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Politicians received free tickets or trips will not face charges
PHOENIX -- More than two dozen Arizona politicians who received free game tickets or trips from the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl will not face criminal charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
The investigation into whether the elected officials illegally accepted or failed to report the gifts did not find enough evidence to pursue criminal cases, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said.
He blamed inconsistent state laws, vague reporting requirements and a legal requirement that prosecutors prove a defendant "knowingly" violated the law as major factors in his decision.
"I understand the appearance of impropriety argument, and how it can be reported," Montgomery said. "But there's a difference ... in what it looks like and what we can do as prosecutors."
"They had to know at the time they filed it that it was incomplete or false," he added.
The decision removed a pall that has been cast over many state lawmakers since April, when Montgomery began investigating whether politicians violated a law banning acceptance of free game tickets in most cases and failed to report receiving free trips or tickets.
Montgomery called on the state Legislature to overhaul the state's rules for lobbyists and state lawmakers, toughen reporting requirements, ban gifts outright and make some violations a felony. He said changes were needed "in order for the public's expectation of open and honest government to be met."
Elected officials should accept "nothing -- you can accept a handshake and that's it," Montgomery said. "We're going to have to have some changes if we're going to meet the public's expectation of openness and disclosure."
Federal authorities are separately investigating other aspects of the Fiesta Bowl scandal, including an alleged scheme to reimburse employees for political contributions. One former executive already has been charged in that case.
The county attorney's probe was prompted by an internal Fiesta Bowl investigation into illegal political contributions and lavish spending by top bowl officials. Montgomery took over the case after the Arizona attorney general's office declared a conflict of interest.
The internal investigation, released in March, included evidence that 31 current or former Arizona politicians received free game tickets or trips, many in apparent conflict with state law that bars receipt of free tickets in most cases. Many also failed to report what they received on their required annual financial disclosure reports.
The Fiesta Bowl has asked the politicians who received more than $161,000 worth of free trips or game tickets to explain how they benefited the tax-exempt group, and it implied it may ask them to repay the costs if the expenditures can't be justified. Some had already done so.
Twenty-eight of those Montgomery investigated were current or former state lawmakers, and he said his office's eight-month probe involved going through 4,000 pages of documents that included nearly 10 years of financial disclosure statements. He also investigated three prominent lobbyists.
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The county attorney said some lawmakers told his office that they accepted the trips as ambassadors of the state, not for personal benefit or enjoyment. Former state Senate President Russell Pearce typically disclosed all gifts, tickets and trips, but not the Fiesta Bowl trips, which Montgomery said could mean the Republican legislator believed he did not have to report those items.
"There were some legislators who were angry that I was investigating them because they thought it was clear they had done nothing wrong," Montgomery said.
Topping the recipients were Pearce, who received more than $39,000 in tickets, trips and other freebies. From 2002 through 2009, Pearce went on VIP trips sponsored by the Fiesta Bowl to games in Denver, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Pasadena, Calif., Boston and Dallas. Other top recipients were former Republican lawmaker Robert Blendu with $17,213, and Democratic state Sen. Linda Lopez with $16,877.
Longtime bowl president and CEO John Junker was fired after the internal investigation. On June 13, the bowl hired University of Arizona president Robert Shelton to lead the efforts to repair its reputation. Bowl officials have been cooperating with local, state and federal investigations.
The scandal at the Fiesta Bowl, which also hosts the national football championship every four years, put its role as one of the four top-tier bowl groups in jeopardy. But it avoided the worst sanctions -- the loss of the championship game and its NCAA license.
The Bowl Championship Series fined the Fiesta Bowl $1 million, and the NCAA placed it on probation for a year.


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Crossrail, also known as the Elizabeth Line, is coming and the folks over at Londonist have put together a great video that summarizes the new line and lays out the new dates when it will be running. This Tube geek can't wait to give it a test!
London History: The Place Where Old London Double Decker Buses Went to Die
Check out this great video from the British Pathé archive that shows a fleet of old double decker buses being broken up at the breakers yard. On the one hand, it's sad to watch them be destroyed, on the other, it's pretty cool!
London Video: A Look at the Great Smog of London
In this fascinating video Museum of London's Senior Curator of Contemporary History talks about the Great Smog of 1952. If you watched 'The Crown' on Netflix – this provides some interesting background to the episode where this was central to the plot.
Video: Stunning Timelapse Video of Tower Bridge at Sunset from Hermitage Riverside
This was simply too beautiful not to share. Here's a lovely, short timelapse video of Tower Bridge as sunset, opening and closing.
Fascinating Look at Life in London's Piccadilly 50 Years Ago – Video
A look at the Piccadilly Circus of the Swinging Sixties! A lot of what is shown here no longer exists as it was soon "modernized" to meet the demands of a changing world. Also a look underground Piccadilly to see sights that few people have ever seen. Very cool video!
Heathrow Airport Makes Their First Christmas Advert and It's Adorable -Coming Home for Christmas – Video
While I'm a little mystified as to why Heathrow feels the need to advertise as most people don't have a choice in whether or not they use the airport, I'm glad they have. They've made a lovely and adorable Christmas advert about two bears coming home for Christmas. Who's cutting onions in here?!?!? Watch it […]
Watch it burn: Commemorate the Great Fire of London By Watching a Wood Model of London Burn – 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London – Full Video
On Sunday 4th September an enormous structure representing the 17th century London skyline will be set alight as it floats on the river Thames. London 1666 commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London and is designed by artist David Best, in collaboration with Artichoke. Part of the London's Burning Festival. This is […]
Video: Top Things to do in Greenwich, London
Greenwich is one of our favorite places in London to visit. This lovely short video from Visit London highlights some of the things to see and do.
London Heathrow Airport Consecutive Departures Timelapse Video
I could sit at Heathrow Airport all day and watch airplanes take of and land. This cool video shows a bunch of movements in timelapse, very cool. I recommend listening on mute – the music isn't great.
Video: A Day In The Life of London
We love short little videos like this. Makes us want to start checking airfares. London is always calling us!
Top travel tips for your visit to London From Transport for London
If you're planning a trip to London, public transport can seem a bit daunting. Check out this great video from Transport for London for handy tips to get around London with ease.
Nell Gwynn & Pall Mall – The King's Mistress Demands a Freehold
I love these short videos by Joolz Guides on YouTube – he provides a very interesting insight into London's history and culture. This fascinating video is about the history of Pall Mall which has a connection to Charles II's mistress Nell Gwynn.
Funny Video: If Tube Lines Were People
This hilarious video showcases what the various Tube Lines around London would be if they were real people. As a Tube nut – it's rather funny. Though I take a little umbrage with their personification of the Piccadilly Line (making fun of tourists is easy). Still, it's a funny video!
Video: Short Film About the Man That Runs Book Market Under Waterloo Bridge
One of my most favorite spots to visit in London is the secondhand book market located under Waterloo Bridge on the Southbank. You'll always find something new and the books I have found are a cherished part of my British book library. This interview from 1,000 Londoners gives some insight into the market. Very interesting!
The Neatest London Video We've Seen – Tiny Planets: Little London – Video
Say goodbye to London, because it's about to become Earth's second moon. Using some clever video stitching and a 360 rig, RavenCourt Films was able to to turn locations in London into its own Mario Galaxy levels, ensconced by an endless skyline. The city's features are warped but just barely recognizable as each scene spins […]
Video: Gorgeous New Timelapse of London Shows London Glowing in the Night
If you follow this site you'll know that I'm a sucker for a good timelapse video showing off London. So, check out this new one that shows stunning footage of London at night.
Video: A History of Smithfield – A Look at the Future Home of the Museum of London
There are big changes coming to a small area of the City of London (the original square mile bit of London). The Museum of London is going to be moving to the derelict Smithfield Market (and regenerating a very downtrodden area in the process). As part of their plan to move – the Museum of […]
How London's skyline could dramatically change if All the Skyscrapers Planned Were Built
London has a strange relationship with tall buildings. It occasionally builds them, sometimes they fit in, sometimes they don't. This report from the BBC looks at the issues facing London as it begins to build up more and more and how that could change the city we love.
Watch 40,000 Years of London's History Unfold In New Animated Short – Video
In this stunning new animated short from National Geographic, you can explore 40,000 years of London's history in 3 minutes with beautiful animation. Thousands of artifacts have been unearthed as a result of the construction of the new Crossrail transportation system in London. These paper animations will take you on a journey through the city's […]
The science behind London's Big Ben and Elizabeth Clocktower – Video
This video from Lonely Planet is a good summary of what makes the clock in Elizabeth Clocktower (aka Big Ben) work. The vide is geared towards kids but adults can enjoy it too.
Stunning Timelapse of a Rain storm passing over London with rainbow, viewed from the Houses of Parliament – Video
The Archives of both Houses of Parliament are stored in the Victoria Tower, at the south end of the Palace of Westminster. In preparation for a new project, to digitise the Stone photographs collection (a late 19th century photographic survey of the Palace) the Archives Digitisation team visited the Victoria Tower roof on a number […]


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Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST)'s earnings rose by 30 percent to $416 million or $0.95 diluted earnings per share for the first quarter of fiscal 2013. During the same quarter last year, the wholesale retailer reported a profit of $320 million or $0.73 diluted earnings per share.
Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST)'s total revenue increased 10 percent to $23.20 billion, up from $21.18 billion during the same period in 2011. The company beat the $23.67 billion revenue and $0.93 earnings per share consensus estimate by Wall Street analysts, based on data from Thomson Reuters.
According to the company, its total comparable sales climbed by 7 percent due to the positive impact of inflation in gasoline prices and the strengthening of foreign currencies. Same store sales in the United States and internationally increased by 7 percent and 9 percent, respectively.
The report from Wall Street Journal cited that Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) exceeded the expectations of analysts during the previous quarters. Many consumers were encouraged to purchase in bulk at Costco to save money amid the economic instability. The prices of commodities at the wholesale retailer are less expensive than other retailers. Costco also sells cheaper gasoline than other gasoline stations.
The financial statement of the company also indicated that its revenue from membership fees was $511 million, a 14 percent increase from the $447 million reported a year earlier. Costco increased its membership fee by 10 percent, for the first time in five years, in the United States and Canada last November.
The wholesale retailer's merchandise cost rose by 9.5 percent to $20.73 billion from $18.93 billion. Its operating margin climbed from 2.5 percent to 2.7 percent during the quarter.
The company also declared a quarterly dividend payment of $0.275 per common share during the quarter. The company ended the quarter with $3.89 billion in cash and cash equivalents. Its total assets were $29.32 billion. Its long-term debt, excluding current portion, was $1.366 billion.


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The card themselves are all right. All of the players are "cut out" with some funky graphics in the background. Inserts include Marquee Matchups and Authentic Achievements, but what collectors area really looking for are the three autos per box (on average). So which ones did we open?
- By the Letter auto: Edwin Encarnacion ("W" – numbered to 99)
- Rookie auto: Jed Lowrie (numbered to 499)
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A rustic cafe not in the heart of the city of Penang!
An awesome place to chill and hangout with friends and families when traffic in the island gets busy.
A rustic cafe not in the heart of the city of Penang!
An awesome place to chill and hangout with friends and families when traffic in the island gets busy.
In search of cafes that serves more Afternoon Tea?
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Osaka Diaries has resumed!
An unexpected trip with full of excitement and thrills and also a fruitful journey which taught me so much about the working life in Japan.
Read on to find out more about my 1 week trip in Osaka, Japan.
Dining experience in Pastis Cafe at The Gardens Midvalley
Afternoon tea lovers might love it here.
A nice place that serves yummy pork dishes.
Three Little Pigs & The Big Bad Wolf in Bangsar Village.
They have several signature dishes that taste fantastic!
A new cafe in Klang town that serves healthy desserts and savories by a local pâtisserie who was trained in Japan.
So what's so special about this cafe?
A hidden cafe in a hidden edge of One Utama Shopping Mall.
WHISK Espresso Bar + Bake Shop
A definite Coffee Bar for Coffee Lovers!
It's a shame to say that I'm NOT a coffee lover, still I love this place.
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A British fire-lighters manufacturer has developed a military cooking fuel formula based on biodiesel, believed to offer a healthier and more environmentally friendly alternative to toxic hexamine.
Zip, the Surrey-based fire-lighters and barbecue-fuels manufacturer has identified a gap in the market after a former soldier joined the company's staff.
"Currently, the soldiers are using hexamine to warm up their food, but honestly, they are not very happy about it," said Terry Coates, Zip's Managing Director. "Hexamine is toxic. When it burns it releases toxic fumes, which are dangerous if inhaled and therefore cannot be used indoors. It also doesn't burn very well at higher altitudes and in bad weather."
The new solution, the first major innovation in military cooking fuels in 70 years, is based on fully renewable crop-based biodiesel. However, keeping the fuel in a solid state in a form of small neat cubes has been quite a feat, the company said.
"We have been working on it for three years," Coates said. "We have over 70 years of experience in manufacturing of fire-lighters and with our know-how and technology, using the correct additives, we have managed to create a product, which we believe is currently the best in the market."
Zip's military cooking fuel doesn't release any toxic substances while burning, it has unlimited shelf life, is easy to light in all conditions and provides better efficiency than conventional fuels. As it is not based on petroleum, it is not classified as hazardous and can be transported by air, unlike the conventional hexamine.
The fuel has been introduced in the UK for the first time at the Defence and Security Event in London this week.
"The response has so far been amazing. Everyone is interested in our product, however, most of the military organisations are stocked up with the currently available hexamine so we would have to wait for them to run out of supplies," Coates said.
The company will also offer the product for civilian purposes, to be used by mountaineers, hikers, or in disaster zones.


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I am trying to set a flag to trigger a software interrupt by using the statement PCIFR |= (1<<PCIF0); unsuccessfully. Datasheet says "PCIF0 becomes set (one)" when an interrupt is triggered. It appears that I cannot do this in code. It may have to do with attempting to set a flag connected with a pin that has been defined as an input. Datasheet indicates PCIF0 is R/W, however.
My ISR function works properly when a button on PCINT0 is pressed and released. But the software attempt does not work.
In a related question/observation, the Atmel Studio 7 debug IO Window View shows the PCIFR bits as all clear (zero) even when the button triggered interrupt functions properly (while single stepping). I would have thought the bit would light up (red) on the screen indicating the change. Occasionally (1 out of 5 interrupts or so), it will go red indicating a One in the value. And I think that means flag was set but I've also seen the opposite.
The attached file demonstrates my program/problem. This code distills the problem to the minimum of code to demonstrate the issue.
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Most of you remember the stories about Che Mah, the smallest man in the world who retired from the circus and lived here in Starke County. But did you know that he was arrested in New York? A friend of mine sent this news clipping that I hadn't seen before. I thought you would enjoy it. It is small print, so you may have to enlarge it some.
Also, more on Che Mah can be found on our website --- http://www.starkehistory.com/index_files/Page1263.htm
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One drumstick, two drumstick – and brutal force: Meet Olaf, Pentakills drummer that is used at chopping enemies with his axes. Well, he got skill: Now he chops bad fans with his drumsticks. And this hurts even more. Keep this in mind: Noones survives his solo!
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Have you ever thought about this? Why are you here today as a believer in Christ? More often than not, it is because someone who loved and cared for you personally passed on the message of Jesus Christ to you. As Christian parents, I believe this is the greatest inheritance and legacy that we can ever pass on to our children for it not only helps them through their days here on earth, but allows them to stand rightly before their God and Maker. Interestingly, God chose to spread the Good News not through mass marketing but through ordinary people like you and me. He started with twelve imperfect men whom He commissioned to spread the word as well as teach, train and equip in the faith. They took the baton and then ran their course, passing on the faith to those around them. This process continued throughout the millenia, all around the world until it came to us. Unless we pick up the baton as well, our faith will die with us. We are the link that God uses to ensure that the next generation is equipped to not only share the Gospel but to help prepare those they disciple to do the job as well.
And so, the vision of Mom University is:
To see a generation of leaders, lovingly nurtured by their mothers (and fathers!) to become all God intended them to be so that they can take their place as messengers of the Good News of Jesus and disciplers of the faith in their generation.
However, this can only take place when those who are doing the discipling have something to pass on. Many moms I talk to understand the vision and passionately want their children to be disciplemakers too, but for some reason or other, feel that they are not prepared, don't know enough or feel intimidated by the immensity of the task. Make no mistake: disciplemaking is a big job. But then again, we have a big God who has given us all we need for life and godliness. Not only that He has given us the authority and the resources we need to do that work. He will not do it for us, but He will most certainly help us.
This is where I envision this ministry going. My personal passion and life mission is to help moms grow in their own faith and relationship with the Lord.
The mission of Mom University is:
To encourage and equip the hearts, souls, minds and hands of Christian mothers so they may confidently pour their lives into their children throughout their season of active motherhood.
It is my firm belief that unless moms are filled with the Spirit, it is difficult to train spiritually strong children. That is why I am so passionate about training mothers. One of my mantras is we cannot give away what we do not have. I hope that the classes and materials that you find here will help you to feed your own soul, give you ideas to consider, and find help in areas you struggle with in order that you may be the best mother you can be for your children. A mother living out of overflow will pour blessings out onto their children that will help them to grow into their calling. Far from being selfish, a mom who takes time to care for herself will in turn be a mom that God can use.


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The folks over at UserVoice are using Trello quite extensively throughout their development process.
Founder Richard White describes it all in detail.
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There are only four main ingredients in any meal: protein, carbs, spices and fat. But consider the huge variety of meals you've eaten. The tastes you've experienced. Imagine taking four simple base ingredients and producing a drink that has the same variety, the same complexity, the same depth as a meal in your favourite restaurant.
That's our aim. To create. To try different recipes. To constantly experiment. To take something familiar and make it fresh and exciting. With something new every month. So different from mainstream beer that we need a different name. A drink that tastes as good as it looks. A drink that you look forward to. A drink to savour. Like a glass of good wine.
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Today's "marketing stack" really consists of three individual layers.
Data management contains all of the "pipes" used to connect people and identity together; orchestration ties all the execution systems together to reach customers at the right time and channel; and AI is the brains behind the stack.
This technology layer cake was presented at this year's Industry Preview by Brian Anderson of LUMA Partners who talked about the future of marketing technology.
Anderson's unifying marketechture drawings looked like an amalgamation of various whiteboarding sessions I have had recently with big enterprise marketers, many of whom are building the components of their marketing "stacks."
Marketers are feverishly working to build a vision that can be summed up like the image below. Let's discuss each layer in a little more detail..
The Data Management Layer
The first layer, Data Management (DM), contains all of the "pipes" used to connect people and identity together. Every cloud needs to take data in from all kinds of sources, such as internet cookies, mobile IDs, hashed email identity keys, purchase data, CRM attribute data, ecommerce data, and the like.
Every signal we can collect results in a richer understanding of the customer, and the DM layer needs access to rich sets of first, second, and third-party data to paint the clearest picture.
The DM layer also needs to tie every single ID and attribute collected to an individual, so all the signals collected can be leveraged to understand their wants and desires. This identity infrastructure is critical for the enterprise; knowing that you are the same guy who saw the display ad for the family minivan, and visited the "March Madness Deals" page on the mobile app goes a long way to understanding marketing attribution.
But the data management layer cannot be constrained by anonymous data. Today's marketing stacks must leverage data management platforms (DMPs) to understand pseudonymous identity, but must find trusted ways to leverage personally identifiable information (PII)-based data from email and CRM systems.
This latter notion has created a new category—the "Customer Data Platform" (CDP), and also resulted in the rush to build data lakes as a method of collecting a variety of differentiated data for analytics purposes.
Finally, the data management layer must be able to seamlessly connect the data out to all kinds of activation channels, whether they are email, digital advertising, social, mobile, OTT, or IoT-based.
Just as people have many different ID keys, people have different identity keys inside of Google, Facebook, Pinterest, and the Wall Street Journal. Connecting those partner IDs to an enterprises' universal ID solves problems with frequency management, attribution, and offers the ability to sequence messages across various addressable channels.
You can't have a marketing cloud without data management. This layer is the "who" of the marketing cloud—who are these people and what are they like?
The Orchestration Layer
The next thing marketers need to have is an orchestration layer, also thought of as journey management. This is the "When, Where, and How" of the stack.
Email systems can determine when to send that critical email; marketing automation software can decide whether to put someone in a "nurture" campaign, or have a salesperson call them right away; DSPs decide when to bid on a likely internet surfer; and social management can tell us the best time to Tweet or Snap.
Content management systems and site-side personalization orchestrate the perfect content experience on a webpage, and dynamic creative optimization systems have gotten pretty good at guessing which ad will perform better for certain segments.
The "when" layer is critical for building smart customer journeys. If you get enough systems connected, you start to realize the potential for executing on the "right person, right message, right time" dynamic that has been promised for many years, but never quite delivered at scale.
Adtech has been busy nailing the orchestration of display and mobile messages, and the big social platforms have been leveraging their rich people data to deliver relevant messages. However, with lots of marketing money and attention still focused on email and television, there is plenty of work to be done before marketers can build journeys that are fully connected and communicating across all touchpoints with a consumer.
Marketers today are looking to better connect various systems and gett them to talk to each other to figure out the "when, where, and how" of marketing.
The Artificial Intelligence Layer
When every single marketer and big media company uses a DMP, and has figured out how to get journey management working, it is clear the next big initiative to tackle is how to make it all smarter and efficient with the AI layer.
Artificial intelligence represents the "why" problem in marketing—why am I emailing this person instead of calling her? Should I be targeting this segment at all? Why does this guy score highly for a new car purchase, and this other guy who looks similar doesn't? What is the lifetime value of this new business traveler I just acquired?
While the stacks have tons of identity data, advertising data, and sales data, they need a brain to analyze all of that data and decide how to use it most effectively. As marketing systems become more real-time and more connected to on-the-go customers than ever before, artificial intelligence must drive millions of decisions quickly, gleaned from billions of individual data points.
How does the soda company know when to deliver an ad for water instead of diet soda? It requires understanding location, the weather, the person, and what they are doing in the moment. AI systems are rapidly building their machine learning capabilities and connecting into journey management systems to help with decisioning.
All together now
The layer cake is a convenient way to look at what is happening today. The vision for tomorrow is to squish the layer cake together in such a way that enterprises get all of that functionality in a single cake.
Sooner than you think, the marketing technology stack will have some kind of built-in DMP. Journey management systems will all have built-in artificial intelligence as a means for differentiation. Look at email orchestration today. It is not sold on its ability to deliver messages to inboxes, but rather on its ability to provide that service in a smarter package to increase open-rates, conversion and provide richer analytics.
It will be fun to watch as these new components come together to form the marketing clouds of the future.
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Great article but it's not all about customer identification and the customer journey. Business data such as stock levels is vital too, as is competitor data.
The answer to questions like, "How does the soda company know when to deliver an ad for water instead of diet soda?" is that their marketing is aware of stock levels in each location. If water is low on stock, then there's little point in promoting it, so their marketing rules will deliver an ad for diet soda instead. Or promote water at a much higher price - you decide.
When stock levels are back to normal, that's the time to market the temporarily-unavailable product to deprived customers.
Pete, that's a great point. It's simple to suppress creative based on product availability but gets complicated to automate that at scale--especially at very granular geo levels. That's a great argument for setting up automated journey paths in the orchestration layer, fed by real time stock level triggers.
An interesting view. I have co-written about CRM from a martech approach and it's all about data and how you manage it (lead conversion, customer retention, etc). Fingers crossed the academics like it, we are humble practitioners undergoing peer review, which is quite an experience.
Great summary marchitecture. Looks like a worthy candidate for Scott Brinker's "Stackies" awards (http://chiefmartec.com/)!
I do think that it underplays the complexity of physical / digital channel cross overs and their implications for each of the layers outlined to deliver genuinely joined up campaigning.
We are finding with our clients across industries that this is one of the most significant challenges, but therefore also the real opportunity to create experiences that differentiate against the competition.
Great piece as ever Chris. A few points/thoughts:
- I think ideally we should be consistent in terminology. Are you suggesting that 'orchestration layer' is a better term for the 'journey management layer' or are these two different things?
- The diagram has Data then AI then Journey Management. You have Data than Orchestration then AI? I would have thought the AI 'thinking' needs to be based on data but come before the actual execution?
- In the past I've tried to explain this stack using the human body as a metaphor. Not sure how well it works but it goes like this (and it is concentric circles if visualised):
-- (centre) Data = DNA, the basic building blocks that drive behaviour and action
-- (inner ring) Artificial Intelligence = Brain, the decisioning engine that processes signals and decides what to do
-- (outer ring) Execution = our Functions and Senses, which allow us to capture data and execute the instructions from our brain.
Ashley. Thanks for your insights here.
-- I love calling the orchestration layer "Journey Management." Ultimately, we are trying to nail building customer journeys. The current term of art seems like "orchestration" however. It's not bad if you think of the dozens of channels and hundreds of inputs required to launch a campaign.
-- I love your human body metaphor. It's a very compelling way to think about how sense and sense-making drive the appendages of marketing. I am going to steal this with your permission for a presentation (with full attribution)! Has anyone published this graphic yet?


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|27 Jul 2009
How do I replace orginal MBR in Win 7?
It appears they have changed things from the old way, which worked fine.
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|27 Jul 2009
What are you trying to do exactly?
What error makes you want to replace the mbr , and what have you tried that hasn't worked?
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I've been messing with dual boot setups. I know how to do it, but I was trying to do it the easiest way possible. It used to be you could just boot with the original CD and choose repair, but it doesn't seem to work anymore. I heard they changed things with Win7 to make it more difficult.
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I've been messing with dual boot setups. I know how to do it, but I was trying to do it the easiest way possible. It used to be you could just boot with the original CD and choose repair, but it doesn't seem to work anymore. I heard they changed things with Win7 to make it more difficult.
How do I replace orginal MBR in Win 7?
I'm assuming what you mean is:
How do I restore the original (XP) MBR, using Win 7?
If you know what you're doing, and you're referring to Win XP (only), not Vista/W7
try this (The "manual" way):
Last worked OK for me with Build 7201.
Boot from your install DVD to get Win7 code running.
At: English_US keyboard, click 'Next'...
Hit: Shift F10 to get an Admin Command Prompt.
( Now you have to find out the 'letter' of your DVD: )
type: diskpart
then: list volume -- Note the letter of DVD (D:?) and boot HDD (C:?)
type: EXIT to get out of 'diskpart' and back to the cmd prompt.
type: D: (? for your DVD letter)
type: CD boot
type: bootsect /nt52 C: /mbr (C:? for your boot HDD)...
--- He should say "Success" ---
type: EXIT to get out of 'Command Prompt' and back to Win7 Setup.
That ought to do it. Cancel out of Setup, reboot and you're home.
Bootsect.exe updates the master boot code (BS) for hard disk partitions
in order to switch between BOOTMGR and NTLDR.
You can use this tool to restore the Boot_Sector (BS) on your computer.
/nt52 Applies the master boot code (BS) that is *compatible* with NTLDR to SYS,
ALL, or <DriveLetter>. The operating system installed on SYS, ALL, or
<DriveLetter> must be older than Windows Vista.
/mbr Updates the Master Boot Record (MBR) without changing the Partition_table
on sector 0 of the disk that contains the partition specified by SYS, ALL,
or drive letter.
When used with /nt52 option, the Master Boot Record (MBR)
is *compatible* with operating systems older (XP) than Windows Vista.
When used with the /nt60 option, the Master Boot Record (MBR) is
*compatible* with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 or later.
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Windows 8.1
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|29 Dec 2011
It is possible to overwrite the MBR from within Windows, but if you are infected with a rootkit, you can never know for sure, if it just makes you believe that you have overwritten it.
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|30 Dec 2011
I'm not that knowledgeable in malware protection. But a "virus" or a dual boot (linux) configuration can play around with your MBR. Basically the MBR contains the boot code the BIOS hands off to and the HDD's partition table.
You can try the following:
Option 1-
Boot a system repair CD (you make from "Backup & Restore") and run the automatic repair function up to 3 times.
Option 2-
Boot a system repair CD and go to the command prompt option and type
>bootrec /fixmbr
..........you can try stopping here and see if your problem is fixed or continue with
>bootrec /fixboot
>bootrec /rebuildbcd
This sequence of operations rebuilds your full boot sequence for Windows 7.
When thing are running smoothly I suggest you backup your MBR with this little utility. You can then manually replace it if either your MBR boot code gets infected or your partition table gets damaged.
MBR Backup - Back up your Master Boot Record (Freeware)
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|30 Dec 2011
How does that answer why the op thought his particular issue was due to a problem with the disk code.
People often assume any boot problems are caused by damage to the mbr.
While it is not impossible, it is unlikely.
Most boot problems are caused further down the chain.
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|30 Dec 2011
I'm not sure you is responding to whom.
The original post was in 2009!!
I was following up based on curtanhome resurrecting it and others may now stumble on the thread.
I attempted to answer the old original OP question
"How do I replace orginal MBR in Win 7?"
and what to do if the problem is further down the boot chain.
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|30 Dec 2011
The automated method was given as my option 1. From first hand personal experience the automated system repair does not always work. If your problem is related to the boot sequence the bootrec command was introduced in Vista then Windows 7 specifically to address these issues. I have found this to work when the automated repair did not - just sharing my experience.
I think bootsect is focused on the NTLDR boot loader and more applicable to XP or XP dual boot environments.
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Noted wallower in otaku culture, sometimes Famitsu contributor and all the time professional wrestler Kikutaro (livedoor / myspace) has a group called Akiba Pro Wrestling that recently promoted a show at Tokyo's Differ Ariake with support from a bunch of comic and game publishers, including Capcom and Konami. So that means wrestling matches featuring Street Fighter IV and Metal Gear Solid 4 characters. Ryu, Balrog and El Fuerte fought some guys, while vaguely militaristic Metal Gear types pulled airsoft rifles and talked on communications screens in the main event. You can click those links for lengthy blow-by-blow reports. I was really excited when I saw that Balrog would be appearing, until I remembered in Japan he's not the gigaton punch guy.
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<Brandon's note:> I wonder if this might not have been a crackdown after the gaijin incidents on Halloween? Seems like everyone over reacted there, to me.
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Council must not include gathering of remembrance and the scattering of ashes in policy
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Wellington City Council must give an assurance that the gathering for remembrance and the scattering of peoples' ashes on beaches and parks will not be part of any crackdown on free use of public space, says the Funeral Directors Association.
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"Requiring people to pay to book a place on a beach or in a park to gather to remember and to scatter ashes would be offensive and stupid.
"The impact of this on families would be potentially significant. It would affect the many families who wish to discreetly gather to farewell a loved one or deposit their ashes at a favourite place.
"To many this is an important ritual in their lives and must be allowed to continue.
"The council proposal does not mention that this would be one of the activities targeted, but neither does it exclude it.
"The Environment Committee report says it proposes adding to the council's Trading in Public Places Policy 'commercial and private functions/events that require exclusive use of land areas and therefore directly prevent casual use while the function or event occurs'.
"That suggests to me that the gathering to farewell a loved one or the scattering of ashes could be included.
"But that would be a foolish move, especially if it's just a money-grabbing exercise, and the council should immediately dismiss such an idea.
"Any move that restricts the gathering to remember a person or the scattering of ashes on beaches or in parks and reserves would affect long-held tradition for New Zealanders.
"It would also be culturally offensive to Hindu Indians, who have scattered ashes over water as part of a 5000-year custom.
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Skip to comments.MN: Lawmaker Wants Scent-Free Schools
Posted on 03/10/2008 2:53:28 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Those all-over body sprays that promise to turn teenage boys into babe magnets? Instead of attracting girls, they could be making them sick.
A Minnesota lawmaker proposed a bill Monday urging a fragrance-free educational campaign to discourage students from dousing themselves in scents that aggravate classmates with asthma and other health problems.
Odors that fill hallways come mostly from boys who douse themselves in body sprays like Axe, said Mikolai Altenberg, a senior at Minneapolis South High School. He said the smell is "indescribable" and unavoidable.
"You can smell it from 10 feet away," Altenberg said. "Mostly it's just guys who just think that putting Axe all over them is a substitute for showering."
Rep. Karen Clark, a Democrat, first proposed banning fragrances in Minneapolis schools, one of the state's largest school districts. The bill she introduced Monday scales that back to an awareness campaign in Minneapolis and in other districts that volunteer. The campaign could include letters to parents, fact sheets, signs in schools, e- mail and Web sites.
One in eight Minneapolis students has asthma, and school nurses have treated students for wheezing and headaches brought on by the fragrances wafting from classmates, said Mary Heiman, a nursing service manager who runs the district's asthma program.
An awareness campaign would mirror the approach of policies at the University of Minnesota's Disability Services office and in a recent version of the Minneapolis teachers contract.
If the awareness campaign works, it could be expanded, Clark said.
A trade group for toiletry makers, the Personal Care Products Council in Washington, said it doesn't oppose fragrance policies as long as they're voluntary.
"We really don't think it's a good idea to legislate personal hygiene," said John Hurson, the group's head of government affairs.
Rhode Island and Massachusetts are the only other states where lawmakers have proposed fragrance-free bills in the past two years, Hurson said.
I think the word he's looking for is "gasoline."
A few years ago, very heavy women's fragrances were in style, and I had more than a few dinners ruined by someone with heavy perfume sitting near me. It's easy to lose track of how strong a scent is when you wear it regularly.
Indeed. Although not the Brooks Brothers brand, Royall Muske, which is typically stocked at Brooks Brothers, is pure gold.
I have to admit that this is getting out of hand. It used to be that I would only have to worry about an allergic reaction at the perfume isle at the drug or department store.
Now I have to be careful in the malls when the mall rats walk by.
My 12 year old son asked to purchase some Axe. Mmy husband and I refused him. These fast little 12 year old girls (who are taller than him and have breasts) are already chasing him. That's all we need is to have twice as many chasing him. I told him he is saving himself for marriage.
I love a nice light cologne on a man, it is very alluring. But for goodness sake, don't bathe in it.
I wish this would catch on everywhere... Especially folks that put their perfume on with a garden hose. I swear, sometimes the scent is so strong it makes my nose bleed.
Perfumes and colognes are supposed to be a hint of a scent, a mere whiff. It isn't supposed to be put on so heavy that folks can smell it 1/2 mile away, down wind.
I'll probably watch more when I'm done with a song.
smelly cheese eating surrender monkeys
Hey, at least he has girls chasing him.
I couldn't get girls to chase me away to stop bothering them.
We need a bill banning stupid politicians from wasting time and tax money on this.
That sounds way too high. And notice how this bill is premised on the behaviour of BOYS and accepts the presumption that one student and one nurse make.
I remember just a few years ago colognes and perfumes were becoming passe because folks got tired of all the competing odors.
As an occasional cologne wearer I utilize Kouros by Saint Laurent. It too is somewhat difficult to find and a bit pricey. It's my special occasion cologne.
I wonder if that means guys can't wear their dad's Hai-Karate aftershave to school...
LOL Those were all great.
But I do have to say, Brooklyn > Jersey.
Some of them got the scent thing right though. A few years ago National Geographic reproduced the scent Napoleon favored. It smelled pretty good and was barely there. Citrus-lemon with some other more exotic stuff.
These kids will find something to pleeze da layyyydeeeezzzz! and i'm betting on breath mints.
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No. 7 Johns Hopkins 2, No. 1 Messiah 1
GRANTHAM, Pa. -- Junior Hannah Kronick scored consecutive goals for Johns Hopkins in the second half as the Blue Jays held on to defeat the top-ranked Messiah Falcons 2-1 on Wednesday.
After going down 1-0 in the 57th minute, Kronick rallied the Blue Jays after she netted the equalizer less than a minute later. With the score even at one, Kronick delivered again finishing a goal off a pass from junior Maria Touloumes.
The victory marks the first time in Hopkins history that the team has defeated an opponent ranked first in the nation. After scoring two goals in the match, Kronick is now tied with Sarah Parola for second all-time in goals (46) in program history.
The second half proved to be the most exciting in the match between the nationally ranked squads, with Messiah able to strike first in the 57th minute. Falcon forward Nikki Elsaesser collected a rebound batted away by JHU senior goalie Kelly Leddy off a Messiah cross and put it in the back of the net to stake Messiah to the one-goal lead.
Just 51 seconds later, Kronick swung the momentum right back in Hopkins' favor, drilling a shot in the left corner on a breakaway. With the game tied 1-1, Hopkins placed consistent pressure on the Messiah defense for the first time in the match. After four straight Hopkins shots, Kronick netted the go-ahead goal in the right corner on an assist from Touloumes.
With Hopkins up 2-1, Messiah was relentless with offensive pressure, with a shot from Alicia Frey on a direct kick missing just wide. Hopkins dodged one last bullet in the closing minutes after a deflection off a corner kick missed left in the final minute.
No. 10 Loras 4, Wisconsin-Platteville 0
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. -- No. 10 Loras defeated Wisconsin-Platteville 4-0 on Wednesday night.
During the first half Loras scored one goal and tallied four corner kicks and six shots.
Loras made it a 2-0 game in 50th minute and then put the game out of reach when Shelby Perkins scored off a free kick from 30 yards out in the 65th minute.
The Duhawk offense was relentless, out shooting the Pioneers 17-5 and totaled six corners to Wisconsin-Platteville's one.


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Predicting the future must be human-kinds second oldest profession. I try to avoid falling into the trap of prognosticating anything, preferring to use a more Darwinian approach in preparing myself and my organization for what will come (flexibility, adaptability, etc.).
Whenever someone does ask me about the future of technology — "What do you think the next big thing in technology will be?" I have a ready answer. I respond with something ridiculous and humorous. "Smell-O-Vision!", I would say, trying to make the point that it is futile to try to predict the unpredictable. How anti-predictive I thought I was.
Today I learned that I'm going to need to invent a new snarky response to that question. Thanks to the innovators at the Oscar Mayer Institute for the Advancement of Bacon, a marketing campaign has just been launched to promote a real-life smell-o-vision device. They have built a hardware plug-in for the iPhone that enables an alarm clock to wake you with the smell of bacon.
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According to a New York Times book review of the aptly titled Smell, the nerve bundles branching backward from our nose are connected to the evolutionary ancient parts of our brain. The olfactory system also connects more or less directly with our limbic system — the part of our brains that deals with our emotions. Smelling something generally leads to emotionally nuanced and even instinctive actions. Hormone production is also triggered quite automatically through the strong connection of olfactory nerves to the pituitary gland. The upshot is that what we smell influences our general bodily function in an way that we may not be concious of. According to the book review, before we can rationalize or verbalize what we smell, but have an immediate reaction and start to act in accordance with it.
Personally, I can relate having recently spent a year suffering from anosmia . What I missed most during that year was not the joy of tucking into a fragrant glass wine nor was it wafting up the waves of scents from a bouquet of flowers. What I felt was a general feeling of missing the mini-surprises of unsought emotions. That is, I was not pleasantly distracted from my daily activities when I caught a waft of my wife's perfume as she walked by. I was not pleased by the clean smell of a freshly washed towel after my shower. I was not alerted to the state of cleanliness (or lack thereof) of the public toilet I walk into at the Hospital I work at. I could walk past a bagel shop and not know I had done so. No sensation of sweet baking. No reflexive mouth watering. No gentle hunger pangs.
Now that I can smell and taste again, I have become very attuned to the little mini-emotions that pop into my conciousness all during the day. So much richness has been restored to my every day life. I am happy to smell and to feel the emotions induced by smell — even the negative ones brought on by stinky garbage.
The Emotion of Smell
Our sense of smell is a very under appreciate human sense. Even reading about smells can induce emotion and memory. See if you can read the poem on the left by Christopher Morley without your limbic system triggering a pleasant emotion or two.
If you found yourself experiencing the warm recollections of the smell of ripe apples and camp-fire smoke, this little poem provides some subjective proof that our nose is an important part of our emotion-inducing senses.
I don't think I'll be a customer for the bacon vapour alarm clock gadget, but it's nice to know that the frequently forgotten olfactory system isn't totally ignored in today's personal technology maelstrom.
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