In becoming the 18th major-league player to hit four homers in a game (and the second player this season), Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder J.D. Martinez did something rarer than a perfect game. But in accomplishing the feat, Martinez has also become the poster boy of one baseball’s biggest trends: the overnight fly ball-smashing sensation.Martinez began his career as a slap-hitting prospect for the Houston Astros — and to be charitable, he was not successful at it. Over his first three MLB seasons, Martinez had an adjusted on-base plus slugging that was 12 percent worse than average, accumulated negative 1.3 wins above replacement1Taking the average of Baseball-Reference.com’s and FanGraphs’s versions of WAR. and hit for very little power, belting just 24 home runs in 252 games. By 2014, Martinez was struggling so much that Houston released him.“I’m doing everything the coaches tell me,” Martinez told Travis Sawchik of FanGraphs in March about that period of his career. “I’m swinging down on the ball. In BP, I’m hitting low line drives everywhere. In games, it doesn’t play.”But the Detroit Tigers saw potential in Martinez, snapping him up a few days after his release. And Martinez repaid their faith by turning his career around, with the help of a new philosophy at the plate. He became one of baseball’s earliest fly-ball revolutionaries, reducing his ratio of ground balls to fly balls from 0.87 in his first three seasons to 0.64 in the seasons since. And the results were striking. Since 1901,2The first season of MLB’s modern two-league era. only Hall of Fame second baseman Rogers Hornsby increased his isolated power — which is slugging percentage minus batting average — more from his career average through age 25 to his average between the ages of 26 and 29 (Martinez was coming off his age-25 season when the Astros waived him): Ivan Rodriguez.14997.8.235127.7+.086 Harry Heilmann.125118.3.216165.4+.092 PLAYERISOWRC+ISOWRC+ISO DIFF. Rogers Hornsby.162162.6.300203.5+.138 George Sisler.096136.7.192160.0+.096 Joe Adcock.15297.5.246138.5+.094 Gil Hodges.14796.4.244135.9+.098 David Ortiz.182101.5.288143.9+.106 Jeff Bagwell.170138.4.284169.1+.115 Tony Armas.12773.6.219105.1+.092 Kirby Puckett.07186.0.182138.3+.111 For players with at least 750 plate appearances through age 25 and at least 1,500 from age 26 to 29.Sources: FanGraphs, Baseball-Reference.com Albert Belle.222118.0.323159.9+.100 George Foster.14898.0.258151.3+.110 Todd Hundley.13667.0.251128.1+.115 J.D. Martinez.13687.3.265145.8+.129 Gorman Thomas.16281.8.264129.5+.101 Damion Easley.09272.9.190105.5+.098 Andy Pafko.114111.7.203132.2+.089 Duke Snider.203124.0.306163.8+.103 Martinez isn’t the only recent player to go on an out-of-nowhere power spree — Jose Bautista, for instance, went from a light-hitting utility man early in his career to a fearsome, bat-flipping homer machine as he approached his 30s. Nor is Martinez the only exemplar of the fly-ball phenomenon sweeping across the game; from Daniel Murphy to Yonder Alonso, plenty of players have given their careers new life by way of an uppercut swing.But Martinez might be the best of the bunch.Because of his newfound affinity for fly balls, Martinez — who landed in Arizona via a midseason trade — has remade himself into one of the game’s most dangerous hitters. Over the past four seasons, Martinez ranks as the eighth-best batter in all of baseball according to Weighted Runs Created Plus, which measures how many runs a player generates per plate appearance.Early in his career, it would have been a pleasant surprise if Martinez had hit four home runs in a month. But after Martinez modified his approach, Monday’s accomplishment is just the latest signpost along his road to stardom. And with the red-hot Diamondbacks practically assured of making the playoffs, a national audience will have a chance to get acquainted with Martinez’s power stroke this fall.Check out our latest MLB predictions. Ken Griffey Jr..234141.9.321146.0+.087 Sammy Sosa.18396.7.273123.5+.090 THROUGH AGE 25AGE 26-29 Late-blooming power hittersLargest difference in isolated power (ISO) between appearances through age 25 and age 26-29, 1901-2017 read more

OSU then-junior forward Nichelle Prince (7) during a game against Butler on Nov. 14 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. Credit: Courtesy of OSUAfter two weeks on the road, the Ohio State women’s soccer team returned home to Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium to face the Texas Longhorns in senior forward Nichelle Prince’s first home game since the Rio Olympics.Prince played for team Canada and took home the bronze in the XXXI Olympiad.At the end of Friday’s game, the Buckeyes were glad to have Prince back up front.OSU trailed since the third minute of the game after a goal when Longhorns sophomore forward Alexa Adams put one past redshirt senior goalkeeper Jillian McVicker. But in the 59th minute Prince earned a penalty kick and finished inside the right post to knot the game at one apiece.Six minutes into overtime, Prince struck again with a header into the back of the net off of a cross from senior forward Lindsay Agnew, sealing a 2-1 victory for the Buckeyes over the Longhorns.OSU coach Lori Walker didn’t anticipate the game going quite like this. “No disrespect to Texas, but I think this is about as poor as I’ve seen our team play in the first half,” said Walker, “There was a lot of things we weren’t doing… we did not play the way Ohio State knows how to play, and we found a way to win anyways.”Agnew shared the sentiment with Walker.“I don’t think today we played our best soccer,” said Agnew. “It doesn’t always have to be super pretty, and we just got it done and that’s all that really matters. Texas brought a really good team, and they beat us to the ball more.”Prince took little time to readjust to college soccer after playing in the Olympics, but notes that there are some differences in how the sport is played.“At international level it’s very structured, and you kind of have a structured play… here you have a little more freedom, you get to be more creative,” Prince said.Prince also said there was a large difference in the crowd at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium as compared to the thousands of international fans in Rio. Nevertheless, she was overjoyed to be greeted excitedly by her teammates after nine months of being away.On Monday, September 12, the Buckeyes will take on No. 7 Brigham Young in Columbus. read more

The Ohio State University Marching Band performs during a game against Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. OSU won 45-24. Credit: Alexa Mavrogianis | Photo EditorIn what coach Urban Meyer called a “coming-of-age” game, Ohio State’s youth showcased its talent in the national spotlight as the Buckeyes dominated the Oklahoma Sooners in front of a school-record crowd of 87,979 fans.The game started rough for the Buckeyes as Oklahoma drove easily down the field.  However, the defense stopped the Sooners for three straight plays in the red zone with Oklahoma ultimately deciding to settle for a 27-yard field goal.  After the short kick smacked against the goal post and the Sooners missed out on an easy 3 points, the Buckeyes took control and never looked back.After back-to-back three-and-outs for the two teams, Barrett and the offense started with good field position on the Oklahoma 45.  On a fourth-and-one, junior H-back Curtis Samuel broke free for a 36-yard touchdown run.  Oklahoma tried to respond, but sophomore linebacker Jerome Baker intercepted Baker Mayfield and ran 68 yards for the Buckeyes second touchdown of the night.  Oklahoma redshirt sophomore Joe Mixon returned the kickoff for a touchdown to make it 14-7, but that was as close as the Sooners got for the rest of the game.The Buckeye defense looked superb in Norman, Oklahoma, intercepting Mayfield twice increasing the team season total to a stunning nine interceptions, with four being returned for touchdowns, through three games.Redshirt sophomore Noah Brown, after missing last season with a broken leg, stepped into the spotlight as J.T. Barrett’s go-to receiver, hauling in four touchdown receptions against the Sooners.  Redshirt freshman running back Mike Weber had another solid performance for the Buckeyes as he added 123 yards on 18 carries to lead the rushing attack.After the impressive win, OSU takes a week off before opening Big Ten play against Rutgers for Homecoming on Oct. 1.By The Numbers:4: Noah Brown tied an OSU record with four touchdown receptions against the Sooners, including a highlight reel catch on the back of defender Michiah Quick.3-0: In the third meeting all time between the college football powerhouses, the away team came out with the win for a third consecutive time.  Oklahoma travels to OSU next year.19: OSU has now won 19 straight true road games (including five straight against ranked opponents), which is the second longest streak in the FBS over the last 25 years.  This will be put to the test when the Buckeyes visit Wisconsin and Michigan State later this season.35: The Buckeyes put up 35 points in the first half against Oklahoma, which was the most points given up in the first half by the home team throughout history.55: With four touchdown passes in the game, Barrett now has 55 career touchdown passes, passing Braxton Miller and Troy Smith for the third most in school history.3: Barrett is now three touchdown passes away from becoming the all-time leader in career touchdown passes.  The current record is 57 by Bobby Hoying. read more

Ohio State redshirt senior guard Linnae Harper drives the ball during the first half of the Buckeyes’ game against Quinnipiac on Nov. 15. Credit: Colin Hass-Hill | Sports EditorNo. 9 Ohio State (3-1) rode a season-high 32-point performance from guard Kelsey Mitchell and guard Linnae Harper’s career-high 23 points to a 95-63 win against Quinnipiac (0-3) Friday night at the Schottenstein Center.Harper also pulled down 10 rebounds, which gave the 5-foot-8 guard her third double-double of the season. “She’s one of the most unique players in college basketball with the fact that she’s such a great rebounder and defender for her size,” head coach Kevin McGuff said. “We can get away with playing small because of that. It gives us an opportunity to do some different types of things.”Mitchell converted 6-of-9 3s, including three in a row down the stretch. She drilled a her final 3-pointer with 4:09 remaining in the contest to give her 32 points — which eclipsed her former season-high of 30 points — and cap off a 13-0 run. A preseason first-team All-American, Mitchell said she felt like she got into a rhythm near the end of the game.“It’s just a flow, still try to play within the game system, trying to play within the gameplay defensively and offensively,” Mitchell said. “But what ever you see, try to go for it.”Despite the 32-point win against a team that made it to the Sweet 16 last season, McGuff was not pleased by Ohio State’s performance.“I thought we played hard throughout the game, but we had some stretches where we just mentally had lapses and when we did that, they made us pay,” McGuff said. “So that was kind of the message afterward, if we’re going to be the team that we’re capable of being, it’s got to be a much more consistent mental effort for closer to 40 minutes.”Ohio State redshirt senior forward Stephanie Mavunga corrals a rebound during the first half of the Buckeyes’ game against Quinnipiac on Nov. 15. Credit: Colin Hass-Hill | Sports EditorQuinnipiac ended the third quarter on a 7-0 run, trimming its deficit to 65-53. But Ohio State quickly quenched any Bobcat comeback hopes with Mavunga hitting two free throws and Calhoun scoring an and-1 layup to put the Buckeyes up 70-53. Mitchell chalked rebounding up to the reason for Ohio State pulling away from the Bobcats with a 30-10 fourth quarter.“It takes us a long way,” Mitchell said. “Y’all know how we are, if we get a rebound, we get it in transition, it’s always positive for us.”Ohio State held just a one-rebound advantage at halftime, but ended the game with a 55-40 rebound lead. Of the Buckeyes’ 17 transition points, 15 came in the second half when they were able to corral rebounds and turn them into points.Redshirt senior forward Stephanie Mavunga also picked up her third double-double of the season. She dropped 12 points and snagged up 11 rebounds. Most of her buckets came from the charity stripe as she made eight free throws. The Bobcats played 11 players and were helped by 23 bench points, while Ohio State’s bench combined for just 11 points. Quinnipiac frequently subbed five-person lineup in and out out of the game.Ohio State redshirt junior guard Sierra Calhoun drives the ball during the Buckeyes’ game against Quinnipiac on Nov. 15. Credit: Colin Hass-Hill | Sports Editor“You’ve got to know personnel,” Mitchell said. “A person like [forward Jen Fay] that can put it on the floor and shoot it, but you don’t know whether she’s a [power forward] or a [center]. But then she’ll go right back out and come right back in and you don’t know who to guard. It was different.”Playing its second game in three days, Ohio State came out of the gate slow. The Bobcats pulled ahead to a 12-8 lead, but Harper hit a 3-pointer and Mitchell hit a jumper to give the Buckeyes a lead they would not relinquish.The Buckeyes entered halftime leading 46-32 as the Bobcat offense faltered down the stretch of the first half as the visitors hit just two of its final 12 shots of the half. Quinnipiac junior guard/forward Aryn McClure was tied with forward Jen Fay for the team-lead with 15 points.Redshirt junior guard Sierra Calhoun finished fourth on Ohio State with 11 points, but went just 3-for-13 from the field.Ohio State will look for its third-straight victory when it takes on Washington at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Schottenstein Center. read more

Tags: State of the State State Rep. Kathy Crawford, of Novi, released the following statement following the governor’s State of the State address Tuesday:The governor began his powerful message quoting the Wall Street Journal from Oct. 20, 2009. The headline read, “The State of Joblessness.” Then, he quoted the Wall Street Journal from Sept. 25, 2017, which read “The Michigan Comeback Story.” I was struck by the short time frame – just nine years – under the governor’s leadership that Michigan has gone from worst in the nation to number one in the nation. With 122,800 manufacturing jobs created and number six in the nation for private sector job creation. Ours truly is a remarkable comeback story. I look forward to continuing that story throughout 2018.### 24Jan Rep. Crawford applauds Snyder’s State of the State address Categories: Crawford News read more

Swedish cable operator Com Hem reported strong Q1 results with lower than expected churn, slight growth to its TiVo customer base and a more than doubling of profits.For the first quarter, Com Hem said that churn of 13.9% was “significantly better than our expectations” and was only one percentage point higher than the record low churn of 12.9% it recorded in Q3 and Q4 2015.“Underlying consumer churn trends are positive, and we expect to return to our prior underlying trend rate from Q2 and onwards,” said Com Hem CEO, Anders Nilsson.The number of digital TV customers remained unchanged during the quarter at 635,00 revenue-generating units, which Com Hem attributed to “price rise activity”. However, its TiVo base TiVo base grew by 5,000 customers.“At the end of the quarter, 228,000 digital-TV customers had a TiVo subscription, corresponding to 36% of the total digital TV base,” said Com Hem.It also reported that more than 90% of new subscribers are choosing speeds of 100 Mbit/s and above, bringing average speeds among Com Hem’s user-base up to 125 Mbit/s, compared to 100 Mbit/s a year ago.In terms of financials, Com Hem said that revenues rose 3.9% year-on-year to SEK1.276 billion (€139 million). Its net result for the period more than doubled to SEK 95m, compared to SEK40 million a year earlier.“The increased customer satisfaction we saw during 2015, after product improvements, such as the introduction of Com Hem Play and extensive investments in the quality of our broadband services, paired with improvements in our service levels, have made it possible to implement price adjustments,” said Nilsson.“Price rises had a limited impact on Q1 consumer ARPU, with the bulk of pricing implemented on March 1 and a minor part on April 1, driving an increase of ARPU of SEK 1 to SEK 364 (Q4 2015 SEK 363). The full effect of the price rise will be seen in the second quarter revenue. In total, over half of our customers were affected by this year’s price rise programme which on average was somewhat larger than 2015.” read more

Interview: NICK BENTLEY Lambourn-based BHA Jockey Coach Nick Bentley talks about his past as a jockey, work rider, race-reader and now Jockey Coach. He talks about the role and how budding future champions are not only taught to fine tune their style but improve mentally and holistically, as well as answering some topical questions for good measure. Meeting Nick Bentley.NICK BENTLEY (part 1 of 2)BHA Jockey Coach Nick Bentley talks about his career as a jockey and what a jockey coach can do to help the career of the up and coming new generation. Has life got better for jockeys?<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>NICK BENTLEY (part 2 of 2)In part two jockey coach Nick Bentley continues his interview on how young jockeys are helped as they start out on their career, mentally, physically and holistically. He also talks about what could be done to improve the lot of a jockey and his personal opinions on use of the whip in racing.<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> read more

Phones Next Article The study, by analytics firm Zendrive, found that ‘Americans use their phones nearly every single time they get behind the wheel.’ –shares Add to Queue Reporter It’s not an exaggeration to say that looking down at your phone while operating a vehicle — even for just a few seconds — can be deadly. Most of us know this. But, according to a new study, most of us do it anyway.The study, released yesterday by analytics firm Zendrive, found that “Americans use their phones nearly every single time they get behind the wheel.” The company said it conducted the largest distracted driving study to date, analyzing the phone habits of 3.1 million anonymized drivers who made 570 million trips covering 5.6 billion miles between December 2016 and February 2017. Their key finding: “drivers use their phones during 88 out of every 100 trips.” “Every day, that’s the equivalent of people behind the wheel talking or texting on 5.6-million car rides from our sample alone,” Zendrive wrote in a blog post. “When extrapolated for the entire U.S. driving population, the number goes up to roughly 600-million distracted trips a day.”The study also revealed that during an hour-long trip, drivers spend an average of 3.5 minutes on their phones.”This finding is frightening, especially when you consider that a 2-second distraction is long enough to increase your likelihood of crashing by over 20 times,” Zendrive wrote, citing research from Oregon State University. “In other words, that’s equivalent to 105 opportunities an hour that you could nearly kill yourself and/or others.”The firm also ranked the problem by state and found that Vermonters are the most distracted drivers. On the other end of the spectrum, those in Oregon are the least distracted.Zendrive said it’s working with communities, local decision markers, safety experts and driving coaches to bring awareness to this issue.Meanwhile a separate study released last month by the U.S. Governors Highway Safety Association found that pedestrian deaths increased 11 percent last year, and smartphones are partially to blame. This story originally appeared on PCMag April 18, 2017 2 min read Study: Drivers Use Their Phones During 88 Percent of Trips Angela Moscaritolo Image credit: via PC Mag Free Webinar | July 31: Secrets to Running a Successful Family Business Learn how to successfully navigate family business dynamics and build businesses that excel. Register Now » read more

–shares The Cost (and Payoff) of Investing in Social Media Savvy entrepreneurs are looking to social media as another way to market their businesses. Next Article Fireside Chat | July 25: Three Surprising Ways to Build Your Brand Lydia Dishman June 12, 2009 Add to Queue Learn from renowned serial entrepreneur David Meltzer how to find your frequency in order to stand out from your competitors and build a brand that is authentic, lasting and impactful. Enroll Now for $5 Marketing 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Twitter grew 3,000 percent in April. Facebook hosted 61.2 million visitors in March. LinkedIn counts 20 million users worldwide.With a potential audience that big, it’s no wonder savvy entrepreneurs are looking to unlock the secrets of social media as another way to get the word out about their businesses. Free access to many social media accounts (and potential clients) just adds to the allure.But is social media right for your business? Could it be a free substitute for a traditional (read: expensive) advertising plan? How much time should be spent in the care and feeding of all those profiles? The answers may surprise you.”Traditional advertising and marketing is not dead,” says Olivier Blanchard, business strategist and principal of The Brand Builder Marketing. Blanchard advocates integrating social media into a more traditional marketing and advertising plan, “so you can have a healthy mix, much like a diversified investment portfolio.”Though the platforms will differ based on the type of business, Sarah Granger, founder of a technology communications strategy firm Public Edge, encourages small organizations to have a solid website, e-mail list and a contact database before venturing into social media.Blogs: Write Your Way to SuccessIf you want to build customer loyalty, Kristi Colvin says start blogging now. “Many platforms allow you to blog comfortably,” says the chief creative officer at We Heart and Twitterface. She recommends Tumblr for smaller businesses, “because it is customizable, extremely easy to learn to use, and has an additional component that allows you to follow people and re-blog their content easily.”Colvin believes blogging takes disseminating information about a company a step beyond formal press releases, ads, marketing brochures and websites. “That is where the magic happens in social media. A well-managed blog invites peoples’ perspectives and provides an opening for real relationships to be formed which is a critical aspect of great customer service, and a good user experience. It can be a stepping stone to brand attachment,” she says.That attachment doesn’t have to equal a huge time commitment, but expect to spend an hour or two to knock out a post. The rewards are immediate: Blogs that are refreshed regularly get a boost in search engine rankings. “It also helps to establish you as an authority,” says Blanchard who suggests writing during evenings or on weekends to maximize regular working hours.Twitter: To Tweet or Not to TweetGranger says she used to advise companies to start with a blog, but now suggests getting on Twitter first. She also advocates engaging in conversation. Connecting with a business owner on Twitter “produces the necessary personal touch so many clients and customers prefer,” she says, and offers a time management tip for those tweeting entrepreneurs. “[Free] mobile tools such as Tweetie and Tweetdeck can make it a lot easier to keep up with the ongoing conversation,” Granger says. That way, a company announcement of a new product or promotion could be tweeted with a link back to details on the company’s blog or website, all while standing in a latte line.The rapid-fire conversations on Twitter have the added bonus of giving entrepreneurs who’ve built a network, “instant answers to questions, feedback on brand elements, product ideas, etc.,” Colvin says.YouTube: Be a StarAnother way to capitalize on the fast pace of social media is by posting videos on YouTube. With a little creativity and relatively low overhead (Flip video cameras can be had for as little as $100) uploading a short clip can be a rapid way to test the market. “Release freebies to capture a niche. Then find the demand and create the product,” says Steven Weathers, who documents his adventures in China on YouTube.As founder of American English Circle, and producer and host of Foreigner Perspective, Weathers uses videos to help the Chinese learn English and to give Westerners a glimpse of life in Asia. By hiring students he spends around $10 per finished minute of video, less if he tapes himself.To learn how to create good content Weathers suggests watching some viral videos. The payoff? “You will reach a wider audience than with network TV,” says Weathers.LinkedIn: Business Networking Made EasierA glowing recommendation is a gold star for any type of business, so why not collect and post them for all to see? It’s easily done on LinkedIn. Creating a profile allows an entrepreneur to create an online career history, then to connect with others they’ve worked with. Obtaining a recommendation from a former colleague or existing client may help sway a potential investor or customer.Additionally, Kimberly LeRiche of JK Virtual Office Resources says, “LinkedIn provides the opportunity to connect with others who are also looking to create partnerships or to collaborate.” LeRiche also notes that LinkedIn has incorporated additional social networking capabilities such as special interest groups and open discussion threads. Digests from these groups can be delivered by e-mail to scan or read in-depth, depending on interest in the topic and how much time there is on hand.The Bottom LineTime is money, but Weathers says it’s all about how you manage it. “Previously wasted down time like sitting in taxis for 20 minutes or standing in a bank line for 10 minutes is now spent on my mobile phone, bouncing between Twitter and Facebook. It’s getting easier and easier, and for branding an entrepreneur, I think it’s golden.”No matter what the platform, Blanchard says the true value of social media is found in the conversation. “You are not necessarily going to get 150 comments per day, but you are engaging a potential customer or client in the way you wouldn’t in an ordinary day.”To network with the entire small-business community, join Entrepreneur Connect today. Register, setup your company profile and start telling the world about your business–for free. With nearly 40,000 members, EConnect is the premier social networking site for entrepreneurs. read more

Technology Add to Queue Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Rick Mulready For people who can’t get enough of using Facebook on their smartphones, the social networking giant has made the experience much more immersive for Android users. Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the launch of Facebook Home — a suite of apps for your Android phone that, when downloaded, becomes an interface that brings the Facebook experience to your phone.The Cover Feed, a continuous stream of pictures and status updates from friends — and eventually ads — scrolls across the home and lock screens. By tapping or swiping across the screen, you’ll be able to access your phone’s apps as well as like and comment on photos and messages.”It’s not a phone or operating system,” Facebook says. “It’s also more than just an app. Home is a completely new experience that lets you see the world through people, not apps.”  Related: Think Like Zuck: The Secrets to Facebook’s SuccessOne of the other interesting features of Home is what Facebook is calling Chat heads. With Chat heads, when a friend texts or sends you a Facebook message, a small version of their profile picture shows up as a notification on your screen. By tapping on the notification, you can see and respond to the message. If you’re in the middle of reading an article when a Chat head pops up, you can move it to a convenient part of the screen with the swipe of your finger.With an initial focus on user experience, the first version of Home will not include ads, but they’re in the pipeline for a future release. Facebook’s Product Director Adam Mosseri said they are “designing and working on a lot of really high-quality ad units in [the news] feed already. We will bring those to Cover Feed and make sure they are aligned with the aesthetic and quality bar of everything else in Cover Feed.”Facebook Home will be available in the Google Play Store on April 12th. Android users who already use Facebook’s app and Messenger will get a notification suggesting they download it.Related: Twitter’s New ‘Cards’ Include Features for BusinessAs with most Facebook product releases, they are rolling Home out slowly. Initially, it will only be available on Samsung’s Galaxy S III and S 4, and on HTC’s One X, One X+ and new “social” phone, the HTC First. The company expects to launch Home for tablets several months later.Will you download Facebook Home? Let us know why or why not in the comments below.  Fireside Chat | July 25: Three Surprising Ways to Build Your Brand Facebook Announces New ‘Home’ for Android –shares Blogger, Consultant, Speaker and Host April 5, 2013 3 min read Guest Writer Next Article Image credit: Embargo Zone Learn from renowned serial entrepreneur David Meltzer how to find your frequency in order to stand out from your competitors and build a brand that is authentic, lasting and impactful. Enroll Now for $5 read more

Xignite Joins Snowflake Data Exchange as First Market Data Vendor PRNewswireJuly 1, 2019, 9:53 pmJuly 18, 2019 Data ExchangeData VendorMarketing Technology NewsNewsSnowflakeXignite Previous ArticleFormer Oracle and Salesforce Exec Kate FitzGerald Appointed Leanplum PresidentNext ArticleCustom Solution Publishers Should Be Tracking in Google Analytics Will Provide Easy Access to Stock Price Data Dynamically from Enterprise Data LakesXignite, Inc. announced they have joined the Snowflake Data Exchange, a newly created data marketplace developed by Snowflake, the data warehouse built for the cloud.  Xignite will provide end-of-day and historical equities pricing data, as well as currency exchange rates data to the marketplace.The Snowflake Data Exchange is a free-to-join marketplace that enables Snowflake customers to connect with data providers to seamlessly discover, access and generate insights from their data. Unlike traditional data transfer done via APIs or extracting data to cloud storage, the Data Exchange improves control and security related to exchanging data and makes the integration and query of data seamless and dynamic. The Data Exchange is currently available in private preview, with public preview set to launch later this year.Marketing Technology News: CoSchedule Launches Marketing Suite to Transform the Way Marketers Work“Financial data is one of the most-requested types of data by our customers. Legacy approaches to delivering financial data involve on-premises equipment and decades-old APIs that introduce significant friction and barriers to getting the most out of this type of data—not to mention the additional risks to security with this method,” Snowflake VP of Data Sharing, Justin Langseth said. “We are excited that Xignite is providing rich financial data sets via the Snowflake Data Exchange, enabling Snowflake users to discover, access, and leverage that data in a much simpler, faster, and less costly way.”Marketing Technology News: Constant Contact Unveils New WooCommerce and Shopify Offerings at 2019 Internet Retailer Conference“One of the industry’s biggest pains is the fact that non-cloud architectures force firms to replicate data storage before they can use it, which is very expensive and complex to manage. The Data Exchange enables Xignite to deliver Snowflake customers real-time access to our financial data to power their data driven applications without ever having to replicate information,” said Stephane Dubois, CEO and Founder, Xignite. “Providing customers with easy access to financial data has always been the mission of Xignite. And providing direct access to our data from a major cloud analytical platform like SnowFlake is a huge and innovative milestone in that direction.”Marketing Technology News: Broadvoice Welcomes Kim McLachlan as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing read more

Enterprise information managementGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformMarketing Technology NewsNewsOpenText Previous ArticleSocialbakers Debuts Content Hub to Deliver Deep Content Intelligence for Digital MarketersNext ArticleInterana Names Scott Leatherman as Chief Marketing Officer, Announces Growing Leadership Team to Support Customer Expansion Companies Announce New Partnership, Services and Product Integrations to Help Customers Move EIM Workloads to Google CloudOpenText, a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), announced new partnerships, services and product integrations to help customers move critical EIM workloads to Google Cloud. As part of this expanded relationship, Google Cloud has selected OpenText as its preferred partner for Enterprise Information Management Services, while OpenText has named Google Cloud its preferred partner for enterprise cloud.Seven months after announcing a new strategic partnership, OpenText and Google Cloud are announcing and launching new product integrations in key areas:OpenText intends to leverage Google Cloud’s multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud offering, Anthos, to deploy and manage containerized EIM application workloads in a multi-cloud environment. Today, OpenText is announcing the general availability of containerized versions of several EIM applications including Content Server, Extended ECM, Documentum, InfoArchive and Archive Center on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).OpenText intends to use Google Cloud to enable multi-layered global disaster recovery services for customers with business-critical EIM workloads running in the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid cloud architectures.OpenText intends to integrate its portfolio of products with G Suite allowing a seamless experience of using G Suite with various EIM activities and ensuring the world’s largest organizations can unlock the full value of their data.OpenText intends to integrate with key Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning services from Google to create purpose-built solutions for specific industries as well as overall value add to the existing OpenText EIM Suite of products.Google and OpenText will partner on expanded joint go-to-market activities to help enterprise customers move critical workloads to the cloud quickly and effectively.Joint go-to-market activities will initially focus on industries including financial services, media and entertainment, healthcare and public sector.Marketing Technology News: ada Strengthens Its Leadership Team as It Doubles Its HeadcountMark J. Barrenechea, OpenText CEO & CTO and Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President, Global Ecosystem at Google Cloud, outlined the strategic relationship during the opening keynote at OpenText Enterprise World 2019.Marketing Technology News: Leadspace Acquires ReachForce to Offer Customers Even More Robust B2B Customer Data Platform“Cloud is a strategic imperative, and OpenText is committed to supporting our customers at every stage of their cloud journey,” said Barrenechea. “As a strategic EIM partner for Google Cloud, OpenText will deliver the next generation of our cloud-based content services supporting the Google Cloud Platform and the unique value add that Google offers like Anthos, translation services, and AI/ML.Marketing Technology News: Veritonic Launches First Audio Score For Marketers To Understand Relative Power Of Their Creative Assets OpenText Expands Strategic Partnership with Google Cloud MTS Staff WriterJuly 10, 2019, 12:14 pmJuly 10, 2019 read more

Source:http://www.healthdata.org/ Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor)Apr 12 2019Many African nations have made substantial progress in vaccinating children against life-threatening diseases, however, within countries wide discrepancies remain, according to a new scientific study.The proportion of children receiving the full infant series of three vaccinations against diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT3) increased in almost three quarters of districts in Africa between 2000 and 2016. In 29 of 52 nations studied, however, coverage with DPT3 varied by more than 25% at the district level, highlighting substantial variation within countries.The study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, was published in the international medical journal The Lancet.”Despite substantial gains in coverage, progress was far from universal,” said Dr. Jonathan Mosser, the lead author on the study. “Routine childhood vaccinations are among the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions, substantially contributing to children living beyond their fifth birthdays. We continue to see wide areas of low coverage at the local level, however, illustrating that targeted improvements are needed to ensure that all children have access to lifesaving immunizations.”The study, “Mapping diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine coverage in Africa, 2000-2016: a spatial and temporal modelling study,” maps nations in fine-scale, 5×5 kilometer increments, so that health officials nationally and locally can identify gaps in vaccine coverage and target interventions with precision, tailoring health policy decisions at local levels.Using data from nearly 900,000 children, this analysis provides the first annual estimates of childhood DPT3 coverage across the entire African continent. It measures each community against the Global Vaccine Action Plan benchmark of reaching 90% national coverage and 80% in every district. These goals were established in 2012 by WHO member nations, as well as other organizations, including UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, a public-private health partnership committed to increasing access to immunizations in poor countries.Related StoriesUM scientists receive $3.3 million NIH contract to develop opioid addiction vaccineComputer-generated flu vaccine enters clinical trials in the USHPV vaccine has led to a dramatic reduction in cervical cancer rates, but Africa is lagging behindOf the 52 countries studied, only Morocco and Rwanda are estimated to have already met the district-level goal of 80% coverage. In contrast, on the local level, areas of DPT3 coverage at or below 25% were found in several countries, including Nigeria, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Angola. Moreover, dropout rates exceeding 25% were identified in portions of Nigeria, Angola, Chad, Mali, Guinea, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, South Africa, Somalia, and Ethiopia.”National estimates can mask subnational pockets of low coverage, leaving children in at risk for preventable diseases and death,” Mosser said. “Our study offers insights for nations’ health ministers and other decision makers to better understand local patterns of vaccine coverage and to identify where to improve vaccine delivery systems.”An official with the Gates Foundation underscored the value of the study and its geospatial mapping techniques.”We know that there are many children not getting the vaccines they need, but there’s a real lack of detail about where those children are,” said Violaine Mitchell, director of Vaccine Delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “These maps are a critical step forward in revealing important detail on where the unvaccinated children are so that tailored strategies can be developed to reach them and truly achieve equitable coverage.”The study is the latest in a series of IHME papers as part of the institute’s Local Burden of Disease (LBD) project, which produces estimates of health outcomes and related measures covering entire continents at a fine resolution. The project is seeking additional collaborators, including academics, researchers and others, to contribute data and to evaluate draft papers. read more

We are striving to discover effective anticancer agents. The ability to incorporate MYC promoter G-quadruplex stabilizing activity into existing topoisomerase I inhibitors has shown promise in making them more potent as anticancer agents and in making cancer cells less likely to become resistant to them.”Mark Cushman, distinguished professor of medicinal chemistry, Purdue’s College of Pharmacy, lead resaercher Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor)Jul 9 2019A gene called MYC has become one of the hottest targets for cancer researchers around the world. MYC is known to drive tumor growth in nearly all cancer types – but successfully targeting the gene has proven to be a challenge. One that has been baffling researchers for more than three decades.Now, researchers at Purdue University have discovered a novel set of MYC promoter G-quadruplex stabilizers that have demonstrated anticancer activity in human cancer cell cultures. The discovery is published in the July 8 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The Purdue team discovered potential anticancer agents that target the MYC promoter G-quadruplex and downregulate the expression of the MYC oncogene, which is overexpressed in cancer and is associated with almost all aspects of cancer development. The work has been supported by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health.Cushman, whose cancer research work contributed to his election as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, said they discovered a novel class of indenoisoquinoline MYC promoter G-quadruplex stabilizers in collaboration with Danzhou Yang. Some of them also inhibit topoisomerase I, an enzyme that facilitates DNA replication and is produced in greater amounts in cancer cells.Related StoriesNew study to ease plight of patients with advanced cancerBacteria in the birth canal linked to lower risk of ovarian cancerStudy reveals link between inflammatory diet and colorectal cancer risk”Targeting promoter G-quadruplexes offers a relatively new and exciting strategy to inhibit the critical oncogene expression in cancer cells,” said Yang, the Martha and Fred Borch Chair of Cancer Therapeutics in Purdue’s College of Pharmacy, who led the research with Cushman. “We hope to combine the potency of the DNA-targeted drugs and selectivity of molecular-targeted approaches for new cancer therapeutics.”Yang and Cushman, both members of the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research, said the agents they discovered could be used in helping to treat nearly every type of cancer. Some of the technology from their work has been licensed to Gibson Oncology LLC through the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization.Some of the work Cushman and his team previously developed led to three anticancer agents that are in clinical trials. The MYC innovation will greatly enhance interest in these anticancer agents within the scientific community and will also contribute to the understanding of how they work.The work aligns with Purdue’s Giant Leaps celebration, acknowledging the university’s global advancements in health as part of Purdue’s 150th anniversary. This is one of the four themes of the yearlong celebration’s Ideas Festival, designed to showcase Purdue as an intellectual center solving real-world issues. Source:Purdue University read more

In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, a chef prepares to cook food in a solar cooker which uses a metal and glass vacuum tube heated by mirrors curved to capture the sun’s heat in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. Two dozen chefs with white aprons and hats cooked soups, baked buns, potatoes, and boiled rice at a festival to demonstrate the potential of solar cookers that organizers claim can help reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Fu Ting) Dezhou, a sprawling city of 5 million in eastern China, has spent millions since 2005 on transforming itself into an aspiring renewable energy hub called the “Solar Valley.”Public art displays at town bus stops and murals use solar panels. Stone statues of sun-related Chinese legends squat in parks.China is the world’s biggest consumer and producer of solar technologies. Many homes outside the largest cities are equipped with solar water heaters.But roughly 600 million of China’s 1.4 billion people still cook with coal, wood or other biomass despite decades of government-led initiatives to curtail soot from such burning, according to a 2016 report by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.Affordable yet durable solar cookers have long intrigued those seeking to cut emissions, said Frank Haugwitz, director of Asia Europe Clean Energy Solar Advisory Company. The savory aromas of roasting hot dogs and chicken kebabs wafted out of metal and glass vacuum tubes heated by mirrors curved to capture the sun’s heat. Journal information: Nature Citation: Solar cookout aims to woo traditional chefs, cut carbon (2018, August 7) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-08-solar-cookout-aims-woo-traditional.html Himin has yet to produce a retail version of the cooker or sell it outside of Dezhou but the company claims chefs in the city are already adapting cookers gifted to them to a variety of regional Chinese cuisines in new solar restaurants opening up across the city.In the solar-panel festooned Micro-E Hotel, next to the field where the festival was staged and down an air-conditioned hall past portraits of Al Gore and other climate advocates, Huang and other festival goers toasted the vacuum-tube solar cookers with glasses of fiery baiju, red wine and beer.Next came a marathon banquet of courses, including turtle soup and pancakes served on platters with foot-tall figurines of Chinese legends like the mythical archer Houyi. According to legend, he shot dead nine suns before harnessing fire for humanity’s benefit.Ren Yanbo, vice secretary general of the Efficient Stove Division of the China Association of Rural Energy Industry, appeared to be won over.”I was impressed by the taste of pig feet cooked by solar, it was soft and yummy, I could not believe it was cooked by solar,” she said. “There’s a certainly a need for a cleaner option,” he said. In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, photo, a woman rotates a solar cooker, a device using a metal and glass vacuum tube heated by mirrors curved to capture the sun’s heat, to face the sun in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. Two dozen chefs with white aprons and hats cooked soups, baked buns, potatoes, and boiled rice at a festival to demonstrate the potential of solar cookers that organizers claim can help reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Fu Ting) In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, photo, a chef sets the plate with food cooked by solar cookers near a mini statue of mythical Chinese archer Houyi who shot down nine suns before harnessing fire for humanity’s benefit in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. Two dozen chefs with white aprons and hats cooked soups, baked buns, potatoes, and boiled rice at a festival to demonstrate the potential of solar cookers that organizers claim can help reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Fu Ting) But getting solar cookers to the masses has proven daunting.Solar cooker technology has not yet matured. While cheap types are available, more reliable ones are still too expensive for rural communities. “It’s kind of a chicken and egg thing,” Haugwitz said.Some experts fear solar is too big a break from traditional Chinese cooking.”It is good to have some innovation, but it’s impossible to change people’s dietary habits,” said Xu Qinhua, deputy director of National Academy of Development and Strategy under Renmin University of China.”People used to say China’s fire-fried dish culture would be replaced by induction cookers, but no, it was not.” In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, women walk past rows of solar cookers which use reflective mirrors to heat metal and glass vacuum tubes up to 400°C (275°F) to cook food during a solar food festival in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. China is the world’s biggest consumer and producer of solar technologies. Many homes outside the biggest cities are equipped with solar panels to heat water for bathing. But roughly 600 million of China’s 1.4 billion people still cook with sooty burning coal, wood or other biomass, causing health and environmental problems including contributing to climate change. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil) Belgian wins inaugural France to China solar bike race Explore further In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, chefs prepare to cook skewers of meat in a solar cooker using a metal and glass vacuum tube heated by mirrors curved to capture the sun’s heat in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. Two dozen chefs with white aprons and hats cooked soups, baked buns, potatoes, and boiled rice at a festival to demonstrate the potential of solar cookers that organizers claim can help reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Fu Ting) © 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Eastern China is a “global hotspot” for black carbon emissions—sooty particulates more damaging to health and the environment than typical greenhouses gases—according to a 2007 report in the academic journal Nature. Half of China’s black carbon comes from residential kitchens and heaters.Sun Penglong, 27, worked in gas kitchens in Dezhou for years before switching to solar. He says new recipes must be invented and tested for solar cooking, but there is one unexpected perk: His wife doesn’t complain about the smell he used to bring home in his workclothes.”The first thing my wife used to ask me to do after returning home was to shower,” Sun said after roasting some beef skewers in a BBQ tube.”When I started as a solar chef, my wife asked me, ‘Where is your smell?'” In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, aerial photo, the Micro-E Hotel’s massive array of solar panels spread out over its complex in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. The city of Dezhou began a drive to become a solar energy hub in China in 2005 and has since successfully courted national investment and backing. China is the world’s biggest consumer and producer of solar technologies. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil) In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, chefs prepare to cook buns in a solar cooker that using a metal and glass vacuum tube heated by mirrors curved to capture the sun’s heat in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. Two dozen chefs with white aprons and hats cooked soups, baked buns, potatoes, and boiled rice at a festival to demonstrate the potential of solar cookers that organizers claim can help reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Fu Ting) This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. Two dozen chefs with white aprons and hats prepared soups, baked “baozi” pork buns, and boiled rice porridge at a festival designed to demonstrate the potential of solar cookers that organizers claim can help reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions.”We aim to enable half of the world’s population to use solar cooking within 10 years,” said Huang Ming, founder of Himin Solar Energy Group, the solar cookout’s main backer.As hundreds of people strolled by, chefs armed with oven mitts scaled ladders to uncover piping-hot cooking tubes arrayed on nearly 2-meter (6-foot)-tall industrial racks. Smaller-scale vendors used 1-meter (3-foot)-long solar cookers designed to fold up for picnics.Temperatures can top 400 C (750 F) inside the black “BBQ tubes” of metal and glass with turnip-tipped bottoms and sealable tops. On a bright day, they can boil water within 30 minutes and roast a fish in half that time, according to Himin.”It is clean and smoke-free . better than cooking with pots and other things,” said Yu Liqiu, 22, a chef, who just began cooking with solar two days earlier. In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, photo, a woman rotates a solar cooker, a device using a metal and glass vacuum tube heated by mirrors curved to capture the sun’s heat, to face the sun in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. Two dozen chefs with white aprons and hats cooked soups, baked buns, potatoes, and boiled rice at a festival to demonstrate the potential of solar cookers that organizers claim can help reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Fu Ting) In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, a chef prepares to cook food in a solar cooker which uses a metal and glass vacuum tube heated by mirrors curved to capture the sun’s heat in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. Two dozen chefs with white aprons and hats cooked soups, baked buns, potatoes, and boiled rice at a festival to demonstrate the potential of solar cookers that organizers claim can help reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Fu Ting) In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, rows of solar cookers which use reflective mirrors to heat metal and glass vacuum tubes up to 400°C (275°F) to cook food during a solar food festival in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. China is the world’s biggest consumer and producer of solar technologies. Many homes outside the biggest cities are equipped with solar panels to heat water for bathing. But roughly 600 million of China’s 1.4 billion people still cook with sooty burning coal, wood or other biomass, causing health and environmental problems including contributing to climate change. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil) read more

Boeing didn’t tell airlines that safety alert wasn’t on The chief executive of Boeing said the company made a “mistake” in handling a problematic cockpit warning system in its 737 Max jets before two crashes killed 346 people and he promised transparency as the aircraft maker works to get the grounded plane back in flight. Citation: CEO: Boeing made mistake in handling warning-system problem (2019, June 17) retrieved 17 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2019-06-ceo-boeing-warning-system-problem.html © 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. In this June 20, 2017, file photo Boeing planes displayed at Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, east of Paris, France. Uncertainty over a Boeing jet and apprehension about the global economy hover over the aircraft industry as it prepares for next week’s Paris Air Show. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) Explore further In this Monday, April 29, 2019 file photo, Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg speaks during a news conference after the company’s annual shareholders meeting at the Field Museum in Chicago. Boeing’s CEO says the company made a “mistake” in handling a problematic cockpit warning system in 737 Max jets ahead of two deadly crashes of the top-selling plane. Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg told reporters in Paris on Sunday, June 16 that the company’s communication “was not consistent,” calling that “unacceptable.”(AP Photo/Jim Young, file) Speaking ahead of the Paris Air Show, Muilenburg said Boeing is facing the event with “humility” and focused on rebuilding trust.In the United States, Boeing has faced scrutiny from members of Congress and the FAA over how it reported the problem involving a cockpit warning light.The company discovered in 2017 that a warning light designed to alert pilots when sensors measuring the angle of a plane’s nose might be wrong only worked if airlines had purchased a separate feature.The angle-measuring sensors have been implicated in the Lion Air crash in Indonesia and the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March. The sensors malfunctioned, alerting software to push the noses of the planes down. The pilots were unable to take back control of the planes.Boeing told the FAA of what it learned in 2017 after the Indonesia crash in October. Boeing and the FAA have said the warning light wasn’t critical for flight safety.Muilenburg forecast a limited number of orders at the Paris show, the first major air show since the crashes, but said it was important to attend to talk to customers and others in the industry.He also announced that Boeing is raising its long-term forecast for global plane demand, notably amid sustained growth in Asia. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg told reporters in Paris before the industry-wide air show that Boeing’s communication with regulators, customers and the public “was not consistent. And that’s unacceptable.”The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has faulted Boeing for not telling regulators for more than year that a safety indicator in the cockpit of the top-selling plane didn’t work as intended.Pilots also have expressed anger that Boeing did not inform them about the new software that’s been implicated in the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.”We clearly had a mistake in the implementation of the alert,” Muilenburg said.He expressed confidence that the Boeing 737 Max would be cleared to fly again later this year. The model has been grounded worldwide for three months, and regulators need to approve Boeing’s long-awaited fix to the software.Muilenburg called the crashes of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines jets a “defining moment” for Boeing, but said he thinks the result will be a “better and stronger company.” This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. read more