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Archive for March, 2012
Why didn't stoop kid leave his stoop?
I mean, what did he have against the world? He eventually left his stoop and chased after a fat kid with a silly blue hat.
Man it's a nice day out
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Montreal artist Marie Chouinard set her first choreography based on Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' back in 1993 in Ottawa, Canada. She wasn't the first artist to rework Stravinsky's seminal orchestral movement, originally written for the famed Russian troupe Ballet Russes, but she certainly has put her own indelible mark on this work that was once seen as incendiary by audiences when it debut in 1913.
As part of the Rite of Spring Centennial Celebration the University of Washington joined forces with Compagnie Marie Chouinard to once again bring this groundbreaking work to the stage. This weekend, as part of the UW World Series, Chouinard and her company of dancers brought a kinetic energy and singular vision to this 'ballet in one act' that was intense and nothing short of riveting.
As part of the work's restaging Compagnie Marie Chouinard collaborated with the UW Symphony Orchestra with its 70-member ensemble providing the powerful and discordant Stravinsky score.
The dancers of Compagnie Marie Chouinard shared the stage with pianist Brooks Tran during the first part of the evening. With Tran at the grand piano on one side of the stage, Chouinard set her dancers in motion to the 24 Preludes in Chopin's Opus 28.
With various groupings of dancers twisting, tilting and surging across the stage '24 Preludes by Chopin' struck an episodic and much lighter and playful tone than 'Rite" but the outcome was no less captivating.
In addition to this weekend's performance the University of Washington has several performances and lectures on tap as part of the Rite of Spring Centennial Celebration. Next up on February 6 at the Meany Hall Dance Studio is a lecture by Martha Carter, Rehearsal Director for Compagnie Marie Chouinard.
Visit www.artsuw.org/riteofspring100th for a full listing of Rite of Spring Centennial Celebration events.

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Assoc Professor Martyn Jones
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Programs Director, B Soc Work & Soc Sci |
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Global, Urban and Social Studies |
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Design & Social Context |
Key activities
Martyn Jones is a member of the social work program team in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning. Previously, he was Director of the Field Education Unit in the same School. Prior to his appointment at RMIT, Martyn was Director of the social work program at Deakin University.
Martyn has been involved in social work education for several years, both in England and Australia. He has served on many committees, particularly in the areas of ethics, equity and access. With a professional background in social work, Martyn has maintained an interest in practice issues and the impact of organisational and policy contexts. He has a long standing interest in practice-based education, which is reflected in his areas of research activity and educational development.
Teaching/Work responsibilities
- Associate Dean (Acting), Social Work, Community Services and Social Policy
- Course Coordination for History and Trends in Social Work
- Convening social work field education integration seminars
- Building and sustaining partnership arrangements with human services organisations
- Contributing to university-wide policy and practice in work integrated learning
BA (Hons)Liv; DipSWLeics; MSc Cran; Phd Cran
Research and Scholarship
Research interests
Martyn 's main research interests are in the areas of professional knowledge and learning. His studies include: contemporary contexts of social work; practice research; work integrated learning; critical reflection in professional practice.
Martyn has provided consultation on professional supervision and the development of learning environments for professional and organisational development.
Current research
Martyn has particular educational interests in: learning across professional boundaries; assessment of complex learning outcomes; and collaborative approaches to work integrated learning.
He is presently engaged in the following research projects:
- The Use of Well-being in the Evaluation of Community Service Programs
- Mapping Services Supporting Young Mothers at Risk
- The Impact of Professional Accreditation on Student Assessment in Higher Education
D'Cruz, H. & Jones, M. (2004) Social Work Research: Political and Ethical Contexts, London: Sage.
Chapters in books
Jones, M. (2004) 'Supervision, learning and transformative practices' in Gould, N. & Baldwin, M. (eds.) Social Work, Critical Reflection and the Learning Organisation, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Jones, M. (2003) 'Beyond discretion: Re-casting professionalism in social work' in Muetzelfeldt, M & Briskman, L. (eds.) Moving BeyondManagerialism in Human Services, RMIT Publishing: Informit Library.
Muetzelfeldt, M., Briskman, L. & Jones, M. (2002) 'Brokering knowledge: Managing knowledge in a network of government and non-government human service delivery agencies' in Considine, M. (ed.) Knowledge, Networks and Joined-Up Government: Conference Proceedings, Melbourne: University of Melbourne.
Articles in refereed journals
Harris, L., Jones, M. & Coutts, S. (2010) 'Partnerships and learning communities in work integrated learning: Designing a community services student placement program', Higher Education Research and Development, 29(5) pp. 547-559.
Jones, M., Coiacetta, E., Jackson, J.T., Coote, M., Steele, W., Budge, T. & Gall, S. (2009) 'Generating academic standards and assessment practices in work integrated learning: A case study from urban and regional planning', Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 10(3) pp. 203-215.
Jones, M. (2000) 'Hope and despair at the front-line: Integrity and change in the human services', International Social Work, 43(3) pp. 365-380.
Jones, M. (1999) 'Supervisor or super-hero? New role strains for front-line supervisors in human services', Asia-Pacific Journal of Social Work, 9(1) pp. 79-97.
Conference presentations
Jones, S., Jones, M., Engels, B., Montague, A., de Silva, S. & Crist, G. (2008) 'Evaluating a multi-disciplinary virtual WIL project', Work Integrated Learning (WIL): Transforming Futures - Practice…Pedagogy…Partnerships, World Association for Cooperative Education Conference hosted by Australian Collaborative Education Network, Sydney, September / October 2008.
Jones, M., Jackson, J.T., Coiacetto, E., Coote, M., Steele, W., Budge, T. & Gall, S. (2008) 'Academic standards for work integrated learning: A case study from urban and regional planning', Work Integrated Learning (WIL): Transforming Futures - Practice…Pedagogy…Partnerships, World Association for Cooperative Education Conference hosted by Australian Collaborative Education Network, Sydney, September / October 2008.
Jones, M. (2006) 'Learning knowledge practices through collaborative education', Inaugural Conference, Australian Collaborative Education Network, Gold Coast, September 2006
Jones, M. (2004) 'Places of learning: Knowledge, networks and field education', International Association of Social Workers, Global Social Work, Adelaide, October 2004
Jones, M. (2001) 'Forms of knowledge in human services practice: Implications for educational programs', Social Work in the 21st Century: Think Act Local Global, 27th Australian Association of Social Workers National Conference, Melbourne, September 2001.
Jones, M. (2000) 'Beyond discretion: Re-casting professionalism', Managerialism, Contractualism and Professionalism in Human Services, International Conference Sponsored by Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights, Deakin University, Melbourne, November 2000.
Accomplishments and achievements
Awards and prizes
2006 - Carrick Institute Priority Project on Academic Standards ($171,000 over two years)


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Young and Howard lift Phillies to win over Marlins
Sanabia outpitches Hamels to help Marlins beat Phillies
Nolasco strikes out 11 as Marlins beat Diamondbacks
McCarthy leads D-Backs over Marlins for first win of season
Goldschmidt's two homers lead Diamondbacks over Marlins
Phillips' sac fly in 10th breaks tie and Reds beat Marlins
Choo's two homers and four hits lead Reds past Marlins
Bailey throws six-hitter to help Reds win fourth straight
Capuano gets first win as Dodgers edge Marlins
Ryu, Gordon help Dodgers end eight-game slide
Fernandez strong as Marlins deal Dodgers eighth straight loss
Marquis gets the best of Nolasco as Padres edge Marlins
Stults, Venable lead Padres to win over Marlins
Cashner pitches into eighth as Padres shut down Marlins
Hechavarria hits grand slam, triple as Marlins rout Phillies
Fernandez earns first career win as Marlins beat Phillies
Pettibone looks sharp, Phillies use longball to beat Marlins
Howard, Brown go deep as Phillies beat Marlins
Valdespin hits three-run pinch-hit homer; Mets top Marlins
Marlins score twice in 9th inning to beat reeling Mets again
Marlins' Stanton sidelined one month with hamstring injury
Green's sacrifice fly in 15th inning lifts Marlins over Mets
Stanton homers twice as Marlins avoid sweep against Cubs
DeJesus' single the difference in Cubs win over Marlins
Rizzo hits two homers as Cubs double up Marlins
Valbuena's home run lifts Cubs to win over Marlins
Marlins breaks out against Twins for win in night cap
Marlins-Twins game postponed by a day due to bad weather
Votto, Reds continue strong play with win over Marlins
Phillips has sacrifice fly in 13th, Reds beat Marlins
Ruggiano homers in ninth to send Marlins past Reds
Cingrani gets first big league win, Reds beat Marlins
Marlins SS Hechevarria goes on DL with sore throwing arm
Harper, Suzuki power Nationals to win over Marlins
Hechavarria ends Marlins' HR drought in win over Nationals
Zimmerman homers to help Nationals drub Marlins
Halladay shakes slump, earns 200th win as Phils beat Marlins
Coghlan has RBI single in 9th as Marlins beat Phillies
MRI on Stanton's shoulder shows no damage, day to day
Phillies slip by Marlins with 10th-inning rally
Gattis' homer helps Braves earn series sweep over Marlins
Medlen helps Braves win fifth straight by beating Marlins
Justin Upton goes 4-4 with homer as Braves blank Marlins
Byrd hits two-run single in 9th, Mets rally past Marlins
Buck drives in four as Mets beat Marlins
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Zimmermann and Zimmerman help Nationals sweep Marlins
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When You Are the Editor
Things have been pretty wild around the headquarters of Flipboard lately. This tiny company (19 employees) launched its first iPad app in July, and so many people wanted to download it that within 20 minutes Flipboard's servers were maxed out. Engineers scurried around trying to fix the problem, but after 36 hours, the only thing Flipboard could do was put people on a waiting list.
Things have been pretty wild around the headquarters of Flipboard lately. This tiny company (19 employees) launched its first iPad app in July, and so many people wanted to download it that within 20 minutes Flipboard's servers were maxed out. Engineers scurried around trying to fix the problem, but after 36 hours, the only thing Flipboard could do was put people on a waiting list. Two weeks later it finally got everyone signed up. "It's just an incredible reaction that we've gotten. We never anticipated it would be so instantaneous," says cofounder and CEO Mike McCue.
A decade ago, McCue, now 43, founded Tellme Networks (which made software that lets people search for things like stock quotes and movie listings using voice commands over the telephone) and sold it to Microsoft in 2007 for a reported $800 million. But the reaction to the free Flipboard app, he says, is "like nothing I've ever seen before."
What's the big deal? Flipboard has found a way to take the news feeds that you get from friends on Facebook and Twitter and turn them into what McCue calls "the world's first social magazine." Instead of the ugly little links to articles you have on Twitter, on Flipboard you get a glimpse of the original articles and photos, laid out the way they might be in a magazine. To browse, you just flip with your fingertip, the way you would turn the pages of a magazine. I follow film critic Roger Ebert's Twitter feed, for example. Ebert sends out a stream of links to eclectic articles and photos. Reading him on Twitter is a pain because you have to click on each link. But reading Ebert on Flipboard is amazing—suddenly you've subscribed to this wonderful little magazine run by a really smart, funny editor.
It sounds simple, but it's actually pretty profound. Now anyone who is gathering up Twitter feeds is, in effect, curating a magazine. It means that we're stumbling toward a completely customized form of journalism, and it shows how the media business is being transformed not by giant conglomerates but rather by tiny shops in Silicon Valley.
One possible glitch is that most of that material doesn't belong to Ebert—or Flipboard. Only hours after Flipboard went live, blogs were buzzing with speculation that what the company is doing might not be legal, since its software works by "scraping" content from other Web sites. But McCue insists there is no problem because Flipboard displays only a small part of an article, not the entire thing, and then embeds a link that takes a reader to the original. He says publishers love the idea—in the first four days that the app was available, 150 media companies called him, seeking meetings or entry onto Flipboard's "recommended" lists.
McCue's partner at Flipboard is 29-year-old Evan Doll, a former Apple engineer. The pair hit on the concept of a "social magazine" after agreeing that reading news feeds you get from friends on Twitter was clunky. When Apple introduced the iPad in January, they knew they'd found the ideal platform and immediately began writing code.
Flipboard hasn't worked out a business model yet, but plans to put ads next to articles and then share some advertising revenue with publishers. McCue believes that Flipboard on the iPad can deliver better-quality ads than the cheapo ones you see on the Web. And there's no big rush to make money: Flipboard has raised $10.5 million from venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and other investors. "The first thing you have to do is create an experience that people are excited about and using a lot," McCue says. That part, it seems, Flipboard has already accomplished.
Daniel Lyons is also the author of Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs and Dog Days: A Novel.


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Got Blue Slip with only one item checked for PIMS update.VO orally confirmed visa will be issued after PIMS
Interview Date : June 28
PIMS updated (DOS confirmed) : July 09
VFS says case still pending with Chennai Consulate also adds it is under admin processing.
My Question:
1.Does VFS mean normal admin processing,as PIMS is simpler and faster than others
2.Why is it taking time from Chennai consulate after PIMS update as confirmed by DOS?
3.Will chennai consulate not inform me by post if they have moved my case to admin processing?
My lease for house ends by July 31st and have no support to move things,i am desperate and too depressed abt the situation.Please help by saying what might be happening.2-4 weeks for PIMS is ideal ,but will it take more than that.


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Clothing Online
Questions and Answers:
Tired of fighting traffic at the mall? Are you looking for plus size clothing or vintage clothing? Forget the hassles of parking and pushy salespeople, shopping for clothing online provides more options than ever before. How does the online clothing market work versus the conventional mall or clothing store? InfoFAQ has compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions when purchasing clothing online.
Frequently Asked Questions About Buying Clothing Online
Q. When purchasing fine jewelry what is the one thing that is universal be it for Internet purchases or at a retail store?
A. Purchasers should know that laws for the conventional retail store also apply to the Internet.Q. When shopping for clothing on the Internet what is important to think of?
A. Does this company have a 24 hour customer service number?Q. Why is this important?
A. When making a purchase having an operating customer service line shows the companies commitment to serving you, the consumer.Q. Do they have an accurate sizing chart to help making the purchase easier?
A. This is important in making purchases because making returns, or exchanges can be very expensive.Q. What is their return policy, or do they allow returns?
A. Knowing the return policy is imperative, this can also cost or save you money.Q. Is it a secured site?
A. This is important because your credit card information could be stolenQ. Can you really buy clothes over the Internet?
Yes you can buy clothes on the internet. In fact, clothing is one of the highest growth areas in online buying today.Q. What are the advantages of buying clothes online?
A. While lower prices are one reason that people shop for clothes over the internet, there is a growing recognition among retailers that people like the convenience of shopping online. They can find and buy what they need with out leaving their house, they can track their shipments, and have them delivered to their front door. This is especially true of busy mothers.Q. I have kids, and need to find the best prices online. Where should I look?
A. there are many used children's clothing stores on the web. These companies specialize in buying and selling used children's wear in good condition. Since kids are continually out growing their clothes, these stores are a great resource for parents to find inexpensive clothes that are still nice, and also gives them somewhere to sell their out-grown children's clothes to.Q. How do I find used children's clothes on the internet?
A. To find the best deals on used children's clothes, just try searching www.google.com or www.froogle.com for 'used children's clothes'.Q. Can I find vintage clothes on the internet?
A. Yes, in fact vintage clothing is one of the internets best kept secrets. You can now find items that you would never otherwise have seen. There are many online retailers that now specialize in vintage clothes and sell them at great prices.Q. If I buy clothes online, will I be able to return it later?
A. Like any store or online store, each merchant will have their own return policy. Just make sure that you read and understand it when you buy. Then you won't be surprised later if you have a problem with your order. Most online retailers will accept returns but may not refund the price of shipping. Make sure that you send the returned merchandise by insured shipping to protect yourself if the item is lost in the mail.Q. Can I find adaptive clothing online for people with disabilities?
A. Yes, in fact the internet is one of the best places to find adaptive clothing. This is a genre of clothes that are especially designed for people with handicaps. Just search www.google.com for 'adaptive clothing' or 'handicap clothing'.Q. Do I have to use a credit card to buy clothes online?
A. Certainly credit cards are the most widely accepted forms of payment used for web purchases. But some websites will accept a payment by Paypal, which you can fund using a bank account or credit card. Some websites also accept payment by electronic check debit.Q. What are my rights if my credit card or bank account is charged the wrong amount?
A. With a credit card, you have at least 6 months in which to dispute a charge to your card. With consumer checking accounts, you have 2 months in which to tell your bank that the charges were either not authorized by you, or that you have revoked the authorization to continue charging your card. Business bank accounts do not have any such protection and you must dispute any charge within 24 hours. Paypal also provides some buyer protection, so read their site to learn more about it.Q. How am I protected if I buy clothing online with a credit card?
A. When using a credit card, you are protected against the un-authorized use of your card, and also against misconduct by the merchant. If you made a purchase over the internet by credit card, and you have problems with the merchant, you can almost always get the charge reversed. Checks online or sent in the mail do not have this kind of protection.
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Information on Sunscreens and Sun-Protective Clothing.
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Complying with the Care Labeling Rule.
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Overheated Clothes Dryers Can Cause Fires.
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I ordered on Sunday (10th) and it arrived today (15th) AND I live in rural Sth Is, AND she was out of stock of one of the PUL colours for some of the nappies!
She was really quick to communicate with me about the out of stock colour and was happy to order more PUL so I could have the colour combos I wanted, and all in such short time!!!
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The Green Columbus Fund incentivizes sustainable development and redevelopment in Columbus, Ohio. The Fund reimburses private and non-profit developers the application fee for the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) LEED certification. LEED for New Construction, Core and Shell, Commercial Interiors, and Existing Buildings: Operation and Maintenance (EB:O&M) are eligible. In addition to the GBCI application reimbursement, applicants can increase their grant award up to a maximum of triple the application fee through meeting City of Columbus designated criteria.
Ohio's Advanced Energy Fund was originally authorized by the state's 1999 electric restructuring legislation. The Fund supports the Advanced Energy Program, which at different times has provided grants for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects to different economic sectors. Grant and loan funds are awarded through periodic Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs) which may each focus on specific technologies or economic sectors.
This bond-funded program creates an Advanced Energy Job Stimulus Fund that is administered through a public process previously managed by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority (OAQDA). Beginning in 2012, the program is managed by the Ohio Development Services Agency. The Program will award funds to a portfolio of advanced energy projects. These projects will serve to attract new investment to Ohio, build upon Ohio's manufacturing strength, advance energy technology development toward commercialization and prepare Ohio's workforce for the future.
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Alvin Roth earned his 2012 Nobel Prize in economics for market design and matching theory — creating ways to pair "buyers" and "sellers" happily and fairly when price isn't a primary consideration. For instance? Kidney exchanges, in which cost can't...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Stock Market, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Awards and Prizes, Nobel Prize Awards
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Sure, we challenge our chef's to create new dishes, but we also know when we've hit upon a dish that really resonates. This selection of entreés represents classic GB dishes, guest favorites and staple dinner servings from around the culinary world.
Dipped in housemade Märzen lager batter, rolled in panko crumbs, fried to a perfect crunch.
Marinated beef medallions grilled with roasted garlic mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables and blue cheese sauce.
Bourbon-glazed grilled chicken breast with grilled shrimp, jasmine rice and vegetables.
Grilled chicken breast, housemade Märzen beer gravy, with roasted garlic mashed potatoes, topped with fried onion strings.
Andouille sausage, chicken and shrimp sautéed with louisiana spices and Cajun cream sauce tossed with linguini.
Baked on a cedar plank, finished with dill cream sauce, with quinoa kale pilaf and vegetables.
Chicken, shrimp, ham and andouille sausage sautéed in jambalaya sauce with jasmine rice.
Blended jumbo lump crab and Maine lobster with apple cider coleslaw, garlic fries and our signature tartar sauce.
Sautéed lobster and shrimp tossed in a creamy parmesan-havarti cheese sauce with bowtie pasta.
8oz New York Strip and grilled shrimp with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and vegetables.
Grilled flat iron steak marinated in märzen lager, over fries, drizzled with tangy steak sauce.
Chicken breast, filled with goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes, with quinoa kale pilaf, vegetables and a side of peanut roasted garlic sauce.
Grilled chicken tossed with tomatoes and fresh basil over linguine.


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The link between environment and poverty reduction is strong. Since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the importance of a sound environment to sustainable livelihoods has been widely acknowledged, particularly for the rural poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America (UN 1992; UN 2002:2). Income derived from the environment is a major constituent of the livelihoods of the rural poor, and this direct dependence on nature does not appear to be decreasing.
The environment is also a source of vulnerability. Environmental factors contribute substantially to the burden of ill-health the poor suffer. In addition, low-income families are especially vulnerable to natural disasters and environment-related risks such as the growing impacts of global climate change. As these environment-poverty links have become clear, major development institutions and donors have begun to make the environment a more central feature of their efforts to tackle poverty (USAID et al. 2002; Duraiappah 2004; UK DFID et al. 2002; UK DFID 1999; UNDP and EC 1999; World Bank 2001b).
Natural resources play a vital role in the livelihoods of the poor
Poor rural families make use of a variety of sources of income and subsistence activities to make their livings. Many of these are directly based on nature – like small-scale farming and livestock-rearing, fishing, hunting, and collecting of firewood, herbs, or other natural products. These may be sold for cash or used directly for food, heat, building materials, or innumerable other household needs. This "environmental income" is added to other income sources such as wage labor and remittances sent from family members who have emigrated. The decline of natural systems through soil depletion, deforestation, overexploitation, and pollution represents a direct threat to nature-based income and is a contributor to increasing poverty. (See Chapter 2 for a thorough discussion of how ecosystems contribute to the livelihoods of the poor.)
Common pool natural resources are a key source of subsistence
The poor make extensive use of goods collected from lands or waters over which no one individual has exclusive rights – resources known generally as common pool resources (CPRs) or simply the "commons" (Jodha 1986:1169; Ostrom 1990:30). Common pool resources exist in many different ecosystems and under a variety of public or community ownership regimes. Typical examples include village pastures, state or community forests, waste lands, coastal waters, rivers, lakes, village ponds, and the like (Jodha 1986:1169).
Materials gleaned from CPRs consist of a wide range of items for personal use and sale including food, fodder, fuel, fiber, small timber, manure, bamboos, medicinal plants, oils, and building materials for houses and furniture. Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other items harvested from coastal waters, rivers, and other aquatic environments are also of major importance to the poor. Nearly all rural families – both rich and poor – benefit from CPR income, but it is particularly important to landless households, for whom it provides a major fraction of total income. Researchers estimate that common pool resources provide about 12 percent of household income to poor households in India – worth about $5 billion a year, or double the amount of development aid that India receives (Beck and Nesmith 2001:119).
When access to common pool resources is unrestricted, as it is often is, it is difficult to keep them from being overexploited. Degradation of open access resources in the form of overfishing, deforestation, and overgrazing is an increasing burden on the poor – a trend that leads away from wealth.
Natural resources are vital social safety nets during lean times
Natural resources play a key role as a subsistence source of last resort in times of economic decline and when other food supplies are constrained. In southeastern Ghana, for example, recession and drought in 1982 and 1983 coincided with the normal lean season – the time before harvest when food supplies are naturally low. During this lean season, the poorest households depended on the "bush" for 20 percent of their food intake, compared to the highest income bracket, for which the bush provided only 2 percent of the household food intake. Women and children in particular relied on wild products such as roots, fibers, leaves, bark, fruit, seeds, nuts, insects, and sap. Men also hunted and trapped small mammals, reptiles, and birds (Dei 1992:67).
Environmental factors add to the health burden of the poor
Environmental risks such as unclean water, exposure to indoor air pollution, insect-borne diseases, and pesticides account for almost a quarter of the global burden of disease, and an even greater proportion of the health burden of the poor (Cairncross et al. 2003:2; Lvovsky 2001:1).
The poor are far more likely to be exposed to environmental health risks than the rich by virtue of where they live. They also have much less access to good health care, making their exposure more damaging. In turn, poor health is an important obstacle to greater income and a contributor to diminished well-being in every dimension of life. (See Box 1.3: Health, Environment, and Poverty)
Climate change adds to the vulnerability of the poor
The adverse impacts of climate change will be most striking in developing nations – and particularly among the poor – both because of their high dependence on natural resources and their limited capacity to adapt to a changing climate. Water scarcity is already a major problem for the world's poor, and changes in rainfall and temperature associated with climate change will likely make this worse. Even without climate change, the number of people impacted by water scarcity is projected to increase from 1.7 billion today to 5 billion by 2025 (IPCC 2001:9).
In addition, crop yields are expected to decline in most tropical and sub-tropical regions as rainfall and temperature patterns change with a changing climate (IPCC 2001:84). (See Figure 1.2.) A recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that developing nations may experience an 11 percent decrease in lands suitable for rainfed agriculture by 2080 due to climate change (FAO 2005:2). There is also some evidence that disease vectors such as malaria-bearing mosquitoes will spread more widely (IPCC 2001:455). At the same time, global warming may bring an increase in severe weather events like cyclones and torrential rains. The inadequate construction and exposed locations of poor people's dwellings often makes them the most likely victims of such natural disasters.


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Well brain donors, it's that time of week again where I dust off the old mail sack and have a look at what questions you have for me this week. Yep it's "Ask the Dead Guy" time again.
For those of you who are reading this series for the first time today, "Ask the Dead Guy" is my weekly series where you future brain donors ask the questions and the Dead Guy (Me) answers them. If you missed last week's question and answer session you can find it here.
So if you have some burning question that isn't contagious and require a series of shots with extremely long painful needles then post your question in the comments below, post it on my Facebook wall, send me a private message here at Brain-Donors.Com or you can even email it to me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com. I wasn't kidding about the needles either, so phrase your questions carefully.
I would also like to remind you that this series requires your questions in order to continue, so be sure to get your questions in no later than 9am EST every Monday if you want them answered the following week. If I don't get the four questions I need, well bad things happen. Really bad things, and those bad things normally involve kitten cruelties.
You should know that the question vault is now officially empty, and while you cheated me from tasting the Kidkitcon this week, I will most assuredly be feasting on one next Monday if you don't start getting your questions to me ASAP. As some of the more veteran readers already know, I ain't joking about this shit.
Speaking of shit, now that all that shit is out of the way, let's get on with this week's question and answer session. This week's first question comes to us from our own Happily Undead@Brain-Donors. HU asked, " Mister Cantankerous, with Summer coming I was wondering how Zmbies spend their summer and stay cool? Do they swim? I was under the impression that they did not know how to swim."
Dear HU,
I personally am not a "water person" per se but I do like to spend my time near bodies of water with bodies in them when the weather gets warmer. Sure I can't swim, not because I don't know how, but rather that my coordination when it comes to maintaining buoyancy leaves much to be desired. That said, I can do the "Dead Man's" float which I covered way back in "Ask the Dead Guy" No. 2. If you missed it you can find it here.
Now back to those bodies of water with bodies in them. One of the things I enjoy most about the Summer months is the fact that you brain donors out there start shedding clothing like a raven that's moulting. It all just starts coming off in heaps and layers, and from where I am sitting that is a very good thing. Less clothing means more surface area to put the bite on, so to speak.
The great thing about pools, oceans, and lakes is that you brain donors wear next to nothing when you go into them, and while I may not be able to swim out to you and eat you, I can wait. Let's face it you eventually have to come out, and time is and shall always be on my side. While I am not a big fan of prunes, I won't mind if you get a bit pruney before I chow down on you. You have my word on that.
Our next question comes from our own Joe Deathwalker@Brain-Donors. Joe asked, "Mister Cantankerous, if you turned Stan Lee into a zombie, do you think he would continue his comic book writing? If so, would you hurry up and do it already so we don't lose him. he is getting pretty old."
Your devotion to comic book legend Stan Lee is admirable, but your question naturally begs another question; "Have you not taken a good look at him lately?" I mean I have no idea how old you think Stan is, but I can assure you he won't be getting any older anytime soon.
While I don't want to be known for telling tales out of school, I think you can clearly understand what I am getting at here. It's absolutely amazing what the right lighting and a good makeup artist can do for a celebrity in the public eye these days. Oh and by the way, Jack Kirby says hello.
Our third question this week comes from Tim Forston@Facebook. Tim asked,"Mister Cantankerous, after the Zombies eat all the people are you going to retire or what?"
Dear Tim,
The short answer is "or what". Honestly Tim I don't think there will ever come a day when there won't be any people to eat. Face it you brain donors breed like rabbits. Over the centuries you have faced predators that would easily wipe out other species and yet you prevailed. Personally I think there are two reasons behind this phenomenon. First of course is the aforementioned breeding that you brain donors do, and secondly is that you kill stuff better than any other creature on the planet, including us Zombies.
That will undoubtedly be mankind's penultimate legacy, it's ability to kill stuff more effectively than anything else that has ever walked the Earth. Over the course of human existence you have not only created new ways to kill stuff for things like food and protection, but you've made a sport of it.
Trust me if cockroaches ever figure out how to kill stuff in as many different ways as you brain donors can, then you might have met your match. Until then your indelible mark on the eco-system is more or less set in the concrete you build your habitats upon. So long as you keep fucking and killing the way you have since you first climbed down from the trees, there will never be a shortage of brains for us Zombies to dine upon.
Our last question this week comes to us from Rob Long@Facebook. For those of you who have been reading this series for a while now, you'll know that Rob is infamous for posting smart ass questions. Today was no different. Rob asked, "Mister Cantankerous, can you show us a real life picture of yourself?"
Dear Rob,
I would be more than happy too. Please email the following information to me at firstname.lastname@example.com:
Your Full Name
Your Credit Card Number (including the expiration date and security number on the back)
Your mailing address
Your Mother's Maiden Name
Your Social Security Number
The tracking number from your checking account
The pink slip to your car (signed)
Once we have received this information and have verified that payment has been made in full we will be sure to send you whatever pictures you'd like. I hope that answered your question.
Well folks that's going to wrap it up again for this week. As I said earlier, the question vault is now officially empty, so unless you want to find out what Kidkitcon tastes like next week, I suggest you start submitting your questions as soon as you finish reading this. Be sure to check back in again next Monday for more of your answers....same Zombie Time, same Zombie Channel.
Now you're on your own.
ya know i just saw stan lee last month, and i never thought about it, but he does look "preserved"
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Morgan Stanley Stock Hold Recommendation Reiterated (MS)
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- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Capital Markets industry. The net income increased by 303.6% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from -$249.00 million to $507.00 million.
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- The revenue fell significantly faster than the industry average of 24.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 6.7%. The declining revenue has not hurt the company's bottom line, with increasing earnings per share.
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Comforting familiarity and a relatively low price point have made glazed donuts a go-to breakfast item for generations of Americans. Traditionally, half of most in-store donut displays are made up of glazed varietiessays Tim Busta, category manager at Dawn Foods, Jackson, Mich.
Hostess Brands Inc. confirms that "America's favorite donut flavor is glazed," and Dunkin' Donuts reports that two of its three top sellers are glazed and chocolate glazed. However, Busta says newer flavors with flashier facades are nudging their way into–and beyond–the breakfast niche.
In supermarkets, it makes sense that in-store-fried donuts might need to doll themselves up to compete with lower-priced varieties consumers can find in the other aisles. While market research group, NPD, Port Washington, N.Y., reports that overall donut consumption has been relatively stable between 2008 (2.9 billion purchased) and 2010 (2.7 billion), researchers at Mintel point out that sales of donuts from in-store bakeries dropped by about four percent between 2009 and 2010.
Hostess is hoping to keep that trend going with this summer's introduction of a pre-packaged iced devil's food cake with chocolate icing, says Mike Touhey, vice president of snack marketing. The development of the new flavor combination was based on "quantitative research which revealed that more interesting, more indulgent iced and powdered varieties are showing stronger growth than glazed or plain," he adds.
This seems to be in keeping with NPD's findings that, while more than half of donut "eatings" are "in-home at breakfast," 34 percent are consumed as an "in-home snack." In an effort to extend these "eating" occasions, Stan Frankenthaler, vice president, executive chef–product innovation at Dunkin' Brands, created simple yet imaginative make-at-home snack and dessert recipes, such as Cocoa Donut and Strawberry Grilled Cheese, to encourage consumers to think of and use the company's products in new ways. He also emphasizes the 330-calorie-count to show that donut desserts don't have to be diet-breakers.
To increase the appeal of in-store-bakery-produced donuts as more of an "experience" than mere hunger appeaser, many stores are tending to lavishly accessorize ready-to-finish varieties with premium toppings. Candied walnuts, cream cheese icing with red velvet crumbs, spicy chocolate-chili icing, as well as products with salty/sweet accents, such as pretzel nuggets, salted caramel or bacon, are all possible, Busta says. Some bakeries that mix their own doughs also are going beyond the basic chocolate and vanilla and using lemon, orange, red velvet and other flavors to further jazz up their donut line-up.
As always, Dunkin' Donuts is in-season and on-trend with special editions and limited-time offers, such as the heart-shaped Valentine's "Cupid's Choice," (the company's first shaped donut) filled with Bavarian creme and topped with strawberry icing and pink, white and red heart-shaped sprinkles. A few tweaks, including changing the filling to jelly and the topping to vanilla icing with a chocolate drizzle, turned this same donut into a "Royal Wedding" specialty available for only five days in April, commemorating the nuptials between Prince William and Catherine Middleton, says Frankenthaler.
Dunkin' also employs regional savvy to make its products distinctive and desirable.
Frankenthaler explains that "although our sour cream donut in Chicago, peanut stick in upstate New York and cherry cake donut in the South may not compare to the overall popularity of our glazed, chocolate glazed or chocolate iced, their niche appeal still allows them to hold a special place on our menu.
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The Qiaquick kit from Qiagen works just fine with the millipore kit. I make use of the Millipore magna-chip kit as well and have run into the same problem. I wrote out all the ingredients that come with the kit and how many I use per ChIP sample (I'm dissecting out brain tissue, so I use different amounts than Millipore recommends) and which reagents are my limiting reagents. For me it was the Cell Lysis Buffer and the Protease Inhibitor cocktail.
Like you, I tried to order reagents individually, but they don't sell them; but if you call Millipore they will give you the composition of many of their reagents (e.g, now I make my own cell lysis buffer) or buy them from elsewhere (I've been using the Halt protease/phosphatase inhibitor cocktail from Pierce; has worked well so far). I think it's quite obnoxious that they don't sell components individually given that various labs have different reagent requirements....
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Last night in New York Samsung formally announced its much anticipated Galaxy S4 follow-up to its hugely successful S3. The hardware update was relatively modest: a somewhat larger high-resolution AMOLED screen, more CPU power and thinner body. It will be challenging to tell the S4 from the S3 without a close look.
Much of the evening was about software though decidedly not about "Android" or "Google." Android got a single mention and Google was never mentioned.
Here are the S4's major "specs":
With its splashy, Broadway inspired show last night Samsung entered Apple's "big launch" turf. It also perhaps unwittingly emulated Apple's "incremental" handset update cycle. Indeed, we might call the S4 the "S3s" because of its "evolutionary" changes over the S3.
There were tons of software updates and new additions to the handset; many of them related to the camera and many of them were impressive seeming. However today several outlets are reporting that the Samsung software didn't always work as promised. In fact the S4, which will undoubtedly be popular, has received some quite mixed reviews -- especially from Gizmodo last night, which called it a "missed opportunity."
Samsung has taken a bit of an "A/B testing" or shotgun approach, if you prefer, to developing mobile devices. Over the past three years it has released a wide range of tablets and handsets vs. Apple's much more deliberate and controlled pipeline. Yet through its experimentation with larger screens and a range of devices (as a differentiation strategy) it has helped cultivate in consumers an appetite for larger smartphone screens.
But for that shift in the public's appetite, Apple wouldn't have made the "taller" iPhone 5. Yet there's considerable pressure to make still larger iPhones.
A larger screen has become one of the key hardware features and differences between the first-tier Android handsets (especially from Samsung and HTC) and the iPhone. Thus Apple will be rolling out an even bigger iPhone (probably at 6). Apple would do well to bring that larger phone this summer and not wait another full year to do so.
Apple is not used to compensating and being on the defensive. It normally leads the market with design. But it has been playing catch-up recently.
The unexpected success of smaller tablets forced it to create the iPad Mini. And the unanticipated development of giant-screened smartphones (Note II, S4) forces Apple to offer a larger iPhone, thereby betraying Steve Jobs' "single hand" operation philosophy. In addition the need to sell more iPhones in developing markets (vs. less expensive Androids) has given rise to rumors of a cheaper, "more plastic" iPhone.
Samsung clearly emulated, imitated or copied (take your pick) the iPhone's look and feel at the outset. But the Korean company has now gone beyond it in several ways -- including in the hyperbolic claim that the S4 is a "life companion." And, ironically, Apple is now being compelled by the Galaxy line's success and by public demand to make the iPhone much more like Samsung handsets.
Many developers and digital marketers still cling to the assumption that HTML5 and the "mobile web" will eventually win out over native apps. There's a kind of logic to that position. However they may be waiting a very long time for that to happen.
As has previously been written, the overwhelming majority of consumer time spent with mobile devices is spent in apps ("4 out of every 5 mobile minutes," per comScore). And according to a new survey from Compuware the majority of international respondents (85%) preferred apps over mobile sites.
The survey had a total of just over 3,500 respondents from the US, UK, France, Germany, India and Japan.
Despite the positive news for app developers the survey also had some harsh findings. For example 59% of respondents said that an app should load in two seconds or less. In addition, poor user experiences result in app abandonment, switching to competitors' apps, negative word of mouth and erosion of brand perception -- among other negative consequences.
The most common problems encountered were freezing/crashing (62%) and slow load times (47%), as well as the more generic "didn't function as expected" (37%). A majority of users had encountered one or more of these problems in using apps. Users expect apps to load faster and perform better than mobile sites: "78% expect mobile apps to load as fast as — or faster than — a mobile website."
Nearly 80% of the survey respondents said that they would give an app one (maybe two) more chances if it didn't work correctly the first time. And app-store ratings are being taken very seriously by users: "84% users say app store ratings are important in their decisions to download and install a mobile app."
The survey report cited third-party data for the proposition that the average number of apps on users' smartphones is 41.
The key figure from a new US "teens and technology" survey by the Pew Internet Project is this: 50% of teens who own smartphones primarily access the internet that way. According to Pew (the data are from Q3 2012) 78% of US teens overall own cell phones and nearly half (47%) of them own smartphones.
I suspect if the data were from 2013, smartphone penetration would have easily crossed 50% because of Q4 holiday gifts. Among all teens (including those who don't own a cell phone), 37% own smartphones.
Part of the reason that US teens may rely more heavily on their mobile phones (and tablets) for internet access is that some do not own PCs or share PCs with their families. Thus mobile devices are more private and personal because they're not shared. Regardless teens' orientation to the internet is more mobile than their parents'.
The survey also found that 23% of US teens owned tablets (compared with 25% of US adults).
As these teens "grow up" it will be interesting to see if they adopt a more "balanced approach" and access the internet equally from PCs, tablets and smartphones. I suspect their bias will remain toward mobile devices, with tablets taking the place of PCs for non-smartphone access.
An October 2012 survey (n=7,700 teens) by financial firm Piper Jaffray found that Apple held an advantage among US teens:
There has always been a somewhat awkward relationship between Google's Chrome OS (PC) and Android OS (mobile). Many people have remarked about it. Today that tension was potentially resolved.
Google CEO Larry Page announced that Android founder and Google Mobile chieftan Andy Rubin was transitioning to another role at the company. In his place SVP Sundar Pichai (who was once unsuccessfully recruited by Twitter) will take over leadership of the Android team. Pichai is currently responsible for Chrome OS and the two groups will be under his combined command.
Here's what Page said about him in a blog post announcing the change:
Sundar has a talent for creating products that are technically excellent yet easy to use—and he loves a big bet. Take Chrome, for example. In 2008, people asked whether the world really needed another browser. Today Chrome has hundreds of millions of happy users and is growing fast thanks to its speed, simplicity and security. So while Andy's a really hard act to follow, I know Sundar will do a tremendous job doubling down on Android as we work to push the ecosystem forward.
There's a clear logic here and the move makes sense. But my instincts tell me that all may not go as smoothly as that logic suggests.
By all measures Android is flying high: "60 manufacturers; more than 750 million devices have been activated globally; and 25 billion apps have now been downloaded from Google Play." Yet device activations have slowed somewhat and Samsung has all but taken control of Android handset (and perhaps eventually tablet) sales. Samsung Galaxy devices represents an increasingly large share of all Android sales.
Windows Phone is unlikely to challenge Android, nor is BlackBerry -- for at least the foreseeable future, if ever. Android can coast for some time (which is clearly not happening) and the platform would continue to dominate globally. By some estimates Android is on 80% or more of Chinese smartphones.
If indeed this leadership change is a precursor to OS consoidation we may see some technical challenges a la Windows as a unified operating system across devices. But then again, but for Apple (and partner Samsung), Google really has no competitive threats to its global-mobile dominance on the horizon.
This morning Google released the results of an extensive study conducted among US mobile users with Nielsen in Q4 2012. The survey explores mobile search behavior in particular and uses a combination of interviews, online survey data, diaries and search query logs to get a holistic picture of search activity on smartphones. Tablets weren't part of this research.
Among the many interesting findings there are two big ones that stand out: 77% of mobile searches happen at home or work, even when there's a PC nearby. And 55% of mobile-search related conversions (call, store visit, purchase) happen within "one hour or less" of query completion.
These two stats illustrate two larger "truths" about mobile. The first is that mobile devices are increasingly "primary" for people as a method of internet access. Speed and convenience were cited by respondents as reasons for substituting a smartphone for a PC in a search context.
Marketers need to be cognizant of the fact that large numbers of people will be using their smartphones (and tablets) at home to search for things, whereas before they might have used a PC. At work people may be motivated by other considerations, such as privacy, to use mobile devices vs. corporate-provided PCs.
The other "truth" is illustrated by the 55% figure: conversions often happen very quickly after a mobile search. This reinforces the notion of the focused, "need it now" mindset of many mobile search users. Mobile searchers take a variety of actions after completing their queries. They go to websites and do additional research, they make phone calls and they go into stores. They buy things.
But marketers can't see most of that activity, hence the complaints about mobile ROI. Most marketers get confused and "lose the trail" when users go offline. You can track calls and site visits, you can capture email addresses and you can monitor e-commerce transactions via mobile. However it's challenging to get complete visibility on all the ways that mobile is influencing purchase behavior.
The slide above illustrates the range of activities mobile search triggers. But more importantly, Google and Nielsen found that 45% of mobile search queries were undertaken to help make a purchase decision -- so-called "goal oriented" searches. And most of these will result in a conversion, often offline.
The totality of the data released in this study (download the pdf) show that mobile users are more focused and are typically farther down "in the funnel" than PC users. Mobile (search at least) is clearly driving lots of conversions. Marketers just need to open their minds about what constitutes a "conversion" and get creative about ROI and attribution.
Otherwise, they're not seeing what's really happening with their customers and how critical a role mobile is playing in the overall marketing and sales process.
Many of the Q4 reports released by the ad networks and major agencies showed the growth of tablet-related ad spending. That's a trend that will further accelerate under Google's new "Enhanced Campaigns" regime in which tablets are grouped with PCs for paid-search advertising purposes. In other words, marketers cannot separate PC and tablet paid-search campaigns.
Last week Adobe reported that tablets had passed smartphones for share of global traffic.
In many ways tablets are the new PCs, taking their place for many at home use cases. Tablet owners tend to behave more like PC shoppers, including displaying a greater willingness to covert online. By contrast, smartphone owners typically don't convert on the small screen making ROI harder to track for marketers targeting those devices.
Because online conversions are more likely and prevalent for tablet users, the "danger" is that marketers will neglect smartphones or that smartphones will be "ghettoized" and considered good for only a limited number of purposes. In fact mobile/smartphone advertising is great for both DR and branding purposes.
Mobile DSP Adfonic now offers data that show, across most categories, tablet advertising appears to outperform smartphone ads in terms of CTRs (though ultimate influence on conversions isn't measured).
As the chart above reflects, "tablets achieve especially strong CTRs for advertisers in the Style & Fashion, Lifestyle & Health, Entertainment & Media, and Travel verticals." Smartphones are stronger in other categories such as retail and automotive. People tend to use tablets in the evenings and on the weekends.
Over time marketers will determine which devices are better suited to which types of advertising. However companies need to have a comprehensive strategy that recognizes the "multi-screen" consumer, who will move from device to device before converting.
Although Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 are gaining, Apple tablets continue to dominate web traffic. The following chart shows North American traffic over the past three months, comparing the top-three devices on Chitika's ad network.
According to Adobe's marketing group tablet growth is outpacing that of smartphones. This trend also showed up in several Q4 reports from other online marketing firms such as Marin Software.
Adobe says that on a global basis, mobile devices (smartphones + tablets) generated 15% of all internet traffic. Of that 15%, tablets edged smartphones with 8% of traffic. The company also says that tablet users spend much more time and are much more engaged than smartphone users: "on average internet users view 70% more pages per visit when browsing with a tablet compared to a smartphone."
Among the countries measured, the UK is seeing the highest share of internet traffic from tablets followed by the US and Canada.
ComScore previously reported that about 36% of total US internet time is being spent on mobile devices, even though they're generating less than that in terms of overall traffic. Part of the reason for such a discrepancy may be apps, which are often not measured but where "9 out of 10" mobile minutes are spent.
While 6 and 7-inch tablets exist somewhere between a smartphone and a full-sized tablet (i.e., iPad Classic), tablets are increasingly replacement devices for PCs. PCs still have the largest installed base and a home in the enterprise, among business users and for more selected purposes in the home. But the centrality of the PC as the gateway to the internet is over.
Using Gartner data, USAToday chronicled the decline of PC sales (which aren't coming back):
The "problem" with tablets is that many marketers treat them like PCs (including Google AdWords) and don't give them special attention. A study released in Q4 last year found, for example, that only 7% of retailers' websites were tablet friendly.
Yet tablet-app mobile ad creative can be very effective. In general tablet ads (in apps) are much more engaging than smartphone ads right now.
As tablets continue to gain momentum as PC replacements we may see a very odd situation develop. That is: smartphones might be given perfunctory treatment as an ad platform or otherwise neglected in favor of tablets with their larger "canvas." However, as suggested, the bulk of marketers may treat tablets like PCs and not address them with specialized ad units.
Accordingly, as mobile devices take more and more consumer time and engagement "online advertising" could become considerably weaker than it is today.
This morning mobile ad network xAd released its year in review report. The document contains a range of information and data about the company's offerings, including the performance of ad campaigns on its network. The focus of the report is on national advertisers (rather than SMBs). And it presents a picture of marketers getting a great deal more sophisticated about local ad targeting on mobile devices.
As laid out in the report, xAd is now offering a range of local targeting flavors on mobile: behavioral, place-based, POI and event targeting.
In the graphic above you can see that from Q1 to Q4 the number of national advertisers using more sophisticated forms of geotargeting increased dramatically from 27% to 81%. In other words only 13% of xAd's national advertiser campaigns in Q4 were using "standard geo," (zip, city, DMA). The remaining 81% were using one of the other more complex targeting methods (all involving location) such as behavioral.
Of the 81% using a more precise form of location targeting, here's the breakdown:
In the report xAd offers performance metrics for these approaches compared to industry averages. The company says that its targeting methods provide a substantial performance improvement over traditional (non-location targeted) mobile search and display advertising.
In particular on the display side xAd breaks down how each of its more elaborate forms of location targeting perform. Behaviorial does the best, followed by place-based targeting.
Finally the following are the top consumer search categories for all of 2012 and the top advertiser categories on the xAd network. The latter are national advertisers and don't include small businesses. There's a general alignment across both columns but it's obviously not 1:1.
The company's advertisers tend to be more sophisticated about location and more inclined to experiment with it. It would be great if these advertisers were representative of the entire industry. However they're not. A recent CMO Council survey showed how many agencies and national advertisers still don't "get" location.
The CMO Council survey explored national advertiser "localization" tactics. The overwhelming majority of survey respondents (over 80%) didn't make the connection between mobile and local:
Source: CMO Council/Balihoo (n=296 national marketers/agencies)
Perhaps once more national advertisers become aware of the performance lift and case studies associated with location targeting they'll wake up to its potential. In the interim those national advertisers using more sophisticated local-mobile targeting are "conquesting" their competition.
New US smartphone figures came out today from comScore for January. According to the comSumer survey Android had 52.3% of the market, while Apple was at 37.8%. Those numbers represent a jump for Apple and a dip for Google since October, the comparison period.
Apple is the top smartphone OEM in the US followed by Samsung. Their relative shares are 37.8% to 21.4%. However Samsung is the dominant Android handset OEM by far, though LG did experience an uptick because of the extremely popular Nexus 4 (the best Android handset currently on the market).
Today also mobile ad network Jumptap released its latest MobileSTAT report for February. In that report Jumptap says that from 2011 to 2012 Samsung's share of Android handsets on its network grew from 42% to 56%. Jumptap is predicting that Samsung's share will continue to grow, perhaps beyond 60% of the US Android handset market this year.
Weaker or fading rivals HTC, LG and Motorola will have a much smaller share: no greater than 11% in any individual case according to the Jumptap prediction. The chart below illustrates the degree of Samsung's dominance in the US smartphone market. The comScore numbers above are not quite as severe.
Operating system share will remain relatively stable in 2013 according to Jumptap. Accordingly, Windows Phones and BlackBerry are stuck in the basement with a combined 4% share. Indeed, 2013 will be the year that Nokia needs to make a decision about whether it wants to "diversify" with Android. If these numbers hold it will be all but compelled to do so.
Tablets will take mobile browsing share from smartphones according to another Jumptap prediction. The firm believes that tablets will grow to capture 29% of mobile traffic while smartphones will generate 70% of mobile traffic. The tablet impact on PCs is not discussed.
According to an earlier report from comScore mobile now represents 36% of internet time vs. 67% on the PC. I believe tablets will continue to take meaningful share from PC usage even has they cannibalize some share from smartphones (chiefly in the home).
It has only been a few months since Yelp introduced ads at the top of search results in mobile. Now, according to AdAge, the company is adding mobile display ads to its mobile apps (and probably later its mobile website).
The first advertisers will be InterContinental Hotels (IHG) and Taco Bell. They will apparently have exclusive visibility in their respective categories throughout March. I was unable to find a live screenshot for either advertiser. However the left image below (via AdAge) shows a Taco Bell ad on the business profile page. On the right I've also captured a "search ad" and its presentation in Yelp's iPhone app.
What's not clear is whether Yelp advertisers will be exempt from having these new displays ads on their profiles (they are exempt from competing ads online). It will also be interesting to see how these ads perform. Will they be more brand oriented or more direct response (including special offers)?
While Yelp users in the restaurants category, I'm guessing, are less likely to change their plans and go to Taco Bell hotel category users could well respond to an offer or incentive from IHG as they plan a hotel stay.
It will also be interesting to see whether Yelp will sell its own ad inventory exclusively or whether the company will take third party mobile display ads. My guess is that Yelp probably would be concerned about the quality and relevance of third party mobile display ads and will be unlikely to take them for at least the near-term (if ever).


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The Interpretation of Dreams: The Illustrated Edition : In addition to Freud's groundbreaking text, meticulously edited, this magnificent volume includes an introduction and 16 essays by noted author and Freud scholar Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Relevant excerpts from such psychoanalytical writers as Jung, Lacan, and Horney illuminate Freud's theories, and an illustrated detailed biography shines a light on Freud's life and times. Exquisite art from many Modernist and Surrealist artists appear throughout, and Masson's sidebars appear as booklets "hidden" in the full-spread artwork.
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