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Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques
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Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques
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People think mathematicians are brilliant because they talk about things like C* algebras or B-splines or A-modules or D-branes or … really any combination of unexplained letter with abstract noun. (Extra points if the letter is Greek!)
But when I think of really genius ideas, I think of things like:
Let me go a little deeper into several of the brilliant things about modern toilets.
That's leaving aside the efficient manufacture of commodes and the sewage system, which I'm sure are both marvels of their own. You think about something like New York City, it's a human habitation of 6 million people, each taking maybe 5-10 dumps per week (well, in good times). That's 30–60 million pieces of crap every week that nobody wants to see or smell ever again.
Imagine you just dug a hole in the side of a hill, Hobbit-style, in a natural clearing. Suppose, too, that you're close enough to a lake or stream that you can get water to your house easily. (Or it rains enough and you bought some huge rainbarrels.) Then what the crap are you planning to do with all of the crap you generate?! That's a conundrum for ya.
@UnlearningEcon lamented the deviations-from-Pangloss framing of neoclassical economics. Normal economic theories take perfection (optimality) as a starting point and ask how real-world "market imperfections" differ from the putative abstract-free-market ideal. (That "the free market" is an abstract ideal can be verified by first going to an actual bazaar and then listening to the way pundits use the term "free market" or "private enterprise" as in versus "government".)
If you've spent too much time with your head in a book rather than participating in actual commerce, it can be hard to even conceive of another frame.
Here's an alternative theory, just as wrong and just as simple & parsimonious as the Panglossian-private-enterprise frame:
Of course, the real world deviates from this theoretical ideal in some respects.
[def.] economic
[def.] returns to hillbillies exchanged for house-building go to booze and marijuana with
plim → 1.
One misconception I got from the academic theory of finance is that risk and reward go together. You take on more risk, you get more reward. This is formalised in CAPM theory as a higher expected return associated with a higher standard deviation of investment returns.
In reality, ∃ many stupid risks—mistakes, bad ideas, not doing your homework, believing people you shouldn't believe, taking on a job without negotiating a floor for your own compensation first, or investing in a company that was bound to tank.
Recently, academics have undercut the premise that risk goes hand-in-hand with reward. Perhaps this pill is easier to swallow after seeing "dumb money in Düsseldorf" vacuum up synthetic CDO pyrite (AAA mortgage bonds) spun from BBB bonds—and then find out, publicly, along with the rest of investment Narnia, that the rewards were nowhere near commensurate with the risks.
I've seen this play out a little more in private equity, where models of price paths are less influential than common sense, gut reactions, and balance-sheet research.
I don't know as much about trading. But I've read between the lines on the EliteTrader forum and its cousins, and got the sense that, as academic papers that study the matter report: most day-traders lose money on expectation. Their trading capital approaches $0 faster than would be expected merely by the drag of trading fees on a statistical mean of zero profit.
Warren Buffett, the world's best living investor, is in a business where risk and reward are inverted from the CAPM model. (He's written about it plenty so I won't repeat him.)
Steve Schwarzman, another of today's most successful investors, says in this lecture that he focusses on figuring out every possible angle beforehand, not making any mistakes, controlling every risk and making sure he wins. I've read similar things in interviews where Mark Zuckerberg or Peter Thiel talk about "making their own luck". A lot of questions and decisions go into running a business, and I find it entirely credible that getting that right increases the chances of success—that if an omniscient Arjuna were starting a company today, he would have a very high chance of success (again, what does "chance" mean? Where do the "possible worlds" come from?)
Insurance and reinsurance companies, though they may serve a social function, aren't actually concerned with actuarially converting risk into reward. They're interested in collecting as many large premia as possible for risks that will never harm their balance sheet. Why do you think they have three times as many claims adjusters as actuaries? Si guarda al fine.
Michael Price, one of the stars of The Vulture Investors, bought a loan to a bankrupt company for 47¢ on the dollar, covered 15¢ immediately with cash, plus 45¢ in bonds plus 23% of the post-bankruptcy company. He needed the bargaining skills and the capital to buy out other bondholders and negotiate a good rate for
One last classic example: McDonald's. Ray Kroc saw a huge return on investment but only took smart risks, doing less of the hard work and spending more time being successful. Mr. Kroc didn't finish college with a bright-eyed hope to be the world's greatest entrepreneur (cf. YCombinator). He sold Dixie cups for 17 years before he saw an opportunity—in a B2B space—with high returns and low costs. (Selling malt mixing machines back when malts were the profit centre for burger joints—a malt might cost as much as sandwich + fries, or even as much as sandwich+fries+coffee.) The malt mixer business was a classic play; it would earn 100% checkmarks from a Business 101 textbook. Only after Ray Kroc saw another opportunity related to the business he was in, did he buy up the MacDonald Brothers' restaurant and multiply it out. Again, this is a textbook private-equity move: find a proven business where somebody has completely figured out how to make money hand over fist, such that the only other thing they need is more money. (Obviously this is very different from an entrepreneur with an idea who just wants some money or thinks their failing idea would be saved if only they had more money.) You provide the money and collect the multiplied profits, i.e. you take on the easy part of the problem, negotiate the terms so you get a huge return on solving it, and then you've done little work for great reward. That's a "smart risk", not a correlation of risk and reward.
We could probably go back and forth with examples of titanic companies. (Sure, Ted Turner threw massive sums into a money pit for over a decade before seeing TNT and its siblings become profitable.)
But still I think the overall message of
risk~reward is wrong. There are smart risks, and there are dumb risks. Don't expect that just because you did something risky, that the return will be good. Work smart, not hard. Cover your *rse and check yourself before you wreck yourself.
You may have heard that attitude is everything. Perhaps. How you view the world will definitely affect what you do.
But that's just it: it is what you do that is important, not how you feel or how you present yourself to the world. Attitude, then, is only as good as the actions that it supports. And in many cases, the actions themselves affect the very attitude you have.
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—David Brooks
In 20th-century abstract mathematics, one builds up ideas and properties—not assuming anything except what one is told. You think 2+3=5? Well in my space that I just made up, e₂⊕e₃ = e₁, and "5" doesn't even exist!
Concepts are added in incrementally, like
‖A‖ means the "size" of A. size exists
‖A − B‖ means the "distance" between A and B. plus exists & negative exists; or, comparison exists
⟨ A | B ⟩ means A "times" B. times exists
arccos ⟨A|B⟩ ‖A‖⁻¹ ‖B‖⁻¹ inverses exist. times exists. so angle exists
12, the vector
(0 1 1 0 1)∈ℝ⁵, my cat's hairball } doesn't inherently have dimensions to it — so structured sets like ℝ² are supposed to explain how their universe breaks down
Someone GPL'ed this nice (but not comprehensive) chart of two paths through the theory space—starting with a pair
(thing, operation) ["magma"—sweet name, right?] and gradually adding more and more axioms until you get to a group.
Mathematical words obtain everyday meaning—sometimes unexpected meaning—in applications. For example
Could you multiply two trees together? Could you define the angle between two natural numbers? The angle between two business models? Sure. If you know what you're doing and why, you might even come up with a conclusion that makes sense. It all depends on (a) your ingenuity, (b) domain knowledge of the real-life situation, and (c) mathematical vocabulary.
Sometimes there is more than one interpretation that works with a given set. For example, {0,1} × {0,1} → {0,1} might be joined to operations that define "logical
AND" and "logical
OR", or it might be interpreted just as
on/off. Or it might be interpreted as the story of unrequited love.
All of that preface is meant to dislodge any notions you might have that ℝ² is somehow a "default" or "standard" paradigm. Sometimes
number×number is an appropriate metaphor and sometimes not.
For example in the movie Rogue Trader, Nick Leeson's boss is portrayed talking about "synergy" and "the information curve". "Nick has positioned himself right there on the information curve!" It's a parody and nobody seems to know quite what "the information curve" is (what's on the axes? why is it curved?) but because Nick appears to be earning 70% of Barings' profits, nobody questions the information curve.
Your typical crappy airport "business advice" books—Thomas Friedman kind of crap—will throw around 2-D charts that make no sense as well. Please leave some pics in the comments if you know what I'm talking about and examples come to mind. Here are a few dubious 2-D metaphors:
The "political compass" labels reduce the complexity of the world in particular ways that suit the rhetorical aims of these libertarian authors. For example projecting totalitarianism and populism into the same neighbourhood when one could just as well project them onto opposite ends of some other spectrum.
Here are some dubious scales—where either order, linearity, or 1-dimensionality is suspect.
(Remember: {"heroic", "pragmatic", "circumspect", "brazen"} also comprises or belongs to a scale—in the ggplot sense of the word as well as other senses.)
Wow! You mean that losses are bad and earnings are good? That is some insightful business insight.
Crappy reductions needn't be 2-D. The MBTI is a crappy reduction of personality in 4-D. And here are some in 1-D and other-D:
I like how step 5 leads to step 2. This should be a list rather than a flow.
Order, 1-dimensionality questionable.
Again, a list. This one has a heading. Apparently headings deserve 4 connecting wires whereas list items only deserve 3?
This is just a list of things. There is no "center" or "flow" or "order" or "cycle" relationship. Maybe "give them" and "get them" could have used a two-way arrow between them.
8-D and I just do not understand what these axis labels mean.
I actually spent hours finding the worst graphics evar. Not gonna tell you my google keywords though.
And, not to be critical all the time, here's a 2-D metaphor that does work:
Stagepiece one: undermine the conceit that ℝ² is a default. Stagepiece two: cruddy graphics from various domains that force a metaphor that doesn't really work. And now, the main act.
Today, I want to take aim at a highly suspect 2-D chart from the world of psychology: the
affect × intensity description of feelings.
Right away when I look at this, it seems like an overly limiting and not internally valid picture of emotional range. Like so many taxonomies, it gets deeply under my skin in a way that I can't explain, except to shout: Bad theory! Bad theory! I mean — how does it make sense to say
sad minus gloomy = satisfied minus calm
Remember what I was outlining at first. In abstract mathematics and in deciding the shape of a theory, we shouldn't assume anything that doesn't have to be assumed to explain the results.
I could attack the valence-intensity model in at least two ways.
I came up with a list—several years ago—of different feelings which all could contend for "emotional zero".
That's just feelings we have the words for. There are lots of nameless emotions (or emotional superpositions) that could contend for the neutral canvas — the origin from which all other emotions are measured.
The fact that so many clearly distinct feelings all contend for the "origin" made me think there is, in fact, no origin. But making the space affine (removing zero) doesn't fix the problems I had begun to notice with the circumplex view of the emotional spectrum. I think we just have to think of the range of emotions as a totally different kind of space. I don't know its topology; I do believe there should be some "activation level" (like a scalar) at least sometimes; I do believe that superpositions are possible.
@portereduardo and I were discussing redistributive taxation on twitter the other day.
Mr Porter wrote a piece in the NY Times about hyper-taxing the tippy top margin of American income to reduce the US' yearly government deficit. Economists Pikkety & Saez (famous for assembling a widely-quoted data set about top incomes) estimate that $400 billion per year could be raised by putting the US' top marginal rate back to 80%—about ten times as much as I thought could be raised, that's actually a significant chunk of the yearly
(spending − revenue) deficit.
Mr Porter used the diminishing-marginal-utility argument for redistribution: poor people value money more than rich people. (It's been said that exponential increases in money only beget linear improvements in happiness.)
If you believe that rich Americans should give money to poor Americans, surely it follows that Americans in general should give most of their money (at least their earnings above a certain level) to the poorest in the world—people like the Aboubakars.
According to the World Bank, the world's yearly output is worth $63 trillion, and there are 6.8 billion people on Earth. That means an income per person of about $9250. Let's pretend that it were possible to just "take that money and put it over there" — let's imagine that people worked every day just as they do now, got their paychecks, and when they did so the various world governments had shuffled all of everyone's monies around so that the weekly amount was $177.88. What would the world look like then?
What follows is my own speculation about what the world would be like at $9000 parity. A lot of this logic actually requires not-quite-parity because no-one would be swayed by a salary offer of $150,000 over $100,000 if they're going to keep exactly $9,000 of it either way. So in order for market forces to allocate labour to the places where it's currently going and thus keep production stable, you would need to do something more akin to:
Thus a law professor making $250,000 would keep
$200,000×1% + $50,000×10%+$5,000 = $11,000, a hefty 22% above the average and a supernal 633% above the lowest earning minimum for non-workers. More than enough to represent status symbols that would motivate him/her to keep teaching the law to young people, right?
Plus, if the world output were fungible, we would have $9000 per person, not per working person. So the usual dynamics of unemployment, childhood, and retirement would take place. The income of working people might be more like $18,000 or more and then split back down depending how many dependents they had — respecting the bar that the same number of people need to keep working the same number of hours at the current jobs in order for world production to stay constant.
But, it's easier to talk about if we said everyone just gets $9,000/year even. Here are my speculations about what that world would be like:
Some more caveats. It's arguable that economic growth could be faster in a world of parity. After all, there would be another 3 billion customers to serve—and those people would no longer be wasting their time walking firewood from the hilltop down to the stove.
It's also arguable that economic output would be cut into 1/10th or worse. Perhaps the great economic efficiency we experience in the world today is directly dependent on the prices of labour being able to vary from $1/day to $100,000/day. You can see in a few of my examples above (e.g., the university) that very radical changes would have to take place — perhaps so radical that people wouldn't continue doing their current jobs. And where would we be without corporate litigation firms that charge $800/hour?
Firms would all be competing to serve a more uniform group of customers, so production that otherwise went into expensive goods (real estate development in Aspen) would just go into continuing to improve the lives of everyone—like engineering a super-cost-efficient factory and distribution system that has a thousand times the scale advantages that the biggest past monopoly ever had.
Anything else you think I'm missing? A gross, lumpy price deflation as the world adjusts to parity? Massive unemployment or entrepreneurship or single-firm dominance as firms that produce staples suddenly have a lot more orders and firms that produce finery are shuttered? Would typical corporate profits go up or down? Operating costs?
The idea of redistribution is not a new one, if you know of some excellent scholarly discussions of the issue please link to them in the comments and excerpt a quote or two.
One last caveat: I've always lived in a capitalist country, so I don't any personal experience with government-equalised incomes. Anybody who grew up or lived and worked in a communist country, I'd love to get your 2p.
[An] IQ test … only measures how good of an IQ tester you are.
1) Believe [it] or not, you can improve IQ test score by PRACTICE. See for yourself. It is no more than a computer game which some people may show great playing ability at first but eventually most of people can excel with lots of playing time. There was a time when some people believed Tetris can be a good measure of how good one's brain is.
2) [The] IQ test was NOT created to evaluate [an] adult's brain capability. Researchers devised the test to see if they can discover children with learning disabilities. That means [a] low score is the only meaningful [outcome]. The test was designed to estimate if the children are behind or advanced to their own peers. In other words, it only shows one has a brain as good as normal adults with perfect score.
3) Despite these facts, IQ test can sometimes distinguish smart/less smart people in certain areas. However, so can other measurements (e.g. education, family background, living environment). The issue here is how accurate the measurement is in evaluation of brain functionality. Basically, you will have to measure how fast and efficiently your neurons are working along with density of neurons. Even then, this measurement may have nothing to do in judging one is a genius or not.
4) Nobody's brain is infinite and [neither] is genius' brain. One can maximize the productivity in a certain area by eliminating the need of wasting the brain in other areas and solely focus on one area, say mathematics. You can brag about how much you know and fast you can solve a problem; however, developing a new idea is limited to still to the areas you are familiar with. Unlike 1600s, there is too much to know and understand to master the entire area of mathematics or a piece of area in mathematics.
5) Speaking of understanding, how do you accelerate the speed of understanding? As prof. Tao pointed [out], one should have enough knowledge to process the reasoning. As you know more about the field, your brain can eliminate the things that are irrelevant to the subject and also relate to the ones you already know; thus, works more efficiently. For instance, study the strategies in chess, then, you would be able to beat normal people in most of times in chess game. No matter how genius…an individual is, s/he cannot beat out an expert in understanding the subject without proper training or learning depending on the difficulty of subjects.
Still, the illusion of genius is fun to enjoy in a similar way to we want to admire an excellent individual in each area. I think it is no different than praising a sports star.
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Skeletons (A Poem)
Here's my newest poem. It's a little dark but I hope you like it.
We all have our skeletons
Held back by closet doors
But there's no need to fear
As they are bones
And nothing more
Here's my newest poem. It's a little dark but I hope you like it.
We all have our skeletons
Held back by closet doors
But there's no need to fear
As they are bones
And nothing more
If someone was to ask this question to a crowd of people, that person would probably receive any number of different answers. But in my personal opinion as the author of poetry books, considering the fact that poetry is an art, who is to say what makes one piece good as opposed to another not? Like any art form, it is highly subjective.
But with that being the case, I do believe that there are a few things any poet can do in order to make the best of their own work.
1. Be inspired -
If you don't have some sort of inspiration behind your work, the result won't be as satisfying as if you do. While in other forms of writing you can simply just jump into it, this is not the case with poetry.
2. Express emotion -
Letting your emotion pour out onto a page is very important in this particular form of literature.
3. Let if flow -
The flow of the words in your poetry is also very important. The more natural and compelling the flow of the words, the better your writing will end up.
If I could reach up to the stars
I would pull them down to our feet
So we could walk among the skies
Ever so light and free
A new piece from Jason Greiner author of two poetry books "Wishing Wells" and "Shadows and Shade."
We live within routine
Straying only when by force
Then reluctantly we walk
On paths fresh and new
But let one split second tear
And rip at our souls
To open our closed eyes
To an illuminating new truth
Death is death
And blood is blood
Which both in time will come
Taking hold of all
So before life fades
We mustn't hesitate
To truly come to live
To see, to laugh, to love
Before our frailty does show through
Another piece from "Shadows and Shade," one of the two poetry books by author and photographer Jason Greiner
A poem by Darakhshan Takmeel
To be in love, you must feel pain
Pain of loving, of having loved and lost
Lost in the galaxy of glittering delights
Delights that delight and never last.
Last summer rain on your garden
Garden of blossoming feelings, memories
Memories of a night well spent
Spent listening to the rain on the trees.
Trees that witnessed your times together
Together under the Banyan's shade
Shade of happy, peaceful times
Times you sat together and prayed.
Prayed for each other with one another
Another day, another gift to cherish
Cherish the touch of the sun in winter
Winter chills when the greens perish.
Perish in pain like a dry river
River of sorrow when having to lose
Lose direction and stance, beyond control
Control your emotions and having to choose.
Choose between the future and today
Today that looks like a brilliant joy
Joy that will end with a tear someday
Someday that would do this, by and by.
By losing what you let go once
Once the blemish is on your being
Being an enhanced jewel on you
You will learn again, to love and sing.
Darakhshan is the poetic mind behind the amazing blog Introspections of my soul .
You're beautiful In body, mind and soul So much to desire To wish to crave and hold But, no matter how Our connection grows A cold biology tells me It can never be so We are who we are And will always be Born to love deep But just differently I ache for you But must let you live as you are Even if that means I can only admire from afar This is another piece by Jason Greiner, the author of two poetry books.

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When doing what you've suggested and using the System Prefs to share your internet connection you can't share on the same connection that you're bringing information in on.
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And what about sharing an airport connection via ethernet ?
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Any college hoops team that loses their leading scorer for any period of time is likely in deep trouble, but when the situation surrounding the injury solicits such reactions as "devastating" and "not good", it's probably even uglier.
Devastating vibe around the Seton Hall locker room. Pirates are now without Sterling Gibbs (Willard called knee injury "not good").
— John Fanta (@JohnFanta13) December 14, 2013
Seton Hall lead guard Sterling Gibbs suffered what looks to be a severe knee injury during the team's 83-80 overtime loss to St. Peter's (yikes), and while there is no diagnosis, multiple outlets are reporting that it could be season-ending. "The Hall" isn't considered to be a front-runner in the new Big East conference, but without Gibbs, things could fly off the rails in a hurry for the Pirates.
On the year, the 6-foot-2 guard sophomore guard is averaging 16 points, 4.1 assists, and 3.3 rebounds per game, but in addition to those simple numbers, he also has a big-time pedigree. Gibbs was originally playing at Texas before transferring back East, and like anyone who gets that type of top-tier offer, the talent level speaks for itself.
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The actress and husband Brian Austin Green are expecting their second child together, her rep confirms
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Megan Fox and Will Arnett were spotted hanging out over the weekend at Beauty & Essex in New York City.
Joined by four other friends, Fox, who wore a distressed, cropped T-shirt over black jeans with pumps, and Arnett "seemed very engrossed in their conversation, which seemed to be a mix of both business and pleasure," an onlooker tells PEOPLE.
Fox and Arnett – who costar in the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie – indulged in tuna and lobster tacos, New York pretzels, brick-pressed chicken and burgers.
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Brian Austin Green was on daddy duty Friday in New York, taking son Noah out for a walk in a red stroller through SoHo without his wife Megan Fox.
Fox gave birth to Noah in September 2012.
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We already know that Hollywood's biggest stars will gather together for the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. Now, we can reveal that the show will also feature some seriously hot mamas – literally
Megan Fox, who recently became a new mom, and Jessica Alba, who is mom to two daughters, have been added to the roster of A-list presenters at the Globes, PEOPLE confirms.
On Wednesday a source also confirmed that Adele will attend the star-studded show, her first red carpet event since giving birth to a son in October.
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They saw how the Patriots had to coach up Matt Cassell after Tom Brady's knee injury in 2008 and it never occurred to them that they may have to do the same thing someday.
Colts GM Bill Polian should be taken to task for this one. I know it's only Week 1, but they are off to a very poor start after losing to the Texans 34-7. Kerry Collins, who was signed to back up Manning during training camp, finished 16-31 for 197 yards and a touchdown in the loss.


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Stir the water and sugar in a saucepan until sugar dissolves and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a low simmer and add peppermint extract. Allow mixture to simmer for 20 minutes.
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Barman jailed for drinking game which killed teen.tequila tequila
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A barman has been jailed for serving at least 44 shots of tequila which killed a 16-year-old German boy during a faked drinking contest.
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After about an hour the youngster fell into a coma coma, in medicine
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The bartender, who admitted his guilt, was sentenced to three years and five months in jail for causing grievous bodily harm grievous bodily harm
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Two other bar staff who were involved in tricking the dead teenager were convicted at an earlier trial of causing grievous bodily harm.
They were sentenced to receive social training for ten months, while a third bartender at that trial was acquitted.
The case triggered a national debate over teenage alcohol abuse and the danger of "flat-rate" binge-drinking parties where customers pay a one-off entry fee and are served unlimited strong spirits all night.
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text: ShareThe Top 100 Global Companies Are Leveraging YouTubeJul 25 2012, 10:52 AM by Hal LicinoA study on the usage rates for social media by the Fortune Global 100 companies was recently released and one of the more surprising results was the spike in use not for Facebook, Twitter or Google+, but YouTube! The report found that YouTube accounts are being maintained by the vast majority of these top companies, jumping almost 40% in just the last year. These corporations' channels each average approximately two million views and boast over 1,650 subscribers! These aren't your average cute kitten, teen angst or daredevil stunt YouTube videos but an extremely judicious application of branding for the social media generation, which is appealing to an ever growing number of online consumers. A Shift in the Core of Advertising If you dwell on it you are able to realize that this social media development may very well demonstrate a seismic shift in the core experience of advertising itself. Nearly 200,000 users are actually opting to receive updates from commercial channels branded from a specific advertiser. That's essentially the equivalent of saying "I actually want to watch commercials on TV and I'm going to make an effort to do so." Of course these aren't the conventional TV ads that try to cram down the consumer's throat the latest pitch in 30 seconds or less, as companies must work diligently to attract and maintain the loyalty of these subscribers. A mundane three minute commercial for a product brand isn't going to create the desirable results required in this brave new medium. Think of these videos more as mini-documentaries or highly condensed special interest TV programming than commercials. Some television series produce webisodes that divulge additional information about plotlines or characters, and in a similar way, these YouTube company videos are able to elucidate further on various aspects of the branding, such as HP's technology improving daily lives or Walmart showing ways to make a limited family budget go further. 79 of the Fortune Global 100 Companies Are on YouTube As in any other form of social media marketing outreach, the key is to vividly and thoroughly engage the consumer, and this study seems to prove that this is an aspect that has been successfully integrated by these top companies; the usage rates are higher than they've ever been in the history of social media. Nearly four out of every five corporate Twitter accounts incorporate re-tweets and @ replies to involve their customers as a major portion of their social media strategy, and almost three quarters of companies reply to comments that have been posted on Facebook pages. In the last two years alone, the number of Fortune Global 100 companies on YouTube has jumped from 50 to 79 and it seems that it will soon reach the saturation point. Twitter Has the Highest Corporate Usage Rate The overall increase in usage of social media by these top companies over the last two years is nothing short of astounding. At 82%, Twitter's usage rate has soundly beaten a variety of networks, including Facebook at 74%. Even the fairly underperforming Google+ has been able to attract nearly 50% of the top companies in the country. However, the biggest surprise may be Pinterest, which is essentially not much more than a website where people share images… and has attracted a quarter of the Fortune Global 100! Social media has swiftly established itself as a channel that major corporations must focus on through the allocation of marketing strategies and resources. A statistic that seems to prove this out is that in 2010, only 59% of companies updated their Facebook page on a regular basis but now 93% do so each week. These huge corporations are not the only types of businesses who have discovered that the future of marketing is clearly within the social media sphere. Companies from food trucks all the way up to megaconglomerates have realized that an engaged social media consumer is a loyal one and that the specific facilities that are available through presenting "video on demand" informative mini-documentaries on YouTube could be the most successful social media marketing strategy to yet surface in the cyberuniverse.Posted in Tips & Resources, Social Media, Online Branding, Current EventsRelated Blogs4 Epic Social Media Strategies for Financial Websites2013 Business TrendcastOnline Marketing: How to Create Good Brand ContentHow to Design Your Social Profiles to Help Rather than HinderImage Is Everything: Tools to Beef up Your Image MarketingCommentsbrian yangJul 26 2012, 08:53 AMYes this is true. Since youtube and popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have been the place where most companies advertise their products. Due to the popularity of these sites, companies have eyed on them to advertise their goods and services.Post a new commentYour NameYour EmailYour WebsitePOST YOUR COMMENT


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TNP Goes LIVE With Liberty UndergroundBy Craig Andresen on February 7, 2012 at 11:39 am
Last night, The National Patriot was pleased to go LIVE with Jo Anne Moretti and Liberty Underground for a special Moretti Report radio interview!
While the focus was on the Judge Mahili decision out of Georgia regarding Obama's eligibility to be on that state's ballot, we also covered a few other topics as well.
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MacroScope is pleased to post the following from guest blogger James Carrick. Carrick is economist at UK fund firm Legal & General Investment Management. He says here old patterns of lending are unlikely to return and that this means slow growth in developed countries.
"Despite £175 billion of quantitative easing, bank lending in the UK remains weak, threatening to restrain the economic recovery and equity market rally.
Policy makers in the developed world have been working overtime to encourage banks to lend at the 'normal' levels experienced during the past decade. However, these "normal" levels are no longer realistic. The factors which contributed to the secular rise in debt over the past decade are now reversing. Populations are ageing, interest rates can't go any lower and sub-prime lending is over.
As a result, higher levels of savings (where consumers pay down debt) and lower spending will weigh on the pace of the recovery.
This is not to predict a double-dip recession. Instead we are probably in store for a more subdued period of growth next year as households can no longer borrow money they don't have, and unemployment remains high.


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Headlines this summer carried news of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, but porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) continues to plague the industry. Extensive efforts have been made to eliminate PRRSV from infected populations, but re-infection due to airborne spread of the virus is a frequent occurrence.
click image to zoomCourtesy Pipestone Veterinary Clinic Evidence of long-distance airborne transport of PRRSV has been documented, as far out as 5.65 miles. Dr. Scott Dee, director of research at the Pipestone Veterinary Clinic in Pipestone, Minn., headed up a four-year study period to test this theory under experimental conditions. In this model of a swine production region, airborne transmission of PRRSV to susceptible populations housed in filtered facilities was prevented 100 percent of the time.
As a result, air filtration systems have been used in pig facilities as a means of reducing this risk in commercial pork production systems. Although pilot studies had previously generated promising results, they were limited by both sample size and duration of the study period. Therefore, Dee's long-term sustainability study was intended to measure the effect of air filtration on reducing the risk of PRRSV infection in a large number of herds over an extended period of time.
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Herds in the study were required to have 2,400 sows or more. In addition, they needed to be surrounded by at least four growing-pig sites within a radius of three miles, and candidate herds couldn't supply pigs to any of the surrounding sties. Finally, herds selected for the study had to have experienced a minimum of three external PRRSV infections over the previous four years despite using standard biosecurity practices.
Treatment herds used validated air filtration technologies (Camfill-Farr, Clarcor) known to be comparable with negative-pressure ventilation systems. Following installation of the filters, PRRSV status was monitored across all the herds on a monthly basis. During the visits, herds were assessed for clinical evidence of PRRS and production data were reviewed. In addition, blood samples were collected.
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