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The current immigration legislation debacle has hit a snag. A small victory has been achieved–postponement of a vote–largely due to riled American citizens calling and writing their congressmen and senators with indignant outrage focused on the measure itself and just about every member of the house and the senate whether they approve of the legislation or not. The legal, tax-paying individuals and families of the United States are justifiably vexed to say the least, and we are taking no prisoners with our elected officials–those who work for us–by threatening their future electability should they support such a flamboyant mockery of the legislative process embodied in the current immigration reform bill that would end up costing Americans massive amounts of their own money were it to fast-track its way through the senate as McCain, Kennedy, and Bush had hoped (to avert inevitable debate and eventual failure.)
But just how much would this legislation end up costing taxpayers? Millions? Billions? Try almost two and a half trillion dollars. This is money American citizens pay into the government in order to receive benefits in the form of social security, Medicare, unemployment, public education (the largest expenditure for state and local governments), general welfare, and much, much more. Now the senate wants to pass a law that would forgive and reward 15 to 20 million illegal aliens, allowing them instant access to legally obtaining the above benefits, without having paid into those programs during their years and decades living in the United States criminally. They have paid nothing in, but they will instantly have access to those benefits should the amnesty move forward and become law.
Welfare expert, Robert E. Rector from The Heritage Foundation has written an exhaustively thorough piece concerning this very issue. The recently concluded study, The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer (below in part), provides some startling statistics.
"On average, low-skill immigrant households received $30,160 per household in immediate government benefits and services in FY 2004, including direct benefits, means-tested benefits, education, and population-based services. By contrast, low-skill immigrant households paid only $10,573 in taxes. Thus, low-skill immigrant households received nearly three dollars in benefits and services for each dollar in taxes paid." [emphasis added]
Now multiply that by millions upon millions of illegal aliens. While I don't find this finding surprising, three dollars in benefits for every one dollar paid into the system (assuming illegals are actually paying taxes as most of them are likely not, making this even worse) should be a distressing revelation to those who are detrimentally on the fence with this issue, but it should also exist as a pre-apocalyptic kicker to the open borders lobby. If their desire is to seek the ruin of the United States by importing the world's poverty, then it seems clear the immigration legislation currently under debate would be the way to do it.
Still, the delay of a vote on the legislation postponed until after Memorial day is a win for America, and can doubtlessly be attributed to all of the legal citizens who called in and voiced their displeasure over this travesty of 'law.' This does not mean we can rest. It simply means we have more time to keep calling and more time to keep pestering our elected officials–more time to bully them into killing this immigration reform perversion.
May 22, 2007
The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer
by Robert E. Rector and Christine Kim
Special Report #14
Each year, families and individuals pay taxes to the government and receive back a wide variety of services and benefits. A fiscal deficit occurs when the benefits and services received by one group exceed the taxes paid. When such a deficit occurs, other groups must pay for the services and benefits of the group in deficit. Each year, government is involved in a large-scale transfer of resources between different social groups.
Fiscal distribution analysis measures the distribution of total government benefits and taxes in society. It provides an assessment of the magnitude of government transfers between groups. This paper provides a fiscal distribution analysis of households headed by immigrants without a high school diploma. It measures the total benefits and services received by this group and the total taxes paid. The difference between benefits received and taxes paid represents the total resources transferred by government on behalf of this group from the rest of society.
The first step in an analysis of the distribution of benefits and taxes is to count accurately the cost of all benefits and services provided by the government. The size and cost of government is far larger than many people imagine. In fiscal year (FY) 2004, the expenditures of the federal government were $2.3 trillion. In the same year, expenditures of state and local governments were $1.45 trillion. The combined value of federal, state, and local expenditures in FY 2004 was $3.75 trillion.[1]
The sum of $3.75 trillion is so large that it is difficult to comprehend. One way to grasp the size of government more readily is to calculate average expenditures per household. In 2004, there were some 115 million households in the U.S.[2] (This figure includes multi-person families and single persons living alone.) The average cost of government spending thus amounted to $32,707 per household across the U.S. population.[3]
The $3.75 trillion in government expenditure is not free, but must be paid for by taxing or borrowing economic resources from Americans or by borrowing from abroad. In general, government expenditures are funded by taxes and fees. In FY 2004, federal taxes amounted to $1.82 trillion. State and local taxes and related revenues amounted to $1.6 trillion.[4] Together, federal, state, and local taxes amounted to $3.43 trillion. At $3.43 trillion, taxes and related revenues came to 91 percent of the $3.75 trillion in expenditures. The gap between taxes and spending was financed by government borrowing.
Types of Government Expenditure
After the full cost of government benefits and services has been determined, the next step in the analysis of the distribution of benefits and taxes is to determine the beneficiaries of specific government programs. Some programs, such as Social Security, neatly parcel out benefits to specific individuals. With programs such as these, it is relatively easy to determine the identity of the beneficiary and the cost of the benefit provided. At the opposite extreme, other government programs (for example, medical research at the National Institutes of Health) do not neatly parcel out benefits to individuals. Determining the proper allocation of the benefits of that type of program is more difficult.
To ascertain most accurately the distribution of government benefits and services, this study begins by dividing government expenditures into six categories: direct benefits, means-tested benefits, educational services, population-based services, interest and other financial obligations resulting from prior government activity, and pure public goods.
Direct Benefits
Direct benefit programs involve either cash transfers or the purchase of specific services for an individual. Unlike means-tested programs (described below), direct benefit programs are not limited to low-income persons. By far the largest direct benefit programs are Social Security and Medicare. Other substantial direct benefit programs are Unemployment Insurance and Workmen's Compensation.
Direct benefit programs involve a fairly transparent transfer of economic resources. The benefits are parceled out discretely to individuals in the population; both the recipient and the cost of the benefit are relatively easy to determine. In the case of Social Security, the cost of the benefit would equal the value of the Social Security check plus the administrative costs involved in delivering the benefit.
Calculating the cost of Medicare services is more complex. Ordinarily, government does not seek to compute the particular medical services received by an individual. Instead, government counts the cost of Medicare for an individual as equal to the average per capita cost of Medicare services. (This number equals the total cost of Medicare services divided by the total number of recipients.)[5] Overall, government spent $840 billion on direct benefits in FY 2004.
Means-Tested Benefits
Means-tested programs are typically termed welfare programs. Unlike direct benefits, means-tested programs are available only to households below specific income thresholds. Means-tested welfare programs provide cash, food, housing, medical care, and social services to poor and low-income persons.
The federal government operates over 60 means-tested aid programs.[6] The largest of these are Medicaid; the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); food stamps; Supplemental Security Income (SSI); Section 8 housing; public housing; Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF); the school lunch and breakfast programs; the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) nutrition program; and the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG). Many means-tested programs, such as SSI and the EITC, provide cash to recipients. Others, such as public housing or SSBG, pay for services that are provided to recipients.
The value of Medicaid benefits is usually counted in a manner similar to Medicare benefits. Government does not attempt to itemize the specific medical services given to an individual; instead, it computes an average per capita cost of services to individuals in different beneficiary categories such as children, elderly persons, and disabled adults. (The average per capita cost for a particular group is determined by dividing the total expenditures on the group by the total number of beneficiaries in the group.) Overall, the U.S. spent $564 billion on means-tested aid in FY 2004.[7]
Public Education
Government provides primary, secondary, post-secondary, and vocational education to individuals. In most cases, the government pays directly for the cost of educational services provided. In other cases, such as the Pell Grant program, the government in effect provides money to an eligible individual who then spends it on educational services.
Education is the single largest component of state and local government spending, absorbing roughly a third of all state and local expenditures. The average per pupil cost of public primary and secondary education is now around $9,600 per year. Overall, federal, state, and local governments spent $590 billion on education in FY 2004.
Population-Based Services
Whereas direct benefits, means-tested benefits, and education services provide discrete benefits and services to particular individuals, population-based programs generally provide services to a whole group or community. Population-based expenditures include police and fire protection, courts, parks, sanitation, and food safety and health inspections. Another important population-based expenditure is transportation, especially roads and highways.
A key feature of population-based expenditures is that such programs generally need to expand as the population of a community expands. (This quality separates them from pure public goods, described below.) For example, as the population of a community increases, the number of police and firemen will generally need to expand in proportion.
In its study of the fiscal costs of immigration, The New Americans, the National Academy of Sciences argued that if service remains fixed while the population increases, a program will become "congested," and the quality of service for users will deteriorate. Thus, the NAS uses the term "congestible goods" to describe population-based services.[8] Highways are an obvious example of this point. In general, the cost of population-based services can be allocated according to an individual's estimated utilization of the service or at a flat per capita cost across the relevant population.
A sub-category of population-based services is government administrative support functions such as tax collections and legislative activities. Few taxpayers view tax collection as a government benefit; therefore, assigning the cost of this "benefit" appears problematic.
The solution to this dilemma is to conceptualize government activities into two categories: primary functions and secondary functions. Primary functions provide benefits directly to the public; they include direct and means-tested benefits, education, ordinary population-based services such as police and parks and public goods. By contrast, secondary or support functions do not provide direct benefits to the public but do provide necessary support services that enable the government to perform primary functions. For example, no one can receive food stamp benefits unless the government first collects taxes to fund the program. Secondary functions can thus be considered an inherent part of the "cost of production" of primary functions, and the benefits of secondary support functions can be allocated among the population in proportion to the allocation of benefits from government primary functions.
Government spent $662 billion on population-based services in FY 2004. Of this amount, some $546 billion went for ordinary services such as police and parks, and $116 billion went for administrative support functions.
Senate Puts Off Action on Immigration
May 22, 4:27 AM (ET)
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate leaders agreed Monday that they would wait until June to take final action on a bipartisan plan to give millions of unlawful immigrants legal status.
The measure, which also tightens border security and workplace enforcement measures, unites a group of influential liberals, centrists and conservatives and has White House backing, but it has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. In a nod to that opposition, Senate leaders won't seek to complete it before a hoped-for Memorial Day deadline.
"It would be to the best interests of the Senate … that we not try to finish this bill this week," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., as the chamber began debate on the volatile issue. "I think we could, but I'm afraid the conclusion wouldn't be anything that anyone wanted."
The bipartisan compromise cleared its first hurdle Monday with a bipartisan Senate vote to begin debate on a separate immigration measure. Still, it faces significant obstacles as lawmakers seek dozens of modifications to its key elements.
Republicans want to make the bill tougher on the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. Democrats want to change a new temporary worker program and reorder priorities in a merit-based system for future immigration that weights employability over family ties.
The unlikely coalition that brokered the deal, led by Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., is plotting to protect the agreement from "deal-breaker" changes that would sap its support. The group will hold daily meetings starting Tuesday to determine whether proposed revisions would sink what they are calling their "grand bargain."
"We have to try our very best to work together to get something that will actually pass," Kyl said.
Among the first changes to be debated will be a proposal by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., to shrink the temporary worker program created by the compromise plan. Some lawmakers in both parties consider the initiative, which would provide at least 400,000 guest worker visas annually, too large.
Others charge it's impractical and unfair to immigrants, because it would allow them to stay only temporarily in the U.S. without guaranteeing them a chance to gain legal status.
"We must not create a law that guarantees a permanent underclass, people who are here to work in low-wage, low-skilled jobs but do not have the chance to put down roots or benefit from the opportunities of American citizenship," Reid said.
Reid called the measure a "starting point," but said he had reservations about it.
Conservative critics denounced the proposal's quick granting of legal status to millions of unlawful immigrants.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said the measure's so-called "point system" doesn't do enough to guarantee that future immigration will serve the country's economic needs.
"I'm nervous about this thing," said Sessions, who voted not to go forward with the debate. He called the point scheme "bait" to get conservatives to embrace the measure, and accused Republicans of compromising too much on an outline drafted by the White House in late March to attract GOP support.
"I'm disappointed – almost heartbroken – because we made some progress toward getting to this new framework, but the political wheeling and dealing and compromising and splitting the baby has resulted in a circumstance that, you know, we just didn't get far enough," Sessions said.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who also opposed opening debate, announced she would seek to alter the bill to mandate that illegal immigrants go back to their home countries before gaining legal status.
Under the proposal, that requirement only applies to heads of households seeking green cards and a path to citizenship. Others here unlawfully could obtain visas to live and work in the U.S. indefinitely without returning home.
Kennedy, called the plan "strong, realistic and fair."
"For each of us who crafted it, there are elements that we strongly support and elements we believe could be improved. No one believes this is a perfect bill," Kennedy said.
The White House has begun an active lobbying effort to drum up support for the measure, especially among Republicans who voted against an immigration overhaul last year.
President Bush is still hoping to sign the bill by summer's end, said Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman.
"This is a very high priority for the president," Fratto told reporters in Crawford, Texas. "We know that this is an emotional issue for members on both sides of political parties and both sides of the ideological spectrum, but we hope that we can find common ground."
Conservatives in the House, whose opposition helped kill an immigration overhaul last year, began laying down markers in anticipation of their own debate, expected only if the Senate completes its measure.
Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., unveiled legislation he said was "an alternative to several of the large holes in the so-called Senate compromise."
It would send home illegal immigrants who had been in the U.S. for fewer than five years and bar them from gaining lawful status.
Those in the country five years or more would be able to get a "blue card" to live and work legally in the U.S. after paying a $1,000 fine and learning English and American civics, but they could not bring their families. Blue card holders would have to leave the country to apply for legal residency.
In contrast, the bipartisan Senate compromise would allow illegal immigrants in the country by the beginning of this year to adjust their status.


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Beyerdynamic DT 1350: Split head band, they're very comfortable at work, they don't fall off when you look up, etc.
Sennheiser HD650 and HD800 here. While HD800 is more expensive/advanced but HD650 still is more neutral and preferable for some genres as rock/metal. I also tried HD 600 and strangely I love them not less than 650 and 800. Its frequency response is how music should sound as for my ears. I haven't buy them (yet?) because I already have 650/800.
Philips Fidelio X2.They combine the advantages of open headphones (which show up best with Grado cans IMO) with the ability to produce deep bass (missing with Grado cans).
I've counted owners (who have posted in this topic) per each headphone model:Sennheiser HD650 – 7 ownersSennheiser HD600 – 6 ownersSennheiser HD580 – 4 ownersBeyerdynamic DT770 – 4 ownersSennheiser HD800 – 3 or 4 owners (it's not clear from posts)Beyerdynamic DT880 – 3 owners
I won't mind if I have to stick at my Sennheiser HD600s --- but I want a pair of HD800s, for their physical comfort, and for the fact that what is considered their fault seems to match that of my ears
If you counted me under HD600, please deduct and add one to HD800, as I now have a pair.
As for Sennheiser HD800, they are extremely detailed and have a huge sound stage, but they sound thin, analytical and less engaging to my ears. To get any bass at all you have to play ridiculous high volume levels. They do not play music the way it's meant to be heard. They are however very useful as a tool to reveal differences in formats and bitrates.


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Startups and small companies are stealing a march on their larger enterprise counterparts by employing analytics at the heart of their businesses, according to Amazon Web Services.
Speaking at an event in London today, Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels said that business intelligence has historically been the "secret domain of large enterprises". However, the advent of cloud computing has given small businesses access to scale-out applications like Hadoop, allowing them gain a competitive advantage.
"What we would consider a level playing field is actually tilting towards younger businesses," said Vogels. "They are using Big Data much more rapidly at the core of their businesses to continuously improve their services, and enterprises are the ones who are having to catch up."
Vogels said that brand loyalty is decreasing, forcing organisations to experiment more. He said that enterprises could learn a great deal from startups, which often build their products and services in conditions of extreme uncertainty, and understand the importance of getting products to market quickly.
"The key is to experiment often and fail quickly," said Vogels. "In the past some of these experiments were very expensive, and often the budget associated with them was sufficient to kill any new idea. But in the cloud, these price tags have been reduced significantly.
"If the cost of failure is almost zero, then that really motivates you to experiment more often," he added.
Vogels reiterated Amazon's vision of putting a supercomputer within the reach of any developer. He cited the example of Cycle Computing, which helps researchers and businesses run supercomputing applications on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure.
Cycle Computing built a supercomputer with 50,000 cores in the AWS cloud for drug researcher Schroedinger. Where it previously would have taken years to analyse a set of 21 million chemical compounds using a small HPC instance with a few hundred cores, Schroedinger completed the experiment in just three hours.
"Here you have a 50,000 core supercomputer at your fingertips for $5,000 an hour. That really means that supercomputing is available for everyone to use," said Vogels.
The overarching theme of Amazon's conference was that cloud services are now ready for the enterprise, and that enterprise adoption has been growing over the last 18 months. The company cited customers such as Shell, Samsung, SAP and the Guardian newspaper, all of which are using AWS to improve agility and gain a competitive edge.
Vogels said that Oracle and SAP have modified their applications to allow them to be deployed over multiple availability zones, and other companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Red Hat also offer license mobility, allowing organisations to run their existing licenses on AWS--a concept Amazon has dubbed "bring you own license".
Meanwhile Amazon Web Services itself has recently launched a slew of new products and services aimed at the enterprise, including AWS direct connect, AWS Storage Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudSearch and AWS Marketplace.
"IT is often seen as a blocker of innovation," said Vodels. "One of the main reasons our customers adopt AWS and cloud services is so that they can become an enabler of innovation."
This story, "Amazon CTO: Startups Lead the Way in Big Data Analytics" was originally published by Techworld.com.


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For peanut butter "icing" 2 tbsp. of PB2 mixed with 1 TBS of water, 1 tbsp. of honey, 2 tbsp. of coconut flakes Steps: Mix first six ingredients in blender until dough is thick. Stop and scrape the sides of the blender. When dough is thick, divide and put in the center of each tortilla. Fold all four sides of the tortillas into a pop tart shape. Cook in a Panini press, or on a skillet flipping to cook both sides. Once it's brown, set in the fridge to cool while you prepare the icing. Put all the ingredients for the icing in a mug and microwave for 1 minute. Take out and mix. Take out pop tarts from fridge, top with 1tbs of peanut butter icing each and coconut flakes to taste.


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Your client has a perfectly legible photocopy of a deed, contract or other document, but despite a diligent effort to locate the original, it simply cannot be found. In order to prevail, you know that that the contents of the original document must be proved at trial. Can you overcome a "best evidence" challenge to the photocopy? "Not bloody likely," would have been the answer of the day in merry olde England. In modern times, however, the prospects are substantially improved.
For centuries, the common law best evidence rule provided that in order to prove the contents of a document, the original document must be produced in evidence at trial. While this basic tenet still exists in Rule 1002 of the Texas Rules of Evidence, the codified version of the best evidence rule, perhaps the most important aspect of the modern version appears in the last ten words of the rule:
To prove the content of a writing…the original…is required except as otherwise provided in these rules or by law.
And one need only look to the very next rule – TRE 1003 – to find an exception that some would argue swallows the rule.
A duplicate is admissible to the same extent as an original unless (1) a question is raised as to the authenticity of the original or (2) in the circumstances it would be unfair to admit the duplicate in lieu of the original.
As codified, the best evidence rule provides no bar to the use of a duplicate instead of an original, except under two narrow circumstances:
- when the original's authenticity is questioned, or
- when unfairness would result.
In practical terms, this means that any objection to the introduction of a duplicate in lieu of an original should either raise a question of authenticity or unfairness.
A bare-bones "best evidence" objection would not be proper, as it would not apprise the court of the reason why the duplicate should be excluded.
Allowing duplicates makes sense. With modern-day reliance on highly-accurate document reproduction technology, including faxes and scanners, and in an era when even record custodians don't necessarily retain records in their original form, the contents of most documents should be able to be satisfactorily proved without anyone having to actually touch the original. Only when there is a legitimate question of whether the underlying document is authentic or whether it's fair to rely on a duplicate should the original be required.
Authentication: Up until the end of the 20th century, authentication could pose a legitimate concern to an attorney who sought admission of a document at trial which had been obtained from the other side in discovery. However, with the promulgation of Rule 193.7 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure in 1999, which provides that any document produced by a party in response to a discovery request is automatically authenticated for use against the producing party, these authentication problems have disappeared. Now the only documents which need formal authentication are the documents which are obtained from other sources.
Keep in mind, however, that the issue is not whether there's a question as to the duplicate's authenticity. Only when a question is raised as to the authenticity of the original will the duplicate be disallowed. At least one court has held that a duplicate of a self-authenticated document is admissible under Rule 1003. Englund v. State, 946 S.W.2d 64 (Tex. Crim. App. 1997) (holding a facsimile of a certified copy of a court record was admissible). Englund was decided on a peculiar set of facts (the fax was sent from the office which also provided the authentication), and the court certainly did not go so far as to hold that authenticity could never be challenged as to all duplicates of self-authenticated documents. However, a very strict reading of Rule 1003 would support such an argument.
Unfairness. Assuming no authentication issues, a claim of unfairness will provide the only remaining hurdle to admissibility of a duplicate in lieu of an original. Unfortunately, this evidentiary point is rarely raised on appeal, so there is little to guide in its application. In Ladd v. State, a criminal defendant did argue that poor-quality photos of a crime scene were unfair due to their failure to accurately depict the scene. This argument did not meet with success, however. The sponsoring witness' testimony that the photos did fairly depict the scene was held sufficient to satisfy Rule 1003. 3 S.W.3d 547 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999).
Scope of Rule: Ladd v. State also demonstrates that when it comes to modern-day application of the best evidence rule, it's not just about documents anymore. Pursuant to Rule 1001, the best evidence rule applies to:
- Writings and Recordings – consisting of "letters, words, or numbers or their equivalent, set down by handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, magnetic impulse, mechanical or electronic recording or other form of data compilation;" and
- Photographs – consisting of "photographs, x-ray films, videotapes and motion pictures."
Given the broad scope of Rule 1001, using duplicates in lieu of originals pursuant to Rule 1003, would encompass using photocopies of original photographs, duplicate recordings of original DVDs, videotapes and audiotapes, and scanned images of x-ray films, etc.
Allowing for duplicates to be used instead of originals provides a significant exception to the original doctrine of best evidence. But the exceptions don't stop there. Next time we'll take a look at what to do when your client can't even manage to find a duplicate.
— Bonnie Sudderth, Judge of the 352nd District Court of Tarrant County, Texas


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The house that helped build Google
Founders launched company from a Menlo Park house.
July 5, 2007 -- Susan Wojcicki is reminiscing about her old home in Menlo Park, Calif.
"It's a very humble house, less than 2,000 square feet," she recalls fondly. A cozy, four-bedroom home -- and incredibly historic.
After earning her MBA in 1998, Wojcicki bought 232 Santa Margarita Ave. for about $600,000. She rented the garage to two Stanford students for $1,700 a month to help with the mortgage. The renters: no ordinary slackers, but the Google Guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who incubated Google right there.
"It's a good reminder for the company that we did come from a small house, not a fancy house," says Wojcicki.
Her life-changing decision to open her home to Brin and Page did more than just help start the world's most-popular search engine. It also:
Landed Wojcicki a key early job at Google less than a year after purchasing the home. Today, she's one of its top-ranked executives, overseeing the crucial online advertising business as vice president of product management.
Introduced a future husband to Wojcicki's younger sister Anne, who recently married Brin on an island in the Bahamas. Google has invested $3.9 million in Anne Wojcicki's biotech start-up, 23andMe.
Created a cottage industry for the Wojcicki family. Susan Wojcicki's husband, Dennis Troper, is an operations executive at Google. Brother-in-law Gregor (married to middle sister Janet) is a former Googler who worked in the finance department. Mom Esther Wojcicki, a teacher, has consulted for Google on educational issues.
If you've ever clicked a text ad on MySpace, About.com or any thousands of blogs with "Ads by Google," you've got Susan Wojcicki to thank. Expanding ads beyond Google's own search pages was her idea. Now, Google has asked her to further grow the empire by bringing its advertiser base to old media such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television.
"There are no sets of words that can be used to describe Susan's contribution to the company," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "She's historic, in terms of our company's founding. She's also one of those people who thinks very broadly and quickly, and (it's) deceiving because she's so pleasant."
Wojcicki is Google employee No. 18. Her early duties included refining the original Google logo designed by Brin and the overall spare look of the Google home page. She came up with the first of Google's "doodles," the remaking of the logo for holidays and other special events. Her first artistic doodle: an alien lands on Google.
In Google's fledgling days, Wojcicki, a former junior staffer for chipmaker Intel, was in charge of marketing efforts. Brin and Page charged her with spreading the word about Google on a shoestring. Her big idea: stir word-of-mouth by putting Google's search engine all over the Web. She reached out to companies to license Google search for their websites and offered it free to universities.
In 2003, she came up with her multimillion-dollar brainstorm: AdSense.
'A really novel idea'
AdSense is an extension of a program Google had successfully launched in 2002, called AdWords. AdWords offers advertisers sponsored search ads, those little text ads that appear near search results. Advertisers have to pay only if the ads get clicked.
Wojcicki's suggestion: Why not offer these same ads all over the Web, on blogs and websites? Entice Web "publishers" to participate by giving them a portion of the ad revenue. In other words, every time someone clicks on an ad on your site, you get a check.
Here's how the ads are targeted: Let's say you're reading about computers at tech site Engadget. An ad might appear offering special deals at Dell.com. Or, if you're reading an article at a news site about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, you might see an ad for a local criminal-defense law firm.
That's AdSense.
"It was a really novel idea at the time to serve ads that were targeted dynamically" to a specific Web page, says Wojcicki, sitting in a conference room at the "Googleplex" company headquarters.
"People were saying, 'This is a sports site, so we'll serve a sports ad.' And we were saying, 'No. We can actually look at the page in real time and figure out what this page is about.' "
Wojcicki's idea turned into a runaway smash. Google doesn't break out revenues from AdSense and AdWords. But the company recently reported quarterly profit of $1 billion, virtually all derived from both ad programs.
Thousands of tiny entrepreneurs make substantial livings by hosting Ads by Google links at their websites. "More people make money from AdSense than any other vehicle on the Web," says Jennifer Slegg, who runs JenSense, a blog devoted to AdSense. "There are many, many AdSense millionaires."
AdSense "basically turned the Web into a giant Google billboard," says Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Land website. "It effectively meant that Google could turn everyone's content into a place for Google ads."
For her efforts, Wojcicki earned a Google Founders' Award, a financial incentive provided to employees to create new ideas. Spokesman David Krane says it's designed to keep employees and give them the same kind of economic award they would receive if they had formed their own companies.
Krane won't disclose how much current Founders' Awards are worth, but the first two awarded to Googlers (not to Wojcicki) were $12 million each.
Venturing into offline ads
Creating things has kept Wojcicki at Google over the years. "I love taking an idea ... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use," she says.
"People write in from all over the world giving you feedback, telling us how a product (AdSense) changed their lives, how they were able to start a business with it, and that's just incredibly rewarding."
Her next big challenge: translating Google's simple, measurable advertising network to radio, TV and print.
Ever wanted to run an ad on the radio but didn't know how to set it up? Google has an Audio Ads section on its website with links to radio producers who will create an ad for $75 to $100. Select stations and time slots, and you're on the air.
The radio venture recently left test mode and is open to the general public. Google is testing the concept in print and on TV; that test is available only to a small percentage of advertisers.
Sullivan and other Google analysts are skeptical about the nascent program's chances. With radio ads, Sullivan says, Google "will give information on when the ad played, with more data than before, but that still doesn't prove that anyone heard the ad. They haven't done anything innovative or different to show if the ad really worked."
'A real challenge' ahead
Bringing the Google ad network to old media "will be a real challenge," says Greg Sterling, an independent analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence. "The ability to serve a relevant ad against someone's query is one of the great innovations of the Internet, and it's not transferable to other media, where people are more passive."
Wojcicki concedes that ads on TV and radio won't be as measurable. But she says such ads placed through Google will have more data to mine than old media currently provide, thanks to Google's obsessive tracking of numbers via its network of computers. "For example, in TV we can provide second-by-second data on what's being watched on the ad," she says.
She cautions that it's still very early for Google Radio: "The first things we're doing are really just providing online ways for people to purchase the inventory easier."
Raised in Silicon Valley
Wojcicki has plenty of experience at being eyewitness to a forming business. Brin and Page originally met her and landed at the Menlo Park house via a friend of Wojcicki's who was dating Brin.
The house that gave birth to Google was always filled with mutual friends, Wojcicki says. Most of them techies themselves, their No. 1 question for Brin and Page back then: Who needs yet another search engine?
The answer: " 'Not another but a better search engine,' " Wojcicki recalls. "From the beginning, they had a very clear vision that they could build something much better than what existed at the time."
Wojcicki grew up in Palo Alto on the campus of Stanford University. Dad Stanley Wojcicki chairs Stanford's physics department.
Mom Esther, a journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, says she expected Susan to become an English professor. Instead, after a post-college job at educational software firm MagicQuest, she was bitten by the tech bug.
Now, Google is "such a presence" in their lives that the Wojcickis try to limit family-time chatter about the company, Esther says, though not always successfully. "It's so innovative and exciting. They're doing all sorts of interesting things, and it's fun to hear about it."
That so many of her relatives were drawn to Google isn't unusual, says Susan Wojcicki. "There are lots of people in the Silicon Valley who are interested in working at a fast-moving, dynamic company like Google," she says. "Not just my family members."
Meanwhile, the humble house where Google was incubated was purchased by Google in September. Google won't disclose how much it paid, but homes in the neighborhood sell for more than $1 million. "I haven't had time to think about what we'll do with it," says CEO Schmidt. "But I figured we should buy it sooner rather than later."


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Chad Johnson has been lying uncharacteristically low. He's got enough to deal with: legal fallout from a fight with his wife, divorce proceedings, getting cut by the Dolphins. But he appears to have returned to Twitter today, with a flurry of tweets in the last half-hour. The most recent? This one, about no longer being able to play as himself in Madden. That's legit sad, Chad. [Twitter]
Update: Kotaku's Owen Good sends along this screenshot. There's Chad Johnson, in the Madden free agency pool. Maybe Chad forgot he's not named Ochocinco anymore.


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There is no 'dark side' to Buddhism. Stupid title. Just the dark side of people who take it on board and misuse it.
Hey! I know what! I'll call myself Lama Tamsin from now on …
It is too easy to not blame Buddhism for the excesses of its adherents. Two points – First, if it worked as it is supposed to work then the adherents would 'evolve' past these types of problems. Second, all 'isms' are supported by structures. And, all structures are not of the spirit, they are temporal. Therefore, they are full of all sorts of human strife. Believing in Buddhism as a form of salvation is as misplaced as believing in Southern Baptism, or Catholicism, or socialism, for that matter. IMO.
Ian SpencePosted on August 15, 2012
I think what you have said here about Buddhism is not worth the time it took you to write. What a load of BS. I personally know many highly realised Buddhists, I said many. On ther other hand my mother has devoted her whole life to Jesus and there has been no signs of any difference in her personality as when she started. Also what about the forty plus other gods throuhout history that died for three days and were resurrected prior to Jesus? I'm not even gonna ask if your a Christian because the answer is obvious, its only Christians that JUDGE other's faith.
Ian SpencePosted on August 15, 2012
That was for PulseGuy by the way!
David Sunfellow
I would echo what Pulseguy has said with this observation, which appears to be universally true: "Just as all human beings have a shadow side to their nature, so, too, do all religions, philosophies, and spiritual traditions." Which, of course, is one of the chief problems with Buddhism (and other Eastern paths): they are largely, sometimes blissfully, unaware of their shadow side. And this, in turn, can lead to the kind of tragic failings that are graphically described in the articles linked above.
Here's a related thought from Ken Wilber that comes from Integral Spirituality, Chapter Six, "The Shadow And The Disowned Self"
"This chapter is about the shadow, what it is, how it got started, and how to take it back. But one thing is certain: the great wisdom traditions, for all their wisdom, have absolutely nothing like this. I know, I've spent thirty years checking with students and teachers, and the conclusion is unanimous: an understanding of the psychodynamic repression, as well as ways to cure it, is something contributed exclusively by modern Western psychology. Many meditation teachers claim that they offer something similar, but when you look closely at what they mean, it really isn't this. Consequently, even advanced meditators and spiritual teachers are often haunted by psychopathology, as their shadows chase them to Enlightenment and back, leaving roadkill all along the way. The good news is that this is fairly easily remedied."
I am differing on the subject matter in a great deal. Most religions did not have the ability to defend against mutilation of observing governments. Jesus was in fact defenseless. So were the monks in TIbet. Most religions are not of peace because of necessity, they are not of peace because of righteousness. They are of peace because that is their root, a humble beginning. Just a voice to state what is wrong with the world at their time. And how to make it better. God exists in all of us, the good the bad and the ugly, God exists there. He is a scientist, an accountant, a lawyer, a lover and a friend. God exists in us all. Even in the most crooked, God exists there. Does he make choices for us. No. IF God exists there he exists in the military, he exists in the police. There is no such thing as a dark Shadow in the form of God. There is no such thing as a shadow in religion, unless your talking about the ills of the vatican. The point is to fight, against the ill, the sick, the ones that have forgotten the beauty in being good.
I read an article about Buddesim and Violence.
It is comparing an apple to onions. Apples are red/ green/ yellow fruits on trees. Onions are weird bitter and acidic tasting growing on the ground. Buddism is a peaceful culture, and they can remain, peaceful, but they are rationalists. For instance ask any BUddesit what is love, and they will come up with the question "Why are you asking?". Are they quite knowledgable in the forms of love, or are they to practical to even mention a formation of a creation of an emotion. If it is incomprensensible to comprehend love to a Buddest, then its incomprensible to acknowledge the duties of a love that is found in Western Jesus, or Western Greek Gods. ITs a different form of teaching, practical for science. Yet, you also need to remember the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF BUDDISM. Buddha would tell one person there was a God, and he would tell a second there was no God. He would tell the opposite to each individual. Just because he wanted to challenge belief, he wanted to challenge opinion, he wanted to challenge a persons thought, to lead them to a different path. He did this so often there were 30 different original schools of Buddhism. The day Buddha died, 30 followers built schools. So there are different verities following different teachings. If he was consistent, and talking the same teaching, there wouldn't be 30 different schools. Maybe just a few. The main component that was similar between the schools, was to be non violent, sit, and thats it. Just sit. If your sitting with your legs folded, your not fighting. But why would he need to fight? He had so many followers. And he didnt have a government following him wanting to kill him either, why because he was technically the King of a Land. His Kingdom was attached at one point and he was told to go home and fight to protect his land, and he chose not to. He wasnt a fighter. But just because Buddha the "man" was not a fighter does not mean the men of today can not be fighters to defend their land. In fact God I am sure, would prefer it. Be a man, protect your home, protect your wife, protect your children, protect you community. Its not good to attack. Attack is wrong, holy wars are wrong, fighting in Gods name is wrong. Defending in Gods name is right, prevention is fighting in Gods name. Attacking to "take" is extremely wrong. Charging to defend from future attack is time management. Charging, to end a war, is always justified.
The entire point of that comment was to pin point that Non -Viiolence protection in Buddhism is possible, from a philosphy stand point, because peace needs to have a way to defend it self. Peace does not attack, Peace only defends. If you dont defend peace you will end up like Aberham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Kennedy, Jesus. Peace needs defence. Buddha didnt need to defend, he was related to royals, so the government was not chasing him, and he was not in Western culture. Gahndi was another, he didnt need to attack with weapons, he didnt need to charge with weapons, he had defense, I think he was related to higher eletes and he was well educated, so he couldnt be attacked. Its standing in society. But what happens if your poor? Like the monks that were in Tibet and China walked in. Or in Myanmar, Burma. What happens if you are poor and someone tries to take your home, what do you do? What do you do if they try to take away your farm? your way to pay for your home? Who defends you? No one, in fact you get attacked and killed because they wanted your land to take your money. That was the old system of the currupttioin. So monks with a gun makes sense,, so does a muslim with a gun if he is fighting to protect his wool far, from a Big Bad British Wolf.
jojoPosted on November 20, 2012
I could make a list of articles about crimes committed by Christians and give it the title "The Dark Side of Christianity". The same could be done for any religion or ethnic group. So, what is the point of singling out Buddhists?
I think you ought to say precisely what you think is wrong with Buddhism and Buddhists that is different from other religions and ethnicities, and provide supporting evidence. As it is, people can recognize this web page is a weak smear attack not worthy of the rest of your web site.
David SunfellowPosted on November 21, 2012
JoJo, just a quick response. The dark side of Christianity (and other Abrahamic faiths) are so well documented and publicized, that I see no need to create a special page tracking the undone sides of these faiths. NHNE has, however, regularly taken Christianity to task over such things as the crusades, the inquisition, the genocide of native peoples, the persecution of various individuals and religious sects who dared to challenge the authority (and dogma) of the Roman Catholic Church, the greedy escapades of charlatan televangelists, and, of course, the ongoing epidemic problem of priests abusing children. The crimes committed by Christians in the name of a man who advocated loving everyone, especially one's enemies, are legion. The dark side of Buddhism has, however, received much less coverage. So amid the sea of blood spilled by Christianity and the endless lives that have been scarred by misguided Christians, Buddism gets a tiny page with a few articles that shines a little light on a few dark corners. I don't think this needs to be taken as an unfair, undeserved, over-the-top attack against Buddhism, or Buddha, because it isn't. NHNE is an equal opportunity employer. We do our best to applaud good deeds and call dubious ones into question wherever we find them.
Concerning your request for me to itemize exactly what I think is wrong with Buddism, the articles listed above do just that. They also include references to what is good, true, and beautiful about Buddhism.
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