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Good evening, giffgaff! This weekly roundup of the world's top smartphone and tablet news gives you all the big headlines in one place, whether you're a fan of Apple, Android or even Windows Phone.
This week, we've got further leaks on the Apple iPad 3 (including a photograph of a real iPad 3), a plethora of new high-powered Android phones and tablets, and a few new Nokia Windows Phone handsets. It's definitely been a good one, so let's get right into it – starting with rumour-machine extraordinaire, Apple.
Apple Headlines
Apple made the headlines several times this week, but the biggest object of speculation remains the iPad 3. I detailed the latest news in full yesterday here on giffgaff, but the main points were that the iPad 3 may be everything we've hoped: A powerful quad core ARM A6 processor and a 10" Retina display running at 2048 x 1536 (double that of the iPad 2). LTE / 4G support is even on the cards.
Just minutes ago though, we got word that the iPad 3 has been spotted in the wild by a Hong Kong publication. They've detailed the new camera (which looks to be the same 8 megapixel backlit model as the iPhone 4S) and rather more tapered edges, giving the new iPad an even slimmer look. It does look genuine and is the most feature-complete iPad 3 pictured to date.
It's not all about the iPad, however. iOS 5.1, which is rumoured to launch with the iPad 3 on March 7th, has been leaked showing two new features: a different motion to access the lock screen camera and a Japanese version of Siri. Apple also announced the upcoming update to their desktop OS X operating system, which drops the 'Mac' name and includes many iOS apps and features.
It's certainly been a great week for Apple fans – but now, onto the other side of the OS aisle.
Android Headlines
LG – Optimus Vu & LG X3
We'll start off our Android news this week by looking at South Korean manufacturer LG, who formally announced a new phone: The LG Optimus Vu. The 5" Vu is a competitor to the stylus-using Samsung Galaxy Note, but comes with a much squarer 4:3 aspect ratio screen (think your old LCD at work) running at 1024 x 768 pixels. It'll be powered by a dual-core processor running at 1.5 GHz and will support an 8 megpixel camera and LTE.
That makes it one of LG's most powerful handsets, but it will soon be surpassed by another new release: The LG X3. This quad-core Tegra 3 handset had benchmarks released this week, showing performance more than twice as good as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The processor will run at 1.5 GHz on one core mode, and 1.4 GHz on two to four cores. The flagship phone will also include a 4.7" 720p display, Android 4.0 and an 8 megapixel camera on the back.
HTC – One X, One S, One V, One XL
HTC weren't the only ones to have some details leak about their flagship phone for 2012. HTC also got into the action, with additional details leaking about the HTC Endeavor: It'll use an S-LCD panel for its 4.7" 720 display and will come with a back-lit sensor for the 8 megapixel camera. The flagship phone will also have 32 GB of internal storage, an FM radio and Beats branded in-ear headphones.
It sounds good, but a name change may be on the cards for the Endeavor. HTC's 2012 line is apparently due to be rebranded under the 'One' moniker, with the HTC Endeavor becoming the HTC One X. Other upcoming phones are also being rebranded, with the HTC Primo (that's the HTC Rhyme with Beats branding) being called the HTC One V and the HTC Ville (a rather thin mid-range phone) becoming the HTC One S. There's also a rumoured HTC One XL – but no word on that phone would be… perhaps even a tablet?
I must admit I'm not a fan of the name change. It's always difficult to keep track of phones that are coming out, and when you reduce their names down to a single letter attached to the brand (e.g. Xperia, Galaxy and now One) it's much harder than the rather more descriptive code names. Thankfully, HTC are trying to get back in my good graces with rumoured support for PlayStation certification for some of their 2012 devices. Awesome.
Samsung – Galaxy Tab 2, Galaxy Note 10.1
Of course the world's biggest Android handset manufacturer wasn't resting on its laurels either. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 was announced at the beginning of the week, a small upgrade over the original Galaxy Tab that was released a year and a half ago and would not be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy Tab 2 will come with ICS installed and will also sport a dual-core processor.
Samsung also may have accidentally leaked a new product – the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. While it could be a typo, the apparent product would be a full-sized tablet version of the Samsung Galaxy Note, offering that phone's well reviewed S Pen stylus. The new tablet would be announced at the Mobile World Congress at the end of the month.
The Best Of The Rest – Huawei Diamond Series, Motorola Medfield, Swype & Android 5.0
Other brands have been getting in the MWC act as well. Huawei has been rumoured to released a quad-core smartphone as a part of their Diamond Series, a big step up for the traditionally budget-level company. Motorola have also released details of their first Intel Medfield powered phone, which offers an instant-on, 15 FPS camera powered by that powerful Intel chip and whose design is inspired by the Motorola Razr.
New software for Android is also on the way, including popular keyboard replacement software Swype. Swype now supports Ice Cream Sandwich, and is available for download in beta form. The biggest news of them all may be that Android 5.0 may be coming out sooner than you'd think – this summer. The new OS, called Jellybean, is reportedly a response to Microsoft's Windows 8 and will be offered with that OS in a dual-boot environment on some tablets. Interesting stuff – but not quite likely.
Windows Phone Headlines
It's been a quiet week for Windows Phone. The only real bit of news is that the Indonesian version of the FCC has revealed two new Nokia handsets, the Nokia 305 and Nokia 610. According to rumour, the 305 will be part of the low-cost Asha line, where the 610 will be the cheapest Windows Phone yet and will run the upcoming Windows Phone Tango OS.
That's All, Folks
So on that fairly unimpressive Windows Phone news, we come to the end of this weekly gadget news round-up – thanks for reading! If you found the article helpful, then please hit that Kudos button – it makes me feel good inside.
I'll be posting again next week, so please leave a comment to let me know what you think of the format – should it be shorter, longer, or is it just right? Should I cover more stories in less detail, or less stories in more detail? Whatever your comment or question, I'd be happy to read it.
William Judd is a copywriter and technology blogger based in Bristol. If you'd like to hire me or just say hello, feel free to visit my website at williamjudd.com or chat with me on Twitter.
Very interesting, however the rumour market changes every 5 minutes . Very well written and easy to follow however. So thank you!
Very interesting! What a load of detail ! Thanks
How could you have an article on the ipad and other tablets without mentioning the recent copyright issue in china with apple and proview. Proview argue they have the right to the ipad name and they want apple to pay. Becuase of this appl's ipad have been getting removed from sale and they want a customs ban on the import and export of them.
Foconn the people that make ipads are based in china I believe so there could be a world shortage of them soon if they get thier way.
This is their ipad
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Spray painting was discovered by Francis Davis Millet in 1892, but not in the form we know it today. The World's Columbian Exposition, a huge building, needed to be painted quickly. Millet was appointed to head the operation, and found a way to paint the building by using some hosing and a nozzle. It was much quicker than painting with a brush.
However, it wasn't until 1949 that Edward Seymour found a way to spray paint using an aerosol can. These spray paints are now associated with graffiti and modern art, particularly because they are affordable and easy to paint with because they are relatively light. Today people are creating truly amazing art using just spray paint, and there are numerous competitions held worldwide for some of the best artists to showcase their skills.
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What's Gone Wrong With H-P?
A Lengthy Turnaround Plan Will Require CEO Stability, Responsible Spending and Refresh of Products
In 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s then-chief executive Mark Hurd boasted the company was "the largest IT company in the world" and said "we are still not to our full potential."
Two years and two CEOs later, H-P is stumbling. Over that time, the Palo Alto, Calif., company's market capitalization has fallen to less than $30 billion from more than $100 billion. On Friday, H-P's shares hit a new 10-year low.


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"It is not the length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My dear niece, Beth Renee Pears, was only 44 years old when she died but the life she lived will go on and on through all who knew her, especially her students. This is her story. Less than a year ago she found herself having considerable stomach pain. Though it did not go away, doctors told her it was nothing to be concerned about, after all, "Bad things don't happen to pretty girls."
When the time came last fall for her to begin her 21st year of teaching English Literature and Honors English at Shenango High School in western Pennsylvania, her pain had become almost debilitating. A scope of her stomach revealed the sobering news: stomach cancer.
Over the next eight months she received the best the medical profession could provide. Her husband of 21 years, Dru, made sure they would spare no human effort to find a cure for this very rare "Burkitt's Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma." Even the specialists in Pittsburgh and Seattle rarely encountered it.
Anyone who has had a loved one battle cancer knows the regimen. Strange words are used by strangers in white uniforms who work in big buildings with intimidating machines as they use chemicals to kill so their patients might live. The weeks that followed were a testament to her courage and faith. She never complained.
Her school created an afghan throw with pictures of her students and colleagues. She received over 3,000 cards and too many emails and text messages to count. She taught English to high school students but she also taught all of us how to live and how to die.
One of her famous assignments was to have each of her students prepare a Bucket List of "100 Things I Want To Do Before I Die." She showed them her list as a model. From "Make several quilts of my own" to "Plant a tree every year of my life" and from "Have a star named after me" to "Ride a camel in Petra, Jordan," her list was inspiring. I was able to read her list and many items had more than one check mark by them meaning she had done them more than once.
Beth loved the words "Carpe Diem" (Seize the Day) and she displayed them everywhere in her classroom and home. On the day after her passing, those two words were posted on the sign in the front of her high school. Everyone knew then that their beloved teacher had gone to heaven.
I wish you could have attended her funeral. The gifts of flowers and wind chimes filled the front of the church her father pastored for 25 years. The line of visitors went on for hours and hours. And, the prolific comments of everyone, especially her students, brought tears of sorrow and joy for a life well lived.
So many former students said they are English teachers today because of her. Though out of school for five years, one student said, "She was the best person I have ever known. She changed my whole life." Another said, "There is usually one teacher that many do not like; Mrs. Pears was that one teacher no one didn't like."
Number 113 on her Bucket list was, "Always be a role model and an inspiration to others." She did not have a check mark by it. But if anyone who knew her had a pen, we would all place countless check marks there.
In 2001 Beth wrote an eloquent poem titled, "Joy Comes in the Mourning." It captures the depth of her perspective when one faces the challenges of life. Because of its profound message, I am going to include it in entirety in my column next week.
Only eternity will answer our questions but, until then, our faith is strong.
Think about it.
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Joy Comes in the Mourning: Part I
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Shahn was born in 1898 in Lithuania. He came to this country with his immigrant parents when he was eight. He grew up seeing firsthand the suffering and injustice wrought by American society of his day upon those whose only crime was being poor or of some ethnic minority. He studied art at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, and while in his early twenties, gained some notoriety through his paintings of the trial and execution of Nicole Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti who were tried for murder but convicted largely because of their radical political beliefs. In conjunction with Upton Sinclair's novel, Boston, based upon the same trial, Shahn's stark, visual images, showing the two men in their coffins, focused adverse national attention upon the skewed legal system and social/political biases in the case.
During the 1930s and 40s, Shahn continued to espouse and paint in connection with a number of left-wing socialist causes advocating changes that today, most of us take for granted. In 1947, his paintings of a Centralia, Illinois, coal mine disaster which killed 111 men, centred not so much on the victims but on the wives and loved-ones they left behind. His Miners' Wives, painted in 1948, and Death of a Miner (1949) were instrumental in awakening the rest of the world to the negligence in coal mine management, the crass disregard for human life, the inhuman working conditions, and the lax safety standards which had led to the disaster. As a result, one has to wonder how many present-day miners' lives have been saved through this artist's work.
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Introducing the Columbia River Delegate
Usually, assisted opening knives go for the cool tactical look. They are designed to snap open and scare away any potential attackers. But the same design also scares the average civilian. The Delegate from Columbia River is an assisted knife that won't scare the neighbors, or the maître d' at that nice French restaurant you like to go to. The sleek and simple design when closed is attractive, and the drop point blade is utilitarian and non-threatening. The handles feature either cocobolo wood scales for the black blade model, or white bone scales for the satin blade model, which really add to the classy quality that this knife has going for it.
However, the Delegate isn't just about looks. Despite its non-threatening appearance, the blade is razor sharp, and the assisted open action snaps the blade open with authority.
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Japan beat Cuba 10-6 last night to win the inaugural World Baseball Classic, a tournament that — save for the Jay Mariottis of the world — was an unmitigated success for everyone involved, save for maybe Al Leiter and Buck Martinez. Japan's victory assures even more players to migrate over to the major leagues from Asia, which is the good news; it also makes it extremely likely that Bobby Valentine is going to be all over our television screens for the next month.
Since leaving Major League Baseball to manage in Japan, Bobby V has become sort of our unofficial Japanese baseball ambassador ... to the detriment of everyone, including himself. Valentine's protestations that American baseball does everything wrong that Japanese baseball does right, that he appreciates managing "devoted team players," that the sun shines brighter over there, that everybody in Japan just toots rainbows. Valentine notoriously protests too much; no matter how much fun he's having in Japan, the famed self-promoter still nurses a seriously bruised ego after being run off from Major League Baseball. Therefore, everything they do in MLB is wrong, and everything they do in Japanese baseball is right (including — primarily — worshipping Bobby Valentine). Because hey, if they love Bobby, they must play baseball the right way!
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Another shot at recycling
Marion County has spent the last few years trying several methods to provide a recycling service for county residents. It started with a monthly route where people could bring recyclables to a trailer stop, but that required people to sort items and was only available for a couple of hours at any stop.
More recently, the county placed recycling bins in outlying communities. People could take their recycling any time, and they didn't have to sort it. That program required the county to pay Waste Connections to pick up the recycling, though, and the amount recycled didn't provide enough savings at the landfill to pay for the pickup fee, so the county has decided to discontinue that service.
Through these two well-intentioned missteps, it has become clear that participation in recycling increases by leaps and bounds the easier it is for consumers. Don't make people sort their glass bottles from their tin cans. Don't make them save it in their garages for a month before it's picked up. Don't make them travel 20 miles to recycle.
So what is the easiest, simplest, most convenient way to recycle? It's curbside pickup. Make it as easy to recycle as it is to throw something away, and you might be surprised by how much is recycled. County Commissioners Randy Dallke and Roger Fleming know firsthand how slowly a trashcan fills up when you have curbside recycling — Dallke from having curbside pickup in Peabody and Fleming from when he lived in Newton.
The county isn't in a position to offer curbside recycling, though, at least not on its own. But the cities are, particularly Marion, Hillsboro, and Florence, which conduct their own trash pickup. Marion has twice-weekly trash pickup. How difficult would it be to change to once weekly trash and once weekly recycling?
Hillsboro and Florence only pick up trash once a week, so adding recycling pickup would require a little more labor. But Peabody does just fine with recycling pickup once every two weeks.
This all would be a moot point if recycling would cost more than sending trash to the landfill. There will always be die-hards who will recycle with almost no regard to the inconvenience or cost, but the general public wants its recycling to be easy and cheap.
On Tuesday, Transfer Station Director Rollin Schmidt told commissioners that he had looked into taking recycling to Hutchinson. What he found out was that not only could the county take it to a recycling center in Hutchinson without paying a $35 per ton fee as is required to take trash to the Butler County Landfill; the recycling center would actually pay the county a small amount for the materials. With that news in hand, commissioners discussed meeting with city councils to cooperate on a recycling program. The transfer station could set aside certain days or business hours to receive recycling.
Starting such a program would include some hiccups, almost certainly. It would take time and effort to get residents used to recycling. But the demand is there. I've seen it when taking recycling to the transfer station on Thursday mornings — very few weeks go by when there aren't other residents there, going out of their way to recycle.
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Choosing circular saw blades
Most saw blades are designed to work best in certain types of cutting operations, such as ripping or crosscutting lumber or cutting veneered plywood or melamine. What a blade does best is determined by the number of teeth, the type of gullet (the space between the teeth for clearing chips), the tooth configuration and the hook angle (angle of the teeth).
Crosscut: These blades have more teeth (typically 60 to 80) set at a moderately aggressive angle with shallower gullets. Usually they're configured with an alternate top bevel (ATB) – meaning that the teeth alternate between a right- and left-hand bevel, forming a knife-like edge on either side of the blade – or a triple-chip grind (TCG), in which flat-top teeth alternate with higher teeth chamfered on both sides. They excel at making smooth, splinter-free cuts across the grain of solid wood.
Rip: These blades have fewer teeth (24 to 30) set at a more aggressive angle with deeper gullets to allow for faster stock removal. They often also come in ATB or TCG configuration, and they excel at cutting with the grain.
Combination: As the name suggests, these blades are designed to work well for both ripping and crosscutting. They typically have 50 teeth set at a moderately aggressive angle that are arranged in groups of five: one flat-top tooth and four ATB teeth, with smaller gullets within the groups and a larger gullet between the groups. A good choice for woodworkers who want to be able to perform a variety of cutting operations without having to change blades.
General purpose: These blades are designed to deliver great results in most applications, including cutting solid wood, plywood, laminated wood and melamine. They typically have 40 teeth set at a moderate to aggressive angle with either an ATB configuration or a HiATB configuration (in which the angle of the bevels is steeper). The number of teeth and the depth of the gullets combine to provide both adequate stock removal and clean cuts. Another good choice for woodworkers who want to be able to perform a variety of cutting operations without having to change blades.
Cutoff: These blades are designed specifically for crosscutting with miter saws and radial arm saws. They have a high tooth count and ATB or HiATB configuration. Specific blades are available for sliding compound miter saws/radial arm saws and stationary miter saws.
Specialty blades: These blades are designed for cutting specific materials, such as veneered plywood, plastics and laminates, melamine and non-ferrous metals.
Choosing bandsaw blades
Several considerations should guide your selection of a bandsaw blade:
Blade length: Check the owner's manual that came with your machine.
Blade width: This is the measurement from the tip of the tooth to the back of the blade. In general, you want to select the widest blade your saw will allow for a given situation because wider blades are less likely to deflect during the cut. But blade width ultimately depends on whether you will need to cut curves and on how tight those curves will need to be. The tighter the curve, the narrower the blade will need to be. Wider blades work for well for gentler curves and resawing work.
Blade style or form: This refers to the arrangement of the teeth.
Standard-tooth blades typically have a large number of teeth close together. They provide smooth cuts but require a slower feed rate, making them especially well-suited to crosscutting operations.
Skip-tooth blades have fewer teeth, and they're spaced more widely (as if every other tooth has been skipped). They allow a faster feed rate but don't cut as smoothly as a standard-tooth blade. They're often used as a sort of general-purpose blade.
Hook-tooth blades typically have a low tooth count, and the gullets between the teeth are machined at an angle that makes this type of blade the most aggressive at cutting. It's the best choice for ripping and resawing.
Blade TPI or pitch: This is the number of teeth per inch. The higher the TPI, the smoother the cut but the slower the feed rate will need to be. It's important to match TPI to the thickness of the material being cut. (At least three teeth – but not more than 20 – must be in the workpiece at any given time during the cut to avoid blade damage.) A 3 TPI blade works well for resawing and cutting thicker stock. A fine-toothed blade (18 to 32 TPI) should be used for thin stock. For 3/4" stock, use a 4 TPI blade for faster cutting and a 14 TPI blade for a smoother finish coming off the saw.
Choosing jigsaw blades
Typically, you'll want to choose a blade designed for your cutting situation. Blades for different applications are available, with blade material, tooth count (TPI) and tooth set optimized for those situations. You'll also want to keep in mind what type of blade shank your jigsaw requires for mounting, as well as the thickness of the material you'll be cutting. The blade should be at least 1" longer than the thickness of the material.


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Freitag, 4. Februar 2011
Papergirl Leeds
Hi Guys,
Papergirl is coming to Leeds, UK for the first time in 2011 :)
Exhibition venue still to be confirmed but we are planning the exhibition in April and the bike ride in May!
Our Submission Deadline is 31st March 2011.
Check out the Papergirl Leeds Blog and the Papergirl Leeds Facebook Page.
Come say hello!!
Papergirl Leeds
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Dienstag, 1. Februar 2011
Yay! Beautiful Vancouver is joining the Papergirl World!
The Roundhouse Community Centre will be exhibiting in August 2011.
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Rickie Lambert's late penalty secured Southampton a hard-earned point in west London as Fulham's poor recent run continued in a 1-1 draw.
Fulham came into the match with just one win in 10 matches but got off to the best possible start, taking the lead inside eight minutes as Kelvin Davis could only fumble a Sascha Riether cross into the path of Dimitar Berbatov, who duly slotted home off balance at the far post.
After a number of missed opportunities, Southampton grabbed a late leveller. Saints academy graduate Chris Baird was adjudged to have handled a Gaston Ramirez corner, allowing Lambert to continue his 100 per cent success rate from the spot five minutes from time.
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Aligning IT with Business Strategy
Research shows clearly that businesses that feature a systematic portfolio management process, regardless of the specific approach, out-perform the rest. Having some portfolio management approach in place seems to be even more important than the details of which tools and metrics one chooses.
However, businesses' whose portfolios are selected by relying heavily on financial tools as the dominant portfolio selection model sometimes fare worse than those that rely heavily on other kinds of tools, because financial tools can yield an unbalanced portfolio of lower-value projects and projects that lack strategic alignment. By contrast, strategic methods, correctly applied, do produce a strategically aligned and balanced portfolio.
It is ironic that the most rigorous techniques—the various financial tools—yield the worst results, not so much because the methods are flawed but simply because reliable financial data are often missing at the very point in a project where the key project selection decisions are made. Often, reliable financial data (expected sales, pricing, margins, and costs) are difficult to estimate in many cases because the project team simply has not done its homework or makes highly optimistic projections in order to secure support for its project. (See References 1-3)
The portfolio management solution discussed here is an objective process that enforces a rational rather than emotional (or political) approach to portfolio selection, helping to ensure that the selected investments are aligned with the organization's strategic priorities and will maximize return on investment.
This solution involves the use of tools such as Microsoft Project Portfolio Server 2007 to gain visibility, insight, and control across project, program, and application portfolios as well as analytic tools to improve decision making. My discussion will conclude with a brief discussion of actual face-to-face, teleconferenced, and virtual meetings, the latter two using Cisco TelePresence 3000 and Microsoft SharePoint 2007, respectively.
A popular term for the process of guiding the portfolio is governance. This is especially so in the information technology area, where the term IT governance is becoming synonymous with Project Portfolio Management.
Automate the Governance Process
Tools are needed to automate the governance processes across the organization to subject each project to the appropriate governance controls throughout its entire life cycle. That is, you need to measure and track portfolio performance to help ensure that the portfolios are managed effectively and realize the forecasted benefits.
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Figure 1. Example of a configurable workflow
As shown in Figure 1, each workflow is composed of a series of life cycle steps (such as Propose Idea, Initial Review, Complete Request, Request Review, Portfolio Selection, and Selected) which in turn are mapped to governance phases. The governance phases are used as common denominators to aggregate and report on projects across various workflows.
The phases and workflows establish a blueprint for your organization's governance framework and help ensure all projects complete the necessary deliverables and receive managerial sign-off before moving to the next life cycle step. This audit functionality keeps stakeholders aware and accountable as projects move from business case creation to consideration to implementation.
With potentially hundreds of projects, programs, and applications competing for the same limited budget and resources, formulating common scoring criteria is essential to effectively prioritize and evaluate the competing investment proposals.
Using the embedded best practice prioritization methodologies and tools described below, executives can derive common scoring criteria for projects, programs, and applications, enabling "apples-to-apples" comparisons among dozens or hundreds of competing investments.
One of the most critical tasks in the portfolio management process is to define and prioritize the organization's business strategy (as opposed to prioritizing individual projects). A pair-wise comparison matrix—discussed below—can be used to help executives objectively prioritize business strategy for the upcoming planning horizon.
Build Consensus Among Executives
In most organizations, executives from distinct functional domains will have different perspectives on which business drivers are most important to the business. A vice president of sales might consider "increase market share" and "develop new products" the most important business drivers, while a CIO might consider "maximize systems uptime" and "modernize enterprise infrastructure" the most important. In organizations where executives will be competing for the same budget and resources, achieving consensus is critical.
In a facilitated business strategy prioritization workshop—conducted in face-to-face meeting or meetings that are distributed in space and time—the executives collaborate to complete the pair-wise comparison matrix and assess the importance of each business driver against the others for the upcoming planning period to help drive consensus and calculate the business driver priorities. For example, in Figure 2, is "Expand into new markets and segments" more important when compared to "Improve Customer Satisfaction"?
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Figure 2. Business driver pair-wise comparison matrix
In Figure 3, you see the resulting consensus on relative business priorities for an organization. It is very important to note that these derived driver priorities are relative scorings and not simply ranked from number 1 to number 7.
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Figure 3. Derived relative priority of business drivers
Calculate Scores for Strategic Value, Risk, and Financial Return
Make use of best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores such as strategic value, financial value, risk, architectural fit, and operational performance in order to objectively assess projects, programs, and applications.
Project and Programs—Best practice prioritization scores include:
- Financial Value: Calculate a project's financial value (ROI, net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR)) based on the cost and benefit estimates captured in each business case.
- Strategic Value: Objectively derive a strategic value score for each project in Portfolio Optimizer based on the project's impact on the business strategy (see Figures 4 and 5).
- Risk Assessment: Calculate a risk score for each project derived from the risk assessment questionnaire.
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Figure 4. Example of project to driver impact assessment
One of the most important project assessment scores is the strategic value score, which calculates the project's value to the business. Using the impact matrix shown in Figure 4, each project is evaluated against each business driver and rated on a 5-point scale (for example, "no impact," "low impact," "moderate impact," "strong impact," and "extreme impact") depending on the project's contribution to quantitative key performance indicators (KPIs) defined for each driver. This process derives a strategic value score for each project shown in Figure 5.
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Figure 5. Example of a strategic value priority scores for projects
Applications—Best practice assessment attributes include:
- Business Importance: Objectively derive a business importance score for each application.
- Architectural Fit: Map each application against the organization's architectural strategy and standards, and calculate an architectural fit score.
- Risk Assessment: Calculate an application's risk using the Portfolio Builder risk questionnaire.
- Operational Performance: Automatically derive an operational performance score for each application based on a performance questionnaire in Portfolio Builder.
Of particular note, the business importance of an application is computed by using a three-step prioritization process. This prioritization technique uses the pair-wise comparison matrix to prioritize business drivers, and then uses two impact matrices to first assess each business process's contribution to the success of each business driver, and second to assess the level that each application supports each business process. This three-step process results in a business importance score for each application in the portfolio. Application contributions to business processes are best rated as a percentage of the process that is automated by the application (see Figure 6). The sum of application contributions to one process must be equal to or less than 100 percent.
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Figure 6. Example of an application-to-business process impact assessment
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Actress/singer Hilary Duff has split from her former ice hockey star husband Mike Comrie after three years of marriage.
Duff, 26, wed the retired sportsman, 33, in August, 2010 after three years together, and she gave birth to their only child, son Luca, in March, 2012.
A representative for Duff tells People.com, "(They) have mutually decided (upon) an amicable separation.
"They remain best friends and will continue to be in each other's lives. They are dedicated to loving and parenting their amazing son, and ask for privacy at this time."
Duff previously gushed about how becoming parents had strengthened their marriage, stating, "It's made (our marriage) stronger. Having a baby is a lot of hard work and you really depend on each other for a lot. There is so much love… you can't imagine it until it happens to you and you look at your husband and you're like, 'We did this together.'"


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Within a few years, you will happily reveal the most intimate details about yourself to your favorite websites.
In exchange you'll get a hot love life and cool stuff magically showing up at your door without having to click anything.
It's a compelling picture of the future painted by Andreas Weigend, the famed inventor of Amazon's recommendation engine. Weigend is one of the world's authorities on social media and consumer behavior. He even teaches classes on this stuff at Stanford.
Business Insider recently talked to Weigend to ask him about two new trends: companies using social media/big data to predict the behavior, and consumers sharing their data for their own profit.
Weigend explained:
- It's easy for companies to predict what you'll do.
- Companies don't have to be sneaky to collect data on you — you'll be willing to share it.
- Dating sites have become masters at predicting this kind of stuff.
- Next up is something he calls "zero-click shopping" — meaning that you'll buy stuff automatically, without going online to shop for it.
Here's an edited transcript of the conversation.
Business Insider: Companies today are collecting enormous amounts of data on people to predict what people will do. How does it work?
Andreas Weigend: People are way more predictable than they think they are. I worked at Match.com a few years ago, and I was also on the board of Skout, a dating app. It is surprising how good the models are on who you will actually click on. Most people are more narrow in their preferences in the dating space than they admit to themselves.
BI: How does predicting behavior work in other cases?
AW: Among the things I learned when I was chief scientist at Amazon.com is the power of modeling the situation somebody's in.
For instance, you buy a pair of socks for your grandma so she keeps warm, it really doesn't matter if they are the most fashionable socks. But if you are buying socks for a date with someone new, it doesn't matter that they are warm or if they keep for more than one wash.
In this world of social data, we can infer so much more about the situation someone is in. By knowing their geolocation, by knowing their last update on Facebook or Twitter, et cetera, we can do a much better job of understanding the situation.
BI: So this means that if I view myself as a hippie, or a conservative, I'll make certain, predictable choices, and that's as true for the stuff I buy as it is for the people I'll date?
AW: Yes.
BI: But a lot of people are freaked out about privacy. Won't there be a backlash?
AW: There has been a shift. Collecting, storing, processing data — that is all commodity. Where the successful people are is whether they create incentives that entice people to actually share data. That's a different paradigm from [asking] "How do we sniff the digital exhaust?"
Take your favorite dating app. It's all about matching. It's about the social data saying if I'm interesting in a quick hook-up, or a long-term social relationship. I share this in the hope that I will have a more successful match than if I kept it secret.
BI: We're at the early stages of this kind of big data. How will this play out in few years?
AW: I call it zero-click shopping. Remember Amazon's 1-Click? We know that you want it. So we don't even have to ask you anymore.
That means you don't have to worry about sending your data. They will extract for you. All you have to do is share.
I share my calendar with the world, on my website. So if that's of interest to you, [you can find] me at an airport. I've had this happen in several countries. I landed in Portland, Ore., and as I turned my phone on, it was ringing. Someone said, "You don't know me, but I saw your schedule and I'd like to give you a ride from the airport to wherever you are going."
I have a similar story in Germany where someone gave me a ride. They said, "We get free time in the car and you don't have to worry about parking."


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The biggest soap opera of 2009-10 has a new episode. An obscure DUI arrest last October in Florida is getting attention now that Alyse Lahti Johnston is rumored to be Tiger Woods' new girlfriend.
Terez Owens Online broke the story about Woods' supposed new girlfriend over the weekend, saying the couple had been dating for several months and were recently spotted together on his yacht. Radar Online called Alyse "a stunning blonde (who) is a dead ringer for Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren. At just 22, she is 13 years younger than the golfing superstar."
Radar Online says she is a recent Ohio State graduate, aspiring pro golfer the stepdaughter of Alastair Johnston, a board member with the sports management firm IMG. It has photos in which she looks a lot more attractive than in her mug shot, though not exactly like Nordegren, who lives in a nearby mansion with the couple's two children.
The story took on a new cast when reporters dug up Lahti's arrest on DUI charges last October. According to the Orlando Sentinel, her 2006 Infiniti G35X rear-ended a truck on Interstate 4, causing it to overturn:
During a roadside test an officer asked Lahti to rate her sobriety on a scale of zero to 10, with zero being sober and 10 being impaired. Her response: "(Expletive) 10."
Later, Lahti's blood-alcohol concentration was measured at .21, nearly three-times the legal limit to drive, according to the arrest affidavit.
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There are so many colors and styles on the market today that parents can match their personal sense of style to the baby room decor they pick.
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These basics of baby room decor can be found in any material from dark stained wood in a very traditional style to white painted pieces with cartoon animal patterns printed on.
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Discover the history behind the oldest settlement in Puerto Rico - and come home every night to the comfortably appointed accommodations of the Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel.
Wander down the blue cobblestone streets, enjoy a delicious meal in an open-air cafe on a shady plaza, and tour the many historical sites unique to Puerto Rico. You won't be able to imagine yourself anywhere else.
The Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel is located just a short ride from the international airport and right on the waterfront, providing gorgeous views of San Juan Bay and the historic skyline. Just steps from our front door, you will be introduced to world class shopping, the finest restaurants, exciting nightlife and the beautiful architectural landmarks of Old San Juan.
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Growth Curve blog highlights science on child development, parenting and pregnancy
Today, Science News introduced a redesigned, stand-alone Growth Curve blog, which features the latest scientific discoveries related to parenting and child development. The blog, written by science journalist Laura Sanders, translates new research and scientific jargon into accessible stories about how kids think and grow. The blog dives into existing science (or lack thereof) to offer useful knowledge that will help parents and guardians make better choices.
Initially launched in 2013 as a part of the Science News website, this relaunch features a new look, adds a weekly e-mail newsletter and enables readers to search Growth Curve's archives. Updated weekly, Growth Curve looks to experts and recent research to unravel the mysteries behind why children do the things they do.
"Through Growth Curve, parents will be able to cut through the inaccurate information and myths prevalent on the Internet, and find real, factual news about the science behind parenting and child development. I'm thrilled to be able to provide this resource to anyone caring for children today," said Maya Ajmera, President and CEO of the Society for Science & the Public and Publisher of Science News.
Sanders earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she studied the nerve cells that compel a fruit fly to perform a dazzling mating ritual full of singing and dancing. Sanders' research has been published in scientific journals, including Current Biology, Developmental Biology and PLOS Biology. She holds undergraduate degrees in creative writing and biology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
"Laura draws on her personal experience raising two daughters and her expert knowledge of scientific research to explain the latest discoveries and highlight why they are interesting and important to parents today," said Elizabeth Quill, Acting Editor in Chief of Science News. "It can be difficult for parents to cut through all the misinformation and hype out there. There's a multitude of books and bloggers offering unreliable and often contradictory advice. Growth Curve brings solid science and a journalistic pursuit of truth to parenting topics."
Read Growth Curve by visiting https://www.sciencenews.org/growthcurve or www.growthcurve.blog


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Personal preparation can be as important as academic preparation when it comes to pursuing study in Canada.


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More than 35 Soldiers from the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) became Jump-master qualified during a certified training course held in the Group�s compound on Eglin Air Force Base on Dec. 8.
More than 35 Soldiers from the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) became Jump-master qualified during a certified training course held in the Group�s compound on Eglin Air Force Base on Dec. 8.
The course, which lasted over three weeks, trained and certified the Soldiers to con-duct duties of a Jumpmaster, on ground and in an aircraft.
�On Nov. 13, 2012, we tested 87 with a RIGEX and nomenclature test. Of that 87, we were able to start with 50 students and graduated 39,� said Chief Warrant Officer 5 Miguel Pagani, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Group�s motor officer, Jumpmas-ter and Master Parachutist overseeing the course. �The RIGEX consisted of properly rigging the All-purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment (ALICE) pack utilizing the Harness Single Point Release and Hook and Pile Lowering Line and pre-paring the M-1950 Weapons Case for donning, Soldiers had 15 minutes to complete this task to standard.�
�This course is very physically, mentally and academically demanding with a 70% passing rate or less. Once you become a Jumpmaster you just not only earn a badge that distinguishes you from a regular paratrooper,� said Master Sgt. Walter A. Koski. �You also earn and assume the responsibility of all Soldiers in the aircraft. Your job is to safely deliver Soldiers to the DZ and without causing any damages to the equipment.�
It may seem as a simple task to some, but in order to become a Jumpmaster, knowl-edge must be tested, to ensure only those qualified attend and are able to successfully complete the course.
�A Nomenclature test consisted of 50 questions in which the prospective student had to correctly identify in writing the name of a component, sub-component, assembly or sub-assembly of the T-11 harness, T-11 reserve, M-1950 Weapons Case, Hook and Pile Tape Lowering Line, Harness Single Point Release and Advanced Combat Helmet,� said Pagani.
There were a total of 15 instructors from the 7th SFG (A), chosen from different companies throughout the Group. The Soldiers travelled to Fort Benning, Ga., to attend a three day validation course in order to teach the course.
�Being a jumpmaster separates you for just being a regular paratrooper,� said Koski.
The instructors needed to be qualified and current MC-6 Jumpmasters and attend the Train to Trainer course at Fort Benning.
In order to certify the students that attended the course, the Jumpmaster branch from Fort Benning sent an inspector to conduct a spot review of the tests, student packets and training schedule.
�This was the first Jumpmaster Course Group ran since moving to Eglin Air Force Base. It had an above average graduation rate due to the extra hours focused on Jump-master Personnel Inspection (JMPI). The Program of Instruction (POI) requires 46 hours including testing time,� said Pagani. We scheduled 51.5 hours of hands on prior to testing, with another 12 hours of study hall during Thanksgiving weekend, take all this time and a student could have had up to 63.5 hours of hands on.�
�The POI requires the student to put one jumper out of the aircraft. Each student conducted at least two Jumpmaster duties and several also gained experiences as safeties inside the aircraft, always under the eye of an instructor,� said Pagani.
�During the Practical Work in the Aircraft (PWAC) portion, we performed over 300 jumps with zero injuries, during PWAC we also conducted a lot of reinforcement train-ing by having the students JMPI strap hangers and then another Jumpmaster con-ducted JMPI procedures on that individual again,� said Pagani. �The students gained more confidence in their abilities as they found rigging deficiencies and were able to bring it to the attention of the Primary Jumpmaster and Airborne Commander.�
�There is no doubt that this course was physically and mentally more challenging than most Jumpmaster Courses, but the high success rate makes me 100% confident in these new Jumpmasters,� said Pagani.


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Very briefly, for those unfamiliar with Juneau, we can be reached directly only by air or by boat. Options include:
- Directly by air on Alaska Airlines via Seattle or Anchorage.
Alaska Airlines is offering a 5% discount to meeting attendees. Click on How to Book for instructions.
Note also that Alaska Airline credit card miles and companion fares are a good way to get a cheap ticket out to Juneau.
- Directly on an Alaska Marine Highway ferry from Bellingham, WA; or
- By driving through Canada, then taking an Alaska Marine Highway ferry from Skagway, or Haines, or Prince Rupert the rest of the way to Juneau.
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Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday, and whether you're cheering for the New England Patriots or the New York Giants, it's easy to follow all the action right on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. You can stay up to date while away from home and on the road, or get all sorts of extra information while you're watching live.
NFL Live for Verizon iPhone
If you have an iPhone on Verizon, you can take advantage of their exclusive NFL Mobile app to stream Super Bowl XLVI straight to your mobile device. It's a universal app, though it doesn't specifically say that live video will also be streamed to the iPad version, so if you want to be absolutely certain you see it, keep your iPhone handy. Both versions should give you the latest news, videos, as well as all the information you need to stay in the big game.
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NFL.com Super Bowl XLVI site
The NFL also has a full site up for Super Bowl 46, complete with history, events, visitors guides, live feeds, trivia, and much, much more. The mobile experience won't quite be up to that of the desktop -- which is why they made the apps -- but if you want to make sure you've got everything covered, launch Safari on log onto NFL.com. And if you're not on Verizon and need to watch live, you can do so from here with your Mac or Windows PC.
Super Bowl XLVI Guide
The official NFL Super Bowl 46 guide app will keep you up to date with maps, local happenings, and more. Whether you'll be attending the big game in person or watching from the comfort of your home, the Super Bowl XLVI Guide is the best way to navigate through the multitude of Super Bowl events and and keep up with all the social media buzz that's sure to be generated by millions and millions of fans.
Super Bowl XLVI Guide is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is available in the App Store now.
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As a result of its richness in individuals, species and type specimens, the insect collection of the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (SDEI) is visited by many scientists from Germany and abroad. In contrast to other sections at the SDEI, the Hemimetabola Section has never been headed by a scientist who was intensively occupied with research on this group. Despite this, the collection has attained international importance because it includes the very type-rich collection of Gustav Breddin (1864–1909) and many taxa that were identified or described from the "Formosa Collection" of Hans Sauter (1871–1843).
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Code Geass has Done it again!...In a Bad Way.
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Basically a Love Simulation game; you create an original character (who is conveniently suffering from memory loss), and can, you know, go after both the male and female characters. Unknown how many you can "win over", for lack of a better term, but the majority of the cast will appear in the game (40+ in all) Game is fully voiced, and starts around Episode 8 of the anime; Milly saves your character, and you are introduced to Ashford Academy. From there on you can either ally yourself with the Black Knights or Britannia. The story is much more flexible than the DS game, with all kinds of alternate routes opening up with each decision you make; the ad also hints at a possible happy ending for Euphie in this game. Battles are fought by picking choices presented to you.
PS2 and PSP ver. is exactly the same, except for two major differences: PSP will come with a UMD of the Special Black Rebellion (the recap DVD), while the PS2 comes with an extra feature: You can create your own "events" using lines from the anime.
That's right: You Can Get to Make Love to Lelouch or Suzu or Kallen or CC.
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The new (game-only? It doesn't say) character is Nonnette Enneagram, or at least I think that's the official romanization (katakana: nonetto eniaguramu) She will be voiced by Arai Satomi (Sayoko's VA). This article also reveals that there are over 20 different possible endings for the game, which probably means that of the 40+ characters in the game, roughly half have "playable routes", if you get what I mean.
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Join Date: Jan 2007
well, I've been looking forward to a geass game like this (not like the DS one looked bad though), seeing as how many school harem anime undertones the show had. definitely excited for the Lelouch and Nagisa routes. ^_^
|2007-12-27, 01:23
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The Traitor
Double Edits; One is for Ashlay, second for Crediting XD
Side: The Nunnally Picture Scares me. I just...*shudder* I can't Nunnally, not you.
I'm so gonna download it on my PSP and then make so many mistakes cause I can't understand jap or read it XD
|2007-12-27, 01:33
|Link #5
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Thanks for the info MarioShinobi
Man, this is awesome. Sucks that I dont have a Jap Ps2, PsP is region-free(PsP saves the day again) Wonder what that make your own event is about. Sounds cool. Will be getting along w/ the PsP HAruhi game, even tho I wont understand but a word or 2 of it.
I'd lawl if by the time it came out, I were able to make out at least a vague meaning to the dialogue.
CJL13: NOOO!!! Why did u have to remind us of the trainreck that is NINA?! I'm gonna have nightmares now,lol!
though it makes me wonder if this game could reveal more about other characters (like Nina). Who knows, maybe she has redeeming qualities.....I wont be the one to find out, tho.
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|2007-12-27, 01:34
|Link #6
The Traitor
I just realized you can propably get Lloyd too...
Wow, I just completely forgot the whole cast for side characters.
It just sorta hit me they're gonna have to draw these chars nekkid. o-o;
|2007-12-27, 01:36
|Link #7
That's no lady
Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 29
|2007-12-27, 01:52
|Link #9
That's no lady
Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 29
...And with that said, I reaallly want that game...must take Lelouch route.....
I wonder if Schneizel will be winnable?
|2007-12-27, 05:20
|Link #10
Join Date: Dec 2006
As for this news...
Strange, but funny. I'm fine with C.C., Nunnally (kind of, >_<), Kaguya, Shirley, Kallen, etc., etc.
*puts hand over mouth and leans over*
There are just some characters that I never want to see blushing, and what's more, at the player...
Like Nagisa (short-haired woman on Tougou's side)... and now that it's mentioned, Nina too...
Is Nina going to be accessible on both male and female paths? -_-;
*listens to music to calm down*
Really... Kimoi desu...
|2007-12-27, 21:00
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|2007-12-27, 21:10
|Link #13
Toyosaki Aki
Join Date: Nov 2007
|2007-12-28, 08:45
|Link #14
Gray Witch
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Italy
Age: 33
Thanks for the infos! *__* I can't wait to play with it!<3 I can't read Japanese very well, but the most of the time, listening to the voices could be helpful! So I hope to don't make too many mistakes... I'm afraid to have an end with Darlton... O_O" Why is he there???
|2008-01-01, 07:56
|Link #16
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
|2008-01-01, 11:06
|Link #18
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
As for myself If I ever played this game (which I won't get too) I would want to get a Nunnally ending.
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|2008-01-01, 11:27
|Link #19
(。☉౪ ⊙。)
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: In Maya world, where all is 3D and everything crashes
Age: 31
is o want this game so badly, im prpared to buy a PS2 or PSP for it IIEEECK! XD
too bad i'll never be able to buy them game though.. shipments to my country are terrible >.<
and i wont be able to understand anything about the game either... i cant read japanese ieck!
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