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The Windmeet Freestyle Tour continues!
After the first two events close to Marseille and Toulon (south of France), Windmeet moved to Leucate for the third stop in 2013. This time, Caroline Barbeau and Julien Taboulet were hosting the entourage in their windsurf Center: the "Wesh Center Crew". Over to the event organisers for more and check out the video of the action below, stay tuned to keep up to speed with all the latest happenings in the world of french freestyle.
The best French freestylers were all there including the Team France Windsurf crew who were well represented with the likes of Julien Mas, Nicolas Akgaciyan and Adrien Bosson. Stephanie Signory was the only girl in this event but the good news came from the kids: 4 of them were present to compete even with a poor forecast!
Despite the wonderful place, the wind was not there the first day. But as usual, the organisation team prepared everything that was necessary to please riders and public: Stand Up Paddle Racing, Light Wind Freestyle competition on big boards and of course, a Tow-in Freestyle Contest (towed windsurfing). A big show was put on thanks to big moves and some spectacular crashes close to the beach. Lastly, there were also some windsurf brands on-site to present their 100% freestyle products.
For the Tow-In contest, the best were there and more and more riders began to feel confident with this new discipline, which can be quite tricky the first few times. After qualifications, the five best riders meet at the beach as the sun began to set. Two runs each gave the opportunity for the judges to declare a winner: amplitude, style and risk were the keys for victory!
Podium Freestyle Light Wind:
- Jonathan Mourgues
- Alexandre Colin
- Felipe Minier
Podium Freestyle Light Wind Kids:
- Sam Estève
- Robin Gardes
- Gianni Cudicini
Podium Freestyle Tow-In:
- Julien Mas
- Adrien Bosson
- Nicolas Akgaciyan
Podium Freestyle Paddle:
- Allan Arnaud
- Nicolas Akgaciyan
- Felipe Minier
After this nice day, everyone met for a great party in the Wesh Center Crew. Teh party was long for a lot of riders because they came from many different places and were all very pleased to have the chance to catch up!
The next day, the usual Tramontana was not there but an East wind was forecast for the afternoon... The spot orientation is not the best one for this wind so all the riders met at the road of Roussillon to try and find the best possible spot. Unfortunately, despite several stops and a strong dropping tide, the level of wind (and the water) was not high enough to launch the Freestyle contest.
So back to the Wesh Center Crew to finish the day, with still some action on the beach in front of the dropping sun!
This weekend was wrapped up with the prize giving ceremony, which had several podiums: "light wind" freestyle, Tow-in, Stand Up Paddle and kids!
Big up to all the "Wesh Center Crew" team who were such good hosts to us! Also to the surf shops (Chinook, Naish Pro Center and Surf one) for all the gifts for the winners and the lottery, and to Ride Production for the video.
See you for the next event in July, the "Vincent Mellouet Memorial", which will be at the "Monteynard Lake". Rendez vous 5th, 6th and 7th of July.


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The penultimate Dome-E-Nation of the season features young Kas Lemmens, who, just like all the other crazy flatlanders, is in command of some gnarly rail trickery.
We're coming to our ender of indoor video's for this season but before we show you the ender we need to fix your attention on young Kas Lemmens. He's been in front of the camera for 2 years now and only claimed opener or ender while only being able to film for one week.
This year he's working on 3 full parts so be sure to check the new Random Bastards and Postland films, and a seperate online project.

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"Your breast are very dense"
Seriously – did my doctor just make fun of my boobs?
Because it's not bad enough that I get to lie here, totally exposed from the waist up, with my muffin top rolling over the side of my too-tight skinny jeans and flourescent lighting above designed specifically to highlight every stretchmark and dimple and pucker – but now apparently, my breasts are dim-witted too??
And the thing is – in the seconds before I realized what she was actually referring to – I whole-heartedly agreed with her – these boobs of mine suck royally. In fact last year, I briefly considered chopping them off. True story.
My boobs have never got me a date, a job, or a drink. Don't get me wrong, I have received many a date, job, drink in my day but not ever as a result of anything peeking out from behind a fitted sweater or low cut tee. A revealing shirt and flat chest do not a date make, apparently. #BoobFail
My boobs could not even feed a starving child. I know this because when my oldest was born, my boobs simply refused to give him all that he needed. I brought my baby and my boobs to a lactation clinic every single day for the first three weeks of his life. They were manipulated, squeezed, pulled, yanked, bitten, supplemented, pleaded with and threatened. Nothing. Tubes were given to help supplement with formula. I remained a human soother for 18 months anyhow but it was merely for comfort (to me, it seemed an unhappy facade). #BoobFail
Also, my boobs are more likely than not to fill with cancer one day. #DoubleBoobFail
I do not say this lightly. Statistics dictate that this will be true. Don't worry mom, I blame the boobs, not you! My grandmother had breast cancer – among other types – and lived until 94, when she dies tragically from old age. My mom, going strong in her 70's has also faced multiple cancers. In fact, at one point they were both in the hospital, attacking stupid cancer at the same time, just different floors. So, I do no think I am being dramatic or neurotic. I don't want to have cancer – obviously – I just suspect that my family history, coupled with the fact that I am over-weight (another possible contributor) and my congested breast tissue may eventually lead me this way one day…
One technician, trying to be helpful (??!!), suggested that I would probably detect lump abnormalities much sooner than most because my boobs were so so small. Thanks Doc. Last year I even wondered (to myself, this is the first time I've discussed, ever) just chopping them off. But alas, this only exists in TV land ( I got the idea from an episode of Greys Anatomy anyway). I made a few calls, explained my situation but this chopping off of the breast is not an option. Not unless I am willing to do it myself. I am not, in case you are wondering. I am not even sure that I would seriously consider this type of preventative healthcare but I was certainly surprised to discover that there are not even any conversations about this within the healthcare arena.
I will play it safe and get my mammograms yearly and hope that you do the same. In the meantime, I need my faith in boobs restored. Any suggestions?? What have your boobs done for you lately??
p.s. Googling breasts for some images should only ever be done once your children are in bed. I had no idea….


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Jerry Colca, Ph.D.
Co-founder and Vice President, Research and Development
Jerry Colca is a widely recognized expert in the pathophysiology of insulin resistance and the pharmacological mechanisms of action of insulin sensitizing drugs. He has dedicated his career to studying the endocrine control of metabolism as it relates to diabetes and has been focused on insulin sensitizers from the early days of their discovery, especially on the safety and pharmacology of pioglitazone.
In 1984, Dr. Colca joined The Upjohn Company to study the mechanism of action of the thiazolidinediones and served as project leader for the selection and early development of pioglitazone hydrochloride (Actos®), one of the most successful insulin sensitizers ever developed for the treatment of diabetes. Following The Upjohn Company's decision to exit the diabetes field in 1993, Dr. Colca continued his metabolic disease research with the company through its mergers with Pharmacia, Monsanto-Searle and Pfizer, building a new diabetes drug discovery capability in Sweden for Pharmacia and developing a new target discovery effort in St. Louis for Pfizer. In 2006 Dr. Colca co-founded MSDC, a company focused on development of compounds to treat metabolic diseases based on the discovery of a novel mitochondrial protein complex that is believed to be the mechanism through which insulin sensitizing drugs achieve effective glucose control.
Dr. Colca has published widely on the mechanism of action of insulin sensitizers and is the author of more than 80 publications, chapters and presentations. He is a section editor for Expert Opinion in Investigational Drugs and is a member of numerous organizations including American Diabetes Association, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The New York Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Colca received a B.S. in biology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Houston, where his early studies focused on the regulation of the secretion of pancreatic hormones. His post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Pathology at Washington University, School of Medicine in St. Louis concentrated on the biochemistry of isolated pancreatic islets and the study of stimulus-secretion coupling in the control of metabolism.


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We've had such a great initial response to our IT Pro Licensing Update Event that we're holding this Wednesday in Reading. So much so, that we've had to move to a bigger venue! The good news is, this means we can reopen registrations and give you all one final chance to come along and get your licensing questions answered.
We'll be covering a range of different areas, including:
- Application server licensing (Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, SQL) in both physical and virtual environments;
- Licensing a virtualised desktop (RDS, VDI, App-V);
- Online Services licensing (Office 365);
- System Center.
This will all be followed by an open surgery where we'll be able to drill down into your specific queries and concerns.
The event will now be held at Holiday Inn Reading, RG41 5TS. To find out more and sign up to the event go here and use the code: 67BA7A


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Volkman Avian Science African Grey
Ingredients include safflower seed, oat groats, paddy rice, buckwheat, peas, fruit medley: (apricot, nectarine, apple, pluots, peaches, pear, plum, cherry, raisins, cranberries, blueberries, sugar and sunflower oi), peanuts, pumpkin, mixed nuts (walnuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios, filberts), sunflower seed, carrot, dehydrated green peas, corn, coconut, papaya.
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Buzz Archives: General
WCAG review period extended
The comment period for WCAG 2 has been extended to Thursday, June 22. If you are thinking about giving feedback, I suggest reading the directions for commenters. The ATF will be publishing a broader set of issues shortly, and working to help the WCAG Working Group cover narrower technical issues as ...
By Matt May | May 26th, 2006
- On Quality Education
"What college or university has a good program for Web Development (or Design)?" is a question frequently encountered on mailing lists, in forums, or in conversations with others. Many would like to know the answer.
By Holly Marie Koltz | May 24th, 2006
- Educating Web Professionals
José Trudel instructs students with a focus on emerging technologies, standards, and skills; providing a strong foundation needed for today's web professional.
By Rob Dickerson | May 22nd, 2006
- Microsoft Expression Preview Release
Set to debut in June of 2006 Microsoft has publically released a free trial preview of its newest web authoring tool, Microsoft Expression Web Designer.
By Holly Marie Koltz | May 15th, 2006
- Adobe's Spry Framework for AJAX
Adobe Labs Spry Framework for AJAX – friendly to use, but poor support for standards.
By Drew McLellan | May 12th, 2006
- Yes, We Have the Power
Chris Wilson of Microsoft swears to live by the standards sword – or end his relationship if Microsoft doesn't stay true to the standards course.
By Molly E. Holzschlag | May 11th, 2006
- All aboard the PAS 78 gravy train
With the extensive media coverage following its launch, a large number of businesses, education establishments and government agencies with a stake in the UK online market should be aware of PAS 78 - Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites. Partly due to the cost associated with this document, ...
By Patrick Lauke | May 11th, 2006
- Even Scoble Says Nay Nay
No, this isn't a comedy routine with the fabulous John Pinette taking the stage. It's part of an ongoing tragic saga of Web sites that are browser-specific. Nothing new there, as we all know. In this case, they're all Microsoft sites, alas, and even Robert Scoble is just saying no. While ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | May 8th, 2006
- Accessibility and UK small businesses
Take a look at the latest study coming out of the United Kingdom examining the attitudes and perceptions of small business toward accessibility.
By Derek Featherstone | April 29th, 2006
- The WaSP Café
Kazuhito Kidachi, the WaSP liaison in Japan, has started a new series of events dubbed the "WaSP Café". It is a social gathering where people can chat about web standards and related topics while drinking a nice cup of coffee. As Kazuhito says, "Why coffee? Because to talk seriously, it's ...
By Faruk Ateş | April 25th, 2006
- WaSP International Liaison Group
With a growing interest around the world in Web standards, international relationships are becoming key. WaSP is seeking to create an International Liaison Group for the sharing of Web standards related information worldwide.
By Molly E. Holzschlag | April 18th, 2006
- Notre Dame Web Group
Lead Web developer Steve Smith and the University of Notre Dame Web Group tackle web standards and accessibility in original and exciting ways.
By Holly Marie Koltz | April 12th, 2006
- Government Web Site Failure – Is It So Shocking?
Report reveals poor pass rates for standards in UK government web sites.
By Ian Lloyd | March 31st, 2006
- Microformat Extensions for Dreamweaver
As part of our remit to encourage the use of web standards amongst the Dreamweaver community, the DWTF has produced a suite of extensions to help make working with Microformats easy.
By Drew McLellan | March 30th, 2006
- Acid2 Supported in Opera One Year Later
Opera 9 passes Acid2, next step for Opera is mobile, and preliminary mumblings about Acid3 have begun.
By Molly E. Holzschlag | March 28th, 2006
- IE 7 Beta Preview 2 Out Now
Microsoft announce release of IE 7 beta 2 after which no more CSS fixes will be addressed – this is as far as it goes for version 7.
By Ian Lloyd | March 21st, 2006
- Kudos to Michigan State
Michigan State University launched a redesign of its Web site, yesterday. Designed and developed with best practices that follow Web Standards and Web Accessibiity, the university Web site looks good and validates to the XHTML strict doctype. The redesign involved the teamwork of the MSU Libraries, Computing, and ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | February 28th, 2006
- Failed Redesigns
Joe Clark recently wrote about several Failed Redesigns. His post has such a classic WaSP tone, that I hope he doesn't mind that I quote a couple of paragraphs here. A failed redesign is a Web page created from scratch, or substantially updated, during the era of Web standards that ...
By Tantek Çelik | January 9th, 2006
- 24 Ways to Impress Your Friends
It's an online advent calender, and behind each door* you'll find a web development tip/tutorial (all standards-based goodness, of course) to impress your friends with - 24 of them, to be precise. I'd prefer that to a piece of chocolate any day. 24 ways to impress your friends kicks off ...
By Ian Lloyd | December 1st, 2005
- Mehr Presse
Jo Bager has written a short-but-oh-so-sweet blurb on our humble Task force for Heise Online. Vielen Dank, Herr Bager!
By Chris Kaminski | July 19th, 2005
- Presentation Slides with DOM and CSS
Eric Meyer's S5 standards based presentation slides system is used quite a lot by webstandardismos for their presentations. My personal challenge was to come up with something that is as cool as Eric's system, but much easier to use and more lightweight when it comes to creating your own slides.
By Christian Heilmann | July 18th, 2005
- WaSP ATF: Already A Smoking Gun?
It's not even two days since WaSP announced the formation of the Accessibility Task Force, quickly coined the "ATF" by several folks despite a more sobering U.S. federal agency that goes by the same initialism (or would that be acronym?). While clearly a long time coming, the immediacy and ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | June 25th, 2005
- Welcome, Tantek
The WaSP would like to officially welcome Tantek Çelik to its Steering Committee (pssst, someone update the bio page thanks for the quick work, Ben). I was wondering why I was reading about it here and here but not on this site, and then I realized that it's probably because ...
By Dori Smith | March 12th, 2005
- QuirksMode Bug Reports
By Dori Smith | November 23rd, 2004
One of the common complaints about building Web applications (either client-side or those that use both client and server as platforms for development) is the difficulty that comes along with debugging them. In the cover story in this month's New Architect, this correspondent discusses some tips for managing the debugging ...
By Steven Champeon | August 2nd, 2002
- Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla
Ars Technica has released a detailed review of Mozilla, not just from the perspective of whether it is good enough to make you finally switch to a browser that understands and supports Web standards, but also discusses whether it is a success as a product of their original mission. Contains ...
By Steven Champeon | August 2nd, 2002
- Amaya Updated
The W3C web editor/browser Amaya has been updated. Version 6.2 increases support for CSS, XHTML, SVG, and MathML. Amaya is not a commercial browser like IE, Navigator, Opera, et al. W3C members use it to demonstrate and test new developments in web protocols and data formats. W3C Jigsaw plays a ...
By Jeffrey Zeldman | July 10th, 2002
- a few valid points
news.com misses the point
By Steven Champeon | July 8th, 2002
- New Web standards education and outreach forum
W3C is starting a new discussion list, the Web standards education and outreach forum, for Web standards evangelists, authors, and others to discuss ways to improve the quality of web-standards related books, publications, lectures and training courses. Hope to see you there! hat tip: Eric Meyer
By Shirley Kaiser | July 5th, 2002
Today's Daily Report includes a dreamy screen capture of The WaSP's site on a Palm Pilot and a doleful one as viewed in the new release of OmniWeb. Includes writeup.
By Jeffrey Zeldman | June 25th, 2002
- And here I thought they were real people
Mark Pilgrim's been telling stories about Web accessibility at his shiny xhtml 1.1 blog all this week, and plans to keep it up. You'd think that sites like www.section508.gov would be half as conscientious as Mark about such matters, but no.
By Todd Fahrner | June 14th, 2002
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
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Our Work Here is Done
By Aaron Gustafson | March 1st, 2013
Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality.
When The Web Standards Project (WaSP) formed in 1998, the web was the battleground in an ever-escalating war between two browser makers—Netscape and Microsoft—who were each taking turns "advancing" HTML to the point of collapse. You see, in an effort to one-up each other, the two browsers introduced new elements and new ways of manipulating web documents; this escalated to the point where their respective 4.0 versions were largely incompatible.
Realizing that this fragmentation would inevitably drive up the cost of building websites and ran the risk of denying users access to content and services they needed, Glenn Davis, George Olsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded WaSP and rallied an amazing group of web designers and developers to help them push back. The WaSP's primary goal was getting browser makers to support the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
In 2001, with the browser wars largely over, WaSP began to shift its focus. While some members continued to work with browser vendors on improving their standards support, others began working closely with software makers like Macromedia to improve the quality of code being authored in tools such as Dreamweaver. And others began the hard slog of educating web designers and developers about the importance of using web standards, culminating in the creation of WaSP InterAct, a web curriculum framework which is now overseen by the W3C.
Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality. While there is still work to be done, the sting of the WaSP is no longer necessary. And so it is time for us to close down The Web Standards Project.
Many (if not all) of us are continuing to work in the world of web standards, but our work is now largely outside the umbrella of WaSP. If you are interested in continuing to work on web standards-related projects along with us, we humbly suggest you follow these projects:
- A List Apart – The magazine "for people who make websites" is run by WaSP founder Jeffrey Zeldman and is a consistent source of forward-thinking articles and tutorials.
- HTML5 Doctor – A solid resource and discussion forum on all things HTML5, brought to you by Bruce Lawson and his team.
- W3C Community Groups – If you have a passion for a specific web technology, you can help make it better by participating in one (or more) community groups. In particular, you might be interested in one of these: Core Mobile Web Platform, Responsive Images, Web Education, and Web Media Text Tracks.
- WebPlatform.org – A fantastic web standards resource, providing up-to-date documentation, Q&As, tutorials & more. Chris Mills, Doug Schepers, and a number of other standards advocates are involved in this project.
- Web Standards Sherpa – An educational resource founded by WaSP which continues to operate under the leadership of Chris Casciano, Virginia DeBolt, Aaron Gustafson, and Emily Lewis.
- Web Standards + Small Business – An outreach project started by WaSP that educates small businesses about why they should care about web standards. This project is overseen by Aaron Gustafson.
The job's not over, but instead of being the work of a small activist group, it's a job for tens of thousands of developers who care about ensuring that the web remains a free, open, interoperable, and accessible competitor to native apps and closed eco-systems. It's your job now, and we look forward to working with you, and wish you much success.
Nota bene: In the near future, we will be making a permanent, static archive of webstandards.org and some of our other resources like WaSP Interact to preserve them as a resource and to provide a record of our 15-year mission to improve the web.
Bruce Lawson and Steph Troeth contributed to this post.
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Who else has a hard time finding modest Halloween costumes each year?
I know Halloween is still a couple months away, but if you are a crafter/DIY-er than you want plenty of time to create those fun costumes right?
You don't have to show it all in order to have an amazing costume! I found some great ideas that are especially fun for 2016 and they are all modest. I plan to add to this list as I find some more this fall season, too.
Let's start with this fun Ghostbusters costume idea...
I love this because you basically wear a jumpsuit and use tupperware containers for the back. So create and very simple.
DIY Ghostbuster Costumes at Brit + Co.
I still laugh at Candace the Chewbacca mom even while I look at this picture! How much fun would this be for the easiest costume ever!
Grab some red lipstick and create your own Mary Poppins costume. Need a couples costume? Add Bert!
Mary Poppins Costume by KeikoLynn
We absolutely loved watching the Rio Olympics this year! This Olympian costume would be so much fun and you can add a DIY Gold Medal with flowers for a final touch!
Olympic Gold Medalist Costume
(photo via nbcolympics.com)
Here's another comfortable and easy-to-throw-together Halloween costume! Star Wars is all the rage again and this Rey costume would be a hit at the party!
DIY Star Wars Rey Costume by The Sorry Girls
Who else LOVED the Finding Dory movie this year? I love this tutorial because it's great for any age!
DIY Finding Dory Costume at Babble
Create this beautiful costume and carry a stuffed Chesire cat!
DIY Alice in Wonderland Costume by Melinda's Costumes
If any of you find a modest DIY Wonder Woman costume please let me know - or I might try to come up with something and share a tutorial.
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Sony: Early PS4 Sales Advantage Over Xbox One is "Really Not" a Big Deal
When Sony revealed their updated PS4 sales numbers of 4.2 million at CES 2014 this week, it put them over 1 million units ahead of the Xbox One as 2013 finished up.
Despite this early lead, SCEA's VP of Marketing for Consoles and Handhelds John Koller told CVG that he doesn't see the quick advantage as a big deal:
It's really not. We look at it really just introspectively. The '4.2 million' number is important because it gets us further towards our goal. And that goal is the largest install base we can possibly get, to encourage publishers and developers to continue to make great game experiences for PS4.
That's the ultimate goal. You want to make it economically viable, and a great business for the big publishers and developers to say, 'You know what, I wanna be on PS4 either first, exclusively' or whatever it is, utilize the feature set the PS4 has and really encourage that as a business.
I think that's the goal of the larger install base. I mean, sure, we all look at the competition and see where people are, but for us we've got to keep growing, getting bigger and bigger. I think we've got a great opportunity specifically because we've got a great product.
After admitting how PS4 "demand is going to chase supply a bit," and stock is selling out as soon as it hits stores, Koller was asked if reaching the lifetime sales of the Wii and PS2 was something they looked at as being possible for the PS4:
We look at it. I don't think that's really the goal though. Again, it's really about how can we just get the biggest possible install base. I don't think we have a specific number that we're shooting for because that's where the PS2 was or that's where the Wii was. We did have the biggest launch ever in 24 hours – we've talked about that publicly, but in general it's really about how can you get the biggest install base and encourage a great business, and really make games that our gamers want.
I think the beauty of the PS4 launch is we've been as focused as we've ever been on saying we're for the gamer. We're for you, we're for the person that wants to engage with great games.
If you want to get to the entertainment we have that too, but we've got the best games. And so I think that has brought a lot of people into the fold who I think would otherwise have said, 'Wait, I'm not sure which [console to buy], maybe I'll just make a decision based on where my friends are'. In this case they're saying, 'I know that PlayStation stands with me'. So we return that favor by making sure the best games come.
While the reaching Wii and PS2 sales heights will be a challenge, Andrew House did previously state how he believes the PS4 "has an opportunity to significantly exceed what we've been able to achieve with PS3."
Do you think Sony is underplaying the significance of this early lead, or is it just that, an early lead in a long console generation? Let us know in the comments below.


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Newton and Monica Hamacher of Lexington are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Ainsley Boone Hamacher. Ainsley was born at 3:40 a.m., June 29, 2010, at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City. She weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. and was 19 inches long. She joins sister Ardyn Lee, 3.
Maternal grandparents are the late Lee Roy Ashinhurst and the late Donna Lee Jenkins. Paternal grandparents are Jean Hamacher of Richmond and the late Newton Hamacher Sr.
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Algebra Seminar
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 3:00pm
1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Skiles 006
Georgia Tech
postponed from September 18
In this talk I first wish to review my work with Balakrishnan and Muller, giving an algorithm for finding integral points on curves under certain (strong) assumptions. The main ingredients are the theory of p-adic height pairings and the theory of p-adic metrized line bundles. I will then explain a new proof of the main result using a p-adic version of Zhang's adelic metrics, and a third proof which only uses the metric at one prime p. At the same time I will attempt to explain why I think this last proof is interesting, being an indication that there may be new p-adic methods for finding integral points.


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Youmna Aoukar
UX Designer, DDB NY
Youmna stumbled upon Experience Design during her time at Parsons while pursuing her MFA in Design and Technology — while exploring the intersection of art, design, technology, code and hardware she developed a passion for Human Centered Design. She believes design is a methodology that works across multiple disciplines including digital products, art installations and marketing experiences. She has worked with early stage tech startups, NGOs and design studios. Currently, she is an Experience Designer at DDB NY where she focuses in Strategy,User Research, Information Architecture and Interaction Design for clients like Frigidaire, Merck, J&J and Challenger. She loves teaching, designing, and during the winter, skiing.
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The policy makers have already realized that strong and efficient IPR protection is one of the most important ways to incent IP creations and further the economy and welfare of the country. With the explosive growth of IP registrations and creations in China and of IP disputes before courts, there is an anxious demand for the judicial system to improve the efficiency, quality and unity of IPR judicial protection. In this context, although the discussion of what kind of judicial system for IPR protection is the best for the country continues, the country has decided to establish specialized IP courts to adjudicate IP casesfor going to a more centralized and stronger IPR protection.
Here we will have a review of the landmark events in 2014 regarding establishment of the initial three IP courts in China, inquiring into the jurisdiction of the IP courts and anticipate the next actions which might be taken by the IP courts in the near future. It is very clear from the voice of the policy makers that the establishment of the IP courts is only the first step in the reform of the IPR judicial protection system in China.
- Landmark events inestablishment ofthe IP courts in 2014
On July 9, 2014, the Supreme Court issued the Fourth Five-year Reform Outline of the Court (2014-2018) , proposing to push forward establishment of specialized IP courts in the areas with concentrated IP cases.
On August 31, 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ("NPC") passed theDecision of Establishing Intellectual Property Courts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou .
On November 3, 2014, the Supreme Court issued theSupreme Court's Regulations on Jurisdiction of Cases of the IP Courts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou .
As of November 6, 2014, the Beijing IP court began to perform its duties. Before this date, judges for the Beijing IP court hadalready beennominated,including the chief judge Chi SU from the Beijing Second Intermediate Court, deputy chief judge Jinchuan CHEN from the IP tribunal of the Beijing High Court and depute chief judgeYushui SONG (Ms.) from Beijing Third Intermediate Court.
On December 16, 2014, the Guangzhou IP court opened up, and it began to receive cases as of December 21, 2014.This IP court is the only court that have cross-regional jurisdiction over certain IP cases. There are totally 13 judges including the chief judge in the court.
On December 28, 2014, the Shanghai IP court was formally founded. The court began to receive cases from Jan. 1, 2015. Currently 10 judges were nominated for the court.
- Jurisdiction of the IP courts
The IP courts will be the core player of a three-year test in adjudicating especially technologically complex cases, according to the Decisionof the Standing Committee of the NPC and the Supreme Court's Regulations, which stipulate the "first-instance jurisdiction", "cross-regional jurisdiction", "exclusive jurisdiction", "second-instance jurisdiction" and "appellate jurisdiction".
- The IP courts will be established in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and will have exclusive jurisdiction on the cases as defined below.
- The IP courts have jurisdictionfor first instance on,
- Civil and administrative cases involving patents, new varieties of plants, layout designs of integrated circuit, technical secrets andcomputer software;
- Administrative cases regarding copyrights, trademarks, unfair competitionsagainst decisions made by organs of the State Council or by county-level or over county-level local governments;
- Civil cases involving recognition of well-known trademarks. [First-instance jurisdiction]
- The Guangzhou IP court shall have cross-regional jurisdiction oncivil and administrative cases involving patents, newvarietiesofplants, layout designs of integrated circuit, technical secrets and computer software and oncivil cases involving recognition of well-known trademarks, within the territory of Guangdong Province. [Cross-regional jurisdiction]
- The Beijing IP court will have exclusive jurisdiction for the first instance on casesagainst,
- Decisions made by organs of the State Council regarding allowanceorvalidity of IP rights including patents, trademarks, newvarietiesofplants and layout designs of integrated circuit;
- Decisions made by organs of the State Council regarding issuance of a compulsory license, compulsory license fees or rewards involving patents, new varieties of plants and layout designs of integrated circuit;
- Other administrative acts made by organs of the State Council regarding allowance or validity of IP rights. [Exclusive jurisdiction]
- The IP courts shall have the jurisdiction on review of judgments or decisions of first instance made by basic-level courts regardingcopyrights, trademarks, technical contracts and unfair competitions in their territorial jurisdiction.[Second-instance jurisdiction]
- The High Courtsshall have the jurisdiction on appeals against the IP courts' first instance judgments or decisionsin their territorial jurisdiction. [Appellate jurisdiction]
- Where a case includes matters within the above item 2.a) or 2.b) and matters within the jurisdiction of other courts, the case shall be tried by the IP courts.
The Supreme Court shall report to the Standing Committee of the NPC the implementation situation of the decision after three years.
- Parallel court systems for IP cases
In 2013, the Chinese courts heard more than 110,000 IP casesincluding first instance and second instance cases.The establishment of the IP courts will not influence the current IP legal proceedings apparently. Instead, it is an intrinsic power to propel the IPR protection to a higher level.
The Chinese court system consists of basic courts at the county level, intermediate courts, high courts and the Supreme Court.The IP Courts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou all sit at the same level as the intermediate courts in China and will hear both civil and administrative IP cases.However, criminal cases are still within the jurisdiction of the general courts.
IP cases generally involvecivil and administrative proceedings but may also involve criminal proceedings when the infringing act is severe.
- IP enforcement cases
With the establishment of the IP courts, an IP enforcement case may be tried by a general basic court, a general intermediate court or by an IP court, whichever has the jurisdiction over the case.
In China, an owner of an IP right may enforce his right through legal proceedings or through administrative proceedings. For example, when a patent owner finds infringing act, he may institute a legal action before an intermediate-level court or request a local Patent Office to stop the infringing act. In the case of taking the administrative proceedings, the decision made by the local Patent Office may be appealedto the intermediate-level court so as to be examined through administrative litigation proceedings.
For a trademark right, besides relaying on a court to enforce the right, the right owner may request a local Industrial and Commercial Bureau to stop an infringing act, and the decision of the local Industrial and Commercial Bureau is also appealable to the court to be examined through administrative litigation proceedings.
For copyright, the patent owner may similarly relay on the court or relay on a local Copyright Office forcopyright disputes.
The established IP courts don't exclude the competent administrative organs from executing their IP protection duties.
Regardless of the three specialized IP courts, before the general courts with jurisdiction on IP cases, an IP related civil case is tried only by a specialized IP tribunal. It is highly possible that an IP related administrative case, such as that againsta decision of a local Patent Office,is tried by an administrative tribunal, instead of by an IP tribunal, of the court.
- IP allowance or validity cases
A significant number of administrative litigation cases are the cases instituted against decisions of the Patent Reexamination Board or the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, regarding allowanceof patent or trademark applications or validity ofpatents orregistered trademarks.These cases were previously heard by the Beijing First Intermediate Court and the newly established Beijing IP court will have the unique jurisdiction over thesekinds of cases in the future.
- Future Prospect
In China, it has been a common view to promote innovation and development of the country through strong IPR protection. The establishment of the IP courts, which is one of the approaches to strengthen theIPR judicial protection, is also for realizing thenational innovation-driven development strategy and economic development of the country.
We can predict that the establishment of the IP courts will improve the quality andefficiency of IP litigation, and enhance the IPR protection in China."Civil and administrative cases tried by the same IP courts, this is one significant feature of China's IP courts", said Chuang WANG, deputy chief judge of the IP tribunal of the SupremeCourt. The specialized IP courts hear both civil and administrative IP cases, which conforms to the current practice and is advantageous to a unified civil and administrative protection for IPRs.
The IP courts are not only a test of the court system but also a launch of a series of reformsfor IPR protection in China.We can foresee that a series of actions will betaken through the IP Courts.
As said by Chuang WANG, "the IP courtsnot only indicate a significant reform to China's IPR judicial protection system, but also are explorers and pioneersof the China's judicial reform", the IP courts will take the trial judge responsibility system ,explorethejudicial system for specified number of judges , and improve the tribunal responsibility system . Further, within the IP courts, a procedural system concentrating on trial of an IP case will be pursued so as to establish specialized procedures and regulationsconforming to IP trial rules.
Further, as revealed by Chuang WANG, the IP courts will explore the technical investigator system so as to improve the scientificity, professionalismand neutrality of fact-findings.
The establishment of the specialized IP courts is a milestone of IPR protection in China. It lays the bedrock for the development of the IPR judicial protection system in China. With commencement of operations of the IP Courts, the reform of the IPR protection system formally kicks off.
On December 26, 2014, it was revealed that the Supreme Court, in a report, suggested setting up a high court for intellectual property disputes at national level in China and deliberating on the issue of hearing both infringement litigation and validity dispute of a patent simultaneously by the same court, for the purpose of shortening pending of an IP case, unifying the adjudication etc. This signals that further actions re reform of the IPR protection system will not be long. It is no doubt that a strong, efficient and unified IPR protection system will be launched in China.


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There was some good info posted in another thread by 1slowZ
I figured I would copy the thread into the LE forum and provide the info from the Alberta Website.
Thanks for the post 1slowZ!
Before you Buy
Before you decide to purchase an imported right-hand-drive vehicle, you should be aware of a number of factors that may affect your decision. Not asking the right questions could result in substantial costs and delays for you.
For example, parts for right-hand-drive vehicles may be difficult to find, and may have to be ordered directly from the manufacturer in the country in which the vehicle was manufactured. Even if you can order the parts in Canada, it can take months for them to arrive. At times, it can be difficult to find dealers interested in servicing imported vehicles or taking them in trade for a North American built left-hand-drive vehicle.
You should also be aware that right-hand-drive vehicles require changes in the way you perform ordinary driving operations. Other provincial jurisdictions, such as British Columbia, have found the risk of being involved in a collision with a right-hand-drive vehicle is 40 percent higher. (Click here to view this information.) This may be because it is far more difficult to perform simple driving functions such as passing (you have to go further into the left lane to see whether it is safe to pass) or left turns (you must allow the vehicle ahead of you to clear the intersection before you have a clear view of your path).
For more information, refer to this Analysis of Accident Risk for Right Hand Drive Vehicles here.
You may have been informed that right-hand-drive vehicles that are imported into Canada can automatically be driven on provincial roads. That is not the case. The moment the vehicle is to be driven on a public road, it becomes subject to provincial legislation. Transport Canada makes this clear in this statement: "It should be noted that the provinces/territories have the authority to establish their respective registration (plating) requirements for these vehicles, consistent with the level of risk they may pose to the travelling public."
After You Buy
If you intend to drive your vehicle on Alberta roads, the vehicle must pass an out-of- province vehicle inspection before it can be registered. The owner of the vehicle is required to visit a registry office to purchase a "Request for Inspection". The vehicle owner will then take the "Request for Inspection" and the vehicle to an out of province vehicle inspection facility.
To find an Alberta Inspection Facility in your area, please click here.
Purpose of Inspection
Imported right-hand-drive vehicles were never built for or intended to be driven on North American roads. Therefore, they may have equipment and parts that pose a danger to the driver, passengers, and the public. To ensure the safety of the travelling public, a number of modifications may have to be made to the right-hand-drive vehicle before it can be allowed to operate legally on Alberta highways. For example, headlights that tilted toward the ditch and would now tilt toward an oncoming driver. These headlights may have to be replaced.
Once your vehicle is inspected
If the vehicle passes inspection, you will receive an out of province vehicle inspection certificate confirming that you are permitted to register your vehicle. The vehicle inspection certificate must be presented to a Registry Agent within 14 days of the date of issue, in order to register the vehicle.
If the vehicle does not pass inspection, you will have 10 days to complete the required repairs. Within 10 days of the repairs being completed, take the vehicle back to the vehicle inspection facility for a re-inspection. If the vehicle passes this re-inspection, an out of province vehicle inspection certificate will be issued. This certificate must be presented to a Registry Agent within 14 days of the date of issue, in order to register the vehicle.
Additionally, it is recommended that you contact the original equipment manufacturer for proper parts. You are responsible for having this work completed, at your cost.
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The JLL Planning Team secured planning permission for Mothercare Plc, which enables them to occupy a new unit at the Hampden Retail Park near Eastbourne. The permission will vary an existing consent to permit the sale of maternity wear, babies and children's clothing and footwear. The permission enables the introduction of a new Mothercare "Parenting Centre" store, which will focus upon the sale of bulky-type good (such as children's furniture, toys, prams and pushchairs), whilst also providing bespoke services such as car-seat fitting.The application process required the completion of detailed retail impact and sequential site assessments. For further details please contact: Rob Copley on 020 7442 4122.


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Missouri sophomore wide receiver Dimetrios Mason is no longer with the football team, sources confirmed Saturday.
PowerMizzou.com first reported the news.
Mason has started all four of the Tigers' games this season and was their second-leading receiver with 13 catches. He was third on the team with 119 yards. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Mason was dismissed for disciplinary reasons.
Mason, who is from Loganville, Ga., broke Missouri true freshman records with 47 catches and 587 yards last year. He scored three touchdowns. He was rated as a three-star recruit by 247Sports.com and a two-star prospect by Rivals.com.
As a sophomore, he had joined J'Mon Moore and Johnathon Johnson in the starting lineup. That spot is likely to fall now to Emanuel Hall, who has five catches for 104 yards this season.
The Tigers (1-3) are on a bye week before traveling to play Kentucky on Oct. 7 in their first road trip of the season. MU coach Barry Odom will speak to reporters at his weekly news conference Monday.
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Your company's customer strategy: A path to delivering distinctive value and experience
Executive summary
We define customer strategy as the articulation of the distinctive value and experience your company will deliver to a chosen set of customers over three to five years, along with the offerings, channels, operating model, and capabilities you will need to implement it. In early 2016, a team of researchers and advisors from the customer strategy practice of Strategy&, PwC's strategy consulting group, conducted a global survey of 161 executives to examine their companies' customer strategy objectives and approaches.
The results of the survey highlight a fundamental disconnect. Although 84 percent of companies plan to invest at least as much in customer strategy in response to changing market dynamics in the years ahead as they've spent in the recent past, and some plan to spend more, few businesses have a clearly articulated idea of what their customer strategy should be.
Our respondents identified three major trends that are driving the need for a well-designed customer strategy: the pace of technological innovation, more informed and more sophisticated customers, and increasingly disruptive competition. However, although 51 percent of respondents commonly use the term customer strategy and are driving different steps for wooing customers, they aren't weaving these elements together in a way that reflects an understanding of their company or customers.
Based on the lessons from leading companies and Strategy&'s experience, our consulting teams pinpointed 10 principles at the heart of customer strategy and the best practices for implementing these principles. At its core, a customer strategy must define the distinctive value and experiences a company provides to its targeted customers and coordinate the various functions, skills, and channels needed to deliver on that promise.
Best practices of customer strategy
Customer strategy is now more critical than ever to a company's success. Faced with rapidly changing market forces, a business can no longer follow the traditional approach of targeting a set of chosen customers. A successful customer strategy needs to articulate the distinctive value and experience your organization will deliver to those customers over three to five years, along with the offerings, channels, operating models, and capabilities you will need.
In early 2016, Strategy& set out to examine how well companies understood customer strategy and identify the best practices across industries. With the participation of 161 executives globally, our PwC Strategy& Customer Strategy survey examined the trends that are disrupting markets and the customer strategies companies are adopting to tackle the risks and opportunities created by these forces. To pinpoint best practices and common pitfalls, we conducted an in-depth analysis of more than 30 companies. Digging further, we conducted interviews with select executives across industries.
We found that respondents are aware of the importance of customer strategy, and believe that with powerful trends affecting the customer experience, investing in it is critical. Our survey results indicate that companies are committing more resources to customer strategy: Some 84 percent of companies expect to invest more or the same on it over the next year, compared with only 7 percent that expect to spend less. Respondents said that historically, the greatest incremental impact from these investments has been on sales and customer loyalty, with 37 percent seeing an increase in sales and 27 percent in higher customer loyalty.
The companies we surveyed are responding to the trends that are reshaping customer expectations and creating new market opportunities. We asked companies to rank those trends in order of importance. The top three, according to respondents, are (1) technological breakthroughs, (2) changing customer preferences and expectations, and (3) increasing competition and speed of change (see Exhibit 1).
Exhibit 1: Top customer strategy–related trends
About 51 percent of respondents commonly use the actual term customer strategy, compared with 15 percent of companies that seldom use it and 9 percent that never do. But our analysis found that although companies are investing in gaining and retaining customers, they aren't necessarily building a coherent customer strategy. The companies we surveyed define customer strategy in a broad variety of ways, indicating that businesses may do an insufficient job of looking at all of the factors that drive customer success (see Exhibit 2). As the most important elements of strategy, our survey respondents listed segmenting and targeting (72 percent), followed by customer experience (61 percent), channel strategy (57 percent), go-to-market strategy (56 percent), and product strategy (53 percent). As to where companies in different markets are investing, 86 percent of Asian companies have invested heavily in product development, while the majority of European companies surveyed — 67 percent — have focused investment toward customer segmentation. North and South American companies surveyed split investment more evenly among the various areas. Just as telling, two-thirds of companies don't measure the return on investment (ROI) for the assets they put toward customer strategy, though the companies that do this find that they achieve a 5 to 15 percent return. Clearly, businesses are driving elements of customer strategy, but not in an integrated way.
Exhibit 2: How companies define customer strategy
What is most important to a successful customer strategy is that the company pull all of its resources together in a way that reflects the company's unique capabilities and its customers' needs. The strategy is integrated across the entire organization, coordinating many different functions, skills, and practices. These elements range from customer analytics to go-to-market and channel choices to the delivery of products, services, and experiences (see Exhibit 3).
Exhibit 3: A customer strategy that integrates all elements
In building a cohesive customer strategy, however, companies will need to overcome a series of key hurdles (see Exhibit 4).
Exhibit 4: Main barriers to customer strategy execution
- The organizational model is the biggest barrier companies face, identified by 84 percent of survey respondents. Creating a cohesive strategy across many groups and functions is difficult in many companies where roles and responsibilities, accountability, information flows, and structure are siloed and have competing incentives.
- Attracting and retaining the right talent, cited by 64 percent of respondents as a serious obstacle to customer strategy execution, is critical because customers expect businesses to use technology to provide more value. Companies have to be able to recruit talent with the right technical skills and the analytical ability to track the pulse of customers.
- The organization's culture is a serious barrier, according to 44 percent of respondents. In fact, a strong culture can be a bigger advantage than ever. In a data-driven, hyper-connected marketplace, a culture in which employees know what a company stands for can evolve in step with its customers and stay relevant to them.
- Notably, although the findings were consistent across geographies and sectors, for smaller companies (less than US$100 million in sales) the most frequently cited hurdle was finding and keeping the right talent (rated that way by 66 percent of all small companies), followed by financial resources (63 percent).
10 principles at the heart of customer strategy
Our research identified 10 principles at the heart of customer strategy and the best practices for implementing them (see Exhibit 5). Respondents said all of these principles were crucial, but three were ranked the most important: linking your company's customer strategy to its overall identity, knowing your customers at a granular level, and reorganizing around the customer.
Exhibit 5: 10 principles of customer strategy
Below, we describe the 10 principles that make up a successful customer strategy and the best practices needed to implement them. The principles are universally applicable, regardless of what industry a company operates in, whether it focuses on business or consumer clientele, the size of the business, which region it does business in, or what products and services it offers. Most businesses understand these principles, but few apply them all or apply them with the level of sophistication, excellence, and agility that's needed today. A company that fully incorporates all 10 principles will gain a coherent approach to maximizing customer success for the long term.
1. Master the art of the possible
A company that knows what's possible in innovative technologies can anticipate, rather than react to, what customers want. We found that 67 percent of respondents regularly analyze the art of the possible in digital and mobile, yet only 33 percent assess the potential for industry transformation by a new entrant or competitor.
To exploit the potential impact of innovations, companies need to study emerging digital and mobile technologies and how they're used in other industries to drive customers' experience and engagement. Adapt your customer strategy to take advantage of new technologies in digital and mobile to enhance customer experience and reduce costs. Determine the financial impact of being an early or late adapter. Your ability to outpace competitors depends on cultivating your judgment. While your company can harness an emerging technology, rivals can as well. Yet only 28 percent of companies undergo this kind of analysis (see Principle 1).
Principle 1: Master the art of the possible
2. Know your customers at a granular level
High-performing companies have an understanding of the problems they're trying to solve for specific audiences that is based on analytics. To implement this principle, most companies will need to significantly improve their ability to translate analytical capabilities into product launches and service improvement. Our survey found that although 73 percent of companies say they understand customers in depth, only 46 percent are able to translate those insights into new business platforms, and just 45 percent follow an effective process for analyzing new platforms and ensuring that the right ones get funded.
Most companies will need to significantly improve their ability to translate analytical capabilities into product launches.
This principle begins with establishing an all-encompassing definition of your market and customers. You build on this foundation by developing actionable segmentation that draws from a variety of sources, including customer behavior and psychographics, information collected from the Internet of Things (IoT), and location-based and customer journey data. By cultivating deep customer insights, including future needs, you can develop targeted offers with differentiated value propositions (see Principle 2).
Principle 2: Know your customers at a granular level
3. Link your company's customer strategy to its overall identity
Winning organizations have a strong value proposition that distinguishes them from their competitors. A clearly defined value proposition goes far beyond differentiating your offerings in the market; it helps you shift your customer's perception of what's valuable. This is how you create a sustainable advantage.
Developing a clear value proposition is an ongoing process that should be undertaken for each of your customer segments. This requires a balancing act. Organizations need to outline how value will be created for customers in these segments while delivering profit to the bottom line. They need to determine optimal pricing for long-term value creation. At the same time, the value proposition should be stretched so that it includes all customer touch points, not just the product. While most companies (65 percent) report they're proficient at outlining how value will be created for each customer segment, just 50 percent say their company analyzes pricing to optimize long-term value creation. Finally, the value proposition needs to extend beyond functional attributes to include emotional elements. Today, just 45 percent of companies say they deliver on this requirement (see Principle 3).
Principle 3: Link your company's customer strategy to its overall identity
4. Target customers with whom you have the right to win
Successful companies recognize their capabilities and use them to compete in categories and markets where they're reasonably confident of winning against competitors in a profitable way. The majority of survey respondents appear to be aware of how important this principle has become as the pace of competition has accelerated; 79 percent of respondents said they believe their companies have a clear understanding of their customer segments, while 71 percent said they target segments based on both the customer's attractiveness and their own strengths. Companies can't afford to target each and every growing market or profitable segment.
The first step to implementing this principle is identifying profit pools in each customer segment and how those profit pools are evolving. Analyze your company's competitive strengths and how you can differentiate your offerings. Target segments based on both segment attractiveness and your company's strengths (knowing there will often be capability gaps to be addressed). Sometimes, companies try to expand their business into segments where they don't have the right to win and wind up investing time and resources on indifferent customers (see Principle 4).
Principle 4: Target customers with whom you have the right to win
5. Treat your customers as assets that will grow in value
Leading companies cultivate long-term relationships with customers in a way that keeps adding value. Building customer relationships is a long-term game. It starts with quantifying the lifetime cost of a customer relationship at either the individual or the segment level. Currently, less than half of companies, or 48 percent, analyze this data. You then layer on an analysis of your customers' path to purchase. This gives you the insight needed to monetize the value of those relationships by expanding and tailoring services and product offerings to meet the needs of your customers.
Understanding the link between engagement and sales growth is critical.
Developing your customers as assets requires a holistic approach to building customer relationships and intimacy and driving customer engagement. Some 61 percent of organizations say sales, marketing, and account teams understand customers and drive engagement, loyalty, and sales. Tracking customer engagement and understanding the link between engagement and sales growth is critical. The point isn't simply to expand your offerings. You want to be able to offer products and services that are the most relevant to your customers and the most profitable for you while also quickly responding to customer problems. Though 58 percent of respondents track customer engagement, only 30 percent align incentives to maximize the ROI from customer acquisition and retention activities (see Principle 5).
Principle 5: Treat your customers as assets that will grow in value
6. Leverage your ecosystem
Winning businesses actively manage their ecosystems of partners and advocates. The availability of data and digital networks means that your existing and potential network of partners, customers, and suppliers is much more powerful now. Make the most of this opportunity by building a broad and diverse ecosystem that can help you create value for your customers and help you execute customer strategy.
As important as building this ecosystem is, it's equally crucial to manage this network for everything from inherent financial and brand risks to new market opportunities. Though 68 percent of our survey respondents engage a broad and diverse ecosystem of partners, only 47 percent actively manage it. To underpin your ecosystem's relevance and success, cultivate strong advocates to promote your brand and closely monitor the messages being delivered. With the right training and oversight, companies can manage potential risks and engage with a far-reaching community (see Principle 6).
Principle 6: Leverage your ecosystem
7. Ensure a seamless omnichannel experience
Best-in-breed organizations deliver a consistent experience across all their customer touch points and analyze the costs and benefits of their multichannel networks. They select channels based on customer expectations, brand positioning, customer value, and cost-to-serve. But then they take their analysis further and assess the full cost and the full benefits across every channel in order to track the performance of those channels. The majority of respondents, or 57 percent, do select channels carefully. But only 36 percent track an overall view of customer performance.
With customers now taking the multichannel experience for granted, it's crucial that companies have technologically adept talent and processes in place to keep improving the channel experience. Leading companies deploy the necessary organization, process, technology capabilities, and talent to ensure a seamless omnichannel experience. Engage employees and channel partners who help manage or are involved with the channels in collecting, sharing, and analyzing data to ensure that the customer experience is consistent across channels (see Principle 7).
Principle 7: Ensure a seamless omnichannel experience
8. Excel at delivery
With its business model now built in large part on its delivery services and supply chain innovations, Amazon is setting the pace for changes in delivery and has created a whole new level of customer expectations. Yet, although companies need to model their delivery service on Amazon's advances, they can tailor their menu of delivery services to their own customer value expectations, margin, and brand positioning. Over half of the survey respondents said they understood how customers value different delivery options, while the majority (72 percent) said they understood which delivery options can differentiate their company.
Leading companies take an end-to-end view to optimize and measure the performance of delivery capabilities. They create end-to-end delivery streams tailored to customer segments, value, and complexity. Data and analytics are the foundation of these efforts. Use relevant and evolving metrics, including customer experience, cost, and productivity, to balance performance against profitability (see Principle 8).
Principle 8: Excel at delivery
9. Reorganize around the customer
Successful organizations are "fit for the customer," designed to make it easy to deliver a great customer experience. To hit this mark, many companies will first need to define which capabilities they'll need and decide how to weave all of the 10 customer strategy principles throughout their organizations and operating models. Currently, just 50 percent of respondents say they have the right capabilities to support their strategy and deploy the right talent to execute strategic objectives.
Many companies will also need to assess certain decision rights and roles and responsibilities to ensure that they're aligned with customer strategy. Only 54 percent of survey respondents do so now. Focus on attracting the right talent and training employees so they have the right skills. Having teams with technological skills, an analytical outlook, and the ability to adapt is crucial to a company's ability to function in an agile way (see Principle 9).
Principle 9: Reorganize around the customer
10. Match your culture with your customer strategy
Winning companies understand the importance of building and maintaining a vibrant, healthy culture. To achieve this, you need to explicitly factor culture into your strategy and differentiating capabilities.
Cultivate culture as an accelerator and differentiator. With the rapid pace of change, it's common for customer expectations to evolve so quickly that companies have to work to keep up. Currently, just 51 percent of companies view their culture as an accelerator and differentiator. Create policies so you can explicitly address cultural inhibitors. A culture, by definition, must evolve. Picking a few key behaviors, such as having employees lead the charge in solving customer problems proactively, and rewarding employees who demonstrate these behaviors, will help your company's culture develop in a positive way (see Principle 10).
Principle 10: Match your culture with your customer strategy
Our researchers emailed the 2016 PwC Strategy& Customer Strategy survey, the first such survey from our practice, to more than 15,000 executives in eight industries in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia in April 2016.
Of the recipients, 161 executives completed the survey. Fifty-six percent of the companies that responded were headquartered in North America. Industries in which the respondents sold their products and services included construction and real estate, energy, entertainment and media, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, mining and agriculture, retail, technology, and transportation.
Annual revenues for responding companies ranged to more than $10 billion. Of the respondents, 17 percent were at the C-suite level and 80 percent were at the level of president, senior or executive vice president, vice president, or director. Sixty-four percent were highly involved with their company's customer strategy, and 26 percent were somewhat involved. Of the companies responding, 44 percent primarily served the B2B market, 14 percent primarily served the B2C market, and 43 percent served both.
The 10 principles help you develop a comprehensive approach to engaging and understanding customers based on your distinctive capabilities and organizational strengths. These principles should be addressed as part of any customer strategy development effort. A customer strategy built to adapt to changing customer expectations, to anticipate clients' needs, and to stay ahead of disruptive rivals is made up of all of these elements, not just some of them. Above all, focus on being clear about who you are. As you craft a successful customer strategy, this understanding will help you build a business that thrives.
Related reading
"10 Principles of Customer Strategy," by Thomas Ripsam and Louis Bouquet, strategy+business, Sep. 26, 2016.


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UD under cyber attack?
|December 28, 2013
|Posted by scordova under Adminstrative
A lot of premier discussions at UD recently do not bring up google hits, but other sites which reference discussions at UD come up on google. This seems odd and deliberate. I cannot say for sure but this seems suspicious.
A comment by fryether (still trapped in the moderation queue, which I have no authority to release) said:
As an IT Professional, I am shocked that if you look up "uncommon descent" on google the only reference to the actual site is behe.uncommondescent.com along with a plethora of anti-ID sites. Compare the results to the BING and you see a huge difference. No I make no money off of bing. I don't even use it myself. Although I might start if google keeps this up.
I used to be able to use google to search the UD archives (the internal search tool a UD isn't as good). Then the google hits slowly died. If google makes revenue through UD, this also hurts them. If any of you know how to fix this problem, feel free to comment.
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Google is the main financial support of the Church of Singularity. Their goal is to create the first human-level general artificial intelligence. This is the primary reason that Google has invested so heavily in AI and robots recently. They even hired Ray Kurzweil, one of the main Cardinals of the Singularitarian Church, to head their machine learning division. They believe it's their ticket to immortality. Singularitarians are virulently pro-Darwin, anti-ID, anti-religion and especially anti-Christianity.
It would not surprise me one bit to find out that one or two Google employees of the Singularitarian persuasion are futzing with the search parameters with regard to UD. If this is what's happening, it would be cause for a lawsuit, IMO. But then again, the lack of Google hits could be due to other factors as well. So we need to keep an open mind until we figure out what's going on.
Great sleuthing, Thompson. Bravo.
pretty telling if you ask me!
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Descent and Recovery
The details continue. Great journalists must be really having a difficult time finding quality in this era. Why? The constant bombardment and stream of salacious detail reporting.
It often appears that as a general public we do not long for "real" stories anymore. Our continual fixation with the mundane, the low and the tawdry appears to be evident. For instance, then it was the excursions of Gov. Mark Sanford, of South Carolina; now it is the continuing Tiger Woods saga. It appears that everyone from the major media outlets to conversations at the water cooler conjures up a thought to what is happening to Tiger Woods and what he should do.
The opinions are varied and many. Mr. Woods should do a major press conference and come clean about what is really been happening. He should just do a sit down interview with Oprah, Barbara Walters, or 60 minutes. He should just stand in front of the cameras so we can see his face and he can offer an apology to his legion of fans.
It seems that everyone has an opinion on what Tiger should do. Opinions are easy to offer when it is not our career, our marriage or our image that is on the line. We can make decisions for everyone else but when it comes to making the crucial everyday important decisions for our own lives, how do we fare?
As a public we long for the fall of the celebrity, the famous and the recognized to a large degree. The fall humanizes them. After all, it was we who propelled them to this elevated status. And now it should be our duty to control their fate of how far they fall and how hard they land, or so it appears.
Tiger Woods' apparent infidelity and apparent fall from grace either does one or two things for us. It makes us take an assessment of our own relationships and what they mean, or it continually deflects the hard truths that we do not like to deal with about ourselves.
Lessons: there are plenty from which we can, or from which those involved can learn. The media could learn a thing or two about serious reporting and what is real news. We, the general public could learn that fame and fortune come with a price. That price often includes privacy.
When being visibly recognized it somehow allows everyone into the most private moments of your most guarded places. We could also learn from the standpoint of living that we have more in common with each other than that which separates us.
Yesterday it was Governor Sanford; today it is Tiger Woods; tomorrow it will be someone else. As human beings, we are all subject to the same faults, failures and flaws as everyone else. We all err; we all make mistakes and we all are not perfect, but somehow we want everyone else to be something we are not.
Now this by no means gives Governor Sanford, Tiger Woods or any of us a pass for our mishaps. For when we like to dance, we must soon face the music to which we are dancing. Our sins do have consequences and for every action there is an opposite reaction.
I can not help but find the lessons in this over-reported story of one man's indiscretions. The same attributes that made Mark Sanford governor and Tiger Woods the world's greatest golfer are the same attributes that may have caused them to err. The feeling of invincibility for a politician and athlete is enormous. This is what drives them, motivates them and draws them to us. Unfortunately, when it goes unchecked in one's personal life, it can be a harmful thing. The thought of "it-can-never-happen-to-me" syndrome is something that we all live with. And a funny thing occurs. Just when we think it can't happen to us, it happens.
Many have left Governor Sanford for the sake of political expediency and as many have gotten off the Tiger Woods' golf bandwagon. In the last few days some sponsors have distanced themselves from him. Let us be reminded that they are just men. One in fact just plays golf, though he plays it very well.
Some ask the question, how this will affect him on the golf course. No doubt it will. No matter how great he is at playing golf, this reminder needs to be ingrained. He is still human.
Governor Sanford is just human. They can bounce back from all of this. Jenny Sanford can bounce back from this. Elin Nordegren can bounce back from this. It will certainly be difficult for all parties involved.
One thing I know clearly. When a ball drops from 15 feet, it bounces back up. But it is only going to rise up to 12 feet.


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We have paid a heavy price for the Bush Administration's unnecessary and illegal invasion of Iraq: more than 800 American soldiers dead; more than 4,500 wounded or maimed; and $120 billion wasted on a war and occupation that has sullied our country's image in the world, undercut our moral authority and poisoned Arab and Muslim minds against us for decades to come. We will pay an even heavier price if we "stay the course," as the Administration and many Democrats urge. If, as war supporters claim, our goals in Iraq (now that we've lost the rationale of hunting down weapons of mass destruction) are stability and democracy, we are proceeding in exactly the wrong way. In the eyes of most Iraqis, American forces have long since ceased to be nation-builders and instead are occupying forces that knock down their homes, bomb their mosques and abuse and humiliate their fellow citizens. The occupation, like other occupations throughout history, has generated a growing popular resistance that cannot be defeated militarily. It is time to change course.
We can start by turning over real sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government. However imperfect this new entity may be, it will have a better chance of establishing at least modest legitimacy if the United States treats it, in private and public, not as a puppet regime but as an autonomous government.
We can also announce that US troops will no longer engage in offensive operations and that we will pull out our forces, with the goal of total withdrawal by the end of the year. At the same time, we can try to persuade the United Nations to establish a multinational peacekeeping force to take over after our departure, and we can pledge to contribute to that effort in whatever way the international community regards as appropriate, including the possible participation of US troops.
To take these steps is not to "abandon" Iraq. Rather it is to assist in producing the stability we claim to want. The United States should continue to help Iraq by providing economic and humanitarian assistance and by supporting UN efforts to aid the interim government in conducting the earliest possible elections. This government should have authority over the economy and oil revenues and command over the country's security forces, as well as the right to set terms for the operation of any foreign troops on its soil. Washington should announce that it will pay reparations toward the rebuilding of Iraq to compensate for the devastation wrought by the US invasion and occupation. And it should renounce any interest in controlling Iraqi assets and in establishing US military bases. Only by yielding political and economic control in Iraq and disengaging our forces, while supporting UN nation-building efforts in a disinterested way, can we hope to reverse the growing rage in the Arab world and halt the current spiral of violence.
Two arguments are advanced–including by many well-meaning American liberals–against withdrawal. The first is that we owe it to the Iraqis whose lives we have violently disrupted to remain. In this view, withdrawal is tantamount to condemning Iraq to chaos. The second argument, a corollary to the first, is that an unstable, ungovernable Iraq will become a haven for extremists.
Although these concerns are serious, neither argument holds up under scrutiny. If the United States withdraws its forces, Iraq could face a violent power struggle between Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Kurds or between rival factions of the same sectarian group. But the risks must be weighed against the fact that US forces themselves are a major cause of the current instability. The troops there now are doing little to provide security for postwar reconstruction; they–and those seen to be cooperating with them–are the target of a widening guerrilla war against what is seen as an oppressive occupying power. More American forces will not change that logic; on the contrary, a harsher military campaign will only cause further alienation, turning even more Iraqis–Shiites as well as Sunnis–against us. Furthermore, we are not in a position to repair the divisions among a people whose language we do not speak and whose traditions we hardly understand; indeed, to the extent that we have succeeded thus far in unifying Iraq's fractured population, it has been in opposition to the American occupation.


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I was speaking with a friend the other day about education – they had sent me an email showing an eighth grade final exam for a school in Salina, Kansas, in 1895.
I was amazed, flabbergasted, at the level of knowledge required to pass that exam, and I suddenly understood why we had grown into such a remarkable country.
Here are a few of the questions (not necessarily the most difficult by any means):
- Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
- Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
- Define verse, stanza, and paragraph.
- What are the principal parts of a verb?
- Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
- Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
- Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
- Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
- Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
- Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
Again, this was an eighth grade class in 1895…
I am reminded of a quote by Mahatma Gandhi: "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." We became a great nation because we treasured learning and knowledge. We discovered that you can never be too educated.
Education is the parent of self-confidence, and the broader you sew your seeds, the more confident you become in almost all settings. But in many facets in America today there is almost a disdain for general knowledge – a cocky ignorance and an arrogant pride in the avoidance of learning anything past your immediate setting. Those who make it to higher education often find even the system itself is divided into colleges and universities that teach diametrically opposed concepts and refuse to entertain the possibilities their foes present.
So much of our educational system today is a process of indoctrination, and it strikes me that children should most importantly be taught the rudimentary process of how to think, not what to think. The good news is, there are still wonderful teachers out there, struggling every day to instill the wonder of learning, and they are truly the vanguard of hope for this nation.
I will leave you with a wonderful quote by the author, Doris Lessing: "Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgments."
Amen, Doris.Amen…
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