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CART MEDIA CONFERENCE
T.E. McHALE: Thank you and good afternoon to everyone. Welcome to the CART Media Teleconference. We want to thank you all for joining us today. We would like to extend a special welcome to our guest this afternoon, driver Alex Zanardi of Target/Chip Ganassi Racing. Welcome, Alex. Thanks for taking the time to be with us today.
ALEX ZANARDI: Thank you very much.
T.E. McHALE: Before we begin with Alex, I'd like to make you all aware that approximately 20 minutes ago, the city of Houston Texas, Texaco and Championship Auto Racing Teams announced an agreement to stage a PPG CART World Series event on the streets of Downtown Houston on October 4, 1998 continuing annually through the year 2003. The event will be known as the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston and will be contested on a 1.68 mile, 10-turn road course anchored at the George R. Brown Convention Center which will serve as the headquarters for the event. Management will be under the auspices of Texaco Houston Grand Prix LLC, a joint venture between Texaco Incorporated and Carl Haas, co-owner of the Newman/Haas Racing Team which campaigns Michael Andretti's Kmart, Texaco/Havoline Swift Ford and Christian Fittipaldi's Kmart Budweiser Swift Ford in the PPG CART World Series. With the addition of Houston, five street races will be contested as part of the 1998 PPG CART World Series. Other street races are held in Detroit; Long Beach, California; Toronto, Ontario; Vancouver British Columbia and Queensland, Australia. Tickets for the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston will go on sale soon. Anyone needing a copy of the press release announcing the race may obtain one by calling me at Championship Auto Racing Team's office 248-362-8800. At this point I want to turn it over to Mike Knight of Target/Chip Ganassi Racing who has a brief update before we introduce Alex. Mike.
MIKE KNIGHT: Thanks for taking time to join us. We just wanted to bring you up-to-date on a couple of things after Alex's victory in last week end's U.S. 500. As I think many of you are aware Target/Chip Ganassi Racing entered into a special relationship with St. Jude's Children Research Hospital in Memphis this year to contribute money towards the construction of the Target House which will be the home away from home for the families of patients who are being treated at St. Jude's. For every race victory, the team contributes $5,000 to the Target House construction. $1,000 to every pole position and $25 for every lap led. And, it is significant that I bring it up at this time because thanks to Alex's great performance at Michigan last weekend, a total of $7,600 was added to the total at the U.S. 500 which has now brought the team's contribution to St. Jude and the Target House to over $25,000 for the season. The total being $25,475. We also did want to bring you up-to-date on the fact that Alex will be testing at the new California speedway this Thursday and Friday in preparation for the Marlboro 500 which, as you know, is the concluding race of the season this year on September the 28th. Meanwhile, PPG Cup Champion Jimmy Vasser and team owner, Chip Ganassi, are en route to Japan. Jimmy will be running some demonstration laps at the new Motegi Twin Racing Circuit which as you already know has already been announced as the host of the Budweiser 500 Kilometer Race. Next year Jimmy and Chip will be participating in various opening ceremonies at Motegi. And, Jimmy will be driving his Target Reynard Honda in demonstration laps at Motegi later this week. Regarding the upcoming Miller 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, we did want to advise you that both Jimmy and Alex have tested at Mid-Ohio and last year's race at Mid-Ohio represented the first ever 1-2 finish for Target/Chip Ganassi Racing with Alex leading 79 of the 83 laps to win the race from the pole. Jimmy Vasser led the other 4 laps to finish second. And, T. E. That is all that I had. Thank you very much.
T.E. McHALE: Thank you, Mike. Now we will introduce Alex. Driver of the number 4 Target Reynard Honda who won Sunday's second annual U.S. 500 presented by Toyota and took the PPG Cup lead in the process. It was the 6th victory of Alex's career, his third of the season following earlier wins at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and the Medic Drug Grand Prix of Cleveland. And, it was his first career victory on an oval. He led a race high 104 of 250 laps, finished 31.737 seconds ahead of runnerup Mark Blundell and averaged 167.044 miles per hour en route to the victory. Alex now owns 6 victories and 9 pole positions in 28 career starts in the PPG CART World Series. He has earned 58 of his series high 127 PPG Cup points in the last three races with a win from the pole at Cleveland, a runnerup finish at Toronto and Sunday's victory at Michigan Speedway. As Mike already alluded to, Alex enters the August 10th Miller 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course as defending champion having won from the pole at Mid-Ohio last season. He holds a 6.127 to 121 lead over Paul Tracy in the PPG Cup race. The Miller 200, round 13 of the PPG World Series, will be televised live by ABC on Sunday August 10 at 3 P.M. eastern daylight time. With that, we will open it up for questions.
Q. You have won your last two races with some fantastic charges from behind, back in the 20s, in both races. But, now, you are coming to a course at Mid-Ohio that is not really conducive to charging. I think that the farthest anyone has ever won a CART race from is the 6th starting position there. So, say, you are in the middle of the race and something has happened to you where you are back in the pack again, how far back in the pack do you think you can possibly be, say, at that point, and expect to mount a charge similar to the ones that you have had in your last two victories?
ALEX ZANARDI: Well, it is very simple. I mean, the plan both for Cleveland and for the U.S. 500 was to stay on the lead. And, the reason we fell down there was because something went wrong and we found ourselves in that situation. Now, we are totally aware of, me, Chip, all the engineers that we have some problems; we have been working on those problems, and we know that in circuits like Mid-Ohio or Vancouver, for example, if we have a problem like that, we will probably throwing the weekend away. So, we are totally aware. But, if, for instance, we start from the front row, we better stay there. Nevertheless, whenever you have a problem or you face a situation that change completely your strategy of the race, you have to try to get the best out of it. Cleveland, fortunately, was a circuit where you could -- I wouldn't say easily, but you could overtake people, especially in the situation we were, we took advantage and the team did an amazing job taking advantage of the problem that we had earlier on in the race when the race was just about to go green again on that first yellow, we pit again. And, we put that little extra amount of gas that made us able to then push very, very strong all race long. And, that was an advantage, definitely, in the last part of the race itself. In Michigan, it is clearly easy if you have the speed to overtake people in front of you. But, as you said, we are totally aware that in Mid-Ohio it is going to be a different deal and our plan is to try to stay on the lead and not have to recover.
Q. I was wondering you said that in the post-race press conference a few years ago you couldn't speak very much English. How did you pick up the language?
ALEX ZANARDI: Well, I don't know. Just talking to people, mechanics, relationship in general with everybody I guess my main strength initially was the fact that I wasn't aware of looking bad to people saying funny things sometimes and seeing people laughing at me. But, you know, when you basically living out of your country for so long and you basically obliged to speak a language, you finally pick it up very fast because, I mean, you have no choice, no option. I never had a manager. I never had anybody here except my wife and so you know, I was obliged. I was thrown in that condition finally to put people -- to make people understand myself and to understand people, so, I guess because I was forced to do that. You know, now I am great to that factor because I speak another language. When I was a little kid I studied French at school and I can speak French, but I couldn't speak English. That was a problem in the first years of my career. But, now I guess it is not a factor anymore.
Q. I want to congratulate you, Alex, on your wins. But, you know, this last Sunday your race took intense concentration, 4 miles a minute. How do you feel a day or so after that?
ALEX ZANARDI: First of all, thank you very much for the congratulation. Yes, you are absolutely right it took a lot of concentration. It is actually the main problem when you are racing on a super speedway so fast like Michigan the main problem is to maintain the concentration because, believe it or not, when you are running -- after you have been running for 100 laps, it is -- everything you do, it becomes so automatic. It becomes, in a way, so easy to do; especially if the car is running well, that there is a lot of danger sitting in that aspect. Because if you lose your concentration - and I can guarantee that it is very easy to do so - sometimes you do maybe a little mistake and the time of recovering is less than a thousandth of a second. I mean, it is amazing, last year at the Marlboro 500 the second event we had in Michigan, I lost my car at the beginning of the Turn 3 and I hit the wall at the actual Turn 4. Then I went back with my scooter to check the distance between the point where I lost the car and I finally hit the wall and that is about a mile. So, it is incredible. You wouldn't believe that in half a mile a driver is not capable of catching his car back and, you know, still able to go around the circuit. But, this is the way it is. This is the speed you are going. And, that is the amount of concentration you have got to put in order to finish the race. On top of everything, it is a very, very hard and demanding race on the equipment, so you got to be able to share that concentration between your driving and listening to every little noise that is going around on the car in order to, you know, prevent any sort of problems. So, you have got to give a break to the car when it is time to do it. You got to take it very easy with the gearbox, as all the problems that other drivers had showed over the weekend. So, it is a very, very difficult race and I am obviously very proud of the fact that I won it even if, obviously, I know that last weekend the Target/Chip Ganassi Racing gave me probably the best piece of equipment that I drove in my career. So it was relatively easy.
Q. With Joe Montana, did you know who he was or did you know anything about him or when did you first come to understand, you know, who he was and what he had been in his football career?
ALEX ZANARDI: Well, it is pretty funny, when I first met Joe Montana I didn't know who he was. I mean, I am coming from Italy. Like all the sportsmen, I guess, all the sportsmen that are so committed and involved with their activity, I didn't have much time when I was a kid and I was racing go-carts and cars in Italy to follow other sports. And, you can obviously imagine that I didn't have time to follow American football in United States. So, I didn't know who Joe Montana was. You know, when you are a little kid and you follow commercial in television and there is one that you like because of the music or because of what they are doing. We had a commercial about a meat that they sell there a can, you know, that was called "Montana." And when I got introduced to Joe Montana, I thought he was the owner of that company. And, then later on they told me who he was. And, I clearly understood the first time I talked to him which kind of a person he is. And, I tell you that it has been very, very helpful with the team and for the team, but he has been terribly helpful for me in many occasion and in particular last year after the race I had in Long Beach, while I was leading I went off trying to overtake Bobby Rahal that I was a lap down and he came back -- I was very depressed because I lost the race and I felt -- in a way, I felt it was a little bit my fault, you know, for losing that race. And, he came back to me and he made me a long speech and he made me feel completely different. He made me find, again, the anger to go out there and try to do my job as best as I can. So, although, sometimes he doesn't know everything about motor racing, he knows a lot of how to find your way to win. It is obviously up to me to play with everything I have got, technically speaking, to achieve the goal. But, definitely it is very good to have somebody like Joe on your side.
Q. Congratulations on that U.S. 500 win.
Q. Your teammate Jimmy Vasser had his success early last season then held on for the title. How is it different for you this season peaking so strongly near the end?
ALEX ZANARDI: Well, I guess Jimmy is an excellent driver and a fantastic 500-mile-race driver because nobody better than him is capable of taking care of his equipment. What happened to him last weekend was pure bad luck. And, I knew that if his car would last until the end Jimmy was going to be a big factor in that race and probably one or the man to beat. But, I learn a lot from him. And, that is what you have to do. I mean, we both very good friends and we both share every piece of information we have concerning how to develop the car technically. And, I always help him a lot, especially on the road course and the street course, I -- sometime I have probably due to the fact that I have more experience for what it concerns - the setup of the car because of my past in Formula I and working with the active suspension cars in Formula I, I learn a lot. And, sometime I have new ideas, new things that I want to try and I share those things with Jimmy. And, he does the same with me. So, I have been trying to learn. I have been trying to go to school, if you like, because last year I approached both the 500 mile race like sprint races. I mean, at U.S. 500, I didn't want to leave the lead of a single lap to anybody. I want to lead all the laps and I was probably, maybe, I don't know, but maybe too hard on the equipment. I don't know. Maybe if I would have been a bit more gentle, I would have finished the race. At the second race I did a mistake and I finished the race in the fence. So, this year I was obviously very concentrated, trying to avoid both these kind of mistakes. And it worked very well. Plus, when I saw earlier on in the race both Michael and Greg Moore falling out of it, I decided that that was a race that I desperately had to finish. And, to be honest with you, just doing that, it took me to the end in a very good position. What surprised me a lot is the fact that a lot of people were running very good and very strong at the beginning of the race and some fell out in the early part and some were there at least almost at the end and those cars were actually slow second part of the race, so, it means that the condition of the circuit changed and they have not been able to adjust their cars, whether -- in the first part of the race I was very slow. I mean, I had a lot of problems at every pit spot, I had just something and I just -- just the aerodynamics of the car and I was playing with the anti-roll bars inside. Finally, from mid-race on, I found the combination that was working perfectly and was keeping my car in perfect balance from the first lap of each segment to the last. And, so, you know, at the end of the race I was really surprised by seeing some drivers going kind of backward and my car, at that point, was absolutely perfect. So, I wouldn't say it was a piece of cake, but it was relatively easy at the end.
Q. A lot of problems with cars breaking down, especially with the gearbox. How solid was your car when the mechanics had a chance to go over after the race?
ALEX ZANARDI: Obviously you always believe that the car is running great until you see a big smoke in your mirrors, and you soon find out that, you know, you pushed it too hard. But, I took good care of my equipment. I was trying the best, you know, downshifting, always using the clutch and we knew that the 500 mile races are very, very tough on the equipment and this one was going to be the worst because the heat was terrible, a lot of humidity. We knew the key to win was, first of all, try to finish and so, as I was saying, I was using clutch downshifting. I was upshifting also, lefting with the throttle. And, you know, I was letting the clutch slip maybe a little bit longer, taking off from the pit in order not to be so hard on the gears. I was trying to use all the tricks that probably other drivers did use too, but maybe I was more lucky than other people. What can I say? And, I got to the end of it.
Q. I'd like to ask Alex what do you think of this series going to Houston, a new market, and one that I understand is very popular with CART Racing?
ALEX ZANARDI: Well, for us it is -- obviously, we are very excited about that new race and it is very good for us because one of our associated sponsors is Texaco, so we couldn't come to a better place for them. And, I am obviously even more excited because I am not looking forward to -- although I just won a race on an oval and although it looked like I am finally getting the experience it takes to, you know, to be successful on ovals, I still believe that I am a stronger driver on road courses and on street courses, so I couldn't welcome another street race more than, you know, nobody more than me could do that. So, I am excited and I am looking forward to put the wheel down on the ground and see what it is.
Q. Alex, did you find out in what situation the gearboxes were failing? I had heard that it was coming in and out of the pits shifting then, but then also there -- maybe that there were some going on the track itself. Do you know?
ALEX ZANARDI: Yes, it is pretty simple in a way. You wouldn't believe that the gearbox is one of the most dangerous part of the car in a way. Let me explain again. You wouldn't believe that there could be any problem, especially in a circuit where you basically are not upshifting or downshifting at any time because, I mean, you are going almost flat out around Michigan and you never upshift or downshift. You stay in 6th gear all the time, so, you wouldn't believe that the gearbox could be a factor in the race. But, in fact it is, for a very simple reason: The engine gets cooled down from the water that goes in the radiators, but all the heat they that produce and they produce a lot of heat because you are basically going full power all the time, full revs all the time, all the heat that goes through the engine goes then to the gearbox which is the last part in the car. And, I am sure for the next event we will have some better cooling system. But, basically nobody was prepared to -- for this situation and maybe for the -- the reason is the fact that we never experienced something like that. We never raced on a 500 mile race with such a heat, such outside temperature. And, we were -- everybody was basically overheating the gearbox and the oil at that point becomes very, very fluid, lubrication becomes very, very difficult and the gears are basically so hot that when you come in into the pits and you downshift, if you don't use the clutch properly, if you don't flip the throttle properly in order to let the gear spin at the same RPM as the RPM of the motor, basically you can break and you can damage something. And this is what I believe happened to a lot of people. There is a lot of drivers that coming into the pits, they break with the left foot and they simply push down the lever in order to downshift and that could be definitely a problem because you bang the gear in and if the ratio is already extremely hard, it can break in pieces right away. I believe that was the main problem. Then a lot of drivers tried to be gentle in order to avoid that problem and for a lot of people it didn't work it anyway. For me, it did. So, I don't know whether I was better man other people in order to take care of the gearbox or it was simply more luck. But it worked and I take it.
Q. Congratulations, Alex.
ALEX ZANARDI: Thank you.
Q. You mentioned a moment ago when you were talking about learning the English language, you found yourself with no other option but to learn the English language. I am wondering when you find yourself in situations like you had at Cleveland and Michigan that you put it in your mind that you have no other option, this is what happened now, let us be positive?
ALEX ZANARDI: Well, absolutely. I don't like to -- I don't like to spend too many good words about what I did or about myself. I rather -- I guarantee that I enjoy very much when other people say good things about myself. But at that point I had no option, in Cleveland I fell down there and I was dead last and I was letting my anger going through my driving and I couldn't go around some back markers; that, in a normal situation, are very easy to pass. So, I just decide after one lap, I just decide, I said to myself, "Hey, Alex if you keep driving like this, we are not going to finish this race anyway. We are probably going to finish in the wall. So, let us forget about everything. Let us get the best out of this car lap by lap. It is going to be very hard because of the heat, because of how hard it is to drive around this course. But, let us try to drive it as you do it in qualify, get the 120 percent out of it every lap. And, then when the checker flags drop down, we will check what we have got." That is what I did. I never thought about, you know, when I was 4th or 3rd, I never thought, okay, that is good, I never thought about nothing. I just drove it as hard as I could. And, I knew I could count on a strong car and just drove it very, very hard until the end and, boy, when I saw that checkered flag then I start to realize what I did and I was obviously extremely happy and I had to do that something at that point, you know, to release the pressure, to release all the emotion that I kept inside deep inside and that is why I did those doughnuts to start to enjoy the pride and the joy of that victory.
Q. Did the confidence that you gained at Cleveland play into effect at Michigan when once again you found yourself down?
ALEX ZANARDI: Well, I believe that in life -- in sport, like in life, you do have good periods of your life where things go right and you do have bad periods where things go wrong. And, it certainly influence your -- it certainly change your effort a little bit. In other words, it is easier to do everything right when you get a little bit of help from luck and things that are going right. So, you actually give that maybe 5 extra percent that sometime it may be crucial. But, I don't personally believe that if you have a good race the following weekend you are going to win again simply because you have more motivation, you know -- because you know I did it so I am going to do it again and you finally do it. I don't think it is a question of desire. Motor racing is a question of preparation, dedication. It is a question of, you know, if you can do it, you are going to do it. That -- I don't know. That is my understanding and I know that there has been things happening in all the sports where you see a driver not winning nothing for years and then he wins one and then the following weekend he wins another one again. So, it would seem to be that, you know, all it takes is just desire and confidence. I don't think it is that way. I mean, even in Michigan I knew that I could do a good result, but I was never thinking about winning the race. I was just thinking about trying to do the best. And, recently at the Target/Chip Ganassi Racing we proved that our best, it is more than enough to win races sometime. But, nevertheless, we know that the opposition is very tough and it is going to take all we can to try to beat it. And, there is teams out there that are capable of doing the same kind of job that we have been doing. But, we definitely are confident that if we can get the best out of ourselves, we are going to be close to the lead. So, I am confident.
Q. Which races do you expect to be the strongest at for the rest of the season?
ALEX ZANARDI: Well, every one and no one. I know you want to hear something better. But, you see, last year I won my first -- I got my first win at Portland and we won that this year and we didn't look as competitive as we were last. Then we went to Cleveland and last year I started from the front row, but my teammate Jimmy Vasser was ahead of me and for some reason I was very, very strong out there. So, we know that Mid-Ohio should be a very good race for us. We have been testing there and we went very, very fast. Our car seems to work very well. We were definitely a clear second on the track record I set last year. So I, obviously, have to believe that the car is going to be all right and we are going to be probably competitive or more than competitive. We will have a good shot to win that race. But, what is really is giving me the confidence right now is the fact that I see our technical partners giving us very good equipment. When I say that, I mean Firestone has done an extremely good work recently and they provide us excellent tires. Their tire perform in the heat much better than what the Goodyear tires have. Honda has given us an excellent motor, very powerful. But, more than that, the Honda motor seems to suffer the heat that we are expecting from now on to the end of the season, much, much less than what the Mercedes and the Ford have been suffering. So, the Reynard chassis is good. A lot of drivers have the Reynard chassis. But, the Target/Chip Ganassi Racing has done some modifications to it. And, our Reynard chassis has been working very well. So, these are the factors that are giving me the confidence to believe that we are going to be protagonists in all the events from now on 'til the end of the season. I am obviously expecting a lot from the Mid-Ohio race because, as I said, I went there to test and we went very well. I am expecting also something very good out of Laguna Seca because it is a course that I love and, technically speaking, our car suits that course very, very well. But, I am expecting a lot from any event and I am not prepared to leave anything on the table.
MIKE KNIGHT: Just as a note for everyone, Alex mentioned the Firestone tires and the importance that they played in the victory at the U.S. 500. And I previously referenced the fact that Jimmy Vasser is on his way to Japan to do the demonstration at Motegi. Just as a note for everyone, the last set of Firestone tires that Alex took on on his last pit spot and drove to the checkered flag at Michigan, those tires were put onto the Target Reynard that is going to Japan and will be used on Jimmy's car when he makes the demonstration runs at Motegi. Thank you.
Q. Congratulations, Alex. You certainly proved to people that you can drive on the ovals. Going into Mid-Ohio, give me an overview of what you think is going to be a key factor in that race and thirdly, what are your plans for next year? I assume you are still going to be driving for Chip?
ALEX ZANARDI: Thank you for your congratulations. Obviously, going to Mid-Ohio, we know it is going to be a different scenario and you have to get the best in qualifying. You have to drive the car 120 percent and the only time where you can rest it up a little bit is if you are leading the race and you have some advantage, otherwise it is going to be a sprint race and it is going to be very fast one because a lot of people have been testing there and a lot of people are going to be fast. And, in order to beat them, you have got to get the best out of your equipment, so you cannot leave anything on the transporter. It is going to be a tough race. But, we are very confident. I mean, Morris Nunn, my race engineer, is not simply very good. It is very good with me. We have a good relationship. And, it look like every weekend we go out there, we start on Friday morning with a car and we ended up on Sunday afternoon with another car that normally is the car that I want to drive. So, it is very important for a driver to change his car over the weekend in order to achieve what he wants and not to have -- to be obliged to adapt himself or change his driving style in order to go around certain problems. I have choose a long time ago a certain driving style because I believe it is the fastest driving style, so I want to drive like that. And, I always try to make the car suit that kind of driving style. And, Morris, in those respects, help me a lot because we now have a perfect understanding and we always find the little tricks that finally makes the car work very well. So I hope it is going to be the case in Mid-Ohio as well. As I said, we have been testing there and the car has been running very well. We should have a good baseline to go out with and then we will change it if the conditions are going to be different. But, I guess we should have everything that it takes to do well. Concerning what I am going to do next year, I am under contract with Chip Ganassi for another year, so Chip -- well, I guess it is Chip's decision to keep me or fire me. If you guys have more news than me, please, let me know. Recently, Chip Ganassi has been smiling at me and he has told everybody that he is pretty happy with the job that I am doing so I guess I am staying there.
T.E. McHALE: Thank you Alex for joining us this afternoon. Alex, we wish you the best of luck in the upcoming Miller 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on August 10. Thank you all for joining us and we will talk to you again next week.
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It depends. Yes, if you just want a single site seal, although McAfee does not lack that far behind. However, if you want to go all in you may consider investing in three site seals: a Norton SSL seal to indicate an encrypted connection, a McAfee seal to indicate a clean, non-infected "hacker safe" site, and finally either a BBB Accredited or TRUSTe seal for establishing trust in consumer relations. This way you display all of the top 3 most trusted site seals, while at the same time catering to the customers with a high level of technical expertise who actually do know the difference between an encrypted connection, a hacker safe site, and a company with decent consumer relations.
The survey did not test whether one or multiple site seals is preferable (this would be an obvious case for doing an A/B test). Also, please note that this is a comparison of the 8 tested site seals, so just because Comodo only scored 2.8%, that doesn't mean their seal fails to inspire any confidence. Instead, what it means is that Norton's seal is vastly preferred over Comodo's.
Authored by Christian Holst. Published on January 22, 2013.
Forty-nine percent of the survey respondents chose the "Don't know or no preference" option. The survey had a median response time of 13.6 seconds, which indicates that the respondents at least took the time to review their options and look at the site seals before answering.
The respondent doesn't care about site seals.
The respondent genuinely has no preference.
The respondent is unable to rationalize a choice (to him/herself) and therefore doesn't want to pick one.
More than half of the Fortune 500 companies within B2C e-commerce have purchased either our checkout research or a checkout audit. This includes Symantec, the parent company of Norton as well as several other smaller companies within the SSL certificate industry. None of these companies have been involved in the making of this survey, or even informed about its existence. The survey was paid for entirely by the Baymard Institute using Google Consumer Survey and thus Google's respondent recruiting and testing mechanisms.
Just curious: how was the sample for your Google Consumer Survey chosen? Is it a pre-existing panel, a pop-up on Google sites or something else?
I think there's another possible reason for the results. As soon as I saw the set of logos, it struck me that Norton, TRUSTe and McAfee were the most simple and 'clean' seals and may therefore do well – and these were then the top three.
I'd agree that most people either don't care or have no opinion, but I don't think you can put the result down to brand awareness without questioning logo clarity.
If there's interest we'd consider doing a followup survey testing various design elements of a seal, including clarity, brand, "fake" logos, etc.
That's a good point. I'm sure the cleanliness of the logos would have some (more noticeable) weight in the decision if none of the brands were recognizable. But most people are completely clueless and when they see a brand they know, it makes a connection in their head.
Another factor in this, which would probably be bigger if not for Norton and McAfee's recognizability, is maybe how often a user has seen that logo before.
For me, I know that I would not trust Norton and McAfee more simply because I recognize their names from anti-virus software (and I also am a little biased against them because of the idea of bundled PC bloatware that nags you after 30 days), so I sort of penalized/eliminated them in my head. And I've never actually looked into the guidelines for Norton's, McAfee's, or any of the other seals, but in my head, I almost wanted to say I'd choose TRUSTe or Comodo because of the (not exactly correct) gut instinct that they must be good if a lot of people use them.
How people think they behave and how they actually behave are not the same. People are very poor at predicting behavior.
What this survey says is that people know Norton and McAfee brands. Whether those seals will actually positively affect conversions is a complete unknown. It might very well be that Comodo seal or a fake seal will have the same effect on conversions as Norton – this is no information available on this.
Yes – as Peep says – recognition doesn't tell us much about their thinking that happens after that. I get your point on the initial scan visibility, which will always work better with more well known brands. However, it's the bit after that I'm always interested in.
In many cases, actually showing seals near or on critical parts of a checkout process (payment, personal details entry) can have a negative impact. Split testing is the way to go but don't be surprised if you find the placement, page or step location and contextual wording to be different from what you thought would work logically.
Security, Privacy and Trust are complex and subtle things that need careful handling. I know – I've borked (and fixed) many pages over time. Testing sure beats my guessing (lol).
Craig, as usual, spot on.
Absolutely Craig, people should always do A/B tests. Generalized findings such as these can help you figure out what to test. Of course, many people don't do A/B testing for a myriad of reasons (insufficient traffic, technical barriers, etc). Those people will probably still benefit from generalized findings like these, but we agree that A/B testing is the ideal way to test and verify (re)designs. Of course, A/B testing doesn't tell us why people act the way they do, and this is where qualitative studies have their merit.
Agree with you Craig. The best thing is to carry out test and the impact of conversions by using the trust seals.
Do you have any data about impact of conversions using As Seen On Media placements?
Interesting hypotheses and directional findings.
However, I think your research reflects primarily brand recognition and not actual web user behaviour.
It would be significantly more useful (and it would do away with the pesky "49% Don't Know or No Preference") if you conducted a statistically valid A/B/n test. Then you would know "for sure" whether or not web users take action given a seal (or no seal, of course).
Hi Raquel Hirsch, thanks for your comment. We agree that A/B tests are hugely valuable, but they tend to be very site-specific.
There are so many elements in play on any given e-commerce website that are not part of the test yet have a great influence on why your variations perform the way they do. Changing your headers to a blue shade instead of red may sell better on site #1 but the same may not be true for site #2 because of how the blue shade clashes with other elements on the page and diverts the user's attention to less important elements.
A/B test results, especially of elements such as site seals that appear very late in the shopping experience, are therefore not optimal for generalized findings, but the results are of course invaluable to the business itself. We therefore always recommend that you test implementations and use generalized findings such as these as pointers as to what to test.
An interesting survey survey and thought-provoking results! so, most of us don't care about SSL and are vulnerable to frauds. I prefer Norton. Perhaps, another interesting thing to do is to the the same set pf survey questions -worded differently and then see the results. SoGoSurvey has some good samples you can check.
Interesting questions and answers/discussions at the comments part.
I also have a question of how the survey was displayed? Was there always the same order of above named seals? Or do you have changed the order? As there are about the half of the participants that answered "Don't Know or No Preference" I strongly suggest that if Norton was displayed on top user just click the first brand they know ("Norton? Oh, I know Norton!" – Click). This behaviour is for me equal to the user that answer with "Don't Know or No Preference".
Nope. Their order was randomized to avoid position bias.
Thanks for the excellent article. I think Norton would be considered a trust seal as well. We use Trustwave for our web application PCI compliance scanning and for our secure certificate and use Norton for their Safe Site program which does daily malware and business verification services. I think the combination of the two is good, although the Norton brand is certainly more widely known than the Trustwave brand. Since the application is multi-tenant, we can extend the benefits across to our clients.
I may be mistaken, but i believe you should only be using the Norton Safe site without SSL. If you use SSL with Safe Site, it should be a Symantec SSL. Makes sense to offer a fluid user experience, and the seal and its relevant services are free with the certificate. You are pretty much paying for the certificate already.
I think this survey may have a flaw. Norton is number 1 probably b/c it's a very reputable antivirus. I think sometimes people dont really look at the question carefully and dont want to answer a question as "dont know" especially when the question is "which badge gives you the most sense of trust" Norton is very popular and is know for "security and anti-virus" and thus people will be inclined to select that as the choice, if they dont recognize any of the other answers. I could be wrong, can anyone counter my opinion?
I do want to make one point. We know norton is a well known brand and if it is well know and trusted, it most likely is the best choice for a trust seal on your website. Too bad it's very expensive :( Maybe not the best choice for small ecommerce merchants.
The very simple fact that nearly 50% of people said "Dont Know" debunks your idea that people dont want to answer as such.
Obviously being a highly visible AV company helps Symantec and McAfee, which supports Baymard's theory that people care more about perceived security than actual security.
Which seals are most popular in Canada.
Great article and interesting to learn 50% of the people don't care which seal. Still it brings up the point that having ANY seal is preferable to not in the consumers mind.
It's definitely true that having a seal is a huge advantage to not having a seal. It makes perfect sense since it's impossible to just trust random people on the internet. I don't shop online without some sort of security seal or third-party verification seal. It's just too sketchy. However, I'm actually really surprised that this study left out Trust Guard's Trust Seals. They have an excellent reputation as well and provide a great service (at a much better price than any of their competitors).
I think the most scary thing is that people do not really care about what is behind the seal. The requirements for obtaining some of these seals are very low compared to what a malicious hacker is capable of.
For me it means a lot more if a company e.g. runs a responsible disclosure or bug bounty program, where they are tested daily by the security community. Some examples of this.
Hopefully this will be the one and only way in the future to display and communicate security.
Nice piece of information. I told my designer to use mcafee and norton for now as we can't afford anything extra at this point. If we get conversions, surely we would buy more seals.
We are evaluating Trust sites for one of our customers, and this article is helpful for us to give them a recommendation. Selecting the top 3 seals seems a good idea.
Trust is a big issue for my market, we currently use a few seals and have been looking into adding one more but that would make the total 3 seals. I Feel like that would be to much.
These mechanical seals are more cost effective, and in my opinion an improvement over the other seals.
Agreed. I'd love to know if anything has changed since the original post.
Is there any data or has anyone performed a survey regarding the level of trust associated with enhanced SSL certs that show up next to the browser bar in green with the company name (at least in Chrome)? I personally feel much more comfortable sharing sensitive information such as credit card or bank account information on a site with such a cert rather than just an https:// designation. We've recently converted our company websites to these certs and since the premium for these is significant it would be useful to have this information to share.
My customers do not care that I do not have a seal.If you treat your shoppers with respect and maintain a good name it pays out.
Curious how Google Trusted Store stacks up in this mix.
This is a good survey. I hope it is run on a periodic basis.
Google Trusted Store is being included in to 2016 update which will be released in our updated version of the "Checkout Usability Report" to be published Q2 2016.
This is very interesting Christian thanks for sharing the study. I am curious as to what demographics prefer these seals, I have an inclination that millennials such as myself don't place too much trust in them. I also agree with Peep and Craig that A/B testing is the only way to discover if these have a place on your site.
Maybe it's time to update this study. There are new players… and some of these aren't as relevant in today's online security world.
We're updating it here in 2016, also including some new players. The updated survey will be released in our updated version of the "Checkout Usability Report" to be published Q2 2016.
Definately interested in the update on this study, with the moves by Google to promote secure sites within search and all of the privacy news being banded around I am sure this will have had an impact. The privacy elements in the news will no doubt have had an impact on consumer opinion. but will they no proactively look by ssl/trust brand or simply for a green padlock?
Predicting users behavior is a difficult thing. Now I think as SSL is one of the ranking factor people are adding site seal. Users does not even notices.
After reading this article I contacted Norton to find out more about their services and was surprised to find how much they offer to the consumer. Being someone that does more shopping online rather than in stores, it was eye opening to find that they weren't just there to let customers know that the site was secure.
I'm sure the others offer similar support to customers, but I only spoke to Norton and found out that if a customer buys something from you and sees that the price goes down within a certain time frame, Norton will cover the difference up to a hundred dollars. Their sales pitch on that is that the customer would watch your site for that time period looking for the price to drop and potentially buy more, but I'm not convinced many consumers even know that service exists. They also have an identity theft coverage program that again, I'm sure most people are not aware of. I've definitely bought from sites with Norton seals and never knew about the coverage they were offering me.
Not sure that this article adds much value. All it really tells us, I think, is that most users are happy enough if they can see the green padlock, but if forced into a choice they go for familiar brands.
Norton wins because the design is cool then follows McAfee then the trash!
The Norton Secured Seal next to your search listing adds power to your brand and your click-through rates. It's built right into every Symantec SSL/TLS certificate for added protection against malicious infections.


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Founding Fathers Were Immigration Skeptics
The American people continue to be involved in a long-overdue national discussion of immigration. And yet, during the debate over the immigration bill that recently died in the Senate, I do not recall hearing the views of the Founding Fathers — even if only out of curiosity — considered, pursued or even raised. Contrary to […]
The American people continue to be involved in a long-overdue national discussion of immigration. And yet, during the debate over the immigration bill that recently died in the Senate, I do not recall hearing the views of the Founding Fathers — even if only out of curiosity — considered, pursued or even raised.
Contrary to what most Americans may believe, in fact, the Founding Fathers were by and large skeptical of immigration. If the United States lacked people with particular skills, then the Founders had no objection to attracting them from abroad. But they were convinced that mass immigration would bring social turmoil and political confusion in its wake.
In one of the most neglected sections of his Notes on Virginia, Thomas Jefferson posed the question, "Are there no inconveniences to be thrown into the scale against the advantage expected by a multiplication of numbers by the importation of foreigners?"
What was likely to happen, according to Jefferson, was that immigrants would come to America from countries that would have given them no experience living in a free society. They would bring with them the ideas and principles of the governments they left behind –ideas and principles that were often at odds with American liberty.
"Suppose 20 millions of republican Americans thrown all of a sudden into France, what would be the condition of that kingdom?" Jefferson asked. "If it would be more turbulent, less happy, less strong, we may believe that the addition of half a million of foreigners to our present numbers would produce a similar effect here."
Alexander Hamilton was even more blunt. He invited his fellow Americans to consider the example of another people who had been more generous with their immigration policy than prudence dictated: the American Indians. Hamilton wrote, "Prudence requires us to trace the history further and ask what has become of the nations of savages who exercised this policy, and who now occupies the territory which they then inhabited? Perhaps a lesson is here taught which ought not to be despised."
Hamilton was likewise unconvinced that diversity was a strength. The safety of a republic, according to him, depended "essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment, on a uniformity of principles and habits, on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice, and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family." He then drew out the implications of this point: "The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency."
George Washington contended in a 1794 letter to John Adams that there was no particular need for the U.S. to encourage immigration, "except of useful mechanics and some particular descriptions of men or professions." He continued: "The policy or advantage of its taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them."
Rufus King, a Massachusetts delegate to the Constitutional Convention, wrote in 1798 that emigrants from Scotland had typically brought with them certificates from "the religious societies to which they belonged" that testified to their good character. King proposed that something similar be required of all those wishing to settle here.
The problem here is not that the question — "Did the Founding Fathers support immigration?" — is usually answered incorrectly or badly. The problem is that it is never raised in the first place. (That's why it's the very first entry in my new book, 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask.)
The Founding Fathers were not infallible, of course, and they were sometimes wrong. But on a matter as critical as this one, shouldn't we at least be aware of what they thought?
How Empires End
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Written By Tom Woods
Mr. Woods' most recent book is Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century (Regnery) and he is the author of 33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Regnery) and Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (Regnery)

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There are loads of examples of wedding ceremony text online but if you don't have the time — and let's face it, when you're planning a wedding there's more than enough to do — then this wedding ceremony template is for you.
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Michael: The one I am presently employed at; Why? Because I get to test and reproduce the results of my own professional and academic success and apply all that I have learned in "library school" to helping others achieve their own academic and professional goals.
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Michael: My favorite thing about libraries and technology is convincing people how to use technology in libraries to work smarter not harder. My interest in technology started long before I decided to attend library school with my professional background in user support service, business analytics, and technology training. I bring a lot of cross function skills and abilities to the industry of library services for the right library organization that is open to growth and implementing technology not just as and administrative resolve to working efficiently but also to build value in information usability.
Michael: Honestly I don't keep track of the blogs or feeds that I read on an on-going basis simply because I feel that much of the information is fleeting, momentary and too subjective depending on the source. I take what I need from "these" sources, use it as it may apply to my current professional situation or circumstances and move to my next strategic professional goal or objective. Often times my goals, objectives and strategy for success evolves to quickly to sustain the subjectivity of how feeds and blogs are managed. LinkedIn is probably my favorite of all website for learning about industry and the professional world that surrounds me.
Also I try not stay too focused on just library related digital information environments as I think there are many other professional industries that librarians could learn from in exposing themselves to the activities of other industry standards. I also subscribe to Inc. Magazine and Fast Company as I believe that the survival of library environments and workflows within them exists in understanding the business of information and how technology facilities its evolution.
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The GI_Forum 2014 takes place from July 1st to July 4th in Salzburg, Austria. This year's motto "Geospatial Innovation for Society" sets the stage for keynote addresses, presentations, workshops and exhibitions that focus on innovations in technology, science education in the spatial domain, and their possible contribution to a more just, ethical and sustainable society. The GI_Forum is an annual conference and welcomes an international audience from academia, industry and governmental organizations. Over 1000 participants attend the conference every year. One of this year's Keynote addresses will be given by Diana Sinton from the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) our US partner in the SPACIT project. Her keynote address is expected to trigger discussions in and outside the lecture halls on strengthening connections between research, practice and education. The Learning with GI conference track will offer sessions on a variety of topics from citizen science and spatial citizenship to curriculum development, youth and urban space as well as GI-supported outdoor education. A discussion panel on how much GI(S) is needed in initial teacher education will round up the track. From the SPACIT project team Uwe Schulze from University Frankfurt will present "Spatial Citizenship – Creating a Curriculum for Teacher Education".


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Kellogg High School (KHS) is a public high school in Kellogg, Idaho, United States. It was established in 1956 and is part of the Kellogg School District #391.

History
Kellogg High School was built in 1956 for just under $1 million and was recognized nationally for its modern architecture. The original school was located in uptown Kellogg, near the south end of Main Street. Later the junior high, it was demolished in 1971 and is now the city's skate park.

Athletics
The school competes in athletics in IHSAA Class 3A, in the Intermountain League with Bonners Ferry, Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy, Priest River, and Timberlake (of Spirit Lake). Excluding Coeur d'Alene Charter, these league members are all north of Coeur d'Alene; former member St. Maries dropped to 2A in 2012, but remains the unofficial primary rival. While Wallace High School remains the formal school rival. Kellogg's neighboring school districts have smaller high school enrollments and compete in Class 1A, in the North Star Conference. Until 1976, Kellogg competed with the largest schools in the state in Class A-1 (now 5A).

Rivalry
The school's primary rival is St. Maries High School, about  to the southwest in Benewah County. The major school spirit competition between the two is called the "Brawl For The Ball." Begun in 2007, every level of basketball competes, and the schools also square off in a food drive, a dance-off, a cheerleading competition, and school spirit challenges. The winner receives a ball painted in both schools' colors and retains it for that year. In 2012, the respective school district superintendents had a friendly wager on the outcome of the boys' varsity basketball game; the loser had to wear the winner's jersey at the next superintendents' meeting.

State titles
Boys
 Basketball (4): (A, now 5A) 1955, 1956; (AAA, now 5A) 1959; (A-1, now 5A) 1964
 Golf (1): (3A) 2005, (3A) 2017

Girls
 Track (1): (A-2, now 3A) 1985 (introduced in 1971)
 Golf (2): (3A) 2013, (3A) 2016

References

External links

Schools in Shoshone County, Idaho
Public high schools in Idaho
Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in Idaho

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Oregon mom criticizes hospital after staff sent her baby home who later died from a rare infection
An Oregon mother has slammed the hospital that discharged her infant daughter hours before she fell into a coma and later died of strep-related meningitis.
Ginger McCall said she took her seven-week old daughter, Evianna Rose, to Salem Health Hospital in mid-March.
The first-time mother told hospital staff that she had tested positive for a strep infection when she was pregnant and believed the little girl may have contracted it.
However, nurses gave Evianna a saline drip and Tylenol and sent her home, reported the Salem Statesman Journal.
As her condition deteriorated, McCall took her daughter back to the ER, where she was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis that she had, indeed, developed from strep bacteria.
Evianna was transferred to a hospital in Portland, but it was too late. Just 48 hours after the first symptoms began, she passed away.
McCall said she wants to turn the tragedy into a lesson for health professionals to be educated on the signs of meningitis and for parents to recognize them as well so they can make sure their child is treated in time.
Ginger McCall's seven-week-old daughter, Evianna, had a fever and heavy breathing on March 15. Nurses in the ER at Salem Health said she had a viral infection, gave her fluids and Tylenol, and discharged her. Pictured: McCall with Evianna
McCall took her daughter to the pediatrician in Salem, Oregon, that same day, who told her to go back to the ER. That's when doctors finally recognized that Evianna (pictured) had bacterial meningitis
'I will never forget the nurse saying to me: "This is her immune system getting stronger. This is her getting stronger",' McCall told KPTV.
'And it wasn't. It was her dying. Every minute that they delayed, every minute that they didn't conduct the tests that they should've conducted, every minute that we spent driving between places – that mattered.'
McCall told the Statesman Journal that she was ecstatic when she discovered that she and her husband, Omar Quintero, were expecting their first child.
While she was pregnant, she developed Group B streptococcus, a bacterial infection that can be found in a pregnant woman's vagina or rectum.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it's found in 25 percent of expectant mothers.
Not every baby born to a woman with Group B strep will become ill, but the infection can be passed to the infant during delivery.
Evianna was born on January 24 and, for her first few weeks of life, neither her mother nor father noticed anything was wrong.
But, on the morning of March 15, McCall said her daughter was running a fever of 101.9F, so she and her mother-in-law rushed Evianna to the emergency room at Salem Health Hospital.
McCall had developed Group B streptococcus, a bacterial infection that is found in 25 percent of pregnant women's vaginas or rectums. Pictured, left to right: McCall, Evianna and her husband Omar Quintero
The infection had been passed during delivery and Evianna developed late-onset Group B strep disease, which had made her appear healthy at birth and during her first few weeks of life
She told staff about her Group B strep diagnosis, but claims doctors dismissed her concerns.
Nurses said she had a simple viral infection, gave her fluids and Tylenol, and discharged her, even though she still had a fever.
They went back home, but Evianna was making a noise that McCall likened to a 'terrible mewing/crying'.
She called the pediatrician who, after seeing the infant, told McCall to go back to the emergency room immediately.
'I figured the doctors would be able to fix it,' McCall told the Statesman Journal. 'I remember thinking: "We don't live in the 1800s. Surely someone will save my child".'
It was then that hospital staff performed a spinal tap and diagnosed Evianna with bacterial meningitis.
Meningitis occurs when the protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord become inflamed.
Evianna had developed the disease due to late-onset Group B strep disease, which had made her appear healthy at birth and during her first few weeks of life.
However, once the disease presents itself, symptoms include fever, lethargy, difficulty feeding and difficulty breathing.
About four to six percent of all babies who develop Group B strep disease will die, according to the CDC.
Evianna (pictured) was transferred to Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland, where her vital signs dropped and she was put on life support
On March 17, doctors told McCall and her husband that their daughter was brain dead. Her parents elected to withdraw life support. Pictured: Evianna with her father
At this point, Evianna's health was deteriorating rapidly and she was nearly comatose by the time the ER stabilized her enough to have her transferred to Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland.
'They did their very best, but, by the time she got there, it was just too late,' McCall said.
Evianna's vital signs began dropping and the next day, March 17, doctors told McCall and her husband that their daughter was brain dead.
Her parents elected to withdraw life support.
Around 4,100 cases of bacterial meningitis are reported every year, causing 500 deaths, according to the CDC.
'I will never get to know what color her eyes would've been or what her voice would've sounded like or who she would've grown up to be,' McCall told the Statesman Journal. 'That just kills me.'
Looking back, she said she wishes staff at Salem Health had paid closer attention to the cry Evianna was making – a tell-tale sign of meningitis in a baby.
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Students work and chat in EHub, a popular workspace for both students and startups at 409 College Ave., Oct. 17, 2017.
The bars are so low, in fact, that saying, "I'm just interested in entrepreneurship and I want to be in this space to see what's happening there" could get you into eHub, according to Joe Anderson '20, S.A. executive vice president, who shared the conclusions of his discussion with Schulman at a Sept. 6 S.A. meeting.
Schulman's comments clarify a policy change rolled out this fall that restricted access to the eHub locations in Kennedy Hall and Collegetown only to eHub members during weekends and weekdays after 6 p.m.
eHub also updated their membership policy, mandating applicants to explain the entrepreneurial activities they are part of, The Sun previously reported. Before this fall, Cornellians were required to provide such information only if they wanted to reserve eHub conference spaces.
Schulman said that while "students need to show how their uses relates to entrepreneurship" to use all eHub spaces after 6 p.m., "'the bar' for this is not high, but there is a bar," he told The Sun.
"[Entrepreneurship activities qualifying for membership] could be course work related (team project that involves entrepreneurship somehow), student activity related (like club work related to entrepreneurship), business exploration related or startup related, for example," Schulman wrote in an email.
While Anderson said that the bars set for eHub membership are "very low," he warned that "if 400 people are like, 'I just want to learn about entrepreneurship' to gain a membership," eHub may be forced to change membership standards again.
Anderson said that the current eHub policy is not final and will change to make sure eHub operates at full capacity.
Several students posted memes on the Facebook page, Cornell: Any Person, Any Meme, lamenting the new restrictive membership policies, with an amateur comic implying the new membership policy emptied eHub rather than create a more entrepreneurial environment.
Anderson corroborated these accounts, noting that under the revised policy, eHub is at half capacity at 6 p.m., whereas it was at "full capacity and overflowing" prior to the rules change.
The review of eHub membership applications will be made on a "rolling basis," Schulman said.
The Chinese Lunar New Year Gala began with a video of student leaders rapping in Chinese about life as an international student at Cornell.
The Kennedy Hall location provides "collaboration space" for students, lecture space for entrepreneurship programs and various staff offices.


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Posted on August 9, 2012 by Denise
The incomparable Herb Ritts and Titian were also at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and some of Marie Antoinette's hand-me-down furniture too. I think it can be safely said that gardeners are connoisseurs of the perfect moment, and last Sunday was that most exquisite of summer days, not too hot, just senusally warm and breezy, appreciated even more today for the fleeting rarity it was now that this week has brought the first real heat wave we've had this summer, along the coast at least. I've had such a strong itch to get to a museum lately. Must be all the press about the new *Barnes museum that's been trickling in since its unveiling this spring in Philadelphia, which I hear includes a garden also, though there's been little press so far about that. What few photos I've seen of the new Barnes' garden depict a contemplative, austere space, the antithesis of Robert Irwin's kinetic, kaleidoscopic maze at the Getty Center (to distinguish it from the Getty Villa in Malibu). But the controversy surrounding the new home of the Barnes Foundation reminds me of the raging controversy that Irwin's garden for the Getty provoked at its unveiling in 1997.
And then there's art controversies of the compound leafy kind. Here's the melianthus in question. With those narrow leaflets, it's definitely not M. major, and I'm inclined to think it's M. comosus.
One of the lazy assumptions I'm inclined to make, and unfortunately there are many, has been to assume that the other species of melianthus are not really worth growing if you can have M. major, but this one at the Getty might be changing my mind. Slimmer leaflets, not as lush but a little more succulent in feel, create an even stronger rhythmic pattern. I'm pretty sure the dense effect must have been obtained by cutting it back hard, because although it's reputedly smaller in size than M. major, it does tend toward lankiness. (San Marcos Growers: "This plant looks best if pruned hard and is often treated more like a perennial than a shrub.")
The melianthus was planted at the top of the walkway leading down to the maze. This sylvan walkway flanking a tumbling stream is redolent with the fragrance of the London Plane trees lining either side, that strong scent of sycamore which to me will always be the perfume of summer and rivers.
The stream hidden by the London Plane trees runs the entire length of the garden, ending in a dramatic spill into the azalea labyrinth.
At the top, under the dappled shade of the sycamores, the Cor-Ten-bounded walkway plantings are filled with the strong leafy shapes of succulents, begonias, hellebores.
Hirsute Echeveria setosa, silvery dyckias, paddle plant Kalanchoe luciae, and a few blades of ophiopogon, the Black Mondo Grass.
Begonias and variegated ginger
Astelia and persicaria
That lovely sycamore scent eventually gets supplanted by the overpoweringly skunky notes of variegated tulbaghia as you descend down the walkway toward the Central Garden. The mass planting of society garlic shimmering in the shifting light amidst the slender trunks of crepe myrtle trees is an undeniably powerful effect after the complex plantings of the upper walkway.
The improbable azalea maze in blinding full sun. Cotinus 'Golden Spirit' on the left. Purple blur in the distant background on the left is tibouchina, the princess flower, whose leaves were burning in the strong sunlight. The maze garden started looking its best towards closing time at 5:30 p.m. During the summer, this Getty is open til 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
I can't say the summer plantings of mostly dahlias were my favorite part of the garden, probably because I had just seen dahlias grown to perfection under the kinder skies of the Pacific Northwest. The effect was more of a shabby cutting garden, but the public seemed happy enough with the results. Irwin's design calls for these labor-intensive, concentric borders surrounding the azalea pool to provide a triumphant and dizzying swirl of shape and color under a strong Mediterranean sun, and that's a tall order. I think it'd be fantastic as a semi-desert garden, but the public might call foul. Art critic Christopher Knight had this to say about Irwin's "folly" when it faced a barrage of criticism at its unveiling over a decade ago, and not for the plantings but for its very existence and the exuberant, almost comic contrast it presented to Meier's stark, monumental architecture: "The great thing about a garden folly is that it's, well, a folly. In a world of practical decorum, rationalism suddenly doesn't apply. When the folly is conceived as the garden itself, rather than a discrete structure within a garden, then be prepared to suspend every expectation." (Quote obtained here.)
On the path behind the massed society garlic, overlooking brugmansias, cannas, and a pomegranate tree to the giant bougainvillea rebar arbors.
Always fascinating to uncover the multiple, shifting perspectives in Robert Irwin's garden.
This visit I was struck by the sensitive treatment of trees, whether silhouetted against Meier's exquisite travertine limestone or weeping into clean-swept expanses of decomposed granite, like these California pepper trees.
On the upper terraces closer to the museum, a bank of large pots massed together were planted simply and effectively with tough, scrubby stuff like helichrysum and Pelargonium sidoides.
Museum fatigue usually hits me after an hour or so, but not this day. Even after five hours, I had to be reminded by security guards that the museum was closing and it was time to get a move on. The Herb Ritts photography exhibit closes September 2, 2012.
*Christopher Knight, art critic for the Los Angeles Times, is one of the diehard defenders of Albert Barnes' original vision for his art collection. His review of the relocation of the collection to a new building in Philadelphia includes some helpful context for some of the timeless issues encapsulated in the debate over the Barnes collection: "Typical museums juxtapose art objects according to traditional knowledge categories like period, style or place. Not Barnes. His irreverent inventiveness used formal qualities — physical context, color, line, composition, texture, scale, space, etc. — to jump-start imagination. The result demanded that a visitor look and look hard."
For more background on the Barnes, here's a trailer to the controversial documentary entitled "The Art of the Steal."
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7 Responses to melianthus at the getty and other controversies
Oh my goodness! What an interesting and engaging garden. Seems that it radically changes its character depending on what path you are walking down. LOVE it! You've done a marvelous job of taking us on this tour with you. Great photos. I'd really love to see this in person sometime. So are all those plantings hardy there? Really love that mix of Echeveria setosa, dyckias and Kalanchoe luciae. The dyckias contrast wonderfully with the form of the succulents. Gives me some ideas for my front steps succulent collection.
I have seen several pieces on this garden, and what strikes me most is that it must be very water intensive, at least judging from some of the plants chosen. I could be wrong, maybe there is an elaborate water harvesting and saving plan.
Laurrie says:
Enjoyed this post — I had an entire day to myself, completely alone at the Getty in 2008, and spent much of it in this intriguing, highly structural (I like your word "kinetic") garden. I had one of those experiences you describe, the perfect moment of temperature, sensory excitement, solitude, weather, design, plant novelty… oh my. I will always remember the Getty garden. When we were there this winter it looked to be under extensive renovation. Good to see it is fully open now and looking good.
Thanks for stirring up my memory of the Getty garden.
@Deanne, the first time you see it is unforgettable. I should go more frequently to see how they change the garden for the seasons, but those plants you mentioned are all hardy here. I know that they grow sweet peas for early spring bloom, before the dahlias. Maybe Cindy will make it out to the new Barnes!
@Les, the dahlia borders would need steady moisture but the upper walkways not so much — other than the fact that those gorgeous London Planes must be sucking in quite a bit too.
@Laurrie, some days are pure magic, huh?
Jane / MulchMaid says:
Nice to see an update on one of my favorite newer gardens – I visited some years ago, shortly after it opened. I wondered about the azaleas forming the maze. It seemed an odd choice, and I wondered how they would do in your dry, hot summers. They certainly look lush in your photos.
I was there in April last year, and saw nary a Dahlia but many an Allium. What struck me was that because of the design, the setting, the hardscape–even the common seemed uncommon.It was akin to the Agapanthus in the-garden-that-shall-not-be-named.
Hoov says:
Looks like a lot of the plants have been changed out since last I was there two years ago. Apparently their budget has recovered. Still waiting, (how many years on now?), for the bougies to really fill up those rebar structures…looks like they are finally advancing. Thanks for the tour!


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