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The Time Seems Right to Buy This Beaten Down Apple Play
Posted: October 18, 2012 at 12:22 am
By Harsh Chauhan - October 17, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, CRUS, TQNT | 0 Comments
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If I was to ever make a list of unlucky stocks, TriQuint Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TQNT) would have certainly ranked amongst the unluckiest ones in my list. Despite being a longtime component supplier to none other than Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), TriQuints stock price performance has been nothing but disappointing.
A Sorry Story
The companys top line has grown at a decent rate over the past five years, but its stock price chart tells a different story.It seems as if the market has forgotten that TriQuint is a lucrative Apple play.
TQNT Revenue TTM data by YCharts
After peaking in early 2011, TriQuints shares have been in a free-fall mode. And so far this year, the company hasnt brought much joy to investors either as it has just about managed to stay in the green zone with a shabby low-single digit return.
So Far This Year
In the two quarters that TriQuint has reported so far this fiscal year, it has shown both its good and bad sides. In the first quarter, TriQuints shares took a pounding after it issued a gloomy forecast. The company guided well-below consensus estimates as Apple was busy clearing its iPhone 4S inventory and wasnt making enough new phones, leading to low demand for TriQuints chips.
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Music Legend Dionne Warwick To Dazzle Iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Music sensation Dionne Warwick will bring the crowd to its feet at an upcoming BleauLive performance at the legendary Fontainebleau Miami Beach this December 15th. The American pop songstress will deliver her signature blend of gospel, pop, and R&B sound in an intimate, cabaret-style performance. Celebrating 50 years of health and happiness, Warwick will perform her timeless and soulful chart-topping classic in an unforgettable evening.
BleauLive is the resort's entertainment platform that brings the world's top acts to Fontainebleau Miami Beach for unique vacation experiences. Available only to hotel guests through distinct packages, BleauLive combines elements of performance, personal guest interaction with the artist and an immersive weekend getaway for the complete Fontainebleau experience.
The upcoming BleauLive weekend package includes deluxe accommodations, valet parking, breakfast and dinner for two, plus a once-in-a-lifetime performance. Prior to the show, guests will indulge in a three-course prix fixe dinner at one of Fontainebleau's signature restaurants including Gotham Steak, Scarpetta, Hakkasan and Blade.
BleauLive Dionne Warwick packages can be purchased online at http://www.BLEAULIVE.com or by calling 1.800.548.8886 and include the following components:
ICON Package: Performance & Hotel Stay
Scintillating and sensual best describe Warwick's familiar and iconic voice that has become the foundation of American pop music and culture. Warwick's career, which currently spans over 50 years, has established her as an international music icon. The five-time Grammy Award winning music star has earned more than sixty charted hit songs and sold over 100 million records.
"Since the opening of Fontainebleau Miami Beach in 1954, we have welcomed legendary performers to take the stage. Continuing the resort's legacy as an entertainment destination, we are thrilled to announce Dionne Warwick as the next BleauLive artist. We anticipate a very exciting weekend with this legendary performer," noted Philip Goldfarb, President and COO, Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
BleauLive launched over Labor Day 2011 with a performance and meet and greet by hip-hop artist Pitbull, followed by Ricky Martin that Thanksgiving weekend. Ne-Yo's Mother's Day performance kicked-off 2012, and Fontainebleau most recently welcomed iHeartRadio who brought artists Maroon 5, Flo Rida, Gym Class Heroes and Calvin Harris, as well as a special guest appearance by Enrique Iglesias to the resort.
About Fontainebleau Miami BeachA revered Miami Beach landmark for more than 50 years set on more than 20 oceanfront acres, Fontainebleau Miami Beach boasts 1,504 new guestrooms and suites outfitted with iMacs; 12 restaurants and lounges, most notably three AAA Four Diamond signature restaurants, Gotham Steak, Scarpetta and Hakkasan; two dynamic nightlife venues; the 40,000-square-foot Lapis spa with mineral-rich water therapies and co-ed swimming pools; and a dramatic oceanfront poolscape. For general information or accommodations at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, visitwww.fontainebleau.comor call 1.877.512.8002.
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Kentaro makes hip-hop personal
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Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012
Almost the whole of Kentaro's life has been devoted to dance in particular to hip-hop dance ever since he first saw it on television as an elementary school boy.
Even today, as a well-known professional dancer who prefers not to reveal his surname and calls himself simply KENTARO!!, he recalls the TV show that changed his life Dance Koshien, a nationwide street-dance contest for high school students that ran from 1988-1996. In 1996, Kentaro won the second prize, and his career began to take off.
That first success came after Kentaro, who was born in Sendai but grew up in Tokyo, went to one of the capital's very few modern dance studios, when he was small. In a recent interview, the 31-year-old said of that period, "I really hated school because, basically, I didn't like studying. So, really, I was rescued by dance, and every day I practiced dance steps under my desk during the lessons."
After his TV success, Kentaro survived in show business by occasionally acting in movies and TV shows, while also singing in a band. Meanwhile, though, he was becoming so prominent on the dance scene that his schedule eventually filled with teaching dance classes, solo performances and performances as the leader of the dance troupe Tokyo Electrock Stairs (TES), which he founded in 2008.
This year, since returning in March from a tour in India, Kentaro has been busy with regular dance shows and preparing for this month's hectic schedule, which included the Dance Triennale Tokyo and a rerun of his solo work "Ame ga Furuto Hareru 2" ("Clear after Rain 2") in Tokyo. After Tokyo, he'll take the show to Kyoto. On top of all that, he's set to raise a ruckus with a flash-mob dance event he's planning for Festival Tokyo next month, after which, to kick off 2013, he will take off for a dance showcase being presented by the Japan Society in New York.
As we chatted at a Tokyo burger restaurant, Kentaro talked about his love of hip-hop, while making a frantic appeal about the current situation of contemporary dance in Japan.
It's remarkable that in your teens you were already choreographing original works. What was your inspiration back then and now?
I wasn't interested in jobs like dancing in Disneyland parades or in the background of TV variety shows. Primarily, I love to create, so I'd always choreograph and create performances with friends, even when I was the youngest in a group.
What inspires me is my technical quest in dance, so I normally create works to make the most of some great new movement I've come up with. I know many performers, especially in Europe, incorporate a social or political dimension in their works, but I think there's already lots of that kind of conceptual stuff around, so I don't need to do it, too. Having said that, I may not think the same way when I turn 40 who knows?
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Obama's debate performance helped among women
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(CBS News) After Tuesday night's presidential debate at Hofstra University on Long Island, CBS News' instant poll found that 39 percent of women believed President Obama won, 29 percent believed Gov. Mitt Romney won, and 33 percent called it a tie.
Those numbers represent a highly-prized demographic by both candidates. One of the president's main goals was to bring women back into the fold, and both men shared personal stories designed to appeal to women. In one notable case, however, that may have backfired.
Romney, Obama woo women after debate New Romney ad courts female vote Fact-checking Romney's "binders" claim Obama slams Romney for "binders" remark
An audience member, Katherine Fenton, gave both candidates the perfect opening: "In what new way do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females make only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?"
President Obama was the first to respond, saying: "Well, Katherine, that's a great question, and you know, I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids."
President Obama pointed out that the first bill he signed when he took office gave women more leeway to sue employers over unequal pay.
"I've got two daughters and I want to make sure they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have," he said.
Romney argued he made hiring women a priority when he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002.
"We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet," he said. "I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks?' And they brought us whole binders full of women."
But Wednesday, Jesse Mermell, who ran the group that compiled those binders, said this in a conference call with reporters: "To be perfectly clear, Mitt Romney did not request those resumes. After the election, our group approached the Romney transition team with the resumes, or the so-called 'binders full of women.'"
Why Private Investors Should Outperform
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By Lee Samaha - October 17, 2012 | Tickers: AMP, FB, GE, GOOG, TROW | 0 Comments
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At some point in his/her investing life, every private investor is faced with the same question: Does he actually add value by investing himself or not? I suspect the most common response is to ignore the question safe in the notion that its just a bit of fun on the sideline. Another is to avoid the complication of benchmarking performance and just be happy that the account is positive. However, for full time investors, the issue simply cannot be avoided.
Discerning readers will note that I specifically reference private investors here. The reason is that professional investors are not that as exposed inhow they earn money (fees, etc.) to the vagaries of performance. Private investors lose money when performance is negative. Do money managers refund fees?
Why Professionals Arent Trying to Outperform
It gets worse: The investment industry has learned a fundamental truth of behavioral finance and constantly applies it. Im talking about the tendency of investors to psychologically weight a loss double that of a gain.
Asset managers understand this because they realize that investors will overweight a losing performance versus a winning one. In other words, if an asset manager underperforms for a client his downside risk (losing assets under management) is far greater than the upside from outperforming. Now you know why the investment industry produces such samey benchmark-hugging performance. Its in their interests to do so.
If there was a difference between what, say,T Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW) and Ameriprise Financial (NYSE: AMP) did, surely it would show up in marked differences in share price performance?
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In Film, Up Close and Personal with the Dalai Lama Here in NYC
Posted: October 17, 2012 at 7:16 am
Tushar Gandhi, Grammy Award winner David Sandborn and Grammy Nominated Nawang Khechog together with Filmmaker Leon Stuparich the gathering of great minds and talent for ROAD TO PEACE.
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London filmmaker, Leon Stuparich followed The Dalai Lama for two weeks as he traveled around Great Britain. This intimate documentary candidly reveals his nature and wisdom, and shows how he inspires millions of people of all nationalities and creeds to live more meaningful lives in harmony with each other and with the planet on which we live.
Leon Stuparich was driven to make this film "partially because of my own curiosity about the man behind the myth. What does he do behind the scenes? Does he really have the incredible presence that people who have met him always refer to? In addition, like anyone else who is striving for happiness, I hoped that what he shared would move me in some way, and teach me how to live a more centered, peaceful life. I was not disappointed."
The VIP PREMIERE will open with a performance by Grammy nominated Nawang Khechog who will arrive right after performing at the Lincoln Center event for The Dalai Lama.The evening's festivities will include Leon Stuparich, Tushar Gandhi, and Grammy Award winner David Sanborn. Gandhi and Stuparich will have an in-depth discussion about Universal Responsibility and audience Q &A.
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Tushar Gandhi is the Great Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, and in true Gandhian style, he has dedicated his life to spreading the message of non-violence and positive change. In 1996 Tushar was appointed President of the Lok Seva Trust, a voluntary organization working with factory workers and the economically weaker sections of Mumbai, in the field of education, legal aid, and healthcare. He established the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation to make Gandhis message available globally on the Internet.
Tushar is involved with the US based peace organization Seeds for Peace which works with children. In August 2001 he was invited by an NGO Peace Initiatives, to join a group of journalists and social activists to visit strife torn Kashmir, to interact with the leaders of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, the police and the Chief Minister of J&K with the aim to explore the possibility of achieving peace through development and economic programs.
Nawang Khechog is a Grammy Nominee and the most famous Tibetan Flautist in the World. He is also a composer and recipient of many awards from U.S, Tibet, India and Nepal. He has toured around the world and has produced many CD's. His signature sound and music are incorporated throughout ROAD TO PEACE. His music can be heard in many films, including the Hollywood film SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET.
Nawang was monk for 11 years living in the foothills of the Himalayas as a hermit. He meditated for 4 years, was sponsored, and guided by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He tries to utilize his music to help make humanity more peaceful and compassionate, and uses his talent to help assist with the freedom of the Tibetan People.
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Kent man's book recounts personal experience of Cuban Missile Crisis 50 years later
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By Kathryn Boughton, Litchfield County Times
KENTFifty years ago, many Americans trembled at the thought of imminent nuclear war. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stood nose to pugnacious nose in a stare down over the installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba. Neither seemed prepared to blink.
For 13 days, from Oct. 16 to Oct. 28, civilization stood on the brink of annihilation as the two superpowers vied for dominance. So real was the peril that First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy reportedly begged her husband, Please dont send me anywhere. I just want to be with you and die with you.
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The First Ladys fear was reflected throughout a land that had grown accustomed to the thought of nuclear peril. During the chilliest years of the Cold War, children were schooled in undoubtedly ineffectual responses to nuclear explosions, while prosperous families resorted to building and stocking bomb shelters in their back yards. Suddenly, it appeared, those precautions might be needed. The world held its breath as missile-bearing Russian ships steamed toward Cuba.
The story of the confrontation and its denouement has been told many times, but never from the personal perspective that former international reporter Donald S. Connery of Kent brings to his latest book, Escape from Oblivion, A Moscow Correspondents Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The account, recently released as an e-book and available on Amazon.com, traces Mr. Connerys experiences in reporting from Moscowa much-coveted experience truncated by his frank reporting of the crisis for Time and Life magazines.
Those were the two weeks that might have ended human history. Whole forests have been felled for books about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but what has been missing is that no one has written about their personal experience in covering it. I think this is uniqueand it may stay unique because everyone who was there is dead or dying, said the octogenarian author this week. I am one of the last standing veterans of the Depression, World War II and the Cold War.
Related - Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis at Fifty
Mr. Connery had been in Moscow for only a matter of weeks when the crisis erupted. He had won the coveted assignment after making an unprecedented Trans-Siberian rail trip with photojournalist John Launois in 1961. Taken during one of the most dangerous years of the Cold World, when the Soviets were bent on forcing the U.S., Great Britain and France out of their occupation zones in West Berlin, the trip gave ordinary Americans insight into the Russian people.
I hope the thing that comes across in this book is my affection for the Russian people, a people that has suffered perhaps more than any other [in Europe] said Mr. Connery this week. When we made the Trans-Siberian trip we found them to be big-hearted, big country people. After we got past the initial suspicions, we found them to be just so friendlyand these were supposed to be our enemies.
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New personal health device product by Check tells if an athlete is training enough, too much, or simply don't know?
Posted: October 16, 2012 at 9:27 am
Check is a personal health device helping professional and recreational athletes to increase their player readiness. The service helps athletes to improve their physical performance by optimizing workouts, reducing injuries and avoiding overtraining syndrome. Players are assessing themselves once a day with the device, which tells them how they should practice that day; pushing hard, doing a normal training or just recovery. It also tells if there's something wrong that needs a professional consultation. Check combines a physical gadget, a mobile app and a cloud service for users to access their data real-time. Check method is unique and based on Finnish scientific sports research and IPR.
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Check includes a novel assessment device, mobile application (Android and iOS) as well as a cloud service for analysis and information management. The solution has been developed together with Finnish sports scientists and is essentially targeted for sports requiring skill, coordination and strength. It also provides significant added value in high-altitude and endurance training.
The beta phase service for professional football clubs was released as part of the international Leaders in Performance conference held in London, Chelsea FC on Oct 10th and 11th.
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Most UK bankers expect a bonus for 2012 – survey
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Four in ten felt less confident about their performance-related pay compared with 2011.
Over half saw industry bonuses falling in the next three years, the eFinancialCareers survey shows.
Among those expecting an increase, 39% said it would be mainly because of their personal performance.
19% said it was down to the company's performance and 13% said it was due to a change of employer.
"Pay for performance is still ingrained in the culture of financial services in the City," said James Bennett, global managing director at eFinancialCareers.
"If people have performed well they still expect bigger bonuses," he added.
Banks have been under pressure to limit bonuses to end a high-reward, high-risk culture blamed for the financial crisis. A tough UK market environment and public and political pressure were the main reasons given by those expecting bonuses to fall across the industry.
The survey said 18% of respondents did not expect a bonus this year, compared with 11% last year and 7% in 2010.
London's most upbeat finance professionals work for institutional asset management firms, where more than half of respondents expected a rise in their bonus.
The poll of 830 front, middle and back office staff also found workers were more concerned about companies voluntarily cutting pay in the long-term than by regulatory reform of the banking industry.
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Vixx surprise performance of Rock Ur Body at Q
Posted: October 15, 2012 at 5:24 pm