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Steps to a Successful Popcorn Sale
Our units that have the most success selling popcorn typically follow our step-by-step guide below. Read this guide to learn all about how to run your Popcorn Sale! Remember, you can always contact our Popcorn Team with any questions or if you need help!
- Identify and recruit your unit's Popcorn Kernel. This is the adult volunteer who will be in charge of your unit's sale. It is best to recruit this person in the spring before everyone breaks for summer. They should be enthusiastic about the sale and share this excitement with your unit! Ideally, this adult should not already be a key leader in your unit; you do not want to overwhelm an existing leader (having trouble recruiting a kernel? Contact our Popcorn Team).
- Have your Kernel register your unit to sell popcorn at popcornmanager.com. For the 2019 Popcorn Season units should still register in Popcorn Manager. We are transitioning to the Trail's End Popcorn System for the 2019 sale but sign up will still continue in Popcorn Manager for this year. We will transfer your unit and main unit kernel to the Trail's End System. This is the online interface where your Kernel will review your initial popcorn order, set unit and Scout goals and site sales and view and/or enter Scouts' individual sales. Your Kernel can still use Popcorn Manager to review last year's order and make a plan for what quantity to order this year in the Trail's End System. Units will be able to trade unsold popcorn or fill additional popcorn needs with other units by using our Facebook Group NEIC Popcorn Trade Board and Kernel Support Group.
- See where popcorn fits into your unit's annual budget and establish goals. Do you want to raise a certain dollar amount to fund your activities for the year? Do you want your Scouts to raise money for camp? A high adventure trip? Scouts should also set their own personal goals. Popcorn can be a great motivator for Scouts to "pay their own way" towards activities and outings they want to attend. The Trail's End Virtual Sales Planner is another great resource to help plan your sale.
- Review the 2019 Popcorn Calendar and plan your unit events accordingly. Make sure that your Kernel or another volunteer can attend the Council Popcorn Kickoff, Distribution, Super Sunday, and Final Distribution.
- Have your Kernel or another volunteer attend the Council's Popcorn Kickoff on August 7, 2019. They will get to sample popcorn products, learn about the new prize and incentive programs, sign up for popcorn distribution, and receive the unit's sales materials.
- Help your Kernel plan a Popcorn Kickoff for your Scouts and parents. Many of our units do this at the first meeting of the year to get everyone pumped about popcorn! At the kickoff, your Kernel will introduce your families to the Popcorn Sale, showcase the product lineup, distribute sales materials, and review safety and proper sales techniques. Show Scouts all the cool prizes and incentives they can earn. Show the parents how popcorn benefits their Scout and the unit. Scouts learn salesmanship and the Scouting value of "paying their own way." They are also eligible for Trail's End Scholarships. Selling Popcorn is the lowest-risk, highest return fundraiser in Scouting.
- Pick up your popcorn or have it delivered. You can sign up for delivery or a pick up time at Popcorn Kickoff on August 7, 2019. If you are having your popcorn delivered, please make sure that you are available during the delivery window and have a check ready and payable to Shur-way Moving & Cartage. Delivery rates are generally between $225 and $275, but prices vary based on size of order and distance.
- Get out there and sell! Scouts can: sell online any time during the year, do "take-order sales" (selling using just the order form) starting August 7, 2019, and can take part in unit "site sales" (selling at or in front of a local business or event) or individual "show and sells" (going door-to-door with the product) beginning September 6, 2019. Remember that the sale ends October 27, 2019.
- Keep Accurate Records. Have Scouts download and use the Trail's End App for sales. Collect money when popcorn is purchased and have any checks made payable to your unit. Keep track of each Scout's sales in the Trail's End Leader Portal. Schedule a time at end of the sale to collect outstanding orders and money from the Scouts. Set a time after you receive your popcorn for your Scouts to deliver any take-orders.
- Settle up with the Council on November 3, 2019 Super Sunday at Shur-Way in Libertyville. You will need: one check payable to the Northeast Illinois Council, your final popcorn order if needed, your final patch/incentive order, and any unsold popcorn (excluding any chocolate products) that needs to be returned.
- Have a VICTORY Celebration! Recognize your Kernel, Scouts, and volunteers for all of their hard work!


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The city of Winston- Salem will send 25 salt trucks throughout the city in preparation for the freezing rain advisory.
Ryan Newcomb is the deputy director with the city's property and facilities management department.
Newcomb said Saturday night's overnight crew will start at 10 p.m. and will load up with salt and begin their post duties.
"We should be able just to have to salt out major streets just to keep them passable during the day," Newcomb said.
Though another order of salt is on the way, Newcomb believes the 700 tons of salt left will suffice.
High Point Public Works will begin to send salt trucks around 2 a.m. Sunday to apply salt to overpasses and bridges, if needed.
Brad Wall with NCDOT for Guilford, Rockingham, Orange, Caswell and Alamance counties said crew members will access the need for salt application around 4 a.m. Sunday.
Greensboro Public Works and Randolph County's crew members will be on alert as well early Sunday morning.

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So the kid I nanny was being really obnoxious this morning. One of his biggest issues is being a whiny, complainy little shit about everything from his mom's homemade bread, to me making him wear a coat on a cold day. So much grumbling and complaining! I know he is six and no one should be expected to be a perfect angel at his age but I'd like to talk to him about some of the behavior issues that crop up often for him after school today.
I am planning to try to make it a very calm, kind talk about how we should all act, rather than casting this morning up to him so long after the fact.
His class at school has regular empathy workshops so there is a foundation to talk about that concept with him, which is great. I have a list of what I am planning to talk about with him and I would love some feedback.
- It is always ok to have the feelings you have, but it isn't ok to act on those feelings in a way that is selfish or hurts others
- It is good to stop and think about what you are feeling and why, so you can decide if you need to talk with an adult about it
- Before you make a complaint, stop and think: is this a big problem I need help with, or just a small thing I don't like? If I say this, how will it make the other person feel?
- If someone directly asks you if you like ____ (the bread, the coat, whatever), answer honestly but politely: "i'm sorry, but i don't care for ____"
- If nobody asks whether or not you like it, be pleasant or be silent. (Is this way too harsh? I was raised this way and I plan to make it clear to him that he can always share if it is a real problem, just not to endlessly complain about how everything in his life isn't good enough when he is such a lucky, privileged kid)
When I started with this kid nearly a year ago, he never said please or thank you, and every request was phrased like "I WANT JUICE" in the world's brattiest tone. We have made huge strides so far! One problem is his parents let him talk to them in a way more appropriate for a three year old than a six year old. When it is just him and me, he has learned a lot about speaking with a nice tone of voice and asking for things nicely, but when his mom comes home the whining comes back! I know he is old enough to do better and I really believe he can do it, but he is one of those upper middle class kids with a nanny and everything he could ever need, and he has a tendency towards selfishness combined with lack of self-sufficiency because of that. He's not used to ever cleaning up after himself or doing things for himself.


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Alma Powell has never met the first graders at Bush Hill Elementary School in Northern Virginia, and yet they converge on her as if she were a trusted friend. One girl rests her head on Powell's shoulder. Another slips under Powell's right arm. Children like these, children of all colors and faiths, are Powell's passion. At 71—the most fulfilling time of her life, she says—Powell is chair of America's Promise Alliance, a children's-aid organization she founded in 1997 with her husband, General Colin Powell. Five promises anchor the Powell effort: to succeed in life, all young people need caring adults, safe places (homes or schools), a healthy start, effective education, and opportunities to help others. America's Promise (www.americas promise.org) helps fulfill these promises by providing financial support to children's organizations across the country. At stake, Powell believes, is nothing less than the nation's future. "UNICEF did a study last year of 21 developed nations and how well they take care of their children. We're number 20," says Powell. "What is our future if we don't turn that around?"
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Three hours by train from Paris, sun-soaked Nimes is home to some of the most immaculately preserved Roman monuments in the world. On his 1787 tour of France, a besotted Thomas Jefferson fell hard for the city's Roman grandeur. "Here I am, Madam, gazing whole hours at the Maison Carrée, like a lover at his mistress," the third president wrote in a letter about the stately temple.
And for the past nine years, the city has staged a spectacle that would make Augustus proud. In the same packed amphitheater where the Gallo-Roman population jeered and cheered at gladiatorial combat two millennia ago, Les Grands Jeux Romains, or the Great Roman Games, brings 500 reenactment actors from all over Europe for a three-day event. We've arrived at the end of April for the Spartacus-themed edition.
This year's sold-out spectacle was particularly buzzing because of the amphitheater's new neighbor: the Musee de la Romanite, a highly anticipated museum that is hailed as one of France's biggest recent cultural projects. Scheduled to open June 2, the museum, which cost about $65 million, is devoted to the civilization of ancient Rome and its legacy in Nimes. It was the brainchild of Mayor Jean-Paul Fournier, who has championed a contemporary urbanism that showcases the city's rich heritage.
"We wanted to create a museum that befits the quality of the city's 25,000-piece archaeological collection," Fournier wrote in an email, "including the exceptional mosaics and a Roman house discovered during an excavation in 2006."
Brazilian-French architect Elisabeth de Porzamparc beat out more than 100 other architects with a bold building draped in an undulating glass facade she has likened to a pleated toga. Explains Fournier: "For centuries, the architects in Nimes have drawn inspiration from the city's ancient edifices while anchoring their buildings in modernity, and de Porzamparc continues this process . . . establishing a dialogue with both nature and the surrounding urban landscape."
As does Norman Foster's Carre d'Art, a contemporary art museum that overlooks the Maison Carree, the Musee de la Romanite has a restaurant (overseen by Michelin-starred chef Franck Putelat) with a view. You can admire the amphitheater from there or from the rooftop terrace.
Following the city's original Augustan ramparts, the museum's inner "street" is open to the public, so that visitors can freely enter the monumental 17-meter atrium, adorned with the temple pediment from the sacred spring where the pre-Roman settlement of Nemausus was founded. Inside the museum, visitors will find cool 3-D renditions and virtual tours of ancient Gaul to enhance their understanding of objects such as the prized Pentheus mosaic. But perhaps the highlight is the archaeological garden. Free to access, it's designed as a plant museum, with species chronologically arranged according to when they were introduced to the region.
The landmark museum is a cornerstone of Nimes's campaign to become a UNESCO World Heritage site, the result of which will be announced in the summer. "Roman history has profoundly influenced the Nimois, creating our city's identity and constituting our roots," Fournier said. "We share this common good in everyday life, and want to bring it to the world's attention."
Pétanque and parties
Nimes came to my attention in 2006 via my first French friend, a Nimoise by the name of Marielle. As a Latin nerd, I found the city's monuments mesmerizing, but beyond that, it was the passionate personality of the place that won me over.
Consider Pétanque, the game also known as boules. In Nimes, this is not a leisurely, pastis-soaked diversion, I quickly learned, but a ferociously competitive sport that requires great skill, passion, and calculation.
Attendance at one of the biannual ferias (festivals) quickly immerses a visitor in the loud and exuberant traditions of the city. In addition to the Great Roman Games put on by Culturespaces, the amphitheater hosts a number of events including rock concerts, tennis tournaments and la corrida, or bullfighting. This was a draw for Ernest Hemingway, who used to camp out and write at the Hotel Imperator (which is closed for an ambitious renovation).
The city's boisterous ambiance isn't limited to its festivals. In the alleyways, cafes spill onto the sidewalks, and rowdy diners linger late into the evening. During the Great Roman Games, some restaurateurs dress up in togas and serve Roman-inspired meals. (We spy a few suckling pigs turning on a spit.) The atmosphere is so contagious that my gleeful 5-year-old takes off on a sprint through a narrow street, running smack into a dinner table, crashing its carefully arranged wine glasses to the cobblestones.
"Hannibal ad portas!" — "Hannibal is at the gates!" — is how parents in ancient Rome supposedly warned their kids to keep them on their best behavior. All I can manage is a shocked apology. But the waiter is too worried about Cecilia's possible injury, giving her a kiss and shooing me away when I try to pick up the shattered glass.
This love of kids is everywhere in Nimes. "There must be a mistake," we gesture to the waitress over the bill's two-euro price of two children's meals at the locally loved La Bodeguita, a lively restaurant on the Place d'Assas. "No, that's our owner's policy," she replied with a grin, bringing ice cream sundaes topped with glow-stick bracelets.
Bread and circuses
But bien sûr, Spartacus was the real point of our trip. Glancing at our tickets, the word "vomitoire" gives us pause. Does this mean we'll be so close to the action that our stomach will reel at the sight of the gore? Thankfully, we learn that this ancient term merely describes the interior stone corridors that efficiently "spew" people to their seats.
We're transfixed. Emperor Hadrian is seated in pomp and circumstance, the crowd shouts a prayer to Jupiter ("Jovis Optimus, Jovis Maximus!"), horses race while 12,000 spectators cheer on their riders by waving color-coded napkins. Halfway through the spectacle, bread scented with orange blossoms is tossed from baskets — just like the panem et circenses (bread and circuses) fed to the Gallo-Roman audience millennia ago.
My daughters are particularly awed by the female gladiators, whose swinging punches and action-packed combat cause a cloud of dust to rise in the ring. Not to mention the pageantry of the Spartacus story, told in eight episodes.
But above all, it's the historic accuracy that's awe-inspiring. The costumes are assembled with the same materials used in ancient Rome. The volunteers and professional actors — such as Gilles Sindt, who plays Spartacus — have trained rigorously for six months, many reading the works of historian Eric Tessier.
I've also been immersed in this history, via classicist Mary Beard's brilliant book "SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome." In it she writes, "Rome still helps to define the way we understand our world and think about ourselves, from high theory to low comedy." Among many things, "Rome has bequeathed us ideas of liberty and citizenship" and "a vocabulary of modern politics, from 'senators' to 'dictators.' "
She also shatters some of the myths our culture has nurtured about the ancient Romans. Thanks partly to Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick, Beard explains, Spartacus's famous slave war "remains one of the most glamorized conflicts in the whole of Roman history." But the reality of these "breakaway slave-gladiators" was probably not as depicted by modern accounts, which have "wanted to make Spartacus an ideological hero, even one who was fighting the very institution of slavery." Instead, most evidence suggests that even Roman slaves took the institution for granted, and that Spartacus and his fellow escapees simply wanted freedom for themselves.
The Great Roman Games tell the story in such an intense way (slave markets, Sicilian pirates) that my older daughter Jane, wide-eyed with wonder, keeps asking me questions for days afterward. Meanwhile, I overhear Cecilia reciting the prayer to Jupiter in her bedroom, raising little palms upward to the heavens.
Nicklin is a writer based in Paris. Her website is marywinstonnicklin.com. Find her on Twitter: @MaryWNicklin.
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If you go
Where to eat
La Bodeguita, Royal Hotel
1 Place d'Assas
Locals love this restaurant, packing the outdoor terrace situated on a central square. Terrific tapas to share, including grilled shrimp, cod fritters and platters of Serrano ham. Mains start from around $18, tapas from $6.
La Pie qui Couette
Rue des Halles
Inside the buzzing central marketplace (Les Halles), take a seat at the counter and order lunch from the chalkboard specials. The chef has worked in top restaurants across France, and now showcases the best local products found in Les Halles. Dishes, like green asparagus wrapped in smoked trout, cost about $20. Tataki-style steak, atop a bed of pasta-like vegetables, costs about $15. Oysters and tapas also available.
La Piazzetta
2A Place du Chapitre
An authentic Italian restaurant serving pizza, antipasti, pastas, fish and meats overlooking a fountain of cascading pools. This square is beautifully illuminated at night, and the restaurant has an outside terrace for appreciating the ambiance. Plates from about $10, main dishes from about $19.
What to do
Amphitheater of Nimes
Boulevard des Arenes
The world's best preserved Roman amphitheater hosts events throughout the year, such as the Great Roman Games. Outside of these events, the amphitheater is open every day for visitors. Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the winter, and until 8 p.m. in July and August. A tour with an audioguide costs about $11.50. A pass gives access to the three Roman sites managed by Culturespaces — the amphitheater, Maison Carree and Tour Magne — for about $15 (valid for three days).
La Maison Carree
Place de la Maison Carree
Called "square house" in French, this exquisitely preserved Roman temple is the beating heart of the city of Nimes. The building has inspired architects around the world. Inside, a film narrates the history of the temple. Opening hours vary throughout the year from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the winter (with a closure for lunch) and from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. in July and August. Admission costs about $7.
La Tour Magne
Les Jardins de la Fontaine,
Place Guillaume Apollinaire
Located inside the Jardins de la Fontaine, this Gallo-Roman tour once had views all the way to the Mediterranean in ancient times. Today you can climb to the top for beautiful views of Nimes. Open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the winter (with a closure for lunch), and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. in July and August. Admission costs about $4.


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About Loneliness, ongoing drawing project since 2013-
Arka Paikka : Anja, Eeppa, Henna, Joona, Kata, Nino, Näty, Rake and Saija.
Emma Fält and the Arka Paikka group use collaborative drawing as a means to explore ideas of loneliness and isolation with young people. This fascinating project began locally in 2013 and continues with an invitation for people passing us to leave their mark on an ever-developing installation.
Arka paikka group has been created to fill youngsters need to gather and run around together. The group has gotten together by outreach youth work. Arka Paikka is an open-minded group and its members have been meeting each other for couple of years now. Youngsters of the group are interested in live art and have been for example organizing the Varjo Festival in Kuopio 2011. During the time Arka Paikka has gotten new members and now meets in varying places such as the countryside or in the city doing various stuff.
About Loneliness is supported by the Regional Dance Centre of Eastern Finland and the North Savo Arts Council since 2013.
Emma Fält's work takes a comprehensive look at drawing as a live act, an instrument of communication and a means to collaboratively explore our experience of the world around us. Emma Fält is based in Kuopio, Finland.


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I've done some more thinking about the Donald Trump–Oompa Loompa overlap, and I've stumbled upon something that I find quite remarkable.
Granted, I have only once seen a single episode of "The Apprentice" but from this episode I gathered that the show follows this basic plot:
Does this trope sound oddly familiar to anyone else?
I see one of two possibilities:
Possibility the first: Roald Dahl was such a genius, that the entire television program is a case of "life" imitating art. (NOTE: "life" is used problematically in this context–I have a hard time justifying a reality TV show as "life" but bear with me).
Possibility the second: Oompa Loompas exist. Willie Wonka exists (or did at one point–I would not put it past Orangeman to find some way to make him disappear). Roald Dahl was reporting fact that is stranger than fiction, and Donald Trumpa-Loompa is descended from some escaped Oompa Loompas who told him the management secrets of Mr. Wonka and he now uses this strange form of management to run his operation.
Ordinarily, I would discount the second possibility as absolute nonsense, but for some reason I find it every bit as plausible as the first.
In other news.
June 1st marked the two-year mark for me since leaving Seattle for staging. Well I remember the northerly take-off, the view of the Olympics, Vashon Island, Puget Sound, the UW, Lake Washington, my mom's house, and finally Mount Index and Lake Serene as we passed over the Cascades and screamed eastward. Two years. As of today it has been 732 days since I've seen home. Amazing. Looking forward to visiting home in August. And to attending Matan's wedding in Pennsylvania too.
My extension project has been approved. All I need now is to go through the medical check-out and I'm official. This project developed a lot of momentum fast. So much work to do. I'm really stoked.
Storm season began a couple days ago, and as if on cue, the island has been subjected to a bout of serious rain that has pretty much halted life as we know it in Moore Town.
Yesterday, fed up with cabin fever, I donned my raincoat and walked 1.5 miles in the pouring rain to the neighboring community. Along the way pretty much every other person remarked on the fact that I was walking in the rain, told me to get out of the rain, or insisted that I needed to drink some rum with them to stave off the sickness that would almost certainly result from my walking in the rain.
Not to be deterred from my mission, I walked to the Seaman's Valley junction and, after helping him to find a goat he had lost (this is an ongoing theme of life here), bought a 15lb jackfruit for 300j from my friend Rat.
The walk home was even more bizarre, as everyone commented not only on the fact that I was walking in the pouring rain, but also on the fact that I was walking in the pouring rain while carrying a jackfruit. You would think it was the first time in their life they had ever seen a hairy white man wandering around in a torrential downpour, wearing sandals and a raincoat and hauling a 15 pound spiny fruit. Wait a minute…when I put it like that their incredulity makes much more sense.
In any case, for the first time in my life, I am the proud owner of an entire jackfruit. Yep. The whole thing. Forsooth! The time will soon be nigh for fragrant deliciousness. And for strange and slightly gross stickiness.
Some photos of my prize! The pencil and nalgene are intended to give some idea how enormous the jackfruit is. They don't do a great job.


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In the modern world serial devices are tucked in the back of computer vendors priorities. However this doesn't mean serial ports are not in use anymore. On the contrary, industrial divisions work with serial ports much more often than USB. So if you are currently trying to find the answer to the question of what to do if your computer doesn't have a COM port and you need to use device that can only be connected with this type of port or if a serial device you want to use is located far from your computer, we've got the answer!
Even if you don't have a port on your local computer to connect device to or the device cannot be connected due to remote location you can share serial port over IP with a special software and use the device as if it was attached to your computer.
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Serial to Ethernet Connector is developed by Eltima Software and has been on the market for many years, which means a polished product. With this program your computer can have multiple serial ports even if in reality it has none and you can work with multiple serial devices over IP even if they are located overseas. In fact the number of virtual ports can be unlimited, depending on your system's capabilities. Serial communication data is transmitted over TCP/IP network and from the network to your serial device.


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Finishing off a fine basketball season all three middle school basketball teams posted winning records and will start KISL tournament play on Monday Feb. 4th.
The MS Varsity Boys finished the year tied for second in the KISL with a 10-2 record. They have posted their third winning season in a row with two of those seasons recording double digit wins. The Lions will start tournament action as the #3 seed and in the quarterfinals against #6 seed Maryville Christian on Monday night 6:00 PM at Knoxville Christian HIgh School.
The MS Varisty Girls finished the year in fourth place in the KISL with a fine 10-3 record. They will face off in the largest tournament field of the KISL as the #4 seed and will take on #13 seed TSD at Episcopal School of Knoxville. Game time for the Lady Lions is 6:00 PM in the ESK Siler Gymnasium.
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GM highlights 32-bit Freescale microprocessor in Buick Regal direct injection engine control module
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The 2011 Buick Regal's direct injection Ecotec 2.0L engine microcontroller features a 32-bit Freescale microprocessor that operates at 128 MHz—the fastest throughput engine microprocessor in the industry, according to Karla Wallace, GM senior manager, global powertrain electronics engineering.
The 32-bit embedded "Viper" processor (Freescale's Qorivva MPC5566 unit) reliably performs 125 million operations per second, enabling more precise fuel delivery for improved fuel economy, emissions and performance. This is accomplished through an increased number of intake air adjustments and spark optimization during every combustion event, even when running at maximum engine speed of 6,350 rpm.
The Qorivva MPC5566 is the first device from Freescale's Qorivva MPC55xx Family to integrate 3MB of embedded flash memory, to be qualified for the harshest automotive environment and to offer full Read-While-Write capability. This provides developers with a cost-effective medium to support more sophisticated, memory-intensive timing and control functionality. The processor offers system performance of up to five times that of its MPC500 predecessors, while bringing maintaining the reliability and familiarity of the Power Architecture technology.
The turbo Regal's microcontroller is part of the Engine Control Module (ECM), which controls all the functions of an engine including the operation of the 2.0L's turbo, direct injection and variable valve timing systems.
The ECM's microcontroller executes the commands such as when to inject fuel into the engine's combustion chambers. The software executed by the microcontroller comes from almost a million lines of code developed by GM and uses over 300 kilobytes of calibration data.—Karla Wallace
In the 1980s, GM's first powertrain control module had four kilobytes of memory and executed 1 million operations per second.
Three meg of flash memory and 128 MHz clock speed doesn't sound like a lot in terms of computing power until you consider the environment these controllers have to live in. Unlike most home entertainment and electronic devices, our controllers are made to operate reliably up to 260 degrees (127 °C) and down to -40 degrees (-40 °C) for the life of the vehicle. On top of this, they are sealed against air, water, dust and electromagnetic interference. These are parameters that take the Regal's controller to the highest levels of reliability and durability.—Karla Wallace
Since being introduced in GM powertrains in the late 1970s, the scope of engine electronic controls has continually increased and now extends to significant interaction with the entire vehicle. There are 12 controllers interacting with the ECM on the 2011 Buick Regal including transmission, body, climate, and brake controllers.
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Patience is hard for most.
In our culture today, patience — the capacity to handle or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting upset or angry — is a rare gem. We want things even before we ask for them. For the majority of us, we've become great at interrupting, putting things on credit, and making hasty and eventually faulty decisions out of our lack of patience.
The decisions we make in an impatient storm can cause trouble, whether through tarnished relationships or wasted time and resources. Unlike something you are born with, patience is a learned skill that requires consistent reflection and mindfulness. This is not to say you will be perfect all the time, but if this skill is practiced the majority of the time, focused success is on the horizon.
Few people understand the impact of impatience. Think about this: Those who lack patience come off as arrogant, impulsive and insensitive. As described before, they have trouble making sound, fruitful decisions due to their quick interruptions and know-it-all mentalities. Because of these characteristics, it's sometimes hard to build relationships with impatient people. On the other hand, the more patient people are, the more positively viewed they will be, both within and outside of their circles.
As we're out in the wild, so to speak, how do we analyze signs of impatience within ourselves? Perhaps that unintended snap, anxiousness, and shallow breathing are great initial signs to catch when you're about to erupt into an impatient frenzy.
How does someone start practicing the level of patience that most can only dream of? Perception plays a large part in your patience journey. I've done some exploration about how you might be able to start building the ever-important skill of patience. Here are a few examples you can try when working on your journey to patience.
Look Through a Clearer Lens
Sometimes, we're seeing out of a skewed point of view, which allows us to get annoyed quickly without fully assessing the matter at hand. Impatience, for the most part, starts with some level of discomfort. The discomfort can be right in your face or very silent to the point where it's unrealized. The higher the level of discomfort is, the larger the amount of frustration when you're searching for a way to make the discomfort go away — quickly. Do yourself a great favor by reframing your circumstances. Be thankful wherever you are, and you'll probably forget what you were hasty about in the first place.
Manage Your "Why"
There is always something triggering our impatience on a daily basis. It's probably unrelated to whatever you're rushing yourself or someone else to do on your behalf. Triggers often come in the form of words, phrases, actions, locations or specific situations. If you've never taken the time to understand what your triggers are, it's a great exercise to make a list in order to address the intention to make meaningful changes little by little. Journaling is also a huge assist; take the time to document why you were frustrated and what triggered it while the moment is still fresh in your mind and body. Spending the time to identify triggers forces you to truly examine your actions as well as why you might react in a rash manner. Having this knowledge will equip you with an arsenal of tools to use in your strategy to practice better patience.
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Patience and coping tend to go hand in hand. It's quite possible that the worse your coping skills are, the more you'll lack patience. Patient people suffer from fewer depressive episodes and feelings of guilt from their actions. Patient people are also more hopeful and satisfied with their lives, generally speaking. Additionally, a positive catalyst to a positive mental attitude is the ability to achieve your goals. Achievement is a long, arduous road. We're all stuck on seeing results quickly in our personal, professional or business lives.
A 2012 University of California, Berkeley study found that patient people exerted more energy into their goals and saw more satisfying results overall. Through the progression of their goals, they were more satisfied and grateful in comparison to those who tried to take shortcuts and practice impatience in trying the achieve their goals. Patience manifests in overall contentment on any achievement journey.
There is no doubt that we will encounter trying triggers while going through life; it's life! Don't despair; there will be distractions from your patience practice, but try your best to persevere. It will not only make life more pleasant now, but it might also create a path for a more successful and enjoyable future.
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The principle wine regions in South Australia are; the Adelaide Hills, Barossa (comprising the Barossa and Eden Valleys), Clare Valley, Langhorne Creek, McLaren Vale, Padthaway, Coonawarra and the Riverland. Vineyard expansion has also extended to Wrattonbully, Mount Benson, Bordertown, Robe, Southern Fleurieu and the Flinders Ranges.
It is a tradition for many wine companies to make multi-district blends from South Australian fruit – the idea of house style taking precedence over regional definition. Penfolds pioneered this concept. The vagaries of vintage variation can be evened out by fruit selection, ensuring quality at a high level. However there is debate that this concept comes at the expense of the 'soul' of the wine. Penfolds Grange is probably the most famous multi-district blend and is an excellent counter-argument.Andrew Caillard MW, Langton's


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H.R.66 - To preserve the cultural resources of the Route 66 corridor and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance.106th Congress (1999-2000)
|Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1] (Introduced 01/06/1999)
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Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) facilitate the development of guidelines and a program of technical assistance and grants that will set priorities for the preservation of the Route 66 corridor; (2) designate National Park Service (NPS) officials to perform the functions of the Cultural Resource Programs support cultural resources related to the corridor; (3) support efforts of State and local public and private persons, nonprofit Route 66 preservation entities, Indian tribes, State Historic Preservation Offices, and entities in the States to preserve the corridor by providing technical assistance, participating in cost-sharing programs, and making grants; (4) act as a clearinghouse for communication among such parties and Federal, State, and local agencies; and (5) assist the States in determining the appropriate form of, and establishing and supporting, a non-Federal entity or entities to perform the functions of the Cultural Resource Programs after those programs are terminated.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements; (2) accept donations of funds, equipment, supplies, and services as appropriate; (3) provide cost-share grants for up to 50 percent of projects for the preservation of the corridor and information about existing cost-share opportunities and technical assistance in the corridor's historic preservation and interpretation; and (4) coordinate, promote, and stimulate research by other persons and entities regarding the corridor.
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There might not be a more heavily recruited player in the class of 2019 than Matthew Hurt, who has long been considered one of the top 10 prospects nationally in this group.
Hurt's early emergence on the national scene coupled with his reluctance to cut his list of schools — or even take official visits as early as most of his five-star peers — has led to a free-for-all among the country's top programs.
Going into his senior season, Hurt is listing seven programs — UK, Kansas, Duke, Indiana, Memphis, Minnesota and North Carolina — as viable contenders. He is not expected to publicly trim his list, and he has said he plans to wait until the college season begins before he starts to take the bulk of his official visits.
That makes it seem unlikely that he will sign in the fall period.
Whichever school lands Hurt will be getting a highly skilled prospect who has can make three-point shots, possesses offensive post moves and has a knack for rebounding. He should be able to play inside or out — and will likely play both — at the college level.
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It's the provision that the sides will begin discussing labor issues imminently, far earlier than they typically would with a CBA that doesn't expire until December 2021. Those discussions, sources told ESPN, will center on the game's most fundamental economic tenets — not only free agency but other macro issues with deep consequences. The bargaining over distribution of revenue could be the most difficult gap to bridge, with teams clearly paring back spending on aging players while players chafe at the notion that those 30 and older are no longer worthy of the deals they received in the past. While a compromise could be reached in distributing more money to the younger players whom the current system underpays, the complications of doing so warrant a long runway for discussions. Now, if you're a cynic, you might think that merely getting the league to the table doesn't constitute much of an accomplishment, as the league doesn't actually have to agree to anything. After all, the Collective Bargaining Agreement gives MLB the right to unilaterally change virtually any on-field rule it wants to without the permission or agreement of the union. That said, the league doesn't really have anything to gain financially from beginning negotiations now; record profits and the current CBA term mean it doesn't have to negotiate anything. If the league had no intention of making at least a few concessions, it might not come to the table at all. And beginning negotiations simply for public relations might not be a good legal strategy because bad faith talks – where one side basically tells the other why they're wrong – are a waste of money and tend to inflame tensions, not tamp them down. An MLBPA spokesman provided me with a statement from Executive Director Tony Clark, who considered the deal "an important initial step towards a broader dialogue about meeting the more substantive challenges our industry faces in the near and long-term." (As an aside, I wonder if the reference to "the industry" instead of the "league" might suggest a focus beyond just the major leagues; it will be fascinating to see if minor league salaries become a focus of the new talks, especially given the Blue Jays' decision to raise minor league wages and recent reports that the issue may finally be of interest to MLB.) Further, guaranteeing a 26th roster spot all season is a big win for the union, as it essentially creates at least thirty more full-time jobs. These are jobs the league didn't have to agree to create – remember, Rob Manfred could have just imposed the remaining rules himself, without the union's agreement – but it did so, without a corresponding concession. The winner of the All-Star game gets a guaranteed million dollars, which is a lot of money considering that this award is nearly twice the major league minimum, and more than the salary of most of 2018's participants. So why make these concessions? It's obviously early, and I'm not privy to the actual dialogue within the league office. But it at least appears that the league is finally considering a work stoppage, and the legal battles that would come along with it, as both a possible and unacceptable outcome. Part of that undoubtedly has to do with the union's new chief negotiator, Bruce Meyer. Meyer is in no small part responsible for the percentage of revenue guarantees for players in the NFL, NHL, and NBA collective bargaining agreements. Major League Baseball is the only one of the four major North American mens' sports leagues without such a guarantee, and the league is probably concerned that Meyer would make such a guarantee a sticking point in 2021 talks. Extending an olive branch now allows for the league to take a harder line on this issue later, particularly from a public relations perspective, particularly given Meyer's history with MLB's attorneys. Major League Baseball is chiefly represented by (among other attorneys and law firms) a firm called Proskauer Rose. There are a handful of law firms that strike fear in the sports world. None, though, is quite like Proskauer Rose. The New York-based firm has represented all of the major sports leagues — NBA, WNBA, NFL, NHL, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer — produced two commissioners (David Stern and Gary Bettman) and trained a legion of attorneys to outmaneuver players' advocates. Many Proskauer attorneys eventually work for leagues, teams or key companies in sports. To the extent professional sports connects to one law firm, it's Proskauer. Proskauer represented the Marlins when Jeffrey Loria sold the team to the group led by Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter. They've represented the league when it's been sued, including in the minor league minimum wage cases. When the league gets in trouble, it hires Proskauer. And Bruce Meyer has had success against Proskauer before. In 2016, for example, when Meyer worked for the National Hockey League, player Dennis Wideman was suspended 20 games by commissioner Gary Bettman. Wideman appealed and the suspension was cut in half by a neutral arbitrator, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement Meyer helped to negotiate. (The arbitrator in question, James Oldham, also handles baseball arbitrations.) Proskauer, on behalf of the NHL, fired the arbitrator and sued the union, arguing that Bettman's initial suspension should stand. Meyer, representing the union, won handily. Now, Meyer, as good as he is, isn't a panacea for labor unions, as he himself admits. He's lost to Proskauer more than once, and he is the first to concede that protracted legal battles between leagues and unions have a lot of collateral damage for players. Adversaries criticize Proskauer for what one described as its "lock out first, ask questions later" approach. But they concede that such tactics have produced results. "It's been an effective strategy," said Bruce Meyer, a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, who has represented players' unions. Although, he adds, "I don't think it's a magic pill." The current absence of major clashes is probably short-lived, said Mr. Meyer. "There's a lot of money at stake for both sides. When there's a lot of money at stake, you see these big battles." But part of that is also due to the structural mismatch inherent in labor disputes: the league will always have more money and more resources, while the players have to miss paychecks and potentially decide whether to dissolve their union in order to seek recourse in court. As a result, Meyer's talents notwithstanding, the league will always have a significant advantage in labor disputes. In the event of a lockout or work stoppage, ownership is far better equipped to deal with a long-lasting impasse than the players are – particularly young, pre-arb players, who would face legitimate financial pressure should their $550,000 annual salaries disappear for more than a few weeks. Recent call-ups from the minors would be in even worse shape. So this agreement shouldn't be taken as a sign that MLB is quaking in its proverbial boots at the thought of a confrontation with Meyer and the MLBPA. This could be a bit of strategy on MLB's part, offering small concessions now while preparing for larger fights ahead. It may be a sign of nothing more than the league taking the union more seriously as an adversary. After all, not everything went the MLBPA's way. The three-batter rule certainly isn't good for players, the union notably didn't agree to it, and Manfred imposed it unilaterally. But that's still progress. In a very real sense, that MLB was willing to come to the table at all could demonstrates a real breakthrough in the cold war between the league and union, even if merely agreeing to negotiate isn't a guarantee that the labor disputes of the past couple of years are behind us. For fans dreading the very real prospect of a work stoppage, it's hard to not be at least cautiously optimistic in the wake of these developments. We hoped you liked reading What the New On-Field Rules Could Mean for Baseball's Labor Strife by Sheryl Ring! Please support FanGraphs by becoming a member. We publish thousands of articles a year, host multiple podcasts, and have an ever growing database of baseball stats. FanGraphs does not have a paywall. With your membership, we can continue to offer the content you've come to rely on and add to our unique baseball coverage. Support FanGraphs


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Gareth Dabbs, Principal, Technology Solutions, IQVIA
Sarah Rickwood, Vice President, European Thought Leadership, IQVIA
Alexandra Smith, Analyst, European Thought Leadership, IQVIA
Christopher Wooden, Vice President, ChannelDynamics™, IQVIA
One of the oldest commercial models is extensive use of sales representatives, working face to face with individual clients. This model, while eroded or vanished in many industries such as consumer goods or financial services, remains strong in pharma, despite well-established challenges.
For decades increasingly dominant payer power and promotional restrictions have challenged the classical model of the pharmaceutical sales rep visiting individual doctors, but it has proven remarkably resilient. The total number of reps the pharmaceutical industry employs has stayed quite steady at between 400,000 and 500,000 equivalents globally.1
The most fundamental challenge to the traditional sales model, however, has been more recent. The rise of digital technologies, enabling the growth of Multichannel, revolutionises the commercial model in ways other trends have not, because digital simultaneously dramatically diversifies the channels of communication and also sources of information. It is also, fundamentally, customer led.
Healthcare professionals, like the patients they treat, moved online – to seek information, communicate with peers, and to make healthcare decisions. Pharmaceutical companies have followed them.
The rise of digital technologies, enabling the growth of Multichannel, revolutionizes the commercial model in ways other trends have not
The developed major markets, US, top 5 Europe and Japan account for over 85% of the first five years of sales (normalised, value) of New Chemical Entities2, the innovative drivers of research based pharma. Unsurprisingly, these countries are the focus of pharmaceutical company promotional spend.
However, our IQVIA ChannelDynamics™ audit of pharmaceutical promotional and communication activity shows that the rise of digital and multichannel has been far from uniform across major countries. In previously published white papers3, we've seen that Japan leads the world in terms of pharmaceutical company use of digital channels to communicate with healthcare professionals (HCPs), and the US has followed with a strong rise in the importance of digital, and therefore multichannel diversity.
Europe, which is the second key region for New Chemical Entity sales, and therefore crucial for promotional investment, lags on digital share and multichannel diversity. However, if we break Europe into countries, the picture is more mixed: some countries, Poland leading, have high digital volume shares. In others, the sales force still dominates promotional activity.
The rise of digital communication is a global phenomenon. Doctors across all these three regions are in sophisticated countries with access, at home and work, to the necessary digital infrastructure. The very different levels of multichannel maturity, shown schematically in Figure 1 but backed by a wealth of objective data and empirical observation, are driven by the "soft" factors – HCP culture and preference on the one hand – on the other, pharmaceutical company culture and established practices.
Nevertheless, whilst there are multiple speed lanes towards multichannel maturity, there's only one direction of travel, as real world time for communication between HCP and pharmaceutical companies diminishes, and the proportion of time spent in the virtual world grows. Understanding if there is a disconnect between what HCPs want and expect in terms of channels of communication from pharmaceutical companies and what pharmaceutical companies are actually supplying them with is at the heart of making Multichannel a success.
Our IQVIA ChannelDynamics™ audit of pharmaceutical promotional and communication activity shows that the rise of digital and multichannel has been far from uniform across major countries
Using the ChannelDynamics™ survey instrument, IQVIA has surveyed a very broad range of HCPs across 35 countries to ask them what channels they most prefer pharmaceutical companies to use to communicate with them. We analysed these responses versus the reports the same HCPs made of the channels that pharmaceutical companies actually used to communicate with them. Our findings show that disconnect between what HCPs say they want in terms of channels and what they get is much more common than convergence, but also that the picture's hugely variable by country, and by type of healthcare professional.
It's worth stating at this point that what HCPs say they want, in terms of channels of communication, should not necessarily be what they get, for optimal communication and indeed for optimal impact from a pharmaceutical company perspective. We can classify the functions of communication into four main areas: to generate awareness, to provide depth information, to build relationships, and to receive feedback. Email or journal advertising's strength is in generating awareness; only an interactive channel can receive feedback, and until recently Pharma/HCP relationships were built primarily on real world contact. It's important to note that our survey still shows that most healthcare professionals in all markets state their first preference remains for face to face interaction with pharmaceutical companies, mostly rep interaction.
However, what we are seeing is a significant minority of healthcare professionals – in some cases, over one third of a particular group in a specific countries (for example, 33% of Italian diabetologists, 37% of German cardiologists) state that their very first preference for communication from pharmaceutical companies is digital.
Further, many HCPs in our survey have stated preferences for digital contact that far exceeds what they actually receive – is this in fact a signal that they feel "over-contacted" face to face and want to dial back face to face communication? Do they feel that digital channels may fit better with the time pressures they experience on their jobs? Pharmaceutical marketeers may want to be sensitive to such signals, but not necessarily to act to the degree suggested by the reported preference if the HCPs are in a crucial, competitive promotional area. Interpreting the rush of data on the way HCPs engage, separating the signal from the noise, and then acting to create the most effective multichannel experience by HCP and country will be the key challenge of multichannel for the next decade.
This could be an example of how surveying channel preference is uncovering an expression of saturation on the part of these doctors: they'd like to see less face to face, and seek more of their information on line. Given these specialties see amongst the highest promotional spend per doctor, is there a case for the industry to achieve greater efficiencies by listening and responding to what the doctors say they prefer?
Of course, in highly competitive disease areas the countervailing argument will always be that a company cannot afford to lose share of voice in face to face detailing – but what might be the benefits to the first mover which adjusts their channel mix in an intelligent manner? Better customer insight would help. On the other side of the line, there are outlier healthcare professional groups where the clear statement appears to be precisely the opposite: they experience far more digital channel communication than they want. This includes groups such as pharmacists and practice nurses where we are most likely seeing the impact of an understandable pharmaceutical industry policy of using lower cost channels to provide essential information to groups with lower decision making power over prescriptions.
Here the maxim that what healthcare professionals want should not necessarily be what they get might kick in: the most expensive resources of sales representatives must be allocated wisely. But again, is there a way to ensure that these groups aren't perceiving a lack of face to face contact as a lack of relationship? What is it they think they could receive from more traditional contacts they don't get from their digital interactions? Again, better customer insight would help.
We expanded this analysis to a wider group of eight countries which represent some of the key markets out of the full ChannelDynamics™ coverage of 33. We divided healthcare professional groups into three:
Variability of digital preference and digital activity Digital preference varies widely, across countries and between HCP groups within countries. This should not surprise: as Figure 1 shows, the share and impact of digital promotional activity, by volume, is widely variable across the developed country markets which constitute the majority of promotional activity. Japan is the most advanced country in terms of digital activity – digital volume share grew earliest and is highest globally. The US, perhaps unsurprisingly, is next. Europe, however, lags the US and Japan, with few country exceptions, in terms of digital share and impact. Of the lead five countries only the UK shows significant digital share.
The points of immediate interest lie at the extremes:
Japan, the most digitally advanced in terms of share, and the US, with the second highest share, show digital saturation – the majority of HCP groups would prefer less communication via digital channels. Has the pendulum swung too far on digital share, or is there a reaction to how digital channels are being used that can be addressed?
At the other end of the spectrum, European countries with low levels of digital maturity are Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. In these countries, the traditional promotional model still rules; digital channels are a very low share of all channel activity, by volume. What is striking, therefore, is that the majority of healthcare professional groups express a strong preference for more use of digital – what's driving this preference, and what are the barriers to meeting this demand for digital channel activity?
Our survey, encompassing all major country markets (33 in the wider survey) and a key selection of HCP specialties, paints a picture of widespread suboptimal digital channel use. Where digital channels have become mainstream (Japan, US, UK to a certain extent), many groups of healthcare professionals state they prefer non-digital channels. Where healthcare professionals are asking for more communication via digital channels, as in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and (as one example of an emerging market country) China, that demand is not being met. In both cases, we believe that the root causes include:
The last five years saw an explosion of digital opportunity for pharmaceutical marketeers. Digital communication opportunities ballooned, and the audiences (healthcare professional, patient, healthcare provider, healthcare payer, general public) for which digital communication and information became a necessity multiplied.
In this generative phase of digital marketing, keeping abreast of the technological developments, introducing them into the quite traditional and often conservative commercial structures of major pharmaceutical companies, and doing so across a wide range of very disparate country markets were, in themselves, major and time consuming tasks. And, as they consumed time, we believe they pushed marketing focus away from the fundamental customer insight principles which hold true, regardless of channel. As multichannel marketing moves from an early, establishment phase and becomes a mainstream and more mature activity, it's time to re-visit those fundamental principles in order to ensure that multichannel truly realises its promise.
Our research has uncovered an appetite from healthcare professionals in many countries for a greater level of digital communication with pharma than they currently get. This is important and positive news; it validates projects to drive a greater role for digital in multichannel mix. However, companies need to meet digital demand while simultaneously continuing to maintain promotional presence and impact and, crucially, ensuring that the sales teams, who will always be a core element of the mix, are on board with the digital journey. Accomplishing this requires both detailed insight of healthcare professionals as customers and of pharmaceutical companies' own sales teams as enablers and users of digital channels. Companies must develop customer insight to
understand what drives healthcare professionals to want more digital interaction. When IQVIA undertook depth research on the reasons why HCPs in the UK and Spain like digital interaction, in this case specifically e-detailing, the findings, in Figure 4, were very clear – it is convenience and the ability to fit pharmaceutical company interaction into busy working lives that were especially valued. Digital channels are particularly effective here not just because they can be fitted into out of hours, spare moments and re-scheduled more easily, but because by their nature they are less about social interaction, more about information exchange, something that was also called out as a reason (although a smaller one).
In countries where digital activity is not meeting HCP demand, a key challenge is the perception of digital by the company's own salesforce. It's an unfortunate fact that sales representatives can see the adoption of digital channels as a threat, diluting and challenging their carefully built relationships with doctors, and even, potentially threatening their own roles. This is not helped when executives have, on occasion, sought to frame multichannel discussions in terms of RoI on digital versus real world interactions. Whilst that measure can be a tool, the correct focus must be on
the overall impact of a multichannel campaign with the right mix of all channels.
As one pharmaceutical executive who has lived through this process has commented to us, "to actually get the salesforce to trust you that you are not trying to replace their jobs is very hard". The companies which have been most successful at growing digital with, not against, the activities of the salesforce are those that have developed salesforce as well customer insight and have used that insight to good effect. Sales representative naturally wish to keep their jobs, but they also want to be more effective and have a competitive edge on building and maintaining doctor relationships. Digital channels can be positioned as enablers of their roles, and their sales effectiveness. The companies which have been most effective in introducing a truly integrated multichannel model are the ones which take time to:
Our research into the patterns of uptake and use of digital communication channels by doctors across different channels shows the very strong influence of culture and historical precedent. Japan is an example of a country with early adoption of digital portals, driven by the rapid rise of a small number of leading providers, where in some cases, small incentives in the form of vouchers were available to encourage doctors to go through e-details. This has undoubtedly encouraged digital activity; Japan has the highest share of digital channel activity in the world. However, our research also shows that impact of digital activity in Japan, in terms of how healthcare professionals report they will choose to change their prescribing after a digital contact, is less positive than in the US, and indeed the UK and Poland, other countries with high digital share. In addition, our research on channel preference demonstrates that regardless of their specialty, Japanese healthcare professionals report they'd prefer a lower level of digital communication than they are currently receiving, as shown in Figure 5.
The Japanese could be in a situation where the initial success of digital has resulted in overkill and saturation, a certain level of disenchantment with digital channels as they are currently presented. Certain multinational corporations have already challenged the status quo, moving from presence on the generally available doctor portals to creating their own portals where they have full control over the nature of the doctor engagement.
However, in a situation where digital share is so high, competitive pressure against dialing back digital activity would be intense, and there's no guarantee it would (if used in isolation) be the solution. Japan's an extreme example, but our research shows it's not the only one – the US falls into this group and in other countries certain healthcare professional groups do – for example, in Germany, Internists report a higher share of digital than they would like, but other specialties report they would prefer more digital than they receive.
Companies faced with this situation need to understand what is driving their healthcare professional audience to devalue digital interaction. Is it the nature of the digital channel or platform that is being used? Is it the richness and relevance of the information that is being provided? Is it a sub-optimal mix between information provision and interactivity? What is clear is that achieving a high share of digital activity is not an end in itself and by no means the end of the journey to multichannel maturity; adjustments must be made continuously, and the basis of those adjustments is a highly effective collection of customer insight and feedback.
From our research, we can see that the journey to multichannel maturity is not over even in the most advanced countries or companies. Key questions that we answered are:
Significant differences in multichannel maturity remain across the developed markets which are the focus of most promotional value One of the visions of multichannel marketing is that a diversity of channels allows pharmaceutical companies to engage more healthcare professionals, more effectively, via their preferred channels. For digital at least, our research suggests that this does not happen in most countries, and the mis-match can occur both in those countries with strong digital share (Japan) and those with low digital share (Italy, Germany, China). More investment is needed in developing real customer insight into HCP motivations and preferences if multichannel is to mature into orchestrated customer engagement HCP channel preference is complex. Our research presented here demonstrates that the preference for one set of digital channels varies widely by HCP specialty and country. Other, depth work that we have done shows that a single physician's channel preference can vary by the disease area for which they receive communication. How can companies, faced with such complexity, ever hope to master customer preference?
Here is the five point plan:
In the past, most pharmaceutical marketing functions have been fundamentally organised around equipping an internal customer (the sales rep); and most marketeers' effort has been focussed on developing a sales aid, checking if 'their' messages were resonating, and that the reps were doing as instructed.
In contrast, today's pharmaceutical commercial function needs to be focussed on your external customers – the patient, the prescriber, and the payer – equipping them with the information they need (factual content), when they need it (channel choice), to make appropriate prescribing decisions and ensure optimal use of treatment and to achieve treatment goals.
This is quite a change: we are in the process of remaking a model which was five decades or more in creation, and what is more changing it in just a few years, and so it is unsurprising pharmaceutical companies struggle with the degree of transformation and capabilities to make it happen. In the end, it's not the technology that will be transformational agent, but the attitudes and beliefs of the Pharmaceutical marketeers and sales people who make it happen.
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MONROVIA, Montserrado – Accountability Lab has announced the opening of the period for nomination for its 2018 integrity Idol Liberia award, a program that has worked to showcase honest public servants in a country that perennially ranks in the bottom of corruption indices.
Integrity Idol was launched in Liberia three years ago and it has so far honored 15 civil servants and public officials for being honest in their duties and helping to transform society.
Announcing the official opening of nominations for this year's idol, Accountability Lab's Liberia coordinator, Lawrence Yealue, said there are more good than bad people in Liberia – and those are who the program intends to continue to discover.
"These unique people are diamonds in the dirt. The only thing we need to do as a people is to locate them; clean them; polish them; showcase them to the world and tell our story,†Yealue said.
He noted that, as the program is in its fourth edition of honoring honest public and civil servants, it is also incorporating those in the private sector.
"The reason is that, Liberia is both private and public. So, if we leave the private sector out continuously, then, it means that corruption in private places will also be hidden, but we need to start celebrating people [in] places everywhere,†he said.
Idols can be nominated online. The nomination will be followed by vetting, selection by an independent panel of experts, filming of finalists, and voting by members of the public for a winner.
Integrity Idol was first piloted in 2014 in Nepal, where it garnered over 4 million viewers. Yealue said after drawing upon the successful pilot in Nepal, the program is now currently in its second year in Mali. It has also been launched in Nigeria and South Africa, with talks ongoing to also launch in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Sierra Leone.
Knowing that naming and filming is one of the best ways to build idols of role models, Yealue said his organization's hope is that Integrity Idol will go across the world, celebrating honest civil servants and telling their stories in a unique way to impact change.
Among last year's finalists were a police officer and an officer of the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency. Yealue noted that the result showed that despite the corruption indexes highlighting Liberia's security agencies as the most corrupt of government agencies, there are yet some honest individuals serving in the agencies.
Since 2015, the program has reached over 15,000 public servants, Anthony Selmah, Accountability Lab's chief operating officer, told The Bush Chicken.
"This year, we are hoping to cover as many parts of this country to be able to identify potential candidates who are people of integrity,†he said.
Past finalists have always spoken well of the initiative and the level of prestige it has brought to them. They include the 2016 winner, Bockarie Sackilla.
Sackilla, who worked as a pharmacist at the government hospital in Bomi, said because of the award, he has earned a huge respect and admiration from the public. The award has pushed him to become even more motivated about his work and Sackilla said he recently completed a master's degree in pharmacy from the University of Lagos in Nigeria.
Alphonso Rancy, a 2015 finalist, told The Bush Chicken that Integrity Idol is responsible for him continuing to remain in his post as a senior inspector at the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency, despite the change of government.
He encouraged other members of security agencies to follow his footsteps by keeping their integrity and serving with honesty, despite low incentives they are receiving. According to the 2017 integrity idol finalist, even though he handles significant sums of money, he earns below US$125 monthly.
He said no amount of excuse is justifiable for anyone in the security sector to lose his or her integrity.
He, however, called on Accountability Lab to include better incentives for idols, as a means of providing encouragement to them.
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