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Food Marketers Use Food Packaging to Trigger Emotions
How some food marketers use emotional triggers and sensory cues in packaging design to attract buyers and to create a bond with the brand.
Ask consumers what they like about a food package they've never seen before, and chances are they won't be able to put it into words. They have an emotional reaction to the package, which, best case, makes them desire the product and leads them to purchase it.
To elicit those positive emotional responses, food processors can put consumer psychology to work as they design their packaging and leverage the unconscious triggers that predispose consumers toward products.
Thin is in: They may look like other packages in their categories, but Kellogg's Smart Start cereal box and Coca-Cola's Tab energy drink are a little thinner than competing packages.
The rewards of this package-design strategy extend far beyond product trial. If the product and package are satisfying during use, the consumer's initial reaction to the package is reinforced. The natural follow-on is to buy the product again. And again.
Consumer research has shown that consumers transfer their perception of a package to the product it contains. Louis Cheskin, a mid-20th century marketing innovator, coined a phrase for this phenomenon: "sensation transference."
"Sensation transference is the theory that whatever people see on the package, they attribute to the product," says Katy Haberkern, director-account management with consumer insights-based consulting firm Cheskin (www.cheskin.com), Redwood Shores, Calif. In other words, "The package is the product."
As an example, Cheskin conducted a taste test of 7-Up that had been filled into cans that were more yellow than the packaging consumers were used to. Although the drink was the same as in the original can, tasters thought the formulation had changed. The can looked different, and that created a perception of difference in the product's flavor.
Creating the desired perception of the product requires detailed attention to not only the package's looks, but also how it feels in the hand and even the sounds it makes. The package's sensory cues are an enormously important contributor to the consumer's experience of the product.
"Sensory cues today are very advanced," Haberkern says. "The challenge is determining which cues add value to the brand."
The color component
Some marketers contend that of all the visual cues a package incorporates, color is the single most important. Consumers have only seconds to make a purchasing decision in the supermarket, and color registers much faster than text or complex graphics.
Colors are associated with various emotional states and need to convey an appropriate mood for the product and/or brand. In some parts of the grocery store, like the cereal aisle, the colors on the packages "are screaming 'buy me,' but not all products want to do that," says Ed Cristman, design director at Axion Design (www.axiondesign.com), San Anselmo, Calif.
Tanimura and Antle's graphics position the brand as friendly and approachable while reinforcing its heritage as a family-owned produce company.
Products such as wine and gourmet items, like dipping oils and tapenades, are designed for a sophisticated consumer; therefore, the packaging tends to feature "tasty, earthy colors" rather than bright, bold hues, Cristman explains. These items are "savored over time. You don't just shovel them down. It's more experience-based."
Dan Olson, creative director at Duffy and Partners (www.duffy.com), Minneapolis, adds: "So much of food packaging is about appetite appeal. We don't want our potatoes green or our ketchup blue, and the package shouldn't miscue the experience of the product" by incorporating inappropriate colors.
Olson adds that "sweeter things are more forgiving" in terms of package color, because they are perceived as fun or pleasing rather than a source of nutrition. A walk down the candy aisle in any store demonstrates the abundance of color on packaging for sweets.
Package color is influenced by trends, as well. Green has emerged as a popular color for products positioned as healthy and/or environmentally friendly; historically, green was rarely used on food packaging. Blue is still used somewhat tentatively, except in two categories: milk and water.
Graphic subtleties
Additional visual cues include the package's typefaces, logo, illustrations, photos and other graphic design elements. These components individually communicate the brand's attributes and equities, and do so even more within the completed design.
Designing a package that elicits the desired emotional response to the product is becoming more scientific, thanks to a new method that combines consumer psychology with package design.
Called NeuroDesign, the proprietary technique is grounded in a combination of neuroscience, psychology and iconology. The method is in development at design and innovation firm laga.
"Emotion drives purchasing decisions," explains J. Duncan Berry, laga's director of applied iconology. "NeuroDesign is the application of consumer insight to enhance performance at shelf using emotional cues. This method brings the upstream conceptual thinking into a funnel to drive the development of actual designs."
The NeuroDesign deliverables include a visual encyclopedia, or Emotional Analog Map. This document includes images of facial expressions, gestures/postures and archetypes, all keyed to consumers' emotional engagement with the product.
Using the map, the designer can create a package that resonates with consumers in a way they feel deeply. Their subsequent behavior, not surprisingly, is to buy the product.
For example, package graphics for Tanimura and Antle Inc. (www.taproduce.com), Salinas, Calif., position the brand as friendly and approachable while reinforcing its heritage as a family-owned produce company. The package graphics include an oval logo and a curved, flourishing typeface. They also incorporate an illustration of the company's founding partners talking in the field, which expresses the brand's down-to-earth and fresh attributes.
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The Central Connecticut women's golf team scored a 338 at a quad-match hosted by St. Francis (NY) on Monday. The match is scheduled for one round and just four Notheast Conference teams participated: LIU-Brooklyn, St. Francis (NY), Quinnipiac, and Central.
LIU Brooklyn posted the best score with a 337 followed by Central who placed just one stroke back of the Hawks scoring a 338. Quinnipiac shot a 358 with host St. Francis (NY) rounding out the field with a 366.
The Muttontown Golf Club in East Norwich, NY played host to the match. The par-71 course played 6,755 yards long.
Senior Anna Ausanio shot the lowest score at the match carding a 77. She placed ahead of all 20 golfers who participated in the match.
Freshman Sarah Boden followed Ausanio posting a score of 83 while senior Stephanie Bednar shot an 88. Juniors Gina Grant and Nicole Pizzoferrato registered scores of 90 and 92 respectively.
The quad-match will conclude the fall season for the Blue Devils. The Central Connecticut women's golf team will resume their 2012-13 season in the spring. Log-on to CCSUBlueDevils.com for scheduling.

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A couple of days after I found out what a lucid dream was, I woke up early on a weekend after a while I went back to bed and had a lucid dream.
I was on a trip with some friends from school and someone was on their laptop searching Google maps and asking what peoples addresses were and they asked for mine. I looked at the screen and I was transported to my road . That is when I realized that I was dreaming
It was snowing. I looked on the pavement and saw a blackbird and a robin jumping along beside me so I started jumping and then I started flying . I flew over to my house and went inside.
I started climbing up the stairs and there was a sausage roll on the stairs and I ate it. I went into my room and looked into the mirror and my reflection was dancing even though I was standing still.
After that I tried to wake up, I woke up laying on my sofa downstairs and then closed my eyes again. I then REALLY woke up face down on my bed.
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Tell us about your first lucid dream - and your latest. We want all the juicy details. Also share results of dream challenge experiments.
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My second (this time proper) lucid dream was about me in a world with loads of really short people. There were loads of little floating countries floating on water and moving around but I cannot remember excactly what happened.
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Hehe, I laughed at the sausage :p Nice dreams anyways ^^
First lucid dream : July 14, 2011
Lucid dream count : 5
Last lucid dream : 11 september 2011
Have given up, for now. The school is too much work. I am going to keep doing it i my weekend and vacations though
Lucid dream count : 5
Last lucid dream : 11 september 2011
Have given up, for now. The school is too much work. I am going to keep doing it i my weekend and vacations though
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It's good that your 12 years old and had your first few lucid dreams, because learning to lucid while your young makes it too easy to lucid more in the future, for me I'm 14 years old and had my first lucid dream lately ..........congratz on that by the way.
"Saying 'I have 100$' is like saying 'I have 100 inches'. Inches of what? Ropes? Books? iPads? Money can be a means and a tool to get what you want. But remember, in a camping experience, money is only good for kindling and wiping your butt."
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have fun and enjoy. I was in a bakery a while back in a LD and was eating the biggest lemmingtons you could imagine, followed by cream dougnuts the size of dinner plates.
Who are you I asked, the reply "dont be silly, we are your daughers" many years before they were born
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I had my first lucid dream when I was about 8 or 9 years old (I'm 14 years old now) and I remember it so clearly and the first thing I done was turn my friend into a donkey to prove to him that it was a dream because he kept telling me that it wasn't and then I flew into the sky and then woke up and i just realised the other day that you are able to induce these dreams but I'm needing some help.
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• A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.
For a people that embraced the commercial use of mobile telephones just five years ago, Kenyans have become quite innovative in making the gadgets work for them.
With a mobile phone, one can pay electricity and water bills, pay for goods at the supermarket, buy airline or bus tickets, withdraw money from an ATM, monitor stocks, and even check bank account balances.
All these possibilities stem from an invention called M-PESA ("mobile phone money," in Kiswahili) by Kenya's largest service provider, Safaricom.
Originally, M-PESA was designed to let customers send and receive modest sums of money (up to $500) using their mobile phones. But since its introduction three years ago, it has spawned new uses by the day.
The Kenya Police are considering a tool created by a teenage college student that allows traffic officers to book and issue court summonses to traffic offenders via phone.
The same student designed a mobile phone program that can track and disable your car in case it is stolen or broken into. Security companies are said to be very interested.
While ordinary Kenyans are quite happy about the hassles the service has spared them, such as long lines, local banks are not amused.
The service has significantly decreased the daily volume of transactions going through banks. Some 8 million customers move nearly half a billion dollars via the M-PESA system every month.
Safaricom recently extended M-PESA services to Britain, allowing Kenyans there to send money to relatives back home. Plans are said to be under way to take it to the United States, too.


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After observing the trends on the Left for many years, in early February 2009, during a meeting with a friend familiar with the "hydra" that the Left had built, we lamented on how there was nothing on the Right to combat the behemoth that had been built by unions, the institutional Left, with the help of the mainstream media, to tear down the Right and propel Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats to their huge 2008 victories.
Knowing what was on the agenda, "we're finished as a nation," was the overriding feeling. A short time later, the first Tea Party rally was held.
During the summer of 2009, I attended my first Tea Party meeting as an observer. It was, as they say, beautiful chaos. People who, for the most part, had been apathetic to politics were suddenly engaged and outraged. Nevertheless, I left that meeting with the thought, 'these people really have no idea what they're up against.'
A little more than a year later, as we were launching the Concord Project for the mid-term GOTV , there was opportunity to speak at several other Tea Party events. As part of the presentation, several slides were devoted to "what we're up against" (explaining the leviathan that the Left had built).
Following that meeting, someone stated that the attendees loved the information, but it "scared the crap out of them." This was surprising since the Tea Party had been in existence for more than 18 months at that point. How can you fight something you don't understand? More importantly, how can you expect to win? Continue reading


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DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Lions president Tom Lewand says the franchise is deeply saddened to learn of Alex Karras' condition.
The 77-year-old Karras has been suffering from dementia. He is among the many former NFL players suing the league regarding the treatment of head injuries.
Detroit drafted Karras out of Iowa in 1958 and he was a standout for 12 seasons. He may be even better well known for his work as an actor. He played the role of Mongo in the 1974 comedy classic "Blazing Saddles," and was a lovable father in the 1980s sitcom "Webster."
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197. The Entropy Plague
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A Great Darkness is spreading over E-Space. Entropy increases. In search of a last exit to anywhere, the TARDIS arrives on the power-less planet of Apollyon, where the scientist Pallister guards the only way out – a mysterious portal. But the portal needs power to open, and the only power Pallister can draw on is the energy contained within the molecular bonds of all living tissue...
The Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough soon learn that neither Pallister nor his ally, the space pirate Captain Branarack, will stop at murder to ensure their escape. But they're not the only menace on Apollyon. The Sandmen are coming – creatures that live on the life force; that live on death.
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Following Tim Cook's apology yesterday, the state-controlled media in China has begun to praise Apple after a constant barrage of negative stories over the past couple of weeks. Apple's apology and policy change were inevitable, as the company was an underdog against the Chinese state media machine. At least according to Reuters:
With the apology and warranty change, Apple's mea culpa is significant not just because it comes from a tech firm that rarely apologizes, but also because Apple may be realizing that in China, it needs to be proactive.
Since Apple posted Tim Cook's letter on their Chinese website, everyone from the Foreign Ministry to the press has enthusiastically welcomed Apple's change in policy. Apple's decision demonstrates the power of the Chinese media. Other companies targeted by the Chinese press have seen sales drop, something Apple would desperately want to avoid as China continues to develop into one of their most important markets. Going forward, Apple will need to move even faster to respond to both consumer and government demands, staying ahead of anything that could obstruct their growth.
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I learned about a friend's sister who gets paid to be a stay-at-home mom and felt grossly underpaid. I love being a SAHM, but come Friday, there are no checks for me to cash, no monetary number put on the work that I do all week with the kids, no salary. This mom in particular gets paid by her husband every week for essentially being the CEO of the household. I don't know the amount she is paid, but I believe it's substantial, as she has her own bank account and expenses that are designated for her to take care of out of that pay.
I was fascinated by this. When I got married and had kids, my husband and I merged our bank accounts. I was a working mom for a couple of years until I began staying home with the kids and freelancing last year. It works for us, but I will admit there are times that I wish I had my own money, something that really reflects what I do each day, and my own account.
For example, whenever I buy my husband something -- for the holidays or his birthday -- it's not always a surprise because he sometimes sees the purchase listed in our bank statement before I give him the gift. There are ways around this, of course, if I paid with cash is one way, but then I have to share why I'm taking money out so he's aware and our bills aren't affected. Same with credit cards since he is technically the CFO and takes care of the bills.
I also don't like having to ask for money. I don't like feeling like I have to. It makes me feel like I'm asking for permission, for an allowance as if I am 14 again.
I'm going to go buy myself new jeans.
Don't you have a million pairs already?
I need a million and one.
Of course, I'm not just talking about frivolous purchases. But we all deserve those too once in a while.
It's my own fault I'm not more involved in our banking, but when we married and divided up responsibilities, I was happy to give that one up. But there are times I can't help but feel that was a mistake. I'm an adult; I don't want to feel like I have to justify my purchases, but without really having a grasp on our financials, I kind of have to discuss it.
Which is exactly why all stay-at-home moms should get a salary, and perhaps even have their own bank account, or just be more involved in the banking. How much should that salary be? That all depends on how much money is coming in. And with some couples, putting a price on how much the job of a SAHM is worth could cause some major issues. This also goes for stay-at-home dads. What should the stay-at-homes get? Ten percent of the "breadwinner's" salary? Twenty or thirty percent? Should we be in charge of buying the clothes, paying the phone bills, getting the groceries?
This salary could end animosity. It may give stay-at-homes more self worth by putting an actual monetary value to all we do. It could also make SAHMs as happy as working moms, as studies have suggested those who work outside the home are healthier and less prone to depression. It could even end arguments between couples. Until it's time for a raise. Which SAHMs should be up for every year. I think it's a concept worth discussing.
Do you think stay-at-home moms (or dads) deserve a salary?
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This is nothing new. We are in Season 8 of CBS' "Criminal Minds," a weekly cavalcade of just such intricately devised horrors whose viewership has hovered pretty consistently between 12 million and 14 million, with its ranking improving as the overall size of the broadcast audience has shrunk; it is a palpable hit. And there is "Dexter," on Showtime, whose protagonist serially murders serial murderers.
At the recent Television Critics Assn. press conclave in Pasadena, where TV violence was a hot subject in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler and NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt — a Showtime executive when "Dexter" was born — were called on to defend their series.
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What is it about these characters that bothers me so?
They are supposed to bother us, of course, on the way to providing some sort of entertainment. (Perhaps it's the "entertainment" that's my problem.) Partly, it's that in spite of all the pathologies and florid particulars with which their creators dress them and the complicated manners of killing they devise for them, they are tediously alike. Partly it is that, being deviant, they have nothing much to tell us about ourselves or the world — there may be more serial killers about than we think, but there are fewer than we imagine — and partly it's the way that they are glamorized.
I understand that terror has its uses and am not averse to a bit of frightful catharsis; too much decorum in our shared fantasies can be as unhealthful as too little. Nor do I believe that, in a general way, violence in entertainment makes violent people; indeed, some studies have suggested quite the opposite. (A 2010 study from Texas A&M; suggested, for instance, that "violent games reduce depression and hostile feelings in players through mood management.")
But it does create violence in the culture, in the social air we commonly breathe, and objections to it should not be dismissed merely because it can't be tied to a particular real-world act or because most of us are smart enough to tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
I recognize, as well, that great art has been made on this theme: "M," "Monsieur Verdoux," "The Night of the Hunter," "Peeping Tom," "Badlands" (a murder-spree story, technically), even that comedy chestnut "Arsenic and Old Lace." There is violence in Homer and Shakespeare, and, Lord knows, there is violence in the Bible — both the fire and brimstone of the Old Testament and the feel-His-pain torments of the New. Dante was a great inventor of tortures. But we are talking about somewhat lower horizons here.
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In most popular fictions, the serial killer is often not just smart but brilliant: almost psychically sensitive to their opponents and prey, able to play the game 10 moves ahead. These figures are self-styled übermenschen (they are usually menschen), typically with an "artistic" bent. "He didn't just eviscerate 14 female students," Kevin Bacon's reactivated FBI agent says of James Purefoy's Poe-obsessed serial killer (and leader of serial killers) in "The Following," "he was making art."
Created by Kevin Williamson ("Scream," "Dawson's Creek"), "The Following," in which an imprisoned serial killer marshals an army of like-minded murderers, multiplying the effect, does seem to represent some sort of watershed for network TV. Its survival relies on the survival of its villain and, therefore, the continued failure of its hero, and an unending stream of variations on the central ritual — the stalking, the torture, the killing. ("Cult," a kind of meta-series about a show-within-the-show called "Cult," feels somewhat less gruesome for being more mysterious.) The success of "Criminal Minds" notwithstanding, and the many hands that had to sign contracts and checks to bring it to life, it strikes me as an odd, sad plan for a television show, at least in the framework of network broadcast TV.
As I never tire of pointing out, broadcast is not cable. It legally requires accountability, and not only to the stockholders and profit-takers of the large corporations that squat there and treat the frequencies they have been merely licensed to use as their actual property. When something airs there, it's as if it were being projected in a public square, and it is weak to argue that you can just avoid that square if you don't like it, when it is your square as much as anyone's.
The oft-heard claim from broadcasters that they need to be able to compete with cable, where things can be darker and more explicit, is weak. Their profits are not the people's concern; indeed, all the responsibility lies with the broadcasters, who are mandated to serve the public good, which is not exactly the same as giving the people what they want.
I don't mean to suggest any kind of censorship, only a plea for the self-reflection that money tends to crowd out. And just as we should be able to discuss the gun problem without their makers and admirers digging in their feet like obstreperous children, we should be able to talk about violent entertainments without their makers and admirers suggesting that their 1st Amendment rights or the sanctity of their first-person-shooter video games, their Dario Argento and "Saw" DVDs, is under attack.
For the generations who grew up on Freddie and Jason and Leatherface and the slasher films from whose conventions Williamson fashioned "Scream," and those who grew up on Quentin Tarantino's hyperbolic remakes of an even earlier generation's bloody fun, this may all seem a tempest in a teapot made from a human skull. There have been national panics before, after all, over this sort of thing — horror comics were once thought to signal the end of civilization, which was more or less functioning when last seen. We find amusingly quaint the terrors of olden days.
Every passing season sets a new level of tolerance for such things. Is raising that bar a worthwhile pursuit? Exactly what sort of glory attaches to being the person who topped "The Human Centipede"?
"Stop me before I kill again," goes the familiar phrase. It isn't likely, but it's worth a thought.
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Was Jose Canseco the Johnny Appleseed of Steroids?
Last week, I became aware of a study by economists Eric Gould and Todd Kaplan that evaluates at the impact of Jose Canseco on his teammates. They examine the belief that Canseco distributed his knowledge about steroids throughout baseball by introducing many of his teammates to performance-enhancing drugs. If this was the case, the authors hypothesize that he ought to have left a trail of improved performance among teammates in his wake.
The authors look at the careers of Canseco's teammates to investigate this claim. Their method is to examine players to see how well they perform as a Canseco teammate and afterwards, relative to the years preceding involvement with Canseco. The idea is somewhat similar to what I did with my analysis of Leo Mazzone's impact on pitchers (see Chapter 5 of my book).
After reading the study, I am not convinced by the authors' conclusions. It's not just one thing, but a collection of issues that form my opinion. I have problems with both the study's design and the interpretation of the reported results. My disagreement does not mean that the effect does not exist, only that I do not see a pattern consistent with Canseco spreading steroids to his teammates.
First, I want to start with the sample. The authors look at players from from 1970–2003. I find this an odd range of seasons to select. Canseco's career spans from 1985–2001. Why start a decade and a half before Canseco enters the league and stop two years after he exits? The asymmetry bothers me largely because the run-scoring environment preceding Canseco was much lower than it was during the latter part of his career. But even without this, it is a strange choice to make. I can only guess that there is some teammate of Canseco's whose career extends back this far, but I still don't agree with the choice. And why not extend the sample until the present?
Next, the authors set the cutoffs for examining player performance at 50 at-bats for hitters and 10 games for pitchers. These minimums are far too low even when stats are normalized for playing time, but the impact is much worse when looking at absolute statistics like total home runs, which the authors do. For pitchers—who I will not examine here—it's possible to get pitchers who pitched very few innings.
The authors also make a strange choice to break hitters into two classes: power and skilled players. The idea is that we might see different effects on the different styles of play. I don't agree with this, but that is not the weird part. The way they differentiate power and skilled players is by position played, weird but moderately defensible. The power positions are first base, designated hitters, outfielders, and catchers. The skilled positions are second base, shortstop, and third base. And it becomes clear that the authors are not all that familiar with baseball. Catcher is a "power" position? Third base is a skill position? I suspect that the catcher and shortstop positions produce the least offense of all the positions. Sure, you can point to a power-hitting catcher like Mike Piazza, but you can also point to a punchless first basemen like Doug Mientkiewicz, but in general catcher and first base are at the opposite ends of defensive skill with very different offensive expectations. Center field is also a defensive position that should not be lumped in with the corner positions. This highlights the problem of separating power potential by position. And, it's not so much that the way that the sample spliced—which don't like—but the fact that it is being spliced at all makes me suspicious.
The choice of dependent variables is also bit strange. While the authors are mainly looking for changes in power, they pick only a few metrics that measure power: HR, SLG, and HR/AB. The other statistics include AVG, RBI, K, BB, IBB, at-bats, fielding percentage, errors, and steals. I have no problem with AVG. RBI is completely useless since it is largely dependent on teammates. K, BB and IBB are chosen because they correlate with home run hitting. But, performance in this area is also correlated with other things such as plate discipline, and the authors are already looking at home runs. This just adds columns to the regression table, that would have been better-used doing robustness checks on the sample and control variables. I would have liked to have seen isolated power (SLG–AVG), HR/H, OBP, and OPS.
As for the control variables, many of the choices are not intuitive. The batting average of the division (subtracting out own-team performance), the manager's lifetime winning percentage, the batting park factor, years of experience (listed as a continuous variable in the text, but reported as a matrix of dummies in the regression tables), year effects, and dummies for each division. Also, the equation is estimated with fixed effects to control for individual player attributes.
I wouldn't have chosen some of these same variables, but I don't think they make much difference. However, I am perplexed by the inclusion of manager's winning percentage and division dummies. I don't see any obvious potential bias from the quality of the manager. In any event, managerial dummies are probably the better choice. Mangers with players who perform better will have higher winning percentages, so a positive correlation is to be expected, but the causality is difficult to determine. However, this isn't a huge issue.
The division dummies make no sense. The divisions changed their compositions at several points during the sample—the most extreme change occurs when a Central Division was added to both leagues in 1994—and there are no common rules or kinds of play that are really unique to any division. If there was such an effect, the batting average of the division and year effects should catch this. It would have made more sense to include league dummies, because of the significant differences in play between the leagues after the introduction of the DH in 1973. In any event, the authors state that the control variables do not alter the results. I would have liked to see some results with different controls.
Now, to the variable(s) of interest. When I initially looked at the study, flipped to the regression tables first and noticed that there did not appear to be a "Canseco effect," because the estimate on playing with Canseco was not statistically significant. But, that is not what the authors use to quantify Canseco's impact; we are supposed to look at a second variable that identifies the seasons after playing with Canseco. The intuition is that "even if he did learn steroids from Canseco, we do not know when he learned about it during his time with Canseco, but we can be sure that he already acquired the knowledge after player with Canseco" (p. 10). I just don't buy this. I understand that it might take a while for the effect to kick in, but this should still manifest itself in the "played with" variable, especially because many players played with Canseco for multiple seasons. At best this story makes sense only for guys who might have played one season with Canseco (more on this below). Second, anabolic steroids work quickly, so it's unlikely that there would be a delayed effect.
After reading the paper, I came to the conclusion that the results are probably fragile. So, I designed a similar, but not identical, dataset. I did almost everything the authors did, except I did not break the sample into power and skilled players, and I included league dummies instead of division dummies, because I feel this is a superior choice. I also kicked out some partial seasons when guys switched teams to make life easier in developing the dataset. Thus, what I am doing is "replication" in the sense of looking for a similar result in the data, rather than trying to recreate the previous estimates. If the result is real, then I should find something similar. Here is what I found looking at raw home run totals (control variable estimates not reported).
HR HR HR/AB HR/AB AR(1) 50 AB 200 AB 50 AB 200 AB Corrected With Canseco -0.297 -0.199 -1.28E-03 -9.39E-04 -0.449 [0.66] [0.35] [1.41] [0.93] [0.87] After Canseco 0.667 0.737 3.49E-04 6.28E-04 -0.204 [1.58] [1.34] [0.41] [0.65] [0.34] Observations 15,644 9,234 15,644 9,234 12,759 Players 2,885 1,717 2,885 1,717 2,265 R-squared 0.13 0.14 0.09 0.13 0.08 Absolute value of t statistics in brackets
The coefficient on for playing with Canseco is negative and insignificant and the after Canseco coefficient is positive with a p-value of 0.12, which is above the standard (0.05) and lenient (0.1) thresholds for statistical significance. That is the best that I could get. When I up the at-bat minimum to the more appropriate 200, normalize home runs for at-bats, and both, "played with" is negative and never significant, and "after's" p-value is never as low as it was in the specification that most-closely resembles the study. Another potential problem that I encountered was serial correlation in the data. This is sometimes difficult to detect, and it is possible that it is a problem unique to my sample. However, when I correct for the problem, both Canseco variables consistently have high insignificant p-values. So, though the authors find some evidence of an effect in the after variable in their sample, the finding appears not be all that robust.
The one thing that bothers me most about this study is that we have to interpret why the "after Canseco" variable is important, but the "during" variable is not as important. And I think the author's story really only applies to players who are with Canseco for one season. So, I ran some regressions using players who played with Canseco for only one year.
One-year One-year 10+ Career With Canseco -2.656 -3.450 [3.02]** [3.17]** After Canseco -2.562 -3.027 [2.84]** [2.95]** Observations 1,200 940 Players 186 100 R-squared 0.18 0.23 Absolute value of t statistics in brackets * significant at 5%; ** significant at 1%
The effects of during and after playing with Canseco are strongly negative, about 2.5 less homers. However, if they only played on year with him it could reflect that these players were not very good and were on their way out of the league. So, I limited the sample to players with careers of 10 or more seasons; and, the result is a decline in homers of about 3 HRs both with and after.
My point of offering this "replication" isn't so much to say that my specifications are superior. I just want to show that the findings do not appear to be robust. To concur with the conclusions presented in the study you have to interpret the findings in a way that I do not believe is correct. Upon further examination, I believe the significant effect on home runs after playing with Canseco identified in the Gould and Kaplan study is a product of spurious correlation, and thus this tells us little about Canseco impact on disseminating steroids throughout baseball.
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Let me preface my comment by admitting that I have not read the study. While I agree with your critique of the study (based on your comments alone), I think that your replication conclusions may provide evidence that steroids, in fact, don't improve performance rather than showing that Canseco may not have been spreading steroids around MLB.
If Canseco had been the Johnny Appleseed of steroids but those drugs don't improve performance (as many experts will argue, especially with regards to HGH), then your results would look as they do. So, the authors' conclusions provide evidence for both hypotheses: 1) steroids improve performance, and 2) Canseco likely provided them. Another possibility is that there is a "Canseco effect" but not with respect to steroids. Of course, I don't find this likely. Your results indicate that one or both of the above hypotheses are incorrect, but we can't say for sure that it's the latter.
Having said all that, I agree with you and find it hard to believe that we would find significant aggregate results on player performance during and after Canseco. But I do believe that he had some effect on a subset of teammates and those teammates potentially had small effects on their future teammates – essentially a ripple effect.


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Welcome to BWW's ON THIS DAY Series celebrating theatrical birthdays, openings and special events that took place on this day in theatre history!
Today in 1989, the first Broadway revival of Shenandoah opened at the Virginia Theatre (now the August Wilson Theatre), where it ran for 32 performances. Shenandoah is a musical that was written in 1975 with music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Peter Udell, and a book by Udell, Philip Rose and James Lee Barrett, based on Barrett's original screenplay for the 1965 film Shenandoah. The musical first opened at the Goodspeed Opera House in 1974 and then transferred to Broadway, opening on January 7, 1975. It ran on Broadway for a total of 1,050 performances, closing August 7, 1977. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and won two, one for Best Actor in a Musical (John Cullum) and the other for Best Book of a Musical.
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The year long study looked at 50,000 warranty replacements. The iPhone 4 had the fewest malfunctions not due to accidental damage while Motorola and HTC Android phones tied for second. As for breakage, the iPhone 4 is king of the heap with 9.4%
Not related to the possible Glassgate situation, this news is still rather off-putting in a world where the iPhone 4 is one of the greatest designed phones around -- but that design includes glass on both sides.
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Comedian KATT WILLIAMS has been hit with an assault and battery lawsuit by his tour manager.
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The lawsuit does not give details on where or why the alleged fight occurred, but the lawyer lists concussion, a loose tooth, and unspecified facial and head injuries as a result of the bust-up.
The lawsuit is the latest blow for Williams, who has been involved in a number of run-ins with the law involving his Rolls-Royce - earlier this week (15Jul14), he was reportedly under investigation for assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly hitting a fan with his car following an altercation at LAX airport in Los Angeles, and last week (begs07Jul14) his security guard allegedly used a stun gun on a stranger who was kicking the star's car outside an L.A. comedy club.


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Running OpenBSD 4.3 and noticed after the install everything has a slight delay in connecting to where I want to go. Realised that using the "-4" switch with everything that it was because everything was trying IPv6 first. Turns out that it's just the resolver looking for IPv6 records when trying to resolve something.
16:35:01.857501 192.168.1.200.37444 > 192.168.1.254.53: [udp sum ok] 2489+ AAAA? www.google.com. (32) (ttl 64, id 60159, len 60) 16:35:06.862732 192.168.1.200.37444 > 192.168.1.254.53: [udp sum ok] 2489+ AAAA? www.google.com. (32) (ttl 64, id 11068, len 60) 16:35:11.872879 192.168.1.200.34052 > 192.168.1.254.53: [udp sum ok] 15209+ AAAA? www.google.com.konundrum.org. (46) (ttl 64, id 13656, len 74) 16:35:15.978486 192.168.1.254.53 > 192.168.1.200.34052: [udp sum ok] 15209 NXDomain- 0/0/0 (46) (ttl 255, id 35698, len 74) 16:35:15.978983 192.168.1.200.3278 > 192.168.1.254.53: [udp sum ok] 47919+ A? www.google.com. (32) (ttl 64, id 26604, len 60) 16:35:16.529135 192.168.1.254.53 > 192.168.1.200.3278: 47919 4/0/0 www.google.com. CNAME www.l.google.com., www.l.google.com.[|domain] (ttl 255, id 35700, len 128)
$ host www.google.ie www.google.ie is an alias for www.google.com. www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com has address 184.108.40.206 www.l.google.com has address 188.8.131.52 www.l.google.com has address 126.96.36.199 www.l.google.com has address 18.104.22.168 ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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By what you've shown, I'm not sure what you're looking at to see that it's "looking for IPv6 records."
There is an IPv6 zone section in named.conf that you could comment out if you think this is the case... but perhaps the dns servers you are using could be what's to blame... in my experience, when I see a delay but eventual resolution, it's because the first stated dns server times out and the second actually works...
Or am I missing what you are saying completely?
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this seems to happen everywhere though, it's not a specific set of DNS servers....friends DSL, work and a net cafe. Had to change the ftp command for the ports to include "-4". Same with SSH. With opera pages takes alot longer than usual to load because of all the embedded links that comes with most web pages. By the time it's resolved most URLs some stuff has timed out and I'm forced to refresh which just tries AAAA records again and then eventually resolves for the A or CNAME.
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Entertainment Tonight will feature coverage of the exciting Broadway opening night of Robert Harling's STEEL MAGNOLIAS tonight, Tuesday, April 5 on CBS-TV at 7:30pm EDT (check local listings for times outside the New York tri-state area).
STEEL MAGNOLIAS opened Monday, April 4 at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, (149 West 45th Street, east of Broadway) and stars Delta Burke as Truvy, Christine Ebersole as M'Lynn, Rebecca Gayheart as Shelby, Marsha Mason as Ouiser, Lily Rabe as Annelle and Frances Sternhagen as Clairee. This production, which marks the Broadway premiere of the play, is directed by Jason Moore.
STEEL MAGNOLIAS follows the lives of six indomitable Southern women as they share their personal triumphs, tragedies, beauty tips, recipes, and more than the occasional piece of scandalous gossip in Truvy's beauty shop in Chinquapin, Louisiana.
Set design is by Anna Louizos, costume design is by David Murin, lighting design is by Howell Binkley, sound design by Ken Travis and hair design is by Bobby H. Grayson.
STEEL MAGNOLIAS is produced on Broadway by Roy Gabay, Robyn Goodman, Danzansky Partners, Ergo Entertainment, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Susan Dietz/Ina Meibach, Michael Galvis/Billy Huddleston, and Elsa Daspin Suisman/Martha R. Gasparian.
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As many of you may know, NHS District General Hospital is experiencing layoffs and financial problems. We can't possibly be expected to stop hiring managers and paying them huge bonuses. And cutting trained nursing staff , doctors and other frontline clinicians to the very bone isn't making us enough money. All Staff that haven't been made reduntant and dicked out of redundancy pay please read the following memo:
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Effective August 5, this hospital will no longer provide security. Each consultant will be issued a .38 caliber revolver and 12 rounds of ammunition. An additional 12 rounds will be stored in Theatre . In addition to routine medical duties, consultants will rotate through the car park and entrances. In light of the similarity of monitoring equipment, the ICU will now take over surveillance duties.
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Due to cutbacks in phlebotomy and laboratory staff, a policy has been developed that blood tests be performed only on patients who are currently bleeding.
The Radiology staff is being reduced and physicians are informed that they may order no more than 2 X-rays per patient stay. This is due to the turnaround time required by Boot's photo lab.
In addition to the overall recycling program, a bin for the collection of unused fruit and bread will be provided on each floor. Families, patients, and the few remaining employees are encouraged to contribute discarded food products. The resulting moldy compost will be utilized by the pharmacy for the production of antibiotics. Additionally, maggot infestation of the compost will be encouraged in an attempt to develop alternative approaches to wound care that don't involve time-consuming dressing changes that require RN's..
All staff will be issued with the uniforms of a Registered Nurse to ensure that each ward/department appears to have at least one RN on duty. The general public will always assume that any member of staff caring for patients is a Nurse. We will continue to capitalise on their stupidity.
Family members will be encouraged to scream and yell at harried frontline staff and pull them away from trying to keep patients alive rather than talk to someone who actually has the power to elicit change.
This will save money in the complaints department and prevent expensive delayed discharges and bed blockers. PALS is being combined with catering and they will be too busy making sandwiches to listen to complaints.
We will continue to enocurage the public to directly sue doctors and nurses rather than go after managers who put professional clinicians in situations where they cannot function.
The dieticans will now combine with morgue staff. By the time the lone hospital dietican makes his way to malnourished patients who cannot take regular food and require supplements, the patients will be dead.
All visitors and patients will be issued with at least 2 copies of the Daily Mail each day. This is to ensure that they continue to accuse overburdened overworked and underpaid frontline doctors and nurses of being "overpaid, lazy, and uncaring" rather than blaming managment for lapses in care. We have lifestyles to maintain.
Pharmacy will open for one hour on a Wednesday morning rather than just regular M-F office hours. And they will still expect the Doctors and Nurses to abandon patients in order to bend over backwards for them because pharmacy staff is so "busy".
IV tubing lines are now good for 600 hours. If you change the line before this you will be sacked for not being cost conscious. If your patient gets septicemia as a result of bacteria breeding like Brangelina on said IV tubing you will be sacked. You will then be replaced with a Patient journey flow discharge liason champion coordinator. We have mistresses that require jobs with six figure annual incomes you know.
Any questions please contact someone else.
The Management.
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Memo from Management to all Hospital Staff.
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Don't worry about the tubing. Brangelina doesn't breed. Brangelina acquires. Thinking on, acquisition may be the faster process.
As you were, worry about the tubing.
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We are the Borg....resistance is futile.
Reading between the lines we can all see where the NHS is heading.
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I am sure that the trust i work for may end up adopting some of these ridiulous money saving measures.
All the measures they have adopted so far are ridiculous...so why not!?
Why is it nursing numbers that are affected every time???
And they have the cheek to hand out patient satisfaction questionairres at the same time they are slashing nurse munbers.
That was, the few reamining nurses can take the blame.
- 13 July 2010 at 02:50
*that way* should i say... typo..
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