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One of the largest railcar producers in the world is subleasing a portion of Navistar Corp.'s Barton plant with plans to build up to 7,000 cars annually.
FreightCar America officials said Tuesday they hope to begin production in July and have 200 workers on site by the end of the year. They expect to employ 400 people at the plant by the end of 2014, said Terry Heidkamp, senior vice president of operations for FreightCar.
"This is a win for all involved, FreightCar America, Navistar and the community," Heidkamp said. "It also is a win for FreightCar to be able to produce these cars in a competitive way."
As part of the arrangement that allows FreightCar to use two of the plant's four assembly lines, the two companies are forming a partnership. Navistar will assist in maintenance and production of the railcars.
Heidkamp said FreightCar produces about 70 percent of the coal cars manufactured in America, but the company wants a variety of railcars.
"We need a new footprint, a different footprint that will help us better compete in the market," he said.
Navistar leased the nearly mile-long plant from National Alabama in September 2011. The company announced last year it would build a new truck at the facility, but plans have been put on hold, as Navistar facilities in Springfield, Ohio, and Mexico are at sufficient capacity to meet existing demand, company officials said.
Navistar also is awaiting permission from the Environmental Protection Agency to bring a new truck engine into production, but officials said that is not connected to the reason things have been put on hold in Barton.
Bob Andress, vice president of manufacturing at FreightCar, said having Navistar in the same plant will save costs and make production more convenient. Andress said another major supplier also is nearby in Iuka, Miss., 12 miles from the Barton plant.
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Lauren McFarland, corporate communications manager for Navistar, said wages will be competitive with the skills needed. She said the industrial development training website likely will list a range between $12 and $14 an hour, up to $20 an hour.
Officials with the Shoals Economic Development Authority and Shoals Industrial Development Committee unanimously voted Tuesday to allow Navistar to count jobs related to FreightCar's operation toward a local incentive package. Local governments will pay Navistar $7.67 million in incentives if 900 people are working at the plant.
An additional $7.67 million is awarded if that number reaches 1,350. After that, $3.83 million is awarded if the number reaches 1,500 and $3.83 million more if it reaches 1,800 by 2016.
David Bronner, chief executive officer of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, said officials had hoped Navistar would have a "quick and heavy" start but various issues have stood in the way. That slow start could be a blessing in disguise.
"It may actually be better for the area to have two publicly listed companies," Bronner said. "In time, this will be bigger than we had originally anticipated with just one company."
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Tuscumbia Mayor Bill Shoemaker, chairman of the industrial development committee, said Tuesday's announcement means the plant has two quality companies working together.
"The products they're building are just a perfect fit," Shoemaker said. "This is teamwork between them, and each feels good and can't wait to work together. Most of the plant still will be available for Navistar to produce their product. It really is the perfect match."
FreightCar has headquarters in Chicago and operates manufacturing facilities in Danville, Ill., and Roanoke, Va.
FreightCar America has no debt and a good cash balance, Heidkamp said.
Danville's 250 employees received notices earlier this month of a possible layoff in April, according to news reports. Andress said that is not a sign of plans to shut down the plant. Instead, it is the result of a depressed coal market. He said Roanoke has a good backlog of orders, while Danville's is not as full.
FreightCar officials said they will begin the hiring process Wednesday morning, with hopes of having employees trained and working on site in May.
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Anyone interested in applying for an hourly job can do so through the Alabama Industrial Development Training website. Information on applying for salaried jobs can be obtained through the company.
Navistar officials said 180 people are working at the plant now. Company officials said they project having more than 300 at Barton by the end of 2014.
That, coupled with FreightCar's anticipated employment levels, would mean more than 700 people would be working at the plant.
Heidkamp said the company will produce a variety of railcars at Barton. FreightCar has specialized in coal cars, but Heidkamp said the Navistar plant offers flexibility that fits into his company's plan to produce railcars for numerous purposes.
"We can carry flatcars, intermodal cars ... and other types," Heidkamp said.
The plant in the Barton Riverfront Industrial Park was built in 2007 by Canadian-based National Steel Car. The concept of building a plant that can manufacture a diversity of railcars was stressed during production of the facility.
The company struggled financially because of a downturn in the railcar industry, and the Retirement Systems of Alabama stepped in to take over operations at what became known as National Alabama.
Heidkamp said FreightCar America will invest about $23 million into configuring the two productions lines for its purpose. That is significantly less expensive and time consuming than building a new plant or going into a plant that is not set up for railcar usage, he said.
'Perfect for us'
"Because of the way the facility was designed and what it was built to do, it's perfect for us," Heidkamp said. "We were also impressed with the local area, employment base and the state and local governments."
He said the company ultimately plans to produce 6,000 to 7,000 railcars a year. "Our strategy for a while has been to grow our product line."
Ray Koopman, district of manufacturing and business development for Navistar, envisions the companies looking for ways to continue developing their partnership at the plant.
"We'll be looking at projects we can work on together," Koopman said. "If all this ends up being is a customer-supplier relationship, we have failed. We'll aggressively go after additional fabrication opportunities that utilize our equipment."
Andress said the partnership and facilities bring a lot of potential. "With us both in transportation, the usages of assets could be optimized."
Discussions about the partnership started last year, according to both companies.
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FreightCar America facts:
Formed in Chicago in 1901 as the Cambria Steel Co. to build freight and mine cars.
Purchased its Danville, Ill., plant in 1995, and Roanoke, Va., facility in 2005. The company has nearly 1,000 employees.
Completed its initial public offering on NASDAQ in 2005. The stock closed Tuesday at $24.59 a share.
Responsible for 70 percent of the coal cars produced in the United States. The company also has introduced 16 new designs and product line extensions during the past five years.
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Recorded: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Independent Institute Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of "Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis" describes how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, with its 27,000 pages of rules and regulations, has omitted some basic market-based concepts that would benefit all consumers. Goodman outlines the changes that would make such a healthcare system function, utilizing his extensive knowledge of the subject. Goodman is known as the "Father of Health Savings Accounts" whose suggestions for healthcare reform have been heard around the country. In this video, he highlights what is wrong with Obamacare, and offers his bold ideas on sensible healthcare reform.
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Recorded: Monday, April 21, 2014
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Recorded: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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Recorded: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee regarding risk corridorsthe Obamacare program that provides a bailout for insurance companies when premiums dont cover costs. Goodman says insurers will run away from the sick and insure the healthy, in what he calls "A race to the bottom."
Experts: John C. GoodmanType: TelevisionIssues: Free Market Economics, Health Care, Politics, Public Health/ Consumer Protection
Obamacare: Built to Fall Apart
Recorded: Thursday, January 30, 2014
Sr. Fellow John R. Graham appeared on the Joy Tiz radio show. Graham talks about the new Healthcare Contract with America, which relies on free market solutions to solve the healthcare crisis. Using examples from the landmark book by Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, Graham describes ways in which Americans can take control of their healthcare.
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My grandfather and father both worked in sugar beet fields near Brush, Colorado. But like so many people today in the United States, we are now two generations removed from the farm. I started as a reporter and have worked for Monsanto for more than 25 years. Working with farmers is the best job in the world, especially to be in a position to communicate their passion about the food they provide for all of us.
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Q: If the Monsanto company is treating to sue Maine for passing the GMO labeling law, can't we sue them because it against one of the amendments. The amendment is its illegal for someone in another state to sue a state they aren't citizens of.
Posted On: Tuesday, 10/29/2013 10:36 am
Answered By: Lisa Drake, Lead, State and Local Government Affairs, Monsanto Company, Friday, 12/20/2013 3:14 pm
A: I appreciate the opportunity to clarify this misinformation. Monsanto has not threatened to sue Maine over GMO food labeling. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) first propagated this myth in Vermont during the 2012 legislative season. For more information, please read my response to a similar allegation about Connecticut: http://gmoanswers.com/ask/why-did-monsanto-threaten-state-ct-law-suit-if-we-passed-labeling-bill-last-year-have-something.
Q: Why did Monsanto threaten the state of CT with a law suit if we passed the labeling bill last year? Have something to hide?
Posted On: Thursday, 8/01/2013 9:23 am
Answered By: Lisa Drake, Lead, State and Local Government Affairs, Monsanto Company, Wednesday, 8/14/2013 1:54 pm
A: Monsanto has not threatened to sue any state over GMO food labeling. This is a myth first propagated by the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) in Vermont during the 2012 Vermont legislative season. Monsanto responded in a blog post, correcting the record and pointing out that the Vermont Attorney General and Vermont Legislative Council, in fact, raised legal constitutionality questions in an Agriculture Committee hearing. The source of the claim is the Organic Consumers Association... Continue Reading
Q: If GMOs are such a safe and great idea, then why would Monsanto not be proud to label the products, then proceed to educate people on the reasons they want to control the world's food and wipe out the smaller natural organic farmers??
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Answered By: Lisa Drake, Lead, State and Local Government Affairs, Monsanto Company, Sunday, 8/04/2013 3:55 pm
A: This is a multi-faceted question, so I'm going to break this down into several bullets to try to address all of your points. Monsanto breeds and sells both GM and conventional seeds to our farmer customers, and we support their right to choose the seeds that are the best fit for their individual farms. Individual seed products are clearly identified as containing GM traits where appropriate, and farmers choose and are aware of the type of product they are buying.Although Monsanto doesn't... Continue Reading
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will start back up earlier than expected on April 16.
On March 19, GM put a halt on Chevrolet Volt production in order to get rid of some of the older versions of the plug-in electric hybrid and make room for those with the recent battery fix. Also, new Volts with the changes made for the California market are making their way into the inventory.
The production halt was expected to last for four weeks. However, new reports show that Volt production will resume a few days earlier than planned. GM has already started notifying Detroit-Hamtramck plant employees, where the Volt is assembled.
It's a good time to bring Volt production back to life, since it seems that Volt popularity has risen recently. In March, U.S.
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In May 2011, Chevrolet's Volt caught fire three weeks after a side-impact crash test conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Volt was parked in a NHTSA testing facility in Wisconsin, and was so severe that it ended up catching nearby cars on fire as well. This led to an investigation into the safety of lithium batteries.
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"It seems like we've sustained ourselves through this difficult period," said Dan Akerson, GM CEO. "We hope to get up to 3,000 plus in the coming months and are certainly positioning it."
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According the the Enviromental Law Institue, all subsidies and tax credits given to all Fossil Fuel companies from 2002-2008
Amount to ~72.8 Billion or roughly 10 Billion a year.
The primary form (as noted) is a tax credit for paying foriegn taxes under the reasonable doctorine that income shouldn't be taxed twice. This same underlying concept allows individuals to deduct real estate taxes, foriegn taxes, and state taxes. I think it might be good to get rid of this type of tax exception, but to do it just for one industry and not others makes little sense. The second biggest break comes in the form of a US manufacturing credit where a certain percentage of income made from US activities is excepted from taxation. New York Times and Starbucks both for instance use this credit as well. While getting rid of it might also be a good idea, it should be uniform for all businesses.
If you remove this two tax breaks from the equation, your down to ~21-28 billions over 7 years... or roughly 3-4 billion a year. Much of this money goes to reduce pollution, Research and Development credits, special projects, etc, etc. IE, stuff that's really hard to argue with when you actually examine the details.
From this 3-4 billion a year, these companies produce ~320 Billion gallons of gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, heating oil, jet fuel, etc and ~2.8 TkWh of electricity.
We are talking fractions of cents in terms of actual prices. Even if we added up all of the elements, the Government is subsidizing a normal persons use of gasoline by just a few dollars a year. And is spread out to almost the entire US population. IE, Since we all use gasoline and electricity, the subsidy while helping to slighly pad the bottom line of fossil fuel companies, benefits most people fairly.
In constrast, the plug-in credit of upto 7,500 for the first 200,000 by a manufacturing plug-ins could cost upto 1.5 billion per manufacturer. Given that there is clearly ~10 major manufacturers of cars, thats ~15 billion for 1/100 parts of the US population. Its a little bit like an office pool where everyone contributes 75 dollars, but there is only 1 winner out of 100. Everyone else is walking away initially empty handed. Oh, and participation is mandatory. I don't think that would be a popular program anywhere....
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Korbs Initiate New Dry Eye Fund
The AAO Foundation received a $25,000 donation from Drs. Donald Korb & Joan Exford to establish a research and leadership fund in the area of dry eye. At the AOF luncheon, Don Korb praised Kelly Nichols' recent work as the chair of the International Meibomian Gland Dysfunction Work Group for the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society. He said her work made him proud to be an optometrist, as he announced this lead gift.
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In 2009 the AAO Foundation received two generous $240,000 commitments from Michael G. Harris and Essilor of America to establish two new Ezell Funds. First time recipients of these awards were announced at the AOF Celebration Luncheon. Congratulations to Shilpa Register, the Ohio State University and Patrick Scott, Boston University School of Medicine.
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Brief Adventures: Muddy Waters in New South Wales
And so my adventure in Brewarrina ended almost as quickly as it started. Unlike the previous two jobs I was
At the end of my first day on the job in Muddy Waters, which began 12 hours after I arrived in Brewarrina, I was invited to a party where there were plenty of hospital workers in attendance. Some from India, others from somewhere else in Australia (including the senior police sergeant for the town and his fun and funny wife), and me.
It was an entertaining and informative night but the steak bled a little too much on my plate. I like rare but not that rare.
The socializing event was hosted by the owners of a Bed and Breakfast / motel / event centre. They supplied the steaks and the venue, mingled a bit with us and then fecked off. It was a good idea they didn't stick around. I learned a few hours after attending that party that they sold the cafe I was working in to my new employer.
A few weeks after that I began to come to the realization that the $50,000 Doc AH paid, while it was a fair price, there were and probably still issues with the cafe that the previous owners failed to share with the doctor when he expressed his interest in buying the place. Something shonky going on there.
And taking pork bacon and ham off the menu; like how dumb is that really? Not a good idea in my opinion, especially if one is going to invest another seven or eight grand to make pizzas.
Bacon (OF THE PORK NOT BEEF KIND!) and eggs in the morning, and "Hawaiian pizza" that's the way to go.
It's too bad the immigrant doctor is letting his religion get in the way of his business. He doesn't want to assimilate into the Australian hospitality industry and its working against him just six months after buying the business from the B & B owners who hosted a barbeque I attended with him.
Having said that, the doctor could really cash in with the right players in place, and too bad for him that one of the players is now playing somewhere else, albeit in a place with fewer things to do on one's only day off.
That coffee shop has potential, especially now that the joint three doors down, has burned to the ground. The owner of Antonio's take-away shop is rebuilding and by the time that place re-opens the fine doctor better have his shit together because he is definitely out of the food industry for good in Brewarrina if he doesn't.
I did have some kick-ass fun times while I was working for the doctor though, and some of them were priceless moments, and with the aborigines.
There was the time I spent a couple or three minutes on a Sunday afternoon with a drunk woman. She wanted a cigarette from me. I didn't want to give her one so I told her I just lit the last one out of the packet of smokes I had.
I lied. What can I say?
Then she made me an offer that was too easy to refuse. I didn't even have to think about it and I I laughed it off — sort of.
I had my fun in that moment, but I wasn't too impressed when in the name of Mohammed (or maybe it was Allah – I don't fecking know), an Islamist decided to have some fun of his own at that woman's expense after I stupidly told him the story about what just happened to me before I saw him drive up.
I told him about a drunk woman offering me a blowjob for a puff of what she believed was my last fag. Wasn't going to happen by the way.
Just as I was telling him that story, a local cop who just happened to be nearby talking to a couple of local kids when the woman offered to suck my dick, pulled up beside the doctors car and mentioned that he cautioned the woman to leave me alone.
The cop must have seen me jump back in shock when the woman grabbed onto my arm and offered me that blow job, and then pulled up beside her and said something to her about what he had just witnessed.
Good on him for coming to my rescue after the fact. Not that I needed rescuing this time.
The cop told me he cautioned her to leave me alone. That's when the doctor began to ask me questions about what the cop was talking to me about.
I told him after the cop drove off about the encounter I had just had with a drunk woman.
Perhaps I shouldn't have.
The first words out of his mouth when I finished telling him about what just didn't go down were something to the effect, "really, where is she – I know who you mean. She is one of my patients.
Red flag! Red Flag!
The doctor is a smoker by the way.
I pointed in the direction of the back alley I saw the women head off toward and off we drove to the back alley.
When the doctor pulled up beside the woman in his shire owned car the passenger window came down and a conversation was struck between the drunk woman and her doctor.
As drunk as that woman was, she still recognized the doctor straight away, and struck up a little bit of conversation with the doctor before he asked her, "What would you do for a cigarette?"
In a drunken tongue and mind she slobbered out, "Anything." I laughed a little then but stayed out of the conversation.
Then the doctor looked at me and laughed before saying to the woman,"I'm just going to pull up over there. I will meet you there." The doctor looked at me and laughed again.
The woman said okay and began walking. The doctor looked at me again and then drove off. He never did stop at the spot he told his patient to meet him but he had a bigger laugh than I did at her expense.
The doctor treated her like shit. I can only imagine how bad he treats her behind drawn curtains.
That incident made me question his sincerity when it came to Islam too.
If it wasn't for Islam I would probably still be working at that coffee shop in Bre and that coffee shop would be a nice little way for him to supplement the income the shire is paying him (with perks, benefits and incentives about half a million dollars and a little more all up) for a town doctor who many believe is arrogant and up himself.
After living with him for a few weeks they are right about him by the way.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the job and the opportunity to add to my resume, but at the end of it all and it all ended just a couple of weeks ago, I just couldn't work for an idiotic Muslim anymore.
There was other shit that happened when I worked for the doctor which made me question the cafe owner's sincerity when it came to his religion, some of which definitely raised a red flag with me, and would have definitely raised a few more among his religious peers if they knew what I knew about the fine Eygtian doctor.
I accidentally found porn on his computer.
I didn't watch the video when I accidentally stumbled upon it whem I was trying to figure out how to shut down his Apple, which was taking up space on the counter I needed to make sandwiches and fruit trays on for a function the coffee shop was catering to.
I did take notice of it though.
It was a thumbnail that linked to a video of an Indian woman taking it up the ass, but I didn't click on it, if only because I'm not into that shit.
When I saw it I was like, "WTF man!" Then I laughed it off a little before closing the lid on that piece of shit Apple Computer model.
A man giving it to a woman up the ass doesn't turn me on. I'm not interested whatsoever in that shit, but I do have to ask, "what's a devout Islamist like him doing with that kind of shit on his laptop? I'm sure there are few hundred million if not a couple of billion of his peers who would ask the same question before chopping off his head.
Islamist and their videos, huh?
Islam breaks down into two words, "I" and "slam." Get it?
I had more fun times at the Royal Hotel in Bre too, where the beginning of the end of this Canadian runner's last adventure ended and a new one began.
That's a story for another time though. I've been working on it for a couple of weeks unlike this story which took less than 24 hours to write, edit and publish on Crooked in Canada.
And a road train loaded with cattle has pulled up in front of the diner, this time around it isn't a cute jillaroo jumping out of the driver's seat, it's a bloke who looks like he just finished an event at this years Commonwealth Games in Scotland.
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A like button, like option, or recommend button is a feature in communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums, news websites and blogs where the user can express that they like, enjoy or support certain content. Internet services that feature like buttons usually display the quantity of users who liked each content, and may show a full or partial list of them. This is a quantitative alternative to other methods of expressing reaction to content, like writing a reply text. Some websites also include a dislike button, so the user can either vote in favour, against or neutrally. Other websites include more complex Web content voting systems, for example five stars.
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The like button is a feature of social networking service Facebook, where users can like content such as status updates, comments, photos, links shared by friends, and advertisements. The feature was activated 9 February 2009.[1] It is also a feature of the Facebook Platform that enables participating websites to display a button which enable sharing the site's content with friends.[2] When a user clicks the Like button, the content appears in the News Feeds of that user's friends.[3] The button also displays the number of users that liked each piece of content, and may show a full or partial list of those users. This feature may appear differently on mobile web applications. A "Like Box" also allows Facebook page owners to see how many users and which of their friends like the page.[4]
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A lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles in 2010 claiming the Facebook should not allow minors to "like" advertising. Facebook said the suit was "completely without merit."[6]
Rembrandt Social Media has sued Facebook, claiming that the like button violates two patents granted to Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer in 1998.[7]
The Like button is one of Facebook's social plug-ins, which are for use on websites outside Facebook,[8] a feature which launched 21 April 2010, as part of Facebook's Open Graph, an interface for integrating websites with Facebook's social graph.[9][10] Speaking at Facebook's F8 developer conference on the day of the launch CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "we are building a Web where the default is social".[10][11]
Since then the feature has aroused scrutiny over privacy concerns because the social plug-ins allow Facebook to track visitors to participating sites across the web, even if those visitors do not click the Like button,[12][13] are logged out of Facebook, or are not Facebook users at all.[14] The Like button is implemented similarly to an advertising network, and as more sites participate, gives Facebook a vast amount of information about who visits which sites, and when. When loading a web page which has the Like button enabled, the user's browser connects to Facebook's servers, which record the URL being visited, and the visitor's IP address and Facebook ID (if logged in). In June 2010 Facebook said it anonymizes this information after three months, and does not sell or otherwise share that information. The ACLU of Northern California cautioned website operators to be careful about installing Like buttons because "they're potentially telling Facebook about everyone who visits their web site, every time that person visits their web site."[13]
By September of that year over 350,000 sites were using the Like button.[15]
In August 2011 the German state of Schleswig-Holstein said the button breached German data protection laws and that federal agencies must remove the buttons and similar social plug-ins from their websites.[16] Canada's Privacy Commissioner had raised similar concerns in 2010.[17]
From the end of 2010 and in the US, Microsoft's Bing search engine identifies which links in the results have been "Liked" by the searcher's Facebook friends.[18][19]
Privacy issues[edit]
Research shows that Facebook Likes profile can be automatically processed to infer intimate details about an individual, such as sexual orientation, political and religious views, race, substance use, intelligence, and personality.[20] Effectively, individual views and preferences can be revealed even if they were not directly expressed or indicated by Liking an associated content. For example, user does not have to Like "Barack Obama", "Being Gay" or "Being Black" to be flagged with appropriate category with high accuracy.
Anyone with access to users' Likes, e.g. applications and websites connecting with user's profile, governmental institutions, or even one's Facebook friends could use software to infer intimate details that an individual may not have intended to share. One can imagine situations in which such predictions, even if incorrect, could pose a threat to an individual's well-being, freedom, or even life.
Vulnerability to attacks[edit]
"Like" links are vulnerable to likejacking, a form of clickjacking that makes users "Like" content they did not intend to.[21]
In February 2013, legal action was brought against Facebook by patent-holding company Rembrandt Social Media. Rembrandt owns several patents taken out by Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer, who died in 2004.[22] These include patents filed in 1998 relating to van Der Meer's fledgling social network Surfbook, including, according to legal papers filed by the patent holder, the ability for users to approve data using a "like" button[23][24][25] On August 2011, Google integrated a form of the Like button it calls the +1 button to its competing social networking site Google+.[26] The social microblogging site Twitter also launched a "Follow" button around the same time.[27]
In culture[edit]
Latin American NGO Un Techo Para Mi País has used a Facebook-like dislike button in their campaigns as a symbol for dissatisfaction on poverty and slum housing.[28]
Fake "likes"[edit]
The amount of "likes" on Facebook can serve as a measurement of interest and/or popularity in a particular brand, product or personality.[29] Not only can a large amount of "likes" be influential on shaping reputations,[30] but can also lead to increased exposure - such as appearing in the "Recommendations Feed" - the "like" has an advertisement-value in itself.[31] This has led to companies specializing in selling "likes" from fake accounts, which can prove to be troublesome for the "like"-measurement's credibility.[30] If nobody believes that these measures have any power or truth to them, then businesses can't benefit from the advertising and social media marketing becomes impossible.[29] Facebook has stated that using purchased "likes" is not permitted on their social media platform, and has an automated process trying to eliminate "likes" gained by malware, deceived users purchased bulk "likes".[32] Instead, Facebook allows page owners to advertise to potentially increase their page's like count.[33]
Like buttons as used by social networks on websites other than their own are often used as web bugs to track user activities for targeted advertising such as behavioral targeting combined with personally identifiable information (PII) and may be considered a breach of browser security and internet safety privacy concerns.[12][13][14][16][17]
Declining organic reach for company Pages[edit]
In 2014, Social@Ogilvy, a division of the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, published a widely cited[34][35][36][37][38][39][40] white paper titled "Facebook Zero: Considering Life After the Demise of Organic Reach,"[41] documenting Facebook's restriction of content published from businesses' and brands' Pages. The "Zero" refers to the projected percentage of any given Page's followers, or "Likers," who are able to see posts from that Page in their personal News Feeds. The paper's author observes that adjustments in Facebook algorithms have reduced organic reach for non-paying business pages (that have at least 500,000 Likes) from 16 percent in 2012 down to 2 percent in February 2014.
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- ^ Siegler, MG (2010-04-21). "Facebook: We'll Serve 1 Billion Likes on the Web in Just 24 Hours". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ^ a b Fletcher, Dan (2010-04-22). "Facebook Looks to Get Personal". Time. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ^ a b Zawinski, Jamie (founder of the Mozilla Foundation) (2011-09-02). "Surprise! Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures". JWZ.org.
- ^ a b c McCullagh, Declan (2010-06-02). "Facebook 'Like' button draws privacy scrutiny". CNET News. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ^ Gelles, David (2010-09-21). "E-commerce takes instant liking to Facebook button". Financial Times. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- ^ a b Albanesius, Chloe (2011-08-19). "German Agencies Banned From Using Facebook, 'Like' Button". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- ^ a b "Facebook privacy probed over 'like,' invitations". CBC News. 2010-09-23. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- ^ Yin, Sara (2010-12-15). "Microsoft Adds Facebook 'Likes' to Bing Search Results". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
- ^ Yiu, Paul; The Bing Team (2010-12-15). "Bing Feature Update: Discover more things your Facebook friends like". Bing Search blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
- ^ Kosinski, Michal; Stillwell, D.; Graepel, T. (2013). "Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (15): 5802–5805. doi:10.1073/pnas.1218772110.
- ^ Perez, Sarah (2010-06-01). ""Likejacking" Takes Off on Facebook". ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- ^ Before Facebook there was "Surfbook"—now pay up | Ars Technica, 2013-02-07
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- ^ "Method and apparatus for implementing a web page diary". United States Patent Office. 2002-07-02. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
- ^ "System and method for generating, transferring and using an annotated universal address". United States Patent Office. 2001-09-11. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
- ^ Newman, Jared (2011-08-24). "Google +1 Now Links to Google+ Profiles: Let the War on Facebook's 'Like' Button Begin". PC World. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- ^ Bazilian, Emma (2011-06-01). "Twitter and Google Launch Their Own 'Like' Buttons". Adweek. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ^ No me gusta - Un Techo para mi País, Campaña 2010
- ^ a b "Hackers Are Creating And Selling Fake 'Likes' On Facebook, Instagram,". Huffington Post. 2013-08-16. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ^ Facebook Likes New Zealand. Facebook Likes. 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
- ^ "Improvements To Our Site Integrity Systems". facebook.com. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ^ "BBC News - Virtual Bagel, Virtual Cat - who 'likes' you?". BBC. 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
- ^ Oremus, Will (2014-03-24). "Facebook's Like Affair With Brands Is Over". Slate. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ McDermott, John (2014-02-28). "Facebook is not making friends on Madison Avenue". DigiDay. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ Biddle, Sam (2014-03-19). "Facebook is Ending the Free Ride". Gawker Media/Valleywag. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ Spence, Ewan (2014-03-06). "The Approaching Demise Of Organic Reach In Facebook". Forbes. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ Kapko, Matt (2014-04-04). "Facebook's Declining Organic Reach a 'Real Nightmare' for Marketers". CIO magazine. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ Delo, Cotton (2014-03-06). "Brands' Organic Facebook Reach Has Crashed Since October: Study". Advertising Age. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ Tso, Richard (2014-04-14). "Why Facebook's Move to End Organic Search Isn't Surprising". Wired. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
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