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Since Larry Page took over as Google (GOOG) CEO, he has promised more "velocity" in strategic decisions and more focus.
To my eyes, what he's also brought to the forefront is an marked increase in squishiness of "milestone" numbers he throws out to analysts to explain Google growth.
For several years now, Google has been big on sharing the number of daily "activations" for their Android phones, with no specific definition of what that exactly means. They just keep going straight up is the conclusion Google appears to want us to draw.
Page has also been very aggressive about touting the numbers of Google+ members and engagement since the service launched. Last week, he crowed triumphantly that Google+ had hit 90 million users with 60% engaging daily. Again, the problem is that Larry didn't define his terms. If I'm forced to sign up for + as part of registering for Gmail, YouTube or search, should that count as a registration? And if I then do a search or check my Gmail, should I be counted as engaging with +? It's laughable.
Google is also fond of talking about its annualized revenue numbers for its nascent businesses. For example, from recent calls, we learned that:
- From last week: "Display has now reached an annualized run rate of over $5 billion as we engage with multiple advertisers and get tremendous support from our agency partners."
- From last quarter: "We're also seeing a huge positive revenue impact from Mobile, which has grown 2.5x in the last 12 months to a run rate of over $2.5 billion."
- We of course also have received daily or point-in-time updates on Chrome, enterprise customers, and Android activations.
- We even got an update last week that Google is adding one feature update to Google+ per day last week from Page
Google's top brass are very very smart. Nothing gets dropped into their prepared remarks by chance.
I thought it was interesting when Susan Wojcicki, SVP of Ads, referred in her prior answer in her "script" when answering an analyst's question later. Everything Google says to the public comes from a "script." Nothing is dropped by chance into a comment.
Larry, Patrick Pichette, Nikesh Arora and Susan know that statistics are like pablum for business media and Wall Street analysts. They eat it up and then they regurgitate it like a 12 month old child. They don't question it – because they haven't developed their vocabulary skills yet. They just take it in and throw it back up.
What's more, once one person in the media or on Wall Street repeats that stat, it becomes cited by a 100 other (so-called) journalists or web-scrapers as it bounces around the Internet echo chamber. Who has time to question these numbers? We're just lowly journalists on a deadline for our next story. We're not compensated to actually push back and think. It's just on to the next drive-by report we'll write.
What's more, this is Google – and Larry Page! I'm not going to be the one to say this emperor has no clothes, seems to be the thinking on their part. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM and no journalist ever got fired for repeated back what number some tech CEO throws out.
But let's pause and take stock of what is going on right now at Google. It has perhaps the best core business that has ever existed in business for at least the last 100 years: its ad business (AdSense/AdWords). That business accounts for 96% of Google's revenues (for a breakdown, see here). From that business, it's stockpiled $44 billion in cash – up $10 billion from a year ago.
With this enviable cash, Google has been able to invest in a lot of new products and businesses, such as YouTube/display, mobile, Docs, Android, and Gmail. Although Google is eager to tell you how well each of those nascent businesses are doing on an annualized basis, they still account for 4% of Google's overall revenues.
The core business — the 96% — is slowing. Google of course will not say this but it inarguably is. The best explanation I have seen of this since last week's call is from Business Insider's Henry Blodget. Among Henry's conclusions:
- Google's core search business slowed more sharply than expected even in the US
- Mobile search, which is accounting for an ever-bigger percentage of overall searches, is less profitable than standard PC-based search – and this is not likely to change
- International's growth in the core business is down to 28% from 41% a year ago
- The growth in the US for the core business was flat at 26% year-over-year
Google tried to blunt this criticism on the call with Pichette (the CFO and attack dog on these analyst calls) saying — in response to a good question from Macquarie's Ben Schachter:
You also have to remember that last year at this time, right, we had such a strong comp. We had such an amazing Q4 of 2010. That the year-over-year comparison in a way represents also this really high kind of level on which to start from. And so from that perspective — and if you also look at our mix between our own Google websites versus all of our network, I mean, our core properties continue to be actually very strong. So for all these reasons, I wouldn't be worried of the way that you've described it. In fact, we've got — continue to have very strong growth.
The other elephant in the room last week was why the sudden drop in CPCs (cost-per-click or basically how much profit Google makes from each click as part of their ad business)? Blodget – I think quite rightly – suggests that it's from more and more people searching Google on mobile where Google doesn't make as much money as they do from PC-based searches.
Not so, claims Wojicicki and others on the call:
So there are definitely multiple factors whenever we look at these metrics because these metrics are aggregate. But I would say the 2 biggest factors this quarter were FX as well as the changes that we had made, their ad quality or format changes, which increased the paid clicks and again were revenue positive, advertiser positive, user positive. But those clicks, as I explained, may be lower CPC like in the example that I gave in my script with sitelinks. So those were the 2 factors. But again, it's always important to remember there are many factors that contributed to these aggregate numbers.
Pichette chimed in:
Yes, I mean, at the highest level and then maybe Susan can jump in if she wants to add additional, if you think of the core elements of it, she mentioned quality. And we — the — all of the Panda changes and everything we talked about, right, its full year is going to be represented only by the next spring. And then FX rate, we don't control ourselves. So obviously, it has a significant impact. The rest of it is actually the mix between how the innovation that we drive to our products, which is if you have a great product that drives a ton of clicks and it happens to have lower cost or CPC, then that's still for the benefit of everybody. So then, that's really about our innovation agenda, but we don't give forward guidance on that.
So, Google's profitability was down because it innovated too much. You got that? Wojcicki took another crack at it:
I mean, the one thing I would just add is, the way we think about the business is we're focused on how do we provide better ads for our users and for our advertisers, and we look at all of those metrics combined. And what we saw in Q3 was we made a bunch of changes. They were small. There was no one individually that actually affected things, but it just so happened that the changes we made drew more attention and caused an increase in paid clicks. And so, as I mentioned, there are many factors. But really, what we use as a guiding metric are to understand that something is revenue, advertiser and user positive.
So Google did some stuff – at the end of Q3 – to purportedly provide better ads and, as a result, advertisers paid less for them in Q4, even though paid clicks were up. Men at work. Nothing to see here. Move along.
But the analysts wouldn't relent and Wojcicki had to try again:
So the 2 biggest factors, as I mentioned, were the FX and also the changes that we made to — in terms of ad quality or format changes that we made. And those were changes that we made in Q3. There was no, I think, one significant one that drove the metrics. Or like this quarter, we made 20 different changes. Last quarter, we made something similar. And it was the combination of those different changes. Now it's important to remember that we rolled those out over the course of Q3. And so that meant that if we rolled one out at the end of Q3, that you wound up seeing that impact in Q4 period. And so there was a cumulative effect. But again, there was not any one big one. It was the sum of a bunch of other changes. And those changes that we wind up making are changes that may make the ads more readable, they may be more visible, they're UI treatments or quality changes. They're a bunch of different things that make it more visible so that users are noticing the ads. And we see those as positive. We measure the metrics, how do our users respond, how do our advertisers respond. And they are revenue positive.
That's some serious gobbledygook.
So, I'm going to try and translate super-smart Google mensa-speak to everyday talk: "Trust us, this stuff is so complex that you wouldn't understand even if I took the time to explain it to you. It would be like a rocket scientist talking shop with a 5 year old."
I loved Pichette's addendum comment next:
Yes. Another way to think about this is in many quarters, we would have a bunch of them that would actually move down the CPC, a bunch of them that would have moved up in [ph] click. It just happens that in the latter part of this year, they kind of all moved one way, which is not neither good nor bad. It just happens that the quality team and the advertising teams actually have kind of unearthed these type of opportunities. So it's a bit of circumstantial as well.
Say what? I know Pichette is a Rhodes Scholar, but me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
At this point, it was getting so confusing that Larry jumped in:
I can take, say, a little bit about CPC from my perspective. I think — and I don't have the detail here, quarter or whatever, but I do think that CPCs — do vary a fair amount, and we're not surprised by that. There are lots of product changes that we can make that can increase CPCs or decrease CPCs and kind of have a — or an inverse effect on the number of clicks and sort of not change the actual dollars spent, for example. And that's not that surprising because we can do things that — in product changes that affect people's attention to ads that Susan mentioned or that affect the quality of the conversions that advertises receive. They might receive better quality clicks, or they're — or those — each CPC that they got that's more likely to convert into what they care about. And so we are constantly optimizing all those things across a number of different product areas and ad placements and everything else. And our advertisers are doing the same, and the algorithms are also doing all that. So I think in any healthy economic — economy, like we have of advertising, we're going to see variation in the different factors we use to measure it. And I'm not surprised by that.
Clear? No?
Pichette finally offered: "It's — that's just the nature of experimentation in our systems." Innovation, again.
This slowing growth in their core business was also obvious last quarter. However, it didn't stick out as much because the profits from the newly-acquired ITA covered it up.
Google bulls like to dismiss the idea that the core business is slowing because they believe Google has so much money that it can just keep buying other companies to get more profits and then finally hit the gusher of new profits from display, social, mobile search, and mobile phones.
However, I think the Google management team's use of language suggests a deliberate effort to conceal just how big the slowdown in their 96% core business is.
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After a week of extreme national attention and the first of 33 straight games that Taylor Martinez has not started, two backup quarterbacks shared Nebraska's Offensive Player of the Game honor, and the game ball went to Bo Pelini, the Huskers' sixth-year head coach. Redshirt freshman Tommy Armstrong Jr., and fifth-year senior Ron Kellogg III were named Nebraska's Co-MVPs after leading the Huskers to a 59-20 win over South Dakota State. It was Nebraska's biggest total offense day under Pelini.
Pelini and his staff elected not to name a Defensive Player of the Game or a Special Teams Player of the Game. Nebraska's four captains, however, elected to do something different themselves with the full support of their teammates. Well aware of what kind of week their head coach had experienced, they gave Pelini the game ball. All-Big Ten and Second Team All-America offensive guard Spencer Long made the short but heart-felt presentation after an emotional week for Nebraska coaches, Husker players and Big Red fans. The presentation was made in the privacy of Nebraska's locker room. In a game of firsts, Armstrong, from Cibolo, Texas, earned his first start, first completion and first touchdown pass and split time with Kellogg III, an Omaha Westside High School graduate. Together, they helped Nebraska become the first Husker team ever to rush and pass for more than 300 yards each in the same game.
Ryker Fyfe, a redshirt freshman quarterback from Grand Island, Neb., was named Nebraska's Scout Team Offensive Player of the Game. Because of Nebraska's substantial lead, he was able to play Saturday and had one run for three yards and completed a five-yard pass. That enabled him to become a part of that record day while helping increase Nebraska's overall rushing total to 342 yards (a 6.6-yard per carry average). Fyfe also helped boost the Huskers' final passing total to 310 yards on a combined 21 completions in 26 attempts. None of Nebraska's three quarterbacks threw an interception. Ross Dzuris, a redshirt freshman defensive end from Plattsmouth, Neb., received the Scout Team's Defensive Player of the Game honor, and Chris Weber, a freshman linebacker from Elkhorn, Neb., was named the Scout Team's Special Teams Player of the Game.
Pelini opened his post game press conference with a statement about Armstrong and Kellogg. "I was really happy with those two quarterbacks," he said. "I thought they did really well. That was our best rhythm offensively. I thought we came out and got done what we needed to get done." The quarterbacks' performances are the result of NU's ability to develop backups through two practice stations. Armstrong and Kellogg "are getting a lot of reps," Pelini said. "It's not a lot of guesswork like a lot of teams where the backup isn't getting much repetition. We see them do that on a daily basis."
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DEARBORN / July 21, 2009---Fourteen public and private high school students from southeast Michigan converged at the University of Michigan-Dearborn from July 6 to July 18 to compete in an exclusive two-week learning experience and business plan competition called the Entrepreneurship Academy.
The program and competition, termed E-Academy for short, aims to prepare high school students for the ever-changing and often unpredictable business world, according to Kerry Thompson, president of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE).
Established in 2008, the E-Academy is a partnership between UMDearborn, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services and SIFE, a student networking organization.
Five public and private high schools from across southeast Michigan were asked to select two to three juniors to compete in the academy, which is the result of months of planning on the part of SIFE.
The E-Academy immerses students in a unique yet overall progressive university experience, said Patrick Schwager, E-Academy development board member. Each high school team is brought up-to-speed on the interpersonal dynamics of business, specifically on how to fine tune academic skills for entrepreneurial application. Those acquired techniques are then applied to the formation of a business plan with heavy emphasis on product development and team learning.
The Academy provides team building and individual leadership development opportunities as students work together in teams to create entrepreneurial business plans, with help from volunteers from local businesses, including Ford Motor Company. Students gain important entrepreneurial skills including networking, sales, technology, critical thinking, financing and public speaking.
UM-Dearborns E-Academy is sponsored by Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services as part of its long-standing mission to foster community and academic growth.
"The E-Academy's focus on a positive hands-on approach to learning exemplifies the mission of the Ford Blue Oval Scholarships," stated Mike Schmidt, director of education and community development for Ford Motor Company Fund. "Our participation in this Academy is one of the many ways that Ford continues to make a difference in southeast Michigan. We are committed to empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs with resources that provide them and the community with hope for a brighter future, Schmidt added.
Ford Fund provided $9,450 in Blue Oval Scholarships to the E-Academy. Each of the participating students received $500 in scholarship funding from Ford Fund with the College of Business offering to double that amount if students choose UM-Dearborn for post high school education. In addition, the winners of the business plan competition received special Ford Blue Oval Scholarships.
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Hail to the Sectional Tournament Champion Port Clinton Lady Redskins and coach Toby Bickel.
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After 19 rounds of negotiations between the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is still a mystery to everyone who does not make a living as a government or multinational corporate trade negotiator. That is because much about these negotiations have been kept intentionally under wraps. Incredibly, the text for the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) hasn't even been officially released.
But leaks have given some idea of what is being discussed and it is troubling. Only five of the TPP's 29 chapters actually deal with trade issues while the others set policies that the U.S. government, from the local city council all the way to Congress, would be required to conform to, a direct attack on our national sovereignty. A leading principle of our nation's laws is they are not subject to review by non-American institutions and observers. We don't cede American power to a higher authority. Yet the details in the leaked "Investment Chapter" make clear that this trade pact would undermine this bedrock American belief.
TPP is a way for big businesses to carve out for themselves special favors across the Pacific, related to the regulation of energy and other services, financial regulation, food safety, procurement policy, patents and copyright policy, environmental standards and other non-trade issues. It will be a direct attack on our milling jobs as our logged forests will be sent directly overseas instead of being process here. It will attack our area's call center workers by giving companies a greater financial incentive to send these jobs overseas.
Despite these concerns and the complete lack of transparency throughout the process, the TPP's backers want to "fast track" this agreement and prevent members of Congress from amending or changing any single provision. Given that the only voices shaping the TPP are government negotiators and corporate lobbyists, Congress should do the job we pay them to do and debate this mammoth trade bill openly through the normal process.
With all of this in mind, it's clear that every American should confront TPP with a resounding "no." That's why it is crucial that our lawmakers in Congress need to take a clear stand for Oregon jobs and say they will take a full look at this trade pact.
It is time for Congress to exercise its authority and reject the fast tracking of TPP.
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This word, coined by Frank Zappa, concerns taking parts played by musicians without reference to each other and combining them in a multi-track studio. It is especially useful as a method of creating pieces with irrational tempo ratios between the individual parts.
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Four Tompkins Cortland Community College student-athletes have been honored with a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Academic Student-Athlete Award. Taylor Policay (Lansing H.S./Ithaca), Kyle Shaw (Groton H.S./Groton), Sara Sinnigen (Dryden H.S./Dryden), and Hannah Wildenstein (Dryden H.S./Freeville) were each presented with the NJCAA Award for Exemplary Academic Achievement. The award, which was previously known as the NJCAA Academic All-American award, requires a minimum grade point average of 3.6. Only three percent of the nearly 60,000 student-athletes competing in the NJCAA this year received the designation.
Policay was a member of both the women's basketball and softball teams. She completed her sport management degree in May, graduating with a GPA of 3.76. On the softball diamond she earned all-conference honors after a stellar freshman season that saw her blast nine home runs, including a TC3-record two in one playoff game. Over two seasons at TC3, she started 58 of 59 softball games, leading the team in slugging percentage during that time. On the basketball court she started 17 of 22 games, averaging more than three points and six rebounds per contest.
Shaw golfed for TC3, qualifying for the NJCAA national tournament in both his freshman and sophomore years. He was the team's top scorer, and completed his academic work in business administration in May, graduating with a GPA of 3.61.
A captain on the women's soccer team, Sinnigen was a two-time all-conference selection, an NJCAA all-region choice, and an NSCAA All-American for the Panthers. A liberal arts and sciences major, she completed her coursework with a GPA of 3.71.
Wildenstein, the lone first-year student among TC3's honorees, was also a member of the women's soccer team. She started 11 games and has a GPA of 3.70 in business administration.
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World Championships Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
An ailing Julien Absalon and a happy Moritz Milatz have reaped the best results for team BMC at the world championships in South Africa with sixth and seventh place respectively. Lukas Flueckiger was struck by misfortune. He crashed heavily at the start and had to retire.
For the BMC equipe the world championship race truly did not turn out as was expected. Julien Absalon who was aiming at his fifth world champ title was injured on the ribs, knee and hip due to a heavy crash in training. However, the European champion from France showed his great athletic mentality and lined up at the start
"This was the hardest race of my life. The pain was very heavy, I have suffered a lot, but it was important to finish this race. For BMC, for the French national team and for the crew," said Absalon.
Together with his teammate Moritz Milatz the Frenchman stayed in the chasing group between fifth and seventh position. In the end it was sixth place for Absalon and seventh place for the German champion.
Milatz was the only BMC biker who was really happy that day. "Today I had no problems during the whole race. After the first half of the race I would have been able to go even faster, but with a whole series of negative experiences in my mind I lacked the confidence to do so. But I am completely happy with seventh place," said Milatz who recorded the best world championships result of his career.
For Lukas Flueckiger the worlds race was over after only 250 meters. A competitor pushed the Swiss rider into the barriers. Crashing hard he lost his consciousness briefly, bruised both his knees and quit the race due to a suspected rib fracture. Examinations later found two ribs broken.
"Of course, it is devastating, especially because I have invested so much for this race. But there's nothing to be done," said Flückiger afterwards.
Martin Fanger was twentieth and thus at least achieved his minimum objective. "I was not able to ride a really fast lap, but overall I had a pretty fast pace, "said Fanger.
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Ralph Naef was impeded at the start through the turmoil around Flueckiger's heavy fall. Naef then launched a comeback, but it was abruptly stopped after the second lap. "Suddenly I was no longer able to exert real pressure on the pedal. And later on also I suffered two flats.
I have put so many hopes on this race, actually since the beginning of March," he said, disappointed. In the race he had dropped from rank 20 to 52.
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Enjoy the historic surroundings of the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center hotel. Located downtown, the hotel is adjacent to the Shaw Center and the River Center Convention Center, less than five minutes to the Louisiana State Capitol and three miles from Louisiana State University. Take the complimentary shuttle to and from the airport and within a five-mile radius of our Baton Rouge, LA hotel. Breathe easy in our smoke-free environment.
Relax in a guest room that has a view of the Mississippi River or downtown Baton Rouge. Take advantage of the complimentary high-speed internet access and comfortable work area. Each room has a unique floor plan and decorations reminiscent of the era in which the hotel was built. Stay in an executive room or suite for access to the Executive Lounge where you will enjoy complimentary continental breakfast and evening cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.
Savor Louisiana seafood and steaks in The Kingfish Grill, where governors and politicians have also dined.
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Skinny Funfetti Cake Batter Dip Recipe:
1 (15.25 ounce) box funfetti cake mix
2 cups fat free, plain Greek yogurt
1 cup lite Cool Whip
Sprinkles, for garnish (optional)
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl until smooth. Keep refrigerated until serving. Serve with graham crackers or Nilla wafers.
(Recipe adapted from Eat Yourself Skinny)
Looks yummy!
I love this! It reminds me of Dunkaroos from my childhood. I saw Kelly's recipe at eat-yourself-skinny and have been planning to make it this weekend!
Sounds so good and looks really easy! What a great desert side for a party. Thanks for sharing!
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That looks RE-diculously YUMMY!!!
That really sounds good. I bet the kids would love it.. and me too!
Skinny cake batter?! Oh the deliciousness! Where has this been all my life?!
This sounds yummy and without all he calories. Can't wait to try it!
Love this dip! It always gets devoured whenever I make it!
Just made some . . . rush out NOW and get the ingredients! I think I might eat it with a spoon! Thank you so much I will be the best mom in the whole wide world once my kids find out this is their afternoon snack after school!
oh my!!!!! I am running to the store- seriously- right now to complete this!
This was awful! I made it for my daughter's movie party. I had to spread it on every cracker because it was too thick even though i added more amounts of yogurt and cool whip. All i could taste in it was the baking soda. Only a couple of girls liked it. I thought it tasted gross. Cake batter is usually my fav. flavor. I was very disappointed!
Oh my goodness, this is seriously amazing! It looks so thick and creamy and I love super thick dips (and cake batter, obvi). Thanks so much for linking up at What's In Your Kitchen Wednesday!
I love cake batter and I really like that I can have it in a skinnier form. This dip looks so good. Thanks for sharing at Showcase Your Talent Thursday!
Ew. I followed the recipe to a "T" and it was so thick I couldn't stir it….let alone dip it. I added more cool whip, even some vanilla almond milk. All I could taste was the baking soda in the cake mix.
I read everyone's comments who have made this and I made my own changes… Instead on one cup of Lite Cool Whip, I used a whole (small) container of fat free. The mixture was still thick. I added 1 cup of water SLOWLY into the mixture and kept stirring until totally smooth and the right consistency I wanted. I refrigerated for one hour and served. So fluffy, smooth and tasty!! Well definitely make again!
I serve this with animal crackers and its a big hit!
It probably depends on what brand of cake mix you buy. Some of the funfetti mixes are intended for making cupcakes so it could be that there is less of the mix in the box than in another brand that makes a layer cake.
I made this today for my little girls 2nd bday! We loved it!!!! I had to add more yogurt but it was amazing!!!! Thank you.
I just made this today. I would recommend using the entire carton of cool whip. Even after that I thought it had too much of the greek yogurt flavor. I added some splenda and that helped.
This. Is. Amazing. Seriously. I blogged about it!! http://xtinaluvspink.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/low-fat-cake-batter-dip/
This looks so awesome! I can't wait to make it!
I was a little disappointed by this recipe. Had to add extra cool whip, vanilla, and splenda to cut the baking soda/flour taste. Otherwise it looked really pretty and had a nice spreading texture. Was not a hit at my staff meeting that I brought it to. Thinking of adding marshmallow cream next time, even though it will totally obliterate the diet portion of the recipe.


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Ah, another day WITH the beach, you read that right, WITH the beach. You don't just go to the beach – you've reached another level. Experiencing the sun, warm sand and comfortable water is more like a date than just a visit. Look onto your favorite girl with fresh eyes when you wear these Poseur shades from Dot Dash. These plastic shades feature tonal reflective lenses that will set you apart from all the other people visiting the best stretch of land known to mankind.
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Honey, your style has been kind of blah lately. How many pairs of jeans do you own? It's time to Turn It Up in this flirty dress from Billabong. This A-line dress features a shirred sweetheart bust, detachable straps, visible seams and a cute eyelet design at the front bottom hem with embroidered branding. You will definitely get your groove back in this sweet little number!
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Your canvas wallet has seen better days, but that doesn't mean you should resort to keeping loose cards in your back pocket. You've had to replace your debit card enough times to know better. To keep your cards secure with style, put them in this Checker Chain card pouch from Diamond Supply Co. This zippered pouch has an embossed checkerboard exterior, an engraved Diamond logo on the front and contrast-colored accents. This card pouch comes in a canvas pouch with a printed brand name and includes a Diamond logo chain attached at the zipper. Don't be surprised if you get a few admiring glances when you pull out this snazzy pouch to pay for your dinner.
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subject: Alternative forecasts for the Marion County Framework
date: July 12, 2002
As you know, one of the remaining items of concern among the Marion County Cities is the amount of growth the framework forecasts for any individual city. This memo is intended to clarify the intent of this long-range forecast and the associated land efficiency targets, along with some options for the Board to consider when adopting the urbanization Chapter.
One of the strongest shared values of the Marion County Growth Management Framework process was the desire of the citizens of the county to preserve agricultural land and plan for future growth. The County's main tools to accomplish this are the coordinated forecast and the urban growth boundary agreements between the County and its cities, the proposed Framework included basic forecasts and land efficiency targets. The approximate capacity inside existing urban growth boundaries has been calculated for all 20 cities, allowing the long range extent of urbanization to be estimated.
While the general concept was well received by most cities, there was some concern about the specific amount forecast. A few cities felt they were forecast to grow too much, while several others felt the forecast was not reflective of their community's probable growth.
In order to address these concerns, we have added a policy in the draft chapter that requires forecast review every 5 years Additionally, the framework will allow a city that is significantly deviating from its forecast to request a reevaluation at any time.
To provide additional options we have included two possible scenarios in addition to the one included in the draft framework for your consideration. Including the original framework forecast, there are three possibilities, all within the realm of reasonableness for a 50-year forecast. The original forecast to 2050 was made using the forecasts for 2040 from the State of Oregon, and extrapolating to 2050. This is also the forecast that was used for the Willamette Valley Alternative Futures Project.
The City of Salem is currently conducting the Salem Futures project, and therefore we were not able to determine their land needs as we have the other 19 cities of the County. Based on the most recent estimates, the Salem/Keizer area would require about 1,800 acres of land over this period to be added to the urban growth boundary. We have held this expansion constant in all the forecasts. The Salem forecast and land need should be adjusted as soon as Salem is ready to coordinate with the County in the official adoption of the Salem Futures process.
The original forecast was based on a total population for Marion County of 500,400 people in 2050 (the 2000 census population was 248,834). The first forecast used as a basis the potential capacity inside each boundary, the results of the workshops, input from the cities, and the selected growth scenario from the process. This forecast would require about 3,200 acres of land outside current Urban Growth Boundaries to be used for urbanization, assuming Salem would require 1,800 acres.
In the second forecast, we modified the basic forecast to reflect the proportionate share of growth the cities received over the last 10 years, while keeping the forecast total at 500,400. This led to the Salem/Keizer forecast falling from 342,000 to 326,000, while rapidly growing cities such as Aumsville and Woodburn increased their forecast amounts. This forecast would require about 4,032 acres of UGB expansion, again assuming Salem requires 1,800 acres.
A third scenario would designate the larger of the forecasts from each of the two prior forecasts. This would increase the County total from 500,400 to 522,224. These differences are within 5%, well within the expected accuracy of a 50-year forecast.
The land need only slightly increases to 4,161 acres. The majority of land added to the urban growth boundaries, other than Salem/Keizer would be in the Gervais-Woodburn-Hubbard corridor, which would add a combined 1,445 acres of land.
The following is a table that compares the forecasts and estimated land needs.


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SALISBURY — Now that Dr. Judy Grissom is retiring, school board members say they want a new superintendent who will build on her work — and who won't stop there.
"I think we had a superintendent who took us to great heights, and now it's time for someone else to come in and push forward," said Kay Wright Norman, vice chair of the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education. "We can't clone Judy, so we're not looking for Judy."
Grissom plans to retire as superintendent of the Rowan-Salisbury School System on Sept. 30. She has led the school system since 2005.
Board member L.A. Overcash said he would keep her if he could, and he'll be looking for someone with the same kind of vision.
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The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education began its search for a new superintendent earlier this month. The North Carolina School Boards Association is advertising the position and will collect applications.
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The school system is asking staff and community members to fill out anonymous surveys by May 21 to share what they would like to see in the next superintendent.
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For a downloadable PDF (a hard copy), visit www.rss.k12.nc.us.
Hard copies will also be available at the Rowan-Salisbury School System Administrative Offices, community centers, libraries and as advertised through the local news media outlets.
"I hope people will take the time to fill them out," Hughes said. "This is Rowan County's school system, and they should have input on who runs it."
Hughes, Miller and Wagner said they hope to hold a public forum where the community can offer even more input. Overcash and Kennedy said they're open to the idea.
"Parents, teachers and staff could come ask questions of the school board, share questions they want us to ask the candidates and what type of person they think the superintendent should be," Wagner said.
Norman said the surveys should reach a wider audience, but if the school board doesn't get enough of a response, it can look for other ways to get public input like holding a forum.
The board used a more informal process when it hired Grissom, Norman said, because members already knew her and knew she was well-qualified for the job. This time, it is following many of the same steps the board used to hire the previous superintendent, Dr. Wiley Doby.
Board members said they're not sure whether they will publicize the final candidates before making their decision, but right now they don't have plans to do so. They stressed the issue of confidentiality.
Kennedy said any member of the public is welcome to express his or her thoughts for three minutes during the public comment period at school board meetings.
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1) I have a green smoothie and a giant salad for breakfast and lunch (respectively) almost every single day. I mostly post sugar and fat laden goodies on this here blog, cause I LOVE sugar and fat and I think dessert is the best, but when I'm pounding away on my computer or busy at work in the kitchen, what I crave are greens! Lots of them. Typical smoothies include spinach, kale, chard, collards, and dandelions along with frozen bananas or grapes, apples or carrots, berries (and some chocolate on occasion). For my salads I tend to stick to mixed greens and kale, tomatoes, fruit, nuts, seeds, hummus or other bean based dressings and cukes.
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