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CANON! This thread is canon and negates all other threads
I'm kidding of course. I was going to call this thread "Spock is a woman! McCoy dies! And Kirk is the Roswell alien!" which would be serious canon screw ups, everyone can agree, but not Abrams is going that far.
Is this another thread dealing with canon? Yeah. Are there people going to come in here telling me I'm an idiot for posting another thread about canon when I could have added to another thread already? Sure. Will I care? I'll leave it unanswered.
The reason why I started a whole new thread is because basically I have something to say and it'll be the same thing I'd end up posting in all the threads. So... I'm taking the lazy way out and replying to all those threads with one new one.
Is Canon Important?
Yes, it is. I agree to this. I'm a hardcore Star Trek fan. So yes, I hold Star Trek universe sacred.
But what canon is important? Which part? I agree that even the details are important. But within the Star Trek canon even before this new movie, there are inconsistencies. What stays intact is the main ideals and characters as introduced by Gene Roddenberry. Which brings me to...
"Abrams is throwing canon out the window!"
Really? Again this is where I say "So does Spock ending up undergoing an operation to change genders?" Yada yada. I think it's safe to say that Abrams is still making this about Star Trek, the main characters, especially the early stages of the friendship trio of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
Comments about Abrams not giving 2 fraks about Star Trek canon is grossly overexaggerated.
I think the reason people are getting on Abrams case is because really he is new blood to this franchise. But criticizing that is a little hypocritical. After all, and I can't remember which movie, but I recall one of the movies or more have featured "new blood" in the director's chair. I have the special edition dvds and watched the bonus features. I can recall a director or two being revealed as having never seen Star Trek prior to being asked to direct a certain film!!!
But fans holding accountable the people who are in charge of their respective franchise has increased in ways that would scare a rabid dog. After Peter Jackson's LotR revisioning, and him revealing how much of a devote "Ringer" he is, that idea has pretty much ruined it. Now if anyone any less than a Trekkie is brought on to any Trek projects, many of you hit the roof at max velocities.
Seriously, lighten the hell up!
Star Trek Canon Inconsistencies That Exist Before Star Trek XI
I'll need someone's help on this. I tried finding actual lists online, and got close, but they were deleted a long time ago.
But I have seen articles that say Star Trek canon is littered with inconsistencies.
Is it James R. Kirk?
When did Khan meet Chekhov?
And let's not get started on the Klingon foreheads. Yeah "they evolved". Yeah, let's go with that one.
As far as how important canon is, don't take my word for it:
Gene Roddenberry and the Confusing Game of Revision
I have this in my signature, but here's the whole quote from Paula Block, VCP Senior Director of Licensed Publishing. I'll highlight some things:
Alright, so first of all, he didn't much like a lot of the movies? I'm not sure which ones, and I had trouble finding the specifics on this.
That being said, until we can find a clear answer, it looks like... none of the movies are safe... Movies that brought in a lot of Trekkies and made them what they are.
And what's this? Some of the original series isn't canon either? If it conflicted with TNG Gene actually said that the new stuff was canon and negated the old stuff! What!
This is revionist thinking.
So Gene R. made revisionist thinking an official part of Star Trek.
But wait. A canonite can easily say, "yes, but only his revisions. Only what Roddenberry wrote is true canon."
So that means everything after Roddenberry died is not canon. This includes First Contact, a movie that most Trek fans believe to be one of the best if not the best Trek movie.
Heck, I'm ready for a canonite to come in here and say, "Yes. That's right." But... that would be a change of ideas, since most Trekkies accept First Contact as official canon. Now you're going to ask that it not be?
Not including the fact that this would also negate any material Gene didn't like... like the other movies before he died.
The idea that only Roddenberry approved material is canon actually goes against what Roddenberry himself wanted:
What's intact? The main characters and personalities created by Roddenberry. The returning plot theme, "brave new worlds and new civilizations". Even details still remain, though Abrams is taking liberties with some other details. And why shouldn't we forgive him this apparent sin that everyone involved with Star Trek has been guilty of?
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My personal definition of Trek canon? Every detail which remained unchanged the longest.
Yes, it was James R. Kirk -- for what, one episode early on?
Yes, it was "United Earth Space Probe Agency" -- until it was called Starfleet, which it was then called for every episode and film after that, although the earlier name also reappeared much later under the role of a different agency. In-universe explanation? Starfleet and the U.E.S.P.A. were two separate organizations that each held a different degree (and perhaps area) of oversight in starship operations. Kind of like a U.S. Naval vessel operating in a U.N. taskforce. Enterprise was under Earth oversight as well as Federation Starfleet oversight.
As far as Chekov goes -- that's what happens when someone who doesn't know the source material intimately helms something based on that material. That doesn't justify somebody else coming along and doing the same later.
"Now I did a job -- and got nothin' but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character, so let me make this abundantly clear: I do the job... and then I get paid. Go run your little world."
But, by your own personal definition, you make allowance for the changing of established canon.
Isn't that a bit of a contradiction?
Kirk even called Starfleet 'Starfleet Control' (I believe in Tomorrow is Yesterday) before he called it 'Starfleet Command'...
Of course - it could represent 2 different sections...
I'm ba-aack...
"One of the many, the proud, the friends of Zardoz".
The bridge of the Klingon BoP between ST 3 and 4.
Savik---'nough said.
The phaser redesign between 2 and 3 which supposedly happen within days of each other.
The excessive battle damage applied to Enterprise upon return to space dock that wasn't there at the end of Khan.
Joaquim being an older man in the TV series and being a young man in ST2.
The lack of regulation on how strong the weapons really are, phasers and torpedos do the damage needed for the story line.
The list goes on and on for the movies, the tv series, etc. It was a work in progress that got better over time. Budgets changed; what they were able to do with the film was way different than 10 years prior with a weekly TV show. Imagine if Star Wars was made today instead of 1977, the creator always wants to go back and do things different, but we have what we have.
The characters are there, the ship is there, let's just sit back and enjoy the entertainment value. I have said it before, Gene's Star Trek is dead, respect that.
This is an article taken from the statrek.com.
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How do the Star Trek novels and comic books fit into the Star Trek universe? What is considered Star Trek "canon"?
As a rule of thumb, the events that take place within the live-action episodes and movies are canon, or official Star Trek facts. Story lines, characters, events, stardates, etc. that take place within the fictional novels, video games, the Animated Series, and the various comic lines have traditionally not been considered part of the canon. But canon is not something set in stone; even events in some of the movies have been called into question as to whether they should be considered canon! Ultimately, the fans, the writers and the producers may all differ on what is considered canon and the very idea of what is canon has become more fluid, especially as there isn't a single voice or arbiter to decide. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was accustomed to making statements about canon, but even he was known to change his mind.
In the publishing world, there used to be two exceptions to the novel rule: the Jeri Taylor- penned books "Mosaic" and "Pathways." Many of the events in these two novels feature background details of the main Star Trek: Voyager characters and were to be considered as references by writers on the show. Now that the show is over, some of those events may never be incorporated into a live action format, so the question of whether details from these novels remain canon is open to interpretation.
With regard to the Animated Series, there are a few details from the episode "Yesteryear," written by D.C. Fontana, that reveal biographical background on Spock and planet Vulcan. Details from this episode have been successfully incorporated into the canon ofStar Trek (such as in "The Forge")and now that the Animated Series is out on DVD, we hope that even more can make its way in!
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No, if it is dead then leave it be. Don't use Star trek to launch a movie that could easily be called something else. No one said it would be easy to please the fans. I hope Mr Abrams makes this a good Star Trek film and takes Star Trek in a direction respectful of all that have come before.
I can only say that to me, the author of this post PERFECTLY demonstrated my opinion of canon. I agree with every word he said, and I support his ideas 100%.
"To boldly go where no man has gone before"
Because canon is still a raging battle (it shouldn't be, and know I didn't think this thread would stop it, I'm not that conceited), I decided to bump this thread. But with substance rather than just say "bump". Here's another quote about canon from the Richard Arnold:
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Controller laments poor oversight; program director calls audit incomplete
Blasting a program that has been touted as a way to revive decaying commercial corridors, often in predominantly Black neighborhoods, City Controller Alan Butkovitz this week released a report critical of the Commerce Department's oversight of the $135.5 million program.
"Although these funds had the laudable goal of increasing citizen exposure to the arts and business communities, it is highly questionable as to whether taxpayer funds were spent in the most economical and effective manner possible," said Butkovitz in a statement included in his office's audit. "Funding agreements with award recipients did not contain requirements to properly safeguard the public funds."
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This could be fun, watching @pogue track down stolen iPhone through his leagues of followers. Go get 'em!—
Sharon Zardetto (@SharonZardetto) August 02, 2012
When a thief got his sticky fingers on David Pogue's beloved iPhone, he probably wasn't bargaining for a crowd-sourced investigation. The New York Times tech columnist tweeted screen shots of the phone's location to his 1.4 million+ followers.
My iPhone was stolen. Find My iPhone shows it in MD. Anyone want to help me track it down? ADVENTURE! lockerz.com/s/230516701—
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Here's the larger view of where my iPhone is currently held hostage, to show you the city… lockerz.com/s/230523813—
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Somewhere in Maryland, eh? The Twitterverse is on it!
.@Pogue If I could skip out of work I'd head there – Seat Pleasant, MD, isn't that far from DC. DC/MD peeps: anybody able to help?—
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@Pogue have you called the cops or are we doing this batman style? It's about 30 mins away from me.—
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@Pogue Google streetview is available for that street.Carrington Place, Seat Pleasant, Maryland—
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A Gizmodo writer believes the phone is being held near the Highland Park Elementary School in Carmody Hills-Pepper Mill Village, Maryland.
@pogue we're helping RT @kylenw: CONTINUING COVERAGE gizmodo.com/5931258/david-…"—
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A few Twitter users warned Pogue that the thief is holing up in a shady area.
@Pogue rough neighborhood, take backup—
Damien DeVille (@ddeville) August 02, 2012
@Pogue Not the most ideal neighborhood to track it down. Might think about contacting local authorities rather than sending in a vigilante.—
Michael Land (@mflandman) August 02, 2012
@Pogue Ugh.. Better wear gang neutral colors and a flak jacket if you're going after your phone in THAT neighborhood.—
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Some suggested instead of counting on the Twitter Bloodhound Gang, Pogue should call the authorities.
@Pogue call the police!—
bernardo (@bjchan) August 02, 2012
@Pogue Theres a Police station about 2.5 miles from there. Maybe give them a call… seatpleasantmd.gov/index.aspx?NID…—
Doug Judson (@crashrider) August 02, 2012
@Pogue call the police in that area and communicate with them throughout the process. As they go to the door, set the phone to send a "ping"—
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Will Twitter's super sleuths save the day? No luck yet, but at least Pogue has a ready-made topic for his next column.
Twitchy will monitor the missing iPhone situation and update as more information becomes available.
Pogue links to Gizmodo's detective work.
OMG!! Gizmodo has learned more about my lost iPhone in 2 hours than… anyone! Amazing… j.mp/Mm3SYD—
David Pogue (@Pogue) August 02, 2012
Gizmodo has posted an update with a statement from Pogue. Apparently his phone was snagged Monday on an Amtrak train somewhere between Philadelphia and Bridgeport, Conn. He located the phone using "Find My iPhone" and Maryland police have been notified.
The phone is now thought to be at a private residence.
Sage advice:
@Pogue If you want more people to know about your stolen iPhone you should add the #NBCFail hashtag to your tweets—
SCO (@TucsonSco) August 02, 2012
Police located Pogue's iPhone this afternoon.
UNBELIEVABLE!! The Prince George's County, MD police department have recovered my iPhone!—
David Pogue (@Pogue) August 02, 2012
Here they are–Maryland's finest, holding my iPhone after its long, harrowing journey! bit.ly/Ri5or9—
David Pogue (@Pogue) August 02, 2012
Julie Parker, media relations director for Prince George's County Police, tweeted a photo of the recovered phone.
@Pogue Here's your iPhone safe & sound. We'll FedEx it tonight. #poguephoneseriousemergency http://t.co/oOMrVcNx—
Julie Parker (@PGPDJulie) August 02, 2012
If anyone lost a phone & had it ping to a location in #PrinceGeorge's County, we'd do same. Sort of routine, but rare to recover. @pogue—
Julie Parker (@PGPDJulie) August 02, 2012
Well done, PGPD!
Pogue tells the harrowing tale of the days he spent pining for his lost iPhone.
Annnnnd, here it is: My own telling of the Great Pogue Lost iPhone/Twitter Recovery Tale! j.mp/Qyoz5g—
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The end of the academic year means society committee elections! Her Campus caught up with Christian Society's new President and Vice-President for 2014-15, Bethan and Robin! How long have you been involved with NUCU? We actually met each other on the first night of Freshers Week at a CU event, and I suppose we've both been involved in NUCU in some way ever since! Explain to us what your role(s) as President and Vice-President of NUCU will involve. READ MORE
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Shenin Anowar is a first year Pharmacist student who is this year's University of Nottingham's delegate at the annual congress, known as European Pharmaceutical Student's Association (EPSA), in Hungary. Picked as the representative for Nottingham and as one of the 5 British students there, Her Campus talked to her about her experience this year. So first of all, how does the EPSA work? READ MORE
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This week, Her Campus caught up with Sarah Dear, who has just been elected next year's Impact Editor-in-Chief. The job will see her juggle the 3rd year of her Philosophy degree and the full time role of running the magazine. Following in the footsteps of Antonia Paget and Emily Tripp, who shared the role of Editor-in-Chief this year, we wanted to know whether Sarah was looking forward to next year, or was apprehensive about taking control of such a successful student publication. Congratulations on being elected next year's Impact Editor-in-Chief! What are you looking forward to most? READ MORE
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Alex Turner: UoNSU Education Officer Candidate 2014
March 13, 2014 - 12:11pm
Our final interview with the SU candidates is Alex Turner, 3rd year Geography student from 'London/Essex', who is running for the role of Eduction Officer. We spoke to Alex about the changes he wants to see happen to education at UoN, the experience he's had to prepare him for this job, and a real-life encounter with Brangelina... Tell us what's involved in being Education Officer. READ MORE
Johnny Lawrence - SU Presidential Candidate 2014
March 11, 2014 - 8:22pm
Her Campus were thrilled to finally meet Johnny Lawrence, SU Presidential Candidate 2014. Mostly because he proved difficult to pin down for an interview; in his words, Johnny 'doesn't really follow a plan'. The Psychology MSc student from Hextable, Kent talked to us in depth about the practicalities of some of his policies, revealed one that wasn't even allowed on the manifesto, and opened up about his love life… Can you tell us what's involved in the role of President? READ MORE
Mike Abiodun Olatokun: SU Community Officer Candidate 2014
March 11, 2014 - 2:24pm
Her Campus spoke to Mike Abiodun Olatokun, a third year Law student originally from Nigeria but now living in Birmingham, about his campaign for SU Community Officer 2014. He told us about his vast experience within the SU and wider community, and why this makes him the man for the job! Tell us what's involved in being Community Officer, in your opinion. READ MORE
Joe Caunce - Activities Officer Candidate 2014
March 11, 2014 - 5:00am
On Monday we met with Joe Caunce, one of the candidates for 2014 Activities Officer. The 2nd year History student from St. Albans told us about some of the great work he's done for charity since he's been at Uni and his passion for getting everyone involved in societies. He also revealed a genuine phobia of Lord Voldemort and an impressive family connection to a musical legend… We had a stalk of your campaign page and it looks like you've been campaigning VERY heavily. How are you bearing up? Do you ever sleep? READ MORE
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Pinkerton Academy and Londonderry High School football players recently were named to the Division I South All-Conference Team.
Pinkerton, LHS earnAll-Conference Team honors
On the All-Conference Team for offense are: running back Manny Latimore of Pinkerton, running back Jon Young of Londonderry, offensive lineman Justin Poitras of Pinkerton, offensive lineman Austin Maylor of Pinkerton, offensive lineman Casey Brackett of Londonderry and kicker Kyle Cantalupo of Pinkerton.
On the team for defense are: defensive lineman Phil Harper of Pinkerton, defensive lineman Hayden Sturdevant of Pinkerton, defensive end Harrison Giza of Londonderry, defensive end Ryan Day of Pinkerton, linebacker Matt Madden of Pinkerton, linebacker Shawn Murray of Pinkerton, defensive back Eric Fairweather of Londonderry and defensive back T.J. Urbanik of Pinkerton.
Girls, hone your lacrosse skills
DERRY — Lighthouse Lacrosse is running girls lacrosse skills and fitness sessions for local players at the Sports Zone in Derry from Jan 5. through Feb. 2 for players ages 9 to17.
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Fish and Game has online store
CONCORD — Just in time for the holidays, shoppers now have a new way to purchase logo merchandise and other outdoorsy gifts from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department through a convenient new online store at shopwildnh.com.
If you're looking for that special gift for a hunter, angler or wildlife watcher, this is the place to do one-stop shopping fast and easy online. The site will carry Fish and Game logo merchandise throughout the year, including camo caps, ceramic camp mugs, and a selection of sweatshirts and T-shirts featuring wildlife designs. You can also purchase the 2014 New Hampshire Fish and Wildlife calendar online at the new store.
Fish and Game offers winter archery leagues for all levels
HOLDERNESS — Interested in keeping your archery skills in tune once archery season comes to an end? This winter, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department will once again offer free archery leagues for both beginners and experienced archers who want to learn new skills or improve their current skills.
Both leagues will be held at Fish and Game's Owl Brook Hunter Education Center, located at 387 Perch Pond Road in Holderness. Registration is now open.
Each archery league will meet one night a week, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., for four consecutive weeks:
January leagues: Advanced league, every Tuesday beginning Jan. 7. Beginner/Instructional league, every Thursday beginning Jan. 9.
February leagues: Advanced league, every Wednesday beginning Feb. 5. Beginner/Instructional league, every Thursday beginning Feb. 6, 2014.
To register, call Tom Flynn or Eric Geib at the Owl Brook Hunter Education Center at 536-3954. Registration is first-come, first-served; call soon. Participation will be limited to 10 people in each league. You must be able to commit to attending all four weeks in order to register.
Participants in the adult league must bring their own equipment in good working condition. Only field tips or target points will be permitted, no broadheads. All equipment will be provided for the participants in the beginner league.
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Tubby Smith took the podium for the first time as head coach of Texas Tech basketball Tuesday afternoon, fist-pounded Tech mascot Raider Red, and opened with a joke:
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It may be an abnormally cool day in Lubbock, but it was a warm reception for Tech basketball's new head man.
"Tubby Smith is one of the most respected coaches in all of inter-collegiate sports," Tech A.D. Kirby Hocutt said. "We couldn't be more pleased with the announcement of Tubby Smith as our new head coach."
In 21 seasons coaching at Tulsa, Georgia, Kentucky, and Minnesota, Tubby has amassed a career record of 511-226. That includes 18 20-win seasons and he's the fifth coach in NCAA history to lead four different programs to the NCAA Tournament (17 total). Smith even won a NCAA National Championship at the University of Kentucky in 1998.
"I'm very intrigued by the Red Raider program," Smith said. "I have plenty left to give the game of basketball, and this place sold me right away."
Smith comes to Texas Tech after a six-year tenure at Minnesota where he led the Golden Gophers to a 124-81 record. He directed the team to three NCAA Tournaments, and this past season led Minnesota to its first tournament victory since 1997. Despite the success, he was fired from Minnesota because his teams never finished higher than 6th place in the Big Ten conference while amassing just a 46-62 record in conference play.
"My tenure at Minnesota is one that I'm very proud of," Smith said. "It was tough to leave but life goes on. The enthusiasm the leadership here (Tech) shows, really sold me. We need to get started right away. That's why I'm here. I've analyzed the potential of this program and I have plenty left to give. I've recruited this state before and we can win here."
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I've been working on a j2me game for my 3510i a couple of weeks now and untill yesterday everything was going just great. I've setup a IIS to upload the midlet to my phone which worked really well.
But yesterday everything came crashing down. After a debugging session of 5-6 hours using the emulator only, the darn thing suddenly wont download the midlet, it says 'Response Unknown' (btw nokia, good work on the in-depth error messages)
Here's what I've been doing to try to fix it:
1) I Googled it for at while, but felt it was a waste of time cause all the 'Response Unknown' problems out there seems to be related to poorly configured webservers. I did find a FAQ though which stated that flushing the cache and resetting the phone (by removing the batteri) might help, so I did just that. No change.
2) My initial thought was that my midlet suite had become to big for my phone to handle (it's around 62k) so I tried to obfuscate it down to around 51k, but still 'Response Unknown'.
3) My second thought was that my IIS had been sending my phone bad data, so i made a fresh empty new midlet suite and tried to download it. It downloaded just fine. What I leaned: The IIS was still working fine, and my phone could still download midlets.
4) From my last test I knew something in my midlet was causing my phone to fail the download, so i tried to remove all classes and resources from the midlet and slowly adding them one-by-one. I learned that when i added the fourth class 'BitmapFont' (which handles my bitmap font) the 'Response Unknown' appeared. Thinking i've found the answers to all my problems i figured "AH! this class has simply been currupted somehow" and i added all resources and all classes BUT BitmapFont and gave it a go. 'Response Unknown'.. there it was.... mocking me. Now I had NO idea what was going on. I removed all classes and resources again starting from scratch. I tried with just my main midlet class: downloaded just fine. Then i tried with just my main midlet class and all resources (we are talking 4 .png's at around 36kb total): 'Response Unknown'. WTF so now my png's are causing 'response unknown' ? I started crying
I guess my next step would be to make a mew midlet, and slowly adding content from my current midlet. *sigh*
Any suggestions, ideas or comments are appreciated.
Note: My midlet has been running on the emulator with no problems all the time.
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update: It seems my problem is indeed size dependend. I tried making a midlet with only the Midlet class in it. It downloaded just fine. Then i made a small png and added it to the project. Then i made the png bigger and bigger until suddenly i got the 'Response Unknown' error. It seems the error accures when the midlet suite is bigger than 8k, but why!? I've been uploading 60k midlets to my phone with no problems right up until yesterday. I have no other midlets installed on the phone so i can't be a space problem can it?


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Ramya to opt for plastic surgery?
The yester year heroine and the present host on the small screen, Ramya Krishna is worried about ageing. She is now in her forties and she looks ravishing. Her biggest worry now is the though of getting old.
She is now desperately exploring all options to maintain her physique and her looks. She is even reported to have consulted a plastic surgeon and plans to go in for cosmetic surgery. She wants to get rids of her wrinkles and also the excess flab under her chin and around her midriff.
But Ramya should realize that she looks great when she accepts her age and acts according to her age. Beauty is only skin deep. Ramya surely would know this. She has many qualities and she still looks ravishing even at this age. The popularity of her show on TV is a testimony to her looks.
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If I Was Google for Just One Day
Let's play a little game. Let's pretend that just for today you could be Google. You can do whatever you want to the algorithm, any Google products, the Google brand, Googleplex, all 26,000 Google employees, everything Google, it's yours to toy with. Oh one other thing, you get to keep all the money Google makes today.
So here's what I would do.
1. Set my goal – Make money of course. So how do I do that? by offering searchers almost exactly what they are looking for in the natural search results and offering them exactly what they are looking for in the paid ads. By offering almost exactly what the searchers are looking for I know I can beat out the Yahoo!s and the Bings and the Lycoses and even the Altavistas and Hotbots of the world wide web. Then by giving them exactly what they want in the paid ads I know I'm going to make at least a few cents off of every visitor.
2. Gather the data – I have the Google toolbar that could gather the browsing habits and history of every user that has it. I have Google Analytics that shows me detailed information about the what visitors are doing on a huge chunk of the websites out there. I have Gmail where I have access to a great deal of the communications going on out there. I have Google docs that helps me organize all the things that people feel strongly enough about to create a spreadsheet or text doc. I have Google calendar that helps me know when people are doing what. I have Google maps and free API access to a ton of location based services that I can use to build shopping and spending patterns of individuals. I even have Google voice that is trying really hard to figure out what people are saying in my voicemail. I have the fastest growing browser out there. I'll even have my own OS where you won't be able to hide ANYTHING from me that is on your computer. And of course, and this is my favorite part, I have Google+ user accounts to tie all these services/things together so I can nail down all that information about YOU. I'll know where you live, work, shop, worship, recreate, vacation, and visit. And I'll know what you do online, how long you stay there, if you're reading or not, if it has to do with your job, if you spend money doing it, and if you're likely to spend that money anytime soon. Today for example.
3. Tweak the search results – Now that I know everything there is to know about you I can tailor the algorithm specifically to you. I'll give you local search results when you are looking to buy things that you don't usually have shipped. I'll remember who you have visited over the past few days and make sure that you see their ads on my affiliated adsense sites in hopes that you are ready to make that purchase today, or at least click the ad today.
There's probably a lot that I'm overlooking but I only have 1 day to run Google, I need to get going. I'd say that's a pretty good start. We'll see how the bank account looks tomorrow and I'll let you know how I did.
How Not to Do a Critique, and Then How to Do it Right
The Backstory
After I had been designing professionally for about 6 years I decided to go back to school and get a degree, and possibly learn a thing or two. I ended up in Jim Godfrey's Intro to Web Design because it was a prerequisite for the advanced class. It was horrible. Jim made me use… (*sobs) Dreamweaver. And I wasn't allowed to include javascript or anything dynamic. Talk about torture. Jim turned out to be an amazing teacher so I swallowed my pride and followed the rules.
The real fun started at the end of the first assignment when we all put our designs up on the big screen for a classwide critique. By the time we were about 5 designs into the critique I knew one individual in particular would be my arch nemesis. We'll call him Larry. I sat where I could see Larry's screen as he worked but he couldn't see mine. I knew that Larry's work was typical for a beginning class but his opinion manifested itself as rude and overbearing during the critique and just made me want to punch him. Larry talked like he knew what he was talking about to those who don't know better and he made everyone feel horrible for even trying to attempt the assignment.
Soon we came to mine. I couldn't wait to see what Larry would say. Surprisingly he didn't say anything. But as soon as the next design went up he was right back at it. I began to stew. I didn't even notice the quality of work that was on the screen, I just noticed how wrong Larry was. I put together my plan. I knew what his project looked like and I planned my comments. Making note of many of his comments that applied to his project as well. I couldn't wait to throw it all right back in his face.
Finally the moment came. His design went up. A few people raised their hands and offered praise on how well it was laid out, good white space, blah blah blah. My hand went up. I'm normally not a harsh critic but this day was different. This wasn't a critique, this was war. So I calmly began to go down my list. Everything I said was right. He could have paid attention to fonts, consistency in border widths, leaving a single point of interest, etc. etc. I went on for a good 2 or 3 minutes. As I spoke I could see the heads of all the intro students begin to nod and see that this was indeed a very poor design. I could also see Larry slide down lower in his chair. This was supposed to be an anonymous critique so no one knew whose design we were looking at but I knew. And I think Jim knew. He gave me that look of "I wish I could get away with saying what you're saying. Except I'm not that mean".
By the time I was done I think I had destroyed Larry's self esteem. He didn't offer up any more advice for the remaining few design projects. He just slouched in his chair and sulked. I had won.
I should have felt the joy of victory but I didn't. I felt sick. Never before had I singled out an individual and systematically whittled down his work until it was a festering puddle of goo. I had done what I had wanted to never do. Sure I put him in his place but I think I could have handled it a lot better. If I were to go back knowing what I know now what would I do different?
How to Critique
First acknowledge what they have done right. Every designer, no matter how novice or how inartistic, starts with good intentions and for some part at least they accomplish it. Start by finding what that is and give it a nod.
Second, ask questions. Find out what they were going for. Maybe they wanted to use so much white space that it would leave an unsettling feeling and make the viewer take a specific action. Design isn't about being pretty, it's about solving an issue. So find out what problem the designer is solving, it might not be what you are expecting.
Third, make suggestions. Don't tell them what they have done wrong. Suggest that they go back and try approaching it from this angle or that angle. Try giving a little direction rather than just pointing out errors and mistakes.
Finally follow up all the advice with some more praise. I don't remember who told me this in school but you should treat a critique like a sandwich. Keep all the meat in the middle and sandwich it in between two good pieces of praise. I have used that philosophy since I got out of school and it has always worked well.
So what works for you? And what good critique horror stories do you have?
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The Three Types of Designers – What Level are You?
I attended a seminar a few years ago where the owner of one of the states largest design firms gave a really interesting presentation where he kind of mentioned this fact as a sidenote: "There are three types of designers; Technicians, Artists, and Problem Solvers. The technicians make up about 70% of the field, artists about 20% and problem solvers are only 1 out of 10." I remember being really impressed with all his work but this is the main thing I took away from listening to him. I've worked with all types of designers over the last decade and here's my thoughts on who's who.
The Technician
In school I was taught all the tools and not really pushed to create anything that special. Had I not worked as a designer before I decided to get the degree I probably would have been one of them. You know the type. They can explain how to use all the tools in Photoshop or Illustrator. They understand the printing process and know how to do spot checks. They can even code a little HMTL. Technically they are designers. Technically.
They can take your mockup or sketch and turn it into something that is well… less like a mockup. Some people will even be convinced that it will be something you could be proud to present to your customers. They are really good at punching a clock and generally stay on task without much complaining. They can take your idea and put it into the chosen medium as well as you can explain your idea.
When to hire the Technician
If you already know what you want but don't possess the time or ability to produce your design you probably need a technician. If you are the type of manager that loves looking at everything through a magnifying glass you might want to hire a technician. A technician take instructions and doesn't worry about adding their own style or applying their own market knowledge. In other words they won't use their artistic ability to mess up your already brilliant ideas. Technicians are cheap. You pay them for their time and their ability to memorize those keyboard shortcuts. And in the end, you get what you pay for.
The Artist
When I went back to school all I really wanted was a piece of paper that would open more doors. I already thought I knew it all so I wasn't really expecting to learn anything. Well surprise surprise, I did learn a few things. One thing I learned well (in photography and not in my design classes) was how to push yourself and explore artistic expression.
First off artists are technicians, and then some. They have learned the tools and can design circles around the technicians but this has never really been proven because they wouldn't every really stoop to that level. The artists are the designers that win awards. They have a flash website that shows their great portfolio. Many of their examples are quite visually striking but leave the viewer a little confused as to what is the exact purpose of the piece they are looking at. They can make you feel like you are in an art gallery of sorts. They charge a lot more than a technician and don't really need you to give them a lot of direction. In fact they don't want much direction. You don't usually keep one of these guys on staff, they either work as a freelancer or for an agency.
When to hire the Artist
When you need to impress clients or competitors with your marketing budget, a good way to show them that you have money to throw around is to hire an artist. When your only goal for your product is to be eye catching and get some attention you need an artist. You hire an artist when you don't have specific conversion goals or when you have goals but no metrics to track those goals. You have a great deal of faith in your artist and you will need to give them some space to work their artistic magic. You can expect the artist to deliver something mind blowing and unexpected. If that's what you are after you can't get that from a technician. You'll need an artist.
The Problem Solver
Something that they really didn't teach in school was the ability to solve problems. They tried, but mostly they failed.
In the truest sense, a designer is a problem solver. They must have mastered the technical aspect. They must have the artistic flair. But they also have something that the other two types of designers are lacking. The have the ability to understand why their client has come to them in the first place. Even in cases when the clients doesn't understand why they have come to the designer.
The problem solver has the ability to figure out what the client is hoping to accomplish by having something designed and then finding the best solution to accomplish the goal. The problem solver uses goals and tracking metrics to measure the success of their efforts will come back and tweak things until they know they have it just right. The problem solver has considered and in some cases pursued a career in some field of engineering.
Problem solvers are going to require a bit more time than the other guys. They are going to spend a lot of time up front getting to understand your industry and business. They'll really get to know your company and your goals. They will also be a little bit pricey but not really that much more than the artists.
When to hire the Problem Solver
When you know what your goals are and have them well defined you are probably ready for a problem solver. You understand that you have your expertise and the problem solver has theirs. You are going to rely on their expertise but not just on faith. You want to work closely with them so you can understand how to work better them but you don't want to try to manage them or dictate what they do. The problem solver will help you understand who your target market really is (not just who you think they are) and help you reach that market. They'll take the time to understand the mindset of the target market and develop a plan to really connect with them.
The problem solver is also an artist but they understand that a design must do more than blow people away. It must connect with your customers on a conscious level as well as on a subconscious level. It also goes without saying that the problem solver is also a master technician. They not only know the tools, they have tweaked and customized the tools to streamline their work and many times have developed their own tools to accomplish what the industry standards don't quite pull off.
So I have to back up a little. I don't really consider Technicians to be designers. I also don't really consider the Artists to be designers. But if you ask them if they are they'll t respond affirmatively. I'd call them aspiring designers maybe. In my mind a designer is someone who can find the right balance between form and function to solve a problem.
So Who Are You?
Which type of designer are you? Are there more types of designers that I am missing?
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An SEO Experiment – What Is Mesothelioma?
Someone asked me not long ago what would be a really good strategy for building an MFA site. Personally I have never liked them. I think they make the Internet a NOT-better place. But I knew this was someone who wasn't planning on launching thousands of lame sites so I indulged.
Me: What is your domain that you want to do adsense on?
Them: Oh, I don't have one yet. I was wondering what domain I should go get.
Me: Ok, do you care what subject your site is on?
Them: No, not really. I mean as long as it's not porn or illegal or something like that.
Me: Ok, I would start out by researching the value of the ads that your site will be placing. You need your site to naturally rank for the keywords that your advertisers will be targeting. Let's do a quick search. (searching…) Ok, here's a good list. Number 1 keyword: Mesothelioma. Do you know what mesothelioma is?
Them: No idea.
Me: Mesothelioma is a cancer that is caused by asbestos. There was a few big class action lawsuits a while back and basically if you come down with mesothelioma you can get a big chunk of this money. Lawyers are dying to get in front of you if you have mesothelioma so they are paying big bucks to get that keyword. See, look at this. Keyword number 3 "What is Mesothelioma" They're spending $50 a click to get that keyword. Now keep in mind, they are probably not paying for non-Google domain searches. That means that your won't be getting the $50 clicks on your site. But that's still a pretty good indicator.
Them: So let's say I want to have my site be about mesothelioma.
Me: Ok, so next thing you want is to see if you can get a domain with one of these keywords in the domain. So let's see what's available… wow, look at that! whatismesothelioma.biz is available. A .biz is no .com but still, that's a pretty good domain.
Them: Ok register it right now before someone steals it.
Me: Oh you must have done this before on GoDaddy and come back the next day to get the domain that you wanted just to see that someone else had registered it hours after you had looked it up.
Them: Yeah. How did you know?
Me: I've heard that story many times. That's why I don't use GoDaddy. (typing and clicking…) Ok, so now it's registered. You have two choices at this point. You can either develop your own unique content (which is better) or you can just put up a page with links and some easy copied mesothelioma stuff and not worry about it any more.
Them: I think I'll develop my own content. How do I do that?
Me: First, go research Mesothelioma. Make a list of sites you want to link to. Make your own notes and write some unique content about it. I'll setup a WordPress blog and you can just come add content when ever you want.
So the story doesn't end there. The site cleared the sandbox in less than 2 weeks. It got its first real visitor about 3 weeks later. And finally 2 months later it's ranking for the keyword "What is Mesothelioma". Granted, it's on page 31 but it's still ranking. With less than a total of 5 hours of work on it. And it's getting clicks. It's best click so far has been $2.94. That's not too bad but you can't make a living on it without traffic. Now we'll just see how much it really gets.
**Note: I also recommend going through the process of measuring potential traffic. We just didn't happen to do it on this experement.
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RAD (Rapid Application Development) with WordPress
I can hear the developers screaming for my head on a platter already and I haven't even began to explain. Please sit down and put away the pitchforks, I think it'll make sense.
WordPress is not a development platform. It's a blogging platform, right? Right. It's also pretty flexible. With a little creativity it can do a lot.
I'm not going to suggest that you could use it for most web applications but I just had an idea Monday, and today it's live in WordPress, for the most part anyway.
The Story:
I have always run into times when I wanted a page printed out with some sort of lines or graph or something that Iknow I could buy at Office Depot but I only want 3 copies of it so I sit down and crank it out in Illustrator in about 5 minutes. I have amassed quite the collection over the years. Then Monday my son brought some blank sheet music home from piano lessons and I caught myself thinking "hmmm, I could have created that in like 3 minutes." Then I looked closer. It had a web address on it. His teacher had just gone tothis website and printed out the paper templates for free. In less than 3 minutes I'll wager too.
The Development: (and I use that term loosely here)
So that got me thinking… "Why couldn't I take all my paper templates and launch a similar site. I would like it to have the ability for random people to come submit their designs too. But I want it to be a kind of community site, not a shopping cart. And I want contributors to be able to just upload their stuff. And why not run adsense on it to see if I could get it to make a little money. Hey, I could do all those things in WordPress. Right? Yeah, I think I could."
So I did it, I say down for 2 hours and did it all; register the domain, setup the host, install WordPress, install an appropriate theme, install some necessary plugins, setup a twitter account. And presto, I have a new site where people can come contribute their paper templates and anyone can come download and print them for free. In one night. I'd call that rapid wouldn't you?
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Naming Conventions as a Marketing Tool
No, I'm not talking about including your keywords in your files names, though that is a worthy subject for a blog post. I'm talking about the designer being organized enough for someone else to make sense of their photoshop layers. How is that marketing you say? Let me explain.
Shawn Borsky recently wrote a really good article covering the basics of design that help the designer excel and shine. One of his suggestions is that we stay organized in our naming conventions and organization.
Stop and think about this for a minute. Who is ever going to see your PSDs? You typically send a flattened jpg or png to the client or if you are really serious about your image you present it to your client in person printed in high res and mounted on mat board. You don't show them your PSDs. You will see your own files again some day down the road when you need to make a design change but don't remember what you named the layer containing the clients logo. Quite possibly the developer who takes your design and HTMLizes it will see the PSD but the client's decision maker isn't going to see them. Or will they?
I've spent a lot of time working in both roles, designer and developer. As a developer there have been numerous occasions where the decision maker has come to me and asked "What do you think of these guys?" And usually I just answer without giving it much thought. I base my answer not on how the designer has been able to handle them self in meetings and conversations, I judge by how easy they are to work with and how well they get the job done. I have received PSDs with 20MB of layers that aren't even being used. That's not saving me any time because it's hard to tell at a glance which layers are really needed because they are named "layer 57″ and "copy of vector smart object". The time spent sorting out the layers and figuring out what is supposed to be there can really add up if the designer hasn't taken the time. No one knows the file like the original designer so it takes the designer a fraction of the time it would take the developer just to figure it out. I have also received files where the layers are organized into folders and cleanly labeled. It's rare, but where it happens it's a breath of fresh air.
So I respond to the decision maker, "Oh, these guys over at this agency really have their act together. They are worth twice what we are paying them." And typically I have worked with decision makers that know when to take the developers advice. They base 80% of their decision on my advice. The organized designer gets the job, the raise, the additional contract.
Then in the last few years there have been the times that I have been the decision maker. I always ask for the PSDs because I am looking for good designers with which to form long lasting relationships. There's a lot more to it than just having your files organized. Organizing bad work doesn't make for a good designer. But a good designer can often lose the bid if I can find one that is almost as good but keeps things organized.
So in a way, your organization skills are your marketing. Any time you create an advocate within your client's organization you have your marketing taken care of for you. It's word of mouth, only better.
Sketching – The Forgotten and Most Important Step in the Design Process
Although I have been doing SEO since 2001, I was a web designer first. I just read a really good post on whether to sketch or not to sketch in your design process. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the designers block that so often accompanies the non-sketching option or to take up the pen and paper against the seas of frustration and just get those ideas down on paper and out of your head.
I thought I would give our readers some details on how it works for me. Keep in mind, this is an individualized process and you should tweak it to suit you. This is just how I do it.
First I start out with thumbnails. The idea with thumbnails is to get design ideas onto paper. I use blank paper, sometimes graph paper, never ordinary lined paper. When I have a bad idea come into my mind I can't seem to keep it from effecting my others ideas until I get it on paper. Once the idea is on paper I can move on without worrying about the previous ideas, good or bad. I try to keep the sketching for each thumbnail under 10 seconds. I also try to keep them smaller than 2 inches sqare. This doesn't leave time or room to make them detailed or fancy but then, that's the whole point. Usually I find that I don't find the idea that ends up being the final design until I have been sketching thumbnails for 20 to 30 minutes. Not that the first ideas are bad, I may even come back to them and use them on a future project.
Of course there are the times when I can already visualize the perfect design in my mind before I sit down at the computer or to sketch. I still sketch anyway because even from one single idea, I get 5 to 10 very different sketches. And even if I end up keeping my original idea, the sketching makes it much stronger than it would have been without it.
Sometimes I know it the second I finish the thumbnail. Sometimes I have to weigh the options and use the ol' calculatus ellimatus to narrow down which ones are worthy of exploring further.
That's right, thumbnails is just the beginning of the sketching process. Next I move on to create roughs of the ideas that show potential. Sometimes there's 4 to explore, sometimes there's 20. I will try to get at least 4 roughs on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper. I spend a little more time on them but not that much. The idea here is to add some detail and explore options within the idea. From each thumbnail I'll sketch 2 to 10 roughs, depending on the current flow of the creative juices.
Once I feel like I'm done with the roughs, I go over them all and mark the things I like. One, two, or even three stars. Usually if I give something three stars, I have found my final concept.
From there I go to a full sheet of paper. I take all the ideas I liked and see what works well together. I might even break out the colored pencils if I am feeling it. Most of the time I can visualize the right colors with a simple B&W sketch in front of me but if you are going to show it to someone (a client maybe) the colors can help a lot. *NOTE Sketches are not usually for clients. But there may be some that you know will respond well and understand the design process. These clients are usually recognized by their budget. Clients that pay more are usually much easier to work with.
Once I have found my final concept, the PhotoShopping goes quickly. There's little exploration on the screen and there doesn't need to be. I know how I want it to look and I know how I don't want it to look. From there it's a matter of picking the right font and images to accompany the design. But that's probably better left for another post.
The Page Footer – an Indespensible Tool for SEO and/or Conversion Rate
There's some fantastic information in a recent article on WebDesignerDepot. I was just discussing this concept with a client the other day. The subject at hand was "How do you get the most mileage out of your footer?"
The footer of your site is one of the most critical and overlooked parts of the site. The article at WebDesignerDepot offers many good points from a design perspective but I prefer a good combination of SEO and user-centric features. Examples like the White House and Apple are what most SEO firms will recommend. They'll tell you to make sure you have links there to all your important pages and make sure you load your keywords into them. That's all good for the search engines but don't forget about the user. Mail Chimp takes the space in the footer and uses it to repeat its sales pitch. Chances are, if someone has read all the way to the bottom of a page, they are predictably going to be more interested in what you are doing/selling on your website than people that never make it to the footer. But Mail Chimp also loses some SEO value. So which is the right strategy?
At this point I would say take a step back and look at your analytics. What are your users doing with your current footer. Maybe it's time to try some A-B testing with your footer and see if adding the sales pitch without the links makes a difference in your conversion rate. I'm betting it will. But every website is different. It could be that you lose a couple spots in your rankings and the difference in traffic isn't worth the gain in conversion rate. But then again, maybe it will be.
There's also pretty good odds that you are using social media in your marketing. You are right? You should be. Social media icons and links could fit very well into your footer strategy. But again, consult your analytics and do some testing.
Above all, remember the first rule of SEO. If it's useful for real users, the search engines have figured it out or will figure it out. Eventually
Do Flash and SEO Mix?
This has been on ongoing issue since the late 90s. Traditional graphic designers love to push Flash because it allows them more creative flexibility. Flash doesn't have the same technical limits as HTML.
Sites that are built in all flash can still rank well in search engines but not as well as a similar page built in HTML. The reason? Google has over 250 parameters they take into account when indexing and ranking websites. Flash can still accommodate some of these parameters but not most of them. Even with the Google/Adobe announcement that Google would begin indexing flash files, they don't behave the same way that HTML files do and are still treated differently.
Industry Leader Rand Fishkin (who loves flash) has come up with a great list of 7 reasons why you shouldn't have a site created in ALL flash. (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/flash-and-seo-compelling-reasons-why-search-engines-flash-still-dont-mix)
- Different content is NOT on different URLs
- The breakdown of text (not formatted by importance like HTML)
- Flash gets embedded
- Lack of testability for flash optimization
- Flash doesn't earn external links like HTML pages do
- SEO basics are missing
- A lot of flash still isn't crawlable
Vanessa Fox of Nine By Blue has given the following reasons to be cautious when considering Flash:
- Search engines are still based on text, not Flash
- Even using XML to populate your Flash, you miss most of the SEO benefits of HTML
- Google can't index javascript called from Flash (a common practice)
There are also many opinions about the correct way to use flash. Some say not at all, some say Search Engines don't really matter. The general consensus is that flash is best used as a page element in an HTML based site. Even if you will have the bulk of the content be Flash. This is the best way to accommodate the edgy designers and the search engine sceintsts.
The big issue here is what really matters to companies concerned with reputation management.
To these companies, Search Engines do matter but not for the same reasons that one might expect. The main SEO push at these companies is to get good positive content on the 1st page of Google. They probably already have the top position, but also want the big detractors to not appear on page one. That will be accomplished by building SEO value in other web properties. Building the new company site(s) all in Flash will not help that endeavor, it will hinder it. Here's why.
Links are widely accepted as the most heavily weighted factors in search rankings. Google doesn't do well finding links from flash to other sites. The company needs to get its secondary properties to rank on the 1st page of Google for the main keyword (the company name). For example if MonaVie.com had a flash link to monaviemall.com, it wouldn't get picked up by Google and MonaVie would be losing one of the most valuable links for that secondary domain. By putting the content and links in HTML, they gain those ever important links from MonaVie.com to their other properties AND they also gain latent semantic keyword value by having the page text associated with the links on the page. Both of those benefits are lost in the use of an all Flash website.
How companies should use flash
Companies definitely need to keep flash, but done right. Flash isn't the only way to accomplish the premium look and feel that they need on the website but it is very effective from a design perspective. What needs to be done is to use flash as a page element that is embedded into HTML. They also need to make sure to incorporate content into the design. Every page – especially the homepage needs to have textual content.


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An Open Letter to the United States Congress: Support the JOBS Act!
June 14, 2011
Dear Member of Congress:
On behalf of the 362,000 members of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU), I urge you to support the Jobs Opportunity, Benefits, and Services Act (JOBS Act). Introduced as H.R. 1745 by Representative Camp (R-MI) and as S. 904 by Senator Hatch (R-UT), this legislation would give states flexibility in allocating unemployment insurance funds to get citizens back to work as well as prevent job-crushing tax hikes.
Since the recession began in 2007, states have found themselves in a self-defeating cycle of higher taxes and reduced job growth. In an effort to replenish their drained unemployment insurance (UI) funds, unemployment taxes have soared by 44 percent in the last two years and more than two-thirds of states have indicated they will raise taxes on businesses next year. These already-enacted and looming tax hikes have dampened job creation activity, causing states to lean ever-harder on the crutch of federal funds. Adding to this unproductive cycle, 33 states with insolvent unemployment trust funds have borrowed more than $46 billion from the federal government in order to continue paying benefits.
The JOBS Act would allow states that have been constrained by one-size-fits-all federal rules to finally break this cycle of dependence. States are set to receive $31 billion in remaining temporary federal unemployment funds, but have very little discretion in how it is spent. The lack of flexibility has reduced states' ability to tailor proper responses to their unique employment and debt situations. North Dakota, for instance, with a 3.3 unemployment rate and no outstanding loans from the Federal Unemployment Account, has vastly different needs compared to California with 11.9 percent unemployment and nearly $11 trillion coming due.
H.R. 1745 and S. 904 would allow states to put their share of the remaining federal funds toward a menu of options designed to fit their individual circumstances. Whether it be through continuation of current benefits, paying down federal loans, or investing in more training and job placement efforts, this bill opens the door to innovation while reducing the pressure (especially political pressure) to impose harmful tax increases. The JOBS Act also strengthens job search, education, and training requirements as a stipulation of receiving aid.
Ultimately, Congress should reexamine the fundamental structure and economic assumptions underlying government UI programs. In the meantime, the tab is set to become due on federal unemployment loans, making the status quo unworkable for many job-seekers, businesses, and state governments. Rather than continue with an inflexible program that has conjured up the specter of higher taxes, the JOBS Act allows states to search for innovations that could help get their citizens back to work. For the aforementioned reasons, NTU is pleased to endorse this important legislation.Sincerely, Brandon Greife Federal Government Affairs Manager
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The Necessity Of American
Perseverance"We must never despair; our
situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the
better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must
put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies
of the times." -- George
the phone with the IRS trying to learn the tax rules for small
businesses, I realized just how much of a percentage of
every dollar of my earnings would go to taxes. I was
stunned. Self-employed people pay double Social Security and
double Medicare taxes, which is on top of federal income taxes. Then
there are state income taxes that many have. And when
a small business is a second income, the entire small
business income will be taxed at a higher income tax rate because it
is at the top of the
yearly earnings.
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