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December 17, 2013, TuesdayBaffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins
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A week of economic politicking from the White House rolls on. Today, President Obama will convene his advisory council on international trade to continue pursuing his campaign goal of doubling exports by 2015, reports the Associated Press.
So the administration is pushing hard to double exports, making good on a campaign promise but at the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), we're left wondering what good the doubled exports would be.
Here's why: Increasing exports are great, but an increase won't mean much if we don't reduce our imports. Our trade balance is ridiculously out of whack: It was $540 billion in 2012, and $315 billion of that came from our deficit with China alone. Meanwhile, the president's other campaign promise -- to see 1 million new manufacturing jobs by the end of his second term -- seems to have fallen by the wayside. We've seen just 12,000 new manufacturing jobs since January, after losing millions during the Great Recession. Until we get that kind of middle-income employment back, the economy is going to continue to putter along, well below its potential.
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Well how about that: China is hinting at interest in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. Adam Behsudi of Politico reports that at a briefing organized by the National Foreign Trade Council, reporters learned China is positioning itself it eventually join the TPP. Lawmakers have encouraged the administration to include currency manipulation provisions in the trade deal. If serial-manipulator China joins the TPP, including those provisions is more important than ever.
Boeing Co. plans to cut almost 3,000 jobs in Southern California. The airplane manufacturer is closing a facility in Long Beach that makes the C-17 Globemaster transport jet. The facility will close by 2015 due to shrinking military budgets, report Caroline Chen and Julie Johnsson for Bloomberg:
"Budgets cannot support additional purchases in the timing required to keep the production line open," Dennis Muilenburg, chief executive officer of Boeing's defense unit, said in (a) statement. "Here in the United States the sequestration situation has created significant planning difficulties for our customers and the entire aerospace industry."
The U.S. current account trade deficit fell to $98.9 billion in the second quarter of this year. That's the lowest level since 2009, writes Martin Crutsinger for the Associated Press. The current account is the broadest measure of trade tracking the sale of goods and services and investment flows. Exports were up in the second quarter helping the economy grow at an annual rate of 2.5 percent, but imports of foreign-made auto and auto parts were up -- because, don't forget, our goods trade deficit is still sky-high.
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Soaring lancet windows add to the impression of majestic height of the famous tower of "the cathedral that is missing," the 14th-century Domtoren. The sole remnant of an enormous house of worship that was destroyed by a storm late in the 17th century (the outline of its nave can still be seen in the paving squares of the Domplein), the tower is more than 367 feet high. Not only is it the highest tower in the country, but its more than 50 bells make it the largest musical instrument in Holland. The tower is so big that city buses drive through an arch in its base. You can climb the tower, but make sure you feel up to the 465 steps. The panoramic view is worth the pain, though, for it stretches 40 km (25 mi) to Amsterdam on a clear day. Buy tickets in the RonDom office across the street. Tours leave hourly on the hour, Apr.–Sept. From Oct.–Mar. they leave hourly on weekends, but only every two hours through the week.
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Cape Town - A shortage of police in the Western Cape required the "unusual step" of calling national police chief Riah Phiyega to account, a provincial lawmaker said on Tuesday.
"What is becoming abundantly clear is that staffing, especially in the visible policing unit, is drastically under strength," said Mark Wiley, chairman of the standing committee on community safety.
"Vacancies simply do not get filled. Promotions are static, especially at constable level."
He said there were too few officers to fill shifts, and that those who were on duty were managed in a way which "defied all logic".
It was not unusual to see a single vehicle patrolling a sector, and for shift members to barely know each other because they were called from off-duty shifts.
"The effect on morale must be horrendous," Wiley said.
Phiyega said it was not so "unusual" to be called to account and she would always make herself available.
She disputed claims that the SA Police Service was struggling with vacancies.
"It's not easy to head an organisation which has 200 000 members.... Our population to police ratio sits at about one (officer) to 360 (people), which shows we compare fairly well with other countries," she said.
Western Cape premier Helen Zille said statistics from the provincial police showed that the ratio of population to police was much higher in Cape Town, specifically the 10 areas with the highest murder rates, such as Nyanga.
Phiyega said some areas had a much higher concentration of people.
She said every safety and security body "in the pipeline" had a role to fulfil in keeping these areas free of crime.
Regarding the filling of posts, Phiyega said the police had grown by almost 60 percent in the past decade.
"The posts situation should be interpreted in the correct context, with due consideration of the difference between ideal requirements, how many funded posts are granted and actual personnel.... We should never fall below a particular minimum."
Figures presented to the legislature showed that 220 police recruits were appointed in the Western Cape in March, and would finish compulsory training in 2015.
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"Business owners that have accumulated wealth in the company, they might want to transfer some of that value to the next generation," says Bob Schuster, general practice leader at Kennedy and Coe LLC.
Another vehicle available to people, the advisers say, is a Roth IRA, in which taxes are paid up front and withdrawals are made tax-free. That shelters the funds from any future tax increases, and it shelters investment gains from taxes too.
If you're considering a Roth, it may make sense to open one now, before taxes potentially rise.
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"Back in the sixties, when I was appearing daily on NBC's 'Today' show, I was living on Seventh Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street … The corner was the gathering place for some of the most attractive 'ladies of the evening.' Each morning at five o'clock I would emerge from my building wearing dark glasses, as I hadn't yet had my makeup done, and I was usually carrying some garment bag. It seemed obvious to the 'ladies' that there was some big 'number' I had just left … 'Good morning,' I would say. 'Good morning,' they would answer. And then I would get into this long black limousine with its uniformed driver, and we would glide off into the early morning light. And you know what effect this had on the ladies? I gave them hope. Perhaps this book may do that for you." — Barbara Walters, "Audition"
Don't we all want to be just like Barbara Walters, giving hope to the attractive prostitutes of the world? I know I do. And I can only hope that, by compiling complicated analyses of deeply trivial televised entertainments, I can be like a beacon unto all of the overeducated but ultimately shallow and unfocused young people out there, and encourage them to train their powerful minds not on big, important questions and problems, but on trifles and whimsy. Remember, whippersnappers, if you don't have the energy to be inspiring and famous and powerful and serious — or the thought of that life makes you want to crawl into bed with a bottle of red wine and a 10-pound brick of chocolate — that doesn't mean you can't do something kind of fun and lively and ultimately pointless but reasonably well-paid.
Look at Barbara Walters, who knows that appearing on camera with inspiring, famous, powerful people can stoke the illusion that you, too, are inspiring and famous and powerful, even when you're not — and if you're good enough at it, they'll pay you big money and smear a little Vaseline on the lens for good measure. Yes, I know, she's a pioneering news lady and a great gal, too. I only gloss over the facts because otherwise, I won't be an inspiration to huddled masses of sluggish whores, yearning to breathe free. If you're smart and talented but also indolent and addled and ego-driven to the point of distraction, worry not! You, too, can find gainful employment out there, once you give your so-called weaknesses and flaws a new spin.
Remember, you're not lazy, you're just choosy about how you expend your energy, since you want to be sure to invest yourself in activities that feel deeply resonant and emotionally grounded when viewed through an existentially rigorous framework. You're not shallow, you're simply fascinated by the various ramifications of our current, rather absurd pop-cultural moment. You're not unkempt, you simply prefer not to contribute to the objectification of physical beauty by partaking of regular ablutions that have less to do with hygiene than with some obscenely meticulous standard established by giant global corporate profit-seekers. Sure, those profit-seekers would prefer if you "washed" and wore "pants" to work, but you don't subscribe to their strictly enforced, elaborate manipulations of the unseeing, sheeplike populace.
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You know who the real hero to whores around the globe is, though? Michael Crichton. Here's a man who could've taken his great big brain and his M.D. from Harvard and used it to find a cure for cancer. But what did he do? He wrote books about secret islands filled with scary dinosaurs, and then brought us "ER," the undead hospital drama that stumbles through season after season like a zombie, refusing to die.
Michael Crichton applied his perfectly good brain and fine education to scaring the living daylights out of mankind with nightmarish endgame scenarios, and for that, we'll be eternally grateful henceforth. But was that enough? No. Crichton not only creates living-dead hospital soaps and dinosaur-island sequels that force poor Jeff Goldblum to phone it in on an international stage, but he resurrects his own long-dead endgame scenario for the second-rung cable channel movie market. This man is a true survivor!
Thus do we find ourselves staring down the barrel of "The Andromeda Strain" (9 p.m. EDT Monday, May 26, on A&E), the sophisticated, haunting, computer-enhanced, chewily apocalyptic remake of the tale that first graced movie theaters way back in 1971. Oh, but these days, "The Andromeda Strain" can feature scenes where Benjamin Bratt says things like, "Take a look at the Fourier electron density scans," and an enormous transparent screen appears with beautiful graphics on it, and we can all marvel at the big, pretty plasma home-entertainment device of the future. Homeland Security can play a prominent role, the president can have a half-Bush, half-Clinton drawl, Eric McCormack (Will from "Will & Grace") can play a macho, rough-and-tumble reporter, Rick(y) Schroder can reprise his role from "24″ with stunningly little conviction, and most important, random people of all stripes can die gruesome, horrifying deaths as we watch in horror. It's just like "24," in fact, except with 10 times more horror and dying, plus double the pseudo-scientific rambling.
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The rest of the movie features the go-to moments of every suspense-thriller flick from the late '80s/early '90s. The president is freaking out, the generals are trying to hide a top-secret initiative, the scientists in the bunker are alternately theorizing and falling in love — there's even an innocent little baby in a bubble to keep everyone honest.
But none of that really concerns us, since I'm guessing that you also grew bored with bestselling scribes like Crichton sometime around your 14th birthday. We have much more important work here: analyzing Crichton's admirable mastery of spin as a means of securing filthy lucre. We'll begin our study by following this link to Crichton's Web site, where untold insights into Crichton's character are provided via a simple head shot — yes, that one in the top left-hand corner of the screen. See how it changes every few minutes? Keep watching. Yeah, he's a good-looking man, isn't he? Keep watching. Keep watching. OK, have you landed on the close-up shot, where it looks like he's been driving a car alone at night, reminiscing about loves lost, or maybe he's upset because he just ran over a cat?
As much as we might admire and aspire to be just like Crichton, those head shots are a cautionary tale. There's a certain danger whenever you combine lots of raw talent and smarts with relatively trivial goals and aspirations and lots of highly paid publicists. If you're successful enough, if the huddled masses of aspiring whores tell you you're the greatest for too long, you might just wake up one day and find yourself posing for a Glamour Shot behind the wheel of your car. Look into those eyes, kids, because you're looking at the spray-tanned face of a man who believes his own press. Crichton didn't run over his cat in that car; he ran over his dignity.
But that shot doesn't just reflect the side effects of yielding your considerable talents to the jackassian Hollywood realm, it also reflects the problem with "The Andromeda Strain" itself. This is a four-hour movie that's the dramatic equivalent of a spray tan. Crichton and his posse are just wanking nostalgic for one of the bestest books he ever wrote, back in the years before he started modeling and giving speeches disputing the degree to which global warming is a pressing and important problem facing mankind.
"The Andromeda Strain" is a nice ride for teenagers and children who aren't familiar with the suspense thrillers of the late '80s and early '90s, who can, therefore, enjoy it when a stoned teenager goes to take a dump in the desert, gets bitten by an infected mouse, and then tries to brain his girlfriend with a big rock. And when Bratt's character tells a reporter, "I think that one of the lessons learned here is that just because we have acquired a technological or scientific capability, doesn't mean we should rush out to use it," that teen or child can nod along and say to herself or himself, "Yeah! Just because it's there, that doesn't mean we should use it!" And everyone can feel really smart — you know, the way you feel after you get stoned and stay up all night reading Wikipedia, or the way you feel after you go hear Michael Crichton speak about global warming or the deluded religious fervor of environmentalists.
But for the rest of us, A&E's "The Andromeda Strain" is just a very expensive, very cheesy retread.
Let's be honest, though. I'm only writing this in the hopes that Crichton will write me into one of his future novels as a small-penised baby rapist like he allegedly did to the last guy who criticized him openly. As Crichton knows all too well, attention — even negative attention — brings money, and money buys you the ability to view your mediocre accomplishments through a Vaseline-smeared lens.
Bad, bad chad!
You know what can't be viewed through a Vaseline-smeared lens, though? The election of 2000, in which Friend of the Earth Al Gore won the popular vote and maybe even the presidency against Enemy of the Earth George W. Bush, but after a big, messy stink down in Florida, bad Bush Jr. moved to the White House and promptly set about ripping our once-great nation to tiny little shreds.
Now, if the stakes weren't quite so high and the results of that battle in Florida weren't quite so tragic, I could watch the HBO movie "Recount" (9 p.m. Sunday, May 25) with a calm mind, taking pleasure in the ways the filmmakers and talented cast bring to light some of the essential differences between Democrats and Republicans at the time. Namely, the former were wimpy, second-guessing bastards, and the latter were attack dogs. Take this lovely bit of parallel dialogue from the movie:
James Baker: Now listen, people, this is a street fight for the president of the United States. I'm told they have a well-oiled operation just waiting to clobber us.
Cut to:
Warren Christopher: We want to proceed as if this is a proper legal process, not a political street fight.
Baker is a man who knows how to spin everything — himself, his party, the entire universe — and he uses this gift for spin every step of the way. Christopher, on the other hand, appears as the stubborn idealist who flinches early and often, and (inconveniently enough) always has the best interests of the country in mind. "There is no shame in placing country above party," Christopher tells his team, while James Baker worries more about appearances, telling his associates, "They have Jesse Jackson down there in Palm Beach, holding hands with those old Jewish folks screamin' count all the votes. Who the hell is gonna argue with that?"
Needless to say, Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary are both lively and funny in their roles as members of Al Gore's team, but it's Laura Dern who really steals the movie with her hysterically self-involved portrait of Katherine Harris. If you can stomach the technicalities and legalities and the very detailed discussions of hanging chads that get bandied about, knowing all the while that Gore's going to lose, then Dern's take on Harris is probably worth the price of admission alone.
But in the end, spin wins out over substance, just as it does in every modern American fairy tale. The real moral of "Recount" may be that in some fights, honoring your ideals and beliefs is tantamount to losing.
On that note, instead of hoping that this fall's presidential election won't get dirty (it will), we should hope that the Democratic presidential candidate is willing to get his or her hands dirty. Let's try not to balk, as we lily-livered liberals so often do, when our candidate does the hard but necessary work of spinning and prevaricating and making careful, seemingly inorganic choices about what to say or what not say, where to appear, and how to act. You can't win the presidency without shoveling a hefty load of horseshit, and it's about time we accepted it. Because if we don't, we'll lose again, and the rest of the population of planet Earth will (justifiably) hate us for it.
Like the attractive hookers of Barbara Walters' fond memories, let's look to the overeducated, overpaid, spray-tanned charlatans of the world for inspiration. Look at how they craft melodramatic tell-all memoirs without second-guessing themselves. Look at how they squint into the camera for a glamorous head shot without the slightest trace of self-consciousness.
They give us hope. They really do.
Heather Havrilesky is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The Awl and Bookforum, and is the author of the memoir "Disaster Preparedness." You can also follow her on Twitter at @hhavrilesky. More Heather Havrilesky.
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Lee Childress, a fixture of the arts community who nurtured generations of high school students, died Friday at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, near her home in Laguna Woods. She was 95. Remembered as warm, giving and "a bit of a diva," Childress co-founded the MACY Awards with her husband, John Childress, who died in 2005. The MACYs, or Music and Arts Commendations for Youth, which were renamed the Childress MACY Awards a couple years ago, recognize achievement in high school musical theater and are presented to hundreds of students at a ceremony each May. "I have students who won trophies in the '80s that they still remember.
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Kids stayed up a little past their bedtimes this week as they watched the Aquabats perform fun ditties at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine. The Huntington Beach ska group played for free Thursday as part of the park's Summer's End Weekend at the Flights & Sounds Summer Festival. "Money's been holding us back," vocalist the MC Bat Commander said to the sea of fans. "I don't know what these rappers are talking about. " Dressed in superhero costumes - which also resembled scuba diving gear - the Aquabats performed for a crowd ranging from toddlers to adults.
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Carl St.Clair may be more recognizable to Orange County music lovers, but Pacific Symphony President John Forsyte leads the team who makes the music happen concert after concert, season after season. Forsyte took the symphony's helm in 1998. During his 14-year tenure, the orchestra has not only toured internationally and called a new concert hall its home, but its stability has kept the music flowing, he said, and given it a national artistic reputation. Before all that, Forsyte, 47, who lives in Long Beach, grew up in the Chicago area.
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The Newport Beach Central Library is hosting Triple Entendre for its Sunday Musicale at 3 p.m. Sept. 9 in the Friends Meeting Room, 1000 Avocado Ave. Triple Entendre is a chamber music group featuring Jonathan Marzluf on oboe, Lisa Yamamoto playing flute and Kevin Garnica on piano. The event sponsored by the Friends of the Library is free, with seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations are not accepted. For more information, call (949) 717-3800 and choose option two, or visit http://www.newportbeachlibrary.org . - Britney Barnes Twitter: @britneyjbarnes
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A star-studded evening at the Music Center in Los Angeles honored Orange County philanthropist Henry T. Segerstrom at the 2012 Dizzy Feet Foundation Celebration of Dance. The July 28 gala evening welcomed the founding namesake of Orange County's premier performing arts center escorted by his glamorous wife, Elizabeth , at a party that also recognized the creative philanthropy of actress Shirley MacLaine , and dance and musical director Damian Woetzel . Celebrities in attendance included Maria Menounos , Ryan Guzman , Misha Gabriel , and from ABC television's "Dancing with the Stars," Derek Hough . Presenting the awards to Segerstrom, MacLaine and Woetzel were performers including Carmen Electra and two stars from "Glee," Chord Overstreet and Harry Shum Jr. Also on hand for the evening was TV talk host Ricki Lake , who has recently returned to the electronic screen with a new reality format.
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LAGUNA HILLS — There were times in Dean Corey's young life when an appreciation for great music was encouraged during his earliest waking hour. His mother liked to awake him to the dignified sounds of the early 19th century — specifically, the symphonies of Beethoven, Ludwig van. "I could have my breakfast if I could identify which movement it was," Corey, 65, recalls with a smile from his home in Laguna Hills. "So I got that down, but then she started dropping a part randomly from any movement.
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The artist and his ongoing creation began their relationship several years ago. Alrik Yuill was sitting in his old studio in Laguna Beach, sketching the earliest outlines of her form while listening to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. "I wasn't thinking about sculpture or painting, or even what my hand my was doing while I drew it," he recalled in a video describing the project that has consumed him since January, when he finally started the...
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Lyles guides Astros past Mets
Aug 25, 2012 - 3:24 AM Flushing, NY (Sports Network) - Jordan Lyles tossed six effective innings and added an RBI double as the Houston Astros downed the New York Mets, 3-1, in the opener of a three-game series at Citi Field.Lyles (3-10) allowed one run on three hits and two walks to earn his first win since June 26, snapping a streak of six straight losing decisions. Wilton Lopez recorded the final four outs of the game to record his second save of the season.
Tyler Greene homered and Brandon Barnes also knocked in a run for Houston, which halted a seven-game slide.
The win was the first for Astros interim manager Tony DeFranceso, who took over on Aug. 19 after Brad Mills was fired.
"I'm going to remember every one of those guys," DeFranceso said. "It's been good for our coaching staff. I know it's been tough on them, but we're sticking together on this."
Jon Niese (10-7) surrendered all three runs on six hits and two walks over seven innings as the Mets dropped their sixth consecutive game.
David Wright hit his 200th career home run to supply the offense for New York.
The Astros struck first in the second inning as Chris Snyder worked a two-out walk and rounded the bases on Barnes' double into the left-center field gap.
Lyles followed with a double to left field to plate Barnes for a 2-0 advantage.
New York had a chance to answer in the bottom of the second when Ike Davis walked to leadoff the frame and moved to third on Justin Turner's base hit, but Davis was thrown out at the plate while trying to score on a Jordany Valdespin grounder to first before Andres Torres hit into an inning-ending double play.
The Mets were able to cut into their deficit in the fourth inning with Wright's solo shot that just cleared the right-field wall and hit the base of the foul pole.
The play was reviewed, but the replay showed the ball stayed fair and the home run was upheld, giving Wright his 200th career homer.
"I'm proud that I've been able to be as consistent as I like to think I have been. I never would have thought that I would have been able to hit 200 home runs in the big leagues, so I am very proud of that," Wright said about his milestone home run.
New York would later strand a runner on second, and Houston regained its two- run cushion in the seventh inning with Greene's leadoff blast into the left- center field bleachers.
The Mets would not advance a runner past first base for the remainder of the game.
Game Notes
Niese fell to 1-3 in five career starts against the Astros ... Lyles improved to 1-6 in 10 road starts this season ... New York hit 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.
Aug 24 10:04 PM - Chris Snyder doubled to left-center. Runner on second with none out and Brandon Barnes due up.
Astros 3, Mets 1 Top 7, 0 OutsAug 24 8:55 PM - David Wright one-out, solo Home Run (17) to right. Ike Davis is due up.
Astros 2, Mets 1 Bot 4, 1 OutAug 24 8:17 PM - Jordan Lyles doubled to left scoring Brandon Barnes. Runner on second with two outs and Jose Altuve due up.
Astros 2, Mets 0 Top 2, 2 OutsAug 24 7:36 PM - Brandon Barnes doubled to left-center scoring Chris Snyder. Runner on second with two outs and Jordan Lyles due up.
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Study: Business Elite increasingly embraces mobile technology
03.12.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Featured Stories, Mobile
The study shows that most business leaders own a mobile device (90%), live and like the mobile business and are agreeing that life is "easier" (68%). Even more, 64% see their lives becoming more productive and enjoyable. Apple is still leading with 44% owning an iPhone versus Android users with 35%. Obviously tablets are on the rise as well with almost. The merging worlds of private and business becomes clear with the fact that 72% (up 39% from 2011) use their tablets for both work and leisure.
Not surprisingly, two thirds value tablets "useful business tools". Also second screen usage is big among the business elite: 75% watch TV at the same time as using their tablet. The engagement effect of the tablet is striking with nine in 10 of these consumers taking some form of action on their tablet as a result of seeing TV content. And when the study shows that a third of the business executives are responding to TV advertising, marketers should think about ow to implement clever brand and lead generation campaigns in their TV spots. And when marketers want to reach the business elite, they are best in sending out their messages in the evening and at weekends (tablet usage). Smartphones are always-on, so no special advice here.
"This study shows the huge influence mobile technology has on our lives. Europe's elite are keeping up with technological change, owning more devices than ever and using each in different ways. In the area of social media and its value in business, the jury is still out and it will be interesting to see where this leads next year." Mike Jeanes, Director of Research, EMEA, CNBC.
Top content for tablets…
- business and financial information (72%)
- web browsing (70%)
- news updates (70%)
- email (69%)
- reading newspapers/magazines (69%).
Top content for mobiles…
- email (79%)
- business and finance (72%)
- web browsing (70%)
- news updates (70%)
Spot On!
Despite some common disagreement that the business elite is not on social networks, the study makes clear that 85% are a member of at least one network with 61% on Facebook, 58% on LinkedIn, and 43% on Twitter. It is important to note that 40% (up from 19% in 2011) of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter users are now connected to all three social networks. Furthermore, 58% of the business decision makers use social media for business (still private use is the standard for 75%). It could be that private and business worlds are really not kept as separate any longer. The commercial impact of social media is seen critical. When 46% see social media "neither useful nor essential" (compare study 2012), it shows that most business decision makers had either the wrong advice or the wrong expectation raised by consultants. One of the reasons why we are always very critical in analyzing the benefit of social media for a company or brand, and trying to show the realistic benefit for companies.
Customer Service Report: Phone support still top, Twitter comes before Facebook
28.11.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Featured Stories, Web Strategy
In an interesting report by Zendesk across the globe, it become sobvious that telephone is still the preferred way to the customer service of companies. The report shows insights based on actual customer service and support interactions from over 16,000 companies across 125 countries.
According to the Zendesk report, customer all over the world were most satisfied with customer support they received on the telephone. The insights done in Q3 2013 show that 91% of customers liked the way they got help on the phone. In the second place of the satisfaction ranking came Chat (85%), followed by Help Centers/Web Forums (83%). On the social networks side Twitter (81%) came in before Facebook (74%).
Not surprisingly, the report also made clear that during normal business hours the support got the slowest first reply times (FRT) plus the lowest satisfaction scores. In the time period between 5-6pm local time -often when the service teams change or leave business for the day- companies have got the longest FRTs.
Interesting to see that Brasil and Canada received the highest customer satisfaction scores although there was no real indications on what the reasons could be. United Kingdom finished in position 6, US in 11 and Germany only in 14. From an industry perspective, the IT services and consultancy business, government and education achieved the highest customer satisfaction rankings.
Spot On!
Companies would be clever to combine these findings with their customer churn and growth rates to see the impact of customer servcie on the development of their customer base. Although many companies do custoemr servcie via Twitter and Facebook, which is steadily growing and improving since 2012 according to the report, we have experienced that social media in customer service if often just used to calm people down and get them engaged in a phone call to solve their issues. A trend that has shown the best customer service satisfaction results.
History of Hashtags (Infographic)
20.11.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Featured Stories, Mobile
Whether you use hashtags "#" or not, they have made their history since first introduced in 2007 by Twitter. They became the filter, not only for Twitter – also for special topics, for branding, for trends, and for what not.
Although many people ignored hashtags from the beginning on the social platform, they find more and more acceptance today, now that people know why they are in the world of social web communication. Their real increase in use cam with the year 2009, when the 140 character network decided automatically linking anything preceded by the pound sign.
Nowadays, if you want to get retweets, you better use hashtags as these tweets are 55% more likely to be shared than those without any #. Even Google+, Facebook, Instagram or Vine have started to accept the hashtag value. And Offerpop now introduced an interesting infographic which shows the history of the hashtag.
PS: Interesting to see that more people use hashtags on their mobiles than on their laptops or desktops. Mobile information is consumed in short time periods, so you better make sure people grab your information when they jump on the bus, the train or at a break at an event. Hashtags are the access keys!
Ratings, Retweets, Repins & Likes: Automated response creators = killers of insight creation?
08.11.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Featured Stories, Social Media
Some years ago, I have written about the Retweet button being the "killer of positive blog comments". Over the years in many seminars and speeches, I have stressed the point that the ROI of the social web is not about generating high quantity in "thumbs up" on Facebook or Retweets on Twitter, or anything automated that comes along with similar meaning.
Retweets, Repins & Co. are only of value for your business, if…
- you accept those automated response generators as the pillars of your ROI system.
- you are a marketer who builds their business on proving the capability of accelerating reach rather than relevance.
- you are a brand that struggles to understood the value of building a community-centric business.
Still: Are ratings as insightful as a written comment – be it on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or any other community platform out there in the social web?
Yesterday, it became public through a post on TechCrunch that Facebook is testing out a system of openly displaying star-ratings on Pages. Will this be another killer of value creation?
I definitely agree that the Facebook "Like" has become confusing, and in some way worthless. Many users just click on the Like button out of a pure and immediate emotion, nothing sustainable, lasting or resilient. Some are expressing their solidarity with it. Some are missing the dislike button, and click the Like button.
Do those automated responses tell us what they really feel? Do they tell us what people really think? Do they help us to evaluate our position? Fair enough, these automated response creators are some word-of-mouth catalysts. Well, I admit by adding these five star ratings, there is at least some specification in the differentiation of generating feedback.
Obviously, the new rating system puts Facebook in a different position and moves it more to the likes of Foursquare, Yelp and traditional trend shop systems. Furthermore, it allows users to be more concrete in defining their opinions. Users might get better orientation in why a coffee shop or a business or restaurant deserves to be tested.
But does it really help us? What is a 4.2 with twelve votes compared to a 4.9 what two people have build up? Do we know who gave the votings, and if these people have the same interest and preferences that we have got? Doesn't orientation get even more confusing? What will we book on travel websites when there are less and less reviews and recommendations?
Spot On!
The 3 Rs of the social customer (ratings, reviews and recommendations) might make our lives interesting and exciting for new stuff. But maybe there is too much new trends and products out there to get our heads around. Maybe a real review or recommendation will sometimes help (one positive and one negative like Amazon does it already). Still, automated feedbacks -be it stars, RTs, Likes, etc.- are the least valuable insight creation generators on a relevance scale that helps defining internal and external social web ROI.
PS: If your managers are still happy when your numbers of Likes go up, be happy and tell them nothing about this post. If not, let's discuss further how social networks should constitute in order to deliver deeper insights in the mindset of our customers.
2014: 20 Marketing Statistics and Predictions (Infographic)
05.11.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Featured Stories, Web Marketing
The time is now. When Q4 is heading towards December many companies, analysts, experts and specialists start their forecasting for the next year, and what will drive the business. So, what happens in 2014? The first infographic just came out by the guys of WebDAM. The company provides a digital asset management software and just recently aggregated some interesting data in order to illustrate 20 key trends for marketers which will become important to meet the demand of their own business targets.
Five key findings in brief that we think companies should watch out for…
- Email with social sharing increases click-through rates by more than 150%
- CPM is out: Pay Per Click budgets will increase to over 70%
- More than 50% of marketers found customers on Facebook (40% LinkedIn)
- Video landing pages increase conversions by almost 90%
- Client testimonials are most effective as content marketing format
Study: Online forums still popular and leading community option (Infographic)
11.10.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Featured Stories, Social Media
According to a recent "2013 Social Media Survey" by Proboards the interactive communication preferences across platforms are still heading towards forums. Although you might think that they asked their own users (which is probably right), the survey still shows the importance of forums and communities. For their results the company promoted the research toover 150 respondents via Facebook, Twitter, and the ProBoards customer support forum.
The study claims that online forums are still popular. What was interesting for me to see is that they were even preferred compared to social media platform for interactive communication. Two out of three respondents (67%) stated that forums were the social media tool they found most valuable. Obviously, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and Google+ follow but the question here could be asked whether most people realize that all these platforms are also forums if used in the right way. That LinkedIn did not figure in as a significant social media tool is in my eyes not correct as the forums there within, are very powerful and interactive, plus they generate very valueable input for managers.
"The survey results do not surprise us since platforms such as Facebook and Twitter do not give you the level of control that forums do," said Patrick Clinger, founder and CEO of ProBoards. "Forums provide greater customization and more options…"
Forums -although we would define them as communities according to our Community Centric Strategy- offer a great way of engaged communication, and probably with better and deeper quality than any other social network. There is more information in the infographic attached…
Rise of Social Media as a Profession (Infographic)
02.10.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Featured Stories, Social Media
When I started my blog some years ago, people in my industry were shaking their heads and wondered what the benefit was to be a "social media professional". Some asked why I was wasting time on social networks like Twitter, Facebook & Co., and what the ROI is in writing blog posts and then sharing them. Some wondered how I managed to stay on top of the main trends and developments in the "social web" world. Well, time is passing by and people start to be getting answers.
In the last years, many companies have thought about hiring a social media specialist, or have even given it a proper job description. Still last year, we went into companies and found some young interim or part-time freelancer being responsible for the feedback on the 3R's (ratings, reviews and recommendations!) of their own social customer. Often these people earned nothing but a smile from their colleagues.
These days seem to change. Can it be that companies understand the value of engaging with their customers on the social web – the place where they not only spend a lot of their spare time? They actually do marketing, sales, customer service, employer branding and much more for companies and brands. Some companies still have not understood though…
Now, the social marketing platform Offerpop has created a nice infographic based on data from LinkedIn that shows a staggering 1,357% increase in social media jobs posted on LinkedIn in the last three years.
Study: Increase in marketers social spendings expected (Infographic)
25.07.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Web Marketing
With their recent study The Creative Group predicts that the majority of advertising and marketing executives (62%) expect an increase of their company's spending on Facebook marketing in the follwoing twelve months – 9% more than they predcited one year ago.
Not surprisingly, the advertising spend on Facebook leads the list of social ad spendings. However, the majority of executives will also invest in other channels more than last year: LinkedIn (51% up from 38%) and Google+ (50% from 41%). Twitter is also on the plan for a budget increase with 48%, as well as Youtube (40%), Pinterest (35%) and Instagram (32%)
Although this shows a great breakdown of all industry sectors and job titles in an overview, the different industry segments and job titles varied in their view on budget increase:
- Large companies (100+ employees): 74% of marketers expect an increase in Facebook spend
- Smaller companies (100-249 employees): 60% predict an increase for Facebook spendings
- 57% of advertising executives expect an increase in spendings
- 48% of marketing executives expect an increase in ad spends
- 12% of marketing execs expect a decrease in spend
- 6% of advertising executives expect a decrease
The study was based on a US survey of 300 marketing executives and 100 advertising executives.
How about your marketing budget planes with Facebook, Twitter and the likes? Increase or decrease?
Study: Fortune 500 are getting better in Social Media
22.07.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Featured Stories, Social Media
They are on increasingly on Twitter (77%), Facebook (70%) and Youtube (69%): Fortune 500 companies. However, in terms of blogs (34%), Google+ (35%) or Pinterest (9%) they seem to be a bit behind or not seeing the value. And the report obviously forgot to look at LinkedIn. This is the findings of one of the latest research pieces of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Although from our perspective, blogging is seen to be the essential starting point of a social media strategy, most companies are not there yet. Not all industries see corporate blogging similar. The use varies significantly by industry. It is striking that no company in the pharmaceutical and tobacco section blogs. In contract, 53% of Fortune 500 companies in the telecommunications industry do. Almost 80% of the blogs show regular activity, have got RSS feeds, appreciate comments and offer subscription.
Twitter is used in eight out of the top 10 companies (Apple, Chevron, Exxon, Ford Motors, General Electric, General Motors, Phillips 66, and Wal-Mart). All these companies offer frequently status updates on Twitter. Just Berkshire Hathaway and Valero Energy are missing out. Interestingly enough, Facebook has got most followers on Twitter. Google comes in second, then Starbucks, Whole Foods Market, Walt Disney, JetBlue Airways, and Southwest Airlines.
On Facebook only Exxon is not showing up with an account. The rest, nine of the top 10 companies (Wal-Mart, Chevron, Phillips 66, Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, General Motors, General Electric, Valero Energy, and Ford Motors), has got a Facebook page. Obviously, the special retail shows strong use of Facebook (96% with a Facebook fanpage) versus 44% in the utilities sector. That Facebook has most Facebook fans is not surprising. Coca-Cola is number two with 66 million fans, followed by Walt Disney, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, and Target. These companies all collected more than 20 million fans.
Spot On!
What we found interesting in the report is the mention that 59% of companies link to the social platforms from their corporate homepages, whereas for the other companies it required the research team some additional searching. Looking at further social networks and results shows the different strategies. From companies ranked in the top 10 just Berkshire Hathaway has got its own YouTube account. In terms of Google+, 35% use their Google+ accounts actively while 19% set up corporate accounts which are unactive. 50% of the top 10 companies got actove Pinterest boards (Apple, Exxon, Ford, General Motors and Wal-Mart). And although Instagram is now a part of Facebook, only Ford Motors opened an account here, as Wal-Mart is the only top 10 company making use of Foursquare.
Spot On – How to write the perfect post (Infographic)
05.07.2013 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie English Content, Featured Stories, Social Media
It is something we keep being asked seminar after seminar. What is the perfect status update looking like on Google+, Facebook or Twitter? Well, the answer is there is no secret sauce. Or maybe there is now? The guys from Mycleveragency have at least try to define it and put in as much knowledge as possible. If it helps when all tweet and chat on social platforms at the same times, I might doubt here but still…


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The practice of obtaining work permits has been abolished for persons who have applied for refugee status, who have been granted refugee status or political asylum in Azerbaijan, a senior consultant of the Azerbaijan office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Elsevar Aghayev, said on September 27.
"Payment of high fees was required to receive such authorization," he said. "However, since the persons who have been granted refugee status and political asylum did not have such funds, they were engaged in illegal employment. Taking this into account, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees appealed to the government, making a proposal to abolish the state duty and the procedure for obtaining a work permit. The proposal of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was taken into account in the new Migration Code of Azerbaijan."
Aghayev further said that after the Migration Code goes into effect on August 1, the persons who have submitted an application for refugee status and the people who have been granted refugee status and political asylum will be able to engage in legal employment without obtaining relevant authorization.
There are some 1,520 refugees and asylum seekers in Azerbaijan.
According to Aghayev, some 46 percent of refugees and asylum seekers in Azerbaijan are Afghans, while 43 percent are Chechens, five percent are Iranians and the rest are the nationals of other countries.
Usually refugees leave their home country due to the lack of political and economic stability, therefore, they prefer more stable and developed countries.
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Major concerns of foreign refugees in Azerbaijan include illegal employment, lack of education and healthcare. These people have to work illegally or stay unemployed, as sometimes they do not meet the requirements of the labor code. Therefore, entrepreneurs are often not interested in hiring them either.
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Tim Nichols: Composer
Russ Pahl: Lap Steel Guitar
Danny Parks: Guitar (Acoustic), Banjo
Jimmie Lee Sloas: Bass
John Willis: Banjo
Craig Wiseman: Composer
Rhett Akins: Composer, Vocals (Background)
Aubrey Haynie: Fiddle
Tommy Lee James: Composer
Brian David Willis: Digital Editing
Drew Bollman: Engineer, Assistant
Sandra Johnson: Photography
Andrew Dorff: Composer
Trish Townsend: Wardrobe
Bryan Sutton: Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (12 String Acoustic)
Allen Parker: Assistant
Deric Ruttan: Composer
Troy Lancaster: Guitar (Electric)
Michael Dulaney: Composer
Wes Hightower: Vocals (Background)
Perry Coleman: Vocals (Background)
Brady Barnett: Digital Editing
Tom Bukovac: Guitar (Electric)
Tommy Harden: Drum Loop
Scott Johnson: Production Assistant
Katherine Petillo: Art Direction
Adam Shoenfeld: Guitar (Electric)
Shane Tarleton: Creative Director
Sally Carns Gulde: Design
Jessi Alexander: Composer
Bobby Pinson: Composer
Ben Phillips: Percussion, Digital Editing
Rodney Clawson: Composer, Vocals (Background)
Dave Turnbull: Composer
Gary Hannan: Composer
Marv Green: Composer
Phil O'Donnell: Composer
Amanda Craig: Grooming
Ian Kirkpatrick: Composer
Gwen Sebastian: Vocals (Background)
Jimmy Robbins: Composer, Programming
Hank Williams: Mastering
Ben Hayslip: Composer
Dallas Davidson: Composer, Vocals (Background)
Josh Osborne: Composer
Clint Lagerberg: Composer
Wade Kirby: Composer
Charlie Judge: Synthesizer, Loop, Hammond B3
Brad Winters: Assistant
Will Gray: Composer
Mike Stankiewicz: Assistant
Pistol Annies: Vocals (Background)
RaeLynn: Vocals (Background)
Charles Henry: Photography