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The New Age of Corporate Citizenship
Doing strategic good that builds brand value.
The New Age of Corporate Citizenship: Doing strategic good that builds brand value Creating and managing brand value TM Interbrand | Pg. 1 The New Age of Corporate Citizenship: Doing strategic good that builds brand value by Tom Zara Introduction When it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR), it is out with the old and in with the new. The old cosmetic approach to CSR, the idea that CSR is merely a necessary cost of doing business separate from your brand identity, and the defensive position of CSR to stay one step ahead of government regulation are no longer relevant. Instead, a recent study by Interbrand and Hall & Partners suggests that what's "in" is a strategic way of using CSR to enhance your brand's established identity and grow your brand value. Today's corporations face a stark choice in these increasingly transparent times: Develop and implement strategies to carve out a meaningful presence as a good corporate citizen, or run the risk of seeing your brand value erode and your business suffer. Billions of dollars of brand value are tied to various forms of corporate social responsibility--Coca-Cola, IBM and Microsoft alone tally almost $4 billion engaged in CSR.1 But our proprietary research into CSR points toward several ways to allocate those dollars wisely, allowing corporations to transcend the PR model and effectively leverage their CSR spend to grow brand value. Armed with insights into the consumer and customer zeitgeist, Interbrand is convinced that, like most transitional moments, this is a time rich with opportunity--for those firms prepared to evolve their approach. There is a new paradigm emerging that shifts us away from narrow notions of corporate social responsibility and towards a model we call "corporate citizenship." How did we get here? Historical background and present context The notion that corporations have some unique responsibility to the larger social milieu in which they do business--and to the people who help manufacture and consume their goods and services--is almost as old as the corporation itself. Early British industrialists like Lord Lever took a paternalistic view of capitalism. Lever built an entire town for the employees of his Lever Brothers factory, encouraging them to walk to work and engage in a kind of early profitsharing plan. He named it Port Sunlight, after the Sunlight Soap brand that was so integral to the accumulation of his fortune. Similar "company towns" became a hallmark of industry across the Atlantic as well, with Carnegie, Mellon and other captains of industry adding their own American twists to the model. Corporate social responsibility may not be new, but it is not a static concept, either: Early CSR initiatives like those outlined above, shared a commitment to "improving" the lives of the working class. Corporate philanthropy even helped forestall government regulation--for a time. But as industry came of age in the early 20th century, writers and journalists blew the lid off the realities of child labor, unsafe factories and tainted food, ushering in a proliferation of government regulations. At the same time, the seeds of socialism were taking plant across the sea and made the voyage to the United States along To seize this moment, we advise corporate entities to think of themselves as full citizens of the world. Corporate citizenship (CC) is the sum total of how a company treats every entity that depends upon it, and upon which it is dependent--its employees, customers and suppliers, the government(s) responsible for both regulating and assisting it, the communities in which it does business, and the larger environment it shares with the whole planet. Previous research on CSR took people's stated preferences and reactions at face value. The present study uses regression analysis to discern real as opposed to stated behaviors and attitudes toward CSR. It is groundbreaking work that offers new insights into the wisest ways to spend on CSR, the most and least effective ways to use CSR to drive customer choice, and how to leverage the current zeitgeist to grow brand value. The implications of this new model are huge. We believe the opportunities are as well. If we all work to maximize them, we may be able to do a lot of good for the world we share--and for our brands. Interbrand 2009 Best Global Brands and IB/H&P 2009 CC study 1 The New Age of Corporate Citizenship: Doing strategic good that builds brand value Interbrand | Pg. 2 Consumers are getting "green fatigue" FIGURE 1 : GREEN FAT IGUE Corporate Interest in Sustainability Consumer Interest in Sustainability Little tangible corporate action Serious internal investment and change Product innovation EPA Founded DDT Banned Three Mile Island Brundtland Report Exxon Valdez Kyoto Protocol Dow Jones Sustainability Index Inconvenient Truth BP Oil Spill 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 ... 2010 33 | Operationalizing our CSR/Sustainability offering | September 25, 2009 with the immigrants who teemed to American factories and farms and the state. Government soon came to be seen as the arbiter of social responsibility for all. Today, through both original research and dealings with a diverse array of corporate clients, Interbrand discerns the next shift in the CSR paradigm. Today's corporations are willingly adopting holistic strategies that benefit the world around them, as well as their brands (see Figure 1). Take sustainability. The green movement showed corporate officers that sometimes social conscience was not only compatible with business sense, but that doing the right thing socially was also the right thing for one's brand value and bottom line. In the wake of the near-universal adoption of sustainability targets, green is the new black. It's almost pass� by now, and beyond sustainability, corporate entities' responses to environmental concerns have run the gamut from genuine and innovative engagement to "greenwashing." One thing is by now well established: Environmental awareness has driven the discussion of the role of corporations in the wider world. What's new is the way an attention to detail about corporate action, begun specifically around environmental concerns, has begun to migrate and replicate across the broader social field. Stakeholders of all stripes--employees, B-to-B customers and consumers--are pressuring corporations to walk the walk when it comes to issues from economic development in the Third World to gay rights in America. Senior management is now largely composed of the baby boom generation, a group of individuals who bring their 1960s-bred legacy of values to the boardroom. Meanwhile, millennials have come of working age with a level of high tech that blurs the traditional work/ life balance; they therefore feel entitled to demand that companies reflect their own values. To recruit the best of this generation, firms are finding they must be responsive to millennials' desire to work for those companies that not only produce a better The New Age of Corporate Citizenship: Doing strategic good that builds brand value Interbrand | Pg. 3 ...the mutually dependent world of the supply chain is where Corporate Citizenship efforts will yield the greatest results. widget, but also do something more positive for the world. Meanwhile, in the B-to-B world, everyone has a sustainability target to hit, so every customer along the supply chain is demanding more from their suppliers than in the past. The Walmart effect has put a new premium on greening the supply chain. And purchasers understand that they can be held accountable by the public for their suppliers' actions. So pressure that begins externally--in the net's 24-hour court of public opinion and among a press ready to feed the beast--winds up being passed along every link in the chain. Finally, the power of consumers as a group is on the rise. Companies' performances can be scrutinized in real time, narrowcast to friends and followers, and circulated to the blogosphere and the traditional press. Brand conversations are richer than they've ever been, so the PR talk is really not convincing anymore without the walk--what one does is now more common knowledge, so what one says not only matters less but may subject a company to scrutiny and antipathy should the gulf between words and deeds be too wide. Finally, transparency is at an all-time high, and that means conscientious consumerism, with the threat of boycotts and `buycotts', is greater than ever as well (note the speed and scope of the consumer response to Target's recent campaign contributions if you have any doubt). But it's not just stakeholder expectations that are driving the change in CSR. It's the evolving business context as well. With the recession squeezing earnings, we all need every advantage we can get. Brand has become even more important in separating the winners from the losers in a marketplace where corporate reputations have been battered by scandal and bruised by recession. Transparency is now an essential for any company seeking an edge. In this environment, effective CSR initiatives, well told, can help significantly bolster stakeholder trust--and boost bottom lines. CSR can also help mitigate risk. Consider the guilt-by-association question. Examine your supply chain and ask: Is everyone safe to do business with? Prominent corporations in particular can take a major public hit when suppliers' social practices are problematic. There is tremendous potential upside to initiating positive social responsibility programs. With a return to increased government regulation a real possibility, and the public's awareness of corporations' environmental impact peaking, sustainability measures will help cut business costs and demonstrating willingness to self-police may forestall more aggressive regulation. Finally, a penny's worth of prevention is worth a dollar's cure. Two simple letters come to mind: BP. In the wake of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, their entire brand is tainted, their market position eroded and at risk of further deterioration, and their profits in peril. It is worth underlining that the cost of rectifying problems after they've exploded is far greater than the price of prevention. CSR is increasingly seen, quite rightly, as part of any sensible risk management program. In sum, a twisted and sometimes ambivalent history of corporate positioning vis-�-vis the broader social environment has led us to a place of tumultuous change, unprecedented transparency, participatory richness and--we believe--remarkable possibility. To seize this moment, we advise corporate entities to think of themselves as full citizens of the world. From CSR to corporate citizenship: The findings It is no longer descriptively rich enough to speak of "corporate social responsibility." We must move beyond CSR's connotation of an extra gloss, amended to a company's identity. In the new paradigm, we see that how a corporation interacts at every level is an essential and integral part of its identity. Corporate Citizenship, then, is the understanding people have of a company's positive contribution to society based on the way it treats the core elements of its business--which we call the six fields of play --employees, customers and suppliers; the communities in which it operates; the governments that influence its operations; and the planet it relies on for its existence (see Figure 2). So what is really emerging is a holistic notion of the corporation as a global citizen--as a vital member of communities and part of multiple, covalent and interlocking processes, whose actions affect and are impacted by all it touches. If doing good for the sake of a PR bump or to keep the regulator at bay was the hallmark of CSR The maturing of the whole notion of green has engendered a shift to a broader sense of altruism. The New Age of Corporate Citizenship: Doing strategic good that builds brand value Interbrand | Pg. 4 in recent times, the opportunity now can be summed up in a simple equation: Doing good, and doing it strategically, yields better brand value. Interbrand and Hall & Partners sought to understand the role that corporate citizenship plays in driving decisions for both consumers (end users) and corporate purchasers (B-to-B users). Our quantitative research sample was robust: Over 5,200 consumers between 18�65 with a role in purchase decision-making, and 1,861 corporate purchasers across small, medium and enterprise businesses, spanning six geographies from the U.S. and Europe to China, Japan and Brazil. All tolled, ten industry categories were examined. FIGURE 2 : SI X FIELDS OF PL AY Cu Employe mers sto Su p brand choice (intention to purchase); brand commitment (level of loyalty); and brand advocacy (likelihood of talking to others positively about a brand) (see Figure 3). rs ie pl mer consumer opinion on opinion as the way a company treats its workforce, whether it offers environmentally responsible products, whether it provides support for nonprofit organizations, etc.) against other types of drivers (convenience, We used regression analysis that compared pricing, quality, service, etc.). Our goal was the role played by several industry-specific to gauge the role that is played by CC drivers drivers in stakeholder behavior. In the relative to other motivating factors, when it case of each industry, we were, in effect, comes to four types of stakeholder behavior: pitting corporate Corporate Citizenshipfavorability (overall impression); brand has fied quantified the impact Corporate Citizenship has even moreeven more We the impact citizenship drivers (such And realized it realized it is important And is While brand choice was only minimally driven by our seven CC factors (2 percent), CC accounted for 13 percent of the overall favorable impression of a brand, and almost a tenth of what drove brand advocacy. Interestingly, these numbers all rose in the B-to-B context, suggesting that the mutually dependent world of the supply chain is where corporate citizenship efforts will yield the greatest results. It's also worth noting that in certain sectors, both consumer and B-to-B purchasing decisions were noticeably higher than the mean-- particularly in beverages, automotive and chocolate for consumers; financial services and wireless for B-to-B customers; and the computer business for both (see Figure 4). The more considered a purchase decision es Commun it y ne t corporate purchasers corporate purchasers FIGURE 3 : SUMMARY OF CC CONTR IBUT IONS: REGRESSION ANALYSIS C Summary: Regression Analysis Contribution of CC Summary: Regression Analysis Consumer (across countries & categories) Consumer & B2B (across countries & categories) Contribution of CCContributionRegression Analysis Summary: of CC Summary: Regression Analysis B-to-B Consumer & B2B (across countries & categories) Consumer & B2B (across countries & categories) Commitment Commitment Brand Choice Brand Choice (How loyal someone (How loyal (Intention to purchase) someone (Intention to purchase) is to a brand) is to a brand) Brand Choice Brand Choice ntention to purchase) (Intention to purchase) Consumer B2B Contribution of: Contribution of: Advocacy Advocacy ch people would go out of their would go out of their (How much people talk about a brandto talk about a brand to others) way to others) Brand Favorability Brand Favorability Advocacy Advocacy (Overall impression of (Howimpression of would go out of their would go out of their (Overall much people (How much people way to talk about a brand to talk about a brand to others) way to others) a brand) a brand) 13% 13% 4 | Defining the|Value of Corporate Citizenship | 26th May 2010 ate Citizenship 26th May 2010 Whilst CC has a relatively low impact on purchase decision making, its contribution should not be ignored Comparison of drivers choice: Consumers 8% 7% 6% 5% 4% 3% 15 | Defining the Value of Corporate Defining the| Value May 2010 15 | Citizenship 26th of Corporate Citizenship | 26th May 2010 Convenience Convenience CC Other Factors Convenience PricePrice 0% Computers Automotive Choice Beverage Oil&Gas Chocolate Contribution of CC Summary: Regression Analysis Consumer Comparative Driver Variety 1% Price Price Variety 2% Convenience Price Price 16 16 | Defining the Value of Corporate Citizenship | 26th May 2010 rnment ve Go Pl a important to B2B to B2B B2B Commitment Commitment (How loyal someone (How loyal someo is to a brand) is to a brand) Contribution of: Brand Favorability Brand Favorabil (Overall impression of (Overall impression a brand) a brand) 17% 17% The New Age of Corporate Citizenship: Doing strategic good that builds brand value Interbrand | Pg. 5 FIGURE 4 : COMPAR ISON OF DR I VERS OF CHOICE Consumer 8% 7% 6% 5% 4% Convenience B-to-B Price Variety 2% Price 1% 0% Computers Automotive Price Convenience 3% Price Beverage Oil & Gas Comparative Driver Chocolate Wireless Financial Price Computers Machines Percentage of purchase choice attributable to CC Contribution of CC Summary: Regression Analysis Consumer is, the higher CC concerns rank as a driver of choice. This also helps account for the increased significance of CC in the B-to-B context, as virtually every B-to-B decision is, by definition, a well-considered one. If there is one statistic that stands out beyond all others, it is the 13 percent average contribution CC makes to overall brand favorability. If 13 percent of the favorable opinion of a brand consists of CC attributes, and since by definition those attributes refer to the company rather than an individual product, then that makes 13 percent the bare minimum degree to which the favorability towards a brand is affected by the view of the corporate entity. By disaggregating the data by country, we were able to discern a story arc for corporate citizenship. It appears that, in countries with more of a CC legacy such as Japan, Germany and the U.K.--where social concerns have long been part of the equation for industry--CC levels off over time as a differentiating factor in decision making; it comes to function more as table stakes -- the price to be part of the economy. Meanwhile, in countries where the notion of CC is newer and potentially more newsworthy--such as China, Brazil and the U.S.--its impact on opinion is amplified. As some companies race to catch the green wagon, they may be interested to learn our data strongly suggests that consumers are getting "green fatigue," with consumer interest in sustainability peaking around 2005, while corporate interest continues to rise into the realm of product and service innovation (see Figure 1). This means in part that the public demand for corporate sustainability has peaked, but it also means that operational sustainability is now a table stake, and only innovation will differentiate your firm in an increasingly green marketplace. The maturing of the whole notion of green has engendered a shift to a broader sense of altruism. Finally, our research indicated that a "halo effect" applies when a company clearly demonstrates this sort of altruism anywhere across the six fields of play. Put another way: People tend to give credit across the CC spectrum to companies who have successful CC initiatives concentrated in one area, be it in their supply chain, through government partnerships, in their dealings with employees or as a force for good in the communities in which they do business. Doing good to do better: Building a corporate citizenship strategy There are several clear implications for corporate strategy once one digests the data. First, when it comes to the six fields of play, a concentrated effort in one area rather than a scattershot one will yield a greater return on investment; the halo effect that accompanies a wellexecuted CC strategy in one realm is more effective in building value than several ill-coordinated initiatives across multiple fields. Related, determining what to focus one's CC spend on requires an understanding of where in the customer journey CC Price The New Age of Corporate Citizenship: Doing strategic good that builds brand value Interbrand | Pg. 6 FIGURE 5 : STAKEHOLDER BEHAV IOR BY COUNTRY 4. As the notion of corporate citizenship matures, it becomes less differentiating Stakeholder Citizenship Expectations � Understand what key stakeholders expect of your company in the realm of CC Citizenship Driver Analysis � Use an analytic process to determine the most powerful drivers of your CC Citizenship Strategy � Compare your brand identity with your citizenship drivers to determine the most relevant, impactful ways to proceed Citizenship Activation Plan � Explore the most appropriate methods for bringing your citizenship strategy to life and--crucially--expressing it and broadcasting it to your key stakeholders. Price 16% 14% 12% 10% 8% 5. 6. 7. 6% 4% 2% 0% Brazil U.S. China Germany U.K. Japan Commitment Advocacy Favorability has the most impact. Social engagement ultimately has a greater effect on overall brand favorability than on purchase choice, so focusing one's CC spend on how people engage rather than how they buy is crucial. Third, choosing a CC approach that bears a fundamental relation to your business will redound to your benefit because the business and the CC measures will be mutually reinforcing. So, for example, a financial sector entity might be advised to support micro-lending in the developing world rather than AIDS research, while an energy company would do well to focus on R&D for sustainable energy sources. The stories become clear and compelling and dovetail with the larger brand if they are tied to the core brand strategy. So, how do you engage with your key stakeholders to make the most of your CC strategy? There are seven discrete steps that will help you fulfill your brand promise through corporate citizenship: 1. Sync Up Your Strategies � Ensure that your business and brand strategies are aligned before determining your citizenship strategy: All three must intersect to effect a meaningful corporate citizenship commitment. Citizenship Audit � Undertake an exhaustive review of your company's current CSR initiatives Competitive Citizenship Benchmarking � Execute a competitive field audit; examine the CSR initiatives of your key competitors The moment is fluid when it comes to corporations' ideas around social engagement, and increasingly, the field is full of firms using some form of CC to vie for differentiation and prominence. Thankfully, there is a lot of competition in CC and the winners will be those brands that are innovators in their industry and in the lives of their consumers. Indeed, our findings indicate that a citizenship strategy that aligns with your brand, a tight focus on one of the six fields of play, and a targeted method for broadcasting your engagement--in that order--are the differentiating factors for firms ready to move from CSR to the bold new world of corporate citizenship. 2. 3. Tom Zara Tom is an Executive Director in Interbrand's New York office managing the brand strategy practice across offices and clients in North America. Tom has the benefit of over 30 years of brand consulting experience with a deep and diverse insight into how brands influence cultures and customers, and shape markets on a national and international scale. He has strong CEO relationships and understands how organizations behave and communicate effectively as an extension of the CEO Vision through the definition of a brand. Tom leads the Corporate Citizenship initiative as a growth area for Interbrand and is focused on creating and managing brand value through the lens of corporate citizenship. Interbrand seeks to leverage brands as tangible assets that create value, raise the stakes and use the power of brand to influence behavior. interbrand.com Creating and managing brand value TM


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Ashton Kutcher's Existential Ramblings: "The State of Truth" (VIDEO)
Ashton Kutcher has a heart-to-heart with the internet on "the state of truth" while looking more than a little worse-for-wear. It looks like rumors of his affair with Sara Leal are driving him away from the razor and into philosophy tomes.
In this h2h, Ashton looks pensive while he rambles, telling viewers: "There is no gatekeeper of the truth. We are our own editors, we are our own publishers. Thereby, people can bastardize the truth in any way that they want. A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can leave someone's lips."
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Samsung Ultra Touch 740U3E-S02DE
SpecificationsNotebook: Samsung Ultra Touch 740U3E-S02DE (Series 7 Series)
Processor: Intel Core i7 3537U
Graphics Adapter: AMD Radeon HD 8570M 1024 MB
Display: 13.3 inch, 16:9, 1920x1080 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 1.65kg
Price: 1549 euro
Average of 4 scores (from 5 reviews)
Reviews for the Samsung Ultra Touch 740U3E-S02DE
The more the better! Samsung packs the Series 7 flagship in an aluminum housing and equips it with a powerful Core i7, a dedicated AMD graphics card, a large SSD and a multi-touch Full HD IPS display. A bit over the top? We have thoroughly tested this good piece of hardware for you…
Source: Techradar
We think there are two compelling reasons to buy the Samsung Series 7 Ultra: the first is the Full HD screen and the second is the extra graphics support from AMD. This is what really sets this Ultrabook apart from the pack, but it's also responsible for the premium price point. However, if it's portability you value over everything else, we think you're better off looking elsewhere. While the Series 7 Ultra doesn't have an issue with power, it does have a slight weight problem.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 10/01/2013
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Stuff TV
While the Series 7 is a great Ultrabook, and one of the best we've seen, its hardware is flagging in comparison to Apple's latest MacBook. The screen, though, is magnificent, and deserves the sort of round-the-block queues usually reserved for Cupertino's latest. That alone isn't enough, though, and for now the MacBook Air is safe at the top of our laptops Top 10.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/16/2013
Rating: Total score: 80%
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Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/04/2013
Rating: performance: 70% features: 50% display: 60% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 50%
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Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 04/19/2013
Rating: Total score: 94% performance: 95% display: 90% mobility: 95% ergonomy: 95% emissions: 90%
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Positive: very good workmanship; extraordinary touch display; high performance; high resolution AMD graphic
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/19/2013
The Samsung Series 7 family consists of high performance mobile computing solutions. The Samsung Ultra Touch 740U3E-S02DE is one of the newer models and a real luxury model. It sports a brushed aluminum chassis, which looks and feels great. Its portability is good with a weight of 1.65 kg.
Sporting a 3rd generation Intel Core i7 processor and up to 6 GB DDR3 RAM, the laptop delivers top performance for its class and runs most demanding applications without problems. The intelligent Intel Turbo Boost technology adapts the clock rate to the load and provides a seamless user experience. The laptop features a dedicated AMD Radeon 8570M graphic card for rich multimedia and gaming experience. The 13.3 inch LED display has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080. In addition, it is touch sensitive and touch inputs work well under Windows 8.
The high performance does not have a negative impact on the battery life. But, the battery is not removable when the battery lifetime ends. Another downside is the lack of an optical drive. But, this allowed a lighter and thinner design of the laptop. Overall, the Samsung Ultra Touch 740U3E-S02DE is not cheap, the competition delivers less performance for the same price.
AMD Radeon HD 8570M:
Lower-end graphics card based on the GCN Mars architecture. The GPU is similar to the Radeon HD 8590M, but with slower DDR3 VRAM and a 64-Bit memory interface.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core i7: The Intel Core i7 for laptops is based on the LG1156 Core i5/i7 CPU for desktops. The base clock speed of the CPUs is relatively low, but because of a huge Turbo mode, the cores can dynamically overclock to up to 3.2 GHz (920XM). Therefore, the CPU can be as fast as high clocked dual-core CPUs (using single threaded applications) but still offer the advantage of 4 cores. Because of the large TDP of 45 W / 55 W, the CPU is only intended for large laptops.
3537U: Fast Ivy-Bridge-based ULV-CPU in Q1 2013. Offers a core clock of 2.0 - 3.1 GHz and an HD 4000 GPU (350 - 1200 MHz). The TDP is rated at 17 W.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
13.3": This is a common display format for subnotebooks. Netbooks, UMPC and some subnotebooks have tinier displays. Nevertheless, the majority of standard laptops has a higher format. The advantage of a small display is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the small display needs few energy, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is a bit exhausting for the eyes, especially with high resolutions.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
1.65 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.
Samsung: The Samsung Group is composed of numerous international businesses, all united under the Samsung brand in South Korea. The meaning of the Korean word Samsung is "tristar" or "three stars". The Samsung brand is one of the most important brands of South Korea. Samsung is an international notebook manufacturer of medium size according market shares and reviews.
86%: This is a good rating above average. Nevertheless you should not forget, that 10-15% of all notebook-models get a better rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.


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From Mayville to the Big Ten: Tim Miles and Craig Smith got their starts at Mayville State
April 28, 2012 at 7:14 pm in The Dickinson Press
GRAND FORKS Prior to Tim Miles' last season as the head coach at Mayville State, he was looking for an assistant. With the help of a University of North Dakota assistant, Miles was put in touch with Craig Smith who was looking to get into the college game. Continue Reading


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i don't go into the verizon forum and dis verizon. also for your information the number one company i've had customer's leave (to port to tmobile) is...what? Verizon? haha they won't go back to VZW either because they are pissed at them.
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New owner: Iowa slaughterhouse boosting productionDES MOINES, Iowa — A Postville kosher slaughterhouse that went bankrupt after a federal immigration raid nearly two years ago is growing and on target to return to earlier production levels, its new owner said Tuesday.
By: Molly Hottle, Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — A Postville kosher slaughterhouse that went bankrupt after a federal immigration raid nearly two years ago is growing and on target to return to earlier production levels, its new owner said Tuesday.
Hershey Friedman, the owner of Agri Star Meat and Poultry, said at a Statehouse news conference that the company had put its troubled past behind it. It has begun producing beef again, continues to hire more workers and has modernized its plant with help from the state.
"We feel we can grow back to the same place they were," Friedman said.
It's been a difficult couple of years for the company, formerly known as Agriprocessors.
Federal agents raided the plant in May 2008, arresting 389 workers for immigration violations and triggering an investigation that led to the company's bankruptcy and convictions of several top managers, including vice president Sholom Rubashkin. Rubashkin is scheduled to be sentenced April 28 on a number of federal financial fraud charges.
Agriprocessors still faces state charges related to alleged child labor and wage and hour violations, but they don't affect Agri Star.
Friedman, who bought the plant in July 2009, declined to comment on Rubashkin but said the new company was eager to build a better reputation.
"I'm not from Iowa, and I did not grow up on a farm, but I know the importance of hard work and treating people with respect and integrity," he said.
Friedman said Agri Star has begun slaughtering about 90 head of cattle each day. That's far below Agriprocessors' peak production, but Friedman said he plans to increase slaughtering to 150 head of cattle within the next month and to have the plant running at Agriprocessors' production level in about a year.
Managers are taking steps to avoid the labor problems seen under Agriprocessors, Friedman said. They use the federal government's E-verify system to validate new hires' identification. Agri Star also pays more, with most of its 560 workers making $8.50 to $17 an hour, he said.
Postville Mayor Leigh Rekow attended the news conference and said the northeast Iowa town was hurt by Agriprocessors' closure but is doing better now.
"With the plant opening, all these people have hope again," Rekow said. "Our community has been very positive that we will survive, and we will get back to where we were and maybe even be better."
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey and Iowa Cattlemen's Association Vice President Bruce Berven also attended the news conference, offering their support to Friedman and testifying to the importance of the Postville plant.
The company received a $600,000 grant last November, plus tax credits, to help pay for upgrades to the plant.
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Your missing the fact (or refusing to accept) that the majority of highend smartphones WITH the fee is still cheaper. So the claim to lower phone prices would still be applicable.
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Compact but Packs a Wallop This Samsung 13" netbook fuses the power of a Core i5 460M with a 4.5 hour battery life and impressive efficiency. Even the DVD drive doesn't get left out on account of a modern cooling system.
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Protests in Tanzania's Mtwara region at the weekend caused about 1.5 billion shillings ($929,000) in damages, Home Affairs Minister Emmanuel Nchimbi said Wednesday (January 30th).
Government structures damaged in the riots will cost an estimated 750 million shillings ($464,000) to repair, he said according to Tanzania's Daily News. On Sunday, protestors destroyed 11 vehicles belonging to the Masasi District Council and set fire to a court building, the district education office and several local officials' homes.
Nchimbi said initial findings suggest that people who caused the damages in Masasi were outsiders paid to carry out the vandalism and destruction, and not local residents.
"We will not go easy on people bent on disrupting the peace," he said. "It would be foolhardy to continue with violent acts that will only scare away investors."
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Firstly, the mouse works. Secondly, this is a great idea - it is very comfortable for your hand (but not so portable for your laptop). You'll still need a wrist support, of course, this doesn't replace that need, but the mouse gives both your hand and eyes a break. Very satisfied, 2 weeks later.
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A particular catalyst for widespread use of the phrase was the 1990 film Kindergarten Cop In the film, the line "Who is your daddy, and what does he do?" was spoken by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The expression was further popularized in a well known 1991 comedy routine by Dennis Miller; additionally, then-host Craig Kilborn used the phrase "Who's your daddy -- is he rich like me?" on an early episode of The Daily Show.
Denzel Washington playing Coach Boone in Remember the Titans (2000) uses the line to initiate dominance over two student athletes.
In the 2004 American League Championship Series it was used as a mocking chant by New York Yankees fans against Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martínez (prompted by his previous statement, "They beat me. They're that good right now. They're that hot. I just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy." )
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Firstly, let's sign Mariano. He is the last link to greatness in our bullpen. Yes, he will start the year at 43. But he is an exceptional athlete and prayerer. And if Nix has moved on, perhaps Mariano won't need surgery again so early in the season.Luckily, a team that wins about 70 games will not need him to close games very often. He won't be adding any wins to his post-season records. But he is good to have around. He provides memories.Secondly, we'll make offers to everyone in the 35+ category. We've got to delude ourselves into believing that Andy Pettitte will be the 28 year old Andy; that Kuroda will step up again, at age 38 this time. And Swisher will add to his .238 average with every at bat, even whilst his hair continues to erode.Thirdly, as a gesture of thanks and good fortune, we let Soriano go to make a ton of money with Boston. He was, let's see, responsible for preserving about 45 of our victories? Letting him go is called, " planning for the future." We...
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Thanks. I found this solution posted also. I want to know why this
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Last year I started a tradition with my (then) 2-year-old niece, Scarlett. Her Christmas Eve gift from us would be a new pair of pajamas, hot chocolate, and 1 or 2 seasonal stories for bedtime. I wanted to give her a tradition that she could always associate with warmth, family, and reading. I had a wonderful time exploring all of the holiday picture books last year—many of which I remembered from my own childhood.
I was thrilled when the transcendent, luminous, extraordinary short story writer Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature earlier this month. Not only is Munro being recognized for her exceptional achievement in this often-belittled (certainly misunderstood) literary form, which is a win for all short-story readers the world over, but she is a woman, and women writers have only received Nobel love 12 times before Munro. (She is the lucky 13th.)
One of the guiding principles librarians use when connecting readers to books they will enjoy is that someone should NEVER apologize for his/her reading tastes. I think, however, that I might also add: "but be willing to stretch." It's just like our parents would explain "You don't have to like everything, but you do have to try it." So, I can say with empirical backing that I don't care for turnips or Harry Potter. But, I'm guilty like everyone else of assuming I won't like something based on its genre or cover.
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YONKERS – A parolee from Mount Vernon will face two murder charges in connection with the deaths of two women.
New York City Police, working on an October 1993 murder there, worked with Yonkers Police looking for a possible suspect in the death of Learonda Sheely, 23, of Yonkers, who was found stabbed to death if a stairwell.
On Tuesday, December 4 of this year, NYPD and State Parole officers sought Lucius Crawford of Mount Vernon as a suspect. A parole officer searching for the suspect located a dead woman in his residence at 7 Beekman Avenue in Mount Vernon. Crawford was later arrested by Mount Vernon Police.
Crawford, 60, has an extensive criminal history. He was arrested in Yonkers in 1994 for the attempted murder of a woman. He was convicted and sentenced to10 to 20 years in state prison and was released on parole in February 2008.


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We all know how hardcore Jack is crushing on Grace, but no matter how many times he knocks on her bedroom door for a goodnight kiss, she's just not feeling it. It might have something do with the fact that he had an STI (no, Secret Life writers, we have not forgotten about that whole thing), but one can never tell what Cookie's thinking.
In Season 4, Episode 12, "Pomp," Jack uses a school project to get closer to Grace, but will his plan work? If this project is for Sex Ed class, we'd say he has a pretty fair chance of getting in Grace's pants.
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Newcastle midfielder Yohan Cabaye has undergone groin surgery in Paris.
The Magpies have confirmed the 26-year-old France international had an operation on Monday to repair the damage which has sidelined him since the 1-0 Barclays Premier League defeat by West Ham on November 11.
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This course is offered for childcare personnel, foster parents, truck drivers, electricians, and those requiring infant, child, adult CPR and First Aid. Topics include how to manage respiratory (choking and near drowning) and cardiac emergencies for infants, children and adults. American Red Cross (ARC) guidelines are used. An American Red Cross card is issued upon completion. All courses will cover the new American Red Cross guidelines.
Students will study the basic structure of medical words including prefixes, suffixes, roots, combining forms, plurals, pronunciation, spelling and definitions of medical words. An overview of select abbreviations and symbols, surgical and diagnostic procedures and pathological conditions will be addressed. Emphasis is on building a professional vocabulary required for employment within the allied health field.
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HUMAN cloning should be banned in the US, but laws to control the practice should be flexible enough to allow a rethink in the future. These are the main conclusions of an ethical panel which delivered its report to President Bill Clinton this week.
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When a visitor lands on your website, you have only a couple of seconds to make a lasting impression. (A positive lasting impression, I might add.) The easiest way to turn a reader away from your website is to have an annoying color palette with disjointed colors that don't complement each other. A bad color scheme does two disservices to your blog: makes it look ugly and makes it harder for readers to concentrate. Essentially, without a solid color scheme, your blog takes a hit in terms of aesthetics and functionality. These seven different online tools and communities will help you easily find a color palette than you can draw from for years! You generally have six colors in a palette – you can use these to design email submission forms, header tags, links, logos, and more! Finding a color palette for your website is a must.
Tools For Finding Great Palettes Created By Others
1. Colour Lovers Design Community For Finding Pre-Created Color Palettes
The easiest way to get your website set up with a professional color scheme, in my opinion, is to use one that somebody else has made. The chances that another website is using the same scheme is low, and it wouldn't be a problem even if they were. Colors on different WordPress themes make the sites look completely different all the time! For example, while you might be using the provided blue for links, the other site may be using it for titles and header tags. Note when you're picking color palettes and designing your website that you should have two types of text on your site: clickable and un-clickable. All clickable text should be one color, and all un-clickable text should be another color. This makes it much easier for readers to navigate your site. Colour Lovers lets you choose from thousands of palettes, and you can sort the creations by certain colors! For example, if you know that you want purple to be the primary color of your site, typing in purple will bring up tons of relevant palettes! You can even search by a specific HEX #, but this will probably not give you a terribly huge pool of results to pick from.
2. Kuler Offers Color Palettes As Well As A Creation Tool
I decided to put Kuler under the category for find pre-made color palettes, since I really like their selection more than I like their creation tool. Like Colour Lovers, you can search designs by using a keyword or hex #, and there are plenty of palettes to browse through! You should easily be able to find one that fits the tone of your website perfectly. It's very similar to Colour Lovers, but using Kuler in conjunction with the prior tool will give you a larger selection of palettes to choose from, ensuring that you end up with a quality set of six colors. The tool on Kuler allows you to choose a base color and then to move the other colors around this base. I would rather use some of the tools I talk about later which let you automatically generate colors, so I would pay more attention to the pre-created palettes on Kuler.
3. ColorBlender For Viewing Many Color Palettes At Once
Color Blender is another awesome source for web design color palettes. Unlike Kuler and ColourLovers, http://www.colorblender.com/ lays out their palettes in a way that allows you to see many of schemes at the same time. This gives you a better idea of how your palette would compare to other sites in terms of brightness and intensity. Picking colors while isolated from other examples is a recipe for design disaster, and ColorBlender prevents that from ever happening with its unique design. Furthermore, you can search ColorBlender by Hex # and RGB scale, but not by color. (Example: you can't just type in orange and get results.) ColorBlender is an awesome site, and second only to Colour Lovers, in my opinion.
4. InspiredMag's List of 50+ Sites With Great Color Schemes
If you're looking for some "real world" examples of color schemes, then look no further! There are more than 50 sites on this list by InspiredMag, and all of them have great color designs. Reading this post is a great way to find color schemes that work for your niche, and for comparing your created color to a similar shade. (If you're trying to create a certain color, opening this page in a new tab and then comparing to a certain site would probably help a lot!) Visit this post by InspiredMag and get your creativity flowing!
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5. 5K Lets You Choose Base Colors With An RGB Slider
ColorMatch 5K is one of the best ways to create your own custom color palettes. Often when designers just try to handpick colors and put them together into a scheme, things don't turn out as planned. With ColorMatch 5K, you are presented with an RGB slider that lets you choose a base color. Like the aforementioned tool in Kuler, you can create five other colors to go with this color. Why is it better than the Kuler tool? It's much easier to use. Instead of picking the five other colors and running the risk of messing up a set of complementary colors, ColorMatch 5K automatically chooses the complimentary colors for you, and it's pretty good at doing so. I only played with it for a couple of minutes, and I devised a few awesome color palettes. (Just so you know, the color palette that I use on my personal website about geek culture was one that I obtained from Colour Lovers.)
6. ColorCombos Color Palette Tool Creates Sample Designs
Seeing a color palette in the typical form – six colors lined up next to each other – is nice, but it's not as good as what ColorCombos can do. Here's how I would suggest using ColorCombos: use a tool such as ColorMatch 5K to create your color palette, and then check how it looks by using ColorCombos. This site allows you to view a color palette as something other than a list of colors – it will use your colors to add color to an image. They allow you to choose from a cupcake, paintbrush, paint can, pencil, and more! This is a great way to see what your colors will look like on your site, and not just how they go together. ColorCombos also has color palettes that you can browse as well as a color creating tool, so this is the real deal.
7. Color Scheme Designer
Color Scheme Designer is the best color palette creator on the internet. (Says me, but I've seen a lot of color palette creators.) You get to choose a base color yes, and from there on out things work much like the ColorMatch 5K, with one exception – you get the ease of creation plus the customization! You can choose from mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic, and accented analogic for creating your palette! You should try out the tool in order to see what each of these do, since they are difficult to explain. This is a wonderful tool for creating amazing color schemes in just minutes!
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By Lisa Gray | November 23, 2011 | Updated: November 25, 2011 4:10pm
Photo By DAVID J. PHILLIPassociated press NEW LIFE: The refinery was sold to developers who are working to turn it into a residential and retail complex.
Photo By DAVID J. PHILLIPADVANCE FOR WEEKEND MARCH 31- APRIL 1-- Sugar is stored in silos at Imperial Sugar, which gave the Houston suburb Sugar Land its' name, Tuesday, March 20, 2001 in Sugar Land, Texas. Imperial Sugar, founded in 1843, was a privately owned raw sugar mill and then a sugar refinery until 1988 when it bought publicly held Holly Sugar Corp., a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based sugar beet processor. The acquisition doubled Imperial's size. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Photo By Frank CasimiroThe Imperial Sugar Co. in Sugar Land sits empty since its closing in 2003. Land development is planned for this historic site. The char house, in the background, will be salvaged and remain on site.
Photo By Nick de la TorreNick de la Torre : STAFF DOWN WITH THE OLD: The refinery's furnace house was demolished in December 2010 to make way for mixed-use buildings.
Imperial Sugar has been headquartered in Sugar Land since its inception over 100 years ago.
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Imperial Sugar Co., Texas, 1880, A massive, impressive refinery now stands on the spot where in 1840, two brothers, Nathaniel and Matthew Williams, planted their first crop of sugar cane. Sam houston was in his second term as president of the Republic of Texas. By 1843 the brothers were processing their cane with a mule-powered mill and open-air cooking kettles. The mill which they built that year gives the Imperial Sugar Company its claim to be the oldest business in Texas. This shot of the refinery was taken in the 1880s when the now bustling town of Sugar Land consisted of a rooming house, a general store and little else. Photo used Chronicle Magazine, Sun. May 18, 1986. HOUCHRON CAPTION (12/04/2002): In the 1880s there was no city of Sugar Land -- just the refinery, a rooming house and general store.
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Melissa Phillip : STAFF LIVELY: City Hall at Sugar Land Town Square is one of the first suburban town center projects in the Houston area. Unlike some of the others, though, there is real history there.
When I think of Sugar Land, I think of a suburb where everything seems so new that it hasn't had time to get dirty. I think of master-planned subdivisions, of golf courses and shopping, of easy affluence and meticulous lawn care.
Sugar Land's website proudly describes its City Hall building as "timeless architecture," "traditional and federal." It opened in 2004.
That City Hall is the proud centerpiece of Sugar Land Town Square, a cheerful, stylishly walkable "lifestyle development" with a "historical theme." It includes upscale apartments, and a mall-like collection of upscale stores and restaurants: the usual chains (Ann Taylor, P.F. Chang's, Jamba Juice) along with a few smaller operators (Strasburg Children, A Dog's Life! Luxury Dog Boutique).
In front of City Hall, there's a fountain with a bronze statue of Stephen F. Austin astride a rearing horse, pulling another thrashing horse through the water behind him, at some unspecified moment in Texas history. It's a tableau so perfectly dramatic and perfectly vague that, amid all these clean frictionless mall stores and restaurants, it seems fake, made up to suit the décor.
That's how I usually think of Sugar Land: as a place like white sugar, pure pleasure but somehow empty. The messiness of real life, and real history, has been refined away.
Dinos and Lead Belly
Recently, though, I've been changing my mind. The first reason was, of all things, the Sugar Land outpost of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, which opened a couple of years ago. It houses its triceratops and T. rex skeletons in the red-brick building that used to be the Main Unit of the Central State Prison Farm - part of the prison system whose convicts, mostly African-American, replaced slaves in Sugar Land's backbreaking sugarcane and cotton fields.
It was in that prison (though not in that brick building) that Lead Belly famously sang the blues, including The Midnight Special: "If you're ever in Houston/ Boy, you better walk right/ You better not tussle/ And you better not fight." Otherwise, you'd end up like he did, working on the Imperial Prison Farm, waiting each night for a train's headlight to flash through your cell window.
What exactly does an old prison building have to do with dinosaur skeletons? Nothing directly. But they both hint of complicated worlds that are long gone and of the harsher existences that came before us. They say: This piece of earth isn't new, and it has stories to tell.
A far bigger project in the works is the Imperial, a 715-acre development that includes the site of the defunct Imperial Sugar refinery - the factory that built Sugar Land, the old industrial center of what was once a company town.
The walkable, bike-friendly development will include a baseball stadium for the minor-league Skeeters; housing (single-family, multifamily and assisted living); restaurants and bars; and an office park. It'll give spread-out Sugar Land something that feels like the tight-packed middle of town, the place where things happen - something that the area seems hungry for. Even without any residential development at all on the site, the brand-new Saturday farmers market already attracts around 5,000 shoppers from the surrounding neighborhoods.
In the last decade, high-density town-center developments like that have sprouted all over Houston's suburbs, creating some lively places: among them, Woodlands Town Center, Pearland Town Center and, of course, Sugar Land Town Square. The thing that makes Imperial different is that it isn't being created entirely from scratch on a bulldozed site. Unlike those other brand-new town centers, it'll have some history to it.
Johnson Development, spurred by a University of Houston class on historic architecture, intends to not only to preserve the refinery's most historic structures - the eight-story brick Char House, the water tower - but to revamp many of the others in the 45-acre historic part of the site, too, and to play up Imperial's history throughout the development. The 1920s Char House, where bones were charred to be used to filter sugar syrup, will become an office building with a rooftop restaurant. Old warehouses will house stores and clubs. The sugar silos - not old enough to be considered historic, but iconic - will remain where they are, serving as a kind of billboard. Similarly, a pair of rusty smokestacks, left from a demolished building, will stand alone, like brawny sculptures. And throughout the development, odds and ends from the old refinery, and the old crown symbol from Imperial Sugar's logo, will remind shoppers, residents and office workers where they are: on an old industrial site, at a place with a brawny real history.
At a white-sugar refinery, of all places, you'll be able to see and feel Texas history.


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QuickStats: Death Rate* Among Teens Aged 15--19 Years, by Sex --- National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1985--2005
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During 1985--2005, death rates among all teens aged 15--19 years declined substantially, from a high of 88.7 deaths per 100,000 population in 1991 to 65.0 in 2005. This decline resulted primarily from a 28% decrease in the death rate for males aged 15--19 years during that period. In 2005, a total of 13,703 deaths occurred among all teens aged 15--19 years.
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