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The iOSphere was riven by controversy as "experts" dueled on iPhone 6 announcement dates. The fact that it was a phony controversy only made it more intolerable.
And could it be that a bigger-than-4-inch display would not set the world on fire? What villainy is this?
And those holiday iPhone 5s and 5C discounts? There's a Far Deeper Significance to them.
You read it here second.
Analysts think [Apple] investors will look beyond near-term quarterly beats and start asking 'what's next?', and analysts at JPM [J.P. Morgan Equity Research] do not know what is next.
— ValueWalk Staff, at ValueWalk.com, in a comment that unexpectedly and probably unintentionally discloses a fundamental truth not only about JPM but also about the entire iOSphere.
iPhone 6 will be announced in June or July 2014
Or as the headline for Tyler Lee's post at Ubergizmo puts it, "iPhone 6 Predicted To Launch Mid 2014, According To Analyst."
The actual source for Lee's post, and for many other Internet posts, was a new "research note" from Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Mehdi Hosseini, a note that was actually about flash memory maker SanDisk. Kevin Shalvey at Investor's Business Daily may have been among the first to pick up on the note.
Hosseini thinks that SanDisk will benefit from various smartphone trends, including the rising smartphone market in China and the Next iPhone. SandDisk apparently became an Apple supplier for the 2012 iPhone 5.
According to the IBD post, Hosseini's research note includes several rather vague generalities about what Apple "is expected" to do. The use of "is expected" or "is likely" is an iOSphere convention that is used to deflect attention from a severe paucity of facts. The conventions create the impression that there is an expert, or at least an informed, consensus based on some kind analysis. In almost every case, that's not the case.
Here's how Shalvey puts it: "Apple is expected to introduce its next iPhone, possibly named the iPhone 6, in June or July 2014. It's 'actually expected to be a more meaningful product refresh' than the two iPhone versions launched in 2013, according to Hosseini. 'Although there is no color yet on the iPhone 6 specs, our recent checks in Taiwan and Korea suggest Apple has already begun negotiating with its memory suppliers to secure capacities.'"
As a basis for, you know, knowledge, these sentences are useless. A "more meaningful product refresh" apparently means "more visible changes that even an idiot could see compared to what was in the last phone." It sidesteps the question of whether Apple intends the Next iPhone to be a refresh of the product line or a distinct separate product, for example, adding a bigger-than-four-inch-display iPhone while still offering the four-inch-display iPhone.
The closest Hosseini comes to evidence is the "suggestion" that Apple has "already begun negotiating" with memory suppliers. But negotiating about what? And about which Apple products? And for what product-release timeframe? He doesn't say; he may not know.
Back to Tyler Lee at Ubergizmo. Having drawn our attention to Hosseini's speculation, Lee tells us to ignore it. "Like we said, based on previous iPhone releases for the past three years, it would be highly suspect that Apple would suddenly revert to its mid-year schedule again," Lee declares authoritatively. While it is not completely out of the question, it does not make much sense for now. However we wouldn't be surprised if Apple had already planned its next iPhone, although we doubt a mid-year release is in the cards. Take it with a grain of salt for now, but if you have been following the tech scene, this is one rumor you're better off discounting."
Highly suspect, but not out of the question, we wouldn't be surprised, we doubt, discount. By the time you reach the end, you realize that Lee is simply guessing based on what Apple has done for the past three years. Overlooking that Apple did something different during the three years before that.
iPhone 6 release date a "controversy," with "experts split" on date
If you can't find a good rumor, make one up.
And the one that Michael Briggs at the clickbait website DesignNTrend made up is "iPhone 6 Release Date Controversy: Experts Disagree."
Briggs' post is the iOSphere equivalent of Rocky Road ice cream: He seems to have scoured the Internet and thrown in every single recent and not so recent rumor, referencing but not linking to the original sources, or at least the sources where he read about the rumor.
He picked up the IBD post on Hosseini's research note and structured his opening around that, so that he could then "balance" the mid-year prediction with later-year predictions, thus creating the illusion of a "controversy."
"A Spring-Summer release has been mentioned in previous reports, but there have also been an abundance of reports that claim Apple will stick to its past tendencies with the 6, including recent articles by Bloomberg, which states two curved iPhone models will be unveiled in the fall, and Chinese tech site Epoch Times, which claims the new iPhones won't be released until October 2014."
Briggs even drags in Gene "BlockBuster" Munster -- based on a research note Munster released last October, nearly three months ago – in which the Piper Jaffray analyst gave his expert opinion that iPhone 6 will be a "blockbuster" in mid-2014.
Bryan Wolfe at AppAdvice had the same idea as Briggs, or borrowed it. His post's headline warns, rather ominously, "Experts Are Split On When Apple Will Release The 'iPhone 6.'"
"So what does the crystal ball say about the 2014 iPhone release date? It's murky, at best," he declares. Murky as crystal. Or clear as murk.
Wolfe thinks there was a consensus about the iPhone 6 release because the Chinese site Epoch Times and Bloomberg News both "report" that it will occur in the fall of 2014. But then along comes Hosseini.
"Throwing a wrench in all this is a new report from Inventors Business Daily. In it, Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Mehdi Hosseini says that the iPhone 6 will likely come out in June or July 2014."
An expert is a person who has "special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority." It derives from the Latin "experiri" meaning to try, to test. As a result, the original "expert" was a "person wise through experience," according to Dictionary.com.
But in all of these posts, there is little experience, and even less wisdom.
If iPhone 6 has a big screen, no one will care
Waxing philosophical, a post at ValueWalk wonders "iPhone 6 Is A Bestselling Idea, But Will It Be A Good Phone?"
The author, ValueWalk Staff, never gets around to answering that and the bulk of the post rehashes a new "outlook" on Apple's stock by two stock analysts with J.P. Morgan Equity Research, Mark Moskowitz and Mike Kim. They're bullish in the long-term apparently.
Though why they are isn't very clear. As ValueWalk Staff puts it, with unexpected realism, "Analysts think investors will look beyond near-term quarterly beats and start asking '[what's next?', and analysts at JPM do not know what is next."
Talk about an epitaph for the iOSphere.
Moskowitz and Kim do not set great hope that the intensively rumored Bigger-Than-4-Inch-Display iPhone will be, to quote Gene Munster, a "blockbuster."
"Given most of the smartphone market is already there, it is unlikely that a larger screen size iPhone 6 alone will drive a significant shift in market share, in analysts view," according to ValueWalk. "They think that consumers who wanted a larger screen already own a smartphone from Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. or another vendor. Apple Inc. may potentially grab some of those users with a large-screen iPhone (iPhone 6), but land grabs can be more difficult than penetration of new adopters."
The Rollup isn't going to comment on the penetration difficulties.
But the argument that a large-screen iPhone 6 will not necessarily result in a massive increase in iPhone sales, or be regarded as a breakthrough in innovation, is at least interesting. We lack specific sales data at this point for the 4-inch iPhone 5S (or the 5C), but it seems to be at least as popular as the iPhone 5, which was extremely popular indeed. While ValueWalk seems to think that some kind of breakthrough, or as they put it "impactful catalyst," is needed, Apple's strategy of continuous improvements that preserve, refine, and facilitate the total "user experience," is driving iPhone sales just fine.
iPhone 6 will be released soon because Walmart is discounting iPhone 5S, 5C
"As part of a holiday sale starting Friday [December 20], Wal-Mart plans to offer the iPhone 5c for $27 with a two-year contract from AT&T or Verizon," reports Salvador Rodriguez, in a story for the LA Times.
The list price with contract is $99, so a discount of roughly 60 percent is enticing. Which is the idea of holiday promotions. The iPhone 5S is also being discounted at Walmart for a while, offered at $127 with a two-year contract, down from its regular $199.
Everybody is getting into the act, as Macrumors' Juli Clover noted in her own Walmart-related post. "Best Buy is offering a $75 discount on the iPhone 5s with the purchase of a two-year contract and MacMall is offering the 16GB iPhone 5s for $120 and the 16GB iPhone 5c for $20," she writes. "Sam's Club will be selling the iPhone 5s for $119 with a two-year contract through January. From Dec. 13-15, the deal will be available to non-members as well."
But there is more to this than meets the eye bedazzled by Christmas, or "holiday," tinsel and lights, according to Kristin Dian Mariano. In her post at International Business Times, she reveals to readers that "This sudden decrease in iPhone prices hint the coming iPhone 6 release date, which is speculated to happen early next year."
Early. Next. Year. Is that a Christmas present or what, even if it is technically after Christmas. Of course, that would mean that you should not, no matter how tempting the low price, buy the iPhone 5S or 5C because they are about to replaced, perhaps in a matter of weeks, by the Awesome Blockbuster iPhone 6. Or you could just wait for the iPhone 7.
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for Network World.http://firstname.lastname@example.com


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|b) They are skeptical about claims made by others and their own ideas.
|c) They are curious about the world around them.
|d) They put their guesses down as conclusions.
Which title should be classified as pseudoscience?
|a) Is Life Possible on Mars?
|b) How Aliens Built the Pyramids
|c) A Quantifiable Study of Emotional Intelligence
|d) The Disappearance of Ancient Civilizations in South America
Why is objectivity important to scientific investigations? Objectivity means that
|a) the opinions of the scientist do not affect the results.
|b) the opinions of the scientist are included in the results.
|c) scientists repeat investigations; this makes the results more valid.
|d) scientists add their own biases and beliefs to their data, which is important to obtaining valid conclusions.
a process of investigation that in one or more ways resembles science but deviates from the scientific method
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|c) math
|d) empirical evidence
Astrology is an example of pseudoscience. Why is astrology considered a pseudoscience, unlike astronomy, which is a science?
|a) because it not based on empirical evidence
|b) because astrology is older than astronomy
|c) because it is based on the scientific method
|d) because it can be easily replicated by other scientists
the systematic study and the knowledge obtained by observing natural events and conditions in order to discover facts and formulate laws and principles that can be verified or tested
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|b) empirical evidence
|c) pseudoscience
|d) math
the observations, measurements, and other types of data that people gather and test to support and evaluate scientific explanations
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|b) science
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Scientific evidence can often be a very strongly held opinion by a scientist who has done a lot of studying on a subject.
|a) False
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Creativity does not play a role in science.
|a) False
|b) True
Scientific explanations do not change.
|a) False
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The methods of science can be used in other fields.
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Scientific explanations should be logical and testable.
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Science is the study of the natural world.
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|b) fortune telling
|c) astrology
|d) magic
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|b) geology
|c) physics
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By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY
Out of the depths of housing's worst downturn, smaller new homes are turning into a bright spot for some home builders.
The trend toward more compact new homes is being driven partly by the fact that more customers are first-time buyers who have less to spend.
INTERACTIVE: Tracking housing market's rise, fall and rebound
Home builders are responding by offering smaller designs with features such as high ceilings and large windows that create a spacious feel and options that let buyers personalize the model they choose.
KB Home's smaller model helped it achieve a 62% increase in year-over-year net orders in the third quarter.
The trend cuts across the industry. The median square footage of new homes has dropped 9% from a peak of 2,300 square feet in the third quarter of 2006 to 2,100 square feet in the July-September period this year, according to data from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
Housing size drops with each recession, but economists expect the current movement toward smaller homes to continue for some time in part because of the severity of the current housing market slump.
First-time buyers are driving the trend toward smaller homes because that is what they can afford, says David Crowe, chief economist at the NAHB.
As the economy improves, move-up buyers generally enter the market and begin buying larger homes. But this time, so many homeowners owe more on their homes than their properties are worth that many potential move-up buyers will be stuck even as the economy strengthens.
That means first-time home buyers will still be buying smaller homes while larger homes will find fewer buyers.
"This downsizing is more sustainable," Crowe says. "The first-time buyer will continue to be a large part of the market because the move-up buyer will not have as much equity. It's going to take them awhile to climb out."
The NAHB doesn't keep data on the percentage of new home sales that are made by first-time home buyers, but about half of all home purchasers were first-time buyers in October, according to the National Association of Realtors.
For builders, smaller, less-expensive homes mean less profit. But the industry is already facing strong competition from a high supply of foreclosed homes selling at comparatively low prices.
A welcome change
Some analysts say the downsizing trend could be good news for builders.
"The appetite for smaller homes may be a welcome change for home builders as new home sales have been challenged in the past few years," says Tom Lydon, editor of ETF Trends, which educates investors on fund choices and market trends.
Major home builders such as KB Home and Pulte Homes are responding to the shift in demand by offering more of the smaller properties.
At Pulte Homes, its most popular designs today are 100 to 200 square feet less than the most-popular plans in 2005-06.
So the lower-priced homes don't seem bare-bones to buyers, open floor plans and 9-foot ceilings provide a sense of roominess. Fireplaces are an option.
To hold down costs, Corian — a surfacing material created by DuPont— is a standard for kitchen counters instead of granite. Appliances are standard models instead of pricier stainless steel.
"It's not just making it smaller, it's maximizing the space in the home," says Caryn Klebba, a spokeswoman at Pulte Homes. "It's a 9- or 10-foot ceiling rather than a cathedral ceiling." Cathedral ceilings are 14 to 18 feet.
Getaway option
Smaller homes also are appealing as vacation homes.
Nancy Coronado, 55, a retired framer in an art gallery, has a large home in Whitehall, Mich., and bought a second Pulte home in Florence, Ariz., in March. The new home is about 1,400 square feet. "I have a big home in Michigan and didn't want another big home," she says. "I wasn't looking for that."
KB Home also has redesigned its homes to reflect the trend, because nearly 80% of its customers are first-time home buyers.
Toll Bros., which builds luxury homes, says demand is down across the board, and not just for larger homes. Company officials say they, too, see an increased interest in smaller homes but believe that home buyers will someday return to wanting larger properties.
Smaller homes, they say, reflect a down economy and tighter credit rather than an appetite for less space.
"We see the demand for smaller homes, but it's not as though there's huge demand for smaller homes but no demand for larger homes," says Kira McCarron, a spokeswoman for Toll Bros. "There is still a demand for luxury homes."
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>From: "Chris Bowditch" <bowditch_chris@...>Apologies Kathy, I didnt see the end of the title of your message, which
> >From: "kathy_rainbolt" <rainbolt@...>
> >
> >Everything's great except there is no space after the block that has
> >the figure title (The text for the next step is next and there is no
> >space between). I'm not understanding why the space is not there if
> >I have conditionality="retain". Am I not understanding
> >conditionality and precedence correctly?
> >
>Hi Kathy,
>I took your FO and placed some text after the Figure title in another
>fo:block, and it appeared 24pt below. That was using RenderX's XEP. You
>didnt say what processor you are using.
clearly says you are using Antenna House. My mail client was truncating it,
until I enlarged the window.
>Your FO looks okay, only one minor suggestion if you want to force a
>space-after, then use space-after.precedence="force" instead of a big
>I can't say more without seeing the FO of the text that appears after the
>figure title, you might be doing something wrong there. Please post it for
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- Dear Kathy Rainbolt,
I E-mailed from the support to you.
It asked for the reference to the QandA page.
> When space of list-item is used, it is necessary to take care.However, add the following because it is an insufficient explanation on our QandA page.
> Please refer to [No. 1129200201] [11-29-2002] in the ' XSLT/XSL-FO Technics ' category of the Q&A page.
> http://www.antenna.co.jp/xml/FAQ/En/Win/XSLQA.HTM
It is as follows in "6.8.3 fo:list-item" of the XSL-FO specification.
The block-progression-dimension of the content-rectangle
of an area generated by the fo:list-item is just large enough
so that the allocation-rectangles of all its child areas are
contained in it.
In particular, the space-before and space-after of the child
areas have no effect on the spacing of the list item.
For purposes of the block-stacking constraints the areas
generated by fo:list-item are treated as if there they
have a fence preceding and a fence following them.
This is to make the size of the area that fo:list-item makes
the size of allocation-rectangle of the area of the content.
Allocation-rectangle of block-area contains neither space-before nor
space-after( Refer to 4.2.3 Geometric Definitions).
And, space-before and space-after in list item are written that it
doesn't influence the spacing of list item.
In a word, it is necessary to disregard such space.
Therefore, space-before and space-after specified for block
in list-item are disregarded.
Please specify space-before/space-after to fo:list-item instead of fo:block.
Tomoko Mayumi
E-Mail tomoko@...
XSL Group
Antenna House, Inc.
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The Loyola Marymount women's tennis team competed for the West Coast Conference title today for the second time in five years. The 67-th ranked Lions defeated 56th-ranked San Diego 4-2 Saturday in order to advance to the finals. LMU fell to the 13th-ranked Pepperdine 4-0 in the WCC Finals at Santa Clara University.
Pavla Mesterova and Robyn Baker were on their way to winning the doubles match at the number one spot when their match was called. Mesterova and Baker were leading 7-2 in the first set against 20th-ranked Sylvia Kosakowski and Merve Asimgil.
LMU Head Coach Jamie Sanchez commented, "It was another close match at number three doubles that did not go our way. Unfortunately, Pepperdine pulled away at four all." Sladjana Kos and Maja Sundac took on Natalie Braverman and Caroline Raba of Pepperdine. The 8-4 win went to the waves in a tight match.
At the number one spot in singles play, Pavla Mesterova took the first set 6-2 from 24th-ranked Bianca Dulgheru. In the second set Mesterova was leading 3-2 and was on her way to defeating another ranked player when the match was called.
At number two singles, Robyn Baker's match was also due to the format of the match. Baker was competing against 59-th ranked Sylvia Kosakowski."Sladjana Kos was injured prior to starting the match, we thought she might have to retire due to injury and unfortunately she did" said Sanchez. Also, at the number six singles spot Erin Ivey was up in the third set against Lise Sissler of Pepperdine when the match was called.
"We competed against a very good Pepperdine team today. We knew we had to be at 110% to defeat them and we weren't," said Sanchez, "but by all means, getting to the finals was a major accomplishment in itself."
"The West Coast Conference Championships ends a stellar career for LMU senior LMU Patrycia Hubl," Sanchez says. "Patrycia is one of reasons why were in the finals."
Championship - Pepperdine 4, Loyola Marymount 0
1. Bianca Dulgheru (PEP) vs. Pavla Mesterova (LMU), DNF
2. Sylvia Kosakowski (PEP) vs. Robyn Baker (LMU), DNF
3. Caroline Raba (PEP) def. Sladjana Kos (LMU), 6-3, 2-0 (ret. inj.)
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5. Eva Dickes (PEP) def. Maja Sundac (LMU), 6-4, 6-1
6. Lise Sissler (PEP) vs. Erin Ivey (LMU), DNF
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2. Dulgheru/Dickes (PEP) def. Hubl/Ivey (LMU), 8-2
3. Braverman/Raba (PEP) def. Kos/Sundac (LMU), 8-4
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1 Business Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid Moderator: V. Kasturi Rangan, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Director of Research Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Panelists: Jaime A. Zobel de Ayala II, Chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation Carlos D. Labarthe Costas, Co-CEO and Cofounder, Compartamos Banco S. Sivakumar, Chief Executive, Agribusiness Division, ITC Ltd. Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group (SDR) Simpiwe Kenneth Tshabalala, Chief Executive, Standard Bank of South Africa Overview The 4.5 billion people in the world at the base of the pyramid (who live on $5 per day or less) represent a $15 trillion economy a huge under-tapped opportunity and one poised to expand as these people join global markets as consumers and producers. Capitalizing on this opportunity requires bringing basic services to poor communities in developing economies. Increasingly, it is private-sector companies rather than NGOs or philanthropists that are able to best meet these social needs. The innovative, for-profit business models these panelists are pursuing are capitalism at its best creative low-cost solutions to massive societal problems; generation of profit which makes these undertakings sustainable, provides capital to invest in growth and infrastructure, and attracts investors; and partnership with local communities. Context These panelists described their ventures at the base of the pyramid and responded to a range of questions from attendees. Key Takeaways These panelists are all pursuing opportunities in the $15 trillion base-of-the-pyramid economy. The 4.5 billion people in the world who live on $5 per day or less represent a $15 trillion economy and a huge under-tapped market opportunity. This opportunity is poised to expand, because of not only what these people consume, but also what they can produce. Bringing needed services to their communities water, sanitation, energy, health care, education, and finance will help develop this opportunity and integrate these people into global markets. For this $15 trillion economy to come alive and sustain itself, we must bring a few things health care, education, basic utilities... [and] access to finance. V. Kasturi Rangan Pursuing opportunities at the base of the pyramid is exactly what each of these panelists is doing, each in his own country and environment but with many similarities. Philippines (Zobel): Supplying water 24/7. Before Manila Water Company was privatized in 1997, only 3 million of Manila s 5 million residents had access to water, and those who did had it for only six hours per day. (Those who lacked water often had to pay middlemen ten times the price for water.) Since privatizing Manila Water, 99% of Manila s citizens can now access water 24/7. Manila Water, which retained 97% of its employees after going private, produces 15% to 20% operating margins, resulting in profits of $50 million per year; its market capitalization has grown from 2 billion to 132 billion pesos. Mr. Zobel sees the keys to Manila Water s success as: 1. Finding solutions for the base of the pyramid being seen by management as a core business strategy. Management did not view the communities at the base of the pyramid as needing to be taken care of through philanthropy. They saw it as a business opportunity. They realized that pursuing this opportunity required focusing the company s strategy on this opportunity and developing trusted relationships with the community. (These relationships are now so strong and the benefits seen by communities so great that the communities would not want to go back to public water systems and are cooperative regarding rate increases.) You couldn t tackle this community as you would a customer of any other kind. The needs were great, distrust for the private sector was high. Integrating our strategies with the community was fundamental. Jaime A. Zobel de Ayala II 2. A corporate culture that encourages ownership and customer connection. With virtually all of the same employees who were previously part of the highly inefficient government bureaucracy, Ayala Corporation, by changing the management in particular bringing in an HR expert from another Ayala company created a strong sense of pride among all Manila Water managers. They feel ownership over their territories and integrate themselves into their communities, working with community leaders on solutions. 3. The structure of the public-private framework that was created. The financial structure of the deal is a win/win for the government and the company. It enables the company to make a profit while also encouraging the company to invest in rebuilding the aged infrastructure and to implement efficiencies. The structure enabled the privatized company not Summit Report
2 only to get water service to many more people but also to earn a good return, which in turn allowed it to reinvest in the business. India (Sivakumar): Equipping rural farmers with Internet access. Rural farmers in India, who both buy goods (such as seeds) and sell their crops, have been largely constrained in their options for commerce. Choices have been limited and transaction costs high. The agribusiness division of ITC has brought 7,000 Internet kiosks to 40,000 remote Indian villages (100,000 are targeted), equipping 4 million farmers with communication capabilities and all types of information, such as information on price/weather. Making farmers more informed and more efficient buyers and sellers has decreased transaction costs by almost 67% and brought far greater efficiency to previously inefficient supply chains and markets. This has allowed farmers to capture greater value (on average, 78% more) without necessarily charging more. With efforts targeted on growth, overall profitability has not yet been achieved for this roughly $4 billion business, but in geographies where the company has been for a few years, it is profitable. Markets are the best means to serve the base-ofthe-pyramid customers... but these people often access markets [to buy or sell] under constrained conditions. S. Sivakumar China (Tao): Wiring the countryside with cell phone telecommunications. The base of the pyramid in China consists of 800 to 950 million residents, some of whom live in cities but many of whom are farmers living in the country s 600,000 villages. Currently, China Mobile (owned 75% by the government and 25% by investors), the world s largest telecom company, has 400 million customers, 150 million of whom live in the countryside. Use of mobile phones has given these people at the bottom of the pyramid access to information and the ability to communicate. The keys to the successful and rapid expansion into rural areas are: low prices, which have been made possible by a massive and efficient operating system; and the company s tremendous distribution network, which entails having one person per village operate a China Mobile store in each village (600,000 people operating 600,000 stores across 600,000 villages). Creating this channel is a massive undertaking, but helps create a sustaining model of economic development. South Africa (Tshabalala): Bringing banking to the people. Mr. Tshabalala is CEO of Standard Bank, South Africa s largest bank, with assets of $180 billion, operations in 38 countries (18 in Africa), and strong profits. Standard Bank is using innovative means to target customers at the base of the pyramid, a right the company feels it has earned through the success it has achieved in operating its existing business. The bank has made it a priority to make a difference to those parts of society that have been marginalized. The bank s approach is to innovate outside of its usual command-and-control structures; to incubate businesses in partnership with communities. The people running these fledgling ventures have more freedom to think out of the box than would normally be afforded within the bank s normal structures. Once these innovative ventures start succeeding, they are brought back into the bank s usual structures. A key part of the innovations focused on the base of the pyramid is that they have to be more cost effective than services delivered through the bank s branch system, requiring social innovation (using retailers in the community as part of the bank s distribution network) and IT innovation. Mexico (Labarthe): Empowering female entrepreneurs through microfinancing. Mr. Labarthe and his brothers founded Compartamos Bank as a nonprofit in Compartamos is a specialty bank that just does microfinance. Its average loan is $450 and 98% of its loans go to women who use the funds for working capital. Now it is a publicly traded company with 1 million clients, 300 offices, and 50% profit growth and return on equity each year for the past decade The bank is successful because it has a very profound and important sense of purpose. Compartamos strives to simultaneously deliver three kinds of value: social value (determined by the number of clients reached), which gives clients options for a better life; economic value (profitability); and human value, offering clients and staff the opportunity to grow as individuals, e.g., via increased self-esteem, and to create a better country. In addition, Compartamos success has come from applying commercial principles to solve social problems. The commonalties in each of these models include: Seeing the opportunity in the base of the pyramid. Applying business principles to solve social problems. Delivering low-cost solutions. Thinking differently. Providing services for the base of the pyramid using the same infrastructure, distribution system, and cost structure won t work. An entirely different way of thinking, distributing, and marketing is necessary. Partnering with the community. Pursuing profit is not inconsistent with delivering social value. Several questions challenged panelists to defend making a buck by profiting from the poorest segments of society. The specific answers varied, but supported the notion that a profitable private-sector business provides a sustainable way to provide services to the bottom of the pyramid, a far more sustainable approach than philanthropy. Mr. Labarthe said that growing his Mexican bank successfully for investors adds the most value to society. Generating profits has enabled the bank to attract investors and capital, which in turn has enabled Summit Report
3 the bank to grow faster, serve more customers, and pursue its mission of providing ever more loans and increased product/service options. The social value that we want to give is to serve as many people as possible in the least amount of time. Carlos D. Labarthe Costas Asked whether Standard Bank s community development activities were core to its business strategy or simply PR-motivated CSR (corporate social responsibility), Mr. Tshabalala said that the fate of his bank and that of society are inextricably linked. Standard s social initiatives aimed at the poor are not interventions but are investments in mitigating political and market risks that could hurt shareholder value. For us it s an out-and-out business proposition. You ve got to contribute to the reduction of political risk by reducing the number of poor people... and thereby add value to shareholders. Simpiwe Kenneth Tshabalala Asked about the legitimacy of making money from delivering water to poor people arguably a basic right Mr. Zobel said, Profitability has allowed us to invest heavily in the infrastructure needed to take the public utility to the 21 st century. The people and communities have become great supporters, grateful to no longer be purchasing bottled water from exploitative middlemen. (Record complaints to the call center after the privatization surprised leaders, until they heard the reason: People began calling when they thought someone would finally listen.) Mr. Sivakumar of ITC is facing more pressure achieving profits along with social value. ITC sources commodities from Indian farmers, but empowering them with information does not always accrue to the company s bottom line. Profitability may come more readily when the firm leverages its infrastructure into new product opportunities. The win/win business models described by the panelists are replicable throughout the developing world. Professor Rangan and colleagues are creating intellectual capital and developing frameworks for ideas that were gut instincts on our part, said Mr. Zobel. The basic ideas behind the panelists ventures are similar such as the need to integrate with and engage communities in finding win/win solutions. We re all on the same wavelength, just adjusting to different circumstances. I was struck by the commonality of thought on something that was gut feel for me.... If you look at the frameworks developed by the Social Enterprise Center, they re really universal ideas. Jaime A. Zobel de Ayala II The panelists were optimistic about future base-of-thepyramid opportunities available to their companies by: Scaling and pursuing adjacent opportunities. The panelists see ways to use their company s infrastructure, distribution channels, and capabilities to pursue other adjacent opportunities, thereby leveraging their existing investments. For example, Mr. Tao sees great opportunity in leveraging his company s distribution network to introduce financial services (microfinance) to Chinese farmers. Mr. Zobel said his company s experience with Manila Water has caused them to think about an integrated approach to community development, bringing utilities and infrastructure to low-income communities. Reapplying. They were also optimistic that the success of these ventures can be replicated in other parts of the world, with adjustments based on local conditions. I definitely agree that most of the things we ve learned are cross-cultural... this is a great time to get into this big field of big opportunities. Yong Tao Summit Report
4 Speaker Biographies Speaker Biographies V. Kasturi Rangan (Moderator) Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Director of Research Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing and director of Research. A member of the HBS faculty since 1983, he previously served as the chairman of the Marketing unit ( ). He is now cochair of the Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA courses, including the core first-year Marketing course and the second-year electives Business Marketing and Channels-to-Market. He has also taught marketing in the Advanced Management Program for senior managers. He now teaches the elective courses Customers, Commerce, and Society: Business Value and the Private Creation of Social Value, and Business at the Base of the Pyramid. Rangan s business marketing and channels research has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, the Harvard Business Review, the California Management Review, the MIT Sloan Management Review, the Journal of Retailing, Management Science, Marketing Science, and Organization Science. Rangan is a coauthor of Going to Market, which deals with distribution systems for industrial products, and Business Marketing Strategy, which presents approaches for managing industrial products and markets over their life cycle. Rangan s book Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy presents a framework on how to evolve a firm s goto-market strategy with the changing needs of customers. His most recent book is Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value. Besides his interest in business marketing, Rangan is involved in studying the role of marketing in nonprofit organizations, specifically, how it influences the adoption of social products and ideas. He has written a number of case studies and articles on the topic and was one of the founding cochairs of the Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS, whose faculty study and teach the challenges of nonprofit management. He also founded and chaired the Executive Education program Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management from 1994 until His research on this topic has appeared in Nonprofit Management and Leadership and the Harvard Business Review. His current research focuses on understanding the needs and wants of the global poor, those living on less than $5 a day. The aim is to capture the lessons of successful models of businesses, nonprofits, and governments serving that segment. Rangan received a bachelor of technology degree from IIT (Madras) in 1971, an MBA from IIM (Ahmedabad) in 1973, and a Ph.D. in marketing from Northwestern University in From 1973 to 1979, he held several sales and marketing positions for a large multinational company in India. Michael Chu, MBA 1976 (Moderator) Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Michael Chu was appointed a senior lecturer in HBS s Initiative on Social Enterprise of the General Management unit in July He is also managing director of the IGNIA Fund, an investment firm in Monterrey, Mexico, dedicated to investing in commercial enterprises serving low-income populations in developing countries, which he cofounded in He is also the senior advisor and a founding partner of Pegasus Capital, a firm in Buenos Aires dedicated to deploying equity capital in Latin America. Chu teaches the second-year MBA course Business at the Base of the Pyramid, which he developed and teaches with Professor Kash Rangan. He is faculty cochair of the Executive Education program Strategic Leadership for Microfinance. He has taught the MBA courses Investing and Managing in Emerging Markets and Effective Leadership of Social Enterprises. Chu is cohead of Project Antares, a collaboration between HBS and the Harvard School of Public Health focusing on commercial approaches to delivering high-impact primary health care to low-income populations in developing nations. Project Antares is part of the Social Enterprise program on Global Health and Low Income Populations. As president and CEO of Accion International, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to microfinance, Chu worked to develop financial services for the working poor as a new segment of banking capable of outstanding returns. He participated in founding several microcredit financial institutions and regulated banks throughout Latin America, including Banco Solidario, one of the premier microlending institutions in the world, which under his chairmanship has been the most profitable bank in Bolivia, and Banco Compartamos, which, after its IPO on the Mexican Stock Exchange in April 2007, has been incorporated as part of the exchange s index. From 1989 to 1993, as a limited partner in the New York office of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Chu helped deploy KKR s $5.7 billion private-equity fund and manage an investment portfolio with aggregate annual revenues of over $60 billion. He joined KKR from Pace Industries, a KKRsponsored LBO, where he served as senior vice president and CFO. Chu serves on the boards of Sealed Air Corporation, Accion International, and BoardSource and is a trustee of Dartmouth College. Chu graduated with a BA (honors) from Dartmouth College and received an MBA with highest distinction (Baker Scholar) from HBS. He was born in Kunming, China, and grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. He and his wife reside in West Newton, Massachusetts. Summit Report
5 Speaker Biographies Jaime A. Zobel de Ayala II Chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation Jaime Zobel is chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, one of the most respected business groups in the Philippines. He is also chairman of the Bank of the Philippine Islands, Globe Telecom Inc., and Integrated Microelectronics Inc. and co vice chairman of Ayala Land Inc. and the Ayala Foundation Inc. Zobel is a member of various international and local business and sociocivic organizations, including the JPMorgan Chase International Council, the Mitsubishi Corporation International Advisory Committee, the Toshiba International Advisory Group, and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He is also a member of the Harvard University Asia Center Advisory Committee, the board of trustees of the Asian Institute of Management, and a national council member of the World Wildlife Fund (U.S.). Zobel was chosen as one of the World Economic Forum Global Leaders for Tomorrow in 1995 and was a Ten Outstanding Young Men awardee in In 2006 he was named Management Man of the Year by the Management Association of the Philippines and received the prestigious HBS Alumni Achievement Award in Zobel earned his BA in economics, cum laude, from Harvard College in 1981 and his MBA from HBS in He is married and has four children. Carlos D. Labarthe Costas Co-CEO and Cofounder, Compartamos Banco Carlos Labarthe is co-ceo and cofounder of Compartamos Banco, a social enterprise firm in Mexico committed to providing adequate financial services to low-income entrepreneurs, creating social, economic, and human value. Compartamos Banco is one of the main institutions providing loans to rural women in Mexico, serving a customer base of over 940,000 clients through 300 branches in all regions of the country. In 2005 Compartamos Banco received an award for excellence in microfinance for regulated institutions, granted by the Inter-American Development Bank s microenterprise unit. Labarthe is chairman of the MicroFinance Network steering committee and for five years was a member of the executive committee of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest. Labarthe has a BS in industrial engineering from the Universidad Anáhuac and has studied business and microfinance at the Economics Institute (Boulder, Colorado), HBS, and IPADE (Mexico). S. Sivakumar Chief Executive, Agribusiness Division, ITC Ltd. S. Sivakumar is chief executive of the Agribusiness Division of ITC Ltd. (www.itcportal.com), one of India s foremost private-sector companies with a market capitalization of nearly US$20 billion and a turnover of over US$5 billion. ITC is known for its thought and action leadership in triple bottomline focus. Sivakumar spearheads ITC s famous echoupal initiative, a unique click-and-mortar channel that facilitates the two-way flow of goods and services in and out of villages. Servicing the production and consumption needs of some 4 million farmers in 38,000 villages, ITC s echoupal is the largest Internet-based intervention in rural India by a corporate entity. The initiative has won numerous awards, including the United Nations Development Programme World Business Award, the Stockholm Challenge Award, and the Development Gateway Award. After graduating from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Sivakumar served a farmers cooperative for six years before joining ITC in Yong Tao Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group (SDR) Yong Tao is chairman of the Strategic Decision Resources Group (SDR), dedicated to helping corporations operating in China to create world-class quality products and services. Before founding SDR, Tao had been managing director of Greater China for Navigant Consulting Inc. and vice president of the Strategic Decisions Group, responsible for the Asia-Pacific. In recent years, Tao has been leading SDR s focus on helping China s mobile phone developments. He is heading an initiative to expand coverage and increase the depth of microfinance in China, working with financial institutions, policymakers, and telecom operators. Tao is a frequent speaker at business forums and business schools. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Simpiwe Kenneth Tshabalala, AMP 174 (2008) Chief Executive, Standard Bank of South Africa Sim Tshabalala was named chief executive of the Standard Bank of South Africa and to the SBSA board in March Tshabalala has been with Standard since 2000, when he joined the then Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank as director of structured finance. He was appointed to the group executive committee (Exco) in 2001 and that October became managing director of Stanbic Africa. In November 2003 he moved to retail banking operations as deputy managing director of personal and business banking (PPB), South Africa; in August 2006 he was promoted to chief executive of PPB, South Africa. Born in South Africa, Tshabalala studied at Rhodes University, earning his bachelor of arts and bachelor of laws degrees. He received his master of laws from the University of Notre Dame and a higher diploma in taxation law from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Before assuming his duties as chief executive in June 2008, Tshabalala attended the Advanced Management Program at HBS. Summit Report
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Here will be soon after the SSC will be also release its SSC CGL 2017 exam notification online. After that you can get it from here below.
The SSC is a one of the Indian central government recognized organization. From this commission here is having to complete its number of vacancies in the every year for various different departments. For all the vacancies here are have to get select and eligible and well qualified candidates all the different vacant posts. For make selection in this commission here are to complete all the recruitment selection process organize its written exam and various tasks. As per other recruitment exam from this commission here as per every year there will be also soon after release its official notification for the SSC CGL 2016 exam. Before start its all the selection process from this commission in this upcoming notification will be also provided all the detail and information regarding this exam and its application. The basic details about this exam are such as:
Name of the organization: Staff Selection Commission
Name of examination: Combined Graduate Level Examination 2016
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Eligibility criteria: Graduate degree passed from any recognized university
Age limit: 18- 32 years (age relaxation will be applied according to government norms)
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The SSC as per the every before start its application from for SSC CGL exam 2016 here will be also have to release its official notification for all the interested candidates. As per the guideline released from this SSC its CGL 2016 exam notification will be publish as soon as. Soon after publishing this notification you all candidates can check it from here its provided official notification link. For the help of the entire candidate in this notification will be available all the detail and update about this exam and its application form process. After release these notifications you all the candidates can be check this official notification from the official website of the SSC and you also can check it from our website provided link.
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In September 1985 an expedition finally discovered the location of the Titanic. Sadly this once magnificent and proud ship today lies more than 12,000 feet below the icy waters of the North Atlantic, nothing more than a crumpled and dismembered steel hulk.
In April 2012 Professor Clive Palmer announced to the world his intention to reconstruct Titanic. The new ship named Titanic II will be every bit as luxurious as the original. It is with this vision the world will once again be able to experience the bygone Edwardian period of ocean liner travel across the Atlantic.
It is through the rebuilding of the ship Professor Palmer wants to recognize the artists and artisans whose skill, creativity and dexterity has never to this day been fully acknowledged because of the ship's limited service. This magnificent vessel is to be constructed in memory of the heroic people who served on the ship, the passengers who sadly shared their fate and all those that survived the tragedy.
The new ship will have a welded hull, diesel power generation, bow thrusters for increased manoeuvrability and a new hull form below the waterline providing greater stability and fuel efficiencies. The ship comprises of 10 principle steel decks with state-of-the-art 21st century technology, latest navigation and safety systems.
Construction of the ship will take place at CSC Jinling Shipyard in China with her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 2016.


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I love this Salad and made it recently to encourage summer and the sun to come out and show itself up here in rainy Oregon.
From the Silver Palate Cookbook
4 cups water
2 cups bulgur (processed cracked wheat – they have it at Fred Meyer)
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup dried currants or cranberries
1 cup dried cherries
4 tbsp chopped Italian parsley
1 tbsp olive oil
Grated zest of one medium orange
Juice from 1/2 orange
Salt and pepper to taste
In a large sauce pan combine water and wheat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered for 35 to 40 minutes or until water is absorbed and wheat is tender (not mushy). Transfer to a bowl and refrigerate, uncovered until cool. Add remaining ingredients and toss thoroughly. Serve cool or at room temp.


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By Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY
GOODYEAR, Ariz. He is their highest-paid player, with the most prolific résumé, but the Cleveland Indians aren't counting on him.
The Indians built this team with only modest expectations that Travis Hafner can return as the same powerful hitter who once dominated the American League.
The Indians also know that if he's just a shadow of the guy who hit 42 homers and drove in 117 runs in 2006, they have as good a shot as anyone to be playing baseball into November.
"We should be a good offensive team anyway," says Cleveland general manager Mark Shapiro, "but if Haf comes back to have even an average year, we're going to have a dominant offense. Maybe one of the best three or four in the league.
"And if he doesn't come back, we're still going to have a good lineup. I think with the way the team has matured, we don't need him to carry our offense anymore."
Hafner, 31, who still is owed $51.75 million through 2012, understands the club's sentiments. It's hard to rely on a guy who hit .197 last year with five homers and 24 RBI in 57 games, then had shoulder surgery in October. This spring, he's hitting just .225 without a home run.
But it might also be foolish to count him out. Hafner says he feels healthy, and his timing and confidence are returning. Don't judge him on his March stats, he says.
"It was a good year to have a long spring," Hafner says. "I've been swinging better the last week. I'm getting close."
If Hafner starts resembling the hitter who hit 127 homers and drove in 434 runs in 2004-2007, he says, the Indians' offense could be the most explosive in baseball. They led the major leagues with 379 runs the second half, and their 44-28 record after July 9 was the fourth-best in baseball. And this was primarily without any production from Hafner and injured catcher/first baseman Victor Martinez.
"If I play well," Hafner says, "I can take the pressure off everybody else. I want to be counted on."
The Indians, who finished 81-81, have a star-studded lineup with center fielder Grady Sizemore, Martinez and shortstop Jhonny Peralta. Sizemore hit a career-high 33 homers with 38 stolen bases. Peralta led all shortstops with 23 homers and 69 extra-base hits. Outfielder Shin-Soo Choo hit .343 with 11 homers and 48 RBI in 58 games the second half.
The club flourished despite injuries and the trades of ace CC Sabathia and third baseman Casey Blake.
"The team we had last year was not bad," Shapiro says, "but we lost our second and third starters [Fausto Carmona and Jake Westbrook], and our third and fourth hitters. Not even the Red Sox or the Yankees can overcome that magnitude of a loss. But we still didn't pack it in."
The Indians, who lost 57 games last year when either tied or leading after six innings, shored up their bullpen with the acquisitions of closer Kerry Wood and setup man Joe Smith.
Wood, who has reached 95 mph on the radar gun this spring, might be their hardest-throwing closer since Jose Mesa, who last pitched in Cleveland in 1998. They were elated this spring with the play of outfielders Matt LaPorta and Michael Brantley (acquired from Milwaukee in the Sabathia trade) and catcher Carlos Santana (acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Blake trade).
The key, Shapiro says, will be their rotation. They're not going to bank on Cy Young winner Cliff Lee having another 22-3 season, but they are expecting improvement from Carmona, who went 8-7 with a 5.44 ERA last year.
They are pleased with former 18-game winner Carl Pavano, who has adjusted his pitching delivery and is feeling healthy again. And Hafner hopes to be that guy who pushes them over the top.
"The talent is here, we all know that," Hafner says. "We've got a chance to score a lot of runs. If we do that, we're going to win. If we all do what we're capable of again, anything can happen."
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To continually improve the quality of The Cheerleading Worlds leading to increasing its effectiveness in accomplishing the mission of the USASF.
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- USASF Member Gym Owners.
- Coaches who have attended "at minimum" the previous year's Worlds
- One representative from each region selected by the USASF Regional Director.
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