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Trump's Own Poll Confirms What Nancy Pelosi and Democrats Have Been Underscoring: Republican Tax Bill is a Massive Scam Designed to Benefit Wealthy People & Big Corporations
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Nearly half of Americans agree with Nancy Pelosi's 'crumbs' comment, according to a poll by a pro-Trump group
By: Ed O'Keefe
March 1, 2018
Key Points:
- …a new poll from a group supportive of President Trump finds nearly half of Americans agree with Pelosi's comments despite weeks of relentless criticism from GOP leaders.
- The poll was conducted by America First Policies, a pro-Trump nonprofit group established shortly after the president's inauguration last year. A report published Thursday by CNBC details how the group, officially classified as a "social welfare organization," is conducting extensive polling that is usually conducted by major party committees on behalf of an incumbent president.
- Shortly after the CNBC report surfaced, Democratic aides noticed this question in the group's most recent poll: "When talking about the bonuses that companies like AT&T, Wells Fargo and Visa have recently given their employees due to tax reform, Nancy Pelosi said, 'In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving workers to kind of put the schmooze on is so pathetic.' Do you agree or disagree with Nancy Pelosi's statement?"
- The poll found that 49 percent of respondents totally agree with her statement, while 43 percent disagree. More respondents strongly disagreed (35 percent) than strongly agreed (31 percent) with Pelosi. Eighteen percent "somewhat agreed" with her comment, while 9 percent "somewhat disagreed." Three percent of respondents said it "depends," or were neutral on the questions, while 5 percent were "unsure" or refused to answer.
- The poll suggests that the attack on Pelosi, now dominating Republican talking points and ads, may not be resonating…
- While the poll may have inadvertently exposed some hopeful news for Pelosi…
- The poll of 1,200 respondents was conducted Feb. 16 to 20…
Dark money group America First Policies is running a pro-Trump polling operation. Here is an inside look at its secretive work
By: Christina Wilkie
March 1, 2018
Key Points:
- In another question from February, as shown in the above screenshot from one of the group's reports, respondents were reminded that large companies had given out employee bonuses before they were asked if they agreed with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's comment that worker bonuses were "crumbs" compared with corporate windfalls. The results were surprising: A plurality of voters agreed with Pelosi, despite the lopsided question. This would suggest that for Republicans, using the "crumbs" comment as an attack line against Democrats in 2018 campaigns, which Trump has suggested they do, may not be a good idea.
- Over the past six months, CNBC monitored America First Policies' website and found hundreds of pages of polling and research paid for by donors whose names are permitted to be kept secret. Much of this polling has since been removed from the site, but a portion of the removed documents are still available online.
See Also:
PoliticusUSA: Trump Humiliated As His Own Leaked Poll Tells Him Nancy Pelosi Was Right On Tax Cuts
Huffington Post: Nancy Pelosi Is Right About Workers Getting 'Crumbs' From The Tax Bill
Los Angeles Times: Home Depot's bonuses underscore what workers get out of the corporate tax cut: Peanuts
Reuters: Walmart hikes minimum wage, announces layoffs on same day
New York Post: AT&T boss touts big employee bonuses amid job cuts
The Atlantic: The GOP's Tax-Cut Narrative Is Already Unraveling
Washington Post: Shocker: Democrats' predictions about the GOP tax cut are coming true
Salon: People are starting to realize the GOP tax bill was a massive scam
Los Angeles Times: Boom in Share Buybacks Renews Question of Who Wins From Tax Cuts
The Intercept: Corporations Say Publicly They'll Pocket The Tax Cut, But Republicans Aren't Listening
New York Times: Well-Heeled Investors Reap the Republican Tax Cut Bonanza
Vice News: The Trump Tax Cut Isn't Trickling Down to Workers
Vanity Fair: Corporations Stop Pretending to Help Workers, Go Back to Enriching Themselves
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Coca-Cola to reinvest tax savings in company, not employee bonuses
CNBC: Most of the tax cut windfall will boost buybacks and dividends, not workers' pockets, survey predicts
New York Times: Are Corporate Tax Cuts Raising Pay? Yes, for Bosses
The Hill: Starbucks's Schultz on tax law: 'We are robbing from the future of young people'
CNN: Tax law to spark $450 billion buyout bonanza for Wall Street
Think Progress: After GOP tax bill passes, worker bonuses get headlines but the real money goes to stock buybacks
International Business Journal: Koch Brothers Could Be $1 Billion Richer Each Year From GOP Tax Bill
Washington Examiner: Paul Ryan gets massive donations from billionaires after helping pass tax reform: Report


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Who Pays for the Unexpected in Construction—A Contractor's Viewpointby Warren M. Bullock, Guy F. Atkinson Co, United States,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
Part of: Excellence in the Constructed Project
There are two categories of 'unexpected' conditions inherent in a construction contract. The first are what might be regarded as normal construction risk such as labor productivity, weather, availability of materials, equipment performance and so on. The second category result from encountering differing site conditions, and/or other 'changes' not indicated or contemplated in the contract document. All of these 'unexpected' circumstances will almost certainly result in additional construction costs and more than likely increase the contractor's time of performance. The contractor rightly expects to receive an equitable adjustment to the contract price and an extension in contract time. This paper discusses the subject in terms of contract forms and provisions, differing site conditions, changes, delays, administration of contracts, and related topics.
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Preventative care is the best care when it comes to preventing foot ulcers. The goal is to stop foot injuries at their most minor level. Be vigilant when it comes to preventing and caring for blisters, calluses and corns. A doctor should be able to inspect a patient's shoes and inform the patient whether they fit well enough to prevent unnecessary friction or pressure on the foot. Orthotics (orthopedic insoles) may be necessary to ensure a proper foot; other diabetics find that well-fitted athletic shoes are adequate when it comes to keep their foot callus , corn, blister, bunion and hammertoe free. Flat foot that goes untreated can lead to deformity of the foot and/or excessive pronation (ankles turn inward) and foot surgery is the only way to correct the problem. Most surgeries involve removing a wedge of bone to change the angle of the heel bone. Recovery time for this type of foot surgery can last for up to several weeks as the foot will need to be casted and immobilized. When a diabetic has visits with their physician, they need to bring up any issues they are having with their feet too their physician. Pain, tingling and foot sensitivity should not be overlooked and ignored. Corns and calluses are NOT soft tissue problems and there is no "root" to be removed. No matter how much they are cut down or debrided, they will return. Painful corns and calluses are the result of abnormal position of the underlying bone. Often hammertoes become painful because a bursal sac will develop between the bone and corn or callus. The bursal sac can be treated with injections and anti-inflammatory medications. If this relieves the symptoms then surgery can be delayed. If these treatments fail, then structural correction of the hammertoe is recommended by your physician. Straightened arcs will help your feet; plus correct and strengthen your back, enhance posture, which in turn will reduce leg, knee and lower back discomfort. To obtain rid of truly bad foot pain depends upon what is triggering the discomfort. Arc support insoles for your shoes are excellent if you have fallen arcs. Insoles aid with flat foot pain, 1 in every 8 people have flat feet. Activities that trigger you to be on your bad aching feet for hours upon hours can feel much better with some great arc support shoes. A foot massage can work marvels if your feet, lower back or hamstrings are tight. When the arch of the foot collapses, the force of the foot on the ground causes the great toe to decrease in its range of motion. This is called "functional hallux limitus". This simply means that the great toe cannot move through its normal range of motion as you push off the ground. Obviously when you push off, the toe needs to move somewhere. When the great toe cannot move straight up, the foot turns more to the side and you roll off the inside of the foot and great toe. This creates a force pushing the toe toward the other toes.


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A quick game: Loose The Moose
on May 31, 2007 at 10:28 pm
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Games like Loose The Moose remind me of those old text games from the 80s — pick up Object X and use it for Action Y, turn left, avoid the wumpus. And I'm just as good at these new versions as I was at those text games ("I have a towel. I hope someone tells me what I'm supposed to do with it.")


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If you or your loved one need to post bail, it is important that you know that there are different types of bail bonds. Each bail bond can be tailored to fit the charges you face and your current financial situation. Each case will have its unique bond determined by the judge at a bail hearing. Here are some of the most popular types of bail bonds used more frequently these days.
A cash bond is the most popular where an accused have to pay cash in exchange for the bond. Some courts may accept credit cards while others may insist on paying the full amount via cash. Some judges who want the accused to stay in jail during the trial may set the bail at an extraordinarily high amount. This is done when the judge determines that the accused could be a threat to the public.
A surety bond or bail bond is another type of bond popular these days. These bonds are used when the accused cannot pay the amount set by the judge. A friend or relative of the accused can contact a surety company and ask one of their employees to appear on behalf of the accused. These are insurance companies that employ agents or bondsmen who will appear in court and agree to pay the full amount of money if the accused doesn't make it to court on subsequent hearings. The bondsmen will charge a premium and hold a personal possession as collateral from the accused or a relative of the accused. For more information on how this type of bail bond process works, visit speedybailbondsnj.com. They have a good FAQ section which explains everything from what happens after your are arrested to the date of the trail.
Property bonds and immigration bonds are also quite popular as bail bonds these days that can be used depending on the terms of your case.


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Just when I thought nothing would ever top my double dark chocolate-peanut butter oatmeal...
I was looking for something "Christmas-y" but healthy to make for breakfast Christmas morning. Something sweet, but with a different flavor profile from all the holiday cookies I had been baking, when it occurred to me that I had yet to bake anything gingerbread related. Immediately I googled "gingerbread breakfast" and got a hit for gingerbread pancakes. While those sounded amazing, they also sounded more time consuming than desired after a run. Quickly remembering that oatmeal is one of my favorite foods ever I googled "gingerbread oatmeal" hoping for a recipe to at least get me started, seasonings wise.
And oh boy, did I ever hit the jack pot! I only deviated slightly from the recipe I found online but don't want to be one of those people who review recipes but I didn't prepare the oatmeal as specifically stated. Regardless, my version turned out absolutely divine and I have no doubt the original is just as tasty.
Sound the alarm. We have a new favorite oatmeal recipe here folks.
Gingerbread Oatmeal
Adapted from here
Serves 2-4
2 1/4 cups milk of choice
1 1/2 cups thick cut oats
1 tablespoon coconut oil
5-6 tablespoons maple syrup
2 teaspoons black strap molasses
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
Bring milk and salt to a boil in a saucepan over medium heat. Once boiling add everything else, stirring to combine well.
Bring back to a boil then reduce heat to low.
Cook until desired thickness, stirring often. This will take about 3-5 minutes.
Remove from heat, divide between bowls, and serve.
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I all of a sudden can't use .png images. Anyone else have this issue?
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I just decided to try Imgur. Seems to work.
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Capitals, Blue Jackets look to get back on track
NHL Headlines
- Blues look to finish Sharks at home
- Sharks could be short-handed in Game 6
- Canes' Martinook, de Haan have surgeries
- Germany, Czech Republic win at worlds
- Chara on track to return for Stanley Cup
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two Metropolitan Division teams will be trying to get back on the winning side when they meet Tuesday night at Nationwide Arena.
The Washington Capitals have lost two in a row after falling 4-3 on Sunday at home to the Vegas Golden Knights. The Columbus Blue Jackets have dropped three straight and four of their last five games.
Tuesday's matchup is the first of an extended back-to-back between the teams. They meet again on Friday night in Washington.
The Capitals (30-17-5) remain atop the Metro standings with 65 points after the recent losses. In those two games, four of the 11 goals by opponents came on power plays.
"Tough stretch for our penalty kill," Capitals defenseman Matt Niskanen said. "It's not going good right now. I don't know; it feels like we're in between pressure and sitting back. And right now, power plays are having their way with us,
"So we're going to have to regroup there as well. Either stay with the plan and be confident in it, or tweak a thing or two -- minor adjustments, probably -- and get back on our toes and be confident and aggressive."
The Capitals had been one of the NHL's hottest teams, going 20-4-5 in their past 29 games before the mini-skid.
But there's no panic yet among the Capitals, who led the Golden Knights in the third period before giving up the winning goal.
"I thought that we played well enough to at least get a point there and we didn't," Capitals coach Barry Trotz said. "I thought we had the game when it was 3-2. We had a couple of open nets and we missed those, and it just came back and bit us you know where."
The Blue Jackets are getting bitten quite a bit recently. They've struggled for the past two-plus months, never winning more than two games in a row.
At Thanksgiving, the Blue Jackets (27-21-4) were sitting in first place in the division. Now they're clinging to a wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference with a host of teams breathing down their necks.
"It's about trying to put the full effort in there and cut down on some of the mistakes," Blue Jackets center Brandon Dubinsky said. "Right now, it's a fine line between winning and losing in this league. You can play great and find a way to lose the game like we did the other night.
"We can't take any moral victories right now. It's too crucial. The division is too tight and we've got to minimize those mistakes and capitalize on more opportunities."
The Blue Jackets have struggled to score goals most of the season, but coach John Tortorella was encouraged by the effort in Saturday night's 4-3 road loss to the New York Islanders.
Josh Anderson, Cam Atkinson and Nick Foligno -- all of whom had been struggling to produce -- accounted for the three goals.
"We're waiting for something bad to happen to us right now," Tortorella said. "We just need something good to happen."
"We've got to get them into a swagger-type attitude how we play the game," Tortorella said. "We've just got to move on to the next day. We can't fix what just happened. We've got to look ahead. ... I don't want them to feel like they have shackles on themselves. They've got to allow themselves to play."
February could be make-or-break time for the Blue Jackets. A majority of their games will be against division opponents, including the Capitals three times, before the calendar turns to March.
"This is a big month. You can see our conference and see how close the points are," said Anderson, who produced his team-leading 16th goal of the season against the Islanders. "We've got to start winning hockey games here because if we don't we're not going to make the playoffs. We've just to take it one game at a time and start putting points in the bank."
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Lottie – by Kenneth Tindall
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(First published in "Maskinfabrikken," Copenhagen) Kenneth Tindall (b. 1937) is a well-kept literary secret. He first appeared in 1967 with Vindharpen, a novel about Copenhagen in the sixties, and has in all written five novels (of which three are … [Read more...]


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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (A – Proper 11)
July 17, 2011
Text: Is. 44:6-8
Beloved in the Lord, this morning the LORD speaks to us of the First Commandment through the mouth and pen of the Prophet Isaiah. "Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: 'I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god" (Is. 44:6; ESV; emphasis added)! When God first gave the Ten Commandments to Moses and the children of Israel, He said, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery" (Ex. 20:2). Therefore, on the basis of this great redemption, on the basis of the fact that no other god has been able to deliver you, because no other god exists, on the basis of the fact that I have purchased you to be my very own people, "You shall have no other gods before me" (v. 3). "What does this mean? We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things" (Luther's Small Catechism [St. Louis: Concordia, 1986]).
"You shall have no other gods before me." Before me. The kids who went to Higher Things last week know the theological Latin phrase for this, Coram Deo, the theme of our conference. It means "before God" or "in the presence of God" or "in the face of God" or "in God's sight." Thus the First Commandment does NOT mean that we can have other gods as long as we put God first and don't put the other gods before Him. No, it means this: You shall have no other gods in the presence of the one true God. Get them out of His face! Get them out of His sight! You are not to have any other god at all! Because the one true God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, has redeemed you to be His own people. As He brought the children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt, He has brought you out of slavery to sin and death. It cost Him the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. It had to be done, because apart from Jesus, coram Deo, before God, you are an unrighteous sinner, a vicious enemy of God, and a stinking corpse. But now that Christ has shed His precious blood for you, buying you back for God, and now that you are baptized into that reality, baptized into Christ, into His death and resurrection, now… now you stand coram Deo, before God, as God's own child, righteous, with the righteousness of Jesus Christ, His Son. Therefore you are to have no other gods. You are always in the presence of God, coram Deo, and in that presence, He alone is to be your God. He is jealous for you. He will not share you. You are to fear Him above all things. You are to love Him above all things. You are to trust in Him above all things (which is what faith is, by the way). Because He put you above all things to make you His own.
Well, you may be saying, the good news is, Pastor, that I only worship the one true God. I only come to church here. I only pray to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I don't pray to the god of the Muslims or the Jews or the many gods of the other false religions. I don't have any figurines carved of wood and stone to which I pray. So I have this commandment pretty much in the bag. I don't have a problem with idolatry… Really? Of course, it's true that there is such a thing as blatant idolatry, blatant worshiping of false gods, whether they're carved from wood or stone or are the more sophisticated gods of the other world religions. Israel was guilty of this blatant idolatry, worshiping the idols of the nations in Canaan, and as a result, God sent them into exile in Assyria and Babylon. Isaiah was sent into this very context as God's prophet, to announce God's judgment against idolatry and to comfort the exiles with God's promise to restore them as His people and redeem them from their sin. Israel's idolatry serves as a warning to us in the New Testament Church. So if you've avoided that kind of blatant idol worship, good for you! But as you know, that doesn't get you off the hook. Because a god is whatever you fear, love, and trust the most. Our society, for example, ever since the so-called age of Enlightenment, has displaced God with science and reason. Science and reason are two of the chief gods of this age. Health, wealth, and prosperity are three more in the pantheon. Sex and self-determination (autonomy) are two of the favorite deities in our culture. "It's my life and my body and I'll do what I want with it!" But the problem is not just society or culture or other people. It's you. Because even though you do a good job keeping the First Commandment outwardly, even though you attend church regularly and publicly decry the evils of society, inside you are full of idolatry. Really. What do you fear? What do you love? What do you trust? That's your god. It can be a thing. It can be a person. It can be (and is!) yourself. It is all of those things. If you're counting on your 401-k or Social Security to provide for you in your later years, you've made those things into your gods. It's not wrong to have them, but they could be gone tomorrow. God will provide for you. Trust Him alone. Money is a big god for Christians. Sex, too. If you love fornication, if you love looking at pornography (which, by the way, is demonic… it allows demons to come and wreak havoc with you), if you love these things even though you know they grieve your God, you have displaced Him with perversion. People can be gods, when you love your family or friends more than you love God, or trust them more, or even fear them more. Stuff can be gods, especially when you covet, because you are counting on the thing you covet to fulfill you and make you happy and whole. And of course, the main god universally worshiped among us is the self. That is, in fact, the definition of sin. It is to place the self before God as god. That is what Adam and Eve were seeking in the Garden. That is what you seek every time you sin. You say to God, "I will be my own God, thank you very much. I will decide what is good and what is evil. I will determine my own course. And as a matter of fact, I will save myself."
Repent, beloved. Turn again to the God of your salvation who has purchased and won you with the holy, precious blood and the innocent suffering and death of Jesus Christ His Son. For your idolatry has separated you from God. Whatever god reigns in your life, when you unite yourself to a false god, you no longer stand before the one true God, coram Deo, in Christ Jesus, but you are once again in your sins, and you're damned. Because none of those other gods can deliver you from sin and death and hell. None of those other gods can redeem you. Thus says the LORD to you this morning, "Who is like me? Let him proclaim it… Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any" (Is. 44:7-8). You've fashioned many gods after your own image, but the truth of the matter is, they are not gods. They are nothing like God. They can't even begin to compare to God. For not only did they NOT create you, they cannot save you. They cannot help you. They can't even hear you when you cry out to them. They don't deliver on their promises. They don't fulfill you, they don't make you happy, and they don't complete you. But God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, does. He is your Rock. He is your sure foundation. Great is His steadfast love toward you, so great that He sent His only-begotten Son to die for you and for His sake forgives you all your sins. He saves you and gives you life. He brings you out of exile in sin and the kingdom of Satan and brings you into the Promised Land of His Kingdom, the Church, and His heaven. He is the first and the last, the be all and end all, the beginning and the end. He created you for Himself. He redeemed you for Himself. And He will have you for Himself for all eternity, standing coram Deo, before God, with the righteousness of Christ, covered by the blood of Christ, God's own child.
It's happening here and now as you stand before this altar, coram Deo. God places His Name upon you once again, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Name into which you are baptized. He forgives all your sins. He speaks to you in His Word. And He places the very body of Christ on your tongue and pours His blood down your throat for the forgiveness of all your sins, that you may with all confidence stand here, coram Deo, without sin, because Jesus has taken all your sins away and nailed them to the cross. It is all by grace, without any merit or worthiness in you. Because that's the God we have. He is longsuffering, gracious and merciful and full of steadfast love and faithfulness. Other gods? Why would you want them? Get rid of them! You have everything you need in the one true God, the King of Israel, the LORD of hosts. Look, He places His feast before you. Come with great rejoicing to His Table and kneel before Him to receive His gifts. For He is your one and only. He is the only God. And here He gives Himself to you. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son (+), and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.


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Sebastian Lopez's dream to meet Mickey Mouse at Disneyland will soon come true.
The 7-year-old from Victorville was expected to learn that his wish was being granted while he was standing on the field during The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes baseball game Friday, April 13.
Sebastian was diagnosed with a heart condition before his birth in 2011. He had his first open heart surgery at six days old.
He spent the first four years of his life on a feeding tube, tracheal tube and underwent four open heart surgeries. Sebastian, who also is diagnosed with autism, grew strong enough to breathe and eat on his own and both tubes were removed.
The Disney and baseball fan is now managing his condition and hopes to meet Mickey Mouse one-on-one. His wish is being granted through Make-A-Wish Orange County and the Inland Empire.


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By Thomas Sellers Jr.
The Munford Lady Cougars are heading to the Region 7-3A Girls Tournament title game Wednesday night after a 49-27 win over Hardin County.
The victory in the Brighton Gymnasium tonight also guarantees the Lady Cougars a spot in the Sectional Round to be played Saturday night against a Region 8-3A opponent.
Munford was led by senior guard Johnna Jones against the Hardin County Lady Tigers. Jones scored 22 points on the evening with 10 points in the third quarter.
The Lady Tigers slowed down the pace of the game throughout the first half. Munford managed a 16-9 first quarter advantage behind the hot shooting of Kennisha Mason.
The guard hit a couple of three-pointers early in the opening quarter. Mason hit a third triple of the night early in the second quarter to make the score 19-11. The Lady Cougars held a 22-14 lead at halftime.
Then Jones helped create some breathing room for her squad for the first 6 points of the third period to give Munford a 28-14 advantage. Her fellow senior Shania "Maine Girl" Johnson hit a jumper to make the score 30-14.
Then Jones hit another bucket making the lead 18 points. The final Munford basket of the third quarter was the highlight of the game when Gabby Crawford fired a laser from half court to a cutting Jones for a layup.
Munford was ahead 34-17 heading into the final period. The Lady Cougars tallied 15 points in the fourth quarter to lock up the victory and advance to the next round. Crawford and teammate Ali Gover both had 7 points in the winning effort. Mason finished with 9 points.
Munford will face Arlington Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the Brighton Gymnasium. The Arlington Lady Tigers advanced tonight with a 61-54 victory over the Bolton Lady Wildcats.


text: DigitalWhy I'm Returning My Apple iPad ($AAPL)By Nick O'Neill|April 5, 2010 ShareBy Nick O'Neill|April 5, 2010 Share In the past 48 hours I've gone from boycotting the Apple iPad, to purchasing one, and this morning I'm bringing it back to the store. While I can explain my initial justification for purchasing the device, I should state that I could just as easily justify the purchase of a watch that remotely turns on my car. Purchasing luxury goods can be fun, but in this case, there are far too many substitutes for the device which are either cheaper, have more functionality, or both. The iPad Is A Luxury GoodYes, I may have disposable income, but I also like to feel good about my purchases. Having the option to purchase luxury items is always nice, but the option is often much more appealing than the actual act of making the purchase. Simply put, the iPad is nothing more than a luxury good that you can show off to your friends. Yet when numerous people asked me my thoughts on the device while using it on the go yesterday, I admitted that I couldn't figure out the main value of the device.Battery Life Is A Big Selling Point But Not EnoughThe 10 plus hour battery may in itself make the device worth purchasing. It most definitely makes the iPad a legitimate competitor to the Kindle, yet if you truly ask yourself: "Do I need this?", the answer will always be a definitive, "No!" Why do I need to have a larger screen than my iPhone? If I'm on a flight somewhere, I can pull out my laptop and watch a movie.Not only that, but I can also accomplish other tasks, like sending email, at the same time, something the iPad is not capable of. The iPad has the following advantages:Lighter than a full laptop, which makes it most useful while lying on the couch or in bedOption to consume any form of media. In contrast to the Kindle which is mostly limited to consuming books, the iPad lets you watch videos, listen to music, respond to email, browse the internet, play games, and anything else that app developers enable you to do.If you are a millionaire, you can possibly justify the extra cost for having a more convenient device on your nightstand (instead of lugging a laptop around), but I also don't know many people who became wealthy by just blowing their money on useless devices. Yes, there's some value to the device, but I'm perfectly happy reading a book when I have the opportunity to lie on the couch or take a break in bed before falling asleep.Let's be honest: most people who truly have the disposable income to purchase an iPad don't have the time to lie on the couch and browse the internet for hours on end.Apple Will Not Revolutionize Magazines And Textbooks On Behalf Of PublishersThere is a significant opportunity to change the magazine industry and Apple was touted as the platform that would do that. Wired magazine has developed a new type of publication just for the device, and there are a number of other publishers who have promised similar digital versions of their publications. Textbooks will also go through a similar process of becoming more interactive, however Apple is not going to monopolize these markets anytime soon.iTunes is simply one distribution channel for publishers. While the iPod single handedly transformed the music industry, the iPad is much more expensive. While iPods were more expensive than their competitors, everybody had one and by not purchasing one, you weren't "in the cool crowd". Unfortunately iPads are much more elitist, with owners having to shell out four times the price of an iPod nano. Simply put, it's extremely challenging to transform an entire industry with an extremely expensive device.Media wants to be distributed everywhere, and while some people may choose to have an extremely costly media consumption device, I simply don't see this one going mainstream anytime soon. The market will soon be filled with cheaper alternatives and that's what will transform the magazine and textbook industry, not Apple.I Have A Significant Case Of Buyers RemorseNot only did I feel like Steve Jobs' pawn when I walked into Apple to purchase the device, but I also spent at least 8 hours following my purchase trying to justify the expense. Ironically I find that the majority of tweets on Twitter are attempts to do the exact same thing: justify the purchase after the fact. Unfortunately though, while Steve Jobs may be able to dictate that a few million people should buy a device, I am not a true Apple cult member.Instead, I like to act like a rational consumer, with the occasional splurge. While the splurge can be for a couple hundred dollars, my iPad purchase was over my typical "splurge threshold". The "killer" apps on the iPad are currently TweetDeck and Netflix, both of which function on my existing computer. If I wanted another monitor (because two isn't enough), I could go buy a large screen from dell for less than the cost of an iPad.I'm Selling My Apple StockWhile Apple could improve the device and may eventually convince me that the device is worth purchasing at some point in the future, my purchase of the iPad was nothing but hype-based spending. This is the same thing that damaged our economy in the past, and I don't feel great about being part of wastefully disposing of such resources. While I'm sure millions of people will be fooled by the shiny object which is "magical" and "revolutionary", according to Apple, I truly believe that most consumers will feel bad about their purchase after acting like lemmings.What's truly unfortunate is that Apple could have put their money into developing a product that would actually change things. Alternative energy? Laptops which never need to be charged? Home automation devices? With billions of dollars in cash, Apple could truly revolutionize the technology industry but instead they are pushing out a mediocre product and fueling sales with hype-based marketing. Steve Jobs is nothing more than the emperor with no clothes.I'll buy the company's stock once Apple decides to truly do something revolutionary rather than take advantage of consumers, but for now, I'm taking my profits on the stock and walking away. If you want to read reviews of "groundbreaking" iPad applications, you can go read a blog from someone who owns more shares of Apple because I don't own mine anymore and by this afternoon I won't own an iPad either. Sharehttp://adweek.it/2k8GO2B copy Adweek Adweek


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The Facts on Patient Enrollment Delays
The Undeniable Truth Everyone is aware that patient enrollment is an issue. In a recent report from Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development on 150 global trials, it was discovered… Read More
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Two weeks ago today I was at the beach. Alligator Point, Bald Point State Park, in Franklin County, Florida
I haven't been to the Gulf Coast (or any ocean beach) since we moved away from Tallahassee in September, 2009.
It was Glorious.
Walking in one direction, it was all blue skies and sunshine.


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Update from Wyoming Office of Tourism
Impact of Federal Budget Cuts on Wyoming Tourism
Despite the federal sequestration (automatic budget cuts) that was triggered on March 1, there will be little or no immediate impact on visitors planning their summer vacation to Wyoming, according to the Wyoming Office of Tourism.
Media release from the Wyoming Office of Tourism, March 4, 2013:
All national parks, monuments, forests and national recreational areas in Wyoming will be open this summer. There may be some areas that delay opening or provide reduced visitor services, but that's all. Our national attractions will be open.
People are inspired by our scenic vistas, wildlife and recreational opportunities which are abundant throughout the state and accessible for everyone's enjoyment. Park officials are doing their best to minimize impacts by reducing programs and services that have less impact on visitor and employee safety, to the extent possible.
Xanterra Parks & Resorts inside Yellowstone National Park plans to open for the summer seasons as scheduled. The same for Grand Teton Lodge Company and Signal Mountain Lodge inside Grand Teton National Park. Devils Tower National Monument is open year-round and will continue to operate their visitor center throughout the summer. Wyoming's National Forests will remain open but may operate with reduced visitor centers, campsites, and back country access. The gateway cities of Jackson and Cody are open for business year-round and are eager to greet visitors this spring and summer.
The welcome mat is still out in Wyoming!
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Best Dance Songs: December 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 08:00AM
Baby Armie's dance charts are also available on Resident Advisor. Variations are available on Spotify and Beatport.
- E.R.P - "Snowday" [Stilleben Records]
- OOBE - "Radiation" [1080p]
- Hannah Diamond - "Every Night" [PC Music]
- The Cyclist - "Breathless" [All City]
- DJ Double Nugget - "Dance Floor" [LuckyMe Records]
- Grimecraft - "Castle" [Singles Club]
- Profligate - "Girl Full of Joy" [Not Not Fun Records]
- ALSO - "Dive Prophets" [R&S Records]
- Artcrime - "Running Nowhere" [W.T. Records]
- UltraaBriight - "Vague" [Orange Milk Records]
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Jan 29 2009
the one thing i liked about facebook was that you had that one tag line saying "Meghan is…" and you get to fill in the rest.
enter twitter.com
now i can post from my phone what dorky things pop into my head at any given moment! to me, that's pretty rad!
so if you're interested, i signed up.
could i get any dorkier? probably…..
3 Responses to "twitter"
# Shelleyon 29 Jan 2009 at 12:50 pm
If you are liking Twitter you should checkout Plurk. A TON of knitters jumped over to Plurk because its WAY easier to follow a conversation that way. (oh and if you want to see what OTHER knitters are on Twitter or Plurk, both have groups in Ravelry). Plus I think both have a tie in to your facebook ( I know Plurk does) so you can plurk and it will update your facebook status AND plurk if you want.
# catrina1223on 29 Jan 2009 at 4:21 pm
Yay! I love twitter. ;)
# Tonyaon 04 Feb 2009 at 9:18 am
I've been signed up but just just decided to give it a go! I miss chatting on Ravelry and figure this will be easy. Darn life is getting in the way of my fun!


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There are more start-ups per person in Estonia than in any other country in Europe, according to The Wall Street Journal.
This is not surprising. The country is home to Skype, NATO Cyber Defence headquarters and the first government ever elected online in 2005. Estonia is often called the new Silicon Valley and the "Start-up Nation", a title for which it competes with Israel. To put things into perspective, every single school in Estonia had Internet access by the year 2000.
A formerly assembler programmer, Estonian president (Toomas Hendrik Ilves) uses a 27-inch iMac at work and owns a MacBook Air and an iPad2.


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New "BIG BAD WOLVES" trailer really nails itMovies/TV,News Michael Gingold
The U.S. movie year 2014 gets off to a great start with the January release of the Israeli shocker BIG BAD WOLVES, for which a new trailer has just been unveiled.
Opening January 17 in theaters and on VOD from Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Releasing, BIG BAD WOLVES is about a child-murder case that brings together a vengeance-seeking father, a rogue cop and a dubious suspect, mixing brutal violence with savage black humor. Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, creators of RABIES, wrote and directed, with Lior Ashkenazi, Rotem Keinan, Tzahi Grad and Dov Glickman starring. See the trailer, which nicely captures the mix of tones and has a neat little kicker, by clicking the graphic below, read our review here and look for a feature story on BIG BAD WOLVES in Fango #330, on sale next month. Visit the movie's official website and Facebook page, too.


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I've had my small cafe bag for about a month, so I feel comfortable giving an enthusiastic review now.
Since I'm a guy who was buying my first everyday bag (ok, man purse) to hold all my stuff that usually burdens my pockets (cell phone, keys, pen, compact digicam, etc.), I definitely wanted a bag that wouldn't be mistaken for a purse. :-) I spent quite a long time looking at different bags from various sources online, but the Tom Bihn cafe bag seemed like the best combination of style and utility. A short while later, I finally decided on the small cafe bag in Olive/Wasabi and clicked the order button. Next week when the box arrived, I enjoyed the cookie that fell out of the box along with my bag... a nice, quirky touch like that is always appreciated. (mmm...cookie)
As for the bag itself, I was impressed right out of the box at the quality of the stitching and overall workmanship. A small but nice surprise is my small cafe bag's strap. It's constructed a little bit differently than the photos currently available on the product page... The photos depict a adjustment buckle that slides on the length of the strap itself and a small plastic shoulder pad... just like a typical shoulder strap. On my small cafe bag, the shoulder pad is much nicer... it's larger and contoured, with fabric on one side and a grippy, rubbery material on the other. Strap length on mine is adjusted using buckles attached on both sides of the bag, so the "extra" strap ends hang from both sides. I think this makes the bag look quite good. I'm not sure whether it's a recent revision, but I definitely prefer the strap that is on mine. When you're wearing it across your body, you also don't have an adjustment buckle digging into your body and this shoulder pad is quite a bit more pliable and comfortable. I'm perfectly content with this bag, but it you had to press me for any quibbles I would only have one: the zipper jingles a bit when I'm walking. Not necessarily annoying, but you notice it when it's quiet around you.
After a month, the small cafe fits my needs perfectly and it still looks brand new. I can see this bag lasting a long time while still looking smart years from now, so I'm glad that I spent the extra money for a Tom Bihn bag. The best thing is that no one has made fun of my "man purse" at all. Thanks for the great bag and friendly discussion forum...


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Orrin Sylvanus REDFIELD -- Humboldt Union -- September 12, 1910
O.S.(Orrin Sylvanus) REDFIELD died at his home in this city at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday after suffering for several months with rheumatism. His death had been expected for some time. With the exception of his son, Orrin, all the family living were at his bedside when he passed away. He was seventy-one years old, and was born at Twinsburg, Ohio. When the war broke out he volunteered in on Ohio regiment as a musician, and served two years. In 1870 he was married to Miss Sarah HENTZ, and then came to Humboldt, where he has resided since. While a resident of Humboldt he was engaged in business for himself and others until the past few years when he was not able to do much work. He was a member of Vicksburg Post No. 72, of this city.
Besides his wife he leaves two sons, Clark and Orrin, Jr., and two daughters, Mrs. Alex SCHLEICHER and Miss Josephone REDFIELD. Roy, another son, died several years ago.
The funeral services were held Friday at the residence, and burial at Mt. Hope cemetery. A large number of friends attended these services.
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I am very excited to show you the progress on my first Ball Jointed Doll. I've already had some trials and errors, but these are the pieces that I'm finally happy with.
My wonderful and talented friend Kaerie Faerie is helping me along the way on this project. She makes the most wonderful clay and porcelain ball jointed dollies. You can visit her blog here!
Now for the Works In Progress photos. This is what I've done so far...
Her name is Molley and since she is my first Ball Jointed Dollie, I will be keeping her. I can't wait to play with her when she's done.
If I'm successful at making Ball Jointed Dollies, I will try to make some in the future for my etsy shop. I know that I have a lot to learn and probably a few BJ Dollies that I will have to create in order to get it right. So until next time...
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2:46 am | January 6, 2014
The public is welcome to attend the three shows leading up to the BCS game telecast today.
All three are based near City Hall, 100 N. Garfield, down Holly Street, near the intersection of Holly Street and Marengo Avenue. Â Admission is free.
ESPN Radio's 26 bowl game broadcast schedule will culminate with the VIZIO BCS National Championship, No. 1 Florida State vs. No. 2 Auburn, Monday, Jan. 6, at 8:30 p.m. ET. Mike Tirico, Todd Blackledge, Holly Rowe and Joe Schad will provide commentary.
Several ESPN Radio shows will also emanate from Pasadena, with nine consecutive hours of live talk, interviews and analysis on January 6, leading up to the championship game.
The Herd with Colin Cowherd will kick off the on-site programs at 10 a.m. ET and will be followed by SVP & Russillo (Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo) at 1 p.m. and a special three-hour ESPN Radio College GameDay: BCS Special at 4 p.m. Russillo, Trevor Matich and Brad Edwards will host.
The January 6, 2014 schedule (all times ET):
- 10 a.m. (7 am PT) The Herd with Colin Cowherd, ESPN Radio with a simulcast on ESPNU
- 1 p.m. (10 am PT) SVP & Russillo, ESPN Radio with a simulcast on ESPNEWS
- 4:00 p.m. (1 pm PT) ESPN Radio College GameDay: BCS Special, ESPN Radio
- 8:30 p.m. (5:30 pm PT) VIZIO BCS National Championship, ESPN Radio (at stadium)
The Herd will be live from the ESPNLA 710 AM studio on Friday, Jan. 3, and Tuesday, Jan. 7. SVP & Russillo will be live from the ESPNLA 710 studio on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
Colin's New Football Show Live from LA on January 5
Cowherd will host Colin's New Football Show live from ESPN's Los Angeles Production Center Sunday, Jan. 5, at 9 a.m. on ESPN2. The 60-minute program will focus on the BCS National Championship and NFL Wild Card Weekend. Regular segments such as Cage Confessionals will be featured.


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Your marketing is a well-oiled machine. You have marketing campaigns running across many channels, and your content is delivering huge amounts of value to your audience.
Yet things could be better. Optimization is a key priority for marketers, but where do you start?
The answer: Audience segmentation.
Segmenting your customers is the fastest way to boost the performance of your marketing. By identifying key characteristics of your customers, you can develop the right message and target the best channels to attract them.
In this article, I'll show you how to uncover these characteristics, and how to apply them to four of the most common (and critical) marketing channels.
Start with laser-focused messaging
Your message is the foundation of your marketing machine. Therefore, this is where you must always start.
The philosophy is simple: deliver personalized messaging to carefully defined audience segments in order to better serve them and increase conversions.
Every channel we'll talk about from here depends on this step. In this section, you'll learn how to properly segment your customers and develop the right messaging. These insights will then be used to create personas, to help guide your efforts and keep your teams on the same page.
Segmenting customers with market data
Market segmentation requires a sophisticated understanding of your customers. This means looking at a broader range of data to get a more informed picture of your customers.
Marketers often rely on a qualitative approach, using surveys and conducting customer interviews to yield insight. This is still key, but a more data-driven approach is required.
This usually starts with demographic data, but rarely goes much further. Having granular data on behavior and insights will help you understand your customers needs and serve relevant content to them.
These are the four types of data you should be collecting:
- Demographic Data: Characteristics that indicate buying behavior i.e. what they buy, how they buy it and why they need or desire it.
- Purchase Data: Turns engagement data into indicators of purchase. This indicates who follows and buys from a brand.
- Social Behavior: Shows how social groups behave and interact with each other, as well as the brands they follow.
- Financial Data: Fundamental to pricing strategy, this insight shows how well a price tag fits with a segment (e.g. holiday campsite or luxury camping?)
Using this data, you can identify your best customers and most engaged followers. Here are some example demographics of top engagers for haircare brand DevaCurl:
Understanding commonalities in gender, age and ethnicity will allow you to better direct your marketing, from the emails you send to the influencers you work with.
These decisions don't stop at demographics. Here's an example of purchase data from the same segment, demonstrating their commercial habits and affiliations:
Collect as much data on your customers as possible. This will help build accurate persona documents on each segment as you begin to develop and refine them.
Talk to your customers
I'll be honest: while data is compulsory in today's marketing climate, it's important to remember to do things that don't scale.
Take customer interviews for example. Qualitative research used to be the cornerstone of understanding your customers. Now it easily falls by the wayside.
By coupling both market data with qualitative insights, you get a complete picture of your customers needs. You just need to ask them for it.
Let's start by asking the right questions. Marketers often make the mistake of asking misleading questions, which look like this:
- What features would you look for in X product?
- Would you buy a product that does X?
- How much would you be willing to spend on X product?
With these questions, you'll end up hunting for product validation, not customer insight. Instead, you must ask questions that uncover who your customers are, as well as their needs, desires, and challenges.
Think about how your brand helps people. Uncovering baseline challenges are the first step. These are questions like:
- What do you find most difficult about X (job role, specific task etc.)?
- What was most challenging about this?
- What do you love most about X (camping, makeup etc.)?
- What don't you love about X?
These questions are all designed to uncover their desires, challenges, and headaches. This is important information to collect when building your personas.
Surveys are also useful when organizing this insight into accurately defined customer segments. Demographic-based questions will allow you to build personas that represent those you talk to.
Ask multiple-choice questions about gender, age, and interests. For example, an ecommerce site selling camping gear could ask what their audience is most interested in, for example:
- Wild camping
- Glamping
- Basic outdoor tent setup
- Festivals
This insight on their deepest needs and wants, coupled with market data, will empower you to accurately direct your marketing message.
You now have quantitative data coupled with the insights generated from customer interviews. With it, you can put together accurate personas and define your customer segments.
Defining your customer segments
Documented personas are, without a doubt, the best way to clearly communicate your customer segments. It keeps your entire organization on the same page with who you're serving. Plus it will help guide your marketing efforts across all channels.
Buyer/marketing/customer personas – call them what you want. Let's dig into how to create one.
Start with a creative and descriptive name. For the glampers in the previous section, we could give them the name "Glamping Grace." This creates a human element, and you should even go as far as adding a profile picture based on your understanding of them.
Record all demographic information down, including age range, household income, and geographic location. Salary, educational and family information must also be included when possible.
Next, take the insight from your customer interviews and distill them into common challenges and desires. For Glamping Grace, these could include:
"I love nature, but I hate wet wipes and cramped tents."
"I want my kids to experience the great outdoors with the organization of a four-star holiday."
Pay attention to the language they use. Create a separate section in your persona document for buzz words, as these will be handy for your copywriting efforts.
The result should look something like this (image taken from The Persona Playbook):
Get creative with the layout and delivery of your persona documents. As you talk with your customers, you may find there's room for other categories. A more diverse persona will always lead to better marketing.
Now you've segmented and defined your customers, I'll show you how to apply these insights to your marketing efforts.
Boost SEO effectiveness with segmented keyword research
SEO traffic is the holy grail of marketing. If you can secure and maintain first page rankings for top keywords, you'll enjoy a steady stream of targeted traffic.
The game has changed in recent years. Search intent and behavior has become more sophisticated, requiring marketers to do the same.
Keyword research is the cornerstone of a good SEO strategy. But it's no longer simply about broad or long-tail keywords.
Let's first look at some common keyword segments, followed by more sophisticated methods of keyword targeting.
Common keyword segments
The most common keyword segment is commercial intent. In the B2C world, money-phrases are the most sought-after keyword type. These include words like "buy," "shop," "online," "order," etc.
Micro-moments are another common segment, which clearly identifies the context and intent of the searcher. The user typically begins these searches with "I want…" For example:
- I want to know [THING]
- I want to go [PLACE]
- I want to buy [THING]
- I want to do [ACTIVITY]
While these give marketers a method of being perceived as the right choice, there is still variation in commercial intent.
For example, users searching "I want to know" and "I want to do" are usually looking for an instant result (often in the form of knowledge). They want an answer to their query fast, which likely means they're not looking to buy.
Whereas "I want to go" and "I want to buy" indicates strong commercial intent. The former could be a restaurant, coffee shop or retail outlet, while the latter has a high chance of leading to a sale.
While these are incredibly sought-after keyword segments, they're also in high demand. The competitive landscape can be tough, which is why alternative segments are needed at all stages of the buying cycle.
Alternative keyword segments
So, how can you get an advantage over the competition?
"Alternative products" is one keyword segment that provides many opportunities. For example, "luxury camping" is an alternative to "glamping." Looking at the data, it's clear that we've already stumbled upon one "alternative keyword:"
Glamping has a higher amount of searches and a lower competition, which makes it appealing. However, the "Suggested bid" column is a strong indicator of commercial intent. Brands are willing to spend a higher amount for "luxury camping," which suggests a stronger ROI.
So, which should you choose to pursue?
Test them both! Use PPC campaigns to measure ROI. Then you can make a decision to put resources into ranking for one, or even both.
Segmenting by awareness
Finally, segment your keywords by level of awareness. These are the stages your customer goes through as they become aware of their needs and your brand:
- Needs awareness: Your customer is looking for an answer to their question, but they're unsure what the solution is.
- Solution awareness: The customer understands the landscape and what their options could be. But they're not yet aware of yours.
- Specific solution awareness: They know your solution exists, but they're unaware of the benefits.
- Benefit awareness: They know how your solution will help them, but they've not yet been persuaded.
- Purchase: They're ready to buy!
At the first step, they're aware of a desire or need but not how to solve it. This will inspire searches like "how to" and "I want to" to research and figure things out.
In the second step, they've found out what these solutions are. "Glamping" and "luxury camping" are two examples of this. In the third step, they should be aware of your brand and what it has to offer.
Step four might lead them to review sites and product pages. They'll be looking for the best solution for them based on the information they find.
At step five, they'll be using keywords like "buy," "book," and "order." This is where you'll generate the greatest ROI.
As you can see, SEO isn't a linear process – and neither is the customer journey. In fact, the customer is now in charge of their own journey. This not only means targeting the right keywords but also creating the best content that guides them towards the next step.
Content marketing: Make every piece count
As Seth Godin once put it, "Content marketing is the only marketing that's left."
And rightly so! It's designed to deliver educational and entertaining value to your audience. But content for the sake of it isn't enough. You must carefully identify challenges and map the right content to each stage of the customer lifecycle.
Luckily for you, you already know what your customers' challenges are. The next step is to map them to the customer lifecycle.
Mapping content to the customer lifecycle
The customer lifecycle is a simple model. It will help you to map which stage a customer is in the buying process. There are five stages, which are:
- Awareness: Identification of problem/desire. Awareness that your product/service can help fulfill it.
- Consideration: Evaluation of how exactly you meet these needs, as well as that of your competition.
- Preference & Intent: A logical and emotional decision has been made towards one solution or another.
- Purchase: The action of ordering/going through checkout.
- Retention & Advocacy: Delighting your customers enough to inspire repeat purchases, subscription retention, and word-of-mouth referrals.
This looks a lot like the awareness keyword segments from the previous section, which means you know which keywords to target. But what does this content look like? Let's look at the format your content should take to cater to each stage of the lifecycle.
Awareness content
As you know, people are constantly searching for the solutions to their problems. This journey often starts with a process of discovery — searching for how-to guides and education.
Your job is to generate awareness of your brand by providing content that provides this education. Not only that, your content must be better than anything else available.
What are the common challenges you discovered from your customer conversations? What can be solved with content?
For example, the Glamping Grace's aren't sure what to look for when buying equipment. From this, we can brainstorm these content ideas:
- "Buying a Sleeping Bag: The Glamper's Guide"
- "7 Things to Look for When Buying a Glamping Tent"
- "14 Camping Cooking Utensils For Glampers"
This kind of content illustrates exactly what your audience is looking for. Relevant formats for this kind of content include:
- Blog posts
- eBooks
- Infographics
- Webinars
- Email newsletters
- Tools (calculators, quizzes, etc.)
The objective of this content is to attract traffic and convert visitors into subscribers or leads. From here, it's your job to educate them on your solution.
Consideration content
Now they know what to look for in a tent, you must help them evaluate which one to choose.
As you've already provided content that helps them with this, half of the work is already done. But you still need to build trust. This is where testimonials, case studies and other forms of content will come into play.
Customer stories are also incredibly compelling, especially in video form. Can you demonstrate how your customers use your product in action?
For our camping example, this could include shots of a beautiful landscape, the camper unzipping their tent in the morning before boiling water for their coffee. Include a voice over that describes their experience and you're on to a great piece of content.
Preference content
This is where your website will do the heavy lifting. Your product pages, copy, design, and imagery must all bring out the best in what you're selling.
This is also the best time to collect additional contact information. Product descriptions, sales pages, and demos are key in building trust and persuading your audience to do business with you.
Purchase content
Some customers may need a little nudge when persuading them to hand you their credit card details. Purchase content helps make the deal sweeter and comes in the form of:
- Coupons: Give a percentage off the listed price. Works well with remarketing campaigns to combat cart abandonment.
- Last chance emails: Send an email when something is about to sell out, or when you're closing the doors to a product/event.
- Display ads: More aggressive PPC and social ad campaigns targeted at these users can help persuade them to buy.
Don't forget that the checkout process itself should be considered here. Ensure you're doing everything you can to prevent abandonment. Add "trust badges" to show that their financial details are secure is key.
Retention content
As you collect data on your customer's' buying habits, you'll be able to send marketing for other, relevant products and services.
Amazon does this better than anyone. Soon after placing an order, you'll see display ads for relevant products, as well as "People also bought" when you head to their website:
You'll even see these recommendations in your order confirmation email, striking while the iron is hot.
The most effective way to retain customers, however, is to delight them with such a great experience that they can't help but stick around. Packaging, customer service and surprises (such as bonuses) can turn a customer into a raving fan.
Hyper-targeted email marketing
Email marketing is one of those channels that has passed the test of time. Segmentation is key, but if you're simply relying on separate lists you're missing out on better results.
If you're new to segmentation or looking for some unseen gems, you'll find some new approaches in these techniques that anyone can apply.
Segmenting by demographics
This is the most common form of email segmentation, but often goes overlooked. Age, location, income and job title can inform which emails you send to which customer segment.
When collecting new customer or subscriber information through a form, include some demographic information. For example, if you're selling B2B software, then job title will be important. Whereas a fashion retailer would want to gather data on information such as gender.
Getting the right number of fields requires some trial and error. While it might be beneficial to include many demographic fields, it might cause abandonment due to form friction. Test your form length to find the sweet spot for conversions.
Segmenting by engagement
Cater your message to those who engage with your emails in different ways. This is another basic way of segmenting your emails, but it can go a long way.
Send different emails for those who open and click your emails. Let's say you're running a clearance sale on certain camping goods, and some respondents click-through on the first email.
Using the data within your email marketing service, you can amend the messaging and timing of the second for those who clicked. In this case, it would be considered contextual to send the second email earlier than those who did not even open the first. They've expressed interest, and so a reminder email is more likely to be welcome.
Segmenting by behavior
Emails can be triggered based on what users do on your website. Using technology such as MailChimp's Goals feature, you can generate more data about your visitors' interests.
You can send emails to users who did (or didn't) visit certain pages, those who visited a certain page but skipped other relevant pages, or multimedia they engaged with (such as video).
This level of behavioral segmentation allows you to send well-timed emails, striking while the iron is hot. For example, if a customer adds an item to their cart, but leaves without reaching checkout, you can send an email to entice them back.
Segmenting by funnel position
This is by far one of the most powerful ways to segment your emails, and ties in with the lifecycle stages we covered in the previous section.
Identify which stage of the funnel your users are in, and serve them relevant content until they indicate further interest. Awareness content would involve educational and entertaining content, and your emails must deliver upon this.
On the other end, emails at the purchase stage would include discounts/coupons and other offers. They would also come in the form of triggered cart abandonment emails.
This provides you with an opportunity to follow-up to let them know the items they wanted are still in stock. You can also send behavioral emails based on the products they viewed, and email them with relevant offers.
Segmenting your email marketing works similar to content. You need to match your message to the lifecycle. With email, you have the added bonus of automating timed, compelling messages based on behavior. Get your targeting and timing right, and you'll see email marketing ROI skyrocket.
Social media segmentation for stronger engagement
Social media has always been a platform for brand building and engaging with your audience.
But one question comes up again and again: "how can I improve the ROI I'm generating from social?"
It's likely you're already aware of the concept behind the segmentation techniques I've covered so far. But when it comes to social media segmentation, not many marketers are doing it.
Here's how to segment your social media audience for better results.
Organic social targeting
Getting your organic social media posts to the right people is straightforward. In Facebook, you can select which of your followers see your post based on interests and demographics:
In LinkedIn, you can choose targeting options based on the size of company, industry, job function and location. If you're in the B2B realm, this can be huge in making sure your message gets to the right decision maker.
Facebook Groups and Twitter lists are another great way to engage directly with different user segments. For example, you could create a luxury camping group to build a community of passionate Glamping Grace's.
Use Twitter lists to keep track of your best customer and prospects. Place resources to constantly monitor the activity in these lists, engaging with customers in a way that contributes to the conversation and shows there's a human behind the brand.
Paid social targeting
Organic segmentation gets the right people to your audience. Paid social media, however, allows you to expand that message to a wider audience.
Most of the dominant social networks now have some form of ad solution. For the sake of this guide, we'll focus on Facebook Ads, as it's still the most popular among them:
The power of Facebook ads lies in its targeting. Serve ads to users based on their location, age, gender and – most importantly – their interests:
What's more, you can target people by their behavior. Travel habits, anniversaries and digital activities are all methods of identifying your audience.
The most powerful of these behavioral targeting features is in purchase behavior. Target people who have purchased anything from luxury goods to pet food:
Finally, there's no better way to accurately target than to use your existing segments. With Lookalike Audiences, you can upload your email list and, providing they're associated with a Facebook account, Facebook will then create a custom audience based on the interests and demographic of that list. This is a lucrative paid social media approach, as they typically have a high click-through rate than other types. Check out this guide from Driftrock to learn more and get started.
I'll be honest. Market segmentation can be easy to get started with, but difficult to get right.
Categorizing your customers into different personas and making sure you understand their interests can be a daunting task. But once it's done, it will pay off for many years.
What methods are you using to segment your audience? Do you have sophisticated methods of collecting and analyzing data?


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Over the weekend I was honored to be able to attend the yearly NFRA convention in Orlando, Florida. It's an all weekend affair that's focused on the many great brands that showcase their amazing food in the refrigerated and frozen food aisles of your grocery stores. In addition to all of the brands and retailers being able to connect about partnerships, advertising, etc. it's also an opportunity to highlight the latest and greatest of what's to come in the near future. From new packaging and added flavors to brand new and innovative foods that will be hitting the shelves, I got an insider look into 2015.
The Taste of Excellence event literally feels like a black tie ceremony given the beautiful chandeliers, dim lights and amazing hospitality from the brand directors. From the moment I walked in I was absolutely blown away at the ambiance that accompanied amazing food. I got so caught up in the conversation and atmosphere that I literally forgot that everything I ate was from the frozen food aisle. You would've thought there was an entire crew of well-trained chefs in the kitchen working diligently to put out such timely and tasty treats. As a chef and content creator, you so rarely get sneak peeks into new foods, much less interactions with the people that created the dishes. Obviously, there are so many things to praise at the event, but something that you don't take for granted is the transparency and passion that each brand has for their newly created masterpiece. It was refreshing.
Although I was distracted by such amazing food and chatting, I did manage to snap some pictures and document a few things that caught my attention. While I was already convinced that the frozen and refrigerated food aisles rocked, the night left me without a shadow of a doubt what I had always perceived to be true. With a family and a little one to feed, including full meals as well as snacks, I walked away so excited I could barely control myself. Crazy to think all this about frozen food, but I saw so many fantastic options that will help me get a great meal on the table every single night.
Enough of the love fest and on to the food! Let's start with dessert, because WHY NOT?! I'm always looking to satisfy my sweet tooth and the three things I ate did exactly that! The Bourbon and Pecan ice cream from Graeter's may have been the most amazing thing I have eaten in a long time. The bourbon flavors were subtle and the ice cream was loaded with huge, and I mean huge, chunks of pecans and chocolate. All I could think about was how much could I eat before I felt sick; I'm thinking I could have easily eaten a gallonJ. The second, which my wife and daughter would have loved, was by Luna Pops. They make small popsicles that use real, mashed up fruit and throw a few chocolate chips in for a little kick. I devoured the raspberry chocolate chip popsicle and walked away thinking how this would be such a great dessert alternative for my daughter, rather than just loading her up with sugar. Can't wait for these to come out. Lastly, So Delicious, who has an emphasis in the dairy-free coconut world, is getting ready to launch a coconut whipped cream that is absolutely ridiculous. It's dairy-free, gluten-free and literally would go insanely awesome on any cake, pie, chocolate shake, coffee, you name it! Heck, I would possibly put it on a roast it's that stinkin good!
Along with great dessert options for my kid, I found the snacks that were showcased to be equally as inviting. Crystal Farms is coming out with little, flavored cheese snacks called Nibblers that are really tasty. We got to try the Buffalo Monterey Jack Cheese Nibblers and wow were they spot on. I couldn't help but think of what else I could do with these, like finish a creamy dip or melt'em on some chicken. Most importantly though, my daughter loves cheese and these are just a great option and substitute to chips and other indulgent snacks. Really cool! The other snack I was obsessed with were the Dole Pineapple Dippers, which were frozen pieces of pineapple coated in chocolate. Seriously, I'm not even sure there needs to be an explanation, they were awesome. They were refreshing from the pineapple and deliciously sweet and smooth from the chocolate. I'm for sure going to buy 50,000 boxes once these come out.
Pizza. Even when it's bad it's good right? Well not always, especially when you have to wait for an hour and a half for a cold pizza, thanks to the late delivery guy. Well, if you're looking for restaurant-quality from your very own home, you'll find it from the frozen food aisle. No more waiting or eating cold pizzas, all you need is an oven and a hungry belly for 100% satisfaction. There are so many great new pizzas coming out this fall, winter and spring that there should be no need to ever call your local pizza spot again. I was blown away at how fresh the ingredients and how delicious the crusts were. They were serving up pepperoni, Mediterranean and my personal favorite from the guys over at Palermo's – a Screamin' Sicilian with bacon, chicken and jalapeño. Shoot all I needed was a beer and a football game and I would've been in heaven. Amazing!
The place was packed full of great food and obviously it was very difficult to capture everything, but there were a few more things that really caught my eye. The frozen appetizers and entrées were mind blowing. The presentation, colors, richness and flavors that came from these dishes were so good, I still am flabbergasted that they came from the freezer. You could visually see how fresh and properly cooked everything was. There was no grease or mushy vegetables, bright bell peppers and al dente cooked beans in the stir-fry and perfect textures in the bimbimbop. The stuffed chicken was perfectly breaded on the outside and the pot stickers were stuffed to the brim. Everyone knows how hard homemade pot stickers are to make, so my suggestion is don't— leave it up to the guys over at Ajinomoto. Also, can't forget about the electric light show coming from the new refrigerators. I was getting ready to put in some chips and pull the lever because for a second I thought I was in Vegas!! I'd rather take the food than lose money though. J
The quick and excellent options that the frozen food aisle provides, rivals what you make from scratch in your own kitchen, with a fraction of the time and costs. Let's be honest, these foods and meals are being prepared in real kitchens, by real chefs using produce that is in peak season and is then simply frozen for convenience and longevity. In the end, it's all about getting a great meal that doesn't take all day, and arrives at the table where your family can enjoy— all so you can concentrate on what matters. There is no sacrificing flavor or time when it comes to these meals and I can't wait for you to try the next hot wave of great food that will be sweeping through the frozen food aisle within the next few months.


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You can sing songs over and over again, and suddenly, a word or lyric catches you, and you wonder what it was you were singing about. Today, for me, it was Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing!
Verse 2:
Here I raise my Ebenezer,
Hither by Thy help I've come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
Here I raise my Ebenezer? What's an ebenezer? Like Scrooge? Google to the rescue. Here's some of what I've found:
"Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, "Till now the Lord has helped us."" 1 Samuel 7:12 ESV
"Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and he called the name of it Ebenezer [stone of help], saying, Heretofore the Lord has helped us." 1 Samuel 7:12 AMPC
From housetohouse.com: "This hymn, written by Robert Robinson in 1758, stresses the joy of Christianity and the Christian's need to rely on the Lord. Robinson chose the phrase, Here I raise my Ebenezer, from 1 Samuel 7:12, because it reminds God's people how He he delivered Israel from danger.
Chapters 4 through 7 of 1 Samuel describe a series of battles between the Israelites and the Philistines. In an attempt to defeat the Philistines, the Israelites took the ark of the covenant into battle as a sort of good luck charm. To their anguish, however, the Philistines captured the ark and took it back to their pagan temple. God then sent plagues upon the Philistines and caused the idol of their god Dagon to fall over on its face. Fearing God, the Philistines sent the ark back to the Israelites, but continued to fight. As they fought more battles, the prophet Samuel led the Israelites as their last judge. As prophet and judge, Samuel offered sacrifices to God, so that when the Philistines approached, God thundered with a great thunder (1 Samuel 7:10). In the confusion that followed, the Israelites soundly debfeated the Philistines."
From Apologetic Press: "The word Ebenezer comes from the Hebrew words 'Eben hà-ezer (eh'-ben haw-e'-zer), which simply mean "stone of help"….. When Robinson wrote his lyrics, he followed the word Ebenezer with the phrase, "Here by Thy great help I've come." An Ebenezer, then, is simply a monumental stone set up to signify the great help that God granted the one raising the stone. In Robinson's poem, it figuratively meant that the writer—and all who subsequently sing the song—acknowledge God's bountiful blessings and help in their lives."
Here (right now) I (Becky) raise my ebenezer, a stone to represent all God has helped me with, hither (to this place, this time) by God's help I've come.
Altars were built of stones to commemorate an event, often a miracle, where God stepped in and showed His power and might. These stones, or altars were often given a name. This name and the altar was to remind the people of what God had done.
I need to research these altars!


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Canadian Military Medical Services Memorial
The Canadian Military Medical Services (CMMS) Memorial, originally unveiled in November 1984, was re-dedicated April 9 to all fallen health services members. The memorial is surrounded by a tall cluster of pine trees behind the Canadian Forces Health Services Training Centre at CFB Borden, Ontario. Newly and chronologically inscribed across its plaque exterior are the names of the 1394 CF health services personnel who have fallen in service to Canada since the Boer War, including the six frontline medical technicians who gave their lives in Afghanistan.
The memorial is truly a place of respect and honour for many, while it marks a location of reflection and solace for others. To this day, the Med Tech QL3 rebadging ceremony continues to take place at this very special and monumental CFHS location. It is where the new QL3 Med Tech graduates accept the responsibilities bestowed upon them, and officially take up their personal torch in respect and acknowledgement of the many CFHS personnel that have fallen and unfortunately, paid the ultimate sacrifice. After many, many months (for some even years) of Med Tech training this ceremony is considered a great honour; the beginning of their much awaited journey and even for some, an emotional realization and acceptance of their new found role as RCMS Med Techs.
There still remains many vacant places for additional commemorative bricks/plaques on the memorial. As such, on behalf of the CFHSTC memorabilia committee, we request your assistance in passing on, throughout your respective areas of responsibilities, this message of opportunity. The purchased brick may underline the memory of someone special/ be in honour of someone's service with the Health Services / to honour the care the purchaser or someone they know have received / or for no particular reason at all. The options are endless, and only left to the purchaser's imagination. Donation can be made by cheque to "CFHSTC Commemorative Monument Fund" P.O. Box 1000, Station Main, Borden, On, L0M 1C0
Colonel Darby Bergin, MD, MP, Monument, Glen Walter, Glengarry County, Ontario
Col Darby Bergin was a graduate of McGill University School of Medicine and began his military service a regimental surgeon and then commanded infantry units being the first Commanding Officer of the 59th Stormont & Glengarry Battalion, perpetuated by the Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Highlanders. He later became Canada's first Surgeon General and an advocate for the creation of an Army Medical Corps.
Matron Georgina Pope, RRC, Valiants Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario
Georgina Pope (1862-1938) was the first Matron in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, a position she attained in 1908. She served as a military nurse in the Second Boer War, which earned her the Royal Red Cross Medal for meritorious and distinguished service in 1903. She was the first Canadian to receive this honour. Her WW1 service was in Canadian hospitals in France and the UK. She was 55 years old when she went overseas in 1917. Click here to learn more about Georgina Pope.
Colonel Elizabeth Smellie, CBE, RRC, RN, Historical Plaque, Waverly Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Upon the Outbreak of war in 1914, Elizabeth Smellie volunteered to provide service overseas. While serving in England and France as a hospital matron, she was mentioned in dispatches in 1915. In 1917, she was awarded the Royal Red Cross by King George V at Buckingham Palace. At the end of the war, she was assistant to the Matron-in-Chief, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Services in Ottawa where she remained until 1920. During WWII, Smellie served as Matron-in-Chief, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Services. Click here to learn more about Elizabeth Smellie.
John McCrea/RCAMC Memorial Plaque Ypres
In June 1966 members of 1 Field Ambulance, Soest, Germany, dedicated a memorial plaque in St Georges Memorial Church, Ypres, Belgium, in memory of Lieutenant Colonel John McCrea, author of the poem In Flanders Fields and members of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps who paid the supreme sacrifice.
Nursing Sister Statue Saskatchewan War Memorial Regina
A new (and last) statue has been unveiled at the Saskatchewan War Memorial. This statue of a war nurse has now a place beside that of a First World War Canadian soldier with both flanking the names of thousands and thousand of brave Canadian men and women who lost their lives during combat. The Statue was unveiled by LCol (Retired) Hallie Sloan, CM, CD, RN, RCAMC. Note: Saskatchewan War Memorial is located just west of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building, near Wascana Lake and the Albert Memorial Bridge.
Monument to British Columbia Military Medical Services Personnel
Established by the 12 (Vancouver) Medical Company Unit Associations in 1995 the monument is located in the garden of Brock Fahrni Pavilion on the grounds of the BC Women's and Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
Nina Rumen, RN, BScN, Vancouver's Monuments to Nurses , Vancouver: BC History of Nursing Group.
This photo album identifies and describes monuments in Vancouver BC that are specifically dedicated to Nursing Sister.
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Memorial at Juno Beach
As a closure to the year that marked 100 years of military medical service in Canada, the Defence Medical Association (DMA) of Canada, accepted to sponsor a project proposed by Major (Ret'd) Denis Pilote, National Secretary of the Association. The project was to have a suitable plaque as a testament to RCAMC members who died or were wounded in Normandy. On October 15, 2005 the plaque mounted on a WWII Canadian tank named "BOLD" was unveiled. The tank is located on the section of Juno Beach assigned to Canadian troops on D-Day.


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He must needs go through Samaria. (John 4:4) I have always liked that passage of scripture as it embodies the passion and determination Jesus had for His ultimate mission of SALVATION.
Jesus had to go through Samaria because He had a spiritual appointment with a spiritually bankrupt lady. The woman at the well was a mess. She had been married five times and the man she was currently with was not her husband either. While Jesus was well aware of her situation, He did not come to this appointment with condemning stones in His hand. Instead, He came with Living Water. He was not concerned about her soiled past, their cultural differences or that His Jewish brethren snobbishly despised Samaritans. In the woman at the well, He had a spiritual appointment with a sinner in need of a Savior. He was concerned about quenching her spiritual thirst.
Paul provides us with a wonderful word picture of this unifying mindset of Jesus. He says "And He came and preached peace to you who were far away (Gentiles) and peace to those who were near (Jews); for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. (Ephesians 2:17-18) While aware of the differences that have separated them, Paul is not emphasizing them. Instead, he is illuminating their commonality. They have been united together in Christ Jesus.
In marriage, it is very tempting to highlight our thorny differences. We say, he is too quite. She is too chatty. She spends too much money. He is too frugal. She is bringing the pain from previous relationships into the marriage. He is still trying to define himself as a man since he did not have a father figure in his life as a child. However, one of the keys to a successful marriage is not allowing our spouse's faults to cloud our entire view of the marriage. We cannot allow a summer rain shower to become a hurricane. Yes they hurt us; but, they are still the same person we fell in love with. Yes they hurt us; but as we take a look at the BIG PICTURE, this issue is not encompassing of the entire relationship. The pain and frustration we are currently experiencing does not define us as a couple. So we hate the sin but love the person. We do not allow Satan to use our differences and individual sins as a weapon against one another. We are not enemies living in the same house merely going through the motions. We are lovers who have issues that are not insurmountable in Christ Jesus.
So many times in a disagreement, we want to focus on the negative. He did this and she did that. This negativity muffles our chances of finding peace and resolving the disagreement. How can I hear your point of view if you have placed me in a defensive posture via your verbal attacks? How can we find creative solutions to our issues if we are constantly focusing on the negative aspects of our differences?
Now we are not suggesting that you ignore your differences and the inevitable issues they generate. This will only produce quasi peace which will eventually result in a volcanic explosion. Instead, we are advocating positive productive communication that generates effective problem resolution. We cannot find a firm sustainable resolution to the issue if we merely want to vent our frustration about the issue. Yes, we are mad! But how do we find and implement a resolution that is agreeable for both parties.
The old hymn says "there is a bright side somewhere…don't you stop until you find it, there is a bright side somewhere". In Him, we find the bright side. In Him, we can identify the issue and talk about it. In Him, we can extend the same grace and mercy to one another that God has given to us. In Him, we can overcome any obstacle placed in our past.
It's our choice. On one hand, we can accentuate our differences and verbally assault one another. On the other hand, we can identify our differences and find the strength to work through them in Him. Personally speaking, we have chosen the latter. Try it and watch Your Marriage Succeed.
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There Is A Bright Side Somewhere


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MAXIMUM PENALTY URGED IN DOG KILLING Man accused of blowing up dog with explosives faces felony charges
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 6, 2013The Seattle Humane Society urges prosecution to the fullest extent of the law for a Washington state man arrested Sunday for reportedly strapping an explosive device to his dog and blowing her up.
Skamania County Sheriff's deputies arrested Christopher Dillingham of Stevenson early Sunday in response to calls from neighbors who heard an explosion at 3:45 a.m. Deputies discovered the remains of the dog and an investigation showed that an explosive device had been detonated on the dog's collar, according to law enforcement officials and press reports.
"This horrific incident is deeply disturbing and cannot be tolerated by civil society," said Seattle Humane Society CEO David Loewe. "It is important that anyone guilty of harming or injuring animals is held fully accountable for their actions. The Seattle Humane Society urges law enforcement officials to pursue maximum penalties against the suspect in this case."
Dillingham appeared in court Monday in Stevenson and was ordered held on $500,000 bail. He has been charged with felony reckless endangerment and possession of a bomb or explosive device for an unlawful purpose. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.When it comes to animal welfare, your voice is needed! If you suspect that an animal is being neglected or abused, please contact your local animal control agency. Animal control agencies are the only organizations empowered to investigate and enforce animal cruelty or abuse cases. Information provided to your local animal control agency is confidential. A list of local animal control agencies can be found on our website at seattlehumane.org/services/emergencies/cruelty.