A look at recent tech-industry earnings

This week, Dell and Hewlett-Packard will report quarterly earnings. They will offer a peek into whether global economic worries have affected their sales, as they have with some other tech companies.

Here is a summary of recent earnings and reports for selected technology companies and what they reveal about the state of spending and the overall economy:

? July 2: Microsoft Corp. says it is absorbing a $6.2 billion charge to reflect that one of the biggest deals in its 37-year history, for online ad company aQuantive, turned out to be a dud.

? July 6: Samsung Electronics Co. estimates its second-quarter operating profit at 6.5 trillion won to 6.9 trillion won ($5.7 billion to $6.1 billion), a 79 percent jump from a year earlier based on the midpoint of that range. Analysts say the sharp rise in operating profit was driven by the success of its Galaxy line of smartphones. However, Samsung's stock fell as lower-than-expected overall sales underlined the threat from Europe's economic malaise.

? July 9: Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lowers its quarterly forecast, blaming weaker-than-expected sales in China and Europe and lackluster demand overall from consumers. AMD says it expects revenue to fall by 11 percent from the previous quarter, below its earlier forecast of a 3 percent decline.

? July 10: BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. asks disgruntled investors at a shareholders meeting for patience as it develops new devices to rival the iPhone and Android smartphones. The company reiterates a warning that the next several quarters will be challenging. It also expects to book another operating loss in the current quarter as the company cuts prices to sell its older BlackBerry models.

? July 17: Yahoo Inc. reports another lackluster quarter on CEO Marissa Mayer's first day on the job. It continues years of financial lethargy that has plagued the one-time Internet pioneer as Google and Facebook have prospered. Net income fell 4 percent from a year ago, and adjusted earnings were short of expectations.

Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, says revenue for the current quarter is likely to come in below Wall Street forecasts as it blames "a more challenging macroeconomic environment."

? July 18: IBM Corp. reports its 38th consecutive quarter of earnings increase. Net income rose 6 percent despite a 3 percent drop in revenue amid Europe's economic jitters. IBM revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa fell by 9 percent from last year. The turmoil in Europe hurt IBM's results as currencies there weakened, translating into fewer U.S. dollars. IBM says revenue would have been slightly higher than last year if currency-exchange rates had remained the same.

EBay Inc. more than doubled its second-quarter net income thanks to higher revenue from its PayPal online payments business and its e-commerce websites. Its marketplaces business, which includes its flagship website, saw the strongest growth rate since 2006.

? July 19: Google Inc. says its second-quarter earnings rose 11 percent despite a deepening decline in the prices paid for its Internet search advertising. The results included Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for the first time. Revenue climbed 35 percent from last year to $12.2 billion. If not for Motorola, revenue would have increased by 21 percent.

Microsoft Corp. says a $6.2 billion accounting adjustment to reflect a weak online ad business led to its first quarterly loss in its 26 years as a public company. The company had a loss of 6 cents a share, compared with earnings of 69 cents a share a year ago. Adjusted earnings beat expectations, and the stock rose.

Verizon Communications Inc. says net income rose 13 percent in the second quarter as its wireless arm pulled in record profits. But its traditional, wired phone business was weaker. Like other phone companies, Verizon is losing landlines, but has been compensating to some extent by signing up broadband customers. In the second quarter, that trend faltered, as it gained just 2,000 broadband customers ? the worst result in four years.

? July 24: Apple Inc. reveals that its growth slowed in the most recent quarter. In both revenue and net income, the company posted the smallest increases in years and failed to meet analyst expectations. It wasn't so much the volume of sales, but Apple's average selling prices declined.

At AT&T Inc., meanwhile, declining smartphone sales contributed to the best profitability ever in its wireless arm as it saved on phone subsidies. AT&T says it activated fewer smartphones in the quarter, much of it because subscribers are holding to their phones longer. That's good news for the company because it doesn't have to shell out as much in subsidies to sell the phones to customers for $99 or $199.

Netflix Inc. reports a 91 percent reduction in second-quarter earnings amid a slowdown in subscriber growth. Netflix Inc. added 1.1 million worldwide subscribers to its streaming service ? in line with management predictions, but below what analysts had hoped for.

? July 25: Online game maker Zynga Inc. reports a loss in the second quarter, with adjusted earnings and revenue below Wall Street's already low expectations. Zynga also lowers its outlook for the year, citing game delays, reduced expectations for "Draw Something" and what it called a "more challenging environment on the Facebook Web platform." Changes Facebook made to its website can make older games such as "FarmVille" more difficult to discover.

? July 26: Facebook Inc.'s first earnings report as a public company had solid numbers, but in the end it landed with a thud ? much like its rocky initial public offering two months earlier. Facebook reported stronger-than-expected revenue and a gain in user numbers, but investors weren't impressed. After a brief spike, its stock fell.

Sprint Nextel Corp., the country's third-largest wireless carrier, reports a wider loss for the second quarter as wrote down the value of its moribund Nextel network. However, Sprint was successful in persuading smartphone subscribers to pay up for "unlimited data" service, and its service revenue zoomed, beating estimates.

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. reports earnings that matched Wall Street's meager expectations, but its revenue gains and outlook for the current quarter fell short of forecasts.

? July 27: Samsung Electronics Co. reports another record-high quarterly profit as customers flocked to Galaxy smartphones. Samsung benefited from runaway demand for its Android-powered smartphones as rivals including Apple Inc. had yet to release new models. Robust sales of smartphones helped offset a slowdown in other consumer electronics businesses such as televisions.

? Aug. 1: Comcast Corp. says strong results from cable operations overcame weak returns from the box-office flop "Battleship" at its Universal Pictures studio. Net income and revenue increased. In cable, average monthly fees were up 8 percent from last year to $148.57, helped by customers upgrading to faster broadband speeds and getting more premium channels. Overall, cable revenue grew 6 percent, demonstrating that Comcast continues to do better than smaller cable companies.

? Aug. 2: LinkedIn Corp. says net income fell as it spent more money to grow its business. But the professional networking site saw revenue grow faster than expected and raised its forecast for the year.

Sony Corp. says its loss worsened in the April-June quarter and it lowered earnings forecast for the fiscal year through March as it battles a strong yen and declining sales of liquid crystal display TVs and video game machines. Sales increased 1.4 percent, helped by cameras, professional broadcasting products and mobile phones.

? Aug. 8: Hewlett-Packard Co. says it will take a massive charge against its earnings for the quarter through July, leading to a record loss of nearly $9 billion. The charge is the result of a writedown of the value of its services business, reflecting that the company overpaid for its purchase of Electronic Data Systems in 2008.

? Aug. 13: Online deals site Groupon Inc. says the weak European economy contributed to lower sales growth than expected, while analysts express concern that the company is increasing revenue through the less-profitable business of actually selling items, rather just directing customers to great deals. Although Groupon beat Wall Street's profit estimates in the latest quarter, investors focused on the dual concerns about growth.

? Aug. 15: Cisco Systems Inc. reports earnings that show its ambitions cramped by the global economic turmoil, but results for its latest quarter were strong enough that it announced an increase to its dividend. Cisco's sales in the latest quarter rose just 4.4 percent, as customers in Southern Europe were in the grips of a recession and government customers on both sides of the Atlantic held back.

Coming up:

? Tuesday: Dell Inc.

? Wednesday: Hewlett-Packard Co.

? Sept. 27: Research in Motion Ltd.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/look-recent-tech-industry-earnings-001704437.html

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What Makes Literature Great? The Readers!

Little Willie found a stick,

Thought it was a candle wick,

Lit it up to his delight,

Blew him to pieces?twas dynamite!

That is not great literature written by a great author. It is a Little Willie rhyme written by me. There are thousands of these and I loved them as a kid. They are not attributed to any author that I know of. Every body and his dog has written one but now they appear in tomes such as 10,000 Old Jokes You Never Heard Of.

Such is not great literature except to an old man likes me who likes to go back and read what he liked as a kid like, I Was a Headhunter and Jimmy Microbe.

Much of what is great literature is tedious to read or down right boring to most people. Such literature is called the Classics. The Bible is considered great literature, which is what it is, but all in the Bible is not like the Book of Ruth, Job, or the Gospel of John, or even the Book of Acts. Some is horribly repetitious and downright boring.

The Revelation, perhaps taken from three early tracts (much taken from Daniel), is not understood by many people, even some of those who think they understand it. Is it a classic or just a curiosity?

Maybe one definition of a Classic could be that your English teacher made you read it. Tolstoy and Homer and Shakespeare and other such great writers could be on your list. Poe is another winner.

I remember as a kid we were told to read the Lance of Kanana by Harry W. French where a boy shepherd wins his father's respect by recovering a stolen caravan. I read every word of my literature book but I could not stomach the boredom of that story. The teacher loved it.

I hear students suffering all the time because of some book assignment. They put it off to the end and finally go to the Internet to see if they can grab enough stuff to write a report while they burn the midnight oil.

If the book were worth their reading, they would be much more eager to read it. It is the teachers job to inspire their students to read and just passing out a required reading list is not enough. I had teacher once in junior high school who read to us most days. We loved to have her read to us and we learned to love the good stuff she was reading.

Some think that you have to get used to great literature, especially the classics. Some suffer through it long enough to write an M.S. or Ph.D. thesis writing about what someone else wrote instead of writing their own original stuff. They become teachers and make you read the stuff you hate.

I once had an assignment in a speed reading course to outline a book. I was no kid. I had just come back from fighting a war where I was a 19-year-old infantry platoon sergeant and I didn?t need a stupid assignment. I just grabbed a book with a detailed table of contents and submitted that. I think it was about John Fremont?s explorations of the West. Maybe the instructor thought with all our fast reading ability we could get a job outlining books.

Now days I hear parents complain about reading assignments like Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel by D. H. Lawrence who has her ladyship, wife of an invalid, drift into the shack of the estate game keeper who puts flowers on her bare belly.

It seems that parents have read every controversial book in existence and they say, ?I don?t want my kid reading that trash. Let?s go down to the library and rip it off the shelf and burn it in the street.?

Book burning is a great past time of dictators.

My definition of great literature is that it is the stuff that makes the best seller list because it has been accepted by a large group of readers. I know you can say that the Sunday comics and Parade Magazine is great literature. You can also say that what I?m calling great literature is next years trash and will not be called classical.

How true.

Hemingway was great because he was an artist with words that read like paint, a perfectionist with great stories to tell. Ole!

Jack London was like Hemingway or rather, vice versus, with great adventure stories. You could hear ship timbers creaking or feel your feet freezing.

Robert Lewis Stevenson was great because he appealed to children with his adventures. (He died, never being well one day of his life, but he said that if the never got out of bed because he was sick, nothing would be accomplished. He is one of my heros.)

Steven King is great because he tells a good yarn and delves where others don?t go. But I personally think that the Shawshank Redemption was his greatest novel, although short, and the movie was a perfect portrayal of the novel. His writing is excellent but I don?t always dig his stories.

J. R. R. Tolkien?s The Lord of the Rings is read far and wide. I don?t like that kind of stuff myself but about everybody I know does.

Tom Clancy is a prolific writer who likes to write about he CIA and the military. He gets technical but sometimes overly simplifies things for we tech types. Publishers hire committees to help writers put out more stuff. That may be what they are doing with Clancy. James A. Michener wrote a lot of good stuff in his early days before we were bombarded with historical fiction with the staff digging up information by the ton. These fat-book writers lose my interest as soon as the publisher moves in to push for quantity.

J. K. Rowling, a woman with a man?s name demanded by her publisher, wrote at least seven Harry Potter novels. I can?t stand them myself but they are loved by young and old. She is now writing mystery novels and her first one will soon be out.

Stephenie Meyer?s Twilight Series which my wife?s care giver?s son said is about kids killing kids. That is what he said. He says it is very well-written. His mother says it is futuristic SciFi. Not for me but fodder for many.

Writers write, readers read. Each does as they please. To me, if the story is not my cup of tea, then no matter how good the actual writing is, I?m just not reading it. The writer must tell me what is going on in the first couple of pages or I?m gone.

When I wrote a novel about Nazis in America, I didn?t know exactly what the story was. I read the first draft and chucked it into the garbage can, not relying on it a reference. I knew the story and I just sat down and rewrote the book.

My point is that if there is no compelling story, forget it. Dump it!

I did just that when I wrote a novel years ago. I wrote seven boring chapters and dumped it because the story was not there.

I don?t write long stuff any more, just crummy articles like this. I have to write and that is it. But I miss the characters bugging me to let them take over the book. When I wrote a western saga, one character was so strong, I had to downplay him to make sure the action was focused on my protagonist. I wrote a new novel starring this character.

I would tell you the names of those books but the editors here would reject the article because of self aggrandizement. I said that I no longer write novels. I?m 80-years-old. I?m not building a career.

The book market has changed, many folks having moved to ebooks which are convenient and less expensive. Authors have a tough time promoting their books. Celebrities have ghost writers write their books and ten they call Leno and Letterman and other talk show host and get their books on the best seller list.

But there are those special writers who have people standing in line to get their next book. One successful book can put a writer in an enviable seat. Meanwhile, we can make our selection and enjoy the word of literature.

Little Willie found a story,

Of a knight and all his glory.

And even though he could not read.

He used the broomstick as his steed.

Note: There are thousands of wonderful books that have never been published. Publisher can only publish so many books each year and they know what type of book they are going to publish before they ever receive a manuscript from a writer.

John

TJ Books

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Universal Pictures is continuing to pursue a sequel to "Snow White and the Huntsman" in the wake of Kristen Stewart's affair with the film's director.

Universal co-chairman Donna Langley said in a statement Wednesday that the studio is "currently exploring all options to continue the franchise" and that reports of Stewart's exit "are false."

A beleaguered Stewart got a public defense Wednesday by Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster, who co-starred with a then-11-year-old Stewart in the 2001 move "Panic Room."

Foster wrote an essay for The Daily Beast in which she blasted the "gladiator sport of celebrity culture" and claimed that if she were a young actor today she would quit before she started.

"If I had to grow up in this media culture, I don't think I could survive it emotionally," she writes. Of life as a target of paparazzi and criticism, she added: "We seldom consider the childhoods we unknowingly destroy in the process."

Since Stewart, who played Snow White in "Snow White and the Huntsman," and Rupert Sanders, its married, 41-year-old director publically apologized for a tryst caught in photographs, the future of "Snow White" has been uncertain.

The film was intended to launch a franchise, and its worldwide gross of $389.3 million was a promising enough start.

The Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday that Universal was shifting the sequel to focus on the Huntsman character, played by Chris Hemsworth. The report claimed that Stewart was being dropped.

Universal declined to comment further on its plans.

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Mothers Initiate Breast Feeding with the Help of the Nurse Family

The Nurse Family Partnership recently achieved a great accomplishment, with 75.3 percent of their mothers initiating breast feeding. This is in line with the US Surgeon General?s goal of having 75 percent of all mothers initiate breast feeding. ??

The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a nationally recognized early childhood nurse home visiting program for first time, low income mothers and their child until two years of age.? In 2011, NFP has cited as the only home visit program to have produced important improvements in the lives of at-risk children and parents by the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy.

Lutheran Children and Family Service is the largest clinical site sub-contractor and serves 200 eligible families. Through regularly scheduled home visits, eight LCFS public health nurses offer high-risk adolescent and adult women a rich curriculum and resource support that leads to successful parenting.? The program goals are to improve pregnancy outcomes and child development, and also to improve families? self-sufficiency.? Consistent program findings are improved prenatal health, fewer childhood injuries, fewer subsequent pregnancies, increased intervals between births, increased maternal employment, improved school readiness, and less involvement with the juvenile and adult justice systems.? The average age of Philadelphia NFP clients is between 17 ? 18 years of age with 60% enrolled under 20 years of age.

Mary Beth Haas, the Nurse Family Partnership Program Manager for LCFS says that breast feeding is finally getting much needed national recognition. ?It?s being talked about more as a health issue now, not just a feeding choice,? she said.

?We?ve recognized for a long time that there are benefits for the baby, but now research has found that there are significant benefits for the mother as well,? Mary Beth said. Studies show breastfeeding decreases the mother?s risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer.? Breastfed babies receive over 101 benefits with a higher IQ, less allergies, a decrease in asthma, and? protection ?against digestive diseases such as Chrohn?s Disease to name a few.

Blair Lamb, a Public Health Nurse for the Nurse Family Partnership, encourages her clients to try breast feeding by educating and preparing them, well before the baby is born. ?A lot of the mothers don?t know about the benefits of breast feeding, and formula is so readily available,? Blair said. ?Sometimes they?re scared that it?s going to hurt, or are embarrassed to breast feed in public.? Blair addresses her clients? concerns, and guides them on what to expect. ?The first couple of days are challenging, I help my client to understand and accept those challenges,? she said. ?It?s really rewarding to help someone do something that is good for themselves and their baby.?

Are you interested in learning more about the benefits of breast feeding? Check out these resources.

The importance of breastfeeding, how to breast feed, and common challenges: http://www.womenshealth.gov/breastfeeding/?

101 Reasons to breast feed your child:

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Source: http://www.libertylutheran.org/blog/2012/08/more-mothers-initiate-breast-feeding-with-the-help-of-the-nurse-family-partnership/

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