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Wadlopen: students take up the Dutch national pastime.
A geography professor writes about walking the mudflats of the Wadden Sea during last spring's Semester in the Netherlands.
September 19, 2012 | Henk Aay
A student's memory of Dexter, Mich.
A Calvin senior writes about his hometown, which was devastated by a tornado on March 15.
March 16, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Student lands prestigious theological fellowship
A fellowship from the Fund for Theological Education is helping Daniel Camacho to fulfill his call to the ministry.
May 20, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Two Shoes
It all started one summer afternoon when Calvin juniors Ahna Terpstra and Kayla Rosendale were comparing their shoes.
October 13, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Serving and learning in southeast Asia
When he is in Indonesia this summer, Kevin Van Harn will try to remember not to point with his finger.
May 28, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Elevator Pitch
Ten students representing four academic majors pitched their bright ideas in Calvin's first-annual Elevator Pitch Competition.
November 11, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
English is now three majors
There are now three ways to major in English, courtesy of a major program revision.
March 11, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Senior wins regional Idea Pitch
Kim VandenAkker, the winner of this year's Elevator Pitch, recently won the regional Idea Pitch.
November 07, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Chemistry and Christmas
Chemistry professor Larry Louters and student Ola Alabi were the architects of the first-ever Christmas chemistry camp.
December 22, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Amazing race: the finale
Students on the Amazing Race interim dug for cows, went "cliff-diving" into the pool and made a mad dash for the finish.
February 01, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Last-minute touches: Senior Projects Night
Seventeen senior design teams will showcase their projects at the annual Senior Projects Night.
May 05, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
No marks for trying
Seniors Kurt Van Allsburg and Betsy Sneller created propaganda to convince their fellow students to fill out course evaluations.
May 21, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Hendriksma wins Spoelhof Award
Jane Hendriksma, Calvin's dean of students for judicial affairs, won the 2011 William Spoelhof Lifetime Achievement Award.
June 10, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Streetfest leaders re-vitalize Camp Waltman Lake
Streetfest leaders were scrubbing, remodeling and staying a step ahead of the beaver at Camp Waltman Lake: Calvin's 319-acre retreat.
September 01, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Calvin community meets Michael Le Roy
Presidential appointee Michael Le Roy spent a Saturday meeting the Calvin community.
January 10, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Students boycott American Apparel
Hours after she found out she had been elected president of the Calvin student body, Abbie Belford was sitting behind a table in Johnny's, urging her peers to boycott America Apparel.
April 23, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Wrangling recess at Congress School
The Calvin baseball team is trying to keep up with the kids at Congress School.
November 18, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Fulbright to teach English in Turkey
Emily Pope is captivated by the history, archeology and culture of the Middle East.
May 22, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Chimes wins nine MCPA awards
Last year's Chimes crew garnered nine MCPA College Newspaper Contest awards from the Michigan Collegiate Press Association.
November 05, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
No marks for trying
The posters appeared around on bulletin boards around campus a few weeks ago. One features an exhausted student at her desk, and its tagline reads: "You get graded for your hard work … shouldn't your profs?" Another shows a happy-looking student with the tagline: "Like your classes? Tell your profs."
May 21, 2010 | Myrna Anderson


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I so wish I could watch Chris Paul continue to play basketball and show everyone what a mighty competitor he is.
But I fear the absolute worst.
One more Clippers collapse, and that appears to be a certainty come Friday, and the basketball season is over.
And you know what that means?
We have to start paying attention to the Dodgers and Angels.
Or worse. Icing.
The NBA playoffs were not about winning a championship, but getting us deep into June without having to watch Joe Blanton pitch or listening to Charley Steiner describe an underachieving team's performance.
Sure, it was the Clippers' chance to attract some fans now that the exit interviews are over, but why should we be surprised they blew such an opportunity?
They are still the Clippers, and they better hope Paul doesn't leave as a free agent, or they really will be still the Clippers.
What a shocking waste of what should be such a wonderful story. It's a good thing Clippers fans are so experienced in handling disappointment.
But name any great Laker and Paul gave that kind of performance in Game5. He was the Clippers' leading scorer and rebounder late in the game, playing with the kind of resolve that makes him so special.
When asked about the disappointment of the loss, Paul even took all of the blame. "It's on me," said Paul, who finished with 35 points. "I have to do a better job of getting everyone involved."
Too bad Paul's sense of responsibility wasn't contagious.
All that manly talk about being punked, and the Clippers rolled over dead in one of the franchise's biggest games.
Now maybe the Clippers didn't have a shot after Blake Griffin sprained an ankle in Monday's practice. There was serious thought given to not starting Griffin, who played as hard and as competitively as he could before sitting out the fourth quarter.
That meant for much of the game the Clippers did not have a power forward or starting center. DeAndre Jordan was healthy, but just a waste of space.
Jamal Crawford continued to struggle getting his shot, Caron Butler and Chauncey Billups were once again missing in action and soon Coach Vinny Del Negro might follow.
What a wonderful season it promised to be, the Clippers beating these Grizzlies in the seventh game of the playoffs a year ago and beginning the regular season with yet another pulsating win over Memphis.
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This is a series of 12 weekly classes structured to help caregivers understand and support individuals with serious mental illness while maintaining their own well-being.
Family to Family is an outstanding signature program of NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness). It is designed to offer education, better understanding and coping skills to the families of loved ones diagnosed with a serious mental illness such as bipolar disorder, major depression, schizophrenia and others. Participants who have made the commitment of taking the 12-week class describe the impact of taking the course as life changing. Signature programs have been specifically developed and piloted by NAMI to be used by NAMI state organizations and their affiliates. NKLCO is a NAMI Ohio affiliate.
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The Samsung Galaxy S5 launch didn't lead the charge and the Android hardware ecosystem looks stumped. Apple has a low bar to clear to gain share.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a beach bar and a bar/lounge. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. This Beaux Arts hotel also offers an outdoor pool, spa services, and a garden.
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The stock market has taken us for an emotional ride during the past couple of months, and with the uncertainty in Ukraine rattling investors, it doesn't look like the feeling will end anytime soon. Whether it's geopolitics or concerns over Federal Reserve policy, I can understand why some retirement investors are left feeling uncertain, or even a little afraid. After all, our retirement nest eggs are tremendously important to each of us.
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Employers added 192,000 jobs in March
Weather, incentives help lift March U.S. auto sales
ISM manufacturing index rises slightly in March
If you've done any research on saving and planning for retirement, chances are you've come across a study or two that details the retirement savings shortcomings of Americans, especially when it comes to baby boomers.
It's probably no surprise to you, then, that more and more people nearing retirement are starting to realize their nest egg might not allow them to live the retirement lifestyle they once envisioned – and that it's time to face the fact that they no longer have the luxury of decades to accumulate the savings they need.
What can someone in this situation do? Save more! And the best way for most workers approaching retirement to do this is with 401(k) catch-up contributions.
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Consumer prices rise as food prices jump
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Sales of existing homes in U.S. fall to lowest since 2012
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Last week I wrote about 401(k)-related questions to which the answer is almost always "no." To counter that, this week I have a list of questions to which the answer is almost always "yes." These common questions stump many retirement plan participants trying to decide how to make the most of their investments. Remembering "yes" could help you accumulate more money for retirement.
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From our premium Kaji line by Shun, this bread knife slices cleanly through a crusty loaf without mashing its soft interior. Handcrafted in Japan, the strong, razor-sharp blade is created through a blend of new technology and centuries-old handcrafting traditions.
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"I think this really goes back to feeling comfortable with Anna and her role at the shelter," Cesich said.
Payton told board members having no time limit has become the animal welfare industry standard. Cesich said the Animal Control Committee agreed to try it for six to nine months or so and see how it goes.
Payton also said she is working on getting paperwork together so Kendall County can have its own animal control ordinances. They would be based on the state animal control ordinance the county now follows.
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Ask Ruth Jensen whether the current time is anything like the Great Depression from the 1930's and you will hear a belly laugh come from deep within this woman so short it seems impossible such a sound escapes her.
Living through the Depression was a scary time. There were days when the Jensen's family didn't know if there would be supper on the table. Maybe some thin, water, vegetable "soup" her mom would make, and Ruth and her four sisters and two brothers would go to bed hungry. "No one dared complain, though. Complaining would get you at worse a beating, at best a sad look from our Mother who would push away her bowl to us. Many a night I heard her crying herself to sleep, unable to provide for her babies."
Ruth's brother, Jeb, caught dysentery and died when he was 14. The doctor came by, although there was no money to pay him, and told their mama to call the priest. My mother slipped a sliver of dried beef into his hand and Ruth remembers watching him jealously.
The Depression brought on a sense of community that had always been present, but became a necessity during these difficult times. People simply lost EVERYTHING. Their bank savings, their livelihoods, their land and houses. They poured into the streets looking for work. Crossing the dehydrated lands in the west in the great dust bowl compounded problems were natural resources were more plentiful, but with the influx of displaced families, jobs were not.
"One thing that people don't talk about much is that the employers really took advantage of their employees during this time. Oh sure there were plenty of good, hardworking and fair bosses, but just as many mean as snakes on the hot pavement who'd skin you as soon as look at you. No one complained at work either. You were just darned tootin' lucky if you had a job!"
The community, though, was key. People would pitch in with whatever they could spare, which was nothing really, and help their neighbors out. If someone got sick, they'd bring by extra bits of food. If someone went crazy (which many people did) the community banned together to make sure the person got some help. If, heaven forbid, someone committed suicide because of the losses and strains, the community would ban together to help the bereft family members left behind.
"During the killing season, folks moved from farm to farm to help slaughter and cure the meats. During the summer we spent hours helping each other in hot kitchens pouring batches of canned goods to keep for the winter months. In the fall we chopped wood for the winter. And so on."
"When young people today say, 'I want that or else, and no one can tell me no because I won't take no!' I have to laugh. Today's children have grown up with so much, they truly cannot understand the concept of living hand to mouth."
If someone was having problems, people were supposed to be over there helping, take their horses and machinery and go and help them put in their crops, or whatever needed to be done they did. "We were neighbors; and if you went to town, you yelled at your neighbor or stopped and asked them if there was anything they needed and you would get it while you were over there or whatever you could do to help them, much more than we are now. We are too self-centered now days."
There were days when there wasn't much to do. Not much in the way of chores. Schools were intermittent as there was no money to pay the teachers and no money to buy supplies. Families were needed on the farms but as the dry earth sucked all life from her hide, families turned together to pass the time. Cards, crafts, fixing things - skills were adapted and passed on to the younger generations. Sewing, knitting, wood-making - everyone became an expert in something.
Ruth's father turned to religion, while her mother kept order in the house. Every morning they'd get up before dawn to have family prayer services, led by their father. They'd kneel in the kitchen, in the dark and the cold, while their father read from the Bible and prayed. He had a deep voice and the strength of his voice bringing soothing words of comfort from the religious overtures would give the family hope and strength to carry on through the day. Ruth loved listening to her father tell stories; he was a great storyteller. As the economic situation become more dire, his stories become more righteously focused and morally fixated, with "justice" being a theme throughout most.
"Over time, we had heard his favorite stories so often that we'd learned their small but significant changes over the years. Like the story of how he and his grandfather went hunting for deer one winter to bring a meat supply to the family. Well a few years later it was a moose (in Vermont?) and then later it was a bear! I don't know if he believed the stories or just liked telling them, but either way they were entertaining."
Stories are what often kept the darkness, the loneliness, the fear at bay when nothing else seemed to. Stories of childhood, stories from the bible, stories about the local colorful folk that made up their small community. Ruth loved those stories more than anything, and when she took off at age 18 to go to New York to become a secretary she took one dress, two pairs of stockings, and a whole head full of stories.
"The other thing I have to bring up about surviving the Depression is ingenuity. Folks had to get by, so they did what they had to do. Old buildings were ripped down - old eyesores! - to make use of their materials. You didn't see no rotting old buildings around - they'd be reused. Anything that could be done with would have to do. I remember my papa rigging our well once with pieces of the local maple syrup factory that had shut down. He left a long note with his signature on it telling them exactly what he'd taken and that he planned to pay it back. I don't know if he did, but knowing him, he probably did. People had real pride back then. Not like today - they'd steal the building dry and not think twice."
Ruth doesn't have much sympathy for the "softies" of today's youth. "When young people today say, 'I want that or else, and no one can tell me no because I won't take no!' I have to laugh. Today's children have grown up with so much, they truly cannot understand the concept of living hand to mouth."
Again her deep belly laugh that defies her short stature bursts out and you don't know for sure if she's joking or not, but something inside tells us she's not….
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Very interesting story. One aspect would love to hear more about - employers taking advantange of their employees. I can see how it would happen; would love to hear more in your words about this :)Thanks,Antje
First, this doesn't feel ANYTHING like what I read about how the Great Depression did> So comparing the 2 seems to disrepsect what they went through. Second, this woman, Ruth, hit a couple of things I'd never heard before - communities working together (and not as well) and employers being jerks (which I have no doubt is happening now).Good story!
Would love to hear more stories :)
I would definitely want Ruth on my good side! :)
This so puts things into perspective for me about when I feel like complaining that things are tough or hard right now. Thanks Ruth for sharing.Jodie
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Brainstorm Tech video: Google's Patrick Pichette on Android's futureJuly 20, 2011: 2:34 PM ET
Google CFO Patrick Pichette sat down with Fortune's Adam Lashinsky for a wide-ranging discussion about the search giant's business model, its acquisition strategy, Android, and its employee perks.
MR. LASHINSKY: So we have a very, very packed day. We have a full lineup. So please join me in welcoming Patrick Pichette, the Chief Financial Officer of Google.
MR. LASHINSKY: Patrick, welcome.
MR. PICHETTE: Thank you.
MR. LASHINSKY: Thank you for being here. You are featured briefly in the current issue of Fortune, around our Dream Team series. We have a little piece that CFOs are not just green eyeshade types or strategic. I learned that you have brought, since you've joined Google, you had a broader responsibility than only the chief financial officer, and you've since added responsibilities. Could you just tell us about that?
MR. PICHETTE: That's correct. Even from day one, I remember that dinner with Eric. We had this long dinner about the roles and responsibilities. Eric basically just said at one point, wow, you're going to be really bored with just the CFO job. So we're going to create something very Googlely for you.
So at Google (GOOG) I have the CFO job. I also run all the capital, all the real estate, all the employee services. Think of buses, massage therapists, chefs, food. I also have the Economics team. I have the internal consulting team, which is the Biz Ops team, and I have people in Operations. So all the HR.
MR. LASHINSKY: And specifically with HR, what was the -- who had that before, and that's one of your newer responsibilities; is that right?
MR. PICHETTE: Through the reorg, the realignment that Larry did a couple of months ago, he just wanted to put focus specifically on product. Like the mind set was we have to get more velocity, the start-up velocity in the company.
So he kind of looked at a couple of places and said okay, why don't we just reshuffle, to make sure that we keep on all the focus we need on these areas, but at my team on Monday morning or Monday afternoon, just simplify a bit. So I mean everybody knows, people, operations and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.
So it's not that we're losing any focus over it and our head of HR, Laslo Bach (ph), continues to kind of be formidable around the company. It was just simply to streamline just the day to day processes, rather than --
MR. LASHINSKY: Okay. If I'm understanding what you're saying, it's not directly a product matter. So bring this under your purview, so that somebody else can focus more on product?
MR. PICHETTE: Correct.
MR. LASHINSKY: Okay. You reminded me that shortly after you joined Google, I wrote an article about you, and the headline was something like "The axe man cometh to Google." There was certainly a reputation, justifiably, that Google was big on spending and not so big on being cost-conscious before your arrival. Google quickly killed a handful of products and programs after you joined.
So let's just start high level and talk about expense management, from your perspective and Google's perspective.
MR. PICHETTE: I think people have a misconception about Google in general on that topic. I think Google is a very responsible company. It's a generous company, but it's very frugal in many ways. It's very smart in the way it invests, and the perfect example of that is the bus service that we have in San Francisco.
People always say Google spends money like there's no tomorrow. They have free buses and therefore, you know, it's true everywhere. Well, take a step back and think of buses for a moment.
We have a huge campus in Mountain View, and well, if we did not have these bus services, what we would have is gridlock every morning and every afternoon, with loss of productivity for employees.
By the way, you know, we'd have issues about parking, amount of parking available, right, which would cost a ton of capital to actually make sure the infrastructure is there, and a number of other kind of site costs that are related to it. You put buses in the formula, I reduce my capital spend. Everybody's there on time. Nobody has to worry about -- plus the green cost. Then they get Wi-Fi an hour in, an hour out. What a fantastic productivity tool.
That's the magic of Google. It takes the prejudices that we have, and looks very much into kind of how do we actually spend wisely in a creative way, that actually delivers immense value. When you have it with those lens, comb through all the expenses that look frivolous at Google, and then you'll find there's something magical about the way they thought about it.
Having said that, I look at my cost for buses every year. Every half year, my unit cost has to go down, because it's the low cost. So that's my job as a CFO, but don't underestimate the really strategic value and the creativity and our total cost in that example.
MR. LASHINSKY: What percentage of Mountain View employees ride the bus?
MR. PICHETTE: We have, without giving it, thousands a day.
MR. LASHINSKY: Okay. You have like 28, 29 thousand employees worldwide. So 50, 60 percent of those are in Mountain View?
MR. PICHETTE: We don't divulge that, unfortunately.
MR. LASHINSKY: Reasonable guess? I mean I'll try. So thousands is not an insignificant number.
MR. PICHETTE: It's thousands. No, I mean we have our bus company. We have 300 routes a day.
MR. LASHINSKY: 300 routes you said?
MR. PICHETTE: Yes, 300 a day. I mean going through the East Bay, everywhere, and this is a really important benefit to Google.
MR. LASHINSKY: I think that the bus system is sort of a well understood tool now. It's not the least bit controversial. Other companies have copied Google in Silicon Valley, as other companies have copied many of Google's expenses, including the free food.
Someone at this conference told me he has on authority that you're cutting back the food expense by ten percent. Can you confirm that?
MR. PICHETTE: No. I mean I asked -- again, it's the same thing. I mean we look for food programs that are very healthy for our employees. We actually, that's part of -- again, the fundamental reason is we want our employees to be healthy.
So we actually put -- that's why we have chefs in our cafes. We have real folks on nutrition, and part again of my job is to make sure that we have more for less. That's just the job of the CFO.
So in our food program, in our transport program, in our capital programs for real estate, in everything we do, my job is to ask more for less. So every year, we look at our unit costs and then we build a plan for the unit and then we track it through the years.
So we're at mid-year right now, and you shouldn't be surprised to hear at Google, hey, it's mid-year, and therefore we're resetting the clocks in a number of areas. But you should -- if you go to the cafes right now, they have tremendous amounts of diversity in the food program, and it's actually really, really good food.
MR. LASHINSKY: So I'm sorry. Just to be clear, you are or you're not cutting back food expenses by ten percent?
MR. PICHETTE: We are not.
MR. LASHINSKY: You are not? Okay, good. Let's try to move to some more substantive issues regarding Google, because there are many. I want to read a quote to you from a prominent Silicon Valley CEO. He said "Our goal is to make beautiful products that are simple and intuitive to use." Can anybody guess who that CEO is? It's not Steve Jobs. It's Larry Page in Google's last week's earnings call.
The implication is that Google has not sufficiently made beautiful and intuitive products before now. There was something that Larry's trying to change. So can you start at a high level? Talk about the new life at Google under Larry's management. What has changed? What is he trying to accomplish?
MR. PICHETTE: As I said a minute ago, I think that the two things that matter a lot to us is we don't want to lose our start-up velocity, and with scale, there always becomes this tension of how do you keep the start-up velocity.
Then the second piece is focusing on products. I mean Google is an engineering and product company, and in that balance of engineering and product, there's always -- it's always a tension between when you have massive engineering efforts, it's easy to kind of lose sight of the ease of use.
When you focus a lot on ease of use, right, it's easy to actually lose the focus on the inside. There lies that balance. So Larry is actually just, in the last 90 days he basically said hey, it's just time to reshift. Don't lose any sight into the insights of the deep engineering innovation that we drive. Time to freshen up a number of sites, and let's make sure that we don't lose focus on that ease of use that makes it magical.
I mean he talks about the toothbrush example, right. He wants the product to be so beautiful and so intuitive that just naturally, just like a toothbrush, you want to use it twice a day, three times a day. It's just a thing that you want to live with. So that's the kind of focus.
But in addition to that, Larry really was very clear that it is important, and we saw it with the triumvirate, right, with a worldwide company. It was slowing us down to have Eric in Europe for two weeks and then you have to make a decision. It's just kind of simplify the organization, to make sure that we have velocity, just like a start-up would.
You see it in the Google Plus, for example, right, the number of changes that we have done to Google Plus since its launch, sometimes a number of times a day, right. That's what a start-up does. That's what we want as the kind of cultural fiber of the company.
MR. LASHINSKY: What's an example of a change you've made to Google Plus? It's only been -- it was only launched several weeks ago, right?
MR. PICHETTE: It was launched about two weeks ago, and without knowing the details, we got feedback. The way that the team set up the product is they actually set up a set of blogs to get feedback instantly, and as people said hey, I can't do this or I can't do that; I wouldn't know all the details of it, we actually had the team change code right a couple of times a day or once a day, and they do a push on a regular basis.
So what you see today, because Google Plus is a project really, right, what you see today is already quite different than what you would have seen, say, two weeks ago. So for example, if you had -- before you click on a button that people would have found confusing, they would have said hey, I found this confusing. You'll have a popup now that says hey, just to be clear, this is what this will do, as an example, because I had one yesterday.
MR. LASHINSKY: I want to come -- we'll come back to Google Plus in a moment. The interesting thing about the toothbrush is that there aren't many products that we use every day. For quite a few years of Google's history, Google Search is a product that many of us used, maybe I would say most of us used every day, all day long.
Is Larry articulating a vision of is there an optimal number of products that Google can do well? Because right now, Google has many products, too many for us to name in the time that we have remaining, right?
MR. PICHETTE: I think that if you think of Google as a platform and core product company, it's actually not that many. Like take a step back for a moment, right. You have Search, right, and then from Search you move to the big platforms of Android, Chrome, the apps platform, the You Tube platform.
Then from there, you actually move to newer areas, which include Local, Commerce. From there, you'll see a lot of additions to these products, right, that actually compliment them. But those are the core platforms in which we're investing today, and they're just -- we're actually incredibly fortunate.
I was telling a team of Googlers yesterday most companies struggle to find their next platform of growth, right. Chrome's got 160 million users, right, from a project that when I joined the company didn't, wasn't out yet.
MR. LASHINSKY: That's worldwide?
MR. PICHETTE: Worldwide.
MR. LASHINSKY: And do you have a sense, off the top of your head, of what kind of a market share that represents?
MR. PICHETTE: I don't think we divulge that. But yes, I do actually know exactly the number.
MR. LASHINSKY: Well, Firefox is in the 20 percent range, right, and I don't pay careful attention.
MR. PICHETTE: Suffice to say, it's growing really fast because it's innovating really fast.
MR. LASHINSKY: Can you just shout out what that represents in Search please, in market share, the 160 million users? Somebody must have that at their fingertips. No? Okay, Tweet it. We'll get back to it.
MR. PICHETTE: It's growing.
MR. LASHINSKY: Okay.
MR. PICHETTE: It's growing because it's actually useful. People see the speed, people see the innovation, the relentless innovation, and that's what Google is about. And you go to Android, and it's the same thing, right? We've passed the 550 -- tomorrow morning, when everybody gets up, another 550,000 devices will be activated on Android. Even by Google standards, these are like just runaway successes.
MR. LASHINSKY: So let's play the what does this mean to revenue gain, and we'll do it on a variety of things. We'll start with Chrome. Explain the business model behind Chrome.
MR. PICHETTE: You have to take a step back on this one, and explain the following. I think Larry, if anybody has the time to kind of go back and listen to the script of the earnings call, the most important point Larry made was the following. When we have products that get resounding user and consumer success, right, and that are growing in the hundreds of millions, right, we don't worry. The only question is when and how will we monetize.
When you have a franchise of hundreds of millions, you know. Like people thought that Google was crazy when they started Search. There was a lot of competition at that time, right. There was Lycos and Alta Vista. Like people forgot these names, right? They were there. They were giants compared to Google, and all Google focused on is give me innovation that users want to use like that toothbrush.
As long as I'm growing, right, nobody should worry. We will actually find it. Now having said all that, go back to your fundamental premise. You know that people that actually have a faster browser search more. We know that. They search more by leaps. If your browser is not only faster but as you type in the top box, the Omni box, and you get instant search results out of it, right, you actually again perform more searches.
So speed, ease of use, innovation and formats and delivery. What we know and recognized was hey, there was ten years of zero innovation, until Firefox and Chrome came around. With Chrome, we put the innovation on steroids. For us, right, more searches, just on that basis, right?
It's a great financial return. But that's just the beginning, because with that, because you're Google, you say the fundamental premise of these platforms is not only to actually have our products work very well, but to enable an entire ecosystem. Always build an ecosystem, where there's a ton of win-wins.
On Chrome, just like on Android, marketplaces, developers, the developer community. Because we don't believe that one company has the monopoly on innovation. You have to let these ecosystems bloom, so that there's tons of innovation as a byproduct, and that's what we focus on.
MR. LASHINSKY: So I would boil down and paraphrase what you said, that what's good for the web is good for Google, and if a better browser is better, it makes for better web search, better web experience, that's better for web search. That's better for Google, that's better for ad words, which remains your profit engine, your growth engine.
MR. PICHETTE: And that's only the beginning. That's true.
MR. LASHINSKY: But is there a different revenue opportunity -- it strikes me that this is really about Search, and there's nothing wrong with that.
MR. PICHETTE: Take Chrome again, right? Chrome enabled the follow, which is Chrome OS, right?
MR. LASHINSKY: Uh-huh.
MR. PICHETTE: Chrome OS, we announced a device that was launched and I actually carry it everywhere I go, and I have the choice. By the way, I have the choice of Google, you have the choice of any computer you want, right. Since we had, I had the first beta of the Chrome Book, and for me, right, you see the future in that. Just like the first G-1 phone that Andy and the Android team put out, you see the future in it.
So just to come back to it, to your specific question, Chrome Books, right, and the enterprise announcement of the service, is nothing could be further in an ad system that is ad words, and these are huge markets again.
MR. LASHINSKY: Yep, I understand. It is a revenue opportunity, in other words, in the enterprise.
MR. PICHETTE: Absolutely.
MR. LASHINSKY: And is the answer in Android as straightforward? Is this really about Search? Let's not be confused about, you know, how do we monetize this? If we get people searching on their mobile phones, we own Search, we make money. Period, full stop?
MR. PICHETTE: And again, right, the answer is that pays it already, and now you have all the optionality of local, right, commerce. Think of how you live. We all know that mobile's going to change the world. We already live it, right, five years ago compared to today, how you use your maps, how you use to near me now. How you think of how you would -- you know today, if you don't have your cell phone with you, you're in panic mode. You know that.
Android is in fact a platform, it happens that in fact it fuels Search. But it fuels so many other avenues of growth for us and the ecosystem beside it.
MR. LASHINSKY: Okay. So it's first -- so two parts, the ecosystem second. You haven't shown any mobile revenue opportunities other than Search. Are there other revenue opportunities? For example, could you license, would you license the OS? You're not now.
MR. PICHETTE: No. It's an open source license. I think we think of it at this time in history, at the moment we're in, it is really critical that the license stays open source. It's what fuels the innovation. So for us, that's a critical element.
Again, take a step back, right. Everybody's all nervous about the fact that hey, it's been 36 months since Android has launched, and you only have Search, right? That's the criticism that I hear, right, and you sound like a sorry, a sell side guy now, right.
It's like how come I don't have another, right? Where's my model not -- it's like just relax, right? 550,000 devices everyday with an ecosystem that has, right? We've announced Wallet. We've announced Payments. We've announced Offers. You have Google Maps. You have all the functionality nearing me now. You have all the voice search.
Now take a step back and think of the opportunities that that provides for Google and the entire ecosystem? That's why I think that the questions are asked so much short-termish, are just not the way that Google thinks. That's not the way Larry thinks, and that's not the way Eric thinks.
It so refreshing to be in a company where you don't have that kind of obsessive mind set of the next 30 days, because then you can really dream about how do you want the change to work.
MR. LASHINSKY: The ecosystem, you mentioned the daily activations. You said last week there are now 250,000 apps in Google's apps store. There's been six billion downloads. There's a lot of third party research that Apple's apps stores generated about one and a half billion dollars of revenue for its developers. What's the corresponding figure for Google's apps store ecosystem?
MR. PICHETTE: I don't have that on my fingertips. I'm sure somebody can give you the details. But it is, it's substantial, and we, you know, in the mix of things, right, everybody knows that we give the vast majority of the value to the developers, because they're the ones creating the value.
If you kind of take the time to develop an app that you put on the Chrome or the Android store, right, it's your value you've created. It belongs to you.
MR. LASHINSKY: Does the vast majority mean the same 70 percent that Apple gives its developers?
MR. PICHETTE: In rough. I think we've been public about that, so it's roughly the same number, yes.
MR. LASHINSKY: And I'm sorry, you were saying -- okay so -- sorry. I lost my train of thought.
MR. PICHETTE: That's okay.
MR. LASHINSKY: It happens.
MR. PICHETTE: Look. Android, Chrome, You Tube, right, all of these projects when I joined the company, people all said why are you doing this, right? They even said, I remember reading articles about You Tube was the worst acquisition in the history of the universe or something like that, just like Patrick was the axe man cometh, right.
You Tube is a resounding success, for the same reason. Users, like three billion views a day. Three billion views, growing. 48 hours of video every minute being uploaded, right.
MR. LASHINSKY: There was ample evidence that the company was concerned that You Tube was not being monetized quickly enough. There was a lot of talent that went into You Tube on the sales side. We have to amp, we have to rev this up. I'm just saying Google was not unconcerned about making that acquisition work either?
MR. PICHETTE: No. I think that at the time, I remember when I joined specifically, the question was, and it's true of all these runaway successes. You actually have this thing. Android was the same, by the way. The question is as you got a runaway success, right, you've got to let it go, and then you've got to decide okay, when do you actually put controls in, to make sure that you don't lose control over it.
There is the tension of if you kind of try to stifle it originally, immediately, then you lose a huge option of creativity that's the next wave of innovation. You see that today in You Tube, with the lean back programs and everything else. The teams are continuing to innovate, instead of saying, you know, in its simplest form, it would be really easy to make You Tube very profitable now.
As a long term shareholder and somebody who's trying to create a platform for the next decade, what a mistake that would be.
MR. LASHINSKY: Patrick, before we go to questions, I remember where I was. You threw me by accusing me of sounding like a sell-side analyst, like a Wall Street analyst. Is it fair to assume that Larry Page staying on the entire conference call last week was a response to investor anger, that he didn't stay on the previous call, that it was arrogant of him to leave that previous earnings call before it was finished?
MR. PICHETTE: No. I think that -- I think Larry was delighted to join the call. We had so much to kind of -- we had just to update everybody, right? We had to update everybody on the project of Google Plus, which is kind of an important moment for us. We had to update everybody on how the reorganization of the company functioned.
We had to update everybody on a lot of great progress in so many of our platforms, and then remind everybody, which was a great message too I think everybody should take, right. If you go back to the Founder's letter, and I just encourage anybody. I tell every new Googler that joins in, I say go and read that Founder's letter, and when you read it, and you read this, you know, the focus for the long term, the focus for transformative answers, the focus for making the world a better place through technology, it's the same cats. They haven't left.
MR. LASHINSKY: Yes.
MR. PICHETTE: And what you see in today's -- what people -- it's actually the world that has changed, in kind of saying okay now that you're ten years old, you're an old company. I should think of you differently.
The key message that Larry wanted to tell everybody is it's a very young company. We are in start-up mode. We are going to invest for the long term, because we see these amazing opportunities for technologies transforming the world.
You have evidence in the last 36 months of such platforms, and we're investing now in other areas, like commerce and local, which need to be completely turned around. I spend my weekends, I jokingly say, allow me this. I spend my weekends with my Android phone in an elastic band that has tied to my Android phone my driver's license and my credit card.
That's how I live. I'm not carrying a wallet anymore. Like a wallet is a medieval item, right? It's made of hide, so people go and hunt cows to kind of tan them. Like we still -- and then you go into mines, to kind of draw ore, to put coins.
MR. LASHINSKY: All right. You've made that point. I want to -- but before --
MR. PICHETTE: That's the world of Google.
MR. LASHINSKY: My question was was the fact that Larry stayed on the full call last week a reaction to the criticism he got the previous quarter, for not staying on the whole call?
MR. PICHETTE: I don't think -- I think that what you're referring to is what I would call noise.
MR. LASHINSKY: Noise.
MR. PICHETTE: I think that we had a great opportunity to reset the clocks and update everybody, and Larry just wanted to take the time to kind of update everyone as to where we were.
MR. LASHINSKY: All right. For the first question, I want to go a real life sell-side analyst over here, Mark Mahaney (ph) of Citi.
AUDIENCE: Thanks for your contribution.
MR. PICHETTE: Hey Mark.
AUDIENCE: I wanted to ask about Google's competitive position, in terms of bringing in new employees. This is a record hire year for you. You've been increasing compensation.
There are obviously a lot of other places, new platforms, especially with capital markets reemerging. There are a lot of other places for potential employees to go to. I know you measure it very carefully.
How do you feel your ability to attract the best minds out there is today versus what it was a year or two ago? Is it where you need it to be? Are you able to get the best people?
MR. PICHETTE: The short answer on that is absolutely. I mean we have been -- we took a strategic decision at the end of last year, which was to raise everybody's salary by ten percent. Part of the strategic decision we made there was we wanted to send a signal to the market that we will actually, you know, Google will continue to be the place of choice, and we wanted to signal that very clearly to our employees.
What happened there was the following. Think of three dials. People leaving Google, people applying to Google, and then people that accept offers that we make them. In that context, here's what happened. All three dials went the right way, right. Everybody's staying happily, because they're working on great projects.
MR. LASHINSKY: Not everybody's staying, but you mean an acceptable number.
MR. PICHETTE: Our attrition rate is the lowest it's been in years, years.
MR. LASHINSKY: What is that rate?
MR. PICHETTE: And we don't disclose that either. Thank you for asking.
MR. LASHINSKY: Sure.
MR. PICHETTE: But I don't have the stat for Q2, but I'll give you the stat for Q1, because I still remember at the end of Q1 asking it. In the first 90 days of 2011, just under 600,000 people applied for a job at Google. Of that number, right, we have the luxury of cherrypicking the very best.
So we now ended up, in the first half of this year, with the lowest attrition ever. Everybody we make an offer to is delighted to accept it, and basically a wall of applications coming our way of the very best talent in the world.
So in that context, right, hiring a little more than we would have otherwise, and now we have the luxury of controlling that gas pedal. What a great problem to have.
MR. LASHINSKY: He's confident, yes. I just want to tell the clock gods we're going to take five extra minutes. I apologize. We have so many hands, that I want to go to a bunch of them. Jason first, and then we'll go over there. Yep. Just identify yourself please, even though --
AUDIENCE: Hey, Jason Hirschorn. I'm a big fan of Google, but I'm also, as a fan, a critic. One of the weaknesses I've seen is in graphic to user interfaces and how you integrate all your products together. My understanding of the hiring process at Google is that when you go there and you're end product, you get interviewed by a series of engineers.
I think one of the weaknesses that Google has is in graphical user interfaces and design and user experience. How is your interview process changing to actually improve on that?
MR. PICHETTE: Actually, one of the things that we did in the tune-ups of the organizations this spring was we actually merged the product engineering teams together, which was -- you know, what we found was we were losing -- when Google was just a one product company, it was very easy to have product and engineering work together at a table.
But now when you're trying to organize a conversation between the Maps team, the Local team and the Search team, right, now you have times three, six. Plus if you needed in the old days Larry, Surry (ph) and Eric, now you're at nine, right? It started slowing down things.
By actually merging the product and engineering teams, they're together now in the decision-making process every day. In addition to that, in all of those processes, right, they do it jointly. So I think that we have a much better symbiotic relationship in attracting people that actually have the focus on UI.
Larry has made it very clear in his comments, that you'll notice on the call right, where he actually is putting more emphasis on the UI and the integration of these different products, to make sure that they work seamlessly for us. We recognize that there are some areas where there's just too much clutter.
MR. LASHINSKY: George.
AUDIENCE: Yes, George Coffey. Is it evil to pay only six percent federal tax?
MR. PICHETTE: We pay all our taxes in every jurisdiction, to the full extent that the law allows us. That's what we do. We pay every penny of tax we owe to everybody everywhere. The issue is, I don't make the laws. I just -- basically, you know, I'm just like every other corporation.
I just make sure that, you know, I abide by all the laws and we're good corporate citizens. I mean I think that that's the situation we're in.
MR. LASHINSKY: So you will be hearing no apology about Google's tax payments. Back in the back please. Just please identify yourself.
AUDIENCE: Hey guys, Andrew Siegel. Listen, your operating margins and your capital efficiency metrics are so outrageously great, that you can take all sort of deal costs against them and they wouldn't budget. You've got roughly 40 billion in cash growing 25 percent per year. Why aren't you guys being even more active buying innovation?
MR. PICHETTE: That's a great question, and it's the same question for how many people we bring in, in fact. The trick is for acquisitions of people, and now if you make the case for acquisitions, there's two components. There's our ability to absorb, which is -- there's no sense buying a company and just having them spinning in never-never land.
So for us, we have our priorities. You've heard us talk about our priorities through this conversation. The real tests are the following: Is there a company out there that actually has a natural fit with our priorities? If it has a fit with our priorities, then on top of that, we actually go and scrub the team, and we go and scrub the IP really hard.
Because if they're a team that won't fit with us, there's no sense buying them. It will just fall apart, and if the IP is a good test of the engineering capacity, right, then you know, if it passes the test, if it fits with our agenda, great team, decent IP, then there's always price, right. There's a price after which you can't say yes.
We basically scan the entire planet looking for these great opportunities. Every single one that passes the bar, right, we're delighted to bring them on board, because they just fuel the agenda.
That's how we think about it. It's a very simple model, but it's -- we can't drop the bar of the quality of the people we bring in and the fit, because otherwise we'll end up with just a dog's breakfast out there. That's not Google.
MR. LASHINSKY: Last question back there, short question, short answer please.
AUDIENCE: Hi Patrick. Miguel Hauth (ph) with Fortune. So there's no arguing with the success of Android, and it's obvious that if I switch from a feature phone, even a BlackBerry to a Smartphone, I'm going to search more. But there's also a hypothesis that in an app world, there will be less search in the modal world.
So I wanted to ask how you think about that? Is this a concern for Google, and is it --
MR. PICHETTE: That's a wrong -- I hear that often, and it's actually a wrong premise. If you have a Smartphone, whatever the Smartphone, you search a ton. That's what you do. by the way, this concept of I love to hear these kind of clashes of titans.
It's only apps or only (inaudible), right. It can only be one. The fact is they're both, and this is a digital economy, where there are going to be applications where you want richness and you need a lot of power, because it's about voice recognition.
It can't be an app. It's going to be cloud-based, and then there's some really simple things that are really cool, because you're just kind of shooting birds across to kind of kill pigs. Then that's fine if it's an app, right. There's space for both, and what we know is for us, our applications are going to run on both.
But the cloud is the future for us. That's where we build the core applications, because with the cloud, you've got horsepower, and with horsepower you do crazy good innovations, and that's what the Googlers focus on.
MR. LASHINSKY: I would add to that if from your comments, that Google has the luxury of not caring, which is the right answer?
MR. PICHETTE: We care deeply.
MR. LASHINSKY: Not which is the right answer, though. You're making investments so that you win this way and you win that way; correct?
MR. PICHETTE: The digital economy is going to win, and both are going to win.
MR. LASHINSKY: Before you go, Patrick, I want to show, though, the results to our poll about that very important question about Reggie Watts' hair. It's just come up there. The answer is it's impossible to tell, because no one can get close enough. Please join me in thanking Patrick Pichette of Google.
MR. PICHETTE: Thank you, everybody. Thank you for your time.
MR. LASHINSKY: Thank you.


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Resources » Dictionary of Bible Themes » 1000 God » 1300 God, work of » 1345 covenant
1345 covenant
- 1346 covenants, nature of
- 1347 covenant, God's with Noah
- 1348 covenant, God's with Abraham
- 1349 covenant, God's at Sinai
- 1350 covenant, God's with Israel's priests
- 1351 covenant, God's with David
- 1352 covenant, the new
1345 covenant
God's commitment to, and requirement of, his people expressed in promise, law, judgment, faithfulness and mercy. Also used of commitment within human relationships based upon agreements.
This set of themes consists of the following:
|covenants, nature of
|covenant, God's with Noah
|covenant, God's with Abraham
|covenant, God's at Sinai
|covenant, God's with Israel's priests
|covenant, God's with David
|covenant, the new
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Ok, so I finally got OSX 10.4.6 Tiger to work on my PC. I am still unable to get Leopard to work though. What gives?
I used the JaS install DVD for my Tiger config and enabled:
10.4.6.Combo.Update = 747MB
Intel.SSE2 = 8.2MB
This install works great and I have sound, internet, etc...
Now, when I go to install Leopard, it's a different story.
I have tried both iDeneb 10.5.5 and iPC 10.5.6 with no luck. I can get a successful install with iDeneb, but not with iPC. However, when I go to boot it after installing iDeneb, it just goes into the loop (infinite) boot. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. What should I have enabled for my pc with these distros? The JaS disk was so simple. GAH. I want LEOPARD.
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MOUNT VERNON The congregation of the Newark Road Church of Christ, 1200 Newark Road, is accepting donations for the Hurricane Sandy victims through Dec. 10.
The local congregation is working with the Gateway Church of Christ in New Jersey, which is helping the New Jersey Union Beach town, which had over 180 homes destroyed. It will be six to eight months before the victims are able to rebuild due to the destroyed intra-structure (gas, water, electricity and sewer).
Meanwhile, many are staying in a nearby army barracks. There is desperate need for everything. Christmas-themed and children-themed pillowcases with a stuffed animal are being made locally. Toiletries, hats, gloves, new stuffed animals and gift cards are being collected.
Church services at Newark Road Church of Christ are Sunday at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., and 6 p.m.; and Wednesday at 7 p.m. The public may drop off donation items and join in the worship. For items that need to be picked up, call 397-0838 or 397-0750.
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|Wedding Anniversary, John and Betty (Blanko) DeGennaro, 1953
Mr. and Mrs. John DeGennaro of Oxford celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a party given at their home by their children. Mr. and Mrs. DeGennaro were married Feb. 7, 1953, at St. Joseph's Church in Shelton. They have three children, John DeGennaro of Wethersfield, Frank DeGennaro of Naugatuck and Susan DeAngelis of Seymour, six grandchildren and three-great-grandchildren.
Mrs. DeGennaro is the former Betty Blanko.
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