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wombatsammich Jan 10, 2013 I have a friend who works for Body by Vi, which is a weight loss meal replacement program, and they do 90 day challenges to get in shape. I don't have the money to officially join, and I wouldn't use the crappy meal replacement shakes anyway, but I've decided to unofficially join in for a 90 day challenge. Anyone else want to accept the challenge? We'll make it really simple. Post a recent pic of you in a swimsuit on your profile. It doesn't have to be your main, just as long as it's there. Make sure it's as close to a full body shot as possible (at least down to the knees/thighs). Check in here. Feel free to share recipes, progress, exercise crap, whatever you want over the next 90 days. In 90 days, post a new profile pic in a swimsuit. | |
OscarDorian Jan 10, 2013 It sounds interesting. I'm trying to eat healthier and be healthier overall, but I'm not looking to lose weight. I just want to be more fit. And I'd be too uncomfortable to post a swim suit pic. Maybe shorts and a tank with the tank lifted as an alternative? | |
wombatsammich Jan 10, 2013 Meh, I'm not big on rules, so I think as long as you post something which shows your progress after 90 days, I don't really care how much actual skin is showing. Do you have Netflix? Did you know they have exercise videos? I didn't, because it's not a normal category which shows up on mine, but I did a search for something else and stumbled across them. Also...my swimsuit pic is already up. It was from the summer, and I've probably gained another 5 pounds of muffin top since, so I have slightly farther to go. | |
SillySmartie Jan 10, 2013 I just joined a gym the last week of Dec. I'm challenging myself to get to the gym 3-4 days a week because I slack on exercise during the school semester, so my goal is to go Mon/Wed/Fri mornings at 8am before I have to go to class. Then one weekend day. I'm happy to participate in the thread and posting about progress, recipes, etc. No swimsuit pics for me! ha ha. But at the end of the 90 days, I'll post a new profile pic, no prob. | |
wombatsammich Jan 10, 2013 Awesome! And by the way, my flour tortillas were full of fail :( Not sure what I did wrong, or if it was just because I couldn't find good lard, so I used shortening. It's ok, though...I'm a whiz at yeast breads. Making pizza on Saturday, so I'm making the dough tomorrow so it can rise slow and ferment. | |
SillySmartie Jan 10, 2013 Aw boo! It takes a few tries to get them right. You can always cheat by using this though... Just add water, they are very good. | |
wombatsammich Jan 10, 2013 Holy crap! Wish I had seen that at the grocery ;P | |
SillySmartie Jan 10, 2013 Ha ha... Well I figured you'd want to try it on your own first. Next time hit me up on FB, and I'll try to walk you through it. It's tough without a recipe. But I have made them that way since I was 17. I use the White Wings once in a while though. | |
unassuming_guy Jan 10, 2013 There's a whole lake of it around here somewhere | |
wombatsammich Jan 10, 2013 :D I just went to the co op and found a tub of pure rendered pig fat. No hydrogenated crap. | |
OscarDorian Jan 10, 2013 I don't remember how I found work out videos on Netflix. I must have searched for them. I'd like to do some weight training, but I don't own any weights and I don't want to go to the gym with no clue as to what I'm doing. | |
wombatsammich Jan 10, 2013 Yeah, it can be difficult to know exactly what to do with them, and how to do it right, without someone to show you. I bought a set of hand dumbell weights from a sporting goods store. It comes in a case, and it has the two handles and then a bunch of disk weights that you put on each end, and then a cap which screws on to make sure they don't fall off. I think it was only about $30 for the whole set. Add some ankle weights that are adjustable, and you really don't need anything else. | |
Intense_City Jan 10, 2013 I P90X, but I have been for a while. But I was in good shape to start with, so it wasn't an "OMG" transformation. | |
OscarDorian Jan 10, 2013 Should I go to like Dicks or would their equipment be overpriced? Also, I added my photo. I am hoping to gain definition in my arms and abs. I have stick arms. :/ | |
SixTwentyTwo Jan 10, 2013 OscarDorian, just a couple of suggestions here. find a routine that fits your schedule best, what you wanna work on, whatever. you could find many options here. for myself it's all about dumbbells as they force you/provide a balance. one side of the body will always be a bit stronger, dumbbells will help establish a ... happy median. this is a great starter routine. if you've got no issue spending quite a bit of money, i bought these a few years ago, bowflex also makes a less expensive and lighter version too. i like 'em a lot, got use to 'em quickly. well anyway, hope it helps. | |
OscarDorian Jan 10, 2013 Thanks for the links. They'll help me devise a routine for when I do work up the courage to go to the gym. I don't think I want to make that kind of investment on the weights though. I'm a poor college student over here. | |
SixTwentyTwo Jan 10, 2013 from what i've read you've started off on the right path with eating well. i think it's okay to have a cheat meal now and then(once a month really) but, eating right, resting (sleeping) is a huge part of fitness. as far as courage, finding a "gymbro" would be quite helpful i imagine. you're an attractive young woman, i willing to bet that's what most will be looking at. get yourself a routine, learn proper form and technique, take care of business, that's what it's all about, right. well bye now, i have a routine i gotta finish myself. | |
Sherip1025 Jan 10, 2013 The kind of cool thing about (most?) gyms or at least mine is that you can sign up to have someone show you what to do fo' free. | |
laquist Jan 10, 2013 Again with the Ebonics. I just figured something out about your boyfriend. | |
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Monday morning federal headlines - March 12, 2012
Monday - 3/12/2012, 9:00am EDT
The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive host Tom Temin discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air.
- President Obama appointed Todd Park as the next federal chief technology officer. He is replacing Aneesh Chopra, who stepped down last month. Park is the CTO at Health and Human Services and joined the federal government in August 2009. He created a health information data dissemination program patterned after NOAA's weather data releases. He also helped launch healthcare.gov, which gives consumers information about health care plans. Last month, Frank Baitman started as the new chief information officer at HHS. (Federal News Radio)
- Federal workers would face another year of a pay freeze under an amendment to the Senate highway bill. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) inserted the bill, which would extend the pay freeze to December 2013. The Roberts amendment also included language easing the way to more domestic oil exploration, and it would create what Roberts called a deficit reduction trust fund. That fund would be partially filled by the pay freeze. (Federal News Radio)
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered big changes in safety procedures for U.S. nuclear generators. The orders came on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that severely damaged coastal reactors in Japan. U.S. operators must install new equipment to limit core damage in a serious accident. They also have to beef up protection of safety equipment. U.S. plants have until 2016 to comply. NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko said he was disappointed the commission couldn't agree to faster compliance. An industry spokesman put the compliance tag at $100 million. (Federal News Radio)
- Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano released an implementing directive Friday to bolster the sharing of classified information by the federal government with state, local, tribal and private sector partners. The directive establishes an oversight structure to instill uniformity and consistency down the lines of communication. The effort was coordinated with agencies to maintain consistency with existing policies and standards. (DHS)
- The number of new federal contractors fell last year despite White House efforts to increase competition. The Washington Post reported that new suppliers fell by 14 percent. Federal budget cuts might be part of the reason, but it could end up putting more strain on agency resources. Former top procurement official Dan Gordon told the Post that less competition could lead to higher prices and government contracting being seen as more of an "insider's game." New small-business contractors suffered the biggest decline last year. They were awarded last year just two-thirds of the money they made in 2010 — $3.6 billion, down from $5.5 billion. (Washington Post)
- Administrators said tribal employees are gearing up to join the federal healthcare program. The Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan officially opens to tribal employees on May 1, but the Office of Personnel Management said 2,500 of them have already signed up. Director John Berry told a conference of American Indians last week that the agency has set up a hotline for them. It is also preparing to welcome tribal employees into the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program. Officials do not think the new members will affect plan prices. The expansion is part of the Affordable Care Act. (OPM)
- The government is looking for universities, nonprofits or U.S. businesses that want to help create an identity ecosystem. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is soliciting proposals to administer a steering group that would lead the effort. The ecosystem is part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The idea is to come up with standards for obtaining and authenticating Internet users' identities and devices. It would be safer and simpler than having people maintain dozens of different usernames and passwords. The two-year contract for administering the steering group is worth $2.5 million. (NIST)
- President Obama has tried to open up the government with new websites and other transparency initiatives. The government fielded a half-million more Freedom of Information Act requests last year than in 2010. The Associated Press reported, though, agencies were having a hard time keeping up. The backlog of requests rose 14 percent last year. The Department of Homeland Security accounted for most of the backlog. Its offices that deal with immigration have seen a spike in requests. (Associated Press)

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How do you differentiate your instruction, activities, and assessments to meet the academic needs of all students in secondary language arts?
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The buzzwords when it comes to differentiated instruction is self-monitoring. The 21st century initiative of teaching and learning contends that students must be at the center of the instruction (in all areas) and that they should be held accountable for their own learning.
Differentiation occurs when the teacher prepares more than one activity that addresses specific needs for skills development and exposes the students to many different chances to demonstrate their multiple intelligences.
Two documents are of utmost importance during differentiation in L2: the student interest inventory and the assessment rubric. After giving students the interest inventory, the teacher can plan activities ahead in the form of centers. In L2, for example, the best way is to divide the classroom into groups (centers) that focus on one skill. The activities in the centers will be based on what the students said in the inventory that are their areas of interest. This way, the activity becomes relevant to them.
Each and every activity must come with a rubric. Otherwise, the students will not know what is expected of them as the outcome to their activity. Additionally, each center must have a sample model for students to know what work will get what grade.
These are the basic tenets of differentiated instruction in every area of study. For L2, students can do one center for literacy, another for creativity, another for technology and another for verbalization and communicative language. Once these four areas are covered, the teacher can get creative with vocabulary lists pertaining each of these areas. A communicative unit that talks about food, for example, may include these centers:
- literacy- reading/writing words and sentences in L2
- creativity- build a menu
- technology- apply the vocabulary to a tech project or game
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My male GSD is 39.2 kg and under weight 20 months old
I took my dog to the vet to weigh him because I noticed I could see his ribs when he is running. He weighed in at 39.2 kg down from 41.1 kg a couple of months ago, could only see the last rib when he was 41.1 kg.
He is wormed (of course) and has about 600 grams of dry food (Supercoat) in the morning and about 800 grams of fresh beef or chicken wings or necks (usually a mix) I don't feed him much tinned food at all. We have been exercising him more so I think I will bump his food quantity up to perhaps the usual 600 grams of dry food but increase to 1 kg of fresh meat. I've attached some photos of him taken today. In the first photo he was stretching....it's not an exaggerated croup. I think he looks a bit under weight at present, he is 20 months old and has lost a lot of his black on his back....**** |
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In the pictures he looks to be in great shape. I woudn't be so concerned with his weight on a scale, and just go by body condition. You could increase his food a bit if you want, but seeing a few ribs on your GSD is fine. They are supposed to be lean and athletic dogs.
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He looks good to me. The number isn't important, your dog should look healthy. I see ribs on my pup when he runs too, and he's very athletic, lean, and healthy. If your dog continues to lose and you'd like him to maintain, then you could increase the food a little or add some extra calories in other ways.
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I think he looks good too.
But I know I DO adjust my dogs food during the year. Summer + more exercise so a bit more food. Winter + less exercise so I cut them back a bit. I LOOK at my dogs though more than the # when they are weighed.
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Tell us your destination and we'll help you chart a path. Maybe you're not taking full advantage of creative opportunities you already have. Perhaps, we need to find you new ones. We hand-deliver you to your audience, carefully considered and flawlessly executed. It's the "you" you've always wanted to be. Even better, we unearth the you you've always been. And it all starts with an open and frank conversation.
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Britni's past clients include Cenovus, ENMAX, Enform, Mayo Clinic, Western Canada Lotteries, and YWCA, to name a few. Colour us impressed! Welcome to Foundry, Britni.
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The Queer Studies program at UW was approved in 2011. The minor draws upon the strengths of various departments to introduce both undergraduate and graduate students to the history, theory, and practice of the study of sexuality with an emphasis on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer lives.
Courses encourage interdisciplinary thinking about the theoretical, historical and contemporary issues related to sexuality. Students across campus majoring in the social sciences, education, humanities, biological sciences and the arts can enhance their areas of specialization with the Queer Studies minor.
The undergraduate minor will require 18 credit hours, courses listed below. The core class for the undergraduate minor, WMST 2000- Introduction to LGBTQ/NS Studies introduces students to the field of new sexuality studies, with an emphasis on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer lives. It lays the foundation for analysis of evidence regarding sexuality. With 15 hours of subsequent elective course work and the completion of the minor, undergraduate students meet the following interrelated academic goals: to identify and demonstrate knowledge of the significant contributions of LGBTQ peoples in America and in the world; to demonstrate knowledge about the social construction of sexuality; to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship of sexuality to current and historical issues, societies, and people, and to demonstrate the acquisition of skills to think and to write critically about issues of sexuality. To claim this minor, complete the Change of Major form (http://www.uwyo.edu/uwgrad/enrolled-students/forms/index.html#C-D) and submit it to the registrar.
The graduate minor requires the completion of 12 hours of course work, courses listed below. The core class for the graduate minor, ENGL 5000 – Queer Theory, introduces students to the intellectual lens to evaluate the messages regarding gender and sexuality of many institutions and the ways in which some actual experiences fall out of line with those norms. Graduate students completing the minor will demonstrate the ability to conduct interdisciplinary analysis, research and/or creative work regarding sexuality and/or sexual minorities; demonstrate the ability to critique ideological assumptions regarding sexuality and/or sexual minorities; and demonstrate an understanding of the status of LGBTQ people in a variety of historical and contemporary settings. Students completing the graduate minor will, in consultation with a QS advisor, develop a capstone experience. This latter requirement can be met through completion of a thesis/dissertation with approved QS related-content, a research-type project, or an advanced service learning project. To claim this minor, complete the Change of Major form (http://www.uwyo.edu/uwgrad/enrolled-students/forms/index.html#C-D) and submit it to the registrar.
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- Allows you to monitor your application's API usage in the Google Developers Console.
- Enables per-key instead of per-IP-address quota limits.
- Ensures that Google can contact you about your application if necessary.
The Time Zone API uses an API key to identify your application. API keys are managed through the Google APIs console. To create your key:
- Visit the APIs console at Google Developers Console and log in with your Google Account.
- Click the Services link from the left-hand menu in the APIs Console, then activate the Time Zone API service.
- Once the service has been activated, your API key is available from the API Access page, in the Simple API Access section. Time Zone API applications use the Key for server apps.
To specify a key in your request, include it as the value of a
Note: By default, a key can be used from any server. We strongly recommend that you restrict the use of your key by IP address to servers that you administer. You can specify which IP addresses are allowed to use your API key by clicking the Edit allowed referers... link in the API console.
Note: HTTPS is enforced for requests that include an API key.
Usage Limits
The Google Time Zone API has the following limits in place:
- Users of the free API:
- 2,500 requests per 24 hour period.
- 5 requests per second.
- Google Maps API for Work customers:
- 100,000 requests per 24 hour period.
- 10 requests per second.
This limit is enforced to prevent abuse and/or repurposing of the Time Zone API, and the limit may be changed in the future without notice. Additionally, we enforce a request rate limit to prevent abuse of the service. If you exceed the 24-hour limit or otherwise abuse the service, the Time Zone API may stop working for you temporarily. If you continue to exceed this limit, your access to the Time Zone API may be blocked.
For complete details on allowed usage, consult the Maps API Terms of Service License Restrictions.
Time Zone Requests
The Time Zone API returns time zone data for a point on the earth, specified by a Latitude/Longitude pair. Note that time zone data may not be available for locations over water, such as oceans or seas.
A Google Time Zone API URL must be of the following form:
Important: You must submit requests via
, not http
Output Formats
Outputs formats are specified using the trailing service flag in the request URL. The Time Zone API supports the following output formats:
returns results in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)./xml
returns results in XML, wrapped within a<TimeZoneResponse>
Parameter Usage
As is standard in all URLs, parameters are separated
using the ampersand (&
) character. The list of parameters
and their possible values are denoted below.
Required Parameters
: a comma-separated lat,lng tuple (eg.location=-33.86,151.20
), representing the location to look up.timestamp
specifies the desired time as seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC. The Time Zone API uses thetimestamp
to determine whether or not Daylight Savings should be applied. Times before 1970 can be expressed as negative values.
Google Maps API for Work users must include valid client
parameters with their requests. Please refer
to Google Maps API for Work Web Services for more information.
Optional Parameters
— Your application's API key. This key identifies your application for purposes of quota management. Learn how to get a key from the Google Developers Console.language
— The language in which to return results. See the list of supported domain languages. Note that we often update supported languages so this list may not be exhaustive. Defaults toen
Time Zone Responses
For each valid request, the time zone service will return a response in the format indicated within the request URL. Each response will contain the following elements:
: the offset for daylight-savings time in seconds. This will be zero if the time zone is not in Daylight Savings Time during the specifiedtimestamp
: the offset from UTC (in seconds) for the given location. This does not take into effect daylight savings.timeZoneId
: a string containing the "tz" ID of the time zone, such as "America/Los_Angeles" or "Australia/Sydney". These IDs are defined in the IANA Time Zone Database, which is also available in searchable format in Wikipedia's List of tz database time zones.timeZoneName
: a string containing the long form name of the time zone. This field will be localized if the language parameter is set. eg. "Pacific Daylight Time" or "Australian Eastern Daylight Time"status
: a string indicating the status of the response.OK
indicates that the request was successful.INVALID_REQUEST
indicates that the request was malformed.OVER_QUERY_LIMIT
indicates the requestor has exceeded quota.REQUEST_DENIED
indicates that the the API did not complete the request. Confirm that the request was sent over HTTPS instead of HTTP.UNKNOWN_ERROR
indicates an unknown error.ZERO_RESULTS
indicates that no time zone data could be found for the specified position or time. Confirm that the request is for a location on land, and not over water.
: more detailed information about the reasons behind the given status code, if other thanOK
.Note: This field is not guaranteed to be always present, and its content is subject to change.
Calculating the Local Time
The local time of a given location is the sum of the
parameter, and the dstOffset
fields from the result.
Example Requests
This section includes some sample queries that demonstrate features of the API.
The below query performs a time zone request for Nevada, USA. The timestamp is set to March 8th, 2012.
{ "dstOffset" : 0.0, "rawOffset" : -28800.0, "status" : "OK", "timeZoneId" : "America/Los_Angeles", "timeZoneName" : "Pacific Standard Time" }
<TimeZoneResponse> <status>OK</status> <raw_offset>-28800.0000000</raw_offset> <dst_offset>0.0000000</dst_offset> <time_zone_id>America/Los_Angeles</time_zone_id> <time_zone_name>Pacific Standard Time</time_zone_name> </TimeZoneResponse>
The below query performs a time zone request for Nevada, USA. The location is the same as the above request, but the timestamp is set to March 15th, 2012. The response now includes a Daylight Savings Time offset.
{ "dstOffset" : 3600.0, "rawOffset" : -28800.0, "status" : "OK", "timeZoneId" : "America/Los_Angeles", "timeZoneName" : "Pacific Daylight Time" }
<TimeZoneResponse> <status>OK</status> <raw_offset>-28800.0000000</raw_offset> <dst_offset>3600.0000000</dst_offset> <time_zone_id>America/Los_Angeles</time_zone_id> <time_zone_name>Pacific Daylight Time</time_zone_name> </TimeZoneResponse>
This example is similar to the above two, but sets a language parameter. The response will now be localized to Spanish.
{ "dstOffset" : 3600.0, "rawOffset" : -28800.0, "status" : "OK", "timeZoneId" : "America/Los_Angeles", "timeZoneName" : "Hora de verano del Pacífico" }
<TimeZoneResponse> <status>OK</status> <raw_offset>-28800.0000000</raw_offset> <dst_offset>3600.0000000</dst_offset> <time_zone_id>America/Los_Angeles</time_zone_id> <time_zone_name>Hora de verano del Pacífico</time_zone_name> </TimeZoneResponse>
The sensor
The Google Maps API previously required that you include the
parameter to indicate whether your application used a
sensor to determine the user's location. This parameter is no longer


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10/29/2012, 10:36 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Meg not sure what OS in smartphone for 2014.?
In a recent interview with CRN Meg is not sure what OS will come on board in a new smartphone that HP will apparently unveil in 2014. Whitman passed on the question of which operating system, be it the Android, Windows Phone or WebOS, HP would adopt for its smartphone. "Ultimately, if we decide to do a smartphone ... we will make a decision about what the right operating system is," she said. Full article: Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman said that while she does not expect her company to release a smartphone until 2014 at the earliest, HP will be a major force in the tablet and mobile PC markets. Whitman also said during a question-and-answer period during her Mastermind presentation at last week's Gartner US Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., that HP has to be a competitor in the smartphone and PC markets as the two merge into a gigantic mobile device market. "Listen, there will be ups and downs in this business," she said. "PCs may be declining. Tablets may be growing. The business definition here is 'personal systems.' It's not PCs. It's personal systems. And we think we can win." [Related: HP's Meg Whitman: Cisco's John Chambers A Good Friend, But Wrong About HP] Whitman said HP will not have a smartphone in 2013. "But I suspect we will beyond that because we've got to, I believe, have the full array of devices," she said. "If we are in the personal. compute business, the smartphone is the main device in many countries in the world. I don't know how we can be HP without having the full range of devices." Mont Phelps, CEO of NWN, a Waltham, Mass.-based solution provider and long-term HP partner, said he is glad to see HP's strategy for moving forward on the smartphone and tablet PC markets. And for anyone who thinks HP is late to the market, Phelps said he is not sure he agrees. "What's the shelf life on these products?" he said. "Slightly longer than for my underwear. Stability has come to the PC and desktop. But the market for smartphones and tablets is still developing. If someone comes out with a better solution, we have the capacity to develop the market. Look at the Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) iPhone. The fifth generation is out already. First movers have the advantage. But over time, the better solutions win." Even so, the smartphone and tablet PC market do differ in terms of timing, Phelps said. "I'm more concerned about the pads," he said. "The longer we go without a business-compatible Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) solution, the bigger the effort to force the iPad into businesses. I don't think that is the right thing for us in the business. The longer this goes on, the more traction the iPad gets." The smartphone market is different, Phelps said. "Smartphones don't have the competitive pressures from Android," he said. "I'm enjoying the battles between Apple and Google." Whitman passed on the question of which operating system, be it the Android, Windows Phone or WebOS, HP would adopt for its smartphone. "Ultimately, if we decide to do a smartphone ... we will make a decision about what the right operating system is," she said. Whitman was also asked about how she feels about Microsoft entering the tablet PC business with its own hardware, to which she replied that Microsoft is still a really good partner of HP. "I come from a world of coopetition," she said. "In my career, sometimes you're cooperating, sometimes you're competing. We're very comfortable with that. And we'll put our capability for devices against anyone's, including Microsoft's." HP has some huge strengths it can use to compete in this new tablet PC market, including its engineers, its distribution and its trusted relationship with CIOs, Whitman said. "So competition? Bring it on," she said. "I think it makes us better." Whitman said that Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)'s Surface appears to be focused on the consumer business. In this market, HP is coming out with two hybrid models that function both as a laptop and, when the screen is unlocked from the keyboard, as a tablet PC. While the Surface has a keyboard, the device does not really function as a traditional laptop, she said. "We think there's a lot of growth in the enterprise for tablets for workers," she said. "So whether you're an insurance company or a retailer or, you name it, there is a demand for tablets in the enterprise that is enterprise-grade, enterprise-built for security." With HP (NYSE:HPQ)'s tablet, users can remove the back or replace the screen. They feature a 10-hour battery life, which can be extended another 10 hours via a "Smart Jacket" that fits over the tablet, she said. When asked why staying in the PC business is important to HP, Whitman said that after she joined HP, it was the first big decision she had to make after her predecessor Leo Apotheker said the company was considering selling off its PC division. But after a 30-day review by a team of 100 people, the company decided it made sense to stay in the PC business. One reason was the fact that PCs were the heritage of HP. "It's nearly a $40 billion business," she said. "We're still No. 1 in the marketplace." HP also gets tremendous supply-chain synergies by having a large PC business to go with its server and storage business. Link: Whitman: No Smartphones In 2013, But HP Will Tussle In Tablets |
10/30/2012, 07:47 AM | #4 (permalink) |
HP is lost, not making a mobile device til 2014? They will be less of a company is 6 months, then in 2 years from now...
I use my Touchpad and Preplus (with webOS 2.2.4) more then my desktop, more the my laptop... Go figure... Some people use mobile only (not just in 3rd world countries, but all over)... Still think it is a country thing? HP is so lost... |
10/30/2012, 10:35 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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Since I bought the HP 12C as a student and the HP 19II as a pro, and that is a long time ago, I haven`t seen any kind of success by HP in the smartphone business at all. Never.
IMHO HP should opt for the phone-tablet mobile solution as they work more with notebooks,laptops, all in ones, business tablets and all with windows. I don`t bet on a Windows Phone OS for an HP smartphone at any time. HP just have to come out with a webOS all-touch slab smartphone-tablet and will make it a winner. |
10/30/2012, 11:35 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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Yeah, but she changed her mind saying "In many countries of the world that is your first computing device, there will be countries on the world where people that never own a tablet or a PC or a desktop, will do everything on the smartphone. We are a computing company, we have to take advantage of that form factor."
10/31/2012, 04:26 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Absolutely no choice. And then HP has to be a big player. They can scratch for share (and margin) with all the other Android makes, with Microsoft (who will no doubt be making phones to go with its tablets) OR....they can parlay all their marketing and enterprise into a new and improved webOS. I can't say this is a no-brainer, but IF HP wants to be a big player in 10 years they have to seperate themselves from the rest of the mkt. webOS is the most likely way to accomplish this.
10/31/2012, 04:40 PM | #10 (permalink) |
HP Think Beyond Event - http://youtu.be/VnjwG7Z8AM8 m505 > Z|71 > T|C > Z|71 > T|T3 > LifeDrive > iPod touch 4 > Pre 2 > Treo Pro > Aria > HD2 > Treo 650 > Lumia 920 My Palm OS Archive |
10/31/2012, 05:38 PM | #12 (permalink) | |
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It's practically 2013 for crying out loud! If she doesn't know by now, it means they will not release a phone in 2013 (or know that their choice would ridiculed if it were public knowledge now). Not even an agile company can make such a major decision on such a short time frame... and HP has not been know for moving quickly, maybe they will change "in the coming months" (sorry, I couldn't resist ) They might as well just move on with their plan to be a player in the services arena, because this plan will not work. Seems they were hoping that Windows would be a force in the market, but that is not looking too promising right now. And outside of Samsung and Googl-rola, not many are making out in the Android market either. The cost to develop a breakthrough product in that space is more that they would likely be willing to pay. (A 'breakthrough' product has evolved past just making a bigger screen or more RAM) HP should have stuck it out and applied more intelligence to the process, not just more money. Because now it will take much more of both than was needed 18 months ago, I I'm not sure if they can afford to spare either. C
"Sometimes I feel like an OS-less child..." (with apologies to Billie Holiday ) |
11/01/2012, 12:42 AM | #13 (permalink) | |
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11/13/2012, 04:31 PM | #14 (permalink) |
It's 100%, that it will NOT be WebOS. They will go for WP8 and that's it. You all don't want to hear it, but WebOS is truly dead for the masses. It's just a niche OS for a left little fanbase, like linux on computers, but linux is good. Don't misunderstand me. I love WebOS. I got a Pre3. It is the best user interface, but is NOT the best operating system. Lack of functions, bad performance, etc etc. I hope HP is going for a Pre3-like form factor. With WP8, I'll be in.
11/13/2012, 06:01 PM | #16 (permalink) |
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Sad too since it's the closest thing to the previously promised webOS ecosystem unless you want to go iOS. I haven't fully bought in to Win 8/WP8 but then again took me years to finally convert to Win 7
I love physical keyboards... but there is two devices that would make me consider a slab, one is something running a full version of Open webOS. The other is an iPhone!!!! HA HA just kidding (about the iPhone that is)... |
11/13/2012, 09:27 PM | #17 (permalink) |
It's never sad to see Microsoft failing with something.
Matt Williams *How to install .patch files on your device* Developer of: SMS Auto Forward/Reply, GPS Viewer, Keyring converters for CSV, eWallet, & CodeWallet Touchpad patches:Keyring HD,ClassicNote HD, YouTube HD (for 2.1 app), Show email recipient addresses for contacts Phone patches: Forums fixes and enhancements patch, Weather Channel fix All-device patches: Update GlobalSign certs, Google Sync https fix, Yahoo contact sync fix |
11/14/2012, 11:33 AM | #18 (permalink) |
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It is when the dream of a true ecosystem of devices is going with it. I had such high hopes for webOS on the PC, etc.
I love physical keyboards... but there is two devices that would make me consider a slab, one is something running a full version of Open webOS. The other is an iPhone!!!! HA HA just kidding (about the iPhone that is)... |
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Bloomberg's Push For Corporate Sustainability
Why Bloomberg broke into the business of measuring other companies' good deeds.
SOON AFTER Bloomberg's sustainability director, Curtis Ravenel, launched an initiative to green the company's operations in 2006, he began to wonder: How do other businesses measure their impact on the environment? Do they report it to the public?
Before long, he found himself perusing corporate sustainability reports, released by many firms not just to brand themselves as "green" but also to cater to socially responsible investors. A lightbulb went off: He asked his colleagues whether Bloomberg, whose business is based on disseminating corporate data to the financial sector, collected this pile of information for its clients. The answer was no.
It turned out the company had been ignoring a potentially valuable area. "It was something our European colleagues had pushed for some time, but socially responsible investing was too small [a customer base]," Ravenel, 42, explains. "It just never made it up to C-level."
Well, he thought, I'm C-level.
Ravenel's curiosity had drawn him into an expanding corner of financial analysis called environmental, social, and governance, or ESG. ESG traditionally hadn't been factored into invest-ment decisions. At most, it was viewed as "extra-financial" data — whether the company has a human-rights policy, or the percentage of women or minorities on its board.
But to its proponents, ESG is less concerned with social responsibility than with profits. If a company treats its employees well, for instance, it should have less turnover and lower HR costs; if a manufacturer gets serious about safety, it can avoid expensive lawsuits. There's increasing evidence — and, correspondingly, a growing belief among portfolio managers — that companies taking such factors into account are forward-thinking and well managed, and therefore places investors should consider.
The biggest indicator in the ESG matrix right now is environmental impact. "The financial community likes the E because it's easy to quantify," Ravenel says. "And within E is the big C: carbon." And within that C is another C: cost. Some European countries, such as Sweden and Denmark, tax the carbon emissions of companies with offices there. The EPA's rules to regulate CO2, which went into effect January 2nd, will affect many American balance sheets. If companies wake up one day to find it costs $15 to emit a ton of CO2, a financial analyst considering ExxonMobil would see it emitted 128 million metric tons in 2009. That adds nearly $2 billion to the oil giant's operating costs — hardly extra-financial data.
Ravenel used this kind of argument to persuade Bloomberg to add ESG data to its terminals. His team spent countless hours assembling and entering data into the system (often by hand) before going live in July 2009. Today, when Bloomberg's 300,000 market-savvy customers turn on their terminals in the morning, they can see ESG data such as greenhouse-gas intensity per sales, water usage, employee fatalities, toxic discharge, and more than 100 other indicators as part of their basic package alongside the rest of the Wall Street alphabet soup. (The ESG data does not cost extra.)
And investors are using it: In the second half of 2010, 5,000 unique customers in 29 countries accessed more than 50 million ESG indicators via Bloomberg's screens — a 29% increase over the first half of last year. "We expect that trend to continue," Ravenel says.
Recently, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Merrill Lynch, and Credit Suisse launched divisions to analyze ESG data from Bloomberg and its ESG competitors. (A number of these competitors have bought one another or merged in the wake of Bloomberg's entry into the field.) "We feel there's enough quality data out there now that we place it on our platform in a variety of ways and from a variety of different vendors," says Bruce Kahn, senior investment analyst of Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors.
To Ravenel, this is not only a business success but also potentially an environmental one, because what's measured gets managed. If analysts are paying attention to ExxonMobil's carbon-dioxide use, then the company may try to reduce its emissions — and maybe create a product that enables other companies to reduce their emissions. "I saw the potential for us to have an impact exponential to what we'd been doing on the operating side with making Bloomberg greener," Ravenel says. "This would dwarf anything we could do to reduce our footprint."
"Every Wall Street analyst has a Bloomberg and looks at it every day," says Adam Kanzer, a managing director of Domini Social Investments, a pioneering shop for socially responsible investing. "Analysts are going to say, 'If Bloomberg thinks this is important, maybe I ought to be paying attention.' "
Companies have begun to collect environmental data more vigilantly — ostensibly because it helps them identify ways to cut costs. Frank Mantero, head of corporate responsibility at GE, says the company has saved $150 million since 2005 by limiting its emissions. Private equity firm KKR estimates that eight of the companies in its portfolio pocketed $160 million of savings in two years after eliminating 345,000 tons of CO2 and 8,500 tons of wastepaper.
In February, Ravenel raced to finish Bloomberg's ranking of banks based on their green credentials. In a rare moment of calm, he thought about how far ESG has come. "It's gone from us pushing ESG to customers to us getting questions on how to use the data," he says. He laments that not all of Wall Street is yet on board. "ESG ought to be in SEC-required company filings, and until it is, it won't be viewed as material by a lot of people. "Of course," he quips, "a lot of the financial data in there now aren't material either."
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If Bloomberg wants to look at carbon footprints, how about his own? Bloomberg LP spends so much money flying their sales force around the country all week. Why not locate people according to the customer base's geographical footprint? Oh yeah, that's right, he wants to collect more New York City taxes....
"Within the E is the big C which is Carbon" but also the big C stands for 'Communication'. In understanding carbon and its impact on businesses and the planet it can be aligned to John Grays book "Men are from Mars, Women from Venus" in which case for most corporates carbon then is from Uranus – it's that far away for many.
In our experience, over the last 10 years, carbon one of the best business tools to determine efficiency across the board from processing to services. Why spend more when the envio-economics tell you businesses could spend less, and better?
The value of carbon/ESG comes when you can use this as a currency to promote more efficient production, with increasing carbon legislation and taxation, production and services may shift globally, ESG may have its day but we have to get over that sustainability is not just green a fluffy but plays hard ball economics.
Mark Clayton
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I applaud Bloomberg's efforts in corporate sustainability. It's worth noting that in many senses - the train has left the station on sustainability reporting. Corporate scorecards, voluntary reporting to GRI and CDP among others, and various countries' compliance legislation is compelling a growing number of businesses to report, and then criticaly - do something about the numbers they report in terms of reducing risk and operational costs. The trend has been apparent for 5 years now.
It's also worth noting that Ecodesk, a provatelly owned and financed busienss based in the UK, holds the largest number of publically available data profiles on organisations worldwide, and enjoyed over 28,000 unique visitors over the same period quoted in this article - 5 times Bloomberg's total.
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So glad to see business at all levels embracing the opportunities associated with "ESG". From entrepreneurs to wall street, the business community is finally coming around in a big way. Hoorah!
@BrookeBF from @RecycleMatch
Bloomberg's move into the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space, coming as it does directly from the C-suite, validates the business and investment case for sustainability. Bloomberg's decision to present corporate ESG data, based on the Global Reporting Initiative framework, right alongside financial data on its ubiquitous terminals confirms that information on sustainability is unquestionably material to investment decision-making -- and therefore needs to be ubiquitous on corporate board and management agendas.
Companies, investors, NGOs, regulators and other key stakeholders seeking guidance on how to implement (and advocate for) integration of ESG factors into core business and investment strategy can look to the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability, which charts the vision and course to a sustainable economy for the 21st Century.
Disclosure is one of four key action areas the Roadmap focuses on. Bloomberg's dashboard of ESG indicators perfectly exemplifies best practice on this front and we expect it will help drive companies to sustainability performance improvements, such as lower carbon emissions and reduced energy/water use. (Performance is another of the four topics the Roadmap covers, along with stakeholder engagement and governance.)
A hugely important factor in all this is making sure investors use Bloomberg's ESG data to evaluate which companies are well positioned - or poorly positioned - on emerging sustainability challenges such as climate change.
For more info, check out the Roadmap online here: http://www.ceres.org/ceresroad...
Peyton Fleming
Senior Director, Strategic Communications