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Florida Judge Denies Call For Recount, But Allen West Continues Quest
Originally published on Fri November 16, 2012 6:56 pm
A Florida judge on Friday denied Republican Rep. Allen West's last-ditch bid for a recount of early-voting ballots in the close and ugly re-election race he is losing to Democrat Patrick Murphy.
West's effort to wrest the race from Murphy, who is leading in a race that has yet to be officially called, now goes to the St. Lucie County elections board, which was scheduled to review his complaint late Friday.
It was unclear when it would rule.
West, a first-term Tea Party favorite, has claimed that his campaign discovered irregularities with the counting of absentee ballots for Florida's 18th Congressional District. His efforts have drawn high-profile support from fellow party members, including Florida Gov. Rick Scott, whose administration sent "auditors" from the state Elections Division to oversee the county canvassers.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who announced Friday that he intends to seek a second term, weighed in on Twitter Friday afternoon. He urged supporters to follow his lead and send the "maximum donation" to West to "help w/his recount."
Top Democrats, including national Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida representative, on Friday accused Scott of "outrageous" meddling in the process in an effort to tip the scales in West's favor.
Here's what she had to say, according to the Florida Sun-Sentinel:
"In a clear effort to overturn an election result after having lost at the ballot box, Allen West has now run to Governor Rick Scott to needlessly interfere with and politicize a non-partisan election process.
"All votes in this election were counted fairly and accurately, and Allen West has lost beyond the mandatory recount range. Having Governor Scott intervene is outrageous and inappropriate. After disenfranchising Florida voters by cutting down early voting days and creating extraordinarily long lines at the polls, Governor Scott is now trying to blatantly overturn an election result he disagreed with and undermine Gertrude Walker, a three-decade veteran of the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections office. Governor Scott needs to remove himself from this process immediately."
West has refused to accept Election Day results, even though Murphy's margin of victory, while close, exceeded the percentage needed to avoid a recount. The vote count stood at 166,223 for Murphy, 164,316 for West, a split of 50.28 percent to 49.7 percent.
Defending Scott's decision to send state auditors to the county, Chris Cate, a spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, had this to say, according to the Sun-Sentinel:
"Claims that there is any interference by the state in this election are wholly inaccurate and unhelpful to the voters who need to know their votes have been counted accurately. We have a responsibility to ensure Florida's election laws are interpreted and enforced properly, and our involvement in St. Lucie County has only been observational with the purpose of protecting the voice of the voters and ensuring fair elections were conducted in all of the St. Lucie County races, not just the highest profile contests."
Data on Dezner's secretary of state website give Murphy a lead of 1,907 votes, or a margin of 0.58 percent over West. More than 330,000 votes were cast. To qualify for a recount, a losing candidate must be within 0.5 percent of the winner; West did not qualify under that state law.
Murphy's lawyer has argued that there is no basis for a recount of early votes, and that his client will challenge in court any effort to do so.
While Floridians continue to squabble, three other House races still remained undecided 10 days after the election:
-- In North Carolina, incumbent Blue Dog Democrat Mike McIntyre held a narrow lead over challenger David Rouzer.
-- In the Arizona race for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' former seat, incumbent Democrat Ron Barber, a former Giffords staffer, continued to lead GOP challenger Martha McSally.
-- And in Louisiana, two Republican incumbents, Charles Boustany Jr. and Jeff Landry, will face each other in a December runoff because neither candidate won a required majority of the vote.
Two other House races in California that had been undecided were concluded Friday. Longtime Republican Rep. Dan Lungren conceded to his Democratic opponent, Ami Bera, in the newly redrawn 7th Congressional District. And Rep. Brian Bilbray, also a Republican, conceded to challenger Scott Peters in his San Diego-area district, in what has been characterized as one of the most expensive House races this election cycle. The Center for Responsive Politics reported that Peters spent nearly $4 million on his race, and Bilbray nearly $2.4 million on his.


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St. Louis BluesThis panorama of the St. Louis Blues playing to their fans in St. Louis, Missouri, was taken by James Blakeway. The Blues were one of the six teams added to the National Hockey League in the 1967 expansion and the last of the expansion teams to officially gain entry into the league. Taking inspiration from a famous song, the team was named the Blues and played their first game on October 11th. The Blues got off to a successful start, reaching the Stanley Cup Final in each of its first three seasons. In addition, the Blues were a playoff presence every year from 1980 to 2004 the third longest streak in North American professional sports history.
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Ever dream of becoming a super hero? Playing the hero in video games may actually help make that a reality!
Violent video games have long been thought to increase aggression, but it appears that the opposite is true as well. A study done at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Laboratory shows that having superpowers in a video game can make people more altruistic.
Stanford researchers used a simulation game to test their theory. One at a time, 60 men and women strapped on virtual reality goggles and were whisked away to a virtual cityscape. Their airborne mission: to deliver insulin to a diabetic child. Half of the test subjects completed their mission by flying in a helicopter; the other half controlled their flight by a series of arm motions, like Superman.
After the mission, the test subjects each sat down with a researcher to answer questions about the experience. This is where the real research began! During the discussion, the researcher would "accidentally" knock over a cup of pens. The researcher would then wait five seconds to see if the subject would help her. Then she would begin collecting the pens one at a time to give the subject another chance to help.
The subjects who had just flown as Superman lent a hand after an average of only three seconds, whereas those who had flown in a helicopter began helping after an average of six seconds.
This data shows that heroic behavior in a virtual environment can transfer to altruistic behavior in the real world. The researchers are hopeful that if they can identify what exactly encourages empathy and altruism, they can design technology and video games that will successfully promote altruistic behavior in the real world.


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In many GOP primary debates on many topics, not once have I heard a serious discussion of America's #1 health-related killer: cancer. We have a series of presidential primary debates coming up so we need to contact debate moderators and reporters to encourage them to ask a very important question which must be asked, discussed and debated: As President of the United States, how would you use the bully pulpit to reduce the number of annual cancer deaths, and what policies would you propose to put us on course to eradicate this dreaded disease? [Read More]


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How can we say we respect international laws when we are so quick to break them? How can we not see that deconflicting with proxies in the area is not walking away, that's fiction, but working toward a solution that understands that we are not going to strongarm Assad or any other fighters in the region into stopping, but might actually escalate things? No one said walk away and Boxer and Feinstein seem to be interpreting calls to consider other options that way. That is a mistake and shows how caught up they are in having the conversation forget horrible implications and unintended consequences of us taking matters into our hands quickly and swiftly. We could stop locking horns with everyone who understands that this could very well negatively and very adversely affect the region and our dog in the fight is humanity, no matter what, not just acting irrationally and overreacting after getting intelligence. We can engage directly with the parties arming the belligerents in Syria to negotiate a full international arms embargo. It's not about just acting on intelligence and deciding what is a meaningful response to elected officials. It's understanding that they are supposed to represent the will of the people not just independently act. Even if the intelligence is verifiable, credible, and damning and not just a single source, then the way we respond is still open to various options.
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I just want to point out that there are lots of features and settings to explore in the app, so take your time to poke around! :)
For example, in the compass, you can drop GPS markers and later on activate them to have the compass show you distance and direction to the marker (which also works for geocaching, which i've tried out)...also, there is a cool (IMO) map view for the compass that will put your activated marker on a map that will tilt and rotate with your phone (or not! there's settings for that too!).
Also, check out the other level views, flashlight view, settings for the speedometer etc etc etc. (swipe down for the settings menu to see all the stuff you can mess with! There are settings for a lot of stuff, and more features on the way!)
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There are some places in US, that contain "MO" in their names. For example, Columbia, MO; Kirkwood, MO; Saint Louis, MO. So, what does MO mean?
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"A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry's unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry's chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person -- a mensch -- a serious man?
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"A delicious bread with a very light center with crunchy crust. You may substitute butter or vegetable oil for the lard if you wish."
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2 (.25 ounce) packages
active dry yeast
3 tablespoons
white sugar
2 1/2 cups
warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
3 tablespoons
lard, softened
1 tablespoon
6 1/2 cups
bread flour
I absolutely LOVE this bread recipe. I found it a year ago and never used another one since. I personally like to take the bread out 5 minutes before and brush melted butter on the top and let it finish the lasr 5 minutes of cooking. Thanks for this wonderful bread recipe!
The only difference i did with the bread was to use Crisco shortening instead of the lard. The bread was ok, but it was TOO SALTY. One tablespoon of salt is just too much. I might try it again using maybe 1-1/2 tsps of salt. I will critique it again after i make it with the revised amount of salt.
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This bread turned out wonderfully! Not too fluffy, but a nice, soft, tasty bread. I no longer buy my bread from the store, I use this instead! I substituted margarine for the lard, and it's still great! It doesn't get stale too quickly either!
I made rolls with this recipe instead of bread. It was a big hit at our Thanksgiving Dinner. Everyone raved about it.
This is absolutely terrific! The bread came out light and fluffy and very tasty. I did reduce the amount of salt - put in about 2 tsp instead of 1 Tbsp.
I liked this way more than the 'popular' white bread on this same site. This is what homemade bread should taste like.
I cut this recipe in half and let my bread machine to the work thru the 2nd rise. Then took it out and formed dinner rolls for tonight's dinner. Excellent recipe. Just bake dinner rolls for 20 minutes at 375 degrees!Thanks Danialle.
If you have never made bread in your life before, this is the recipe for you; very easy and bread turns out fantastic. This will be a new "family recipe" for our family. thanks for posting it!!
Good bread with a lot of substance. It would be great to use this with homegrown tomatoes as it will hold up nicely. I used my kitchen aid with the dough hook & it was a breeze to make, a keeper for me. Thanks Danialle!
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Servings Per Recipe: 20
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 187
Calories from Fat: 24
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Here are tips on how to identify and get rid of Mexican bean beetles.
What are Mexican Bean Beetles?
Found throughout the United States, these pests do the same type of damage as Japanese Beetles, leaving skeletons of foliage up and down your garden. Mexican Bean Beetles are a relative of the ladybug, and they look the part. They are small, about ¼ inch long, and have sixteen black spots displayed on their tan yellow bodies. Don't be fooled by the name, although they are partial to beans, they can also affect your pea, beet, squash and tomato crop.
How to Identify Mexican Bean Beetles
The larvae of the Mexican Bean Beetle start out as yellow eggs on the undersides of plant leaves, which are laid sometime in late spring to early summer. Adult beetles overwinter by burrowing in the soil or left over plant debris. They usually begin to emerge in early spring when the soil warms, but can also stay hidden and emerge at any time during the summer.
- Females will feed for 2–3 weeks before laying eggs.
- Females are capable of laying eggs as frequently as every 2 days, and be laid in clusters of 30–40.
- Eggs will hatch 1–3 weeks later, and larvae will feed on foliage before the pupal stage. Larvae are yellow, robust, and spiny, and grow to about ½ inch.
- Cocooning larvae will rest on the undersides of leaves for 5 days before emerging as an adult beetle.
Usually damage is to the leaves only, but in some cases, Mexican Bean Beetle damage can result in lower crop yield, or even the demise of plants.
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- Bush beans are less susceptible than pole beans, and also require less maintenance.
- Handpick larvae and beetles, and destroy them.
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Hello everyone!
My name is Hauke and I just joined this forum. I would like to show you an animation with a character I created last year. It is basically about whales in giant mecha suits defending humans against evil aliens. There is quite a bit of text to read in the beginning but it gets quite action heavy in the end. Or at least as action heavy as my humble animation skills allow me to do. This is also the first time I tried toonshading my characters. So I hope you will enjoy it.
Here are some screenshots from the animation:
Thanks for checking this out, Hauke
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Man, that's impressive! A lot of work and well worth the effort considering the end results. Great job! Unique concept. Welcome to AN and thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Let's embed the video for all to enjoy...
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Thanks for the warm welcome Charles! I am glad you like the animation.
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I like it enough to feature it on our homepage for this date.
Dedicated article here.
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Late last month, we shared the story of more than 50 Dachshunds, including adults and puppies, we recovered from a hoarding situation in New York City. We checked in with several of the dogs' adopters to see how the pups are doing so far, and their replies resulted in a cuteness overload!
Banjo (formerly known as Ralf)
Adopter: Amalia R.
"Banjo was listed as extremely shy when I received his behavioral report. Upon bringing him into our home with Rhubarb [his dog brother] as a guide, he is a total social butterfly! Rhubarb and Banjo play wonderfully together, and not only has he learned from my teachings, he is learning from Rhubarb! They love to take naps together and drinking water at the same time— it's so sweet to watch them scurry around together. We love Banjo very much and are so happy to have such a beautiful little puppy added to our family!"
Murphy (formerly known as Monika)
Adopter: Casey K.
"After meeting with one of the behaviorists, we were introduced to Murphy—she is playful, sweet, curious, and just a really great pup overall. It was love at first sight, and each day we are all falling more in love with her. She is a very happy, playful puppy. Many friends have come to say hello to her, and each day she become more bold and curious with us and her surroundings. She is very relaxed and often will fall asleep on her back and loves having her tummy rubbed. We are deeply grateful that she has come into our lives."
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Adopter: Nicole D.
"My husband Tom, our 2.5-year-old Dachshund, Eli, and I walked to the ASPCA in hopes of adopting a little brother or sister for Eli. We picked out Emily, as she reminded us a lot of Eli, with the spots on her head and her fuzzy ears. When the two dogs met, it was clear that this was the start of what would become a long and beautiful friendship. Although Emily is still quite shy around my husband and me, she is learning from Eli, and I know with time, she will come out of her shell and realize all the love that surrounds her."
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Adopter: Melanie S.
"After losing my childhood pet two years ago—a Lab/Basset mix—I started to really miss the warmth and energy of a dog in my life. I love Dachshunds and was spending all of my free time searching rescue websites. Finally, I heard about the puppies at the ASPCA and ran over. Marcel is adjusting at lightning speed! His first night he stayed in the back of his crate, and shook for several minutes in each new setting. Now, as much as he loves his crate, he comes out to find me to play fetch!"
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Adopter: Nicole A.
"My husband and I have been looking for a dog for a little while now, and when we came across Roxy's picture online we instantly fell in love. At that moment, we rushed down to the ASPCA and set up a meet and greet with Roxy. She was everything we hoped for and more. Roxy has a great personality, loves to play, and is already our best friend. She is definitely at home and is learning more and more each day. We are so excited to have her be a part of our family."
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Adopter: Brittney H.
"I saw Hailey's picture on Petfinder and fell in love instantly! She is doing excellent! Hailey has an older dog sister named Lola, and they love to play and snuggle together. She does have major separation anxiety, which is completely understandable, but we are working on breaking her out of that. Otherwise, she is doing awesome! I love her!"
Coco (formerly known as Silke)Adopter: Maria G.
"I was looking at the ASPCA website on a Friday evening, saw all the puppies and dogs for adoption, and decided to come down to the Adoption Center that Saturday morning. I came to the ASPCA with my daughter, and we both decided that Silke was the one for us. She has her own room, and she has brought joy and happiness to us both! Silke, whom we have renamed Coco Chanel, has adjusted very well. She's my little superstar. We love and adore her."
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Watch out! If you buy anything from pet stores that sell puppies, we'll find you.
As part of the ASPCA "No Pet Store Puppies" campaign, we're launching a national fleet of covert canine agents tasked with using advanced interrogation tactics to identify consumers supporting the cruel puppy mill industry. Most puppies sold in pet stores come from puppy mills, where they are kept in hostile conditions and do not receive proper veterinary care. The ASPCA's interrogating canines will not roll over until this inhumane industry is eradicated.
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We've already unleashed several of these undercover dog interrogators to tail pet owners who shop at pet stores that sell puppies. The campaign selected puppies that clearly have a bone to pick with the commercial breeding facilities that hold their canine comrades captive in such unsanitary, overcrowded conditions.
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I don't care where he gets drafted, I care whether he's going to be a better football player, and I think he's going to be a better football player.
Would love to see us draft a playmaker in that position next year?
Also, what kind of receivers suites RT's game?
there is a thread in the draft forum that has a good list, but too be nice and answer the question (in no particular order)
1.Robert Woods Jr USC
2.Keenan Allen Jr Cal
3.Da'Rick Rodgers Jr Tennessee
4.Marques Wilson Jr, Washington State
5.Ryan Swope SR, Texas A&M
6.Terrence Williams Sr, Baylor
7.Justin Hunter Jr, Tennessee
8.Stedman Bailey JR, West Virginia
Those are just a few that are draft eligible.
That's a lot of juniors
My two favorite heading into the season are Keenan Allen and Justin Hunter. If the draft were held today, I think Allen would go top 10 and Hunter somewhere in the top 20. There's a good list and discussion a couple of threads down.
Da'Rick Rodgers was suspended by Tennessee. He already had character issues going into the season so this only hurts his case even more.
Rogers has been suspended indefinitely by Tennessee. That definitely hurts him and should give Hunter huge numbers this year.
Well that certainly lends more credibility to the multitude of people that have told me he's a dick, which was my biggest discomfort with him aside from perhaps lack of deep speed.


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Doing the math
Quite a few people in the replies to Dan Pallotta's talk have noticed that the math shown is somewhat odd from time to time.
So let's discuss this in a seperate conversation rather than in the video thread.
My personal opinion (in this post) is irrelevant, I'll take a possition myself in the debate though but want the starting post to be as neutral as possible.
Because I would like everyone to use the same numbers I've went through the vid and wrote down all numbers he uses on his slides (I made the 'topics' of the slides myself as his slides didn't have any topics):
12% poverty in the USA
Salary in profit vs non-profit organisations:
Stanford MBA (at age 38) = 400.000 $
CEO of a medical charity = 232.658 $
CEO of a hunger charity = 84.028 $
AIDS rides bicycle (over a course of 9 years):
182.000 cyclists raised 581.000.000 $
Charitable giving in USA:
2% GDP (300 billion)
organisations crossing the 50M $ annual revenue barrier since 1970:
144 non-profit
46136 profit
Launch AIDS rides:
50.000 $ (risk capital)
108.000.000 $ after 9 years (and after expenses).
Breast Cancer 3 days:
350.000 $ investment
194.000.000 $ after 5 years (and after expenses).
5% overhead for a bake sale.
40% 'overhead' (or investment in growth) in a company.
(would anyone know what a non-profit organisation spends on average on 'overhead'?)
Current charity balance (where the 2% GDP goes to):
20% of charity goes to Health and Human services. (60Billion $)
80% of charity goes to Religion/Education/Hospitals. (240Billion $)
3% GDP (450Billion or an added 150Billion ontop of the before mentioned 2%).
Mar 14 2013: Dan also talks about "what makes more sense for a philantropist".
Give the best doctor out there 350.000$ or give him/her a fundraising department worth 350.000$ who will multiply that into 194.000.000$ (over 5 years).
This makes it sound as if when you market people will give more. Which might be the case (but there is no evidence for this).
However if something can grow with a factor of 554 then it can only mean 2 things.
1) It was REALLY tiny to begin with.
2) it gets it growth off of 'competitors'.
Also everyone can see that a growth like that is unsustainable.
Heck if it would (linearly) continue it's rate of growth for another 5 years at the same rate... We would get 107.476.000.000$ which is around 0.7% of GDP.
A few years later we'll have more than 100% GDP spend on his charity.
Now both 1 and 2 are valid explanations... and I would like it if I knew that 1 was the "truth".
But something inside me tells me that it's not... This is heavily supported by Dan's own graph that spending on charity has been stuck at 2% of GDP since measurements started.Mar 14 2013: Despite their different missions, the Disabled Veterans National Foundation, a veterans charity, and SPCA International, an animal charity, have a lot in common.
They have both received F's from CharityWatch, the charity-ratings group, because most of the money they raise from the public pays for direct-mail operations.
How to Calculate a Charity Program Spending Percentage
Divide the amount the charity spent on programs by the total amount it spent, and multiply the result by 100.
For example: If an organization reports spending $750,000 on programs while spending a total of $1,000,000, dividing $750,000 by $1,000,000 produces the decimal number 0.75, and multiplying that by 100 produces the result of 75% (its program spending percentage).
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At Charity Navigator we recognize that different types of organizations work differently. This variation isn't a bad thing. Rather, different types of charities have different resource and spending requirements. For example, our research shows that museums exhibit above-average administration costs as compared to other types of charities.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=48Mar 13 2013: CEO of Autism Speaks - $750,000 base salary only (not including perks)
CEO of Unicef - $1, 200.000 base salary (not including perks)
CEO of American Red Cross - $700,000 base salary (not including perks which includes 8 weeks of paid vacation/yr)
CEO of Goodwill - $2.5 million min
Top 25 Medical Charities - CEO base salary runs from $700K to $2million
That's about 3 times what was put out in this lecture. When U add in TOTAL COMPENSATION - it's usually about double their "base salary"Mar 26 2013: I must say... the more time passes.
The more I'm sure that what Dan really does is out-compete his fellow charities by using more money in organisation of fundraisers than the other charities do.
Which eventually leads to "less money to the needy" than if he does not do this, as well as quite a few jobs in marketing / promotion / other jobs related to the events (like security/catering etc.).
Mar 30 2013: It is too speculative to presume that the revenue growth of one charity is to the detriment of others. While cannibalism within the charitable sector occurs, it isn't the sole means of growth, nor are these mutually exclusive.
If marketing efforts can persuade a person to redirect some funds toward a cause, rather than toward any other purpose - whether that be entertainment, savings, etc., but not from pre-existing charitable behaviour (such as payroll deductions) - than the growth isn't from out-competing fellow charities. This form of growth is certainly achievable.
Whether the lion's share of growth originates from within the charitable sector or external to it, will likely vary on a case by case basis. Speculation and generalization isn't constructive.
Ideally, surveys and studies would accompany such charitable endeavours to uncover whether a donor redirected funds from one charity to another or increased his/her overall contribution. Again, ideally, an emphasis would be placed on those marketing efforts that result in the latter.
Mar 30 2013: My conclusion is more plausible than Dan's is though. Sure it's a bit speculative but at least it's supported by the figures that Dan shows.
Dan's charities grew like crazy while % of GDP spent on charity stayed the same.
So where did that money come from if not from the competitors? (One might say that his charities are too small to really make a significant difference in the % of GDP... but then there is not enough evidence for either conclusion which wouldn't make what I write any less likely than what Dan is talking about)
His conclusions are a lot more far fetched than my own though. Where he sais that "giving a doctor a fundraising team which can use the 350.000$ makes more sense than giving the doctor 350.000$ for the research.".
Say that you're a really smart doctor.... and rather than thinking "I really need that money" each year you use the generated $ to give another doctor a fundraising team which can use 350.000$. And he then does the same (so 1 doctor in the 1st year, 2 in the next, 4 at the 3rd year etc.).
As according to Dan's numbers each of those will (after around 5 - 6 years) "make 200 Million $". (That is if they do not cannabalise eachother).
You can already see that this isn't going to work... As within around 12 years spending on those charities will exceed GDP. (I didn't really do the math precisely for the '12 years' though but it feels correct as 2^(12-5) = 2^7 = 128 which then means that "at the very least 25,6 trillion $ is spent on gdp")Apr 1 2013: This is true if the marketing does not bring in more money overall to charity. This is what he is talking about when going from 2-3% GDP. There are "windows of opportunity" that are frequently missed because no charity is there with open hands when a person is motivated to give. Kind of like how close a starbucks is has something to do with how many latte's you might buy.
I think people want to help others and that motivates many of us. We look for opportunities, but need to be presented with them to act. Maybe you have Saturday free, and just heard a charity is doing a fundraising nearby. THe advertising got you to get involved. If there was no advertising, you would not have heard about it.
In sales, it often takes 5 repeat visits to close a deal. Those first 4 visits are overhead. Getting people to realize that they can give and it makes a difference costs money. The more you spend, the more you make. Will there be mistakes? Certainly. But that is how you learn.
Apr 1 2013: Ah but he himself presents data which sais that the % of GDP never grew over the course of 20 years.
While I'm sure that, because of the spread of televisions and computers, awareness of charities has grown significantly through the years.... Heck a lot of the "large charities" are so well known that they are considered to be common knowledge at quizes.
So it cannot be that "if we just know" -> "we will spend more on it".
Apr 1 2013: Yes, but there is no law of nature that says it must stay there. This is what marketing is all about.Apr 1 2013: You claim that when people become more aware of charities they will spend more on charities.
I give you a logical conclusion of data that tells you that is not true.
You re-state that it is true....
If that is what marketing is all about then I suggest marketeers take courses in economics and logic
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Mar 18 2013: They are not my slides I reference but Dan Pallotta's?
I don't say the USA has any problem.... I am sceptical of Dan Pallotta's talk though.
Actually the more I think about it the less I'm convinced that he is justified in his beliefs.
I do however think that he has his heart on the right place... but, to me, his economical views on charities don't make any sense.
Mar 18 2013: This was a reply to Random Chance sorry
Mar 18 2013: Ah ok no problem,
I was confused by it though haha :DMar 14 2013: Poverty in the usa?
Who is doing with out can't stay out of simple trouble and the rest get government assistance. I don't feel sorry for the people that can't stay out of trouble sorry!!!
I'm also from the show me state, so show me somebody that is doing with out essential needs to life that is not voluntary!!!
Mar 14 2013: Are there any good psychiatrists in the "show me" state?
You are in serious need of one.
Do you have a good job?
Give it to 30,000 people who are out of work, lost their jobs or graduated and now their major is not applicable, but most importantly, let's throw everyone in to the same stereotype and blame them for having any kind of difficulty in life.
So you see some people as valuable and others as not valuable, yes?
Why don't you, quit your good job (if you have one) and take a menial, low-paying job cleaning out toilets, in a poor section of some big city? Would you think that job is not of value, not important and by association of having it, neither is the person who does it, and cannot survive on it? From your comment, I assume you would. So if you took that job, you are not important
Donald Rumsfeld announced the day before 9/11 that the Pentagon could not account for 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions. Was it investigated, discussed, questions raised and pursued? No, because the next day he and his gang attacked the WTC and it got buried with all the other BS. That, is the welfare system and it hurts everysingleAmerican.
Yes, people actually don't eat voluntarily, or have warm clothes or medical and are poor only by choice.
You sir, are what is wrong with America. You and your mental illness that is Artificial Intelligence on display.
A mental robot, a Manchurian Citizen.
Shelby See
Mar 18 2013: I'm the problem with the United States? What a laugh. I'm the one with the mental illness but your the one with the conspiracy theories. I wish only 30,000 were out of work. True Poverty is not in the USA, its only in third world countries, where people are with out essential living needs.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E-URmNAa5oMar 14 2013: Another really stagering issue is that multiplication of money which Dan seems to be able to pull off.
As the slides say that he used 50.000$ in order to raise 108.000.000$.
Which is ofcourse a very misleading number because over 9 years the "charity grew". And Dan actually told us by how much because it's total was 581.000.000$ over a course of 9 years.
So if 40% of that went into "overhead" assuming again (like last time) that the last year is excluded from this 40% rule as each time you take 40% of the "profits" from last year.
Then we get that over these 9 years ( (581.000.000 - 108.000.000) * 0.4 + 50.000 = ) 189.250.000 was spend on "overhead".
Ofcourse we know that the growth is not linear... heck the 1st year we even only had 50k as input.
If we assume however that growth is linear 189.200.000 / 8 (I exclude the 1st year and subtract 50.000) was used per year which is around 23.650.000$ each year for advertisement... over a course of 8 years. To get the revenue of 108.000.000 annually.
Which suddenly sounds a whole lot less impressive (although it is still impressive).Mar 13 2013: I guess I should give a good example.
One of the things that struck me as odd is that if you compare the overheads and his own ambition. That there is hardly any difference in eventual money going to 'the cause'.
As I also wrote in the main post I am not sure which % of regular non-profit organisations leads up as overhead but I'll assume it's 10% (just because I assume that it's more than a 'bake sale').
However if we take 10% overhead over 2% of GDP. (which is to say we add all overhead of 'old fashioned' non-profit over all non-profit spending)
We obviously spend 30Billion in overhead on a total of 300Billion.
So (300 - 30 =) 270Billion goes to 'The cause'.
Say that if we use 40% of that which leads to an increase of 1% GDP to a grand total of 3% GDP.
If (in the best case one could think of) we use 40% of the 300Billion in order to get 450Billion.
We would use (300*0.4 =) 120Billion in overhead to get 450Billion. In this situation (450 - 120 =) 330Billion goes to 'The cause'.
This is obviously a (330 - 270 =) 60Billion increase but it seems a lot less impressive than the addition of 150billion.
If we would actually use 40% of the 450Billion (as some people do in their calculations) it would be even more grim as 40% of 450Billion is 180Billion in which case you would even end up on (450 - 180 =) 270Billion which is exactly the same as you had before with just 10% overhead and 2% GDP.
So what basically happens is that a shitload of people can go into marketing jobs... who would all be funded by people who support a good cause. Which will lead to an maximal increase of (60 / 270 =) 22.222% more money on the cause while expenditure for the whole organisation goes up 50% (2% GDP to 3% GDP)
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Mar 14 2013: Well ZX Style,
I'm not so much fiercely against the ideas in this TED talk.
I do however feel that a major part of it is based on thin air and/or wrong ideas on the economic system (or wrong ideas on marketing).
There are however also a few points which should make sense to people... for instance that it's insanely stupid to not allow non-profit organisations to make a profit off of certain projects.
For instance say that a non-profit organisation would teach Africans how to best maintain their land and help them to grow stuff on there. Why not "re-use" that knowledge of those who you thought in order to further your cause?
Why not say to the "farmer" we will take 20% of everything that our help and knowledge adds on your production for the next 10 years. And we will use that money / those products to help erradicate hunger while teaching more people how to farm.
Then he has a choice if he wants to parttake in the project and while he does most of the work... you get a 'profit for the cause'.
This way the organisations who are "better at helping people" will gain revenue through the economic markets.
Now we go there... help a few... and leave when the money runs out. Which is a rediculous way of thinking.Mar 14 2013: yep that's a lot better concept for 'charity'.
Although in my view they can keep the 2% and re-invest it in themselves (they could even keep more for a certain time).
Main concept is though that you can use the markets for good.
It's why green energy will be abundant in the near future... markets will be able to make a profit (or well they make less loss) by using green energy over certain other types of energy.Mar 18 2013: Well, you forget the idea of exponential growth (edit: sorry for my wrong wording, should be closer to what I mean now): even if the amount spend on the cause in the first year is the same as it is now, it will be bigger in the years to follow. This is mentioned by Pallotta with the example of amazon, which didn't make any profit in the first years.
I think the only thing that could be problematic lies in the question why is spending on charity stuck at 2%? Palottas answer obviously is because charities do not have the means to grow (i.e. they can't take the money from the competitor, the for-profit-sector). But it also could be that this number won't grow no matter what you do - it could be a constant (under current ethical standards etc.). We can't know unless it is tried - a community-based experiment would be really interesting. I actually doubt that it is a constant.
Mar 18 2013: Hello Juliane,
Thanks for your reply.
However you have a strange idea of what the term inflation is (don't be discouraged). Because say that inflation is 1% that means that to buy the same thing you bought exactly 1 year ago, you now need 1% more money to buy.
So if your salary goes up by 1% then you can buy exactly the same stuff you could last year (given that you do not have any savings and spend all the money you make... which I know sounds silly but otherwise the explanation becomes needlessly complicated :D).
What inflation means is that the total value represented by your amount of money drops as time passes. That is if you have 1000$ now you can buy 1000$ of products now. Then in 1 year from now (given the 1% inflation) the same products would cost 1010$.
What you probably mean is that (in general) the growth of GDP > inflation. And therefor the value gained by the charities is slightly higher even though it is still 2% of GDP.
Which is often true. But is not the point I'm making.
To get to the point I am making:
You say that "the for-profit sector" is the competitor of the "non-profit sector".
What I say is that ALL evidence I can see in his talk points to the "non-profit sector" being the competitor of the "non-profit sector".
Added to that it seems like competition between charities is heavily skewed towards the charity spending most on advertisement (that being almost equal to "Least on helping people!").
Also the "for-profit sector" is what makes up the GDP.
So the relationship between the for-profit and the non-profit sector is complex.
Now Dan does not say ANYTHING about this in his talk... which strikes me as odd.
Mar 18 2013: short answer first: I just confused wording - I didn't mean inflation - I meant exponential growth (the concept that growth induces more growth etc.) - I somehow seem to connect that with inflation :S
for the rest, let me try to sort this a bit: the GDP is the total income of the population (it we put it simple), which can be spent in different ways. thus it can either be spent on non-profit or profit (e.g. you can either buy a coke or donate the same amount of money). in this way profit and non-profit-sector compete. what makes it complex is the fact that the money you donate does not directly contribute to the economy (even though indirectly a lot of charities do).
and of course he did not talk about this as he does not have any data supporting thesis 1 that non-profit-sector and profit-sector compete. however, there is also no data supporting thesis 2 that more advertisment leads ONLY to competition among charities (I think there already is a minor competition among charities). Both of theses theses are logical and he supports the first. as I said it should examined experimentally. I think he just did not consider this. The data he gives lead neither in the one nor in the other direction.Mar 18 2013: Well the data he gives is that "his charities did awesome" while "spending on charities remained on 2% GDP".
His conclusion then is "More charities should do what I did".
While if spending remains at 2% (which he sais it does) it basically means that you must be getting the $ from your competitors.
Which then means that nobody should do the stuff he did.
Now I'm not saying which it is.... I'm just saying that it needs to be thought of.
He can say he's the new messiah of charities... but he won't convince me untill he can show where I'm wrong.
First things last ;)
I kinda figured you meant growth of GDP. So I guess I answered that.
Second point on that though.
If you buy a coke then that coke had to be produced, if it was produced in your own country then your money actually adds to the GDP of your country.
Now if you give money to a charity... then it becomes more complex, part of that will also add to GDP as they have to buy stuff themselves. But a lot of money actually gets spend in the countries that need the aid.
Now ofcourse you only spent your money once... But when you poor it into the GDP then it pretty much only moves within your country.
Say that you buy a piece of furniture in your home town. The guy who sold you the thing takes a % the country takes part of it as well. Then the guy who made it gets a piece and then eventually whoever made the fabrics used in it gets something (this is usualy in another country).
So let's say that 60% of the money you spent actually attributes to the GDP (assuming that most products you buy are from your own country).
Then all these guys get an income... and the economy forms a somewhat closed loop. (the usa is fairly open and I don't really know the %'s.. I'm not some professor in economics or anything).
But I really do not see how the "non-profit sector" must compete for your money with the "profit sector", as the profit sector means that money is added to the GDP.Mar 13 2013: Must depend where you live. In my neighborhood, going door-to-door during the day would not yield much since most people are working, or sleeping because they work at night. And also there are neighborhoods that are not conducive to walking. In my in-laws neighborhood, many of the streets don't have sidewalks. And of course if you live in a rural area, the homes could be widespread. I might get a kid selling candy for school, but I have never had a registered 501(c)(3) charity knock on my door.
Do you give to each and every charity that knocks on your door? And do you still do due diligence to see if the local arthritis chapter does indeed make good use of your collection.
But you know somtimes local station donate local air time to charities, or give a reduced rate. One billboard company will put up a billboard for a nonprofit if it has no commercial customer for it. There are ways to be more efficient and creative, but even those that seem simple do have some kind of cost. Maybe minimal, but not free.
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Mar 13 2013: Concerning free publicity: Someone has to organize a flash mob, get the word out, figure out what's going to happen, get permission at the location you're going to have it. So you are still paying for this.
Door to door knocking: Again, someone has to recruit volunteers for this, train the volunteers, provide them with the materials they need, organize the day so the volunteers know what routes to take and doors to knock on, probably want to supply volunteers with t-shirts and some kind of credentials so the homeowners realize this is a legit thing. You're probably going to have to provide snacks and drinks as well, or put in the time to get sponsors to do it. Are you just sending volunteers out willy-nilly or have you got a targeted area? I don't know about you, but I don't have many charities knocking on my door.Mar 14 2013: "My money is going to a charity who is helping the cause, and not a charity who's main goal is tripling it's money and after that they might look at the cause."
With all due respect, I think this is short-sighted view and Pallotta addresses this type of thinking directly. You seem to paint people whose goal if tripling money for the cause as somehow not caring about the cause. NGO's NEED some business-minded people who can raise revenue to support the cause.
Here is a hypothetical question I would like you to answer, pulled directly from Pallotta's talk: Which charity is doing more to solve an issue: The charity that spends 10% on overhead/fundraising and 90% on solving the issue, but never nets more than $5,000,000 total, or the charity that spends 30% on fundraising/overhead and 70% on solving the issue, but each year they grow by $5,000,000? In 10 years, the 70/30 charity is putting $35,000,000 toward solving the issue, while the 90/10 charity is still only putting $4,500,000 toward the same solution.
So which charity is spending it's money more wisely? 70/30 or 90/10? For me, the answer is clear.
Mar 14 2013: The question is where is this extra money coming for the 70/30? If the donation pool is fixed at 2% then you have to assume that the 70/30 makes more by redirecting money that would have otherwise been given to another charity, possibly a 90/10 charity. In fact very likely if your spending alot more on marketing then the 90/10 charity. If this is the case then you have just taken money out of the charity system and put it in to the marketing industry.
Apr 1 2013: The point is that with effective marketing, the donation pool would grow. That this is not a zero sum game.


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