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The California state legislature passed a bill last Thursday mandating that every California university receiving state funds adopt a standard of affirmative consent, which they defined as "affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity" as part of a comprehensive sexual assault policy. The Senate approved it unanimously. Was California just being the bastion of overreaching liberalism that it is? How does California's bill stand up if, in the words of Harvard's own Title IX officer, "there is no standard definition" of affirmative consent?
It's hard to ignore that there do in fact exist clear, substantive commonalities in how effective policies treat the issue of affirmative consent. Though California is the first state to propose a state-level standard, numerous universities have already adopted affirmative consent in their policies that prohibit sexual violence. Neither Princeton nor the University of Pennsylvania is widely regarded as radical institutions or pioneers of activist thought. Nevertheless, compare the state of California's definition to those of Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania:
California State Bill SB-967:
"Affirmative consent' means affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity. It is the responsibility of each person involved in the sexual activity to ensure that he or she has the affirmative consent of the other or others to engage in the sexual activity. Lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent, nor does silence mean consent."
Princeton's policy
"the University considers consent as the voluntary, informed, uncoerced agreement through words and actions freely given, which a reasonable person would interpret as a willingness to participate in mutually agreed-upon sexual acts. Consensual sexual activity happens when each partner willingly and affirmatively chooses to participate."
University of Pennsylvania's policy
"Consent is an affirmative decision to engage in mutually agreed upon sexual activity and is given by clear words or actions. Consent may not be inferred from silence, passivity, or lack of resistance alone."
Yale's policy
"Sexual activity requires consent, which is defined as positive, unambiguous, and voluntary agreement to engage in specific sexual activity throughout a sexual encounter. Consent cannot be inferred from the absence of a "no"; a clear "yes," verbal or otherwise, is necessary."
Despite Harvard's denial, there is a clear definition of affirmative consent that emerges from the sampling of our peer institutions' policies above: affirmative consent is freely expressed willingness and active participation from all parties throughout sexual activity. The absence of a no is not a yes. That is the essence of affirmative consent, and that is what 85% of the student body voted for in a UC referendum about sexual assault policy reform in 2012.
Policy alone will not able to determine exactly what affirmative consent looks like in expression and communication, and nor should it, since every context and sexual relationship is different. However, good policy does set the expectation that all participants in sexual activity reflect consciously on whether their partner(s) is giving active consent, as well as err on the side of soliciting clearer, preferably verbal, consent. Requiring and encouraging individuals to practice these basic forms of respect for their sexual partners is not excessive; these are expectations to which we should hold ourselves anyway. Affirmative consent is not a conspiracy to persecute innocent students or mandate a single script for sexual activity. Affirmative consent is crucial in order to separate and protect sex from devastating forms of violence and to make Harvard a safe community for everyone.
This past July, Harvard released a new policy covering all forms of "sexual harassment," which federal law defines to include sexual assault, rape, and other forms of sexual violence. Language surrounding consent is conspicuously absent from this new policy. This comes in defiance of hard work done by student groups such as CAARE (Consent Assault Awareness & Relationship Educators) to promote a cultural shift towards "getting consent," and more than two years of campus-wide conversations around moving the focus away from negative and towards affirmative consent.
Instead, conduct falls under Harvard's new policy if deemed "unwelcome." The unwelcome conduct standard originated in earlier laws governing workplace sexual harassment and was subsequently adopted as the definition of sexual harassment under Title IX, which covers sexual, sex, and gender-based harassment at educational institutions. The Department of Education's 2001 guidance on Title IX includes the unwelcome conduct standard.
However "unwelcome conduct" serves as a mere baseline for sexual violence policy by more modern standards. The Office of Civil Rights' Spring 2014 Title IX Q&A expressly encourages (see page 41) sexual assault prevention training for students to address "how the school analyzes whether conduct was unwelcome" as well as "the school's definition of consent applicable to sexual conduct," a key piece absent from Harvard's current policy. Yale adopted its affirmative consent policy during its 2011 Title IX investigation, as part of the reform package that led to its voluntary resolution agreement with the Department of Education. This only serves as further evidence that Title IX licenses incorporating affirmative consent in sexual violence policy.
Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania are just three examples of Harvard's peer institutions that have adopted affirmative consent policies. What's the advantage of doing so? To put it simply, affirmative consent reflects the agency that should be essential to sex. Consent is familiar and intelligible to the student body, whose conversations about sex have been phrased in its terms. While a conversation might be welcome or unwelcome our bodies are not conversations. They are neither things nor locations. Sex is only sex when it is an act of free choice. When agency and choice are absent, what occurs is not sex, but an act of violence. Good policy reflects and acknowledges the nature of this violence by requiring "affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement" from all parties. Policy and culture are mutually reinforcing; Harvard needs a policy that will encourage leadership from the student body and community in ending sexual violence.
Emily Fox-Penner and Jessica Fournier are organizers of Our Harvard Can Do Better, an undergraduate campaign against sexual violence at Harvard. Gus Mayopoulos and Sietse Goffard are the president and the vice president, respectively, of the Harvard Undergraduate Council.


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The average wages for instrumental musicians is $30.43 per hour. This figure is highly variable based on location, with major demand for creative professionals being driven out of the entertainment districts of metropolitan areas, such as New York or Los Angeles.
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Formed by merging seven small marketing and technology companies in June, Think hopes to tap into an IPO market that in the past year has rewarded CKS Group, Eagle River Interactive and Leap Partnership with about $40 million in capital each for their forays into Internet advertising and communications.
Think seeks to raise a maximum of about $15 million. The company said in its prospectus it wants to offer 3 million shares at $5 per share. The low share price would classify it as a penny stock, carrying less prestige in the market than stocks like CKS or Leap. Commonwealth Associates, a small New York underwriter, is handling the offering.
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These November 2016 gadgets range from music-isolating headphones to language-teaching wearables like 'Mersiv,' a pendant-inspired device that can be programmed to offer customized language lessons to users.
Additional standouts include creativity-boosting innovations like 'ORBI Prime' -- glasses that shield wearers from the sun's rays while letting them record videos in HD. In addition to letting users capture high quality videos, the shades also offer 360-degree capture capabilities, appealing to content creators seeking to shoot candid footage while in motion.
Additional November 2016 gadgets to take note of include discreet health monitors -- designed more like a stylish smartwatch than a medical device -- along with lunar-themed light switches that fuse a sleek design with intuitive dimming and brightening functions that can be customized by users.
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It has been riding this bike for quite some time now. This is one of the lighter bikes I??™ve owned lately. It??™s really light and high on looks with the super sturdy front and rear chromium alloy wheels. It has got great acceleration but for the Delhi roads its not at all fuel efficient giving som... Read More »
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This bike really is the best among the Ductti series. The overall performance is also beyond expectation. The Hypermotard has been blessed with dual disc brakes at front and a single disc brake at rear, this shows how strong the braking system is. The 803 cc engine work best both on off road and on ... Read More »
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how cute is that matching elephant purse!!
i think this would have been perfect if it was a dress instead of a top and pants
love red accents on an all black outfit
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It really could make a day brighter, it is so cute!
I wear so much black you'd think I was a goth must be the lingering New Yorker in me. You can take the girl from NYC but you can't take NYC out of the girl. I swear I am the only person in my school walking around in all black in 80 degree weather lol
LOVE the elephant purse! and thanks for the intro to a new designer.
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This truck carries a friction-powered race car resembling a Lamborghini. Note the 27 white, amber, and red lights; red wheels and chrome attachments. Both the trailer and the race car display "Hess 1991″ on the rear license plate. This truck is confused with the 1988 issue, but there are quite a few differences in the two years. The 1991 has a larger cab and uses two 'C' size batteries, whereas the 1988 uses one 'D' size battery. The race cars are also different. The 1991 is a Lamborghini and the 1988 has a formula-type race car. The wheels on the 1988 have holes, and the 1991 wheels are solid. The box contains a picture of the truck parked next to a Hess Gas Station on each side and operating instructions on the bottom. The battery compartment is clean and all the lights are in working order. The box is also mint with bright graphics and complete with all packing. The truck measures approximately 12" in length.
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Cristiano Ronaldo is reading Sheffield Wednesday star Jose Semedo's book.
Starting to read the book of my friend Jose Semedo. pic.twitter.com/yMEP1Snr2O— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) November 23, 2015
Cristiano Ronaldo is taking his mind off El Clasico misery by reading a book penned by Sheffield Wednesday star Jose Semedo.
The Real Madrid superstar is close pals with Semedo, and even wrote a foreword to the book, and showed his support for the midfielder by posing with it on his Twitter feed, sharing it with his staggering 38.9 million followers.
Ronaldo and Semedo played together in Sporting Lisbon's academy, and remain close pals and were pictured on holiday together earlier this summer.
Semedo, 30, by comparison has 9.5 million Twitter followers, and is not shy of mentioning his friendship with Ronaldo on the social networking site.
Remembering when Ronaldo & I used to sneak into the gym late at night. Only 2 players in the 1985 S Lisbon class to get a pro contract #swfc— José Semedo (@JVSemedo) November 12, 2015
Semedo's book is called 'Win The Day', and is an autobiographical look at his career so far, and his steps to making it as a footballer.
He promised last week to sign every copy if given the chance when presented to him by a fan, so any supporters enjoying it will have to track him down. Ronaldo may be more difficult to get hold of.
On weekend the book can be bought from the club shop. Exciting! Whenever I see you guys will try to stop and sign every copy, if poss #swfc— José Semedo (@JVSemedo) November 17, 2015


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So often when women get excited about re-discovering their style...they want to pull out all the fashion stops! They pile on the jewelry, match their shoes to their handbag + add a bit more accessories just for good measure.
In reality when you take a moment and disect what a well styled woman is wearing--there's not all that much to her outfit. Yes, she's got divine style but more importantly she's using the style rule of simplicity.
The phrase "less is more" certainly applies when it comes to great style. Wearing clothes that fit you well, allowing the simple lines of the garment drape over your body, allowing "blank space" just to BE...then adding that ONE show stopper item (it could be a fancy jacket, a statement necklace, a hat, a scarf, animal print shoes, or a handbag like no other)...the key word here is: ONE. One item reins supreme.
Simplicity does not mean boring. In case you're starting to think this sounds a little plain and boring, I promise you it's not. It simply means NOT overadorned!
Overadorned is chaotic and cluttered. When you wear ruffles, belts, scarves, bangles, sequins all in one outfit...it begins look too fussy. Overdone is not great style.
Go easy or avoid all together embellishments like these:
- Ruffles. Yes, right now they are trendy. But honestly too much foo-foo ruffles are juvenile and not very stylish after all. Would you wear them if they weren't considered stylish?
- Ribbons, bows and border embroidery. Does it add to the style of the garment or is it just added to keep you from ignoring the poor construction of the garment? Does the border trim ADD an unflattering horizontal line in the middle of your body? Do you need all this jazz added to look good?
- Appliques. Need I tell you they give a cheesy homemade look to everything?
- Jewelry. A great way to dress up a simple outfit. The simpler the outfit the more jewelry you can get away with. Check yourself in a full-length mirror, if it looks too showy take something off.
- Balance accessories. If you are wearing large earrings, do without a necklace. If you are wearing a large necklace, keep your earrings on the small side. Lots of bracelets stacked on your arm? No need for a big necklace too.
- Use your tools. Style tools, that is. No woman should be without a full-length mirror. No one sees you from only the waist up...therefore YOU should see the WHOLE picture (head to toe) before heading out the door!
- Experiment. Play around and try on (in front of your full-length mirror) various combinations of accessories to see what looks most pleasing to you.
Divine style = simplicity.
Give it a try...or rather try not so hard and your style will show through with simplicity!
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The Nikkei 225 has slumped into yet another bear market, and you can almost hear the told-you-so's from those observers who have sworn off Japan for its habit of crushing optimism over the past two decades. But while Japan is down, it is not out.
Stocks there have certainly gone on a wild ride. After rising to multi-year highs in May as part of an 80 per cent surge in 2013, the Nikkei has now fallen about 22 per cent from its intraday peak, conforming to the popular definition of a bear market. It fell 6.4 per cent in overnight trading on Thursday, reducing its year-to-date gains to just 20 per cent.
No doubt, some investors see this stunning reversal as a vote against the country's efforts to shake off years of deflation and a stumbling economy. The election of Shinzo Abe as the country's prime minister brought a dynamic plan – dubbed Abenomics -- to make economic reforms and provide enormous stimulus. The Bank of Japan is on board with its own monetary policy stimulus.
However, the stock market's downturn has little to do with the success or failure of Abenomics: It is simply too early to tell whether the stimulus is working. Instead, the downturn is tied to wider market gyrations largely tied to the United States.
Japan's downturn followed a shift in sentiment toward the Federal Reserve, where many now believe the central bank will start to slow purchases of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities later this year. That shift has driven U.S. government bond yields higher, threatening to end a 30-year-old bond bull market.
The impact has moved well beyond the United States, though. In China, the Shanghai stock exchange index has fallen to a six-month low. Small economies are also being hit. On Thursday, the Philippines benchmark index fell 6.8 per cent and Thailand also fell.
"Investors have spent several years allocating to emerging assets with liquidity from quantitative easing," Kenneth Akintewe, a portfolio manager of local currency Asian bonds at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia, told the Wall Street Journal. "Now they are arguably overreacting to a possible reduction in policy stimulus, although the Fed's not going to take it away any time soon."
That makes Japan look like as though it is being caught in the crossfire – and therefore a tempting buy should the country's stimulus plans pay off. Risky? For sure, but you wouldn't be alone.
Strategists at Nomura (via FT Alphaville) raised – yes, raised – their year-end target on the Nikkei 225 to 18,000, up from their previous target of 16,000. That implies a gain of about 44 per cent from the index's current level.
Their reasons for ratcheting up their bullishness in the face of a bear-market correction? They believe earnings are now recovering and stocks will also get a valuation boost from a rise in global price-to-earnings ratios.
"We think the full impact of Abenomics on capex and household incomes has yet to be felt, which means that there are still substantial investment opportunities in these areas," they said in a note.
But there is a note of caution with their enthusiasm: Right now, the Nikkei 225 is just 50 points above where it began on April 3, when the Bank of Japan announced its bold monetary policies to provide stimulus, putting it at a pivotal point. If stocks fall below that level, the Nomura strategists argue, observers could pronounce Abenomics a failure.
"If Japan returns to square one despite this new phase of monetary easing, we think this will be a tragedy for the Japanese stock market," they said.


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Now ive always had mixed feelings of when i see people posting their artwork and its a rendering of some anime.
(For those who dont know what rendering is its essentially coping exactly an existing work, plus other various definition people say like designing a bg behind an existing work or taking a bg away..list goes on)
but point is...i dont know how to feel about it.
Sometimes i come across a piece and i think "woow this is amazing" then i see the category they put and it says rendering and i feel a great deal of disappointment. Even if they credit the original artist that doesnt change my feeling.
This also goes for me finding copies or re-drawings of anime scenes...
I was talking with a friend of mine and i saw one of these kind of drawings and i said to her "ughh cant stand these kind of drawings" and she just said "What? Why?" She really didnt understand why i felt this way and i realized i couldnt answer back in the way she would understand. It baffled me.
Also when i hear people say its all about personal interest..i dont feel satisfied by that answer.
and im only talking about anime here..not realism or classic traditional rendering.
Tell me how i should feel about this topic because i usually hear negative connotations of it but if you can back this up or if im missing something, id love to hear your thoughts. Id like to be open minded and would like to change my ways of viewing this topic
How do you feel about it? Do you do this? Why or why not?
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I have mixed feelings about this as well. Mostly because I think when I was younger, when I did draw anime type things, it would be an imitation of an official drawing and whatnot. This was important for me to understand how the character was put together and how much detail an artist actually put into it. Gradually I moved onto photorealism and it made appreciate the skill levels of those who can make something look as close to "real life" as possible.
But I get your point. Honestly, I think it's just a gradual part of learning how to draw, but otherwise.. I'm not sure.
Personally I am not interested in those type of works because well, its copying. It also doesnt give the person doing the render any identity as an artist because it will always lose the original artist. Its like those stick figure animations where some are animated well but since they all look the same, it doesnt make me say "wow whose the animator". If they use an existing character but add their own personal style, I will be interested. Those end cards in anime where guest artist draw the characters in there own style are usually amazing. I do find a lot of fan always want fanart to be drawn exactly the same way as the original but I ask myself "why" because the original already exist.
I was like those type of fans when I was younger where things have to be drawn the same way as the original but as I grown older, I just want to see more creativity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbLBoBaGupc link to watch my anime
I have mixed feelings about it as well; I don't mind renderings as long as the author states where they got it from and that it itsn't their own work, as they are pretty useful for people that liek to make signatures out of them and custom bg's/wallpapers.
On the other hand I don't like them when people comment saying that the author is a great artist etc and the author going along with it not saying that it isn't their own work.
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I have mixed feelings about it as well; I don't mind renderings as long as the author states where they got it from and that it itsn't their own work, as they are pretty useful for people that liek to make signatures out of them and custom bg's/wallpapers.
On the other hand I don't like them when people comment saying that the author is a great artist etc and the author going along with it not saying that it isn't their own work.
i yah i agree but sometimes just mentioning the original artist isnt enough because most of the time people dont pay attention to how the original artist feels about having their art used this way. i dont know any artist who doesnt mind seeing others manipulate their work. Now if it was from an official anime drawing they should credit the animation company but overall should say that they did not do the drawings themselves.
This bothers me because i just ran into a person who uploaded a rendering stating the original artist and emphasized underneath that all they did was take out the background....like why do that in the first place?? to make it easier for other people to use it their own way? does the original artist know?
whats worse is i scroll down to read the comments and all i see are people complimenting this person in how great of a job they did...are they really congratulating this person in doing simple photoshop that may or may not have been given permission to do so?
i just dont know....
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text: Bill C-23: This strip of my country is your country March 24, 2017 What do you do with a bill to implement an agreement reached by governments in two countries that have each been replaced by administrations with very different priorities and ideologies? When it comes to Bill C-23, which would implement the Agreement on Land, Rail, Marine and Air Transport Preclearance reached between Canada under Stephen Harper's Conservatives and the U.S. under Barack Obama's Democrats, a number of national CBA Sections suggest you step back – waaaaay back – and think hard about what the legislation would mean once enacted. The differences between the administrations that reached the agreement, signed in March 2015, and the current governments in both countries, are so significant that they "warrant a re-examination of the scope and contents of the agreement and this draft legislation that flows from it," say the Immigration Law, Criminal Justice and Commodity Tax Sections in their submission. The uncertain climate that currently attends the question of crossing the border has heightened those Sections' concerns about the legislation, which even before the 2016 U.S. election raised questions about sovereignty. While it is still early in the new U.S. administration's term, there have already been several developments that "give rise to serious concerns about how the significantly expanded powers of U.S. officers operating on Canadian soil could be exercised. We therefore urge the government to engage in full consultations, and an extensive review, before enacting this legislation, which is so highly intrusive on personal liberties and rights." Despite a shopping list of reasons why the CBA cannot support the bill in its current form, the Sections point out that Canada is committed to promoting the free flow of goods and people across the world's longest undefended border. For the benefit of the two countries' mutual economic interests, its "inadequacies can be remedied to deliver the desired economic and social benefits without sacrificing essential rights and freedoms or extending criminal liability unreasonably. We recommend significant changes to the underlying policy objectives and the language of the bill." For example, sections 18 and 30, which limit a traveller's right to withdraw from preclearance, even if there is no allegation of wrongdoing, is a "substantial" change from the current legislation. A traveller who wants to withdraw from a preclearance area because of intrusive or overly lengthy questioning, the Sections say, should have the right to do so. "Any law conferring discretion to detain without express or implied criteria governing its exercise is an arbitrary law," the submission says. As the bill is drafted, a traveller's only remedy when asked "unacceptable" questions is to refuse to answer – which opens the door to an unfortunate Catch-22. "At that point, they would face arrest and detention for not complying with section 30 (answering truthfully any question asked by a preclearance officer) or section 38 (obstructing or resisting a preclearance officer), including the use of physical force," and possible charges under the Act. "They would have no recourse under Canadian law, or possibly under U.S. law, to challenge a preclearance officer who has exceeded powers granted by Canadian law. Preclearance officers would be virtually unaccountable, as the bill exempts their decisions from judicial review in Canada (s. 40), makes them exempt from civil liability (s. 39) and permits the U.S. to bar their extradition back to Canada (s.42)." Allowing U.S. preclearance officers to conduct strip searches on Canadian soil without the presence of a Canadian border services officer is also a "dramatic" and "unacceptable" departure from current legislation, the Sections say. Being untrained in Canadian law the U.S. officers are liable to breach it, and yet, again, remain virtually unaccountable for having done so. Another issue addressed in the submission is the lack of Canadian policy governing searches that involve information protected by solicitor-client privilege. The Sections recommend that the Public Safety Minister establish a working group "to develop a fair and balanced policy for searches at the Canadian border and in preclearance areas that preserves solicitor-client privilege over devices and documents." Other problematic areas: The draft legislation does not require U.S. Customs to return goods seized in preclearance, even if it has been determined that no contravention occurred The bill does not address seizure or cancellation of NEXUS cards in the preclearance area The bill would allow U.S. customs officers to refuse Canadian permanent residents entry into Canada The bill gives Canadian preclearance officers power to turn away those seeking to enter Canada to seek refugee protection The Sections hope to appear before the Public Safety and National Security Committee in support of this submission in April.


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"The main character in this movie, Walter Sparrow, played by Jim Carrey, becomes obsessed with the number 23. After his wife gives him a copy of a strange book that introduces him to the theory that all things add up to the number 23, Sparrow sees the number everywhere. Watching this film today I, too became convinced that the number 23 is everywhere, specifically regarding how many hours I felt I had been in the theater. The Number 23 is 23 hours long. I am sure of it." - That is what I wrote about The Number 23 last Tuesday, right after I left the theater. Now almost a week later I feel exactly the same.
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In extension of the deadline, the EPA has announced it will now accept public comment on the May 2012 draft assessment of Bristol Bay and the would-be environmental impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine through June 30, 2013. A lot is at stake, so please take the time to add your opinion.
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text: New York—B-to-b advertising pages dipped slightly in May, falling 0.18% compared with May 2004, according to the Business Information Network report, which was released Friday and is compiled by IMS: The Auditor for American Business Media. Year-to-date, ad pages are up 1.74% compared with the same period last year. Ad revenues increased 3.59% for May and are up 4.27% for the year, according to BIN. "These figures show that the print aspect of our business continues to gain strength," said Gordon T. Hughes II, ABM's president-CEO, in a statement. "This helps illustrate that all business-to-business platforms are trending upwards."


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Haloooo, akhirnya seminggu telah berlalu. Ini udah menjelang hari ke-7 liburan dan kali ini gue pengen membuat suatu 'tulisan' ceritanya kayak ngikutin Taylor Swift gitu, dia-kan jago buat lagu. Dan lirik lagunya pun relatable banget sama kehidupan remaja masa kini. Nah, karna gue sering googling lirik lagunya Tay, gue sebagai fans terinspirasi buat bikin lagu yang nge-describe perasaan gue saat itu. Berhubung gue gak bisa buat lagu, oleh karena itu gue bikin kaya sebuah tulisan, tapi gak pantes disebut puisi juga gak pantes disebut lagu. Di memo handphone tertera tanggal penulisan yaitu 20 April 2013, dua hari sebelum UN hahaha. Dan baru ada waktu menyalin ke notebook sekarang hehe :D. Here are guys!
A shy girl
Sitting in the back corner
Alone, without friends
Opening the book, then closed it again
Do not know what to do
Want to feel cool by itself
But she could not
Sitting in the back corner
Alone, without friends
Opening the book, then closed it again
Do not know what to do
Want to feel cool by itself
But she could not
But he,
He was there, with famous people in the class
Surrounded the popular girl
Looks so close
So united
Do not know what they're talking about
Until they're position so close like that
Yes yes yes the girl's understood
Bent, hold all the feelings
Bent, hold all the feelings
They have the same pleasure
It was, yes it was they reason
Until so close
His hands wrapped around behind the popular girl
His other hand holding a mobile phone
Which is also held by the popular girl
The shy girl understood
The girl was still silent in place
Looked at their closeness
Seeing them interact with each other
Seeing them laugh
Teasing each other
The girl asked, how to be popular?
Yeah, how?
How she could be close to the man whom she admired so much?
She asked, whether worthy
a shy girl, innocent, stupid, like people like him?
The girl got up from her place.
But did not know what to do
Closer to the man
Another popular girl surprised
Their eyes
Popular boy and the shy girl
She also did not know what she was doing at that time.
Until recently, she was still confused
Tungguin postingan gue selanjutnya ya, makasih banyak banget yang udah mau baca hehe!:)


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Too many shortcomings before the IPO, revising public documents, confronting about the business model, too many canceled IPO decisions… The list just goes on and there are only negative signs on Groupon. We can now just sit back and watch it fall.
Investors were fighting over a piece of Groupon Inc. on its first morning as a public company, sending shares of the online coupon company up nearly 50%. In the early hours of trading on the Nasdaq exchange Friday, shares of Groupon were up 43%. The $20 IPO was already above the $16 and the rest of the stock market was crumbling. We are now used to the hype around internet companies and can only predict a sharp fall in the coming weeks. You don't need to look too far to compare just remember what happened to Linkedin. Groupon is no Google but is the second largest deal in the US right after Google.
Groupon stock finished its first day of trading at $26.11, for a gain of nearly 31% and it still remains as a modest gain. At the end of the day, the company enters the weekend with a market value of $16.65 billion. Their performance will only help the rest who has been reluctant to tackle the IPO market in the middle of global market crisis of a life time. Will this promising perfomance give the right amount of confidence to other social media giants such as Facebook Inc. and Zynga Inc. only time will show.
As for me, Groupon hype was dead a while back when I unsubscribed from their most annoying newsletters and offerings of teeth whitening, laser hair removals and many endless amounts of unnecessary and irrelevant offers that actually make you spend ridiculous amounts of money instead of saving it. Unless they change the variety and maintain the relationships with their partners I will not be using their service. There were just too many negative experiences that in my mind they will never be the next Amazon and Ebay.
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TIMONIUM, Md. — Helion Automotive Technologies issued its Top 5 priorities for dealership IT departments in 2017. According to the company, allocating budgets to internet bandwidth, wireless signals, incoming call flow, security and regulatory compliance, and software licensing will result in strong, fast and secure IT backbones that will support new business and technology initiatives.
"Dealers often view IT as a cost of doing business, rather than as an investment that can help them become more competitive," said Erik Nachbahr, president of Helion Automotive Technologies. "In this industry, time is money and an outdated IT infrastructure can result in downtime, lost revenue, reduced customer retention and loss of employee buy-in."
The first priority, according to the company, is to address the dealership's internet bandwidth. Dealers who are currently running a T1 internet connection through their dealership should consider switching to a fiber optic connection. Where T1 connections carry data at rates of around 1.5 Mbps, fiber optic connections can carry data at rates ranging from 100 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps.
The second priority should be improving the wireless signal found within a dealership. As OEMs and third-party companies push more and more technology onto the dealership, the average dealership with six to 10 high-speed wireless access nodes will need to increase their wireless capacity to a minimum of around 25 wireless access nodes per store, the company stated.
A dealer's third priority, according to the company, is to reduce the percentage of incoming phone leads that never connect with a dealership employee. Nachbahr puts the average at 30%. He recommends creating a new call flow designed to support dealer processes and, once established, not allow individual managers to make spontaneous changes.
The fourth priority is to avoid exposing customer records and the harsh financial consequences that could follow such event. Nachbahr recommends that dealers invest in cyber liability insurance. He adds that dealerships should also have established security policies in place.
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The availability of freely accessible online resources to enable and support drug discovery has blossomed in recent years. The PubChem platform is now accompanied by a myriad of other online databases including ChEBI, DrugBank, the Human Metabolome Database and ChemSpider.
The access to the array of software tools and diverse data in public domain provides capabilities previously only available within the confines of organisations (eg, big Pharma) that could afford significant investments in cheminformatics. This paper provides an overview of the internet resources available to drug discovery scientists and discusses the advantages of such accessibility but also the potential risks that reside within the data. It also examines what the present resources continue to lack and sets a vision for future approaches to providing internet-based resources for drug discovery.
The past five years have seen a mini revolution in the availability of resources to support drug discovery and, in particular, databases searchable by molecular structure (Figure 1). Chemistry information on the internet continues to become more widely accessible and at an increasing rate. There are many freely available chemical compound databases on the web1,2. These databases generally contain the chemical identifiers in the form of chemical names (systematic and trade) and registry numbers. Since the files in the databases are assembled in a heterogeneous manner, using variations in deposition processes and procedures to handle chemical structures, the resulting data are plagued with inconsistencies and quality issues. There are many databases available from which the drug discovery community can derive value. These databases generally have a specific focus based on the domain expertise of the hosting organisation; examples include databases of curated literature data, chemical vendor catalogues, patents, analytical data, biological data, etc. There are too many to include in this single article so only a small number will be discussed. For example, the authors recommend a recent article that assesses the expanding public and commercial databases containing bioactive compounds3 and conclude that the commercial efforts are ahead of the public ones.
The availability of molecule databases such as PubChem (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) has dramatically changed the landscape of publicly available cheminformatics resources, yet PubChem covers only a fraction of the chemical universe, mostly of interest to chemical genomics and pharmaceutical research. PubChem was launched by the NIH in 2004 to support the 'New Pathways to Discovery' component of the Roadmap for Medical Research4. PubChem archives and organises information about the biological activities of chemical compounds into a comprehensive database and is the informatics backbone for the Molecular Libraries and Imaging Initiative, which is part of the NIH Roadmap. Pubchem is also intended to empower the scientific community to use small molecule chemical compounds in their research as molecular probes to investigate important biological processes or gene functions. The PubChem compound repository presently contains more than 25 million unique structures with biological property information provided for many of the compounds. For now, PubChem remains focused on its initial intent to support the Molecular Libraries Initiative and serves as an extremely valuable and authoritative resource for cheminformatics and chemical genomics. However, there are a number of constraints around the system, especially in its place as a repository of data and information without a special effort toward curating these data. Naturally, in the absence of data curation any errors in the data are transferred across many online databases that depend on PubChem and ultimately, the errors influence the quality of computational models based on this data.
The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest, or ChEBI database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/) is a highly curated database of molecular entities focused on small chemical compounds. The entities are either natural products or synthetic products used to intervene in the processes of living organisms. ChEBI includes an ontological classification (Figure 2), whereby the relationships between molecular entities or classes of entities and their 'parents' and/or 'children' are specified. While the database presently offers access to close to 19,000 entities this is expected to expand to more than 440,000 by the end of October (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/newsForward.do#Ch EMBL%20data%20integration). The database is available for download by anonymous FTP (ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/chebi/).
The Human Metabolome Database (http://www.hmdb.ca)5,6 (HMDB) is a comprehensive curated collection of human metabolite and human metabolism data. It contains records for more than 6,800 endogenous metabolites. In addition to its comprehensive literature-derived data, the HMDB also contains an extensive collection of experimental metabolite concentration data compiled from hundreds of mass spectra (MS) and Nuclear Magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolomic analyses performed on urine, blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples. This is further supplemented with thousands of NMR and MS spectra collected on purified, reference metabolites. Each metabolite entry in the HMDB contains data fields including a comprehensive compound description, names and synonyms, structural information, physicochemical data, reference NMR and MS spectra, biofluid concentrations, disease associations, pathway information, enzyme data, gene sequence data, SNP and mutation data as well as extensive links to images, references and other public databases. Recent improvements have included spectra and substructure searching.
DrugBank (http://www.drugbank.ca/) is a manually curated resource7 assembled from a series of other public domain databases (KEGG, PubChem, ChEBI, PDB, Swiss-Prot and GenBank) and enhanced with additional data generated within the laboratories of the hosts. The database aggregates both bioinformatics and cheminformatics data and combines detailed drug data with comprehensive drug target (ie protein) information. The database contains FDA approved small molecule and biotech drugs as well as experimental drugs, representing nearly 5,000 molecules8. The database supports extensive text, sequence, chemical structure and relational query searches of the nearly 100 data fields. The data from DrugBank has been used to show that the drug to drug-target relationship is scale-free and several classes of proteins are selectively enriched as drug targets for FDA approved drugs9.
ZINC (http://zinc.docking.org/index.shtml) is a free, searchable database of commercially available compounds for virtual screening10,11. The library contains more than 20 million molecules, each with a 3D structure and gathered from the catalogues of compounds from vendors. All molecules in the databases are assigned biologically-relevant protonation states and annotated with molecular properties.
ChemSpider (http://www.chemspider.com/)1,2 is a community resource for chemists provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry (Figure 3). It offers a number of facilities that distinguishes the service from many of the other databases listed in this article. At the time of writing it contains more than 23 million unique chemical entities aggregated from more than 200 diverse data sources, including government databases, chemical vendors, commercial database vendors, publishers, all of the databases listed above and from individual chemists. ChemSpider has also integrated the SureChem patent database collection (http://www.chemspider.com/) of structures to facilitate structure-based linking to patents between the two data collections. ChemSpider can be queried using structure/ substructure searching and alphanumeric text searching of both intrinsic as well as predicted molecular properties. Unique capabilities relative to other public chemistry databases include real time curation of the data, association of analytical data with chemical structures, real-time deposition of single or batch chemical structures (including with activity data) and transaction-based predictions of physicochemical data. A series of web services are provided to allow integration to the system for the purpose of searching and linking with other online databases from other groups (academia or industry). The integration can be with free or commercial resources. For example, Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc (http://www.collaborative drug.com) recently provided links to ChemSpider for molecules in its CDD database12 thereby providing an integration path between a commercial resource and a public domain database. CDD is a highly secure, commercial collaborative drug discovery informatics platform and a new type of collaborative system that handles a broad array of data types that can be archived and then selectively shared among colleagues or openly shared in standardised formats, at each research group's discretion. A focus of CDD is facilitating the growth of global collaborative research networks for neglected diseases such as malaria, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and tuberculosis. Subsequently there are currently 50 datasets available to the public upon registration which can be readily substructure or similarity searched.
The importance of chemical data curation in QSAR modelling
Molecular modellers and cheminformaticians alike typically analyse data generated by other researchers providing, in general, experimental data. Consequently, when it comes to the quality of these data modellers are always at the mercy of the providers. Practically any modelling cheminformatics study entails the calculation of chemical descriptors that are expected to accurately reflect the intricate details of the underlying chemical structures. Obviously, any error in the structure translates into either an inability to calculate the descriptors for erroneous chemical records or into erroneous descriptors. Naturally, the models built with this data are either restricted to only a fraction of the formally available data or, worse, they are merely inaccurate. As both data and models of the data, as well as the body of scholarly publications in cheminformatics, continue to grow, it becomes increasingly important to address the issue of data quality that inherently effects the quality of models.
How significant is the problem of accurate structure representation as it concerns the adequacy and accuracy of cheminformatics models? A few recent reports indicate that this problem should be given serious attention. For instance, benchmarking studies by a large group of collaborators from six laboratories13,14 have clearly demonstrated that the type of chemical descriptors has much greater influence on the prediction performances of QSAR models than the nature of the model optimisation techniques. Furthermore, in another recent seminal publication15, the authors clearly pointed out the importance of chemical data curation in the context of QSAR modelling (eg incorrect structures generated from either correct or incorrect SMILEs). Their main conclusions were that small structural errors within a dataset could lead to significant losses in the predictive abilities of QSAR models. At the same time they further demonstrated that manual curation of the structural data leads to a substantial increase in the model predictivity15.
In their report highlighting the importance of gathering accurate information to build the WOMBAT and WOMBAT-database, Oprea et al16 discussed the error rate in medicinal chemistry publications. They found an average of approximately two errors per publication in the almost 6,800 papers indexed in the WOMBAT database. With a median of 25 compounds per series in a publication this implied an overall error rate of 8% with errors including17: incorrectly drawn or written structures, unspecified position of attachment of substituents, structures with the incorrect backbone, incorrect generic names or chemical names or duplicates.
The basic steps to curate a dataset of compounds have been either considered trivial or ignored by the experts in the field. For instance, several years ago a group of experts in QSAR modelling developed what is now known as OECD QSAR modeling and validation principles18,19 that the researchers should follow to achieve the regulatory acceptance of QSAR models. The need to curate the primary data from which the models are derived was not mentioned. The Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling published a special editorial highlighting the requirements for QSAR papers that should be followed by authors considering publishing their results in the journal20 and recent publications addressing common mistakes and criticising faulty practices in the QSAR modelling field21-23 have appeared, yet none of these sources have explicitly described and discussed the importance of chemical record curation for developing robust QSAR models.
There is an obvious trend within the community of QSAR modellers to develop and follow the standardised guidelines for developing statistically robust and externally predictive QSAR models24. The importance of developing best practices for data preparation prior to initiating the modelling process is obvious. There is therefore a pressing need to amend the five OECD principles by adding a sixth rule that would request careful data preparation prior to model development. There is a need to develop and systematically employ standard chemical record curation protocols that should be helpful in the pre-processing of any chemical dataset and these could be automated using existing software packages (many of which are free for academic investigators). The essential procedures include the removal of inorganic compounds, counterions and mixtures (because for the most part the current chemical descriptors do not account for such molecular records), ring aromatisation, normalisation of specific chemotypes, curation of tautomeric forms and the deletion of duplicates.
Data analytical studies are impossible without trusting the original data sources. It is important, whenever possible, to verify the accuracy of the primary data before developing any model. We believe that this approach could be summarised by a famous proverb 'Trust, but verify' that was frequently used by the late president Ronald Reagan during the cold war era and that traces back to the founder of the Russian KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky who invented it almost 100 years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_but_Verify). Our hope is that other experts will also contribute their expertise and best practices to this effort.
Improving the quality of putative hits and leads
Hits or leads in rare, orphan and neglected diseases (or for that matter many pharmaceutically relevant targets) can arise from phenotypic or mechanistic screening against commercially available screening libraries. Often the screening efforts arise in an academic setting. Because of the disconnect between academic biology and expert medicinal chemistry it is essential to carry out a medicinal chemistry annotation of putative hits or leads before expenditure of significant drug discovery effort. The early stages of the annotation process can be done using known filters and guidelines for acceptable chemistry functionality. A more detailed analysis asking questions about the chemistry of the hit or lead, and what is known biologically and chemically about substructures and similar compounds to the hit or lead currently requires a medicinal chemistry expert and takes on average about 20 minutes per compound. The in-depth data available through CAS SciFinder was used in the annotation of 64 putative tools and probes from the NIH Roadmap MLSCN effort25. Progress towards public sector tools for chemistry annotation might allow for a more affordable and accessible process in the future. For example, many companies have instituted filters (usually SMARTS queries) to remove undesirable molecules, false positives and frequent hitters from their HTS screening libraries or to filter vendor compounds. Early examples include REOS from Vertex26, basic, hard and soft filters from GSK27 and functional group compound filters from BMS28. These are in addition to the many proprietary filters at companies. A particular issue is chemical reactivity towards protein thiol groups. A group from Abbott reported a sensitive assay to detect reactive molecules by NMR (ALARM NMR)29,30. A follow up study used 8,800 compounds with data from this assay to create a Bayesian classifier model with extended connectivity fingerprints (ECFP_6) with good classification accuracy to predict reactivity31. This also identified 175 substructures that were likely of interest as potentially causing reactivity. Currently there is no freely accessible automated method for filtering compounds or alerting users to reactivity issues. If we were to take this further, how could we encode the knowledge of many medicinal chemists with drug discovery expertise into a piece of software or database that would identify chemical 'trash' or undesirable molecules for biologists? There is certainly some scope here to influence the quality of hits and leads that are published and annotate such molecules in public databases.
Freely available databases and tools supporting drug discovery and chemistry in particular are becoming increasingly available. In parallel we are seeing more discussion about the need for more pre-competitive32-35, competitive36 and collaborative approaches12,32 in drug discovery and the pharmaceutical industry in general, covering areas such as informatics, ADME/tox and clinical. This raises the question: "What could we achieve by just making more software and data resources available on the web?" There is currently little in the way of freely available resources for computational ADME/Tox (apart from efforts like the ToxCast project37,38 at the EPA where several hundred compounds have been screened in more than 600 biological assays and the results have been made public, representing a resource for future models) so when will this change? Perhaps, as more data is placed in the public domain by companies that are holding on to it closely. If more computational tools and biological data were freely available it would facilitate crowd-sourced drug discovery and basically level the playing field for small (or oneperson) virtual companies versus other pharma and biotech without requiring expensive tools and databases (eg CAS SciFinder). In this case, anyone with access to a computer anywhere in the world can contribute to drug discovery regardless of whether they belong to a company, research institute or not. Young gamers are already contributing to the optimised folding of proteins as evidenced by the success in the Community-Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction, or CASP. (http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazin e/17-05/ff_protein). Such efforts represent truly distributed discovery and could contribute to fully integrated pharmaceutical networks. When this occurs there will be more of a need to work with highly dispersed individual researchers, store their data and possibly take molecules to the next step, eg enabling preclinical testing, animal studies etc. This will then require companies such as AssayDepot (http://www.assaydepot.com/) and CDD to help generate and store data needed for progressing molecules to clinical studies and finding larger companies or organisations to take these further. We are seeing a shift from requiring powerful computers within insular organisations to do drug discovery to using resources on the web, and so this opens up being able to use cheap portable and mobile devices to search databases and generate predictions from computational models. Of course the quality of the output will be highly dependent on the initial data quality.
Surprisingly, the investigations into how primary data quality influences the quality of published cheminformatics models have been almost absent in the published literature. It appears that cheminformaticians and molecular modellers tend to take published chemical and biological data at their face value and launch calculations without carefully examining the accuracy of data records. However, there should be much less disagreement concerning the exact chemical structure of compounds in the databases except for arguably difficult issues such as tautomers. Thus, the accuracy of the chemical structure representation could be addressed directly in most cases.
Both common sense and the recent QSAR investigations described above indicate that chemical record curation should be viewed as a separate and perhaps critical component of cheminformatics research. By comparison, the community of protein x-ray crystallographers has long recognised the importance of structural data curation; indeed the Protein Data Bank (PDB) team includes a large group of structure curators whose only job is to process and validate primary data submitted to the PDB by experimental crystallographers39. Furthermore, the NIH recently awarded a significant Center grant to a group of scientists from the University of Michigan (http://www.genome web.com/informatics/nigms-allots-5m-new-database- house-protein-ligand-data-pharma-contribute) to curate primary data on protein-ligand complexes deposited to the PDB. Conversely, the largest publicly funded cheminformatics project, ie, PubChem, is considered a data repository and no special effort is dedicated to the curation of structural information deposited to PubChem by the various contributors. Chemical data curation has been addressed whenever possible by the privately funded, but publicly available, ChemSpider project as well as by several other projects reviewed above. It is critical that scientists who exploit and build models of datasets derived from current databases or extracted from publications dedicate their own effort to the task of data curation.
Of course the hope of using cheminformatics and databases in drug discovery is to increase the efficiency and quality of molecules that progress to later stages. Just identifying reactive molecules and false positives could be of great utility to the many groups that are not aware of this problem and avoid dead ends. If we really are to empower the user and do crowd-sourced drug discovery, we will create issues with IP and the ownership of the collaborative discovery. This consideration could be one of the reasons why this approach has not been followed before. Additionally, if we are to identify gaps in the free tools to crowd-sourced drug discovery vision then it is perhaps related to having the molecules in a database but not physically having free access to them for testing. So, the next big step will be how to make the physical molecules more widely available to all, by making them on demand or a centralised storage facility funded by the NIH etc, a topic which is outside the scope of this article but worth considering.
Conflicts of interest statement
Sean Ekins consults for Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc and is on the advisory board for AssayDepot. Antony J. Williams and Valery Tkachenko are employed by the Royal Society of Chemistry which owns ChemSpider and associated technologies. Alexander Tropsha and Chris Lipinski have no conflicts of interest.
Dr Antony Williams is Vice-President, Strategic development, for ChemSpider at the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has authored more than 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters on NMR, predictive ADME methods, internet-based tools, crowd-sourcing and database curation. He is an active blogger and participant in the internet chemistry network.
Valery Tkachenko is Chief Technical Officer for ChemSpider at the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was intimately involved with the development of the PubChem platform during his time with NIH and has been involved with the development of enterprise level web-based software applications for the Life Sciences for well over a decade.
Dr Christopher Lipinski is a Scientific Advisor to Melior Discovery. An ACS, AAPS and SBS member, he is author of the 'rule of five', a member of the ACS 'Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame' and winner of multiple awards. An adjunct professor at UMass Amherst, he has 235 publications and invited presentations and 17 issued US patents.
Professor Alexander Tropsha is K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, UNC-Chapel Hill. His research interests are in the areas of Computer-Assisted Drug Design, Computational Toxicology, Cheminformatics, and Structural Bioinformatics.
Dr Sean Ekins is a Computational Chemist and has authored more than 130 peer reviewed papers and book chapters as well as edited three books on computational applications in pharmaceutical R&D and computational toxicology. His areas of interest are in vitro and computational ADME/Tox, systems biology, cheminformatics and computer-aided drug discovery.


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Technology companies have been leaders in Internet marketing from the very beginning. The first banner ads appeared in October 1994 and, since then, Internet marketing has grown up fast. The advertising component has diversified into a dizzying array of ad types, and marketers can now also reach customers online via newsletters, microsites, Webcasting and Weblogs. Equally important, these marketers have learned the best ways to use their online marketing campaigns to complement and strengthen their offline marketing efforts.
BtoB interviewed executives with six technology companies. Four of them are established players: Dell Computer Corp., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp. and EMC Corp. One is a midsize adolescent company, Macromedia Inc., which makes development tools, including the online animation tool, Flash. The last is an emerging company, Groove Networks Inc., which makes peer-to-peer collaboration software.
The executives agreed that online marketing must be coordinated with traditional marketing efforts, including trade shows, advertising and direct mail. Not every customer is entirely comfortable on the Internet. For instance, Oracleâs customer relationship management software is sold both to technology managers and business managers, and the company has found that technology managers respond to online marketing much better than business managers do, according to Kevin Rickson, senior director of marketing for CRM software at Oracle.
Business managers need more of a human touch, he noted. Oracle might be successful driving technology managers to visit a microsite by sending a direct-mail postcard that warns, "Youâre falling behind!" But the company has found that business managers want images of people at work, with a promise of how Oracle products can help improve the businessâ value.
Online advertising can be useful for building brand awareness and for driving demand for particular products, said Eric Siebert, director of worldwide interactive marketing communications at IBM.
But the key to successfully harnessing the power of online advertising is to measure results, Siebert said. Initially, marketers measured results in click-throughs, but that failed to measure the value that companies achieved from simply having their ads seen. "You measure the impact of online advertising the same way as offline: You use basic survey methodology to measure the customerâs ability to comprehend and understand what you are trying to communicate," Siebert said.
E-mail newsletters are another powerful marketing tool, but the key to their success is to make the content relevant, Oracleâs Rickson said. As Internet users are inundated by spam, theyâre becoming less tolerant of advertising in e-mail. But a technical audience is likely to be more receptive of newsletters than business managers, Rickson said. Tech users are happy to get newsletters that are rich in technology tips and details. Business managers are harder to win over with newsletters.
"If newsletters are seen as something that serves the vendor, they are less effective," Rickson said. "Youâve got to have a high level of content, or people will see right through it."
Putting out a readable newsletter is so tricky that Oracle increasingly is buying space on existing newsletters, such as the American Marketing Associationâs newsletter, or placing the e-mail version of an advertorial into newsletters people are already receiving.
The technology marketers pointed to another online marketing principle: Go where your customers already are, such as on targeted newsletters and Web sites. For example, in addition to marketing on its own Web site, Dell computer has a microsite on CNet Networksâ Web site (which combines news, reviews and feature articles about computers and the Internet). Dellâs microsite contains a large table of its products, specifications, pricing, tiny product photos, plus CNet reviews of the products, said Tom West, director of the SMB e-business division at Dell.
"Customers going to technology sites like CNetâs are in a buying frame of mind, and they have a specific product they are thinking about," West said. "Thatâs exactly the time we want to intercept buyers and show them what Dell has to offer."
Webcasting is another effective marketing tool, especially when used to communicate excitement, the experts said. Webcasting can help put potential customers virtually on the scene at a product launch or other event.
"The great part of the Webcast is you are able to show the energy and excitement that happens at a live event," said Daniel Kuperstein, director of online marketing and globalization for EMC Corp., a provider of information storage systems, software and services.
EMC produces about 15 special-event Webcasts annually (see case study, above) for major product launches and quarterly earnings events, along with smaller, more specialized Webcasts that provide content such as customer testimonials. Each Webcast attracts 3,000 to 5,000 viewers, Kuperstein said.
Like newsletters and microsites, Webcasts allow a vendor to collect information about potential customers, since they must register and give data about themselves to see the Webcast, said Richard Eckel, VP-marketing communications for Groove Networks.
In addition, Weblogs have emerged as a marketing tool in the past year or so. A Weblog is an online journal, usually written by a single expert, with a personal voice. Groove and Macromedia both have officially sanctioned Weblogs, written by trusted software developers with guidance from the companyâs marketing department.
Blogs help companies become part of the communities formed by their customers, said Tom Hale, Macromediaâs senior VP-business strategy. "Communities evolve around products," Hale said. "People who really care about a product have opinions about it, and they like to talk to other people about it," Hale said.


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Pandora Executives to Present at the Following Upcoming Investor Conferences
Events to be Audio Webcast live on the Pandora Investor Relations Website
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pandora (NYSE: P), the leading internet radio service, today announced that the company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Vice President will present at the following upcoming investor conferences.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110615/SF20192LOGO)
Mr. Kennedy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Wells Fargo Securities Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Wednesday, November 7th at 9:05AM ET / 6:05AM PT in New York, NY.
Mr. Kennedy will also present at the Piper Jaffray Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference on Wednesday, November 7th at 11:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PT in New York, NY.
Mr. Paschel, Vice President, will be participating on "The Battle to Control the High Tech Dashboard Panel" at the Piper Jaffray Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference on Wednesday, November 7th at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT in New York, NY.
Mr. Paschel will also present at the BMO Capital Markets 2012 Digital Media Conference on Thursday, November 8th at 8:30 AM ET / 5:30 AM PT in New York, NY.
Live audio webcasts of the presentations will be available on Pandora's Investor Relations website at http://investor.pandora.com.
Pandora (NYSE: P) gives people music and comedy they love anytime, anywhere, through connected devices. Personalized stations launch instantly with the input of a single "seed" - a favorite artist, song or genre. The Music Genome Project®, a deeply detailed hand-built musical taxonomy, powers the personalization of Pandora® internet radio by using musicological "DNA" and constant listener feedback to craft personalized stations from a growing collection of hundreds of thousands of recordings. Tens of millions of people turn on Pandora every month to hear music they love. www.pandora.com
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text: Some shows -- think "Law & Order" or "CSI" or "E.R." -- can stay on the air for over a decade without ever varying what they are at their core. CBS' protean drama "Jericho" returns on Tuesday (Feb. 12) night in probably its fourth or fifth different permutation in under 25 episodes. Although it jumped from post-apocalyptic soap opera to conspiracy mystery to survivalist thriller, "Jericho" found a dedicated core of viewers last season and it's likely that many of those fans will be perfectly happy with the show's latest incarnation -- suspense-filled civics lesson. Remember that killer cliffhanger from that season? That unresolved climax that left fans so agitated that they pelted CBS executives with goobers til they relented and uncancelled the show? The town of Jericho, plucky underdogs with minimal artillery, were at the brink of war with the big bullies of New Bern? Never mind that stuff. Perhaps if the first season of "Jericho" had been high enough rated for an old-fashioned renewal, we could have seen the war unfold. Instead, we're less than five minutes into the premiere when Esai Morales' Major Beck walks into town and says, with significant gravitas, "The nightmare's over. Order will be restored." That's the season's theme and it's no coincidence that the "Jericho" premiere is titled "Reconstruction" (that the episode airs on Lincoln's birthday is a total coincidence). As the premiere begins, the Cheyenne-centered government is attempting to restore order and structure with an iron fist. With the help of the shady and vertically integrated independent management group Jennings & Rall (think Halliburton, only less suspect), they control everything from finances to health care to reeducation. As the first three episodes progress, "Jericho" throws out buzz-words like "tribunes," "amnesty" and "reconciliation," while giving a dramatized lecture on constitutional freedom, journalistic integrity and, at its heart, American democracy. It's exhausting work at times and it only occasionally gels with the swifter-moving plotlines that involve Jake (Skeet Ulrich) and Hawkins (Lennie James) as they attempt to expose the secrets of the nuclear attack that started the show in the first place. For fans of the show's more sentimental elements, Stanley (Brad Beyer) and Mimi (Alicia Coppola) are getting ready for a wedding, so they're almost entirely separated from the main plotlines, as are the half-dozen regular cast members who were bumped to "special guest stars" under the show's conditional limited pick-up. That's why you'll discover that the characters played by folks like Sprague Grayden, Erik Knudsen and Shoshanah Stern only pop up sporadically. Morales is the season's biggest casting addition and he's assertive and stoic in exactly the right ways to help compensate for the exit of Gerald McRaney's Johnston, who was the show's anchor. But if McRaney was also the show's heart last season, Morales' presence is a sign of the second season's less sentimental tone. Throw in recurring players Daniel Benzali and D.B. Sweeney and you get a darker, chillier "Jericho" this time around. Like so much in the show's first season, the loftier intellectual goals of the early "Jericho" episodes are better in concept and execution. Tightly edited suspenseful set pieces sit awkwardly alongside Ulrich making pronouncements about the autonomy of the Fourth Estate. I continue to hold out hope for "Jericho," that eventually the show will find its voice and mature into it. Thus far, it remains a work-in-progress. [Post-Script: The first three episodes were sent to critics well over a month ago and were leaked onto the Internet soon after. It boggles my mind that fans of a show that didn't generate a sufficient audience for renewal in the first place would think that the best way to convince the CBS to bring "Jericho" back for a third season would be to pass around pirated episodes weeks ahead of the airdate. CBS brought the show back in the first place because of audiences outside of the Nielsen loop, but I don't think the network is going to be monitoring pirated BitTorrented episodes as any sort of positive.]