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The Defense Department more than doubled the number of contractor performance assessments reported from 2010 to 2012, according to a recent GAO report. DOD has been criticized for insufficient procurement reporting, including in 2011 when the Office of Federal Procurement Policy said the department's reports lacked detail.
Now GAO reports that the DOD has improved its percentage of required assessments submitted, from 56 percent in October of 2011 to 74 percent in April of 2013.
GAO report
DOD memo and performance breakdown chart
FCW reported in January that during the last quarter of calendar year 2012 – the first quarter of fiscal 2013 -- DOD entered 67.5 percent of their required contractor reviews into the Past Performance Information Retrieval System. Richard Ginman, director of defense procurement policy, said in a January memo that OFPP planned to recommend DOD achieve 100 percent report completion by fiscal year 2015. The memo includes a spreadsheet breaking down the performance of individual DOD components.
Even with the uptick in reports, tardiness continues to plague performance reporting, with 58 percent of reports turned in late in 2012.
"DOD officials attribute the lack of timeliness to acquisition workforce shortages, turnover, and the difficulty in obtaining needed information," the report said. "DOD is working with other agencies on a regulatory change, consistent with a requirement in the [National Defense Authorization Act] for 2012, that would reduce the time allowed for contractors to submit comments on draft assessments."
GAO had no recommendations and DOD concurred with the report.
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Another example of mediocre performance being tolerated. Would these same acquisition officials be understanding if contractors only delivered 67% of their required deliverable and 58% of those were delivered late and used the excuse that poor performance was due to "difficulty in obtaining needed information"?
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ZAO, Japan (AP) -- American teenager Sarah Hendrickson clinched the inaugural women's World Cup ski jumping title on Saturday.
The 17-year-old Hendrickson won Saturday's first competition with two jumps of 99.5 meters to beat Japan's Sara Takanashi, who had jumps of 98.5 and 99.5 meters.
Hendrickson then wrapped up the overall title by finishing second to Takanashi in the second event with another jump of 95.5 meters.
Daniela Iraschko of Austria was third in the first event, and Ulrike Graessler of Germany third in the second event.
Hendrickson has an insurmountable 295-point lead in the World Cup standings over Iraschko with two competitions remaining.

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NORFOLK-- Surrounded by swaying bamboo, I savored the night underneath an oriental decorated canopy.
I gazed out at moonlight shimmering across the Elizabeth river and enjoyed a live guitarist.
The Pagoda is a close getaway for a Friday night.
It's right in the Freemason neighborhood, but you feel like you're on the other side of the world.
More than 25 years ago, the Taiwanese and Chinese governments donated the Pagoda.
All materials to build it came from Taiwan.
The Friends of Pagoda and Oriental Foundation, a nonprofit group, raises money to preserve the house and gardens.
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Rose Bowl Preview
#4 Michigan State will make its first BCS bowl appearance in the Rose Bowl. In the BCS era, #5 Stanford is 1-1 in the Rose Bowl and 2-2 in all BCS bowls. The team is 1-1 vs. Big Ten opponents in the BCS era.
The Michigan State Spartans are 12-1, 8-0 in the Big Ten, 1-1 in AQ OOC games this season, and are going for their second quality win. The Stanford Cardinal is 11-2, 7-2 in the Pac-12, 1-0 in AQ OOC games, and is seeking its fifth quality win and second upset win of the season.
The Pac-12 is 7-5 in the Rose Bowl and 13-7 in BCS bowls. The Big Ten is 3-9 in the Rose Bowl and 12-14 in BCS bowls.
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unique perspective on photonics markets, policies for technology development, and strategies for mobilizing government and corporate resources. He will speak about Photonics21 and EPIC, along with the European Commission's Horizon 2020 funding plans and its Key Enabling Technologies (KETs). Dr. Nelson is a member of a high-level industry group that advises the European Commission on implementing KETs, which are seen as essential for Europe to regain and maintain a global leadership position. The European Commission has identified the KETs as nanotechnology, micro-/nanoelectronics, industrial biotechnology, advanced materials, photonics, and advanced manufacturing technologies. Dr. Nelson will discuss what they mean for policy and investment decisions in Europe—and for everyone interested in technology trends and opportunities in photonics.
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Look for a brief break as we're sandwiched in between two storm systems. Spotty showers may be possible overnight and into Monday, but it won't add up to much. Daytime highs will stay in the mid-40s under mostly cloudy skies.
Wet weather returns Tuesday! Once again, we're dealing with mainly a rain event in the valleys, with snow staying in the mountains. The storm could linger into Wednesday morning.
Temps will cool off throughout the week to where they should be. Next Friday, valley locations may wake up to a skiff of snowfall. So far, it looks like next weekend will be mostly dry!
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DETROIT (WKZO) -- There is new leadership at the Michigan Democratic Party after incumbent Mark Brewer withdrew from the race, faced with an inevitable loss.
The UAW was able to pack the convention hall with its members and the outcome was inevitable. Brewer fell out of favor after failing to reclaim the majority in the State House and the loss of the collective bargaining ballot item last November.
Rather than take a defeat, Brewer withdrew, handing the reins of the party over to Lon Johnson, a venture capitalist from Kalkaska.
Johnson's wife was deputy manager of the Obama Campaign and they plan to bring a party model that more closely matches that of the national organization to the state party, with a full time executive director.
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For the first time in Bolivia young journalists are receiving professional journalism training in a new, one-year program. Esther Paola Mamani and Sady Daniel Rojas are among the first students to take part.
Guatemalan youths from rough urban areas are often stigmatized, but their new website "Reporteros Jóvenes" is giving them a voice. As project manager Camilla Hildebrandt reports, this has been an intensive undertaking.
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Dallas, TX (July 15, 2009) - The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) and Red River Bank are pleased to announce that more than $1 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) rehabilitative grants have been awarded through Red River Bank to housing projects in Louisiana.
FHLB Dallas and Red River Bank will announce the grants at an event at 9:00 a.m. Friday, July 17, at Red River Bank's headquarters, 1412 Centre Court Drive in Alexandria, Louisiana. Terry Smith, FHLB Dallas President and Chief Executive Officer, will attend the event, along with other representatives from FHLB Dallas and Red River Bank. Bank representatives will be joined by local and state officials, as well as past grant recipients.
"We are pleased to be celebrating this milestone, but it's not about the dollars, it's about the lives that have been affected. The grant recipients and the community have definitely been improved by this partnership," said Red River Bank President Blake Chatelain. "What a great way to help our neighbors in need."
Each year, FHLB Dallas returns 10 percent of its profits to the communities served by member institutions in the form of Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grants issued through its member financial institutions. Red River Bank, an FHLB Dallas member in Alexandria, Louisiana, also has utilized the Bank's Home Equity Leverage Partnership (HELP) Program, a special set aside program under the AHP.
"Red River Bank has been a partner who truly understands the mission to expand affordable housing opportunities in the communities our members serve," said FHLB Dallas President and CEO, Terry Smith. "We are pleased to join Red River Bank in celebrating this significant achievement."
Red River Bank has been participating in the FHLB Dallas AHP and HELP programs since 1999, assisting very low- and low-income, first-time homebuyers with down payments and closing costs, assisting organizations with the construction of new homes for low-income homebuyers and providing funds to rehabilitate or repair existing homes. Many of the funds have been targeted toward elderly and disabled individuals, as well as single parents and victims of domestic violence.
"Red River Bank and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas are committed to providing resources for low and moderate income homeowners to maintain and protect their largest investment," said Willie Spears, Senior Vice President/Community Relations Officer of Red River Bank. "Affordable housing initiatives and home rehabilitation programs are crucial to the success of strong, stable, vibrant communities."
A $10,000 AHP grant helped 76-year-old, retired widower, Estell Miles, to make much needed repairs to the home she has lived in for 40 years. Miles, who lives on a fixed income, says it has been difficult for her to keep up with repairs to her aging home since her husband died in 1999.
Thanks to the grant, Miles was able to replace her sagging roof.
"I walk from room to room and look up at the ceiling; it's almost like a new house," she said. "I'm thankful that the grant program was in place so I could benefit from it. It's a good thing because it has helped a lot of people."
Miles's grant marked $1 million in AHP grants awarded through Red River Bank. Her funds came from a $500,000 grant that was awarded to a Rapides Station Community Ministries project to renovate the homes of 50 very low- to moderate-income families in Rapides and Avoyelles parishes.
"The partnership between the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, Red River Bank, and our nonprofit proves collaboration and cooperation, along with a competent and compassionate staff, can serve to help those who need the services to upgrade their properties to a safe and decent place to live," said Joe Green, Executive Director Rapides Station Community Ministries. "The efforts of Vickie Miller (Vice President and Compliance Officer), Willie Spears (Vice President Community Investment), and Debbie Boniol (Compliance Assistant) of Red River Bank are a dream come true for helping the poor and needy in Central Louisiana."
Below are the more than $1 million in rehabilitative AHP grants that were awarded through Red River Bank. These funds were provided to low- and moderate-income home owners in Rapides and Avoyelles parishes between May 2006 and June 2009.
Below are other grants awarded through Red River Bank since 1999:
So far in 2009, FHLB Dallas has awarded, through its members, $5.4 million in AHP grants to 25 affordable housing projects through its five-state District, including $2,011,469 to projects in Louisiana, which will result in the creation or renovation of 291 housing units in the state.
For more information on FHLB Dallas grant programs or the media event on July 17, please contact Corporate Communications at 214.441.8445.
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas is one of 12 district banks in the FHLBank System created by Congress in 1932. The Bank, with total assets of $68.7 billion as of March 31, 2009, is a member-owned cooperative that supports housing and community development by providing competitively priced loans and other credit products to more than 900 members and associated institutions in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas. For more information, visit the Bank's web site at www.fhlb.com.
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What is Vector Art?
Among the most frequent questions people ask are:
To answer these questions, you need to know a
little bit about what "vector art" is, and what the other forms of imagery a
computer uses are comprised of.
There are two different kinds of art used by
computers. The two types are "Bitmap" art, and "Vector" art. Bitmap art
includes almost every file type there is: .BMP, .GIF, .JPG or .JPEG, .PCX
- the list is enormous. Vector file formats include .EPS and the files
created and manipulated by professional drawing software products such as Arts & Letters Express®, Adobe Illustrator®, and Corel Draw®.
The difference between these types of art lies
in how an image is stored within the art files themselves. Bitmap files
consist of a series of numbers that represent coordinates within the image
area's grid, and the color for each pixel in the grid area. The image to
the right will help illustrate the concept of a Bitmap file. The image at
the top represents the actual bitmap image as you would see it on your
computer screen. The lower representation shows how this image would be
"understood" by your computer.
To store this image, the computer creates a
gridwork of the image area. It stores information about the file by
identifying each pixel and it's color. (Pixels are the tiny
dots on your computer screen that light up to create everything you see on
your screen.) In our example, the pixel at coordinate (1,1) is colored
black, the pixel at coordinate (1,2) is colored medium gray, the pixel at
coordinate (1,3) is colored medium gray, and so on.
For this example, let's suppose that the file
format in which we will store this bitmap consists of ordered sets of 3
numbers. The first two numbers represent the coordinates and the third number
represents the color. If the number that represents "Black" is "0" and the
number that represents "medium gray" is "64", then the data in the file
might look something like this:
(1,1,0), (1,2,64), (1,3,64)...
That's all there is to a bitmap file. A series
of numbers representing pixels and their colors.
Vector files are nothing like that. A vector
file contains the information for creating lines. It contains a starting
point and an ending point for each line. With those coordinates, it also
stores a vector equation for each coordinate. A vector equation indicates
both direction and velocity. Using these coordinates and vectors, the
computer can draw a line from point A to point B with any proper curve
automatically created.
The file for the
vector illustration to the right would contain coordinates within the
drawing area for points "A" and "B" along with other supporting information.
Each line or series of lines grouped together become objects in a vector
file, so if the coordinates for point "A" were (12,1) and the coordinates
for point "B" were (15,102), the file for the above vector illustration
might look like this:
{Begin Object -
Open Shape} {line color = 0} {12,1,(vector equation)} {15,102,(vector equation)}
{End Object}
Because information for
every possible pixel within the image area does not get stored within the
file, the vector file is dramatically smaller than a bitmap file of the same
drawing. Vector files only contain lines, but if multiple lines join up to
create a closed area, additional commands can be included to tell the
computer to fill that area with a color. By combining multiple lines and
creating multiple objects, discernable images begin to appear.
Vector images have a number of advantages over
bitmap images, including:
Can I convert a .BMP, .GIF or .JPG to
Vector images can easily be converted to
bitmap images. To make this conversion, your computer need only go through
the steps of displaying the vector image on your screen while recording
which pixels are used, and in which colors. But there is no "Conversion"
process for transforming bitmap files into vector files. There is no "line"
or "object" information in the bitmap file. To create a vector image from a
bitmap file is a difficult process. Most vector software products have an "Autotrace"
feature that attempts to create vector information from bitmap images. These
functions examine the bitmap for areas of a solid color, and attempt to
create a series of vector lines to approximate their boundaries. These
functions rarely produce results that the graphics professional would find
useful, as most bitmaps contain occasional ragged pixels and the function
tries to faithfully re-create the ragged edge. The result is a vector object
with misshapen sides and far to many lines in the object.
Alternately, most vector artists attempt to
manually recreate bitmap art as vector files. To "redraw" a bitmap, the
bitmap file is displayed within the vector art software, and the artist uses
geometric shapes to recreate the shapes he sees in the bitmap. (see
example at right)
I converted a Photoshop® file to .EPS, why
can't I use this as vector art?
Because vector art images use lines to create
images, photographs can't normally be "vectorized." However, a vector file
can contain a bitmap object inside the file. For example, let's say
that the artist recreating the logo in the example above decides to save his
file at step 3 and complete the work later. The bitmap object is on his
drawing surface when the file gets saved, so the computer needs to add
information to the file saying that there is a bitmap on the drawing board.
But the bitmap isn't a vector object, so how is this information stored? The
information for recreating the bitmap is stored in the vector file as an
object in a bitmap format - not a vector format. The vector file for
this portion might look like this - note the bitmap coordinate sets inside
the vector file:
{Begin Object -
Bitmap} {(1,1,0), (1,2,64), (1,3,64)...}
{End Bitmap Object}
It helps to think of a vector file as an
envelope. The envelope can contain many different objects, and you can
edit the objects inside one by one, remove objects, or add more objects to
the envelope. Each object in the envelope can only be edited by the rules
for that type of object, however. That is why many products that create
bitmap art objects, such as Photoshop® can save a file in a vector format,
but all that is really happening is that the software creates a vector
envelope and places the bitmap object in the envelope. There is still no
vector art inside.
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- § 711. General authority
- § 712. Investigating the use of public money
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- § 714. Audit of Financial Institutions Examination Council, Federal Reserve Board, Federal reserve banks, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of Comptroller of the Currency
- § 715. Audit of accounts and operations of the District of Columbia government
- § 716. Availability of information and inspection of records
- § 717. Evaluating programs and activities of the United States Government
- § 718. Availability of draft reports
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Twilight swim: Evening's the perfect time for a dip at Jefferson Memorial Pool on Mildred Street in Charles Town. When weather permits on Friday evenings through the summer, the pool will be open from 7 to 10 p.m. The cost is $3 per person or $8 per family. If there's a chill in the air, staff members have been known to get a bonfire going. Questions? Call the pool house at 304-725-8313 or go online to www.jmpark.org.
"Making Art": Come out Saturday afternoon and learn from acclaimed local painter and poet Ginny Fite as the Washington Street Artists' Cooperative holds its third monthly "Making Art" workshop.
Fite, also a journalist and novelist, will share insights from 2 to 5 p.m. at the gallery – no longer at its original Washington Street location but inside the Charles Town Visitors Center at 108 N. George St. (Should the co-op now be called the George/Washington Street Artists Cooperative?) For more information on the free, informal sessions, call the WSAC at 304-724-2090 or go to wstreetgallery.com.
Coming up in the series (held the second Saturday of each month): photographer Mary Jo Bennett, multimedia artist Malcolm Hally, woodworker Joe Bourgeois, carver Martha LeRoi and painter Loretta Dovell Bailey.
Doug Kinnett art: Visit the South Jefferson Public Library at 49 Church St. in Summit Point through June to see a free art exhibit featuring the work of Shepherdstown artist Doug Kinnett. The exhibit is in the library's Meeting Room, which is open whenever the space isn't in use. For details, contact Sue Floyd at the library (304-725-6227 or email@example.com).
Summer Bash: Top-notch coffee and delicious pastries can always be found at the Daily Grind in Martinsburg, but Saturday brings that and more as the shop at 778 Foxcroft Ave. holds its free Summer Bash in the parking lot. Organizers have lined up four bands and will offer kids' games, Zumba classes, door prizes, food and more from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For details, call the Daily Grind at 304-262-9722.
Civil War talk: Author and Civil War expert Bob O'Connor speaks at the Bolivar-Harpers Ferry Public Library Friday evening. O'Connor, whose latest historical novel sheds light on a Shepherdstown man who fought for the Confederacy and faced his brother, a Union soldier, twice in battle. The talk begins at 7 p.m. at the library at 600 Polk St. For details, call the library at 304-535-2301.
Morgan's Cabin fest: Food, fun activities and history come together Saturday at the Morgan Cabin Festival in Bunker Hill. It was in the early 1730s that the Wales-born Morgan became one of the first white settlers to put down permanent roots here, and his cabin on Runnymeade Road, west of U.S. 11, has been rebuilt with some of the original logs. Visitors to the annual spring festival can enjoy blacksmith demonstrations, living history demonstrations, bluegrass from Stoney Creek, displays of crafts and antique cars, and more. Lunch will be available for $6 and cakes, pies and other homemade baked goods will be up for auction. For details, call Margaret LeFevre at 304-229-5631.


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M&C and Mark deliver in the AdNews Challenge.
M&C Saatchi has cleaned up at the inaugural AdNews Challenge last Sunday.
Taking place at Clifton Gardens reserve, over 450 entrants from over 70 companies contested for industry bragging rights.
M&C Saatchi's M1 team drew overall with Whybin TBWA for top line honours and our mixed team, which included Mark Creative Director Chris Little also took home first place in the Creative Agency category.
A special mention should go to M&C Saatchi Office Manager Sarah Web who won the individual Woman's title in a time that actually placed 8th in the men's!
The AdNews challenge raised over $91,000 for charity Un Ltd (formerly MAYDAY) and a big part of that donation came from the M&C Saatchi fundraising initiative Human Cameras. Human Cameras is collaboration between the M&C Saatchi athletes and several well-known Sydney photographers.
By attaching cameras to each of our athletes we were able to capture a unique perspective of the selected AdNew's sports in motion. The shots were carefully selected and retouched by our photographers and then put on sale at http://humancameras.mcsaatchi.com.au
M&C Saatchi Creative Director Ben Welsh called the campaign "a brutally simple melding of art and athleticism for a great cause".
UN LTD Founding Director Kerry McCabe agreed.
"On behalf of disadvantaged and underprivileged young Australians, I can't thank M&C Saatchi and the photographers enough for getting behind the fundraising effort in such a compelling and innovative way."
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We think great pubs are great because of what they are – not because they have to try. We're obsessed with giving you the best in food, drink and hospitality, whatever the occasion. Pop in for a quiet drink and a chat with your best friends.
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domain name resolversAlso called resolvers, domain name resolvers are the names given to computers, commonly located with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or institutional networks that are used to respond to a user request to resolve a domain name. These computers translate a domain name into an IP address. Also called DNS resolvers.
See "Registering a Domain Name" and "Understanding Internet Governance" in the Did You Know...? section of Webopedia.
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Demographics and Interest Reports in Google Analytics
By now, most of us have heard about the new Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reports, which provide insights into age, gender, and visitor interests:
These reports will be a powerful tool for gathering information for remarketing, and may even help you create new campaigns based on your site's audience. This means no more guessing about what types of visitors interact with your site.
Where is this new data coming from?
It looks like the data that's being collected in your Google Ads Settings is at least partially driving these new reports. There has also been speculation that Google+ profiles may also be supplementing this data – one might wonder if this new data is Google+'s answer to Facebook Insights. And as Google+ is pushed more, the data may become more accurate!
Your activity on the Play Store (for those with Android devices), or other Play apps might be influencing this data, as well. Think back to the Google Privacy Policy update that rolled everything you did (while logged in to your Google account) into one neat, tidy, data-filled package.
Demographics and Interest Reports – Current Limitations
Keep the following in mind when using these new reports:
1. Are you who Google thinks you are? Take a look at your own Google Ads Settings: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences. It's not always accurate. Mine said one of my top interests was banking, and it thought my coworker was 34, based on his interests.
2. Data thresholds are applied to these reports, which means not all of the visitor data may be available, so you may be viewing partial data. If this is the case, you'll see a message like this:
3. Users may have opted out of having data collected in their Google Ads Settings. There may also be other ways of opting out from having this data collected that could also impact what's seen in Google Analytics.
4. If visitors aren't logged into their Google account when browsing, and are using an incognito browser, their data might not be recorded.
Many Google Analytics users do not have access to this report yet – if you're one of those still without access, take a look at the Google Analytics Summit update for information on this update.
Demographics and Interest Reports – Implementation
If the navigation in Google Analytics shows that you can have access to these reports, you'll need to make a few adjustments before you can start collecting the demographic data.
1. Update the tracking code to support display advertising.
To do this manually, all you need to do is replace one line of code, which will allow Google Analytics to collect data as usual, in addition to DoubleClick cookie information (if it is present).
If it's easier for you, you can also get an updated code snippet that includes the change by going to Admin > property > Tracking Info:
You will then need to add this piece of updated code to every page on your site.
2. Update your privacy policy. Once this code is in place, your site's privacy policy must now reflect how you are using data from Interest-based advertising or 3rd party audience data with Google Analytics.
3. Enable your Demographics reports in Google Analytics. Navigate to the Demographics reports, and click Enable:
4. Validate your tracking code:
Note: If code validation does not work, and you are certain that the code has been changed and is correct, try hitting "Skip Validation" to enable these reports.\
Viewing the Reports – Examples
Once the reports have been enabled, you should be able to see reports like this:
Which can then be drilled down by a few different metrics:
More specific reports contain trendlines and other fun data visualizations:
The Interests reports give you an overview, which you can also drill down into:
Using the Demographics and Interest Reports – Benefits and Examples
For a real-world example of how to utilize these new reports, we have a client who is considering using custom variables to gather visitor data. Understanding demographic data is critical to their marketing campaigns. They will now have the opportunity to compare their internal, known demographic data to the new information.
Adding the new Demographics and Interest Report code to any site would also offer several major benefits:
1. Segmentation of any report by visitor characteristics:
2. Building custom segments to use this information for remarketing
3. Automatic visualization in Google Analytics, as noted above
4. Separation of users by device type, to see if, for example, males access your site more frequently on tablets than females
This is an instance where adding the Demographics and Interest Report code would be incredibly valuable to our client. It's time-saving, automated, and far easier to manage.
The data in these reports are useful for building relationships with your customers. Slicing and dicing your data based on visitor information (like top visited pages for 24-35 year old men) will help you understand their behavior. Then, you can compare this data to your assumed target market, and you might find a new hobby or interest that you can connect with on your site, letting you create visitor-specific content that pulls customers right down the conversion path.
You can also gain a deeper understanding about the profile of visitors who do various things on your site (like convert, bounce, share things, etc.), and see how that overlaps with their interaction with other page content or sections. If, for example, 18 – 24 year olds love your blog but never make it to a product page, you can now see what conversion barriers exist.
For one more suggestion, think about a brand that sells high-end housewares and home furnishings. You might be inclined to think that most of your visitors are women. Well, SEER has a client that sells motorcycle gear, and we discovered (through traditional research) that women make up a significant part of their customer base. They successfully switched up their marketing and product mix, and ran promotions to appeal to this previously unknown customer demographic.
The new Demographics and Interest Reports can potentially provide that same level of insight, but far more easily. Going back to the housewares example, what if the data suggests that a sizable portion of visitors to your home goods site are men, who love TV and sports? You can now see what types of products they're seeking (and buying), and create promotions based on that information.
Given some of the limitations noted earlier, SEER recommends that these new reports be used to gain a high-level overview of your audience and customers. We wouldn't recommend making any major marketing decisions based on this data at this point, though. However, we do recommend adding the code as soon as you can, as it will provide new insight that you don't currently have. (Plus, it's just so darn fun to play with, right?)
As my fellow ANA team member put it: "If you see that more than half of your visitors like knitting, don't suddenly change all of your marketing strategies to knitting!"
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Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster
- Other Nominees
·Keisha Castle-Hughes as Paikea in Whale Rider
·Diane Keaton as Erica Barry in Something's Gotta Give
·Samantha Morton as Sarah in In America
·Naomi Watts as Cristina Peck in 21 Grams
A native of South Africa, Theron moved to the United States in her teens to pursue a career in ballet, but an injury caused her to pursue a career in acting instead. Her first role was a nonspeaking part in the B-grade horror film Children of the Corn III (1995), but two years later the statuesque former model costarred with Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate. Theron took her career in a sharply different direction when she took on the role of real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos. (Theron also was one of the film's producers.) The glamorous Theron gained 30 pounds for the part and spent hours in the makeup chair to achieve a rough, homely look for the role. Although her transformation was seen as a stunt by some critics, others (including Roger Ebert) championed her ability to portray Wuornos not just as a monster but as a deeply damaged human being. Two years later Theron was again nominated, for her performance as coal miner Josey Aimes in North Country.
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Instrumental variable
In statistics, econometrics, epidemiology and related disciplines, the method of instrumental variables (IV) is used to estimate causal relationships when controlled experiments are not feasible or when a treatment is not successfully delivered to every unit in a randomized experiment.[1]
Instrumental variable methods allow consistent estimation when the explanatory variables (covariates) are correlated with the error terms of a regression relationship. Such correlation may occur when the dependent variable causes at least one of the covariates ("reverse" causation), when there are relevant explanatory variables which are omitted from the model, or when the covariates are subject to measurement error. In this situation, ordinary linear regression generally produces biased and inconsistent estimates.[2] However, if an instrument is available, consistent estimates may still be obtained. An instrument is a variable that does not itself belong in the explanatory equation and is correlated with the endogenous explanatory variables, conditional on the other covariates. In linear models, there are two main requirements for using an IV:
- The instrument must be correlated with the endogenous explanatory variables, conditional on the other covariates.
- The instrument cannot be correlated with the error term in the explanatory equation, that is, the instrument cannot suffer from the same problem as the original predicting variable.
- 1 Definitions
- 2 Example
- 3 Applications
- 4 Estimation
- 5 Interpretation as two-stage least squares
- 6 Identification
- 7 Non-parametric analysis
- 8 On the interpretation of IV estimates
- 9 Potential problems
- 10 Sampling properties and hypothesis testing
- 11 Testing instrument strength and overidentifying restrictions
- 12 References
- 13 Further reading
- 14 External links
Formal definitions of instrumental variables, using counterfactuals and graphical criteria, are given by Pearl (2000).[3] Notions of causality in econometrics, and their relationship with instrumental variables and other methods, are discussed by Heckman (2008).[4]
The theory of instrumental variables was first derived by Philip G. Wright (father of Sewall Wright) in his 1928 book The Tariff on Animal and Vegetable Oils.[5]
Informally, in attempting to estimate the causal effect of some variable x on another y, an instrument is a third variable z which affects y only through its effect on x. For example, suppose a researcher wishes to estimate the causal effect of smoking on general health.[6] Correlation between health and smoking does not imply that smoking causes poor health because other variables may affect both health and smoking, or because health may affect smoking in addition to smoking causing health problems. It is at best difficult and expensive to conduct controlled experiments on smoking status in the general population. The researcher may proceed to attempt to estimate the causal effect of smoking on health from observational data by using time series on revenues generated by taxes on tobacco products as an instrument for smoking in a causal analysis. If revenues from tobacco taxes and state of health are correlated then this may be viewed as evidence that smoking causes changes in health.
Because demonstrating that the third variable 'z' is causally related to 'y' exclusively via 'x' is an experimental impossibility, and because the same limitations that prevent an experiment to determine if there is a causal relationship between 'x' and 'y' will normally also prevent experiments determining if there is a causal relationship between 'z' and 'y' (assumed to be mediated through 'x'), correlational data is the only type of evidence that analysis by instrumental variable can provide, and causal inference is not justified. The use of an instrumental variable simply produces additional evidence of a statistical relationship (in this case between 'z' and 'y'), without providing evidence of what type of relationship it is, and without providing evidence for the type of relationship between 'x' and 'y'.
IV methods are commonly used to estimate causal effects in contexts in which controlled experiments are not available. Credibility of the estimates hinges on the selection of suitable instruments. Good instruments are often created by policy changes. For example, the cancellation of a federal student-aid scholarship program may reveal the effects of aid on some students' outcomes. Other natural and quasi-natural experiments of various types are commonly exploited, for example, Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti (2004) use weather shocks to identify the effect of changes in economic growth (i.e., declines) on civil conflict.[7] Angrist and Krueger (2001) present a survey of the history and uses of instrumental variable techniques.[8]
Suppose the data are generated by a process of the form
- i indexes observations,
- is the dependent variable,
- is an independent variable,
- is an unobserved error term representing all causes of other than , and
- is an unobserved scalar parameter.
The parameter is the causal effect on of a one unit change in , holding all other causes of constant. The econometric goal is to estimate . For simplicity's sake assume the draws of are uncorrelated and that they are drawn from distributions with the same variance, that is, that the errors are serially uncorrelated and homoskedastic.
Suppose also that a regression model of nominally the same form is proposed. Given a random sample of T observations from this process, the ordinary least squares estimator is
where x, y and denote column vectors of length T. When x and are uncorrelated, under certain regularity conditions the second term has an expected value conditional on x of zero and converges to zero in the limit, so the estimator is unbiased and consistent. When x and the other unmeasured, causal variables collapsed into the term are correlated, however, the OLS estimator is generally biased and inconsistent for β. In this case, it is valid to use the estimates to predict values of y given values of x, but the estimate does not recover the causal effect of x on y.
An instrumental variable z is one that is correlated with the independent variable but not with the error term. Using the method of moments, take expectations conditional on z to find
The second term on the right-hand side is zero by assumption. Solve for and write the resulting expression in terms of sample moments,
When z and are uncorrelated, the final term, under certain regularity conditions, approaches zero in the limit, providing a consistent estimator. Put another way, the causal effect of x on y can be consistently estimated from these data even though x is not randomly assigned through experimental methods.
The approach generalizes to a model with multiple explanatory variables. Suppose X is the T × K matrix of explanatory variables resulting from T observations on K variables. Let Z be a T × K matrix of instruments. Then it can be shown that the estimator
is consistent under a multivariate generalization of the conditions discussed above. If there are more instruments than there are covariates in the equation of interest so that Z is a T × M matrix with M > K, the generalized method of moments (GMM) can be used and the resulting IV estimator is
where .
Note that the second expression collapses to the first when the number of instruments is equal to the number of covariates in the equation of interest (just-identified case).
Developing the expression:
In the just-identified case, we have as many instruments as covariates, so that the dimension of X is the same of Z. Hence, and are all squared matrices of the same dimension. We can expand the inverse, using the fact that, for any invertible n-by-n matrices A and B, (AB)−1 = B−1A−1 (see Invertible matrix#Properties):
Reference: see Davidson and Mackinnnon (1993)[9]:218
Interpretation as two-stage least squares[edit]
One computational method which can be used to calculate IV estimates is two-stage least-squares (2SLS or TSLS). In the first stage, each explanatory variable that is an endogenous covariate in the equation of interest is regressed on all of the exogenous variables in the model, including both exogenous covariates in the equation of interest and the excluded instruments. The predicted values from these regressions are obtained.
Stage 1: Regress each column of X on Z, ()
and save the predicted values:
In the second stage, the regression of interest is estimated as usual, except that in this stage each endogenous covariate is replaced with the predicted values from the first stage.
Stage 2: Regress Y on the predicted values from the first stage:
Which gives:
Note that the usual OLS estimator is: . Replacing and noting that is a symmetric and idempotent matrix, so that
The resulting estimator of is numerically identical to the expression displayed above. A small correction must be made to the sum-of-squared residuals in the second-stage fitted model in order that the covariance matrix of is calculated correctly.
In the instrumental variable regression, if we have multiple endogenous regressors and multiple instruments the coefficients on the endogenous regressors are said to be:
Exactly identified if m = k.
Overidentified if m > k.
Underidentified if m < k.
The parameters are underidentified (equivalently, not identified) if there are fewer instruments than there are covariates or, equivalently, if there are fewer excluded instruments than there are endogenous covariates in the equation of interest.
Non-parametric analysis[edit]
When the form of the structural equations is unknown, an instrumental variable can still be defined through the equations:
where and are two arbitrary functions and is independent of . Unlike linear models, however, measurements of and do not allow for the identification of the average causal effect of on , denoted ACE
Balke and Pearl [1997] derived tight bounds on ACE and showed that these can provide valuable information on the sign and size of ACE.[10]
In linear analysis, there is no test to falsify the assumption the is instrumental relative to the pair . This is not the case when is discrete. Pearl (2000) has shown that, for all and , the following constraint, called "Instrumental Inequality" must hold whenever satisfies the two equations above:[3]
On the interpretation of IV estimates[edit]
The exposition above assumes that the causal effect of interest does not vary across observations, that is, that is a constant. Generally, different subjects will respond in different ways to changes in the "treatment" x. When this possibility is recognized, the average effect in the population of a change in x on y may differ from the effect in a given subpopulation. For example, the average effect of a job training program may substantially differ across the group of people who actually receive the training and the group which chooses not to receive training. For these reasons, IV methods invoke implicit assumptions on behavioral response, or more generally assumptions over the correlation between the response to treatment and propensity to receive treatment.[11]
The standard IV estimator can recover local average treatment effects (LATE) rather than average treatment effects (ATE).[1] Imbens and Angrist (1994) demonstrate that the linear IV estimate can be interpreted under weak conditions as a weighted average of local average treatment effects, where the weights depend on the elasticity of the endogenous regressor to changes in the instrumental variables. Roughly, that means that the effect of a variable is only revealed for the subpopulations affected by the observed changes in the instruments, and that subpopulations which respond most to changes in the instruments will have the largest effects on the magnitude of the IV estimate.
For example, if a researcher uses presence of a land-grant college as an instrument for college education in an earnings regression, she identifies the effect of college on earnings in the subpopulation which would obtain a college degree if a college is present but which would not obtain a degree if a college is not present. This empirical approach does not, without further assumptions, tell the researcher anything about the effect of college among people who would either always or never get a college degree regardless of whether a local college exists.
Potential problems[edit]
Instrumental variables estimates are generally inconsistent if the instruments are correlated with the error term in the equation of interest. Another problem is caused by the selection of "weak" instruments, instruments that are poor predictors of the endogenous question predictor in the first-stage equation.[12] In this case, the prediction of the question predictor by the instrument will be poor and the predicted values will have very little variation. Consequently, they are unlikely to have much success in predicting the ultimate outcome when they are used to replace the question predictor in the second-stage equation.
In the context of the smoking and health example discussed above, tobacco taxes are weak instruments for smoking if smoking status is largely unresponsive to changes in taxes. If higher taxes do not induce people to quit smoking (or not start smoking), then variation in tax rates tells us nothing about the effect of smoking on health. If taxes affect health through channels other than through their effect on smoking, then the instruments are invalid and the instrumental variables approach may yield misleading results. For example, places and times with relatively health-conscious populations may both implement high tobacco taxes and exhibit better health even holding smoking rates constant, so we would observe a correlation between health and tobacco taxes even if it were the case that smoking has no effect on health. In this case, we would be mistaken to infer a causal effect of smoking on health from the observed correlation between tobacco taxes and health.
Sampling properties and hypothesis testing[edit]
When the covariates are exogenous, the small-sample properties of the OLS estimator can be derived in a straightforward manner by calculating moments of the estimator conditional on X. When some of the covariates are endogenous so that instrumental variables estimation is implemented, simple expressions for the moments of the estimator cannot be so obtained. Generally, instrumental variables estimators only have desirable asymptotic, not finite sample, properties, and inference is based on asymptotic approximations to the sampling distribution of the estimator. Even when the instruments are uncorrelated with the error in the equation of interest and when the instruments are not weak, the finite sample properties of the instrumental variables estimator may be poor. For example, exactly identified models produce finite sample estimators with no moments, so the estimator can be said to be neither biased nor unbiased, the nominal size of test statistics may be substantially distorted, and the estimates may commonly be far away from the true value of the parameter.[13]
Testing instrument strength and overidentifying restrictions[edit]
The strength of the instruments can be directly assessed because both the endogenous covariates and the instruments are observable.[14] A common rule of thumb for models with one endogenous regressor is: the F-statistic against the null that the excluded instruments are irrelevant in the first-stage regression should be larger than 10.
The assumption that the instruments are not correlated with the error term in the equation of interest is not testable in exactly identified models. If the model is overidentified, there is information available which may be used to test this assumption. The most common test of these overidentifying restrictions, called the Sargan test, is based on the observation that the residuals should be uncorrelated with the set of exogenous variables if the instruments are truly exogenous. The Sargan test statistic can be calculated as (the number of observations multiplied by the coefficient of determination) from the OLS regression of the residuals onto the set of exogenous variables. This statistic will be asymptotically chi-squared with m − k degrees of freedom under the null that the error term is uncorrelated with the instruments.
- ^ a b Imbens, G.; Angrist, J. (1994). "Identification and estimation of local average treatment effects". Econometrica 62 (2): 467–476. JSTOR 2951620.
- ^ Bullock, J. G.; Green, D. P.; Ha, S. E. (2010). "Yes, But What's the Mechanism? (Don't Expect an Easy Answer)". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 98 (4): 550–558. doi:10.1037/a0018933.
- ^ a b Pearl, J. (2000). Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052189560X.
- ^ Heckman, J. (2008). "Econometric Causality". International Statistical Review 76 (1): 1–27. doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2007.00024.x.
- ^ Stock, James H.; Trebbi, Francesco (2003). "Retrospectives: Who Invented Instrumental Variable Regression?". Journal of Economic Perspectives 17 (3): 177–194. doi:10.1257/089533003769204416.
- ^ Leigh, J. P.; Schembri, M. (2004). "Instrumental Variables Technique: Cigarette Price Provided Better Estimate of Effects of Smoking on SF-12". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 57 (3): 284–293. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2003.08.006.
- ^ Miguel, E.; Satyanath, S.; Sergenti, E. (2004). "Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variable Approach". Journal of Political Economy 112 (4): 725–753. doi:10.1086/421174.
- ^ Angrist, J.; Krueger, A. (2001). "Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments". Journal of Economic Perspectives 15 (4): 69–85. doi:10.1257/jep.15.4.69.
- ^ Davidson, Russell; Mackinnon, James (1993). Estimation and Inference in Econometrics. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506011-3.
- ^ Balke, A.; Pearl, J. (1997). "Bounds on treatment effects from studies with imperfect compliance". Journal of the American Statistical Association 92 (439): 1172–1176. doi:10.1080/01621459.1997.10474074.
- ^ Heckman, J. (1997). "Instrumental variables: A study of implicit behavioral assumptions used in making program evaluations". Journal of Human Resources 32 (3): 441–462. JSTOR 146178.
- ^ Bound, J.; Jaeger, D. A.; Baker, R. M. (1995). "Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak". Journal of the American Statistical Association 90 (430): 443. doi:10.1080/01621459.1995.10476536.
- ^ Nelson, C. R.; Startz, R. (1990). "Some Further Results on the Exact Small Sample Properties of the Instrumental Variable Estimator". Econometrica 58 (4): 967–976. JSTOR 2938359.
- ^ Stock, J.; Wright, J.; Yogo, M. (2002). "A Survey of Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Generalized Method of Moments". Journal of the American Statistical Association 20 (4): 518–529. doi:10.1198/073500102288618658.
Further reading[edit]
- Imbens, Guido W.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. (2009). "Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation". Journal of Economic Literature 47 (1): 5–86. doi:10.1257/jel.47.1.5.
- Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. (2013). "Instrumental Variables Estimation and Two-Stages Least Squares". Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (Fifth international ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western. pp. 490–528. ISBN 978-1-111-53439-4.
External links[edit]
- Layman's explanation of instrumental variables.
- Chapter from Daniel McFadden's textbook
- Econometrics lecture (topic: instrumental variable) on YouTube by Mark Thoma.
- Econmetrics lecture (topic: two-stages least square) on YouTube by Mark Thoma


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Apps: Kickstarter, Kindle 3.6, Real Racing 3 + Slacker 4.0
Kickstarter has unveiled an official free app for the iPhone and iPod touch, which functions much like a mobile version of the crowd funding site. Most users will use the app to discover new projects, watch videos, and get updates on projects they've funded straight from the app. Allowing location services also lets users find new nearby projects automatically. On the flip side, project creators can track their project's progress, connect with backers, and post updates from anywhere. While we're generally very hesitant to treat Apple-focused Kickstarter campaigns as real news, based on the frequency of delays, over-promising in campaigns, and other issues, users who are interested in trying their luck with the service may like the app.
Amazon's free Kindle app has been updated to version 3.6 with several new features. Multicolored highlights allow users to select from four different colors to highlight important passages. After finishing a book, readers can now easily share that fact with friends on Facebook and Twitter, as well as rating the book and writing a review. Other books of interest can then be added to a wish list. Also, the brightness control within the app will now be saved, so when a user's device goes to sleep, the settings will no longer be changed and needed to be reset.
Having been purchased by Electronic Arts and merged with fellow Australian developer Iron Monkey, Firemint—renamed Firemonkeys—was primed for major changes to its flagship Real Racing franchise. Now universal for iOS devices, Real Racing 3 arrives with massive visual upgrades including iPad-grade Retina graphics, cinematic pre- and in-game camera work, and mostly fluid frame rates that earlier versions lacked on day one. Polygonal details and reflections on the over 45 licensed cars are particularly impressive, with background art in the real-world race tracks showing major improvements over Real Racing 2, as well. Add a compelling new soundtrack, plus a superior career mode that merges seamlessly with an online multiplayer mode, and the only question you'll ask is "how much does this cost?" The surprising answer: "nothing." While Real Racing 3 has gone freemium, a step we've generally found objectionable in past iOS titles, the pay-to-play model has been cautiously implemented so casual players needn't cough up a dime. EA expects, however, that people will want to spend real-world cash to unlock additional tracks, car upgrades, and additional play time; given how impressive this title looks, perhaps they will. We're not wowed by the substantially unchanged, slow-starting gameplay, but fans of simulation-style racers will want to give this a spin the moment it's available here. For now, it's available internationally, but not in North America.
Despite formidable competition and some early problems on iOS devices, Spotify quickly became a leading music streaming service by offering simple, nearly free access to a huge library of content—a change that left rivals scrambling to redefine themselves. Just released in the App Store, Slacker Radio 4.0 (Free*) is Slacker's complete rethinking of its iPhone and iPod user experience; the iPad UI overhaul is yet to come. Gone are the prior version's list-like main menu and dark tones, replaced by a white and primary color interface inspired by Microsoft's Metro. High-contrast icons now rest on box and label-like surfaces that pop up from the background, with menus consisting primarily of large, touchable boxes rather than thin lines of text. Related content can be accessed using buttons and gestures, which the app teaches you on your first run-through. Underneath the clean new interface are a nice collection of services—ABC News, ESPN Radio, over 200 curated radio-like stations, custom-built stations based on your tastes, and search-based access to over 10 million songs. As before, the free app offers instant iOS access to stations, while a $4/month Plus subscription enables commercial free station access with some offline listening, and a $10/month Premium service adds full offline listening and unlimited on-demand access to songs, albums, and stations. The only bummer: Slacker's similarly redesigned web interface requires Flash. Yes, seriously.
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Friday April 18thMeet up at Tilly Jane Cabin on the North Side of Mt. Hood. The spots in the cabin are all accounted for, but there is plenty of room for camping. If you already have a crew, get some riding in! If not, plan on meeting everyone throughout the day and making touring plans for Saturday.
Saturday April 19thTour all day!
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For any kids who've wondered what it's like to be in news, Curious Minds Discovery Zone in Parsons, Kansas is giving them that opportunity through a new exhibit.
Curious Minds is a non-profit, science and arts based children's museum and on Thursday KOAM's own reporter Jehan Sheikh and photojournalist Hunter Peterson were there to help kick off the exhibit.
The exhibit is called "The Science of News" and will be available throughout the month of June. Kids are able to look up information to report on, then stand in front of a camera tell their story.
At the museum kids also get the chance to be a doctor, dentist or builder.
Creative Director Shawn Encarnacion says every month they will feature different career themes to give kids a hands-on experience with different professions.
"We want them to see what it looks like for professional person who is curious about the world and goes out and finds out what that professional storyteller does, to find out what's happening in our world and come let the rest of us know," says Encarnacion. "That in itself is a pretty priceless thing to see and understand."
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Barbara Carroll, Nancy Bouchier, Henry Jacek
Why do municipalities bid for mega-events? Simply bidding for these events, such as the Commonwealth Games, the Olympic Games or a World Expo, can run into the millions of dollars. The cost of hosting such a large-scale international event now runs into the billions of dollars. It would appear to be an economic risk, yet cities, and their respective countries, around the world continue to choose this public policy path. Using urban regime theory, and focusing on the work of Stone, Stoker and Mossberger, this research investigates the actors and their motivations surrounding the Commonwealth Games bids by Melbourne, Australia for 2006, Halifax, Nova Scotia for 2014, and Hamilton, Ontario for 1994, 2010 and 2014. Civic pride, economic development, tourism growth and infrastructure improvements are all motivating factors and a mega-event is seen as a short-cut to achieving these public policy goals. We conclude that strong cooperation between the public and private sectors is necessary, as well as comparable cooperation between the upper levels of government and the host city, for a seriously competitive bid in a Western democracy, and that the weaker the cooperation, the less resolve and likelihood there is to host an expensive event at any cost. This research not only furthers political science knowledge in the sports public policy field, but also confirms the use of urban regime theory as a useful framework in comparative urban analysis as it allows us to categorize actors and motivations as we compare across municipalities.
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Phillips, Carol, "MUNICIPALITIES AND THE MEGA-EVENT" (2012). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 7440.
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I went to Wikipedia to look up Marius Petipa's bio and found the last sentence of the detailed article to be:
"Currently the scholar and ballet historian Roland John Wiley is working on a full biography of Marius Petipa."
Is this news to anyone here?
Biogrphy of Petipa underway?
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After testing out its blue jerseys last Saturday, Georgia Tech will wear white uniforms Saturday against Virginia. Virginia coach Mike London sent out a Twitter message Thursday that the Cavaliers have chosen to wear navy helmets and jerseys as the Jackets will wear white.
The uniforms are believed to be slightly different than the white outfits worn in the opener against Virginia Tech. The team practiced in its traditional gold helmets this week after wearing the white version prior to the first two games, which it then wore in the game.
Also, quarterback Tevin Washington will take his turn wearing the No. 40 jersey in honor of former linebacker Julian Burnett, according to a Twitter message from Tech spokesman Dean Buchan. It was Washington's idea for team members to rotate the jersey to pay tribute to Burnett, who suffered a career-ending neck injury in the Sun Bowl. So far, nose tackle T.J. Barnes and cornerback Rod Sweeting have worn No. 40. Starting seniors Izaan Cross (defensive end) and Orwin Smith (A-back) will also get an opportunity to wear it, after which non-seniors will have an chance.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
September 14th, 2012
4:21 pm
I'm #40!
September 14th, 2012
4:38 pm
Trippy Mane, baby !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 14th, 2012
4:48 pm
[...] Tech in white, Washington to wear No. 40 [...]
September 14th, 2012
4:55 pm
I'm glad the underclassmen with have an chance too….
September 14th, 2012
4:56 pm
Hopefully different than the white worn on the first game doesn't mean last years jersey…
September 14th, 2012
5:01 pm
Besides the WCU game, I didn't have a problem with last year's jerseys.
September 14th, 2012
5:04 pm
As long as the white jersey's don't have those hideous almost iridescent blue numerals from the VT game, they should look ok.
September 14th, 2012
5:07 pm
SS…good call on the solid dark navy numbers. Other than that, I love the nest!
September 14th, 2012
5:10 pm
@ FLJ…..I like the nest too, but those numerals were hideous, at least on TV. The numerals they had last week looked better, but unfortunately they were sometimes hard to read from the upper deck.
September 14th, 2012
5:13 pm
Last years jerseys looked like they were lower quality than knock off starter jerseys from walmart, I like the new jerseys I just wish they would not try to go 3-D with the nest thing and they would use the appropriate Navy and Gold.
September 14th, 2012
5:16 pm
Quite frankly, I wish they would get rid of ANY shade of blue, and use black. I never understood why blue was selected as our secondary color to begin with. Black SHOULD have been the natural choice for a secondary color.
September 14th, 2012
5:17 pm
Lee, I think they are finally starting to get the concept of sticking with a single gold – Old Gold. The problem is that Old Gold is a terrible color for TV, which is why adding texture to it makes it a great trade-off.
September 14th, 2012
5:18 pm
SS…Amen. Give me some black jerseys every now and then when the kids have lived up to that "Black Watch" defensive standard. (kid of like how Nebraska does it)
I could care less if crummudgeon old alums detest black…
September 14th, 2012
5:21 pm
I agree Black makes much more sense as the third school color, Black and Gold is much closer to the color of a yellow jacket.
September 14th, 2012
5:31 pm
@ Lee R…….you are 100% correct. Blue makes absolutely no sense at all. And FLJ, those "black watch" jerseys were AWESOME, as was the "black watch" defense. I would probably qualify as a "crummudgeon old alum", and blue is the color I detest, certainly not black
September 14th, 2012
5:39 pm
and the Black Watch members also got the black stripe on the helmet…..
September 14th, 2012
6:06 pm
agree with Supersize, black yes blue sick of it
September 14th, 2012
6:20 pm
Is black a color—or the absence of color. For that matter white isn't technically a color either.
I did like the Blackwatch concept—I think the guys had a black GT. Navy blue is almost black—guess I'm in the minority by liking blue, but prefer to see the gold helmets. Otherwise I don't care that much as long as they don't pull a MD with the helmets or the power ranger suit the dwags had to wear.
They can wear burlap as long as they win the game.
September 14th, 2012
6:35 pm
Thank GOD no we will be able to read the Numbers for this game. Gold helmets too please.
September 14th, 2012
6:53 pm
I loved the Black Watch too, but Black and Gold reminds me to much of Vandy—
September 14th, 2012
6:58 pm
I would rather be reminded of Vandy than see the blue of UNC or Duke
September 14th, 2012
7:04 pm
Dont sugar coat it Super, tell us how you really feel:)
September 14th, 2012
7:07 pm
Im a little more like CPJ on this issue, dont really give a crap just WIN!
September 14th, 2012
7:52 pm
Guys, the reason (I was told this by a person at GTAA) that we don't wear black as an accent color is b/c black is HALF of UGAg's colors. I know we had the 'black watch' in the 80's under Curry-i was there part of that time. But as a general rule we don't use black cause of dawgs. Navy blue is not a bad accent color, it looks good with the gold and white. GO Jackets! Whatever color you wear.
September 14th, 2012
8:03 pm
@ GTGirl…..that makes sense, and would explain why the really old-timers are against black, but does UGA even wear much black anymore, other than a highlight? In fact, did they ever. The seem to wear more red and white than red and black, and long ago, they were known as the silver britches because they almost always wore red jerseys and silver britches. If UGA can wear white, knowing that one of Tech's primary colors is white, I don't see why Tech can't wear black.
September 14th, 2012
8:08 pm
Blue Jerseys are the definition of compromise.
Frankly, I think Vandy's unis look great.
September 14th, 2012
8:43 pm
Good point Super! Remember when we wore gold britches with white jerseys almost exclusively?
Also, remember when UGAg last wore their black jerseys for their 'black out' home game? They got beat!!! So that may be why they don't wear them amymore.
September 14th, 2012
8:54 pm
Makes me think of #40 Eddie Lee Ivery-
NCAA single game highest average gain per rush-(Min. 26 rushes) 13.7 vs. Air Force, Nov. 11, 1978
Division One single game rushing record- 356 yards vs. Air Force, Nov. 11, 1978
Georgia Tech Football single season rushing yards leader- 1,562 yards
Georgia Tech 3rd in career (1975–78) rushing yards- 3,517 in 609 attempts and 22 TD.
Georgia Tech 4th in career all-purpose yards- 4,324
Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame (1983)
September 14th, 2012
9:02 pm
Love the new uniforms!
September 14th, 2012
9:18 pm
Best uniforms since 1990. However, I'm not a big fan of white on white. Give me some color.
September 14th, 2012
9:24 pm
Maybe we are wearing gold pants with the white jerseys since this is not a 'white out' game.
September 14th, 2012
9:39 pm
@ Todd, Eddie Lee was one stud running back, I think the game against Air Force when he set the record was televised (or maybe it was just the televised highlights) and I remember it was snowing during the game. Ciraldo had a blast calling that game!
September 14th, 2012
9:39 pm
Anything beats that awful mustard color they wore a couple of years back.
September 14th, 2012
9:52 pm
Paul – that WAS bad… And if memory serves so was the outcome. Blue and gold reminds me of the boy scouts banquet… so I kind of like it.
September 14th, 2012
9:54 pm
Norcross putting it on North Gwinnett 24-7
September 14th, 2012
9:54 pm
But SS is one those ole "curmudgeon old alums"!! LOL
September 14th, 2012
11:01 pm
I hope Tevin doesn't put too much pressure on himself with the trippy jersey tomorrow. We need him to have a good game…and I think he will.
September 14th, 2012
11:16 pm
please get rid of those chicken wire helmets and jerseys
September 14th, 2012
11:25 pm
I have to admit I think the new "honeycomb" unis are pretty weak. The camera has to do a super zoom just to see it.
September 14th, 2012
11:36 pm
Maybe if they just woulda made the honeycombs bigger with some crazed yellow jackets flying out of them…
September 14th, 2012
11:52 pm
Personally, I LOVED the navy jerseys last Saturday. I wish they would wear them for EVERY home game. It kills me how the Tech "faithful" want nothing but old gold and white yet 85% of their clothing on the on-line store is NAVY BLUE!!!
By the way, Tech has never done a great job getting the "old gold" color right to begin with. The actual "old gold" color is the same color as the signs on top of the section portals at the stadium.
September 15th, 2012
12:44 am
Don't like the clothing they sell either
September 15th, 2012
12:57 am
The old Gold that ESPN had when they put the teams and score on the screen is what is needed. Drad is bending over and taking a big one because he says the players and recruits like it. I told him his on media guide states the colors are Old Gold and White with Black and Blue accents. He doesn't care. I also asked him how many recruits have committed because of the uniforms we wear. He didn't answer. If you want a change email him and tell him you will not renew your season tickets unless he changes the uniforms and he may listen. Otherwise he won't care what you think. Money talks and everything else walks. He his just a pompous ass and is trying to do away or change everything that is traditional.
September 15th, 2012
3:05 am
@Ol'JacketFan-who runs for 356 yards in the snow…i think he would have been a great pro if it weren't for the knee injuries. will always be my favorite jacket RB.
September 15th, 2012
5:03 am
I would vote for Lenny Snow form the sixties and Johnathon Dwyer for later years. I missed following Tech in the seventies
I just gave my mom morphine as instructed to by her Hospice team as well as oxygen. It worked to get her breathing back to normal. First time in my life I have gotten to play doctor. I was apprehensive but so far so good. I sensed this was coming as I asked them to go over dispensing the morphine on thrusday. I hope she does not relapse this morning. I have a nurse lined up to care for her today so I can see the game. May pull an all-nighter like my college days. Warning for any females out there: if I start a remark with "I'm not a day over …" be prepared some exaggeration.
September 15th, 2012
7:17 am
What's up with the football fashion craze? Can't the players wear gold helmets with gold/white contrast pants and jerseys? All white is dull! You don't see Ala, LSU, So Cal, etc wearing designer uniforms. Tradition is cool.
September 15th, 2012
7:22 am
I'd put the team in their practice uniforms and a gold "hat" with no GT on it out of the gate each year, kinda like Curry did in 85(?). Make earn the GT and uniform modifications with their play. Of course, Alabama and Penn State are my two favorite uniforms, so I guess I'm out of touch. In fact, I know I'm out of touch.
September 15th, 2012
8:00 am
@Todd, He is the best back to play at Tech IMO with Robert Lavette a close second. I know Dwyer and Allen had great years but they both had an expanded season 12-14 games versus 10-12 games for Ivery & Lavette.
September 15th, 2012
8:15 am
Tevin Washington needs to sit.
Vad Lee needs to play.
September 15th, 2012
8:28 am
All of these combinations would be greatly improved with OLD GOLD in lieu of the washed out yellow color.


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