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ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - UBS UBSN.VX is about to cut 400 investment banking jobs, two sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday, with more extensive lay-offs at the Swiss bank likely to follow as it withdraws from the riskier and more capital-intensive parts of its business.
Tighter capital rules and a dearth of deals are forcing many investment banks to slash costs, though big losses in the 2008 financial crisis and a rogue trading scandal last year have added to the Swiss group's particular problems.
The latest job cuts are aimed at UBS's corporate finance business that helps companies with takeovers and fundraising and the fixed income and equities trading units, across all the bank's regions, the sources said.
Bankers in Europe and the Middle East could be the first to hear from management on Wednesday as UBS works its way through the lay-offs, while those in Asia and the United States are more likely to be told on Thursday, one of the sources said.
A spokesman for UBS declined to comment. The bank is due to report its third-quarter results on October 30.
But the latest cuts are likely to be only the start at UBS, which pledged last year to cut more than 5 percent of its workforce, numbering some 3,500 jobs across the whole bank as it pares back the size of the investment bank and puts more emphasis on its wealth management business.
A Swiss newspaper report on Sunday said that UBS is to shed a further 2,000-4,000 cuts in investment banking and central functions as well as 900 jobs in information technology.
The 400 jobs to go this week account for less than 2.5 percent of the investment bank's overall workforce, which numbered 16,432 people at the end of June, and final numbers in this week's round of cuts could swell to 500, one of the sources said.
A sharp fall in investment banking in Europe this year amid the euro zone crisis has pushed banks to cut back even more, even as third-quarter results look set to benefit from better trading income in September.
"(UBS) is playing 'catch-up' with its investment bank peers in trying to manage the division to a suitable ROE (return on equity) for the current environment," Andrew Lim, an analyst at Espirito Santo said in a note.
Deutsche Bank for instance said recently it would cut at least 1,900 jobs, with the majority falling in investment banking.
Nevertheless the UBS cuts will show the investment bank's new boss Andrea Orcel making his first mark on the business since he was poached from Bank of America Merrill Lynch BAC.MC earlier this year.
Bankers in the European corporate finance team have been expecting up to 90 jobs to go there for several weeks now, as former star dealmaker Orcel, who shares the job with trading expert Carsten Kengeter, shakes up team structures.
Some had even been frustrated when lay-offs did not materialize sooner, saying the uncertainty was affecting morale.
"The rumors have been going on for too long, a lot of people just want to see it happen already", said a senior UBS banker this week.
More senior executives such as managing directors are expected to be hit by the lay-offs too, mirroring plans by rivals such as Credit Suisse to take out some of the more expensive staff.
Trading units will also be vulnerable, with revenues from equities still weak at most banks, and UBS has already been pulling back in fixed income, which takes up more capital than most other businesses.
The riskier trading businesses have also come under fire since the bank lost $2.3 billion in a rogue trading scandal last September. Kweku Adoboli, who worked in UBS's equities division, is currently on trial in London, accused of fraud and false accounting.
But while Orcel and Kengeter have been devising cuts for the investment bank, they have also defended its role within UBS, bankers said.
They had made a case to managers including chief executive and former investment banker Sergio Ermotti that lay-offs should fall across the whole of the bank and not just that one unit.
"It looks as though the investment bank guys are still fighting their corner for a symmetrical, across-the-board ... moderate reduction," a third source familiar with the situation said.
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Baseball's Hall of Fame has two new members on the way in Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar.
Blyleven, the long-snubbed master of the curveball, and Alomar, a second baseman who compiled most of his statistics while in his twenties, were the only two retired ballplayers voted into the venerable Cooperstown institution. Falling short were former Reds shorstop Berry Larkin, pitcher Jack Morris, closer Lee Smith, Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Edgar Martinez.
Blyleven, 59, born in Holland, has been passed over by the baseball writers who select players for entry, finally made it, largely on the strength of a campaign by his fans. His 287 career wins are 27th all time and he is fifth all time in strikeouts, with 3,701.
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Alomar was a 12-time All-Star and one of only two players to finish with more than 2,700 hits, 450 stolen bases and 200 homers. The other was Paul Molitor, who is already enshrined.
Selected Reading: NBC Sports, BertBlyleven.com, The New York Times.

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EmergencyExit wrote:And I am still amazed by the fact you live in the same state as us, as well as the exact same city as Bean. It's weird to know you have fans that close.
Well there are other people in Hawaii are there not? I don't see why it would be utterly unlikely for someone from Hawaii to read your webcomics.MegaRose wrote:I'd love to have fans that close...kind of impossible for me, I live in Hawaii.
EmergencyExit wrote:But yeah, meeting up would be cool, easier for you two being in Portland. Orion and I will be in Portland on the 15th though, to get Bean actually. If you have free time that day maybe we can all meet up real quick.
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Isn't there anyone to help me with this?
Can anyone correct my sentences?
'At about six in the morning,I went to the bus stop.I waited until six fiffteen and not yet still the bus had came.'
Is there any grammar mistake in the sentences.Kindly,seeking help from everyone.
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Isn't there anyone to help me with this?
'At about six in the morning, I went to the bus stop. I waited until six fifteen and still the bus had not come.'
Generally, avoid using 'not yet' and 'still'\ together.
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I've been fascinated by the strange saga of the missing McStays since the Fallbrook family of four first vanished in February 2010, leaving behind two bowls of popcorn by the TV, a carton of eggs and a banana on the kitchen counter, and two family dogs in the backyard of their new home.
No one knows for sure what happened to the family – Joseph McStay, his wife Summer, and their two toddlers, Gianni and Joseph Jr. Their Isuzu Trooper was found parked in a San Ysidro strip mall lot a short distance from a pedestrian crossing into Mexico, and grainy surveillance video showed two adults and two little kids approaching the border gate.
The disappearance of Joseph McStay, who ran a business that installs water fountains, and his family made sensational headlines for a while, with relatives, friends, business associates and law enforcement all wondering what the heck could have happened.
The state of the house suggested their departure was abrupt, but there were no signs of a struggle. The family computer had been used to search for information on travel to Mexico, and yet no money was withdrawn from their bank accounts – nor were any possessions missing, even new toys that had been given to one of the boys at a birthday party just one week before the presumed date of the family's disappearance (Feb. 4, when a neighbor's security camera showed the McStays pulling out of their driveway).
In time, the McStays vanished from the headlines as well. From time to time, we heard about new developments, like reported sightings in Mexico and family members hiring investigators to hunt for the family down south, but there was little new information.
All of a sudden the McStays' disappearance is again making news, sparked by an announcement by sheriff's deputies that they now believe that the McStays traveled to Mexico of their own accord. The Sheriff's Department has effectively washed its hands of the case and has turned it over to the FBI.
The new development isn't just making news locally. Friday morning one of the lead stories on my AOL home page was headlined, "Mystery of Missing Calif. Family Solved."
I jumped in my chair, thinking there must be some new development, but no dice: merely a sensational headline that linked to a Huffington Post story that basically recounted the piece the U-T San Diego had a few days earlier, with "solved" referring to the belief that the family left town on their own. Reading the story, the mystery only deepened for me, particularly after I read the quote from sheriff's Lt. Glenn Giannantonio: "The reasons behind it? Your guess is as good as mine. It's very odd. We really have no idea what happened to them."
So we're really no closer to finding out what drove the McStay family from their Fallbrook home than we were three years ago, when they first were reported missing.
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Kenzi brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
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Hi, My name is Makenzie and I am the owner of a Photography Studio in Eastern Iowa. I am creating a new business called Dreams in Focus. Being a photographer, I am always striving to find new and fresh products for my clients to showcase their images with. I have come up with an idea no other company provides. I am starting an upscale decorative photo throw-pillow line. Not only will this company be useful to my own clients but "Dreams in Focus" will be the vendor to professional photographers all over the world to design custom pillows for their own clients at a wholesale cost where they are able to make a profit.
This will be a very new idea. No other company offers pillows like we will. Also- we will be the FIRST vendor to other professional photographers. We will be targeting other boutique photography studios, like my own. Our photography clients are middle to upper class families looking to showcase their family images as artwork in their home.
The business name is VERY new. This is the beginnings stages of the business. We aren't set in stone on "Dreams in Focus" -- we are considering "Dream to Focus" or "Dreams N Focus". This is where you come in. We are thinking that once we see a logo we love, we will decide on the name. You can choose which business name you like best and what your vision for the logo is.
We aren't looking for specific colors, yet. Be creative. Think UPSCALE. Maybe something light and airy...? Nothing cheesy with a camera or clip-art looking things.
My website for my photography studio is http://www.kenziphotography.com I had my logo created on here a few years ago for my studio and I LOVE that logo.
I have attached a photo of the pillows we will be offering with our business. The top left photo in the image is the 'look'. Good luck! I will keep up with feedback :) Thanks for your effort in advance.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Lazy Vegan MoFo: Hot Chocolate with Flax Meringue
Behold the laziest Vegan MoFo post ever! I have come down with a severe case of Sloth-itis and I can't be bothered to do anything that requires any physical locomotion. However, I am having too much fun with MoFo and I did not want to skip one day, so I will quickly share a cup of a fabulous Hot Chocolate with Flax Meringue that I just had a few minutes ago...
'twas delicious! Lots of meringue - moderation is for the weak!
And here's Curly, apparently entering a wind tunnel...
See you tomorrow!
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Aw lil' Curly!ReplyDelete
And heck yah for lazy posts--I'm all over them. Just like I'd be all over that hot chocolate & flax meringue. Super amazing looking!
That hot choc looks heavenly!ReplyDelete
If you're lazy, then I'm lazier, because I had hot chocolate without meringue. This is not my fault, however. Had I know about the meringue, surely I would have brought my mixer back with me this past summer instead of leaving it at our house for the tenants to use. I can't justify a new mixer no matter how much I want meringue, and I think a hand mixer might not do the job. So no meringue for me. :(ReplyDelete
I think Curly is saluting the sun! I would salute the sun if I could find it.
My mind is blown. I am going to have to dig through the freezer and make some for my Asian pear crisp.ReplyDelete
I have come down with Sloth-itis, toooooo! I usually type up my post for the next day, after dinner, and I have to drag myself to the computer. Wahhhhhh! It will all be over soon, HOORAY!ReplyDelete
And this hot choccie looks deee-licious! And I like the other duck that is photo-bombing Curly's photo :D
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Duck photo bomb!ReplyDelete
I've got to admit that I'm pretty happy there's only a week left, as fun as it's been, I need a blogging break.
That hot chocolate looks perfect, makes me want to curl up by somebody's fireplace...since we don't have one.Replies
These ducks sure do like being in the spotlight! Vegan MoFo is quite the challenge - I still can't believe I made it this far! Hang in there! We can do it! :DDelete
I can offer you a cup of hot chocolate, but we're going to have to find someone else willing to share a fireplace with us because I don't have one either. Our gas "fireplace" doesn't count as a fireplace in my book!


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Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
To be a real punk, you can't be some snooty New York type who gets to go to clubs and do shit. No, you have to grow up surrounded by fields and some book burners for good measure.
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She should be on DWTS!!! Season 10 – The Campaigns.
In the last couple seasons of this show, one thing has struck me as interesting. It may be interesting to no one else, but it is interesting to me. 🙂 There are little (and sometimes big) campaigns to get fan favorites on DWTS.
Take last season, for example. We had a fan of Beth Horn (aka Venom) from American Gladiators on this site telling us on a semi-regular basis that she should be on the show. And it wasn't just him – there was a full out Facebook campaign to get Beth on the show. This season I've seen campaigns for Crystal Chappell – soap actress recently from the cancelled Guiding Light and Laurell Holloman an actress recently seen in The L Word. The latter I just noticed today; there is a write-in campaign at her website (I'm not a member so I can't see what is being said and done). Crystal's fans have been at if for a while and have left numerous comment on this site and probably others. (We don't mind – keep them coming. 🙂 )
Now, I'm not talking about celebs who decide they need to be on the show and launch a campaign directed at the producers to get on the show, I'm talking about campaigns that appear to originate with the fans of a given celebrity. Sometimes the celeb has said they'd like to do it, other times I'm not so sure. So, assuming the celebrity would actually do the show if a campaign were successful – does anyone think these campaigns have a chance of working? I'm seriously asking, because I just don't know. The three women I've mentioned seem like they would be a good fit for the show – I've only heard of Crystal because of Guiding Light, the other two are unknowns. They actually have fanbases so they aren't complete unknowns, so that is good.
So, people, lay it on me – answer the following questions:
– Do you think these campaigns have a shot?
– Are there other campaigns out there that we're not aware of?
– What are the pros and cons for the producers of the show to pick someone that originated from a campaign?
– Has anyone been involved in a successful campaign?
I'll go first. I think they have a shot. Why not? The producers are always looking for people and what could be better than someone who has people who desperately want to see them on the show? It's all about ratings, right?
I know there are other campaigns – I've seen signs of them but I can't seem to dig them up right now. You have no idea how hard it is to randomly google DWTS Campaigns. It doesn't work. 🙂
Pros and cons. Hmmmm…I said one pro above. Cons? Well, you could get so overwhelmed by a very vocal minority that you pick someone who isn't all that. That isn't that big, but what if you toss someone that was actually better overboard? Other than that, I can't think of too many problems with listening to fans of the show. Can anyone else?
Those of you involved in the campaigns I mentioned – why do you want your favorite on the show? Have you any reason to believe that you will be successful – like have you heard anything positive from your celebrity? Call me curious. Use this as your chance to really pimp your favorite. 🙂
So tell me – what are your thoughts on campaigns? Do really big campaigns set up a celeb for ringer status? I don't think that would be the case for the three women I mentioned, but could that be the case for others? Or is it a given if someone is that popular and they want to be on the show their fans don't have to campaign and they're already a ringer? Most of all – I would be curious to hear if there are other underground movements out there working to get their favorites on the show.


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Our young condor chick has begun to be more mobile these days. In preparation for her big move from her condor crèche to aviary life, she has been having forays out into the big wide world. At two months of age and weighing over three kilos she is rapidly outgrowing her temporary home so she has begun to spend days in an outdoor aviary where she can feel the wind through her down and feel the sun, or rain more recently. Her appetite has also increased immensely and she has recently graduated to eating full sized rats! This little bundle of fluff brings the total population of Andean Condors in Australia to five, including her parents Bruce & Connie, Big sister Leslie who is one of the stars in the QBE Free-Flight Bird Show, and brother Inti (Now known as "Chief") who can be seen at Australia Zoo in Queensland. Our hope is that this latest addition will join Leslie as an ambassador for the species as she unfurls her three metre wingspan over audiences at the Bird Show.


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McDonald's marketing executives convened a war council recently to devise a strategy for combating the latest attack on their reputation and bottom line, AdAge.com reports.
The adversary is a familiar one, Eric Schlosser, author of the 2001 best-seller "Fast Food Nation." His latest salvo is a movie version expected to be released later this year, as well as another book. The book, "Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food," is reportedly aimed at kids and full of gag-inducing information about fast-food fare, the report says.
While McDonald's managed to weather an earlier documentary, "Super Size Me," without sustaining any bottom-line damage, AdAge.com says the fast-food king is: "worried about a backlash." The movie version of "Fast Food Nation" is a fictionalized drama set in a small Colorado town with a meatpacking plant and is expected to make obvious allusions to the company, including a restaurant chain called Mickey's, the report says.
According to studio insiders, the film focuses on a Mickey's exec who is sent to investigate problems with its new sandwich, "The Big One," at a meatpacking plant where a trio of illegal Mexican immigrants work. Another plotline involves a school kid who sees the reality of her fast-food job and takes action to change the business. It's believed the film targets meat producers, the supply chain, marketing, stores, employees and animal treatment.
Meanwhile, Schlosser's book, to be released next month, is aimed at middle-school children, and lays out stomach-churning info that could cause kids to swear off beef, chicken, candy and soda, the report says. Find the article at: adage.com/news.cms?newsId=48540. -- Joe Roybal


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Without Steve Jobs's strong personality, Apple's seven-member board of directors could be lost, analysts said Tuesday.
"The old message was "trust Steve," the new message has to be 'trust the team.' ... It's no longer the cult of personality." said Jim Post, a professor of corporate governance at Boston University School of Management who called for an independent chairman. "The board needs to be expanded. They need to bring on additional independent talent ... people who were not living in Steve's shadow."
Former Apple board member and Google chairman Eric Schmidt said that Jobs would doggedly wear down board members until he would "convince me I was wrong." Board members simply began to acquiesce to Jobs' whims, according to Reuters.
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Another problem is that at only seven members, the board is smaller than most corporations -- the usual size is 10. More directors could mean more diversity and experience for the company -- but several analysts liked the idea that there would be at least someone on the board that would shake it up, or create a "healthy tension," according to Colin Gillis of BGC Partners.
So far, Apple's chief executive Tim Cook could take Steve Jobs' place as chairman of the board, but most think that move will be unlikely because he's already trying to helm the company.
If Apple had to choose a few directors, it should look no further than Silicon Valley where there are several young, idealistic prospects. We hope the board will try to make the new directors more diverse, rather than the usual surfeit of middle-aged white men.


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In Their Own Words
What should you do when your student just can't get the hang of reading or writing? And what should you do when he or she balks at reading the books you have available?
The "language experience approach" is a wonderful way to get ALL students eager to read and write. Tutors using the language experience approach take dictation from their students, (or have the students do their own writing) then use the students' own words as reading material. Sometimes tutors will engage their students in some activity beforehand to provide a topic that students will want to talk about.
- Ask about a subject (be it a television show, video game or a recent experience) that your student enjoys. Encourage your student to talk about what interests him most, in whatever manner is comfortable for him.
- As your student speaks, neatly write down his experience IN HIS OWN WORDS. If he says "don't" where you would say "doesn't", you should still write "don't." This is the time for your student to express his own thoughts in his own way. Of course, you'll want to write with printed letters, not cursive.
- When your student has finished his description or narration, review his "writing" and read it together. You may be surprised how easily your student can read his own words–even words that might otherwise be considered difficult.
- Your student's creation will be important to him and should be treated as such. Encourage him or her to illustrate it and/or staple it into the form of a book. (Although older students may not be interested in this last step, the language experience approach is useful at any age.)
Many teachers and tutors find that the language experience approach is enjoyable as well as effective. What could be more interesting for a student than reading his own words about a subject that he knows and cares about? Or a story that he has created all by himself?
Former teacher and volunteer tutor Jean Katzenberg writes about how she turned her reluctant tutee into an eager reader by appealing to what most interested her student. Her sensitive approach also created an emotional bond with her student, which always is an important ingredient for success.
In addition to providing enthusiasm for reading and writing, the language experience approach helps students make the connection that words on paper are really just "talk written down." When Professor Roach Van Allen first described this approach in the 1960's, he showed how it creates a most natural bridge between spoken language and written language:
- " What I can think about, I can talk about."
- " What I can say, I can write."
- " What I can write, I can read."
- " I can read what I can write and what other people can write for me to read."
See our other articles on the language experience approach:
Annie the Sleeping Beauty: How I taught her to read.
A moving personal account by Jean Katzenberg
Cut-Apart Chart
Language Experience Approach Activities from "Dr. Jean" Feldman
For Professionals: Principles and Practices of Language Experience
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According to CITES experts, more than 25,000 elephants—an estimated 12 percent of the world's elephant population—were killed in Africa last year alone, and some say the numbers could be much higher. In a new Web series, National Geographic filmmakers share their experiences documenting the illegal ivory trade. Follow journalists Bryan Christy and Aidan Hartley as we go undercover and inside the criminal network behind ivory's supply and demand.
As a producer on the upcoming PBS Special, Battle for the Elephants, I was part of an international team that went undercover to investigate the illegal ivory trade. Our team knew early on that we had to take a holistic approach to documenting this story. The ivory trade—and it's devastating impact on elephant populations—doesn't just come down to "evil" poachers in Africa killing elephants without regard, nor is it merely a lust for ivory in Asia. Poachers and consumers are major factors, of course, but the problem is much more historically rooted and complex. After all, Western cultures caused similar devastation to the elephant population due to an intense desire for billiard balls, piano keys, and combs; a desire so insatiable that by 1913, the United States was consuming 200 tons of ivory a year.
For these reasons, we divided our team to gather as many perspectives as we could pack into our six-week production window. After ten-weeks of editing, what emerged is a highly contentious issue that needs even more attention than we estimated at the onset. The startling truth is, if we do not do something now, there is a a very real chance future generations will not see elephants in the wild.
Tune in right here at A Voice for the Elephants as we explore what may be the final battle for the elephants.
- Battle for the Elephants: Web Series Intro
- Episode 1: The Plight of the Elephant
- Episode 2: Criminal Traders Exposed
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Brendan Gibbons made a 38-yard field goal with 5 seconds left, lifting No. 23 Michigan to a 12-10 win over Michigan State on Saturday.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ? Brendan Gibbons made a 38-yard field goal with 5 seconds left, lifting No. 23 Michigan to a 12-10 win over Michigan State on Saturday.
The Wolverines (5-2, 3-0 Big Ten) beat the Spartans (4-4, 1-3) for the first time since 2007 to avoid a school-record, five-game losing streak in the series.
Denard Robinson threw a 20-yard pass to Drew Dileo to set up the game-winning kick.
Michigan State's Dan Conroy made a go-ahead field goal with 5:48 left after a fake punt kept the drive alive. The Spartans forced the Wolverines to punt from midfield after going ahead, but couldn't stop them when it mattered most in the final minute.
It was the 900th win for Michigan, college football's winningest program.
This one was the sweetest for the Wolverines since they snapped a school-record, seven-game skid against Ohio State last season.
Michigan's players sprinted toward the student section to celebrate after the win, and the fans in turn, spilled out onto the field, covering so much of it that Michigan State's marching band walked off the field without playing a note of its planned postgame performance.
Robinson, who had been shut down in his two previous starts against the Spartans, made just enough plays to help Michigan win.
He was 14 of 29 for 163 yards with an interception, a harmless turnover on an up-for-grabs pass at the end of the first half, and ran for 96 yards on 20 carries.
Dileo was his top target, catching four passes for 92 yards to set up scores on a day in which the defenses for both teams were dominant.
Michigan State's much-maligned quarterback, Andrew Maxwell, played relatively well, but he threw an interception to Jordan Kovacs that helped the Wolverines take a 9-7 lead early in the fourth quarter.
Maxwell was 21 of 34 for 192 yards with a TD ? a 2-yard toss to Paul Lang ? that put the Spartans ahead 7-6 midway through the third quarter. Those were the first points Michigan's improving defense gave up in six quarters and the first TD in eight quarters.
Le'Veon Bell, who was averaging 131 yards rushing a game, had just 68 yards rushing on 26 carries and gained no more than 8 yards on any attempts against a defense designed to stop him.
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio, who called a fake field goal in overtime to beat Notre Dame two years ago, pulled another play out of his bag of tricks at the right time.
The Wolverines were completely fooled when punter Mike Sadler took a snap from the Michigan State 23 on a fourth-and-9 and ran to the right, all alone, on a 26-yard gain that set up a go-ahead field goal.
That play, though, was not enough to beat Michigan.
The Wolverines led 6-0 at halftime.
In the first half, Robinson was held to just 17 yards rushing on 12 carries, and his longest went for 5 yards.
He was 8 of 13 for 108 yards in the first half, connecting on a 22- and 15-yard passes to Dileo to set up Gibbons' 24-yard field goal early in the second quarter and a 35-yarder to Dileo that led to Gibbons' 48-yard kick late in the first half.
Behind an already banged-up offensive line that lost left tackle Dan France to a concussion in practice this week, the Spartans were sluggish with the ball in the first half as they have been often this season.
Bell ran for just 31 yards on 11 carries and Maxwell was 10 of 16 for 96 yards in the first half.
Maxwell threw a 45-yard pass to Bennie Fowler to get into position to kick a game-tying field goal midway through the second half, but Conroy missed his sixth field goal of the season ? from 38 yards.
The Spartans started to click on offense on their first possession of the second half, picking up four first downs ? matching their total from the first half ? on four straight plays and a broken trick play set up the game's first TD.
Michigan State wide receiver Tony Lippett got the ball on a reverse that was designed for him to pass and he ended up keeping the ball, eluding three defenders that could've dropped him for a loss, for a 10-yard run that set up Maxwell's TD pass to Lang.
The Spartans had a chance to add to their lead late in the third, but Maxwell overthrew an intended receiver and safety Kovacs took advantage with a key interception.
Michigan then had two chances to score a go-ahead TD, but safety Isaiah Lewis broke up a pass in the end zone intended for Devin Funchess and Robinson missed wide-open teammate Jeremy Gallon and the Wolverines had to settle for a FG and a 9-7 lead early in the fourth quarter.
The Wolverines, though, didn't miss on their opportunity to win a game they ? and their fans ? desperately wanted against a team they've had their way with most of the time for more than 100 years.


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Piers Morgan owned by pro gun crowd after Twitter outburst
Steve Watson
Dec 4, 2012
Quite incredible that Bob Costas makes an impassioned plea for less handguns, and Americans go crazy with indignation. He's 100% right.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 3, 2012
CNN anchor Piers Morgan has been bombarded with angry responses from Americans following a twitter rant in which he called for increased gun control and said the Second Amendment was outdated.
Following Sunday's on air gun control rant by NBC's Bob Costas, CNN ran a number of segments advocating more gun control.
Anchor Brooke Baldwin stated "perhaps Congress is listening" after her guest called for tougher gun laws, and anchor Carol Costello asked if the incident should "cause us to rethink gun control?"
By far the most vocal, however, was Morgan, who tweeted with regard to Costas' comments "He's 100% right,"
"The 2nd amendment was devised with muskets in mind, not high-powered handguns & assault rifles. Fact," Morgan later added.
In between messages about sports and how wonderful the Royal family are, the British anchor then re-tweeted New York Mayor Bloomberg's call for a "frank discussion about gun laws and gun violence."
Morgan also tweeted, "America has 300 million guns and 11-12,000 gun murders a year. I think it's time there was a serious debate about guns in the U.S.", adding "When Bill O'Reilly agrees America needs more gun control, I think the time for serious debate has arrived" linking to a Huffington Post article about O'Reilly calling for harsher punishments for gun crimes.
Following scores of counter tweets from pro-second amendment Americans, Morgan tweeted "I'd like fewer Americans to die from gun crime each day. That's all. It's a debate worth having, however much abuse I need to endure!"
The CNN anchor then posted numerous sarcastic responses to tweets he has received from critics.
Morgan was, for the most part, owned by his critics, including author Carol Roth, who used facts and reasoned arguments in the face of his empty talking points and glib sarcastic responses.
This is not the first time CNN has played host to Morgan's anti-gun rants. In the hours after the "Batman" shootings back in July, he spent a large portion of his time calling for more gun control.
In response to Bob Costas' unmistakable declaration of war on the Second Amendment, Infowars.com is launching a new contest looking for the best video taped open letter to Mr. Costas telling him why the Second Amendment, citizen gun rights, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are essential to a free society.
The contest aims to call attention to the media's blatantly transparent efforts to control and shape public opinion in regards to firearms.
Additionally, everyone is encouraged to mail spoons with notes to Mr. Costas because, by his own logic, spoons are responsible for the rising obesity epidemic that has claimed the lives of millions of Americans.
Join Infowars.com in boycotting the NFL, NBC and Bob Costas unless they issue an apology and renounce their claims against the Second Amendment.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
This article was posted: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 1:05 pm
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Schneeberger or Duhr from Switzerland???
Previously seeking Evans Dulen Schaffran of kentucky and Ohio- Now also seeking Schneeberger from Switzerland? I have new info on a Frieda Schneeberger that married a Herman Schaffran but can't locate any info on her parents except that her father was from Switzerland and her mother was from Ohio. I do have the 1910 cnsus and she was living with her and Uncle William and Aunt Rosa Duhr in ohio . If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
New Entry Re: Dulen,Evans, Schaffran ,Of Kentucky & Ohio
I am looking for any relatives of:
Nellie Jane Dulen (1890-1971) of Kentucky
James Dulen(Dates unknown) Kentucky
Loretta Dulen( Nellie's cousin) from Ohio
Thomas Evans,Nellies husband,(1890-1944) Scioto Co
Talmadge Evans,Nellies son(1917-1968)Portsmouth Ohio
Minnie Esther Evans Nellies daughter(1926-2007)
Minnie was my Grandmother and recently passed away and I am trying to establish a family tree.. anyone that has any info... it would be greatly appreciated. God Bless!!
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Unfortunate news from Kenya where there is a backlash against some calls to decriminalize homosexuality and increase tolerance for gay men. The East African nation's leading pro-gay minister faces dismissal by the United Methodist Church due to his inclusive pro-gay ministry.
Reverend John Makokha is the minister of Riruta United Methodist Church in Nairobi. Makokha tells Behind the Mask, the African LGBT website, he is "likely" to be released from his duties during the next annual conference in April 2009. The controversy began last year when Makokha publicly allied himself with Other Sheep Kenya, an ecumenical Christian organization that welcomes members of Nairobi's growing LGBT community. Sadly and predictably the church accuses Makokha of "promoting homosexuality."
Makokha made it clear that he does not "find religious arguments against homosexuality persuasive because I have come to learn that historically religion has been manipulated and misinterpreted to oppose the rights of various minority groups such as women, slaves etc"
Reverend Neal Christie, Assistant General Secretary Ministry of Education and Leadership Formation General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) said Makokha has split the church into two. "He has made big decisions without informing his supervisors. He has hid behind this one issue [of homosexuality] he is so passionate about. John's colleagues, even when they agree with his convictions, do not believe he has done his job as a communicator well."
Makokha also says other pastors and church officials have begun a whispering campaign and regularly call him the "gay pastor." Makokha is not gay, he is heterosexual and married with children. Such a shame that in this part of the world they cannot believe or understand why a straight man or woman would support the rights of gays and lesbians.
"Despite all these persecutions and suffering due to my stand on LGBTI ministry in Kenya and within UMC leaders in Kenya," Makokha says. "I will not throw the towel since my calling is from God and not man", Makokha concluded."
Some Background ...
Kenya: "Things are Changing in Favor of Gays" [R20]
Homosexuality is Un-African? [R20]
News: Kenya, Qantas [R20]
Kenyan Update [R20]
Who is Archbishop Peter Akinola? [R20]
Harsh New Nigerian Laws [R20]
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Summer Garden Pasta
This fresh-tasting side dish pairs pasta with an array of nutritious veggies, including zucchini, bell peppers and a juicy tomato. "Our four boys are all grown and out of the house, but I still grow a large garden every summer and give away everything we can't eat," notes April Johnson, Tonasket, Washington.
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Cook: 10 min.
Makes9 servings
- 1 package (1 pound) small tube pasta
- 1 cup sliced yellow summer squash
- 1 cup sliced zucchini
- 1 cup julienned sweet red pepper
- 1 cup julienned green pepper
- 1 cup sliced green onions
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 6 garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1-1/2 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 small tomato, chopped
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
- 2 teaspoons garlic pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute the yellow squash, zucchini, peppers and onions in butter until crisp-tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in broth and tomato; bring to a boil. Cook and stir until liquid is reduced by half.
- Drain pasta; stir into vegetable mixture. Cook 1 minute longer or until heated through.
- Transfer to a large bowl. Sprinkle with the cheese, parsley, garlic pepper and salt; toss to coat.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
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The 4th annual teddy bear drive in honor of Donovan Luna of Yuma is now underway.
Last year's drive collected almost 400 teddy bears.
Throughout Donovan's life, he spent a lot of time at Children's Hospital in Denver. Even when Donovan was not feeling well, he still had a big smile on his face.
His family wants to continue to put big smiles on the faces of kids at Children's Hospital by giving them a teddy bear in Donovan's memory.
If you would like to be a part of the teddy bear drive, you can donate teddy bears of any size. The only stipulation given to us by Children's Hospital is they have to be new with the tag still attached.
Family members will pick up any bears that you have. Just call us anytime!
If you live in eastern Colorado, please call Oscar at 970-630-1098, Janie, at 970-630-6349 or Matthewat 970-630-8348. They will be collecting bears in that area.
If you have bears you would like to send through the mail, the address is 2002 Battlecreek Dr., Apt 13204 Fort Collins, CO 80528.
If you want to be part of the drive with a cash or check donation, teddy bears will be purchased on your behalf. Please have teddy bears and/or money to the family by Saturday, November 2.
Teddy bears will be taken to Children's Hospital Saturday, November 9.
Attached to each teddy bear's neck will be a tag saying, "Hello! I am excited to meet you and to be hugged and cuddled by you! I understand that you are in the hospital and not feeling so good right now, but hopefully soon you will get to go home and I will get to go home with you. I will keep you warm and cozy and be your new friend. I was given to you today in memory of a little boy name Donovan. Donovan spent a lot of time in Children's Hospital and unfortunately passed away in January of 2009. He always enjoyed having a teddy bear to cuddle with when he was not feeling well. His family and friends wanted you to have me so you could have someone to cuddle with when you are not feeling so well. God bless you and your family!"
If you have any questions, please call:
Jonathan (970)391-8642
Janie (970)630-6349
Matthew (970)630-8348
Kristi (970)391-8640
Anita (970)515-9661
Oscar (970)630-1098
Melissa (970)515-9900
Check out the teddy bear drive Facebook page for lots of cute pictures of Donovan and past years' teddy bears! Search Donovan's Teddy Bear Drive.
Donovan's 4th annual Teddy Bear Drive is underway
The 4th annual teddy bear drive in honor of Donovan Luna of Yuma is now underway.


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Prudence Farrow Bruns is a product of the sixties. She, along with her sister, actress Mia Farrow, were always searching for the next big thing. During a visit with family in California, prudence found something that would change her life.
"So I was looking into meditation when I was very young. I read the book Sid Hartha and it left a real mark on me because I saw that from mediation you could become more peaceful, you could deal with stress better ,you could become a better person" said Prudence Farrow Bruns.
In early 1968, the Farrow sisters went to India to study Transcendental meditation with Maharishi Yogi. Little did they know they would be studying with four of the most famous people on the planet.
"The Beatles came about two weeks later and the only Beatles taking the course were John and George. The other two came for brief moments" said Prudence.
Bruns got to know the Beatles during their time at the Ashram.
"So they lived within proximity to where I was living and that's how they got to know me and I got to know them and that's how the song really came about" said Prudence.
But she was so serious about meditation; others in the group began to worry about her. John Lennon was so concerned, he wrote her a song. The result "Dear Prudence", which the Beatles released on their "White Album".
Bruns has continued to follow the teachings and philosophy of meditation her entire life. Now she wants to share meditation with the world through her dear prudence foundation.
"Now I'm ready to give back and so my way of giving back now I can use dear prudence to my advantage. So I'll raise money with the foundation and all of the money will go toward scholarships for the programs that have to do with TM" said Prudence.
Bruns and her husband are raising money by shooting a documentary of the international Kumbh Melah festival centered on the art of meditation.
"It's where people all over India who are interested in yoga or meditation or actually almost any kind of spirituality for thousands of years" said Albert Bruns.
The Bruns hope the proceeds from the documentary will raise awareness of the Dear Prudence Foundation and the practice of meditation.
"There are a lot of people in the west who are interested in this kind of thing but they don't know much about it and so it's kind of to inspire and educate those people" said Prudence.
Prudence says meditation takes complete control of the mind and body and can provide a lifetime of inner peace and contentment.
"If I were to say what makes it special besides all of these other things I've said is that you love doing it" said Prudence.
The Bruns are hoping to take three photographers with them on their journey to India to document the festival.


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Apple wants to be an integral part of your car and its new iOS 7 is created to do just that.
Apple's Maps and Siri will be embedded into its in-car integration, according to 9to5Mac. The news comes from "multiple people familiar" with the endeavor. Apparently Apple will place the iOS's Maps and Siri into cars.
The move could be a death knell to those companies who sell iPhone accessories for cars, but open up a lot more opportunities for Apple. Instead of an accessory, the iPhone could be plugged in directly to a car and effectively edge out the middle men. Then as the iPhone is plugged in a "redesigned version" of Apple Maps will appear on the car's built-in display -- replacing the GPS systems found on many cars. Siri would be used to control the functions and drivers would remain hands-free. Already Apple has a new "Eyes-Free" Siri service for cars, so that step is already available. It's actually a very genius move on Apple's part to free up a new segment of the market for itself and squash an existing one.
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However, consumers can't get too excited. Even though it incorporates iOS 7, it could be years away before it can be integrated into new cars. The reason? Because it takes years of car testing simply to get a product and so far we're not sure Apple even has a viable partner. Ford and GM already have a competing console interface, so Apple would have to look past those car makers.
If this report is accurate, it will also mean that Android needs to develop a suitable competitor as well. This means in the next few years computer-car integration will be light years from where it is now.


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Weird DNS problem...
We have an intranet located internally on a windows 2003 / iis6 server - DNS handled internally on another windows 2003 server.
The intranet, amongst other functions, hosts a ecommerce store I wrote that sells nike apparel embroidered with our company logo. Up until recently, it would send an email to payroll and the cost would be deducted from the employees paycheck.
lets say this store is located at mydomain.com (only available internally)
Now, we've been told by the accountants that we can no longer auto deduct from payroll and the employee needs to pay with a credit card or cash.
So i went to thawte.com and ordered an SSL cert to be on the safe side (even though the CC gateway is secure) and they told me i need to drop the .com from the domain name
Not wanting to mess with a system thats perfectly functional, i created another DNS entry that just points to mydomain (no .com) and left the old one in there.
so they would go to just mydomain
On my Mac (OS X 10.6) i can hit either one just fine
On Windows XP / Windows XP Embedded or Windows 7 (the vast majority of the pc's on our network) mydomain - returns nothing mydomain.com still works https mydomain.com works but says the cert is invalid (as it should, it was issued to mydomain - not mydomain.com)
my question is: why does it work on my Mac and not on a Windows PC (i get dhcp and dns just like any other pc on the network) and will removing the .com one from the DNS server resolve this?
I've done all the usual attempts - ipconfig /flushdns, ipconfig /renew and release
even going so far as to stop and restart DNS client on my Windows 7 box; rebooting and shutting down - adding a regedit entry something along the lines of SecureResponses and rebooting
nothing works... I think its the .com and the not conflicting in DNS but i'm not sure - and why not on OS X
We're closed on sunday and i'm going to remote in and see what happens if i remove the .com from DNS but any other ideas?


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This procedure is used to move the zone to a new location on the same system by changing the zonepath. The zone must be halted. The new zonepath must be on a local file system. The normal zonepath criteria described in Resource and Property Types apply.
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Halt the zone to be moved, db-zone in this procedure.
global# zoneadm -z db-zone halt
Use the zoneadm command with the move subcommand to move the zone to a new zonepath, /export/zones/db-zone.
global# zoneadm -z db-zone move /export/zones/db-zone
Verify the path.
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 0 global running / native shared - my-zone installed /export/home/my-zone native shared - db-zone installed /export/zones/db-zone native shared


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Settlement deals reached between federal prosecutors and three Internet poker companies call for more than a half billion dollars to be paid to the government, enabling U.S. poker players to recover more than $160 million lost when the companies shut down U.S. operations last year, authorities said Tuesday.
Settlement deals reached between federal prosecutors and three Internet poker companies call for more than a half billion dollars to be paid to the government, enabling U.S. poker players to recover more than $160 million lost when the companies shut down U.S. operations last year, authorities said Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand approved settlement agreements with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. A separate agreement between the government and a third company, Absolute Poker, had not yet been approved by the court.
PokerStars said in a release that its deal with the U.S. Department of Justice calls for it to pay the government $547 million over three years with the money being used in part to reimburse former U.S. customers of Full Tilt Poker.
The company also said that $184 million representing outstanding balances owed to non-U.S. customers of Full Tilt Poker will be made available in a segregated bank account that can be accessed with no restrictions on withdrawals. PokerStars said it has acquired the assets of Full Tilt Poker.
The U.S. operations of the companies were shut down when the government last year brought criminal charges against various poker company executives and those who helped the companies process money.
Prosecutors said Full Tilt Poker had only $60 million left in its bank accounts to cover the $390 million it owed its players when the government revealed its case last year. About $160 million was owed to U.S. players. It said the company over a four-year period used $444 million in player money to pay board members.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara last year called the company was "a global Ponzi scheme."
The government said the settlements announced Tuesday do not constitute admissions of wrongdoing, liability or guilt by any of the parties. The deal with PokerStars allows it to re-enter the U.S. market if laws change to permit online poker.
In a statement, Bharara said the deals will "allow us to quickly get significant compensation into the victim players' hands."
FBI Assistant Director Janice K. Fedarcyk said: "Pokerstars and Full Tilt bet the house on their illicit scheme; fortunately, we were holding the trump card."
Jerry Bernstein, a lawyer for Absolute Poker, said the company's deal with the government calls for it to forfeit its assets to the government.
"Our hope and expectation is that the proceeds of the forfeiture will be used to repay our players," he said. Bernstein declined to say how much players were owed.
"We are delighted we have been able to put this matter behind us, and also secured our ability to operate in the United States of America whenever the regulations allow," said Mark Scheinberg, chairman of the board of PokerStars.
PokerStars said in a release that PokerStars has remained open without interruption for non-U.S. players. It said it plans to re-launch Full Tilt Poker in most markets as a separate brand after a new, independent management team is established. It said Full Tilt Poker will be operated from Dublin, with regulatory oversight from the Isle of Man.
Last year, the U.S. government brought charges against 11 individuals who had played management roles in the companies or had helped them process billions of dollars in gambling proceeds through U.S. financial institutions. All but two of the eight who were arrested or surrendered have pleaded guilty. The latest to surrender was Nelson Burtnick, a former Full Tilt Poker executive, who returned to the United States Tuesday and pleaded not guilty. He was released on $500,000 bail. Charges are pending against three other defendants who remain at large.
The government accused the companies of fooling banks into processing the money by making it seem that funds resulted from payments to hundreds of non-existent online merchants selling merchandise such as jewelry and golf balls.
The United States said that approximately one-third or more of the billions of dollars went directly to the poker companies as revenue through the amount they charged each player to join a game.


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Why buy property in bodrum Turkey
Property buying and investment go hand in hand in Bodrum, with the peninsula being popular for many years with a variety of international visitors from across the globe, arriving by air, land and sea.
By far the current hotspot property investment area in Bodrum is the elite area of Yalikavak with the exclusive Palmarina attracting the rich and famous, therefore, commanding extremely high rental yields for any investors money.
The peninsula offers many other resorts, peaceful fishing village like Gundogan to highly popular lively area such as Gumbet all within a short drive from the airport and Bodrum town, also making Bodrum an ideal area for anyone thinking of relocating to Turkey for a complete lifestyle change, with ample local amenities of international schools, shopping centres and hospitals etc.
Whatever your reason for buying a new home in Bodrum, investment, personal holiday home or a permanent home for all year living. the area offers everything, nightlife, beaches, excellent restaurants, nature, history, diverse culture and of course a wonderful Mediterranean climate.
Property for sale in BODRUM Turkey
Turkbuku is a town that sits on the Bodrum peninsula, on the opposite side to Bodrum Town, in the Mugla province of south-west Turkey.
A hugely popular holiday spot for upper-class Turkish citizens, with famous singers and top models often spotted in the bay, many of which own luxury summer houses in the town. The area has always been virtually unknown to foreigners however recently the area has seen more foreign tourists visiting.
Turkbuku has no wide sandy beaches, there are wooden decks protruding out into the sea, used for sunbathing in the daytime and candlelit dining at night, served by the many restaurants that line the promenade along with trendy bars and gift shops.
House prices in Turkbuku, are amongst the highest on the Bodrum peninsula and is very much a seasonal resort and holiday homes offer very high rental yields throughout the summer months from the areas high profile guests. If you are searching for Turkbuku property for sale for year round living, it may not be the best place unless you like a quiet life in the closed season.
Turkbuku real estate
Looking to buy property in Turkbuku, Turkey? Then be prepared for premium prices especially for homes on the seafront with private moorings and sunbathing jetties as these are the most sought after for summer holidays.
Accommodation for sale in Turkbuku come with prices in excess of £450,000 and can easily reach well into the £m's for these seafront properties, and all property in Turkbuku will guarantee investors excellent rental yields and as the Turkbuku area becomes more know abroad prices will rise even higher than they are today for fantastic capital appreciation.
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – After watching a midfielder lead his team in goals for a second consecutive season, perhaps Colorado Rapids technical director Paul Bravo has seen enough.
Bravo said this week that the Rapids are "actively" searching for a Designated Player, who would be the first DP in team history, and Bravo confirmed that the Rapids are seeking that player in an attacking position.
"We've all kind of talked long and hard about that," Bravo told MLSsoccer.com. "That's not something that we're looking to skirt away from. The most important thing is we're actively searching, and we have a couple of players on our discovery list that we've identified, actually players that we've been tracking for the better part of 18 months. It's not like it's a first time thing for us. We're searching, and we're actively searching."
READ: Pareja will return in 2013, but more expected from Rapids
The Rapids scored 44 goals in 2012 – fifth-most in the Western Conference and tied for 11th overall – but less than half of those goals came from strikers. About 20 goals, depending on exact tactical formations, came from players playing up top, with injury-bitten star forwards Omar Cummings and Conor Casey combining for only eight goals in 2012. That was far below preseason expectations, and those unflattering statistics are leading the Colorado front office to consider bringing in a DP on the young side, and one with an eye for goal.
"We're not looking for this to be a retirement party for some player," Bravo said. "We're looking at players that are in the prime of their careers or young DPs. That's important, because that's the best fit on the field."
Talk of a possible Designated Player is not new to the Rapids organization, although they haven't signed one since the rule came into effect in 2007. Last offseason, the Rapids reportedly mulled it over as well, but those talks did not amount to a signing. But Bravo hinted that the Rapids may be looking a little harder – and eastward – this offseason.
"Those things will dictate themselves," Bravo said when asked the odds of getting a deal done. "The difficult part with doing this in the offseason is the window in Europe, it's only halfway through the season so we've got to be mindful of that. And the timing of it will be dictated by whether or not those players are available."
Chris Bianchi covers the Colorado Rapids for MLSsoccer.com.


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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
There's a big, fat lie in the automotive industry that has been circulating for years. The idea that many hold onto is that conversion rate is the most important number when trying to determine the quality of a website. This couldn't be further from the truth.
Here's a fact - the worse your search marketing is, both for SEO and PPC, the higher your conversion rate is going to be. This cannot be disputed. If buyers are only able to find your dealership on search if they're typing in your name, that means that the only people visiting your website are already inclined to consider doing business with you. Searches for you by name will always yield the highest conversion rates from the visitors.
As your search marketing expands and you start bringing in people from a more diverse range of searches, the traffic goes up, the total number of leads go up, but the conversion rate drops. Total number of leads, however, go up. It's very simple once you understand the dynamic.
Let's say you're currently getting the majority of your search traffic from a variation of your name. Look at your analytics to see if this is the case. With the majority of your traffic coming from searches for your name, the math may look like this:
Now, as you improve your search marketing and expand your reach, your traffic can go up. Let's say you improve your SEO and start ranking in not just your city and for you name, but in other cities as well. Let's say you're outside of a metro area and through proper search marketing you're able to reach into this market and expose your inventory to a wider range of buyers. Your traffic will go up, but because these visitors didn't find you by name and since they're probably further away from your dealership, the rate for these visitors drops in half. You may get 1000 extra visitors at a 5% conversion rate, yielding 50 more leads. You haven't hurt your ranking for searches of your name, so the original 5,000 visitors are still intact. Now, the numbers look like this:
Many would have you believe that the drop from 10% conversion rate to 9.2% conversion rate is a bad thing, but the important number to note is that the total number of leads went up as a result.
Your goal as a dealer is to sell more cars. It's mathematically inefficient to extend your search reach and as a result your conversion rate goes down. However, the number to focus upon for your website is total conversions. How many leads are you getting? How many sales are you generating from these leads? This is the bottom line that truly affects the success of your website and your business.
Conversion rate is a great indicator that can help you make tweaks and adjustments to your current site, but look at your traffic trends when considering conversion rate fluctuations. Improved conversion rate can be good, but if it's associated with a drop in traffic, you should look at your search rankings and the keywords driving traffic to determine if there's an underlying negative that's making the numbers look good. Conversely, if your rate goes down, see if there's a correlating increase in traffic.
Get more leads that convert to more sales. That's the end goal. Don't get lost in the numbers that some are throwing out at you.
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Great conversation! I love it all. Larry, the statement to Richard, "For far too long we have allowed vendors to set our strategy instead of setting the strategy ourselves and then finding a partner to help execute that strategy" is an outstanding insight.
Tom a "snow-job" only works if a dealer allows it to. We have to spread the word get more education to the dealers. The more they know the better providers will thrive.
Richard I agree with you. That's a systemic problem in the auto industry. For far too long we have allowed vendors to set our strategy instead of setting the strategy ourselves and then finding a partner to help execute that strategy.
JD I would absolutely agree with you. Any dealer that buys into the notion that lead volume going down is a good thing needs to have their head examined. I can see how the provider you were talking to could be misguided into thinking that ranking for a key phrase other than the dealers name would hurt conversion rates.
In fact in some ways that provider is right… BEFORE YOU LOSE IT HERE IS WHAT I MEAN.
If you are working to rank for a product term "Dodge Ram Dallas" and you are sending the traffic back to your RAW (Random Access Website) that was the term you were looking for, the issue still goes back to the landing.
With the above key phrase you know the visitors intent is to find information on a "Dodge Ram" and with the city modifier "Dallas" it's a safe bet the visitor wants to find it locally therefore in all likely hood this visitor is looking for a Dodge Ram that is in consideration to buy.
Here is the problem when you want to buy a vehicle there are 3 things you want to know.
1) Is there a choice – does the dealership have a lot of what I am looking for
2) Can I afford it – What's the offer?
3) Is this place going to be easy to deal with – What's their value proposition
So you have an increase in visitor rate and because you dropped them on your Random Access Website, usually on the HOME PAGE that's the worst but even to a VDP virtually every website provider is missing the 4 elements that are needed to convert a customer.
Random Access Websites aren't built this way because they are built for everyone and aren't particularly interesting to anyone, an Encyclopedia Britannica of information that isn't relevant to any one segment of customer.
So your traffic goes up with virtually no conversion and your conversion rate suffers. So you see he's right that is exactly what happens.
The above described scenario isn't a reason to abandon SEO for other terms than your name, That's just stupid!
Most website providers and so-called "SEO" gurus look to rank for the dealerships name BECAUSE THEY ARE LAZY AND DON'T UNDERSTAND ENOUGH ABOUT SEO TO DO ANYTHING ELSE. So they create or worse fabricate some content do some simple syndication with the dealers name all it and BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS WORKING TO RANK FOR THE DEALERS NAME BUT THE DEALER they have instant ranking and the POD… LOL (Page One Defense). This is the oldest SEO "Smoke and Mirrors Trick" in the book.
and YEAH, your conversion rate better go up if all you are doing is showing up for people searching specifically for you!
So you do the above and your conversion rate goes from 2% to 4% and your overall lead volume goes down…STUPID MOVE
So what should you do?
Sounds easy right? It's a bit harder than it sounds but infinitely better than the idiot that told the dealer to give up on every phrase but his own so that the percentage goes up.
On your Random Access Website there are 3 key metrics you should be monitoring by visitor segment:
In a 2011 Digital Dealer presentation "SEO vs PPC" I presented the findings of a 4.5 million in market visitor study we conducted on SEO vs PPC and how each affected GROSS PROFIT. Dealers should at least be segmenting organic traffic and paid traffic in their web analytics and monitoring these metrics. If the website provider you were talking to had any clue at all they would be doing that and your conversation would have been much more intelligent.
JD in this case however you are going to the same extreme that website provider you were talking to did in saying that you should throw out conversion rate all together or that it's the "Big Fat Lie". The fact is that it is the most important thing IF YOUR ANALYTICS ARE SET UP PROPERLY and you understand that CONVERSION RATE isn't the goal it's the metric TOTAL OVERALL CONVERSIONS (LEADS) that is the goal.
I hope that clears up my perspective.
JD, I could take a good guess who that vendor was but I'll hold my tongue. The fact is that misleading dealers with artificially high conversion rates based on buying the dealer's name vs seeking new traffic is proof that a vendor does not have the dealer's best interests in mind. But it seems to be a snow-job that's been working for some strange reason.
Larry, while you have a good product and can demonstrate how to extract more leads from existing visitors through segmentation and testing, that's not what's being sold out there by many vendors. JD is absolutely correct in that vendors are out there using a dealers name to prop up conversion rates, not what you're suggesting.
Larry - You make some very valid points that have absolutely nothing with the point I'm trying to make. You're confusing dealer websites (I forget the colorful name you give them but it's great whatever it is) with targeted PPC landing pages and you're confusing dealers.
Here's what I'm faced with. Dealers get lured over to website platforms that promise increased conversion rates. They are given reports that show "success" based upon improved conversion rates. However, the rates aren't going up because of better-converting websites but rather worse-marketed websites. Their traffic goes down with only their name driving the search traffic. Their conversion rates shoot up. They think they're doing well.
Unfortunately, when they dig beyond the fluffy reports their vendors give them, they see that traffic went down, leads went down, and sales went down.
What you're describing is absolutely correct if the dealership is building PPC-powered landing pages. In that situation and with your product, efficiency is everything. ROI is directly influenced by driving the right people to the right pages at the right time. As a result, conversion rate becomes THE most important factor as their budgets can be maximized for optimal performance. With your product, you're spot on.
In the world of primary dealer branded websites, dealers are being told that conversion rate is more important than total leads. Any dealer, when presented with accurate and thoughtful data, would rather generate more leads at a lower rate than fewer leads at a higher rate.
In no way am I saying that dealers should not try to improve their conversion rate. I'm saying that conversion rates on websites where the primary traffic-generating keyword is associated with their name should focus on expanding their reach to rank better in other relevant keywords.
Perhaps it would be better to release a tidbit of information that prompted this story. I was being questioned by another website vendor over a drink a while back who was asking if I was aware of the dangers of SEO. He told me that we were silly, that going after any keyword other than the dealership's name had proven to hurt their conversion rates and they simply wouldn't do it. Conversion rate was the centerpiece of their pitch, so they would avoid any other keyword.
Surely you're not arguing on that side of the fence, Larry.
JD - With all due respect I am going to have to call bullshit on this one.
No doubt the goal is to get a lift in leads after all more leads should equal more shows and over all more sales. However you cannot get more leads if you cannot improve, and you cannot improve until you understand your customer... Bottom line not all customers and clicks are created equal, and there in lies 3 flaws in your thinking here.
1. SEO & PPC have NOTHING to do with conversion rate. They provide the traffic they don't convert it to a lead that is the responsibility of the website, microsite or landing page.
2. If you don't segment that traffic by the intent of the visitor who searched and clicked then track that conversion rate you cannot improve.
3. Continuing to feed the channel to produce more and more traffic with out squeezing every last lead out of what you get from that your traffic sources is a losing proposition. The cost of a click will continue to rise and competition will continue grow.
Its easy to fall into the trap of thinking that all visitors are created equal when all you can see in your web analytics is home page bounce rate, a few referral sources and a few keywords. Its easy to just say drive more to get more when you have so little control over your landing.
However its a sucker that keep spending more and more money to get more clicks and the same low conversion rate to get more leads and hopefully sell more cars. There are a lot of PPC vendors in this space that can't control the landing and count on dealers to be those suckers, if you're a dealer reading this post and comments don't be one of those.
It comes down to what I call BCAA (Be Found, Convert, Attract & Analyze)
In reality the Be Found part of that strategy it is the easiest. Understanding "WHY" the customer typed the keyword in the first place, matching the landing to that "WHY" and getting the lead then incentivizing the behavior you want from the customer to give them their WIIFY (What's In It For You), that's the hard part.
There is no way you can do the above without segmenting your traffic & tracking conversion rate on that traffic...NO WAY!
So you see JD conversion RATE is still king and its the only efficient & cost effective way to get what you talk about in this post... More over all leads.
I'll wrap up with this thought... The lead is NOT the the win.
After you get that lead there is still a lot of work to be done that is why you need that Attract part of the strategy. More leads DO NOT always beget more shows and if you don't handle your promise right from your ad to your landing all the way through to your incentive more shows will not beget more sales. I addressed his in an earlier post "The Value of A Promise Kept" last month.
Hopefully this gets you thinking in a different way about conversion rate.
Ralph - I know you're in a tough situation but I would try to have a meeting with the owner because that's a HUGE problem for that dealership. When tracking and accountability (and pay plans) get in the way of unified dealership/employee goals, they do more harm than good. Any pay plan that forces such a disconnection in goals should be addressed.
Bryan, I'd like to know as well. Ralph?
Tom, that's an excellent point. It's a separate issue and one of the reasons that I've always had such a challenge with PPC vendors. It's very similar to the challenge that Ralph described at the Ford dealership. When a PPC vendor is graded on their own individual success, they can "steal" some of the success that the dealership itself is generating just by having a name that is well known and highly searched. I understand that there are valid reasons to buy the dealership's name, but I always encourage dealers to parse those keywords out of their reports when judging the effectiveness of their campaigns.
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