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text: We're more than halfway through 2013 and Nokia shows no signs of slowing down. Since the year started they've released half a dozen new handsets running Windows Phone 8. Which is actually on point with the message they were giving at CES. More handsets with more variety. That's certainly true with devices like the Lumia 520 for emerging markets to the recently announced Lumia 1020 for those on the bleeding edge. But they have 5 months left in 2013, what else are they working on? Prepare for the Nokia Rivendale.


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The NBA was supposed to begin the 2011-12 season Nov. 1, but we all know what happened to that plan. With the season on hold we're providing a basketball fix, with an appropriate memory from this date in NBA history.
Today's memory is from Nov. 2, 1990:
When the Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz tipped off their 1990-91 seasons in Tokyo it marked the first time that one of the major pro sports leagues played a regular-season game outside of North America.
Tom Chambers led Phoenix to a 119-96 victory with 38 points and 10 rebounds. Karl Malone also was good for a double-double, with 33 points and 10 boards.
The two teams stayed in Japan the next night for another game, won 102-101 by Utah. They also faced each other in the first round of the playoffs, where Utah swept.
And 14 years later, in 2004, Nov. 2 again was an important date in basketball history for Japan. That was when Yuta Tabuse became the first Japanese player to make an NBA roster.
The 5-8 Tabuse was the league's shortest player, behind only Denver's 5-5 Earl Boykins.
Alas, Tabuse's career also was short. He played in only four games and totaled just 17 minutes on the court, but did make his one three-point shot. Here's video of Tabuse that includes a nifty behind-the-back pass.
And happy birthday to Whitey Skoog and Guy (The Bird) Sparrow.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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Would you like to extend your existing SharePoint and .NET applications both on-premises and to the cloud in a non-intrusive way? This session will show you real-world examples of how to harness .NET Services workflow, access control and service bus to enhance business processes and add new capabilities to your application. We will demonstrate the use of "Dublin" Windows Application Server technologies to build extended application functionality. Lastly, you will see how workflow can be used to integrate across multiple organizations and the cloud. For ISVs, this session will provide a blueprint for how to sell more products to your installed base without requiring them to upgrade.
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Bollywood's first multi-colour film was Kisan Kanya which released in 1937. Bollygraph has assimilated the most exciting news from the colourful world of Bollywood.
- Simran Kaur Mundi refuses to give up on her dreams of a Bollywood career. The actress debuted with Jo Hum Chahein which did not fare well at the box office. She says that as she has taken the plunge already she will not turn away. Simran says that she is open to multistarrer films too.
- Madhuri Dixit is all set to produce films now. An office space in Andheri, in Mumbai has already been bought for the purpose. Mads has already begun talks with several directors. She wants to start the shooting of the film by the beginning of next year. The name of the production house has not been decided yet.
- UTVMotion Pictues has finally finalised the female lead of their forthcoming venture, Chennai Express. It is none other than Deepika Padukone. Deepika had started her career with Om Shanti Om opposite Shahrukh Khan. The stars will now work together again seven years after OSO had released.
- Dharmendra attended his daughter's wedding and blessed the newly weds. The actor was not spotted in the sangeet and mehendi ceremony pictures. This fuelled rumours that he was absent in these ceremonies. Today he played the role of a perfect father and said that he is extremely happy for the couple. Sunny and Bobby Deol were conspicuous in their absence.
- Sarah Jane Dias initially refused to drive a jeep for a scene for her next film, Kya Super Kool Hai Hum. Apparently the beauty pageant winner-turned-actress does not know to drive. An instructor was hired and she had to learn the basics within three days. The actress has vowed to learn to drive as soon as she gets time.
- Parineeti Chopra admits that getting a film opposite the Khans will be difficult for her due to the age gap. She says that she hopes to work with Ranbir Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Imran Khan, Emraan Hashmi at some point of her career. She says that she is receiving tempting offers inspite of having a contact with the Yash Raj Productions.
- Lara Dutta will make her comeback with Bejoy Nambiar's David. Bejoy confirms the news and says that Lara will play a very important role in his film. He adds that the actress will star in all three versions of the trilingual film. The film will also star southern stars like Jiiva and Vikram.
- Anushka Sharma snubbed a few media personalities in London recently. The actress attended the press screening of a film where a journalist asked her some questions. Anushka ignored them and acted pretty rudely.
- Seema Seth's plea was dismissed by Additional Chief Magistrate. The author had accused Madhur Bhandarkar and the producers of Fashion of stealing her concept. The grounds for rejection was that themes or concepts does not have copyrights.
- Arjun Kapoor claims that his busy schedules have not affected his relationships with friends. The young actor believes that there is no point in working so hard that one does not have time for his friends. Arjun also says that he is glad to have such awesome and understanding friends. He adds that he watches movies and plays football with his friends like a normal guy.
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A decade of saving and more than $100,000 hangs in the balance for Micki Bell and Craig Anderson.
ReStart Chairman John Suckling and Councillor Glenn Livingstone talks to Newstalk ZB's Chris Lynch about the future of the ReStart Mall
Work to clean up Christchurch's central city is underway, making way for a new car park off New Regent St.
Still suspended in a state of summer torpor last week, Christchurch's "rebuild" appeared to have stalled.
The seeds are being sown for the transformation of several empty central-city sites.
Cashed-up red zone "stayers" keen to rebuild their earthquake-damaged homes are urging authorities to fast-track decisions on the future use of written-off land.
Christchurch Deputy Mayor Vicki Buck talks to Newstalk ZB's Chris Lynch about the issues Council will face in 2014
Work is about to start on central Christchurch's newest office and retail precinct, but the Re:Start container mall tenants on the land may get a short reprieve.
Rolleston prisoners have finished refurbishing an earthquake-damaged red zone house, which will now be returned to Housing New Zealand.
Christchurch was my home town, I now live in Australia.
Irate Canterbury homeowners are resorting to holding earthquake repair contractors hostage and threatening them with knives to vent their frustration.
A shallow 4.1 magnitude earthquake has rattled Christchurch this afternoon.
Christchurch residents suffered a wee shudder in the early hours of this morning as a magnitude 3.1 earthquake rattled the region.The quake was centred 20km west of Christchurch, 9km deep and occurred just after 12am.There were...
A moderate quake measuring magnitude-4.2 has shaken Christchurch.
Mayor Lianne Dalziel says she supports the idea of peace talks over the Christ Church Cathedral rebuild wrangle, saying even a compromise is better than a ruling from a judge.
Authorities are unclear who will foot the bill to raise large chunks of Christchurch land predicted to be submerged by rising sea levels within the next century.
Christchurch's job market is booming but the challenge is finding enough workers to meet the demand, recruitment agencies say.
It's just three weeks until the last remaining Christchurch households living in flat land red-zoned areas have to be out.
Canterbury's biggest building booms in the last 40 years have now been outstripped by post-earthquake consent numbers.
The country's heritage watchdog wants to host peace talks to save the Christ Church Cathedral from full demolition.
Alan Reay Consultants has changed its name, in a move victims' relatives believe is an attempt to distance itself from the CTV tragedy.
The oldest police station in New Zealand is set to be demolished.
Demolition on the earthquake-damaged Lyttelton police station, New Zealand's oldest, will start on Monday.The Italianate-style building was built between 1880-1882 using Lyttelton prison labour, and was the oldest and longest continually...
More than $1.3 billion worth of building consents have been granted in Canterbury since September 2010.
Large chunks of Christchurch's eastern suburbs could be submerged by rising sea levels within the next 100 years, a report commissioned by the Christchurch City Council warns.
OPINION: Look around Christchurch. So much still needs to be done. So many decisions still need to be made more than three years after the first major earthquake.
Economists expect New Zealand's economy to grow at a faster rate in 2014 than it did before the global financial crisis.
Christchurch needs to be vigilant against the exploitation of migrant workers as the region's rebuild ramps up, a workers' union says.
If it's less than 10 square metres, you can build it.
Christ Church Cathedral's damaged bells will soon make their way home after being repaired in Britain.
An extra 40,000 international visitors could visit Christchurch in 2014 but they may find the central city "dragging its tail" while the rest of the city rebuilds at pace, a leading business figure warns.
A dark hole of knowledge about strange lights seen during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake has been illuminated by new research out of North America.
It has been a year of imagined futures in Christchurch.
What do marijuana plants, prosthetic limbs and a Harry Potter-inspired broomstick have in common? They were all found in red-zoned homes by earthquake officials.
After months of delays Ian Wallace and his children are one of the first families to move back into a rebuilt home on the Port Hills. Only they did it without his wife who died before seeing it completed. CHARLES ANDERSON reports.
Did another year of the earthquake recovery pass in something of a daze? Did 2013 have a pattern?
A Christmas gift Richard McPhail was expecting the Earthquake Commission (EQC) to deliver never arrived.
A Christchurch City councillor will not stop advocating for Cantabrians struggling with insurance woes despite receiving the "best Christmas present ever".
Having left Christchurch after surviving 10,000 earthquakes in a council flat that was badly damaged and in the red zone, I am disturbed by the fact that some want to spend mega money restoring old, badly-maintained buildings when there is now an opportunity to begin again.
The tall fences surrounding Christchurch's CTV building site will be pulled down next month.
A temporary memorial will be created at the CTV site where 115 people died.
Imagine sitting among native plants and birds on the roof-top of a building looking out over the central city.
Christchurch is to get a new five-star boutique hotel.
A survivor of the Canterbury Television building collapse has helped clean up the site before the holiday period.
Christchurch's under $100,000 home repair programme has a new leader, Michele Creagh, whose job is to speed up the repairs and have them completed by the end of next year.
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Listen up spotlight: Van Halen speaks the 'Truth'
Van Halen, A Different Kind of Truth
* * * ½ out of four ROCK
It's the rare group that can jump right back into the saddle after eons apart — 27 years since David Lee Roth fronted them on record and 14 years since the Roth-less band produced a whole album of new material — and resume full gallop with such apparent ease and confidence
Must have been all that clean living in between because neither Red Bull nor cattle prods could have spurred this kind of exuberance.
The mainstream metallurgists sound neither rusty nor excessively welded to past glory. The classic elements are here —Eddie Van Halen's lightning-fast, screaming guitar runs, Roth's blustery vocals, Alex Van Halen's muscular drumbeats — and they're employed on sturdy, contemporary material.
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There are no obvious hits here (sing-along hooks are scarce and the group misses the back-up vocals of bassist Michael Anthony, who is replaced by Eddie's son Wolfgang). But potent moments still abound, particularly Eddie's solos on China Town and Roth's in-your-face belting on Blood and Fire.
Nit-pickers will note more guitar distortion, as well as a sameness in the pacing, which is full-throttle throughout.
Still, this is the true kick in the butt that arena rock desperately needs.
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[AMERICANS ABROAD] Oguchi Onyewu has left Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon by mutual agreement. The 31-year-old defender played one season for Sporting and spent last season on loan at Spanish club Malaga, where he saw limited action.
Portugal and Spain were the sixth and seventh European countries in which
he has played after France (Metz), Belgium (La Louviere and Standard Liege), England (Newcastle United), Italy (AC Milan) and the Netherlands (FC Twente).
He's never been the same since
injuring his knee in October 2009 playing for the USA in a World Cup qualifier.
He was recalled for the 2013 Gold Cup but replaced after the group stage. He played for the USA at the 2006
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An anniversary celebration will be held Friday, April 12, to observe the 20th anniversary of the operation of the SAVE Program at Iowa Lakes Community College in Emmetsburg.
Former employees who were key innovators of the SAVE (Student Alternative Vocational Education) Program – along with former students – have been invited to attend.
The open house/chamber coffee starts at 9:30 a.m. with refreshments. Staff and students will be on hand to answer any questions. At 10 a.m. a short program with cake cutting will commemorate the anniversary.
The program will include Valerie Newhouse, college president; Tom Brotherton, Executive Dean of the Emmetsburg Campus; and, Ann Petersen, Vocation Rehabilitation & Special Needs Director.
The SAVE program started in 1993 and has served many students throughout Iowa and South Dakota.
SAVE is a secondary transitional preparatory program for students on a current Individualized Education Plan (IEP). It teaches employability and independent life skills training as well as group and social skills. In addition, students gain math and reasoning skills, plus they discover technology and organizational skills. It is based on the Emmetsburg campus.
SAVE staff include: Michelle Kogel, Program Coordinator; Ryan Eick, Program Instructor; Nichole Foxhoven, Program Instructor; Lori Nielsen, Special Needs Facilitator; and Kathy Strand, Program Tutor.


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By Guy Marzorati
Tony Spitaleri, the mayor of Silicon Valley suburb Sunnyvale, had grown tired of national and state inaction on gun control. Fearing the possibility of a Newtown-type shooting rocking the quiet community of 140,000, he introduced a series of measures he believed could curb the possibility of both accidental shootings and larger-scale violence in the city.
After trimming down the proposed items, the city council voted in June to place Measure C on the November ballot, which Sunnyvale voters will vote on next Tuesday. Measure C includes four separate gun control provisions:
- Reporting lost or stolen firearms: The police must be notified about the loss or theft of a firearm within 48 hours of the time known or "reasonably should have known" about the loss.
- Storage: Firearms in residences would have to be stored in a locked container or disabled with a trigger lock if they are not in the immediate possession of the owner.
- Ammunition: Prohibits the possession of ammunition magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds (not just the buying or selling which is already outlawed statewide).
- Logging ammo sales: Mandates the logging of all ammunition sales within Sunnyvale.
Four measures similar to these passed the State Senate in Sacramento this year, but none eventually became law. The looming question over the Measure C debate is whether the initiative addresses a problem of gun violence that simply doesn't exist in Sunnyvale; the city had only two gunshot deaths in 2012.
The mayor says those focused on crime are missing the point of Measure C. "This is not about reducing crime," he explained. "It's about having a safe environment where your guns are and having a safe way of doing business with a gun."
Spitaleri has led Sunnyvale Citizens for Sensible Gun Measures, the pro-Measure C group which has received contributions from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition. The group has faced little local competition thus far.
Steve Sarette, a member of Sunnyvale Citizens for a Better Community, the group opposing Measure C, estimates his group has spent only $300 to oppose Measure C. "There aren't very many of us," he said. "In terms of outreach to the community, we've handed out some fliers and that's it."
Measure C's greatest challenge will come if it passes. The National Rifle Association has promised to challenge the initiative in court, in particular the provision prohibiting possession of larger-capacity magazines. Opponents of the measure believe that Sunnyvale is acting as a pawn of Mayor Bloomberg, and that the city will face the same kind of legal battles the NRA has waged against larger cities.
"Is it really Sunnyvale's fight to adopt this package of ordinances?" asked Sean Brady, an attorney with Michel & Associates, West Coast counsel for the NRA. "Are they willing to pay the cost to be in the big leagues with Chicago and Washington D.C. on this litigation front?"
Spitaleri seems unafraid of facing off against the powerful gun lobby. His term expires at the end of this year, and he plans to spend his time out of office trying to push for gun control measures in other cities, beginning with neighboring Mountain View in 2014.
He likens his local gun control effort to the plastic bag ban that started in San Jose in 2009 and subsequently spread across the South Bay.
"If it starts at the local level, it will resonate up. [The plastic bag ban] started in one city and then it went to another city, and another city. It's got to start somewhere."


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While it may run an advertising campaign based on half truths trashing everything PC (and thus indirectly Microsoft) – Apple has been forced to concede one thing: Microsoft Office.
This week Apple confirmed it is ditching its long running rival productivity suite 'AppleWorks' after badly losing out to Microsoft's offering. AppleWorks had not been updated in three years and the news comes just nine days after it announced partial successor iWork '08.
Surprisingly, in what smacks somewhat of shame, Apple has instantly removed all trace of AppleWorks from its site and redirected all AppleWorks queries to its iWork page – a strange decision since the two products do not exactly align (the latter is far more focused on spreadsheets and presentations).
To be fair however the writing has been on the wall for AppleWorks for sometime and Job's boys have simply put it out of its misery. The fact Apple has also been running commercials promoting its Microsoft Office compatibility which had to hurt also made no secret of AppleWorks' perilous position...


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You don't need to read too many of George Ochenski's columns here in the Independent to sense the unmistakable flavor behind his words. But luckily, Ochenski doesn't write about food. Meanwhile, as a bold and penetrating political analyst, he never fails to stay locked on target—while having as much fun as possible. That's the name of the game, as far as I'm concerned, and this young buck has been waiting a long time for the educational opportunity to trail the old codger in action as he gets a story.
One hot day in June, I got the call. Ochenski was in town, doing a story for the Rocky Mountain Brewing News. His mission: to visit all the breweries in Montana and write about their beer—and the Montanans who brew it. Having just rolled into Missoula after some, how shall we say, research at Bitterroot Brewery, Ochenski was sniffing out the scoop at Big Sky Brewery, on Hickory St. here in Missoula. I showed up, notebook in hand, to cover Ochenski covering the story.
When I got there, our consummate professional was spinning circles in an office chair. Although it looked like pure fun, Ochenski was in fact fact checking Big Sky Manager Brad Robinson's statement that their popular Moose Drool brew has only four percent alcohol—the same as Bud. Ochenski was simulating the bed spins that don't happen to you after only a few pints. "It's a session beer," agreed Robinson. "You can tip them back all night: one before dinner, one with, and one after, and you won't walk away drunk."
Ochenski nodded, lifting a frothy glass of Imperial Stout to his lips. Someone handed me a pint of Drool.
Happy to talk about Moose Drool all night, Robinson described the brainstorm session that lead to the name. "We wanted a big brown animal for our big brown beer, a huge, charismatic megafauna that stands there and says, 'I am the great outdoors.' So we're like, 'Brown Bear? No. Elk? No. Pleistocene Beast That's Still Here? No. Moose…that's it! Moose!' So we're thinking, 'Moose Hump, Moose Lips, Moose Breath'…then we realized, 'hey, a moose eats off the bottom of the lake, takes his head out of the water, chews, and water slides off his face.' [Big Sky President] Neal [Leathers] suggested 'Moose Drool,' and it stuck."
Moose Drool quickly became wildly popular, carrying Big Sky with it. In 2001, the last year before they started bottling, Big Sky was the third-largest draft-only brewery in the U.S. Bottles of Moose Drool are now sold in Oregon, Alaska, Washington, Minnesota, Idaho, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. In their newly expanded bottling plant, they recently filled over 110,000 bottles of beer in a single day—that's 10 cases per minute.
This popularity has attracted attention, not all of it good. Ochenski took another thoughtful sip, smacked his lips, and probed: "Anything new on the Moosehead lawsuit?"
Moosehead Beer, of Canada, has sued Big Sky, charging that Moose Drool infringes on what Moosehead claims is its exclusive right to use moose to market beer (see "Moose duel," by Jed Gottlieb, December 12, 2003). At Ochenski's question, Robinson's eyes got big. "Have you seen the shrine?" he asked.
"OK," he said sharply, "we need to get more beer, and then go upstairs, right now."
After refilling with the brew of our choice (I went with a draft-only Barley Wine that should be called Barely Legal for its alcohol content), we headed upstairs to find a wall filled with examples of the word "moose" being used in beer brands and products—including Moose Brewing Co., Moose Pale Ale, and even Drooling Moose. Perhaps aware of the ridiculousness of its claim, Moosehead has filed 27 consecutive extensions, postponing the trial 60 days each time. They are trying to bleed Big Sky dry, rather than tackle them head on—while spending a lot more on legal fees in the process, and not having nearly as much fun as the folks at Big Sky. "Every time they file for another extension," says Robinson, "I go on eBay and find more evidence. There is so much of it…and their trademark is Moosehead, for crap's sake, that's one word."
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The highest compliment that can be paid to the Redmond software giant is its most obvious characteristic -- at $500 billion, Microsoft is the most valuable commercial enterprise on the planet. That's bigger than the market value of Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, AT&T, and Disney -- combined. And since companies are valued on the expectation of future results, the collective voice of investors is saying that Microsoft has more future profit opportunity than any other company in existence. That's an amazing compliment, but also a daunting task for Bill Gates & Co. to achieve. In my mind, the most pressing question for an investor to ask is, "Will Microsoft do better or worse than the market expects?"
Quite frankly, Microsoft faces tremendous challenges. Most prominent of late, the government trustbusters are hell-bound to curb the company's fiercely competitive practices. Beyond that distraction, Microsoft's bread-and-butter PC software business is threatened by slowing growth in worldwide PC shipments. Further, the Office suite of productivity applications faces potential saturation. Elsewhere, delays in the release of Windows 2000 is allowing the open source community to make great strides with the industrial-strength Linux operating system (OS).
At the low-end of the market, new non-Windows Internet appliances are a major threat. Part of the rationale behind America Online's $800 million investment in Gateway is to develop cheap Internet machines that do nothing but launch AOL software, thus altogether bypassing Microsoft's computing toll gate, Windows. Microsoft is also losing ground in the rapidly growing handheld device market, where its clunky Windows CE-based units are getting crushed by the much simpler Palm devices.
Fact is, in virtually all product categories, Microsoft is anything but a shoe-in success. But before I fully state the bear's case, let me turn to my reasons for optimism.
Even with all of its challenges, Microsoft's financial results tell of the incredibly strong underlying demand for its software products. Over the past 12 months, revenues have grown by 30% and net income has grown by 50%. That kind of growth is simply phenomenal for a company with more than $20 billion in annual revenues. In response to the latest quarter's results, CFO Greg Maffei enthused, "You have to feel good and optimistic about the periods ahead."
Growth is being driven by strong corporate demand for the Office 2000 productivity suite, the SQL Server database software, and the Exchange Server enterprise messaging software. By the latter half of calendar year 2000, Windows 2000 revenues should really begin to kick in. The newest version of Windows has been exhaustively beta-tested to ensure a much more robust and reliable version of the sometimes-buggy OS. Massive adoption of Windows 2000 will be nothing less than a windfall of growth over the next three years.
Wall Street is already pretty convinced that Microsoft has great profits in store for the next year or so, but really the bull case on Microsoft stems on the company's opportunity in the next decade and beyond. Looking out farther into the future, CFO Maffei offered the following words in a speech in early October:
"If you look at what Microsoft believes, we're really moving into a new era, a third era of the Internet in which programmability is going to massively enhance the usefulness to the average consumer and the average business. It's going to take across the multiplicity of devices and a multiplicity of connectivity methods. Whether it be DSL and cable for broadband narrow band dial up or wireless. To manage all of that multiplicity of connectivity and devices and to do that programmability, great software will be more important and more critical than ever. You're going to strain the ability of software companies to manage that opportunity, but it's going to be an enormous revenue upside potential."
As Foolish investors, we should look for businesses with a track record of using resources efficiently to create shareholder value. Microsoft is just such a company. Take a look at the following core economics of the lightweight software business:
(in billions) Cash & Equity Investments $33.8 Total Assets 39.7 Non-cash Assets 5.9OK, so we're talking about a company that has nearly $40 billion in total assets, but the vast majority of that sum is made up of liquid cash and equity investments. Essentially, Microsoft -- the most highly valued commercial enterprise on Earth at more than $500 billion -- runs its business on a base of operating assets worth less than $6 billion. That's $6 billion worth of land, buildings, networked computers, and loans to customers. That's it. From that relatively meager base, Microsoft generates the following results:
(in billions) 12-month Revenue $ 20.9 12-month Net Income 8.3 12-month Free Cash Flow 8.8How many other companies do you know of that generate more in profits every year than their entire base of invested capital? That's wealth creation at its finest. Notice also that Microsoft generates free cash flow in excess of its reported net income.
That means that in a single year, Microsoft has created nearly $9 billion that it could hypothetically issue as a gigantic dividend to shareholders. Fortunately, Microsoft instead chooses to use this cash as an offensive weapon to expand its business. During 1999, the company has made strategic investments in AT&T and Nextel, among others. In September, Microsoft made its 36th strategic investment of calendar 1999 alone. At $15 million, this is a small investment in Akamai Technologies to enhance the delivery of Microsoft's streaming media software.
All in all, Microsoft is using its tremendous financial resources to plant the seeds for new ventures that could eventually grow into huge businesses. We can't see which seeds will turn out to be fruitful, but with nearly $34 billion to spread around, Microsoft is bound to find some fertile ground. As the information age increasingly demands more and better software to manage information, Microsoft will be front and center in meeting this demand. It's not a stretch to imagine that Microsoft's next decade may be more prosperous than the last.
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Hertz has fired 25 Somali Muslim drivers at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport who refused to clock out for daily breaks to pray, according to news reports.
The drivers, who shuttle rental cars for cleaning and refueling, are among 34 Hertz employees suspended last month for not punching out for the two 10-minute paid breaks during an eight-hour shift. The company said some were taking longer. Nine workers agreed to a new company policy, posted Sept. 30, and have returned to their jobs.
Hertz spokesman Richard Broome told The Seattle Times that the company set up a prayer room at the airport site to accommodate the Muslim employees, some of whom had been with the company for 15 years.
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In an e-mail to KOMO News, Broome said the abuse "had become a significant problem creating issues of fairness among employees."
The workers and their union, Teamsters Local 117, say that Hertz is being discriminatory and that the company unilaterally changed the collective bargaining agreement. The union is challenging the firings with the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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"The company unilaterally implemented this policy to clock in and out, and specifically identified prayer breaks in their policy," union spokesperson Tracey Thompson told KOMO. "They have not applied the policy to people who take smoke breaks."
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Excel vs Metricide 14?
So I started using excel a few days ago, so far so good. I have zero interest in a co2 system even diy. I did once and had horrible things happen to my tank. And I often go out of town for a few days here and there and the person watching over my tank would have no idea what to do, with the excel I can have it in little containers already marked for easy dumping like I do food. Anyway, While doing more research I found a thread on Metricide 14. Is this just like excel? What is the difference?? Would also love more info on what ferts are good as well. Right now I just use florish comprehensive after watcher changes every week and a half or so.
Excel is a mixture of glutaraldehyde and water. So is Metricide, just at a slightly stronger (70%-ish stronger). Mix 10 parts Metricide with 7 parts water and you'll get a solution that's pretty close to Excel, at a fraction of the cost, with exactly the same ingredients.
Just don't add the little bottle that comes with the Metricide. Toss it.
Just ordered a gallon of Metricide 14. I went to check on my chichlid tank (all thats in there is some stubby vals and a dyeing sward. I did the initial dose about 4 days ago, but nothing since. OMG! Directly under where I poured in the excel on the right side of the sward are over a dozen new leafs! And they are all at least 4-6 inches long already! I'm sold! 3 strands of the valls have also grown about an inch. Very happy! :bounce:
You're lucky you didn't melt the Vals but glad it's working for you & your plants. Vals are sensitive to Excel/Glut. You usually need to work up to full dose when you have sensitive plants like that. Maybe they got desensitized the few days you used Excel.
Not sure how everyone else does it but I never do the initial dose or extra-large dose after water changes. I don't want to take a chance of melting sensitive plants even though I've been dosing several months now. Seachem really needs a statement on their bottle about sensitive plants and how to dose .. it's only on their website they mention not to do the initial high dose.
I know! I did not know about the val problem until after I started using it. I followed the directions on the bottle. Said to do 40% water change when do the large dose the first time, then 1 cap full every day for every 50 gallons. I'm curious to see what happens with the valls though.
Be careful they will melt if put directly on them.I speak from experience.I just dose on other side of tank now and by the time it makes it to the other side its plenty diluted
Found a dosing calculator
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Common dosing is 1mL/10gal of this solution daily or every other day.
Dose 5mL/10gal after water changes.
Many folks double or triple the daily dose as an algaecide.
Certain plants, such as Anacharis or Vallisneria sp., generally don't like glut.
Don't add any "Activator" or "Plus" bottle that may have come with your Glutaraldehyde source.
Glutaraldehyde is dangerous! Be careful, don't drink it, don't breathe it in, wash any skin contact, etc, etc.
thanks for the help =)
Thank you everyone. I still have some excel left, but the gallon of Metricide 14 is arriving via FedEx today. I'm still shocked how much my plants have grown!!!! Every day I see several new swards popping up!!!
I'm using Flourish Complete weekly, is this good? Should I do more? Something better? Trying to do low tech cheap. :-)
Also instead of having the lights on 8 hours straight per day, I change to 4 hours on, and then 2 off, then 4 on, then off all night.
So I'm a little confused. I got a ml/cc syringe for doing, I dont want to worry about mixing with water. So Should I be dosing 1ml per 10 gallons of Metricide 14, so 5 ml for a 50. Or is it 2.7 ml for 50 gallons?
I dose 5ml per 50g daily.
Here is a glut calc
Thank you.
Since you're not mixing with water I'd dose approximately 1/2 Excel dose. So for 50 gal I'd use about 2.5 ml of Metracide 14. It's just easier for me to remember half dose than worry about the exact ratio. LOL
Maybe I'll just play with the dosage for a while to see what works best for my set up. I plan on using the lower dose in my cichlid tank because I don't have very many plants in there right now.
I ordered it off of Amazon.com, with shipping it was the lowest price @ $27.24
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Khloe Kardashian has been gushing about her boss Simon Cowell, revealing that she never would have gotten through the recent series of X Factor USA without him.
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Owning Up To The Marketing Mix
Posted by Chad Mitchell on May 19, 2010
Hi Marketing Leaders,
"Do less with more." How's that for a marching order from your CEO? Well, it's a common phrase we hear every day from CMOs and marketing leaders. The Great Recession has created The Great Obsession with return on marketing investment.
My next report, "Owning Up To The Marketing Mix, focuses on marketing effectiveness and the increased accountability facing CMOs. The report guides CMOs on the value and limitations of marketing mix optimization. A former colleague and Forrester analyst, Julie Katz, who served Customer Intelligence managers, defined marketing mix modeling as:
>The process of using statistical analysis to estimate, optimize, and predict the impact of multichannel promotional tactics on future business revenue.
That is a great definition and highlights the scope (multichannel) and value (optimize and predict) of data-driven marketing allocation. During my interviews for this report, it is evident that marketing and media mix modeling have evolved as CMOs search for a more strategic tool to manage marketing as investment versus an expense.
Today, CMOs are more focused on what will work tomorrow versus what worked in the past. The idea of continuous improvement is a critical dimension of marketing effectiveness, as CMOs leverage more data, more channels (mobile and social) and new measurement techniques to understand marketing effectiveness and efficiency. In addition, CMOs must understand how marketing impacts growth of the entire business beyond tactical promotional efforts. Vendors now offer technology-enabled services guiding CMOs on future marketing investment versus a point-in-time econometric analysis. This gives CMOs insight into broader variables like market development, product development and competitive strategies.
I would like to push the definition further by getting your thoughts on Strategic Marketing Allocation:
A technology-enabled service incorporating vast amounts of data; complex statistical modeling; and business intelligence software helping marketing leaders optimize, simulate and measure the impact of integrated marketing on a firm's growth and strategic position in a continuous learning environment.
Too long, but it's a start.
How do you define it?
Strategic Marketing Allocation isn't a crystal ball. CMOs and vendors talk candidly about its limitations. You can't measure everything – it's a directional tool. And you don't want to have efficiency remove all creativity or instinct from good marketers. But, we could all use a little friendly advice on "what might happen in the future." Especially, when the future becomes your boss' Great Obsession!
I look forward to your feedback.
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I like your new definition. It goes beyond the traditional value prop that most marketing automation tool vendors advertise. It does read a bit long though; almost like a Bible verse. Fortunately technology is allowing Marketers to get a better picture of which channels work best. Everything is moving on line, which makes it even easier to track. Location based services (Foursquare) are all the rage now. That said, the most successful marketers are using a combination of online and offline media to maximize results. Even though "traditional" media like direct mail may not be as effective as a stand-alone tactic, it often does not get the credit it deserves as a supporting cast member. Often times these offline channels can make the online ones better, as they can be used to drive adoption for social media initiatives. Let us know how we can get the report.
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Here we meet Pravin Indurkar, the PM of the feature, as well as a host of other team members from the WF-WCF team, including a rare on screen appearance by forum rockstar Tom Lake (who is wearing a legacy bright orange WinFX t-shirt from PDC'05). The interview concludes with a quick tour around building 42 meeting some of the other folks on the team.
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That's nice. Could you upload the demo source code as well. Thanks
One question... Can the supplier shown in the example could be added dynamically? because in real world for a company the list of suppliers keeps changing on the fly and the WorkFlow model must have taken this in care... If yes could you please tell us how to do that...
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Hotels, restaurants, clubs and bars were full to capacity last night and will be again tonight.
Venues such as aircraft hangars and stately homes were booked months in advance, with magnums of champagne, top DJs and even circus entertainers laid on.
City bonuses are fuelling the festive excess but everyone is getting into the party spirit as worries over a global credit crunch are cast aside.
Analysts say the £70 million estimated to have been spent last night is seven times higher than on a normal Thursday and tonight's £50 million total will be another record.
But there is concern at the level of binge drinking. Paramedics are driving a "booze bus" around London tonight to help drunken workers. Field hospitals have been set up in the City to deal with a 15 per cent surge in 999 calls. Party induced cases range from minor injuries to hypothermia. Paramedics today pleaded for restraint amid fears that response times to genuine emergencies will suffer.
Booze bus medic Brian Hayes said: "Last week we had a 53-year-old professional woman who could barely stand after a Christmas party and it is going to be worse tonight. The level of drunkenness is getting ridiculous."
But the warnings are unlikely to quell the partying and the financial sector led the celebrations on what is the last full working week of the year for many employees.
One hedge fund management group spent £350,000 on a party for 60 people. Party planners Quintessentially Events said their unnamed client's extravagance included flying in the world's leading champagne fountain specialist to a stately home, snow machines and unlimited Dom Perignon.
Thousands of the City's top earners were entertained at around 300 corporate parties last night. One of the most flamboyant included jugglers, acrobats and contortionists at Old Billingsgate for almost 2,000 members of staff from investment bank JP Morgan.
Vicky Hartley, from party organiser The Concerto Group, said that for top corporate events the turnover would be about £250,000 for each one, with £50,000 changing hands at smaller parties.
"There is talk about the country going on an economic downturn, but we have not seen that for Christmas parties. People don't cut the budget because bosses know it is very important for staff."
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Property investor Lucy Joyce, 26, drinking in Broadgate Circle, said: "People might be worried about the economy and their mortgages but the Christmas party is an institution and no employer would dare be a Scrooge."
At Pitcher & Piano in Bishopsgate, account manager Wes Rock, 26, said: "I'm out entertaining clients. Money's no object."
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Over the last few months, and culminating in Ubisoft's Parisian conference last week, it's steadily been revealed where that is. The surprise for some will be that it begins with an all new prince. The prince of the Sands of Time trilogy is the focus no more, instead we have a new prince; a wandering adventurer who finds himself embroiled in a battle between ancient forces of light and darkness. As producer Ben Mattes told us at Ubidays, "We never felt that we could only make a Prince of Persia game with that prince, or only make a Prince of Persia game with the Sands of Time." Instead, the new Prince of Persia - called just Prince of Persia - is all about creating "a new experience; to keep the things that are critical to making a Prince of Persia, Prince of Persia, but to innovate in all the other areas to make sure that when we finally come out on next gen it is not just a next gen iteration of the previous experience. We want to go 'Bang! This is the new reference point for Prince of Persia. This is the game that people are going to be talking about in years to come.'"
This means big changes across the board. For one thing, Prince of Persia isn't a linear experience anymore. Mattes is keen to stress that Prince of Persia isn't a sandbox game, instead its levels are structured as a web of interconnected nodes, with various areas linked by a number of routes, all of which will give the Prince the chance to employ the acrobatic and combat skills that the series has become known for. At the centre of the new story is an ancient god of darkness who pollutes the lands with The Corruption; a hideous blight that saps light and energy from the world. The new Prince will have to travel throughout the land, battling The Corruption and its agents everywhere he can, and returning the game world to its natural order. As he does so the game will adapt the world and the story to accommodate his actions, upping the difficulty level and adjusting the narrative to fit the player. "It's not an easy challenge to tell a story as engaging as the one we are trying to tell in a world where you don't know where the player is going to be or when they're going to be there" says Mattes, "so we've had to come up with what I think are some pretty interesting narrative systems."
One of these is an AI controlled companion character, known as Elika, though her role will go way beyond storytelling. Mattes explains that she's designed to be an asset, not a liability, and that you'll learn to fight with her, perform acrobatic stunts with her aid and make full use of her own mysterious powers. We don't have concrete examples yet, but the Prince of Persia team clearly feels that Elika is one feature that will help revolutionise the whole action/adventure genre. How she will make up for the lack of the Sands of Time and time control - neither to be part of the new game - remains to be seen, but you can bet that the team has some clever idea to sort it out.


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CAMBRIDGE, MA – Winners of the Goldsmith Book Prizes have been announced by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
The 2013 Book Prize winners are "Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters" by Jonathan M. Ladd in the academic category, and "Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom" by Rebecca MacKinnon in the trade category. Jonathan Ladd is an associate professor at Georgetown University, with appointments in the Public Policy Institute and the Department of Government. Rebecca MacKinnon is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.
In "Why Americans Hate the Media," Jonathan Ladd argues that in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s, competition in American party politics and the media industry reached historic lows. When competition later intensified in both of these realms, the public's distrust of the institutional media grew, leading the public to resist the mainstream press's information about policy outcomes and turn toward alternative partisan media outlets. As a result, public beliefs and voting behavior are now increasingly shaped by partisan predispositions.
In "Consent of the Networked," journalist and Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the rights of Internet users must be protected from the corporate sovereigns of cyberspace. Yet the traditional solution to unaccountable corporate behavior – government regulation – cannot stop the abuse of digital power on its own, and sometimes even contributes to it. The book addresses the question of how technology should be governed to support the rights and liberties of users around the world.
The Goldsmith Book Prizes honor the best academic and trade books of the year in the field of media, politics and public policy. The Prizes are underwritten by an annual gift from the Goldsmith Fund of the Greenfield Foundation. The authors will be honored at the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony at Harvard's Kennedy School on March 5, 2013.
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What is George W. Bush thankful for? The Iraqi parliament voted Thursday to approve an agreement outlining the terms of U.S. military operations in the country. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki described the deal, negotiated over a year, as "an agreement for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq."
That's because one of the concessions Iraqis demanded—and won—was a timetable for U.S. withdrawal. The new deadline is 2011.
The agreement will go to a national referendum before July 30, but either side must give a year's notice before cancelling the deal. Whatever happens, the U.S. military now has a legal framework for operations in Iraq until at least mid-2010.
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Iraq's parliament on Thursday approved a landmark military pact that will see all US troops withdraw by the end of 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and plunged the country into chaos.
After 11 months of hard-nosed negotiations with Washington and a flurry of internal negotiations leading up to the vote, the pact was approved by 149 members of the 198 who attended the session of the 275-member assembly.
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