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Electric Daisy Carnival London 2013 - review

Chris White is wowed by the pyrotechnics and music at EDC's maiden voyage in the UK.

Main Image: Howard Hill

Following previous mammoth one-day music events Wireless Festival and Hard Rock Calling, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has certainly been gaining a reputation this year as London's best new outdoor events space. Turning the corner to enter the latest soir?e to take over the space, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), you're instantly wowed with the vast size, thrusting you straight into the 'kineticFIELD' arena. The main stage sits at the end of this huge grassy area, itself surround with the obligatory food, merchandise, and general festival convenience stalls. EDC is big from the off.

Arriving slightly later than planned we practically sprint to the front and catch the second half of Hardwell's set; which is laced with all the bounce, bass and drops we were hoping for from one of our must-see acts of the day. Concerned not to peak to soon, we wander to the back of the kineticFIELD and head on the fairly lengthy trek to the festivals tented areas, including the bassPOD, cosmicMEADOW and neonGARDEN tents.

Passing some rather intense fairground rides (a towering zip wire, an upside-down-vomit machine, you know the sort) we arrive at the opposite end of the event. Littered with glittering, mirrored daisy constructions (a brand essential looking back at the previous EDC's in Las Vegas and New York), and wacky performers in bizarre tricycle type contraptions, there's a definite air of the bizarre. It all has a great feel, but doesn't detract from what we're really there for; some awesome music.

Image: Neal Houghton

We instantly fall back on a name we?ve loved for years, knowing we can rely on Jack Beats to lace our step with that much needed spring. The lads don't disappoint with a cracking hi-octane electro set perfect for getting us in our dancing groove. Just across from us Jaguar Skills is going down a riot, we stroll by but don't quite have the stomach for it. A packed tent would think us mad. Instead we drift towards to grooves of Danny Avila and Deniz Koyu, two artists we?d not encountered in the flesh previously, definitely emitting an air of cool in the neonGARDEN.?

We?re then drawn towards the main arena for Steve Angello. Reliable as ever, Steve's set is a wonderful ode to his Swedish House Mafia roots, with some personal twists and slightly more filthy bleeps and basslines. Having edged our way to the front, we even get some audience participation during his finale of SHM's 'Don't You Worry Child'. Not as it sounds, thousands of people jumping from the ground in unison to the rousing chorus was nothing short of euphoric. You also can't go wrong with some OTT confetti cannons. All this is leading nicely on to what for us was the main event; Avicii.

At the time (and currently) riding the chart tidal wave of another huge global smash, 'Wake Me Up', it's safe to say the crowd arrived for this. Concerned we may be in for a slightly, dare we say, cheesy set, Avicii really blew us away. Raising the tempo and throwing in, our eyes at least, some unexpected curve balls such as Disclosure's 'White Noise', kept every one of us totally engaged. Finishing of course with his breakout track 'Levels', we couldn't be happier with the Swedish wonderkids performance.

Image: Neal Houghton

Final act on the main stage is the legendary Tiesto. We?ll confess we only stayed for around twenty minutes from the start needing both a rest and then a stroll, but what we heard in honesty didn't draw us in quite like the previous three DJ's. Not that the other thousands of people pounding the turf felt the same however??

We wander back to the tented area, diverted to spend some time watching the masterful Chuckie do his thing and catch the end of Sub Focus. After a quick power sit the only place to be is back in the main arena and returning to watch the event's finale with Tiesto. It was actually brilliant to now be looking ahead from behind the crowd for this moment, the full spectacle ahead of us practically in wide screen. A volley of fireworks and epic cheering from the crowd; the day has most definitely been a success.?

Being its inaugural event in the UK, plus taking place at what is still a very new and untested location, overall the success of London's first Electric Daisy Carnival is undoubted. The Olympic Park is a truly wonderful location for a day like this, never once feeling crowded - unless you wanted it to. The stark contrast of the Olympic village buildings and towers, tented arenas, leviathan main stage and quaint grassy area complete with postcard style rive and foliage, is all perfectly at odds with the pounding electronic music coming from all corners. Line-up wise we couldn't have been happier; the variation was never too much to put you off exploring one of the tents just one more time.?

We can't wait to see what daisy-shaped tricks they pull out of the bag next year.

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On the air - Spokesman.com - Aug. 10, 2013

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Auto racing
6:30 a.m.	Nationwide Series pole qualifying	ESPN2
8:30 a.m.	Sprint Cup pole qualifying	ESPN2
11:15 a.m.	Nationwide Series race	ABC
2 p.m.	Rolex Sports Car Series race	Speed
3:30 p.m.	Global Rallycross Championship	ESPN2
Baseball, Little League
11 a.m.	Great Lakes Regional final	ESPN
2 p.m.	Northwest Regional final	ESPN
4 p.m.	New England Regional final	ESPN
6 p.m.	West Regional final	ESPN
Baseball, MLB
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Saturday?s TV?highlights

Auto racing
6:30 a.m.	Nationwide Series pole qualifying	ESPN2
8:30 a.m.	Sprint Cup pole qualifying	ESPN2
11:15 a.m.	Nationwide Series race	ABC
2 p.m.	Rolex Sports Car Series race	Speed
3:30 p.m.	Global Rallycross Championship	ESPN2
Baseball, Little League
11 a.m.	Great Lakes Regional final	ESPN
2 p.m.	Northwest Regional final	ESPN
4 p.m.	New England Regional final	ESPN
6 p.m.	West Regional final	ESPN
Baseball, MLB
1 p.m.	Tampa Bay at L.A. Dodgers Fox 28
4 p.m.	Boston at Kansas City	MLB
4:05 p.m.	Chicago Cubs at St. Louis	WGN
6 p.m.	Milwaukee at Seattle	Root
Football, AFL playoffs
6:30 p.m.	Spokane at Arizona CBS Sports
Golf
8 a.m.	PGA Championship	TNT
11 a.m.	PGA Championship	CBS
1 p.m.	U.S. Women?s Amateur, semifinals	Golf
Horse racing
2 p.m.	Fourstardave Handicap	NBC
Motorsports
Noon	AMA Motocross NBC Sports
Sailing
3 p.m.	Louis Vuitton Cup semifinals, tape NBC Sports
Soccer
5 p.m.	MLS: DC United at Philadelphia NBC Sports
10:30 p.m.	MLS: Seattle at Toronto, delayed	Root
Softball, youth
8 a.m.	Senior League World Series, title game ESPN
Noon	Big League World Series, title game ESPN
Tennis
11 a.m.	Rogers Cup, women?s semifinal	ESPN2
Noon	Rogers Cup, men?s semifinal	ESPN2
Track and Field
12:30 p.m.	World Championships	NBC

Sunday?s TV?highlights

Auto racing
10 a.m.	Sprint Cup, Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glenn ESPN
Noon	American Le Mans Series race	ABC
2 p.m.	TORC race	Speed
Baseball, Little League
3 p.m.	Mid-Atlantic Regional final	ESPN2
Baseball, MLB
10 a.m.	Detroit at N.Y. Yankees	TBS
11:05 a.m.	Chicago Cubs at St. Louis	WGN
1 p.m.	Milwaukee at Seattle	Root
5 p.m.	Tampa Bay at L.A. Dodgers	ESPN
Golf
8 a.m.	PGA Championship	TNT
11 a.m.	PGA Championship	CBS
1 p.m.	U.S. Women?s Amateur champ. match	Golf
Horse racing
2 p.m.	Adirondack and Saratoga Special Stakes NBC Sports
Soccer
5 p.m.	MLS: Los Angeles at Dallas	ESPN2
Tennis
10 a.m.	Rogers Cup, women?s championship	ESPN2
Noon	Rogers Cup, men?s championship	ESPN2
Track and field
9:30 a.m.	World Championships	NBC

Today?s radio?highlights

Baseball, MLB
5 p.m.	Milwaukee at Seattle 920-AM/1080-AM
Baseball, NWL
6:30 p.m.	Spokane at Eugene	1510-AM
Football, AFL playoffs
6 p.m.	Spokane at Arizona	700-AM
Sports talk
8 a.m.	Spokane?s Saturday Sports Show	1510-AM

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Mayor: ?Difficult, if not impossible? to rescue Holiday Parade

by Jeremy Rogalski / KHOU 11 News I-Team

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Posted on August 8, 2013 at 6:28 PM

Updated yesterday at 7:05 PM

HOUSTON -- It will be ?difficult, if not impossible? to rescue the Thanksgiving Day Holiday parade after longtime organizers announced they would no longer produce the event, according to Houston Mayor Annise Parker.

Parker said longtime parade organizers backed the City of Houston in a corner.

"We've been aware of this for some months but they didn't pull the trigger until yesterday, and we couldn't take over a private entity and a private event until they officially let it go," Mayor Parker said.

Parker was referring to the Houston Festival Foundation, which has produced the annual parade for the past 15 years. She said while the City was well aware of the organization?s deep financial troubles, it was handcuffed essentially, while the non-profit kept delaying a public decision to step down.

"There was a hope that someone else would produce the event," said Kimberly Stoilis, CEO of the Houston Festival Foundation.

But holding out hope while the Thanksgiving clock was ticking, was not the nail in the parade coffin according to the Mayor.

"We thought we were in productive discussions with them," Mayor Parker said.

But those discussions in essence, disintegrated when Festival Foundation sold off all of its signature parade floats, including Santa?s sleigh, for cheap. The buyer, the Texas border down of Hidalgo, paid $30,000 for five floats that the foundation paid $130,000 to buy or build.

11 News: "When they sold the floats was that a slap in the face to the City of Houston?

Mayor Parker: ?By selling the floats it made it difficult for us to rescue the event, if not impossible."

Parker said the search is on for sponsors, and some corporate leaders have expressed interest. But the price tag is hefty -- up to $500,000 to put on the event.

And time is running out.

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German industrial production rises in June

BERLIN (AP) ? The German government says industrial production grew 2.4 percent in June compared with the previous month, a further sign that the economy is picking up steam.

The Economy Ministry said Wednesday that the jump was partly due to seasonal factors that weighed on May's figures, when production was down 0.8 percent, revised from an initial drop of 1 percent.

But the ministry says the June figures also show that manufacturing businesses appear to have overcome a period of weakness and surveys indicate positive developments to come.

On Tuesday, official figures showed that German industrial orders rose 3.8 percent in June.

Germany has weathered Europe's economic turmoil relatively well thanks to robust exports to developing countries and low unemployment.

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Court documents: Las Cruces man admits to credit union robbery, says he was suicidal

LAS CRUCES >> The man accused of robbing a credit union Wednesday admitted to the crime, telling an investigator that he was suicidal and hoped police would shoot and kill him inside the financial institution, according to a complaint filed Friday in federal court.

Dominic Holland, 26 of Las Cruces, told a Las Cruces Police officer and FBI task force agent that he robbed the First Light Federal Credit Union on Wednesday morning. He had passed a note to a teller, then ran out of the bank with nearly $5,000.

Holland's initial appearance is set for Monday in federal court. He is being held at the Do?a Ana County Detention Center.

While he was inside the credit union, Holland said, he talked to a college professor who recognized him. Holland asked the professor to leave because "something bad was going to happen," according to the complaint. The professor stayed, and Holland knew he would be caught, he told investigators.

Holland ran to a nearby apartment complex, where he had been known to stay. LCPD officers found him there, and authorities accounted for all the missing cash.

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Tornado watch ends for Calgary and areas south and southeast of the city

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Published Friday, August 2, 2013 6:19PM MDT
Last Updated Friday, August 2, 2013 8:22PM MDT

Environment Canada has?lifted a tornado watch for sections of southern Alberta.

As of 6:00 p.m., tornado watches had been issued for the following regions:

• City of Calgary
• Brooks - Strathmore - Vulcan
• Okotoks - High River - Claresholm

For updated information on tornado watches, and all watches and warnings in Alberta, visit Environment Canada

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American economy adds modest 162,000 jobs in July

FILE - In this Monday, July 15, 2013 file photo, a woman waits to talk with employers at a job fair for laid-off IBM workers in South Burlington, Vt. The government issues the jobs report for July on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

FILE - In this Monday, July 15, 2013 file photo, a woman waits to talk with employers at a job fair for laid-off IBM workers in South Burlington, Vt. The government issues the jobs report for July on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. economy is steadily adding jobs ? just not at a consistently strong pace.

July's modest gain of 162,000 jobs was the smallest since March. And most of the job growth came in lower-paying industries or part-time work.

The unemployment rate fell from 7.6 percent to a 4?-year low of 7.4 percent, still well above the 5 percent to 6 percent typical of a healthy economy. The rate fell because more Americans said they were working, though some people stopped looking for a job and were no longer counted as unemployed.

All told, Friday's report from the Labor Department pointed to a less-than-robust job market. It suggested that the economy's subpar growth and modest consumer spending are making many businesses cautious about hiring.

The report is bound to be a key factor in the Federal Reserve's decision on whether to slow its bond purchases in September, as many economists have predicted it will do. Some think July's weaker hiring could make the Fed hold off on any pullback in its bond buying, which has helped keep long-term borrowing costs down.

Friday's report said employers added a combined 26,000 fewer jobs in May and June than the government had previously estimated. Americans also worked fewer hours in July, and their average pay dipped.

For the year, job growth has remained steady. The economy has added an average of 200,000 jobs a month since January, though the pace has slowed in the past three months to 175,000.

Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, called the employment report "slightly negative," in part because job growth for May and June was revised down.

Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West, said it showed "a mixed labor market picture of continued improvement but at a still frustratingly slow pace."

The reaction from investors was muted. Stock averages closed with modest gains. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.6 percent from 2.71 percent ? a sign that investors think the economy remains sluggish and might need continued help from the Fed.

Beth Ann Bovino, senior economist at Standard & Poor's, said she thinks the Fed will delay any slowdown in its $85 billion a month in bond purchases.

"September seems very unlikely now," she says. "I'm wondering if December is still in the cards."

Still, it's possible that the lower unemployment rate, along with the hiring gains over the past year, could convince the Fed that the job market is strengthening consistently. Job growth has topped 140,000 each month for nearly a year, and unemployment has steadily declined.

"While July itself was a bit disappointing, the Fed will be looking at the cumulative improvement," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics. "On that score, the unemployment rate has fallen from 8.1 percent last August to 7.4 percent this July, which is a significant improvement."

The government uses a survey of mostly large businesses and government agencies to determine how many jobs are added or lost each month. That's the survey that produced the gain of 162,000 jobs for July.

It uses a separate survey of households to calculate the unemployment rate. That survey captures hiring by companies of all sizes, including small businesses, new companies, farm workers and the self-employed.

The household survey found that 227,000 more people said they were employed last month. And 37,000 people stopped looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.

The number of self-employed jumped 241,000, or 2.6 percent, to 9.7 million ? the most in eight months. This group includes freelance workers, construction contractors, lawyers and other professionals with solo practices and farmers and ranchers.

Combined, those factors explain why the unemployment rate declined from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent.

More than half of July's job gain in the survey of big companies and government agencies came from lower-paying industries, extending a trend that's limiting Americans' incomes and possibly slowing consumer spending. Retailers, for example, added nearly 47,000 jobs ? the biggest gain for any industry last month. Restaurants and bars added 38,400.

One Atlanta-based retailer, Cellairis, which sells mobile phone accessories, says it hired about 75 employees last month to meet growing demand. The company has 650 U.S. outlets, most of them mall kiosks. It plans to add 45 walk-in stores this year.

"People are willing to spend more now to protect and personalize their devices," said CEO Taki Skouras.

By contrast, employers in higher-paying industries, like Stripmatic, a steel parts maker in Cleveland, remain wary. Stripmatic hasn't hired anyone since adding five workers in the first three months of the year. Revenue has fallen 10 percent below projections this year.

The company's exports have picked up a bit in Mexico and Brazil but remain flat in Asia. Company President Bill Adler says he's concerned that slower growth in China could hamper his overseas sales.

Low-paying industries have accounted for 61 percent of jobs added this year, even though they represent only 39 percent of U.S. jobs overall, according to government data analyzed by Moody's Analytics. Mid-paying industries have accounted for fewer than 22 percent of the jobs added.

Some job gains were made in higher-paying fields last month. Financial services, which include banking, real estate and insurance, added 15,000 positions. Information technology added 4,300 and accounting 2,500. And manufacturing added 6,000 jobs, though that figure was offset by an equivalent loss in construction.

One growing source of better-paying jobs is local governments. They've now added jobs for five straight months and have helped offset job cuts by state and federal governments.

The result is that governments overall are much less of a drag on hiring than in the first three years of the economic recovery, which began in the summer of 2009. All told, they've shed 39,000 jobs in the 12 months that ended in July. That's down from a loss of 137,000 in the 12 months that ended in July 2012.

Most of the hiring by local governments has been for teachers and other jobs related to education. Local property tax revenue, a key source of funding for localities, fell after the recession but has begun to recover in some communities. Nationwide, home prices have risen, a trend that typically leads to higher property tax revenue.

More broadly, many of the jobs added in July were only part time. The number of Americans who said they were working part time but would prefer full-time work stands at 8.2 million ? the highest since last fall. Part-time jobs accounted for 65 percent of the jobs added in July and 77 percent of those added this year.

The government defines part-time work as being fewer than 35 hours a week.

The percentage of adult Americans either working or actively seeking work dipped in July to 63.4 percent. This is called the "labor force participation rate." The participation rate has been generally declining since peaking at 67.3 percent in 2000. That's partly the result of baby boomers retiring and leaving the workforce.

Job gains are being slowed by the economy's tepid growth. It grew at an annual rate of just 1.7 percent in the April-June quarter, the government said this week. That was an improvement over the previous two quarters, but it's still far too weak to rapidly lower unemployment.

Recent data suggest that the economy could strengthen in the second half of the year.

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AP Economics Writers Paul Wiseman and Martin Crutsinger contributed to this report.

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Follow Christopher S. Rugaber at http://twitter.com/ChrisRugaber .

Associated Press

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From soybeans to baseball, Henry has had success

Boston Red Sox majority owner John Henry watches a baseball game between the Red Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks during the second inning at Fenway Park in Boston, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Boston Red Sox majority owner John Henry watches a baseball game between the Red Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks during the second inning at Fenway Park in Boston, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

BOSTON (AP) ? John W. Henry took a backward ballclub in a dilapidated park and transformed it into a two-time World Series champion that is one of baseball's model franchises.

As the owner of The Boston Globe, he will try to turn around a newspaper that ? like many other major metro dailies ? is shedding staff, subscribers and advertisers as it makes the transition into the Internet age.

Henry agreed to buy the Globe along with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and the Boston Metro for $70 million, a fraction of the $1.1 billion The New York Times Co. paid 20 years ago. Henry apparently made this deal without his Red Sox partners, though he said in a statement that more information will soon be available "concerning those joining me in this community commitment and effort."

The son of southern Illinois soybean farmers now worth an estimated $1.5 billion, Henry was a minority owner of the New York Yankees and the sole owner of the Florida Marlins when he led a group that bought the Red Sox for $660 million in 2002. (The original group included The New York Times, which sold the last of its 17.5 percent ownership last year.)

They soon set out to preserve Fenway Park while taking a wrecking ball to most everything else that had mired the franchise in failure for more than eight decades.

Henry, who made his money by taking a mathematical approach to the commodities markets, brought a similar method to the baseball diamond, hiring the statistically savvy Theo Epstein, then 28 years-old, as the youngest general manager in baseball history. They hired statistical pioneer Bill James as a consultant, putting the Red Sox at the forefront of the revolution that had just begun to take hold in front offices long dominated by old-time and hidebound scouting types.

But, perhaps more importantly, the new owners turned what had long been a stagnant family business into a revenue spigot.

They took NESN, which had been almost exclusively an outlet for Red Sox and Boston Bruins games, into a full-fledged sports network. (Not every effort ? like the sports-themed dating show "Sox Appeal" ? was a success.) And they spent more than $285 million turning the once-doomed Fenway Park into a modern ? well, as modern as a 100-year-old ballpark can be, anyway ? sporting venue.

With seats above the Green Monster and a roof deck in right field, a high-tech scoreboard and new concourses and concessions, Fenway sold out 820 consecutive games ? by official count, anyway ? the longest such streak in professional sports history. Thousands more file through the turnstiles 12 months a year, paying up to $16 just to see the park when it is empty.

Though fans sometimes chafed at the team's new businesslike approach, the initiatives helped pay for a player payroll that grew from $75.5 million in 2000 to more than $130 million by 2004. That year, the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years, ending one of the longest title droughts in sports.

They won again three years later.

Henry was also a different kind of owner than Bostonians had grown accustomed to.

While most owners of the local franchises had treated their teams like family fiefdoms or corporate cash registers ? or both ? Henry engaged with fans, chatting with them on Internet message boards (he would also became an early adopter on Twitter). He spent less time in his luxury box and more in his dugout-side seats, and was once seen running the bases on the Fenway diamond with the woman who is now his wife.

And Henry kept looking beyond baseball.

Through a sister company, the Red Sox owners bought into NASCAR as co-owners of Roush Fenway Racing; soccer, by purchasing the Liverpool FC of the English Premier League; and basketball, through a sponsorship deal with LeBron James. Their business offshoot, known as New England Sports Ventures, has also dabbled in marketing for college sports and professional golf.

In buying a newspaper, Henry enters an industry in turmoil and joins a progression of publishers who have tried to figure out how to balance the free-flowing information of the internet with the costs of quality journalism.

While providing no clues, Henry vowed to try.

"The Boston Globe's award-winning journalism as well as its rich history and tradition of excellence have established it as one of the most well-respected media companies in the country," he said in his statement. "This is a thriving, dynamic region that needs a strong, sustainable Boston Globe playing an integral role in the community's long-term future."

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Follow Jimmy Golen on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jgolen.

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Decoding material fluxes in the tropical ocean: Turbulent processes provide important contribution to oxygen supply

[unable to retrieve full-text content]How is vital oxygen supplied to the tropical ocean? New research by oceanographers in Germany shows that about one third of the oxygen supply in these areas is provided by turbulent processes, such as eddies or internal waves.

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Social Media Content Marketing On One Platform - Business Insider

Too many brands and businesses still try a scattershot approach at social media. They try to be everywhere and spread their efforts too thin.

They also apply a one-size-fits-all approach.?Whether it's in-house or external social media marketing teams, they craft campaigns around a single communication style and a rigid set of formats ? and expect them to drive the same results across platforms.?

Particularly for smaller or niche players ? or really, anyone on a constrained budget???it makes more sense to double-down on a single platform, learn its idiosyncrasies, and become an expert at cultivating its audience base.

In a new report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider's paid research service, we dig into the reasons why platform-centric approaches make more sense, and explore how to make them work.?Here are the benefits:?

1. Social media budgets become more manageable. Your organization will no longer leak dollars with a half-hearted attempt to be, and post everywhere.?
2. Brands and businesses will gain a more authentic voice. It's difficult to develop a genuine, humanized voice on every platform. Attention to a single network will help brands cultivate a more persuasive personality.?
3. Become more efficient. Many companies on social media see a great deal of success on one platform, but still grind away at others. Why not focus resources on where your engagement is deepest??
4. Improve your chances at earned media and viral success. These grow out of a deep understanding of a social network's idiosyncrasies, not by throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.?
5. Develop a knack for avoiding social media gaffes and bloopers. Many of the social media foot-in-mouth moments of recent years grow out of a lack of comprehension for what makes each network tick.?
6. Users have developed sophisticated network-specific cultures. They can spot a poser from a mile a way.?
7. Creative freedom: This may sound counter-intuitive, since choosing to focus energies on a single platform would seem to close off options. But focus actually opens up opportunities. Ideas come more easily once a single primary platform is chosen.?
8. Avoid top-down strategies that try to fit round pegs into square holes. Ideas for posts and campaigns will be driven by a more bottom-up thought process.?And not by the nebulous question, "What's our social media strategy?"
9. Drive better recruiting and contracting decisions. If a single platform is prioritized, the search for social media talent becomes clearer. Different kinds of expertise are required for each network.
10. Finally, a deliberate platform-centric approach allows for more straightforward testing and tracking of results. If one platform focus doesn't work, another emphasis can be tried. But data will be cleaner and priorities will be easier to rearrange.?

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Of course, this doesn't mean brands and businesses can't establish a?presence?across platforms, or if they have the budget ? tailor custom strategies to each of the main platforms.

We also propose six broad strategies for going "platform-native," and give examples to illustrate them.?

Marketers can secure footholds on alternative social channels ? and drive audiences to their primary channel. (Google+ is particularly effective in a secondary role, since profiles and posts appear alongside search results.)

These are the six networks we cover, and the report suggests a platform-specific strategy for each:?

These are just some of the possibilities. Once a brand or business commits to a single social media channel, possibilities begin to open up.

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New prime ministers asked to decide what happens if nuclear war destroys London

"Each Pebble group would be an embryo central Government, headed by a senior minister.

"If London were destroyed, the senior surviving minister would take over the surviving central Government, and arrangements have been made for him to exercise control of the Polaris force at sea if neither you nor one of the nuclear deputies survived."

The new prime minister would also have been briefed about the "unlikely" event of a ?bolt from the blue? nuclear strike that killed all forms of government.

Polaris submarine commanders were told if there was a nuclear attack on Britain or if they received no contact from naval headquarters for four hours, they should open a sealed envelope containing a letter from the Commander-in-Chief Fleet.

This set out the conditions under which a second envelope containing specific instructions from the prime minister about the use of the vessels? nuclear weapons should be opened.

The briefing notes disclose that the new premier would have been told: "Mrs Thatcher's orders cease to be operative, and I should like to discuss this matter with you, with a view to obtaining your decision on what the last resort orders should be.?

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Google's Privacy Balancing Act

In 2011, Google Inc. Chief Executive and co-founder Larry Page asked executives to develop a new, simplified privacy tool that would act as a kind of sliding scale, allowing users to designate whether they wanted minimal, medium or maximum collection of information about them in all of Google's services, and how much the information would be shielded from being viewed by other users.

After much wrangling and many attempts to build the "slider" tool, whose three main settings were nicknamed "kitten," "cat" and "tiger," the idea was abandoned last year, according to people familiar with the matter. Because Google has so many Web services that operate differently, executives found it impossible to reduce privacy controls to so few categories, these people said. Also, allowing people to select the maximum-protection setting, known as the "tin-foil-hat option," went against Google's newer efforts to get more people to share information about themselves on the Google+ social-networking service, they said.

Technology companies say they care about user privacy and seek to shield their users from unwarranted government intrusion, but they are collecting and sifting increasing volumes of user data from which they profit. For most consumers, providing personal information for Web services is a worthwhile trade. Others object to having their online lives tracked and analyzed.

The breadth of Google's information gathering about Internet users rivals that of any single entity, government or corporate. The Web search and advertising giant continues to expand its collection and analysis of data, turning its mission to index the world, its people and their interests into a roughly $50 billion-a-year advertising business. Google executives also remain closed about much of its internal data-handling practices, fearing that discussing privacy-related topics might hurt the company with consumers, according to people who have worked on privacy issues at the firm.

But there are signs Google is feeling increased pressure to calibrate how much emphasis it puts on user privacy. Scarred by a small number of past user-privacy missteps that generated global controversy, and under increased regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe, executives are engaged in wide-ranging internal debates and in some cases slowing product launches to address privacy concerns, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president for Chrome and apps, speaks at the Google I/O conference in May.

Eric Grosse, Google's vice president of security and privacy engineering, said in an interview that the company cares deeply about protecting people's personal information and tries to be "as forthcoming as we can" about how all the intricate mechanisms on the Web work.

Thousands of Data 'Events'

Every hour, an active Google user can generate hundreds or thousands of data "events" that Google stores in its computers, said people familiar with its data-gathering process.

These include when people use Google's array of Web and mobile-device services, which have long collected information about what individuals are privately searching for on the Web. It includes the videos they watch on YouTube, which gets more than one billion visitors a month; phone calls they've made using Google Voice and through nearly one billion Google-powered Android smartphones; and messages they send via Android phones or through Gmail, which has more than 425 million users.

If a user signs in to his or her Google account to use Gmail and other services, the information collected grows and is connected to the name associated with the account. Google can log information about the addresses of websites that person visits after doing Google searches.

Even if the person visits sites without first searching for them on Google, the company can collect many of the website addresses people using Google's Chrome Web browser or if they visit one of millions of sites that have pieces of Google code, such as its "+1" button, installed.

Android-based phones and Google Maps can collect information about people's location over time. Google also has credit-card information for more than 200 million Android-device owners who have purchased mobile apps, digital books or music, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

Google doesn't have as much information tied to individual people by name as does Facebook Inc., according to some former Google employees. (Facebook says it has more than 1.15 billion monthly active users, though the social network performs fewer functions and thus captures fewer data types than Google.) But Google, by pushing website visitors to use services such as its Google+ social-networking service, has been working to catch up on that front.

The company is continuing to try to learn more about individual users so that it can provide personalized services such as Google Now, which tries to provide information to people before they even search for it, such as alerting them to traffic updates before their scheduled meetings.

Going forward, Google could obtain new types of data through wearable devices such as Google Glass that can capture information around the wearer, and through its efforts at owning the pipes and airwaves that directly connect people to the Internet in cities in the U.S., South Africa and elsewhere.

Google has a "unique responsibility to have serious safeguards around how it uses data, given the vastness of its scope," said Jules Polonetsky, chairman of the Future of Privacy Forum, a nonprofit think tank sponsored by Google and many other technology companies.

In 2,200 words, Google's privacy policy puts few restrictions on how much it can collect or use. More than most peers, Google has been willing to show users some of the information it has collected about them, a feature they can access through their Google accounts or privacy settings. (Very few consumers actually use the tools, according to people familiar with their usage.)

Google also makes available to people a list of information that is used to target ads to them, based on the websites Google knows they have visited and information they have provided to Google services. People have the option of blocking Google from targeting ads to them based on the data.

More Privacy Fights

But more-rigid privacy reviews and launch delays are more common now, say people familiar with the matter. Creating Google Now, a service for mobile devices that was developed starting in 2011 and launched in 2012, was an ordeal, said a person familiar with the process. The Google Now team had to obtain extensive permissions for clearance to siphon out data from different product groups, such as Gmail and Google Search, this person said.

Legal reviews of the product delayed development by weeks, this person said. The product team had to make sure that if a person deleted an email from Gmail, for instance, Google Now would also delete that piece of information, another person said.

Google's engineering privacy group and company lawyers sometimes hold off a launch until such changes have been made, said other people familiar with the process.

"The product is not...God anymore," one of these people said.

Some products holdups occur to make sure that information collected about users when they are signed in to their Google accounts cannot be combined with information collected about the same users when they aren't signed in, according to another person familiar with the process.

The company has long believed in keeping such buckets of data separate from one another, though since 2011 it has increasingly combined information about people's use of Google services while they are signed in.

When a person isn't signed in and uses Google's Web-search engine, for instance, the search information is collected and tied to his or her IP address?a string of numbers associated with his or her computer?and a "cookie" data file stored on his or her Web browser. The company says it anonymizes that information after nine months, stripping off some of the IP numerals.

Privacy watchdogs in some European countries have issued rulings that Google must roll back part of its 2012 privacy-policy changes that made it easier for the company to mix pieces of data about a person that were collected by various services, or that Google must provide users with details about how long it keeps each type of data about them. Some of the agencies say Google needs to give users the ability to agree to the 2012 changes or keep their information separate as it had been before.

Google has said its changes respect European law and that it is engaged in talks with authorities.

Write to Amir Efrati at amir.efrati@wsj.com

A version of this article appeared July 30, 2013, on page B1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Google's Data-Trove Dance.

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