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Painless ways to safeguard your nest egg for the future
THERE is no better time to start saving for your future than now. Even if you don't have stacks of money to spare, putting a little something away every month is better than doing nothing, especially if you start to build up your contribution over time.
Whether you're saving for retirement or to help your children go to university or buy a property of their own, here's how to get started.
£50 a month
You won't fund a lavish retirement on £50 a month but every little helps. If you invested that sum every month for 25 years, and it grew at an average rate of 5 per cent a year after charges, you would end up with nearly £30,000.
If you could double your monthly investment to £100, then that figure could rise to a much more impressive £60,000. By saving a little each month, it will build up without you noticing it, says Nick Hungerford, of online investment manager Nutmeg. "After a time you probably won't miss money leaving your bank account."
Start by paying off expensive debts such as an overdraft or credit card, then build up some rainy-day cash in an easy-access savings account.
Banks and building societies offer regular- savings accounts, which have minimum investments of between £1 and £25 a month.
Mutuals such as the Saffron, Kent Reliance, West Bromwich, Nottingham, Cambridge, N&P, Leeds, Cheshire, Dudley and Yorkshire offer regular monthly savings accounts paying 3 per cent or more.
If you are a taxpayer then you could take out a cash individual savings account (Isa), and take all your interest free of income tax. Returns will be small as interest rates are so low at the moment.
The Post Office Premier Cash Isa pays 1.8 per cent on £100 or above, inflated by a 0.9 per cent bonus that expires after 18 months.
Once you have some savings, you should start to be a little more ambitious with your money, says Hungerford.
"Many people wrongly believe that building an investment portfolio is only for the very wealthy, but you can start with as little as £50 a month."
Many investment funds offer regular investment plans from £25 or £50 a month, without paying for advice, from fund platforms such as Alliance Trust, Bestinvest, Cavendish Online, Chelsea Financial Services, Fidelity FundsNetwork and Hargreaves Lansdown.
Nutmeg helps you build an investment portfolio with just £1,000 plus £50 a month. Or you could try an investment regular savings plan.
You should invest inside your annual tax-free Isa allowance, which allows up to £11,520 in the current tax year, to avoid income tax and capital gains tax.
Investing is a long-term game, says Hungerford. "You should look at five or 10 years at least, so you don't have to worry about short-term market movements."
As your money grows, you should spread it between different funds to reduce your exposure to a single fund, country or sector, Hungerford says. "The more risks, the higher your potential gains and losses. So work out what level is right for you."
The stock market can seem scary but a regular sum smooths out the risks, says Ray Black, founder of personal finance website Money-minder.com.
"It actually suits you for the stock market to fall, because your monthly contribution buys more shares at a cheaper price, just as long as markets recover by the time you finally cash in your money."
You could start with a cheap tracker fund, such as Fidelity MoneyBuilder UK Index, which mirrors the FTSE All-Share Index, with rock-bottom charges, Black says.
Or you may prefer an actively managed fund with a global spread of companies.
"Invesco Perpetual Global Opportunities and GAM Global Diversified outperformed the majority over the last five years. Although that is no guarantee, the fund managers have a good track record while avoiding too much volatility," Black says
As your confidence grows, look to boost your £50 monthly contributions.
£500 a month
We all have to take more responsibility for saving for our future by investing as much as we can, explains Stuart Dyer, chief investment officer at Rplan.co.uk.
"Financial self-reliance is the new reality, thanks to the rising costs of education, the struggling State pension and getting your children on the property ladder."
"Every year you delay is a missed opportunity. If you invested £500 a month over 25 years, you would end up with about £300,000 in your pot, assuming 5 per cent annual growth, after charges. But if you delayed investing by just a year, you would accumulate the smaller sum of £280,000.
"And if you delayed by five years, you would end up with just £208,000, nearly £100,000 less. So the message is clear."
Even if you can't afford to invest £500 a month, you should do the best you can. Many fund platforms, including Rplan, offer model portfolios that allow you to build a balanced spread of funds without paying for independent financial advice.
Once you invest large sums, you have to reduce your risk by spreading your money between different funds, Tim Cockerill, investment director at wealth manager Rowan Dartington says. "You could invest £100 a month in each of five different funds to create a small portfolio, so you won't suffer too much if one underperforms."
You can manage your portfolio by investing in funds with different risk (see panel, above). "You could invest in one aggressive fund, a couple of medium-risk funds and two cautious funds."
The longer you invest for, the more risks you can afford to take, as investments can ride out poor performance, Cockerill adds.
Lump sums
If you're lucky enough to have come into a lump sum, don't blow it all at once.
Given the dismal returns, sticking it in the bank is no longer an option, says Darius McDermott, managing director at Chelsea Financial Services. "Provided you will not need it for at least five years, you should look to invest in stocks and shares."
Older investors or those who need the money soon should play safe with cash, as they have less time to recoup any losses.
To reduce risk, McDermott says spread money between several investment funds using your tax-free Isa allowance.
"Right now I much prefer to invest in developed markets such as the US, UK and Europe, rather than the riskier emerging markets. I would go for AXA Framlington American Growth, JO Hambro Capital Management UK Opportunities and BlackRock Continental European."
Braver investors might also consider GLG Japan CoreAlpha, or international funds such as M&G Global Emerging Markets, McDermott says.
Rob Pemberton, investment director at wealth managers HFM Columbus, singles out three UK funds with strong track records: Threadneedle UK Equity Income, Old Mutual UK Alpha and Artemis UK Special Situations.
"You could balance this by investing in Rathbone Global Opportunities and Baillie Gifford International, then add balance with Jupiter Strategic Bond and SWIP Property Trust."
Many independent financial advisers are reluctant to help people with less than £50,000 to invest but there is plenty of DIY investment fund advice online at sites such as Trustnet.com and Morningstar.com.
You can then buy funds from Bestinvest, Chelsea Financial Services, Fidelity FundsNetwork and Hargreaves Lansdown.


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The iPhone 6s is only four months old, but Apple watchers already are looking to the future and imagining what delights the iPhone 7 may hold in store.
A new concept design created mixes the present iPhone 6s design with a curvaceous back piece straight out of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3Gs era, complete with beautifully rounded edges. Check out a concept video below.
While Arthur Reis' concept design is far from the most futuristic vision of the iPhone 7 I've seen, it's actually one that I like a lot. It looks a lot like a thinner iPod touch, which is a design I would definitely be on board for.
Still, we've got nine months or so until we see whether it is anything like Apple's real design for the iPhone 7, which reportedly will be waterproof, charge wirelessly and lack a headphone jack.
Would you go for an iPhone 7 design like Reis' concept, or should Apple try something completely new? Or perhaps even pay homage to another of its iPhones of the past? Leave your comments below.
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Release Date: 2006 |
Emissaries has everything a Dimmu Borgir fan could like.
Album Rating: 4.0I mean that fans of Dimmu could like this album.
I'm pretty sure he got that. I'm also pretty sure he's saying that's false.This Message Edited On 05.13.07
What does that have to do with anything, though? Melechesh are a Black/Thrash band and Dimmu Borgir is a Symphonic Metal band.
Album Rating: 4.0I meant that the guitar style and drumming are similar to that of Dimmus style.
I guess...I haven't heard this album, I probably won't since without Proscriptor drumming it's pretty much got nothing that interests me.
Album Rating: 4.0It's an alright album, though the highlight is Rebirth of the Nemesis. That's the whole album right there :p
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffI might check this out, I want to know how eastern metal sounds like.
Album Rating: 4.5[quote=Dethtrasher]I want to know how eastern metal sounds like.[/quote]
It's fucking beautiful. I love this album. One of my all time favorites.
I bought this album in November of 2006. Every where I go on-line, has this as being released in 2007? Anyway, it's all about the riffs, man. And the drummer is phenominal!!
Album Rating: 4.5Great album. I love the eastern exotic sound.
Album Rating: 4.0This album was pretty good, but it wasnt anything special like i thought it would be.
Digging: Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffSiiiiiick album!
Somebody really needs to add the cover art. What the fuck?
Digging: Vreid - I Krig
Album Rating: 4.0need to rewrite this. badly.
Undiluted ownage.
Album Rating: 4.0Ladders to Sumeria is intense. His vocals are good on that track imo.
Album Rating: 4.0Love this album. Need a new one already.
Album Rating: 3.5This is good, but Sphynx is way better.
Digging: Mesarthim - .- -?.?.?. .?.?. . -. -?.?-?. .
Album Rating: 4.5This and Sphynx are just about equal in terms of quality for me.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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"We've spent the first 10 minutes talking soccer. If you want any proof that the game has finally arrived in this country, we're the proof."-- Quartz Managing Editor Bobby Ghosh, on today's edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" opening up by discussing Sunday's U.S.-Portugal match. ("Morning Joe," MSNBC, 6/23)
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ESPN earned a 9.1 overnight rating for the U.S.' 2-2 draw with Portugal yesterday at the FIFA World Cup, marking the net's best overnight on record for a men's soccer match. The rating also tied for the third-best overnight for any men's World Cup match in U.S. TV history, behind only ABC's '94 Brazil-Italy final (12.8) and the '94 Brazil-U.S. Round of 16 match (10.4). The record overnight for a soccer match in the U.S. remains ABC's U.S.-China women's World Cup finale in '99 with a 13.3 rating. DC again led all markets for ESPN's brodcast with a 13.3 local rating, followed by Columbus (12.6) and N.Y. (12.5). There were 18 markets in total that set local records for a World Cup match ( Austin Karp, Assistant Managing Editor ). FACE THE ...
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English fashion designer Neil Barrett presents a range of paneled sweaters for the ongoing Spring/Summer 2014 season. Avoiding the traditional uses of rectangular or split panels, Barrett instead opts for a more rounded version made further abstract through the use of various patterns and materials. Strong colors dominate each piece, all of which are now available via SSENSE.
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Updated 11:46 p.m., Thursday, February 23, 2012
MIAMI — Jeremy Lin offered no excuses.
He and the Knicks had no answers.
Lin's rapid rise from unknown to superstar was slowed big-time Thursday night by the Miami Heat, who overwhelmed the NBA's hottest story with a swarming defense that the Knicks' new starting point guard could not solve.
Forcing Lin into easily the worst game of his remarkable run as New York's newest star, Miami topped the Knicks 102-88 — the eighth straight win for the NBA-leading Heat, all by at least 12 points.
Chris Bosh scored 25 points, Dwyane Wade added 22 and LeBron James finished with 20 points, nine rebounds and eight assists for Miami, which will go into the All-Star break with the NBA's best record (27-7).
Lin's final line: 1 for 11 from the field, eight points, three assists — a long way from the 23.9 points and 9.2 assists he had been averaging over his first 11 games in the Knicks' rotation, when he breathed immeasurable life into a team that was floundering.
"First of all, he deserves all of the credit he's been given," Wade said. "We knew it was going to be a tough task guarding him. … He's a good player, but we put a lot of pressure on him and it was a success."
A big success.
Lin turned the ball over eight times, saying afterward that the Heat defense made it difficult even to dribble. His last shot — like most of his others — bounced off the rim with six seconds left, the outcome already decided, and he simply walked quietly off the court into the locker room.
"A learning experience," Lin said. "A tough one."
But for a while, the game lived up to the hype.
Spike Lee, Floyd Mayweather and Chad Ochocinco all sat within seven seats of one another on one sideline, Mike Stanton and Logan Morrison of the Miami Marlins were on another sideline, and members of the New York Mets' front office reportedly jumped aboard a helicopter for the quick trip from the team's spring-training home in Port St. Lucie down to Miami.
Even the First Fan took note of the hubbub surrounding the game.
"In another life, I would be staying for the Knicks-Heat game tonight, then going up to Orlando for NBA All-Star Weekend," President Barack Obama told students at the University of Miami earlier in the day. "But these days, I've got a few other things on my plate. Just a few."
When Air Force One was headed to Orlando for a Thursday night fundraiser, yes, there were televisions tuned to Heat-Knicks on board.
And the Heat put on a show.
"I'm sure they were all geeked up for him," Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said of the Heat defense against Lin. "And they took the challenge, and they did a great job. It's hard to be Peter Pan every day."


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As the following probably shows, I'm a cobbler (or perhaps it is more like sketching?). So, this media portal I'm wanting to build. Occurred to me that I could:
- install Loudblog
- then tag things in del.icio.us
- subscribe via Loudblog to that del.icio.us tag using the syndication plugin in Loudblog
Disadvantages: you need to tag the media object itself in del.icio.us not just the blog post, that is slow, and also means you lose the blog post. A very bad thing. So scratch that sketch. Bugger.
Another quickie:
- install Loudblog
- tag posts in del.icio.us
- use the delicious plugin in Loudblog
- see what happens
I also think the reblog that I used last year worked well, and so if I can work out how to use that tied into a WordPress installation that might be the way to go.


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Staten Island fury: Official blasts Red Cross response after Sandy as a 'disgrace'Thu Nov 1, 2012
If Obama is re-elected, you'll be fired, CEO tells workersWed Oct 10, 2012
The cattle call at Gate 15 is taking longer and longerTue Nov 1, 2011
'Runway' ends with a surprise winFri Oct 29, 2010
- I was a fan of the show. But is seems that the judges were there to stroke their own ego rather than fairly judge the show. Gretchen should have never made it to Fashion week with the "paper towel" that she designed as her 11th look. If it was such a great design......one that beat Michael C., why w …


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WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Fire crews work to put out Burnett County blaze
GRANTSBURG - Fire crews in Burnett County continue working on the aftermath of a blaze that burned about 600 acres.
The fire near Grantsburg, where a planned burn area went beyond the allotted 500 acres. A spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources say crews are now working on hot spots and securing fire lines in the area. No one was reportedly injured and no structures were damaged.
Governor Scott Walker says he's made no decision to shift state employees to a self-insured program. A committee of the state's insurance board is scheduled to discuss the move on October 11, Governor Walker says more time will be needed to weigh all options. A report from one consultant group shows the state would save 4-to-5-percent a year on a self-insured program,
Governor Scott Walker still does not plan to approve sales of raw milk in Wisconsin -- unless dairy and medical groups do a total flip-flop. At World Dairy Expo in Madison today, the Republican governor again expressed reservations about a bipartisan bill to allow raw milk sales on the farms where they're produced. Walker promises to consider the measure if both houses send it to his desk. However, he wants to make sure that Wisconsin's world-famous dairy industry reputation is protected -- and that public health is preserved. The State Medical Society says there's no way that a health risk can be eliminated, and more than one dairy group says even one outbreak of a raw milk disease would ruin Wisconsin's multi-billion-dollar dairy industry. Raw milk supporters cite numerous health benefits -- and they insist the product is safe.
Governor Scott Walker said today that both parties are to blame for the federal government shutdown -- and Washington should run itself like Wisconsin does. During a news conference at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Walker hailed his fellow Republicans for eliminating a three-point-six billion dollar deficit two years ago. He said he meets every Wednesday with legislative leaders about the state's problems, and how to solve them. That's been easier in Wisconsin the last five years, since one party has controlled the governor's office and both houses of the Legislature -- the Democrats in 2009, and Republicans since 2011. The opposing party complains that it gets almost no input on the major issues. In Washington, Democrats control the White House and the Senate while the GOP has a large majority in the House -- and each party ends up approving its own version of major items, lately with little compromise.
Wisconsin's top agriculture official says the federal government shutdown will have a big impact on farmers with loans from the Farm Service Agency. One farmer called the state ag department yesterday with a question about a cow he sold. He said he received a check for the animal -- but because he has a loan with the FSA, he could not cash it without an agency official co-signing it. That's been impossible the past couple days, since Farm Service offices have been closed due to the shutdown. Secretary Ben Brancel said the farmer asked if he should cash the check anyway, and the ag secretary said it was not a good idea. Brancel said the farmer would have to wait until the shutdown is over, and there's nothing that can be done until then. Meanwhile, Brancel says the biggest impact of the shutdown for Wisconsin farmers is the ending of the Milk Loss Contract Program. It provides subsidies when milk production falls below certain levels. The milk program expired when the last federal Farm Bill expired yesterday -- and that probably would have happened with-or-without the federal shutdown.
State minority Democrats are proposing a bill to let more sporting groups share in a half-million-dollar grant they say was politically-targeted by Republicans. Assembly Democrat Nick Milroy of South Range and state Senator Bob Wirch of Pleasant Prairie say they want to fix problems with a grant to encourage more people to hunt-and-fish in Wisconsin. Republicans crafted a state budget measure to prohibit some groups from applying for the grant -- and a committee awarded it to the United Sportsmen despite questions about the group's tax status. Governor Scott Walker later rescinded the grant for that reason. Walker also allocated state funds for the grant, after lawmakers approved a mix of state-and-federal money. Federal officials said the previous arrangement might have placed $28-million in federal conservation funds in jeopardy. The Democrats' new bill seeks to prevent that problem by continuing to use state funds only. Milroy, a hunter, said he was outraged that the GOP wanted to funnel the sporting money to what he called a "shady political action committee." In his words, "We want to put all that behind us."
Home foreclosures in southeast Wisconsin are at their lowest in over seven years. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says almost 510 new cases were filed in September against those helplessly behind on their mortgages. That's a 29-percent decrease from the previous September. For the first nine months of the year, foreclosure cases are down almost 36-percent in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, and Walworth counties. Just over 5,300 cases were filed in that region from January-through-September, down from 82-hundred during the same period the year before.
A Milwaukee teacher has received a prestigious national award for excellence in teaching. Sarah Berndt, a teacher at Ronald Reagan College Preparatory High School, was surprised with one of this year's Milken Educator Awards. The 35-year-old ninth-grade Spanish teacher received a 25-thousand dollar unrestricted award from the foundation that awards exceptional early to mid-career teachers with promising careers. The foundation has awarded 2,600 teachers across the U.S. since 1985.
Milwaukee's fire chief said nine suspended fire-fighters allegedly vandalized the station where they worked from. Chief Mark Rohlfing said Engine House 32 on Milwaukee's north side was vandalized Saturday night. He would not give details today, saying the department wants to make sure about what happened. Rohlfing says officials are investigating the vandalism plus other undisclosed allegations of improper conduct. The nine fire-fighters were suspended with pay yesterday, and more staff members have been brought in to provide coverage. Rohlfing said the nine fire-fighters have been transferred to other station-houses -- and Saturday was their last work shift together. The chief said it's common to transfer fire-fighters, but not most of the officers at one facility at one time. He said quote, "We decided this engine house needed some fresh faces." Assistant fire chief Gerard Washington is heading the investigation, with help from the city attorney's office and the Fire-and-Police Commission.
A special prosecutor in Rock County wants to reopen a murder case against a Palmyra man. 49-year-old Keith Abbott is accused of stabbing 33-year-old Kristin Miller to death, and leaving her snow-covered body wrapped in plastic in a rural roadside ditch. In February of last year, a Rock County judge said Abbott was not competent to stand trial in the case. Recently, a judge in Racine County ruled that Abbott was mentally able to proceed with an unrelated case -- so prosecutors in Rock County are now seeking a competency hearing on charges of homicide and hiding a corpse. Abbott is charged in Racine County with nine felony counts of possessing child pornography. Miller, the murder victim, disappeared on New Year's Day of 2011. She and Abbott's son had a daughter, and Abbott was appointed by a judge as a go-between to transfer the child between her mother and father.
The Milwaukee suburb of Butler has named a new police chief, after the old one was investigated for inappropriate behavior with his officers. Lieutenant David Wendlandt was named the acting chief after Michael Cosgrove resigned. Yesterday, the Butler Village Board gave the job to Wendlandt on a permanent basis. Cosgrove resigned while Waukesha County officials investigated his relations with his officers. A sheriff's report said Cosgrove used derogatory language that included racial slurs -- and he looked at computer porn while on the job. One Butler officer was put on administrative leave after the sheriff's report was released. Criminal charges are still possible against that person. Officials said Wendlandt did not take part in the activity, and would not tolerate it as acting chief. He has more than 20 years of law enforcement experience, and was among 25 people who applied for the Butler chief's post.
The schools that train Wisconsin teachers would be more selective about who they admit, under a proposal from a conservative think tank. The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has come out with ideas it says would create better teachers in the Badger State. The group says education schools should only admit teacher candidates with college grade point averages of three-or-higher, instead of the present two-and-a-half. The teaching candidates would also have to be in the top-half of their classes. The Policy Research Institute also says the results of statewide performance tests for new teachers should be linked back to the schools which trained them. That's after a recent national report showed that Wisconsin's teacher training programs received just fair ratings -- and programs at UW-Milwaukee and UW-Stevens Point were given "consumer warnings." Educators say they're already doing some of what's being recommended. Education schools have been ordered by a recent state law to report their students' scores on written tests. The law also requires teacher training schools to publicly disclose how their candidates perform on a new performance assessment exam starting in 2015.
A murder case against a northern Wisconsin man is moving forward. 46-year-old William Rambo completed his initial appearance yesterday in Price County Circuit Court, for the death of his estranged wife Dawn. Reports said she kicked him out of their house in Park Falls, and he was trying to resolve the matter when they got into an argument. That's when Rambo allegedly stabbed and slashed the 37-year-old woman with a knife. Officials said Dawn ran to a neighbor's house, and a police officer took her to a hospital on the assumption that she couldn't wait for an ambulance. She died 40 minutes later. Rambo asked for a preliminary hearing on a charge of first-degree intentional homicide. A date was not set. A pre-trial conference is planned on two other charges filed against Rambo the day of the killing -- misdemeanor counts of battery and disorderly conduct.
A military veteran from Stevens Point is flying his American flag upside down. Walter Blanchard calls it a peaceful protest over the way the federal government is being run -- or not run, during the partial shutdown that's in its second day. Blanchard tells WAOW-TV in Wausau that he decided to fly the upside-down flag a few weeks ago. It's his way of saying that Congress should be quote, "working with the people and not against us." Guidelines from the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department say the flag should only be flown upside down as a sign of distress -- and Blanchard says the mess on Capitol Hill qualifies. Some of his neighbors don't agree, though. Carl and Mary Schulfer have their flag up-right, and they say Blanchard's display is disrespectful. Blanchard served in both Vietnam and South Korea.


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Integrating RF Signal Chains with CMOS
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Consumers have grown to expect increased functionality and convenience from their mobile handsets and personal digital assistants (PDAs). As a result, these products are rapidly evolving from voice and data communications into a mobile environment that contains enjoyable features such as audio libraries, video playback, interactive games, digital cameras, and mobile TV. In addition to the multiple mobility standards for cellular service, today's handsets commonly support wireless local area network (WLAN), ultra wideband (UWB), Bluetooth, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and digital TV (DTV). Diverse technologies are required to enable these features, requiring multiple radios and application software packages that run simultaneously while taking into account the existence of these other services.
One Device
Portable device designers face challenges to keep up with the demand as consumers take for granted their ability to download email, receive location-based information, talk on a wireless headset, view live broadcast TV, download movies, and send video and images on a single device. In addition, designers must chart a course to be able to integrate future broadband services into a single mobile device.
In 3G, mobile handsets moved beyond voice transmissions to become multimedia devices. With 4G, multiple technologies are supported by highly integrated circuitry within the handset. The challenge for portable system designers is to bring together mobile communications, computer networking, personal area networking, and broadcast into a single system. A 4G device will not only take into account existing mobility standards including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, WCDMA, and HSDPA, but it also will support data rates of 100 Mbits/s to 1 Gbit/s and could feature an Internet Protocol (IP) core, OFDMA modulation, and MIMO antenna technology, as well as support for VoIP/V2IP and mesh networking.
Technology Challenges and Solutions
Different technology challenges face handset designers and their suppliers in the race to integrate the RF signal chain. For handset designers, the challenge is finding highly integrated, low-power components. For their suppliers, the challenge is to find the right process technology and to leverage engineering expertise in order to shrink device sizes while packing more RF circuitry onto a die. Overcoming these challenges requires a smart design that is integrated, cost-effective, and crafted with the entire signal chain in mind. An effective technology to satisfy all of these needs, including high-power applications, is CMOS.
CMOS is the dominant technology for monolithic integration, and it has driven rapid advancements throughout the communications revolution. Always the leading technology for digital baseband processing, CMOS is regularly used for analog devices, enabling new transceiver architectures and consistently used in analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), phase locked loops (PLLs), filters, and in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) demodulators. The technology is also now making inroads into RF and microwave devices. To enable high power applications, the key is selecting a suitable CMOS process technology. UltraCMOS™, a silicon on insulator (SOI) technology, meets this need.
High-Power CMOS Process Technology
UltraCMOS uses SOI technology that deposits a very thin layer of silicon on an insulated sapphire substrate. Like CMOS, UltraCMOS technology offers low power, manufacturability, repeatability, and scalability benefits in an easy-to-use process that allows the re-use of intellectual property blocks and the highest levels of integration.
Unlike CMOS, UltraCMOS provides equal or better performance as compared to GaAs or SiGe for mobile, RF, and microwave applications. UltraCMOS and pHEMT GaAs both offer the same levels of small-signal performance and have a similar net ON-resistance. In addition, UltraCMOS features onboard decoder/drivers while delivering superior linearity and electrostatic discharge (ESD) performance to GaAs or SiGe.
For highly complex applications such as the latest multimode, multi-band phones, choosing the right process technology becomes critical. For example, in these applications, the antenna must cover 800 to 2200 MHz and the switch must be able to manage up to eight paths of high-power RF signals with low insertion loss, high isolation, superb linearity, and low power. Correct selection of the process technology can improve the availability of technical options, in turn improving the performance of antennas and RF switches, thus enhancing performance of the device overall. Importantly, when engineers use a single process technology across the entire design, the likelihood of higher integration improves.
The latest developments in UltraCMOS RFICs are SP6T and SP7T antenna switches. These 3GPP-compliant switches satisfy WCDMA and GSM requirements, allowing designers to use a single radio in specification-compliant WCDMA/GSM handsets, and still achieve industry-leading performance. SP6T and SP7T antenna switches utilizing Peregrine's HaRP™ technology enhancements demonstrate second harmonics of -85dBc; third harmonics of -83dBc; and third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) of -111 dBm at 2.14 GHz (Figure 1).
Linearity standards from 3GPP are set high, with an IP3 of +65 dBm. Typical switches in competing technologies demonstrate an IP3 of approximately +57 dBm. UltraCMOS SP7T switches offer an impressive IP3 of +68 dBm, offering improved linearity over other choices and exceeding 3GPP standards. For antenna ESD tolerance, other technologies typically provide a 0.5 kV tolerance. UltraCMOS SP7T switches deliver 4kV ESD tolerance.
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Today's handset designers must support an unprecedented number of applications in a single small device, so the need for more integration may never have been so great. Integration can take many forms, but it is especially advantageous when used to reduce the number of passive components in a system. The circuitry in mobile handsets, regardless of the interface standard, consists of approximately 75% to 85% passive components, such as capacitors, inductors, and resistors. For example, the Nokia 3300 music phone includes a total of 406 components, and 355 of them are passives. Reducing the number of passive components is an important factor in managing new designs.


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MUNICH ( ChipWire) Infineon Technologies AG here has opened adevelopment center for universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) radio circuits in Linz, Austria.
Infineon owns 50.3% of the center, called Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering GmbH (DICE), with the remainder held by DICE technical managers from the University of Linz.
"The new development center underlies our commitment to research and development of the mobile communications market with the objective of offering complete solutions for third-generation mobile radio applications," said Guenter Weinberger, senior vice president and general manager of the wireless products division of Infineon. "We have been working closely with the University of Linz since 1998 and this collaboration has enabled us to develop the first prototype chips using the UMTS standard for the next generation of mobile phones."
Infineon and the University of Linz have developed a superheterodyne receiver that integrates more than 4,000 components, and a super-heterodyne transceiver for the Japanese wideband-CDMA market.
DICE currently employs 30 development and test engineers, and that number is expected to rise to 70 over the next few years. Third-generation mobile services are expected to be launched in Japan in April 2001, with Europe scheduled to follow in 2002.


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Does Geodon affect weight?
Since decreasing my dose I've lost 3 lbs in a week. I didn't really need to lose so I hope it stops. It's weird because I didn't think I gained weight while taking it.
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My doc told me its supposed to be weight neutral but since I got off of it I lost a few lbs without trying
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It was working for me too but I have to go off of it because I got Tardive Dyskenesia. I'm having a hard time tapering it down :(
Quoting cocoa132: I take it and I loss weight, every person is different. I love Geodon and so does my husband.I see things in a better light.
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My psych nurse told me there is a 50/50 chance of gaining no more than 30 lbs. on Geodon.
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Wish I could help but I have not taken it. I would check out the webmd website though. It is really good for listing all of the possible side effects of medicines.
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Jr. Accounts Payable (AP) Reporting Analyst
Here at TJX Canada, we strive our hardest to make sure that, every day, our customers are able to find the latest and greatest designer brand names for less than they'd pay elsewhere. When they walk through the doors of our stores, whether it's a Winners, HomeSense, or Marshalls, savvy shoppers know they'll experience the "Thrill of the Find," which, if you're curious, feels like a slight breeze blowing over the surface of your skin-not a bad feeling, if we do say so ourselves.
But you're not here to feel the breeze. You're here to see if working with TJX Canada is right for you. To help with your decision, we'd like to introduce you to someone who once faced the same choice you have to make.
Meet Ashton.
Ashton is one of our Jr. Accounts Payable (AP) Reporting Analysts. He's responsible for all reporting and ad-hoc analysis pertaining to AP functions and processing. He monitors KPIs and assists in identifying and implementing process improvements.
Shortly after Ashton joined us, he started preparing for the CPA exam. Honestly, we didn't know a human being could safely consume that much coffee per day. He studied so much that whenever you asked him a question at work, he responded with multiple choice answers. Now that was entertaining-and thought-provoking.
This is Ashton. He is one of us.
If you do decide to apply for this position, and we agree that this is the right job for you, you'll be supported by a plethora of internal programs whose only focus is the continued progress of your career. At TJX Canada, we do everything we can to help you achieve your full potential. But we can't do it all ourselves. You'll need to bring the ambition, the motivation, and the drive.
So what do you think? Like Ashton, are you one of us?
Now, if you were to come on board as one of our Jr. Accounts Payable (AP) Reporting Analysts, we'd ask you to do the following:
- Prepare weekly reports of key performance indicators (KPI) for AP processing, forecast workflow and resource requirements, run queries, analyze results, and gather Associates' productivity tracking, plus identify trends and areas of concern as needed.
- Provide recommendations for continuous process improvements based on findings during the preparation and analysis of various reports (i.e. weekly KPI, stock ledger report, ad-hoc reports).
- Prepare monthly reconciliations of AP sub-systems (APWF/AIM and Lawson) to the stock ledger and the general ledger.
- Review weekly summary of the stock ledger codes and investigate and report large variances to management.
- Create reasonable and meaningful analytics within the AP area by generating queries, analyzing, and reporting results.
- Understand complex business workflows that integrate with various areas and understand upstream and downstream impacts of issues.
- Provide ad-hoc AP-related reports to other business areas as requested.
- Establish and maintain strong partnerships with various areas of AP and participate in special projects, as assigned.
- Other related duties.
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- You have a post-secondary education in Business related to Accounting or Finance.
- You are working toward a CPA designation; working knowledge of ACL considered an asset.
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Vixen Players Geva Mentor, Liz Watson and Kate Moloney prove they aren't afraid of the Queensland Firebirds at St Kilda beach.
MELBOURNE Vixens defender Geva Mentor has declared herself ready for battle in her major assignment against Firebirds' scoring machine Romelda Aiken in Sunday's Trans-Tasman Championship grand final at Hisense Arena.
As the championship favourites shoot for their second piece of silverware, the three-time league All-Star goal keeper said she was backing the Vixens' much-vaunted team defence to help her keep the league's all-time leading scorer under control.
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The 196cm Jamaican goal shooter, as always, looms as the significant threat to the Vixens hopes of clinching the trans-Tasman crown at Hisense Arena.
Mentor said she always relished the challenge against Aiken, but admitted the stakes were much higher in their match-up tomorrow.
"This is what's it's all about,'' Mentor said. "I love a challenge and I think that's what inspires me to keep going and playing and trying to perform to the best I can; and Romelda definitely poses one of the great challenges in this game.
"The fact is the game is changing, with teams being able to have such a scoring machine at one end and, for me, it's a challenge that I accept and I'm really looking forward to.
"I enjoy playing Romelda and I like the challenge of trying to get to whatever balls that seem impossible to get to.''
Aiken has averaged 32 goals in her three games against Melbourne this season, but the Vixens held the scoring giant to her equal-lowest score for the year (24 goals which she also scored against the Fever) in their Round 6 win over the Firebirds.
Only one other team in the competition, West Coast Fever, has a better record against Aiken. Aiken averages 34.8 goals against the Fever and 35.3 against Melbourne.
Mentor said rebounding had been a focus in the build-up to the grand final for the Vixens, who hoped to beat Aiken at her own game.
"I think rebounding is one of the things that we would like to increase and one of the things that she is very good at,'' Mentor said.
"That's something that we have been working on because she does tend to miss quite a few goals and that's an opportunity for a turnover for us.
"It's for us to find those weaknesses, not just from her play but throughout the rest of the team.''
But Mentor again stressed that goal defence Bianca Chatfield and herself would need the support of every player on the court to slow delivery into the Firebirds' goal circle.
"That team defence out in front of me helped me out (against Aiken last time),'' Mentor said.
"It's not just Bianca and myself in that circle, it's really connecting with Kate Moloney and Liz Watson and making sure we're supporting them the best we can.''
Mentor, a member of Adelaide Thunderbirds' 2010 championship win, was confident the Vixens had the game to emerge with their first title win since 2009.
"I know what we're capable of, I know what we've been through this season and that we've got every ability and skill to be able to do it,'' Mentor said.
"I think if our young guns of Liz Watson and Kate Moloney can just have a controlled and confident game then that will probably be the key.
"Both ends will hopefully end up cancelling each other out so it will come down to the midcourters.''
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Major semi-final, 2014: Melbourne Vixens 52 d Queensland Firebirds 47, Hisense Arena.
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Major semi-final, 2014: Vixens 52 d Firebirds 47, Hisense Arena.
Preliminary final, 2013: Firebirds 50 d Vixens 46, State Netball Hockey Centre.
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There is nothing worse than a lost opportunity, except, perhaps, a $69 million lost opportunity. Unfortunately, that's exactly what slipped through the fingers of officials in Georgia recently.
In 1997, Congress divided $4.2 billion between all 50 states to pay for health insurance for children in low-income families. One of the requirements for receiving that money, however, was that it had to be spent within three years. That deadline has since passed and 40 states will lose a total of $1.9 billion in unspent money from the Child Health Insurance Program. The remaining millions will be redistributed among the 10 states that did spend all of their original allotment.
For Georgia, that $69 million loss is particularly painful because we have one of the highest rates of uninsured residents in the country. The lost money constitutes 56 percent of the $124 million the state was given to spend on the PeachCare for Kids program. As many as 139,000 children in Georgia are uninsured and qualify for the PeachCare program. So far, 96,000 children have been enrolled in PeachCare.
The immediate reaction sparked by news of the lost money was to blame the state for squandering this opportunity by dragging its feet and not spending the money it was given. However, considering that Georgia was far from alone in this situation and that actually only a fifth of the states were able to meet the federal government's deadline, we realize that the problem may not rest solely on the state's shoulders.
Congress designed the program as if it would begin immediately and be fully operational for the entire three-year period. In reality, it took almost half of the time frame to establish an office to administer the program and then begin enrolling the children who qualified. The Georgia General Assembly created PeachCare in spring 1998 and budgeted for the 30 percent in state matching funds for the program as required to access the federal money. The first child was enrolled in the program in January 1999.
While it is difficult to imagine why it took so long to create the PeachCare program and begin enrolling children, we should keep in mind that it is a government program and the state-level bureaucracy tends to move slowly at best. It is unfortunate that when drafting the program Congress, which should know something about the sluggish speed of government, didn't take into consideration the amount of time that most states would need to get it started. With so many unable to meet the deadline, it appears Congress needed to set a more realistic time frame that should have probably begun when the first child was enrolled.
Nevertheless, the state isn't guiltless in this situation. Ten other states were able to meet the federal deadline and they will now benefit from Georgia's and others' inefficiency. The truly unfortunate aspect of losing the federal money is that it won't be penalizing the state, rather it's the children who live in Georgia and who won't have health insurance coverage any other way that will suffer the real penalty.
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Lanna Swisher tried to keep her expectations low when she arrived at the animal shelter. It had been more than two months since she had last seen her cat. Buddy, a 3-year-old gray tabby, had been missing since the May 4 tornado leveled Greensburg.
Swisher wasn't sure she wanted to go to the adoption days this week at the Pratt Humane Society to provide new homes for dogs and cats displaced by the tornado. But her co-workers urged her to give it a shot.
When she arrived, there was her Buddy.
"The night of the storm I tried to get him to come inside but he wouldn't come in," Swisher said. "I wasn't sure he would be here. It's been so long.
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"When I saw him, all I could say is 'Wow.' "
She came to visit Buddy during her lunch break Wednesday. The cat will accompany Swisher home to her new house in Pratt on Friday.
Some stories ended happily, but other Greensburg residents didn't find their missing pets, said Debra Duncan, director of the animal facility inspection program for the Kansas Animal Health Department.
The department and the Pratt Humane Society have tried to find the owners of the displaced pets since the storm. The next best thing is to find new homes for the pets, Duncan said.
The public has until Sunday to adopt the pets from where they are temporarily housed, across the street from Pratt Community College.
The shelter started the week with 60 cats and 10 dogs. By Wednesday afternoon only two dogs remained, but there were still 54 cats.
"The dogs always go faster than the cats," Duncan said.
Dedra Brant, a Pratt Humane Society board member, said cat lovers have a wide variety of sizes, breeds and colors to choose from. Most of the cats are well-behaved house pets, she said. Some are already declawed. Free food is available for those who adopt the cats.
One of the excited new dog owners was Wichita resident Leah Pierce. She and her husband were married last month and decided to add a dog to the family. They found an older Lab mix on the Humane Society's Web site. She picked the dog up Wednesday and was thinking of calling him Hank.
"We wanted an older dog," she said. "Everyone needs a home."
Garden City resident Kelly Love stopped by on the way to Wichita to see if any of the dogs caught her children's eye. While they didn't find a pet to bring home, they were glad the dogs had been adopted so quickly.
Duncan said the significance of what the pets have been through is not lost on the people adopting them. She said several Wichita residents have made the drive to Pratt because they want to provide a good home for the animals.
Pets not adopted this week will be sent to different humane societies across Kansas, including the Kansas Humane Society in Wichita. But Brant said she hopes every pet will be adopted by Sunday.
"We don't want to traumatize the pets by moving them to another temporary place," she said. "These are lovely animals."


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Do you know everything, subject, meaning and scriptures about The Bible, but have never read it? Or only read a book or two, maybe 3? Genesis to Revelation.
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Bear Grylls Likes The Kyocera Torque, Doesn't Take Shit From Other Smartphones
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The Sultanate of Oman Exhibits at The Meetings Show
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The Oman Ministry of Tourism is exhibiting at the Meetings Show, 8-10 July 2014 Olympia, London, for the first time this year and will be joined by Oman's newest 5* luxury Rotana Salalah Resort and national carrier Oman Air.
The new Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre, due for completion in 2016, is set to become an iconic landmark for Muscat and the Sultanate of Oman. Located in its own precinct, this world-class facility is perfectly suited to host international, regional and national conventions, exhibitions and business events. Amongst its features are a tiered auditorium seating 3,200 people and more than 22,000 square metres of exhibition space.
The construction of a new five-star InterContinental Hotel and Golf Clubhouse, Muscat is scheduled to commence towards the end of 2014 with a completion date being at the end of 2016. The hotel will be built on 50,000 square metres of the total built up area of land which is set in a unique hillside location with spectacular panoramic mountain and golf course views. The hotel will feature 270 superior, spacious and well-appointed guest rooms and other facilities.
Radisson Blu Hotel, Suhar offers posh lodging in up-and-coming Suhar. This new hotel is close to industrial hotspots as well as a pristine beach. Each of the 178 rooms and suites is a peaceful oasis in this fun-filled resort, which features multiple on-site restaurants and a stylish outdoor pool. Hosting an event to be remembered in the lavish ballroom or one of six versatile meeting rooms is an experience to be remembered.
All five star hotels in Oman have meeting and event facilities, ballrooms and restaurants ranging from a fully functional theatre at the Al Bustan Palace Ritz Carlton to an auditorium in the Shangri-La Barr al Jissah Resort & Spa. The Royal Opera House and grounds are also available for hire on request. Oman's hotel stock is growing and a number of key international chains operate in the destination alongside boutique properties. Other prominent hotel brands include: Grand Hyatt Muscat; The Chedi Muscat; Crowne Plaza Muscat; InterContinental and the Marriott Resort Salalah and the Alila in Jabal Al Akhdar.
Luxury boutique hotels and camps in the desert and mountains provide excellent venues for overnight excursions. Other excursions for incentive groups include team building, sailing with or without lessons, diving with Oman Sail and land based team building with Oman's Outward Bounds Centre. For short business trips to Muscat, dolphin watching cruises and city tours including The Grand Mosque, Royal Opera House and Mutrah Souk are of great interest. 4x4 treasure hunts and Wadi exploring with picnics are fun-filled activities if there is time to spare.


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In this Letter, we report the addition of and in , phosphor for improving the performances of white light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The additional trivalent will occupy the site in this host like the situation of , its concentration can be enhanced by the addition of in site due to the substitution of for can compensate the charge mismatch between and . Based on the efficient and energy transfers (ETs) and the compensation effect of , the additional in our present phosphors exhibits an intense red-emission around 610 nm, which is significant for enhancing the color rendering property. In addition, we also find that the additional in site can markedly adjust the photoluminescence (PL) spectrum shape of our phosphor by controlling the distribution of at and sites. A new tunable full-color emission is obtained via the ETs (, and ) and the adjusting effect of in our present phosphors. Finally, a white LED with higher color rendering index of 90, lower correlated color temperature of 4980 K, and chromaticity coordinates of (0.34, 0.31) was obtained by combining the single , , , phosphor with a blue-emitting InGaN LED chip.
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Air ventilation impacts of the "wall effect" resulting from the alignment of high-rise buildings
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|Atmospheric environment , v. 43, (32), October 2009, Pages 4982-4994
|The objective of this study is to investigate the air ventilation impacts of the so called "wall effect" caused by the alignment of high-rise buildings in complex building clusters. The research method employs the numerical algorithm of computational fluid dynamics (CFD - FLUENT) to simulate the steady-state wind field in a typical Hong Kong urban setting and investigate pollutant dispersion inside the street canyon utilizing a pollutant transport model. The model settings of validation study were accomplished by comparing the simulation wind field around a single building block to wind tunnel data. The results revealed that our model simulation is fairly close to the wind tunnel measurements. In this paper, a typical dense building distribution in Hong Kong with 2 incident wind directions (0 degrees and 22.5 degrees) is studied. Two performance indicators are used to quantify the air ventilation impacts, namely the velocity ratio (VR) and the retention time (T-r) of pollutants at the street level. The results indicated that the velocity ratio at 2 m above ground was reduced 40\% and retention time of pollutants increased 80\% inside the street canyon when high-rise buildings with 4 times height of the street canyon were aligned as a "wall" upstream. While this reduction of air ventilation was anticipated, the magnitude is significant and this result clearly has important implications for building and urban planning. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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by Alyssa Oursler | August 30, 2013 1:25 pm
Walmart (WMT[1]) might be making happy headlines for expanding healthcare and other benefits to same-sex partners, but investors still have little to cheer about.
So far this year, the stock has been a notable laggard. While the S&P 500 has gained more than 15% in 2013, Walmart has climbed less than 6%. And worse, it's flat for the past 12 months.
Which raises an obvious question: Should you buy Walmart stock? To decide, let's take a look at the pros and cons.
Stability: With Walmart, you know what you're getting: a slow-but-steady retail powerhouse. Walmart, which has been around for half a century, is the largest retailer in the world by sales. It has increased revenues, profits and earnings per share for the past two decades running. It posted earnings growth of nearly 10% annually during the past half-decade, and is slated to do the same for the next five years. All in all, it's a pretty safe bet that Walmart will keep chugging for decades to come.
Returning Capital: Walmart sure is good about using cash to reward shareholders. During the past five years, the retail giant has reinvested $68 billion of its cash flow from operations, paid out $23 billion in dividends and bought back $39 billion in shares. Walmart has been paying a dividend since 1973, and its current payout — 47 cents, yielding 2.6% — is more than double what it was five years ago. For the cherry on top, Walmart sits on $9 billion in cash and short-term investments, and recorded $26 billion in operating cash flow for 2012, which all but guarantees those rewards will keep coming.
Always Moving: The retailer might be big, but it's never sitting still. Walmart has been busying introducing new technologies, including a "Scan & Go" app for the Apple (AAPL[2]) iPhone, to help keep its store efficient. Meanwhile, it's also been investing heavily in e-commerce to fight against rivals like Amazon (AMZN[3]) and eBay (EBAY[4]). To that end, it also has begun testing lockers for online orders earlier this year.
Tepid Consumers: While Walmart's strong foundation is nice, it's doesn't change the fact that consumer spending seems to be facing some headwinds. WMT has posted same-store sales drops for the last two quarters, blaming everything from hiked payroll taxes to higher gas prices to weather. Walmart doesn't expect things to get better soon — it lowered its full-year forecast in August — and retailers across the spectrum have nodded to similar struggles. Plus, many believe that Walmart's low-income consumers are more easily pinched when times are tough.
Controversy: People love to hate Walmart. This week, low-wage workers — mostly from fast-food companies like McDonald's (MCD[5]), but also from the retail sector — are taking to the streets in protest of their low wages, re-igniting criticism about Walmart's cheap pay. On top of that, the company faced bribery investigations in Mexico, is often accused of being bad for local business … and the list goes on. While WMT has thrived despite a bad reputation for some time, you never know whether the next new scandal will be the one to break the camel's back.
Expansion: Walmart has struggled to continue expanding its store count, both in domestic urban areas and overseas. Washington, D.C., for one, passed a "living wage" bill despite an ultimatum from WMT that it would cancel half its planned new stores if the bill went through. The retailer also has faced opposition when trying to open city stores in New York. Meanwhile, Walmart put its expansion plans into India on hold thanks to "two compliance investigations and unease over the government's rules for foreign investment in retail businesses," according to [6]The Financial Times[7]. When you're a giant, growing isn't easy.
Walmart stock has been notably sleepy lately, and the broader economy gives us little indication that will change anytime soon. And despite its underperformance, WMT still doesn't look like a bargain.
The stock's trailing P/E sits at 14, which is right in line with its five-year average. And its forward P/E is 13 — in line with rival Target (TGT[8]), but higher than other plays in the retail sector like Macy's (M[9]) and Kohl's (KSS[10]). Factor in growth — Walmart's current PEG is north of 1.5 — and things look even worse.
So should you buy Walmart stock? No — while I think concerns about spending and the retail sector might be overblown, and while I think Walmart is still a solid long-term stock, I wouldn't buy it now.
As of this writing, Alyssa Oursler was long MCD.
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Freshwater - Why care? (Turkey)
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In Turkey, the effective use of water resources and protection of those resources have become essential as a result of population increase, rapid urbanization and industrialization.
Turkey is not an affluent country in terms of water resources and water resources are not distributed equally over the country. There are 25 river basins but only 4 of them correspond to the 37 per cent of the annual precipitation that means accessibility of water resources can not meet the demands on right time and right location. Turkey can not control its water resources because of the topographical irregularities. Moreover, Turkey is geologically very young and its rivers flow unsteadily. It is not possible to use water before carrying out necessary arrangements because of high mean basin slopes. Turkey should take precautions not to be a problematic country about water.
The quality and the potential of water are critically significant for Turkey. For the accurate management of water resources, water quality and water quantity should be managed simultaneously.
Because of climatic condition in Turkey, the precipitation-flow relationships which change seasonally also display considerable differences from year to year and natural water supply falls to minimum levels in the summer when the demand is maximum. Country's water resources are very sensitive to drought conditions and drought is seen in every fifteen year period. In addition to irregular regime character, floods threaten natural life and create great hazards. Therefore, the periodic droughts necessitate the construction of dams to regulate water in one year or longer.
The main reasons for the degradation of Turkey's water quality are; excess use of natural resources on account of rapid industrialization and urbanization, domestic, industrial and agricultural activities.
In Turkey lakes and dams are important for industrial, agricultural and drinking water supply. Domestic-Industrial waste water and fertilizers-pesticides negatively affect the quality of water of the lakes by causing the deterioration of the nitrogen-phosphorus balance in contrast to normal standards. Dam lakes are in a risk of being filled by the sediment transport.
Rivers are important for drinking water supply, irrigation and fishery. The most important pollution factor of Turkey's rivers is the discharge of the domestic, industrial and agricultural wastewater to the rivers. In Turkey, there are still many highly polluted and bad looking rivers. Another reason for the pollution of rivers is erosion. As a result of the soil erosion, phosphorus with solid materials is moved from the agricultural area to the surface waters and this causes eutrophication. Population increase, urbanization, industrial activities, pesticide use and excess use of fertilizers are the other factors that increase river pollution rapidly.
If in the coming years environmental problems and the pollution of surface water increase, the quality and quantity of groundwater will play an important role. The reasons of groundwater pollution are domestic and industrial wastes and pollutants related with agriculture.
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The former Real Madrid attacker netted twice to help the hosts to a vital win in the race for Champions League football
Senad Lulic gave the away side the lead halfway through the first half, but Dries Mertens restored parity shortly before the interval. Lorik Cana was then sent off before Gonzalo Higuain netted a hat-trick to help the hosts to victory, with Ogenyi Onazi's late goal serving as little more than a consolation strike.
Napoli started the match with attacking intentions, yet it was the hosts who drew first blood after 20 minutes of play. Stefano Mauri set up Lulic with a fine pass and the midfielder beat Pepe Reina with a superb finish to make it 1-0.
The hosts came close to levelling the scorings again shortly after when Goran Pandev reached Higuain, but the Argentine was denied by a superb save from Etrit Berisha.
There was little the Albanian goalkeeper could do about Mertens' equaliser in the 42nd minute, though. The Belgium international collected a Raul Albiol pass before trying his luck from outside the area and left Berisha no chance with his powerful shot.
The former PSV winger again played a big role shortly after the break when he won a penalty after being fouled by Cana, with the latter receiving his second yellow card of the game for his action. Higuain stepped up and had no trouble finding the net from 12 yards.
Things got even worse for Lazio halfway through the second half as Higuain doubled his personal tally to hand Napoli a two-goal lead in the 67th minute. The prolific striker shook off Stefan Radu after being set up by Lorenzo Insigne and kept his calm in front of Berisha to make it 3-1.
Lazio were not giving up, however, and were rewarded for their efforts in the closing stages of the game when Onazi pegged one back, but it was too little, too late for the guests and Higuain eventually put the match to bed well into stoppage time with his third goal of the game.
Rafa Benitez's men remain third in Serie A with 67 points from 33 games, while Lazio sit seventh in the league table with 48 points.


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May 9th, 2014 11:58 AM #1
Caroline Question and Middle Names
Hi Berries! Caroline is one of our top choices for our June baby. But now that the new 2013 rankings are out, I had some questions...
1. Do you think Caroline is going to get even more popular in the next few years? Since 2007, it's moved from #99 up to #63 on the US social security rankings, and I've read recently that it's hugely popular in the South. I'm in a big midwest city, and I barely hear it used here (it was #94 in my state). I'd love to pick a name that doesn't end up in the top 10-20 in the next few years!
2. I have 2 middle names picked out: Caroline Marina or Caroline Emilia. I'm favoring Marina, but it's very close to my own name (M@ris@). I always loved that my name had a water-related meaning, and since Marina means "from the sea" I thought it'd be a nice connection. But if you saw her name, would you think I was naming her after myself?
Thanks for the input Berries, you're always so helpful!Caroline...Natalia...Juliet...Colette...Marina
May 9th, 2014 12:48 PM #3
1. In a word, yes. It's a classic, and classics never fall too far before they start to rise back up. Whether it will ever crack the top 10-20 in your area, though...you're most familiar with where you live, so your guess is probably better than mine.
2. Personally, I prefer the sound/look of Caroline Emilia since the -N/M- sounds of Caroline Marina bump into each other a bit. But Marina is gorgeous, and I wouldn't assume you were naming her after yourself at all. And so what if you were? Men get sons named after them far too often. I think moms deserve more recognition. The Marisa/Marina connection is tasteful and pretty.g w e n
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I'm also in the Midwest, and I have to say I haven't come across a Caroline under about 16 in a while. I really like the name and I have a feeling names like Cara and Clara will stay above Caroline popularity wise.. That being said I think Caroline Marina is really nice and the "ee" sound in Marina makes it different enough that I don't think it sounds very similar to your name, especially as it's her MN I think it's great!
May 9th, 2014 12:58 PM #7
I love the name Caroline, and while it may have risen to #63 in the past few years, I don't see it becoming hugely popular, especially since it is not popular where you live right now.
I do like Caroline Marina, and I like its connection to your name. I would not assume you are naming your baby after yourself by using Marina. But even if you are - so what? You are her mother, after all.
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I love Caroline!! Even though it's in the top 100, I've never met a Caroline. Two of my girls are in school (1st and 3rd grades). There isn't a Caroline in either grade. Actually, I looked at the class lists for the four grades in their school. Not one Caroline in grades k-3.
I think people get way too caught up in popularity. You can't predict whether there will be multiple of a name in a particular area. My oldest is named Delaney...number 190 the year she was born...and we've come across five different Delaneys (not all the exact same age but close). *shrug*.
That being said, I think Caroline Marina is a beautiful name.
Edited to add: I should point out, I also live in what is considered the Midwest (not in a large city though).
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Apple 2.0 keeps track of the how well Wall Street analysts -- and amateur Apple watchers -- predict the fortunes of the company. An overzealous estimate of earnings that isn't met by a correspondingly big figure by Apple always seems to result in a hit on share price, so Elmer-DeWitt has been ranking the analysts by accuracy.
In the not-so-distant past, the amateur stock watchers were doing a much better job than the professionals, but that's changed. Now the professionals have taken eight of the top 10 positions on Elmer-DeWitt's list. He points out that this doesn't necessarily mean anything, since professionals also filled nine of the bottom 10 in his "Top 40."
Based on the last nine quarters, the most accurate analyst on The Street appears to be Colin Gillis of BCG Partners. Some other familiar names from the Apple earnings calls don't fare as well. Gene "Apple TV" Munster of Piper Jaffray is about halfway down the list in the No. 19 spot, while perennial earnings call questioner Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley barely made the Top 40 by coming in at No. 39.
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Poem: "Detail Waiting for a Train," by Stanley Plumly from The Marriage in the Trees (The Ecco Press).
Detail Waiting for a Train
The main floor of Penn Station, early,
the first commuters arriving, leaving,
the man outstretched on his coat,
wide circles of survivors forming.
He's half in, half out of his clothes,
being kissed and cardio-shocked,
though he was likely dead before he landed.
This goes on for minutes, minutes more,
until the medics unhook the vanished heart,
move him onto the cot and cover him
with the snow-depth of a sheet
and wheel him the fluorescent length
of the hall through gray freight doors
that open on their own and close at will.
It's the birthday of film director Steven Spielberg, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (1947). His father was an electrical engineer, his mother a concert pianist. He started making home movies as a boy, studied film in college, though he majored in English, and got a television contract after winning awards for a short subject called Amblin' (1969). His first assignment was to direct Joan Crawford in Night Gallery (1970). His breakout success was Duel (1971), a story about a salesman threatened by a truck driver whom he never sees. Spielberg shot it in sixteen days for about $350,000. It grossed more that $5 million in theaters overseas and launched a career that's included several of the most successful films of all time.
It's the birthday of playwright Christopher Fry, born Christopher Harris in Bristol, England (1907). He had always wanted to write verse plays, and had his first triumph with The Lady's Not for Burning (1948), an ironic comedy set in medieval times.
It's the birthday of jazz arranger and bandleader Fletcher Henderson, born in Cuthbert, Georgia (1897), the son of teachers. He accompanied dozens of blues singers, including Bessie Smith, on their recordings, and soon put together his own band, which came to include such musicians as Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, and Roy Eldridge. Nicknamed "Smack," he was one of the first arrangers to adapt jazz to a big-band format, with his style becoming the standard. He never had much financial success as a bandleader, but his arrangements for Benny Goodman made him one of the prime shapers of swing music, especially his version of Jelly Roll Morton's "King Porter Stomp," which became the virtual anthem of the swing era.
It's the birthday of urban planner Robert Moses, born in New Haven, Connecticut (1888).
It's the birthday of baseball player Ty Cobb, born in Narrows, Georgia (1886). His lifetime mark of 892 stolen bases was beaten only in 1979, and his record of 4,189 total hits stood until 1986. He still holds the records for lifetime batting average (.366), runs scored (2,246), and batting titles (12). He batted over .400 three times, and batted over .300 for 23 years in a row.
It's the birthday of artist Paul Klee, born near Bern, Switzerland (1879).
It's the birthday of writer Hector Hugh Munro, better known as "Saki," born in Akyab, Burma (1870). His satirical short stories became standard features in several newspapers, starting around 1908. They usually exposed the hypocrisy and cruelty of power, sometimes using surprise endings and elements of the supernatural. The best-known are "The Open Window," "Sredni Vashtar," "Tobermory," and "The Schartz-Metterklume Method." He was killed in action in World War One when he stood up in a trench to admonish a soldier for lighting a cigarette, and was shot by a German sniper.
It's the birthday of composer Edward MacDowell, born in New York City (1861). He studied in Europe for several years, performing and publishing his First Piano Suite (1882) under the patronage of Franz Liszt. After many productive years in Germany, he and his American wife moved to Boston, where he composed two of his most popular piano works, Woodland Sketches (1896), which includes the pieces "To a Wild Rose," and "To a Water Lily," and New England Idylls (1902). After his death in 1908, Marian MacDowell established the artist's colony that bears their name at their farm in New Hampshire.
It's the birthday of composer and clergyman Charles Wesley, born in Lincolnshire, England (1707). He helped his older brother, John, found the Methodist movement, which began with a club Charles had formed at Oxford for the pursuit of spiritual growth. Wesley wrote more than 5,000 hymns, including "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" and "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling."
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