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It's probably not the best idea to plot a daring escape should you ever find yourself confined with a pair of handcuffs or plastic zip-ties. But if you and John Law don't get along, consider this clever Titanium Escape Ring that hides a small lockpick and saw. Just remember, the one thing it can't get you out of are the bonds of holy matrimony.
Available for just $69, the ring features an inner groove where you can stash an included serrated shim pick out of sight while it's worn on your finger. Of course, you won't be sawing through the bars of a holding cell with it, but zip-ties, duct tape, rope, and pretty much anything not made of metal is fair game. [Shomer-Tec via The Gadgeteer]

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text: Ten Things Rural America Wants Washington to Know June 25, 2013 05:15 AM Tweet A new survey published Tuesday by the Center for Rural Affairs reflects views about the economy and federal government that are held by people living in rural communities and small towns in the U.S. © Center for Rural Affairs TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Nate Birt Top Producer Managing Editor Email A survey of roughly 800 registered voters in rural communities and small towns of the Midwest, Great Plains and South finds sentiments are largely optimistic about the future but skeptical about what goes on in Washington. The telephone survey was held May 28 through June 3 by Lake Research Partners in conjunction with the Center for Rural Affairs. Thirteen percent of those polled say they live on a farm or ranch, 42% in a rural community and the remaining 45% in a small town. Only 17% say they rely on farming, ranching or agriculture in whole or in part for 25% or more of their total family income. Ten of the report findings appear below. Click this link and then scroll to the bottom of the page to view a PDF with the complete findings and to learn more about the limitations of the study. Half of all respondents agree with the statement, "Owning my own business or farm is a big part of the American Dream for me." * About half of all respondents agree that farm subsidies benefit the whole rural and small-town economy and should be protected in the federal budget (49%). Meanwhile, 57% say too many of those subsidies go to the largest farms, hurting smaller family farms. A total of 40% say too many tax dollars are spent on farm subsidies that don't help most people in small-town America.* While 44% of respondents say their family economic situation has gotten much or somewhat worse over the past four years, 47% say they expect that situation to get much or somewhat better in the next four years. Thirty-two percent expect it to get much or somewhat worse, while 14% expect it to stay about the same. (Half the sample was asked both questions.) Fifty-three percent of respondents say they have some or a little control over their economic situation, followed by 24% who say they have a great deal or a lot of control, and 22% who say they have no control. Of the issues posed to all respondents, top concerns included being able to afford health care (49%), being able to save enough to retire (43%) and having earnings, wages or salary cut back (41%)* Stability ranked as the most important component of the rural economy (37%), followed by security (28%) and opportunity (25%). Respondents say they hold the government most responsible for rural America's economy (43%), followed by the rich (23%). Rural people and don't know tied at 14%, rounded out by suburbs and cities at 6%. While 54% say the rural and small-town way of life is dying, 80% say that way of life is worth fighting for and protecting.* A majority of respondents think federal government policies have some or a lot of influence on the rural and small-town economy (76%), following by 19% who say that the federal government has a little influence or nothing at all. Programs supported by a majority of respondents include job training for the working poor (89%); loans, tax credits and training for farms as well as small and owner-operated businesses (89%); quality preschool programs for lower-income children (85%). Note: All percentages for bullet points ending in an asterisk (*) reflect respondents who qualified their response with a rating between 8 and 10, indicating strong agreement with the statement. Back to news


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State may revoke charter of closed Houston school
After a series of financial problems, a small north Houston charter school shut down just before students were scheduled to return this month.
Officials with the Juan B. Galaviz Charter School said on the school website that they plan to reopen in a year, but the Texas Education Agency is considering revoking its charter, closing the campus permanently.
Problems at the charter stacked up recently. A finance manager was accused of embezzling about $40,000, and the school owes thousands of dollars to the IRS, according to an audit report and education agency records.
The entity that runs the school, Galaviz Academy, also lost its tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status in January after failing to file mandatory paperwork for three years, according to IRS records. Charter schools must have that nonprofit status to operate in Texas.
Victoria Cano, the interim superintendent of Galaviz, said the accounting problems are mostly fixed and were due largely to a former finance manger, who has since been indicted. Nency Garcia pleaded guilty this year to a felony charge of stealing from the school.
"She's very remorseful for what she did," said Garcia's attorney, Marco Sapien.
State education commissioner Michael Williams, who heads the Texas Education Agency, wrote a letter to Galaviz leaders in July informing them of his intent to revoke the charter because of its lost nonprofit status.
Cano said the school has re-applied for its nonprofit status and is awaiting approval.
"What happens is, a lot of the charter schools were started by mission-oriented educators, whose expertise was education, not really so much business," Cano said.
Debbie Ratcliffe, a spokeswoman for the education agency, said its staff would review the charter school's appeal to re-open next year but it needs to have nonprofit status.
"The future does not look bright for them," Ratcliffe said.
In the last three years, a dozen charter schools have had their charters revoked or rescinded by the Texas Education Agency, or they've simply closed or had their renewal applications denied. The state has awarded about 300 charters.
Charter schools receive tax dollars but have more flexibility in operating. While some perform well academically, others struggle, particularly with managing finances.
An investigative report from the Texas Education Agency, dated May 2013, found numerous problems at the Galaviz school. According to the report, the charter school owed about $27,000 in federal payroll taxes.
In addition, the agency found that the school submitted audited financial statements for 2011 that were deemed "fraudulent." The report said the school's former business manager sent the agency an unsigned memo from an auditor on letterhead of a firm that had not conducted the audit. According to Cano, the indicted former employee, Garcia, was responsible.
Once an audit was done, the report said, the auditing firm said it could not issue an opinion on the school's finances because the bookkeeping was so poor.
Galaviz served about 70 at-risk students in middle and high school last year.


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The crust beneath oceans and continents is fundamentally different. Continental crust is made of light-colored rocks called andresite and granite. Ocean crust is composed of dark-colored rocks called basalt and gabbro. Ocean crust originates as a "melt" that forms in submicroscopic pores in rocks in Earth's hot mantle and rises to the surface. Scientists have pieced together clues to discover: 1) how melt formed over hundreds of kilometers in the mantle is focused into a five-kilometer volcanic zone beneath mid-ocean ridges, and 2) how oceanic crust is formed with a relatively uniform, three-tiered structure consisting of gabbro, sheeted dikes, and lava flows. (Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander)
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Warner, an early-'80s hardcore punk musician, discovered Zen in college, moved to Japan to make B-grade monster movies, and eventually became a bona fide Zen master by formally receiving "dharma transmission." Yet true to his punk spirit, he relentlessly demands that all teaching, all beliefs, all authority-including his own-must be questioned. ("Why should you listen to me? Who the hell am I?... No one. No one at all.")
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04/11/2013 6:51amYour appetite for fresh Mexican food could help college students Thursday. Sonora Grill in Ogden is holding "Dining for Dollars," with 100 percent of sales going to a special scholarship.
U. of U. didn't inform premature babies' parents of oxygen level risks
04/11/2013 8:43amThe federal government says University of Utah, along with 22 other medical institutions, did not fully inform parents of risks during a study tracking premature babies and the impact varied of oxygen levels.
Utah women excel in small business
04/11/2013 9:56amThe number of businesses in Utah owned by women outpaced the national average in 2011, and the gains in revenues from those businesses were far above those seen in other areas of the country. But despite important gains, statistics for women still lag behind men in many areas, including gaining access to the highest levels of success.
Beauty and the Beast: The Utah economy and the Sequester
04/11/2013 1:31pmJust over one month into the federal government's self-imposed, across-the-board budget cuts—known as "The Sequester" like it is some kind of bad summer horror flick—it is worth some discussion of what the impact has been so far, how it stacks up to the pre-sequester rhetoric and what we can expect going forward here in Utah
Stolen 200-pound dino bones returned to museum, no questions asked
04/11/2013 2:44pmA dinosaur skeleton roughly the size of an 18-wheeler is whole again and hitting the road.
Man killed in Sanpete County construction accident
04/11/2013 4:01pmA construction worker was killed Thursday when he was run over by the truck he was driving Thursday.
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04/11/2013 5:15pmUtah land officials say this year's wildfire season will be better than last year, but fire danger will still be high, and the state likely will see some large fires.
Employee arrested for stealing 31 instruments
04/11/2013 5:18pmA Summerhays Music store employee was arrested after she allegedly stole 31 instruments — valued at more than $25,000 total — from her employer.
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04/11/2013 5:22pmA long-time police officer has been convicted of a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment.
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I know we're drowning in 360 news and speculation, but it's less than a week before launch. Not that I'm counting the days or anything. At any rate, Gizmodo has actually received their 360 unit and were gracious enough to put a bunch of pictures up. While we've certainly seen the 360 once or twice, for those of us who haven't been able to make it a demo unit pictures in the real world with other systems for size comparisons are nice.
I know I've started rewiring my entertainment center to make room for the new system, and while taking out an Xbox and adding a 360 may sound simple, when you have around 9 systems hooked up to one TV the cables can get slightly hard to deal with. I just hope I'm not moving for a while.


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Madden NFL 15 Cover Revealed by Online Retailers
The voting for Madden NFL 15's cover athlete ended on June 6, with outspoken Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman taking the honors. Today, two online retailers may have revealed the actual box-art, giving us our first look at Sherman's first cover appearance.
Amazon and GameStop have both posted listings for all four console editions of Madden NFL 15, showing the cover in its full glory. Sherman appears alone on the cover, standing inside Seattle's Qwest Field. Oddly, Sherman is shown in what appears to be a martial arts pose, with one foot off the ground and his right hand thrust forward. Maybe it's not supposed to be a fighting stance, but it sure doesn't look like anything a cornerback would do in a game. Despite the fame and exposure that comes with a Madden cover, Sherman is shown making his meanest face.
Sherman was a standout corner all year, but became famous for his excellent performance in Super Bowl XLVIII and his loud, aggressive post-game interview where he called out 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree, scaring the living bejeezus out of Fox Sports' Erin Andrews in the process. We'll find out if the kung-fu cover we're seeing today will be the final box-art when the game is released on August 26.


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Ok, i decided to scrape the long rant before people get corroded, in favour of a more lighter note:
I just had Horatio down to 2100 health with the gorgon. It was a massive luckout, though, but at least there is a way to luck out with the gorgon - which is good news. Key thing is HALPMEH, which I simply didn't chance into before.
Typing it up now, but still, if you're doing gorgon I feel bad for you son, it took 99 trickshots and I still haven't won.
So preps were - Binlor, RBS, Subdungeon, Extra attack, Dragonshield, Compression Seal, Fortitude, Burn Salve, ??? and Whoopaz.
Luckout was - HALPMEH, Gloves of Midas (had to scrape them though) and Platemail. Spent most of the game with those things and it worked. Also used fireball, and later BYCEPS. If I had money, there were martyr wraps, and a tower shield in the shops but it was impossible to get them (I think).
Floor luckout was - I managed to kill the illusion with only 3 weakenings stuck on me, but drac and the statue showed up at the last possible moment, with only two floors to go in an impossibly perfect and perilous moment. If I didn't find both right there and then I would've lost. This also means I got to floor 8 on only Binlor, and managed to get my magic resists maxed out in the process. Also, first floor troll, second floor fully explored, third floor revealed and a late Drac + luckout ment that I had a bunch of bloodpools lying around.
Bad Luck was - No IMAWAL, so no knockback ws. Horratio, and no soul orb which might've affected my gameplay. In an impossible stroke of luck, I've seen the least ammount of wraiths I've ever seen in a VGT run. I still reached horatio with 0 potions. Reason I didn't have money is that I HAD to buy a keg of health and use the potions to spike someone (can't remember), it was that bad.
Gameplay was - play TIGHT. Like, q3 with a savegame playing PBEM tight. Use endiswall at every opportunity, prioritizing subdungeon/lowe floor/piety walls and setting knocbacks up. Binlor up your resists slowly, but save exploration at every corner, and time stoneskins to not coincide from the might on wall destruction, if possible, or squeeze the deathgaze wins where you otherwise wouldn't. Also, using binlor to free up your bloodpools might be a good idea.
Key - Halpmeh. It's pretty much impossible any other way, and tbh it's also impossible without Drac, and those two only really work togather for the paladin. If you can get your resists from Binlor and whatever other source (you need 18%-ish), I think you can just grab sanguine and get out, but there are several ways it can play out. Halpmeh + Rbs+ Resists beat everythign but mana burn, that is, don't fail horribly against anything, except a long stretch in Drac is suicide. Hurrying your binlor development for an early 100 piety dip into Drac for the shield and sanguine, then going back into Binlor for magic resists and unrestriced halpmeh shennanigans might be good, but god knows how difficult it would be to pull off...
Pro tip - luck out massively. Like, hugely. Get everything possible lined up and play to the best of your abilities, and it could be doable. Maybe. Also, god knows what I'm missing, ofc. I've made mistakes, but I was juggling to many plates for my skill level. IMAWAL monkeying at Horratio can't be done in binlor, and Halpmeh can't be done in Drac, so finding the optimal way to juggle those two could be key to figuring out.
Good news - Binlor might actually be good for stuff in there. Well, poison strike was big and only Gorgon can have it reliably, but a rather effortless max magic resists is nothing to sneeze at, plus "free" mights on wall destruction. Might be a hoot with Monks.


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I got mine last week and have put it together. I preordered it at brickworld in June. No shipping cost either due to the purchase at brickworld. (sweet) The black piece that comes with the dark wizards staff is indeed a black lightsaber hilt and not just a pair of skateboard wheels like previous chess sets. He is holding the fire in his hand so he is smaller for storage purposes. I put the fire on his staff once I pulled him out of the packaging.
You are able to store the board assembled in its original box. However you will have to cut the cardboard box that the extra building pieces came in. Since this box is attached below the plastic area where the figures are stored it is hidden and not seen anyway. I don't know why they screwed this up. It is strange that they would expect people to accurately cut a box like that. Unless you are supposed to remove the box all together? If anyone contacts lego it would sure be helpful to post a solutuion here.
As has been said there is a plethora of gear and very useful castle building parts. I absolutely love this set and will keep it built and on display. I plan on getting more if they ever go on sale for parting them out.


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Something is happening at Ballard Designs. Something really good. Just when you thought that everyone's favorite home decor catalogue couldn't get any better, it has.
The evolution of Ballard Designs' bird cage – from the flea markets of France to the catalogue.
It all started with a contest – in 1982, Metropolitan Home Magazine awarded Helen Ballard Weeks' condominium First Place in a reader's competition, and then promptly featured it in the magazine. Weeks, who was inundated with phone calls praising her interior design, decided to take advantage of all the interest by launching a two page, black and white catalogue which featured a copy of her antique French dining table. Obviously it was a instant hit and the start of a business that is today one of the largest and most successful of all the home decor catalogues.
The former office of Helen Ballard Weeks, founder of Ballard Designs – the large bulletin board, framed in gold, is a classic Ballard item. The lamp with a gold shade made out of a mannequin was once a popular item – today it is no longer sold. Weeks loved French antiques and used them as her inspiration for her merchandise.
Another detail, besides the antique reproductions that set Ballard Designs apart were the eye popping colors on its pages: Weeks favored black and white with chartreuse accents and lots of leopard thrown in. One of her most popular fabrics-by-the-yard was a velvet in chartreuse, a highly unusual color choice at the time. Over the years, the company grew and in 1997 Ballard Designs merged with Cornerstone, a conglomerate that also owned the catalogues Frontgate, Garnet Hill, Smith and Noble, The Territory Ahead and Travel Smith. After the merger, fans of Weeks were distraught, I know – I was one of them! Selling out would mean a change at Ballard and many felt it wouldn't be a good one. Yes, things did change, but Weeks' initial vision, her love of antiques and her color schemes can still be found in the catalogue today. In truth, the company only got better with the infusion of big business. Weeks remained at the helm of Cornerstone until she retired in 2002. Today, Barry Diller, head of IAC and the Home Shopping Network owns Ballard Design. Now, with two stores open in Florida, Ballard Designs has gone the retail route. It publishes a new catalogue monthly and distributes 40 million copies yearly. Quite a feat for a catalogue that started as two pages in black and white.
Ballard in a nutshell: white slipcovers, seagrass, and zebra!
The catalogue in on-line and that's where all the fun is. The web site has gone blog! There's a lot more to see online than in print – customers send in photos of their homes showcasing what they bought, there are stories about how antiques are turned into products, and there are endless columns with decorating advice. Recently Ballard Designs even teamed up in Domino Magazine! There's a special section online called Style Studio where this month, the talented Beverly Hills interior designer James Swan is featured. Swan created four rooms using only Ballard products. Swan shows how the price-friendly Ballard Designs merchandise confirms that good taste knows no cost. His rooms are high end, yet VERY affordable to most of us. Thank you! Swan was chosen by Ballard Design for his clean and effortlessly elegant designs. In the layouts, Swan chose to use both new products and the best sellers that Ballard's customers have come to love over the years. There is a "behind-the-scenes" story of how the rooms were created, so be sure to look at that too. Swan has a book coming out, "101 Things I Hate About Your House" – a humorous look at interior design – I can't wait to read it! So – enjoy Swan's rooms for Ballard Designs below:
The first room Swan designed is this living room – the framed print is the focal point here. It is based on an original Regency piece by Napoleon's court painter Jacques Louis David. The print is a new item for Ballard, as is the wonderful large sunburst mirror. Two French chairs, painted black, and a velvet sofa were used with dark wood furniture. The coffee table is actually four leather cubes put together to form a more substantial size. The ottomans separate for more seating when needed. Checked curtains add French charm. Everything pops off the light colored jute rug – a perfect choice by Swan. the lamps on the wood console are mercury glass, made to resemble glass apothecary jars. My favorites in the room are the large Regency print and the sunburst mirror – beautiful!
The dining room designed by Swan uses two of my favorite new items from Ballard: the focal point – a trio of oversized botanicals that are SOOO fabulous! I think this series is stunning! The next item – the slipcovered chairs which are also a new design. The chair, the Gramercy, can be ordered upholstered or slipped – either way it has wonderful lines and is a very sophisticated addition to their furniture line. Swan paired the chairs with the classic Berkley trestle table, topped with three topiaries and a set of Ballard dishes. The two light fixtures, The Marianna Chandelier, is a charming new item for Ballard. The brown and celadon rug perfectly picks up the colors in the chair fabric. And lastly – the painted wood mirror, the Winslow, is another new item in the latest catalogue. I would love to order the botanicals and the set of chairs!!!!
In the home office, Swan chose the new Celia Indoor/Outdoor rug as the focal point. He used a combination of hutches and cabinets in black to create the work space. The desk return becomes a perfect surface for two people to use at the same time. Swan again chose to use the new Gramercy chairs, again with slips - this time in a black and white damask pattern, Marlo, new to Ballard Designs. Ballard's popular bulletin boards come framed in small to extra large sizes. The baskets add a welcome texture as does the lampshade. Swan used an assortment of decorative items from the catalogue, including the new and charming iron Ferris wheel. The curtains, another new item, with the black trim add a soft touch to the graphic and high contrast office.
The bedroom features the new rattan Grovesnor headboard along with an assortment of fabrics and bedding. The curtains and pillows are made of a venetian style fabric and the bench is in the classic "Helen Ballard Weeks" chartreuse green. The end tables are a new design – the Dunstan – with an "X" detail. The new series of wood coral prints serve as a focal point. Their background of deep chocolate picks up the browns in the striped fabric, another new item in the fabric-by-the-yard collection. The series of mirrored butterflies are new to the spring catalogue too. I couldn't find the lamps online, but I assume they will be there shortly.
The designer, James Swan sits in the living room he created for Ballard Designs. Job very well done!!
For more information on Mr. Swan, be sure to visit his web site here. And, to keep up with all his adventures in design – visit his blog, here.


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When a Florida sheriff sternly accuses state legislators of protecting drug dealers and child pornographers, it has a way of getting people's attention.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri made that assertion in fighting to defeat a bill filed by Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, dealing with police access to information stored on citizens' portable electronic devices such as cellphones and iPads.
The controversy, also raging in other states, involves personal privacy, public safety and changing technology at a time when a related case is pending before the Florida Supreme Court.
Brandes, citing the importance of a constitutional right to privacy, wants to change state law to require police to obtain a warrant from a judge before searching cellphone contents. His bill would remove the current exception that allows warrantless searches of devices in what's known as a search incident to arrest, where an arrested person could hide or destroy relevant evidence.
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The first-term senator, who has the support of public defenders, says a cellphone is the modern equivalent of the "papers and effects" that the Founding Fathers included in the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution as safe from unreasonable search and seizure.
"The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is very clear: We are protected and the government needs to get a warrant to search your papers and effects," Brandes said. "To me, a cellphone, an iPad, those are the modern equivalents of papers and effects."
Gualtieri, backed by sheriffs, prosecutors and Attorney General Pam Bondi, says the change would make it harder for police to investigate crimes, and that in the time it takes to get a warrant, a suspect could delete the evidence.
"This is a bill that really protects people engaged in child pornography, drug dealing and murders," Gualtieri said in testimony before a House committee, dressed in his starched green and white uniform. "We can't collect the evidence we really need to prosecute these cases."
Brandes' bill, SB 864, passed one Senate committee on a 5-2 vote and is one of dozens of bills currently awaiting hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Tom Lee, R-Brandon.
The House version, HB 797, is sponsored by Rep. Carlos Trujillo, R-Miami, has cleared two House panels and is pending action in the House Judiciary Committee.
Even if the bill passes both houses, its future may be uncertain: Republican Gov. Rick Scott has not taken a position on the bill, but he has consistently sided with law enforcement on criminal justice issues, and Gualtieri this week urged Scott's chief of staff and general counsel to oppose the bill.
The sheriff cites the case of a man arrested in Gulfport for driving with a suspended license who had a 14-year-old runaway girl in his car. Police took the girl into custody, and a check of the man's cellphone revealed pictures of them having sex — a felony because the girl was under age.
"Now you've got a pedophile," Gualtieri said.
Brandes said the arresting officer had no right to confiscate the man's cell phone. "Why in the world would a police officer need to search your cellphone if you're driving on a suspended license?" Brandes said.
The legislation has created some odd political alliances. Brandes' position is backed by both the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and the libertarian Cato Institute.
"Thank God there are principled conservatives in Tallahassee," said the ACLU's Howard Simon, frequently a harsh critic of Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature.
"We think it's another check on the power of the police, and it simply means that they first have to persuade a judge that there's a basis for a search," said Tim Lynch, director of Cato's criminal justice unit. "Without this rule, it leaves the privacy of people in the hands of a patrolman."
Opponents include conservative Republicans such as Sen. Rob Bradley of Fleming Island and liberal Democrats such as Rep. Irv Slosberg of Boca Raton, both of whom have cast no votes in committees.
"The bottom line is, this makes it more difficult to catch criminals," Slosberg said.


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UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The European Union has allocated 320 million euros ($431 million) to the U.N. children's agency to help 15 vulnerable countries tackle infectious diseases and the lack of food, which are key causes of child deaths.
EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs announced the new funding Tuesday, standing beside UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake who praised the way "the EU has put children at the heart of its development agenda."
While child mortality rates have declined from an estimated 12.6 million in 1990 to approximately 6.6 million in 2012, UNICEF said around 18,000 children still die of preventable diseases every day.
The EU funding is going to East Timor and 14 African countries _ Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has requested consultations under the World Trade Organization dispute settlement process to try to force Chinese officials to end their government's "Famous Brands" export subsidy programs.
The "Famous Brands" programs cover textile manufacturing as well as appliances, medical equipment, chemicals and agricultural products. Such programs appear to be prohibited export subsidies and are protectionist industrial policies, according to U.S. farm and manufacturing groups.
"The United States has discovered that China, as part of its industrial policy aimed at promoting the sale of Chinese products abroad and encouraging worldwide recognition of Chinese brand names, apparently provides numerous subsidies at multiple levels of government," U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said in a press release.
"The subsidies appear to include cash grant rewards for exporting, preferential loans for exporters, research and development funding to develop new products for export, and payments to lower the cost of export credit insurance."
Schwab said the designated Chinese brands represent a wide range of sectors, including household electronic appliances, textiles and apparel, a range of light manufacturing industries, agricultural and food products, metal and chemical products, medicines, and health products. "These subsidies apply across the economy and therefore may unfairly alter the competitive landscape around the world for any industry competing with these Chinese products," she said.
"We are going to the WTO because we are determined to use all resources available to fight industrial policies that aim to unfairly promote Chinese branded products at the expense of American workers, farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, and intellectual property owners."
Organizations such as the National Cotton Council, National Council of Textile Organizations and the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition expressed their gratitude for the USTR action.
"The U.S. cotton industry applauds the efforts of USTR to level the playing field in agricultural product and textile trade," said NCC Chairman Larry McClendon. "Our domestic textile industry has been decimated by subsidized imports. Our producers need open markets in China as the current economic crisis dampens world demand."
"The WTO case announced by Ambassador Schwab against China's illegal activity had to be done," said AMTAC Executive Director Auggie Tantillo. "The only way for China to live up to its WTO commitments is to stop these illegal subsidy programs, which are destroying thousands of critical middle class jobs each year."
The genesis of this case was an investigation that AMTAC and other industry trade associations recently conducted on illegal Chinese subsidies as they specifically relate to the textile and apparel sector. In addition, 73 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to President Bush last Sept. 26 calling for a specific program to monitor China's textile and apparel exports to the United States for illegal activity.
"We are pleased that the U.S. Trade Representative has responded to our efforts to uncover what we believe to be a systematic program of egregious cheating on the part of China to gain unfair advantage in the global marketplace," Tantillo said. "We are pleased that this case will encompass a wide range of manufacturing sectors since virtually all components of the U.S. industrial base have been damaged by China's illegal activity."
Working with the Commerce Department and U.S. industry, USTR stated that they have identified more than 70 separate subsidy programs applied by various levels of government in China.
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The cost of storing and managing Big Data will lead to almost a third of businesses trying to monetise that data by 2016, says analyst Gartner.
The analyst said 30 percent of companies would be looking to trade their information assets in the near future. However, a "lack of expertise" in handling Big Data and developing information products at those companies will create an opportunity for the growth of specialist intermediaries, acting as "information brokers or resellers", Gartner said.
Doug Laney, a Gartner analyst, said, "The need to justify the expense of accumulating and managing huge volumes of data has led many organisations to consider monetising or productising their information assets."
The expense is illustrated by recent research from rival analyst house IDC. IDC predicts the global Big Data technology and services market will grow at a 31.7 percent compound annual growth rate - around seven times the rate of the overall ICT market.
The IDC "Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2012-2016 Forecast" report shows that Big Data market revenues will reach $23.8 billion by 2016. The report also says there will be a big shortage of Big Data skills at firms.
But Gartner's Laney says some companies are already moving to make the most of their information assets. He said, "For example several retailers are already generating millions of dollars per year in incremental revenue by placing online their point-of-sale and other data for business partners to subscribe to."
Laney added, "Other organisations are reselling publicly available data or are launching new information-based products in the insurance and financial markets."
Since many businesses are ill-equipped to develop and introduce information-based products, said Gartner, "information resellers" will appear to help organisations develop and execute information asset monetisation strategies. Gartner anticipates the appearance of "information product managers" to lead these efforts internally at companies.
The new opportunities for monetising data will lead to suppliers launching new cloud-based products that collect the maximum amount of usage, location and system data to resell to subscribers, said Gartner.
Laney said, "Consumers and businesses must recognise that their personal usage, location, profile and activity data has a tangible market value. They should guard it and ensure that when they do share it they receive good services, products or cash for it."
But, Laney warned, "Businesses monetising information assets need to be sensitive to the reputational risk of a public backlash against such practices, that may in turn lead to a tighter regulatory environment."
Recently, he said, the US Federal Trade Commission had issued subpoenas to major information brokers to disclose how they collect, use and protect personal information.


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With Berlin isolated in the Soviet Bloc after World War II, the split in Germany made Frankfurt the new center of the country.
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text: Danone Invests in Mengniu as Chinese Demand Food Safety May 20, 2013 05:36 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Investment aims to boost Danone's sales in China's yogurt market, strengthen Chinese consumers' food-safety confidence. Danone, owner of Activia yogurt and Evian water, will spend about 325 million euros ($417 million) to form a joint venture and invest in China's biggest dairy producer to expand its brands in the most populous nation. Danone will have an initial indirect interest of about 4 percent in China Mengniu Dairy Co., with the aim of increasing that in the future, the Paris-based company said in a statement today. It will also set up a venture with Mengniu for yogurt products in China. Mengniu shares surged the most in four years. The tie-up will help Danone boost sales in China's yogurt market, which Euromonitor International estimates will grow 57 percent to 71.6 billion yuan ($11.7 billion) by 2015. Mengniu gains the investment as food scandals including contaminated baby formula, rat meat sold as mutton, and excessive antibiotics in chicken have fueled demand for better quality control in the world's second-largest economy. "The deal will help strengthen the research and development and capability of Mengniu's yogurt business, and potentially help them increase market share in China," said Charlie Chen, a Hong Kong-based analyst at BNP Paribas Securities Asia. "Through its ventures with Arla and Danone, Mengniu is also building a better brand image among consumers." Market Share Mengniu closed 10.4 percent higher at HK$27.05 in Hong Kong trading today, the biggest gain since April 14, 2009. It formed a strategic partnership with Danish dairy firm Arla Foods in 2012 to improve quality inspection techniques and explore further co-operation. Danone shares were little changed at 58.03 euros as of 12:16 p.m. local time. Today's agreement is the first partnership for the French company in China since the end of the one with Chinese drinks maker Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co. in 2009, Agnes Berthet- d'Anthonay, a spokeswoman for Danone, said today. The companies were embroiled in more than 30 lawsuits as Danone accused Wahaha Chairman Zong Qinghou, now China's richest man, of unlawfully selling Wahaha-branded juice and tea outside their partnership. Mengniu and Danone first disclosed plans to form a venture to sell yogurt products in China in 2006, the Danone spokeswoman said. The companies terminated the tie-up a year later due to "administrative reasons" and left the door open for future collaboration, she said. The local partnership will increase the reach of Danone brands in China, the Paris-based company's Chief Executive Officer Franck Riboud said in a statement today. It will own 20 percent of the yogurt venture with the rest owned by Mengniu, according to the statement. Market Share Mengniu had a 16.8 percent market share in China's yogurt market in 2012, with Danone holding a 1.6 percent share, according to Euromonitor. Danone will benefit from Mengniu's extensive distribution channels in China, and also possibly gain access to the Chinese dairy company's production bases there, said Olive Xia, an analyst at Core Pacific-Yamaichi International Ltd. in Shanghai. Danone, which sells Activia yogurt under the brand Bio and Dumex infant formula in China, operates 22 factories and employs about 10,000 employees in the country, according to its official website. The Asian nation formed about 6 percent of the group's consolidated sales in 2012, its fourth-largest market after Russia, France and the U.S., according to the company's 2012 annual report. Food Safety Danone Chief Financial Officer Pierre-Andre Terisse said last month that its first-quarter baby-nutrition revenue jumped 17 percent led by a need for "safety" in China and that exporting more from Europe to China isn't sustainable. Food quality and safety incidents affected consumer confidence and sales, Mengniu said in a March 27 statement. In 2008, Mengniu was among the 22 dairy companies found to have sold products containing melamine, a toxic chemical used to make plastics. The tainted milk killed at least six babies. In 2011, the company said moldy cattle feed led to excessive toxin levels in its milk. Since then, the Hohhot, Inner Mongolia-based company has run marketing campaigns emphasizing product quality to draw consumers back. Under the agreement announced today, Prominent Achiever Ltd., a venture 49 percent owned by Danone, will acquire an 8.3 percent stake from Mengniu's biggest shareholder COFCO, according to a filing to Hong Kong's stock exchange today. COFCO, the Chinese state-backed agricultural and food industry supplier, owns 51 percent of Prominent Achiever. Mengniu sells liquid milk products including UHT milk and yogurt under its namesake brand in China. It also produces ice cream and other dairy products such as cheese and milk powder. The company has the biggest share in China's drinking milk market, controlling more than 34 percent share in 2012, according to Euromonitor International. Mengniu this month agreed to buy 26.9 percent of China Modern Dairy Holdings Ltd. for HK$3.18 billion ($409 million) to gain greater control of milk supplies amid food safety concerns in the country. Back to news


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It's a unique response to the Sandy Hook shooting, that's for sure. A newspaper in New York State's Hudson Valley decided to publish a map pinpointing the location of every (legal) gun owner in the area. Not surprisingly, the folks at The Journal News have been treated to a giant dose of righteous indignation from some of its readers and right-wing bloggers in the days since. Fortunately, we're not going to add to it.
Ever heard of the freedom of the press? Or the Freedom of Information Act? Considering the conservatives have been on a crusade to remind us of their "right" to bear arms of late, perhaps it's time we explore other portions of the Constitution.
The publication of the names and addresses of those who have been granted pistol permits were available to The Journal News via legal channels. In fact, they'd be available to anyone via the same channels; the newspaper simply made it easier for residents of Westchester and Rockland counties to access them.
As a mother, particularly, I think this is good information. It's the sort of thing I check before sending my child on a playdate -- because I don't want her in a house where there are guns that may or may not be secured.
And let's just remember: the argument of the NRA and its ilk is that guns make homeowners safer. By that rubric, putting more people on notice that you have a gun should warn all those naughty criminals to stay away, right?
So what's the problem here?
Is it, maybe, that these gun owners are afraid that they will actually fall into the 97 percent of homeowners whose guns don't make them safer in their homes? Or do these pistol owners think that their right to bear arms supersedes all other rights ... such as the right to a free press, the right to information?
That's what I'm hearing a lot of lately: gun owners who refuse to accept that some guns are simply unsafe, that some guns are not worth the risk to human life. We do have a right to bear arms in this country. But with rights comes responsibility.
And the proliferation of assault weapons in this country has not been met with a responsible gun ownership, with laws written responsibly to keep these sort of firearms out of the hands of people who would use them for harm.
The fact is, gun owners, most of us asking for gun control are not asking to take away all guns. We are asking for gun owners to please, come to the table, to talk, to figure this thing out, to prevent tragedies like Sandy Hook from happening again.
We are asking for gun owners to respect the rights of little children like Olivia Engel, like Noah Pozner, like Daniel Barden to live in peace, to not have their quiet morning at school interrupted by a psychopath with a weapon in his hands that need not be on the streets.
And right now, if you want the right to bear arms, you need to respect the other rights that we enjoy in this country ... even freedom of the press.
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The following poster comes from Design of Scientific Posters, where it is billed as "well designed." (Click to enlarge.)
Indeed, there is much to like about this poster. There's not a lot of text, and the layout is straightforward. There is, however, room for improvement.
I appreciate that the authors attempted to lay the poster out in a grid. But the columns are uneven, with the middle slightly wider than the outer ones.
The spacing problems are vertical as well as horizontal, notably in the left column. The text threatens to intrude upon the bottom figure, which is puzzling given the conspicuous gap after the first figure. It would have been very easy to move the text between these figures up. thus evening out the space.
The text describing Figure 4 at the bottom of the middle column is separated from the actual Figure, at the top of the right column. This is one would be quite hard to fix. If the small bit of text goes into the right column, a gap is created at the bottom of the middle.
The authors have tried to enhance the distinction between the headings and the main text by colouring the headings. The concept is good, but enhancing the typographic differences between the two would be more effective. This could be done by making the sizes more different, making the headings bold, or even set in a different font.
Some of the text could be tightened up, too. For instance, one heading says, "Tip size dramatically affected cooling." "Affected" is vague. Why not, "Tip size dramatically increased cooling," or "Tip size dramatically reduced cooling."
The composition of this poster is solid. It just would have benefited from one last, final tweak. It is a little frustrating, however, that a poster with these sorts of problems is put up as an exemplar. Even if it is much better than most.
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Two Different Versions of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Will Be Released
Good news for readers who have been worried that a movie adaptation of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' won't be as sexy as the book: The producers of the flick will be releasing it in two versions, one for mainstream audiences and one for hardcore fans.
As popular as the best-selling novel by E.L. James is, the erotic nature of its content has proved problematic for filmmakers, who want their finished work to be seen as many people as possible. Producers therefore are hoping to get an "R" rating for a tamer version of the flick and an "NC-17″ — restricted to adults over the age of 17 — for an uncensored one.
Lead producer Dana Brunetti explains, "Everybody could go and enjoy the R version, and then if they really wanted to see it again and get a little bit more gritty with it then have that NC-17 version out there as well."
In other 'Fifty Shades' movie news, lead actors Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson were seen shooting their first scenes for the movie yesterday (Dec. 1) in Vancouver. In the photos, Dornan (Christian Grey) appears to be pouring tea for Johnson (Anastasia Steele) in a cafe. Check out the pictures from the set here!


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Moonee Ponds is not the first place you'd expect to find a gothic clothing store: and particularly one specialising in Steampunk and Gothic Lolita! But lo! There it is! Their motto is 'making fashion affordable again' and this mother-daughter team up are making a lot of their own clothes instore. You know what that means? Potentially unique pickups!! Huzzah!
Further information about current stock can be found on their Facebook – they don't currently have a website which is a little bit of an inconvenience. Meanwhile, you'll just have to get a tram down Mt Alexander Road and see for yourself! 😀 They stock design for men and women.
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DaizyG needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 16 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
GDR Distributions - Making Businesses More Money
GDR is a young, funky, dynamic, innovative company.
You might think letterbox drops are boring and old fashioned, well GDR is transforming the way people perceive using this form of marketing.
What is different about GDR is that we actually get the job done.
No fear of flyers being dumped in a creek or drain, GDR has the systems in place to manage, control, monitor and report to every client on their work.
But GDR is in the game of offering clients a great deal more than they require. We offer a consultancy service that advises clients what would work best for their business or industry, what information to include on their brochures, what to leave out, what improves their chances of getting better results, what colours work what colours don't work, etc.
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We have to appear reliable, professional and trustworthy.
We are targeting our marketing at Businesses.
We are going to use our brochures to approach all types of businesses from Real estate agents to restaurant owners, gyms, plumbers, gardeners, telecommunication companies, hardware stores, bedding and manchester, stationary, eateries, Government organisations, etc.
Basically, anyone that needs to notify customers or clients of what they do or what they sell. Anyone looking for a customer.
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What is required is to use the Logo and the company phone number on the front and back.
There is no need to make the logo large but the phone number should be very easy to read and find.
I want a call to action
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I have written text which you can use as much or as little of.
I have included logos of our prize clients and a table that I believe could add relevance and credibility if displayed on the back of the brochure.
I have included some guidelines of information in the attached files.
Use the information at your will. If I get 2 or 3 designs that are great and have different information I will purchase the additional designs as well.
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This Blank Sketch Card is signed by Karen Gillan, You will get the blank signed card that is pictured here marked "Sample A".
*This is a real signature not a copy or a reprint
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Check out these two Sketches done by Mike & Matt Glebe and Katie Cook below. They each started with the blank sketch card signed by Tom Hiddleston but each came away with a different take. Imagine what you could have done!
For sale is the card labeled "Sample A" , (SAMPLE A is just a water mark and will not be on the card)


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OROVILLE — Two people drowned in a pond east of the Feather River Saturday, just a few hours after a near-drowning about three miles upstream.
About 4:40 p.m., rescuers were called to assist with two people who were pulled from a pond at the end of Palm Avenue, east of Biggs.
One, said to be an infant, was given CPR and taken by ambulance to Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital. He was later pronounced dead.
His father was pronounced dead at the scene.
No further details were available by deadline.
Earlier, at 1:30 p.m., Cal Fire-Butte County responded to two men in the river near the Afterbay outlet, said Cal Fire-Butte County Capt. Scott McLean.
Ty Alexander of Sacramento, who was up for the day to fish with friends, said he watched as the two tried to wade across a stretch of the river where the water is chest-deep, to reach a rock ledge midstream that"s just under the surface. The ledge is a good fishing spot, he said.
He said part way across, one of them lost his footing and the current caught them, sweeping them downstream. They attempted to fight the current but kept bobbing under and coming up.
Ultimately, one of them didn"t come up.
Two women with the Department of Fish and Game were in a boat in the river, Alexander said. They were able to rescue one but couldn"t find the man who"d disappeared under the water.
Alexander and his friends, who"d been on a high bank and had a better view, directed the DFG boat to the man, but the women were unable to reach him.
He said he then jumped in and pulled the man to the surface and helped get him into the boat.
The boat took the two to a launch ramp, where rescue crews were just arriving. They"d initially been dispatched to the Afterbay, rather than the outlet.
The man who"d been under the water was transferred in serious condition to Oroville Medical Center. The other person was not injured, McLean said.
Alexander was ecstatic to learn the man wasn"t dead at the scene. "I thought he was done," he said. "I was bummed all day."
He called the paper to complain about the callousness of some of the anglers at the scene, a couple of whom he thought had a good chance to save the pair in distress, but just kept casting.
"It was sickening," he said.
The California Highway Patrol is investigating the incident since it happened in the state"s Oroville Wildlife Area.


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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard
Story by Benjamin F. Kuo
Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. The firm is backed by Idealab, and is headed by Internet veteran Andy Steuer. We caught up with Andy, whose executive experience ranges from ZeroDegrees, NBC Internet/Xoom.com, Infoseek / Go Network, to CNET and Snap.com, and whose last firm was MerchEngines, which he sold last year, to hear more about his new startup.
What is Punchcard?
Andy Steuer: Punchcard is a mobile loyalty rewards app. It provides consumer rewards, and on the merchant side, it allows them to identify local customers and reacquire them by pushing them offers and incentives to come back. For example, if you as a consumer shop at a place, when you're done with your transaction, you can take a picture of your receipt, and start earning "punches" on Punchard at the places you shop. If you earn enough punches, you get rewards, such as cash back, free merchandise, in-kind store credit, that sort of thing. Different businesses might have different number of punches on Punchcard. It's like an old world punchcard, taken to the current 21st century technology.
We've also made it so that consumers can get offers pushed back to them, and those offers will be relevant, because unlike a deal-of-a-day, you will get targeted offers based on what you like, where you shop, and the stores and restaurants where you go to. Those offers might be a thank you for coming in yesterday, please come back next week. If it is a restaurant that you went to for dinner, they might provide a free dessert or appetizer. All of this allows businesses to identify who their customers are, and incentivize them to come back again and again.
How does this compare to how they might be doing this now?
Andy Steuer: If you view this without Punchcard, consumers usually end up walking out of a store or restaurant, and when they walk out at the end of that transaction, that business has to go and reacquire them again. That's currently very ineffective. Oftentimes, businesses don't know who their customers are, and how to reach those customers. The best form of this right now is email, and even then, that's through a one-size-fits-all email. What we're able to do, is to segment our customers based on purchase behavior and demographics, and push offers to them. We're able to do lots of this segmentation and sophisticated remarketing back to consumers, to get them to purchase more from the businesses they love. That's something that typically only large companies with large ERP budgets, like Amazon or eBay, have been able to do, something which has not been available to local businesses.
Can you talk about your background?
Andy Steuer: This is the eighth startup I've been a part of. It's the second one I have started myself. I started early on in my career. I was at the Annenberg School for Communications in 92 to 94, and saw Mosaic first come out. I called up the CEO of a company, MusicNet one day, because I am a big music fan and musician myself, and saw what they were doing. At the time, they were shipping out CD ROMs with 300 albums, album artwork, and three song samples each. You'd pop in that CD ROM, listen to the song, and then call an 800 number to purchase the album. I called up the CEO one day, and suggested they put it online. To make a long story short, I went up to San Francisco, interviewed for a position, got it, and built out all of their online capability. A short few months later, we sold to RealNetworks, which was really exciting. I then wen tto CNET, and was one of the first fifty employees there, and then joined a company called Snap.com that spun out of CNET. While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. It was a portal, and partnered with ISPs so that those ISPs could generate ad revenue, and create stick entertainment for customers. That was a rocket ride as well, and that took us to a top 10 website, and NBC took an equity steak in the company. I then moved on to Infoseek, which at the time was just a search engine. I headed up product development to build out their portal services. I did that, and the company was acquired by Disney to provide the Go Network, and I became part of Go Network at Disney.
After Go Network, I joined the team at Xoom.com, which was the first wave of user generated content on the Internet. I was employee seven or eight there. As Vice President of Development, I took it from zero to a top 10 website in a year and a half, and was part of the management team that took it public. We sold the company to NBC, to form NBCi, which we merged with Snap.com where I was before. Shortly after that, the CEO of NBCi and myself started a venture fund, invested in a handful of companies, had a couple of good exits, and then I went on to become part of the founding team at ZeroDegrees, the social networking platform focused on the jobs space. We sold that to IAC. After IAC, I started my own company, MerchEngines, which was a search marketing platform for local businesses. We made it easier for local businesses to acquire customers through search and social media We sold that to Deluxe Corp. in 2009, and through that process I learned a lot about local businesses, and about customer acquisition pain points. One of the things I heard often when doing any marketing, was that although local businesses would get customers from their advertising efforts, the didn't know when they were coming back. That, couple with my own experience, which you may have experienced yourself, is you might go to places you shop at frequently, and a lot of the time, they just don't know who you are. There might be a different staff member there, even though it's your fiftieth time shopping there. They just don't know who you are, which is a broken part of the supply chain. I thought it would be a really interesting opportunity to create the insight into who their customers are, and acquire them efficiently. That led me to Punchcard.
So how did you end up back in Southern California?
Andy Steuer: Back in 2002, I moved back to Southern California, because my wife runs her own interior design company, and there are great jobs down here for her. There were also opportunities for me down here, as I was running the venture fund. We moved back down to Southern California, and never looked back.
Is this part of Idealab's new ventures group, or how did you connect with them?
Andy Steuer: It's actually out of Idealab proper. I connected to them through a friend of mine, Julie Schoenfeld, who is also one of my advisors, and the CEO of Perfect Market. After I met the team here at Idealab, we hit it off.
Of all the opportunities out there, why did you decide to address loyalty punchcards?
Andy Steuer: When you look at the cost of acquisition through any form of advertising, whether that is print, search, or any kind of marketing, the cost of acquisition is fairly high for local businesses. I started doing a little bit of experimenting on how we could acquire customers for less, and doing research in the space, found that the Kellogg School at Northwestern found that 12 to 15 percent of the customer base at a local business makes up fifty percent of a company's profits. That's an interesting jump off point. Looking through the lends of all the online analytics and customer acquisition work I'd done prior, that means that 85 percent of your customer base is going away. There's an interesting book called the Loyalty Effect I read as well, suggesting if you take that 12 to 15 percent, and increase it by just five percent, you can double your profits. Loyalty is something very important, and it's hard to wrangle if you don't have the toolset to do that. I think we've approached that problem, by providing a very easy user experience to the customer, so that a consumer can get rewards. Earning points and badges for checking into a place might be cool, but checking out and earning cash back is better. So, from the consumer perspective, it's easy to use, and on the merchant side, merchants are not reaching out on a cost effective basis, which is much better than search or other advertising.
Finally, can you talk about your geographic strategy and rollout plans?
Andy Steuer: Our initial phase is focused on Southern California. The reason for that is we're looking at creating the density effect within Southern California. Punchcard currently works with 147,000 local businesses here in Southern California. We also want to be able to hop in the car, talk to merchants, hear their experiences first hand as they are rolling this out, and be quick to respond to any feedback--before a national roll out. Currently, we have about 1 percent of the population in Pasadena already using our app. We've had a huge amount of growth in the past few weeks, which I think is a great indicator of what is to come. We're focusing here locally first, to be able to ensure that our customers are getting a great user experience, and businesses are getting a good user experience. We're also really listening to feedback, so that we can scale this business effectively on a national basis, as we grow.


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Amazingly real replica gravity gun
- 1:1 replica of the Gravity Gun
- LEDs, handles, triggers, and unique sounds
- Fold-away kickstand for display
ThinkGeek is proud to be chosen as one of the select retailers to be able to offer NECA's newest prop replica: the Half Life 2 Zero-Point Energy Field Manipulator. Since Zero-Point Energy Field Manipulator is a mouthful and ZPEFM isn't much better, how about we call it the Gravity Gun from here on out? Capisce? Good.
The Gravity Gun is a 1:1, screen-accurate replica made of molded plastic. It features orange LEDs, two handles, two triggers, and four sounds from the game. A fold-away kickstand allows you to display it when you're not using it. The good news is that it won't be quite as heavy as the gun that Alyx struggles to lift. Holding it will feel more like you're wearing Gordon's HEV suit. With it, you'll be able to pick up heavy objects and fling them with incredible force. JUST KIDDING. You'll just be the envy of all the Half-Life fans in your life.
We have a limited quantity and once they're sold out, they're gone forever.
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- Fully accurate to the ZPEFM in-game
- Officially licensed Half-Life 2 collectible
- Features: Orange LEDs, 2 handles, 2 triggers, 4 unique sounds from the game
- Fold-away kickstand allows you to display your Gravity Gun when not in use
- Batteries: 3 C batteries (not included)
- Dimensions: nearly 2 feet in length!


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Shervin needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 78 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Kogan Technologies
We have a broad target but our customers are generally educated consumers who know how to compare products and determine where they can purchase the best value item from. Most of our customers are familiar with using computers but we also have a large number of retired/older customers.
The company emphasizes innovation and creativity and we want our Brand to represent that. We pride ourselves on our "Cut the Middleman" policy which lets us make technology more affordable for all.
These banners are to be used on our website and may also be used in Newsletter campaigns and other marketing campaigns. They may also be reproduced in print at some stage. They should be targeted to new customers - These are people looking to buy a new Television or other gadget, who are conscious of the price and want the best value product they can find. These consumers are educated and can make informed decisions comparing products.
We are looking for a General Banner (690px wide and 260px high) which can be used in a variety of locations. This banner should emphasis our brand, our products and that we sell the best value for money products in Australia.
It is up to the Designer how they want to make the banner and we have no specific requirements. The banner should look highly professional, include some of our larger Televisions and emphasis the key features.
It is more important for the Banner to emphasis the brand and not the products at this stage, but the winner would be asked to design product specific banners as well.
Have a look at the following links to get an idea of things to include:
One requirement is that the Banner include the Kogan Logo and this should be on a white background. I have attached this.