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Google+ has been Abandoned
The facts about Google+ are oscillating quite a bit these days from good news to bad. Not long ago, there was nothing but good news about Google+, but now people are calling it a "ghost town." At least, that is what MarketingLand and Umpf are saying about it, based on information and a graphic that are presented in an Umpf blog post. Umpf, an online PR firm, did a small study about whether Google+ was really as popular as some people, including Google, make it seem sometimes. According to their infographic, Google+ may have a large number of user accounts, but in other areas their numbers are not at all impressive.
In their infographic, Umpf states that while Facebook has over 901 million users, Google+ only has about 170 million. However, that's still above LinkedIn and Twitter in user accounts. So why are people calling it an abandoned network? Well, Umpf answers that question with their explanation of the number of users likely to share content per every 100 million users. In first place came Twitter with 197.3, followed by Facebook with 41.8, and LinkedIn with 15.2. In last place came Google+, with the mediocre average number of 6. So, compared to other social networks, Google has almost no users that are likely to share posts or other content.
Sharing isn't really the first clue to a successful, active network though. The key factor is user activity within the network. Umpf reported in their graphic that LinkedIn is 2.5 times more active than Google+, Facebook is 7 times more active, and Twitter is a whole 33 times more active than Google's social network. Also, after breaking down the statistics into different news sectors, Google+ is in the lowest percentage of each category. So, not only are people not really using Google+, but people aren't really talking about it much either, meaning that its performance isn't much to talk about.
In a few sentences, Umpf blog writer Adrian Johnson pretty much sums up what people need to know about Google+
"There's been many articles written about how good, bad and indifferent Google+ is. But our favourite debate is the ongoing It's Really Popular Vs It's A Ghost Town one. So what's the truth? Our findings and infographic (see below) appear to suggest the latter: despite its large number of accounts, G+ is bottom of the list of social network users' favoured channels."
Google+ seemed like it would be a huge hit, but these numbers (all received as official stats from each network) show that it just is not what Google tries making it out to be. There will still be arguments that say G+ is a great network for businesses and advertisers to show interest in, but Umpf tells us that that has never been the case. In social media marketing, it's important to know the truth behind the networks themselves, especially if they are made out to be something they aren't.
2012-08-09 at 17:57
Ok, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. I will try to share my thoughts here but I think it may require a whole blog post. Keep an eye out for it on my blog.
I so want to say and I guess the facts show that it is very true! I don't have a huge following like you guys and other big names on the web but I have always been baffled by the lack of interaction I get on Google + I will say that I don't use it even half as much as I would like to or compared to Facebook, and truth is because I've never seen interaction from anything I've posted on Google+. I have been using it since beta even and I have a good amount of circles I share with, I will say if I have commented on someone else's post or asked a question inside someone's post I've been agknowleged. So this has been my experience, now let me share the why?
Everyone, well everyone on the net is on Facebook, I know not 100% but the numbers are astonishing. So now the super giant of search tries to enter the arena of Social Media. I don't think anyone could compete with FB even if they offered $50 to every person that joins their new network! Even Google as cool and feature full as it is plus the cash would have trouble getting or matching what FB has. Most people aren't computer savy and to them, thinking they have to learn a whole new platform / life on Google are quick to disregard and stick with what they know and are used to.
Now from a marketing standpoint we know how important and how much pull Google has and want to see it succeed. At least I do, maybe it's from all the hype and somewhat threatening appeal that we have been forced to swallow. To me search results and findability are the foundation of our business. This is what leads me to believe that Google has the numbers they have. The majority of accounts are made by and for businesses. I would love to see a real number of personal accounts that have no ties to a business. I would bet it cuts the number of accounts in half!
In closing, I myself like the features on G+ and know that it impacts my own business and all of my clients as well. I don't think they will ever be a Facebook but as long as using it continues to increase visibility it will always be a part of my repertoire. Last words, if your not on Google + for business your losing out on some good stuff.
Thank you Pace Latin for sharing this info and I look forward to more of the same!
2012-08-09 at 18:00
So sorry for not giving props to Michael Levanduski for this article! Thank you!
2012-08-09 at 23:17
For me Facebook is the best communication for every human, they can contact their love once, friends family in other place or country..
2012-08-10 at 21:10
So does G+ I mean G- lol have more fake accounts than FB or tweeter? we all know 10% of FB accounts are fake
2012-08-13 at 10:40
Google+ is kinda boring 🙂 It feels like a enclosed atmosphere! Facebook and Twitter on the other hand is so lively. One can freely breath in them 😀
2012-08-17 at 14:38
No disrespect Swayam, but you have 32 people in your circles and are in 41 circles, so of course it's going to be a little boring.
I'd be happy to make suggestions of people you might want to consider circling and if you make the effort yourself to add more content then it will become a lot less boring.
On my sites I am getting more traffic from Google+ than anywhere else, but that is because that is where most of my activity is going, I could just as easy make it LinkedIn, or Stumbled Upon if I put the effort in there.
2013-03-13 at 23:50
Hi Jim, I started growing my G+ network 🙂 and yeah! You were right 🙂 It isn't a ghost town after all. With the introductions of the Communities feature its really cool 🙂
2012-08-13 at 15:17
I do have to laugh when I read articles like this (or, should I call them link-bait?) Google+ is so full of life in small, well-developed niches.
Tapping into one of these has great potential for small businesses – you just have to spend some time there to find those who are your ideal customers.
The fact that big news stories don't get shared as much in G+ is testament to this and is a strength, not a weakness.
For a perfect example of one of these niches, have a look at my blog post on Heather Fay.
2012-08-23 at 12:03
You nailed it.
2012-08-13 at 16:01
I told you so,Google doesn't understand the meaning of Social Graph and Sharing.You think Mark Zuckerberg is crazy or what?
2012-08-15 at 11:48
Google+ Is Dead.
Google+ might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone.
2012-08-16 at 07:41
Google+ was never as easy to figure out as Facebook or Twitter, in my opinion. Unless you take the time to watch a tutorial, it's not that user friendly.
I believe that their 170M user stat is over-inflated as well, since many of the "users" are people that ended up with a Google+ account, because they have a Gmail account. When they started offering Google+ pages, there was a notification in Gmail that many people likely clicked on long enough to have the page setup, only to be abandoned. Most of my friends have an account and have never posted on it, or filled out the details.
The other problem with another social network is that for the less-than-connected crowd, it seems like just keeping up with Facebook is enough. My parents for example are in their early 60's. They use Facebook and visit once a day for 10 minutes or less. They don't interact much, and there are many people just like them. To toss another social network at them that they feel they need to visit and maintain just isn't realistic.
2012-08-17 at 14:32
I can't help thinking that part of the issue with Google+ haters is they are doing it wrong and not thinking about the bigger picture.
I'm not even going to try to extrapolate why you should use Google+ and use it a LOT but it's the backbone of all the services people use on a daily basis.
All social networks are only every about the people in your immediate circles of influence and the topics that interest you. I don't care that facebook has a billion people, I don't know them all, nor do I want to, all I am interested in is the smallish number of personal and professional people I know and how we can interact.
I've never understood why people try to compare. They are not the same thing, so don't compare them.
If I was a gambler, I'd be all in on Google+ and I've never been a fan boy of Google, so it's not easy for me to say how right they have got it.
2012-08-18 at 15:16
I kind of thought the same thing about Google + but I think I misunderstood Google's true purpose. Check out this article on an interesting perspective of the whole Google= vs. Facebook. http://www.eddale.co/apple/a-pig-just-flew-buy-and-hes-belting-out-hollywood-nights
2012-08-19 at 07:29
I'm going to keep this short…I'm been marketing and selling stuff online since 2004 and this is not the first time Google has tried to ram something down everybody's throat.
Google is doing what other good marketers do…copy what is working. Unfortunately due to their arrogance believing they know better than the marketplace their efforts to match FB and the others have not been very successful.
I look for G+ to die a slow painful death until G's next attempt at social marketing.
2012-08-22 at 12:36
I think Google+ had the features going for them, but needs to stop trying to compete with Facebook and go after something bigger.
2012-08-27 at 08:02
Who said otherwise was either really delusional or was getting paid to say so. It is true that the number of accounts is high, but since when does that say something about the real use of the medium? Everybody jumped on G+ in the beginning because it was something new or because they thought they should at least check it out, but it never really took off – my explanation would be that it did not offer anything radically different from Facebook or specialized in some other nice, which could be said for other networks who experienced a huge success lately (Pinterest, to mention just one). So the people just kept on using Facebook because, well, where was the advantage on leaving it? Google probably thought they would succeed in stealing the show in the way Facebook buried MySpace, but the reality is they came up with a FB knock-off, which offered users nothing more – outside marketing/IT circles there was NO TALK AT ALL about G+, and it´s the common users who ultimately make a new platform successful.
2012-09-02 at 18:16
I think the problem with Google+ is a lot of people signed up because they have gmail accounts, and they haven't gone back to it. If Google could put Gmail, and Google+ on the same page, I'll bet they would have many more daily users.


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Determining Your Level of Service
William A. Sterling, P.E.
Deputy Director of Recreation
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Chair, APWA Leadership and Management Committee
In April 2006, the APWA Leadership and Management Committee concluded its series of articles on public works leadership entitled "The Baker's Menu." This was the second series of articles (the first being "The Baker's Dozen") that discuss various leadership and management topics of interest to APWA members. The committee's current series—entitled "The Baker's Potluck"—touches on a variety of leadership and management topics, many of which have been suggested by members. Included in this issue is the eighth in the series recommended by the committee. For more information please contact Ann Daniels, APWA Director of Technical Services, at (800) 848-APWA or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Just doing the best you can, is no longer acceptable. The best public works agencies commit to delivering at a certain level, deliver at that level and prove that they can deliver. Establishing service levels is the key to accomplishing this.
"In order for the agency to be able to plan for the future, it must establish levels of service to be provided to the community or customer base for each of the agency's functional responsibilities. These important policy summaries are set forth in writing and communicated to agency customers. This activity may be done in conjunction with the budget process." (APWA Public Works Management Practices Manual, 5th Edition)
Definition of Level of Service
What is a level of service? Simply put, it is the agency's ability to produce a service within a set time, cost or resource. It's the ability to perform. A level of service, linked to an agency's capability, can help:
Level of Service Capability
Reviewing your past performance is important and will, to some extent, determine what your capabilities are to achieve a certain level of service. Combined with meaningful performance measures, you are able to predict, with some degree of accuracy, what your agency's capabilities are. By measuring the agency's ability to, say, sweep your streets four times per year, and if all things are equal (efficiency, accurate performance measures and factoring in inflation), it can be equated that an agency can effectively sweep 1,000 curb miles per year. If growth increases the agency's street mileage responsibility, the level of service will most likely drop if additional resources are not provided, or priorities shifted.
Categories of Service Levels
There are five basic categories of a level of service for your agency (a service level within a service level, so to speak):
In a perfect situation, these five scenarios would be the same. However, we all know that public works and the services provided are not perfect situations. So how do you, the public works manager, try to bring some closure on the service levels and the priorities? In previous articles, several programs and procedures have been mentioned: goals, objectives, benchmarking, efficiency, effectiveness and performance measurements. Understanding the agency's capabilities will provide the manager with the information which with to set the service levels.
Directed Level of Service. What do we mean by "directed level of service"? It is the level of service that is set (or demanded) by others: councils, citizens, laws, seasonal periods, etc. For example, your agency may be directed to remove all snow from all streets, down to bare pavement, within 48 hours. With this directive in mind, the manager determines the equipment, materials, personnel and budget needed to achieve this level of service. Another example is the level of sweeping (or cleanliness) of streets that may be a high priority in your community. The level of service requested for street sweeping may be "all streets swept a minimum of once per week." While these two examples may be extreme for many municipalities, the level of service requirements will dictate the agency's capability to provide this service.
Another major factor that will affect a level of service is budget resources. Limited resources (probably a majority of situations) will require the public works leader to work within the resources available to strike a balance between priorities, needs, wants and wishes (sort of a level of service in itself).
Citizen Surveys. The results of citizen surveys can be an indicator of effectiveness (or dissatisfaction) of the level of service provided by your agency. If the surveys indicate a satisfaction of street sweeping efforts but indicate a dissatisfaction of weed control, the public works manager may want to shift some resources from street sweeping (lower the service level) to weed control (raise the level of service). To be sure, this shifting is a balancing act between issues (clean water laws, community appearance, etc.).
A good public works manager may be more critical of the agency's levels of service than the general public. With limited resources, the manager must balance the levels of service set by the agency (the manager) and the levels of service required (or perceived) by the citizens or the governing board.
Benchmarking. The term "benchmarking" means the regularly and widely used measure of work or customer response that meets the expectations of the customers.
Benchmarking can be utilized in two ways:
While not a true benchmarking exercise, it is the latter program which could be used in the context of recommending service levels for your community. Keeping in mind the levels of service demanded by your community, the governing board's desires and limited resources, a definitive comparison may not be entirely possible.
Public accountability and a move to improve governmental efficiency and effectiveness bring about comparisons to other municipalities. While comparing your agency with others, you must be cognizant that "cities may provide different levels of service and categorize expenses in different ways." Recognizing varying service levels and the unique types of service provided is an essential first step toward making valid service level comparisons.
All of the above being said, there is some value in researching the levels of service being provided by other similar agencies. Keep in mind, we are not talking about costs or best practices; we are only comparing the levels of service provided.
Affordable Level of Service. This level of service is dictated by the level of resources available. Driving this level of service may be the priorities set by your governing body. Certainly, public safety is a critical quality of life issue. In most cases, this service may be a higher priority than street sweeping, higher levels of snow removal or street maintenance.
Under these circumstances, it becomes critical that the public works manager be aware of the agency's capabilities and the resources available. The manager can provide the governing body with a service level on all activities. This information will be useful when citizen dissatisfaction arises or the agency is requested to do more.
Establishment of Service Levels
Most times, a public works manager will be given a set budget and is expected to provide the most cost-effective and responsive level of service possible. To set your service levels, you will need the following:
In most cases, performance indicators only measure the output (work accomplished), i.e.,
While this information is valuable, it only measures the agency's accomplishments (its output, if you will), and has to take into account a number of variables (priorities, workload, work plans, goals, objectives, etc.).
Now let's add a key ingredient to the mix of performance measures—costs. A word of caution at this time—establishing cost for various levels of service is tricky at best. Costs can vary each year by such items as inflation, cost of materials, fuel costs, and inefficiency of equipment (getting older-higher maintenance costs), aging infrastructure and wages and experience of the workforce. However, by keeping a record over a period of time, say five years, a manager can get a good handle on the agency's capabilities. All things being equal, a manager now has the ability to determine the agency's budget needs. Given the resources, the manager can now adjust the agency's level of resources.
Let's use the same measures mentioned above, but add costs to the measures:
There are many activities that could be generated similarly. Now, by combining all street maintenance activities and costs and by dividing by the overall street mileage, one could come up with a per-mile cost. Using this information a manager could reasonably predict the effect of growth on the agency's operations:
Using this data (with caveats) the manager could predict the costs for adding street mileage to the community's jurisdiction (annexations, development, etc.).
For example: adding 24 miles of streets through annexation and 12 miles through development activities for a total of 36 miles, the costs for the additional 36 miles @ $6,157/mile = $221,664 increase in costs (without inflation).
If the resources are not increased, the manager will have to revise the overall level of service (i.e., street sweeping, snow removal levels, street maintenance, mowing).
The above information could be useful for determining the impact of development and annexation.
Some Typical Levels of Service Statements
Sometimes a level of service seems like a goal, so a manager needs to be able to distinguish between a "want" and what is really possible. Remember, we are looking at the agency's capabilities...not necessarily what you want to achieve. Some examples of service levels include:
Sweep City-owned (curbed) streets:
- Arterials: 2 x per month
- Collectors: 1 x per month
- Local: 6 x per year
- Downtown: Every Friday
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- Guide signs: 5 days
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- Minor requests: within 24 hours
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Review development plans within 7 days
Catch basin cleaned: 2 x per year
Repair traffic signs within 24 hours
Complete vehicle repairs within:
- Light duty: within 48 hours
- Heavy duty: within 72 hours
- Emergency: within 24 hours
Notice that no quantities have yet been assigned to the above examples. Can your agency indeed meet the levels of service you set? By combining your workload (i.e., number of miles of streets) with your past performance (performance indicators), you can determine your actual capabilities. Now compare this to your levels of service desired. Do they match? Probably not, so you'll have to adjust the service levels you initially set.
Periodic Review
As there are so many variables associated with determining performance measures and costs, a manager needs to review these measurements and costs periodically. Factors such as weather, emergencies, fuel prices, aging infrastructure, changing priorities and laws may have an effect on the agency's service levels. It is suggested that a minimum of tracking costs and measures over a period of five years be conducted.
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Grandpa, Salida Park, 1980
I took about a dozen trays of 35mm slides home with me from Arkansas. These date all the way back to the mid-70's.
I purchased a flatbed scanner with a slide attachment last night and tonight got around to trying the scanner. The film seems to be deteriorating. The clarity has suffered, the color seems to have shifted heavily toward red, and, of course, there are a good number of marks and scratches. This is the first one that I scanned and saved, so I'm still in the learning stage, but I'm worried that some of the older slides might be beyond saving.
I worked the curves on this to reduce red and introduce a bit more blue back into the mix and I'm reasonably happy with the results. It is still far too red in some areas, though, and I'll need to establish a decent workflow if I want these to be done before 2012.
Still, I like this picture. It was likely taken by my grandmother (or perhaps my Uncle Billy) and my grandpa is seen walking their little poodle. Sadly, they are all gone and no one is there to tell me about this trip. He passed away back in 2005 and I still miss him.
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By Tim Hipps, FMWRC Public AffairsFebruary 19, 2009
PASADENA, Calif. - Operation Rising Star lifted Army Family member Joyce Dodson's singing career to new heights during a whirlwind week in Southern California.
Dodson celebrated her victory in the Army Family, Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command-sponsored singing contest Feb. 5-12 by recording a three-song, gospel CD at DMI Studios in Old Pasadena, attending the 51st Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and singing in a Black History Month concert at a church in Santa Barbara.
Dodson, 24, of Bamberg, Germany, is married to Sgt. Marquis Dodson of the 240th Quartermaster Company. She served four years in the Army and now works in Human Resources at the in- and out-processing center at Schweinfurt, Germany.
The recording session was the grand prize, the Grammys a pleasant surprise, and the church gig a tune-up for her "gone-Hollywood" experience.
Dodson, 25, a gospel singer from Danville, Va., knew she would be cutting a demo CD in California, but was surprised by the perks added to her prize package and the professionalism that awaited her at Firehouse Recording Studios.
"I did know there was a grand prize three-song demo being done in Los Angeles, but I had no idea all the work that goes into that," Dodson said. "I never knew how much work goes into each song on each CD. A lot of work and a lot of love went into this demo, most definitely."
Dodson said she felt blessed to work with some of the best in the recording business.
"I must truly say that every single person I worked with here is truly a professional and an expert in their gift and craft," Dodson said. "The musicians, my vocal coach, the engineers and technicians all worked very hard and long. They put their heart and soul into everything they do - just awesome, awesome professionals."
DMI Music's engineers and producers have recorded artists like Patti Labelle, Chaka Khan, Patti Austin and Foreplay. Aretha Franklin recently recorded a Christmas album there. When Dodson arrived on Monday morning, staffers were still glowing in the aftermath of client Natalie Cole's Grammy victory on Sunday.
"They gave me the best of the best," said Dodson, whose drummer, Burleigh Drummond, played for Ambrosia of "Holdin' On" fame. "There's no second-hand going on here."
Dodson stepped to the microphone and performed like she was right at home with the best of the rest.
"I just tried to listen to everything they told me," she said. "If you can't listen, you can't grow. So I tried to listen to what they told me, tried to do it, and got better and better. Singing is my passion. That's what I love, so that part was easy."
The Grammys - originally called the Gramophone Awards - are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry. U.S. Army Soldier Show director Victor Hurtado, a voting member of the association and co-host of the televised Operation Rising Star production, made arrangements for Dodson to attend the awards ceremony that featured performances by prominent artists.
"We went to the Grammys and the official after-party at the convention center," said Dodson, who was accompanied by husband Sgt. Marquis Dodson. "I had a good time but I had to leave early because I had to prepare to come to the studio this morning."
"We got there early because we wanted to get a good seat, and the stars came in late. I got to see Blair Underwood. I had the opportunity to talk with him, but I didn't. ... I didn't want to go star-struck on him.
"We also saw Paula Abdul and Robin Thicke. It was like a big, live concert. My favorite was Stevie Wonder and the Johannas Brothers."
The next day, Dodson became one of the Firehouse Studio staff's favorite first-time recording artists.
"She doesn't need any help," said vocals coach/producer Terry Wood, a studio background singer. "She's got a beautifully developed sense of herself and her instrument is gorgeous.
She's got a great feel. She has no pitch problems that I can hear of at all."
The long day began with Dodson and four musicians laying down the music, making sure it was on point and ready for more vocal tracks.
"I sang along with the live band just to give them a real feel of what I'm singing so they can feel it better by hearing me and how I sing it - nothing fancy, just something for them to go by," she said.
That process consumed most of the morning. By midday, they were mixing more instrumental riffs, followed by more mixing. By nightfall, the group moved onto background vocals, which Wood and Hurtado sang into the wee hours of Tuesday morning - long after Dodson had retreated to the hotel.
"Jet lag is kicking my butt," Dodson said after completing a 12-hour day in the studio. "Today I did a lot better than Saturday, but it's still a nine-hour difference between here and Germany."
Dodson returned to the studio on Tuesday to sing lead vocals.
"She was so inspiring, that the vocal coach asked to sing with us on the background vocals," Hurtado said with a proud smile.
Wood was amazed with Dodson's poise as a novice in the recording studio.
"You don't sound the same to yourself in the headphones," Wood explained. "It can be scary because you can hear flaws and pitch and things that you don't hear live because you feel it more than you hear it, but that was not the case with her at all. In fact, I treated her like a session singer doing the backgrounds. I never even considered her not being a studio singer. I talked to her just like I would talk to one of my peers in trying to accomplish something. I never pulled any punches with her.
"I think she just might have a future."
Engineer Les Cooper, who mixed Dodson's vocals with the music, agreed.
"Absolutely wonderful," he assessed. "You see a little shyness out of her, but once she started singing the leads, she was absolutely wonderful. As long as she knew where she was in the song - because the songs were rearranged and it was a little difficult for her in the beginning - but once she got the hang of it, man, I'll tell you, that girl can sing. She doesn't need much help."
Ditto from pianist Tim Heintz, who produced and arranged Dodson's CD.
"She's just got such a natural gift," he said. "She's got chops. She can bring it. And she's so eager - with eyes wide open. She was a dream to work with because the studio can be very intimidating, but she didn't seem fazed by it at all.
"She hopped right in, opened her mouth, and a great voice came out."
Hurtado and David Ylvisakir wrote "Faith and Hope" especially for Dodson.
"He told me that I inspired him to write that song," Dodson said. "It reminded me of when I was in the finals of Operation Rising Star competition. I remember Victor asked me, 'What drives you'' And I said, 'My faith drives me. That's what pushes me and keeps me going.'"
"New Beginnings," Dodson's favorite of the three songs, was written by Army veteran Linda Dummars, who participated in the Army Festival of the Performing Arts under the direction of Joe Leavell, FMWRC's new talent coordinator.
"That song has so much feeling and so much passion you can tell that it was written from a sincere heart with a true love for God," Dodson said. "I really love that song. To me, it just really describes what's going on in my life - this is a new beginning."
Dodson's rendition of the song brought tears to Carpenter's eyes while he mixed the music and vocals.
Dodson's third song, "Stand by Me," was written by Grammy Award-winning gospel composer Steven Roberts.
"I just love that song because I got a chance to meet Mr. Roberts at the concert on Saturday and he is an awesome man of God," Dodson said. "The song is traditional, yet modernized.
That song helped me be more diverse so I have material for the young people, yet I can still reel in the more traditional-sounding music, as well. I have fun singing that song. It reminds me of back home at church."
Hurtado, too, was visibly proud of Dodson's poise in the studio.
"When you consider that between the Operation Rising Star video auditions and the show we only saw Joyce sing for a total of 5 A,A1/2 minutes, you realize how fortunate we were to end up with Joyce," he said. "You could tell that Joyce had been a Soldier. Even though she was the artist, she completely gave herself to the direction of the producers and vocal coaches."
Dodson performed alongside the Steven Roberts' Learn to Sing Gospel Music Workshop Choir in a Black History Month Concert at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara two days before entering the studio.
"It was a workshop, so they had only been working on those songs for two days," Dodson said.
"But Mr. Roberts had that choir sounding awesome. It was like everyone coming together for a common cause. I truly enjoyed myself."
Dodson sang "Faith and Hope" solo before being joined by Hurtado and the choir for an "up-tempo, modernized version" of "Lord Prepare Me."
"We had so much fun with that song," Dodson said. "I really did. I think it helped loosen me up a little bit to do the concert before [heading to the studio]. It was like, 'OK, you can do this' in a different atmosphere around different people.
"Take me back to the church so I can get ready to do what I do."
Hurtado hopes her journey will inspire more Soldiers and Family members to compete to become the Army's next singing star.
"Joyce Dodson has the potential of being a force to reckon within the gospel genre," he said.
"The work she did here will do more than validate her as an artist - it validated the work done by the folks at Operation Rising Star."


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Happy Saturday. Thank you for your support of Daily Thunder. It's 6:33 a.m. and…
"I probably play games more than I practice." — Kevin Durant
Happy Saturday. Thank you for your support of Daily Thunder. It's 6:33 a.m. and…
"I probably play games more than I practice." — Kevin Durant
Does anybody know if they sell these shorts anywhere? They'd be by Adidas, the official practice ones? Roberson has on a different pair but it's the same Adidas Climate (also called Fusion) material.
Is the game on TV tomorrow?
As much as I don't care for him, I hope if Perkins is ever injured on the court at OKC our fans don't cheer the way Houston fans did at Schaub yesterday. That was not a good look.
Battlefield 4 Beta and Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn is amazing
Just got home from seeing Rush. What a great, great movie. Wow!
Advice on where to buy tickets for one game? Ticket liquidator seems the cheapest but Ive never heard of them.
I'm out. Good night all. :)
Holy crap!
what happened with the keeping on topic? did someone get mad
i missed it :(
tags : baseball, football, sad face
Slam blam jam thank you ma'am
are u friggin kidding me
@bmuelle22 i am so so sorry.
Benoit Versus Papi, Could be the biggest single moment this postseason *thus far*
Radio though.
@kfmsooner I don't think so.
@bmuelle22 Mine are too. Where in 111 are you?
@pglamascus which game in particular? Stubhub or nbatickets.com (the official ticket resale marketplace) or Craigslist, prices drop closer to game time like hours before because all the people who had their prices marked up way too high have to come back down closer to face value to avoid not selling them at all and losing the value on them.
@bmuelle22 I really hope he did go to bed and didn't see that last play....for his sake.
@long arm of the law kind of, scroll past our off topic conversations to find it.
@Legendary_Dork Wish we could have seen more as to why they specifically singled out Andre then that single rebound. Was there a box score from this anywhere.
@okcjim @bmuelle22 You two are about to become BFF
@MJOKC @Eastbrook I've honestly never played BF3, since I've gotten into it with a group of friends but even they say, from just the beta alone it's pretty good !
@Sustainable Parameters @pglamascus Or whichever.
@Sustainable Parameters @pglamascus The November 18th game *DEN*
@OBoy @long arm of the law dangit
@bmuelle22 @sooner403 I feel for you, been here myself.
@bmuelle22 I want them to score just to make it interesting.
@Old Man Game @Legendary_Dork he rebounded the shit out of that ball
@bmuelle22 @Old Man Game They're 56$ apiece face.
My dream seats are those in the first ring of loud city at center court facing the logo. You have to marry into those I think though.
@okcjim @Turfright @bmuelle22 You should go solo and buy my 102QQ seat 5 from me
@Old Man Game How much you want for that?
Just curious, what's face value on those?
@Turfright @okcjim @bmuelle22 Haha no kidding.
Mine are KK seats 12-8. I share those with a buddy.
@pglamascus @Sustainable Parameters that is a steal. That's only $5 over face value. They're going to hit you with a 20% service fee, maybe even 25 but still that's under a bill each.
@Sustainable Parameters @pglamascus Thanks but for the seats I want (section 111ish they are much higher than ticket liquidator.
@pglamascus @Sustainable Parametersoh wow, new Ticketmaster update shows u the face value and the resales on the same map now. Here is that game. You used to have to go to each link, the box office and then the resale, separately. BTW, I got tickets to the Jan 13 game against the Bucks for 62 I think, might be 67. Have to check http://www.ticketmaster.com/oklahoma-city-okc-thunder-vs-oklahoma-city-oklahoma-11-18-2013/event/0C004B08EF412DF3?artistid=1250512&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=7
@ThunderChick2010 @Sustainable Parameters @long arm of the law @OBoy Everything i have ever thought true is a lie then....
@ThunderChick2010 @Sustainable Parameters @long arm of the law @OBoy I can't call or text because you know who will found out, but we should run away together. Let's use this Thunder blog instead and force millions of other users to have to sift through our endless drivel as if there isnt any way these messages could be privately, instantly exchanged between just us two
@Sustainable Parameters @ThunderChick2010 @long arm of the law @OBoy
I like people. Not everyone gets a thrill out of seeing how many people they can offend or alienate.
@ThunderChick2010 @Sustainable Parameters @long arm of the law @OBoy #hitsvilleUSA
@ThunderChick2010 @Sustainable Parameters @long arm of the law @OBoy [swoon over every Tom, Dick, and Harry Thunder fan like this site is eHarmony]
@Sustainable Parameters @long arm of the law @OBoy
No good music happened before the mid-late 80s. This is common knowledge.
@long arm of the law @OBoy [insert terrible ass music video from before most DT users were born]
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Is he gone thank goodness.
Let's keep it that way
Post your support or bitch/rant here.
Tell all yer familia & friends to send an email & sign on here too...
"Science is not belief but the will to find out." ~ Anonymous
"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart." ~ Gandhi
"The flogging will continue until morale improves." ~ Unknown
Is he gone thank goodness.
Let's keep it that way
Yes, please. His non serious posts were clearly a character, and we love that character. He added a lot to the place, look at his friend lst and his contribution.
And whilst you are at it, if posts are offensive, please lock them, don't delete them or cherry pick deleting posts. We need to know why people are shitty with otgers, the history, the fights. We need to know why some people appear to lose it with others and cannot do that when their outrageous posts have been cleansed. It is also a bit dishonest to pretend the board is civil and clean when that is not the reality.
But -- BAD CALL -- bring Darth back.
and this is the view about the banning prior to this explicit thread
This is sad unban him
What? why was he banned?
Darth died for our sins, but has promised one day to return for those that follow him. We hope to see you soon our Lord.


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Megan Mutchler and Abraham Price were joined in marriage on May 17, 2009, at The Purple Iris in Martinsburg. G. Jay Hurley of Shepherdstown performed the double-ring ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Donna and Terry Mutchler of Bethlehem, Pa. The groom is the son of Arlene and Matthew Price of Bunker Hill.
Escorted by her father, the bride wore an embroidered white-satin gown with a chapel-length train and waltz-length veil. She carried a bouquet of red, cream and pink roses.
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Maid of honor Angela Single of Nottingham, Md., and bridesmaid Lauren McLane of Greencastle, Pa., both close friends of the bride, wore clover-green gowns and carried cream roses.
The groom wore a black pinstripe tuxedo with white accessories. Best man and brother of the groom Joshua Price of Bunker Hill and friend of the groom John Scroggin of Roswell, Ga., wore black tuxedoes with green accessories. Ring bearers Nathan and Nicholas Mutchler, nephews of the bride, wore clothing matching the groom's.
The mother of the bride wore a champagne gown. The mother of the groom wore a sage-green gown.
Music for the ceremony was provided by harpist Genevieve O'Laughlin and flautist Rebecca Lidgerding. A reception followed at The Purple Iris.
The bride is a 1999 graduate of Salisbury Senior High School in Allentown, Pa., and a 2003 graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., where she received a bachelor's degree in English. The groom is a 2000 graduate of Musselman High School.
The couple works for the family business as well as runs Raystown Forge/The Mermaid's Wheel, an 18th century reproduction goods business. The couple resides in Bunker Hill, and has planned a honeymoon in Ireland for the coming fall.


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FOLLY BEACH — Dredge pipes are now stacked at the closed Charleston County park here. Loaders wait. The work is about to begin to restore the lost beach.
That's something a lot of people in the Lowcountry have been waiting two years to hear. Park officials are on track to reopen the popular destination by mid-summer, providing at least parking and portable bathrooms, as well as lifeguards.
Dredges could start pumping sand from Folly River as soon as this weekend, said Andy Hammill, Charleston County Park and Recreation assistant director. "That's the hope."
A groin would be built once the sand is in place, to hold it there. Groins are erosion-control barriers, usually rock or wood, built out into the surf to partly dam the flow of sand in the current along the shore.
That can't come quickly enough for the cars that pulled one after another to the gates on Tuesday then turned and drove away, or the families walking the beach who stopped to take in the equipment's arrival.
The $3 million groin and renourishment project is designed to rebuild some beach and dunes and protect renourished sand at the park, which closed in 2011 after high waves tore it up as Hurricane Irene passed offshore. Since then, the former office, showers and bathrooms have been undercut by erosion and removed by the Park and Recreation Commission.
What used to be a wide spit beach with a swath of maritime forest is now largely washed over, with tides reaching into the marsh behind. Only two small patches of maritime forest are left.
Park officials had worried aloud that, if the work couldn't be done this year, the stretch of land that holds the park could be lost.
Having given up on overdue federal funds to renourish Folly Beach as a whole, officials pulled the funds from bond money and reserves. The park is one of only three sizable public beach parks in the Charleston area, and its closing has put pressure on the other two during the summer season. Folly drew more than 100,000 people a year; since it closed, Beachwalker Park on Kiawah Island has been overrun and the Isle of Palms park has been jammed.
For Folly Beach Mayor Tim Goodwin, the groin is another step in a pitched effort to keep from losing homes on either end of the volatile barrier island. Property owners near the park have been among those fighting state regulators to be able to protect their homes as the sand washes away beneath them.
The groin should restore some sand to the beach in front of those homes, he said. "The erosion isn't going away, that's for sure."


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I first met Joseph (Yossi) Michaeli in 1989. He was a visiting scientist working in the laboratory of Paul Marks, then the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Burton Lee, one of the country?s original multiple myeloma specialists, had left MSKCC to become the White House Physician under George Bush, leaving a void that still needed to be filled. Yossi was destined to fill that role, but needed to go back and complete some requirements demanded of a foreign-trained physician. I was doing my Leukemia Service rotations, as a first year fellow, and along came this guy to join us. He was not a very imposing physical presence, a little, slightly stooped-shouldered Israeli with a friendly face. The physician in charge of our rotation was Dr. Tim Gee. He was one of those old time MDs who had an almost personal understanding of their disease, the way it smelled, moved, reacted. In any case, Tim Gee also took care of more patients with acute leukemia than anyone in the country. This made for a very large and difficult service. But there was Yossi whose understanding of leukemia paralleled that of the great Tim Gee. Yossi could quote literature in the way of one with a photographic memory. Telling you the journal, the year and even from which side of the page a piece of information had come. I learned more from this unassuming little intruder than I did from our very busy professor. I remember coming home to my wife, Rena, who knew Yossi already from the lab, and telling her it was scary working with this guy. No one can really know this much about so many different things.
When that year finished, Yossi became a clinical faculty member at MSKCC. This was the start of what would later become the Multiple Myeloma Service. Up until that point, no physician had really taken a specialized interest in MM. Yossi saw this as a niche in critical need of upgrading and threw himself into it with abandon. At the same time, I had completed my first year of fellowship training and needed to make a decision about with which physician I should affiliate. Now, MSKCC is filled with physicians of national and international reputations. Yossi was just starting out, but the choice was a no-brainer. I had no doubts that he was not only brilliant as a physician, but would be equally so as a teacher. Thus began my relationship with him as a teacher and pupil.
The MM Service at MSKCC grew exponentially. It became the fastest growing clinical program in medicine at the institution. At the end of the following academic year, a new fellow, Ruben Neisvizky, joined us. The three of us, under Yossi?s guidance, developed one of the largest MM programs in the country. MSKCC is not always the most hospitable environment and Yossi had to fight for everything. He was tenacious. He didn?t care with whom he fought. He knew in his heart what was right, what his patients needed, and would go after it full tilt. When he saw something he thought was inappropriate, he was not the type to say, ?Don?t worry, there are more important battles to be fought. Dr. So-and-so or administrator what?s-his-name won?t like it if we make an issue out of this.? Yossi was always filled with a sense of moral indignation. Everybody should think that his patients were as important as he did. Everyone should be working as hard as he was to better their situation. Since no one was as passionate as Yossi, a lot of time was spent with the higher ups wishing Yossi would just shut up and leave them alone.
I think he learned a lot of his attitude when he was a solider in Israel, where every skirmish had such great significance and so many innocents were depending on you. He really saw MM as a great war and to lose this war was to let down an entire people. I think as important a lesson that Ruben and I learned from Yossi was the sense of moral indignation and the need to do battle on the side of what was righteous. That beyond the insights into the biology of disease, there were very clear-cut rights and wrongs. You were either a good guy or a bad guy. And it was very hard to wear the mantle of good guy. It required hard work, ethics and compassion.
Yossi was my mentor. Ruben said it beautifully in his eulogy to Yossi. He gave away a part of his soul when he filled his role of teacher. He gave you a sense of the importance of his mission and allowed you to take it on as your own. This was not limited to Ruben and me. It was felt by all of us who worked with him. Linda Tatum, our administrative assistant, Margaret Kuhn our RN, Joanne Santoro, our oncology nurse and all of the social workers, data managers, clinic staff and office staff took on Yossi?s passion. Many of our patients took up the ?cause? ? working tirelessly to raise money and awareness.
Unfortunately, in 1992 Yossi became ill. He had some respiratory problems that no one could explain and the search for the cause eventually became worse than the disease. After some terrible complications, Yossi was unable to work. MSKCC hired first me, and then Ruben, to help care for Yossi?s patients and our own. After taking nearly a year to recuperate, Yossi came back to work. The three of us were a team. We argued and debated treatment strategies, laboratory research, protocols, politics and sports, but Yossi was always the leader. Yossi?s health was never very good after that. He was always short of breath, and things were a struggle for him. He never used this as an excuse to take it easy or slow down. He did his best to hide his own physical problems from his patients and colleagues. I think he redoubled his efforts and pushed himself closer to his limits because he knew that he was sick and that his time might be limited.
Yossi, Ruben and I continued to work together for the next three years. To my dismay, it became clear that our careers would soon take us in different directions. As much as we all wanted to continue working together, it wasn?t going to happen at MSKCC. I left in 1995 to join the Myeloma and Transplant Center at the Arkansas Cancer Research Center. Ruben left to join the MSKCC facility on Long Island. Finally, Yossi himself left to join the staff at Cornell Medical School. Despite being in different parts of the world, Yossi and I remained very close personally and professionally. He was still my mentor despite my being in Arkansas, the Mecca for myeloma.
Yossi?s death on May 20, 2001 (27 Iyar, 5761) will leave, for me, an unfillable void. I always knew that Yossi would do his best to advise me and protect me. Whether he was busy with his patient care responsibilities, administrative work or his own profound health issues, I always knew I could rely on him. I think Yossi?s patients had much the same feeling, although their need was obviously much greater. I no longer have that man of great intelligence, integrity and determination, as a guide and advocate. He is no longer there to discuss patient problems, offer career advice, help with protocol development or offer insights into scientific issues. Yet none of these are the most important issues to me. More important to me, I have lost a friend. A true and dear friend.


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Man that was a hard loss of my 600 units last week... damn raiders and jets... anyways looking forward to win big this week here is what im looking at
INDI -13 ... this should be pretty easy Win for Indi... and could covers well over 2 TD's... Marc Buldger is back but look who they faced last week JAX.. there DEF has been horrible at stopping anything...INDI coming off a bye week... PAT -14.5 ... doesnt matter what weather Brady plays in he will have a field day with the BUCS... this might be a shut out game just like we saw with TEN. I think Brady and Moss are now back on the same page along with the rest of the team and they looked like the PAT of old. I would probably buy 1.5 points and bring them down to -13 or even tease it up in a 6 or 6.5 teaserSaints -6.5... Wow Drew brees has been the real deal so far this year. I can just see him shred the Pass DEF of the dolphins. This game will easly cover. I dont think MIA will be able to keep up with the high scoring and NO DEF will give Henne a run for his money. I can see Henne throwing a pick or 2 in this game. SF/Texans OVER 44.5 - both teams will be putting up points. HOU has a couple of people hurt on the DEF which will see a heavy dose of Gore and Coffee...and with Crabtree in the line up it throws a bit of a wild card... Bears/Bengals Over 42 - depending on the weather this game can well easly go over 42 points... both OFF can throw the ball down field. Bengals got a bit banged up and lost Antwan Odom for the season... Falcons/Cowboys Over 47... Cowboys have one of the worst pass DEF in the league right down there with TEN... If tony romo can get his head in the game and find chemestry with his WR's like Miles Austin... this game could go easly over... Matt Ryan will shred the Cow Pass DEF... i might tease this up along with some other ATSHere is what im thinking about doing10 point teaserINDI - 3PAT -4.5Saints + 3.5Or6 point teaserINDI PAT SaintsATL & OverOr ATL overbears overSF overOR do a regular parlay with INDIPATSaintsSF overbears over OR ATL overPlease let me know what yall think.. thanks Moe C
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on May 18, 2013 - 12:01 AM
By Joe Yonan
Washington Post
I've been calling this my second "coming out," because it reminds me of the first time.
For one thing, when I tell people about my recent switch to vegetarianism, I'm getting the same kinds of questions, especially from chefs and fellow food journalists, that I did so many decades ago when the news was about my sexual orientation. A few weeks ago, when I broke the news to a friend over dinner, she responded with "When did this happen?" and "How long do you think it's going to last?" I'm expecting someone, somewhere, to say, "You know we love and support you, no matter what you eat."
Actually, the reaction from some quarters has been not too far from that: One interview subject, founder of an imitation-meat company, said something along the lines of, "The food editor of a major daily newspaper is vegetarian? This is huge!"
I've been talking – and writing – about this trend in my dietary choices for a while now, with frequent mentions in my Cooking for One columns. But I've always qualified it because, the truth is, I've been worried about the reaction from food obsessives who think you can't be serious about the subject unless you're an omnivore. Most famously, Anthony Bourdain has referred to vegetarians as "bad travelers and bad guests," "a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn" and "the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit."
Nice, huh?
Maybe he just hasn't met the right vegetarian yet. Maybe he hasn't wanted to. Or maybe his are the views of a food-world dinosaur. I get his mission to convince people to swallow up the world in all its grease-spattered glories, and to never say no to somebody's grandmother. But anybody who doesn't understand the compulsion to eat less – or no – meat isn't paying attention to news about its environmental impact, or doesn't care.
In any case, I'm compelled to make the veg-head proclamation now because, among other things, I think it's only fair that readers understand the tastes of the Washington Post food editor, and to reassure them that the section's omnivorous nature will remain intact. Besides, unlike Bourdain, I'm not a purist about any of this. I'm still tasting little bites of meat, poultry and fish here and there because I'm curious about a chef's new take or because I need to keep up on a trend for my work.
Mostly, though, I've come to think dietary choices are like religion: Eat and let eat.


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It's always good to give your audience a break from too many card tricks so this is a nice diversion. It's also great for entertaining young children. The presentation in the video is for little kids but just do it as straight magic for older audiences.
Hang on to this rope because in future at Julian's Magician School I'll show you more tricks that just use the one short rope. This means you can have it in your pocket or your backpack and in a moment's notice you can entertain a whole group of people. I use this same trick myself because I ALWAYS have this rope on me. Quite often I use it to draw a crowd if I am busking. If I am delayed starting a show and I need to fill a bit of time I can get about five minutes of entertainment out of it.
A lot of magician's rope (nothing tricky about it, just soft and pliable and it doesn't hurt your volunteers hands) you can buy requires you to "core" the rope before using it. This means you pull out the inside bit to make it a bit easier to handle. These tricks don't really require you to do that. Just any old piece of soft rope will do.
And if you cut the ends simply dip them into a bit of white paper or wood glue, smooth them off with your fingers and they will never fray at the ends again.
This magic rope trick and more back at Julian's Magician School