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2014 marks 50 years of caring for Irving, Coppell, Grand Prairie and the surrounding communities. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Irving has a rich history which began with its founding as Irving Community Hospital in 1964.
Baylor Scott & White - Irving continues to abide by its mission to provide exemplary health care, education, research and community service for the citizens it serves.
"The job of 'building' a dream into reality was completed by the Irving Hospital Board on a brilliantly sunny, Sunday afternoon. The $3 million hospital was formally dedicated before a crowd of 1,200."
Led by President Clint Howard, the Irving Hospital Authority is established by the City of Irving and develops a plan to construct and finance a local hospital in Irving.
Business leaders, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Carpenter and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Williams donate 10 acres of land in Irving to build the hospital.
Irving Community Hospital breaks ground on Oct. 15 in front of an audience of 700 community residents.
Irving Community Hospital welcomed their first patient on November 8.
The hospital expands from a 100-bed hospital to 200 beds, including new mom and baby unit, nursery and surgical unit.
Irving Community Hospital Foundation, now known as Irving Healthcare Foundation (IHF), is established by community leaders with the primary recipient being Irving Community Hospital.
The hospital expands and enhances hospital services including, surgery, pathology, physical medicine, radiology, laboratory, critical care units, outpatient center and a medical/surgical unit.
Irving Heart Institute and Irving Women's Imaging Center opens on the hospital campus.
Irving Community Hospital becomes Irving Healthcare System.
The Irving Hospital becomes "Dallas Memorial Hospital" for a day as CBS Television show "DALLAS" films on the hospital campus.
Expansion began for the Irving Cancer Center, Medical Office Building I and Outpatient Surgery Center.
Irving Heathcare System joins Baylor Health Care System to become Baylor Medical Center at Irving.
Surgical hospital Baylor Health Center at Irving-Coppell, located in North Irving, joins the Baylor Irving family.
IHF raises a record $4.3 million for the renovation of the Women's Pavillion of Health, addition of a Coronary Care Unit and an expanded heart monitoring unit.
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Irving earns the coveted Magnet® Designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Baylor Scott & White - Irving nursing staff ranks in the top 7 percent in the country.
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Thomas Steenburgh; Jill Avery; Naseem Dahod
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Winner of the 2014 Case Centre Award in the category of Marketing.
The case 'HubSpot: Inbound Marketing and Web 2.0' introduces the concept of inbound marketing, pulling customer prospects toward a business through the use of Web 2.0 tools and applications like blogging, search engine optimization, and social media. Students follow the growth of HubSpot, an entrepreneurial venture which, in its quest for growth, faces significant challenges including: developing market segmentation and targeting strategies to decide which customer to serve and which to turn away, configuring pricing strategies to align with the value delivery stream customers experience, and determining whether inbound marketing programs can generate enough scale or whether traditional outbound marketing methods need to be employed to accelerate growth.
To explore the opportunities and challenges presented by an emerging Web 2.0 inbound marketing model of marketing communications pertaining to segmentation and targeting, pricing, and driving growth for an entrepreneurial start-up.
Customer relationship management; Entrepreneurship; Growth strategy; Internet marketing; Market segmentation; Pricing policies; Social media; Web technology
HubSpot: Inbound Marketing and Web 2.0, Spreadsheet
Thomas Steenburgh; Jill Avery; Naseem Dahod
Published May 15, 2009
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Spreadsheet supplement for case 509-049.
Case Flash Forward: HubSpot: Inbound Marketing and Web 2.0
Baker Library
Published Jan 13, 2015
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Each Case Flash Forward provides educators and students with a brief, 2-page update of key changes at a particular company covered in a related case study. It is a compilation of publicly-available content prepared by an experienced editor. This Case Flash Forward provides an update on HubSpot since 2011, including significant developments, current executives, key readings, and basic financials.
Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Customer Lifetime Value Analysis
Thomas Steenburgh; Jill Avery
Published Jul 27, 2010
|Harvard Business School
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Customers are increasingly being viewed as assets that bring value to the firm. Customer lifetime value is a metric which allows managers to understand the overall value of their customer base and relate it to three customer strategies firms employ: asset acquisition - attracting new customers to the firm, asset maximization - maximizing the value the firm extracts from each customer, and asset retention - retaining existing customers for the long term. The note gives students a foundation for analyzing marketing cases, as well as providing an analytical structure and process for completing a marketing plan. The note is accompanied by a free Excel worksheet which contains sample problems, prebuilt Excel models to calculate customer lifetime value, and charts and graphs which help visualize the results.

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What We're Loving: Dallas, Dubai, DublinBy The Paris Review
Three nights ago, the eminent record collector Chris King came by The Paris Review loft to launch his new LP, Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament for Epirus 1926–1928. King arrived with several armfuls of 78s, including Greco-Albanian dirges, a Ukrainian wedding dance, and rare sides by Richard "Rabbit" Brown, Elvie Thomas, Amédée Ardoin, and others who have achieved a measure of posthumous renown on King's label, Angry Mom Records. As a house present, King gave the Review eighteen test pressings of the Carter Family ("from their most depressing period"), but the song I can't get out of my head—thanks to our associate editor, Stephen Hiltner, who whistled the first few bars this morning—is "Chasin' Rainbows," by the Dallas String Band. Listen at your peril. —Lorin Stein
At a conference on Web design earlier this month, Maciej Ceglowski gave a talk called "The Internet with a Human Face," a cogent look at the bizarre double lives the Internet forces us to live, the havoc it's wrought on our concepts of privacy and identity. "A lot of what's wrong with the Internet has to do with memory," he says. "The Internet somehow contrives to remember too much and too little at the same time, and it maps poorly on our concepts of how memory should work." Ceglowski runs pinboard.in, a bookmarking site. Unlike too many in the Silicon Valley set, he's entirely free of techno-utopianism, but he's not an alarmist or a fatalist, either. Rather, he's refreshingly clear-eyed about the state of technology and how we can improve it. "I'm tired of being scared of what the Web is going to look like tomorrow," he says. "I realized how long it had been since I looked at a new technology with wonder, instead of an automatic feeling of dread." —Dan Piepenbring
Dubliners turns a hundred in June. "The Dead" is a masterpiece, of course, but I think the best of the stories is "Araby," whose child protagonist experiences a kind of antirevelation—one of the moments of adolescent wretchedness we all pass through to get to adulthood. The whole experience is conveyed in the twenty-four perfect words of the final sentence: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." —Anna Heyward
When I think of the United Arab Emirates, I think of excess: artificial land shaped like a palm tree in Dubai, a certain Greenwich Village university cloned in downtown Abu Dhabi, and billion-dollar hotels. Reviewing Rowan Moore's Why We Build in the New York Review of Books, Martin Filler writes, "In Dubai, the much-ballyhooed botanical symbol of a sheltering oasis gives way to a more mundane reality." Filler describes his working relationship with the commanding architect Zaha Hadid, who has recently come under scrutiny for her lack of concern for the working conditions of the stadium she designed for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Are such conditions an architect's responsibility? More important, have we allowed architecture to reach a point where it's beyond moral consequence? —Justin Alvarez Read More


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These days, producers across the country are strategizing how to profitably differentiate themselves from their competitors. When everyone is selling seemingly similar products and services, how can one producer distinguish itself from the rest?
Instead of increasing their marketing budgets, several producers have turned to a plan that actually increases cash flow. Their strategies focus on expanding their offerings of value-added products.
Concrete producers have always distributed products to their contractor-customers. Rebar, mesh, and even work gloves can be found in every plant's storeroom.
But this concept requires the producer to go a step further: making a commitment to integrating value-added products into their core businesses. And just as important, making sure customers know about the producer's effort to be a one-stop source for every project.
Two Midwest producers have embraced this value-added construction products strategy as a key part of their business plans. Cemstone has seen a dramatic pull-along increase on their ready-mix sales after strategically expanding its contractor stores in the Minneapolis/St.Paul area. While in the Toledo, Ohio, area, the Kuhlman Corp.'s new corporate office is literally built on its strong commitment to construction product suppliers.
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Balloons, product demonstrations and free refreshments drew a large crowd last summer when Cemstone officials held their grand opening of the new North Metro Concrete plant, and its 19th Contractor Supply Store in East Bethel, Minn. The dual opening is a common experience now that Contractor Supply Stores have become such a big part of Cemstone's business. "Anytime we construct a new plant, a store will be part of it," explains Patrick Kinsel, general manager.
The producer has been in the business of selling construction-related products since it acquired an existing contractor supplier eight years ago. Kinsel, who manages the Cemstone Contractor Supply (CCS) division and its sales team, says contractor supply sales have more than tripled since the acquisition.
But, Kinsel says, that success is more than just constructing an additional building. He credits Jim Galloway, CCS's general manager of operations, for providing a customer-friendly environment. Galloway is responsible for consistent store design, training employees who sell the products, and working with vendors to select appropriate inventory.
In Cemstone's diverse market, proper store design is important, as one location may specialize in concrete masonry, while another may be heavily agricultural. By meeting with vendors each month, and keeping a close eye on inventory patterns, the CCS team can customize the products in each store to best meet specific needs of local contractors.
Along with a local focus, CCS's product selection can help boost sales of its ready mix business. Insulating concrete forms (ICFs) are a perfect example of a product that supports both divisions. ICFs are a natural fit for Cemstone because they directly support its core ready-mix business.


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Sambora: Bon Jovi not 'the real thing' without him
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Estranged Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora admits he found it strange that Bon Jovi continued to tour last year without him.
The rocker tells Melbourne, Australia's "Herald Sun" the band simply isn't authentic without him. He uses a cola analogy to make his point, saying, "If you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing."
Sambora explains that he's "considered Jon Bon Jovi's side arm, or something." He references another well-known rock partnership for emphasis, adding that "Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones." But Richie says Bon Jovi frontman Jon Bon Jovi "just has a different mentality."
Sambora admits his sudden departure from the group last spring, during Bon Jovi's "Because We Can" tour, was "an unpopular decision with the fans and the band," but it was something he "needed to do" for both himself and his family. And he's still not ruling out a return to the band, but says "there will have to be a lot of communication" first.
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18th March 2012 02:42 AM #1
Is baby wearing recommended during pregnancy?
Hi all,
I wanted to know your advice and opinions on whether baby wearing is safe throughout pregnancy? My concern is that tying my Mei Tai around my middle may not be good for the baby. Or is it tied too high up to be a problem? I would particularly love to hear from anyone who wore their babies/ toddlers during pregnancy.
We bought our first pushchair this week - I feel kind of ashamed, isn't that silly?! I love baby wearing but I think we have got to the stage where there are some times a pushchair could be helpful. However, I don't want to stop baby wearing - as long as it is safe.
Thanks for your time,
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I didn't wear my toddlers while I was pregnant, so I'm not the best to comment on this. However, I'd say that baby wearing a toddler can take more of your energy and could cause you to be more tired than if you didn't do it. Now, with Bub #2 on the way, you need your energy for yourself, so you can care for all three of you (and hubby too). If you feel you need to do it, then go with what feels right. If you're uncomfortable or it's painful, then don't. But really, I'm thinking that it may just be best to use the pushchair, due to the bleeding episode you had, and the doctor's concern about your energy level.
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Thanks Kate - I think you are right and I need to take it easy for a while. On the plus side - the pushchair seems to be helping my toddler to nap!
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Get Wrapped Up In the Vermont Quilt Festival
May 26, 2014 by Corey A. Edwards
The Vermont Quilt Festival, scheduled for June 27th through 29th at the Champlain Valley Exposition Center, is New England's oldest and largest quilt event!
Quilting is a tradition that goes back far into our collective history. Who hasn't snuggled up under a big, soft quilt on a cold, winter night – or at least wished they could! There's something special about a handmade quilt – that family heirloom, that work of art – something that surpasses the depth of many other household objects whether you're a quilter yourself or just a fan, and that's what the 38th annual Vermont Quilt Festival is all about.
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WASHINGTON -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission appears to have made a move that is favorable to the bulk vending industry concerning the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act's Section 103(a), which outlines requirements for product labeling.
In a statement of policy on the CPSIA section issued on July 22, the commission appears to have granted an exemption on labeling requirements for individual products sold through bulk vending machines. The CPSC statement said: "If a product is sold through a bulk vending machine, the item does not need to be individually marked but the package or carton in which such products are shipped to the retailer should be marked. The Conference Report recognized that marking each individual product in such circumstances may not be practical."
The bulk vending industry has vigorously argued that labeling of the small, individual toys sold through bulk venders is economically impractical and perhaps even physically impossible. On its surface, the CPSC seems to have ruled in favor of the industry, though a final analysis by lawyers representing the bulk vending industry has not been made.
"The commission's ruling is a great victory for bulk vending suppliers and operators," said Quin Dodd of the National Bulk Vending Association's law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo LLP. However, he cautioned that the CPSC's interpretation is not legally binding and that the industry may seek a congressional ruling that has the force of law.
Section 103 of the CPSIA requires manufacturers to place permanent, distinguishing marks on children's products and their packaging to help parents and retailers quickly recognize whether a toy they own or stock is the same as one involved in a recall. The CPSIA measures will commence Aug. 14, one year after President Bush signed the act into law.


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Flat flowers and decorations - like drop flowers, stars and leaves - can be made from either royal or buttercream icing. Roses also can be made from both types of icing. Flowers with finer shaped petals - like petunias and lilies - are best made with royal icing.


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A NEW initiative has been launched to help revitalise Trafford's town centres.
Businesses can benefit from a £350,000 interest-free loans scheme to bring empty shops back into use.
Whether it's an existing business wanting to expand or an entrepreneur from outside of Trafford wanting to set up in one of the borough's town centres, applications can now be made to the town centres loan scheme.
Executive councillor Michael Hyman said: "This is a fantastic scheme which Trafford Council has developed in partnership with representatives from our town centres, and we will continue to work closely with them to ensure that businesses make the best of this opportunity.
"We want local people and other visitors to talk about our town centres as hubs of activity, and to give them the encouragement to keep coming back.
"This scheme will give an incentive for businesses to set up in our local centres and see buildings and shop frontages improved, which in turn will enhance the trading environment and visitor experience.
"I am delighted that we are able to offer this support in helping our town centres to thrive."
The loan fund is made up of £250,000 Trafford Council funding, which will be split equally across Altrincham, Sale, Stretford and Urmston town centres; and £100,000 from central government's high street innovation fund.
Eligible businesses will be able to apply for interest-free loans of between £1,000 and £10,000.
This is part of Trafford Council's bigger £750,000 town centres investment fund, which is also dedicated to making environmental improvements across the borough's town centres, as well as improvements to Altrincham Market.
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Absolute Combat Scotland's Newest Mixed Martial Arts promotion heads to Scotland's capital city for its first event.
Absolute Combat: Proving Ground, will take place at the prestigious Meadowbank Sports Centre on Saturday 23rd May 2009.
Meadowbank Sports Centre is proven to be a great venue for combat sports hosting many Muay Thai events and boxing bouts Such as Alex Arthur vs. Michael Gomez.
The Proving Ground line-up is already taking shape and we are pleased to announce European no.1 Paul McVeigh will be headlining the show versus Brazilian Marcelo Costa (4-1). This BJJ black belt resident in Switzerland is coming off a KO victory over Swedish star Musse Hassellval.
The card will feature the Scotlands top fighters and our hottest prospects, such as: Paul Reed (Euro ranked No.8), Middleweights James Mair and Allan Love. Also fighting will be Scotland's top welterweight John Quinn and the explosive youngster Graham "Afterburner" Turner. With more exciting domestic and international bouts to confirmed.
Confirmed Bouts so far(All pro unless stated):
Paul McVeigh (Dinky Ninja Fight Team, Ireland)
Marcelo Costa (Brazil)
Paul Reed (Olympians MMA, Scotland)
Fred Fernandez (Team Fernandez, France)
James Mair (Alba Dornadair, Scotland)
Tom Haddock (EFR Fight Team, Ireland)
John Quinn (Dinky Ninja Fight Team, Scotland)
Paul Jenkins (Dogs of War, Wales)
Colin Baxter (Hostile Territory, Scotland)
Matt Inman (SBG UK, England)
Allan Love (Dinky Ninja Fight Team, Scotland)
Mark O'Toole (EFR Fight Team, Ireland)
Joe Nugent (Team Viper, Scotland)
Rob Mills (Knuckledraggers, England)
B Class Featherweight
Michael Wiseman (Hostile Territory)
Peter Wilson (EFR Fight Team, Ireland)
B Class Lightweight
Adam Stevenson (Hostile Territory)
Mark Comiskey (SBG, Ireland)
B Class 73KG
Jordan Smith (Griphouse)
Chris Carmichael (Team Viper)
Semi Pro Lightweight
Biodun Ogemyemi (Griphouse/Dinky Ninja Fight Team)
Craig Thompson (Headhunters MMA)
Semi pro Middleweight
Bryan Thomson (Rick Youngs Academy)
Ash Illingworth (Evolution MMA)
Semi Pro 74KG
Robert Whiteford (Hostile Territory)
William Maryniak (Duel Samurai)
Semi Pro Welterweight
Steven Sutherland (Team Volcano)
William Miller ( Knuckkledraggers MMA)
Absolute Combat: Proving Ground will start at 5pm with the first bout scheduled to start at 6pm. Tickets are already on sale from Meadowbank Sports Centre and www.tickets-scotland.com. Or alternatively call our credit card hotline on 0870 220 1116 for tickets. Tickets will also be directly available from the fighters competing on the event. Seating is unreserved apart from the Close to Ringside.
Tickets are separated into 2 bands, Close to Ringside (£35) and Standard Admission (£25).
For regular updates on the event, check out the website:
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I've been trying to figure this one out for quite a while now and I realized that in the mean time you guys have released BT4beta. Before I go through setting up my bt3 again, though I'd rather wait until you release BT4 final and was wondering if someone could help me with the issue I'm having with BT3 and openvpn.
I've setup the .conf file and it's working fine on other distributions. However, on BT3 I'm getting the following error message:
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No change here.
I've also chmodded /dev/net and /dev/net/tun to 600, but nothing has changed.
I've then tried to reinstall the tun driver (vtun-3.0.1), however it told the following during compilation:
linking linux/tun_dev.c to tun_dev.c
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linking linux/tap_dev.c to tap_dev.c
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Today's Bank of America (BAC) was created through a series of mega-mergers and acquisitions engineered by CEO Ken Lewis, including the purchases of FleetBoston in 2003 and credit card giant MBNA in 2005. By 2007, he had succeeded in making Bank of America the largest bank in the U.S. by deposits. But then Lewis overreached. As the financial system was heading toward near-collapse in 2008, Bank of America bought crippled mortgage bank Countrywide Financial in January and deeply troubled investment bank Merrill Lynch in September.
After that, Bank of America's financial troubles multiplied so rapidly that it was forced to take much more TARP money than most other large U.S. banks: $45 billion.
Lewis was replaced by Brian Moynihan, but Moynihan's tenure has been even worse. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) passed BofA to become the nation's largest bank. Crippling losses, primarily from Countrywide legacy loans, led it to announce it would cut more than 30,000 jobs. In late 2011, a $50 billion class action suit was filed in over the Merrill Lynch acquisition.
Bank of America was also the target of several mortgage fraud suits, and entered into a settlement which cost it and four other large U.S. banks a combined $25 billion. BofA still faces legal and balance sheet problems, which may force it to raise tens of billions of dollars. And finally, its exposure to the weak U.S. real estate market is unparalleled among banks. The overall result is a too-big-to-fail bank that is only limping along.
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You may be surprised to see Zynga (ZNGA), the premier social gaming company, on our list. Its revenue rose from $19.4 million in 2008 to $1.14 billion last year. But Zynga spent plenty of money to reach the apex of its industry, and last year lost $404 million. Investors were drawn to the company because it had been effectively piggy-backing games onto the Facebook platform, which currently has nearly 1 billion members.
The success of the model appeared astonishing. In its last reported quarter, Zynga says it had 192 million monthly unique users, up 27% from the same quarter a year before. But Zynga lost $23 million last quarter on revenue of $332 million. In the same quarter a year ago, Zynga made $1 million on revenue of $279 million.
Zynga's growth rate is no longer impressive, and the problems it faces apparently will worsen soon. The company recently lowered its outlook to reflect delays in launching new games and a faster decline in the use of existing Web games.
But Zynga's real problems are more complex - and more permanent -- than delays and declining use. The game market is becoming more fragmented by the day, and as the total number of virtual games has grown, the cost for Zynga to maintain its lead has become almost prohibitive.
By 24/7 Wall St.
Dell (DELL), along with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Compaq, and Gateway, was one of the companies that capitalized on the creation of the generic IBM PC platform. But the environment in which it grew rapidly by selling inexpensive PCs has changed radically.
First, Dell's computer sales business was damaged by poor management decisions and the rise of Asian manufacturers, which took significant market share from the company. Now, it's being hammered by the smartphone and tablet PC sectors.
All PC makers -- Asian and American -- face substantial pricing challenges today. And as computing has moved quickly to mobile devices, demand for computers has fallen. Dell didn't adapt, didn't diversify the way IBM did, and its reliance on PC sales has left it heading toward irrelevance.
The New York Times Co. (NYT) has long been the premier daily newspaper company in the U.S., but it has been shrinking rapidly. Ten years ago, it made $300 million on revenue of $3.1 billion. Last year, it lost $40 million on revenue of $2.3 billion.
The New York Times' key failure was that it didn't move online fast enough to compensate for the rapid erosion of print advertising -- tardiness that allowed it to be challenged on the Web by properties like The Huffington Post, Google News, MSN, AOL and Yahoo.
Right now, its market cap is $1.2 billion against its revenue of $2.3 billion in 2011. Compare that to low-brow content aggregator Demand Media, which has a market capitalization of $865 million against 2011 revenue of $325 million. Demand lost $13 million last year. The reason the market values of the two companies are so close? The Times still relies on the dying print business for the lion's share of its revenue, and it's in no finiancial position to make a more aggressive move to the Internet or buy large online properties.
The New York Times' uniqueness among American newspapers is the quality of its editorial content, and it has for the most part retained its large editorial staff. (It did lay off 100 people in 2009, which was about 8% of the newsroom). But The Times has not been able to show significant top-line growth, even with its intensive digital subscription efforts. Quite simply, print is in too much of a shambles for the company to shore itself up in the digital world.
The cause of Barnes & Noble's (BKS) downfall can be described in one word: Amazon. In 2002, Barnes & Noble made $109 million on sales of $4.9 billion. That same year, Amazon lost $149 million on revenue of $3.9 billion. Fast forward to 2011, when Amazon's revenue reached $48.1 billion and it earned $631 million, while Barnes & Noble lost $69 million on $7.1 billion. Amazon may have expanded into other product lines, but at its heart it is still the world's largest bookstore, and the Kindle Fire is its bestselling item.
Barnes & Noble's legacy business is huge and expensive. As of its April proxy filing, the company operated 1,338 bookstores in 50 states, including 647 bookstores on college campuses -- with all the overhead those entail.
In its last fiscal year, Barnes & Noble had retail sales of just $4.86 billion. That part of the company's business shrank by 2%. Its Nook segment, which encompasses the digital business, had revenue of only $933 million. Digital sales rose 34% over the previous year, but remain a modest portion of sales. And Barnes & Noble's digital division is vulnerable. Its Nook accounts for only 27% of U.S. market share, compared to a 60% share for the Kindle.
Sprint (S) finally posted some reasonably good results recently. However, these could not mask the fact that the No. 3 wireless carrier is too small to ever really compete with AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless.
Sprint's $35 billion Nextel purchase in 2004 can be seen in retrospect as a key blunder. Their networks ran on different platforms, and integration issues drove customers away from the combined company. Sprint made the MSN "Customer Service Hall of Shame" several times, most recently in 2010. Its customer service has improved significantly since then, but the damage had been done.
Sprint's revenue has fallen from $41.1 billion in 2007 to $33.7 billion last year. It now has about 50 million subscribers to Verizon's 104 million and AT&T's 95 million. As a Morningstar researcher recently noted, "While Sprint has struggled, Verizon Wireless and AT&T have benefited at its expense. Fending off these much larger rivals will be increasingly difficult as data services become more important to the industry."
Young Groupon (GRPN) seems an unlikely candidate for a list of companies that have their best years behind them. But its stock price has fallen by more than 70% since its November 2011 IPO. Groupon's primary problem is that the online coupon business it pioneered is a commodity business now. Amazon and other large retailers have had little trouble entering the sector.
Groupon soared upward: In 2009, it posted revenues of only $15 million, but by 2011 revenues were over $1.6 billion. But Groupon paid dearly for that growth. The company lost $675 million over that same two-year period before interest and taxes. Groupon's revenue keeps growing, but its bottom line losses are growing too: In the most recent quarter it lost $147 million, far worse than its loss of $12 million a year earlier.
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AMD (AMD) was Intel's (INTC) primary competitor five years ago, but its latest quarterly report shows just how far it has fallen. Year-over-year revenue dropped 10% to $1.4 billion. In 2007, it held about 24% of the server and PC chip market. Last year, its market share was just 19%. And then, there's AMD's single greatest problem: In 2006, it bought graphic chip maker ATI for $5.4 billion. At the time, the move made sense: PC makers were using more of ATI's chips in their machines, and AMD needed to keep pace with Intel and graphic chip maker Nvidia. (NVDA)
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AMD has had three CEOs in the last five years as it struggled to find a strategy for growth. The company's greatest challenge may lie ahead as much of the personal computing market moves to tablets and smartphones, where Samsung, Qualcomm (QCOM) and ARM Holdings (ARMH) dominate, and AMD's products are almost nowhere to be found.
J.C. Penney (JCP), founded in 1913, counted itself among the top retailers and catalog companies in the U.S. for decades. But under CEO Myron Ullman III, who took over in 2004, its revenue began to slide, dropping from $19.9 billion in 2007 to $17.3 billion in 2011. Over the same period, earnings fell from $1.1 billion to a loss of $152 million.
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Again, by way of comparison, Macy's overall sales rose 4.3% to $6.1 billion in the last reported quarter. And Macy's is hardly J.C. Penney's largest competitor by revenue or workforce. Walmart's sales were $450 billion last year, while Costco's were $89 billion.
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The university was ranked the 89th-best value in public colleges with an in-state tuition in the list published in Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine's January issue.
For students paying an out-of-state tuition rate, the school remains in the top 100 but drops to 92nd place.
Cal Poly is one of 12 California public universities listed and one of four CSU schools.
The highest-ranked California school on the list, UCLA, comes in at No. 6 for students paying an in-state tuition rate and No. 7 for students paying an out-of-state rate.
UC Riverside is No. 92 for students paying an in-state tuition rate and No. 93 for students paying the out-of-state rate.
To devise its rankings, the magazine looks at such factors as cost, the average test scores of students accepted each year, what percentage of students who are accepted actually attend, how long it takes students to graduate and how much student-loan debt graduates end up with.
"In the case of Pomona, the qualitative factors may not be stellar, but the cost factors are (great)," said Marc Wojno, senior associate editor of Kiplinger's. "It's a good school with a low price."
Although only 14 percent of Cal Poly Pomona students graduate within four years, 51 percent graduate within six years. Students paying in-state tuition pay $19,738 annually including room and board, but with need-based financial aid, that drops to $10,092. After graduation, Bronco alumni typically walk away with about $16,815 in debt.
Although there's no shortage of magazines ranking the nation's colleges, Cal Poly president J. Michael Ortiz said the Kiplinger's ranking is a key one.
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The following archive contains a modified Includes_MediaFlags.xml file which changes the Aeon skin to use the resolution, codec etc. information stored in the internal database and extracted by XBMC.
Complete skin with native flagging:
- Backup your profile
- Install the latest svn build
- Enable the option "Extract media metadata information" in Settings->Video->General
- Download the skin from github (Download #2)
- Unzip the skin into the XBMC skin folder
- (Re)start XBMC with Aeon and browse your movies library
- (optional) Report any bugs like missing codecs or missing major studio logos
- Displaying source
If you want to display the media source (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD or DVD) instead of the codec you must add one of the following strings to the media filename:
- Blu-Ray: Blu-Ray, BluRay or BDRip
- HD-DVD: HD-DVD or HDDVD
- Obviously if you want just the codec (xvid, divx, h264, ...) to show up you need to remove these strings from your media files. MediaRenamer is one tool which can help you in cleaning up your filenames.
The larger archive (not the small basic) also contains a media/multiplex folder and the two files Font.xml and Viewtype_Multiplex.xml in the 720p folder. These are optional and will result in a similar look like krypt2nite posted in the Workaround mediaflagging thread. If you like to have movie names and tvshow/episode name in the titlebar of the multiplex frame you can unzip the media/multiplex and these two files from the 720p folder into your Aeon skin.
- Zip archive with the mod. Download the latest version from the share. There are two versions - the basic does not include the optional multiplex view changes and only contains the stuff to enable the flags for movie and tv-show views.
- Complete skin from github.
- For those using media manager applications to create NFOs
If you stored any additional stuff in your Studio tags then this mod will not display any Studio images for you. Instead of using many many images and show them based on the studio tag this mod uses the studio name itself to find the studios logo! You should be able to just update your NFOs and then repopulate the database.
Thanks and Credits
- CpnBry for the amazing work on the HD video flagging code for XBMC
- freezy for creating the special build that includes the new code.
- djh_ for the Aeon skin
- Everyone who created and shared their studio logos!
- krypt2nite for the new multiplex with info in title view and his work on the Workaround Media Flagging code which is used partly as a base for the TV show flagging.
- The people who created and shared their flag images (See this thread for what was exactly created and shared by who)
- For those using media manager applications to create NFOs
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This is the building set that lets children construct tunnels, mazes and forts in configurations limited only by their imagination. Even small hands can snap together the panels in this set to make lengths of wall or wrap-around enclosures. Each of the 46 brightly-colored rigid panels can be reinforced by joint attachment clips that secure the panels in 90� or 180� segments, ensuring that constructions remain standing during play. When it's time for demolition, the panels separate quickly, stack flat and fit neatly into the zippered carrying case. The included instruction manual includes diagrams for building 12 structures, though young architects will find many more configurations with experimentation. Made of a non-toxic polymer that is UV resistant. Ages 6 and up. 16" H x 23" W x 16" D. (29 lbs.)
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Great that you can make whatever fort you want. The plastic squares are pretty thin and easy for the children to bend and force apart from others. But it is very portable, so understand why the tiles are thin. Kids and teachers in our center love playing with this and other teachers want one for their classroom.
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The productis great. It is made by Brik A Block. They also make other sets with different amounts of pieces to add to this set.
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Dawnamatrix holds the title of Miss Rubber World 2010 and was formally trained in the art of kimono wearing while living in Japan for many years in rural Takayama City. She fuses the beauty and elegance of kimonos with the sensuality and graphic quality of latex. Her kimono patterns reflect authentic kimonos, featuring variable sizing and open sleeve backs for comfort and ease of movement.
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MR. FIX-IT: Our wife came home on Friday and said some guy had told her the brake lights on her 2004 Volkswagen Jetta were out, so the first thing we gotta do is go out and find that guy and kill him.
Man, as we have come to know him, has been around for 200,000 years, almost every one of those years without brake lights. You need water and air. Fire and a lever might be nice. And a spear. It's a long, long list before you get to brake lights. Pancake mix is about 600 positions above brake lights.
But such is our relentless need for luxury and our aversion to traffic tickets, that we decided to dedicate several minutes of our Saturday to replacing the brake light bulbs, which is something anyone can do. It's harder to make a sandwich than it is to replace brake light bulbs. We went to the repository of mankind's endeavors, YouTube, to find out how to do it: Guy on the video pops open the trunk, pulls out a velcro hatch that reveals the bulb housing, gently lifts out the housing, pops out the dead bulb, slips in the new one and he says, with 10 pounds of smug packed into a 5-pound bag, "There, you just saved yourself $100 in mechanics fees."
So, we go to the auto parts store and buy two brake light bulbs for $11 or so, which, after decades of buying things that cost too much, we have been programmed to believe isn't very much money, and we go home to replace them.
Long story short, life in our driveway is nothing like glorious YouTube life. We spent an hour doing what probably looked like an impression of an angry octopus trying to play bagpipes before we decided to unsave our $100 in mechanics fees. So, fairly glowing with a pulsating light of shame and defeat, we drove it to the dealer to have them do it.
You already know how this is going to end.
You already know that the mechanics aren't going to replace a pair of light bulbs, pat our wife's 2004 Jetta on the hood and send us on our merry way, wishing us and ours the best of this holiday season.
You saw it coming, from the minute we pulled into the service bay, that they would find "something in the tubes" causing the car's interior to get damp during rain and that they would have to "pull the header," which is $275 right there.
You're way south of surprised that the "control arm bushings" are worn out. (Nor are you terribly confident that there is such a thing as control arm bushings).
You're not sitting there spitting out your morning coffee in shocked disbelief as the guy details several other arcane horrors that have befallen the car over the past mere 58,000 miles, or that the mechanic, emboldened now at our limp acceptance of what's gone wrong, is no longer even attempting to speak English. He's speaking garage gibberish and continues to do so until he finally collapses, greed-sated, in exhaustion.
How could all of these things have gone wrong? "The car runs perfectly," we whined at the mechanic, as if we were expecting him to say, "It does? Oh, well, then forget it." Instead, he says, "Well, it's a 2004, so ..." as if that was the zany year when Volkswagen decided to just sort of haphazardly throw cars together using drunk lawn-mower repairmen for labor and to embark on a bold but doomed experiment with shoddy control arm bushings.
He could barely contain his glee as he told us the bottom line: "You're looking at about $1,875."
No, we're looking at Christmas dissolve into a Dickensian gloom. We're looking at Christmas morning, with whatever scraps of timber we can scrounge from the yard crackling in a dim fireplace as we tell the children that there will be no presents.
No iThis or iThat will be wrapped and set beneath the Christmas palm frond decorated with bits of gum wrappers. Not the Duncan Imperial yo-yo that Ray had been wishing for, or the Raggedy Ann that has been dancing through Hannah's dreams.
We will find whatever joy that remains of the season by walking out to the driveway, holding our steaming cups of hot and severely diluted cocoa, and, huddling around the weak warmth of the brake lights, offering thanks that, unlike those families less fortunate, we have, in this glorious season, new control arm bushings and a header with its tubes fixed.
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HONOLULU (AP) -- There was no letdown for No. 4 Stanford on Saturday night, just another victory on the Cardinal's impressive trip to Hawaii.
Chiney Ogwumike had 15 points and 17 rebounds to lead Stanford to a 69-42 win over Hawaii. Hours before the game, Ogwumike was tweeting about her school's football team as it took on No. 1 Oregon, eventually winning in overtime.
''It's a great day to work at Stanford,'' coach Tara VanDerveer said.
The Cardinal (4-0) dominated one night after upsetting No. 1 Baylor at the start of the Rainbow Wahine tournament in Honolulu. They never trailed against the host team and had four players score in double figures.
At one point in the first half, Ogwumike had 13 rebounds to Hawaii's 13 as a team. Joslyn Tinkle finished with 16 points, Amber Orrange scored 13 and Toni Kokenis had 12.
Tinkle said her team tried to build off the excitement of beating Baylor.
''It's a big confidence booster and we enjoyed it,'' she said. ''We celebrated and soaked it in as much as we could, but as soon as we woke up this morning, we were ready to go.''
Stanford scored 14 unanswered points midway through the first half and led by 18 at the break. The Cardinal led by as much as 29 in the second half and were never seriously threatened.
Freshman Ashleigh Karaitiana scored 14 points for Hawaii (1-2), which shot just under 31 percent. Hawaii made 16 shots total for the night.
''You're playing against a Final Four team and we're not ranked,'' coach Laura Beeman said. ''So we knew it was going to be a tough night and that we had to play excellent basketball and we did not.''
Kamilah Martin had nine points and six rebounds for the Rainbow Wahine.
One night after the women's basketball team upset No. 1 Baylor, the football team knocked off the top-ranked Ducks.
''Great start boys,'' Ogwumike tweeted after a Stanford touchdown before the start of her game, while No. 1 Baylor and UT Martin played in the tournament's early matchup.
The Cardinal face UT Martin on Sunday to finish the round robin.
VanDerveer said her team understands the trip is a three-game mission.
''We just want to get better, we want to learn about ourselves, we want to really improve - just play better,'' she said.
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Leo's Smoke Shack was legendary, and yes, this happened a few years ago, but we're still pretty burnt about everything that went down. ED NOTE: 4/20/17
By: Alex Ryden
Yes, we are bummed. A little angry. A bit confused. But what happened on Friday Febuary 21st amidst the clouds of smoke billowing out of Breckenridge's national forest couldn't be any more clear—the iconic Leo's smoke shack was exploded into a million tiny pieces by local ski patrol.
Its destruction is being blamed on the recent Inside Edition story that brought national attention to something that has been an inherent part of snowboarding culture for decades—weed and where to smoke it. The episode revealed a few of the hidden smoke huts off the trails of Breckenridge pieced together with fallen wood like sanctuary on a desert island. But the problem was the sacred grounds for hanging and blazing were deep in the boundaries of a national forest—smack dab on federal property, making the issue highly illegal and now highly visible, as the controversy was broadcasted live across the nation during primetime television.
"Yeah, the [Inside Edition] video made the rounds here," said White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams. "I think the episode ran on a Wednesday, and the shack was gone by Friday. So I felt good about how quickly the resort and our team reacted."
The offending Inside Edition report
Because of the bad press, Vail Resorts—the publicly traded company that owns a majority of Colorado's mountains—alongside Colorado Forest Service made a move to immediately dodge controversy.
"The resort had actually planned to take down Leo's in the spring," said Fitzwilliams. "But given the highlighted nature of the shack, we decided to destroy it right away."
So the Inside Edition coverage didn't necessary tip off the specific location of the smoke shack, but it did incite its ruin, prompting the question of whether or not mainstream attention is good for the sport. Whether the riders who appeared in the video should have allowed themselves to be filmed. Whether elevating snowboarding to primetime entertainment is a positive thing and—in the end—if hype is help, or exploitation.
"I think smoke shacks do the resort a big favor," says local Breckenridge rider Ryan Cruze. "They keep these groups in areas where they don't bother the families and other people at the chairlifts. It's way worse to have that obnoxious kid ripping his one-hitter in the morning lift line. I'd assume they'd rather have that go unseen, especially when it's being done at one of the most popular resorts in North America."
Due to being one of the biggest mountain destinations on the continent, Breckenridge has one of the biggest responsibilities—keeping the hundreds of thousands of people heading down its hill every year absolutely safe.
"We want people who aren't interested in that culture to know that they are perfectly safe when they come here," says Vail Resort Director of Mountain Communications Russ Pecoraro. "We are definitely being more proactive about getting our stance on the issue out there—we're going to protect our guests."
And Vail Resorts' stance on the issue extends further than mountain safety, officially offering a statement on the current weed debate that's spreading across the state.
"The media coverage around Amendment 64 has been skewed in the wrong direction," says Pecoraro. "They [the media] are giving the impression that it's okay to smoke in Colorado and we're here to say it's not. The destruction of Leo's is a result of that."
Although the law condemning the consumption of weed and building un-permitted structures on federal land is black and white, some are beginning to view the battle for Leo's as a debate of core versus mainstream, snowboarding culture versus the pressures of society, whether it's better to respect or regulate, and whose side the resorts are really on.
"Leo's had a cult following," says Cruze. "So after the spot was demolished by ski patrol, it was really cool seeing everyone showing their support. It's not often you see a beautiful place like that hand-built with sticks."
With Leo's gone, local rider Cody Boan wonders if leveling the shack will really make any difference in the long run. "Destroying one shack isn't going to change what people do," he says. "Really bums me out seeing something that is such a big part of the mountain's history blown up. Leo's was built by local friends that love Breck and grew up here. RIP."


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The last burst of scorching heat from a prolonged heatwave over much of the continent will hit NSW on Friday, sending temperatures soaring to 43 degrees in parts of Sydney and creating difficult conditions for firefighters in the state's bushfire-stricken areas.
Sydney is forecast to climb to 39 degrees in the city and up to 43 degrees in the west, as a trough moves across the state from central Australia, bringing a blast of inland heat.
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UPDATE: Loveland Police arrest 23-year old suspect
The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports that Loveland resident Cody Allen Powell, 23, turned himself in to Fort Collins Police in connection with the shooting of Loveland Police Officer Garret Osilka. Powell was booked into the Larimer County Jail and accused of attempted first degree murder of a peace officer and first-degree assault.
Powell will appear in court Wednesday and could be formally charged by the end of the week. Loveland police said the investigation is ongoing.
Osilka, 36, was shot during a traffic stop near 17th Street and North Wilson Avenue on Sunday night. Powell remains in intensive care at Medical Center of the Rockies, but is expected to survive.