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If I asked you about a Yankee who once played for Cleveland, who wore #9 for the Yankees, who was brought to the Yankees because he was a dead pull hitter whose swing was perfect for Yankee Stadium, who didn't hit much for average but instead hit for power, and who led the league in home runs while with the Yankees, who would you think of?
Roger Maris? Good guess, and you would be right on all counts, but that is not the subject of this profile for all of the answers above also apply to Graig Nettles.
Nettles and Billy Martin were quite a pair—for not only did Graig play for Martin while with the Yankees, but he also did so in the minors for Denver and with the 1969 Twins.
Known for his quotes, and for his habit of saying something witty or controversial then disappearing, Nettles acquired the nickname of "Puff" during his playing tenure.
Nettles hit 390 HR in his major league career despite a .248 lifetime B.A. That B.A., it appears, is what will keep him out of the Hall of Fame. Nettles holds the MLB record for home runs by an AL third baseman.
Nettles played some games at left field, first base and right field in his career, but was primarily known as a third baseman.
He went 1 for 3 (double) in 1967, and 17 for 76 (.224-5-8) in 1968 for the Twins. He spent most of 1968 in Denver (AAA) playing for Billy Martin. In 1969, Martin managed the Twins, and he brought Nettles up. Nettles platooned, hitting .222-7-26, OPS+ 91. In his only plate appearance in the 1969 ALCS, Nettles singled.
The Twins got rid of Martin after only one year, and also got rid of Nettles. Nettles was dealt to the Indians with one-time CYA winner Dean Chance, Ted Uhlaender, & Bob Miller for Luis Tiant and Stan Williams. Nettles then became a full-time 3B, and would remain so through 1986.
Nettles spent three years in Cleveland, 1970-1972. In 1970, he hit .235-26-62 with an OPS+ of 101.
In 1971, he hit .261-28-86 and finished 28th for the MVP award, OPS+ 114. In 1972, Nettles hit .253-17-70, OPS+ 111.
After the 1972 season, the Yanks acquired Nettles and Jerry Moses for John Ellis, Charlie Spikes, Jerry Kenney and Rusty Torres. At the time, Spikes and Torres were supposed to be good prospects, and Ellis was Munson's backup catcher. Nettles, however, proved to be the best Yankees third baseman since Clete Boyer in 1966.
In his first year with the Yanks, Nettles didn't hit much for average, but tied Bobby Murcer for the team lead in HR with 22. .234-22-81, OPS+ 105.
The move to Shea in 1974 didn't serve Murcer well as he dropped from 22 HR to 10. Nettles, meanwhile, had one strange year. The stats show .246-22-75. OPS+ 107. What they don't show is when he got those home runs.
Nettles hit 11 HR in April of that year. From May 1 to Aug. 31, Nettles hit .241-4-35. He then hit 7 HR in September. For the season, .246-22-75, OPS+ 107, but 18 of the 22 HR in April or September. A strange year. When you combine Nettles' 4 HR May through August with the 10 HR Murcer hit all year long, the Yanks had a serious power outage.
Wikipedia: On September 7, 1974, Nettles was caught using a bat that had six superballs inside it. He said that he had received the bat from a Yankees fan in Chicago and did not know that the bat had been altered.
In 1975, Nettles was named an All-Star for the first of his six times. He hit .267-21-91. He led the league in SF and had an OPS+ of 113.
In 1976, the Yanks moved back into the refurbished Yankee Stadium (Yankee Stadium II). The move, and the short porch, agreed with Nettles. In that pre-steroid era, Nettles became the first Yankee to win the HR title since Maris in 1961. It was ironic, since both wore the #9. Nettles wasn't close to 61 HR though, when he won his HR title. It only took 32 HR to lead the league. Nettles hit .254-32-93 and even stole a career high eleven bases. He finished 16th in the MVP voting and had an OPS+ of 134.
Nettles hit two homers in Game 4 of the 1976 ALCS, but they came in a Yankees loss. Nettles' bat wasn't a good one in his postseason career. He went 4 for 17 in that ALCS, the two HR, and 4 RBI. In the WS against the Reds, Nettles was 3 for 12, all singles, and two RBI.
Nettles also is famous for an incident in a brawl at Yankee Stadium in May 1976 with the Red Sox. The brawl started with Lou Piniella and Carlton Fisk, but ended with Nettles helping to break Bill Lee's pitching collarbone.
Nettles set career highs in HR and RBI in 1977, when he hit .255-37-107, OPS+ 124. He finished 5th in the MVP voting that year, was an All-Star, and won the Gold Glove. He was 3 for 20 with 1 RBI in the ALCS and 4 for 21 with 2 RBI in the WS.
Nettles, always good with a quip, stated around 1977, "When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and join the circus. With the Yankees I have accomplished both" in referring to the Yanks' "Bronx Zoo" atmosphere.
In 1978, Nettles finished 6th in the MVP voting after a .276-27-93 season with an OPS+ of 128. He was once again an All-Star and a Gold Glove winner. It was in this year when Nettles came up with another quote: that closer-turned-setup- man Sparky Lyle had gone from Cy Young to Sayonara (upon the signing of Rich "Goose" Gossage).
Once, when fined upon missing a luncheon, Nettles replied, "If they want a third baseman, they've got me. If they want somebody to go to luncheons, they should hire George Jessel (a famous luncheon speaker)."
Nettles was the one who caught Carl Yastrzemski's pop-up, the last out of the "Bucky Dent Game," Game #163 to win the 1978 A.L. East title. He had a decent ALCS, going 5 for 15, 1 HR, 2 RBI. His second inning HR in Game 4 tied the game at one. Later Roy White's HR would prove the winner in the 2-1 Yankees win that would give them the pennant. Once again Nettles' bat wasn't too hot in the World Series, as he went 4 for 25 with just one RBI, but oh, his glove.
Nettles put on defensive show for the ages in Game 3 of the 1978 WS to turn that Series around. It was like Brooks Robinson's 1970 World Series with Baltimore.
Ron Guidry didn't have it that night, but Nettles saved quite a few runs with his glove work. In the top of the second, he started a 5-4-3 DP. There wasn't much of a threat then. In the top of the fifth, Nettles made the first of his great plays. Remember that the Yanks lost the first two games of this series, and NEEDED Game 3 at home with Guidry (ending his great 1978 season) on the mound. It was 2-1 Yanks at this point, and the Dodgers had the bases loaded with two out. Nettles made a fine stop on a Garvey smash to save two runs and get the force at second.
In the sixth, still 2-1, bases loaded and two out, Nettles saved two more runs by stopping a Lopes smash and getting the force at second.
Those are two of the plays he made that night. The Yanks won 5-1, and those two plays alone saved four runs. The Yanks then won Games 4, 5 and 6 to repeat as World Series champs.
Nettles was an All-Star again in 1979, hitting .253-20-73, but he saw his OPS+ drop to 97.
In 1980, Nettles contracted hepatitis, and missed about ten weeks of the season. In 89 games, he hit .244-16-45, OPS+ 111. He was once again an All-Star. He came back shortly before the ALCS vs. KC, and in that ALCS he hit .167, going one for six. That one hit was an inside-the-park HR. For someone just recovering from hepatitis, that had to be murder for Nettles when he rounded third and chugged toward home.
In 1981, the strike cost 1/3 of the season. Nettles hit .244-15-46 (pace for .244-22-69) and had an OPS+ of 112. In the ALDS, he was just 1 for 17 with 1 RBI. But his bat woke up vs. Oakland in the ALCS. In the three game sweep of the A's, Nettles was 6 for 12, 1 HR, 9 RBI. For this, he was named ALCS MVP.
Nettles had some great stops early in the 1981 WS that reminded one of his fabulous Game 3 of the 1978 WS. However in Game 3 out in LA, a great stop led to Nettles spraining his thumb on the play. Nettles missed the last three games of the WS. At the time, he was 4 for 10. Prior to that WS, Nettles and Jackson, never close, got into a scuffle.
Nettles was a Yankee captain in 1982 and 1983.
Now in his late 30's, Nettles average continued to drop in 1982, down to .232. He had 18 HR, 55 RBI and an OPS+ of 98. He rebounded a bit in 1983, his last Yankees season, to hit .266-20-75, OPS+ 119.
During that season, Nettles noticed that the pine tar on George Brett's bat was getting high and called Billy Martin's attention to it. Nettles remembered that Thurman Munson was once called out for too much on his bat. I won't go into details here, but you know what resulted after Nettles informed Martin. The Pine Tar Incident. Brett was called out, but his out was overruled, the HR stood, etc.
Nettles wrote a book on the 1983 season, called Balls, and was then basically banished from the Yanks by the Boss, George Steinbrenner. A San Diego native, Nettles was dealt to the Padres for a player to be named later and Dennis Rasmussen at the end of spring training 1984. Darin Cloninger (who?) was the PTBNL.
Nettles therefore joined Goose Gossage out in SD. The Goose had left the Yanks himself after 1983, signing a free agent deal with SD. Together they helped bring the Padres their first NL pennant. Nettles hit .228-20-65, OPS+ 108. He started the force for the final out in Game 5 of the NLCS that put the Padres into the WS. In the NLCS, Nettles was 2 for 14 with 2 RBI. In the WS, Nettles went 3 for 12 with 2 RBI.
Nettles played in five WS, winning two. His postseason record was .225-5-27 in 53 games.
In 1985, Nettles, at the age of 40, was once again named to the All-Star team. He hit .261-15-61, OPS+ 120.
His average dipped to .218 in 1986, but he still had a little pop in his bat at the age of 41, as he hit 16 HR, had 55 RBI and had an OPS+ of 88.
He lingered on for two more years, spending 1987 with the Braves as a backup player. He hit .209-5-33 and had an OPS+ of 67.
Nettles ended his career with the 1988 Montreal Expos, hitting .172-1-14, OPS+ 39.
For his career, Nettles hit 390 HR, 333 in the American League. He had a .248 B.A. His 162 g. average was .248-23-79, OPS+ 110. He has the AL record for HR by a 3B with 319.
The most support he got on the HOF ballot was in his first year, 1994, with 8.3%. After four years, he was dropped from the ballot.
Nettles wore different numbers while in the majors. #35, #28, #2, #12, and #19 were worn by Nettles besides #9. While with the Yanks, he only wore #9.
Ironically, in 1984, shortly after Nettles was traded to S.D., the Yanks retired #9 in honor of Roger Maris.
From Wikipedia: As of 2010, Nettles holds the single-season Major League record for assists by a third baseman, and is tied with Brooks Robinson for second-most all-time. His 412 assists in 1971 broke the record of 405 shared by Harlond Clift in 1937 and Robinson in 1967. In 1973, his first year as a New York Yankee, he recorded 410 assists, breaking Clete Boyer's franchise record of 396 in 1962; Robinson would tie this mark in 1974. To date, Nettles and Robinson have four of the six 400-assist seasons by a third baseman in Major League history.
Again, some from Wikipedia: In the spring of 2008 he announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery at Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Hospital. Nettles now resides in Lenoir City, Tennessee, a suburb of Knoxville, Tennessee.


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Dig it – a vegetarian joint with vegan options as well as gluten-free options – only it's confident, beautiful, and on its way to establishing itself as being creatively masterminded. There is no equivalent to Pietro Leemann's La Joia in North America. But, Acorn, if properly nurtured, could be one of BC's best chances at achieving vegetarian culinary notoriety (maybe not Michelin star, but at par for the price point).
Acorn took over the spot where Cipriano's used to be. Though it had a good grapevine rapport with Main St., I never went to Cipriano's, since one of my first steps in climbing the culinary ladder was cooking Italian. Call me crazy, but I just won't pay to have someone else make me pastas and parmagiana(s). It may be a Chef thing.
Anyway, you won't find Italian on the corner of 24th Ave and Main St. anymore – you'll find something representative of a frontier in man's culinary evolution: vegetarian.
The atmosphere of Acorn is a mix of bistro modern and Whistler cabin. An aged-looking wooden roof sets the mood in a firm top-down upper management way. Soft lights overhang tables to punctuate the space's high ceilings. The whole layout has been stylishly – yet, minimally – furnished with comforting smooth wood. A neat glass of single malt whiskey would look at home anywhere in the place. I had no problem letting my guard down and sprawling out without second thought – perhaps to an embarrassing degree.
Now, for the record, I didn't announce myself until all of the food had come out. I didn't introduce myself as a Chef, or writer. I didn't even look into the kitchen or the washrooms until I was ready to settle with the house. I wanted to remain as shadily objective as possible.
The first notes that put a smile on my face were the opening refreshments. The wine list is small, but well-picked and relatively local. Feeling Epicurean, we went with an organic Argentinian wine – an organic Jean Bousquet Malbec – that's pleasing crowds these days. Featured beers both came from Vancouver Island – Lighthouse and Driftwood (Driftwood's White Bark is one of my favourites).
Tap water at Acorn is served chilled in old school glass cider bottles with pressurized caps, as well as carbonated water that they do in house with an on-site carbonator. They have yet to master their system, though I went prior to their official opening. Call me crazy, again, but I can't stand carbon-heavy imported sparkling waters. It's an environmental thing, but so is vegetarianism.
One small thing that went a long way was a cocktail called the Lightning Dust (named after an offshoot band done by the female voice in Vancouver's own Black Mountain) – including: lavender, lemon, agave, gin, soda, and sprigs of cilantro. The simple cocktail nonetheless contained enough soul to win me over. In its ice cubes were frozen blueberries, strawberry slices, and lemon zest. The cilantro sprig was young and crisp. Everything about it looked like the loving summer that Vancouver had been missing – from start to finish. Clearly, I had more than one.
The first volley: beautifully presented polenta fries, which were thick enough to be called croquettes, came out with marinated olives – all on simple white plates. The polenta was perfectly done – served with a mint/cucumber/green pea/wasabi dip that was perfectly between puree and aioli. The olives were well-sourced, and that's all that they needed to be.
The second volley – mains – sung to the same standard. Thankfully I'd brought a little posse with me, otherwise I would have only been able to try one dish.
One dish was the special –squash blossoms stuffed with ricotta, pine nuts and mixed herbs, battered then fried for service, over a cold mixed bean salad, and a garnish of mixed greens, edible flowers that I couldn't identify, and fresh basil leaves. The bean salad had a friendly balance of seasoning and vinegar. The battered blossoms are still a mystery to me, as the person who'd ordered them refused to share them – take that as you wish.
Another member of my party got a beer-battered halloumi cheese. She was from Toronto, and had to be eased into the experience of entirely-vegetarian cuisine. She enjoyed herself though.
I had a zucchini tagliatelle (kind of like a pasta, but with mandoline'd zucchini instead of noodles) with candied olives that were perched in a rose sauce with a backbone of cashew. The last member in my group had the king oyster mushroom dish, which was marked and moist in a pool of its own jus, with creamed quinoa, pickled shallots and seared cauliflower. I enjoyed mine thoroughly – every single last bite (including rosemary blossoms). I enjoyed the king oyster mushrooms too, however, more so than the person who'd ordered it. It was a little too earthy, but combined well with the pickled shallot and radish garnish.
Shamefully, I didn't stay for dessert. I will most certainly be back though.
I loved it. A talk with Chef Brian Skinner and part-owner/operator Shira Blustein was dessert enough for the evening. These two are doing well in creating a unique experience on Main St. that speaks of above-average care for detail. I'll be following up with another article about them once they get in to the full swing of their opening.
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PayPal is the leading alternative online to traditional payment methods. Instead of sending paper checks or using credit/debit cards, many people prefer to electronically transfer funds via PayPal for a wide variety of business transactions. PayPal users include online shoppers, e-commerce websites, online auctions and client-service providers like web designers, writers and other business professionals. Funds can be deducted from a bank account or a credit card.
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To get started with a PayPal account, visit the website (see Resources) and click the "Sign Up" button. PayPal is available in many different countries but you can only have one account per country and cannot combine accounts for different countries, so select the country in which you live and maintain your business. The set-up form will ask you a number of questions, including your street address, bank account information and other personal information. Answer everything truthfully as you will need to verify your account if you plan on using PayPal for business transactions. Many credit card companies use address verification when making a transaction and this is the information that PayPal will use in those circumstances. To verify your PayPal account, you will need to link it to your bank account and then follow the instructions provided. PayPal will make two small deposits into your account and you will need to log in and provide the exact amounts in order to prove that the account is yours.
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To make a payment to a company or person, you will need to log into your account and select "Make a Payment." Input the email address of the person you wish to pay, the amount you want to send them and the source of the funds (your credit card, linked bank account or your PayPal balance if you have one) and then hit "Send." Sometimes when shopping online a merchant will have a PayPal button already on their website. You just click that button and you will be directed to the PayPal site where you can log in and complete your transaction. Sending and receiving money through PayPal is usually nearly instantaneous.
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In his introduction to Stephen King's first collection of short stories, Night Shift, John D. MacDonald explains what it takes to become a successful writer. Diligence, a love of words, and empathy for people are three big factors. But he sums up the primary element this way: "Story. Dammit, story!"
And what is story? It is, says MacDonald, "something happening to somebody you have been led to care about."
I want to home in on that something happening bit. It is the soil in which plot is planted, watered, and harvested for glorious consumption by the reader. Without it, the reading experience can quickly become a dry biscuit, with no butter or honey in sight.
Mind you, there are readers who like dry biscuits. Just not very many.
MacDonald reminds us that without the "something happening" you do not have story at all. What you have is a collection of words that may at times fly, but end up frustrating more than it entertains.
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* Iguodala sparks home win by 76ers
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May 18 (Reuters) - The Philadelphia 76ers roared back from
an early 14-point deficit to defeat the Boston Celtics 92-83 and
tie their Eastern Conference semi-final series at 2-2 on Friday.
Andre Iguodala scored five consecutive points to break a
83-83 tie and Jodie Meeks finished off the visiting Celtics with
four free throws in succession as Boston failed to score in the
final 98 seconds.
"Our guys are pretty amazing," Philadelphia coach Doug
Collins told reporters. "Fall behind early and they just keep
pushing and pushing and pushing."
Iguodala and Evan Turner each had 16 points for
Philadelphia, who travel to Boston for Game Five on Monday.
Lou Williams came off the bench to score 15 points and
deliver eight assists, including a pass to Iguodala for a three-
pointer that put Philadelphia up by five.
"Williams played about as well as I have ever seen him
play," Iguodala said. "He was our MVP."
Paul Pierce topped the Celtics with 24 points but Kevin
Garnett scored only nine.
Boston collected the game's first 14 points and led 46-31 at
the half before Philadelphia outscored them 28-17 in the third
and 33-20 in the final quarter.
"We lost our composure," said Celtics coach Doc Rivers.
"Coming out of halftime they came out more physical, and we
got into that instead of playing basketball."
(Reporting By Gene Cherry in Raleigh North Carolina; Editing by
Peter Rutherford)


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Friday, June 27, 2008
Bill Hicks on Marketing
Monday, June 23, 2008
Further thoughts on portable company images
As well as generally making your assets available to a wider potential audience, you will see what others think of them (e.g. via their popularity, tags assigned and comments made) and potentially save bandwidth in the process.
However, you should also consider that making your assets portable could improve your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) efforts:
Thursday, June 19, 2008
CEO blogs
Obviously, working in and around the digital arena, I'm aware of top-dogs within my industry who are practicing what they preach. Notable examples are Clark Kokich of Avenue A Razorfish who makes time to post, as does Alastair Duncan of MRM.
However the CEO blogger is appearing in other verticals:
- Brad Feld, Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital, has a very popular blog where he covers all sorts of topics. http://www.feld.com/blog/
- Glenn Kelman at Redfin brokerage has caused a stir in the real estate business by sharing his 'warts & all' stories in regular postings.
However, not all of this is done purely for altruism. The majority of companies surveyed in a recent report (76%) indicated that they have noticed an increase in media attention and/or website traffic as a result of their blog. Indeed Brad Field highlights his colleagues, promotes companies and his investments in his (and particularly in his alternative blog http://www.askthevc.com/) and following Glenn's blogging....
Kelman and his crew were closing several deals a day
Source: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/wired40_ceo.html
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
'Open source' your ideas
Or is there?
Yes, actually there is a whole group of people out there prepared to give things away to those who are prepared to ask. The 'gift economy' or 'Freeconomics' has been created, mainly as a result of the economies of scale from the use of technologies.
The most obvious example of giving your ideas away is blogging. A lot of people provide their intellectual property for free online in the form of blogs. Here's why I think they do it:
1. To get feedback to improve their knowledge further
Aside from the gratification of being read, bloggers want feedback on what they have written. The blogosphere is full of postings from people who do not claim to know everything, indeed they post to start a conversation or plant an idea hoping to get further refinement or the subject evolved beyond their underdstanding. Basic crowdsourcing!
2. To show what they know
Old joke warning:
There are two rules in business, the first is never to tell everyone everthing...
However, giving a certain amount about what you know away shows clients, employers (exisiting & potential) and the market at large what you understand. Especially if you're a knowledge worker, it shows: your exerience on your subject, your thought processes and your ability to innovate or explain... all very good reasons to pay/employ/listen.
The secret I was recently told by a friend is...
"Telling clients information the second just before it becomes public knowledge
is a learnt skill, knowing when that second is.... requires natural ability!"
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Podcasting is growing
If you are a company producing podcasts as part of your PR efforts and want to grow this audience, you can syndicate this content via a number of podcasting services. In additon, you can use the PR Web podcast announcement service: http://www.prwebpodcast.com/ which also allows coverage on iTunes to increase your audience share.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Comcast manager responds to blogger
Seen by some as brave, others as fool-hardy and others as a great step forward in customer services.. Comcast found out about this issue when monitoring blogs and social networks to track customer dialogue. What it obviously doesn't do is replace your existing company customer service offering, but along with customer forums and other tools, you can definately have a better idea about customer questions and issues.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Just how good are social media monitoring tools?
I think he actually has a well made point. Tracking the buzz within the blogosphere and other social media is one thing, but these tools are still growing in their capabilities.
What they current have a particularly difficult with is following the dialogue that takes place over several sites or sevices. These conversations are similar to family members that change and take on new personalities depending upon their environements and influences. All comments and discussions may well be relevant, but they are also getting increasingly complex to follow, especially as new methods appear (e.g. who used http://www.twitter.com, http://www.friendfeed.com or http://www.plurk.com a year ago?)
However, don't over-do the measurement though, as this article from Commetrics highlights.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Un-official marketing material
But if your customers are going to create their own adverts, they might as well do them well! Website B3ta (http://www.b3ta.com/) is well know for featuring manipulated images of popular brands or people. Some imagery is even so professionally manipulated or mocked-up these days, that its not possible to tell ifs actually be produced to highlight a product or to show-off the skills of the photographer/photoshop user.
So, what impact does this have on your brand and what can you do about it? Well most of these images are ignored by the people or companies they parody. This is quite possibly because the media attention caused from legal disputes causes far more unwanted attention for the insulted party. However there are notable examples where legal seps have been taken, an obvious one being the action by lawyers of pop star Prince against B3ta.
Indeed images circulated back in 2003 of a Puma advert whose subject was less than wholesome . It was subsequently denied to have come from the sportswear company and it then went on to send out a "cease and desist" letter to various bloggers threatening legal action against anyone posting the "defamatory image." A blogswarm followed, with one website (http://www.gawker.com/) claiming:
"It's the best ad that's been done for your company in years, and you didn't design it. Thousands of people are circulating images emblazoned with your brand and you didn't even pay for product placement."
I'll leave you to decide who came off best from these incidents......
Further stories of people who have won and lost imagery & video can be found on:
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
At the outer limits of the company
To quote Dana Theus, a person who always gives these subject far more thought (and words) than I do:
This fundamental dilemma - how to enable an organization's broader audience to carry forth its identity while still maintaining some level of control over the dialog and "company line" is the essential challenge for strategic marketers in the days, months and years aheadHaving previously covered this topic of communication at the edge of the company, I'm now determined to tackle it further.... However, its definately a tricky issue to know these days where the company boundary exisits.
Back in the day:
Before social media and the 'always on' culture of 24 hour messaging, blackberries and their ilk, this was easier. Back then there were seldom chances for your normal employee to get involved in conversations about its company business with someone else (beyond a drink with a fellow employee after work). Senior executives, who stood a greater chance of being asked to comment on a wider scale, were given: manuals, training and the fear of retribution put into them, if they gave more to the media than the exact words they had been given themselves. ("No Comment")
However, nowadays that's all changed.....
- Employees fight to uphold their company's reputation without permission
- Employees openly criticise their company's actions
- CEO's blog about relevant (and irrelevant) topics (some even walk onto the homepage and introduce themselves)
So perhaps there's another way of looking at this. Perhaps we don't need to understand where the company ends and where the individual (employee or customer) begins. I'm beginning to think of it as a sliding scale of influence within your own company, that just beomes far less influential (but still influential to some extent) when you breach the company boundary.
Perhaps this diagram from Awareness Networks starts to paint the right picture?
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Brands and their human qualities
This quick video from Noah Brier on Brands & Social Media discusses the subject.
However, to keep the 'dinner party' analogy from the video, surely its not just about which brand speaks the loudest, but more about those that are most engaging and relevant.?
Monday, June 9, 2008
Forums and Customer Service
Well.... I definately think its a good thing for the customer due to recent personal experience. You see, I've had cause to use the customer service forums of BT, the UK's major Telco today, due to them cutting off my broadband connection suddenly lat night.
See my complaint here:
This site, apparently still in Beta (laughably, with postings I can quickly find dating back almost 2 years) even rewards users with 'points' and 'medals' for commenting. Looking at some of the conversation threads on this forum , here's my take on the pros and cons of what they provide:
- Customers can share fixes to know issues,( e.g. email account configurations, best practice advice, etc.) with no need for them to call Tech Support numbers
- BT can hopefully view customers technical and customer service issues as they arise, possibly identifying reoccurring themes or traits.
- Customers can share escalation-only UK call-centre numbers (when BT has done all it can to get them to call its lower-cost off-shore call-centre facilities in India)
Note: Its apparently not just UK citizens that seem to have a particular dislike of Indian call-centres :
- BT do not seem to participate much in their own forums (or more worryingly if I'm correct in my assumption that BT staff masquerade as normal users - which is now illegal surely? ). This leaves many issues unanswered and allows multiple-user resentment to build up around an issue
So come on BT.... by all means provide the means for your customers to communicate with each other, but be prepared to invest in its growth as well. You may not be able to reconnect my home broadband for 5 days, but lets see how long it takes you to respond to my issue posted to your forum.....
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Mr Average?
There are no figures for the UK averge age. However my 38th birthday is in September... coincidence?
Friday, June 6, 2008
The offline Influencer Model is dead?
Duncan Watts also happens to be the author of the book "Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age", principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research and is a well know critic of 'The Tipping Point' philosophy of influence.
Watts believes that:
social connections are so complex and consumer trends so random, that there's no way for marketers to effectively rely on select groups of influencers to quickly spread a message.
But in my opinion Mr Parsons is correct in his comments about the online influence model being very much alive and of great benefits to companies . This is reflected in the diagram from Tom O'Brien, showing how the online influencers drive others. However he just talks about this in the product marketing sense, but there are other aspects to consider such as reputation, brand, etc.
There is no doubt that online influencers are faster to engage and respond that their off-line cousins. However speed is one thing, quality and impact of that influence are different factors entirely.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Marketing to your influencers
This article, sub-titled 'Getting the tastemakers on your side' has some interesting research on engaging with the blogging community. It highlights that companies are now more concerned with trying to reach those of their audience that affect others most.
The useful fact I instantly took away from this report was that:
About twice as many marketing leaders used blogs and social networks than did non-leaders.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Fallon Brainfood: The Social 10
Here's a very simple but effective presentation on the top 10 social ideas that companies need to be aware of:
podcasting success
I was asked this question of my friend Steve Green over at http://www.audiochef.co.uk/, a startup that is looking to create a suite of virtual cookbooks aimed at the 20-something generation, who are far more familiar with the circular ipod interface than a halogen hob.
Now there are thousands of podcasts in existence, many focusing on niche topics that most people aren't interested in or that it is relevant to (In effect, podcasting has become the epitome of The Long Tail of Broadcasting) however a lot of people believe their should be far more.
Its an interesting question though, as its becomming increasingly cheaper and easier to create and produce podcasts. There is also a lot of guidance out there to help encourage best practice in podcasting, such as this recent article from Alex Nesbitt:
For home users, podcasting is still viewed as the domain of the 'media geek', those tech-savvy types who understand terms such as: codecs, XML feeds, MP3, etc. There's now a dedicated market evolving to cater for the needs of these podcasters, producing decent software and equipment for the home industry, the prosumer.
However for companies, there is little excuse for producing a decent podcast on a fairly frequent and regular basis. These episodes can be produced for just a few thousand pounds, hardly TV commercial budgets, but still there seems to be a reluctance.... why?
Mat Zuker at Adage recently stated that:
My suspicion is agencies (and many marketers) are lazy. Agencies and marketers
are still more comfortable with hit-and-run advertising, viral videos and campaign sites and far less interested and impatient with recommending or executing content that sustains a campaign like a video or audio podcasting series or webisodes.
He may have a point. A podcast, like a blog and a Christmas Dog is not just a short term commitment!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Is web2.0 accessible to all?
For years people have been citing accessiblity as a key requirement for any company website. Groups such as the WAI (Web Accesibility Initiative, part of the W3C) exisit to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. And quite rightly! Apart from this being the legal & responsible approach, to just ignore a key section of users could be a missed revenue or communication opportunity.
These days most company sites are now build to standards and with at least some understanding of accessibility issues. However, with the "new and improved" Web2.0 there are addition issues cased, such as:
1. JavaScript is used everywhere in Web2.0
Now JavaScript creates issues for accessibility if done either badly or with little thought, however there are ways to combine them (including the work done on Accessible Rich Internet Applications).
Take a look at the following resource for the most definitive collection of articles written about this subject:
2. Beta versions of sites seem to forget about accessibility.
I'm sure people forget about accessibility when they consider what they are doing as ground-breaking. Standards seem to slip on these occasions and coding for all users (not just the majority) is left. The issue is that an awful lot of Web2.0 stuff that its users think is experimental has been around for ages now and seem to be stuck in permanent Beta. Even some of the more popular site forget about accessibility, including some key Social Networks:
New technologies can be used to reach more people if used correctly. Video, often cited for its lack of usefulness for bling people can be used for the deaf. For excample the video-based sign language site run by BT is a welcome and very public step towards a more accessible means of web communication. Using broadband enabled video to provide information about the company's products and services in British Sign Language (BSL), BT was the first FTSE 100 company to offer its customers this service.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Chief Blogging Officer
If you're still looking to get a better handle on Web 2.0, it may be time to hire someone to specifically track and improve your brand's social media presence.Apparently, companies such as Kodak, Coca-Cola & Marriott have recently recruited people to blog and engage consumers online, some with the title "Chief Blogger"
Now there's nobody better to deal with an issue than someone who is trained, experienced and passionate about their job. However with the relative recent evolutiuon of social media, finding someone to fill this role may prove trickier than writing the job description. Existing recruitment agencies may be able to help, but most are still far more familiar with their Web1.0 recruitment job descriptions.
So, if you're looking to recruit, here's a few places for inspiration:
A social networking site set up for jobs in errr... social networking
Jeremiah's 'career' tag on his site highlights employment issues and roles within the industry


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Managing projects across teams both large and small isn't easy. It can sometimes get complex and is often inefficient. That's where collaborative task management firm Asana hopes to help out. It aims to make tracking work activities simpler, reducing the need for email and unnecessary meetings, or – as Asana calls it – all that "work about work."
Asana was created in 2008 by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and software engineer Justin Rosenstein after they saw a need to coordinate teams more effectively inside the social network's operations. They soon realized that tech giants weren't the only companies that could benefit from greater efficiency.
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Family Photo 2010
We just had some shots of Liam taken and managed to get a really cute picture of the entire family! (Pictured left to right: Chloe, Kelle, Liam, Joe and Roxy)
For Halloween Liam was a cute giraffe. These are actually PJs that he can continue to wear. Just couldn't come to terms with buying a costume he only wore once, and for a few hours!Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)
A Fun Filled Day at the Arboretum
Liam loved all the vibrant colors at the Arboretum. He was all smiles while posing for pictures in the pumpkins. I'm sure it's going to be family tradition for years to come!
Moving onto Cereal!
At 19 weeks Liam is now onto cereal. He loves his new high chair, it gives him a great view of his crazy dogs…who he loves to watch. They keep him entertained better than any toy during feeding time. And you can guarantee they are at his feet for every feeding!
Palm Beach…September 2010
Liam's first trip to the beach…and of course not his last!
Sit'n Like a Big Boy
Liam is 12 weeks old and looks like a big boy in his Bumbo!Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)
Did I Mention I Have One Hot Daddy?
Yes…even Liam's daddy was featured in FD Luxe this month as a "Scene-Stealing Husband"! Check it out below….
Liam's Nursery In FD Luxe Magazine
For those who haven't seen it…below is a pic of Liam's nursery in FD Luxe this month. Great plug for Shelby and the Newport Group!
2 Month Doc Visit
Liam went to his two month doctor visit yesterday and had a great check up. He weighs 12 pounds. He wasn't to happy about the three vaccine shots he got though…but was fine as soon as they were over. That evening he did get a little fussy, but calmed down with a little infant pain medicine (doctors orders). After his bottle he was a happy camper and slept all the way to 5 a.m. again.Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)
A Fun Weekend
We had a really fun weekend. Liam is such a happy baby, smiling and making so many funny faces. This kid loves to be outside.


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Thicker Than Water
I do not own Hellboy :(
King Balor paced back and forth in the hall. His wife had been in labour for two hours now. Every now and then a scream could be heard from the madical room. Every time he heard her scream it made him even more restless. He wanted to be by her side. The healers would not let him. Another hour later a woman rushed out of the medical room saying his wife was giving birth before she rished back into the room. The next hour was the hardest. His wife was crying, screaming, and cursing his name. He was just about to force his way into the room when he hear a different cry. A baby's cry. The cry was followed by another. Curious, he knocked on the door. The door opened and he walked in. He walked to his wife. When he saw her he stoped. In her arms there lay not one, but two babies. They were both sleeping. His wife smiled.
"We have twins." She said softly.
He smiled and went to take a closer look. They were beautiful. They both had pale skin and soft light blond hair. They had a line from the top one one cheek to the other. The symbol of elvin royalty.
"You can hold one you know. They are your children as well."
He reached out and gently picked up one of the babies.
"That one is a girl. The one I am carying is a boy." She told him.
They baby in his arms opened her golden eyes. They looked at eachother for a few seconds then she cried. He was worried until a healer told him that she must be hungry. He past his daughter to his wife and took his son. His son was awake. Once again the both looked at eachother. But this time the baby didn't cry. He just held his fathers gaze. He is gointg to be a fighter when he grows up. He thought.
"What shall we name them?" He asked.
"I was thinking Nuada for the boy and Nuala for the girl."
He liked the names. He looked down at his son. Nuada. He would protect his children. They were the future.
Sorry it's short. It was only the first chapter. My next one chould hopefully be bigger.


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Paboo (Margie) is a spoiled/ rebellious woman who never puts any effort into doing her best at anything. Her parents became divorced when she was young. Her father remarried and had another daughter. They sent Paboo off to boarding school so Paboo felt like she was never a part of their new family. After spending 10 years studying abroad, Paboo returned back to Thailand but didn't even finish any of her studies. Her father was very angry. He wished she was more like her younger sister who took her studies seriously and was more responsible. Paboo became angry and ran out of the house. She didn't know where to go so she contacted her mother, who she has lost touched with for a very long time. Her mother felt guilty for abandoning her daughter so she helped Paboo by getting her to stay at her new husband's family hotel suite. Paboo thought it would be easy to find a job, but with her lack of experience and no degree, it was difficult for her to become hired. Meanwhile, we have Satayu played by Great. He is a businessman who is very strict about his work. Satayu is the President of his grandfather's company. Many of his family members envy him because he isn't even his grandfather's biological grandson but he gets to have the highest position in the family. That's because all of his uncle's children are of no good use. Although Satayu's mother passed away while giving birth to him, his grandfather thinks that he brings him good luck and good fortune because after he was born, his business became much better after almost going bankrupt. Meanwhile, Satayu hired an architect name Buree, played by Puen Khanin, to help him reconstruct his family's restaurant that he was trying to reopen. He was searching for a manager for his restaurant. He bumped into Paboo at his family's suite and thought she was one of those people who sneaked to stay for free. However, when he found out who she was, he allowed her to stay and hired her to work for him to reconstruct his restaurant. When Paboo's father heard that she had gotten a job working with Satayu, he was very proud. Basically, Paboo, Satayu, and Buree will somehow form a bond while working with each other. Buree crushes on Paboo because he likes working with her. Although she doesn't always agree with him, he likes debating with her. They've met before too but Paboo doesn't recall. Satayu had also met and was fond of Paboo before as well. In the end, Paboo will have to decide who she is truly in love with. Who will win her heart? Will it be the bubbly and charismatic Buree? Or the kind-hearted and understanding Satayu? Tune into Tai Ngao Jan to find out.
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The book 'When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform' by the authors Patrick Fournier, Henk van der Kolk, R. Kenneth Carty, André Blais, and Jonathan Rose was awarded the Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award 2015. This is an annual prize from the Canadian Politics section of the APSA.
(from committee notes): When Citizens Decide is an impressive achievement on several fronts - data-gathering, insightful analysis, theoretical and practical contributions to the field. Surveys track the opinions of citizen assembly participants across three assemblies, in two countries. These data are used alongside broader public opinion polling to tell a story about how citizens assemblies work, both inside those assemblies, and in the 'public domain.' The book makes important contributions to the study of democratic deliberation and civic engagement. And the conclusions are important - not just for academics, but for governments interested in citizens assemblies as well. 'Average' citizens are certainly able to make informed decisions about complex political issues. People can and do learn over the course of citizen assemblies. Subjecting the final decision from an informed assembly to a vote from a more ignorant electorate can be deeply problematic, however. We take this to be the deeply interesting storyline of the book. And we are thrilled to be able to award the book the Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award, which is intended to feature not just books about Canada, but books that are able to explore Canadian politics through a more comparative lens.
The Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award is given to honor a significant contemporary contribution to the scholarship on Canadian politics, or Canada in a comparative perspective, or a comparative analysis of Canada with other countries, particularly the United States.
Recent award recipients are list here: http://www.apsanet.org/content.asp?contentid=324
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The Enttec E-Streamer is a rack mountable show server for entertainment and the architectural world. One huge draw to the E-Streamer is that it can handle up to 64 universes. It is recommended that if you are using fully populated universes, you limit yourself to 40 per unit if you are running on a 100Mbit network. While the E-Streamer has no problem sending 64 universes of data out on 100Mbit network, there can be bottle necks and packet loses due to less expensive routers. It is recommended to have a professional network administrator setup a high-end router to handle this amount of data through unicasting rather then broadcasting. Additionally, it has a swappable hard drive so if you have multiple units in multiple locations running the same show you can just copy all of the files to a hard drive, take them with you, upload them to the new unit and be on your way. It also boasts a processor beefy enough to allow you to run up to 100 simultaneous shows using any or all of the universes (any channels that are affected by multiple shows simultaneously are treated in an HTP manner). Events or start of shows can be triggered via the internal time clock, buttons on the face of the unit, RS232 commands, or network triggers, and is perfectly content sitting in a network rack running the same shows for years on end.
There are some caveats to this powerful machine. The biggest one is that the only way to get data in or out of the machine is through its Ethernet port, so you have to figure out some way to turn your 5 Pin DMX into an Ethernet based protocol. Conveniently enough, Enttec makes several boxes that can help you do this. The simplest is the ODE (Open DMX over Ethernet) which has male and female 5 pin XLR connectors on one side and a female Ethernet jack on the other. This tends to work out well for large architectural installations, if you have several sites that are separated from your control point it's easier and cheaper for your Electrical Contractor to convert your DMX to Ethernet at each site and run Ethernet back to a switch near your E-Streamer (keeping in mind of course that the run limit for Ethernet is 100m before it has to be boosted). If, on the other hand, running the DMX makes more sense, Enttec also makes a Datagate which is a fully configurable Ethernet to DMX Splitter/Switch which has 8, 5 pin XLR connectors and an RJ45 jack on its face.
The E-Streamer is exclusively a streamer and not well suited for programing directly within. There is no way to program your shows using it as a standalone unit. An external console is necessary to program the lights, and once you have everything looking the way you want it just run the DMX through the streamer and record your cue stacks as shows. For large jobs, this is probably the preferred method for using the E-Streamer. If you are programming an E-Streamer project that is actually using anywhere near 64 universes you can have multiple programmers working on different sections with different consoles simultaneously because of the networked nature of the beast. Just don't forget, you're going to need some way to get the DMX out from the console into the E-Streamer.
Enttec is coming up with a lot of interesting control solutions that could be very helpful in the architectural and architainment markets. The E-Streamer is one of a number of powerful tools they have in their arsenal. For the right situation this box can be a life saver. For more information on the Enttec E-Streamer, visit their website at www.enttec.com. Contact your local Enttec dealer for pricing.
Enttect will be demonstrating the E-Streamer and other control products they offer this week at USITT in a shared booth with Stage Research, #1040.


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In 1961, "Operation Alphabet" premiered on WFIL-TV, Channel 6 in Philadelphia. It was considered to be a new approach to help adults learn to read and write. Some sources have reported that the show was two years "in the making."
Alexander Shevlin of the Board of Education of Philadelphia hosted the program in cooperation with the Philadelphia Junior Chamber of Commerce. Shevlin, previous to this venture, was no stranger to broadcasting. In the fifties, he produced and sometimes hosted weekly broadcasts on WFIL Radio (including the WFIL Studio Schoolhouse) aimed at Philadelphia school children. Communications students from Temple University also participated.
This first series of "Operation Alphabet" had 100 half-hour episodes. They were television lessons and were recorded on videotape. One episode was shown each day (Monday through Friday) and it took 20 weeks to work the way through all one hundred shows. The series was for adult "illiterates" who wanted to learn. Each learner had a "Home Study Book" to reinforce and supplement what was learned from the television lessons. To promote the series, posters were displayed throughout each community.
The series' creators had three basic educational considerations during the developmental stages. The show has to be sound educationally. Cost to viewers (for books, etc.) had to be kept to a minimal amount. Finally, the material had to be age appropriate.
Airing stations (it originated in Philadelphia at WFIL-TV) received the tapes free of charge, as long as they returned them after airing. The cost of the workbook was only $2.00 and was published by the Civic Adult Education Project. Many of the stations broadcasting the show were educational outlets (now called public TV) like WNDT (now WNET-TV), Channel 13 in New York City.
The age appropriateness was important. Most of the written lower-level educational material of the early sixties was written for grade school students. They talked about dolls, toys and other child-like topics.
This series gave adults a chance to learn in their own homes without anyone outside the house being aware of what was going on. "Operation Alphabet" taught educational reading skills on an individual basis but on a large scale. By being done in the privacy of their home, there was no stigma or embarrassment.
No one need know that the learner was "illiterate." Participants could also receive free tutoring, if needed and desired. Providing the assistance was "The Clubwomen Across America." Their members viewed the program so that they could teach materials covered in the series.
In October of 1964, Roger Clipp, General Manager of the WFIL stations (owned by Walter Annenberg) wrote:
In 1961 we taped a series of about 100 half-hour programs entitled "Operation Alphabet" to teach illiterates to read and write to the fourth grade level. These ran in more than sixty cities in the United States. The second series upcoming - approximately 90 half-hour programs - teaches people to read and write to approximately the eighth grade level. Much interest nationwide was engendered by the first series among telecasters, educators, and the public. At the moment, the first series is being considered for telecasting in Japan.
Broadcast Pioneers member Lew Klein who was Executive Producer of American Bandstand while it was based in Philadelphia and who was a mainstay at WFIL-TV for many years said that the second series was, indeed, produced and aired.
There were 90 shows in the second series and took 18 weeks to air. Lew believes the second series was produced at WFIL-TV in the late part of 1964 or the early months of 1965. After that, there were no new shows. There were 190 episodes all together. When the second series finished, both series went into re-runs and continued to June of 1971 on WFIL-TV. At that point, Channel 6 was sold to Cap Cities. They retitled the station, WPVI-TV, and kept on running the program.
Klein said that while most of the educational programs produced and aired by WFIL-TV were aired a time period where most people could watch (usually between 9 am and 12 noon), Operation Alphabet aired at 6 am. He said that the reason for this was not that the station was trying to "bury" it in the Channel 6 schedule but that most of the adults who could benefit from the show, had to be at work early because of the type of work they did.
Remember that there were no home video tape recorders during the entire time that Operation Alphabet was aired. The viewer had to watch it in real time. That is, at the time the television station was airing it.
Operation Alphabet was mainly aimed at adults (many in the military), prisoners and immigrants with only a small portion of the viewers being children. The program was distributed nationally by Triangle Publication's broadcast division (owner of WFIL-TV) and by the National Association for Public School Adult Education.
Lisa Quinn, a visitor to our website e-mailed:
As a little girl my Mother would turn on Operation Alphabet every morning for me to watch. It kept me occupied for half an hour while she got ready for work. I watched every weekday, for how long I do not know. I learned how to write by watching that show. One day I asked my Mom how to spell a word, I think it was hospital. As Mom spelled it, I wrote it out on my blackboard. She was amazed because I hadn't had any school yet, and (she) made me write out words 'til I filled up the blackboard. And that's the story of how "Operation Alphabet" taught a little girl how to write her letters.
Louis A. Tarone II, a visitor to our website e-mailed:
I remember Operation Alphabet well. Though I was an young kid who was getting good marks in school, I found something about it intriguing and used to get up early in the morning to watch it on Channel 6, which was carried on Service Electric Cable up here (in Hazelton). I even began recording the audio to it on my portable cassette. I still have those tapes.
Despite the fact that it was obviously not aimed at me – I was a ten year old kid at the time – I got a kick of out it and started getting up to watch it. Soon, I started laying the microphone from my portable Channel Master cassette in front of the TV speaker and recording a few of them. I dated each tape. After seeing your page, I dug those old tapes out. They were recorded between December 1971 and June 1974. Some of the subtitles are "Lesson 24 Rooms In The House," "OA2 Lesson 69 Angels of Mercy," "OA2 Jack Baker Looks For A Job," etc.
Years later, I was a student at King's College in
One morning, as I got up to go do my morning show on my college radio station, I turned on TV. This was 1980, just before CNN, MTV, et. al. There wasn't much early morning TV. But again, I found Operation Alphabet still on Channel 6! I made a mental note to get up and watch it occasionally. But, as you can imagine, college kids don't often get up before 6 a.m. – so I only saw it a few more times. Wilkes-Barre, PA.
WPVI-TV finally deemed the content dated (for example, an address in one lesson was '
44, Penna.") and stopped running it. It was either 1981 or 1982 when it was pulled from the air. I have a few old TV Guides from early 1980 and it is still listed as airing at 6 a.m. on Channel 6. Philadelphia
Operation Alphabet was dated 1962 in the program's closing credits, while Operation Alphabet II was dated 1964.
My questions are, do you know whether the films of the 190 lessons are still in existence, or were they tossed out as "debris?" Sadly, that has happened to many films of local television.
In fact, the first time I remember seeing it was Thanksgiving morning 1971. There was a major snowstorm up here which began the night before. I remember a bunch of us being outside in it Thanksgiving Eve throwing snowballs. I got up early Thanksgiving morning – just before 6 a.m. – to see how much snow we'd actually gotten. While awake, I turned on the TV. In those days, there wasn't much early morning TV. But as I surfed the dial, I saw Operation Alphabet for the first time. Here was this guy teaching people how to read and write!
JC Jackson, a visitor to our website, e-mailed:
JC Jackson, a visitor to our website, e-mailed:
I remember my dad watching this show everyday while I was getting ready for school. I never understood why he watched this show, until I found he dropped out of school and went to the Army when he was very young. My father was an intelligent man and always wanted to learn. But he was very proud and I do not think he wanted to go back to school at his age, I guess that is why he was so hard on me about school.
From the official archives of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia
Stills supplied by and used with permission of WPVI which used to be WFIL-TV
Written and compiled by Broadcast Pioneers historian Gerry Wilkinson
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Summary: The interpretation of genome-wide association results is confounded by linkage disequilibrium between nearby alleles. We have developed a flexible bioinformatics query tool for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to identify and to annotate nearby SNPs in linkage disequilibrium (proxies) based on HapMap. By offering functionality to generate graphical plots for these data, the SNAP server will facilitate interpretation and comparison of genome-wide association study results, and the design of fine-mapping experiments (by delineating genomic regions harboring associated variants and their proxies).
Availability: SNAP server is available at http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpg/snap/.
Contact: ude.tim.daorb@rekkabed
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have produced an unprecedented volume of genotype–phenotype results, often revealing biological pathways with a novel role in disease etiology (McCarthy et al., 2008). Many genome-wide datasets have become available to the scientific community, but comparison of association results between studies is not straightforward when different genotyping arrays are used. More generally, the extensive nature oflinkage disequilibrium (LD) can confound the interpretation of an association signal as the true causal variant(s) can lie at considerable distance from the initial association signal. With more than 3 million SNPs successfully genotyped in 270 population samples, HapMap informs about genomiclocations, alleles and LD patterns for a large fraction of common variants in the human genome (TheInternational HapMap Consortium, 2007). Thus, for example, when a candidate SNP is not present on a particular genotyping array, proxy SNPs in LD with that candidate SNP can be identified based on observed LD patterns in HapMap. Researchers are increasingly turningto meta-analysis across multiple GWAS through in silico imputation and subsequent association testing of SNPs present on HapMap (Marchini et al., 2007; Zeggini et al., 2008). Informatics challenges remain due to ageneral lack of user-friendly resources to access standardized annotations. We provide a web server (called SNAP) with potential uses including (i) finding proxy SNPs, (ii) determining if SNP proxies are in genes, (iii) resolving whether associations from multiple SNPs represent a similar association, (iv) plotting publication quality regional views of associations and/or LD structure, (v)helping to define fine mapping boundaries, (vi) facilitating cross-GWAS comparisons, (vii) retrieving annotations for SNPs of interest and (viii) checking for SNPid aliases across dbSNP builds.
We used Haploview 4.0 (Barrett et al., 2005) to compute pairwise r2 and D′ among all SNPs within 500 kb of each other based on phased genotype data from HapMap release 21 and 22 in three analysis panels (YRI, CEU and CHB+JPT). We collected annotation files for commercial arrays, removing non-SNP CNV probes and SNP probes without dbSNP rs identifiers. We have included the following arrays: from Affymetrix: Human Gene Focused (50K), HindIII and XbaI (Mapping 100K), NspI and StyI (Mapping 500K), SNP 5.0 and 6.0; and from Illumina: Human-1, HumanHap240S, HumanHap300, HumanCNV370 (single, quad), HumanHap550, Human610, HumanHap650Y, Human1M (single, duo) and HumanCVD (CARe iSelect). Because the lifetime of commercial genotyping arrays spans several builds of dbSNP, some of the SNP identifiers have been merged and changed creating a potential aliasing problem. To address this, we used the latest dbSNP RsMergeTable (build 129), which tracks historical changes in SNP identifiers to compile a list of SNP aliases, and we integrated this into our query strategy so that querying with any SNP identifier is allowed, even if it is deprecated. We store data on the physical and genetic position of each SNP (as a function of genome build), which can be returned for each proxy SNP. We use a 'mashup' with the GeneCruiser web service to return information about associated genes along with each proxy SNP (Liefeld et al., 2005). The SNAP service can itself participate in further mashups. Our primary design goals were rapid performance, scalability for future growth (denser genotype data and more samples, e.g. HapMap 3 and the 1000 Genomes Project) and low maintenance costs. We achieve near linear-time query performance by using indexed binary files to store the pre-computed pairwise LD (currently 7 billion data points, about 50 GB per HapMap panel). To minimize maintenance costs, we have automated the procedures for incorporating new HapMap releases, new dbSNP RsMergeArch alias tables and data for new genotyping arrays.
SNAP is publicly available at http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpg/snap, along with documentation. Users can specify a HapMap release and population. Query SNPs can be entered in a text box or uploaded as a text file. Optional SNP filters include: membership on genotyping arrays, and minimum r2 or maximum distance between query and proxy SNP. For each query SNP, SNAP returns all proxy SNPs (after applying filters), annotated by physical and genetic position, recombination rate, r2, D′ and nearby genes. The server can also generate association plots and graphical plots of proxies for a query SNP, or for a pair of SNPs.
We query two SNPs at chromosome 9p21 from recent GWAS: rs10757278, associated with coronary artery disease (Helgadottir et al., 2007; McPherson et al., 2007), and rs10811661, associated with type 2 diabetes (Saxena et al., 2007). In Figure 1, these two associated SNPs are plotted along with their proxies (based on HapMap CEU) as a function of genomic location, annotated by the recombination rate across the locus (light-blue line) and nearby genes CDKN2A and CDKN2B. On the y-axis, the pairwise r2 is given for each proxy SNP using color shading to indicate whether that SNP is in strong LD with rs10757278 (in red) or rs10811661 (in blue). The plot also highlights the 'associated region' (spanning 189 kb), defined by the contiguous region that contains all proxy SNPs with r2>0.1 to either query SNP. (The user can modify this r2 threshold.) A similar regional LD plot can be generated for a single query SNP. From Figure 1, we can conclude that there is absolutely no correlation between the two query SNPs (r2=0.000), which is explained by the recombination hotspot between them. In fact, there are no observed variants close to or in CDKN2A or CDKN2B with any appreciable LD to rs10811661 (blue). Thus, it remains to be seen whether the biological (causal) effect due to the association to type 2 diabetes at rs10811661 is related to the function of these two annotated genes or to another genomic element that is so far unannotated.
The authors thank Mark Daly, Caroline Fox, Kathy Lunetta, Richa Saxena and Christopher Newton-Cheh for feedback, and the developers of GeneCruiser.
Funding: NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study (N01-HC-25195 to A.D.J.); Intramural training program of the NHLBI (to A.D.J.); NHLBI CARe (Candidate Gene Association Resource) grant (N01-HC-65226 to R.E.H.).
Conflict of Interest: none declared.
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