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Enbridge announces $4.3-billion deal with Spectra Energy Partners
By Dan Healing | News, Politics | August 24th 2018
The Enbridge logo is shown at the company's annual meeting in Calgary on May 9, 2018. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh
Enbridge Inc. is sweetening its offer to buy all the units in Spectra Energy Partners LP it doesn't already own, raising its proposed share exchange ratio by almost 10 per cent in the all-shares transaction valued at $4.3 billion.
The move, which was expected by some analysts following a U.S. regulator's final tax policy ruling in July, means that holders of the 17 per cent of Spectra not owned by Enbridge will receive 1.111 Enbridge shares for each common unit, up from 1.0123 shares per unit offered in May.
Spectra shares rose by as much as 4.6 per cent on the New York Stock Exchange to US$39.62 on Friday morning while Enbridge fell by as much as 2.4 per cent to $45.99 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
"We view this as a positive step towards reducing corporate complexity, but note there will be marginal dilution from the transaction ... as the increased offer is somewhat offset by elimination of distributions to the 17 per cent non-controlling interest," said analysts with Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. in a report.
As Enbridge owns 83 per cent of Spectra's shares, it already has the two-thirds majority required for unitholder approval of the transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter.
It said the revised deal has unanimous support of a conflicts committee appointed by the separate Spectra board of directors.
In May, Calgary-based Enbridge launched an initiative to buy back all of its pipeline subsidiaries in the United States with shares worth $11.4 billion at the time, citing a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision in March to end certain tax loopholes they enjoyed.
American pipeline rivals The Williams Cos. and Cheniere Energy Inc. launched similar multibillion-dollar offers for their subsidiaries at the same time for the same reason.
In 2016, a U.S. Appeals Court ruled that energy regulators were allowing master limited partnerships (MLPs) to benefit from a "double recovery" of taxes. MLPs are tax-exempt corporate structures in the United States that pay their profits to investors in dividend-style distributions.
Enbridge said the decision hurt its subsidiaries by cutting into their distributable cash flow. It also weakened their credit worthiness and ability to raise money from investors, a process that fuels "drop-downs" of assets from Enbridge Inc. in return for cash to support the parent company's growth.
Enbridge proposed separate all-share offers with the boards of Spectra Energy, Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P., Enbridge Energy Management, L.L.C. and Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc.
Only Enbridge Energy Partners and Spectra Energy Partners are MLPs, but Enbridge said the FERC ruling negatively affected all four.
In a news release Friday, Enbridge said a July 18 FERC order clarifying its revised MLP income tax policy "could potentially improve SEP's position" given its historical deferred income tax balances "and is therefore uniquely positive for SEP among the Enbridge family of sponsored vehicles."
"Our offers for EEP and EIF remain fair and are not linked to the SEP deal," said spokesman Michael Barnes in an email, adding the FERC tax clarification provided little benefit to Enbridge Energy Partners and none for Enbridge Income Fund and therefore those offers won't be increased.
Enbridge Energy Management is a company that manages and controls Enbridge Energy Partners, he said.
Dan Healing
Reporter for The Canadian Press
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Enbridge to sell natural gas processing business to Brookfield group for $4.31B
By Dan Healing | News, Politics | July 5th 2018
Minnesota approves Enbridge Energy Line 3 pipeline project
By Associated Press | News, US News, Energy, Politics | June 29th 2018
Enbridge Line 3 project should follow existing route, U.S. judge says
By Associated Press | News, US News, Politics | April 24th 2018


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Received your letter yesterday.  We didn't hardly expect you for the Augie game.  Augie won 37-30 but it was a good game.  It snowed that same night and there's cold wind blowing now, about freezing.
I've been doing a lot of studying here of late.  Tom's course is lighter this semester and he has been typing on the abstract.  It's about a third finished.
If you come up Sunday will you bring my baseball and bat.  They are in the store room.  I think the ball is on the window sill.  Spring seems in the air even if it is still cold.


Many of you know that in addition to sharing our DIY challenges and adventures here at Color Transformed Family I also have an Etsy shop, Color Created Family.
Color Created Family was born out of my love for crocheting and as a way for me to earn a little extra money to help us cover travel and other expenses as we journey towards bringing our little girl home from Hong Kong. One thing I didn't anticipate when I opened my own Etsy shop was how God would use it as a door for me meet other families that also have a passion for adoption. It has been such a joy for me to partner with other families and help them raise money for their own adoption expenses. Last month, God surprised me again by introducing me to the The Sparrow Fund and what they do to help others through the adoption process. Color Created Family is donating 10% of our sales to The Sparrow Fund during the month of May. So in addition to supporting our adoption process your purchase will also help support other families through their adoption process as well! Kelly, the founder of The Sparrow Fund shares below how the idea of the The Sparrow Fund came to her and more about what they do.
Have you ever considered adopting? Simply looking at the stats, about a third of you have. About 30% of Americans have seriously considered adopting. Yet, only 2% have actually adopted. That means that of those who say they've seriously considered adopting, 14 out of 15 don't ever do it.
Why not? Well, it's daunting—the financial cost, the impact this child will have on your family, the unknowns…so many unknowns. It's no easy thing. We get that, because it was daunting for us.
As we walked that road ourselves and alongside other families like ours, we saw a need. That 2% of families who were taking that leap of faith to bring a child into their family through adoption—they needed more support. So, we took the leap of faith ourselves to do whatever we could to do just that.
Two years ago, The Sparrow Fund was started to give grants to families specifically for the purpose of family support through programs around the country that provide preadoption support and counsel, on-call support for families while they travel across the world to meet their children and bring them home, and support once they are home to help both the parents, new son or daughter, and family as a whole become a family.
Recognizing more need, we added programs to encourage and support families from those waiting to meet their children to those who have been home for years. We've helped families learn about the unique needs of children who have been adopted in the classroom and how to use correction as a vehicle of connection with their children in a way that is sensitive to them and their histories. And, we offered a weekend retreat for couples to be reminded of their calling as parents and refreshed to continue serving their children.
There's something special happening this month. A whole bunch of folks are now coming alongside of us, saying, "Yes, we support adoptive families and the work of The Sparrow Fund to pour into them. And, we want to help." This May, in our third annual fundraiser, about 50 businesses have made a commitment to help us build the nest so that we can help others as they build their nests. In addition to event sponsors, these business partners have made the commitment to give 10% of their total sales during the month of May to The Sparrow Fund so that we can do what we do.
That's where you come in. We need you to click HERE to see all the businesses and then we need you to shop purposefully. There's really no better way to shop. Share the link with your friends. Let people know about this easy and fun way to help! Together, we can make that 10% something crazy big.
Forever changed by our experience of being adopted and adopting, Kelly Raudenbush is a stay-at-home mom/manager to 4 children and a professional juggler, juggling her calling as wife and mother with her secondary callings (editing and serving adoptive families through The Sparrow Fund). You can learn more about their adoption story, how they've been changed, and what life for them looks like on their personal blog, My Overthinking (where she's going to have some super sweet giveaways this month, by the way).
Isn't it awesome what Kelly is doing through The Sparrow Fund? And what an easy way to support adoption. Shop. Shop for Mother's Day, for yourself, the house… or just to show your support for adoption!
Thanks again for all your continued support and prayers for us during our adoption journey. Right now we are still waiting to get immigration approval for our adoption from Hong Kong and then we will officially submit our dossier to Hong Kong for approval! I'll keep you posted as more develops.
This entry was posted in Adoption, Color Created Family and tagged Adoption support, Color Created Family, crochet jewelry, Hong Kong adoption, The Sparrow Fund on 05/02/2013 by Krystle.
For a second I really thought she was a juggler. lol. I need to slow down when I read!
What an amazing cause. I hope your shop is doing well!!
Haha! Thank you! Running the shop and keep the blog up to date definitely keeps me busy but I love it.


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Q: Routing on a named route only I have a user-profile routing module that looks like this:
const userProfileRoutes: Routes = [
  {
    path: ':id/view',
    component: UserProfileViewComponent,
    resolve: {
      user: UrlUserResolverService,
      posts: PostsAllResolverService
    },
    canActivate: [ AccessGuard ],
    children: [
      {
        path: 'posts',
        outlet: 'tabs',
        component: TabPostsViewComponent
      },
      {
        path: 'followers',
        outlet: 'tabs',
        component: TabFollowersFollowingViewComponent,
        resolve: { followers: UserFollowersResolverService }
      },
      {
        path: 'following',
        outlet: 'tabs',
        component: TabFollowersFollowingViewComponent,
        resolve: { following: UserFollowingResolverService }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    path: ':id/notifications',
    component: UserProfileNotificationsComponent,
    resolve: { notifications: NotificationsResolverService },
    canActivate: [ AccessGuard ]
  }
];

This all works fine when I'm on the mobile view of the app as navigating changes the url, as I'd expect.
But on tablet and above the user-profile-view appears in the sidebar, like so:

  <user-profile-view></user-profile-view>

So because the user-profile is in the sidebar I don't want the entire url to change - I only want the named router (tabs) to change but I can't figure out what to place in the navigate function.
Here's what I have so far, which works well for mobile:
goToChildRoute(route: string) {
  let queryParams = route === 'posts' ? { queryParams: null } : { queryParams: { id: this.user.pk } };
  this.router.navigate([`/user-profile/${this.user.pk}/view`, { outlets: { tabs: [route] } }], queryParams);
}

And the relevant html:

{{ tab.count }}

{{ tab.title }}

  <router-outlet name="tabs"></router-outlet>

So to reiterate - how do I change only the named router of tabs when I'm on tablet (768px) and above?

A: I'm not sure if i got the question, but probably you can do something like that:

{{ tab.count }}

{{ tab.title }}

onTabClick(tab: Tab) {
  const route = this.getTabRoute(tab);

  let queryParams = route === 'posts' ? { queryParams: null } : { queryParams: { id: this.user.pk } };
  this.router.navigate([`/user-profile/${this.user.pk}/view`, { outlets: { tabs: [route] } }], queryParams);
}

getTabRoute(tab: Tab) {
  return window.screen.width > 768 ? tab.tabletRoute : tab.mobileRoute;
}

Of course you need to modify your array of tabs so every tab would contain separate route for tablet and for mobile.
Hope that helps.

A: Not sure if this is what you asking, but generally, it's much clearer if you use relative URL navigation in these cases.

The router supports directory-like syntax in a link parameters list to
  help guide route name lookup:
./ or no leading slash is relative to the current level.
../ to go up one level in the route path.
You can combine relative navigation syntax with an ancestor path. If
  you must navigate to a sibling route, you could use the ../
  convention to go up one level, then over and down the sibling route
  path.
To navigate a relative path with the Router.navigate method, you must
  supply the ActivatedRoute to give the router knowledge of where you
  are in the current route tree.
After the link parameters array, add an object with a relativeTo
  property set to the ActivatedRoute. The router then calculates the
  target URL based on the active route's location.

So something like this:
  constructor(private activatedRoute: ActivatedRoute,
              private router: Router,
              private location: Location) {
  }

and in the menu activation handler to  clear the last route
  const url = this
    .router
    .createUrlTree(['../'], {relativeTo: this.activatedRoute})
    .toString();

  this.location.go(url);

to go to a new sub-route on the same level:
  const url = this
    .router
    .createUrlTree(['../', 'something-new-route'], {relativeTo: this.activatedRoute})
    .toString();

  this.location.go(url);

The 'something-new-route' can be a variable (or URL parameter) as well.

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Sewing clothes, albeit with a pattern, is actually how I learned to sew many, many years ago. There are many, many halter tops back home (Kathleen, Georgia - holla) that I made from my mother's fabric and patterns from the seventies. But I digress. My point is, I still have not dared to really dig into apparel, save for taking in lengths or making the simplest of tubes. Obviously, I should try and alter some pants. I can't say I know what I'm talking about - I know how to hem and how to stitch but nothing of tailoring to the curves of a body (ooOo). I just know what I did and here I'll tell you. I do very much love my fitted, goldenrod, Betty Draper pants.
What these lines mean, after the jump!
Above, on the left, we have the before-and-a-half (because at this point I'd already started messing with one of the legs) and on the right, the after. These pants are a light weight linen and I scored them for about $5 at a Goodwill. Most important part of trial-by-error altering is a $5 investment. I have no idea who owned these before or what they were intended to look like on someone. I probably wore them as they were for a year, they were still high waisted and tapered and yellow - and that ain't bad in my book. But I saw a greater potential for a more fitted and even more retro of a pant.
Eighty percent of the process involved putting on the pants, making a mental note of what areas were big in what way and then taking off and marking them by hand with tailors chalk. I drew new curves in my artistic ability (I actually have this, thanks Devin!). Really, I used the existing seam's curves to judge how to adjust my new curve - this is where the trial-and-error comes in. I set my sewing machine to do a very wide stitch - one that would be easy to pull out if (and most likely) I needed to - importante. I just took in from the outside of the pant. I worked on one leg and when I had it like I wanted, I copied it to the other.
A The back of these pants are actually elastic which was forgiving of my waist adjustment. Instead of un-doing the waist band I decided to continue the inside seam all the way up. I decided to do this because the fabric is so light weight it would be pretty un-noticeable and well worth skipping all the work that re-doing the waist band would involve. I actually almost didn't take in the waist at all until the last minute and I'm ever so glad I did. It really straightened up the fit of the band at the top and made the pants look that much more tailored.
B This was the hardest spot to get just right and I have it - just right. This curve (though not much of a curve on me) from the high, high waist to the thickest part of your thigh is not found in many-a-pant these days. If I gain so much as half a pound these pants will be too tight across the front. Motivation!
C The ankle was actually the part that I made the biggest initial misjudgment on and had to pull out some stitching. Elizabeth says I have dainty ankles, but I could barely get them through my first go-round. These pants had a basic hem with a 1/4" fold and another 1" fold, topstitched. You'll want to pull out some of this top stitch to open up the fabric and bring your new side seam all the way to the end.
I don't know if this is really of any help at all, this might not work on all types of pants - these are certainly a special style - but perhaps it will encourage you to spend $5 to take apart something and see how it works. I feel I've got a much better understanding of the construction and form of a pant now from this and am excited to try my hand at shaping up something else!
I LOVE THOSE PANTS. And they fit you wonderfully now! You make me realize that I really need to learn how to sew..
You did a FABULOUS job of altering those pants. What a great color, too! Thanks for sharing your pointers -- I can't wait to try my hand at some altering now.
Wow - these are wonderful! A great reminder to see the potential in things. The color is fabulous and the new cut is so flattering. Great job!
Love what you did with them, and the color is great. Also would be interested in knowing where you got your grey heels. They appear to be the perfect height.
Bummer! But thanks for the info! I'm always jealous to hear when people come across good Target finds.


Sometimes it's a grace to do nothing.
and i was mostly sleepy and giggly and kinda awed.
and that was a good wake-up-call.
and i'm about to cry?
I must write to denounce my neighbor.
And I know what my duty is.
If we are vigilant, and if we have done our duty.
And for a time could not go on.
One half the inexact mirror of the other.
But around here we have done all right without these and other things.
I will write with the torn hieroglyphics of moonlight on water.
But to bring them to the attention of those who need to know.
it seemed so poignant to me.


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Hillmann Piano Studio Blog
The Goal of Piano Instruction
It is my goal that, regardless of what brings a student to piano lessons, each has fun with the experience and leaves with a new appreciation for music. From the beginning, I work with students and their families to establish attainable goals to help focus the instruction. I tailor the lessons to each student's goals and abilities to ensure they have the most positive, enjoyable experience while gaining essential skills that will support them throughout life. When talent is discovered, I seek new opportunities for the student to advance in skill and grow into his or her potential. Students are consistently challenged to aim high but never forced to excel beyond their own interests or desires.
What happens in a piano lesson?
During lessons, I work individually with students using proven strategies in order to develop the following skills:
Dexterity of fingers, wrists, and arms
Fluidity, accuracy and ease of movement
A firm grasp and appreciation for musical style and artistry
A thorough understanding of underlying musical theory and notation
My general approach is to model good performance techniques and invite students to observe and then imitate. This allows students to apply their knowledge and gain greater independence in using the piano to produce beautiful, musically rich sounds. It is my goal that each student develop a series of good habits that will enable them to play efficiently and healthily for the rest of their lives.
Adjustable seats and other tools within my studio help students of varying heights access the pedals and keys more comfortably for better results. A cozy sitting area allows parents to sit back and enjoy the sounds of their child's progress during lessons.
Joshua Hillmann has entertained audiences for years as both a solo and collaborative artist with his energetic and colorful musical interpretations and outstanding technical ability. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Piano at Grand Canyon University, and earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance at Arizona State University, where he also earned the Master of Music degree in Piano Performance. His Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance was earned at the University of Kansas, studying with Dr. Jack Winerock. His earlier musical training came from the St. Louis Symphony Music School, studying with internationally renowned artist/teacher Jane Allen.
Joshua has been the recipient of numerous awards in national and international competitions. Most recently he was awarded the special prize from the National Society for Arts and Letters for the "Most Outstanding Arizona Pianist" in the 4 th BösendorferUSASU International Piano Competition in Tempe, AZ, and was awarded 1st Place in October 2006 at the 1st WPPCPIANOvision Most Wanted Piano Competition: Etude Invitational in Atlanta, GA, was an Alternate Winner of Arizona State University's Concert of Soloists Piano Concerto Competition in 2005 in Tempe, AZ, was Winner of the 2003 Kansas City Musical Club Collegiate Piano Competition in Kansas City, MO, and was awarded 1st Place in the Kansas Music Teachers Association Collegiate Piano Competition in 2002 in Kansas City, MO, and also 1 st Runner Up in 2001. He has also performed in master classes with renowned pianists Jeremy Denk, Anne Schein, Robert Hamilton, Hugh Sung, Philip Kawin, and Arbo Valdma among others. He has also performed in chamber master classes and received coaching from the internationally acclaimed Brentano String Quartet, currently Quartet-in-Residence at Yale School of Music.
He is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) and is a member of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), Arizona State Music Teachers Association (ASMTA), and East Valley Music Teachers Association (EVMTA).
He has performed solo recitals in St. Louis, Lawrence, KS, Kansas City, and Phoenix, and has performed as collaborative artist in South Korea with the Kansas City Chorale, and in the USA with the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, and as soloist with the Arizona State University Sinfonietta.
He has also been very active as a professional singer as well. He was a member of KU Jazz Singers and Chamber Choir, as well as Music Director and singer in the college a cappella group Genuine Imitation. At ASU he has been a long-time member of their choirs. He sang with the Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorale, the Herberger Singers and Heatwave Vocal Jazz. He has appeared as bass soloist with the Phoenix Symphony with Michael Christie conducting the opera in concert "Ainadamar". He has appeared with professional choirs around the country including the Grammy-winning Phoenix Chorale, Grammy-winning Kansas City Chorale, Grammy-nominated Seraphic Fire, Grammy-nominated Tucson Chamber Artists, and Spire Chamber Ensemble, and has shared the stage with such great artists as Kitty Carlisle, Dawn Upshaw, and Kelley O'Connor. He has also appeared internationally with Ireland's National Choir, Anúna, in an extensive tour of China that culminated in a performance at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. He is currently a bass singer with the Phoenix Chorale, the True Concord, and currently serves as worship pianist at Paradise Valley United Methodist Church.
His performances have been popular on Youtube. Here is one recent performance of Beethoven's final piano sonata:
Dr. Hillmann brings a great tradition from great teachers!
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Equality before the law but not equality as a rule.
I have a job for a (enter ANY job that you believe can be performed by a one-armed person as well as an able bodied person would).
Two people apply for a job.
Person B is different (has one arm) – all other things being equal.
Now if the law (or social pressure, or any pressure from society says "equal treatment ("equal pay") for equal work, most employers will hire person A, not so? If I am expected to pay $x for the job to be done I (based on my preconceptions and biases) will employ the person who apparently will do the job best, and here it seems that the able bodied person meets criteria best. Why will I settle for the one- armed person if I have to pay the same salary; rather get more for the same price - it is only natural to argue in that way. I also haven't got the time and resources to embark on an in-depth costly process to take a decision where my previous experiences, biases, or whatever I use to make the decision, have proven to reduce the risk of making a mistake. If I did invest this extra I may find that some one-rmed person exceed able bodied person by miles in performing the expected task. So I make the safest decision using a cost-effective approach to arrive at a "best value for money" decision or what economist will call where "the expected marginal return is the highest relative to marginal cost. All human decisions follow this rule.
Having to pay different people equally leads to eliminating the "disadvantaged" from being considered for employment.
The only way to give the one armed person the chance to being employed is to allow the disadvantaged to be able to offer his/her services at a lower rate and not to force the employer to pay the same rate for everybody – especially not at the point of the initial decision (where detailed information of actual job performance and results are difficult to ascertain).
If in the above example the one-armed person could negotiate a lower rate the employer will consider employing him/her because the value proposition to the employer will become more attractive as the rate is lowered.
Now replace (one armed person) with any group that may be discriminated against such as "being fat", "from a disadvantaged group", "an old person" or "a women" or "inexperienced" or whatever grouping that may be discriminated against) – if you HAVE to pay the same rate, persons from these groupings will be less likely to be employed.
At this point the reader may want to shift the argument to – Yes, but if a woman has been doing the same job as say a man for some time, wouldn't it just be fair to pay her equally to her male counterpart? The answer is "yes" and that is why larger organisations institute job grading systems and attempt to link pay to performance and so on. However, the notion that one should resolve the situation by forcing the employer to have to pay the woman the same, will only strengthen the reasons not to hire women in the first place.
Now this situation may reflect a sad state of affairs but any attempt to solve the problem by force will lead to an even more hurtful and a more dysfunctional society.
However - all said and done: Here is an absolutely brilliant presentation on some of the underlying issues and concerns that underlie some the decisions taken in relation to gender equality and what to do about them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fudKu8Pxak&t=2829sCH.


The presidential honeymoon is effectively over in Tanzania. A chorus from seemingly disparate quarters is now questioning the President for protecting a public official who appears to trump the rule of law. Yet the Presidency is holding its ground on the matter.
We are referring to a recent incident in which the Regional Commissioner(RC) of Dar es Salaam is apparently seen on CCTV storming into the offices of Clouds Media Group with armed policemen at night. Our purpose, however, is not to address the "hullabaloo over this RC and allegations on his school certificates. The Citizen has aptly contextualized it in its Tuesday's editorial.
Our focus is on how the politics of populism plays out through a tactic that is analogous to the 'good cop, bad cop' technique in detective movies. In such a scenario, one cop appears tough on the interrogated person while another cop seems soft. As a result, the person may obliviously open up to the seemingly sympathetic cop.
In those situations the cops work as a team. What we don't know is whether in Tanzanian politics, the President and his appointees work jointly when issuing contradictory orders. All that we know is that one of the directives ends up being cheered and another jeered.
Yours Truly applauded. So did many other Tanzanians. Yet the Minister has not resigned. More significantly, what do such contradictory directives tell us about the communication strategy of the Cabinet. Why should the President only hear about it the other 'yesterday' i.e. 'just after the fact' like the rest of us out here?
Could it be that one party is playing the "good cop at the expense of the other party? Or the center is not holding hence the decentralized parts are moving in their own directions? Either way, what effects does all this have on the integrity and legitimacy of the Presidency?
It may be way too soon to assert that there is a crisis of legitimacy in the country. However, the way the President and the Minister responsible for Information will jointly – or separately – handle the case of the Regional Commissioner of Dar es Salaam may give us a glimpse of what to expect. Probably unaware that his boss was publicly defending the Commissioner elsewhere, the Minister issued a strong statement on the incident and formed a probe team.
Who will be a 'good cop' this time if and when 'Things Fall Apart'?


Content marketing can be an incredibly successful approach to customer acquisition for B2B SaaS companies.
And there is a lot of content out there that can teach you how to do it effectively as well, with the likes of HubSpot, Marketo and Kapost all producing great content that'll help you create a winning content marketing strategy for your company.
However, I've found there is a lot less content around how to actually execute content marketing on a day to day basis.
So in this post, I wanted to share with you the process we use to manage our content machine in the hope you can take away some ideas that'll help you manage your own.
Before diving in to our process though, I wanted to give you some insight into what content marketing looks like at Campaign Monitor.
Publish 1 new guide/eBook per month (our latest one on list building is 6000 words and is a collaboration with Noah Kagan and the SumoMe team).
Send over 250,000 emails across 15+ campaigns each month.
It's a lot of content we're putting out there, and we have a total commitment to quality as well which – although totally necessary – makes it even more of a mountainous task.
To top it all off, we do it with a team of just one and a half people. I'm pretty much solely focused on content while our Community Manager, Ros, splits her time 50/50 between content related tasks like managing our social media accounts and non-content related tasks like organising sponsorships, speaking at events, etc.
The whole process of planning and publishing content starts with ideas. As mentioned before, we currently publish on the blog 3 – 4x per week and create longer guides once per month. So how do we come up with ideas for all this content?
I personally subscribe to over 50 marketing blogs via Feedly, and I'll read nearly every post they publish. These blog posts cover topics such as conversion rate optimization, copywriting, content marketing, and more.
The posts I read on other blogs serve as inspiration for the Campaign Monitor blog content. If I see a great tip on conversion rate optimization that's also applicable to email marketing, I'll repurpose it with an email marketing focus and turn it into a blog post.
When ideas come our way, we add them to a Trello board to keep them all in one place. Trello is an amazing tool for this, not only does it have apps for every device (which is great for when ideas come to you on the go) but each board has it's own email address, so whenever I read an interesting article that we might be able to use on the blog, I email it to the board with a few comments.
On top of that, we'll also use tools like BuzzSumo and SEMRush to find content that has performed well on other blogs in the past, and then add those to the ideas column with an email marketing focus applied.
At the end of each month, I'll sit down with our Ros (virtually, as I'm in Sydney and she's in San Francisco) and we'll plan out the content for the next month.
This usually involves looking through the idea list and moving any concepts we like into the 'Scheduled' column. We'll then assign them all a due date and an author (typically either Ros or me) and build out the Editorial Calendar for the month.
Once we've planned the blog content for the month, we'll use that framework to start planning out our email campaigns, namely the newsletter and lead nurturing campaigns, as they primarily feature content from the blog.
To do this, we'll look at what content we have coming up and choose the most relevant articles for each list we send too.
Once we've worked what content goes in each, we'll actually create a wireframe for each campaign, outlining the articles that go into it and the copy we'll use. This helps us visualise what is going out and ensure we're creating a good user experience for our subscribers (being an email marketing company, it's critical we're leading by example when it comes to email best practices).
Finally, we'll also plan out our major guide for that month. We'll pick a topic that we want to take a deep look at (such as list building) and plan out the structure for the guide usually by writing the table of contents and a basic synopsis for each chapter. We'll also plan the promotional activities around it, such as social media posts, blog posts, emails, guest posts, paid advertising, etc.
It gives us our run sheet for the month – By planning everything at the beginning of the month, everybody is clear what needs to be produced and when and there are no surprises or missed deadlines (though there are definitely still some tight ones). It also gives other people involved in the process (such as our design team) a good idea of what's coming up that month that they'll need to work on.
Once planning is done, we move on to actually writing the content. This is basically an ongoing process throughout the entire month, and we aim to have a first draft of each blog post done a week before publish date in order to allow for editing time and design work.
Generally speaking we'll work through 2 or 3 rounds of writing for each content piece (or at least I do anyway). The first is just a massive dump of information into a page. It's often terribly worded and full of mistakes, but the goal is just to get research and information onto the page.
The next round will focus on making that huge dump of information legible, and will often involve rewriting sections so that it flows better and is a much more refined and focused read.
The final round is usually proofing the copy for spelling and grammar errors and optimising for longtail SEO. We try to always get someone else to do this part as it's very hard to proof your own work. We also use tools like Grammarly which has been a big help in picking up the little things we humans tend to skim over.
Campaign Monitor is an extremely design-focused company, and we're fortunate to have an incredible team of designers who work on almost every piece of content that goes out to ensure any images, graphs, etc all look amazing.
So the final step before anything goes out the door is handing it over to them to work their magic. They live inside Basecamp, so this usually means jumping in and creating some tasks before the studio manager picks them up and assigns them to one of the designers.
Once a piece of content has been reworked by the designers, it's back over to us to publish it. This is pretty straight forward, so I won't go into too much detail here.
Social media – We use Buffer to manage our social media posting and will usually schedule 4-5 tweets for each blog post as well a 1-2 shares on Facebook and LinkedIn. We'll do most of the sharing activity in the first week the post is launched, then spread out other activity up to a month after it goes out.
Email – We create and send an email campaign to our blog subscribers list every time we publish a new post (on top of the newsletter and lead nurturing emails discussed earlier). We used to do this automatically using the RSS to email feature, but found that doing it manually allowed us to run a number of A/B tests which have significantly improved our click-through rate. We'll also A/B test blog post headlines using the email subject line, which has proven to be highly effective as well.
Partnerships – We try to leverage partnerships with other influencers and organisations as much as possible, as it's a great way to get our content in front of their existing audiences. We've worked with Neil Patel, Joe Pulizzi, Noah Kagan, Unbounce, Shopify, SumoMe & more to do this and it's been very effective.
The final piece of the process is reporting. Although we'll keep an eye on our analytics tools all month, we do most of our formal reporting on our content marketing efforts at the end of each month.
We initially started off measuring the basics like traffic, email subscribers, signups & customers but found this aggregate view wasn't really telling us much. The numbers would go up and down month to month and we had no real indication of why it happened, what to do about it, or whether it was even a bad thing.
This is measured in a custom-built spreadsheet that pulls from our internal databases as well as Google Analytics.
This refined focus on contribution to total has been a much better approach. We're not publishing content in a vacuum, and our numbers are heavily swayed by seasonality, search trends, changes to social media platforms and a host of other factors, so by looking at it from a contribution to total perspective we can help reduce the effect of these factors.
We're big believers in the content is customer success philosophy, so by incorporating 'number of people helped' into our key metrics it helps us focus on creating really great content that genuinely educates our audience, rather than just chasing numbers (although it sounds fluffy, it has had a significant impact on the type of content we produce).
On top of the spreadsheet mentioned above, we'll also do monthly writeups on the internal wiki where we present the numbers back to the company and talk about a few of the things we achieved this month and what the plan is for next month.
It's taken a few months to refine our process to here, and we have a little way to go still as we continue to learn.
In fact, just this month we made a change to the way we handover the newsletter and lead nurturing campaigns to the design team based on some inefficiencies and errors we identified in the process from the month before.
So while I'd encourage you to learn what you can from our process, your process will need to be different depending on the unique attributes and players within your organisation.
The best way to get it right is to outline a basic process to start with, get cracking producing content and then refine your process as you go.
Your turn: What other tricks and hacks do you have in your content production process? I'd love for you to share them in the comments below!
Great to get these practical insights on your implementation process. You're right, there's not enough info around helping folks with the execution of an ongoing content marketing program.
Nice tip on Grammarly too – straight into Evernote!
Thanks so much taking the time to comment. I definitely found it was an area where information was a bit more lacking (at least compared to the vast amounts of information on content strategy anyway) so I'm glad you found it useful.
Ha, Yeah Grammarly has been a big saving grace for us so hopefully it's a good addition to your toolkit as well.
Hey Aaron – love learning about how others develop and execute their content strategies.
I am curious if you had tested other days besides M/W/F for posting? Friday's don't seem to go as well for me, so I'm curious how you guys settled on the M/W/F schedule.
Woah, all this by just 1 and half team! #Respect Aaron. This serves as a great benchmark. What's true with me and I suspect with others too is that content distribution is more challenging than content creation. There are a few tips here, but maybe you could do a full post on that. Also it'd be great if you could share that list of 50 blogs on your Feedly list. Thanks for this though. I have bookmarked this for future reference .
This is a fantastic post and a great look at your process. May we also suggest Scribendi.com for editing and proofreading? We have editorial staff available 24/7. We also have a WordPress plugin that allows you to send posts and pages for proofreading right from within the WP dashboard.


I started struggling with alcohol when my son died, and it went on to be a struggle for years after that.
Eventually, I asked my GP for help and he referred me to local Wandsworth alcohol services, who have supported me to this day. They equipped me with the tools to cope with daily life.
From my experience breaking addictions is not easy, and there are things that could be in place to better support people. These are things that an outsider might consider 'minor', but these are 'major' for addicts and can lead to relapses.
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It started with Yahoo, followed by Best Buy further now HP. These are some of the more recognizable brands in the tech industry have barred employees from working at home, as business owners may be questioning their flexible work policies. But one size does neither fit all and most likely the work habitation in your small business is drastically different from that of HP. Essence line is this: do not let this trend scare you off from the benefits of having a remote workforce.
Companies have proven over also over again that operating as a remote workforce can be hugely successful. Justiciary sleep with a look at this list from Scott Berkun; not barely has Automattic made it successful, but afterward has Buffer, 37Signals, and Assembla, just to name a few. Anyone who has been part of a remote workforce knows that strong engagement and collaboration can certainly be achieved even while you are miles apart. It just takes the right race of people, processes, and remote collaboration tools. Conceivable HP just doesn't comprise that in place.
"We now distress to build a stronger culture of engagement and collaboration and the more employees we get into the office the aid the company will be." That's a select from an HP's document that fell into the hands of AllThingsD on the decision. Do you get together with that statement?
If you are a business that works quasi a remote workforce 100% of the time, like we do, don't release this trend scare you. People are adapting more and more to working outside the office on mobile phones and tablets. Reeling them back into the office when you've traditionally had a flexible policy may end with an unhappy workforce.
So what are some perks like a remote workforce?
Here are 5 advantages for startups and small businesses hiring remote employees.
* Cost Effective – Using websites like Elance, oDesk, polysyndeton Freelancer, startups and small businesses can find remote employees at a much cheaper rate than hiring full-time. It alleviates the overhead cost of office space. Using this method of hiring a remote workforce saves you money and allows you to screen personnel more diligently to see who supremacy be right for a full-time position later.
* Talent Pool – Online marketplaces like those mentioned above give you the opportunity to hire great talent from anywhere. No longer are you constrained to your local area when looking for new employees. With millions of freelancers available and the number growing quickly, the talent pool is very deep and you can be much pickier when hiring. Now you can hire exactly the type of remote workforce that fits your business goals.
* Work Anytime, Anywhere – Startup and small business owners are on the go constantly. Hiring a lonesome workforce that operates entirely online allows you to keep in communication with your team from anywhere, each time, and on any device. Using a tool like Spotlight, you can instantly see when your employees are online and what they are working on.
* Work/Life Balance – Employees love flexibility in their work schedules. New technology and collaboration tools allow tacit teams to be tractable by connecting from anywhere so you could stay up-to-date on a project while sitting on the beach with your family. Greater plasticity for employees leads to better work/life balance, which leads to a more productive workforce.
* Improved Collaboration – This one is probably a bit surprising. Improved collaboration when you are thousands like miles apart? How can that be? New communication and collaboration technology today offer this opportunity. And it's going to uprise better all the time. Siemens Enterprise Communications just rebranded to Unify, which is focused on unified communications for the anywhere workforce. Social collaboration tools like Spotlight make it so easy for your remote employees to see what everyone else is working on moreover when. If you have a question on a undeniable task like a project, it's as simple as seeing who is online further asking. So yes, collaboration can improve – if your team is willing to good the technology available.
As a startup consolidation owner who is already working alongside a remote workforce, don't let this recent trend alter your strategy. With the right people and processes in place, it can be very economical and successful for your business. There are probably many other things going on in these larger companies to propel them towards the decision to bring everyone abet into the office. But saying "the more people we comprehension until the office, the better the flock engagement and collaboration will be" isn't an entirely true assessment.
What's your opinion on HP joining Yahoo and Best Buy on the inventory of reducing the number of employees working remote? Right move instead inability to see the bigger portrait of the 'future of work'?


Technically I've been to all 50 states, but my visit to Maine, fuzzy at best in my memory because I was a child at the time, was a bit more "technical" than the rest.
So here I am, making this visit more official.
I'm up early, getting a ride to the airport from a new (to me) car service. The driver is a deeply pleasant man, a little older than me but looking easily 30 years younger, from Ghana. We chat pleasantly en route.
Check in takes longer than it has to, because entire checkpoints have been converted to accept Clear members only. It strikes me that they are creating demand for this paid service by making "regular" security clearance even less efficient. I google it; there's a fee … and it's a biometric security record. Who watches the watchers? How secure is it to give a third party my biometric data?
My BIL says I'm suspicious, but… well maybe occasionally that's wise?
The flight is mildly turbulent. I try to sleep away the low grade headache that's been lingering for days. I fail. I pocket the pretzels and later (after an interminable car rental process) they sustain me for my lengthy but scenic drive from Portland to my first daily stop. A late lunch: a fresh lobster roll at McLoons Lobstah Shack.
After lunch, I drive over to visit Owls Head Lighthouse. I see some of the same faces; I think we're reading the same reviews.
After a brief visit, including a lovely exchange with the woman who runs the gift shop, I head over to my last planned stop today, Breakwater Vineyards.
The atmosphere is pleasant, friendly, casual, fun. I choose semi-dry and sweet wines, and enjoy them. They allow me linger on the patio over my small tasting, and it's breezy and lovely, fresh and unhurried.
But when I'm done, it's still far too early to just check in and go to bed, headache notwithstanding, so I drive the 2 miles to downtown Rockland, check out the art and shops, and pop in for a light but delicious dinner of appetizers and soup at In Good Company.
Sweet & Spicy Peppadews with Seal Cove Goat Cheese, Fiore OO Sampler with Baguette, and Soup of the Day (potato leek).
My guidance: The bread is all wonderful. And Do NOT Miss the peppadews.
After dinner I stroll through town and down to the waterfront for a while, before it's time to go check into my hotel. I think it will be an early night – which is fine because more adventures ahead tomorrow.


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Wavellite Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
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Wavellite Pendant by Lexi Erickson. Photo: Jim Lawson. Originally appeared in Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, December 2011. Used by permission of the publisher.
Wavellite is a very attractive mineral, well-known to collectors. Its radial aggregate crystal clusters can be cut into extremely interesting stones.
Wavellite Information
Name Wavellite
Colors White, greenish white, green, yellowish green, yellow, yellow-brown, brown to brownish black. Very rarely colorless, blueish.
Crystallography Orthorhombic. Crystals very tiny; usually as radial aggregates of acicular crystals; often spherical crystal clusters; crusts; stalactitic.
Luster Vitreous: also resinous to pearly.
Fracture Subconchoidal to uneven
Cleavage Perfect 1 direction
Luminescence Occasionally bluish in LW (various localities).
Luminescence Type Fluorescent, UV-Long
Transparency Translucent.
Al3(OH)3(PO4)2 · 5H2O.
Weak: Greenish/Yellowish.
a = 1.520-1.535; β = 1.526-1.543; γ =1.545-1.561. Biaxial (+), 2V= 71°.
Optic Sign Biaxial +
Named after William Wavell (1750-1829), the English physician who discovered the mineral.
A secondary mineral in hydrothermal veins; also in aluminous and phosphatic rocks.
"Wavellite," 6.0 x 5.5 x 3.9 cm, Saline Co., Arkansas, USA. © Rob Lavinsky, www.iRocks.com. Used with permission.
Since wavellite's radiating crystal clusters can splinter, they make it a very difficult gem to cut. The individual crystals in the clusters are very small. Gem cutters can fashion cabochons as well as freeform shapes from this material. However, any faceted gems would be a tremendous rarity.
This striking specimen displays massed, acicular, "needle-like," crystals radiating from the center of the stone. You can also see how one "ball" of wavellite grew around another. "Wavellite," 3.4 x 2.0 x 1.1 cm, Avant Mine, Avant, Garland Co., Arkansas, USA. © Rob Lavinsky, www.iRocks.com. Used with permission.
No known synthetics or enhancements.
Hot Springs, Arkansas produces wavellites in fine, spherical and radial groups of acicular crystals.
The type locality, High Down Quarry, Devon, England, also produces excellent specimens.
Other gem-quality sources include:
United States: Alabama; California; Colorado; Florida; Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Tasmania, Australia; Bolivia; Bulgaria; Czech Republic; France; Germany; Ireland; Portugal; Romania; Slovakia.
"Wavellite," 10.1 x 5.5 x 5.8 cm, Avant Mine, Garland County, Arkansas, USA. © Rob Lavinsky, www.iRocks.com. Used with permission.
Lapidaries can cut cabochons up to several inches in length from Arkansas material. No faceted gems have been reported, yet.
Wavellite has a relatively low hardness (3.5 to 4) and perfect cleavage. Thus, jewelry pieces such as rings need protective settings. Pendants and earrings would make excellent choices for this material. However, you're more likely to encounter these stones in gem collections than jewelry collections.
Store these gems separately from other harder stones to avoid contact scratches. For cleaning, use a soft brush, mild detergent, and warm water. Consult our Gemstone Jewelry Cleaning Guide for more recommendations.
"Wavellite – USGS Mineral Specimens 1184," collected by G. M. Baker, 1984, from Chester County, Pennsylvania. Mineral collection of Brigham Young University, Department of Geology, Provo, Utah by Andrew Silver. Public Domain.


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Now that we can travel again – where should we go next?
Last month's Revive…A Return to Joy, Substance & Resilience at the Fairmont Le Château Montebello was so successful that The Divine Destination Collection co-founders Deb Niven and Allison Frame are already hard at work planning the next travel adventure.
With safety and comfort continuing to be top-of-mind, Allison and Deb have decided to stay close to home for the next while and explore some fascinating Canadian destinations. "Our travellers have told us that they feel more comfortable staying in Canada until COVID protocols settle down and there are no more lockdowns," says Allison.
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In the meantime, don't put away your toque and mittens when winter ends, as dates are confirmed for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Churchill, Manitoba from July 14 to 20, 2022.
Actually, cold weather gear won't be necessary. The starting point is the 'Peg – that's Winnipeg, Manitoba's vibrant capital city – where the group will be staying before and after heading up to Churchill.
The group will be overnighting at the Inn at the Forks located in the heart of downtown Winnipeg at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. It's also right next to the celebrated Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the first national museum created in Canada since 1967, and the first national museum built outside of Ottawa.
After a first night in Winnipeg, the group will take a charter flight to Churchill on Calm Air, which flies to northern destinations such as Repulse Bay and Nunavut. Home base for the next four days will be Lazy Bear Lodge, a cozy, log cabin-style hotel situated right on the main drag in Churchill.
After a welcome dinner in the lodge's restaurant, which serves a variety of local Indigenous foods such as elk, Arctic char, and Manitoba bison, as well as fresh organic produce grown in the lodge's own greenhouse, the group will be up early the next morning for a full-day private Hudson Bay coastal boat tour to scope out the amazing marine and tundra wildlife, such as the Pacific loon, ptarmigan, Arctic hare, Arctic fox, and amazingly colourful wild flowers.
But since Churchill is known as the polar bear capital of the world, the true stars of the show will be the polar bears that can be seen sitting in the sun along the shore and taking a dip into the water to cool off.
But don't forget about the belugas!
It turns out Hudson Bay is also the summer home of up to 50,000 beluga whales – so the next day the group will be climbing on-board again for a private beluga whale watching excursion.
When Allison made a preliminary trip up to Churchill this summer to investigate the possibility of a Divine Destination Collection adventure, she was totally smitten with these extremely social mammals. "It was spectacular! All of the sudden a beluga would rise up from the depths and want to play," she says.
Besides experiencing the incredible wildlife, the group will take in a Cultural & Heritage Tour of Churchill upon arrival, and also have the chance to learn more about the history of the area on a walking tour of the Prince of Wales Fort, built 250 years ago on the coast of Hudson Bay as a fur trading outpost.
In addition, guests will be able to check off some items on their personal bucket lists by trying their hand at some fun and unique arctic activities, such as kayaking, tundra helicopter adventures, and AquaGliding, where you glide along on a mat with snorkelling gear to watch belugas in their natural habitat.
More information will be coming your way soon, as well as the chance to register for this amazing adventure.
Our November 26 deadline is fast approaching to meet our minimum of 18 people to ensure this trip is a go. We understand this is a very short turnaround and you may think that summer is a long way away, however, Churchill's incredible popularity and limited availability of flights and rooms obliges us to book early.
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Deb and Allison are also looking at more experiences for 2022, but locations haven't been decided on yet. They have found that COVID and the repercussions of the pandemic have given them more to consider when choosing locations and activities.
"It's really made us rethink the luxury element of our trips," explains Allison. "We will always go with the best that each destination has to offer, but we are making a more conscious effort to be truly mindful and conscientious of the footprint we are leaving in the world.
"I think COVID has been an awakening for all of us in how we interact with each other and Mother Nature. We have to make a stand to protect our planet."
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After the mulityear lows hit last week, oil started to rally today.
Analysts are hopeful for an equilbrium price level between $70 and $75 so we're at least much more comfortably close to maintainence levels than we were on Friday. However, even at $70, shale production isnt terribly profitable, so on that side it wouldnt be the greatest benchmark. However, on the consumer level $60 sounds better than $70/bbl when you fill up your car.
So why did we go up?
The dollar weakened some, which almost always gives commodities a little bump.
Most likely though, its just a pull back from an overreaction in selling off on Friday.
Time will tell. The next few market days should be interesting to watch, especially with the inventory numbers out Wednesday.
Another mixed end to another volitile session that saw both RBOB and HEAT finish on opposite sides of par. Solid early morning gains built on Wednesdays DOE report that had all products reporting substantial draws, much higher than expectations, eventually gave way to news of yet another dismal Job report. The number of Jobless claims missed analysts expectations by about 10,000 claims that sent the pits down at the Opening Bell. Heat and RBOB were down almost .04 each as Crude remained strong on a falling dollar. The Dollar continues to hover around a 2 1/2 year low. While strife continues abroad, the threat of barrels off the market appears to be taking a back seat. The Saudi cartel have stated that there is no need for excess production as buyers appear to be limited. As we mentioned, the volitility from day to day has remained with a downward bias. The hope amongst peers is that at somepoint it falls off the shelf. As a reminder, the NYMEX is closed Friday in observance of Good Friday. At the Close Crude added 81 cents to $112.29, RBOB jumped .0313 to $3.3086 and HEAT fell .0222 to $3.1992.


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Simon Rex, Bree Elrod & Suzanna Son Step Out for the Premiere of 'Red Rocket' in LA
Simon Rex, Bree Elrod and Suzanna Son pose together at the premiere of their new film Red Rocket at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres on Friday (November 12) in Hollywood, Calif.
The three actors were joined at the event by director Sean Baker and writer Chris Bergoch.
Simon, who's best known for his work in the Scary Movie films and the series What I Like About You, has been getting some Oscar buzz surrounding his role in the movie
Red Rocket follows a washed up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown and also stars Brenda Deiss, Ethan Darbone, Brittney Rodriguez and Judy Hill.
The film is set to hit theaters on December 10, 2021.
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McCain takes aim at pay TV bundling, OTA downgrades, sports blackouts
Pay TV subscribers who are tired of forking over money to multichannel video program distributors (MVPDs) for channels they don't watch may get some relief if Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has his way.
On May 9, McCain introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, which encourages unbundling of programming so consumers can have a la carte access to the channels they wish to buy.
The legislation also would punish television broadcasters that downgrade content of their OTA service when compared to what they deliver to MVPDs so that the content available to MVPDs is preferable to what's available OTA.
Specifically, for broadcasters that downgrade or pull their signal off air, the bill would strip them of their spectrum and authorize the FCC to auction it. The OTA provision of the bill addresses recent remarks by some broadcast executives that they may downgrade or pull their OTA signal content.
"Our country is facing a spectrum crunch, and if broadcasters who are using the public airwaves in return for meeting certain public interest obligations are going to deviate from those obligations, it is my view that we should consider if that is the most efficient use of our country's spectrum," said McCain in a statement released with the introduction of the bill. "It would be a distortion of this basic social compact if over-the-air viewers were treated as second-class citizens."
As relates to unbundling, the bill knocks down regulatory barriers that have prevented cable, satellite and IPTV providers from offering video service on an a la carte basis. It also ties the availability of the compulsory copyright license to offering consumers a la carte services.
The bill also addresses sports blackout rules limiting pay TV subscribers from seeing events when they take place in their local communities but aren't aired by a local station. The legislation proposes doing away with the sports blackout rules for events that take place in venues financed by the federal, state or local government.
The National Cable and Telecommunications Association called the legislation's a la carte provisions "unnecessary and counterproductive."
"As countless studies have demonstrated, subscription bundles offer a wider array of viewing options, increased programming diversity and better value than per channel options," according to the NCTA statement.


It's been a while….and I've got too much time and read too many trigger blogs today..
I really hate being in that group that's called " right wing extremist". So I don't consider myself part of it. I no longer watch Fox News and this probably started during the last election when they did just as much as any other news source to act like Ron Paul was super fringe and could never get elected… thus helping the elite ensure that Paul didn't get elected. I don't like being called ignorant,for whatever reason that people might instantly put me in that group. I'm not ignorant, and I don't think anything smacks of arrogance or ignorance more than claiming to be open minded and progressive… except when you have already pigeon holed someone else as " ignorant" and therefore having no valuable opinion.
I don't rant much anymore, I've learned to just be quiet because ranting (especially online) really only attracts readers that already agree with you. But I really have an issue with demonizing the sides as if there is a real difference. If conservatives have become narrow minded in their view points, socially and fiscally – or whatever, so have liberals. Nothing, and I mean nothing was more of a cold politically correct move then to just decide that Ayran Hirsi Ali was too controversial to receive her honorary degree. That woman is one of the boldest and smartest and probably graciously eloquent women alive… And no matter what politics Condi Rice works for she is also very smart and accomplished and she also in lady like fashion bowed out of a recent speech…. I mean she could have pulled the race card…the political atmosphere is charged for it. I've heard Condi speak, I doubt she was going to detail why Iraq was a good idea,however I'm more pissed about Ali. I am more pissed because it is evidence that universities are putting out politically correct and told what to think zombie people. YET…That very opinion is why some might still call me a right wing idiot (among other things).So, essentially what is being projected from the campuses in America is that you have to act and think a certain way to be heard by innocent ears they must protect? No, they are afraid someone might actually agree. That isn't even my issue here in my little rant. My issue is that in terms of "extremes" the other side is acting like this isn't happening, that the "right wing conspirators" are imagining this. Just like we are imagining that a great fear is being projected in order for bigger gun grabs. Just like we are imagining that we don't like common core imposed on our children. Just like we are imagining the danger of the NDAA.
Ok so, really I think it's shifted, because what the liberal left is calling out as right wing nuts really aren't anymore, because the right wing is still arguing status quo bull. Allot of this is actually on the Liberty movement which Ron Paul is the father of. Ron, is actually a libertarian who tried to save the Republican Party and it took his entire career for anyone to catch on. And libertarianism is considered nutty on both sides of the isle. So maybe everytime I read blogs and Salon articles misrepresenting people like me, then it actually is just the show continuing to go on. The minute we stop getting so angry that we call the other side EXACTLY what they have been calling us "extreme, hateful etc" then we see the similarities and even the differences and maybe can have a conversation.
In my perception it's also important to realize that the talking heads, most of the time, don't represent your next door neighbor that has the same values. I'm a Christian and I'm not out to hurt or regulate anyone, I also recognize that Christianity is used as a tool and has been for eons, either to anger or get votes (thatis a completely different blog though, wait for it) and just because I disagree doesn't mean I hate anyone. Where did that come from anyway- who is paying for that trip? I'm a libertarian and I'm not sitting at home smoking weed with aluminum on my forehead. I'm a feminist but I'm pro life, all life and I don't care what post modern feminism thinks about it (where were they in recent campuses shunning of women who don't fit the mold?… See what I mean? If Ali was white Steinem could have called her a racist but Ali is not white and she doesn't have a political or religious leaning so they really had no valid reason for what they did… So where does corporate feminism really side?). I was homeschooled in my formative years of life and I really don't fit in anybody's cookie cutter and I LOVE THAT about me. There are allot if things I am and allot of things I agree with or don't agree with. I like to hear people and their stories, and no one should be silenced because someone "might be offended". For god sake some of the greatest minds in the world are the ones who at first offend, and people willing to learn and see things differently,first should be willing to be offended. If both sides cannot see that clearly what is happening here I don't know what country they live in, and while we are screaming about who is the more extreme, every thing we argue about being real or not is actually happening right under our noses,evidenced in people's stories that neither side of the political isle pay any attention to. I'm not ignorant I see a pattern except it's very clear these days, it's not conspiracy anymore.
Thanks for the time … I'll go back to imaginary imagines and poetry now.


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Q: Can I send a user to a standard layout edit page at the end of a wizard? I want to do something that's been asked about before, but I am going to give some more reasoning in case I'm missing a better solution.
I am developing a package.  As part of this package, there's a custom wizard for creating the case and some related fields.  The steps I'd use are:

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*Log call and caller (and dedupe)

*Take notes and determine basic case information

*Fill out details about case

I would love to be able to use the case's record type to generate the final page of the wizard.  In an ideal world, administrators who install this package would be able to control the layout for each record type and thereby control the final page of the wizard.
Maybe the best way to do this is simply to set the record type in step 2, save all the information, and send the user to the edit page of the Case at the end of the wizard.  Does that work?  What am I missing here?

A: A wizard would normally only persist changes when the last page is saved; you are suggesting saving on the penultimate page and then showing the standard edit page. But if you label the button that does that "Save & Edit" perhaps it is reasonable.


He was not born awesome.
Ridiculously attractive, yes, but awesome? That took a quarter of a century of hard work along with a mess of completely inappropriate behavior and a total disregard for most authority figures in his life.
Rick was birthed in New York, raised in Florida, educated in Alabama (luckily only for the college part), and then transported to San Diego where he now resides. He currently pretends to be an engineer to fund his debauchery and plans to continue the facade until he's incredibly famous and fantastically wealthy, at which point he'll realize his lifelong dream of tipping strippers with an almost limitless supply of $2 bills. Fortunately for everyone (but mainly the strippers) Rick's fame and wealth are right around the corner because he is quickly running out of $1 bills.
Rick has always had an affinity for writing, a fact proven by the "Excellent work" and "Good job" remarks scribbled at the top of every single one of his book reports from fourth grade. However, he never realized it as a passion until just after his Vegas cherry was popped in 2010. He hadn't even had time for a post-coital sandwich before he recorded his weekend long adventure and sent it to family and friends, who then proceeded to freak out and demand he move to Vegas and start a blog to chronicle his life. He obliged their request with regards to the latter, but not the former, as it would kill him in the same manner 365 days of Halloween would kill anyone under the age of 12.


Have you ever had one of those trading days? Have you ever lost money trading and gotten mad at the market? Have you ever taken it personally, lost discipline and tried to convince yourself the market is wrong? Did this make you feel like the forex market was your enemy? Did this have you fight the trend in order to beat the market only to see your efforts repeatedly stopped out? This has probably happened to most traders at one time or another but it is not something you want to repeat.
I am often asked what a typical trading day looks like for me, so I thought I would briefly sketch this out for you.
At the start of each new trading day, I will have already analysed the monthly and weekly charts (in the context of both Elliott Wave & classical charting) so my attention focuses upon analysis of the Daily, Hourly & 5 minute charts.


Title Innocents on the ice : a memoir of Antarctic exploration, 1957 / by John C. Behrendt.
Subject Behrendt, John C., 1932- -- Diaries.
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- History.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-408) and index.
Contents Roster of Men at Ellsworth Station, 1957 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Voyage to the Weddell Sea -- 3. Fall -- 4. Winter Begins -- 5. The Long Night Goes On and On and On ... -- 6. The Sun Returns -- 7. Final Traverse Preparations -- 8. Ellsworth to Berkner Island -- 9. Dufek Massif to Korff Island -- 10. Heading for Home.
Summary Innocents on the Ice is based on the author's experience and writings as part of a U.S. Navy-supported scientific expedition to establish Ellsworth Station on the Filchner Ice Shelf. This expedition, undertaken from November 1956 to early 1958, coincided with the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) which ushered in the "scientific age" in Antarctica.
Drawing on his 40 years of Antarctic research experience, Behrendt explains the changes in scientific activities and environmental awareness in Antarctica today.


Pinkalicious and the amazing sled run / Victoria Kann.
14 of 22 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
Physical Description: 32 pages : color illustration ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Childrens Books, 2018.


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Corner Columns are perfect for any of your aquarium's corners. The ancient look of fallen columns gives an extravagant appeal centuries old.
Dimensions: 10" x 8.3" x 6.5".
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Late O.P Jalan was a leading Tax Practioner based at Ranchi. During his course of Practice he was representing cases before the Ld. AO's. He was amongst the first to start the practice before the Hon'ble Patna High Court, Ranchi Bench in the year 1979.
He was instrumental in getting judgments from the Hon'ble High Court then is more than 600 cases filed within a span of two and a half years which reached the finality and thereafter he gave a base to tax practice before the Hon'ble High Court at Ranchi.
He had been appointed as amicus curae in a plethora of cases before the Hon'ble High Court at Ranchi. The firm is currently headed by the Managing Partner. Mr. Vinay Kumar Jalan, FCS, LLB, who has been in practicing in the legal arena of tax practice for about twenty five years.


FIFA 19 TOTW 30 has been revealed today by EA - here is everything FUT Ultimate Team fans on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch need to know.
FIFA 19 TOTW 30 - UPDATE ONE: The FIFA 19 TOTW 30 line-up has been revealed by EA today.
The FIFA 19 TOTW 30 line-up has three Premier League players in the starting 11 - Everton's Phil Jagielka, Leicester City's Jamie Vardy and Spurs's Heung Min Son.
The new FUT cards for the FIFA 19 Team of the Week 30 line-up will go live at 6pm UK time.
ORIGINAL: FIFA 19 TOTW 30 line-up is getting revealed by EA today with Ultimate Team fans getting brand new FUT cards and player ratings.
The FUT cards for FIFA 19 TOTW 30 are set to be revealed by the EA Sports FIFA Twitter at 3pm UK time today.
The new FUT cards will then be going live at 6pm BST.
As per usual, players will get a stat boost for their FIFA 19 FUT card based on how well they have performed in real-life games.
Ultimate Team fans will able to get the new FUT cards for FIFA 19 TOTW 30 in Gold, Silver or Bronze packs as per usual.
Until the new cards go live the TOTW 29 line-up will be available for FIFA 19 Ultimate Team fans.
This FIFA 19 Team of the Week line-up featured two Premier League players in the starting 11 - Burnley's Ben Mee and Liverpool's Andrew Robertson.
Celtic's James Forrest also featured after the Old Firm derby win.
Ahead of the FIFA 19 TOTW 30 reveal Futhead in a post online have given their predictions for the upcoming new cards.
And they're expecting just one Premier League player to feature in the latest Team of the Week starting line-up.