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Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)
From iPods to iPhones to MacBooks, Apple uses its "think different" approach to reframe computing, communication, and more.
Fortunately I bought this stock when Jobs was Ill and irrational pessimism about this company's future crushed its stock price. With the iPhone dominating here, soon to be in China, the iPod, iTouch, new Macs, and iToons this company looks to be on the verge of having a MS type of stock splits every 6 months.
So even though I'm finally getting around to green thumb this stock, it may be the stock which gets me those 100, 200, ... lucky charms, even if I did green thumb them late.
I am not as optimistic as you about AAPL, mainly because its valuation is already 30 years to the future (P/E) and its evaluated at roughly the same size as Google and IBM, and larger than Intel. How much bigger do you think they can go?
Nice timing!
Their earning was great and it does not include China which will begin selling iphones in a month. Parts of Europe is on their list as well.
Imagine this: i-movies or i-tv or i-application-anytlhing, maybe even i-Motley Fool, accessable on the television made available in the cloud. I think it is the next logical step with the advent of iPhones, iToons etc. What else is Apple, Microsoft, Google or anybody else going to do to make HD info available. At this point, I think Apple is the best at providing user solutions and the Market knows this, hence, $160B cap.
This has been my own lunitic thought since I began realizing the end game of the internet in the early 90's: I have always believed that the internet would be some sort of utility accessable via the TV set. Verizon's Fios is also a step in this direction. Eventually, We will access MF, banking stuff and take video conference calls as a regular part of life at home. Pretty wild for IBM i286 and Apple IIc and Windows 3.11 days. Not so hard to imagine "now-a-days". Beyond the TV thing, I am just another short sighted wack-job.
The iPhone is in China, has been for months...having some problems with look a like clones and outright counterfeits
I remain optimistic but wonder what the plans are for all that cash...? When it comes to the Mac - nothing but room, they continue to pick up market share at a regular clip and still represent a small portion of the PC market - its a big market...I continue to be long AAPL.
Despite creating a subsidiary to manage its cash hoard, Apple hasn't been doing anything especially innovative with its cash: http://jadedconsumer.blogspot.com/2008/08/cashing-in-at-apple.html
On the other hand Apple has had terrific success buying companies that provided a strategic advantage ...
... like software companies http://jadedconsumer.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-apples-software-strategy-part-ii-buy.html
... like service companies that leverage Apple's mobile user base to offer add-on post-sales revenue http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/01/08/apple-acquires-mobile-advertising-platform-quattro-wireless-apple-to-replace-google-with-its-own-advertising-platform/ or allow it to expand its music offerings http://www.gottabemobile.com/2009/12/05/apple-acquires-lala-music-streaming-on-the-way
... like the IP rights http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20060007222.PGNR.&OS=dn/20060007222&RS=DN/20060007222?jTKMo to Multitouch technology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY
... like the company whose engineers built Apple the A4 http://jadedconsumer.blogspot.com/2009/09/pa-semi-purchase-produces-products.html and http://jadedconsumer.blogspot.com/2009/12/apple-product-rumors-converge.html
... with which Apple will become the vendor of the world's digital paper http://jadedconsumer.blogspot.com/2010/01/apples-vocabulary.html
With this in mind, Apple's freedom to invest in R&D, large-scale key-component contracts, and other important competitive activities is aided by Apple's access to cash. Apple's strategic position isn't secured by clever "investment" of cash, but by intelligent acquisition of related businesses.


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- We will gladly exchange products that do not fit properly for the appropriate size. We will pay for the shipping of the new product back to you.
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- The product must be received within 10 days of the issue of the RMA, except for international orders, which will be accepted up to 20 days after the form is issued. Failure to receive the product within this time frame could result in refusal of the return.
- Once we have received your product, and documented that it is in excellent condition as detailed above, we will issue a refund to your credit card. This usually takes 21 to 28 days from when we receive the product. We normally send you an e-mail confirming the refund. However, you may not see the refund on your card until the next billing cycle. The refund we issue covers the purchase price of the product, plus tax, if applicable. The shipping charges to you (and back to us) are non-refundable. If the product is not in good condition, we will contact you and make arrangements to send it back to you, if you desire.
- If you sent the product back for an exchange (e.g., wrong size or style, product malfunction), we will send the new product back to you at our cost. This process also takes 21 to 28 days to process. You will receive an e-mail confirming that the new brace has been shipped. If you need the new brace quickly, we will suggest that you order the new brace on our web site immediately. Most braces are in stock and will ship the next business day. Once we receive your return, we will issue a refund to your credit card.
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Cryotherapy, or cold therapy, cools your injured joint and decreases pain and swelling after surgery of the knee, shoulder, or ankle with the use of this special ice machine. Better than Cryocuff!
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What is cryotherapy?
Cryotherapy is also known as cold therapy. This is the treatment of pain and/or inflammation by lowering the temperature of the skin over the affected area. It is probably the oldest form of pain control! In addition, it can significantly improve swelling after an injury or surgery.
What is so special about the PolarCare Cub?
The PolarCare Cub, made by Breg, is designed to maintain a constant cool temperature over the joint or extremity where you are having pain. Breg is one of the world's leading manufacturers of cold therapy devices. In addition to being very portable, the PolarCare Cub does not require any electricity. It has many advantages over other similar devices, such as the CryoCuff (see our comparison information for more details).
How does it work?
It couldn't be simpler! Simply fill the cooler up with ice, and then top it off with water. Apply the included pad to wherever you are experiencing pain (it has velcro straps keep the pad in place and conform it to your body). Then simply pump the hand-pump about 5 times. You will feel the results immediately! When the fluid in the pad gets warm (after about 15-20 minutes), you simply pump the handle a few times and the water re-circulates.
This is an excellent product to decrease your pain and swelling after surgery!
Included FREE!: Multipurpose XL pad for use on multiple joints such as the shoulder, knee, ankle, elbow.
Frequently asked questions about the PolarCare Cub include
The Polarcare Cub is the first cryotherapy unit we sold at JointHealing. We like it better than the Aircast Cryocuff for its design as well as the fact that it leaks less. Unlike some of the more expensive cryo units, this one does not require electricity and is therefore portable easily. -Dr. Farjo
- Which joints is it best used for? With the included multi-purpose pad, the PolarCare Cub is suitable for the following areas: knee, shoulder, ankle, thigh, leg/calf, forearm, and elbow.
- For which problems has this device been used? The PolarCare is used by physicians for treatment of all kinds of joint pain and swelling. It has applications in many disorders including acute injury (trauma, dislocation), chronic problems (tendonitis, bursitis), and after surgery to help control swelling and pain. Get back to work and/or sports sooner!
- Why is JointHealing.Com suggesting the use of this particular cold therapy device? Quite simply, we have tested all the available cold therapy units and found this one to be the best of the products that are portable and do not require electricity! The pad is useful for multiple joints as opposed to many competitor's pads which are only useful for one joint. The use of a hand pump to circulate the water is much easier than gravity, as some other units use (these other units require you to elevate the device above your extremity every 15 minutes, or so). If you are looking for a more low-cost cryotherapy device, consider our DuraKold cryotherapy packs.
- Why not just use an icebag? Well, that certainly is an option. However ice bags are messy. They need to be refrozen constantly. They have the capacity to cause skin burns if not used properly. When you are in serious pain, you want one solution, that will provide you consistent relief of your pain, without all the mess and fuss of icebags! If you are considering using an icebag, you should check out our DuraKold system; it is much less messy, and comes with reusable cold packs.
- I'm having surgery. Won't my insurance cover this device?
Insurance companies used to pay for these devices regularly. Many surgeons used them on virtually all of their patients. However, Medicare decided to discontinue reimbursement for cryotherapy devices, and most other insurance companies followed suit. There are still a few insurance companies that will pay for them, so you might want to check.
Sometimes, surgeons will request that the hospital give one of these to a patient after surgery. It used to be that the hospital would give it free of charge (because they made up the cost from all the other revenue they generated from surgery). However, now that reimbursements for hospitals have gone down as well, you can expect many, if not most, hospitals to send you a bill. This may be as much as $200 to $300 — Beware!
Your best bet is to find out BEFORE surgery whether it will be reimbursed or whether the hospital will sock you with a tremendous bill. If the latter is true, we doubt you will find this product less expensive anywhere else!
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Microsoft Woos Developers In An Attempt To Catch Apple & Google
It's no secret that Microsoft's Marketplace is struggling in comparison to Apple's App Store or Google's Android Market. If you browse through these three online application stores, you'll see that Apple and Google have many more applications to offer compared to Microsoft. In fact, Apple has about 225,000 apps and Google has 65,000 in their respective app stores. To make matters worse for Microsoft, because the software giant is completely overhauling its mobile OS, programs developed for previous generations of the software won't work on Windows Phone 7. In other words, Microsoft is starting from scratch.
Microsoft is working hard on its upcoming mobile OS known as Windows Phone 7, and the company knows it needs to offer a respectable app store to go along with the highly touted OS. To achieve this, Microsoft is using a few different tactics to ensure its app store will be filled with apps that are enticing and appealing to users. To that end, Microsoft is reportedly offering free test hardware to certain developers to help them ensure their software will run on the new OS. In addition, Todd Brix, a senior director at Microsoft who works with app developers said the company is providing financial incentives ranging from free tools and test handsets to funds for software development and marketing. In some cases, Microsoft is even providing revenue guarantees and will make up the difference if apps don't meet their sales goals in the Marketplace.
"We are investing a lot to attract developers big and small to Windows Phone 7 to let them understand what the opportunity is and provide as many resources as we can to help them be successful on our platform," Brix said. "We're open for business and we want to work with them."
Really, there's nothing wrong with Microsoft using a number of tactics in an attempt to gain support for its ecosystem. Microsoft certainly has the money, and given the fact that the company desperately needs to catch up to its competition, it makes sense that Microsoft would want to use any and every avenue it can to ensure a successful launch.
>> In some cases, Microsoft is even providing revenue guarantees and will make up the difference if apps don't meet their sales goals in the Marketplace.
Microsoft uses this strategy a lot: Take a product that isn't the best and doesn't have market dominance, then throw billions of dollars into advertising and partner deals until the competition goes bankrupt. It's quite harmful to us as consumers, when companies can't compete on the technical merits of their solutions.
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All these incentives Microsoft is offering... Isn't this the same thing Intel got sued over?
I don't think it's the same.
Intel was using their dominance in the chipset market to prevent competition in the CPU market (basically penalizing distributors that wanted to sell more that a token percentage of AMD chips). Microsoft's strategy doesn't directly harm vendors in that manner.
I don't think Microsoft's doing anything illegal, I just think that their strategy harms consumers in the long run. They invest a ton of money taking over a market that someone else created, then take over. Once they have dominance and the competition has asphyxiated, they quit investing money in development and that market stagnates. It would be so much better for the consumer if Microsoft would spend their resources improving the markets they already own.
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Intel was using their dominance in the chipset market to prevent competition in the CPU market (basically penalizing distributors that wanted to sell more that a token percentage of AMD chips). Microsoft's strategy doesn't directly harm vendors in that manner.[/quote]
Well that same situation can be worded 2 ways "If you sell AMD products, i'm going to charge you more per chip"
Or... "Hey, if you don't sell AMD products, i'll give you a discount ;-)"
Either way it's illegal to do such a thing. This practice was perfected by Rockefeller way back in the day... and made illegal because of the monopoly it created.
Microsoft isn't doing exactly the same thing, but it is potentially shady.
Also.. they've already tried and failed to take over other markets... The Zune... for example...
Well.. they're rewarding developers for working on their platform (Nothing wrong with that), but they're not punishing them if they also develop for other platforms (which would be evil). So, I can't find them at fault, other than the long term effect of their billion-dollars monopoly leverage killing off viable/better alternatives and competition.
You make an excellent point about the Zune, and the same thing could be said of Bing: Markets where their OS lock-in doesn't give them an overwhelming advantage (i.e. markets where they have to compete on the merits of the product) have not been kind to Microsoft, even with their marketing muscle.
When is the Zune going to be turned into a phone:P
I hope Microsoft makes Apple look like the Turtleneck putzes that they are:P
They already made their own phone tom lol It was called the Kin.. and no one wanted it... despite their vast efforts to promote the thing lol
And it's funny that they never put their name behind it... like they knew it was going to fail lol It's a hard to find fact that it was Microsofts little project lol
I think it was more of small scale experiment to see if they could actually enter the phone market with their own hardware lol Instead of going in full scale like they did with the Zune and risk damaging their brand image.
Really who pay sattention to the Kin:P
They should have just merged the Zune with a phone and called it the Z-Phone :)


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Game Preview: Jermaine O'Neal's injury more serious than expected?
A few quick hitters before tonight's game:
1. Jermaine O'Neal's injury might be more serious than we believed. (Boston Herald)
"We've taken pictures of it and we'll probably take some more," he said of tests. "They found a couple pf things – one thing that everyone out here has who's been playing for a couple of years. That could be the reason why the knee is swelling."
Whether this is something as simple as tendinitis, O'Neal can't say – or rather won't say.
"I can't tell you what it is, but if this is what it is, then you have to think long term," he said cryptically. …
"By now it's come to a point where I just might have to take time off," he said. "They have great doctors. But swelling occurs when the body reacts to something. It's become painful to run and stuff. So I probably won't play tonight, and if I don't play tonight I probably won't play on this trip. Give it some time and see some other people."
2. One key to tonight's game? Pound the basketball inside, no matter which center plays. (Boston Herald)
"I think it's just a matter of making a conscious effort to do it," Pierce said. "I mean, shoot, definitely it's going to be about patience because you want to get it in the half court, get the ball down low to the big guys and play at that type of pace with them. I think we'd probably prefer to grind it out a little more with them and take advantage of our inside game than try to get into a running match with them. I think that's where they're at their best.
"We're more of an opportunity running team. But for the most part, we want to try to get the ball inside. It just takes patience to get our big men down on the block and set."
3. Another way to beat the Heat? Find Rajon Rondo. The Heat have already allowed big games to all the elite point guards. Tonight could be Rondo's second big game against Carlos Arroyo. (Yahoo!)
No opposing fan – or point guard – has rattled Rondo enough to keep him from racking up an assist pace that would rank as the most prolific in NBA history. The 14.8 assists per game he has averaged this season would break the NBA record of 14.5 set by John Stockton 21 years ago. His 118 dimes through the Celtics' first eight games also is second all time to the 135 that Stockton compiled in the 1989-90 season.
"Last year, seven and eight assists were good for me," Rondo said. "Now, people are expecting me to get 15 or 16 every night. I don't know if it's realistic, but I'm going to continue to try as long as guys make shots."
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This will be a good test of where the Celtics are, but they always get up for the 'BIG' games. I want to see them get up for the Cavs, Bucks, and other mid-level teams that always seem to look super against them. To win tonight; follow Utah's lead and pound the ball inside then work it out to the wings and let Rondo loose (but when is he not?). Can't wait. Go Cs…
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Organizing Tools the Pros Love
See some surprising items professional organizers can't live without
By Melinda Dodd
Pot Racks
"You can fit two base cabinets' worth of pots on a simple rack," says Joseph Provey, author of 1001 Ideas for Kitchen Organization. Some great ones are available, like this semicircle wrought-iron one. For a DIY solution, attach S-hooks to a wall rail or tap your inner Julia Child and put up a pegboard. Her amazing floor-to-ceiling version held a multitude of pots and pans. Classicor Wrought Iron Semi-circle Wall Mount Pot Rack, $35.99; AbesofMaine.com


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Well it has been a little while but I'm back…
Today I want to share an idea that I cannot believe doesn't exist through a practical application. "Green" has become big and I know it isn't a trend. It's simple, economics has brought awareness to a problem everyone knew existed but chose to deny. However, I don't believe the critics who claim that once energy costs subside people will return to their previous behaviors of over consumption and wasteful habits. The issue is to mainstream now and is here to stay. Energy will only get more costly in the future as demand increases exponentially, making conservation and sustainability that much more important.
Now for the idea… The Magnet Car. In a former job I worked with the construction of generators. Specifically, the unit called an "exciter" which supplies electricity to a generator. Here is a simple physics lesson: If a magnetic field is in motion around a conductor, an electrical current is created. Here is an illustration and link:
This concept works in reverse as well: if you supply an electrical current through a conductor, a magnetic field can be created. This principal is a very, very rough explanation of how generators work. An electrical current is supplied making an enormous spinning electro-magnet (rotor) that is inside a huge conductor (stator) creating a very large amount of electricity. But how does the electricity get supplied to a rotor spinning at 3000 rpm or 3600 rpm in the first place? You can't simply hook wires up to it, the answer is the exciter…
An exciter is basically a mini-generator. It creates electricity virtually out of thin air by use of permanent magnets. The permanent magnets are assembled on a diameter (PMG) that a stator (circular conductor) spins inside of, creating a small amount of electricity. This electricity is then delivered to the generator so a large amount of electricity can be created. This is a very crude and basic explanation of how the system works.
Now that you get the basics, the reality of a magnet powered vehicle comes from the PMG. The permanent magnets, whose charge can last for as much as 1,000 years, are stationary in the unit with a conductor spinning inside them.
Why not reverse this and have a PMG on a car with the drive shaft containing the magnets while the conductor (stator) is around it? A battery could maintain the electricity needed for low speed driving and turning on the car while the electricity created from the PMG could charge the battery. This is similar to current electric cars that need to be plugged in, except The Magnet Car wouldn't require external charging… the magnets would provide the service. The current created would be AC, but this can easily be converted to the necessary DC current through diodes.
This is an idea that has been around for a while, specifically 1996 as this patent suggests. With the current mass attention to renewable energy, electric cars like the Chevy Volt, and an electric high performance car like the Tesla Roadster… why hasn't the magnet powered car been given its fair shake? It is by far the most environmentally friendly option.


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10 Grocery-Shopping Secrets That Will Make You Skinny
Discover how your mood, timing and more can influence what you buy
By Jessica Girdwain
1. Make (and stick to) a shopping list.
Seventy-six percent of shoppers make decisions in-store, but that can deplete your cognitive capacity, making impulse purchases more likely, says Deborah Cohen, MD, author of the upcoming book, A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic. Prevent this by planning meals for the week before you go to the store so you know what to buy—and don't resort to takeout. To build your list, Jen Haugen, a registered dietitian for the Austin, TX, location of the supermarket chain Hy-Vee, likes the app ZipList. Or order groceries online, suggests Dr. Cohen. It lessens mindless browsing (and impulse buys) because you're forced to search for the items you need.


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Easton S2 Youth Bat 2014 (-13)
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Featuring a durable hybrid design for optimal feel and performance, the 2014 Easton® S2 Youth Baseball Bat is engineered for speed. Designed with a THT100™ Scandium alloy barrel and a SIC™ Black Carbon handle, the S2 Power Brigade™ Youth Bat offers an expanded sweet spot, a more optimized feel, enhanced durability and less sting on contact. An ultra-thin composite handle with performance diamond grip enhances comfort.
NOTICE: We recommend that you receive approval from your local league before removing the wrapper from your bat.
- -13 length to weight ratio
- 2-1/4" barrel diameter
- Hybrid design for optimal feel and performance
- THT100™ Scandium alloy barrel for a huge sweet spot and better durability
- SIC™ Black Carbon handle reduces sting while enhancing overall feel
- Patented two-piece ConneXion™ technology maximizes energy transfer for an optimized feel
- Ultra-thin 29/32" composite handle
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- Part of the 2014 Easton® Power Brigade™ Speed Series
- Model: YB14S2
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NOTICE: We recommend that you receive approval from your local league before removing the wrapper from your bat.
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Easton S-2 Youth Bat I bought my 9 year old son this bat last year as a gift for making the travel baseball team. The overall performance exceeded my expectations. Unfortunately the bat began to experience rattling before the season ended and required to be replaced. Easton made good on the warranty and replaced the bat. As a result of the fine craftsmanship and attention to the needs of the consumer, more of my travel players now own easton bats!! Keep up the good work. December 16, 2014
Great Bat First composite bat my 9 year old son has owned. Great purchase and experience. July 28, 2014
Awesome bat Great bat! Light weight. Love the flex point! It does scuff easily but that means it is getting use! April 29, 2014
Broke We had to sent back the 2013 S-2 because it broke. we received a 2014 as replacement which is now also broke in half on the handle. After only 2 ball games. VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THIS BAT AND EASTON April 26, 2014
great bat My son loves his new bat. It has improved his confidence in hitting. April 17, 2014
Great Bat!! Great Bat for my 8 yr old!! He loves he weight and the power of it. April 17, 2014
Hybrid hitter This was a gift for our 9 year old grandson, he hit a home run the second game he played using this bat. He thinks the bat helped! March 21, 2014
Great Bat! Great value. Bought this bat for my 10 yr old son to break it in during the Fall Ball season. I took him a few games to get used to it but overall he loves the bat. The bat has some pop to it and it's a very well balanced bat for my son. He is ready for the spring season with his new bat. I grew up with Easton bats and I'm happy to pass that tradition to my son. January 26, 2014
Dissapointed, but maybe I got a lemon. I never thought I'd write a review about a baseball bat and a bad one at that. I'm doing so "for the masses" so that Dick's and Easton can monitor this product. I've been buying my son Easton bats since he started T-Ball and have never had a problem with their bats until now. I ordered the 2014 "S2" on a Monday, Oct. 14th, 2013, got it Wednesday the same week and took my son out for batting practice Thursday night, Oct. 17 of the same week. It was a nice October night about 68 degrees in Central New Jersey. The package was not damaged upon arrival, although some bubble wrap in the packaging would be nice. All seemed fine though. He hit 12-15 balls with his older 2012 Reflex, then hit 12-15 with his new "S2." The most notable comment from my 11 yr. old son was a lot less hand sting. The ball had good "pop" too. My son was extremely happy and felt that it was helping him drive the ball farther. Dad was pleased too, especially after spending a considerable amount on a bat that he never has in the past. On or about the 16th pitch or so he said prior to even hitting the ball, he felt the handle "give" and heard a sound from the handle and then when he hit the ball, the carbon handle broke. Luckily the rubber grip kept it from flying off. What's really surprising is the handle broke about 4 inches above the butt. This wasn't the skinniest part of the handle. It broke where the yellow grip meets the black. Veryy odd !! I hope I just got a lemon and that the reviews from the older 2013 "S2" version prove true with the 2014 model. I called Dick's as soon as I got home and they're shipping out a new bat, no charge. I have to return the old one. I'll be sure and add to this review or add a new review once we get a chance to use the new bat more extensively ..... hopefully. ....to be continued .... October 17, 2013
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Social gaming promotes healthy behavior, reveals new research from USC
April 18, 2013
People who interacted with a playful version of the Wellness Partners program reported more physical activity.
Contact: Suzanne Wu at firstname.lastname@example.com or (213) 740-0252
April 18, 2013 (LOS ANGELES, CA) — Adding social gaming elements to a behavior tracking program led people to exercise more frequently and helped them decrease their body-mass index, according to new research from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the USC School of Social Work and the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
The project was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio through its national program, Health Games Research. The results suggests that "gamification" may improve the effectiveness of traditional health interventions for motivating behavior change and can lead to better health outcomes.
For the 10-week program, researchers studied young and middle-aged adults across a range of lifestyles, from sedentary to very active. Study participants invited someone they knew, usually friends or family members, to participate with them.
One group of participants was randomly assigned to keep an online diary of physical activity, a commonly used strategy for activity adherence and weight management. The diary is part of Wellness Partners, a program developed at USC to explore the role of socially networked games in encouraging lifestyle changes.
A second group was asked to keep a version of the Wellness Partners diary that included social gaming such as earning points for their exercise reporting, redeeming them for animated activities performed by their virtual character, collecting memories and earning gifts they shared with other participants in their network. After five weeks, the groups switched programs.
The results revealed that a combination of the diary and social gaming helped the participants exercise more frequently, leading to decreased body-mass index, a strong wellness indicator. The effects were stronger in the groups that started with gaming and were sustained after gaming elements were removed.
"A big part of its success is that this program required the engagement of friends and family in tracking open-ended health goals," said lead researcher Marientina Gotsis, director of the Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center at USC. "We wanted to see how different people would react to it and the results demonstrate that there is great potential in using even casual digital games to promote healthy lifestyles."
"The game itself was designed to inspire wellness through participation in outdoor activities. We featured the virtual character participating in activities like going snorkeling, playing in the park, raking a zen garden and many other ideas that could increase physical activity," she added.
Participants who started with either version of the Wellness Partners program had modest, but statistically significant increases in self-reported physical activity, especially those who started with the version containing social gaming.
Participants also had decreases in body mass index at first follow-up compared to baseline (-0.19). The effects were larger for those who started with the version that contained social gaming elements (-0.26). Interestingly, body mass index did not change at the 10-week mark, which suggests participants sustained the benefits of the Wellness Partners program.
"Wellness Partners: Design and Evaluation of a Web-Based Physical Activity Diary with Social Gaming Features for Adults" is published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research: Research Protocols.
Gotsis led the research study in collaboration with Donna Spruijt-Metz and Thomas W. Valente of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Maryalice Jordan-Marsh of the USC School of Social Work and Hua Wang, who was at the time of study a doctoral student at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and is now at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. John Gaspari, director of the USC Center for Work and Family Life, provided support for recruitment and data collection resources.
About the USC School of Cinematic Arts
Founded in collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1929 over 80 years ago, the USC School of Cinematic Arts has fueled and mirrored the growth of entertainment as an industry and an art form. The school offers comprehensive programs in directing, producing, writing, critical studies, animation and digital arts, production, and interactive media, all backed by a broad liberal arts education and taught by leading practitioners in each field. USC was voted the No. 1 game design school in North America for its graduate and undergraduate degree programs by the Princeton Review and GamePro Magazine for three consecutive years.
About the USC School of Cinematic Arts Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center
Founded in 2010 following the success of the USC Games for Health Initiative, the CM&BHC is a unique incubator for innovation in the use of entertainment applications at the intersection of behavioral science, medicine and public health. As an organized research unit between the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Keck School of Medicine of USC, its mission is to increase public awareness of critical issues in mental health and behavioral science and to provide hands-on creativity-based educational opportunities for health researchers and practitioners. To achieve this mission, CM&BHC pursues and develops innovative clinical, research and commercial applications with multidisciplinary teams of faculty, students, staff and partner organizations from academia, industry, government and healthcare.
About the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Located in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is a national leader in education and scholarship in the fields of communication, journalism, public diplomacy and public relations. With an enrollment of more than 2,200 students, USC Annenberg offers doctoral, master's and bachelor's degree programs, as well as continuing development programs for working professionals, across a broad scope of academic inquiry. The school's comprehensive curriculum emphasizes the core skills of leadership, innovation, service and entrepreneurship and draws upon the resources of a networked university located in the media capital of the world.
About the Keck School of Medicine of USC
The Keck School of Medicine of USC is among the nation's leaders in innovative clinical care, research and education. Located on the university's 31-acre Health Sciences Campus three miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, the Keck School is adjacent to the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, one of the largest teaching hospitals in the United States. The school's faculty and residents serve more than one million patients each year at Keck Hospital of USC, USC Norris Cancer Hospital, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, LAC+USC Medical Center and additional USC-affiliated hospitals throughout Southern California.
About the USC School of Social Work
The USC School of Social Work ranks among the nation's top social work graduate programs, with the oldest social work master's and PhD programs in the West. A recognized leader in academic innovation, experiential learning, online education and translational research, the school prepares students for leadership roles in public and private organizations that serve individuals, families and communities in need. In 2010, the school launched the first national web-based Master of Social Work program, making it the most rapidly expanding social work graduate school in the nation.
About the University at Buffalo, State University of New York
The University at Buffalo is the largest campus in the State University of New York system and New York's leading public center for graduate and professional education. Our more than 29,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 400 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, UB is a member of the Association of American Universities.
About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. The Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio supports innovative ideas and projects that may lead to important breakthroughs in health and health care. Projects in the Pioneer Portfolio are future-oriented and look beyond conventional thinking to explore solutions at the cutting edge of health and health care. When it comes to helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need, the Foundation expects to make a difference in your lifetime. For more information, visit www.rwjf.org/pioneer.
About Health Games Research
The Health Games Research national program at the University of California, Santa Barbara works to advance the research, design, and effectiveness of interactive games used to improve health. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, Health Games Research awarded research grants to 21 projects across the US in 2008 and 2009 to investigate processes of health behavior change with digital games and to identify new principles of health game design. For more information, visit www.healthgamesresearch.org.


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The 72 Hour Film Project kicked off on 23rd of March 2012 with teams from the Secondary School entering the competition. The teams will now compete to put together the best documentary, with the highest number of Likes (via Facebook and Youtube), to be featured on the ACG International School Vietnam website.
Students will be mentored by film veteran, Mr Ross Stewart, project manager of the 48 Hour Film Project in Vietnam. They will have only 72 hours to collect footage and will spend the Term Break to edit the documentary.
The project has received tremendous support from our partners: Saigon Sports Academy, Megastar Cineplex, Princess D'Annam Resort & Spa and the 48 Hour Film Project. Our partners are also the main sponsors of prizes for the winning team.
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Book your room at Radisson Blu Hotel East Midlands Airport
Standard guest roomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
Business class roomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
4-star hotel with an indoor pool in Derby (Castle Donington)
This hotel is located in Derby (Castle Donington), close to University of Nottingham Sutton Bonington Campus, Donington Park, and Donington Park Racing Circuit. Area attractions also include Loughborough University and St Mary and St Hardulph Church.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Radisson Blu Hotel East Midlands Airport features an indoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and a conference center.
Room Amenities
Guestrooms have complimentary wireless Internet access, safes, and minibars; rooms also include slippers and hair dryers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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At your hotel
In addition to an indoor pool, Radisson Blu Hotel East Midlands Airport provides a health club, a sauna, and a steam room. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
9 meeting rooms are available. This business-friendly hotel also offers 24-hour room service, express check-out, and an elevator (lift). For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle during limited hours is offered to guests. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Radisson Blu Hotel East Midlands Airport is a smoke-free property.
- Number of meeting rooms - 9
- Conference center
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 218
- Number of floors - 4
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Health club
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Sauna
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Steam room
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Restaurant
Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
Park your car
Self parking (surcharge)
In your room
- Pay movies
- Minibar
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Free Wi-Fi
- Room service (24 hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Flat-panel TV
Eat and drink
English breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
The Runway Brasserie - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The Bar - This lobby lounge specializes in international cuisine and serves light fare only.
24-hour room service is available.
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a health club, a sauna, and a steam room.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
The fine print for Radisson Blu Hotel East Midlands Airport
When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
The opening hours for this hotel's restaurant and health club may vary between December 22, 2014 and January 4, 2015. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
When you leave
Check-out time is noon
How you can pay
Your pets
Pets allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
24-hour check-in
- Breakfast fee: GBP 10 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: GBP 2 per person (one way)
- Self parking fee: GBP 5 per night
- Pet fee: GBP 15 per pet, per stay
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This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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I simply love this trio. As, it has a mix of neutrals and darker shades within it as well. Thete is so many fun eye looks that you can do with this palette. Plus, all the colors blend well and last all day on my eyes (and I hapoen to have oily eyelids by the way).
Pigmentation on some of the shades not great but still good value.
This has been my most favorite shadow to use for the last few months, even over my Smashbox and Bare Minerals. I wear this, and eeeverything, over my UD Shadow Primer, and this lasts all day. The first day I wore this, I was so impressed that it didn't crease, didn't disappear, nothing.
Besides the wonderful staying power of this, I find hardly any fallout and the colors in this palette in particular, are gorgeous. The shimmer orange in this is my favorite color and turned out to be so wooonderfully flattering. I had no idea I would love this orange/peach color as much as I do but now i can't live without it and i'm thinking about buying another palette before I can't find it anymore.
I'm giving this 4 out of 5 only because the light shimmer color is more of a base color and not really a highlight color or a stand alone color, but i like to use it to cut down colors. Also, this isn't as easy to blend as the higher end brands, but for less than 5 bucks, this is a huuuge value!
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I really like the colors of this shadow and really wanted them to work. They are far superior in quality to the UD Nakeds, but that's a pretty low bar to clear. Some colors are nicer in quality and texture than others, but as a palate I don't think they will work for a lot of people.
- Very pretty complementary colors
- Good texture, esp for DS shadow, not a lot of flaking
- Nice combination of mattes and light shimmers
- Not too sparkly so they can be worn by any age group
- The mattes (dark brown & rust colored) are heavily pigmented
- Blend well together on my hand and look quite beautiful
- No light color for highlighting, but these are quite dramatic colors and really need one
- The shimmery colors (tan, orange & brown) have to be piled on to get much color at all, and by the time you're done if you've got any texture in your skin it is highlighted
- Need pretty smooth skin to get them to blend well. As I said, nice on the hand, not so nice on my lids, regardless of how well I primed.
If you've got baby's bottom lids these may work well for you, though the poorly pigmented shimmers will still be problematic. Anyone with much texture in their skin is going to have to work to get them to all play well together, although the two matte shadows are nice on their own. As a palate, however, they are not very forgiving.
Awful. Imagine trying to use chalk as eyeshadow - minus the colour pay off chalk would have. I was hoping this would be as smooth, blendable and pigmented as the regular WnW eyeshadows. I have 3 Fergie Palettes and I notice that only the centre dark shade shows up pretty well. The other dark shades around the centre showed up on my eyes with repeated layering & primer. . . the rest were dusty, too glittery, cheap quality and so sheer I had to squint to see if there really was anything on my eyes. I own a lot of different eyeshadows and they are all easier to apply than this one.
Don't waste your money - get the regular WnW single, 3 or 8 pc pans which are amazing - pigmented, easy to blend and buttery soft. This was so flimsy, dry and junky I started having flashbacks of first trying out the em cosmetics eyeshadows - blegh. I can't recommend this to anyone.
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I tried three of the four Fergie palettes when these first came out, and this was the only keeper for me. This palette is not as pigmented and vibrant as the Color Icon palettes. I like the finish though; more matte and satin than the frostiness of the Color Icon colors. These colors go together well, pretty fool-proof. I will not rebuy, because while I don't regret the purchase, these are not the easiest shadows to work with. They are kind of stiff.
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I'm totally loving this palette!!
The colors are great and blendable!
I use a primer with all my shadows so I cannot tell you how they are w/out a primer. But I did swatch them on my hand and they seem pretty good!
All the colrs are super pretty and the pigmentation of the burnt orange is iffy as far as staying power but primer helps out with that.
The finishes of these shadows are I love that matte and shimmer a lot! Just a all around beautiful palette that makes my brown eyes stand out.....total repurchase!
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I hate this pallet it's not pigmented I wouldn't recommend this even do I tried it woth nyx jumbo pencil in milk is hard to see the colors
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I have been eyeing the Wet n Wild Fergie Center Stage Collection eye shadow palette for months now and finally Walgreen's had a special BOGO for specifically the Fergie Collection. The colors of the Desert Festival eye shadow were very unique and pretty summer shades with a nice mix of matte, satin, and shimmer eye shadow finishes. The texture was very smooth and glided on my eyelids with ease plus I was sure to use a primer before so the colors stood out even more.
I think the only complaint I have about the Desert Festival palette was the pigmentation of the burnt orange color. I loved that it was matte and had a nice texture but I had to put on 3 or 4 layers on the corners of my eyes to make the orange really stand out. All the other shades were nicely pigmented and really made my brown eyes stand out. Over all I am kind of torn if I would buy again and it also depends if the Fergie collection is a permanent offering from Wet n Wild.
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Steve Jobs (2011)
by Walter Isaacson
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Genie und Wahnsinn liegen eben (nicht nur im Volksmund)nah beisammen.
Ich fand es faszinierend, "Interna" aus dem Silikon Valley zu lesen.... wer wen kennt und wen mag usw.
Die vielschichtige Persönlichkeit von Steve Jobs wird sehr gut beleuchtet.
I really enjoyed this book.
I know that most will say that it only details the victims of Jobs' depraved nature. If you stick with it, and if you have the capacity for such an uncommon activity as introspection, there is much to be learned here. Not only do we observe how a man of singular genius sets out to make things he bears an ineradicable passion for, we see a sample of something everyone on this earth wants desperately to possess, whether or not they wish to admit it to themselves or not. What they want, what I want (and you for that matter) is greatness. To have our brains and bodies function in such a way that we produce things we can be proud of. An undying love for something (anything) that we desire to reside in our existence to the degree that whatever we decide we love, we love it so much that it, in the processes that are not exclusive to Steve Jobs, becomes great in our eyes. That our passion manifest itself in some tangible way that we can observe it and benefit from its existence which was begotten the depths of our mind where lay the seeds of our passion.
Yes, I learned much about Steve Jobs by reading this, but I think that I may have learned more about myself.
Maybe this is not a great review, but it's how I felt about it.
As Steve Jobs' biography has been extensively reviewed by other people, I am going to try to limit my own review to insights that I believe were largely absent in the discussions about Isaacson's work and Steve Jobs' life.
First, I have to recognize the research that went into this biography. At the same time, the material was limited. Isaacson dug deep, including hundreds of interviews with Jobs and the people close to him, yet only a relatively small amount made it into the book. As I read the book, and particularly toward the end, I kept wondering how much ended up on the cutting room floor. Probably enough to create another bio of Jobs, plus assorted studies of specific products or the people around him. I would be very interested to see a book about the relationship between Jobs and Ive, as well as Jobs and Lasseter (the creative genius at Pixar)
Speaking of Pixar, I was very excited to see that Isaacson explored the history of Jobs at Pixar, and how he helped grow the company. The section about Jobs and Eisner, and the Disney acquisition, were fascinating. As a technology journalist from the late 1990s until 2010, I really felt that the Jobs/Pixar story was neglected by the media in favor of Jobs/Apple, but Isaacson really helped shed some light into the Pixar connection.
The coverage of certain Apple products was uneven. For instance, the author dove into the iTunes/iPod/music industry story, but barely scratched the surface of the App Store and its impact. There were also a number of Apple hardware products that were notable but were barely mentioned. I'm not just talking about obscure iMac upgrades, Xserve, or various product flops, either. For instance, the MacBook Air marked a milestone in laptop design, but I don't recall seeing it mentioned.
However, the small number of negative issues should not detract from Isaacson's accomplishment. He had to write about an incredibly difficult topic, and the result is a portrait of a flawed, yet brilliant man.
A fascinating biography of a fascinating man. Acknowledging that Jobs was a genius, Isaacson--describing the cruelty and insensitivity that Jobs so often displayed--says the "technical term" for this is "asshole." Although he denied it, Jobs was a control freak, and again and again his personal vision was proven to be magical and incredibly popular. He made a fortune on products but was not as rich as other Silicon Valley CEO's; money, per se was not his goal. What was vital to him was creating products (Isaacson repeatedly uses the word "elegant") that enabled customers to do what they had never done before. In addition, it was critical to Jobs that Apple become an enduringly organization that did not rely upon him to thrive and postioned itself at the nexus of technology and the humanities. The company went from its invention by Wozniak and Jobs in the latter's garage to being the most valuable company on the planet. Jobs, in many ways, embodied the counterculture: he valued his LSD experiences; he was a devotee of Zen for his entire life; he was a vegan. Yet, he also skewed toward policies which multinationals adopted to avoid taxes and he railed at any government regulation. He loved Dylan as he dodged the SEC. One of my favorite Dylan lines is "To live outside the law you must be honest," but Jobs refined this by having what someone quoted in the book describes as narcissistic personality disorder. It was Jobs' version or nothing, and he was almost sadistic in imposing his will. He also had an ability to deny what he did not want to contemplate; this incuded his children and his cancer diagnosis. Isaacson has interviewed dozens of individuals, from old friends to tech CEOs, and has crafted a wonderfully dimensional and satisfying conversation in which the reader is introduced to a legend. The book is honest and at time critical of Jobs--and that too is a definite plus for readers.
This is how I see Steve Jobs:
He was such a lucky bastard. Truly a bastard and truly lucky. A man one hates to love. I can, however, respect that with his amassed wealth, he rose to the challenge and responsibility.
And the book? Interesting.
Steve Jobs dreamed of a legacy that awed people. He wanted to be in the pantheon of great product innovators, indeed surpassing Edwin Land and even his early icons William Hewitt and David Packard. But, Jobs created more than great products. Just as significant was his ability to create great companies with valuable brands. And, he created two of the best of his era: Apple and Pixar.
Isaacson's book is long, dull, often flat-footed, and humorless. It hammers on one nail, incessantly: that Steve Jobs was an awful man, but awful in the service of products people really liked (and eventually bought lots of) and so in the end his awfulness was probably OK. It is not Isaacson's fault that Jobs from early on had a "admixture of sensitivity and insensitivity, bristliness and detachment," as Isaacson describes it, or that Jobs abandoned friends, thought almost everyone else was a shithead, showed little interest in his daughters, and made life generally miserable for anyone who had to provide a good or service to him. But it is Isaacson's fault that the biography is so narrowly focused on one moral theme. The reader is left to judge, with plenty of evidence both ways—and a clear idea of where Isaacson's sympathies lie—whether Jobs deserves the Artist's Exemption.
As Walter Isaacson says in this incisive biography, Jobs behaved like a Nietzschean superman, using his will – transmitted through an unblinking stare – as a remote-control device that compelled others to do his bidding.
While Jobs was a vigorous competitor, he also came to view himself as an elder statesman with a responsibility for giving advice to Google's Page, Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other emerging technology executives, according to "Steve Jobs," an authorized biography by Walter Isaacson and published by CBS Corp. (CBS)'s Simon & Schuster. It goes on sale Oct. 24.
Mr. Isaacson treats "Steve Jobs" as the biography of record, which means that it is a strange book to read so soon after its subject's death. Some of it is an essential Silicon Valley chronicle, compiling stories well known to tech aficionados but interesting to a broad audience. Some of it is already quaint. Mr. Jobs's first job was at Atari, and it involved the game Pong. ("If you're under 30, ask your parents," Mr. Isaacson writes.) Some, like an account of the release of the iPad 2, is so recent that it is hard to appreciate yet, even if Mr. Isaacson says the device comes to life "like the face of a tickled baby."
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Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. -- From publisher.… (more)
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Wide Format Forecast 2013
A Transition to Higher Utilization and Productivity
By Mark Hanley
This is analyst firm I.T. Strategies� 19th wide format graphics inkjet forecast, wrapping up nearly two decades worth of experience. The trends year-over-year aren�t surprising. Growth continues�a rarity in markets for print that in general are suffering attrition. What is surprising is the slowdown in equipment sales.
Aqueous wide format printers are now mainly a replacement market; one where lifecycles are extending and unit sales are in slight decline. Eco-solvent/latex printer unit sales continue to grow, with some brands significantly faster than others. In aggregate equipment, placement growth is projected at less than five percent annually. Even UV-curable printing equipment projected growth is now in the single digits.
These slowing growth numbers are not an indicator of a market in trouble�but rather a shift to higher utilization and productivity. The life of the typical wide format inkjet printer in the installed base is extending. What once might have been an average four to five year life is now a seven to eight year life, and in some cases even longer. Print shop owners are delaying next generation equipment purchases and squeezing more volume out of existing devices. Compounding the slowdown in equipment growth is the greater productivity offered by new printers on the market. Simply put, with faster printers fewer are needed.
Substrate and Ink Consumption
A better indicator of health is substrate and ink consumption rates. In both cases they greatly exceed the growth projection rates of unit installations. I.T. Strategies projects substrate volumes to grow in excess of seven percent and ink liters in excess of eight percent annually through 2017. Note this doesn�t mean that ink costs are increasing; in fact the opposite is happening. Ink revenues are projected to grow at four percent during the same period. Effectively this causes ink prices to decrease about three percent annually across all wide format graphics technologies. What it implies is that total market expenditures are decreasing three percent annually. This decrease is in part the result of a shift from higher cost per liter aqueous inks to lower cost per liter eco-solvent and latex inks, as well as even lower cost UV-curable inks at the high end of the market.
While the industry experienced remarkable improvement breakthroughs in print quality, productivity, and equipment costs, similar breakthroughs are not apparent in ink pricing. One reason is that the economies of scale continue to work against wide format inkjet inks. Unlike offset inks, which are manufactured in the billions of liters annually, there were only four million liters of aqueous, 2.3 million of UV-curable, and seven million liters of eco-solvent/latex wide format graphics ink manufactured worldwide in 2012.
At those levels it is too difficult to gain any buying power in dispersions and additives, given that those components are more refined and sophisticated than the ones found in offset inks.
Output Value
While ink cost is a perpetual topic of conversation, the value of output that those inks enable is multiple the value of those applications created with offset ink. The average retail-selling price across all wide format inkjet technologies ranges from $2.75 for UV-curable printed output to $4.40 for aqueous ink printed output per square foot. The profit margin�the balance left after paying for hardware, ink, and substrates�ranges anywhere between 2.7 to six times for wide format output. There are very few offset document applications where this type of margin is still enabled. This peaks interest in many print providers considering a move from traditional technologies to digital wide format print.
Worldwide the retail value of output created by all wide format printers exceeded $39 billion in 2012. While a small portion of the over $600 billion was generated from other graphics/document print applications, its profits may be as large if not larger than all the profits of other production print applications.
Total Wide Format Market
In general, as the overall market matures it is more useful to look at revenues and revenue growth rates than unit sales numbers alone. This is because print service providers (PSPs) retain systems for longer and because users in general seem to be running at a greater capacity on the systems they own. Additionally the system mix is changing in new sales favoring higher volume machines printing more, but fewer of them.
Thus total revenues from 2012 to 2017 are growing three times as fast as unit sales at nearly three percent against one percent.
The following analysis from I.T. Strategies summarizes each separate wide format technology sector�aqueous, solvent, and UV. Latex is included under eco-solvent as in 2012 it remained almost a single vendor sector and to split it out would reveal the one single vendor�s market share.
Aqueous markets are truly mature now and have become replacement markets with an overall decline in units and revenues, with revenues declining the fastest as low cost systems come into the market from below and as competition becomes tighter.
The aqueous less than 36 inches in width market grew over five percent in units sold in 2011 through 2012, though this is likely to be as much due to competitive price cutting as to underlying demand. These systems are in fact all 24 inches wide and represent a kind of low-end convenience market, which did not become as successful as some of the vendors had wished among consumers. The market is still important to those in it as inks are very profitable and the competitive activities of the market participants conspire to sustain the interest of users.
The aqueous over 36 inches in width market is a core profit generator for the vendors within it. It is however showing clear signs of decline at negative three percent. Vendors in this sector depend on a high degree of daily control of the channel, and not every vendor does this well every year. Still, it is an important sector to defend as it is highly profitable in both hardware and ink terms.
The aqueous corporate�print for use�sector is also in decline now, though at over half a billion dollars in revenue it is also worth defending.
Solvent markets are surprisingly strong. These include aggressive solvent and in that sub-sector the Chinese sales of such systems prop up the figures somewhat artificially since the conditions under which they can sustain their market are not applicable to Western competition. But even allowing for this, neither eco-solvent nor latex is in decline. It seems as if these technologies allow the smaller PSP to consolidate greater indoor and outdoor demand onto more efficient systems.
The eco-solvent sector, including eco-solvent and latex systems, remains robust and I.T. Strategies projects continuing growth. Eco-solvent/latex are aggregating technologies of choice for the small to medium converter. Latex itself is successful in growing print volumes and extending its print base in this way, though 2012 was not the year in which latex competitors appeared. There was some attempt but with little success. Some competitors turned to eco-solvent rather than latex in this analyst firm�s opinion.
Aggressive solvent ceased to be a new placements industry in the developed markets. The installed base in developing countries has however remained relatively strong�at least stronger than supposed. This is presumably because the systems are inexpensive to print with and there are many customers for whom the quality is acceptable on vinyl. Even so, preference for vinyl itself is diminishing.
UV markets are also growing, though at a slower pace than foreseen, but again there is a shift to higher volumes and demand consolidation as well as lengthening life cycles. There is also strong competition in ink pricing. But in general the UV sector is becoming a kind of focus for production scale wide format printing as is especially illustrated by the emergence of the high-volume upper sector of the high-end flatbed market.
Sales in the low-end UV flatbed market in 2012 were weighted quite strongly towards lower priced products. That may suggest maturity in this market, though a lot depends on the willingness of the vendors to support lower cost products in sustaining the market in the future. There were 5.6 percent fewer systems sold in this sector in 2012 than in 2011, though I.T. Strategies expects the trend to go upward from 2012 as the product mix changes and more lower cost systems enter the market.
Lower cost UV flatbed systems under the $100,000 acquisition price market are perhaps economically just on the edge of being competitive with latex and eco-solvent systems for some PSPs, though this is not by any means a confirmed trend. The lower end flatbed sector is not always to be understood as a fully separate sector. PSPs are showing interest in scaling their offerings on the UV technology platform and in this way a low-end system will often be part of the product mix for customers of high-end systems.
The high-end UV flatbed sector has become production oriented for PSPs with high demand or at least high peak demand. The ability of UV systems to work at high volume with no drying footprint or costs and respond fast to demand is at a premium among such PSPs. Within this sector there is a further sub-sector now covering the super high-volume systems. That sub-sector accounted for system sales of 145 in 2012, a 15 percent growth over 2011.
The low-end roll-to-roll UV sector is driven to a significant extent by the sales of plotter/cutter systems using 100 percent solid UV ink. These systems were originally intended for label proofing, though the application seems to have spread to packaging. It is not quite mainstream commercial graphics, but it is part of the market and now an interesting specialty option.
The high-end roll-to-roll UV market was intended to have a bigger impact than turned out to be the case by substituting aggressive solvent roll-to-roll printing. While few new aggressive solvent roll-to-roll systems are sold in developed markets, it seems that the installed base has remained large and active, probably on the basis of economics. Some slack has been picked up by the market for very large and event-related�or time-sensitive�graphics and there is growth and strength in the market.
Mark Hanley is president of analyst firm I.T. Strategies. With over 23 years of experience, he specializes in researching digital color printing technologies. Hanley travels around the world facilitating relationships and strategic alliances between manufacturers in Europe, Japan, and the U.S.
Editor�s Note
Equipment sales may be down but output levels and ink consumption rates occurring off of installed devices are on the rise. PSPs print in large amounts with digital inkjet inks. Advancements lead to expanded substrate compatibility, which opens the door for more application options and extension into differentiating markets.
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NewsNovember 12 2014
Schaefer re-elected to third term in House
Voter turnout in Lyman County for the November 4, 2014 General Election was approximately 55 percent. Iona, Reliance and Kennebec precincts recorded the highest number of voters with 70 percent or more of the registered voters casting ballots.
Kennebec native James Schaefer (R) was re-elected to serve District 26B for another two-year term in the South Dakota House. Schaefer was challenged by newcomer Marty Jandreau (D) also from Kennebec.
Schaefer led in the Lyman County vote 781 to 441 and took 63 percent of the vote in the District to earn his third term in the House.
"I was glad that Marty ran," said Schaefer referring to his challenger and neighbor. "It's a process, and I was happy he got involved."
Both candidates live on ranches about five miles apart.
Schaefer said he looks forward to another term in the house, adding he is interested in promoting economic growth to the south central part of the state.
"I'd like to see us increase our population or at the least maintain," said Schaefer. "Bringing new businesses into the area is one way to help."
Troy Heinert (D) from Mission defeated John Koskan (R) 3747 to 2883 votes to win the District 26 Senate seat.
"I was about 1200 behind before Mellette and Todd County came in," said Heinert. "Todd County was the big push that put me over."
He carried 81 percent of the vote among Todd County voters.
Heinert, who served one term in the House representing District 26A and former legislator John Koskan were vying for the senate seat vacated by Larry Lucas, who moved out of the district.
"Larry was a good senator for our area," said Heinert. "He was very effective."
Heinert served on the Health & Human Services committee for the past years and has requested a return to that committee.
"Education funding is an important area, also," added Heinert. "Every dollar put towards eduction is money well spent."
Lyman County voters followed the statewide trend in voting for Republican candidates.
"Republicans did very well this year," said Schaefer. "Rounds winning the Senate race was a big one."
See complete election results by local precinct printed on page 11.
NewsNovember 10 2014
Thune to Hold Transportation Roundtable With Secretary Foxx in Rapid City and Oacoma
Thune to Hold Transportation Roundtable With Secretary Foxx in SD
Sioux Falls, S.D.—U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today announced that on Tuesday, November 11, he will hold a transportation roundtable with U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, Governor Dennis Daugaard (R-South Dakota), and several other South Dakota transportation stakeholders. The roundtable discussion, which is closed to press, will be immediately followed by a media availability at the Mount Rushmore visitor center.
The event will highlight various transportation priorities in South Dakota and the importance of an efficient transportation system to move freight and agriculture commodities to market. Following the roundtable and media availability, Thune and Daugaard will join Foxx for additional events, including a tour and briefing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, which is also closed to press, a tour of the state-owned rail line near Chamberlain, and another media availability.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014:
WHO: Sen. Thune, Sec. Foxx, Gov. Daugaard, and other transportation stakeholders
WHAT: Post-roundtable press conference
WHEN: 11:00-11:30 a.m. MT
WHERE: Mount Rushmore visitor center
WHO: Sen. Thune, Sec. Foxx, Gov. Daugaard, and other transportation stakeholders
WHAT: Press conference with state-owned rail line stakeholders
WHEN: 4:45-5:10 p.m. CT (note time zone change)
WHERE: Cedar Shore Resort, Oacoma
NewsNovember 06 2014
Reliance residents express concerns with rezoning in city limits
Reliance residents express concerns with rezoning in city limits
Approximately 20 people attended a community forum hosted by the Reliance Town Board Monday night to discuss the potential impact the railroad will have on the town once the line is upgraded and reopened to train traffic.
Guest speakers included Brian McGinnis, Community Development, with Planning and Development, District III, and Bruce Lindholm, Program Manager, of the South Dakota Department of Transportation.
Lindholm explained the history of funding for the reconstruction of the MRC line from Chamberlain, west to Presho, and clarified that even if the cost of the rehab project exceeds the estimate, the state is required to complete the work on the line to Presho.
"It's a line item grant," said Lindholm in reference to the TIGER grant awarded to the state for the rehab. "Which means we have no choice, the scope of the project is 41.6 miles, from Chamberlain to Presho."
While preliminary work on the line has started, Lindholm estimated people won't see any major work until next spring.
Reliance residents in attendance, many who live near the track, expressed concerns about train traffic through town; the additional noise generated and hours of operation.
Lindholm was asked if he knew how many shuttle trains the new load out facility to be built in Kennebec would generate per week.
Lindholm estimated that 40 to 50 trains could haul grain out of Kennebec per year.
"During harvest you might see two a week, but normally a couple trains per month is more realistic," said Lindholm. "They load when they come in, whether that's two o'clock in the morning or the afternoon.
The track will be upgraded to Class II which could accommodate trains running at 25 miles per hour, but Lindholm said today Dakota Southern, who leases the line from MRC, operates at about 10 miles per hour on the track east of Chamberlain.
The town board has discussed rezoning residential property along the rail line between Railway Street and Alumni Street to commercial to allow development of new businesses along the railroad.
McGinnis explained that the town board is trying to be proactive and be welcoming to economic growth by addressing zoning issues early. He added that commercial property is taxed at a higher rate than residential or ag land in South Dakota.
"The best new growth for rural counties is through commercial property," said McGinnis.
Brad Karlen of Reliance owns property along the railroad track, from the east edge of the property owned by Wheat Growers Elevator, on Railway Street, to the east edge of town. He is actively working to develop the area and bring a Pulse Processing Plant to Reliance that could generate up to 30 jobs.
Property owners expressed concerns over increased truck traffic and the dust and problems that could come with rezoning to allow another grain handling facility to operate in town.
McGinnis, who would assist the town in the rezoning procedure, explained the process involved from the planning committee, to the public hearings required. He stated conditional uses could be put in place to control what type of commercial businesses would be allowed within the city limits.
"Something is going to happen in Reliance," said McGinnis. "It's coming. Are you ready?"
NewsNovember 05 2014
- Ground broken for the Wheat Growers fertilizer plant
- Greater Lyman Foundation works toward challenge
- A Season of Giving
- Local Food Pantry partners with Feeding South Dakota
- Senior meal program to end in Lyman County due to declining numbers
- Former students rebut CNN's accusations against St. Joseph's Indian School
- Transportation Secretary visits South Dakota rail rehab project
- National Gas Average Nears Four-Year Low
- Schaefer re-elected to third term in House
- Growing rural communities