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IPGRI is an international research institute with a mandate to advance the conservation and use of genetic diversity for the well-being of present and future generations. It is a Centre of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
As of December 2006, IPGRI operates under the name Bioversity International, or Bioversity.
For more information, visit the Web site:www.bioversityinternational.orgForest Genetic Resources Programme
IPGRI's FGR Programme began in 1993 following IPGRI's decision, based on the recommendation of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and the CGIAR in 1991, to expand its mandate to include forest genetic resources. An extensive consultation process took place in which IPGRI identified priority research areas through careful analysis of international research needs and IPGRI's comparative advantage in the field of forest genetic resources.
For more information, visit the website:http://www.bioversityinternational.org/Plants_and_Animals/Forests_and_Trees/index.aspIPGRI/DFSC Project on Handling and Storage of Recalcitrant and Intermediate Forest Tree Seed
SeeOrganizations - DFSCSub Saharan Africa Forest Genetic Resources Programme (SAFORGEN)
IPGRI in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) has created a FGR programme - Sub Saharan Africa Forest Genetic Resources Programme (SAFORGEN), to ensure that forest genetic resources in the region receives the attention that it requires.
For more information, visit the Web site:http://www.bioversityinternational.org/Networks/saforgen/default.aspEuropean Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN).
IPGRI created EUFORGEN, whose main tasks are to coordinate and promote the in situ and ex situ conservation of Europe's forest genetic resources, to facilitate the exchange of genetic material and information, and to increase public awareness of the need to conserve forest genetic resources.
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Apple Store Disrupted by Screaming Mob, Masterminded by RIM
Jason Mick
May 1, 2012 1:00 PM
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Guerrilla marketing scheme gains attention, but will it lead to sales?
An eye-catching protest/flash-mob occurred outside an Apple, Inc. (
) store in Sydney Australia. Blogger Nate 'Blunty' Burr captured the whole incident on video, leading some to believe he may have been hired by whoever was behind the campaign.
I. All Aboard the Protest Bus
He describes, "All of a sudden a big black bus pulls up. A bunch of people dressed in black pour out of said bus with protest signs and they start screaming 'Wake up!'"
"Perhaps it's some sort of guerilla marketing for a new SIRI feature," he deadpans, "SIRI, please send a screaming mob to me at work to me at 2 pm. BEW-DOOP!"
Well given Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (
) upcoming
Galaxy S3 launch
and its recent history of
mocking Apple's throng of followers
, everyone sort of reached the forgone conclusion that the South Korean phonemaker was behind this. After all, Samsung was likely a bit sore at the fact that Apple had succeeding in
banning its tablet sales
for a while
in Australia, before the
ruling was overturned
But Samsung -- who some estimate is now the
world's largest smartphone-maker
, ahead of Apple -- denied crafting the stunt. A spokesperson
the Australian newspaper
The Age
, "As a market leader in smartphones we think Australians have already woken up to the multitude of choices available, but kudos to whoever is behind the campaign."
II. The True Backer Shows Their Face
So if it wasn't Samsung who was it?
It turns out the noisy mob was the work of Research in Motion ltd. (
), makers of the BlackBerry smartphone. RIM is currently working on preparing its brand-new
QNX-based BlackBerry 10 smartphone operating system
for the market.
RIM recently received a "wake up" of its own, recording its
first quarterly loss
in years.
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But with a new leader at the helm, the company is determined to stay independent and perhaps even give Apple,
et al.
a wake up call of its own.
RIM comments, "We can confirm that the Australian 'Wake Up' campaign, which involves a series of experiential activities taking place across Sydney and Melbourne, was created by RIM Australia."
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The phonemaker promises it didn't pay off bloggers like Mr. Burr -- who has done in-depth past coverage for RIM -- to cover the mock protest. The company assures, "Bloggers were not paid for this campaign or told what to say. Neither RIM, nor any agencies on RIM's behalf, have ever paid Blunty."
The company has a webpage up promoting the viral campaign
. The site has a countdown, which is currently ~422,450 seconds from completion, or about five days away. RIM is expected to deliver a preview of the upcoming BlackBerry 10 in Australia at the end of the week.
The company does have a bit of a history of provocative ad campaigns backfiring. Around this time last year RIM spent millions on a campaign for its PlayBook tablet, declaring "
Amateur hour is over.
reviews of the PlayBook
embarassingly indicated that RIM's tablet was very much the "amateur hour" device compared to veteran designs like the iPad. A year later, RIM is at it again, this time hoping for better results.
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Junk to some, treasure to others
I know elegant, dignified people who would never stoop to rummaging through a bargain bin, or dusting off a strange item to try to figure out what the heck it is.
I'm not one of them.
That classy breed of people can be found in 6-inch heels or Italian loafers, drawing admiring glances from other shoppers as they stroll through Fashion Island or South Coast Plaza.
I can be found in my beat-up jeans and sandals, trolling the secondhand stores in search of items to satisfy my urge for treasure. If I draw any glances, it's probably because remnants of my lunch are still clinging to my shirt.
On Sunday morning, you would have found me standing outside the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Garden Grove with a cluster of other bargain hunters, waiting for it to open so we could get inside and score our fix.
In this case, the drug of choice was the chance to buy nice wooden barstools for $5 each. Yes, $5.
There are two reasons to go to the ReStore: You're looking for a specific item, or you're not.
If you're looking for a specific item, you might be in luck, because most everything they sell has been donated, so the merchandise is constantly in flux.
I already knew from reading their weekly email that they were going to sell a large stock of wooden barstools with leather seats for $5 each. These had been donated by the Yard House restaurants as part of a remodeling project, and I wanted some.
I don't actually have a bar right now, but I'm going to be punching a hole through my kitchen wall pretty soon and building one, so I'm starting to collect things now.
I'm happy to say I did wrestle other would-be buyers to the ground in order to bag three barstools, and right now they're sitting in my living room. Some time before the Apocalypse, they'll make it into my garage, covered in plastic until my remodeling project.
You know what Habitat for Humanity is? They build houses for people who need them. And for several years now, there have been two stores in Orange County that sell donated home improvement items. The stores are in Garden Grove and Santa Ana.
If you need a sofa, and you happen to stop by at the exact moment they're unloading a shipment of hide-a-beds donated by a hotel at the Disneyland Resort, you're in luck.
Karen Thoms, who runs the Orange County stores, told me about the time they got a shipment of 65 mini-refrigerators that had been purchased for corporate executives who were staying at a conference near Disneyland.
Apparently, the company thought its managers couldn't get along without refrigerators in their rooms, so they bought a truckload of them, just for that one retreat.
That's the sort of story that makes me realize I really, really have the wrong job. In any event, after the managers went home, they donated the mini-fridges to Habitat. So if you were looking for a fridge and happened in on the right day, you would have been able to buy enough of them to fill every dorm room at Chapman University.
Speaking of Chapman, I just bought three Craftsman-style chairs that were donated from the university's library. Yeah, they're a little bit worn. But they are solid wood and comfortable and cost almost nothing, so I'm happy.
Luckily, I'm into shabby chic.
Let me tell you though, it's very hard to get out of one of these ReStores with only one item. Because you're always going to find things you didn't even know you needed.
My friend Ana, who took the photos for this column, was seized with an uncontrollable longing to buy a vintage stove – even though she has a contemporary cooktop at home and couldn't even use it.
Fortunately, we called the intervention team, and they were able to get her out before any damage was done.
In Garden Grove, store manager Jonathan Biggs showed me around the high-end furnishings that had been ripped out of fancy houses before they were demolished.
While most people think of Habitat as being in the construction business, they also do deconstruction. They'll come and rip out your nice stuff that you hate to chuck in the Dumpster, and then sell it to someone else.
I couldn't help mooning over an ornate fireplace mantel that had been pried out of someone's mansion, even though the only place I could put it in my overcrowded house would be on the ceiling.
They also take donations – not everything, though, so call to ask if they want what you're trashing.
You never know. It might end up in my house next week.
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I like this guys work, alot. But I post this because a group of 4chan thugs appropriated his work and added captions that provided some hearty laughter. http://imgur.com/a/tI0m7
I picked up John Kenn Mortensen's More Post-It Monsters at a comic-show in London and it's terrific. Mortensen draws beautiful and grotesque line-art monsters on yellow sticky notes, and, as with the first collection of these, Sticky Monsters, More Post-It Monsters reproduces them with a minimum of text (apart from a brief and charming intro from China Mieville) and other distractions. It's just about 80 pages' worth of Gorey-esque illustrations that'll excite and reward your brain's monster-center.
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Using Custom Field as Variable in MagpieRSS
OK so I would like to pull in RSS feeds to post templates on my site.
Ideally, I'd like to specify the feed itself as a custom field – I've got the code I want for magpie, but where I'm stuck is outputting the custom field as the variable for the Magpie code.
Could anyone offer any advice?
This is the code I'm working with:

 <?php require_once('magpierss/rss_fetch.inc'); $num_items = 5; $rss = fetch_rss( 'FEED URL HERE' ); if($rss) { $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items); echo "
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So where it says 'FEED URL HERE', I need to output the custom field – Could anyone help?
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Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announce that multiple Oscar-winners Jack Nicholson ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "As Good as It Gets," "Terms of Endearment") and Dustin Hoffman ("Kramer vs. Kramer," "Rain Man") will present at the February 24 awards show.
They join previously announced Oscar-winner Jane Fonda ("Klute," "Coming Home"), Jennifer Garner, Kristen Stewart, Kerry Washington, Jennifer Hudson, Paul Rudd, Oscar winners Michael Douglas ("Wall Street," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") and Jamie Foxx ("Ray"), Salma Hayek Pinault, Melissa McCarthy, Liam Neeson, John Travolta, Ben Affleck, Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence, as well as Best Actress winners Halle Berry ("Monster's Ball"), Reese Witherspoon ("Walk the Line"), Sandra Bullock ("The Blind Side") and Nicole Kidman ("The Hours"), plus last year's winners Meryl Streep ("The Iron Lady"), Jean Dujardin ("The Artist"), Octavia Spencer ("The Help") and Christopher Plummer ("Beginners"). "The Avengers" cast members Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo will also present on-stage.
Charlize Theron, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Daniel Radcliffe will make "special appearances" on the Oscar show–not specifically as presenters. This suggests that they may be playing in some Seth MacFarlane skits. All four enjoyed box-office success this year: "Prometheus" and "Snow White and the Huntsman" (Theron); "Magic Mike," "21 Jump Street" and "The Vow" (Tatum); "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Looper" (Gordon-Levitt); and "The Woman in Black" (Radcliffe). Theron has won an Oscar for "Monster" and received a second nomination for "North Country." This is the first time the three male stars will appear at the Oscars.
While the telecast will feature a special 50th anniversary celebration of the James Bond franchise, the rumor that each actor who played Bond will make an appearance has been confirmed as untrue.
We will update this list as more presenters are announced. The Academy Awards take place at Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland.


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text: Watch Men Turn a Convenience Store into a Schoolgirl Anime MeccaBrian Ashcraft11/28/11 3:00amFiled to: Culture smashAnimeLawsonK-onJapanOsakaTop911EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Schoolgirl rocker anime K-On! isn't only getting a feature film, in which the girls travel to London. It's also getting a convenience store. This is it. Advertisement In Japan, convenience stores not only sell food and snacks, but an array of necessities (boxers, anyone?) and also double as a place you can send letters, order gifts, buy movie and concert tickets, and even pay your utility bill—as well as standard (and separate) ATM services.Because Japanese convenience stores, or "konbini" in Japanese, are such hubs, this is why game and anime makers, like Square Enix, don't hesitate to to launch themed goodies, such as Dragon Quest Slime. That's why K-On! is once again getting a konbini send off. Previously, Japanese chain Lawson held a "K-On! Fair". To promote the film, one Lawson in Osaka near Universal Studios Japan is being decked out in K-On! gear. Advertisement Lawson, like Japan's biggest conbini 7-Eleven, isn't originally from Japan. In 1939, the first Lawson's dairy store opened in Ohio. The first Lawson opened in Osaka during the 1970s, and today the Lawson stores are Japanese owned and operated.In case you missed it, here is another themed Lawson. This one is for Doraemon creator Fujiko F. Fujio. In the above gallery, pictures, courtesy of website Gigazine, show how the convenience store is covered in K-On!. Ladders and dudes in hats are involved. Advertisement Sponsored More photos on Gigazine, and K-On! The Movie opens on Dec. 3 in Japan.Culture Smash is a daily dose of things topical, interesting and sometimes even awesome—game related and beyond. (Top photo: logc_nt | Gigazine)You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at email@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page. Reply91 repliesLeave a reply


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Mean Betty Imagines Victoria Beckham's Luxury Hotel
Posh has reportedly been asked to design a hotel in Dubai. Mean Betty can't wait.
-Mean Betty
Oh my dear ones, what will they think of next? Victoria "I'm the Same Size as J. Lo" Beckham has apparently been offered nearly $50 million to "design" a hotel in Dubai. The ruler of the country, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, was, it would seem, quite taken with the designing woman after meeting Posh and her hottie hubbie on holiday. (Stars, they're just like us!)
According to ShowbizSpy.com, "The hotel will be located on a fashion-themed island called Isla Moda off the Dubai coast, which is part of The World development — a man-made archipelago of 300 islands constructed in the shape of a map of the landmasses of the Earth."
A fashion-themed island on a man-made Earth?! What a perfect location for a woman who is clearly not from this planet.
Read Mean Betty's Open Letter to Taylor Swift
Apparently Posh hasn't decided whether or not to take the sheik up on his offer yet, but can't you just imagine, darlings? A hotel designed by Victoria Beckham? Mean Betty can see it now …
…Room service will only feature water, diet Coke, crackers and carrot sticks.
…In-room slippers will have four-inch stiletto heels; robes will be thigh-high and made of leather.
…TVs will only play soccer matches and the movie Spiceworld on repeat.
…Muzak in the elevators will be Spice Girls songs only.
…The hotel boutique will only carry Hermès Birkin bags and DVB jeans.
…Hotel staff will be instructed not to smile (just like Posh).
…Gwyneth Paltrow will write a review in her Goop newsletter, inspiring us all to go spend that extra $10K we have lying around for a room. For one night.
…Children will not be permitted unless they are dressed in matching Ralph Lauren polo shirts and/or they carry the last name of Cruise or Smith.
…There will be a strictly enforced "No Italian TV presenters" policy.
Tell Mean Betty kittens, how to you envision a Posh Spice hotel?
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In it, but not of it. TPM DC
BREAKING: Appeals Court Scraps Gay Marriage Bans In Wisconsin, Indiana
"The discrimination against same-sex couples is irrational, and therefore unconstitutional even if the discrimination is not subjected to heightened scrutiny, which is why we can largely elide the more complex analysis found in more closely balanced equal-protection cases," Judge Richard Posner wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel.
The ruling makes it the third federal appeals court to conclude that state prohibitions on gay marriage violate the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. Advocates for marriage equality have enjoyed many victories since the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that the federal government may not deny equal benefits to legally married gay couples.
Posner, a Reagan appointee, said the cases were formally about "discrimination against the small homosexual minority" but "at a deeper level, as we shall see, they are about the welfare of American children."
"Our pair of cases is rich in detail but ultimately straightforward to decide," he wrote. "The challenged laws discriminate against a minority defined by an immutable characteristic, and the only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction — that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children, intended or unintended — is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously."
The decision will be appealed by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican.
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Painful as it might feel, the practice of piercing a hole through the skin and inserting a piece of metal, bone, shell, ivory or glass to wear as an ornament has been around for millennia. Body piercing occurs worldwide and is practiced on men, women and children. It's grown in popularity during the past five years, especially among American teenagers, who pierce just about anything that can be pierced: ears, noses, tongues, and navels.
The most conventional form of piercing in the United States today is ear piercing. Among young and old, male and female, ear piercing is common practice and has become more mainstream for both sexes than it once was. Ear piercing can range anywhere from a single hole in one or both ears to holes along the entire rim of the ear. While currently trendy, multiple piercings are nothing new: the Museum's Near Eastern gallery displays a 4000 year-old clay figurine with multiple-pierced ears!
Our reasons for piercing our bodies can change over time, and may vary from culture to culture. For example, a pair of gold earrings (left) from the Museum's Ancient Greek World gallery can tell us that the people living on the island of Cyprus 2200 years ago pierced their ears. But this evidence can also raise questions: Were earrings worn by both men and women then? Why did these ancient people wear gold bulls as adornment? Archaeologists and anthropologists are always seeking answers to questions like these.
Tlingit shark tooth earrings with silver catches, Alaska, 1918
Among the Tlingit of southeast Alaska, we know that ear piercing was directly related to an individual's rank in society. Social position was determined by the wealth of the family into which the individual was born. Although a Tlingit could rarely better his own social standing, he could raise the station of his sister's children and his grandchildren by "potlatching" (hosting a community feast). At a potlatch the host paid a member of his moiety (group) to pierce the rims of the children's ears. At additional potlatches, other holes were added. A great amount of wealth was required to host the feast and pay the person to pierce the children's ears. Consequently, the resulting series of holes marked an individual as a member of the nobility.
The latest alternative piercing trend in some American cities involves stretching earlobes in order to accommodate ear-spools and earplugs. The spools and plugs of today have an amazing resemblance to those worn by the people of ancient Mexico, including the Maya. The spools and plugs pictured at the right are on display in the Museum's Mesoamerican gallery. Carved from obsidian (a volcanic glass), they range in size from approximately one centimeter to an inch in diameter.
Throughout Asia, we can also find examples of stretched earlobes that come from wearing extremely heavy earrings. This statue from the Museum's Buddhism gallery (left) is a good example of stretched earlobes.
Other evidence of stretched lobes can be seen in details from a wall mural displayed in the Museum's Chinese Rotunda. This woman (left) has earrings in her ears, and you can see that her earlobes are stretched from the weight of the earrings. This practice can still be seen on the modern Asiatic island of Borneo (see woman, right).
Less mainstream in our society than ear piercing, but becoming more popular, is lip piercing. Looking at a person with a pierced lip may make others wonder, "Doesn't that thing click against the teeth?"
Until the late 19th century, the Eskimo of Alaska defined social status among groups by lip piercing. Both men and women wore lip-plugs, called labrets, such as this ivory one (below) from the Museum's Native Alaska gallery.
An Eskimo man wore either one lip-plug (worn centered to his mouth) or two (worn on either side of his mouth). A man wearing the double labrets resembled a walrus, like this figure (right) displayed in the Museum's Native Alaska gallery. Young men received the labret as a type of initiation. Since holes for their labrets were often cut when they reached puberty, a lip-plug symbolized that an Eskimo boy had entered manhood. Eskimo women usually wore only one central lip-plug as decoration; however, the highborn Tlingit girls wore a labret to indicate their noble social status.
Eskimo men and women increased the size of their lip-plugs by gradually stretching the hole in the lip. Often labrets were so large that their lips hung down, exposing teeth and gums. Larger labrets sometimes interfered with speaking and eating and had to be removed.
Another popular kind of piercing today in American culture is nose piercing. Nose rings can be worn on either side of the nose or through the septum (middle). Among the Tlingit of southeast Alaska, nose rings were considered a mark of distinction and prestige and were worn by both men and women. Nose piercing was also popular in Ancient Mexico and India. Today, women in India and Pakistan continue to wear nose rings, as do many other people around the world.
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This paper seeks to examine the relationship between the price of the product and the buyers' perception of quality in respect of durable, semi-durable, and non-durable products in the Indian context. Three products were selected for the purpose of the study: colour television as a durable product; T-shirt as a semi-durable product; and toothpaste as a non-durable product. Data were collected from the primary sources with the help of a non-disguised, pre-structured questionnaire.
In particular, the study sought to explore answer to two questions: (1) Does high price have a positive influence on the buyers' perception of product quality? (2) Is there a significant difference in the buyers' perception of the quality of products falling in different price ranges?
Price is also one of the most important marketplace cues. The all-pervasive influence of price is due, in part, to the fact that the price cue is present in all purchase situations and, at a minimum, represents to all consumers, the amount of economic outlay that must be sacrificed in order to engage in a given purchase transaction. Although it is believed that price serves as an indicator of quality, there exists no general price-perceived quality relationship. In fact, price becomes a less important indicator of quality in the presence of other product quality cues such as brand name or store image. The use of price as an indicator of quality
In one of the pioneering studies on price-perceived quality relationship, Leavitt (1954) observed that the buyers tended to have doubts when they chose the lower-priced brands than in the case of higher-priced brands. He concluded that a higher price might sometimes
increase the buyers' readiness to buy. Price would be an indicator of quality for commodities such as textile products where quality cannot be ascertained by sight and where, owing to changes in technology and fashion, past experience was of little use.
Price plays an important role in indicating quality of many products for four reasons:
• The ease of measurement since price is a concrete, measurable variable.
• The effort and satisfaction, i.e., consumer satisfaction with a product depends on the amount of effort spent by the consumer in acquiring the product and an expenditure of money may be viewed by the consumer as similar to an expenditure of effort.
• The snob appeal.
• The reduction of the perceived risk of buying a product of poorer quality.
However, marketers must be careful that the concept of price as an indicator of quality should not be applied indiscriminately in making pricing decisions.
McConnell (1968) examined the relationship between price and the quality of beer which is a frequently-purchased consumer product. He found that the buyers used price as an indicator of product quality. With a homogeneous product and various unknown brand names, buyers perceived the highest-priced brand to be of better quality than the other two brands. He concluded that price, without any other cue, was an effective measure for brand evaluation.
In an experimental study, Gardener (1971) explored the degree of price-quality relationship for three products: toothpaste, a man's shirt, and a suit. He concluded
that while price did not affect the perception of product quality in case of all the three products, whether branded or not, it did affect the willingness to buy a shirt.
Shapiro (1973) sought to determine whether price would act as a communicator of quality and ascertain the reasons for consumers judging the product quality by price by determining the correlates of price reliance. It was found that, for most of the dimensions such as quality, durability, looks or fragrance, the number of buyers ranking the high-priced product better than the low-priced product was greater than the number of buyers
ranking the low-priced product better than the high-priced product. But, a substantial number of buyers rated the products as equal. The study revealed that price was a communicator of quality and the associated attributes in the marketplace when the product was actually present and the setting relatively realistic. On the other hand, the data showed that price was not a strong communicator of quality. Furthermore, price reliance appears to be a generalized mental construct - an attitude or trait, i.e., some people seem to be price-reliant regardless of the product under consideration. Interestingly, the study of the relationship between demographics and generalized price reliance shows price reliance to be correlated with older age and lower education but not with income. Price reliance depends upon the consumer's trust in the competence and honesty of the price-maker, perceived risk in a purchase situation, self-confidence of the customers, snobbery among them, importance of shopping speed, and the perceived quality difference among the brands. Price and quality were linked together in the mind of the consumer.
Price plays different roles in the purchase-decision process. In traditional economic theory, since higher price has a negative impact on the consumer's budget, price has a negative influence on his buying decision. However, from a behavioural perspective, price may be
perceived as a product quality cue. Therefore, price may be viewed either as an indicator of sacrifice, or as a quality cue, or both. It is found that price increase might play a positive or a negative role in the purchase-decision process.People is more likely to use price as an indicator of quality for expensive products. As price increases, the risk of an incorrect decision increases and the buyer is often less familiar with the product because of the in-
frequency of purchase. In such situations, simple learned heuristics, based on folk wisdom, such as 'you get what you pay for,' are likely to be used.
In the Indian scene, Mehta, Parasuraman and Ambarish Kumar (1972) conducted an experimental study to find out the relationship between quality and price and to examine the consumers' brand choice with respect to ready-made shirts. The study indicated that a
majority of the buyers perceived some quality difference between the two shirts which were identical in all respects except for the brand names. The study revealed
that the name of a well-known brand induced the consumers to be favourably disposed towards that brand in terms of quality and price perception and they were willing to pay a higher price for the well-known brand.
In this paper, we use Indian data to answer the following two questions:
• Does high price have a positive influence on the buyers' perception of product quality?
• Is there a significant difference in the buyers' perception of the quality of products that fall in different price ranges?
Three products-colour television, representing the durable category; T-shirt, the semi durable category; and toothpaste, the non-durable category were analysed. Information was elicited from consumers on these three products through a questionnaire.
The questionnaire contained statements relating to the factors that the respondents might have considered while buying the product and their general opinion regarding the quality of that product.
The seven factors identified were - brand reputation, price, features, promotion, brand loyalty, store reputation, and store loyalty. The second set of factors consisted of the buyers' perception of the quality-revealing ability of five out of the seven factors, i.e., brand reputation, price, features, promotion, and store reputation.
Factors Considered while Buying the Product
In order to determine the importance of the seven factors for the respondents while buying the three products - colour television, T-shirt, and toothpaste - the mean, percentage mean, and standard deviation were computed. On the basis of their mean values, the factors were ranked. The results are presented in Table 1.
Consumers considered price as an important factor for purchasing the product. This was particularly true in the case of consumer durables like colour television as well as for semi-durable products like a T-shirt. While, for colour television, price bagged the first rank, in the
case of T-shirt, it was ranked second. The buyers paid less attention to price while purchasing toothpaste and, hence, it managed to secure the fifth rank among the seven factors. The possible reasons for this phenomenon is that people habitually buy a particular brand of toothpaste and do not pay much attention to the price.
Quality Perception of the Influencing Factors
In an attempt to compare the quality perception of the factors with regard to the three products, the mean scores and the corresponding ranks were computed. The results are presented in Table 2.
It is noticed from Table 2 that buyers, to a considerable extent, judged the quality of the product on the basis of brand reputation. This was true for all the three products. Therefore, this factor secured the second rank in the case of both colour television and T-shirt. However, in the case of toothpaste, this factor bagged the first rank. Buyers gave maximum weight to product features but price was ranked third among the five factors, for all the three products. This suggests that buyers generally believe that the higher the price of the product, the superior will be its quality.
Price-Quality Relationship: Durable Product
The findings reported in Tables 1 and 2 reveal that price is considered to be an important factor by the respondents in product evaluation. As reported in Table 1, price is considered to be the most important factor while buying a colour television and people go for high-priced brands with the belief that it would ensure value for their money. It is also clear from Table 2 that people perceive that higher the price of colour television, the superior would be its quality and, hence, price managed to secure the third rank in terms of its association with quality.
Perceived Quality of Colour Television Falling in Different Price Ranges
In order to ascertain whether the buyers' perception of quality was affected by price of the colour television, the respondents were asked to judge the quality of a regular 21-inch colour television on the basis of five price ranges. Their responses are summarized in Table 3. Only 7 out of 179 respondents (3.9%) believed that a low-priced colour television set would be of high quality, i.e., if it is priced 'up to Rs 10,000.'
On the other hand, for the television falling in the highest price range of 'Rs 25,001 and above,' 142 respondents (79.3%) opined that it would be of very high quality and 21 respondents (11.7%) believed that it would be of high quality. Thus, it appears that the higher the price of colour television, the higher will be the consumers' perception of its quality.
The mean, percentage mean, and standard deviation for each of the price ranges are presented in Table 4. It indicates that the higher the price range, higher is the perception of quality of the colour television. The first rank was secured by the colour televisions falling in the price range of 'Rs 25,001 and above' while the lowest price range of 'up to Rs 10,000' secured the fifth and the last rank.
Thus, the consumers considered price as an important criteria in judging the quality of colour television. They perceived higher-priced televisions to be of high quality. Significant differences relating to the perception of the quality of colour televisions falling in different price ranges were also found. Thus, we may accept the fact that high price has a positive influence on buyers' perception of product quality.
Price-Quality Relationship: Semi-durable Product
The T-shirt market is flooded with a host of brands - local, national, and multinational, besides the unbranded ones. Even among the branded T-shirts, the buyer is faced with the problem of making a distinction between a genuine and a fake brand. Most of the reputed brands are sold through the company outlets or exclusive show-
rooms. Hence, it becomes difficult to distinguish between brand reputation and store reputation. Moreover, T-shirts are found in a very wide price range of, say, Rs 50 to Rs 2,500, and predicting the quality of a particular T-shirt available at a particular price becomes all the more difficult for the buyer.
From the data given in Tables 1 and 2, we can examine the influence of price on the buyers' perception of quality of a T-shirt. It is evident from the tables that price was an important factor for the respondents while purchasing a T-shirt and in judging its quality. Price got the second rank among the factors considered by the respondents while purchasing a T-shirt and the third rank in terms of its quality-revealing ability.
Perceived Quality of T-shirt Falling in Different Price Ranges
In order to ascertain whether the buyers' perception of product quality is affected by the price of the T-shirt, nine price-classes were selected, starting from 'below Rs 50' to 'Rs 1,201 and above,' and the respondents were asked to rate the quality of a T-shirt falling in these nine price ranges. The responses are presented in Table 7.
Table 7 reveals that the lower the price, the lower is the quality rating given by the respondents. A total of 133 respondents (76%) were of the opinion that a T-shirt falling in the price range of 'below Rs 50' would be of 'very low' quality and another 34 (19.4%) said that it would be of 'low' quality. On the other hand, for the last four price ranges, i.e., the T-shirts priced above Rs 451, not a single respondent gave a 'low' or a 'very low' quality-rating. Thus, the respondents believed that the higher the price of the T-shirt, the superior would be its quality. Furthermore, the mean, percentage mean, and standard deviation for each of the price ranges were computed and then these price ranges were ranked on the basis of their mean scores. The results are presented in Table 8.
Table 8 shows that while the T-shirt falling in the highest range of 'Rs 1,201 and above' secured the first rank with the highest mean score, the lowest price range of 'below Rs 50' got the last rank with the lowest mean score.
High price has a positive influence on the buyers' perception of the quality of T-shirts and people see a significant difference in the quality of T-shirts available at different price ranges. However, ultimately, buyers judge the price of the product on the basis of its features such as the strength and texture of the fabric, colour, design, and shape of the T-shirt, and not merely on the basis of their perception about the price or the 'high price-superior quality' image.
Price-Quality Relationship: Non-durable Product
The respondents paid less attention to the price of the toothpaste, as shown in Table 1, and hence 'price' was ranked fifth among the seven factors. However, in terms of the quality-revealing ability of this factor, it managed to get the third rank after 'brand reputation' and 'features' as can be noticed in Table 2. These results indicate that although people do not pay attention to the price of the toothpaste while making the purchase, they do associate high price with superior quality.
Perceived Quality of Toothpaste in Different Price Ranges
The respondents were asked to judge the quality of a 150gm toothpaste tube on the basis of six price ranges. The purpose was to ascertain whether the buyers' perception of quality was affected by the price of the toothpaste. The responses are summarized in Table 10. As shown in the table, people perceived that the higher the price of the toothpaste, the superior will be its quality. While 86 respondents (50.3%) believed that a 150gm toothpaste tube priced below Rs 10 would be of very low quality, for the highest price range, viz., 'Rs 51 and above,' 88 respondents (51.5%) gave a very high quality rating.
On the basis of the results shown in Table 10, the mean, percentage mean, standard deviation, and the ranks corresponding to the mean values for each of the six price ranges were computed. The results are presented in Table 11.From Table 11, it is evident that the higher the price range, the higher is the mean value or the quality rating and, therefore, higher is the corresponding rank. The highest price range of 'Rs 51 and above' scored the highest mean value of 4.39 and secured the first rank. Thus, the respondents perceived a difference in the quality of toothpaste available at different prices and gave a high quality rating to the high-priced toothpaste and vice-versa.
Thus, the buyers believe that the higher the price of toothpaste, the superior will be its quality. However, they would like to pay a high price for toothpaste which has the maximum number of features as they believe that such toothpaste will give the maximum value for their money. Moreover, most of the respondents were either brand-loyal or went for reputed brands and, therefore, paid little attention to the price of the toothpaste.
An analysis of the price-quality relationship for the three products reveals the following:
Colour television: Among the seven factors considered by the buyers while purchasing a colour television, price is the most important factor. The buyers perceive a considerable difference among the quality of colour television falling under different price ranges. They believe that price can reveal its quality and the higher the price of the television, the superior will be its quality. Moreover, while purchasing a durable product like a colour television, buyers prefer to go for a high-or a reasonably-priced brand, rather than a low-priced one. Moreover, they want value for their money and find it risky to buy a low-priced product.
T-shirt: For purchasing T-shirts too, price is an important consideration while selecting a brand. However, the buyers would like to pay more for reputed brands and for features present in the T-shirt like the strength and texture of the fabric and fast colour. They believe that the lower the price of the T-shirt, the inferior will be its quality. However, they are a bit sceptical about the
'high-price-superior quality' relationship. Nevertheless, they perceive a considerable difference in the quality of the T-shirt falling in different price ranges. The expectation of getting value for their money has more importance to them than the high-price consideration.
Toothpaste: The buyers generally pay less attention to the price of the toothpaste while making the actual purchase. Brand loyalty, features of the toothpaste, and brand reputation takes precedence over price. However, they see a significant difference in the quality of the toothpaste available at different price ranges. They do believe that the lower the price of the toothpaste, the inferior will be its quality and vice-versa. But, this belief is somewhat weaker for toothpaste in comparison to the other two products. Again, in comparison to colour television and T-shirt, while buying a toothpaste, the buyers are less concerned about whether they will get value for their money from that purchase.
The findings of the study have the following implications for the marketer for pricing of the three types of products:
Colour television: In the case of colour television, setting the price too low will negatively affect the quality image of the product and the consumer would be reluctant to buy a low-priced brand which may lower his or her image in the society. Pricing it reasonably high will give the product a high quality image. But, the marketer
should also take care of the competitors' pricing policies and the purchasing power of the target market.
T-shirt: Pricing of the T-shirt is all the more difficult. The problem faced by the marketers of T-shirt in the Indian market is that their target market segment mainly
consists of the young, especially the college-going ones, having limited purchasing power. They would prefer local or not-so-reputed brands of trendy T-shirts rather than spending on expensive branded T-shirts. But, they
will definitely prefer a T-shirt of reputed brand if it is within their purchasing power. However, reducing the price of the the T-shirt may dilute its image. Hence, the marketer of the T-shirt should adopt appropriate market segmentation strategies, select the appropriate target segment, and price the T-shirt accordingly.
Toothpaste: For toothpaste, brand image is a decisive factor and the marketer should price the product according to the reputation enjoyed or likely to be enjoyed by the brand. However, the price-quality relationship for this product is rather weak in comparison to colour television and T-shirt. However, the marketer should keep in mind that charging a very low price would create an inferior quality image in the minds of the buyer. Moreover, the buyer, generally, judges the price of this product in terms of his/her internal reference price. Hence, an understanding of the buyers' internal reference price is necessary for the marketer.


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On Highway 42, in the center divide between the London Museum and the West Rusk High School, is an impressive 32-ft. monument dedicated to 269 students, 16 teachers, and 8 other individuals whose lives were cut short on Thursday, March 18, 1937, at 3:17 p.m. when an explosion destroyed the four year old school building in New London, Texas. Seventy-five years have passed and most of the people who "remembered" are also gone. Yet, even as time goes on, the tragedy will always be part of Texas history. In 1937, New London, Texas was one of the richest rural school districts in America. With oil fields booming, the community had built a beautiful, modern, steel framed, e-shaped school building four years earlier. March 18, 1937 appeared to be a routine day for the school with plans for an interscholastic meet the next day. Younger school children had already boarded buses and were headed home. However, it was anything but routine. At 3:17 p.m., just minutes before the school day's end, the building exploded. The widely held belief is that Lemmie R. Butler turned on a sanding machine causing a spark that ignited a vast pool of natural gas and air, which had collected beneath the building. The building was said to have lifted in the air before it smashed back to the ground, collapsing walls and the roof. Victims were buried beneath a mass of brick, steel, and concrete. Within 15 minutes, the news had spread. Frantic parents, 1,500 roughnecks from the oilfield, Texas Rangers – ordered in by Governor James Allred, and highway patrol all descended quickly on the wreckage. Hospitals from Dallas, Nacogdoches, Wichita Falls, and the United State Army Air Corps in Louisiana; Sheriff's deputies from Overton, Henderson, and Kilgore; Red Cross; Salvation Army; and even the Boy Scouts pitched in. In fact, a new modern hospital, Mother Mary Frances Hospital of Tyler, opened a day early to care for victims. The opening ceremonies that had been planned for the following day never happened. Oil Companies, such as Gulf Pipe Line, Sinclair, and Humble came to assist, as did the International-Great Northern Railroad. In spite of nightfall and rain, within 17 hours, all the victims and the debris had been taken from the site. The Texas Funeral Directors sent twenty-five embalmers. The dead received individual caskets, graves, and religious services. Miraculously, 130 students escaped serious bodily injury. Many were outside for a P.E. class. These were the ones left to "remember," along with parents, grandparents, and others whose lives were forever altered that day. The stories, that have been told and retold, did not surface until a 1977 School Reunion – the first since the tragedy. Prior to that time, a "wall of silence" surrounded New London; no one asked about the tragedy, and no one volunteered information. Here are a few of the stories: --Bus driver Lonnie Barber bravely carried the kids on his bus home before going back to look for his own four children; one of which died. --One child was identified, by his brother, only by the presence of a top's pull string. --A mother had a heart attack and died when she found out only parts of her daughter's body were found. From the tragedy, at least one lesson was learned. Natural gas is both odorless and colorless so the leak was not detected. The Texas Legislature ordered a special additive be put in natural gas so today it has a bad smell, making a leak quickly known. It seems this disaster had an impact on the life of Christine Watson Marsters of Stewards Mill Community in Freestone County, Texas. After the death of her father, the family was planning a move to New London where other of her mother's family lived. She had not yet enrolled in the school on that day. Call it the hand of God or fate, Christine was in different place that day, so destiny took a different turn. Christine's family did move to New London the following year where she graduated from New London high school years later. According to her cousin, Clo McGill, "The temporary building where we attended classes was in clear view of the site, so we saw it every day." She went on to say that several of the students who survived were on crutches and many had scars on their faces from the burns. The tragedy was one that was near young Christine's heart, and she has spoken of it often. Life did continue on after March 18, 1937. The school, eventually renamed West Rusk Consolidated ISD, has approximately 1,000 students today. West Rusk High School sits on the same spot where the tragedy took place. The 2-A school boasts of an award winning "Sweepstakes" Band and two players that will be competing in state Solo and Ensemble. 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Dan Lasko tests out a new prosthetic leg designed to go from walking on land to swimming in water on Feb. 22 at the Nassau County Aquatic Center on Long Island.
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East Meadow, N.Y. — Dan Lasko, a broad-shouldered former Marine wearing green-trimmed blue swim goggles, emerged from the locker room at Nassau County Aquatic Center, ready to hit the pool with a brand new leg. It was the first time in years that he would be able to stride from the pool deck into the water without having to remove his reliable prosthesis, the one with an Asics sneaker attached, then hopping one-legged on the slippery deck to get in.
Since 2004, when an explosion in Afghanistan shredded the lower part of his left leg, his swimming routine had involved some degree of acrobatics. But now that Mr. Lasko, 34, from Bethlehem, Pa., is the father of two water-loving boys, ages 2 and 6, he has been dreaming of climbing in and out of the pool with them with ease. (Anyone who has ever held a squirmy toddler while hopping into the shallow end of a pool can relate.)
And until now, as a longtime triathlete, he had mostly relied on his arms for the first part of his swim-bike-runs. He couldn't wait to use a water-friendly prosthesis that would match the power of his intact right leg.
The new leg Mr. Lasko would be testing had a jet-black foot with a nonslip tread on its sole, which he described as "awesome" even before entering the water. His excitement was palpable from the first whiff of chlorine.
While waterproof prosthetic legs have been available for decades, "this is the first fully functional swim leg," said Matthew Flynn, a certified prosthetist at Eschen, the company on Long Island that makes it. Mr. Flynn, himself an amputee who had tested earlier prototypes, added: "Other legs can certainly be used in the water, but they can't propel you through the water."
Todd Goldstein, the designer, with a freshly minted doctorate in molecular biology and tissue engineering, was enlisted for the project in part because of his experience with 3-D printing. On a Friday night before the swim test, he programmed a 3-D printer to make a crucial part of the prosthesis: a downward-pointing triangle of nylon and plastic located at calf height that provides some propulsion but, with cone-shaped holes that lets some water through, is not overly forceful.
The aim of the aquatic test run was to work out the prototype's kinks to prepare for commercial sales.
Dan Lasko splashes water on himself before jumping into the water for the first time wearing a new, swim-friendly prosthetic leg. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
Mr. Lasko, at first not comfortable enough with the new leg to dive in, stepped into the water and took off into a gliding freestyle. He had not swum like this, using both legs, since his injury at age 21.
"It feels good," he said after finishing his first lap, hanging on to the pool's edge. "I can definitely feel the difference, but I just have to get used to the bit of extra weight."
As he did lap after lap, not everything went swimmingly. First, the foot filled with water, creating drag. That's an easy fix, Dr. Goldstein explained: Holes could be added to release the water. Then the all-important triangle fell off. Mr. Lasko said, "I was kicking so hard it popped right off."
Dr. Goldstein turned some screws to secure it, but a few laps later, it fell off again and briefly went missing, until it was discovered snagged in the lane lines. Dr. Goldstein, by now a poolside MacGyver, found nylon cable ties to temporarily secure the triangle to the prosthesis.
As Mr. Lasko continued to propel himself through the water with both legs, he was elated. "I haven't done that in years," he said. "I felt good and free."
Final tweaks have been made, and now the triangle is firmly secured. He should have his swim leg soon, in plenty of time for him to horse around with his sons, Ben and Luke, at the pool this summer.
For Mr. Lasko, getting a new prosthetic leg for swimming is comparable to getting new shoes or gear for specific sports. "You don't wear CrossFit gym sneakers to run a marathon," he said.
He's got one leg for walking, one for high-impact exercise, one for cycling, and even one for sprinting, all in a special closet. The new swim leg will be Mr. Lasko's seventh.
The device is expected to become commercially available in about six months, said Eric Feinstein, a manager at Northwell Ventures, the venture capital arm of Northwell Health, a network of hospitals and local facilities, which funded the project. Eschen's high-end ready-made parts were used, and Composite Prototyping Center, also based on Long Island, provided equipment and machinery.
An estimated 1.9 million people have lost a limb nationwide, a number that is expected to double by 2050, mostly as a result of diabetes, according to the Amputee Coalition of America, a nonprofit organization devoted to advocacy and education.
Even amputees who aren't aiming to participate in triathlons may want the convenience and versatility of this kind of swim leg, which can also be used in saltwater.
Dr. David M. Crandell, the medical director of the amputee program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, described the new swim leg as an advance. "Prosthetic devices that people use don't typically offer advantages once you're in the water," he said. More often, he said, they are "like an anchor."
Dan Lasko gets more comfortable with his new prosthetic leg. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
Swimming is particularly good exercise for amputees, Dr. Crandell added, because it "doesn't put shear force on the residual limb. They are not running or jumping." The end of that limb can develop blisters, or deeper tissue wounds, during high-impact sports like jogging, but doing laps is more "skin friendly," he said.
The cost will range from $2,000 to $5,000, depending on customization and which off-the-shelf parts are used, Mr. Feinstein said. (Mr. Lasko got his prosthesis free for participating in the project.)
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After swimming on and off for a couple hours, Mr. Lasko's energy was flagging. But he couldn't resist trying one of the diving boards at the expansive facility. By then, feeling sure of his footing, he was backing all the way up the board, taking a couple of stomps and diving off. He did this again and again. Then he did a flip. Then a flip and a half — ouch, awkward landing. "Not too bad," he rated himself while easily climbing the pool's ladder.
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By Billy Graham • June 7, 2007 • Topics: Death, Faith
No one looks forward to the process of dying, of course; I think we all shrink back from the thought of the prolonged pain or lingering disability that often comes as we approach death.
But no, I don't fear death. In fact, I look forward to it—and the reason is because I know that when I die I will go into God's presence forever. This world is temporary; heaven is forever. This world is filled with sorrow and pain; heaven is filled with joy and freedom. This world is filled with insecurity and turmoil; heaven is filled with security and peace. In heaven, "There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away" (Revelation 21:4).
How do I know I will go to heaven when I die? Not because I've been good enough, or because I've been a preacher. I know I will go to heaven when I die for one reason: Jesus Christ died and rose again so all my sins could be forgiven. When you and I trust Christ and what He did for us, the Bible says, we have "an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you" (1 Peter 1:4).
And this can be your assurance, as well. You don't need to fear death! Instead, turn to Christ and ask Him to forgive your sins and come into your life today—and He will. Only one thing will keep us out of heaven, and that is our sin. But Christ died to take away our sin. Put your trust in Him without delay.
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Dear Beloved Billy your whole life has changed my entire life towards Christ and eternal life; hope i will shake your hands when i come to heaven.