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There aren't all that many tow trucks puttering around the middle of nowhere, but they run into a bit of good luck. Mick (John Jarratt), a weathered, quirky, good-natured bloke in his forties or fifties, stumbles upon 'em, offering to tow their car back to his place and make the necessary repairs free of charge. The girls aren't all that eager to tag along, but with the only other option being spending the night at Wolf Creek and hoping someone else happens to show up, they relent. After all, the guy sounds like Crocodile Dundee; what's there to worry about? Well, if they'd have known they were in a movie with an "Unrated" label slapped on the front cover and blurbs like "Not since the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre has terror felt so real" on the flipside of the case, they're obviously not going to drive away with free car repair and a smile.
I've heard Wolf Creek attacked repeatedly for the pace of its first hour, but I really didn't mind that slow burn. Strangely enough, I found its more sadistic final 45 minutes or so to be much more uneven. Greg McLean notes in the disc's making-of doc that he wanted to create a distinctively Australian horror icon, and in the extended final act of the movie, Wolf Creek becomes The Indestructible Madman Torture Extravaganza, purely about his Freddy Krueger-by-way-of-Crocodile Dundee killer. The slower first hour is meant to get to know the three leads, and I guess the goal is that when Ben disappears for almost the duration of the movie and when Kristy and Liz are reduced to Busty, Cute, Screaming, Tortured Girl and Not-So-Busty, Cute, Screaming, Tortured Girl, it can coast on that characterization and viewers will still have an emotional investment in what happens to these unlucky twentysomethings. It's just that since the characters become so one-note and nothing we learn about them early on matters anymore, the last act of the movie is kinda boring whenever Mick isn't on-screen butchering someone. There are some unflinchingly brutal moments -- Mick tormenting a bound, gagged Kristy in his lair, severed fingers, a 'head on a stick', and cold, calculated gunplay -- but with really only two victims in play and awful lot of time to kill, the pacing drags mid-sadism.
I'm a lifelong slasher fanatic, and I found a lot to like about Wolf Creek. It's just that I keep wanting to tack a "...but..." onto every sentence I write. Wolf Creek has a better cast and stronger characterization than most slashers, but that's pretty much all tossed out the window near the end, especially where Ben's concerned. John Jarratt has a deceptively disarming presence on-screen while still cleverly hinting at the madman bubbling under the surface, but he's so over the top that Mick isn't especially terrifying. McLean nicks too much from Freddy Krueger, creating a killer who's borderline-indestructible, unerringly manages to pop up right behind his victims no matter where they are or what they do, and is prone to lobbing out goofy one-liners. At least it's an energetic performance instead of just another laconic masked murderer. There were a couple of sequences so gruesome that even a jaded gorehound like myself still cringed, but it's one of the least graphic movies from this most recent wave of horror. It isn't an endless parade of stabbings and torture, and nearly all of what Kristy suffers through is implied rather than shown. Wolf Creek plays with a lot of the usual genre cliches -- the unconscious killer and the 'final girl', in particular -- but as much as it attempts to subvert the audience's expectations, there's still something routine about the way the movie unfolds. I don't have a "...but..." to follow how much I dug the atmospheric photography and the cacklingly macabre set design of Mick's torture chamber, though. Wolf Creek may have been shot on a shoestring, but it doesn't look like it.
Wolf Creek is better than average for a slasher flick, but as much as the movie tries to subvert a lot of the usual genre cliches, it still winds up feeling kind of run of the mill. It's the type of movie that I wouldn't have thought twice about if I didn't have to hammer out a review afterwards, but as flawed as it is, I still think enough works in Wolf Creek that it'd be a solid rental.
This HD DVD release of Wolf Creek is unrated, running a few minutes longer than the R-rated theatrical cut. Greg McLean points out a couple of the differences in the disc's audio commentary, including an additional bit of characterization early on and a sequence with Liz plummeting into a pit filled with the remains of Mick's previous victims.
Video: I've read several reports from other reviewers who've had a really tough time getting this initial wave of HD DVDs from The Weinstein Company to load properly, one of 'em noting a two minute wait for the first logo to pop up on-screen. I was kind of surprised when Wolf Creek played without a hitch my first time through, but when I came back to review the extras, it was damn near as unforgivingly brutal a struggle as anything in the movie. It took ten or fifteen minutes of thumb-twiddling, disc swapping, powering down, and button mashing for Wolf Creek to work a second time on my Toshiba HD-A1, and I came really close to giving up entirely. I'm not sure if later model HD DVD players or the Xbox 360 add-on would suffer from the same problem, but early adopters may want to keep this in mind before forking over their credit cards.
That's really the only gripe I have with this HD DVD, which is presented at an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 and is among just a handful of titles to have been encoded using MPEG-4. Most movies that are shot on HD video are filtered and processed to look as much like film as possible, but Wolf Creek doesn't shake off its video origins. The serrated camerawork further adds to its gritty, verite sense of style, and the low-level video noise that buzzes around the long stretches set at night is a perfect fit for a movie taking its inspiration from grainy 42nd St. grindhouse cinema.
The photography favors extreme, dazzlingly detailed close-ups that reveal every pore, blemish, and stray hair, but director Greg McLean also takes advantage of the movie's desolate setting with expansive wide shots of the barren Australian Outback. These panoramic shots don't offer quite the same detail and clarity as the best HD DVDs I've seen, but they're beautifully photographed and add a strong sense of atmosphere. Wolf Creek's palette is fairly warm early on but transitions to bleak, desaturated hues as the savagery gets underway. There's a nice bit in the disc's making-of documentary on how the movie's colors were tweaked in post-production, and it looks so natural that I wouldn't have guessed that sort of manipulation was going on. As you'd hope to see from a horror flick set mostly at night, black levels remain robust throughout. A couple of brief, heavily aliased shots near the tail end of the movie were clearly shot on standard def DV, but I doubt they looked any better theatrically. The lower-budget, stylized photography may keep it from being a home theater showcase title, but Wolf Creek looks great on HD DVD and is a strong first outing for The Weinstein Company.
Audio: Wolf Creek's minimalist sound design doesn't make for the strongest demo material either, but the Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 audio generally sounds alright. I struggled a bit with the heavy Australian accents at first but didn't have any trouble making out what was being said after a few minutes in, and the dialogue doesn't get buried under the effective, sparingly instrumented score. The music and sound effects deliberately don't draw attention to themselves, but they sound sharp for the most part, with care especially taken during the moments in Mick's ramshackle lair to establish an unsettling atmosphere. The mix isn't littered with smooth pans from channel to channel or waves of devastating bass, but Wolf Creek really isn't that kind of movie. Not overwhelmingly impressive but certainly a solid effort.
The disc also includes a French dub as well as subtitles in English and Spanish.
Supplements: None of the disc's extras are in high-definition, but everything from the domestic DVD release has made its way here, along with one interview that had been left off The Weinstein Company's earlier DVD.
First up is a fun, chatty audio commentary with writer/director Greg McLean, producer Matt Hearn, and stars Cassandra Magrath and Kestie Morassi. In between the girls' fits of laughter, McLean comments on how he and his crew worked around the meager budget, the tight shooting schedule, and the first rain this remote desert had seen in ten years. McLean and company comment on some of the criticism about the movie, explaining why Mick's head wasn't crushed into a soupy red paste an hour in and poking fun at Liz stopping to look for clues instead of running for her life. If you're hoping for intensely technical notes or...y'know, thematic insight, this might not be the track for you, but I enjoyed it anyway. As much as McLean points out the endless amount of extra footage and deleted scenes that were snipped out of the final cut, only a 38 second bit labeled "G'Day" (pretty much an old woman in a convenience store belting out a "G'day!") is included.
A couple of the best notes from the commentary are also covered in the disc's sprawling 50 minute making-of doc, but those two or three comments are all the overlap there is between them. The documentary combines the two most common approaches to these making-of pieces -- talking head interviews and a fly-on-the-wall production diary -- along with outtakes, wardrobe tests, and footage showing how polished the finished product is compared to the raw photography. "The Making of Wolf Creek" covers pretty much everything, including overly ambitious earlier treatments, the casting, the decision to shoot on HD, the effects work, and nearly every angle of post-production. It's very comprehensive and includes much more footage from the shoot than usual, and its sense of humor makes it all the more worth a look.
Ian Jane's DVD review mentioned that the Weinsteins' DVD left off a 20 minute interview with John Jarratt from the PAL releases. The HD DVD corrects that mistake at least in part, serving up a seven and a half minute excerpt from that conversation. In this short but solid chat, Jarratt comments on tackling a character so different than anything he'd played in his decades in front of the camera and how he came up with just the right disturbing laugh.
A theatrical trailer rounds out the extras. It's worth noting that The Weinstein Company is using fully animated menus for their releases, something I haven't seen much of on HD DVD. As is the case with Warner's titles, a menu bar spanning the bottom of the screen will appear mid-movie with the press of a button.
Conclusion: As much press as Wolf Creek has gotten for being one of the most disturbing movies of the past decade, I thought it was a well-made but ultimately routine slasher. It toys a bit with many of the usual genre cliches but generally winds up in the same place as a hundred other twentysomethings-on-a-vacation-gone-bad horror flicks. Wolf Creek is better acted than most and has a couple of really effective gruesome sequences, and I liked the movie enough to recommend it to other slasher fanatics even if it didn't fully live up to my expectations. Because it's somewhat run-of-the-mill and forgettable, Wolf Creek falls somewhere between a Rent It and a Recommended, but I'll lean positive, although HD-A1 owners might want to opt for a rental or wait for a future pressing to resolve these loading problems.


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Johannesburg - The Premier Soccer League (PSL) on Friday
signed a five-year television rights deal worth more than R2bn with the
country's satellite channel SuperSport, part of the continent's biggest media
company Naspers [JSE:NPN].
PSL chairperson Irvin Khoza said the deal, which starts next
season, puts the South African league in the Top 10 of worldwide earners from the
sale of television rights.
"The winning tender... offered a composite package that
includes internet and mobile rights," Khoza told a news conference.
"We need to be clear that it wasn't just the money that
influenced us but (we) looked at the growth and enhancement of our product on
our current deal, where we moved from being 30th ranked league in the world to
the top 10."
The deal extended an existing five-year deal for which
SuperSport paid R1.6bn in 2007. This season, which ends in May next year, is
the last of the current agreement.
SuperSport won an acrimonious rights tussle with the SABC in 2007, but this time the cash-strapped state broadcaster's spokesperson
Kaizer Kganyago said it did not have the financial power to challenge for the
SuperSport sub-licenses matches to the SABC, and broadcasts
an average of seven live matches per week.
*Fin24 is a Naspers publication.
Pity people who dont access to Supersport,SABC is utter crap!
Then get drifter for R38 / month, go to a pub or bar, go to a friends house or better yet go to the game!!! Not having DSTV is no excuse anymore. Well done to them for finally taking us out of the dark ages.
since super sport has won the rights, the Sabc has shown way more games than they would of, if they won the rights
this is great news for south africa's most favourite sport...yeeey

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I Won an Anchor at the Fly Fishing Movie!
Over $30,000 dollars in giveaways and up come the 30lb anchors. The words rang out, "out of all the cool things, I'll probably win an anchor". That's exactly what happened, won an anchor for the boat I don't have.
At least I won something right? I do have to say that outdoor films shown in Montana, are just top notch. Whether they are showing footage of the Big Sky country or New Zealand. We all live here for a reason,a lot of times it is because we love the outdoors, the fresh air, scenery and multitude of activities. That's why attending films and events like the Orvis "Down The Hatch" film festival showing are important and fun. It keeps us united as an outdoor nation. It gave me chills to see the Rainbows taking the fly's. The saying " the tug is the drug" is so true if you have ever patiently set out your fly for it to be caught …and the fight to begin. All of the proceeds from Saturday nights showing went to Trout Unlimted. a great organization, find out how you can help more or be a part of TU. Anchors away!


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Cornerback Terence Newman returned to practice on Friday for the first time after missing Wednesday and Thursday with an ankle injury. Newman suffered the injury early in Sunday's 33-20 victory over the New York Giants, but eventually returned. He is expected to play in Sunday's match-up with the Detroit Lions.
"He's gotten some work in the walkthroughs," interim head coach Jason Garrett said, per ESPN Dallas. "So he's familiar with the looks but we'll see if he can move around today and see how he does."
Linebacker Bradie James and wide receiver Kevin Ogletree, both of whom had missed practice on Wednesday, returned to practice on Thursday, and cornerback Mike Jenkins, as well as defensive lineman Jason Hatcher returned from respective neck and groin injuries on Wednesday.
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MINNEAPOLIS (Feb. 4, 2009) – Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, and founder of the Worldwatch Institute, along with Terry and Mary Kohler, of Windway Capital Corp., will be the recipients of the 2009 Lindbergh Award in recognition of their dedication to the environment. "Mr. Brown and the Kohlers convey an outstanding spirit of individual initiative and incredible accomplishment,"?? said Lindbergh Foundation Chairman John King. "This makes them perfect recipients for our Lindbergh Award."?? The Lindbergh Award is presented annually to individuals who have made significant contributions over many years toward improving our quality of life by balancing technological advancements and the preservation of our environment. A gala will be held at the EAA AirVenture Museum, in Oshkosh, Wisc., on Saturday, May 16, 2009. The ceremony includes a reception, silent auction, dinner and a program, including remarks from the award recipients.
Lester Brown
Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the world's most influential thinkers."?? He is an award-winning environmentalist and internationally recognized author of more than 50 books on global environmental issues. Before starting the Earth Policy Institute in 2001, Mr. Brown founded Worldwatch Institute and was its president for 26 years. "Lester Brown is an exceptional portrayal of the Lindbergh Foundation's ideals,"?? said King. "He presents a realistic view of the world, yet remains optimistic as he suggests practical solutions to many of today's most pressing environmental issues."??
Top of mind for Mr. Brown these days is discovering alternative energy sources for the country and evaluating the economic impact of each. His Plan B series of books are aimed at this very important issue. In writing the first Plan B book, Lester Brown told Grist magazine that the goal for the book was to provide a look at what an environmentally sustainable economy looks like. "Throughout most of human history, we lived on the earth's sustainable yield" "the interest from its natural endowment. But now we are consuming the endowment itself,"?? says Brown. "Plan A"?? represents the status quo. Mr. Brown's comprehensive "Plan B 3.0"?? has four goals: 1) stabilize the climate; 2) stabilize population; 3) eradicate poverty; and 4) restore the earth's damaged ecosystems.
"Among the new sources of energy "??? wind, solar cells, solar thermal, geothermal, small-scale hydro, biomass" ???wind is emerging as a major energy source,"?? Brown said in his 2006 book, Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. "Wind energy is growing fast for six reasons,"?? Brown explains. "It is abundant, cheap, inexhaustible, widely distributed, clean, and climate-benign. No other energy source has this combination of attributes."??
In his most recent book, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, which came out last year, Brown said, "The challenge for our generation is to build a new economy, one that is powered largely by renewable sources of energy, that has a highly diversified transport system, and that reuses and recycles everything. And to do it with unprecedented speed."??
Terry and Mary Kohler
"Terry and Mary Kohler's use of their aircraft to reintroduce swan and crane eggs in the United States is an excellent example of the Lindbergh Foundation's concept of balancing technology and nature,"?? said King. "Their commitment to this work is just what the Foundation seeks to honor with our Lindbergh Award."??
Terry Kohler is president and CEO of Windway Capital Corp., and Mary Kohler is vice president of the Windway Foundation. Windway Capital Corp., is the parent company of Vollrath, which manufactures commercial-grade pots and pans; and North Sails, which makes high-tech racing sails, including those used by America's Cup winners.
It was 1989 when then-Governor Tommy Thompson asked Mr. Kohler to help with a project between the Wisconsin DNR and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They needed to transport to trumpeter swan eggs collected from Alaska and bring them safely back to Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Zoo. Mr. Kohler jumped at the chance. That request launched a nearly decade-long commitment by Terry, Mary, and the flight crew of Windway Capital who made annual flights to Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park to bring whooping crane eggs to the U.S., so the hatched birds could be returned to the wild.
In 1994, the Kohlers began supporting the Milwaukee County Zoo's annual tracking of endangered Humboldt penguins in Chile. They also helped rescue piping plover eggs in the Dakotas when floods threatened the nests. But their conservation work is not limited to birds. They also helped transport a baby orangutan from Colorado to Wisconsin and have been involved in conservation projects related to trout streams and aerial surveys of ancient coral beds in Montana, and the Wisconsin ice age trail.
Mr. Kohler also made a round-the-world flight over Russia to deliver Siberian crane eggs to Western Siberia in 1997. The trip became the first-ever flight across Russia by a private jet. It took 14 days and 39.2 hours of flight time. Nearly 13,000 miles were traveled, mostly above the Arctic Circle.
In an article in the January 2008 issue of EAA's Sport Aviation magazine, Mr. Kohler said, "Working with trumpeter swans, whooping cranes and Siberian cranes is an experience that has provided almost weekly excitement in our lives for nearly 20 years."??
Lindbergh Award Event Held at EAA AirVenture Museum
"Oshkosh is all about innovation,"?? said Elissa Lines, EAA vice president of donor and business relations. "So we feel that Oshkosh is the perfect place for the Lindbergh Award celebration."?? Lindbergh Foundation President Knox Bridges added, "We couldn't agree more. The Lindbergh Foundation supports scientific and educational innovation with its research grant and award programs. What better place for us to honor our Awardees for their life-long dedication to environmental innovation, than EAA."??
As an added attraction, EAA is offering vintage aircraft rides and discount museum admission to Lindbergh Foundation gala attendees. Flights in the Ford Tri-Motor, Swallow and Travel Air will be available that weekend only for Lindbergh Foundation gala guests.
About the Lindbergh Foundation
The Lindbergh Foundation is a public 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, based in Anoka, Minnesota, which supports great innovations that foster the environment for a planet in balance. The Lindbergh Foundation also values individual initiative and accomplishments. Its programs are devoted to supporting, honoring, and educating individuals, through three major programs: the annual honorary Lindbergh Award, presented to individuals for significant contributions toward balancing nature and technology in their work; the Lindbergh Grants program, which provides grants in amounts up to $10,580 (the cost of building the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927) for research or education projects that will make important contributions to the technology/environment balance; and other educational events and publications centered on the balance theme.


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October is Fair Trade Month! If you aren't familiar with Fair Trade, watch this short video to learn more.
You can also watch this video for information on Fair Trade Month.
The package included treats from these brands:
- Sweet Riot Chocolate Bar
- Kopali Organics Chocolate Covered Bananas
- Traditional Medicinals Tea & Mug
- Near East Quinoa Blend
- Honest Tea
- Badger Lip Balm
- Larabar
- Cisse Trading Company Hot Cocoa
- Coupon for Coconut Bliss products
- Glory Bee Honey
- Green Mountain Coffee
Everything is so great, and I have loved sampling each item. I love the Traditional Medicinals Mug. It even comes with a lid to better steep my tea! I normally awkwardly place a small plate over it, so I am excited to have the proper mug now.
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Cardinals down Seahawks
Kurt Warner passed for 302 yards with a pair of touchdowns Sunday, as the Arizona Cardinals defeated the Seattle Seahawks 28-21.
The Cardinals were a 6-point favorite in the game and were able to cover the spread. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over/under total (51).
Larry Fitzgerald caught five passes for 79 yards and two touchdowns for Denver, while Anquan Boldin caught seven passes for 81 yards.
Matt Schaub passed for 302 yards and a two touchdowns for Houston, while Andre Johnson hauled in eight passes for 101 yards and two touchdowns.


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There is plenty of information about a company that you'll want to know as a value investor, but that you can't get from a casual glance at a stock quote or from reading most stock market commentary. In this section, we'll tell you where to find that information and what to look for.
Financial Reports
Financial reports are a company's annual and quarterly performance results. The annual report is SEC form 10-K and the quarterly report is SEC form 10-Q. Companies are required to file these reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). You can find them at the SEC website or at the company's corporate or investor relations website.
You can learn a lot from a company's annual report. It will explain what products and/or services the company sells and give you an idea of how the company sees itself. For example, most people think of books when they think of Amazon.com. However, Amazon's annual report says, "We seek to be Earth's most customer-centric company for three primary customer sets: consumers, sellers, and enterprises. In addition, we generate revenue through other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising, and co-branded credit card agreements." This statement tells investors that the company has a much broader focus than books. A company's financial reports will also describe its recent major accomplishments, changes in leadership, risk factors, intellectual property, any regulatory changes that affect the company and more.
If you're interested in investing in a company but you're not sure you understand its business model, try reading the annual report – it might be eye-opening. For example, you might not think of yourself as someone who would invest in a pharmaceutical company, but when you read its annual report and learn about what its major drugs are, why people need them and how they work, you might discover that you understand more than you expected to. However, if you're still lost after doing this research, you should probably pass on the stock.
Of course, financial reports also provide the financial data that investors want to analyze, such as revenues, operating expenses, net income, total assets, total debt and more. Financial reports also make it easy to compare these numbers across time by providing historical data along with current data. For example, a look at Amazon's 2010 10-K shows that Amazon's net sales have increased every year for the last five years, from $10,711 million in 2006 to $34,204 million in 2010. If you want to go back further in time, you can also look up older annual reports. Historical data should be analyzed to determine the effectiveness of growth prospects and to create forecasts.
Financial reports can also tell you a lot about the company's weaknesses. Amazon's 2010 annual report says, for example, "We Have a Rapidly Evolving Business Model and Our Stock Price Is Highly Volatile," "We May Be Subject to Product Liability Claims if People or Property Are Harmed by the Products We Sell," and "We Could Be Liable for Fraudulent or Unlawful Activities of Sellers." As a potential investor, you will want to think about how much of a threat these weaknesses are to your likelihood of earning a profit.
An essential component of any financial report is the company's financial statements. We'll examine two – the balance sheet and the income statement - that will give you many of the numbers you'll need for your value investment analysis.
The Balance Sheet
A company's balance sheet provides a big picture of the company's financial condition. The balance sheet consists of two sections, one listing the company's assets and another listing its liabilities and equity.
The assets section is broken down into a company's cash and cash equivalents; investments; trade receivables or accounts receivable; inventories; deferred tax assets; intangible assets; goodwill; property, plant and equipment; and other assets. These subcategories won't be identical for every company you examine because different companies have different types of assets.
The liabilities section lists the company's accounts payable, accrued liabilities, convertible notes, long-term debt, other non-current liabilities, and any other outstanding debts that the company may have. The shareholders equity section of the balance sheet reflects how much money is invested into the company in addition to the cumulative retained earnings. Again, these subcategories won't be identical for every company you examine because different companies have different types of liabilities. (For example, an insurance company might list "unearned premiums" as a liability, but a food service company would not.)
One important ratio that value investors like to calculate using balance sheet data is called the current ratio. The current ratio compares the company's total current assets to its total current liabilities. Current assets will be utilized within a year and current liabilities must be covered within the same time frame.
The higher the ratio, the better, but value investors like to see a current ratio of at least 2 to 1, meaning that the company has at least twice as many current assets as current liabilities. The current ratio indicates how easily a company can cover its current obligations and reveal the general liquidity position of the firm. Comparing a company's current ratio for the most recent year to that of previous years and to that of similar companies for the same years will help you put this number into perspective.
For some calculations, you can let someone else do the math for you – Yahoo! Finance, for example, provides the current ratio and many other important metrics under a category called "Key Statistics" when you look up a company's ticker symbol.
While you're at it, you can also calculate net current assets per share. To get net current assets (also called working capital or current capital), you subtract current liabilities from current assets. Divide the result by the number of shares outstanding and you get net current assets per share. (You can find a company's shares outstanding through the company's financial statement – specifically the income statement.) Investing in a company where the stock price is no more than 67% of its NCAV per share could be beneficial to an investor.
The balance sheet also provides a snapshot of a company's long-term finances. Long-term assets may be lumped together under a term like "fixed assets" or "property, plant and equipment." Included in these categories are assets such as the real estate and factories the company owns. "Intangible assets" is also a long-term asset; it attempts to measure the value of the company's intellectual property holdings (copyrights, trademarks and patents). Long-term liabilities are a company's financial obligations whose maturity is longer than one year, including real estate leases and bond issues.
Another important number to get from the balance sheet is the company's debt-to-assets ratio. To get this number, divide total liabilities by total assets. (Note that the term "debt" is used very loosely in this ratio because it includes all of a company's liabilities, not just its long term debt.) Graham avoided companies whose debt exceeded 50% of assets. The lower the company's debt ratio, the better. (Read The Debt Ratio to learn more.)
Book value per share and price-to-book ratio are also meaningful. Book value is the company's net worth – its assets minus its liabilities. The book value per share statistic is obtained by dividing the company's net worth by the number of shares outstanding. Value investors are interested in companies when their stock price is below book value per share. If a company has a net worth of $10 million and it has 500,000 shares outstanding, its book value per share is $10,000,000 / 500,000, or $20. If the stock is trading for $15, it may be worth researching further. Comparing the $15 stock price to the $20 book value gives us the price-to-book ratio. ($15/$20 = 0.75)
These aren't the only financial ratios you can calculate using the numbers on the balance sheet, but they are a few of the most basic ones. (For further reading, see Reading The Balance Sheet and our Financial Ratio Tutorial.)
If a company's balance sheet doesn't check out or if you can't understand it, cross the stock off your list and move on.
Next, let's look at what you can learn from income statements.
Value Investing: Finding Value In Income Statements
How to Analyze a Company's Financial PositionFind out how to calculate important ratios and compare them to market value.
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motherboard manufacturers have indicated that if amd can start volume production of their hammer chips before q3 2003, amd would be in good time for the peak holiday sales in q4 2003, and would be able to compete strongly with intel's pentium 4. if amd can't do volume hammer chips by q3, there presumably may not be enough momentum to stave off the onslaught of 800mhz front side buses (and ddr400) that intel is adding to their pentium 4 chips next year. digitimes goes on to mention that that strategy may have been a direct jab at amd's decision to support ddr333 with their integrated memory controller in the initial hammer line of chips (opteron and athlon 64). so, the benchmark has been set. since amd is targeting early q2 2003 for introduction of the athlon 64, it may seem like child's play to go into volume by the end of q2; but amd stil has to get a lot of things right to achieve their goals. one thing in amd's favor if they do meet hammer production goals is that motherboard makers don't have to work as hard to get memory logic and board wiring set up since the memory interfaces are built into the chips. anandtech made mention way back in one of their comdex reports that most hammer boards were four-layer boards, should be fairly cheap, and are readily available even now. the stage is set and the spotlight is on … the motherboard makers are just waiting for amd at this point.
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|that means (2:03pm est wed dec 11 2002)
i still have about a year to figure out how i am going to save all that money for my upgrade. – by the iceman
|so far so good, if only (2:19pm est wed dec 11 2002)
amd can make the dates, they have had to push back and push back due to delay after delay. the geek industry would be most sad if amd died from this venture. personally i hope they succeed as the product seems to be an excellent alternative. – by eric the red
|what has to be seen… (5:42pm est wed dec 11 2002)
can amd make it out by early q2?
is that going to be their paper launch or actual launch?
how quickly can they ramp it up?
what will they be facing from intel? – by manu
|paper launch of hammers q2 2003 would prolly even be difficult for amd (7:07pm est wed dec 11 2002)
to pull off.
look for amd to fold before ever getting any hammers actually onto storeshelves.
hammers are two years late now and prolly still 9 months to 2 years away.
amd will need another loan in q1 to survive, but it will be difficult to get with amd's 'junk' credit rating and failure to deliver a "small profit" promised for back in q2 2002 in order to get the q1 2002 loan. amd has also promised breakeven in q2 2003 to get the recent q4 loan.
expect amd q4 total losses of $1 – $2billion including all the "special charges" planned. – by buzz
|hammer support (7:55pm est wed dec 11 2002)
looking back at the athlon launch, it looks like amd sat down and identified everything that went wrong with the launch. lack of chipsets was problem no. 1, lack of motherboard partners was problem no. 2, lack of oem launch partners was no.3, lack of software support, and the list goes on. the ev6 bus was supposed to get them to piggy back on the alpha infrastructure in the multi-processor world. that did not happen in a big way. amd had to release its own chipset, the 760 mp/mpx and that is the only one.
what has changed for the hammer launch? i count amd, ali, ati, nvidia, sis and via with chipsets. i lost count of the number of motherboard makers with product ready to sell right now. we don't know who the launch partners are going to be yet so we will have to wait for the launch to find out. linux software is ready to go, ms who knows. as for multiprocessing and server support, check out the newisys sight. what else is amd doing different this time? – by caladan
|amd=no funds (8:28pm est wed dec 11 2002)
amd is screwed, no mo' money to spend. any company can promise great things it delivering them that makes money. the industry needs competition, but amd has not been able to effectivly follow-up on their athlon. they cought intel with their pants down but were not able to capitalize on the event. amd's only hope is to sell-out/get bought-out and hopefully continue on under another name. look folks you can brag and whine all ya want but face it amd is broke!!!!!! – by betcha
|deja vu all over again (3:33am est thu dec 12 2002)
i think it was mike fiebus (if i spelled it right) of mercury research that said it best:
amd has a long-term history of short-term problems.
same-ole, same-ole …
|amd never ceases to amaze me! (8:27pm est sun dec 15 2002)
amd is king of "overpromise and underdeliver."
jerry sanders mouth writes checks his fabs cant cash. amd is always just about to release some great product that will smoke intel, but amd blows it again and again. perhaps amd should shut its freakin' cake hole and let its chips do the talking. problem is, amd's chips always look good on paper and look even better on benchmarks, but what amd shows off and what you can buy are not at all the same thing. anyone seen any pr2800 chips? didnt think so. how about pr2700? pr2600? maybe. how many months ago were they released?
amd is not selling any of its faster chips. thats not just the market, thats amd's manufacturing screwups at work. intel is turning a profit. why cant amd? – by truth serum


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World Cup: Roy Hodgson says he knows England's starting line-up to face Italy
England arrive in Brazil for the World Cup on Sunday and Roy Hodgson says he knows his starting line-up.
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England finished their preparations with a 0-0 draw with Honduras in Miami on Saturday night.
The players had to battle temperatures of 30 degrees, 60 per cent humidity and a hugely physical Honduras team, and England were fortunate that no players were injured.
And a tropical storm meant the match had to be stopped for 44 minutes during the first half.
Hodgson told Sky Sports News he is happy with how the squad's preparation has gone and suggested that he had settled on his starting XI to take on Italy in Manaus next weekend well before their final warm-up matches against Peru, Ecuador and Honduras.
"I think the team was first class and we go to Brazil now with three weeks' good preparation," he said.
"I've got to say these warm-up games, they don't necessarily answer a lot of questions. You ask and answer your own questions over a long period of time.
"These warm-up games are...just a way of getting yourself to Rio and the real tournament, the real football begins. I'm happy we are going there in good spirits and the players have done all that we have asked them. "
Hodgson says the first-half stoppage did not overly affect the players.
"I thought we dealt with that very well. We hadn't been bad in the first 25 minutes but I thought we stepped it up after the interval and there was only one team that wanted to win the game and that was us," he said. "I'm just surprised we didn't put the ball in the back of the net."
And Hodgson gave an upbeat assessment on the fitness of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who suffered a knee injury in the 2-2 draw with Ecuador on Wednesday.
Hodgson said: "He is making big strides forward, I'd be very surprised if the doctors tell us he wouldn't be capable of playing a part in the tournament.
"That's what we are hoping for. But there are still a few assessments to be made on him. I wouldn't want to suggest that is a stonewall certainty."
England defender Phil Jagielka added: "He can't do anything out of his leg brace yet. He's a young lad, hopefully he's a quick healer. We'd love to keep him. If he can get himself fit and play like he did the other night then he's definitely worth keeping hold of."


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Car theft suspect pleads guilty
October 25, 2011
A suspect in an August car theft pleaded guilty Monday in Moffat County District Court to reduced charges and could serve up to 11 years in the Department of Corrections.
Jarod Bays, 25, of Craig, entered his guilty plea before Judge Shelley Hill to aggravated motor vehicle theft in the first degree, a Class 4 felony, and driving under the influence of alcohol and reckless endangerment, both of which are misdemeanors.
Additional charges of criminal mischief of $20,000 or more, a Class 3 felony, and trespass of an auto with intent to commit, a Class 5 felony, were dropped according to court records.
Bays also pled guilty to violating the terms of his probation, which may subject him to enhanced punishment when he is sentenced Jan. 3, 2012.
Jon Pfeifer, Moffat County Deputy District Attorney, prosecuted the case and said Bays could spend eight to 11 years in prison.
Authorities allege Bays and two other local residents — Alicia Colvin, 31, and Joseph A. Galvan, 20 — stole a 2001 Lexus from the driveway of Craig residents Joel and Janet Sheridan, and later crashed the vehicle at the corner of Barclay and 10th streets.
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Bays is suspected of driving the vehicle during the course of the theft.
Joel Sheridan said he was not aware of the news when reached for comment Monday night.
He said the only thing he may do regarding the case is fill out "victim papers" with the court outlining financial losses that were not covered by his insurance.
Colvin and Galvan are facing charges of motor vehicle theft and trespass of an auto with intent to commit.
Galvan is represented by a public defender and is scheduled to be arraigned at 1 p.m. Oct. 31 before Judge Michael O'Hara in Moffat County District Court.
Colvin also has court-appointed counsel and is scheduled to be arraigned at 11 a.m. Nov. 1 before Judge O'Hara in district court.
Attorney Doug Timmerman, who represents Bays, could not be reached Monday for comment.
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Canada's Eugenie Bouchard will play in her first WTA semifinal after defeating Anna Tatishvili Thursday at a clay court tournament in France.
The 19-year-old Montreal native defeated the world No. 83 from Georgia 6-3, 6-2 in just over an hour at the Strasbourg International, a French Open tuneup event.
"I think I played pretty well today," Bouchard said on the WTA website. "I tried to be aggressive, which worked well against her. I feel like I've been improving with every match I've been playing here, so I want to keep that going (Friday).
"This is my only European clay tournament before (the French Open), so it's intended for preparation, but I still want to do well here."
On Friday, Bouchard will meet Alize Cornet of France, who downed South Africa's Chanelle Scheepers in straight sets 6-3, 6-1.
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McLeish resigns as Scotland manager
Alex McLeish has resigned as Scotland manager.
Scottish Football Association chief executive Gordon Smith confirmed that McLeish submitted a written resignation this afternoon.
The 48-year-old is expected to be unveiled as the new manager of Birmingham tomorrow.
Smith said: 'We are very disappointed to lose Alex as our manager.' Scottish FA president George Peat said in a statement: 'It is with regret that I can confirm that Alex McLeish has notified the Scottish FA that he has resigned from his position as national team coach with immediate effect.
'I am disappointed that Alex has chosen this course of action.
'He is an outstanding manager who has done a fantastic job with the national team.'
Chief executive Smith and president Peat had been involved in talks with McLeish during their trip to Durban for Sunday's 2010 World Cup qualifying draw, and hoped he would agree an improved new contract.
His deal was due to expire after the 2010 World Cup.
The former Rangers boss steered Scotland close to qualification for the Euro 2008 finals, with their hopes finally shattered by Italy's 2-1 win at Hampden 10 days ago.
However McLeish, on his arrival back in Britain, decided his future was not with the Scotland team.
The World Cup qualifiers begin next season and the lack of competitive games in the coming months may have been a factor in McLeish's decision to quit.
Peat said: 'Everyone at the SFA and indeed Scotland fans around the world were looking forward to Alex leading us into the World Cup qualification campaign.
'This is why we chose to offer Alex an extended contract while we were in South Africa.
'Sadly, he has chosen not to take up this offer.
'A special meeting of the SFA board will take place tomorrow morning at 11am to discuss the current situation.'
Chief executive Smith was still waiting for the chance to speak to McLeish about the resignation.
'He's not said anything, he's sent a written resignation,' Smith told PA Sport.
'We were sitting down at this stage and had broached increasing his deal time-wise and financial-wise.
'He has been a terrific manager for Scotland and a great asset to the association.
'He's also been working in other aspects within the SFA, and he's a big loss.'
Tomorrow's meeting of the SFA board had been called to discuss McLeish's future.
However Scotland's future without the 48-year-old will now rise to the top of the agenda.
'The meeting tomorrow has probably lost a bit of its impact,' said Smith.
'I didn't think we'd be dealing with this today.
'It's one of those things. It's market forces these days, and the Premier League is where lots of guys want to be.'
McLeish had carefully managed the speculation which began almost immediately after Scotland's defeat to Italy.
He insisted in Durban that it was 'absolutely crazy' for people to be backing him as the next Birmingham boss at such an early stage.
However McLeish did admit a Premier League job would be 'attractive ... in the long term'.
It has apparently come sooner than he dared to suggest, and he is set to be unveiled by Birmingham at a press conference at 10.30am tomorrow.
Smith accepted that Scotland's success under McLeish had come at a price.
Smith told Sky Sports News: 'Alex was doing a very good job and when a job became available there was speculation that he would be interested. It was a mixture of those things.
'What happened was we got an offer from Birmingham to speak to Alex and we rejected that.
'There was then a discussion on the matter and this is what has happened today. What has happened was a surprising thing as it moved on to another level.'
Birmingham received £3million from Wigan for the Latics taking manager Steve Bruce.
Smith said: 'We'll take that £3million! That would be very fair.'
The SFA and Birmingham must now reach a financial agreement to indemnify Scotland for their loss.
'There will be compensation and I think it would be substantial,' said Smith.
The SFA considered Gary McAllister for the position in January, after Walter Smith resigned to embark on a second spell as manager of Rangers.
However McLeish was always the front-runner and was installed on January 29.
Former Scotland midfielder McAllister could become a contender again, as could axed Derby boss Billy Davies, Scotland legend Graeme Souness, Motherwell manager Mark McGhee and Dundee United boss Craig Levein.
One bookmaker made McAllister the early favourite.
Gordon Smith took up his role as chief executive on July 1 and has enjoyed working with McLeish in the months since his appointment.
Scotland looked well on track to reach the Euro 2008 finals following victories over France in Paris and Ukraine in Glasgow.
But defeats to Georgia and Italy ended their hopes, and cost the team the services of their manager.
SFA chief Smith told Sky Sports News: 'If no-one comes in for your manager it is because he's not doing that well.
'If he's not doing that well, the team suffers as a consequence.
'We'd like to tie these people up but even a contract doesn't matter that much when a really attractive club comes in.'
Smith's predecessor David Taylor was the man who brought in McLeish.
Now Smith wants to recruit the next manager in as quick as possible.
'There's no major game until next year but I would like to get someone in place before that,' he said.
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My grandmoms wanted to take me down to the Carolina's for a week to surf, but it seems like a lot of the good spots are booked are there any spots that aren't bookd or aren't as crowded so we can spend the week there.
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Jun 2, 2013, 01:44 PM #1Senior Member
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Summer trip to the Carolina's
Jun 2, 2013, 02:16 PM #2
Who travels to the Carolinas when they are looking for a surf trip? You have a 75% chance of it being flat.
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Where should we travel then?
Jun 2, 2013, 03:08 PM #4
If you want to stay in the Southeast, Florida would probably be best. New Smyrna or Cocoa Beach maybe?
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Hatteras in summer can be a blast. Go down to Avon or buxton. There r always rooms for rent and usually some kind of wave.
Jun 2, 2013, 11:55 PM #6
If you do hit the Outer Banks make sure you have a wetsuit. If you don't own one keep heading south. That is if you're planning to take this trip in the very near future.
Jun 3, 2013, 01:19 AM #7
He's a kid. His grandma is doing something pretty neat for him / with him. Some of the vets on here could chime in with some info?
(Maybe WB or CB instead of the OBX?)
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Jun 3, 2013, 03:56 AM #9
North Florida has a wave more often than not...http://911surfreport.com/2013/06/02/...e-surf-report/ ...scroll down to the bottom and check the last 3 weeks or so and see what I mean...not anything epic this time of year but ripable 2-3 ft peaky surf way more often than you would think possible on the east coast
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OBX/nags head would be my suggestion depending on where you are coming from. More surf spots (not always hitting) but offers more variety of surf. Also plenty of fishing and lack of a "real" tourist spot like Va Beach or Myrtle.
As far as where to stay? Plenty of hotels, camp spots, and even renting a beach house. If granny is paying go beach house
Also with all spots you may end up going to planning a when is as important as a where. So choose wisely and hopefully this will be a start of a new addiction of surf traveling.


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Earlier today Bethesda revealed the official release date for their upcoming title, Dishonored. In addition to the announcement, Bethesda revealed the game's box art that will be seen on store shelves this October:
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Washington - Many of us hold cherished memories of snuggling up with our parents and hearing bedtime stories about the far-off and far-out adventures of characters who, maybe, reminded us a bit of ourselves. Lost My Name, a London-based company, is taking that pastime a step further by using technology to make personalised children's books that not only substitute a child's name for the protagonist's, but also weave elements of the plot around information submitted by parents.
Asi Sharabi, one of the company's co-founders, came up with the idea when he bought a book for his daughter that plugged her name into the role of the main character. "I was underwhelmed by everything about it," he said. "Apart from seeing my daughter's name in the book, there was nothing else that made it feel personal. The potential existed, but it was executed badly."
So Sharabi, who has a background in advertising, called up a few friends and started Lost My Name as a side project. Their first title - called either 'The Little Boy Who Lost His Name' or 'The Little Girl Who Lost Her Name', depending on the choice of the customer, features a story in which kids who have lost their names meet with different animals throughout the book. (Each creature restores a letter of their name.)
The book, available in nine languages, has sold at least 1 million copies in 160 countries and earned Lost My Name interest from investors including Google Ventures. Established in 2013, the company has made books for children using 97 827 different names. A new second title, 'The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home', expands the customisation by asking parents for their home address so that kids can spot landmarks from their cities and neighbourhoods.
This kind of product may not be for everyone. Parents who are wary of handing that information over to a company, worried, perhaps, after a breach at toymaker VTech recently exposed the data of millions of children, may want to think twice about buying these types of books.
Lost My Name says it is well aware of the sensitivity and risks of using personal information of children and is "fully compliant with every possible data-protection regulation," Sharabi said.
Customers choose what information to submit, it's not collected passively, which ensures that they know what's going to the company's servers. "Lost My Name retains addresses and order data, to make it easier to reorder products. It does not sell it to advertisers", Sharabi said.
Sharabi also added that, he is not aiming at creating e-books that can run on tablets. After all, he said, the book is a well-loved format.
"We figure there are enough people thinking about screen-based propositions for children," Sharabi said. "I also love screens but culturally, they became more of a digital babysitter or pacifier instead of a shared bonding device."
Although Sharabi sees potential for on-demand publishing, he said, he doesn't think Lost My Name is going to expand much beyond kids' books. The parts of the book that make his company's products appealing, the bold, personalised visuals; the small touches to make kids feel special, wouldn't work for more complex literature, he said.
"I'm not interested in creating books where I get you to be a part of a Dickensian novel or in something like '50 Shades of Gray,'" "I don't think this is going to scale beyond children."
Not that he has a problem with that.
"This is a huge market," he said. "Everyone says books are dead. That's just plain stupid."


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The Analysis Of The Book Market In Romania
This paper is representing the results of a project research that we carried out in February 2009 entitled "The study of the tendencies regarding the book market evolution in Romania". The analysis of the book market in Romania is based on the studying of the main book market indicators, and these are: "the titles of the books and the printed brochures", "the copies of the school books" and "the number of university courses", "the number of libraries" and "the number of registered readers". The book offer in Romania faces an ascending evolution from one year to another with the readers' diversification of the preferences and tastes. The representative company in the field says that the book market has increased constantly in the last five years, in the same time with the increasing turnovers. Unfortunately, there aren't studies or statistics in this domain, as there aren't any data to explain the cultural consumption habits of Romanians, the only information which we can refer to is represented by the ones communicated by the officials of the companies and organizations which act in this sector.
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Computer giant Lenovo to consider acquisitions
Beijing: Lenovo Group said it will consider acquisitions to drive growth and build competence as the world's second-largest personal computer maker expands in new areas such as mobile devices.
"We would fully leverage this tool if the target is consistent with our strategy," chief executive officer Yang Yuanqing said from Beijing. "Any area which is consistent with our strategy where we are weak, we would like to consider acquisitions."
As Lenovo gets closer to its goal of passing market leader Hewlett-Packard Co in global computer shipments, Yang is looking at ways to sustain the fastest annual pace in sales growth in six years. The company, which overtook Apple in the three months through June for second place in smartphone sales in China, will introduce 40 models of phones in the year started April 1, Yang said.
"The mobile business, tablets and smartphones, is crucial for its long-term outlook, given the slowdown of global PC demand," said Vincent Chen, an analyst at Yuanta Securities Co in Taipei.
Shares of Lenovo jumped 3.8 per cent in Hong Kong trading to close at HK$6.54, their biggest gain since August 17. The shares have gained 26 per cent this year, compared with a 6.1 per cent advance in the Hang Seng Index.
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Lenovo, which bought the PC division of International Business Machines Corp in 2005, boosted sales last year by buying control of Medion AG, an Essen, Germany-based computer maker, and the PC unit of Tokyo-based NEC Corp. Sales rose 37 per cent to $29.6 billion in the year ended March 31, the fastest rate since the 12 months through March 2006.
Now, Yang is stepping up development of smartphones, tablets and Internet-ready televisions to widen the company's offerings, following Apple and Samsung Electronics Co. Yang declined to comment on specific potential acquisitions in the August 31 interview.
The company, whose headquarters are in Beijing and Morrisville, North Carolina, will introduce a wider array of phone models this fiscal year, making its strategy very different from a company like Apple that relies on the iPhone, Yang said.
Overtaking Apple
"Some companies use just one model to cover all the price bands and customer segments," Yang said. "We will have multiple models to cover different price bands. We will have a much broader, wider product portfolio. Our development cycle will be much faster than our competitors."
Lenovo, which started smartphone sales two-and-a-half years ago in China, will start selling the devices in India, the Philippines and Indonesia in "a couple of months," Yang said. The phone business, which currently loses money, will become profitable in "a couple of quarters," Yang said.
Lenovo overtook Apple during the second quarter for second place in smartphone sales in China, the world's largest handset market. Lenovo jumped from seventh place in the first quarter to claim 11 per cent of China's smartphone sales in the three months ended June 30, market researcher IDC said August 24. Apple's share fell to 10 per cent from 19 per cent. Both trailed leader Samsung Electronics Co's 19 per cent share, IDC said.
Acquisition is a "key strategy," Geng Yang, a BOCI Research Ltd. analyst, wrote on Monday. The target may be in Europe, North America or a Japanese brand that enjoys "good market share" overseas, Geng wrote.
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Lenovo's first-quarter profit rose 30 per cent to $141.4 million, beating analysts' estimates, as it expanded market share globally.
Lenovo increased shipments of computers including Thinkpad laptops by almost 15 per cent in the second quarter, compared with a 0.1 per cent decline in industrywide sales, Stamford, Connecticut-based Gartner Inc. said in July. That increased Lenovo's market share by two per centage points to 14.7 per cent in the period, almost matching Hewlett-Packard's 14.9 per cent, Gartner said.
Sales of PCs are expected to expand 0.9 per cent in 2012 to 367 million units. Tablet sales should increase 54 per cent to 107 million and smartphones may rise 39 per cent to 686 million, according to a forecast by IDC.
Competition from tablets and smartphones may put that one per cent PC growth at risk, according to Anand Srinivasan, an analyst with Bloomberg Industries.
"Lenovo is acknowledging the difficulties ahead in PC hardware by attempting to rapidly expand its" mobile portfolio, said Jean-Louis Lafayeedney, an analyst at JI Asia in Hong Kong.


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3-D printing could help speed purchases to your doorstep
In recent years, Amazon.com founder Jeffrey P. Bezos has been in relentless pursuit of a lag-less future in which you barely have time to utter the word "shipping" before a package hits the doorstep. In this utopia, deliveries take place within hours, not days. To make it a reality, Bezos is bringing to bear the full power of Amazon's supply-chain resources. The company has plowed $13.9 billion since 2010 into new warehouses near its customers. It's a massive undertaking, even for a multinational.
But a handful of smaller companies are convinced there's a way to get products to consumers just as quickly, with greater satisfaction and at a fraction of the cost. The future, they say, is in on-demand 3-D printing.
These two methods of delivery couldn't be more different. One relies on scaling and infrastructure to cut transportation time. The other eliminates infrastructure and instead sinks money into materials and on-site manufacturing.
It won't be long before these technologies start overlapping and interacting – and that's a good thing. The resulting combinations will iron out a lot of the inefficiencies of using either method alone.
Amazon is merely one of many businesses jockeying to see who can shave the most delay off their shipping options. EBay and Walmart are testing same-day delivery. The competition to trim even a few hours is intense. To get deliveries to customers in under an hour, eBay dispatches college students by foot, bike and taxi to pick up products at big-box stores and drop them at people's doorsteps.
Faster shipping is costly. As a share of Amazon's total sales, shipping was nearly 5 percent in 2011, up from 3.2 percent in 2009.
Same-day shipping raises the pressure on Amazon to have a more reliable inventory, lest an order come in and can't be fulfilled within 24 hours.
Faster shipping also allows companies to produce a wider variety of products with less unsold inventory.
When air shipping began to displace ocean freight in the mid-20th century, it cut weeks off of transportation times, enabling perishable goods to survive longer trips. That trend has accelerated with aircraft technology, says David Hummels, an economist at Purdue University in Indiana.
So the less time goods spend in transit during production and distribution, the more efficient companies can be at satisfying consumer demand. But what if companies could dispense with shipping altogether by "manufacturing" goods near their final destination?
That's where 3-D printing comes in. By producing goods in the ordered configuration precisely when they're needed, 3-D printing is ideal for filling gaps in the supply chain (which reduces uncertainty), keeping inventory low (which saves companies money on shelving) and reducing waste (which occurs when the goods aren't sold).
Advocates for 3-D printing argue that the manufacturing technique could upend the retail sector. A small or nonexistent inventory gives a business much more freedom to test new products. Suppose you sold coffee cups that were manufactured only as people ordered them, said Hod Lipson, director of Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab. You could post a handful of options on your Web site at little to no cost to you, then just delete the low-performing cups.
"That would be very costly to do if you actually had to fill up a whole supply chain, a whole production line, for each of those items," Lipson said. "But when you're printing them or fabricating them on demand, you can much more easily adapt your production."
The idea of most American entrepreneurs doing business this way is enticing, but limits to just-in-time manufacturing make universal adoption unlikely.
One major hurdle is that printing with more than one material at once is difficult. A typical room might contain objects with 50 materials in various combinations. To print an object, not only would you need all the materials on hand in a printable form – you'd also need a printer with multiple or interchangeable nozzles. And each new material might need to be printed under different conditions.
GPI Prototype and Manufacturing 3-D-prints metal parts by laying down a powder and then tracing a design with a laser before applying more powder and repeating the process, over and over. (All 3-D printing operates on the same principle.)
The finishing process often demands the most attention. Even a bobblehead is decorated before it's sold.


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Halloween observations from around the region:
- A Halloween Fall Festival fund-raiser will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Verger Dairy Farm, two miles east of the San Diego Wild Animal Park on Bandy Canyon Road. The family event will benefit the Escondido Union School District's free field trip opportunities and Arts Off Broadway's scholarship fund.
Admission and parking is free. Net sales from the pumpkins, refreshments, and tickets for activities such as face painting, pony rides, a 10,000-square-foot haunted barn, a rock-climbing wall, hay rides and crafts booths will provide more than 3,500 free field trip opportunities for schoolchildren through March 2004.
Arts Off Broadway youth theater offers free field trips, with performances of its musicals at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. The trips include an optional teacher enrichment guide that ties the themes of the production to classroom subjects.
The Arts Off Broadway scholarship program provides the arts to all children regardless of financial constraints. The after-school education program gives each child the chance to learn the various aspects of theater and to perform in musicals.
Call the Verger Dairy Farm at (760) 738-5945.
- The city of Escondido's Community Services Department will present the seventh annual Halloweenie Carnival and Haunted Zone at the East Valley Community Center, 2245 E. Valley Parkway. Children ages 8 and younger must be with a parent or guardian. Call (760) 839-4382.
The Halloweenie Carnival will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Oct. 25. It will include games, food, prizes and a cakewalk. Costumes such as scariest, most original, cutest (ages 3 and younger) and best group of two or more may win prizes in the costume contest that will be held at 6 p.m. Admission to the carnival is $1. Tickets for games and food can be purchased for 25 cents a ticket or 25 tickets for $5. Bring a bag for each child to hold the candy and prizes.
The Haunted Zone will be open from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 24 and 4 to 8 p.m. Oct. 25. It is recommended for brave 6-year-olds and older kids. Admission is $2.
- Escondido Promenade will provide an alternative to neighborhood trick-or-treating between 2 and 4 p.m. Oct. 26. Merchants will provide free candy or other treats for children, in costume, up to age 12 and with an adult.
Two registration areas for the event will be set up -- one near Target and one near Mervyn's. Each child who registers will be given a free trick-or-treat bag for collecting their Halloween goodies. Escondido Promenade is off of Interstate 15 at West Valley Parkway and Auto Park Way.
- A pumpkin-carving contest for teens will be held at 4 p.m. Oct. 30 at the Escondido Public Library, 239 S. Kalmia St. The free program, for teens in grades seven through 12, is sponsored by the library, the Friends of the Library and the Escondido Teen Advisory Council. The library will supply the pumpkins, special carving knives and refreshments. Registration is required. Call (760) 839-4828.
- Harvest Party, a family-friendly Halloween alternative, will be held Oct. 31 at Emmanuel Faith Community Church, 639 E. Felicita Ave. Two identical sessions will be held -- 5 to 6:45 p.m. and 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. Cost is $3 per child. The party is for ages 2 through sixth-grade.
Enjoy lively game booths, crafts, popcorn, hot dogs, prizes and candy. Kids can dress up in costume and bring a carved pumpkin for display or to earn a prize. Demonic, ghoulish or salacious costumes are strongly discouraged. Children younger than 6 must be with an adult.
For tickets and information, call (760) 781-2104.
- A Halloween Carnival will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at First United Methodist Church, 341 S. Kalmia St. The event will feature a haunted house, a cake walk and trick-or-treating for kids from 7 to 7:30 p.m.
Games for all ages will cost 10 cents; bring aluminum cans and cans of food (for Interfaith Community Services) and receive free tickets. Dinner prices include corn dogs for $1, lasagna for $1.50 and drinks for 20 cents. Call (760) 745-5100.
- Harvest Celebration, a safe alternative to trick-or-treating will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at Calvary Chapel of Escondido, 1675 Seven Oakes Road, near El Norte Parkway and Interstate 15. The free event will include fun, games, costumes and goodies. Barbecue meal deals will be available for purchase. Dessert and coffee will be offered at no cost.
- Cathedral of the Valley will host its Harvest Festival, a safe alternative to trick-or-treating, from 6 to 11 p.m. Oct. 31 at the church, 927 Idaho Ave. The event will feature games, food and fun. One free meal will be given to each child younger than 12. Call (760) 745-0505.
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- Halloween face painting will be offered at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 30 at the Valley Center branch of the San Diego County Library, 29200 Cole Grade Road. Call (760) 749-1764.


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Take-Two Interactive has released a new trailer for BioShock 2 depicting more of the single-player campaign. The trailer itself is pretty self-explanatory and features a battle between Big Sister and Big Daddy. We're not sure if BioShock has ever looked this good before, but we're pretty certain that this should be a must-buy for every single gamer in the world!
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Another case of the paranormal excuse. Australian woman claims house is haunted to lower the value. It didn't work.
Woman invents ghost to keep house in divorce settlement | adelaidenow.
A VICTORIAN woman claimed her family home was haunted in a bid to keep the price tag low enough that she could keep it in a divorce settlement.
The wife, 52, told her husband, lawyers, a property valuer and a court a ghost had been seen at the property.
But she was happy to remain in the house and wanted the chance to keep it, while her estranged husband wanted it sold.
The wife, through her solicitors, wrote to the valuer saying it was "her belief that the property is haunted" and asking how this would impact on the property's value.
However, the Federal Magistrate Stephen Scarlett ruled this haunted story was a blatant attempt to keep the price low so she didn't have to pay as much in the settlement. A strange argument not many would have thought of.
She said many people knew of the ghost. Did the husband? It's not clear.


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Christopher Nolan is one loyal A-list director.
"The Dark Night Rises" auteur and his producing partner Emma Thomas will executive produce cinematographer Wally Pfister's untitled directorial debut.
Pfister provided the sleek and moody camera work for seven of Nolan's films — a collection that includes "Batman Begins," "The Prestige" and "Memento." Pfister won an Oscar for his work on "Inception."
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Alcon entertainment is financing and producing the project with a screenplay by newcomer Jack Paglen. The plot is being kept under wraps.
Principal photography is set to begin in the fall or early winter.
In a joint statement, Nolan and Thomas said: 'We have been hoping to work with Wally as a director for a long time, and are thrilled to be working on such an original and exciting project alongside him and Alcon'.