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Presented on February 13, 2014
By auditing your digital marketing agency, you can determine if they're following best practices and actually making a difference in improving your sales, or just spending your money.
How should you evaluate your agency to find out if they're performing up to par? During this webinar, Marketing Mojo's Janet Driscoll Miller and Tad Miller will show you the criteria to use to evaluate your agency's performance and ensure you're getting the most bang for your marketing buck.
Kari: Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us for today's webinar, How to Audit Your Digital Marketing Agency. I'm Kari Rippetoe, Content Marketing Manager at Marketing Mojo, and I'll be serving as your moderator for today's webinar.
Before we get started, I just have a couple reminders for you. Firstly, a recording of this webinar will be made available to everyone who registered and will be sent via email by Monday at the latest. Also, we do encourage you to Tweet about today's presentation using the hashtag "mojowebinar". Plus, you can also follow us on Twitter at MarketingMojo.
Today's presenters are Janet Driscoll Miller, President and CEO of Marketing Mojo, and Tad Miller, Vice President of Accounts at Marketing Mojo. Janet has nearly 20 years of marketing experience and, in addition to her work in digital marketing, she has a background in marketing communications. Janet holds a degree in public relations and communications from James Madison University and she is a frequent speaker at marketing conferences and writes for several blogs and print publications.
Tad Miller is Vice President of Accounts at Marketing Mojo where he works directly with clients to manage and execute their search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, and digital marketing strategies. Tad has a broad spectrum of search marketing experience in working with Fortune 500 insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, OEM automotive manufacturers, and small start-up online businesses to significantly improve their natural search engine rankings. Tad has also managed over $35,000,000 of search marketing budgets for clients with a proven record in conversion optimization through strategic bid management, budget reallocation, and landing-page design and testing.
Originally founded as Search Mojo in 2005, Marketing Mojo is a full service, data driven, digital marketing and demand generation agency helping marketers to achieve their online marketing goals through search marketing, paid media, content marketing, and marketing automation. Marketing Mojo is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we also have an office in Charleston, South Carolina.
We've been featured in several marketing publications and blogs, and we also speak at several conferences, including SMX, MarketingProfs B2B Forum, DemandCon, and Pubcon. We work with a variety of clients and brands in the B2B, B2C, and nonprofit sectors. And now with that, I will turn it over to Janet.
Janet: Thanks, Kari. So, I want to start off today by talking about the challenge that SEO buyers have that many of you as marketing directors and managers who are buying SEO services from agencies tend to have. And that conundrum starts with let's go back to the dawn of Ivory Soap. So here is an old package of Ivory Soap and what I want you to notice about this Ivory Soap is that it's 99.44 percent pure. From its original days over 100 years ago, Ivory Soap was 99.44 percent pure. And if you look at today's packaging, guess what, Ivory is still 99.44 percent pure. In over 100 years the formula for Ivory Soap has not changed but unfortunately technology and SEO don't move at the pace of Ivory Soap, they move at a much faster pace. And so the challenge you have as an SEO buyer or services and agency services is that SEO is changing, literally, everyday.
Every single day at Marketing Mojo I have a 15-minute update that I sit down and talk with all the staff and tell them about all of the updates, the algorithm changes, all of the myriad of changes that are going on in just 24 hours and literally it can be crazy.
So, how can you as a buyer stay on top of the right questions to ask and be evaluating your agency in a way that makes sense and that is asking the right questions? It is definitely a challenge. So here are some of my questions I would be asking to see if they are really serving you the best way that they can.
The other thing I want to caution you about before I get into these six questions is about believing everything you see on the internet. Like this quote from Abraham Lincoln, "Don't believe everything you read on the internet just because there's a picture of the quote next to it," said Abraham Lincoln. And, of course, that's not really true so I want to just caution you about worrying too much about some of the things you hear on the internet.
There are lots of people out there commenting about SEO, especially SEO but really anything digital this is really true, that you have to be careful how much you panic when you hear certain things come out of Google or other folks who are talking about search and other industries in digital because sometimes you could be led down a road where you panic too much. So just be careful about how much you panic about it, just listen to the advice, hear what they have to say, and talk to your agency about it.
So my first question is, "How are you going to measure results?" Your rankings aren't always indicative of success because rankings today are highly personalized, geographically focused, and many folks in the SEO industry are even saying that the rankings really should not be considered a form of measurement anymore. And I really personally believe that to a great degree as well because it is very challenging to understand rankings across the entire country and across different users because of these personalized results. But it is important to be measuring results.
So what are the measurements that your agency is using? You really need to ask yourself what do you want SEO to do for your company. And that's what the measurement should be about is SEO achieving your goal, whatever that goal might be. It could be traffic, it could be conversions, it could be sales. What are those types of things that you're wanting to know and how you need to make sure your SEO is working for your company?
And then you need to make sure that goals are setup in your analytics package, maybe that's Google Analytics where you can setup goals in Google Analytics to really track specifically how organic search is working towards meeting your goals. This is a great way to make sure that SEO is really achieving what you want it to achieve.
The second question is, "How often do you receive reports?" Now, I've got to be honest with you, I've talked to lots of different clients out there in different companies and shockingly in many cases clients don't receive reports and I find that really, honestly quite shocking. There should be at least a minimum monthly report in many cases. It depends on, let's say your business is seasonal and it's only at Christmas time. Well, then maybe you're not doing a monthly report.
So you have to really tailor it to your company but whatever you do you need to have a benchmark report when you start and you need to have some sort of interval measurement. Whether that's weekly, whether that's monthly, whether that's quarterly, whatever fits for your organization, but you should be receiving some level of reporting on your SEO efforts.
Question three, "How much should your agency be doing?" Well, let's back up and talk about what kind of agency you have. So, it's important to understand that there, in my estimation, there's really two main types of SEO agencies out there. There are consulting agencies and they mostly give advice, they're really not the doers, they're not actually executing on your site, they typically expect the client to execute whatever they advise.
And so given that, if you have a consulting agency and your expectation is that they are going to actually make changes on your website to improve your SEO, that may not be the case. Make sure you clearly understand what the role of your agency is and what your contract says that they are suppose to do. Are they supposed to be consulting and just giving you advice? Or, are they suppose to be, in another case, full service, where they give you advice and they execute?
And the level of execution in full service may vary based on the fact that you have limitations about who can touch your website, what can be done, etcetera. But, to some degree, your full service agency should be doing some level of execution.
And you really need to understand this because, I'll tell you, I ran into a situation, before I started Marketing Mojo I worked in an online survey company and we had a very large SEO agency working for us when I came in, they'd been on-board for eight months. The company had spent $80,000 with them, a lot of money, and this particular agency saw themselves as more of a consulting agency.
When I came on-board to start running SEO for that company, they said to me, I asked them first off, "What pages has this company edited for you?" and they said, "None." And I said, "What do you mean they haven't done any on-page edits for SEO? That's clearly something you have to do." And this particular agency, that was not their expectation, that's not what they were doing. So, you have to make sure you understand that relationship first. What is the expectation of what your agency should be doing?
Question four is, "What is the link building strategy?" You've got to tread lightly here, this is a really key one because there's lots of dangers in link building today, there's been lots of changes, especially by Google, about what they like from an inbound link building perspective and what they don't. So one thing is as a customer that you can be doing is make sure you check your Google Webmaster Tools for these unnatural link notifications like the example I'm showing here right.
You have to make sure you have access to your Google Webmaster Tools so that you're getting notifications that are urgent. Caution, if you see one of these it does not automatically mean that your current agency is at fault or at blame for unnatural links. Google could find some from years and years ago that maybe a really zealous employee went out and tried to build some links or you maybe had an agency before that wasn't very good.
However, your agency should be seeing these, notifying you, and telling you what the plan of action is going to be to rectify the situation because if you don't rectify the situation Google sure as heck will rectify it for you and take you out of the rankings, they will penalize you.
So, it's very, very important that you're paying attention to these types of notices that come out of Google Webmaster Tools. And in my estimation, the link notifications for unnatural linking is one of the most important ones in there. So, make sure you're watching for those types of things.
Question five, "What about rich snippets and schema?" So, rich snippets, if you're not familiar with them, are extra information that are placed alongside of an organic listing and they are created through schema or structured markup language. Structured markup language and schema are providing new opportunities everyday.
And if you look over here at the right I've got an example of how much a click-through rate from an organic search result can improve by having a rich snippet showing. And the blue area you'll see on the top is before rich snippets, the bottom is after a rich snippet. And what you'll see is the blue area which is the number one ranking of course generally gets the most clicks. But what you'll see here is that yellow and green especially, the third and fourth result, when they have a rich snippet, look at how much the click-through rate improves, dramatically.
So, there are a limited number of types of rich snippets out there today, things like recipes, product ratings, all sorts of different things, and Google and Bing also differ. But, your agency should be bringing opportunities to the table like this if they are opportunities for you.
The other really big one that I think we should be talking about is authorship. If you have a blog and they haven't talked to you about authorship markup and it's not in place, it's something that you really need to be having a conversation with them about. So, ask yourself, "Is my agency bringing me the most up-to-date technology, things that are going on in SEO, that could really help improve our results?" And if they're not bringing this kind of thing up to you, that might be a problem area.
Finally, question six, "Have they discussed a mobile strategy?" And I cannot stress enough the importance for mobile, going into especially this year, 2014. This is some statistics that Matt Cutts shared at the Pubcon keynote in October, 2013, so just a few months ago, about YouTube. And what you can see here is that in 2011 YouTube's traffic for mobile devices was only about 6 percent and in 2012 it was only about 12 percent. Then you shoot forward to 2013 and look at how dramatically the percent of traffic for mobile has increased up to 40 percent.
Now you may say to yourself, "Well, that's all fine, Janet, but I'm not YouTube and we're a B2B and this doesn't apply to us." I can tell you from personal anecdote from our own website at Marketing Mojo that upwards of 20 to 30 percent of our site traffic every single month is from a mobile device, it's huge. And so, it's not just for B2C, it's not just for Facebook, it's not just for YouTube. You need to be looking at mobile and if your agency is not addressing this or even starting that conversation with you then they should be. They should be asking you what you're going to do about a mobile website and how you're going to rank in mobile because this is where SEO is going in the near future and it's really already there in many cases.
Also, a few questionable SEO tactics, red flags you should be looking for. First one is around content, Google made quite a few updates in the past year, two years or so with the with the Panda update. And this addresses duplicate content where you have the same content in multiple places on your site. If you have that kind of situation or scenario where you need to copy your content in more than one place on the site, the agency should be addressing this because if you don't you could have certain rankings lost and that's really important to address it, especially for Google.
Second, and this one I think is even bigger than the content issue, and that's linking because like I said Google has been really clamping down on bad linking practices for inbound linking for SEO. So, if you're agency says, "Let's put a bunch of links in press releases," that's probably a red flag. Google has specifically come out and said, "Don't put a lot of links in your press releases that have, especially, certain key words in them and that kind of thing."
It's not that you can't put links in press releases; it's that you want to watch how you're using them. So if that's a core link building strategy, you might want to hold of, ask them why and do a little more investigation.
And the other one that I'd really watch out for is article marketing. This is where maybe you have a subject matter expert in your company and you've written an article and the agency takes it and decides they're going to put it 50 different article websites. Now the problem with that is it's really frowned upon by Google, especially right now, as a poor link scheming practice and so I would refrain from doing that.
It's one thing to put it on your blog and share it or to do blogger outreach and write it on other people's blogs at times but to try and take one article, also because of a duplicate content issue, and then publish it throughout many, many different sites is probably not a great tactic. So with that I'm going to hand it to Tad, who's going to talk now about the PPC things you should be looking for.
Tad: Thanks, Janet. Let's jump right in. As an agency, we frequently inherit PPC messes that other agencies created. Ever buy a foreclosed house? A lot of them are just completely trashed and that's really an analogy we use all the time for inheriting someone else's mess in a PPC account. Essentially, a lot of times you just have to gut it and completely start over from scratch and that's what we're going to talk about today.
We see the same mistakes over and over and over again. It doesn't matter if it's a well known agency or your brother-in-law Steve that's been working on it. It's usually the same mistakes over and over; lack of diligence, really misguided strategies, and ignorance of really just understanding the platform of pay-per-click advertising.
Basic tenant of pay-per-click advertising is you can track what converts and succeeds for you but believe it or not we still inherit accounts all the time that never bother to install any form of conversion tracking for years. Or, we also inherit this a lot, they installed it incorrectly and they've either been over reporting too many conversions or under reporting not enough conversions.
So, obviously a major, major problem; you've got to have those conversions to optimize the account and make it successful. And oh, while we're at it, a lot of times we just never see any analytics tracking at all either. Basic, basic things that you should have with your pay-per-click advertising agencies.
Janet touched on this earlier with SEO, we frequently see many cases where there's never been a PPC report ever delivered to the clients. Very reputable, huge agencies, we've inherited clients that spent hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars with other agencies that never received a single report and it was obviously a bone of contention. So yes, this really still happens, if you're in that situation you need to demand better.
Let's get into tactics a little bit. The default setting for Google AdWords and, for that matter, Bing Ads is broad match. And you can see in the red box there, broad match includes misspellings, synonyms, related searches, and any relevant variation of your keywords.
The biggest turnaround successes we always see in our pay-per-click advertising accounts when we take them over are in cases where we add the other match types of keywords, exact match and phrase match. You can kind of see the results there in conversions and conversion rate in an instance where we did this.
Broad match, like I said, is the default setting and Google encourages the use of broad matching, they tell the advertisers just let them do the heavy lifting with all the broad match technology. You don't have to add keywords or do anything to make your account any better, they'll handle that.
The problem is, it doesn't work. It's incredibly broad, it's often broad to the point of being completely irrelevant, it's lazy. If you're paying an agency to just do broad matching for you, you really deserve better. You need to max out the number of exact match keywords and max out the clicks there, that's going to get you a higher click-through rate, a lower cost per click on those keywords, and if you have a lower cost per click that means you get more clicks for the same or even less money.
Another basic tenant of pay-per-click advertising; negative keywords, easily the most neglected tactic we see in all the accounts that we inherit from other agencies. You need to be able to find out if your agency is adding negative keywords. And here's how to do it, go to your keywords tab, drop down on the details, and you should see a list of keywords that have either broad or phrase match to your keywords.
Look for red, the keywords listed below there in red are negative keywords that have been added. The ones in green are relevant keywords, hopefully, that have been added. If you're seeing nothing but blank screens for a long time period, you've got problems and you're probably not being served. Just look at the list of words there that you broad match to, do the math, figure it out, you've probably spend a lot of money on words that weren't even related to your product or service.
All right, another one, too many ads in the same ad group. As a best practice, we only test two ad copies at a time or a maximum of three at a time. What happens when you've got too many in there all fighting against each other for impressions, it waters down your click-through rate. We frequently take over accounts that have anywhere between seven to ten different text ads in a search campaign or in the same ad group. This really, really has a detrimental effect on your cost per click. And again, if you're paying more per click, that's less clicks and fewer chances to convert and succeed.
Another basic tenant, mixing search and display campaigns in the same campaign. They don't perform the same, they aren't the same real medium, so they shouldn't share budget because their performance is usually quite different. When you match them together, you're, in most cases, you're throwing good money at bad performing ad groups or campaigns. So, you need to allow for more granularity and better performance and you're going to have a lot better bidding at the keyword level on display once you separate those campaigns into their own display-only campaign, don't mix and match, and we see it all the time.
Bigger isn't better for campaigns, it's really common for us to take over an account that only has two or three campaigns in it that really should be five or six or even eight campaigns, smaller campaigns. If you've got too many ad groups with really wide variation in performance in the same campaign, that is a situation where you're probably throwing good money after bad.
If you've got one ad group that delivers 80 percent of the versions in that campaign and the others are doing terrible, that one ad group needs to be its own campaign and get its own budget otherwise you're giving money to all the other bad performing ones at the same time. So you need to separate the great from the not so great and another basic tenant, separate the branded keywords from your non-branded more category level keywords.
All right, let's get into where to look to find if you're being served diligently by your agency. Let's take a look under the hood, you just have to know where to look and what to look for in deciding if your campaigns are running at an optimal level.
Go into AdWords, and I've got AdWords and Bing Ads here, look for the change history links on those pages. You have to run it in as a report in Bing Ads but you can see all the moves that your agency has made, or even if you have an in-house person, all the moves that they've made in the account are there for you to look at.
You know you're in trouble when you got to one of these change reports, change histories, spread it out over a distance of time and there's no activity there. If it's blank, you aren't being served well, that's an account that's on set it and forget it mode. There's no bid changes being made, there's no budget changes being made, no keyword changes being made, you aren't being served in those situations. And we frequently see this whenever we take over a new accounts that we inherit from other agencies. They haven't been touched in weeks and even, in some cases, months.
All right, let's kind of talk in the opposite vein a little bit. If you've got automation running your account, you need to start understanding the level of human interaction there as well. You can go to your change history and take it a look at it. If all the activity happens the same exact time every day and happens at a faster pace than a human being could ever do it, you've obviously got some automation.
But you also need to look at the other times of day to see if, "Oh, did they add negative keywords? Did they make any changes that detrimentally impacted performance?" Automation's not a bad thing in itself but algorithmic formulas don't always work. You can talk to people that have been on the stock market for years, the algorithms failed at some point over there and the same things can happen if you don't have any human interaction on your accounts.
We inherited an account that was on a purely automated management and we recently improved their return on investments 800 percent and the revenue 135 percent over the last ten months compared to just strictly running on the automation. So, human beings still matter in this business, the machine can't do it all and the machine is especially can't do it all if they're setup with a fault algorithm that's not meeting your return on invest needs.
Look for this in the change history, check out the keyword bidding. Are the bids only being increased? We see this all the time and it's kind of a crying shame because not all keywords are created equal, all of our bidding is done based on performance. In situations where the bids are only being raised, typically you've got a situation where the agency just gets paid on the percentage of media spent and a lot of times they're raising bids on keywords that never perform or deliver anything in the way of conversions.
So, you've got to watch for that, look in that change history, look to see where the changes in cost-per-click are, see if they're only in the upward direction. You've got to have some downward bidding because nothing performs the same across the board. You might have thousands and thousands of keywords, 20 percent of them might be converters, the other 80 percent probably aren't.
Here's another thing kind of along the same lines, we typically see this in a lot of situations just like I mentioned earlier where the agency's paid on the percentage of media spent. Well, you can go into the activity log and see in the last week of the month, there's just a furious attempt to get the spend up to the budget amount.
You don't see that level of activity the first three weeks of the month though and typically you'll see a big ramp up in trying to get the money spent but no correlation to improvements in conversion. If you've got a pattern like that that just keeps repeating itself over and over and over again with no conversion improvements in that last week of the month, you got to ask yourself are they just trying to spend your money or are they trying to succeed for you.
Let's talk about new keyword addition. When's the last time the activity log indicates that new keywords were added to your account? Now, there's two things to look for, you add new relevant keywords but also, as we mentioned earlier, new negative keywords are extremely important in making sure your performance is optimal. They should be regularly adding new relevant keywords whether they're negatives or positive keywords. And frequently we see this sporadically and sometimes accounts we take over just have never had this done ever.
All right, one of the most underrated things that we do every single day here at Marketing Mojo is budget allocation based on performance and we typically take over a lot of campaigns that utilize this strategy of giving every single campaign an equal share of the budget. Well, what happens if you've got a situation where one campaign is delivering 85 percent of the conversions and it needs more budget?
We typically see this in these situations. There's on campaign that's overwhelmingly the big producer that's really underfunded. And it's a crying shame because it's money left on the table for you as their customer of this agency, they aren't serving you well. So check and see when the last time budget allocations were changed in the change history, look to see if the amount of budget allocated towards a campaign correlates to the amount of conversions that campaign delivers.
All right, let's talk a little bit about bid management. Not all keywords are created equal; we've established that a little earlier. But we typically see in a lot of cases, what I kind of call cruise control bidding, where the keyword bids are really set at the ad group level. There may be 100 keywords in that ad group but they're all bid the same exactly. You need to check in your accounts to see if they're any keyword level bids that are different from the ad group level bid.
You should obviously be bidding high on the keywords that produce conversion and lowering bids on the keywords that spend a lot and never convert. So, look for cruise control bidding and if you see it ask your agency, "Why are we doing this? Because these aren't performing."
And that's another common theme here, "What are you spending my money on here, PPC agency?" Do this filter, go into the keywords tab of Google AdWords, select conversions equal zero, this should pull up every single keyword that you've spent money on that never converted and then you can do all kinds of filters like sort by cost in descending order or sort by clicks in descending order. It's pretty revealing what your money is actually going to.
So, things I like to play with, I look at the non-converting keywords by average position and clicks. What is the average position of all your non-converting keywords? Are you paying to be number one on your non-converting keywords? Or are you paying to be number three or four on your non-converting keywords? Do those positions ever decline to lower positions? Or do you just keep doubling down on those losers to keep being at the top of the heap of the search results?
So, look for those, look for the click volume on those non-converters. Has the click volume on non-converting keywords ever decreased? Look at this over a long period of history and look over a month or even up to six months if you've got that much history and evaluate if you're being served in this regard. Average position should go down and clicks should go down on non-converting keywords. Now, if you're adding a lot of keywords that don't convert, that could be a little different story. But for the most part, you need to evaluate if this is happening.
And still along the same lines, look at the average cost per click of the keywords that have never converted for you. In a situation like you see in this graph, the average cost per click keeps going up on keywords that never convert. Ask yourself again, "Are you paying by the percentage of media spend? Are they doubling down on loser keywords that aren't working for you? Look to see if the average cost per click on non-converting keywords ever goes down.
All right, let's do this filter sort of in reverse, instead of selecting zero for your conversions, select greater than or equal to one conversion. This should pull up every keyword that has had a conversion. So, analyze the performance of all of those words. Now, is your average position to low on your converting keywords? Really, this is the evaluation I care about more for anything else with regard to click-through rate.
What is the click-through rate on my converting keywords? Click-through rate on non-converting keywords should be going down because you're bidding lower positions for it but click-through rate on your best converting keywords should be improving over time. So, take a long view in the date ranges and try to evaluate that.
Okay, another basic tenant, budgeting, but let's talk specifically about budgeting by the time of day. There's such a thing as called day parting, you have the power and the ability to schedule what time your ads run. If you have a call center and all of your clicks need to be calling the people at that call center, obviously you want your ads to run when they are in the office or when you have salespeople there.
If you are in a situation where your ads don't need to run at 3:00 in the morning, they shouldn't be running, but we frequently see this all the time. If you go into the dimensions tab and look at the hour of the day report, take this over a long range of time, you will see what hour of the day your clicks are coming and what hour of the day your conversions are coming.
Sometimes we see situations where 90 percent of the budget gets spent before 4:00 in the morning, that doesn't leave any budget to spend when you've actually got salespeople there that could close your deals. So, check that out, make sure your budget isn't being blown before you ever get an opportunity to sell, and make sure that you're not paying exorbitant cost per conversion in the middle of the morning too.
Let's talk about the Google Display Network. Your agency has the power to see where your Display banners and text ads show up and they should be cleaning those up. If you are advertising on the Display Network and you've got some very expensive placements that never convert, you need to start evaluating those sites. Our account managers go in every other week and start evaluating where we get the most clicks and no conversions and if those placements are not working, we will either exclude them or bid a percentage down on them. So check this filter out with the Display Network and the placement report, could be very revealing to see where your ads actually do show.
In those placement reports you can see an example of placement exclusions here on the right-hand side, these are sites that your agency hopefully has excluded. But there's also category exclusions that not a lot of people even know about, and look at the categories there. Sexually suggestive pages, juvenile gross and bizarre content, profanity and rough language. Do you really want your ads showing on those type of websites?
We typically see that this is an option that's never been checked in the accounts that we inherit and there's typically a lot of, first of all, terrible conversion performance for their clients but second of all it's just wasted money. So, make sure that they are staying out of bad neighborhoods on the Display Network and not wasting your money here, and make sure they're excluding placements that spend but never convert.
Let's talk about e-commerce. First question you always have to ask with e-commerce, "Are you making more money from your e-commerce ads than you're actually spending?" And we've seen a lot of situations where agencies didn't even know how to define what return on investment was, so make sure you understand that and make sure your agency does.
Let's talk about the focus of e-commerce. Emphasis on product specific ads and product listing ads is really where it's at in e-commerce right now. We've had a lot of clients that we've inherited in the last year that focused just on broad category words that were really competitive, really expensive, and were really poor at converting. I mentioned earlier, we had a client that has an 800 percent turn around in return on investment and all we did was really change the focus from secondary non-branded category keywords to product specific ads and started using product listing ads.
A lot of times you see situations where you've got an agency that's either technically incapable of handling the scale of all your products. If you've got 5,000, 10,000 different skews or products, they don't have the bandwidth to be able to handle that or they just don't have the technical understanding. You've got to demand a lot more from today's PPC agencies when it comes to e-commerce and being able to go to your product level and get the best converting clicks.
Let's talk about reports a little bit. Yes, there are some agencies that don't even deliver reports but we've also seen other agencies' reports that the emphasis is just completely wrong when it comes to delivering results. All of their language is about impressions or awareness or engagement or building a brand with pay-per-click advertising.
We think those are all great things but it's kind of putting the cart in front of the horse, you need to get concrete results like conversions, sales, or leads with these clicks and the awareness and brand building come with that. So, if their focus is in the wrong area, you need to demand more of them.
And I'm going to close with saying there are so many great new features in pay-per-click advertising right now. If you are just getting vanilla service and you don't see anything even remotely exotic coming back to you with, "We'd like to try this," or, "We'd like to do this because we think it would work really great for you," you need to be asking, "Why not?"
There are so many targeting options right now with mobile, with tablets, with geographies, age, gender, re-marketing history visiting your site, all of those are available now and could be working for you now. And if they aren't, you need to ask, "Why not?"
Kari: Great. Thank you Tad and thank you Janet. And just to let you know, we do have another webinar coming up in a month called The Secrets of Landing Page Success: Optimization, Best Practices, and Case Studies. That will be presented by Jenny DeGraff who is our Design Optimization Manager. She and I will be talking through a few of our case studies and some amazing landing page stories from the trenches. So you won't want to miss that, that'll be March 13th at 2:00 pm Eastern and you can register today for that at marketing-mojo.com/lpsuccess.
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Just three days before the 2012-13 season tipped off, we had a major shake-up to the NBA landscape.
Maybe the Oklahoma City Thunder will be better in the long run. And maybe James Harden isn't a max player on a team with both Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. But Harden did so some of the heavy lifting himself, and the Thunder sure look like they'll take a small step backward this season.
That seemingly opens the door in the Western Conference for the Los Angeles Lakers, but we can't forget about the San Antonio Spurs, who looked unbeatable in late May. Beyond those three teams, there are three more -- the Clippers, Grizzlies and Nuggets -- who could challenge for a top spot if things go right.
The Eastern Conference is a lot more cut and dried, but there are as many as six teams -- the Celtics, Pacers, Nets, Knicks, Sixers and Bulls -- who could reasonably dream of facing the Miami Heat in the conference finals.
The great news is that this will all begin to sort itself out starting Tuesday night. Before we get there, here's how we see the 30 teams shaping up in the wake of a preseason that shed a few clues as to how things might go down.
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High jumps of the fall: Denver (+9), Houston (+7), Philadelphia (+5), Utah (+5)
Free falls of the fall: Orlando (-13), Dallas (-7), Minnesota(-4)
Pace: Possessions per 48 minutes (League Rank)
Off: Points scored per 100 possessions (League Rank)
Def: Points allowed per 100 possessions (League Rank)
The league averaged 97.2 possessions (per team) per 48 minutes and 97.6 points scored per 100 possessions in the preseason.
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Miami (4-4)
Pace: 98.6 (8), Off: 96.5 (21), Def: 92.6 (4)
LeBron James really has the ability to take his game to another level. If he plays an entire season like he played The Finals, attacking from the inside, there's no stopping the Miami offense. The only vulnerability with the Heat's positionless lineups is rebounding. They ranked 27th on the glass in the preseason.
Aug. 6: 1
L.A. Lakers (0-8)
Pace: 94.4 (28), Off: 92.1 (27), Def: 105.8 (30)
What's funny is that L.A. acquired Dwight Howard after our last Power Rankings, yet they were still the No. 3 team ... until Saturday night. You could say that the Harden trade was the Lakers' first win of the preseason. Their ceiling is high, but the health of their aging backcourt is crucial, because their bench is awful.
Aug. 6: 3
San Antonio (4-3)
Pace: 100.1 (2), Off: 102.3 (5), Def: 95.8 (12)
Here's one reason why the Spurs can be just as good (or better) as they were last year: Manu Ginobili is healthy. This team was ridiculously good (plus-15.7 points per 100 possessions) with Ginobili on the floor last season, but that was only for 34 games. Of course, defensive regression is still very much an issue.
Aug. 6: 4
Oklahoma City (4-3)
Pace: 94.5 (27), Off: 104.9 (2), Def: 101.8 (24)
Can Kevin Martin carry the Thunder's second unit like James Harden did? Harden played 464 minutes with neither Kevin Durant nor Russell Westbrook on the floor last season. That may not seem like a ton, but Durant (38 minutes) and Westbrook (13) barely played at all with neither of the other two on the floor.
Aug. 6: 2
Denver (3-4)
Pace: 98.1 (9), Off: 95.1 (22), Def: 101.0 (23)
It will be interesting if JaVale McGee, with his new $44 million contract, isn't the starting center for the Nuggets. The Nuggets are the league's funnest team either way, but imagine how good they'd be if McGee finally started to realize his potential, especially defensively. Maybe that's asking too much.
Aug. 6: 14
Boston (3-5)
Pace: 95.2 (26), Off: 99.8 (12), Def: 95.9 (13)
By Tuesday night, we'll have a pretty good idea if the retooled Celtics have anyone (Jeff Green?) who can defend the new and improved LeBron. With how the Eastern Conference finals ended and how Ray Allen's tenure in Boston ended, it will be an intense and fascinating start to the season either way.
Aug. 6: 6
L.A. Clippers (5-3)
Pace: 96.4 (20), Off: 98.0 (17), Def: 96.3 (15)
Might Matt Barnes be the Clippers' best player on the wing? He looked like it in preseason. The question is if the Clippers can improve enough defensively to be counted as a true Western Conference contender. One problem from last season, 3-point defense, was still very much a problem in the preseason.
Aug. 6: 5
Memphis (4-4)
Pace: 99.4 (4), Off: 101.0 (8), Def: 99.7 (21)
There's no better way for the Grizzlies to exorcise last Spring's demons than to begin the season against the Clippers on Wednesday. Memphis miraculously ranked sixth in preseason 3-point percentage, but obviously can't expect Mike Conley to keep shooting 71 percent. Quincy Pondexter's shooting will be key.
Aug. 6: 7
Indiana (4-3)
Pace: 96.4 (21), Off: 93.1 (26), Def: 96.8 (16)
It's been said often that the Pacers benefited from being the healthiest team in the league last season. Well, Danny Granger played just two preseason games and still has pain in his left knee. And George Hill (thumb and hip) has yet to see the floor. Not surprisingly, the Indy offense was pretty ugly as a result.
Aug. 6: 8
Brooklyn (3-3)
Pace: 93.3 (30), Off: 99.9 (11), Def: 104.7 (29)
Avery Johnson has some work to do, because the preseason did little to dispel the notion that the Nets would struggle defensively. We did see the potential for Deron Williams and Joe Johnson to be a pretty potent combination offensively, and Andray Blatche was surprisingly effective, but the D is going to be key.
Aug. 6: 10
New York (3-3)
Pace: 94.1 (29), Off: 98.7 (13), Def: 103.9 (27)
Amar'e Stoudemire injury? Meh. Tyson Chandler injury? Uh oh. Fortunately, Chandler should be OK for Thursday's opener in Brooklyn. The Knicks' first few weeks should be pretty tough, but they get a break with two games against the (likely) Bynum-less Sixers and two against the (possibly) Dirk-less Mavs.
Aug. 6: 11
Utah (5-3)
Pace: 97.6 (14), Off: 101.4 (6), Def: 93.5 (7)
We're going to find out early just what the Jazz are made of. After games against the shorthanded Mavs and rebuilding Hornets, they have a four-game stretch against the Spurs, Grizzlies, Lakers and Nuggets. Eight of their first 11 games are on the road, where they were 11-22 last year (losing 13 of their first 16).
Aug. 6: 17
Philadelphia (6-1)
Pace: 96.5 (19), Off: 105.1 (1), Def: 93.4 (6)
The good: The Sixers were arguably the best team of the preseason and Thaddeus Young looked absolutely terrific. The bad: It doesn't look like Andrew Bynum, who still has pain in his knee and hasn't even started running yet, is going to be very healthy this season. The ugly: Spencer Hawes' mullet.
Aug. 6: 18
Chicago (5-2)
Pace: 95.9 (23), Off: 94.9 (23), Def: 90.3 (2)
Clearly, defense wasn't a problem for the Bulls in preseason. Offense was another issue, but after shooting a brutal 6-for-46 from 3-point range in their first three games, they scored a decently efficient 103 points per 100 possessions over their last four. And a soft schedule could help them get off to a quick start.
Aug. 6: 12
Atlanta (3-4)
Pace: 99.2 (5), Off: 97.9 (18), Def: 95.7 (11)
One of the more interesting things to follow early in the season is how Larry Drew uses all of his possible backcourt combinations, and if any of them can be decent defensively. The frontcourt is obviously more straightforward, but Anthony Tolliver - a late addition to the roster - could be a valuable glue guy off the bench.
Aug. 6: 15
Dallas (4-4)
Pace: 100.3 (3), Off: 93.7 (25), Def: 92.2 (3)
You have to believe that Rick Carlisle will make the most of what he's got, but it's not clear exactly what that is. Dirk Nowitzki is out and we don't know when he'll be himself again. Delonte West could be gone when final rosters are due Monday night. And the Mavs are relying on the inefficient O.J. Mayo for offense.
Aug. 6: 9
Minnesota (5-2)
Pace: 95.3 (25), Off: 97.7 (19), Def: 84.2 (1)
The No. 1 defense of the preseason? Well, let's point out that the Wolves played two games against the Granger-less Pacers, two against the Rose-less Bulls, and one against Maccabi Haifa. With Kevin Love out, we'll see if Brandon Roy is ready to carry an NBA offense again. He's looked pretty good so far.
Aug. 6: 13
Toronto (6-1)
Pace: 98.9 (7), Off: 104.1 (3), Def: 95.2 (9)
Over the last 10 full seasons (2001-02 through '10-11), 21 teams lost fewer than two preseason games, and 19 of the 21 made the playoffs that year. The lone exceptions were the '03-04 Jazz (who finished ninth at 42-40) and the '10-11 Jazz (who lost Jerry Sloan and Deron Williams mid-season). Hmmmm...
Aug. 6: 20
Golden State (6-2)
Pace: 96.6 (18), Off: 101.0 (7), Def: 94.1 (8)
If everything goes right for the Warriors, they could be a playoff team. But knowing that Andrew Bogut has yet to play and Stephen Curry could only make it through 94 minutes of preseason action before re-injuring his right ankle, the chances of that look pretty slim. This team can still shoot, though.
Aug. 6: 19
Detroit (4-4)
Pace: 97.6 (13), Off: 91.6 (28), Def: 96.1 (14)
Whether or not teams are already regretting passing on him in the draft, Andre Drummond looks like he could be pretty good some day. He's already fun to watch. And how did those boxing workouts work out for Charlie Villanueva? Well, he shot 9-for-41 (1-for-17 from 3-point range) in the preseason.
Aug. 6: 22
New Orleans (4-4)
Pace: 95.5 (24), Off: 89.0 (30), Def: 92.7 (5)
As you can tell from the numbers, a few of the Hornets' preseason games were absolutely brutal, a trend that should continue when the games count. Anthony Davis looked pretty darn good against the Heat on Friday, but maybe cut down on the jumpers? 38 of his 92 preseason shots came from outside the paint.
Aug. 6: 21
Houston (5-2)
Pace: 100.8 (1), Off: 103.1 (4), Def: 99.6 (19)
With four talented rookies and expanded roles for Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik (who actually plays offense when asked), the Rockets were already going to be fascinating to watch this season. Now, they've got Royce White's beard and James Harden's beard on the same team. Have you ordered League Pass yet?
Aug. 6: 29
Portland (3-4)
Pace: 97.4 (15), Off: 100.5 (10), Def: 101.8 (25)
Damian Lillard could have the most fun matchups of opening week. He begins his NBA career by facing Steve Nash on Wednesday, Russell Westbrook on Friday, and Jeremy Lin on Saturday. The Blazers' interior defense, which allowed 48 points in the paint per game in the preseason, won't be so fun.
Aug. 6: 23
Milwaukee (3-5)
Pace: 97.7 (12), Off: 97.2 (20), Def: 97.5 (17)
Meet Tobias Harris, the non-rookie starter who you've probably never seen play. After a quiet rookie season, Harris is set to start at small forward this year, because Scott Skiles prefers to have Mike Dunleavy come off the bench. And Harris gets to match up with Paul Pierce twice in the Bucks' first five games.
Aug. 6: 24
Sacramento (5-2)
Pace: 97.4 (16), Off: 101.0 (9), Def: 98.6 (18)
DeMarcus Cousins averaged a beastly 24 points and 13 rebounds per 36 minutes in the preseason. But he had a couple of rough shooting nights and, for some reason, attempted seven 3-pointers. The Kings beat the Lakers three times, and will face them (for real) twice more in their first 11 games.
Aug. 6: 28
Phoenix (4-3)
Pace: 99.1 (6), Off: 98.2 (15), Def: 95.4 (10)
The Suns might lead the league in reclamation projects, led by Michael Beasley. They also might lead the league in points allowed, playing at a fast pace with few real defenders on their roster. And with the Rockets acquiring James Harden, there's an open spot at the bottom of the Western Conference.
Aug. 6: 26
Cleveland (3-4)
Pace: 96.2 (22), Off: 94.6 (24), Def: 100.7 (22)
After the Cavs start the season with two home games that would feature great point guard matchups (Washington and Chicago) if the other point guards were healthy, they play 10 of their next 12 on the road. That could make for an ugly November for a team that's going to struggle to score no matter where they play.
Aug. 6: 25
Washington (3-5)
Pace: 97.0 (17), Off: 98.1 (16), Def: 102.7 (26)
Dirk Nowitzki's injury was almost expected and Kevin Love's injury isn't too tough to swallow. But given his need for a breakout season and the uncertainty about when he'll be back at full speed, John Wall's injury is just depressing. And who knows when and how much Nene is going to play this season.
Aug. 6: 27
Orlando (2-6)
Pace: 97.9 (10), Off: 98.4 (14), Def: 104.7 (28)
Glen Davis put up big numbers (16.9 points in just 26.0 minutes per game) in the preseason, but it's his back-up - Andrew Nicholson - who could blossom into the most interesting player on the Orlando roster. Yeah, that doesn't say much about the Orlando roster, but that's the idea, right? When's the Lottery?
Aug. 6: 16
Charlotte (1-7)
Pace: 97.8 (11), Off: 90.6 (29), Def: 99.6 (20)
The Cats lost seven straight games to end the preseason, but Kemba Walker had a couple of strong performances last week. One (24 points on 7-for-16 shooting) came against the Heat defense and the other (20 points and seven assists) came while starting alongside Ramon Sessions against the Bucks.
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Type: Improvement
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 1.1-alpha-1
Fix Version/s: 1.2
Component/s: Core system
Environment:1.1-alpha-1, WinXP
It should be possible to pre-configure the items on the General Configuration screen:
- Working Directory
- Build Output Directory
- Deployment Repository Directory:
- Base URL
Issue Links
- is depended upon by
CONTINUUM-1489 replace use of MungedHttpsURL with apache httpclient (4.0-beta1)
- Closed
- All
- Comments
- Work Log
- History
- Activity
- Transitions
Most likely, this means being able to pre-configure these values in conf/continuum.xml prior to starting the app for the first time.
looks to be fixed with rev 678639. (I have tested it with success).
Emmanuel do you confirm ?
I prefer to use modello for configuration instead of commons-configuration.
Which is IMHO more simple to use and the xml file format will be auto documented.
Related thread : http://www.nabble.com/Concerning-continuum-configuration-(commons-configuration-or-modello--)-td19170328.html
switch to modello in trunk rev 690494.
Leave issue open until configuring xdoc/xsd generation is done.
I see this was merged to the 1.2.x branch, and there seems to be a problem with the Jetty bundle. In continuum.log:
2008-08-30 17:18:54,528 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] INFO org.codehaus.plexus.spring.PlexusApplicationContextDelegate - Registering Plexus to Spring XML translation
2008-08-30 17:18:57,027 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] ERROR org.apache.continuum.configuration.DefaultContinuumConfiguration - Unrecognised tag: 'configuration' (position: START_TAG seen ...missions and limitations\nunder the License.\n-->\n\n<configuration />... @21:18)
I mention it here because it's complaining about a <configuration> element.
I have not actually tried to pre-configure anything since it won't start.
(However, with mvn jetty:run in continuum-webapp, the app starts and runs.)
I see the same problem with the Jetty bundle on trunk.
I tried to revert the 1252-related bits from the branch to confirm that it's really this issue, but they were merged along with changes from 1831 and I'm having trouble identifying what's what.
Olivier, can you take a look?
Wendy, I had the same issue (same stack trace, failed to start) when upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2.2. I found that the issue was that 1.1 had an autogenerated ${appserver.base}
/conf/continuum.xml file and 1.2.2 was trying to parse it and failing. I removed the file and the app started just fine.


text: Here's my latest messenger bag. It measures about 13x13x3. Inside it has a large open pocket, a zipperd pocket, a cell phone pocket and a key ring. This is a pattern that I developed and my design is original. Enjoy!(Edit: I'm having a little trouble with the picture sizes... hope they are viewable for you.)


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Bridgestone run-flat OE on Rogue S, SVComments Email
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 3, 2014) — Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. has selected the run-flat version of the Bridgestone Ecopia H/L 422 Plus as an OE fitment for the "family package" on the 2014 Nissan Rogue S and SV models, according to Bridgstone Americas.
The family package versions of the Rogue crossover feature a third row of seats, which eliminates the space usually reserved for a spare tire, thereby necessitating the use of a run-flat tire.
Nissan is fitting these models with the Ecopia H/L 422 Plus RFT in size P225/65RF17 100H. The tire is manufactured at the company's plant in Tosu, Japan; Nissan assembles the Rogue at its plant in Smyrna, Tenn.
Mike Martini, president, original equipment, U.S. and Canada Consumer Tire Sales Division, Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, called the Rogue a "perfect vehicle to showcase the outstanding benefits of Bridgestone's Ecopia brand tires."
The Ecopia H/L 422 Plus RFT is a self-supporting tire that provides extended mobility — up to 50 miles at a maximum speed of 50 mph at zero inflation pressure — while also delivering "impressive" dry, wet and all-season traction, he said.
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Fractured bones, assorted injuries from car accidents and cardiac arrest from shoveling snow are among the weather-related trauma cases that have been keeping local emergency rooms busy the past two days.
"Yesterday was horrible," said Dr. Holly Haning, a physician attending the emergency room at University Medical Center on Tuesday morning. "We had mostly victims of car accidents and falls on the ice.
"Today, we're seeing a little bit of everything - car wrecks, colds, asthma attacks, chest pain. We had one man who went into cardiac arrest after trying to clean off his car.
"We haven't seen a lot of patients from car accidents today. We had a lot of rollovers and other bad things yesterday," she said.
Dr. Gerald Wilson, a staff physician at Highland Medical Center, said people with fractured wrists and other broken bones caused by slipping and falling on ice were seen in the hospital's emergency room on Christmas Day.
"But so far today (Tuesday), everything is very quiet," Wilson said. "I think everybody is snowed in."
Medical advice
Dr. Chuck Barton, director of emergency medicine at Covenant Medical Center, offers the following advice for surviving the inclement weather:
Don't go outside unless you have to.
For those taking medication, have a few days' surplus on hand, if possible.
Stay within your exercise limits and tolerances. You don't know how snow shoveling will affect your cardiovascular system.
People with asthma should remain indoors, as the cold weather can trigger an attack.
Dress for the occasion. The concept of wearing layers of clothing is important. Cover the head, hands and feet. The face and ears are particularly vulnerable.
Symptoms of hypothermia:
Confusion, drowsiness, slurred speech, falling blood pressure, shallow breathing, a pinkish tint to skinSUBSource: Texas Department of Health
The snowstorm, which pummeled the South Plains throughout Christmas night and intermittently Tuesday, curtailed traffic in the emergency room at Covenant Medical Center.
"A lot of the highways are closed, so we're not getting anyone coming in from our referral areas such as Post," said Dr. Chuck Barton, director of emergency medicine at Covenant Medical Center.
"We haven't seen any car accident victims yet. So far it has been quiet, but it's early."
Barton added that the inclement weather has grounded the youngsters who received scooters or motorized toys as Christmas gifts, which has curtailed the emergency room visitors as well.
The local physicians said the best advice they can offer is for people to remain at home until the weather clears unless it is absolutely necessary to travel.
Any health care professionals in critical-care positions who may need a ride to work can call the Lubbock Fire Department at 775-2635, and an effort will be made to pick them up, said Rhea Cooper, deputy chief with the Lubbock Fire Department.
"A lot of elderly people think it's too bad to drive so they try to walk somewhere," Haning said. "Then they slip and fall."
People venturing outdoors also run the risk of hypothermia, Haning said.
The Texas Department of Health reported that 21 people died in Texas from hypothermia, or severe prolonged loss of body heat, last winter. Of those 21, 17 were age 60 and older, and many of them died unexpectedly in their homes.
People age 60 and older may not perceive or respond to cold as readily as younger people, since the human body's natural alarm signal the reflex of shivering that increases blood flow lessens with age.
Some hypothermia victims die because they are simply unaware of gradual temperature changes. Also, people who are sick and those taking prescription drugs make lack resistance to low temperatures.
Infants and small children also are at risk in cold temperatures because their bodies radiate heat faster than bodies of adults.
Hypothermia begins when a person's deep body temperature falls below 95 degrees Fahrenheit, Haning said. Because the temperature drop may be gradual and since an early sign of hypothermia is mental confusion, the victim may not be aware of a problem.
Drowsiness and coma leading to death also can occur while the victim remains unaware.
Barton said persons who have to be outside in cold weather should wear several layers of clothing. The head should be covered, along with the hands and feet. The face and ears are particularly vulnerable to wind chill.
The term wind chill refers to the cooling effect wind has on the skin. As winds increase, heat is carried away from the body at a faster rate, driving down both skin temperature and eventually the internal body temperature.
Not only can wind chill cause rapid heat loss from the body, but it also can cause frostbite actual freezing of tissues. A strong wind, even in moderately cool weather, can cause a wind chill far below freezing.
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text: My two cents on both the Bates question (assuming he were to be asked to stay and accepted) and the JT/complaining players: I have seen good leaders in business, education and clergy. Sometimes they come into environements where people talk tough and act like they aren't going to bow down and get with the program. Good leaders don't just cut these people out, especially when these people are talented. Usually, if the leader comes in with a real vision, confidence that if people bought into it that they could realize the vision, and a real plan to execute that vision, along with a bit of charisma and intelligence and the ability to convince and balance a whole slew of different personalities, than one thing happens. The complainers begin to SHUT UP. The easier ones soon after he first arrives, the more difficult ones with a bit more work and usually after they see that the plan just might work. I have seen people complain literally up to the minute before the new head honcho walked in the door and never breath a word against the guy after he spoke his first sentence. To cut your most talented player, or any of the core talent of the team, because they say things that can be interpreted as out of line before you even get there is just plain bad planning. If Saban is as good as people think he is, than he will be thinking to himself right now "This guy is talented and very loyal to his coach. GREAT! When I go in there I am sure to win him over with my vision and then I will have one of the most talented DE's who will give that loyalty to me and my plan, because my plan is a good one ." I have worked as a part time teacher, and, not to boast, I was pretty good at it. I have had students (7th through 12th grade) who I was told had attitude problems by the previous teacher, who, not to be too critical, was not great at taking charge of a classroom. So suddenly, all these attitude problem kids popped up in his class?! Bullsh!t Some of them were tough, but by the end they were really learning with me. The other guy didn't know how to lead and so the class started to crack as people recognized the vacuum in leadership and rushed to fill it. In football, like a classroom, when 53 different players feel insecure about a void in leadership and rush to fill it when its not their job and when they are not the one's that are qualified yet to do it, its a recipe for disaster. With a D this talented over the last several year, always top 10, with major playmakers, but with an uncanny nack for complaining and occassionally choking (bearing in mind they didn't often get support from the other side of the ball), the only reason that comes to mind is leadership. DW failed miserably and the players rushed to fill the void. If it were one real problem case who refused to let himself be coached or join the team (e.g., Kobe), I would understand the need to cut him. But when the problem is more ubiquitous, than the cause is often that the players even unconsiously feel the need to take on a role that isn't theirs. The HC has that job. If Saban is good, he won't cut them, he will give them what they want, even if they don't know they are asking for it, REAL LEADERSHIP. If he can't quell the complaints then I believe the problem would be with his ability to inspire and not the player's complacency. It doesn't mean he is bad coach, but it would show a major limitation. That is why I would not be concerned about player loyalty to Bates. KB in a different thread said he thought, if Bates joined the team, it would behoove him to smooth things over with the players, and he is right. Football is not a democracy. While you need to recognize and reward individual effort, and you always need consesus and buy in to be succesful (people won't work their hardest just because of the pay check and your title if they don't think you are making the team progress and you don't proove yourself to be a leader), there is only one leader of a football team. Assuming Bates return to the fins, the only issue is whether he feels dissed or Saban feels threatened. Bates's main job is to support the vision of his boss and help him and challenge him to impliment it. Saban's, in relation to Bates, would have the job of utilizing Bates' skills and knowledge and relationship with the team to the best advantage. If Bates refuses, than he should not stay a Dolphin. If Saban would feel threatened, than I would again say that this would be a major limitation on him. If they get their business squared away, the players will naturally follow. I hope Saban is the right man and knows how to inspire adult men who know they are powerful and talented athletes in a high paying professional sport loved by millions of fans. It's a tough job.


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The Sheridan Little League Majors, comprised of 13 players age 11-12 won their first game Monday evening, July 15th against Newcastle in the the first round of pool play. They defeated Newcastle with a score of 11-9, behind outstanding pitching of Dalton Gregory, and some key hitting from Parker Christensen, who finished the day with two stand up triples. The Sheridan majors had to rally after a rough first inning where they gave up 6 runs to a strong Newcastle club.
Today, they have their last game of pool play, and face the Gillette Majors at 4pm. This game will help seed them for the double elimination bracket play, which begins Thursday and will go through Friday. Only the top two teams from District 2 (East) will advance to go on to play in the Little League State Tournament which will be held in Laramie, next week.


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The NDAA's section 1021 coup d'etat foiledâ
Aajonus Vonderplanâitz Schedule clean-up
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Hi, freedom lovers,
We can stop governmental actors from stripping us of our constitutional rights. We need the same type of legal interest in our right to choose the food we want without government intervention, without the phony threat of causing a pandemic such as from raw milk. Anyone willing to join me in a lawsuit against HHS, FDA and CDC, please contact me asap. Thank you.
The NDAA's section 1021 coup d'etat foiled
by Naomi Wolf; Guardian, UK
One brave judge is all that lay between us and a law that would have given the president power to detain US citizens indefinitely
Tangerine Bolen
Activist and reporter Tangerine Bolen, a plaintiff in the case against the NDAA, speaking to the media after a New York judge enjoined section 1021 of the law. Photograph via Fromthetrenchesworldreport
On Wednesday 16 May, at about 4pm, the republic of the United States of America was drawn back â" at least for now â" from a precipice that would have plunged our country into moral darkness. One brave and principled newly-appointed judge ruled against a law that would have brought the legal powers of the authorities of Guantánamo home to our own courthouses, streets and backyards.
US district judge Katherine Forrest, in New York City's eastern district, found that section 1021 â" the key section of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) â" which had been rushed into law amid secrecy and in haste on New Year's Eve 2011, bestowing on any president the power to detain US citizens indefinitely, without charge or trial, "facially unconstitutional". Forrest concluded that the law does indeed have, as the journalists and peaceful activists who brought the lawsuit against the president and Leon Panetta have argued, a "chilling impact on first amendment rights". Her ruling enjoins that section of the NDAA from becoming law.
In her written opinion, the judge noted that she had been persuaded by what the lead plaintiffs â" who include Pulitzer prize-winner Chris Hedges of the Nation Institute, editor Jennifer Bolen of RevolutionTruth, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, co-founder of Occupy London Kai Wargalla, Days of Rage editor Alexa O'Brien, and the Icelandic parliamentarian and WikiLeaks activist Birgitta Jónsdóttir â" had argued. In their testimonies (in court and by affidavit), these plaintiffs compiled a persuasive case that they had "standing" to sue because it was reasonable for them to worry that they could conceivably could be detained indefinitely under the section 1021 law because their work requires them to have contact with sources the US government might assert were "terrorists" or "associated forces" of al-Qaida.
The key claim made by the plaintiffs â" of which Judge Forrest was persuaded â" was that the language in section 1021 is so vague that it could sweep up anyone. The law fails to define or specify what "associated forces" or the concept of "substantial support" actually mean.
I attended the hearing as a journalist supporting the plaintiffs, providing by affidavit examples from my own experience of how the NDAA's section 1021 had already affected my reporting. (Princeton professor Dr Cornel West and I are also standing by to become plaintiffs, if called upon, in the next round.) I was also there to read in court Birgitta Jónsdóttir's disturbing testimony: she had been advised by her own government not to attend the hearing in person because the US government would not give Iceland a written assurance that it would not detain her under the NDAA if she did so. US federal agents have already confiscated her Twitter account and personal bank records.
The back-and-forth between Judge Forrest and Obama administration's lawyers that goes to the heart of the judge's ruling was stunning to behold. Forrest asked frepeatedly, in a variety of different ways, for the government attorneys to give her some, any assurance that the wording of section 1021 could not be used to arrest and detain people like the plaintiffs. Finally she asked for assurance that it could not be used to sweep up a hypothetical peaceful best-selling nonfiction writer who had written a hypothetical book criticizing US foreign policy, along lines theater the Taliban might agree with. Again and again (the transcript from my notes is here), the two lawyers said directly that they could not, or would not, give her those assurances. In other words, this back-and-forth confirmed what people such as Glenn Greenwald, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the ACLU and others have been shouting about since January: the section was knowingly written in order to give the president these powers; and his lawyers were sent into that courtroom precisely to defeat the effort to challenge them. Forrest concluded:
"At the hearing on this motion, the government was unwilling or unable to state that these plaintiffs would not be subject to indefinite detention under [section] 1021. Plaintiffs are therefore at risk of detention, of losing their liberty, potentially for many years."
The government's assertions become even more hellishly farcical. Forrest further observed:
"An individual could run the risk of substantially supporting or directly supporting an associated force without even being aware that he or she was doing so. In the face of what could be indeterminate military detention, due process requires more."
This upholding of the US constitution and the rule of law is a triumphant moment, but a fragile one: Judge Forrest has asked Congress to clarify the language protecting America's right to trial and the first amendment's protections on speech and assembly. And now, Thursday, Representatives Adam Smith (Democrat, Washington) and Justin Amash (Republican, Michigan) have presented an amendment to Congress an amendment that does just that. Those who vote against it therefore will be voting clearly, and without any ambiguity, for stripping Americans of their constitutional rights and reducing them to the same potential status as "enemy combatants" and Guantánamo prisoners. The House thus votes for or against the power handed to the executive by the NDAA to hold any of us, anywhere, forever, for no reason. There can be no hiding from this; the lawyers defending the administration's position made that perfectly clear.
What truly disturbed me in that courtroom was the terrible fragility of all the checks to power that are supposed to be in place to protect us against such assaults on democracy. Many senators, including my own, Chuck Schumer, had sent out letters to their own worried constituents flat-out denying our fears about what section 1021 does. No major news media organisations attended the original hearing (except Paul Harris of the Guardian and Observer). The trial and the NDAA itself have been so inadequately reported by mainstream outlets that I keep running into senior editors and lawyers who have never heard of it. I recently cornered one southern Democratic senator at an event and asked him why he had voted to pass the NDAA. He asked what my objection was.
"It allows the president to detain Americans without charge or trial," I pointed out. His aides had assured him this was not the case, he replied. "Have you read the bill?" I asked. "It's 1,600 pages," he replied.
This darkness is so dangerous not least because a new Department of Homeland Security document trove, released in response to a FOIA request filed by Michael Moore and the National Lawyers' Guild, proves in exhaustive detail that the DHS and its "fusion centers" coordinated with local police (as I argued here, to initial disbelief), the violent crackdown against Occupy last fall. You have to put these pieces of evidence together: the government cannot be trusted with powers to detain indefinitely any US citizen â" even though Obama promised he would not misuse these powers â" because the United States government is already coordinating a surveillance and policing war against its citizens, designed to suppress their peaceful assembly and criticism of its corporate allies.
The lawyers for the government have endless funds (our tax dollars); the plaintiffs' lawyers all worked pro bono; the plaintiffs themselves paid their own way to make their case. Yet, by these slender means, what was essentially a coup in two paragraphs has been blocked from advancing under cover of ignorance and silence to becoming the supreme law of the land. But should our democracy hang by such a tenuous thread that it relies on the sheer luck that this case was heard by a courageous judge with a settled belief in the constitution of the United States?
You can read the Amicus Brief by clicking here.
- Here's an article I got from the paleofood group:-
Usually anti-dairy articles are forced into fringe publications, so the above is a pleasant exception.
- There is a big difference between "milk", which in this country, unless one searches out the real stuff, is simply a substance from cows which has been boiled out of recognition, nutritionally speaking, and then filled with additives which are supposed to be just as good as the real thing. Actual milk, which is labeled raw milk, is available in many states, with varying regulations as to where it can be purchased.
Many testimonials can be found if one looks for them. Mine is this: since March of this year, 2012, I've been drinking almost three gallons a week of raw, organic quality milk, and have noticed a very marked change in my asthma/allergy situation. I no longer need an inhaler, as I have needed every spring, and even a long term restriction in my lungs which was present year around is gone, leaving me able to exercise at levels previously impossible. I combine this with a raw paleo diet, including raw meat, for deep detoxification. Milk constitutes my main form of hydration.
You can view videos by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, who is not a fraud or greedy charlatan, as some attack videos suggest, and also read his two books, which are available on Amazon. Other valuable and informative resources are the book Health over Harmony by Dr. Paul Sweeney, DOM, and Deep Nutrition, by Catherine Shanahan, MD. Shanahan asserts that raw milk is beneficial for anyone of any age. I myself gave up drinking milk, and limited my ingestion of dairy for many years, and considering that pasteurized milk is not "real" milk, I was probably wise to do so. As to food allergies, there is a very strong psychological factor behind them, and so there is nothing that someone cannot be allergic to, depending on their associations to that food. Another resource is the Weston A. Price foundation. Weston Price was a dentist who traveled the world studying "primitive" cultures, and found that the people who had access to raw milk had beautiful,
cavity-free teeth. I hope this helps.
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Can anyone Identify this block.? It is a floor tile pattern I used
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Can anyone Identify this block.? It is a floor tile pattern I used
Never seen it before. If you don't get anyone that has perhaps you and your floor tile have come up with a brand new block. Then you get to pick your own name for it. Right before the rest of us make our own version with our own name for it. LOLOLOL
Hi I like that block. Are you going to do a tutorial on it. I think it would make a beautiful quilt.
It sorta resembles the Mother's Favorite block in Jennifer Chiaverini quilt book series... :)
Don't know, but it is neat.
I don't know but it sure is pretty. Maybe you created a new block.
I haven't seen it before but I like it. Any tutes??? Please!!
It kind of looks like tube quilting. I like it.
Did you ask the tile company?
no it was a $7.00 box of tile at the Family Dollar store Also, made a great template materialOriginally Posted by b.zang
:thumbup: No, but ME likes!!!!
Noone Has been able to ID this block we shall call it "BOX FAN"Originally Posted by davef
If you want the pattern just send an email.
I would love to get this pattern sending a pm.
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Please scroll down to see some screen shots of the interactive programs created by past CS&E 203 students as part of their project work for the class. Screen shots cannot directly show you the interactions involved when the program is running: you'll have to use your imagination.
The first four shots illustrate one game program in which the player tries to guide the bouncing blue ball up the ramps past the bouncing red balls without colliding with any of the red balls. A collision causes the blue ball to explode.