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What Marketers Should Know About Facebook and Native Advertising
Opinion: Brands can easily connect Facebook native ads and content with phone calls
While Facebook's owners have monetized the social network with great success (co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's net worth jumped by $5 billion in just two weeks earlier this year), driving revenue from this marketing spend remains elusive for brands.
However, considering the amount of real estate Facebook owns in the consumer and business spaces, the channel is impossible to ignore.
The challenge for brands isn't so much deciding if Facebook is right for them, but rather learning how to personalize management of the channel and properly track attribution between Facebook and other touchpoints in today's omnichannel sales environment.
Thankfully, emerging technologies are making this process easier, particularly when tracking movements between phone, desktop and mobile.
Calls driven to businesses via smartphones are quickly on the rise, in large part thanks to the growth of native social, which will be responsible for 36.4 billion calls annually by 2019. This is up from just 5.7 billion in 2014. While the format was once the lowest-ranking driver of calls to businesses, a more than 500 percent increase in just five years will see native social take leaps much bigger than other popular approaches like search, traditional display ads and landing pages.
With phone calls increasing and the technologies to track them readily available, there's no excuse for marketers to miss this major sales opportunity. Likewise, with the overwhelming majority of Facebook's daily users accessing the social network via mobile, brands can easily connect Facebook native ads and content with phone calls to develop stronger relationships with target audiences and, therefore, sales.
Developing a mobile-first native advertising strategy
Although some Facebook ads are displayed alongside the Facebook News Feed when browsing on desktop, mobile optimization must be top of mind for marketers looking to drive full value from native ads.
There are many ways brands can improve native ad performance on Facebook.
A/B testing specific components of an ad is a good first choice. For example, marketers can play around with call button placement, ad copy and even ad colors to determine what users prefer.
Second, in-feed Facebook ads are an easy testing ground for content that looks natural and/or native. Thanks to the diversity and scope of Facebook's user base, brands have the opportunity to refine their native ads based on feedback from real people around the globe.
In an age where native content is an increasingly viable alternative to limitations placed on traditional digital advertising, improving ad performance should be top of mind for all marketers.
Third, brands can develop call-centric calls to action that make it clear that phone calls are the best way to reach a brand.
Marketers have two options when developing native ad CTA on Facebook. The first is the "Call Now" button, which is a simple and intuitive tool that allows users to call a brand directly from a Facebook ad. The second is an option to click though to a landing page, which encourages a user to visit a brand's own website outside of the Facebook platform.
While these options are distinct, both are well situated to mobile users. Marketers can use clickable call buttons and feature phone numbers within an ad to make it clear and easy for users to make a call.
Fourth, brands can leverage Facebook's variety of targeting options to personalize these call-centric interactions.
For instance, Facebook allows marketers to target users by location, device usage, lookalike audiences and custom audiences. Making use of this information can help brands get in front of ready-to-call Facebook users, nurturing the experience with a high level of personalization that today's consumers have come to expect.
Custom audience features are particularly useful, as marketers can upload their own contact lists or customer-relationship-management data to better target users they already know things about.
Marketers should then incorporate call tracking technology across all Facebook touchpoints (ads and landing pages), from which they can monitor how many phone calls each ad inspires and, therefore, its full value. This level of insight allows marketers to refine campaigns over time and improve performance with feedback from real users.
Finally, marketers can introduce analytics software to aid both human and automated touch points within their customer-service teams in order to learn more about users. Based on the ad a user clicked before placing a call, marketers can determine a customer's intention for calling, which starts the entire conversation on a productive note.
Looking forward: Facebook and beyond
With omnichannel expectations on the rise, tracking systems can help marketers deliver on promises of personalization and consistent, seamless experiences.
Facebook is a powerful discovery engine where users encounter personalized content based on previous activity and/or history. Armed with call-tracking software, a marketer knows the path a consumer took to call, such as if he or she searched for the company on Google or browsed its website and then was served a relevant Facebook ad.
Some brands are hesitant or unsure of how to embrace social networks, but the ability to adapt and make use of modern advertising channels defines 21st-century marketing.
Take late-night TV, for example. While hardly anyone watches late-night TV anymore, millions of viewers tune into popular segments like James Cordon's Carpool Karaoke or Jimmy Fallon's Wheel of Musical Impressions. These networks recognize that audiences have moved online and are investing in cross-channel strategies to publish content where viewers already are.
It may take a little unique thinking, but any brand can make use of the Facebook ad network, particularly the burgeoning connection between native advertising strategies and phone calls. And brands better get on board fast because, it's true—social is calling. Is your brand ready to answer?
Nancy Lim is director of marketing at call tracking and analytics company CallRail.


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Formative assessments play an important role in education. A formative assessment is a tool for evaluating student learning during teaching in order to gauge whether students are understanding the material at that identified time. It is a learning tool, not a final evaluation of mastery. Formative assessment helps teachers alter their approach to the learning objectives if students are struggling with or exceeding grade level standards.
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The first round of testing for students in grades 1-5 occurred in September and in the coming weeks, kindergarten through grade 5 students will participate in the next round of testing. Time spent on testing will be minimal as it will typically take a student 20-30 minutes to complete each session of reading and math. That being said, those students who require the full allotted time or specified testing accommodations will continue to receive such. Student results will be sent home by early February.
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I wanted the fastest way to queue a bunch of tracks when at a party or with friends. I've also recently included a suggestion "engine" (actually querying suggestions from YouTube) so you can discover new tracks and the music never stops playing. No more uncomfortable silence at parties when the playlist ends!
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Contact the Effingham, IL, personal injury attorneys at the Dixon Injury Firm for a free case review.
Personal Injury Attorneys in Effingham, IL. The Dixon Injury Firm helps clients in the Metro St. Louis area and Southern Illinois. It is important for victims to get legal counsel that will help them with claims and lawsuits. The trial lawyers at the Dixon Injury Firm specialize in injury law, car accidents, workers compensation, and other areas. If we don't win, you don't pay. Feel free to contact Dixon today for more information and a case review and free consultation. Our Effingham personal injury attorneys are here to help you get the compensation you deserve.
The Dixon Injury Firm has won more than $35,000,000 in case and claim victories for Effingham personal injury clients and their families. It's important to get the best legal representation if you've suffered an injury. Here, we provide a few statistics about Effingham, IL, personal injury claims and cases:
- Most injury claims involve vehicles, according to the BJS. About 5 percent of claims involve product liability and 15 to medical malpractice. The remaining cases are classified as "other."
- The types of compensation victims can get varies on a number of factors. Considerations include the state you're in, who is at fault, and other financial implications. We'll discuss this further down the page. There are general and special damages to consider.
- According to OSHA, unintentional falls in the workplace account for nearly 34,000 deaths a year, which is about how many people die each year in car accidents. It's very important for families to reach out to a local Effingham personal injury attorney ASAP if there is a fatality. You deserve compensation for your loss. The CDC reports that there's more than 140,000 unintentional injuries each year.
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- For a more in-depth look at settling personal injury claims, you can view our personal injury FAQ, car accident FAQ, or download our free book about car crash compensation.
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There are countless ways you can be injured. commuting to work, riding a rollercoaster, being prescribed the wrong medication, falling down the steps of a bus, and any number of other situations that may cause you harm. The key to winning a personal injury case is proving negligence. There are a couple ways to do this. Here, Dixon lists the basic elements of proving negligence:
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- Breach: The next step in proving negligence is showing how the negligent party "breached" their duty of care. A good example is a driver fails to stop at a stop sign and crashes into another car. They know they were supposed to stop, but breached their duty of care by not stopping.
- Causation: Put simply, causation is what caused the breach, like a driver knowing they're going too fast. This is the negligent act that breaches the duty of care.
- Damages: Lastly, there has to be financial repercussions. Financial harm may include lost wages, medical bills, and other expenses we will discuss later.
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There's probably a lot you don't understand about personal injury claims in Effingham, which is perfectly normal. Below, we've provided a handful of questions many of our personal injury clients ask. You can also view the Dixon Injury Firm's in-depth Personal Injury FAQ for more information about filing claims.
- What are the odds my case will go to trial? Probably not. Only about five percent of personal injury claims ever make it to trial. This is because at-fault parties like a negligent driver or an insurer don't want the claim to go public. It's usually beneficial to both parties to settle out of court, though our Effingham personal injury attorneys have trial experience and will go to trial on behalf of our clients if the case is worth more than the original settlement offer.
- How much compensation can I get? Compensation depends on a number of factors. Reimbursement is determined by looking at medical expenses, punitive damages, if there was a death, and other financial hardships. Look for similar case results for a rough estimate or ask your injury lawyer.
- What types of cases do you take? Our personal injury lawyers in Effingham, IL, specialize in several different areas of injury law. If you've been hurt and there are financial ramifications, you might have a case. Dixon offers consultations and free case assessments, so there's no reason not to contact our Effingham personal injury attorneys now. We're glad to discuss cases that involve injuries like slips and falls, medical malpractice, vehicle accidents, and other injuries.
One of Dixon's primary focuses are Effingham car accidents. We've recovered millions for our clients and their families. You can read Dixon's free book about car accident compensation and learn more in our car accident FAQs.
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Nearly 40 million people are injured every year. The Dixon Injury Firm specializes in just about any injury claim clients may have. Some of our practice areas include:
Accepting an insurance claim is often tempting for injured victims. Considering lost wages, medical bills, recovery time, and other financial pressures, we encourage Effingham victims to contact the Dixon Injury Firm for a consultation and free case review as soon as possible. View our testimonials to learn more about the firm's success. It's our job to win our clients proper compensation. If we don't win, you don't pay. Our personal injury attorneys in Effingham, IL, are available 24/7.


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The economic reality of the relationship between the NCAA/PAC-12 and student-athletes does not reflect an employment relationship, the Ninth Circuit determined.
The NCAA and Pac-12 were regulatory bodies, not employers of student-athletes under the FLSA, the Ninth Circuit ruled, affirming dismissal of a Division I college football player's putative class action seeking minimum wages and overtime. The lower court also correctly dismissed the plaintiff's California law claims relying on the state legislature's decision to except student athletes from workers compensation benefits and state appellate court decisions interpreting that exception (Dawson v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, August 12, 2019, Thomas, S.).
The plaintiff played football for the University of Southern California (USC), a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision member of the PAC-12 Conference. Alleging violations of the FLSA and the California Labor Code, he filed a putative class action against the NCAA and the PAC-12. According to the plaintiff, the rules governing the football players were set by the NCAA and adopted by the PAC-12. The NCAA and PAC 12, he alleged, acted as a joint employer of the class members "by prescribing the terms and conditions under which student athletes perform services," and as joint employers, they failed to pay wages and overtime to the class members in violation of federal and state law (he did not allege he was employed by USC).
Dismissed. Dismissing his lawsuit, the district court, agreed with a majority of other courts in finding that the players were not "employees" because athletic play is not "work" and interscholastic athletics are conducted primarily for the benefit of the participants.
Economic reality. "The FLSA definition of employee is 'exceedingly broad,' but 'does have its limits,'" the Ninth Circuit observed, noting that ultimately, the test of employment under the FLSA is one of "economic reality." Applying the factors deemed relevant by the Supreme Court in Walling v. Portland Terminal Co.—expectation of compensation, power to hire and fire, and evidence that an arrangement was "conceived or carried out" to evade the law—the federal appeals court found the economic reality of the relationship between the NCAA/PAC-12 and student-athletes did not reflect an employment relationship.
Expectation of compensation. The court first found it did not need to address whether the plaintiff's scholarship engendered an "expectation of compensation" or amounted to compensation because he did not receive the scholarship from the NCAA or the PAC-12. Rather, the court observed, the member schools themselves award and distribute the financial aid he claimed constituted expected compensation. And while he argued that NCAA regulations prohibit student-athletes from accepting compensation beyond scholarships limited to cost of attendance, the limitation on scholarships does not, as a matter of law, create any expectation of compensation from the NCAA/PAC-12, the court reasoned, finding that neither the NCAA nor PAC-12 provided him with a scholarship or any expectation of a scholarship.
Hire/fire. Nor could he show that the NCAA or PAC-12 had the power to fire or hire him. While he claimed that they assert complete control over the lives of student-athletes on and off campus and control and regulate student-athletes' "training and game schedules, academic schedules, and other collegiate activities," he did not allege that they "hire and fire," or exercise any other analogous control, over student-athletes. Nor was there any allegation or evidence that the NCAA and PAC-12 choose the players on any Division I football team or engage in the actual supervision of the players' performance. Rather, the allegations showed that the NCAA functions as a regulator, and the NCAA member schools, for whom the student-athletes allegedly render services, enforce regulations.
Evade law. Finally, the court determined, the plaintiff failed to show that the NCAA rules, which were first promulgated before the 1938 enactment of the FLSA, were "conceived or carried out" to evade the law.
Revenue. And while the plaintiff also argued that the labor of student-athletes generates substantial revenue for the NCAA and PAC-12, and that this "economic reality" alters the analysis, the court explained that revenue does not automatically engender or foreclose the existence of an employment relationship under the FLSA and here, "the revenue generated by college sports does not unilaterally convert the relationship between student-athletes and the NCAA into an employment relationship."
Bonnette. Also rejected was the plaintiff's assertion that Bonnette v. California Health and Welfare Agency—in which the Ninth Circuit applied a four-factor test to probe the economic reality of the relationship between state agencies and chore workers hired to perform in-home care for disabled public service recipients—compelled a different result. The Bonnette factors, observed the court, ask "whether the alleged employer (1) had the power to hire and fire the employees, (2) supervised and controlled employee work schedules or conditions of employment, (3) determined the rate and method of payment, and (4) maintained employment records."
Under this test, said the court, the NCAA and PAC-12 are clearly not the plaintiff's employer as they do not admit him to the school or pick him for the team; cannot remove him from the team; do not supervise his schedules or activities in practices or games; do not maintain his scholastic records; and, although they put caps on what he may receive as a scholarship, do not determine whether he gets a scholarship or in what amount.
Regulatory bodies. Thus, the court concluded, within the analytical framework established by the Supreme Court, the NCAA and PAC-12 are regulatory bodies, not employers of student-athletes under the FLSA.
State-law claims. Finally, the court found that in dismissing the plaintiff's state-law claims, the district court properly relied on a 1965 legislative exception for student-athletes from workers' compensation benefits and California appellate courts' interpretation of this exception beyond the Workmen's Compensation Act. Further, said the court, other actions of the California Legislature support that the student-athlete falls outside of California labor law.
Affirming the district court's dismissal of the plaintiff's FLSA and California claims against the NCAA and PAC-12, the court explicitly stated that it did not reach any other issue urged by the parties or express an opinion about student-athletes' employment status in any other context.
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Esoteric Women's Health Newsletter January 2018
Esoteric Women's Health Newsletter January 2018
Welcome to our January newsletter. As we head into 2018 when many are making 'New Year's resolutions', we are asking the more important question – how can we deepen the commitment to truly caring for ourselves every day throughout the year rather than just the one-off time? Can we deeply care for ourselves on a regular basis? Or are we stuck and just trying to 'break bad habits' come January?
This newsletter we explore the theme of preciousness.
- Do we consider ourselves precious?
- Or is that word completely unknown to us?
- Do we consider we could treat ourselves with the same tender love and care that we would treat a newborn child?
- Or do we think preciousness means being slow or weak, and we've got too much on our plate to add that!
Read below and enjoy a number of articles that explore this topic and more.
Also included are some Feature Recipes – new ways to support your body with food that is truly nourishing – as well as details of many upcoming events including:
- The Girl to Woman Festival in January,
- The Women in Livingness Relationship Workshop in February,
- The Breast Cancer Care Retreat in March, and
- Our Well-being for Women events held regularly throughout the world.
Make sure you also check out our article on Esoteric Yoga and how it can support us to hold dear our relationship with our body as fundamental to our relationship with ourselves.
With love,
The EWH Newsletter Team
What's in the Newsletter
FEATURE ARTICLE: Discovering Preciousness
Ditch your New Year's Resolutions and make true change instead
Dressing as beautifully as I feel
Hello Humanity – We need to talk about your breath
Make-up: Confirming the beauty within
Living Health from within
Letter to my body
Breast Cancer - Getting the support you truly need
Exotic gluten-free fish cakes
Green beans with sesame seeds
Avocado Salsa
Fennel, coriander and broccoli soup
Discovering Preciousness
by Suzanne Anderssen
Have you ever bought a gorgeous, special piece of clothing that is hand wash only, to eventually find yourself tossing it into the washing machine with a load of other clothes?
Or what about bought a nice pair of sunglasses, vowed to treat them preciously and always put them away in their case, only to find over time, you do away with the case, at first putting them away into the top of your handbag, but eventually find them somewhere at the bottom, no case in sight?
When does something transition from being worthy of love and care to being just a thing?
In our feature article for this month Suzanne Anderssen explores the concept of Preciousness – how well do we care for our "things" and our body? Are we simply preserving them in a functional kind of way, or are we deeply treasuring of our "things", our body and our Being?
"Our bodies have grown up and while the capacity to treat them with the utmost love, care and preciousness we afforded the newborn is still available to us, we find ourselves behaving and treating our body far less than this preciousness we deserve and desperately want."
Here we present several articles that continue to explore ways to have preciousness be our every day ...
Ditch your New Year's Resolutions and make true change instead
2018 is here. Have you made your New Year's Resolutions yet? This article might save you the trouble . . .
"With true Self-Care there is another way that consistently supports you having a life-style that is deeply loving and nurturing."
Dressing as beautifully as I feel
Do we feel like we need to make excuses for ourselves when we dress up or are we actually allowed to be dressing as beautifully as we like whenever we like? Kate Robson explores the relationship between what we choose to wear and how we feel inside.
"What's with the baggy, daggy clothes ladies?! The covering up? You are beautiful, you all have curves, where are they?"
Hello Humanity – We need to talk about your breath
Our breath is precious and how we choose to breathe can have a huge effect on our inner quality. Joel Levin humorously explores how we often allow the world to dictate the pace and rhythm of our breath and offers an antidote to this.
"If our breath can be changed by our experience of the world around us, then changing our breath may well change how we experience the world."
Make-up: Confirming the beauty within
Rachael Evans explores how make-up can be used to celebrate our inner beauty, rather than wearing it as a mask to hide behind. Our upcoming Girl to Woman Festival in January 2018 celebrates this fact.
"This is where the joy of make-up can be used to play with, experiment with and celebrate the gorgeous-ness that is within every single woman and girl in this world."
Living Health from within
Read how Coleen Hensey went from being a woman who lived in drive and striving to excel and compete, to learning how to reconnect to the precious, delicate, deeply feminine and truly sexy woman she is.
"The hard and super competent woman was a head trick supported by shoulder pads – not me at all."
Letter to my body
Dragana Brown lived a cycle of abusing her body and eventually discovered that 'preciously' is the only way our body wants to be treated.
"You dear Body always found a way to communicate with me – I on the other hand like a tantrum-ing toddler stubbornly and paradoxically kept refusing to so much as lend you my ears."
Breast Cancer – Getting the support you truly need
Dr Jane Barker explores what happens if we get a breast cancer diagnosis:
"Remember this is your body and the choices are yours. Making an informed choice and the right choice for you is really important."
Esoteric Women's Health offers a range of events around the world to keep you connected to the preciousness that exists in each and every one of us. Here is a look at what's coming up in the first quarter of 2018.
Girl to Woman Festival | Lennox Head NSW | 21 January 2018
Coming up soon – 21 January
This festival celebrates and honours girls and women of all ages. It offers a wide range of activities, workshops, performances and discussion groups. The festival also provides space to learn about the pressures girls and women face in the modern age.
- Date: Sunday 21 January 2018, 10am - 3pm
- Venue: Lennox Head, Northern NSW, Australia
You can visit our Girl to Woman blog page to find out more.
Women in Livingness Workshop | Brisbane | 18 February 2018
Getting Real in Relationships
Join us for this ever-popular half-day workshop to explore what it means to get real, open and honest in our relationships. Do we express what we truly feel or do we hold it back? And if so, why?
Relationship Counsellors Annette Baker and Gabrielle Caplice will share their personal and professional experiences of developing more real, honest and intimate relationships – you can get a taste of what they present by watching the short video clip: Building intimacy in your relationships.
- Date: Sunday 18 February, 9am - 1pm
- Venue: 155 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Breast Cancer Care Retreat | Lismore | 4 March 2018
A nurturing one-day retreat to support women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and their carers/partners. This retreat offers a space for a woman to truly stop, and re-evaluate the way she is living.
- Date: Sunday 4 March, 9:30am - 4pm
- Venue: Lismore, Northern New South Wales, Australia
Retreats will be held in several locations throughout the year.
Read our blog Breast Cancer – Getting the Support you Truly Need by Dr Jane Barker
"Remember this is your body and the choices are yours. Making an informed choice and the right choice for you is really important."
Well-being for Women Presentations
Well-being for Women events are regular presentations held throughout the world that offer a space for women to explore what health and well-being truly means and how we can access this in our lives.
Please check our website for dates and details – locations are:
Brisbane | Sydney | Melbourne | Perth | Ballina
Tauranga | Cornwall | London | Oslo | Netherlands
Presentations re-commence January 2018
Entering into a new year is an opportunity to commit and care for ourselves like we are the most precious being in the world – no different to that of a young baby. To build this care requires more than just a mental concept or new year's affirmation. It requires an action or movement towards exploring what it is to truly care for ourselves.
With Esoteric Yoga we are offered the space to implement this action to discover how key our body is in re-establishing a quality of care and gentleness towards ourselves.
Esoteric Yoga always starts with the fact that we are already amazing and precious, therefore it is not about striving to get to that point, but more so about surrendering to this fact. The modality of Esoteric Yoga re-introduces a way to be and move with ourselves that is in complete respect and honour of the preciousness we are. Through stop moments and simple movements we get to experience how it is to move gently and to bring a level of care and tenderness to our body and toward ourselves.
It is from the quality of these movements and the focus on bringing our full presence to what we are doing that we begin to re-establish the most powerful relationship we could ever have – and that is with our body as a woman.
Within each Esoteric Yoga session we come to know through our own experience felt from our body – a 'marker' or 'reference point' that confirms and respects the preciousness of who we are. This establishes a quality or standard from which to be and move from in the world and to also discern what is acceptable or not from others.
The everyday practicality of Esoteric Yoga offers a constant opportunity to hold dear our relationship with our body as fundamental to our relationship with ourselves.
Esoteric Yoga is suitable for all ages. Further information on the modality including programs can be found at the Esoteric Yoga website or through the Esoteric Yoga Stillness Program for Women, a series of annual programs delivered specifically for women.
Unusual, creamy and a little bit exotic these fishcakes are fun to make and incredibly yummy. A winning recipe that goes brilliantly with summer salads and, being gluten and dairy free, it is a rarity in the world of fish cakes and patties.
A super simple dairy free side of greens that will complement any meal – the sesame seeds provide a great source of cholesterol lowering phytosterols, calcium, iron, fibre and magnesium – nutritious and delicious!
Avocado, tomato and red capsicum tossed through with fresh coriander and olive oil. A crunchy and fragrant salsa that will be sure to brighten up any meal.
Soup warms your heart and can be a lovely light way to support you and your body for breakfast, lunch or dinner. These simple ingredients for a Fennel Soup transform into a nurturing silky soup.
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How to use points to buy Disney tickets
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A Disney vacation is an American pastime, one that can give as much joy and anticipation as it can sticker shock. The quest for a discounted Disney experience sounds quixotic, but with a little points savvy, maybe we can bring the Disney magic into the realm of the possible. Here's how to use points to cover park tickets to Disney and make your next family vacation more affordable.
Disney ticket costs
Feel dizzy after looking over all the different kinds of tickets you can buy for Disney? You're not alone: It's definitely intimidating, at least at first. More confusing is the fact that the price of a ticket isn't flat. How much one costs, and therefore the number of points you'll need to use, depends on several factors, including guest age (those under 3 are free — hurray!), what date you're going, how many days you'll visit, how many parks you want to go to and what additional attractions you want to see (waterparks, miniature golf, real golf, etc.).
One constant with Disney tickets is that the more days you visit a Disney park, the less your per-day cost will be.
Looking at value per day, it's in your best interest to fit as much Disney in as possible on a single trip in order to get significantly more bang for your buck than buying a single-day, single-park ticket. Single-day one-park tickets to Disney World range from $109 – $159 per day.
Tickets for Disneyland in Anaheim, California, are a tiny bit cheaper than Disney World, with a single-day adult ticket costing from $104–$149 per day, depending on the date you visit. A three-day Park Hopper ticket for both parks in California will set an adult back $355.
How to redeem points for Disney tickets
If you're looking for a magical way to get outsized value when using your points for free Disney tickets, don't get your hopes up. Outside of limited-time promotions that may appear, it's not possible.
As you'll see below, the only ways I know to use points to cover a Disney ticket are by redeeming them as cash back or at a fixed cash rate. Some programs make it easier to earn points or cash back at an accelerated rate, making free tickets easier to come by.
Alliant Credit Union Visa Signature
This credit card offers unlimited 3% cash back on all purchases for the first year, then drops to 2.5% for the second year. It's tied with another card later on this list for offering the most cash back of any credit card on all purchases. Putting $3,634 of spending on the card in the first year would earn you $109 cash back, or enough for a single-day adult ticket to the Magic Kingdom in Disney World. The card has a $99 annual fee, which is waived for the first year.
American Express Membership Rewards
While it's technically possible to redeem Membership Rewards for Disney packages that include tickets, you're going to get poor value for your points. You can redeem points at 0.7 cents each toward travel packages and hotels booked via American Express Travel or Expedia, but there are far better ways to spend your Membership Rewards points. Skip this option.
Bank of America Premium Rewards
If you hold $100,000 in assets with Bank of America and/or Merrill accounts, you qualify for Platinum Honors, the highest tier of the Bank of America Preferred Rewards program. At that level, the Bank of America® Premium Rewards® credit card will earn a minimum of 2.625x points on all transactions and 3.5x points on travel and dining purchases. All points are equal to 1 cent cash back no matter how you use them, meaning the high rate of cash back on all purchases can be used to cover your Disney tickets.
Beginning with the second year of card membership, the Premium Rewards card earns the highest cash back on all purchases of any credit card currently available — as long as you're a Platinum Honors Preferred Rewards member.
Barclays Arrival Plus Miles
Covered extensively by TPG over the years, Arrival Plus miles will "erase" any travel charge over $100 made with the Barclaycard Arrival Plus World Elite Mastercard. Unfortunately, Barclays closed the card to new applicants this summer, so you need to already hold it to take advantage of these miles.
This card earns 2x miles on all purchases. In order to get Disney tickets to code as travel, you cannot buy the tickets directly from Disney unless you are buying them as part of a larger package that also includes a resort stay or similar. A better bet is to use one of many brokers who sell Disney tickets which will code as travel. Undercover Tourist has been confirmed to code as travel on the Arrival Plus. The Arrival Plus also offers a 5% rebate of all redeemed miles, effectively giving you a 2.1% cash-back card on all spend toward travel purchases.
The Arrival Premier has a rewards setup that doesn't give you a sign-up bonus but basically earns you 3x miles on all purchases on the first $25,000 in expenses each year, assuming you spend $25,000 at a minimum. This will earn you 75,000 miles, good for $750 toward Disney tickets, and the card has a $150 annual fee that's waived for the first year. This card was also closed to new applicants last year.
Capital One Venture Rewards
Venture Rewards can be used as a fixed-value currency, with each point worth one cent when used to erase travel charges (they're also now transferable, but that won't help you with Disney tickets). You can redeem points to cover any travel purchase made on your card. The Capital One® Venture® Rewards Credit Card earns 2x miles on all purchases and offers 50,000 miles after you spend $3,000 in the first three months of opening the account. The annual fee is $95, making it an attractive way to pick up $500 to use toward Disney tickets.
Chase Ultimate Rewards
Until 2018, you could consistently redeem Ultimate Rewards toward Disney tickets, cruises and vacation packages at 1.25 cents, or 1.5 cents each if you held a Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card or Chase Sapphire Reserve®. But this perk ended and, until very recently, had not returned. TPG noticed tickets briefly returning as an option in September 2019 on the Chase portal, but the tickets are astronomically priced and appear to have already disappeared again:
With a one-day Park Hopper ticket priced at $383.90, there's no way you should redeem your points for this even if you can get it to display. A single-day, single-park ticket is priced at $278 here when it should be $109 – $159. I called the Chase travel center and an agent told me Disney tickets weren't an option and there were no plans to bring them back. We aren't really sure what to make of this right now, but certainly don't pay these prices for Disney tickets even if you see it as an option.
Citi ThankYou Rewards
If you hold a Citi Premier® Card or Citi Prestige® Card, ThankYou points can give you good value from your transferable points toward Disney tickets. ThankYou points earned with the Premier card are worth 1.25 cents toward all travel, including Disney tickets bookable over the phone with Citi's third-party travel agency, Connexions Travel. Call 1-800-842-6596, say you're redeeming ThankYou points at the first prompt, then select the travel rewards option, followed by the fourth presented option — cruises and tours. That'll put you in touch with an agent who can book Disney tickets with your ThankYou points.
If you don't hold a Premier or Prestige card, all ThankYou points are worth 1 cent each toward Disney tickets. The Connexions Travel phone agent quoted me the same prices for tickets that I found on the Disney website.
The Citi Premier® Card currently has a welcome bonus of 60,000 points after you spend $4,000 in the first three months.
Discover it Miles
The Discover it Miles card carries no annual fee, earns 1.5x miles on all spend, and all miles earned in the first year are matched by Discover, giving you an effective 3x miles on all spend for the first year. No matter which way you redeem these miles, they're worth 1 cent each, giving you a 3% cash-back card toward Disney in your first year of card membership. This matches the above Alliant Visa Signature card for the highest cash-back earn rate on a credit card, but only for the first year of membership.
Wells Fargo Go Far Rewards
You can redeem Go Far Rewards for Disney tickets directly on the Wells Fargo program's website, but not for the most value. Redeeming directly for tickets will give you a redemption value of between 0.94 and 0.97 cents per point. For instance, a seven-day adult Park Hopper ticket for Walt Disney World will cost you 60,169 Go Far Rewards. This ticket is selling for $557.09 after taxes, resulting in a 0.93 cent-per-point redemption. You're better off redeeming your points at 1 cent per point in cash back into your Wells Fargo deposit account and buying tickets from Disney.
The Wells Fargo Visa Signature® Card has no annual fee and is offering a sign-up bonus of 5x points on up to $12,500 in spend at gas stations, grocery stores and drugstores. This will give you 62,500 points if you max out the spend. The Wells Fargo Propel American Express® card offers 20,000 bonus points when you spend $1,000 in purchases in the first 3 months. The Wells Fargo Propel American Express® card has no annual fee and earns 3x points in extremely inclusive travel and entertainment categories. (Note that the information related to the Wells Fargo Visa Signature Card has been collected by The Points Guy and has not been reviewed or provided by the issuer or provider of this product or service.)
If your household gets both cards and combines the bonuses, you'll have $925 to spend toward Disney tickets, with no annual fee. You can only get one Wells Fargo welcome bonus every 15 months, so you can get one card and your spouse or family member can get the other card.
The information for the Wells Fargo Visa Signature card has been collected independently by The Points Guy. The card details on this page have not been reviewed or provided by the card issuer.
What about the Disney Visa?
You can earn Rewards Dollars to use toward expenses at the Disney Parks with this lineup of cards, so it isn't a bad option. However, it also isn't the best option out there for maximizing your spending to earn a Disney vacation.
Here's an entire story on whether the Disney Visa is worth it and how you can get some of the perks from those credit cards with no annual fee.
Bottom line
It takes concerted effort to build up enough points for a family's worth of free Disney tickets. Along the way, you may have to forgo the much higher potential value that you'd get if you transferred points to a travel partner for hotel or flight redemptions.
That said, if a discounted trip to Disney is what you want for your next award, you can reach it with cash-back rewards or points. Even if free Disney tickets don't mathematically yield the best redemption, making family memories with free or discounted Disney tickets can make it your best redemption.
Featured photo by Summer Hull / The Points Guy
Want to read more about Disney parks around the world? Check out our other Disney guides…
- TPG's ultimate guide to Disney World
- In the shadow of the mouse: Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista – Disney Springs
- 9 things families should know before visiting Disneyland
- The best points hotels near Disney World in 2018
- Renting Disney Vacation Club points: Saving money at Disney
- The 10 best Disney thrill rides around the world
- Disney World without kids: 10 ways to enjoy an adult trip to Disney
- 10 things kids will love at the Disney Aulani Resort in Hawaii
- How to ride every Disney World ride in one day
- How to eat healthy at Disney World
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Brand-Rex has announced that Redstone Converged Solutions has installed over 1,300 outlets and 29 kilometres of Brand-Rex structured cabling throughout its prestigious new 27,000 sq foot Logistic Centre in Elstree, Hertfordshire. The new building is home to Redstone's infrastructure provisioning services. With over 1,000 employees and a turnover in excess of £200 million pa, Redstone provides converged IP solutions from structured cabling works through to innovative IP communications and fully integrated intelligent building solutions to customers across the UK and Ireland. The Logistics Centre is designed to provide the highest levels of service and ensure the smoothest possible implementation of client projects.
Formerly laboratory space, the 10 year old building was suitable for conversion and refurbishment to provide the required mix of showroom, warehouse, office and technical workshop space. As part of the refurbishment a new high performance, converged network was designed. The fully converged Brand-Rex network is capable of supporting voice, data and video plus all the building management services.
The Brand-Rex Cat6Plus structured cabling solution was chosen for its reliability, performance and 'future ready' capabilities. In addition to its quality of components the entire network is backed by the Brand-Rex 25 year warranty to give additional peace of mind.
"This is a showcase site for Redstone customers and we are delighted that Brand-Rex was chosen for its high capacity infrastructure," says Tim Jemmett, customer relations manager, Brand-Rex. "Our Cat6Plus cabling systems provide a high performance, cost effective, reliable solution for both today's and tomorrow's integrated business communication needs."
The Brand-Rex solution was chosen because it offered the best value and represented a proven, reliable technology that is readily available. The fibre backbone topology design will allow for expansion with an infrastructure design capable of supporting the business in the future.
"Brand-Rex met all the requirements in terms of performance, quality and affordability," says Jemmett. "In addition, we have delivered an infrastructure that demonstrates the capabilities and versatility of the Brand-Rex product range."
Because of the unique construction of the building several installation techniques for the Brand-Rex products are on display – including under-floor and in-ceiling as well as conventional trunked routing of cables. "Brand-Rex cables are more flexible and thinner than many other manufacturers, and so lend themselves more easily to a variety of installation techniques," says Jemmett. "In addition, our angled patching frames offer a significant improvement over traditional designs, making installation easier as well as offering a neat looking solution."
Brand-Rex, has delivered a network infrastructure that meets Redstone's requirements in terms of performance, flexibility, robustness and future-proofing.


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With Instagram business profiles users get access to a ton of advanced features, on Later.
Benefits that come with an Instagram business profile are rooted in the fact that Instagram's API grants access to more capabilities for business profiles than it does for personal profiles.
Once you switch to a business profile, Instagram will grant you access to native in-app features like analytics, shopping links, contact links and more!
With Later, switching from a personal profile to an Instagram business profile, means you'll unlock access to additional features and have the ability to do much more with your Later account.
Here's what you unlock with an Instagram business profile:
#1 Auto Publishing Instagram Posts
With an Instagram business profile, you can set up Auto Publishing for single photo and video posts on Later. That means once you set up Auto Publishing for your scheduled posts, Later will automatically publish for you!
Auto Publishing only works for single photo and video posts, because Instagram does not support this feature for carousel posts. You will still need to publish those posts via Later's notification method.
Auto Publishing is available for business profiles on all Later plans including the free plan. Learn more about how it works here.
#2 User & Location Tagging
Single image posts set up for Auto Publishing on Premium, Starter, and Brand Plans have access to user & location tagging. Video posts on Business plans have access to location tagging.
#3 Instagram Analytics
Optimize your content and grow your following with a comprehensive look into your Instagram analytics and track your referral traffic from Instagram with click analytics for Linkin.bio.
- Automatically calculate your engagement rate
- Track Instagram Stories views and engagement data for up to 3 months
- Use demographics data like age and gender to guide your content strategy
- See when your audience is most active on Instagram
#4 Managing your Instagram Comments with Conversations
Reply to all your Instagram comments right from your Later account on the web. Manage and engage your audience with ease from the comfort of your desktop, without having to leave your Later account.
Instagram business profiles on Growth and Advanced have access to Later's Conversations feature.
#5 Find & Share User-Generated Content Right from Your Desktop with Later's Collect Features
Later's Collect Features make it easy to use user-generated content for your social marketing strategy.
- Tags & Mentions: collect content from Instagram posts that tagged your profile or from captions that mentioned your profile. Then add them right into your Media Library to repost later.
- Search by Hashtag: find relevant content by searching specific hashtags. When you find content that's perfect for your feed, just save it directly to your Media Library so you can easily schedule it later.
Leverage your Instagram community and repost their on-brand and already-created content, instead of constantly creating new photos and videos to post to Instagram. It's a win-win: you can reuse content, and your community gets exposure when you feature them in your Instagram feed.
Note: Later adds the original poster's caption and Instagram handle into the notes of any media item added from Hashtag Search, Mentioned Media & tagged media so that you can easily give the correct credit when reposting UGC.
Ready to make the switch from a personal Instagram profile to a business profile and unlock more features? Here's how:
How to Create an Instagram Business Profile:
Now that you're up-to-speed on the benefits of Instagram business profiles, it's time to make the switch! Luckily, switching to an Instagram business profile is actually very simple and can be done within the mobile app:
- In the Instagram mobile app, go to your profile.
- Tap ☰ in the top right corner.
- Tap Settings > Account.
- Tap Switch to Professional Account or Get More Tools at the bottom.
- When asked, Which Best Describes You?, tap Business and Continue.
- Connect your Instagram business profile to an existing Facebook Page or create a new Facebook Page.
- Review your business contact information and tap Done.
How to Switch to an Instagram Business Profile Video:
Watch the video below to see all of the benefits of having a Business Instagram Profile and how to make the quick switch!
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Now that spring is here, there are many chores and projects that must be dealt with. Our yard being as sloped as it is, has a lot of erosion and our hens have scratched under their run walls opening themselves up to predators. After seeing many coops with pavers around their perimeter on Pinterest, I decided to try it too. I have to say, it has helped block any outside diggers from getting inside. I have only completed the front side so far. We are having dirt work done soon to scrape and level our front yard and I need some of the dirt shoved around to the lower part of the run to level out the rest of the pavers. I also replaced their roosting bar and nesting boxes to help make cleaning easier.
|We were still having some late frosts so we still had the water line covered and windows closed.
|I also added an outdoor roost for those rainy muddy days.
|I gave them 2 Brand new 2x2s in hopes to reduce crowding, but they still only use the top bar.
|They had a raised floor over their nursery pot nests, but I took it all out after my last big cleaning episode when it was too hard to get to those tight corners.
|These larger pavers give us a level no-slip zone to gather eggs and clean the coop.
After working on their house, I had to get started on the garden. I added a small bed just for corn and added more dirt and compost to the old bed. After the seedlings were big enough, I put them in the earth. My oregano had become ground cover in the bed and I had to dig it out and pot it. I used row cover with my hoops until the last frost was over, but some of my weaker crops did not survive and I have had to plant more seeds. I have also added nasturtiums and marigolds to the bed to help deter squash bugs this year. If you have never seen the power of chicken poo compost, let me show you...
The home improvements seem to be never ending. I will not have need of a subject to write about. My next project is to build our portable coop for our new feathered friends. I have seen several examples and have written out my plan. I will start with the run to give them a daytime retreat and as the funds allow, I will complete the coop and move them into it permanently. We built the main coop house mostly out of recycled materials, but I have not been able to get my hands on any scraps lately. I will share my results as soon as I am done. If you have any chicken coop or gardening tips, please share them with me.
God Bless you all,
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Last week we reported that six Super Famicom (SNES to me and you) titles were hitting the New 3DS Virtual Console in Japan, along with a special retro 3DS home theme which was free to download if you purchased any of the half-dozen titles.
At the time Nintendo confirmed that six more Super Famicom titles would be forthcoming, and we now know exactly what they are.
Each costing 823 Yen, this week's releases are Live A Live, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, Mario's Super Picross, Kirby's Star Stacker, Super Famicom Wars and Pop'n TwinBee.
If you've got access to a Japanese New 3DS, then you can download these lovely retro gems this week. Let us know if you plan on doing so.
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Fisk Hideout (Main Mission)
Welcome to IGN's Walkthrough for Marvel's Spider-Man. This page contains information on the sixth main mission of the game - Fisk Hideout - which will include main objectives, side objectives, and any points of interest along the way.
- Location: Greenwich
- Rewards: 2,500 XP
Now that you've got a brand new suit with a new power and everything, Captain Watanabe has the perfect task for you to test it out. It turns out that even in jail, Fisk is still active in the criminal underground - using his construction sites for criminal dealings.
Investigate the Construction Site
Video Guide:Something Old, Something New and Fisk Hideout
From the lab, head over to the nearby construction site - using R3 to ping the location on your map if you need to. If you've been taking on some side objectives like beating up thugs on the street - you can craft some Suit Mods to help you in this mission.
As you enter the site, you'll get a text message from Doctor Octavius that unlocks a host of new Gadgets you can craft to help you in these stealthy takedown sessions. The first gadget includes the Impact Web - a powerful gadget that will instantly web an enemy up, instead of having to fire multiple times with the Web Shooter.
Each of these gadgets can now be upgraded once crafted by using more Tokens, and can become formidable indeed once you meet the level requirements. For now, give the Impact Web a test on the big thug nearby by reading your Impact Web gadget - hold L1 and use a radial menu to select the new gadget, and fire to incapacitate the thug.
- Bonus Objectives: Perform 10 Finishers, Web 5 enemies to walls
There's around 12 more Thugs that patrol this place, some rifle-toting men on the higher levels, and clusters of thugs on the lower levels. See if you can't stealthily climb over to the ones above to take them out so they can't gain a vantage point over you when you go to fight the larger groups.
You can press Triangle when in range to perform a stealth takedown from a distance (if nobody is watching), or you can line them up next to a wall and either hit them with another Impact Web, or spray some Web Shooter on them to build up those bonus objectives.
It's best to take out as many as you can without alerting the others because once you do, they'll start calling for reinforcements, and you will need to take on 6 waves of Fisk's thugs. Endurance is a key factor here, as you want to take them on with caution in mind. It's a big area, and you can lead enemies to you to catch a breather and pick them off as they arrive.
As more waves appear, Shield-toting thugs will appear near the middle, and taser-equipped thugs will also appear on the main floor. You'll also have enemies throwing Stun Mines on the ground near you - and you'll need to move quickly unless you want your vision blurred - or you can yank and throw it at them to turn the tables.
For the shield and taser enemies, remember to get behind the shields, and web up the tasers before attacking. Remember that doing a Web Strike into an enemy armed with a melee weapon will cause them to quickly counter-attack - so either avoid this, or be ready to dodge under them after zipping into these enemies. Sticking to aerial attacks helps as only few thugs will carry guns for the moment, and you can zip across the rooftops to pick them off while the other struggle to catch up. If you unlocked the Perfect Dodge skill, wait for the blue indicator to dodge bullets, and you'll mess up their vision for a bit while you close the distance.
As the fighting drags on, remember your new Suit Skill - Battle Focus. It allows you to rapidly gain Focus when you press down on L3 + R3, and has a lengthy recharge. This can let you heal or perform takedowns multiple times over a short period - use these wisely, and if you can, try and score plenty of takedowns for that bonus objective. Should you get knocked out, you'll have to start again a few waves back, but thankfully not from the beginning.
In the last wave, watch the upper levels as a thug will appear with a rocket launcher. Dodge the incoming missile and zip up to him quickly to neutralize him. As the rest of the thugs below go up the stairs, slam environmental objects on them to hammer them before mopping them up, and see if you can't pop the Battle Focus ability again.
Clearing the base will award you a Base Token, plus up to two more if you did both Bonus Objectives! Fisk's Hideouts will start appearing all over the map, and as you uncover more Satellite Towers, more locations will be known to you. If you didn't complete the sub-objectives, you can return here to replay the base at any time, but you'll only get tokens for missed objectives. Unlike Crimes, these cannot be repeated for more rewards.
Don't worry, as over the course of the game, new bases will appear, giving you more opportunities to get tokens.
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There is considerable confusion around what the Smith-Mundt Act does and does not do, specifically with regards to the United States government disseminating information within nation's borders. The irony of this misunderstanding is thick and multilayered.
Fact-check: BBG can now broadcast to Americans?
The change to the governance structure of the Broadcasting Board of Governors through an amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act has raised some concerns that the BBG might turn inward to target American audiences through domestic broadcasting. An article at Politico, for example, stated that because of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2013, "the BBG can now broadcast in the U.S., too." Fox's Howard Kurtz was more accurate when he wrote that the three-year old amendment means that the "BBG's content can also be broadcast in the United States." The first is not accurate, while Kurtz is slightly misleading. Here's why.
Thoughts about CBS Evening News going to VOA's Steve Herman for Bangkok bombing coverage
Why is it news that a U.S. commercial news program threw to - beyond just referring to - VOA reporting?
The Smith-Mundt Act: A legislative history from 1953 by Burton Paulu
Burton Paulu's 1953 article based on his PhD thesis of four years earlier was a timely reminder of the some of the issues surrounding the peacetime establishment of informational and exchange programs just as several Presidential commissions were reviewing whether to separate these programs from State.
The Brookings Institute on U.S. International Information… in 1948
A look at a Brookings Institute report from 1948 on the U.S. government past, present, and future plans for international information programs. Written by a former insider, the 397-page report recommended that information policy must be tightly coupled with the rest of foreign policy because of the modern nature of international affairs.
Willis Conover & Smith-Mundt, a more complete picture
The recent WSJ article on the great Willis Conover mentioned how Smith-Mundt blocked Americans from knowing Conover. It's true, but not for the reasons you probably think you know.
When do we start the honest debate over the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act?
What is it about U.S. public diplomacy that we must hide it from Americans?
Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 introduced in the House
Last week, Representatives Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Adam Smith (D-WA) introduced a bill to amend the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to "authorize the domestic dissemination of information and material about the United States intended primarily for foreign audiences, and for other purposes." The bill, H.R.5736 — Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 (Introduced in House – IH), removes the prohibition on public diplomacy material from being available to people within the United States and thus eliminates an artificial handicap to U.S. global engagement while creating domestic awareness of international affairs and oversight and accountability of the same. This bill also specifies Smith-Mundt only applies to the Department of State…
Ambassador George Venable Allen, Smith-Mundt, and the Voice of America
"The real Voice of America is the voice of the thousands of newspapers, periodicals, public speakers, public officials, private groups, or individuals - anyone and everything which, if fused together by some magic process, would make up the articulate and composite voice of the 147 million people of the United States. If our shortwave program is to be the true Voice of America, it will reflect their views, not so much as expressed in quadrennial elections but in their day-to-day lives."
A Brief History of the Smith-Mundt Act and Why Changing It Matters
Today, perceptions on Smith-Mundt are shaped more by the histrionics of the 1970's and 1980's than the struggle of minds and wills in the decades prior.


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EPISODE 091: 10 Powerhouse Propresenter Hacks with Paul Alan Clifford (Part Three)
Show Notes:
On this week's show, I welcome back Paul Alan Clifford for a third round. Paul owns and operates Trinity Digital Media. He has tons of videos, courses, and training resources available at trinitydigitalmedia.com. We will be wrapping up our list of 10 Powerhouse ProPresenter Hacks to help you execute our Sunday experience more efficiently.
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House Foundations & Footings
Footing & House Foundation Systems
Foundations are one of the most important aspects of construction. This is the part of the structure which interacts with the earth. At first blush, this "interaction" may not appear to be significant. However, one must realize that the surface of the earth is covered by many different materials (soils). These materials (soils) have vastly different properties and react quite differently when loads are placed upon them. The problem is further complicated when we disturb these soils and move them from one location to another. This practice is generally referred to as "cutting and filling." Read this article for more information on cutting and filling.
Footing and foundation systems, when properly designed and constructed, allow us to construct buildings which will withstand the powerful forces of nature. Some of these forces are quite impressive. Gravity, soil swelling, frost heaving, hydrostatic pressure, etc. are just a few of the subtle hidden forces that can affect your house or building. These forces are powerful and should not be underestimated. For example, I have witnessed firsthand the ability of a 2' x 2' area of soil to raise 1,200 lbs of steel and concrete 1/2". This occurred after the soil underneath a column footing had been saturated with water after a moderate rainfall. I was quite impressed. You must respect these forces.
Let's start with the basics. Footings are the structural members which transmit the concentrated loads of the structure to the soil. These members come in various shapes and sizes and are generally constructed of steel-reinforced concrete. The footings are generally a minimum of two to three times wider than the width of the foundation wall. The thickness of the footer is a function of the weight of the structure above and the strength of the soil below the footer. A thicker footer (10 -12") will be stronger than a thinner (6 - 8") footer. The footer is usually installed immediately after excavation. The foundation is then constructed on top of the footer. Generally speaking, the footer is constructed independently of the foundation.
Foundations are also structural members. They basically are nothing more than giant beams. They carry loads, similar to structural steel I-beams. Foundations can be constructed from a variety of materials. They can be made from concrete, stone, concrete block, wood, steel, etc. Since they are difficult to replace, it is a wise idea to construct foundations using strong, durable, water resistant materials. The design criteria concerning foundations is very technical. You should consider consulting a structural engineer prior to building a foundation. This person will properly size the foundation and specify the materials from which it should be constructed.
Additional Reading
The following books offer a wealth of information concerning footings and foundations. In the event you cannot locate these books, your local library will probably have many similar books on the same topic. Good Luck!
- Residential Foundations
Jim Carr
Home Builder Press, 2000
- Simplified Design of Building Foundations, 2nd ed.
James Ambrose
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1988
- Foundations and Concrete Work
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
Taunton Press, 2002
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