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At Bank of America, we realize the power of our people and value our differences — in thought, style, sexual orientation, gender identity, culture, ethnicity and experience — recognizing that our diversity makes us a stronger company. Diversity and inclusion are central to our company's values, and we are proud to be widely recognized for our progressive workplace practices and initiatives that promote inclusion.
Life is better when we are connected to our employees
Every day, we are focused on delivering on the promise of being a great place for people to work. We actively promote an inclusive environment where all employees have the opportunity to achieve personal success and contribute to the growth of our business.
At Bank of America, we're committed to attracting, recruiting and retaining top diverse talent from across the globe. We are focused every day on delivering on the promise of being a great place for people to work by creating an environment where all employees feel they have the opportunity to achieve their goals. We value our differences—in thought, style, culture, ethnicity and experience—understanding that diversity and inclusion are good for business and make our company stronger. Bank of America is proud to be a leader in supporting diversity and has been widely recognized for our progressive workplace practices and initiatives that promote inclusion.
We partner with a variety of organizations to find the best talent for our company and support and participate in recruiting events coordinated by many of our external partners.
Our campus recruiting team visits colleges and universities across the globe to secure talent for our internship and associate programs. Our military and veteran recruiting team partners with a variety of organizations and attends job fairs to find talented military service members, military spouses and veterans to join our company. Additionally, our Diversity Executive Recruiting team actively identifies prospective executives and connects talent to leaders within Bank of America.
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions:
- We serve approximately 51 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 5,200 retail banking offices and approximately 16,200 ATMs and award-winning online banking with 30 million active users and more than 14 million mobile users.
- We are among the world's leading wealth management companies and are a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world.
- We serve clients through operations in more than 40 countries.
Here, you'll work for a company recognized for creating industry-leading technology, products and services. Our leaders serve on numerous local and national boards and regularly receive top industry honors, including recognition in US Banker, Forbes, Working Mother and Diversity Inc. and others. You'll have opportunities to achieve your goals.
Workforce Data
We strive to develop a workforce that reflects the communities where we live and work. Encouraging a diverse, inclusive workplace gives us the business advantage of understanding and meeting the needs of diverse customers, clients and communities. Globally, approximately 56 percent of our workforce is female.
Contact Us
If you embrace our values and goals and would like to help us make financial lives better for customers and clients, we would like to discuss the job offerings available at Bank of America. Click here to review our current job offerings and apply today. Whether you are actively seeking a role with Bank of America, or simply interested in learning about leadership opportunities as they arise, you can contact us at email@example.com.
You can submit your resume, or request information about our recruiting efforts and related events.
Life is better when we are connected as a company
At Bank of America, diversity is core to who we are and how we operate — it's part of our DNA. Our Employee Networks are perfect examples of how we grow stronger through our commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Bank of America's Employee Networks are bank-supported groups made up of employees who share a common dimension of diversity, along with others who support them. Our Employee Networks form around race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, parental status and veteran status. In 2012, through Employee Networks around the world, more than 60,000 employees connected and participated in networking opportunities, mentoring programs, information forums and various volunteer events. Many members also served in leadership roles and led initiatives for recruiting, client development and community partnerships.
Employee Network Chapters
Asian Leadership Network
Black Professional Group
Disability Employee Group
Hispanic/Latino Organization for Leadership and Advancement
Inter-Generational Employee Network
Leadership, Education, Advocacy and Development for Women
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Resource Group
Military Support Group
Multicultural Leadership Network (Europe and Emerging Markets)
Native American Professional Network
Parents and Caregivers Network
Young Professionals Network (Asia Pacific)
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion and to our Employee Networks is making interactions easier for employees who work at different locations and in different lines of business — creating an environment where success is shared at the bank and in the communities we serve.
There is a tremendous range of possible activities, partnerships and opportunities, for the leadership and members of the Employee Networks to show great creativity and resourcefulness in developing new programs.
Each year, every Employee Network chooses an organization to partner with on a national level. The organization is one whose mission aligns with the specific network and that can offer volunteer opportunities on both the national and local level. The organization receives a grant from the bank but, more importantly, it benefits from the expertise, energy and dedication of volunteers from the networks. Learn more about a few of our Employee Networks;
Black Professional Group and National CARES Mentoring Movement – employees helping communities
The partnership between the Black Professional Group (BPG) and the National CARES Mentoring Movement, which began in 2011, is a perfect example of how the Employee Network Grant Program impacts both the network and the organization in profound, positive ways. National CARES Mentoring Movement "recruits and connects mentors with local youth-serving and mentoring organizations to help guide struggling Black children to academic and social success."
"National CARES was a perfect fit for us — not only do they help children in our communities, but its mission aligns with another focus area for our network: professional development," says Miyoshi West, BPG Enterprise Co-Lead. "Through CARES, we're looking at the next generation, helping assess what those children are lacking in their lives that would allow them to be the best they could be, to reach their full potential, just as our network makes sure our members are living up to their full potential."
Ally Program sends a powerful message of inclusivity where differences are valued and respected
At Bank of America, we strive to help all employees reach their full potential. Our support comes through in our values, policies and benefit programs, which have helped to create an inclusive environment where differences are valued and respected. To help continue to drive positive change and engagement for our colleagues, Bank of America has launched the Ally Program, in support of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride employee network.
An ally is someone who is supportive of and accepts all teammates, including our LGBT colleagues, or who personally advocates for LGBT inclusivity. The program will provide opportunities for employees to participate in educational and volunteer events while learning how to assist the LGBT community with the challenges they face.
"The Ally program is an important part of strengthening our culture of inclusion, and it's a reality because of the passion of our own employees," said Geri Thomas, Chief Diversity Officer. "The program provides an opportunity for all employees to declare openly that they're an ally and ensure that all employees feel included, valued, and confident that they have every opportunity to succeed in our company."
The power of an ally
Aimee Broadhurst, a corporate communications manager in Global Marketing & Corporate Affairs and LGBT Pride Ally program co-lead, became an advocate and unofficial ally years ago after seeing differences in her two sisters' work environments, where one was out and the other was not.
"It fueled my passion to be visible as a straight ally at the bank," Aimee said. "I don't ever want a colleague to feel like they cannot be who they are. The Ally program shows how we truly are better when we are connected. Those connections are only possible in an environment where every single person brings their whole self to work every day."
Military Services & Assistance Group recruits top talent for the bank
In the past few years, Bank of America has increasingly recognized the unique value that veterans and reservists bring to the table; military personnel are self-starters, understand logistics and have a service- and teamwork-oriented attitude, all of which help them contribute to the success of the bank.
To increase the numbers of military personnel at the bank, the Military Veteran Recruiting Program (MVRP) was tasked with an ambitious goal of doubling the number of veterans hired in one year. This goal was surpassed by the end of the third quarter, thanks to the combined efforts of the MVRP team and the Military Support and Assistance Group (MSAG). Overall for 2012, the bank hired more than 1,600 veterans.
To learn more about our Military & Veteran recruiting programs click here and join the thousands of Veterans who now call Bank of America their employer of choice.
Life is better when we are connected to our customers, clients and our community
Our diversity efforts have been recognized by various external organizations and media around the world. We are honored to receive these awards. Here are some of the most recent:
- Secretary of Defense's Employer Freedom Award, the highest honor given by the United States government to employers for support of employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve (2013)
- Thirty-three Merrill Lynch Financial Advisors named to Barron's 2013 "Top 100 Women Financial Advisors" list (2013)
- Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Award (2006-2013)
- Among LATINA Style's Top Company for Latinas (2004-2013)
- Working Mother 100 Best Companies list; 25th year on the list
- DiversityMBA magazine's "Top 50 Companies for Diverse Managers to Work;" (2007-2013)
- Alliance Data Corporate Champion Award for our commitment to employing adults with cognitive disabilities (2013)
- Black EOE Journal Top Employer in the Financial Services Industry (2013)
- Professional Woman's Magazine named Bank of America as a Top Financial Company to its "Best of the Best Lists" (2013)
- CivilianJobs.com Most Valuable Employer for Military winner (2013)
- One of the Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (2006-2013)
We partner with a variety of global and national organizations to find the best talent for our company and educate our existing workforce. Click here to view a full list of our partners.


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"Twilight" hunk Kellan Lutz has split from his longtime girlfriend, according to reports.
The actor has been dating Australian beauty Sharni Vinson since 2011, but the pair went its separate ways earlier this month, according to UsMagazine.com.
Lutz and Vinson met while auditioning for "Step Up 3D." Vinson landed a starring role in the movie, while Lutz did not.
The actor, who played vampire Emmett Cullen in the "Twilight" series, recently heaped praise on Vinson's romance skills after they enjoyed St. Valentine's Day together in February, saying, "Let's just say that I did it so well that she was surprised that I didn't propose to her."
Lutz isn't the only bloodsucker to have his heart broken recently – "Vampire Diaries" co-stars Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev have broken up after three years.


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I absolutely love the "Sons of Anarchy"! I received the first three seasons on DVD for my birthday and so I swallow 3-4 episodes at a time as I cannot stop once I start. It's thrilling and my lower back aches from all the backstabbing and I am fascinated by the tight plot twists and boot-cut drama. It lives in the magical universe of "The Shield", another one of my all time favorite television shows, and since I never got to be on The Shield, I hope one day to get to do the Sons of Anarchy. Maybe I could even ride!
The Sons of Anarchy reminds me of the northern California gangs of my youth, but they didn't have impressive custom bikes, they just rode the trains, although a few among them had shiny, roaringly loud El Caminos and Mustangs. These belonged to the older boys, men really, and the muscle cars usually didn't last long as they were quickly impounded or sold to pay for bail bonds and lawyers as the owners were carted off to jail and then inevitably to prison.
They called themselves the WPODs, and the primitive rock-painting-like graffiti of these letters on walls all over the city would later be covered over with the sophisticated, swirling spray can murals taggers eventually learned to create, discovering that they too had a right to art. I didn't know then that the letters came from a song by the tubes, and they stood for white punks on dope, and this was mostly true, although they weren't technically punk, as they didn't have Mohawks or piercings made with safety pins and they never went to see bands at the Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco's premier punk venue. They preferred laser light shows at the planetarium and the classic rock of Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and of course Black Sabbath.
They were always white, and mostly of irish descent, but not recent immigrants, as they didn't regularly frequent the real irish bars of the Sunset and Richmond districts filled with authentic brogues and bitter beer and held no opinion or allegiance to Protestants or Catholics or Sinn Fein or the IRA or anything and they were too young to be in those establishments anyway. The dope of their moniker and choice was usually crank or what is now known as crystal meth, but then it was a heavily stepped-on early edition of the drug, so cut up with baby laxatives that everyone would fart up a storm at the mere appearance of a cloudy, stingy bag.
The Sunset District where I grew up was made up of these 4th and 5th generation Irish and 1st generation Chinese /Korean /Vietnamese /Japanese /Filipino families. It was a faintly depressing and conservative neighborhood that was defensively lower middle class. The streets were mean but they were clean. The trains were on time but filled with hard looking kids, who weren't bad really, just high, and bored, which was me, and is still me sometimes.
The WPODs were like sentinels or soldiers, as they had a uniform, and you would see them strutting around, keeping watch, proud as roosters, in their derby jackets – deep blacks and blues and sometimes steely grey and even an odd khaki brown in there for the wild card crazy one who liked to set off fireworks and could make pipe bombs with the collection of pyrotechnics squirreled away under his bed.
There was a distinctive double seam going across the back of the jacket, shoulder to shoulder, which I took to represent the horizon that marked the farthest border of the Sunset District, the painfully cold and windy Ocean Beach, whose dangerous undertow made going swimming absolutely suicidal. You needed to get your affairs in order and write a note to your loved ones before taking a dip in there. Everyone I knew who went in that water died. That is not an exaggeration.
To go with the jacket there were loosely slung Ben Davis slacks, the wide leg giving way to steel toe boots, laced hard and tight up the shaft, holding their skinny boy calves in a confining leather hook and eye embrace. They walked with confidence and dirty hair that framed beautiful but haunted cold weather faces, and in their glittering blue and green eyes I could tell they were still little boys who got scared and cried when they were alone.
We weren't supposed to hang around with them but it happened. The WPODs were encouraged to stay with their 'own kind', but they never did, being unable to resist the gorgeous asian girls growing up next to them, with our shiny black hair and plump lush Dr Pepper Bonne Bell mouths. They'd wait outside your house smoking Marlboros and trying not to act or look like they were waiting outside your house, dreaming of a whiff of your Love's Baby Soft or Jean Nate After Bath Splash. Their hopelessly ardent crushes betrayed their hoodlum exteriors.
I was well liked for my humor and resemblance to the 26 year old woman whose purse had been stolen on the N Judah, and at 12 I could convincingly buy kegs of beer with that swiped ID and my ageless poker face and grown woman body. The WPODs would leave odd trails of saliva on my Izod shirts as they didn't know how to kiss but tried to seem like they knew everything about sex and so they'd suck on odd areas around my shoulders and chest like lampreys sticking to the side of a fishtank.
I got older and these boys got into worse and worse trouble and without warning became men who couldn't do anything else but be in trouble. I left my neighborhood for comedy and showbusiness and better and brighter things and sometimes I would hear of the incarceration of one and the death of another and I'd think about the clean hopeful Ivory soap smell of their necks and how the derby jackets they wore held the cigarette smoke inside them so they always smelled like they were smoking even if they were not. Whenever anyone lights a Marlboro red around me I remember so much and so hard and so quickly and so vividly I feel like crying.


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Cisco to Sell Linksys Unit to Belkin
Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to sell its home-networking business, including the well-known Linksys brand, to Belkin International Inc., as it continues to retrench around its core business of selling technology to businesses.
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Today, Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of web documents available to searchers. Yes, this is the long expected counterblow to Yahoo's claim last month to have outdistanced Google. However, dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire size wars situation. That's because it divorces the notion of page counting as a way to "prove" comprehensiveness, a move long overdue for the industry to make.
I've written before about the Yahoo-Google size fight that broke out in August, and I'm going to recount some of that history as part of this analysis. Suffice to say, I've (along with Gary Price and Chris Sherman) had many conversations with both companies over the past few weeks. In pondering the various arguments and statements, I was ultimately left feeling how little counting pages, either self-reported index counts or those seen in response to actual queries, mean in terms of whether a search engine is comprehensive.
I'm going to explain that more below with some examples, plus I'll dive in about the current Google news. However, I think the best thing to do is start back at the beginning. So I hope you'll indulge me with a little history both distant and more recent, because I think it will help explain the issues more.
The Bigger Is Better Attitude
Way, way back one century ago
Not long after the web began
AltaVista lived in the land of search
A fine example of a big search engine
AltaVista, AltaVista and rivals
Saying you were bigger could help attract users
AltaVista, AltaVista and rivals
Spent all of their days counting up pages
Apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice for playing with one of the Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat songs. But I couldn't resist!
Last century, in December 1995 to be exact, AltaVista burst upon the search engine scene with what was at that time a giant index of 21 million pages, well above rivals that were in the 1 million to 2 million range. The web was growing fast, and the more pages you had, the greater the odds you really were going to find that needle in a haystack. Bigger did to some degree mean better.
That fact wasn't wasted on the PR folks. Games to seem bigger began in earnest. Lycos would talk about the number of pages it "knew" about, even if these weren't actually indexed or in any way accessible to searchers through its search engine. That irritated search engine Excite so much that it even posted a page on how to count URLs, as you can see archived here.
Size As Surrogate For Relevancy
While size initially DID mean bigger was better, that soon disappeared when the scale of indexes grew from counting millions of pages to tens of millions. Bigger no longer meant better because for many queries, you could get overwhelmed with matches.
I've long played with the needle-in-the-haystack metaphor to explain this. You want to find the needle? You need to have the whole haystack, size proponents will say. But if I dump the entire haystack on your head, can you find the needle then? Just being biggest isn't good enough.
That's why I and others have been saying don't fixate on size for as long as 1997 and 1998. Bigger no longer meant better, irregardless of the many size wars that continued to erupt. Remember, Google — when it came to popular attention in 1998 and 1999 — was one of the tiniest search engines at around 20 to 85 million pages. Despite that supposed lack of comprehensiveness, it grew and grew because of the quality of its results.
Why have the size wars persisted? Search engines have seen an index size announcement as a quick, effective way to give the impression they were more relevant. In lieu of a relevancy figure, size figures could be trotted out and the search engine with the biggest bar on the chart wins! See my Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy and In Search Of The Relevancy Figure articles for more about this.
The Yahoo-Google Dispute Of Aug. 2005
The latest size wars broke out last month, when Yahoo said on its blog that it now provided access to over 19 billion web documents. Yahoo had been silent on its index size since rolling out its own technology in early 2004. Now, we were given a figure — and a figure over twice as that claimed by Google on its home page.
The Yahoo post DID NOT claim that Yahoo was more comprehensive or bigger than any other search engine. But Yahoo did make this claim in an Associated Press article about the self-reported size increase:
"This is a great reason for more people to check us out," said Eckart Walther, the Yahoo vice president for products. "We are more comprehensive than anyone else out there."
That quote, more than anything else, was a red flag to Google. Fair to say, Google wants to be a leader in all things search. The idea that it might be second-best in comprehensiveness wasn't a statement it wanted left unchallenged.
Counting Pages Does Not Equal Measuring Comprehensiveness
But how do you prove comprehensiveness? I'll skip past some of the past attempts (you can read more here) and dive quickly into the study two students at NCSA did recently. In short, they looked at rare words. The idea is that the more matches you get for a rare terms, the more comprehensive a search engine must be. If Yahoo really was more than twice as big as Google, it should come back with more than twice as many matches.
Unfortunately, the study has many low level flaws, as even the two students admit in a follow-up to it. It was skewing toward bringing back dictionary lists, rather than more "normal" documents useful to searchers. And were duplicate pages being checked? Was Yahoo somehow filtering out spam pages? To what depth were the pages indexed? Full text or only after a certain length? See also Seth Finkelstein and Jean Vironis (here and here, linking to Google Translate versions from the French originals) for more issues with the study.
Beyond that, there was a higher level flaw. The students not unreasonably assumed that the 8 billion pages indexed claim on the Google home page was accurate. It was not. In talking with Google over the past weeks, it turned out that the home page count was its most conservative estimate of pages in the index. Beyond what was officially claimed were other documents, including "partially indexed" ones. These were documents that while not actually indexed might still come up in results and add toward a count.
In total, the Google actual Google index size was above 8 billion — maybe as high as 9-11 billion pages and possibly a bit more. That higher count, unbeknownst to the students, meant the "gap" between Google and Yahoo counts would naturally be less. It wasn't necessarily that Yahoo was smaller than it claimed. It could also be that Google was bigger than it claimed.
As you can see, there were some low level and higher level flaws. But the biggest flaw was the entire idea that counting pages could equal measuring comprehensiveness. Years and years ago, that might have been more true. But today, especially in a period of syndicated content and much near-duplicated content, measuring comprehensiveness is a much more subjective task.
In other words, assume you search for a "rare" term and one search engine comes up with three matches while its rival comes up with only one. Is the "big" search engine three times better? Not until you look at the actual pages. What if those three pages are simply duplicates or near duplicates of each other. If that's the case, the counts aren't accurately reflecting comprehensiveness.
The Duplicate Content Issue
Let's take a look at some real-life examples to fully understand the problems with depending just on counts. I'll start first with data from Google's new blog search service. It handily keeps me updated with all posts in feeds that are linking to our Search Engine Watch Blog. As it turns out, this has been a great way to simply find those who are carrying my content.
Consider this page, from the Amazezing site. It is simply a summary of my article over here. The Amazezing site's summary potentially could have comments that would make it unique from my article. However, there aren't any. Carrying that page in a search engine's index, at the moment, really doesn't make the search engine any more comprehensive than if it just carried my original article. Nevertheless, if a search engine indexes both pages, then it would see twice as good as a search engine that only carries my article on a pure count basis.
Head to the Amazezing site's home page. Now look at the Open Directory's home page. Seem familiar? The Amazezing site simply carries a copy of the Open Directory's listings. There's nothing wrong with that. The Open Directory encourages people to use its listings. But where's the unique content?
Look at the Open Directory's Anime Genres category. Now look at the corresponding page at Amazezing. The key difference? Amazezing has Google AdSense links, and the Open Directory doesn't. Carrying the Amazeing category page makes a search engines negligibly more comprehensive to a human eye. But on a pure count basis? Negligible becomes twice as good.
Counting Pages Indexed Per Site
How about perhaps looking at comprehensiveness in terms of pages from particular sites that are indexed? Surely sites with that have fewer pages listed at one search engine than another may mean the search engine isn't very comprehensive.
Search Engine Watch reader Sam Davyson certainly felt that way, discovering recently Google had indexed nearly all of his 110 web pages while Yahoo had only five.
Then again, comprehensiveness may be in the eye of the beholder. Another reader, Patrick Mondout, has been frustrated that Yahoo has refused to list any pages other than the home page of his Super70s.com site. In contrast, Google has up to 62,000 pages listed (many of these, however, seem to be "link" only pages that haven't been indexed), and MSN has 3,000. He emailed me his view of the Yahoo comprehensiveness claim:
I was really peeved to see Yahoo trying to suggest that its index is bigger than Google's. Why? Because they steadfastly refuse to list me.
Yahoo's response when I followed up on this was that Mondout's site seemed to be mostly content scraped from Amazon or eBay, plus that he had excessive crosslinking. Mondout's response in turn was that he had plenty of unique content.
Readers can take a look around at the site and judge for themselves. However, there's no doubt in some cases, a search engine might drop a site or content from a site for good reasons. In doing so, count numbers go down and ironically may make them look less comprehensive when that's not the case. In other situations, of course, it will be the opposite.
Some Real Life Needle Finding
What would be a good way to measure comprehensiveness? Look at actual queries that searchers do that come back with no results or relatively few results. This would be much better than the "rare word" testing that's often been done because those types of searches are artificial in nature.
Actual queries reflect actual needle in the haystack hunts. Look at these type of failure or low count queries at Yahoo and see if Google comes back with matches. Do the same with Google queries at Yahoo. That would be an interesting test, but it would rely on data that the search engines aren't providing.
In lieu of that, I'll give you a real life example from my end. A few weeks ago, the kids and I were playing Lego Star Wars on our Xbox, which is a great game. There was only one last "minikit" piece that we needed. We knew roughly where it was by using our minikit detector, but our efforts to actually find it came up with nothing.
I turned to search. I honestly can't remember at this point exactly which search engine I used and the exact search terms. I know, I know — I should have saved all this! But I was playing a game at the weekend and having fun, only thinking of this as a search example later on.
As best I can reconstruct, I ended up with something like [lego star wars defence of kashyyyk minikit". That's the UK spelling of defense, since we're playing the UK version of the game. I seem to recall getting practically no results on Google or Yahoo but one of them did get me what I was looking for.
Here's the search on Yahoo. Only three results, and the first page having the answer. That's an example of finding the needle in the haystack for me. Over at Google, here's the search there. Many more matches, over 100, though you can see some duplicates getting counted as toward the end:
- www.sweet-cheats.com/?cat=13/ 1380k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
- www.sweet-cheats.com/?cat=13&paged=1 1399k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
- www.sweet-cheats.com/?cat=13/&paged=1 1399k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
Those three results are all the essentially same page, just with slightly URLs/ways to reach them. Still, Google DID find me the page with the right answer, right at the first page of its results. Needle in the haystack found, both at Google and Yahoo.
Here's another real life example, fresh off the press. Today at lunch, my mother-in-law was over visiting. My wife noticed that her glasses had been bent. She'd sat on them accidentally and fixed them as best she could, but no eyeglasses place in the UK could repair them properly. That's because she'd bought them a couple of years ago when she was on vacation in Northern Cyprus.
I suggested she send them back for repair there, but she couldn't remember the name of the place. So my wife decided it was time to introduce her to web search (my mother-in-law is yet to get a computer or surf the web herself).
They tried a couple of searches first for [northern cyprus optician" and more specifically, on Google, for kyrenia northern cyprus optician that brought back 27 results. The second listing had the name of the place, Akay Optik, ringing a bell in my mother-in-law's head. Success!
The listed page actually no longer existed, as it turned out. Still, they could see the name of the optician in the listing on Google. Using the actual name, a search for akay optik got them to the right place. (When I looked, it also became clear why they didn't find the site more easily. It's a graphical site, rendering it largely invisible to search engines).
So in the end, that initial search with 27 results got the needle in the haystack. Over at Yahoo, the same search came up with 6 results and missed the needle we needed. Google came out in this instance as more comprehensive.
Proof Google is more comprehensive, both in numbers and in quality of actual results! Hold on. If I varied the search, Yahoo pulled through. A search for opticians in kyrenia brought up this page as number two, an excellent overview to services where Akay Optik was easily found (and yes, Google has it too).
How Do You Prove Comprehensiveness?
In the end, I hope some of the above has helped illustrate why counts alone can't be taken as proof of comprehensiveness. They are prone to all types of errors, in terms of how do you define a page, a duplicate page, the depth of the page indexed not to mention whether the page really is of a quality to produce expanded comprehensiveness, rather than a larger count.
If you can't rely on counting pages as proof, then how does any search engine definitively prove that it is more comprehensive. I asked Yahoo about this in response to the AP quote mentioned above. The response came back that it was given in the context of counting and self-reported figures. If you believe counts equal comprehensiveness — and you believed the counts both Yahoo and Google were giving at that time — then they were the most comprehensive by THAT measure.
Aside from that, they could simply say that they were bigger than they were before and felt they were more comprehensive than they were before. Whether others found them to be more comprehensive remained to them.
Today's Google Claim
That leads to today's claim by Google. First, it's making the claim as part of it being Google's seventh birthday celebration. I know — some of you may recall Google's birthday is on September 7, but Google says it's celebrating the September event today.
Google's saying that as part of its birthday celebrations, it's now 1,000 times larger than it was when launched. I'm specifically not going to do the math as part of my "get away from the counts" attitude of this piece. But neither is Google giving a figure. It's only saying that it is three times larger than the closest competition (that's Yahoo, even though Google's not naming Yahoo).
Talking about today's announcement, Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer web products, also told me:
We're happy to say at this point we are the largest and most comprehensive by a large factor and have been for some time.
Counts Can't Be Compared
Proven how? Google's not releasing a count. Why not? It feels that the ability to come up with count comparisons is too difficult. It's not an apples-to-apples thing. Google doesn't know exactly how its competitors are counting documents, when they release counts. And for the record, that's exactly what Yahoo has been saying to me and other analysts like Charlene Li.
Eckart Walther, the aforementioned Yahoo vice president of products in the AP article I cited above told me earlier this month:
We cannot deduce the basic documents they have in their index, and they cannot deduce the number of documents in our index.
Indeed, even the controversial study from the NCSA students covered this:
Although there is no direct way to verify the size of each search engine's respective index, the standard method to measure relative size was developed by Krishna Bharat and Andrei Broder in 1998.
So no player can tell exactly how big each other is in terms of counts, but they feel they can make some guesses at relative size. Google feels it is now three times relatively larger than Yahoo. But it is not saying it is three times more comprehensive by showing a count as proof of that.
Reprise: Counts Don't Equal Comprehensiveness
Even if Google did trot out count numbers, I've explained that wouldn't convince me, nor do I feel it should necessarily convince others. But if Google was upset over Yahoo's earlier claim not seeming to be proven, how can it then put out its own claim to be most comprehensive without backing?
"We believe the margin of difference is large enough that users should be do a few queries themselves and check it out," Mayer said. "If it's not a commonly occurring term, chances are they'll be able to see a difference themselves."
I agree with that. The proof is in the pudding, so to speak. Rather than another round of trotting out figures and third parties trying to see if rare word lists bring up more or less than would be expected, let's get the focus back on the quality of the results. Quality includes comprehensiveness. So if someone devises a test of real queries, things that don't involve rare words but instead rare information on the web, that's of interest.
Rare Information?
Here's one more example of this from me. My wife and I love the watercolors of Annie Williams, a Welsh artist. We have a number of prints and one of her actual paintings. About two or three years ago, I tried to find out more about her on the web. I tried all the major search engines. There was nothing. Believe me, nothing. All my searching skills came to naught.
I just checked things out today. Here's a crafted query at Yahoo, where I've added and eliminated things to narrow in on Annie Williams, the artist. Only seven matches, but useful — the first a gallery that I might want to follow up with about where I might find another exhibition of her works. And the third listing for spotjockey.com led me to this short but nice bio.
Over at Google, the same query comes back with 20 matches. A few more promising prospects, though a number of dead ends and blank pages. But the bio page is found directly on the second page of results, and there are other things interesting to explore.
Over at Ask Jeeves and MSN, I get three matches — the same good page for the exhibition web site I found at Yahoo and Google, but that's end.
So gut feeling for this query? Google slightly more comprehensive than Yahoo, but Yahoo not bad and ahead of Ask and MSN. FOR THIS QUERY ONLY! For other queries, or other wordings, things might change significantly. Thus the challenge of declaring an overall comprehensive winner.
So in the end, it comes back to what I, Gary Price, Chris Sherman and virtually any long-time writer of advice on search engines will have long told you. The major search engines are all great resources. They find lots of things. But you'll find they may be better for some things and not others because they don't have the same listings. Use different search engines and see for yourself the ones that fit best.
A Hearty Goodbye To Counts
I know some will be itching to test things out still by counting. I'll leave that to others. For myself, the dropping of the count from the Google home page is to be applauded. It's not been accurate as I've covered above, for one thing. But more important, it takes the counts out of the equation and puts the focus much more on quality, where it belongs. Any serious study of comprehensiveness, I certainly want to see that and review it. But I'm not going to miss time spend trying to figure out whether pure counting of pages — rather than measuring comprehensiveness — was done right. Neither should you!
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NOTE: Article links often change. In case of a bad link, use the publication's search facility, which most have, and search for the headline.
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Over the last few years, digital audience measurement has been getting better: measurers are on the lookout for "fraudulent" views, are working to include only "viewable" impressions, and are measuring what percentage of people reached by a campaign actually belong to the group the advertiser was paying for.
These are all fundamental steps toward effective digital advertising: Your digital ad isn't worth anything if it's viewed by a "bot" rather than a human; even if a human is sitting at the screen, your ad has to be viewable to have an impact–"viewability" being defined today as being on screen for at least one second when you click onto the site; and it has to be viewed by the right human.
There's room for improvement, of course: The ANA recently published a study showing that advertisers are wasting huge amounts of money through fraudulent digital ad impressions. And, over about 20,000 campaigns, data from our Digital Ad Ratings (formerly called Online Campaign Ratings) shows that, on average, only 59% of digital impressions reached the intended audience.
Even while they make great progress on these fronts, however, few advertisers and agencies are tapping a considerable additional opportunity to improve advertising effectiveness. Getting the ad to where it can be seen by the right humans means reaching your intended audience. Advertisers and agencies need to be asking, "How efficiently am I reaching my intended audience?"
Reach efficiency is a measure of how effectively a given website delivers unduplicated reach—you always want 10 people to see an ad once rather than 1 person to see an ad ten times. There are arguments to be made for duplication, but research demonstrates that reach is more valuable than frequency. In fact, there appears to be a linear relationship between reach and sales impact: an increase in reach of 50% will increase advertising-driven sales by 50%, all other things equal. So the primary media objective of most advertisers is to maximize reach at a frequency of one.
Let's put this in stark financial terms: Advertisers pay for GRPs (gross ratings points), which are calculated as reach times frequency, and they buy whatever number they need to in order to achieve a certain reach. Forgive me for sounding a little bit like your high-school text book, but if Site A needs to charge for 50 GRPs in order to deliver 10% reach, it's because its viewers see its ads five times on average (10 x 5 = 50). If, however, Site B can deliver 10% reach with only 20 GRPs—that is, each viewer sees the ad twice on average (10 x 2 = 20), then you have a much better deal: The same reach at about 40% of the GRPs (and 40% of the cost).
In the delightful land of theory, it's obvious what to do: increase your reach efficiency! Unfortunately, this isn't so easy for websites. If it were, Site A would have gotten its act together a long time ago. In fact, our data shows very high variation in reach efficiency across web sites—a difference of up to 10 times between the most and least efficient websites.
The good news is that we have worked out a few things about what actually drives reach efficiency:
To get started, advertisers and agencies need only break down their digital advertising plans by reach, frequency and GRP's for each site in the plan. As noted, reach x frequency = GRPs, so reach efficiency is easy to calculate by site within any plan. This will immediately flag opportunities most advertisers and agencies don't even know are right in front of them. Then they can ask publishers about the state of their registration data, whether they use frequency capping tools, and how good their cross-device identity systems are.
Digital advertising is a big opportunity for most advertisers. Getting reach right is the foundation of any well-designed, well executed-digital media plan. It's tempting to concentrate on creating the right impression on your audience, but, if you want to stay in business, you have to reach them efficiently in the first place.


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Originally Posted by NoSoLucky: Not sure if that is true, but that is why I only take the "NO" bets. Remember, even the best team (COL) only scores in the first inning 36% of the time.
I did a little checking and for the year it's almost 50-50 on if a run is scored in the 1st inning. I looked at all games and it's 50.6% NO for the season. Numbers are close as I did this by hand, but the point is you're looking at a 50/50 proposition each time with no filters.
Looking at my post #103, the breakdown for the first 25 official series works out to 23 YES, 23 NO on all games bet in those chases. Not sure what it's been after that, I haven't tracked it. While betting on Yes - 11 Yes, 9 NO, while betting NO - 14 NO, 12 Yes. Barely above 50%.
Given that, I was wondering if this proposition would work well betting the +Odds when available. I'd think anytime you have a 50% chance of winning and getting odds there has to be a decent play there somewhere. The 3 game chase does give you 3 opportunities to hit a 50/50 proposition though. I do like those odds as well.


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If Andy Samberg were to speak at our college graduation, we'd be psyched. He's funny in a way that makes us think he's legitimately smart (despite some of those digital shorts), and that normally implies a certain level of speech-giving finesse.
However, the culmination of his efforts at Harvard's Class Day yesterday fell a little flat. Sure, there were laughs, but they felt a little too easy. He did his three standard impressions: Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Wahlberg, and Nicholas Cage. He poked fun at himself for not having gone to Harvard. He played a "This Is How We Do It" musical clip. And he bashed Yale and Dartmouth.
In his 22 minutes on stage though, the real advice only came at about 19:37, when he told grads: "make sure whatever it is you try is what you really want to do, because the only person who knows what that really is, is you." Aw and amen to that. But ending a college grad speech with a Dick In A Box joke? Not sure how we'd feel about that, with our parents in the audience. Watch the full-length speech below and tell us if you found it a little bit more inspiring than we did.
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What Are They Saying About You & Your Film?/
I like to know, both the love and the hate. It's debatable whether this sort of knowledge is a good or bad thing for a filmmaker, but for me -- as a producer -- I find it invaluable. Yeah, I have Google Alerts set for the films I have coming out, and the filmmakers generally too. But I have often wondered what's being said in the social networks. What's being said there?


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Why Innovation Won't Save Us
For more than a century, the U.S. economy grew robustly thanks to big inventions; those days are gone
Nothing has been more central to America's self-confidence than the faith that robust economic growth will continue forever. Between 1891 and 2007, the nation achieved a robust 2% annual growth rate of output per person. Unfortunately, the evidence suggests to me that future economic growth will achieve at best half that historic rate. The old rate allowed the American standard of living to double every 35 years; for most people in the future that doubling may take a century or more.
The growth of the past century wasn't...


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I pulled together this recipe not for myself, but for my celiac childhood friend and my gluten-intolerant landlady. I had some sweet potato that needed to be used, a bunch of flours, and an open afternoon, so why not bake for friends? This is an adapted version of the Pumpkin Spice Bread recipe from the Food Allergy Survival Guide. While it isn't something I can eat right now, and I actually didn't even try it,the report from my landlady is that this bread is perfectly spiced, has a sweet honey flavor, is totally sliceable, and was decadent smeared with goat butter. She said it was just a little crumbly, but in a good way. I can attest to the fact that it smelled amazing while it baked. My other friend said it became dry quickly, but she loved the taste.
The flour mix is way more complex than I usually go for - it uses 6 different flours - but the results were really positive. The loaf was dense, raised like a gem, and removed from the pan very easily. If you want to simplify the flours, go forth at your own risk - I'm not sure what will happen! I made a double batch, and cooked half in a large loaf pan, and the other half in two mini loaf pans (mini loaves baked 40-50 minutes). Both looked lovely! This recipe would make great muffins too, probably baking for 20-25 minutes. I chose to add pecans and currants, but feel free to mix it up - try dried cranberries, golden raisins, or snipped dried apricots, or chopped walnuts, brazil nuts, or hazelnuts. Or, try adding a handful of chocolate or carob chips!
Sorry the photo is so awful, but at least it gives an idea! :)
Spiced Sweet Potato Quick Bread (gluten free, vegan)
3/4 c pureed cooked sweet potato
1/2 raw honey (substitute raw agave nectar if hardcore vegan or if you require low GI)
1/3 c canola or sunflower oil
1/4 c unsweetened natural applesauce
1/4-1/2 c apple juice
1 c homemade all-purpose flour mix (equal parts millet, sorghum, and brown rice flours)
1/4 c tapioca flour/starch
1/4 c garfava flour
1/4 c quinoa flour
1 1/2 tsp corn-free baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 t cinnamon
1 t ginger
1/2 t allspice
1/2 t salt
1 tsp guar gum
optional: 1/2 c chopped pecans
optional: 1/2 c currants or dried cranberries
Preheat oven to 325 F. Oil a large loaf pan (8 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in) and dust with rice flour.
In a large bowl, combine sweet potato, oil, honey, applesauce, and 1/4 c of apple juice. Mix until smooth and well combined.In a medium bowl, whisk flours, baking soda, baking powder, guar gum, spices, and salt.
Gradually add dry ingredients to wet, beating at low speed. Add more apple juice as needed to get a smooth batter.Fold in currants and pecans if using.
Spoon batter in prepared loaf pan, and smooth top. If desired, sprinkle with additional finely chopped pecans! Bake for 60-70 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into middle of loaf comes out clean. If top is browning too much and loaf is still soft in center, cover loosely with foil until loaf is fully baked.
Remove from oven, and let cool 10-15 minutes in pan, then gently transfer loaf to a cooling rack. Let it cool completely before slicing with a serrated knife.


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20 minutes by car from Doha International Airport.
Ask if they have unique-password, rocket-fast WiFi – For your security.
Ask to be connected to the internet – How long does it take?
Ask if the provider is Tier-1.
Ask to be allowed to check download speeds.
Ask to speak to IT support: Are they in-house or a third party? Are they even in the country?
Ask to be given a phone number so you can try the service before you buy.
Ask for a phone rate card.
Ask to meet your dedicated receptionist. The receptionist is the front line of your business.
Ask about disaster transfer.
Ask if your phone extension can roam at no cost to other locations.
Ask if the wireless internet is secure.
Ask what kind of firewall can be set up for your network.
Ask to see the transparency code of the provider.
Ask if incoming callers can dial '1' for voicemail to mobile.
Ask if you can get free calls equal to your connection amount.
Ask if your phone bill is 20% lower than telco rate.
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Ipanema ( Brazilian Grill)
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La Veranda (Italian restaurant)
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Food & Drink
Tidbits: New restaurant joins South Lime lineup
The 200 block of South Limestone is home to several burgeoning businesses. The latest to open is House Food & Wine.
The restaurant opened this month in a restored circa 1900 house at 207 South Limestone. The menu is "upscale casual with modern American, Italian and international flavors, all in a budget-friendly and comfortable setting with an open kitchen," partner David Jones said.
House specialties include panini sliders, burgers, pasta, entree salads and arepas, a Venezuelan corn cake filled with meat or cheese. Soup and dessert selections rotate daily, and the signature House dessert is a brownie with vanilla-bean ice cream.
Other managing partners are Isaac Kurs and Shawn Mitchell and his wife, Venezuela native Carolina, who is also the kitchen manager.
House is across the street from Jones and Kurs' other venture, Soundbar.
Hours are 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Parking is available at 225 South Limestone. Call (859) 379-8207 or go to Housefoodandwine.com.
■ A new spot to enjoy breakfast and lunch in Paris is Thyme Café and Catering, 602 Main Street. Cathy Vance is the chef. The menu features Belgian waffles, quiches, omelets, hot Browns, Angus burgers, soups and salads. Hours are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Call (859) 987-1488.
Special events
■ Wes Berry, author of The Kentucky Barbecue Book, will be a guest chef at Azur Restaurant at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Executive chef Jeremy Ashby has created a menu that represents some of Kentucky's native regional barbecue styles. Dinner and a signed copy of Berry's book are $55.95. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m.
The menu includes Western Kentucky slow smoked and pulled Boston butt with bourbon sauce, Daviess County-style sassafras smoked mutton and Monroe County-style pork steaks.
Azur is at 3070 Lakecrest Circle. Call (859) 296-1007 or go to Azurrestaurant.com.
■ Jonathan at Gratz Park, 120 West Second Street, is having a Southern-style pig roast at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The cost is $25. Call (859) 252-4949 or go to Jagp.info.
■ The dinner/concert at Smith-Berry Winery on Saturday features the sounds of Nobody's Bizness. The buffet menu includes grilled pork chops and grilled chicken breast. Tickets are $23.95 in advance. Call (502) 845-7091 or go to Smithberrywinery.com. The winery is at 855 Drennon Road in New Castle.
■ Minton's at 760, 760 North Limestone, will open seven days a week beginning July 1. Call (859) 948-1874 or go to Mintonsat760.com.
■ Furlongs, 130 West Tiverton Way, is flying in fresh crawfish and crabs for the Fourth of July celebration. The deadline to place an order is June 28. Call (859) 913-5611.
■ Weekly fish fries are back on Fridays at Addie's Restaurant at The Woodford Inn, 140 Park Street in Versailles. The menu features hand-battered cod, shrimp, clams and calamari. There will be live music on the lawn from 7 to 11 p.m. Dinner service begins at 5. The regular dinner menu also is available. Call (859) 873-5600 or go to Thewoodfordinn.com.
Farmers market report
■ Maggie Green, author of The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook, will be at the Lexington Farmers Market at Cheapside Park on Saturday. She will sign copies of her book at the Homegrown Authors table from 9 a.m. to noon. Also at the table will be Eddie Price, author of the novel Widder's Landing.
■ Bluegrass Farmers Market will have black raspberries, tomatoes, lettuce, squash, cucumbers, greens, cauliflower, broccoli, baked goods, herb seasoning, pimento and beer cheese, jams and eggs. Go to Bluegrassfarmersmarket.org.
■ Winchester Farmers Market is open from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday on Main Street in the parking lot of Blue Grass Museum. Market items include cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, turnips, green tomatoes, red and green lettuce, onions, green tomatoes, fresh ground or whole bean coffee, black raspberries, organic vegetables, fresh ground whole wheat bread, sweet rolls, free range eggs, herbs and fresh flowers. The market also is open 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday.


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Intelligent Electronics
Your personal co-driver
Let us present ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control), one of the most advanced of our new on-board systems, designed to reduce stress factors and increases your comfort as a driver by utilising new intelligent electronics.
The ACC is a system which employs sensors to detect if your truck gets too close to the vehicle in front. The speed of the vehicle relative to the traffic ahead is adjusted by reducing the fuel supply, and by applying the retarder and engine brake. If the retarder and engine brake are unable to apply sufficient braking to prevent the truck from closing too quickly with the vehicle in front, the driver receives an audible warning, which enables him to apply the vehicle brakes himself.
There is also the Hill Start Aid pushbutton function, which enables the driver to maintain brake pressure while moving his foot from the brake pedal to the accelerator when moving off on an uphill gradient. Not only is this convenient, but also improves safety.
The ACC has turned out to be especially useful on long-haul runs involving a great deal of trunk road and motorway driving, and of course it reduces many stress factors. ACC is also the first step in the development of what we refer to as "Safe distance retention". Currently, the next steps are already being taken.


text: Stretching into the Thames Valley with the sprawl of one of the world's greatest cities, Greater London is more than suburbs and commuter trains. Thirty-two boroughs conspire to bring you everything from palatial gardens to urban farms to famed sporting events—and all at much lower prices than in the heart of London. Leafy and rural Richmond offers the ideal respite from urban bustle, with its parks and waterways, while nearby Kew offers a more manicured green experience with its world-famous gardens. The affluent suburb Wimbledon may be best known for its annual Lawn Tennis Championships, but its ponds and windmill-dotted parks offer active leisure all year around. Roman villas and twenty-mile-long "caves" round out the activities in South London's Bromley, while College Farm in the North's Finchley gives city folk a chance to interact with farmyard animals. The bargains of West London lure budget travelers and backpackers—and no one can resist an afternoon stroll along the Thames. If this is what "urban sprawl" is all about, we're loving it.


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A decade ago today, my whole life changed.
I think, in hindsight, I was probably too young and too naive for such a change, but I asked for it, and hot damn did I ever get it. As of 11:20-something on April 14th, 1998, almost two weeks past when it was "due" to happen, not one thing about me has remained unchanged.
And thank god for that.
Everything I thought I loved, everything I imagined meant any little thing to me, is long gone. Every vinyl album, every trinket of my past, every book I've ever wanted to read, or movie I wanted to watch, every man I've ever loved; none of it really matters all that much.
I still really like solitude. I just grew accustomed to living without it. I still really like books and movies. I just look at them like little treats now. I still really, REALLY love being in love, and the whole dance that goes with it, but I have learned that this love, this little boy, is so much more and better and grand than anything I will ever know otherwise.
I held a tiny person in my arms, under my chin, to my chest and in my lap, and I dreamed. I dreamed of first birthdays and bike rides. I dreamed of trick or treats and kindergarten. I never dreamed of today, of this, of a decade. I couldn't; it was too far away, like trying to picture the infinity of space. Even now when it's here upon me, I cannot fathom the fact that it's been 10 years. That I have kissed his sweet face and tucked him into his bed 3,650 times. That I have spent (almost) every single day with him and have witnessed every step, every inch of growth, both inside and out. That little baby, who's voice I tried to imagine when I closed my eyes at night, now speaks of things I never knew, of interests that are not from me but of his own yearning to learn.
He is trying to separate from me now, wanting independence and responsibility and relationships outside our family. He wants so much to be his own man, and yet, in tiny little ways, he still needs his momma, even though he'd never admit it. When he realizes that he left every stinking Gameboy game he owns in the car and now they're gone, he doesn't go to his room to cry. He comes to me still. He buried his head in my lap and he sobs while I rub his curly little head. He still sits on the kitchen stool while I make him a little chocolate something to ease the sadness. He still lets me brush his teeth every once and a while, still lets me help pick out his outfits and tie his shoes...he is still my baby, if only for a little while more.
I never thought I wanted this. I never thought I could do this. Ten years, one decade later, I am more afraid than I have ever been in my life, because I realize today that this was the only full decade I will ever get with him. The next time we hit this mark, he'll be busily pursuing a degree or a career or a girl. He won't be under my roof. He won't share the early hours in the morning with me before the rest of the family gets up. He'll be his own, and will have achieved the independence that he is fighting for right now, and I don't want to imagine life without this. Without him. He is the greatest thing I have ever done, and he has changed and reshaped me more than any other person or thing could ever hope to.
And I don't just mean like this.
On the High Dive
A decade ago today, my whole life changed.


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Green Guidance
Green Guidance
'Tis the Season To Be Fair and Green
by Mindy Pennybacker
Most of us, nowadays, are consumers rather than producers of food. Still, from autumn through the winter solstice, we celebrate the harvest and brighten the long nights with festivals such as Homowo, Chu Seok, Zhongqiu Jie, Hounen-Odori, Tet Trung Thu, Eid Al-fitr, Diwali, Yalda, Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas. Unfortunately, while leading less-active, post-agrarian lifestyles, many of us eat far more than is healthy for ourselves or the environment (see "Meat: Now It's Not Personal," Worldwatch July/August 2004). And our uncurbed appetite for other products-including holiday gifts-contributes to industrial pollution, depletion of natural resources and sweatshops.
In the United States alone, total retail sales in December 2003 were $340 billion, an increase of more than 6 percent over December 2002. About $55 billion was spent on toys, "60 percent of which are made in Chinese sweatshops...," Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College, reports in State of the World 2004. In the past 10 years, Schor adds, U.S. toy prices have fallen by 33 percent and apparel prices by 10 percent, largely due to cheap labor. Meanwhile, a growing global consumer class now totals 1.7 billion, of which China and India represent more than 20 percent.
Should we cut back on gifts, or perhaps give none at all? Try suggesting this to the children in your life; while you think of yourself as a tree-saving Lorax, they will see the Grinch. Instead, we can simplify and lighten up the holidays by buying fewer non-essentials and choosing products that are less toxic and more environmentally and labor friendly. Here are a few suggestions for your list:
Choose PVC- and Lead-Free Toys. Do be a Scrooge about polyvinyl chloride, or PVC vinyl, whose manufacture and disposal release toxic dioxins into our air, water, and food. Soft PVC contains plasticizers known as phthalates, which have been linked to cancers and reproductive harm in animal studies. Britain has banned soft PVC toys, and an EU study has recommended that all member countries do the same. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has asked that manufacturers voluntarily not use soft PVC in "mouth" toys for children under three. Companies that have gone PVC-free include Brio, IKEA, Lego, Primetime Playthings, Early Start, Sassy, and Tiny Love. Other PVC products, such as some children's backpacks, have been found to be tainted with lead. As a rule, avoid cheap toys made with metal or paint that may contain this brain-damaging heavy metal.
Serve Local and Certified Organic Food. Local food is fresher (has more vitamins, better taste) and requires fewer fossil fuels in transit. Certified organic food has been grown in ways that protect soil and water and carries only one-third the pesticide residues in conventionally grown food.
Indulge in "Slow" and Shade-Grown Treats. When you choose traditional, artisanal foods produced with old breeds and seeds, or coffee and chocolate grown in rich rainforest habitats, you are helping to preserve the Earth's biodiversity as well as good taste, also endangered. For specifics, see www.slowfood.com, www.rainforest-alliance.org, and the Coffee and Chocolate Product Reports at www.thegreenguide.com.
Support Fair Trade. The "fair trade certified" mark on food (coffee, chocolate, tea, bananas, herbs), clothing, shoes, and toys helps ensure that companies pay fair prices and wages and that working conditions are humane and monitored. Note: purchase fairly traded and certified organic cotton goods, and you'll be doubly blest. See www.rainforest-alliance.org, http://fairlabor.org and Clothing and Shoe Product Reports at www.thegreenguide.com.
Spare Forests. Wood products bearing the Forest Stewardship Council, Scientific Certification Systems, and Rainforest Alliance's Smartwood labels are the most sustainably harvested available. Choose recycled paper that contains at least 30 percent recycled post-consumer waste.
Use Energy-Efficient Lighting. Switch to long-lived compact fluorescent bulbs. Strings of colored holiday lights which use 80-90 percent less energy than conventional ones can be ordered from Innovative Energy Solutions, www.inirgee.com
Go for Greener Computers. Details to look for are company takeback programs for obsolete computers; elimination of chemicals such as lead and potentially neurotoxic flame retardants known as PBDEs (as a rule, laptops and machines with flat-screen monitors have far less lead); and green labels such as TCO (Sweden), Eco-Mark (Japan), Swan (EU) and Energy Star (U.S.). For companies, see the Computer Product Report at www.thegreenguide.com.
Mindy Pennybacker is editor of The Green Guide, a consumer publication of The Green Guide Institute, www.thegreenguide.com.


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Richard Serra, Abstract Slavery, 1974; paintstick on Belgian linen; 114 x 212 inches; collection of Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands; © 2011 Richard Serra / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: Robert Mates and Paul Katz.
Richard Serra's large-scale steel sculptures have made him a crucial figure in contemporary art, but his work also takes another striking, lesser-known form: drawing. On view at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(SFMOMA) from October 15, 2011, through January 16, 2012, in its only West Coast presentation, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective is the first-ever critical overview of Serra's drawings, offering new insight into both the artist's practice and the possibilities of the medium.
This landmark traveling exhibition brings together roughly 70 works made over the course of some 40 yearsincluding many of the artist's sketchbooks that have never been shown beforeand will unfold chronologically, tracing Serra's ever-evolving ideas and methods since the 1970s. A major breakthrough in his career occurred in 1974 when he began making wall-size abstractions (which he calls "Installation Drawings") that radically alter the relationship between drawing and architectural space. In these and many subsequent works, Serra uses black paintstickan oil-based crayonto build stark, densely layered forms that impact the viewer's sense of mass and gravity, making for an experience that is as visceral as it is visual.
Organized by The Menil Collection, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective is cocurated by Bernice Rose, chief curator, Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center; and Michelle White, associate curator, The Menil Collection; and Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA. The exhibition premiered at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in spring 2011. Following its West Coast debut at SFMOMA, the show will travel to The Menil Collection, Houston, in spring 2012.
SFMOMA's presentationthe largest on the tour in terms of gallery space and number of worksis overseen by Garrels and will be augmented with 10 of the artist's earliest sculptures from the 1960s, underscoring the vital connection between the processes of sculpting and drawing in Serra's art. It was not until after Serra's groundbreaking work with lead, rubber, and fiberglass that he began to seriously make drawings on paper.
"As Serra shifted away from making sculptures with flexible materials and turned to steel, and began creating work for site-specific and public arenas instead of contained spacesthat's when drawing first emerges as an autonomous, parallel stream to his sculpture practice," says Garrels. "At this point, working on paper became an activity in and of itself, independent in terms of the exploration of space, shape, and line."
Works in the exhibition are drawn from renowned private collections and museums in both America and Europe and will also include a selection of important Serra pieces from SFMOMA's and other Bay Area collections, such as the artist's pivotal thrown-lead piece Gutter Corner Splash: Night Shift (1969/1995).
The presentation opens with Serra's seminal Verb List (196768), depicting columns of words on paper that connote ways an artist can manipulate materials: "to roll," "to cut," "to splash," "to spread," etc. Serra's early sculptures, also introduced here, give form to those actions. Shown alongside the sculptures will be four of the artist's early films, in which actions of his own hands emphasize the directness and processes of his early work.
The show continues with a wide sampling of Serra's process-oriented drawings from the early 1970s, when he drew primarily on paper with ink, charcoal, and lithographic crayon. Over time, his drawings began to increase in size; the bold forms he created strained against the boundaries of paper, challenging the notion of drawing as merely preparatory work.
By the mid-1970s, Serra had made the first of his enormous Installation Drawingssome of which extend from floor to ceiling and are 10 to 20 feet widemarking a radical shift in scale and technique and fully altering previous understandings of how a drawing could be made and how it might exist in dialogue with architecture. To make works such as Pacific Judson Murphy (1978), the artist affixed linen directly to the wall and applied paintstickmelted down and recast in large, heavy blocksevenly over the entire surface. The drawings of this period begin to command entire rooms, playing with the viewer's perceptions of space. Taraval Beach (1977), another monumental floor-to-ceiling work, seems to the viewer less like a flat surface and more like an opening into a three-dimensional dark void.
Since the 1980s, Serra has continued to invent new techniques and to explore a variety of surface effects, primarily on paper. In 1989, Serra made a series of large diptychs. Several of the titles of these drawingssuch as No Mandatory Patriotism (1989) and The United States Government Destroys Art (1989)express the artist's reaction to the controversial removal of his sculpture Tilted Arc that same year, which was commissioned as a permanent work for New York City's Federal Plaza in 1979. The exhibition will also include works from several of Serra's drawing series made in the 1990s, such as Deadweights (1991), Weight and Measure (1994), Rounds (199697), and Out-of-Rounds (19992000).
In Serra's recent drawings, such as the Solids series (200708), the accumulation of black paintstick on paper is extremely dense and nearly the entire surface of the paper is covered in a layer of viscous material. To make these drawings, Serra often pours melted paintstick onto the floor and then lays the paper on top of the pigment. The paintstick is transferred to the sheet by pressing a hard marking tool onto the back of the paper.
The exhibition will also feature Elevational Weights, a new drawing series from 2010, as well as Union (2011), new large-scale installation drawingboth created for this exhibition.
A final gallery presents 25 of the artist's personal sketchbooks, which, shown for the first time, offer a more intimate look at Serra's process and way of looking at the world. Like daybooks, they vary widely in contentsketches made during travels in Egypt, South America, and Iceland; storyboards for film projects; studies of masterworks by other artists; and writings.
The 176-page exhibition catalogue ($50, hardcover; $40, paperback) features 160 illustrations along with a groundbreaking new interview with Serra, contributed by cocurator Gary Garrels, that represents five days of conversation that took place in 2010 in preparation for the project. The book also features essays by Bernice Rose, Michelle White, and Magdalena Dabrowski, as well as texts by Richard Shiff, the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at the University of Texas at Austin; and Lizzie Borden, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and writer. Also included in the catalogue are an illustrated chronology related to the artist's drawing production, a selected exhibition history, and a selected bibliography. The catalogue is published by The Menil Collection and distributed by Yale University Press.
In conjunction with the exhibition, SFMOMA's education department will present related events and interpretive programs, including an opening-week public conversation between Richard Serra and Gary Garrels on October 13 at 7 p.m. in the museum's Phyllis Wattis Theater. A free simulcast of the talk will be available in the Koret Visitor Education Center on a first-come, first-served basis; the artist will sign copies of the exhibition catalogue following the discussion. An audio tour featuring commentary by Richard Serra about the exhibition will also be available.
Serra's San Francisco Connections
A native of San Francisco, Richard Serra (born 1938) studied at Cal and worked in the steel mills of the East Bay before moving to the East Coast to establish his art career. SFMOMA acquired its first Serra sculpture, an early prop piece, in 1990. The following year, the artist Jasper Johns gave the museum an early Serra lead splash sculpture, which the artist re-executed as a permanent installation in the SFMOMA galleries. As a complement to these works, Donald and Doris Fisher made gifts to the museum of six other major Serra works in 1994, and eight more will come with the Fisher Collection when SFMOMA opens its expanded building, giving the museum one of the world's foremost collections of Serra's work. Serra has also made several large-scale outdoor sculptures in the Bay Area, including works at the headquarters of Gap Inc. and at UCSF's Mission Bay campus.
"We're proud to share with Bay Area audiences this in-depth exploration of Serra's drawing practice, partly as something of a homecoming for the artist who was raised in San Francisco and maintains deep ties to the region," Garrels adds. "He surfed quite a bit at Ocean Beach in high school, and you can see issues of nature, balance, and fluidity perfectly distilled in some of his early works."
Serra received an MFA from Yale University in 1964 and had one of his first New York exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Warehouse in 1967. His work has been the subject of major exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1977); Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (1983); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1986 and 2007); Serpentine Gallery, London (1992); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1992); The Drawing Center, New York (1994); Dia: Chelsea, New York (1997); Guggenheim Bilbao (2005); and the Grand Palais, Paris (2008), among other museums.
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The UK National Mathematics Contest 1988-1996
As Tony Gardiner says in at the beginning of this book, "the last ten years or so has seen a remarkable blossoming of public interest in mathematics [but] most of the books produced have been for adults, rather than for students. Moreover, most are in prose format - for those who want to 'read about' mathematics, rather than those who want to get their hands dirty solving problems."
There is only so far a student or teacher can go reading about maths - maths is not primarily a spectator sport. But where to turn for really good, challenging problems? The preference of publishers for "new" books means that classic problem books - which in maths have a long shelf-life - are allowed to go out of print. Still, this book fills the gap nicely. It contains the National Mathematics Contest papers from 1988 to 1996, together with comments, hints and full solutions. The problems are multiple choice in format, and are aimed at students aged 15 to 18. In the solutions, Gardiner deliberately sticks to techniques that GCSE students should already know, eschewing "slick" solutions in favour of ones that will not discourage beginners.
Clearly this book will be of use as practice material to those intending to sit the paper in the future, but it could also be used as a source of challenging and interesting problems - for homework or for the sheer joy of intellectual mastery. A useful feature is a list of books of problems and puzzles and books which cover mathematical material in a readable way.
So what are the problems like? Here are two chosen pretty much at random:
How many planes of symmetry does an octahedron possess?
How many letters are there in the correct answer to this question?A one
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If you like these, now you know where to find lots more.
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Welcome to ARDA Insights, an industry blog that will cover the latest industry happenings, brief updates from ARDA staff, news & announcements, and thoughts from industry leaders—as well as commentary from leaders outside our industry. With this initial blog, we'd like to call your attention to a new consumer effort that ARDA kicked off on November 1– introducing and celebrating "Timeshare Fans." We are working on this monthly initiative via a close partnership with our developer members. It will provide consumers unfamiliar with timeshare with a sense of why we have so many happy owners. Each month, we will profile owners who will talk about their experience and why they love to vacation with timeshare. There can be video, photos, a blog posting from the owner, or whatever other creative elements the team develops. We will build some buzz around it each month with a press release and social media. We're happy to say we launched with Holiday Inn Club Vacations and four happy owners. Please take a look at www.VacationBetter.org, and we encourage you to link to this site and to use your own social media platforms to help us spread the word. You may notice, too, that our consumer website has a fresh new look. The updated design—along with a new Timeshare Fan each month—will encourage those interested in learning more about timeshare vacation options to visit the site often. December's "Timeshare Fan" will be from Hilton Vacation Club, with more to follow! If you are interested in getting an owner's story on VacationBetter.org, please contact Lou Ann Burney. Look for our next blog recapping some of the events from this week's annual Fall Conference…and if you'll be there, don't forget to participate in the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #fallconference!
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Here's how we're thinking it will work:
Each Thursday, we'll put up a blog post with a list of candidates and, in the comments section, you can all call dibs on which recipe(s) you'd like to test (no friends scratching friends' backs allowed -- we're trusting you to be impartial).
By the following Tuesday, you'll email us your notes: whether you'd recommend it as an Editors' Pick, a 100-word description of how it turned out, and any minor tweaks you'd add to the recipe (like if a step needs clarification or the author forgot to list an ingredient -- not if you think their pizza would be better deconstructed into a salad, or other major creative changes of that ilk). Then we'll comb through your evaluations and choose the best 10 or so recipes to be featured as Editors' Picks, in addition to the ones we've tested and deemed Pick-worthy. You and your comments will be cited in the "Amanda & Merrill's Notes" section at the top of the recipe (until we come up with a better place for them).
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Update! The auction is over. One fine person bid $150, and Matt Bors offered to donate the artwork. That $150 is now in Sloane-Kettering's hands, and I matched that with $150 of my own money.
You can still and always donate in many places to help fund cancer research. I'm donating to Sloan-Kettering right now through Lisa Adams fundraising page as a mark of respect to her.
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This last week, Emma and Bill Keller separately wrote horrible Op-Ed essays in the Guardian and New York Times, respectively, shaming cancer patient Lisa Adams about her openness in documenting her progress and about her medical decisions. The pieces were also riddled with factual errors, and the Guardian has retracted Emma Keller's article. I'm not even going to link to them.
To make delicious cancer-research fund lemonade out of these two lemons, I have purchased the original artwork from Matt Bors of his editorial cartoon about Bill Keller, shown below. I am auctioning off a set of the original, signed black-and-white ink artwork (8 1/2 by 11 on Bristol board) and a color print also signed by Matt, and 100% of the auction price will be donated to Sloan-Kettering, where Lisa is receiving care, through her fundraising page for the institution. (You can either donate directly and send me the receipt, or you can pay me directly, and I will donate and send you the receipt.)
We'll use the hashtag on Twitter #cancerlemons for the auction. You can bid just by stating an amount, and I will follow up with the winner. The auction will run 24 hours, ending at noon Pacific January 14th. If you don't use Twitter, you can still search on its site for the hashtag and email me or post a bid here, and I'll count it.