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Facebook vs Google: does size matter?
Facebook recently announced it has hit the major milestone of 500m users, following hot on the heels of the news that, in the US, the site has overtaken Google for the first time. This is truly remarkable growth for a site that only launched in 2004.
However, can we judge the effectiveness of Google vs Facebook based simply on the size of their respective user bases? Should we be diverting more budget towards Facebook at the expense of search?
Retailers: understand your search revenue through integration
Recovery. Confidence. Spending. These are terms that will that will be welcomed by retailers across the world as the global economy inches away from recession. They will now be looking to capitalise on the more optimistic outlook and report more positive results.
We are clearly not out of the woods yet, so all such supporting marketing activities, such as search, need to be justified with accurate measurement. However, to date there has been a fundamental flaw in the way that it is measured and could prove to be a major stumbling block.
Social media advertising for retailers
It is hard for any marketer to ignore the hype that surrounds social media. Facebook, Twitter, performance display and ad exchanges are bringing opportunities for retailers to generate demand within these massive new channels.
Facebook is probably the most accessible and it's understandable that retailers are getting excited about its possibilities. We're looking at a site with more than 400m active users, all of whom can be individually targeted and engaged through Facebook Ads.
Seasonal search: how to do it right
Seasons and events in the UK and the world over have developed an increasing importance for brands and marketers in appealing to consumers. One only has to look at the impact of occasions such as Valentine's Day to see how lucrative an event can be for a brand.
Search offers brands a potentially engaging way to capitalise upon this, which may not be as hard as you think. The initial groundwork of a seasonal paid search campaign must be rooted firmly in the website in question.
Depending on the brand, there are two potential options to pursue...
Paid search predictions for 2010
Forecasting the future of any industry is always going to be tough, let alone attempting to predict the future of a market as complex as paid search. Although leading analysts are already estimating paid search spend will grow significantly this year, how this growth is going to happen is still uncertain.
However, it's obvious that more money will mean the number of tactics, targeting options and channels available for search marketers will need to grow to make sure search that campaigns can deliver ever-increasing return on investment (ROI).
With this in mind, I expect that the following trends are likely to drive paid search growth throughout the coming year...
Google's not so secret weapon in selling the Nexus One: Search dominance
When it comes to selling smartphones, it pays to be the king of search. Google jumped directly into the smartphone seas this week with the launch of the Nexus One. One of the first things the search giant did (besides open an online store to sell the phone) was put a big ad for the phone on its homepage.
That's prime real estate, especially considering that the pristine page is generally ad free. But Google has other tricks when it comes to search that could be more dubious. Like manipulating search results and blocking advertising on its trademarks.
What would a Tory government mean for SEO?
Although it's by no means a sealed deal, it's very possible that in the 2010 election, the government will change and the Conservatives will lead the country. What might that mean for our industry?
Paid search and online lead generation: can they exist together?
Can paid search and online lead generation co-exist in the same marketing plan, or do advertisers buying leads just end up cannibalising their own own search efforts?
As online lead generation starts to establish itself as a separate discipline in online marketing and an increasing number of advertisers start to see the benefits of paying for leads on a CPL basis, marketers will have to start making some decisions to allocate sufficient budgets to their online lead generation campaigns.
For many lead products, paid search is still one of the most important ways to generate premium leads. This raises a few interesting issues for advertisers running paid search campaigns at the same time as buying in third party leads on a CPL basis. Can the two really exist together in the same marketing plan?
MicroHoo: Does 1+1 really equal 3?
There are two things that make a search engine successful: quantity of traffic and the quantity of advertisers competing for the top spots and pushing up CPC's. Currently, there is a great deal of industry speculation, which claims that, if Microsoft and Yahoo's deal goes ahead, it could create a true competitor to Google in the search and advertising market. But is this really the case?
Yes, their traffic will be added together, but will they see higher CPCs through attracting more advertisers?
Why you need relevant PPC landing pages
A good landing page is one that reinforces 'conversion intent' by providing enough information to persuade customers to convert, but most importantly it has to be relevant to the paid ad that the user has just clicked on.
When shoppers enter a very specific phrase, such as a make and model number of a product, it suggests a clear intention to purchase, and so the landing page has to send the searcher straight to the product page and make it easy to complete the purchase.
Boost your quality score with these simple tips
There are many elements of an effective paid search campaign. While much of the discussion often centers on bidding, there is an equally important component: quality score.
Quality score was introduced by search engines looking to receive maximum yield from advertising. By understanding the search engines' approach, search marketers can take steps to improve their ROI, independent of their bidding strategy.
Paid search spending is not going down
According to a recent post from Heather Hopkins at Hitwise, the share of search traffic coming from paid listings is decreasing at the expense of organic traffic.
The stats highlight a 26% decline in the share of paid clicks, but is paid search really falling? Let's take a closer look...


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Wauwatosa West girls basketball team's four-game winning streak snapped by Shorewood
Trojans fall below the .500 mark after loss
What could have been a huge emotional week, turned into a downer for the Wauwatosa West girls basketball team Friday night at home.
That's because the Trojans blew a 20-11 lead in the third quarter, fought their way back into the lead at 31-29 with 2 minutes, 57 seconds left to play, before watching Shorewood go on an 8-3 run to end the game and earn a 37-34 victory.
As a result, the Trojans go into the holiday break with a 4-5 overall record, 4-4 in the six-team Woodland-West Division. The Trojans then battle Pius XI (8-0) on Jan. 4 and New Berlin West (7-1) on Jan. 11 when they return to conference play.
They also have non-conference games with crosstown rival Wauwatosa East (1-6) on Friday; Milwaukee Lutheran (1-6) on Jan. 8 and Whitefish Bay (5-4) on Jan. 15.
Lead evaporates
The Trojans went into halftime with an 18-11 lead, but Shorewood went on a 15-5 run to take a 26-23 lead into the fourth quarter.
"It's the little things that kill us," West coach Ashley Imperiale said. "We don't take care of the ball; we don't make strong passes; we weren't cutting hard to the ball; our defense was not calling out ball screens when we're getting screened. But all of a sudden the little things added up and it was a two-point game."
West held Shorewood to one basket in the second quarter, but they could only put seven points on the board and that lapse eventually hurt them.
After Megan Wendelberger scored to open the second half at 7:34, Shorewood went on a 15-0 tear, as Robbie Holland scored seven of her game-high 11 points in that stretch and Ashley Eimers added six of her eight points. When West's Latasha Harmon nailed a 3-pointer with 4.3 seconds left in the third quarter, it cut Shorewood's lead to 26-23 and gave Trojan fans hope.
West then opened the fourth quarter with a 5-2 run as Wendelberger tied the game at 28 and then two free throws by Jessica Pike and a free throw by Wendelberger gave the Trojans their final lead at 31-29.
But Jada Stackhouse scored twice and Eimers scored easily on an inbounds play and Shorewood led 35-31. Elise Ditscheit then drilled a 3-pointer to make it 35-34. But Holland's putback with 41.5 seconds ended the scoring.
"It wasn't their quickness, I think it was their length," Imperiale said when asked about her team's inability to stop Holland and Stackhouse. "They have good jumping ability. Yeah, we boxed out, but we didn't push them out. If you're just standing next to them, they're going to outjump you."
Unfortunately, the Trojans are still learning how to hold a lead.
"It's disappointing," Imperiale said. "The last three games we've struggled when we had the lead. We're still searching for how to play with a lead; to be aggressive, but also not be passive and not playing. That's where we're stuck in a little rut right now.
"It's definitely a game we should have won. It's that momentum you want going into a big 11-day break. When you have a schedule like we do, you've gotta win the one's you should. We're doing a good job of every day showing up and getting a little bit better."
Putting Cudahy away
You know things are getting better when the coach talks about her team beating themselves in many ways, not taking care of the ball and not making the simple plays - in a 15-point victory.
That's what Imperiale focused on following an eventual 48-33 win Dec. 18 at Cudahy.
But she did find some positives.
"It was a very back and forth battle, but I liked how we never stopped battling and I was happy with how the girls stepped up in the fourth quarter and were more intense and determined than Cudahy," Imperiale said.
Leading 33-26 going into the fourth quarter, Tosa West outscored the Packers, 15-7, and rolled to the easy win.
"Down the stretch we used a series of well-executed fast breaks," Imperiale said. "(We) sank our free throws and played tough defense to pull away for the victory."
Imperiale believes in the process, but she figures if her team can play 32 minutes like how they closed out the game against Cudahy, the Trojans could be very tough down the road.
"I'm a big believer in the process and while we've made huge strides, we're still very young in the process of getting to our vision and goals," she said. "But this game gives me some chills because if we play for 32 minutes the way we played the final three minutes of the game, wow, we could be special.
"A few weeks ago, I don't know that we could have pulled this game out, so it's always nice when you can walk away from a game knowing you didn't play to your best, but still found a way to get the job done. That's process right there. We found a way."
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Celia PerryJan. 31, 2008 8:50 PM
Military officials announced today that Army suicides increased by 20% in 2007, and attempted suicides went up more than 40%. These grim statistics come in the wake of President Bush's final State of the Union address, during which he touted the troop surge as the answer to violence in Iraq. The president said, "high profile terrorist attacks are down, civilian deaths are down, sectarian killings are down."
But with more troops serving and staying longer in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's not surprising they come home carrying more baggage. Some are even bringing the violence home with them. Earlier this month, the New York Times revealed that 121 veterans of the two current wars have been charged with murder on U.S. soil. Many of the cases have been easily traced back to combat trauma and the stress of deployment. It goes to show that the aftermath of war is never confined to the war zone; it always hits home.
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Debra J. DickersonJan. 31, 2008 8:34 PM
Go ahead and laugh, but I think Vermont is on to something.
A bill is pending there to allow its citizens to opt out of driver registration fees - for life - if they agree to donate their organs when they die. At Vermont's rates, drivers would save $480 (depending on how long they live and drive) while another magazine noted that:
that there were 530,000 valid driver's licenses in the state as of 2006. So, there are a lot of available organs – in Vermont alone – to help the nearly 1 million people on transplant waiting lists in the U.S.
While stolen organ-rackets may be an urban legend here, they're not in India and certainly not among China's executed prisoners. While the need is acute generally, African Americans in particular face an severe shortage of donor kidneys, for instance, which largely have to come from other blacks to be compatible. Unfortunately, they have a low donation rate. Until more states try such initiatives, we simply won't know what it takes to raise these rates. Imagine: just a few states could eliminate the need for donor waiting lists!
But now?
Sadly, store clerks are routinely surprised to see that I'm an organ donor when they check my driver's license and look at me like I'm either Mother Theresa or some freak-show, wild-eyed pagan. But initiatives like Vermont's might just get more of us out of our comfort zones and our life-giving hearts out of our dead bodies. We shouldn't have to be paid to do something so easy - though I will greedily accept the discount - yet such an unbelievable blessing to the suffering. But if it will save more lives (and stop the desecration of the Third world's living humans) - small price to pay. And an idea brilliant in its simplicity. Here's hoping the Vermont bill passes and that it's opponents get the pillorying they deserve.
Jen QuraishiJan. 31, 2008 7:56 PM
Maybe this just confirms what you already knew, but a new study by Pew shows that Republicans don't care about global warming. Only 12% of Republicans in the January 2008 poll thought dealing with global warming should be a "top priority," as oppposed to 47% of Democrats and 38% of Independents. In fact, global warming was the issue Republicans cared least about.
For a Mother Jones summary of where the candidates, Republican and Democrat, stand on issues like global warming, check out our "Primary Colors" package here.
Bruce FalconerJan. 31, 2008 7:05 PM
Afghanistan. In the 1980s, we sent in the CIA, gave weapons to the mujahideen, and defeated the Soviets. In the 1990s, we got out, allowed our erstwhile allies to kill each other, and sat by as the country was taken over by religious fanatics and terrorists. After 9/11, we realized our mistake, went back in, chased Al Qaeda and the Taliban out of their caves, and declared victory. Afterward, we invaded Iraq and once again forgot all about the place. But the pendulum still swings, and now, as before, our willful ignorance of that troubled country (if indeed it meets that definition) is coming back to bite us.
Or so conclude three separate reports released yesterday by the National Defense University, the Atlantic Council, and the Afghanistan Study Group (ASG). "Make no mistake," says the Atlantic Council report, "NATO is not winning in Afghanistan... Urgent changes are required now to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a failing or failed state." The problem (and don't say you didn't see this coming) is that the war in Iraq drained political will, money, and military resources away from Afghanistan, allowing it to drift back into the very same chaos that first attracted Bin Laden to the sanctuary of its caves. According to the ASG report:
Afghanistan stands today at a crossroads. The progress achieved after six years of international engagement is under serious threat from resurgent violence, weakening international resolve, mounting regional challenges and a growing lack of confidence on the part of the Afghan people about the future direction of their country. The United States and the international community have tried to win the struggle in Afghanistan with too few military forces and insufficient economic aid, and without a clear and consistent comprehensive strategy to fill the power vacuum outside Kabul and to counter the combined challenges of reconstituted Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a runaway opium economy, and the stark poverty faced by most Afghans.
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Jonathan SteinJan. 31, 2008 4:27 PM
According to the National Journal's nonpartisan ratings, released today, Barack Obama was the most liberal member of the Senate in 2007. This raises a number of issues for the senator from Illinois.
First of all, we should point out that the numbers are ridiculous. According to the NJ press release, "Obama voted the liberal position on 65 of the 66 votes in which he participated, while Clinton voted the liberal position on 77 of 82 votes." So he took the liberal position less frequently than Clinton did, and less frequently than a number of senators. But because he was out campaigning, he only returned for big, divisive votes where the Democratic Party needed him. He only cast one vote against the liberal position, meaning he was usually content to skip votes where he would be voting against his party. As B.B. points out, "a senator who takes the 'liberal' position 95 times out of 100 is somehow less liberal than his colleague who takes the liberal position 48 times out of 50." In years past, when Obama voted as many times as a normal senator, he was the 10th and 16th most liberal senator. That is likely a truer representation of his politics. Does anyone really think Obama and Joe Biden are more liberal than Russ Feingold or Bernie Sanders (a socialist)?
And let's not forget that John Kerry was identified by the National Journal as the most liberal senator of 2003 just as Kerry was wrapping up the Democratic nomination. (Probably because he missed votes due of campaigning, as Obama is doing now.) Not a bad system for publicity, huh?
But regardless of how legitimate the numbers are, Obama has now been tagged. Will Hillary Clinton use it against him? That would be awfully low—first, she's just as liberal as he is, and second, a Democrat should never try to sink another Democrat by using right-wing talking points about the "L word." But John McCain or Mitt Romney will use this against Obama, assuming Obama is the nominee. How does he respond?
Jonathan SchwarzJan. 31, 2008 2:31 PM
Earlier this month, this statement of Hillary Clinton's got lots of attention:
I would point to the fact that Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done. That dream became a reality. The power of that dream became real in people's lives because we had a president who said, "We are going to do it," and actually got it accomplished.
What's gotten less attention is what Martin Luther King himself thought on this subject. Chris Rabb points out that King wrote this in an article published in January, 1969 after his death:
Jonathan SteinJan. 31, 2008 2:30 PM
Over at the Economist's Democracy in America blog (no, not these guys), they point out that Obama tends to outperform polling pretty substantially. Check out their chart at right. In four of five states where the Democrats have held primaries—including Florida, where Obama didn't campaign—Obama's actual results have beaten the polls by 6, 12, 13 and 10 percentage points.
That means he could seriously surprise people in the February 5 states where polling shows him within striking distance: Alabama (-10), Kansas (-5), and New Mexico (-7). That said, the polling in the February 5 states has been very spotty. The most recent Rasmussen poll out of California has Obama trailing Clinton by just three, while the most recent CNN poll has him getting walloped by 17. That's a phenomenon you see in Connecticut, Arizona, Colorado, and a number of other places. But here's one thing you can take to the bank: when polls are averaged, which they are at pollster.com, Clinton has huge leads just about everywhere.
Stephanie MencimerJan. 31, 2008 1:07 PM
Mandatory arbitration agreements forcing people to give up their rights to sue are now standard fare in everything from cell phone contracts to Hooters' employment agreements. But the owner of an East Texas Whataburger has apparently taken arbitration mania to a new level. Every public entrance to the burger franchise displays a sign informing people that simply setting foot on the premises means that they are giving up their right to sue the company for any reason, even if, for instance, they get a little e coli along with their fries. Instead, customers will be forced to arbitrate their claims before the American Mediation Association, an organization that seems to consist of three lawyers in Dallas hired by the Whataburger (part of a 58-year-old fast food chain deemed a "Texas treasure" by the state legislature).
Attorney Dan Sorey spotted the sign in early January while in Kilgore investigating the scene of a motorcycle crash for a case. The Whataburger offered an ideal vantage point to study the intersection where the crash happened. Sorey says when he went in, he told a befuddled cashier that he didn't think that the arbitration notice was enforceable, that anyway he wasn't agreeing to it, and, "I need a taquito and a coffee." He says he sat down, watched some traffic, and ate his taquito. "I didn't choke, I didn't burn myself, and I didn't sue 'em," he reports. Sadly, while we suspect there is a good story behind the signs, the Whataburger franchise owner did not respond to requests for an interview. We'll just have to assume that the signs are the product of one too many late-night talk-show jokes about McDonalds' coffee lawsuits.
Jonathan SteinJan. 31, 2008 11:55 AM
Check out this collection of stories from around the web.
First, there's a crushing ABC News story about Hillary Clinton's inaction during her tenure with Wal-Mart.
In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world's largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers....
"I'm always proud of Wal-Mart and what we do and the way we do it better than anybody else," she said at a June 1990 stockholders meeting.
The story reports that video of Wal-Mart's many private board meetings never shows Clinton reacting to the other board member's vicious anti-union statements. The story also reports that Clinton's main effort on the board, improving conditions for female workers, accomplished little. Further, the story says that Clinton will keep $20,000 in donations from Wal-Mart executives, and that former President Bill Clinton has regular private meetings with Wal-Mart's current CEO.
Then there is David Broder who writes in the Washington Post that Barack Obama is the Democratic frontrunner, despite Hillary Clinton's polling leads in many February 5 states. Broder points to establishment Democratic opinion trending toward BHO.
The advantage has shifted back to Barack Obama — thanks to a growing but largely unremarked-upon tendency among Democratic leaders to reject Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president.
The New York senator could still emerge from the "Tsunami Tuesday" voting with the overall lead in delegates, but she is unlikely to come close to clinching the nomination...
That establishment that is heading Obama's way? That's the one the Clintons have owned for nearly two decades. Think we're done? Oh, no. More after the jump.
Debra J. DickersonJan. 31, 2008 11:53 AM
However you think the war is going, or whether we should even be fighting it, one can help but for fear the military itself.
Washington Post:
Suicides among active-duty soldiers in 2007 reached their highest level since the Army began keeping such records in 1980, according to a draft internal study obtained by the Washington Post. Last year, 121 soldiers took their own lives, nearly 20 percent more than in 2006.
At the same time, the number of attempted suicides or self-inflicted injuries in the Army has jumped sixfold since the Iraq war began. Last year, about 2,100 soldiers injured themselves or attempted suicide, compared with about 350 in 2002, according to the U.S. Army Medical Command Suicide Prevention Action Plan.
Fred Kaplan looks at the dumbing-down of new recruitment standards so the military can maintain itself:
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HICKORY — RJ McClure left his mark of excellence at Pisgah High School in 2010 and will leave it at Lenoir-Rhyne University in 2014.
McClure scored two points on a layup to give L-R an 11-7 lead with 14:23 left in the first half and became the 51st player in school history to surpass the 1,000-point mark.
He also led all scorers with 25 points, including 20 after halftime, as the Bears won their fourth straight game on Senior Night, 77-68, over visiting Coker Wednesday night at Shuford Gymnasium in a South Atlantic Conference game.
"I know there have been several great players at Lenoir-Rhyne and I am very fortunate in my four-year career to have played with several great teammates," said McClure. "People who know me know for a fact I do not play for personal accomplishments. I understand they are a part of the game. But I play this game for only team accomplishments. I am all about the Ws."
"With that said, I'm happy to have reached the 1,000-point mark in a home game we won on Senior Night. And I also have to thank my teammates and coaches for helping me get there along the way."
Lenoir-Rhyne improved to 15-10, 14-7 in the SAC, and remained tied for fourth place in the conference standings with Newberry.
Coker slipped to (13-12, 10-11 in the SAC.
Lenoir-Rhyne trailed at halftime, 38-34, but took the lead for good on a trey by McClure, which broke a 42-all tie with 15:27 remaining in the game.
The Bears iced the contest by scoring their final nine points from the charity stripe in the final 1:26 in the second half.
Lenoir-Rhyne travels to Mars Hill College to take on Lions on Saturday, Mar. 1, beginning with a 4 p.m. tipoff in the the regular season finale.
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They claim to do that, however check their web site, they also say that 3 of the lines they used to have are not sold separately now cos they merged into one.
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They claim to do that, however check their web site, they also say that 3 of the lines they used to have are not sold separately now cos they merged into one.
I had an ironic smile on my face when I read that I know the hard way how they feel!!
"Thinking Inside The Box"
It must have been a logistical nightmare to try and maintain 3 distinct lines in isolated locations while maintaining their resistance genetics.
I probably got a better deal than I realize when I bought their queens. I've had 5 total from them. Let's hope that these two I have now actually make it through winter.
For instance Paul Jungels and Jos Guth in Luxembourg are a team like this. Jungels does the breeding (and does not sell any queens) , Annette and Jos Guth are doing the queen production.
It is very challenging for the breeder to be also a queen producer.
(I had a cooperation for a long time with Ari Seppälä. Ari has over 1000 hives and was doing the queen production, while I could concentrate on breeding. In sometime year 2007 we ended it up, because I had difficulties with angry bees. Later on it was found out that they were angry just because of their mite loads, not genes.)
TF since 2008, max 1 nuc/hive, no swarm collecting, www.saunalahti.fi/lunden/varroakertomus.html, YouTube juhanilunden
Did you send queencells/virgins only to the producer? Or, did you send him your mated queens for additional production?
I'm thinking about how BeeWeaver solved their 'angry bees' issues considering that at least some of their operation is in a 'hybrid swarm' zone, and they do open mate their queens.
I've heard reports that while the F1 do get defensive in those types of circumstances, the F2 can be less defensive.
A large enough producer can rely on drone dominance in their own area. They surely find some locations in their beekeeping area where the dominance is better than elsewhere. Matings need not to be 100% sure, but don´t ask how much is needed, I haven´t a clue...
TF since 2008, max 1 nuc/hive, no swarm collecting, www.saunalahti.fi/lunden/varroakertomus.html, YouTube juhanilunden
In my opinion, it might be both faster in terms of queen production, and better in terms of keeping your own local genetics from mixing with your partner's local genetics , to send virgin queens only outside of your own area.
It's likely better for maintaining hybrid vigor in production queens.
If I have your reference correctly, the correct translation of the word "blenders" is "blinders". Or a more correct idiomatic translation into english is "flash in the pan". In other words, a colony that produces an overwhelming good result "blinding" the observer to the reality of the genetics involved. The problem with this concept is that the exceptional colonies are often the correct route for the breeder to follow.called such queens 'blenders'
I read above about maintenance of "lines". I have not yet seen a queen breeder, with one possible exception, who has the genetic background to avoid this pitfall. Summarizing, the way to avoid losing lines is to do selection from the other end of the breeding population. Instead of picking the very best colony you have to breed from, pick the very worst colonies and then eliminate the worst 20% of the total population. Done consistently over a period of 10 years, the selection pressure from removing the worst performers is equivalent to the selection advantage of the same 10 years spent breeding from the very best performers and you don't lose the breeding line in the process. Please note that this statement applies only to maintenance of a population. If you are going to do active selection to increase specific traits in a population, breed from the very best performers THAT EXHIBIT THE SPECIFIC TRAITS you are selecting for. I should also qualify this statement by saying that it applies to outbreeding populations ONLY. If you are dealing with an inbreeding population like tomato, an entirely different set of rules apply.
A good analogy to illustrate why the above is true is an hourglass. If you select only the best performers, then the top of the hourglass gradually narrows to the center as you eliminate genetic variation. Selecting and removing the worst performers is working from the bottom half of the hourglass and allows you to avoid moving into the bottleneck in the middle.
NW Alabama, 47 years, 22 colonies and growing, sideliner, treatment free since 2005, 14 frame square Dadant broodnest
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
When you cull the bottom 20%, they are replaced with stock from better performers.
I have 3 apiaries, one major line, and one minor. The minor line is an attempt to introduce allogrooming to the major line. I swap queens between the three apiaries to limit inbreeding effects. Two apiaries have been aggressively pushed to swarm so that feral populations in those areas are much higher and act as a buffer against mite susceptible colonies. One apiary is in an area with a commercial beekeeper who treats, therefore is not used for mating queens.
There are two other beekeepers in this area who have my stock. One has 4 colonies, the other has 5. Both are planning on 2 for 1 splits next spring. I just sold several queen excluders and some frames to one of them yesterday. I tried to get another guy set up with tolerant stock about 7 years ago, but he insisted on requeening with commercial Italian stock. He is no longer keeping bees because of mites.
NW Alabama, 47 years, 22 colonies and growing, sideliner, treatment free since 2005, 14 frame square Dadant broodnest
How do you monitor for the allogrooming and how long have you had bees with that, and how much success getting it into the other line?
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1. blinders A pair of leather flaps attached to a horse's bridle to curtail side vision. Also called blinkers.
2. Something that serves to obscure clear perception and discernment.
Sense 2. might work
There's also:
'Play a blinder' (British informal): to perform with a lot of skill, especially when you are playing sport, 'He's played a blinder in every game so far this season.'
That doesn't seem to work.
Your 'flash in the pan' does make limited sense, and fits with sense 2. above, although as if from a different pespective.
The source is Ruttner, Breeding Techniques and Selection for Breeding of the Honeybee, Trans. Ashleigh and Eric Milner, 1988. The term is used 3 times (from his Index) along the lines I've described. Its a queen that performs well but fails to forward her qualities. Presumably the incidence of such queens is high, sufficiently so for evaluation to rely on the properties of (well mated) offspring.
This is no different to breeding in all areas.
Would I be right in thinking that the rest entails, broadly speaking, propagating from a wide range of the better performers, rather than narrowing to the very best?
Are there any insights in all this into different approaches taken by a) apiaries wishing to raise resistance traits (from near zero) in their existing bees, and b) People collecting feral genetics that already possess resistance traits?
Mike (UK)
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
He did pioneer the idea of isolated matings, and from the below there was reasonably good knowledge about the sex life of bees during even his early days.
Father Dzierzon first noted the fact of parthenogenesis in 1835...The first genetic mechanism for sex determination was proposed in the mid-1800s by a Silesian monk named Johann Dzierson, according to the study's co-author and Arizona State University Provost Robert E. Page Jr. Dzierson was trying to understand how males and females were produced in honey bee colonies. He knew that the difference between queen and worker bees – both females – emerged from the different quality and quantity of food. But, what about the males, he asked.
Dzierson posited that males were haploid – possessing one set of chromosomes, which was confirmed in the 1900s with the advent of the microscope. Under the magnifying lens, researchers could see that eggs that gave rise to drones were not penetrated by sperm.
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http://www.exmoorbeesandbeehives.co.uk/ Buckfast UK.
>Father Dzierzon first noted the fact of parthenogenesis in 1835.
And his only degree was in theology... although he also was conferred several honorary degrees...
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Obviously breeding from hybrids is difficult which is why breeders typically select for fixed queen mother and fixed drone mothers to flood genetics with or use II to hybridize the two for evaluation, which is effectively selecting for hybrid parents to produce 'known' hybrid production daughters. Creating parent lines can get tricky with sex alleles but if I'm thinking about it correctly, you would need to introgress or integrate traits you want into two separate lines (at least) and then cross them together to fix them and select your parent lines from there. Again, this is still a little difficult as MAS or MABC is out of reach for most of us to select for true fixed lines and with few phenotypical traits to use it mostly comes down to guess work and proper evaluation of traits if you don't want to II your parent lines.
Buckfast breeding is quite different. Here the aim is to get new valuable traits into the main population. To get further in breeding, to invent something new. First the bees with the found desired qualities are crossed with the main stock. Vigorous culling is done after the initial crossing, then there is a series of back crossings and in about 10 years a new line is born. Hopefully the desired genes have remained.
What are MAS and MABC ?
TF since 2008, max 1 nuc/hive, no swarm collecting, www.saunalahti.fi/lunden/varroakertomus.html, YouTube juhanilunden
Marker Assisted Selection and Marker Assisted Back Crossing
I guess all the others are hiding the winter storm?
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U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis
Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS)
U.S. households' heating equipment choices are diverse and vary by climate region
Average number of televisions in U.S. homes declining
Timeline of EIA's 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS)
State fact sheets on household energy use
Energy consumption per home has steadily declined over the last three decades
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U.S. households' heating equipment choices are diverse and vary by climate region
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Data from the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) show that the majority of American households use one of three types of equipment as their main source of heat during the winter: natural gas furnaces, electric furnaces, or electric heat pumps. The range of equipment and fuels, however, varies across and within U.S. climate regions.
Average number of televisions in U.S. homes declining
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Results from the U.S Energy Information Administration's most recent Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) show that an average of 2.3 televisions were used in American homes in 2015, down from an average of 2.6 televisions per household in 2009.
Heating and cooling no longer majority of U.S. home energy use
Release Date: March 7, 2013
For decades, space heating and cooling (space conditioning) accounted for more than half of all residential energy consumption. Estimates from the most recent Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), show that 48% of energy consumption in U.S. homes in 2009 was for heating and cooling, down from 58% in 1993.
Newer U.S. homes are 30% larger but consume about as much energy as old
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Analysis from EIA's most recent Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) shows that U.S. homes built in 2000 and later consume only 2% more energy on average than homes built prior to 2000, despite being on average 30% larger.
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Release Date: June 6, 2012
Total United States energy consumption in homes has remained relatively stable for many years as increased energy efficiency has offset the increase in the number and average size of housing units, according to the from the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS).
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Back when we first reviewed ATI's HD 4770, mid-range graphics card, we noted that all the cards available in the shops seemed to use a different cooler than the one on our reference board, which was provided directly by ATI. A quick chat to ATI and some of its board partners revealed that this basically came down to the fact that the reference cooler was more expensive than alternatives but offered little real world advantage so most partners went with a cheaper design. So, today we're going to set the record straight and find out how this different cooler holds up both thermally and acoustically and whether these board partners were right to penny pinch.
The card we've got to test is made by HIS, one of ATI's longest running board partners. HIS has in the past been known for its collaboration with Arctic Cooling, to provide coolers for its products, however the origins of the cooler used on the HD 4770 we're looking at today is not known. What we do know is it's very similar to many of the cooler's being used on other HD 4770 designs so should be representative of a fair chunk of these boards too. Before we get onto the specifics of the cooler, though, let's just quickly recap on what the HD 4770 chip is.
The ATI HD 4770 was the world's first commercially available graphics chip to be produced on a 40nm manufacturing process. As such it set a new standard for performance within a certain thermal and power consumption envelope. However, it is only a mid-range, or mainstream card so isn't the fastest solution on the planet. When we first reviewed it, though, the £70 - £80 it demanded made it a good buy. We'll see if that's still the case here today.
If you'd like a full break down of what's inside the HD 4770, we refer you to our review of the original HD 4770 but for a quick summary we've included our comparison table below.
Getting back to the differences between the reference card and the HIS we're looking at today, the most obvious thing about this different cooler design is that it doesn't suck in air from the front of the card, blow it across the GPU and exhaust it out the back (and thus the case as well). Instead, the fan for this cooler sits directly on top of the GPU and blasts air downwards onto a surrounding heatsink from where the hot air just drifts off around the insides of your case, rather than being exhausted out the back. This is a major issue if your case doesn't otherwise have good air flow to get rid of the accumulating hot air.
On top of this, the cheaper cooler doesn't incorporate heatsinks for the memory chips. Instead the fan just blows air directly onto the memory chips, which is arguably a better way of cooling them anyway.
We also noticed, as is quite common for partner boards, that HIS has removed quite a few components from the PCB as compared with the reference design. These components consist mostly of capacitors and high power transistors in and around the power regulation part of the circuit. They are used to smooth out and control the power being fed to the more power sensitive components of the card (i.e. the GPU itself) and are meant to help with overclocking and stability. Essentially partners remove as much of this 'non-essential' circuitry as possible to save money, which does sound bad but, assuming you have a decent power supply, you shouldn't notice a difference. Certainly, in our testing we noticed no ill effects at all.
Many tech sites are raving about these being a great value purchase for crossfire x2 usage - even knocking the HD 4890 and GTX 275 down in a few tests.
It seems that if you're on a budget and FPS on a 1920x1080 or lower res screen are what you want, and now - and your not too bothered about Direct X 11 coming soon, then these could be for you. Hopefully AMD will release a x2 version soon.
Still think i'll stick with a more powerful single GPU for my current build.
The card still physically takes up two slots, but doesn't use the second slot to push air out of the case. A strange change. If they could improve on the reference design while sticking to a true single-slot design, that would be interesting.
Hi, two questions:
1) What was the test setup for this review (was it just he same as the previous review on the ATI4770: http://www.trustedreviews.c...
2) Specs wise how do the reference and HIS versions compare (memory, shaders, core speeds, etc) as there are certainly differences in the resulting performance charts between the two cards.
@Eggburt1969: Yes, the test setup was the same as the previous review. The specs of the cards are also identical.
The 4770 has received some good reviews, although availability has been somewhat limited due to low yields from TSMC's 40nm production process. The biggest problem for this card is the fact that the much more powerful 4870 can be found online for just over a tenner more.
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(Host) Federal disaster officials have been getting a look today at the damage in central Vermont from last week's flash floods.
They've seen bridges that were undermined and culverts that were washed away.
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Bruce Bryan is a senior maintenance worker with the Vermont Transportation Agency.
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Can NZ avoid another wine glut?
As New Zealand harvests its second bumper vintage in a row, one winery owner has expressed concern that the country will repeat the oversupply pricing problems of 2008.
"Sadly this year there's a big danger that we'll have a glut again," Robert Wilson, co-owner of Hawke's Bay producer Trinity Hill, told the drinks business. "So many people have invested in vineyards that aren't really needed."
Although acknowledging that New Zealand Winegrowers "has really fought hard" to prevent the country undermining its prices, as well as stressing that the 2014 vintage was likely to result in "some great wines", Wilson "concluded: "We have to accept that New Zealand wine is now a volume driven business."
However, New Zealand Winegrowers' CEO Philip Gregan welcomed the prospect of another large harvest as necessary for the country to meet its growing sales around the world. According to the generic body's Annual Report 2013, exports of New Zealand wine have increased in value by 22% since 2009.
In the UK, New Zealand's second largest value export market after Australia, the country's average price in the off-trade is currently just over £7 (Nielsen Dec 2013), placing it ahead of every other country of origin. Speaking to db a year ago in the wake of the large 2013 harvest, Gregan stressed the importance of protecting this strong price position.
Despite the potential threat to this strategy from two consecutive large harvests, he observed: "While vintage 2013 was large, vintage 2012 was small so you get a better perspective by adding those vintages together." Indeed, Gregan added, "some wineries were still quite short on wine after 2013, hence a desire for a larger crop this year."
What's more, he assured, "the big difference between now and 2008 is that there are no new vineyards coming into production over the next three years so we are just as likely to have small as large harvests over that time. There is no tsunami of new vineyards to boost production over that time."
Far from agreeing with Wilson that producers have planted more vineyards than are needed, Gregan argued that there was a need for further plantings.
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Summer is here, and the initiative campaigns are heating up, DPA head Ethan Nadelmann slams drug prohibition at the Capitol, New York legislators announce agreement on a heroin and prescription opioids package, and more.
Arizona Anti-Legalization Group Gets Big Donation From Electric Utility. A group organized to defeat the Arizona Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol's legalization initiative has received a $10,000 donation from the state's largest electric utility. Arizona Public Services made the donation to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy because the company is concerned about employment law language in the measure, "especially considering the public safety aspects involved in providing reliable electric service to APS customers. But the initiative's language says "[it] does not affect the ability of employers to enact and enforce workplace policies restricting the consumption of marijuana and marijuana products by employees."
California ACLU Formally Endorses AUMA Legalization Initiative.The ACLU of California Tuesday endorsed the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA). "The disastrous war on marijuana in California continues to ensnare thousands of people -- particularly young people of color -- in the criminal justice system every year," said Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, criminal justice and drug policy director with the ACLU of California. "It is time to move from prohibition to regulation. AUMA will establish a controlled and regulated market for adults, significantly reduce the harm done to young people under current marijuana laws, and generate substantial revenue for drug education and for the communities most devastated by the war on drugs."
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Washington Lawsuit Challenges New State Medical Marijuana Law. Seattle attorney and marijuana activist Douglas Hiatt has filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to block the July1 implementation of the Cannabis Patient Protection Act, arguing that the law's folding of medical marijuana into the recreational marijuana market will cause harm to patients.
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Dutch Justice Minister Rejects Study Calling for Legal Marijuana Production. Justice Minister Ard van der Steur told members of parliament that last week's study finding legalizing pot production would have public health and human rights benefits would have no impact on his government's policies regarding cannabis cafes. The conservative government has moved to restrict them and refused to countenance creating a legal supply system for them.


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Re: Wrong plot size
On 18 Jul 2000, Al Koedl wrote:
> When I give an absolute size as an option to the Plot command, i.e.,
> Plot[x, {x,0,10}, ImageSize->6 72]
> the size of the plot should be exactly 6 inches when printed. The ruler
> shows the plot's size to be 6 inches but when I print it it comes out
> much smaller (about 5 inches wide) on an HP Laserjet using Postscript.
> This was done with Format>ScreenstyleEnvironment>Working. When I switch
> to Format>ScreenstyleEnvironment>Printout the ruler shows the plot to be
> about 4.75 inches wide. Scaling to 6 inches and printing again produces
> the 6 inches plot.
> So my question: Why has the ruler in the Working environment the wrong
> scale? I use the default Style sheet, no options changed.
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