On Thursday, a savvy fan who wanted to be the first on his block sporting a Jeremy Lin jersey was, for the most part, boxed out. No official merchandise bearing gucci belts Lin’s name or number — 17 — was on sale at the shops in the lobby of Madison Square Garden or at any authorized retailers of Knicks merchandise. A search of the shops and sidewalk peddlers along Canal Street, often the place to go for imitation goods in Manhattan, proved fruitless.
The city may be in the early stages of what has been called Linsanity, a mass hysteria especially prevalent among residents who share Lin’s Asian heritage, like the chef David Chang. The owner of the Momofuku restaurants, he said the emergence of Lin as the Knicks’ starting point guard in the past week was “the most important event for Asian-Americans in sports history.” Mr. Chang said that dressing like a superfan was not his style, but that even he might feel compelled to buy a jersey.
Not even a celebrity with the connections of a popular chef could have found one to buy on Thursday. On the eve of the Knicks’ home matchup with Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers, shopping therapy was not a treatment option.
At Gerry Cosby & Company, a store near the Garden that supplies the Knicks with their uniforms, the shelves were bereft of Lin gear.
Jim Root, the store’s manager, said it could be two weeks before officially licensed T-shirts arrived. How long it would take to get authentic jerseys with Lin’s name and number embroidered on them — the kind that cost about $300 — was anybody’s guess, Mr. Root said.
He said Lin’s burst into prominence had caught Adidas, the league’s official provider of jerseys, flat-footed. The company could not have seen him coming, he said,cheap gucci outlet 2012 because Lin was not even on the Knicks’ roster a few weeks ago and he cracked the starting lineup only this week.
Modell’s, the chain of sporting-good stores in the city and beyond, also had nothing to offer the Lin lover.
Nor did the National Basketball Association’s official store on Fifth Avenue. A clerk there said “a lot of people” had asked for Lin jerseys.
On Thursday morning, the Knicks’ online store started taking orders for $54.95 jerseys and $19.95 “Linsanity” T-shirts that would not be shipped before Feb. 20. But for those who were finding it impossible to wait that long to wear their feelings for Lin on their chests and backs, the Knicks’ promotional staff was working Thursday afternoon on a cure.
In a cramped, windowless room in the Garden, a few employees arranged orange numerals and white letters on blank blue Knicks jerseys, then lowered hot presses onto them. And, voilà: the only legal No. 17 Lin jerseys in the city, other than the ones the Knicks’ player wears, were ready for sale.
Starting Friday morning, as many as 200 of them will be offered for $54 in the stores inside the arena, said Stacey Escudero, a spokeswoman for Madison Square Garden. She said Garden officials hoped that some of the T-shirts would arrive before the 8 p.m. tipoff.
For more than a week, that may be the only outlet gucci belts on cheap sale 2012 style black to satisfy Lin’s newfound fans, like Ben Chan, who lives and works in Chinatown. “I’m looking all over for a No. 17 jersey,” he said. “I checked on eBay and found one for $150. That’s way too much.”
2012年2月9日星期四
2012年2月8日星期三
Los Angeles Unified School District
But when students at the Miramonte Elementary School in South Los Angeles return to school Thursday after a two-day break, they will be reentering a cheap burberry outlet 2012 scandal-rocked institution whose entire staff – from school head down to janitors – has been replaced.
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) administrators ordered the dramatic move at one of the largest elementary schools in the district – it has more than 1,000 students – in response to an investigation that followed the arrests of two teachers accused of lewd acts against multiple children.
Report: 15 cases where sex offenders got jobs at US schools
Outraged over the alleged sexual abuse, parents have demanded justice and accountability, and at least three lawsuits reportedly have been filed against the LAUSD, the second largest school district in the nation.
But anger is also brewing against the district’s remedy, with some education experts and parents saying that jettisoning everyone is too extreme.
Some 45 newly rehired teachers, drawn from a pool of recently laid-off LAUSD educators, face the unprecedented task of taking over the remainder of the school year with just two days of preparation. The school’s outgoing staff, who spent Tuesday and Wednesday briefing their replacements on lesson plans and packing their belongings, are being relocated to a school under construction where they will be interviewed and evaluated.
“It’s an over-reaction,” says Jack Jennings, founder and former CEO of the Center for Education Policy in Washington, of the top-to-bottom house-clearing. “It paints everyone with the same brush,” he says, adding that “there should be a more sophisticated response in which the people responsible should be held accountable and those who aren’t should not be implicated or labeled by association as wrongdoers.”
Situations involving children and sexual abuse are highly emotional, he notes, “so you can understand being swept away.” But, he points out that educators have a responsibility to display a calm, rational response.
“You are dealing with young kids, and obviously there appear to be people who were guilty, but you hope you could have meetings where emotions get spent out and everyone rationally tries to decide on the best course of action rather than simply throw everyone out.”
LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy spent Monday meeting with teachers, parents, and then the press, where he explained that the investigation of such allegations would be disruptive and the staff would need support. He cautioned against stigmatizing the entire staff.
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LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy spent Monday meeting with teachers, parents, and then the press, where he explained that the investigation of such allegations would be disruptive and the staff would need support. He cautioned against stigmatizing the entire staff.
“I am outraged, disgusted,” Mr. Deasy said, according to the local ABC affiliate. “I can’t have any more surprises at Miramonte, even though the police will do what they have to do. And if there are no more, thank God. We deal with the horror and the tragedy I have already. And if there are more, then we will have to deal with that.”
Many parents who object to the decision are organizing a petition to fight it. “They don’t want all the teachers to be removed because there are some very good teachers and the students get good grades with those teachers,” parent Armando Medel told KABC.
The strategy sets a bad example, says criminal defense attorney Christopher Leibig, who adds, “This sets a very negative precedent in terms of workplace fairness.” He says that the idea of one or two allegations resulting in an entire community being switched, “lacks balance. I would hope that in the interest of justice this would not stand.”
The need for the LAUSD to restore public confidence is extremely important, says Jolie Logan, CEO of Darkness to Light, a Washington-based nonprofit dedicated to the prevention of child sexual abuse. But, she adds, creating a public forum for addressing the issue of child sexual abuse is also important, as it can help prevent future incidents.
“LAUSD would be wise to follow the lead of other school districts nationwide,” she says via email, pointing to the South Carolina Department of Education, “which has pledged to train 100 percent of its teachers, administrators, staff, and workforce with specialized curriculum aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.”
To date, she notes, more than 50 percent of South Carolina teachers and staff have completed the training.
“LAUSD is yet another sordid example,” she says, following the recent scandals at Penn State and Syracuse, where the details of the allegations got discount burberry women coats for sale 2012 black blue more coverage than the solutions offered to prevent future abuses.
“Prevention education is the only way to bring about systemic change to end such abuse,” she says, adding that training “takes one of society’s most difficult subjects and brings it to a public forum, encouraging public dialogue. The more adults know about prevention, the more we talk openly, the better we are all prepared to protect kids.”
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) administrators ordered the dramatic move at one of the largest elementary schools in the district – it has more than 1,000 students – in response to an investigation that followed the arrests of two teachers accused of lewd acts against multiple children.
Report: 15 cases where sex offenders got jobs at US schools
Outraged over the alleged sexual abuse, parents have demanded justice and accountability, and at least three lawsuits reportedly have been filed against the LAUSD, the second largest school district in the nation.
But anger is also brewing against the district’s remedy, with some education experts and parents saying that jettisoning everyone is too extreme.
Some 45 newly rehired teachers, drawn from a pool of recently laid-off LAUSD educators, face the unprecedented task of taking over the remainder of the school year with just two days of preparation. The school’s outgoing staff, who spent Tuesday and Wednesday briefing their replacements on lesson plans and packing their belongings, are being relocated to a school under construction where they will be interviewed and evaluated.
“It’s an over-reaction,” says Jack Jennings, founder and former CEO of the Center for Education Policy in Washington, of the top-to-bottom house-clearing. “It paints everyone with the same brush,” he says, adding that “there should be a more sophisticated response in which the people responsible should be held accountable and those who aren’t should not be implicated or labeled by association as wrongdoers.”
Situations involving children and sexual abuse are highly emotional, he notes, “so you can understand being swept away.” But, he points out that educators have a responsibility to display a calm, rational response.
“You are dealing with young kids, and obviously there appear to be people who were guilty, but you hope you could have meetings where emotions get spent out and everyone rationally tries to decide on the best course of action rather than simply throw everyone out.”
LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy spent Monday meeting with teachers, parents, and then the press, where he explained that the investigation of such allegations would be disruptive and the staff would need support. He cautioned against stigmatizing the entire staff.
“You are dealing with young kids, and obviously there appear to be people who were guilty, but you hope you could have meetings where emotions get spent out and everyone rationally tries to decide on the best course of action rather than simply throw everyone out.”Burberry men shirts - designer long shirts, cheap short shirts sale.
LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy spent Monday meeting with teachers, parents, and then the press, where he explained that the investigation of such allegations would be disruptive and the staff would need support. He cautioned against stigmatizing the entire staff.
“I am outraged, disgusted,” Mr. Deasy said, according to the local ABC affiliate. “I can’t have any more surprises at Miramonte, even though the police will do what they have to do. And if there are no more, thank God. We deal with the horror and the tragedy I have already. And if there are more, then we will have to deal with that.”
Many parents who object to the decision are organizing a petition to fight it. “They don’t want all the teachers to be removed because there are some very good teachers and the students get good grades with those teachers,” parent Armando Medel told KABC.
The strategy sets a bad example, says criminal defense attorney Christopher Leibig, who adds, “This sets a very negative precedent in terms of workplace fairness.” He says that the idea of one or two allegations resulting in an entire community being switched, “lacks balance. I would hope that in the interest of justice this would not stand.”
The need for the LAUSD to restore public confidence is extremely important, says Jolie Logan, CEO of Darkness to Light, a Washington-based nonprofit dedicated to the prevention of child sexual abuse. But, she adds, creating a public forum for addressing the issue of child sexual abuse is also important, as it can help prevent future incidents.
“LAUSD would be wise to follow the lead of other school districts nationwide,” she says via email, pointing to the South Carolina Department of Education, “which has pledged to train 100 percent of its teachers, administrators, staff, and workforce with specialized curriculum aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.”
To date, she notes, more than 50 percent of South Carolina teachers and staff have completed the training.
“LAUSD is yet another sordid example,” she says, following the recent scandals at Penn State and Syracuse, where the details of the allegations got discount burberry women coats for sale 2012 black blue more coverage than the solutions offered to prevent future abuses.
“Prevention education is the only way to bring about systemic change to end such abuse,” she says, adding that training “takes one of society’s most difficult subjects and brings it to a public forum, encouraging public dialogue. The more adults know about prevention, the more we talk openly, the better we are all prepared to protect kids.”
2012年2月7日星期二
Patient advocacy groups have intensified lobbying efforts
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Patient advocacy groups have intensified lobbying efforts in the last two years, arguing that federal research efforts are underfunded and the disease poses a long-term economic threat, said George Vradenburg, chairman of UsAgainstAlzheimers, a Washington nonprofit.
“If you look at it over the next 10 years, the aggregate cost is about $2 trillion -- which in fact is about the amount we’re supposed to be trying to reduce our operating deficit by,” Vradenburg said. “It is of that kind of scale.”
Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. health programs for the elderly and the poor, spend about $130 billion combined each year treating Alzheimer’s patients, Vradenburg said.
The National Institutes of Health, the largest source of biomedical research funding in the world, expected to spend about $450 million on Alzheimer’s research this year before today’s announcement. The agency will spend about $3.1 billion on HIV/AIDS research this year and $5.8 billion on cancer.
Critical Challenge
Alzheimer’s “has quickly become one of our nation’s most critical health challenges,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said at an event in Washington today announcing the new funding.
About half of the $50 million will be used to sequence the genomes of people with Alzheimer’s to try to identify genes and gene changes connected to the disease, said Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute of Aging in Bethesda, Maryland, the arm of NIH that directs Alzheimer’s research. The rest will be dedicated to the “most meritorious” Alzheimer’s projects at NIH’s 32 institutes, Hodes said by phone.
Vradenburg, whose wife’s mother died of Alzheimer’s, founded his organization in the fall of 2010 and has since joined with Eric Hall, president and CEO of another advocacy group, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, to create Leaders Engaged in Alzheimer’s Disease, an umbrella organization.
The groups produced a report last May that criticized funding for the National Institute of Aging as “miniscule and declining” and called for an increase cheapguccioutlet2012.com of $300 million per year, to $1.4 billion, for the office.
National Plan
President Barack Obama signed a law in January 2011 that creates a national plan to address Alzheimer’s. Vrandenburg and Hall sit on a board advising Sebelius’ department on the plan, which will be completed in May, Vrandenburg said.
Advocacy efforts for Alzheimer’s patients haven’t previously been as robust as those for cancer and AIDS patients because people with dementia often aren’t able to speak for themselves, Hall said.
Cancer, for example, “has survivors -- the people with the disease are able to raise their voice and engage,” he said. “Alzheimer’s disease is rather unique in that yes, some folks with Alzheimer’s in the early stage are able to speak. But generally they lose that ability; they’re not able to rally, if you will.”
Research breakthroughs are also driving the increased funding, Vradenburg said.
Suspect Protein
Scientists sponsored by NIH reported on Feb. 2 that for the first time they were able to track a protein associated with Alzheimer’s, called tau, as it spread through the brains of mice, destroying neurons. That and other recent developments have inspired confidence that new treatments may be found, said Francis Collins, director of the NIH.
Much of the new research may examine ways to prevent or slow the onset of Alzheimer’s, rather than treatments once it is established, Hodes said.
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Obama plans to ask for an extra $80 million for Alzheimer’s research in his fiscal 2013 budget, to be released next week, Sebelius said. Sebelius’ department also plans to spend $26 million this year for Alzheimer’s efforts unrelated to research, such as support for patient families.
Patient advocacy groups have intensified lobbying efforts in the last two years, arguing that federal research efforts are underfunded and the disease poses a long-term economic threat, said George Vradenburg, chairman of UsAgainstAlzheimers, a Washington nonprofit.
“If you look at it over the next 10 years, the aggregate cost is about $2 trillion -- which in fact is about the amount we’re supposed to be trying to reduce our operating deficit by,” Vradenburg said. “It is of that kind of scale.”
Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. health programs for the elderly and the poor, spend about $130 billion combined each year treating Alzheimer’s patients, Vradenburg said.
The National Institutes of Health, the largest source of biomedical research funding in the world, expected to spend about $450 million on Alzheimer’s research this year before today’s announcement. The agency will spend about $3.1 billion on HIV/AIDS research this year and $5.8 billion on cancer.
Critical Challenge
Alzheimer’s “has quickly become one of our nation’s most critical health challenges,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said at an event in Washington today announcing the new funding.
About half of the $50 million will be used to sequence the genomes of people with Alzheimer’s to try to identify genes and gene changes connected to the disease, said Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute of Aging in Bethesda, Maryland, the arm of NIH that directs Alzheimer’s research. The rest will be dedicated to the “most meritorious” Alzheimer’s projects at NIH’s 32 institutes, Hodes said by phone.
Vradenburg, whose wife’s mother died of Alzheimer’s, founded his organization in the fall of 2010 and has since joined with Eric Hall, president and CEO of another advocacy group, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, to create Leaders Engaged in Alzheimer’s Disease, an umbrella organization.
The groups produced a report last May that criticized funding for the National Institute of Aging as “miniscule and declining” and called for an increase cheapguccioutlet2012.com of $300 million per year, to $1.4 billion, for the office.
National Plan
President Barack Obama signed a law in January 2011 that creates a national plan to address Alzheimer’s. Vrandenburg and Hall sit on a board advising Sebelius’ department on the plan, which will be completed in May, Vrandenburg said.
Advocacy efforts for Alzheimer’s patients haven’t previously been as robust as those for cancer and AIDS patients because people with dementia often aren’t able to speak for themselves, Hall said.
Cancer, for example, “has survivors -- the people with the disease are able to raise their voice and engage,” he said. “Alzheimer’s disease is rather unique in that yes, some folks with Alzheimer’s in the early stage are able to speak. But generally they lose that ability; they’re not able to rally, if you will.”
Research breakthroughs are also driving the increased funding, Vradenburg said.
Suspect Protein
Scientists sponsored by NIH reported on Feb. 2 that for the first time they were able to track a protein associated with Alzheimer’s, called tau, as it spread through the brains of mice, destroying neurons. That and other recent developments have inspired confidence that new treatments may be found, said Francis Collins, director of the NIH.
Much of the new research may examine ways to prevent or slow the onset of Alzheimer’s, rather than treatments once it is established, Hodes said.
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Obama plans to ask for an extra $80 million for Alzheimer’s research in his fiscal 2013 budget, to be released next week, Sebelius said. Sebelius’ department also plans to spend $26 million this year for Alzheimer’s efforts unrelated to research, such as support for patient families.
2012年2月6日星期一
The same myopia apparently led the Susan
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The same myopia apparently led the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation to step into a pile of mess from which it is still struggling to extricate itself.
On Wednesday, Komen made a public announcement that it was pulling the plug on its funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer
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Yet in the last several days, emails and other evidence has suggested that Karen Handel, a former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and anti-abortion crusader who is vice president of public policy at Komen, was the driving force behind the decision. Handel ran for governor on a anti-abortion platform and pledged to defund Planned Parenthood. According to news reports, Handel pushed for a new policy that would prevent Komen from funding any organization that was under investigation by local, state or federal authorities -- for the sole purpose of cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood.
The move triggered a public-relations nightmare for Komen. Planned Parenthood, meanwhile, made out like bandits, as abortion rights advocates, whipped into a frenzy by the media and blogosphere, rushed to donate to the organization.
After two days of withering criticism, Komen reversed itself. On Friday, Komen officials said they would continue to fund existing grants, including Planned Parenthood's.
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All seven Komen affiliates in California denounced the decision.
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The same myopia apparently led the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation to step into a pile of mess from which it is still struggling to extricate itself.
On Wednesday, Komen made a public announcement that it was pulling the plug on its funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer
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Komen said Planned Parenthood shouldn't be eligible for grants because the organization was being investigated by Republicans in Congress. By investigation, they are referring to the witch hunt by GOP extremists trying to prove that Planned Parenthood used federal funds to pay for abortions.
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Komen insisted the decision had nothing gucci outlet to do with the fact that Planned Parenthood is an abortion provider.
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The move triggered a public-relations nightmare for Komen. Planned Parenthood, meanwhile, made out like bandits, as abortion rights advocates, whipped into a frenzy by the media and blogosphere, rushed to donate to the organization.
After two days of withering criticism, Komen reversed itself. On Friday, Komen officials said they would continue to fund existing grants, including Planned Parenthood's.
"They learned a painful lesson," says Peggy McGuire, executive director of the Women's Cancer Resource Center in Oakland (www.wcrc.org), which received a $25,000 Komen grant for a community health advocate program. "I am just awed by the power of social media and the broad coalition of support that came out in support of breast cancer."
All seven Komen affiliates in California denounced the decision.
Many people who are still smarting over Komen's decision to defund Planned Parenthood say they will never give the organization another penny. There are also those upset over Komen's about-face who feel the same way.
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2012年2月5日星期日
Gingrich is vowing to fight all the way to the nominating convention
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But in Minnesota, polls suggest any one of the four candidates could take first place, with former senator Rick Santorum currently in the lead.
And polls in both states show the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, has lost significant support. Gingrich had been considered Romney's closest rival for the nomination, and in December held a commanding lead in Colorado polls. He is now polling in third place.
Public Policy Polling, which conducted the surveys, says Santorum has been helped because no other candidates have been attacking him.
Romney has won the contests in New Hampshire, Florida, and now Nevada. He is hoping to maintain his momentum with wins Tuesday in Colorado, Minnesota, and on Saturday, in Maine.
But if Santorum can pull off a victory in Minnesota and a second place finish in Colorado, he may become Romney's biggest challenger for the nomination. Santorum is also polling well in Missouri, according to Public Policy Polling's latest survey there last week.
Gingrich is vowing to fight all the way to the nominating convention, being held in Tampa, Florida, in August.
Congressman Ron Paul also remains in the race, but is trailing behind the other three candidates.
Sony Corp. (6758) more than doubled its annual loss forecast for the year ending March 31 as it announced a new chief executive officer, while Panasonic Corp. (6752) and Sharp Corp. predicted the worst losses in their histories. Their combined losses compare with the $22 billion that Samsung, Asia’s largest consumer- electronics company, said it will invest in capital expenditures.
Japanese companies hurt by a stronger yen, flooding that swamped Thailand factories and weaker demand for their TVs may not be able to regain ground lost to Samsung and Apple Inc. That’s prompting Sony and Panasonic to focus on sectors including medical devices, solar panels and rechargeable batteries in an effort to revive earnings.Burberry scarves, burberry hat, cheap burberry scarf & cap online.
“Japan’s consumer-electronics makers are in a total breakdown,” said Masamitsu Ohki, a fund manager at Stats Investment Management Co., a Tokyo-based hedge fund. “They need to compete with ideas, not technology.”
Samsung is the world’s biggest maker of TVs, memory chips and flat-screen panels, and the second-biggest manufacturer of mobile phones. The Suwon, South Korea-based company and its affiliates plan to spend 47.8 trillion won ($42 billion) this year on new product research and upgrading plants.
Harsh Competition
Samsung, which doesn’t forecast annual results, reported a 17 percent rise in fourth-quarter net income.
“The Japanese consumer electronics makers shouldn’t compete with the Koreans in the same market,” said Koji Toda, chief fund manager at Resona Bank Ltd. in Tokyo. “The environment surrounding Japanese manufacturers is very harsh.”
Sony, Japan’s largest electronics exporter, predicted that its loss in the year ending in March will widen to 220 billion yen, leading to a fourth consecutive loss -- a first since the Tokyo-based company began trading in 1958.
Kazuo Hirai, named last week to take over as CEO starting April 1, said he will review the businesses and close less- competitive ones. Sony, worth more than $100 billion in 2000, is now valued at $18 billion.
Panasonic, Japan’s biggest appliance maker, forecast a 780 billion yen loss, the worst since the Osaka-based company was founded in 1918. Sharp, maker of the Aquos TVs, predicted a $3.8 billion loss, its worst in a century.
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Strong Yen, Weak Won
Samsung also benefits from the strengthening Japanese currency against the dollar, compared with the weakening won against the greenback.
The yen’s 7.3 percent surge against the dollar and 11 percent gain against the euro in the year damp the repatriated value of Japanese companies’ overseas sales. Sony earned 70 percent of its revenue outside Japan and Panasonic 48 percent.
Manufacturers have been forced to both relocate production outside of Japan and to press their suppliers for cost cuts.
By comparison, the won depreciated 1.3 percent against the dollar in the past year, helping Samsung, which earned 85 percent of its revenue in 2010 outside South Korea.
Samsung’s profit in the quarter ended in December advanced 17 percent to 4 trillion won, helped by smartphone sales that kept pace with Cupertino, California-based Apple. (AAPL) Sales rose 13 percent to 47.3 trillion won.
Apple’s Record Profit
“Samsung is a marvelous manufacturer,” said Edwin Merner, president of Atlantis Investment Research in Tokyo who manages $300 million. “They can make good things at a very low price. Sony can’t do that.”
Apple had a net income of $13.1 billion in the quarter ended Dec. 31, ranking it among the highest quarterly profits on record and putting the company in the same league as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Russia’s Gazprom OAO.
“Apple changed the paradigm of thinking,” Ohki said. “It would be very hard for the Japanese companies to recover unless they can get back the de facto standard for products like mobile phones from Apple.”
That’s what Sony wants to do. The company will strengthen mobile devices and expand in new areas such as medical, Hirai said Feb. 2.
In the television business, Sony hasn’t had a profit in the past seven years selling Bravia models, while bigger rivals Samsung and LG Electronics Inc. are profitable in the sector. Last year, Sony exited a joint venture with Samsung that makes panels as part of moncler jackets revamping the business, that’s set for an eighth year of losses in the year to March 31.
Sony’s financial services, music and movies businesses were all profitable in the year to March 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
But in Minnesota, polls suggest any one of the four candidates could take first place, with former senator Rick Santorum currently in the lead.
And polls in both states show the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, has lost significant support. Gingrich had been considered Romney's closest rival for the nomination, and in December held a commanding lead in Colorado polls. He is now polling in third place.
Public Policy Polling, which conducted the surveys, says Santorum has been helped because no other candidates have been attacking him.
Romney has won the contests in New Hampshire, Florida, and now Nevada. He is hoping to maintain his momentum with wins Tuesday in Colorado, Minnesota, and on Saturday, in Maine.
But if Santorum can pull off a victory in Minnesota and a second place finish in Colorado, he may become Romney's biggest challenger for the nomination. Santorum is also polling well in Missouri, according to Public Policy Polling's latest survey there last week.
Gingrich is vowing to fight all the way to the nominating convention, being held in Tampa, Florida, in August.
Congressman Ron Paul also remains in the race, but is trailing behind the other three candidates.
Sony Corp. (6758) more than doubled its annual loss forecast for the year ending March 31 as it announced a new chief executive officer, while Panasonic Corp. (6752) and Sharp Corp. predicted the worst losses in their histories. Their combined losses compare with the $22 billion that Samsung, Asia’s largest consumer- electronics company, said it will invest in capital expenditures.
Japanese companies hurt by a stronger yen, flooding that swamped Thailand factories and weaker demand for their TVs may not be able to regain ground lost to Samsung and Apple Inc. That’s prompting Sony and Panasonic to focus on sectors including medical devices, solar panels and rechargeable batteries in an effort to revive earnings.Burberry scarves, burberry hat, cheap burberry scarf & cap online.
“Japan’s consumer-electronics makers are in a total breakdown,” said Masamitsu Ohki, a fund manager at Stats Investment Management Co., a Tokyo-based hedge fund. “They need to compete with ideas, not technology.”
Samsung is the world’s biggest maker of TVs, memory chips and flat-screen panels, and the second-biggest manufacturer of mobile phones. The Suwon, South Korea-based company and its affiliates plan to spend 47.8 trillion won ($42 billion) this year on new product research and upgrading plants.
Harsh Competition
Samsung, which doesn’t forecast annual results, reported a 17 percent rise in fourth-quarter net income.
“The Japanese consumer electronics makers shouldn’t compete with the Koreans in the same market,” said Koji Toda, chief fund manager at Resona Bank Ltd. in Tokyo. “The environment surrounding Japanese manufacturers is very harsh.”
Sony, Japan’s largest electronics exporter, predicted that its loss in the year ending in March will widen to 220 billion yen, leading to a fourth consecutive loss -- a first since the Tokyo-based company began trading in 1958.
Kazuo Hirai, named last week to take over as CEO starting April 1, said he will review the businesses and close less- competitive ones. Sony, worth more than $100 billion in 2000, is now valued at $18 billion.
Panasonic, Japan’s biggest appliance maker, forecast a 780 billion yen loss, the worst since the Osaka-based company was founded in 1918. Sharp, maker of the Aquos TVs, predicted a $3.8 billion loss, its worst in a century.
Thailand’s worst floods in 70 years shut factories moncler jackets 2011 outlet making cameras and hard-disk drives, disrupting production and causing shortages during the holiday shopping season.
Strong Yen, Weak Won
Samsung also benefits from the strengthening Japanese currency against the dollar, compared with the weakening won against the greenback.
The yen’s 7.3 percent surge against the dollar and 11 percent gain against the euro in the year damp the repatriated value of Japanese companies’ overseas sales. Sony earned 70 percent of its revenue outside Japan and Panasonic 48 percent.
Manufacturers have been forced to both relocate production outside of Japan and to press their suppliers for cost cuts.
By comparison, the won depreciated 1.3 percent against the dollar in the past year, helping Samsung, which earned 85 percent of its revenue in 2010 outside South Korea.
Samsung’s profit in the quarter ended in December advanced 17 percent to 4 trillion won, helped by smartphone sales that kept pace with Cupertino, California-based Apple. (AAPL) Sales rose 13 percent to 47.3 trillion won.
Apple’s Record Profit
“Samsung is a marvelous manufacturer,” said Edwin Merner, president of Atlantis Investment Research in Tokyo who manages $300 million. “They can make good things at a very low price. Sony can’t do that.”
Apple had a net income of $13.1 billion in the quarter ended Dec. 31, ranking it among the highest quarterly profits on record and putting the company in the same league as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Russia’s Gazprom OAO.
“Apple changed the paradigm of thinking,” Ohki said. “It would be very hard for the Japanese companies to recover unless they can get back the de facto standard for products like mobile phones from Apple.”
That’s what Sony wants to do. The company will strengthen mobile devices and expand in new areas such as medical, Hirai said Feb. 2.
In the television business, Sony hasn’t had a profit in the past seven years selling Bravia models, while bigger rivals Samsung and LG Electronics Inc. are profitable in the sector. Last year, Sony exited a joint venture with Samsung that makes panels as part of moncler jackets revamping the business, that’s set for an eighth year of losses in the year to March 31.
Sony’s financial services, music and movies businesses were all profitable in the year to March 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
2012年2月2日星期四
The hardest part was taking out her organs and the tumor
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Spunky and bright-eyed as she scampered around her family's farmhouse outside Portland, Alannah Shevenell said Thursday that she's glad to be feeling well again and able to go sledding, make a snowman, work on her scrapbooks and give her grandmother a little good-humored sass.
The best part, though? "Being home," she said. "Just being home."
It was 2008 when Alannah, then 5, began running a fever and losing weight while her belly swelled. Doctors discovered the tumor that year and twice attempted to remove it, as it made its way like octopus legs from organ to organ. But it was difficult to access what turned out to be a rare form of sarcoma, said Debi Skolas, Alannah's grandmother, and chemotherapy didn't do the trick, either.
All the time, the growth — known as an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor — continued to grow in her abdomen, causing pain, making it hard to eat and swelling her up with fluid. Surgery was the last resort to save her life, and Alannah spent more than a year on a waiting list for the organs, said Dr. Heung Bae Kim, the lead surgeon on the procedure at Children's Hospital Boston.
The family was told there was a 50 percent chance Alannah wouldn't survive the procedure. But without it, she had no chance whatsoever.Burberry wallets, cheap burberry wallet for women 2012 sale.
Things were more tense than celebratory in October when doctors prepared to remove the growth and the organs in one fell swoop and replace them with organs transplanted in one tangled piece from another child of similar size.
The hardest part was taking out her organs and the tumor, Kim said, calling it a difficult operation with lots of blood loss.
"It's probably one of the most extensive tumor removals ever done," the surgeon said.
Dr. Allan Kirk, professor of surgery at Emory University in Atlanta and the editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Transplantation, said no other esophageal transplant has been reported in medical literature.
After the surgery, Alannah spent three more months at the hospital, with her grandmother sleeping every night in a lounge chair by her bed. She battled infections and complications from the surgery before finally being given the OK to leave.
She arrived back home Wednesday in the 192-year-old house on a country road where she lives with her grandmother and grandfather, Jamie Skolas, in Hollis, a town of 4,500 residents about 20 miles west of Portland.
But just because she's home doesn't mean she's out of the moncler 2011 woods. Alannah has to take nine medications each day, some two, three or four times. Her grandparents have to precisely measure what goes in and comes out of her body, and check her blood sugar.
She has an ostomy pouch and feeding tube attached to her for nutrition as she slowly gets used to eating again. Scars from her surgeries look like a roadmap on her stomach. A tutor comes to the home 20 hours a week for her schooling.
Her immune system is so weak that she can't go to places with large numbers of other people, such as school, church or a mall. She can't eat raw vegetables or fruits unless they have thick skins because of concerns over germs, and she'll never be able to swim in a lake because of the bacteria. The Skolases installed ultraviolet lights in their heating ducts to kill mold, mildew and bacteria that might sicken Alannah.
Alannah is aware of her limitations and what she's been through. "Don't even ask," she says when the subject of the medical costs, which have been covered by MaineCare — Maine's version of Medicaid — come up.
She's talkative and enjoys bantering with her grandparents.
"Grammy, you're not always right," she said to end a conversation.
The Skolases, who took Alannah in several years ago but declined to discuss the whereabouts of her parents, have made sacrifices for her through the years. Their hand-crafted-furniture business has suffered, with Debi devoting her time to care for Alannah, and the couple has dipped into retirement savings to make ends meet.
Friends have organized a fundraiser to help raise moncler jackets money to offset the costs.
More than anything, though, the family is thankful for the girl's second chance at life and to the family that went through the pain of losing a child and before deciding to donate the organs to help Alannah.
Spunky and bright-eyed as she scampered around her family's farmhouse outside Portland, Alannah Shevenell said Thursday that she's glad to be feeling well again and able to go sledding, make a snowman, work on her scrapbooks and give her grandmother a little good-humored sass.
The best part, though? "Being home," she said. "Just being home."
It was 2008 when Alannah, then 5, began running a fever and losing weight while her belly swelled. Doctors discovered the tumor that year and twice attempted to remove it, as it made its way like octopus legs from organ to organ. But it was difficult to access what turned out to be a rare form of sarcoma, said Debi Skolas, Alannah's grandmother, and chemotherapy didn't do the trick, either.
All the time, the growth — known as an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor — continued to grow in her abdomen, causing pain, making it hard to eat and swelling her up with fluid. Surgery was the last resort to save her life, and Alannah spent more than a year on a waiting list for the organs, said Dr. Heung Bae Kim, the lead surgeon on the procedure at Children's Hospital Boston.
The family was told there was a 50 percent chance Alannah wouldn't survive the procedure. But without it, she had no chance whatsoever.Burberry wallets, cheap burberry wallet for women 2012 sale.
Things were more tense than celebratory in October when doctors prepared to remove the growth and the organs in one fell swoop and replace them with organs transplanted in one tangled piece from another child of similar size.
The hardest part was taking out her organs and the tumor, Kim said, calling it a difficult operation with lots of blood loss.
"It's probably one of the most extensive tumor removals ever done," the surgeon said.
Dr. Allan Kirk, professor of surgery at Emory University in Atlanta and the editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Transplantation, said no other esophageal transplant has been reported in medical literature.
After the surgery, Alannah spent three more months at the hospital, with her grandmother sleeping every night in a lounge chair by her bed. She battled infections and complications from the surgery before finally being given the OK to leave.
She arrived back home Wednesday in the 192-year-old house on a country road where she lives with her grandmother and grandfather, Jamie Skolas, in Hollis, a town of 4,500 residents about 20 miles west of Portland.
But just because she's home doesn't mean she's out of the moncler 2011 woods. Alannah has to take nine medications each day, some two, three or four times. Her grandparents have to precisely measure what goes in and comes out of her body, and check her blood sugar.
She has an ostomy pouch and feeding tube attached to her for nutrition as she slowly gets used to eating again. Scars from her surgeries look like a roadmap on her stomach. A tutor comes to the home 20 hours a week for her schooling.
Her immune system is so weak that she can't go to places with large numbers of other people, such as school, church or a mall. She can't eat raw vegetables or fruits unless they have thick skins because of concerns over germs, and she'll never be able to swim in a lake because of the bacteria. The Skolases installed ultraviolet lights in their heating ducts to kill mold, mildew and bacteria that might sicken Alannah.
Alannah is aware of her limitations and what she's been through. "Don't even ask," she says when the subject of the medical costs, which have been covered by MaineCare — Maine's version of Medicaid — come up.
She's talkative and enjoys bantering with her grandparents.
"Grammy, you're not always right," she said to end a conversation.
The Skolases, who took Alannah in several years ago but declined to discuss the whereabouts of her parents, have made sacrifices for her through the years. Their hand-crafted-furniture business has suffered, with Debi devoting her time to care for Alannah, and the couple has dipped into retirement savings to make ends meet.
Friends have organized a fundraiser to help raise moncler jackets money to offset the costs.
More than anything, though, the family is thankful for the girl's second chance at life and to the family that went through the pain of losing a child and before deciding to donate the organs to help Alannah.
2012年2月1日星期三
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If they plan to keep Manning, the NFL's only four-time most valuable player, the Colts have to pay him $28 million by March 8. They have the No. 1 pick and are in position to select Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck.Cheap burberry - designer bags, shoes, accessories, clothing outlet 2012. Manning missed the 2011 season recovering from multiple neck surgeries, and reports vary on how far he has come to this point.
"When you try to consult doctors literally worldwide in terms of what are the expectations, what are the dangers, the risks, the aspects of coming back from it, no one can give you a definitive answer," Irsay said Wednesday. "It's one of those things where even some of the doctors said if this came up again that it's going to be something people are going to rely on as trying to have some sort of historic reference medically to look back on. It's very unusual. It's been going on for almost a year."
Irsay said he has watched Manning throw but declined to get into specifics or evaluate what he has seen.
"I've said from the beginning that it is a two-phase medical aspect," the owner said. "It is, can he return to play at a really high level, with what his expectations are? That is the only level that he wants to be. Can he drill it in Foxborough in January when it's 10 degrees outside for 50 yards? Is he going to be back to the Hall of Fame level that he expects to play at? I think the second issue has always been the health and the risk of going back onto the field. So I think there are two separate issues, and they are complicated issues."
Asked if he would be willing to push back the March 8 deadline, Irsay said: "Anything is possible if two parties choose to get together with him. So I don't think that is something that is impossible by any stretch."
Indy bracing
When Manning wanted to talk after the season, he reached out to Bob Kravitz, a highly respected sports columnist for the Indianapolis Star.Burberry sunglasses outlet, buy cheap burberry sunglasses 2012 online.
It was to Kravitz last week that Manning said, in referring to the Colts' practice complex: "I'm not in a very good place for healing, let's say that. It's not a real good environment down there right now, to say the least. Everybody's walking around on eggshells. I don't recognize our building right now. There's such complete and total change."
Kravitz believes Manning's 14-year run in Indianapolis is at an end, and that the city is slowly coming to grips with that.
"I think we're going through the five stages of grief here just as we did when we heard Peyton was going to be out for the season," he said. "For the longest time, people were in total denial. Now there's some anger, people saying the media's trying to run Peyton Manning out of town, and we're slowly moving into acceptance.
"Financially, bringing back Peyton Manning doesn't make any sense. Competitively, it doesn't make any sense. The Peyton Manning era is done in Indy, and the only thing you root for is, is he going to be healthy enough to play somewhere else? Although there are going to be a lot of people who'd much rather see him retire than go somewhere else."
Invisible man
New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora was fined $20,000 by the NFL on Wednesday, a few hours after he missed a mandatory morning media session.
"I misunderstood the schedule," Umenyiora said in a statement released by the team. "It won't happen again, and I will be at tomorrow's media session and available after the game. I apologize for any inconvenience my absence this morning may have caused."
Shifting into gear
The Giants had the 32nd-ranked rushing game this season, but that's of little comfort to New England nose tackle Vince Wilfork. He knows how teams can change their personality in the postseason.
Besides, when the Giants beat the Patriots earlier this season, New York's Ahmad Bradshaw wasn't playing. Now he is.
Wilfork said the Giants' running cheap moncler vest game is "probably one of the biggest threats" of Super Bowl XLVI.
"When you have three backs who can run the ball, you get 10 carries apiece from those guys," he said. "That's 30 carries, and [Brandon] Jacobs, [D.J.] Ware and Bradshaw, those are some tough runners. I've faced all of them, and every last one of them is a tough runner.
"I think defensively, for us to be successful, we're going to have to slow it down. If they come out and run the ball and we can't stop them, we're going to have a problem."
Wilfork, a mountain listed at 6 feet 2 and 325 pounds, is plenty athletic too. He's no Blake Griffin, but he can dunk a basketball, which surprises some people.
"People look at me and are moncler jackets like, 'He's a butterball. He can't,' " Wilfork said.
"When you try to consult doctors literally worldwide in terms of what are the expectations, what are the dangers, the risks, the aspects of coming back from it, no one can give you a definitive answer," Irsay said Wednesday. "It's one of those things where even some of the doctors said if this came up again that it's going to be something people are going to rely on as trying to have some sort of historic reference medically to look back on. It's very unusual. It's been going on for almost a year."
Irsay said he has watched Manning throw but declined to get into specifics or evaluate what he has seen.
"I've said from the beginning that it is a two-phase medical aspect," the owner said. "It is, can he return to play at a really high level, with what his expectations are? That is the only level that he wants to be. Can he drill it in Foxborough in January when it's 10 degrees outside for 50 yards? Is he going to be back to the Hall of Fame level that he expects to play at? I think the second issue has always been the health and the risk of going back onto the field. So I think there are two separate issues, and they are complicated issues."
Asked if he would be willing to push back the March 8 deadline, Irsay said: "Anything is possible if two parties choose to get together with him. So I don't think that is something that is impossible by any stretch."
Indy bracing
When Manning wanted to talk after the season, he reached out to Bob Kravitz, a highly respected sports columnist for the Indianapolis Star.Burberry sunglasses outlet, buy cheap burberry sunglasses 2012 online.
It was to Kravitz last week that Manning said, in referring to the Colts' practice complex: "I'm not in a very good place for healing, let's say that. It's not a real good environment down there right now, to say the least. Everybody's walking around on eggshells. I don't recognize our building right now. There's such complete and total change."
Kravitz believes Manning's 14-year run in Indianapolis is at an end, and that the city is slowly coming to grips with that.
"I think we're going through the five stages of grief here just as we did when we heard Peyton was going to be out for the season," he said. "For the longest time, people were in total denial. Now there's some anger, people saying the media's trying to run Peyton Manning out of town, and we're slowly moving into acceptance.
"Financially, bringing back Peyton Manning doesn't make any sense. Competitively, it doesn't make any sense. The Peyton Manning era is done in Indy, and the only thing you root for is, is he going to be healthy enough to play somewhere else? Although there are going to be a lot of people who'd much rather see him retire than go somewhere else."
Invisible man
New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora was fined $20,000 by the NFL on Wednesday, a few hours after he missed a mandatory morning media session.
"I misunderstood the schedule," Umenyiora said in a statement released by the team. "It won't happen again, and I will be at tomorrow's media session and available after the game. I apologize for any inconvenience my absence this morning may have caused."
Shifting into gear
The Giants had the 32nd-ranked rushing game this season, but that's of little comfort to New England nose tackle Vince Wilfork. He knows how teams can change their personality in the postseason.
Besides, when the Giants beat the Patriots earlier this season, New York's Ahmad Bradshaw wasn't playing. Now he is.
Wilfork said the Giants' running cheap moncler vest game is "probably one of the biggest threats" of Super Bowl XLVI.
"When you have three backs who can run the ball, you get 10 carries apiece from those guys," he said. "That's 30 carries, and [Brandon] Jacobs, [D.J.] Ware and Bradshaw, those are some tough runners. I've faced all of them, and every last one of them is a tough runner.
"I think defensively, for us to be successful, we're going to have to slow it down. If they come out and run the ball and we can't stop them, we're going to have a problem."
Wilfork, a mountain listed at 6 feet 2 and 325 pounds, is plenty athletic too. He's no Blake Griffin, but he can dunk a basketball, which surprises some people.
"People look at me and are moncler jackets like, 'He's a butterball. He can't,' " Wilfork said.
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