wanted a whole duck, you would need to order it on top of the required set menu, which had almost nothing appealing enough to warrant the high prices. I said a flat-out no and simply walked out. I can stomach doubled prices for China's coming-out party, but not 5 times what I expected the evening to cost. I could find a cheaper set meal at Beijing's Daniel Boulud.
We did finally eat, at the nearby Noodle Bar. The decor was muted, reminiscent of a small sushi bar, with 1 or 2 chefs in the center hand-pulling noodles to order. The set meal was 42 RMB for a large bowl of brisket and tripe noodles, edamame and seaweed sides, and oolong tea. Even the vegetable prices were at pre-Olympic levels. It wasn't insanely cheap, but certainly doable, considering the Noodle Bar was also at the glamorous new 1949:The Hidden City development. The noodles hit the spot, and as I imagined it, better than the set dinner that would have cost as much as a round-trip train ticket to Hong Kong.
I may return for the duck after the Games. For the time being, noodles and chua'r will be my main sustenance outside of home.
The Noodle Bar Inside 1949:The Hidden City, Gongti BeiLu (across from the south entrance of Pacific Century Place) Sanlitun, Chaoyang District Beijing


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VeriSign will keep control over the .com top-level domain under terms of an agreement signed last week. The US Department of Commerce has finally approved the deal reached last year, which will allow VeriSign to raise rates by up to 7 percent in four out of the contract's six years as long as the company provides six months notice.
VeriSign gained control of the .com registry in 1999, when it was awarded a no-bid contract by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. VeriSign also has control over the .net TLD, having renewed its contract in 2005 after a round of competitive bidding.
The relationship between ICANN and VeriSign has not been all wine and roses, however. In 2003, VeriSign implemented SiteFinder, a new "feature" that redirected users to a VeriSign search page when they mistyped a URL. ICANN told VeriSign to drop SiteFinder and then threatened the company with sanctions for violating its contract when it refused to comply. VeriSign eventually gave in, but later filed an antitrust lawsuit against ICANN over its order to deactivate SiteFinder. In October 2005, VeriSign and ICANN settled the lawsuit as part of the agreement approved last week.
The 13-month delay between the agreement being reached and its signing last week was due to a review by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a part of the Department of Commerce. As part of the review, the NTIA looked at comments from third parties, some of whom have been critical of the deal.
Count Network Solutions among the critical. In a prepared statement, Network Solutions VP of policy Jon Nevett said that his company was "disappointed that in the face of widespread opposition, the Commerce Department approved an agreement between ICANN and VeriSign, renewing VeriSign's contract to operate the .com registry."
"Unfortunately, the Commerce Department has endorsed an agreement that creates a perpetual de facto monopoly, fails to provide sufficient checks and balances through competition and adequate oversight, and is fundamentally flawed from a national cyber-security perspective."
Others are looking at the agreement much more favorably. NetChoice, which describes itself as a "coalition" of e-commerce business, consumers, and trade association, is happy with the deal. NetChoice executive director Steve DelBianco said that VeriSign's continued oversight of the .com TLD is "good news for e-commerce" and "a win for all Internet users."
"Not only does the agreement ensure the long-term availability and integrity of the internet, but it should also quell international criticism of the US for its oversight role over ICANN," said DelBianco. "Today's announcement shows clearly that the Department of Commerce respects ICANN's decision-making authority and is committed to the goal of ICANN's independence."
ICANN's role in regulating the Internet has been a hotly-debated topic over the past couple of years, with the Internet Governance Forum spending a fair amount of time on the subject in October. An agreement reached between the Department of Commerce and ICANN earlier this fall may result in ICANN's independence in as little as 18 months.
VeriSign has control of .com and .net locked up for the next several years, but there will still be a modicum of oversight. The NTIA retains final approval over any price hikes, and has said that any subsequent renewal of the contract will occur "only if it concludes that the approval will serve the public interest in the continued security and stability of the Internet domain name system and the operation of the .com registry, and the provision of registry services at reasonable prices, terms and conditions."


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4 Systems for Evaluating the Success of Events and Meetings
Meetings, conferences, and trade shows represent a significant budget item for many corporations, which puts pressure on planners to justify the value of that investment. Regardless of the type of event, the only way to evaluate return on investment (R.O.I.) is to establish measurable objectives and then determine if those goals are met. Here are four companies that can help planners gather feedback from attendees, sponsors, and other stakeholders.
1. Audience Metrix
Kevin O'Neill and Christopher Korody have been involved in audience measurement for more than 12 years, and in March they formalized those services by launching Audience Metrix. One of its most high-profile clients is SAP, for which the company provides evaluation services of the annual Sapphire Now conference and many smaller events throughout the year.
"What we are trying to do is work at a senior level so the value of the data is relevant to all the departments instead of just the event team, and it can work across a variety of event portfolios. The goal is that somebody does something with this information. That it is actionable," said Korody. O'Neill and Korody work directly with corporate leadership to determine what is valued by the organization, what they hope to achieve at their events, and what to measure. Then they use tools such as surveys, focus groups, one-on-one interviews, and telephone interviews to gather that data. "We'll also take the registration data, we'll take the survey data, we'll take the session evaluations, and we'll fold that into a single set of metrics. We are interested in trying to get to a broader, more integrated view of what's going on than just a single survey," Korody said.
As for cost, Korody said "it can run into the low six figures," but part of their work involves training corporate staff so that within a few years that company can manage the measurement process on its own. Additional clients include PeopleSoft, Sun Microsystems, and the JavaOne Developer conference.
2. Meeting Metrics
Meeting Metrics provides an online, D.I.Y. system, primarily suited to measure the effectiveness of business meetings and educational events. Planners purchase a license, currently priced at about $400 annually for a new user, that provides access to the online system, training, and support, and then they purchase individual surveys based on the needs of their events.
"Most survey tools are designed to be multipurpose. We went in the opposite direction; we built narrow and very deep," said Ira Kerns, managing director of Meeting Metrics. "So we have an inventory of more than 1,000 best practice meeting survey questions at the fingertip of the user that cover a broad range of needs for meeting surveys." The system has nine customizable survey templates that measure attendees' needs and results across the life cycle of a meeting, from pre- to post-event evaluations. Users work with their own online dashboard to create surveys, transmit them to attendees via email, and analyze the data that comes in.
The Meetings Metrics system is based on the more than 25 years of experience of parent company GuideStar Research, which used to provide in-person meeting measurement services. "That is very labor intensive and very expensive. What we've done is remove the consultant and replace the consultant with a meeting-intelligent system that already has done many of the things the survey administrator would have to think through," Kerns said. "We've thought it through, and we've given them the tools, ready-made. So with some training from us, they become a practitioner of meeting measurement." Companies that have used Meeting Metrics include Audi, McDonald's, G.E., and Johnson & Johnson.
3. Constellation Communication Corporation
Ed Jones, president of Constellation Communication Corporation, said his company's approach is to focus on whether clients are making money from their events, and if not, what they need to change to make the events pay off. "We have an R.O.I. model that applies to face-to-face marketing events. It not only figures out if a company is making money doing events, but it also helps to right-size events. It tailors the investment and the resources and the human resources to the size of the event opportunity," said Jones.
The company works with planners to develop objectives for their events in the categories of business development (lead generation, customer relationships, etc.) and marketing and communications (brand development, press influence, etc.). "We believe you need three perspectives to understand how well your event marketing program works. You need the visitor perspective, you need the staff and stakeholder perspective, and you need an outside, objective look at your accomplishments and some sort of measurement program that gives a performance perspective," said Jones. The company gathers this feedback using various phone, email, and in-person survey tools, and by sending consultants to attend a client's events.
Planners can choose the level of services, including telephone-only evaluations, starting at $1,750 per event, and a three-day on-site evaluation that includes an analysis of exhibit effectiveness, staff and visitor interaction, exit surveys, and post-event press evaluation at a cost of $15,000 per event. Constellation Communication's clients include Adobe, Owens Corning, Chase Bank, and the R.S.A. Security Conference.
4. SurveyMonkey
Planners using Eventbrite to manage registration and promotion of their events now have access to online survey company SurveyMonkey. The partnership launched in October and integrates SurveyMonkey's tools into the Eventbrite dashboard. Planners can choose from four new, customizable event feedback surveys and transmit them to all registered attendees via email. The system is being developed so data from the two systems will tie back to one another.
"So you might want to know if the survey respondents were a certain type of attendee that purchased a certain type of ticket. You will be able to map that data from Eventbrite back to the survey data," said SurveyMonkey C.E.O. Dave Goldberg. To create a survey on Eventbrite, planners must sign up for one of SurveyMonkey's plans which include a free option for small events with 100 respondents and more robust options costing $17, $25, or $65 per month.


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IEIM departments actively develops international backgrounds. In postgraduate study foreign graduate students are constantly trained, teachers and graduate students of institute participate in the international conferences, annually the institute receives foreign guests. ESU department carries out the international project "School Law Territory" which is carried out in case of a financial support of the European Commission on Human Rights.
In case of annual summing up work of IEIM institutes constantly enters into the three of prize-winners, and some departments of institute are included in the top ten departments of university.
At institute talented students are trained. The IEIM team at the festivals "Student's Spring", "Student's Fall", KVN often wins first place, and a sports college team – prize-winning places in the Olympic Games and Sports contests of university.


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There's been a good deal of rumor-mongering about the release date for Star Wars: Episode VII, with claims that the seventh installment in the sci-fi space opera juggernaut will launch in either November 2015 or December 2015, in spite of Disney's continued assurances that a Spring/Summer 2015 premiere remains the target date.
Today, we add some additional fuel to that fire, in the form of another story that raises doubts about when the movie will hit theaters (and no less than one day after the one-year anniversary of the Mouse House's original announcement that it was buying Lucasfilm). Such news rounds out a tough week of speculation and unconfirmed reports about the development process on Episode VII, after the story from a few days ago that suggested Disney and Lucasfilm have been forced to get the ball rolling on a fifth Indiana Jones movie (in order to get Harrison Ford to commit to appearing in the next Star Wars trilogy).
Several of THR's insiders who are reported as being close to the project are now bringing in word that new Lucasfilm president and Episode VII executive producer Kathleen Kennedy - along with "most of the film's creative team" - have asked Disney to push the release date back to 2016. However, Disney CEO Robert Iger is refusing to budge on the 2015 date, while director J.J. Abrams is apparently "in sync with Iger's desire" - even though, as a result, he's had to step in and contribute to the screenwriting process. Ironically, it was originally Abrams who was supposedly not committed to a 2015 release date for Episode VII, which started the rumors about a delay to 2016 in the first place.
THR is supporting the longstanding claim that Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3) put together a 40-50 page story treatment for the seventh Star Wars installment, before Lucasfilm became a part of Mickey Mouse's empire. Despite that, many of the site's insiders say that the script "isn't close to ready" and that is why Abrams is now working on the screenplay with Episode VII consultant and Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi screenwriter, Lawrence Kasdan (Some might argue that's a blessing in disguise, even if the latest rumors are indeed accurate.)
The problem of studio executives setting a tentpole's release date well ahead of production getting started - forcing the project to move down the pipeline faster than preferable - is one that we've heard about more and more frequently in recent years. The most infamous example would be when Matthew Vaughn ended up having to shoot/edit X-Men: First Class in a matter of ten months - when a year-long turnaround for an effects-heavy blockbuster is still quite short. More recently, we've seen big sequels like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Fast & Furious 7 lose the directors who made their immediate predecessor a hit (due to studios pressuring them to ship the next installment down the assembly line as quickly as possible).
Of course, Episode VII carries more burden than Luke Skywalker after he found out his daddy was Darth Vader, since it's meant to serve as the launching pad for a new era in the Star Wars franchise. That means it needs to get a new generation hooked so they turnout for Episodes VIII & IX, new movie spinoffs, additional television series (see: Star Wars Rebels) and prove willing to buy a near-endless supply of multi-platform products (video games, action figures, tie-in novels, etc.). So, yeah, naturally there has to be some tension behind the scenes on Episode VII, no matter what.
One THR insider has addressed just that, in an effort to downplay the fresh batch of discouraging rumors:
"[What's going on with 'Episode VII' is] nothing out of the ordinary," says the insider. "Almost every big movie changes writers at some point. There's no drama here."
That's not the only issue where THR's inside sources appear conflicted, as certain ones are saying that Abrams has taken a greater amount of control of Episode VII in recent months, while others assure that both Abrams and Kennedy are involved in casting for the film (and beyond). Moreover, Abrams isn't known for kowtowing to studio demands - he was able to get the dates for both Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness pushed back in order to allow the proper time for development. We've heard in the past that the entire reason that he changed teams from Star Trek to Wars is because he wanted to get the next phase in a major sci-fi franchise started on the right foot. So, why would Abrams jeopardize that by rushing Episode VII?
In conclusion, we should all probably hold off on bemoaning that Episode VII is doomed; or, alternatively, proclaiming that the film not been encountered any roadblocks at all. For all we know, in a matter of days - now that Disney has begun releasing Thor: The Dark World in theaters around the globe - we could be getting some major Star Wars announcements, be it official casting news, an exact 2015 release date or maybe even an announcement that Episode VII won't arrive until 2016 after all (rather than try and compete in the 2015 box office derby).
Star Wars: Episode VII remains tentatively set for a 2015 theatrical release. We'll let you know when/if that changes.
Source: THR