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Overview of the Playstation 3 - What’s So Amazing? The big deal with the Playstation 3 is that it sports Sony’s new Cell Processor that was jointly developed by IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba Corporation. It also features a new graphics processor (RSX) co-developed by NVIDIA Corporation and SCEI, and XDR memory developed by Rambus Inc. To really rub it in, it also adopts BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc ROM) with maximum storage capacity of 54 GB (dual layer), enabling delivery of entertainment content in full high-definition (HD) quality, under a secure environment made possible through the most advanced copyright protection technology. To match the accelerating convergence of digital consumer electronics and computer technology, PS3 announced support for high quality display in resolution of 1080p in addition to 720p/1080i.
The computational power of the system itself sports the equivalent of 2 teraflops, meaning that entirely new graphical expressions that have never been seen before will become possible. In games, not only will movement of characters and objects be far more refined and realistic, but landscapes and virtual worlds can also be rendered in real-time, thereby elevating the freedom of graphics expression to levels not experienced in the past. Gamers will literally be able to dive into the realistic world seen in large screen movies and experience the excitement in real-time. If you saw the E3 video - real time game engines now look about as good as the Final Fantasy movie.
Overview of the Xbox 360 - First to Market and Media Center Dominance? While the Playstation 2 had a much beter presentation, giving consumers a really in-depth look at the software and hardware behind the name, Xbox chose instead to utilize the MTV venue for making its big announcement. Details were scarce and game footage, scarcer, but the Xbox 360 didn’t fail to impress those who managed to weed through the marketing hype and glean some interesting facts from the presentation. Microsoft is positioning the Xbox 360 console as the center of a digital connected home - providing much more than just game play. The way they are talking about it, it almost seems like it could even supplanting the Media Center PC. Powered by a custom-made IBM PowerPC-based three-core chip running at 3.2GHz, and supported by 512MB of GDDR3 RAM, the new Xbox has the raw processing power to deliver more than all but the most hot-rodded PCs can today. Video and graphics performance is powered by a new ATI GPU running at 500MHz, with 10MB of embedded DRAM. The Xbox 360 will ship with a 12X dual-layer DVD-ROM drive, no announcements for HD-DVD or Blu-ray Disc integration has been inferred or announced. In addition it has three USB 2.0 ports, two memory unit slots (unspecified), and support for four wireless game controllers (unspecified whether Bluetooth or IEEE 802.11g). It supports progressive-scan DVD movies and nearly all DVD and CD formats with the notable exception of DVD-Audio and SACD. Users will be able to use the Xbox 360 as a "home base" for their digital media files and can rip MP3s to and from portable media devices or Windows XP PCs, as well as rip music to the Xbox’s detachable (and upgradable) 20GB hard drive. For networking, the Xbox 360 includes a built-in ethernet port and support for 802.11a, b, and g flavors of Wi-Fi. If Microsoft can position the Xbox 360 as a great gaming machine as well as an effective Media Center it may be on to something big.

Lets compare the two platforms below, paying attention to GPU and CPU specs as well as format and connectivity options and support.
What do you think?? xboxs red rings alot and the playstation has been around alot more.. in my opinion i like the ps3 better but i want to hear what you think???

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Hospital where 33-year-old gave birth asking state to reimburse its costs
LOS ANGELES - A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman’s 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California’s taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red.

Even before the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets last month, she had been caring for her six other children with the help of $490 a month in food stamps, plus Social Security disability payments for three of the youngsters. The public aid will almost certainly be increased with the new additions to her family.

Also, the hospital where the octuplets are expected to spend seven to 12 weeks has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, for care of the premature babies, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cost has not been disclosed.
Word of the public assistance has stoked the furor over Suleman’s decision to have so many children by having embryos implanted in her womb.

Harsh criticism toward the mother
“It appears that, in the case of the Suleman family, raising 14 children takes not simply a village but the combined resources of the county, state and federal governments,” Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten wrote in Wednesday’s paper. He called Suleman’s story “grotesque.”

On the Internet, bloggers rained insults on Suleman, calling her an “idiot,” criticizing her decision to have more children when she couldn’t afford the ones she had, and suggesting she be sterilized.

“It’s my opinion that a woman’s right to reproduce should be limited to a number which the parents can pay for,” Charles Murray wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Daily News. “Why should my wife and I, as taxpayers, pay child support for 14 Suleman kids?”

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She was also berated on talk radio, where listeners accused her of manipulating the system and being an irresponsible mother.

“From the outside you can tell that this woman was playing the system,” host Bryan Suits said on the “Kennedy and Suits” show on KFI-AM. “You’re damn right the state should step in and seize the kids and adopt them out.”

A call to Suleman’s publicist Mike Furtney was not immediately returned.

In her only media interviews, Suleman told NBC’s “Today” she doesn’t consider the public assistance she receives to be welfare and doesn’t intend to remain on it for long.

Also, a Nadya Suleman Family Web Site has been set up to collect donations for the children. It features pictures of the mother and each octuplet and has instructions for making donations by check or credit card.

Suleman, whose six older children range in age from 2 to 7, said three of them receive disability payments. She said one is autistic, but she has not disclosed the other youngsters’ disabilities, and refused to say how much they get in payments.

In California, a low-income family can receive Social Security payments of up to $793 a month for each disabled child. Three children would amount to $2,379.

The Suleman octuplets’ medical costs have not been disclosed, but in 2006, the average cost for a premature baby’s hospital stay in California was $164,273, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The average cost for just one cesarean birth in 2006 was $22,762 in California. Eight times that equals $1.3 million.

For a single mother, the cost of raising 14 children through age 17 ranges from $1.3 million to $2.7 million, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is struggling to close a $42 billion budget gap by cutting services, declined through a spokesman to comment on the taxpayer costs associated with the octuplets’ delivery and care. Suleman received disability payments for an on-the-job back injury during a riot at a state mental hospital, collecting more than $165,000 over nearly a decade before the benefits were discontinued last year.

Some of the disability money was spent on in vitro fertilizations, which was used for all 14 of her children, Suleman said. Suleman said she also worked double shifts at the mental hospital and saved up for the treatments. She estimated that all her treatments cost $100,000.

A dozen states, including California, have laws requiring insurance companies to cover infertility treatment, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But California does not require insurers to cover in vitro procedures. It’s not clear what type of coverage Suleman has.

In the NBC interview, Suleman said she will go back to California State University, Fullerton in the fall to complete her master’s degree in counseling, and will use student loans to support her children. She said she will rely on the school’s dayc
DO YOU THINK ITS RIGHT THE THE TAX PAYERS DOLLARS ARE PAYING FOR THIS?
DONT THINK MORALLY BUT ECONOMICALLY…. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK

so let me get this right…

…you have a problem paying $.1 for this instance to be troubling?? LOLOL.

If you really thought about the situation, you should be more infuriated that the so-called "doctor" that did this unethical procedure is still free.

It amazes me to no end that people are agitated over this…but remain silent on the total waste of multi-billions of american dollars that is indeed the Iraqi war

isabella makenzie
leah alexis
paige riley chelseia
caden matthew
jason alexander
lian jasper shane

i’ll do one of those game things too

1. u marry your high school sweetheart what is his name? where do u get married? where do u honeymoon?

2. when u get back from your honey moon you decide to adopt two puppies do u choose
a.http://mt41-blogs.petside.com/petsideblog/2008/12/23/24-2%20puppies.jpg
or
b.http://www.newslettersbyemailinc.com/beimages/2puppies.jpg
or
c. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3574/3514822230_2da0acd016.jpg
what do u name them?

3.about a month after u get your puppies u find out u r having twins if u chose dog set a u will have 2 girls set b two boys set 3 one of each what will u name them one has to have 3 names (ex. paige riley chelseia or liam jasper shane)
4. SURPRISE!! on delivery day the doctors discover u r having triplets instead of twins u have a boy! what do u name him?

5. when your triplets are 4 you move to a bigger house to welcome the new baby that will be coming! do u choose house
a. http://trends.move.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/atlanta-400pixels.gif
or house
b. http://www.vacationbythesea.com/images/westport/cohasset1.jpg
or house
c. http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/g/0308_newton/Exterior_Front_04.jpg

6. if u chose a will have another boy
b a girl
c twins (u choose 2 girls, 2 boys, or one of each)

7. what do u name them?

8. next year you still feel your family needs one more person so u decide to adopt a baby with special needs. where do u adopt from? girl ot boy? what do u name them?

9. after your new baby arrrives you decide to complete your family and adopt another dog and a cat what one do u choose
dog a. http://images03.olx.ca/ui/1/06/06/570006_1.jpg
or
dog b. http://cdn-www.dailypuppy.com/media/dogs/anonymous/maggie_pug6.jpg_w450.jpg
cat a. http://data2.blog.de/media/723/793723_5bc3cb0662_m.jpg
or
cat b. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/132425778_714cd39fb5.jpg

your family is now complete name them all and any other extra info. u want

I like Leah Alexis and Jason Alexander best out of those Names..

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:27:00 GMT
North Korea has announced that its experimental communication satellite has successfully been put into orbit, according to state media.

"Our scientists and technicians succeeded in putting a satellite, the Kwangmyongsong-2, into orbit with the delivery rocket Unha-2, according to the national space development plan," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Sunday.

"The satellite is rotating normally in its orbit," KCNA said, adding that it was carrying equipment for measurement and communications.

The announcement comes as South Korean and Russian officials had earlier said that the North Korean rocket apparently carried a communication satellite.
An unidentified South Korean official told Yonhap news agency that the rocket, which was blasted off from the Musudan-ri launch site in the north-east North Korea, did appear to be carrying a satellite.

———— Korean state media report –carried by an Iranian news service
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=90500&sectionid=351020405

Yahoo news

The United States and South Korea, which called the launch a violation of U.N. resolutions, said the Taepodong-2 rocket failed to enter orbit. Analysts said the launch was effectively a test of a ballistic missile designed to carry a warhead as far as the U.S. state of Alaska.

"With this provocative act, North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint, and further isolated itself from the community of nations," U.S. President Barack Obama said.

China, the nearest North Korea has to a major ally, and Russia called on all sides for calm and restraint.

The 15-nation Security Council went into a closed-door session in New York on Sunday afternoon but China and Russia have made clear they will use their veto power to block any resolution imposing new sanctions on Pyongyang

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090405/world/international_us_korea_north

1) Who do you believe ?

2 ) Why such contradictions in the story ?

3) Do you think the other nations side was accurately represented in either or both news clips or neither ?

Western New
I don’t believe Little Kim any more then I do the Dick Cheney.

Bertrand Mpigabahizi & Haley Lions
5 – 25 – 08
Period - 3B

“DELIVERY “

Brian WALKS IN THE DOOR DL in a hurry, whipping his face and talking to the monitor in his right hand….. He XRC above table.

Brian : Michael get the team ready and head them over to stable 10 as fast you can…… Mimi’s giving birth…..yes, ok don’t worry about it I’m going to call the doctor right now ….oh and don’t forget about the stabilizers.
Brian SITS CHAIR RC AND DIALS THE PHONE in quite a hurry.

Brian :….Hello….hello…Dr. Brown …yes this is Brian Walkers from the National Australian Zoo in Sydney…….yes I remember seeing you at the Animal charity in Perch last summer …yes…well doctor the reason I’m calling you is because of Mimi the tiger….yes the female Siberian… well she’s giving birth , we checked and we believe the she giving away to twins….not sure about the sex but it’s most likely going to be a boy and a girl Doc…yes so as I was saying …ummmmm Mimi is about 3 weeks early and all of the doctors in this side of Sydney are booked so we where wondering if you would be able to come over to help us with the delivery …….yes …great….so we need you to bring a transmitter 3000 , a telescope , and the new cranial technology you just received from the University of Cambridge …yes well the team is on there way and the media I believe will probably get here in any minute…thank you doctor…sorry for calling at the last minute and everything , I know your pretty busy at this time of the year…but you where our last hope…ok see you soon …..Oh and say hello to James for me will you and tell him he can visit any time he wants …ok God bless.

Raises, XDR to window, and opens the window out wards.

Brian : Hello Mimi…..yes I know your tired , but don’t worry about it , it will be over so fast you probably won’t even notice ….here’s a snack to calm your nerves down……ok take a little rest , the team will be here any minute , and you probably will need some extra energy for the delivery

There’s a knock on the door, and Brian XDL to open the door, Mrs. Samba enters door DL, Brian closes the door DL.

They share ¼ positions

Brian: Nice timing Mrs. Samba…the team has already been contacted and I believe Dr. Brown will be here any minute.

Mrs. Samba : Great … I wouldn’t miss this for anything……our most famous mother is giving birth…..ohhh the press is going to have a field day

Brian: hahahaha…I bet they are … I don’t even think Nicole Kidman had this much publicity when she was delivering……here we can see the progress from the monitor set.

They both XDC and sit on chairs.

Mrs.Samba: Oh….how delightful….you know we can us this when we edit that documentary coming up …..Thank god it’s not too graphic or Disney and Discovery Kids would probably drop out the production …..And you know how important their checks are.

Brian: Of course ….but I don’t think Mimi will really like this angle or the lighting ……no…doesn’t really show her more fine features.

Mrs. Samba: You know she really doesn’t…… look good …..she seems kind of restless……oh…….you left the window open silly… it’s making her nervous …….don’t you know how to deal with women

Brian : Or maybe she’s just hungry…you know what you can throw her a lamb if you want to….and maybe some chicken blood too, that usually chills down her nervous……why you making that face for , she’s had a very unusual appetite lately .

Mrs. Samba rises, and XDR to window

Mrs.Samba: Hello Mimi….I is going to close this window if that’s ok with you darling…it is….ok here I go….oh wait I almost forgot your little treat.

After she throws her the lamb she closes the window and XDR above chair and sits on chair and dials the phone.

Mrs. Samba: Isn’t she is just the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen…the supermodel of her kind.

Brian: Yeah she is …I hope the babies come out looking like her, because their father is just ugggggggggggg.

Mrs. Samba: Give him a break

Mrs. Samba dials the phone

Mrs. Samba : Hello…is this Martha Balboa….yes this Julia Samba from the National Australian Zoo in Sydney Australia…well we made an appointment for your news team to come over to the Zoo and tape the birth of Mimi the tiger delivery …yes well we had scheduled the appointment to be set in 3 weeks but Mother nature has kind of changed her mind about how things are going to play out…well Mimi is going in to delivery mode earlier then we thought , earlier meaning in less then 25 hours earlier , and were wondering if you can get here as soon as possible…yes I know it’s the holiday’s, but we have no way to make Mimi stop she’s in full throttle it’s no stopping her now….your on your way…ok great…see you soon , and I’m truly sorry for the last minute call…ok god bless .

Brian rises, XRC above chair, and Mrs. Samba XLC above chair.

Brian: what was the name of the reporter again?

Mrs. Samba: Hush…Martha Balboa of Channel 5 News.

Brian: Martha …how do you spell Balboa?

Mrs. Samba: B-A-L-B-O-A

Brian writes note on table

Brian XLC and sits in chair where Mrs. Samba is already sitting.

Brian :Dr. Brown should be here in any minute, and looks like the team set every thing together properly……ok I think one of us should go check on the news cast while the other one stays here and monitors the progress, we don’t want News team to get lost now do we .

Mrs. Samba: Ok I’ll go…but you better record this, I at least want something to watch if I miss the delivery …well see you later Brian.

Mrs. Samba rises and exits door DL, with Brian rising, and XDL and closing the door.

Brian: See you soon

Brian closes the door and XDC and sits down, and grabs a sandwich from under his chair.

Brian: come on Mimi….come on

The End

Why, yes, I think your response was perfectly appropriate. Your mother-in-law ought to know better than that.

1. u marry your high school sweetheart what is his name? where do u get married? where do u honeymoon?

2. when u get back from your honey moon you decide to adopt two puppies do u choose
a.http://mt41-blogs.petside.com/petsideblo…
or
b.http://www.newslettersbyemailinc.com/bei…
or
c. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3574/3514…
what do u name them?

3.about a month after u get your puppies u find out u r having twins if u chose dog set a u will have 2 girls set b two boys set 3 one of each what will u name them one has to have 3 names (ex. paige riley chelseia or liam jasper shane)
4. SURPRISE!! on delivery day the doctors discover u r having triplets instead of twins u have a boy! what do u name him?

5. when your triplets are 4 you move to a bigger house to welcome the new baby that will be coming! do u choose house
a. http://trends.move.com/wp-content/upload…
or house
b. http://www.vacationbythesea.com/images/w…
or house
c. http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/g/0308_new…

6. if u chose a will have another boy
b a girl
c twins (u choose 2 girls, 2 boys, or one of each)

7. what do u name them?

8. next year you still feel your family needs one more person so u decide to adopt a baby with special needs. where do u adopt from? girl ot boy? what do u name them?

9. after your new baby arrrives you decide to complete your family and adopt another dog and a cat what one do u choose
dog a. http://images03.olx.ca/ui/1/06/06/570006…
or
dog b. http://cdn-www.dailypuppy.com/media/dogs…
cat a. http://data2.blog.de/media/723/793723_5b…
or
cat b. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/132425…

your family is now complete name them all and any other extra info. if u want

1. Matt
near a lake
Italy
2. can’t see any of the pictures…
Jack and Izzy
3. I’ll choose set 3.
Lucas Tyler Scott and Emma Madelyn Kate
4. Brennan Samuel Cooper
5. again, none of the pictures worked.
6. I’ll choose set b.
7. Aubrie Lynn
8. Russia
Boy
Noah Gabriel
9. and once again, no pictures.

Tribune Company files for bankruptcy
By Kristina Betinis and Alexander Fangmann
15 December 2008
World Socialist Web Site

On Monday, December 8, the Tribune Company, which employs about 16,000 workers, became the first major news company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the current economic downturn. The filing, which threatens the jobs, wages and pensions of thousands of workers, allows the company to stop paying interest on its $12.9 billion in debt and enter into debt restructuring negotiations with its creditors. The bankruptcy filing lists the company’s assets at $7.6 billion

The Tribune Company is a media empire comprising the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the Orlando Sentinel, at least 6 other daily newspapers, a cable network, a radio station, 24 television stations, several weekly papers, Chicago Magazine, and numerous websites. It also owns the Chicago Cubs and their stadium, Wrigley Field, which are not listed as part of the bankruptcy filing.

At court hearings last Wednesday, the media conglomerate asked a bankruptcy judge for permission to cut employee severance payments and health care benefits. In 1986, the Chicago Tribune smashed a bitter strike by pressmen and other craft unions, replacing 1,000 workers with strikebreakers. Today, the entire conglomerate is mostly non-union.

Many media companies are suffering from dwindling advertising revenue, as well as the loss of readers to the Internet. In another recent sign of the downsizing and consolidation of the industry, the Detroit Free Press, owned by Gannett Co, and its partner, the Detroit News, are planning to end home delivery on all but the most lucrative days, which are Thursday, Friday and Sunday.

The most direct cause of the Tribune Company’s bankruptcy, however, is the company’s staggering level of debt. Several large media companies, including Media General and Gannett, face enormous debt payments and may soon find themselves in a similar situation.

Last year’s privatization of the Tribune Company bears the marks of leveraged debt financing characteristic of the recent climate of rampant speculation.

In December 2007, billionaire real estate mogul Samuel Zell, nicknamed the “Grave Dancer” for his history of buying distressed or undervalued businesses, completed the transaction to take the Tribune Company private. He was estimated by Forbes in 2008 to be the 68th richest American. Zell, the Tribune Company’s chairman and CEO, pursued a heavily leveraged buyout of the company which was widely characterized as extremely risky and indicative of the irresponsible investments leading up to the recent crisis. The Wall Street Journal reports that “no one thought the buyout of Tribune Co. would work—and it didn’t.”

Ruthlessness typifies Zell’s approach. Speaking on the mortgage crisis at the Milken Institute Global Conference in April, Zell was quoted as saying, “This country needs a cleansing. We need to clean out all those people who never should have bought in the first place, and not give them sympathy.”

Zell maintained he could make the Tribune Company deal profitable through a combination of asset sales and reorganization to take place under the new management team, which had little or no experience in the newspaper industry. Senior executives knew that bankruptcy would likely be filed soon, in an effort to protect investments.

While Zell invested $315m of personal equity, with substantial risk mitigated by tax breaks, debt was piled on to the company in the acquisition process. By the time of its completion, Zell’s deal had saddled the Tribune Company with $11.2 billion in debt.

Most of the risk for the Tribune Company’s enormous debt was pushed onto the newly-created Employee Stock Ownership Program, which purchased $250 million worth of newly issued stocks upon being established in 2007. These schemes, promoted by the union bureaucracy to “save” failing companies, while securing the interests of big investors, have produced nothing but disaster for workers. This was the case at United Air Lines, McLouth Steel and other companies where workers lost their pensions, wages and life savings when the so-called worker-owned companies collapsed.

The Tribune ESOP, as the majority shareholder, assumed most of the risk for the debts. Those employee shareholders are also at the end of the line of creditors in the bankruptcy proceedings. Speaking to the Chicago Tribune, Zell admitted it was likely that the employee stock owners could have their holdings wiped out. The Chicago Tribune reported that Tribune Company “will halt all severance payments, deferred compensation and other payments to former employees, who will be required to file a claim with the bankruptcy court.”

The executive director of the National Center for Employee Ownership published an analysis of the Tribune Company’s ESOP in 2007 which included the following:
The executive director of the National Center for Employee Ownership published an analysis of the Tribune Company’s ESOP in 2007 which included the following: “In the Tribune case, the ESOP will borrow money from the company. Regardless of how the plan acquires stock, company contributions to the trust are tax-deductible, within certain limits. So in this case, the company is able to use the ESOP to borrow money and repay it in pretax dollars, deducting both principal and interest. This is one of the key tax benefits that the many articles on this transaction are referencing.”

In this case, as in other cases, an ESOP was established as part of the privatization to provide tax advantages and risk protection to Zell and company, rather than provide security for employees through ownership stakes, which clearly confirms the predatory nature of the Zell acquisition.
n the first eight months after the Zell acquisition of the Tribune Company, more than 900 Chicago Tribune jobs were eliminated. Compounding the instability posed by the risky acquisition, the Tribune Company continued to see its advertising revenue fall sharply. In an effort to cut costs, the Chicago Tribune introduced a smaller, reformatted paper in September of this year, composed of fifty percent advertisements and fifty percent graphics-intensive reporting. The cost cuts were achieved by reducing news content and the staff required to produce it, which could be printed on fewer pages. By August 2008, increased layoffs, employee buyouts, and other cost-cutting measures failed to reverse the company’s decline.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/trib-d15.shtml
Jim,

Workers everywhere are taking it on the chin through no fault of their own. The capitalist is nothing but a leech on the working class. Capitalism is class warfare. The capitalist gets richer and richer as labor works harder and harder for less and less, as his benefits are slashed and his job "offshored" to cheap labor locations.

If you had read this article, Zell’s recklessness lies at the foundation of ruin for the employees of Tribune Co.

"The ongoing debate over the auto bailout has demonstrated the conspiracy of the automakers, the two big business parties and the UAW against the autoworkers. All insist that workers must pay for a crisis that they did not cause, in order to restore the auto companies to profitability so they can once again be a lucrative source of income for corporate executives and big investors who are responsible for the financial catastrophe."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/auto-d12.shtml
Cowboy,

Read the posted article!

Im not gonna read your crazy jargon, but your question is fraudalent from the start. Yes, there are greedy capitalists, but this not necessiarly a bad thing. Afterall, they cannot steal your wealth through force or coercion, everything they do is on a voluntary basis. Only the government has the power to force you do something you dont want to do.

Businesss fail, this a part of nature, its like natural selection, those who aren’t able to please customers or make good products, go bamkrupt. ANd were all better off because of it. Stop listening to to Obama, just say No To NoBama.

I am piecing together information about this case to come up with possible solutions, what are your thoughts on the situation and what would you do? It’s always nice to get another viewpoint. Thanks!

You are the sales manager for a nationally known firm, Maverick Industries, which designs, produces and provides industrial hardware and support services to manufacturers. You have just been given the challenge, by your supervisor, to pursue and secure the business of a new customer, a major, multi-location manufacturer of defense products in your territory.
The firm you are pursuing, Bluejay Enterprises, has been in business for over 50 years. It was founded in a suburb of the major metropolitan area where you reside and has been a “pillar” of the community for decades. The Company originated with modest beginnings but has now grown into a large and powerful leader in its industry. It has expanded its operations through the development of “Greenfield” (new construction) site locations and acquisitions of other manufacturers over the years. In addition, it has gained a reputation for high quality, reliable products but has never been known as the “low-priced” provider among its competition. It also has extremely rigorous criteria that it uses when selecting a source of supply.

Bluejay has recently undertaken a new project for one of its long-standing customers. Their customer has very high expectations of the product/service quality and prompt delivery requirements in support of its JIT inventory management philosophy. The project involves the development of a new product with innovative features that could revolutionize the industry. Bluejay currently has several reliable suppliers who have provided hardware products in the past. However, the design and application of this product are so unique and revolutionary that there is some question whether Bluejay’s current suppliers are capable of providing what is needed. Also, due to the nature of the project there is a great deal of interest from the local and national news media about the product, those involved with its creation and the influence on national defense.

Your company (Maverick) has an outstanding design and production functions and is known for its innovative and state-of-the-art capabilities. Your firm also has a reputation for producing high quality products, but recently had a major layoff of workers and has experienced delays in product shipments to customers due to lower than normal inventories which has resulted in negative publicity and advertising by your competitors. However, even with the existence of this situation it appears to be an excellent opportunity for you and your firm to secure Bluejay’s business.

The challenge you face, as a new potential supplier, is how to pursue the customer and secure the initial order from Bluejay. You are also to build into your strategy how you intend to become a recurring source of supply for this new product and other industrial hardware needs that Bluejay may require in the future. In addition, you are to identify any other customers who may have an interest in the products you provide and build a case (to be presented by your senior management) why Maverick should consider expanding its business in this area.

Here’s how I would approach the situation:
1) Have Maverick’s Engineering Dept. do a detailed analysis to show Bluejay how Maverick’s strong design and production capabilities match that of Bluejay’s needs.

2) The fact that Bluejay’s client needs JIT means Maverick’s inventory shortage is less of an issue because Bluejay’s products will be "made to order" anyway. In fact, I would capitalize on Maverick’s strong reputation in production capability to show Bluejay that JIT is Maverick’s strong suit.

3) I would also invite an existing client for whom Maverick is doing the JIT process and do a PR event. The fact that Bluejay’s new product is catching national attention means my existing client will be more inclined to help because it may help them sell to Bluejay also. The PR event may help Maverick’s existing client sell to other clients even if they are not able to sell to Bluejay directly.

Given the out right media feud with Fox one expects Murdoch is not involved with the Clinton’s. He is known for neo-con maneuvers and shuns the left. Or does he? Read this or Google rupert murdoch-clinton and read all the info. My question is why are we getting the wool over our eyes when research shows the truth? Why accept things at face value when you have alot of questions presented otherwise? Why vote for a monopoly and a network so hick that American’s have a slim chance of being fairly treated? The State of New York was duped. Add HRC took 10 million from that Senate run and added it to a separate Presidential run ??
I am curious how you feel? Murdoch is in China also. Has a satellite network he orchestrates delivery to them. The ties are thick. Politics as usual and we the people are the last to know.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/07/b122948.html

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/60/19690
thick not hick, my mistake

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