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Stick TAP - Edition 2: My thoughts, analysis and predictions in response to your questions
The inaugural edition of the Stick TAP (read it here) got positive reviews and my own 'advanced stats' suggested it was well read so it's time to try this format once again and determine if it was a case of a great rookie season (see Blaine Lacher, Jim Carey) that will be followed by the equivalent of a sophomore slump -- and then quickly the end, or will this content feature be here to stay.
As a reminder, the premise of Stick TAP is much like mailbag features you read elsewhere. It's an opportunity for you -- the reader, to ask questions about the Calgary Flames, and I'll answer the question or at least share my thoughts. Where I am putting my own unique twist on the concept is every response will be broken down into three specific elements:
Thoughts - General commentary, maybe including something you hadn't considered.
Analysis - Statistic(s) or research that supports or relates to the topic.
Prediction - The dangerous part. I'll take a guess at what will happen. But no scorekeeping allowed!
The latest batch of questions came in a couple weeks ago. Thank you to those that took the time to submit one. Unfortunately, I won't be able to answer all of them today but I have selected three questions for a thorough response. From the leftovers, I selected another five that I've answered with a 'short and quick' response. Those can be found at the bottom in the appropriately named Snapshots section.
Any others will be kept for another time, if still relevant. Or, I may turn them into a future blog. Note that you can tweet your questions to me at anytime at @DarrenWHaynes and I'll put the questions in the queue for consideration for the next edition of Stick TAP.
Q1. Which of the Flames new players is most likely to have a long career in Calgary?
- Submitted by @ajateacher
That's a tough question considering there's suddenly a nucleus of really good, young players in place here, who could stay together for a while and a couple years from now form a pretty darn good team that becomes a perennial playoff contender. Of that group, one guy that has a good chance of being here the longest is Sam Bennett and here's why.
For one, he's the highest draft pick the Calgary Flames have ever had. Drafted fourth, he was ranked first by some including the NHL's Central Scouting Service. Players of that ilk are not players you trade away. Also, he plays a position (centre) that is so important yet is so hard to fill with quality if you don't do draft and develop your own.
Secondly, he's young. In fact, he's about as young as one can be having just turned 18 prior to the draft. I don't see Bennett playing this year in the NHL. He may get in a couple of games but won't play more than nine and will eventually be sent back to Kingston. However, next season when he's still not yet AHL age-eligible, I'd fully expect him to stay in Calgary.
When that 2015-16 season begins, Bennett will have just turned 19 less than four months earlier. Based on the current CBA, he would remain under Calgary's 'control' (meaning he can't become an unrestricted free agent) for seven seasons and then be eligible to become a UFA. That means in theory, Bennett can become a UFA at age 26 -- before even reaching his prime. Obviously, the Flames won't let that happen so look for them to lock him up long term just prior to that point. So I can easily envision a scenario in which Bennett plays in Calgary for a minimum of 10-12 seasons.
Monahan should have a long career in Calgary also but he'll be two full seasons of experience ahead of Bennett and looking several years down the road, he could become expendable first as an 'older' guy -- as hard as it is today to envision Monahan as one of the Flames older players. Others like Johnny Gaudreau, already 21, may have less time in Calgary because of the way the system works and their ability to become a UFA sooner. Meanwhile, other first rounders like Emile Poirier and Morgan Klimchuk will probably have their careers in Calgary begin at an older age than Bennett so for the same reasons, may not amass the same quantity of years wearing the Flaming C.
Historically, the seven-year mark is that magic time when players begin changing organizations. In the last seven years going back to 2008, Tyler Seguin (2nd in 2010) is the only top-four draft pick that is not with the organization that drafted him. That means 96.4 percent are still with their original team.
On the flip side, in the eight drafts prior to that (2000 through 2007), just eight top-four picks remain with the organization that drafted them. That means only 25.0 percent are still playing for their original team. Here are those eight including the year they were drafted and years remaining on their current contract:
Patrick Kane, Chi, 1st in 2007 -- 8 years left
Jonathan Toews, Chi, 3rd in 2006 -- 8 years left
Nicklas Backstrom, Wsh, 4th in 2006 -- 6 years left
Sidney Crosby, Pit, 1st in 2005 -- 11 years left
Alex Ovechkin, Wsh, 1st in 2004 -- 7 years left
Evgeni Malkin, Pit, 2nd in 2004 -- 8 years left
Marc-Andre Fleury, Pit, 1st in 2003 - 1 year left
Eric Staal, Car, 2nd in 2003 - 2 years left
That's a good looking list, especially those six from 2004 on. The bottom line is guys who are those franchise-like star players on their team -- like Bennett could turn out to be, often get locked up and for about as long as the CBA will allow.
I fully expect Bennett to fit into this same classification. I see him playing out his current three-year ELC, signing a two-year bridge-type deal, then signing a long-term deal of 5-7 years after that. Such a scenario would see him in Calgary Flames colours for as long as 12 years, or up until age 31. If you think about it, 31 isn't very old either. We know the loyalty this organization had to Jarome Iginla, there could very well be another Calgary contract for Bennett after that.
Q2. How long do you see Bob Hartley sticking around if the season isn't "successful"?
- Submitted by @supermanshero17
When Bob Hartley was hired on May 31, 2012, a lot of good things were said. "Bob Hartley is a winner. Bob has won at every level he has coached, from the QMJHL to the AHL to the NHL to Switzerland, and we are confident he is going to continue his winning ways in Calgary," said Flames management. "He is a tireless worker, an outstanding motivator, a great bench boss and game strategist, and a teacher at heart. Moreover, he is a great person as well."
However, those words were spoken by then general manager Jay Feaster, who is now gone. Hartley's hiring also came well before the arrival of Brian Burke as Calgary's president of hockey operations, which happened 15 months later.
Entering the 2014-15 season on the final year of a three-year contract, there certainly isn't the slightest bit of job security for Hartley. If John Tortorella can be fired with four years and $8-million remaining on a contract, Hartley can be sacked with just months to go.
Hartley won the Stanley Cup in 2000-01 with the Colorado Avalanche. That came after he got the Avs to the conference final the two previous seasons, which were his first two years behind the Colorado bench after taking over for Marc Crawford in 1998-99.
Here are some of the key members of that Avalanche team that hoisted Lord Stanley's mug in 2001, sorted by their age that season. Included for comparison are players from the Flames organization and what their age will be five years from now.
Patrick Roy (34), Karri Ramo (33)
Ray Bourque (39), Mark Giordano (35)
Shjon Podein (32), Joe Colborne (29)
Joe Sakic (31), Mikael Backlund (30)
Adam Foote (29), TJ Brodie (29)
Peter Forsberg (27), Johnny Gaudreau (26)
Greg De Vries (27), Tyler Wotherspoon (26)
Stephane Yelle (26), Sean Monahan (24)
Milan Hejduk (24), Emile Poirier (24)
Chris Drury (24), Sam Bennett (23)
Alex Tanguay (20), Morgan Klimchuk (23)
First of all, let's keep this in context. This isn't meant to stir up 'Player A vs. Player B' debate. No, I'm not insinuating that Karri Ramo is a young Patrick Roy, nor am I suggesting Mikael Backlund is on the way to becoming Joe Sakic, or Mark Giordano is the second coming of Ray Bourque.
However, what I am saying is overall -- in five years time, is it conceivable that the talent level could be close? That's certainly possible. Consider also that not included above could be another very high Flames draft pick in 2015.
My bigger point is to view this from an overall age perspective. As noted, Hartley has a proven track record of success with the age group the Flames will be in three years, and he enjoyed the ultimate success with the age group the Flames core will be in five years.
A fair question is will Hartley's voice remain fresh and motivating long enough for him to still be effective as Calgary's head coach in three years, which will be year six for him? If you look at Hartley's NHL head coaching history, in both of his two prior stints with the Avs and the Thrashers, he was fired after things started going south in year five.
The physical style of game Hartley likes to coach is the exact style of game Burke and Treliving want the team to play. This bodes well.
While there are good coaching candidates waiting in the wings -- Dan Bylsma and Guy Boucher are two that spring to mind, you can't argue the performance Hartley got out of this team last year. Not measured merely in wins and points but more so by the club's competitiveness on a night in, night out basis, the Flames were far more competitive than anyone expected last year.
It may ultimately come down to what is the definition of "success". If Flames management is realistic with what they have looking at this roster today, I can see this year being a success even if they go backwards in terms of point total. For me, I'm defining success as the team getting better and if due to injury or trades, this team can eventually integrate some youth and start building their NHL portfolios, the team will be that much further ahead in 2015-16.
I do predict Hartley will once again get about all he can squeeze out of this group this season and will be re-signed to a new contract for another three or four years. What I won't predict is if he'll make it to the end of that deal. Even the best head coaches reach a point where the message becomes stale and the players stop listening... and as they say, you can't fire the players.
Q3. What prospect from past years do you think Calgary gave up on too early? Marty Murray always bugged me.
- Submitted by @d_regs14
When you talk about the prospects that got away, you never hear about Denis Cyr, Calgary's first ever draft pick in 1980. Cyr was selected 13th overall after a tremendous season with the QMJHL's Montreal Juniors in which he went 70-76-146 in 70 games. After scoring 14 goals in 66 games over parts of three season with the Flames, Cyr was traded at the young age of 21 to Chicago in exchange for Carey Wilson.
Of course, you never encounter anyone that laments giving up on Cyr because there were never any regrets. He never did earn himself a permanent NHL role and after short stints with Chicago and St. Louis, he retired at age 26. Same thing applies to former first round picks Jason Muzzatti, Rico Fata, Matt Pelech and Oleg Saprykin, all highly-touted Flames prospects at one time, who were eventually traded away or simply not re-signed, and not one of those decisions came back to haunt Calgary.
But those stories are boring. Much like fishermen would much rather talk about the big one that got away, hockey chatter over a couple of pints is more interesting when you talk about the grievous mistakes, the colossally bad moves you would have never done if you could only do it all over again.
Here are my list of the best Flames prospects the club let slip away:
1. Brett Hull
2. Martin St. Louis
3. Jean-Sebastien Giguere
4. Marc Savard
5. Brandon Prust
So, who was to blame? Here is a refresher on the Flames GM at the time and the circumstances in each scenario:
Brett Hull - A sixth round pick in 1984, Hull showed his potential in his first year in the minors scoring 50 goals in 67 games for the Moncton Golden Flames. The next season was 1987-88 and he was 26-24-50 in 52 games in the NHL when the 23-year-old right winger was part of a multi-player deal with St. Louis. While it's true Calgary received from the Blues two players in defenceman Rob Ramage and goaltender Rick Wamsley, who played pivotal roles in their Stanley Cup victory one year later, there is no way GM Cliff Fletcher had any idea the caliber of player Hull would become. Unlike the others, this wasn't a case of the Flames giving up on Hull but did they underestimate his value? Yes.
Since His Departure - In his first season in St. Louis, Hull scored 41 goals. What followed will blow the minds of the younger NHL fan, who can't fathom this type of wide open hockey. From 1989 through 1994, Hull scored 72, 86, 70, 54 and 57 goals respectively. Unbelievable. All in all, he went on to play another 1,200 NHL games, notching 717 goals and 1,340 points.
Marty St. Louis - The diminutive winger and two-time Hobey Baker finalist was not drafted. He was eventually signed by Calgary GM Al Coates and reported to the American Hockey League where his domination showed his underlying talent. In 95 games with Saint John over parts of three seasons, St. Louis amassed 58 goals and 114 points. However, after being held to 3 goals and 18 points in 56 NHL games in 1999-00, the 25-year-old was released that summer in the first move made by incoming Flames GM Craig Button.
Since His Departure - St. Louis has played in nearly 1,000 regular season games, another 88 in the playoffs, he's won a Stanley Cup, he's scored over 366 goals and tallied 961 points.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere - First, the 20-year-old former 13th overall pick was acquired by GM Al Coates on Aug. 25, 1997 from the Hartford Whalers along with Andrew Cassels in a trade for Gary Roberts and Trevor Kidd. But then, they let him get away. After three seasons in the minors that included a few shorts stints with the Flames, Craig Button traded Giguere, 23, to Anaheim for a second round pick. It became staggeringly obvious later on that the club wasn't patient enough with Giguere. As we know better now, goaltenders take longer to develop.
Since His Departure - In his first year with the Ducks, Giguere worked his way to the NHL and took over the starting job from Guy Hebert. He kept that job for the next several years, including winning the Stanley Cup and being awarded the Conn Smyth with Anaheim in 2003. Having just recently announced his retirement, Giguere recorded 254 of his 262 career victories after leaving Calgary.
Marc Savard - Essentially stolen from the New York Rangers, who drafted him, in a trade in 1999, Savard was a talented yet moody kid. The biggest issue is he didn't get along with Calgary head coach Greg Gilbert, who was never happy with Savard's lack of commitment to defensive play. The result was the departure of a kid with tremendous offensive abilities, who initially went to Atlanta when Button traded the 25-year-old to the Thrashers in a famously awful deal for mysterious Russian Ruslan Zainullin, who never came over to North America.
Since His Departure - It was his third year in Atlanta (under the guidance of coach Bob Hartley) that Savard's game reached another level. That first season after the 2004-05 NHL lockout, Savard piled up career highs in goals and points going 28-69-97. As a UFA, he signed with Boston next where he was an important playmaker for three-and-a-half seasons (finishing with point totals of 96, 66 and 70) before concussion issues set in, which would eventually end his hockey career.
Brandon Prust - What a solid, useful player Prust has become. Unfortunately, it didn't happen in Calgary. In fact, the veteran would look particularly good in a Flames uniform right now considering the rough and tumble qualities the new Flames regime have been seeking out. Calgary actually had Prust twice. First, GM Darryl Sutter drafted him in the third round in 2004. After dealing him to Phoenix as part of a package to acquire Olli Jokinen in a failed late-season push, Sutter reacquired Prust three months later in exchange for Jim Vandermeer. But, at age 25 in 2010, Sutter dealt him away again, this time shipping him to New York with Jokinen in exchange for the underwhelming duo of Chris Higgins and Ales Kotalik.
Since His Departure(s) - Prust turned in two excellent seasons with the Rangers in which he played all 82 games both years. In 2010-11 to go along with his usual toughness, he had a career-best 13 goals and 29 points. Prust signed as an unrestricted free agent with Montreal in the summer of 2012 and has been a key member of the Canadiens since, although he battled injury problems last season.
Having not had a whole lot of prospects to speak of in recent years, there haven't been any contentious deals. I still think goaltender Laurent Brossoit, shipped to the Oilers to get Ladislav Smid, has a chance to be a very good NHL goaltender so perhaps his name will be added to the above list eventually.
Looking at the organization today, the guy that you can see the team moving is Sven Baertschi, Calgary's first round pick from 2011. In this recent article in which I examined the trials and tribulations of the last couple years for Baertschi, I compared the many similarities between he and his fellow countrymen and fellow Portland Winterhawks alumni Nino Niederreiter. One big difference is Niederreiter, also a first round pick, was traded away by the team that selected him.
Maybe it's correlation or maybe it's just coincidence, but Niederreiter has gotten his career back on track with Minnesota after his career looked bleak while with the New York Islanders. Should Treliving trade away Baertschi, there will be a lot of sullen Flames fans following Baertschi's career very closely to see how it plays out as there's no arguing his talent and he's not yet 22 years old.
Personally, I still expect Baertschi to have a good NHL career as a second line winger. However, it remains to be seen if that will take place in Calgary or elsewhere.
Short and quick answers to other randomly selected questions that were submitted.
Q. Your thoughts on the Flames 'monetizing' cap space with Boston or Philly contracts? Crunch time is approaching for them.
- Submitted by @loudogYYC
It's no secret that Treliving is looking to add veteran defensive depth. Should one of those teams end up in a pinch where they need to unload a contract and there's a defenceman that is a candidate (with a maximum term left of one or two years), that could very well happen. One guy to keep an eye on is Boston's Johnny Boychuk, who is set to make $3.4-million in the final year of his deal. The Bruins would love to keep him but with Dougie Hamilton, Torey Krug, Matt Bartkowski and Kevan Miller, it's a position of depth and you can them making such a move. Not sure Calgary gets an asset along with Boychuk but they would get an asset for him when they deal the pending UFA as they would at the trade deadline.
Q. What is your opinion on the ceiling for Monahan? I see him as more of a Jordan Staal type. Does he have a higher scoring ceiling?.
- Submitted by @schafer_12
A. I see Monahan as a 20-25 goal scorer in his career. While he'll keep getting better, a lot of good and unsustainable things happened last year that helped contribute to his 22 goals. Twenty goals this year would be considered an excellent season. He might be someone that gets to 30 but not regularly. The Jordan Staal comparison isn't a bad one although I do see Monahan with a slightly higher offensive upside.
In time, with Monahan's size and face-off ability, I see him playing some awfully tough minutes matching up against other team's top lines and while he'll be an important player on Calgary, I don't envision him as that high-end offensive player.
Q. Is Jack Eichel a consolation prize or a '1a' to Connor McDavid, and are the Flames even a contender for 30th?
- Submitted by @TherealThul
A. Recently, I wrote two articles, looking at this season through two very different lens. In this one, I looked at the Flames competitive second-half last year (they were legitimately a playoff team over the final three months) and ask why couldn't they be that again in 2014-15. In the other one, in probably the more realistic scenario, I look at the odds of finishing at/near the bottom and drafting McDavid or Eichel.
In reality, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle although closer to the bottom end. Everything I've seen and read indicates that Eichel is a very nice alternative to McDavid. However, I just don't see it happening. The Flames are more likely to finish 27th this season than 30th. And with the new draft lottery odds, even a 29th place finish only results in Calgary having a 1-in-3 chance at picking in the top two.
Q. Do you think Markus Granlund and Kenny Agostino deserve a chance to prove they are NHL-ready before Johnny Hockey? Or should it be best man wins?
- Submitted by @TRattai
A. While Agostino, having done four years of college, has a year on Johnny Gaudreau and while Granlund has a full AHL season under his belt already, I don't think that gets them a seat closer to the front of the airplane.
Flames management has been preaching that players will not be given anything, they'll have to earn it. (Yes, Jay Feaster's 'meritocracy' still applies). With not many forward positions available, they'll really have to earn it this year. I think it's very much a best-man wins scenario unless it's dead even, in which case I'd defer to the player with the greater amount of pro experience -- in that case, Granlund.
Q. Sean Monahan surpassed all reasonable expectations last season. What are the chances that Sam Bennett does the same this year?
- Submitted by @FranklinSteele
Very unlikely. In the last StickTAP, I addressed the question of how many NHL games I think Bennett will get in this year and I don't think it will be many. By no means is he a cinch to play in the nine that he can play and still be eligible to be returned to junior.
Bennett is nine months younger than Monahan was last year. Plus, he's got one year less OHL experience than Monahan had. Those factors plus the current roster situation -- not many openings, and considering everything Treliving and Burke have said about how sending a player back to junior never hurts a player's development, it's very likely that Bennett's first NHL goal will have to wait for another year.
Flames 2014-15 Roster: Dwindling Opportunity But Part of the Master Plan? A look at the impact the Devin Setoguchi signing will have on the Flames roster and a conspiracy theory on what could be the club's 'I'm okay with that' end result.
Desperate for McDavid: 12 Things That (Mostly) Need to Happen for the Flames to Get Him - A look at a variety of scenarios that should they all/most occur this season, will make Calgary a virtual lock to land phenom Connor McDavid in the 2015 NHL Draft.
Dream A Little Dream: Can the Flames be a Playoff Team? - How soon we forget that over the final half of the 2013-14 season, Calgary was a playoff team. They were a top eight team in the west over the final 34 games last year. That was better than Chicago and LA. Here are 12 things taht need to (mostly) happen to repeat that.
David Wolf: Hard Knuckles, Soft Hands - Get to know 24-year-old German winger David Wolf, who is known for being big and bad but is proud of the finesse part of his game also. What to expect in his first year in North America.
I remember, all too well, when Brent Sutter was brought aboard and how he would instill a "dog pack mentality," within the team. Nothing of the sort, transpired, of course. I suppose it wasn't all Brent's fault, but he should have taken a closer look at all the under-performers the team had back then and toned down his comments somewhat.
As for Hartley, he's done wonders, but demanding coaches seem to get tuned out, eventually. He'll have to be creative now and in the future if he's going to keep the team buying into the kind of work ethic they displayed last year.
Darren Haynes 3 September 2014 at 22:03
An advantage for Hartley is he'll be dealing with a wave of many new players over the next few years and he will be a fresh voice for them. That could work to his advantage. He's a neat guy, always has a few funny lines ready for the morning post-practice pressers. Perhaps he's mellowing in his old age? Doubt it. Watch him put the team through the exhausting 'mountain climber' drill at practice and you'll be back thinking he's a drill sargent.
Will be an interesting year as inevitably some prospects will continue their progression and some will see their stock fall.
Carlos ( KK ) 4 September 2014 at 14:30
Hey Haynes, I would like to send a question to your Q&A, but I can't do it in 144 characters. Anyway, my twitter name is @depoisdacurva and here's my question:
Last year some players started the year in a good position in the big club. But towards the end they lost space. Examples: Galliard, O'Brien, I would include Wideman even though he got injured.
Who do you think could have the same fate this year?
My guess: Colborne, Engelland and Smid.
Darren Haynes 10 September 2014 at 23:32
In future you can also email your question. My email address is listed on the blog. Thank you for your question, I will add it to the list for consideration when I tackle the third edition of the Stick TAP. Thanks for reading.
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Prince Harry reveals he first met wife Meghan Markle in a supermarket
Prince Harry has revealed he first met wife Meghan Markle in a supermarket and they pretended they didn't know who each other were.
The pair acted like they were grabbing some essentials at the shops as they got together for the first time.
The royal couple did their best to stay "incognito" to avoid attracting attention.
Harry says he wore a cap and was looking at the floor as they finally met up – but still got plenty of 'weird looks'.
The Duke of Sussex was speaking Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast.
He said: "The first time Meghan and I met up for her to come and stay with me, we met up in a supermarket in London, pretending we didn't know each other, texting each other from the other side of the aisles.
"There's people looking at me, giving me all these weird looks, and coming up to me and saying 'hi'.
"I texted her saying "is this the right one", and she said "no you want parchment paper", and "I'm like where's the parchment paper?!"
"I had baseball cap on, looking down at the floor, trying to stay incognito. It's amazing how much chewing gum you see, it's a mess!"
He went on to say he really loves living a quiet life in America.
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Hatful of holler. The first score.
First: a warning. One should not purchase tickets on the pawpaw express without knowing what she or he is getting into. When you opt to "ride the lightning", you're hopping on the front seat of an emotional and physical roller-coaster that won't be slowing down until it's thrown–nay, broken–all who boarded with anything less than total commitment.
Be prepared to give it all up. Relationship? Over. Career? Gone. That itchy skin? It's not going away. Don't bother paying the rent–you'll be sleeping in your car most nights, anyway. Friends, family, loved-ones? Kiss them all goodbye–they'll not be seeing you any time soon. When, or if, you reconnect, the vacant look in your eyes will tell them you're never really coming back.
All that glitters. Nearly-ripe fruit sing their siren song, Squirrel Hill.
Andrew Moore is one hard dude to get an interview with…at least, this time of year. You can't fault him, though–the author's late summer schedule is solidly packed. Readings and signings at bookstores in Charleston and Brooklyn; judging the Best Pawpaw Contest and presenting at the Ohio Pawpaw Festival; fruit sampling with customers at the Erie Whole Foods; a talk at the nature club in Sewickley…and that's just a couple weeks worth.
The Orbit consumed Moore's 2015 book Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit (Chelsea Green Publishing) with a gastro-bibliological gusto that invoked what we can only call Pawpaw Fever. It is the definitive work on the subject and as such, Moore has created an elegantly-constructed and fascinating journey through a (literal) landscape both seemingly prosaic (pawpaws grow wild over most of the eastern half of the U.S.–they're not rare) and at the same time otherworldly (an ancient fruit, re-arriving out of nowhere, with a narrative gift-wrapped for locavores and foodies alike).
Pawpaw contains a couple broad theses that ring long and loud after the last page is turned: the pawpaw as neglected super food that rightfully deserves to be back in markets, lunch bags, and restaurant menus, and the mystery of how this once-ubiquitous early autumn staple that colors so much American history managed to disappear almost entirely from the nation's collective consciousness. It's a great read and, needless to say, the book is Orbit-recommended.
When last we left our blogger, he was deep in the heart of the Schenley Park pawpaw patch, considering an uncertain fruiture (that's a future in fruit). The pawpaws dangled tantalizingly in all directions, but like Coleridge's ancient mariner, there was nary an "Indiana banana"–not to mention pawpaw, paw paw, paw-paw, or papaw*–to eat.
Why? Well, one of the pawpaw's challenges is that it may only be gathered (either shaken from the tree or collected from the forest floor) when ripe. Unlike, say, a tomato or a banana, the hard pawpaw prematurely selected from the tree will never ripen. That's no big deal out in the wild, but in the very limited supply and unmet demand within metro Pittsburgh, it's a real crime to prematurely pick the fruit or overzealously shake the tree.
The hunt was on. We got to the, uh, low-hanging fruit (sorry) first–Schenley Park's pawpaw patch and the magical pawpaw trees of Squirrel Hill. Moore praises the latter: "God bless [the homeowner/planter] for introducing so many of us to our first pawpaw." This blogger is no expert, but he's been around the pawpaw patch enough to realize that while a great entry point, these are chump change, amateur hour, gateway drugs. Both sets of trees are well-known and well-traveled destinations at this point, and as such they've been over-shaken, abused, ravaged, and the fruit is rarely given the chance to ripen sufficiently.
So…blah blah blah, but what do they actually taste like? Well, I'll tell you: they're freakin' delicious! The blanket description of "tropical" is safe, and banana is clearly the closest common fruit flavor profile. Some of the fruit we found was darker in color (more orange than yellow inside) and absolutely tasted and felt like caramel custard.
One other detail we never saw mentioned is that the pawpaw is really fun to eat. You slice it in half, eat it with a spoon, sorting tasty pulp from the large seeds in your mouth. They're really unique–like a small dessert right there in every fruit.
So, our early goal of uncovering free public pawpaws right in the city gets mixed marks. We did indeed taste the fruit of several different trees, but weren't able to uncover any real surprises. The chase is still on, though. As Moore tells it, the trees give themselves up in October, flashing a bright yellow where others go all dropping leaves and fall colors. The dedicated hunter marks her prey and bides his time for the oncoming season. Until then, The Orbit will be out there, cruising the trails…watching.
Future fruit. Potted pawpaw at Frick Environmental Center, likely destined for their "From Slavery to Freedom" garden project.
The bad news: According to Moore, there just aren't that many publicly-available patches in city limits to get your paws on pawpaws…right now. It's not a case of us not looking close enough–they just aren't there. Between the amount of city build-up we've had, 150 years of heavy industry, and that damned knotweed, whatever wild pawpaw may have hugged the rivers pre-industrialization likely didn't survive the steel industry, et al. What is here now was almost surely planted very consciously.
The good news: There is no lack of American pawpaw, even very close to Pittsburgh. As Moore says, "This is not an endangered species…you see it everywhere, especially starting right around the Mason-Dixon line** (and south)". The Orbit finally got its first big score from a set of trees in the North Hills and realized very quickly how fast you can fill a big bag and why one probably shouldn't eat eight pawpaws in twelve hours.
Further, Moore paints a portrait of an exciting future for Pittsburgh pawpaw. The fruit is either "having its moment" or "coming back", depending on how you look at it. [Moore's book is clearly a not-insignificant factor in this.] Pawpaw is on the cultural radar now like it hasn't been for several generations and the number of city projects in parks, schools, and community gardens–not to mention all the private growers adding a couple trees to their yards–is huge. According to Moore, in five or ten years there will be more city pawpaw trees than you can shake a stick at…or, you know, just shake the fruit out of.
Driven to madness. The author, with pawpaws.
* Pittsburgh Orbit has accepted Moore's spelling pawpaw (one word), but paw paw (two) seems to appear even more often "in the wild".
** Basically, the Pennsylvania-Maryland/West Virginia border.
They leapt right out, wheels in full motion, from a bicycle seat all the way across the river. There, beneath the on-ramp to the Fort Duquesne Bridge, along the thick concrete barrier walls by Gateway Center, stretches a new(ish) blocks-long mural (or series of murals, whichever way you see it). Even from a significant distance and shaded by the ramp structure above, the painting reads as a great collection of wild flora. It begged for further investigation so we legged it up over the bridge, around the park, and down to the river's edge.
Pittsburgh Orbit has spilled its share of virtual ink looking backwards. We've devoted an entire series of "Orbit obits" to things that aren't there any more and when you fetishize ghost houses and ghost signs and graffiti as much as we do, well, you're not really thinking about your future.
So we thought we'd start 2016 off right with a fresh-faced forward-looking story on something new to us and nearly brand new to Pittsburgh: this terrific blocks-long series of murals decorating the Allegheny side of the downtown riverwalk.
The murals are actually half a year old at this point, making this blogger wonder where the hell was I? Though he's bragging about eagle-eying the paintings on this ride, he had to have been down this stretch of riverbank dozens of times without ever seeing them, nor did we catch any coverage in the local news last summer. So let this post be another reminder to get out there and keep the peepers scanning!
Though entirely uncredited at the site (as far as I could tell), The Orbit can Google with the best of them. The giant piece is the vision of artist Kim Beck and titled Adjutant (a fancy word pulled from a Henry David Thoreau quote). A team of some 150 volunteers organized by Riverlife Pittsburgh executed the work during the Three Rivers Arts Festival last June. Two blog posts on the Riverlife site give all the pertinent background and details [see links below].
If you ever used this section of the riverwalk–the stretch that runs between the northeast corner of Point State Park and the slender Allegheny Riverfront Park that picks up around the Clemente (née Sixth Street) Bridge–you don't likely remember it for its charms. The passageway was perfectly utile and never felt dangerous (at least in daylight), but walking or bicycling through always seemed like traveling where one wasn't supposed to–fairly lawless and designed to dock giant barges, not facilitate pedestrian traffic. Corners under the bridge often contained the sleeping bags, tarps, and cardboard boxes of the population that lived down there. Discarded liquor bottles, beer cans, and snack wrappers pointed to late night boozers and early morning fishermen who hung out under its private, protected shelter.
So the project to create the 850-foot (approximately three to four city blocks) mural is both a very welcome beautification of an extremely cold, hard, and dark urban space and also seems to be a wholesale cleanup effort to make the passageway a truly inviting link between the parks on either end.
Not only was this stretch scrubbed for the mural's creation during the arts festival, but it amazingly seems to have stayed that way some six months on. The pedestrian section of the walk is remarkably litter-free and either Pittsburgh's taggers have decided to leave these walls alone or the city's graffiti removal crew does spot-on repair work (I'd bank on the former).
That's all great, but "cleaning up" part of a city is always a loaded term–especially when it involves human beings. As nice and inviting as the new space is, we can't help but think about those who were displaced (we assume?) in its transition. We've noticed homeless camps pushing farther out from town in a way that suggests you have to go that far to not get hassled by the man. We inadvertently ran into one such group in the Christmas Under the Bridge piece a couple weeks back.
The murals are large-scale depictions of common weeds that appear along Pittsburgh's riverbanks, rendered in the lean palette of black, white, and a couple shades of gray. Artist Kim Beck informed us that the palette was dictated by the commissioning agency. They look great, but we can't help but think the addition of some real color would warm the space up considerably and "pop" dramatically against the drab surroundings. That said, we'll take what we can get, and this is a big improvement on the visual space.
Pittsburgh Orbit's Pennsylvania wildlife consultant and resident deep woodsman Tim Tomon came down from the trees long enough to identify dandelion, goldenrod, mulberry, pearly everlasting, thistle, wild peppergrass, and wood sorrel among the silhouetted weeds.
Beck's re-casting of weeds as giant expressions of beauty is certainly an exciting and inviting vision for this just-recently prettified stretch of town. The bright green of the real weeds that peek out from the cracks between foot surface and retaining wall are the only elements of color one sees (save for the bright yellow bridge deck above). Both serve as sweet reminders that a "weed" is purely a situational notion. These all look pretty good to me.


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Strange Brew: How the Web's 418 Error Code Became Steeped in Controversy
Strange Brew: How the Web's 418 Error Code Became Steeped in Controversy
27 Aug 2017 6:00am, by David Cassel
This month saw an obscure joke from 1998 morphing into a minor controversy. It was quickly resolved, but the episode offers an interesting glimpse into the shared culture of geeks — and the often overlooked communities that keep it all running.
And it also brought a new round of attention to a terrific April Fool's joke.
The story begins in 1998 at Xerox's famous PARC research center in Palo Alto, where Larry Masinter's duties included working on web and Internet standards. (Two years later he joined Adobe, where he's been ever since — still continuing his standards work as a principal scientist in their corporate standards group). On April 1, Masinter unveiled — drawing on the contributions of others — what he later described as "a satire on the many bad API designs being proposed," which included a mock HTTP status code.
Each time a browser calls a server, a three-digit status code is returned. Indicating when the client request has not been fulfilled for some reason, most error codes, which fall in the 4xx zone of HTTP status codes, are dry stuff: "414: URI Too Long" or "415: Unsupported Media Type." Error code 418 is simply listed as "I'm a teapot."
Masinter has also said that the protocol proposal "has a serious purpose — it identifies many of the ways in which HTTP has been extended inappropriately."
Tongue in cheek, Masinter wrote that "there is a strong, dark, rich requirement for a protocol designed expressly for the brewing of coffee." In official RFC 2324, he proposed that our hypertext transfer protocol, better known as HTTP, should now be joined by HTCPC — the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, "for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots."
"Future versions of this protocol may include extensions for espresso machines and similar devices."
The humor gradually emerged through a mist of technical details. While web servers recognize addresses beginning with http:, under Masinter's proposal appropriate servers would now also begin recognizing "coffee:." The protocol also identifies some important security considerations. ("Anyone who gets in between me and my morning coffee should be insecure.") And it warns direly about the possibility of "denial of coffee service" attacks.
The Meme from 1998
It was in section 2.3.2 that a throwaway joke specified a soon-to-be-famous return code.
"The IETF regularly each April 1st also publishes humorous specifications (as 'Informational' documents), perhaps to make the point that 'Not all RFCs are standards', but to also provide humorous fodder for technical debates," Masinter wrote, explaining the complete backstory of the message. "The target of HTCPC was the wave of proposals we were seeing for extensions to HTTP in the HTTP working group (which I had chaired) to support what seemed to me to be cockeyed, inappropriate applications.
"I set out in RFC2324 to misuse as many of the HTTP extensibility points as a could."
Yet Masinter also admitted that problems could ensue with this code. "[O]ne of the issues facing registries of codes, values, identifiers is what to do with submissions that are not 'serious'. Should 418 be in the IANA registry of HTTP status codes? Should the many (not actually valid) URI schemes in it (coffee: in 12 languages) be listed as registered URI schemes?"
As the years rolled along, the exquisite parody quietly attracted an underground following, and fond tributes to the error message started appearing in actual real-world programming languages and platforms.
The documentation admits that this is a joke code, and should not be implemented in server software, though it has been supported across multiple languages and platforms as a sort of hidden "Easter egg." The 418 "I'm a teapot" code was implemented in the code for the Node.js platform, and also appeared (in various forms) in Python requests, Google's Go programming language, and in ASP.NET. Wikipedia notes the Emacs text editor has also implemented the protocol — and that over at Mozilla.org, "a number of bug reports exist complaining about Mozilla's lack of support for the protocol."
Google even has its own version of the error at Google.com/teapot.
Click it to make it pour!
Over time new incarnations of the silly "I'm a teapot" error have occasionally served some useful purposes — at least, if you believe reports on Reddit. "I've seen DreamHost throw 418 errors in response to brute-force login attempts, probably to confuse hackers or something…" And a similar response apparently turns up in at least one WordPress plugin.
In 2015 Masinter — now a principal scientist at the IETF — turned up in a thread on Twitter to remind everyone that yes, it was meant as satire.
@ExceptionFound Satire: make fun of many bad HTTP extensions that had been proposed.
— Larry Masinter (@masinter) November 2, 2015
Not so Funny in the Future
Earlier this month, when the error message got some high-powered attention from Mark Nottingham, the chairman of the IETF working group that oversees hypertext transfer protocol. His service to the geek community includes co-creating the Atom XML language for web feeds, and he's also worked as a principal technologist at Yahoo, a systems architect at Rackspace, and a research scientist as Akamai, before accepting a position in August at the content-delivery platform Fastly.
On Aug. 5 he made the case for removing support for the error message from Node.js.
"HTCPCP was an April 1 joke by Larry to illustrate how people were abusing HTTP in various ways. Ironically, it's [now] being used to abuse HTTP itself — people are implementing parts of HTCPCP in their HTTP stacks…
While we have a number of spare 4xx HTTP status codes that are unregistered now, the semantics of HTTP are something that (hopefully) are going to last for a long time, so one day we may need this code point…
I know it's amusing, I know that a few people have knocked up implementations for fun, but it shouldn't pollute the core protocol; folks can extend Node easily enough if they want to play with non-standard semantics."
He made similar requests to the communities handling Go, Python, and ASP.Net.
On the other side of the issue was a 15-year-old programmer named Shane Brunswick. He'd finished his freshman year in high school and was launching a web site to rally for the code's preservation. "Some people want to expunge every trace of 418 from the world," Brunswick wrote on GitHub. "I hope to stop that."
He told Business Insider the error "puts a smile on your face."
Brunswick proceeded with an indefatigable faith that the beloved error code could be saved by some online activism, and launched a web site at save418.com. (Its tagline? "We are the teapots.") But on a serious note, he makes the case for retaining the error message. "It's a reminder that the underlying processes of computers are still made by humans. It'd be a real shame to see 418 go."
Shane's post drew thousands of upvotes in Reddit's programming forum, and over a hundred more when it turned up on Hacker News.
Nottingham gamely acknowledged the controversy in a tweet.
I'm a bad, bad man. https://t.co/13oELYnsBq
— Mark Nottingham (@mnot) August 10, 2017
Nottingham even left a conciliatory comment on an issue filed on the code for Brunswick's own Save418 site. "My goal in all of this was to clarify the status of the code (it had previously been asserted that no one would care about 418, and that's clearly not true). We've done that admirably…"
The community had spoken, and within days Nottingham shared an update on the official w3 mailing list.
So, I poked a couple of implementations to see if they'd remove 418's "teapot" semantics, and there was a reaction (to put it mildly).
A draft of a new document soon appeared on the IETF site — authored by Nottingham himself.
"In the intervening years, this status code has been widely implemented as an 'Easter egg' and therefore is effectively consumed by this use. This document changes 418 to the status of 'Reserved' in the IANA HTTP Status Code registry to reflect that."
And soon he and Masinter were discussing the best way to collaborate on a response.
I'm thinking a duet. @masinter? pic.twitter.com/YxzhJUynR9
Meanwhile, Shane Brunswick's site was updated to proclaim "We saved 418," thanking those who expressed concerns "regarding the ramifications of removing such a wonderful error code from the internet."
In the days to come Nottingham retained his good humor — especially on REDbot, one of his own projects, which checks HTTP resources for common problems. When a developer in Armenia submitted a pull request so REDbot's code would now also support "HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot," Nottingham quickly approved the change, and had it deployed by the next day.
And he also left word of the change in a comment on the GitHub repository for Brunswick's web page, adding, "BTW, thanks for caring about HTTP :)
"sorry about causing all hell to break loose in those Github threads," Brunswick responded, adding "hope I didn't make your job any tougher than it already must be."
"Also, I want to thank for all the time you put into the HTTP protocol. I've probably spent the majority of my life connected to the internet in some way, shape, or form, benefitting from the work you've contributed over your career. Thank you for caring about HTTP too :)"
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Using Collaborative Pedagogy to Recruit Technology Students from First-year Engineering
Recruitment and Retention Matters in Engineering Technology
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Brian P. DeJong Central Michigan University
Brian P. DeJong is an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering in the School of Engineering and Technology at Central Michigan University (CMICH), winner of CMICH's 2010 College of Science & Technology Outstanding Teaching Award. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University in 2007. His research interests include auditory occupancy grids, teleoperation interfaces, lower-limb exercise robots, and engineering education.
Dru M. Wilson Wilson Central Michigan University
Dru M. Wilson is an Associate Professor at Central Michigan University in the School of Engineering and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in industrial education and technology from Iowa State University in 1998. His research interests include alternative methods of recycling thermosetting composite materials, prototype manufacturing, and plastics technology education.
Recruiting Technology Students from First-Year Engineering via Collaboration and PedagogyStudent recruitment and persistence are important for any technology-degree department.Enrollment has decreased in many technology-related programs, and students are often confusedabout the differences between engineering and technology fields. Such was the case at aMidwestern university with engineering, engineering technology (ET), and technology programs.The enrollment in ET and technology programs was declining while enrollment in the first-yearengineering course was increasing rapidly. However, most of the freshmen engineering studentswere not persisting into any of the programs, often because of student misconceptions orunpreparedness. This paper discusses the successful, significant recruitment of engineeringtechnology and technology students from a first-year engineering course via collaborativeteaching and purposeful pedagogy improvement.To better recruit and retain technology students, the freshmen engineering course was improvedin two ways. First, when talking about the engineering profession, the professors increasedemphasis on the spectrum of engineering- and technology-related degrees. Second, a technologyprofessor joined the first-year-course teaching team. The course is now team-taught bymechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and technology professors in round-robin format,so that students receive a variety of teachers and make contacts in multiple programs.Data were collected for six years, before and after the pedagogy change, in three forms: studenttranscripts, number of majors, and in-class surveys. Transcript data include semesters ofenrollment and graduation, grades in math courses taken before and during the first-year course,first-year engineering course grade, grades in subsequent engineering or technology courses, andcurrent grade-point-average. The number of majors for each program was also collected for eachyear. In addition, surveys were given at the start and end of semesters asking the students to ranktheir intended majors, and describe why they switched (if applicable).Statistical results show that the collaborative pedagogy change has increased student enrollmentin the technology programs without negatively impacting the enrollment in the engineeringprograms. Recruitment of technology students from the course has increased by at least 69%.Surveys show that previously many students switched intended majors from engineering to thesciences; now (if they switch) they switch to technology majors. The new technology recruitshave reversed the downward trend of ET majors – in fact, the number of ET majors has doubledin the last year. The recruited students are from all math levels, and grade received in the first-year engineering course is not an indicator of technology recruitment.Developing positive and professional relationships between faculty members across engineeringand technology disciplines can be implemented at similar universities to help recruit (and retain)technology-interested students. By exposing students to the spectrum of engineering andtechnology, and by creating contacts within each program, students are more likely to find adegree of their liking and be comfortable switching to that program.
DeJong, B. P., & Wilson, D. M. (2012, June), Using Collaborative Pedagogy to Recruit Technology Students from First-year Engineering Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22178
DeJong, B. P., & Wilson, D. M. (2012, June), Using Collaborative Pedagogy to Recruit Technology Students from First-year Engineering  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22178
DeJong, B. P., \& Wilson, D. M. (2012, June), \emph{Using Collaborative Pedagogy to Recruit Technology Students from First-year Engineering}
Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
Brian P. DeJong and Dru M. Wilson Wilson.  "Using Collaborative Pedagogy to Recruit Technology Students from First-year Engineering".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/22178 Internet.  19 Jan, 2022
Brian P. DeJong and Dru M. Wilson Wilson.
"Using Collaborative Pedagogy to Recruit Technology Students from First-year Engineering".
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Switzerland - Domestic workers protected by first sectoral contract - February 11, 2011
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After three years of debate fuelled by the Unia union jointly with other affiliates of the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB/USS), on 1 January 2011 the first-ever country-wide standard work contract (Normalarbeitsvertrag or NAV) came into force, laying down minimum wages and working conditions for domestic workers. The NAV is a legal minimum wage provision for sectors without collectively agreed provisions. The compulsory minimum wages are: CHF 18.20 (€ 14.17) per hour for untrained workers; CHF 20.00 (€15.57) for untrained workers with four years of professional experience or for workers with two years' training; CHF 22.00 (€17.13) for workers with three years' training. For these minimum hourly wages to apply a domestic worker must work on average at least five hours a week for the same employer. Earlier experience in the canton of Geneva, since 2004 having its own domestic workers' NAV, has been positive, also concerning implementation. Besides protection, this NAV enabled domestics to defend their rights effectively, notably through going to the labour court.
English: http://www.social-europe.eu/2011/02/domestic-workers-in-switzerland ...
This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.
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What's the most bone broth you've eaten at 1 sitting? My local bone broth shop sells bone broth in 1 quart jars. I was thinking about eating the entire jar at once for my Friday evening dinner. I normally eat about 2 cups at a time. Have you eaten 1 quart or more of bone broth at 1 sitting before? Also, is there any downside to bone broth?
Uh...bad breath? Bone broth is just soup without any other ingredients. More or less straight protein that's highly digestible.


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Are online brands doing enough to prevent scams?
I've talked about two types of spam topics in the last month – Content Farms and Black Hat SEO, but neither of these problems can compete with the fallout caused by hackers and con artists online. Today then I tackle the big fish, and share my own experience in being hacked.
This is really just the tip of the iceberg, and you only have to ask around to find stories of scam artists at play. I guarantee you won't have to ask many people until you find someone who has been a victim of some sort of hacking / scam attack, so just what can be changed to resolve this? The web has given us virus scanners, web security teams, online police deterrents, firewalls and passwords, yet people are still caught out every single day. It seems for the most part the hackers are winning, so does the responsibility fall to the brands themselves to protect us?
Whilst this sets up an obstacle for the customer, it's hard to see any chain of events that could result in a scam artist obtaining all of that information. A stolen statement wouldn't be enough, nor would a stolen / cloned card. It's a closed system, which is a perfect storm of locked down procedures. The Pin Sentry device is equally critical and three failed PIN attempts will lock a card, making it a tough (if not impossible) system to breach.
As a customer it's a time consuming process, but it is very very safe, and that's worth the extra hassle. For proof that it's working you only have to look to HSBC who are also launching a similar service.
Caroline Rolfe (Links of London) spoke at the Spring Symposium on the steps they take. One of the key strategies for Links of London is to play Cybersquatters and Typosquatters at their own game, by registering as many possible brand name URL addresses as they can. They do this by using Google keyword tool to see brand term searches people are making, and then these domains are registered before the cybersquatters can get them.
It's a good system, and one that is also well catered for by the UDRP process to resolve domain disputes. If you find someone is using your brand name, this process allows you to reclaim the domain and push out the con artists. It's not an especially long winded process, but it is far easier for a brand to purchase the domain name variations first rather than having to go down the UDRP route.
A talk by Tom Woodward (GHD) at the MarkMonitor Spring Symposium 2011, highlighted they have seven people working full time on stopping the sale of counterfeit goods. In the last 12 months they have stopped 7,500 websites selling fake GHD goods. That's just one brand working on a single product type, and it's working too.
A search for GHD on Google UK (performed on 11/04/11) bought up an entire list of sites in the organic and paid listings that were valid. The results did contain several notes from Google that sites had been removed "In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act," which again is a positive indicator of the work being done. You can also compare websites at bewareoffakes.ghdhair.com/ to find out which sites are real and it's positive to see a brand making a difference.
Given that GHD seem to be doing all they can, Tom also suggested that in the future a "higher onus of responsibility must be placed on internet platforms and payment providers". This seems understandable as it's hard to see any other methods GHD could do to control the marketplace.
What Can Distributors / Platforms Do?
For some companies email marking rules are nothing more than guidelines that can be ignored. They assume they'll never get caught and frustratingly most don't. Based on this it's good to see that both Mail Chimp and aWeber have strict rules in place that take away the opportunity for scam content.
By default AWeber do not allow forward to a friend buttons, so all spam is kept just to the original user, and both platforms will ban anyone sending emails with a high unsubscribe rate. In addition you're forced to include a postal address, adding another layer of trust for customers who receive these emails.
If a brand isn't sending their email marketing via a large provider, you have to wonder whether they have obeyed the CAN-SPAM guidelines. Big brands must pair with email providers who have a track record, and who respect these guidelines.
Following this logic it is the job of brands and not the online marketplaces to detect fraud and stop it. It's not just Tiffany & Co who have fought this battle either. Rolex, L'Oréal and Lous Vuitton have all fought against eBay with varying results.
Policing the millions of items listed daily is a daunting task and as such it is unsurprising that eBay have tried to pass the responsibility for this on to brands and customers. They implemented a Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Programme which allows brands to monitor their listings and get counterfeits removed. Customers can also report fakes, and the eBay buyer protection promise is generally strong.
However with counterfeits growing in quality, it's hard to see how brands themselves, customers or eBay can spot counterfeits by trawling online listings and just looking at photos and text. This information could be pulled from official websites, and it's only when the finished product is received that the problem can be spotted.
This weekend was the first taste I got of being hacked (at least that I knew of). My wife's Amazon account was broken in to and several purchases made in her name. She awoke on Sunday morning to find the fake purchases on her email, and we promptly called Amazon to make them aware. After making ten purchases the spammer had changed the email address on file, and so we couldn't log in to make any changes.
Amazon were very helpful, and had spotted the issue before we had (10 orders in 10 minutes must have rung a few alarm bells), and promptly closed the account. No money was lost, and all we had to do to was make a new account.
Based on all the market signals above it is very clear that brands have a corporate responsibility to protect customers from scam artists and fake goods. Given that "1 in 4 active Internet users visit piracy sites once a month" (Irfan Salim – Evolving brand protection landscape) we can no longer assume that customers are getting smarter at spotting scams. If anything the scam artists are getting smarter; they're creating better looking websites, finding new ways to hide themselves and moving at such a rapid pace it's hard for brands to keep up.
But there is hope. The work GHD and Links of London have been able to achieve is encouraging, and although they've been the victim of lawsuits, eBay do take a lot of steps to protect customers or refund them if they are conned. Whilst it seems unlikely the problem will go away entirely, every time a brand stops a scam site or protects their brand they are saving a customer from being scammed. It also sends a message to the scam artists that the brand is watching, which can help deter others in the future. It may seem like a sticking plaster solution, but it's better than taking no action and allowing the problem to grow.
I use both Aweber & Mailchimp so your post caught my attention. I agree they are industry leaders and I am wary of being on any list or service that is not associated with a major email provider and or secured login (https). Big brands indeed should take note.
Sorry to hear about your wife's Amazon experience! I know that this post is specifically about 'are big brands doing enough', but from a personal standpoint people should also be changing their passwords on a semi-regular basis. It's a pain, but an unfortunate necessity these days.
Thanks for the feedback Lee. I agree there is certainly an onus on customers as much as brands to do more. Although it only seemed to be Amazon that was cracked, so I would have expected more damage if it was just a case of the password being seen other places. They're all changed now at least!
In terms of Mailchimp and aweber, their strictness can be frustrating from a marketing point of view, but it's better to go with their processes and know you are compliant.
I think ghd and Links of London are a great example of how brands should be protecting themselves online. Caroline Rolfe from Links of London showed images of people that had brought counterfeit jewellery, which is made out of nickel. The images were disturbing and the damage that one bracelet or necklace can do to someone if you have a reaction to nickel is scary.
Registering permutations of your domain is a great place to start as this is where the 'counterfeit' sites begin.


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