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Source: Reuters
quote: Does this mean they're going to be introducing mass 3G coverage on the 1900MHz PCS band?
quote: 4G Network Advancements T-Mobile's $4 billion plan to advance its competitive 4G network continues, improving signal strength and in-building coverage and re-tuning its airwaves to launch 4G service in an additional frequency, 1900 MHz, providing a 4G experience to a broader range of consumer devices, including the iPhone. Today T-Mobile is adding new metro areas, including Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego and Virginia Beach, Va. These network enhancements now reach 126 million people in 46 metro areas including major cities such as Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. T-Mobile's nationwide 4G network covers 229 metro areas reaching well over 220 million people.

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Sources: SlashGear, The Detroit News
quote: You're trying to make some moral relativist argument where ideologies aren't valid, so taking a stand on one is never a point of fact. Sorry sir, you fail on that. Ideology and facts are NOT always mutually exclusive.
quote: Hundreds of years ago we were NOT a "loosely" Constitutional country.
quote: If forced to choose between ideology and your apathy, I'll pick ideology.


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I read Chaviva's post on faith this morning, and it made me resolved to write about and post what I've been thinking about lately.
I'm not having a crisis of faith, but I think I have been having a crisis of observance. I mean, it doesn't feel much like a crisis— I'm not panicking or self-flagellating; there have been no tears (or, well, not many) or fear that G-d will forsake me… but I am confused and unsure. I think this confusion will probably be a permanent condition my whole life, I mean, uncertainty is a part of the human condition. But a few months ago, I felt more sure of what I was doing, observance-wise.
The last three or four Shabbats, I did not observe the way I had been for the previous six months. The first time, I was really sick and completely miserable. I spent the day in my pyjamas, drinking tea and watching old episodes of 30 Rock. The second time, I was studying for finals, cramming for an exam for which I was not prepared. The last two times, I was at my childhood home, with my family.
I don't actually really have any guilt about the most recent two Shabbats. I observed the way I always did as a kid: Shabbat dinner with my family, candle-lighting and my mom's challah and kiddush on non-kosher wine. Electricity and internet and even the gym on Shabbat afternoon. I enjoyed it. I was with the ones who love me most, and I had the comfort of the familiar.
At home in Toronto, with my roommate R, I got accustomed to observing Shabbat the Orthodox way, taping over light switches and remembering to grind the coffee before sundown on Friday afternoon. I like that too— I've ended up reading more actual books for pleasure over the last six months than I have in years, just on Shabbat. I love the peace of it. When it was still warm enough, I went on long walks in nearby Trinity Bellwoods Park on Shabbat mornings, and sometimes again in the afternoon. In summer, R and I and often friends sometimes had Shabbat lunch picnics in the park, watching hipsters lean their fixies against lampposts and break out the the PBR. We watched them attempt to tightrope walk and they watched us make kiddush on juice in plastic cups. We ate the challah I'd baked and sat around in the oppressively humid Toronto summer heat.
I'm learning, again, that it's really hard to be shomer shabbat (let alone shomer mitzvot) on one's own. Too many shabbats alone are, well, lonely and isolating. I'm often too shy to invite people I don't know well (and who are mostly much older than me) to lunch at my house. Thank G-d for Friday night services at the College Street gallery with Makom; I just wish it was more often than twice a month. I don't know what I'll do when I'm no longer living with Rachel. My mother said (wisely, I think) that it doesn't all have to be black and white, that I don't have to do the exact same thing every single week, that I can "do as the Romans do," depending on where I am, who I'm with, and how I feel.
I think she's right. That's all I can do, at this point in my life. Taking things one Shabbat, one day, one moment at a time. I wish I had a cohesive and consistent practice with regards to observance, but maybe that's an impossible wish right now. (Maybe it's impossible wish ever, considering the inconsistencies of halakhah itself, but that's another post.)
I still believe, as I always have, in G-d. I want that closeness, I want that deep and perfect fire. For me it facilitates observance. Maybe I just need to find that feeling more often.


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To the editor:
With the recent events in Connecticut a lot of media and left thinkers are starting to call for stricter gun laws and regulation. I have to ask when as a society instead of blaming guns are we going to look for the core issues.
When are we going to call into question broken homes, shoving pills down the throats of the youth of America? When we do have a home with both parents, they both have to work many hours just to make ends meet.
The youth of America are being raised by teachers, TV and the Internet and not by the parents. We are filling our children with medications and where has it got us? Kids can't even play tackle football at recess anymore. We as a society have failed the youth of this country.
We have had guns on these shores since the 1400s but we didn't start having mass shootings till the 1990s. That should give us a hint of what has happened in this country.
Mexico has very strict gun laws and so did Germany in the 1930s and '40s. Do we want to follow their lead? We have hundreds of thousands of gun owners in this country that are productive and law abiding citizens. We will always have crazy people out there willing to kill whether we have guns or not. Freedom and liberty are neither free nor easy.
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Those poor players, getting paid millions to bang super hot chicks (as many as they want), skate around playing hockey for 15 years and retiring at 40. That must really suck.
It's a good thing someone pays them to do this sort of thing. Otherwise, working at Arby's , getting zero ***** and getting sodomized in a bar by a burly Canadian fellow in a restroom at the local watering hole seems like the only alternative.
Seriously guys these players are nuts. The only thing they can do is play hockey. They get paid well with lots of perks, I'm pretty sure most of them want to play the game. This union nonsense has to stop. The union rep,doesn't care about that it's about $.
It's about time we got this season started.
I gotta agree though...Outside of playing a kids game - what do these players offer to society, or the workforce?
Nothing against them, but the players must realise that they're placed atop of a pedestal by us fans, and outside of playing the great game of ice hockey - they pretty much offer little else.


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Gun control?
As to the latest debates about gun control and mass killings, no one can predict the mind of a sick individual. If he cannot pass the identity background check, I guess a bomb will do the same thing as a gun — mass killing.
The point was just proven. You do not need a gun to kill masses.
So what now?
Jeanette Willis
Edgebrook Circle
North Charleston
Step up
We continually hear about attempts, some unsuccessful, some successful by terrorists, mostly Muslims to cause harm and death to innocent citizens around the world.
There are over 1 billion Muslims in the world. If only 0.1 percent are radicals that still leaves 100,000 terrorists out there plotting our demise.
My question is where are the other 999,900,000 Muslims to step up and castigate these jihadists? That may be an unfair fight but the world will root them on and be better off if they rise up and eliminate those radicals.
Step up, peaceful Muslims!
Roger K. Steel
Marsh Hen Drive
Seabrook Island
Boat collisions
Here's a new word for your readers – allide. Allide is a nautical term meaning "to impact or hit a stationery object."
An example: A U.S. Navy patrol boat on a routine training mission allides with the Charleston Harbor jetty.
And then the City of Charleston's new toy, I mean fire boat, allides with channel marker No. 25 on the way to rescue the patrol boat. You can't make this stuff up.
Think back to the night of Dec. 5, 2009, when a Coast Guard response boat (CG 25689) and a passenger vessel (Thriller 09) collided in the harbor south of Crab Bank.
The National Transportation Safety Board faulted both crews. This writer thinks the NTSB cut the Coasties a break, since a picture of CG 25689 after the accident clearly shows a Furuno radar antenna jauntily perched on the top of the response boat's cabin, but that's another story.
But who suffered as a result of the Dec. 5 incident? The operators of Thriller 09 lost their livelihood in the deal, and the Coast Guard just kept on keeping on.
They can do anything with impunity because we work for the government, and the taxpayers will pay and pay and pay to fix their toys if broken them or buy new ones. No worries.
Don't get me wrong: The Coast Guard and other folks have a tough job, and I respect them and thank them for the work they do to protect our waterways. But …
Let's hold the professionals operating those two vessels on April 13 fully accountable, and maybe even spend $2,000 to buy them each a chartplotter and teach them to use it.
Bill Bates
Gibbon Street
Daniel Island
Ethics bill
South Carolina deserves elected officials who consistently act in the public interest with the highest ethical standards. Too often nepotism, greed and outside interests infiltrate the democratic process and, as recent scandals have shown, stronger safeguards are needed to protect our form of government.
For the first time in over 20 years, the Legislature is poised to enact major ethics reform, and our elected officials need to hear that South Carolina voters insist on meaningful and enforceable ethics laws.
At a minimum, significant ethics reform must include:
1) independent, thorough investigation of alleged violations for all public officials by a single statewide ethics commission;
2) full disclosure of all sources of income received in any form, including consulting fees and gifts-in-kind;
3) full disclosure of both paid and unpaid fiduciary positions, such as boards and commissions, and relationships with appointed officials.
Contact your legislators now and ask that these provisions be enacted. The deadline for the S.C. Senate or House to pass an ethics reform bill in this legislative session is May 1. For your legislators and their contact information, go to http://www.scstatehouse.gov/legislatorssearch.php .
Mary M. Horres
Pignatelli Crescent
Mount Pleasant
No experience
What South Carolina needs in Washington, D.C., is a congressman who knows how to "play the D.C. game." We need an experienced politician, and that is Mark Sanford.
Elizabeth Busch may be a medium-size fish in the Charleston pond, but she has no D.C. experience. She would be no more than a freshman in a group of seniors.
Who pays attention to a freshman?
I do not condone some of Mark Sanford's personal choices, but "ye without sin may cast the first stone."
As a father he made the choice to stay at his ex-wife's home with his young son while the child's mother was out-of-town.
I am a Democrat, but I'm supporting Mark Sanford.
Naomi Radcliff
Market Street
I read a "sentence" to the editor last Saturday that stated you do not have to be a Democrat to vote for Colbert Busch. While that is a complete sentence it is still incomplete.
It should say that you do not have to be a Democrat to vote for Colbert Busch but you do have to be a flaming liberal. She needs to come out of the "busches" and answer the questions as to her position on several key issues like unions, Obamacare, Pelosi's contribution, etc.
Fudgy Brabham
Marina Drive
Daniel Island


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Network of Care for Behavioral Health
CT has a website called the Network of Care for Behavioral Health. It was established through CT's Mental Health Transformation Initiative to provide information regarding advocacy, housing, food, child and family behavioral health, disability services, health and dental, legal services, veterans services, support groups and more. The Network of Care has a searchable database, a community calendar to add events, newsletters, and fact sheets available in several different languages
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text: › About Furman » Vision 2020 Home University Leadership Office of the President Board of Trustees Office of Academic Affairs Senior Administrators Vision 2020 Culture and Identity Finance, Facilities and Administration Implementing Vision 2020 Characters and Values Our History Rankings and Recognition Facts and Figures Campus Map Explore Greenville Contact Us Plan a Visit ›Apply Now ›Give to Furman › Main Content Column 1 Vision 2020: A Strategic Plan for Furman University is the product of a process that was broadly participatory. The strategic planning steering committee conducted forums with over 80 campus, community, and alumni groups, engaged a research firm to gather survey data from students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and prospective students, and created a strategic planning website for ongoing community discussion. From these discussions, a strong community consensus emerged on many key elements of Furman's identity and future aspirations. Reflecting that consensus, this strategic plan is designed as a foundation for articulating the governing values and principles that will guide Furman through the decade 2011 to 2020. Vision 2020 is not a laundry list of specific projects and programs presented as a mechanistic catalogue of "to do" goals to be checked off as achieved, as those projects and programs happen to present themselves to the Furman community. No snapshot of Furman's most pressing needs and priorities in October 2011 can reliably predict or direct decisions two, five, or 10 years into the future. Rather, this strategic plan is intended as a framework to channel discretion and guide the university community as it engages in an ongoing process of strategic and tactical deliberation and judgment in coming years. Culture and identity We have identified four overarching priorities that will shape our culture and identity. View our core values. Finance, facilities, and administration Realizing any vision requires resources and infrastructure. View our operational plan. Implementing Vision 2020 Since October 2011, Furman has been engaged in implementing its strategic plan. Follow our progress.


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Prep Time 30 minutes |
Cook Time 25 minutes
1 tsp Eden Sesame Oil
1/2 cup Eden Dried Lotus Root
1 cup carrots, sliced
1/2 cup onion, sliced
4 pieces Eden Dried Tofu
1/2 cup water, including lotus root soaking water
1 Tbsp Eden Reduced Sodium Shoyu, or to tasteor any Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce
In separate bowls, soak the lotus root and dried tofu with warm water to cover for 20 minutes each. Heat up oil, and sauté onions for 2 to 3 minutes. Chop lotus root, and save soaking water. Squeeze out water from the dried tofu and discard water. Slice dried tofu into thin strips. Add lotus root, dried tofu strips, and carrots to the skillet. Add water, including lotus soaking water. Cover, bring to a boil, and reduce the flame to medium-low. Simmer 15 to 20 minutes. Add shoyu, cover, and simmer 4 to 5 minutes. Remove cover, mix, and cook off remaining liquid. Serve.
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State unemployment rate nearly two full percentage points below
national average
BALTIMORE, MD (March 10, 2011) The Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and
Regulation (DLLR) announced the first improvement in the states unemployment rate
since May 2010 and the lowest unemployment rate since May 2009. Unemployment in
Maryland declined 0.2 percentage points from 7.4 percent in December 2010 to a
preliminary 7.2 percent in January 2011, according to data released today by the
U.S. Department of Labor. The states unemployment rate has improved or held steady
every month since February 2010.
The OMalley-Brown Administration has laid the groundwork for economic recovery
and remains in a position to pull out of this national recession more quickly than
other states. For the seventh consecutive month, jobs totals in Maryland have been
higher than those reported one year prior, said DLLR Secretary Alexander M. Sanchez.
Marylands unemployment rate remains nearly two full percentage points below the
national average and is lower than it has been in 20 months.
Preliminary data shows that seasonally-adjusted jobs on Marylands business
payrolls decreased in January 2011 by 7,100 compared to revised December 2010
data. Private sector employers absorbed approximately 75 percent of the monthly
decline. Despite the job market decline, the number of employed Marylanders rose
by approximately 1,040 between December 2010 and January 2011.
Several sectors posted increases in January 2011 compared to December 2010, including:
January 2011 is the seventh consecutive month of year-to-year job growth.
The current job level is 4,600 above the January 2010 data and private sector
employment is up 4,400. By comparison, the January 2010 job level was nearly
53,000 below January 2009, and January 2009 was 63,000 below January 2008.
Every March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also releases its
annual revision of national benchmark estimates of nonfarm employment, hours
and earnings based on unemployment insurance tax reports filed by employers.
Based on these revisions, national job growth benchmarked in March 2010 was
revised downward by -0.3 percent. Based on the BLS benchmark revisions,
Marylands job growth comparison from December 2009 to December 2010 was
revised to 11,300 jobs.
Employment Situation
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Regulation may be directed to
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Similar to a rickroll, to be whiprolled is to unsuspectingly follow a link to the Willow Smith "Whip my Hair Back and Forth" video.
My girlfriend emailed me the link at 3AM with the subject, "something to wake up to". I clicked at 6. Totally whiprolled.
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Domenick Ventre, 84, Altoona, passed away Wednesday.
He was born in Altoona, son of the late Frank and Rose Ventre. He married Lena G. Iacobaccio in 1950.
Surviving are his wife of 62 years; three daughters: Nancy (Jim) Helsley of Bellwood and Linda (Jeff) Blazier and Amy (Keith) Byers, both of Altoona; a son, Michael Sr. (Cathy) of Altoona; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by nine brothers and a sister.
Domenick retired as a farmer and was a member of St. Mark's Catholic Church. He enjoyed spending time with his family.
Friends will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. today, Nov. 30, 2012, at Santella Funeral Home, where a funeral service will immediately follow, the Rev. Ronald Osinski officiating. Committal will be at Calvary Cemetery.


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Hello! Welcome to the first 123-reg on-demand webinar. In it we'll be looking at why you should be using social media as part of your marketing and how you can make the most of it. Social media's potential as a marketing platform is huge – a significant proportion of your potential customer base will be using it on a daily basis. In the webinar I'll explain how you can take advantage of this situation. Click the video to get started and if you have any questions, please leave them as a comment below.
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Hi everyone, my name is Nick Leech and I'm the marketing director here at 123-reg. I want to wish you a warm welcome to our very first 123-reg webinar. Over the coming weeks and months we are going to be helping you out with lots of webinars that have lots of useful advice on how to run your business online to go along side all of our regular blog posts and videos. This week, I'll be giving you some practical advice on how to use social media in your marketing mix. So let's see what we've got in store.
To start with, I will show you why you should use social media and then give you an honest appraisal of the pros and cons. Once you've decided to use social media, and it's something you can fully commit to, I'll talk you through a framework you can apply to your social media to get the most out of it and encourage people to interact with you. Finally, I'll show you how to turn your followers into sales and how to integrate social media into your website.
So why should you use social media as part of your marketing mix? Clearly social media is here to stay, and is still growing. There are more than a billion people on Facebook and if you believe the numbers there are more than a billion on Google + apparently.
But the user numbers don't alone justify it. So why should you allocate any of your time to it as part of your marketing? The fact is, that not only is your audience on social media but your audience is choosing to interact with and talk about brands. 36% of UK consumers use social media to interact with brands; 39% of Twitter users have tweeted about a brand; 58% of Facebook users have liked a brand; and 42% have mentioned a brand within a status update. Finally 41% of Facebook users have shared a video, a link, or a story about a brand. More than that, consumers expect to be able to interact with a brand via social media. The fact is, your customers are having conversations about you and your brand whether you're on that network or not.
So what are the pros and cons of social media? Well on the pros side and in contrast with other marketing channels, where you have to broadcast as a brand to many people, social media gives you the chance to have a one-on-one relationship with your customers, almost like meeting them face to face. This can give you the chance to engage them on their terms and personalise your message. By referring to expert content on your and other sites, you can position yourself as an expert in your niche. You can use social channels to distribute deals instantly – no need to get a webpage, print advert or email designed and coded – just get straight out there and launch your offer. By the very nature of the medium, businesses spend next to nothing on their social channels apart from their time.
On the con side, social media is not a fire and forget marketing channel. Once you start, you need to dedicate time each and every day in order to make it work. Social media also makes it easy for people to publically air any issues or problems that you have such as poor product or poor customer service. And of course on social media, you can't control the conversation – people are free to say what they want about you and your brand. So hopefully I've convinced you that social media should be part of your marketing mix.
So which social media networks should you use? Well the big three to focus on are Facebook, Google + and Twitter. If you can produce video content, by all means, use You Tube to add another dimension to your marketing. If you are targeting businesses, or business people, LinkedIn might be an option. But remember, LinkedIn is mostly where people turn to when thinking about their own careers and themselves. So in many cases, you are still better off targeting business on Facebook or Twitter
The first question to ask is what is it you want to use social media for? Because social media can pretty much be whatever you want it to be. This graph shows how different organisations use social media. 64% are using social media as a brand awareness channel; a further 44% are using it as a Marketing channel; 25% are using it as a customer service channel. How many other marketing channels could be used so differently?
It could be dangerous to be all things to all people on social media. If you use one social profile for support, sales, branding, and so on – the message could soon become diluted. Define what you want social media to be for and if you want to use it for multiple purposes, I'd recommend creating distinct accounts for each purpose. For example @yourcompany and @yourcompanysupport. This way, you can keep the conversation focused on where you want this to be.
So here is a strategy format that you can apply to your social media marketing. I call it the 4 P's. First of all, "Perceive", pay attention to what is happening online and understand what it means to your business. Know where people are talking about you and your competitors and listen to what they are saying.
Protect – and by this I mean, protect your future. Be prepared to react to events in social media. When critics gripe and point out your flaws be prepared to respond. If they point out product problems, or areas for improvement, get that information to the right people in your organisation.
Participate – join in relevant online discussions, comment on blogs, and join online communities. Don't try to subvert the medium by, for example, using a fake identity. Be genuine and you can be a constructive part of the conversation.
And finally project – blogs, content sharing, and social networking sites can be useful for promoting your business and your brand. As you speak though remember to keep on listening. This is a world of two-way conversation and listening will help tell you how your speaking is going over.
Try to integrate your social media marketing, and by that, I mean don't operate each network as a silo. Use them to drive visitors to each other. Your ultimate aim though should be to drive traffic to your website and awareness of your brand.
In order to get the most from social media you need a social media action plan. Taking the time up-front to plan your social media will save time & effort and will make sure you hit the ground running. To start with, create smart goals that are aligned with business drivers. For example, if you have a business driver for new customer sales then create a goal for your social media marketing to increase sales by X amount. If customer support is a business driver, then create a goal around reducing support tickets by a certain amount.
Secondly, decide what social news to follow – what are the industry trends that you need to be aware of and keep up with, which keywords do you need to keep track of, who are the influential people on social media in your industry and which of your competitors are making good use of social media?
Third, decide which social channels you want to use and understand how each channel will help you achieve your goals. For example, if you plan to use Twitter, then a goal could be around improving service. If you plan to set up a blog, then a goal could be about reaching new customers through people sharing your content.
Last of all decide how you will measure your activities. For each of your marketing goals, choose a social metric that indicates success. What tools will you use to measure this metric? For example, if you have a goal around increasing brand awareness, then a social media metric to indicate certain success will be the number of people that you reach. And in order to measure that, you'll need Facebook and Twitter analytics. If you have a goal around reducing the number and amount of customer support then the social media metric will be the number of issues that you have addressed. And of course the tool that you'll need to measure that is your CRM or support platform.
Create a document that summarises how you will use social media and make sure that relevant people within your organisation read it and understand it. Here is the positioning sheet that we created for 123-reg that helps guide how we use social media. This ensures that we always take a consistent approach with our brand on social media and through our other marketing and it helps us teach new people when they join the team.
Just being on social media though is no guarantee that it will be a success. You need to ask yourself why people will want to follow your brand. This research shows that the biggest potential comes from focusing on your existing customers, running social offers, and generating useful content. Don't just chase a number just for the sake of having a large number of followers. Focus on quality over quantity. It is much better to have 100 active followers who have an active interest in your product and your brand and who talk about you than 1,000 people who pay you no attention and have no interest in what you do.
The key to getting started is to be active and not dip in and out once a week or less. It's a daily commitment especially at the start. Here are some ideas for the types of activities that you can carry out in order to gain interaction. I've broken them into four main categories.
To start with, rewards. This covers areas like price discounts, prize draws, competitions, exclusive content and so on. For example, you could reward people who like or follow you by entering those users into a prize draw or you could choose to give exclusive discounts to your followers in return for their attention
Discussion – here are some good ideas to get people to interact with you and each other in order to build a community feel. For example, you could run a poll on your Facebook page in order to gain interaction and provoke a reaction from your users or you can even just ask open questions in order to initiate a debate on a topic.
Sharing – create content that people will want to share. For example, interview a thought leader or an industry veteran on your blog. Try to get a unique perspective on a hot topic in your market. Also try linking to relevant and valuable third-party resources. The stuff you share on social media doesn't just have to be that which you've created. You can benefit with being associated with other useful content and authorities.
And lastly, awareness, make sure people are aware of your social channels by using all the tools you have available. Be sure to link to your channels from your website and try having a live feed to your Twitter profile. Be sure to link to your social channels in your email signatures. Make email subscribers aware by mentioning them in your newsletters.
With social media, decide how much effort you are prepared to put in and let that decide the types of activities you get up to. If you only plan a light involvement, stick to easy and quick actions such as retweeting positive comments, replying to sales inquiries, and sharing case studies, sharing testimonials from social media or your website and sharing blog posts. If you are prepared to put more time in, then consider exclusive discounts for your social channels or even create crowd source deals that unlock a particular price point if enough people like it. You could even reach out to those looking for advice related to what you do and help them out directly with a suggestion. If you are very serious about social media and are prepared to put time and money into it then there are some advanced options. These include integrating your affiliate program with your social channels so that those sharing information about your brand are rewarded with cash. Or you could integrate an application or game with your Facebook page enabling you to snag some serious attention from your users by giving them an interesting and engaging reason to spend time on your social channels. For the advanced two and for those of you running online shops, you could consider integrating a shopping cart on your Facebook page such as Payvment from Ecwid enabling you to take orders or bookings directly through social media.
Make sure you monitor your performance on social media. There are many metrics you can focus on which I've broken into five categories of social media measurement. To start with, monitor the amount of exposure your brand is getting by measuring metrics such as the number of reviews your posts are getting, how your follower and fan count is changing, and how much your brand is mentioned on social media.
Then uncover how influential your brand is on social media by measuring the sentiment around your brand, how much share of voice you are getting compared to your peers, and whether you are reaching top influencers – and if they are changing with, engaging with, and sharing your content and brand.
Some of these are reported within the analytics for each social channel. Although to get more advanced, you'll need a tool like Radian6. Then move on to engagement to understand if and how people are interacting with you. The metrics that indicate this are clicks, retweets and shares, and replies, direct messages and posts on your wall, comments on your blog posts and of course subscribers to your blog posts.
The next thing to consider is what people are doing as a consequence of interacting with you on social media. Are they choosing to download any content from your website? Are they signing up to and attending your webinars? Are they filling out lead generation forms on your website? Or are they requesting proposals from you?
Finally, how is social media contributing to your bottom line? What online or phone sales are you generating? For those appointments or proposals that have been generated, what sales have been generated? When you link to your website it's a good idea to use a URL shortener like bit.ly so that fewer characters are used up by the link in each post.
In order to understand what sales you are making you will need to add tracking parameters to every link you shorten so that your Google analytics will be able to attribute the visitor to a particular traffic source. It's often hard to track all the way through to conversion because the journey from social media discovery to conversion is often long and winding where you have reached the customer with a wide range of marketing activities, it may be hard to track everything back to social media. For example if someone has discovered you via a blog post that you have shared on Facebook, then become a subscriber of your blog, then eventually responded and purchased to a promotion in a newsletter, it might be that newsletter that is credited with the sale instead of the original Facebook share. Be sure to check the multi-channel funnels in Google Analytics to understand how users discovered your website.
There are some great tools out there to help you measure your efforts on social media and many of them are totally free. With tweetdeck, for example, you can monitor your app channel, your newsfeed, your competitors and industry news in easy to read columns. Google analytics, of course, will let you know what is happening on your website for free. With Bit.ly, you can shorten links and it give you good analytics about how often those links are clicked and follower wonk will let you know who is influential on Twitter within particular niches.
Finally be sure to add a social layer to your website. Anyone can make up a customer testimonial but it's a lot harder to fake a tweet. These add a lot more credibility. Make it easy for customers to share, like, and +1 your content by adding clear and enticing social sharing buttons. And if you are an advanced user, then try adding social logins to your site that let your website visitors sign up by using their social media accounts. This can really reduce the friction of gaining signups and sales but you will, of course, need a developer to make it happen.
Well that was our first webinar, "how to use social media in your marketing mix". My name is Nick Leech, I hope you found the webinar useful. If you have any questions arising from any of the content in the webinar, please leave it within the comments below and we will answer it straight away. This webinar will be followed by a whole lot more so be sure to check the 123-reg blog for new updates. Many thanks for your time today and until next time, goodbye.


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4 Hilarious Self-Help Books for Crazy Old People
#2. 1,003 Ways to Stay Young by Ann Hodgman (2007)
Ten years after 1,003 Great Things About Getting Older was published, one of the elderly authors still lived -- Ann Hodgman. Working solo, she put together her own collection of tidbitty advice for old people that ranged from useless to wrong to the desperate flailings of a senile mind. Of her previous writing team, I'm still not sure who the sex offender or the murderer were, but Ann was definitely one of the stupid ones.
1,003 Ways to Stay Young seems to have been written in a world where pretending to be a baby is the highest form of comedy. How it got to our Earth is unclear, but whatever interdimensional beasts brought it to us are assholes. At least 300 of the suggestions are "jokes" like this:
Every childish behavior Ann could think of makes an appearance in the book. Not eating vegetables, not cleaning your room ... behaving like a baby is apparently a convincing way to show off your youthful vigor. When Ann Hodgman accidentally craps into her diaper, the other people in the assisted living center are like, "Well, la dee da! Look at Miss Teen USA!"
Without the other three writers to help with all 1,003 witticisms, Ann ran out of ideas somewhere in the teens. She started filling space in her manuscript with literally anything. This came from a long, long section where Ann rewrote single lines from nursery rhymes with references to old people and their imminent death. Why? Because this book was written by someone who stopped making fresh brain cells long before irony was invented. Her sense of humor is so old, it died of Spanish flu.
After three pages, the nursery rhymes stopped rhyming. And this would be fine if there were no consequences, but every time Ann Hodgman types, a pediatrician has to explain to a mother that there's no scientific explanation why her baby no longer smiles -- it's simply as if some dark force peeled the joy from it. Ann swings and misses at cute on a supernatural scale. If she tried to tell her grandchildren about a new puppy, her mouth would wordlessly spray diarrhea.
Yes, this is tragic, but you wouldn't be funny either if Death sat in front of you all day, watching you chew. Ann Hodgman's idea of a joke is random letters placed near the word "wrinkles," and her idea of advice is biting shapes into the flesh of the living.
Ann's solo attempt at writing a book is so awful that I kind of miss the rapist.
Ann Hodgman is the reason parents can no longer administer home schooling directly to a child's brain with a hammer.
Ann really rode that train of logic all the way to the end. I wonder if thinking that hard wakes up the raccoons that made a nest in her skull.
At some point every elderly advice author has to deal with the tough issue of whether or not to touch poison ivy. I wonder if this is why convalescent homes have bingo halls and not science labs.
To Ann's credit, if you were a dying dementia patient with only one teaspoon of cerebrospinal fluid left, you wouldn't know how to do medical research either.
Ann is still waiting on some test results, but I think she's onto something. Before this, her only concept of respiratory health was turning her gaping mummy mouth away from incoming locust swarms.
Everyone feels young when there's a clown closing in on them. Plus, after all that birthday cake, a clown attack is a great way to shed a few ax-shaped chunks of pounds.
That doesn't sound right to me, but Ann's the one who stayed awake through her last 22 clinical deaths, so I defer to her judgment.
Wait, what? You have to explain to your readers about touching poison ivy and now you're daring them to skitter into traffic and dodge cars? Is Ann actually some kind of amalgamation of government agencies trying to get out of paying Social Security checks?
Out of 1,003 pieces of advice about staying young, only about four mention sex. This isn't one of them, though. Astroglide is how Ann gave herself a hysterectomy. The moment her reproductive system spotted a lubricated hole, it squeezed itself through and scuttled into the night. Villagers jabbed it with torches for hours before it stopped screaming.
I think an elderly man who tells everyone how much he loves Justin Bieber is what you call "lead suspect," not "youthful." This book should have been called 1,003 Reasons Stupid Dingbats Should Hit Backspace. The editor was worse at his job than the vampire hunters Ann Hodgman keeps defeating.
If you want your reader to feel young, maybe try sentences that aren't made entirely out of words that no longer exist.
You might be right, Ann, but the life cycle of your mouth flies can give us a pretty accurate assessment of when you died.
#1. Easy Crosswords for Seniors FOR DUMMIES by Timothy E. Parker (2011)
Despite all the embarrassing ailments of the elderly, it's hard to picture anyone with self-esteem low enough to buy something called Easy Crosswords for Seniors FOR DUMMIES. These crosswords are so simple that the solution section is just a reminder that candy is fun. It respects that the reader was educated before the invention of five-letter words, and if you tear out the pages and use them to line your bird cage, that alone solves over half the clues.
These books for and by the elderly have taught me so much about them. I now know that they suffer from both humorlessness and bladder control problems during sex -- a combination that, to me, seems paradoxical. More than that, it's taught me that no matter how feeble-minded and fluid-squirting we become in our twilight years, we'll always have a job waiting for us in book publishing.
Internet funnyman Seanbaby has a delightful pep and vigor. Visit him at GameGoon.com or follow him on Twitter.
For more of his literature-themed hilarity, try Your Best Friend Robot and the Chamber of Spectacular Death or 5 Baffling Perspectives on Boning.


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Derry Township officials could allow a Chipotle restaurant to open in their community.
The public was able to speak about the proposal at a zoning hearing Wednesday night.
"I am against them going downtown against a zoning variance that is in our town that the historic area is zoned to not have fast food," said restaurant owner Phil Guarno.
"Subway and Five Guys try to go where they are but they are not going to fit in this city but Chipotle is distinct from these other dining establishments," said resident Jim Polczynski.
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Heviel Cordoves has been the closest thing to instant offense for the Charleston Battery all season.
Cordoves, who played less than 20 minutes against Orlando City on Friday night, recorded one of the biggest goals to date this season.
Cordoves scored in stoppage time as the Battery managed a 1-1 draw against Orlando City, the top team in the USL Pro Division, before a crowd of 4,387 at Blackbaud Stadium.
The Battery, which hasn't won a match since their 4-1 victory over Houston's reserve team on June 8, is 7-3-7 (28 points) and moved into a tie for fourth place in the USL Pro Division. Orlando City is 10-2-5 (35 points).
Despite playing in 14 matches this season, Cordoves has started just three times and averages less than 30 minutes a game.
The Cuban forward has proven to be an effective offensive threat coming off the bench as he recorded his third goal of the season.
"Heviel came in and did exactly what we wanted him to do," said Charleston coach Mike Anhaeuser.
"We bring him in because he can be such a dangerous player for us. He has that quality to change the course of a game with one shot, and that's what he did tonight."
After dominating large chunks of the game, especially in the first half, the Battery found itself down 1-0 going into stoppage time.
But a turnover deep inside Orlando's territory, a quick pass to Cordoves about 25 yards from goal, was all the Battery needed to tie the game.
Cordoves got the ball at a bad angle, stepped past an Orlando defender and blasted a shot that deflected off a Lions defender and past Jon Kempin for the tying goal
"I didn't have much of an angle to shoot, but I knew I had to put something on frame," Cordoves said. "I was lucky that it was deflected. I know that's why coach put me into the game, to score. I was ready to shoot when I got the opportunity and took it."
The Battery, which outshot the Lions, 18-9 for the match, more than doubled Orlando's scoring chances, especially in the first half. Dane Kelly, who returned after a two-match absence, led the Battery with five shots on goal and three quality scoring chances in the first half alone.
"If this was a boxing match, they would have stopped it after 20 minutes," said Charleston captain Colin Falvey. "We should have picked up all three points tonight. We should have been up 1-0 or 2-0 after the first half. But that's the way soccer is sometimes."
Orlando City grabbed a 1-0 lead on Rob Valentino's rebound goal in the 56th minute. After a deflection deflected off of the post in the box, the ball bounced out to Valentino, who slammed it home for the score.
As the match got more physical, tempers flared as Orlando's Luke Boden and Charleston's Mark Wiltse got into a shoving match in front of the Battery's bench midway through the second half. As the two teams gathered, Orlando's Adama Mbengue shoved Charleston's Jose Cuevas in the face. Mbengue was issued a red card, and the Lions were forced to play with a man down for the final 30 minutes of the match.
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Sony Ericsson txt pro Review
0. phoneArena 26 Jul 2011, 06:38 posted on
The Sony Ericsson txt pro is a compact feature phone with a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard. It doesn't shoot for the stars, but with an affordable price tag, does it have the guts to compete with other low-end devices?…
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1. JLHON (unregistered)
Ahhh... classic PhoneArena stuff... always "reviewing" the bad side of phones... but if it was made from Apple.... OMG this phone was great! 9/10... come on you guys be serious for a minute, it's true it may be a little crappy but for the price what do you expect? a 4/10... I dont think so...
2. bling bling (unregistered)
yes you are right it should have scored more 4 does not do justice , it should have scored atleast 3 or 2
5. JLHON (unregistered)
dont start crap... you know it's not fair... but anyways it's your opinion so whatever... 9_9
3. John (unregistered)
Nice cheap phone, until i saw, that it lacks 3G.. So it must not score more than 4 stars. Yeah, qwerty is nice, price is decent, but nowdays even the crappiest phone has such feature.
36. ferongr (Posts: 2; Member since: 02 Oct 2011)
I've used it, it's a bad phone, does not deserve its pricetag. Even basic functions like Contacts and Messaging are badly thought-out.
4. TreyTreyTaylor (Posts: 676; Member since: 21 Dec 2010)
SE start making some hardcore high end androids for the US. All we have is the Play and X10/X8. The Arc would've sold very well on a US carrier IMO.
6. funny (unregistered)
"We found it to be just a tiny bit harder to slide it in and out than we would like to, but you get used to it."
That's what she said. lol!
7. ana shahkira (unregistered)
menapa gprs x ade dlm senarai sony txt pro.....
8. navinya (unregistered)
i m very much excited abt this phone :-)
9. kunal (unregistered)
is this phone worth buying ????ths phn jst fits into my budgt.can u suggest some other mobile phones in ths range better thn ths.A QWERTY is must.
17. ulluboy.l (Posts: 2; Member since: 27 Aug 2011)
this is a nice qwerty at this budget. u can go for it.
10. mikerotch1993 (unregistered)
come on its a cheap phone that does the job right. Personally i think people who spent hundreds on phones are pretty dumb unless its like an iphone but if you wanna text people and call them why spend so much? i don't want 3G and i don't want a browser i have a laptop ffs
34. TXT Pro (unregistered)
Completely agree with you... has been reflected from its name TXT PRO! This TXT PRO is not a smartphone, why need 3G for sending TXT? Alternatively, use the WiFi for internet browsing!
12. lei (unregistered)
how do you use the SYM "ü" option in the keyboard for sony ericsson txt pro?
14. nobleboy44 (unregistered)
this option is for adding symbols in the msg
13. nimrat (unregistered)
I m using txt pro but does not know how to minimize a running application . Can anyone please help me and tell how to minimize an application .
22. joska (unregistered)
it doesnt have any OS so it's impossible to minimalize it
15. jithu (unregistered)
Hai Guys is that possible to hide display clock time home screen pls tell me i going to buy this. please tell me the + of the Phone And of the phone i am waiting for your reply
Thanks Guys.....
16. honey sing (unregistered)
awsome phn yrr i buy dis phn and its awsome to use widout 3g olso..
so guys dont give comment until u use it..a
wsome sony ericson...
18. r3mpuia (unregistered)
Main qualms I have with this phone:
1. Music, Camera, Phonebook, Messages, Dialling keypad (touchscreen) has only one accesspoint. Not even the shutter acts as a camera shortcut as most phones do. Also, you cannot set your personalized shortcuts anywhere.
2. Unability to use the up down button at the side for browsing the menu.
3. Calculator does not rotate and cannot be operated from the keypad. Which is a problem because the touchscreen sensitivity on the bottom corners is particularly useless. Which also creates problems when you want to end a phone call.
4. I am an avid fan of Sony Ericsson because I personally think their user interface is the easiest and most friendly to use. Even on phones costing as low as Rs.5000. This phone is NOT FRIENDLY. Even Micromax has much much better UI which is friendly even on their phones costing around Rs3000.
5. Sound is poor, especially on playbacks. Nokia gives much better sound clarity in their low end phones than this.
Dont buy. If you want qwerty, look somewhere else. if youre just looking for a phone which is smart and easy to use, get the Nokia X2-03 touch & type. Almost the same price. Youll be much happier with it.
19. r3mpuia (unregistered)
Oh, when I connect to my PC using the Mass Storage option, all my settings, especially the ringtoones- move bnack to default. Whats up with that huh??
32. ronron (unregistered)
coz you screwed it when you had it disconnected from your PC
20. andrejerman (Posts: 1; Member since: 01 Sep 2011)
Do Anybody have bought it?
My only concern is about the review is the microphone quality of the headset because if you buy a phone you want to use it at least as a phone to call somebody. if you voice quality are poor it will be a real chaos right?
Could someone answer me is the reviewer just got a the "wrong" phone or is it the standard quality of all the headset ?
21. sophas6860 (unregistered)
its a nice phone and all but i have only had it for less then 2 weeks and it is already doin my head in... its bugging all the time i dont know why but its doin my head in.
ive deleted all my music evrything exept what was on it when i bought it, but it still buggs for me it was a nice phone exellent handling and quick texting but the buggs aww so annoying does anyone know what too do ?
23. janefer lanot (unregistered)
question is -pano mag open nang games sa txtpro..na dinaoad ko sa ck15 erecson text pro.
25. ax_92 (unregistered)
anyone can teach me how to use wifi from txt pro???.......
33. TXT Pro (unregistered)
Go to SETTINGS and select CONNECTIVITY. Tap WIFI to turn it on (if it has not turned on), then tap ADD WIFI NETWORK (if you want to set manually), otherwise you can use REFRESH NETWORKS. Remember to SAVE at the bottom of the screen.
27. sanhga (unregistered)
hey i own ths phone..it plays viddeos very loudly!! bt unable to play mp3 so loud..its really dum!! are u too faicng this prob??? if not dn wat shud i do?? if there wud hav been ne prob in speakers dn video sound quality wud hv been low too..but its really strng..help me out!!
28. sonam singh (unregistered)
I want to purchase this mobile.is this ok .
pz suggest me
29. sonam singh (unregistered)
Hey All,
i m very much confuse abt nokia x3-c02 and txt pro.so plz tell me which should i take.and tell about battery backup.which is best for back up and performance..
30. sonam singh (unregistered)
is there text editor or txt reader...plz reply me..
31. madisoncmjenkins (unregistered)
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35. ferongr (Posts: 2; Member since: 02 Oct 2011)
My father decided to buy a mobile phone without consulting me and he bought that. Played with it for one or two hours.
Those are my thoughts, taking in account you can buy good Android phones for the same price or less.
1: User experience: Pretty abysmal. For occasional lockups, to sliding gestures mistaked as taps to jerky animations, it felt painful overall. There are no two finger gestures either. The contact list has no search-as-you-type function, rather, you enter text and it filters afterwards. It also seems the phone does not support delivery status on SMS messages.
2: QWERTY Keyboard: Decent feel and spacing, although the backlight is very dim, making it hard to use in certain lighting conditions.
3: Display: Mediocre contrast, bad viewing angles, loves smudging.
While it might not seem very bad at first glance in the store, there are many small annoyances and problems that make the experience frustrating. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, when you can buy a superior Android handset for the same money.
37. srishti (unregistered)
very disappointing handset..sony txt pro..a really bad xperience//
38. Raj02 (unregistered)
Guys i wanna buy this mobile.. plzzzzzzzz tell me how is audio output in and out...
39. dhargi (unregistered)
heyy any body teach me how to send video to other mobile via buletooth from sony ericsson ck15i.
40. dhargi (unregistered)
i suggest not to buy sony ericsson txt pro instead of it u can buy xperia x10 mini pro coz in this mobile there is problem of hanging at each and every moment.
41. omarfloresx (Posts: 1; Member since: 17 Nov 2011)
i bought this phone in mexico so that i could use it in the US once unlocked. its exactly what i wanted in terms of size and feel. im tired of all these 4-5in android smartphones which the only thing they manage to do properly is add more surface area for the radiation to reach your brain. the keyboard is great but i could not find any traces of the friend app or get the WIFi to work but i think it has to do with an update that i havent done because SE updates aren't supported on macs. id give it a 5.5/10 and if it had the errors fixed 8/10, in the feature phone category
43. shakluvsu (Posts: 1; Member since: 08 Feb 2012)
HORRIBLE.PHONE. I've had this phone for about 5 months and it sucks!
You cannot listen to youtube videos, has very low memory space, sometimes spazzes out while being charged, will not open contacts for DAYS after being turned off and on, cannot save or lock messages. I don't think its a good phone for the price.
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45. jabba (Posts: 1; Member since: 27 Mar 2012)
This phone looked like a good concept- a smaller, tactile text phone. But it looks like they released it before actually testing it. The scroll down feature for seeing your incoming texts basically doesnt really work or should I say barely works. You swipe your finger one millimeter out of the 1 inch swiping zone- it will go all the way to the beginning of your conversation. Its super buggy . you really have to press hard and slow on the screen if not it will tap a 1/3 of an inch below. Why bother putting any extras on it like facebook when ending a simple call on it is a challenge....Also heres the kicker-- when you are on a call, everytime you put your finger about an inch away from the screen, the screen sleep mode, like its trying to screw with you.
Overall this phone should never have left the Sony Eriksson factory. Looks bad for them.


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Weld District Attorney Ken Buck said Monday on his official Facebook page that he is being treated for lymphoma.
Buck said he went in for a biopsy Monday and will begin treatment on Wednesday.
A worker in his office confirmed the statement.
Buck, a former U.S. Senate candidate, asked for privacy in the post.
"I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT IN PRAYER!" Buck said in all capital letters on the page. "It seems scary, but I am facing this challenge head-on."
An office worker for Buck said he would not give interviews. Buck's wife, Perry, a state representative, did not return phone calls made to her office and cellphone. Perry Buck's staff also didn't want to comment.
Buck, who has served as Weld's district attorney since 2004, also said he would post updates on his Facebook page. Lymphoma is a type of cancer that starts in the white blood cells, or the cells that protect us from infections or disease.
More than 250 people showered Buck with support after his Facebook announcement, most of them stating they would fulfill Buck's request for prayers. A few shared even more.
"I have two friends and a sister who have had lymphoma, and all are in at least five years of remission/cure," said Mike Mikkelsen. "A lot of it is good treatment but also is a positive mindset and the support of others."
Buck ran for Congress in 2010 against Democrat Michael Bennet, but he lost by a narrow margin. Last fall, he ran unopposed for a third four-year term.


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Metro teen found dead in October 2011
The Oklahoma state medical examiner released the autopsy of a metro teen killed in late 2011.
Carina Saunders' dismembered body was found behind a Bethany grocery store in October of that year. Two men -- Jimmy Massey and Luis Ruiz -- have been charged in Saunders' killing.
The autopsy detailed much of what investigators already knew. The 19-year-old had been decapitated and her body dismembered. According to the autopsy, Saunders' body parts had been placed in two body bags, and the body parts were wrapped with plastic wrap, a laundry bag and a duffel bag.
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On behalf of El Dorado County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff John D'Agostini, I would like to personally thank the Lake Tahoe Golf Course for donating its facilities on Oct. 25. On Oct. 23, we initiated search and rescue for a hiker in distress in Desolation Wilderness. In our first operational period we ran this incident out of our local sheriff's office and quickly out grew this facitility. I contacted the Lake Tahoe Golf Course Concessionare and California State Parks and, without hesitation, they all agreed to allow our office to use their facilities for our next operational period. We set up a command post and staging area and ultimately ran an operation consisting of more than 80 personnel. It is very gratyfing to know that we can all work together in this small community and bring a life back to safety. Again, thank you for allowing us to use your facility.Deputy Greg AlmosEl Dorado County Sheriff's Office
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Al Bradham is no stranger to life's lemons. In fact, the man has done pretty well making lemonade out of those lemons. More important, he says, he has enjoyed the blessing of sharing that lemonade wherever he can.
A Lowcountry native and owner of Carpet Care Services and DisasterCare, a successful disaster care business, Bradham is a much-revered, well-respected member of both this community and his business community.
In conversation, one quickly finds that Bradham's business is disaster care cleanup, but his personality – indeed, his life's mission – is about helping people.
That probably never would have happened the way it has if not for a bit of adversity of his own.
"I worked for the Department of Defense for many years," he said. "In 1992, I was laid off from the Navy Shipyard. In 1994, this business was offered to me and I bought it."
It was supposed to be a simple, "take-it-easy" kind of business – one truck, a carpet cleaning machine, and enough work to make a decent living for his family, wife Barbara and daughter Brandy – but not necessarily be all time-consuming.
Now, nearly 20 years later, he owns hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment, employs 20 people, and does business literally all over the world.
"I found out quickly I'm not one who likes to take it easy," he said.
No doubt. The man still puts in 60-70 hours a week, not only in managerial/administrative details – but also out on service calls, not because he has to, but because he loves it.
"I wouldn't have it any other way," he said. "We recently went to North Carolina on a job and someone asked me what I was doing there. I said, 'This is the part I like.'"
There are many facets of business ownership that appeal to Bradham, but the best part is that owning his own business has allowed him to be in a position to help people at so many levels, he said.
Helping victims of a disaster restore their home – and peace of mind – never ceases to be satisfying and customer service is the number one business priority, he says.
Seeing his employees succeed – and virtually all of them have been with him many years – is another satisfying benefit.
"I owe a lot of my success to the employees I have been able to maintain," he said. "So it's wonderful to see them grow and excel."
Being able to help the community is especially important and satisfying, he says. To that end he has worked with and contributed to many community organizations over the years, including Rotary, the Greater Dorchester County Chamber of Commerce, Children in Crisis, MUSC's Kid Helping Kids, and the Frances R. Willis SPCA, to name a few.
"I feel like this community has blessed me and I feel some obligation to return those blessings – but it's also the fun part of the business," he said. "I don't ever tell an organization 'no.'"
His work in the community has not gone unnoticed – indeed he has been honored many times over the years by a variety of organizations, including the Ralph Bloss Award, a national honor conferred by the disaster care industry to an individual who greatly contributes to the industry, and the T. Ashton Phillips award, which is a community service/fundraising honor given by the Charleston Riverdogs baseball organization – in fact the organization has only honored two people with it.
"I am greatly humbled," he said. "It's nice to be recognized for doing what I like to do anyway. But there are many, many people who do those things every day who don't get that recognition who surely deserve it more than I do."
Ultimately, the most important facet, the one that underpins everything else, is relationship building and friendships, he noted. He can get things done because he has been fortunate enough to get to know so many people, he said. One example was the devastating fire that destroyed the building in which his business was located in 2010. In moments, the place was burned to the ground; thankfully, no one was injured, he noted. But after it happened, the outpouring of love and help from all over overwhelmed him, he said.
"I have made friends literally all over the world that I might not have, had I not gotten into this business," he said. "After the fire, a woman told me that I was lucky because I would be able to find out who my friends really were before I died. She was right – and I am truly blessed."
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The Ravens sent offensive coordinator Cam Cameron packing Monday afternoon, a day after they scored 28 points in a loss to the Redskins. Baltimore is still in first place in the AFC North with a 9-4 record, but their 18th-rated offense wasn't good enough for Cameron to keep his job going into the playoffs.
Chan Gailey was still the Bills' coach Monday even though they have a 5-8 record, have all but been eliminated from the playoffs for the 13th straight season, haven't won a road game against a team with a winning record during his tenure and haven't challenged in the division in roughly forever.
It doesn't make sense, but that's what happens when a team with an oblivious 94-year-old owner keeps the bottom line his top priority, refuses to relinquish control and tethers himself to familiar faces based on convenience. If you need a reminder about Ralph Wilson's idea of a good score, the Bills' annual money-grab is Sunday in Toronto.
Buffalo's results reveal ineptness at the top, starting with Wilson and top aide Jeff Littman. It includes money man Jim Overdorf and General Manager Buddy Nix and trickles down to Gailey and his players. None of this is breaking news, as you know. It has been the same way for years, give or take a few names.
Gailey should have been fired weeks ago, when it became apparent to anyone with a pair of eyes that he was losing his grasp on the team. Looking back, it was clear he was finished after the blowout loss to San Francisco. He has done nothing since to suggest he should stick around. If anything, it has been the opposite.
His players quit in the second half of the loss to the Niners, a record-breaking defeat and the low point of the season. The Bills should have lost to Arizona the following week after Gailey refused to kick a field goal and dialed up a ridiculous bomb out of the Wildcat that was intercepted.
Arizona has lost nine straight games, by the way, including a 58-0 defeat to the same Seattle team that Buffalo will meet in Rogers Centre. Maybe the team bus will be stopped at the border by a customs agent who happens to be a Bills' fan. Perhaps he can find some trumped up charge against Gailey for crimes against football.
Ryan Fitzpatrick insisted the Bills were making progress and pointed toward the importance of continuity while coming to his coach's defense. Fitz and tight end Scott Chandler, both of whom feel indebted to Gailey for giving them opportunities in the NFL, nobly blamed themselves for their overall failure.
Players almost always are going to defend their coach for various reasons. It's the professional approach. It's a team-first mentality. And what happens if they criticize the coach and he stays? It would make for an uncomfortable relationship, if not career suicide, as things move forward.
The Bills are on pace for fewer yards and fewer points than they had last season, so it's not clear how that equates to progress. Fitz didn't appreciate the line of questioning Monday, or the tone in which they were asked. Fine, but it still doesn't answer one simple question at this stage of the season:
Where is this going?
Buffalo needs changes but not a massive overhaul. Wilson would be reluctant to fire Nix because he's not up to speed on qualified applicants to replace him. What he could do is rearrange pieces with people he does know, assuming he knows his assistant general manager and director of pro personnel.
FYI: It's the same guy.
His name is Doug Whaley, and he's right under their collective nose.
Whaley, 40, is widely respected across the league and is considered one of the bright young personnel men in the NFL. The Steelers held him in high regard before he left for Buffalo. He should be given the chance to spread his wings along One Bills Drive.
Nix, 73, could step aside and use his experience to help Whaley navigate through NFL potholes while surrendering full control of all personnel decisions to his understudy. Another option is losing Whaley, a known commodity who sooner than later is likely to be snapped up by another organization.
Whaley can pick his own coach.
The Bills also would need a new offensive coordinator, however, and there's another sharp young mind who would jump at the chance to run his own offense in Buffalo. Let's assume Wilson has heard of him. His name is Alex Van Pelt, an assistant coach in Green Bay who is considered a rising star in NFL circles.
Van Pelt was fired with the coaching staff in Tampa Bay, but he wasn't out of work for long. Packers coach Mike McCarthy respected AVP enough to give him a job even if it meant a former quarterback overseeing the running backs. The Packers are 18th in rushing despite playing eight backs in a passing offense.
Something tells me Van Pelt would find an appropriate number of carries for C.J. Spiller, the Bills' most dynamic player who touched the ball eight times Sunday. Spiller had the same number of touches as Rams punter Johnny Hekker, for heaven's sake.
The Bills would need upgrades in other areas — quarterback, wide receiver, linebacker — but promoting Whaley, hiring a new head coach and adding Van Pelt for the offense would be a good start. It beats sticking with what hasn't worked, which is Gailey leading a team that has underachieved.
Gailey talked Monday about the Bills being only a handful of plays away from turning around their record and maybe he's right.
Ultimately, it comes back to winning. Fitzpatrick said as much himself. Gailey agreed. The Bills haven't won enough with this quarterback and this coach. Both have kept their jobs.
The Ravens were 9-4 with Cameron running the offense, and it wasn't enough for him to keep his job.
It speaks to the Ravens' standards.
And it says plenty about the Bills.
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Imagine Dragons
Night Visions
Album Review
At some point while listening to Night Visions, jotting down notes for this review, I scribbled, "The Killers." I was mentally comparing Imagine Dragons' ambitious arena-ready sound to another well-known indie act from the Las Vegas area. Turns out the similarities don't end there.
Just as Killers frontman Brandon Flowers is an outspoken Mormon, so two members of Imagine Dragons hail from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well. "We're not a religious band," Mormon guitarist Wayne Sermon told bestoflasvegas.com in a 2012 interview. "[Singer] Dan [Reynolds] and I are religious people, and the other members are agnostic, so I think we come out somewhere in the middle."
That middle looks like this: This debut deliberates over spiritual issues of sin, demons, fallenness, heaven and hell while alternately flirting with and fighting off the mire of melancholy.
Positive Elements
Spiritual Content
Sexual Content
Violent Content
Crude or Profane Language
Drug and Alcohol Content
Other Negative Elements
Pro-social Content
" Radioactive" is characteristic of the tone on Night Visions. On one hand, things are really, really bad. As in, apocalyptically bad: "I'm waking up to ash and dust/I wipe my brow and sweat my rust/I'm breathing in the chemicals/This is it, the apocalypse." On the other, we hear later that there's still a glimmer of hope: "All systems go/The sun hasn't died/ … I'm waking up." Similar stuff turns up on " It's Time": "Now it's time to build from the bottom of the pit/Right to the top/Don't hold back." Still, we hear that "the path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell."
" Demons" also employs strong spiritual language, this time coming from a man who says his tormented soul is tangled in greed ("We are still made of greed/ … Don't get too close/It's dark inside/It's where my demons hide"), yet hopes his beloved might somehow lead him out of that spiritual wilderness ("I can't escape this now/Unless you show me how").
Opaque lyrics on "Amsterdam" address our tendency to downplay how badly we may really be doing ("Well, these days I'm fine/No, these days I tend to lie"). A man promises a woman who's perhaps on the verge of leaving him that he intends to stay the course in their relationship on "Every Night." "On Top of the World" counsels seizing the moment and telling those close to you that you love them ("If you love somebody/Better tell them why they're here 'cause/They may just run away from you/ … Then again it just depends on/How long of time is left for you").
Philosophical album closers "Working Man" and "Fallen" are glass-half-full/half-empty affairs that could be construed as either positive or positively depressing. The former wonders if there's more to life than just working and spending money. The latter fixates on humanity's fallenness, as its title implies: "Brothers, sisters, the ending is coming/We are fallen, we are fallen/Now we're just gonna ride it out." Note that while we are living in a fallen world, whether "riding it out" is a statement of optimism or futility is open to speculation.
Objectionable Content
"Hear Me" cozies up to the idea that viewing one's accidental death as a good thing after a painful breakup: "You can leave, it's your choice/Maybe if I fall asleep, I won't breathe right/Maybe if I leave tonight, I won't come back." The song perhaps alludes to a woman as a passionate, experienced partner ("You kiss and you kiss/And you love and you love/You've got a history list"), contrasted with his coldness ("And if you're warm, you can't relate to me").
Self-loathing creeps onto "Every Night" ("I can hardly stand myself/So what am I to you?") Futility permeates the brief "Rocks" ("Why can't I see what's right in front of me?/We fall/We fall apart"). "Bleeding Out" is a grim, ambiguous song about a dying relationship; we hear, "Oh, you tell me to hold on/But innocence is gone/And what was right is wrong/'Cause I'm bleeding out/So if the last thing that I do/Is bring you down/I'll bleed for you/So I bare my skin/And I count my sins/And I close my eyes and I take it in."
Likewise, "Nothing Left to Say" explores the hopeless emotions of a man who's capitulated in the face of struggle: "There's nothing left to say now/I'm giving up, giving up, giving up/ … Below my soul/I feel an engine/Collapsing as it sees the pain." There's a reference to seeking salvation of some sort ("If you could only save me/I'm drowning in the waters of my soul"), but the overall vibe of the song focuses more on the drowning than being miraculously rescued.
Summary Advisory
In his review of Night Visions for thinkchristian.net, John J. Thompson writes, "Though there are no obvious references to God, or Joseph Smith for that matter, [Imagine Dragons] is conspicuous by what is missing: sex, rebellion, nihilism, selfishness and moping."
Well, maybe not the moping part. Songs in which we hear from people hoping to die accidentally and in which they say they're giving up and bleeding out load up this album with a decidedly bleak vibe at times. But hints of hope, redemption and salvation do lurk and may prompt some listeners to imagine living life beyond the bad, bad, bad.
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Other Belief Systems
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Episode Reviews
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Disc debuted at No. 2, then faded, then zoomed back into the Top 10.
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She writes! So, this hasn't become just a photo blog after all!
The other night I was traveling along a highway not far from our house headed somewhere that should have taken me about fifteen minutes. Long story short: it took me over an hour and a half.
I'd never experienced traffic on this highway- it is not normally busy and even when they are doing construction you won't run into problems. So when I approached two lanes of brake lights as far as I could see, I knew there must have been something not good happening.
I felt trapped. We were stopped, cars and semi trucks all around me, with no way out. I was frustrated that I needed to be somewhere by a certain time and would now be late. I was scared for what might be ahead. Certainly tragic? Someone I know? A hostage situation?
I locked my doors and called my hubby. Ivy stirred from her seat behind me and rocked it gently to get her back to sleep.
I hate that feeling of helplessness.
I soon learned that there has been a horrible accident due to someone driving on the wrong side of the highway. I needed to turn around as soon as possible or I would be there for hours.
Down into a grassy ravine I drove and prayed I could make it over to the other side. I headed back towards home to find a different way to get where I needed to go.
I ended up making it- albeit 1 1/2 hours late- and all is well.
Although incredibly frustrating, sometimes turning around is the only way to get back on track, to get where you need to go.
I'm still figuring it all out, so you might have lots more pictures instead of posts in the coming days, as I crawl out from under my to-do list. I am still having fun with the fabulous perks of this job and being able to just be myself and share who I am in real life with you.
And with me.
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