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Usher, Estelle + R. Kelly Lead Nominee Pack for the 2012 Soul Train Awards
Usher leads the pack of nominees for the 2012 Soul Train Awards with five nominations, including Album of the Year for 'Looking 4 Myself.' Following behind Usher is R&B songbird Estelle with three nods including Song of the Year ('Thank You').
R. Kelly also nabbed two mentions and received the unique honor of being the most-nominated artist in the history of the Soul Train Awards. According to Wikipedia, Kels has won a total of six Soul Train honors since the award show's inception in 1999, and has been honored with both the prestigious Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder Awards.
Other multiple nominees include Nas, Trey Songz and John Legend. In addition, the late Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse both received posthumous nominations for Best Gospel/Inspirational Performance and Best International Performance, respectively.
Veteran R&B group New Edition will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the event, as well. Celebrity presenters and slated live performances will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
The Soul Train Awards will be taped at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas on Nov. 8 and will air on BET and Centric on Nov. 25 at 9PM ET. Actor-comedian Cedric the Entertainer will host the festivities.
2012 Soul Train Awards Nominees List:
Best New Artist
Elle Varner
Emeli Sande
J. Cole
Luke James
Robert Glasper
Centric Award
Esperanza Spalding
Gary Clark Jr.
Leah LaBelle
Best Gospel/Inspirational Performance
BeBe Winans, 'America America'
Fred Hammond, 'I Feel Good'
Marvin Sapp, 'My Testimony'
Mary Mary, 'Go Get It'
Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks, 'Celebrate'
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year
2 Chainz, 'No Lie' Feat. Drake
Wale, 'Lotus Flower Bomb' Feat. Miguel
Nas, 'Daughters'
Kanye West, 'Mercy' Feat. Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz
Young Jeezy, 'Leave You Alone' Feat. Ne-Yo
Best R&B/Soul Female Artist
Keyshia Cole
Mary J. Blige
Melanie Fiona
Best R&B/Soul Male Artist
Robin Thicke
Trey Songz
Album of the Year
'The One,' Eric Benet
'Channel Orange,' Frank Ocean
'Life Is Good,' Nas
'Write Me Back,' R. Kelly
'Looking 4 Myself,' Usher
Song of the Year
Estelle, 'Thank You'
John Legend, 'Tonight (Best You Ever Had)' Feat. Ludacris
Trey Songz, 'Heart Attack'
Tyrese, 'Stay'
Usher, 'Climax'
Wale, 'Lotus Flower Bomb' Feat. Miguel
The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award
'Thank You,' Estelle (Writers: Arden Altino, Akene "The Champ" Dunkley, Jerry Duplessis, Doug F. Edwards, Thomas D. Richardson, Aliaune Thiam)
'Tonight (Best You Ever Had),' John Legend feat. Ludacris (Writers: Allen Arthur, Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges, Keith Justice, Miguel Pimentel "Miguel", Clayton Reilly, John Stephens)
'Daughters,' Nas (Writers: Nasir Jones, Ernest D. Wilson, Patrick Adams, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka)
'Share My Love,' R. Kelly (Writer: Robert Kelly)
'Climax,' Usher (Writers: Usher Raymond IV, Sean "Redd Stylez" Fenton, Thomas "Diplo" Pentz, Ariel Rechtshaid)
Best Dance Performance
Beyonce, 'Love On Top'
Chris Brown, 'Turn Up The Music'
Nicki Minaj, 'Starships'
Rihanna, 'Where Have You Been'
Usher, 'Scream'
CentricTV.com awards:
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Cover Drive, 'Bajan Style'
Damien "Junior Gong" Marley, 'SuperHeavy'
Jimmy Cliff, 'Rebirth'
Matisyahu, 'Spark Seeker'
Sean Paul, 'Tomahawk Technique'
CENTRICTV.com Best International Performance
Amy Winehouse, 'Our Day Will Come'
Daley, 'Alone Together' Feat. Marsha Ambrosius
Emeli Sande, 'Next To Me'
Estelle, 'Thank You'
Gotye, 'Somebody (That I Used To Know)' Feat. Kimbra
Rebecca Ferguson, 'Nothing's Real But Love'
CENTRICTV.com Best Traditional Jazz Artist/Group
Chris Botti, 'Impressions '
Kenny Garrett, 'Seeds From The Underground'
Melody Gardot, 'The Absence'
The Robert Glasper Experiment, 'Black Radio'
Tony Bennett, 'Isn't It Romantic'
CENTRICTV.com Best Contemporary Jazz Artist/Group
Ben Tankard, 'Full Tank'
Brian Culbertson, 'DREAMS'
Cassandra Wilson, 'Another Country'
Esperanza Spalding, 'Radio Music Society'
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Last week I went to London and spent three happy hours in The Wellcome Library, taking advantage of their beautiful reading rooms. I was researching shell shock and PTSD to inform Shell Shocked Britain, the book I am writing for Pen and Sword for 2014, and although a trip up on the coach from Wellington only leaves me with three or four hours of concentrated study, I had a very successful afternoon.
And then of course, the weather changed and a trip up would have been difficult – delays on the M5 and M4 resulting in time for a cup of tea and a piece of cake in the cafe and little else (you can see where my priorities lie.)
I was born and brought up in London but have spent 25 years of married life away from the city. My husband, also born there, isn't keen on a day trip, let alone going back to the capital to live. I put this down to his early years in Streatham; living in a big house right near the Common must have been a horrid experience….(you may sense I feel he has little, if no excuse for his continuing antipathy).
The moment I cross the boundary into the familiar suburbs I feel that first excitement; it is a genuine 'buzz'. I am not so naive as to think that 'buzz' wouldn't eventually become exhausting if I had to make a long commute every day. I had to travel from the northern suburbs into Holborn every day for three years and standing on an open platform – even at the beautiful Arnos Grove Station – was pretty hellish in winter. Readers of my blog might know of my love of poetry; little snippets or whole poems 'speaking' for me of an immediate experience. So remembering last week, and realising how different the experience of the City, and indeed Somerset (it is snowing heavily here as I write) is as the snow tumbles down, I give you this poem by Robert Bridges.
For me London Snow brings the city, with all its inequalities, together under a blanket of snow which 'hides difference' and makes 'unevenness even'. Even those living in the darkest spots wake to 'unaccustomed brightness'. The perfect lines, They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze/Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing; so describe the innocence and thrill children still experience as the snow starts to fall that for a moment I forget what a nuisance it can be, and how frustrating it was to get to college with slush splashed up the back of my tights and three hours ahead of me to sit, damp and cold, in a lecture hall. Those men of Bridges's poem are for a moment taken away from the toil of the day ahead by the sight of the 'uncompacted lightness' of new fallen snow and the charm they are about to break with their heavy boots.
London Snow
By Robert Bridges
When men were all asleep the snow came flying,
In large white flakes falling on the city brown,
Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,
Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town;
Deadening, muffling, stifling its murmurs failing;
Lazily and incessantly floating down and down:
Silently sifting and veiling road, roof and railing;
Hiding difference, making unevenness even,
Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing.
All night it fell, and when full inches seven
It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness,
The clouds blew off from a high and frosty heaven;
And all woke earlier for the unaccustomed brightness
Of the winter dawning, the strange unheavenly glare:
The eye marvelled—marvelled at the dazzling whiteness;
The ear hearkened to the stillness of the solemn air;
No sound of wheel rumbling nor of foot falling,
And the busy morning cries came thin and spare.
Then boys I heard, as they went to school, calling,
They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze
Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;
Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees;
Or peering up from under the white-mossed wonder,
'O look at the trees!' they cried, 'O look at the trees!'
With lessened load a few carts creak and blunder,
Following along the white deserted way,
A country company long dispersed asunder:
When now already the sun, in pale display
Standing by Paul's high dome, spread forth below
His sparkling beams, and awoke the stir of the day.
For now doors open, and war is waged with the snow;
And trains of sombre men, past tale of number,
Tread long brown paths, as toward their toil they go:
But even for them awhile no cares encumber
Their minds diverted; the daily word is unspoken,
The daily thoughts of labour and sorrow slumber
At the sight of the beauty that greets them, for the charm they have broken.
So as I wake up tomorrow morning, perhaps unable to do all those things I had planned for the day, I will not let my first thought be 'Oh damn it'. I will remember Roberts Bridges and be greeted by its beauty and its charm.
Until I can't get to the doctors, fail to make my counselling appointment and miss a coffee with my good friend Bethan who is working so hard for Dry January to raise money for Alcohol Concern.
Oh well, it is still a beautiful poem….

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- all the rooms are equipped with air-conditioning units
Please note we have a 48-hour cancellation policy. If you want to cancel or modify your reservation you have to send an email 48h before. Please take note that cancellations made after this time limit, will result a charge of your credit card equal to the first night of your stay !!
Hostel Pisa Tower B&B could apply a pre-authorization on the credit card used to book. This operation has the only purpose of ensuring that the credit card is still valid and has sufficient credit to guarantee the reservation. If the card is no longer valid, or does not have enough credit to cover the cost of the first night of the reservation, our staff will contact the guest asking him to provide a valid credit card and with enough credit. If the new attempt of pre-Authorization is not successful, HOSTEL PISA TOWER B&B has the authority to CANCEL the reservation due to the absence of contractual provision !!
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Hostel Facilities & Policies
- Adaptors
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- Bicycle hire
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- Book Exchange
- Breakfast Not Included
- Cable TV
- Café
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- Child Friendly
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- DVDs
- Free City Maps
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- Fridge/Freezer
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Hot Showers
- Internet Access
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- No Curfew
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- Outdoor Terrace
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Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 5 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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There is a local tourist tax of €1.00 per person per night which is not included in the rates. Please add this to your budget calculations.
Check-in: from 2pm (14:00) to 24.00 am. We cannot facilitate check-in after 12.30 am, no exceptions.
Check-out: 10.30am.
There is cleaning from 11am to 2pm, so please only pick up or drop off your luggage during this period.
We reserve the right to pre-authorise the credit card used to book. This is in order to ensure that your credit card is still valid and has enough credit to guarantee the first night of your reservation. If not, our staff will contact you asking you to provide a valid credit card and with enough credit. If the new attempt of pre-authorization is not successful, we have the authority to cancel your reservation due to the absence of contractual provision.
We have a five-day cancellation policy. Cancellations are only accepted via email. Late cancellations and no-shows shall be charged the equivalent of the first night's accommodation.
DirectionsShow MapHide Map
It\\\'s very, very simple to find and reach us :
(-) From the airport or the central railway station Pisa Centrale :
You can catch the bus line lam rossa (red line) . There\\\'s a bus every 10 mins. This bus line operates between 06:00 am to 20:15 pm (**) The ticket costs only € 1,10 and the journey will take between 15 and 20 minutes depending on traffic. Get off at the bus stop called \\\'PIAZZA dei MIRACOLI\\\'.Walk down towards the pharmacy just in front of you, until you will reach a mini roundabout placed at the end of the street. At the roundabout turn right and you are in the main road called \\\' \\\'via Contessa Matilde\\\'. You have to walk for 200 meters, parallel to the great wall at your right, until you will find an intersection with a traffic light. At the crossroad turn left and you have arrived in Via Piave ! It\\\'s very, very easy ! Hostel Pisa Tower is at number 4; you recognize the hostel because there are many flags out of the windows !
Check the following timetables :
From the airport : http://www.cpt.pisa.it/orari/pisa/n4002p1.htm
From the railwaystation : http://www.cpt.pisa.it/orari/pisa/n4077p1.htm
If you prefer you can reach us by walk, the journey takes 15 min approximately starting from the railway station, 29 mins starting from the airport
Alternatively you can get a taxi for about € 12,00 starting from the railway station for about € 15,00 if you\\\'re coming from the airport.
(**) Please take note that after the 20:15 ends Lam Rossa\\\'s service and therefore you have to catch the nocturne bus number 21. There\\\'s a bus every 30 minutes. The last one is at midnight 24:00 pm. Get off at the same bus stop PIAZZA dei MIRACOLI and follow the instructions above.
Check the following timetables :
From the airport : http://www.cpt.pisa.it/orari/pisa/n4002p1.htm
From the railwaystation : http://www.cpt.pisa.it/orari/pisa/n4077p1.htm
(-) From the SECONDARY railway station called PISA SAN ROSSORE :
In Pisa we have another little railway station very near to the hostel called PISA SAN ROSSORE ( PISA S.R.) Check on www.trenitalia.it if your train stops there. Follow the directions to the leaning tower and search for the mai road via Contessa Matilde. Walk down for 200 meters, parallel to the great wall at your right , until you will find an intersection with a traffic light. At the crossroad turn left and you have arrived in Via Piave ! It\\\'s very, very easy ! Hostel Pisa Tower is at number 4
(-) by car :
follow the directions to the stadium called arena garibaldi and park in via Ugo Rindi perpendicular to via Piave. it s totally free ! Hostel Pisa Tower is only 50 mt from this helpful free parking !
Located Near
Hostel Pisa Tower is strategically positioned :
Leaning Tower Miracle's Square: 1 min 50 sec walk away !
City center : 5 mins walk away
Railway Station : 10 mins by bus, 20 mins by walk
Airport Galileo Galilei : 15 mins by bus - 35 mins by walk
Florence : 1h by train, bus, car
San Gimignano and Siena : 2hrs by train
Cinque Terre : 1h 30 min by train
Lucca : 29 mins by train
...so don't stop here just one night !


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OKLAHOMA CITY – March 3, 2010 – Applying for an internship with the state of Oklahoma just got easier with the new Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Carl Albert Public Internship Program (CAPIP) online application system. Prospective interns can visit http://CAPIP.OK.gov to use the new online application.
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Visitors to the site can view all state of Oklahoma internships with participating agencies and can create an account to apply. The visitor must then complete an online application and specify if they are seeking a graduate, senior undergraduate, or an undergraduate internship. Once OPM approves an online application, state agencies can view the interested applicant and contact those who meet their criteria for their internship.
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Daughters of the King - Evening Prayer Gathering
First Tuesday of the month, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Do you ever feel too busy, too tired, or too distracted to pray? Are you unsure how to pray or fearful to pray aloud in a group? You are not alone!
All women of Carmel are invited to join together for regular, informal prayer gatherings to help us overcome some of these fears and doubts and learn more about prayer. Join Carmel's Daughters of the King - fellow women seeking to grow in the area of prayer - in the Carmel Prayer Room for our monthly prayer gathering the 1st and 3rd Tuesday from 7:00pm - 8:00pm.
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Moving Off the "Moose Highway"
When the Vermont Humanities Council (VHC) decided to move its headquarters from the modest central Vermont town of Morrisville to Montpelier, the state's capital, the nonprofit organization's goal was to be closer both to its partners in state government and to the Interstate 89 corridor, where it would be easier to recruit and retain experienced staff. But it didn't hurt that council staff and visitors would also no longer have to drive the twenty-nine-mile stretch of state road known to be prime moose habitat. As Vermont Humanities Council Executive Director Peter Gilbert put it, "while charming, moose are a very serious—often deadly—driving hazard" between Morrisville and I-89.
An offer from NEH of $200,000 in federal funds, matched on a three-to-one basis by $600,000 in nonfederal gifts, enabled VHC to purchase and refurbish an attractive home only blocks away from the state capitol building. In addition to being much more accessible to the wider Vermont public than VHC's Morrisville location, the building provides ample programming and meeting space. VHC is now able to host evening humanities talks, poetry discussions, and other events in downtown Montpelier for legislators, educators, students, and the general public; naturally, with these events has come increased visibility for the council.
"The expression 'transformational gift' is an over-used phrase," comments Gilbert, "not every generous gift to a nonprofit organization will, in fact, be 'transformational.' But financial support for moving the Vermont Humanities Council to its own space in Montpelier has been—and will continue to be—truly transformational for this statewide organization. It literally—and figuratively—positions the council for the next chapter of its history, and enables it to serve communities across the state more effectively."


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The expanding middle class meets rising food prices. The convergence of these two mega trends is set to dramatically and permanently reshape the consumer landscape. With the global middle class growing by 70 million each year, and food prices expected to more than double within the next two decades, the world is entering an unprecedented period of rising demand, economic pressure and aspirationally driven buying behavior.
So what's the key to success in these uncharted waters, and where should companies look to fulfill their economic growth expectations? According to Nielsen's "State of Mind or Share of Wallet" report, companies shouldn't focus solely on the middle class. Rather, findings in the report indicate that aspirations and cultural norms often are bigger drivers of buying intentions for food products than income alone.


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The Hop Brief: Avery Brewing Maharaja
Enjoyed on 11/23/2010
Brewery: Avery Brewing Co.
Location: Boulder, CO
Beer: The Maharaja
Web: http://www.averybrewing.com/
Presentation: 22 oz. – Brown Glass Bottle – Capped
Vintage: 2010
Style: American Style Imperial India Pale Ale
Barrel: N/A
Hops: Simcoe, Columbus, Centennial and Chinook
Malt: Two-row barley, caramel 120L, victory
Commercial Description:
Maharaja is derived from the sanskrit words mahat, – "great" and rajan – "king". Much like its namesake, this imperial IPA is regal, intense and mighty. With hops and malts as his servants, he rules both with a heavy hand. The Maharaja flaunts his authority over a deranged amount of hops: tangy, vibrant and pungent along with an insane amount of malted barley – fashioning a dark amber hue and exquisite malt essence.
Beer Advocate: A- (4.2)
Rate Beer: 100 (3.95)
Timperial's Notes:
The Maharaja is no. 3 on ratebeer.com's top 50 summer seasonals for a reason… it's an amazing IIPA. As part of Avery's Dictator's Series, along with The Kaiser (Imperial Oktoberfest) and The Czar (Russian Imperial Stout), this beer demands respect and admiration, and you'd be silly not to dole it out. Before I moved out west, this was my number 1 favorite impy IPA. I haven't had it in about a year and a half so I'm really excited to sit down with it tonight.
This stately beverage pours into my pint glass with a pretty regal, cream-colored head that, as it slowly recedes, proves to be very sticky. The edges of the lofty crown pull down, leaving a rocky dollop of bubbles on the center of the surface. The lacing is so thick, I think I could write "Tim was here" on the inside of my glass. The liquid itself glows with an opulent radiance, much brighter than I expected, taking into account the high lovibond crystal used in the mash. I'd say there is a bit of an orange hue to the amber-colored fluid.
I could be wrong, but my guess is that this beer was filtered after fermentation and then dry-hopped in the bright tank. The beer is not cloudy, per say, but there is a lot of floaters in there. It actually looks slightly similar to the Green Flash IPA that I most recently reviewed. It's less cloudy but still noticeably permeated with minuscule bits of hop love. Suspended hop chunks pretty much exude sex in every way if you ask me. Uhh…in beer that is.
Well, the odor is a perfect fucking 10. It's enough to make me just shout "OH MY GOD!" I'm weak in the knees. I've already dropped in praise of the righteous Maharaja, without a single sip drank. I've just been body slammed from the height of, I dunno, Mars, with a pure hop-tipped warhead, while simultaneously being lifted from the soil by the most maliciously rising volcanic peak of molten malt madness. I've been pressed so intensely hard together at the impact that I've formed into diamond. In fact, a five diamond score of perfection.
The hops are being poured from a dump-truck, directly into my nostrils. The collaboration of hops used seem to meld into a cocktail of your most notable lupulin attributes. Pine, herbal, woody, floral, citrus…you name it, it's there. Most notably, the caramel maltiness. This is the biggest hop bomb that I can think of that is righteously balanced with malt. Just plain silly!
The MF (don't hate) is, yet again, obnoxiously dead-balls accurate. It's syrupy, slick, sweet, cloying. The body is stout like Schwarzenegger at his prime. It dominates my moth like Conan the Barbarian, or wait…sorry your highness, like the great dictator Maharaja. So far, this is the best rated IPA I've ever reviewed.
The flavor is layered like my famous dip. Each sip is like being wiped about beneath the unrelenting seas at high tide, but here, fear shifts to joy as a slight lack of oxygen mingles with a sudden realization of the underwater beauty. It's an (only slightly) unnatural high. Semantics…
Initially, there is a bitter firecracker explosion on the back of tongue, and then, the sound catches up with a mighty **CRACK** of sweet, caramely maltiness. The inspirational soundtrack floats on in full orchestration when the finish brings boozed fruit and baked deserts. When fully blended, the celebration is majestic, befitting of a king. The perfection continues.
Might I add, in plain English, that this beer is the epitome of balance, as in, pushing extremes of both bitter hops and sweet malts in equal parts. I'm awestruck.
I don't find the hops to be too bitter, I don't find the sweetness too overwhelming, I don't find the heat to be overbearing. I'm in a good mood, yes, but I'm seriously searching for flaws, in a devil's advocate sort of way, and I've got nothing.
I'm a discriminating IPA drinker. I realize that. My best friend in the world, DSR, fellow BBB (beerblotter brethren), fellow homebrewer, fellow IPA lover, finds great comfort in bitterness. A dry finish is a part of that game, and I know that many PNW beer drinkers play on that field, but it's not my bag. I like hop FLAVOR and minimal bitterness. This beer's aftertaste is precisely where I tread. I'm happy to continue to tread there, that is, until there is no more sips to take.
I was recently asked, by someone in the beer community whom I respect for his knowledge, what, other than the obvious ones (Pliny, Double Jack, Wisdom Seeker, etc.) was amongst my favorite IPAs/Double IPAs. I responded with Avery Maharaja. I paused, as I often do after stating such a revealing answer, for the resulting reaction. I was greeted with apathy. Indifference. He was unimpressed. I was embarrassed. Maybe too much time had passed since I had last tried it. Had it changed? Had my respect for it need be diminished due to the current market of boldness? Tonight, my stance has been solidified with complete and utter surety. Avery Brewing has always been up there for me when it comes to the best breweries in the world, and tonight is just one more weight-bearing brick in the mortar for the dynasty that Adam Avery had born. Respect!
Color/Head/Retention [maximum of 1.00 point possible]: 0.99
Odor [maximum of 2.00 points possible]: 2.00
Carbonation/Mouthfeel [maximum of 1.00 point possible]: 1.00
Hop Flavor [maximum of 3.00 points possible]: 2.91
Malt Flavor/Balance [maximum of 2.00 points possible]: 2.00
Finish/Aftertaste [maximum of 1.00 point possible]: 0.99


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How about profit over revenue?
Microsoft: 5.23 billon / 16.43 billion = ~31.8%
Apple: 5.99 billion / 24.67 billion = ~24.3%
I wonder whose money worked harder?
Microsoft's quarterly profits leapt 31 per cent during its third quarter. But that wasn't enough to stop a world of Apple fanbois from pointing towards Redmond and laughing. After surpassing Microsoft's market capitalization and its quarterly revenues, Apple has now surpassed its quarterly profits. In the Apple quarter ending …
Apparently you don't understand the difference between selling software and selling hardware. See, with software, you make one GM disc and then replicate it a billion times. The only cost to you after non-recurring engineering is the price of a DVD or a download. When you sell hardware, you have to actually make every piece and pay for components on each one beyond the non-recurring engineering work you did developing the hardware and software that runs on it. By your numbers, Apple is making 24.3% selling devices of which a significant amount of money needs to be paid out for each sale, whereas Microsoft is making 31.8% selling plastic discs that cost nothing.
If you need it spelled out: Microsoft spends FAR FAR FAR more on R&D than Apple does for significantly smaller returns.
Microsoft's main sources of revenue are aging cash cows (Windows Client, Office), while Apple's are newish and under very heavy development. In addition, Apple is a hardware company, Microsoft is a software company; due to marketplace realities profit margins on hardware always have to be low-ish, as that's what the competition are doing.
Did you not read the linked article? I'm guessing not as you're spouting typical nonsense. Profits from MS are from strong sales from it's Office and XBox division. Now, the last time I had a look at my XBox 360 it looked like a big chunky bit of hardware (not as svelte as my PS3 mind you) but it doesn't look like software to me.
Of course, now that Apple is a common device which every 14 year old chav and their 2 year old kid has, that makes Microsoft the cool, hip company and Apple the chavtastic device.
Mind you, when OSX 10.7 comes out, I wonder what bits of Linux and Windows they will copy over and claim they designed and that X company copied from them.
Ignoring all those consoles out there, that is. Those consoles that have cut into their profits due to the amount of hardware failures. I bet they wish they were a just a software company at the moment.....
But if they are such different companies, doing different things, why are we comparing their profits at all?
Not this again. The $150 million in stock in 1997 was a cross-licensing agreement that benefitted MS at least as much as it did Apple. Apple had well over $1B in cash at the time, which may be a far cry from the ludicrous mountain of bucks they have today, but nevertheless they were not in any immediate danger of going under, so the $150M made no significant difference even then. (MS ended up selling all the stock before long anyway; bit of a dumb move since they could have made billions if they'd held onto it longer.)
1 product. one. let me spell it out O-N-E. the Iphone4. does that look like a healthy base for the future?
looks more like a one trick pony. what happens when that pony breaks a leg? or gets runover in the coming 'droid storm? (LG 2x speed, Galaxy S2, Experia Arc/play, etc)
are they (Apple) going to sue every global partner(Samsung now, foxcon next?) they have?
Charly S. would say: does not sound like WINNING!
everyone is already writing of Nokia. I still have a problem with that: It's the slumbering giant in the dark corner. What happens if Elop gets it to finally awake with the MS dosh?
I'm saying: the race hasn't even started yet: it's really starting this summer. tough times ahead. for Nokia, MS and yes: Apple too.
back to the issue of market cap: MS is diverse: Consumer(Xbox), Workstation(Wintel) and server(exchange/SQL/etc) markets. Apple is not. MS can take a hit in phones. Apple can not.
like it or not: St. Steve is Dying. (not that many people recover from (liver) cancer. better: none in my experience. money can prolong, but that's it: prolong.
Can someone else focus the company the same way?
MS is the comeback kid: they always where late to market, but when they truly entered the shitstorm began..
(PC DOS vs MS DOS. Apple/AtariSt vs Win3.1. Groupware/Notes vs Exchange. Netscape vs Iexplore. Sega/Sony/Nintendo vs Xbox. )
Winmo7 LOCAL sales are being held against Android and IOS GLOBAL sales. Winmo7 is NOT localised yet: it only supports English speaking countries. like it or not: 80% of the world is NOT english speaking. or reading. localised version will start to appear this summer. and I suspect they will be launched with a lot of rattle.. And I also suspect that then, Winmo7 will start to sell a lot better..
thank you for reading and sorry for the long post.
No german, Dutch, French, polish, whatever: only English.
even the "app store" (or whatever it's called) doesn't work outside UK/US/AUS without some tinkering.
My guess to why: The current winMO is like what Win3.0 was: a big fat open beta for which they even get paid by some! (7% market share in the US) only in te 2nd half of 2011 the real WinMO will arrive together with (how convenient) the new Nokia's. I've seen Winmo and I like. A lot! but here, in Holland it truly is a beta experience: no appmarket among others, So I decided to wait...
Didn't you find it..strange there are only a few Winmo 7 phones? even from the most die hard MS partners? Current WinMO isn't ready yet, and they now it. Every phone producer knows it. they just didn't tell the consumers.
How many times do we have to point this out, Apple is not a convicted monopolist, they do not have over 90% market share for any of their products.
You only need iTunes if you have an iPhone or iPad. Even then you aren't required to buy music with it. You can load MP3s onto the iPhone that you have purchased elsewhere.
Also, is having one App Store is anti-competitive? you'd better tell that to Microsoft, RIM and others as well then.
Apple is quite willing to harm consumers in order to control them and gain a dominant position.
Forcing consumers to only use the Apple app store is one example. Opening that up so that Amazon and others can offer apps for iDevices should be required in order to protect consumers and provide some choice.
Clearly Apple is trying to protect the iTunes monopoly position by forcing media companies to pay that 30% cut or be excluded from the iDevice marketplace. That too is going to require an antitrust review. Actually the whole 30% cut policy is aimed at restricting any possible competition unless Apple is cut in for their share. And a 30% cut for doing nothing but not blocking access to Apple customers is trouble in the beginning. And nothing about that policy benefits consumers. Apple and everyone else is forced to pay higher retail prices just because Apple wants to force the issue (or block access to Apple customers). Customers owned by Apple of course.
Microsoft is still violating federal antitrust laws by commingling IE and OS code. And every Microsoft lawyers know that are engaged in that illegal activity. Consumers are not so intelligent. Some know that. Some do not. And Microsoft employees still try to lie about it.
Same with the Apple employees: Lying to consumers about illegal activity is part of the business plan for both Apple and Microsoft. Claiming to be a consumer while lying about such illegal acts is all too transparent.
Consumers always want choice. They always want the choice of buying the browser of their choice and leaving the crap at the store. And they always want the choice of buying apps at Amazon or elsewhere. And they always want the choice of which apps they buy and use. Any idiot suggesting otherwise is a company employee. Consumers never want the lack of of choice.
But, you can expect company employees to continue to claim to be a consumer yet plying the company line. They always give themselves away when they do so.
It is indeed a quite remarkable phenomenon. If Apple are making that much profit per unit sold that is, by definition, at the expense of their customers - literally. Same customers log on here having been roundly rear-bored by the Cupertino posse (and apparently loved that magical experience) and start howling about how evil the Great Satan From Redmond is and, natch, very often on many threads spelling His Name with a dollar sign! You could not make it up. Apple certainly do not need to *employ* astroturfers - their Phanbois do it pro bono.
The author must have had a bad experience in childhood with a Microsoft product as he seems to make his career out of bashing them. But why the comparison? Apple and Microsoft have always been in different businesses. Apple does hardware with bundled software, which in recent years has become largely consumer focussed. Microsoft does software and more recently a games console. On this basis, should he also compare Oracle with Sony or SAP with Siemens?
It does seem that reason d'etre of The Reg and a large proportion of its readership is the rapid and painful death of Microsoft (many of whom ironically, would not be employed if it weren't for MS in the first place) but attaching the Phone update snark at the end? Was your satchel thrown up on the school bike-shed roof by Bill Gates or something?
> Apple and Microsoft have always been in different businesses .. Microsoft does software and more recently a games console ..
That's not strictly true, the OEMs have been in Microsofts pocket for a long time, even being refered to as their 'delivery people' in an internal MS email. While the market has moved away from the desktop companies such as Dell are increasingly being marginalized.
"we do let oems ship their own shells today but they can't boot up into them directly .. you ship via delivery people. they are your oems", Brad Chase May 1998
If you look at the number of policies intended to control the consumer and limit their choices to company products only, Apple is the worst.
Of course, in some cases, Apple does not hold sufficient market power for its acts to be illegal. But, usually in those cases, such policies also fail to work. In fact, when they do work, it is because Apple has sufficient market power. Just look at the difference in policies for the iDevices versus the Mac. Even the policy of not licensing the MAC OS on other hardward suggests that Apple thinks it can force all consumers to buy Apple hardware if they want the MAC OS. And that is true even though consumers would always prefer to have a choice of hardware.
As with rape, it is all about controlling the consumer and restricting their choices. Rape is not about sex. It is about control. Control over the victim. Microsoft knows that. Apple knows that. And that is why they adopt the policies you see.
Keep the consumer under control and prevent them from gaining any benefit from alternative products. Why do you think such acts are illegal?
(we Apple customers, that is). We watch each move they make and analyse endlessly.
Apple may feel like Microsoft to you, but Apple has got where it is by placing itself between big business and the powerless end-user, forcing the incumbents to compromise by making commitments which free-for-all "open" business models cannot offer. Having done their deal, Apple make their "strict" offer to end-users, who can buy or not as they wish.
The have made life better for consumers (and originators) in, for example, recorded music publishing, mobile services, and software publishing. Others step through the doors that Apple holds open.
We feel fairly confident that Apple will behave well for several more years, because of the huge opportunities that they haven't yet succeeded with. Such as broadcast TV and payment services.