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My kids love this school,the teachers they have had are great.Right now one has Mrs Raynor,what a sweetheart.She has a big heart and my kids have loved her.They have learned more from her than any other teacher they have had.I give her and other teachers a lot of credit for what they have to put up with and doing it for little pay
Forest Lake Elementary is an awesome school. My two sons attended and one is still in 5th grade attending. They have a great gifted program, alot of family functions for parents to get involved and Mr. Robinson the assistant principal is hands down the best school faculty member I have encountered in any school. He is just an awesome person, keeps kids motivated, always happy, always positive, funny, silly and can put a smile on your face everytime you see him. All schools should have a Mr. Robinson !!
My daughter, who is now in 5th, had started going to this school in second grade. From day one, we knew that we would be happy here. The assistant principal, Mr. Robinson, is terrific. Very upbeat and energetic and makes every child and parent feel important. The school is clean and organized. They offer many different programs to get your child more involved from cooking club, to dance club, to school news and student council to the more family related events like the ice cream socials and such. Now, our 5 year old is attending and at first I was a little nervous (as most Kindergarten mom's are) but the school and the teachers have gone to the ends of the earth to ensure that the transition is easy and that my daughter can leave class early enough to walk her brother to the after-school-care bus. I will tell you that the school is VERY picky about who is on the campus but I really like that safety is a top priority and don't mind the extra hassle.
I like this school.the only problem I had is my granddaughter who I have custody of did not take her serious with her emotional problems at one point the teacher would not let her go see the school counselor to talk without first telling the teacher what she had to talk about ,I know for a fact that the teacher was wrong and the counselor should of called me in for a talk and to refer her to a counselor outside of school. I hope this changes I will go talk to the teacher and the counselor this year so she gets the help she needs.
This school is an awesome school!! My child was in the Special Needs Pre-K class for the past two years here and she just got her variance approved to go back to this school. Mrs. Laggner has worked wonders with her and I am very greatful that she is at that school. Her assistance Mrs G and Mrs Monsanto are equally awesome! I just hope she gets Mrs Harris for Kindergarten!!!! *fingers crossed*
Very impressed! Teachers have excellent communication with parents, and encourage students to do their best!
Everyone is friendly and helpful and the teachers are great!
Forest Lake Elementary is a great school. I have two children that attend this school. The staff are great with the children. The principal Mr. Fisher is the districts principal of the year.
My kids love to go to school here. And cannot wait to start again. Thank you to all your wonderful teachers.
The principal is one of the best principals I have seen in a long time. He is very 'hands on'. He hires wonderful teachers who are dedicated. They always keep me up to date on my child's progress. I love this school.
I have had my daughter go thru k-5 in this school and my son started kindergarten last year, and my family has had nothing but great experiences with all the teachers and the staff. It is a really great school.
Both my sister and have gone to Forest Lake, and thought it was a great school. I find that it doesn't like some schools offer special activities for the students who are'nt in gifted. Everyone is treated really fairly. I agree with the other parent about lots of new teachers, but I don't think it creates problems. Also even if it doesn't have many extra-curricular activities the kids are still satisfied, and that is all that matters, seeing as they are the ones who do it.
The principal is great and very 'hands-on'. He hires wonderful teachers. The school is run in a very organized manner. Parents are encouraged to participate. They may not have many extra-curricular activities. However, this 'is' an elementary school. I would not expect much until you get to a middle school. Overall, I think the school is great!
Both of my boys have gone to Forest Lake the past few years. I find that it's a great school with a great staff. The principal is the best! The faculty is caring and professional. My only complaint is that I think kids need recess every single day. The gross motor activity helps them to be more ready to work when they get back in the classroom. My kids are getting a great education at FLE. It's a great school.
I like the principal, but, think that their are too many new teachers. I also agree with the other parent about their not being enough extra activities for the children. I think it is important for the childrens social skills, to be able to communicate with the other children during free time.
Forest Lake Elementary is a good school
We love it! My daughter is in the first grade and she has the best teacher in the world. Besides that, they are so active in Art, Music and Media. My daughters classroom has 5 or 6 computers. Even the food is great! There seems to be so much warmth and care. My 7 year old looks forward to school...enough said!
I found that the leadership at Forest Lake was excellent with a caring principal at the helm. One teacher in gifted classes was excellent while others just didnt always make the grade. There were too many students in each class and the teachers truly need additional help.
I liked Forest Lake in the beginning of the year but it has declined over the school year. My child is in Kindergarden and they have the same rules for them as the 5th graders. I just think the rules for K-gardeners should be a bit less harsh. I mean they are going to school for the first time ALL day. They need a little leway.
This is my second year my children have been enrolled at Forest Lake, and I am satisfied thus far. The teachers are very creative, and take into account the areas that my child is excelling in, and adjusts their work accordingly.
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|Sun, 11-01-2009 - 3:42pm
Do any of you have an official diagnosis of ODD with your ADHD/ADD child? Are you on an IEP and how does the ODD diagnosis change the IEP, if at all?
I am curious. I believe firmly that DS who was diagnosed with ADHD at 3 1/2 had ODD as well.... or at least tendencies. To my horror
|Sun, 11-01-2009 - 6:46pm
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|Mon, 11-02-2009 - 7:03pm
Hi Jenn.
You just EXACTLY described my son. The only difference is that his defiant behaviour is only at school. I can take him shopping with me and I have no problems at home. DS is ADHD combined type (and gifted) with no ODD identified.
He has trouble lining up...doesn't like to wait his turn. And if things don't go his way he bolts out of the classroom. I have had to do 3 parent withdrawals (these don't go on his record) in the last 7 school days.
He also now knows if he doesn't like the way the day is going he just acts out and gets to go home.
I have my son on bifentin (a long acting ritalin - only available in Canada) and I don't see it helping much with the impulsiveness. However, when DS isn't at school I don't need him on meds as he is easily controlled outside of the school environment. He does karate after school and has few issues and the meds are worn off by the time he goes.
I think I'm in the school's speed dial. The VP just loves to hit my button on a daily basis.
If you ever need someone to bounce ideas off of in the exact same boat feel free to email me through my profile.
In terms of the Explosive Child. This is the method that our school uses. Or at least that they say they use. They don't properly use the Ross Greene approach and often allow a blow up before they figure out the collaborative problem solving.
I feel for you. It's a good thing I have a good sense of humour with all of this.
Tracy....still smiling
|Wed, 11-11-2009 - 11:23am
My son sounds very similar. He's in 2nd grade and has a ADHD and ODD diagnosis. We strongly suspect Aspergers as well, but the neurologist diagnosed him ADHD and ODD. Anyway, we have the same struggles - lunchtime, PE, recess, hallway all seem to be high trigger times for my DS. Has your DS had an OT evaluation through the school? This year we've found that sensory breaks and a sensory "diet" throughout the day help him. They are taking him from the playground as recess ends and doing wall pushups, or a stretch band or other sensory things to help him wind down after recess (as well as 5-7 other set times throughout the day) - rather than putting him in line, and expecting him to behave. The sensory breaks help him keep his body regulated, but also get him out of the classroom and into a quieter hallway for a few minutes - which also helps him regulate himself). My DS has a lot of sensory type issues that exasperate the situation during unstructured activities (hallways, lines being huge triggers for him... crowds, loud activities, also). The school is working with us on his IEP, and are well aware of his behavior issues.
I read the explosive child last year - it is a good book, but hard to implement (IMO). We have not started DS on medication, but are looking to trial something sometime soon, I think.
|Thu, 11-12-2009 - 9:31am
DS has been evaluated by school for sensory issues. That is actually the first thing they did back when he was in pre-school. His teacher then noticed his sensory issues... which has a lot to do with some of his behavioral issues too. When we re-evaluated his IEP last year, they reduced his OT time. I personally think it needs to be increased and his access to a para needs to be increased. He does much better one on one. He had a para FT in pre-school but not now. We are re-evaluating next week b/c of his PE incident the week before Halloween.
Since he has gone back to school and since he has started this new medicine he has been doing GREAT! So I don't know if it's the medicine working or if it's HIM being afraid/embarrassed for what happened in PE. Which i think it's the former rather than the latter... he is remorseful after he has one of these meltdowns,

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Hey! I haven't posted anything in ages and I wanted to share my renditions of some of the famous paintings in history. I wanted to start this photo set last year following the positive feed backs I got from my 'Creation of Adam' photo (included below). I had some setbacks but now I finally have three photographs to get this photo series started. I hope y'all like them and wont think I'm too weird. lol
The angel part was tricky but I like the results. The role of Venus in this concept put me into a lot of thought because… I don't wanna pose nude! Thankfully, I have this seashell to cover my unmentionables.
This one is kind of a throwback. I made this around October last year and it made me think that I should start a photo set inspired from famous artworks. I never got to create that project.. until now. With this photo, I wanted to stray away from the original concept (again, I don't wanna pose nude) and made it a little silly. It's also a reflection of who I was. A cosmic slacker!
This one is a bit personal to me because this is how I expressed the insecurity that I felt during the time that I shot and processed this. It felt good to channel all that insecurity about my flaws into this photo. If the world found beauty in the demented nature of Picasso's portraits then I hope we can all find something positive in other people's flaws.
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Chocolate dipped strawberries that I never really bought. I had to ask the woman working in the store if I can take photos and she agreed! We had a brief conversation and I'm very satisfied with my shots
Last month, I spent my 20th birthday at the beautiful city of Bremen, the oldest city in Germany. I never expected to have a great birthday considering the fact that it's my first to be away at home. I went out and about the historic city with my fellow cadet, Jester and Sir Christian our Junior 3rd Officer. Huge thanks to Tita Leonor for being our tour guide. You rock!
Part I | The City
I didn't have enough time to get ready but I'm glad how my outfit turned out despite me chasing time. lol
This is the Stadtmusikanten. This image is very iconic in Bremen City. There's a local tale about this bizarre animal combo but I forgot about it.This particular sculpture is very well known for it is believed to grant wishes. As a foreigner (and on my birthday), it is only appropriate to make not one but 20 wishes!
Me getting friendly with the locals. lol
Part II | The Candy Shop
Part III | The Bremen Schnoor
This part of the city is a tourist hotspot. This is where houses dated from the 17th century still stand.
Disturbing toys…. But I have to admit they are pretty cool!
This is a stature of St. Johann. According to local legend, every October on his feast day, people would gather around and offer flowers,food and beer around the statue. It said that when people forget to do so, The statue angrily frowns.
Somebody had a little too much to drink last night..
Ice rain for like, 10 minutes. Yup those are real ice particles
This one is from Brake City (also in Germany) I'm not good at making conclusions at the end of every blog post so.. yeah. Ich Liebe Deutsland!
Misguided Thoughts | Insecurity | Envy | Depression
These photos represent what I've been through in the past month. I never thought I'd see myself in a condition where I felt so weak to the point that I lost confidence in my self and lost respect to my body. My emotions got the best of me. I've discouraged myself and drastically changed emotionally. I managed to pick myself up and my fight to complete this particular stage in my life continues. With this photo set, I hope to overcome my "demons" and to start over again and be a better person. I have God to thank for never leaving my side even if sometimes I feel that the whole world has.
Let Me Go | Recently I've had battles with loneliness and frustration. I always channel my negative emotions through some of my photographs.
This time I even included photos of the people who were the cause of my frustration and loneliness I just hid them so well in this photo that even I can't find them.
What starts with T, ends with T and is filled with Tea?
The Creation of the Slacker
An entire ocean can't sink a ship, unless it allows the water inside. Just as the negativity of world can't bring you down unless you allow that negativity inside.
ARTPOP pt.2 |I photoshopped photos of my random female friends to make them look like they were painted portraits. I also added some branches,vines,flowers and other elements to make them look like nymphs. These were inspired by Soleil Ignacio's work and Lady Gaga's song ARTPOP
ARTPOP pt.1 |I photoshopped photos of my random female friends to make them look like they were painted portraits. I also added some branches,vines,flowers and other elements to make them look like nymphs. These were inspired by Soleil Ignacio's work and Lady Gaga's song ARTPOP


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"The man is totally committed to the muse of music and he'll do anything for good musing. And sometimes it's very strange, I was at Neil's ranch one day, just south of San Francisco, and he has a beautiful lake, red wing blackbirds, and he asked me if I wanted to hear his new album, Harvest. And I said, "Sure, let's go into the studio and listen." Oh no, that's not what Neil had in mind."
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Clay Aiken is gay.
The former American Idol finalist has officially revealed his sexual preference in the latest issue of People Magazine.
The Hollywood Gossip staff had two thoughts when we heard this news:
- D'uh!
- Who cares? How do the body parts Aiken finds arousing have anything to do with what kind of person he is or how talented a musician he is?
Hopefully, we're not alone in these reactions.
But, as is often the case, those with a negative opinions are making themselves heard the loudest so far.
Here are a few message board posts from a Clay Aiken fan site. Bear in mind, these were people that considered themselves major followers of the singer prior to his announcement, making their homophobia and outrage that much more appalling:
trollynn63: "This is a gut wrenching day for The ClayNation. Somebody wake me up, I hope its a dream."
Holmes24: "please tell me I'm not the only one who is shocked beyond belief! I feel numb I'm so upset. This can't be real!! How can you guys say this won't change anything? This changes EVERYTHING. I don't even know what to think right now."
plumclayzy: "This will be it for me. I cannot continue to support him financially now that I know he has chosen this lifestyle. My mind boggles when I think about how 'lied to' I feel. It doesn't look like my expressed opinion will be a popular one, but that's OK."
clayncfan: "I've cried a river of tears and truthfully do not know where I stand right now."
Please tell us there are some rational, sane, intelligent Clay fans out there willing to come to the defense of this admirable singer. You know, people like Simon Cowell and his reaction to this announcement:
"Wow, that's a shock. It's like being told Santa Claus isn't real - unbelievable."
What I find funny is that his delusional tween-or-overweight-fortysomething fans didn't know and went ape if anyone suggested it...the Tea Party of fan clubs. Sad.
Look, the guy enjoys being queer, that's all there is to it. Some people won't be fans any more because obviously they don't feel they can relate to the context of his music any more. I mean, what normal guy wants to hear a gay dude sing about love, knowing his thoughts are more about loving other dudes? It's all just gross to me, though I will defend his right to be gross if he wants too. The poor kid though - he gets to tell his friends his dad is gay and his mom didn't think it necessary to get married to a man who wanted her in order to have the best environment she could provid for him. Sorry, but that's just selfish, and the baby will carry that burden forever - hopefully the other kids won't taunt him too badly.
There is no proof that any bible is the word of God, only faith and belief! The bible is a book of stories written by mortal men and subject to the culture and era in which it has been written. The only choice one makes with regard to sexuality is to either be honest and open minded vs. bigoted and self-serving to the extent that you force your unsolicited religious beliefs on others and have the nerve to do it in the name of Jesus or God. Neither Jesus nor God would ever hate nor judge those that they have created. In fact, to quote from your precious bible, you have been told to do neither. Gays have been here forever and they always will and anything less than tolerance is hatred. You don't have to approve or agree but you should always respect the rights of others to live the live that God gave them, whatever that may be. Heaven is not a place that permits nor promotes hatred. So, either open your mind and go to heaven or keep it closed and go to hell!
I am a 58 yr old grandother and hope some of you young kids out there will take some advice about life. No one is perfect and the way to evaluate a person is by the type of person they are and how they treat people. If you take a good look around you, you will find liars, cheats, wife and child beaters, people who commit to a person through marriage with sacred vows and then forget about them and follow their own pleasure. There are murderers, not just of the physical body, but also of minds (self esteem, self worth etc.). PLEASE GET A REALITY CHECK ABOUT WHAT GOES ON AROUND YOU AND RE THINK YOUR PETTY COMMENTS ABOUT TWO PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT TO LIVE THEIR LIVES, THEIR WAY, WITHOUT HURTING ANYONE and in fact HAVE HELPED OTHERS AND GIVEN US THE BEST OF THEMSELVES. Their private life behind doors is ABSOLUTELY NONE OF OUR BUSINESS......and has nothing to do with their kindness, generosity and goodness of spirit!
People who are shocked or upset by this are just plain stupid!! OMG it's been soooo obvious since the beginning that this boy was gay! People are so judgemental, and I totally agree with "Who Care" about Christians being hypocritical and judegemental. That's the reason I quit going to church in the first place. I'm not gay myself, but I am all for gay rights. I have several friends that I love dearly that are gay, and I hate seing them persecuted daily for their lifestyle. I think people should keep their hateful opinions to them selves, and let people live their own lives!!
I don't understand why some of his fans are so upset. It was not that hard to tell that the boy was Gay. There were no if's, ands or buts about it to me.
I read a comment where one of his fans said she was so upset she wouldn't answer her telephone and could not even go to work the next day. To me, that's about the nuttiest thing I've ever heard in my life!!!! I hope when or if she called in to her workplace, she didn't tell them she wasn't coming in because she found out Clay was Gay.
So sad that some people feel judgmental with those who don't have the married with two kids in the suburbs lifestyle, especially those former fair weather "fans" of this talented, charitably generous and kind man who merely wants to make a living and raise his son with his good friend and co-parent. I agree with Get With It and Queen B - go back to your simple existence and MOVE ON. It's not like he would have given someone so narrow minded the time of day - whether he be gay or straight!
So he's gay? and what does that have to do with his singing ability? The fact that he's gay isn't a problem with me. The fact that others thought he was straight is just plain strange. That boy is as gay as they come.
Clay being honest finally is great! It was quite agonizing to watch him trying to avoid the question each time.
BTW his latest hairdo is fantastic. He looks soooo deliciously handsome!


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The other night we went out to dinner at a restaurant that is "USA themed" -- each table represents a different state...decorated with all kinds of road maps and pictures, yada, yada, yada.
We were seated at "her" state's table. It irritated me immediately. It wasn't my WH's fault. Nor was it the hostesses' fault. It's just where we were seated.
I felt the trigger deep inside my gut and thought I was going to explode. My WH recognized the issue immediately and said he'd get us a different table. He stood up and started to wave down someone from the wait staff.
You know what? That nipped the whole thing in the bud. The fact that he was willing to do whatever necessary to make me comfortable, stopped the entire trigger process.
I took a deep breath and told him not to worry about it. Then we enjoyed a wonderful family dinner.
Your WH must be willing to do whatever necessary to reassure you, no matter how trivial it may seem
My WH plays Fantasy football. I discovered yesterday he choose a player for his draft, that has a last name that is the same as his OW's first name. Out of all the players out there!! To make it worse, this player plays for the team that I like the most! This player is also a rookie, that will get lots of play time!
Not a fantasy football player here, but I do believe that it makes no sense to choose a player that will be warming the bench.
Not defending what he did at all, but you can perhaps take some comfort in this thought. For this football season, your husband is going to be paying extra attention associating OW's name with a (presumably) muscular young man who may also disappoint him greatly depending on what happens on game day.
Do not back up. Severe tire damage.
To add insult to injury, he wasn't even upfront about what he did and waited until you were amongst friends to find out. So that you look like a psycho for bring triggered, and so that he couldn't get reamed for his selfish and disrespectful behavior right then and there. Disrespect.
He actually never told me he choose this player, I overheard him say it to our friend during the game. Those friends do not know about the affair and I couldn't say anything out loud other then "Really!"
I ended up texting him sitting right next to him asking why he would choose a player with the OW's name. He said, "The player was a good rookie rb and he knew the team he was playing for had lost their rb pre season, and this kid would be able to have play time. Then he told me, "he did not want her(meaning OW) or her name to control our lives." He knew it might bother me, just not this much. The fact that he knew it might bother me and still went for it says a lot to me.
Not defending what he did at all, but you can perhaps take some comfort in this thought. For this football season, your husband is going to be paying extra attention associating OW's name with a (presumably) muscular young man who may also disappoint him greatly depending on what happens on game day
Last night I talked with him a little more about it. He says to me, "I did not even have to tell you about it at all" First off jack ass you didn't, I overheard you! Second, yeah that is a very comforting comeback to my concern over it. Still not feeling great today, as I am seeing there is so much more behind this then just him picking her name. :(
He said he will trade the player. Great, please do!! Still the damage has been done. The way he seems to be pouting about it and not being comforting to the way I feel about it disturbs me.


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Google's 'power to switch off the lights in Europe' has 'chilling effect' - rivals
Google has the "chilling" ability to "switch off the lights" at web companies, claim rivals lobbying against the dominant search giant. They highlighted Google's decision last week to suddenly yank adverts from a popular price-comparison website, and argued such moves stall online innovation. And they want European competition …
This kind of behaviour brings Robert Heinlein to mind
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
A particularly relevant quotation from Life-Line...
Not sure why it got so many downvotes, unless El Reg has a lot of commentards who dislike Heinlein on principle. In America, particularly, corporations nowadays do seem to have a remarkably outsized sense of entitlement that dwarfs anything expressed by the individuals clinging to the shreds of America's modest social safety net.
Re: This kind of behaviour brings Robert Heinlein to mind
Investment. One Man One vote (you're not the man), and a few other sound bites are all examples of why competition is good and monopolistic leverageing is bad. That's not to say that a company that doesn't innovate and do their best to remain relevant shouldn't go bust. However they shouldn't suffer when the company that they rely on as the internet equivalent of the Yellow pages turns round and decides they want their business, so they can't buy any of the really prominent any more. Which is what's happening here. If Google promoted their services the same way that their competitors have to (traditional advertising, page rank scores, paid advertising, etc.) rather than just being automatically at the top and the most prominent thing on the page.
Re: A particularly relevant quotation from Life-Line...
"unless El Reg has a lot of commentards who dislike Heinlein on principle."
I suspect that El Reg has a lot of commentards who dislike everything on principle.
Re: A particularly relevant quotation from Life-Line...
@quxy. I downvoted for two reasons. The first is philosophical. I always downvote anyone who too lazy to have an opinion of their own but relies on Argument By Dead Person. The second reason is that the article is commenting on the EU not the US.
Re: This kind of behaviour brings Robert Heinlein to mind
Re: This kind of behaviour brings Robert Heinlein to mind
It brings to mind the comment that "Google may never have been a force for good, but have they now turned to the Dark Side?"
So it is.
I wonder.
Do they expect the police to do the same? To call up and warn you that you're about to be arrested for [crime]?
Re: I wonder.
It depends what the crime is, often people are asked to present themselves for arrest by appointment, if their alleged crimes aren't of a violent nature or likely to be a flight risk or a risk for destruction of evidence.
Re: I wonder.
In this analogy, the payday lender is the financial equivalent of a sex offender.
>In this analogy, the payday lender is the financial equivalent of a sex offender.
but that's true, although the sex offender may have some shreds of empathy with the victim.
Not a particular google fan but
What, exactly, do these businesses want google to do differently?
Even I can see google tagging its own services, if i can see and accept this surely thats good enough?
All companies do the same thing, Apple yanks apps with no warning, at least google talks about what its up to rather than Apple saying nothing at all. Google is not especially evil!
Re: Not a particular google fan but
They want them to stop being so successful so that everyone can have a go at Internet supremacy.
This just sounds like MS (and others) moaning that they didn't take the 'net credibly until it was too late.
I'm sure Google could scale back some of their integration in to everyone's 'net use, but it's difficult to say that they don't deserve their current position, given the innovations and effort they've put in.
Re: Not a particular google fan but
They want them to stop leverageing their monopolistic position in one market (search) to advertise their products in a new market. They want to compete on a level playing field rather than having the 800lb gorilla having the ability to swat them into oblivion whenever it wants to.
Re: Not a particular google fan but
What, you mean like the telcos did to independent ISPs when it was clear there was a market for the services?
"Microsoft has a diametrically different view about verticals than Google,"
So does this mean that Microsoft is now the good guy? Only I can't keep up.
Re: "Microsoft has a diametrically different view about verticals than Google,"
I was wondering about this one. I don't see how Bing shopping is so much more inclusive than Google shopping when it comes to third party price-comparison sites…
Re: "Microsoft has a diametrically different view about verticals than Google,"
Sometimes I would welcome Google having a tick box to specifically remove price comparison sites from search results. If I'm after information and specs on a product, especially if I already own one, the last thing I want to have to do is wade through several pages of price comparisons to get to sites that might actually have the information I need.
Microsoft are only moaning because it's not them in the driving seat. They had plenty of years in that position with their own dodgy business practices to put down the competition, now they're on the wrong end of the boot.
Re: "Microsoft has a diametrically different view about verticals than Google,"
Neither Google nor Microsoft are the good guys.
The trick is, which one of them has a billion PC owners by the balls, and which one is getting bawwed at by "vertical search" providers because these providers want to advertise for loan companies that target the most vulnerable people with almost criminal APRs?
Re: "Microsoft has a diametrically different view about verticals than Google,"
>a tick box to specifically remove price comparison sites
Oh yes. And vacuous -strings-of-towns- ones. (http://www.britevents.com/whats-on/lincolnshire/guthram-gowt/?category=theatre etc.)
Power to switch off the lights?
Number of very big issues here.
1) The site listed as an example did not follow the guidelines laid down by Google. These guidelines are extremely easy to understand and written for a layman (almost) This site do not count as a layman.
2) Sites listed in the organic search should ask Google to refund them the money they paid to be listed.
3) Its a private company, if you want to force them to change their product to suit your company and personal requirements, then I hope you don't complain when the same thing happens to your company.
We see this kind of stuff so often by Google's competitors, what we don't see are actual credible alternatives to Google's applications or even more simply, their search.
The moment someone forces Google to change the results of their search it looses all credibility. While Google may promote their own products we (the users) can understand this, the moment they start to play with the rankings of the competitors we no longer feel that the search results are based around an algorithm that counts up the various checks on a score card and gives the best possible result for a search term.
Butt-hurt Microsoft
Remember them, they used to have a monopoly, now crying because someone else is making better stuff...
Re: Butt-hurt Microsoft
So, because MS used to have a monopoly it's ok for Google to abuse their market dominance? And it's ok for Google to try to crush MS' services and they should just shut up because they used to do that and were stopped from behaving in such a manner?
Your logic is piss-poor.
Re: Butt-hurt Microsoft
It's perfectly OK for them to crush M$ services if they do so by making better products. It would not be OK for them to abuse their market dominance but Microsoft's band of brothers haven't actually presented any evidence that they have done so, merely screamed that they aren't playing fair.
If you take BT as comparison example. BT was split up into the platform (OpenReach) and Retail arms, and had to compete fairly with other retail providers of broadband products.
The same could be done with Google, with Google's competing services forced to be treated as essentially external customers to the platform.
"If you take BT as comparison example. BT was split up into the platform (OpenReach) and Retail arms, and had to compete fairly with other retail providers of broadband products."
If you believe that, you'll swallow anything. Having had some dealings with the internals, I'll believe OpenWound is is "split off" when it has separate shares and Board of Directors. In the meantime it's just doing the minimum possible to keep the regulator happy.
The difference is, people choose to use Google and there are freely available alternatives.
The fuss is because Google cut an advertiser without warning because they broke the rules they agreed to when they signed up - which also say they can be cut without warning for breaking the rules. They also reinstated the advertiser as soon as the problem was fixed. Contrast and compare with the ASA, who issue a slap on the wrist 3 months after the event.
@Stuart Ball
If you take BT as comparison example, but then again, BT was a state monopoly (if you can ignore Kingston Communications), so that would be a terrible comparison.
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Ok, what about Bell?
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BT was NOT a state monopoly at the point it was broken up. The "Golden Share" had already been sold off.
A better example would be Microsoft's Enterprise, Operating System, Office, and CE business units.
Times are changing in Googleland
And if you are a small company, not for the better. It seems search results are starting to favor large paying corporations and those that can game the system in huge ways. I had a specific search term on several of my sites and now that specific search has me on about page 10, when I used to be right up front. The difference? The market has shifted recently and one of the words in my multi-word term is hot and is a key term in a fast growing market. From a Google search perspective, I'm cooked. Oh, well, unless I pony up some big bucks for adwords and get in the game..... I'm cooked. Like any large corporation, Google isn't about information, it's about money and they will continually refine their products to make more of it. Just like I'm trying to do.
On a side note, and speaking of Google, I just tried to install the latest Adobe Flash upgrade and Google Tool Bar and Chrome was included in the install with no opt out possible. It was just being shoved down my throat. Once Google is on your machine, the real tracking begins. Not a fan.
Re: Times are changing in Googleland
The opt out wasn't there because you mindlessly clicked next. It comes up in big shiney letters. "We would like to install google toolbar, click next to accept this, or click cancel to continue the intallation"
Re: Times are changing in Googleland
The opt out wasn't there because you mindlessly clicked next. It comes up in big shiney letters. "We would like to install google toolbar, click next to accept this, or click cancel to continue the intallation"
If that's really how it is, it's clearly a cheap tactic meant to install without the user being aware. If replacing a checkbox opt-in with some phrasing that says "you must hit cancel to continue installing without this extra junk" is acceptable, then eventually this crap will get so obfuscated that you will need a lawyer to understand if the addon is going in or not.
"I understand that by clicking next I am not agreeing to the notion that I oppose the fact that adware will be installed now or at a later date and should I hit alt-F4, it will signify the opposite of that non-agreement."
Re: Times are changing in Googleland
So are you saying that you have personally decided that users would prefer to visit your site than the other sites that are more popular, have more links to them and have spent much more on marketing?
You had a search term on your site that always had you...somewhere higher than page 10 and now you aren't it is Goggle's fault as they should have singled your site out and weighed it heavier against others as your site is more important?
Wow, by the sounds of it I would say Goggle's algorithm's are working fine as the key term is "hot and ... in a fast growing market" and you have tried to rest on your laurels and just expect no-one else to capitalise on it.
You don't have to pay for adwords - the guy at the number 1, 2, 3 etc slots aren't there because they paid for adwords. They might have paid for an SEO or a marketing team but not to get that number one slot. In fact for Google having their adwords customers always hitting number one is counter-productive as if they are the only bidder they are likely to drop that bid as they don't need it.
Re: Times are changing in Googleland
That's the way all those toolbar installs word it, and amazingly I - and probably 000s of others - have been able to parse that sentence successfully and not install said toolbars.
Re: tricked into installing toolbars
I consider myself fairly competant at using Windows but with some software installations even I have to go "whoa, back that up a minute" when it comes to the part of them trying to foist a toolbar on me becaue they employ all the non-standard 'doublespeak' methods they can scrounge up to try and trick you into installing an unwanted toolbar, the kinds of tricks that a fair amount of computer users wouldn't understand what they're supposed to click and/or uncheck a box so that the toolbar(s) don't get installed, toolbars that often take over your browser's homepage and default search results which changes the end users experience of the internet (well often they think the internet comprises of just the web) and they can't always figure out what happened and how to remove the annoying barnacle.
Re: tricked into installing toolbars
I've accidentally installed the Ask toolbar that comes with Java updates before now, thought "oops" and gone back and uninstalled it. Now I know it's going to try, I go much slower through the update process. However, expecting a user to click 'cancel' to continue is definitely out of order, somewhere on a par with clicking the Start button to close down a computer...
I don't want any add-on toolbars on my browser.
Payday Lenders are scum
Cry me a river. They didn't comply with Google's policy, which they have very right to enforce and now they think they are "special?"
They are loan sharks. May the bastards rot in hell.
Re: Payday Lenders are scum
I'm playing AC because I've seen these "sharks" help a few of my friends (not exactly scum of the earth, just hit upon hard times due to a death in the family) in times of need, but could you justify your statement please?
Re: Payday Lenders are scum
Not all of them behave like this, and yes there is an argument that for some people they are a useful adjunct to the mainstream credit industry, for those on low incomes who have histories of being poor with credit, they're a nightmare.
Re: Payday Lenders are scum
Isn't that particular company buying adverts on TV?
Just where does their money come from? I'm a bit doubtful that they earn a huge wodge of wonga from Google-supplied adverts on their web-pages. And I know that some insurance companies, in their adverts on TV, make a point of telling us that they don't appear on price-comparison websites.
At least those meerkats are fun.
... coming from Microsoft ? What's new...
Moving on.
Re: FUD
What's new?
Oh, nothing that the 1990's wouldn't recognise....
Already Moved on...
Price comparison sites
Oh come on since google cracked down on price comparison sites its results are usable again. It had got to the stage where the damn things were filling the first few paves of results so you had to dig to get a useful result.
I couldn't care what google does provided there are no price comparison sites in the first 10 pages of my search results. As to advertising adword results etc google makes it easy to ignore thus and i don't recall ever clicking on one.
Anti competitive abuse of market position
Ignoring the payday loan issue for a moment try searching for "compare car insurance".
After the 2 sponsored links you get Google's compare service. To me that's an abuse of market position.
Surely that's what the article is highlighting.....even if it's muddying the message with the example used.
Of course you and I realise what's going on but we aren't most users. ;-)
Microsoft is dead...
Long live Google..
(yet another monopoly service provider).
Advertisers and shills, who gives a fuck?
It googles site, they can do what they want, why shouldnt they promote their own services or have they become a charity now?. Theres plenty of other search engines out there for people who dont like it.
And the removal of useless `price comparison` links from the top results is a gift from the gods. Having to scroll through that shit to find proper, relevent links was a pain.
Payday loan companys?, fuckin parasites sucking the life and taking advantage of the poor and vulnerable, theres one advertising on the telly with a 3000+% apr, how is that even legal? I really wont shed a tear if they just dissappeared, not only from google but the entire planet, utter scum.
Oh and streetmaps is crap, id much prefer google`s offering to come top in the search thank you very much.
Re: Advertisers and shills, who gives a fuck?
And Microsofts operating system was theirs, surely they could add whatever they wanted? But no. had to treat other media companies (ie.real player and others) and web browsers (ie.mozilla). Whats good for microsoft should be good for google.
Governments did it with Bell, BT and Telstra - all private companies, the latter two which were sold off by Governments at that.
Re: Advertisers and shills, who gives a fuck?
You DO NOT need to use Google for Search.. you have the choice to use Bing. Yahoo! etc.
MS had dominance in the Desktop PC market through years of abuse of their position.
Re: Advertisers and shills, who gives a fuck?
You DO NOT need to use MS for Desktop .. you have the choice to use Linux, BSD, etc.
Google had dominance in the Search through years of abuse of their position.
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I love my girlfriend more than I've loved anything in my life. I don't know how to show her my feelings though. What should I do?
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Drive to the very top of this mountain peak, where a great welcome center awaits: Get an idea of the lay of the land from a 3-D representation of the park that pinpoints locations of interest.
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Why we can't trust market signals
Tadas Viskanta does a good job of rounding up the reaction to the news that correlations are hitting new highs — this time on the way up rather than on the way down. He's not worried, though:
It is now well documented that asset class correlations tend to one during times of economic and financial market distress. 2008 was nothing if not characterized by economic distress and financial market instability. Indeed as we exited 2008 an economic depression and the end of the global financial system were at the top of the minds of investors and political leaders alike.
In that sort of environment correlations are, and should be, an afterthought. As we exited that time of extreme fear we should see a bounce back in the prices of risky assets. So the high correlations we are seeing are a natural result of the steep fall and equally steep ascent in investor sentiment and market prices.
If Tadas is right — and he might well be — then I think there are two further implications. Firstly, anybody looking at upwardly-sloping markets and seeing "green shoots" is deluding themselves: all we're seeing here is an artifact of the financial crisis and the market craziness associated with it.
More generally, the high correlations in the market right now do seem to indicate that we're emphatically not out of the crisis yet. And trying to apply an implicit efficient-markets hypothesis these days — the markets are going up so there must be some good news — is ludicrous: it's precisely at times like this, when correlations are at all-time highs, that the EMH breaks down entirely.
Most of the time I trust the markets at least a little bit, not because they're particularly reliable, but just because they're less unreliable than anything else. High correlations are a signal to start treating market signals with extreme prejudice. Which is one reason why I'm still so bearish.
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But Felix, don't youlisten to Dennis Kneale???
The recession is over! Everyone but a few cowardly bloggers in their mother's basement is aware of that.
Markets don't just reflect fundamentals, they also change fundamentals (Soros makes this point all the time, but nobody seems to listen). The fundamentals are better because the stock market has recovered. The market rise is self-justifying.
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… it's precisely at times like this, when correlations are at all-time highs, that the EMH breaks down entirely
And yet, throughout all the turmoil, we've demonstrated that the market has mostly behaved both predictably and rationally. If it helps though, stocks have risen since 9 March 2009 not because investor expectations of a robust recovery, but because things are expected to stop getting worse (there are a couple of charts at this post showing what investors have been expecting since stock prices began rising.)


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Rahul combines aggression with humour, persuasion
Rahul Gandhi, in his first speech Friday as the campaign leader of the Congress for the 2014 general elections, had the party workers charged up as he combined aggression and combativeness with persuasion and a sense of humour.
Gandhi, 43, switched gears several times in his speech that was eagerly awaited by party workers and leaders at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting at Talkatora stadium here.
As the clamour rose in the morning with workers chanting his name, Gandhi made it clear that he will speak towards the end of the meeting.
The stadium was packed as Gandhi rose to speak.
Rahul Gandhi did not disappoint party workers as he took up issues close to their heart, issues the party could go to the people with.
Speaking in an impassioned tone and tenor rarely heard before, Gandhi also raised his voice in between to underscore a point.
He spoke passionately of the party's thinking and ideology.
"This thinking is in our heart," he said, raising his voice several notches.
Gandhi lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, saying he did not believe in the "structure of democracy to be handed over to one man".
He also ridiculed Modi for his pitch to make the country "Congress-free".
"They do not read books of history. Congress is a way of thinking... that of brotherhood. Our opponents should understand (this thinking) is not new but has been there for 3,000 years... You cannot obliterate this thinking. Those who tried to do it were finished themselves," he said.
Gandhi evoked laughter when he compared the promises made by the opposition to selling combs to bald men.
"They do excellent marketing. They have shine, glamour, song, dance and everything. They are the kind who will sell a comb to a bald man," he said, triggering loud applause from party workers packing the venue.
Keeping in mind the Aam Aadmi Party, Gandhi said: "Now new people have come up who are giving haircuts to bald people."
He said that 15 Lok Sabha tickets will be decided directly from opinion of partymen at the grassroots level, including block presidents. If the experiment is successful, it will be upscaled.
Cheered on by the enthusiastic crowd, Gandhi asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seated a few feet away, to increase the annual cap on subsidised cooking gas cylinders from nine to 12 per household.
"There is another thing which the entire country, especially women are concerned, that is nine (gas) cylinders aren't enough, we need 12 cylinders," he said, as workers chanted his name.
Gandhi also called upon the people to support the party in passing six anti-corruption bills in parliament within the next three months. He said the opposition will do its best to stop the passage of these bills.
"We need to give more representation to women in politics. I want the Women Reservation Bill to be passed in parliament. I want half the Congress members to be women," he said.
Gandhi said he wanted that there should be more women representatives and AICC members as also more women chief ministers.
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