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I was privileged to have an opportunity to participate in both the Cub Scout and Boy Scout programs as a youth. I still remember the fear and nervousness I experienced while walking up the Norcross Elementary school bus zone to the cafeteria where Mr. Ebert was standing at the door welcoming inquisitive parents and youth. I would be starting out as a first year Webelos.
About 7 years later, my Troop 26 scout master,...Mr. Means...was awarding me with the Eagle Scout Badge. About 1.5 years later I would receive the Vigil Honor from my fellow brothers in scouting. The experiences and relationships formed while serving with those guys will stay with me for the rest of my life.
Eagle Scout Award :: 1/11/1998
Vigil Honor - Order of the Arrow :: 6/10/1999
The first week of the first quarter of 2010, was legendary in the south for several reasons. First it was the snow storm and freeze over that shut the city of Atlanta down. Then it was a small team at Moxie putting all of the finishing touches on the largest device launch in the history of Verizon Wireless...the iPhone.
In the days leading up to the Jan. 7th launch, I found my dog and myself alone on the roads and alone in the office working 14hr days. It was like something out of the post-apocalypse I Am Legend movie with Will Smith and his dog.
We were the only 2 life forms (excluding rodents) at the entire business complex for 2 days (M/T). A couple of people came in on the 3rd day(W), and a few more on (TH). The office was basically shut down for the entire week. The iPhone dropped that Thursday, I was still wiring up the analytics integration piece a day prior...and Apple did not provide us with the actual creative until last minute...something like midnight of the night prior to the launch (about 10 hours before launch) I think.
I had my own coffee pot that I dragged into my office with my dog, and pretty much was answering the phone and coding non-stop the entire time. We did something like 1MM impressions in the first 24hrs. My indexing on the secondary (backup) data capture table was turned off...so it took some time to debug that and wait for the buffers to get caught back up (imagine traffic/data capture #'s that were way low and not aligning to the analytics for about half a day...annoying to say the least).
It was a great experience.
"Rogue application" (when talking corporate talk) is the term used by the technological majority when speaking to non-techie people to cast a less than positive light on what is perceived to be a technology subculture.
Barriers to entry ::
Rogue applications are riskier to build because there is no (allocated) funding; you do it on your own time (and personally eat the costs) or you don't do it at all. And just in case you think that it's all development...and you're easy sailing, check out a few of the following risks:
Yes some of these have happened to me ::
- Security policies can be changed...making your project explicitly illegal or worse...functionally broken...before the services hit production. It can be risky to openly stir up interest in your dark project while still in alpha or especially concepting. I'd hate to have to re-architect a critical piece of some application (in my spare time) due to some networking firewalls that just seemed to appear out of nowhere.
- Upper mgmt could get ideas and decide to reallocate your project to another internal team (that could shelf the project indefinitely) or send it to an outside 3rd party. Either way, you just failed.
- You lose the client, project or business for which you were building that kitchen sink.
- You get fired before launch.
- And if you're successful and THEN application turns out to have significant design flaws...or whatever...that shit is on your shoulders. Don't expect to get bailed out by corp. resources...which would have never been allocated for your unapproved project to begin with. Now you and your client may be worse off than before...well, definitely you... ^_^
General rule of thumb
This isn't about alienating folks, being unsportsmanlike or engaging mean spirited competition;
it's about getting the best tools for the job into the hands of the people that need it the most. But even still..rogue applications can make people who are following the rules (read as the de-facto status quo) look/feel like they are being less productive, and this may cause unnecessary concern & aggression. Extreme care must be exercised at every stage...especially when introducing such tools to the general population.
Typically, I recommend starting with the most important stakeholders (the client...or...your boss) and then working your way down. Depending on the sensitivity of the project, one may not want to risk telling more savvy individuals who would perhaps understand the implications; let your the stakeholders boast in the tool for you...after it is safely in production.
One of my Eagle Scout/Vigil brothers, Tim.S and I decided to go Jeeping in Buford, GA. The result of that July 4th escapade left me stuck up to my door in mud water and Tim was late for work. His dad, Joe.S, had the guts to drive another Jeep into the marsh to come save my ass.
We drove all the trucks out, and Joe.S even pulled another stranded Jeeper out on the way back. My Jeep felt like the motor was about to fall apart..as the oil viscosity was ruined by river water that had soaked up my intake air filter and no doubt has made its way into the bowels of my motor.
The Jeep needed a new engine, and I didn't have $2K to drop.
Subsequently, my first major credit card purchase was a $1600 straight-six motor from Advanced Auto Parts ($300 core charge). During this time, I was in the middle of taking courses at DeKalb Community College; my boss at Digitrax got a call from the credit card company immediately on the next day. ^_^
I learned the value of a good lab book from my Chemistry Lab class at DeKalb College. And so I picked up a fresh notebook and a Haynes Auto manual for the ZJ chassis and I began to write out the steps for an upcoming lab experiment.
The removal and re-installation of a straight-six ::
- I wrote out the steps...starting with..unplug the battery.
- Looking at the entire job on paper...I purchased all parts and tools that would be needed. An Eagle Scout Vigil brother of mine (Mike.Z) still has my engine stand.
- In weekend #1, I removed the motor.
- I had a full week to rebuild the new motor...prepping it for insertion. There's no better feeling like being able to walk around a motor (full access) after you've spent hours working on it within the cramped vehicle engine bay.
- In weekend #2, I reinstalled a freshly rebuilt block.
I was quoted at $2000 for the entire job by a local shop. I think I saved about $500 doing the gig myself.
Interestingly enough...I had no parts left over, but the Jeep wouldn't start the first time I tried cranking it. I towed it to the local Pepboys in Norcross and asked one of my mechanic friends if they had a second to listen to me turn the motor over.
They suggested I turn my distributor 180 degrees as it seemed none of the sparks were lining up. He even went and pulled out one of his own wrenches for me to perform the 3min task.
After rotating the distributor 180 degrees, it started up immediately and the motor and straight exhaust dump at the Borla header sounded like something fierce. Just at that moment, the mechanics' eyes got big and he quickly asked me if I had put oil in the new motor. ^_^
Throughout the normal and lengthy course of my career in agency, I watched many clients, projects and people come and go as the seasons and business quarters rolled on. When things started to get a little rough (indicated by higher than usual employee churn), I kept my ear to the ground looking for any potential opportunities that may arise to try to create some stability for the team that I was working with. It is worth noting that I had been working with the people on that business team for as long as I had been with Moxie.
That opportunity came towards the front side of 2011 with the prospect of a new real-time messaging service that would tie into the data warehouse of one of our largest clients. The project was correctly rejected according to standard operating procedures by the in-house services development team due to the crazy timeline (something like 2 weeks for delivery). I was asked to stand up a temporary stop-gap until we had solid resources and such so they could properly task the project with a senior developer.
As the solutions engineer at Moxie, I was more than happy to provide a solution for the situation at hand. Through the course of casual conversation, it had became apparent to myself (and at least one more person) that this one project could very easily turn into a functional monopoly on ALL transactional messaging (maybe around +400MM a month). A casual solution was NOT what we needed. We needed something that was more top shelf, and I was up for the challenge.
I agreed to stand up the "stop-gap" web service, and didn't make a big deal about it. It was my goal to build the project tight enough to keep the train on the tracks. There would be plenty of eyeballs looking to fault this hot little open source ROI driver for the slightest defect.
There were several layers to the plan. Knowing that at any moment the project could have been axed or taken away from me...I had to go dark (need to know basis only) on the following ::
- Establishment of a bullet-proof and enterprise grade PHP class library that the small group of PHP developers could begin to leverage (and contribute to) for their PHP projects. Call it an open source community kick-off...or something. Due to the fact that the agency was a traditional .NET shop, there were fewer internal resources devoted to my technology. Before PHP could play with the big boys...we needed bigger guns!
- The class library would also serve as the jump point for a much needed redesign of my teams portal/creative extranet...which was bursting at the architectural seams from the years of duct tape + changes in business process. That portal was a very successful rogue application from 2008 that was in it's 4th year of production; long overdue for an architectural revamp.
- Development of a custom web service that would both meet the current client's needs as well as scale with the growth of the business. This included planning for
functionality that was not requested by the client (such as the mobile alerts real-time messaging). The service would need to be built according the following standards
(that I made up on the fly) ::
- full transparency enabled by advanced error notifications/bubbling, logging at the component level and intelligent integrations with the 3rd party email messaging tool (Responsys)
- 100% OOP (and super super tight) coded with comments and according to best practices (don't be lazy...or evil)
- data architecture - optimized for batch processing (this app needs to be screaming)
- A business plan for implementation and roll out of the service. I didn't put this plan together until after I made my "This_Is_What_We_Are_Aiming_To_-
Do_Any_Questions?" presentation to the expanded tech team. It included...among other things...a request for a marginalized 25% raise for everyone that supported my teams business.
By the end of the project, I would no doubt have been able to to carve out some new business as well as permanently solidify the production worthiness of open source community supported technologies at the company.
I got the boot prior to being able to execute on the business plan, but the service and PHP class libraries were successfully completed.


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text: Emerging Tech Above the Law Samuel Goldstein @itworldca Published: June 3rd, 1999"New legislation was needed because the stencil designs were too machine-like to fall properly within copyright law."The cyberage requires new lawsHas cyberspace created a new body of law, or is cyberlaw just old wine in new bottles? In at least one case, a new act has grown from the roots of existing statutes.The Integrated Circuit Topography Act is a distinct and unique body of law brought about by the cyberage. The ICTAct came into force as late as 1993 and protects the stencil designs that map out the electronic pathways on semiconductor chips.New legislation was needed because the stencil designs were too machine-like to fall properly within copyright law, yet too much like writing to be protected by patent law. In this way the rapid pace of technological change was met by a statutory solution, much in the same manner that the Copyright Act was amended in 1988 to specifically include computer software.Under the ICT Act an owner of a "topography" (the legal name for the stencil design) has the exclusive right to reproduce, make, import, or commercially exploit the topography or any substantial part of it.Protection lasts for 10 years from the earlier of the Canadian filing date or its first use in Canada. For topographies to be registered, they must be original. "Original" is defined as a design that has not been copied from another topography and is not commonplace.Your guess is as good as mine as to what is meant by "not commonplace" since there are no decided cases in Canada under the ICT Act (and only one reported case under the American statute). Indeed, only a few topographies have been registered in Canada.The ICT Act contains a "fair dealing" clause that allows third parties to engage in reverse engineering for purposes of analysis, education, research or teaching, as long as the third party does not copy the topography in question in its own subsequent products.There is no infringement if a third-party independently created the same topography.Unlike an author of a work under copyright law, a registered owner of a topography does not possess any moral rights. Moral rights are the non-pecuniary rights that protect the integrity of a work.Moral rights prevent a work from being distorted, mutilated, or altered without the authors permission. Years ago Michael Snow successfully stopped the Eaton Centre from bedecking his Canadian Geese with red scarves as a Christmas promotion. An Ontario Court found that the bedecking of the sculpture that hangs from the roof at the south end of the mall infringed his moral rights.As a bottle of wine, the ICT Act is a fine blend of copyright cabernet and trademark shiraz making a fine new wine that will no doubt grow with age.Goldstein writes on legal issues and technology and practices law in Toronto. The opinions expressed in this column are not to be taken as legal advice. He can be reached at email@example.com you recommend this article?00 Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think of this article! We'd love to hear your opinion about this or any other story you read in our publication. Click this link to send me a note →Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada Emerging Tech


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Dead or Alive
Talk about the room of Dead or Alive. LOL Between Al, Me, anagel, heki, infini_iv and amy_the_yu we all had DOA costumes. LOL kesteral had a costume too, but sadly it had some... "issues." Like being able to stick to a wall under it's own power. X-D I dunno, I thought a DOA/Katamari cross over character would have gone over well. X-D
Holy cow, we had a huge DOA gathering! And of course, I was the goof off in the pic. You tend to get that way when you're in a bright shiny bodysuit. LOL!
Thanks to Brian for both pictures!
Gundam Seed Destiny
So yay! I finally finished my ZAFT uniform! Took me long enough right? X-D Thanks muchly to tristencitrine for the fabric and heki for the wonderful wig! I just love that wig! It's so soft and the color is amazing! :)
These lovely pictures taken by lionboogy.
Brian borrowed my camera and took some really amazing pictures! This is a good thing, since he was having so much fun with it, that I was really worried he wasn't gonna give it back to me at the end of the day. ;-)
Brian then had this great idea to take pictures from the second floor down to the second level lobby with this fantastically textured floor. He really did take some great pictures from up there!
Awww heki is making the cutest face there. X-D
This of course is the BEST SHOT EVER! OMG!!!! Brain really needs to get an DSLR! :)
infini_iv made an amazing Kingdom Hearts II Axel. Seriously, every time I saw her she was surrounded by photographers and people who wanted to hug her. X-D
Also the tiled circles on the floor and her amazing weapons. I love this photo SO much! X-D
Anagel's Chun Li.
Hahaha, another awesome picture. Too bad I was going, "Huh? What? What's going on?" expression on my face. :) However, everyone else had fantastic expressions. X-D
Yay! Group picture with everyone. Left to right: Brian, heki, Me, kesteral, infini_iv, amy_the_yu and anagel.
13th_kingdom, me and saeru. Why does this picture make us look like we're in some sort of boy band? X-D
One of the millions of cute things Heki bought at the con! X-D
Lionel imitating the plushy. X-D
I just found this so funny the amount of boots that we had in our room. X-D What's even more funny that is that two of them mine! LOL! Left to right, My Zack and Gundam boots, Heki's Gundam boots and Anagel's Chun Li boots.
We had an insane number of pillows in our room. But we couldn't quite make out what the heck this pillow was for since they were really uncomfortable and hard. :P Though Amy found a good use for it. ;-)
OMG I haven't seen Julia and Limbarb in ages! Haha, the ladies just love boys in vinyl. X-D I need to wear that coat out more. ;-)
Yay! I also haven't seen Cospinay in years! So much has changed, she got married and had a baby since the last time I saw her! Waaaah, I need to get out to the midwest more often!
Everyone staying in the hotel room, sans Al. He had already gone out getting more pictures of cosplayers.
Just because we're dorks. X-D
So yah, as you can see, ACen was just so much damned fun! I've been away too long. :) And of course, the usual after every con, my LJ friends list grows by a few more people. :D Wow, adding people to LJ after you've met them in person. What a novel concept. :D


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Stop Bullying
December 5, 2017
I've always wondered why people bully and I've never gotten a straight answer. Now I don't care if you're a victim of bullying or you are a bully, you need to listen. About every eight kids in your class are probably bullied and most people don't know it. The thing I am surprised about is that a lot of people really don't have to courage to do something about it.
People don't know this but most people bully because they are either afraid or they have been bullied themselves and they just want to take the attention off themselves. If you're a bully, don't take it out on other people and talk with someone about it. You can go to our wonderful guidance counselors and talk it out. If you're a victim of bullying, you have to know you are not alone. Not a lot of people know that most kids are or think they have been bullied once in their life. If you see bullying going on or you are the person being bullied, tell a trusted adult or parent and they can resolve the situation.
The horrible part is 32 million kids are victims of bullying a YEAR. That is not okay and that needs to stop. If you see bullying and you don't want anyone to know that you reported the person, go onto www.sprigeo.com to report any bullying. Doing that will launch an investigation and stop the person from bullying.
Is it just me or is it time to change the path of bullying? Stop bullying now and join the path to a bully-free world.


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Supplier Audit Checklists
Reduce downtime and increase profitability. Mobile inspection app to evaluate reliability of your supplier.Jump to featured templates
Published March 26th, 2020
What is a Supplier Audit?
A supplier audit is a formalized system of evaluating the reliability and competency of suppliers and vendors to deliver a quality service. It is foundational in establishing a strong customer-supplier relationship. The supplier auditing process aims to assess and promote the smooth operation in key business areas such as manufacturing, engineering, invoicing, QA, and shipping.
Benefits of Conducting Supplier Audits
Performing supplier audits can help businesses determine if their supplier's current performance meets business operational standards. Here are 4 benefits of auditing your suppliers:
- Manage production downtime – manage the reallocation of resources more effectively and track how suppliers perform against SLAs.
- Increase profitability – manage supplier risks and quality-related costs.
- Ensure quality and compliance – determine if your supplier meets your standards by auditing their performance on a regular basis. Identify repetitive errors and potential risks in the process and develop contingency plans to solve these problems.
- Continuous quality improvement – evaluate and monitor the quality of the service and products that your suppliers provide. Gain a comprehensive overview on how your supplier performs over time.
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This comprehensive audit checklist is used to ensure that the supplier's quality management system (QMS) meets business requirements and standards. This template can be used by suppliers to document and report any non-compliance to quality standards. The template has 99 items and been built to guide the inspector to perform the following:
- Conduct a site walkthrough in the warehouse or production.
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New To Bird Watching? Don't Fly Away Without These 5 Essential Items
Posted on: 30 April 2018
Bird watching is an outdoor hobby that anyone can get into. All you really need is an interest in wildlife and a little bit of the outdoors. If, however, you want to take your hobby to the next level, here are five essentials that you should pack for your next bird-watching foray.
The Right Clothing
Dress appropriate for spending a day outdoors in your weather. Try to use layers for comfort, and include lots of pockets. Don't overburden yourself with a lot of gadgets, but do include water and snacks. Since birds have acute vision, you should opt for light-colored and neutral clothing, avoiding significant patterns and clothes that make noise when you move.
A Field Guide
Field guides to birds are books published to help you identify what you're seeing. New watchers will want a regional book with lots of colorful pictures or photos to compare to the birds around you. And be sure to select a small book that you can easily carry without adding a lot of weight. Familiarize yourself with how your guide is laid out so you aren't fumbling with it in the wild.
Binoculars and a Scope
Binoculars help turn tiny blurs in trees into recognizable wild creatures. Look for a set of binoculars that has a wide range and a nice, crisp view. While they don't need to be expensive binoculars, choosing some that are too cheap, too narrow, or without enough magnification will only serve to frustrate you. If you're looking for nesting birds—such as eagles, hawks, or waterfowl—you may also want a decent spotting scope.
A Camera
Most bird watchers like to have a camera along for the ride. Modern smartphones often provide enough camera technology to take nice views of special birds. For smaller birds, though, you may need to invest in either a separate camera with more focus or an add-on to boost your phone's reach. But don't spend your whole day trying to take pictures—you might miss half the fun of viewing.
A Notebook
Be sure you can take notes about things you see as well as notations for yourself. You may not remember exactly the route you took, for example, to find a great nesting location. And you will want to make notes of the characteristics of the birds and other wildlife you see along the way so you can pursue a serious hobby. So it behooves you to carry at least a small notebook and pen just for this purpose.
Carry these few things with you when you set out to find wildlife wherever you are. No matter whether it's in your backyard or a thousand miles away, you'll love getting up close and personal with new winged friends.Share


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Question Period: Parliamentary Budget Officer—Selection Committee Senator Jane Cordy June 17th, 2013
Library of Parliament
Hon. Jane Cordy: Honourable senators, could the leader tell us who was on the committee to choose the new Parliamentary Budget Officer?
Hon. Marjory LeBreton (Leader of the Government): I understand that this is a committee, and it is a responsibility of the Parliamentary Librarian. I understand that the very same process is being followed for the new Parliamentary Budget Officer as was followed for the last Parliamentary Budget Officer.
Senator Cordy: Is Adam Church, Peter Van Loan's chief of staff, on the selection committee?
Senator LeBreton: Again, I believe that it is the very same process, and I do not know the individuals on the selection committee.
Senator Cordy: I believe it has been confirmed that Adam Church, Mr. Van Loan's chief of staff, is on the selection committee, which is a little unusual. The process, which is "set out in law" requires the Parliamentary Librarian to form and chair a committee tasked with coming up with a short list of three candidates and submitting the list for a final decision of cabinet.
Who appointed Adam Church to the selection committee?
Senator LeBreton: I will just read it for you, Senator Cordy.
The Parliament of Canada Act outlines the process for appointing the Parliamentary Budget Officer. The selection committee is formed and chaired by the Parliamentary Librarian. This is the same process that selected the former Parliamentary Budget Officer.
Subsection 79.1(3) of the Parliament of Canada Act reads:
(3) The Governor in Council may select the Parliamentary Budget Officer from a list of three names submitted in confidence, through the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, by a committee formed and chaired by the Parliamentary Librarian.
That is the Parliament of Canada Act and that is the process that was followed the last time and it is the process that is being followed this time.
Senator Cordy: My question was who appointed Adam Church to the selection committee?
Senator LeBreton: Well, the Parliamentary Librarian is the person who appoints the committee.
Senator Cordy: Did Mr. Van Loan's office request that Mr. Church be on the selection committee?
Senator LeBreton: I can only report to you, honourable senators, what I know, and what I know is that the Parliamentary Librarian is responsible and that is clearly stated in the Parliament of Canada Act. I do not know the process she followed for choosing her committee, nor do I know who is on the committee.
Senator Cordy: When the previous Parliamentary Budget Officer was selected, did the chief of staff of the government house leader sit on that selection committee?
Senator LeBreton: Again, I do not know who sat on the last selection committee, and do not know who sits on this one. I just know that it is the responsibility of the chief librarian of the Library of Parliament.
Senator Cordy: Would the leader mind tabling in this place or getting information for me about who sat on the previous selection committee?
Senator LeBreton: Well, I think that is probably information available within the Library of Parliament. It is public information, so I would suggest you look it up yourself.


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2 dead, 2 rescued after kayaking trip in Madison
2 killed, 2 rescued after high winds push them offshore
MADISON >> An evening kayak trip turned deadly after the bodies of two men were found in the waters of Long Island Sound and a woman and young girl were hospitalized after they were found on a New York beach.
A search was launched after the group of four went missing Sunday evening after setting off with a kayak and a paddleboard from Hammonasset Beach State Park, officials said.
Early Monday morning, a mother and her daughter were found at Orient Point, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, after their calls for help were heard by a nearby resident, according to Dennis Schain, spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. The mother, who was identified as Delfina Reynoso of Hartford, and her daughter, who was not named, were taken to Eastern Long Island Hospital, where they are being treated for hypothermia, said U.S. Coast Guard Sector Commander Joseph Smith.
Both females were reported to be in stable condition, officials said.
A 31-year-old man was found at Orient beach — a short distance from the two women. New York authorities pronounced him dead at the scene. His identity was not immediately available.
Smith said all three were found wearing flotation devices.
According to Smith, last night's tide and wind — which reached speeds of 20 to 30 knots — pushed the kayak and paddleboard offshore.
Coast Guard Lt. Matthew Richards told The Associated Press that winds gusting at about 40 mph blew them about 14 miles across the Sound.
"They were just doing a day trip around Hammonasset," said Richards. "But they were overcome by the gale-force winds. At one point it capsized the kayak."
Monday morning, several fire and police departments and the U.S. Coast Guard continued searching for the fourth man. Schain said the missing person is a Manchester man, 44, who was reportedly last seen wearing a black shirt, yellow swim trunks and an orange life preserver, according to information posted Monday to the Madison town emergency Twitter feed.
The Manchester man's body was found shortly after noon Monday in Gardiners Bay, New York.
Smith said because of the water temperature and the speed of the wind, the man may have succumbed to the elements.
The recovery was made by the Clinton Police Department, which had joined in a search for him. His identity was not provided.
Richards said the 44-year-old man was wearing a personal floatation device and theoretically could have survived for up to 13 hours in the water, which was just above 60 degrees.
Richards said it was one of two boating accidents Sunday on Long Island Sound.
One person swam to shore and another was missing after an inflatable raft overturned in Bridgeport Harbor earlier in the day, he said. That missing boater was not wearing a life jacket, he said.
There was a small craft advisory posted for the area Sunday because of the wind conditions, he said.
"On sunny days it feels like it's a nice time to go out there," he said. "But conditions can change very fast and the water is still very cold. It's very dangerous."
Smith said that before heading out on the water, it is crucial to check and continually monitor the weather in order to avoid high winds and cold temperatures.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.


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It's enough to drive anyone crazy. Supply chain managers are caught between the rock of finding more cost-effective medical and surgical products and the hard place of convincing physicians they'll still get the results they demand. That's where SupplyCopia comes in
In order to manage the second largest and only controllable spend, the CFO relies on you to provide insights and actions. With the SupplCopia platform every potential cost saving is delivered to you without having to ask for it. No need to hire expensive consultants that do not go away, deal with cumbersome XL sheets, and choose between multiple solutions.
Item master is the soul of any provider. Leverage the SupplyCopia global product database (GPD) to keep your item master updated so that you optimize order management, increase the visibility of your spend, increase inventory turns, standardize products and procedures, and pro-actively manage physician preference costs (PPI). Built and delivered on the cloud, this solution seamlessly integrates with any of your ERP systems.
An estimated 22% cost savings can be generated by standardizing products and procedures. This requires understanding the patterns in each procedure and using advanced data science to deliver bill of material options. Let SupplyCopia do all the heavy lifting and surface these opportunities so you can concentrate on acting on recommendations
SupplyCopia advanced analytics allows you to predict your supply chain spend years in advance. The built in model integrates data and evidence from multiple sources. It's a simulation engine that allows scenario planning and is topped with a recommendation engine. It puts you in the driver's seat all the time.
PPIs constitute an estimated 40% of your spend. Managing them requires scientifically and accurately identifying them and bringing in multiple sources of data to understand anomalies and opportunities. Let the SupplyCopia solution shorten your cycle, increase accuracy, and deliver results that get approval from the physicians.
SupplyCopia platform brings readily available apps for request for proposal (RFP), contract management (CMS), and global supplier database so you can quickly and cost effectively streamline your entire strategic sourcing process and automate it
SupplyCopia platform is designed and developed in a modular fashion, so you can leverage the entire platform to optimize your business or chose the modules that best serve your purpose. Either way you are sure to realize the benefits of our intellectual property, cloud and big data science.
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What cannot be measured cannot be improved. Designed with managing structured and unstructured data, this solution offers more than 150 reports and models to gain control of your spend be it medical, surgical or indirect.
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Well every blog has to start with a first post and this is mine.
What is the theme of this blog? I'll tell you when I decide! I used to be indecisive, but I'm not sure anymore.
My life is in a strange position at the moment. I have just returned from the Police Unity Tour Ride, and have no major cycling events planned at present, apart from an Audax in Penzance in July and probably the London to Southend BHF ride the week before that. So my cycling is lacking direction at present.
Work is similarly lacking direction. I have a new boss at work, but despite the fact there are only about 20 of us in the building at work, I have not yet seen my boss or even had an email from him. However as he only took over in post officially on 1st April, I am clearly being unreasonable in expecting to see him or hear from him by now aren't I? I mean its only 68 days into the role.
Personal life? Well that's similarly strange at present. I appear to be single again, oh and skint. So I suppose there is at least one constant in my life – yes being skint.
Sporting Life – waiting for the Tour De France to start and waiting until June 17th for the football fixtures to be published. Mackems away opening day? Oh yes, there is a little football tournament about to start in South Africa. I entered the work sweepstake and drew Ghana. That was a waste of £10 wasn't it?
Right enough about me and my world. What can I bore you with now?….
Well, I am trying to motivate myself to cycle more. I got back on my fixed wheel bike and rode the 25+ mile round trip to/ from work. Its only the 4th commute I've ridden since April 😦 . I have to say that it is good to look back over the years and see how much my fitness has improved. In 2001, cycling 2 miles was an effort. Now, the 25 mile round trip is done with little effort. A testament to the benefits of cycling.


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Nate Karns dazzles for Royals in just 61 get above White Sox
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Ex-Paston College students set up theatre company and stage first play
A newly formed theatre company made up of ex-Paston College students is staging its first play early next month.
The group of teenagers, who are all aged either 18 or 19, plan to pass on the Peas in a Pod Theatre Company to future alumni of Paston.
Jodie Weller, one of the founders, said: "The whole cast are ex-Paston students, having all achieved A*-B grades in our drama and theatre A-Levels.
"We are locally based, myself being from North Walsham and Callum Adkins from Aylsham, and are all recent graduates from Paston College.
"At college we were all constantly inspired by the work of the Far East Theatre Company, the college's in-house theatre company, that we decided we would have a go ourselves.
"We were also determined to give more opportunities for local young actors in north Norfolk, especially those who are on gap years and applying for drama schools.
"We hope to one day pass it on to future Paston alumni and give others the chance to do something a bit different during their own gap year."
The group will be staging its first production, Christopher Durang's 'Baby with the Bathwater', at Sheringham Little Theatre, at 7.30pm on Saturday, February 9.
Miss Weller added: "The play follows the life and influences of Daisy, a young man who struggles with the choices his parents, Helen and John, have made for him as a child.
"It is a satirical approach to the issues that can be deeply felt in modern society. We believe that it's guaranteed to make you laugh and gasp at the same time. We've never seen it done in the area before and are very excited about this new adventure."
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I received this book for free from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Hunted One by Meg Collett
Series: End of Days #1
Published by Self Published on January 17th 2014
Pages: 300
Format: eARC
Source: the Publisher
The fallen have trespassed into Heaven for the first time in eternity. Prepared for battle, Michaela and her Archangels open Heaven's gates to confront the fallen. Only, Michaela's Archangels—her brothers and sisters in Heaven—betray her. And when the fallen attack the sanctuary in the skies through the gates Michaela inadvertently left open, the holy angels accuse Michaela of planning the invasion.
One simple mistake with a thousand consequences.
Dragged to Earth by an Archangel turned fallen, Michaela will do anything to return to Heaven and save it. In her fervor, she kills the Archangel—something no angel has ever done before. Wingless, without any hope, Michaela welcomes death when an unlikely human ally, Clark, finds her. With the help of Clark and Gabriel, an innocent Archangel whose friendship deepens into something far more torrid and unexpected on Earth, Michaela must prove the holy angels have their own plan for Heaven, and it is one that may prove to be the End of the Days.
It may be too late to save herself, but Michaela is the only one who knows the truth about the holy angels. If she fails, she may never be able to return to Heaven. But even that may be a hopeless dream.
When I heard about The Hunted One I immediately offered my services as a reviewer to Meg. At the time the ARC's weren't ready yet, but she kindly promised to let me know when they where and send me one when they where ready. The Teaser happened, which got my attention. Then the Cover reveal happened… more excitement, because this cover is simply gorgeous! Some more time passed, and I started to doubt whether the book would really be something for me after all. I mean, I was definitely interested, but The Hunted One is a bit outside the box for me, different from the books I normally read and review.
Then the email with the ARC came… I was a bit busy at the time, had a huge list of books up for review so The Hunted One got placed on the notorious To be Reviewed list I keep for myself. About a week ago I started reading… and had it finished in no time!
I was hooked from the first paragraph. Meg's writing just pulls you in, her writing style demands your attention and makes sure it keeps it hold on you've finished the very last page of the book. The writing is just so vivid and descriptive, which makes it so easy and fun to read. The pages just came alive in my imagination and I could see everything happening.
Michaela's character was very strong. She was determined and caring, everything I love to see in a good protagonist. It wasn't just Michaela though, all characters where dynamic and real. They had flaws, knew they did and didn't pretend to be anything else (that annoys me so much in some books…).
For a book in the 'Fallen Angel' genre I thought this books was original. Somehow most of the time books in this genre just seem clichéd and overdone. The romance was slight but good and Meg made sure to keep the action flowing. There are lots of books in this genre and being original can become quite tricky. I just very much liked how this book surprised me after the doubts I'd begun to have about it beforehand.
To sum things up, The Hunted One is a well-written and interesting read with great characters in a plot that worked like a charm.
Now for a little personal message to the Author:
In an email you told me that you were very nervous about your book, and that you where losing confidence about sending it to Review Blogs. Being nervous sounds pretty normal to me, it's a big and exciting thing you're doing so being nervous is completely normal. I just wanted to say that you shouldn't be losing confidence about sending it to Review Blogs. Be proud of what you accomplished and be proud of finishing your first book in a series!
There's going to be negative reviews, but those are bloggers that are giving their honest opinion and their findings can only -eventually- help you in becoming a better writer. Whether a blogger likes a book -or not- is very personal and if they don't like your book they're not purposefully trying to be mean (The good bloggers aren't!). It won't be fun to hear, but the best I can say is to take their criticism and use it to excel!
Again, like I said in the tweet I sent you, I can't wait to get myself a physical copy of this book so it can belong in its rightful place on my bookshelves! (also, I can't wait for the second book in this series!).


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Wide sitting room with fireplace and kitchen, a bed settee, two double bedrooms with bathroom, mansard with double bed and bed settee, a bathroom. Total 6+4 places and 3 bathrooms.
This house is on three floors and consists of two adjoining apartments, but also rented individually: Rossini and Verdi. Ideal for large families or groups of friends.


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Remote DX Expander Hub
The DX Hub is a remote audio networking hub that can be connected to any Allen & Heath AHM-64, SQ or Avantis mixer via SLink, or any Avantis mixer or dLive system fitted with a gigaACE I/O module. It provides 4 DX Link ports each carrying 32×32 channels of 96kHz audio, that can be used to connect to DX expander units.
Up to 2 DX expanders can be connected to each DX Link port allowing up to 128 remote inputs and 64 remote outputs to be added to the system.
Multiple DX Hubs can be used for further expansion, or for dual redundancy (dLive only)
ImportantAllen & Heath + macOS Catalina
The correct operation of this product with macOS Catalina is not yet verified by our development and test departments. As a result, macOS Catalina is not currently supported.
As our test programmes are completed we will update this notice.


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Rules Page 2
1. The batter shall start with a count of 1 ball and 1 strike count and shall receive one courtesy foul.
2. The batting order shall consist of the entire team present, and late arriving players shall be added to the bottom of the batting order.
3. Coed teams will alternate sexes in the batting order.
4. There shall be NO base stealing. All baserunners must stay in contact with the base until the ball is hit or passes home plate. (Penalty: Baserunner will be called out.)
5. Re-Touch baserunning, (for safety purposes); Any runner who occupies 1st or 3rd base, may request permission from umpire to step-off the base into foul territory, until the ball is batted, the runner must re-touch that base before proceeding to the next base.
6. In Coed games, if the male walks with less than 2 outs, he is awarded second base and the female must bat; however, if there are 2 outs, the female has the option of hitting or being awarded 1st base.
1. A Coed team shall consist of no more than five (5) men on the field at a time, and no more than seven (7) women on the field at a time, with a combination of at least eight (8) players and no more than ten (10) players on the field. (EXAMPLES: 5 men & 5 women; 4 men & 6 women; 5 men & 3 women; 4 men & 4 women; 3 men & 7 women; 3 men & 5 women.)
2. Coed positioning: infield = 2 men maximum anywhere; outfield = 2 men maximum anywhere; pitcher/catcher = 1 man maximum anywhere. [There are no limitations to female defensive positions in the infield, outfield, and pitcher/catcher; except, as referred to in Rule 2(C)(3) below.]
3. All outfielders must stand no closer than halfway between the fence and the baseline until contact with the ball has been made. This rule only applies to Coed games when a woman is batting.
3A. All infielders must be on infield dirt until ball is batted.
1. A player may enter defensively as often as desired but only between innings; except, in the case of an injury or a pitching change.
2. If a player has to leave the game, and cannot return, they will be skipped in the batting order; but will not be counted as an out.
3. If a runner is injured and has to leave the field, they cannot re-enter the game. A pinch runner may be used, and must be the player that made the last (previous) out. In Coed, the pinch runner must be of the same gender.
4. The coach must report to the Umpire and opposing coach, if they have a pinch runner for a batter, that reaches base before the start of the game. The designated runner will be the last out made. Teams are allowed 1 player per team and, if coed 1 per same gender.


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Why Saltram is special
Ever since the Parkers came to Saltram in the 1740s and remodelled their home, it has been a place for visiting and for entertainment. Developed as a summer residence, the beautiful house, garden and parkland are still at the heart of what makes Saltram so special today.
John and Theresa Parker
Cannon fired and French horns played as Theresa Robinson arrived at Saltram in 1769, the new wife of John Parker II. You can perhaps imagine how she felt, coming to a new house but keen to make her own mark on it. Influenced by her cosmopolitan upbringing, she wanted to bring her fashion sense to Saltram and viewed it as project: a house to refresh and to redecorate, a house to spend money on.
Transforming the house….
Together John and Theresa completed the transformation of Saltram from manor house to Palladian mansion. They worked with Robert Adam, one of the most sought-after architects of the day. Sparing no expense, they bought Wedgwood ceramics and Chippendale furniture. They commissioned portraits from the president of the Royal Academy Sir Joshua Reynolds, and they built up one of the finest art collections in Devon. Theresa wrote excitedly to her brothers about these developments – up to three letters a day.
….and the garden too.
The focus wasn't just on the indoors. The garden also developed at pace, so much so that Theresa was described as having a 'planting fit[t]'. New carriage drives were put in, garden buildings sprang up and thousands of trees were planted to complete their fashionable landscape. Garden seats looked out along the estuary to Plymouth and up towards their ancestral home of Boringdon. You can still take in these key views today, though the cityscape of Plymouth has long since expanded.
Victorian additions
Saltram remained in the Parker family for four more generations. Each naturally left their mark on the house and its contents, following emerging fashions as any family would today. The architect John Foulston who was tasked with updating large parts of Plymouth in the early 19th century, worked on Saltram's library. Victorian plant-collecting and the family's connection to the Westonbirt Arboretum influenced the growing and changing garden. Yet the changes were always sensitive to the important early history of the house, which explains why so many layers are still so easy to discover in the present day.
Saltram and Plymouth today
Today Saltram is a much-loved feature of Plymouth and many thousands visit to enjoy the house, garden and parkland. It came to the National Trust in 1957, accepted in lieu of tax as part of the National Land Fund after the Second World War. This makes it a war memorial and a 'thank offering' to those who fought and died – thus a fitting part of the wider history of Plymouth and its people.


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What Is the Cup Blowing Challenge?
Cup Blowing Is the New Teen Challenge You'll Want to Master Yourself
Bored teens on their lunch breaks are using their spare time to try the latest internet trend: the Cup Blowing Challenge. The trick, which looks easier to do than it really is, is everywhere on the internet with even news anchors giving it a go.
The challenge originally started when an Instagram video of the cup blowing trick went viral on March 15. The video is incredibly popular, with more than 23,000 views. It definitely looks a little harder to accomplish than the Water Bottle Flip Challenge from last year. To do it, spin a cup really fast and then blow on it to try and land it into another stack of cups.
See some examples of the challenge ahead, and don't be afraid to try it yourself.


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CECCI stands for Central European Chambers of Commerce Initiative
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Do you want to get a glimpse of how experts split test their Facebook ads?
In this expert roundup, I reached out to 8 real Facebook ads experts and asked them 3 questions:
Q1: How often do you split test? Would you advise ALL Facebook Advertisers, including business owners and marketers to do the same? Else, what kind of moderators e.g. factors like industry should they consider?
Q2: What's the most important thing you start with when split testing your Ads?
Q3: What is your favourite software (including the native Ads Manager and Power Editor) to split test your Ads?
These questions may seem and look simple, but they expose some of the advanced stuff that these experts are doing right now.
In this article, you'll see for yourself:
- How each expert view on split testing can differ from one extreme to another
- Yet, the ONE thing they all have in common
- The FIRST thing they always test
- The tools they all use that enable them to get results
- and much, much more
I must say…the answers we received are pretty incredible!
If you want to show your appreciation for these experts' generosity, you're encouraged to tell us in just one short sentence why you like their advice in the comments section below.
8 Experts Share Why Split Testing is Important to Get Better Results
1. Rocco Alberto Baldassarre, roccobaldassarre.com
A1: I test ads every time I have a winning ad outperforming the rest of the ads of the same adsets. I test 5 ads at the time and I test one element of the ads at the time. I start testing images, then test headlines, post text, description, URL and call to action.
I recommend focusing on ads with a good CPA and CTR to maximize the overall performance.
A2: Images. This is the one element that makes the biggest difference in CTR and CPA. Great images attract clicks from users and therefore you should test them often. Try images with strong color contrasts, people smiling, people pointing at a call to action and product images.
A3: I love using the power editor. It makes testing fast and easy!
2. Massimo Chieruzzi, AdEspresso.com
A1: I split test all the time. Not only it helps you better understand your audience and what they want; having multiple ads running also decrease ad fatigue.
I think every business should test its Facebook Ads, no matter their size of the industry. The only exception I'd make is based on budget. If you're just getting started and have a budget of less than $100, split testing may not generate statistically significant data.
My motto is: Never assume anything. Always test everything.
I've personally seen more than $200m in Facebook Advertising passing through AdEspresso and even today I can correctly predict which ad is gonna win only 70% of the time. Assumptions are dangerous.
As an example here's a split test we recently conducted:
I'd have bet on the left ad before launching the campaign!
A2: The first thing you need to plan ahead is what's your budget and how many split test you can conduct.
This is one of the most common errors. Users get excited about split testing and they create 200 ads with a $100 budget. That means allocating $0.5 to each ad… you're never going to get meaningful results.
The number of experiments you run should be proportional to your budget. There's no one-size-fits-all number but I'd advise to allocate at least $10 to each ad you want to run.
As for what to test, we analyzed thousands of split tests for our guide to split testing Facebook Ads and when it comes to the design, the image is always the most impactful element. If you're on a tight budget and can afford few experiments, start testing for the best picture. Then move to the post text and finally the headline.
Start with broad experiments like Photo vs Illustration. Then once you have a winner you can refine it with smaller experiments like the text or color of your call to action.
A3: Well here I'm totally biased but when it comes to Facebook Ads Split Testing, AdEspresso is the best Ads Manager in town ( Disclosure: I'm the CEO of AdEspresso :P)
3. Dennis Yu, BlitzMetrics.com
A1: Split testing isn't what it used to be– what we used to think was sophisticated was:
- Testing creatives at the ad level (headline, images, copy, landing page url)
- Testing of audience combinations (lookalikes and interest behavioral targets for acquisition and remarketing audiences for conversion)
- Testing quasi-factors (dayparting, bid type, expiration of the offer, and factors that affected ad-level performance.
So you might expect to hear me give advice like:
- Run 3 images at a time to cycle through many tests instead of loading up a bunch of images at once.
- Don't use blue in Facebook ads, since people are blind to that on Facebook.
- Run ads until you get 10,000 impressions to check CPC/CTR as a proxy for conversion rate.
- Shorter posts and "louder" images perform "better", so make sure to have a range of concepts when you load ads.
- Run in cycles of 15 minutes a day for testing– to use "Top N" daily instead of spending 2 hours once a week.
However, the pros are moving beyond traditional PPC techniques.
Because we can rely upon Facebook to do the heavy lifting on optimization, we don't have to be so micro about it. We have to think more strategically about testing content and targeting strategy, instead of in-the-weeds tweaking of ads.
It's like people who don't know about dishwashers are still washing every plate and fork by hand instead of learning how to use the machines. Insert your favorite machine analogy here.
Here's why:
- Bidding is already handled via oCPM: no need to mess with CPC, CPM, or frequency burnout. Just choose your objective and the system will automatically sub-target and bid on your behalf. For those that missed this huge point, you don't have to micro-target any more– let Facebook figure it out.
- Image/product testing is handled via DPA (Dynamic Product Ads): Right now, you can load up 10 images and Facebook will figure out which ones to show in what order. Further, you can load up product sets where Facebook can choose what to show when, which is actually a foray into marketing automation, though they're careful not to use those words.
- Content is more about boosting posts for engagement and landing page testing for conversion: Did you know the new lead ads unit is actually a landing page built into Facebook where Facebook pre-fills the fields for you? Think about what this means for your split-testing strategy and landing page optimization tweaking.
The above three items are not accidental.
Facebook has told us the last few years that they're rolling out automation in goals (bullet 1), content (bullet 2), and targeting (bullet 3). These 3 represent your business strategy– the unique combination that define your differentiation.
So when I think about testing, I'm concerned not with the mechanics of how the ad system works, but the GCT (goals, content, targeting) inputs we feed the machine.
And I'd recommend you be thinking about that in your quest to drive more traffic and conversions. Don't waste your time trying to "trick" the ads system like we could in the old days of Google AdWords (nearly 15 years ago) or how SEOs used to be able to do it until 3 years ago.
We're testing not at the ad level, but the sequence-level– many steps in your customer's journey as part of a funnel.
No amount of testing or tool wizardry will make up for a broken funnel– and that's what I see in 95% of campaigns that I audit. Probably yours, too.
Miss these and you're just flushing your money down the toilet.
A2: I make sure my setup (digital plumbing) and strategy (GCT) are right before testing anything. Without these in place, you're testing in the dark.
- Setup means things like tracking pixels and custom audiences set up properly.
Goals means I know what each stage in my funnel is worth, even if I have to estimate at first.
- Content means I have interesting (share-worthy) items at each stage of my funnel (audience > engagement > conversion)– not conversion only.
- Targeting means that I have pools of warm audiences to convert because I have a strong email and search program, which then Facebook ads can amplify.
A3: I'm old fashioned in some ways, but I like to boost from the timeline more than using Ads Manager or Power Editor. If you have your audiences set up right, then most of your time is higher-level in content strategy, not fiddling with ads.
I'll demonstrate cool tricks in Power Editor and things available only in the Facebook Ads API just to show off once in a while– to impress people who think that tool geekery is more important than driving business results.
But if you want to know what I do most of the time, I keep tuning the basics of goals, content, and targeting– more content and more targets for more combos to try.
And you don't need a subscription tool for that, except the one between your ears.
4. Emeric Ernoult, AgoraPulse.com
A1: There's no exact number of times to do split testing. Split testing may require time and effort, but it will save time and money in the long haul as you increase your ROI.
Too often, marketers get stuck at CTR, CPC or lead conversion to optimize their Facebook ads. They tweak their visuals to get more clicks, test some colored borders and spend a lot of time optimizing things that will have no impact on the bottom line—or worse, have a negative impact.
Sometimes, a lower CTR and higher CPC can lead to higher revenue or lifetime value just because your ad attracted the "right" user. Because there are less "right" users, CTR will be lower and CPC higher, but every step after that will look much better.
A2: The most important step in Facebook advertising is to figure out your best targeting options, and the way to do that is through testing. Here are five split tests you can use to quickly discover your ideal target audience on Facebook.
- Interests
- Gender
- Age Range
- Language
- Landing Pages
A3: Putting the right tools in place will take a while, but it's worth it. If you don't, you're blind, and if you're blind, you're probably wasting most of your advertising budget. And that is not sustainable.
Power Editor always has the latest innovations released by Facebook and if you want to stay on the edge, this is where you'll get them. But otherwise, the regular ad manager has made so much progress in the last 12 months, Power Editor is not a necessity anymore, especially if you don't want to go through the learning curve as Power Editor is a little more complex (more power comes with more complexity!).
I recommend AdEspresso for valuable reporting insights. It's an affordable tool that makes split testing Facebook ads easy and efficient. I love its simplicity so much these days that I'm practically only using Adespresso.
5. Jim Belosic, ShortStack.com
A1: We split test every ad we run…at least for the first few days or so. You just never know what's going to resonate with your audience. We are constantly surprised by our test results, so it's a good thing we're always testing!
I would say that regardless of your industry or niche, if you are running ads, you should split test. Testing can help you get away from the old saying: "half of your advertising dollars are working, you just don't know which half."
A2: Focus on one test variable at a time, and have a clear goal for that variable to achieve.
There are so many ways to split test an ad; imagery, audience, copy, ad type, budget…it can get overwhelming quickly. We always try to focus on one item at a time so that we don't get confused too easily. Don't turn all the knobs at once otherwise you won't know what is helping or hurting. It will take longer but you'll have more accurate data.
Typically, our main goal with ads is to increase conversions. When we test, we are looking for variables that are increasing click through, but more importantly they lead to the final conversion. It's easy to get distracted and say "Oh look! this new ad copy got us 50% more clicks!", but are those clicks leading to more conversions too? Dive deeper into the numbers and make sure it's leading to your end goal. Sometimes ads with poor click or impression performance can actually outperform in other metrics.
A3: We use Power Editor and the Ads Manager for split testing. I prefer the Ads Manager when I'm testing different images because it allows you to upload up to five images for one ad. It will then create five different ads based off of each image. When you use Power Editor you have to individually create each ad with a different image. Power Editor makes it really easy to split test based on your audience. I recommend using that if you're wanting to split test based on age, gender, locations, etc.
6. Aaron Zakowski, zammodigital.com
A1: First of all, it's important to remember that split testing on Facebook is complicated. I usually recommend starting off a new campaign with 2-4 different variations of your ad and a relatively conservative budget. This allows Facebook's algorithm to efficiently test all your variations and select the best performer. If you launch too many ads at once, Facebook will likely select a winner before all the ads have received enough impressions to be statistically relevant. Once I have an ad that's a winner and achieving a profitable ROI, then I'll usually start increasing the budget.
Even after you've selected your winning ad, it's important to remember to "Always be testing." Now this can mean ad creatives, audiences, placements, bidding strategies or any other variable. By continuously optimizing your Facebook ads, you'll be able increase profitability and to extend the life span of your profitable campaigns.
A2: I always start testing image variations first. Your image will usually have the biggest impact on attracting attention and clicks to your ads. After I have a winning image, I'll start to test other variables such as text copy, calls to action, etc.
Another important things to point out is that you can have multiple splits running at the same time targeting different audiences or placements. So, for example, I will usually segment different placements in different ad sets (an ad set for Desktop newsfeed, another for right column and yet another for mobile). Each of these ad sets can have their own tests running simultaneously as long as you don't let the audiences overlap (and as long as you can keep it all organized). By having all the different placements running from the start, you can essentially be testing placements at the same time that you are testing creatives.
A3: My workflow goes something like this… I always create ads in the Power Editor and do basic performance analysis with Ad Manager. For deeper dives into the data, I export huge data sheets out of the Ad manager and then create pivot tables in Excel to slice and dice the data until it tells me it's secrets.
For more automated optimization, I definitely recommend that people check out AdEspresso.
7. Rick Mulready, RickMulready.com
A1: I don't have a set number of times that I split test. I like to start my campaigns off with a couple versions of an ad, in their own Ad Sets, and then let each run for 3-5 days. I'll then go in and look at my stats to start optimizing. I'll look at placement, age range, and gender to see what's working and what's not working.
The biggest issue I see is people start optimizing and split testing too soon. You need to let your ads run for a few days so Facebook's delivery and optimization algorithm can do its thing before making any changes.
A2: I always start with the image because it's the first thing people notice in their News Feed. I'll then look to ad copy and then to the type of ad (image vs. video).
A3: Power Editor is hands-down my favorite tool for creating, editing and split testing ads. I love Ads Manager for reporting and seeing what I need to optimize and split test.
Another tool that's great for split testing is Ad Espresso. It has its limitations but I've found it to be a quick and powerful way to split test and optimize ads.
8. Stephanie Nissen, stephnissen.com
A1: I split test nearly every single time I run a Facebook ad. Using Facebook's ad manager, it makes it simple to run ads to the same group with slight variations on each ad. I do advise all advertisers to do split testing when running ads. It doesn't have to be an extensive split testing campaign for you to be able to make better decisions. Even working with two sets of ad copy or two image designs can do wonders in upping your conversion rate.
A2: For me, I like to start with the visual aspect of my ad. It draws the most attention immediately so I want to make sure I'm getting the most bang for my buck when the image is concerned.
A3: I'm a fan of the Ads Manager for myself and my clients. Though I do switch over to Power Editor when handling larger campaigns because of the additional features.
What's your favorite?
I don't want to end this blog post without telling you my personal favorite.
I'd go for Dennis' answers.
His take on split test is slightly different from the rest. It made me realize that sometimes we tend to focus on what works and what doesn't and we tend to forgot what matters to your target audience – the GCT (goals, content, and targeting).
As for Jason, he said that his favorite responses differ depending on the responses for each question. Like Massimo, Jason believes in testing all the time. Even when you scale your winning ads at a higher spend, he believes that you should always keep testing for new ad creatives and prepare to replace the winning ad at some point when it deteriorates to an unprofitable level.
Like Emeric, he's found that creating mutually exclusive collectively exhaustive (MECE) segments by using demographic variables like age and gender has helped him to weed out unprofitable segments and allocate a bigger portion of his budget to the most profitable customer segments.
And lately, he's learned from Dennis that apart from thinking about just ad optimization, you need to pay special attention to the triple mix of Goals, Content, and Targeting (GCT), so that you maintain a strategic perspective of your ad performance instead of just focusing on tactical ad optimization. If any one element of GCT is misaligned, no amount of ad optimization will produce the best possible results.
What about you? Which split testing tip you intend to add to your existing Facebook ads strategy? I'd love to hear from you.
That's a wrap!
Big shout out to everyone who contributed to this expert roundup. Feel free to share this expert roundup with everybody you think will appreciate the gold nuggets herein.


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If I use the driver that Windows (10) installs I get stuttering with some video files, but don't lose the video signal from idle.
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Marketing your technologies doesn't have to break the bank…
Technology Transfer Tactics has designed an idea-filled one-hour distance learning program for both non-marketers and marketing pros alike. We've recruited four top-tier tech transfer marketing veterans who have been in the same boat, charged with the task of effectively marketing their university's innovations armed with few tools and a skimpy budget.
They've learned how to do more with less, using low-cost techniques that bring in licensees without spending a fortune on marketing bells and whistles – and they'll share those techniques in this practical, how-to webinar:
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Your expert panel will share their proven strategies related to pull and push marketing methods that produce results without breaking the budget – here's a look at a few of the ideas you'll discuss:
- Maximizing trade show attendance and exhibiting success
- What do you hope to accomplish at the show?
- professional meetings & scientific conferences vs industry tradeshows
- Exhibiting vs attending
- money saving strategies if you do decide to exhibit
- Brochures & collateral material
- What do you hope to accomplish at the show?
- How to cost-effectively optimize your online presence through:
- Social media
- Picking the right channels
- Resources to maintain your presence without becoming a time sink
- App development
- Professional networking sites
- Social media
- Incorporating public relations into your technology marketing plan
- Proven strategies for marketing the tech transfer office within the campus community
- Outside events can provide a reason for campus outreach
- Tapping into resources that already exist
- Reaching out to corners of campus that don't traditionally disclose
- Leveraging external networks by:
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- Forging industry relationships
The strategies revealed during this program are worth their weight in gold!
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Montserrat Capedevila is director of sales, marketing and international relations at Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer (JHTT), where she and her team created the first tech transfer app, internationalized JHTT, hosted numerous companies and entrepreneurial events, and created an environment that builds successful academia -industry partnerships. Ms. Capedevila also helped design the Maryland Community of Innovation in the Life Sciences, a virtual online community of translational researchers among Maryland's federal, academic and private life sciences sectors.
Nicole Nair is the Senior Marketing Coordinator for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Office of Technology Management. Ms. Nair develops strategies to promote specific technologies, University research, or OTM services to the OTM's constituents. This includes identifying new marketing opportunities, producing print materials, managing publicity efforts, overseeing the Office's website, coordinating events, and managing social media channels. She also oversees a team of student interns. Prior to joining the University of Illinois in 2002, she worked for ten years in book publishing.
Alec Schibanoff is Vice President of Marketing for the GPC Group of Companies – General Patent Corporation, IPOfferings LLC, IP-Holdings LCC, and their affiliates and subsidiaries. General Patent Corporation is the leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, IPOfferings is a patent brokerage firm, and IP Holdings is an IP-centric merchant bank. He started his career in the office equipment and computer industry, managing marketing for the computer peripherals division of Brother International. From 1990 through 2005 he worked as a marketing consultant, and he joined GPC in 2008. He is the author of numerous marketing and intellectual property related articles. Two recent articles are "Fast-Tracking the Patent Process" that appeared in the November 2010 issue of Machine Design and a two-part series, "Don't Overlook the Marketing Value of Your Company's IP," that appeared in the January 20 and February 3 AMA Marketing News.
Andrew Morrow is Technology Manager at the University of Minnesota Office for Technology Commercialization. Andrew has been with the OTC since June, 2008. He spent the previous nine years marketing software within several industries. He began his business career with the licensing division of CBS MarketWatch, which, in 1999, had acquired BigCharts.com, a Minneapolis online software start-up. Andrew served as a National Accounts Manager. After MarketWatch, Andrew joined Traffic Technologies, a transportation safety products distributorship where he co-founded and directed sales and marketing for an online technology service division within the company. Most recently, Andrew served as the Director of Sales for Kardia Health Systems, a development-stage company commercializing cardiology practice management and reporting software originally developed by Mayo Clinic cardiologists and clinical technicians.


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Our human trait never lets us believe in something when we are not aware of the fact about the content of matter. It happens to everyone and can be totally understandable. When we talk about custom software development, many businesses turn their back towards thinking it must be an expensive approach to develop a customized software for their business.
It might be possible that your first encounter with the custom software development might not be fruitful due to a number of reasons. But if custom software, done correctly, can generate a huge profit and can bring tremendous opportunities for businesses.
To resolve few misconceptions about custom software development, we have made a list of those misconceptions in order to let businesses take action freely to make technology changes into their business.
A not so good experience with your earlier custom software development, may bound you to think that custom development won't work for your business. But the truth is, it was not the inadequacy of the custom software development for your business but it was the inexperience of your developer whom you have hired to develop your business software.
For a result-driven experience, you need a team of custom developers that not only understand your project idea but also understand the whole cycle of your business. An experienced custom software development company ask questions to the clients that aim to resolves the problems that revolve around the core of the business and fix them with the latest technology implementation.
Look out for the creative thinkers that put best efforts in bringing up most suitable solution for your business that enhances your ROI.
The reality is, it is not expensive. The reason is simple, the software is only customized for your business, keeping in mind all the requirements and problems of your business. Moreover, with the advancement in the technology like cloud, everything has become much more economical. Thus, implementing cloud and SaaS into ERP software development will reduce the development cost, maintenance cost, and even the software licensing cost.
Also, as the price of developing your customized software is negotiated at the time of finalizing the project, there are no extra chargers later at the time of delivery.
Developing a customized software is a bit time consuming if compared to the already prepared software that you may purchase after giving a good amount. It is important to understand that the amount of time and money you are spending on developing a software is worth the wait. Because it is solely developed keeping your business requirements at the center. Also, it will witness all the problems of your business.
The other thing which your custom software development company do is that to develop software in modules. In that way, it will be easy to test and fix the bugs and also you can run that module in order to see whether you are getting a satisfactory result or not.
And the complexity of the software depends entirely on the features that you want to incorporate into the software according to the business requirements.
People think that upgrading their customized software might be difficult due to few reasons like the cost attached to it, hiring a service provider or a developer, etc. But all this can be optimized if you have discussed with your custom team that they provide post-support services to their clients.
There are top custom software development companies that assured their support, post-delivery of the product. Moreover, the software is custom-made for your business. Thus, you have the code and authority to access it and upgrade according to the requirements in future. Apart from this, a good custom software company develops the software while keeping flexibility for the changes in the future.
The developed software can always have some bugs in it, but it is not true that they are not tested. At every step, the team makes sure to test the module rigorously to the level where it is bugs free.
Testing is done in two step: internal testing and user-end testing. In both the steps, it is assured that the software runs smoothly and hassle-free. Thus, trust the developer team as they value your time and money.
It is important to clear out the above myths before you go for developing a software for your business. Furthermore, there are few things which you should consider before making any decision like:
Hire a good team of custom software developer
Search for the creative minds those who are experts in latest technologies.
Study and analyze your business requirements thoroughly, so that you can explain to the team and expect a good result.
Make a proper strategical plan with the custom development team and check that list between development cycle. A checklist will help you to know whether the team is working according to plan or not.


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Often, I see folks posting harvest photos with a disclaimer that they harvested the yearling buck or small doe pictured because they are a "meat hunter" and don't care about antlers. This is just an empty excuse used by deer hunters that feel that they have to justify their harvests. While the hunter may truly not care about antlers (which is unlikely as almost all hunters share at least some fascination with antlers), it is doubtful that any hunter these days is a true meat hunter for a few reasons.
What Is A Meat Hunter?
While there are countless possible definitions of a meat hunter, any solid definition will stipulate that the hunter is hunting to provide meat for his family and himself as a necessity. This differs from the idea of a sport hunter who hunts for the enjoyment of the experience and does not necessarily need the meat to provide for food himself.
I personally fall into the sport hunter category. I love hunting and I do so because it is relaxing, I get to enjoy creation, and I ultimately enjoy eating the venison I consume. I do not hunt as a food necessity; the meat I harvest is simply a huge bonus that often becomes my motivation to hunt. I am not poor enough to have to shoot deer to feed myself, and I doubt that any of the self-proclaimed "meat hunters" out there are too poor to purchase their own food.
Hunting Isn't Cheap
Everyone invests some level of finances into their hobbies, and if hunting is one of those I guarantee that they are spending way more on hunting free-range venison than they would spend if they went to the store and just bought beef. For instance, if you hunt 5 days and have a short 15 minute commute to your hunting property you will spend roughly $20 on gas for your truck. If you live in a state where it is legal and you choose to bait with corn you can easily spend $30 on corn over a month. You will also spend $20 on a box of bullets and probably around $75 on a trail camera. If you put out scent lure you will easily spend $10 there and you will probably want to buy that $20 package of scent killing products to try not to be smelly. Let's stop there and ignore the fancy camo clothes, boots, treestand, boxstand, binoculars, and gun that most will buy and will add hundreds to thousands of dollars depending on value.
Just counting gas, corn, bullets, a trail camera, scent, and scent killer you have already spent $175 to kill a deer! If you shoot that little yearling buck in your corn pile you will get roughly 30 lbs of meat. That means you are spending nearly $6 per a pound for venison and that's before processing fees or processing equipment cost if you do it yourself!
We Hunt Because We Love It
If simply acquiring protein for the best price possible were the goal I think any budget conscience person would buy cheap beef or chicken before they paid $6/lb for deer meat. The short of it is we hunt because we love being outdoors and experiencing nature and we shoot deer because we enjoy completing our hunts with tasty venison!
Stop using meat hunting as an excuse to kill every juvenile deer you see and don't fool yourself into thinking you have to kill that yearling buck because you "need" the meat. People should shoot what makes them happy, but if you want meat shoot a doe and let the little guy go! It may just make a future hunt much more exciting when that buck has matured!


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