Particularly interesting is that Internet shopping included all age groups up to 65, with 53 percent of consumers making Internet purchases. People with incomes over $75,000 were twice as likely to use the Internet compared with people with incomes under $30,000. The Internet continued to attract the most desirable customer, as the higher the income, the more the likelihood to buy on the Internet. |
Partners reported that customers are now coming to them and they say it's an important shift from even a year ago. It's a better indication the mass market is truly materializing because they're going through traditional trusted relationships with partners for their expertise. In the past we pushed ourselves into those partnerships and now we're seeing a transition with partners coming to Red Hat. |
Portland State will be a great test and conference games are always full of excitement. Portland State has been doing very well with a new coach and we look to knock them off the top of the mountain. Not having seen them play this year, we are doing what we can to prepare both offensively and defensively. Their team is a combination of power and speed and their pitching staff has done really well. |
Post-Christmas economic statistics have been inconclusive, with those from the retail and manufacturing sectors on the negative side, while house prices are showing signs of improvement. Therefore, despite earlier hopes of a cut this time, a no-change decision was widely expected. However, we firmly believe the trend is still downwards and therefore this is a cut 'deferred', not a change of heart. |
Republican presidents have appointed seven of [the] nine Supreme Court ( search ) justices. Many of them had the same sort of profile. We were told they were conservatives, but at the end of the day, they ended up not being, and the result is we still have a court that may force same-sex marriage on us, that may take 'under God' out of the Pledge of Allegiance, that may not overturn Roe [v. Wade], |
Sarah Walker is part of a small new generation of artists who are reinventing the language of abstract painting for the 21st century. The language she is creating is germane to 21st-century concerns: computer technology and screens, information retrieval systems, the new physics, cosmology, and neuroscience. The other thing in Sarah's work that sets it apart is the sheer complexity of the imagery. |
So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I just... . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing about cataracts and hemorrhoids... and... . just not what I wanted to do, and I was just intensely depressed all the time. |
So much of new knowledge and new applications and ideas come when people from different disciplines combine their expertise or their ways of thinking and looking at problems to discover new solutions, ... If we could begin to do that kind of thing and foster the collective growth in many different fields that we are involved in, I think it would be a lot more fun, as well as a lot more productive. |
Society's going in such a way that, if you don't conform, you feel like an alien. Many guys will go out on a Friday and Saturday night because of peer pressure. It takes a man to stand up and say I don't feel like going out, and for a long time I wasn't at that place. I'm thankful that Inga showed me I didn't have to go with the flow. At the end of the day it's the dead fish that go with the flow. |
Solidarity is not discovered by reflection, but created. It is created by increasing our senstivity to the particular details of the pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people. Such increased sensitivity makes it more difficult to marginialize people different from ourselves by thinking, 'They do not feel as WE would,' or 'There must always be suffering, so why not let THEM suffer?' |
Sony's recent digital rights management (DRM) fiasco highlighted the tightrope content producers employing DRM technologies are currently walking. Authors, artists and publishers now have the technological tools to better protect their digital creations but if they want consumers to pay for their digital work, they must find the right balance between copyright protection and customer expectations. |
Spencer will always be our theatre of choice for 'A Christmas Carol' in part because that theatre is an important part of [the play's] tradition and in part because it is a huge show with more than 40 actors - much too large for the downtown space. Of course, Spencer is the only option for larger musicals, plays with more than five or six actors, and productions with more complicated set changes. |
Storage distance extension is a key data protection enabling technology in the storage architectures of medium- and large-scale organizations, while variations in SAN implementation call for flexibility in how these extensions are provided to network designers. Brocade is raising the bar for performance with FCIP and SAN Routing, while meeting the need to deliver flexible options to its customers. |
Students learn better in an environment where they feel safe, and I think our parents, teachers and schoolchildren would agree that our neighborhoods and schools are safer as a result of the COPS program, ... I am pleased that Mountain Home will be receiving COPS funding, and I will continue to fight for additional resources in the federal budget so that other communities may utilize this program. |
Subaru was one of the manufacturers that last year asked us to delay side testing because of vehicle design changes that were in progress. It's not uncommon for us to grant such requests as long as the design changes will be made in production models within a reasonable time. The goal of our crash test program is to encourage these kinds of improvements to reduce injury risk in real-world crashes. |