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COVER- Inside the mind of a scam artist: the mini-Madoffs among us
Investigators say a Central Virginia man bragged about an astrophysics-influenced financial method called "Blue Logic," but to at least one man who handed money to John M. Donnelly, the reality was nothing to boast about.
"It's just a typical Ponzi scheme that ran its sad course through a tight knit group of otherwise business-savvy friends," says alleged victim Sam Fleming.
If you didn't know what a Ponzi was three months ago, you probably do now. For the second time in a decade, a multi-million-dollar fraud was allegedly centered in the Charlottesville area. This time the accused is a middle-aged motorcycle racing enthusiast arrested in mid-March by federal agents and charged with bilking over $11 million from investors, many of them friends and former motorcycle racing teammates.
What motivates the scam artist? What leads investors to believe the unlikely promise of consistent high returns?
Don't want to be swindled? David Marotta, president of Marotta Wealth Management and financial columnist, offers these suggestions for safeguarding your money.
1. Don't let your financial advisor have custody of your money. And when making an investment, make the check out to the custodian of your account, not your advisor.
2. Walk away from anything too good to be true. John Donnelly allegedly promised his investors returns of up to 22 percent annually. Too good to be true.
3. Insist on publicly priced and traded investments. Illiquid investments are hard to price and to calculate your return. How to tell if it's illiquid? Buy the asset, hold it for a week, and then try to sell it. If it loses a bundle, it's not liquid.
4. Buy investments that trend upward. Forget selling short, and stay away from a commodity like gold, which can fluctuate wildly and, over time, on average does not appreciate in value.
5. Understand your investment strategy. Don't trust any investment strategy you don't understand, and don't trust any advisor who won't or can't take the time to explain exactly why and how he or she operates. Blue Logic?
6. Recognize and avoid financial hooks (not to be confused with the Hook): Class B shares that have a high expense ratio and charge if sold before a certain period. Whole life insurance with a surrender value significantly lower than its market value. Certain annuities that tie up your money. Private equity and hedge funds that hold onto your cash for years.
7. Avoid investment advisors who won't tell you how bad the market can be. Investors should always be aware of risk and promises of earnings without loss are unrealistic and take up us back to number 2.
8. Avoid an advisor with a lavish lifestyle. Ponzi perpetrators typically need those millions to finance their own opulent penthouses, vacation homes, and Gulfstreams.
The record-setting $50 billion scam perpetrated by Bernard Madoff has grabbed headlines around the globe, with every article explaining the trick's seeming simplicity– money from new investors is used to pay off withdrawals by the earlybirds– even as most media accounts struggle to explain how Madoff could have run his scam for decades under the watch of the Securties and Exchange Commission.
In recent days, several Ponzis have collapsed as early investors wanted to take out more money than newer investors were bringing in, a situation exacerbated by the current poor economy and tanking stock market.
If the $11 million Donnelly allegedly took seems paltry compared to Madoff's whopping haul– or even to Charlottesville's first major Ponzi, a $100 million-plus scheme conducted by Terry Dowdell– tell that to those who gave their hard-earned cash to Donnelly and are now left wondering how much, if any, they'll see again.
Is it simple greed that drives the perpetrators of Ponzi schemes?
"I would pick pride more than greed," says Charlottesville financial analyst David Marotta. "Pride of the lifestyle you lead and the returns you've made."
Marotta notes that the world economic tsunami has recently turned nearly every money manager into a money loser. "A lot of advisors," says Marotta, "now feel shame that they've lost money for their clients."
While honest money managers simply live with the discomfort and yearn for brighter days, shame for some, Marotta says, may be overcome by pride that "overcomes reality."
UVA Law School professor Michael Ross says Ponzi schemers are not accustomed to failure.
"The perpetrators are usually well educated, well off, with a high income net worth," says Ross. "They come from backgrounds from which one would expect legal and ethical behavior."
When things don't go well, Ross says that would-be Ponzi schemers are "unwilling to admit it to themselves or their investors, and they don't know what to do."
Six days after Madoff's sentencing and Donnelly's first court appearance, federal investigators announced that one North Carolina trader was a secret loser– to the tune of $40 million. They say that Bruce C. Kramer of Charlotte lost money every month for six years, according to the criminal complaint filed this month against his firm, Barki LLC. Yet Kramer, the complaint alleges, told the 79 investors who fueled his Maserati-bedecked lifestyle that he earned them monthly returns of three to four percent.
As worries mounted, Kramerwould carefully explain to worried investors how his operation was supposedly different from Madoff's– until he killed himself in late February.
Even three years after Thomas E. Coghill Jr. was sentenced to federal prison for bank and wire fraud, one of his victims, who lost $500,000 in bogus real estate deals, doesn't want his name used in the newspaper. Such is the pain and shame left in the wake of a swindler.
In the 1990s, Coghill was a developer who falsified documents to obtain loans with properties that had no equity and were often vacant lots, often in the Twin Lakes subdivision in Greene County. He left unpaid bills all over Central Virginia, according to the prosecutor, and one supplier called Coghill a "silver-tongued devil" and alleges Coghill stiffed him for $357,000.
If some Coghill creditors remained silent, others pursued charges against him, and in August 2005, Coghill pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud. The following March, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $2.8 million to Anchor Capital out of Potomac, Maryland, and $170K to First Western Investment of Charlottesville.
While indicted and ordered to refrain from financial transactions, Coghill, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's office, got involved in several more deals in Florida, including the purchase of the Conch House marina/resort in St. Augustine, which now faces foreclosure with its original owners in bankruptcy.
"You realize a lot of what y'all wrote was untrue," Coghill Jr. announces in a telephone interview, pointing out that his sentence was 30 months, not the 33 months as reported in the Hook.
Last July, Coghill, 48, was released from prison with five years of supervised release. He now lives in Virginia Beach, where his father, Thomas E. Coghill Sr., owns Investment Research Corporation.
"I had a business that was very viable," he says. "I made poor decisions with interest payments– I didn't calculate I couldn't make a profit."
Coghill concedes, however, that he's the one who put himself in this "impossible" situation.
"I made my own mistakes, and I got what I deserved," he concedes. "I had a drinking problem."
The former developer says he's now patenting beach items– he says he has a degree in physics– and doing a lot for charity in the community, including assisting the bicycle race in Virginia Beach long sponsored by his father.
"I believe I'm doing a lot of good things for the community," says Coghill, expressing remorse for the nearly $3 million of which he defrauded the owners of Anchor Capital.
"I feel bad about the money they lost, I do," says Coghill. And if things work out with his beach products or the property in Florida, he hopes to be able to repay the money.
He was less sympathetic to the local businessman who claims Coghill bilked him of $500,000– and who now operates a website called Coghill the Con.
But three days after speaking with the Hook, Coghill called back and said he does feel bad about the businessman because "he spent the last few years of his life being angry at me, and I know that doesn't make you productive," says Coghill. "I know because I spent the last few years being angry. Bottom line is, I put myself in this position."
Adds Coghill, "Now I just want to go on with my life."
"I'll never recover," declares the businessman who doesn't want his name in the Hook even though it's on his websites. In 2000, "I had nothing, just like the people with Madoff who were tied to something for years and years and then you have nothing."
This victim advises investors to turn over every stone and not make assumptions. "In Coghill's case, I was dealing with attorneys who were being scammed," he says. "I was getting legal papers I assumed were legitimate."
And once the worst happens, take a deep breath and try to put it behind you, says the businessman. "It's very painful. It destroys relationships. It destroys trust. It destroys confidence." And while he's tried to purge this incident out of his life, he admits, "I'd love to see [Coghill] go back to prison for probation violations."
At press time, the Jacksonville Business Journal reports that Coghill has been indicted for obstruction of justice and perjury allegedly related to the real estate deals in Florida while he awaited sentencing for the Virginia charges. According to the Florida paper, Coghill calls the indictments "totally ludicrous" and is scheduled to be arraigned April 3.
At a March 12 hearing in federal court, 52-year-old Donnelly made his first public appearance. The former racer appeared fit with close-cropped dark blond hair. But wearing the thick gray stripes that is the uniform of Central Virginia Regional Jail in Orange, where he is has been held since his March 11 arrest for wire fraud, he seemed far removed from the family man who resides in the the 1500 block of Church Plains Drive near Crozet.
The federal district court in Charlottesville had already entered a temporary restraining order preventing Donnelly's companies from conducting further activities and had frozen all assets under his control. Under the gaze of Judge Waugh Crigler, the financier and former motorcycle road racer answered questions from Crigler and his attorney.
Early on, his wife appeared composed in a gray tweed jacket in the second row immediately behind the defendant, although as the hearing began, she appeared tense, her arms crossed while she repeatedly circled one foot.
"Until I talk to my husband, I can't say anything," she said when first contacted on the day of the arrest. "I need to find out more, talk to a lawyer. I want to be responsive here, but I've got a kid coming home from high school, and I have to tell him first."
After the hearing, Mrs. Donnelly declined comment, and after a private meeting with attorneys she briskly left the courthouse.
Donnelly's attorney John Davidson said that his client heads a "nice family" with two children, and that he is not at risk of flight if bond is granted.
"Mr. Donnelly is incredibly worried about his family," said Davidson. "His hope is that in this rush of accusations that have been made that people give his family the privacy they need."
Law professor Ross says that if religious or other moral foundations don't restrain a Ponzi schemer, the fallback position– as Madoff seemed to confirm during his guilty plea– is to consider "relative costs and benefits."
Ponzi schemers, Ross says, tend to overvalue the reward of making money for themselves and their investors, but to undervalue the risk of eventually getting caught and leaving a trail of destruction. Ross notes that it's not just investors but families who are often the unwitting recipients of ill-gotten gains.
For instance, Deborah Donnelly is a top fundraiser for UVA's Curry School of Education who earns a six-figure compensation package of her own, according to Foundation filings. And yet the government claims that Mrs. Donnelly may have benefited from some of the million dollars siphoned off over the last three years, as she's named in the complaint as a "relief defendant."
Her husband's attorney stresses that the designation has no criminal connotation but instead remains a civil matter that could require only that Mrs. Donnelly return any inappropriately-obtained funds.
As relatives of Albemarle's biggest Ponzi-schemer, Terry Dowdell, discovered the hard way last year, accepting treats from a criminal in the family can lead to serious charges.
Dubbed the Vavasseur scheme and the subject of the Hook's June 26, 2003 cover story, Dowdell's globe-spanning crime defrauded investors of over $100 million and resulted in a 15-year prison term for Dowdell, now held at Beckley Federal Correctional Institute in Beaver, West Virginia.
Dowdell's wife, Mary Dowdell, was initially seen as a mere relief defendant, who watched her house and jewels auctioned off in 2003. However, she accepted wire transfers of money from two of her husband's co-conspirators after she and her husband had already been warned by federal investigations.
She was convicted last year in the federal court and given a five-year sentence. Her daughter, Rebecca Dowdell, the comptroller for the Montessori Community School on Pantops, pled guilty and received house arrest. She did not return the Hook's call.
The Dowdell family convictions have done little to ease the suffering of victim Elizabeth Watson, a British woman whose family fortune plummeted from its unwitting connection to Albemarle County.
Watson's financial nightmare began eight years ago when she went to lunch in Leicester with a charming financier who told her she'd be investing alongside the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Little did Watson know that she was handing her family fortune over to Terry Dowdell.
As court documents later revealed, Dowdell led a network of agents to gather money for non-existent investments– unless Dowdell's lavish estate in Western Albemarle counted as an investment. When it was auctioned off six years ago, the house brought $925,000. But that was little consolation for Watson, whose family is still seeking return of its money.
"We have to fight to save our house," says Watson.
Watson won one victory in Charlottesville's federal court last year when she helped persuade Judge Norman Moon to unseal some financial records. Although she despises Dowdell, she reserves her harshest scorn for the "greedy bankers" at the Halifax Bank of Scotland which offered her a loan for what should have been seen a scam.
"This was a huge bank with a big name," says Watson. "He said, 'How much do you want?' I was a lamb led to the slaughter."
Between her parents, sister, and herself, Watson's family lost two million pounds (about $4 million).
"I fell for this bag of tricks," says Watson.
In mid-February, Britain's Sir James Crosby suddenly resigned from the British equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission after revelations that he fired a whistleblower who tried to warn of dangerous lending practices at the Bank.
In February 2008, in a trial at Birmingham Crown Court in Leicester, England, in which prosecutors flew in Dowdell and put Watson on the stand for a week, Watson's Leicester lunchmate, Shinder Gangar, and co-conspirator Alan White were convicted of investment fraud and related charges and given seven and a half-year prison terms.
For over 15 years, Watson had run her own import/export company providing high-end house fabrics for wealthy Arab clients. Today, however, she spends most of her time heading a Dowdell victim's group called OneVoice. Her days are consumed by sending emails about efforts to pry open the books and retrieve what's left of the victims' money.
"I used to have a normal life," says Watson. "But now we have to fight so hard in this filthy, putrid stenchpot."
These days, Watson is far from alone in her suffering.
March 12 was a busy day in the Ponzi world. In New York, as the now-infamous Bernie Madoff was sentenced, several of Madoff's investors gathered to watch the man who destroyed their fortunes led away in handcuffs.
Charlottesville's lone Madoff investor hung up the phone when a Hook reporter called. However, Paul Allen, an 89-year-old retiree from Thousand Oaks, California, who lost his life savings, according to msnbc.com, called Madoff an "animal."
March 12 was also the day Donnelly first appeared in federal court here in Charlottesville. In addition, it was the day one of the federal agencies charging Donnelly, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, charged a Las Vegas man for running a $20 million Ponzi. Six days later, the Commission uncloaked the alleged Ponzi run by the recently deceased North Carolina man.
Perhaps no one understands better how easy it is to be sucked into a financial scam and how painful it can be than gullibility expert Dr. Stephen Greenspan. A professor of psychiatry at University of Colorado, his latest book Annals of Gulliblity: Why We Get Duped and How to Avoid It was released on December 30.
But there's a twist. On the eve of his book's publication, Greenspan learned he'd lost a large chunk of his own retirement savings in the Madoff scam.
Despite his expertise and career as a mental health professional, Greenspan found himself among the legions of the duped. And that, he says, is just more proof of what he's long argued.
"Con games are so enticing," says Greenspan, "that most people, in the right circumstances, would fall for it."
Con artists, Greenspan says, employ several tricks, but one of the most common is to operate within a trusted group of people. While Madoff had expanded to the point that some hedge funds were feeding his funds, he started with individual investors in the Jewish country club society of Palm Beach. In fact, many of Madoff's thousands of investors– now victims– were Jewish, including Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Holocaust chronicler Steven Spielberg, and numerous Jewish charities and funds.
Donnelly, with his deep connections in the motorcycle racing world, had his own trusted circle.
In motorcycle racing "you tend to form real strong friendships," says John Ulrich, a champion racer and longtime editor of Roadracing World magazine, who describes a scene in which people with "real world stressful jobs" spend weekends at tracks where "they get to ride motorcycles at high speeds."
The change of pace relieves stress and also leads to intense camaraderie, particularly among those on the same team. For nearly seven years, says Ulrich, Donnelly, even before he started accepting money from his friends and teammates, raced on the "Army of Darkness" team.
"He really worked these people using the friendship angle," says Ulrich. If the charges against Donnelly are true, Ulrich says, "this guy was stealing from people, setting them up to have their money evaporate at same time he was smiling, shaking their hand, and looking them in the eye."
Donnelly made a good impresssion off the racetrack as well.
"He was very easy to work with," says Charlottesvillian Mike Ratliff, who bonded with Donnelly five years ago through their sons' interest in basketball. The pair formed a youth basketball team together with Ratliff as coach and Donnelly as manager. Donnelly, Ratliff says, was so generous that he paid paying travel expenses for team members whose families couldn't afford the cost.
Those who saw Donnelly at work say they had no reason to doubt his authenticity as an investor.
"He seemed like a very pleasant guy," said one. "He had a bunch of computers," says the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It seemed like a very sophisticated operation."
Investigators were in Donnelly's office in the old C&O Station on Water Street all morning March 11 carrying material out, according to a neighbor who did not want to be identified. The office was locked, although an arrangement of fresh flowers and and motorcycle racing images covered the walls, including a cover of Racer X Illustrated.
"We'd see him riding up on his motorcycle to work," says a neighbor.
According to the complaint from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Donnelly was promising his investors stellar returns of up to 22 percent annually. However, the SEC claims, he hadn't actually invested any money since 2002.
The SEC alleges that Donnelly approached his friends in 1998 about making $5,000 and $10,000 investments in something called the Tower fund. Donnelly raised $100,000 from these efforts by assuring his investors that found ways to take short-term, market-beating positions. He hit gold in 2002, according to the complaint, when "Investor B" handed over $11.2 million.
By selling limited partnership interests in three investment funds— Tower Analysis Inc., Nasco Tang Corp., and Nadia Capital Corp.— Donnelly told investors that he would pool their funds in, among other things, stock and bond index derivatives.
Instead of investing, the government alleges, Donnelly used investor funds to repay other investors and pay himself approximately $1 million in salary and fees during the last three years. The complaint also alleges that Donnelly has been soliciting investors for a new fund called Nadia Capital Partners LP, "based on misrepresentations about his past trading results," the government contends.
Donnelly's marketing materials promised something he called "Blue Logic." The government complaint says Donnelly described Blue Logic as a "proprietary model of financial markets using algorithms derived from the quantification of a fractal wave frequency model."
If his investors couldn't understand the big words, there's evidence that Donnelly could. In 1982, Donnelly appears to have defended his UVA senior thesis in astrophysics: "Astronomical Catastrophes and the Evolution of Intelligence."
Last month, however, "Investor B" came forward, telling the SEC that Donnelly had confessed that all the monthly statements Donnelly had sent him were fictitious and that Donnelly never actually made any trades on behalf of his Tower clients.
An affadavit filed in federal court claims Donnelly admits to committing the crime– with secretly taped phone calls as evidence.
On the tapes, Donnelly allegedly admits in a phone call with an investor that he had never actually executed any trades because of his alleged inability to "push the button" on the trades due to some unspecified childhood trauma.
In a separate taped conversation with a second investor inside his Water Street office in early February, an unwitting Donnelly reportedly expresses disbelief that the first investor had not already gone to the authorities.
"The amazing (expletive) thing about [victim #2]," Donnelly said according to the redacted affidavit, "is that he didn't have me jailed right away."
Exactly one month after that conversation, Donnelly was behind bars– something his friend, Ratliff, is still having a hard time accepting.
"It's hard for me to believe he'd do anything deceitful," says Ratliff. "Hopefully, it's just mistakes he made."
Ratliff isn't the only Donnelly friend having a hard time believing the charges.
In a day-after-the-arrest essay published on the website of Roadracing World Magazine, editor Ulrich defends his magazine's decision to report on Donnelly's arrest– something he says sparked outrage among some readers and Donnelly friends.
"The Donnelly case is another reminder that we don't really know the people we see at the races," writes Ulrich. "Just because we see them in the paddock race after race and year after year, doesn't mean that they are honest."
There was no shortage of cameradie around race tracks, as this poem at the now-removed armyofdarkness.com relates:
There once was a team called the Army,
Whose members were all somewhat barmey.
The first crasher was Jim,
Then Sam followed him;
Thought John, "The next crash will harm me"–Bobby Jones
"As long as nobody tried to take out too much, too fast," Ulrich writes, "the scheme hummed along."
Until it didn't.
How can an investor know if they're dealing with a scam artist?
"If it seems to good to be true, it is," says U.S. public defender Fred Heblich, who defended convicted Ponzi artist Dowdell back in 2003 when Heblich was in private practice. Heblich's talking about the promises of very high returns with low risk investments made by Ponzi schemers and other nefarious financial criminals.
Should investors simply have been concerned by Donnelly's year after year double-digit returns? Is such investing success impossible?
Stewart Darrell, a portfolio manager with Charlottesville-based Darrell & King Investment Counsel, says no. In 2007, Money Manager Review ranked his firm the top "balanced money manager" for their double digit returns over seven years. In fact, he says, his firm has averaged double digit returns over the last 33 years.
Another double-digit earner: Jaffray Woodriff, the head of Quanititative Investment Management, the second largest hedge fund in the southeast United States which just happens to be located in downtown Charlottesville.
Since 2001, Woodriff has seen the money he manages balloon from $700,000 to $3 billion, with net annual returns averaging 20 percent. In 2005, QIM made headlines for topping 32 percent, and the firm now has 25 employees.
Sitting in his office in the 400 block of East Market Street, the tall and lanky investor with shaggy brown hair appears 10 years younger than his actual age, 39. Adding to Woodriff's boy wonder investor air are more than half a dozen large computer monitors that line two walls of his spacious office– several displaying colorful graphs and data so complicated to the untrained eye that they might as well be abstract art– or ground control for a NASA trip to Mars.
The 1991 UVA grad calls his investment style "quantitative behavioral finance," which uses mathematical models to predict the collective behavior of the market.
Just because it's too complicated for many people to understand, says Woodriff, who cofounded QIM with a college pal, Michael Geismar, there are plenty of ways his clients are assured that their money is safe– or as safe as anyone's money can be in an authentic investment.
Darrell says transparency is key, and that his firm's use of third party brokerage accounts– such as Charles Schwab or Merrill Lynch– provide proof that money is actually where his clients believe it to be.
Woodriff's firm operates in a similar way. Most of the money invested with QIM is not directly controlled by QIM– clients choose their own unaffiliated brokerage firm to invest in the program. Madoff, however, forced his clients to rely on his own broker– Madoff Securities– in order to keep tight secrecy.
"That shouldn't ever have been legal," says Woodriff, who blames the SEC for failing to uncover the Madoff scandal despite numerous alerts over 10 years.
"They could not have been better tipped off about the fact that he was running a Ponzi scheme," says Woodriff. "Either they're astonishingly inept, or they're corrupt."
But while his own firm's transparency and oversight by not only the SEC but also the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association satisfies most of his sophisticated investors, Woodriff says one would-be investor– who'd been burned by Madoff– was made nervous by QIM's stellar returns.
"He must have said seven times to me, 'I wish your track record weren't so good.' It became a running joke," Woodriff recalls.
There are other differences between a whiz investor like Woodriff and a charlatan. Woodriff is glad to consider any new client who meets the financial requirements typical in the world of hedge funds: a $1 million minimum investment, and only individuals of extensive net worth are permitted to engage in what the SEC considers high risk investing.
While that type of exclusivity protects investors of moderate means from losing money they can't afford to invest, Ponzi schemers prey on the allure of exclusivity as a way to reel in their victims.
"Donnelly didn't pitch people," Ulrich writes in his essay. "He didn't tell potential investors that he based his trading theories on astrophysics or weird theories. Instead, Donnelly hinted that he wasn't accepting any new investors and let his friends and associates talk about how well things were working out; the scheme grew from there."
Ulrich writes that one racer's sister left her money in the fund instead of paying off an auto loan because Donnelly was allegedly paying a higher interest rate. Others put in sums of $5,000 or $10,000 after hearing "paddock tales" of high returns, Ulrich writes.
Such tales, psychiatrist Greenspan notes, are another typical tool of the scam artist: let others do the scammers' marketing for him. By allowing gossip of stellar returns to circulate on the Palm Beach social circuit, Madoff managed to imbue an air of exclusivity just as Donnelly allegedly didn't stop the so-called paddock tales.
"You want the victim," says Greenspan, "to basically beg you to take his money."
Donnelly, who remains behind bars, returned to federal court on Thursday, March 19 to waive his right to a preliminary hearing and delay his request for bond.
The very nature of his alleged crime, however, puts Donnelly in something of a Catch-22. Although he is innocent until proven guilty, and although he has not yet been formally indicted on the charges, his assets have been frozen until the courts can establish if any of them were obtained fraudulently.
"This man should be home with his children," says Davidson, declining comment on the complications of gaining bond when one's assets are frozen.
For Ulrich, who did not invest with Donnelly, watching his friends grapple with the sudden loss of their life savings is painful, and he says he believes anyone could have been victimized– even those who claim they're too smart.
"It was more complex than people just being stupid," says Ulrich. "This guy worked it for all it was worth."
–with additional reporting by Dave McNair, Lisa Provence, Lindsay Barnes, and Hawes Spencer


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A longtime friend and colleague said it best when he explained that Ed Diana "puts himself, heart and soul, into every argument."
A longtime friend and colleague said it best when he explained that Ed Diana "puts himself, heart and soul, into every argument."
Another who was not always on the same side as Diana admired the way he seemed to rebound after every confrontation.
And yet another longtime colleague marveled at the way Diana managed to end up on the winning side so often: "Somehow, he always seemed to know how many votes he had."
On Tuesday, Diana announced that he will not be seeking a fourth term as county executive. That decision will have many ramifications in the operation of the county government and especially in the election to succeed him.
For his friends, even those who had urged him to run again, this decision has to come as a relief. They have watched over the past year as he has had to miss work more than usual. They talked so often and so openly about how much weight he had lost and how he did not look well that Diana, with his natural tendency to take charge, summoned everyone to a meeting last November.
There, he announced that he was suffering from liver disease, that he was on a list to receive a transplant, that he was able to continue with his work and that he had no intentions of resigning.
At some point he had to realize that he no longer was able to summon the energy that he needed to do this job in the only way he knows how, which was full-time and all-out. He had to understand that he no longer was able to rebound the way he used to.
His innate ability to count votes could not avoid the uncomfortable reality that was emerging from the quadrennial round of town committee meetings. Challengers from within his party were slowly collecting support and he was faced with the prospect of going against so many who had backed him in the past and hoping to emerge on top only after a divisive race, one that might do his party more harm than good.
By leaving on his own terms, Diana has performed an unselfish act of public service for his county and his party.
His biography is the classic tale of local boy making good, from the early days helping in the restaurant his grandfather founded in Middletown to eventually taking over Diana's and also teaching phys ed and coaching at Minisink Valley. Had he stopped there, he already would have touched many lives.
But he went on to the Wallkill town council and the county Legislature, eventually leading the Republican majority and finally, in 2002, winning the first of three elections as county executive.
With his announcement this week, he has provided everyone with the opportunity to remember that for several decades Ed Diana was always in the middle of things, agree with him or not, because he cared deeply about Orange County, the only place he ever wanted to live. Now, he leaves it to others to find their own way to make sure that the county lives up to those high expectations.


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SNOW HILL – The Maryland
Court of Special Appeals last week upheld a Worcester County Circuit Court
judgment on a Virginia man convicted of second-degree assault and sentenced to
one year in jail for his role in a scuffle with his ex-girlfriend's mother in
her Snow Hill apartment in 2008.
In January 2009,
Terrence Richard Justice, 28, of Temperanceville, Va., was found guilty of
second-degree assault in Worcester County Circuit Court and was sentenced to
one year in jail. Justice appealed the decision to the state's Court of Special
Appeals, arguing there was insufficient evidence to justify the conviction.
After reviewing the facts of the case, the Court of Special Appeals upheld the
decision of the lower court in an opinion released last week.
According to the facts
of the case, Polly Miles went to her daughter's apartment in Snow Hill in June
2008 and found Justice inside. Justice and the daughter were going through a
break-up at the time. Miles asked Justice what he was doing in the apartment
and he told her he was picking up his clothes. At the time, Justice was talking
to the daughter on the cell phone. Miles told Justice to get his clothes and
leave and an argument ensued.
During the argument,
Miles decided to call police using her cell phone because Justice wasn't
supposed to be in the apartment. The
argument turned physical as the mother pushed Justice against a refrigerator.
Justice reached in his pocket for something and raised his hand in the air.
Miles believed Justice had pulled out a gun and was afraid he was going to use
it on her, but she also said later she wasn't wearing her glasses and her
vision was blurry.
During the struggle,
Mile's cousin called the police and Justice fled. He was located and taken into
custody a short time later. Miles spoke with police after the incident and also
gave a written statement prepared the night of the incident while it was still
fresh in her memory. While Miles was on the stand, prosecutors attempted to
introduce her written statement into evidence, but Justice objected, arguing
the statement wasn't admissible.
Justice's attorney
argued the written statement was inconsistent with the story Miles told while
on the stand and the judge agreed after reviewing the document.
"He stated that he's not
going to leave, so I proceed to call the police on my cell phone and he pulled
the phone out of my hand and pulled his gun out and pointed it at me," Miles
said while on the witness stand during the trial.
However, on cross
examination, Miles agreed she was not certain Justice had pulled a gun from his
pants, that he never pointed a gun at her or said that he was going to shoot
her or harm her in any way. She also testified that when she had arrived at the
apartment, she did not know at the time her daughter had given Justice
permission to enter the property to retrieve his belongings.
According to the facts
of the case, Miles testified on different occasions Justice either "snatched"
or "pulled" the cell phone from her hand. While Justice did not disagree that
he took the phone from Miles, he did argue he never assaulted Miles during the
incident. Nonetheless, he was found guilty of second-degree assault and
sentenced to one year in jail.
He quickly appealed the
verdict, arguing there was no evidence he assaulted Miles during the scuffle
over the cell phone and that he grabbed the phone from Miles so he could stop
her from calling the police and explain to her he had permission from her daughter
to go into the apartment to retrieve his belongings.
Last week, however, the
Court of Special Appeals handed down an opinion upholding the judgment of the
Worcester County Circuit Court.
"Based on these facts,
the court could have concluded that when the appellant took Miles' cell phone
from her, whether he snatched it, pulled it or grabbed it, a battery occurred,"
the opinion reads. "The appellant's action in taking the phone resulted in an
unwanted touching, which is enough for the completion of the crime."
The high court also
addressed the issue of the mystery item Justice allegedly pulled from his pants
pocket during the incident.
"In the alternative, the
court could have concluded that when the appellant pulled an object, possibly a
gun, from his pants, he intended to frighten Miles, who was not certain whether
the appellant was trying to hurt her or frighten her," the opinion reads. "This
is enough to support a finding that Miles was in reasonable apprehension of an
imminent battery."


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- Daniel V Hayden, Partner and architect MAA
ISS was constructing a workplace with a difference. When the global facilities management company was refurbishing its head office, it wanted to have an immediate impact on visitors and clients. Replacing its often-ignored video screens with luminous panels was a bright idea.
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This chapter is all about getting to the heart of the matter. So many credit myths are floating around out there that it's hard to know what to believe, let alone what you should do.
This conversation identifies a dozen credit facts and myths to help you gain understanding and learn how to manage your credit. Credit Myths: Discredited Worksheet answers the credit myths so you don't need to remember all of them from the video.
Credit Myths
- Paying on time helps improve your credit score.
- You need to carry a balance to have a good credit score.
- You should always cancel credit cards you don't use.
- Applying for a credit card can hurt your credit score.
- Paying cash for everything will improve your score.
- Your income has an impact on your credit score.
- You can rebuild a poor credit history.
- Your credit can prevent you from getting a job.
- Credit repair companies can erase bad marks on your credit report.
- Your credit report always includes your credit score.
- All credit reports are the same from each major bureau.
- A credit report merges with your spouse when you marry.
Your Chapter 2 Checklist:
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- Credit Myths: Discredited Worksheet
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Larry Seltzer is an independent analyst focusing on security issues and a founder of OpenGov Solutions.
In August, 2010, the Slovenian security research firm ACROS Security issued an advisory for a vulnerability in Apple's iTunes. The details in the advisory accidentally exposed a much larger story that ACROS was working on quietly: Many Windows applications -- including many famous ones and possibly your own -- are vulnerable to the same attack. Luckily you can fix the problems and I'll show you how.
"Remote Binary Planting" is a new variation on an old attack, first identified 10 years ago by Georgi Guninski. He showed how an attacker could load a malicious DLL by including it in the same directory as a data file opened by the user through the Windows shell. At the time, the problem was that when Windows searched for a DLL to load, the current directory was high in the search order. When you load a data file in the shell, Windows sets the file's directory as the current directory when loading the file, so all you had to do was to name your DLL and the calls exported from it the same as the one expected by the application.
Here's how it works: The attacker places an enticing data file in a folder on a network share or web folder. Probably through a social networking attack ("Open mlb.xls to see pennant race analysis") he induces a user to open the file. In the same directory as the file is a DLL with the same name as one needed by the application to open the file, and exporting a function expected by the application. With a vulnerable application, Windows will look for the DLL in the current directory -- the one containing the data file -- before finding the real one, and therefore will load it and run the malicious code.
In response to this issue, Microsoft changed the DLL search order, created the SetDllDirectory function and issued guidance about proper loading of DLLs. It turns out that this advice is widely ignored, even within Microsoft.
ACROS's innovation in this attack was to show how to exploit it on a network share or remotely over the Internet on a WebDAV share. This raises the credibility of the attack scenario a great deal. Indeed, if an attacker gains access to a network, getting users to load data files from a network share within it should be relatively easy. This would be a great tool for an attacker perpetrating a targeted attack against your organization, where they have some knowledge of you already. All they need is the credentials of a relatively unprivileged user.


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Written by Adam Marcus & Debra Sullivan and Kirsten Elms
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Nearly 40 years after its release, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is no longer "just" a horror classic. It is a brand, with the direct sequel Texas Chainsaw 3D, out today, just the latest iteration in a line of sequels, prequels, and remakes. The fact that this new Chainsaw manages to draw fresh blood makes it all the more impressive because, really, who thought this might actually be good?


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It's neat and all that the US was the first modern country to adopt many democratic institutions - we did it way back in the 18th Century, before the French Revolution even. Bully for us! However, a side effect of our early adoption of 'democracy' is that we have a lot of weird anachronistic leftovers from the pre-1789 era. Slavery was one, but fortunately we finally managed to get rid of that. But other, less significant but still not insignificant pre-democratic inconveniences remain. This map is meant to address some of these issues. Says fitn:
The electoral college is a time-honored system that has only produced results in conflict with the popular vote three times in over 200 years. However, it's obvious that reforms are needed. The organization of the states should be altered. This Electoral Reform Map redivides the territory of the United States into 50 bodies of equal size.... [This plan] overrepresentation of small states and underrepresention of large states in presidental voting and in the US Senate. Preserves the historical structure of the electoral college and the United States unique federal system, balancing power between levels of government. States could be redistricted after each census - just like house seats are distributed now.Fifty states, as you see here, each with just about the same population. Yes, this would help with the problem of the electoral college system for picking presidents, which is insane by any reasonable standard and without which we might have avoided a certain period of unpleasantness from 2001-2009.
But the real advantage is in the Senate. Right now, Wyoming has as many senators as California. Vermont has as many as Texas. That's just straight up retarded. It's certainly not democratic. And don't give me any of that crap about how it preserves the sovereignty of states as the Great and Omniscient Founding Fathers intended, because do you know why they ended up with this provision that every state have an equal number of senators? To protect regional interests from the will of the majority; i.e., to protect southern interests; i.e., to protect slavery from meddlesome northerners. (And like just about everything unseemly in American politics, it all somehow goes back to the legacy of slavery...) Nothing approaches this level of blatant anti-democratic institutional structure in the free world. What's more, we can't even amend the constitution to allow for proportional representation in the Senate: the Founders made sure of that by making it the one thing that couldn't be repealed by amendment. Brilliant! So we would have to hold a constitutional convention and start over from scratch if we wanted to reform the Senate in a way that would really live up to modern norms.
Or - we could follow this guy's plan: just take the scissors to the ol' state map and produce what you see above. There would still be two senators per state, but every state would have equal population, so representation would be proportional. A fantastic idea! This would be much fairer than the system we've got going on now. In particular, as it stands, rural areas are way, way overrepresented in the Senate; having two senators each for neo-states like SF Bay, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, and Dallas would remedy that.
As for the electoral college, it wouldn't solve the problem entirely. It would still be possible to lose the popular vote and win the electoral college, but at least it wouldn't be due to the fact that the smallest states get overrepresented in the electoral college (e.g., North Dakota gets 3 EVs, because of its 1 representative + 2 senators, though it only has the population to justify 1).
Of course, there would be some logistical problems in re-organizing state governments throughout the country. But bah, I say. Small potatoes: the senate is dysfunctional as it is and it is going to end up killing the country. My own personal choice would be for us all to just ignore the Senate until it went away, sort of like the House of Lords. But this plan strikes me as the next best thing.


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Updated 5:49 p.m. - President Obama sought to directly explain to voters what he meant by a comment about small business that has reverberated through Republican attacks on his re-election.
The new ad, "Always," which will air in in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and Nevada, argues that Republicans were mischaracterizing a comment he'd made that seemed to suggest that small businesses weren't solely responsible for their own successes.
"Those ads taking my words about small business out of context - they're flat out wrong. Of course Americans build their own businesses," Obama says in the ad.
"It's clear what President Obama believes because he told us: 'if you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.' He said it, and he meant it," Ryan Williams, a Romney campaign spokesman, responded.
Obama's initial comments earlier this month came in the context of a speech about how government, through spending and investment on projects, can help foster an environment in which businesses can better succeed.
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the internet," the president said July 13 in Virginia.
Republicans have seized on the "you didn't build that" portion by itself. Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney's campaign sported new signage at an event on Monday, saying, "We DID Build It."
And Romney called the initial Obama remark indicative of the president's ideology at an event last week.
"It wasn't a gaffe. It was instead his ideology," Romney said at a stop last week in Massachusetts. "The president does, in fact, believe that people who build enterprises like this really aren't responsible for it. But in fact it's a collective success of the whole society that somehow builds enterprises like this. My view, we have to celebrate people who started enterprises and employ other people."
In the new Obama campaign ad, the president speaks directly to the camera looking to dispute the GOP-led attack.
His full quote:
Those ads taking my words about small business out of context -- they're flat out wrong. Of course Americans build their own businesses. Every day, hard-working people sacrifice to meet a payroll, create jobs, and make our economy run. And what I said was that we need to stand behind them, as America always has, by investing in education and training, roads and bridges, research and technology.


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UMass Lowell will resume on-campus instruction, research and campus life for Fall 2020. View the plan for more info.
The UMass Lowell Doctor of Philosophy program in Physics and Applied Physics is designed to develop advanced competence in physics. The Physics course of study prepares the student to carry out original and independent research in physics, while the Applied
At least 60 graduate credit hours are required, of which at least 15 and at most 24 are to be Ph.D. Dissertation Research. At most 3 credits of Physics Colloquium and seminar courses may be applied to the 60 credit requirement.
All full-time doctoral candidates are required to attend Physics Colloquium, PHYS.7010/7020, each semester.
All full-time doctoral candidates are required to take at least one physics seminar, in addition to Colloquium, each semester. After a student has presented a seminar in PHYS.7110/7120 (s)he may substitute one of the other seminars offered by the Department.
All candidates are required to demonstrate proficiency in computer programming, which may be accomplished by passing the Departmental computer language exam or by achieving a grade of at least B in courses such as FORTRAN Programming or Introduction to Pascal, or by demonstrating equivalent competence to the Physics Department.
All candidates must pass a written and oral Physics Comprehensive Examination. Students in pure Physics are expected to take this examination in their first year; those in the Applied Physics options, in their second year. The examination covers I. Classical mechanics, II. Electricity and magnetism, and III. Quantum mechanics, modern physics and statistical mechanics at the advanced undergraduate level. In addition Part I includes some elementary thermo-dynamics and Part II elementary optics. Part III is replaced by a section on radiological sciences and protection for students in that option and is based on the advanced undergraduate course requirements in Radiological Health Physics. For students in the Atmospheric Sciences Option, Part III is replaced by a section in atmospheric sciences, demonstrating a basic understanding of atmospheric structure and dynamics.
Before commencing Ph.D. dissertation research each doctoral candidate must pass two semesters of Advanced Projects in Physics PHYS.7310/7320 and defend this project in an oral examination before a committee of the Physics graduate faculty. Students who have already completed a master's thesis in Physics or a related discipline may apply for a waiver of the Advanced Projects requirement. However, if the M.S. degree is from another institution the student must make an oral presentation of the M.S. work before a committee of the Physics Faculty in order to satisfy the Graduate Research Admission Examination requirement. Alternatively, a one-semester M.S. project may be substituted for one semester of Advanced Project on the recommendation of the student's research supervisor. The Graduate Research Admission Examination must be passed before a student may submit a Ph.D. dissertation proposal.
The dissertation is to be based upon original research performed under the supervision of a member or adjunct member of the Physics Faculty (or the Faculty of a Department participating in a joint program with the Physics Department) holding an earned doctoral degree. If a student wishes to do a dissertation under the supervision of a faculty member in another department, the student must also have a co-supervisor who is a member of the Physics Faculty. Ph.D. candidates must submit to the Department, for its approval, eleven copies of a typewritten proposal briefly describing the research to be carried out. The proposal must bear the written approval of the research supervisor. A student may not register for Ph.D. Dissertation Research, until the Comprehensive Examination and the Graduate Research Admission Examination have been passed. Furthermore, the dissertation proposal must be submitted prior to or during the first semester in which the student is registered for Ph.D. dissertation research. Students registered for Ph.D. Thesis must submit a brief progress report on the research to the Graduate Coordinator each semester unless a thesis is submitted. After completing the work, the student must submit four copies of a typewritten dissertation to the Department. The student must then pass an oral examination, administered by a Dissertation Committee appointed by the Physics Graduate Coordinator, based on, but not necessarily limited to, the dissertation work.
The Physics program includes the following areas of study:
The following courses are required:
*This requirement may be waived for students who have written a Master's thesis in Physics or a related discipline. Electives may be chosen from the list of courses acceptable for graduate credit in Physics. Some graduate courses offered by other departments may also be acceptable for graduate credit in physics, but only with the approval of the Physics Department.
Students in Applied Physics Options may select a program of study and research in one of the following areas:
The above options are official degree program options and will be so noted on the transcript. Areas 1, 2 and 3 are interdisciplinary programs with the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, respectively. Area 4 is an extension of the Master of Science degree program in Radiological Sciences and Protection.
General Required Courses
Every student in an Applied Physics Ph.D. Option must satisfy the following course requirements:
In addition to the general requirements, students in this option must take
In addition to the general requirements, 12 credits of core courses and 15 credits of elective courses. One credit is for atmospheric/environmental seminar. For core and elective course descriptions, see Environmental Studies (Atmospheric Sciences Concentration).
In addition to the general requirements, students in this option must take the following courses:
Note: It is expected that the requirements for the Master of Science degree in Radiological Sciences and Protection will be met during the first four semesters if the student has not already earned an M.S. degree.


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Four Kids' Water Games to Play in Shallow Water
Are your kids itching to play in some nearby water, but you don't have their swimsuits?
Looking for new ways to cool off in a shallow creek or kids' fountain?
You and your kids can make a splash in water that's only knee-deep and have a ball doing it.
In this article, I'll teach you to play four shallow-water games that will keep you cool when you need to stay relatively dry.
Why Play Shallow Water Games?
Just let them jump in, you say? It's true, there's nothing like bombing into a pool, diving under the waves at the beach or launching yourself off a rope swing into a lake.
But sometimes you need to keep the kids clean and dry. Other times the best you've got is a couple feet of water to splash around in.
This is the time for shallow-water games.


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Flamsteed Observatory
Near Brailsford, Derby, DE6 3BY
Join members of Derby & District Astronomical Society for this one of their regular "second Saturday of the month" public observing session at their Flamsteed Observatory located within easy travel distance north-west from Derby. Events are weather dependent -- please check with event organiser before visiting to confirm the exact location of their observatory and also the event start time which changes throughout the year.
- Event will involve stargazing and observing the skies through telescopes weather permitting
This event is being organised by Derby & District Astronomical Society who should be contacted if you have any queries. We highly recommend you confirm this event is indeed going ahead before travelling. If you do attend it would be fantastic if you could let the organiser know you found them via Go Stargazing!
Please contact Derby & District Astronomical Society directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
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Location light pollution
This location is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to a semi-rural setting based on satellite data from CPRE.
Location darkness on Saturday 10th October 2020
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Execution by Tigers Helped in Win Over Vanderbilt
COLUMBIA -- The Missouri men improved to 15-4 after beating Vanderbilt 81-59 Saturday.
A breakdown of the game shows where the Tigers were able to exploit the Commodores.
Mizzou dominated Vanderbilt Saturday thanks in part to a 29-2 run before the end of the first half.
Senior Alex Oriakhi attacked inside early, scoring 6 of his 18 points in the first five minutes, gaining some help from junior Phil Pressey.
Pressey had been prevented from penetrating the last few games, but Vanderbilt gave him just enough space to cut through. Defensive slides off of Oriakhi in order to stop Pressey's drive left the big man free for multiple dunks.
"When he posts hard, he's big and he's active. You know, he's a tough matchup. People are going to have to adjust how they try to guard him," head coach Frank Haith said.
Mizzou had been outrebounded the past four games but dominted the glass against Vandy. The Tigers had a 40-18 edge over the Commodores, led by Oriakhi's 12 boards.
"I take credit for that," Oriakhi said. "Rebounding is something I feel I have a passion for and I love doing so anytime we get outrebounded, I blame myself."
"Oriakhi's a load in there. He's a tough guy to box out. And he had his way with us today," Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings added.
The Tigers got it done from outside, also. In the past two games they shot under 22 percent from the three point line and started just one-for-six Saturday. They turned it up after that, making 10 of their next 15.
"They were sure seemed to be open. So they were either executing real well or we were playing awfully poor defense. Or both," Stallings said.
Junior Earnest Ross found himself open and stroking threes often thanks to the Pressey and Oriakhi pick and roll. Slow rotations and compact defense left Ross wide open on the wings. This combination of excellent execution and poor defense was a big part of the first half run.
Mizzou will look to take this momentum with them as four of their next six games are on the road, starting with a visit to LSU on Wednesday night.


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Thank a reporter for the sizable economic impact of the North American International Auto Show.Since rebranding and opening the show in 1989 to foreign media, and thus foreign automakers, NAIAS and Detroit businesses have seen a boon, said Rod Alberts, executive director of the Detroit Auto Dealers Association and the NAIAS."Going international meant we had to make sure we had the media," Alberts said. "That upped the ante for companies that didn't sell that much product in the Detroit region; it really took away the concept of market penetration and made it more about media coverage." Media coverage has grown from 200 regional reporters in the 1980s to an expectation of more than 5,500 from 65 countries in 2014. The increase in coverage has led to increased investment in the show from automakers, suppliers and vendors, Alberts said. The 2014 NAIAS is expected to create an economic impact of $380 million to $395 million, said David Sowerby, portfolio manager for the Bloomfield Hills office of Loomis, Sayles & Co. and NAIAS economic analyst.Since going international in 1989, the show has generated an estimated $9.7 billion to $10.1 billion in economic impact to the area, Sowerby said. Sowerby calculates the impact figure in an equation that takes into account the health of the economy, expected travel budgets for families and companies, and industry indicators, such as new model launches, sales and capital spending. Toyota and Nissan headlined the first NAIAS by launching their Lexus and Infiniti luxury brands. With the economy rolling throughout the 1990s, strong car sales propelled Detroit's auto show to new heights ... literally. "The strong economy was the primer for upward growth in the 1990s," Alberts said. "The stars aligned a bit, and that's when they (automakers) started coming in with big (in some cases, double-decker) displays." Scott Stubbs, president and CEO of Troy-based exhibit maker H.B. Stubbs Cos., entered the family business the year the show went international in 1989. He was the third-generation Stubbs in the family business. Stubbs said the vehicle displays and exhibits of old were basic in architecture and design. With the attraction of global media and a growing show, the exhibits rose — in price and size. "They (displays) are going higher and taking longer," Stubbs said. "Real money is being spent during press week, and everything is becoming much more sophisticated." Alberts said as much as $200 million is being spent on displays at the 2014 NAIAS. Stubbs said modern displays feature flowing curves to mimic the cars — and many are being built upward to take advantage of Cobo's high ceilings. But the main attraction that generates big spending is the "experience," he said. "Now tech is more focused on the consumer to help their engagement: What they take away from the show and helping people understand the product, as well as to experience the product," Stubbs said. "Learning is critically important because auto shows are a sales environment ... it's one of the measurable influencers of preference and what drives customers to the showrooms." As many as 75 Stubbs employees are working on exhibits, including supplier ZF North America's booth, ahead of the 2014 show. The build-out of the show's exhibits is where the economic impact begins, and ends, Alberts said. Build-out begins around Halloween each year, with hundreds of workers loading in the massive displays and materials. It ends the minute the show closes its doors after the public days. "The economic impact is a staggering benefit that happens over a two-month period," Alberts said. "Nobody in 1988 said, 'Let's build an international show so we have $390 million in economic impact,' but the byproduct of this show is a great opportunity that most cities aren't lucky enough to have." Dustin Walsh: (313) 446-6042, [email protected]. Twitter: @dustinpwalsh
Media exposure fueled auto show's growth, economic impact
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Should Content Curation Use Personae and Customize for Verticals? If so, How Much?
Content curation is a way of using content marketing, which in turn is a way to gain thought leadership and cement relationships with a variety of buying influences in the information technology business, you might argue. And the types of content ideally should match the interest "hot buttons" of key interest to distinct influencers.
At SAP, for example, there are traditional influencers, such as industry analysts, traditional industry media, but also social media influencers (bloggers), as well as customers, members of user groups, business partners and developers.
"Each of those groups have some influence on the technology buying process, so content efforts have to be aligned accordingly," says SAP global communications vice president Michael Prosceno.
A key issue, though, is just how much to customize content marketing or content curation efforts to distinct personae, such as targeting distinct buying roles within a target organization, or distinct roles within a buying ecosystem.
The argument is simple enough: A board member has a different view of the world than a junior manager. A test engineer has a different set of challenges than a sales director.
A hospital administrator cares about different things than a high school administrator. An existing customer has a different view of you than a cold prospect.
In principle, targeting makes sense. But time and money are constraints for any business-to-business marketer trying to work with distinct audiences and content requirements. SAP, for example, has 2.3 million customers and partners alone, not to mention potential prospects.
Additiionally, SAP "goes to market" in 26 different industries. "The retail business is completely different from mining," says Prosceno, but SAP has to create and curate content relevant to all 26, with real constraints on resources to do so.
As a practical matter, that has meant focusing on just 200 to 300 discrete enterprise software influencers all in an English language context. Practical measures can help, but some might argue that most B2B content curation or content marketing efforts will have to simplify.
In principle, great content is built on targeting to specific personae. In practice, few B2B marketng budgets, for firms serving big and diverse markets, are large enough to do much of that customiztion, one might argue.
Some will suggest signaling to potential content consumers that a particular brand content marketing or curation product is "for them, or not for them." That could mean customizing for a range of audiences that are quite technical, or mostly business focused; including prospects and customers and channel partners; software developers and well as line-of-business executives. As a practical matter, few B2B firms, marketing to many types of business verticals, will have resources to do so. One approach might be to create content vehicles for some key business verticals.
That is the approach Oracle takes, for example. But not every B2B marketing department will have the resources to do that.
With the exception of content that is "highly technical" and content intended for a "business" audience, Prosceno says he "does not make distinctions" by job function or role, in terms of developing content or curating content. "All the audiences are really similar, with the exception that some are highly technology focused, while others are business focused.
For B2B marketers with resource constraints, a content curation effort should probably not specialize too much, concentrating instead on content of broader interest to potential buyers, existing customers and partners.


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Day of Learning Plenary Focuses on Collaboration
July 01, 2011
By Cindy Long
The first annual Day of Learning – an all-day event packed with workshops and panel discussions on improving our schools – kicked off with a conversation about where our public schools are headed.
The session, "The Future of Public Education: A National Leadership Dialogue," addressed the often short-sighted programs and policies that have cropped up in the recent attacks on public education.
The interactive town-hall session featured NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, Anne L. Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association, Dan Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, and Debra Strauss, a member representative of the national Parent Teacher Association board of directors.
The session was moderated by Tavis Smiley, host of talk shows on PBS and Public Radio International.
"I can't think of anything that's more important than an equal, high quality education," said Smiley. "The future of our country is inextricably linked to whether we get this education thing right."
The panelists all agreed that the best way to improve education and to achieve lasting impact from any reform is through collaboration.
"We cannot be continually battling each other," said Bryant. "Unions and school boards should be singing the same song, focusing on student learning, and coming together to effect change."
Collaboration must include everyone from teachers, administrators and school boards to parents, community groups, faith-based groups and businesses, and they must all be the champions of the kids who aren't achieving, according to Domenech.
"We need to have the political courage to stand up and do what needs to be done for the kids that are failing," he said.
One of the reasons the attacks on public education have gained so much traction, panelists agreed, is that the public school system didn't contribute enough solutions.
Now NEA is focused on collaboration as the real solution to the problems facing our schools.
With its Priority Schools Campaign, NEA is zeroing in on best the way to turn around lower performing schools, and Van Roekel shared with the panelists and attendees how real change is occurring in the schools where there is collaboration between all stakeholders.
He encouraged everyone to share the message of collaboration with their own communities.
"It's important that the conversations don't end here," he said. "We have to take what we've learned back to our neighborhoods and communities across the nation and figure out how we can work collaboratively to help students succeed in the classroom and in life."


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The NextGen Premium series modular workshop storage is the recent addition to our proprietary product line. With its 60 cm depth worktop, red & black powder coating and 75 kg max load capacity drawers the NextGen series bridges the gap between our Classic and Pro series workshop storage solutions.
The matte red and black color combination creates a vibrant yet subtle look to any workshop area. Sleek drawer handles and a modern cabinet design along with built in lighting forms an up to date, practical and durable workshop setup which is a wise investment to last for years.
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