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Whether the Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Corporation (Dawasco) has had enough time after enjoying its Christmas sleep to be in a position to skim through this commentary – and learn something from it that will jolt it into noticeable action – is anyone's guess.
After all, effective listening is an art one in which can decide to hone one's skills for effect and heeding advice is often essentially a matter of choice.
Lee Iacocca, former CEO of Chrysler Corporation, is credited with having once quipped: "I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realise that real communication goes in both directions."
Now, on the carpet for the purposes of this piece is Dawasco,
whose vision is to grow into a world-class water utility, whose mission is to provide quality and affordable water and sewerage services exceeding customers' expectations through well motivated staff, and whose motto is 'Our customer, our employment'.
We are discussing a public service agency whose self-avowed core values include honesty, efficiency, transparency, team work, accountability and generally being 'customer-focused'.
But anyone with a clear enough picture of the state of water supply and sewage disposal in the country's commercial capital of over four million people knows for a fact that it is by no means in consonance with the said vision, mission, motto and core values.
It is common knowledge that the agency has come to known more for failure to deliver as expected than for being on top of things where and when it matters most, that is, admitting that it is overwhelmed in part owing to internal deficiencies including the very core values it associates itself with as part of its public relations drive.
The corporation may be telling the truth – and nothing but the truth – in blaming the mess on such factors as equipment and infrastructure having outlived their usefulness, but would it really be telling the whole truth?
For instance, what do technical faults in water purification and distribution chains have to do with the countless cases of Dawasco offices being notified about illegal water connections and leaking pipes but not doing a thing about it for years on end and yet continuing to inundate customers with inflated bills or posting bills to people it has not served for as long?
Descending upon one or two presumed offenders may inspire the agency into believing that it is engaging in commendable intervention, but the truth remains that a lot more ought to be done to rectify matters.
For starters, under a new phase of the true spirit of corporate social responsibility, Dawasco ought to seriously consider strictly ensuring fairness to all its customers by heeding public appeals for fair play.
Dawasco may dispute this, but most members of the public are disillusioned with the agency's level of efficiency and are convinced that it is giving the hundreds of thousands of it "ordinary" customers a very raw deal.
Our humble advice: Dawasco must put its house in order – and the sooner, the better for all concerned.


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Authorities are investigating two Wednesday night shootings, one in the city of Greenville and another in Pitt County.
Sgt. Joe Friday with the Greenville Police Department says William Harris was shot several times in the legs in the 200 block of East 12th Street around 11:30 p.m.
Friday says his injuries do not appear to be life-threatening.
Sgt. Friday says Williams had been in an altercation with people he had a previous disagreement with at the Sheetz on 10th St. and Cotanche St.
The victim left the Sheetz to get away from the other people, but they followed him to the location where the shooting occurred.
Several .22 caliber shell casings were recovered from the street.
Twelve minutes later, at 11:38 p.m., dispatchers received a call about a possible shooting on Tupelo Lane in the Belvoir area of Pitt County.
Sheriff's spokesperson Christy Wallace says a man was shot in the leg on Tupelo Lane.
At this time it's unknown if there are any other injuries or if there are any suspects in custody.
We'll continue to update this story as more details become available.
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Strong earnings results tempered news of sharply lower home construction and higher consumer prices to lift the markets higher during the midday with the Dow leaping 188 points to 12,550. Nasdaq jumped 54 points to 2340.
On the upside
First quarter earnings for Knight Capital Group (Nasdaq: NITE) rose to surpass estimates as revenue from its global markets business climbed.
Shares of Agrium (NYSE: AGU) surged as the price of fertilizer exports to China more than doubled.
On the downside
Healthcare Services Group (Nasdaq: HCSG) blamed a sharp drop in investment and interest income for lower first quarter earnings that fell short of expectations.
Hedge fund group GLG Partners (NYSE: GLG) restated financial results for 2006 and 2007. The company also announced the resignation then the resignation withdrawal of portfolio manager Greg Coffey.
Shares of Safeway (NYSE: SWY) dropped after the American Farm Bureau reported a 9% jump in the cost of 16 basic groceries from a year ago.
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Captain Jack is back in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,' the fourth installment of Disney's 'Pirates' franchise.
Though Keira Knightley's Elizabeth and Orlando Bloom's Will are nowhere to be found in this part, the franchise's most intriguing character, Johnny Depp's loopy Captain Jack Sparrow, returns. In 'On Stranger Tides,' Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz).
The teaser trailer for 'Pirates of the Caribbean' has debuted on Yahoo!, but you can watch it right here after the jump.
Has Capt'n Jack found love? Or is she just a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth?
'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' premieres May 20, 2011.
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Alteil is not that fun.
People say it's overly-simplistic.
The music is not that great.
The gameplay is repetitive,
and most players don't really talk to you in-game.
But there is one advantage.
Maybe, as this Youtube video will show, there is a second advantage: <uploading> (EDIT: My C:/ drive ran out of disk-space so the video-recorder never converted to the right file-format and I don't know how to fix that) </upload>
Here's another duel, to make you feel better about me not fixing my dumpfile: Phenoca vs worthing
The advantages are:
1) Good graphics
2) I got the mermaid I was looking for, after my 404th game vs. Shadow1978.
Permission to host this video has been granted by Iczer: Shadow1978
It doesn't look like this will upload.
So basically I had a Guardian (buffed with one Blessing) at 2 and a Folrart Dual-Wielding Soldierat 3, a Magic Shade SS, a 40 DMG SS (last), and 1 SP.
Shadow1978 had an Oni at 3, an Eagle Soldier at 4, .
My cards were: Aurora, Pegasus, Snaf, Spell Lancer, Mirror of Light, and a Folrart Dual-Wielding Soldier.
His cards were: Return. He had used all his revives for Oni and Eagle Soldier.
He could take down my Guardian in one hit.
I believe I retreated the Guardian, he hit both my units, I used Aurora, he killed my Dual-Wielding Swordsman, and I used Standby so that he'd need two hits to kill Guardian. I revived my Dual-Wielding Soldier, retreated it behind Guardian, I attacked his Oni with Folrart Guardian (so that the counter would kill it).
I had to attack with Oni so that his Oni had less than 20 HP, then I healed Guardian with Mirror of Light and he was forced to retreat the Oni behind the Eagle Soldier (this turn was intense since I had 1 second on the timer). Then I lost my Swordsman to his Return, and was forced to play something so that he could not Iczer Attack my 40DMG SS. I played Snaf and Pegasus, forgetting that Pegasus buffs Snaf.
The Pegasus-buff forced him to waste his Oni's Action Skill early, enabling me to KO either unit with one hit from my Pegasus (because he had no SP for when Pegasus got set), winning me the game.
This was less risky than using the 40 DMG SS right-away... Because we both got to be incredibly resourceful, we had superior maneouvering around the field, and I think it was a great game because we both played a 'Johnny' strategy from the outset.
This guy's opening was really great. It combines SP-deprivation with early Return grims.
He lasted 4-6 turns on just an Oni, a Return, and an Eagle Soldier. That's heroic, and he could have won.
But by healing Guardian with Mirror of Light, and by using the Dual-Wielding Soldier as cannon fodder enabling me to heal my Folrart Guardian, I was able to employ my grimoires, waste his SP on re-playing Eagle Soldier, and ensure me a win using a 17-HP Guardian.
Yes I know. Folrart Guardian is the cheapest unit ever. Especially with two Blessings (which is the only thing that let me get into the endgame against his x3 Onis).
But it was the only game I ever played where both players needed to outmaneouvre the opponent in order to ensure victory.
Otherwise it would have been a coin-toss to the 40 DMG SS vs. Iczer Attack timing.
Sorry about the lack of *sniff* C:/ drive space.
And I got the only Set 4 card that I really wanted. Sweet.


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In distributed systems, it makes your life much simpler if you stream all your logs in real-time to a central location. ActiveState's PaaS solution, Stackato, has had log streaming as a key feature, with Logyard, since 2012 and core Cloud Foundry now includes Loggregator.
Hootsuite, is not a customer of ActiveState or a user of Cloud Foundry, but I often chat with them about how they are scaling the architecture of Hootsuite as it grows. We are big proponents of streaming logs, whether it be application logs or system logs, so I sat down with Director of Technology at HootSuite, Beier Cai, to find out more about what Hootsuite is doing with log streaming at scale.
Streams Don't Stop
Hootsuite works heavily in streaming data, but not just logs. Their focus is on social networks, where there is a constant feed of new tweets, Facebook messages, LinkedIn posts and many more. These streams never stop. If anything, the volume of social network data is increasing every day. Every user's feed is different from the next. No two users share the same view, and the same users never view the same content twice. In short, it is a large and complex moving target.
When Hootsuite hits a bug in production, it is very hard to pull that sequence of events back to staging servers and reproduce it. With so many variables, the complexity and volume of data flowing through the system, and a vague description of the issue from the customer, where do you start? For their Enterprise customers, Beier tells me, the logic becomes very complex.
So, short of a time machine, how can you debug issues?
Log Everything
Hootsuite logs everything. This is their time machine.
When an error occurs in production or a user reports a problem, they can dive into the logs and see what their systems were doing at, and around, the time that the user reported the issue. They can drill down to see details specific to that user, their actions, and their content feeds.
One Log Level
What log level would you run your systems at if you were running a system on the scale of Hootsuite? Would it be "warn"? Maybe "info"? How about "debug"? At Hootsuite, they have done away with all other logging levels and made everything "debug".
Beier does see the value in having different log levels, that you can toggle up and down, in other systems, but for Hootsuite it makes no sense. They would rarely be able to go back and repeat the exact same actions at a different log level. Having everything logged the first time around makes the most sense to them.
Beier also made a good point about logging levels in general. Who decides which level a particular log line should be at? It is hard to define and coordinate across a large system. Code-bases become increasingly large and complex and managing the correct level for each log line becauses impossible. Then, when you do hit an issue, you do not have the right logs because somebody set the wrong level for that particular scenario. This is another reason that Hootsuite chose to go with their "Log everything. One log level" mentality.
A Lot Of Logs
As you can probably imagine, there is a cost for logging everything. You generate a lot of log data!
Hootsuite generates about 200GB of logs per day. They keep 2 weeks worth of recent "hot" data, totaling about 2.8TB. After that it is archived to Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier. Glacier is similar to S3, but cheaper at the cost of it taking longer to recover the logs from storage.
Streaming Via LogStash
All logs are streamed to LogStash. The application logs are sent over UDP to LogStash and the system logs are sent via syslog, which then sends them over TCP to LogStash.
LogStash provides "logging channels", which receive everything, filter and then output the data. In Beier's description, a LogStash channel consists of "input", "filter" and "output". It is very simple. There are many open-source filters, which you can just use or customize. One such filter they use, is a filter to convert Apache logs to JSON.
JSON Log Lines
Ultimately, all log lines throughout Hootsuite become JSON. For their applications and custom systems, it is easy. They can simply write out JSON logs at the application level. For system logs, and things like Apache logs, they rely to LogStash to rewrite them.
In Hootsuite's setup, not everything that enters LogStash is JSON, but everything that leaves LogStash is.
Two Oceans
Logs streams that come out of LogStash are persisted to two places, depending on what type of logs they are. These two places focus separately on debugging and BI (business intelligence). All BI data is sent to Hadoop. All debugging data is sent to ElasticSearch. All user events are sent to both. BI data is no use for debugging, so it is excluded from data sent Hadoop. Similarly debugging data, such as syslog, does not help with BI analytics.
Hootsuite uses "6 beefy servers" for their 2 weeks of hot data, on which they run an ElasticSearch cluster. This is their key tool for searching and digging into their debug log data.
They define a schema on this indexed data which exposes key fields on the web interface. This enables engineers to see what they can search on. Even though they define this schema, ElasticSearch is still essentially schema-less. This means that a developer can add any hierarchical data fields to their log lines and it will still be searchable.
The way this schema-plus-schemaless setup works, is that an engineer will search on the fields they know exist, but in the results they will see additional searchable fields that will enable them to dig deeper into the logged data.
Hierarchical fields names will looks like "web.signup.email" or "errors.signup.email". In this example, "web" and "errors" would be categories you can search on. I asked Beier if this type of JSON indexing and searching was something that Hootsuite built on-top of ElasticSearch, but he told me that this functionality comes out of the box with ElasticSearch.
ElasticSearch is expensive, Beier tells me. It will work 99% of the time, but will sometimes break on spikes. If a server drops from the cluster, they will see a large spike in I/O as it rebalances the cluster.
The searching functionality ElasticSearch gives you is great when you are debugging an issue, said Beier, but it is only useful when you know what you are looking for. It is of little help for BI queries. For instance, "tell me all the users that signed-up, but stopped using the product 15 minutes later". This is where Hadoop comes in.
BI specific events and user events are all forwarded to Hadoop, which Hootsuite uses to gain intelligence on their user-base.
One thing that ActiveState does with the streaming logs coming from our sandbox Stackato cluster is send them to a service called Papertrail. Papertrail is able to do real-time searches and send us alert emails if it sees pre-defined error conditions or administrative actions. I was curious if Hootsuite was doing anything similar with their log data.
Beier said that this is something they are not doing. When it comes to monitoring, the are only interested in the aggregate numbers and less so in the individual instances of an event. For instance, did usage drop 20% after a deployment?
For monitoring they use Graphite and Statsd. These give them the numbers that they need. In fact, they track half a million real-time metrics through Graphite and Statsd.
Spam Attack
Beier told me an interesting story about an event that happened just a few weeks after they rolled out their ElasticSearch cluster in production. They fell victim to a spam attack.
Luckily, Hootsuite were able to dig into the data of the compromised accounts, via their newly rolled-out ElasticSearch cluster, find patterns and stop the attackers in their tracks.
I am pretty sure that whoever came up with the idea to stream log data into ElasticSearch felt pretty good that week. This is a classic case of fire prevention beats fire fighting.
Prior to sitting down with Beier I thought we would be talking mostly about LogStash, which is the central hub of all their logging systems. It occurred to me that we actually spoke little about it. I pointed this out to Beier.
"There's not much to talk about. It's a great system! It works perfectly, but it is very simple", he told me. "Out-the-box, LogStash accepts tens of different inputs, hunderds of filters and provides lots of outputs. The filters are very flexible". That's LogStash.
Streaming all manner of logs from across your distributed architecture is a powerful concept. With open-source tools like ElasticSearch and Hadoop, the number of ways you can quickly utilize your log data is becoming very interesting. Hootsuite shows us that this is not only powerful for developers digging in technical issues in production, but also for answering business questions that come all the way from the top.
ActiveState continues to invest heavily in this area and was the first PaaS solution to provide log streaming across the entire platform, from syslog to service and application logs.
Are you streaming your logs? Using LogStash? ElasticSearch? Hadoop? Something else? Please leave a comment below.
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We introduced Logyard in Stackato 2.4 as a way to stream system logs to external log aggregators. In addition, we started using Logyard to manage application logs.
Logyard 2.0 has no single point of failure (SPoF). Instead of transferring system logs from all nodes into a common node—from which they may be forwarded to external aggregators—we obviated the need to move logs by using what are called "drains". Consequently, the new Logyard involves no inter-node network traffic.
Logyard: The Why and How of Stackato's Logging System
Early on in the development of Stackato, we recognized that good logging features would be critical to developers and administrators. We also knew that we didn't want to reinvent the wheel, and made the intentional decision not to build log analysis and aggregation tools into the product itself.
There are quite a few log aggregators and indexers available already (Splunk, Loggly, Papertrail, Logstash, et al) and many developers and sysadmins have already made a significant commitment to using their favorite one.
Stackato's logging subsystem is called Logyard, and its purpose is to facilitate treating logs as event streams. Nothing else.
Logyard: Log Aggregation in Stackato
If you're using the Stackato Sandbox, you may have already noticed some differences in the Management Console's Logs interface. They hint at bigger changes behind the scenes, coming in Stackato 2.4:
Application logs can now be aggregated by a new process called Logyard, which streams log data to a (configurable) rolling buffer. From there, it can be retrieved with an API call for viewing with the 'stackato' client or the Management Console.
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Next Saturday, June 29, marks the grand opening of two new luxury home neighborhoods in the master-planned Del Sur community in the hills overlooking Rancho Santa Fe. Award-winning builders Brookfield Residential and Standard Pacific Homes will celebrate the opening of their six new model homes with festivities beginning at 10 a.m.
"These new homes continue the tradition of quality construction and design set by our first homebuilders," said Bill Ostrem, president of Del Sur. "We're eager to grand open these homes, marking the start of a fresh and exciting new phase of our community."
Brookfield Residential will debut its first community at Del Sur — Brookfield Sentinels. Three model homes, showcasing one- and two-story floor plans ranging from 2,784 to 3,388 square feet, will be open for tours. The builder will begin its Sentinels grand opening with a pancake breakfast, while afternoon guests will be treated to coffee and biscotti. Visitors will also have a shot at a $100 opportunity drawing.
Nearby, at Carrillo by Standard Pacific Homes, homebuyers will find three innovative, two-story floor plans, ranging from approximately 2,483 to 2,973 square feet. In addition to touring Carrillo's three models, guests will be treated to a street taco, side of chips and water or soda from Puesto Mexican Street Food.
At Brookfield Sentinels, where prices will start from the $900,000s, a Mediterranean style is evoked by the whitewashed exteriors and arched colonnades. Opportunities abound for extensive custom options in the homes featuring three to four bedrooms, 2.5 to 4.5 baths and two-car oversized garages with storage space. The homes will also include expansive courtyard space, playing to an indoor-outdoor lifestyle and taking advantage of surrounding mountain views and open space.
At Carrillo, where two of the four-bedroom, three-bath floor plans include bonus rooms, prices are set to start in the low $700,000s. Optional flex-space provides opportunities for a home office or game room. Architectural influences come from California Bungalow, Italian Revival, Mediterranean Farmhouse, Rustic Cottage and Spanish Colonial home styles.
Carrillo and Brookfield Sentinels are the first two neighborhoods opening at Del Sur this year. Three more are set to open this summer and fall.
Parking for the June 29 grand opening is available on streets surrounding the model complexes.
To get to Del Sur, exit Camino Del Sur off of State Route 56 and head north. From Interstate 15, exit Camino del Norte and head west. See more at www.delsurliving.com/location/directions/.
For detailed information about existing and future neighborhoods at Del Sur, visit www.delsurliving.com/homes/neighborhoods/.
About Del Sur
Located in the coastal hills of San Diego — between interstates 5 and 15 and just north of State Route 56 — is award-winning master-planned Del Sur. The community, known for its distinctive architecture, abundant parks and recreational amenities, is now home to more than 800 families.
Residents at Del Sur enjoy access to six neighborhood parks, five with year-round swimming pools heated with solar panels, as well as 18 miles of shared trails and open space to explore. Coming soon are four new parks with features such as solar-heated pools, and bocce ball and basketball courts.
Also at Del Sur are three top-performing schools within the Poway Unified School District: Del Sur Elementary School, Oak Valley Middle School and Del Norte High School. The community just broke ground on another PUSD school that will serve students in grades K-8. The new school will open in the fall of 2014, equipped with 156,000 square feet of learning space with 56 teaching stations, a gym pavilion, amphitheater, fitness trail and more.
With the addition of Carrillo and Brookfield Sentinels, five new-home neighborhoods will be selling at Del Sur, with additional neighborhoods coming this year. Homes from builders Brookfield Residential, California West Communities, Shea Homes and Standard Pacific Homes are open for tours. Floor plans range from approximately 1,600 to more than 3,700 square feet, and are currently priced from the $500,000s.
For more information about homes at Del Sur, call (858) 432-8770 or visit delsurliving.com.


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What is Mobile Marketing?
I would tell you that mobile is the future of marketing, but really the era of mobile has already arrived. If you're not implementing some kind of mobile marketing strategy, you're already trailing behind! As you can see from the graph below, more users are spending larger amounts of time engaged with mobile devices than ever before. We can expect this trend to continue even further in the future, so get ready!
How Does Mobile Marketing Work?
Mobile marketing consists of ads that appear on mobile smartphones, tablets, or other mobile devices. Mobile marketing ad formats, customization, and styles can vary, as many social media platforms, websites, and mobile apps offer their own unique and tailored mobile ad options.
Why You Need a Mobile Marketing Strategy
Your business needs a mobile marketing strategy for the same reason that you need a computer and wi-fi access – this is the age in which we live! Walk around any major city and you'll find more than just a few folks with faces glued to their smartphone screens. According to recent reports, 40% of users' internet time is spent on mobile devices, which means simply ignoring the rise of mobile just isn't an option.
Some other interesting mobile marketing statistics:
- 80% of mobile device time in spent on apps, with game apps eating up the largest percent of app time
- People browse 70% more web pages on tablets than smartphones
- Retail conversion rates are 2.2% on tablets, considerably higher than 0.7% on smartphones, but traditional PC conversion rates are still highest at 3.3%
- Mobile searches have increased 200% year over year in 2012
- Mobile is predicted to surpass desktop in 2014
Mobile is here to stay, and if forecasts are correct, it will soon by eclipsing desktop usage. If you don't have a mobile marketing strategy yet, it's time to get going!
Types of Mobile Marketing Strategies
There's a healthy variety of mobile marketing strategies to try. The kind that works best for your business will depend on your industry, target audience, and budget.
App-based marketing: This is mobile advertising involving mobile apps. While 80% of mobile time is spent engaged with apps, you don't have to create an app yourself to get in on the action. Services like Google AdMob help advertisers create mobile ads that appear within third-party mobile apps.
Facebook also allows advertisers to create ads that are integrated into Facebook's mobile app. Facebook's mobile Promoted Post ads integrate so seamlessly with Facebook's news feed that users often don't realize they're looking at ads.
In-game mobile marketing: In-game mobile marketing refers to mobile ads that appear within mobile games, like in the example below. In-game ads can appear as banner pop-ups, full-page image ads or even video ads that appear between loading screens.
QR codes: QR codes are scanned by users, who are then taken to a specific webpage that the QR code is attached to. QR codes are often aligned with mobile gamification and have an element of mystery to them, since users who scan them don't always know exactly which rabbit hole they're jumping down.
Location-based marketing: Location-based mobile ads are ads that appear on mobile devices based upon a user's location relative to a specific area or business. For example, some advertisers may only want their mobile ads to appear when users are within a 1-mile radius of their business.
Mobile search ads: These are basic Google search ads built for mobile, often featuring extra add-on extensions like click-to-call or maps.
Mobile image ads: Image-based ads designed to appear on mobile devices.
SMS: SMS marketing involves capturing a user's phone number and sending them text offers. This is considered somewhat passé.
Mobile Marketing: Google AdWords Enhanced Campaigns
On July 12, Google rolled out Enhanced Campaigns for all AdWords users, integrating mobile advertising options with classic online AdWords advertising.
Enhanced Campaigns allow advertisers to manage their AdWords bids across various devices in one single campaign, rather than make separate campaigns for mobile vs. desktop. AdWords advertisers can simply take the Google search ads they already use, and then set bids to adjust for mobile devices. To increase bids for mobile devices, users can set a positive bid adjustment, such as +20%, and vice versa – a bid adjustment of -10% reduces the bid by 10% for mobile devices.
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It's in Google's best interest to make mobile marketing easy for advertisers – Google generates a hefty amount of revenue from mobile ads.
Google's Enhanced Campaigns allow for advertisers to manage bids across devices, locations, and time with ease. Some advertisers may choose to bid higher for users on mobile devices who are within a certain range of their store, or may only want to bid on mobile devices during their store's open hours, and Enhanced Campaigns make that an easy possibility for advertisers.
Google Mobile Ad Extensions
Creating mobile search ads with Google also lets you take advantage of Google's nifty mobile ad extensions, which include features like:
Mobile Site Links: Mobile site links make it easy for mobile users to jump to specific pages of your site without wandering around. Site links are especially useful in mobile marketing, as it's much more convenient for users on mobile devices.
Click-to-Call Mobile Ad Extension: The click-to-call extension puts a "call" button directly beneath an ad. Clicking the button automatically generates a business's phone number on a user's mobile device.
While this handy ad extension makes it easy for searchers to get in contact with your business and drives users down the conversion funnel, it's best to only have the click-to-call mobile ad extension appear when your business is open and able to answer the phone.
Google Offers for Mobile: The Google Offers mobile ad extension lets advertisers post a discount offer or coupon beneath their ad. These special offers can capture the attention of users who might otherwise ignore an ad.
Click-to-Download Ad Extension: The click-to-download ad extension is similar to the click-to-call, only instead of generating a phone number, clicking the "download" button takes users to the download page of the advertiser's pre-selected app.
Local Ad Extensions: Local ad extensions are probably the most important extensions for mobile, considering that 1 in 3 mobile searches have local intent. Considering how many mobile searches are questions looking for a local solution, local mobile marketing needs to be a key aspect of your mobile strategy.
Local mobile marketing extensions often involve a phone number or link to Google Maps.
Mobile Marketing Best Practices
We're leaving you with some quick mobile marketing tips to make sure you make the most of mobile.
- Be Clear and Concise: Mobile devices have small screens, which means words should be used sparingly. Cluttered and crowded ads will just drive users to scroll past. When it comes to mobile, it's best to keep things simple.
- Optimize for Local: Be sure to remember that 1 in 3 mobile searches have local intent. Users often use mobile devices to complement their immediate worldly interactions – where is the nearest gas station? Is there a nearby coffee shop that has wi-fi? Optimize for local mobile marketing to make sure you are aligning with users' queries.
- Consider Your Audience: The type of audience you're hoping to reach should influence the kind of mobile ads you use. Are they gamers? Then try taking advantage of in-game ads. Are they young and tech-savvy? Mobile Facebook Promoted Posts might be more likely to get their attention.
- Experiment with Different Strategies: There's a lot of room for experimentation when it comes to mobile marketing. Don't be afraid to test out some ad extensions with your AdWords Enhanced Campaigns – try the Google Offers ad extension, or the click-to-call extension, and see how they work for you.
- Benchmark Your Results: Experimenting is great, but there's no point in trying new techniques if you're not tracking your results to see what works and what doesn't. Try the AdWords Grader to see how your mobile PPC ads are performing.
Site-links photo and local ad extension photo borrowed from Marketing Land
I'm good at marketing but not so much as mobile marketing. I know how to use QR codes, but that's about it. My webhosting provider gives me a great deal on a mobile website development for $10/month, so i might take them up on their offer. Thanks for the stats and graphs on this post. BIG eye opener.
Thank you for commenting Randall. Without your feedback we wouldn't know how our audience is liking/disliking the content we research, and then write.I'd be sure to check twice on what's offered by your webhosting provider to make sure it works though!
Your article is fantastic we loved the part where you acknowledge mobile SMS messaging is part of the future of marketing.
Ha, thanks! We certainly do acknowledge it as an element of mobile marketing, but we don't see SMS messaging really going much further - the future is really in other forms of mobile marketing!
Your article about mobile marketing is very interesting. Through Mobile marketing we can easily shop at any place which makes it safer for customers.
Great article. I think with the increasing popularity of smart phones especially amongst the younger generation, the impact of mobile marketing may be more important than ever. New ways of reaching people, not just through social media sites, but also through new apps such as vine or snapchat allow for more options. I think for mobile marketing you have to keep up with the latest apps such as social apps where you get to really find out what people are talking about and possibly get some ideas about future business.
I think it's crucial for sites to be well optimised for mobiles especially how Google puts a lot of emphasis on optimised sites and 30% of referral traffic comes from mobile sources. Integrating mobile marketing in the campaign to increase brand exposure.
Hi Megan,A very good and informative blog indeed.Thanks for sharing.Junaid
Very good summory related to mobile marketing! However, I would like to make some corrections.You write about different types of mobile marketing strategy, but have actually summorized different types of mobile related solutions that you can use in mobile marketing strategy.There are so many examples of using mobile solutions from your list in one marketing strategy.I just want to empasize this point because many marketers make this mistake, while Integrated Mobile Marketing Strategy that consists all examples from your list is what all marketers should want to achieve to reach a valuable goal.
Awsome Article! You have made some very useful tips.I found this mobile marketing statistics fascinating - 80% of mobile device time in spent on apps, with game apps eating up the largest percent of app time.Wow! So much time spent on games. But still getting mix results targetting apps in the GDN.
This is a great mobile marketing 101 post. I'm working on strengthening my understanding of mobile and found this article in my research. Very informative!
Nice post. I learn something new and challenging on sites I stumbleupon every day. It will always be interesting to read through content from other writers and learn something from their web sites.
i have just purchased a software package which converts websites to mobile phone friendly easy to read and use websites i hope to turn this into a business and your post has been very usefull
It's a new trend and this is very interesting. This is truly a valuable post and thanks for sharing such informative article.
I think the revolution which comes in mobile industry can be the reason for the popularity of mobile marketing. The way how usage of internet has been increased in smart phone, it is become necessary to think about mobile marketing. And ASO is the key thing to learn.
Reading this in 2015 and it is still very relevant. Great read.
Such an old article but still relevant as rightly said by one friend up there. Big fan of Mobile advertisement/marketing. It's come a long way since this data but going strong. Was upgrading my campaign today and brushed up some knowledge on mobile marketing before proposing a plan in this direction. Thanks WordStream & Megan Marrs !


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The curriculum for Namibian Basic Education as set out in "Toward Education for All" [2] includes the following: Aesthetic, social and economic, linguistic and literacy, mathematical, spiritual, moral and ethical, physical, natural scientific and technological learning areas. These, if developed further and applied appropriately to the country's economic situation, should be sufficient to combat the existing skills deficit. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z A review of the "tea cup effect" and removal of suspended solids from water. Mashauri, Damas A. http://hdl.handle.net/10628/314 2012-03-31T00:00:05Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A review of the "tea cup effect" and removal of suspended solids from water. Mashauri, Damas A. Suspended solids problem in water is an issue as old as water treatment itself. Suspended solids can be causative to eroding through abrasion of impellers, pump casings, pipes and other water works related appurtenances. It is therefore appropriate that suspended solids must be removed as early as possible in the water works treatment facilities. It is usually done at the river/lake intakes to reduce the coarse particulate matter that would otherwise adversely affect the water works thereafter. The fine particles that will escape the entrapment at the intake works would therefore require further and more effective system that would remove this fraction. By and large this removal process is achieved by chemically aided process such as coagulation/flocculation unit operation. This process is expensive and demands high level trained personnel to man them. In the same vein then a simple and effective system is proposed. This is a swirl or grit removal system that does not need any chemicals, moving parts or even highly trained personnel to operate them. This paper is looking at the theory of the "Tea Cup Effect" and how it has been used in practice to remove or reduce suspended solids from water. The paper gives some examples where such devices have been used and how effective they have been. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z An investigation on the effects of feeder outages and non-linear loads on 11kV ring distribution network efficiency. Kapali, David Gope, Gideon http://hdl.handle.net/10628/312 2012-03-31T00:00:05Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z An investigation on the effects of feeder outages and non-linear loads on 11kV ring distribution network efficiency. Kapali, David; Gope, Gideon This study investigates the impact of power quality problems on the efficiency of a ring distribution network. The paper focuses on the effects of outage and harmonics on the distribution network efficiency and the practical implications on power system economics and reliability. An 11 kV ring distribution network was modeled and simulated in DigSilent PowerFactory (Demo version) 14.0.512 software package. Five case studies were conducted on the network for normal operation conditions and abnormal conditions (outage and harmonics). A methodology to estimate the technical losses (economic losses) in the distribution system was developed and used as a basis for determining the network efficiency. A load flow based analysis was carried out on the distribution system to determine the voltage and current profiles under normal and abnormal conditions. It emerged that the loss of feeder cables or lines in the network has an adverse impact on the efficiency of the network. This raises the question on the existence and the need of an optimum supply configuration. It also puts an increased focus on the need of improved reliability engineering in distribution systems as the costs of failures could be high. The authors conclude that the efficiency of a ring distribution network is affected adversely during contingency (outage and harmonics). The degree to which the efficiency is affected depends on the initial optimal design configuration and the nature of the disturbance or contingency condition. Preventative steps that can be taken to "harden" equipment and systems to PQ problems are also suggested. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Development of a sun tracking system for a small solar concentrator. Mutaleni, C. Bishi, Isabel Zulu, Andrew Swaminathan, Rajaram http://hdl.handle.net/10628/275 2013-02-07T13:47:02Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Development of a sun tracking system for a small solar concentrator. Mutaleni, C.; Bishi, Isabel; Zulu, Andrew; Swaminathan, Rajaram An automatic sun tracking system was extended to a parabolic dish solar concentrator which can be used to cook or heat water. Parabolic dish solar concentrator has been in use couple of decades ago but has been tracking the sun manually. The automatic sun tracking system was incorporated on the parabolic dish with success and it works satisfactory. 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Study Finds Using Oral Contraceptives Before Pregnancy, Not Linked to Respiratory Problems
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—A new study by researchers at RTI International, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health refutes previous findings that oral contraceptive use before pregnancy is linked to respiratory problems in children.
The Norwegian study, presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, may reassure mothers who have used oral contraceptives before becoming pregnant.
"Given that progesterone is a key hormone in pregnancy, researchers have hypothesized that the use of progestin-containing oral contraceptive pills before pregnancy could influence fetal respiratory and immune development," said Dana B. Hancock, Ph.D.., genetic epidemiologist at RTI and the study's lead author. "In 1997, researchers first reported that a mother's oral contraceptive pills use may increase the risk of asthma in the child. Since then, a few studies have supported this hypothesis but data are limited and inconclusive."
According to the researchers oral contraceptive pills are widely used. Intended pregnancies often occur shortly after discontinuing oral contraceptive pills, and almost half of unintended pregnancies occur when women are using contraceptives. Effects of oral contraceptive pills on hormone levels can linger in women months to years after discontinuation.
In this new study, the results showed that the use of estrogen-progestin combined pills before pregnancy was not associated with lower respiratory tract infections, wheezing or asthma in the children followed in the study.
The researchers looked at associations between the type of oral contraceptive used by the mother before pregnancy and lower respiratory tract infections in more than 60,000 children followed to 6 months old; lower respiratory tract infections and wheezing in more than 42,500 children followed to 18 months old; and asthma in almost 24,500 children followed to 36 months old.
Progestin-only pill use in the year before pregnancy had a slight positive association with wheezing in children at 6 to 8 months old but the researchers noted that very few women used this type of pill, the association was small and might be due to residual confounding.
"We found that use of the combined pill, taken by most women who use oral contraceptive pills, was not associated with adverse respiratory outcomes in the offspring" said Stephanie J. London, M.D., Dr.P.H., principal investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and senior author of the study. "This should provide reassurance to the vast majority of women using oral contraceptive pills during their childbearing years."


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Creed continue to be the biggest boon to record stores, as their third album, Weathered, will again top next week's Billboard 200 albums chart to extend their reign as kings of the musical mountain for six consecutive weeks.
In the last week of 2001, Weathered sold nearly 400,000 copies, less than half of what the group moved the week prior but enough to come in ahead of next week's #2 album, Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory, by more than 134,000, according to SoundScan figures released Thursday (January 3). The California quartet's debut sold more than 263,000 copies to jump from this week's #7 position to its upcoming second-place slot.
Not surprisingly in the week after Christmas, almost all the albums in next week's top 200 failed to move as many copies as they did the week before. Nevertheless, a few albums, mostly rap and hip-hop LPs, managed grand leaps in chart position. Ludacris' Word of Mouf and Ja Rule's Pain Is Love, each moving ahead 12 notches, will make the largest forays in top 10 territory, coming in at #4 (more than 228,000 copies sold) and #8 (183,000), respectively.
It's Busta Rhymes' Genesis, however, that will rise highest among top 40 albums, from #44 to #26, by selling more than 100,000 copies. System of a Down's Toxicity will enjoy the second-largest inflation, a 17-place vault to #30; while Outkast's Big Boi & Dre Present … Outkast will follow the two greatest gainers at #21, up 16 places from last week's #37 slot.
P.O.D.'s Satellite and Puddle of Mudd's Come Clean will round out the crop of albums on the upswing, with P.O.D. landing at #19 (up from #30) and the Fred Durst protégés coming in at #23 (from #36).
Conversely, Garth Brooks' Scarecrow will dip deepest next week, past-due holiday albums notwithstanding. The country icon's latest album will fall to #14, down 11 places. Now That's What I Call Christmas, meanwhile, will predictably slide farthest in the top 40, from #15 to #35.
Top 10 albums that will shuffle only slightly, as only 81,000 copies separate the #2 and #10 albums, include Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 8, which drops a place to #3 (more than 233,000 copies sold); Nickelback's Silver Side Up, which steps up to #5 (226,000); Usher's 8701, which moves forward three places to #6 (212,000); Enya's A Day Without Rain, which slips two places to #7 (185,000); Nas' Stillmatic, which concedes a spot to #9 (183,000); and Pink's Missundaztood, which holds onto its #10 position (181,000).
The only albums to experience a sales surge last week fall near the outer realms of the chart. Now that it actually has a motion picture to accompany it, the "Ali" soundtrack, released five weeks ago, floats and flutters ahead 62 spots to #81 with a more than 3,000-copy increase. And though its visual companion is still awaiting release on January 11, the soundtrack to "Orange County," propelled by new songs by the Offspring ("Defy You") and Foo Fighters ("The One"), improves its sales by 4,000 to make its chart debut at #171, though it was released December 18.
Jermaine Dupri's Instructions also experienced a bump of post-Christmas cheer, rising 71 slots to #128, while bolstering last week's sales by more than 2,000.
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(Video above shows Darren Manzella in the 60 Minutes interview the Army later used as evidence the sergeant is gay.)
by Aamer Madhani
U.S. Army Sgt. Darren Manzella told his commanding officer nearly two years ago that he was gay--something he felt he had to do after receiving anonymous threatening e-mails from someone who said that people in the Army were aware of his sexual orientation.
He later provided Army investigators intimate pictures and video of him and his boyfriend--kissing, snuggling and holding each other. He said he wanted to stay in the Army, but he didn't want to hide who he was.
The Army investigated, but Manzella was told they could find no proof of his homosexuality. He would deploy to Kuwait with the rest of his unit.
Manzella, a decorated combat medic who also served in Iraq, even went on 60 Minutes in December to tell his story and speak out against the military's "don't ask, don't tell policy" that prohibits out-of-the-closet troops from serving.
It wasn't until this spring that the Army concluded that Manzella, a 30-year-old from Upstate New York, was in fact gay and recommended him for discharge for violating don't ask, don't tell. Earlier this month, Manzella was officially kicked out of the service.
When his command at Fort Hood, Texas, notified him that they were recommending his discharge, Manzella said they offered him the 60 Minutes transcript as well as a copy of an Associated Press story about him as evidence that he was gay.
Never mind that he told his commanders the same story months before.
"I don't know if their hands were forced because of the 60 Minutes interview," Manzella said in telephone interview. "At that point it had gone up the chain of command."
Since the policy was introduced in 1993 by President Clinton, more than 12,000 U.S. troops have been kicked out of the military for violating don't ask, don't tell. The annual discharges under DADT, however, have dropped by about half since the Sept. 11 attacks pushed the military into a perpetual state of war.
"There are theories that the Army doesn't enforce this because there are two wars going on and they need every capable soldier they can get," Manzella said. "But I don't know why they did it when they did it...My grudge isn't toward any commander. It is toward this policy."
Even before he told his commanders about his sexual orientation, Manzella was out to several members of his unit. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a Washington-based organization that advocates allowing homosexuals to serve openly, says it is aware of more than 500 troops who are 'out' to their colleagues.
In an e-mail, Army spokesman Lt. Col George Wright confirmed that Manzella was discharged under a Chapter 15 homosexual discharge. Wright said he did not know why the service chose not to kick Manzella out of the service after he acknowledged he was gay in 2006.
For now, Manzella is in Washington working with the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and trying to figure out what he'll do next with his life.
He says he's hopeful that a new administration will overturn don't ask, don't tell. Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, has said he would end the policy, while Sen. John McCain, the expected Republican nominee, says he would keep it in place.
Manzella says that he is certain there were many in the Army that didn't agree with his lifestyle, but no one--beyond the anonymous e-mail writer--ever gave him a hard time. For his generation of soldiers, Manzella contends sexual orientation just isn't a big deal.
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FTC confirms probe into iPhone in-app purchases
The Federal Trade Commission stated Tuesday it will review potentially deceptive practices connected to in-application purchases within children's games optimized for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s iOS platform. Two weeks after Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) first wrote letters to FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz urging the consumer watchdog to investigate the in-app transaction model, Leibowitz responded with a letter to Markey agreeing that consumers may not fully grasp the monetary realities of virtual goods sales within iPhone, iPod touch and iPad game downloads. "We fully share your concern that consumers, particularly children, are unlikely to understand the ramifications of these types of purchases," Leibowitz wrote. "Let me assure you we will look closely at the current industry practice with respect to the marketing and delivery of these types of applications."
Markey quickly responded to the Leibowitz letter. "What may appear in these games to be virtual coins and prizes to children result in very real costs to parents," he said in a statement. "I am pleased that the FTC has responded, and as the use of mobile apps continues to increase, I will continue to actively monitor developments in this important area."
The FTC probe follows after after The Washington Post reported multiple parent complaints tied to in-app transactions across the iOS platform--one child playing the Smurfs Village game spent a reported $1,400 acquiring batches of Smurfberries priced at $99 each. Although iOS in-app transactions cannot be conducted without a password, parents and public interest groups maintain Apple's safeguards must be made stronger. In his initial letter to Leibowitz, Markey wrote that the in-app purchase model may be deceptive, explaining that when parents download titles geared for their children, they do not anticipate the application will include virtual items available for sale.
App store analytics firm Distimo reports that between June 2010 and December 2010, revenues generated by in-app purchases in free applications more than doubled across both the iPhone and iPad. In-app transactions across free and premium apps now account for 49 percent of iPhone developer revenues and 29 percent of iPad developer income.
Beyond the in-app purchase inquiry, the FTC and the Justice Department also have started looking at the terms behind Apple's new subscription service for all content-based apps in its App Store. However, the inquiry is just preliminary and no formal investigation has been launched, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter. Regulators apparently are looking at whether Apple is breaching U.S. antitrust laws, with a focus on the computing giant's decision to funnel media companies' customers into the payment system used for its iTunes store while taking a 30 percent cut of the subscription revenues.
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Purple Hat Program Raises Awareness Of Infant Crying
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Babies born this month at St. Alphonsus will be given purple caps thanks to the Click for Babies campaign.
These purple hats come out every November to raise awareness for The Period of PURPLE Crying — an educational program that helps parents understand normal infant crying.
Especially a lot of crying.
The goal is to prevent tragedies such as Shaken Baby Syndrome, which can result from frustration when a baby won't stop crying.
The program was developed by the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome.
The word PURPLE is an acronym:
• P: Peak of Crying — Babies might cry more each week of their newborn lives with the most crying in month two.
• U: Unexpected — Crying can come and go and you don't know why.
• R: Resists Soothing — Your baby might not stop crying no matter what you try.
• P: Pain-like Face — Crying babies might look like they are in pain, even when they are not.
• L: Long Lasting — Crying can last as long as five hours a day, or more.
• E: Evening — Your baby might cry more in the late afternoon and evening.
Click for Babies, now in its third year, is a collaborative effort between the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome and states and provinces that have implemented the Period of PURPLE Crying.
The campaign relies on donations from across Oregon — free patterns are available online at clickforbabies.org.
Local donations can be taken to the Birth Center at St. Alphonsus-Baker City, 3325 Pocahontas Road.


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Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading down 87 points (-0.6%) at 14,874 as of Thursday, June 6, 2013, 12:50 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,317 issues advancing vs. 1,603 declining with 125 unchanged. The Services sector currently sits down 0.10 versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.38. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include Ascena Retail Group ( ASNA), down 10.42, US Airways Group ( LCC), down 4.60, United Continental Holdings ( UAL), down 4.11, Netflix ( NFLX), down 3.51 and Southwest Airlines ( LUV), down 2.71. Top gainers within the sector include Liberty Media Corporation ( LMCA), up 11.0%, Home Depot ( HD), up 1.6%, AutoZone ( AZO), up 1.1%, Canadian Pacific Railway ( CP), up 0.9% and Sirius XM Radio ( SIRI), up 1.1%. TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector lower today: 5. Discovery Communications ( DISCA) is one of the companies pushing the Services sector lower today. As of noon trading, Discovery Communications is down $1.44 (-1.9%) to $74.44 on average volume Thus far, 879,840 shares of Discovery Communications exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.4 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $74.18-$75.88 after having opened the day at $75.67 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $75.88. Discovery Communications, Inc. operates as a non fiction media company worldwide. It operates through three segments: U.S. Networks, International Networks, and Education. The company provides original and purchased content across various distribution platforms. Discovery Communications has a market cap of $11.5 billion and is part of the media industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 30.6, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 24.0% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate Discovery Communications a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates Discovery Communications as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow. Get the full Discovery Communications Ratings Report now. STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12-months. Learn more.Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model All three major indices are trading down today with the
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Cancer survivor Dena Blakely, supported by her husband Joe, served as the survivor speaker at the Relay for Life of Moniteau County Friday night. "Up until two months ago, I never thought I'd be standing here," Blakely said. She stressed the importance of digital mammorgrams. "They are the key to early detection and the reason mine was detected. This is why I stand here tonight as a survivor. My husband said if there was ever a silver lining in all of this, it is that we found the cancer at Stage 0. Thank you all and God bless."
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