...Nokia’s move to review its distribution strategy has sent a frisson through the market. Despite its fall from grace as the world’s leading phone manufacturer to one lagging behind rivals in the smartphone race, this is a company that still packs a punch in the market. Coming hard on the heels of Stephen Elop’s arrival as its new CEO, Nokia’s joint venture with Microsoft for Windows Phone 7, and the appointment of new UK MD Conor Pierce, the distribution review is taken as yet another sign that the sleeping giant is about to awaken. Certainly the atmosphere at Nokia’s offices in London is anything but sleepy.Behind its sleek, minimalist Scandinavian façade, there is a distinctly industrial air about the place. James Kitto, Nokia UK’s head of retail sales, embodies this atmosphere, exuding a focused energy and dynamism. He is keen to make clear that this review is no window dressing operation. ‘We are reviewing the entirety of our distribution arrangements in the UK,’ he tells Mobile. Rapid market So what is driving this swingeing review? After all, it was barely three years ago that Nokia whittled its distributors down from eight to three – choosing Data Select and 20:20 Mobile as its b2c distributors and, for a while, Brightpoint as its b2b partner. Kitto says the move is partly driven by the pace of the industry. He explains: ‘It is very healthy, particularly as the market moves so rapidly, to invite partners and potential partners to talk about their capabilities...
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...| Group Exercise | Body Flow | | The only gym available in my area that has group exercise classes is Gold’s Gym. I have always wanted to try yoga but thought that my size was too big of an issue. I finally got up the nerve to try Body Flow. I wanted to see how my balance and flexibility would hold up to an exercise that I didn’t believe I could do. Body Flow is an exercise that combines three parts: yoga, pilates and tai chi. It was created by the Les Mills group, which is a group that specializes in fun, active group classes. Body flow was created to improve your joint flexibility and range of movement, increase your core strength, improve your cardio-vascular function, burn calories, reduce your stress levels, provide a lasting sense of well-being and calm, focus your mind and raise your level of consciousness. It does all of this while letting you exercise with friends which increases support. All three disciplines are each unique and have completely different histories yet share many of the same benefits. Evidence of yoga has been found as long ago as five thousand years ago. Yoga has been through many changes over time but still keeps its main focus as an exercise just as much for the mind as for the body. It focuses on controlled breathing and slow movements to heighten self-understanding and to bring together the physical and emotional self. Yoga became popular in the US around the 1960’s. It has been shown to decrease the risk of many health...
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...the first day I started the experiment and of course I had no trouble at all since it was the first day. I actually felt really good going into this and … It felt like nothing on the second day also and found myself just getting another César salad. From the looks of it, I thought I might actually be able to do this and accomplish my goal by not eating any meat. But I spoke too soon because by the third day, it was hard to find food to eat and I was getting sick of eating salad. Plus, I started craving a chicken burrito from Rubios. I knew I couldn’t give up now and so I sucked it up and bought myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from the market. The fourth day came along and I just totally forgot I was vegetarian. I was in line at Westcoast in East Commons food...
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...Master in Finance Class of 2010 Placement Report www.ie.edu 2 Master in Finance 2010 Placement Report I. Facts and Trends In 2010-11, as the debt crisis hit the developed economies and lets to a subsequent contraction in the growth of the emerging markets, the job markets around the world evolved to new levels of competitiveness. Even though our Master in Finance Class of 2011 graduated in a difficult economic situation, they still commanded good positions in the Finance industry and Finance roles in other industries. We at the IE Career Management Center rose to the challenge of placing IE students globally. We are certainly proud of our achievements. Our three specialized teams consisting of the career advisors, recruitment relations managers and career education professionals, work proactively with our students in providing them the resources and opportunities to compete in the job markets. With the aim to train, advise, and assist our students and alumni in their job search, we are happy to report that we have developed a well rounded approach to career development. This is coupled by our students being well equipped with the necessary skills and know-how to undertake the functions of finance with maximum effectiveness, efficiency and professionalism and the ability to apply the functions of finance to create corporate and social value. Our efforts in designing our Finance programs are reflected in the recent rankings by Financial Times, which placed our Master...
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...Fukushima Radiation Causes Growing National Concern: Time for New EPA Policy Eric Zoppi 3279672 2 December 2013 On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and the resulting tsunami wreaked havoc upon Japan. Unfortunately, this natural disaster resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, as the tsunami crippled the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Following this severe breach in security, numerous radioactive isotopes and radioactive particles were released into the environment, specifically the Pacific Ocean and the surrounding air/atmosphere, thus contaminating groundwater, soil and seawater, as well as effectively shutting down a myriad of Japanese fisheries. The ocean and air mainly came in contact with high levels of Iodine-131, Cesium-137, and Cesium-134, as well as lower levels of Tellurium, Uranium, and Strontium, which were concentrated closer to the surrounding area of the nuclear power plant. However, the impact that these radioactive materials will have upon the United States, in particular, has caused quite the national controversy. Despite heavy national acceptance of the occurrence of the disaster, two popular and opposing hypotheses have formed as a result of the Media’s lack of focus on recent analyses of the impending effects of Fukushima Disaster upon the U.S.: (1) the radioactive material that leaked as a result of the TEPCO nuclear power plant failure will not have a drastic, threatening...
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...Crown Creative Co - challenging the future( Introduction Fusahiko Yoshino, the young Senior Managing Director of Crown Creative, glanced at his watch. It was a cold winter morning and he was in a hurry for his new office in Chiyoda-ku where the best shops for sports wear in Tokyo can be found. He was going to miss the ski season this year and this made him a little angry. Until he has accepted the management of the company from his father – the old Takiyoshi Yoshino, he was a "cool" guy exploring the fashion world, a person whose mission was to keep abreast of the ever-changing fads of Tokyo. "The people in the streets are very creative and we have to be even more," Fusahiko thought while entering the office. He was still wondering whether to take the risk of launching his own newly designed brand or to rely on the world known fame of Kangol. Company background The history of Crown Creative Co. started in 1981, when Crown Fancy Goods Co. Ltd was established by Tokiyoshi Yoshino. Crown was set up to design, produce, sell and distribute stationery and plastic products. The company soon expanded its operation due to orders placed by Coca Cola for long-term supply of stationery. This first success was caused not only by the company’s capability to meet high quality requirements of its clients but also to the negotiation skills of Takiyoshi who managed to strike several mutually beneficial licensing contracts. That’s why he decided to establish his own licensing...
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...Crown Creative Co - challenging the future( Introduction Fusahiko Yoshino, the young Senior Managing Director of Crown Creative, glanced at his watch. It was a cold winter morning and he was in a hurry for his new office in Chiyoda-ku where the best shops for sports wear in Tokyo can be found. He was going to miss the ski season this year and this made him a little angry. Until he has accepted the management of the company from his father – the old Takiyoshi Yoshino, he was a "cool" guy exploring the fashion world, a person whose mission was to keep abreast of the ever-changing fads of Tokyo. "The people in the streets are very creative and we have to be even more," Fusahiko thought while entering the office. He was still wondering whether to take the risk of launching his own newly designed brand or to rely on the world known fame of Kangol. Company background The history of Crown Creative Co. started in 1981, when Crown Fancy Goods Co. Ltd was established by Tokiyoshi Yoshino. Crown was set up to design, produce, sell and distribute stationery and plastic products. The company soon expanded its operation due to orders placed by Coca Cola for long-term supply of stationery. This first success was caused not only by the company’s capability to meet high quality requirements of its clients but also to the negotiation skills of Takiyoshi who managed to strike several mutually beneficial licensing contracts. That’s why he decided to establish his own licensing...
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...Nutritional Assessment Duane Daquioag NURS 225 WestCoast University Nutritional Self-Assessment Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women. “It can be used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health complications” (CDC, 2015) but it is not a reliable source of information to get a person’s body fatness or health of an individual. My BMI score is 24.4; to find that, I divided my weight in kilograms (70.9 kg) by the square of height in meters (2.9 m). HAMWI is used to calculate the ideal body weight of an individual based on their height and body frame (FitnessHealth101, 2016). To calculate for my ideal body weight I should add 6 pounds to every inch above 5 feet and add it to 106. So mine would be= 106 + (6 x 7)= 148 lbs. According to HAMWI, my ideal weight should be 148 lbs but my current weight is 156 lbs; so that means that I am currently 8 pounds over my ideal body weight. In accordance with BMIs standards, I am within the healthy range of my body mass index, but as HAMWI stated, I am 8 pounds over my ideal body weight. “One concern with the accuracy of the Hamwi approach to determining your optimum weight is that an individual's lean muscle mass is not taken into account. This may produce a result that underestimates the optimum weight for an individual” (FitnessHealth101, 2016). Hamwi does not take into account the weight of my lean muscle mass and I do weight lifting as part of my regular...
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...management #gobeyond Programa Diversidad Madrid Carreras master in Admisiones Especializaciones Formato Perfil Duración Convocatorias Idiomas DE UN VISTAZO A tiempo completo Universitarios recién graduados, entre 0 y 2 años de experiencia profesional 10 meses* Febrero y Septiembre Inglés, Español o Bilingüe Proceso de admisión continuo, sin fechas límite Madrid www.ie.edu/es/master-management master-international.blogs.ie.edu Diversidad Madrid P eriodo de Admisión Carreras Campus Url Blog: *Beyond Borders Experience opcional, prolonga el programa un mínimo de 3 meses Master in Management /3 Programa Personalización Admisiones UNAS PALABRAS DE NUESTRO DECANO Master in Management /5 ¿Te has preguntado por qué algunas compañías prosperan mientas otras apenas logran subsistir? Las compañías de éxito responden de forma rápida a los cambios: los líderes del futuro tendrán que ser ágiles y estar dispuestos a enfrentarse a un entorno de incertidumbre. El programa Master in Management de IE está diseñado para preparar a jóvenes ejecutivos con ambición, no únicamente a gestionar, sino a sacar el máximo provecho de los retos y a maximizar las nuevas oportunidades. Los buenos líderes saben cómo lidiar con la globalización. IE te prepara para que llegues a ser un gran líder global, sintiéndote cómodo en medio de una gran diversidad cultural. Sin entrar al detalle,...
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...Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database SQL Reference Guide Release 7.0 B31682-03 Copyright ©1996, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. ALL SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION (WHETHER IN HARD COPY OR ELECTRONIC FORM) ENCLOSED AND ON THE COMPACT DISC(S) ARE SUBJECT TO THE LICENSE AGREEMENT. The documentation stored on the compact disc(s) may be printed by licensee for licensee’s internal use only. Except for the foregoing, no part of this documentation (whether in hard copy or electronic form) may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of TimesTen Inc. Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Retek, TimesTen, the TimesTen icon, MicroLogging and Direct Data Access are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Programs (which include both the software and documentation) contain proprietary information; they are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are also protected by copyright, patent, and other intellectual and industrial property laws. Reverse engineering, disassembly, or decompilation of the Programs, except to the extent required to obtain interoperability with other independently created software or as specified by law, is prohibited. The information contained in this document is subject...
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...Notification In the content of this chapter material, you could read section 5.1, 5.2.1 and 5.2.2 to leaning details about the ideas and procedures to mine valid association rules, which are identical to the content Professor Chen introduced to you in class. Note that you do not need to pay more attention to the algorithm or codes of this method. Instead, ideas and related examples are more important for you to understand this method and it is enough to help you complete the assignment. Furthermore, to resolve the problem 2.(c) in EXERCISE 3, you need to read section 5.3.1 to know how to do. This part gives you the concept of multi-level association rule or generalized association rule. 基本阅读：英文资料 5.1,5.2.1 和 5.2.2，这部分内容与老师上课所介 绍的内容一致，不必过分专注于其中的算法和代码部分，更重要的是 理解方法意思,过程及其中的相关例子。扩展阅读：为了解决作业问 题 2 中的（c）小问，你还最好阅读 5.3.1 部分。 Mining Frequent Patterns, Associations, and Correlations Frequent patterns are patterns (such as itemsets, subsequences, or substructures) that appear in a data set frequently. For example, a set of items, such as milk and bread, that appear frequently together in a transaction data set is a frequent itemset. A subsequence, such as buying first a PC, then a digital camera, and then a memory card, if it occurs frequently in a shopping history database, is a (frequent) sequential pattern. A substructure can refer to different structural forms, such as subgraphs, subtrees, or sublattices, which may be combined with itemsets or subsequences. If a substructure...
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...www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Learn to Program Second Edition Chris Pine The Pragmatic Bookshelf Raleigh, North Carolina Dallas, Texas www.it-ebooks.info Pragmatic Bookshelf Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial capital letters or in all capitals. The Pragmatic Starter Kit, The Pragmatic Programmer, Pragmatic Programming, Pragmatic Bookshelf and the linking g device are trademarks of The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC. Every precaution was taken in the preparation of this book. However, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages that may result from the use of information (including program listings) contained herein. Our Pragmatic courses, workshops, and other products can help you and your team create better software and have more fun. For more information, as well as the latest Pragmatic titles, please visit us at http://www.pragprog.com Copyright © 2009 Chris Pine. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior consent of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN-10: 0-9766940-4-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-934356-36-4...
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