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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to furniture whose function is to enhance sexual pleasure (U.S. CL. 5/929), and specifically to a supportive structure enhancing the function of a bed (U.S. CL. 5/503.1; 128/845).
The desire to enhance the pleasure inherent in sexual intimacy has given rise to many products. Among them are suspensory apparatus designed to increase mobility and improve positioning. Some of these apparatus require suspension from the ceiling or a specialized frame, for example U.S. Pat. No. 4,825,855, Kundson, Jr., May 2, 1989, and U.S. Pat. No. 5,782,243, Bisyak, Jul. 21, 1998 (marketed successfully as The Love Swing�). Others depend on tubular supporting structures that do not readily lend themselves to placement over a bed, for example U.S. Pat. No. 5,280,794, Degen, Jan. 2, 1994, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 20030126686, Nash, Jul. 10, 2003 (marketed as The LoveRocker).
No simple and aesthetically pleasing means for supporting these or similar apparatus is available. The apparatus themselves are not furniture in a traditional sense. Most are difficult if not impossible to utilize over a bed. This invention provides an attractive supportive structure, which allows the use of the above-mentioned suspensory apparatus over a bed without the need for a separate and obtrusive frame.
2. Prior Art
Sexually Assistive Apparatus
Previously patented sexually assistive apparatus rarely represent inventions that a typical consumer would classify as furniture. Most are contraptions that appear mechanical, resembling joined bicycle frames (U.S. Pat. No. 6,745,774, Fessler, Jun. 8, 2004). Some appear more suitable for torture than pleasure or romance (U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,453,080, Mitchum, Jr., Sep. 26, 1995, and 5,875,779, Fuhrman, et al., Mar. 2, 1999). The following are but a few of the available examples: U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,926,006, Black, Aug. 9, 2005; 6,698,431, Harris, et al., Mar. 2, 2004; 6,030,039, Essler, Feb. 29, 2000; 4,373,222, Wolfe, et al., Feb. 15, 1983; 4,099,773, Chang, Jul. 11, 1978; 3,971,592, Farley, Jul. 27, 1976. Most people would not buy such contraptions for fear of embarrassment. In general, they do not satisfy a need for furniture that is at once functional, aesthetically pleasing, and acceptable for public display. There are a few exceptions. U.S. Pat. No. 3,855,652, Nicholson, Dec. 24, 1974, is a couch placed at the foot of a bed that provides support for one individual's feet and for their partner's knees. U.S. Pat. No. 4,884,842, Finkelstein, Dec. 5, 1989, is a design for a curved stool that allows access to the genitalia of the person seated on it. U.S. Pat. No. 6,338,344, Sinohui, Jr., Jan. 15, 2002, is a variation of a common chair design. It can be used to achieve several sexual positions that may not be as comfortable on a standard chair.
However, there remains a long-felt and incompletely solved need for furniture that is able to provide greater freedom in sexual activity yet does not need to be hidden from view when not in use.
Prior Art:
Designs that Enhance the Function of a Bed
Beds, or their accessories, have been specifically designed to help us read more comfortably, to watch TV, work on computers, or eat there. However, when two adults are known to share a bed, it is not generally assumed that they do so to eat, or to work on their computers. Rather, the assumption is that they will both sleep on the bed as well as participate in sexual activity on the bed. In our society, our beds are where we perform the majority of our sexual acts. Even so, beds do not particularly serve this function well.
The following is a sampling of the many attempts to design beds, or bed accessories, with the goal of enhancing sexual pleasure or positioning. Perlin (U.S. Pat. No. 4,571,761, Feb. 25, 1986) and Hanson (U.S. Pat. No. 4,122,567, Oct. 31, 1978) among others designed mattresses that allow for more variety in body positioning during sexual intercourse. These designs present significant impediments to the use of bed linens. U.S. Pat. No. 6,925,669, Friedman, et al., Aug. 9, 2005 comprises a system of supportive cushions, typically placed on a bed. These cushions support the hips of their user off the surface of the bed. This system is currently marketed successfully as The Liberator�. Libby (U.S. Pat. No. 677,672, Jul. 2, 1901), Matern, Jr. (U.S. Pat. No. 6,101,652, Aug. 15, 2000) and Dawes (U.S. patent application Ser. No. 2005/0081296 A1, Apr. 21, 2005) attached stirrups to a standard bed. These must be positioned at the edge of the mattress, which limits their utility. U.S. Pat. No. 3,668,722, Gallant, Jun. 13, 1972 is self-described as a "cradle" that can be placed on a bed to hold the weight of one partner over the other. Though it is possible that it will actually perform its stated function, this item does not appear particularly comfortable or easy to use, and may collapse on its users.
The above examples suggest that the USPTO declaration that a "conventional bed" is "inherently adapted to facilitate sexual relations" is an assumption that needs reconsideration. There are some positions for sexual relations that cannot be achieved comfortably, or cannot be maintained comfortably on a regular bed. It is a cultural phenomenon, coupled with convenience, that has determined that our beds are where most of us experience the majority of our sexual activity. However, the fact that we use our beds for sex does not mean that they are particularly well designed for this activity. With minimal imagination, it is possible to identify multiple ways for a couple to interact sexually that would be difficult or uncomfortable in a conventional bed. The plurality of inventions for enhancing sexual activity speaks to a widely held desire for a functional enhancement over what is inherently provided by a conventional bed.
Prior Art: Supportive Element over a Bed
Supportive structural elements over a bed have been previously devised and utilized. Most of these are only decorative or support decorative elements such as drapery, or mosquito netting, and cannot safely support the weight of an adult human.
Other, more substantial structures have been designed for use with a bed in order to assist in lifting or positioning an infirm person, and for specific surgical procedures. These include the many variations of trapeze apparatus over a "hospital bed". While these structures and their accessories could possibly be utilized for sexual activity, they are not designed for this purpose. Neither are they satisfactory as attractive bedroom furniture.
Substantial supportive structures unrelated to health care have been described, such as U.S. Pat. No. 5,241,717, Ward et al., Sep. 7, 1993, that purports to protect the occupants of the underlying bed from falling debris during a catastrophe such as an earthquake. Other similar inventions follow: U.S. Pat. No. 5,737,784, Jackman, Apr. 14, 1998; U.S. Pat. No. 4,965,895, Shustov, Oct. 30, 1990; U.S. Pat. No. 4,782,541, Tuchman, Nov. 8, 1988; U.S. Pat. No. 4,779,294, Miller, Oct. 25, 1988; U.S. Pat. No. 4,069,527, Harris, Jan. 24, 1978. These devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives, yet none of these are aesthetically pleasing structures marketable as means to enhance their user's sexual pleasure.
Objects and Advantages
The over-bed support structure fills the need for a piece of bedroom furniture that allows its users to safely improvise a greater range of sexual positions than possible on a standard bed, yet without appearing to be a sexual apparatus.
This over-bed structure advances the art by providing a structure that
This over-bed support structure provides a means for an adult to sit, or kneel, astride of their sexual partner's face or pelvis while supporting their own weight, by holding on to the overhead structure. The over-bed support structure may also be utilized to suspend one or both of the legs of an adult, via straps attached to the structure, thereby enabling their partner comfortable access to their genitalia. Previously referenced suspensory apparatus such as "swings" and "chairs" can be adapted for use with the structure. Other sexual positions enabled by this invention include kneeling face to face, or front to back, with one or both partners stabilizing their bodies by grasping the canopy structure. It is central to the invention that the canopy and supporting posts of the bed be capable of withstanding the structural load of the weight of an adult body.
An overhead structure for a bed, designed to increase the options available to its users in positioning their bodies while performing sexual acts. Minimally, the overhead structure consists of a framework, and its supporting elements, positioned over a bed and able to support the weight of a person weighing up to 200 pounds.
This over-bed support structure allows persons involved in sexual intercourse to position their bodies in ways that may be more comfortable, or more pleasurable, if one of the participants is able to support some or all of their weight from an overhead apparatus. This over-bed support structure functions in conjunction with other inventions, which enhance the functionality of the over-bed support structure through the attachment of suspensory apparatus to the over-bed support structure.
The type of material used in fabricating the structure does not have a direct bearing on the invention. Structural members may be made of steel, aluminum, plastic, fiberglass, wood, composite materials or any other suitable material or combination of materials.
The arrangement of the structural members may also vary, depending on the innate requirements of the materials used, or on aesthetic considerations applicable to the bed itself or to styles of bedroom furniture the structure is applied to. The method of supporting this structure may also vary, though in most cases its application will be as a canopy over a four-poster bed. However, it may also be suspended from a separate supporting structure, or from the ceiling, or from structural members in the ceiling. Alternately, it may be cantilevered from the bed frame, or from a separate structure, or from a wall, or from structural members in a wall.
Commercially, the over-bed support structure will find its application primarily as an integral component of a four-poster bed. It is possible to retrofit this over-bed support structure to an existing four-poster bed. However, most existing four-poster beds do not have the structural integrity to support both this over-bed support structure and the weight of a human adult, much less the stability to withstand any lateral forces produced by the movements of its user's bodies. Because of this, the over-bed support structure is presented in the appended drawings as an integral part of a four-poster bed that was designed in conjunction with it.
The above described drawings illustrate some embodiments of the invention. The following description, in conjunction with the drawings, is presented to enable anyone of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention. Various modifications, and variations in use and application, will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. The general principles defined in the appended claims may be applied to a wide range of embodiments. Thus the invention is not intended to be limited to the aspects presented, but is accorded the widest scope consistent with the novel principles and features disclosed herein.
The embodiment in
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|Mar 11, 2012
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|May 1, 2012
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie today announced the launch of 'Perspectives – Art, Inflammation and Me', an initiative designed to add a different dimension to the current understanding of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) and their impact on patients and society. More than 100 unique artistic expressions from the initiative are being debuted at the 9th Congress of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) in Copenhagen, Denmark from February 20th to 22nd.
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"Art is a well-established medium to help educate," said Jose Miralles, Perspectives judge and professor, Facultad de Belles Arts de Valencia, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. "The artistic expressions created through Perspectives vividly bring to life the stories, dreams and challenges of patients living with inflammatory diseases. We hope people can experience the gallery and learn something new about these conditions."
IMIDs are a group of progressive and potentially debilitating conditions that can affect various parts of the body such as the joints (rheumatoid arthritis), the bowels (Crohn's disease), the skin (psoriasis) and the spine (ankylosing spondylitis). IMIDs can have a serious and damaging impact on the day-to-day lives of those affected, and those around them[1].
More than 200 unique artistic expressions – all inspired by collaborations between artists and patients – provide new and different perspectives into some of the unknown, ignored or often underestimated burdens associated with some of these conditions. The initiative involves more than 200 artists from more than 40 countries around the world. In addition to professional and independent artists, Perspectives included art students from more than 15 universities in France, Canada, Italy and Spain through collaborations with the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia).
The artistic expressions include but are not limited to sculptures, photographs, paintings and installations. Perspectives will visit various art galleries and medical conferences throughout the world, with additional exhibition dates and locations to be announced later this year.
"The stories and artworks in Perspectives may contribute to the current understanding of these diseases and their impact on patients and society from a very personal and emotional point of view," said Isidro Villanueva, M.D., Ph.D., group therapeutic area lead, Medical Affairs, Immunology, AbbVie. "AbbVie is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company committed to addressing some of today's toughest health challenges. Helping others understand the impact associated with some of these chronic conditions is part of that commitment."
About Perspectives
'Perspectives – Art, Inflammation and Me' is an initiative that brings together more than 200 artists with patients in more than 40 countries. Together, they have created a series of paintings, sculptures, photos and other artistic expressions that vividly depict — and help others understand — the impact of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs). Inspired by patients' stories, independent artists and students from a number of art universities created each piece to help more people better understand the burdens associated with some of these chronic and debilitating conditions. In addition to independent artists from all parts of the world, students from more than 15 universities coordinated by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) were able to add their "Perspectives."
Key Perspectives artworks featured at ECCO include:
'Tic Tac Toe'– A cross-stitching artwork from the U.S., symbolic of life with Crohn's Disease (CD). Much like a game, CD is a disease through which there are personal wins, losses and draws. Words like hope, strength, endurance, courage, ache and "ow" illustrate the range of emotions experienced while on the road from awareness to diagnosis – noting that while one does not always win at the game of life or CD, one still has to play.
Artist: Barbara Miller
'Coexistentia'– A sculpture from Spain that portrays the story of a patient with Crohn's disease. The body is made of iron, representing the emotional armour that the patient constructs to protect themselves from the impact of the disease, and the intestinal area is made of marble, a hard and compact material, to symbolize the disease itself.
Artist: Guillermo Ros Lluch
'Captive?' – A photograph taken at a historic jail in Ireland that signifies the patient's feeling of entrapment, both physically and emotionally, and his sense of being 'locked up'. Framed in the doorway of a cell, the patient is neither inside the cell nor out. As with his condition, ulcerative colitis, no barriers are immediately apparent but confinements are all around.
Artist: John Minihan
Note: Full-size, high resolution images of these artworks are available upon request.
About AbbVie
AbbVie is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries. For further information on the company and its people, portfolio and commitments, please visit www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter or view careers on our Facebook or LinkedIn page.
[1] Kuek A, Hazleman BL and Ostor AJK. Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) and biologic therapy: a medical revolution. Postgrad Med J 2007; 83(978): 251-260
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Of course, this is where Leslie Mackie lives.
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Oli does.
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Mackie is an ear-to-ear smile working from her command center of a kitchen in what was once, and still is, a gambreled-roof barn on six acres of forest/hazelnut orchard.
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It was good to see the joint effort of rural and city fire departments, using a mutual aid agreement to protect when life and property are at stake.
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If we want to create jobs in Ontario, our first priority must be getting the deficit under control.
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When you hear from leaders in an election campaign, you deserve the plain truth about where we stand, and why. I have been clear from day one that my party's sole priority is job creation.
The foundation of our Million Jobs Plan is a balanced budget, and ending Ontario's debt spiral. Families understand that it's wrong to pile debt onto our children and grandchildren. But there's an even more urgent reason: job creation.
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce's top priority for the provincial budget is balancing the books. Why? Because well-run businesses want to locate plants and jobs in well-run provinces.
The McGuinty-Wynne government is borrowing an extra $4,100 a year for every family in Ontario. That's not the balance on your share of the credit card — it's the amount the balance goes up every year. $4,100 is a lot of money for my family, and I bet it's a lot of money for yours.
We cannot go on borrowing $4,100 more per family every single year, forever. If you tried to pay your mortgage every year by taking out another mortgage, the bank would stop lending to you. It works the same for governments. In many countries, from Ireland to Greece to Spain, lenders have forced governments to fix spending problems their way. And when that happens, things get very ugly, very quickly.
How bad is Ontario's debt problem? Unfortunately, it's very bad indeed. Ontario's projected annual deficit for 2014-15 is twice as big as the deficits of all nine other provinces, plus the federal government, put together. It has gone up, not down, for the last two years. The Liberals have doubled our debt, and Ontario's debt per person is an astonishing five times as high as California's.
There's only one way to balance the budget, and that's to spend less. When well over half of every dollar of spending goes to salaries and benefits for government workers, spending less means having fewer government workers. That's why we have said very directly that a balanced budget means going from 1.2 million government workers today to 1.1 million — the number we had in 2009.
I take no joy in doing this. But it has to be done, and we can do it carefully and sensibly. Nobody thought we had a shortage of government employees in 2009, and we can deliver great front-line services with 1.1 million, when we set the right priorities.
Kathleen Wynne will not take this vital action to balance the books. She said this week that she wants "the same number of public sector employees . . . or more." She will not name a single position she would eliminate — as if all government workers were equally important.
We disagree. We will protect professionals who deliver essential services: nurses, doctors and police officers. And we will eliminate the do-nothing provincial bureaucracies, like the Ontario Power Authority that oversaw the gas plant scandal and the Local Health Integration Networks that just create paperwork and don't see a single patient.
Our first choice is always to reduce positions through attrition (not filling vacancies when people retire or leave voluntarily). Attrition of government workers is over 5 per cent per year, or about 200,000 over four years. You might think that means we could reduce the size of government entirely through attrition. But when a nurse retires, we need to fill that vacancy with a new nurse. And not everybody at the Ontario Power Authority is going to retire next year — but we can't just keep funding that useless bureaucracy until they do. So some employees in wasteful administrative bureaucracies will have to get some of the many new private sector jobs instead.
Some of the reduction in the size of government will also come through opening up government services to fair competition. GO Train service is delivered by Bombardier, not by government workers. There is no reason GO Bus service can't be contracted the same way, for better value. When a position is contracted through fair competition, it doesn't go away; it just moves out of government.
Ontario's jobs crisis is directly linked to our government's debt crisis. To get our private sector growing again, to create a million new jobs, we must start by reducing government to the size it was in 2009. Only the PC party has told you this simple truth, and only our party has laid out a clear, careful achievable plan to reduce the size of government. I invite you to read our full plan for job creation at millionjobsplan.com.
Tim Hudak is leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
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VIA Launches VIA EPIA-M830, First VIA Nano E-Series Mini-ITX Board
VIA Launches VIA EPIA-M830, First VIA Nano E-Series Mini-ITX Board
VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the new VIA EPIA-M830 Mini-ITX board. Designed specifically to meet the needs of next generation kiosk, POI and POS applications, the VIA EPIA-M830 places the latest 64-bit, high performance VIA Nano E-Series processor in a streamlined, application specific Mini-ITX form factor board.
Kiosk and POS systems will soon support an incredible array of increasingly complex human-machine interactions that reach beyond traditional ticketing or retail scenarios. The VIA EPIA-M830 is designed to take the kiosk to this next phase, providing the backbone of devices that offer cashless purchasing and self service infrastructures in supermarkets and gas stations as well as more secure and interactive, multimedia-rich POI, lotto and gaming machines.
"The VIA EPIA-M830 board represents a mile-stone in kiosk device design, packing a wealth of kiosk-oriented features and enhancements into a high performance, 64-bit platform," said Daniel Wu, Vice President, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. "This highly focused platform arms developers with the tools to build the next phase of interactive kiosks."
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The VIA EPIA-M830 is available in both active and passive cooling configurations. A fanless 1.0GHz VIA Nano E-Series or performance oriented 1.3GHz VIA Nano E-Series processor is joined by the VIA VX800 media system processor providing DirectX9 integrated graphics, crystal clear HD audio and Gigabit networking. The VIA VX800 supports up to 2GB of DDR2 system memory and offers advanced video acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9 and VC-1 video formats, plus a VMR capable HD video processor.
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This is a golden era for initial public offerings. More of them priced in the second quarter of 2013, 44 in all, than in any period since the final quarter of 2006. A strong small-cap market has helped push these fledgling-company shares to new heights: The average first-half deal jumped 16.97% on its first day, gaining a total of 39.16% by the end of July. "I'd characterize the IPO market as white hot," says Tim Keating, CEO of the Denver area's Keating Capital, which invests in private offerings of companies on track to become public.
If you remember, there was nothing white hot about last spring's IPO market. Facebook FB -0.21175673386413688% Facebook Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD117.81 -0.25 -0.21175673386413688% /Date(1462483450000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 21510211 AFTER HOURS USD117.7 -0.11 -0.09337068160597572% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 546538 P/E Ratio 72.72222222222223 Market Cap 335755542539.209 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1557480 More quote details and news » (ticker: FB) had just raised $16 billion in May, the biggest Internet IPO of all time. The deal was overpriced, a technology glitch at Nasdaq caused shares to be misallocated, and a number of buyers accused the company and its bankers of selectively disseminating earnings revisions to bigger investors. Very few IPOs of any sort got done for awhile afterward. It's fitting, then, that last week Facebook's share price, in this year's stronger market, got back to its original offering price of $38, after falling as low as $17.55.
Ripples from the Facebook deal haven't spent themselves yet. For the first six months of 2013, the new-issue market priced 67 IPOs, raising $18 billion, compared with 59 deals worth $25.2 billion in the same period a year earlier, according to Dealogic, which tracks stock and bond offerings. But then again, Facebook's offering accounted for nearly two-thirds of 2012's first-half volume.
Conditions this year are more balanced and healthy. U.S. stocks generally have gained, with a blistering pace set by the small-cap group that most IPOs join. The Russell 2000 Index, the small-cap benchmark, rose 15% in the first half, well ahead of the S&P 500's nearly 13% gain. At the same time, the markets have been less volatile, giving bankers, issuers, and investors a little more breathing room to value the deals and the market (see the best- and worst-performing deals, in the Easy Money graphic below). The question is how long this supportive environment lasts.
For now, at least, the result is not just more deals, but also more diverse and mature issuers. Rather than Facebook and a smattering of finance deals in 2012, this year has seen health care, construction, technology, and finance/insurance all account for more than 10% of dollar volume (see table below headed "A More Diverse, Balanced Mix of IPO Issuers"). Issuers have ranged from Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings NCLH -0.5695687550854354% Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. U.S.: Nasdaq USD48.88 -0.28 -0.5695687550854354% /Date(1462482000369-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1314571 AFTER HOURS USD49.1858 0.3058 0.6256137479541735% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5305 P/E Ratio 26.42162162162162 Market Cap 11155288809.3692 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 163964 More quote details and news » (NCLH) and Noodles & Co. NDLS -1.5356820234869015% Noodles & Co. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD10.9 -0.17 -1.5356820234869015% /Date(1462482000158-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 229268 AFTER HOURS USD10.9 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 139 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 306950029.47255 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 42967.1 More quote details and news » (NDLS) to Coty COTY -1.063049853372434% Coty Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE USD26.99 -0.29 -1.063049853372434% /Date(1462482084880-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1721176 AFTER HOURS USD27 0.01 0.037050759540570584% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 29550 P/E Ratio 48.19642857142857 Market Cap 9196033659.81155 Dividend Yield 0.9262689885142645% Rev. per Employee 529309 More quote details and news » (COTY), ING U.S. VOYA -0.9377093101138647% Voya Financial Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD29.58 -0.28 -0.9377093101138647% /Date(1462482388024-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2456392 AFTER HOURS USD29.6111 0.0311 0.10513860716700474% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15300 P/E Ratio 17.502958579881657 Market Cap 6069194569.85779 Dividend Yield 0.1352265043948614% Rev. per Employee 1666260 More quote details and news » (VOYA), and SeaWorld Entertainment SEAS -5.033384694401644% SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD18.49 -0.98 -5.033384694401644% /Date(1462482114974-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8726064 AFTER HOURS USD18.55 0.06 0.32449972958355866% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7900 P/E Ratio 32.43859649122807 Market Cap 1726210210.42328 Dividend Yield 4.542996214169822% Rev. per Employee 274201 More quote details and news » (SEAS). (Dealogic's complete list of first-half 2013 IPOs, with pricing terms and returns through mid-July, is available here.) The average age of an IPO company is now a robust 17 years.
"THE STRENGTH HAS COME FROM the backlog of supply built up over the last couple of years. The IPO market was shut down in part because of the European financial crisis" as well as the U.S. mortgage crisis and banking problems in both areas, says Linda Killian, a portfolio manager at Renaissance Capital, a Greenwich, Conn. firm that runs an IPO fund and researches new offerings. "This is the first time in a number of years that we've been able to put together several quarters of uninterrupted deal flow."
Within this flow have been more of the classic venture-capital-backed deals, notes Keating, who counted 21 of them in the second quarter, up from eight in the first. Renaissance, too, noted the shift toward VC-style growth deals and away from megaofferings where buyout firms are returning portfolio companies to the public markets. "Institutional investors have shifted from being risk averse, seeking yield and blue-chip stocks, to seeking growth," says Killian. Another aid was the 2012 passage of the JOBS Act in Congress, which has eased some of the regulatory and filing burdens on small firms, generally regarded as the best generators of new employment opportunities.
Biotech, which accounted for about 20 IPOs in the second quarter (the most since 2000), has been a big beneficiary. Venture money has become more important to these high-risk businesses because government, big pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions have either withdrawn from early-stage development or cut back generally on biotech investments. Also helpful: a streamlined, cost-saving drug-approval process recently passed by the Food and Drug Administration,
Venture-funded bluebird bio BLUE -4.984041247237908% bluebird bio Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD38.7 -2.03 -4.984041247237908% /Date(1462482000234-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1116083 AFTER HOURS USD39.72 1.02 2.635658914728682% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12638 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1504647697.78046 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 55429.1 More quote details and news » (BLUE), a prime example of biotech's renewed popularity, came public on June 19, opening at $25.50, 50% above its initial price. The Cambridge, Mass.–based firm concentrates on innovative gene therapies for several genetic and orphan diseases such as ALD, which was highlighted in the movie Lorenzo's Oil.
Chief Executive Nick Leschly explains that his company and others now get more support from investors with the scientific expertise to invest confidently at earlier stages. As a result, IPOs are "less a financing event and more a value-creation event," part of a company's development, rather than an end in itself, he says.
Its backer, Third Rock Ventures, is among a handful of biotech venture capitalists. "Bluebird and other biotech offerings represent product investment in disruptive areas of science and medicine that result in significant premiums in both the IPO and the merger markets," says Kevin Starr, a co-founder of the Boston-based firm, and also an early sponsor of Agios Pharmaceuticals AGIO -2.2871376811594204% Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD43.15 -1.01 -2.2871376811594204% /Date(1462482000282-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 671194 AFTER HOURS USD43.1414 -0.0086 -0.01993047508690614% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8798 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1671500231.0408 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 284226 More quote details and news » (AGIO), another biotech that priced last month.
RECENT BIOTECH FILINGS INCLUDE cancer-treatment developer Foundation Medicine (backed by Third Rock and Google Ventures, among others) and protein-therapy developer Five Prime Therapeutics (backed by Pfizer PFE 0.5089820359281437% Pfizer Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD33.57 0.17 0.5089820359281437% /Date(1462483448000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 23530317 AFTER HOURS USD33.53 -0.04 -0.11915400655347036% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 233842 P/E Ratio 24.866666666666667 Market Cap 206808764916.807 Dividend Yield 3.5746201966041107% Rev. per Employee 520858 More quote details and news » [PFE] and Domain Associates).
Oft-rumored IPO candidates such as Dropbox, which enables sharing of files such as photos and videos, and Twitter, the social-media site likely to receive Facebook-like publicity, will have to decide soon if they want to cash in on this market.
Others facing this decision include Chegg, which provides online textbook rentals, homework help, and access to scholarships for college students; Violin Memory, which makes flash-memory arrays; Sugar CRM, an enterprise-software outfit whose functions include sales-force automation and customer support; Foursquare, a social-networking site for mobile devices that alerts others to your location and gives tips on what to do at specific venues; Spotify, a subscription-based music-streaming service that lets you choose songs or listen to the song collections of others, including recording artists; and King, a game maker for mobile devices.
More traditional businesses such as retailer Neiman Marcus, home builder LGI Homes, and dining chains like Cheddar's Casual Café have all filed preliminary papers to go public.
But can the small-cap market handle the stampede? The multiple on the Russell 2000 is a hefty 19 times next year's projected earnings, well above the large-cap benchmark S&P 500's 14 times.
With each passing quarter, it becomes more likely that the two-year small-cap rally will slow down or even reverse course, says Henry Ellenbogen, portfolio manager of the T. Rowe Price New Horizons fund (PRNHX), with assets of $12 billion.
That means the clock is ticking for a lot of CEOs of small, growing businesses, says Richard Peterson, a director at S&P Capital IQ, a research firm and data collector in New York. For these corporate chieftains, Peterson says, "The issue is: Why are you waiting? The markets are now at record highs; if you can't do an IPO now, when can you do it?"
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BizReport : Advertising : February 18, 2009
Day-part targeting underused online
Whereas day-part targeting has long been common practice in the planning of radio and television advertising, it has yet to be embraced by online advertisers, according to new research from IAB and Lightspeed Research.
Consumers have different needs and interests at various times of the day, and are more receptive to advertising during certain hours. Advertisers hit the sweet spot when they get the right message across at the right time.
However, day-part targeting hasn't been as enthusiastically embraced online... yet. In times where ROI is under the microscope, it's a tactic that would be foolhardy to overlook. Giles Ivey, director of sales at Sky Digital Media believes advertisers are missing opportunities to increase campaign penetration, decrease wastage and increase ROI.
"When I worked in radio, brands such as Pizza Hut would advertise heavily between 11am and 1pm," said Giles Ivey, director of sales at Sky Digital Media, via NewMediaAge. "The only brand I've known to advertise like this online is McDonald's, which has done lunchtime targeting."
How does it work? Day-part targeting entails the scheduling of ads at pre-determined times of the day to ensure that advertising messages are delivered at relevant times to maximize impact among the target audience.
The IAB and Lightspeed Research study found that 51% of people are more receptive to advertising after 6pm, the traditional prime-time spot, but consumers are using the Internet throughout the day at work, home and on-the-go via mobile.
Using day-part targeting, businesses can put their messages in front of consumers at relevant points in the day when they are at their most receptive - a snack product at 3pm, travel deals at lunchtime when workers are escaping the reality of the day or financial products for couples during the evening when both are together to make decisions.
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