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Arrogance & Cowardice: A Dangerous CombinationSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 09/17/2014 - 6:31pm.
Maybe you've noticed something strikingly different about this state election cycle. I know I have. I always look forward to the debates and either attending or hearing what came out of them. Can we ever forget such stellar moments as Mike DeWine talking about the "marijuana-laced banana" he claimed someone had been smoking in Sherrod Brown's former office? That moment occurred back in the 2006 Senate race during a debate at the City Club of Cleveland.
There are no debates happening this time. The City Club, which normally has all the candidates for statewide office appear, has had only one such event: the debate between auditor candidate John Patrick Carney (D), Libertarian Bob Bridges, and woeful incumbent David Yost (R, of course). That took place this past Monday and from what I heard from two attendees, Yost tried to pull the bullying asshole card on Carney.
Clearly, the Republican officeholders feel they are sitting pretty for reelection and don't want to run the risk of having a "marijuana-laced banana" moment — a combination of arrogance and cowardice that bodes ill for the state if they are reelected.
It clearly shows contempt for the public they purport to serve. They are indicating that they do not believe they are answerable to Ohioans and that they are impervious to public opinion. That means that no matter how unpopular a policy, whether it's imposing new voting restrictions or further limiting a woman's right to choose or enacting right to work, they will go ahead and do it without even attempting to justify it. They are already doing this, passing consequential, controversial measures like redistricting and abortion restrictions virtually overnight with no hearings at all. They're telling Ohioans, "You don't mean squat to us."
Well, it's a startSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Tue, 09/16/2014 - 6:14pm.
Two of our best state legislators, state rep. Mike Foley of Cleveland (unfortunately term limited just when we really REALLY need him) and state senator Bob Hagan of Youngstown, have made a modest and common-sense proposal that will never see the light of day in a legislature that common sense fled a long time ago.
Yesterday they held a press conference in Columbus to announce a bill that would prohibit tax-funded for-profit charter schools from using that money for lobbying and public relations.
Foley said,
As stewards of taxpayer dollars, it is our responsibility as legislators to ensure that state funding is spent in a responsible manner. The funding is sent to public schools for the purpose of educating Ohio students, not for lobbying luncheons or television commercials. While charter schools are certainly welcome to lobby legislators or organize supporters with outside funds, they should not subsidize these activities with tax dollars meant for students and teachers.
It's a start, although we really need to abolish for-profit charters and ban operators of all failing charter schools.
This comes on the heels of the recent release of the state school report card — and guess who flunked?
The Ohio Report Cards are now all out, and the news is worse for Ohio's embattled Charter Schools than it was last year. Charter Schools received more Fs than As, Bs and Cs combined. Their percentage of Fs went up from about 41% last year to nearly 44% this year. Meanwhile, Ohio's public school districts saw their As jump to the largest percentage and number of grades.
State Troopers — WTF?Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Sat, 09/13/2014 - 10:09pm.
The Ohio State Troopers Association announced this past week that it is withdrawing its endorsement of Democrat Ed FitzGerald for governor, to the undoubted glee of the Plain Dealer, which needs a daily story to hammer nails into what it has openly said it perceives as FitzGerald's political coffin. Although a FitzGerald spokesperson says the troopers' union knew about the overblown drivers license issue when it made its endorsement, it was clearly spooked by the trumped-up media attacks on him.
It might seem to make sense on the surface that troopers would decline to stand behind someone who failed to have a valid drivers license over a long period of time, since enforcing rules of the road is what they do, but it really doesn't. Instead they've given a leg up to someone who thinks rules of the road are for the little people, not himself.
If they want to see disrespect for rules of the road, they should dig up the famous video of John Kasich referring to a police officer who stopped him for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle an "idiot" — three times. Obviously, Kasich has zero respect for officers just doing their jobs. He mocked the guy up and down for doing just that.
While the troopers say this move shouldn't be taken as an endorsement of Kasich, of course it helps his reelection bid. And his reelection would likely be a serious detriment to them.
So it will be hard to have sympathy for them a year from now if Kasich is reelected and their negotiating rights have dried up and blown away as Ohio becomes a "right to work" state, draining unions of what little power and influence they have left. It will be hard to have sympathy for them a few years down the road when their numbers have shrunk, their salaries are thousands of dollars less than they are now, and their pensions and health coverage cost a LOT more — and they have no say in the matter.
Hollowing out the Plain Dealer --Submitted by Derek K on Fri, 09/12/2014 - 12:06pm.
James Renner, with Scene Magazine had an interesting write up the other day. It was about the removal of three seasoned journalists from their beats at the Plain Dealer. The three reporters were covering the county courts and local justice. Renner's article starts...
"With Three Reporters Pulled From the Courts Beat, the Northeast Ohio Media Group Continues to Kill the Plain Dealer Little By Little
According to sources inside the Plain Dealer, three top union reporters were pulled from their beats covering Cuyahoga County courts and local justice Wednesday. The plan is to replace them with non-union J-school grads looking for cheap jobs and covering those beats for the Northeast Ohio Media Group in its quest to gather all the listicle-worthy news you can handle.
Why would a VP give the boot to three top reporters?
The reason bandied about the Plain Dealer newsroom in the wake of the announcements is that the stories written by Dissell, Caniglia, and McCarty were generating some of the highest traffic online. Since these three reporters still work for the union-employed Plain Dealer, NEOMG and NEOMG boss Chris Quinn could not take credit for the Internet traffic. By replacing his award-winning journos, Quinn can now claim the clicks for future court stories."
The entire article can be found here:
Of course the majority of people who won't tell you this are... journalists. I have no idea why. They'll voraciously re-tweet that Ed FitzGerald once burped really loudly, but the fact that their industry is very very sick, they'll keep that covered up.
Because The Plain Dealer/Dispatch listens to you .....Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 09/10/2014 - 8:04pm.
So I get this email today inviting me to join Ed FitzGerald's rapid response team. This means they'll send you emails several times a week that you're supposed to push out on Facebook, Twitter, and wherever you hang out, tell all your friends blah blah blah. This is pretty boilerplate campaign stuff. Worth doing if you want to fight to the end:
What had me rolling on the floor laughing was this:
Social media is an incredibly important tool for our campaign. Reporters around the state and across the country rely on social media for breaking news about the campaign and public reaction to political hot topics.
When reporters see tweets and Facebook comments from folks like you, it also helps reinforce that it isn't just Ed who cares about these issues -- it's folks across Ohio. That's incredibly important because in politics, perception is reality.
I don't know if the person who wrote this was naive or was simply trying to cheer people up, but .... no.
The Plainly Republican and the Disgrace don't care what 'folks like you" think or are talking about. They take their marching orders from above — way above YOU. And they rely on the Ohio Republican Party for what to talk about and how to talk about it. Then they create the perception the people they answer to want them to.
Ed FitzGerald never had much of a campaign team --Submitted by Derek K on Wed, 09/10/2014 - 12:30pm.
Ed FitzGerald never had much of a campaign team. It's a sad truth. Even if certain controversies didn't materialize he still would have had tough road ahead of him given the people he had around him. As I read reports about top staff leaving the campaign, I found it almost laughable that the people leaving could be considered the "big brains" of anything. I foolishly believed that for a major race for governor that there'd be a few more people with a little more acumen than the people who left. Nick Buis, Daniel McElhatton and Aaron Pickrell these were the main "geniuses" behind the campaign.
Nick Buis
Nick Buis was Ed FitzGerald's campaign manager. I had been wanting to write about him for a longtime. I don't know how he got his job. I'm assuming the overall reason he was hired was for a Get Out The Vote (GOTV) effort. Ohio Democrats have made it clear they believe 2014 will come down to a massive GOTV effort. Nick Buis was the state director in Florida during the 2012 presidential election cycle. I'll guess that Nick Buis boasted massive numbers for Florida's GOTV effort. How much of that Nick, can really take credit for, could probably be debated. In the end though, GOTV work seems to be Nick Buis's only qualification for the job.
He obviously didn't have a clue about crisis communication, how to deal with crises or the press. And he certainly didn't show any understanding of how to position a candidate. He didn't seem to know how to highlight issues that a candidate could run on. He didn't seem to understand the importance of issues at all. He certainly didn't build a platform for Ed FitzGerald to run on. No, Nick Buis's main interest beyond GOTV, was football. And Peyton Manning. Even now, when you follow him on Twitter, that's pretty much all he highlights. https://twitter.com/buisnick.
John Kasich - supports abortion? - @MGonidakisSubmitted by Derek K on Tue, 09/09/2014 - 7:54pm.
The following jumped out at me from an article, Henry Gomez, wrote a few days ago...
"Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval was supposed to join Kasich but canceled because of a late scheduling conflict, said Kasich spokeswoman Connie Wehrkamp.
FitzGerald's campaign on Friday sent supporters an email under the headline "A pro-choice Republican in Ohio." The missive was meant to highlight Sandoval's support for abortion rights in Nevada and Kasich's opposition to abortion (except in the cases of rape, incest or when the mother's life is in danger)".
Entire article can be found here.
John Kasich supports abortion for cases of rape, incest or when a mother's life is in danger?
I wonder if Ohio's Right to Life group knows about this. From my understanding, the group seeks to end all abortions no matter what. Conversely, if I was the Democrats, I'd pressure John Kasich on this. No matter how he answers, it's going to put him in a pretty bad spot.
The signature check - excellent protection against voter fraud -...Submitted by Derek K on Tue, 09/09/2014 - 4:00pm.
As debate swirls around the need for voters to have photo ids to protect against fraud in elections, one thing that is never mentioned by either Democrats or Republicans is the signature check.
Anyone who has ever worked the polls, or voted for that matter in Ohio, knows that a voter must sign their signature when they vote. The reason a voter signs their signature isn't because of some unnecessary procedure, it's because the poll workers or board of elections workers are matching the signature with an already stored signature to see if they match. If there are any descrepancies between what the voter signs and what is on file, the voter's authenticity can be questioned.
Pretty much anyone would agree that it's awfully hard to forge a signature. The idea that there is someone who could forge thousands of signatures, which you'd have to in order to effect the outcome of an election, is ridiculous. The idea that there a several someones is also ridiculous. You would need so many people, again skilled at forging signatures, to make a difference, it's just not logical. The only people I can think of who would believe such scheme is possible probably also believe 9/11 was an inside job, and the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked.
The idea that we need to have photo ids to protect against fraud is a faulty one. We already have several good protections in place that work. It would be nice if those, who know photo ids laws are aimed at reducing participation in elections, would point this out.
Policy Matters Ohio Report Strips the False Front From Ohio's "Economic Miracle"Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Mon, 09/08/2014 - 11:17pm.
I mentioned the other day in passing the new study from Policy Matters Ohio called The State of Working Ohio about the jobs non-recovery in Ohio. I wanted to pull it out and call attention to it because you really should read it.
I think most of us know intuitively that there's been no "economic miracle," and that Ohio is not "on the rise," as our governor so cynically claims in his web ads. Most of us feel we are struggling; many of us have struggled to find work despite strong qualifications, education, and an excellent work record. Others are wondering if they will ever make more money or if their salary is frozen for the rest of their lives. Others are just hoping they don't lose ground.
They have good reason to fear.
Here's what Policy Matters Ohio had to say:
• The share of Ohioans that is working is at a 34-year low -- worse than in any year since we've been tracking it.
• Of Ohio's 12 most common occupations, 11 pay too little to get a family of three above 150% of the poverty line - the most common Ohio job pays just $18,300 a year!
• As a group, the bottom 99% of us now make less each year than the bottom 99% of a generation ago in Ohio. The top 1% makes 70% more.
• Median hourly wages have fallen over the past generation, while hourly productivity is up 65%!
That's a terrible record, and it's shameful that John Kasich thinks this is something to boast about. Ah but he'll fix everything with still more magic tax cuts, right?
Um, no. Policy Matters Ohio reports "Since the 2005 tax cuts, Ohio lost 2.3 percent of its jobs while the U.S. added 3.8 percent. Ohio cut more than 7 percent of local government jobs."
Two Candidates Who Aren't Letting the PD Stampede Them Into Betraying UsSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Sun, 09/07/2014 - 11:21pm.
While the Cleveland Plain Dealer, acting as usual as an arm of the Ohio Republican Party, keeps telling us about unnamed traitor Democratics functioning as obedient errand boys for the ORP in accepting Ed FitzGerald's defeat as a given two months before the election, some REAL Democratic who aren't cowards are refusing to act as if Ed had cooties.
(By the way, ANY statewide candidate who fails to mention our candidate for governor when I hear him/her speak has lost my vote. Ojo.)
One of them is Kenny Yuko, a former state representative who is running for the state senate, though God only knows why, given the insanity there. At a meeting where several speakers avoided even mentioning Ed, cowering just as the GOP wants them to, Kenny told me he thinks that's the wrong thing to do.
He said that at meetings where he speaks, he asks the audience, "How many people here have had their lives impacted by Ed FitzGerald's failure to renew his drivers license?" Honestly, none of us can say that so, no hands.
Then he asks, "How many people here have been impacted by John Kasich's cuts to local governments and schools?" That's going to be a lot of people in any crowd. (OK, maybe not a Koch family reunion).
He's cutting right to the heart of it. No one is impacted by Ed's drivers license. But virtually every ordinary non-wealthy Ohioan is impacted by Kasich's screwed-up economic priorities, to say nothing of his attacks on women and labor.
Another one who is getting it right is Armond Budish, running for Cuyahoga County executive to replace Ed FitzGerald, whod better be our next governor or we're in a world of trouble. Let Armond explain why.
He brings up the fact that the rightie media and the people they've bullied and browbeat into submission are howling that Ed's failure to renew his drivers license (honestly, this sounds sillier and more trivial every time I write it) shows a lack of judgment.
Maybe it does, he admits.
How Many Lies Could You Tell Using Only 14 Words?Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Sat, 09/06/2014 - 10:37pm.
John Kasich can tell three!
He's running web ads (love seeing him waste them on progressive websites!) that say, "Governor Kasich may be tough but he listens and Ohio is on the rise."
Can you spot the lies?
1. "Governor Kasich may be tough"
He isn't. Anyone who makes a habit of trying to sneak through policies he knows a majority will hate isn't tough — he's a coward. He signed away women's rights late on a Sunday evening, and refused to respond to people questioning him about his stance.
We all remember how much he said about labor during the 2010 campaign — nothing. And we all remember that SB 5 was the first thing he did after getting elected. Now when asked about right to work, this coward refuses to own up to it, saying he's not thinking about the future. Of course he is.
2. "but he listens"
If Kasich is known for anything, it's talking AT people and not listening to what they have to say. I've heard this repeatedly from people who have tried to have a discussion with him. He's got the facts, he's made up his mind, and he doesn't want to hear what YOU have to say. Unless you have a large check for him, of course.
3. Ohio is on the rise
This is the biggest lie of all. Ohio is struggling to get back to its feet and keeps getting knocked back down by Kasich's policies — his cuts to local governments and public schools, his onerous tax increases that fall mostly on working people, his secretive and apparently ineffective — since Ohio has one of the worst job creation records of any state — JobsOhio. And what jobs have been created have all been low wage. Maybe Kasich got confused and meant that POVERTY was "on the rise" in Ohio.
What Is At Stake In NovemberSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Thu, 09/04/2014 - 11:30pm.
Here are John Kasich and six other middle-aged white men blithely signing away women's rights. As usual, Kasich scrawled his signature in the most low-profile way he could — a Sunday evening, no less — and was too cowardly and dishonest to openly tell Ohioans what he was up to. This is typical Kasich — appear bland and blank in public so people think "he's not so bad," and then turn around and slam ordinary working Ohioans with policies and legislation that holds them down.
Here are some of the Ohio women who are fighting back against this attack on their lives and their ability to make their own choices. Kudos to all these great women who know what REALLY matters.
That traveling photo was taken by Karen Kasler of the Statehouse News Bureau. Good work. Karen!
So, why isn't DeWine being pushed to resign?Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Thu, 09/04/2014 - 11:11pm.
*Members of the Ohio Democratic Women's Caucus deliver a petition to Mike DeWine's office asking for an independent investigation of sexual harassment charges*
We all remember attorney general Marc Dann, right? Elected in 2006 when Democrats swept all the statewide offices but one, Dann was forced out of office when it was learned that some of his closest associates in the office had turned the place into a sort of frat house and that there may have been some pressure for sexual favors. You know, sexual harassment.
Dann didn't really do anything wrong. The fact that he was having a consensual affair with an adult woman in his office is hardly the sort of thing that is rare in the summer-camp atmosphere of state capitals. But he was forced from office when even his fellow Democrats refused to get his back.
So now, Mike DeWine...
Courtesy of the Ohio Democratic Women's Caucus, here's a succinct description of what has been going on in HIS office:
Reports of the case detail allegations made by an intern against a senior male staffer who was reportedly personally close to Mike DeWine. The intern reported under oath that she was touched on her shoulder and knee by the harasser and that he would position himself close to her in a "creepy" manner.
As the investigation progressed, a confidential informant came forward to DeWine's internal investigator. Over the investigator's objections, DeWine demanded and received the name of this informant. Shortly thereafter, the investigation was closed. In a move of apparent retaliation, the internal investigator who initially refused to give DeWine the informant's name was threatened with felony charges by DeWine's senior staff.
Congresswoman Marcia Fudge Statement on Restoration of Voting OpportunitiesSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Thu, 09/04/2014 - 10:51pm.
*Marcia Fudge (in orange jacket) Line Dances at a Women's Voting Rally This Summer. Republicans hope women stay home.*
Marcia Fudge (Oh-11) sent out the following statement about today's decision by Judge Peter Econumus to reverse the restrictions on voting put in place earlier this year by the Republican Ohio legislature and Secretary of Voter Suppress ... I mean STATE ... Jon Husted.
She said,
I am ecstatic voting opportunities have been restored to the people of Ohio. By reducing early voting days and hours and eliminating Golden Week a one-week period in which voters can register and vote at the same time the Ohio Legislature made it harder for thousands of Ohioans to access the ballot box. Moreover, these changes had a disparate, negative impact on some voters but not others. No democracy should seek to reduce voter participation. By granting a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Court Judge Peter Economus has reversed the potential harm that unjust Ohio laws and regulations would have caused and restored integrity to the electoral process in time for the 2014 election.
It's really well past time that it was legally forbidden for any state to roll back voter rights that have already been granted without showing that provable circumstances (not speculation about voter fraud that MIGHT occur but in fact doesn't) demand it. And the bar should be set very high.
Look for the Ohio GOP to next pass a photo ID bill, something that is entirely unnecessary but disproportionately impacts poor people and minorities. And to the Republicans, that's a huge plus! So we might be seeing them back in court again soon.
Jon Husted Loses Another Round of Voter SuppressionSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Thu, 09/04/2014 - 10:31pm.
*This man wants to make it harder for you to vote*
Oh, poor Jon Husted. It seems like every time he figures out another way to limit opportunities to vote, some big mean judge smacks him down and tells him to leave voters alone.
And not just Husted, but our anti-democratic legislature too. You may remember (or maybe you are trying hard to forget) that back at the beginning of the year, the legislature voted to end the so-called "Golden Week," when voters could register and vote at the same time (no, not ONE instance of suspected "voter fraud" was ever attached to this) and also to put limitations on mailing out absentee ballot request forms. Mailing out those request forms has been shown to dramatically increase voter participation. But we don't want that, do we?
After that, Jon Husted, who knows a thing or two about voter fraud because he is rare example of it, chimed in with restrictions on early voting hours — no pesky evenings to make it convenient for working people and certainly no Sundays so African-American churches can do that "Souls to the Poll" thing. Can't have that either!
But today, alas for Husted,
A federal judge has blocked Ohio's cuts to early voting and its elimination of same-day voter registration — a major voting rights victory in the nation's ultimate presidential battleground state. Judge Peter Economus ruled Thursday that the cuts violated the Voting Rights Act's ban on racial discrimination in voting, as well as the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. He issued an injunction barring them from going into effect before the November election, and directed Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to add a second Sunday of early voting.
Why Are Some Ohio Newspapers Dutifully Parroting GOP Oppo Research?Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 09/03/2014 - 10:07pm.
*This man would be a great governor and our economy would rebound for real*
State newspapers like the Cleveland Dealer and the Columbus Dispatch are very rightwing. I did a two-year research project documenting the PD's slant, and no one disputes that of the Dispatch.
So why are they harping on Ed FitzGerald's driver's license and a most likely innocent conversation he had in his car with a woman at 4:30 instead of just complaining he isn't a corporate lackey like they do with Sherrod Brown?
It's clear to me. They want to reelect Kasich, because that's what their corporate overloads want. But there's no case for doing so, based on his policies, his record of governance, and the state of the state.
It will be interesting to see their endorsement editorials. Yes, Kasich has done a few good things, such as expanding Medicare. But they're vastly outweighed by what he's cost ordinary Ohioans and the damage he's done to the state.
With such a very weak case, what are they going to do? Well, they can lie, and to some degree they probably will. They will overlook a dozen things that, if Ted Strickland had done any one of them, they would have gone on and on and on about.
I mean, I try to imagine what their reaction would have been if Ted had claimed Ohio's economy was roaring — the contention Kasich is basing his campaign on. Unlike right now, the economy WAS improving when Strickland was running for reelection — just not very fast, as Kasich kept pointing out when he promised us his "economic miracle" in 2010.
Now Ohio owns one of the worst job creation records in the country. If it was improving slowly during Ted's last year, any growth is microscopic now.
The rest of Kasich's record isn't any better — slashing education, attacking labor, cutting local government funds, destroying the environment, stripping women of their rights, spending recklessly to create the most outsized budget in Ohio history, raising taxes on most ordinary working Ohioans, hints of scandals everywhere caused by his crony favoritism, weak oversight, and lack of transparency. Even the PD and Dispatch would have a hard time putting lipstick on THIS pig.
Congressman David Joyce Wants To Be King of CoalSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 09/03/2014 - 9:07pm.
We always refer to David Joyce, the freshman congressman from Oh-14, as David "I'm not a moderate but I play one on TV" Joyce. That's because he's playing the same game as his predecessor Steve LaTourette, trying to appear like he's this wonderfully reasonable person who sees everything from a pragmatic point of view to the benefit of all of his constituents, while maintaining a consistently rightwing voting record and expressing support for far-right policies when talking to Tea Party groups.
But after seeing this video, we're thinking we should change his name to David "I worship coal" Joyce. Some citizens shot the video at the Geauga Public Library in which he waxes so enthusiastic about coal, you'd think it was his god. He also seem to be suggesting that it's OK to drill the heck out of Ohio because we can just ship it to China and they'll pollute over there instead. Or something. It's hard to figure out.
Give it a listen and then support/donate to/vote for his opponent, Democrat Michael Wager.
Some People Aren't CowardsSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 09/03/2014 - 8:16pm.
Some people don't quit when the road gets rocky.
Some people don't collapse in a corner whimpering/WIMPering and going "You're right — we're terrible" the minute our rightwing media start lobbing spitballs at us.
Some people have good perspective on what matters and what's fabricated hooey.
Some people can keep their eye on what matters.
Some people recognize what's at stake.
They've got no time for your quititude.
Nina Turner never asked anyone to wear sandwich boards - ...Submitted by Derek K on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 10:51am.
The Ohio Republican Party has some new YouTube video of Nina Turner asking a couple of college students to stand during a stump speech. She wanted the students to stand to block the camera of a Republican tracker. It's a common thing in politics to have someone stand in front of a tracker's camera. Yes, both sides do it.
Perhaps the Republican Party released the video, because they were embarrassed they did the following...
Release the poor guys from the sandwich boards! They look uncomfortable! RT @ChairmanBorges: Release the records Ed! pic.twitter.com/VGbc6wwCTW
— Henry J. Gomez (@HenryJGomez) June 12, 2014
After this, the Chairman of the Republican Party Matt Borges, made these suckers walk around on the streets of downtown Cleveland with these on. Does the Republican Party really want to go there with this video of Nina Turner?...
Excellent Editorial from the Toledo Blade -...Submitted by Derek K on Mon, 09/01/2014 - 9:45pm.
I don't know much about the Toledo Blade or their staff. I was surprised to read an editorial from them titled: On Labor Day, a gloomy job climate but a hopeful forecast. Actually, I was a little stunned by it. It's nothing like you'd read in the Plain Dealer, which, I imagine the next editorial in the PD will be about how Terence Egger has recalculated Cleveland hosting the Republican National Convention and now it's more like hosting 10 Super Bowls, the summer Olympics, the winter Olympics and the second coming of Christ.
Anyway, Toledo's editorial written by editor David Kushma, starts out...
"Labor Day is a celebration of the American worker. But this Labor Day, what do Ohio's workers have to celebrate, other than getting tomorrow off? Not so much.
In Toledo and across our state, today's workers are better educated and far more productive than the labor force of a generation ago. But these achievements generally aren't reflected in their paychecks or their bank accounts.
To the contrary, the typical worker in Ohio earns less than his or her counterpart did in 1979, when you take inflation into account. Ohio's median wage — half of us make more, half less — is nearly 6 percent lower than the national figure.
And that's if workers are fortunate enough to have jobs. Ohio's unemployment rate has fallen, slowly, since the Great Recession officially ended five years ago. But since 2005, while the number of jobs has grown by 3.8 percent nationwide, Ohio has lost 2.3 percent of its jobs. (The matter hits close to home: Next month, The Blade is eliminating 131 production jobs and shifting printing operations to a third party.)
Thanks DailyKos -...Submitted by Derek K on Mon, 09/01/2014 - 7:16pm.
I've been pretty surprised that not one, but two of my posts have made the Saturday Progressive Blog roundup at Dailykos (www.dailykos.com). While Anastasia and the folks over at Plunderbund (www.plunderbund.com) have made the roundup several times - and deservedly so, I never expected to see anything I wrote appear there. So it was interesting to see. The latest roundup can be found here:
Dailykos does them every Saturday: www.dailkos.com. It's an interesting review on things going on throughout the nation.
Happy Labor DaySubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Mon, 09/01/2014 - 8:12am.
Enjoy it. If Kasich is reelected, it is very likely the last on which Ohio has a viable labor movement.
There Will Be BlowbackSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Sun, 08/31/2014 - 12:10pm.
I just wanted to drop in and say hello, and let any fans I might have out there know that I have not retired from blogging. I've just been taking a break to recharge. I will be back at full power after the holiday weekend.
I want to thank my fellow blogger Derek for the work he has been doing to keep things going. His posts should give you some idea of what our major themes will be in the next couple of months — and after the election, especially if Kasich is reelected. People will pay for that, and yes, by "people," I do mean metaphorically "newspapers," probably the most useless, corrupt, biased, and destructive entities in the state of Ohio.
I was reading an piece on the media the other day in which the writer opined that the only sure prediction you could make about the future of the media was that within a decade, there would be no more local newspapers. Perhaps we can help hasten the arrival of this paradise on Earth. We're certainly going to try.
Weird Ohio -...Submitted by Derek K on Thu, 08/28/2014 - 11:07pm.
Apparently, the Trumbull County Democratic Party held some kind of executive committee meeting recently where they voted by ballot to appoint an interim county commissioner. The balloting process allowed people to vote in secret, which, kudos to the Trumbull County Democratic Party for doing so. The secret ballot process has only strengthened democracy as it allows people to vote freely without fear of retribution.
But it seems there are some laws or a law and party by-laws within the Democratic Party system that prohibits this. Why any of them exist is beyond me - it doesn't seem very democratic.
The vote, or the outcome of the vote, seemed to irk some party insiders. David Betras, the Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman seemed to be upset with it. I have no idea why, or what possibly the gossip behind the dust up was. It caused Betras, to request that the state Democratic Party take action against the Trumbull Party, which, they did Wednesday night.
I was going to do a post about how ridiculous and stupid the state party and the central committee members looked by pursing action over a rule that probably shouldn't exist and at a time that's just terrible for infighting. But as I was researching things something even stranger and more ridiculous occurred. It involved an exchange between WKSU Reporter Jo Ingles and Ohio State Dem Chair Chris Redfern. (I provided a clip from the exchange below. It's from Marc Kovac with Ohio Capital Blog. https://twitter.com/ohiocapitalblog)
The exchange started during a press briefing with Redfern. During it, Jo Ingles, asked if Ed FitzGerald had been properly vetted and if Redfern intended to keep him on the ticket. Read what I wrote above - the question was off topic.
Roldo Bartimole - message to the Plain Dealer - ...Submitted by Derek K on Wed, 08/27/2014 - 3:31pm.
Great article by Roldo Bartimole on the current state of "reporting" by the Plain Dealer. The article is posted at The Cleveland Leader. (www.clevelandleader.com). He writes...
"There's an old saying I can't track down even with Google.\[sic]
It's about journalists.
It goes something like, ""When the battle is over they come down and shoot the wounded.""
I knew only one person who might know the direct quote - Terry Sheridan. And he did with all the attribution: Newspaperman Clive Barnes (1927-2008), NYTimes dance and theater critic: "A critic is someone who rides in after the battle and shoots the wounded." That's the apt description I was seeking.
It's the feeling I get when I read the Plain Dealer articles now about County Executive Ed FitzGerald.
I'm no great fan of Fitz because he's left Cuyahoga County in what I believe will be a financial crunch. Maybe disaster. He helped extend the sin tax for 20 years and the bed tax and hasn't done anything to reduce the quarter percent sales tax put on the Tax Tim.
He's put the county in the hotel business. It shouldn't be in that money-losing business. It already has one called the convention center.
And he's made personal mistakes. Especially not getting a driver's license for years. Stupid, maybe even arrogant. Hardly a major crime though.
Now, however, whenever FitzGerald is covered in the Pee Dee all that is dredged up.
Quick and easy is the PD style these days.


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I would now like to turn the call over to our host, Mr. Nick Kormeluk. Please go ahead sir.
Nick Kormeluk
Welcome to CB Richard Ellis Fourth-Quarter 2010 Earnings Conference Call. Last night we issued a press release announcing our financial results. This release is available on the home page of our Web site at www.cbre.com. This conference call is being webcast live, and is available on the Investor Relations section of our Web site.
Also available is a presentation slide deck, which you can use to follow along with our prepared remarks. An archived audio of the webcast, a transcript, and a PDF version of the slide presentation will be posted to the Web site later today.
Please turn to the slide labeled forward-looking statements. This presentation contains statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our future growth momentum, operations, financial performance, and our business outlook.
These statements should be considered as estimates only and actual results may ultimately differ from these estimates. Except to the extent required by applicable securities laws, we undertake no obligation to update or publicly revise any of the forward-looking statements that you may hear today.
Please refer to our Fourth-Quarter Earnings report filed on Form 8-K and our current Annual Report on Form 10-K and current quarterly report on Form 10-Q, in particular any discussion of risk factors or forward-looking statements which are filed with the SEC and available at the SEC's Web site www.sec.gov for a full discussion of the risks and other factors that may impact any estimates that you may hear today.
We may make certain statements during the course of this presentation, which include references to non-GAAP financial measures as defined by SEC regulations.
As required by these regulations, we have provided reconciliations of these measures to what we believe are the most directly comparable GAAP measures, which are attached hereto within the appendix.
Please turn to slide #3; our management team members participating with me today are Brett White, our Chief Executive Officer; and Gil Borok, our Chief Financial Officer.
I'll now hand the call off to Brett.
Brett White
Thank you, Nick. As dire as things appeared two years ago, they now seem equally positive and exciting. We're at that point in the cycle when all fundamentals are positive and rapidly improving and when everything seems possible. On today's call, we will discuss our very strong results for Q4 and full-year 2010.
It was undoubtedly one of the best years in CBRE's 100-plus year history and at the moment our near-term future looks even brighter. I'm equally sure many of you would like us to comment on our current M&A activities. Like you, we have read the press speculation and heard the market rumors. However, we have had a longstanding policy not to discuss rumors and speculation on this topic. Accordingly, M&A is not a subject we can or will address today. In fairness to you, I want to make this statement upfront.
So, please turn to slide #4, for the fourth-quarter of 2010, we posted very strong revenue and earnings growth in our business. In fact, normalized EBITDA for Q4 2010 and for the full-year 2010 were the second best ever in company's history. This performance was driven by the continued recovery of the commercial real estate services industry, combined with strong execution and our proven discipline in managing the return of related expenses.
Our fourth-quarter total revenue was $1.7 billion, a 27% increase over the fourth-quarter of 2009. As was the case, for most of 2010, our revenue growth was led by three lines of business.
Investment sales where revenues were up 40% in Q4 2010 with all regions posting double-digit growth, leasing revenue, which increased 35% led by activity in the Americas and Asia Pacific, and outsourcing, which posted a 10% revenue increase led by the Americas.
Total company normalized EBITDA was $253 million, a 27% increase over the fourth-quarter of 2009. This translated into a normalized EBITDA margin of 15.3% in the fourth-quarter of 2010. Diluted earnings per share for the fourth-quarter of 2010 increased 29% to $0.36 versus $0.28 in Q4 2009.
As we entered 2010, given our concerns around the economy and its impact on the performance of our business, we significantly reduced target bonus levels and 401(k) matching for 2010. Throughout the year, we did not restore these expenses even as our performance improved.
However, based on our performance this past quarter and full year performance, which significantly exceeded our original planning, in the fourth-quarter we substantially restored bonus target levels and also reinstated a partial 401(k) match for our employees retroactively for the full-year 2010. These actions resulted in additional expense of approximately $30.0 million or $0.06 per share in the fourth-quarter.
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It might have been in an inconspicuous place on their Forums page where Creative Labs announced a new version of the Linux drivers for the Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium series, but for owners of these sound cards, this news created somewhat of a sensation. The source code is not only readily available, but it's licensed under GPL v2.
As some forum responses can attest to, the drivers are not without some oopses. Nevertheless, chances are good that the drivers will find their way into the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) project.
The drama surrounding the X-Fi drivers goes back to 2006 when Creative Labs promised Linux drivers with ALSA and their own OpenAL 1.1 API and environmental audio extensions (EAX) by the first quarter 2007. By May 2007 this promise was reduced to a whisper in view of the Windows Vista pendants release; the X-Fi cards would remain silent until September 2007. The Sound Blaster people then finally released an early version of their drivers as binaries, which unfortunately ran on 64-bit Linux only and had numerous bugs. Since no hardware documentation was at hand, ALSA developers couldn't provide any immediate help.
February 2008, the Creative folks gave 4Front Technologies a peek at parts of their sources and documentation, thereby allowing them to develop drivers for their Open Sound System (OSS). But even these drivers were less than perfect. In April Creative released a new binary beta driver, again missing many of the originally promised functions. It took the company yet another half year to release the XFiDr 1.00, which runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems and supports the sound cards listed on the Forums page.
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I know, that I am not the first one to try to use Cocoa on OSX together with an existing c/c++ main loop, but I am not really liking the solutions I came across so far so I came up with a different idea I'd like to discuss. The most common way I found (in glut, glfw, SDL and also QT I think) is to use polling to replace NSApplications run method and process the events yourself with this:
This has the big disadvantage that the cpu is never really idle since you have to poll the whole time to check if there are any new events, furthermore its not the only thing going on inside NSApplications run function, so it might break some details if you use this replacement.
So what I'd like to do is to keep the cocoa runLoop intact. Imagine you'd have your own timer methods implemented in c++ which would usually be managed and fired inside your main loop (this is just a small part as an example). My idea would be to move all my looping portions to a secondary thread (since NSApplication run needs to be called from the main thread as far as I know), and then post custom Events to my derived version of NSApplication that handles them appropriately inside its sendEvent: method. For instance if my timers measured in my c++ loop fire, I'd post a custom event to NSApplication that in turn runs loopFunc() function of my application (residing in the mainthread as well) which appropriately sends the events down my c++ event chain. So first of all, do you think this would be a good solution? If yes, how would you implement that in cocoa, I only found this method inside the NSEvent Reference to post custom NSApplicationDefined events:
and then use something like:
[NSApp postEvent:atStart:]
to notify NSApplication.
I'd rather post an event without any information about the window (in otherEventWithType), can I simply ignore that part?
Then I'd imagine to overwrite NSApplications sendEvent function similar to this:
- (void)sendEvent:(NSEvent *)event
//this is my custom event that simply tells NSApplication
//that my app needs an update
if( [event type] == NSApplicationDefined)
myCppAppPtr->loopFunc(); //only iterates once
//transform cocoa events into my own input events
else if( [event type] == NSLeftMouseDown)
myCppAppPtr->loopFunc(); //also run the loopFunc to propagate input events
//dont break the cocoa event chain
[super sendEvent:event];
sorry for the long post, but this has been bothering me quite a bit since I am really not happy with what I found about this subject so far. Is this how I'd post and check for a custom event inside NSApplication, and do you think this is a valid approach to integrate cocoa into an existing runloop without polling?


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Making one of his most significant leadership picks, Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday named law professor Lucinda Jesson to run the state Department of Human Services.
Jesson is a former deputy attorney general who heads Hamline University's Health Law Institute. She was also a member of Dayton's search committee for new appointments — including the Human Services post — before Dayton set his sights on her.
"The governor can be very persuasive," Jesson said.
A 28-year resident of the state, Jesson, 52, will oversee one of the state's largest and fastest-growing agencies. It is also one of the most contentious. The department is frequently the subject of legislative fights over policy and finances, and its budget is expected to be targeted again by Republicans looking to hold the line on taxes.
During her years with the attorney general's office, Jesson's client was the Department of Human Services. One of her major duties will be preparing Minnesota for changes under the federal health care reforms, which are under way but will accelerate in 2014.
"I also want to look at how we do our health care contracting today. I want to look at how we're going to need to change that in order to get to 2014," Jesson said.
She has a mandate from Dayton to speed up an expansion of the state's Medical Assistance program that Dayton signed into law last week. Dayton was caught off-guard when he learned it could take nine months, accusing former Gov. Tim Pawlenty's administration of not being straightforward with the information.
Jesson comes from a political family. Her father was chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party during the 1970s, when a young up-and-comer named Bill Clinton crashed in a spare bedroom of the family home during his unsuccessful first political campaign. Hardin Jesson would go on to become chief judge of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
Jesson's husband is William Mitchell College of Law professor Peter Knapp, and the couple raised four children. She joked that raising four boys prepared her for the Human Services post.
Picking up on what is likely to be common ground with Republicans in the Legislature, Jesson said she wants to root out fraud and abuse from the health care system, though she said Minnesota runs a pretty clean shop.
"There's some fraud out there, and we need to be aggressive in going after it," Jesson said.
Dayton also announced Tuesday that Democratic state lawmaker Tony Sertich will be commissioner of the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board, a state body that oversees economic development along the Iron Range. Sertich is Dayton's first appointment from the Legislature.
"Both Governor Dayton and I are dedicated to seeing the Iron Range continue to adapt and evolve economically as we move deeper into the 21st century," Sertich said in a statement released by the governor's office.
Formerly the House majority leader, Sertich was an early supporter of Dayton's DFL rival in the governor's race, ex-House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher. A native of Chisholm, Sertich previously served on the IRRRB.
He succeeds Sandy Layman, who was appointed commissioner by Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2003.
Sertich will resign his house seat Thursday. Dayton will call a special election, with a primary Feb. 1 and an election Feb. 15.
Sertich will see a hefty raise from his legislative salary, to $95,641 annually. The Human Services commissioner makes $108,393.
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126/365. odin's cross-stitch project.
day 3919 – 85/365. spring concert!
50/365. handwork.
day 3350: first day of third grade!
i'm not sure odin could be more excited to go back to school!
he had a great first day. a sure sign that he's in a waldorf school – he's most excited about being able to work in his class knitting projects at home this year instead of feeling rushed to get them in class.
he's not as excited about having his picture taken before school, hence the "fake smile"
on getting sent back to first grade.
after the fire at organic valley headquarters, we're still figuring out where the displaced folks are going to end up for an extended period of time. for a short period of time some of us ended up in odin's waldorf school, which also used to be a the public school so it has the "feel" of both worlds. in some ways, it feels just like a school i might have gone to when i was a was a kid. and in other ways it feels like a waldorf school. they sure know how to put a chalkboard to good use!
yes, i've literally been sent to first grade room. odin never tires of saying, "ok bye! have fun in first grade!" when i leave the house in the morning. all things considered, it's not bad at all expecially considering it's only a half a block from my house. and, on occasion, i get to sit in the hallway on linoleum floors and almost feel like i could be back in grade school while listening to listening to violin practice.
Post fire temp work space at odin's school. Sitting in hallway listening to violin practice. http://t.co/m0rY9PbCKk
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but it's only temporary, they have to get the school ready for the kids coming back in the fall and we have to find more appropriate digs while the headquarters gets rebuilt.
Pleasant Ridge Organic Hot Lunch
Plesant Ridge Organic Hot Lunch from Gracie Hallberg-Cain on Vimeo.
an alum of odin's school, the pleasant ridge waldorf school, made this video on their all-organic-made-from-scratch hot lunch program for her senior project at the sister school youth initiative high school.
it's a remarkable video that shows the power of teaching children well about the importance of knowing where their food comes from and how it's grown and prepared ( and enjoyed )!
i'm happy that odin believes this is "normal" and sad that it's not.
buy raffle tickets, enter to win great prizes and help odin get a new puppy!
update- 03.16.13: thanks to everyone who bought a ticket – we sold almost all of them this year! which means odin gets a puppy and you all helped support his wonderful school. thank you! we mailed everyone their ticket stubs this week, but you might not get them by the raffle drawing tonight depending on snail mail travel times. either way, the tickets have all been given to the school and if you win i'll certainly let you know by tomorrow. thanks again! ( expect updates on the puppy soon )
every year odin's school has a fund raising raffle which requires the parents to sell $1,000 worth of tickets. we "buy" what we don't sell. because kris and i are horrible salespeople, last year we didn't sell any and "won" second prize, which was nice, but we don't want to do that this year
because we live in a small town with a lot of other parents who are also selling tickets it's a tough sell to "locals". so this year, we're asking for your help. please consider buying a ticket or two or five or ten! they're $20 a ticket. please send me an email ( eric
as an added incentive, we're also in the market for a new malamute puppy for odin! malamute puppies are not cheap and we've set a goal that we'll get the puppy if we sell at least half the raffle tickets. so if getting a chance to win a trip to belize isn't incentive enough, THINK OF THE PUPPY FOR ODIN!
it occurs to me that if you're newer than 4 years or so around these parts that probably you don't know that one of the reasons odin is especially excited about possibly getting a malamute puppy is because of the fact that he has a very distant memory of mauja the malamute who was part of our family for 10 years and was the most lovable, obstinate, cantankerous, loyal, bullheaded malamute ever. and we all loved him dearly. here are just a few of my favorite photos of odin and mauja.
more details on the raffle:
we need the money and tickets set aside by march 8th when we have to hand them in in time for the raffle on march 16th. again, tickets are $20 a piece.
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Two nights at the Nature Nooks retreat on the West Fork of the Kickapoo River,
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A quilt, a book, and a tree to plant. Stay at home and plant
a tree, because the center of the world is right here!
follow this link for more details on the raffle and prizes.
day 3058: school assembly and stone soup!
friday school assembly is one of the many neat things about odin's school. first thing in the morning, the kids all gather together in the gym and each grade take a turns performing a little play or song they've learned in front of the other grades and many parents who are able to attend.
it's a simple and clever way to get the kids to gain confidence in performing in front of a crowd which is a skill that will serve them well over the years.
on this particular day, odin's teacher was also happy to announce they harvested 835 potatoes from their school plot. they gave the big ones to Jim The Cook and made themselves stone soup from the rest.
They believe this is Completely Normal and The Way It Is Everywhere.
day 2979: first day of unicycle lessons!
right before we left for vacation we were walking by odin's school playground and noticed a bunch of kids on unicycles. as it turns out, they've been having classes there every wednesday night over the summer and odin definitely thought it was something he'd really, really, really like to learn. and you know what? i've always wanted to learn how to unicycle too, so we made a plan to start going to lessons after we got back from vacation.
unfortunately in the few weeks that passed, the instructor of the class left town but some of the kids have decided to keep teaching the classes themselves which is some excellent initiative for kids that aren't much older than odin.
the first step to learning how to ride a unicycle involves getting used to balancing and pedaling by slowly moving along while holding on to a fence. according to the kids, you've graduated from the first level of unicycle training when you can move along two panels of the fence without holding on at all. usually it take about a month of once-a-week practice to gain mastery over the fence.
watching the other kids do bunny hops and ride backwards and forwards is just the right motivation for odin to quickly graduate from holding onto the fence.
what luck! holding hands with poppi is totally within the rules of beginner unicycling
one day odin will find something that is difficult to learn, but unicycling will apparently not be that thing. after one day of practice he was already close to being able to move along two panels of the fence without holding on. it's highly doubtful that he'll need the whole month to graduate from the first level.
his poppi on the other hand, well that's another story…
maybe one day we can bring the darth vader bagpipe unicycling tradition to viroqua.


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This study investigates how news-based scores in Environmental, Social and Corporate governance (ESG)will influence the monthly market return in the Swiss, US and UK stock markets. We are using a four-factor based linear model following during the 2007-2011 period, as well as a non-parametric model for Switzerland only. For market returns, we find that the variation of the Global ESG score is a significant but slightly negative factor of a stock's monthly performance in the UK, but not significant in the US and Switzerland. The changes in sub-categories ratings (for instance, Governance, Environment, Labor…) exhibit a small but significant influence over the stock's performance only during limited periods or on limited sectors, which varies among the countries. The non-parametric kernel regression shows that the function linking a stock's performance to its ESG news–based scores' changes is probably not linear.
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Three+ reasons why your business should care about the social networking platform.
Most of you reading this column and many millions of others have a Google+ account. According to the studies following social behaviors, the vast majority of the Google+ account holders are ignoring those accounts. Google is quick to crow about the size of the Google+ base but refuses to share any stats on actual usage as Danny Sullivan ably recapped in his recent column. ComScore confirmed the site's lack of stickiness just this week in a report that shows declining average time on Google+ - down to a paltry 3.3 minutes per user in January 2012. So, if users don't care about and don't use Google+, then why should businesses?
No one but Google can accurately define how a Google+ page factors into the ranking algorithms for organic results but it appears to have some impact on your placement. That alone is enough reason for most businesses to at least launch a page, if maybe not enough reason to devote resources to supporting growth in Google+. Google is not presently indexing Facebook posts, but does index Google+ profiles and posts so that they are included in search results. This definitely gives an advantage to businesses looking for better marketing via Google. Also, people giving a +1 to content can improve Google ranking and show other users that the posts are valuable, whereas "liking" Facebook content does not have the same impact. And, when a company has a brand page on Google+ and users put that brand page into their circles, when that user searches the brands page links will show in their personal search queries.
If you can create activity in your Google+ account you can leverage the borrowed endorsement of those users to improve paid search efforts. If you have 1,000 people in your circles, you can integrate your AdWords account with your Google+ account. For most brands, that is not an unreasonable threshold -if you devote time and resources to the effort, exactly what Google wants you to do. With that account linkage your +1 will show up on your ad results, lending, in theory, more credibility to the result and thereby increasing click-through rate and improving quality score - which in turn improves ROI. In order to take advantage of this not-yet-proven advantage you have to take a few steps for Google including linking Google+ from your brand or corporate site, linking from your Google+ page to your website, confirming the linkage in your AdWords setup, and getting your Google rep to confirm.
It's not surprising that the two most compelling reasons to commit to a Google+ strategy are search related but there are other reasons as well.
Never Count Google Out of the Long Game
The web's social elements are evolving quickly and are too important for Google to ignore. Google has the resources and smarts to redefine, respond, and react quickly to user needs until it gets it right. When it does, users will not only "upgrade" to Google+ but will begin to actually spend time in the layer, activating what is already a large installed base.
Google is unveiling a Google+ redesign that it hopes to draw users in with more functionality and more flexibility. The new Google+ "ribbon" will allow users to conveniently place and change out apps they frequently use. Some suggest that Google+ may be opening up to third-party app developers, which will increase functionality and motivate users to return. The redesign accommodates more and larger visual imagery and videos. It also highlights Hangouts, and makes invites to Hangouts more prominent - a smart move as this is arguably one of the few differentiated features that Google+ can claim among pure social platforms.
My company's social media team noted an interesting paradox in that Google+ is important simply because it's not Facebook and people who try it out often don't stick around because of that. It's different, but not different enough. Trying to shift a user base of 845 million active users (Facebook, December 2011) is a time consuming and costly task and Google+ may never see the mass adoption it's looking for unless Google creates a truly compelling reason for the masses. Is integration with all the other Google offerings enough? Only time will tell.
People will continue to connect where their friends are. Right now that is Facebook and Facebook makes it near impossible to compete since it fairly quickly adopts the best features of the best channels by building: status updates, subscriptions à la Twitter; friend lists à la Google+; or buying: photo sharing à la Instagram. So Google+ is important because as of today, it reminds us just how much we still love Facebook.
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Utah comic Keith Stubbs, who will be opening for Jim Gaffigan this coming weekend,will have his podcast StubbsCast debut this Wednesday on Sirius XM.
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