Retailers In Airports Are Thriving Right Now - Business Insider

Retailers in airports are doing incredibly well right now, reports Erin C. Clack at Women's Wear Daily.

Airport retail is predicted to increase to $39.1 billion in sales by 2015. That's almost a 45 percent leap from back in 2010, according to a Datamonitor report cited by WWD.

Space right now is at a premium, and airports are trying to make more space for new stores.

Retailers are trying all sorts of new things in airports as well. For instance, supermarket mammoth Tesco is trying out an "interactive virtual grocery store" in London Gatwick Airport, which lets customer browse dozens of grocery goods through animated screens.

But remember, airport retail is an inherently volatile industry, since it's so dependent on airline traffic and regulations are constantly changing. There are also issues with logistics and security when you're running a store inside an airport.?

NOW SEE: 9 Trends That Are Transforming The Retail World >

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/retailers-in-airports-are-thriving-right-now-2012-8

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Milwaukee Specialty Food and Coffee: Coffee Differences Between ...

I'd like to recount some of the differences I observed in coffee and cafe culture between Europe and the United States, Milwaukee in particular. I'd also like to extrapolate a bit and talk about how those might reflect deeper differences in how we live.

I've written before about our repudiation of the larger, and there's no better example than the empty tables and chairs outside restaurants and coffeehouses in Milwaukee, even on an almost perfect summer evening such as this. An embrace of the larger--presumably the route taken by the inhabitants of Paris, for example--is to sit outside in close quarters with strangers while enjoying admittedly overpriced food and drink. By and large, those people also have e-mail inboxes, Facebook feeds and televisions--but they know when to turn them off. The greatest tragedy of life in the United States over the last thirty years has been the individual bubbles we have all grown around ourselves.?

We've made remarkable gains in the last dozen or so years in counteracting that, at least on occasion. Where municipal codes usually prohibited outside seating here, it has now become commonplace. However, it is woefully underutilized compared to Europe, where you often wouldn't even be able to get a seat. Sadly, it seems that of the two groups, only Europeans enjoy being around other people for the sheer joy of it. Here, every ideal tends toward escape. Our cars and houses can never be large enough to insulate us from others, our suburbs never far enough to keep us from the great unwashed, our Purell never abundant enough to wash away contamination from others.

Until, in a moment, the illusion shatters, as it did in the Denver area in April 1999 and again last month. I hardly think it's a coincidence that both crimes should have been committed in the newer, Western America of sprawling suburbs, endless commutes and absentee parents. I believe the system that perpetuates those things is a kind of violence against us all. It takes a severe toll on our relationships and our mental and physical health. It's not capitalism; capitalism flourishes as well or better without them. It's the hyperspeed and hypergreed of people and institutions that want us to consume--particularly fossil fuels--at the fastest burn rate possible.

Anyway, to return to the original topic, the menu in that European cafe will offer simply "coffee", in perhaps five configurations with varying amounts of milk. In my experience, no cup is larger than about six ounces. The drinks usually have more or less crema and the taste being aimed for seems to be bland and unobtrusive, with most cups also being overextracted. The few satisfactory European coffees I had include an outstanding espresso taken with lunch in Paris and...espresso at Starbucks. Most notably, Parisian Starbucks (at least at one location) offered a choice of dark or Blonde roast espresso. I had the Blonde, and it was outstanding.

By the way, in-room coffee is not common in Europe. I'd recommend buying a small, inexpensive hot water boiler at a department store for the equivalent of ten bucks, then picking up some sticks of instant coffee (or even bringing VIA or some such from the States; the Starbucks in Europe don't seem to have VIA).

Source: http://www.milwaukeespecialtycoffee.com/my_weblog/2012/08/coffee-differences-between-europe-and-milwaukee.html

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This Is How Apple TV Could Turn Into an Amazing Cable Box [Apple]

Six years ago, Apple tried to patent a harmless looking menu for navigating videos. Today, it got that patent. What's happened in those six years? Apple's poised to become the biggest TV company in the world—now we're seeing how. More »


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Elton John -- Hey Loser, I Didn't Steal Your Dumb Lyrics | TMZ.com

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Elton John?insists ... he did NOT steal the lyrics to his song "Nikita" -- especially not from some NO-NAME songwriter -- despite a recent lawsuit that says otherwise ... and now, Elton's asking for the suit to be thrown out of court.

TMZ broke the story ... a songwriter named Guy Hobbs sued Sir Elton back in April, claiming Elton jacked his song lyrics ... then used them to pen the chart-topping 1985 hit "Nikita" ... without Hobbs' knowledge or consent.

But Elton is firing back -- filing his own legal docs in response, claiming, "The suggestion that the Grammy-Award winning composer/lyricist team of Elton John and Bernie Taupin ... would need to copy these commonplace elements from [Hobbs'] lyrics is not only baseless and absurd, but it also misses the essential legal point."

Which is ... Hobbs can't legally copyright an idea -- especially not something as broad as a theme involving?a Western man falling for a Russian woman.

According to the docs, Hobbs believes?Elton also copied his use of the EXTREMELY commonplace phrase "I need you" in the chorus ... as well as the words "just" and "never."

Bottom line -- Elton claims Hobbs' complaint is so vague ... the guy has no right to sue for copyright infringement, period.

Elton wants Hobbs' lawsuit dismissed stat. A judge has yet to rule.

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Source: http://www.tmz.com/2012/08/13/elton-john-nikita-lyrics-response-lawsuit/

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USD/CAD: Loonie trading flat in the Asian session | GCI Forex News

USD CAD

USDCAD Movement

For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, USD rose 0.12% against the CAD to close at 0.9925.

In the Asian session, at GMT0300, the pair is trading at 0.9925, with the USD trading flat from yesterday?s close.

The pair is expected to find support at 0.9907, and a fall through could take it to the next support level of 0.9888. The pair is expected to find its first resistance at 0.9942, and a rise through could take it to the next resistance level of 0.9958.

The currency pair is trading between its 20 Hr and 50 Hr moving averages.

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Gwinnett Braves vs. Syracuse Chiefs | Snellville Sports & Recreation ...

Sunday, August 26, 2012, 5:05 pm

Coolray Field, 2500 Buford Dr, Lawrenceville, GA | Get?Directions??
$8.00

The Gwinnett Braves host the Syracuse Chiefs in a four game home series Aug. 23-26.

It's "Drive Me Crazy" night at the ball park with a mega-everything drive. Help stock local shelters and storage centers with canned goods, clothes, sports equipment, toys and books. Donations will be accepted Aug. 23 through Aug. 30. It's also Race-car night, enjoy racing clips and maybe even a few race cars.

It's Cancer Awareness Night at the field and stay after the game for the Fox 5 Friday Fireworks. There will also be a Mystery Ball Auction to benefit the Gwinnett Braves division of the Atlanta Braves Foundation. Mystery bags will be sold for $25 each and each bag will hold a baseball autographed by one Major or Minor League player.

It's a jersey auction night at Coolray Field. Get your bids in early for a Gwinnett Braves jersey.

Sunday's game is at 5:05 p.m. and fans can bring their four legged friends to this "Bark in the Park" game. It's also Family Sunday, so bring your ball and glove for a pregame catch in the outfield 20 minutes prior to game time and kids run the bases after the game.

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Consumers perceive risk when 'price' means more than money

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When companies combine different pricing structures such as asking for effort or information in combination with or instead of money consumers perceive a greater risk in the decision to buy.

That's according to University of Cincinnati research to be presented at the Aug. 15-17 Behavioral Pricing Conference in Detroit, Mich., by doctoral marketing student John Dinsmore. His paper is titled "Mental Accounting, General Evaluability Theory and the Framing Losses Posed by Partitioned Monetary and Nonmonetary Prices."

According to Dinsmore, shoppers routinely arrive at buying decisions by categorizing and evaluating prices, a process known as mental accounting that helps consumers judge a level of loss or sacrifice posed by pricing strategies.

"Companies have lots of options when pricing products. They can charge money, or they can require something else such as watching an advertisement," explained Dinsmore of UC's Carl H. Lindner College of Business.

And in the eyes of the consumer, greater sacrifice means more risk, he added.

This risk can be tied to cash outlay and an additional consumer sacrifice to obtain a good or service, such as time spent evaluating product information, partaking in services or registering personal information to be granted user access.

Dinsmore's research, for which he won an honorable mention from the Fordham University Pricing Center, New York, as one of three finalists in the 2012 Behavioral Pricing Dissertation Competition, consisted of an online survey of about 300 people in which he presented them with identical product descriptions and randomly used three different pricing structures.

Surveyed "consumers" were asked to consider different expenses (money, time and information privacy) and assess anticipated risk.

"I found that products with multiple monetary prices did not appear any riskier than products with a single price," he said. "Products with different price categories, for example charging money and requiring consumers to view an ad before buying a product, seemed riskier."

In other words, these nonmonetary costs evoke different mental considerations, a field of study known as behavioral pricing research that observes buyer behavior as it relates to characteristics behind perceived value.

What does it mean for businesses? It's all about striking a risk balance, Dinsmore explained.

"As businesses seek new ways to make money off their product or search for new revenue streams, there could be negative unintentional consequences for combining different categories of prices, " he stated.

Dinsmore added that for each type of price a company attaches to a product, a different set of consumer concerns may arise: "The wider array of concerns (e.g. privacy), the riskier that product seems."

Businesses will need to assess whether they can afford if their product is viewed as slightly more risky, he said.

"Companies may be better off charging a higher monetary price than opting for a seemingly cheaper (monetarily) but combined pricing strategy," according to Dinsmore.

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Contact: M.B. Reilly
reillymb@ucmail.uc.edu
513-556-1824
University of Cincinnati

When companies combine different pricing structures such as asking for effort or information in combination with or instead of money consumers perceive a greater risk in the decision to buy.

That's according to University of Cincinnati research to be presented at the Aug. 15-17 Behavioral Pricing Conference in Detroit, Mich., by doctoral marketing student John Dinsmore. His paper is titled "Mental Accounting, General Evaluability Theory and the Framing Losses Posed by Partitioned Monetary and Nonmonetary Prices."

According to Dinsmore, shoppers routinely arrive at buying decisions by categorizing and evaluating prices, a process known as mental accounting that helps consumers judge a level of loss or sacrifice posed by pricing strategies.

"Companies have lots of options when pricing products. They can charge money, or they can require something else such as watching an advertisement," explained Dinsmore of UC's Carl H. Lindner College of Business.

And in the eyes of the consumer, greater sacrifice means more risk, he added.

This risk can be tied to cash outlay and an additional consumer sacrifice to obtain a good or service, such as time spent evaluating product information, partaking in services or registering personal information to be granted user access.

Dinsmore's research, for which he won an honorable mention from the Fordham University Pricing Center, New York, as one of three finalists in the 2012 Behavioral Pricing Dissertation Competition, consisted of an online survey of about 300 people in which he presented them with identical product descriptions and randomly used three different pricing structures.

Surveyed "consumers" were asked to consider different expenses (money, time and information privacy) and assess anticipated risk.

"I found that products with multiple monetary prices did not appear any riskier than products with a single price," he said. "Products with different price categories, for example charging money and requiring consumers to view an ad before buying a product, seemed riskier."

In other words, these nonmonetary costs evoke different mental considerations, a field of study known as behavioral pricing research that observes buyer behavior as it relates to characteristics behind perceived value.

What does it mean for businesses? It's all about striking a risk balance, Dinsmore explained.

"As businesses seek new ways to make money off their product or search for new revenue streams, there could be negative unintentional consequences for combining different categories of prices, " he stated.

Dinsmore added that for each type of price a company attaches to a product, a different set of consumer concerns may arise: "The wider array of concerns (e.g. privacy), the riskier that product seems."

Businesses will need to assess whether they can afford if their product is viewed as slightly more risky, he said.

"Companies may be better off charging a higher monetary price than opting for a seemingly cheaper (monetarily) but combined pricing strategy," according to Dinsmore.

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The scent of love: Decomposition and male sex pheromones

ScienceDaily (Aug. 10, 2012) ? Young virgin female hide beetles (Dermestes maculatus) are attracted to cadavers by a combination of cadaver odour and male sex pheromones, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology. Neither cadaver scent, nor male sex pheromones alone, caught the fancy of the fussy females. This predilection ensures that there is both a waiting male and food for her larvae, and optimises the chances of reproductive success.

Decomposition of a vertebrate cadaver is a sequential buffet for many carrion species including insects. Different species have evolved preferences for different stages during decomposition. The first to arrive are blow flies and flesh flies, whose larvae feed on the still moist tissue, followed by clown and rove beetles, who eat the larvae. Adult skin/hide beetles will start to arrive and feed on the remaining skin and ligaments, but will not breed until advanced decay has set in.

By the time the cadaver has been reduced to bones, hair, and dried out skin only the larvae of hide beetles, as well as scarabs and checkered beetles remain. The life cycle and sequence of arrival of these flies and beetles is so predictable that it can be used by forensic scientists to estimate time of death.

A team of researchers, led by Christian von Hoermann from Ulm University, Germany, filled olfactometers with different volatile scents and recorded which scents female hide beetles were attracted to. The scents used were pig cadaver, collected at different stages of decay, male pheromone gland extract, synthetic pheromones, and a control, pentane (an organic solvent which was used to extract the other odours).

The females ignored both the control and synthetic pheromone. In fact they pretty much ignored everything apart from the odour of piglet in the dry remains stage, as long as it was enhanced by male pheromones.

Christian von Hoermann explained, "Although cadaver odour alone is not sufficient to attract two to three week-old virgin female hide beetles, it is enough to attract newly emerged males." Release of pheromones by these males appears to signal the cadaver as an appropriate site for feeding, mating and egg laying. Evolution seems to have ensured that hide beetle females only respond to a mate (or a food source for their larvae) when the other is also present, so that they can optimise the chances of their offspring's survival.

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  1. Christian von Hoermann, Joachim Ruther and Manfred Ayasse. The attraction of virgin female hide beetles (Dermestes maculatus) to cadavers by a combination of decomposition odour and male sex pheromones. Frontiers in Zoology, 2012 (in press) [link]

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Monday's Mourning Ministry

I Can Only Imagine

~MercyMe

with the London Symphony Orchestra





I Can Only Imagine

~MercyMe

with the London Symphony Orchestra

I can only imagine what it will be like

When I walk by Your side

I can only imagine what my eyes will see

When Your face is before me

I can only imagine

Yeah

Surrounded by Your glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance for You Jesus?

Or in awe of You be still?

Will I stand in Your presence

Or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing, Hallelujah?

Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

I can only imagine when that day comes

And I find myself standing in the sun

I can only imagine when all I will do

Is forever, forever worship You

I can only imagine, yeah

I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance for You Jesus?

Or in awe of You be still?

Will I stand in Your presence

Or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing, Hallelujah?

Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance for You Jesus?

Or in awe of You be still?

Will I stand in Your presence

Or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing, Hallelujah?

Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine, yeah

I can only imagine

I can only imagine, yeah

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

When all I would do

Is forever, forever worship You

I can only imagine

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