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Reduce Shipping Costs with Hybrid Services
Consumers increasingly expect free shipping for ecommerce purchases. But as fuel prices continue to fluctuate greatly and the economy is mired by uncertainty, shipping continues to be one of the toughest costs to for etailers to manage. Free shipping hurts profit margins.
Moreover, the two big U.S.-based parcel shipping organizations — FedEx and UPS — can be relied on to raise their rates annually, sometimes even creatively. This occurred in 2011 when both carriers inflated rate increases by changing the dimensional weight factor in their favor — this raised costs by increasing the billable weights for many packages. They are blaming fuel costs and global political uncertainly to justify these increases, while also achieving record profits.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service is consistently raising prices as it tries to crawl out from massive debt — a projected loss of $13 billion in 2012. In fact, parcel shipping rate increases over the last several years have dwarfed increases in the Consumer Price Index. The USPS recently announced plans to move forward with the consolidation of 140 mail processing centers, starting with 48 in July. This means slower delivery of first class mail, as well as less overall processing capability.
Enter 'Hybrid' Shipping
So how do ecommerce merchants reverse these negative margin trends? Aggressively managing shipping costs can significantly impact financial results and lead to sustainable cost reduction. For many, adopting "hybrid" parcel offerings that combine services from the leading for-profit shippers with those of the USPS is the best way to go. With these products, etailers continue to hand run off packages to the for-profit parcel shippers, who move them through their regular ground distribution networks. However rather than making the final delivery, the shipments are injected into the USPS network to make "final mile" delivery.
For instance, online retailers, catalogers, fulfillment houses, and direct marketers are using FedEx SmartPost when they need a cost-effective means of shipping lower-weight packages to residential customers. The FedEx SmartPost service is able to reach every U.S. address — including post office boxes and military APO, FPO and DPO destinations — by utilizing the USPS for final delivery. It also reaches Alaska, Hawaii and all U.S. territories.
UPS offers similar services called SurePost and Mail Innovations. And unlike the standard ground parcel shipping market, competition is more vibrant with new carriers such as Streamlite and DHL Global Mail providing great service at more affordable prices. In addition, there are regional carriers — such as OnTrac and Lone Star Overnight — that can significantly reduce your shipping costs in certain regions of the U.S.
Most of these services provide full tracking and tracing capability at a much lower cost than your traditional ground parcel products with UPS and FedEx. Some may require an extra day or two to deliver to the end customer, but many can meet the same delivery windows as FedEx and UPS. In the case of rural areas, delivery times may be more drastically impacted. You will need to consider continuing to ship these packages under the standard ground mode.
The biggest advantage to hybrid delivery services is that they eliminate some of the very costly surcharges associated with normal ground shipments, such as delivery area surcharges and residential surcharges. When these costs are reduced, the amount you pay for fuel surcharges are also drastically reduced. This can shave up to 50 percent off freight costs on a particular shipment.
Don't Accept 'No'
Recently I have heard from companies that have stated that UPS or FedEx refused to offer them pricing for these hybrid products. In nearly all of the cases it was the incumbent carrier who refused to present these options. Don't accept "no" for an answer. This is merely the first line of defense in trying to force you to stick with their higher-margin products. Seek out competitive bids from other carriers. Or better yet, ask them for a copy of their published guidelines for these products. You're likely to get a different response from the carrier that does not enjoy your business.
Etailers need to ask their UPS or FedEx account executives — as well as explore other carriers — for these services. Simply ask for a lower cost service that leverages the USPS, but still maintains high service levels and customer satisfaction. Etailers do not need large volumes to qualify. Your account executive should be able to work with you to set this up. And always remember it's your choice. You have options.
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We've looked into hybrid shipping options, but decided against it after reading the numerous customer complaints on big box forums. It seems the tracking and delivery dates change constantly throughout the shipment, and extends the shipping time beyond reasonable.
I've been using fedex smartpost for more than 2 years now. It's a great way to save money on shipping. As John pointed out, you can't accept no for an answer from fedex. First they said they were only going to allow smartpost accounts for big accounts and I guess I lucked out for knocking on their door the right (number of) times to ask when they'll roll out the program for smaller companies.
Two drawbacks I see to smartpost is its slowness can turn customers off if they don't know ahead of time (like when they choose this shipping option) that it can be awhile before they see their package. I had a few customers angry that they weren't hit over the head with a 2 x 4 on my website that shipping with this option can take up to 2 weeks (10 business days) if shipped across the country.
Second drawback I see to smartpost is you can't get signature confirmation on the package. It's great when you can use smartpost for those big, heavy orders but what if the package gets lost and you end up getting a chargeback with nothing to back you up? Yup, you're screwed.
I tried pursuing UPS' equivalent, Surepost to see if I could get a better rate than smartpost. To qualify or even to give me rates to compare, UPS wanted me to figure out so many minute details of my shipping practices that I expected to see the question how many times do I scratch my back while preparing a shipment. So I said no thank you.
Just an update: Streamlite ceased operations.
USPS First-Class Mail and Priority Mail are underrated. UPS and FedEx are great for remote delivery of packages 3+ lbs.
We drop ship and a few years ago started receiving a lot of complaints from customers that they weren't receiving their orders up to 15 days after placing the order. We discovered several of our suppliers switched to Smartpost without notifying us. This cost us customers. We will not use a supplier who insists on using Smartpost. Even when the customer knows it will take 12 days, they still are not happy with it. In the long run I believe you lose more customers than what your saving on shipping.
New customers have an acquisition cost, so are you really saving money? I would recommend using virtual warehousing solutions by Amazon or FedEx that give you dirt cheap pricing. Or use drop-ship suppliers who warehouse and do virtual fulfillment from one of these companies. As an example a overnight shipment would cost us or another one of our suppliers (non-virtual warehouse) about $45, but it only costs $15 from one of these fulfillment centers.
If this type of fulfillment won't work for you, then negotiate your FedEx or UPS rates. If that doesn't work then join a group that offers discounted shipping options as a membership benefit. A couple of examples of these groups include; NASE and USAA. I'm sure there are plenty of other groups with similar benefits.
As A customer who has received packages from all of these services, I beg companies to just use usps. Every item I've received has taken 7-10 business days, even in the same state! Its absurd and I've stopped buying from companies who use these services. And I was surprised at the praise for dhl global mail, they are the absolute worst! I know usps is slower than ever, I remember the days when mail would take only 2 days no matter where in the U.S. it left from and was delivered to. Adding time to the already slow service may save.you a few pennies but you will begin losing customers. We just don't want to wait that long, free shipping or if we pay. We know the' free shipping' is just increasing an items purchase price anyway.
if you have a PO box this does not work as you the buyer fills out the website from the vendor with the required UPS deliverable address (not a PO Box) your street address which the USPS won't deliver to. The vendor then decides without getting or checking for a PO Box in your profile to send via UPS mail innovations a package which gets returned to sender out of hand by the Post Office. VENDORS ARE NOT STANDING UP TO THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TO OBTAIN THE CORRECT ADDRESS FOR THE SHIPPING METHOD THEY CHOOSE.
VENDORS ARE CHOOSING TO ALIENATE MILLIONS OF PO BOX HOLDERS! Wake up vendors do you job and fix your website before you use these services.


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But one of the best features of this item is the woven in waistband and leg openings. The no-elastic trim design allows a comfortable and custom fit without dig-in or irritation. This shaper finishes in a comfort cotton panty gusset. If you're ready to shape up your lower abdomen and hips, while smoothing your rear, you're going to love the simple, sheer slimming of the Chic Lites Boyshort by Body Wrap.
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Every June, The Oregonian publishes a guide to upscale Portland-area restaurants called Diner. Last June, Willamette Week published a guide to Portland diners, also called Diner. The Oregonian's lawyer asked us not to do that again. So, as Diner 2014 content begins populating the various streams, verticals and digital reader engagement platforms of OregonLive.com, we present Dinerzâ"¢ 2014, a guide to Portland diners. (Dinerzâ"¢ is not affiliated, and not intended to be confused, with Diner.) Because there are so many diners in Portland, we needed a theme. This year, all five diners in Dinerzâ"¢ are named for a person.
14911 SE McLoughlin Blvd., Oak Grove, 654-6648, lewsdrive-in.com. 9 am-8 pm daily.
Who's Lew? Lew and Betty Johnson began Lew's Dari-Freeze and Drive-In in 1957, and ran the restaurant until 1989. Biographical note: As a child, I once met Betty at one of Lew's many vintage car cruise-ins, but I never met Lew, and pictures of the man predate the Internet. And so "Lew" remains forever bound up with the font on the sign.
Lew's Neighbors: Lew's is situated in a strip-mall corridor with a Fred Meyer, a Safeway, a Baxter's Auto Parts, two bank branches, a tanning salon and a 7-11 all within spitting distance. But its most spiritually aligned neighbor is Mike's Comic Collectibles, which holds family-friendly Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments on Wednesday nights.
Lew's Style: Vintage dressed up as retro. Lew's was once the most bare bones of places, but the new owners (since 2012) understood that no one sees age as a virtue without appropriate branding. And so there's a carnivalesque ice cream cone out front, cheery soaping on the windows, a jukebox playing midcentury hits and a menagerie of kitsch detail—a map of the U.S. formed from license plates, for example.
Lew's Rules: After I ordered a massive sampler meal of a long Coney, a half order of garbage-pail hash and a side pancake, the server told me that if I was able to eat everything on my plates down to the last onion, she'd buy my meal. (I bought my own.)
Lew's Food: Voluminous and cheap. The $6.95 half-order of hash—unless my server rigged the bet and gave me a full—was about two pounds of potato, egg, mushroom, onion, cubed ham, sausage, bacon and bell pepper, plus a pile of slowly melting cheddar cheese on top, with a choice of Sriracha, Texas Pete's or Tabasco as hot-sauce side. Cholula was missing from the usual selection; this was promptly apologized for. The pancake ($2) was a perfect rendition of diner pancake. But as for the Coney dog? Well, there has long been a schism among residents of Oak Grove and Gladstone as to whether one prefers the Coneys at Lew's or at Roake's, an microscopic sweatbox of a roadside diner about three miles south on the same road. Roake's has always been cramped, greasy and smelly—the place looks a little gross, really—and I prefer it immensely. Lew's Coney is a little beany for my tastes; I washed it down with a fine Green River soda. Lew's, however, has the best shakes within any reasonable distance, and still serves up towering cones of soft-serve in vanilla and chocolate.


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Joseph E. Walters Jr., 83, of Haverford, owner of a mechanical contracting business who was a former Villanova basketball star, died of a heart attack at home Tuesday, one week after the death of his wife, Ruth Moran Walters, 81.
The couple had been married for 61 years, and are survived by eight of their 10 children.
Mrs. Walters appreciated theater, movies and museums. Mr. Walters was a sports fanatic. While their children were growing up, she was active with the mothers club at Rosemont School of the Holy Child. Mr. Walters coached the school's basketball team. His wife chaired the ladies bridge team at the Philadelphia Country Club, where Mr. Walters played golf.


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In under six months, John Idzik has transformed the New York Jets from a team that was choked by the salary cap to one that can afford a free-agent spending spree. What's more, there are still available free agents who can address team needs that previous signings and the draft did not.
According to spotrac.com, the New York Jets have approximately $13.3 million of cap room. The following factors affect its use:
They can use roughly $5 million to sign their top picks
That's the total estimated amount of base salary and proratable bonuses applicable for Dee Milliner, Sheldon Richardson and Geno Smith, based on their draft positions. (NOTE: After the first round, ignore the row numbers in the source table.)
Later round pick and undrafted free agents are still unsigned
Sixth-round pick William Campbell and promising UDFAs like WR Zach Rogers, C Dalton Freeman and TE Chris Pantale are still unsigned. However, their impact on available cap room will most likely be minimal as their base salaries should be close to the rookie minimum of $405,000.
Not every signing counts against the cap—yet
Until the season begins, only the top 51 contracts, plus all other player bonuses, count. If there are ties, only the contracts needed to reach 51 contracts are used. For example, at publication, the Jets have nine players earning a base salary of $480,000 and no bonus. These contracts are the 45th-highest through 53rd-highest in value. However, because of this "top 51" rule, only seven of these contracts count against the cap.
Players who sign for less don't count against the cap unless they make the 53-man roster. Players who sign for more displace one of the $480,000 contracts from the cap calculation.
Example: If first-round pick Dee Milliner's cap value ends up as the projected $2.3 million, the net effect on the Jets cap would be about $1.82 million. Milliner's signing would reduce the number of $480,000 contracts in the Jets' top 51 from seven to six. On the other hand, if sixth-round pick William Campbell's cap value is the projected $433,000, that won't affect the team's cap at all, because it is less than the $480,000 cap value of the 51st-most valuable contract.
Not every veteran counts for his full cap amount
If a veteran with at least four years' experience signs a one-year contract for his time of service's minimum base salary, his cap value is that of a second-year player at minimum wage. Other limitations, such as on bonus amounts, apply.
On the Jets, Nick Folk's contract invokes this benefit.
So let's give John Idzik and the Jets between $7.5 million and $8 million of cap room after signing draft picks. That's not every dime. They might want to hold some in reserve.
With this cap room, the Jets can try to fill some of the gaps the draft and previous signings did not. They can pursue a veteran wide receiver, safety or tight end. They can pursue credentialed players who can contribute on the field while bringing some much-needed experience to the locker room.
Even better, the Jets don't have to pinch pennies.
The cap room Idzik created makes any of the players on the following slides affordable, based on their 2012 compensation. Of course, the longer they're unemployed, the lower their price may go.
However, some of these players may have an agenda beyond price. They may want to sign with a team they perceive as playoff bound. That will work against Idzik and the Jets and may make negotiation more difficult.
The important thing is that the Jets have options. Here they are.
Free agent status: Spotrac.com Free Agent Tracker
Jets' salary cap: Spotrac.com New York Jets' 2013 Salary Cap Hits
Player statistics: Pro-football-reference.com


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Periods of rain are expected to continue Wednesday morning, before dissipating in th afternoon, according to meteorologist Mitchell Gaines at the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.
With morning temperatures hovering in the 32-33-degree range and increasing to the upper 30s by afternoon, patchy spots of ice will begin to melt, although there is still some concern for slick spots on bridges and overpasses.
Wednesday night's low will be in the 20s, and Thursday should see high temperatures in the low 30s, Gaines said.
A flood advisory has been issued for melting snow and rain in Camden,Gloucester, Burlington, Salem, Cumberland and northwester Atlantic counties until 12:45 p.m.
The next weather even will be precipitation, most likely on Sunday, but whether it's snow or rain is still uncertain, he said.


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It's common knowledge that over the last few decades there has been a significant increase in the number of children with obesity in the U.S. One of the complications of obesity is a condition termed metabolic syndrome, which consists of the combination of high cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, and waist circumference. Having metabolic syndrome has long been a well-known risk factor for heart disease, but less known is the relationship between obesity, metabolic syndrome and liver disease.
As a pediatric specialist who treats children with liver diseases, I am often asked to see children with a condition called "fatty liver disease." In fatty liver disease, fat accumulates within the liver as a direct result of obesity and metabolic syndrome. The curious thing about this type of liver disease, however, is that it is identical to the liver disease seen in alcoholics.
As tears well-up in her eyes, I notice her husband's arms reaching over to comfort my patient's mother. I continue to describe the disease that has been ravaging at their son's intestines, probably for the last several months. Although his parents had suspected something was seriously wrong when their son's abdominal pain and diarrhea (which had initially seemed like the "stomach flu") got progressively worse, nothing could've them prepared them for what I had just confirmed during his colonoscopy: Crohn's disease.
A recent report has generated excitement in the scientific community. This report announces the discovery of a lymphatic system in the brain.
Driving home recently, I heard a story on the radio about a state commissioner wanting to reduce restrictions on "junk food" offered in public schools. Surprisingly, this story jarred a long-forgotten memory from my childhood…
On our Pediatric unit, we see a number of patients with Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis (UC). Some are well-established in their care, some are newly-diagnosed and just beginning treatment, and some are being seen by the doctor to explore if their symptoms warrant a definitive diagnosis of Crohn's or UC. I interviewed one patient (referred to as our "Crohn's Champion" for privacy) regarding his experience for the last 18 months since being diagnosed with Crohn's Disease at 9 years old.
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Illumination Ceremony and Lighting
This ceremony honors seniors as they transition from life as a student to becoming a member of the St. Olaf alumni community. Seniors are encouraged to locate their personalized lanterns throughout the day. A brief candle lighting ceremony will be held in Boe Chapel at 9 p.m. Following this, everyone is invited to the campus green to enjoy the glow of the lanterns while listening to music. Refreshments will be served. At the end of the evening seniors may take their lantern home as a remembrance of their time on the hill.
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Educational toy clocks can be used to easily teach children how to tell time. The best part is, kids think they're just playing! Make this Child's First Learning Clock from Marla Canfield Clark to use at home using our free felt craft patterns.
You can find this project and more kids' crafts in our free eBook, Family Fun Crafts: 16 Craft Ideas for Kids!
- Embroidery Hoop (we recommend a 10 or 12" hoop)
- Felt or Fabric of your choice to fit the hoop (we used craft felt)
- Self adhesive felt numbers (1 or 2" depending on hoop size)
- Coated or Laminated Paper
- A scrapbooking brad
- Hot Glue Gun
- Ruler
- Scissor
- Fabric Marker or tailors chalk
- Paint for the embroidery hoop
- Decoration for your brad (we used a Mickey Mouse brad head)
- Recycled an old embroidery hoop or buy an inexpensive 10 or 12" wooden hoop.
- Find a piece of felt or use scrap fabric that is slightly larger than your embroidery hoop.
- Fit the felt or fabric over the bottom hoop and put the top hoop back on over the felt. Make sure the felt is stretched tight.
- Turn the hoop over and trim some of the access felt. Leave about ½" of felt.
- Hot glue the felt so that it sticks flat onto the inside rim of the embroidery hoop.
- Turn over to work on the "front" of the clock.
- Using a ruler, measure down about ½ from the top middle and mark lightly with a fabric pen or chalk. You can find the middle directly under the "tightener" on the embroidery hoop. The tightening screw can serve as the top of the clock.
- Continue marking using your ruler for the number positions. Mark top and bottom (12, 6), across the middle (9, 3) and so on for (1, 2, 4, 5, 7,8, 10, 11). Position your self adhesive numbers around the clock where your marks are. Find the middle of the clock and make a small mark.
- Make the hands of the clock using a strong and stiff laminated or coated paper. We used an old file folder.
- Cut one long strip of the paper and angle the tips like an arrow. We used pinking sheers.
- Cut the strip making one "longer" arm and one "shorter" arm. Lightly position on the clock over your "mark".
- Take the arms off the clock and carefully poke a small hole in both. We used the sharp pointy end of our regular scissor.
- Push a scrapbooking brad through the arms.
- Gently push the brad through the face of the clock, taking care not to rip the felt or distort the clock. It helps to put one hand over and one hand under the clock face while doing this step. Open the brad to secure on the back side of the clock.
- We added a Mickey Mouse decoration to the top of our brad. Decorate as desired.
Additional ideas: Allow your child to paint the outside ring of the embroidery hoop before making the clock. Make sure the paint is fully dry before assembling the clock.
Green Crafting: Make this clock 100% eco friendly by using an old, repurposed embroidery hoop, eco craft felt or scrap fabric and recycled paper.
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The U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of Foreign Asset Control have increasingly focused on international investigations. In the last few years, the DOJ and SEC have exacted hefty penalties for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), antitrust regulations, export controls and other laws governing international conduct. For example, in a recent case, Weatherford International, an oil and natural gas company, paid $253 million in criminal and civil penalties for allegedly violating the FCPA and export laws by authorizing bribes, travel and entertainment for foreign officials in the Middle East and Africa.
The first steps in responding to a government investigation are crucial; seemingly small decisions at the initial stages of an investigation can have huge repercussions down the road.
Because the issues are nuanced and the laws complex, international investigations present multiple opportunities for early missteps. Here are the three key first steps—and some key pitfalls to avoid—during the early days of an investigation.
Step 1: Speak with the Government Enforcement Attorney
You can learn a lot by speaking to the government. Surprisingly, many defense counsel skip this step. When talking with the government, the first thing you want to ask is whether there is a parallel investigation. Often the DOJ and SEC work in tandem. Thus, the SEC may give the documents you provided it in response to a civil subpoena to the DOJ to use in its criminal investigation. The SEC or DOJ may also be working with state or foreign authorities. Unless you ask, the SEC won't normally volunteer that there is a parallel criminal investigation and it is sharing documents. Similarly, unless you ask, the DOJ won't normally share whether a corporation is the target of the investigation.
The answer to these basic questions—Are there any parallel investigations? Is my client a target of the investigation?—can guide how you conduct your internal investigation.
In addition, an initial conversation with the government can often shed light on how the government views the case, what information it already has and where it is heading. Attentive counsel can also pick up clues about whether the investigation is just starting or is close to concluding, whether the subpoena is part of an industry sweep, and whether there is a whistleblower or cooperator.
Though at this stage in the investigation it is too early to know if cooperation is appropriate, it makes sense to keep that option open. The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, as well as DOJ and SEC policies, grant significant benefits to cooperative defendants. Whether or not cooperation makes sense, it is always helpful to have a good working relationship with the government and to keep the lines of communication open. Thus, in your initial conversations with the government, you want to lay the groundwork for a positive relationship.
Step 2: Collect and Preserve Documents
Document preservation and production are tricky in international investigations. The loss or destruction of documents will, at the very least, damage trust with the government and, at the very worst, lead to criminal obstruction charges. But the preservation and production of foreign documents can lead to liability in foreign jurisdictions for breaches of data privacy and secrecy laws. Thus, developing a plan for the collection and preservation of documents is essential at the outset of an international investigation.
The first step is to talk to the company's IT department and ensure that all documents and electronic data are preserved. Next, before collecting and exporting documents from foreign countries, determine whether the laws of those jurisdictions prohibit the export of personal data, state secrets, bank records or other data. If so, speak to the government. Many government attorneys are unaware of the obstacles corporations face in producing foreign documents.
Once educated, government attorneys may make an accommodation. If an accommodation cannot be worked out, the issue may have to be litigated. When the production of documents would violate foreign laws, U.S. courts use a balancing test to determine whether to enforce a government subpoena. Generally, the government's need for the documents prevails. Thus, you must also understand the exceptions to foreign data privacy laws and other ways to mitigate the risk posed by such laws, and you should consider engaging counsel experienced in international discovery.
Step 3: Consider Disclosure in Public Filings
Whether to disclose an investigation in a company's securities filings, when to disclose the investigation and how to phrase the disclosure are difficult, nuanced questions without easy answers. Neither the courts nor the SEC regulations give clear guidance about whether disclosure is necessary in the early stages of an investigation. The SEC requires disclosure of pending legal proceedings and proceedings known to be contemplated. In general, courts have held that the mere fact that an investigation is occurring is not sufficient to require disclosure. For example, in Richman v. Goldman Sachs Grp., 868 F.Supp.2d 261, 272 (S.D.N.Y.2012) the district court found that an SEC Wells Notice did not necessarily trigger a duty to disclose.
However, even where an investigation need not be disclosed as a pending legal proceeding, disclosure may be necessary where the investigation may have significant financial consequences for the company. For example, in a recent case, City of Westland Police and Fire Retirement System v. Metlife, Inc., 928 F. Supp. 2d 705 (S.D.N.Y. 2013), the district court denied a motion to dismiss, in part finding that plaintiffs adequately alleged that Metlife had a duty to disclose multiple state investigations because the uncertainty of the investigations could reasonably be expected to impact revenue.
Though not necessarily required, early disclosure may be beneficial. If the investigation ends badly with civil or criminal charges and substantial fines, early disclosure protects the company from future shareholder suits for failure to disclose or delayed disclosure. If the investigation is part of an industry-wide sweep, then early disclosure is possibly an opportunity to disclose with little impact. If the government is paying attention, which it usually is, early disclosure could win trust points with them. The calculus whether or not to disclose should be the same whether the conduct being investigated occurred here or abroad.
Ultimately, a company may decide not to disclose at the onset of an investigation, but a company should consider the question at the outset and revisit this issue as the investigation progresses.
Of course, if a company does disclose the investigation in a filing, any disclosure must be complete and accurate. Courts have found disclosures that minimize the investigation or describe only isolated aspects to be potentially misleading.
Every investigation is unique. But following these initial steps, and anticipating issues that frequently arise at the outset of an investigation, can put companies on the path to successful resolution.
Jonathan Schmidt is a member of Ropes & Gray's government enforcement practice group. He focuses on white-collar criminal matters, internal corporate investigations and complex civil litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Schmidt worked as an assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of California, where he tried dozens of white-collar and violent crime cases and argued multiple appeals. Kevin Daly and Paul Cohen are litigation associates at Ropes & Gray.


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This week we're looking at expressions used for sharing information with people when you are trying to help them out. We talk about which expressions are casual, which are formal, and which can be used in different situations. All of the expressions are used often, so listen here and learn how to use them correctly.
|So if we say that I gave my friend a heads up about the test, it means that I told her about the test, or I warned her about the test, before it happened so that she could prepare and be ready for the test.
|Exactly. And the possible origin for this expression comes from baseball.
|Like so many American expressions.
|Exactly. So at a baseball game, when someone yells heads up, it's because a ball is coming towards you. So you put your head up to see the ball so you can move out of the way and so it doesn't hit you.
|Right. So if you think about it, when that person yells, heads up they're giving you a warning that the ball is coming.
Expressions included from this episode in Lipservice:
|To give someone a heads up or to get a heads up
|Heads up!
|Baseball expressions
|To give someone notice
|To take a day off
|To give someone notice
|To cancel the hotel
|To let someone know
|To stay put
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CAREY - For a while, it was good to be a Draper on Thursday night.
Bev (Draper) Turnbell won $234 in the 50-50 drawing at halftime of the New Riegel-Carey girls basketball game.
Meanwhile, her niece, Hannah Draper scored Carey's first 13 points and helped the Blue Devils cut 15-point deficit to five by halftime, 25-20.
But the Drapers' good fortune, and subsequently Carey's chances of winning, ended in the second half as New Riegel downed the Blue Devils, 48-40.
"We stayed with our game plan. It wasn't always pretty but I thought we did everything pretty well except shoot foul shots," New Riegel coach Steve Lucius said.
New Riegel jumped out to a 17-2 lead late in the first quarter thanks in part to tepid shooting by the Blue Jackets (7-1, 4-0 Midland Athletic League) and horrendous shooting by the Blue Devils (7-1, 3-1 MAL). By the time the buzzer sounded on the first quarter, New Riegel was up 17-5 thanks of 8 of 14 shooting and forcing four Carey turnovers. The Blue Devils didn't their own cause with a 2 of 14 shooting effort.
Fact Box
New Riegel 48, Carey 40
New Riegel (7-1, 4-0): Taylor Arbogast 3-3-10; Taylor Kirian 7-0-14; Kara Scherger 3-2-8; Lauren Ladd 3-1-7; Ebony Baynard 0-0-0; Abby Cassidy 2-2-6; Morgan Noftz 1-1-3. Totals: 19-9-48.
Carey (7-1, 3-1): Hannah Tong 3-2-8; Sydney Wentling 0-0-0; Makenzie Wentling 1-0-2; Haley Hoepf 0-0-0; Ali Rymer 3-3-9; Logan Johnson 0-0-0; Gwen Wentling 1-0-2; Dana Newell 0-0-0; Hannah Draper 6-2-19. Totals: 14-7-40.
New Riegel1781211 - 48
Carey5151010 - 40
Field goals: New Riegel 19-48; Carey 14-60.
3-point goals: New Riegel 1-6 (Arbogast); Carey 5-29 (Draper 5).
Foul shots: New Riegel 9-25; Carey 7-9.
Rebounds: New Riegel 45 (Ladd 13, Cassidy 9); Carey 42 (Tong 14, Rymer 8).
Turnovers: New Riegel 13; Carey 15.
"(It was) really huge. I couldn't ask for a better start," Lucius said. "We came out on fire. We were executing. We were shooting well. It was a fantastic start."
Carey coach Phil Vaughn said that was the difference.
"They got on us big and we couldn't catch up," Vaughn said. "(It was) their pressure. We try to practice that to try to prepare for it but their pressure got us down early."
The shooting cooled for New Riegel in the second quarter (3 of 14 from the field), which combined with Carey's effectiveness at the line (5 of 6), allowed the Blue Devils to cut it to five by half.
"I knew we were going to cool off. We couldn't shoot that way the whole game," Lucius said of his team's first quarter shooting. "They're a very quality team so we knew they were going to come back and tighten this thing up. We answered, I think, every challenge, every time they made a little run, hit a 3, got a putback."
Draper, who finished with a game-high 19 points, had significantly cooled by the second half and was pulled early in the third after a few misfires.
"At the end of the second, she knew she was hitting and she started to force a little bit," Vaughn said. "We talked about it at halftime. It's tough to keep that pace up."
She came back later in the quarter and her 3-pointer helped Carey keep the margin at single digits heading into the final quarter, 37-30.
"It's not like we didn't know she was a shooter. She scored 25 on us last year and hit like five treys," Lucius said. "She can really light it up. We were having some confusion (on our defense on her). We went over the coverage and moved people around a little bit to make sure we knew where was and got out and got a hand in her face."
Hannah Tong's basket and free throw cut it to six, 41-35, with 2:48 left but Carey could get no closer despite the Blue Devils fouling New Riegel every trip down the floor. The Blue Jackets went 7 of 19 from the line in the final quarter, finishing the night 9 of 25.
"I told them we have to be ready to go every time we get a rebound. We have to push. We have to be aggressive going down the court and we toss the ball away a couple of times," Vaughn said.
Lucius said he's not sure why his team has struggled so mightily from the line.
"We never had a team lower than 65 percent and I think we're right around 50 right now, which is a little mind boggling because we have good shooters. I think you get a full house. You get pressure and you get tighter maybe and don't stay with your normal routine. I think that's got to be (why we're not shooting well)."
Taylor Kirian had a team-high 14 points in the victory and Taylor Arbogast added 10 points and eight rebounds.
New Riegel had a slight edge on the glass, 45-42, with Lauren Ladd hauling in 13 and Abby Cassidy snaring nine.
"I'm really pleased with our defense and really pleased with our rebounding," Lucius said. "They're a really strong rebounding team. That concerned us but I thought our posts played big. Our guards played very well and handled the basketball."
Tong topped Carey's efforts with 14 boards and five blocks while tossing in eight points. Ali Rymer added eight boards and nine points.
The loss broke a first-place tie for the two teams. New Riegel sits a half-game ahead of Calvert who is 3-0 in the league while Carey falls a game back tied with Seneca East in third place.
"We have four games down. We have six to go in the league. We have to get better," Lucius said. "The league is as good as it's been in my 28 years. There are so many quality teams and there's a long way to go."


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Saturday 13 July 2013
12.30 - 18.30
To attend this event, please book a free ticket:
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A symposium of performative presentations and provocations entitled organised by Loughborough University School of the Arts Lee Campbell and Mel Jordan in association with Trade, Nottingham.
Keynote speakers:
Daniel Z. Kadar, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Director, Centre for Intercultural Politeness Research, University of Huddersfield. Provisional paper title: The heckler's 'impoliteness': A mimetic-relational perspective.
Peter Bond (Senior Lecturer, Performance theory and practice, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design). Provisional paper title: Off-side.
Dr. Ian Bruff (Political Scientist, Lecturer in International Relations at Loughborough University's Department for Politics, History and International Relations).
with invited speakers: Robin Bale, Andrew Brown, Claire Makhlouf Carter, Corinne Felgate, Ben Fitton, Mel Jordan, Kypros Kyprianou, David Mabb, Tim Miles, Sarah Sparkes
'Lets upend the conformist definition of the heckle as anti-social and instead think of the heckler as heroic, a kind of public speech super hero, with the ability to suspend rhetoric, preserving the right to speak out of turn. The violence, awkwardness and embarrassment of the heckle are signs of its political courage, fearlessness and agency. The heckler's interruption opens up a space for public discourse. Deprived of the heckler we would have one less method of turning passerby's into assembled publics ' (Jordan, 2013).
The symposium will explore the potential of the heckler as a speaker that can offer a revised understanding of social exchanges within contemporary debates on participation, linguistics, ethics and communication. Artists Campbell and Jordan argue that the heckler, a person who disrupts performances, speeches and public addresses should be considered as a metaphorical figurehead of impoliteness.
At any rate the heckler should appear on the menu of communicative speech acts and as a tactic for understanding the performers relationship to an audience. Furthermore the notion of the heckler enables a review of the troublesome divisions presented in the dichotomies inherent in the coupling of speaker and listener, performer and audience, official speaker and unauthorised respondent. There is no doubt that the philosophies of impoliteness as a behavioural activity have been attacked by some within sociolinguistic circles as 'deviant' and 'to be avoided' (Leech 1983:105), Campbell and Jordan's admiration for the heckler as an embodiment of impoliteness may just be the tip of the iceberg, but an iceberg that surrounds a contemporary surge of interest in the whole territory of impolite behaviour as a means of looking at the construction of social relations.
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The event acknowledges the support of Loughborough University's' Graduate School Research Culture Fund.


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Temple is back in the Big East, and that means it's another trip down the Turnpike to Philadelphia for Rutgers.
As noted earlier this week by The Star-Ledger, the Scarlet Knights will face another high-pressure defense in Temple, along with star running back Montel Harris.
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Debate regarding follow-on biologics and how the FDA will regulate them continues to rage in the halls of Washington and in the boardrooms of biologics manufacturers. But what are the legal issues surrounding follow-on biologics, and what is the likely result of FDA deliberation on the issue?
Because of the differences between regular drugs and biologics, it is impossible to guarantee that biologics from different manufacturers are identical. For this reason, the provisions of the Hatch-Waxman Act permitting an abbreviated approval process for generic drugs that can be shown to be the same as brand-name pioneers cannot currently be applied to biologic products. Brand-name biologics are thereby largely protected from the generic competition common to ordinary prescription drugs.
Because these follow-ons are not identical to the original biologic products, the FDA currently approves and licenses these products only after submission of a complete new drug application (NDA) or a biologic license application (BLA).
Proponents of the application of the abbreviated generic drug approval process to biologic products assert, however, that since these products resemble each other in much the same way that brand and generic drugs do, it is possible that these drugs could be approved without the full complement of safety and efficacy trials required for the submission of a full NDA or BLA.
To do so, however, would require a change in the way sameness or bioequivalence is currently determined under the generic approval provisions of the Hatch-Waxman Act. Such a shift would have serious repercussions on the delicate legal balance struck between the interests of innovators and the makers of generic drugs by the current policy. Thus, the FDA is attempting to play it as safely as is possible by taking a wait-and-see approach to the whole affair.
The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) has, expectedly, made the availability of generic biologics a top priority, while the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has committed to trying to avoid their appearance. In 2003, BIO filed a citizen petition urging the FDA to act to prevent generic competition for biologics.
BIO asserted that the current state of scientific knowledge does not permit the adequate characterization of biologics, therefore clinical trials are necessary to determine safety and efficacy since even minor differences in composition can be clinically significant. The FDA denied the petition, asserting its authority to approve generic biologics. At other times, the FDA has stated that legislation is required to provide an NDA process for those products regulated solely as biologics.
Speaking before the GPhA in February of last year, acting FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford announced the agencys intention to provide the industry with guidance and specification for follow-on biologics including: a policy-guidance document outlining the FDAs current position, a background document describing the FDAs previous policies and actions on the issue fairly soon, and draft guidance, including immunogeneticity and chemistry, several months later.
The FDA has dragged its feet on the issue, however, and after changing its position throughout the last year has recently refused to comment on whether or not they are able to allow follow-on biologics through the 505(b)(2) loophole.
A lawsuit by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals filed in September regarding the human growth hormone Omnitrope could complicate matters, as Sandoz alleges that the FDA has taken too long in either approving the drug or providing reasons for its disapproval. The NDA on Omnitrope was filed over two years ago and is still pending resolution.
The defendants actions could result in the effective institution of an uncodified policy that the existing 505(b)(2) pathway cannot be used prospectively for protein-based technologies under Section 505, said Sandoz.
In October, Scott Gottlieb, the deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs, announced that the FDA did not have the authority to approve follow-on biologics under the Public Health Services Act, stating that there are still too many legal, scientific, and regulatory questions that need to be addressed before they are prepared to make more decisions on the issue. The science will continue to be developed, and well continue to work through some of the policy questions, some of the legal questions, and regulatory questions that exist around exactly what the authority is there and what the appropriate framework and policy environment is to enable that, said Gottlieb.
The EU has moved forward with its own abbreviated approval process for generic versions of certain biologic products. In 2005, the European Medicines Agency released draft guidance documents containing requirements for the approval of biosimilar versions of four biologic products. Since then, at least one company has obtained European approval for the marketing of a generic biologic product under this abbreviated approval program.
What does this mean for the future of follow-on biologics in the U.S.? It is still too early to tell. Certainly, it is important to make sure that any testing procedure takes into account full clinical trials and provides for both efficacy and safety, but there is no need to institutionalize a redundant method and waste money and time for both government agencies and drug companies. For now, at least, the FDA appears to be silent on the issue, and may continue waiting for years to come before reaching a ruling on where the authority lies for approving these revolutionary new treatments and therapies.
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Chambers across the U.S. continue to offer first hand learning opportunities about international cultures. These trips are a great way to learn about cultural differences among countries, and in some cases open doors for potential trade opportunities or business relationships.
An equally relevant benefit of these trips occurs when happy travelers establish friendships. Several local people on our 2011 and 2012 international trips have done just that, and look forward to traveling on another Chamber sponsored trip together again in 2013. We have three destinations they will choose from, beginning with Cuba in June.
Called the U.S.'s last untraveled destination, entry into Cuba for a privileged few is made possible through our partnership with Chamber Explorations. Many of my colleagues have repeatedly legally taken groups to satiate a growing curiosity or a trip back in time. This people-to-people program has been designed to uncover the long lasting beauty and optimism of the Cuban people, to treasure their customs, from traditional rural life and Santeria practices to a culture of world-renowned art, music, and dance of Havana. The eight-day, seven-night all-inclusive program will include visits to the Vinales Valley and Guanabacoa, and tours of the Plaza of the Revolution, Hemingway's Farm, a rum factory, cigar factory and tobacco farm.
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Bizarro World: 2013 Four-Year Final Four
April 3rd, 2013| by Lost Lettermen
Remember the days when the majority of college basketball superstars stayed all four years? Yeah, we don't either.
As Sports Illustrated's Michael Rosenberg wrote in the April 1 issue, "In college basketball these days, as soon as you teach kids to use a knife and fork, they leave to run a restaurant." Indeed, the moment that most players achieve stardom or start to draw the attention of pro scouts, they declare for the NBA Draft — hoping to capitalize (and capitalize big) on their potential ASAP out of fear of future injury or skeptics jeopardizing their value as pros.
What kind of Final Four would we be watching this weekend if it was like the "old days" and stars didn't habitually forego most of their college eligibility en route to the pros? Following in the footsteps of similar stories we wrote in 2011 and 2012, we present to you the 2013 Bizarro World Final Four — replete with superstar lineups and oodles of hypothetical drama.
The Heavy Favorite
Wildcats fans' heads would explode at the thought of an armada of NBA lottery picks sharing the court. Almost the whole entire team would consist of future pros.
Here's a breakdown by position of the starters:
PG: John Wall (1st pick in 2010)
SG: Eric Bledsoe (18th in 2010)
SF: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (2nd in 2012)
PF: DeMarcus Cousins (5th in 2010)
C: Anthony Davis (1st 2012)
That is a truly terrifying starting five, one that excels in areas of the game that predicate success in March: Playmaking ability at the guard positions, stout (and intimidating) interior defense and matchup nightmares at the forward/swing man positions.
It's impossible to know what other star recruits would have come to Lexington if players stayed all four years, but we wouldn't put it past John Calipari to convince the likes of Nerlens Noel, Terrence Jones, Brandon Knight, Marquis Teague, Doron Lamb or Daniel Orton to play at UK and come off the bench.
And you thought the '96 Kentucky team was "untouchable"…
The Other Final Four Teams
North Carolina
PG: Kendall Marshall
SG: P.J. Hairston
SF: Harrison Barnes
PF: James Michael McAdoo
C: John Henson
What's evident about Roy Williams' Tar Heels program is how much his players progress over the course of their careers. It's no coincidence that his two title-winning teams, in 2005 and 2009, were spearheaded largely by upperclassmen — Raymond Felton, Sean May and Rashad McCants in the former; Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green in the latter.
If players stayed all four years, UNC's current point guard would be the steady Kendall Marshall. He'd have the option of feeding John Henson (also doubling as a dominant shot-blocker on the defensive side of the court) in the paint, Harrison Barnes on the wings or swingmen James McAdoo and P.J. Hairston cutting to the hoop.
This team wouldn't be susceptible to the same offensive droughts or brain farts on defense that contributed to the Heels' less-than-stellar 2012–2013 campaign.
PG: Kyrie Irving
SG: Austin Rivers
SG: Seth Curry
PF: Ryan Kelly
C: Mason Plumlee
Kyrie Irving's outstanding first two seasons in the NBA are proof that he made the right choice in leaving Durham after his freshman year despite playing in just 11 college games. Had he stayed, however, he would have been the centerpiece of Coach K's greatest backcourt ever.
With Irving as the primary distributor, Austin Rivers could thrive as a two-guard rather than having to tire himself out as the scoring point guard. And then there's Seth Curry, who could have rained down 3-pointers as defenders worried about Irving and Rivers.
Thrown in an imposing front line featuring Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee and Duke would have the same inside-outside game that the program's most dominant teams ever rode to success.
PG: Josh Selby
SG: Xavier Henry
SG: Ben McLemore
PF: Thomas Robinson
C: Jeff Withey
When you talk about bizarro Kansas, the first thing you have to highlight is a nightmare-inducing front line of shot-blocking extraordinaire Jeff Withey and rebound hound Thomas Robinson. The two of them would absolutely own the paint against anyone apart from Kentucky — who, at the very least, they would play to a draw.
And it's not as if opponents would be able to rely solely on a perimeter based attack either, not with the long and athletic Xavier Henry (remember him?) and Ben McLemore guarding the wings while also giving opponents fits with their versatility on the offensive end.
Throw in Josh Selby — the No. 1 recruit in the nation in 2010 perhaps maturing as a point guard, player and person after an up-and-down freshman year — into the mix as a dynamic distributor and KU would have Allen Fieldhouse rocking.
On the Final Four Fringe
PG: Michael Carter-Williams
SG: Dion Waiters
SF: C.J. Fair
PF: James Southerland
C: Fab Melo
Michael Carter-Williams would still be the same heady point guard that keyed the Orange's actual run to the 2013 Final Four. He'd be able to catch a breather every now and then — and perhaps be even more effective — with Dion Waiters coming off the bench to provide instant offense.
And if you thought Syracuse's zone defense has been suffocating in 2012–2013, just imagine the effect that 7-footer Fab Melo would have on any opponents that made their way inside. Those 39 points that the Orange held Marquette to in the Elite Eight might be par for the course.
PG: Cory Joseph
SG: Avery Bradley
SG: J'Covan Brown
SF: Justin Hamilton
PF: Tristan Thompson
Texas' back court of Cory Joseph, Avery Bradley and J'Covan Brown would be among the best in the country (with Bradley also adding stout defense on the opposition's best guard). Joseph would have the option of dishing to Bradley or Brown on the wings or Jordan Hamilton and Tristan Thompson inside.
Rick Barnes probably sighs at the thought of what might have been had so many of his Longhorns not left early for the NBA. Instead of wondering whether he was going to be fired, he'd likely have first say on where the school should build a statue in honor of him.
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WATERVLIET, MI -- A crash that has shut down traffic on eastbound I-94 near Watervliet involves a commercial passenger bus with several passengers.
Lt. Dale Hinz with the Michigan State Police Paw Paw Post said that there were some minor injuries in the crash. The uninjured bus passengers are being taken to the Van Buren Conference Center in Lawrence by Van Buren ISD buses. They will be met by a replacement bus there, Hinz said.
The crash, which occurred near County Road 687, also involves at least two semi-trucks, Hinz said.
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Furloughs for civilian employees of the U.S. Air Force Reserve's 914th Airlift Wing at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station will begin on July 8.
About 360 employees will be furloughed one day a week for 11 weeks as the automatic budget cuts known as "sequestration" take effect, the unit announced Wednesday.
The 914th also will be closed for business on Mondays starting July 8.
Base employees should receive furlough notices later this month or early next month.
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Changes are afoot at the Today show.
Meredith Vieira, who has been rumored to be considering leaving her gig as co-host on the morning show, is indeed moving on, a network source tells PEOPLE.
"Meredith has decided she simply does not want to continue with the grind of a daily morning news show," says the source. "This isn't about leaving to tend to her family – it's about being done with the phase of her career that requires this sort of a daily, on-air commitment. This didn't come out of the blue and is something she's talked about for some time."
Longtime Today show news anchor Ann Curry will reportedly take over as co-host once Vieira leaves, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The network source tells PEOPLE of Curry, "That currently appears to be the plan for the immediate future."
According to another source, a formal announcement of the changes on the morning show will be made Monday.
Vieira, 57, took the job co-hosting alongside Today show vet Matt Lauer in 2006 when Katie Couric left to anchor CBS Evening News.
In a People.com poll conducted earlier this month, 54 percent of readers who participated said they thought Curry should replace Vieira if she left. Curry has been the show's news anchor since 1997.
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Linux has been around for 15+ years.
Linux is free.
Linux applications are free.
So, the question is why is Linux still sitting at below 1 percent of the
desktop market?
Something that is free is used by so little of the population?
People would rather spend big bucks for Vista or even more expensive switch
to Mac, like a lot are doing, rather than run free Linux?
Something is seriously wrong with Linux....
Here is yet ANOTHER article, offering the same, or similar numbers that
other sites have been reporting, including the BBC....
*******From the Article***************************
While I was trawling through Net Applications operating system share trend
data for the past 24 months, something struck me. June 08 market a big
month for Linux because the OS saw the largest increase in market share for
the whole 2 year period - a growth of 0.12%.
What weÿre seeing from the Net Applications data is that over the 24 month
period Linux has seem a growth of its market share of 0.36%, but if you
look at the past 12 months you see a growth of 0.37% which tells us that
Linux growth for the first year of the 2-year period weÿre looking at here
had flat-lined.
0.12% growth in a month is a is a lot for Linux, but when compared to the
Vista, XP and Mac OS X itÿs nothing, not even a drop in the ocean. But
Linux is still out there, still being updated and still chasing that
magical 1% mark. When is Linux likely to hit that mark? Well, it could be
in the next few months or it could be a year or so away, depending on how
you draw the trendlines.
Given all the Linux hype that weÿve seen over the past few months (Dell
selling Linux-powered systems, several Ubuntu releases, Eee PCs selling by
the shipload) Iÿm more than a little surprised to find Linux still more
than an armÿs reach away from 1%.
When I look over at Linux from my position on the OS sidelines, I have to
acknowledge that the development communities behind the Linux kernel, the
desktops, applications, and the individual distros have done some good work
over the past couple of years. But on the other hand, almost all of the
issues that I raised back in November of 2006 (¡The world just isnÿt ready
for Linux¡ and ´Why Linux will never go mainstream on the desktop´) still
plague Linux when it comes to its adoption by mainstream consumers (Yes,
yes, I know, there are going to be a lot of Linux die-hards who will be up
in my grill for saying that, but I will point at the current market share -
0.8% - as evidence which suggests that I am right.). Linux is a great niche
OS, but that doesnÿt lead to a commanding market share. Looking at Ubuntuÿs
roadmap for 8.10 I think that itÿs becoming apparent (to Canonical at
least) given how heavily the release will focus on a niche market - the
Coincidentally, my Linux usage pretty much falls into the niche category.
Iÿm happy to put Linux to work in duties such as NAS, file server and maybe
loading it onto an old notebook, but the idea of replacing Windows on the
desktop with a Linux distro - well I wonÿt say that will never happen, but
right now the day I do that is a looooooooong way off. And even for duties
such as acting as an OS for a NAS box, I know that it would have been far
less hassle to have either used Windows as the OS or bought a ready-made
NAS system - for me Linux falls into that ´science experiment¡ category and
Iÿve learned to identify anyone who tells me that Linux is ´easy¡ as either
deluded, has bought into the superstition, or is a liar. And donÿt try to
fool me with that old ´well, every new OS comes with a learning curve¡
nonsense - the Mac OS is proof that an OS can be powerful yet easy to use.
Seriously folks, no one should have to waste time Googling just to figure
out how to install an application.
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Notice on the blog that the Linux zealots are out in force defending their
mother Linux.
Good for them.
Unfortunately the numbers speak for themselves and the numbers say, Linux
is a stinker.....
Thanks to Kman for doing the research and posting the original thread..
Moshe Goldfarb
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* Remove it. You can always grab it back out of SourceControl?.Watch yourself pretty carefully, there, Bruce. You might have functionality that is invoked through some sort of interrupt. In that case there is no "root" for the functions to derive from; they are invoked through other mechanisms. Still, it would be nice to identify all the fluff that systems accumulate throughout the years and get rid of as much as one can. Non-existent code needs no VCS storage space, no supporting documents, and no maintenance. It does not cause bugs nor add complexity. It needs no testing, no validation, and no SEI metrics. Get rid of what you can. Keep what you must. This is the tao of product development, my son. Our code is pretty straightforward -- it's a back-end database loader with no GUI component. There are a few places now where we use tables of pointers to functions now, but overall it would be pretty easy to follow the flow of the code. I think it'd be possible to do what I need done using the data that cscope creates, though we might have to explicitly tell the program about our function pointers. The unused code does make it significantly more difficult to grasp the overall focus of the program, this increasing the difficulty with which it can be maintained. --BruceIde You might want to consider a coverage analysis tool. Parasoft makes an excellent one: http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/home.jsp?product=Insure&itemId=70 for C/C++ applications.
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space". -- Phillip JohnsonWhile it can be fun to dissect these flows and study their anthropology, there is usually not time in the schedule for such meanderings. Instead, we take the expedient route and neatly work around them. This AntiPattern is, however, incredibly common in innovative design shops where proof of concept or prototype code rapidly moves into production. It is poor design, for several key reasons: The Lava Flows are expensive to analyze, verify and test. All such effort is expended entirely in vain and is an absolute waste. In practice verification and test are rarely possible. The Lava flow code can be expensive to load into memory, wasting important resources and impacting performance. As with many AntiPatterns, you lose many of the inherent advantages of an OO design, in this case, you lose the ability to leverage modularization and reuse without further proliferating the lava flow blobs Symptoms And Consequences


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We are accustomed to seeing military men glorified in film. Films often
depict military leaders as the greatest, most admired men (or women?) in
history. We see Alexander the Great, Spartacus, Napoleon, Lord Nelson, George
Washington, Benedict Arnold, U.S. Grant, George Custer, Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Douglas McArthur and, most recently, Davey Crockett glorified as the saviors of their civilizations. But do they really deserve such admiration? Has Hollywood ever treated a military leader honestly? If not, why not? Do we now or did we ever HAVE TO perceive these military leaders as unqualified heroes? Even documentary biographies reviewing the careers of such soldiers as Eisenhower and Montgomery, although somewhat more realistic the Hollywood biographies, often tend to lionize these men rather than attempt an objective look at them.
The Film & History League, in association with the Literature/Film
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on March 9, 2013 - 3:58 PM
Emergency crews and police converged on the scene of a crash on the outbound Kensington Expressway near the Bailey Avenue exit about 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
Outbound traffic was backed up considerably, with the inbound Kensington down to one lane. One car appeared to have crashed into the medial guardrail and flipped. Further information was unavailable.


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Court report: Wiretap use is up. Question remains, what about JWP's phones?
Ever since the FBI's investigation of John Wiley Price went "overt" with search warrants late last month, speculation has been rampant as to whether agents have been listening in on court ordered wiretaps. (Disclaimer, no one been charged in the case thus far.)
Given the fairly specific nature of the FBI's warrant paperwork, most ex feds and attorneys I've queried say it's more than likely.
If they were, the commissioner and his friends are in good company.
According to the U.S. Courts 2010 report on wiretapping — yes, it is someone's job to compile a report on this — applications are up 34 percent nationally in both state and federal courts.
According to the report, 3,194 wiretaps were reported as authorized in 2010, with 1,207 authorized by federal judges and 1,987 authorized by state judges.
Of all those, guess how many applications were denied? Nope, you're wrong. One actually was, according to the report.
The process to get a federal warrant is hidden from the public, but it basically involves an agent teaming up with a federal prosecutor to write an affidavit outlining why they believe probable cause exists to monitor a phone or fax line. They then take the affidavit to a federal judge, who is supposed to read it (some can run dozens of pages) and decide whether, indeed, probable cause exists to listen in on the line.
So how thorough are judges with these wiretap requests? I recently asked a former federal judge from California about this, and she said she would often draw diagrams of the main players in particularly complex criminal enterprises in order to understand the government's reasoning for wanting permission to monitor a phone line. Cause it's pretty important stuff, that right to privacy.
Here are more interesting tidbits from the wiretap report, which, again, includes both state and federal cases statistics:
+ Wiretaps last an average of about 40 days and cost about $50,000 to administer.
+ The federal wiretap with the most intercepts occurred in southern California, where a narcotics investigation resulted in the interception of 74,715 messages over 210 days. (To compare, the Don Hill public corruption case famously featured more than 30,000 intercepted messages and calls, but only a fraction were used during the three-month trial in 2009)
+ 96 percent (3,053 wiretaps) of all authorized wiretaps were on portable devices, mostly cell phones.
+ Drug investigations made up 84 percent of wiretap requests, followed by homicide and racketeering investigations.
+ A total of 4,711 people were arrested (up 4 percent from 2009), and 800 people were convicted (up 18 percent from 2009) as a result of wiretap use.


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A 0.160kg pool ball moving at 0.563m/s ( 67degrees south of west) strikes a 0.180 kg snooker ball moving at 0.274 m/s( 39 degres south of east). the pool ball glances off at 0.499m.s ( 23 degrees south of east) what will be the velocity of the snooker ball immediately after the collison?
The answer is 0.603m/s 49.6 degres south of west
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In China, economic prosperity has created a new class of affluent consumers with a nearly insatiable appetite for goods and services.
For example, consider the $7.1 billion bid that China's largest meat processor made last week for America's largest hog farmer and pork producer. Shuanghui International Holding is looking to buy Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD) to increase meat imports to China, where domestic production can't keep pace with fast-rising demand.
The consumer is at the centerpiece of the emerging market growth story, which is creating expansion opportunities for consumer goods companies such as Smithfield and supporting earnings and dividend gains for income investors. In the past five years, the consumer-oriented sectors of the MSCI Emerging Market index have significantly outperformed the broader index, which in turn has greatly outperformed the S&P 500. From a pre-recession peak in 2008, consumer staples is up 82%, health care is up 66% and consumer discretionary is up 32%.
Investors eager to profit from the appetite for consumer goods in emerging markets could invest directly in stocks based in the so-called BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China), but this may not be an optimal strategy. For instance, well-publicized accounting frauds hint at the riskiness of China's stock market. Even the markets that are considered relatively safe, such as India and Brazil, can't compare with the U.S. stock market in terms of transparency and the timeliness of disclosure.
A better option for most investors -- and one that's closer to home -- is owning shares of U.S. companies with large overseas operations. These blue-chip companies have multinational operations, great exposure to emerging markets, reliable profit growth and hefty dividends for income investors.
|General Electric (NYSE: GE)
Yield: 3.2%
|General Electric is the world's largest conglomerate, with operations ranging from power generation, industrial products and water processing to household appliances, health care, and consumer and business financing. GE derives more than half of its revenue from overseas and has sizable operations in Europe, China, Russia, India and Africa.
Increasing its presence in emerging markets is a key goal for GE. The company has established research centers in China and India and manufacturing plants across the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Latin America to benefit from rising health care spending in these regions. These investments have paid off for GE's health care business, with 22% annual growth in China and 19% annual growth in Southeast Asia over the past three years. GE is also poised to benefit from purchases of its water filtration systems by China, where eight of the 28 provinces lack adequate supplies of clean water.
Growth in China helped GE post 12% growth in earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations last year to $1.39. Analysts are looking for EPS growth of 11% in each of the next five years. Even more impressive, the company's cash flow improved 48% last year, to $17.8 billion, which should provide plenty of fuel for dividend growth. GE cut its dividend in 2010 but has since raised it five times, including a 12% hike in December.
|Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB)
Yield: 3.3%
|The world's leading paper products company and the owner of brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Huggies and Kimberly-Clark holds the No. 1 or No. 2 market share in more than 80 countries. The company is maintaining its U.S. market share while growing its international business, which now accounts for 37% of Kimberly-Clark's sales, up from 22% just five years ago.
Kimberly-Clark's EPS rose 11% last year, to $4.42, and analysts expect 8% EPS growth for the next five years. A Dividend Aristocrat, Kimberly-Clark has posted 41 consecutive years of dividend gains. The most recent increase was 10% in February to an annualized rate of $3.24. Dividend payout from cash flow is conservative at 35%, leaving plenty of room for further growth.
|Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM)
Yield: 3.7%
|Spun off from Altria (NYSE: MO) five years ago, Philip Morris has become the world's leading international tobacco company, with sales in more than 180 countries. Tobacco consumption in the United States is declining, but smoking remains very popular in Asia and Africa.
Philip Morris has the world's top-selling cigarette brand in Marlboro and is aggressively expanding in China, where roughly a quarter of the population smokes. The company partnered with China National Tobacco Corp., which recently began producing Marlboro cigarettes under license. In addition, Philip Morris is rapidly gaining share in Indonesia, where 67% of the male population are smokers and rising incomes are driving demand for premium brands. The company's sales in Asia rose 6% last year to $11.2 billion and now account for more than a third of its total annual sales of $31.4 billion.
EPS rose 12% last year, to $5.45, and Philip Morris has met or exceeded its 10%-plus EPS growth target every year since the spin-off. The company's operating margin is strong at 44%, well above the 37% average of its industry peers.
Philip Morris raised its dividend by 11% in September and generates enough cash flow to cover the dividend twice over, so future increases appear likely. With 10-year Treasury yields still hovering near 2%, the company's 3.7% yield becomes even more appealing.
Risks to Consider: Simply having exposure to emerging markets doesn't make a company a winning investment. A case in point is Yum Brands (NYSE: YUM), which is posting 20% annual growth in China but experiencing falling sales in the United States.
Action to Take --> My top pick overall is GE. Phillip Morris is a good choice for investors seeking higher yields, and Kimberly-Clark is a standout for dividend safety.


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DOVER — Police are searching for a man they say punched a woman in the face.
Officer Keith Smith responded to a report of an assault at Multimex Services at 26 East Blackwell St. at 7:50 p.m. Sunday, Detective Sgt. Richard Gonzalez said.
A female employee told him a male punched her in the face, walked around the counter and continued attacking her, Gonzalez said. The woman believed the attacker was trying to rob the business, the sergeant said.
But an unknown man entered Multimex and chased the attacker out, according to Gonzalez.
The attacker was described as skinny wearing a gray sweatshirt, black knit hat, multicolored scarf and black gloves, Gonzalez said.
The woman was taken to St. Clare's Hospital and treated for injuries to her face, the sergeant said.
Dover police want to speak with the man who chased away the attacker, Gonzalez said.
"The good Samaritan saved the victim from receiving more serious injuries and thwarted a robbery," he said.
Anyone with information regarding the incident was asked to call Detective Ronald Comacho at 973-366-2200 ext. 4179.


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Pats tag Logan Mankins (Boston Herald)
NFL files labor charge against union (LA Times)
Time Warner Cable to launch Lakers sports networks (Bloomberg)
Eagles franchise tag Michael Vick (ESPN)
Yankees ace CC Sabathia expected to exercise opt-clause in contract after 2011 season: source (NY Daily News)
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