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In many places across the country, signs of fall are beginning to appear. Aside from the beautiful scenery, many college students have one thing to look forward to in the coming weeks: fall break.
With midterms approaching, students are undoubtedly feeling tired, stressed and in need of fun and relaxation. Whether it lasts one day or one week, fall break will be highly anticipated before it comes, thoroughly enjoyed while it lasts and greatly missed when it ends.
Some will use fall break to visit home; others will choose to take a mini-vacation. Still others choose to stay on campus and spend time with friends.
If you want to do something fun during fall break but don't have any ideas, here are a few things you can do to make sure your fall break is both rejuvenating and entertaining.
Corn mazes are one of the most popular fall break destinations. They often bring all of the sights, sounds and smells of fall together in one place, and many offer fun activities for all ages.
Generally, there are two types of corn mazes available for visiting. If you're looking for a more relaxed and peaceful experience, a daytime corn maze is probably the way to go.
If you'd like a little more excitement, get a group of friends together and check out a haunted corn maze. Perfect for thrill-seekers, these mazes can involve anything from spooky noises to unexpected figures lurking in the shadows.
Many corn mazes offer a more laid-back atmosphere during the day before converting to haunted mazes at night. This way, visitors can get a taste of both types of corn mazes in one place.
Many towns and even some colleges and universities hold annual fall festivals with free activities for those who attend.
From music and games to flavorful food and handmade crafts, fall festivals are cultural hotspots that are perfect for a quick getaway.
Carving pumpkins is a great way to express creativity. From goofy faces to nature scenes to Halloween-themed creations, limitless pumpkin designing options can be found on the Internet, or you can create your own design.
Pumpkin carving can be even more fun in a group. To make things even more exciting, hold a contest to see who carves the most attractive pumpkin, and have the group pitch in to get an award for the winner.
Whether you choose to stick with your usual fall break routine or decide to try something new, make it your goal to make this year's fall break the best one yet.


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Book Description
Say hello to Holly—a writer way behind on her deadline whose fiftieth birthday is rushing at her like a freight train. Which might not seem so bad if her hormones weren't making her feel like a Szechuan flambé, her editor wasn't calling every day to tighten the screws, and her eighty-year-old mother wasn't biting her nurses because the doctor's been feeding her enough steroids to kill an elephant. Not to mention the fact that Holly's daughter has just begun applying to colleges (none of which are within a thousand mile radius of home) and, lately, her husband's been such an irritating, finger-pointing stinker that she's found herself dreaming of ways to spend his insurance money…
The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus dances effortlessly between the hilarious and the heart-wrenching, the preposterous and the painfully familiar, leaping from the page in a completely unexpected and original way.
Sonya Sones is the author of four acclaimed novels for teens—Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy; What My Mother Doesn't Know; One of Those Hideous Books Where The Mother Dies; and What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know. She lives in California with her family, and only shops at Neiman's when they're having a sale.
Book Review
Nothing could have prepared me for this book. For some reason, they author decided to write the entire novel in a series of poems. This was definitely not what I was expecting after looking at the cover of the book and reading the description.
The story that Sonya Sones tells is interesting, funny, and very fitting for many women. However, I feel that by writing it in prose, she will lose a lot of readers. The story did not gain anything by the manner of writing.
However, since it is written in prose, it is a lot quicker to read. I got through it in only a couple of hours. So you should not be put off by the style of writing. The story is still very much relevant to any woman going through empty nest syndrome and/or menopause.
The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus: A Novel About Marriage, Motherhood, and Mayhem (9780062024671): Sonya Sones: Books
In conjunction with the Wakela's World Disclosure Statement, I received a product in order to enable my review. No other compensation has been received. My statements are an honest account of my experience with the brand. The opinions stated here are mine alone.

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Yesterday I wrote about the definition of brand bidding and ad-hijacking, on how to prevent it and what "evil" affiliates do to book trademarks that are "protected" by Google's complaint form.
As promised, today I will talk about the methods these affiliates use to hide their strategies and how you can monitor your brand to find out if your brand gets hijacked.
Affiliates have several possibilities to hide their strategies when they are abusing trademarks and hijack ad copies. First of all, most of them will use geo-targeting for their campaigns. When they know that the trademarkowner's office is for example in Munich and the agency is in Berlin, they will cover other cities then Munich and Berlin, to prevent them to see the hijacked ads.
Furthermore they use time intervals to cover their tactics. Probably you've heard of the more classic approach: they start at 5pm when the offices close and stop their campaigns the next morning or during the night. Besides that maybe they will take a few more risks during the weekend. Nowadays many ad-hijackers go a step further than that: they switch their campaigns over different cities in small time intervals (like 15 minutes) so it's more difficult to catch them!
fig. 1: Screenshot of brand protection software Xamine showing the small intervals some ad-hijackers use. Source: Xamine.com
Using the IP exlusion tool of Google Adwords these affiliates also could exclude the merchant's IP address. Of course they need to know the IP address, so this method isn't waterproof, but combined with the above mentioned tactics it will make it again harder to uncover an ad-hijacker.
Finally the affiliates will use link cloaking to cover the referrers, so you can't really find proof in your statistics. To demonstrate how cloaking works we build this url:
As you can see the url redirects to a page that normally would be the affiliate destination page on the merchant's website. Now copy and paste the same url and open it in a new browser window or tab …. You probably get redirected to another page which would be the affiliate's own website.
Looking into the source code of that page reveals the technique: the page drops a cookie before redirecting to the affiliate programm and if that cookie doesn't exist, it redirects via JavaScript (location.href = 'new_url') to another page, which drops that cookie and redirects to the affiliate program. The JavaScript redirects are necessary to change the referrer and won't let the merchant think a minute about linking directly from the search engine.
By the way, in my opinion link cloaking isn't always evil. I think normal PPC affiliates have a valid point when they cloak their links to protect their keyword lists and strategies as long as they follow the guidelines of the affiliate program!
So now we've seen what ad-hijackers do to cover their strategies, it's time to find out how we can catch them. Of course maybe you could find some proof of ad-hijacking in your statistics. If you have only a few impressions and conversions of your brand during the weekend for example, it could be you got ad-hijacked. But to be sure you have to use brand protection software.
After showing the different ad-hijacker's tactics we now know which requirements are necessary for a good brand protection software:
- it should check for a trademark infringement in small time intervals. This is already a problem, because Google doesn't allow automatic queries. So to catch an ad-hijacker a good brand monitoring system has to violate the Google guidelines!
- it should do these checks from different cities or regions within a country. As we've seen most ad-hijackers cover their tactics by geo-targeting.
- if you are working in different countries, your brand protection suite should work in different countries too.
- are you interested only in Google or do you want to check also other engines like Yahoo, Bing, Baidu etc.?
- does the software artificially inflate your impressions? This is a pretty important thing: when software simulates a user, it creates impressions on your brand, but it doesn't click. So it could hurt your CTR and as a consequence your quality score!
- does the software support you getting legal proof against ad-hijackers?
Nowadays there are a lot of brand protection solutions on the market: Adgooroo, Xamine, Bestbrandprotection, Sistrix Toolbox, PPCEnforcer and Marketdefender – just to name a few of them. Unfortunately we weren't able to test them all, but for SMX we tried four of them: Adgooroo, Xamine, Bestbrandprotection and Sistrix.
Fig. 2: Comparison between a few brand protection solutions on European market.
Xamine and Bestbrandprotection caught most ad-hijackers. Both software solutions do checks on the brand and check from different cities and regions to uncover PPC fraud. Sistrix, the only one in the test that only works for Germany, caught a few trademark infringements, but as it checks only on an hourly basis it wasn't able to find all of them. Adgooroo only found a few brand bidders that weren't targeting within a country. Furthermore the software respects the Google guidelines and checks only about 12-15 times a day. At the moment an ad-hijacker in Europe can probably stay below Adgooroo's radar.
One last thing: now that you got your brand protection software setup and you found trademark infringements. How do you react? Well, that depends on you. You can do several things, such as:
– write a mail to Google Trademark team: [email protected]
– contact the affiliate
– cancel his sales
– cancel the relationship with the affiliate. Attention: at some affiliate networks (for example Zanox) cancelling a relationship will result in broken affiliate links. If the affiliate doesn't react immediately and keeps his campaigns online your possible clients will find 404 errors when they click on the affiliate's ads. At some networks you can create a 0% commission group where you can put those affiliates in. We use to call this group "0% blacklist". When an affiliate is placed in this group he'll understand what happened. The affiliate links will still work though.


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Cod Sandwich
By AzWench
- Cod:
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- Eight 2to 3-ounce cod medallions, cut on bias
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon seafood seasoning
- 2 cups egg wash (equal parts milk and whipped eggs)
- 2 cups Japanese breadcrumbs (panko)
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Sandwiches:
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 4 soft kaiser rolls
- 1/4 cup tartar sauce
- 2 cups shredded iceberg or Bibb lettuce
- 8 pickles, sliced lengthwise
Servings 4
Adapted from foodnetwork.com
Step 1
For the cod: Preheat vegetable oil in a deep-fryer to 375 degrees F. Then bread each medallion of fish with flour mixed with seafood seasoning. Tap off excess, and then dip in egg wash and finish in breadcrumbs, ensuring to coat evenly. After breading the fish, drop in the preheated oil and cook in batches until golden brown, flipping during the process. This should take 2 to 3 minutes. After frying, remove the fish from the oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and place on paper towels. Allow the fish to drain excess oil.
For the sandwiches: Heat a nonstick pan over medium-high heat until warmed. During heating, with the softened butter, spread 1 tablespoon evenly on the top and bottom of 1 bun, and then toast in the pan until browned, about 2 minutes. After the first bun, reduce the heat to medium and repeat the process with the remaining buns.
To build the sandwiches, stack the bottom bun, spread tarter on the bottom bun, then add some lettuce, fish, pickles and finish with the top bun. Repeat with the remaining sandwiches.
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Administrators can back up and restore configuration and database files for Malware Analytics, so if information is lost or deleted, it can be restored.
Back Up Files
For a full backup of configuration files:
- Stop RSA Malware service with the following command:
stop rsaMalwareDevice
- Create a tar file of the required files
cd /
tar -cjphvf RSAMalwareFromSlashNew.tar.bz2 /var/lib/netwitness/rsamalware --exclude='root.war' /etc/init/rsaMalwareDevice.conf
- Start RSA Malware service with the following command
start rsaMalwareDevice
Note: For a daily or a partial backup you can create a tar file of files in the subdirectory var/lib/netwitness/rsamalware/spectrum
To back up database files:
- Backup in one of the following ways:
- On a co-located host, it uses H2. If you backup the directory var/lib/netwitness/rsamalware mentioned above, it backs up the database as well.
- On a standalone MA box, Postgres is used. Back up the database in the directory var/lib/pgsql/9.1/data on a daily basis.
Restore Files
To restore the configuration and database files:
- Log on to the host you intend to restore from a saved backup using ssh.
Stop RSA Malware service with the following command:
stop rsaMalwareDevice
Change the directory.
cd /
- Copy the necessary tar file RSAMalwareFromSlashNew.tar.bz2 using a utility like SCP to the host in the / folder.
Extract the tar file by using the following command:
tar -xjpvf RSAMalwareFromSlashNew.tar.bz2
Start RSA Malware service with the following command:
start rsaMalwareDevice
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City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) inactivation ceremony held May 30 at
Pearl Harbor; placed In Commission In Reserve (Stand Down) July 28
for inactivation at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash.
Albuquerque (SSN 706) placed In Commission In Reserve (Stand Down)
Feb. 3 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for inactivation.
Houston (SSN 713) placed In Commission In Reserve (Stand Down) July
28 to begin inactivation at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
Illinois (SSN 786) delivered Aug. 27 from General Dynamics Electric
Boat, Groton, Conn. Commissioned Oct. 29 at homeport of Groton.
Washington (SSN 787) christened March 5 at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va.; launched March 25.
South Dakota (SSN 790) keel ceremony held April 4 at Electric Boat.
Delaware (SSN 791) keel ceremony held April 30 at Newport News
Arkansas (SSN 800) name announced June 15.
Utah (SSN 801) name announced Jan. 19.
Columbia (SSBN 826) name announced Dec. 14.
John Finn (DDG 113) delivered Dec. 7 from Huntington Ingalls Industries Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss.
Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) launched Dec. 12, 2015, at Ingalls Shipbuilding; christened April 2.
Thomas Hudner (DDG 116) keel ceremony held Nov. 16, 2015, at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) keel ceremony held June 1 at Ingalls
Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) name announced April 11.
This list covers changes in the status of ships of the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and fleet support auxiliary ships of the Military Sealift
Command (MSC) for calendar year 2016, with projected dates through early 2017. Data for this list is considered correct as of Dec.
16, 2016; future dates are subject to change. All dates are for 2016 unless otherwise noted; some late events for 2015 and near-future
events for 2017 are included.
Disposal information for previously decommissioned or stricken naval ships also is given.
U.S.NAVY/LOCKHEEDMARTINThe 13th littoral combat ship, the future USS Wichita, launches sideways into the Menominee River at Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Marinette,Wis., after being christened by ship sponsor Kate Lehrer on Sept. 17, 2016.


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Duterte Repeals Arroyo AO
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday repealed an Administrative Order (AO) issued by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo which directed the continued adoption and implementation of austerity measures in the government.
Yesterday, Tuesday Sept. 19, President Duterte issued AO No. 6, repealing AO No. 103, issued by Former President Arroyo on August 31, 2004.
Arroyo ordered the implementation of austerity measures in government to meet the country's fiscal targets, maintain its macroeconomic stability and improve investor confidence.
AO 103 directed the national government, its agencies, and instrumentalities to undertake cost-cutting measures to reduce expenses and channel its scarce resources towards the implementation of the Arroyo administration's 10-Point Legacy Agenda.
What is Arroyo's AO 103?
The said AO ordered all national government agencies (NGAs), including state universities and colleges (SUCs), government-owned-and-controlled corporations (GOCCs), government financial institutions (GFIs), and other government corporate entities (OGCEs), and their subsidiaries, and other instrumentalities under the Executive Department to suspend all foreign travels, except for ministerial meetings, and scholarship/trainings that are grant-funded or undertaken at no cost to the government.
It also ordered the suspension of the following:
- Local travels, unless urgently necessary and allowed by the Secretary or the Head of the SUC, GOCC, GFI, or OGCE; purchase of any type of motor vehicles, except ambulances and those required by the military and police;
- Conduct of training, seminars, and workshops, except if funded by grants, or if the cost may be recovered through exaction of fees;
- Expansion of organizational units and/or creation of positions, except those following "scrap and build" policy or matched by the deactivation of existing units/positions of the same cost;
- Conduct of celebrations and cultural or sports activities not related to the core function of the agency, except athletic competitions conducted by public schools or SUCs; and
- Donations, contributions, grants, and gifts, except if said activities are undertaken pursuant to the mandate of the donor agency.
The order likewise called for the reduction of at least 10 percent in the cost of services of consultants,
technical assistants, contractual, and casual employees; and consumption of fuel, water, office supplies, electricity and other utilities.
Likewise, a scheme that will allow employees rendering overtime to be compensated through time/days off work in lieu of overtime pay was implemented.
AO 103 also adopted the provisions of the Attrition Law which prohibited, with certain exceptions, the filling-up of positions that have been vacated by reason of resignation, retirement, dismissal, death or transfer to another office.
AO No. 6 to implement government reforms
In repealing Arroyo's AO 103, Duterte noted that the country's fiscal condition has significantly improved since 2004, due to public expenditure management and tax administration reforms, as well as sound and prudent debt management.
"With the country's improved fiscal situation, the government could, among other initiatives, increase infrastructure and social spending, implement public expenditure management reforms with greater intensity, streamline government operations, and make public service delivery more efficient in order to give the Filipino people the best value for their taxes,"
-quotation of AO No. 6
AO No. 6 also noted that most of the provisions of AO 103 are already covered or superseded by previous pertinent provisions of the general Appropriations Act and recent issuances of the Office of the President, Department of Budget and Management, Civil Service Commission and other relevant agencies.
"Repealing AO No. 103 is aligned with the strategies of the Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022, which provides for, among others, the formulation and implementation of public expenditure management reforms that will improve budget utilization and address underspending of government agencies,"
-AO No. 6


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Learning English as a second language is more than acquiring lots of vocabulary. There's also the need to learn the different verbs that are used to make more complex sentences to make speech richer, like the verb to do. This is one of the most common verbs in this language, and it can also be one of the most tricky ones to learn due to its different conjugations and meanings.
The verb "to do" has two different meanings: - when used as the main verb, it means to perform or execute an action or to prepare something. Also, it's used to ask a person how his or her day is going.
- when used as an auxiliary verb, it doesn't have a meaning, but it helps make questions and negative sentences.
Every time this verb is mentioned, one of this two words is most likely to come up: do or does. But, what do they mean? These are both a type of present form of the verb to do, the only difference is that one is used with one particular pronoun, while the other one is used with another. Both have the same uses and meanings, which will depend mostly on the function the verb has in the sentence.
For the little ones, this might be confusing at the beginning, but it doesn't have to be. To start learning this, it's recommended to begin with the main uses of the verb to do, these are as a main verb, where it has a specific meaning, or as an auxiliary verb, where it doesn't have a particular meaning, but where it's very useful as well since it helps make negative sentences and questions with the verbs that can't do this on their own.
Examples of the verb "to do" as the main verb:
I'm home! I'm going to do my homework right now.
Linda does comedy. She's very funny!
John and I are going on a picnic, We will do the sandwiches for lunch.
Can you do me a favor? Sure, tell me!
How are you doing today? I'm doing great, thanks for asking!
Do you do sculptures too? Yes, I do paintings and sculptures.
There are four distinct ways of the verb "to do" that can be used, and these can be used to form questions, negatives, and even to construct more complex tenses.
I do
you do
he does
she does
it does
we do
you do
they do
This is the most common form of the verb, and it is used mostly to make the simple present of "to do", or to form the present tense. Depending on the subject of the sentence, there are two different ways of writing the to do: do and does.
Examples of the verb "to do" as the main verb
James does the dishes every night after dinner.
Laura and I do our own yard work during the weekends.
We do the taxes on time.
I did
you did
he did
she did
it did
we did
you did
they did
The past of the to do verb is the word "did". It is used for all the different subjects, so it's very easy to use. It is used mostly to make questions, negative and affirmative sentences in the simple past of "to do", and to form some other complex past tenses.
Examples of the verb "to do" in simple past
Ellen did her homework last night at her house.
Marla and James didn't go to the party
Sandy did the same exercise as last week.
I did the dishes in the morning.
The past participle of to do is the word "done", which is used mainly to form the perfect tense of a sentence, and also the passive tenses, to express a completed action. It can also be used as an adjective when someone wants to express that something that has come to and end.
Examples of the verb "to do" in simple past
She has already done her homework.
What have you done since you got home?
I've done my homework since the teacher assigned it.
The continuous form of the "to do" verb is the word "doing", which is used to form the progressive tense.
Examples of the verb "to do" in the progressive tense
You are doing your homework now.
Sandra and Parker are doing great at school today. I've doing karate for five years now.
I will do
you will do
he will do
she will do
it will do
we will do
you will do
they will do
As with all future forms of the verbs, the future form of the to do is formed with the word "will" and the verb "do" together, this is used to speak about things that are yet to come.
Examples of the verb "to do" in the future tense
She will do the dishes as soon as she gets home.
If Larry finishes his homework now, he will do exercises later.
Lara will do a small celebration for her birthday.
I do not - I don't - I didn't
you do not - you don't - you didn't
he does not - he doesn't - he didn't
she does not - she doesn't - she didn't
it does not - it doesn't - it didn't
we do not - we don't - we didn't
you do not - you don't - you didn't
they do not - they don't - they didn't
Since most verbs don't have negatives of their own, their negative forms are built with the "to do" verb. The negative of ºto do" in simple present are do not (don't) and does not (doesn't), depending on the subject that's being used in the sentence, whereas the negative of to do in the simple past is did not (didn't).
On the other hand, the affirmative sentences with "to do" as an auxiliary verb have a very particular use. In this case, the "to do" is used to give emphasis to what's being said. For example, when saying "I make dinner for my family", and by putting the auxiliary "to do" in front, the sentence is transformed into "I do make dinner for my family", and even though it means the same, it emphasizes the idea that this person prepares a meal for his or her relatives.
Examples of to do as an auxiliary verb with negative and affirmative sentences
I do clean my room often.
She does help her mom all the time!
Linda and Eric do go to the same school.
She doesn't know the teacher, today is her first class.
Patricia and Jade don't have a dog, they have a cat.
Pete and I don't have Geography today, but we do have math.
Do I … ?
Do you … ?
Does he … ?
Does she … ?
Does it … ?
Do we … ?
Do you … ?
Do they … ?
The to do verb is used to form yes or no questions, these type of questions in English are those that can be answered with a simple "yes" for affirmatives, or "no" for negatives, and don't require any extra information to provide a satisfactory answer.
The questions with «to do» in past simple are formed by adding "did", the subject, and then the complement and the question mark. These are questions about events or actions that happened in the past.
What do I/you/we/they … - What does he/she/it …
Where do I/you/we/they ... - Where does he/she/it ...
Who do I/you/we/they ... - Who does he/she/it ...
When do I/you/we/they ... - When does he/she/it ...
Why do I/you/we/they ... - Why does he/she/it ...
Which do I/you/we/they … - Which does he/she/it …
Whose ... do I/you/we/they ... - Whose ... does he/she/it ...
How do I/you/we/they ... - How does he/she/it ...
When making questions with the wh- question words, the verb to do is also necessary for most verbs. The structure is very simple, depending if it's past or present, all that needs to be done is to put the correct form of "to do" in front of the subject. Let's see some examples of this type of questions.
Examples of questions with "to do" verb
When do you go to school?
How do you use your calculator?
Which language do you prefer: English or Chinese?
When does Mary go swimming?
Hi! Are you new in the neighborhood? Where do you live?
When did you move here?
Do you want to go to the beach?
Did Sheila buy new socks yesterday?
Even though these two verbs can be fairly similar sometimes, their meaning is quite different. The verb "to do" is used mainly to talk about actions, like "I'm doing exercise now", or even when talking about something that's mandatory for a person, like an obligation, for example, "I have to do the chores today". Also, the "to do" verb is used to talk about tasks that are repetitive, like in the sentence "I do my homework every day".
On the contrary, the verb "to make" is used when talking about things that are usually created, like "I'm making a painting" or "She is making breakfast", or when talking about the origin of something, like in the sentence "This necklace is made of gold". Also, when talking about decisions, like "I'm making a plan to go to the pool this weekend".
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All is well as Cessnock Goannas win and their coach Todd Ewards decides to stay
They say a week is a long time in football and it can be seem even more so at the Cessnock Sportsground.
After a week of uncertainty about the future of Cessnock coach Todd Edwards, the news from the first week of August is all good.
The popular Edwards is staying the course at the club in 2020 and his building-side powered home in the second half to beat Lakes United 36-16 at Cahill Oval on Sunday.
The win lifts the Goannas up to fourth spot on the Newcastle RL ladder, equal on 13 points with Central Newcastle who are fifth.
They are one point ahead of the Kurri Kurri Bulldogs and one point behind the Maitland Pickers, but after another trip to take on Lakes this Sunday they face top two sides Western Suburbs and South Newcastle in the final two rounds before the finals.
Doubles to Nic Lawrence and Harry O'Brien and singles to Paul Carter and Isaiah Cooper-Tetevano put Lakes to the sword in a strong half-time performance after leading 12-10 at the break.
"The boys had a real go, it was a good performance," Edwards said.
"Lakes were pretty desperate to stay in the hunt for finals. They were up and the scorecard didn't really reflect how close it was.
"We had to work very hard to get what we got.
"It was good to see. We're starting to get our numbers back, we've got a few still missing, but they really put in.
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Intelligence and Covert Action
British experience in giving responsibility for psychological and paramilitary operations to an independent organization.
Albert E. Riffice
After the failure at Cuba's Bay of Pigs a number of newspaper articles appeared in the United Kingdom suggesting that the Americans take lessons from the British, styled expert in the organization and conduct of paramilitary operations and other kinds of covert action. Some of these were reprinted or otherwise reflected, particularly on the subject of organization, in the American press, for example:
When the Office of Strategic Services was organized in World War II, the British argued long and hard . . . that the two functions [intelligence and covert action] should be separated.... As far as the organization of intelligence is concerned, the British practice what they preach. Military Intelligence 6 has always been divorced from the Special Operations Executive, which acts on M.I. 6's information.1
The British, who have had long experience in these matters, separate MI-6, their intelligence agency, from their special operations executive--and with good reason. An organization that is going to risk the lives of its operatives will give intelligence estimates a severely pragmatic appraisal, it is remarked. On the other hand, when the functions are combined, the confidence which the responsible officials feel in the intelligence impels them to rush into action.2
These preachments, like many others in the wake of the Cuban affair, were crystallized out of a lack of information. The facts are, first, that although the British special operations organization was independent of MI-6 from 1940 to the end of the war, MI-6 had the responsibility for these operations before that period and has had it since, and second, that the record of the wartime SOE, although it scored some brilliant successes, was over all not such as to inspire emulation. Some of its most conspicuous failures are directly traceable to its separation from MI-6 and the British counterintelligence agency, MI-5.
SOE Mission and Doctrine
At the beginning of the war MI-6, the Secret Intelligence Service charged with the collection of foreign intelligence not overtly obtainable, was also responsible for "special operations"--i.e., the planning and conduct of paramilitary activity and psychological warfare. The mushrooming importance of these specialties led to the creation in 1940 of a separate agency for them, the Special Operations Executive, under the new Ministry of Economic Warfare and "for all of its activities of a specifically military nature or which might bring military repercussions," operationally under the Chiefs of Staff .3
It was SOE's mission to influence public opinion abroad through covert propaganda and psychological warfare, to carry out sabotage, to organize and support guerrilla resistance, and to build up in German-occupied areas armed and trained forces to be held in reserve until Allied armies could begin their eventual assault. Major-General Gubbins, at one time Chief of SOE, explains:
The British Commonwealth was on the defensive and it was clear that it would be years before invasion would be.possible; what could, however, be done in the meantime was to attack the enemy by unorthodox methods: attack his war potential wherever it was exposed and at least create some kind of running sore to drain his strength and disperse his forces and, finally, when invasion of the Continent did take place, to give the maximum of assistance to the forces of liberation.4
SOE realized that covert action such as sabotage, planned slowdowns, coup de main raids, and the creation of hidden arms-dumps called for very tight security. André Dewavrin, who used the alias "Colonel Passy" while working closely with the French section of SOE, has summarized the British concept:
It is a matter of being sure that, on D Day, we have on hand, at given points in France, small armed groups provided with explosives and capable of carrying out destruction plans prepared by the Inter-Allied Staff. What we want is to have direct control of these groups and to give them the means of communicating directly with us, so that we can be assured that whatever orders we give them will be carried out immediately.
We also consider it important that these teams or small groups will be absolutely separate, one from the other, in order to avoid the danger which threatens and will continue to threaten a large resistance movement. It is important to know that an accident to one group will not bring about a chain reaction, leading to catastrophes which might extend throughout a large region or even the entire country.
Our groups are small, strictly local, and therefore easier to command and to lead than large movements which can never be ordered to carry out a destruction plan without going through a long and indefinite chain of command.5
Major-General Gubbins also notes SOE's concern for the safety of its operations and people:
For over-riding reasons of operational security, the control of signals traffic and of the training and dispatching of personnel remained with SOE, and the teams in the field were organized as far as possible on the British model into water-tight compartments, each with its specific area and specific targets...6
But as SOE began to function abroad, it began to experience some of the chain-reaction catastrophes that Dewavrin describes the measures to forestall. It was soon evident that security demanded much more than a concept of compartmentation. Major-General Gubbins said, "The history of the building up of the secret armies in France, as in other Western European countries though to a lesser degree, was studded with sudden arrests of key men, with discovery of our W/T sets and setbacks of all kinds." 7 This admission is an understatement.
Catastrophes by Country
The most famous SOE disaster occurred in Holland, where some of the first agents parachuted in were picked up by German counterintelligence and forced to transmit to London faked reports and arrange for drops of supplies and other agents, who could then be arrested as they landed and their communications also taken over. This ghastly game went on for twenty months, in spite of several signs and express warnings that reached London alerting the SOE to the situation, until 54 agents had been arrested and all the operations they were supposed to be carrying out were frustrated. Forty-eight of the agents were eventually shot at Mauthausen.8
In Greece the first parachutists, a saboteur team, were to be dropped from three planes at a place where they could make contact with resistance leader Colonel Zervas. One of the planes failed to drop its men, and the other two dropped them in the wrong place on ground totally unsuited for parachute landings. Their equipment was scattered, their radio smashed beyond repair, and the local inhabitants had never heard of Colonel Zervas, who was many miles away.9
In Denmark, of the first two agents dropped one was killed when his parachute failed to open and the other lost all his equipment, including his radio. He could therefore not communicate with London to get instructions, and he had been given no alternative contacts or directions. A second team dropped later did manage to build up a resistance organization; but within six months its leader was killed, and the organization floundered and gradually broke down, leaving SOE without a Danish operation until 1943.10
In Belgium SOE and the Belgian Deuxième Section worked together to unify the resistance and shape a sabotage organization and a hidden army. In late April 1943 eight key underground leaders were instructed by letter to attend a joint conference in Liége. When they arrived, two were shot and the remainder arrested by the Gestapo, which had arranged the "conference." The following night fifty more were arrested. This mass roundup ended the hope of a unified organization.11
In France, where SOE operations were most intense, both the Gestapo and German military counterintelligence succeeded in penetrating and manipulating the nets. Through infiltration they located and seized dumps of arms and ammunition and entrapped a large number of SOE leaders, including Peter Churchill and "Prosper," leader of the resistance in Paris. Maurice Buckmaster, head of the SOE French section at headquarters, says that Prosper's net was "permeated with enemy agents." 12 More than one quarter of the 366 agents dropped during the war lost their lives. In mid-1943 a series of arrests rolled up almost all SOE operations in France and left in Paris, for example, only a single radio operator. 13
Amateurs Against Professionals
What were the reasons for SOE's failures? Some of the causes could not have been corrected. It was not within SOE's power to alter the attitude of General de Gaulle, for example, toward British operations conducted in France, or to persuade the RAF to provide better air support. Some contamination spreading from traitors already encysted in foreign undergrounds was also unavoidable. But there were deeper reasons.
First of all, the SOE was an organization of amateurs. Unlike MI-5 and MI-6, both of which had a continuity of doctrine and of personnel, SOE was thrown together by picking up from the armed forces and from every walk of civilian life a large number of people who spoke some foreign language and who seemed, according to the intuitive feelings of the SOE chiefs, to be proper material. Psychologists were hired to assess candidates but were not told the purpose of the assessments, and according to Buckmaster the psychological findings were largely ignored. Above all, because Buckmaster and other chiefs were themselves chosen by equally random methods, there was nowhere in the newly formed service a solid core of experience, a cadre of professionalism in the conduct of the clandestine.
This initial weakness was compounded by the fact, pointed out by Sir Colin Gubbins in the lecture quoted above, that SOE conducted all of its own training. Candidates were trained in a variety of skills--parachute jumps, marksmanship, the employment of explosives for sabotage, etc. SOE was scrupulous in checking their language qualifications, their forged documents (although the quality of the forgeries was not uniformly high), their clothing and other personal possessions, and just about anything else that might betray them as undercover agents. It also taught them the distinguishing uniforms, insignia, and decorations of the Germans. But it could not teach them the organization, modus operandi, and psychology of the German intelligence and security services; and it did not call upon the MI-5 and MI-6 experts who did know the subject. The consequences of this shortcoming are evident in the German counterintelligence coups in France, Belgium, and Holland.
No available sources indicate that SOE maintained card files or other rosters of known and suspected German intelligence and security personnel or of their collaborators of other nationalities. Buckmaster does say that Scotland Yard was "at all times at our service and they were immediately helpful to us in a number of ways: not only did they provide us with a thorough account of the history of possible recruits to our work, but they also put at our disposal experts whose job it was to detect enemy agents in this country and who were therefore able to help us protect our own men against mistakes . . ." 14 But the help available from this organization for internal police work was necessarily limited.
In short, the root of SOE's difficulties was its lack of coordination with the British espionage and counterintelligence services. A breach of distrust widened between MI-5 and MI-6 on the one hand and SOE on the other. It is an open secret that the senior services, acutely distrustful of SOE's counterintelligence competence, hesitated to provide the newcomer with sensitive security information because of fear that their own sources would be blown as a result. This wall between the clandestine services and the SOE meant that while the British program of covert action was afforded some rudimentary protection by passive security measures it lacked totally, or nearly totally, the essential advantages that counterintelligence might have supplied. Highly powered but without brakes, SOE was certain to suffer a series of smash-ups.
Peacetime Considerations
The British learned their lesson. At the end of the war the Foreign Office and the Chiefs of Staff agreed to return the responsibility for covert operations to the jurisdiction of the Secret Intelligence Service. There were three reasons for the change: to ensure that secret intelligence and special operations were the responsibility of a single organization under a single authority; to prevent duplication, wasted effort, crossing of operational wires, friction, and consequent insecurity; and to tailor the size of the covert action staff to the greatly reduced scale of peacetime needs. The peacetime condition also added a new factor which greatly increased the importance of consolidation.
The covert operations conducted during the war did not have to be unattributable. On the contrary; saboteurs, for example, in order to avoid precipitating reprisals on the local population, would leave behind evidence which tended to indicate that British agents were responsible.15 Security and secrecy were important, but only tactically important. It was important that the Germans should not know the identities and homes of the resistance workers, but it never mattered at all that the Germans should know that the work was directed from England--indeed the B.B.C. acted as publicity agents for these resistance movements.
In time of peace the situation is quite different, for it is this strategic security which is all-important. Because governments cannot acknowledge the fact that they are undertaking clandestine operations, there has been developed a whole new, delicate technique, the technique of nonattributability. A successful nonattributable operation is a long, tedious, touchy, and complicated affair which, the British recognized, not only requires background intelligence but, more importantly, cannot be undertaken except by experienced case officers.
Thus the SOE-SIS disharmony and its consequences led the British to a firm postwar conviction--that a single service should be responsible for all clandestine and covert activity undertaken by the nation.
1New York Times, 21 April 1961, from London correspondent Drew Middleton.
2 New York Times, 30 April 1961.
3 Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins, lecture, "Resistance Movements in the War," 28 January 1948, printed in the Journal of Royal United Service Institution, London, p. 211.
5 Translated from Colonel Passy's Souvenirs. 10 Duke St., Londres (le B.C.E.A.) (Monte Carlo, 1947), Vol. II, pp. 166-167.
8 See Herman J. Giskes' London Calling North Pole (New York, 1953).
9 Ronald Seth, The Undaunted: The Story of Resistance in Western Europe (London, 1956), p. 68.
12 Maurice Buckmaster, They Fought Alone (London, 1958), p. 208.
13 This was Noor Inayat Khan, whose pathetic story is told in Jean Fuller's Madeleine (London, 1952). Jean Fuller's books about SOE women in France, together with Elizabeth Nicholas' Death Be Not Proud (London, 1958), precipitated a stir in Parliament on the question whether SOE was careless in its training and direction of staff agents.
14 Buckmaster, op. cit., p. 47.


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By Anthony Caruso III
Posted: August 29th, 2012 at 1:26 am EST
The Minnesota Twins have placed their All-Star catcher Joe Mauer on revocable waivers.
Mauer was placed on waivers earlier this week, before clearing waivers today. The process is supposed to be confidential, as Twins general manager Terry Ryan declined to comment.
"Everybody in here's been through it at some point," Twins first baseman Justin Morneau added. "We've all been through (it) in the past. It's a non-issue. There are probably two guys that don't go through it."
It is going to be hard for a team to take on Mauer's huge contract. Many times, huge contract players land on the waiver wires in August every year.
Much of the time, teams put these players on waivers to gauge interest from other teams to see if a legitimate trade can be made. Other times, teams just place the players on waivers, even when they have no interest of ridding themselves of their expensive players.
Mauer found out shortly after waking up. Then, he got phone calls and text messages about the news from family and friends.
"It's part of the game," Mauer said. "I was a little surprised about how much coverage (it got), and how many questions I was asked about it."
If he is eventually traded, he would have to waive his no-trade clause. He is due $23 million annually through the 2018 season.
Next April, Mauer will be 30-years-old, and that's a lot of money for any team to take on, especially when he has a history of injuries.
He has just eight home runs this season, causing fans to grow frustrated with his lack of power. He also has two home runs since being named the 2009 American League MVP Award winner.
This season, he has played in a 120 of the Twins 129 games, as catcher, first baseman, and designated hitter. In his first year of his new mega contract, he played in just 82 games.
He is currently eighth in the American League with a .309 batting average. He also has a .403 on-base percentage, which is second in the league.
"You know if he plays, he's going to produce," Ryan said. "He's done a good job of taking care of his body and getting himself ready to play this season."
While he's on waivers, Mauer does not believe he's fallen out of favor with his hometown team. He was the first overall draft pick by the Twins in the 2001 MLB Draft.
"I'm sure it's probably not the first or the last time I'll be on the waiver wire," Mauer acknowledged. "I'm still just worried about what I'm trying to do today. I signed here, because this is where I wanted to play."
He still has six years left on his contract with the Twins, worth $138 million.


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With Hot Sugar
Bomb Factory, Dallas
Friday, September 25, 2015
Two guitars, two keyboards, two toms and an armada of lasers; these were Ratatat's weapons of choice at The Bomb Factory Friday night as they played to a packed house. The Brooklyn-based duo of Mike Stroud and Evan Mast have been at this game for quite a while now, releasing their first album all the way back in 2004. Now on their fifth album Magnifique, released earlier this year, the duo has had many years to hone their craft into exactly how they see its fullest expression. Most importantly, they have some serious bangers — just the thing to get some serious turn up on a Friday night (even if you didn't stick around for the band's after party DJ set).
Ratatat's premise may be simple, the result is a refreshingly unique creation that fails to be neatly tucked away into any one genre or sound. From the more recent hits "Cream on Chrome," "Abrasive" and "Supreme", to more trusted classics "Loud Pipes" and the ferocious growling of "Wildcat" (you know, the Ratatat song) Ratatat was consistently great. However, the consistency may have been a weakness of the performance as well: As the show went on, it seemed that each successive song lost its individuality, and the combo of leg kick to guitar dip grew tiresome after its fourth repetition within the same song. Don't misunderstand, however; this was a great show with many memorable moments and energy so catchy you had no choice but to dance. The light show, accompanied by the tailor-made background visuals (which are created by Mast himself), were one of the more impressive to hit The Bomb Factory so far. The sheer scope of musical influence on display was notable as well; with influences ranging from heavy metal riffs, bright pop hooks, chill electronic grooves and steel guitar ballads there was no lack for top-notch musicality.
Given all that the set had going for it, it seemed that somewhere along the line the direction was lost and the energy plateaued, perhaps even stagnated. The great build never reached a true climax, but the rise was one hell of a fun ride. The show ended unusually early because of the after-party hosted on The Bomb Factory's balcony, which cost an extra $5 entry fee but was well-attended nonetheless. The night was opened by the self-proclaimed "associative electronica" producer Hot Sugar, also known as Nick Koenig. His music combines several unrelated elements from guitar and keyboard to other non-traditional influences to create a unique musical experience. Or, as Koenig said, "my inspiration is everything, you know, it's universal".
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Following a very similar format to Ratatat, Hot Sugar played his unique blend of associative electronica production backed by homemade visuals. Perhaps it was the technical difficulties with his guitar or the sparse crowd early on, but his set had trouble connecting with the audience.


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One of the first things I ever baked myself is chocolate chip cookies. In High School, I used to bake them almost every weekends for the whole family. My mom would always get upset because the kitchen was a mess afterwards. Today, nothing has changed: My kitchen always looks like a battlefield of dishes and dirty utensils.
On Christmas eve, I woke up at 4:00AM unable to go back to sleep. It was my second morning back at my parent's home for Christmas break and I couldn't get the idea of making cookies for my siblings out of my mind. They fight for those!
I have to admit I have tried once the Nestlé cookie dough and it is delicious. But really, nothing compares to those generous homemade cookies.
In terms of cookies, I am always looking for the same criteria: softness and richness. In other words, I want them to be soft in the middle and to contain a lot of big chocolate chips. I also like a touch of salt.
Besides being thrilled to be back in my family in France and home for the holidays, I am sharing my room with 2 lovely brother and sister cats, that my parents adopted 3 years ago, and one of them is a REAL FOODIE (Cat on picture). Luke couldn't resist the warm cookies and neither could we!. All 16 cookies gone in less than 24 hours.
- 250g of butter
- 1 egg
- 350g of brown sugar
- 375g of flour
- A chocolate bar (170g)
- 1/2 yeast bag
- 1/2 vanilla sugar bag
- Salt
- Preheat the oven at 140°C or °F
- Take the butter out of the fridge 2 hours before or microvave it 10 seconds.
- In a big bowl, mix the butter, brown sugar and vanilla sugar together
- In a separate bowl, blend together the flour, yeast, and a pinch of salt.
- In a third ball, break a chocolate bar in little pieces.
- Stir the contents of second bowl into the first bowl and blend everything well, except the chocolate.
- Form the cookie balls with an ice cream scoop and add in each a few chocolate pieces.
- Put 6 balls on a cookie pan with cookie baking sheet.
- Put the baking cookie pan in the oven and bake for about 15-20min or until edges starts to be golden.
- Cool slightly, remove from cookie sheet and cool on a wire rack.
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Good evening! Hopefully you week has been going well. Only one day left until the weekend! This past week, we received an invitation to our first housewarming party. Not sure how we made it this far and this is only our first housewarming party. Now I have to find a gift……. I decided to put together I list of some of my favorite items that can be given as a gift. Plus, they won't break the bank either.
Pier One
I chose Pier One as one of my stores because they have a great selection of items that run from classic to modern. Bonus, they are currently running a 50% sale! I am in love with these faux gemstone napkin rings. The agate and gemstone pieces are a big trend right now. These will add a touch of sophistication and sparkle to any party. Did I mention they are part of the 50% off sale at $2.48!? I also love this gold magazine holder. I can't be the only one that keeps magazines around thinking that one day I will have time to sit down and read them. Why not show off those magazines in this sleek and modern holder? Any of these items are sure to make the new homeowners very happy.
Bird Branch Tiered Server: $34.98; Faux Gemstone Napkin Ring In Dark Sapphire: $2.48 ea; Caitlin Gold Magazine Holder: $14.98; Grey Wooden Lanterns: $19.98-$29.98; Chenille Seed Stitch Striped Burgundy Throw: $24.98
I have never shopped at Wayfair, but have seen the commercials and was curious. Again all of these items are on sale, and some even come with free two day shipping… #winning! I love this little bar cart. Not only does it have a rustic feel to it, but it also folds up and is rust resistant! I also love that it is currently 60% off at $50.99 and is a free two day shipping item. If your new homeowners are VERY new and still eating off paper plates, they will forever be grateful to you with this 16 piece Dinnerware set. You can't go wrong with a clean, simple and classic white set. I am really helping out last minute shoppers because it too is a free two day shipping item!
East Blue Hill Bar Cart: $50.99; Scandinavian 3 Piece Kitchen Canister Set: $35.99; Colleen 16 Piece Dinnerware Set: $36.99; Kimberly Chalkboard & Picture Frame: $32.99;
2 Piece Ceramic Vase Set: $26.90
I haven't completely decided on my housewarming gift, but I have some great options. I may even purchase one of these items for my own house! Feel free to share your fave housewarming gifts below!


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Standard Details
The network-based coexistence information exchange among networks and devices to enable network-based coexistence management is defined in this amendment to IEEE 802.19.1-2014. This amendment specifies procedures and protocols for collection and exchange of coexistence information of heterogeneous networks, spectrum resource measurements and network performance metrics, such as packet error ratio, delay, etc., and information elements and data structures to capture coexistence information. (The PDF of this standard is available at no cost to you compliments of the IEEE GET Program at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=8207797)
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P802.19.2 - Recommended Practice for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Part 19: Coexistence of Unlicensed Wireless Systems in a Vehicular Environment
This recommended practice recommends dynamic parameter values for IEEE 802 and Bluetooth devices operating in the 2.4 GHz band to enhance their performance in the vehicular environment.
P802.19.3 - Recommended Practice for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Part 19: Coexistence Methods for 802.11 and 802.15.4 based systems operating in the Sub-1 GHz Frequency Bands
This recommended practice provides guidance on the implementation, configuration and commissioning of systems sharing spectrum between IEEE Std 802.11ah-2016 and IEEE Std 802.15.4 Smart Utility Networking (SUN) Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) Physical Layer (PHY) operating in Sub-1 GHz frequency bands.
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802.19.1-2014 - IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems -- Local and metropolitan area networks -- Specific requirements -- Part 19: TV White Space Coexistence Methods
Radio technology independent methods for coexistence among dissimilar television band devices (TVBDs) and dissimilar or independently operated networks of TVBDs are specified in this standard.
802.19.1-2018 - IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements--Part 19: Wireless Network Coexistence Methods
This standard specifies radio technology independent methods for network-based coexistence among dissimilar or independently operated networks of unlicensed devices and dissimilar unlicensed devices. The standard is defined for geo-location capable devices operating under general authorization such as TV band White Spaces, the 5 GHz license-exempt bands and the general authorized access the 3.5 GHz bands. (The PDF of this standards is available at no cost to you compliments of the IEEE GET program https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/browse/standards/get-program/page)


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We love the Frenchic range of paints because the colours are amazing, but more importantly, just like our glazes for our pottery, they are non-toxic and contain no hidden nasties. All natural, eco-friendly and virtually odourless the paint can even be used on children's toys and furniture.
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Were you hoping your emailing campaigns would make you money? Well, of course you were! But, without an effective way to calculate your return on investment (ROI), you won't actually know if you are in the black with your campaign. ROI can be difficult to determine, since a customer doesn't directly tell you the email campaign was what convinced them to purchase. Often, customers wouldn't even directly attribute their choice to an email campaign, either — even though that is what really made them click through to your site.
ROI Formula
Let's start by looking at the components you need for calculating your email marketing ROI. The first part is easy: the cost of your email marketing. Then, you need to figure what profit is derived from your email marketing. Here is a simple formula for ROI:
(sales from email marketing – overhead or product costs – cost of email marketing)/cost of email marketing = Email Marketing ROI
The true difficulty about this formula is determining what sales were actually a direct consequence of your email marketing campaign and not due to other reasons. You will have to remove your regular customers in order to get a more accurate number of the customers motivated by the emails.
Also, remember to remove any hours that your staff has spent on working your email marketing campaigns. You will also be removing the graphic design, fees from your email marketing service, and personal time invested in the campaigns (meetings, pitches, etc.).
Look Long Term
In order to figure out your email marketing revenue, you will want to look over the last couple of years. Understanding your normal business flow is important for spotting any discrepancies that may appear and mark your campaigning efforts. It is important to remember that email marketing campaigns often take time to convince the reader of your value and intrigue them to click and purchase.
This is why many consumers don't realize the power of email — continual emailing allows you frequent access to help a consumer warm up to your company and promotes brand awareness. A customer might read your newsletter for a year before they even warm up and make the choice to purchase.
Feel Free to Ask
Of course, while your customer might not always know what really pushed the final purchase decision, they can at least give you a bit of information. Ask your customers where they heard about you with their email sign up and then ask them what encouraged them to check out your products during the sale finalization. You don't want to make your customers go through many hoops and feel discouraged from purchase, but you may want a few fast questions that help you in your own efforts.
You will have to remember that these answers are only as accurate as the person who is answering them. Will your customer remember if a friend was really the first time they heard about your company or if the PPC ad was what reminded them of a friend's recommendation? Will they remember if the emails they've been getting for the past 3 months about a new line that first sparked interest or will they chalk it up to browsing the site?
You use more than one method of advertising, so this question can be difficult. Don't make it the main basis for your ROI numbers, but use it to understand your audience and what they found helpful or memorable.
Remember Offline Analytics
Your email campaigns might be the very reason a customer stops in your store, but how would you know? In order to effectively track your campaigns, you will have to do the work of bridging the online and offline worlds. One great way to do this is to offer a special code that redeems an offer only good for email users. With deal sites passing along your codes, such as dealsplus+ and RetailMeNot, you will want to provide a code that can only be used by one customer if you plan to keep your numbers accurate.
Pizza Hut is a great example of offering special deals for their email recipients, but once the code is used, it cannot be used again. This allows Pizza Hut to discover exactly what it is that got their customer to follow through with a purchase, regardless of whether they are in the restaurant or ordering online.
Remember, marketers once put special numbers on their donor letters and coupons in order to see what print materials were most effective for them. In the same way, marketers today can put small codes into their email marketing to determine what emails are effective in receiving higher click-through rates and conversions.
Grow Your Lists
If your email campaign can help your brick and mortar sales, then your store can help out your emailing list. Make sure you make it easy and desirable for customers to sign up for emails right in your store in order to grow your list. In the store, you can offer sign up with a question of how they heard of your store, enabling you to track where new customers came from on your list and why they signed up.
Some stores, like Kohl's and Michael's, always ask if you are getting their coupons through email. This is a great way to encourage customers to provide an email address for additional deals in the future. The mistake they make, however, is that their deals are easy to find on deal sites and not special for their email users, so customers don't feel overly compelled to sign up for emails.
On the other hand, some places require an email address at checkout (yes, even in the store) with opt-out by request. While this can be an effective way to get a lot of contacts, you might run into trouble if you are emailing customers who didn't actually want your company emails. You need to make sure that your audience wants to be on your list and doesn't view your contact as spam.
With these tips under your belt, you are now on your way to being the ninja master of email marketing ROI. Continue to test and improve your efforts over time and you will find this an effective tool for marketing to your customers.


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Faith and Finance: Peace With or Without ProsperityPosted at by ifydcat on category Uncategorized
A preacher once said, "Everyone is looking for peace. Everyone wants to take a deep breath and release a sigh of relief that is not just on the outside, but on the inside. That's what we can have as Christians, but we have to appropriate what God has given to us to have that."
This book will take you through a journey that will plow the ground of your heart, lay a new foundation of financial principles based on the word of God, and help enable you to weather the inevitable financial storms of life – with peace.
It doesn't matter if your checking account is overflowing or empty, peace comes from knowing your footing is sure with every choice you make in your stewardship.
No longer do you have to feel like the double-minded man tossed to and fro, uncertain about every decision. You can raise your shield of faith against each fiery dart by resting on the scriptural principles found within Faith and Finance – Peace With or Without Prosperity.
"Money reveals the love of our heart. Money reveals the pride in our heart. Money reveals whether we want to do it God's way, or our way. This is not anything new. It started out with Cain. Cain wanted to do it his way."
"How many people have heard the story about the drunk who got his paycheck and drank it away leaving a starving family at home?
What about the man who bought a sports car, went golfing every weekend, went out to eat with his friends weekly and when he died he left his family with piles of debt and no life insurance?"
"God knows the potential and ability of each man and will lead him to reach it. If a man is lazy in the stewardship of his life, he will be held accountable for his waste. If a man is hasty in his choices and makes "investments" that go against the principles of God's word, he will also be accountable for his stewardship. But a man that prayerfully and diligently works at increasing his ability within the bounds of God's word has a greater opportunity to be used of God in finance.
That being said, financial increase is not what we work toward. We work toward good stewardship, and as God provides we are able to do more to increase His work in our lives."
"We women sacrifice peace when we leave our children behind for hours and find ourselves feeling guilty and insecure about our choices in this area. We sacrifice our God given peace oft times just for financial security. We enjoy knowing that our bills are being paid faster; our securities are growing as we would like; and we may be able to enjoy a vacation now and then.
What we don't realize is that we are hampering our own spiritual growth and our husband's growth in the Lord…"
"Christians get so ensnared in what I call the "bittersweet abundance" that comes with government assistance that I see people falsifying their income or hiding cash they receive just to stay on assistance. If they saw God as their provider they would need not lie, because you cannot lie to God. They see the government as their provider and lie to stay in good graces. That is the snare. It is when one stops recognizing God as their provider, and they shift their eyes elsewhere that Satan wins the victory.
That is what Satan desires. He wants a Godless people."
"My husband and I were discussing how direct God is in dealing with covetousness. When listing off His commandments, covetousness is the only one He becomes specific about. He knew our natural bent and listed out the specifics."
"I entitled this book "Faith and Finance – Peace With or Without Prosperity" because God's Word promises peace to those who keep their mind upon Him; not those who keep their checking account full".
"We will find ourselves looking back and wondering, "My goodness, how did that all work out? God surely is faithful, isn't He?"
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