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NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. ( NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced amazing new low pricing for the highly acclaimed NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight. Beginning today, customers can purchase the award-wining NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight for just $99. This incredible device at an unbeatable value is available at the nearly 700 Barnes & Noble retail stores nationwide and online at www.nook.com.
NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight is the most versatile reader ever created, and is the first designed to address E Ink customers' number-one request: the ability to read in the dark in bed and avoid disrupting a significant other. Featuring Barnes & Noble's innovative lighting technology, GlowLight shines uniformly across the display and adjusts with just a touch, so customers can control the amount of light illuminating their device, whether in a dimly lit or pitch dark room. At under 7 ounces, NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight is also Barnes & Noble's lightest NOOK ever. The device's ergonomic back and soft-touch design make it super comfortable to hold in just one hand – perfect for staying up all night in bed with a can't-put-it-down novel or for carrying everywhere. Now at the amazing new low price of just $99, NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight is perfect for students and customers seeking an exceptional reading experience for everything from late night studying to lounging on the beach.
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Taylor, Simon J.E. and Kalantery, Nasser and Winter, Stephen (1993) The parallelisation of discrete-event simulation: a methodology. In: IEE Colloquium on Increased Production Through Discrete Event Simulation, Savoy Place, 24 June 1993. IEE.
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Parallel computing has provided the opportunity to perform high speed simulation. However, no guidelines exist for parallelizing discrete event simulation. This presents a barrier to the use of such techniques and the benefits of reduced simulation times. A methodology has therefore been developed to guide the novice in developing a parallel form of existing simulations. Using an illustrative example, this paper discusses the problems of parallelizing discrete event simulation and concludes with a summary of a methodology.
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Along with the striking vertical nose fins they added in France, the team also added two 'horn' wings, similar to those on the McLaren, behind the driver's head. They are the only team so far to follow McLaren's lead on this solution, the main function of which is to improve the overall aerodynamic...»
Introduced a couple of races back and again present in France, this bodywork evolution can now be considered definitive. The Williams engineers have tried to cut turbulence generated by the rear suspension elements by adopting this extended suspension cover over the push-rod link. The cover, which...»
After the developments seen in North America, Honda sported a completely revised front wing at the next round in France, with a design seemingly following recent trends set by Williams and McLaren. The two additional profiles (upper arrows) are very similar in shape to those on the Williams, with...»
In the Jerez test prior to France Ferrari tried out numerous developments for forthcoming races, but only a few were adopted for Magny-Cours. One was a new engine cover, the second major revision of this part since the start of the season. In line with other teams, its top features a vertical fin...»
This radical-looking aero solution was used in the last test at Jerez and then adopted for France. The two vertical fins on the nose, around 40 cm high, give the car an unconventional look, but fall within regulations regarding bodywork height. Their purpose is to improve stability and efficiently...»
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Dragon Quest has really found a new home on the DS. DQ IX surprised us all by moving onto a handheld system, and last year's Rocket Slime paved the way for it. Now Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker is the third reason for RPG fans to get a DS (Ok, chronologically it's the second reason). The game takes the monster battles, which first appeared way the heck back in DQ V, expands them, adds some Pokemon related gameplay elements and creates a fun game that steals all our free time.
You'll travel around several islands in the Green Bay, collect and battle monsters from the Dragon Quest world, breed them to create more powerful monsters and attempt to win the Monster Scout Challenge. Yes, it sounds like Pokemon, but remember Dragon Quest has a long history of monster battling of its own. It's tough to say where DQ ideas end and Pokemon begins. To be honest, we don't really care because the game is every bit as addicting as smaller-scale monster battles in DQ VIII and now it's been expanded into a full-sized game.
You start with a weak monster and begin by fighting other monsters to power-up. Along with fighting, you can scout other monsters to entice them to join your team. The chances of successfully scouting depend on the attack power of your monster team. If your guys are strong enough, the prospective teammate will have a good chance of being super-impressed by your awesome fighting skills and join up. If you aren't strong enough the monster will probably just get pissed-off. It turns out that the hallway-blocking green dragon we were fighting didn't really want to team up with a dinky Mischievous Mole until we had leveled him up and transformed him into a Hammer Hood - he's much cooler than a mole.


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- Brews tea to your exact specifications.
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- The perfect gift for tea lovers.
It takes a lot for an electrical appliance to stop us in our tracks – after all, hundreds have passed through our test kitchen over the years – but the entire Sage range did just that! We lost count of the 'wows' around the room as our Buyer, Carly, took each one through its paces and, as soon as we heard that the ultimate food thinker, Heston Blumenthal, was involved in the testing and production, we knew they would be something really special.
Heston wouldn't put his name to anything less than perfection, and the combination of Sage's design know-how and attention to detail means that with these innovative stainless steel appliances perfection is possible. Very simple to use with straightforward controls, they're incredibly impressive to see in action, and the instructions and recipes come with hints and tips from Heston to help you make the most of your machine.
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As a lover of real teas who wasn't actually drinking it very often(such a faff to get the water temperature right before invariably wandering off and forgetting my tea while it was brewing) I loved the idea of this but felt it was far too extravagant. Black Friday changed my mind however and it was probably my very favourite purchase for 2014. It works really well and looks great.
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I bought this machine back in the summer and back then there was a lot of criticism about staining.My tea maker was badly stained as I just rinsed it out but I bought some Milton fluid and put a cupful in and filled it up with water left it for approx half an hour and it has come up gleaming as good as new and ready to use again.if you do this regularly then it will only take a few minutes and you will still be enjoying the best cuppa. Jan Mackenzie
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Personal organizer
Keep a digital address book with this program.
RGS-CardMaster provides users with an opportunity to organize their names and addresses. With a simple operating format, this program provides a decent alternative to more popular organizational software.
This program is laid out in a way that should feel natural to anyone who has used software like Microsoft Outlook. Many blank fields can be intuitively filled to catalog all your contacts. Users are also given buttons for searching contacts and a number of secondary functions. The program felt natural after a few tries and a trip to the Help file. Managing our address book was a mixed experience. While contacts were easy to input and save, we felt that searching for names was more complicated. While users can filter the address book, there is no central listing of the names. Instead users must hit arrow keys to cycle through the names or choose to look at the names as a spreadsheet. While this got the job done, we could imagine much more intuitive ways to perform this task.
The program was also full of special features, some of which we felt were unnecessary. Adding a photograph to a contact, sending an e-mail, and organizing a mail merge were useful and easily understood. However, options like a calculator and a calendar (just a calendar, no way to set reminders) seemed unnecessary and took up valuable space. RGS-CardMaster does a serviceable job of organizing and remembering contact information. Despite its shortcomings, this freeware program is a decent option for those frustrated with similar options.


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6 Best-Rated Bank Stocks From TheStreet Ratings
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- While there are dozens of publicly traded bank stocks, only six actively traded names get a "Buy" rating of A (Excellent) or higher from TheStreet Ratings.
TheStreet Ratings takes a very conservative, long-term approach to stock ratings, placing its emphasis on long-term total returns as well as revenue trends, capital strength and dividends. The ratings also consider short-term performance, financial stability and volatility.
With the banking industry still in recovery mode, many of the best-known industry players are still trading at relatively low multiples to book value and earnings:
- Shares of JPMorgan Chase (JPM) closed at $41.25 Friday, returning 26% year-to-date, following a 20% loss last year. The shares trade for 1.2 times tangible book value, and for eight times the consensus 2013 EPS estimate of $5.20. The consensus 2012 EPS estimate is $4.71. JPMorgan's operating return on average assets (ROA) for the 12-months ended June 30 was 0.79%, according to Thomson Reuters Bank Insight, while its return on average equity (ROE) was 9.55%. The big story for JPMorgan Chase this year has been second-quarter losses of $4.4 billion for the company's Chief Investment Office. Then again, the company still managed to earn a $5.0 billion profit during the second quarter. JPMorgan's stock is rated a B-minus (Good) by TheStreet ratings. A rating of B-minus or higher is a "Buy" rating.
- Bank of America (BAC - Get Report) has seen its shares return 64% year-to-date, through Friday's close at $9.19. The shares trade for 0.7 times tangible book value, and for 10 times the consensus 2013 EPS estimate of 91 cents. The consensus 2012 EPS estimate is 0.55%. Over the past four quarters through June, Bank of America's ROA was 0.52%, while the company's ROE was 4.84%. The low valuation to book reflects the uncertainty over the company's ultimate risk from mortgage repurchase demands, which increased 41% during the second quarter alone, to $22.7 billion as of June 30. Bank of America's stock has a "Hold" rating of C (Fair) from TheStreet Ratings.
- Citigroup (C - Get Report) closed at $33.81 Friday, returning 28% year-to-date, following a 44% decline during 2011. The shares trade for 0.7 times tangible book value, and for 7.5 times the consensus 2013 EPS estimate of $4.53. The consensus 2012 EPS estimate is $4.09. Citi's ROA over the 12-month period ended June 30 was 0.55%, and its ROE was 5.78%. The company continues to follow CEO Vikram Pandit's long-term strategy of winding down the noncore assets placed within Citi Holdings, and investors hope eventually to be rewarded through a major return of capital, as the balance sheet continues to shrink and the company reverses some or all of its deferred tax valuation allowance. Citi is rated a B-minus (Good) by TheStreet ratings.
- Shares of Wells Fargo (WFC) closed at $35.30 Friday, returning 29% year-to-date, following a 10% decline during 2011. The shares trade for two times tangible book value, according to Thomson Reuters Bank Insight, and for 10 times the consensus 2013 earnings estimate of $3.66 a share, among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. The consensus 2012 EPS estimate is $3.31. The company's ROA for the 12-month period ended June 30 was a relatively strong 1.30%, while its ROE was 11.57%. The stock is rated a B+ (Good) by TheStreet Ratings.
The following are the six actively traded banking names with average daily trading volume of over 50,000 shares, there are six stocks rated "A" or A+" by TheStreet ratings:
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THE BRONX—Police have charged a New York City correction's officer with unlawful imprisonment.
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Carl C. Icahn Issues Open Letter To Transocean Shareholders
NEW YORK, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Carl C. Icahn today delivered the following open letter to shareholders of Transocean Ltd.
Dear Fellow Transocean Shareholders:
ISS today announced its recommendation that shareholders vote FOR Jose Maria Alapont and FOR Samuel Merksamer. We are very pleased that ISS shares our view. ISS concludes "it seems clear the dissidents have made a compelling case that some change on the board is warranted" and that "shareholders would be best served by supporting the election of Alapont, a former CEO with experience setting operating targets and holding executives accountable for execution, and Merksamer, who offers strong analytic acumen and credible shareholder perspective."
ISS also recommends that shareholders vote AGAINST Michael Talbert and AGAINST Robert Sprague. In fact, ISS concludes that "Shareholders may wish to hold Michael Talbert, a longtime incumbent, responsible for the long term performance and outcome of strategic choices the company has made. Additionally he was CEO at the time the events triggering the Norwegian tax case happened." We fully agree with the ISS case against Talbert and Sprague.
While we respect ISS' views, we continue to believe shareholders should also vote FOR Jack Lipinski. As ISS noted Mr. Lipinski has spent "his entire career in the oil industry, currently as CEO of CVR Energy. CVR outperformed its peers...Since Icahn took control, outperformance has been substantial." This is in contrast to Transocean's performance, as noted by ISS:We continue to believe Mr. Lipinski has strong industry experience and that Transocean would benefit greatly from his joining the Board. We strongly recommend that shareholders vote FOR Lipinski. Shareholders will also have a choice to vote FOR our distribution proposal of $4.00. Based on the Company's decision making over the past few years, we believe it is critical that capital is returned to shareholders and that it does not remain in the discretion of the Board to use that capital as they view best. We believe that this Board's capital allocation decisions over the past several years have been marked by ill-advised acquisitions that have destroyed at least $11 billion of shareholder value. And, perhaps of most concern to us, the Board and management continue to believe the GSF and Aker acquisitions were successes. As ISS notes:Over the five years prior to Icahn disclosing its stake in RIG, the company underperformed the median of peers by 58 percentage points. While the Macondo incident was a factor in this result, we note that the company was already underperforming peers by 21 percentage points before that incident.
WE URGE SHAREHOLDERS TO VOTE AT THE 2013 TRANSOCEAN ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING FOR THE ICAHN PROPOSAL TO INCREASE THE DIVIDEND AT TRANSOCEAN TO $4.00 PER SHARE AND FOR THE ICAHN PROPOSAL TO ELECT JOSE MARIA ALAPONT, JOHN J. LIPINSKI AND SAMUEL MERKSAMER TO THE TRANSOCEAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Very truly yours,While it might be debatable what RIG was actually pursuing with the GSF acquisition, the end result was not: over the past four years, RIG has lost 27% of its revenues, while the peer group as a whole increased revenues by 20% (excluding Ensco...) Even if one adds back the $1.1 billion in revenues the company argues it lost because of Macondo, the difference would still be substantial.
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