Copyright 2009, Phil Yorke-Barber, Cristina Ghiculescu, and Gisela Possin. Used with permission.
RefWorks is ideally suited for undergraduate students with team-based research projects as part of their course assessment. The Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library at the University of Queensland taught students from three engineering courses how to use RefWorks to manage project references and to create team-based bibliographies. One team member created the account, all collected references, and one created the bibliography. In-text citations were done manually. Students could immediately see the relevance of RefWorks in the library class when they began finding information and creating the bibliography for their projects. Despite the far from perfect bibliographies produced, librarians are optimistic that with a few changes to the teaching of RefWorks, students' referencing skills can be substantially improved.
This paper reports on the use of RefWorks for undergraduate engineering students with team-based research projects. Librarians from the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences at the University of Queensland instructed students in using RefWorks to manage their team references and to create a bibliography. The courses were a compulsory first-year engineering course and two third-year courses. Each team nominated a member to be responsible for creating the RefWorks account; all members added references and the final bibliography in the Harvard style was created by the nominated member. Ramsden wrote that from the students' point of view, "assessment always defines the actual curriculum" (2003). Finding quality resources and referencing those resources correctly should improve assignment marks and this was the carrot used by librarians to engage students' interest.
The University of Queensland Library already supported EndNote software, but in 2007 acquired site-wide access to the web-based, easier-to-learn RefWorks. McGrath (2005) wrote that it is unlikely all undergraduate students would be willing to invest a lot of time in learning how to use referencing software; RefWorks can be used to teach undergraduates good referencing habits and to simplify production of team project bibliographies. Some of the tedium of manual referencing can be relieved by using referencing software, enabling students to focus on understanding why and when to cite (Kessler & Van Ullen 2005). Our goal is to improve the standard of student bibliographies and to encourage students to manage their references from the start of their courses, and of course, to avoid plagiarism.
Find information e.g., articles and books, using databases such as Scopus, Compendex, and the library catalogue. Once students had found a reference they were asked to leave the browser window open to facilitate later export of the reference to RefWorks.
Create a Refworks library/account. Each team was asked to nominate a member to be responsible for the RefWorks account. This person created the account using prescribed naming conventions given on the whiteboard. The customised referencing guides produced for the three courses also gave this information. All team members then exported references to the same account.
Generate a bibliography. The student who registered was also responsible for collating the final project team bibliography.
Backing up the RefWorks account.
Lack of time prevented us from covering the in-text citation plug-in, Write-N-Cite. We pointed out that there was more to RefWorks than the abbreviated version being demonstrated and that more detailed RefWorks classes were given by the library. The referencing guides varied slightly for each course and had been proof-read by all the librarians in our branch to ensure high-quality content, professionally presented.
A number of bibliographies were examined from two of the three target groups. The data collected from the third group was captured by interviewing participants whilst attending their course lecture.
The Library provides an integrated information skills component in the mandatory first-year introductory engineering course. Eleven one-hour hands-on workshops were delivered to 950 students. Teams consisted of five to six students. The Library has delivered information skills training to this first-year course for a number of years. Hill and Woodall (1999) point out these students have a heavy workload and that the library workshop needs to be closely integrated with the academic content of the course. Learning outcomes are focused on helping students to find, evaluate and cite information for their research projects. The implications of plagiarism are discussed before introducing RefWorks so that students can understand the relevance of referencing software.
A close look at the bibliographies indicated that 9 out of 23 were correctly generated through the use of bibliographic management software.
The number of references used varied from as few as 6 to as many as 40 per project.
Approximately half of the sources used were not academic i.e., Bunnings hardware warehouse web site or a Pokemon computer game.
All bibliographies were produced in an author-date style and arranged in alphabetical order by the author's last name. The sources acknowledged came predominantly from free online sources such as web sites, online reports and open access articles or conference papers. Some subscription journal articles were also used, especially if the full text was available online. A very small number of books were cited, many of them being e-books.
Nine of the 23 bibliographies looked at were correctly generated through the use of bibliographic management software. It could not be established whether the software used was RefWorks. These bibliographies were consistent in punctuation, font, and bibliographic conventions and detail. They were clearly produced by one single person per team, possibly delegated by the other team members.
The remaining fourteen bibliographies indicated they were created either manually, through bibliographic management software used incorrectly, or a combination of both. A major problem encountered was that different team members added references to their project bibliographies via their own individual methods. The result was in many instances an inconsistent bibliography, with great variations of referencing styles and conventions on the same page. A centralised RefWorks library per team would have eliminated such issues.
Some other problems were related to insufficient bibliographic information: in some cases only the name of the web site and its URL were given. Another common error was numbering references even though using an author-date style. Incorrect punctuation was another frequent error.
What a difference being a third-year students makes! In the training class the students were visibly engaged, asking questions such as how can I export references from Google Scholar to RefWorks? Can I export patents from Scopus? All bibliographies for this project were analysed. All were formatted in an author-date style and sorted alphabetically by author last name. All projects acknowledged a large number of sources, up to 60 in some cases. The quality of these sources demonstrated a huge improvement compared with the first-year examples. An overall sense of the true nature of the research project could be noticed easily. The majority of sources for this group came from subscription journals, standards, patents, and books. Some open access papers and reports were also used, but a very limited number of web sites appeared in the bibliographies.
Only one or two of the 12 bibliographies seemed to have been created manually. Five of them were correctly generated, with 100% consistency in punctuation and formatting. The main problem with the other seven projects was that different team members created parts of their bibliography individually and did not amalgamate the parts correctly. This led to a mix of referencing styles and conventions within the same bibliography.
Did you use RefWorks for your project?
Would you recommend RefWorks to other students?
About 40% of the group responded that they had used RefWorks. The vast majority of these students found it helpful and said they would recommend it to other students. Some other feedback obtained through this impromptu survey was: some used EndNote instead of RefWorks; some preferred doing manual referencing; some used other referencing tools available with some electronic journals. Overall, the results were positive, indicating support for RefWorks and/or other bibliographic management software for referencing purposes in a team project.
The Information Desk provides opportunities for face-to-face contact with students and being asked RefWorks queries was welcomed by librarians. Queries included how to cite lecture notes, unpublished reports, and so on. A first-year student asked ten minutes before closing how to use RefWorks! He returned the following morning asking for instruction on RefGrab-It and then took the time to tweak the web sites he had added with additional information. The student was quick to learn, but despite being at the first-year engineering information skills class had little recollection of information imparted aside from the name RefWorks.
Another first-year student requested assistance with referencing a 1978 government report: it was difficult to establish the author and publisher. He was not sure whether his team should use RefWorks because they had only two books for their bibliography. Was it worth it he wanted to know? He did not know about RefGrab-It for adding web sites. Other examples included students who could not remember their team's username and password but once told how to find out were enthusiastic about using RefWorks. One group not using Refworks saw another team using it at length, and instantly convinced of its utility, decided to use it. It is interesting to speculate whether peer group demonstration of bibliographic management tools might be more successful than the imparting of information by librarians. Meyer and Miller (2008) evaluated a RefWorks project where the students were the trainers. Students learned more by teaching RefWorks. They also had a clearer and more direct understanding of their peers' motivation and which RefWorks tools, such as RefGrab-It, would interest them.
The Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library will continue promoting RefWorks to undergraduates especially for team-based projects.
This case study demonstrates a clear link between a correctly generated bibliography and the use of bibliographic management software. Especially for first year students, use of bibliographic management software helps in the production of consistent bibliographies with enough bibliographic detail and correct formatting. The transition from high school to university level referencing is easier when using bibliographic management software.
Using RefWorks and having a single reference library per team from which a final bibliography can be generated eliminates varying referencing styles and conventions.
The study also showed that first-year and third-year engineering students use very different sources of information for their projects. Because first-year students' bibliographies consisted mainly of free online sources the RefWorks workshop should focus more on these sources. Use of RefGrab-It should be a core objective of the workshop, with less emphasis on exporting from subscription databases.
In contrast, the third-year students' workshop needs to focus on journal article exports into RefWorks. Some consideration also needs to be given to standards and patents and their integration with RefWorks. The RefWorks workshops will be further customised in order to differentiate the content presented to first-years from that presented to third-year students.
In all workshops a strong emphasis will be placed on each group nominating a RefWorks leader to co-ordinate and generate the final team bibliography. These students should be encouraged to come to the Library with their queries.
RefWorks clearly has benefits for undergraduates with team projects. In three simple steps i.e., finding information, creating the account and exporting references, and creating a team bibliography, we hoped not only to take the hard work out of referencing for team projects but also to encourage good referencing habits. We analysed students' bibliographies and found mixed results; with a few modifications to our teaching we believe we can improve students' referencing. The bibliography for this paper was created using RefWorks but the in-text citations were created manually. References were downloaded from Google Scholar, the library catalogue, and Scopus exactly as the students were instructed to do.
Hill, C. & Woodall, L.B. 1999. Developing information literacy skills in first year engineering students. In: Assoc Prof L. Luong editor. Unfolding Landscapes in Engineering Education: 11th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education; Adelaide: p. 310-314.
Kessler, J. & Van Ullen, M.K. 2005. Citation generators: Generating bibliographies for the next generation. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 31(4): 310-316.
McGrath, A. 2006. RefWorks investigated: An appropriate bibliographic management solution for health students at King's College London? Library and Information Research News, 30(94): 66-73.
Meyer, N.J. & Miller, I.R. 2008. The library as service-learning partner: A Win–Win collaboration with students and faculty. College & Undergraduate Libraries 15 (4): 399-413.
Ramsden, P. 2003. Learning to teach in higher education, 2nd edn, London. : Routledge.
Yu, F., Sullivan, J., & Woodall, L.B. 2006. What can students' bibliographies tell us? evidence based information skills teaching for engineering students. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 1(2): 12-22.


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    for ( int j = 0; j < size; j++)
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            }
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    }
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I have a List of type Long, it is filled with several 9 digit numbers like 900876012, I am checking for duplicates so that I can generate new numbers and replace the duplicate before exporting to a file.
First, I check to see if the position in the array is the same, since obviously something at position 1 is going to be the same in the same list at position 1, if so, ignore.
Then, I check to see if the contents are the same, but it doesn't evaluate as true for some reason, it did before as a plain "if" on its own.
For reference here's the numbers, just ignore the "temp is":
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temp is:200900210
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temp is:900876512
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public static void CheckContents(BufferedReader inFileStreamName, File aFile, Scanner s ) throws DuplicateSerialNumberException
{
    System.out.println();
    List<Long> ls = new ArrayList<Long>();
    List<String> ls2 = new ArrayList<String>();

long SerialNum = 0;
int counter = 0;
int size = 0;
String StringBuffer;

while (s.hasNextLine())
{
    ls.add(s.nextLong());
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    StringBuffer = s.nextLine();
    ls2.add(StringBuffer);
    size = ls.size();
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    SerialNum = ls.get(size-1);
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    System.out.println("Serial # is: " + SerialNum);
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}

long temp;
for ( int i = 0; i < size; i++ )
{
    temp = ls.get(i);
    System.out.println("temp is:" + temp);
    for ( int j = 0; j < size; j++)
    {
        if ( i == j )
        {

        }
        else if ( ls.get(i) == ls.get(j) )
        {
            // If Duplicate, do stuff... Dunno what yet.
            System.out.println(ls.get(i)+" is the same as: " + ls.get(j) );
            //System.out.println("Duplicate");
        }

    }
}

}

A: A nice one.
In the list you don't store float (primitive) but Float objects. Autoboxing makes you transparent to you.
And the == comparator does not work with objects (it tells if both objects are the same, but if you have two object holding the same value it returns false).
You can use
   if ( ls.get(j).equals(ls.get(i))

or (since it is List<Long>)
   if ( ls.get(j).longValue() == ls.get(i).longValue())

or even (thanks to autoboxing)
   if ( ls.get(j).longValue() == ls.get(i))

A: Please try
else if ( ls.get(i) != null && ls.get(i).equals(ls.get(j)) )

instead

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Over capitalization and the abundant use of ampersands in resumes have sprung up. I don't know where these trends came from, but they're incorrect and growing.
Over capitalization is the tendency to capitalize words that seem to be proper nouns but aren't. The ampersand explains itself.
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SAXIER: Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Initiative for Europe - Saxier is an initiative of European groups involved in exploring novel scientific applications for the new generation of SAXS beamlines at high brilliance synchrotron facilities.
SPring-8 - The world's largest third-generation synchrotron radiation facility.
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory - Includes descriptions of research being undertaken, technical parameters and a user guide, and administrative information.
Synchrotron Radiation Center - Part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Includes information on its background, related news, a user guide, operational parameters and a list of related publications.
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For Jerry Rowland, Woodworking is more than an expertly honed, fine-tuned technique. It's a youthful skill-turned-career craft and a lifetime pursuit. "Woodworking has always been a passion", says Rowland, President of Handcraft Woodworking and Handcraft Construction Management in Boca Raton. Influenced by his father – an amateur woodworking gurú – Rowland spent his early years experimenting with virtually anything he could nail down. After moving to Florida in his teens he apprenticed at a cabinet shop where he rediscovered the craft, having neglected it during his parents' separation. "I reunited with a love I'd lost and it really took over my life," he says. Earning a degree in interior design with construction, top-notch finishes, and materials like wood, steel, and aluminum. "I like clean, simple and functional design," he says. "When you walk into a well-designed space, you should feel as if a weight has been lifted off of you".
Jerry Rowland is a master craftsman and millwork designer, well-versed in various design aspects, from modern to classical, creating timeless and elegant designs that never go out of style. He is a full scholarship graduate of the Fort Lauderdale Art Institute and is passionate about achieving flawless results and providing the very best product available.
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Congrats to our Spelling Bee Champions!
Congratulations to all of La Entrada's brave and exceptional spellers for participating in our annual Spelling Bee in association with the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The event was a cliffhanger with a 4th grader, Kiran S., winning as champion for our entire student body! Kiran will advance to the next-level San Francisco spelling bee. Best of luck, Kiran!
1st Place Overall and 4th Grade Champion: Kiran S.
5th Grade Champion: Madeline L.
6th Grade Champion: Nina B.
7th Grade Champion: William (Bill) L.
8th Grade Champion: Garrett C.
Thank you to our superb Spelling Chair, Shea Browne, and the other volunteers, judges, staff and families that came out to support our spellers!


Need some inspiration for 30th August? Britain's first tram service started on this day in 1860. It actually ran around Birkenhead on Merseyside, but if you want to go and see one of the old London ones then they've got an impressive collection of early buses, train carraiges and trams at the London Transport Museum.
30 to 31 Aug 2019 Can Polly help Padlock the Bear escape the evil clutches of Mr Gum in this all-singing all-dancing adventure for kids?
30 Aug to 27 Oct 2019 The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society put on a West End show but will they crack under the pressure?
30 Aug to 29 Sep 2019 Why not combine a visit to the Buckingham Palace Summer Opening with a tour of the Queens gardens as well?
30 Aug 2019 Why not try something a bit different -- how about going to the Royal Courts of Justice and watching a real-life court case?
30 Aug 2019 Walk the streets of Whitechapel and try and discover the identity of the Victorian murderer Jack the Ripper - if you dare!
30 Aug 2019 If weaving your way in and out of the busy London traffic on a hire bike sounds like fun then how about hiring a Boris Bike for the day?


We are delighted to announce the 15th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival), which was originally conceived to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was founded by Stanford educator and film critic Jasmina Bojic with the participation of the Stanford Film Society and the UNA Midpeninsula Chapter, a community-based nonprofit organization. The 15th UNAFF will be held from October 18-28, 2012 in Palo Alto, Stanford University, East Palo Alto and San Francisco. The theme for this year is HUMAN DIGNITY.


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Presidential Perspective
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Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends of Hope College,
Hope College's 150th anniversary celebration is off to a marvelous start. Amidst the colorful leaves of autumn, campus lampposts are adorned with sesquicentennial banners heralding a yearlong commemoration of our storied past and bright future.
It was a blessing again to welcome a class of approximately 800 freshman to begin the academic year. Within a few weeks of our first day of class, we had broken ground for the Jim and Martie Bultman Student Center on the site formerly occupied by old Nykerk Hall; dedicated the new, nationally accredited Kruizenga Art Museum; and opened the sparkling Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts. In late October we celebrated the successful conclusion of A Greater Hope, a campaign that raised more than $200 million to fund new facilities, student scholarships, academic programs and other projects that add substantial value to a Hope education. We are humbled by the generosity of thousands of alumni and friends who contributed to this historic endeavor.
If you have not yet had the opportunity to see our newest buildings, the Kruizenga Art Museum and the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts, please plan a visit soon. The museum is featuring its inaugural exhibit, "Past Present East West: Highlights from the Permanent Collection," which includes about 70 works from the founding collection. Classes and performances are being held in the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts. The center's 800-seat concert hall will open February 5–6, 2016, with Musical Showcase, a performance that shares the talent of all Hope College's major musical groups, along with soloists, chamber groups and small ensembles.
If you are a Hope graduate, I encourage you to mark your calendar for Alumni Weekend, April 29–30, 2016. The weekend will feature a special performance in the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts of an original piece commissioned by Tommye Leenhouts '66 in honor of our sesquicentennial. Join the celebration!
Commitment to Christian Faith Formation
In my last letter to you, I wrote about our new strategic plan, Hope for The World: 2025, and shared some of the innovations that will strengthen our academic program over the next decade. Now I will turn to another key element of the plan: a commitment to better support our students and employees as they seek to explore and grow in the Christian faith. To this end, Goal Two of the strategic plan states:
Hope College will be an ecumenical Christian community, welcoming students, faculty and staff into a vibrant experience of faith formation and intellectual engagement with the historic Christian faith.
In late September, I convened a Presidential Colloquium on the value and relevance of Christian liberal arts education in the 21st century. The campus community was invited to reflect on this theme in light of a changing world and our unchanging commitment to the mission given us by our founders 150 years ago. Through special programs, faculty reading groups, First-Year Seminars and Senior Seminars, we discussed how our approach to undergraduate education prepares students to lead and serve faithfully in today's global society. I hosted a public dialogue with three other college presidents, and we heard an inspiring keynote address by author and New York Times columnist David Brooks. If you are interested in seeing some or all of the Presidential Colloquium activities, three videos are available for viewing at hope.edu/brooksathope: my brief interview with Mr. Brooks, the presidential panel discussion and Mr. Brooks' keynote presentation.
Hope is a winsomely inviting Christian community. Three mornings a week, Dimnent Chapel welcomes a capacity crowd. Attendance is neither required nor recorded, yet more than 1,000 students fill the pews, overflowing into the side aisles. The Gathering draws a similarly enthusiastic crowd of worshippers on Sunday evenings. Our professors bring to the classroom not just a high level of expertise in their fields, but also a commitment to mentoring students in the Christian faith. From Residence Life to Student Life organizations, our Christian mission is integral to co-curricular programming throughout the year.
Serving the New Generations
We live in a time when young adults are less likely to come to college confident of their beliefs. Earlier this year, the nonpartisan Pew Research Center released a study, "America's Changing Religious Landscape," which carried the subhead "Christians Decline Sharply as Share of Population." This was one of several surveys indicating that the United States adult population is becoming less Christian, and that this is especially true of younger generations. Meanwhile, corresponding increases are seen in the percentages of Americans who identify themselves as religiously unaffiliated, as atheists or agnostics, and who say they believe "nothing in particular."
What does this imply for Hope College? The Pew research tells us that 25 percent of millenials (Americans born between roughly 1982 and 2002) say they are not religious, up from 16 percent who said this in 2007. This contrasts with 11 percent of baby boomers and just 7 percent of the generation born between 1928 and 1945. Studies also indicate that 18-year-olds are entering their college years with far less knowledge of the Christian faith.
Our strategic plan was developed with these trends in mind. We have strengthened our commitment to meeting our new students wherever they may be in their faith lives, even if all they bring to college are big questions. We will ensure that each has the opportunity to encounter and critically explore the intellectual content of the historic Christian faith. Inside the classroom and out, we will cultivate an awareness of Christian theological perspectives as one dimension of critical thinking about complex issues.
We also are committed to being a campus that increasingly reflects the diversity of Christ's global body. In the spirit of Christian ecumenism, we are developing ways to better serve students, staff and faculty from differing backgrounds and traditions. This effort is undergirded by formal partnerships with local congregations, Protestant and Catholic.
Additionally, we are providing new opportunities, support and resources to encourage purposeful and charitable discourse about issues that might otherwise divide us. It is our firmly held belief that courageous conversations will enrich our understanding of the Gospel, and of each other, in an ecumenically diverse community.
Hope's distinctive, invitational approach to Christ-centered education remains a compelling reason that many students choose to pursue an undergraduate degree here. While it is our heartfelt desire for our students to encounter the Christian faith in a life-changing way, we do not require them to be Christians or to participate in worship or other faith practices. We do, however, expect their years in college to be a time of earnest discernment.
At many American colleges and universities, one hears concerns about "mission drift." The pressures on higher education are great in a time of declining college enrollment nationwide. We are blessed at Hope College to be as firmly anchored as ever in our mission.
Renewing Traditions, Old and New
Fall semester is a time for renewing some of the greatest Hope College traditions. The Pull and Nykerk Cup build camaraderie among new students and tie them to generations who have shared these unique moments. It is always a joy to see alumni attending these events to relive their own college days — alumni like the two ladies at the Pull who were eager to tell Kelly and me about experiences as "moralers" in the late 1940s!
We have also begun some new first-semester traditions in the last few years. At freshman orientation, Kelly and I gather all the parents in the chapel and invite them to write letters to their sons or daughters expressing their hopes for their years at Hope College. We provide special paper and envelopes, along with plenty of tissues for tears. The letters are sealed and stored, to be given to the students at graduation.
We now are preparing for the third annual President's Christmas Tree Lighting, a festive evening of caroling and refreshments around a great fir tree planted beside our home. The tree is decorated with a large number of ornaments (in four colors, one for each class year) signed personally by Hope students.
As Thanksgiving approaches, Kelly and I wish to express our gratitude to the entire Hope family for the countless ways you contribute to our mission through prayer, financial support and encouragement. The Hope College community is blessed in so many ways, calling to mind Paul's words in his first letter to Timothy:
For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer. (1 Timothy 4:4-5)
As we celebrate this sesquicentennial year, let us give thanks for our rich heritage and for our promising future.
Spera in Deo,
John C. Knapp, Ph.D.
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Thank you President and Mrs. Voskuil
A presidential era as soon to end as President Dennis Voskuil and Betty Voskuil near the June 30 conclusion of their two-year term as Hope's first couple. Photo highlights from the past 24 months reflect their active involvement in the life of the college and especially their enthusiasm for students.
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One of the solitary essential principles in company is the sales funnel. Sales funnels can increase your revenue online by automating your organisation. They use a path of least resistance to expanding as well as scaling your organisation on auto-pilot. But after spending time with a few of the world's best online marketers, I can tell you with near certainty, not just exactly how sales funnels will certainly allow you to make even more loan online, but which specific funnels you ought to apply.
Currently, if you're anything like me, you might be averse to particular funnels. For example, I'm not at all a shopping guy, yet I do recognize that free-plus-shipping funnels are absolutely crushing it. As a matter of fact, simply this previous week, while going to the Closing Table Mastermind with Perry Belcher and also Roland Frasier, I acquired a lot more insight right into the alluring "tripwire" funnel, allegedly coined by Perry Belcher.
However, Belcher didn't design the principle. He attracted that from an old Columbia House ad that marketed 13 CDs or tapes for the huge price of $1.00. Remember it? However we all recognize that this irresistible deal (aka tripwire) had way more to it than simply the $1.00 cost. In the background, there was a continuity program at the office. In Columbia House's' version, this was called adverse option invoicing. That indicates, you automatically obtain routine month-to-month shipments (along with an expense) unless you specifically specify otherwise.
So why is this so powerful and also what does it relate to sales funnels? As a matter of fact, what you'll see is that Columbia House's sales funnel was rather basic. You simply picked the CDs or tapes you desired for a dollar, after that obtained a regular monthly shipment every month at a pre-defined rate. They would constantly bill you for those CDs or tapes every month. There were variations of this deal as well where you could get hold of 11 CDs or tapes for one penny then get the 12th free.
In any case you consider it, these were all irresistible offers. This was also excellent to skip. But what Columbia House and various other firms understood was that, although they would lose cash out of eviction, they would certainly, on average, gradually, earn money hand over first. And that is the power of the sales funnel. Before automation, this is just how sales funnels functioned. And, if you called in, you would obtain a real-time person efficiently walking you through the funnel.
The Columbia House example supplies deep understanding into the psychology of a deal that's alluring. By very first establishing the lifetime worth of a customer and also their retention rate, Columbia House determined that it can invest a particular amount of cash obtaining clients and still be extremely lucrative. That's essentially what's finished with sales funnels today. And also what really makes those sales funnels so effective are tripwires.
Today, it's the tripwire that produces the irresistible offer. Although Columbia House really did not fairly have major up-sells or down-sells in their funnels, they developed a simple two step funnel that worked. It functioned because the tripwire was so alluring. It appealed deeply to the customer. After all, just how can you stand up to a deal like that for 12 or 13 CDs or tapes for $1 or 1 cent when they were retailing at around $10 each at the time.
One more powerful example of this was with Sports Illustrated. In fact, Sports Illustrated was properly on the decrease at the time it presented its innovative tripwire. There's something about substantial products that people just connect with. Also when you're offering an electronic information item on the backside, by sweetening the deal with a concrete good, you can fairly essentially send your conversions through the roof.
In the instance of Sports Illustrated, take on your own back to 1990 when publication membership prices were beginning to drop off. Because period, Sports Illustrated endured a 7% decline in their blood circulation in the very first half of the year. Currently, regardless of what they did, they were incapable to obtain the membership prices up. Even by offering deep discount rates on registrations, customers weren't getting it. And also, if they marked down too outstanding, it would affect their ability to get advertisers paying costs prices without showing that consumers were paying close to the complete cover price of the publication.
Sports Illustrated, owned by Time, Inc., wasn't the only publication that was suffering under the company's umbrella. Individuals publication had actually additionally experienced a serious decline of 5%. Time, Inc., understood that it required to do something quickly. So it started to offer a tripwire that included sports bungles on VHS. Nevertheless, the cost was expensive as well as there were just numerous bloopers it can use. So, they resorted to the football phone as the new tripwire.
Why the football phone? Initially, it interested the target market. And also, it was one-of-a-kind and also interesting. Far more interesting than an uninteresting magazine registration. The football-shaped phone concept was conceived by Sports Illustrated's supervisor of blood circulation at the time, Michael Loeb. At that time, marketing on cable television was also extremely economical. Plus, the phone, which was sourced from China, just set you back a few dollars "landed". So all of it made sense.
Loeb worked with the logistics of this deal for lots of months. However, that wasn't the only offer. They likewise concocted an offer that consisted of a sneaker phone. If you'll reflect to 1990-1991, it was both uses that were running almost simultaneously. Talk about an early-on split-test, right?
So, what were the outcomes of all this? Over 1 million new customers. That's right. And those deals only ran for a restricted time. But it efficiently conserved the company. That's the power of a tripwire offer. It's a substantial item that gets individuals excited about whatever else the core offer is. In fact, some people will just purchase what you're marketing entirely for the novelty of the concrete tripwire offer.
Sales funnels are just one of the solitary most effective ideas in organisation today for a very particular reason. It's not just the example of the tripwire that's effective. It's the entire kitten caboodle, in a manner of speaking. There are a lot of components and also components to what make a sales funnel job so well that I intended to simplify and provide some more instances to offer a deeper understanding to just how you can utilize them to increase your revenue online.
Now, if you're not making use of a sales funnel today, or if you're simply finding what a sales funnel is, after that there are a couple of means you can promptly utilize this effective concept in your service to develop eruptive outcomes. Primarily, if you don't have a ClickFunnels account, go right here and also enroll in the 14-day totally free trial. As soon as you have actually setup your account, grab a customized domain name and start developing your funnel. If you need aid, enjoy several of the on-boarding video clips consisted of with ClickFunnels.
It matters not if you have an existing organisation or you're working to setup a new service, funnels are the trick to growing and also scaling regardless of where you're starting from. Nevertheless, there are 5 certain methods you can utilize sales funnels to boost your income right now. It does not matter what business you're in or what you're selling, you can leverage these today, now, to produce explosive outcomes.
At the Inner Circle mastermind today, Russell Brunson studied the hook-story-offer strategy that precedes developing the funnel. Can you build a sales funnel before you have a hook and also a story? Yes. But you could have problem acquiring grip, specifically if you're competing in a red ocean. Red seas are entrepreneur-infested waters contending for the very same pool of customers, whereas blue seas are an area where couple of entrepreneurs are swimming in.
What does that tell you? Spend the moment on the hook and the tale. Yes, the offer is likewise vital. But it's the hook and the tale that's going to reel potential customers in. As an example, Brunson made use of the narrative of fit-to-fat-to-fat creator, Drew Manning. Manning, that remained in excellent form, went out there and also got a number of weight over a 6 month period to better understand what it feels like to be fat. However then he went out there as well as shed all the weight.
That right there is an amazing hook as well as story. It's one-of-a-kind. As well as, as a result of that, Manning has experienced a speedy increase, although his offer isn't that great. However when the hook and the story is just so good, the offer is nearly worthless. Properly, you can market just about anything when the hook and the tale simply crush it. One more instance is the story of Robert Allen who would certainly constantly state he might be dropped in any city in the nation as well as purchase a house no money down within 60 days. And that's exactly what he did. His brand has actually done over a billion bucks in sales due to it.
Those are all fantastic hooks and also stories. Without that, your deal will struggle. If you can create a special means to create your hook and story, the rest will fall into place. Since there is a lot red sea out there, this is probably one of the most essential points to make prior to you release any type of sales funnel.
Tripwires are great low-barrier-of-entry items that make leads take out their bank card. Commonly, these are too-good-to-pass-up items that are offered at an unbelievable cost. Just think of the tripwire used by Columbia House or Sports Illustrated, as an example. Tripwires help make it less complicated to obtain new consumers, and afterwards to ascend them up your value ladder.
Anything that makes client purchase harder, such as an expensive service or product out of eviction, is mosting likely to make expanding and also scaling your business harder. The reality is that it sets you back 5 times as much to draw in a brand-new client as it does to maintain an existing one. That's why tripwires are so powerful. They lower the barrier-of-entry right into your business. And also anything that can decrease the barrier of entry is always suitable.
One more terrific means to launch a sales funnel as well as quickly boost your income no matter what organisation you remain in is through a lead magnet. The lead magnet needs to include real worth. Yet it can be in numerous styles such as a PDF digital book, list, rip off sheet and so forth. After the download, you can provide a single deal. This suggests a three-step funnel. You could additionally produce an up-sell if they take the single offer or even a payment-plan down-sell if they decline it.
Why do a lead magnet with lots of value? First, you're establishing yourself up as an expert. If that material is genuinely workable, as well as it includes a substantial amount of worth to the prospect's life, after that they're mosting likely to view you as the authority. However it does something much more than that. It's a matter of micro-commitments. The theory? Obtain someone to agree to do 3 small points for you as well as the fourth one is immediately an of course.
Among one of the most effective sales funnels you can construct is based around the webinar. In fact, it was the webinar that conserved Brunson's business from bankruptcy a couple of times. It was a mix as well as end result of expertise that bring about the ideal webinar manuscript, which develops the basis for the ultimate sales funnel. Several of it originated from Jason Fladlien, while various other items originated from somewhere else in Brunson's trip.
However, all that details incorporated right into the format of a perfect webinar and funnel, has actually literally changed the businesses of countless entrepreneurs that have actually taken their expertise and also monetized it via the exponential force of webinars. Constructing a webinar is one of the surest courses to success with a sales funnel. As a matter of fact, the webinar funnel is rather possibly the most transformative funnel you could launch for any type of business, new or old.
One more method to boost your income with a sales funnel is to construct a high-ticket coaching funnel that goes from application to telephone call to shut.
The application enables you to extract those that aren't severe. And also, on the phone call, you can close the deal. Currently, this sort of sales funnel jobs if you've already had outcomes with customers. Otherwise, work for totally free up until you obtain results for people. After that, gather testimonies and utilize those as part of the pitch for the coaching.
Probably among the greatest and most prominent sales funnels nowadays is the free-plus-shipping deal funnel. It makes an excellent entrance factor into any kind of funnel by developing an one-time deal or up-sell after the offer, similar to a tripwire funnel. However, the difference below is the power of words free. Yes, tripwires, which are extremely inexpensive products or services, work well. But there is actual power in words complimentary.
Actually, individuals will lift as well as down for a free deal, also if they need to cover the delivery and also handling, instead of taking a deal that they even need to pay a little quantity of cash for.


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with catherine boyle he summed up his ideological position. >> i'm proud to call myself a socialist. someone that wants to share the wealth and the experience and the abilities of everybody. it's -- socialism is basic humanity. i consider myself a reasonably human kind of person. >> cnbc also caught up with some of his young supporters. here's why one says he's voting for the hard left politician. >> we need young people to feel like there's something to live for. because my generation, we're the ones that get picked on the most. we don't have anyone to fight for us. we don't have free education and the opportunities that the generation before us had. >> joining us is the director of digital strategy at silk digital and catherine boyle who carried out the interview yesterday with mr. corbyn. i want to touch on this big rise in support which is quite a surprise here in the u.k. is that down to young voters or a reaction of the policies that's appealing to people across the spectrum. >> first of all, i didn't see it coming. he made the registration by several minutes. is it around gri
with catherine boyle he summed up his ideological position. >> i'm proud to call myself a socialist. someone that wants to share the wealth and the experience and the abilities of everybody. it's -- socialism is basic humanity. i consider myself a reasonably human kind of person. >> cnbc also caught up with some of his young supporters. here's why one says he's voting for the hard left politician. >> we need young people to feel like there's something to live for. because my...


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Thread: A potent threat of major earthquake off California's northern coast
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A potent threat of major earthquake off California's northern coast
Risk of a monster quake and tsunami off California's North Coast is greater than researchers once thought.
A man rides his bicycle in 2004 in Crescent City, where a 1964 earthquake spawned a deadly tsunami.(Matthew Crawford / For The Times)
By Rong-Gong Lin II and Rosanna XiaMarch 12, 2014, 6:22 p.m.
If a 9.0 earthquake were to strike along California's sparsely populated North Coast, it would have a catastrophic ripple effect.
A giant tsunami created by the quake would wash away coastal towns, destroy U.S. 101 and cause $70 billion in damage over a large swath of the Pacific coast. More than 100 bridges would be lost, power lines toppled and coastal towns isolated. Residents would have as few as 15 minutes notice to flee to higher ground, and as many as 10,000 would perish.
Scientists last year published this grim scenario for a massive rupture along the Cascadia fault system, which runs 700 miles off shore from Northern California to Vancouver Island.
GRAPHIC: How a 9.0 megaquake devastates California's North Coast and the Northwest
The Cascadia subduction zone is less known than the San Andreas fault, which scientists have long predicted will produce The Big One. But in recent years, scientists have come to believe that the Cascadia is far more dangerous than originally believed and have been giving the system more attention.
The Cascadia begins at a geologically treacherous area where three tectonic plates are pushing against each other. The intersection has produced the two largest earthquakes in California in the last decade — Sunday's 6.8 temblor off Eureka and a 7.2 quake off Crescent City in 2005. The area has produced six quakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater in the last 100 years, the California Geological Survey said.
Officials in Northern California as well as Oregon and Washington are beginning to address the dangers.
DOCUMENT: Read what a 9.0 quake could do to California, Oregon and Washington
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tsunami researchers are testing a new generation of tsunami detectors off the Oregon coast, which could provide earlier warnings about the incoming wave's size.
During the 2011 Japan tsunami, some of the first detailed alerts underestimated the size of the tsunami to be lower than the sea walls — and then communications were cut off.
"So some people had a false sense of security," said Vasily Titov, director of NOAA's Center for Tsunami Research. "You want to have this information as accurate as possible."
Installing tsunami sensors on the deep ocean floor would provide better information on the tsunami's size in as little as five minutes. It now takes about half an hour.
Titov said two underwater test sensors off the Oregon coast seemed to perform well in Sunday's earthquake, though the quake did not produce a tsunami.
In Grays Harbor County in Washington state, crews will begin building an elementary school gym this summer to double as a "vertical evacuation center" — built so that 1,000 people can flee to the roof during a tsunami, protected by a high wall.
"We have no natural high ground," said Ocosta School District Supt. Paula Akerlund. "So we have to evacuate vertically."
Washington state and federal officials have also been discussing building about 50 "tsunami safe havens," such as artificial hills that could hold as many as 800 people.
The 2011 Japan tsunami as well as other natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina have fueled efforts to better prepare for a major quake on the Cascadia fault.
"Katrina was a worst case scenario for hurricanes in the gulf. And a Cascadia would be the worst case scenario for tsunamis on the West Coast," said Paul Whitmore, director of the National Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska.
For years, scientists believed the largest earthquake the area could produce was magnitude 7.5. But scientists now say the Cascadia was the site of a magnitude 9 earthquake more than 300 years ago.
Ripping over a fault that stretches in the Pacific Ocean from the coast of Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, the quake on the evening of Jan. 26, 1700, was so powerful, entire sections of the Pacific coastline dropped by as much as 5 feet, allowing the ocean to rush in and leave behind dead trees by the shore.
The tsunami reached Japan, destroying homes and rice paddies along the eastern shore.
In the Pacific Northwest, Native American stories told of "how the prairie became ocean," and how canoes were flung into trees. Whitmore of the National Tsunami Warning Center said similar waves, up to 100 feet above sea level, could again inundate many areas of the U.S. West Coast.
Scientists in the 1980s began piecing together the evidence of the ancient tsunami.
They analyzed the rings of the trees that had suddenly died, and carbon dating narrowed the date of an earthquake to between 1695 to 1720. Then, Japanese researchers pored over ancient records and found a mystery "orphan" tsunami that arrived with no parent earthquake in 1700.
DOCUMENT: The orphan tsunami of 1700
The Cascadia fault is powerful for two reasons: It is both extremely long and it is a "megathrust" fault, in which two tectonic plates — slabs of rock roughly the size of New Mexico floating atop the Earth's molten core — are being forced underneath the gigantic North American plate.
As the smaller plates — the Juan de Fuca and Gorda plates — jam underneath the North American plate, friction builds, and the edge of the North American plate is temporarily dragged down as well.
But the North American plate is old and strong, and won't be pulled down forever.
Every several hundred years or so, the North American plate violently snaps back like a rubber band — thrusting upward with horrific power.
Sunday's quake, which erupted 50 miles off the coast, caused light to moderate shaking. No injuries or damage was reported.
But the North Coast has not always been so lucky.
On April 25, 1992, a magnitude-7.2 earthquake hit on shore near the village of Petrolia — about 30 miles southwest of Eureka — injuring 95 people, and triggering landslides and rockfalls, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
That quake was so powerful that a 15-mile stretch of beach was pushed up as much as 4 feet — leaving behind rows of dead sea urchins, mussels and sea snails.
The 1992 earthquake pushed Victorian-era homes from foundations and took down chimneys.
An aftershock sparked an electrical fire that engulfed the lone shopping center in the town of Scotia. Firefighters stood by helplessly as a ruptured water main cut off water to the hydrants.
Fires also destroyed the only general store and post office in Petrolia.
As for the next 9.0 quake, U.S. Geological Survey seismologist David Oppenheimer said: "It could be today. It could be 100 years from now."
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6.9 Earthquake Shakes Far-Northern California
A magnitude 6.9 offshore earthquake shook Northern California late Sunday.
No damage or injuries are reported. (March 10)
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