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is a United States Marine Corps air station located in the Nishiki river delta,  southeast of Iwakuni Station in the city of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

History
The Japanese government bought a large portion of what is today MCAS Iwakuni in 1938, with the view of establishing a naval air station. They commissioned the new base 8 July 1940. When World War II started, the Iwakuni air station was used as a training and defense base. The station housed 96 trainers and 150 Zero fighter planes on the airstrip. In September 1943, a branch of the Etajima Naval Academy was established here, with approximately 1,000 cadets undergoing training in the Basic, Junior and Senior Officer's schools at any one time. American B-29's bombed Iwakuni in May and August 1945, concentrating on the oil refinery and Rail Transport Office or train station areas. The last air raid took place just a day before the war was brought to a close.

The first allies to reach Iwakuni at the war's end were a group of U.S. Marines who had signed papers ending the conflict for the Japanese air base. After the end of World War II, various military forces from the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand occupied the base and it was repaired by No. 5 Airfield Construction Squadron RAAF and designated a Royal Australian Air Force Base in 1948. The Americans first occupied the base in 1950 to use it as a springboard for aircraft heading to the Korean War. In 1952, the base officially became a United States military base.

Iwakuni had scheduled international service by private airlines from 1952 to 1964, during which time it had the IATA airport code IWJ. This code was later reassigned to Iwami Airport in neighboring Shimane Prefecture.

Nuclear weapons were moved from Okinawa to the base for storage during a brief period in 1966. When U.S. ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer learned of the presence of the weapons, which was a violation of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, he told the United States Department of State that if the weapons were not removed within 90 days he would resign and go public with the information. The weapons were removed shortly thereafter, and their presence at the base did not become publicly known until 2010.

It is currently home to around 5,000 United States Marines and family members. The base is detailed for Marine pilot training and air patrol, using F/A-18 Hornet fighter-attack aircraft among others in compliance with the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security obligations to protect Japan. MCAS Iwakuni is also shared with the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. MCAS Iwakuni is home to a Department of Defense school, Matthew C. Perry (Elementary, Middle School and High School).

A new off-shore runway opened at the base on 30 May 2010. The new runway is 2,440 meters in length.

On 22 November 2017, a C-2A Greyhound cargo plane with 11 crew and passengers aboard crashed southeast of Okinawa after departing the base for the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.  Eight of the 11 were rescued.

On 6 December 2018, an F/A-18D Hornet (callsign "Profane 12") belonging to VMFA(AW)-242 collided mid air with a KC-130 (callsign "Sumo 41") from VMGR-152 during a nighttime training exercise. The crew of Sumo 41 were killed in the collision along with the pilot of Profane 12. The co-pilot of Profane 12 was rescued by JMSDF Search & Rescue in Japanese waters. An investigation into the accident was led by the Marine Corps. ProPublica later conducted their own independent investigation after finding the Marine Corps initial results to be inaccurate.

USN Carrier Air Wing 5 relocation to MCAS Iwakuni
Since at least 2005 there had been plans to relocate Carrier Air Wing Five's fixed wing aircraft from Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Kanagawa Prefecture to Iwakuni. Yamaguchi governor Sekinari Nii said there was "no way" Yamaguchi prefecture would accept this. In 2006 Iwakuni voters rejected the plan in a plebiscite and Iwakuni mayor Katsusuke Ihara urged Tokyo to drop the plan. In 2007 the Japanese government passed legislation to prepare for the relocation of US Forces in Japan including subsidies for local affected areas.

The move was planned to have been done in 2014, but after construction delays the move was delayed by three years, to 2017.

The move did not include the wing's two helicopter squadrons. The first CVW-5 squadron, VAW-125 flying the E-2D Hawkeye arrived in January 2017. The Boeing E/A-18G Growlers of VAQ-141 "Shadowhawks" completed relocation in January, 2018.  By March 2018, all fixed wing aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 5 had completed relocation from NAF Atsugi.

USMC F-35B aircraft
The first aircraft of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 "Green Knights" (VMFA-121) arrived on 18 January 2017. This became the first forward deployed F-35B Lightning II squadron in the United States Marine Corps. They have since flown show of force sorties against North Korea.

Role and operations

US Marine Corps

Marine Aircraft Group 12 (MAG-12) contains the rotary and fixed wing aircraft assets of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni. MAG-12 is home to three flying squadrons, an aviation logistics squadron, and a ground support squadron.
VMFA-242 "Bats"— one of two permanent forward deployed Marine F-35B Lightning II fighter squadrons.
VMFA-121 "Green Knights"- the other permanent forward deployed Marine F-35B Lightning II fighter squadron.
VMGR-152 "Sumos" — moved here from MCAS Futenma in Okinawa commencing in June 2014 with their 15 KC-130J Super Hercules.
Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12 (MALS-12) provides logistics support, guidance, and direction to MAG-12 and other commands aboard the Station. Click on the link to the right for more information on the Marauders.
Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 (MWSS-171) provides essential Aviation Ground Support to the Station
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron (H&HS) provides administrative support and conducts training in general military skills for more than 800 Marines and sailors aboard MCAS Iwakuni.
Combat Logistics Company 36 (CLC-36) Provides logistic support to MWSS-171 and MAG 12.

US Air Force
The 374th Communications Squadron provides communications support to H&HS, MAG-12, Branch Medical Clinic Iwakuni, Army Corps of Engineers, and the JMSDF.

Based units
Flying and notable non-flying units based at MCAS Iwakuni.

United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps Installations – Pacific

 Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron – UC-12W Huron

1st Marine Aircraft Wing

 Marine Aircraft Group 12
 Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152 (VMGR-152) – KC-130J Super Hercules
 Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242 (VFMA-242) – F-35B Lightning II
 Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12 (MALS-12)
 Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121) – F-35B Lightning II
 Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 (MWSS-171)

3rd Marine Logistics Group

 Combat Logistics Regiment 35
 Combat Logistics Company 36 (CLC-36)

United States Air Force
Pacific Air Forces (PACAF)

 Fifth Air Force
 374th Airlift Wing
 374th Mission Support Group
 374th Communications Squadron
 Operating Location Bravo

United States Navy
US Pacific Fleet

 Naval Air Force Pacific
 Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5)
 Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 125 (VAW-125) – E-2C Hawkeye
 Fleet Logistics Support Squadron Composite 30 (VRC-30)
 Detachment 5 – C-2A Greyhound
 Electronic Attack Squadron 141 (VAQ-141) – EA-18G Growler
 Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (HSC-25)
 Detachment 6 – MH-60S Seahawk
 Strike Fighter Squadron 27 (VFA-27)  – F/A18E Super Hornet
 Strike Fighter Squadron 102 (VFA-102)  – F/A18F Super Hornet
 Strike Fighter Squadron 115 (VFA-115)  – F/A18E Super Hornet
 Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195)  – F/A18E Super Hornet

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Fleet Air Force
Fleet Air Wing 31
Air Patrol Squadron 71 – US-1A and US-2
Air Patrol Squadron 81 –  EP-3 and OP-3C
Air Patrol Squadron 91 – UP-3D and U-36A
Mine Countermeasures Helicopter Squadron 111 – MCH-101

Commercial services

Regular commercial service started from 13 December 2012 with a civilian airport terminal built to accommodate commercial flights. It was initially projected that up to 430,000 passengers would use the airport each year, and in the first seven months of operations the airport handled over 200,000 passengers, with average load factors between Iwakuni and Tokyo exceeding 70% during June 2013.

Since IATA airport code IWJ, formerly assigned to Iwakuni, was already reassigned to Iwami Airport, new IATA code of IWK was assigned to Iwakuni. The inaugural flight was operated by All Nippon Airways from Haneda Airport. Also, Iwakuni Airport will be called by its official nickname "Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport", named after the Kintaikyo bridge near the airport. In the future, they plan to serve international flights to China and South Korea and some other cities within Japan.

Airlines and destinations

Friendship Day

Every year on 5 May, Japanese nationals and U.S. service members, government employees and their families officially celebrate their long-standing friendship by opening the gates of MCAS Iwakuni for one of Japan's largest air shows dedicated to enhancing the friendship of the two nations. The event, entitled Friendship Day, hosts an average 250,000 visitors who travel from all over Japan.

See also

List of United States Marine Corps installations
List of airports in Japan

References
This article incorporates text in the public domain from the United States Marine Corps.

External links

MCAS Iwakuni, official site
An Insider's Guide to USMC Bases including Iwakuni

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Installations of the U.S. Department of Defense in Japan
Airports in Japan
Transport in Yamaguchi Prefecture
Buildings and structures in Yamaguchi Prefecture
Military airbases established in 1940
1940 establishments in Japan
Iwakuni, Yamaguchi


Bright, energetic, upbeat – Christy Olsen is a contrast to her art (oils and pastels), which is calming, quiet, even peaceful.
Born in 1970 and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Christy arrived in Tucson in 2000 from San Diego, relocating here because of her job.
DianeCTaylor: How did you come to art?
Christy Olsen: My mother was a portrait painter, my aunt painted huge landscapes and my grandmother painted porcelain in the 1940s, back when china patterns were designed and painted by hand when dishes were ordered. I painted with them when I was young and loved to draw. When I went to college, most of the fine art curriculum was all about conceptual art, and I wanted to do representational so I majored in art history instead.
For a while I worked in museums and then ended up working in San Diego as a drafter. The company offered me a job in Tucson so I moved and went back to school. I took classes in chemistry and physics to improve my knowledge and eventually got a second degree in engineering. At the same time I started taking drawing classes at The Drawing Studio. They brought back the excitement of drawing that I had as a child.
DCT: I see on your website, christyolsen.com, that your site is entitled "Soft, Soothing & Serene Fine Art".
COlsen: I think our society in general, is plugged into technology from morning till night. We are constantly bombarded with images from the media through cell phones, computers, televisions and social media, etc. My art offers a peaceful moment, a place to meditate or even daydream, where people can slow down and unwind. Technology is great and all, but I don't think we should be plugged in all of the time. I think it's healthy to daydream every once in a while.
DCT: Exactly what mediums do you work in? COlsen: Pastels and oils and I draw. Art history gave me a great background in composition and design, since we analyzed so many pieces of art. I carry a sketchbook with me at all times. When I'm waiting somewhere, I pull it out and sketch. I use the drawings and designs for larger paintings later on. I like to have most of the problems worked out before I begin to paint, then the piece can take off in a direction of its own if it needs to.
DCT: What do you do to improve your skills?
COlsen: I always want to keep learning and growing. Engineering has given me an entire career of getting used to working outside of my comfort zone and learning "how to fail" in order to build something solid. Now I'm constantly trying to work outside of my comfort zone with my artwork, too, so I can take it to the next level. I take workshops at the Scottsdale Artists' School a couple of times a year, and I still take classes at The Drawing Studio, even though I'm a teacher there. I enjoy teaching because I learn from the students.
I started teaching at The Drawing Studio through the OATS (Outreach Art Tutoring for Seniors) program. I am currently teaching a drawing class at an assisted living facility and I really enjoy it. One student, a former artist now in his nineties, had a stroke prior to the class and was working through the after-effects. He didn't talk very much, but then other students told me that he didn't talk at all before my class. Wow, now he talks and he gets really excited about the class? That is totally gratifying to make a difference in people's lives like that!
DCT: Where are you showing your work?
COlsen: I was thrilled to have a piece juried into a recent show in the Porter Hall Gallery at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. I've also been showing work through The Drawing Studio and other local galleries, including the Tucson Jewish Community Center for the Open Studio Tour preview show. I was also a finalist in the International Richeson 75 Small Works 2013 show in Kimberly, Wisconsin, and was just recently asked to enter a piece into the Gala Master's Circle at The Drawing Studio, a huge fundraising event that will be held in January 2014.
DCT: And where are you teaching now? I see you have a workshop October 19 on Composition Secrets from the Masters at The Drawing Studio.
COlsen: Yes, and I'm going to give a half-day workshop on marketing for artists in January 2014 at The Drawing Studio. I recently taught a similar class at the Tucson Pastel Society since I have been working on the board and I serve as the Vice President. The reason they asked me is because I've only been selling art for about four years, but I have more sales than some other artists. The art market is changing. The internet is changing how art is bought and sold. It's all about using social media to be more interactive with collectors. For example, I have a Facebook page that drives traffic back to my website and increases the chance of a sale.
DCT: I see on your website that you write two blogs (TheArtAppreciationBlog.com, TheArtVerve.com). So, you work in engineering, you paint, you teach, you blog. When do you sleep?
COlsen (laughing): Well, I don't have children or a TV, and sometimes I do have insomnia. Also, my father was an attorney and he always worked very hard to get things done, so I probably got that from him.
DCT: You seem to be quite busy. What's in your future? Anything else you plan for your art?
COlsen: I will be doing more pieces that are a lot larger in scale. I recently had a commission piece for an oil painting on a 24x36 panel of an urban landscape of Rome, and it got me really excited and back into the swing of doing landscapes, plus working on a larger canvas. I think larger paintings really make a statement, and it's just plain fun to use bigger brushes. I will continue to teach at The Drawing Studio, serve as the Vice President of the Tucson Pastel Society and throw in a blog or two.


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Q: Install Apache Cordova on Archlinux I installed it with
yaourt nodejs-cordova
I have the following settings:
node -v
v5.0.0

npm -v
3.3.10

which node
/usr/bin/node

which npm
/usr/bin/npm

Now I tried this:
sudo npm install -g cordova

But as result I get this:
npm WARN engine xmlbuilder@2.2.1: wanted: {"node":"0.8.x || 0.10.x"} (current: {"node":"5.0.0","npm":"3.3.10"})
/usr/bin/cordova -> /usr/lib/node_modules/cordova/bin/cordova
/usr/lib
└── cordova@5.3.3

Is it a version problem?
Can anyone help me?
Because now, when trying to create a new project I get this:
Creating a new cordova project.
Could not find directory: /usr/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/cordova-app-hello-world

A: It's hard to say with the output you've shown, but there is some dependency of cordova that is depending on an outdated version of xmlbuilder.
Newer versions of xmlbuilder use a different node version compatibility specifier:
"engines": {
  "node": ">=0.8.0"
},

This makes it compatible with newer versions of node.js (including v5.0.0).
EDIT:
Here is the dependency tree for cordova. In there we see that the problematic dependency link goes like cordova@5.3.3 ->  cordova-lib@5.3.3 -> plist@1.1.0 -> xmlbuilder@2.2.1. So then looking at each project in the chain, it's evident that several things need to happen:

*

*An issue needs to be created at the plist issue tracker telling them to publish a new version because they already have their package.json pointing to the newer xmlbuilder with the fixed engines list.

*After that is done, an issue needs to be created on the cordova issue tracker (requires a JIRA account there) telling them to update their dependency to use the newly published plist.

A: I found the solution on this site: https://ervinloh.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/solving-npm-warn-engine-cordova-js3-8-0-wanted-warning/
It is possible to force npm to install the newest Cordova version with:
npm install -g cordova@4

Doing this, everything works fine.

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Why to prefer permissive license over copyleft license?
In open source software/projects why do people release there codes with permissive license instead of a copyleft license. I mean the original author will not get back much (if anything at all ) if he is releasing his code with permissive license (like MIT) instead of copyleft license (like GPL). At least copyleft prohibits the source codes to be used in closed source propriety software in the following way
For sales or distribution, the entire source code need to be made available to end users, including any code changes and additions
Permissive license doesn't prohibits even this. So the author using permissive license seems to be on the losing side. Yet permissive license like MIT is the most used software license in the world for FOSS. Why is that the case? Because of altruism or something else?
copyleft permissive
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The free-software foundation, have made some recommendations on this gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html (it depends on the size of the work, and what it is). – ctrl-alt-delor Feb 16 at 19:45
There are several reasons to use a permissive license:
You want to maximize use of your software, and are perfectly happy to see your software made into proprietary software. In authoring the GNU GPL, Stallman wanted to make matters more advantageous for free software and more disadvantageous for proprietary software. That was his goal -- and he achieved it very well -- but it may not necessarily be your goal. Perhaps you are more interested in advancing the state of software as a whole, by writing helpful programs and libraries, even if that comes in the form of non-free software. By using a permissive license, you reach the broadest possible audience.
Your software is not very substantial. As a general rule, the FSF recommends using a permissive license for software less than around 300 lines.
What if the work is not very long?
If a whole software package contains very little code—less than 300 lines is the benchmark we use—you may as well use a lax permissive license for it, rather than a copyleft license like the GNU GPL. (Unless, that is, the code is specially important.)
They likewise advocate for permissive licenses for website templates, using similar reasoning that they are unlikely to attract downstream developers when the template's copyleft terms would apply to the whole rendered website.
You want contributions from people/corporations who would otherwise be averse to copyleft terms. While it is true that anyone can take a permissively licensed work and make a derivative under proprietary terms, it is also true that people or corporations who do so still see a practical benefit to pushing features and bug fixes to the upstream work. For instance, maintaining private patch sets adds complexity to a project, so even proprietary developers have an incentive to push as much as possible back upstream to reduce their work to merge updates. Also, when many major players cooperate in this way, they all benefit, even though no one company gets a direct benefit from sharing its own contributions (e.g., the Apache web server is maintained by developers from many corporations, because they recognize the community benefit of mass cooperation).
If a project uses a copyleft license, it is possible that some corporations who develop proprietary software will avoid the project altogether, and the project will not enjoy any contributions from those potential downstream users.
Your real aim is not to profit from the software itself, but to use software as a component of a broader service. Google offers hosting services that allow people to remotely deploy services online. Google developed Kubernetes under a permissive license, and now Kubernetes is (at least one of) the de facto standard(s) for deploying complex, scalable systems. Because of the massive popularity Kubernetes enjoys, Google's competitor Amazon had to implement support for Kubernetes in their service offering as well. As a result, Google can more easily pull in customers who currently use Amazon's Kubernetes offering, because their Kubernetes interfaces are the same.
Using a copyleft license for Kubernetes would not have directly hurt this strategy (though it may have done so indirectly by the risk of reduced popularity -- a key facet of the plan!). However, the terms of the license were not overly important for Google: it needed to control the market's standard interface in order to force competitors into their standard, and a popular permissively-licensed product met the goal perfectly.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged copyleft permissive or ask your own question.
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Carrigg History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
A people of the Scottish/English Borderlands known as the Strathclyde Britons were the first to use the name Carrigg. It is derived from the personal name Craig. Thus, Carrigg is a patronymic name, taken from the given name of the father or some other ancestor of the bearer. However, Carrigg may also be of local origin, referring to those who lived in or near the place called Carrick in Ayrshire.
Early Origins of the Carrigg family
The surname Carrigg was first found in Ayrshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir), formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire, and were known as 'the men of Carrick'.
Duncan de Carrick (died 1250) was made the Mormaer (Earl) of Carrick by Scottish King Alexander I in 1186. He was a direct ancestor Robert the Bruce (Robert I), King of the Scots 1274-1329.
Early History of the Carrigg family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Carrigg research. Another 93 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1224, 1296, 1370, 1380, 1370, 1371, 1717, 1779 and 1716 are included under the topic Early Carrigg History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Carrigg Spelling Variations
Spelling and translation were hardly exact sciences in Medieval Scotland. Sound, rather than any set of rules, was the basis for spellings, so one name was often spelled different ways even within a single document. Spelling variations are thus an extremely common occurrence in Medieval Scottish names. Carrigg has been spelled Carrick, Carick, Carich, Carrich, Karryck, Karrik, Karrick, Kerrich, Kerrick, Carrig, Carrigy, McCarrigy and many more.
Early Notables of the Carrigg family (pre 1700)
Notable amongst the family at this time was John de Carrick (died c. 1380), a native of Carrick, Scotland, Chancellor of Scotland and Bishop-elect of Dunkeld (1370-1371.) David Garrick (1717-1779)...
Another 28 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Carrigg Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Carrigg family to Ireland
Some of the Carrigg family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Carrigg migration to Australia +
Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:
Carrigg Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
Patrick Carrigg, aged 29, who arrived in South Australia in 1850 aboard the ship "Joseph Soames" [1]
Patrick Carrigg, aged 29, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Joseph Somes" in 1850 [2]
Joanne Carrigg, aged 30, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Joseph Somes" in 1850 [2]
Michael Carrigg, aged 4, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Joseph Somes" in 1850 [2]
Mary Carrigg, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Joseph Somes" in 1850 [2]
... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)
Contemporary Notables of the name Carrigg (post 1700) +
Joseph Leonard Carrigg (1901-1989), American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (1953-1959)
Strathclyde Britons
First Fleets
The Carrigg Motto +
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Garde bien
Motto Translation: Watch well.
Citations +
^ State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) JOSEPH SOMES / SOAMES 1850. Retrieved http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1850JosephSomes.htm
^ State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) JOSEPH SOMES / SOAMES 1850. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1850JosephSomes.htm
Carrigg (Scottish)


Having the ability to be above the players, but still close to the field has been wonderful. Its portability and easy movement has been great to get it moved quickly for PE classes or football or track events.
The investment of this piece has been greatly appreciated by our coaches and game day staff. We would recommend this scorer's table for schools that need to maneuver the box quickly and easily.


Remote Installer can either interrupt or continue a deployment process after a deployment package fails when performing a group deployment. It is also possible to update the software inventory after a successful deployment. The required settings are defined on the Deployment Options preference page Pic 1. To reach the Deployment Options page, you should open the program preferences using the Preferences button from the Application Menu and click the Deployment Options link in the navigation bar on the left of the Preferences dialog within the Installer group.
For deploying multiple products within a single operation, you can specify if the deployment should be interrupted upon the first failed package or if the program should proceed with deploying subsequent products anyway. The Interrupt the group deployment after the first failed package option is used to configure this aspect.
On this page, you can also choose if you would like the program to update the software inventory for the operated Machines after a successful software installation and/or uninstallation. In case the Update software inventory after successful deployment option is enabled, a new software inventory snapshot is created automatically for all affected Machines after deployment operations. You can always update the software inventory manually and on schedule irrespectively of whether this option is enabled or disabled.


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Come hang with us at Songbyrd for The Spins on the 2nd Thursday of every month! We'll be celebrating our featured Record of the Month, The Silvertones "Silver Bullets" and catching up with the local vinyl community. Get ready to sip on a delicious cocktail and win some vinyl!
The Silvertones Went Into Lee 'Scratch' Perry's Garage And Came Out Reggae Legends. Some 35 years after its initial release, the Silvertones' Silver Bullets can be viewed as an atypical Black Ark classic worthy of deeper investigation, evidencing the complexity of reggae in flux and the diverse pallet of Perry's musical imagination.


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Q: Recommended fstab settings I made a new partition for my home drive by following this guide
I have no idea what the fstab setting it suggests mean:

UUID=????????   /home    ext3          nodev,nosuid       0       2

I used an install CD and used "try it without install", so that I could run with my drive unmounted.  I used GParted to resize the partition, and make a new one in the unused space.  I then looked up the UUID as the guide said (and used ext4 instead), and everything worked fine.
However I'd like to understand what the "nodev,nosuid 0 2" settings are.  Are these the recommended settings?  Is this the only valid setting?  Does it matter in any way?

A: The format of the fstab file is documented in the fstab(5) man page. The fifth column indicates whether the filesystem should be dumped; unless you know what this means, put 0. The sixth column indicates whether to check the filesystem at boot time; specify 1 for the root partition, 2 for all other internal filesystems, and 0 for external drives and filesystems from other operating systems. If the fifth and sixth columns contain zeroes, you don't need to put them (i.e. just put the first four columns).
The fourth column lists mount options; they differ to some extent from filesystem to filesystem, and they are documented in the mount(8) manual page. If you have no mount options, put defaults. Don't change the defaults put by the distribution unless you understand what you're doing. Common combinations of options are:

*

*user,noauto or user,noauto,exec for filesystems that are not mounted automatically at boot time and anyone can mount explicitly.

*acl,errors=remount,ro for ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems with ACLs enabled; this is a common setting for OS filesystems.

*nodev,nosuid for NFS filesystems.

nodev and nosuid add security at the expense of functionality: they forbid device files and setuid/setgid executables respectively. They're mostly useful when mounting foreign filesystems whose root user you don't trust. For a /home filesystem that's on a different partition of your local disk, they're not really useful, but the functionality they disable is unlikely to be useful (especially for nodev; setxid programs can be useful on /home occasionally).

A: The Arch Linux Wiki has a comprehensive list of the field definitions in your /etc/fstab file, including those that you are asking about:
nodev - Don't interpret block special devices on the filesystem.
nosuid - Block the operation of suid, and sgid bits.
0 2 are, respectively, dump & pass:
<dump> - used by the dump utility to decide when to make a backup. Dump checks the entry and uses the number to decide if a file system should be backed up. Possible entries are 0 and 1. If 0, dump will ignore the file system; if 1, dump will make a backup. Most users will not have dump installed, so they should put 0 for the <dump> entry.
<pass> - used by fsck to decide which order filesystems are to be checked. Possible entries are 0, 1 and 2. The root file system should have the highest priority 1 - all other file systems you want to have checked should have a 2. File systems with a value 0 will not be checked by the fsck utility.
Note that UUID refers to the naming of your block device(s) (partitions); not the filetype. You can read more on the Arch Wiki.


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If you've been listening to this show for the last few months, you've heard us make predictions about how to approach Q4 advertising.
Many of those predictions worked out well. Others, not as much. There were a TON of Facebook bugs this year that came out of nowhere and really fouled people up.
Now that we're through the busiest part of the season, we're bringing you an episode on BFCM advertising and what we learned.
Andrew brought in four top media buyers to give you a detailed Black Friday/Cyber Monday recap. You'll learn how it went down, what they learned, so you can adjust and improve your strategies going into the new year.
5:13 How value optimization helped one client get a 7X ROAS during Black Friday.
6:55 The amped-up offer and focused traffic-driving strategy that worked for Ryan Kovach.
8:34 Bid caps: how are they working for low spends vs. high spends.
10:06 What exactly is a bid cap?
11:27 The importance of putting in the work before Black Friday/Cyber Monday that led to 5X ROAS.
12:44 The benefit of building your warm audiences in advance.
14:10 Campaign Budget Optimization and how it worked well for a number of different clients.
16:03 Testing campaign budget optimization and minimum ad set budgets.
17:48 Campaign budget optimization and interest targeting.
18:46 Should you split your placements across Instagram and Instagram stories?
20:53 Interests vs. lookalikes – which performed better?
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Austin Brawner: What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Ecommerce Influence Podcast. My name is Austin Brawner.
Andrew Foxwell: And I'm Andrew Foxwell. How are you, buddy?
Austin Brawner: I'm doing well, man. I'm doing well. For me, a lot of the work that I do is pre-holiday work, preparing for the holiday work. So, during the holidays, if all things go well, I'm not nearly as busy as, well, I think probably you have felt over the last couple of weeks. How are you doing?
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah. I've been in a cage match, to be honest and it's good. We have all of the plans, the battle plans in place. Things have gone well, but there's always something that comes up and especially, there was a ton of Facebook bugs this year that just came up. There was problems that came out of the blue, there was stuff that just didn't work. So, it was a little bit crazy, to be honest. But there are some things generally, overall there's some things that've really worked well and I think you go into them in this episode where we interview four of, really, I think, some of the best colleagues that I have in the world on Facebook advertising.
Austin Brawner: No, hundred percent. What you talked about with the Facebook bugs was not a joke. That slowed down pretty much everybody in the paid media-buying world, whether you're in-house or you're at an agency. I think everybody dealt with that. Yeah, you were not alone. If you were struggling with your ads during the crucial days of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, that week, Facebook really wasn't there for you guys this year. Who knows what's going on? There's a lot going on over there and this year, they kinda dropped the ball.
So, yeah. That was one of the things. We wanted to get together an episode, Andrew brought in his four top people to talk about their experience to give you guys a Black Friday, Cyber Monday recap, how it went down, what they learned, so on and so forth.
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah, it's a good episode and I think you'll really enjoy it, so let's get to it.
Hey everybody, welcome to the show. I have some very illustrious guests today to talk about the Black Friday, Cyber Monday crazy weekend beginning with Jason Portnoy from JPORT Media, Alex Afterman from 11:11 Digital, Pierson Krass from Red Giant Growth, and Ryan Kovach from Social Outlier. Welcome to the show, gentlemen.
Ryan Kovach: Thanks for having me.
Alex Afterman: Thanks for having us
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah, you can all say hi, that's okay.
Well, welcome. It's a crazy time. All of us are a little burned out. We're recording this on Cyber Monday, actually. So, would love to hear just a win. A win from the weekend of what you did and what worked and how you really helped somebody.
Ryan Kovach: For sure.
Andrew Foxwell: Who wants to take it first?
Alex Afterman: I'll go.
Andrew Foxwell: I mean ... Okay, go for it.
Alex Afterman: Cool. All right. So, I have a client in the beauty space, and the goal was to get a three to a three-and-a-half ROAS for them on roughly a $30,000 budget for the Black Friday period. Opportunity to go higher if we were hitting or beating that goal. And we've been getting like a seven. So, it's gone really well. They are super happy, I'm super happy. So, yeah.
Andrew Foxwell: That's awesome. That's very cool. That's very cool. Yeah, just thinking about all of the things. Now, what's really been working on that account, Alex?
Alex Afterman: Yeah, okay. So, value optimization. I'm doing automatic bidding, so nothing fancy with manual bids. Just value optimization. This is an account where I've used value before for them and it's worked well. Not ever this well, I have to say, but I felt comfortable. Everything is value. So, cold traffic, warm traffic, DPA, everything is value.
Andrew Foxwell: Wow.
Alex Afterman: Yeah.
Andrew Foxwell: That's amazing. Ryan, what do you think about that?
Ryan Kovach: Yeah. I actually, for one account I moved away from value. I ran a test about the week before and value started to work a little less. So, I moved, I sort of did three ... for most accounts, I sort of ran it like a broad-match, a bid cap, and then an auto. So, moving away from value, but that's really exciting to hear that it worked, Alex. Really cool stuff there.
On our end, my end, what worked really well was, for one specific client, the goal was pretty much to get a 3.5X and then, from there, you can really spend as much as you want. Last year, they did about 250K through the month of November and we're just about to cross that $1 million threshold, so about a 4X increase on their month year over year. So, that's really exciting. Yeah, that one's huge.
Most of our clients across everything had their best months or days ever, so this is sort of peak Facebook ads and peak performance over the course of the last ten years and the upcoming years, as it gets more competitive, I think this specific window, maybe next year or in a couple years, really, really powerful and it worked.
One thing that I saw that worked well. One account, it worked well, but it started slow. We had sort of a middle-of-the-run offer, 20%, 30%. Yeah, as you guys know, as this gets more and more competitive, 20% and 30% is a little bit dull. So, out of gates, just sort of saying, "Up to 40%," but most things were 20% off had some traction. But it was sending them to a homepage, sending them to a specific ... a collection page. That worked, all right. But then we sort of pivoted and went to specific product categories or specific shirts and apparel items, and that actually worked better.
So, not sending people to having to browse where they have to sort of price compare every single item, but it's more work. But going specifically, "Here's the product and the deal on this product." And then using those at specific audiences for that product, that worked really well. Some accounts where you're sort of able to do the broad here's the general 20% off, did all right. But I found it work really, really well when you'd go after specific products, the best sellers, things like that. That worked awesome.
And then bid caps. Bid caps crushed. Andrew, I think you know got this tip from you, the little CPC bidding on the remarketing audiences, loved that. That crushed too.
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah, you got to force that bid, baby. That's what it's all about. I'm glad to hear that. It's interesting, and I know there's a lot of nuance in the things that you said. I want to go to Pierson.
Pierson, for you, what's been the thing in bidding that's really kind of changed it for you? Because bid caps worked for Ryan, for me. I tried some bid caps. I did a lot of override bids, and those did well. But bid caps, in the accounts that I'm working on now, unless they're spending 20 grand a month or more, 30 grand a month of just like not enough volume there. What are you seeing?
Pierson Krass: Yeah. That's exactly what I'm seeing. We've got a pretty good spectrum of client size. Actually, for the most part, anyone that was spending less than 5k a day, which we definitely have some small clients who were, we didn't really do much with the bidding besides your CPC bidding on the lower parts of the funnel. But for some of our larger clients, like we have a client who we need to spend between Black Friday through today, we'll spend like 200,000 on prospecting, which is a little daunting during this time, and they have a very low average order volume. So basically, to hit the ROAS goal, we're looking at like sub 25 acquisition costs.
We were actually running just bid cap, like a $50 bid cap to basically the entire country. So, not narrowing it down at all, just huge open audiences. That's been holding strong. It really came down to creative, we just tested a ton of creative. But basically doing the big cap on these wide open audiences has been strong. And then we also did some with interest based stuff layered over it, and that worked really well as well.
Andrew Foxwell: Well, in some of these things, that's good to hear. I want to clarify the language. People use them differently. There's the bid cap, which do you mean a target cost bid, or do you mean a bid cap on an override on a conversion campaign seven-day click one-day view, and then a big cap on a $50? Or do you mean an actual cost cap?
Pierson Krass: No, no, I'm talking about a big cap. It was actually kind of surprising that we got away with it. Because usually, I have to raise them quite a bit higher than that. So, the target cost wasn't spending for us, so we were doing big caps and overriding basically to 2X our target acquisition costs.
Andrew Foxwell: Right. Portnoy, JPORT Media, what are you feeling about that lately in terms of different bids that worked for you? And I'd love to hear Jason too, what audiences. Did you do a lot of combination of audiences, or did you separate them out of a lower funnel or did you lump them all together? I'd love to hear about that.
Jason Portnoy: Yeah. Nothing fancy, really. You and I spoke a little bit offline before we started saying that I found this Black Friday, Cyber Monday, aside from the day that Facebook kind of just went down, being pretty smooth and relatively smooth in terms of getting clients to spend the money and getting Facebook actually spend that money that they were putting out there. But for the most part, one of our clients is seeing a 5X over this past weekend, bringing them to around four, a little high threes on the month, and taking them to them almost $600,000 this month, which is definitely their high.
They're extremely, extremely happy, but it's the work that went in before, I would say, Black Friday Cyber Monday. The work that went in almost since August of building out the right audiences so that come this time, we know we could spend money and we know we could spend money on the cheap for the most part. So, we left the top of funnel cold audience running, but most of our money, I would say 80% of the budget was then poured into a warmer audience. So, we broke it down almost to engagers.
So, everyone who's engaged with either their Facebook page, their website, or their Instagram page in the last 180 days, we broke it down by their email list and their most engaged users. So, we kind of went really targeted that way and broke that down to different ad sets. That's what really crushed it. But I wish it was that secret sauce that made a crush and Black Friday Cyber Monday, but it was the work that I think went into it before that, that really helped.
Andrew Foxwell: Right. Yeah. Alex, so what do you think about that?
Alex Afterman: Yeah, totally agree. So, the client that I was actually talking about at the beginning of this that we did really great for, we started in late September early October, just building audiences pointing towards Black Friday week. The warm audiences are great, but you burn them out fast, right? But, because we spent all that time building up huge, huge, warm audiences, we started our sale early. We started on Monday, last Monday. So, we're in day eight now, and the warm audiences are still producing, the frequencies are reasonable. Yeah, totally agree with that. I think that the work leading up to this week or last week is what led to the success last week.
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah, I think you can't overstate the pre-work that was done. I just looked at that pre-Black Friday or time period or pre-Thanksgiving time period. You guys know I like to call it phase one. And phase one time frame, I just looked at a client and including phase one and phase two, building up the specific remarketing pools that we tried in different categories of their products, and then we did remarketing to those particular categories. Kind of what you were getting to, Ryan, which is pretty cool. And overall, they're at an 8X, which is fantastic for them. So, really impactful kind of that pre-work that was being done.
One thing there was a lot of discussions about as well, I want to go back to Ryan to talk about this, is his campaign budget optimization and utilizing CBO within a lot of your campaigns. Did you utilize CBO at all within this time period or not? Because it was kind of a risk that a lot of people were taking, and it turns out that it works really well for some people I heard, and I used it. But talk about that a little bit.
Ryan Kovach: Yeah, of course. Yeah, it did work well. That's something I was, leading into this period, a little hesitant. Because the more I'd think, if you're testing during that time, that's a risk. And so, you don't want to be too risky. You want to go tried and true. What I found worked well and partially with our mutual friend, David, is sort of separating out CBOs into like targeting options.
For example, a CBO of smaller lookalikes, so 1% or 2% or 1% with layers, things like that worked well. And that and then having another CBO with higher, broader audiences. So, maybe that's a broad interest category, an entire category. Or maybe it's a seven to 10% lookalikes. And so, sort of separating CBOs out into, like I said, similar targeting options, I found that way ... The fear of CBO is always you don't control which one it's going to serve to. It kind of acts similar to ad sets or ads in an ad set, where the most engaged gets all of the spend. That might not necessarily be the best for purchases and ROAS. So, yeah, that that was something that after just looking at the data this week, the CBO that had like audiences work really well. So, that was something continue to use going forward, but it was nice.
So, CBOs big fan. One thing that's interesting with those two is just starting to play around more with the minimum ad set targeting, or the minimum ad set budget, sorry about that, is you can set it. So, say, for example, you have your campaign to roughly spend $500 per ad set in your CBO. You can set each one of those at the ad set level to make sure they spend $100. That way, you're not giving Facebook total reigns to just spend wherever they see good engagement, you're getting some level of consistency. I think that, so setting like $100 minimum ad set budget on a CBO, that worked well too. Yeah, those are my thoughts on CBO. Going forward, it's just something, I think we've all seen it over the past couple of months where it was, does this work? Is this helpful? I know a lot of us tested it in the month coming up to it, we started to see better stuff. So, yeah, big fan.
Anybody else have good thoughts and good-
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah. Jason, what do you think about CBO?
Jason Portnoy: I absolutely love CBO, and for all the reasons that Ryan just named. I think leading up to it was crushing it. I thought on my end, I didn't want to risk testing during this time. So, I kept the strong, warm audience that I had going after for Black Friday, Cyber Monday for the clients. I kept that kind of as individual ad sets and going strong and didn't really want to play around with too much testing. But left CBO running towards top of the funnel, which just dominated. I've never seen cold audience do that well during this time of year and doing it pretty much the same way Ryan's doing it.
So, the way we have it is we use it mostly on interest. We build an interest group one, interest group two, interest group three, and then just kind of run CBO on them. They were doing great. I'm talking like close to 3X top of funnel during this weekend.
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah, it's interesting. I had gone through and not utilized CBO in one account, but had pushed really high on bid caps like 5X the CPA goal into one or two and two to 4% lookalikes. Those had done really well and I thought, "Man, I should have thrown all this in a CBO." But Pierson, what do you think? Did you have good results on campaign budget optimization?
Pierson Krass: Yeah, I was actually going to say the same thing that Jason just said. We did the same thing. We had various interest groups in CBO campaigns, and it worked really well across a handful of different budgets or a handful of different clients. So, it was pretty nice.
Andrew Foxwell: That's great. I think that's something that obviously we can integrate into the rest of the year. One thing to think about that I'd be curious to your thoughts on, Alex, is we've had some difference in strategy this way before, which is good, and I like to split placements really a lot of times in the lower part of the funnel to make sure that Instagram fully gets its own spend, and Instagram Stories gets its own full spend, especially on really valuable audiences. And you've done a lot of combinations of things, which has done well, obviously, more data at the asset level et cetera. Did you do any splits or try that out at all, or was it mostly just lumping them all into one ad set and letting Facebook decide?
Alex Afterman: Here's what I did. Any client that had stories, and unfortunately not all of my clients did, but most of them did, I split into stories ad sets, and everything else ad set. So, I still kind of kept to my instinct to combine things and not split placements, but did for stories. I wanted stories obviously, they're a specific creative, so I wanted them to get that placement and get that budget and that worked really well. Stories killed it, which is great. They tended to kill it more on warm traffic, which I think some of us have experienced before.
The one account that I talked about at the beginning that was just sort of the best performing of all my accounts this week, stories killed it everywhere, cold traffic, warm traffic, all over the place. But most of the other accounts, stories did great for warm traffic, not so good for cold traffic, and I would start to kill off those cold traffic ad sets. And then, otherwise, everything else would be lumped all placements.
I did a lot of experimenting, separating out placements before Black Friday. I thought the results for my accounts were inconclusive. Basically, I was willing, if the data blew me away, I would have changed the strategy, but it didn't. And so, I just went with kind of my instinct, which is keep them together.
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah, right. Yeah. I think that's smart. I think it's one of those things where if the client has a particularly strong Instagram audience, then it's going to make sense to continue to use that. There was obviously some pre-discussion too, before Black Friday about utilizing and really, I guess in the month of October was when it really saw a lot of this about utilizing a lot more interests versus lookalikes and interests performing better than lookalikes. Was that the case for anybody this holiday, where your interests and some of that actually outperformed lookalikes on the prospecting that you did do?
Jason Portnoy: I think, for me, I think interest really kind of took off when lookalikes had that problem when Facebook was updating their policies and everything that happened and pulling out different audiences. And you kind of had to rebuild the lookalikes and lookalikes kind of just took a bit of a hit. Interest kind of really peaked up. I think now lookalikes are kind of climbing back, and it's been pretty steady across the board from what I've seen.
I love interest. I think in terms of horizontal scaling, it's incredible. I think it's really underutilized. I think a lot of people just up the budget really fast on campaigns instead of trying to always find new audiences to build.
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah. Pierson, what do you think?
Pierson Krass: Yeah. For us, lookalikes have definitely fallen off a bit, especially the last ... Well, they fell off and they came back, and then they kind of fell off the last few days. So, I'd say the bulk of our prospecting is going towards interest now, or just really open audiences in general, especially for some of the larger accounts that we have.
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah, that's interesting. Interesting to hear. Ryan, what do you think, man?
Ryan Kovach: Yeah, I just wanted to echo sort of the same sentiment where lookalike still did well, but sort of surprising that interest continued to do really strong as well. One of the little tips that have worked well for me in regards to what interests you should go after, is just going into Google Analytics. And if this is your first-time sort of doing this, going into Google Analytics, the Audience tab, and then clicking on the Interest overview. If they've been running any sort of traffic to the website, as long as they're not a brand new startup, that audience interest Overview tab has a bunch of in-market audience in affinity categories and other categories that you can sort of ... I've just found that to work really well.
For example, I'm looking at one right now, inside of Google Analytics, the in-market segment for a client had Home and Garden home decor. This is a men's brand. So, when I'm looking at this, I go, "Home and garden's a little weird, that's a lot of female shoppers." So, then launching a broad interest with just home and garden, that really, really broad one and using a bid cap on that worked really well. That's something just to echo the same sentiments as everybody else here, where interest targeting can work really well if you're looking for what interest to go after. Google Analytics is super helpful there.
Andrew Foxwell: That's really good to hear. Now, just as an open consulting, or excuse me, a counseling session for all of us here before we go. What was the worst Facebook bug that you just were pulling your hair out over in the last seven days that was just ... you couldn't stand it? Alex, what was that for you?
Alex Afterman: I have actually two. One is just general for every account, in one single account specific. So, the general for every account was on Tuesday when you couldn't turn ads off, but the reporting was lagging. So, you were just spending money and hoping that it worked out okay. I'm very thankful that I had pretty good results, really good in some accounts, no disasters. I did not have to go back to any clients and say, "I spent a ton of your money today with no results or very bad results, and I couldn't do anything about it." But I spent a very anxious afternoon waiting for the reporting to populate and just hoping that what I saw was good, which is a really uncomfortable position, right?
I think all of us are used to keeping a close eye on things and feeling a level of control, where if things aren't going well, there are steps you can take to change it. And just kind of having to sit back and hope for the best was this really uncomfortable feeling. A lot of my accounts had started their sales either Monday or Tuesday, so we went early with a lot of my people. And so, Tuesday, almost everything, all my sales were in full swing and just kind of sitting back and hoping for the best. That was my most anxious moment.
My most frustrated moment was, so I talked about the value optimization for my one client that did really well. Here's the downside. A bug developed some time between Thursday night and Friday morning, where the value optimization ad sets, which as a reminder were just about everything in this one account, were uneditable. They threw an error anytime I tried to do anything. I couldn't scale, which my client was madly asking scale, scale, scale. They're doing great scale. Couldn't scale, I couldn't swap in new ads, I couldn't edit anything. Anything I tried to do, it would just throw an error. So, I had to duplicate and put together a bunch of conversion optimized ad sets. So, I'm kind of running conversion head to head on value.
But it was the only way to scale, it was the only way to add in Cyber Monday ads. It was not my preference, because the value was working great. And cardinal rule, if you have something that's working great, don't mess with it. But I was forced to do it. The conversion campaigns are doing okay, they're not doing as well as the value, but they're doing well enough to keep going. But I think that we lost potentially tens of thousands of dollars just by not being able to scale these ad sets that were doing great.
Andrew Foxwell: Brutal. Just brutal. Anybody else have anything they want to share in that regard, just to air it publicly of the worst error that you saw?
Ryan Kovach: Yeah. Tuesday was brutal. As people like us in this world where you're managing multiple clients when you know you can't ... I don't know if you guys had it as bad as me on my end, I couldn't build all of Tuesday. So, pretty much Monday morning, waking up bright and early, or Wednesday morning waking up bright and early to try and cram and get everybody live and then situated, having it be down partially Monday and all of Tuesday was a real headache. Thanks for that, Facebook.
Another one that happened was Facebook's spend gaps. You guys are very familiar with them. But what happens on those is Facebook has a spending cap on ad accounts that isn't something us advertisers can see. And so, last year, and for a handful of clients, we make sure these get raised. We tell our ad account reps like, "Hey, bump these bad boys up. We don't want to get capped at $5,000. If things are going well, we want to spend on your platform." For whatever reason, a handful of our accounts got reset to $5,000 of the spend cap limit. And since Facebook was out of office most the weekend, that one account specifically, where they're getting about ... typically, this brand gets like two and a half to 3X, they were getting like a 6X at scale, including prospecting. Prospecting was cruising like four and a half 5X.
So, really, we see them, we're trying to spend 30 grand. And the spend caps really just brutal. And then you guys know how that works once you just sort of things shut off, it's hard to pick up momentum. So, a lot of work Saturday and Sunday to try and rebuild the momentum that was sort of captured on Friday. Yeah, that was the big headache on my end. Stupid spend caps. A lot of fun. So, yeah. I'm excited to sort of get out of this season, out of this crazy period. I'm excited that Facebook's agency reps are back in the office, finally. Hopefully, we don't have to do that again. Yeah.
Andrew Foxwell: Right. Well, gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us. I really appreciate it and I appreciate your time sharing some thoughts. Why don't we just go and you can give out your contact information in case anybody has questions or wants to follow up on anything they said. We'll start with that Jason.
Jason Portnoy: Yeah, sure. First of all, thanks for doing this, Andrew. It was good to vent. I think Tuesday took a lot out of all of us, so it was good to kind of have each other event. Quickly, my information is Jason JPORTmedia. You could reach me at jason@jportmedia.com J-P-O-R-Tmedia.com.
Andrew Foxwell: Awesome. Alex, how can people get a hold of you?
Alex Afterman: Yeah. I'm Alex Afterman, and my company is 11:11 Digital. My email addresses Alex, A-L-E-X, @1111digital.com.
Andrew Foxwell: Awesome. Pierson?
Pierson Krass: Pierson Krass at Red Giant Growth. Just pkrass@redgiantgrowth.com.
Andrew Foxwell: Pierson's one of my good buddies, and the best part about Pierson is you always sound like you're not enthusiastic, but you're always very enthusiastic. For those listening, Pierson's had a ... It's the end of a long weekend for all of these guys, so don't judge, okay?
Pierson Krass: Yeah, I guess. I throw in that we last Tuesday, half of Wednesday, we had to have our whole staff in for Thanksgiving, and we have not slept much the past couple of days. It's been a long week, but, that'll do it.
Andrew Foxwell: Yeah. One my favorites in the industry. Ryan, how can people get ahold of you?
Ryan Kovach: Yeah. Honestly, the easiest way is you'll find me on Twitter. I know a lot of us hang out on Twitter. The quickest way is @kovachr, K-O-V-A-C-H-R. Feel free to give me a follow, zoom any questions you have there. And you might encounter a little bit of complaining from time to time on moments like Tuesday. But outside of that, feel free to get in touch.
Andrew Foxwell: Awesome. Well, thank you very much, gentlemen. It's been a real pleasure, and we look forward to what's next and throughout the holidays. So, thank you very much.
Alex Afterman: Thanks for having me.
Ryan Kovach: Been a pleasure. Thank you.
Austin Brawner: I'm doing well, man. I'm doing well. For me, a lot of the work that I do is ...
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Home Mom Heroes They Call Me Mommy Series - Jamie
They Call Me Mommy Series - Jamie
How Jamie, who adopted her baby, pumped for four months to induce lactation before her daughter was born so they could bond through breastfeeding
"I always knew I wanted to be a mom and there are many children who need a good home. I really feel like breastfeeding is the best start for a mom and baby and I wanted to ensure I gave that to my daughter." Jamie had always wanted to be a mom and as someone who'd worked for a breastfeeding company for more than 20 years, she knew right from the start that she'd do all she could to try to breastfeed her child.
Jamie's adoption progressed quite quickly once she'd made her decision. She had a gut feeling that she needed to prepare early in the process, creating what's known as a "birth album" right at the beginning. This is an album that tells Jamie's life story. It's presented to birth moms who are considering adoption and are trying to choose the right future mom to match with.
She worked with a doctor and lactation consultant and under their supervision, used a combination of medication, supplements, and breast pumping to begin producing breastmilk.
After sharing Jamie's book with her new client, the client immediately said, "Oh! This is the mother of my child," and she and Jamie were introduced via phone. This was several months before the baby was born so Jamie had the chance to attend prenatal appointments and prepare for her baby's arrival.
She said, "I knew that breastfeeding was the best start for baby. I also knew that with adoption, breastfeeding is particularly important for bonding, and so I followed my doctor's protocol to a T." This meant that, in addition to taking medication and galactagogue, Jamie also began breast pumping every three hours – at first during the day, then also through the night.
"I was working from home so I'd just wear my hands-free breast pumping bra around the house and then every three to four hours, I'd pump and massage according to my doctor's protocol." After a month and a half, Jamie's dedication paid off: "One day I looked down and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm sweating white! What's going on? And I was like, oh my gosh it's working!' I was so excited and I was even more motivated. I was very grateful."
When the birth mother went into labor, Jamie packed her breast pump and the breastmilk she'd stored so far and joined the birth mom at the hospital. Jamie breastfed her new daughter just six hours after she was born.
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NYXTNY Exhibition at Siggraph Art Gallery — In collaboration with engineer Oliver Irschitz and Peyote Inc., we created an installation using Irschitz's iTube. The interaction with the virtual world was possible using a heat sensors frame. People's hand movements are remapped to the mouse movements on the screen, and they can surf freely in real time 3D in the city metaphor.


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That's My Boy: This movie stars Adam Sandler
Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler and Susan Sarandon in a scene from "That's My Boy"
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Published June 15, 2012 Updated April 30, 2018
That's My Boy
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Sometimes he makes films, but mainly Adam Sandler makes Adam Sandler comedies, which, when they clock in at a whopping 114 minutes like this classic, will be construed by the faithful as an embarrassment of riches and by the rest of us as cruel and unusual punishment but, in either case, requires in appraisal no more than one sentence and, let's pick a round number, 114 seconds of your valuable reading time, so let's get on with it and, for starters …
rest assured that our boy Adam ain't about to mess with his lucrative persona as an infantilized jerk and the king of the good-natured gross-out flick, which, in this incarnation, sees him endowed with an eighties wig and masturbatory habits and a constant can of Bud, the better to shlep through another of those plots whose sole purpose is to find reasons to exhibit bulges in the front of pants and poop in the back, to display arcing streams of pee, to wink at other bodily fluids shot onto tissues or staining a once very white Vera Wang wedding gown, and to apply the venerable art of cinema to the close-up appreciation of the orange spackles in a heaping pile of yellow vomit, all the while surrounding himself with …
supporting cameos from the likes of football coach Rex Ryan, has-been singer Tony Orlando, never-was rapper Vanilla Ice and shouldn't-she-know-better Susan Sarandon, all of whom aid and abet the good-natured gross-out king and further encourage his career-long obsession with …
fatness and fat jokes, which here take the abundant form of a fat black stripper with prosthetic breasts and a really fat marathon man with real breasts and a fat old naked couple making out in a parked car, an obsession that a cleverer critic might put into some Sandlerian psychological context, but not me, who's content to recall this Adam Sandler comedy's most memorable line, "What's it gonna take to make you go away?" and, with the precious seconds ticking down, to remind any readers still reading that …
'nuff said, time's up.
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Who is Jamel Herring? The heart-wrenching story of ex-US Marine's journey to world title as he prepares to face Carl Frampton in London
Jamel Herring (right) has had a dramatic journey to the world title and is expected to be Carl Frampton's next opponent.
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A look at Jamel Herring's mere boxing record does little to shine a light into either the fighter or the man.
The American will arrive in London next month as Carl Frampton's opponent in potentially historic world title fight as the Jackal attempts to become the first fighter from the island of Ireland to be crowned a three-weight world champion.
But any look into Herring's path to the WBO Super Featherweight title will be unavoidably focused much more outside than inside the ring.
Date confirmed as Carl Frampton set to fight Jamel Herring for WBO super-featherweight title in London in February
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Who is Jamal Herring?
Age: 35 (16 months Frampton's senior)
Height: 5'10 (five inches taller than Frampton)
Reach: 70 inches (eight inches more than Carl)
Professional record: 22 victories (10 KOs) / two defeats (one KO)
The US Marine: Herring's story starts in Coram, a hamlet of 40,000 in New York. After being dropped from his school basketball team for poor grades, he was just trying to avoid a life of drugs or worse until best friend Stephen Brown stepped in, seeing the potential for more. On Brown's urging, Herring joined the US Marines and was dispatched to Iraq by the time he was 20. He served two tours and reached the rank of Sergeant but carries with him the ghosts of war. "Incoming fire from mortar rounds, one after another - just basically making it to the next day was a blessing," he told ESPN.
Family tragedy: The trauma from his service, however, is not alone in forming the heart-wrenching story of Herring's journey. Just when it seemed like life was good, with Herring's amateur boxing career for the Marine Corps allowing him to stay in the US with his growing family, his world was turned upside down. His daughter Ariyanah, aged just two months, passed away from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, a tragedy for which he couldn't help blaming himself. Added to the death from cancer in 2004 of his best friend Brown, whom he credits with turning his life around, it's little wonder Jamel suffered from paranoia and mood swings in recent years, eventually seeking help from therapists.
Thanks boss. Good to meet you last night. Hope to see you again soon.
— Carl Frampton MBE (@RealCFrampton) December 1, 2019
In the ring: So it's through the lense of that life that Herring's up-and-down boxing record must be viewed. As an amateur, he won the 2011 and 2012 Armed Forces Championships as well as the 2011 US Olympic Trials and the 2012 US Nationals. As a result, he led the US team as captain in the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, poignantly three years to the day since the passing of his daughter Ariyanah. Although he lost to would-be 2016 Olympic champion Daniyar Yeleussinov in London, Herring turned professional later that year. His opening 19 fights didn't land a title shot, and there were defeats in 2016 and 2017 as he battled for a route to the top.
The drop in weight: It was only in 2018 year that Herring dropped from lightweight to the 130lbs bracket as he looked for a chance to land a world title. It was a decision that soon paid dividends, as he defeated John Vincent Moralde in September 2018 to claim the vacant United States Boxing Association Super Featherweight title. That was to pave the way for a world title shot in May 2019, when he dethroned WBO champ Masayuki Ito, who had been attempting his second defence. Herring held on to the belt by beating Lamont Roach by unanimous decision on November 9, 2019 and now has his eyes on two-weight world champion Carl Frampton.
Worth the wait: Herring battle with frampton was originally scheduled for last year but, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, has been pushed back several times to its finally settled date of February 27. In the mean time, he kept his eye in with a return to the ring after 10 months out as opponent Jonathan Oquendo was disqualified at the end of the eighth round for an illegal headbutt. He admitted her wasn't satisfied with his performance in a fight that sparked questions over his capability of beating someone of such world level class as Frampton.
Went to war overseas, lost a child, suffered from PTSD, clinical depression, and a parent of autistic children. A opponent across the ring is the least of my worries. Boxing is therapeutic.
— Jamel Herring (@JamelHerring) June 27, 2019
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God is a social God… He loves to interact and he created us in his image so that he could interact with us.
God said that it is "not good that man should be alone." God was planning a time of fellowship way back then, he was planning for fellowship when he made you.
To bring glory to God is man's "purpose," but to "become known" and to "have a relationship with God" is also a part of the purpose of man.
If you are going to serve God as a young person you need to develop a relationship with God. He has a very individual focus for your life, a relationship that he wants to have with you.
It's a bit difficult to wrap our heads around how God can have a unique and personal relationship with millions of unique people, but as we learn more about God and who he is we can begin to get a bit of a "comprehension" of how that can be.
Love needs to be expressed. God made man and because he, God, is love, he created man. Think of Jesus, he wasn't here to promote a certain kind of conduct, he was here to show his love!
Genesis 3:1-24 – Adam hid from God when he new that he was not clothed. The relationship between God and Adam was broken. What had been there between Adam and God was gone.
In God's eyes… man was disconnected from him. Man had died.
We look at death as changing from this life to the next life. In reality they are more alive than they are here. A lot of times we just don't grasp what death is.
Genesis 5:22-23 – For three hundred years Enoch walked with God, developing a special relationship with God. Enoch walked with God by faith. He believed God was there… and God was there.
Hebrews 11:1-40 – It is only by faith that we can have this relationship with God.
Jonah 1:3, 4:1-11 – When God looked upon Nineveh he saw that the people were repenting. God repented of what he was planning to do with Nineveh. Jonah knew that God was a merciful God, but when the people began to repent Jonah wasn't too happy. God asks Jonah if it is a good idea for him to be angry… Jonah didn't even reply.
Exodus 33:11, Deuteronomy 4:10 – Moses spoke face to face with God, as a man would speak to his friend. God and Moses talked. We can have a relationship like this with God as well.
Exodus 32:7-20 – Moses reasons with God here. Moses is interceding for the people. It seems here that Moses was having a direct affect on God's decision.
Mathew 11:29 – Meekness is necessary for us to have a relationship with God. As soon as our hearts get caught up in pride we lose this relationship.
Genesis 18:22-33 – Abraham also reasoned with God. He asked God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if there was any righteous person found there.
God wants this kind of relationship with each of us. God is close to us. Maybe we know things about God but we also need to accept this relationship that he offers us. It isn't difficult, God made it very simple, but we have to take that step.
The more that we relate to the owner of our lives the more effective our lives can be.
Psalm 23:1-6 – David wasn't a perfect man… but he had a relationship with God and because of that he was able to write this Psalm in all sincerity.
As a steward of God we need to develop a relationship with the owner.
Sparrows are probably some of the most common birds around. God says that he notices when even one of these sparrows falls to the ground. God is telling us that we are special and he has time for us.