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A Look At How Gannett's Digital Strategies Are Paying Off
By: Rob Tornoe
If you've ever driven along the busy Northeast corridor, no doubt you've been stuck in traffic on the 10-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in tiny Delaware. While you were sitting motionless, you might have caught a glimpse of the offices of The News Journal, Gannett's 100,000-plus circulation daily that serves as Delaware's only statewide news source.
The News Journal was one of the first properties to initiate Gannett's all-access business model, launching its paywall in February 2012. After facing some initial blowback from a vocal minority angered about having to pay for the news online, the News Journal has seen tremendous growth in circulation revenue with a minimal decline in overall pageviews. It has also signed up more than 2,000 digital-only subscribers with little to no marketing, which, according to executive editor David Ledford, is a testament to the newspaper's reputation as the state's watchdog.
"Watchdog reporting has always been our commitment," Ledford said, "but it's clear that readers value it so much they're willing to support it with their wallets."
The success at the News Journal is a microcosm of Gannett as a whole. The all-access paywall strategy the company rolled out in 2012, paired with tremendous gains in broadcast advertising revenue thanks to the Olympics and the presidential election, have helped Gannett achieve its first year-over-year increase in company-wide revenue since 2006.
"Our strategy is gaining momentum, our investments are bearing fruit and we are achieving the results we expected," said Gannett president and chief executive officer Gracia Martore. "I am pleased with the progress thus far, but, again, we are only in the early innings."
Circulation revenue way up
During 2012, Gannett introduced paywalls across all 81 properties in its U.S. community newspaper division (USA Today is not a part of that division and continues to be free online). Some came online early, like the News Journal's paywall, which was activated in February. Others, like the Arizona Republic and Indianapolis Star, didn't become active until September.
The overall effect was a dramatic increase in circulation revenue, which rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter alone, when paywalls were in place across all properties. It also marks the third consecutive quarter of circulation revenue growth.
"We feel that we have a good model," said Gannett digital news chief Maribel Perez Wadsworth. "We've had great retention of our existing customers, good inroads in acquisition of digital subscribers, and we have what we feel is a winning strategy."
But this added revenue did come at a cost. An increase in subscription rates by an average of 25 percent caused circulation volume to drop 11 percent. It appears many customers simply rejected the higher cost. However, Martore said the decrease was about half of what they projected.
At last year's Newspaper Association of America mediaXchange conference, Gannett community newspaper president Bob Dickey predicted the company's paid digital subscriptions would be worth $100 million by 2013.
Ken Doctor, the news industry analyst behind the popular Newsonomics blog, said he thinks the addition of 250,000–300,000 digital-only subscribers by the end of 2013 is possible, given the number of unique visitors currently taking advantage of Gannett's many properties.
But Doctor also said the number of subscribers isn't all that important.
"The number that is important is circulation revenue," Doctor said. "The money isn't mainly coming from digital-only subscriptions; it's coming mainly from going to print subscriptions and increasing the pricing."
If you look at the numbers, the majority of circulation revenue growth came in the form of increased subscription costs to current subscribers. Essentially, Gannett raised the price for current print subscribers while giving them free access to the news in any form they want — print, Web, or mobile. What's more, Dickey said there was no evidence that a significant number of people dropped their seven-day-a-week print subscription as a result of the rate hike, even though four-day or Sunday-only options were available that would still allow them digital access.
Doctor said because of that level of loyalty among readers, there is plenty of room to increase the cost for current print subscribers moving forward, a sentiment echoed by Wadsworth.
"I don't know of many consumer products that keep products static in perpetuity," Wadsworth said. "Our plan is to be evaluating it regularly and keeping up with the full pricing potential and the value of our products."
Digital revenue
Circulation and the company's all-access subscription model weren't the only sources of digital revenue growth for Gannett.
Digital operating revenues grew to $187 million in 2012, pushed mainly by revenue growth at job site CareerBuilder. Across the entire company, digital revenue was up 29 percent year-over-year and accounted for a quarter of the company's total revenue.
One thing Gannett is banking on is Gannett Digital Marketing Services, which allows the company to offer local businesses a one-stop shop of marketing services ranging from digital ad production to search engine optimization and social media marketing. And most of it can be done at the local level, with small businesses that know and trust their local newspaper properties.
"We have deep local market knowledge," Martore said. "We are a known and trusted media partner, and through our digital marketing services business we offer a broad suite of digital products and services to these local businesses."
All told, Gannett expects this digital marketing arm of its business to generate $275 million to $350 million in annual revenue by 2015 and has supported its growth with key acquisitions, such as social media tech companies Ripple6 and BLiNQ, and digital circular company ShopLocal.
Broadcast advertising
While Gannett's success story with paywalls seems to point to a revenue-bolstering trend, a large part of Gannett's success in 2012 was based on two items it won't see in 2013: the Olympics and the presidential election.
Revenue growth at Gannett's 23 television stations was up a staggering 46 percent. The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling opened the campaign-spending floodgates for independent corporations and unions, and both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney benefited from millions of dollars in private expenditures. Most of that spending went to television ad buys, ironic considering most of Gannett's opinion page editors are against the type of unlimited campaign donations and spending from which the chain so greatly benefited. Campaign spending at Gannett TV stations weighed in at $91.2 million in the fourth quarter alone.
"During the fourth quarter and for the full year, our broadcasting business delivered record revenue and profitability," Martore said. "Our television stations significantly increased market share this year, reflecting the value of their content and format in gaining new viewers while retaining their loyal base."
The Olympics also played a large role in that revenue spike. Roughly 12 of Gannett's 23 television stations are NBC affiliates, which benefited greatly from the revenue boost from 2012's London Olympics. By the same token, Gannett's first quarter results in 2013 will be hampered somewhat by the shift of the Super Bowl to CBS, where Gannett has just six CBS TV stations.
Jim Hopkins, a former USA Today editor who runs the popular Gannett Blog (no official affiliation with the company), said that what was good for Gannett in 2012 won't be so good in 2013.
"Even if car dealers and furniture dealers increase their ad spending in 2013, it's not going to be anywhere near what came from political and Olympics (advertising) in 2012," Hopkins said.
Gannett forecasts that total television revenue will grow by high-single digits in the first quarter of 2013, but that's still a slowdown from the 45.7 percent growth the company saw in the fourth quarter of 2012. Hopkins said the trouble will come for Gannett in the third quarter of 2013.
"Starting around this summer, Gannett is going to start experiencing bad comps (comparisons)," Hopkins predicted. "Which means come third quarter, their numbers when compared against the numbers of 2012 aren't going to look so good."
Print ad declines narrow
Continuing a well-known trend, Gannett's print advertising revenue — the company's single largest source of revenue — fell 2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 to $658 million, down from $671 million a year ago. However, this was the smallest print advertising decline for Gannett over its last eight quarters. For the year, print advertising revenue was down 6.2 percent to $2.36 billion.
Gannett is far from alone in this decline. According to the NAA, print advertising revenue for all U.S. newspapers dropped in the third quarter of 2012 by 6.4 percent to $4.5 billion. "A lot of the strength (in the fourth) quarter was from television, and that was really driven by political advertising, which won't be around next year," Doug Arthur, a media analyst with Evercore Partners, told Bloomberg News. "Newspaper profitability was a little disappointing relative to trends and expectations."
Gannett seems to be weathering the decline in print advertising better than many of its competitors and is growing revenue along multiple digital streams, rather than depending on digital ad sales to make up for the loss. Still, considering publishing ad revenues make up the largest portion of the company's total revenue, there is room for concern if the company can't grow other areas of digital growth to match or exceed the loss in print advertising revenue. The shift toward digital is most noticeable in the percent of the company's revenue coming from print advertising and circulation. According to numbers provided by Hopkins, print advertising and circulation accounted for 83 percent of Gannett's total revenue back in 2006. In 2012, print advertising and circulation accounted for only 65 percent of total revenue.
USA Today
USA Today continues to be the company's most popular news site, averaging more than 26 million unique visitors a month. USA Today also has one of the top news apps, with 17.4 million downloads across mobile devices. But both the website and app are free, and it's been a challenge for Gannett to monetize the USA Today brand outside of national print advertising, a market that is quickly moving toward digital opportunities that can reach customers in a more targeted way than USA Today's display print ads can provide.
Unlike The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, USA Today won't be propping up a paywall anytime soon.
"I don't want to charge (online) for USA Today right now; I don't think it is the right thing to do, and there is so much national news out there," said Larry Kramer, president and publisher of USA Today, who joined Gannett in May 2012. "I think we would lose more than we would gain."
One thing that has been a success for Gannett's beleaguered core product is its unique website, redesigned in 2012 to give users a more tablet-like experience. According to Wadsworth, the site is getting high marks from readers, and plans are under way to roll out a similar template across all of Gannett's newspaper websites.
"While it may not be exactly what you see on USA Today's template, I wouldn't be surprised if it's close," Wadsworth said.
One way the company is attempting to leverage USA Today's popularity into a new revenue stream is USA Today Sports Media Group. Established in August 2010 and run as a separate entity, the group pools all the sports content created by USA Today with all the local content produced by Gannett's community newspaper properties and 23 broadcast stations, as well as digital properties such as highschoolsports.net and mmajunkie.com. The group also made strategic acquisitions to help grow revenue in recent years, purchasing Big Lead Sports in January 2012 and sports photography syndicate US Presswire, which became USA Today Sports Images in December 2012.
All this in the hopes of leveraging a huge audience, nearly 23 million unique monthly users, to advertisers looking to reach sports enthusiasts at scale.
Gannett predicts that by 2015, USA Today Sports Media Group will be among the top five sports media companies in the country with more than $300 million in revenue, an expectation that Hopkins called "jaw-dropping."
"I can think of only three (Gannett) properties that generate more than $300 million in annual revenue," Hopkins said. "USA Today itself, the Arizona Republic, and CareerBuilder. And that's counting all CareerBuilder's revenue, even though Gannett only owns 53 percent of the company." Doctor said Gannett's drive toward a third major revenue source, whether it's USA Today Sports Media Group or its digital marketing services, will determine the company's long-term success.
"If you've got ad revenue declines and circulation revenue increases meeting at zero, you're still going to need a third or fourth strong business to get to the goal of sustainable revenue growth," Doctor said. "They've got to find that top-line revenue growth, and that's the key to Gannett."
Rob Tornoe is a cartoonist and columnist for Editor & Publisher and can be reached at email@example.com.


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Austin Jarman looked at a display of marimo moss balls and wondered just how they could impact aquarium water quality.
Austin Jarman looked at a display of marimo moss balls and wondered just how they could impact aquarium water quality.
His curiosity paid off after he was named one of 10 elementary school students from Onslow County who will go on to compete in the Southeastern Regional Science and Engineering Fair at Hanover Hall Gym at UNC Wilmington on Feb. 9. The Onslow County Elementary School Science Fair winners were announced Thursday after judges spent the evening viewing the 90 projects on display at Blue Creek Elementary School and talking to the 106 students who had spent their time researching and analyzing an array of topics.
Austin, a fifth grader at Parkwood Elementary School, decided on his project after a trip to the pet store.
�I saw these (marimo moss balls) in the pet store near the fish, and wondered if they would make the water clean, dirty, or if they were just decoration,� he said. �What would it do?�
He took a day to make sure the water was ready, and then took measurements for six days to find out. Austin said he found that the more light the moss ball receives, the cleaner the aquarium water will be.
Kassandra Vega, one of the third grade winners from Richlands Elementary School, did a project called �Reap what you sow,� a project measuring how plants grow in different environments.
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�I measured them every five days,� she said. �The one with the children�s vitamins grew the most.�
Her father, Maj. Romeo Cubas, came from Command Staff College in Quantico, Va., to see his daughter compete.
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Michelle Halley, director of Professional Development and Enrichment for Onslow County Schools, said she felt the science fair was excellent this year.
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The whole idea of a science fair, Halley said, is to stretch learning.
�(The projects) lets them move to the next level. It lets them see something else in the world because there�s a child in here that just might cure cancer or solve our energy problems,� she said.
The Secondary Science Fair will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, at NorthsideHigh School. Nine schools will compete and 16 projects will be selected to progress to the regional level.
For more information, contact Onslow County Schools at 910-455-2211.
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Winners of the 2013 Onslow County Elementary School Science Fair
� Skye Hansen, 4th grader at Dixon Elementary School, project: �Cool House�
� Madison Webb, 5th grader at Dixon Elementary School, project: �Dancing My Heart Out�
� Hayden Andrews and Baylor Metcalf, 3rd graders at Parkwood Elementary School, project: �Proof is in the Prints�
� Austin Jarman, 5th graders at Parkwood Elementary School, project: �Can a Marimo Moss Ball Improve Aquarium Water Quality?�
� Caroline Cubas, 3rd grader at Richlands Elementary School, project: �Vitamins and Plants�
� Kassandra Vega, 3rd grader at Richlands Elementary School, project: �Reap What You Sow�
� Brandon Allen, Richlands Elementary School, project: �The Dirty Truth about Your Gray Water�
� River Wilson, 4th grader at Sand Ridge Elementary School, project: �Wind Turbines�
� Isabel Robayo, 5th grader at Sand Ridge Elementary School, project: �How Do You Make the Best Cookie?�
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How to Burn Music CDs in Windows 10
To create a music CD with your favorite songs, create a playlist containing the CD's songs, listed in the order you want to play them; then burn the playlist to a CD. I explain how to do that in the "Creating, Saving, and Editing Playlists" section, earlier in this chapter.
But what if you want to duplicate a CD, perhaps to create a disposable copy of your favorite CD to play in your car? No sense scratching up your original. You'll want to make copies of your kids' CDs, too, before they create pizzas out of them.
Unfortunately, neither Windows Media Player nor Windows 10 offer a Duplicate CD option. Instead, you must jump through the following five hoops to create a new CD with the same songs in the same fidelity as the original CD:
Rip (copy) the music to your hard drive.
Before ripping your CD, change your burning quality to the highest quality: Click Organize, choose Options, click the Rip Music tab, and change the Format box to WAV (Lossless). Click OK.
Insert a blank CD into your writable CD drive.
In Windows Media Player's Navigation Pane, click the Music category and choose Album to see your saved CDs.
Right-click the newly ripped album in your library, choose Add To, and choose Burn List.
If your Burn List already had some listed music, click the Clear List button to clear it; then add your CD's music to the Burn List.
Click the Start Burn button.
Now, for the fine print. Unless you change the quality to WAV (Lossless) when copying the CD to your PC, Windows Media Player compresses your songs as it saves them on your hard drive, throwing out some audio quality in the process. Burning them back to CD won't replace that lost quality. If you want the most accurate duplicates Windows Media Player can handle, change the Ripping Format to WAV (Lossless).
If you do change the format to WAV (Lossless) in order to duplicate a CD, remember to change it back to MP3 afterward, or else your hard drive will run out of room when you begin ripping a lot of CDs.
A simpler solution might be to buy CD-burning software from your local office supply or computer store. Unlike Windows Media Player, most CD-burning programs have a Duplicate CD button for one-click convenience.


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A Dubai-based pizza firm has created a fridge magnet device that lets users order pizza at the touch of a button. Created by restaurant Red Tomato Pizza, the device works by syncing up with the user's smartphone. The user syncs the 'VIP Fridge Magnet' via Bluetooth with a smartphone, which they use to select their pizza order. The order is then tied to the user's account.
See how it works in the video below:
Once the user presses the button marked "Push for hunger," an order is placed with Red Tomato Pizza. In addition, a SMS confirmation is sent to the smartphone synced to the button. If the pizza was ordered on accident, the order can be canceled by sending a quick text in response.
The magnet is in the shape of a small pizza box with a lid that opens up, likely designed to avoid accidental button presses.
In an attempt to generate buzz around the launch of the 'VIP Fridge Magnet', Red Tomato Pizza has launched two videos on YouTube. The first is a mock movie trailer rated P for "Pizza Lovers Only."
Shot like a typical action or disaster movie trailer, the video shows two guys in an apartment without any food and the only thing that can save them is the fridge magnet.
The second video is more informational and depicts the technical process that's involved in placing an order with the magnet.
National pizza chains such as Domino's Pizza, Papa Johns and Pizza Hut offer smartphone apps on the iOS and Android platforms, but certainly nothing as simple as a one-click method. However, the app for Domino's Pizza does include the ability to track the progress of the order from the time it starts baking to the point when the pizza is headed out to the consumer for delivery.


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Brennan: Putting the Tiger-Sergio feud to rest
ARDMORE, Pa. -- The official, personal, long-awaited apology has now been tendered, a note left at a locker Tuesday at the U.S. Open. That's how Sergio Garcia hopes this unfortunate chapter in his career will finally come to an end, with Tiger Woods reading his handwritten letter, accepting the apology, and the both of them moving on.
It's time. It's past time, actually.
Three weeks ago at the BMW PGA Championship in England, a spat that began over an ill-timed shot in Florida reached an ugly crescendo when Garcia joked that he would "serve fried chicken" to Woods if he asked him to go to dinner at the U.S. Open.
SERGIO'S NOTE:Garcia won't talk about contents
TIGER WOODS:Focused Tiger stays the course
The racist remark rode the wave of social media across the Atlantic, forcing Garcia to apologize the next day: "My answer was totally stupid and out of place. I can't say sorry enough about that ... I feel sick about it. I'm truly, truly sorry."
But of all the sorrys he uttered, the one that is to be said directly to Woods has been the longest time coming. Garcia said that he called Woods' agent and left a message as soon as he realized what he had said. As far as we know, that's where the phone-calling ended, and the waiting began. Garcia didn't send an e-mail to be forwarded to Woods. He didn't drop a letter in the mail. He chose to wait for the two to meet face-to-face, and the next opportunity for that wouldn't be at just any old place, but at the U.S. Open at venerable Merion Golf Club.
Even then, the agonizing "I'm sorry" has taken a bit more time to be personally delivered. Garcia and Woods shook hands on the driving range Monday, but Garcia did not apologize then, even though it appeared to be the perfect opportunity. He said Tuesday he didn't want to disrupt Woods or anyone else on the range. "I was hoping to meet him after the round but he was gone … The (rainy) weather obviously didn't help," Garcia said.
Rather than being perturbed, Woods let Garcia off the hook. "We didn't discuss anything," Woods said Tuesday. "Just came up and said hi, and that was it … We haven't had time for (an apology)."
At some point Tuesday, Garcia dropped off the note for Woods in the locker room. "Hopefully he can take a look at it and it's a big week and I understand that it's difficult to meet up and stuff," Garcia said. "So hopefully I'll be able to do it. If not, at least he has read the note and he's happy with that."
So it appears we are nearing the end of a story that has gone on too long already, in which Garcia's boyish attempts at apologizing have trivialized a serious matter. Racist jokes are neither funny nor acceptable, ever, but they are even worse when they are delivered in public by a multimillionaire athletic role model towards a man who has endured similar comments in the past.
Woods, to his credit, is done with the issue, and who can blame him? He hasn't won a major in five years. It will be five years and one month if he doesn't win here, so the last thing he wants to do is spend one more moment thinking about Garcia.
"We've already gone through it all," he said. "It's time for the U.S. Open and we tee it up in two days."
Woods wants to think and talk only about golf. Don't we all?


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In the latter half of the 1700s my Cracket / Crackett relatives were agricultural labourers in the Lowick, Kyloe, Shoreswood and Norham area of North Northumberland. With the opening of pits around that area many of them moved into the mines. It is interesting to see that as old pits closed and new pits opened they migrated south en masse to the Chevington, Barrington, Bedlington and Choppington collieries. My granda George Crackett (1890-1978) grew up in the hamlet of Choppington Colliery.
This undated photo is of Barrington Colliery. I do not have a full overview of which of my Cracketts may have worked there, but one who most likely did is my granda's uncle George, born 1833 at Cornhill-on-Tweed. In the 1871 census this George Crackett is living in the hamlet of Barrington Colliery and has the occupation coal miner. (Thanks to Geoff on the facebook group: Sixtownships History Group for allowing me to borrow his photo.)


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Stanford All-America tight end Zach Ertz announced Monday afternoon that he will forgo his final season of eligibility and enter the NFL draft.
Hours later, fellow tight end Levine Toilolo did the same.
The draft-declaration double strips Stanford of two of its top playmakers: Ertz and Toilolo combined for 93 catches and 10 touchdowns.
"The Stanford (positives) speak for themselves, and I'm going to miss it," said Ertz, who is projected to be selected late in the first round or early in the second.
"I've had a lot of great experiences. But I gathered all the facts and made the decision."
Ertz, who attended Monte Vista High in Danville, declined to detail the feedback he received from the NFL draft advisory board, other than to say his projected round was "high enough."
He is a senior academically and on track to earn his degree this spring in management science and engineering.
Toilolo, who started every game along with Ertz in Stanford's two-tight-end formation, averaged 16.4 yards per catch and scored four touchdowns. He is considered an intriguing prospect because of his 6-foot-8 frame and agility.
"After much thought, prayer, and discussion with my family, I have decided to forgo my senior season of eligibility and enter the NFL draft," Toilolo said in a statement released by the school.
Without Ertz and Toilolo, Stanford could turn to freshman Luke Kaumatule for production at tight end. Fullback Ryan Hewitt, who played tight end early in his Cardinal career, is another option.
In addition to Ertz and Toilolo, the Cardinal will lose senior receivers Jamal-Rashad Patterson and Drew Terrell, along with record-setting senior tailback Stepfan Taylor. The quintet accounted for 18 of Stanford's 19 receiving touchdowns this season.
Ertz doesn't expect Stanford to miss a beat, however.
"We have a lot of talent back on offense," he said. "There's no reason the offensive line won't be the best in the country, and (quarterback) Kevin Hogan is going to be something special."
Ertz caught a team-high 69 passes this season for 898 yards and six touchdowns. He was responsible for a number of clutch plays, including the tying touchdown late in the fourth quarter of Stanford's overtime victory at Oregon.
Ertz has not picked an agent and will train for the draft workouts at California Strength in San Ramon, the same facility used by former Stanford players Ryan Whalen and Chris Owusu.
Ertz plans to withdraw from school for the winter academic quarter in order to participate in the predraft process. He will re-enroll for the spring quarter and graduate in June.


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Show business sport should finance sports for all
In an interview on the eve of the 5th World Conference of Ministers for Sport to be held in Berlin (Germany, 28-30 May 2013), Professor Jean-Loup Chappelet, internationally recognized for his work on the economics and governance of sport, discusses the economic impact of sport events. He stresses the importance of distributing the benefits of the biggest media sporting events to ensure the "public service mission" of sport, while recalling that the profits generated by these events are not shared with those who build facilities for such events.
UNESCO : While today's sport is threatened by the increase in cases of fraud at international level, it seems to be difficult to talk about the business part in sports, where does the money come from and to what end is it used? The same can be said about its distribution. Should we consider sports like any other industry?
It depends on what sport you are referring to. Professional sports, that is to say the kind of sports we watch as a show are definitely a highly profitable industry with a significant revenue. It can definitely be considered as an industry like any other for as long as the established market's rules don't ruin what makes this kind of sports entertaining: the uncertainty of the result and the beauty of the game. Sports for all, that is to say the kind of sports we practice in daily life and that don't call for media coverage, leads to economic activity as well, at least if we consider the equipment they require (such as shoes, clothing, fittings etc.), but the players and organizers are usually not interested. It is essential that the show business sport finances sports for all and that the elite encourages common people to participate in sport for its social and educational benefits. Therefore, sport holds a 'public service mission' that is delegated by the State to the local, national and international sport organizations which in turn essentially aim at fighting abuses in sport (such as doping, violence, corruption, cheating etc.) working closely with the States. The public and sport authorities need to protect a SAFE (Sustainable, Addiction-free, Fair & Ethical) sport.
How can the economic impact of sport practices and events be measured today?
For several years, there have been studies that measure the countries' gross domestic product (GDP) accounted for by sport. In Europe, sport in the broad sense, represents 2 or 3 % of the GDP. A satellite account has been developed within the national European accounts to provide a better measure of the economic dimension of sport. The sport events' benefits have been for a long time the subject of studies that focus on the economic impact, usually before the event and sometimes afterwards. These studies generally show significant economic impact expressed in millions of currency units and in thousands of jobs created. In fact, the bigger the investment made in an event the higher the figures and numbers are and as a result the greater the economic impact is. Cost-benefit analyses would be more useful to inform public authorities before they are to take a decision to support the organization of an event or not. These analyses provide information on whether the value of the total benefits of a given event (including immaterial benefits that can be monetized today) exceeds the overall estimated costs (including immaterial ones).
Would a more public way of managing sport investments and its economic impact be possible?
It is difficult to imagine such a situation. Actually, the major sport events call for significant investments from public authorities that basically make profit of these investments for many years. However, only private owners, which are usually national and international sport organizations, enjoy these events' receipts. It is true that these organizations redistribute part of their earnings to the basic sport organizations that intend to support athletes. Nevertheless, these earnings are not shared with those who build the facilities necessary for the events. In order to obtain a more public way of managing, we either need the cities and regions to own recurring events that are locally organized or to have sport organizations possess their own facilities.
Interview by Cathy Bruno-Capvert
Jean-Loup Chappelet
Jean-Loup Chappelet is Professor of Public Management at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), associated with the University of Lausanne. He lead the IDHEAP from 2003 to 2011. He is a specialist in sports organizations who has written several books and numerous scientific articles on the governance of the Olympic system and management of the Olympic Games. Board Member of the International Academy of Sports Science and Technology (AISTS) and of the Fondation Sport, Science et Société (FS3), he launched in 1995 the first course on sports management in Switzerland.


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Hours and hours of hitting little plastic golf balls and learning to make them twist and turn and bend and bounce in almost any direction.
That's one reason why golfer Bubba Watson was able to hit a shot Sunday that most duffers could never make — and do it to win this year's Masters Tournament.
But there's another reason why Watson was able to hit his ball so that it flew between two rows of spectators, under some trees, up into air, turned right and hooked toward a green about 155 yards away — all while under the intense pressure of a second sudden death playoff hole with opponent Louis Oosthuizen:
Watson, according to Golf World editor-in-chief Jaime Diaz, "sees connections where other people don't see connections. ... He solves problems in a more unique and complex way." The 33-year-old golfer from Florida, as Diaz has previously reported and as Watson himself believes, almost surely has attention-deficit disorder.
"Those really creative, different, unique shots are the product of ADD," Diaz told All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel earlier this afternoon.
As you've likely heard by now, Watson's recovery from trouble — his tee shot flew to the right of the fairway on that second playoff hole and ended up atop a bed of pine needles under some trees — was one of the most remarkable golf shots of recent years.
The swing Watson used, Diaz said, had an "inside-out-path" that produced the hook (his backswing was "inside" a theoretical straight line through the ball, while his return swing went to the outside of that line). At the bottom of the swing, Watson was able to "rotate his hands in a way he's not thinking about," to add more direction to the ball's flight, Diaz said. And it was all happening with "exceptional" club speed.
And how did he learn to do that? Not from lessons. Watson has been coached, at the University of Georgia, but is really self-taught. He learned, Diaz said, by hitting plastic balls around his back yard as a boy — "curving the ball, shaping shots," making it fly as he wished.
Then there's the ADD. In a 2009 profile of Watson, Diaz wrote about the way ADD affects the golfer and why it could be a factor in his success:
"Psychiatrist Dr. Edward Hallowell is a leading expert on ADD. ... Hallowell suspects that some of the greatest minds in history — including Einstein, Edison, Shakepeare, Mozart — had the condition, and that it enhanced their creativity. ... The reason, says Hallowell, is that people with ADD live their everyday existence in a state of jagged disorder — including a general restlessness and inability to sustain concentration — and thus hunger for structure in life. When they find an enjoyable endeavor that provides structure, they often take to it with a passion that leads them to excel. Because they are so used to adapting to disorder, they develop a heightened ability to make connections, which when unleashed within a structure can lead to extraordinary insights, solutions and innovations."
So, a combination of boyhood experimentation and a unique way of thinking about the problem he faced produced Sunday's magnificent shot. As Watson said afterward, "I've never had a dream go this far, so I can't really say it's a dream come true. ... I don't even know what happened on the back nine. ... Nervous on every shot, every putt. Went into a playoff. I got in these trees and hit a crazy shot that I saw in my head, and somehow I'm here talking to you with a green jacket on."
Haven't seen the shot yet? There's a clip of it in on the Masters' website. Not all of the ball's flight was captured by the cameras however, as Real Clear Sports explains, because Augusta National Golf Club doesn't allow those shots from blimps or camera cranes that would give good views from up high.
Much more from Robert's conversation with Diaz will be on today's All Things Considered. We'll add the as-broadcast version of the interview to the top of this post later.
Note at 8 a.m. ET, April 10: Earlier, we pointed to an ABC News video that included a clip of Watson's shot. That clip is no longer at the location we pointed to, so we've edited the post to point to the Masters' website.
I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Audie Cornish with ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
SIEGEL: Here's one measure of the difference between golf as it's played by some great professional golfers and the game that ordinary people play with golf clubs and golf courses. Ordinary people swing the club and hope that they neither hook nor slice. That is, they hope they neither pull the ball sharply nor send it spinning away from them like a foul ball into the seats on the opposite of the field.
Great professional golfers, on the other hand, look at their lie and ask themselves, do I need to hook, slice, draw, fade, hit it straight? And then they do whatever is required.
Yesterday, on the second playoff hole of the Masters, Bubba Watson, who typically hits the ball over 300 yards with his driver - that's another measure of the difference - succumbed to momentary ordinariness when he hooked his drive into the woods. He then proceeded to hit a hook on purpose that landed almost perfectly near the hole.
Golf writer Jaime Diaz, the editor of Golf World, wrote a profile of Watson for Golf Digest in 2009 and he joins us now. Welcome to the program.
JAIME DIAZ: Thanks for having me. Thank you.
SIEGEL: And the question that all my non-golfing colleagues want to know is how did Bubba Watson make the ball go up between the trees and hang a right onto the green?
DIAZ: Well, Bubba is exceptional in his creativity and with his hand-eye coordination. He learned to play golf actually hitting wiffle balls around his house in Milton, Florida, plastic golf balls, basically, which he curved by extreme amounts. He doesn't play like an ordinary professional. He plays with more movement in the ball than anyone and the way he can do that is primarily through the club-head speed that he achieves. It's exceptional. He has a very big arc, a lot of speed, a body that produces a lot of fast twitch muscles and, at the same time, he's got great hand-eye coordination and he can, you know, sort of manipulate the ball at the bottom of his swing more than most professionals.
SIEGEL: This is a golfer who, as you wrote in your profile of him, has never taken a golf lesson in his life.
DIAZ: No. He's a throwback. He's much like Sam Snead or many of the great old players from the '20s and '30s. He's almost completely self-taught and I think golf for Bubba is a lot of fun. If he were playing a more regimented game, he probably wouldn't enjoy it as much and he probably wouldn't play as well.
SIEGEL: Professional golf has been hurting to some extent since Tiger Woods' dry spell began. He recently won a tournament, then he played disappointingly in the Masters and I guess every time somebody wins, the question arises: Could this golfer - in this case, could Bubba Watson bring the mix of talent, unusual play and personality, charisma that might actually help carry the game for a few months, if not a couple of years?
DIAZ: Well, I would sort of disagree a bit that golf's in trouble or â certainly it misses Tiger at the top of the game, but in his absence, you know, there's been a greater appreciation for the players that have filled the void. You know, Rory McIlroy, for one.
And I think Bubba has this sort of almost folk hero kind of aspect to his game because it is so big and unique. And I'm not saying Bubba's going to carry the game because I think he would have a hard time feeling that kind of obligation. At the same time, I do feel that people love him and he's going to have a lot of fans.
SIEGEL: So here's a guy who has now won a couple of tournaments on the PGA Tour and now he's won a major, as they say, the Masters Tournament. And he is this wonderfully spontaneous, creative - but, as a result, perhaps also inconsistent - golfer. What does your gut say? Does he have the stuff to repeat and to win another major tournament and keep on winning or is he someone who might be, you know, satisfied enough with where he is now and not have the same juices flowing? What do you think?
DIAZ: I think before, he would just get too emotional about the disappointment and sort of, you know, just keep it at arm's length. I think, though, this is going to convince him that I really am that good. I think the issue was he didn't know how good he was and I think now he does.
SIEGEL: Well, Jaime Diaz, thanks a lot for talking with us about Bubba Watson.
DIAZ: My pleasure. Thank you.
SIEGEL: Jaime Diaz is now the editor of Golf World. He wrote a profile of the new Masters champion for Golf Digest back in 2009. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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New York, NY - February 22, 2013 - Two generations collide on the most unexpected spring break ever on "Forever Young," TV Land's new half-hour unscripted series. The six-episode series seeks to discover what happens when two different generations - five "juniors" under the age of 30 and five "seniors" over age 70 - brave the challenge of living together in the same house. "Forever Young" is from Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg's Katalyst ("Punk'd," "Beauty and the Geek") and Eyeworks USA, headed by Executive Producers JD Roth and Todd A. Nelson ("Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition"), and will premiere with two back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, April 3rd at 10pm ET/PT.
"As TV Land continues to produce original series, we are broadening our horizons and looking at both scripted and unscripted shows," said TV Land President Larry W. Jones. "'Forever Young' is the perfect example of what TV Land values in its original programming: an intriguing concept with humor and heart at its core."
"Forever Young" chronicles five seniors - Lou, Emileen, Eugene, Shirley and Arthur - and five "juniors" - Mike, Christian, Andree, Sam and Angelina - as they embark on a journey to try to identify with the other generation. Teaching seniors how to master the techniques of beer pong and explaining to juniors that you can't zoom in on a paper map may be more difficult than originally thought. Will the generation gap prove too big to cross with attitudes like "I can't learn anything from you" flowing freely in the house?
Through tasks that will bond or break them, the housemates will learn to open up and share more of themselves with their counterparts than they ever thought possible. The generations may differ in fashion, technology, lifestyle and etiquette, but they will both learn at least one thing: how to stay "Forever Young."
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We've already told you how impossible it is to win the Mega Millions lottery, but if you still want to buy it, that's fine! We support every Joe Everyperson out there having a little fun and possibly winning some money. But you people that are already rich? WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? STOP IT. JUST STOP IT.
And most of all, stop bragging about it.
We get it. $640 million dollars is a huge chunk of change for any person not named Bill Gates. But if you're already sitting on millions, how many more millions do you really need? Hey look, I won the lottery and my net worth didn't even add a zero. Oh I guess I can finally buy that yacht I already bought last week. Maybe I'll treat myself to a nice dinner at a restaurant that already treats me like a VIP. What's the point! You don't need more money! Life is good. You worked hard. You already won, let's not run up the score, yeah? Here are some of the worst offenders.
Nick Jonas, Singer
According to a gossip blog, Nick Jonas—who a quick Google search tells me is the most talented Jonas broham sandwich—was spotted buying a ticket in Manhattan earlier today. Nick, I've never listened to any of your songs but I'm sure you've had and will continue to have a financially prosperous career. Look at Justin Timberlake or... wait is JT the only boy band member to stay successful?
Matt Kemp, Baseball Player
I'm giving you a pass because you're the best player on my favorite baseball team but you just signed a $160 million contract, you got rid of Frank McShitty Owner and replaced him with Magic, you dated Rihanna and she calls you 'Rude Boy' and you're the best baseball player in the world. Your hard work will continue to pay gabillions. Please don't tweet pictures of yourself with dozens and dozens of lotto tickets that someone like me could really use.
Rob Dyrdek, Celebrity
I like you Rob Dyrdek. You did it your way. You're a deity in the skateboarding world, Rob & Big was hilarious and HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR OWN FANTASY FACTORY. There's no need to spend $700 on lottery tickets like TMZ said you did. You don't need another TV show, the one you have is awesome enough!
Chris Singleton, Basketball Player
He's a rookie basketball player for the Washington Wizards who just spent $10,000 on Mega Millions tickets. Singleton isn't NBA ball-so-hard rich but he's still definitely normal-person rich (a million dollar salary). Also: $10,000!
Damon Lindelof, Co-Creator of Lost
It's totally cool if you win the lottery if you spend all those millions shooting an ending for Lost that actually made some damn sense. Points for only buying one ticket and using 'the numbers' though.
Trey Songz, Singer
Trey, you seem like a good dude. Why make people hate you for winning the lottery when you can make everyone love you with your music?
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Why the Cypriot Deposit Tax Could Be a Good Thing
The Cypriot government has little option but to raise money through a bank deposit levy, but it may also be a good thing, argues Heard on the Street's Simon Nixon. He says taxing the current generation rather than future ones might allow Cyprus to move on more quickly. Photo: AP
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The red carpet at the Academy Awards was noticeably less stunning this year after former Oscar-winner Halle Berry canceled her appearance at the awards show. A foot injury she suffered six months ago while on set of "Cloud Atlas" was what reportedly kept her home.
Berry was scheduled to present an award with Tom Hanks. Last week, Berry was photographed wearing a bulky brace on her right foot/calf while with fiance Oliver Martinez.
It was originally reportedthat the injury occurred during a walk on an off-day from filming in Spain. It was later revealed that Berry broke her foot while running after her three-year-old daughter, Nahla, who was chasing a goat.
This isn't the first time Berry has been hurt on set. While filming "Catwoman," Berry was hit with a lighting prop and taken to the hospital. She also broke her arm on the set of "Gothika."
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After neutralizing two waves of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, feedly announced early this morning that it was experiencing yet another round of attacks.
When we opened feedly's homepage at 8:30 a.m., however, the site seemed to be up and running.
The attacks started at 2:04 a.m. PST on Wednesday, when criminals attacked the news service and held it ransom, in a way. Here's how feedly described the situation on its blog:
"Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop. We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can.
"We are working in parallel with other victims of the same group and with law enforcement.
"We want to apologize for the inconvenience. Please know that you data is safe and you will be able to re-access your feedly as soon as the attack is neutralized."
By 3:07 p.m. on Wednesday, feedly had neutralized the first wave of attacks, assuring users that none of their data had been compromised in the attack.
At 7:26 a.m. the next day, the site experience a second round of attacks. After beefing up their security measures, feedly managed to neutralize the second round by 11:30 a.m. "These criminals are determined to try to extort some money and we are determined to say no to extortion and focus on building a stronger feedly instead," they wrote. "Thanks again for your overwhelmingly positive support throughout the last 2 days."
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I guess Gov. Rick Scott includes dope dealing as one of the Florida industries he hopes to stimulate.
Scott wants to kill a prescription-drug database that would track the flow of narcotic pain killers coming from "pill mill" clinics. This will help keep thousands of dealers happily employed, ranging from the sleazy docs who hand out the narcotics to the thugs who sell them on street corners.
All the overdoses they cause will provide employment in emergency rooms, funeral homes and florist shops. And let's not forget tourism employment as dopers from all over the Southeast now travel to Florida pill mills. More heads in beds.
Let's get to work!
Pill mills have made Florida a national disgrace. Seven people die daily in this state from prescription-drug overdoses.
It's "Miami Vice" all over again, but the drug cartels are run by guys in white coats with scrip pads. They often operate out of strip shopping centers, sometimes with long lines out the door and armed guards inside. Grab your back, groan a few times and pay cash for methadone, hydrocodone and oxycodone at the phony pharmacy in the next room.
Of the top-50 prescribers of oxycodone in the nation, 49 are in Florida.
We have gone from the Sunshine State to the Pain State.
It is so outlandish that politicians and law-enforcement officials in other states have asked Florida to crack down.
Kentucky Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo sent a letter to House Speaker Larry Cretul in 2009 urging his support for the drug-database law that Scott now wants to repeal.
"The bill will give them the ability to monitor the pill factories that have popped up all throughout the state of Florida, which have impacted Kentucky health care," he said.
By impacting health care, he means Kentuckians keeling over dead from drug overdoses. They come here because Kentucky cracked down on its pill mills with a database to track their prescriptions. In 2009, the Kentucky State Police busted 500 people in a drug ring tied to South Florida pill mills.
They even have a name — pillbillies.
In Tennessee, a 63-year-old pillbilly was arrested for traveling down to Florida three times a week, returning each time with 1,000 oxycodone pills.
Like Kentucky, Tennessee has implemented a drug database. It has been a big success. Between 2007 and 2009, the number of controlled-substance prescriptions in Tennessee dropped from 17 million to 15.2 million.
You can bet that Florida pill mills largely make up that difference.
The database not only flags drug dealers looking for product to sell, but it also flags the doctors providing it to them and drug addicts who go doctor shopping for drugs. With the database, doctors and pharmacies can check a patient's history of narcotic prescriptions.
The Florida Legislature approved a database in 2009. The vote in the Senate was unanimous. The vote in the House was 113-10.
After suffering delays, the database is scheduled to go into operation soon. It has been endorsed by the legitimate pain-management industry and pharmaceutical companies, both of which are anxious to end this public-relations disaster.
The cops want it. The state Board of Medicine wants it. Thirty-eight states have implemented it so far.
And here is the kicker: It doesn't cost state government a dime, so Scott can't even justify his actions with that rationale. It all is funded by donations and fees.
So what is Scott's excuse for opposing it? He says this isn't the job of state government.
Huh? Fighting drug dealers isn't the job of government? Well, then, let's cut every police department by 40 percent and close half our jails.
And someone better tell newly elected Attorney General Pam Bondi. Soon after taking office, she made cracking down on pill mills her first headline-grabbing issue. She hired Dave Aronberg, a former state senator who pushed the database legislation, as her special counsel in charge of pill mills.
You might think Scott would have called her with a heads-up. Instead, judging by the response from her office, Scott completely blindsided her, just as he blindsided House Speaker Dean Cannon on SunRail.
Scott has gone from alienating Republican legislators to alienating Republican Cabinet members.
He is making it increasingly impossible for his fellow Republicans to back him. This is one governor who doesn't consider governing a collaborative effort.
Mike Thomas can be reached at 407-420-5525 or email@example.com.
Rick Scott is being a real pill about drug-sales database
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Jan. 8, 2010
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - A seven-minute scoring drought in the second half cost Santa Clara a chance at an upset win in its West Coast Conference opener, losing to San Diego 60-44 Friday at the Jenny Craig Pavilion.
Santa Clara (2-14, 0-1 WCC) - who led by five at halftime - shot 24.1 percent in the second half, making just 7-of-29 shots.
USD (9-6, 1-0 WCC) received a game-high 15 points from Sam Child and a number of timely 3s from Morgan Woodrow to outscore Santa Clara 19-5 over the final five minutes.
The Toreros consistently double-teamed SCU's Lena Gipson, limiting the All-WCC power forward to six shot attempts.
"Lena's going to see that all year," said Santa Clara head coach Jennifer Mountain when asked about USD's defensive strategy. "We had players with open looks and they didn't go down."
Alyssa Shoji's trey pulled SCU within five, 45-40, with 5:41 left, then Child connected on a mid-range jumper and Woodrow rattled-in a 3 at the top of the key to give the Toreros its then-largest lead at 10, 50-40.
It would prove too much for a cold shooting Broncos team to overcome with three minutes remaining.
Shoji led all Bronco scorers with 13. Freshman Meagan Fulps added nine - all in the first half. Gipson finished with eight points and nine rebounds.
Santa Clara plays Bay Area rival St. Mary's in Moraga Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Senior Maggie Goldenberger returned to the lineup after missing the past five games with an ankle injury ... it marked the 55th all-time meeting between the two West Coast schools, SCU leads the series 30-25 ... Santa Clara got to the free throw line 15 times in the first half, making 12, compared to going 0-5 from the line in the second half ... Santa Clara's 44 points was a season low.


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Why's that then?
Such is life.
Obviously you missed my "Developers Beware" thread about a week or two ago.
SP2 - just fixes old bugs and prob creates a whole slew of new and exciting ones which will be fixed by SP3 but since SP3 will also create bugs and totally crash your system, SP4 will be released...and then when MS figures out that XP sucks at its very core they will redesign the GUI, add some controls, and call it a new OS even though its built on the same crappy XP core they hated in the first place.
If you're a developer in need to test for compatibility with SP2, then... well, duh.
Wait... so, you're saying Windows isn't 1337?