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Google is constantly testing and tweaking its search results pages and presentation of ads, with the aim of better UX and of course, monetising its pages more effectively.
The two are not mutually exclusive, as the better the user experience, the more people are likely to use it and therefore attract advertisers and clicks.
Dr Peter J Meyers, Marketing Scientist at Moz, has been keeping tabs on tests carried out by Google, and he has some very interesting predictions of what the SERPs will look like next year.
His article on Moz.com looks at a number of changes, including the knowledge graph and greater use of boxed results, but I'll be focusing on changes to the appearance and placement of PPC ads.
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Dr Meyers launched "Project Algo Alert" last year, which would later become MozCast. The original intention was to measure fluctuations in keyword rankings, but this has evolved into various 'weather' stations.
One of those systems is Feature Alert, which detects when Google launches new search features. The Moz article explains this better than I could.
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A side effect of the system is that, at large scale, it frequently catches Google in the act of testing new features and UI changes. Keep in mind that Google ran 7,018 "live traffic experiments" in 2012 – while we probably capture only a small number of them, these tests allow us to get a glimpse into what's coming next.
While any given change may be rejected (Google launched just over 9% of the changes they tested last year), some changes appear repeatedly in testing and in different formats over time, strongly suggesting that Google is intent on launch.
Another area to look at is mobile. Google is anxious to repeat its desktop ad success on mobile, so it's the focus for many UI experiments.
For example, the yellow text denoting paid ads was recently introduced on mobile, but Google looks to be bringing this to desktop search (see below).
How will Google change its ad formats?
Dr Meyers has provided us with a number of screenshots showing future ad formats.
Yellow ad labels
Here, the ads are marked more prominently with the yellow 'ad' text, something Dr Meyers believes is due to the EU settlement, rather than by choice.
However, while the ads are more clearly labelled, aside from that the ads look more like organic results, as if Google is trying to offset the effect of the label.
As on mobile, Google is also testing ads at the foot of the search results page:
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This is an interesting test, and could be a very big change. With Google's Knowledge graph, we're accustomed to seeing useful information related to searches here, such as this one for Newcastle Utd.
It seems that Google is now testing large paid placements in this area:
This is potentially a very big change, as these ads don't really look like ads. In fact, Dr Meyers calls them 'ads in sheep's clothing'.
The product specifications make it look more informational than advertorial, and it could be that Google has been 'training' us to look for info on the right hand side to make it more likely that we'll click there.
Insurance ads
Here's another one, for insurance. While the ads have the familiar shading, the presentation is more informational than ad-like. This seems to have been tested and then rolled back:
Is Google attempting to make ads seem less like ads?
I have suspected that Google has tweaked the background of its paid ads now and then, seemingly to make the ad shading less visible, and therefore more like an organic result.
It has also been experimenting with banner ads for some brand searches, something which contradicted previous statements from Google.
Also, the ads for its insurance comparison have done away with the shading, making them a kind of hybrid paid/organic result.
Dr Meyers also predicts that Google may start to place ads within organic results, rather than sticking to the top and bottom of pages, as it aims to improve their effectiveness.
I asked him if Google is seeking to make ads less 'ad-like':
Conspiracies aside, the economic reality is that Google is a roughly $60bn company with over 80% of its revenue wrapped up in advertising, and the vast majority of that is click-based.
With consumer behavior on mobile evolving rapidly, there is tremendous pressure on Google to drive more ad clicks. At the same time, it's under increasing scrutiny from US and EU regulators, so is fighting a difficult war right now. If Google has to give into the EU and label ads, then it's going to be working hard to offset that with new tactics.
What do you think? Are these changes likely to happen? How will they affect paid search marketing?
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This is a great article. Thank you...too bad MozCast cant fire off alerts indicating what the changes are in relation too.
As someone who is heavily engaged in online advertising, I love the idea of having my ads in place of the cards in Googles' knowledge graph.
It looks as though they plan on reinventing paid search and the much-coveted "top" position could end up being #2 for e-commerce queries.
I think Google will be reaching a tipping point with ads, they are becoming too much. The attraction to Google when it took off were spam free results on a clear page with no flashing gif banners or other distractions (weather reports, latest news, clock etc like many other sites tried with the homepage/portal approach). Advertisers/retailers may think this is good, more chance to push products through Google ads but I think they will quickly see how the organic results are being pushed out meaning they are effectively paying for traffic they used to get for free. This not long after Google has given SEO a bit of a kick in the teeth with 'not provided' keywords it seems as though Google really really wants you to spend more on PPC.
It may take a bit of time for the average punter who uses Google (unlike us they don't find extra ad extensions interesting) to notice that the ads are taking over but when they do they may start looking elsewhere.
Earlier in the year people really started to take notice of privacy with the NSA/GCHQ snooping and realised Google know practically everything about you and don't appear to value privacy. I can see privacy and advertising beginning to push people away from Google, perhaps to a new start up coming into the market, one that just provides simple clean results free of spam and advertising… Rather like Google used to be.
Nice article. I find the back and forth between EU & Google on making the fact that they're ads more prominent interesting, when there's been plenty of research that shows most people don't realise they're ads anyway (I think sometimes we're blinded to that when working in digital and it seems painfully obvious to us). It's an interesting debate to be had - how "obvious" should the ads be, and how much will this affect users' likelihood of clicking on them?.
This stuff's especially relevant for SEO also - for many searches, with an image carousel at the top, PPC ads with site-links & extensions, Google shopping feed, etc,. the first organic result is almost, if not actually, below the fold. Combined with Hummingbird's focus on intent based SERPs rather than keyword specific, personalised results based on location, device, user, and increase of "not provided" in GA means the old mantra of "I need to rank in the top 3 for these keywords" is no longer relevant.
@@Darren – I agree you'd be surprised how many people don't realise which are ads, I think Google is running a dangerous game in the long term if they don't make it clear (perhaps why they would put the yellow Ad tag on them) as if people use Google for some time, and use the fancy new images, price comparisons etc then come to the realization that it's all just advertising it leave a bitter taste.Darren
One thing I think we might see is the inclusion of the certified stores logos, and I also wonder if we might also see some surfacing of the consumer surveys functionality.
I think Google will try to do more to increase trust in their results, give consumers some real value-ads with the results to give them reasons to click on ads instead of natural, but also to try and maintain Google's position as the search engine of choice.
Very interesting article and comments - I was well aware of most of teh examples and discussion points, but hadn't thought about the final thought that we might start seeing PPC ads within organic results...
Bring on 2014!
Amazing how prescient this article was - over the last few years, Google has definitely been trying to make ads look less like ads.
In large part they have succeeded both on Text Ads and Google Shopping Ads.
Will be interesting to see where they take it going forward, because organic is getting less and less real estate with every subsequent new release of Google Search results.

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SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - Jan 31, 2013) - Q Therapeutics, Inc., an emerging biotechnology company developing innovative cell therapy products for the treatment of debilitating diseases of the central nervous system, today announced that the Company is scheduled to present at the 15th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference. Hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the 15th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference will take place February 11-12, 2013 at The Waldorf Astoria New York.
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Okay, so long story short: My sister said last year that she wondered if she had a gluten intolerance. I have lately been so lethargic, it was truly scaring me. Not only that, but I had been showing signs of nutritional deficiencies: cracked/chapped lips, extreme dandruff, not being 'regular', irregular TOM.
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The minute I eliminated gluten, I no longer hurt after eating. I always thought that 'pain' I felt was hunger and needing more food. Boy, was I wrong! I am no longer ever hungry. This next part is the one that is going to be difficult for me to say, because I've been embarrassed by this and have never known what was going on… I have 2 boils on pantyline, which aren't uncommon, and I attributed them to my weight and also sweating. Well, lo and behold those boils went from inflamed the size of a little smaller than a golf ball, to inflamed the size of a pea and fading, not even 4 days into the diet change. Coincidence? I think not.
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She started her organization Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People (ESOP) to mobilize communities around issues affecting their neighborhoods, like high rates of predatory lending leading on home loans. ESOP has now helped more than 10,000 families fight foreclosure on their homes.
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When 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, the movement to clean up our air and water and to prevent our world from becoming one big garbage dump was born. Before the year was out, Congress passed -- and President Nixon signed -- the Clean Air Act, establishing the Environmental Protection Agency as the guardian of all that we breathe and, eventually, the water we drink.
Over the years, the EPA has served us well by regulating the pollution that would otherwise make our air and water toxic. And while the agency remains vigilant on that front, it has been charged with an even more difficult and important responsibility: preserving a livable world for future generations by cutting the greenhouse-gas pollution that is slowly roasting our civilization.
To be clear, this is a responsibility thrust upon the EPA by Congress' failure to act. For decades now, scientists have warned that the carbon-based fuels we burn to keep us comfortable, manufacture our products and get us from one place to another are driving carbon dioxide levels to dangerous heights.
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that we have a "carbon budget" that, at current rates of emission, will be exceeded in a few decades. Busting that budget will lead to warming beyond the 2 degrees Celsius scientists tell is, if not safe, at least manageable.
Acting on this information, and seeing no solution forthcoming from Congress any time soon, President Obama is using his executive authority on a broad range of initiatives to cut carbon. The one generating the most heat is his directive to the EPA to develop regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants. The proposed rules will make it impossible to open new coal-fired power plants that don't capture and sequester carbon and will force some existing plants to eventually shut down.
Pushback and posturing has already begun. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who represents coal-rich Kentucky, has introduced legislation to block the EPA's proposed rules, even though Congress can't block a regulation until it is finalized.
It's understandable that Republicans, who, generally speaking, wish to decrease the size of government, are not big fans of new EPA regulations. But how, then, can we as a nation take responsibility for reducing the carbon pollution that poses such great risk to future generations?
The answer lies in a market-based solution favored by a number of conservatives: Put a tax on carbon and give the revenue back to the people.
Conservative economists from Romney adviser Greg Mankiw to Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz argue that the free market normally gravitates to things that are good for our society. There are times, however, when the price of something does not reflect its damage, the cost of which is borne by society. Such is the case with fossil fuels, whose price does not reflect the health, security and environmental costs that arise from their use. If we fix this price distortion -- through a steadily-increasing tax -- the market will gravitate toward cleaner energy and energy efficiency without the need for regulations or subsidies.
Detractors who argue against a carbon tax say it will kill jobs, drag down the economy and burden families with higher energy bills. But a well-designed carbon tax that recycles revenue back to households and into the economy would protect families from rising costs and actually add jobs. A recent study by Regional Economic Models, Inc. found that a carbon tax in California, even at very high levels, would increase GDP and add hundreds of thousands of jobs, provided the revenue is returned to the public, either as tax cuts or direct payments.
The other main argument against a carbon tax -- that it will put American businesses at a disadvantage with foreign competitors -- can be easily dismissed by placing border tariffs on imports from nations that do not have an equivalent price on carbon. Such tariffs would provide the incentive for other nations to adopt similar policies, making the revenue-neutral carbon tax a solution that is global in scope.
The original Earth Day crystalized a movement that brought us the agency charged with protecting the purity of our air and water. Rather than attacking the EPA for trying to do what Congress has failed to do -- address climate change -- our lawmakers can rise to the challenge and enact a national tax on carbon that gives revenue back to the people.


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Eden's KDH Defense Systems to lay off 280
Eden's KDH Defense Systems to lay off 280
A company that makes custom body armor for the military will lay off 280 employees in January.
KDH Defense Systems in Eden is laying off the workers because a contract is running out, company officials told WXII on Thursday.
About 460 people currently work at the 140,000 square-foot plant, which is located at 750 Fieldcrest Road in Eden.
The company began in 2003 to produce American-made custom body armor. In 2009 it moved from Pennsylvania to Eden.
Rockingham County has one of the higher unemployment rates in the Triad at 10.5 percent.
Correction: We had originally reported that the company was shutting down in addition to the layoffs. We have since learned the company is not shutting down, but the layoffs are still happening.


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By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IAC/InteractiveCorp's said that growth in its search business would slow from the "meteor ride" of the past two years, but it was confident of double-digit growth for the "foreseeable future."
Shares of IAC were unchanged at about $43 in after hours trading on Wednesday after the company reported a 28 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenue, slightly exceeding Wall Street targets.
Executives at the Web holding company sought to dispel concerns that industry changes were taking a toll on its search business, which includes the Ask.com website and accounts for roughly half of IAC's revenue.
"The growth rates will slow from the meteor ride we were on in 2011 and 2012, but we've been saying that would happen since the ride started," said IAC Chief Executive Greg Blatt on a conference call with analysts on Wednesday. "We're confident this segment should yield double-digit growth for the foreseeable future."
Shares of IAC have been under pressure, falling roughly 20 percent since October, on concerns that recent policy changes at Google Inc and consumers adoption of mobile devices would erode revenue in its search business.
Executives said the impact of changes to Google's search algorithm had not hurt traffic and monetization of IAC's online proprieties as drastically as some investors feared. And executives said the company saw significant opportunities to grow its business among users of smartphones and tablet PCs.
"They went to pains to clear up that confusion," said Jefferies & Co analyst Brian Fitzgerald. "The takeaway was Q1 is going to feel some impact from search changes but long-term the business is not going away."
The company for the first time provided a financial forecast, projecting that consolidated revenue and operating income before amortization in the first quarter would grow in the "strong double digits, high-teens range."
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S were looking for Q1 revenue of $775.1 million, which would represent a roughly 21 percent increase from the year before.
IAC has amassed a wide variety of online properties in the online search, dating and media markets. In September, IAC spent $300 million to acquire the About Group from the New York Times Co.
IAC incurred $11.5 million in charges in the fourth quarter, with $7 million of the charges related to IAC's decision to cease print publication of Newsweek Daily Beast and to make it an online-only publication.
Net income for the quarter ended December 31 was $40.7 million, or 43 cents per share, versus $48.8 million, or 53 cents per share in the year-ago period. Excluding certain items, IAC said it had EPS of 70 cents.
IAC Chairman Barry Diller said in response to a question during the conference call that spinning off any of the company's assets was always a possibility, but that there were no such plans at this time.
"We think the best configuration is a consolidated number of businesses that we think relate to each other," Diller said.
He said the company would continue to buy back stock opportunistically and to pay a dividend.
IAC's search business increased sales by 30 percent in the fourth-quarter to $403.6 million. Revenue in IAC's online dating segment rose 16 percent to $182.6 million.
Overall, IAC's revenue in the fourth quarter was $765.3 million, compared with $596.9 million in the year-ago period and above the $758.1 million expected by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
(Reporting By Alexei Oreskovic; editing by Gunna Dickson and Bob Burgdorfer)


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About $3 trillion in customer balances at brokerage firms is not invested in stocks or bonds but sits in money market funds or FDIC-insured sweep accounts.
Despite the run-up in equity markets and a return to something approaching full investment by the general public, these balances (which I estimated from Investment Company Institute data and reports by bank-affiliated broker-dealers) are historically large, reflecting a continued bias toward conservative investing.
Yields are very low for these products but customers accept that in exchange for safety and convenience.
However, impending troubles exist in all these products:
- Money market funds may be forced to use floating net asset values and expose customers to risk of loss of principal. The Financial Stability Oversight Council is pushing this change, thinking it would add safety to the money market fund product. The industry argues it will drive customers out of the product in droves.
- FDIC-insured sweep accounts are suffering from a lack of banks to accept the deposits that brokerage firms bundle to get customers the FDIC protection and some rate of return. If analysts are correct and money market funds see customers fleeing, those customers will likely land in FDIC sweeps but there will not be sufficient capacity to accommodate them.
- Brokerage credit interest programs. All broker-dealers have a product to place uninvested funds in, and before money funds and FDIC sweeps were invented this was the only option for parking cash available to broker-dealer customers. However they pay a very low rate of interest, and require a broker-dealer to have capital to support the product line. Broker-dealers are still recovering from five years of mediocre results, and don't have the capital if there is a flight from money funds and FDIC sweeps into credit interest products.
The likely outcome if floating NAV is enacted will be that a large fraction of the above balances will land in bank deposits in retail form.
Banks, already way long on deposits, will end up paying even lower rates as funds flood in.
As policy matters go, no loans will be made that would not have otherwise been made given the surplus, so the regulators' pushing money funds out of business in favor of banks accomplishes very little in economic stimulus, but may keep a downward pressure on interest rates.
For example from September 2009 until September 2012 banks' net loans and leases grew by only about $200 billion, but deposits grew by more than $1 trillion, according to Federal Reserve data.
Brokerage firms have spent the last 10 years trying to provide full services including check writing and paying interest on uninvested balances to customers so they can compete with banks. This has been in response to banks trying to steal the investment business from brokerage firms.
If we are supposed to have learned one lesson from the last five years, it should be that banks don't do that great a job of managing anything, let alone mixing lines of business.
As a policy matter, brokerage firms provide diversity and insulate customers from overconcentration of risk in a shrinking number of banks.
We should remember that money market funds were created in the 1980s as a consumer proposition and took hold because they competed with banks and paid much higher yields to customers.
If they cease to exist even when rates allow higher consumer deposit rates, banks won't pay them if they don't have money funds to keep them honest.
The regulators should stand up for the values financial advisors bring to the table and allow competition between banks and broker-dealers to thrive.
Let the money funds stay at a stable NAV and don't give the banks a freebie.
Richard Heitman is the president of Heitman Financial Services Consulting, which helps broker-dealers find partner banks for their FDIC sweep programs. He can be reached at richardhheitman (at) gmail.com.


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Blood Safety and Availability
Definition of the Prevention Area
Blood transfusion is an essential part of modern medical care. Inadequate and unsafe blood supply causes avoidable deaths and transmits infectious diseases, including HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis. Preventing transfusion of unsafe blood through improved screening of donors and testing processes, and increasing participation of voluntary, non-remunerated blood donors (VNRD) can significantly reduce the spread of HIV. A safe blood supply also protects the health of people living with HIV by ensuring they do not receive blood transfusions contaminated with such blood-borne infections as hepatitis B or C.
Epidemiological Justification for the Prevention Area
Transfusion of blood infected with HIV is one of the most effective modes of transmission of the virus. The risk of acquiring HIV infection following transfusion with HIV-positive blood has been estimated to be as high as 70 to 91 percent. Implementing a national testing and donor selection algorithm that establishes the tests to be used significantly reduces the potential of transmitting infectious diseases. In a 2009 study of Kenya's screening algorithm, even highly rigorous nucleic acid testing (NAT) failed to outperform the national algorithm in detecting units of blood infected with HIV.
Approximately 80 percent of the world's supply of safe blood goes to 20 percent of the population, mostly in developed countries. There is a chronic shortage of safe blood in sub-Saharan Africa where, in some areas, hemorrhage leading to blood loss accounts for up to 44 percent of maternal deaths and approximately half of transfused blood goes to children under five years of age with anemia due to malaria or malnutrition. Africa has the lowest blood donation rate per capita in the world, so often family members are asked to provide blood for the person in need of transfusion. These "replacement donors" are at greater risk for transmissible diseases than are VNRD, particularly repeat donors. In addition, blood shortages may lead to release of blood for transfusion before testing is completed, further adding to the potential for disease transmission. These problems are exacerbated in regions with high endemic rates of transmissible diseases. Therefore, it is important to recruit potential donors who are least likely to harbor transfusion-transmissible infectious agents.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint U.N. Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) recommend VNRD as the foundation of a safe blood supply. Because VNRD donate motivated by altruism rather than by financial or institutional pressure, they are more likely to meet the medical selection criteria for safe donors, to disclose any known possibility of risk exposure, and to donate blood regularly and at properly spaced intervals. However, many countries are faced with misconceptions and fear of testing, which results in a limited number of VNRD. Countries are challenged to find creative recruitment methods to combat misconceptions about blood donation and to motivate the public to donate. Many countries have targeted youth donors under the age of 25 because youth have the lowest HIV prevalence, and blood donor mobilization activities provide opportunities to promote healthier lifestyle choices that mitigate risk over time. Some countries have created social and sporting clubs for blood donors to improve retention and create an identity and pride regarding blood donation.
Core Programmatic Components
The primary objective of international blood safety programs such as that of WHO is reducing transmission of infectious diseases through blood transfusion and collecting an adequate supply of blood to meet the needs of the country. This may include the following:
- Establishing supportive policies and legal frameworks for the national blood program
- Strengthening the infrastructure of the national blood transfusion service
- Increasing blood collections from VNRD
- Establishing a comprehensive quality assurance system for the blood program, covering the entire transfusion process from donor recruitment, blood collection, production of blood components, testing, storage, transport, and maintenance of the cold chain, to transfusion to the patient
- Improving the capacity of human resources through a structured training and education program
- Improving data management (patient and donor) monitoring and evaluation of all blood transfusion activities.
A key aspect of improving blood safety is testing for transmissible diseases. However, up to 13 million units, or about 40 percent of the global blood supply, are not screened for all relevant transfusion-transmissible infections. There are several reasons for this, including 1) erratic stream of blood screening supplies; 2) erratic power supply; 3) lack of trained personnel; 4) use of outdated laboratory supplies; 5) poor, out-of-date testing methods that cannot ensure safety (e.g., that do not detect recent HIV infection); 6) cost of reagents; and 7) failure to complete testing when physicians request "fresh blood" to be transfused immediately after collection from the donor, which may not allow adequate time to complete the testing process.
Current Status of Implementation Experience
In a 2007 WHO survey of 148 countries, 41 reported that they were not able to test all donated blood for HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and syphilis. WHO estimates that the lack of effective screening continues to result in up to 16 million new infections with hepatitis B, 5 million new infections with hepatitis C, and 160,000 cases of HIV infection every year. Effective blood safety interventions could reduce the transmission of HIV and other infections. Blood safety initiatives could also protect investments in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programming by optimizing chances that PMTCT clients do not die during childbirth because of lack of blood.
Broad uptake of HIV testing and counseling holds promise for increasing the proportion of potential donors who know their HIV status, making it an important complementary component of PEPFAR's prevention programming. In addition, blood donor recruitment campaigns present an opportunity for HIV prevention messaging.
Over the past five years, several developing countries have made significant improvements to their national blood programs, including renovation of facilities, increased blood collection, staff training, and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems. However, additional work is needed to ensure that all blood is screened for infectious diseases, that blood is appropriately used according to nationally established guidelines, and that an adequate supply of blood is available to meet the needs of each country. In addition, several exciting new technologies are evolving, including pathogen inactivation, which should be assessed for feasibility and cost-effectiveness in the developing world. Going forward, the foundation of a safe and adequate blood supply will be a pool of low-risk, VNRD, a stringent health history screening process, and a national testing algorithm.


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It's that time of year again, the time when applications begin flooding into colleges and universities nationwide. As you get set to do the same—or maybe more importantly, as you begin your high school career—here's the top 5 things that will make you a better college prospect…
5. Don't wait until junior year. Too many students make the grave mistake of "slacking off" during their freshman and sophomore years. Unfortunately for those students, college admissions offices don't look the other way at those years when that happens. The first two years count, as well, so start well and finish strong.
4. Challenge yourself…smartly. Post-secondary schools want to see that you're taking rigorous college preparatory curriculum throughout your high school career (again, from freshman year on). However, if you're still struggling with the definition of a function, AP Calculus probably isn't your best bet.
3. Get involved…but not just to be involved. It's important to be involved in extracurricular activities, from sports, to theater, to community service organizations. Don't, however, just join to say you're a member. Be committed, and even strive for a leadership position or special honor within the organization, for that, too, will be looked highly upon by colleges.
2. Set yourself apart in the application process. "Well, duh," you might be saying, "isn't that the whole point of this thing?" And, of course, it is. What I mean by this, though, is use your essay, letter(s) or recommendation, and all the other supplementary materials wisely. Make the individual of your application say, "Wow, this student's different—in a good way—and we need him/her on our campus." Who knows, maybe that'll even help lessen the blow of that C in 10th grade English.
1. Maintain a solid academic record. There's obviously much more to it than this (see above), but quality grades and test scores are a critical part of the process. At most places, you won't need a 4.3 GPA and 35 ACT, but it's imperative to work and work throughout your high school career to make sure you are where you need to be when it comes time to start filling out those applications.
Dave Floyd is an Admissions Counselor at Waynesburg University, whose travel territory includes Westmoreland County, Eastern Pennsylvania and the Northeast states. He is also a 2012 Waynesburg alumnus.


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Motorola hasn't released any new hardware for a good while, so it comes as no surprise that we're now seeing an influx of rumors about new Motorola hardware. The latest rumor to pop up comes from Motorola's own site; a new landing page for the Motorola DROID ULTRA has popped up. Not much is on the site, but a small text box tells us to "think thin" and that the DROID ULTRA will be available in "a bunch of glossy colors." That same text box talks about a DuPont Kevlar body and says that "you can be even thinner and still be tough as steel."
That's all that we really know for now. There's a spec list on the page, but as Droid Life noted it's entirely identical to the RAZR M's spec list. We can assume that means the specs are likely a placeholder. With all that said, it doesn't sound like this is the Moto X for Verizon. But it could be part of a new lineup of phones for Motorola that includes the Moto X. This lineup is likely to take the place of the current RAZR lineup on Verizon. The Moto X could possibly be available on all carriers. It's good to see that Motorola appears to have a plan going forward, and we're certainly excited to get our grubby, little hands on these new devices.
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The House on Wednesday evening rejected a proposal to allow tax cuts on the wealthy to expire, instead passing an alternative bill to preserve existing tax rates for a year, an act of political theater setting up a contentious post-election fight.
The Republican-controlled House voted 256 to 171 to preserve current tax rates, which were first enacted by President George W. Bush in 2001 and later extended in 2010 for another two years with President Barack Obama's support.
In a separate vote, the House shot down, 170 to 257, a Democratic bill to extend current tax rates past the end of this year only for households earning less than $250,000 per year and individuals earning less than $200,000 per year. This plan has the current backing of the president, and was approved last week by the Senate. Nineteen Democrats joined a unanimous GOP conference on the vote.
The vote virtually ensures that the fate of the expiring tax cuts won't be decided until after the election. Though House GOP leaders wrote Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday to say they "stand ready to bring the House back into session for the purpose of enacting solutions" as it relates to taxes or the automatic defense cuts set for Jan. 1, leaders in both parties have conceded that a truce unlikely.
The House is set to break for recess after Thursday's votes, leaving few legislative days left on the calendar before the election.
Rather, leaders in both parties have generally acknowledged that the fate of the tax cuts are likely to be determined as an outgrowth of the election. That factor has only heightened the political positioning of these votes, which were orchestrated more as a messaging instrument than as a legislative solution.
To that end, the result in the House was the reverse of what happened last week in the Senate, which approved a version of the Democratic bill and rejected the Republican alternative to extend all the expiring tax cuts for a year and require Congress to work on tax reform in the meanwhile.
Senate Republicans dropped procedural objections to the Democratic bill -- which would extend current tax rates past the end of this year only for households earning less than $250,000 per year and individuals earning less than $200,00 per year -- as a way of putting rival lawmakers on record in support of a tax hike heading into an election season.
The Senate voted 51-48 in favor of that proposal, though two retiring senators -- Virginia's Jim Webb, a Democrat, and Connecticut's Joe Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with Democrats -- sided with Republicans.
President Obama spent much of the day on the campaign trail railing against his Republican opponent's tax plan.
"He's asking you to pay more so that people like him can get a big tax cut," the president said of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's tax plan during a stop today in Ohio. "In order to afford just one $250,000 tax cut for somebody like Mr. Romney, 125 families like yours would have to pay another $2,000 in taxes each and every year."
Romney has said he supports extending the Bush tax cuts, so as to enable broader tax reforms in the next Congress.
"Keep the taxes in place that we have," he told CNBC's Larry Kudlow last month. "And then I would like to reform our tax code by bringing the rates down across the board for everybody."


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Resolve is a word the New Orleans Saints have used a lot, an awful lot actually, since their horrific 0-4 start back in September.
That four-game losing streak to start the season is the biggest reason the Saints are now looking at the end of the season, which will come Sunday against the Carolina Panthers.
A three-game losing streak later in the season didn't help, of course, but the 2012 Saints will point to the rocky start that had them in catch-up mode for the remainder of the season as the thing that did them in.
There's no question about it.
There's also no question that they can feel at least a little better about the season, even without qualifying for the postseason for the first time since 2008, if they can defeat the Panthers.
While there will be no playoffs, there is something to say for finishing 8-8.
It's a heck of a lot better — if by only one game — than being 7-9 with seven agonizing months to think about it before training camp begins in late July.
To Saints interim coach Joe Vitt, there's a big difference.
"You have a choice where you can be 7-9, which is a losing record, or you can be 8-8, which is .500," he said. "So, there's choices and consequences.
"There's not anyone in our building happy with 8-8," Vitt added. "I'll never be happy with 8-8, but the other choice we have is to be 7-9. That's a losing record."
While the difference is only one game, Vitt said it will say a lot about the 2012 Saints in the final analysis.
With a chance to throw in the towel on Oct. 1, one day after dropping a heartbreaking one-point decision to the Green Bay Packers on the road, the Saints gathered themselves and resolved to make things right.
If they win Sunday, they'll be 8-4 in their final 12 games.
"That speaks volumes for ourselves, too," Vitt noted. "That speaks volumes of who we are and what we are. I said it before — we are what we are."
Regardless of how it plays out, Vitt said he will remember how the coaching staff and players had the patience and confidence to hang in through some trying times without having suspended coach Sean Payton around.
It showed in their latest win, a 34-31 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. Despite giving up two touchdowns in a 31/2-minute span that sent the game to overtime, the Saints prevailed.
"It just goes to show the character of this locker room and coaches," said middle linebacker Curtis Lofton.
"With everything we've been through, to keep fighting and not give up, and just keep pushing and pushing and have a chance to be 8-8 — you have to take something from that."
That's why, Vitt said, this year's team will be one of his all-time favorites of a 34-year coaching career.
Their resolve has a lot to do with it.
"I think the way this team has hung together, the way this coaching staff has hung together, from a coaching and player standpoint," he said, "just the ability (they've had) to focus on every single day to get better."


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Walter Pall's main blog about bonsai and his work with trees from day to day. Lots of good pictures of good trees and lots of valuable information about bonsai.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
new pot for Japanese White pine #1
After serious redesign last summer I slip potted the tree into this super pot by John Pitt from England. Mid of April is a good time to repot white pines here, but slip potting is always OK. The rootball goes into a larger container without being disturbed.
First try, one hour against the clock direction. Better, but not good enough.
Second try, two and half hours against the clock. This is how I had imagined the new design.
7 comments:
- Steve Moore said...
Talk about a tree with "presence!" Thanks for posting the pictures.
- March 21, 2012 at 9:18 PM
- Michael said...
I was wondering if you could comment on your pruning schedule with Japanese White Pines? I've read mixed material on maintaining a JWP's shape and promoting back-budding.
- March 22, 2012 at 4:49 PM
- Walter Pall said...
There is not so much more back budding that I want here. I don't do any different with these than with any pine. Pinching candles when they are long and already stretching. Very well draining substrate, aggressive watering every day, LOTS of feeding with LOTS of nitrogen, lots of organic, IRON, magnesium in addition, full sunshine. And they will grow like mad and bud back on you more than you need. With modern horticulture this is not a secret anymore.
- March 22, 2012 at 6:24 PM
- Al Polito said...
Beautiful tree. Is it a black pine trunk stock or straight-up White Pine?
- March 22, 2012 at 7:44 PM
- Al Polito said...
Beautiful tree. Is it a black pine trunk stock or is it a straight-up white pine trunk from the roots up?
- March 22, 2012 at 7:46 PM
- Walter Pall said...
Al Polito,
It's grafted onto blak pine, but very well done, almost invisible.
- March 22, 2012 at 7:54 PM
- Bartłomiej Olejnik said...
Nice pine. Can't see graft. Greetings :)
- March 27, 2012 at 8:00 PM


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Regional banks enjoyed a blowout 2012 for mortgage revenue. But that may all come to an end this year.
That means investors can no longer count on a steady stream of glowing earnings-season headlines for mortgage growth or upward earnings-estimate revisions.
President Obama early last year expanded the Home Affordable Refinance Program, or HARP, to allow qualified borrowers with mortgage loans held by Fannie Mae (OTC:FNMA)
The expanded HARP, along with record-low interest rates, led to a 39% year-over-year increase in US mortgage loan origination volume to $1.75 trillion during 2012, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The low-rate environment also generated unusually high gains on the sale of newly originated loans to government-sponsored enterprises, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Many of the large regional mortgage lenders saw continual increases in mortgage lending volume and profit last year, but gain-on-sale margins were already beginning to soften during the fourth quarter.
Projecting Declines in Margins and Volume
The MBA estimates that total US mortgage origination volume will decline by 19% to $1.41 trillion this year, and drop another 25% to $1.061 trillion in 2014.
The Federal Reserve has kept the short-term federal funds rate in a record-low range of between zero and 0.25% since late 2008, and the Federal Open Market Committee has said this "highly accommodative" policy is likely to continue until the US unemployment rate declines to 6.5%. But investors are always looking ahead, and the market yield for 10-year US Treasury bonds has increased by 42 basis points over the past three months to around 2%.
Atlantic Equities analyst Richard Staite said in a January 29 report that a concurrent increase in yields on mortgage-backed securities (MBS) led to a contraction in the primary secondary mortgage spread to 82 basis points from an average of 123 during the fourth quarter.
Jefferies analyst Ken Usdin said in a report Friday that the median gain-on-sale margin for eight large-cap banks covered by his firm expanded to 3.16% in 2012 from 1.94% in 2011. Usdin also estimated that the median gain-on-sale margin would decline to 2.75% in 2013 and 2.33% in 2014. These combined figures exclude Regions Financial (NYSE:RF) of Birmingham, Ala., because "it does not offer the same granularity" as other large-cap regional banks covered by Jefferies, according to Usdin.
Jefferies also said mortgage production revenue for the group of eight large-cap banks more than doubled in 2012. The firm estimates that their mortgage production revenue will decline by 19% during 2013 and by another 24% in 2014.
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Usdin rates Wells Fargo "buy," with a $39 price target, estimating the company will earn $3.55 per share this year, with EPS increasing to $3.65 in 2014.
A Downgrade for SunTrustUsdin on Friday downgraded SunTrust (NYSE:STI)
Jefferies estimates that SunTrust's mortgage gain-on-sale margin will decline to 2.86% in 2013 from 3.29% in 2012, with the margin declining further to 2.61% in 2014. The firm also estimates that the bank's mortgage production revenue will decline to $828 million this year from $1.056 billion in 2012, declining further to $679 million in 2014.
Usdin estimates the company will earn $2.70 per share this year, with 2014 EPS of $2.85.
Taking It a Step FurtherJefferies conducted a "static test," which Usdin described as a "'what if?' scenario in which gain-on-sale margins reverted to 2011 levels overnight." The analyst said "banks in our stress test could see 5% negative EPS revisions for 2013 and 3% revisions in 2014 vs. our published EPS estimates."
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Under the "2011" scenario, SunTrust's 2013 EPS estimate would decline by $0.27 and his 2014 estimate would decline by $0.16.
For BB&T, Jefferies estimates earnings of $3.05 per share for both 2013 and 2014. Under the scenario of mortgage gain-on-sale margins reverting to 2011 levels, Usdin estimates that the company's earnings would decline by $.23 for 2013 and $.14 for 2014.
Usdin estimates that Fifth Third will earn $1.65 per share this year and in 2014. If gains-on-sale margins declined to 2011 levels, the analyst estimates the company's earnings would be lowered by $0.12 for 2013 and $0.07 for 2014.
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On January 18, Online Bed Quilt responds to an article published by Venture Beat, which describes the invention of a pair of glasses that could help insomniacs.
According to the article posted on Venture Beat, engineers from Flinders University in Australia developed eyeglasses that can help you accomplish whatever you want by using a light-provoked training method. The glasses, created and constructed by Re-Timer, were revealed at Consumer Electronics Show's Eureka Park last weekend. Re-Timer's operations manager Claire Hoban said the glasses were made after about 25 years of research conducted at the University.
The article said these glasses could be used to train insomniacs, or people who have trouble falling asleep, to actually get tired enough to go to bed. The glasses expel a green light, which is used to make you more alert. If you want to go to sleep earlier, the article said you should wear the Re-Timer glasses immediately when you wake up for about 50 minutes. If you tend to wake up earlier than you would like, wear the glasses for 50 minutes before you want to go to sleep.
Hoban said she evaded jet lag and had a better night sleep by wearing the glasses before she got on the plane to go to the CES in Las Vegas, Nev. from Australia. "You're training your body to a different rhythm," Hoban said in the article. "The green light activates the photoreceptors in your eyes and makes you more alert."
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