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Marketing CoPilot Methodology™
Value Proposition
A Value Proposition is a precise articulation of why someone should buy something from you versus a competitor or alternative. It is not a description of what you do, nor is it a tagline or positioning statement. It is a statement about value and why they should buy it from you.Many companies struggle with this concept because of their focus on product or service, not on value to the buyer.
A Value Proposition is not determined: it is discovered based on the needs of your customer.
Buyer Map
Buyer behaviour has changed. Your prospects want to self-educate and self-serve before they make a decision to call you. You can no longer afford to let your sales team to be the layer between you and explaining your value to a prospect.
A Buyer Map helps you understand what a buyer needs to know, feel and understand about your product or service before they pick up the phone and call you. A Buyer Map helps you understand the content that needs to be part of your web presence, but more importantly, you can identify how to test the buyer steps and use content and other tools as important conversion points in your lead generation strategy.
Conversion Strategy
Once you have the buyer path and the right keyword strategy, you are ready to decide where a visitor needs to go and what you want them to do on your website. Believe it or not, a defined path based on their needs will dramatically improve conversion. But putting up a whole pile of content hoping they click something is not a good approach. Build an interactive wireframe that maps out all of the elements of your website with the right connectors to everything you want in your digital dialogue from social media to email marketing and beyond.
Keyword Strategy
Keywords are not just for the technical aspect of your website or Google AdWords. They are the way people think while they are in the buying process. Keywords should be focused words that your potential customer is thinking about before they shortlist options of a way to solve a problem. Keywords are likely the most powerful lead generation tool in your business today. A customer-centric keyword strategy helps you focus the content and navigation of your website to support the buying process and should be a focal point for everything you do online. A Keyword Strategy helps you identify how to connect with people who need your products or services.
Build or Enhance Website
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Create and Publish Content
Everyone forgets that today's web visitor will only stay on your website for 8 seconds or less if they aren't immediately drawn to your Value Proposition or a next step on the page that appeals to them. Too often we misunderstand eye-tracking and design elements that can be used on a website to evoke trust and engagement. Design is used to improve conversion and reduce anxiety. How you publish your content is just as important as what your content includes. The visitor to your website or researcher of your product or service won't spend time on a poorly organized or busy website – they have too many other choices.
Optimize and Integrate
Content is still king and it converts. Content developed from the perspective of your buyer's business problems will win over product-centric information. How good is the content on your website now? Will it support the buyer path and help your website get found for topics your buyers are searching on? The content in your digital dialogue should be consistent throughout all channels and needs to be developed around customer-centric keywords. A well-organized integrated digital marketing program takes into consideration every place a potential customer may interact with you online.
Just because you built it doesn't mean that they'll come! When you launch a new website, you need to keep creating content so that you will attract visitors to your website whether they are new or returning. Fresh content is what drives traffic. By using a content editorial calendar that maps back to your overall digital marketing and keyword strategies, you can map out a plan for pushing out relevant content to drive engagement with your best customers and prospects.
After 90 days, you should examine the tracking results of your web presence tools and determine if your conversion strategy is working. 90 days with fresh content and socialization is a good time period to know if your value proposition resonates with current and prospective customers and if you have cleared away the friction and made it easy for visitors to do something on your website. After 90 days, evolve your digital marketing strategy, continue to deploy your content and map back your results to the well-established goals identified in your Buyer Map. Your web strategy is a marathon, not a sprint. Keep working on it!
At the end of the 90-day post-launch period, you will have some great data and learnings about your content and new online lead generation process. If you are hitting a home run with your content and you have inquiries flooding into your business, now might be a good time to start automating the tasks associated with continual lead nurturing.
If you are not hitting a home run yet with your lead volume, it's important to go back and look at content popularity to decide what is working and what is not. It often takes 12 months of data to understand if your content is resonating with your buyer and to find the company "tone of voice that will drive traffic to your website. Stop doing the stuff that is not working and keep doing the stuff that it is. It sounds simple but you need to understand how to view and analyze Google data in order to know what to do next. Don't be afraid to keep the best and dump the rest!
Business Analysis & Audit of Inbound Program
Accelerating your lead generation and lead nurturing process is an ideal option for any business. But do you have the tools and systems in place to support such acceleration? After analyzing your current lead management process and conducting an audit of your website we are able to provide industry specific recommendations on how best to digitally transform your business. Your inbound program should be supported by marketing automation tools for ultimate inbound sales and marketing success.
Marketing Automation Implementation
Purchasing the marketing automation software is only your first step in the marketing automation journey. Using the up front strategic analysis we are able to map your business goals and lead generating process to your marketing automation tool in a 60-90 day implementation process. If you've implemented marketing automation software without applying your sales and marketing strategy you've already missed out on some key opportunities for lead generation.
Aligning Marketing with Sales Goals
Discovering and streamlining your marketing strategy with a marketing automation tool not only assists your marketing team but can also hugely impact the results of your sales team. In the process of digital transformation, alignment between your sales and marketing team can not drive leads in quantity but also in quality. Get your marketing function and sales goals on the same page by accelerating your marketing automation program with Marketing CoPilot.


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Casino officials are working with local leaders to accommodate concert traffic.
Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack released today its plans to manage the thousands of visiting concert-goers expected to attend the Dwight Yoakam concert on Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 8pm in the Wheeling Island Stadium.
In an effort to keep the crowds moving safety and efficiently with minimal impact to local residents, the casino has recruited the support of the City of Wheeling Police to assist guests though the best traffic routes.
The Dwight Yoakam concert will cause S. Stone Street, S. Front Street at Fink Street and S. Penn Street at Fink Street to close from Noon-11pm on June 12, 2009. Only residential traffic will be allowed.
Guests traveling from the Wheeling Suspension Bridge should proceed to S. Broadway Street into the casino's parking lot.
Guests traveling from I-70 East or West are asked to use S. York Street, the casino's main parking lot entrance.
"We have been working diligently with Ohio County Schools, our city police and firefighters to bring their expertise to our Outdoor Summer Concerts," stated Clyde Callicott, Vice President of Marketing at Wheeling Island. "They have executed numerous events of this magnitude over the years, including the Super Six football games, and bring a wealth of knowledge to the table. As a group, we have all the elements in place for a safe, exciting concert event," continued Callicott.
For a street map of the recommended traffic routes, visit www.wheelingisland.com.
Dwight Yoakam's live performance is the first of 2 mega shows taking place this summer at the Wheeling Island Stadium. The "CAN'T STOP ROCKIN' 2009 TOUR" featuring Styx and REO Speedwagon with special guests .38 Special will hit the stage on Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 6pm in the Wheeling Island Stadium.
The Wheeling Island Outdoor Concert Series are open to all ages and are a rain or shine event. Tickets are on sale now by phone at 800-754-3000 or online at www.TicketMaster.com or www.wheelingisland.com.
Dwight Yoakam reserved seating is $40, $35 and general admission $30. Styx and REO Speedwagon "CAN'T STOP ROCKIN' 2009 Tour" with special guests 38 Special reserved seating is $45, $40 and general admission $35.
Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack offers 43 table games, 20-table poker room, over 2,000 slot machines, 151-room luxury hotel, the #1 Greyhound Track in the USA (based on purses paid), six restaurants, 1,000-seat showroom, meeting and banquet services and gift shop.
Wheeling Island won 7 first place "Best of Gaming" Awards by Casino Player Magazine's July 2008 readers poll including Best Reel Slots, Best Video Poker, Best Service, Best Cash Back and Best Promotions.
Wheeling Island welcomes more than 2.5 million visitors through its doors annually. Visitors enjoy the fast paced action 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For information on Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack, call 877-WIN-HERE (877-946-4373), for hotel reservations call 877-WHEELING (877-943-3546) or log on to www.wheelingisland.com.
Wheeling Island Gaming, Inc. owns and operates Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack, a premier gaming and entertainment complex located in Wheeling, West Virginia. It is the largest operation of Delaware North Companies Gaming & Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delaware North Companies, Inc.
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This is my summary of the discussion instigated by my following email: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2007Oct/0079.html> I provide it to help with disposing (whether affirmatively or negatively, in whole or in part) of my proposal in today's telecon. I've aimed it to be narrow rather than comprehensive, evidence based, brief, neutral, and fair (sometimes neutrality isn't fair, for example, but I've made no prioritization). Occasionally, I may interject an editorial aside with my position, though I'll strive to keep these to a minimum, preferring toward none. So lack of comment or analysis does not indicate that I agree or disagree with a point. It ended up being a lot longer than I'd hoped :( THE PROPOSAL: In the last telecon, I proposed that we take the core formal documents of the OWL 1.1 specifications, as appearing on webont.org, and publish them as first public working drafts as soon as technically feasible, that is, within a few weeks. These are: Structural Specification Formal Semantics RDF Mapping Together, they form an update, albeit incomplete, to the OWL 1.0 Semantics and Abstract Syntax document. They are the most worked out, albiet incomplete, specification of a possible OWL 1.1 language. There is also considerable implementor and user experience, as well as nearly a year of feedback. In the telecon, the proposal was split into two parts: 1) whether we should commit to publishing the core trio by our first heartbeat requirement, and 2) whether we should publish as fast as possible. The group made a decision on the first part (slightly modified to allow dropping the RDF Mapping). PROCEDURAL ISSUE: This decision was challenged on procedural grounds. Regardless of the merits of those challenges, the chairs are considering a procedural proposal to 1) only put questions to the group that have been more or less (I'm unclear how much) explicitly mentioned in the agenda 24 hours before the telecon, and 2) to allow a "cooling off" period of a week on any decision. REASONS IN FAVOR: 1) WD drafts are widely advertised and very natural targets for review. Thus, publishing the input design as FPWDs has the potential to attract the most possible feedback from the widest group of reviewers. 2) Getting through a first publication gets us through all the technical hurdles. The earlier that's done the better 3) It establishes a publish often ethos 4) It helps establish good momentum. It seems clear that the proposal is correlated with some more aggressive reviewing than might have otherwise happened. For example, I believe between the first and second telecon, I was the only person who posted any document reviews to the list. Now there have been several and issues I did not *imagine* existed were raised. 5)It triggers early IP consideration. A key basis of the proposal is that WDs, even FPWD, do not entail or suggest commitment by the group --- de facto or de jure --- to either the design or the presentation of those drafts. See: <http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr#first-wd> REASONS AGAINST: I count at least 4 people explicitly voicing opposition against various aspect of the proposal (part 2, but many apply to part 1). A) People feel that WD ought to be "worthy", reflect group consensus on the design (this one is unclear to me; it's seems to be signaled by the phrase, "consensus document"), that they fossilize design, they should reflect work the group has done, or they need to be "ready". It was also insinuated that publishing some of the drafts would be publishing a non-"honest" WD. EDITORIAL: I would prefer that people take more care in their choice of language. For example, there's no reason to say that my proposal involves some level of dishonesty. One can just say express a preference, or aversion, or point to *material* consequences in a neutral way (e.g., "I think enough people will take the WD as reflecting fixed design to cause more trouble than the likely benefit of wide review is worth.") It helps to try to take into account expressed differences of fact. B) People expressed the desire for more group review before publishing anything. The consequential benefits haven't been clearly enumerated to my ken. C) At least one person said in private email to me that they didn't think wide review was necessary or desirable. D) Several people expressed discomfort with the general idea. E) It was claimed that WGs are not supposed to comment on WDs after they've been published. F) It was claimed that no significant additional review would be triggered. G) Early IP consideration might force IP actions which are unnecessary as the design may change. This was presented as a pure hypothetical. I.e., no specific IP claim was motivating this. H) I got another email stating that WDs should either reflect the state of consensus (which doesn't me we all endorse the design or documents) or be clearly labeled as lacking that. The main difference from my proposal is that they preferred finer grained indication of what is actively being disputed. However, they also wrote that my proposal was non-harmful and they wouldn't block consensus to publish on this basis. (I made a similar proposal as "next steps": <http://www.w3.org/mid/BA6A0FF1- firstname.lastname@example.com> Jim weakly endorse this without the Oct first publish, i.e., as a goal for the F2F). PARTIAL AGREEMENT? Several strong opposing voices stated that they felt that the Formal Semantics document was OK to publish. This has, afaict, consensus among the people opposing as something OK to publish, pretty much anytime. * Jeremy strongly opposed the RDF Mapping unless it was essentially stripped of all content. That suggests to me that he is ok with a separate RDF Mapping document.: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2007Oct/0174.html> * Elisa express opposition to publish the Structural Specifiction (or the MOF metamodel, although that's not in the proposal) on the grounds of lack of alignment with ODM. <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2007Oct/0161.html> I thought, but cannot find, that she said that merely dropping the UML diagrams from the structural spec would leave it in a publishable state from her POV. * Jim expressed opposition to the structural specification *per se*: <http://firstname.lastname@example.com> I'm unclear whether this means he objects to its publication for review. He also expressed some criticism about the RDF Mapping: <http://email@example.com> But I'm also unclear whether this means he objects to publication for review. MY DISCUSSION: I still believe that there is considerable benefit and no downside to my proposal. So I continue to put it forward.However, even just publishing the Formal Semantics gets reasons 1-5 *for it*, and I think it completely settles 2, and goes a long way to 2 and 4. As a subset of my proposal, I obviously support it. I think I'd rather not publish the Mapping or the Structural Specification as WD at this time, than publish the redacted versions of the Mapping or the Structural Specification. The problem with redacted versions is that it shields from wider review precisely that which is controversial. There has been strong criticism of those documents, but I, for one, do not agree with most of it. There is also strong community uptake as witnessed by the several implementations and very positive implementor and user feedback (e.g., at OWLED 2007). We should take this into account, not because these things are immutable, but that they are very good evidence of good and successful design and presentation. In fact, to the degree that it is controversial, I think we should publish. If we don't publish, I think it would be helpful if group participants made some efforts to solicit significant feedback. I, obviously, shall do anyway, but if opponents agree with the goal of wide review, but disagree with the proposed means, I would certainly take it very positively if they helped reach that goal by other means. Corrections or friendly amendments are most welcome. Cheers, Bijan.Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:56:04 UTC
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NASCAR to do away with undisclosed fines
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - NASCAR said Wednesday it will stop issuing undisclosed fines going forward, a practice that made fans distrust the sanctioning body.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - NASCAR said Wednesday it will stop issuing undisclosed fines going forward, a practice that made fans distrust the sanctioning body.
"While there are always sensitivities related to sponsor relationships and other leagues may continue issuing disclosed and undisclosed fines, NASCAR has decided that all fines moving forward will be made public after the competitor or organization that has been penalized has been informed," NASCAR said in a statement.
It's not clear how many times NASCAR failed to disclose a penalty against a driver or a team, but the practice first came to light midway through the 2010 season when it was learned that Denny Hamlin had been secretly fined for posts he made on Twitter.
In the fallout from the Hamlin fine, it was revealed that Ryan Newman had been previously penalized for disparaging comments he made about the style of racing at Talladega.
Then, word of another Newman fine spread last season after the driver was involved in some sort of physical altercation with Juan Pablo Montoya during a meeting with NASCAR officials. Fans grew increasingly angry with the practice of not publicizing all fines, but NASCAR wouldn't comment one way or the other on the issue.
The tipping point came on the eve of championship weekend in November, when The Associated Press reported Brad Keselowski had been secretly fined US$25,000 for comments he made about electronic fuel injection.
NASCAR chairman Brian France was peppered with questions about secret fines the next day, and coyly said no one would know if there had been other fines the public was still unaware of.
"When you cross a line that denigrates the direction of the sport or the quality of the racing, we're not going to accept that. Not going to accept it," France said. "Happy to have any other criticism, any other complaint, happy to hear them all. If I own a restaurant and I say you know what, the food in my restaurant is not very good, we're not going to accept it. It's as simple as that."
"What would be the benefit (of announcing fines)?" he continued. "The drivers know exactly what we're after. They know exactly what we expect out of them and when they don't handle that, the only way we can control that is, obviously, a fining system."
The questioning continued, and with championship weekend in jeopardy of being overshadowed, France relented and promised to reconsider the practice of not publicizing every fine.
NASCAR said Wednesday it evaluated the issue during the off-season and based its decision from "feedback from the industry."
The decision to stop the secret fines comes on the eve of France's annual pre-season remarks to the media. The NASCAR presentation is scheduled for Thursday afternoon at the Hall of Fame.


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LONDON (Reuters) - They are one of the most famous couples on the planet, one day destined to be Britain's king and queen.
But royal experts say what Prince William and wife Kate really want is as much normality as possible within the confines of being in the spotlight.
The eyes of the world have again turned on Queen Elizabeth's grandson and his wife, officially known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, with the birth of their second child, a girl.
Millions of people across the world tuned in to watch their sumptuous wedding in 2011 while the birth of Prince George two years later provoked an international media frenzy outside a hospital in west London.
But while they regularly grace the front pages of newspapers and magazines, and Kate is considered a fashion icon, commentators say what they really enjoy is having a normal family life away from the cameras.
Rather than crowns and tiaras, William and Kate will be eagerly looking forward to bath time and changing nappies.
"They've always tried to have the minimum amount of staff, they like to look after themselves as much as they can," royal historian Hugo Vickers told Reuters.
"I'm sure that they'll be again very hands on and very much wanting to be as normal a family as possible."
Britain's royal family has enjoyed a surge in popularity in the last decade, mainly fueled by its young members, Kate, William and his younger brother Harry, restoring its reputation after the divorce of their parents Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and her subsequent death in a Paris car crash in 1997.
Supporters say they connect with people in a way Charles does not, and their easy-going nature and Kate's background as the first "commoner" to marry a prince in close proximity to the throne in more than 350 years reflected a new version of royalty.
A poll last month found eight out of 10 Britons liked William and Kate, including three-quarters of those aged 18 to 24.
Author Claudia Joseph said while Prince Charles enjoyed a gilded lifestyle but was kept at arms length by his parents, William and Kate were modern parents, following the model of Diana who would queue with other visitors when she took her sons to an amusement park.
"I'm sure William does bath time, reads stories to Prince George, and Kate obviously emulates her mother," said Joseph, author of "William And Kate's Britain".
She said William enjoyed being with Kate's parents, away from the usual formality and paraphernalia surrounding the royals.
"He spends a lot of time with them and wants his son to enjoy that side of royal life," she said.
Royal aides also say the couple are much more media-savvy than their forebears and are acutely aware of the difficulties faced by many Britons coping with financial hardship as austerity measures bite.
Kate regularly recycles her favorite outfits, is seen shopping at supermarkets and according to newspaper reports takes Prince George to farm parks with other mothers and the couple enjoy meals out in local pubs.
For his part, William has so far eschewed a life solely dedicated to official duties and is currently an air ambulance helicopter pilot.
"It's going to be normal family. Dad goes off to work, comes home and they all have dinner together," veteran royal photographer Arthur Edwards told Reuters.
"He's taken this time out to do a real job. It's as near normal as you can get when you are second-in-line to the throne and to achieve that is something very special and I think he's fought hard to get that."
But critics question how ordinary can a couple really be when they live in gilded palaces and stately homes, renovated at the cost to the taxpayer millions of pounds, and travel the world in luxury.
Kate might not be an aristocrat, but comes from a wealthy middle-class family and enjoyed a privileged upbringing.
Maternity rooms at the private St Mary's Hospital, where the new baby was born, cost well over 5,000 pounds ($7,500), and afterwards the couple were expected to initially return to their London residence, Kensington Palace.
Then they will head to Anmer Hall, their country mansion on the queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk, to the northeast of London.
Many Britons are worried by soaring property prices, cuts to the national health service, and other economic austerity measures - issues which have figured in campaigning for next Thursday's parliamentary election.
"Should the country be called on to celebrate a royal birth when 3.5 million children are growing up in poverty?" said Graham Smith, the chief executive of anti-monarchist campaign group Republic.
"To single out this birth because they are 'royal' is simply wrong."
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A strategic history of the United States by the bestselling author of biographies of Roosevelt and Nixon
In this magisterial new history of the United States, spanning from the New World through the outcome of the 2012 presidential election, acclaimed writer and historian Conrad Black examines the rise of the world's supreme power, its recent decline, and its ultimate strengths and future, and the contributions of leading figures, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.


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Weyerhaeuser's Plymouth, North Carolina facility recently wanted to upgrade their existing 5 stage Log Ladder we installed 17 years ago. The Log Ladder was due for a major rebuild requiring new drives, reducers, shaft work, etc. After review, we proposed a new design that would handle the deep pile seen during re-entry of large pine logs, be more maintenance free and run at a higher production efficiency and… be less expensive than upgrading their existing unit.
The number of drive units was reduced from 5 to 2. The new Singulating Jackladder with Indexer fit the same space as the existing Log Ladder with minimal substeel changes. The heavy duty jackladder section is rugged enough to handle the abuse of the deep pile and keep the indexer charged so that a log is always ready to be indexed into the system.
The unit was put in over a long weekend and started up immediately handling the production requirements of the mill.
Jackladders in general have gotten a bad reputation mostly due to misapplication and not being designed properly. They cannot normally be used as a consistent, never-miss-a-lug type singulator. In this application it does not matter if it misses a lug or if it carries two logs on a lug. Its purpose is to keep the indexer pocket charged.
Weyerhaeuser was pleased that the unit arrived pre-wired, shop tested and completely assembled, making installation simple.
Call us for a site evaluation so that we can offer sugestions on how to improve your log handling needs.


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A few of the key performers for the fourth annual iHeartRadio Music Awards have been confirmed. The event will take place on Sunday, March 5, and will feature live performances from Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, The Chainsmokers, Shawn Mendes, Thomas Rhett, Noah Cyrus and Big Sean, who join previously announced performer Bruno Mars.
Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, the event will air live on Turner's TBS, TNT and truTV at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT from the historic Forum in Los Angeles and will broadcast on iHeartMedia stations nationwide, as well as on the iHeartRadio digital music platform.
"The biggest artists in music show up each year," said Seacrest. "iHeartRadio reaches hundreds of millions of people across the country every day, so this is an opportunity for the fans to have a voice in who's the best and brightest, and the artists, in turn to show their appreciation. It's always a lively celebration and an evening of special performances and appearances."
"2016 was an incredible year in music and the iHeartRadio Music Awards will not only recognize the amazing artists of the past 12 months, but celebrate their success, creativity and innovation," said Tom Poleman, President of National Programming Group for iHeartMedia. "As a pop culture icon, Ryan Seacrest is a known champion of great music across our radio stations nationwide. We're thrilled to have him as our master of ceremonies."
"This is the one night where fans can not only hear the songs that defined the last year in music, but also discover what is coming right out," said John Sykes, President of Entertainment Enterprises for iHeartMedia. "This will be a night of live performances and once-in-a-lifetime collaborations that will carry fans into the new year of music."
Nominees for the iHeartRadio Music Awards were announced on January 4. Drake leads nominees with 12 nominations, including Male Artist of the Year, while The Chainsmokers received 11 nominations, including the inaugural Best New Pop Artist category. Other artists who have received multiple nominations include Rihanna, twenty one pilots, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Daya, Halsey, Nicky Jam and Sia.
This year, the iHeartRadio Music Awards will feature new awards for Producer of the Year, Label of the Year and Best Music Video, as well as individual awards in music's biggest genres for Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Best New Artist.
Fan voting will determine this year's Best Fan Army, Best Collaboration, Best Cover Song, Best Song from a Movie and the first-ever Best Music Video, Social Star and Best Underground Alternative Band awards. Social voting for the Social Star Award and Best Fan Army Award began through iHeartRadio's social sites and in the iHeartRadio app on January 3, while social voting for all other categories began on January 4. Voting will close on February 24, with voting for the Social Star Award and the Best Fan Army Award presented by Taco Bell continuing through the evening of the awards on March 5. Fans can vote by visiting iHeartRadio.com/awards.


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From behind, the Dani Ridge House is almost imperceptible with its tucked in location and undulating green roof. The owners of the home wanted to make as little impact as possible on their 70-acre site outside of Big Sur, California. To achieve this, they had Carmel-based firm Carver + Schicketanz design an earth-bermed home capped with a green roof planted with native grasses. Solar passive design plays in heavily to the home's energy efficiency and all of the utilities are stored underground to minimize the viewshed.
The Dani Ridge House is a three-bedroom, 1,900-square-foot home outside of Big Sur, California on a pristine site above the Pacific Ocean. Carver + Schicketanz worked with their clients to create a home that minimized its impact on the site and upheld their neighbors' views. The hillside location afforded the team the option to tuck the home back into the hillside. Then they capped it with a insulating, Hydrotech green roof with 4 inches of soil and planted it with native grasses like California oat and red fescue. Landscaping surrounding the home was also upgraded to remove invasive species and add back more native grasses.
To further minimize viewsheds, all of the utilities, including a 5,000 gallon water tank and propane tank were also buried underground. The home emerges out from under the earth and peeks out from the hillside out over the bluff. The bedrooms, great room and kitchen face out with floor to ceiling glass windows, while bathrooms and other less view-critical rooms are relegated to the back. Solar passive design using the windows, sun shading, and thermal mass ensure plenty of natural daylight, winter heating and protection from overheating in the summer. Cross ventilation through operable windows keeps the interior cool and fresh when the conditions require it. The home enjoys a close connection with its environment and a variety of outdoor living areas encourage time spent outdoors.
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MANILA, July 29 — The Bureau of Fire Protection is celebrating its 19th founding anniversary year with the theme BFP: Kumakalinga sa Kapwa at Kalikasan on Friday, July 30.
Pre-anniversary activities happened last Sunday through a Clean-up Drive along the seaside of the Manila Bay in Roxas Boulevard.
It was initiated by the officers and personnel from the National Headquarters and NCR headed by BFP Director Rolando M Bandilla Jr. and participated by the different volunteer fire brigades and the Local Government Unit of Manila.
This has been a breakthrough because this is the first time to see firefighters armed with dustpans, brooms and cleaning materials, and not with fire hose and nozzle. Upholding its theme, this activity is one way of showing firefighters care for the environment.
The BFP is also having a Blood Letting Activity on July 30, 2010 at the BFP-NHQ Conference Room on 15th Avenue, Cubao, Quezon City at 8:00 a.m.
Expected blood donors are BFP personnel from the National Headquarters and NCR. It signifies the concern of the firefighters as modern Katipuneros, to their fellowmen.
Beneficiaries of the blood drive are patients of the Philippine Childrens Medical Center (PCMC) along Quezon Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.
On the founding day celebration on August 2, 2010, a short program happens at the Quezon City Sports Club in E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue, Quezon City.
A holy mass will kick off the daylong event which will have Interior and Local Government Undersecretary for Public Safety Rico Puno as the Guest of Honor and Speaker.
On its 19th year of giving quality service through fire suppression and prevention, BFP strives more in reaching out to the public and helping them in simple ways.
Through this, it is anticipated that the public will offer their initiative and participation in the implementation of the BFPs programs and campaign, thus, informing them and continuously involving them in the bureaus battle against destructive fires. (PNA) V3/JCA


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It's a classic. Massimo Vignelli is one of the greats who is widely documented. But it's a very special moment when you happen to see two issues of Skyline lying around. So here they are. If you want to see more then check out the Flickr stream. There's also more to read in Eye60 and Eye83. The Vignelli's gave a D&AD lecture a few years a go where Massimo said that you should never be fashionable, you should be timeless. Skyline is a perfect example of this.
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2013 Update
Dear readers We have been terribly remiss in letting the blog get dusty and unloved. We have finally decided to do a spring clean and clear out the spam and upscale our pictures. In the process we have decided to stop using our paid for image service and use Flickr instead. This will all take a bit of time, so in the meantime, please bear with all the broken image links.
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90's Interview
Editor: Ingrid Sischy
Creative Director: Fabien Baron
Creative Director: Fabien Baron
Issue: July 1990
I thought we'd kick off 2013 with an impulse ebay purchase over Christmas – one of my favourite magazines, 90's Interview, Fabien Baron era. The magazine looks as great now as ever, but I think this is a beautiful example of Baron's work of that period – carrying his signature style of vertical condensed Franklin Gothic page furniture in the first quarter of the magazine, followed by fireworks of big type and photography in the remaining pages. For me Fabien's work isn't amazing only because of the type, although he is of course a master in this respect, but he understands more than anyone the power of photography in editorial design. His striking type openers and page sequences owe a great deal to his taste and understanding of images and how to commission this for stories. Fernando Gutiérrez's comments on Baron's work hit the mark in this short video for Phaidon.
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Don't even try to get media coverage at CES — until you read this blog postJanuary 8, 2014
WORK THE ROOM: Using the show's daily can help you stay on top of where your targets will be and when.
This post was written by Mike Lizun, Senior Vice President
The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the country's largest trade show, boasting 3,200 exhibitors and 150,000 attendees. Needless to say, it's easy to get lost among the endless aisles of booths, massive crowds, and media that seem to be solely focused on major announcements from the biggest and most influential tech companies in the world.
Yet, each year, smaller companies break through the noise with sparkling PR presences, winning massive exposure. But it's not easy. It can be mercenary and demand great perspiration and inspiration to win media coverage during International CES.
To achieve high-value coverage for our clients, we approach CES with a well-thought out plan that begins months before the first presenter takes the stage and continues long after the last exhibitor has left the floor. Here's the playbook we use:
- Plan well ahead. We begin client CES planning months ahead of time, often in late summer or early fall in order to fully leverage every possible opportunity come showtime. That planning includes before-, during-, and post-show strategies for which products the client should announce, what story themes they should develop, what events they should attend or sponsor, and what story angles will appeal to which media point. Even though it's a madhouse and news can get missed at CES, it's still the largest aggregation of technology media under one roof of the year. A well-planned campaign that is thoughtfully integrated with line show introductions is the best way to assure news announced at CES is noticed and covered by the media.
STEAL THE SHOW: Senior VP Mike Lizun
helps clients win big at CES by planning months
in advance.
- Work the media in early December. CES poses a timing challenge. Falling the first full week of January, it comes directly after the media blackout of the holiday season. That leaves many first-timers flat-footed, trying to reach the media to set up demos and meetings when reporters are away for the holidays, or actually in the air traveling to CES. The solution is to pitch and poke the media in early December, and then use the few open days in early January to confirm meetings and booth appearances.
- Don't overlook the necessary evils. Press releases, B-roll, product shots, fact sheets. They sound so old school, and certainly are not to be delivered on paper. But in the rush to cover so much news, media wants information that can be easily referenced. Point them to the CES section of your newsroom, hand them a memory stick, or message them on Twitter, but be sure to have the story fully baked and ready to go, regardless of how you deliver it.
- Stay in hot pursuit. CES is crawling with media and it's remarkable how open many of them are to a direct pitch, right there on the trade show floor. Repeatedly, this year, after spying and approaching the media, reporters asked right then and there to be pitched. Strongly delivered, many of them trailed right over to the client's booth.
|LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: We watched CNET film an episode
of its 404 series on the floor.
- Invest in ancillary press events. This year, we've had tremendous success with clients attending the pre-CES media event, Digital Experience, and the first day's CES Unveiled. These stripped down, product-focused media events are more intimate and were well-attended by media. Well worth the cost. Be sure to check into these opportunities next year.
|PRE-SHOW INTERVIEW: Nick Norton of Apira Science talks to Lance Ulanoff, Editor in Chief, Mashable, at Digital Experience.
- Follow up, follow up, and follow up. For many exhibitors, CES is equally about scoring publicity at the event, when technology coverage is at its apex, as well as meeting and creating relationships with media for future opportunities. CES offers the rare chance to open a direct conversation with the media, but it's up to you to keep the dialogue going over the weeks and months to come.


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Interested in Serving on the South Park Board of Directors?
It is the time of year to nominate individuals to the South Park Stakeholders Group Board of Directors. It is the right of all property owners (and only property owners and their representatives) to nominate either themselves or their designee to fill one of the positions currently available on the Board. Property owners must be current with assessment payments as well.
To nominate yourself or others, please visit the SP Board Elections Page.
Maintenance Crews Keep South Park Clean
Starting in 2015, South Park's Clean Team focuses on a monthly special project in order to increase the overall cleanliness of the neighborhood.
This month, the Clean Team focused on cleaning alleys.
Earlier this year, the Clean Team pressure-washed every trash can in the district, removed weeds from all local tree wells, removed graffiti, touched up walls with paint, and cleaned the utility boxes.
Stay tuned for information on special projects from the South Park BID Clean Team in the coming months.
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Author: Paloma Leé
Re-design Your Children's Room With These Tips
When having children there many aspects parents care about, but probably one of the most important is to keep them busy with activities that enhance their growing experience. Children are always active, they like to run, climb and play without stop and there isn't always a park near in Johannesburg or there isn't enough time to take them to the park to explore and use some of that energy.
For that, parents can use some of these ideas to design or redesign the room of their children for them to enjoy the time at home.
- The colours in your children room can influence them in different ways, check this article explaining the effect of colours. But independently of the colours you can chose to decorate the walls in different ways to start getting the interest of your children in different things, like a big map of the world, or the letters of the alphabet, or different animals, their names and how to write it.
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Leé Goes To Leh And Brings The Windows Back With Her
In 2014 I went in an 8 month trip through India and South East Asia. India was one of my favourites countries, I spend 2 months and a half there, for such a big country this was very short time. The first place I arrived was Leh, it is in the north in the Himalayas and used to be the capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh
There were many aspects I liked about Leh, but for now I will try to focus on the architecture side of it. Leh is a budhist town, therefore there are many monasteries around Leh, most of them centuries old, I will talk about them in a post later.
The first place I went the day I arrived was the Leh Palace.
"Leh Palace is a former royal palace overlooking the Ladakhi Himalayan town of Leh. Modelled on the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, the palace was built by King Sengge Namgyal in the 17th century. It is nine storeys high; the upper floors accommodated the royal family, while the lower floors held stables and store rooms" (Wikipedia) Its construction started in 1553 and was finished in the 17th century. The palace was built with stone mud, wood, and sand.
Nine storeys is very high for the time it was built, it is amazing although one of the things that impressed me the most were the windows, not only from the palace but from the houses in Leh and surroundings.
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How to Change the Look of your House with Flowers
The influence of flowers in our senses is proven and not only in sight or smell, there are many studies (here and here) demonstrating how flowers positively affect our mood and our psyche.
We are attracted to flowers from earlier than we believe, there are studies that show pollen deposits found in burial sites dating back from 100 000 years ago. Historically we are attracted to flowers not only for its colours, smells and shapes but because flowers mark the place where later there will be fruit, so our attraction to them is ingrained in our brain. Even more there are theories that talk about how flowers may have evolved to attract humans in addition to attract insects to help them reproduce.
Aside from the many studies, in architecture, flowers can change the whole look of a house, change the feeling of a business or change how much we enjoy a city.
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Three Aspects to Consider When Designing Your Home
There are three things you should expect your home to be, functional, beautiful and sustainable. An architect is a listener, he or she will listen to your requirements carefully and will explore how you are and how you live so he or she can deliver the best solution for you. An architect will help you to accomplish this, but there are things that even when you are working with an architect you should be careful about and you should enquire, a few of them are listed below:
The orientation of the house: From the beginning, you should make sure the house is facing north, that the bedrooms and the rooms where you spend the most of your time receive as much sun as possible, this will not only help to have a warm house in winter, but this can affect your economy, as depending on how much sun the room receive you would expend less energy on heating systems. A house facing south will be cold and dark.
Illumination: an architect should work on the position and size of windows in the house. A dark bedroom for example won't inspire you to get up in the morning, a bathroom without natural light will make you feel colder, a study room without enough light will make you sleepy and you will feel uninspired to work, read or study. Illumination is so important that I will write a whole post on it.
Sustainability: your architect should come up with options like solar heating systems, rain water collection, or a suggestion on different type of glass for windows to avoid heat escape. These ones are only a few examples of the many ways a house can be more sustainable, in recent years there are more and more options to use and explore.
You should expect your architect to come up with these or better solutions, but if he or she doesn't you are on your right to demand what you think will be better for you, your family and your pocket. An architect is a problem solver too, to design a house is like solving a puzzle, how to combine what you like and need with how the site is, to make it functional, beautiful and with less environmental impact.
A Story
When I was growing up my room in my house was the one everyone wanted to be, my room has this huge window overlooking the city and facing north, it was so warm in winter I never needed a heater, in the morning it was very easy to wake up as just by opening the curtains the sun would shine bright on my face. My sisters room has big and many windows too, but was facing south, it was cold and never got the sun in the morning, she wanted to be in my room most of the time and only in the afternoon when the sun shone on her bedroom she enjoyed to be there.
"Without an adventurous spirit nothing new can ever be born" – Murakami
Welcome to my website and welcome to my notebook, in this part of the web I will write about a variety of topics, the most important architecture, urban design and business but about trips, books and topics that I find interesting too.
My aim is that through these posts you find solutions, recommendations and ideas for your home or for yourself and furthermore you get to know me a little bit better and feel motivated to work with me.
Once again, Welcome and enjoy!


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A celebrity disc jockey was yesterday accused of masterminding a drug trafficking operation last year.
American-Cambodian Sophorn Horl, who is also known as DJ Soup, is best known in Cambodia as the former presenter of a popular radio entertainment programme on TV3.
Yesterday, he appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court to face charges of drug trafficking, together with taxi driver Keang Bunna, 35, and motodop Sambath Tony, 25.
Presiding Judge Suos Sam Ath said that all three were arrested at the Samdech Chea Sim Garden Park in Tonle Basac commune, Chamkarmorn district, Phnom Penh last October. It is alleged that they had met to exchange drugs.
The court heard that a car was searched during the arrest. Police seized around one kilogramme of powder and drug-related materials. Later tests found that 0.35 grams of the powder was amphetamines.
Deputy court prosecutor, Chea Meth, alleged yesterday that DJ Soup was the leader of a drug trafficking operation, while Keang Bunna and Sambath Tony were merely accomplices. "I would like to ask the presiding judge to strongly sentence them so that they will not commit more [crimes] in the future," he said.
DJ Soup denied the charge, saying: "I am not a drug trafficker and I did not also know about the drug hidden in the car. I am innocent."
"I think that someone had put [the drugs] in the car in order to blame it on me. I would like to ask the court to drop charges against me," he said.
Keang Bunna and Sambath Tony, a former drug addict, also denied the charge against them.
"I recognise that I used to smoke and was addicted to drugs, but I have not been involved or committed this drug trafficking.
"I would like to ask the court to release me," Sambath Tony said.
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JPMorgan's Dimon outshines Senators
June 13 - JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon held his own at the Senate Banking Committee hearing- apologizing for missing his bank's $2 billion trade, but saying "big dumb banks" should be allowed to fail. Bobbi Rebell reports.
SOUNDBITE: PROTESTOR AT SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE HEARING (ENGLISH) SAYING: "You can get along without $2 billion and you can't give her a modification Dimon!" Protestors greeted JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon when he sat down in front of the Senate Banking Committee. He was grilled about the at least $2 billion trading loss at his bank- including this exchange with Senator Robert Menendez: SOUNDBITE: SENATOR ROBERT MENENDEZ (D) NEW JERSEY (ENGLISH) SAYING: "When you reduce a hedge or hedge a hedge isn't that really gambling? SOUNDBITE: JAMIE DIMON, CEO, JPMORGAN CHASE (ENGLISH) SAYING: "I don't believe so, no." SOUNDBITE: SENATOR ROBERT MENENDEZ (D) NEW JERSEY (ENGLISH) SAYING: "So this transaction that you said morphed, what did it morph into: Russian roulette?" SOUNDBITE: JAMIE DIMON, CEO, JPMORGAN CHASE (ENGLISH) SAYING: "It morphed into something I can't justify. It was just too risky for our company." Dimon made it clear that more regulation would not have prevented that type of trading loss- saying that the regulations have become too complex. And in taking ownership of that mistake, he also said there should be no such thing as too big to fail. Banks should suffer the consequences of their decisions- and that the tax payers should not be on the hook for banks' mistakes. SOUNDBITE: JAMIE DIMON, CEO, JPMORGAN CHASE (ENGLISH) SAYING: "You want to be in a position where a big bank can be allowed to fail I wouldn't call it resolution. I think it's the wrong name. I think we should call it bankruptcy and personally I would call it bankruptcy for big dumb banks. When you have bankruptcy I'd have clawbacks, I'd fire the management, I'd fire the board. I'd wipe out the equity and the unsecured should only recover what they'd recover in a normal bankruptcy." During the testimony, shares of JPMorgan were on the rise in a down market, as investors took note of the hearing. But there were questions, including some about the Chief Investment Office, that were left unanswered according to Cornell Law Professor Charles Whitehead. SOUNDBITE: CHARLES WHITEHEAD, PROFESSOR, CORNELL LAW SCHOOL (ENGLISH) SAYING: "Why was the CIO given a pass? Why did they not have the same rigorous risk management oversight that other divisions had? And that didn't come out. We also didn't learn the details of the positions themselves and that's because they are trying to unwind them. They are trying to sell them down and Jamie Dimon, uncomfortable, not understandably, giving out any sort of information that could be used against the bank. " The bank said it will give shareholders an update on those losses when it reports earnings in July. Bobbi Rebell, Reuters


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Through the burned brush, desiccated stretches of tropical desert and lava fields that threatened to break through the soles of our shoes, the cacti and gnarled trunks opened up onto a plain of red rock, endlessly smooth from the constant winds of the Pacific. Covering the stone field are etched imprints of a culture suppressed by modern amenities, petroglyphs from a record of life forgotten. People, warriors, families, children, animals and lines, all forming stick-figure masses of unknown meaning and unknown age.
The Puako Petroglyph Archaeological Preserve can be accessed through the gates of the Mauna Lani Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii. They keep it difficult to find and difficult to get to on purpose, hoping that through lack of effort, people will not take the time to locate the remnants of ancient Hawaii. It is the irony of archaeology that to enjoy and learn about archaeological sites is to ultimately, slowly or in one fell swoop, destroy them.
Well, minus the honky Yankees…
Well, unless you like honky Yankees, in which case you're royalty, so you can have any many as you want!
As the third most-visited Mayan site in the Yucatan, Tulum is constantly teeming with languages from all over the world.
It sits on a bluff at the edge of the sea, precariously balanced on the precipice of history. Arguably the most luxuriously-located Mayan city, Tulum served as the port for nearby, and significantly less-commercialized, Coba, about 50 km inland.
An easy bike ride from either the beach strip or Tulum Pueblo, the ruins are also a short day-trip away for revelers in Cancun and Playa del Carmen, who flock in large tour groups and chatter endlessly.
When the rain comes, the tour buses shuffle off, and we find some quiet among the ancients.
Unlike Chichen Itza, which is awash in hieroglyphics, the only place displaying the art of the Mayan writing system in the Temple of the Frescoes in the central courtyard.
We might be Germans and Mexicans and American and Japanese and Aussies, but we all look the same when staring into the abyss of history and through the lens of ancient ruins…
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At the beginning of the year, we were still not seeing a lot of rain, and there was work happening on the sink hole.
On February 2nd I began my journey through Lima to Panama with ORH. I mostly worked (and joked) with the Higgins in the eye clinic.
We are grateful to report a lot of wonderful fellowship, and more importantly, about 50 professions of faith. God has raised some wonderful Panamanian servants to do most of the labor in some remote areas.
I returned to Puerto Maldonado on February 11th, and had the joy of preaching the next day to the church family.
However, on Thursday morning, I received the sad news that my brother Bryan's one month old son, Boaz, had passed away during the night. We made a quick decision for me to go back to the US for a few days, while my family would soon follow to Lima, where we would meet. Bryan and Corinne will need our prayers for quite some time.
The same day I returned to Lima we left for a member's wedding in the central mountains of Peru. Congratulations!
I also had the privilege of preaching to Richar's home church!
We enjoyed some time exploring ruins with Richar & Yesenia a couple days later.
After a momentous weekend, We returned to Lima to make some purchases and do some paperwork.
Kris and Rosemarie Blumer were such wonderful hosts, and we thoroughly enjoyed our time with them!
We also got to visit an aquarium with the Nuñez family and Abby Chapman.
Also during February the doctors discovered my mom had uterine cancer. Surgery was performed on March 2, and she seems to be recovering well. (Pictured here with a grand-son, Owen).
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Dear Massimo,
Mathematics is a human invention. Of course, the mystery is that this human
invention is indeed useful in describing the workings of nature. As a
logical game, the only requirement of the postulates is that they are not
contradictory and are in some sense complete. It may be that someone finds
some of the theorems derived from such postulates more self-evident than
some of the original axioms. It is in that sense that I use the term
self-evident. Instead of the original five postulates of Euclid one can use
five other postulates---e.g. theorems derived from the postulates---as
axioms. I believe Euclid referred to the fifth postulate as an
assumption---Euclid must have been aware of geometry on the surface of a sphere.
>> I did not raise
>> the issue of imperfection. That was done by Pigliucci.
>Yes, and it is easy to deal with, mathematically I dare say. There is a
>whole branch of theoretical ecology called "optimality theory" which
>predicts in exact terms what a perfectly adapted organism should do
>given a certain set of environmental circumstances. Here, perfection is
>defined as maximum fitness (something all organisms seem to strive for).
>Well, experimental biology is full of examples of sub-optimal
>(imperfect) organisms...
But that notion of perfection is limited by the mathematical model one uses.
Different mathematical models would give rise to different notions of
perfection. But you must admit that all such mathematical models are very
crude and can never really describe living organisms. Least of all humans.
>> You may find Christians explanations of an
>> imperfect nature wanting. My question to you is, what is your
>> explanation?
>Rather obvious, I'd say. Since the world is the result of historical,
>mindless processes, why would anybody expect anything even close to
I hope you realize you are making some philosophical assumptions as premises
from whence you are making such philosophical conclusions. I find it hard to
believe that mindless processes gave rise to your mind which is making such
logical conclusions.
>> We all believe. You believe. I believe. The difference is that we
>> believe
>> in
>> different things. You cannot use your belief system to knock any other
>> belief system. All such belief systems are on equal footing.
>I don't think so. Science is *not* a set of beliefs. It is a method to
>uncover reality. Furthermore, it's a method that *works*, which is the
>only reason we continue to adopt it. Theology, au contraire, has never
>been able to predict a single minute thing about the universe.
Science deals only with the physical which is only part of reality. Do not
confuse humans using their mental abilities to answer all sorts of questions
with doing science. The scientific method is not the only way of knowing.
Have you developed a love-meter, a hate-meter, etc. Such notions are not
measurable by scientific apparatuses. Would you claim, therefore, that they
do not exist? Theology has nothing to do with the physical universe. But it
may have more to say about what you are than physics or chemistry does. The
physical universe is not all there is. Matter cannot reason, but you can.
Explain how reasoning comes from atoms and molecules. The massages I sent
you are transmitted by physical processes but the content cannot be
deciphered by matter. Only another human can.
>Furthermore, from time to time theologians have to "reinterpret" the
>alleged word of god in light of scientific evidence. Doesn't this make
>you feel at least a tiny bit shaky??
Often theologians make unwarranted scientific statements. However, sometimes
they may be right. For instance, St. Augustine spoke of the creation of time
and space at the moment of the Creation. Physicists and cosmologists do the
same today!
>As per your previous email, you
>> I was just wondering how much of the research you do and the knowledge you
>> have accumulated helps you in dealing with the multitude of questions
>> by all your personal and scientific experiences. Do you believe that
one day
>> science will have a true answer to all of them?
>The best answer comes from my lovely companion, Melissa Brenneman. She
>says (I am quoting with her permission):
>> I'm not on a personal or scientific quest for "true answers." I'm on a
quest for better understanding, which I think is all that can
>> be hoped for in one person's life, and for which science does provide the
best path. I leave "true answers" for philosophers and
>> theologians to claim, while I'm happy on the more practical, useful, and
(for me) much more deeply satisfying scientific road to
>> ever more refined explanations of (what some philosophers would deny has
any meaning--) reality.
>I couldn't have said it better!
I dare you tell your lovely Melissa that she is nothing but the solution of
a complicated Schrodinger equation. Let us see how far that gets you :) If
one is indeed interested in a better understanding of life, why then close
the door to some forms of knowledge? We do not need to understand how an
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We have a day in the States as well, Darcy and Bingley. We will let you know what we spot. xoxoxoxReplyDelete
And Mommy said to tell you she is everlastingly grateful that your mommy still has the medal that Admiral made for you boys. Thanks you. Admiral always looked and always smiled. xoxoxoxReplyDelete
Oh, Bingley and Darcy I'm sure you enjoyed your birdie count! We counted 1 robin, 3 blackbirds (all male) 12 sparrows, 1 dunnock, 1 wood pigeon and 3 starlings. The thrush that visits everyday didn't appear in our hour of watching neither did the bullfinch we'd seen just a couple of days before:)ReplyDelete
Even though you were sometimes distracted, you did a good job! That's quite a few different birds you recorded. :)ReplyDelete
We didn't take part, but we didn't see anything at our house, but the old crows. They don't even look tasty. MOL!ReplyDelete
We could get into birdie watching! We're good at it!ReplyDelete
You boys are so helpful!!! The bird count looks like it was a lot of fun :-)ReplyDelete
From our view, all we see are big, black, NOISY cawing crows. Ugh.ReplyDelete
Alas Mum didn't tell us about this - she said she thought we might be too enthusiastic!!ReplyDelete
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Ahhhh... bliss after all that work counting (and keeping paws off is such hard work when it comes to birdies)....ReplyDelete
Lads, you did well!
I've never participated in a bird count, but I think it would be a great way to spend a day.
Sounds like you all had fun!
MOL Bingley and Darcy...sometimes when I'm watching Bird TV outside I get so dizzy I also have to take a 4 or 5 hour nap!!ReplyDelete
Great post and pictures.
Hugs Madi
Bird counting sounds fun. And you got very impressive result! We have birds coming near our house in spring but not winter.ReplyDelete
I hope you got a long good nap after that and had very sweet dreams :-)
Oh wow!! Oh me and Charlie hope to participate in the next one! This sounds so wonderful! Well done gorgeous Darcey, Bingly for snoopervising mum and dad! How wonderful!!!ReplyDelete
Black caps and hedge sparrows!! We love blackbirds too (they do sing most gorgeously!) but it's so nice to have these more unusual ones too - well unusual here! LOL!
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This tune was intended for release during BB6 but after recording hours of video footage from the series I became fed up of it and shelved the project. This year BB7 inspired me to unshelve it and with the inspired introduction of my old friend Walter, the half-life scientist, I managed to recover something I nearly scrapped.
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Creating effective IT metrics is kind of like making piecrust. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard, in fact it sounds downright simple. Yet many people go through lots of failed versions before getting it right, and some folks never manage to produce a good crust.
And so it goes with metrics. Chris Lockhart discusses a common problem in creating metrics, coming up with ones that aren't connected to any real business value, on his Chris on EA blog. His example: A former client devoted a good amount of time and effort to collecting and presenting monthly data on projects created using an internal system development lifecycle (SDLC), with the project management office cheering every time the numbers went up. Yet there were no accompanying numbers showing whether this reduced costs or resulted in other benefits.
Soon, Lockhart writes, the company realized it needed to ask how much variance was reduced by using the SDLC, and how much that saved the company. Did quality increases promote profitability? Was it about money saved, costs avoided or revenue increased? He says:
Once these questions were asked and measurements taken to answer them, it became apparent that the overhead of running their custom developed SDLC (including training and enforcement and checkpoints and governance) was greater than the measured dollar benefit of the program.
Ouch. There's yet another lesson in the ineffectiveness of creating metrics just for the sake of doing so and becoming more caught up in creating the metrics than in actually assessing what they mean.
This is my chance to trot out some of the great tips on metrics I've shared in the past.
In May I shared a list of 12 characteristics of effective metrics written by TDWI's Wayne Eckerson. Among my favorite characteristics from his list: simple, actionable, standardized, game-proof and strategic. In order to make their metrics strategic, Eckerson advised, organizations "must start at the end point-with the goals, objectives or outcomes you want to achieve-and then work backwards." Doing this would help avoid scenarios like the one offered by Lockhart in his post.
In another post, I mentioned the common problem of IT trying to find the right balance in its metrics and offered some great advice from Jim Quick of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants on how to do so. For example, one tip for IT organizations that manage too many metrics: Go down the list of reports and ask, "What do we do when we look at this report?" Eliminate those for which the answer is "nothing." And here's a tip for those with not enough metrics: Identify an inefficient behavior you want to change and develop metrics so you can make a fact-based case that will persuade people to change it.
I've also cited some suggestions from Colin Fletcher, BMC Software's solutions marketing manager for BMC Atrium, on how IT can produce metrics that are relevant to business user. Hint: First focus on customer perceptions rather than hard data.
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First, much gratitude for the linkage and quotage (Not a word, but hey).
Second, great point regarding characteristics of metrics. If they were all simple, actionable, standardized, game-proof and strategic (among others) then I'd think we'd be much more able to discern what is worthwhile and separate the wheat from the chaff. In retrospect, I wish I had said just that instead of the hundreds of words I used instead.Reply
Measuring intellectual work makes no sense.
Intellectual work is about solving problems, and the only known mathematical way of measuring that is Kolgomorov Complexity, which is not a computable function. Any metrics anyone can possibly conjure will therefore be inadequate. In order to be fair, the metrics would have to contain the entire knowledge of the field being measured, it would have to be on intellectually higher lever. This is quite OK for measuring the coal-shuffling, but not much else.
If people take inadequate metrics seriously (which they do if their salary depends on it), the result will always be a fiasco. The best example is probably programming.
The very 1st metrics in use, back there in the 1980s, was number of lines. The result: A lot of empty lines & comments.
Then, there were noncomment lines and/or size of compiled program. The result: A lot of lines that did nothing, and functions never called.
Then, there was Function Point analysis. The result: A lot of unnecessary functionality. Data were formatted, unformated, reformatted, unreformatted, written to, and read from disk a couple of times without any other reason but function point gathering. Programs became slow, bloated, and buggy.
Then, they said: OK, enough of that bloatware, let's concentrate on quality. Punishing bugs was out of the question for several reasons. Nobody would write programs anymore for fear of making a bug, which couldn't be found anyway, because no programmer would ever admit a mistake. And so, testers were rewarded for every bug they found. The result: Programmers and testers made a deal. Programmers produced bugs for testers to find, and reward was divided in half.
If you think this is bad, well... the consequences of metrics in healthcare can be much worse. When Margaret Thatcher was reforming the British public health system, she hired a mathematician from Rand Corporation to devise some point based metric. Before that, he was optimizing the number of megatons to be dropped on Russian cities to maximize the number of deaths. A Cold War stuff. Anyway, his system punished appointment waiting times. The longer the queue, the larger the number of negative points. The result: The doctors cured quick and easy cases first, and let the serious ones wait. Queues got shorter, of course, and there was also an additional bonus: Lots of seriously ill patients died before treatment, which decreased the workload&costs and improved treatment effectiveness metrics.
No matter how you turn it- the ultimate metric is the success of the organization as a whole. In order to achieve that, the managers must actually do some managing, not just calculate metrics. In order to manage effectively, they must -- oh, horror of all horrors -- have at least some clue about what they are managing.Reply
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