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(From the jungle after young Ben passes the fence):
"disobeys you"
"because the moment's bad/rare"
"that's what I mean"
"It's heavy"
"don't worry"
"I looked through them"
"Your hope is here"
"there ain't no turning around"
"turn to that screen"
"Don't forget him"
"Is anyone awake"
"We should take him"
"What's happening"
"If we go over there we might be able to see him but I don't know"
"Did you hear about him"
"Is anyone on"
(At the fence at night):
"(..tell you) I'm glad you decided to see me"
"Because I love him"
"That's right, that's what I mean/need"
"Don't worry about it"
"You're the one ..."
"Talk to him"
"Tell him that you're his mother"
"Tell him to be patient"
"That'll just make it worse"
"What's happening"
"If we can go over there we might be able to see it, but I don't know"
"Help us come through the fence"
"We're sending one, don't argue"
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Pewter Teaspoons by Hardanger Norway - Rococo Pattern
This set of six teaspoons were made by Hardanger-Sylvplett (now known as Hardanger-Bestikk) of Norway. The pattern is Rokokko-Tinn, which has been discontinued for some time. I have two sets of these spoons. My price is for ONE package of six spoons.
A brochure provided with this flatware tells us that: this Rococo pewter is decorated with a pattern taken from the best of Norwegian folk art. The Rococo style was born in south and central Europe in the 1720's The 1760's saw the development in Norway of a very special type of Rococo. In the deep and isolated valleys and mountain villages were capable woodcarvers and rural artists, with traditions stretching back to the 7th and 8th century, to the Viking era. These artists and craftsmen developed a style later known as "Norwegian Rococo". Even today this folk art lives on in Norway, supported by its rich and strong traditions.
The brochure also says that: At one time pewter was the status symbol of such rank that the old kings ate from pewter plates, while lesser mortals had to put up with gold ones! This should at any rate prove that pewter takes kindly to contact with all kinds of food, and that it is non-toxic. The people of today do not put pewter flatware on their tables to prove that they can afford it, but because it is a genuine product of lasting beauty with attractive patterns.
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My First (and Maybe Last) Turning Job
Believe it or not, until recently I had never done any turnings. I have been messing with wood for a solid twenty years and never once have I even turned on a lathe. I've seen Norm do it a bazillion times on "The New Yankee Workshop" and listened to plenty of other woodworkers tell me about their turning escapades, but I never felt inclined to do it myself. I guess it's because I am not attracted to work that has turnings in it, so they rarely end up in pieces that I am building and if they do, I pay someone else to do them.
It wasn't by my choosing, but I did agree to build a bench with multiple turnings after my customer changed her mind on what she wanted. She showed me a picture from Sawkille.com of their "Tall Rabbit" bench and asked if I could make one like it for her with a variation on the length. Since I already had her deposit on the previous project, I didn't want to say no and send back the money, so I said yes. I looked at it this way, if I consider myself a real woodworker and I am interested in spreading real-world useable woodworking knowledge, then it can't hurt for me to have more knowledge myself. After all, was it possible that I would consider myself a real woodworker and die one day never having done a single turning? Sounded pretty hypocritical to me.
First off, let me say that the work from the kids at Sawkille is very nice, and though I don't know them from Adam, I do appreciate the attention to design details that show in their work. I spent a lot of time messing with small details and proportions, and there is no doubt in my mind that they have spent exponentially more time on those same details and slight variations than I did.
The picture above is in black, but my customer saw some other variations and decided to go with bleached maple, and though it didn't seem necessary on maple, bleaching gave the wood a very different look. The maple went from a light yellow-white to bone white with a couple of applications of two-part wood bleach. That part was as simple as could be – the actual turning was not.
Actually, I take that back. The short turnings weren't too bad. After I turned the first couple and started to get a feel for it, the next 17 went pretty fast and came out nice. I got my time down to about 15 minutes each, which didn't set any speed records, but it was a pace I could live with. If I did them all at that rate, I could turn all of the pieces in about 6 or 7 hours, which sounded like a fine day of work.
As you might have imagined, I wouldn't have much to talk about if it all went down like that.
My troubles started when I stepped up to the legs and long stretchers. All of those are in the 24″ range, and about three times as long as the easy-peasy pieces. Out near the ends, where everything is solid, the work went according to plan, but in the middle, I would simply say that it did NOT. No matter how I attacked the middle, whether it be with a light touch or a hard push or maybe a quick jab or a different angle or a different speed or perhaps standing on a different foot or even just squinting a bit more, nothing improved. The piece of maple just jumped and kicked like a bucking bull, and I couldn't stop it.
Even though I knew my problems were the result of the longer pieces, I imagined that a better turner (or at least someone who had turned at least once before in their life) could overcome the bounciness with better technique. I kept trying different lathe tools and worked slowly to get the pieces as good as possible, and while the overall shape was acceptable, the surface was not. It was nubby, like off-road truck tires, and there were plenty of spots were the wood was just ripped instead of cut. To finish up, I finally dumped the lathe tools and grabbed the sandpaper. I decided to take full advantage of the easy sanding on the lathe and let the paper do the work. Of course, it took awhile, but it was the only way I could come up with to overcome the bouncing spindle syndrome.
After I had a few of the long turnings done, I talked/complained to random shop patrons about my lathe fun and one of them mentioned using a rasp. Apparently, he had more turning knowledge than me (I think everyone does), and he had used the rasp a lot. It made good sense – a rasp is really just super-aggressive sandpaper. Plus, by holding the rasp more parallel to the piece than perpendicular, the rigid flat shape worked great to form the gradual curves with no humps. It wouldn't have worked so well on intricate turnings, but it worked great in this case.
After finishing this project, I have a new respect for wood turners and turning. After all, my turnings were simple and still provided quite the challenge. When I think about some of the turnings I have seen, especially in other works, like large hollow vessels, and I consider all of the issues that the turner might face in a project like that, it really makes me appreciate the craft of it. And, though I may never do another turned project in my life, I am glad I gave this one a go.
"Standard" Wood Domino Dimensions
For Christmas, I decided my daughter needed a bunch of dominos (not to play the game dominos, but to stand up and knock over). I always liked playing with dominos, but was always disappointed when I ran out, so I then decided it should be a big bunch of dominos. After doing a little on-line research, I quickly concluded that a purchase of a big bunch of dominos, even the cheap ones, was going to add up, and since I have a never-ending supply of domino stock in my shop, I set out to make them.
First things first, I needed to figure out the dimensions, and this ended up being the most difficult part of the entire job. I tried searching online, assuming there would be a standard size and I would just copy that, but I didn't find anything standard. The sizes seemed to be all over the place. Then I thought, "OK, maybe there isn't a standard size, but there must be some sort of standard ratio or proportions to a domino." But, as far as I can tell there isn't, or at least there isn't anything clearly published that is quick and easy to find. There was nothing with the heading "Standard Domino Sizes," like I was hoping to find.
Here's the good news, after scouring the internet for information and making a few hundred myself, I have finally figured out the perfect proportions for what I am calling a standard domino. Now, it seems quite simple and very obvious, but it took me awhile to put it all together (we had to knock over a lot dominos for it to click). The dimension that took some time to nail down was the thickness.
At first, I just guessed at it and made the dominos a thickness that looked in proportion to the length and width. After using the dominos though, it seemed like they were a bit too thick. They look fine and don't feel unlike a domino, but they don't fall over very well. They still fall, but they are just a bit too stable and don't fall with much force. They aren't bad enough to throw away, but they could be better.
After playing with the dominos more and making structures with them, similar to building blocks, it all came into focus, and I found the magic ratio. When we stacked the dominos in different orientations, things weren't lining up and the thickness was to blame. We would stack some dominos on their side, some standing, and some laying down, and the ones laying down didn't quite line up with the ones on their side. It was close, but not that close. Three dominos laying down were just a bit taller than just one on its side, which made them impossible to use as stable building structure. If they were just a bit thinner, everything would line up when they were stacked and they would topple just right.
So, here is the magic ratio, expressed in a three different ways:
Thickness = X, Width = 3X, Length = 6X
Width = X, Length = 2X, Thickness = X/3
or in actual (standard?) size
Length = 2″, Width = 1″, Thickness = .33″
Of course, if you are going to make your own dominos, they don't have to be 1″ wide. They could be any dimension you want, but be sure to follow the above ratios for them to really work well.
How Thick to Cut Lumber
One of the first things I needed to figure out when I started cutting rough lumber on a sawmill was what thickness to make it. I could generally determine if I wanted it to be thick or thin, but just how thick or thin? 4/4 lumber is 1″ thick, so it should be rough cut at 1″ thick, right? Not exactly. For hardwoods, the commercial target for 4/4 lumber is actually 1-1/8″, which allows enough margin to produce dried and planed lumber at a thickness of 13/16″ or 3/4″ (3/4″ is acceptable, but the extra 1/16″ of thickness in 13/16″ material allows room for additional planing or sanding after panels or doors are glued up).
The crazy thing is that back then I couldn't find solid information on lumber thicknesses anywhere and when I referred to the NHLA (National Hardwood Lumber Association) guide, the thicknesses didn't match up with what I was finding from hardwood producers. The NHLA guide doesn't include the bonus 1/8″ of thickness – 4/4 lumber, for example, is specified at a minimum of 1″.
In my experience, 4/4 hardwood lumber cut at 1″ is too thin to consistently produce flattened and planed lumber at 13/16″ thick and will even have trouble producing 3/4″ thick unless the boards are very flat. The only way 1″ thick rough-cut hardwood lumber can plane out completely to 13/16″ or 3/4″ thick is to skip the flattening and just plane the lumber. This will produce thicker finished lumber, but it won't be flat and straight since the planer will simply follow the curves of any crooked boards. From a woodworkers perspective this is a horrible practice and makes woodworking much more difficult. For this reason, I cut my 4/4 hardwood lumber like all other quality producers at 1-1/8″ thick and don't accept anything from other sawmills or wholesalers at 1″ thick.
Starting with the lumber measurement and adding 1/8″ for the final thickness is how all of the hardwood measurements go, with a target for 4/4 lumber at 1-1/8″, 5/4 lumber at 1-3/8″, 6/4 at 1-5/8″ and 8/4 at 2-1/8″. These are the commercially accepted numbers, and except for 8/4 lumber the ones that I shoot for. The problem with 8/4 lumber is that since there is more wood it shrinks more than thinner lumber and 2-1/8″ thick just isn't enough thickness to flatten and plane lumber to consistently finish at 1-3/4″, which is the target for 8/4 lumber. When I flatten and plane batches of 8/4 lumber milled at 2-1/8″ thick it isn't uncommon for half of the lumber to finish at 1-5/8″ thick instead of 1-3/4″.
Because I think 2-1/8″ is a little thin, I commonly cut 8/4 lumber at 2-3/8″ thick. 2-3/8″ thick is twice that of 4/4 lumber, plus the 1/8″ saw kerf that would have been between the two imaginary cuts. The extra thickness not only impresses the ladies, but it assures a final dried and planed thickness of at least 1-3/4″ and officially uses no extra wood when compared to cutting 4/4 lumber (to keep things simple, a friend of mine simply calls it "double four quarter" lumber). As I mentioned though, 8/4 is commercially sawn at 2-1/8″ thick, so if you cut it at that measurement it isn't wrong, 2-3/8″ is just better for the end user (none of my customers have ever been upset that the wood is a little thicker).
The previous examples were for hardwoods, but softwoods, like white pine, can be cut thinner since they shrink less and dry straighter overall, plus softwoods are commonly used for construction purposes instead of furniture, which don't need the extra thickness for secondary planing or sanding, so 3/4″ final thickness is common for 4/4 softwood lumber. For 4/4 white pine for example, I cut 1″ thick, which will finish at 3/4″. And, for cedar, which shrinks very little and is very straight and stable, I will go even thinner, down to 7/8″. In general though, softwoods are cut on the standard quarter scale with 4/4 lumber measuring 1″.
The scale below shows the target hardwood lumber thicknesses for commercially produced, rough-cut lumber and their planed thickness counterparts. These are the sizes you should expect to find when shopping for hardwoods.
Hardwood Lumber Measurements
Quarter-scale measurement Rough cut thickness Planed thickness
4/4 1-1/8″ 13/16″
5/4 1-3/8″ 1-1/16″
6/4 1-5/8″ 1-1/4″
8/4 2-1/8″ (or 2-3/8″*) 1-3/4″
*2-3/8″ is a better thickness to consistently finish at 1-3/4″ thick, but 2-1/8″ is the norm.
Siberian Elm Live Edge Slab Table Top #1
I have been cutting a lot of slabs lately and building a lot of tops. This is the first one that I have finished out of a big double-crotch Siberian elm that I milled in the spring. The top is 36″ at the narrowest and 58″ at the widest. The slab was milled 3″ thick and was flattened and finished with a hand-planed surface at 2″ thick.
For those of you that haven't heard yet, Siberian elm is one of my favorites. The wood needs nothing added to it to make it beautiful – just a clear top coat (actually four coats of Klearvar) is all it takes. The wood for this top is a delicious medium brown with tons of visual interest, especially where the main trunk splits into three branches.
The wood slab and the steel base (built by Commercial Fabrication) are going to serve as a 42″ bar-height community table in my customers newly remodeled basement.
First Hollow Sycamore Slice Gets Finished and Installed
I have been on a sycamore kick lately, and this sycamore slice keeps my streak going. There are three stacks of these rough sawn slices for sale in my shop, and though I have sold a few, this is the first one to officially get finished and installed.
The slice is 3″ thick and is a cross cut of a 48″ diameter hollow sycamore log that had the added benefit of having a long open wound that didn't quite seal up. In the tree's attempt to close the wound the new wood took on a curl shape on both ends that make the slice look more like an artistic expression than just a hollow log.
Since the tree was standing dead all of the sapwood is consistently spalted and marbled in appearance. There is some solid heartwood in the piece which isn't spalted, but has a beautiful rust color.
I was planning on ditching this tree since it was hollow and didn't seem to have any millable lumber in it, but when I saw the curl shape on the inside of the log I did a u-turn on my way to the dump. Solid logs with complete centers that are sliced like this tend to crack and fall apart because of the drying stresses in the log, but in this case all of the drying stresses were relieved since the center was gone. When the outside wood wanted to shrink it wasn't restricted by wood on the inside and could freely reduce in diameter without any problems.
I installed the slice on the wall with two lag screws, just like a mantel. I drilled matching holes on the back of the wood and just slid it on the wall (with the help of my customer). This system works great since it allows the piece to get flush to the wall and enables it to be removed without tools should the need arise.
Overall, I am ecstatic to have one of these completed and out the door. Next up is to finish at least one extra to keep in the shop to show off. You wouldn't believe how much faster they sell with a finished sample around to seal the deal.
The Best Outdoor Wood Finish
I often get asked, "What can I put on wood that will protect it outside?" My follow-up question is, "Do you want a finish that builds up to a film or just something that soaks in, like an oil?" If the answer is a film finish, I recommend Cetol Door & Window, from the Sikkens Proluxe line of wood finishes. It holds up better than any other outdoor finish that I have used, and every painter that I know and trust uses it too. I have found Cetol to last almost twice as long as the next class of film finishes.
In my teenage years, I tried regular ol' Minwax polyurethane on the wood bed of my restored '63 Chevy pickup truck, and I couldn't believe how fast it started to peel. One St. Louis summer of constant heat and sun made it look like it had a bad sunburn with lots of dead skin.
After that, I moved on to other products like spar urethanes (Minwax also makes one of those, called Helmsman's). Yes, it lasted longer, but not LONG. It started to look bad after a little more than a year. It didn't totally fail all at once, but enough areas were falling apart that it didn't really matter – it just looked bad.
In defense of these two products, the bed of a pickup truck is a tough environment. It gets direct sun, extra heat with no breeze, and the surface is horizontal, so water has a much better chance of nosing its way under the finish. It really gets no more demanding than this for a wood finish.
With yearly maintenance, the spar urethane could be kept looking reasonably good, but eventually the maintenance gave way to submission and the weather won. The boards still looked alright (nothing rotted through), but there were always spots where the finish failed and the beautiful clear-coated lumber had cracked finish and gray spots of raw wood.
It wasn't until much later that I was introduced to the Sikkens brand name from a friend in the St. Louis Woodworkers Guild. He had great things to say about their products, and then I started noticing them being used by different painters on different jobs around town – and consistently. Nobody was using anything else, at least not anyone that I trusted, so I started using them.
Originally, Cetol only came in various forms with added stain. Some of the colors were pretty light, but none were clear. I believe the color is added to help with UV protection, but it does nothing to help color matching or achieving a clear finish. Now, with the name change to Proluxe, a colorless version is available, and it is the one that I use.
The can says that Cetol should be applied with a brush and not rolled or sprayed. I haven't rolled it, but I have brushed and sprayed it, and both worked fine. Spraying is more difficult, and probably not recommended by the company, because the Cetol has a long working time and tends to sag if applied too liberally. That same working time is great for brushing and allows large areas to be worked and reworked to blend brush strokes. If you do try to spray it, start with a light application and allow it to settle for a second so you can get a feel for how it is going to sit down. Keeping a wet edge isn't critical because it doesn't even start to get tacky for a long time and the following passes will easily blend together. If you do spray the Cetol be vigilant about finding areas that start to sag or run and simply blend them in with a brush.
Cetol, like many other finishes, takes three coats to build a good protective barrier. A fourth coat will add a bit of extra protection, but isn't required. I would opt to skip the fourth coat on the initial application and put that energy to a maintenance coat later down the road.
Regular maintenance is critical to keep the finish from failing. Keep an eye out for areas that start to crack and get another coat on as soon as they appear. If you wait too long it will be necessary to completely strip the finish and start over.
Cetol should last for several years without maintenance on vertical surfaces and even more if they are protected from the sun. Horizontal surfaces in the sun will probably last a maximum of two years before they require attention. Both of these time-span numbers are not great, but they are at least twice as long as the spar urethanes. If you jump around the internet and read about other choices or recommendations from other woodworkers, you won't find anything that lasts longer.
Unfortunately, three years is really the maximum for an outdoor clear finish with sun exposure. Of course, if you know of a finish that lasts longer please let all of us know about it. But, do watch out because the world will beat a path to your (long-lasting, clear-coated wood) door.
How to Install a Wood Fireplace Mantel (Mantle)
The call usually goes like this. A potential new customer calls and says, "I am looking for a mantel. The stone guys are coming tomorrow, and I need something today so they can put it in. Can you cut me a mantel?"
The answer, of course, is yes. However, I spend a little time calming them down and explaining that they are going to mount the mantel after the stone work is done, how it will come out beautifully and how not having a mantel right now won't slow anything down.
Most people expect that the wood is going to be embedded in the stone, which is the reason for all of the last-minute, frantic calls, but I argue that the wood should not be surrounded by stone, mostly because of wood movement and not because of the fact that they don't have any wood to surround with stone.
All wood, dry or wet, moves with seasonal changes and the stone does not. This means cracks will develop around the mantel over time. They will be small, perhaps unnoticeable, around dry wood, but if the wood is newly sawn and installed wet, the cracks will be unsightly after the wood has dried and shrunk. The other possibility is that green wood could bow, twist, or warp in some fashion and blow things apart. If a 8″ x 11″ x 8′ long piece of white oak decides to move aggressively, there may be little that can stop it and the results could be catastrophic. It is definitely possible that any stone or brick veneer could be popped from the wall when the wood starts moving.
So, I say, don't fight it. Don't try to put the stone around the wood. Let the stone guys do their thing, step back, take a deep breath and then find a cool piece of wood to install in front of the stone.
The method I recommend works for installing any solid wood mantel above any fireplace, from drywall to stone and anywhere in between, and the process is quite simple.
Besides your tools and the actual piece of wood for the mantel (purchased, of course, from WunderWoods) you will only need 5-minute epoxy and two steel stakes. I get the steel stakes at Home Depot in the concrete supply aisle. They are 5/8″ thick steel stakes used for concrete forms and they are very sturdy. Do not use rebar because it is too flexible.
You might be thinking that just two steel rods aren't enough and be inclined to use more, but don't, unless it is absolutely necessary. Two 5/8″ thick stakes can easily hold 200 pounds (which I usually verify with a modified one-handed pinky pull up in which my knees stay on the ground), and I have found that even with more than two stakes, the heavy lifting is usually done with just two, while the others are just along for the ride. And, since the extra stakes just make for more drilling and more chances for things to not line up, I say don't use them. If you feel that you need to beef things up, just get bigger steel rods.
The basic premise of this method is that you are installing two shelf brackets in the form of steel rods that will support the mantel which will have two holes drilled in the back to accept the rods, all of which will be hidden.
Start by determining the mantel location and then finding suitable places to install the rods. The rods need to be mounted solidly, either through the wood framing or through the stone, or both if possible, and close to each end of the mantel. Usually the exact locations are determined by the stone or framing layout.
Drill the holes in the fireplace surround with a 5/8″ masonry bit and a hammer drill in stone or brick, or a 11/16″ bit and a regular drill in wood. The 5/8″ bit in stone will usually leave a hole with enough room for level adjustment because the hammer drill makes a roomier entrance. Since wood drills easily and with a cleaner hole, the 11/16″ bit is required to allow for level adjustments.
Next, you will need to drill 1″ diameter holes as deep as possible in the back of the mantel that line up with the rods (be careful not to drill all of the way through). I usually just measure for the locations, but if you are worried about messing things up, you can make a drilling template to use on the wall and the back of the mantel. This still doesn't eliminate screw-ups (nothing does) because it is easy to flip the template when you should have flopped it. Be sure to mark your template with top, bottom, left and right sides, and don't forget to mark the side that faces the mantel and the one that faces the wall.
Next insert a steel stake into each hole and secure it with 5-minute epoxy. Be sure to fill in the front and back for full support. While the epoxy is setting check the rods for level and adjust as necessary. I often add some small wedges to help hold things level while the epoxy is setting up. After the epoxy is set up, trim the rods to the final length which is determined by the depth of the holes in the back of the mantel.
In a perfect world you would slide on the mantel and be done at this point, but it is rarely the case – often you will need to make some small adjustments to compensate for drilling by hand. If the mantel doesn't sit level it can be adjusted by adding wraps of tape to the metal stakes, either near the front or back, depending on which needs to be raised.
Once you have the mantel sitting level you are done. Don't worry about gluing it on – it isn't necessary and will only make the mantel more difficult to remove if you need to work on it in the future.


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ESPN Insider Mike Sando believes there are a few on the way. Sando included four Jaguars players on his list of top 50 NFL breakout players in 2014 (Insider content): safety Johnathan Cyprien, running back Toby Gerhart, defensive tackle Sen'Derrick Marks, and offensive tackle Luke Joeckel.
Cyprien, a second-year safety from Florida International, came in at No. 5 on Sando's list, the highest spot of the four. Two other players were in the top 25 while another was in the top 40.
Marks is an interesting choice for the list because he could have qualified as a breakout player in 2013. He set career highs in sacks (four), pass breakups (eight), forced fumbles (two),and fumble recoveries (three). He did that while playing way too many snaps, too. But the addition of Ziggy Hood via free agency and a health Roy Miller alongside him should reduce the number of snaps he plays in 2014, which, theoretically will keep him fresher and therefore even more effective.
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Paid search has long been the domain of direct response advertisers. The ability to track sales and signups back to individual ads and keywords, along with the ability to quickly change bids and creative messaging, makes search engine marketing (SEM) ideally suited for the direct response crowd.
But what about advertisers who aren't directly selling anything online and are more interested in engaging users and building brand affinity? How do you focus your paid search efforts on bringing in a new audience, creating active users and exposing more of what your company does to increase true affinity?
Driving engagement through SEM isn't as quantifiable, leaving many brand marketers with a choice:
- Try to turn brand engagement into some form of direct response by measuring specific online actions, such as email signups, video views, and overall page views; or,
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But there's a third, and better, way to do this. By measuring the right set of metrics, you can create scenarios around users exposed to your different marketing efforts. This can allow you to hone in on effective strategies and tactics for your engagement marketing.
John Lee wrote a great piece on using personas to plan your SEM efforts. Think of engagement marketing as another scenario-based approach. In this case, your personas are your different users by channel.
Rather than focusing on qualitative details about these fictional users, leverage your analytics to describe them quantitatively. Some of the metrics you might use include:
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By creating a "control" group of new users with no previous media exposure, prior to the paid search click that brought them there and no remarketing exposures afterward, you can set a baseline, like the following example:
After implementing your campaign, you can analyze the same metrics for your experiment group to see how impactful your campaigns are in driving active users who are more likely to return.
In this example, we can quantify a 26 percent increase in time on site, a 33 percent jump in page views per session and a 41 percent increase in a user's probability of returning. With this data in hand, you can also plug in your cost data to come up with your cost per user and your cost per active user. From an engagement standpoint, this might be the equivalent of CPA.
Ideally, your SEM platform or digital marketing suite includes these metrics natively and ties them to campaigns, groups, ads, and keywords. Even better, some systems even have proprietary scoring metrics that create a value for each user based on their engagement. This allows you to optimize your search – or display or any other form of digital marketing, for that matter – based on user engagement. All of a sudden, brand or engagement marketing through paid search is very quantifiable.
This also opens the door to attribution by showing you how each channel works to draw in new and/or active users in much the same way attribution helps the direct response marketer make the right media mix decisions to increase overall sales.
This can provide valuable benefits for the direct response marketer as well. While sales and signups may be paramount, understanding what goes on "beyond the conversion" is immensely important. This kind of measurement can help any marketer correlate their efforts to offline sales and branding initiatives.
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NEWARK, N.J. -- The time has finally come.
New Jersey Nets rookie power forward Derrick Favors made his first NBA start on Wednesday night against the Chicago Bulls.
Head coach Avery Johnson announced the move during his pregame news conference with reporters.
"This has been planned for some time now for him to start his first game here in the new year at home," Johnson said. "He's had about 34 games to get some experience coming off the bench and he's played against the Bulls before so we thought this would be a good game for him to get his first NBA start."
The 19-year-old, the youngest player in the league, had come off the bench in his previous 33 games. He did not play on Dec. 9 against the Dallas Mavericks.
"I'm excited," said Favors before the game, who is averaging 6.4 points and 5.1 rebounds and shooting .564 percent from the field in 18.7 minutes per game. "I'm pretty much just going to start the game with a lot of energy and just try to get myself going. Trying to just block shots, play defense, just play hard."
Johnson said he spoke with former starter Kris Humphries about the plan after the Nets took on the Oklahoma City Thunder on Dec. 29.
"He clearly understands what is going on," Johnson said of Humphries, who had flourished ever since the team inserted him in the starting role on Nov. 10 and is averaging 7.8 points and 9.2 rebounds per game.
Johnson had been receiving questions frequently on when Favors would finally join the starting unit after he announced early in the season that the team's No. 3 overall pick in the first round of the 2010 NBA Draft would start approximately 30 or so games into the season. It took 34.
Favors has been the subject of persistent trade rumors involving Denver Nuggets superstar swingman Carmelo Anthony. And speculation is that the Nets are putting him into the starting lineup to showcase him to the Nuggets and other teams who might be interested in his services.
"I still might get traded," Favors said. "You never know. The NBA is a business so I don't know."
Favors was asked if he felt more secure about his future in New Jersey now that he's going to be starting regularly.
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text: Council on Post Secondary Education King Elected Chair of SHEEO By Troy Taylor • Oct 3, 2014 sheeo.org Kentucky's Council on Postsecondary Education President Bob King has been elected chair of the State Higher Education Executives Officers Association Executive Committee. SHEEO is the national organization that oversees higher education on behalf of the states. King was elected by the 58 members of the organization to lead the association through September 2015. SHEEO President George Pernsteiner admires King's contributions to higher education. "Bob King is one of America's true leaders for higher education," Pernsteiner said. "He understands fully the policy landscape and will be a tremendous leader for SHEEO, for higher education and for all 50 states. I really look forward to working closely with him and learning from him." Miller Wants Performance Based Funding To be Fair By Chad Lampe • Sep 26, 2013 Kentucky Council on Post Secondary Education President Bob King has been pushing to change the state funding model for universities since 2011. King wants to add funding, in addition to the base, on performance on certain metrics. The change would allow universities to meet a performance standard in certain criteria to receive funding above their state base. Murray State Interim President Tim Miller says the University has always supported the idea of performance funding. He says Murray State's success has always allowed for that.


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The Global and Public Health program at Manipal University offers public health and Indian studies courses that introduce students to the most pressing geopolitical and global health issues facing India today. Some courses are designed especially for international students, while others may be integrated with Manipal students. Students can pursue directed research as an elective, for which they are paired with a faculty member appropriate to their academic area of interest, such as international relations, public health or the humanities.
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SAN LEANDRO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/13/12 -- TriNet, a leading cloud-based provider of HR services, today announced the appointment of Steve Apfelberg as the company's Vice President of Marketing. In this role, Apfelberg manages TriNet's marketing team and programs and is responsible for corporate marketing, product marketing, PR and market awareness, branding, lead generation and all other outbound activities for the professional employer organization (PEO).
"We are thrilled that Steve has joined our executive team at this exciting time," said Burton M. Goldfield, CEO at TriNet. "With our recently closed acquisition of Strategic Outsourcing, Inc. (SOI), we became the largest independent, cloud-based HR provider leveraging the PEO model to help grow small businesses. It's terrific to have Steve on board to help promote our multiple products and services to an expanded set of targeted industries, and to communicate our leadership position and competitive differentiation. Throughout his career, Steve has put the customer first and consistently produced strong results. I am confident he will provide similar leadership and execution at TriNet."
Prior to TriNet, Apfelberg was the Chief Marketing Officer at Skire, a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for managing capital projects, facilities and real estate. Under his leadership, the company, which was recently acquired by Oracle, improved its demand generation processes and expanded its product offering. Previously, Apfelberg served as the Vice President of Marketing at Yammer, a pioneer and leader in enterprise social networking. He played significant roles in building the enterprising social networking category, creating awareness for the company and evangelizing its value proposition in the media and at events around the world. Yammer was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. Earlier, Apfelberg was the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at CallidusCloud, a publicly traded provider of cloud-based sales, marketing, learning and hiring solutions. He also held senior roles in marketing and finance at Siebel, Remedy and Oracle. Apfelberg received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University.
"Small and medium-sized businesses are the lifeblood of the revival of the American economy, and I am excited to join a company that is a strategic accelerator to the growth and success of these companies," said Steve Apfelberg, Vice President of Marketing at TriNet. "TriNet's talented team has done a phenomenal job delivering value to clients and achieving a leadership position in the PEO market. I look forward to working with my colleagues as we expand our offerings, industries served and competitive advantage."
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How popular is the name "Sobeyda" in the U.S.?
Out of 5,647,426 records in the U.S. Social Security Administration public data, the name "Sobeyda" was not present. It is possible the name you are searching has less than five occurrences per year. You might want to use a short version of your first name or perhaps your nickname.
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What does the name "Sobeyda" mean?
S is for secret, that you can certainly keep.
O is for openness, it's refreshing!
B is for buddy, everyone is your pal.
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Y is for yearn, your innermost desires.
D is for desire, your thoughts do aspire.
A is for absolute, for you know your mind.
Your name in reverse order is "Adyebos". A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give "Oeadsby". How do you pronounce that?
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US chemical safety law poised for reform in early 2016
23 December 2015 News and Analysis
Bill updating the US Toxic Substances Control Act has finally passed both chambers of Congress
The US Senate has passed a bill that will let the government continue selling off its stockpiled helium, in an attempt to prevent a disruption of supply that could adversely affect researchers around the world. Currently, sales of the American stockpile, mainly built up during the cold war, supply 42% of the US and and 35% of global demand for the gas.
In 1996, US lawmakers ordered the sale of the federal helium stores to pay off the accumulated debts of $1.3 billion (£840 million) of the US Federal Helium Reserve in Amarillo, Texas. However, the sell off is set to end in October as the facility's debts have been settled. Global production elsewhere is unable to meet current demands and researchers around the world had warned the 'helium cliff' could severely affect global research and development if the US reduces exports of the gas. However, while the sale looks set to continue, the price of helium is expected to rise. The current sell off has supressed the market value for helium and discouraged conservation and exploration for new sources.
The bill will now move to the the House of Representatives, which passed a similar bill back in April. The Senate and Representatives bills are similar but differ slightly in how the remaining helium will be sold off and what will be done with the proceeds.
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