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EIM launches Preferred Reseller Program for its BusinessOne service
Emirates Internet & Multimedia (EIM) recently launched a Preferred Reseller Program for its BusinessOne Internet service. The company also announced that it has already signed agreements to this effect with several major resellers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Senior Manager of Business Development and Sales at EIM Abdulla Hashim said that with businesses all over the world conducting more and more of their operations on the Internet, the BusinessOne package presents the perfect opportunity for small and medium companies in the UAE to exploit the power of the Internet.
"By launching the Preferred Reseller Program, we are ensuring that the benefits of this revolutionary service can be made available to a wider cross-section of small and medium businesses in the UAE. We have chosen the resellers on the basis of their wide network across the UAE, and their technical capabilities. They will also be responsible for the installation of the service at business premises," he added.
The resellers that have joined the program include, Alpha Data, Emitac, Omnix, Applicom, Emirates Computers, Case Technology and International Engineering Technology.
The ADSL technology employed by BusinessOne transforms ordinary copper phone-lines into high-speed digital lines, for fast Internet access. Offering downstream speeds of up to 512kbps and an upstream speed rate of 128 kbps, with a maximum of 30 GB of downloads per month, the comprehensive BusinessOne package includes High Speed Internet Local Area Network (LAN) connectivity, Always On connection, business domain name registration, 20MB of website hosting space and 20 personalized e-mail boxes.
The complete package is supported with web-based administration and can be installed at a one-time cost of 200 Emirati dirhams. EIM is also offering routers, for setting up the LAN connections, at a special rate of Dh1,100.
Emirates Internet & Multimedia (EIM), Etisalat's Internet business unit has embarked on a series of initiatives that are aimed at facilitating Internet usage in the UAE. In November last year, EIM launched the first EIM Learning Center in Dubai, to provide free Internet classes to UAE residents.
Other services launched by EIM, over the past year include the launch of online registration, a simple, cost-saving registration facility for new Internet subscribers, Internet roaming and dial and surf services, the Internet PC and free registration offers and the Al-Shamil and BusinessOne services, which offer high-speed Internet access for households and businesses respectively. — (menareport.com)
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Bus-shadowing begins today on the Seneca routes of "CAT"–Clemson Area Transit. Don't be surprised to see Seneca's diesel-gas buses in tandem with the city's new electric-powered buses. Ed Halbig calls it shadowing. The planning and community development director says the purpose is for the drivers and the four electric buses to start to acclimate to the routes.

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Scott Weiland Talks New Book and Performs on Leno [AUDIO][VIDEO]
Scott Weiland recently talked to MTV about his new book, Not Dead & Not For Sale. As you can imagine, there are some pretty interesting quotes in the book. One of them is: "Far as bands go, I've always been half in and half out." Interview and video after the jump.
In an interview with MTV the frontman for Stone Temple Pilots told them why he decided to write the book:
Weiland is out promoting his book and performed a couple of night's ago on Jimmy Kimmel where he did a cover of a Depeche Mode tune "But Not Tonight":
Tomorrow night, May 26th, he will perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.


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Scott Mednick has taken his love of abstract art and his passion for photography and fused the two in his continuing series of visual essays to find colour, pattern and beauty in the natural
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Bully Ray recently spoke about his current heel run, saying that he loves making audiences hate his character. "I get off on the fact that people hate me so much," he said. "I want you to look at me with distain, with anger and with hate. I want you to throw a brick through my car window, I want you to wish death on me."
He also discussed his improved physical state, saying, "The thing I'm most proud of is that I've got myself into the shape I've got myself into. I did it the old-fashioned way, I didn't cut any corners. I've been busting my ass in the gym and with my diet."
Sound like his old ecw days, he has been one of my favorite heels since then
wud b cool if tna bring back monsters ball. Used 2 b epic wiv guys like sabu rhino raven etc.
Ray vs Abyss vs Gunner vs ??? Rvd, Anderson, rob terry, hernandez???
Wonder when the Dudley Boyz will be back
It'll happen, but not for a while. Ray's the most effective heel in the business right now. The only thing I don't like about this whole scenario, is that Devon has disappeared. He has more than earned his spot on the card, and this just seems disrespectful.
glad this is working out for him. since shim being in a tag team was getting old. but hope one day they get back together for a short long
you can tell that – awesome heal but Ray i'm afraid i can't wish you dead (even if you did threaten an 80 year old woman in Manchester) as your too good a wrestler 😉
I hope you die Bully Ray.
Bully Ray's hard work has completely changed my opinion on him. I was so sick of Team 3D and I just wanted both Ray and Devon to be gone. I still wish Devon would just leave but Bully Ray has really earned my respect. He's the best heel in TNA right now. He deserves to be the main man.
Hes a really committed heel, and he deserves alot of praise for that.
He was a real jerk when i met him at fan interaction, but now im thinking he was just playing heel to me?
He was just working you. Ray is old- school, and he takes his in -ring character very seriously. If he's a bully in the ring, he's going to be a bully when you meet him on the street. It would have been the same if you had met Cactus Jack in 1990, he would have been the same guy you saw in the ring. If you met him today, you would be meeting Mick Foley. I admire both of them for that.
i hope he has a heart attack in the gym
One of the best heels today in wrestling. You just love to hate him! In 3D he was weak and they were just sitting on their glorious moments. Now Bully Ray makes a new history!
He is the best heel in all of wrestling right now. As much as I would like to have a face as TNA champ right now, there are endless possibilities with Bully Ray if they put the strap on him for awhile.
Not particularly compelling to me, but I genuinely appreciate his effort & his approach to the role. That's the approach that can make a good heel be great.
re-reading that, i think he may need help lol
This may (or may not) make some of you mad, but Bully ray is the absolute best thing TNA has ever done in terms of Character development. and almost all of that praise can go to Bubba himself. He's so dedicated to it that it's borderline scary (kinda like steiner, except Bubba isnt really crazy). I told a buddy of mine (who only watched WWE) about Bubba and how good he was, he watched once, and now watches every single week (bubba isnt the only reason, but he never would have watched without it). Bubba is the kind of character that can get you hooked either in the ring or on the mic. I'd be a shame if he isnt rewarded with a WT run someday soon.
Just when you thought that Ray had accomplished everything in this business that was possible, SURPRISE!!!
I don't wish you death P ussy Ray but I do wish you would go away, far away.
Can he take you with him?
I am sorry if I upset you, but I thought you could take it. I was wrong, please don't tell your Mom, I don't want any trouble.


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I have successfully booted version 2 and 3. Version 4 boots to a GRUB prompt and will not go further. I have tried changing media, but the disk boots on other pc. I am assuming there is some problem with the HP Pavilion ZT1135 notebook that I am using since the kernel won't even load. Any one had any experience with this problem? Thanx My Prism2.5 seneo NL-2511CD PLUS EXT2 is seen by version 2 (report a hermes chipset orinco though, and I have never been able to get it to work) version 3 will not see the card at all, and version 4 (of course) will not boot. I am not as much concerned with the card imcompatibility (I have known compatible cards) as I am with the fact that V4 won't boot.
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Forgive being a noob, but I tried to boot from the iso of ubutnu 9.04 and it worked fine, and I even installed it next to my xp on the hd. I am going to take a guess and assume there is some utility mode of that ubutnu iso that I can use it to boot from the BT4 pre final dvd disc I burned? Is that what you meant? Thanks so much for your time. just to be clear, the BT4 disc boots fine in other pc. I have tried a usb external DVD drive also but alas, my BIOS does not support booting from usb it would appear. (there was no discernible option for such, only the usual legacy things). And also, all other versions of BT boot fine on that notebook, but BT4 just dumps to a GRUB prompt after a second or less of boot access to the dvd drive. Is there a manual command I can type to get past it? I have tried a few, but did not get far. I am unfamiliar with the exact syntax. Thanks again.
Sorry for the delay in response I didn't see your response until today.
Try what the post above me stated in regards to usb boot with unetbootin.
Not sure if it will help or not. But since you can boot to ubuntu that means that cd booting is supported by your laptop. As such there will be a way ( I am sure) to make bt4 boot as well.
You might need to pass some boot cheats to the kernel.
Have a look around the ubuntu forums for your laptop model and boot problems to see what others have tried.
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The President Faces the Court
Classification: Court Packing
Date: March 17,1937
Type: Editorial
Those who have been complaining that President Roosevelt, in announcing his proposal for the Supreme Court, did not speak the entire contents of his mind, can do so no longer. In the series of public utterances on this subject, of which the first was the Click here for more information
Notes: "The President Faces the Court," The New Republic, LXXXX, No. ll63 (March 17,1937), 153.


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A small number of developers, almost entirely game companies, continue to generate the majority of revenue at the leading app stores (Apple's App Store and Google Play), according to an analysis by Canalys.
Canalys estimates that just 25 developers accounted for 50 percent of app revenue in the United States in the Google Play and Apple iTunes stores during the first 20 days of November 2012. Between them, they made $60 million from paid-for downloads and in-app purchases over this period.
That is a classic Pareto distribution, sometimes called a "Long Tail" or the "80/20" rule. The concept is that, in any market, or any natural world distribution, a small number of instances account for a highly disproportionate share of the total cases.
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In fact, one study found, in the App Store, six or so apps account for about 55 percent of total application revenue (from all sources, including app sales, in-app revenue and advertising).
Keep in mind that the iTunes App Store and Google Play now offer more than 600,000 apps each.
Looking at app sales and in-app revenue only, and excluding ad revenue, in 2012, Flurry estimates that the top 25 apps will earn about half of total revenue.
The rest of the top 100 apps will earn about 17 percent of revenue in 2012.
In business, that might be also called the law or rule of three. It's the same idea: a small number of actors, instances, companies or objects have a disproportionate share of total instances.
Also, of the top 25 grossing developers, all bar one (popular music service Pandora with its Pandora Radio app) are game developers.
Canalys VP and Principal Analyst, Chris Jones notes that Zynga, for example, had 15 titles in the list of top 300 grossing iPhone apps on average in Apple's App Store every day, and nine titles in the equivalent list in the Google Play store.
In fact, games accounted for 145 on average of the top 300 paid apps in the Apple App Store and 116 of Google Play's top 300 paid apps, Canalys found. Games likewise represented 94 of the top 300 listed free apps for Apple and 110 for Google Play.
That underscores the challenge that faces developers of other types of apps, especially those with poor brand awareness, both to get their apps noticed and to monetize them. In a larger sense, app sales volume also validates the commonness of the Pareto distribution in nature and life. Virtually always, markets are characterized by extreme concentration.
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US trans woman punched and stomped on as bystanders watch
A video of an unknown trans woman being attacked in Atlanta, US has gone viral, and receives shocking comments on YouTube saying she deserved it
A video of an unidentified transgender woman being brutally beaten up in the street in Atlanta, US has gone viral.
In the short video, the woman is punched and stomped on as bystanders watch and film the fight on their phones.
The video surfaced on Wednesday 2 June on Vine, a website for posting short videos, and has since been transferred to YouTube.
The attack happened in the Little Five Points district of Atlanta, Georgia outside a skateboard shop called Stratosphere Skateboards on Moreland Avenue.
According to news website 11 Alive, the woman has not been identified and the police were not called at the time.
Several individuals on Twitter reported the original Vine link and one user, @eastsidekate, tweeted the Atlanta Police Department asking if they could do anything.
'We are investigating to see if anyone called 911 at the time. We encourage anyone with information to come forward,' they replied.
The video has received over 17,000 views so far, and many of the comments left on the video support the attack.
''She' deserved it,' wrote user MusicForMyDemons while another user, ThatIsMyPotPie, commented: 'Serves that faggot right.'
Other users called for justice for the trans victim. 'Disgusting display of humananity! I hope that person is brought to justice!' said user immortalove88.
LGBTI advocacy groups like Project Q, who posted the video to their YouTube account, are highlighting the fact that this is the second trans attack in Atlanta which has come to public attention via a viral video.
In May, two trans women were beaten and stripped on a train as passengers cheered and recorded the incident on their mobile phones.
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On April 25, 2012 Amvona published the article, "Corning From Another Perspective."
On May 2, shares of Corning (NYSE:GLW) were sold for investors' accounts at $14.49 per share -- a return of about ~13% in just over four months, or almost 38% annualized. The shares were not sold because it was thought that they were overvalued; rather, it was to free up capital for the growing position in Western Digital (NYSE:WDC) later discussed in the follow up article, "Update: Western Digital Discusses Q4 2012 Results".
The intrinsic value of the company is probably around $18.50 per share on a DCF basis, but even if the company were worth only the sum of it's tangible assets, the price per share would be $13.50 or higher (depending on the rate and timing of share buy backs). In the first scenario the potential price to value discount appears to represent ~59% upside, while the later is closer to ~16%. Even at $18.50 per share the company would only be selling for 29% over book.
The position in WDC owned for investors' account were sold on August 13, 2012 at $44 per share, and as with GLW, not because the shares were overpriced, or even at fair value (estimated at least at $68 in the above article), but rather because it was hard to recollect seeing a price performance chart that went up diagonally in a perfectly straight line.
Hopefully, WDC shares can be reacquired. In the interim, there was suddenly much more cash available for investment after the WDC trade returned over 179% (annualized), and would have been much more in the case of one investor, whose account was "leveraged up" during June in order to buy larger and larger stakes in the company -- an activity that would have continued until the margin was exhausted had the investor himself not intervened.
By the time of the June 15 intervention, which was actively protested, an unprecedented position had already been built in WDC. At August 13, when the shares were being liquidated (about eight weeks later), the same investor who had "intervened" in the work was rewarded with an average return of only 172% (annualized) and a monetary gain (as a function of time and effort [not that there was any on his part, outside of the intervention, that is]) that was far greater than anything seen in his lifetime. Had the management of the account(s) not been interfered with, the returns, needless to say, would have been far greater.
The sale of WDC concluded the 35th consecutive profitable trade in just over two years, with virtually all beating the S&P 500 by a significant margin.
Getting back to GLW, the timing worked extremely well, because the price promptly declined after the shares were sold (and continued to decline for the next three months). If not humble, the trade at least looked smarter than it really was.
On August 28, a large stake in GLW was reacquired at $11.64, using a portion of the cash that had been freed up from the WDC sale. It was a happy day. The exact same company (actually with enlarged equity and fewer shares outstanding) sold back in May could now be reacquired at a discount of some 20%, or about $4.2B off the price for the company as a whole. Taking a look through the glass again, this time things looked even clearer. In a late afternoon stroll with a friend, neighbor and investor in the humid warmth of what seemed like an endless New England summer day, the thoughts and feelings about Corning were shared in subtle technical terms that only an educated man would use: "it's another whopper."
The Mind Of The Market
It's hard to say for sure, but it appears that GLW's price swings have been driven solely by the company's sales cycle, which in the second quarter of 2012, was not exactly trending in the right direction. At the same time, the figures were nowhere near negative territory, either. There are plenty of companies who have operated at a loss -- including GLW itself -- yet sold at greater premiums, like just tangible equity, for example.
There are not many companies whose sales figures (like their stock price) simply rise in a straight line, lending credence to the idea that most companies are indeed subject to a "sales cycle" within the context of larger "economic cycles." This certainly appears to apply to Corning as well, and it does not seem at all convincing that a few quarters should constitute a bonafide "trend."
That having been said, consistency of performance is extremely valuable in understanding the prospective value of a concern. In reviewing this "consistency," it is wise to look back at least 10 years.
In Corning's case, this meant a net loss in the FYE 2002-2004, yet curiously, by the end of 2003, the share price was about the same as it is today (although fewer shares were outstanding). However presently, there is no loss, nor is a loss anticipated in the foreseeable future. The company has massively more security backing the share price and yet through parts of 2004 -- another year when the company operated at a loss -- the share price often traded higher than it does today, even though total equity in the firm at the time was less than a third of what it was on August 28, 2012. In sum, not only is the stock much cheaper today than it was then, but in many ways, it's the cheapest it's been (by a considerable margin) in 10 years.
Corning's market price appears to be acutely sensitive to the company's sales forecasts, even if they are cyclical. Further market sentiment, and collective anticipation of a negative future for global economics, also appear to be playing a significant role in the discount.
The question is, at what part of the "cycle" are the shares most likely to be attractively valued (if that is what one is looking for)? What would the market sentiment be like in a true bargain situation?
You Mean You're Supposed To Buy Low And Sell High?
Few things will punish a stock more than a large, old, stable, and maybe boring company that appears to be in a secular decline. That would mean the stock is (are you sitting down?) "unpopular." In the near term, think of it as a beauty pageant, and Corning apparently didn't look that good when the shares were being bought back on August 28, 2012. However, as buyers of the Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) IPO will probably attest, the most beautiful contestant is not necessarily the most virtuous. But if the object is fidelity to a value orientation, that is to say, an effort to buy productive assets below their "intrinsic value" (and exploit price/value disparities in the process), with a particular focus on future value, than it seems logical that a trough in the sales cycle, particularly within the greater context of negative sentiment about the global economy at large, would be precisely the event that might afford such an opportunity.
One way to bring things into focus, is to consider the possible perspective (looking back) 10 years from now, in all of the inflation-adjusted-touch-screen-everywhere glory of 2022 as an owner of Corning, which was bought for just .80 cents on the tangible dollar way back in 2012. It may well be one of those "would've, should've, could've" moments which invariably appear more clearly in the rear-view mirror.
There Is No Way To Know The Future, So Look At The Security Underlying The Issue
It seems logical to deduct a secular decline in demand for Corning's products as the particular culprit behind the recent discount in the shares, because the very nature of what the company produces is, in a way, becoming more and more ubiquitous. New applications are emerging all the time, and the company has invested heavily in important research and development, as well as CapEx, to maintain a market leading position. It is not as if a start-up tomorrow in Silicon (no pun intended) Valley could simply decide to "compete" with an altered business model when considering the distribution networks, joint ventures, intellectual property, and infrastructure required to produce the company's technologically advanced products, all of which are excluded from the market price in addition to the 20% discount off tangible assets, when the shares were being reacquired.
Even when using Assistive Bird Entrail Technology (ABET), chart readings cannot, in fact, reveal anything about a stock's future price performance. This may be disappointing to learn to an entire segment of the investing community. However charts can play a role in aiding the quick display of large amounts of comparative data to those who are more visually inclined, and it seems reasonable to think that even Ben Graham, "the Dean of Wall Street" himself, might have made greater use of them, had there been an easy way to produce them quickly in his day.
Here are a few worth looking at for GLW -- not for future price performance postulation -- but for value assessment:
Chart 1: In the last 10 years, the delta between GLW's price and its cash and short term Inventory has never been greater. Particularly in the last 18 months, when cash and short term Inventory continued to climb, the price of the shares continued to decline -- all the while the company was buying back its own shares.
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Chart 2: In the last 10 years, the delta between GLW's price and its value on a Discounted Cash Flow basis (DCF) has never been greater. Particularly in the last 18 months, the DCF value for GLW continued to climb steadily while the price of the shares continued to decline -- all the while the company itself was in the market buying back shares from Corning owners. At only one other time in the last 10 years did the share price dip below the DCF value, and that was in 2009, and it took nothing short of a historic economic crisis, credit freeze, and nearly unprecedented decline in the major indexes to get it there. Despite all of that, the price of GLW declined only slightly below its DCF value at the time -- hardly the same can be said today.
(2002-2004 DCF values are zero due to negative earnings in those years)
Chart 3: Graham himself would be proud... (although he would have had much stricter NCAV requirements) because in the last 10 years ,the delta between Corning's NCAV (Net Current Asset Value) and its price has also never been greater. Particularly in the last 18 months, when the NCAV value for GLW remained in positive territory (a historical anomaly for the company), the market price of the shares continued their downward swoon. All the while, the company continued to mop up its own shares. Going back further than 18 months, Corning had a negative NCAV figure, yet the price was often more than double what it was on August 28, 2012.
Chart 4: The last 10 years also brought the delta between Corning's Revenue Growth and its share price declines to new levels. Particularly in the last 18 months, when Revenue continued its upward trend to new heights, the market price of the shares continued to head south. Still, the company continued to trade cash for its own shares as fast as it could. In 2006 for example, when revenue (~5174 M) was about 35% lower than the TTM (7790 M), the shares were about 150% more expensive. To use a colloquial expression, "Go Figure."
Chart 5: For hard core balance sheet investors, it may have taken 10 years, but venerable Corning, with its 150-year operating history, finally went on sale for less than just tangible assets. To put the company in a historical context, Corning helped young inventor Thomas Edison make his electric light a commercial success by producing the first glass light bulbs.
Despite this, in the last 18 months when Tangible Book continued its upward momentum to new heights, the market price of the shares continued in the opposite direction. Meanwhile, the company was trading part of its tangible book (aka cash) for its own shares. After all, why not trade 80 cents for dollar bills? It seems like a sound business proposition. Add in even a modest premium for minor things the company has as a going concern, such as customer relations, intellectual property, etc. etc. -- call it just 20 cents in value -- and chances are, for every 80 cents the company puts up for its own shares, its likely getting $1.20 in value. Even late in 2008 when the world seemed to be heading for financial Armageddon, the shares couldn't bust through the Tangible Book barrier as they have in late 2012.
Chart 6: For those who are less interested in the complexities of subtraction and addition that constitute balance sheet math (besides charts look impressive), the following will be indispensable. Total Assets (Green) continued to climb while Total Liabilities (Red) remained largely static. Price (Blue), particularly as a function of the value of (NYSE:A) minus (NYSE:B), has never been lower. The only line missing is what could have been (imagine Purple) shares outstanding.
Chart 7: Last but not least, the sum of all parts, or Price to Total Equity (which is nearly all tangible). In 10 years, the blue line has never gone below the red.
The "Pros"
We had a solid second quarter in terms of sales and earnings performance. We achieved much more moderate price declines for our LCD glass as set forth in our goals that we shared in February. Additionally, LCD glass retail and supply chain market statistics were generally in line with our expectations. As a whole, our other businesses grew 2% year-over-year.
Source: Q2 2012 Earnings Release
There are a few other "Pros" as well. As mentioned above, the company has an aggressive share buyback program (look at Q2). Since December 2011, the company has brought the share count down from 1,572M to 1,518M -- a decrease of 540M shares, or 3.4% of the shares outstanding, and fewer than the company had outstanding at FYE 2005 (almost seven years ago). Additionally, every other important financial ratio (see above) has increased dramatically in the same time frame. More specifically, the company bought back 314M in shares just in Q2, or an annualized rate of ~1.2B, which is significant, given the company's enterprise value is just around 15B.
In other words, the company is not only cheaper than it's been in ten years in terms of value, but also in terms of relative (to shares outstanding) financial strength. Further, Price declines in the display business (the largest segment) did slow exactly as management said, so it cannot be said that any decline in the Display business has been a surprise. More importantly, these price declines have slowed as management takes steps to bring costs in line with the sales "cycle." That is to say, it is not as if costs are fixed -- as James B. Flaws, the company's CFO recently indicated:
Today, I'm delighted to tell you that our quarter 2 price declines for LCD glass were indeed much more moderate than the previous 2 quarters' average. And just as important, we now believe price declines in quarter 3 will also be moderate. Now we need to continue to repeat this over the coming quarters while we execute our cost reduction projects.
Source: Q2 2012 Earnings Conference Call
The price to tangible book, as illustrated above, does seem a bit extreme. There has been no clear indication as to why the company should be offered at a discount indicative of a potential liquidation situation, when the company is yet healthy, viable, growing and very profitable. However, for ongoing owners of the company, nothing could be more brilliant, because depressed share prices in the context of a share buyback are de facto increases in pro-rata stakes for long-term owners. Further, the delta between tangible value per share and market price (when market price is lower) is like a tax free dividend to the same folks. Strange and counter-intuitive though it may seem, these owners are being paid to increase their stake in the company when such financial dynamics exist.
The company also does have somewhat of a defensible moat. It is a large technical business, producing a tangible product with high utility. Reproducing such an operation would require large amounts of capital, organizational know-how and time. Incidentally, there are just not that many existing or potential competitors.
Here are a few other important and positive points to consider:
- Free cash flow is very high. In the last 12 months, the company's operating margin was greater than 20%, but even more importantly, the operations threw off 3.4B in cash, or over 22% of the Company's enterprise value.
- The company books almost nothing for intangibles -- not even "Good Will", with a mere 253M on the books (less than 1% of total assets)
- The Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) deal -- not yet closed/accretive -- (will expand Corning Life Sciences' annual revenues by 40% and move the segment toward its goal of being a $1 billion business by 2014)
- In the last 14 quarters, the company has never missed estimates, and six of those quarters (~43% of the time) the company beat them.
More Importantly, A Look At "The Cons"
Third, we told you in the last call, we are very alert for potential worsening economic headwinds. We are now experiencing those headwinds. We have seen lower sales of light-duty Environmental products principally in Europe, and we believe the economy could start to impact heavy-duty diesel soon. We've seen lower order rates than expected for some Telecom products, not fiber, but in connectivity products due to project slowdowns.
Source: Q2 2012 Earnings Conference Call
"Straight from the horse's mouth," as the saying goes. The Display business is still the company's largest segment, and it experienced a 16% YOY decline. Yes, it is hard to simply put "lipstick" on some things -- but the glass price declines were much more moderate in the most recent quarter (think gross margin), a trend that is expected to continue. If what the company has to say regarding "cost reduction" measures indicated above is accurate, than margin should improve, even if revenues from this segment do not (although it is possible that one of Corning's newest products, "Willow Glass," may actually reverse the revenue trend for Display Tech. In the interim, the other business units should continue to grow to offset any losses to contribution margin. Even if 16% is a large decline in this leading segment's revenues, the LCD glass business is still highly profitable.
However, perhaps of greater concern is the fact that the rate of growth for the other segments is now slowing as well. According to the company, the following is expected:
- Telecommunications: 2% YOY
- Speciality Materials: 10-15% (sequentially)
- Environmental Tech: Same as Q2
- Life Sciences: Same as Q2 to up slightly
Finally, it is worth considering that if consistent performance is important, it must be remembered that GLW lost money in the 2002-2004 period.
What's Really The Thesis?
Display glass price declines are moderating, gross margins are improving across the board, and the other segments are still growing, and where they haven't, there are sound explanations (it's worth reviewing the Q2 Conference Call transcript for more detail). The thesis put forth in the April 25 Amvona article still appears to hold true. That is, the other segments are growing, even if LCD glass prices have declined, making GLW a more diversified business less dependent on a single sector, that can be purchased at an extremely good value.
Nothing jumps out as "unusual," or worse yet, "problematic." In other words, it looks like the normal "cycle" of your typical 150-year old company. In fact, all the negativity seems very mild, and precisely the sort of bad news a true value investor hopes the market will overreact to, particularly if buying the shares means getting a tax free dividend to increase your stake, even while equity in the company continues to grow.
Here is a chart to illustrate the "other segments" argument:
|% of total
|% of total
|Q3 (est.)
|% of total
|Display Tech.
|Specialty Mat.
|Life Sciences
*figures are in Millions
**Q3 fig. based on management comments in Q2 Conference Call
As can be seen in the chart, the percentage of the Display business relative to the whole is indeed declining, while Specialty Materials, for example, is trending up and is forecast at about half that of Display Tech. by Q3. Telecom, as another example, is already nearly (83%) the same size as Display Tech. as of Q2.
How Low Can You Go?
.80 of tangible book is cheap by any measure. How low can the stock price go before it enters "entirely ridiculous" territory, if it isn't already there? Corning is a 150-year old company, backed by massive assets, that is well run, and hasn't experienced a loss in about eight years. Actually without its products, perhaps more than a billion people would be very frustrated with the devices they use every day.
The risk of buying the shares seems more than reasonable in light of the value received as of the end of August 2012, and chances are whatever the swings in the marketplace at large may bring, GLW's price will eventually rise, and rise significantly. In the meantime, as long as the company is buying back shares from disinterested owners, a low price should be welcomed.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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The college experience gives you a wide variety of opportunities. At times, it can be a little overwhelming trying to decide what to do and what your priorities should be. One of the first decisions you'll have to make is where to live. You can live on campus or commute from home if you live close to campus. It's a big decision to make. There are a lot of advantages for each to both choices.
Living On Campus
Living on campus is like nothing you've ever done before. It's quite a change going from living with your parents to living with hundreds of other students. The great thing about living with so many other students is that it's very easy to feel like part of a community. Residence halls give you the unique opportunity to meet a lot of other students that you normally wouldn't meet by just going to class. Every residence hall on campus also has multiple resident assistants, who are there to assist you and foster a community on every floor.
Kent State's residence halls also have living learning communities (LLC's). Living learning communities offer students a chance to live with people of the same major or interest. Students in the College of Communication and Information (CCI) have two great options for living learning communities. They can either live in Eastway or the CCI Commons.
Eastway is the living learning community for first year students. Students can choose to live in Eastway if they want to be with other students who are going through the same transition from high school to college. Only freshman students are allowed to live in Eastway, so you will not be able to live in the complex as an upperclassman. The Eastway complex is made up of a dining hall, market, and game room. There are four residence halls attached to the complex and one across the street that form this living learning community. Residence assistants in the Eastway residence halls are trained to help students with the college transition. They organize several events to build a community among their residents and allow everyone to get to know each other. Eastway is not separated by majors so you will be able to meet a variety of students from all different concentrations.
CCI students can also choose to live in the CCI living learning community, the CCI Commons. The Commons are housed in Olson Hall, which is centrally located on campus. It is right next to the MAC center and the Student Center, and is a short walk away from all the buildings in which the three undergraduate CCI schools are housed. The Commons houses students from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the School of Visual Communication Design, and the School of Communication Studies. Olson hall is made to suit every students' needs with a studio, computer lab, and the program coordinator's office. Students also have the convenience of being able to meet with their academic advisors and professors in the residence hall. Students in the Commons not only have residence assistants, but they also have peer mentors to help them with their coursework and anything within their major. The Commons host several events including guest speakers and movie nights geared toward CCI majors. Students also have the opportunity to attend multiple social events with everything from an ice cream social to tie-dyeing t-shirts. Students may also contact their academic advisors to be placed in special CCI sections of their classes, so that they'll attend classes with other students in the Commons.
Many students on Kent State's campus choose to live off-campus. Some students live at home and commute, while others may have an apartment just across the street. There are many appeals to living off campus. You'll be able to save money and choose exactly where you want live. Campus also offers many resources to commuters to help them feel at home on campus and make their commute as stress-free as possible.
It is important to stay connected to campus, even if you're not living on it. You'll want to build up a community and be involved on campus to truly get the most out of your college experience. Kent State students can achieve this by joining the Commuter & Off-campus Student Organization (C.O.S.O.). C.O.S.O. provides programs, services, and events that coordinate with commuter schedules and help students stay involved on campus. The organization holds weekly meetings on Mondays at 5:15p.m. on the fourth floor of the library. It's a great way to get involved and meet other students.
Commuter students have access to many great places on campus where they can relax between classes. The fourth floor of the library, known as the "Fab Fourth," has been completely renovated into a place where students can relax, work, and connect with others. It is also home to UCommute, a center for off-campus students which provides a "home away from home." UCommute is open whenever the library is open. Students can also go Eastway and relax in the Eastway lounge, which is conveniently located next to the market and game room. The Student Center offers the Nest, a student lounge on the second floor, and a Cyber Café on the lower level where students can relax, work on a computer, or play pool. There are also lockers on the lower level of the Student Center that commuter students may use.
Regardless of whether you decide to live on campus, get an apartment with friends, or continue living at home, get involved on campus, step out your comfort zone and make the best of your college experience.


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Collingwood v Geelong
MCG Saturday 25 September, 2.30pm
Last time: Round 16, MCG. Collingwood 4.4, 7.7, 11.7, 15.10 (100) d St Kilda 1.4, 3.5, 4.11, 6.16 (52)
Past five: Collingwood 1, St Kilda 4
Past ten: Collingwood 4 St Kilda 6
Recent form: Collingwood 4-1, 9-1 St Kilda 4-1, 6-3-1
Record overall: Collingwood 150, St Kilda 57, draw 1
At this ground: Collingwood 12, St Kilda 9
In the 2000s: Collingwood 9, St Kilda 8
Betting: Collingwood $1.45 St Kilda $2.70
TV: Channel Seven live
Radio: ABC774, SEN, Triple M, 3AW
The teams
B: Nick Maxwell, Simon Prestigiacomo, Alan Toovey
HB: Harry O'Brien, Ben Reid, Heath Shaw
C: Sharrod Wellingham, Dane Swan, Ben Johnson
HF: Alan Didak, Travis Cloke, Luke Ball
F: Dayne Beams, Chris Dawes, Steele Sidebottom
Foll: Darren Jolly, Scott Pendlebury, Dale Thomas
I/C: Jarryd Blair, Leigh Brown, Brent Macaffer, Leon Davis
Emg: Tarkyn Lockyer, Tyson Goldsack, Nathan Brown
In: Davis, Prestigiacomo
Out: Tyson Goldsack, Nathan Brown
St Kilda
B: Jason Gram, Zac Dawson, Sam Gilbert
HB: Jason Blake, Sam Fisher, Robert Eddy
C: Brendon Goddard, Nick Dal Santo, Farren Ray
HF: Brett Peake, Justin Koschitzke, Leigh Montagna
F: Adam Schneider, Nick Riewoldt, Stephen Milne
Foll: Michael Gardiner, Lenny Hayes, Clinton Jones
I/C: Sean Dempster, Andrew McQualter, James Gwilt, Steven Baker
Emg: Jarryn Geary, Ben McEvoy, Rhys Stanley
In: Baker
Out: Ben McEvoy
Last time: Collingwood was without Travis Cloke and Nick Maxwell, whose places were filled by Tarkyn Lockyer and Tyson Goldsack, both emergencies for this game. St Kilda lacked Nick Dal Santo and Robert Eddy, their places filled by Jack Steven and Adam Pattison
Why Collingwood will win
Collingwood, the best team of the home and away season, has also been the outstanding team of the finals series, thrashing teams St Kilda had to battle to overcome. The Magpies have greater midfield depth, and rely on hard work, pressure and disciplined teamwork for their confidence. This means their output is very consistent, and they do not have as many ups and downs as more flashy teams who favour quick ball movement through the corridor by hand. Their depth of talent is superior, enabling them to overcome line-ups with more brilliant individuals. Their broad spread of goalkickers (they average 10 individual goakickers per match) leaves them less vulnerable if a key position forward does not fire. With self-belief, frenzied harassing around the ball and up forward, and a bold, rebounding defence, they are the more complete team at the moment, peaking as they reach the decider. St Kilda, by contrast, was lucky to hold on against Geelong, and struggled to shake off the gallant, but hardly firing Bulldogs. The Magpies are fit, with at least five able senior players unable to force their way into the line-up, whereas the Saints are nursing the battle wounds from two hard slogs. Collingwood will create more opportunities to score, and after cracking the St Kilda code in round 16, they will no longer squander them.
Why St Kilda will win
St Kilda is trained to win big games, and has an 11-2 record over the past two seasons against top four teams. They have another gear they utilise on the big occasions, racheting up their pressure, and maintaining such an exacting discipline when in possession of the ball that opposing teams eventually resort to unrealistic shots at goal. They can then rely on relatively few efficient forays, in order to kick a winning score. Opponents may say St Kilda is too reliant on unstoppable superstar Riewoldt, but they have him, the opposition does not, and on a dry day, he will not be stopped - his influence is a fact that must be faced, and if defenders pay him too much heed, goalsneaks Adam Schneider and Steven Milne will take advantage. St Kilda's elite midfield - which consistently overcame the much vaunted Geelong unit - will more than match their Magpie counterparts, negating the Collingwood 'forward press', which relies on its user gaining hold of the ball first. The Saints also have a better awareness of how to deal with grand final week, and the increased pressure of a grand final, and if they control the first stanza, will be able to hold out a team that can be shaky in front of goal. The Saints all but won one of the tightest grand finals in history last year, experience that will prove priceless when pitted against a team with six players who have less than fifty games under their belts.
What we think
Experience versus exuberance, free-scoring youth versus shut-down warriors - many are pitting these two teams as opposites, but the reality is that they both aim to defend first, and attack from defensive set-ups. St Kilda relies on strangling teams, retaining the ball with patient build-ups, then capitalising on its dominance in a brief but damaging blitzes. Collingwood wants to win possession, move the ball quickly and safely, and then hold the footy in its forward line long enough to score, and keep its opponent far from goal. We are backing the Magpies to counter St Kilda's extreme pressure with their own, even more effective man-hunting, and to counter the Saint scoring period with a more consistent scoring effort across the game. In what should be a tight, punishing match, Collingwood looks to be fresher, and to have more players who can step up if its stars are held. We are backing team strength and depth to overcome tactical and individual strengths.
Collingwood by 23 points
Look out for
Collingwood's 'second midfield': Whether they are actually playing in the centre square or not, the depth of Collingwood's on-ball unit is a chief component of their 2010 success. Sharrod Wellingham, Ben Johnson, Dayne Beams, Steele Sidebottom, Dale Thomas and Jarryd Blair are tough and talented, and several of them could easily fit into the top tier. They will be pitted against the likes of Farren Ray, Brett Peake, Clinton Jones, Andrew McQualter, Sean Dempster and Robert Eddy.
St Kilda's running defenders: St Kilda, happy to isolate its classy tall targets up forward, often sets up behind the ball. In round 16, Collingwood reduced the effectiveness of Sam Fisher, Sam Gilbert, Jason Gram and Brendon Goodard. The Saints' backline architects had healthy statistics, but were rarely able to orchestrate the incisive moves their team thrives upon. If this co-ordinated rebounding force gets on top, Collingwood is in trouble.
A shorter Saints forward line: St Kilda's big men were eclipsed last time around, with Michael Gardiner, Justin Koschitzke, Adam Pattison and Nick Riewoldt contributing just two goals between them. Riewoldt was playing only his second game back after injury, and is back to his imposing best as a key forward, whilst Pattison is no longer being selected and Koschitzke has shown some encouraging signs in his two finals. But in dropping Ben McEvoy, coach Ross Lyon is signalling that he thinks Collingwood handles tall forward lines well, and rebounds off them too easily, as happened with the sometimes top-heavy Geelong forward division last week. He is backing Stephen Milne and Adam Schneider to cause havoc when isolated as small forwards. Which would give them the ultimate stage to find glory after both missed crucial chances in the 2009 grand final. And of course he is backing his highly motivated champion Riewoldt to once more thrash the Magpie backmen.
Key players
Travis Cloke did not play against St Kilda last time, but he was torching Zac Dawson in the round three match before supply dried up. If he can dominate the air again, Collingwood can afford to kick longer occasionally, a luxury most welcome in the pressure of a grand final. Jason Blake, Sam Fisher and James Gwilt could all see time on the wayward, but influential Magpie key forward.
Dale Thomas saves his best for St Kilda, which will surely be too smart to let him run free. Ross Lyon will know that since he improved his aerobic fitness, Thomas has become an elite midfielder, a classic winger capable of saving and creating goals. Don't be surprised to see Thomas given a hard tag by Sean Dempster or Clinton Jones.
Brendon Goddard was a massive impetus behind St Kilda's ascendancy against Geelong in the qualifying final. When Cameron Ling applied a hard tag, his influence diminished, and St Kilda's hold on the game gradually eroded. He is a hugely forceful presence, and Collingwood, lacking a tagger of Ling's ilk, needs to at least reduce his effectiveness in kicking to forwards by using a quality 'run-with' type such as Sharrod Wellingham. If Goddard plays back, no-profile utility Breent Macaffer may get the job. When he is disrespected, he often converts on the scoreboard, and he booted three goals last time against the Saints.
Steven Baker is supposedly super-fit, despite not playing for three months. Lyon declined to play him twice in this finals series, but it would appear there are many roles he could play in the grand final, from running with Alan Didak to stopping Leon Davis. He adds the pushing-the-boundaries aggression so valuable in winner-take-all matches, but represents a massive gamble if his touch does not match his effort
The rucks: Darren Jolly has mixed grand final experience - a decent game in the premiership winning 2005 Swans team, and a dismal five-possession effort in the 2006 loss. But he is finding peak form, and his experience, creativity and aggression has changed the Magpie clearance unit. Michael Gardiner has played some excellent football in 2010, and had some lacklustre games. With retirement looming, he is primed for a big effort. If he can get forward, in good form his high marking can unbalance the Collingwood backline, and help cover for the absence of second ruck McEvoy. If Jolly is let off the leash, though, he will kick goals. He is one-grab marking everything in his vicinity, and has booted a career-best 22 goals in 2010 for the Magpies. Similar players, their battle will go a long way to determining the tenor of the midfield contests.


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'The Walking Dead' Movie In Very, VERY Early Talks
Properties that become transient between the big and small screens have a hit-and-miss, unpredictable history, but if any is to achiever the former of the two, why not an a high-production-value horror series that was already once nearly a film but ended up produced by a cable movie network instead?
The reported talks are early, BloodyDisgusting.com claims. In fact, they're too early to define a chance of success. That said, when it comes to "The Walking Dead" and the writer claiming that "friends working closely with 'The Walking Dead' crew and AMC" say that rumblings have been heard about the comic-based zombie drama being adapted, it's worth noting.
The report goes out of its way to note that the discussions have been "non-business," likely meaning that some people with some undefined degree of clout between them have wondered "Hey, wouldn't it be great if we parlayed this acclaimed series into a cross-media brand that includes the original Robert Kirkman comics, the serial downloadable video games, and a gap-bridging feature film?" It also points out that before reaching AMC's doorstep, "The Walking Dead" was originally conceived for adaptation as a film.
But really, hasn't many a fruitful venture started off with just such a discussion, only for someone to cock an eyebrow and wonder, "Well, why couldn't this be a thing?"
It's an intriguing thought, especially the idea of conceiving the world of "The Walking Dead" painted with not a basic-cable-series budget - even one that's massive for a basic-cable series - but a major Hollywood feature cash flow. That's where BD makes a point that keeps expectations optimistic, yet grounded.
First off, adapting shows like "The Walking Dead" presents certain pacing issues. Episodic shows, especially dramas, are constructed a certain way to tell an effective story across, generally, 13-22 episodes spanning typically 60 minutes with commercials. It takes great pains to compress a story into a single 90-minute format. It's sort of the reverse of what happened when Jeff Lindsay's novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter became Showtime's acclaimed "Dexter." To make an ongoing series of a singular novel, it was found that certain characters had to change, the first-season arc had to be expanded beyond what Lindsay originally wrote, and even the arc's entire resolution had to change in significant ways.
That leads into the second point: the hit-and-miss factor.
It's because of the above-explained factor that many such series don't work as films. "Firefly" receiving a movie worked because it was, in essence, a feature-film series finale. The first "Sex and the City" movie was well-received because it picked up where the series left off after its sixth season. Both were book-ends to a continuing story.
(NOTE: Yes, I know there was a second "Sex and the City" movie, thanks. However, it was ill-advised in part because the first was thought of as having tied the whole affair up with a nice little bow.)
However, it has to be believed that this is why "24" and "Lost," for all the chatter about both being adapted, never came to fruition. Neither's pacing suits that condensed, 90-minute frame.
The point being this: if "The Walking Dead" ever turns that corner, it shouldn't be until the series ends. The talk of "The Avengers" having franchise gaps bridged by a planned Marvel-rooted series for ABC gets it "right": let the episodic style fill in until the massive 90-minute or two-hour movie.
Let something as massive as a movie be the big bang on which the series goes out, when that sad day comes.
The Walking Dead, 24, Lost, Sex and the City, Firefly, Serenity, The Sopranos, The X-Files


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Case Studies of Middle School Science
The research project profiled a sample of seven New York middle schools whose students have performed consistently well for at least three years compared to students in similar middle schools. In these schools, students scored better than students in similar schools on New York State's Intermediate-Level (Grade 8) Science Examination. The seven schools profiled are:
- Bolivar-Richburg Central SD, Bolivar-Richburg MS/HS
- Geneseo Central SD, Geneseo MS/HS
- Greene Central SD, Greene MS
- Jamestown City SD, Jefferson MS
- Johnson City Central SD, Johnson City MS
- South Glens Falls Central SD, Oliver W. Winch MS
- Wayne Central SD, Thomas C. Armstrong MS


text: I received the press kit for SPARTACUS yesterday and click below for my review of the mini-series. Do be aware that I might do some changes to the review over the next day (I might add to it if I think of anything more to say)? http://enterline2.tripod.com/_enterline/id17.html So who will watch this mini-series? It is quite a good mini-series (better than Helen of Troy or Atilla). It airs this Sunday and Monday (at 8 pm ET/PT) with encores for each part and the whole mini-series also gets shown on April 23 & 27. So feel free to post your reviews, links to other reviews of this mini-series, and comments on the mini-series. Be Seeing You, David Blackwell


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It is the eternal conundrum for painters, writers, musicians and anyone who can be considered creative: art vs. commerce.
Do you stay true to your particular muse? Or do you adapt your work, bend it to satisfy the needs of people who will pay you for it?
On one end of the spectrum, you are labeled a sell-out. On the other, you starve.
But art and commerce are not always at war. Sometimes they can co-exist.
That's happening at the Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building, the new home of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. The ultramodern new building, which opened last year, features several gallery spaces for art that celebrates the world of business, finance and industry.
"We're giving people a break from the stress and eyestrain of looking at electronic screens all day," said Anne Palmer Peterson, who curates art for the business school. "They can come in here and breathe, and appreciate the color, and get away from the intensity of their studies."
The business school worked with their neighbors down the street, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, to locate art on a business theme. Some of the art belonged to the business school, some is on loan from businesspeople, and some is from UMFA's permanent collection.
"We knew that we were going to be close neighbors," Palmer Peterson said of the business school's proximity to UMFA. "We knew that we had great walls that needed something wonderful on them. And we had an opportunity to expose students while they were studying business to think about their future lives as, we hope, people who will appreciate fine art."
The range of art is fascinating.
Coming into the lobby, the glass wall of the student center reveals a quartet of serigraphs by Raymond Morales, a professor of fine art at the U. Along the mezzanine overlooking the lobby is another Morales work: a 1991 silkscreen triptych, "OJ I, II, III," which re-creates extreme close-up images from a frozen orange juice label borrowing from the pop-art traditions of Andy Warhol, who understood the ties art has to industry and marketing.
One gallery, down the hall from the lobby, is showing its first exhibit: "Imagining Utah: Terra Incognita to Commercial Crossroads," a series of historic maps that date from the 1500s to 1896, showing how mapmakers and the people seeking to profit from their knowledge viewed the New World. The maps are on loan from Stephen Boulay, a Salt Lake City businessman who earned his MBA at the Eccles school.
A gallery and lounge area on the fifth floor currently is showing nearly four dozen of Gibbs Smith's "bookstore paintings." Smith, who founded the Utah-based publishing house that bears his name, has painted colorful and sometimes whimsical depictions of famous bookstores around the world from the old Sam Weller's in Salt Lake City to Paris' beloved Shakespeare and Company.
In the main hallway on the seventh floor are paintings by Waldo Midgley, a Utah painter who left for New York in 1907 and became a member of the Ashcan School.
Midgley's Ashcan influences can be seen, said Donna Poulton, a curator at UMFA, in his modern, dynamic city paintings. The goal, Poulton said, was to capture "whatever the emotion was to bring out the dynamism of the city."
Such paintings of New York are important to business students, said Palmer Peterson. "We know they're going to go to New York, to go have an experience interviewing there, and some will work there," she said. "It reminds them that we in Utah are connected to the rest of points of commerce around the world."
Another impressive painting hangs in the entrance to the dean's office. It's a 10-foot-high canvas by Utah painter Gary Ernest Smith depicting the old Geneva Steel mill near Lehi.
The painting originally hung in the offices of a bank in Pleasant Grove, said Carolyn Buma, the Eccles school's director of principal gifts. It was given to the business school by Wells Fargo, which had acquired the smaller bank some years back.
The painting "pulls together the feeling of Geneva," Poulton said. "You can see a lot of warm, hot colors in it yellow, orange, red to get the feeling of power that was emitting from Geneva at the time."
In the Western world, art depicting working people has a long history, Poulton said ever since artists stopped depicting gods and royalty and started seeking realism.
One of the best known early examples, Poulton said, is Jean-François Millet's 1857 painting "The Gleaners," which depicts women picking stray seeds from a field. In the early 20th century, she said, a series of paintings by the Norwegian-born Jonas Lie that showed the construction of the Panama Canal drew 2,000 viewers a day.
For the Eccles school, exposing students to art will benefit artists in the long run.
"The arts, struggle as they do, where would they be without corporate support?" asked Buma. "It's those leaders of corporations and the students that we are developing into the future leaders that are going to be the ones who keep that art alive."
Sean P. Means writes The Cricket in daily blog form at www.sltrib.com/blogs/moviecricket. Follow him on Twitter @moviecricket, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/seanpmeans. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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FTC Commissioner Kicks Off Data Privacy Day
This morning, FTC Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen spoke at a Data Privacy Day event at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Commissioner Ohlhausen talked about the FTC's role in data security: our enforcement record, our policy research, and our consumer and business education efforts. Commissioner Ohlhausen also announced a new FTC data security case.
Here is Commissioner Ohlhausen's practical guidance for companies: "It is critical that businesses honor the promises they make to protect consumers' privacy. This is at the heart of the Commission's law enforcement against deceptive practices. Businesses must live up to the assurances they make regarding security standards."
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Yoga is a much easier way to exercise both mind and body than testing Einstein's theory of relativity by racing a beam of light. Travel at lithe speed with this Groupon.
The Deal
- $20 for 20 hot-yoga, TRX, or pilates classes (a $200 value)
- See the class schedules

Certified instructors lead beginner, intermediate, and advanced Vinyasa flow classes in a heated room at both the Rio Rancho and newly renovated Albuquerque locations. Guests can further pump up muscles during hot-yoga sculpting classes by adding free weights. For a change in pace, guests also have the option to take TRX and hot pilates classes.

Blissful Spirits
Chronic pain in her neck and lower back brought Melanie St. Georges into her first yoga class. She walked in stressed, tired, and afraid to fail. Despite that fear, she dove into her first class, and as she continued to practice daily, not only did she find herself pain-free, but she felt much more relaxed and balanced.
Today, Melanie leads her own team of dedicated instructors in the hopes of making yoga accessible so that others may discover its healing powers. From the lineage of the Barkan Method of hot yoga—a variant of Hatha yoga—their classes aim to strengthen and stretch the entire muscular system while relieving mental stress. Heated air helps the body flush out toxins while deepening stretches and staving off injuries caused by a recent move into Aladdin's lamp. When they're not teaching yoga, instructors help clients boost their core strength with hot Pilates sessions. Blissful Spirits also offers donation-based daycare services during select hours.


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I am 50 single italian, great guy to know, and fun to hang with
around town and live like there's no tomorrow.
to enjoy her night out anywhere she likes to go to have fun.


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Wyoming Lottery V.S Borderline Store
The other day, my husband and I found ourselves rushing just a hair south of the border to pick up a lottery ticket, like we have many times before. This got me thinking of the Borderline Store, what will happen to them when we get our own lottery in Wyoming?
My husband and I have been to the Borderline Store on numerous occasions, and it's a charming little place located just south of the border, and although we've only stopped in to get our lottery tickets, we've heard rumors that people could actually eat there. We've seen tables there, and even a bar setup. We haven't had the chance to see if their restaurant venue actually exists, but are still planning on checking it out.
We found the Borderline Store to be a friendly place, meeting people that have the same dreams as my husband and I, of maybe someday, cashing "the big" one and living large, giving to GOD first, then family and community, and, then, if there's anything left, maybe relaxing somewhere on a beach in our sunset years.
One question keeps burning in my mind, what's to become of this little charming store once Wyoming gets the lottery going in our state? Will people still be inclined to travel just a hair past the border to still get their lottery tickets? Would you?


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Are gays around the world supposed to feel so indebted to Israel that they will no longer criticize the Jewish nation?
General Petraeus has led our troops overseas in that exact effort, and we are indebted to his leadership and love of country.
In making the Black Paintings, Reinhardt may have been as indebted to Duchamp as to Malevich and Barnett Newman.
As a result, a familiar racial profile emerges: African-Americans are the most indebted of all population groups.
Many legendary Shakespearean thespians have been indebted to drink.
The captain was indebted to his boatswain, who was now in fact acting as his mate, for the suggestion of the plan next adopted.
It is to Mademoiselle Melanie that she is indebted for all her social success.
This arrangement pleased neither the men nor the officers, who knew how much the country was indebted to the rank and file.
There is no being on earth, man or woman, to whom I would so willingly be indebted.
I am indebted to both of you for the information which enabled me to capture the steamer.
late 14c., endetted "owing money," past participle of endetten "to indebt, oblige," from Old French endetter "to involve in debt," from en- "in" (see in- (2)) + dette "debt" (see debt). Figurative sense of "under obligation for favors or services" first attested 1560s. Related: indebt; indebtedness. Latin indebitus meant "not owed, not due."


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I. A 4th grade (TERC) Investigations homework assignment, assigned in late November:
II. From a similar point in the 4th grade Singapore Math Curriculum (Primary Mathematics 4A):
III. Extra Credit:
Neither traditional math, nor Singapore Math, spell out shortcuts as explicitly Investigations does ("Can you use the first problem to help you solve the second problem?"). Instead, students of traditional math and Singapore Math discover these tricks on their own. Which is better, child-centered discovery of ad hoc shortcuts, or more explicit hints via teachers, worksheets, and other authoritative entities?


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Hospitality: Salt River Scottsdale 101 Courtyard By Marriott
July 1, 2011 by in Hospitality
SALT RIVER SCOTTSDALE 101 COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT Developer: Salt River Devco General contractor: W.E. O'Neil Architect: PK Architects Location: Pima Rd. north of Chaparral Rd., Scottsdale Size: 96,705 SF The $22M, 156-room hotel will be the first Marriott property to be built on tribal land. The 4-story hotel will include a bistro and 3,000 SF conference center. It is less… Read More →