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SEATTLE, June 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Seattle Chocolate Company is committed to producing chocolate bars with Rainforest Alliance Certified™ cocoa, sharing in the global fight against unjust child labor practices, the protection and preservation of our environment and the economic betterment of farmers and their communities. Today, the company is pleased to share that the bars featuring the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal are now available at retail.
"Today we are formally doing our part to better the lives of those growing and producing the cocoa we use to create Seattle Chocolates," explains Seattle Chocolate Company owner and CEO Jean Thompson. "Rainforest Alliance certification has a comprehensive and proven approach to addressing the social, environmental and economic challenges faced by farmers and their communities."
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"When searching for a certification for our chocolate the rights and welfare of farmers and their families was paramount to us," continues Jean. "In addition to addressing economic and environmental issues, the standard for Rainforest Alliance certification strictly prohibits forced labor and the employment of children under the age of 15, and helps to ensure that the children of farm workers have improved access to education."
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Nicole LeBlanc, 39, turns from cameras as she enters a courtroom on Friday to plead guilty to charges that she murdered her ex-boyfriend, Richard Mannion Jr., in January. (JAMES A. KIMBLE Union Leader Correspondent)
BRENTWOOD - A Londonderry woman was allowed to plead guilty to second-degree murder for shooting to death her ex-boyfriend in January as he slept in his own bed, despite protests from the victim's family about a plea bargain that offered the possibility of parole.
Nicole LeBlanc was sentenced to 35 years to life in state prison on Friday for murdering Richard Mannion Jr., a Sandown father of four and Gulf War veteran who was shot once in the head at his home on the night of Jan. 14.
LeBlanc was initially charged with first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory life-without-parole prison term. She waived indictment on Friday to a new second-degree murder charge as part of a plea deal with state prosecutors.
The two-hour plea hearing in Rockingham County Superior Court was punctuated with calls from Mannion's family to maintain the first-degree murder charge so that LeBlanc would never be granted the possibility of one day walking free.
"Rick certainly did not have any chance to make a plea for his life," Dennis Mannion, the victim's uncle said on Friday morning. "He was asleep."
The deal also allows LeBlanc to petition a judge to have five years suspended from her sentence if she obtains a bachelor's degree and remains discipline-free for a decade.
"I can't guarantee you would ever be released from state prison," Judge Marguerite Wageling told LeBlanc on Friday while explaining terms of the agreement.
After listening to victim impact statements on Friday, Wageling suggested she may be reluctant to ever grant LeBlanc a sentence reduction."Ms. LeBlanc, you deserve every single day of this sentence - every single day of this sentence," Wageling said. LeBlanc, 39, who entered court with stooped shoulders and disheveled hair masking her face, offered no apology or statement and kept her back to Mannion's family during the hearing.
She was repeatedly prompted by Wageling to speak up while being quizzed about giving up her right to a trial. State prosecutors acknowledged that LeBlanc's history of mental illness played a role in agreeing to a lesser charge. Public defenders handed over a variety of mental health records showing that LeBlanc had been hospitalized because of mental illness.
LeBlanc also underwent another evaluation after she was charged with murder. "She has suffered from depression and has at least two documented instances of attempted suicide," Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley said.
Hinckley said his office gives serious consideration to input by a victim's family, but it also has to weigh a number of other factors when recommending a potential sentence.
"If I was the victim's brother, son or relative my opinion would be different," Hinckley said outside the courtroom about the sentence.
LeBlanc had lived with Mannion, 43, at his Sandown home in 2011 until he ended the relationship last summer, according to Hinckley.
LeBlanc responded by repeated telephone calls, text messages and a twice breaking a no-contact order by arriving unexpectedly at Mannion's home on Dec. 25 and Dec. 28, 2011, prosecutors said.
Days later on Jan. 13, she broke into the home by smashing a basement window with a shovel found in his shed. She returned the next night, entering the home through the basement, with a .380-caliber handgun she had taken from a Hollis man whom she was once romantically involved with, prosecutors said.
LeBlanc used latex gloves, baby wipes and even donned Mannion's shoes to walk around outside his home to avoid detection, prosecutors said. She placed a folded towel to his head and fired a single round while he slept, according to Hinckley.
Mannion's ex-wife, Shannon Emerson, told Wageling that LeBlanc continued with her deception after the murder, arriving at her home offering to console her and her family while they were being questioned by state police detectives.
"I knew you were the one person who had everything to do with this," she said.
LeBlanc also posted several messages on Mannion's online obituary. State police ultimately unraveled the case when they questioned LeBlanc's one-time boyfriend, Dennis Johnson, of Hollis. Johnson, who was not charged, told investigators that LeBlanc had taken his handgun without his knowledge.
He later agreed to wear a body wire while drawing LeBlanc into a confession recorded by state police.
When asked about why she committed the murder, LeBlanc said during the recorded conversation that "she had her reasons," Hinckley said. "She also added she didn't feel bad about the victim."
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I've had 2 or 3 episodes where I have rather intense, bright lights floating in my field of vision. It starts minimally and then gets to be rather severe, impacting my vision somewhat. Then they fade away.
I'm 53.
Feels like some kind of neurological problem, but I'm just guessing.
Anyone know what this might be?
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Hi Paul,
- Is it possible for you to describe these lights?
- Have you ever had a headache during or after an episode?
- Have you ever experienced severe headache's ?
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bright lights floating in field of vision
The lights are white, curved strings of light. They float across my field of vision. They start very slow with just a hint of some light that I can't quite detect, and then get worse. The most recent episode (today) left me with a slight headache. As a general rule, I don't suffer from headaches, though.
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I have this and had it investigated several times, after seeing everyone from vision to heart, I found they are a
Transient ischemic attack. they became more frequent and longer in duration. I had a stent put in my descending aorta a year ago, since then I have only had a couple, very brief, it is caused by lack of oxygen. Now I am not saying that is what your problem is, but it is from a lack of oxygen somewhere in your body, continue to have check ups and push your Doctor on it, go to a heart Doctor and have a check up, never hurts to be safe.
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Hi Paul,
It is very possible that it is a migraine. Migraine's doesn't necissarily cause headaches. The lights that you see, is what is called a "Migraine Halo". I always only get the Halo's and never the headache's... (If you ask me, I would rather live with the pain than the visual disturbance
How often do you experience the ligts?
It's not known what causes Migraine's but factors such as eye-strain like for instance staring at a computer screen for an extended period of time, can trigger a Migraine. The best rule of thumb, for eye strain, is to break away from the screen from time to time and keeping the screen's refresh rate above 70mhz. Apparently, the "flickering" of the screen can set off Migraine's or sometimes even Epilepsy.
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White out in one eye and temporary blindness
I have been having the same experience as you describe, with temporary blindness for which can last as long as 1 minute. Then the sight slowly returns with dark like pixels and sight returns to normal within 5 minutes. Could these symptoms also be described as a Migraine halo.
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Tiny bright lights, sensitivity to light (bright sky), migraines
I have experienced everything written by each of you, including temporary blindness while driving my car. Try SYBELLIUM or SIBELLUM, These are purple & red pills by prescription only. It's a muscle relaxant that restores normal bloodflow to your brain. Don't ask me how it works that's all I remember, it worked for me 9 years ago... hope it helps.
Although the headaches are GONE, I've had a recurrence of tiny bright lights, hundreads of them flying all over the place particularly when I look at the sky (computer screen, white background). I've gone back to Sibellium (spelling?) last week to see if it will clean this up. I'll keep you posted.
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hey guys.. don't be consider that light something in the realm of disorder. look upon it instead as something normal occurring in your life. when you see it the next time stop what you're doing and just feel what you say is the accompanying headache. really feel it, let go into it.
you may have the surprise of discovering those moments as truly healing
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I've had this too and was told by an optician it was a type of miagraine. I find that if i have a large glass of water and a biscuit it goes away instantly, like low blood sugar. Worth giving that a try. Works for me
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im starting to have this also,, it tends to only happen on the days that I have more than one cup of coffee usually later in the evening... the bright wiggly blurriness often in the peripheral vision usually more to one eye than the other, feels like a sudden rush of blood or lack of something (oxygen) it usually goes away within 15 minutes but is accompanied with a slight headache. It used to happen in my left eye, but tonight it happened in my right eye and I am left with a slight headache on the left side of my head to the left temple.
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The political process is chaotic and often takes years to unfold, making it difficult to use traditional measures to evaluate the effectiveness of advocacy organizations. There are, however, unconventional methods one can use to evaluate advocacy organizations and make strategic investments in that arena.
The Stanford Graduate School of Business opens the Knight Management Center, a new facility of eight buildings around three quads designed to support an innovative MBA curriculum. The center is expected to achieve the highest LEED Platinum® rating for environmental sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Venture into a Panera Cares café and you'll see the same menu and racks of freshly baked breads that are staples at the 1,400 Panera Bread restaurants across the United States. The only thing missing is the cash register. Instead, there's a donation box where customers pay on the honor system.
Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry's promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.
"No single generation has ever witnessed so much change in a lifetime," SEIU President Andy Stern told a Business School audience, and unions must be part of that change.
Stanford MBA students on a service learning trip advise small businesses in New Orleans. They partner with nonprofit the Idea Village to create a model program for business students from all over the world to provide pro bono business consulting services and become part of the rebirth of the city.
Business School Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer and doctoral student Sanford E. DeVoe found that people who are used to being paid by the hour start thinking of time as a commodity almost equal to cash. And given the choice as to whether they'll take time or greenbills, they'll usually take the latter—meaning they're nearly always willing to put in more hours to get the pay.
"There is, perhaps for the first time in history, a reasonable chance of transforming the quality of life and the creative opportunities for the vast majority of humanity," says Dean Emeritus Michael Spence, describing the report of the Independent Commission on Growth in Developing Countries, which he chaired.
Sam Goldman, MBA '07, CEO of D.light Design, finds himself running an international company whose customers are some of the poorest people in China, India, or Tanzania. The firm grew out of the Business School course Design for Extreme Affordability. Goldman talked to the Stanford Reporter.
Corporate social responsibility and transparency encourage companies to do good.
As wealthier nations age, nonprofits are retooling their operations to accommodate an older volunteer workforce.
Economic gardening nurtures local business
Is it possible to make our parks a place of inspiration?
City Hall Fellows Program is designed to bring eager young faces into municipal government.
"Cause-related" video games don't go far enough in helping to solve social problems.
It is more important for nonprofits to do their job than to focus on media coverage.
Nonprofits and the taxation debate.
Tips for how to introduce a wiki into your organization.
Better practices in disaster relief involve market-orientated nonprofit organizations, or social-mission-orientated, for-profit companies, playing a more prominent role.
The area of education is ripe for social enterprise efforts, both within and outside U.S. borders. In this audio interview with Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman, Executive Director Tomas Recart talks about what Ensena Chile is doing to create educational change in Chile using the Teach For America model. He discusses recruitment, program evaluation, and the expansion of the effort to other Latin American countries.
Responsible investing begins in local, underserved communities. In this education podcast, CEO Martin Eakes talks about how his organization, Self-Help, has provided almost $6 billion in financing to more than 60,000 homebuyers, small businesses, and nonprofits, and how it is serving thousands of low-income families through retail credit union branches. Eakes' presentation is an inspiring rallying cry for redirecting resources to those who can benefit the most. His talk is part of a discussion sponsored by the Center for Social Innovation.
Impact investing: is it actually investing? Or is it venture philanthropy by another name?
Stanford GSB alum ('08) founded Nuru International to maximize local leadership to drive sustainable change.
A panel on the the importance of mainstreaming and investing in green chemistry for the future of energy and the environment.
Jane Chen (MBA '08) shares her journey to success in tackling one of the world's pressing issues -- low birth rates of premature babies around the world.
Professor Sutton discusses a challenge that determines every organization's success: scaling up farther, faster, and more effectively as a program or an organization creates a larger footprint.
What happens when the nation's largest fast-food chain and a leading environmental advocacy group partner to reduce food packaging waste? Sharing the lessons learned from the groundbreaking success story of an NGO-business model that began 20 years ago and led way for other cross-sector partnerships in sustainability, Environmental Defense Fund's Gwen Ruta and McDonald's Bob Langert, with host Jerry Michalski, kick off The Future of Green open call series.
The crumbling water and sanitation infrastructure of many countries is a major threat to the sustainable provision of these essential services. In this audio interview, part of a Stanford Center for Social Innovation series on water around the world, ITT Corporation's Colin Sabol talks with Stanford MBA student Ashish Jhina about water infrastructure challenges facing different parts of the world and the urgent need for investment to improve the performance of ageing or inadequate water and wastewater systems.
Businesses are increasingly focusing on reducing their water footprint as a source of strategic advantage and as a demonstration of good corporate citizenship. In this audio interview, part of a Stanford Center for Social Innovation series on water around the world, Pepsico's Dan Bena talks with Stanford MBA student Ashish Jhina about his company's efforts to reduce water use in its bottling plants and its partnerships to promote sustainable water use in agriculture and to provide improved access to clean drinking water.
Commissioned by KaBOOM! and authored by Katherine Fulton and alumna Heather McLeod Grant of the Monitor Institute, this case study looks at the challenges KaBOOM! faced and lessons the organization learned while pioneering an online strategy to scale its impact. This strategy involves giving away the nonprofit model online for free to empower others to act on KaBoom's behalf.
This case provides an overview of the nonprofit organization PATH and its Safe Water Project—a five-year effort launched in late 2006 with $17 million in funding from the global development unit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
This case provides an overview of the nonprofit organization PATH and its Safe Water Project—a five-year effort launched in late 2006 with $17 million in funding from the global development unit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. One of the team's primary objectives was to investigate sales and distribution challenges in this space. By conducting a portfolio of field-based pilots, the team hoped to test different models for improving customer access to these safe water products in an effort to identify scalable, sustainable, and replicable solutions. Although specific results varied across the pilots, which spanned India, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Kenya, they collectively gave rise to series of important sales and distribution insights.
This case provides an overview of the nonprofit organization PATH and its Safe Water Project. One of the key objectives of this effort was to explore how the private sector could help make HWTS products more affordable. By conducting a portfolio of field-based pilots in collaboration with commercial partners, the PATH team sought to better understand the effect of different pricing, consumer financing, and subsidy models on demand within low-income population in developing countries.
This case provides an overview of the nonprofit organization PATH and its Safe Water Project—a five-year effort launched in late 2006 with $17 million in funding from the global development unit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The purpose of the grant was to evaluate to what extent market-based approaches could help accelerate the widespread adoption and sustained use of household water treatment and safe storage products by low-income populations.
Arrillaga created Silicon Valley Social Venture ("SV2") in partnership with Community Foundation Silicon Valley ("CFSV"), a nationally recognized public foundation that had experience working with individual donors and had established credibility within the philanthropic field. Arrillaga formed SV2 as a donor-advised fund to ensure that CFSV staff would help guide SV2 partners leverage their expertise and funding to select high-performing community organizations, thus generating the greatest social impact.
Before opening its first store in India in 1996, McDonald's spent six years building its supply chain. During that time, the company worked to successfully source as many ingredients as possible from India. However, French fries ("MacFries") were a particularly tough product to source locally.
The case discusses Nike's sustainability and labor practices from 1998 to 2013, focusing on the successful steps Nike took up and down the supply chain and in its headquarters to make its products and processes more environmentally friendly, and the challenges and complexities it was still facing in its efforts to improve labor conditions.
In late 2006, the PATH Safe Water Project received a $17 million grant form the global development unit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Its purpose was to evaluate how market-based approaches could help accelerate the widespread adoption and sustained use of household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) products among the world's poor. One key factor to consider in constructing its pilot studies was the affordability of HWTS products. This case study describes PATH's efforts to use consumer financing as a mechanism for making HWTS produce and supplies more accessible to its target market.
To help address the issue of unplanned pregnancy and maternal mortality in the developing world, researches at the University of Georgetown's Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) recognized the need for a intuitive, natural contraception method that could meet the needs of families that chose not to use medical or surgical alternatives. IRH developed the Standard Days Method (SDM), a family planning system, and CycleBeads. Despite some reservations related to traditional values, IRH seized the opportunity to roll out sDM and CycleBeads in Mali, West Africa. Unfortunately, the initial launch did not go well and had trouble establishing effective delivery and support for the product. This case looks at how IRH adapted its approach to facilitate more effective implementation of CycleBeads across Mali.
d.light design is a for-profit social enterprise whose purpose is to create new freedoms for customers without access to reliable power so they can enjoy a brighter future. When members of d.light moved to India to set up distribution of their product, the team quickly discovered would not be as easy as they hoped. They discovered it would be difficult to convince consumers to invest in a d.light product as the market was saturated with low-quality, solar-based lighting products. Distribution posed another challenge. This mini-case study evaluates the strategy d.light adopted to differentiate the company and establish its products as credible and trustworthy to earn the acceptance of consumers and distributors.
Merck was grappling with how to distribute an HIV drug in limited supply. The decision team had chosen to manage distribution from one source, and was meeting to review the progress and success of its plan.
The Skoll Foundation funds individuals and organizations with good ideas that can quickly grow in scale and impact. In 2002, as the leaders looked to the future, they pondered how they could act as leading social entrepreneurs themselves in terms of how they structured the foundation's work.
The Broad Education Foundation was established in 1999 to focus on K-12 public education reform. As the foundation sought to expand its reach, its ability to transition the management of its flagship investments would become increasingly important, and maintaining accountability to stakeholders would also be critical.
San Diego City Schools' leaders are faced with a choice: Should they continue reform efforts begun four years earlier, knowing that results so far have been mixed? Or should they modify their reform strategy?
With increasing pollution and congestion, European car manufacturers were concerned that governments might eventually ban cars from city centers. The producer of Swatch watches came up with the novel idea of an environmentally friendly, but stylish, super-compact car.
How can a certain kind of behavior actually contributes to inequalities? Specifically, do children's social-class backgrounds affect when and how they seek help in the classroom, thereby teasing out children's own role in educational stratification? We consider how teachers may use such information to correct these dynamics, and thus contribute to more equal access for all children at school.
Seasonal influenza leads to >200,000 hospitalizations and >8,000 deaths in the United States each year. The influenza vaccine is widely available at low cost and reduces mortality, morbidity, and healthcare costs. Nevertheless, many of those for whom vaccination is indicated fail to comply with CDC recommendations for vaccination. If low compliance is the result of careful calculations by individuals weighing the costs and benefits of vaccination, it may be difficult and expensive for policymakers and organizational leaders to increase vaccination rates. However, if low compliance is the result of forgetfulness or procrastination, low-cost interventions that use psychological tools may be effective at increasing vaccination rates and improving public health.
Evidence suggests that the medication lists of patients are often incomplete and could negatively affect patient outcomes. By predicting drugs the patient could be taking, collaborative filtering can be a valuable tool for reconciling medication lists.
Workers who earn just below the Social Security tax threshold receive a larger tax preference for health insurance than workers who earn just above it.
Health care providers may vertically integrate not only to facilitate coordination of care, but also for strategic reasons that may not be in patients' best interests.
The two-quarter Elective Course series provides lectures from a diverse group of faculty that expose students to the practical aspects of technology invention and development. The class features a presentation or discussion from one of the guest speakers or faculty. Students work in small project teams in the Biodesign prototyping lab or bench space, collaborating with the fellows of the program.
The goal of this seminar is to investigate how social technology (e.g., blogs, websites, podcasts, widgets, community groups, social network feeds) can change attitudes and behaviors in ways that cultivate social change. We study the strategies and tactics used by companies and causes that have successfully catalyzed social persuasion.
This seminar helps participants develop strategically informed action plans that are imaginative, inspiring, and workable in highly dynamic environments. Through informed debate and the writing and presentation of position papers, participants evaluate and hone their views on the seminar's critical themes.
This course focuses on the efforts of private citizens to create effective responses to social needs and innovative solutions to social problems. It equips students with frameworks and tools that will help them be more effective as a social entrepreneur.
This course surveys strategic, governance, and management issues facing a wide range of nonprofit organizations in an era of venture philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. It introduces students to core managerial issues in the nonprofit sector, such as development/fundraising, investment management, performance management and nonprofit finance.
Kate Surman, MBA '04, Administrative Director of Strategic Operations, Stanford Hospital & Clinics, discusses how she has leveraged the Public Management and Social Innovation certificate to take her career into a new direction.
A grassroots student effort led by Caroline Mullen, MBA '12, Catha Mullen, MBA '13, and Monica Lewis, MBA '12, now has even more impact through a merger with Pachamama Coffee Cooperative.
Leading a Social Innovation Study Trip lands Robyn Beavers, MBA '10, in a new industry.
Jeremy Sokulsky, MBA '04, President, Environmental Incentives, discusses how he's drawing upon the tools and training he received from the GSB to help make a difference.
Vision care is something that is practically taken for granted in the United States, but that's not the case throughout much of the world. Some 300 million around the globe suffer from correctable vision loss, leading, as Ashanthi Mathai, MBA '04, says, "to people accepting their vision impairment and adjusting their lives around it." The result? A lower quality of life, restricted job options, and even further economic distress.
How are engaged citizens made? In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Stanford sociology professor Doug McAdam argues that youth volunteering does not directly result in active citizens or a robust civil society. Instead, the responses to youth activism are varied and driven by historical and cultural context.
Team members at D-Rev - a U.S. nonprofit technology company with the mission to improve the health and incomes of people living on less than $4 per day - became interested in the problem of infant jaundice. D-Rev confirmed that jaundice was a problem in rural areas where equipment to treat the condition was virtually nonexistent. To address this issue, the D-Rev team created a prototype phototherapy solution for jaundice treatment product called Brilliance. This mini-case study examines D-Rev's strategy and approach to raise funds for a market-ready product.
The East Meets West Foundation (EMW) is an international development agency with the mission to transform the health, education, and communities of disadvantaged people in Asia. Through its Breath of Life (BOL) program, EMW provides a complete package of custom-made, low-cost medical equipment to neonatal care providers. As EMW expanded BOL in Asia, it recognized the need to develop more effective therapy for infant jaundice. EMW was interest in an infant phototherapy solution, but they did not have the design capabilities needed to develop the product and neither did its existing parters. This case study reveals how EMW addressed challenges of positioning for continued growth.
When team members at D-Rev — a U.S. nonprofit technology company — became interested in the problem of infant jaundice, they initiated a detailed assessment of the phototherapy landscapes in India and Nigeria and created a prototype for a jaundice treatment product called Brilliance. When D-Rev was ready to start thinking about taking Brilliance to market, the team carefully evaluated its own competencies and concluded that the organization's strengths were not in product manufacturing or after-sales services and believed it should enter into a licensing agreement to accelerate Brilliance's market penetration. The challenge was to find the right partner and structure the partnership deal effectively to ensure that D-Rev's social impact goals would be achieved. This mini-case study explores how D-Rev identified its partner and crafted an agreement to motivate desired behavior.
A conversation on health care innovation with former Senate majority leader and surgeon Bill Frist.


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My Review Of Citation Labs' Link Prospector
"It's awesome. Thanks for coming out, please remember to tip your server."
If you're a link builder that hasn't used this tool yet I suggest you stop reading and just go here and sign up. I'm not kidding. Don't even read this review, just go do it.
If you want to learn how to use it, then read on.
I've primarily used this tool for two purposes, so I can't speak to the many other things I'm sure it's capable of, but for broken link prospecting and finding guest blog targets this thing is the link building equivalent of the invention of the wheel. Here's a basic process you can use for broken link building.
Great for the novice broken link builder
If you're not good with footprints, or if you just want to get a general start to your campaign without putting a ton of time and thought in up front, Link Prospector will do a lot of the work for you. If you're building links for a store that sells horse figurines, you'll probably have some high level keywords you'll want to target to find relevant link rot.
Simply start a new campaign, give it a name you'll remember and then select find prospects to start a new report.
Add a report name and then select the type of report you want (essentially telling the tool what type of prospects you want it to find). Here we're looking for link and resource pages that we can crawl for dead links.
So what is Link Prospector doing to find you prospects? It's running a bunch of Google queries specifically designed to discover links and resource pages. While I don't know exactly what queries it runs, it takes the keywords you specify and will run searches along the lines of "{keyword} intitle:links" which runs a Google search on ONLY pages that have the word "links" in the page title and then sorts your results of those pages based on your keyword. It combines a bunch of these types of searches with the five keywords you specify in your report and then scores them based on the frequency of the times a page returns in the results and how high it ranks (which is referred to as LTS). This gives you a general idea of the value of the links right off the bat.
When setting up your report you can give LP some parameters to work within like:
- Region: Where geographically you'd like the searches to pull from.
- Search scope: Results from the web, blogs, or both.
- Depth: How deep into Google do you want to pull results from - 20 would be the first two pages, 100 would be the first ten. If you're just getting started you may want to try a few queries and see how deep they appear to be relevant before clogging up your results with a bunch of irrelevant crap.
- TLD: Pick the type of domains you want to pull from, if you're only looking for .edu links you can limit to that.
- Date range: If you want results from the past, day, week, month or year, you can specify that here.
- Safe search filters: If you're link building for adult sites, turn this off.
- Email notification: This can be handy when you're multitasking, tell LP to send you a reminder email when your report is done.
- Keyword selection: The links report lets you select five keywords to work with. So without putting much thought into it, for a first report I'd probably use some high level phrases like figurines, animal figurines, toys, animal sculptures, and horse art for my horse figurine website.
- Exclusions: You can set specific exclusions to filter out pages that you know will clog your results (another good reason to run some manual queries before running LP). You can exclude Twitter, LinkedIn or other troublesome domains that don't fit your prospecting needs.
If you run a report now you'll end up with over 1,000 link and resource pages exported out to a .CSV to start sifting through for dead links. You can actually export the individual URLs or just the domains if that's your preference. If you combine this with Citation Labs' other toolset you can scrape the outbound links off of these pages and then check their statuses to find broken links in bulk. This is powerful stuff when you combine all of these pieces. Otherwise, if you're pinching pennies you can use a broken link plugin like Check My Links or Domain Hunter Plus in combination with a URL opener and just manually start hammering through these pages. Either way you choose to find broken links, Link Prospector makes the process of finding targets turn from fishing in a pond to fishing in the ocean.
Especially when you become a bit more advanced and start using Link Prospector's custom report where you can add up to 300 prospecting queries!
For guest blogging
I've never found getting guest blogging opportunities to be all that difficult, but once again, Link Prospector makes it even easier. The setup is the same as broken links. Choose your settings and add your keywords and like magic link prospector will provide you an ordered list (based on their LTS) of "write for us" and "become a contributor" type pages. You can literally find hundreds of guest posting opportunities in minutes. You can focus your time on producing content and blogger outreach rather than finding opportunities. To me, that's a big deal.
So what does it cost?
Depending on how many credits you need each month, the price ranges from $27 per month (for 20 credits) to $347 per month (500 credits). At Netvantage we seem to do just fine with 50 credits per month for $47 per month. Most reports we run cost 1-2 credits. The size of the report dictates how many credits you use. If you want to pull Google's first 20-100 results for a links query it'll likely only cost you one credit. If you want to go 500 results deep, your cost is going to go up. Fortunately, before you submit, LP tells you what your report is going to cost you so you can adjust accordingly if you're running low. If you do run out, there's also a nice feature that allows you to top off your credits for $2 a credit (minimum of 5).
I'm not sure if this deal still stands (I think we signed up before the ebook was finished) but according to Jon Cooper (his review here) new sign ups will also receive Garrett French's link building eBook. I can't say whether or not it's good, but I've always found Garrett's stuff to be top notch, so if you can get your hands on more of his insights (especially for free) I'd recommend looking into it.
The wrap up
What else is there to say? Link Prospector is remarkably easy to use and tremendously powerful. If you're struggling to scale your link building operations, you owe yourself at least the free trial of Link Prospector.
About Adam Henige
Adam Henige is Managing Partner of Netvantage Marketing, an online marketing company specializing in SEO, PPC and social media. Adam heads the SEO and link building efforts for Netvantage and has been a contributing blogger for industry publications like Search Engine Journal and SEOmoz.
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About A Troll Who Thinks To Be Black Is To Be Homophobic…
I just had to deal with an Arab man on Twitter who asserted that me supporting the LGBTQ community (which of course, includes Black LGBTQ people) is being "Westernized" and "disrespecting my ancestors." Also, like a typical, unintelligent man, being that he was losing the debate, he then moved on to attacking my hairstyle. Men are so pathetic with that; aesthetic insults or violent threats whenever their stupidity is exposed. After a certain amount of stupidity and asking him 4 times to leave my mentions, and him launching assaults at other people who follow me, I filed a report with Twitter. (If you ever need to file a report—not sure if it will help because I know filing reports with Tumblr doesn't help, for example, click here.)
Obviously the problem is that in his mind, all LGBTQ people are White and all homophobes are Black. (I won't even get on the fact that he dared to insult my ancestors with the presumption that they were homophobic versus Whites who were loving and welcoming of LGBTQ people.) Even many White people in the LGBTQ community take this stance and will use racist statements to defend themselves when they encounter Black homophobic people.
First of all, The Black community and the LGBTQ community intersect. I don't care how many times only men who are cisgender, wealthy and attractive like Anderson Cooper are used as the face of the LGBTQ community. That's not a full picture of the reality of that community which is permeated by varying races, sexual orientations and gender identity/presentations, classes, ability/edu levels and more.
What this bully failed to realize is that everything that he asserted that is being "Americanized" or "Western" is the DIRECT OPPOSITE. He asserted that being pro LGBTQ is a Black person "trying to fit in" with American Whites, again revealing his illogical and inaccurate assumption that all LGBTQ people are White. (I could solely stand up for Black people and in doing that it would include LGBTQ Black people as they ARE A PART OF THAT COMMUNITY. PERIOD.) Standing up to bigotry has been the fight of Black people's lives in America, and to claim that resistance is White supremacy versus it being the direct opposite of what is expected of us in a White supremacist society is him being obtuse and ahistorical as hell.
I don't call myself "American" per se, as I identify as Jamaican Black, but I was raised here with my siblings, first generation of my family too, and I truly identify with the Black experience here and other places. This person asserted that no one Black should call themselves American (while also tweeting racist and homophobic things about Black people—and he should be an "ally" as a person of colour? Please…) and one of my followers on Twitter had this to say about this troll's comments:
I read his comments. If we can't call ourselves Americans then no one can.
To which I replied:
This country belongs to those who built it. Descendants of those who built it fighting against WSCP is not being "Western."
(WSCP = White supremacist capitalist patriarchy)
In summary, by not being a homophobe, an Arab man decided that I am being a Westernized White supremacist. How truly sad and warped his ideas of what is White and what is Black in this country must be, and his perception of liberalism in regards to the LGBTQ community is one that has not had a truly intersectional analysis. If he thinks Whites here are patting Black people on the head with love and encouragement when we resist and fight injustice, he obviously knows not one true thing about race and America. If he cannot see that standing up against bigotry hurled at the LGBTQ community directly connects to Black struggle and Black women's feminist struggle—that fighting all oppression is key to resistance, he knows nothing of resistance or the quest for liberation. He, not me, is the White supremacist.
Related Post: A quote by Nikki Giovanni on being American Black


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Love of Buster Bunny, and the fear of castration:
It's so cool watching Tiny Toon Adventures again. Buster Bunny was one the first cartoon animals that I became utterly obsessed with. Excuse crummy quality.
When I was about 11 years old I'd tape and watch the show. If I saw something that looked good (like Buster in a cute pose or something) then I'd pause the tape and go through it frame by frame.
One day I saw in a shop window, a stuffed Buster Bunny, and I begged my mom to get it for me. She did, and I was so emotional over getting him that I actually cried.
At night I used to put my dick between his legs and just squeeze. I was only 11 at the time, and I didn't know about sex or masturbation. I had no idea what I was doing. All I knew is that it felt really good, and doing that with him made me form a very close bond with him.
Throughout much of my childhood I lived in fear because of very strict (although well-meaning) parents. I looked so forward to my nights with Buster because he was the only person that I didn't have to be afraid of. Plus he's hot! What we did at night was our little secret. I feared that if my parents discovered what I was doing with him that they'd cut off my penis and take Buster away.
That might sound irrational, but when you're a small, naive child in a very strict home, it's something that you think could happen.
So I grew extremely close to Buster. I loved him then and I still do now.
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"This is not as simple as you might think it is." Ronald Browder, head of the Alameda County Environmental Health Department, on why the Encinal pools still aren't open, as quoted in an Alameda Patch article this afternoon. According to Browder, the district turned in its plan for upgrading the Encinal pools on November 4th, […] [Read More]
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Bears Use Free Throws To Hang On For Win
Boxscore | NC Season Stats | MSU Recap
GREELEY, Colo. - For the second-game in a row, the opponent came out frantic in the second half, but this time the Northern Colorado women's basketball team responded late and held on for the win, defeating Montana State 70-68.
With seven seconds remaining, Montana State (15-13, 8-7 BSC) had the entire length of the floor to drive, trailing by two. Northern Colorado junior guard Courtney Stoermer batted a pass out of bounds just past half court with three ticks left and then freshman forward Lauren Oosdyke grabbed the inbounds lob pass to preserve the team's 14th victory of the year.
The Bears (14-16, 6-9 BSC) hit 80 percent of their free throws in the second half (16-for-20), helping make up for the .273 (6-for-22) they shot from the floor.
"We made some key free throws," said Head Coach Jaime White. "And that's not always characteristic of us. We shoot better free throws at home, but I thought Courtney Stoermer stepped up - going 7-for-7 from the line and Brittany Fernandez, just to hit one of those two was big also."
Stoermer led the team in scoring with 16 points, marking the first time this year the team has won with her having the most points (1-4). Senior guard Whitley Cox scored 14 points, while Oosdyke added 12 and junior forward Jayne Strand came off the bench to chip in 11. Cox also led the team with seven rebounds, while Stoermer had three assists and two blocked shots.
"I thought (Whitley) played great," said White. "Especially those last four minutes when she got put back in. She got seven rebounds and really a lot of times those rebounds will turn into layups."
Freshman guard Victoria Timm has tallied at least one steal in the last seven games and led the game with three thefts.
"I thought we pushed transition early in the first half," said White. "I thought we played a good first half and gave ourselves a little bit of a cushion there. We had some kids off the bench play well, Jayne Strand played really good. She really did a good job and it was a great team effort. To have four players score in double digits and have everyone else that played scored was good and we kept our turnovers down."
Montana State forward Sarah Strand led the game with 22 points, while senior guard Erica Perry added 17 and sophomore guard Katie Bussey led the game with 10 rebounds. Strand and Ashley Albert also each had three blocked shots on the night.
Stoermer's 16 points move her up one more spot on the career scoring chart, giving her 1,032 points for 12th, as she passes Jenny Gallagher (1994-97) with 1,030. Oosdyke went 2-for-2 from the free throw line, making her just the eighth player in school history to sink 100 in a single season, while Stoermer is right behind her with 99 made.
Both Stoermer and Jayne Strand had 10 points and two assists in the first half to tie for team honors. Strand also led the game with six rebounds. The Bears made half of their shots in the opening 20 minutes, making 15-of-30 from the floor and were .600 from the free throw line.
The Bears also had just four turnovers in the first half, while the Bobcats had seven.
Northern Colorado did not make a field goal in the second half until the 11:15 mark, missing its first nine shots from the field as Timm stopped the streak with a baseline jumper.
"This is a credit to our kids," said White. "They could have just rolled over and said we're done and I thought we really played hard. It will be interesting to see us play Montana on Saturday. It's been a goal of ours to beat Montana and end our year on a positive note."
The Bears play their final game of the season on Saturday as they host the Montana Lady Griz at 7:05 p.m. The game is senior night and both Cox and Lizzie Cooper will be honored prior to the start.


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James Falaschi (Chief Executive Officer)
Mr. Falaschi is a commercial real estate developer with over 35 years experience in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties. Born and raised in Oakland, he continually devotes significant effort to the community through his position on various governmental, educational, medical, and non-profit boards.
Mr. Falaschi was a founding partner in Jack London Square Investors, the master developer of Jack London Square. The project, which is hailed as an ideal example of a successful public/private partnership, is the cornerstone to Oakland's commitment to applying 'smart growth ' principles to the revitalization of its downtown. Currently in Phase II, the project has received approval to add an additional 1,000,000 square feet to the existing 800,000 square foot waterfront development.
Michael Hastings (Chief Operating Officer)
Mr. Hastings is a private investor with forty years experience in domestic and international businesses . He has been an investor, business advisor and board member on several technology startups.
He was Senior Vice President, Professional Services for Commerce One, Inc ., where he built the worldwide consulting group into a $75 million business. Mr. Hastings was also a national practice leader for KPMG - an international consulting and accounting firm.
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computer wonder women and Digital Diva's: Women and Their Role in the Development of the Modern Computer
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Computer Wonder Women: Find the Mother of the Internet
The Army wanted women with mathematics degrees to
HAND CALCULATE the firing trajectories of artillery for the war effort.
"Don't worry your pretty little head over it." NOT
Women in Tech - The Missing Force: Karen Catlin
She found her first bug in 1946,
when will you find yours?
Grace Hopper's finding of the "bug" on code
The first computer was a women who computes.
Nov 9, 2013 Great ad on women vs. men in power positions.
70% of men think that women need to downplay their personality to be accepted. Double standards hold women back. Because when you stand strong, you shine.
- What you can do to help GRRLS get into technology!
Here are all kinds of resources, mentoring programs, projects, and links for helping girls using science, math, technology, to cross that digital divide. By 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor expects there will be 1.4 million computer-specialist job openings. But while women make up 57 percent of overall college graduates, they only account for 12 percent of computer science graduates today. So what are tech companies doing to get young women excited about coding? Bloomberg's Emily Chang looks at how Twitter is teaming up with one non-profit, Girls Who Code, to train the next generation of female engineers.
- National Women's History Month WOMEN - HACKER ETHICS and HACTIVISTS
- Best Online Resources For Women and Minorities in Science and Technology
- Educating Girls in the New Computer Age (2000)
Find the Mother of the Internet
Women Computers 1891 - Ada Lovelace
The world's first programmer, Lovelace created technical notes for the Analytical Engine conceived by Charles Babbage. Computer geeks on opposite ends of the Earth have found the original sketch of the world's first programmer. Born December 10, 1815, Ada Lovelace is perhaps best known for her contributions toward Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, Designed but never actually built until 1991, the Analytical Engine is in many ways one of the ancestors of today's computer systems. In a story worthy of a Hollywood movie, an Army sergeant in Tajikistan and a programmer in Texas resurrected the legend of Ada Lovelace by buying up her nearly 150-year-old sketch portrait on eBay.
Excellent article about Phillipa Fawcett who, in 1890,
placed first in the University of Cambridge mathematical examinations.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was one of the first computer programmers ever (the Harvard Mark I calculator (1943)) and one of the designers of COBOL (gasp!) She coined the term "debugging" for removing errors from computer programs. A legend in computer science. Here she is chatting to a TV show host on 2 October 1986 (taped from a repeat broadcast in the early '90s).
Grace Hopper Explains Nanoseconds
- Jean Jennings Bartik - Video was one of the original ENIAC programmers and a syster, was made a fellow of the Computer History Museum on 10/21/08 (her co-inductees were Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the ethernet, and Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux. Jean told stories about how she left a safe life in rural Missouri for the adventure of working for Aberdeen Proving Grounds as a "computer" (a woman who computes ballistic trajectories), and then was chosen to be one of the 6 women who were to program the first electro-mechanical computer. They were given nothing more than block diagrams of this huge beast, and they had to invent some of the basic constructs of programming. There were some great stories of how they learned how the ENIAC worked, how they fixed bugs, and then how they were treated like "refrigerator ladies" who were just around to add a little sex appeal to the photos. Jean later worked on making a stored program version of the ENIAC, and worked with Eckert and Mauchly in their computer company.
She talked about experiencing extreme sexism when she went to
Remington-Rand (which was really a typewriter company trying to get into computers). Jean quoted Betty Holbertonsaying "The ENIAC was a son-of-a-bitch to program"). ENIAC was over 700 square feet in size, had 18,000 vacuum tubes, and weighed 30 tons.
Jean was also inducted into the Hall of Fame Women in Technology International, along with the other original ENIAC programmers. You can donate to Kathy Kleiman's documentary project on the women of the ENIAC.
- Kathleen Mauchly Antonelli (ne. McNulty), died 4/20/06. Kathleen was one of the 6 women programmers of the ENIAC, a resident of the Philadelphia area and lecturer at Chestnut Hill College Philadelphia, PA was an inspiration to many.
- Miss Eleanor Krawitz - Tabulating Supervisor
Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory
Columbia Engineering Quarterly, November 1949
- HERSTORIES Classroom Project
"In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers." ~ Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper Grace Hopper is responsible for the term 'bug' for a computer fault. The original 'bug'was a moth which caused a hardware fault in the Mark I. Hopper was the first person to 'debug' a computer. Howard Aiken who supervised the engineering team that developed the Mark I at Harvard and was completed in 1949.
- As Muriel Cooper saw things, the ruling metaphor for the computer age should be the "information landscape," not the "information highway."
Rather than cutting a linear path through a forest of data, computers give us the ability to fly through three-dimensional landscapes with constellations of interconnected information spreading around us in all directions. In 1952, Cooper began her career in graphic design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After taking several years off to run her own graphics studio in Boston, she joined the MIT Press as its first art director (prior to this, she had collaborated with the MIT Press to design its world-famous logo). In 1974, Cooper began teaching a new subject at MIT called "messages and means," which focused on the relationship between graphics and technology. These ideas eventually led her to cofound and direct MIT's Visible Language Workshop. When Cooper showed the latest work of the VLW at the TED 5 conference in February 1994, no less than Bill Gates of Microsoft personally asked for a copy of the presentation. As Nicholas Negroponte, director of the Media Lab comments, "The impact of Muriel's work can be summed up in two words: Beyond Windows. It will be seen as the turning point in interface design. She has broken the flatland of overlapping opaque rectangles with the idea of a galactic universe."
- 2006 - Joanna Rutkowska
Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska also used the spotlight of the 2006 Black Hat Briefings to showcase new research into rootkits and stealthy malware. In a standing-room-only presentation, she dismantled the new driver-signing mechanism in Windows Vista to plant a rootkit on the operating system and also introduced the world to "Blue Pill," a virtual machine rootkit that remains "100 percent undetectable," even on Windows Vista x64 systems.
In 2006, Rutkowska also pinpointed inherent weaknesses in anti-virus software; warned that the major operating system vendors are not yet ready for hardware virtualization technology and confirmed fears that stealth malware in the operating system's biggest security threat.
- ACM Turing Winner Fran Allen says software is falling behind hardware capabilities. Watch the video of her Turing Award Lecture.
- Computer Women's History
- Laurie Spiegel The Early Computer Arts at Bell Labs
Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument
Laurie Spiegel: Appalachian Grove 1 edit
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Part 2: Laurie Spiegel Bell Labs Interview 1984 This interview was taped at Bell Labs in 1984, with brief intro by Max Mathews. Some of this footage may have made it into the documentary for which this was recorded but most of it has not been seen anywhere yet. Part 2 of 2.
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1) When Computers Were Human,
3 Generations of Human Computers - Grandmother Blanch Ocain 1920's, Her son Thomas Greer 1950's, then her grandson David Allen Greer 1980's.
2) Eniac Built In WWII lead to Computers & The History of the Internet Movie
Computers and Women from the 60's
Radia Perlman, Jean Jennings Bartik, Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, John Mauchly, Presper Eckert , Betty Snyder, Holberton, punchcard, mainframe, Eniac, Univac, Edvac, Ordvac, Brlesc-1, Cobal, Fortran, Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper, Hedy Lamarr, Dr. Dorothy E. Denning, Anita Jones, Esther Dysen, Joan Korenman, Deborah Estrin, Hackers, Crackers, Phreaks, Natasha Grigori, Carmin Karasic, Gigabyte, Raven Alder, Blueberry,Colleen Card, RosieX, Susan Thunder, St. Jude, Jennifer Grannick, Courtnee, viXen900, Chainsawkitten, Gail Thackeray, Joanna Rutkowska,and Anita Borg
Eniac Programmers Project Honoring Computer Pioneers and Preserving Their Stories
Teachers | Women and Development of Computers - women and computers, girls and computers, history of computers, women and technology
The World's First Disc Drive & Notice the Computer Wonder Woman!
This is a 4.4 Meg Hard Disk in 1956.
In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 4.4MB of data.
Start appreciating your 4 GB memory stick!
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Crafting is one of the coolest aspects of WoW, IMHO. Most games make it impossible to craft anything, and if you can it completely sucks. In wow, it's easy, (though time consuming and expensive) to level up your crafting professions and make some really cool stuff. It could be impoved upon. First there should be more high end BoP items, to make leveling to 375 worth it for the crafter; they get something no one else has. Second, by offering more high end BoE items, not as good as the BoP, but stuff the crafter can make money on. It is a profession, right? More BoE, more BoP, no NPC!


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Tune in to Pandora
Despite many skeptics, the Internet music company continues to make progress.
By Mike Cintolo, Cabot Top Ten Trader
Pandora Media (P) has a lot of similarities to Netflix (NFLX) -- a new company that's attacking an old (but huge) industry with many other players also looking to get into the field.
That's led to a lot of skepticism (and a big short interest, more than 35 million shares at last count, or seven days of volume), but it hasn't hurt the company itself. In fact, Pandora just reported another great quarter, with management forecasting more good things to come.
Not only did revenue top targets and grew north of 50% again, but all key metrics (listener hours and active users both +35%, paid subscribers +114%, mobile listener hours +47%, mobile revenues +101%) looked great.
Moreover, it's important to note that, right now, Pandora is the largest radio station in the country, accounting for 7.33% of all radio listening in the first quarter, up from 5.86% a year before.
Perhaps most encouraging, as a percent of revenues, Pandora's royalty costs declined nicely, which helps dampen fears that the firm will never exit the red.
All of this isn't to say there aren't risks -- Google (GOOG) recently announced a competing service, although it relies far more on paid subscriptions than Pandora.
And there are endless rumors Apple (AAPL) will enter the market as well. Either of these two gorillas could become an issue. But to this point, none of the many competitive threats have dented this company one bit.
The stock was crushed from its opening IPO price of $26 back in mid-2011 to its low of $7 at the market low of November last year. But since then, the buyers have been in control.
Most recently, the stock etched a nice, tight eight-week zone before breaking out earlier this month and then gapping up after earnings, reaching as high as $19 ... before pulling back sharply to close down on the day.
That's not ideal action, but given the market environment, it's not a major negative, either. If you're game, you could buy some around here, or on further weakness, with a stop near $14.
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