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I have been gone for awhile for reasons,but IM back for Those who know me my wife Yoli and I are splitting up I will miss her.I will be at sat mystic and staying at the quality inn as yrs before for...
I have 2 sat nite ticket for sale face value. Please call ed 925 783 9051
thank you for the bday shout out
I spoke with the peeps at quality inn petaluma for mystic weekend a.d got our YT rate of 71a nite we've stayed there along.g with several othes its a decent place not far from the mystic just mention...
we will c ya all sat
Right on vinny just called they have a good rate 50 bucks cheaper than palms we will book there Rock On
Great idea Brad its gonna be a special show for sure we are ready been awhile for us. Sad to see the avalon closeing but i cannot think of a better way to end than Y/T Blowin the roof off!!!!!! Cya...
Happy B Day Dude
Well its finally here the ledgedery Fillmore we are ready to Y/T Baby see ya all sat ready for a Facemelting Oh Yeah!!!:party06:
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I'm takeing my Daughter Breamna to her first Fillmore it will be here 2nd time seeing g the mighty YT but her first fillmore I'm stoked she is going. She is 13 and my only rocker out of my 4...
Nice Meeting u as well Dave Thanks again Rock On Ed
Happy B Day Dude see ya at the Fillmore
Lmao good one
Happy Bday Pepe LMAO:537:
i just told him we were with the y/t group and he gave me the cheaper rate see ya tara at the Bv
Just booked our room for the fillmore at the Bv and glad i did not to many rms left so if your plannin on stayin there better jump on it and ask for the discounted group rate it will save some...
Like u said lauretta there was only one Phil Kenemore one of my fondest Phill memmories was a show at the casino up in orville cant for the life of me remember the name of it a group of us were...
Our thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family Perry
Wishing Y/T and all are fourm family a very Merry Christmas and a Rockin New Year Ed & Yoli
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The study on the diffraction field distribution by photomultiplier
Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 3, Issue S1, pp. S350-S350 (2005)
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The diffractive field distributions of the dark edge on the negative, the edge of the knife and the single edge of the wire were investigated using photo-multiplier system. The results show that the new diffractive formula with the parameters describing the property of the edge of the diffractive object should be established and that the property of the object may be realized by the investigation of the weak diffractive field distribution of the object.
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a resident of Downtown
on Dec 20, 2007 at 7:12 am
I guess there must not be enough to do in Stockton for the youngster.
Again, lack of imagination, respect, and a solid sense of right and wrong. More likely he needs training, discipline, and authority...put him in the Marine Corp...yeh, thats it....
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a skateboard can seriously hurt if the trucks hit, that should be assault with a deadly weapon
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Exchanging Your Money Abroad: 10 Simple Tips
One question I see a lot in the user forums here on Fodors.com is how best to get foreign currency when traveling abroad. When I first started traveling abroad, there were two basic choices: take and exchange cash or take and exchange traveler's checks. I usually did the latter. How times have changed. Now, anyone younger than 25 might look at me with a raised eyebrow if I mentioned a traveler's check. But the question still persists. With bank fees rising every year and exchange rates seemingly in constant flux, what's the best way to change your money? There are many threads on this subject in our user forums. Here are some simple rules to follow.
Ten Simple Rules for Exchanging Your Money
1. ATMs are still the best choice for day-to-day funds.
Although some banks have high fees to use foreign ATMs, not to mention adding on high foreign-transaction fees (Bank of America, for example, charges $5 per withdrawal plus 3% premium on top of each withdrawal at a non-partner ATM), the ATM is still almost always the cheapest option for changing your money. And if your bank has international ATMs or partner banks abroad, you can sometimes save a little on your cash withdrawals; that's true even at BOA, which charges just 1% at member banks and no other fees. Capitol One Bank charges nothing for a foreign ATM withdrawal, while other banks such as Chase charge 3% on top of every withdrawal as well as a $3 fee. It pays to shop around for a bank if you travel a lot internationally.
2. "No-fee" bureau de change are usually the most expensive places to change money.
When you see a sign that offers "no-fee" currency exchange, be sure to check the rates. You'll notice that they are almost always significantly worse than what you'd get if you had simply taken money out of an ATM. It's a good idea to keep up to date on the latest Interbank rates (the rates banks pay for foreign currency) to find out if you are getting a good deal. A web site like www.xe.com can give you those rates, which change daily. At best, you normally pay between 4% and 9% of the total amount you are exchanging to change money into a foreign currency, and this cost is usually built into the bad exchange rate. You pay again to change your euros or pounds back into dollars, so think carefully how much cash you actually need on a day to day basis.
3. If you need a lot of cash, ask your bank to raise your daily withdrawal limit.
Say you are renting an apartment for a week in Rome or Paris and you need a lot of euros at once to pay the landlord, your bank may be able to raise your daily withdrawal limit temporarily to allow you to withdraw much more money than you would normally be allowed to take out. ATMs may have smaller withdrawal limits, but you can make multiple withdrawals from the same ATM or from several ATMs in that case. If you can't get enough cash to pay for a week in advance, perhaps your landlord will allow you to pay in several installments throughout your stay. If you have a traveling companion, you can both withdraw cash to make the initial payment.
4. Never take a cash advance on your credit card except in a dire emergency.
If you take cash from a foreign ATM, you will pay a fee; you'll be charged a percentage on top of your withdrawal as a foreign-transaction charge; and you will start to pay very high interest (sometimes up to double the regular interest rate you are charged on your credit card) the moment the cash reaches your hands. It's a pretty bad deal. Avoid it at all costs unless you have no other choice. Bank of America has pretty egregious fees, as posters in our forums have found.
5. Use credit cards for large purchases.
Most credit cards charge a foreign-transaction fee of between 1% and 3% whenever you buy something abroad, but this is still the safest and often the cheapest way to make a large purchase. You'll almost always come out ahead on the conversion since credit cards add their fee on top of the Interbank rate. So you are almost always getting the best possible rate of exchange even though you are paying a fee. (And some banks, like Capital One, still do not charge anything extra for foreign purchases beyond the 1% that Visa and Mastercard charge; some credit unions also have very low fees, though membership in credit unions is usually limited.) Other banks, including Citibank, really gouge consumers by charge a 3% foreign-transaction fee even if the purchase is made in U.S. dollars.
6. Avoid dynamic currency conversion.
If you are ever given the opportunity to charge your purchase abroad in U.S. dollars, decline. In fact, you should insist that you be charged in the local currency. So-called dynamic currency conversion not only offers lousy exchange rates, but it also includes hidden fees, and your own credit card will charge you its own foreign-transaction fee on top of the cost of the purchase. In effect, you will be paying double the fees and getting a bad exchange to boot. You might pay a 10% premium for a purchase. Here is one discussion of the process from our forums. Just remember, you are always charged a foreign-transaction fee by your credit card company (if it charges such fees) whether your purchase is made in dollars or foreign currency.
7. Don't make purchases with your debit card abroad.
It's very simple. Use your debit/ATM card to make cash withdrawals. Don't use it to make purchases. If something goes awry, your account will be debited immediately for the purchase; even if you return something for a refund, your account may not be credited for several days (perhaps for more than a week if the purchase is made abroad). If a sales clerk makes a mistake, it could take several days for an erroneous charge to be credited back to your account. With a credit card, you might never notice that a particular charge has appeared and disappeared because it will never show up on your statement. But it's different with a bank account. The money actually disappears and may not come back for several days even if it's an error or even if a transaction is cancelled. You might need that cash in the meantime.
8. The Chip-and-PIN situation in Europe.
Most European countries now offer credit and debit cards with a computer chip that requires a PIN to activate and make a purchase. This is especially common in automated ticket machines in Europe, even on European toll roads. If your credit or debit card doesn't have a chip and PIN (hardly any U.S. credit or debit cards do), then you may not be able to buy a ticket from a machine with your card. Although both Visa and Mastercard promise U.S. cardholders that their cards are usable anywhere in the world where they should be accepted with just a signature, you may still have some occasional problems in Europe using your card. Posters in our user forums have discussed this issue here. The subject was also covered earlier this year on SmarterTravel.com.
9. Traveler's Checks are a good fallback in an emergency.
Although the predominance of ATMs has made some people feel that the simple traveler's check is a relic of a bygone era, it can still be a godsend in an emergency. It's true that few places in the world still accept traveler's checks as payment. Normally, you must change them in a bank and will be charged a hefty fee for the privilege (though in some destinations like Mexico, it can be difficult to find a bank that will exchange your traveler's checks). But if you can buy your traveler's checks without paying a fee, they are a good fallback as an emergency stash of cash. And if you have American Express checks, they can still be cashed in an Amex office abroad. While these aren't as prevalent as they once were, they are still found all over Europe and in many other countries.
10. A Ben Franklin is also a great emergency reserve.
A crisp, new US$100 bill is also a good fallback as an emergency reserve of cash. While I would not travel abroad with a big stack of cash, having a single $100 bill somewhere separate from your other travel money is a great idea. Even if you lose substantially on the currency exchange, it's a currency that's accepted worldwide.
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Typo....not debut but debit card. Did not try to use card n train ticket machines just used with the ticket agent once.
We just returned from a trip to Paris with a side tour to a couple of other towns in France. I used my stripe and signature card without any problem. The only time there was an issue was when my son was told a restaurant had a minimum of 16 euros to use the credit card. We also used the striped debut card in ATMs without a problem. We were using Capital One cards.
Magnetic stripe cards are utterly useless in the Netherlands in ATMs or ticket machines. This was true i October of 2011. Both require chip & pin. At least they can be used to buy stuff.
Who has attempted to use a chipless US debit card for cash withdrawals from an ATM in France recently? Did it work? -
In doing research for our trip, it appears those who live the UK have more options for reasonably priced currency exchange than those of us who live in the US do? (i.e. - order online and pick up at airport, order prepaid cards etc.) In fact the United States American Express Travel Services web page doesn't even mention foreign exchange, whereas the U.K. version does, front and center. I plan to use my debit card anyway but I'm still curious as to why there is a difference. Anyone know the reason for that?
We've just returned from Italy (March 2012) and can report that we had no difficulty anywhere using a US credit card, with no chip and pin technology, The only place we found that needed a chip and pin card were the automatic ticket machines at the train stations. Bank of America is affiliated with BNL bank in Italy. If you use your B of A debit card in a BNL ATM machine, you are not charged the $5.00 transaction fee that you will be subject to if you use your B of A card at any other bank's ATM. You are, however, charged a 1% 'conversion fee.' I didn't realize that we could have used our Capital One card at any ATM with no fee! We used it exclusively for all purchases.
the tip with the pre-payed card is good!! you can upload it whenever you want with the amount you want. I found it out when I was in Australia, bank commissions are much lower compared to those charged when using normal credit cards.
To carolynbpriest, I would check your credit report maybe there is some fraud someone opened up something, because I just applied and have excellent credit as well, and have never been late on any payments, and got approved. Warning on pre paid cards, not accepted in some places and cannot use in some ATM's over seas, research on that. There are some good applications to download on smart phones that keep an up to the minute current exchange rate.
I came across a site a few weeks ago, I think they are pretty new as I've not seen them before http://www.currencyexchange-uk.co.uk which offer independent comparisons and recommendations with regard to currency exchange. I've also used http://www.mytravelcash.com before and was impressed. I now have a pre-card card which I can upload when heading on my travels.
We use our Costco Amer. Express whenever we can in Europe and they charge 3% conversion rate but give us back 2% on travel. With all the money we spend overseas, what's 1%! We also always carry US cash and bring back any leftover Euro for our next trip which I keep as emergency money. An ATM is the way to go for walking around $$.
Thanks, Doug... and everyone else! This is very helpful to those of us who seldom go abroad. I'm going to Great Britain this summer, and -- being a good Scot -- want to get the most for my money. Thank you.
Good idea about the cash emergency reserve, but I suggest putting aside 5 x $20 bills rather than 1 x $100 as many places will not accept a US $100 bill.
Thank you for the information about dynamic currency conversion fees. I had no idea and from now on I'll stick to local currency only.
Travelex used to offer very competitive rates and low fees (including overnight delivery) of Euros on the Internet. Now they have stopped. There is no place for me to exchange Euros in my city. Does anyone know why Travelex stopped doing Internet exchanges?
Also, if you are near a Travelex store, they currently have a coupon that waives the transaction fee. You can download it here:
http://www.travelex.com/us/personal/FC_default.asp?content=fc -
I applied for Capital One card before going to France last Fall and was rejected. I have an excellent credit rating, a stable retirement income and own my home. They couldnt give me a good reason for rejection but it was apparent to me they do not want customers who pay their credit card bills on time every month. That is where they make their money!
In Paris I use my Bank of America cash card at BNP Paribas bank cash outlets (there are a lot of them) so the fee is minimal and I take the maximum amount at one time. (Yes, I call my bank before leaving to ask for a highter daily amount allowed, and let them know what countries I will be in.)I start out with about 350 E 'leftover' from my last trip. I bring travel checks for emergency only and have never had occasion to use them. I do not charge anything anymore...but maybe I will look into Capital One.
In Paris I use Multi-Change (multiple locations) to change cash. They have a website (google it) to see what the daily rate is. There are no hidden charges. My French colleagues also use it after I informed them.
Are all the Capital One cards fee free or just specific ones? -
In my above posting, I meant "they prefer cash to credit cards" especially in smaller villages...
We are just back from a trip to Austria - they prefer Euros to cash especially in the smaller villages. When we used our Mastercard to pay for 2 weeks of ski tickets for 2 people, we were told they would charge an extra 3% to use the card and was that okay- we had no choice but agree, but in actuality, she only charged us an extra 3 euro per person which was less than 1% on what we spent. The exchange rate they charged was comparable to what we were charged for a purchase at another location.
I also find that it is just as cheap to get money exchanged (prior to leaving Canada), at a local Money Mart Money Exchange location, than it is at my own bank(Bank of Montreal) and a fee of 1.99 Cdn is charged at the Money Mart on top of any amount I buy - I also find I don't have to order ahead of time like I do at the bank (convenient if you're a last minute person like me...)- though if you need a large amount of money you could be without (I didn' find this a problem).
As for using a chip Mastercard, we did have trouble using it at 2 locations in Austria - at one location, they had another machine they were able to put our card through, however, at another store, we just could not use our card(as they did not seem to have the updated machine)and had to use cash instead. The transaction machine would keep saying card error, or unable to process transaction.
Two things. 1) USAA Master Card does not charge any foreign transaction fees. It is a great card to use overseas. 2)The money exchange at Philadelphia airport gives you good rates. Keep your receipt. When you come back from overseas if you have any cash left, you can turn it back in for the exact same rate you bought it at.
I'm with Crisco0. We take at least several hundred euro with us, often more because we rent apartments and often must pay in cash. Once there we use the ATM for cash withdrawals and credit cards for large purchases.
Bringing foreign money back leaves you vulnerable to exchange rate fluctuations before your next trip, but avoiding fees and the hassle of getting euros from a bank (we do not live in a large city where it's easier) is worth the risk. -
While this method is not for the unorganized or faint of heart..We always carry at least half of what we expect to spend on our trip in US dollars and exhange it at a walk in European bank. There is a minimal transaction fee (5 Euro) and the currnet exchange rate. We carry our Euro with us at all times, and charge only large purchased items or hotel bills. Near the end of our travels we use almost all Euro to pay expenses, but keep a "buffer" stash to take home for our next European trip.
I agree about Capital One. It is the only card we travel with when we visit Italy. They also send a wonderful itemized account of charges etc.
At present, Capital One does not charge a foreign-transaction fee.
How can you write all this advice about using ATM and credit cards and NOT tell people to call the companies to say they're traveling abroad??? If you don't call, it's extremely likely that the card will be blocked the first time you try to use it - at best requiring a foreign phone call, and potentially leaving you temporarily broke. And you also need to advise people to make sure they have a non-800 number to call if necessary (every time I ask my bank for this, they are surprised to learn that 800 numbers don't work outside N. America...)
Also, this advice is fine for well-traveled places like Europe, but there are countries in Asia where old-fashioned TCs or cash are still needed, or where only certain bank's ATM machines take foreign cards. People should always research their specific destinations. -
If you happen to finish your trip with more cash than you needed you can always use some of it to pay the hotel account. This reduces fees both on the credit card charge from the hotel as well as to change the money back into your home currency. Just make sure you have enough to get to the airport and pay any departure taxes!
The cost of using a ATM machine off an American bank account is the same as using a credit card. TD Bank and HSBC kick back most foreign bank fees if you keep a minimum balance ($2500 with TD) in the account. As a rule unless you are with TD or HSBC, use your credit card because you are better protected in case of a problem. Your pin can only contain 4 numbers!!!
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Two F-22 Raptors from the 525th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron returned to Anderson
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The 525th EFS, deployed here from Elmendorf as part of U.S. Pacific Command's Theater Security Packages in the Asia-Pacific region, was able to demonstrate the Raptor's ability to forward deploy to another location and practice defensive counter air tactics with the F-15s from the 44th Fighter Squadron at Kadena AB.
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So I got an autoflower as a freebie, a Blueberry from G13 Labs... Everything is going fine, I threw her in my veg area with my photo-plants and she took off under the 18/6 light cycle. Fast Forward 6 weeks or so... Blueberry is now super frosty and smells dank as all get out. Here is where it gets interesting... half of the plant has the trichs just beginning to go amber, the other half are all still cloudy/clear. How do I get the plant to even out so I can get peak trichomes from both halves of the plant? I can't rotate the plant, my veg space is crowded to begin with and throwing in the autoflower made it very very crowded. I don't want to harvest some on whatever date and then harvest the second half a week later, I prefer to do it all in one sitting. I'm leaning towards just giving it a couple weeks flush and what I get is what I get... unless someone has a better idea?
grow space has been the crutch for every inside grower that i know, including myself.. an auto will grow like crazy with the light and room any time you screw with the basic's of an auto it seems to get pissed off so on that note in my opinion i would just let it ride all the way out.look at it like this its a snack before the feast..lol clip the top cola's and let the rest just keep on growin.. unless you want to put it in a big cardboard box all by herself and a few cfl's to give you space and to finish the auto.. i have used a washing machine box to grow in also a refridgerator box. anything to keep it inclosed to finish her out.. AUTO'S DON'T LIKE CHANGE. not even a lil bit..


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Next week's Intel Developer Forum will be held about 6,000 miles to the west of its usual location in downtown San Francisco. Beijing will play host to the semiannual conference, which gathers Intel's customers, partners and beat reporters for discussions about the company's plans and performance. The conference kicks off Tuesday with an opening address from Ian Yang, the head of Intel's China operation.
Intel usually takes the speeches and presentations from a San Francisco IDF to various other sites around the world. But this time it will unveil its news in Beijing, with no plans for a U.S. counterpart until later this year. CEO Paul Otellini will be a notable no-show, but other Intel heavy hitters will be present to talk not only about the company's upcoming products, but its increasing focus on China as a base of operations.
Technology companies have been obsessed with China for years, eyeing its residents both as customers and workers. China's economy is still on fire, and its people and businesses have more and more disposable income to spend on PCs, mobile phones, televisions and all the other accoutrements of a modern techie. The PC manufacturing industry--especially the fast-growing notebook sector--has set up shop in China to take advantage of the lower cost of labor.
Intel's mission in China is twofold. Like the rest of the technology industry, it sees a source of future growth to offset the maturing PC markets in the U.S. and Western Europe. Industry experts differ on the best products for those emerging markets, but Chinese customers will snap up PCs--and Intel wants to be inside a healthy portion of those systems.
The company's recent announcement that it plans to build a chipmaking factory in Dalian, however, signals that Intel has grander plans than aggressive sales and marketing for China. The company already has a significant presence in China with assembly and test plants located close to the country's burgeoning PC manufacturing industry. But building a plant is a much more expensive and statement-making proposition.
Billions of dollars are required to build a modern chipmaking factory, even an outdated one like the plant Intel is planning for Dalian. Intel isn't going to save a whole lot of money on labor costs, because the real outlays in chip manufacturing are for sophisticated equipment, said Risto Puhakka, an analyst with VLSI Research.
Plus, Intel's plant will be a so-called "greenfield" project, arising on a site where the company has never built a factory, Puhakka said. "It's the first greenfield site for Intel in 15 years."
The plant itself will be outdated by Intel's standards to comply with export regulations designed to prevent certain countries from acquiring the latest and greatest technology. When the factory is completed in 2010, Intel is expected to produce less-important products there such as chipsets or communications chips--rather than top-of-the-line processors--using older technology.
But the technical know-how associated with running a modern chipmaking facility will rub off on aspiring Chinese engineers and entrepreneurs who might want to some day run their own plant, said George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association, a trade group representing U.S. chip companies.
"They have the foundries now," Scalise said, referring to Chinese companies such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. "At this point, they are still struggling to some degree, but they are getting better, and most of the technology and capability they have today is from people that were trained here, worked here, and then moved on over."
This is an issue that some in the U.S. have worried about: If China demonstrates that it has suitable engineering know-how and infrastructure needed to support advanced chip manufacturing, more and more companies might decide to set up operations there and take investment dollars out of the U.S., Scalise said. And Chinese workers trained by foreign companies like Intel might go off and start their own chipmaking operations with funding from the Chinese government, potentially threatening Intel's business far on down the road.
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Schumann, Benjamin, Scanlan, James and Fangohr, Hans (2012) Complex agent interactions in operational simulations for aerospace design. In, 2012 Winter Simulation Conference, Berlin, Germany, 12pp. (Submitted).
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Product complexity in the aerospace industry has grown fast while design procedures and techniques did not keep pace. Product life cycle implications are largely neglected during the early design phase. Also, aerospace designers fail to optimize products for the intended operational environment. This study shows how a design, simulated within its anticipated operational environment, can inform about critical design parameters, thereby creating a more targeted design improving the chance of commercial success. An agent-based operational simulation for civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicles conducting maritime Search-and-Rescue missions is used to design and optimize aircrafts. Agent interactions with their environment over the product life-cycle are shown to lead to unexpected model outputs. Unique insights into the optimal design are gained by analysis of the operational performance of the aircraft within its simulated environment
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Re "Zion shutdown leaves streets, motels of So. Utah town empty," Tribune, Oct. 10:
Utah GOP Gov. Gary Herbert to President Obama: I order you to save Utah from the economic harm that our GOP brothers and sisters have created for Utah's citizens.
Evidently Sen. Ted Cruz forgot to tell his Senate flunky, Sen. Mike Lee, that the federal government is Utah's largest employer, and the national parks are a vital part of Utah's economy.
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Dell Latitude E6220
Notebook: Dell Latitude E6220Processor: Intel Core i5 2540M
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 3000 1796 MB
Display: 12.5 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels, glossy: no
Weight: 1.44kg
Price: 1669 euro
Average of 9 scores (from 8 reviews)
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Portable Workhorse. Dell demonstrated a prerelease model of the Latitude E6220 back in February of 2011 at the "Dell Means Business" event, and the buzzword peppered throughout the press release was "field workers". The Gen-Y professionals to whom this subnotebook is intended will enjoy the Latitude E6220's ruggedness, style, and ease of servicing/upgrading.
Source: Techradar
The Dell Latitude E6220 Advanced is a solid laptop, and if its specification matched its price tag, it would easily earn a recommendation. Unfortunately its shortcomings can't be ignored, so our impression is that while it could have been a winner, it must settle for the bronze.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 02/27/2012
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Reg Hardware
Compared to Ultrabook's like the 11.6in Asus UX21E Zenbook costing £850, the speedier Dell Latitude E6220 is pricey, but it is a very different beast. The base version of this laptop starts at £1066 but it has an Core i3 CPU and no SSD. While no great shakes in the looks department, as a notebook, it was a pleasure to use. Its built to last, has a great keyboard, an excellent display, is nifty and super quiet. If pushed, you can always shave a bit off the price by downgrading some of the spec but I'd keep the SSD though.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/21/2012
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Laptop Mag
With its strong performance, world-class keyboard and crystal-clear audio, the Dell Latitude E6220 has a lot to like. Yet, for the somewhat-vague promise of added ruggedness, the notebook costs a lot more than competitors with longer battery life. Those looking for a better value should consider the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 which starts at $899, costs just $1,399 when configured similarly to our $2,447 Latitude, and lasts more than 12 hours on a charge with its 9-cell battery. However, if you're looking for a business ultraportable with fantastic ergonomics and an added dose of durability, the Latitude E6220 is a strong choice.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/20/2012
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: CNet
The Dell Latitude E6220 probably isn't for you, unless you're a business traveler who needs something more rugged than a MacBook Air, has a nearly infinite budget, and requires TPM or vPro. Despite its semirugged construction, the Dell Latitude E6220 feels dated, especially for a small 12-inch laptop, and it's painfully expensive, even for its very limited target audience.
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Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 70% mobility: 70%
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The Dell Latitude E6220 is a business-friendly 12.5-inch ultraportable laptop that has excellent performance and above average battery life. It has a 128GB solid-state hard drive, an Intel Core i5 CPU and 4GB of RAM, which provides an excellent experience overall. While it is a little heavier than other ultraportables, it's quite a nice computer for business and home users alike.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 12/22/2011
Rating: Total score: 80%
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Though not particularly svelte or eye-catching, the Dell Latitude E6220 fits the bill perfectly for a corporate ultraportable laptop. It's fast, it has state-of-the-art components, and it has the warranty and service options that large businesses expect. It also provides battery options that let you travel light or compute for nearly a day, depending on your need.
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Rating: Total score: 80%
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The Dell Latitude E6220 is a great performer with good battery life and all the support and warranty options necessary for a fleet rollout. It's sturdily constructed, it's up to snuff technology-wise, and overall it's a well designed and well conceived business laptop.
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Intel HD Graphics 3000: Integrated graphics card in the Intel Sandy Bridge processors (Core ix-2xxx). The HD 3000 is the faster (internally GT2 called) version with 12 Execution Units (EUs).
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
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2540M: Fast Dual-core processor clocked from 2.6 to 3.3 GHz (Turbo Boost 2.0) based on the Sandy Bridge architecture with an integrated graphics card and dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
12.5": » To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
1.44 kg: This sub-notebook weighs less than the average of all notebooks and represents a medium class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 11 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
Dell: Dell Inc. is a multinational technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and other computer-related products. Based in Texas, Dell employs more than 82,700 people worldwide (2009). In 2006, Dell purchased the computer hardware manufacturer Alienware. In most countries, the laptops are directly sold to consumers by Dell and each notebook custom-assembled according to a selection of options. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
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Irrevocable Incapable of being altered, changed, or recalled.
Joint Tenancy Ownership of real property by two or more individuals, each of whom has an undivided interest with the right of survivorship.
Judgement A formal decision issued by a court relating to the specific claims and rights of the parties to an act or suit.
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Leasehold The estate or interest a tenant has as stated in the tenant's lease.
Lessee An individual (i.e., tenant) to whom property is rented under a lease.
Lessor An individual (i.e. landlord) who rents property to a tenant via a lease.
Letter of Intent An informal, usually non-binding, agreement among parties indicating their serious desire to move forward with negotiations.
Listing An employment contract between principal and agent that authorizes the agent (such as a broker) to perform services for the principal and his property.
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Surrender The cancellation of a lease by mutual consent of the tenant and the landlord.
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Tenants at Sufferance An individual who comes to possess land via lawful title and keeps it in perpetuity without any title.
Tie-in Arrangement A contract where one transaction depends upon another transaction.
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Altitude Comedy Festival, now in it's fifth year, will welcome one of it's biggest line-ups yet when
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Written By:
Predrag Jakovljevic
November 15 2012
Whether pandering to their voting blocks, politicians in this election cycle often say that most innovation takes place in small businesses. Indeed, how many times have we heard a statement to the effect of "The entrepreneurial spirit is a critical part of the global workforce and gross domestic product"? Yet small to medium business (SMB)-driven innovation often gets overlooked, as large companies have much more marketing muscle and public interest. The same holds in the enterprise software space, where
, etc., first come to mind as the major technology innovators.
Not many think of Intuit Inc., a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and midsized businesses, as a tireless innovator. Perhaps many folks think that good accounting (well beyond a pocket calculator and spreadsheets) is not that innovation intensive? Yet, over the last several years, Intuit has met the challenges of innovating in an increasingly social, mobile, and global world, as the Gen Y workforce is coming into the accounting world with similar expectations of consumer-like simplicity for business software users. Brand new Intuit customers don't usually think of going to, say,
Best Buy
, and buying a CD of accounting software and uploading it onto their PC. They live their lives on their mobile phone, tablet, and the Internet. That is where business software customers of the future will be.
Also important, this strategy is expected to put Intuit in the position of winning big in a connected services economy. "Connected services" is Intuit's strategic vision to meet the needs of customers in an increasingly connected world (
see Intuit's blog post on innovation in connected services
). If Intuit thinks about the 4 million of its
desktop customers, here's their typical problem: a person is sitting at home after dinner after having successfully put the kids to bed, and is thinking about his/her small business—but anything he/she wants to know about it is locked up 20 miles away in a hard drive in the office. Wouldn't this person like to know which customers are in the area he/she is going tomorrow, what money the company owes, or what you still need to deliver to them? Intuit has thus developed a cloud services solution that links a company's hard drive to the cloud.
Intuit Needs No Introduction, Yet . . .
Intuit is a leading developer of software used to simplify the management of personal finances (
), small business accounting and payroll processing (
), and consumer tax preparation and filing (TurboTax). Hence, Intuit's customers include consumers, accountants, and small businesses—the company claims more than 60 million users of its products and services. The company's other software offerings include industry-specific accounting and management applications for construction, healthcare, and retail organizations, as well as consumers.
Intuit also provides payroll services, financial supplies, and software for professional tax preparation, as well as products and services designed for financial institutions including banks and credit unions. For example,
are Intuit's leading tax preparation offerings for professional accountants.
Intuit Financial Services
help banks and credit unions grow by providing on-demand solutions and services that make it easier for consumers and businesses to manage their money. Founded in 1983, Intuit reported an annual revenue of $4.15 billion (USD) in fiscal year 2012. The company has approximately 8,000 employees, with major offices in the United States (US), Canada, the United Kingdom (UK), and India, among other locations.
QuickBooks Online Goes Global
Not sure how many of you know that the
QuickBooks Online
offering was launched way back when in 2001, well before the advent of mainstream cloud computing of today (
see press release
). Intuit currently has 360,000 paying QuickBooks Online subscribers and is seeing enormous growth in the space—a 28 percent annual growth in QuickBooks Online customers, while
QuickBooks Mobile
users tripled over the past year. Pricing ranges from $12.95/month for the
Simple Start
edition to $64/month when users integrate Payroll. Detailed pricing is outlined
. Some of the product's competitors are
Sage One
, and
During the recently held
Dreamforce 2012
conference organized by salesforce.com, Intuit made a couple of major announcements. The first one spotlights a new,
global version of QuickBooks Online
whereby small businesses globally (from Austria to Zimbabwe) for the first time can create localized invoices, pay bills, and track expenses. With QuickBooks Online becoming available globally, Intuit can now help the 29 million small businesses in the US, as well as the more than 500 million small businesses worldwide to effectively manage their operations and achieve financial success. More than 360,000 small businesses are currently using QuickBooks Online. Since the beta rollout of the solution in July 2012, small businesses in 130 countries have started using the affordable cloud product.
Participation-driven innovation is at the heart of the
QuickBooks Online platform
, which is built to be flexible so that customers can customize it to fit the needs of their businesses and their country. This allows nationals worldwide the opportunity to optimize QuickBooks Online with their home country's currency, date, and number format as well as accounting scheme. Additionally, QuickBooks Online can handle sales taxes for any country, and includes a translation tool so that customers can use the solution in their home language. These capabilities should make QuickBooks Online truly specific to each country's culture and way of doing business. Customer configuration, user-defined tax rates, and country-specific interactions should make a small business in say the Philippines feel like QuickBooks Online has been developed explicitly for their country.
Focused on the common needs of small businesses around the world, QuickBooks Online gives an intimate portrait of the business all in one place—allowing small businesses to focus on helping customers and growing their business. Through QuickBooks Online, small businesses can do the following:
Save time on common finance tasks, such as invoice creation, managing sales tax, and organizing sales receipts
Get set up to be paid faster with tools to help centralize income forms (estimates, invoices, sales receipts, etc.), and summarize totals for due or past due transaction items as well as tips to help take immediate action
Easily track customers, orders, income, and expenses so a small business can always see where it stands
Gather all tax-relevant information in one place to avoid tax time and audit headaches
Leverage the cloud via a mobile device to stay on top of finances while on the road
Get in-depth business insights with reporting tools that analyze their business and industry trends to help them move their business forward
The QuickBooks Online suite offers three different versions based on a small business' needs:
QuickBooks Simple Start
QuickBooks Essentials
, and
QuickBooks Plus
. Costs start as affordable as $15 per month. The traditional QuickBooks Desktop release is also doing well—it retains more than 90 percent of the retail market share. While Intuit offers a range of
QuickBooks products
, including
Enterprise Solutions
, which is designed for larger small businesses, it generally focuses on companies with fewer than 100 employees. Customer relationship management (CRM) integration for the Desktop release is available through third-party developers (
see the list
). Salesforce.com integration for QuickBooks is built on the
Intuit Partner Platform
Intuit Data Services
, while the integration is using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are made available by salesforce.com.
Connected Services Add Tremendous Innovation and Value
Immediately before Dreamforce 2012, Intuit also announced an updated connected services strategy. Intuit's commitment to harnessing the power of many, which is part of the company's evolving connected services strategy, was outlined by Intuit chief executive officer (CEO) Brad Smith at the company's annual
Investor Day in mid-September 2012
. Like virtually everyone else in the enterprise software world, Intuit has come to appreciate that it is operating in a world where no one alone can solve all of its customers' problems. Thus, the vendor is finding new ways to open its products and platforms so that customers and third-party software developers can help it add value to its products around the clock.
Just 4 years ago, about 17 million people used products hosted on Intuit servers, contributing about half of the company's revenue. Today, 45 million customers rely on Intuit's connected services offerings, generating almost two-thirds of the company's revenues. This should be a strong evidence of Intuit's rapid and successful transformation into a leading provider of cloud-based services. Validating this strong position, Smith shared details of the strategy at Intuit's annual Investor Day, which also included presentations from chief financial officer (CFO) Neil Williams and several business segment leaders. At the event, the company also reaffirmed its full-year and first-quarter guidance for fiscal 2013.
Intuit's assets, ecosystem, and innovation engine position the company well to take advantage of emerging market trends—an increasingly borderless world, the increased prevalence of mobile devices, and the scalability of the cloud—to continue solving the unmet needs of small businesses and consumers. Intuit's evolving growth strategy includes the following three-pronged approach:
1. Awesome Product Experiences
Intuit remains committed to its heritage of customer-driven innovation and creating an entrepreneurial environment where small teams innovate to delight customers, Smith said. Intuit estimates that more than $100 million (USD) revenue in fiscal 2012 came from products that didn't exist 3 years ago—a 10-fold increase from 2 years ago. Awesome product experiences drive active use and positive word of mouth—the company's No. 1 source of new customers. As part of this effort, Intuit plans to create more stand-alone mobile applications. Two current mobile innovations are as follows:
Snap Payroll
, the latest innovation from
Intuit's Employee Management Solutions
group, which allows small businesses to quickly calculate taxes and withholdings so they can pay their employees with confidencee.
Intuit Fasal
, offered in India, which helps more than 1 million farmers get the best prices on their crops by delivering text messages that provide prices at local markets.
2. Enabling the Contributions of Others
The second strategic element includes tapping into the innovations and contributions of customers, partners, and third-party developers. The company looks to address new customer problems and personalize and localize customer experiences better and faster. Current and new examples include the following:
Live communities
, where customers can get questions answered by other customers about everything from special tax circumstances to competitive pay for employees. These online communities have been part of products including TurboTax, QuickBooks, and
for several years. Today, they reach more than 10 million users, and have answered more than 25 million questions.
The Intuit Partner Platform
, which allows third-party developers to integrate their services with QuickBooks data. The Intuit ecosystem comprises 130,000 third-party developers serving more than 2.9 million registered users. In addition, Intuit is opening the APIs to its financial data service in the US and Canada—creating a vast opportunity for third-party developers to build new and innovative financial solutions.
QuickBooks Online
, which is now available to small businesses around the world. Built on the existing platform, the global product taps into the power of community by inviting customers and third parties to further localize the product in numerous ways—from language translation to tax analysis.
3. Using Data to Create Delight
The value of connected services is increasingly found in the data and connections it creates to deliver breakthrough benefits for customers. The third strategic element includes harnessing the collective data that flows through Intuit's ecosystem. Building on this, Intuit aims to deliver data-driven insights that empower individuals and small businesses to save time and money and make meaningful changes in their financial lives. Examples include the following:
Mint's Ways to Save
, which analyzes customers' data and helps them save money. It searches the marketplace and delivers customized offers for credit cards and other financial products with lower rates and relevant benefits. The service has identified more than $2.4 billion (USD) in savings for Mint's 10 million users.
QuickBooks Online's Trends
feature, which anonymously aggregates customer data—allowing small businesses to see how their income and expenses stack up against similar businesses. For example, a roofer in Philadelphia grossing $250,000 (USD) a year can compare results with other roofers in the area or across the country.
Intuit Financial Services' Mobile Purchase Rewards
feature, which lets customers turn their smartphone into a savings tool. The service allows consumers to receive and activate customized merchant-funded discounts or rewards, based on personal buying habits.
Intuit has vast opportunities to deliver targeted recommendations based on an individual's financial behavior, and big data can become the great equalizer for the little guy. All of Intuit's data-driven innovations are built on a strong foundation of privacy, security, and customer choice. Intuit has been implementing the safest and most secure ways to work with consumers' intimate financial information for nearly 30 years.
Intuit Partner Platform at the Core
The Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) helps the vendor enable the contributions of others by opening up APIs to QuickBooks and Financial Services data. The Intuit Data Services (IDS) is the engine that powers
by aggregating and categorizing consumers' transactional data from banks and financial institutions. Both IPP and IDS are helping Intuit achieve its connected services vision. IPP provides a custom HTML tag and JavaScript libraries as well as .NET DevKits (
see here
Most recently,
, a free SMB productivity app from Intuit, is now available in the
Apple App Store
with a 4.5-star rating (
see here
). Weave is the latest example of Intuit using Lean Startup methodologies (
see here
) and mobile customer–driven innovation in product development. Over the past 2 years, the Weave team has worked closely with very small businesses to better understand the challenges they face—even if they were not quite ready for a full-fledged application such as QuickBooks Online.
Weave offers similar functionality to apps such as
(i.e., the family of products helping individuals remember and act upon ideas, projects, and experiences across all the computers, phones, and tablets they use), with the added bonus of expense tracking. Intuit is targeting very small businesses that want to monitor workplace activities as well as consumers who want to stay on top of life events and tasks. The tie-in here is how Intuit has been focused on customers (very small businesses) from the beginning of the development process. It's a process that's core to the vendor's connected services strategy. For reference, Weave lets users do the following:
Create to-do lists with optional notes, due dates, and alerts
Manage activities with reminders and high-priority indicators
Share projects and tasks with other Weave users, and allow anyone to make edits and update progress
Send e-mail updates directly to non-Weave users to keep them posted on the progress of a project
Track income and expenses in multiple currencies, along with time spent on any given activity
Other Showcased Offerings
At Dreamforce 2012, Intuit also showcased
, a mobile point of sale (POS) system that allows small businesses to accept credit cards wherever they go. Users download the free app and plug the free card reader into an
Apple iPhone
, or
Google Android
device to start accepting credit cards. The key differentiators from
and other mobile payment processors that Intuit cites for GoPayment (which was developed in-house at Intuit) include the following:
QuickBooks Integration
24/7 live customer support
Geolocation tax calculation (a great feature for businesses on the go)
Safe and secure encrypted card reader to protect Intuit customers' and their data
The ability to add up to 50 users on one account
Intuit hasn't been shy to occasionally acquire some offerings as a supplement to its internal development and connected services. In 2007, Intuit acquired
Homestead Technologies
to offer Web site creation and e-commerce solutions to small businesses. SMBs see that marketing is rapidly moving to digital domains. The classic
books have gone away, and many small businesses have no idea how to get an online presence. Intuit recently sold Homestead Technologies to
Endurance International Group
mentioned in earnings press release
). The rationale here is that Intuit continually makes adjustments to deploy its resources to the highest-impact initiatives, keeping lean and focused on the biggest growth opportunities. The emergence of social media and new competition is shifting how small businesses think about their Web presence, and Intuit believes its customers will be better served by a company whose core business is in these areas.
In May 2012, Intuit acquired the
online marketing and communication product
to bolster offerings that help small businesses attract and retain customers. While not being a lead nurturing and qualification offering compared with
, or
, Demandforce is a Web-based system that lets service businesses (e.g., dentists) communicate with customers, automate appointment scheduling, and enhance online reputation by automating online reviews. While it's still early innings for integration with Intuit's entire portfolio, Demandforce has 100 million customers and 1.6 million consumer reviews.
Six month after the acquisition, Intuit announced the
integration between Demandforce and QuickBooks in November 2012
. By using IPP, Demandforce can now automatically pull key customer and transaction data from QuickBooks. This access to customer information lets small businesses target and customize their outreach efforts. After transactions are completed and an invoice has been created, Demandforce automatically sends a "thank you" e-mail to capture consumer reviews and satisfaction survey data.
References and Recommended Reading
Why Intuit Really Wanted Demandforce
. May 2, 2012.
Sage Analyst Day 2011: Not your Older Brother's Sage – Part 2
. April 7, 2011.
Intuit Resource Pages
Intuit's Corporate profile
—Lists core products, how the company thinks about innovation, and its Connected Services strategy.
Spring Innovation Gallery Walk
—Showcases highlights from Intuit's most recent event geared at analysts and media, where the company displays on-the-market products as well as upcoming prototypes and innovations.
Intuit Network
—Blog discussing customer success and Intuit innovation and growth.
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3/28/12 23:18 jackieg02:
My friend was talking about this book this weekend. I'll definitely have to download soon! And I always love your book recommendations!
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