One of the biggest challenges facing shopper marketing teams, especially as they are trying to get established, is getting consumer marketing teams to take them seriously. While not universal, shopper marketers speak of disdain, or being ignored, of not getting the data, information and support they need. Some consumer marketing teams are brilliantly supportive, others are far less so. Yet consumer marketing teams stand to gain significant benefits from effective shopper marketing. So how should this be handled? How should shopper marketing teams effectively engage with their consumer marketing colleagues? Why should consumer marketing teams listen and support the growth of shopper marketing in their business?
Consumer marketing teams have been used to setting the strategic agenda in many organizations, so perhaps some of them feel defensive that there is another marketing 'pretender' vying for the attention (and budgets!) But effective shopper marketing supports consumer marketing. It doesn't threaten to usurp. This is still the consumer marketing industry, after all – winning with consumers is essential for brand success. Really effective shopper marketing actually starts with understanding consumers. But is we can't win with shoppers too, then brand success will be limited or curtailed.
But beyond ego, there is usually a bigger issue. The main reason that we see for consumer marketing disdain is that there is a misunderstanding as to what shopper marketing is. 'Shopper Marketing' has a branding problem, perhaps! To many consumer marketers, consumers are 'where it is at'. To some consumer marketers, shopper equals shops, equals retail equals sales. It's a sales thing. Ergo, it is tactical. Ergo, it is less important, less strategic, than consumer marketing.
And sadly, too much of what is called 'shopper marketing' fulfils this image. Too many 'shopper marketing' agencies are little more than rebadged activation companies. Too many shopper marketing teams are rebranded trade marketing teams. Too much of what they do is tactical and lacks any real 'marketing'. It is activity. It is tactical!
So if shopper marketers want to be taken seriously as strategic partners with consumer marketers, then success will depend on what type of shopper marketing is being practiced. So let's start with a definition that really adds value to brands. The definition of shopper marketing has been debated in these pages and elsewhere, so I'm not proposing that we re-open that debate at this stage. Neither am I proposing that this definition is the only one. But I will contend that this definition encompasses and explains many of the key benefits of shopper marketing from a consumer marketing point of view. Whichever definition of shopper marketing you decide to adopt, I would strongly recommend one that makes it clear how and why your shopper marketing will drive brands, as this is what consumer marketers (and the company!) wants to hear.
We see shopper marketing as : " Shopper marketing is the process of understanding shoppers and using that understanding to develop a marketing mix which influences shopper behavior in such a way as to positively impact consumption of the brand and or category".
Why should consumer marketing teams actively support the development of shopper marketing?
So with this in mind, let's now explore the key benefits of effective shopper marketing from a consumer marketing point of view.
Shopper marketing should be about changing shopping behavior. But really effective shopper marketing doesn't just drive changes in shopper behavior, it changes consumption behavior too. Some might see this as a very high benchmark, but I don't have a problem with that. If consumption doesn't change, then any change in shopping behavior isn't sustainable. If the product stays in the pantry, then growth is short-lived. If the change in shopping behavior drives changes in consumption behavior however, then more sustainable growth is possible. Assuming the consumption experience delivers (that's the job of consumer marketers of course!) then there is a great chance that future purchase (and consumption!) will follow. And isn't that what all consumer marketers want?
Hidden in that definition is another important marketing word. Target! Real shopper marketing isn't about changing the behavior of any shopper. It is about changing the behavior of a specific shopper: the target shopper who can unlock future consumption growth. Through effective shopper marketing, consumer marketers see their plans and strategies supported by activity that will encourage purchase among a specific cohort of shoppers: the shoppers that are key to our consumer marketing growth plans. Of course, without a close and cooperative relationship between consumer and shopper marketers, this is almost impossible: how can shopper marketers target the right shoppers, if consumer marketers don't tell them which consumers they are targeting!? This for us is the single biggest benefit of shopper marketing, and of effective collaboration between consumer marketing and shopper marketing teams.
This targeting leads to a softer, but still important benefit for consumer marketers. Targeting means that the messages that shopper marketing takes to the market can be more focused. If shopper marketers are aiming for all shoppers, then messages will likely be generic. With focus comes the opportunity for specificity. In this way shopper marketing communication can magnify and enhance consumer messaging, rather than just parroting it.
Yes, I know that in many (if not most!) cases, trade spend sits in another budget, but it would be naïve to think that ineffective trade spend didn't negatively impact your brand profitability. Arguably, growth in trade spend requirements has been one of the key factors to put pressure on consumer marketing budgets. True shopper marketing improves trade spend effectiveness by encouraging spend to be focused on the most effective activities. This improves brand economics, and in the longer term will relieve pressure on brand budgets.
How many impressions do your ad campaigns create? And how about the store? Everything that happens in the store impacts brand image, positively and negatively. Effective shopper marketing allows for the opportunity for clear, focused and targeted messaging. The alternative is a lack of focus and a reliance on deals, or activities which are designed to promote the retailer's brand, not yours. I know which I'd prefer!
An effective shopper marketing process brings alignment across the commercial functions. The business still needs to reflect the reality that it serves numerous customers (consumers, shoppers and retailers) but by developing open communication, it is possible for much closer alignment. This improves efficiency, and speeds up decision making. Now that is something that surely every consumer marketer would want?
Lastly, effective shopper marketing is much more likely to bring support from retailers. By this, I DON'T mean that somehow, magically, shopper marketing teams can make retailers agree to everything you want! Life isn't that simple. But effective shopper marketing is a gateway to more meaningful conversations, and that leads to a more balanced relationship with retailers – and that leads to better retail support.
Great shopper marketing needs consumer marketing support. But consumer marketing only gets the real benefits if you do shopper marketing well. Catch 22? Not at all. Shopper marketing teams need to engage consumer marketing. They need to explain the benefits clearly. Then they need to deliver. Don't over promise, and make it clear that there is a need for consumer marketing team to deliver too. But with work, effort and cooperation, it is possible for consumer marketers to engage fully with shopper marketing teams and receive all of the benefits listed above. But remember. If you want consumer marketing to engage, then choose your definition of shopper marketing carefully!
If you'd like to learn more about establishing a shopper marketing team that engages effectively with consumer marketing and sales, or just want to bring th epower of 'shopper' to your existing consumer marketing, trade marketing and sales team, contact us now for a free consultation.


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Chapel Ash Today, Looks Sad And Tired
Posted on January 13, 2010 by Billy
But once upon a time it was twice in-spired!
Advert – "NOW 1879-80 – Charles Clark coach and carriage builder Chapel Ash."
Chapel Ash was well established on this main arterial route, through Wolverhampton, as a fine residential and commercial centre, when the above Advert appeared in 'Stevens Directory', which listed all commercial businesses in the Town at the time.
Charles Clark made carriages for horse transport, but even then there is a great indication that we will soon be entering the age of the motor car, and Clark's will take over a large slice of the west end of Chapel Ash where they traded for the next 100 years.
New Charles Clark building on the corner of Bath Road Circa 1950
Charles Clark is well established here in 1950, at the opening of a new showroom in Chapel Ash, by the Mayor of Wolverhampton, Councillor H.Bowdler.
At that time they also had old buildings across the road, as used car sales showrooms. Then in the mid 1960's, a choice piece of ground close by became available, and the building they took on then, regretably still stands today as a forlorn legacy to their once illustrious name.
Derelict Charles Clark building on Merridale Road 2009
Those who travel via Chapel Ash into Wolverhampton these days may, as I do, look at the derelict former showrooms once belonging to the prestgious firm of Charles Clark, on the corner of old Lord Street with dismay at their continuing neglect.
What makes it even more sad if you can remember this imposing building it replaced.
The United Presbyterian Church 1963
At the time of the Markets move to Salop Street in the early 1960's, and the general clearance and tidying up of the area across to Brickkiln Street and down to Chapel Ash, we lost another of our fine old Victorian Churches as its congregation declined.
The United Presbyterian Church, on the corner of Lord Street and Merridale Road, (Mr Bidlake, archtect, Mr Cockerill, builder,) was a plain yet elegant structure with a substantial, rather than lofty spire, rising 96 feet. It opened October 14th, 1870, the entire cost being £3,200.
It stood alongside its vicarage for just short of a century. It is pictured here on the 24th of May 1963, redundant, and awaiting demolition, to be replaced by the now derelict showrooms that was once part of Charles Clark, Chapel Ash.
The Old Bell circa 1890s
The Chapel Ash area, together with the town end of Tettenhall Road was laid out in the twenty years after the Napoleanic wars, as the first suburb of the town.
The whole area was graced with elegant designed houses the best of which stll survive today, and also at both of its approaches, two elegant Victorian Churches.
When the above photograph was taken in the 1890's, in the days before the motor car, the only traffic to be seen around the junction of Merridale Road and Compton Road, and Tettenhall road leading out of Chapel Ash, in to the Shropshire countryside, was horse drawn or pushed by hand.
On the corner of Compton Road before the (now abandoned) Eye Infirmary came on this spot, was the Postal / Telegraph office.
Opposite on the left, the elderly couple are crossing from outside the Old Bell Inn, which for many years, with the green grocers adjoining, were on the corner of Lord Street. Towering over the roof of the Bell is the tall spire of the Presbyterian Church, on the opposite corner of Lord Street.
A flourishing Chapel Ash Circa 1955
Apart from a new road lay-out and increased traffic problems nothing much has changed regarding the look of Chapel Ash, although now in 2010, its buildings are suffering from years of neglect, and the old established trades of butchers, fish merchants and greengrocer's, have now been swept aside.
The vacant shop spaces have been taken up by fast food outlets, and estate agents. On the positive side the one remaining church, Saint Marks, has been saved and has become offices.
I firmly believe as long as Marstons (nee Banks's) keep it as their home, Chapel Ash itself will remain a vibrant part of old Wolverhampton.
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timothy gay says:
very impressed about your website can anyone remember the grocer shop in chapel ash which used to do home deliverys in the late 1950`s and early 1960`s before the big supermarkets were taken over. if my memory serves me well i think it was hamblins. can anyone recall it please
jan coates says:
I remember Liptons, The HOME AND CALONIAL , I remember Miss Horton's and the hair ribbons they sold as well as wool and materials. My father built the clock on Charles Clarks building in Chapel Ash and my aunt ran Bennett Clark's photographers with partner William Hart, who she later married.
What a glorious past Wolverhampton family history you have Jan.
Bennett Clark now theres a name to conjure up many memories and stories.
I have many photo's take from the studio of this prolific Wolverhampton photographer.
I shall post a picture on the forum and on our facebook group. and hope other interested members will add their thoughts on this great Wulfrunian.
I'm not sure about Hamblins, but I do recall Blakemore's that used to be in Chapel Ash. My farther worked there until 1971 when it closed down and for a while in the 1960s was one of the delivery drivers.
Blakemore's was once a big name in Wolverhampton and had I think 3 shops at one point, but by the 1960s when I was a child there was only the Chapel Ash one left. It was the building of the ring road that finally caused it's closure with Chapel Ash being isolated from the rest of the town.
I nursed at the Eye Infirmary from 1958 to 1960, I would love to hear from anyone who also nursed there at that time.
My surname was Cochran
clive gwilt says:
Brilliant website what happened to the bell turret on the top of Charles Clarks as I believe it was removed from Cann Hall in Bridgnorth in the 1950's and the wood copied and placed on the building?.
Thank you Clive, Its still there as it has always been, and I am under the impression it was a copy of the one thats on the Bridge clock tower alongside the "Boatyard."
You are probably right though about Cann Hall was'nt that knocked down around the early 1950's.
Any way there is certainly a Bridgnorth connection .
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Open RAN closes the third quarter with more revenue than in 2021
According to the latest report published by Dell'Oro Group, the Open RAN movement (radio access networks) has grown in the third quarter of this year more than was initially expected.
95% of this growth is represented by Asia Pacific and North America regions, especially the latter, with a growth and acceptance rate of more than 80%. And this is all due to non-massive macro MIMO and large-scale massive MIMO implementations.
The situation repeated during the first three quarters has been identical. Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and Mavenir have led the sector with the most total revenue. The open standard Open RAN consolidates in the telecommunications industry as an agile and representative alternative. The evolution is such that the data from the last Report is surprising, since it determines that the strength of said growth has given it a favorable position and reached double the income than during the same period of 2021.
The report leaves us revealing data, such as the adoption of Open RAN is having a very limited impact on the RAN market, but with very good short-term growth prospects, since it is expected that by 2023, this technology will represent between 6% and 10% of the entire RAN market. However, this year's growth rates will ease in the coming quarters.
Stefan PongratzDell'Oro Group's vice president, says that while Open RAN business revenues continue to rise surprisingly in the midst of the economic and price crisis, the message being communicated has not changed and remains mixed.
However, experts, such as Pongratz, are not very sure about how the adoption of this Open RAN technology will be on a larger scale, since classic RAN vendors are integrating it at very different rates.
Similarly, Pongratz argues in favor of Open RAN: "It is more important than ever to understand how this movement is impacting the dynamics between established and new vendors."
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In the same study published by the Dell'Oro Group at the conclusion of the first semesterit was determined that O-RAN and Open RAN and baseband revenue grew significantly, especially in North America, quadrupling revenue in the same period last year.
The study on the influence of Open RAN closed showing that represented just over 5% of the entire RAN marketalthough predicting that in the future it will develop and expand much more in the telecommunications sector.
The future is set by Open Ran
Technologys applied to telecommunications, OpenRAN Y vRAN, are gaining weight in the world market. In fact, Open RAN is expected to accumulate revenues of almost 20,000 million dollarsor what is the same, 15% of the total income of RAN by 2026.
The demand for open radio networks has also increased their forecasts. To this is added the evolution at the same rate as the greenfields and the first users of brownfield, who are aggressively implementing Open RAN. "The remaining brownfields, which also make up the majority of the market, are being more cautious about making this transition," Pongratz says.
Looking ahead to the coming years, it is expected that both Asia Pacific and North America will be the leading regions, coming mainly from the macro implementations of Open RAN, which will represent more than 90% of the whole market.
And it is that RAN Technologys based on open standards are having more and more weight among the main operators with the aim of stimulate their competitiveness and considerably reduce prices.
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Just a few days ago OpenAI announced that it was preparing a paid version of ChatGPT. And it's ready: ChatGPT Plus. with her, for 20 dollars a monthits users will have priority access to this chatbot, even during peak hours of use of this Artificial Intelligence text generation system.
Users who do not pay to access ChatGPT Plus will therefore have to wait for paid users to let it go. The plan also promises to offer faster response times, as well as priority access to new features and improvements that OpenAI releases for the chatbot in the future.
For now, OpenAI will send messages to start subscriptions to ChatGPT Plus to users who are in the United States and are signed up to the waiting list of those who want to subscribe to the ChatGPT payment plan in the coming weeks. For now there are no deadlines or dates for the expansion of the service to other countries, and OpenAI has limited itself to saying in this regard that it will open the plan to other countries and regions in the future.
Just a few days ago there was speculation about the price that the monthly subscription to ChatGPT Plus would have. According to various rumors it was going to be much higher, and that it was going to cost up to 42 dollars a month, which would make it difficult for small companies and research groups and organizations to access it. At $20 a month, it will be accessible to more people and entities that need reliable access to texts generated by Artificial Intelligence.
Furthermore, this price, and its features, could set the stage for a standard in the capabilities and cost of other Artificial Intelligence chatbots appearing on the market. Of course, from OpenAI they have been quick to make it clear that ChatGPT is not going to become a tool without free options. Its managers have ensured that there will continue to be free access to the chatbot, thanks to the fact that paying users will contribute to it with their monthly payments. For now, they continue to advance in their development, for which they are going to hire new specialized personnel.
OpenAI invests in ChatGPT coding and programming with new hires
Despite the massive layoffs taking place in the technology sector, Open AI commitment to the recruitment of personnel for the creation of new artificial intelligence models that allow them to improve their products, among them, ChatGPT. The objective of the company co-founded by Elon Musk would be incorporate 1,000 new workers in different countries around the world to work on creating improved code in their AI tools.
Of those thousand new employees, about 600 (40%) are programmers whose work will focus on AI performing software engineering tasks. The remaining 60% will focus on the 'data labeling', that is, in the creation of raw data (text, audio, images and videos) that will then be labeled to specify the context in which the AI is developed. The profile currently most in demand by OpenAI would be that of python developera highly qualified programming language.
This study, included in a Semafor report, shows that new hires will have to create training data that will encompass from lines of code to explanations of it in natural language. OpenAI has a tool with these characteristics launched in 2021, OpenAI Codexwhich received training on data pulled from GitHub (Microsoft's code repository). Similarly, Codex is used by Microsoft to power GitHub Copilot, a service that will help programmers write code.
Open AI Codex masters more than a dozen programming languages and is capable of interpreting simple commands in natural language and creating an interface for existing applications. Regardless, coding could improve ChatGPT's ability to converse with humans and thus overcome barriers such as those of the Stack Overflow website, which accuses the OpenAI AI tool of not offering reliable answers.
The key to being able to establish improvements in a coding assistant will be to build a system capable of anticipating the effect of its own actions and set up an internal system. Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist, Yann LeCunclaimed that there was a great similarity between cruise control systems in cars and coding assistants like Copilot. And it is that if the human does not establish a constant supervision on Copilot, it will end up making almost negligible code errors. The problem resides when we are dealing with a code model that is sometimes executed and sometimes not.
The OpenAI Selection Process
For the election of qualified personnel regarding the programming and control of ChatGPT, OpenAI subjected the candidates to a five hour unpaid coding test having to undertake different tasks. One of them was to explain in writing how they would solve a coding problem and, in the event of detecting errors in the process, explain what they were and how they should be corrected. In the end, the objective is to feed the tool with very specific training data that the human himself marks for it.
The objective of Elon Musk's company is that these workers can make AI capable of write code for a more precise method, replacing entry-level programmers in the future. Only then will it be possible to strengthen the power of its AI tools, such as ChatGPT, adapting more quickly and intelligently to changes and being able to face the main competing companies in the sector.
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Twitter continue with him trickle of measures aimed at raising their incomeeven if they are deeply unpopular. This is the case of the last one that he has announced: the end of free use of your API. As of February 9, all the services and tools that currently use this API free of charge and that want or need to continue using it will have to pay for it, or simply stop providing the service they provide thanks to it. This was communicated by the company through a thread published on the Twitter Developer account:
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead?
— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) February 2, 2023
From within just a week, therefore, the company will block non-paying developers from accessing version 1.1 of its APIalready considered legacy, and the current one, the V2. For now there is no more information about the amount that the network will charge for using its APIs. It is only known that there will be a basic payment plan, but it is unknown what type of access it will offer. All when there is barely a week left for the change to take place.
This step follows the abrupt changes in the terms of use of said API in recent weeks, after the company suspended access to such popular and relevant apps in its history as Tweetbot and Twitterrific. As a result, many third-party Twitter apps have stopped working and have removed their mobile apps from the iOS and Android app stores. In some cases, as has happened with the creators of Tweetbot, the companies that developed those apps have changed their focus to launch apps for Mastodon and other networks, or are considering doing so in the future.
Meanwhile, confusion and uncertainty is growing among developers using the Twitter API in numerous projects. Also among its users. At present there are thousands of developers who use the Twitter API for, for example, the development of informative bots that publish information in other networks, and in systems related to weather information and other types of data.
In many cases, the free Twitter API has served for the development of projects created as a hobby, which will probably end up not working. It is more than likely that the same will happen with bots that automatically post tweets on other networks, such as the aforementioned Mastodon.
On the other hand, the academic sector, and that dedicated to research, will be greatly affected by this measure. For now, Twitter has not specified whether the announcement to end the free use of its API, on which hundreds of thousands of projects in both sectors depend, also affects researchers and education.
Among the ongoing investigations there are many in sectors such as the study of hate speech and online abuse. In addition, universities often use Twitter to study human behavior in different parts of the world based on what its inhabitants say and share on social networks. Not having free access to the Twitter API will also raise many complications for companies and organizations working to detect the spread of fake news and misinformation.
Twitter's relationship with developers building products off of its API has always been a complicated one. But for better or worse, that relationship worked, and there have been numerous services and tools that have been born from the Twitter API since its arrival.
Despite several initial rebuffs, on the other hand, Twitter had been working for years to improve the relationship with developers by launching various programs and actions, which has meant that the developer ecosystem around its API was still alive.
This has all been blown up ever since Musk bought the company, and API pay-as-you-go may be the last nail in the community's coffin. Meanwhile, Twitter continues to increase control over how Twitter users access the network and trying to increase their revenue. And developers will probably change the social network with which to work and create their tools.
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El municipio de Eulalia (en inglés: Eulalia Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Potter en el estado estadounidense de Pensilvania. En el año 2000 tenía una población de 941 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 11 personas por km².

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El municipio de Eulalia se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas .

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Según la Oficina del Censo en 2000 los ingresos medios por hogar en la localidad eran de $40,469 y los ingresos medios por familia eran $52,708. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $45,278 frente a los $27,188 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para la localidad era de $27,245. Alrededor del 5,8% de la población estaban por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

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Localidades del condado de Potter (Pensilvania)

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Ban calls on Global Compact to help end poverty, transform lives, protect planet
Source:UN News
9 January 2015 – Addressing the United Nations Global Compact board meeting this afternoon, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said everyone held a stake in ending poverty, transforming people's lives and protecting the planet.
"We live in paradoxical times," said Mr. Ban. "We see enormous wealth, technological progress and unprecedented opportunity on the one hand, coupled with great inequality and fragmentation, extremist violence, and environmental degradation on the other."
Despite progress in many areas, including reducing poverty and improving healthcare, he said individual and group interests still take precedence over universal priorities too often.
"Ultimately, our interdependent world will prosper or perish as one," he said calling for conviction and courage to change course and take responsibility for the planet and the people.
That change of course would involve a commitment to sustainable development, a restructuring of the global financial system in line with people's needs, and an urgent response to the challenge of human-induced climate change.
He looked forward to a momentous year ahead and said the Global Compact had proven that progress can be made when all key players are engaged on issues of common importance.
"The Global Compact's blueprint for change has been tested, and it works," he said. "Business is proving that the power of collaboration is enormous. We are seeing markets beginning to transform from within, based on actions taken by business to respect and support human rights, provide decent work, account for environmental impacts and end bribery and corruption."
He said the world would need the help of the Global Compact's board to meet several milestones that the international community had ahead.
"The spirit of the Global Compact will be at the heart of the new global agenda for sustainable development, which will be agreed here in New York in September," he said, noting that his recently released synthesis report – The Road to Dignity by 2030: Ending Poverty, Transforming All Lives and Protecting the Planet – emphasized the role to be played by the private sector in achieving the proposed sustainable development goals.
Private sector financing would be essential to the new agenda, and business would be essential in efforts to achieve a universal, meaningful agreement on climate change in Paris in December.
"We must be bold. We must act together. We must make 2015 a year of global action," he said.
The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with 10 universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary driver of globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere.
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Price tag for Gorge Dam removal is expected to exceed estimates
Jeff St. Clair
Plans are moving forward to remove the century-old concrete structure, but studies show more funding will likely be needed
Akron's Summit Lake Renewal Takes Next Step with Nature Center Opening
Kabir Bhatia
Built in a former pumphouse, the four-year project cost $1.5 million
Summit Lake Was Once Home to 'Akron's Million Dollar Playground.' OH Really?
Summit Beach Amusement Park attracted huge crowds for decades with a well-known ballroom and a large swimming pool, until closing in 1958.
From Hiking to Kayaking, the Pandemic Connects Northeast Ohioans to the Great Outdoors
Amanda Rabinowitz
This past year, more people invested in bicycles and kayaks and spread out on the region's hundreds of miles of hiking trails.
Fifteen Year, $7 Million Dollar Parks Restoration Project Nears Completion
Officials with Summit MetroParks are moving into the final phase of a $7 million project which will restore nearly five miles of waterways.Pond Brook runs…
Gorge Dam Project Inches Forward
A contractor has been selected to plan the next phase in the removal of the massive concrete dam that blocks the Cuyahoga River at Gorge Metro Park.It's…
Applications For The Akron Soul Train Artists' Colony Are Now Available
Applications open today for a unique artists' residency in Akron that takes place this summer.Groundbreaking is slated for this spring on The Akron Soul…
Deer Culling is Underway at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
The Cuyahoga Valley National Park's deer-management program is underway. It's the second year of a four-year program to reduce the park's deer…
Summit MetroParks Takes Steps to Grow its Endowment
Summit MetroParks announced today a partnership with the Akron Community Foundation, which means a major realignment of its endowment fund.The MetroParks'…


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Group's concern at rail proposals
Rail campaigners have expressed concern over proposed changes to the Southern timetable.
Friday, 30th June 2017, 10:55 am
Updated Tuesday, 18th July 2017, 8:28 am
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The plans, unveiled this week, would see the through coastal service between Brighton and Ashford International axed, meaning passengers would have to change trains at Hastings.
Martin Woodfine, of the St Leonards and Hastings Rail Improvement (SHRIMP), and Trevor Davies, of Ore Transport Group (OTG), said in a joint statement: "Our concerns are the loss of the through strategic inter-county service from Ashford International and Rye to Eastbourne and Brighton, the through-journey reliance between services of connections and platform arrangements that cannot be guaranteed, longer standard journey times to Gatwick Airport and London Victoria and the effective reduction from two trains per hour westwards from Ore to one."
The campaign groups did welcome some aspects of the proposal, including earlier and more frequent direct services to Brighton, more frequent services after 9pm each evening, improved connections at Ashford International into HS1 services and later evening journeys to and from Ashford.
Southern's head of strategic planning, Phil Hutchinson, said: "We welcome the comments and good collaboration we enjoy with SHRIMP and have incorporated valuable feedback from passengers and interested parties.
"Our proposals give passengers desperately-needed longer trains on the most popular parts of the Hastings to Brighton route and were supported by 71 per cent of people responding to the first phase of our consultation. Our consultation programme enters its second phase and we are now inviting comments on our proposed weekday timetables."
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The Real History of the Liberal Media and George H. W. Bush
By Rich Noyes | December 3, 2018 10:00 AM EST
The (mostly) kind obituaries for former President George H. W. Bush have highlighted the decency and civility that marked his long career, often as a less-than-subtle jab at the current Commander-in-Chief.
"Never a proponent of 'kinder and gentler' politics, Mr. Trump prefers a brawl, even with his own party," New York Times reporter Peter Baker juxtaposed in a Saturday morning article. On that morning's Today show, NBC's Peter Alexander scolded: "President Trump was not always so gracious about Bush's hope for a kinder, gentler nation."
On that same program, ex-Newsweek editor and Bush biographer Jon Meacham praised the late President's bi-partisanship: "His substantive legacy is one of reaching out across what was a pretty wide aisle back in 1989 to 1993."
The media's current appreciation for the 41st President stands in sharp contrast to how they covered his presidential campaigns and his administration. When Bush was still in the arena, liberal reporters were among his most vociferous critics, who deplored his campaign tactics, accused him of exacerbating racial tensions, and bashed him for failing to adopt liberal policy positions.
■ Just days before the 1988 Iowa caucuses, CBS anchor Dan Rather tried to torpedo Bush's presidential campaign with a slashing interview on the Iran-contra affair (falsely pitched to the Bush campaign as a routine profile). Rather berated the then-Vice President in a live interview on the Evening News — "You made us hypocrites in the face of the world! How could you sign on to such a policy?!" — but his over-the-top invective backfired, and Bush won the GOP nomination.
■ Reporters openly disdained Bush's 1988 campaign against liberal Michael Dukakis. In what was supposed to be a news story, NBC Nightly News correspondent Lisa Myers faulted Bush's rhetoric on the Pledge of Allegiance, asserting that it "leads some to recall Samuel Johnson's observation that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
After the election, Time essayist Garry Wills frowned: "Bush won by default, and by fouls. His 'mandate' is to ignore the threats to our economy, sustain the Reagan heritage of let's pretend, and serve as figurehead for what America has become, a frightened empire hiding its problems from itself."
Six months into his term, the complaining continued. "The success of the Bush presidency is going to depend largely on his ability to prove that Bush as President is not the same as Bush as candidate. And the way he behaved on this [flag] issue, I think, is going to make it harder for him, because it's a reminder of what kind of cheapness and demagoguery he was capable of and occasionally on some issues will be capable of again," whined Time's Strobe Talbott on the syndicated talk show Inside Washington. (Talbott's political bent would be confirmed when he left journalism to take a senior position in the Bill Clinton administration.)
■ Reporters deplored the so-called "Willie Horton ad," which was created by an outside group, not the Bush campaign, to highlight the soft-on-crime policies of Dukakis. For years, they insisted it was an out-of-bounds attack, and saddled Bush with the blame.
In 1989, when racist Klan leader David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana, ABC's Judd Rose blamed Bush: "You might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year."
In December 1990, USA Today's "Inquiry" editor Barbara Reynolds snarked: "It wouldn't surprise me if George Bush appointed David Duke, the former white sheet-wearing KKK wizard, as Republican National Committee chairman to implement the administration's white race-driven social policies."
And in May 1992, during the Los Angeles riots, Boston Globe editorial writer Randolph Ryan blamed Bush for that, too: "There is a direct connection between the moral vacuity and coy racism of the Willie Horton President and the verdict of the Simi Valley jury [that sparked the unrest]."
■ The liberal media pressured Bush to renounce his most famous campaign pledge, to not raise taxes, casting it as irresponsible. Writing in the New Republic, Newsweek reporter Timothy Noah berated Bush for not adopting conventional liberal positions: "To be sure, I'm alarmed by the widening gulf between the rich and poor in our society. But George Bush's 'kinder and gentler' rhetoric doesn't include any practical solutions to the problem, such as a stiffer tax on the rich, or an expensive federal jobs program. In fact, Bush's inaugural speech explicitly downplayed the use of public money to end society's problems."
After Bush caved to Democratic demands for higher taxes as the price for a budget deal, he was still condemned for making the promise in the first place. "Bush's nationally televised paean to the homely virtues of a balanced checkbook might have carried a lot more weight in both the country and in Congress had he not won office two years ago with a promise to reduce the deficit without raising taxes. It was precisely such claims — that there is a free lunch after all — that got the U.S. into its fiscal mess," Time's Stanley Cloud complained in the October 15, 1990 issue.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell sounded like a Democratic operative on the October 12, 1990 Nightly News: "The American people have failed to realize that they have a responsibility in all of this. But one of the reasons is that for ten years, Republicans in the White House, first Ronald Reagan and then George Bush, have been telling them they don't have to pay for what they get."
When economic growth slowed a year later, the media found a way to blame Bush and his original stance of low taxes: "Yes, times are tough because of mistakes we made in the past, including voodoo economics supported by George Bush, among others," NBC weekend anchor Garrick Utley intoned on the January 25, 1992 Nightly News.
■ The media also found a way to diminish President Bush's key foreign policy achievements. When the President used the military to topple Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, CBS's White House reporter Wyatt Andrews fretted: "Mr. Bush is erasing his old image of being timid, but the new question now, almost overnight, is whether this President is exhibiting signs of being reckless."
And after the successful liberation of Kuwait in 1991, U.S. News & World Report's Matthew Cooper and Ken Walsh tried to tarnish that moment, too: "The political danger for Bush is that he could go overboard in exploiting his gulf triumph, possibly by lapsing into the mudslinging over patriotism that characterized his 1988 campaign."
■ After the war, Bush's approval ratings were the highest ever recorded by modern polling, but the media tagged him as racist for failing to embrace a liberal civil rights bill. "While we see George Bush saying that he doesn't like the racist politics, boy, he's letting his White House staff play it full bore," Andrea Mitchell criticized on the June 11, 1991 edition of Today.
Talking about the same legislation three days earlier, CBS's Bruce Morton had again used Willie Horton as a club against the President: "The Republicans labeled it a quota bill because they know white voters don't like quotas. They hope, in fact, that quotas will do for President Bush in 1992 what Willie Horton did for him in 1988."
■ Bush's choice of Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court was pilloried. Just a few days after the pick was announced in July 1991, columnist Carl Rowan blasted Bush and Thomas on Inside Washington: "Clarence Thomas is the best only at his ability to bootlick for Ronald Reagan and George Bush...They didn't pick him because he was black. They picked him because he's a black conservative....If you gave Clarence Thomas a little flour on his face, you'd think you had David Duke talking."
When Thomas fought back against charges of sexual harassment, New York Times editorial writer Brent Staples blasted: "Judge Thomas has consistently played the race card, in the tradition of his patron, George Bush, whose Willie Horton commercial in 1988 touched a low point in political campaigns."
Fellow Times writer Leslie Gelb blamed all of the ugliness on the President: "It was Mr. Bush who carried politics too far. By trying to pack the Court with conservatives....he took the Court into the political pit and, predictably, ignited an ugly political brawl."
■ In their coverage of the 1992 campaign, journalists kept trying to punish Bush for the 1988 campaign they so despised. In May 1992, CBS's Randall Pinkston flatly asserted: "Bush does not have a great civil rights track record with many black Americans, beginning with the use of the controversial Willie Horton ads in the '88 campaign, through his initial veto of civil rights legislation."
That same month, NBC's Bryant Gumbel charged: "George Bush has been at the focal point of incidents that have exacerbated race relations in this country."
Time's Michael Kramer was even harsher, referring to the Los Angeles riots: "It would help, too, if the man who sanctioned the infamous Willie Horton ad during his 1988 run for the White House would admit his complicity in developing the images and code words that encourage whites to demonize blacks."
Newsweek's Joe Klein condemned Bush's re-nomination convention: "The whole week was double-ply, wall-to-wall ugly...the Republican Party reached an unimaginably slouchy, and brazen, and constant, level of mendacity last week...[Bush] is in campaign mode now, which means mendacity doesn't matter, aggression is all and wall-to-wall ugly is the order of battle for the duration."
A September headline in the New York Times captured the media's overarching spin: "Bush Is Harsh, His Backers Harsher." In October, Bryant Gumbel presented it as fact that Bush would resort to low blows at a debate with Bill Clinton when he asked commentator John Chancellor: "How nasty do you expect George Bush to try to be?" Three days later on CBS, Harry Smith made his disdain clear, when he cast Bush's questions about Clinton's college-era trip to Moscow as "red-baiting junk."
A poll of Washington media bureau chiefs and correspondents found that just seven percent voted for George H. W. Bush in 1992, vs. 89 percent for Bill Clinton (and two percent for independent Ross Perot).
"The White House press corps by and large detested George Bush," Time's William A. Henry III revealed after the 1992 election on a PBS special. He argued that the media's coverage of Bush was so one-sided, it hurt journalism among conservative and Republican voters: "Their real contempt for him showed through in their reporting in a way that I think got up the nose of the American people."
Keep all of this in mind as you hear journalists trumpet their praise of George Bush this week. They weren't always singing the same tune.
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New England Fishing Boat F/V Mistress Sinks
The New England fishing community faces a tragedy with the start of the New Year with the sinking of the F/V MISTRESS which is based out of Point Judith Rhode Island and its owner is Hope Fisheries, Inc. At approximately 1:30 am on January 1, 2019, the captain of the F/V MISTRESS issued a mayday…
Here's Why Northeast Boaters Are Being Asked to Label and Secure Their Paddlecraft
The United States Coast Guard is asking Boston residents to carefully label their canoes, kayaks, and stand-up paddleboards with their names and phone numbers. This requirement comes after a huge increase of cases this summer that involved unmanned and floating paddlecraft that were adrift and seemingly abandoned. Why Do Boston Residents Need to Label and…
How Did the United States Coast Guard Rescue 49 People From This Lost Yacht?
The Coast Guard recently discovered a yacht carrying 49 people on Lake Michigan without a properly functioning navigation system. The 56-foot motor boat named Serenity was found by the Coast Guard with the assistance of a passenger who was worried the operator had been driving disoriented in the heavy fog near the Chicago Harbor. This…
Boater Loses His Life When He Collides With a Ferry
The Quebec River near Laval is often occupied by a 48-foot cable ferry that uses the current to navigate across the river. Last year, a pleasure craft caused a boating accident when it crashed into this ferry, and a young man lost his life and several other passengers sustained injuries. According to the report, there…
Fiancé of Woman Killed in Hudson River Boating Accident Sues Operator, Barge Owners
The fiancé of a woman killed in an August boating accident on the Hudson River has sued the operator of the boat at the time of the accident and the owners of the construction barge that the boat collided with. Brian Bond was on the boat at the time of the accident that killed his…
Boat Operator in Fatal Hudson River Crash Admitted to Drinking, Officials Say
Boat Operator in Fatal Hudson River Crash Admitted to Drinking, Officials Say [ubermenu-map address="Tappan Zee Bridge, New York" zoom="14″ width="375px" height="375px"] A prosecutor said in court on November 20 that the man accused of causing a boat accident on the Hudson River in July, killing a bride-to-be and her fiancé's best man, admitted to "drinking…
Our Maritime Attorneys Help Victims of Drunken Boating Accidents
The case against a man charged with killing two boys in a June 2012 boating accident has been delegated to a jury. Paul Bennett, the boat operator at the time of the accident, is facing charges of homicide by vessel, failure to render aid, reckless operation and boating under the influence. On July 18, 2012,…
Maritime Trial Lawyer: Boat Operator in Fatal Hudson River Accident Charged in 18-Count Indictment
The operator of a boat involved in a Hudson River accident that killed a bride-to-be and her fiancé's best man in July was charged in an 18-count indictment on November 7. The driver, 35-year-old JoJo John, is facing counts of first-degree vehicular manslaughter (2), second-degree vehicular manslaughter (4), second-degree manslaughter (2), criminally negligent homicide (2),…
University Student Pleads Guilty to Drunken Boating
A Colorado State University student has pleaded guilty to drunken boating after severely injuring a man at Horsetooth Reservoir last summer. The 22-year-old student took a plea agreement on October 8, had a vehicular assault charge dismissed and will be receiving probation. The student ran over another man on June 30 when he reversed the…
Body Found After Tennessee Boating Accident on J. Percy Priest Lake
Body Found After Tennessee Boating Accident on J. Percy Priest Lake A 39-year-old man's body was found in J. Percy Priest Lake on September 2 in Tennessee, the day after a boating accident occurred near the Four Corners Marina. Harvie Butler was thrown from his boat when it collided with another boat, causing injuries to…
One Dead After Massachusetts Boating Accident on Taunton River
A 47-year-old man died in May when the boat he was riding on slammed into a tree in the Taunton River in Massachusetts. Manuel Pinheiro suffered severe head injuries when the operator, Anthony Rose, of the boat collided with a tree. Rose pleaded not guilty to drunken boating homicide and negligent operation of a boat,…
Hyak Ferry Sinks 27-Foot Sailboat on Salish Sea
A Hyak ferry collided with and sank a 27-foot sailboat on the Salish Sea outside of Washington state on September 13. According to authorities, heavy fog created limited visibility that may have caused the collision. A man in his mid-60s was on the sailboat at the time of the collision and was rescued by another…
Illinois Family Sues Waterway after 10-Year-Old Killed in Boating Wreck
A year after 10-year-old Tony Borcia was killed in a boating accident on Petite Lake, Illinois, his family is suing Fox Waterway Agency, claiming it failed to provide rules and regulations for safe boating. Borcia fell out of an inflatable tube in July of 2012 and was struck by another boat. The driver of the…
Colorado Student Arrested for Drunk Boating Accident Serves as Warning for Labor Day Celebrations
Colorado Student Arrested for Drunk Boating Accident Serves as Warning for Labor Day Celebrations A Colorado State University student was arrested after a boating accident that left a 22-year-old with severe cuts along the entire right side of his body. According to The Coloradoan, student Christopher Feller was driving a boat towards shore in late…
Lake Lanier Tragedy Reminds Us of the Dangers of Drunk Boating
As illustrated by Monday's post about a deadly drunk boating accident in Georgia, boating under the influence is extremely dangerous. In fact, according to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), alcohol was the leading factor in 16 percent of recreational boating deaths last year. The family and friends of 9-year-old Jake Prince and 13-year-old Griffin Prince…


It was the wish of Bellingham School District No. 501 that starting in the seventh grade, each student write a weekly theme and an annual term paper—and continue this practice throughout all of his or her junior high and high school years. Themes were easy. I would sit down and write whatever cockamamie idea came to mind, turn it in, and then have it torn apart by college English majors who graded my work with a red pencil and hatchet.
Unfortunately, we weren't taught much about how to actually write. In fact, I don't remember being taught anything about writing. The theory was: throw young writers in the water and see if they learn to avoid torturing a metaphor. In any case, every week I wrote a paper that would come back marked with terms such as AWK, ¶, and DANG MOD.
This confidence-killing technique was small potatoes compared to the esteem-crushing, soul-sucking damage caused by the annual term paper. Unlike themes, term papers required library research from original sources. That meant I had to walk a mile to my grandfather's grocery store and buy three-by-five note cards.
Required cards in hand, I walked another mile and a half to the city library to start my research. And yes, I did have to fight off wild dogs along the way. It was the fifties and wild dogs roamed the countryside. No kidding.
Once I arrived at the library, I milled about looking confused until Mrs. Huffington, the reference librarian, asked me if I needed help. This was, of course, said in a tone that indicated needing help was a sign of being hopelessly dimwitted. I told her about my upcoming term paper, explaining that I had narrowed my subject matter from a treatise on the universe to twelve pages about the planets.
Mrs. Huffington sneered at my topic, which she said was "grossly unfocused," took me to a three-mile-long card catalog, and then stood me in front of the P drawers. I chuckled at the sound of the expression "P drawers," while thumbing my way through an endless list of references about planets. Eventually I picked a reference, recorded the code required to find it, and headed to the stacks.
After a long and dispiriting search, I came to a group of journals that sported numbers, letters, and secret symbols similar to the code I had written, only to discover that the edition I wanted wasn't on the shelf. So I hiked back to the sea of boxes, selected another reference, wandered the stacks, found the journal, turned to the section that had the information about planets, and—voilà—discovered that the pages I needed had been ripped out! This heinous act had surely been perpetrated by a previous student who didn't want to go to the trouble of writing down the information on his three-by-five cards. And obviously they couldn't photo copy the pages because the copy machines you can now find in every library nook and cranny hadn't been invented yet.
By now it was growing late, so I exited the library and started down the road that would take me the two-and-a-half miles home—without a single piece of information for my term paper.
It only got worse. Between slogs to the library, I had to read extremely complicated material about the planets—including Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, Mickey, and Dopey. (I was tempted to work this line into my term paper, but came to my senses). I also had to learn about the proper use of Latin footnote terms such as "op. cit." and "ibid" in preparation for the imminent resurgence of the Roman Empire.
Then came the monumental job of typing the paper on our family's manual Remington portable typewriter. And heaven forbid I make a mistake! Typos had to be erased with a steel-belted, paper-shredding Eberhard Faber eraser. I made so many mistakes and attempted so many corrections, that my final product was a real dog's breakfast. It was so trashed, if you held it up to the light, it looked like a papyrus manuscript—had ancient scholars used an Aramaic Remington portable.
After feverishly working on my project for several weeks, I submitted it and eagerly awaited my grade. I had worked hard and was proud of my final document. I shouldn't have been. It came back covered with red marks of all sorts—and the grade of a C- over a D+.
"Look at this wonderful paper," Mr. Lewis exclaimed as he held up Sally Welch's glorious effort. My classmate, Sally, had her term paper typed by her mother on a fancy electric machine, and it had zero typos. Plus her parents had done most of the research and writing, earning Sally an A+ over an A+. But that didn't stop Sally from smiling broadly as Mr. Lewis heaped on the praise. She was clearly bound for glory. Whereas I, the C- over D+ student, would probably end up in the food services industry as my school guidance counselor had suggested earlier that year. No lie.
At this point you may think I'm about to launch into a rant about questionable teaching methods and egregious inequities. Not so. I'm simply trying to provide background material, particularly for people under the age of forty, for the thanks I'm about to offer.
"What thanks?" you ask. I recently spoke to a group of Google executives. But before I started into my assigned topic, I offered my heartfelt appreciation for their work, as well as the work of other search-engine designers.
I had just completed an entire book, chock full of citations from original material, and in so doing, was not once attacked by a dog. I never had to hike in the pouring rain only to discover the reference book I sought was missing. I never had to pull a journal down from the shelf only to have key pages ripped out. Instead, I cheerfully scooted my computer mouse here and there, occasionally twitched my index finger, and magically uncovered material that years earlier, would have taken days to find.
I now have the entire library of congress—along with just about anything anybody who ever had a thought has had to say—at my fingertips. Thank you search-engine inventors, code writers, data scanners, and people who vacuum and do the plumbing for The Cloud. Thank you for turning our world into a place where information is as available and cheap as air itself.
I know, we're not always sure what to do with all the information that silently beams into our space in giga-, tera-, and super-giga-tera bundles. Nevertheless, it's time to offer a "good on ya" to everyone out there who has made information that used to be largely unattainable a mere click away.
My guess is that my grandkids will never have a clue how hard it used to be to research and write a term paper—and I'm fine with that. But one thing is for certain: as they put together their papers, they won't be chased by dogs.
How well I remember those days and the red pencils. When I returned to school at age 65 for a degree now required in my profession that I have performed well for the past 40 years, I was introduced to APA format and found that all I had learned was now passe" and thank goodness WORD does APA all by itself!
How I hated that red pencil.
I can so relate, typing errors were the worst part, it took days to produce a final paper.
Thanks for Kerrying on Kerry. Really enjoy your style – a thought comes to mind; so where is Sally now….
I get so excited when I see that one of my endless emails is actually one of your posts. You have a nostalgic touch that always lingers and makes me wish there was another story or train of thought to read once I'm done.
Have you written memoirs or something on a more personal level as opposed to all your great business books?
We're releasing my favorite 40-50 stories in a book sometime in the next few months. I think it will be called The Grey Fedora.
That's wonderful! I've been wanting this for quite some time, so I could share your terrific (and often very moving) stories with others. I'm hoping that this book won't be too expensive, so I can give them as gifts this several people in my life!
loved it. Reminiscing now. The stacks at U of T. We did have photocopiers by then (1980-84).
Photo copiers saved us scores of hours of mindlessly writing summaries. Bravo to them as well.
What a great trip down memory lane. Beside the smiles I get from reading your musings this one took me back to Mrs. Munro and my high school English Lit class. No wild dogs but the research methods and the 3 X 5 cards were a must. And I can't agree more with the thanks to Google and all the search engine folks out there.
Bravo! Your title made me click, and your narrative made me want to read more. I, too, fondly remember the magic of 3×5 cards, manual typewriters, and card catalogs, but never had to contend with wild dogs. I salute you.
I guess most people didn't have to deal with scary dogs roaming the country side, but the truth is–in Bellingham in the mid to late fifties–it was common to fall under the piercing eye of a wandering, hungry dog.
Reading of your journey to the library brought back memories of many hours spent over the card catalogues! Those of use that had the experiences appreciate how we are now spoiled with the ability to look up any information in the moment, from anywhere. (We don't even have to worry about grammar or typing mistakes either!) Thanks for sharing!
I and many others adore, admire, enjoy and yes love your writing style – both these stories and your business books. Have you reached out the the C- over D+ teacher? Sent him a signed copy of one of your books? I would like to offer a thank you to him from me (and you too!)- that he didn't diminish your gift, spark and love for writing and researching that many get to enjoy.
Trying to help my 16 year old son learn how to properly research for papers has been a chore because of the volumes of information available to him online. Yes he has access to things that I would never have found in my student days, but knowing when to stop looking is important too. He unfortunately has the I need 10 references mind set, and stops there, not understanding that sometimes the first 10 aren't necessarily the best ten.
Great story and brought back many memories that I wouldn't trade for the world.
Great story — I chuckled in recognition more than once!
Delightful as usual. I am gray haired enough to remember the days if the dreaded card catalog. Somewhere along the line you learned to be a masterful writer!
Thanks for making me smile as I look back and encouragement to look forward with appreciation and more openness to change.
However, I worry a bit about kids today doing all of their research on the Internet…while it's easier to find information online than going to the library, the odds of finding *valid* information are much higher at the library. Anyone with access to a computer can "publish" their "facts," without any kind of vetting process whatsoever. And I'm all for learning how to cite one's sources – I see plenty of adults in professional-type jobs who don't even realize that they can't just copy from something from the Internet and use it in training materials or presentations without any kind of attribution!
As in many things in life, I think the trick is to strike a balance between what is worth maintaining from the old disciplines and what is helpful to embrace in the new.
Mine own experience is that you can find unsupported material in both the library and the internet. I also take care to ensure that I've clicked my way down a path that takes me to original material. I've been shocked at how easy it is to get to the original authors. Sometimes I call them on the phone or email them. Either way, you're right. You have to guard against unsubstantiated material.
Another great read. I love your writing style – always interesting and more than just a little funny. My coworkers must wonder what I'm reading with a grin on my face.
I enjoyed this because I remember these same things about writing a paper. Of course, I remember more of the aggravation than the humorous side.
I would love for teachers to make kids complete one term paper per year the old fashion way. I think it would make them appreciate the world they live in, as well as teach them a bit about patience and perservance. Today's kids live in a world where they expect instant gratification.
I could not agree more, and thank you for sharing your thoughts! I'm 48, and I often comment to my husband that I am astounded at the ease of research now, compared to the methods of my youth. I too remember hikes in the rain, long discussions on the merits of the Dewey decimal system, developing the art of looking things up in the green Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, the dismay of missing pages or journals that could only be requested from far away places, and the joys of typing (I was terrible at estimating when I would hit the bottom of the page, especially for adding footnotes–endnotes were a revelation to me back then!).
I also recall the fine discriminating skills one had to develop to know when to type "ibid." vs. other formats, and the countless times I spent renumbering my endnotes because I always ended up deleting a few 3 X 5 cards or adding them in a different place. A paper was never "done" until 1-2 hours had been spent just typing up the end notes and the bibliography!
I now feel like I have the secrets to the lost library of Alexandria. I went through an entire 3rd masters degree program using the online library–never leaving my house–with much greater access to more peer-reviewed periodicals than I could have dreamt of in my younger days. I regularly look up obscure facts on my iPhone while a passenger in a car, at a restaurant, or in my living room debating some finer point of a topic with my husband.
The possibilities for learning, growing, fixing, and disseminating information to others are now endless! It is truly a type of miracle, in my mind, as there are so many things I could not have attempted at other points in life without access to the Internet, the Cloud, and all of the data people have dedicated time to uploading onto servers everywhere. And a special Google shout out belongs to Google Maps–as someone who was directionally challenged and who was not particularly adept at reading maps (if you even had a map of certain areas, in previous eras), Google Maps changed my world. I never have fear now going someplace new, whereas in my 20's, I might avoid meeting friends somewhere I hadn't been before, over anxiety about getting lost. And I never have to go to AAA for Trip-tic books, which I had to use to navigate moves from Ohio to Florida and Mississippi to Arizona.
I have a staff of people under the age of 35, and I do share this perspective with them, only so they can get a glimpse of how fast technology has changed our lives, and the tremendous benefits that can exist from this kind of access. There's a shadow side too, I know, to our information and gadgetry, but I am grateful, consciously, every day for the resources now in my grasp.
Thanks for sharing this article, Kerry!
I used to tell students who took my classes that while it was good to be able to recall certain facts and pieces of trivia, their future lie not in their ability to recall anything–computers do a much better job. Their future lies in their ability to create, to think, invent, to create theories–in short, to do something original and exciting with all of those disorganized factoids.
I also remember those days as a student and as an English teacher. The mechanics of getting information has little to do with learning how to write well – other than maybe limiting the scope of a topic. Writing is just a difficult to do well now – in fact, it is proving to be even more difficult now given so much opportunity to write.
Sooner or later it always comes down to the idea. The machines just make the sharing easier.
Clearly everything worked out for the best – I absolutely love your writing. I always look forward to the next one. Thank you!
This sure brings back shared memories. As usual, you provide a wonderful piece of writing. Thank you!
Kerry is a very entertaining writer. Growing up in the same village as Kerry I wondered why he walked past the first Carnegie library and wandered downtown to the second library just to fight off the dogs. Yes we were the only town in America with two Carnegies.
In high school Kerry was one of the smart ones and the world has rewarded him. In 1964 our town was trying to entice big ships to come and bring with them prosperity. By this time we had lost 26 of the 27 lumber mills for we at one time had lots of trees. All the English classes in the schools were given the task to write a essay as to why our town deserved these big ships. The local Chamber of Commerce big shots came and gave us the facts but I was home with the flu. My teacher Mrs. Wilson tape recorded the lecture and I too had to write the essay as this was a English assignment and part of our grade. With age the skill of spelling does not improve so my sister ( a smart one) proof read my paper, I rewrote it and turned it in only hoping to receive a passing grade.
The next week I was called down to the high school office to have my picture put in the local rag for some nincompoop had chosen my essay as the winner of a $25 savings bond. Back then a $25 savings bond only cost $17.50 and took 25 years to mature so I cashed it in.
Back then I am sure Kerry was a superior writer to me as he certainly is today. I am admitting to good luck and a smart sister. It took 40 years for the ships to arrive so my essay was not very convincing. The essay was sent North to be published in the Alaska newspapers. We are now the Southern terminal of the Alaska State Ferry system. Anyway Kerry. Thanks for the memories.
I was not allowed to check out books from the library close to my house because I had ruined a few library books (from the closer library) while toting them home and dI idn't have the money to buy myself back into the library.
My high school papers were written on an Underwood manual portable my dad had purchased as GSA surplus. It had one of those fancy two-color ribbons you could use to type words in red by using a special key. But the, er, handwriting was already on the wall: my high school typing class had IBM Selectric typewriters.
All the members of our high school debate team had their boxes full of 3×5 index cards, one factoid per card.
Many years later after graduate school, I was the first person in my office to use proportionally-spaced downloadable typefaces on our HP LaserJet printer. Everyone was amazed after having been acclimatized (indoctrinated?) to Courier, the lone firmware typeface at the time. I thereafter acquired the nickname "The Fontz".
I do. We actually had a fake mimeograph machine made of some kind of chemical jello.
Thank you, Kerry for a great read! I can relate to the library visits, but we lived in the city where the library was only a few minutes drive away and my mother always loved taking us there. I'm just in the middle of reading a great book by Walter Isaacson. His book "The Innovators" is all about how our technology we have today came into being. I too am very grateful for all of the "Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks" who formed the technology we have today. It is amazing to think that Ada Lovelace thought about how our world is today way back in the middle 19th century! I look forward to the next big thing!
Me too. I'm waiting for the universal translator. Imagine talking to anyone in the world in English (or whatever your native tongue is) and having it come out as the other person's native tongue–we'll break down cultural walls unlike any time in history.
I scrolled through the comments before commenting myself in hopes that someone would have already shared my thoughts–and there you were! Like you, I am endlessly grateful to be living in this time. I just turned 58. What amazing changes I've seen!
Wonderful article! It is as if you reached into my mind and pulled out my same experiences. The dreaded AWK almost completely ruined the art of writing for me. I truely believed I was a terrible writer. And you completely captured the difficulty of conducting research when I was in grade school. We are truely living in amazing times.


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You probably refer to the game of lawn tennis as simply "tennis." The origin of the name stems from the game being played on the lawn. Some clubs, most notably Wimbledon, still use grass courts. Most modern tennis in the United States, however, is played on hard courts, such as asphalt or concrete, followed by clay. Regardless of the surface on which you play lawn tennis, the rules of the game are the same. The United States Tennis Association, the governing body of tennis in the United States, follows the rules of the International Tennis Federation. Both the USTA and the ITF formerly used the word "lawn" as part of their monikers but have since dropped the word.
Scoring a Game
You win a game in tennis by winning four points, unless you tie at three points. Before you begin a game, the score is "love-love." The first point is called "15," the second point "30," the third point "40" and the fourth point "game." For example, if you were serving and won the first point, the score would be 15-love. If you lost the first point, the score would be love-15. This continues until one person wins. However, if the score ties at the third point, the score would be called "deuce." Players need to win a game by two points. If you were serving at deuce and won the point, the score would become "ad-in" (advantage server). If you lost the point, the score would become "ad-out" (advantage receiver). If you won the next point at ad-in, you would win the game. If you lose the next point at ad-in, the score goes back to deuce.
Scoring a Set and Winning the Match
You win a set by winning six games by a margin of two. For example, if the set score were 5-5, you would need to play two more games. If you win the next two games, you win the set at 7-5. If the score goes to 6-6, you play a tiebreak. A tiebreak is scored "zero," "one," "two" and so forth. You win the tiebreak by getting to seven with a margin of two. The tiebreak counts as a game. If you win, you win that game and the set. A match is either the best of three or the best of five sets. So a player needs to win either two or three sets to win the match.
Server and Receiver
Players or teams stand on opposite ends of the court. After a coin toss or racket spin to determine who serves first, the game begins. The server has two chances to serve the ball into the service box on the deuce side. The receiver must return the ball after one bounce. After that, balls can be hit in the air or after one bounce. A ball is good if it lands anywhere inside the court, including the lines. Singles lines apply to a singles game, and doubles lines apply to a doubles game. After the point is played out, the server serves to the ad side. This continues until the game ends.
Changing Ends
Players change ends after the completion of every odd-numbered game. Players also change ends at the completion of a set when the set score was odd. For example, you would change ends if the set score were 6-3; you would not if the set score were 6-4. In both cases, you would change ends after the first game of the next set.
A let means a do-over. During a serve, a let occurs if the serve touches the net before landing on the other side in the correct service box. During a point, a let occurs when there is interference, such as a ball rolling onto your court. Play is continuous throughout the match with specific break periods: players can take a 20-second break between points, a 90-second break during an end change and a 120-second break between sets. A 10-minute break is allowed after the second set if the match goes to three sets in a best-of-three match and after the third set in a best-of-five match.
United States Tennis Association: Rules
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Laura Agadoni has been writing professionally since 1983. Her feature stories on area businesses, human interest and health and fitness appear in her local newspaper. She has also written and edited for a grassroots outreach effort and has been published in "Clean Eating" magazine and in "Dimensions" magazine, a CUNA Mutual publication. Agadoni has a Bachelor of Arts in communications from California State University-Fullerton.
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