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Fireburst, developed by exDream is an arcade style racer in which players can choose from 16 different drivers, 16 different cars from 4 categories with Fireboost abilities that turn each car into a deadly weapon, and over 250 car skins to further customize the gaming experience.
Players can play in single-player mode, four-player local split screen mode or online multiplayer mode, which includes up 8 drivers.
Exclusive to Steam are 12 achievements which ups the replay value of Fireburst.
Fireburst is available now on Steam for 20% of its original price of $9.99, which means until May 2, 2012 you can steal it for only $7.99!
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this Gaming News sucks…
ABC Inc., is a producer of ball-point pens, pencils, and stationery. The firm’s primary
distribution method is to promote in big volumes to business office provide stores and significant discount
chains. Mr. XYZ, CEO of ABC Inc. had hoped to manufacture and offer in big enough
quantities that costs could be held low. However, in the 1st several months, the firm
experimented with the price part of its advertising combine in an energy to cater quantity of
markets.
1. In starting up out with a market-penetration pricing technique at ABC Inc., what assumptions
could be made about the market(s), it was serving?
2. Why may well have Mr. XYZ averted using market-skimming pricing at ABC Inc.?
3. How could optional product pricing be utilized by ABC Inc.?
4. How may well solution line pricing be initiated at ABC Inc.?
5. If ABC Inc., made the decision to introduce its goods internationally, what variables may affect a
change in price?
6. Describe how product-form pricing could be a pricing option at ABC Inc.,
7. Would amount reductions be probable for ABC Inc., to offer? Why?
Bob Rodriquez, the Albany, NY revenue representative for Superior Drafting Software, Inc., should go to the regional sales meeting in New York City. Unfortunately, his car is in the shop so he need to make other travel arrangements to get to his destination. One option is to take a prepare that departs at 8:00 A.M. Alternatively, he could experience to the meeting with yet another product sales rep.
Bob has an crucial presentation to supply at the meeting and requirements to arrive as early as possible. He understands that the prepare travels at 80 miles per hour, but has a 30 – moment layover halfway via the 156-mile trip. He also knows that his buddy can not depart just before 8:00 A.M. and will adamantly refuse to generate any more quickly than 55 miles per hour.
If both techniques of transportation leave at the identical time (8:00 A.M.), will the train or the automobile enable him to attain the regional product sales meeting sooner?
I. Understand the Problem
(a)What are the crucial items of data in this problem?
Answer:
II. Devise a Plan
(b) Is there a way to make a drawing of this problem? If so, how?
Answer:
(c)Is it possible to break this difficulty into scaled-down pieces in order to remedy it? How?
Answer:
(d)Discuss your approach for solving this problem.
Answer:
III. Carry Out the Plan
(e)Execute your technique and decide which method of journey will allow Bob to get to the meeting in the shortest sum of time.
Answer:
IV. Look Back
(f)How effective was the strategy you used? Would your method be valuable for solving other kinds of problems? Explain.
Answer:
1. A worth chain is the sequence of routines that starts with raw materials.
What end result does a value chain finish with?
Select one.
A. Operations and logistics
B.X Delivery of merchandise or services
C. Supply and demand
D. Outsourcing or insourcing
2. What takes place when an effective value chain is created?
Select one.
A. Custom-made goods are standardized.
B.X Revenue margins are increased.
C. Total quality management is not required.
D. A mission assertion is developed.
3. Market and market analysis, competitor analysis, and social examination are examples of which stage in the strategic arranging process?
Select one.
A. Examination of mission, vision, and goals
B.X Examination of external opportunities and threats
C. Examination of inner strengths and weaknesses
D. Examination of management implementation
4. Skilled management, constructive hard cash flow, and well-known brands are examples of which element of the SWOT analysis?
Select one.
A.X Strenghts
B. Opportunities
C. Weaknesses
D. Threats
5. What denotes capabilities or expertise in an activity that constitutes the roots of competitiveness in an organization?
Select one.
A. Possibilities and threats
B.X Core competencies
C. Products and services
D. Strategic values
6. According to Michael Porter’s competitive atmosphere model, how can suppliers impact strategic planning?
A. Suppliers can minimize production time and improve solution quality.
B.X Suppliers can minimize the risk from substitute products.
C. Provider can minimize technological, demographic, and legal threats in the environment.
D. Suppliers can decrease the numbers of new entrants in the market.
7. A organization offers distinctive merchandise in its market to generate a competitive advantage.
Which form of method is the company using?
Select one.
A. Valorization
B. Standardization
C.X Differentiation
D. Customization
8. Pleased Inc. is a major supplier of family members enjoyment and BCD is a broadcasting firm with news, cable, and entertainment networks. Happy Inc. not too long ago acquired BCD in hopes of boosting its major business of family entertainment.
Which form of company method is represented by Happy Inc.’s buy of their distribution network?
Select one.
A. Horizontal benchmarking
B.X Strategic alliances
C. Networking
D. Vertical integration
9. A neighborhood organization has furnished solutions to its clients for 40 years. The business’s mission is “To give our clients the best provider in town.” The proprietor of the company has had a long-standing dream to franchise the enterprise and grow to be the greatest provider of its services in the United States.
What describes the owner’s dream?
Select one.
A. Strategic management
B.X Strategic planning
C. Strategic vision
D. Strategic mission
10. What is the initial phase of organizational strategic planning?
Select one.
A. Building inner strengths
B. Establishing exterior opportunities
C.X Creating a strategic mission
D. Developing operational goals
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Liberal activists are stepping up their marketing campaign versus Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.
MoveOn.org, the Marketing Campaign for America’s Foreseeable Future and liberal weblogs like DailyKos.com are asking countless numbers of supporters to keep track of who is promoting on the network. The Moment a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling marketing campaign will begin, stated Jim Gilliam, vice president of media approach for Brave New Films, a company that has manufactured anti-Fox videos.
The teams have productively pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Residence Depot Inc. to end marketing there.
At least 5,000 men and women nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The teams want to first focus on organizations operating local ads, as opposed to nationwide commercials.
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/27/liberal_activists_taking_their_campaign_
Very First it was a quagmire and we currently lost. Then when the surge arrived and we started kicking severe but the dems wailed that it was the political remedy that made it a dropping war. Now Iraq is sharing the oil earnings with all the various regions,allows lieu to set up their very own representation and now have handed a bill for reconcilliation. That knocks out the 3 significant stumbling blocks. So now why will the dems say we are losing? PS………if you want to speak about a governing entire body not meeting benchmarks just search at Nancy/Harry INC
Only MSNBC had the balls to “investigate” private citizens attending local town hall events…..lol
Reported by none other than Richard Wolfe AKA Mr. Conflict of Interest himself. Unfortunately Mr. Wolfe is guilty of exactly what he’s accusing others of doing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mann/four-creative-ways-to-dea_b_252974.html
So far, among TV news operations, only MSNBC has investigated these people in depth, starting last Friday when Newsweek’s Richard Wolfe (filling in for Keith Olbermann) first headlined the corporate-funded roots of these loudmouthed disrupters, aka Astroturfers (artificial grass-roots support.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/04/richard-wolffe-will-not-b_n_250776.html
MSNBC has responded to the claims that Richard Wolffe, who works as a strategist for Washington public affairs firm Public Strategies Inc. and who guest-hosted “Countdown” while Keith Olbermann was away, has a conflict of interest and shouldn’t appear on air as a host or an analyst.
Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald wrote of Wolffe’s dual role:
This is a conflict so severe that it’s incurable by disclosure: who wouldn’t realize that you can’t present paid corporate hacks as objective political commentators? But the fact that they don’t even bother to disclose that just serves to illustrate how non-existent is the line between corporate interests and “news reporting” in the United States.
ABC Inc., is a manufacturer of ball-point pens, pencils, and stationery. The firm’s primary
distribution strategy is to sell in large volumes to office supply stores and large discount
chains. Mr. XYZ, CEO of ABC Inc. had hoped to manufacture and sell in large enough
quantities that prices could be held low. However, in the first several months, the firm
experimented with the price portion of its marketing mix in an effort to cater number of
markets.
1. In starting out with a market-penetration pricing strategy at ABC Inc., what assumptions
could be made about the market(s), it was serving?
2. Why might have Mr. XYZ avoided using market-skimming pricing at ABC Inc.?
3. How could optional product pricing be used by ABC Inc.?
4. How might product line pricing be initiated at ABC Inc.?
5. If ABC Inc., decided to introduce its products internationally, what factors may impact a
change in price?
6. Explain how product-form pricing may be a pricing option at ABC Inc.,
7. Would quantity discounts be possible for ABC Inc., to offer? Why?
Athome Consulting Group Inc. based at San Jose, CA is one of the major contributors in the worst real estate and economic meltdown in the history of the United States of America. This company promoted the ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgage) which starts with a very low teaser rate. ACG will teach & train their agents to recruit potential real estate agants. Once you joined the company, the requirement is to refinance your home first. Whoever is your recruiter gets a share of the comission and so with the direct Marketing Director, all the way to the President of the company who is Edwin Natividad. You, who just got recruited and refinanced your home with the ARM program is now stucked with the low teaser rate for the next year or 3 years whichever comes first. Then, they will teach you to re-invest that equity money you just received to buy a new home or homes with zeroor little money down, apply for a loan through the ARM program again, wile they get all the rebates and commissions. Their strategy is for you to go out and recruit also to become a Managing Director in order to enjoy the benefits of getting overrides from all these commissions. These were during the good times when the real estate market was really hot. It made the NATIVIDAD clan (Edwin, Jeffrey, John) and all their cousins Charlie ABAYAN, so filthy rich they were sporting their top of the line Mercedez Benz, Ferrari, BMWs, and brag about their multiple million dollar homes during their annual conventions and seminars. During the early 2007, the real estate market was starting to slow down because the ARM loans are slwly maturing from the ones that refinanced or bought properties with the ARM program in 2003, 2004, and 2005s. Tragically, no one could stop it anymore because the in the middle of 2007 up to now, the real estate market tumbled and most of those who used the ARM program foreclosed their homes because they owe more than the value of their homes. This is a tragedy for most of the innocent “wanna be” real estate agents who got sucked in by the some licensed “blood suckers” like Edwin Natividad and his ACG Empire. They are one of the major contributors of this recession that everyone, including me and my family is now suffering. Its a very hard lesson to swallow considering so many people across the nation lost their homes, broken families, some even committed suicide! All these human suffering because of one CLEVER MAN, EDWIN NATIVIDAD, who rose from rags (brags about planting tomatoes and camote leaves in their backyard for their food) to being FILTHY RICH in a span of 4 years, by capitalizing on the ARM program through his ACG empire!!!
NEW YORK – AT&T Inc., the nation’s largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.
The phone company thus joins other major ISPs that either go beyond legal requirements or interpret their duties under the law to mean that they have to forward such notices.
Jim Cicconi, AT&T’s top executive in Washington, confirmed this week that the company is looking to expand a trial program it ran late last year with movie studios. It is currently testing a system with the Recording Industry Association of America and will expand the program with other rights organizations.
Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. already forward such notices, but the approaches differ, and the legal situation is muddled.
Copyright holders like movie studios can, in many cases, identify Internet users who download or provide pirated material by their numerical Internet address, but cannot match it up with a subscriber name without the cooperation of the Internet service provider.
ISPs have previously identified their customers to copyright holders who bring court orders. The copyright holders and their representatives, like the RIAA, have then been able to sue the customers.
But that strategy had been widely criticized, and the RIAA said late last year it was abandoning its policy of filing lawsuits, opting instead to work with ISPs to cut abusers’ access if they ignore repeated warnings. At the time, the RIAA said it agreed with several leading ISPs, without naming which ones, to notify alleged illegal file-sharers and cut off service if they failed to stop.
Cicconi said AT&T’s program was not the result of a deal with the RIAA, and the music industry organization was not part of the first trials the company conducted of the notification system last year.
Under the new system at AT&T, copyright holders would send a notice to the ISP that a certain numerical Internet address is associated with piracy. The ISP would then automatically forward the notice to the customer via e-mail, without telling the copyright holder who the customer is, Cicconi said.
AT&T and other participating ISPs are doing more for copyright owners than they are legally obliged to, according to Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. However, they do have an obligation to have a policy in place to kick off repeat offenders, he said.
AT&T will only forward the notice and won’t threaten its customers with suspension of service or any other sanction, Cicconi said. If copyright holders want to go further, it’s up to them to bring court orders, he said.
“It seems to engender a good response from customers, and we’ve seen a fairly dramatic drop-off in file-sharing activity once people receive a notice, so we feel this works,” Cicconi said.
Cox, the fifth-largest ISP in the country with about 4 million Internet customers, forwards thousands of notices per month and has cut off a few repeat offenders, spokesman David Grabert said. It interprets the law as requiring it to forward the notices.
There’s confusion about the legal obligations of ISPs, von Lohmann said, because “nobody on either side has had the nerve to go to court over it, probably because the stakes are so high, neither side wants to gamble on what the ultimate answer might be.”
In Ireland, the association representing RIAA members sued a local ISP, forcing it to disconnect a subscriber after three recorded copyright violations.
Internet lawyers and consumer advocates have pointed out that many reports of violations from copyright holders are inaccurate. Cox and AT&T said that in many cases, the notices have gone out to parents who didn’t know that their children were pirating copyrighted material. In other cases, AT&T’s Cicconi said, customers hadn’t secured their wireless routers, and someone else near had been using them for downloading, so AT&T has helped customers secure their routers.
I already have gone less to the movies throughout the last few years because of price hikes…I think i may be done after this (Credit Wall Street Journal for this article).
Major U.S. movie-theater chains, seeking to accelerate the surge in revenues fueled by such 3-D hits as “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” are imposing some of the steepest increases in ticket prices in at least a decade.
The new prices take effect Friday in many markets across the country in theaters owned by such major exhibitors as Regal Entertainment Group, Cinemark Holdings Inc. and AMC Entertainment Inc.
More from WSJ.com:
• 3-D Powered Box Office Surge
• Did the Academy Awards Kill the ‘Oscar Bump’?
• James Cameron on the Coming DVD Release of ‘Avatar’
The increases, in one case as much as 26%, vary from theater to theater, but many cinemas are raising prices most—or even solely—for 3-D showings, which accounted for the vast majority of last year’s 10% jump in domestic box-office sales. 3-D movies generated 11% of domestic ticket sales in 2009, up from just 2% in 2008.
At an AMC theater in Danvers, Mass., a Boston suburb, 3-D ticket prices are jumping more than 20% to $17.50 from $14.50, while the adult admission price for a conventional film will remain at $10.50. At one Seattle multiplex, adult admission is rising to $11 from $10 for a conventional film, to $15 from $13.50 for a regular 3-D showing and to $17 from $15 for Imax 3-D.
A 3-D Imax movie at New York City’s AMC Loews Kips Bay will cost $19.50, up from $16.50.
The increases weren’t announced by the theater operators, but were reflected in prices posted Wednesday on movie-ticketing Web sites, such as Fandango.com.
AMC and Cinemark declined to comment. Comment from Regal wasn’t immediately available.
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The industry’s move comes on the heels of a record-setting year at the domestic box office, with revenue surpassing $10 billion for the first time. Movie attendance in the U.S. and Canada grew 5.5% in 2009, with 1.42 billion tickets sold, the most since 2004. Ticket sales so far this year are running 10% higher.
Movie theaters typically charged $2 to $3 extra for 3-D movies. But the brisk demand for the premium-priced tickets led many exhibitors to conclude they were still underpriced. About 83% of the record $2.6 billion in ticket sales for “Avatar” came from 3-D and Imax screens. And Walt Disney Co.’s “Alice in Wonderland” also set records when it hit 3-D screens earlier this month.
While the new prices could boost theater owners’ already buoyant revenues, some industry watchers think they could also spark a consumer backlash. Studios, theater operators, and trade groups have long touted films as a bargain, compared with other forms of entertainment. A decade ago, the average ticket at a multiplex was $5.39, but prices have edged up between 2.7% and 6.1% a year since then, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
“The U.S. economy isn’t in the greatest shape, and there is definitely risk here in pushing price too far in a weak economy,” said Richard Greenfield, a media analyst at BTIG LLC, who issued a research report Wednesday on the price hikes.
Mr. Greenfield said the next month will serve as a test of the strategy. “We’ll have a sense if there is any pushback” from moviegoers, he said.
Some movie-studio executives expressed concern that the price increases might be too much too soon. “The risk we run is that we will no longer be the value proposition that we as an industry have prided ourselves on,” said a distribution executive at one major studio.
Other studio executives agreed that the move was risky, but some, like Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution for Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros., expressed support. “The exhibitors are trying to push the needle on ticket prices and see where it ends up,” Mr. Fellman said. “So far charging a $3 or $4 premium has had no effect on consumers whatsoever, so I’m in favor of this experiment to raise prices even more. There may be additional revenue to earn here.”
Studios are also in a bind. While many are wary of appearing to gouge consumers, they are also facing higher costs as they produce more movies in the technology-heavy 3-D format. Though ticket prices are set by theater operators, the proceeds are split roughly 50-50 with movie studios.
Five major 3-D films are opening in theaters over the next three months, starting this weekend with DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.’s “How to Train Your Dragon.” That rich selection is one reason theater owners chose to raise 3-D ticket prices now. It may also help set consumers’ expectations for future 3- films.
Imax 3-D tickets to “Dragon” are expected to cost an average $1, or 7%, more than Imax tickets to Disney’s “A Christmas C
I want to buy a 360 either the arcade or the premium but I don’t know the difference when it comes to online play. I know that the premium comes with a headset, more memory, and a hard drive. thats it.
DR. DAVID KANECKI
> P.O. Box 866 Kenosha, WI 53141 da…@kanecki.com
> BS, Biological Science (Pre-Med) University of Wisconsin
> Certificate, Flow Cytometry Becton Dickinson
> Certificate, Cellular Biology and Immunology / National Flow Cytometry
> Resource Los Alamos National Laboratory
FACS (Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter) Laboratory. [Milwaukee
> Medical Research Park]
> EXECUTIVE PROFILE
> CEO COO
> Dynamic and accomplished leader with a track history of exceptional
> success in the medical, software, and emergency management arenas.
> Outstanding business communications strategist with expertise in
> negotiating and developing profitable partnerships / coalitions and
> securing new business funding / R&D financing from private and federal
> investors worldwide. Visionary organizational leader, adept at
> change / operations / project management, product and business
> development, and manufacturing oversight. World-class professional
> with extensive experience collaborating with government, regulatory,
> medical, and multi-national organizations.
> Selected Highlights
> * Negotiated multi-million-dollar discount contracts with various
> biomedical companies.
> * Broke 24-year standoff by achieving coalition with Russia Emergency
> Management in 1995 as Chairman of Emergency Management and Planning.
> [Society for Computer Simulation]
> * Successfully managed a $2M per year project to rebuild and recertify
> FACS (Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter) Laboratory. [Milwaukee
> Medical Research Park]
> * Forged a long-term software joint venture with a European Union
> Medical Company (similar to GE Medical) worth a projected $121M.
> [Nucletron]
> * Negotiated a pending software Joint Venture with a US company worth
> a potential of $41M over 18 years. [Kanecki Associates, Inc.]
> * Secured $8M in long-term research contracts within one year.
> [Milwaukee Medical Research Park]
> * Produced a software portfolio worth $281M (2006) with first five
> being marketed.– [Kanecki Associates]
> * Generated multi-millions in funding for organization by applying
> improved practices, and enhanced quality, and results orientation.
> [Society for Computer Simulation]
> * Drove a potential $162M in joint venture sales with a five-member
> team. [Kanecki Associates, Inc.]
> Areas of Expertise
> Medical Research Human Relations Marketing
> Accounting / Finance Operations Management Organizational Behavior
> Business Communications Business Legal Operations Statistics /
> Research Methods
> PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
> KANECKI ASSOCIATES, INC.
> Provider and developer of security, medical, and government products
> and services (primarily software)
> President 1993 to Present
> * Drove a potential $162M in joint venture sales with a five-member
> team
> * Effectively liaised with both domestic and European Union companies
> to cooperate on joint ventures.
> * Steered communications with FDA and EU to gain approval of medical
> analysis product.
> * Developed, managed, and delivered multiple products and services to
> develop new business opportunities.
> SOCIETY FOR COMPUTER SIMULATION | SIMULATION COUNCIL, INC.
> Provider of professional and consulting services to multinational
> government and military organizations and agencies, including FEMA,
> DOD, Navy, Air Force, and Army
> Chairman | AVP of Emergency Management 1992 to 1999
> * Broke 24-year standoff by achieving coalition with Russia Emergency
> Management in 1995.
> * Devised and implemented multinational cooperative activities to
> share and implement new ideas and strategies; result: improved
> operations and practices for the United States, European Emergency
> Management, and others from the EU, Russia, South Korea, Japan,
> Canada, United State, Finland, and China.
> * Initiated and developed liaison with the President G.H.W. Bush and
> President Clinton Administrations regarding Natural Emergency
> Management and Non Natural Emergency Management (including terrorism
> and Presidential Directive 63).
> * Improved the operations of Emergency Management and Planning. How
> did you do it?
> MILWAUKEE MEDICAL RESEARCH PARK
> Provider of medical services and research with focus on patient
> application products
> Researcher 1989 to 1993
> * Negotiated multi-million-dollar discount contracts with various
> biomedical companies.
> * Successfully managed a $2M / year project to rebuild and recertified
> FACS (Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter) Laboratory.
> * Secured $8M in long-term research contracts within one year.
> * Effectively created coalitions with Executive Board to develop and
> formulate strategies to create optimal laboratory conditions.
> * Provided military medical laboratory support during Operations
> “Desert Shield”
http://advenet.com/flowcytometry/blog/archive/2008/09/09/isac-congress-purdue-cytometry-mail-list-overdue-for-congressional-investigation.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
I don’t have many sources for revising a paper and would like to ask for your help. My goal is to provide a negative business letter to a company of my choice about a television advertisement I disagree with. I have made up a random name and street address for security purposes. A full 10 points will be rewarded to the person who helps me out the most.
5624 Barack Obama Dr
Columbus, OH 43653
March 2, 2009
Mr. Bob Parsons
President, GoDaddy.com, Inc
14455 N. Hayden Rd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Dear Mr. Parsons,
I would to first thank you for the services you provide. I’m one of the many happy customers that have used your service. The prices for the service your company provides is amongst the most affordable in the industry. Whenever there’s a issue with the service, your customer service team helps guide me to the source of the problem and helps me fix it. The level of my satisfaction with your service is outstanding.
This is why I feel I must address one problem with your company and that is the television advertisements. When I was watching the Super bowl with friends and family, your television advertisement came on and I felt embarrassed. It makes customers, such as myself feel ashamed for using your services. The commercials are too raunchy and controversial.
They’re alternatives to fix this issue. One alternative is to simply pull the commercial off the air and start implementing a new marketing strategy. Another alternative is to tone down the sexiness in your commercials. My recommendation is to pull the commercial off the air and make a new one focusing on prices and customer satisfaction. This recommendation will help stir attention away from the sexy women and into the company.
Sincerely,
Bob Thomas
My birthday is coming up and I want to get an xbox 360. I wanna get the cheap one which is the arcade console. What comes with the console. Like how many controllers and does it come with a headset and etc.. And what is the price range?
Turns out Secretary of the Treasury (Turbo Tax Cheat Geithner) speaks quite regularly (VERY regularly) with 3 companies specifically: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase. (All in top 5 of bailout TARP fund recipients)
And interestingly enough the new financial regulations being developed by Geithner and Barney Frank conveniently leave a loophole that would allow these companies exemption from the new rules.
Is this simply a coincidence, or are the bankers basically writing the new rules?? (making sure to leave loopholes for themselves)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/bloomberg-reports-derivat_n_313914.html
Hey kids! Were you holding out hope that someone might do something to robustly regulate the derivatives market that wrought such wrack and ruin to the global economy? Ha, ha, that’s adorable! Tina Seeley and Dawn Kopecki report for Bloomberg today that “Legislation by Representative Barney Frank to tighten derivatives regulation contains an exemption that may let most financial firms escape new collateral and disclosure rules.” Great!
Here’s where the specific exemption lies:
A plan offered by the Obama administration would subject all swaps dealers and “major market participants” to new regulations for capital, business conduct, record-keeping and reporting. [Representative Barney] Frank’s version would exempt corporations from that definition if they use derivatives for “risk management” purposes.
While Frank’s proposal is a “step in the right direction,” its “ambiguous” definition of risk management may leave a large number of corporations unregulated, Henry T.C. Hu, director of the SEC’s new division of risk, strategy and financial innovation, told the committee.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/geithner-talks-to-select-_n_313612.html
When they call, Geithner answers. He has spoken with them immediately after hanging up with President Barack Obama and before heading up to Capitol Hill, between phone calls with senators and after talking with the Federal Reserve chairman, according to a review by The Associated Press of seven months of his appointment calendars.
The calendars, obtained by the AP under the Freedom of Information Act, offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the continued influence of three companies – Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. – whose executives can reach the nation’s most powerful economic official on the phone, sometimes several times a day.
There is nothing inherently wrong with senior Treasury Department officials speaking regularly with industry executives, or even with the secretary keeping tabs on the market’s biggest players, even though critics say Geithner risks succumbing too much to these bankers’ self-interested worldview………..In the first seven months of Geithner’s tenure, his calendars reflect at least 80 contacts with Blankfein, Dimon, Citigroup Chairman Richard Parsons or Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit.
Geithner had more contacts with Citigroup than he did with Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the lawmaker leading the effort to approve Geithner’s overhaul of the financial system. Geithner’s contacts with Blankfein alone outnumber his contacts with Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
I am interested in getting a 360 and don’t know which to get. The arcade is $100-$150 cheaper and I’ve heard there’s no difference other than it doesn’t come with a hard drive, just a memory stick. Is there more than this that i am missing?
The real economy contracting rapidly
Behind the reassuring statements from Paulson and others that the “worst is over” the reality of the credit collapse since August 2007 is a deepening economic contraction which I have said several times in this space will surpass the Great Depression of the 1929-1938 period. A good friend who is an unemployed homebuilder in a prosperous part of Arizona just sent me the following list of US department retail store closures. It is worth noting that over 70% of the US GDP is consumer spending and that the entire Federal Reserve strategy of Alan Greenspan after the March 2000 collapse of the stock market bubble, was to bring US interest rates to their lowest levels since the 1930′s in order to stimulate consumer spending on credit, i.e. debt, to avoid “recession.” Note the scale of the following store closings across America in recent weeks:
Ann Taylor closing 117 stores nationwide.
Eddie Bauer to close more stores after closing 27 stores in the first quarter.
Cache, a women’s retailer is closing 20 to 23 stores this year.
Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Catherines closing 150 stores nationwide
Talbots, J. Jill closing stores. Talbots will close all 78 of its kids and men’s stores plus another 22 underperforming stores. The 22 stores will be a mix of Talbots women’s and J. Jill.
Gap Inc. closing 85 stores
Foot Locker to close 140 stores
Wickes Furniture is going out of business and closing all of its stores. The 37-year-old retailer that targets middle-income customers, filed for bankruptcy protection last month.
Levitz – the furniture retailer, announced it was going out of business and closing all 76 of its stores in December. The retailer dates back to 1910.
Zales, Piercing Pagoda plans to close 82 stores by July 31 followed by closing another 23 underperforming stores.
Disney Store owner has the right to close 98 stores.
Home Depot store closings 15 of them amid a slumping US economy and housing market. The move will affect 1,300 employees. It is the first time the world’s largest home improvement store chain has ever closed a flagship store.
CompUSA (CLOSED).
Macy’s – 9 stores closed
Movie Gallery video rental company plans to close 400 of 3,500 Movie Gallery
and Hollywood Video stores in addition to the 520 locations the video rental
chain closed last fall as part of bankruptcy.
Pacific Sunwear – 153 Demo stores closing
Pep Boys – 33 stores of auto parts supplier closing
Sprint Nextel – 125 retail locations to close with 4,000 employees following 5,000 layoffs last year.
J. C. Penney, Lowe’s and Office Depot are all scaling back
Ethan Allen Interiors: plans to close 12 of 300 stores to cut costs.
Wilsons the Leather Experts closing 158 stores
Bombay Company: to close all 384 U.S.-based Bombay Company stores.
KB Toys closing 356 stores around the United States as part of its bankruptcy reorganization.
Dillard’s Inc. will close another six stores this year.
For anyone familiar with American shopping malls and retailing, this represents a staggering part of the daily economic life of the nation, from furniture stores to clothing to video rentals to leather. The process has only begun and neither major party Presidential candidate has dared to mention this on the ground economic reality, because they evidently have no solutions to offer that would not jeopardize their campaign finances. Obama is tied to not only Pritzker but also to Omaha billionaire, Warren Buffett and George Soros. McCain depends on the traditional money contributions of the Republican Party which demand permanent tax reform for highest income earners and a pro-bank laissez faire treatment of millions of homeowners facing home foreclosure and asset seizure by banks.
I remember a long time ago, i went an arcade and picked up a toy gun and killed a pixellated zombie. What are the names of these games? You know when u pic up a plastic pistol and look at a screen and kill stuff, and to reload you hade to shoot off of the screen.I really need no know some of these games are.
ABC Inc., is a manufacturer of ball-point pens, pencils, and stationery. The firm’s primary?
ABC Inc., is a manufacturer of ball-point pens, pencils, and stationery. The firm’s primary
distribution strategy is to sell in large volumes to office supply stores and large discount
chains. Mr. XYZ, CEO of ABC Inc. had hoped to manufacture and sell in large enough
quantities that prices could be held low. However, in the first several months, the firm
experimented with the price portion of its marketing mix in an effort to cater number of
markets.
1. In starting out with a market-penetration pricing strategy at ABC Inc., what assumptions
could be made about the market(s), it was serving?
2. Why might have Mr. XYZ avoided using market-skimming pricing at ABC Inc.?
3. How could optional product pricing be used by ABC Inc.?
4. How might product line pricing be initiated at ABC Inc.?
5. If ABC Inc., decided to introduce its products internationally, what factors may impact a change
is it worth spending the extra on the premium version? i am no planning on getting the elite so i just want to know if there are any significant differences between the arcade and premium.
Also, what is your favorite arcade fighting game? And, what is your favorite arcade game in general?
Mine are..
1. CarnEvil
2. Mortal Kombat
3. Pac Man
This is reaserch for a restaurant idea, I’ve decided to add a dance floor and an arcade section to go with this future restaurant.
1. A value chain is the sequence of activities that begins with raw materials.
What result does a value chain end with?
Select one.
A. Operations and logistics
B.X Delivery of products or services
C. Supply and demand
D. Outsourcing or insourcing
2. What happens when an effective value chain is created?
Select one.
A. Customized products are standardized.
B.X Profit margins are increased.
C. Total quality management is not required.
D. A mission statement is developed.
3. Industry and market analysis, competitor analysis, and social analysis are examples of which step in the strategic planning process?
Select one.
A. Analysis of mission, vision, and goals
B.X Analysis of external opportunities and threats
C. Analysis of internal strengths and weaknesses
D. Analysis of management implementation
4. Skilled management, positive cash flow, and well-known brands are examples of which component of the SWOT analysis?
Select one.
A.X Strenghts
B. Opportunities
C. Weaknesses
D. Threats
5. What denotes skills or expertise in an activity that constitutes the roots of competitiveness in an organization?
Select one.
A. Opportunities and threats
B.X Core competencies
C. Products and services
D. Strategic values
6. According to Michael Porter’s competitive environment model, how can suppliers influence strategic planning?
A. Suppliers can reduce manufacturing time and increase product quality.
B.X Suppliers can reduce the threat from substitute products.
C. Supplier can reduce technological, demographic, and legal threats in the environment.
D. Suppliers can reduce the numbers of new entrants in the market.
7. A company offers unique products in its industry to create a competitive advantage.
Which type of strategy is the company using?
Select one.
A. Valorization
B. Standardization
C.X Differentiation
D. Customization
8. Happy Inc. is a leading provider of family entertainment and BCD is a broadcasting company with news, cable, and entertainment networks. Happy Inc. recently acquired BCD in hopes of boosting its primary business of family entertainment.
Which type of corporate strategy is represented by Happy Inc.’s purchase of their distribution network?
Select one.
A. Horizontal benchmarking
B.X Strategic alliances
C. Networking
D. Vertical integration
9. A local business has provided services to its customers for 40 years. The business’s mission is “To give our customers the best service in town.” The owner of the business has had a long-standing dream to franchise the business and become the best provider of its service in the United States.
What describes the owner’s dream?
Select one.
A. Strategic management
B.X Strategic planning
C. Strategic vision
D. Strategic mission
10. What is the first step of organizational strategic planning?
Select one.
A. Developing internal strengths
B. Developing external opportunities
C.X Developing a strategic mission
D. Developing operational goals
I have an xbox 360 arcade console but have no idea how to play the free arcade games it comes with. when i go to the arcade it just wants me to buy them.