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A preference center can be one of your best allies as you work to create more lasting and useful relationships with your customers, but it's also one of the trickiest to pull off.
I've spoken with many marketers and industry pundits who say preference centers are a waste of time because they don't generate enough actionable data or customer activity to merit the effort they take to develop and maintain. If you're one of them, should you shutter your preference center efforts and go back to the drawing board?
Nope. You just need to figure out where you went wrong and fix it.
Below is my list of the mistakes I see marketers making most often. Many are relatively easy to fix. Once you get your preference center tuned up, it can help create a better customer experience and improve your data collection.
Before we dive into the common mistakes I see, let's get on the same definitional page of what I mean by a "preference center." I classify preference centers into the following four types:
1) Opt-in (presented when someone is asked to join your email database)
2) Update (when someone clicks a link such as "Update Preferences")
3) Opt-out (similar to the update but designed specifically to offer alternatives to unsubscribing such as decreased frequency, snoozing subscriptions, etc.)
4) Purchase/Account Registration (designed mainly to be used in account registration or the purchase process; email subscriptions are a typical option in this process).
Secondly, I'd like you to think beyond the current concept of a preference center, where data collection is based solely on subscribers providing demographic information and specifying their interests and preferences for newsletters, product categories, frequency, channel, etc.
The new preference center incorporates behavioral data that customers generate through Web browsing, purchasing, email activity and even offline engagements that tie into subscription data through the email address or other keys.
The new preference center is not just what is transparent to the subscriber, but also includes the "preferences" they provide through "what they do, not just what they say."
OK, so let's dive into the four categories of preference center mistakes:
Why it's important: Preference data is often the only information you have on your customers until they start browsing, buying, clicking or downloading. Your preference options must help customers tailor and manage their own shopping or information-seeking experiences but also help you create more relevant messages and learn more about your customers.
Often, preference data is the first or only information you have until your customers start browsing, buying, clicking or downloading.
MISTAKE #1: Capturing only the email address. Yes, you sign up more customers by getting them into your database swiftly, but you're sacrificing data richness for speed.
The fix: Use a two-step opt-in process, short form, or progressive form to capture data beyond the email address.
MISTAKE #2: Asking for too much information. This can be fatal for form completion rates, especially if your customer is on a smartphone.
The fix: If what you ask for doesn't provide some recognizable value or choice to the subscriber, get the data another way. What kinds of data do you really need to segment or target?
MISTAKE #3: Not incorporating behavior. What your customers say and what they actually do are two essential parts of the data equation. You need both to create the most accurate customer picture and deliver on the promise of the right-time, right-place message.
The fix: Incorporate behavior with preference data in your marketing database. A simple example: A prospect browses your website and shows clear interest in one product category over another. Perhaps you don't explicitly ask for this preference during registration, or you make it an optional field.
Using Web Tracking, you can connect this new subscriber's pre-registration Web behavior to her email address and, in essence, fill in some form fields for her based on behavior.
MISTAKE #4: Collecting data that you don't use: Age-restricted businesses aside, you're wasting my time if you ask me for my birthdate but don't use the information to send me a birthday email or send me content or offers based on my age.
The fix: Review your forms, and get rid of any outdated or unnecessary fields. Find other ways to capture this data when you need it or have a plan to roll out a new program down the road.
MISTAKE #5: Using your preference center to survey customers. Don't confuse your preference center with a survey form asking for opinions or detailed comments.
The fix: If you need richer, deeper input from your customers and new subscribers, ask for it with surveys promoted in your onboarding and standalone emails. These surveys are a great way to not only capture feedback but also interests and demographics that can then be used in your "hidden" preference center.
MISTAKE #6: Not explaining why you're asking for certain kinds of data. Asking for sensitive or identifying information (age, household income), especially from new customers who haven't trusted you with previous purchases or interactions, can make them abandon your opt-in or registration process.
The fix: Add a plain-language explanation why you need this information at the point where you're asking for it in the form. Explain what you'll do with it and how you'll protect your customer's information. Link to your privacy policy, too.
Why it's important: Your preference center has to show immediate value and be easy to negotiate on any screen size or device, whether customers want to update or expand on their profile and preferences. If not, customers won't use it, and you won't get the data you need.
MISTAKE #7: Showing every list your have in your email program: I recently clicked the "Update Profile" link on a retailer's email and was taken to a preference center that displayed more than 100 lists – many with embarrassing, internally focused names. Imagine seeing that on your smartphone screen. Automatic fail!
The fix: Some email software services automatically show every list you have as an option on your preference page. You need to override this and create a custom preference center that only presents the email and other channel options that they currently subscribe to or are logical options for them.
MISTAKE #8: Omitting alternatives to unsubscribing: People might think unsubscribing is their only option if they want to update their email address or change preferences. Your preference center should make it super easy to opt out, but just as easy to remain subscribed by making other changes to their subscription preferences or profile.
The fix: Add alternatives to unsubscribing such as changing the subscriber's email address; receiving fewer or different newsletters or emails; pausing or snoozing their subscription for weeks or months; and receiving communications via other channels such as SMS, direct mail and social channels. Individually, these options may only reduce opt-outs by a small percentage, but in total they can help you take a decent bite out of list churn and inactivity.
MISTAKE #9: Requiring a login/password or multiple clicks to act. In the United States, CAN-SPAM prohibits requiring logins or passwords to complete the unsubscribe process.
The fix: Remove your barriers immediately for people who want to unsubscribe. Make sure that things like account profiles and communications are managed separately from regular email subscriptions. Include a link to the account login for those who want to change information associated with their account.
MISTAKE #10: Requiring subscribers to enter basic information you collected before. You already have this information — don't make customers do unnecessary work.
The fix: Prepopulate forms when users click through from your emails. Even better, use progressive forms and show only the information needed in the context of the form or registration process.
MISTAKE #11: Offering outdated options such as "HTML versus Text." 2003 called to say you don't have to offer this anymore, since nearly every desktop browser and most smartphones render HTML well enough to impart the most important parts of your message.
The fix: Remove this and similar outdated or marginally supported (RSS, etc.) fields from your preference center.
MISTAKE #12: Sending subscribers, regardless of intent, to the same preference center page. If someone clicks "Change Email Address" in your email, you don't want to send them to your unsubscribe-focused page where the first option they see is, "Do you want to unsubscribe?"
The fix: Create different variations of your preference center based on which goal and link your subscriber clicked, such as "Unsubscribe" versus "Updating Email Address" or "Change Frequency."
MISTAKE #13: Omitting a "global" unsubscribe. In the United States, CAN-SPAM requires you to enable subscribers to opt out of all company mailings, not just the message they are attempting to unsubscribe from.
The fix: Add this option to your unsubscribe page. It's a good idea even if you aren't subject to CAN-SPAM.
MISTAKE #14: Not setting expectations or explaining your email program's value. Yeah, you came up with a cute name for your daily deals email. But does that creative name explain to subscribers why they should sign up or what they can expect from your emails?
The fix: Add copy to your opt-in preference center that lists what subscribers can expect from your email program, including frequency, content, even appearance (for example, post a thumbnail image and link to a sample newsletter). Most importantly, answer that perennial question: "What's in it for me?"
MISTAKE #15: Making every field required. Really, you need my birth date or zip code so I can receive your daily deals email?
The fix: Require only the most essential data you need for your broadcast and triggered messages. Use progressive profiling, surveys or invitations to return to the preference center to fill out more fields.
MISTAKE #16: No regular audit, update plan or maintenance. If you haven't looked at your preference center in the last 12 months, you won't know if all parts are still working and up to date – and are risking serious issues if the opt-out process is broken.
The fix: Institute a regular monthly audit of your preference center links in your email and processes and options in your preference center. I've yet to see the perfect preference center, so create a plan to take your preference center from point A to point B over the course of several months, for example. Tackle different aspects each month until you get to that perfect state.
Why it's important: Besides offering the right mix of variables, your preference center must be easy to use, no matter what kind of screen or device your customer is using to access it.
MISTAKE #17: Not mobile-friendly. Your preference center probably was built for desktops. Look at it on a mobile device. Ouch!
The fix: Work with your email design team to develop a preference center that works well on all the key mobile devices and screen sizes but doesn't degrade the desktop experience.
MISTAKE #18: Using your ESP's default form. Defaults don't provide branding or offer the unique experience customers expect from you. Nor do they collect information that's relevant to your specific business.
The fix: Use the default as a starting point if you absolutely must, but add branding, content and imagery that clearly identifies it as unique to your company as soon as you can.
MISTAKE #19: Using a one-click unsubscribe. I'm all for making it incredibly easy for subscribers to opt out, but a one-click process makes it too easy and provides no alternatives to unsubscribing.
The fix: If your default setting is a one-click unsubscribe, create even a simple preference center out of the gate and at least enable a subscriber to change their email address in addition to opting out.
MISTAKE #20: Obscuring the preferences link in your regular email formats. I find it hard to believe that some marketers still think making an unsubscribe link hard to find (e.g., buried location and light gray and tiny font) will keep people on their lists. Those are the people who go inactive or hit the "spam" button because they don't see how to unsubscribe.
The fix: Highlight – don't hide – the different options in your emails. Call out key options such as "Change Email Address," "Unsubscribe," "Receive Fewer Emails," etc. Use an appropriate font size and color that makes the links easy to find.
MISTAKE #21: Confusing layout and navigation. Maybe your page layout wasn't originally designed with the user in mind, or you added on so many new functions and sections that it became unworkable.
The fix: Whatever the reason, if your preference center layout has become a hot mess, it's time to redesign. Focus on ease of completion, making your most important data fields easy to find and organized in logical categories or layouts.
Hopefully no marketers are making all 21 mistakes I've outlined, but many of you are probably making at least a few. Pick the most critical mistakes you're making and commit to getting them fixed in time for the holiday busy season.
Related Resources:
1) White Paper: "Unsubscribe Best Practices: How to Decrease Database Churn and Strengthen Your Marketing Program"
2) Video: "The New Preference Center"
3) Blog: "5 Ways to Enhance Your Preference Center"
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Kevin Zelnio and John Abraham Discuss Climate Change
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has released new temperature norms based on 30 year historical data. These are the "normals" that meteorologists compare the days' weather to the mean for any particular day. The temperature norms are higher than they were ten years ago, and ten years ago the norms were higher than those of the prior decade. Denialism has to be very strong in a person in order to pretend that the global climate is not getting warmer. The data accumulate in the air and in the sea, and on land and indicate with very little uncertainty that human activity is the leading cause of global warming. This is the scientific consensus. The seas are showing the effects of warmer water, as the level of carbonic acids absorbed into the water are having a dangerous effect on the biosphere under the waves. Reefs are bleaching.
At a time when solutions need to be discussed in the public, scientists are facing an increasingly shrill level of "debate" and denial from those who claim that they are alarmists who are crying fire in a crowded theater when there is no need to worry. Denialists claim the atmosphere is too big and chaotic for us mere humans to have an effect.
Those of us who are familiar with creationism's means and methods recognize the tactical similarities between creationism and global warming denialism. Our guests for this show are Dr. John Abraham and Kevin Zelnio.
John Abraham is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics) at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, He responded to a presentation made by Chrisopher Monckton at Bethel University. Monckton is a leading denialist who has many convinced that scientists are lying about global warming, but Abraham showed how this charge is false.
Kevin Zelnio is a science journalist and blogger at Scientific American Blogs and at Deep Sea News. He has written on the effects of the change in climate on the ocean (and our fisheries,) in addition to far-ranging subjects involving sea invertebrates . Greg Laden and Mike Haubrich will co-host today's show.
To Catch a Fallen Sea Angel by Kevin Zelnio
Climate-Science Smackdown, Pt 2 , by Casey Selix
Abraham Reply to Monckton by John Abraham
Confronting Climate Contrariansim II: Methane in the Atmoshpere by Kevin Zelnio
Global Warming Denialism? It Ends Now. by Greg Laden
Atheists Talk is produced with funding from the Minnesota Atheists, the Humanists of Minnesota and the generous support of our members and donors. We also wish to thank Q. Cumbers restaurant for purchasing on-air advertising and for providing a great place to eat and gather.
Today's show is produced and directed by Mike Haubrich
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I got on the mp3 train in 2005 with Creative Labs gear, slowly upgrading until I discovered 24 bit.
Now I am on the lookout for a decent 24/192 DAP.
Seems like FIIO X5 is a good deal, although second hand AK 100 or 120 would do the job even better and would probably be inside my budget limits.
At he moment I am mostly using my Cowon D2+ on the go for 16 bit stuff, sometimes my SGN3, paired with SE 420 or Phonak 121 (or 122 - not sure, it is white anyway:-)).
For high quality at home I use MBPr with AKG 550 and BD DT 440.
Well, Beyerdynamic usually is just lying around, sometimes my wife uses it, when she watches her TV series on her computer, haha!
(Good thing that her head is too small for the AKGs, otherwise I would have fight with her over the phones...)
AKG is so much better for me and I got now craving for even higher quality...
Anyway I would be glad to get in contact with HeadFiers in Switzerland and elsewhere.
I will not make it to the next meet in Vienna on June 15th, not with a baby coming in 5 weeks or so, but later i would love to meet some people with Golden Ears :-)
Cheers and good listening!


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During the General Assembly at the Bar's Annual Convention, outgoing President Eugene Pettis honored the following lawyers with President's Awards of Merit:
* Jay Cohen, the senior partner in The Law Office of Jay Cohen, P.A., Trial Attorneys in Ft. Lauderdale. He has been on the Board of Governors since 2008 and has chaired board committees for Legislation, Program Evaluation, Budget, and Disciplinary Review.
"For your outstanding leadership of the Vision 2016 Commission and the Board of Governors Legislation Committee and for your service on The Florida Bar Board of Governors. Your contributions deserve the highest commendation and abundant gratitude. "
* Renée Thompson, a partner at Mateer & Harbert, P.A., practicing in the Ocala office as a civil litigator handling commercial litigation and equine law matters. "For extraordinary service and dedication as chair of the Wm. Reece Smith, Jr., Leadership Academy Committee, 2013-2014.Your dedicated efforts to shape my vision of the Leadership Academy program into an outstanding opportunity for Florida Bar members is deserving of the legal profession's highest respect and appreciation."
* Grier Wells, a shareholder in the Jacksonville office of Gray Robinson, Attorneys at Law, where he practices trial law and has been on the Board of Governors since 2002. "For your wealth of leadership on a multitude of issues, particularly the Clients' Security Fund administration, and for your years of dedicated service and many contributions as a member of The Florida Bar Board of Governors from 2002 – 2014. Your contributions deserve the highest commendation and abundant gratitude."
* Frank Scruggs, a partner with Berger Singerman in Ft. Lauderdale, where he litigates employment and commercial disputes, including class actions, and advises companies and executives regarding employment law compliance. For extraordinary leadership as chair of The Florida Bar President's Special Task Force to Study Enhancement of Diversity in the Judiciary and on the JNCs, and for your legacy of public service to our Bar and to the citizens of Florida. Your dedication is deserving of the legal profession's highest respect and appreciation."
* Annie Sasso, daughter of BOG member Andy Sasso and Robyn Sasso, recipient of a Special President's Award. "These days we rush through our lives and don't take time to realize that there are some individuals who truly make our lives special. We stay so busy with work and meetings and events that, very often, we really need to pause and recognize the angels among us. For the past eight years that I have served on the board, there has been an angel among us at every meeting and I pause now as a privilege of my presidency to give her an award. She has been a wonderful friend to me and to Sheila and so many others." Her trophy says: "For your friendship, your encouragement, and your inspiration to all members of The Florida Bar Board of Governors."
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Cultures of Resistance (educational)
- Directed by: Iara Lee
- Produced by: George Gund
Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, traveling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story; from Iran, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting government repression, to Burma, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to Brazil, where musicians reach out to slum kids and transform guns into guitars, and ending in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard. Featuring Medellín poets for peace, Capoeira masters from Brazil, Niger Delta militants, Iranian graffiti artists, women's movement leaders in Rwanda, Lebanon's refugee filmmakers, U.S. political pranksters, indigenous Kayapó activists from the Xingu River, Israeli dissidents, hip-hop artists from Palestine, and many more, CULTURES OF RESISTANCE explores how art and creativity can be ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.
- ETHIOPIA / ADDIS ABABA, Audience Award, Addis International Film Festival
- USA / CA, Best Documentary, Tiburon International Film Festival
- INDIA / JAIPUR, Green Rose Award, Jaipur International Film Festival
- BENIN / OUIDAH, Python Audience Prize, Jury Special Mentions, Ouidah International Film Festival
- UKRAINE / KIEV, Best Documentary on Human Rights, Steps International Film Festival
- USA / NY, Best Documentary, 2nd Place, Buffalo International Film Festival
- USA / NV, Golden Reel Award Winner, Nevada Film Festival
- USA / GA, Best Documentary Feature, Atlanta Underground Film Festival
- USA / UT, Best Documentary Feature, Red Rock Film Festival
- USA / CA, Love & Encouragement Award, SURGE Film Festival
- Alison R., Palestine
"Humanity is at a critical juncture. Rapid advancements in technology—including ever-more-menacing weapons of war and tools of hyper-consumption—have lured us toward self-destruction. At the same time, advances in global media and telecommunications have made us more conscious than ever of our connections to people around the world. Today, we can act and react in ways never before imagined. Now more than ever each individual, making his or her own creative contribution, can make a difference. Cultures of Resistance seeks to show that—to paraphrase activist Marian Wright Edelman—democracy is not a spectator sport. It is our responsibility to realize our potential and create positive change."


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Swimmer who lost legs and lower arms to meningitis poised for Paralympics
PUBLISHED: 07:00 15 December 2011 | UPDATED: 13:15 15 December 2011
Paul Dolphin
A FORMER Cambridge schoolgirl who lost her legs and lower arms after being struck down with meningitis 14 years ago this Christmas is on track to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympic Games.
Getting up to swim at 5am before beginning the school day at Chesterton Community College, it was always determined Helen Dolphin's goal to compete in the Olympics.
And in the year the Games come to London, Helen – a former Anglia News reporter better known by her maiden name Helen Smith – could realise her dream if she is successful at the British Gas Swimming Championships at the Olympic pool in Stratford in March.
Swimming without her two prosthetic legs and arm, Helen is training five times a week to shave a crucial 15 seconds off her current time in the 200m freestyle.
She said: "I was swimming as a teenager as I thought I'd be in the Olympics so it was my ambition even then.
"I've always enjoyed swimming which is lucky as it is one of the few sports I can do now."
She added: "I hope I have inspired people not to give up as a lot of people have awful things happen to them but there is still a lot you can do."
Helen's parents, Richard and Gill Smith of Little Abington, were told to expect the worst following an ill-fated Boxing Day in 1997 when Helen, now 36, was misdiagnosed by a GP as having flu.
The following day Helen and her family were travelling home to Cambridge from her aunt and uncle's house in Herefordshire and had to make frequent stops for Helen to be sick.
She later noticed little blood blisters across her face but thought nothing of it. But as she became sicker and sicker, her mum called another doctor who diagnosed food poisoning and gave Helen a pain killing injection.
She then started to slip in and out of consciousness and Mrs Smith called a third doctor.
"The last time I walked with my own two legs was into the ambulance," said Helen.
At Addenbrooke's Hospital it became apparent that Helen had the deadly form of meningitis – meningoccocal septicaemia – and a medical emergency was declared as her body began shutting down with her breathing and kidneys failing.
Her heart needed stronger and stronger drugs to maintain any blood pressure and her skin turned black from head to toe.
Septicaemia – or blood poisoning – had set in and Helen's lower legs and hands were amputated in order to save her life.
A month later Helen came out of a coma.
She remembers little of being told she had lost her limbs as she was so ill and spent the following months and years undergoing more than 100 operations including having more of her limbs removed due to gangrene.
"I thought that I was paralysed from my neck downwards as I couldn't move and originally thought I'd been in a road accident," she said.
"I was in hospital where they did everything for you so the implications of losing my limbs hadn't set in. My parents had to tell me numerous times because I was so ill and didn't remember a huge amount."
Helen was studying for a PhD in London at the time and decided not to return to the capital – mainly because she was having surgery at Addenbrooke's almost weekly.
Instead she stayed at her parents' former home in Tavistock Road, off Histon Road, Cambridge, and took an A-level in English literature at Long Road Sixth Form College to help focus her mind after what she described as becoming "institutionalised in hospital".
Unable to do many of the pastimes she previously enjoyed including playing the piano and running, Helen was unable to swim until she had sufficiently recovered from her numerous operations.
"I couldn't do any exercise, even walk, which was quite horrible and I didn't want to be really unfit and overweight," she said.
"So as soon as I could I went with my mum to the pool at Impington Village College,
"I thought it was going to be easier than it was. But instead I jumped in but sank like a stone to the bottom. My mum thought I was messing about but I felt like I was drowning.
"Then I tried swimming on my back which was easier and now my favourite stroke is front crawl as it's all in the arms. I just carried on and trained even harder."
Helen's first paid employment after her illness saw her working for fellow amputee and former wife of Paul McCartney, Heather Mills, at her charity the Heather Mills Foundation which recycles prosthetic limbs.
The former Hills Road Sixth Form College student then went on to make a series of programmes for Anglia News and secured a journalist traineeship at the organisation.
Currently working at the Norfolk-based charity Disabled Motoring UK as its director of policy and campaigns, Helen also writes a column for the publication Motoring – Disability Now in addition to sitting on the Government quango the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee.
Driving an automatic car with hand controls, she is passionate about disabled people maintaining their independence.
"That's one of the things the charity I work for does – help people who have become disabled to get driving again," she said.
Helen is supportive of a number of charities including Canine Partners, which has provided her with an assistance dog, Meningitis Trust, Meningitis Research Foundation and the Limbless Association.
She married Paul Dolphin, her partner of five years, last year.


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In Dudley, Massachusetts, some residents are opposing an Islamic cemetery because they claim their water could become contaminated.
New Englanders Pray For Three Muslim Students Slain in North Carolina
Tuesday's killing in North Carolina of three Muslim students is now being investigated by the FBI as a hate crime. They were allegedly shot by a neighbor. Many New Englanders are responding to their deaths with prayer and discussion.
Mass Bar Exam Adjusts Rules on Headscarfs
Massachusetts no longer requires people taking the bar exam to get advance permission to wear something on their heads for religious or medical reasons.


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Casey and Toomey, together again
As part of a trend that started last year, U.S. Sens. Bob Casey and Pat Toomey plan to sit together again Tuesday for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
They first did it when Mr. Toomey took office last January.
If you watch the two senators together, as I did last week at U.S. District Judge Robert Mariani's swearing-in ceremony, they seem to genuinely get along, despite deep, deep philosophical differences.
"Pennsylvanians want their lawmakers to work together to solve problems," Mr. Casey said in a statement accompanying the announcement they would sit together again. "Over the past year, Sen. Toomey and I have collaborated on a host of issues important to our constituents. I look forward to sitting next to Sen. Toomey at this year's State of the Union address and to continuing our work on behalf of the Commonwealth in the spirit of bipartisanship throughout the year."
Mr. Toomey said, "I am pleased to sit with my colleague from Pennsylvania, Sen. Bob Casey. As the second session of the 112th Congress begins, sitting next to each other is a small but worthwhile step toward setting a civil and cooperative tone for the challenging work ahead of us."


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THURSDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- College football scouts tend to seek high school football players who are bigger and faster than the rest, according to new research.
The study, published in the May issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, revealed that the three most consistent factors identifying high school players who were "highly recruited" by college scouts were height, weight and sprint speed.
After analyzing the scouting data on 2,560 high school football players, the researchers found that, on average, the top-ranked players -- those earning a four- to five-star ranking -- were about one inch taller and five pounds heavier than those with two- and three-star rankings. In addition, their average 40-yard sprint time was 4.76 seconds, which was 0.08 seconds faster than recruits of lower rankings.
Overall, 40-yard sprint times were important for all 10 player positions and explained almost a quarter of the variation in star rankings. Recruitment for seven of the 10 positions could be predicted by a player's height and weight. The ranking of those playing tight end was also often predicted by vertical jump height.
"Over the past three decades, football players have become bigger, faster, stronger and more powerful," study author Jamie J. Ghigiarelli, of Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., said in a news release from the journal's publisher. "The results may help strength and conditioning specialists better understand the anthropometric and physical attributes that distinguish highly recruited from recruited players, and which attributes are likely to predict higher star value scores."
More information
The American Academy of Pediatrics has information on training and specialization in young athletes.
SOURCE: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, news release, May 19, 2011
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Accident Near Le Mars Claims Life Of Sergeant Bluff Man
Date posted - October 2, 2012
Le Mars, Iowa — Authorities have now released the name of the man who was killed in the accident near Le Mars early Tuesday morning.
The Plymouth County Sheriff's Office reports that about 5:20 AM, they received a 911 call about a vehicle in the ditch along Highway 75, just south of the NIPCO intersection.
When Plymouth County Deputies got there, they found the victim, 36-year-old Scott Charles Jacobsen of Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, was still in the vehicle and had life-threatening injuries. They called for an ambulance and the fire department.
The investigation indicates that the vehicle was northbound on Highway 75 and as it approached the curve, the driver lost control of the vehicle and it entered the east ditch, where it rolled several times. The vehicle was a 2009 Toyota Camry.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene and the body was transported to Floyd Valley Hospital for further examination by Dr. Holcomb, Plymouth County Medical Examiner.
The investigation continues.
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A feria (Latin for "free day") was a day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged to work, and on which there were no court sessions. In ancient Rome the feriae publicae, legal holidays, were either stativae (recurring regularly, e.g. the Saturnalia), conceptivae (i.e. movable), or imperativae (i.e. appointed for special occasions).
When Christianity spread, on the feriae (feasts) instituted for worship by the Church, the faithful were obliged to attend Mass; such assemblies gradually led, for reasons both of necessity and convenience, to mercantile enterprise and market gatherings which the Germans call Messen, and the English fairs. They were fixed on saints' days (e.g. St Bartholomew's Fair in London, St Germanus's fair, St Wenn's fair, etc.).
In the Roman Rite liturgy, the term feria is used to denote days of the week other than Sunday and Saturday. Various reasons are given for this terminology. The sixth lesson for December 31 in the pre-1962 Roman Breviary says that Pope Sylvester I ordered the continuance of the already existing custom "that the clergy, daily abstaining from earthly cares, would be free to serve God alone". Others believe that the Church simply Christianized a Jewish practice. The Jews frequently counted the days from their Sabbath, and so we find in the Gospels such expressions as una Sabbati and prima Sabbati, the first from the Sabbath. The early Christians reckoned the days after Easter in this fashion, but, since all the days of Easter week were holy days, they called Easter Monday, not the first day after Easter, but the second feria or feast day; and since every Sunday is the dies Dominica, a lesser Easter day, the custom prevailed to call each Monday a feria secunda, and so on for the rest of the week. The only modern language that fully preserves this Latin ecclesiastical style of naming weekdays is Portuguese, which uses the terms segunda-feira, etc. Greek uses very similar terms, but without the Latin-derived feira.
A day on which no saint is celebrated is called a feria (and the celebration is referred to as ferial, the adjectival form of feria). In the present form of the Roman Rite, certain ferias, especially those of Lent, exclude celebration of memorials occurring on the same day, though the prayer of the memorial may be used in place of that of the feria, except on Ash Wednesday and in Holy Week, which exclude even solemnities and feasts.
The Code of Rubrics of Pope John XXIII (1960) divided ferias into four classes:[1]
Class I: Ash Wednesday and the whole of Holy Week.
Class II: Advent from 17 December to 23 December and Ember Days.
Class III: Lent and Passiontide from the day after Ash Wednesday to the day before the Second Sunday in Passiontide, excluding Ember Days.
Class IV: all other ferias.
In pre-1960 forms of the Roman Rite, ferias were divided into major and minor. The major ferias, which required at least a commemoration even on the highest feast days, were the ferias of Advent and Lent, the Ember days, and the Monday of Rogation week; all others were called minor.


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In this excerpt from The Macro Show this morning, Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough responds to a subscriber's question on investing in a world riddled with global central bank interventionism.
In this excerpt from The Macro Show this morning, Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough responds to a subscriber's question on investing in a world riddled with global central bank interventionism.
Takeaway: Whatever the Fed decides to do or say today, this week's industrial production and retail sales data reaffirms our dour US economic outlook.
Investors are waiting with bated breath for the FOMC statement and Janet Yellen's testimony. Unfortunately, no matter what the Fed does or Yellen says today, the Fed is not omnipotent and cannot arrest economic gravity.
Case in point... today's industrial production number which yet again affirms our view that sections of the U.S. economy are already in recession.
Or how about Retail Sales? That too was disappointing.
(...That's just this week's data.)
We've got a 73-page slide deck laying out our view that U.S. economic growth is stalling. Here's a taste:
But why pay attention to all of this when Janet Yellen is simply going to tell us it's "all good" at 2:30PM ET?
Takeaway: Flying Blind + Blind Faith = a great SHORT selling combination...
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Chipotle (CMG) is on our Hedgeye Restaurants Best Ideas list as a SHORT.
Even with a disastrous sales update after the close, we still feel like we're fighting an uphill battle on the CMG short call, but make no mistake, our conviction level is very high! The CMG management team is flying blind and has no practical experience in recovering from one of the greatest foodborne illness disasters ever experienced by a restaurant company. That opinion and the blind faith the street has put in this management team makes for a great SHORT selling combination.
In part, our conviction level remains high because the company was experiencing growth related issues in 3Q15, prior to the company's 4Q15 sales related issues. Bottom line, CMG should have slowed unit growth following the 3Q15 earnings and not accelerated it! The three biggest problems the company faced then and still face today are:
Taken together, all three suggest significantly lower returns and an increased likelihood that the company will not get the units open on time, or will compromise the quality of the openings to meet Wall Street expectations.
The other key to the SHORT case...
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Takeaway: February Housing Starts bounced off easy sequential and Y/Y comps, but softening builder confidence (HMI 58) bodes poorly.
Our Hedgeye Housing Compendium table (below) aspires to present the state of the housing market in a visually-friendly format that takes about 30 seconds to consume.
Today's Focus: February Housing Starts & Permits
We knew this morning's Starts data for February was going to be solid; Base effects were exceedingly easy given severe weather last year and seasonals were equally supportive as each of the last two years saw weather depressed Februaries give way to rebound strength in April/May (see 1st chart below). Next month's March data should benefit from a similar dynamic.
So, we successfully hurdled the easy comp, now what?
The answer carries some duration sensitivity:
On balance, the data mosaic across housing continues to support our negative outlook. As the data stands, we would not view slowing HPI, decelerating volume growth in the existing market, flatlined Starts activity and negative 2nd derivative trends in New Home Sales and Builder Confidence as a particularly bullish fundamental factor constellation, especially heading into the seasonally tough 2Q/3Q equity performance periods (see last 2 charts below).
About Housing Starts & Permits:
The US Census Bureau records the number of new housing units that have obtained permits for construction and those that have begun construction. This data includes new buildings intended primarily as residential units. The US Census Bureau defines a start as, "Start of construction occurs when excavation begins for the footings or foundation of a building."
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Takeaway: We don't think WSM is a short. But with 50% of growth appearing to slow materially, we wouldn't touch WSM ahead of the print on either side.
Despite a 35% draw down from peak-to-tough, a less than impressive performance in the 'junk rebound rally' we're seen over the past six weeks, AND a generally positive predisposition toward the name longer-term, we simply can't get excited about WSM over the near-term.
Yes, there are a few positive factors – let's get those out of the way.
1) The RH blowup earlier this quarter was much less about macro and more about execution hiccups/burps/projectile vomiting associated with launching new concepts. The promotional fears are real, but we'd argue that's what drove the negative bifurcation in performance between the home furnishings names and the broader retail index starting in mid-November.
2) Numbers printed out of LZB, PIR, KIRK, and ETH have looked better than feared – pretty much across the board. Granted, this is not the most appropriate sample (though RH is not either), but the average PM probably throws them all in the same bucket – for better or worse.
3) WSM is lapping its own set of executional headwinds caused by the West Coast port delays in 1H15 which cost the company $30-$40mm on the top line and 50bps+ of margin in each of the first two quarters of 2015. Normalized product flow should allow the company to recapture a large portion of that, at least on the margin side. We'd really argue that its own complex operational structure (between e-commerce and B&M) simply could not handle the stress of an event like a Port Strike (why are there fewer than five companies in all of retail that repeatedly talked about this, despite the fact that everyone sources from the same place?). Nonetheless, an easy comp is an easy comp.
While all that matters, the unfortunate reality is that the growth story and stock drivers for WSM are almost entirely hinged on the West Elm concept. That might sound strange given the fact that the brand is only 17% of sales but a) it's the only concept in the portfolio of brands actually growing square footage, and b) West Elm has accounted for ~50% of incremental growth for the better part of two years, which is evidenced by the first chart below. We think that's potentially at risk.
We triangulate several sources for every company each quarter to gauge the online sales curve vs a year ago. These sources have tracked West Elm well in the past. They're the same sources that are suggesting to us that 50% of growth might have meaningfully decelerated, as outlined in the second chart below. The quarter might still be fine, as the Street is looking for just 4% EPS growth. But in 1Q expectations accelerate to 14%, which might lead WSM to an underwhelming guide. Does the Street know this with short interest at a 5-year high and 10.5% of the float? Probably. But we're not suggesting that this is a great short here. We're simply saying that despite our temptations, our process tells us that this is absolutely not a buy before the event.
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We will discuss key issues affecting investors including industry trends, recent developments and provide an overview of our best ideas, including Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), McDonalds (MCD), Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Darden Restaurants (DRI) and Snyder's-Lance (LNCE).
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text: Leaked Copernicus Screens Look Like a Futuristic World of WarcraftLuke Plunkett5/24/12 1:00amFiled to: Project copernicusKingdoms of Amalur38 StudiosKotakucore100EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Most likely spilled by a disgruntled current/former employee of developer 38 Studios, which isn't exactly having the best time of it at the moment, a Kingdoms of Amalur fansite has what sure look like the first screens from Copernicus, the codename for 38's upcoming MMO. While we recently got to see a trailer for the game, it was all environments. This one shows some actual people, and while the World of Warcraft influence is certainly there, I like to think this is what World of Warcraft would look like in 2012 if it didn't still look like a game from 2004. You guys deserve this [38 Watch, thanks Eric]Reply100 repliesLeave a reply


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Doctor Aleino wiped sweat from his salt-encrusted beard. How long had it been since he showered? Since he ate? He glanced as his phone, but it had long since died. Shrugging, he turned back to his computer monitor. How had the mice responded to the latest treatment? He glanced at the spreadsheet absently, expecting the same results --
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Woman facing charges after video shows robbery during Mass
Updated 11:42 am, Thursday, July 31, 2014
A Houston woman who fled to Florida has been dragged back to Texas to face trial for five felony counts, including robbing a fellow churchgoer during Catholic Mass.
A video purporting to show Cynthia Gonzales, aka Cynthia Martinez, went viral in 2011 when it appeared to show her entering a Houston-area church, switching seats midway through service, then lifting a wallet from the pew in front of her before scampering for the door.
Today, the Harris County Sheriff's Department says Gonzales has been returned to Houston, where she faces felony counts including credit card abuse, forgery and tampering with evidence.
She allegedly used a checkbook inside the wallet stolen in the viral video to make a $399.29 purchase at Sam's Club, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Investigators say Gonzales "prayed" (their bad pun, not ours) on churchgoers at several area churches, and has financial crimes against her record in Harris and Galveston counties dating back to the early 1990s.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — With one shot, No. 22 Ohio State had a chance to wash away a game full of missteps and prevent Penn State from pulling off yet another upset of the Buckeyes.
Aaron Craft drew the defense to him and passed to a wide-open Lenzelle Smith Jr., but his 3-pointer with just seconds left drew iron. Penn State grabbed the rebound, and the win, 65-63 on Thursday night at the Bryce Jordan Center.
"Aaron made a great read. It was a wide-open shot," Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. "Small things win you games and small things lose you games. Tonight the little things lost us the game. We had a chance in the first half to open it up. We missed free throws and we missed point-blank looks at the basket. To Penn State's credit, they kept fighting. They kept clawing."
D.J. Newbill scored 23 points, Tim Frazier added 16 and Penn State held off a late rally by the Buckeyes.
Nittany Lions coach Patrick Chambers didn't think it was the matchup or the fact that it was Senior Night that allowed his team to beat Ohio State again.
No, it was something more basic.
"I think we were mad," he said, emphasizing that Penn State had been thumped by Iowa and Nebraska in its previous two games. "It just happened to be Ohio State tonight. We came out and played desperate and with a sense of urgency. And we played angry."
The Buckeyes (22-7, 9-7 Big Ten) had a chance to win at the end. Coming out of a timeout with 6.8 seconds left, Smith's 3-pointer rimmed out. The Nittany Lions (14-14, 5-10) grabbed the rebound and time expired.
Ohio State was led by LaQuinton Ross, who scored 19 points. Craft, plagued by foul trouble most of the game, added 10.
"It was one of those games where two guys pound the ball off the backboard and it bounces out and they make a 3 on us," Matta said. "Little things like that is kind of the way the game went."
Penn State swept the season series. The Nittany Lions upset then-No. 23 Ohio State 71-70 in overtime on Jan. 29 in Columbus.
Nittany Lions forward Donovan Jack made a turnaround jumper, was fouled and hit the free throw to give Penn State a 60-55 lead with 1:59 to go.
Ross and Craft each made a pair of free throws, sandwiched around two by Frazier, to pull the Buckeyes to 62-59 with just more than a minute to go.
Frazier pushed Penn State's lead to five with 39.4 seconds left with a pair of free throws.
After Ross made two more free throws, Shannon Scott stole the inbounds pass and passed to Trey McDonald for a layup that cut it to 64-63.
Penn State missed two free throws on the ensuing possession, but Smith's shot caromed off the rim and over the backboard, giving the Nittany Lions the ball back with under 10 seconds left.
Frazier was fouled and made one of two at the line, setting up Smith's last-second attempt from 3-point range.
"When we executed what we were supposed to do, it was amazing what happened. We didn't have the flow that we normally do," Matta said. "That was the difference. We talked about it and talked about it. We couldn't get it to where we needed it."
Frazier, a senior point guard, was recognized before the game as part of Senior Night festivities. He is one of 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award, given annually to a student-athlete with notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition. Frazier will leave Penn State as the school's career leader in assists.
Frazier acknowledged that his uneven play early was due to the emotions and nerves of the night.
"It was very emotional. I was basically trying to hold back tears in the beginning. Obviously you tell at the beginning of the game I had so many emotions running through me. Turnovers left and right. Airballs," he said.
Chambers was happy to see a player who has meant so much to the program get a win on his special night.
"He's an amazing kid. A man now. He's a man," Chambers said. "It's Senior Night. You've got family there. You've got one game left in this building. You've been here five years. You've invested time and energy. He puts so much into this program. You can't blame the guy for being jacked up. I was happy to see us get a win for him."


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Daniel Craig might be perfect, but "Skyfall" is not.
MovieMistakes.com has tallied 35 mistakes in the latest James Bond blockbuster, putting it in second place behind "Men in Black III" (63 errors) in the 2012 list of the most error-filled movies of the year. ("The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Amazing Spider-Man" tied for third with 24 gaffes apiece.)
Despite the continuity, factual and other errors (enumerated below), "Skyfall" might have the last laugh: It just received a Producers Guild Award nomination — the first for a 007 film and fueling speculation that it could earn an Oscar nod for Best Picture.
The 35 "Skyfall" errors noted by MovieMistakes, grouped by type:
Continuity Errors
- In the opening chase scene 007 rides his bike against the wall of the bridge. The bike bounces back, but in the next shot it is catapulting over the wall, tumbling over and over.
- When M goes to see Mallory at the start of the film, he pours her a drink and places the bottle on the table with the label facing the camera. The label is off center and more to the left — when M leaves the bottle has not been moved and the label is still facing the camera, but the label is now more to the right.
- When on the motorbike on the rooftops of Istanbul, Bond at first has no sunglasses on, then sunglasses on, then no sunglasses.
- When Bond is fighting on top of the train at the beginning of the film, his footwear changes from black lace-up shoes to black slip-on ankle boots.
- Just before Bond confronts the assassin in the high-rise building, Bond pulls his gun. You can see that the lights on his gun are green, however Bond is wearing leather gloves and the gun is set to activate only upon reading his unique palm print — impossible while wearing gloves.
- Just before Bond reaches the chapel, he plunges into icy water. In the next scene, in the chapel, he is perfectly dry.
- In the scene where M is being driven back to the MI6 building, her car is stopped on a bridge and you see two cars stopping behind M's vehicle while she is still inside. She then gets out of the vehicle to speak to a police officer who requested that the car stop, and now two different vehicles are behind.
- In the scene where M is asked to retire from MI6, she puts down her glass and gets up to leave. She picks up her coat from the back of the chair but leaves her bag on the floor. In the next shot, the bag is no longer there.
- We don't see where Moneypenny shot Bond, and are never told later in the film, but no wound is visible when he is swimming, or when Silva undoes his shirt — only the wound he got on the train in the right shoulder.
- When Silva places the glass of whiskey on the girl's head, the liquid is full to the brim in some shots, or a finger below in others.
- When Bond is drinking Macallan in M's apartment, he set the bottle down with the label facing away from us. Next shot has the bottle facing towards us. Final shot and the bottle is back in its original position, with the label away from us again.
- When Bond confronts the assassin and lets him fall to his death from the building in Shanghai, he then looks over to the opposite window where Severine is standing in the smashed window hole, her hair blowing in the breeze. When it cuts to the close-up of her leaving you can see the light reflected in the window glass that has magically reappeared.
- While talking with Severine in the casino bar, Bond gets his martini in a frozen glass. He picks it up, the camera's point of view changes, and the glass is now completely unfrozen.
- In the scene where the assassin is about to go up in the elevator the 3rd button down on the right has been pressed and is lit. As the elevator closes the button is no longer lit.
- In the Istanbul chase scene at the start of the movie, Eve knocks out the windshield of the car she's driving, which comes out in more or less one solid piece. For the rest of the chase, about half the glass is suddenly back in the frame. Also, although she cracked the windshield all over to facilitate its removal, the leftover glass is later basically unbroken.
- In the scene in the National Gallery early on in the film where Bond meets Q, there is a line of bench seats. Bond is sitting on the end of one benches looking at a painting. The shot is from behind. Q comes and sits on the adjacent bench next to Bond. You can see the gap between the two benches between the pair. Then the shot changes to a front view as they start talking. But suddenly there is no gap in the bench in between them, they are both sitting on the same bench, the gap is now to Bond's left.
- In the scene where Bond is chasing Silva in the Underground, he leaps over the emergency buttons and slides down the escalator panel. Initially you can see the emergency buttons at the bottom of the escalator, which would have broken his slide, however, these "disappear" as Bond slides smoothly off the panel at the bottom. (See deliberate "mistake" below.)
- About a third of the way through, Bond is in a black car, being driven somewhere in London. In the first shot of the black car driving on the street, there is a white car behind. Then there is a close-up of Bond in the black car through the window. In this shot there is a black car behind Bond's car. The next shot (back to the whole car) the white car is behind Bond's car again.
Factual Errors
- In the opening scene on the train, the coupling is shot away and the rear wagon separates, rupturing the continuous brake pipe — which would cause both halves of the train to stop immediately.
- In the car scene just before the MI6 explosion, invalid IPv4 addresses (with digits larger than 255) are displayed on the laptop screen.
- When there is a BBC News Report for the BBC News at 10 (clock bottom right) the wrong news studio is used. They also used the wrong opening standing position. The studio shown is for the BBC News at 6 p.m., and the position used is only used for the intro after the halfway segment, not the lead headline.
- In one of the tube train scenes, the destination blind shows "Wimbledon." This is a terminus on the London Underground for the District Line, a sub-surface line. No deep-level London Underground line with the rolling stock shown in the film serves Wimbledon.
- Bond and Silva travel from Temple station on the District/Circle line, which is a sub-surface line that has square tunnels (dug out from above and then covered over) and uses large trains with an almost square cross-section. However, the train they board is of the type used on the deep-level lines (e.g. Northern and Jubilee lines), smaller and almost cylindrical in shape, and is seen to fit snugly into the cylindrical tube tunnel as the train leaves the station. They therefore can't be traveling on the District/Circle line, and must be on a deep-level line instead. The disused Jubilee line platforms at Charing Cross are often used for filming, and photographs available online show one such platform recently dressed as Temple station.
- James Bond is seen driving down Whitehall in London. Behind him a number 38 bus is seen. However the 38 does not travel down or indeed particularly near Whitehall. This was probably done to show off the new Routemaster bus, which is currently only used on the 38 route.
- When Bond drives M away in the Jaguar XJ, police cars can be seen driving towards them when he speeds around the corner. The Volvo police car in front has two yellow dots on the top of the windscreen which mean armed response, but on the roof there is a circle, which means traffic/incident response. The aerial roof marking symbol should have been a five-edged star for armed response. Metropolitan police don't even use Volvos for armed response. They use BMW 5 series and X5s.
- M is called to a House of Commons Committee — Commons Committees are staffed by "backbenchers" (members of parliament not in government), but present here are a minister and a civil servant (Fiennes).
- The pursuit scenes along the train tracks leading west from Istanbul show mountains and even trestles and tunnels which do not exist. The true scenery is quite boring.
- Deliberate "Mistake"
- The VW Beetles on the train are parked side-by-side. Cars are never loaded like this — they would be end-to-end to stop them overhanging the wagon and hitting passing objects. They're only positioned like that to facilitate driving the digger over them later.
- In the chase through the tube station, Bond and Silva both slide down between the escalators. On the London Underground this area has hard vertical signs at regular intervals, precisely to prevent people sliding down. (See continuity error, above.)
- At the end of the film, Bond is standing on the roof. The time seen on Big Ben is 5.55, and there's loads of traffic in the background as well. He returns downstairs with Moneypenny and Tanner appears from M's office saying "Morning, 007." If it was morning in the winter months (Scotland having frozen lakes), it would be dark and not daylight that early.
- As Bond chases Patrice over the rooftops of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul at the start of the film, in the close-ups of Daniel Craig his tie can be seen noticeably flapping over his shoulder (as you would expect). But in the long shots with the stuntman it doesn't move about at all, presumably having been fixed in place for safety.
- The Caterpillar digger on the train carriage is too large to fit through the tunnels later on in the train fight.
- The cars used in the chase in Istanbul have French license plates.
- In the bar with Bond drinking and watching television he reaches over for a bottle which is 80 percent full. He pours a small amount into his glass and watches the TV. In the next shot the bottle is only about 20 percent full.
- The DB 5 drives from wet London to a wintery remote part of Scotland, and it's totally clean. The wheels and the bodywork are spotless when they drive into the grounds of the house.


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Being so close to the action, Penrod is always on the alert for criminal activity. When he hears of trouble, he dons an orange robe, and black mask (kept in a room behind a vending machine) to become the klutzy, disaster-prone superhero Hong Kong Phooey.
Penrod Pooch, aka Hong Kong Phooey
With the aid of "The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu" and Spot, his quiet but competent sidekick (a yellow cat with horizontal purple strips), Hong Kong Phooey races to battle the bad guys in the Phooeymobile (an antique car with a Pagoda-shaped canopy that transforms into a helicopter and other vehicles when he bangs an enchanted gong).
Hong Kong Phooey battles such villains as Dr. Disguiso, The Giggler, The Gumdrop Kid (who snatches candy), Mr. Shrink, Mr. Tornado, and Professor Presto the Magician. Penrod's human friends are police Sergeant Flint (voice of Joe E. Ross) and police dispatcher Rosemary (voice of Kathi Gori).
Theme Song Lyrics Hong Kong Phooey Number one super guy. Hong Kong Phooey Quicker than the human eye. He's got style, a groovy smile, And a bod that just won't stop. When the going gets rough, he's super tough, With a Hong Kong Phooey chop (Hi-Yah!) Hong Kong Phooey Number one super guy. Hong Kong Phooey Quicker than the human eye. Hong Kong Phooey, he's fan-riffic {Sound of a GONG!]
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Honolulu, HI (August 13, 2010) — Of the thousands of surf breaks the world over, it's hard to find one that can hold a candle to the historical impact that Malibu has had on the California surfing scene. Between Miki Dora, Gidget, the invasion of Hollywood, and holding the distinction of being one of the most prestigious right-hand points in California, Malibu's place in the pantheon of surf locales is unquestionable. With that in mind, Primo Beer is proud to announce that they will be the presenting sponsor in the fourth annual Malibu Invitational to be held at First Point on August 28 and 29.
"Malibu is such an iconic wave in California and Primo has become such an iconic beer in Hawaii. Through our shared love of surfing and the ocean, we're really proud to partner with the Malibu Invitational and celebrate our love of the sport this year," said Primo's ambassador and event organizer Pascal Stansfield. "With all of the amazing surfers on the invite list, it's gonna be a really special day at Malibu when the event kicks off."
As an invitation-only contest, the event looks to pull many of today's top professional surfers together to compete under one banner. Between the likes of the Malloy Brothers, Rob Machado, and Evan Geiselman along with a legendary mix of Malibu locals invited to the event, the Malibu Invitational will surely be one of the most unique and eclectic contests in surfing.
More than just a chance for some of the best surfers in the world to compete at a locale steeped in surf lore, the Malibu Invitational also benefits a worthy cause in Malibu local's Jimmy Gamboa's TheraSURF organization, a community of surfers that focus on healing children with special needs by introducing them to surfing.
Prior to the start of the two-day event, surfers, fans and contest organizers will be meeting up at Duke's in Malibu for food and Primo's on August 27.
For more information on the event, please visit Primobeer.com and TheMalibuInvitational.com
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Primo is also proud to support its surrounding communities by donating a portion of the proceeds from each case of Primo to nonprofit organizations that help preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian culture and environment.


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How uncompensated labour is no longer taken for granted, and how those exploited are fighting back.
This article titled "Why unpaid interns are bad for the music industry" was written by Helienne Lindvall, for theguardian.com on Thursday 15th August 2013 11.33 UTC The entertainment industry is an "it's-who-you-know" business, perhaps more so than any other business, and for at least half a century it has meant companies have taken advantage of an endless stream of people willing to work for free in order to get their foot on the ladder. But this summer has brought a "revolt of the unpaid interns" in the US, with Fox Searchlight, Warner Music, Atlantic Records and, last week, Sony and Columbia all being hit with class-action lawsuits.
In a lawsuit resembling those filed against the other record labels, Britt'ni Fields claims that her work day at Columbia was spent answering phones, making copies, sending mail and "other similar duties" that "did not provide academic or vocational training", adding that the label "would have hired additional employees or required staff to work additional hours" if she and other unpaid interns had not been hired.
Could this be a rebellion spreading to the UK? How widespread are unpaid internships among British labels? Warner Music UK confirms that they pay all their interns. A Sony UK source said: "We provide several different types of work experience, including long-term paid internships."
A Beggars Group source said that the label group uses interns for specific purposes: "Such roles in and for a company like us are a fantastic foot on the career ladder, and a great way to learn – most of our entry level positions these days are filled by ex-interns." The group pays interns' expenses.
The problem with unpaid internships is not just that they put a financial strain on the interns – it also creates a somewhat homogenised pool of applicants, by excluding those that may be the most talented but can't afford to work for six months to a year unpaid.
Universal Music UK spokesman Selina Webb agrees, and says this was one of the main reasons the company launched its paid internship scheme in 2009. "Before then we offered unpaid work experience, but we weren't particularly comfortable with it. Longer periods of work experience were really only an option for people whose parents could afford to support them – of course that narrowed the talent pool considerably. Now we have applications, and interns, from a wide range of backgrounds."
The company, which was singled out as a "fantastic leader in the field [of paid internships]" by Hazel Blears in the House of Commons earlier this summer, now takes on about 25 new interns a year. The internships cover every part of its business from A&R, marketing, promotions and digital through to legal, finance and sales. They last 12 months and interns are paid the London living wage.
"There's a really good conversion rate of interns becoming permanent employees – there are around 60 full-time employees in the business who started via the intern scheme – and even if that doesn't happen immediately with Universal Music, most of them go on to find roles within the industry," says Webb.
Paddy McLean got an internship with the company sales team after writing dozens of speculative letters to music companies and getting just one call back – from the Universal Music HR department. He had no music experience (he had been working as a postman to fund some travelling after university) but a huge amount of passion about working in the business, which was enough to get him noticed. After his 12-month internship, he was almost immediately asked back for a full-time job as a marketing assistant with UMTV, where he has been for six months.
"I realised after university that I desperately wanted to work in music, but there's passion and then there's practicality – no way could I have done the work experience with Universal Music without being paid," he says. "Being paid for that first year was a huge lifeline. I love it here, the atmosphere in the building is always electric."
Adam Soffe got a full-time job as an assistant with Universal Music UK's synch team in May after doing a year's internship. "Universal Music gave me a thorough grounding in how the industry worked – I wasn't just packing CDs all day," says Soffe. "And the most important part is that I was actually getting paid, a revelation in the creative industries for an intern."
Chimene Mohammed is a marketing assistant at Island Records who also got a full-time job this spring after doing a year's internship. She says she was "thrown into the deep end" from the moment she arrived, which was "a great learning experience", adding that a large number of the staff at Island, including people higher up, all started off as interns and worked their way up through the company.
Island Records president Darcus Beese started out as an intern at the label. "They call it work experience and internship now but back then it was a tea boy," he told the Guardian last year. "You made tea, you collected people's dry cleaning. Car clamping had just been introduced, so I used to have to go and sit in their cars, wait for the car to be de-clamped and then drive back to the office."
The landmark ruling in the Fox Searchlight case could spell problems for people trying to break into the music industry in the future, says a US record label source. The federal judge ruled in favour of the interns who claimed the production company violated overtime and minimum wage laws.
The source claims that the judge interpreted US internship guidelines to be that all chores undertaken by the intern would have to be "educational", that if the company derives any benefit from the interns they needed to pay them. This has made many US companies reconsider if they should have an internship scheme at all, as it could leave them wide open to lawsuits.
If such stringent guidelines were applied in the UK, Beese would possibly not have been in the position he is today, considering the chores he was asked to do during his internship. UK law, however, states that interns are only entitled to the national minimum wage if they're classed as workers. Such a classification would include a contract and numerous other requirements that don't apply to the majority of internships.
Yet, despite not being legally required to do so, British record labels would benefit by paying their interns. The industry has long been criticised for being largely run by white, middle-class men. A workforce made up of people from a broader range of backgrounds would surely make it understand, cater to, and communicate better with its customers.
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As the public spotlight remains fixated on Wanda's international stars-studded unveiling of an $8.3 billion film studio complex in Qingdao last Sunday, Wang Jianlin, Chairman of Wanda and China's richest man, has already moved on. On Tuesday, Wang signed the contract with the municipal government of Wuxi to build a "cultural tourism city" there, Wuxi Daily reported. Highlights of the $5.8 billion complex include a large outdoor theme park, a children's indoor theme park and an "extreme sports hall." The latter, also an indoor facility, claims to host "the most adventurous" entertainment activities such as car-racing, surfing and zip-lining.
"Wuxi Wanda City will have richer content than Disney. [We] expect to attract 20 million tourists a year," Wuxi Daily quoted Wang saying. "Wanda has confidence that [the tourism city] will surpass Disney in both revenue and number of visitors."
As part of Wanda's scheme to transition from commercial real estate to tourism and the so-called "cultural industry," the Wuxi complex is only one of the ten cultural tourism cities that Wanda is building across China. It is preceded by projects of similar scales in the cities of Haerbin, Nanchang, Hefei and Qingdao, investments in which totaled $14.7 billion. All five projects took off in a flash within just five months. Other confirmed cities include Beijing, Guangzhou and Wanda's hometown, Dalian. Each cultural city features different amusement facilities. The one in Nanchang, for example, claims that it will be home to the world's largest aquarium, according to People's Daily.
For local government officials, these Wanda projects are certainly something to welcome. Not only will they look great on the year-end evaluation by boosting GDP growth and employment –in the case of Wuxi, it is estimated that at least 30,000 new jobs will be added—they may be also in line with the country's increasing need for strengthening its soft power. The Chinese government wishes to "show that the Chinese dream can compete with the American dream," as political science professor Stanley Rosen pointed out in a ChinaFile conversation about the Qingdao film studio. Having the mainland's own version of Disney World or Ocean Park could as well be part of that dream.


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Max/MSP and Windows 7
I recently purchased a new laptop for college (less than a month ago). It's a windows machine running windows 7. Today I was talking to somebody and we got talking about Max/MSP. I told him how i'm interested in getting into the program, etc.. but when I told him I had a PC he informed me that Max/MSP runs a lot better on the Mac platform.
Is there any truth in that or is his opinion just a by product of the mac v pc argument?
Of course not, I have been running Max on a PC for years and it runs great.
Mac fanboys like to think there is a difference, but there is not.
Acutally now that macs use Intels, they have finally reached PCs.
But beware, in the PC world, you get what you paid for.
Buy a machine with poor specs, you get poor performance.
Just one thing: as far as I know, Max is not supported on Windows 7 Starter edition.
it works flawless on win7-pro
Windows Starter Edition is not a full featured Windows 7 OS, often used on netbooks, and indeed, probably not fully supported.
Any standard full version of Windows should work fine.
How about MaxMsp runtime? Can it run on windows 7 starter?
You can run Max on windows 7 starter, but I would expect it to not
run as well as Win7. It depends on the processor it is running on.
If you are considering getting some of these new tablet/netbooks
to run Max, make sure it as a dual core Atom.
Has anyone had this issue that I'm having right now:
Max 6 installed correctly, and it will startup but only after what seems like forever! I can't pinpoint what I do to make it start up because I'm so impatient.
Basically it won't startup until I do some sort of combination of hitting the sartupbar icon, plus double clicking on the shortcut on my desktop, clicking and dragging a patch onto the shortcut, or opening Max Runtime.
I've noticed that when I open Max the first time Max.exe*32 opens in the processes. But the application doesn't launch so I end the process and try opening it again.
Anyone have this problem? Is there a patch for Max available for this problem?
I must say that me on windows 7 I have to click on run as administrator to make it works with quicktime for example……
This is a test
Hello. I have the same problems as McNamara, pn my dektop running windows 7 home premium 64 bit.
Even if I launch max 6 as administrator, it doesn't run.
It runs without problems on my laptop running the same windows 7 home premium 64 bit
Another issue: as now windows 7 install all the programs in a folder called Programs (x86), it becomes impossible to send to an object amessage like "plug c:/programs (x86)/steiberg/vstplugins/blabla.dll" because of the blank in the path.
Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.
Hi, you could you tildes, ie
c:\progra~1 is programg files (x86), unless you're on a 64-bit OS (like me), in which case it'd be ~2
I bought max7 on my Windows laptop mainly to créate live visual for show and everything i tried cause max to crash until the day i bought a new Mac … I thinks its related with QuickTime being less optimized for Windows but i was having no succes with booth 32 and 64bit version on 2 different PC! Also if you deal with live audio setup you will find that any external soundcard has better driver on Mac then Pc so less latency… To conclude if you are about to use it for live projection you might want to use cyphon or madmapper for your output wich only work on Mac. These machine are pricey but they really get the job done !
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Wild storms sweep through Central Highlands
Thousands of people across Queensland's Central Highlands lost power last night as a series of storms swept through the region.
Central Highlands Mayor Peter Maguire says fallen trees damaged a school in Emerald.
About six thousand properties across the highlands lost power at the height of the storm.
A Central Highlands wildlife carer says a storm that swept through the region last night was the worst she's seen.
Fallen trees damaged the Emerald North State School and littered dozens of yards in homes across the town.
Wildlife carer Carol Graham says she was looking after injured kangaroos when the storm struck the Gemfields town of Sapphire.
"This is probably the worst I've seen here - and I've been here 32 years," she said.
"My husband's been here 42 years and he reckons it was a mini cyclone.
"It was just roaring, the noise was just phenomonal.
"I thought, 'oh no we're going to lose roofs here', but luckily we never.
"It was vicious, it took all the trees, all my big beautiful plants and it's just heart breaking.
"The kangaroos, they took off, right up into the hills.
Councillor Maguire says the Central Highalnds is bracing for more wild weather.
"It's that time of year," he said.
"They are forecasting some heavy, you know, severe storms in the south-east again today.
"I guess that's what we can expect as well around this area because it has been certainly hot for everyone.
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