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The new Debian "Etch" release follows a close Debian Project Leader election. Sam Hocevar surpassed other candidates by only eight votes.
April 8, 2007, Debian Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava announced a winner in the election for a new Project Leader. The choice came as a surprise to many people: Sam Hocevar won the battle. Just a short time later, the tickers displayed a second Debian announcement: The developers announced that Etch was now finished and available as an official release. Hard Fought At about 2am on April 8, Manoj Srivastava published the interim results of the election for a Debian Project Leader (DPL), causing an outcry. Many voters considered Steve McIntyre a hot favorite – after all, he finished a close second to Anthony Towns in last year's election – but the majority of votes went to Sam Hocevar (Figure 1). The graph with the election results, which was published after the shouting died down, might help you understand the complicated DPL election process, which is based on the Condorcet method [1].
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Published by on 2013-06-16 | 201 views
Let's say you're working at a start-up company and you think you have a neat product or service and you're looking to improve their brand's heardability. Let's take a closer look at 5 key areas that can influence our brand:
1. Website
2. Marketing/advertising initiatives
3. Products/service offerings
4. Customer care & communication touch-points
5. Employees
Now let's ask ourselves some thought-provoking questions that might inspire new ideas -- new ways of thinking about how to influence word of mouth around our brand.
Social Currency. Does a company's website make its visitors/customers look good or feel good about themselves? If not, what can be done to change to make users look/feel good so that they are more likely to talk to their friends about start-up company X? This same question could be asked about our staff, services, communication touch points and marketing programs.
Triggers. As Jonah's article says, "If something is top-of-mind it will be tip-of-the-tongue. Just like peanut butter reminds us of jelly, the more we're triggered to think about a product or idea, the more people will talk about it." If we're a savvy internet start-up, we may be doing a good job with our re-marketing program that exposes our banner ads to just the right audiences, thereby increasing our impressions on any one person in an effort to be a tip-of-the-tongue brand online. A wider questions is, can we apply this same way of thinking to other areas of our business?
Emotion. As Jonah states, "When people care, they share. Whether positive (excitement or humor) or negative (anger or anxiety), high arousal emotions drive people to share." We might be running a social media contest that gives a portion of our sales to charity. It may do a fair job touching on the emotional triggers behind why people buy what they buy. Or why they forward a promotion to their friends. The big question is, besides this one contest, can we apply this same concept to other areas of our business that are not as exciting as a contest? Something that will rile the nerves or bring forth a smile?
Public. As the article says, people tend to mimic others. Public observability can sometimes drive imitation (e.g. sports celebrity sneakers). Most brands/companies are doing little in the area of creating public imitation. Is this an opportunity for your business?
Practical Value. Jonah states, "People don't just want to look good, they also want to help others. So more useful equals more shared. Think articles about 10 ways to raise capital or five key negotiating tips." A start-up brand could retool their blogs and social programs to come across as providing helpful tips and advice. Being more helpful or adding more utility could be applied to one's staff, services, communication touch points and marketing programs.
Stories. "No one wants to seem like a walking advertisement, but they will talk about something if it's part of a broader narrative. So build a 'Trojan horse' story, a message that carries your brand along for the ride," the article states. Most brands/companies are not grist storytellers. And most start-ups are too busy to figure out creative ways to develop an integrated transmedia story campaign across channels. Is this an opportunity for your business?
Following the advice above won't guarantee that your new start-up will be the toast (and talk) of the town. But if you understand the reasons behind WHY people mention your brand and why they share it with others, you may gain a competitive edge. The art to this science to learning how to best harness these insights to you can offer better products and experiences to your key constituents.
Published by on 2013-06-13 | 546 views
Brands are trying to become more relevant than they ever have before. A big part of this is the fact that in order for them to acquire and maintain customers, they need to sustain markets. How are they doing this? By building systems. Systems are connected through APIs (application programming interfaces). APIs connect people, products and entire networks.
Think of a system as one that has a bunch of interrelated and interchangeable parts. That system may contain traditional branding elements and ad campaigns and social media content and PR stunts and all that, but more importantly, it is comprised of tools and platforms and utilities that allow people and companies to connect, learn and transact more meaningfully. Further, these dynamics call for communications to be multi-dimensional, such that push messaging is being replaced by emerging disciplines like participatory storytelling, data journalism and other forms of 'new media' which break through the boundaries imposed by traditional media gatekeepers. Therefore, a system is much more than the sum of its parts -- it is at once a means to educate, inform, entertain, prospect and experiment in 'perpetual beta'.
For those corporate stakeholders who are fearful, consider this: Systems are not only sustainable, but they are scalable. In other words, there's real money at stake.
Leading brands like Nike, for example, are capitalizing on social movements to better understand market behaviors and sources for new inventions, and are even accelerating business ideas that are extensible with utilities they've successfully built (like Fuelband). Nike still makes beautiful ads, but its real stocktaking has come in the way it builds products and services with its customers. Others, like Target, are using social platforms to crowdsource design. Others, like P&G, have created joint-venture funds to build up local economies through entrepreneurship. Even more interesting are the efforts of smaller brands like Dermalogica, that benefit from outsourcing infrastructure and by building up value in the supply chain itself. And where government or educational institutions are slow to task, new co-ops and special interest programs expedite development and allow more people and more entities to fail forward, or more productively, to learn by doing.
The key to measuring value in a system? Data (obviously). But not just any kind of data. Data that reflect the entirety of the system. This is where we turn the data culled from APIs into actionable insights from which a brand can make critical business decisions.
The impetus for us founders at Heardable in building a holistic measurement tool -- one that measures hundreds of online interactions -- was to show how online performance provides context for what a brand system does. That system isn't just the content a brand publishes, its social media conversations, website visits, or aggregate product purchases, but how the entire system competes against others in the category. Our score reflects that competitive edge (or lack thereof), and our subscores reflect how a brand can optimize its position in the marketplace or category. Our category reports go a step further: They show correlations between brand performance and market performance. Our own API gives brand developers opportunities to build intelligence around all of it, in myriad ways and through many creative applications.
As brand managers, marketers and technologists, what are you doing to build sustainable systems (and therefore sustainable brands?)
We'd love to hear from you!
Published by on 2013-06-11 | 27 views
Twitter and other microblogging platforms are inherently local, relevant, and social. They've organically created a powerful mix of content and relationships, and there are a couple of simple things that they can do to unlock more value, and that local businesses can do to leverage the platform.
At Heardable, we also think that in order for brands to have a global impact, they must address the needs of customers at the local level.
Twitter has a great opportunity here to further develop a system that adds true social and geographic relevance to search. There's much more to say about that, and this discussion is meant to focus on some specific UI changes that uncover more of the value in Twitter search from a social and geo-targeting standpoint. In the short term, it would be great to see an indication of social relevance: maybe a graphic bug that indicates how "close" the tweet is to me in my Twitter social network. Geographically, we like what they've done with the "near:" option in the search query, and for travelers or people that don't read the manual, maybe a "show me results near me" checkbox could be a simpler solution.
As Twitter volume and usage grows, what are the opportunities in this area for local businesses as well as global brands?
Here's an example. Lou On Vine is a local restaurant in Los Angeles that we really enjoy. The owner has an interesting and offbeat wine cellar, and their food is sourced from small farms locally and across the US. The menu changes regularly. They've gotten some good press, and are a little off the beaten path in terms of location. If they were up on Twitter, I'd certainly follow them if they announced new wines, menu changes, weekday specials, and so on. I might even RT if I saw something I was particularly enthusiastic about.
For the local business owner, this is simple, quick, and effective. Local businesses do not always have the time and attention required to create a full-fledged email program - maintaining lists, designing emails, writing paragraphs of content, and so on. This small effort brings them into a huge mass of potential customers that are already grouped – very generally – by common interests and social ties. If I re-tweet a LouOnVine message, it's going to my followers – a group that is likely at least a little more interested in this type of restaurant than the general population.
And when someone searches on Twitter for "Lou on Vine" they'll see that menu change or new wine, or my re-tweet. When someone I follow is in LA and searches for "good restaurants" and checks the "select results near me," maybe they'll see a tweet of mine referencing Lou On Vine , and that I'm very close to them on the social graph.
Further, if you as a brand or a local business (or as a local extension of a global business) index good, compelling content (blog or microblog posts) with enough frequency, you'll show up in search results that aren't just specific to that particular area, because now you've established contextual relevance.
If you run a local business or a global brand, don't wait: start a business account on Twitter. It literally takes 2 minutes. Then at least once a week post relevant messages that are useful to customers and potential customers. Follow people in the area that are passionate about, or at least interested in, the types of services or products you provide. Twitter is a great way to get more out of your valuable relationships and content.
More importantly, the Heardable tool allows you to look at all forms of your digital outreach so that what you say locally takes on a voice that can be shared globally.
Try our free tool today and see the possibilities for yourself!
Published by on 2013-05-30 | 129 views
In the past 24 hours, two separate people have asked me if we measure sentiment. More and more people are focusing on this. We also think sentiment is important, and so our tech guys built an amazing system to monitor it for all 15 million+ brands in our system. He's also brought it forward on each brand's profile (see yours here: Brand Profile).
How we measure sentiment
We track the mentions a brand gets in major social media networks, and then our system analyzes whether the mention is positive or negative and weighs it against all of the other mentions of that brand. You can see a list of recent positive and negative comments, as well as your overall current situation, marked with a score.
Why is sentiment important?
It has been said that "No PR is bad PR", meaning that any mention of a brand- even a negative one- is a good thing, right? But in today's hyper-connected networked world, the intention of the brand mention is just as important as the mention itself. There's no point being excited that thousands of people are suddenly talking about your company if they're all saying awful things about it. Negative events can quickly go viral and damage or ruin your business if you don't deal with it quickly and professionally. Examples of PR disaster management range from Chick-Fil-A's 2012 woes, to the unexpected notoriety of Amy's Baking Company in Arizona, due to their responses to people posting in a wide variety of online forums.
Here are a few tips about how best to monitor sentiment:
· Understand your brand's typical base line for sentiment and what your company finds acceptable. It might be that yours is a business that people simply like to grumble about (cable service, anyone?) so your score might seem more negative than say, an amusement park. Once you know what's normal for you, you'll be able to spot if there's a sudden spike of movement.
· Be aware of any external events that could influence how people might see your brand. If you've done nothing different,but you wake up one morning to find your sentiment score plummeting, check the news. Perhaps you need to issue an official action or reaction to something. One good example is how the British people soured on the royal family after Princess Diana's death because of their slow reaction to publicly making any statements about it.
· Be aware of internal events that might suddenly cause a drop in your sentiment. Has an employee done something monumentally stupid (insulted customers, photographed themselves tampering with a customer's product)? This is also a risk to watch for and be prepared to react to quickly and publicly.
· If you're launching a new product, you should keep a close eye on your sentiment to see how customers are reacting. iPhone 5 anyone? Apple Maps? Enough said.
Move quickly if there's a sudden worsening of your sentiment score. If your team can rapidly come up with a winning strategy for diffusing disgruntled customers, it could stop a major PR disaster before it starts. If your reaction is really on the mark, you may even end up with more loyal customers.
If all seems to be steadily going well with your sentiment, perhaps consider a campaign around what would make people even happier. It's nice to have happy customers, but even better to have customers who love your brand so much, they will evangelize for you. Figure out what the next level of service is that they expect from you and create a campaign around offering that.
Not sure what your current sentiment score is? Check your up-to-the-minute data in a Heardable Report. You can make one in less than five minutes. www.heardable.com
Published by on 2013-05-27 | 58 views
Here's the 411 on a feature we launched a couple of weeks ago: top-level industry category leader scores.
For over two years, we've been using NAICS (the North American Industrial Classification System) codes to illustrate the industry associated with each brand. Why? Because we thought that would allow more granular filtering and usefulness. Then a month or two ago, we woke up and discovered an amazing fact: we can do both. We can continue to provide the same amount of detail, but concatenate the NAICS codes to form more useful "uber-categories", such as "Auto, "Beauty", "Fashion", and "Travel".
We further decided to make this work using sub-domains, as in "health.heardable.com", and "marketing.heardable.com" - because this provides an unlimited amount of categories with the ability to drill down using any number of parameters.
Pages live now include the advertising and marketing,arts and entertainment, automotive, beauty,employment, fashion, finance, food and beverage,health and fitness, lifestyle and dating, media and telecoms, real estate, semiconductor, travel and leisure, and utilities industries
Please take a peek and send us your feedback - we've also recently added the excellent UserVoice feedback widget to each of our pages. We'd love to hear what you think about our new Industry Leader pages.
Published by on 2013-05-25 | 117 views
"What many big social media advertisers have failed to grasp is the 'social' component of social media. To date, many brands have focused on individuals rather than relationships among individuals and the economic power of those relationships. Who is most likely to influence their friends? Who is most likely to share with friends? Who is most likely to buy or take some other action? Those are vital questions to address to truly unlock the social value of an audience."
Great observations, Todd! This is one of the reasons Heardable clients use our MagicFirehose API to take raw social brand performance data and then visualize it in context of its relationship to other factors.
Consider that a brand's social ecosphere can be examined in several unique and interesting ways, such as these four:
1. Social performance over time (current data, velocity & trajectory)
2. Brand equity vs. advocacy assessment
3. Conversational keyword and sentiment analysis (associating millions of consumers to particular brands they are most aligned with)
4. Fanbase assessment (advocates/detractors, etc)
Article commenter, Upsidedownpoint, made an excellent point when he stated:
"…most companies treat social media as a medium for CRM and DM, not for engagement. They see it as a problem that needs to be managed, not an opportunity to reshape their brand in the image of their consumers. Like any channel, when its misused or misunderstood, it fails."
- Participate on social media & engage with your constituents
- Measure & monitor the relationships between influencer sets
- Understand which individuals are associated with your brand vs. competitors
- Harness your brand advocacy to improve your brand equity
- Ensure that your marketing campaigns are reflective of your fanbase
Published by on 2013-05-25 | 138 views
I'd like to answer this question by first posing two statements:
1) Ghostwriters are hired hands
2) A brand is a terrible thing to waste
I think a company runs a huge risk outsourcing their social media activities to an outside microblogging service unless that 'ghost-brander' has some skin in the game. As hired hands, a ghostwriter can make a mistake, be fired, and move on to her next gig while the brand must suffer through the blunder, repair the damaged inflicted, and control the negative impact of the snafu's aftermath.
If you are a marketer at the helm of a large brand, I would urge you to think twice about the quality of the ghostblogger (is this an individual, a social media agency, etc.) and what type of training and recourse you may have in the event an unforeseen error occurs, or word gets out that your brand may not be as 'authentic' online as the corporate brand promise pontificates.
In the book, "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding," the authors state that the most important aspect of a brand is its single-mindedness. They tell how most great brands possess a singularity of focus, a clarity of message. Volvo has done it with safety; Ritz- Carlton with class; Absolute Vodka with "hipness." The authors caution that the easiest way to destroy a brand is to put its name on everything. Diversification, they argue, can lead to a weakening of a brand's quality, a drop in top-of-mind awareness, and more.
In the gold rush of brands to quickly embrace social media--either to listen, engage in, or get heard--has lead to some pretty poor decisions that have cost some brand dearly.
Some firms participate in social media as an extension of their internal marketing department's duties. Some have found great success by promoting social advocacy as an extension of an employee's job function--training and empowering certain staff to become the living, breathing, extension of their brand's value proposition (the face of the brand). Ford's social media advocate, Scott Monty, comes to mind. Consumers seem to value the sincerity of the brand's voice.
If social services are outsourced, the rub comes when a consumer asks: "With whom am I speaking to? Are you a company employee or a hired hand?" How this questions is answered is critical. An honest answer clarifying that no, this is not an actual brand employee, may turn off a portion of your followers and perhaps generate some bad press. A dishonest answer could cause much greater harm if the truth ever gets out, which will surely have a negative impact on your followers and your brand image--likely resulting in a press feeding frenzy to shame your brand into an apology.
So as we re-think the original question,"Do you think consumers would be less inclined to follow a 'brand'if they knew the brand employed ghostwriters/freelancers instead of official employees of the company?," our answer as a consumer utilizing social networking is:
"I don't care about the use of ghostwriters as long as my dialog with the brand is honest, timely, helpful, useful, consistent, straightforward, and as transparent as possible."
However, if the question was, "Would you be less inclined to recommend that a 'brand' if you knew that brand employed ghostwriters/freelancers instead of official employees of the company?" our answer would be:
"I would be less inclined to advise brands to utilize ghostwriters on services like Twitter, especially if you are a popular, well-established brand who had the wherewithal to develop an internal social media outreach strategy involving real, authentic employees.
If, on the other hand, you have tried to launch an internal social outreach program to no avail, or if you are a smaller emerging brand with less to risk, partnering with a capable third-party to properly represent your brand on social networks is entirely feasible.
In fact, the risk of not participating in the social arena at all far outweighs the risk that something may go wrong in your attempts to engage in meaningful social conversations."
Published by on 2013-05-21 | 110 views
Hits. Likes. Followers. Every digital marketer wants to have a lot of these. But simply growing this number doesn't always lead to increased sales. Let us walk you through what's important when looking at these numbers, and how to avoid the pitfalls of simply trying to grow your reach without focusing enough on turning that into sales.
What are vanity metrics?
Vanity metrics are simple data that show basic information about your company's digital marketing but that don't directly measure what's really impacting a company's revenue. They are called vanity metrics because they are numbers that people can use to easily show off, as in,"Look at how many website hits/Facebook likes/Twitter followers/Snapchatters(and so on), we have!"
When vanity metrics can be useful
Basic Metrics: Vanity metrics can be useful in the very basic sense of measuring how many people your brand is reaching. The bigger the numbers, the more potential customers are hearing your message. It is generally good for these numbers to be big and growing.
Happy Boss: Your boss may be impressed by these numbers. If he or she is, pat yourself on the back…briefly. Then take a deep breath and explain that these numbers actually only reflect the beginning of your sales funnel, and that from these, a portion of people will become more aware of your product, some of those will start to trust it, and finally (hopefully!) some of those will buy something.
When vanity metrics aren't useful
Look Beyond Number Growth: Don't get stuck focusing on growing these numbers. It's easy to start swapping 'likes' with random people, having your granny sign up for your 'tweets', and so on, but if these people are just padding your numbers and are never going to be real customers, they can just cloud your analysis. It's even worse if they are bought from a list that has nothing to do with your business; then your numbers might be huge, but your sales will still be stagnant. It's better to have a smaller number of quality people counted who might one day become real customers.
Grouchy Boss: Your boss may look at these numbers and say, 'So what does this mean for our sales?' or 'Why do we have so many likes, and no paying customers from this channel?' The vanity metrics numbers, however big, won't justify their own existence. At the end of the day, sales revenue is what's going to matter.
How to use these numbers smartly
Context: Look at the data in the context of what it is showing about your marketing efforts in relation to your sales pipeline and KPIs. Are you:
1) Attracting brand new people to your sites? You can easily see this in the basic vanity metrics; see if the numbers are growing. It's also good if you can track turnover (seeing how many people disengaged from you- unlike, stopped following, unsubscribed, etc). It's possible that your numbers have stayed the same, but existing people have signed off, and new people have signed on. You can then see if you have a problem keeping users signed up.
2) Keeping people engaged long enough to want to try a product? This will show in your bounce rate, and page views per visitor. Maybe you need more engaging content, or to be more clear about what solutions your product provides, or more easily deliver what it is that people came to find at your website or page.
3) Making actual sales? Compare your sales figures to your marketing efforts. See if a new initiative has seemed to increase your sales. Surveying buyers will also help link which marketing activities led them to you.
Not sure what any of your metrics are? Check your up-to-the-minute data in a Heardable Report. You can make one in less than five minutes. www.heardable.com
by Francine MartindalePublished by on 2013-05-19 | 93 views
Sometimes people ask us, "What is the purpose of your 'Measurable' report section? I already know what analytics software I use." Indeed you do. But here are some key points as to why we think this section is important (and you should too):
· You can find out what analytics software you aren't using. By looking at the square graph,you can see which ones you use, and which ones you don't. Some of those might be useful to sign up for,so that you can have a more complete picture of your online marketing efforts.
· You can see which ones your competitors use. Maybe they are measuring their mobile ad use and you are not.
· You can stay on top of which systems are out there to use. Maybe there's one that's showing greater details than the ones you currently use. Or something new and cool. Our reports will always show what we think are the important analytics options available today, so that you can rest assured that you're using everything that you should.
· You can see which software is the most chosen option across the websites for which we collect data.
· Having at least 2 analytics solutions running at the same time will help to give you redundancy in case one of them changes their algorithm, which could then change your score. By having something else running too, you can see if the impact on your score change came from the software change (in which case, only that software's results will change) or something that you've done (in which case, all of your measuring software should show the change).
· Not all software is good at everything. You'll want at least one that has great real-time results tracking, and another that's got great deep historical data recorded.
Measuring the results of how each of your online Marketing channels is performing is the best way to know specifically which of your efforts are working, so you can put your marketing dollars and time behind what will work best.
Wondering what software you're using vs. all the possibilities? Start by checking your Heardable Measurable Score at www.heardable.com .
by Francine MartindalePublished by on 2013-05-18 | 114 views
We all know that when Google+ was launched, it went over like a fart in a spacesuit. But despite not having all that many people there to market to (and most of those people being reachable by other social networks anyway), there are a few interesting things to know about Google+ that can help your digital marketing efforts now.
1) Higher Search Ranking: Google search results prioritize content posted to Google+ . Even if you don't have much of a readership there, it's worth the SEO advantage to post your content there.
2) Hangouts: Hangouts is getting a lot of positive buzz right now, as it just launched as a stand-alone app. You can use it to video conference up to nine people for free, like Skype, but can also use it to record sessions and post them up to YouTube. From a Marketing perspective, think about having panel discussions that people can see anytime. Or creating educational seminars. It seems simple and easy to use.
3) Hangouts: Oh, we should talk about their new Stream or Photo features, (stay logged in on multiple devices, sort your photos easier, blah blah), but honestly, we're still excited about using Hangouts. Excuse us while we sign off togo and play with it now.
Wondering how popular Google+ is vs. other social networks? See our chart in the Sociable section of your latest Heardable Report. The size of the squares and percentages show how many websites have adopted it out of all the ones we monitor. www.heardable.com .
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A domestic dispute between a man and a woman ended with both suffering stab wounds.
The case started in February, but has since garnered national attention for what some media portray as a gay rights issue.
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In recognition of World AIDS Day, Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic (PPHP) health centers in Westchester and Rockland counties will offer free HIV testing* on Tuesday, December 4.
Rapid HIV Tests, which give results in 40 minutes, will be available at the White Plains, Yonkers, New Rochelle, Mount Vernon and Spring Valley centers to encourage men and women who have been sexually active to get tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The tests are free with a paid visit. Free condoms will also be available.
"World AIDS Day is a great reminder that HIV is preventable and people should know their own status," said Reina Schiffrin, President/CEO, PPHP. "When it comes to your health and the health of your partner, the best ways to protect yourselves are through regular testing and consistent use of condoms."
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Former ACU OL Neal Tivis Assigned To Utah Of The Arena Football League
By: ACU Athletics
Updated: June 15, 2012
"Neal Tivis is a big, strong offensive lineman," said Blaze president and head coach Ron James. "He is a tough player with a great work ethic. We are excited to see what he can accomplish on the field this season."
The 6-foot-5, 310 pound Tivis started every game over the past two seasons at offensive tackle for ACU, twice earning All-Lone Star Conference accolades. As a senior in 2011, he blocked for Division II's third-ranked passing attack (348.91 ypg) while ACU allowed the seventh-lowest average of sacks per game in the nation. He was recognized for these efforts with spots on the all-region second team and all-conference first team.
As a junior in 2010, Tivis started all 12 games for a nationally-ranked Wildcats squad, helping the team turn in a perfect 11-0 regular season record. With Tivis up front, Abilene Christian produced the country's second-ranked scoring offense (43.33 ppg) as well as the ninth-best passing offense (317.50 ypg).
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Utah (8-5) hits the road this weekend to take on the division-rival Spokane (7-5) at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. The game can be viewed live online through the Arena Football League's exclusive partnership with Ustream, the leader in live and interactive video streaming. Visit ustream.tv/utahblaze to stream the game at no cost! Game coverage can also be heard in the Salt Lake City area on The Zone 1280 AM/97.5 FM, the radio home of the Utah Blaze.
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Twitter and Viacom announce social video marketing pact
Twitter has signed a deal to begin delivering social video ads built around Viacom's most popular TV shows.
In the announcement, put out by Viacom, the two companies said that the campaigns would center around shows aired on networks like MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, VH1, CMT, TV Land, Spike and more. The first ads will appear during the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25. During that show, MTV will tweet a series of the most notable moments, as well as backstage access, interviews, and more, all with integrated advertising.
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Orlando Cruz, a top-ranked featherweight from Puerto Rico, has announced that he is "a proud gay man," making him the first openly gay fighter in boxing history. Cruz issued a press release... Read on
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Boxing promoter Bob Arum isn't ready to rush to judgment over the recent positive tests for banned substances that have canceled two prominent boxing cards. WBA super light welterweight champion... Read on
Dinner and boxing Wednesday night in Howard Beach
A sellout crowd will be on hand Wednesday night for VIP Boxing III at Russo's On The Bay in Howard Beach.Promoted by Star Boxing, the full service event will kick off at 7 p.m. with an hour-long... Read on
Cotto won't fight Margarito anywhere but Garden
Junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto said Tuesday he won't fight Antonio Margarito in any other venue than Madison Square Garden, putting added pressure on the New York State Athletic Commission... Read on
Margarito to have eye examined in New York
Antonio Margarito took a private airplane from his native Mexico to New York on Sunday and will have his surgically repaired right eye examined by two ophthalmologists on Monday in hopes of getting a... Read on
Cotto-Margarito at MSG In jeopardy
The much-anticipated rematch between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito set for Dec. 3 at Madison Square Garden is in jeopardy of being moved to an out-of-state venue if Margarito isn't granted a... Read on
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Funeral services for Joe Frazier will be held Monday at the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church, 2800 West Cheltenham Ave., in Philadelphia. A closed casket calling will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The... Read on
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Hospitals Rarely Report Adverse Events, Says OIG
Hospitals rarely inform state health departments about adverse events that cause temporary or serious harm to patients, often because states don't require that they be reported, but also because treatment teams don't identify such events, according to an Office of Inspector General "Memorandum Report" issued Thursday.
"Hospital administrators indicated that staff often did not report events because they identified them not as patient harm, but rather as expected side-effects," the report said. Most of the events were not even captured by the hospital's internal reporting system, even though each of the 189 hospitals that had one of the events had such an incident reporting system.
Yet many of the events that hospitals failed to report to states as the states required involved serious harm to Medicare beneficiaries and six contributed to patient death "including cases involving lack of patient monitoring and missed diagnoses.
For example one patient death was the result of acute renal failure caused by the hospital not recognizing and treating a serious systemic inflammatory response syndrome (bacteremia). "Another patient death was the result of poor insulin management escalating to a hypoglycemic coma," the report said.
The OIG report noted, "To date, no Federal standards require States to operate adverse event reporting systems."
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Dinesh Patel (7/23/2012 at 11:25 AM)
The culture of reporting to the DPH and Board of registration in medicine got started thru legislative mandate in Mass in 1987. Mass board of registration has unique systems in place as Patient care assessement regulations Such reporting to the Board has non punitive ,confidential , firewall built in with purpose being self education for contious improvement and there by improve safety well fare and quality and reduction of errors Worth for OIG and other states to look at what is happening in MASS state. good report and thanks Dinesh Patel MD
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Inspired Travel: Thousand Island Lake
In Chun'an County, Zhejiang, China, you'll come across one of the most beautiful man-made reservoirs in the world. Thousand Island Lake (Quiando Lake in Chinese) is one of the best scenic attractions in the county. Quiando gets its name from the 1,078 islands that exist across the lake. Read more
Q&A: What's in Anthony Bourdain's Carry-On, Plus His Travel Favorites
TV host and professional foodie Anthony Bourdain, whose show Parts Unknown takes him all over the globe, has some pretty specific feelings about food and travel. I spoke to him this week about his favorite (and not-so-favorite) experiences while he's on the road. Here's a sampling: Read more
Foodie Friday: London's Calling
The last time I was in London, I was a sophomore in college; the food scene was known to be less-than-stellar and my budget was non-existent. This time around, thing were looking up. While I'm no Rockefeller, I had a little change in my pocket and the food in this city has become some of Europe's finest. I dove in head first, and here are four of my favorites: Read more
Destination to Watch: Santa Rosa de Cabal, Colombia
Hot spring retreats can border on the humdrum – you've seen one, you've seen them all. Or so I thought. Then I heard about Colombia's Santa Rosa de Cabal, which is not only blessed with natural therapeutic thermal springs (one of which is actually fed by a piping-hot waterfall!), but surrounded by impossibly lush landscapes of rolling hills, fertile pastureland, and soaring mountain peaks, all set in Colombia's picturesque "Coffee Triangle." After 10 months of trotting the globe, soaking my weary bones in warm waters, in wondrous natural surroundings, sounded like just the ticket for some much needed R & R. Read more
Common Airport Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
Every time I set foot in an airport I'm overtaken by the urge to look like I know what I'm doing, which is quickly followed by a desire to actually know what I'm doing. And sometimes I fail on both counts. While I've learned much about travel the hard way, I do try to learn from my blunders. Here now, five common mistakes that are all too easy to make at the airport, and how to avoid them. Read more
5 Hangover Cures from Around the Globe
No matter where we call home, we share one thing in common: gathering around the table to break bread and crack open a bottle or two. Sometimes when the conversation and local liquor get flowing, the result is a big old headache the following morning.
Approaches to alleviating the hangover vary by destination. Some are healthy, some are indulgent, and some are plain crazy – while others turn to a cheeky afternoon drink as the ultimate cure. Here are five hangover cures from around the globe. Read more
Inspired Travel: Cappadocia, Turkey
Turkey has become quite the hot travel destination in the past few years. And while Antalya and Istanbul are probably high on your cities to hit in the country, make sure you also star the Cappadocian region on your map; Cappadocia is a Turkish travel gem. Located in the center of the Anatolian Region of Turkey, Cappadocia is widely known for its unique volcanic moonscape, and is home to incredible underground cities, rock houses, and world famous balloon tours. Read more
The Best New Routes to the Caribbean
Timing, as they say, is everything. It's true of romance, successfully poaching eggs and, of course, booking travel. That's why it's important to know that it's currently shoulder season in the Caribbean. The interim period between peak winter and low summer travel months, shoulder season is the perfect time to visit the region without counting dollars or dodging crowds.
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Saint-Honorat: A Cheap Island Escape from Cannes
Hollywood stars (and all the paparazzi who stalk them) will descend on the French Riviera this week for the year's most prestigious cinema event: the Cannes Film Festival. La Croisette – the city's Mediterranean-facing boulevard – is transformed into a veritable catwalk of stylish A-listers. And this year, the festival is highly anticipated because of the premiere of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. For a fleeting moment, the red carpet, rolled out in front of the Palais des Congrès, will become the most photographed event of 2013. But there's more to glitzy Cannes than this 15 minutes 12 days of fame. Just off the coastline where Zelda and F. Scott used to party, the island of Saint-Honorat is home to a colony of Cistercian monks who tend 20 acres of vineyards. And you're invited to pay them a visit. Read more


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The looming pipeline bottleneck that's been widely forecast as oilsands production soared in Alberta in recent years is no longer imminent - it's here.
The vast underground network of pipes that move approximately 3.2 million barrels of crude oil a day in Canada is operating at capacity even as high-profile pipelines that would resolve the issue slowly progress through regulatory reviews in Canada and the United States.
"It's more than full," Brenda Kenny, president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, said in a meeting with the Herald's editorial board this week. "We're in a jam ... the numbers are stark."
Estimates on the overall economic impact of Canada's pipeline constraints vary, but the Alberta government has pegged it at about $30 billion a year.
Kenny's confirmation that the 38,000 kilometres of liquids pipelines in Canada have no room to accommodate growing crude oil production coincided with the U.S. State Department's latest environmental assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The report released Friday concluded the 830,000-barrel per day pipeline from Alberta's oilsands to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries would not spur greater development in the oilsands.
There's now a 45-day public comment period before it goes to U.S. President Ba-rack Obama for a decision.
While environmental groups were quick to dispute the State Department's conclusion on future oilsands development, at this point, the added pipeline capacity is needed simply to support the projects that are already underway.
"There are several different bottleneck areas and there's a need for a number of different projects, both locally and broadly," said Kenny. "What the (bitumen) bubble people are concerned about is primarily about an entry point, a choke point, into the U.S."
Alberta Premier Alison Redford has blamed a "bitumen bubble" - due to the lack of transportation to foreign oil markets - for creating steep discounts in the price of Western Canadian crude as producers compete to supply refiners.
On Friday, the discount on Canadian heavy to West Texas Intermediate was $28 a barrel.
Redford, whose government faces an estimated $4 billion revenue shortfall in its upcoming budget due to depressed oil prices, was in Washington again last weekend to lobby for Keystone XL.
In December, two major banks warned increased pipeline capacity was badly needed in Canada.
TD Economics called pipeline expansion a "national priority" and CIBC warned that 400,000 barrels a day of new oil production - 75 per cent from oilsands - a year in Canada would further strain the pipeline grid without significant additions.
Canada West Foundation released a report in February - titled Pipe or Perish: Saving an Oil Industry at Risk - that warned "delaying even a single pipeline project that improves market access can cost up $70 million per day in lost economic activity."
There are about 2.9 million barrels of long-haul pipeline proposals from Western Canada. They include TransCanada's Keystone XL, two lines to the B.C. coast - Northern Gateway by Enbridge and the Trans-Mountain expansion by Kinder Morgan Canada - and plans to deliver more Western crude to refineries in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.
All of the proposals have prompted vocal opposition.
Environmental groups have focused on pipelines as the key battleground in a global campaign to highlight the environmental impact of developing approximately 170 billion barrels of reserves in the oilsands in northern Alberta.
TransCanada applied to the State Department for a permit for Keystone XL in September 2008. It was expected to be in service this year, but the project became mired in partisan politics and opposition from environmentalists. Last January, Obama denied the permit amid concerns about the potential for an oil spill in a Nebraska aquifer so TransCanada altered the route and re-applied.
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has warned major pipeline constraints will emerge in 2014 or 2015 as companies continually to add production.
Producers are already dealing with apportionment - each company is allotted space for a certain percentage of the oil it has to sell - on sections of the pipeline network. Canadian Pacific and CNR are also moving more than 100,000 rail cars loaded with oil per day as producers seek new options to get their oil to market.
While maintenance and unforeseen outages at oilsands plants and pipelines will alter the daily volumes nominate and capacity available, the strains on the system will become more pronounced when Imperial Oil's 110,000 barrel a day Kearl project starts this month.
Enbridge has said it will add 50,000 barrels a capacity to its system this month and recently announced plans to bolster its U.S. pipeline system to supply the same Gulf Coast market that TransCanada wants to serve with Keystone XL.
Canada is the largest source of U.S. oil imports, shipping as much as 2.5 million barrels of crude a day to U.S. refineries.
Kenny said irrespective of protests or politics, so long as there's demand the "oil is going to get to market."
Of course, even with Obama's approval, the Keystone XL oil "is going to get to market," about two years behind schedule in 2015.
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Learning From The Google+ Experiment: Operating System, Platform, Apps
As part of the chorus singing about Google+ (see Armano's insightful The Social Layer: Six Thoughts On Where Google Plus Is Going as just the most recent example), let me make a few observations:
It's very hard to separate foundational concepts of Google+ from what might considered features or apps. Foundational elements would include identity, following, streams, and sparks. But Circles, Hangouts, and Huddle are best considered apps, in the broadest sense. So apps are a foundational element of the Google+ architecture, and they can closely integrate into the user experience of Google+, like Circles does.
But we are moving toward a world where most of the foundational elements of Google+ will be part of a next generation version of Android, and the things that feel like apps on Google+ will be, in fact, apps running on that future social OS.
This means that I could drop Circles, and use some other app as a mechanism for organizing my sociality. Imagine an imaginary app, called Groupings, that works very differently than Circles, but does build on the foundational elements of identity, following, streams and sparks.
But I would want to follow people not just on the Google+ enhanced version of Android, but the Twitter-enhanced, social versions of iOS and OS X, as well. So long as these two operating systems provide similar social foundations, Groupings could run on my OS X laptop and on my pal's Android smartphone.
In this model, the operating systems become the platform, and apps like Circles or Groupings could run on either, or on a future, social Windows 9 (once Facebook acquires the phone parts of Microsoft).
I could opt to follow someone, with a globally unique identity provided by the operating system of choice: in my case, let's say by OS X, and the person I want to follow, David Armano, by Android. We would also be able to use those identities on any device.
Once I opt to follow, the basics are provided: I will get what he drops in his public stream, and it will appear in my 'upstream' — the unfiltered collation of all those I follow. What I post or repost falls into my 'downstream' which would be directed to everyone who is following me.
Obviously, the various operating systems have to support the fundamental protocols for this social messaging to work, and we will see this in due course, although it's likely that we will see several contending models that don't interoperate, and closed worlds built by the various operating systems providers.
We need the social operating system equivalent of http and email protocols to arise, so that an open social web can emerge.
We need the social operating system equivalent of http and email protocols to arise, so that an open social web can emerge.
So one thing we can learn from the Google+ experiment is this: I shouldn't have to login to Google+, and use Circles, to follow David Armano's writing over there. The works of those I follow should find me no matter what applications or operating systems I use. I don't have to have Outlook running to read Armano's email, and I don't have to browse his website with Chrome, just because those are the tools he uses.
And the developers of these applications, platforms, and operating systems need to be pushing aggressively in that direction, because in the meantime we are dividing the space for social discourse online into a maze of contending, non-interoperable models that don't harmonize yet.


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Foreigners with retirement visas or business visas can open an account at a Thai bank though policies and requirements vary from bank to bank. Recommendations by ex-pats can be very helpful on which bank one should choose.
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The black gaffa on the edges helped with the structural integrity, especially where the rectangular boxes were cut into a hexagonal shape. Painting was a pain, it took several coats of kid-friendly white paint to make it look OK. I really liked how the cheap (but thick and wide) aluminium foil turned out, just a light coat of craft glue and then I placed it on and trimmed the edges with a knife.
All up about $100 including paint, gaffa (cloth tape) and LED lights. All the gear inside (except lights) was old hardware I had lying around. Some of the lights will be re-used for extra visibility when bike riding in winter.
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By Fabiola Dow
on November 13, 2012
This recipe is very tasty, Thanks to the reviews I was reading I added the entire jalapeno and only half of the seeds because I do not like too spicy food, and I cut two small onions in very small pieces same with the garlic so my kid will not notice she is eating onions and garlic, I put in on low at 5pm and at 8pm I did not like the flavor,I had to go to sleep so I added 1 cup of water and my husband turned off at 5am, leaving it 12 hours cooking was good, this is the best no bean chili recipe and the sour cream is awesome, this goes great with saltine crackers and corn tortillas! I will make this recipe again soon!!
By KSUCATS449
on November 09, 2012
The sour cream topper was great. the Stew was not a chili. Adding some tomato paste and such to make a thick hearty chili would have made it great. 2 onions are a lot and I would up the amount of chili power or something to increase the taste and heat.
By htrueo
on October 27, 2012
I'm definitely no chef but our church is having a chili cook-off so I thought I'd try it. This recipe looked simple enough. It seemed that 1 28 oz can of Tomatoes wasn't enough. It wasn't soupy like chili I'd had in the past. It was more like seasoned beef. Maybe I'll try to save it by adding more tomatoes or putting it on a tortilla and calling it a taco.
By jojakj_
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on August 07, 2012
Made the recipe except added red peppers per suggestion. I made it a little too spicy as I used the entire jalapeño including the seeds. Next time I will leave out the seeds
By cwarner76
on February 05, 2012
Made this today for the first time for the Superbowl and it turned out great! I didn't change a thing. This is a keeper!
By peachee64
on February 01, 2012
The cinnamon scared me off so I didn't use it. I used extra lean stew beef-little more expensive, but it's already cut and packaged. Instead of using one large can of tomatoes, I used two 14.5-oz cans-one petit cut diced tomatoes and one diced tomatoes (zesty chili style. I decreased the amount of chili powder since I used the zesty tomatoes. I added a small can of tomato sauce. I cooked it on the stove-top because I got a late start. Delicious!
Oh so good! Made a few changes, of course. Did it on the stove top because I had no time to prep the night before. No cinnamon, I hate it in savory dishes. Added an 8 oz of tomato sauce and rinsed the cans for some liquid. Shook some hot sauce in. Perfect yummy dish for the super bowl. Oh, baked some biscuits too. Rocked!!
This is absolutely delicious! Don't change a thing in this recipe.
Loved it! I made a few changes. When I cut the meat, I tried to cut out as much of the fat as possible. I sliced the onions instead of chopping them as they cook down anyway. Once the beef was browned and added into the slow cooker, I sliced two red bell peppers and did a quick saute in the pan used for the beef. When the pan got dry, I added about half of the tomato juice, sauteed the peppers a little more (but did not end up using all the juice based on the some of the other comments, then added the peppers to the slow cooker. The meat/veggies cooked on high for 4 hours until tender, then I took the lid off to reduce the sauce and let it simmer about 1/2 hour and adjusted the seasonings. I served it over steamed brown rice with a sprinkling of reduced fat cheddar cheese, a dollop of non-fat greek yogurt and chopped cilantro. This would be great served with sangria or a white belgian beer with an orange slice.
By Brandie E.
on November 30, 2011
I've tried several recipies off of foodnetwork, and this one was not good. I tasted the cinnamon way too much, and it smelled weird. It was also very watery using diced tomatoes. Put extra chili powder in it and the cinnamon still overpowered it. Didn't taste the chili powder AT ALL. Will not make this again. Sorry Sandra, this one was not a winner. I'm giving it 2 stars because it was edible at best.
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Tindall and Tuilagi were paired together in the England midfield, and they played a key role in England winning 20-9 against Ireland in Saturday's World Cup warm-up match in Dublin.
Tindall said on Sky Sports: "It's difficult because I'd trained with Manu but never played with him, and you never know how that's going to develop.
"You saw the raw power that Manu's got and the raw talent, and every time he takes the field in that shirt I think he's going to grow and get better and better."
England gained revenge for the defeat to Ireland which ended their Grand Slam hopes in the Six Nations Championship, and will leave for the World Cup on a high.
Tindall said: "It's massive, especially a win here.
"We were disappointed with how the Six Nations finished and how the Wales game finished and had lot of points to prove to ourselves.
"Credit to our defence, I thought it was outstanding today.
"Whatever they hit us with we kept hitting them back and that's credit to the boys.
"We sat down last night and talked of the stuff that happened last time (against Ireland) and remembered how we felt after the last game."
England started well, with Tuilagi crossing for his try after six minutes.
Ireland captain Paul O'Connell said: "After that we made a lot of mistakes.
"That's one thing we didn't do six months ago (in the Six Nations match), we played mistake-free rugby."
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Okay people, I don't understand all the positive attention this film is getting. I'll start off by saying that it's not the worst superhero movie I've ever seen (Catwoman) or even the worst Marvel movie I've ever seen (Electra), but on that note…it's pretty bad.
Let me start by saying that Peter is the goddamn MOST confusing character I've seen in a movie in quite some time (He's up there with Anakin Skywalker). If this person were real, they would be diagnosed with Autism. He cycles between being vaguely cool and lonerish, to being full-on Aspergers awkward, to being sweet and adorbs, and even branches off into being a bad-fucking-ass for a moment. The movie CANNOT decide what they want Peter to be. I'm fine with an alternative interpretation to Parker's character, but please keep it consistant.
Emma Stone as Gwen, plays a convincing love interest to Peter and she has some good moments with him (In the hall, at the dinner table) but the kissing scenes are so groan worthy they really killed my interest in their relationship. Shame, seeing as how the relationship between Gwen and Peter takes up a huge chunk of the film and is blown up to massive importance.
I'm trying not to ruin anything so here's just some last little nit picks. The way Peter is inspired to design the mask (IMO) devalues the persona of Spiderman and puts it up to pure chance. The film never uses the "With great power comes great responsibility" line, but instead decides to reword it into some sort of Randian decree (Something about "Moral obligations to use your good"). There is no point in rephrasing that famous line, especially into something less powerful. Also, the cops give Peter the police sketch of his Uncle's killer, as if to say "Here kid, there's no way you're gonna use this to exact revenge against this guy".
And the dumbest, most nonsensicle, and pointless moment in the entire movie…the high school chemistry lab keeps two chemicals on the same table that when mixed…create a powerful explosive…
I'll just leave you with that, and this final recommendation. If you want your Spidey fix, just watch the originals.