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Marquette adds size by signing three recruits
Matt Velazquez
The Marquette men's basketball team added all three of its 2017 commitments on the first day of the early signing period Wednesday.
Jamal Cain, Ikechukwu Eke and Theo John all share two things in common – size and athleticism — which were the main areas of need that the Marquette coaching staff was looking to address during the recruiting season. All three stand 6 foot 7 or more in height, taller than all but two of the players they will share the court with when they join the Golden Eagles in 2017-'18.
"I think you want to have balance," head coach Steve Wojciechowski said on Wednesday at the Al McGuire Center. "I think the guys that we have in our program now, really, a lot of them are young and they'll be in our program for a while. They have great skill, really good basketball IQ, understanding of the game.
"When you add some guys who give us something different in terms of their size and athleticism I think that's the balance that you want to strike. We've tried to do that and we feel great about this class."
Eke, a 6-foot-9, 220-pound power forward from Nigeria who plays at University of Detroit Jesuit in Michigan, was the first player to commit to Marquette, doing so in June. Wojciechowski first saw him play during the 2014-'15 season while recruiting his teammate, Cassius Winston, who now plays at Michigan State.
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At that time, Eke was still very raw after growing up playing mostly soccer. Wojciechowski has been amazed by Eke's improvement over the past two years, which included helping lead the Cubs to their first state title with an undefeated record last season. He averaged 9.8 points, 8.7 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 65% from the field as a junior.
"His best basketball is ahead of him," Wojciechowski said. "And when you talk about a guy with a motor who is 6-10, long arms and unbelievable agility and mobility, that generally is a recipe for success. ...
"He's got better feet than anyone in our program right now. He's a guy, who I think his defense and his rebounding and his ability to protect the rim is in front of his offense."
John, a 6-foot-9, 230-pound forward from Champlin Park High School in Minnesota, also visited Marquette in September and committed a week later. That official visit wasn't John's first experience with Marquette as he took an unofficial visit during Wojciechowski's first year in 2014-'15. Since then Wojciechowski has pursued him, including watching a game in January when he faced off against Stevens Point and current Golden Eagles freshman Sam Hauser.
Last season as a junior, John averaged 14.0 points, 8.6 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game.
"Theo, like Ike, I think his best basketball ahead of him," Wojciechowski said. "Theo has a college-ready body now, though. ... I think he can defend and rebound at the college level right now and his offense will continue to catch up with him."
Cain, a 6-foot-7, 180-pound forward from Cornerstone Health & Technology High School in Pontiac, Mich., is rated as high as No. 77 in the 2017 recruiting class by Rivals and is expected to play on the wing at Marquette. Over the past two years he has averaged 24.8 points, 15.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 3.0 blocks per game and in 2015-'16 was named the Michigan Class C player of the year. He committed to Marquette in September while on his official visit to campus.
"What Jamal gives us is unbelievable length on the perimeter," Wojciechowski said. "I mean, he's taller and longer than anybody we have in our program and he's an electric athlete. You try to address needs to the best way you can and I think we did with these three guys."


It's sad, because it wasn't always like this. In Seasons 1 and 2, Colony was the No. 1 scripted Thursday night series, TVLine reported. It started off with 960,000 viewers in the 18-49 category and 2.2 million viewers total. It looks like moving the series from Thursday nights to Wednesday nights really hurt it. In addition, production moved from California to Canada after not getting a California tax credit (which is why the storyline and setting changed so much), Deadline reported. This was also the first season where Carlton Cuse was no longer overseeing the show.
Colony was getting really good this season, so its cancelation hurts. The cancelation is happening way too soon and during a fascinating storyline, just like so many other post-apoc shows (Sarah Connor Chronicles, Revolution, Shannara Chronicles, Jericho…) At least Expanse was picked up by Amazon.
But we probably won't get lucky and get Colony picked up. The views just aren't high enough. And there's this really sad Reddit thread about getting the show picked up and it only has 9 comments in two hours. 🙁 However, don't give up completely. The show does run on Netflix, and you can go on Netflix and request Colony Season 4 and 5. This could be a good way for you to show Netflix that you like the series. Request it here.
You can also purchase the Colony series or an episode on Amazon as a way to show your support there too. They did pick up Expanse, after all.
Unfortunately #Colony was canceled today. This was a smart and slick series and had an interesting spin on the alien invasion genre.
WHAT THE HELL. #COLONY GOT CANCELED?????? WE ONLY HAVE ONE EPISODE LEFT IN THE SERIES NOW??? MOTHERFORKERS.
While it's extremely sad that #Colony has been cancelled… It's been an absolute privilege and hell of a ride playing Proxy on here.
Giant shout out to @ToryKittles and @Official_PeterJ for always being around and adding to the #Colony experience. You guys are top notch.
I like Colony, and I miss the show. Like SO many other good post-apoc shows that have been on. The TV stations either moves them to a different time and night for some dumb unwanted shows or just cancels the show !


Visual search of mammographic images: influence of lesion subtlety.
Krupinski EA. Visual search of mammographic images: influence of lesion subtlety. Acad Radiol. 2005;12(8):965-9.
The goal of this study is to determine whether mammographic lesion subtlety influences the detection accuracy and visual search parameters of radiologists.
Six radiologists searched a set of 20 mammograms with at least two lesions per image (masses and/or microcalcifications). Eye position was recorded. False-negative (FN) and true-positive (TP) decisions were correlated with lesion subtlety and visual search parameters of time to first hit, total dwell time, and number of return fixations.
Lesions with lower subtlety ratings were detected later in the search than more obvious ones (FN later than TP decisions). When subtler lesions were detected (TP), dwell time was longer than for more obvious lesions, but FN decisions received shorter total dwell. Subtler lesions, when detected (TP), received more total fixation clusters than more obvious ones, but FN decisions received fewer.
Subtle mammographic lesions are associated with significantly different visual search parameters than obvious lesions, explaining in part why they are missed more often. Developing tools to improve lesion visibility may improve detection.


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This thought-provoking and inspirational book covers such topics as: developing a solid creative process through Visual Reflection Notebooks" and Bring Play to Work"; understanding the artist's unique identity in relation to the larger culture; building systems of support and collaboration; explaining how an artist's needs and passions can lead to innovation and authenticity; using language to inspire visual creativity; responding to the Internet and changing concepts of what is public and private; and accepting digression as a creative necessity. Through the exercises and techniques outlined in Art Without Compromise*, the reader will develop new confidence to pursue individual goals and inspiration to explore new paths, along with motivation to overcome creative blocks. With a revised understanding of the relevance in their own work within the sphere of contemporary culture, the artist will come away with a clearer perspective on his or her past and future work and a critical eye for personal authenticity.
Publisher: AllworthReleased: Feb 16, 2010ISBN: 9781581157345Format: book
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FIVE YEARS AGO, I left Carnegie Mellon University to come to the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati (UC). As director of the newly formed Center for Design Research and Innovation (CDRI), I was expected to develop a strategy for increasing the size of the graduate program in DAAP's School of Design, to establish a more consistent way to conduct research, and to work more effectively with corporations. Working with the support and guidance of UC President Nancy Zimpher and Dean Robert Probst, and with Procter & Gamble's chief technology officer, Gil Cloyd, and vice president of innovation, Larry Huston, I was able to conceive and develop the Live Well Collaborative (LWC), a nonprofit company. This initiative focuses on consumers over the age of fifty. It is design driven and multidisciplinary in its approach to running project studios for its member companies. To date, there are four corporate partners, and the LWC has completed a dozen projects.
The LWC is an example of what I believe companies and universities must do to leverage the capability of both undergraduate and graduate education—working with practitioners to effectively and comprehensively design for the future. The concept of the LWC has helped Dean Probst to move design thinking to the center of the university and has created a new model for innovation among universities and companies focusing on a compelling and unmet global human need. Along the same lines, business schools and engineering colleges in universities are also seeking to work with design schools to forge new interdisciplinary programs.
For various reasons, the way designers are educated to think is now perceived as particularly relevant to companies that seek to change their long- and short-term strategies for developing new products and services. These design insights are required to effectively respond to constantly changing social, economic, and technical forces (also known as SET factors). The interaction of these three forces results in the emergence of new, preferred states for customers and consumers.
The consistent theme throughout the twentieth century is that design has flourished in companies in which a design leader has been able to represent a full range of value to corporate management, from design strategy and brand equity to design implementation. Design leadership must have corporate champions at the CEO and CTO level who see the value of design and allow it to play a central role in the planning and execution of corporate strategy. This was as true in 1907, when AEG hired Peter Behrens, as it is today at HP, where Sam Lucente is director of design.
However, during most of the twentieth century, corporations and cultural institutions asked designers to play a focused and limited role in product and service development. Today, that role is expanding and the core of the field, design thinking, must expand with it. Design thinking has a rich history, and it is important to trace how it evolved to help understand why design is now so valued.
Indeed, the LWC represents a synthesis of a number of design influences that have developed during the last century. This article provides an overview of those influences.
CASE STUDIES FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
During the late nineteenth century, with the rise of the Industrial Revolution, a schism occurred in the attitude toward the production of new products and buildings. On one side were John Ruskin and William Morris, who shared the belief that the Industrial Revolution was rapidly growing out of control, particularly in the second half of the century. They reacted against the dehumanization of labor and the lack of craft sensibilities in mass-manufactured goods and services (the other side). Morris's designs for products, graphics, and architecture expressed Ruskin's argument and influenced others to become part of a major craft revival. The Arts and Crafts movement was a reaction to the emerging dominance of standardization requiring quantitatively driven management and cost approaches used by industrialists. The quantitative approach was viewed as a necessary approach in managing the dramatic increase of raw materials and finished goods in the service of emerging mass markets. The Arts and Crafts movement was a reaction against the process of industrial production, emphasizing the quality of the product and experience created for consumers.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the two clear sides of the argument about how best to manage change were fully developed. On one side were the industrialists, represented by Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Ford. Supported by Fredrick Taylor's theories of scientific production, they promoted the rapid growth of the modern corporation. The opposing position was held by Arts and Crafts advocates, represented at that time by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Viennese Secessionists, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Gustav Stickley, who extolled human-scale production and consumption. Many of their designs combined historical reference with a modern interpretation. Wright's Prairie Style architecture integrated ideas from Japan, as well as from Native Americans, and emphasized the horizontal nature of the prairie with modern concepts of reinforced concrete and open-space planning. Wright stated that his buildings all contained subliminal mathematics, an underlying logical order of visual elements that resulted in an elegant integrated whole, or Gestalt. In contrast, because of the necessities of using the assembly line and other cost controls, the design elements of Ford's Model T were merely a compilation of parts. The current theory of human-centered design includes the esthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement while also incorporating the scale of mass production.
The schism lasted throughout the twentieth century and persists into the present. For most of the previous century, the dominant argument driving change was in the area of mass manufacture and distribution as directed by captains of industry using statistical methods of management and the emerging scientific method employed by corporate research and development. Two types of CEOs emerged after the turn of the century. One focused primarily on cost control and on engineering and manufacture. The other was open to integrating design and saw the value of brand identity in response to foreign competition and the emergence of consumer segmentation in America. The opportunity for practitioners in fields of design in the early twentieth century was to fill the gap between insensitive, cost-driven mass production and the craft refinement of human-scale production and local distribution of goods and services.
PETER BEHRENS: CORPORATE IDENTITY AND BRAND DIFFERENTIATION
Architect Peter Behrens was one of the first designers who tried to synthesize the two polar positions of technology and craft. In 1907, Behrens was hired by Emil Rathenau, the founder and president of the German electric company AEG. The company needed a new approach to make electricity more acceptable to consumers; Rathenau hoped they would learn to use the technology more broadly during the course of the day, and more evenly in every season. Behrens's work is particularly notable in that he designed not only AEG's buildings and products but also the company's corporate identity and print advertising. Behrens has been called the first industrial designer, but he also paved the way for corporate design strategy and clearly understood the challenge of brand differentiation. Behrens sought to marry the sophistication and human scale of craft heritage in European products with the emerging massive systems of electrical power generation and distribution. Indeed, he succeeded in finding a way to connect the system of electrification, as a new and underutilized source of power, to the quality and tradition of products in the home that could use electricity. Behrens's logo design is still in use (although the brand name is now owned by Electrolux), and his design standards and guidelines for elements in graphic communication predate the grids developed by Dutch and Swiss graphic designers later in the century.
THE BAUHAUS: A NEW DESIGN STRATEGY FOR EDUCATION
Behrens's work ended as a result of the outbreak of World War I, but his influence remained. His apprentices before the war were architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The Bauhaus, founded in 1919 by Gropius, was the first school in the twentieth century to take Behrens's ideas and translate them into a curriculum for higher education. Mies served as its last director, for in the early '30s, pressure from the Nazi government forced him to close the school. Both he and Gropius were among many Bauhaus designers who moved to the United States. After World War II, the Bauhaus philosophy of finding a balance among art, science, and mass production received significant support from leading art and design critics in the U.S. The Bauhaus immigrants formed several branches and influenced design across the American landscape, and indeed their school became one of the most influential design movements in the world.
Walter Gropius taught architecture and planning at Harvard, and Mies van der Rohe went to the architecture school at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, while other disciples, including Lazlo Moholy Nagy and Josef Albers, founded new programs. Josef and Anni Albers eventually went to Yale, and Mo-holy Nagy founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago, eventually merging with IIT's architecture program to form the Institute of Design. Herbert Bayer became head of design for Container Corporation. Each Bauhaus disciple brought from Germany a variation of Behren's core argument that he or she further developed in the U.S., continuing the struggle to balance art, science, and mass production in their work and teaching. Attempts to achieve this balance are exemplified by Mies van der Rohe's glass and steel architecture and furniture designs.
For example, in Chicago's Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Mies expresses his curtain wall exterior with an elegantly proportioned glass and steel façade. The structural support and mechanical core are the consequence of the new systematic and efficient approach to the construction of modern skyscrapers. Mies's theories and students influenced the design and construction of skyscrapers around the world for several decades.
CORPORATE AND CONSULTING DESIGN IN THE UNITED STATES
In contrast to the design thinking that started with Behrens and the Bauhaus, there is an equally influential argument represented by the founders of American industrial and graphic design who worked in corporate and consulting firms during the 1920s and '30s. These designers include Harley Earl, Henry Dreyfuss, Walter Dorwin Teague, and Donald Desky (all born in the United States), and Raymond Loewy (a French immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1919). Their contribution lay in developing methods by which design thinking began to serve the needs of emerging U.S. corporations. Where the influence of the Bauhaus in America originated primarily in education and then moved into practice, the success of these designers influenced the content of the curriculum of American design programs, which began to graduate practitioners who could fill the demand for corporate and consulting designers. Pratt Institute, Art Center College of Design, the Center for Creative Studies, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon), and the University of Cincinnati all developed distinct variations on the approach to graphic and industrial education.
Harley Earl and General Motors: Market Segmentation in the Auto Industry
Harley Earl, GM's head of color and trim from 1927 to 1959, was the first designer in the United States to apply market segmentation in a strategic way to the design of cars.
By the mid 1920s, the Ford Model T had dominated the automobile market for nearly two decades. (The Model T famously came in only one color: black.) Earl's cars were designed to meet the diverse needs of the U.S. market segments that were emerging and growing during the Roaring '20s. Earl, working with the support of GM President Alfred E. Sloan, designed five distinct brands, ranging from the low-end Chevrolet to the high-end Cadillac. The strategy worked immediately; in 1927, Ford was forced to close its River Rouge plant and retool for the Model A. Harley Earl, one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, capped his career during the 1950s with designs for Chevy and Cadillac that became icons of American culture for that period. He introduced and perfected clay modeling and the idea of concept cars. GM maintained its market segment approach until the reduction of car sales in recent years forced the closing of the Oldsmobile brand. (By then, consumers had realized that GM was using common platforms across all brands, thus reducing the perceived value of the high-end variants.)
Ford has, in contrast, always used styling on a limited range of vehicles under the Ford, Mercury (always a distant second), and Lincoln brands. In essence, Sloan at GM empowered Harley Earl in the same way Emil Rathenau empowered Peter Behrens at AEG. Consider that, in 1927, GM used the same strategy to compete with Ford that Target uses today to compete with Wal-Mart: Only one company in a market can be the cheapest; the rest need design.
Raymond Loewy, Design Consultant: Updating Existing Technology
Raymond Loewy's 1934 refrigerator redesign for Sears and Roebuck is another story that should be mandatory for design, as well as business, students. Loewy merged aesthetics, materials, and manufacturing to transform the loud and ugly electric refrigerator of the 1920s into a modern kitchen appliance. The consumer response was immediate. In one year, sales of Sears's Cold Spot increased from 65,000 to 250,000 units—without any significant change in core technology.
The Cold Spot is an indicator of how design thinking at the product level can transform a product category. Loewy integrated contemporary aesthetics and human factors into a product that incorporated sheet metal stamping technology from the auto industry with an ergonomic door handle, and a systematic organization of interior storage that used no-rust aluminum shelves. Loewy became the design consultant recognized as having the most skill at marrying business strategy with design. He is the only industrial designer to ever grace the cover of Time magazine (October 31, 1949). He also developed and managed one of the largest design consultancies in the world for more than three decades.
Henry Dreyfuss: Integrating Human Factors as a Core Component of Product Design
The work and thinking of Henry Dreyfuss overlaps with that of Loewy but needs to be differentiated in a significant respect. Dreyfuss developed a more scientific approach to human factors and integrated that perspective with product aesthetics. The Dreyfuss phone for AT&T was the first attempt to integrate human factors into the integrated speaker and receiver. The resulting design, combining ergonomics with streamlining, fit the hand as well as the ear and mouth of the average (fiftieth percentile) head.
Dreyfuss made a significant contribution to the modern field of anthropometrics when he applied statistical data of human dimensions to the development of products and to considerations of human/machine interaction. His approach was distinct from a parallel field, human factors engineering, because he always integrated human factors with appropriate aesthetics rather than depend solely on statistical analysis. The publication, in 1960, of The Measure of Man (now The Measure of Man and Woman) and its revised versions have been used by industrial designers as the definitive reference and baseline for human factors in product and machine interface design ever since. His work formed a unique argument within the emerging field of human factors and ergonomics by always emphasizing the need for logical approaches that produced elegant solutions.
Dreyfuss, whose aesthetic philosophy was influenced by product design pioneer and set designer Norman Bel Geddes, received his moral education at the progressive School for Ethical Culture in New York. The motto of the school's founder, Felix Adler, was . . . to develop individuals who will be competent to change their environment to greater conformity with moral ideals. This became the basis for Dreyfuss's human-centered approach. He expressed those ideas in his 1955 book, Designing for People.
Dreyfuss was a more articulate practitioner of human-centered design than was Loewy. His ideas and research were expressed in his writing and in the publications for which his firm is most noted. Although Loewy was a dynamic salesman and understood the business of design, his writing and personal philosophy was less focused on human factors research.
Paul Rand and Elliot Noyes: Corporate Identity and the International Movement
In the years after World War II, Elliot Noyes became one of the most influential designer/architects in the United States. However, his work with large corporations often involved collaboration with the more famous corporate identity designer, Paul Rand. Their comprehensive redesign of IBM and Westinghouse directly descends from the approach Peter Behrens took with AEG—not surprising, given that Noyes was educated as an architect at Harvard and studied under Gropius and Bauhaus furniture designer Marcel Breuer. Rand, for his part, was heavily influenced by what had come to be called the Swiss Style of graphic design and helped to build a relationship between Switzerland's Basel School of Design and Yale University. The strategic redesigns carried out by Rand and Noyes for IBM and Westinghouse became a blueprint for modern global corporate identity systems and spearheaded what came to be known as International Style.
One of the first strategic design decisions Rand and Noyes conceived for International Business Machines was to reduce its long and awkward name to IBM. Modern identities, they believed, needed to be easy to read and pronounce in all applications and all languages. The new logo and identity system was integrated with an approach to curtain wall architecture that was applied to the new buildings at IBM, as well as to the outer panel construction design of mainframe computer systems.
Both IBM and Westinghouse developed large design centers for product, identity, and graphic design while also maintaining a relationship with international design consultants. As for Rand's and Noyes's work, it persists to this day. (For example, IBM's nickname, Big Blue, derives from the color Rand used for the original logo.) Their work continued the design principles defined by Behrens and taught by the Bauhaus, and introduced the principles of the Basel School of Design to corporate America.
George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames: Systems Design for Home and Work
When George Nelson was appointed design director for Herman Miller in 1945, he brought a new level of design thinking to the concept of furniture design for the home and office. Working with a number of designers, he redirected the strategy of Herman Miller and made it the leader in systems design for the modern office. Modern office buildings were being designed using a systematic approach, and Nelson saw the interior office landscape similarly—as a potential opportunity for the application of modular design systems. Each individual piece of furniture would act as one in a series of flexible parts with multiple configurations that would fit the modern open office that had come into being in the 1950s and '60s.
The design thinking expressed in Nelson's own designs and strategic plans epitomized the perceived function of the modern design manager. As well, Nelson was able to take the goals of the company and inspire a team of designers to creatively interpret them.
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames contributed some of their most important designs under this new strategy. Both of them studied at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art, and both were influenced by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, who had designed buildings for the Cranbrook Educational Community and who also became the president of and a professor at the Cranbrook Academy. The Eames lounge chair and airport seating solution, for Herman Miller, are two of the most influential design projects of the twentieth century. The lounge chair was designed for the home and is the classic modern lounge chair; however, the systematic design approach taken by the Eameses contained all the elements that also made it a prototypical example of the modern office chair. The design integrated three structural shell components with soft leather pillow interface modules, a star-shaped base with a structural pivot center post, and knock-down capability, which reduced shipping volume and allowed for easy assembly upon delivery. The airport seating design is a case study in maximizing use of materials while meeting all customer, end user, and stakeholder needs. Originally designed for Dulles Airport, it is still in use in airports around the world and has stood the test of time as the best all-around solution for modern public interior seating.
The ideas and work of Charles and Ray Eames represent a unique and vital branch of design thinking. Their work is as powerful and influential as that of Frank Lloyd Wright; yet they are virtually unknown outside of the fields of design and architecture.
FROM PRODUCT TO ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE
In 1975 Bill Hannon founded the Design Management Institute (DMI) in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the first professional organization in the world dedicated to improving the role of design in business, and helped to define design management as a new practice. Along with colleague Peter Gorb of the London Business School, DMI helped to add management discipline and process improvement to the design creativity process and helped set the foundations for design thinking. In 1976, Victor Papanek published his Design for the Real World, asking designers to see the potential of design thinking for social and environmental responsibility. He accused designers of catering to the small percentage of consumers who have everything, while ignoring those in lower income levels and emerging economies, as well as people with disabilities. Papanek was an early proponent, along with Buckminster Fuller, of the belief that design could be an effective tool to use for environmental and social improvement. In 1982, Ralph Caplan wrote in By Design that Mahatma Gandhi's concept of nonviolent protest was one of the most effective design solutions in history. The philosophies of Papanek, Fuller, and Caplan introduced social change to design thinking.
At first, Papanek's criticism, which challenged the status quo, was rejected by most industrial design practitioners in the United States. His thinking received greater acceptance by European and American design educators. Papanek was an early proponent of what is now referred to as universal, or inclusive, design, and his ideas undoubtedly led to one of the mainstream success stories in universal design—the first set of products for OXO International, developed during a collaboration between Sam Farber and Smart Design in 1990. Using the concept of universal design, OXO has now developed more than 500 low-tech, high-touch product solutions that improve the way we hold everyday objects. The only real technological breakthrough the company realized was the use of neoprene; the rest came about from the thoughtful integration of ergonomics and aesthetics to create assistive devices that empower rather than stigmatize the person using

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All I am doing is dropping some text into the nodes of the treeview. I want to find the parent node of the drop target. How do I do it?

A: You need to use the Drop event of the treeview control.

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Home Lifestyle Business Kroger to ban Visa credit cards at Smith's stores
Kroger to ban Visa credit cards at Smith's stores
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Kroger Co. will no longer accept Visa credit cards as a method of payment at Smith's Food & Drug stores starting April 3.
Officials at Kroger stores say Visa has some of the highest fees, which prompted the decision.
"Visa has been misusing its position and charging retailers excessive fees for a long time," Mike Schlotman, Kroger's executive vice president and CFO, said in a press release. "At Smith's, Visa's credit card fees are higher than any other credit card brand that we accept. Visa's excessive fees and unfairness cannot continue to go unchecked."
The stores will continue to accept Visa debit cards.
Salt Lake Community College student Jason Tolbert regularly shops at Smith's and found the news alarming.
"I'm worried that they will slowly start moving away from other major credit [card] companies," he says. The change, he says, could affect his choice to shop at the store, especially if its avocado offering – his main reason for frequenting Smith's – changes, too.
The move, according to the press release, would allow the stores to keep down prices. If it were to continue to accept Visa credit cards, customers would likely see an increase in prices.
"Grocery is a competitive business, and our ability to keep prices low for our customers depends on controlling costs," Kenny Kimball, President of Smith's Food & Drug Centers, said in the release.
Kroger's Foods Co. Supermarket in California stopped accepting Visa credit cards in August 2018.
The Kroger Co. is an American company founded in Ohio. Smith's is the second chain of Kroger stores to cut ties with the credit card company.
After the announcement, Kimball noted that Smith's offered several deals at its Utah locations, including double rewards points on fuel purchases and other promotions. Smith's has 55 locations throughout Utah with more than 20,000 employees.
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There is an increase of security when using LTL. LTL shipments are packaged onto pallets before shipments. These pallets help keep the packages more secure than orders that use smaller handling units. Using LTL gives additional service options. If you prefer to use inside pickup then that is available to you, as well as, other features. Tracking packages also gives a sense of security. LTL also allows packages to be tracked via shipment reference number, PRO number, bill of lading number, PO number, pick up date range, etc. Lastly, LTL is more cost effective than other alternatives. When using LTL you pay only for the portion of the trailer used. The rest of the trailer is covered by the other "tenants." All that said, LTL can be optimized even further.
XPO Logistics is the second largest LTL provider in North America. They plan to add $100 million in incremental profit over the next two years. This is due to their LTL 2.0 optimization plan. It aims to add four key points to their LTL "core" to make these changes happen. All of these optimizations lie in the realm of technology.
Linehaul Bypass Model: XPO is developing algorithms that assemble truckloads dedicated to direct movement of LTL freight. The BPM improves the efficiency of LTL transport vehicles by reducing the amount of stops to a single location.
Load-Building through Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence is being used to completely optimize how trailers are being loaded. Pallets will be put in the trailers with the best route for them, as well as, loading the pallets in the best order to load them out.
Dynamic Route Optimization for Pickup and Delivery: The same, previously mentioned, AI will also be used to plan their delivery and pickup routes. More pickup and deliveries will be possible per hour. It will determine the best routes to use on the fly by which areas have more traffic than others.
Pricing Algorithms: The algorithms being developed for the final part of XPO's optimization plan are meant to predict LTL price elasticity. Future market conditions will be predicted based on real-time supply and demand and historical data. This gives responses to customer RFPs.
There's already reason to believe that these changes are successful. XPO already launched the first phase of their Linehaul Bypass Model. "This creates truckloads dedicated to direct freight shipments," said Scott Malat, XPO's outgoing chief strategy officer. "Instead of having the truck, stop at multiple service centers. So far, this change has shown an approximate 2.4% increase indirect loads." LTL optimization is important, and these changes highlight why that's the case.


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Q: Truncated Von Mises-Fisher distribution I am putting a von Mises-Fisher prior on my data. The data does lie on a unit sphere, but the only problem is that my data is always positive. So I feel like I am wasting my prior on unnecessary negative space. This problem probably gets exaggerated once I go into high dimensions (~500) since I'm only using a single quadrant out of the possible $2^{500}$.
So my question is how do I work out the normalising constant:
It is known that $\int_{x\in S}\exp(\kappa\mu^Tx)dx$ where S is the surface of the unit sphere is $\frac{(2\pi)^{p/2} I_{p/2-1}(\kappa) }{\kappa^{p/2-1}}$ where $p$ is the number of dimensions and $I$ is the modified Bessel function of the first kind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Mises%E2%80%93Fisher_distribution.
However, what would happen if I restrict this sphere to the first quadrant. i.e. $x_i>0$?
$$\int_{x\in S, x_i>0}\exp(\kappa\mu^Tx)dx=?$$

A: Because the analysis should not be too sensitive to the prior, we should feel free to make minor modifications to the prior.  Instead of truncating it, why not reflect all the probability into the first hyperquadrant?  That is, continue to use a von Mises-Fisher prior for $(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_{n})$ (with $n\approx 500$) but base your analysis on $(|x_1|,|x_2|,\ldots,|x_{n}|)$. That would not need any renormalization at all.
The objection immediately arises that the calculations would require a $500$-fold sum, amounting to $2^{500}$ terms, which is an impossible calculation.  Although that is true, an algebraic simplification makes it possible.  I am suggesting using a prior
$$f(\mathbf x; \mu, \kappa) = C(\mu, \kappa) \sum_{i\in \{-1,1\}^n} \exp\left(\kappa (i_1 \mu_1, i_2\mu_2, \ldots, i_n\mu_n) \cdot \mathbf x\right)$$
where $C(\mu,\kappa)$ is the normalizing constant for the von Mises-Fisher distribution with parameters $(\mu, \kappa)$, all the $x_i$ are non-negative (and, without any loss of generality, you may as well assume all the $\mu_i$ are non-negative, too).  But by separately performing the sum over the last component, the foregoing can be written
$$C(\mu, \kappa) \sum_{i\in \{-1,1\}^{n-1}} \left(\exp\left(\kappa (i_1 \mu_1, i_2\mu_2, \ldots,\mu_n) \cdot \mathbf x\right) + \exp\left(\kappa (i_1 \mu_1, i_2\mu_2, \ldots,-\mu_n) \cdot \mathbf x\right)\right) \\
= C(\mu, \kappa) 2\cosh(\kappa \mu_n x_n)\sum_{i\in \{-1,1\}^{n-1}} \exp\left(\kappa (i_1 \mu_1, i_2\mu_2, \ldots,i_{n-1}\mu_{n-1}) \cdot \mathbf x_{[-n]}\right)$$
where $\mathbf x_{[-n]} = (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_{n-1})$.  Proceeding inductively on $n$ yields
$$f(\mathbf x; \mu, \kappa) = C(\mu, \kappa) 2^n \prod_{i=1}^n \cosh(\kappa \mu_i x_i)$$
which is quite tractable.  For $\kappa \gg 0$ (that is, as this prior grows a little less diffuse), $f(\mathbf x; \mu, \kappa)$ approaches the truncated von Mises-Fisher distribution.


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BREAKING: Rock legends ELO to land spaceship at Sheffield Arena
Rock legend Jeff Lynne and his Electric Light Orchestra will land their spaceship at Sheffield Arena.
Monday, 21 November, 2016, 10:06
Jeff Lynne's ELO to play Sheffield Arena on June 21, 2017.
The Mr Blue Sky hitmaker has tweeted a photo of his famed ELO spacecraft hovering above the venue.
They will play one night only on Wednesday, June 21. Tickets - priced £50 to £110 - are expected to sell out fast when they go on sale this Friday, November 25, at 9am. For more visit www.sheffieldarena.co.ukThe gig is a coup for the venue which is the only UK venue so far announced by the band other than London's Wembey Stadium, on June 24.
ELO are known for a string of hits including chart-topping Xanadu, Hold On Tight, Don't Bring Me Down, Last Train To London and All Over The World.
Fans will be hoping for all the greatest hits but the concert dates are billed as Alone In The Universe Tour - suggesting it will promote their latest album of the same name, which reached number four on the UK charts when it was released a ear ago.
Alone in the Universe is the band's 13th studio album and came out from Lynne as a response to ELO tribute and imitation bands, who repeatedly used ELO for promoting their own tours.
The album is the first of new original material credited to the group since Zoom in 2001, and the second since the original group's disbandment in 1986. It follows their 2005 million seller All Over The World - The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra.
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With the exception of a short-lived reformation in 2000–01, ELO remained largely inactive for the next three decades.
Known for their epic live shows and with a distinct style that seamlessly and innovatively blends rock, pop and classical, ELO has had 26 UK Top 40 singles, making Lynne's sweeping productions some of the most recognisable music of the last 40 years and helping sell over 50 million records worldwide.
In 2014, Lynne reformed the band once again as Jeff Lynne's ELO, where he resumed concert touring and new recordings under the moniker.
Widely agreed upon as one of the greatest record producers in music history, Lynne was a co-founder and member of The Travelling Wilburys together with Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison and Tom Petty as well as a producer and collaborator with some of the biggest names in music including The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, and most recently, Bryan Adams.
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Like I said above, Wealthy Affiliate was designed with main focus on helping people like you and me to get started online with proper tools, knowledge and support.
To help you get started Kyle&Carson offer you various tools that make this process as easy as possible.
If you take a look at this huge list of the advantages you will realize that Wealthy Affiliate is definitely an amazing deal.
It has everything you need to help you get started online and achieve your business goals provided you are willing to take action and follow the steps within Wealthy Affiliate and ask questions if you have them. Other programs charge WAY more for all these tools and features.
Wealthy Affiliate training teaches you everything you need in order to build a successful online business. The main certification course teaches you how to create quality content for your website and get it ranked on Google's first page.
This will bring to some or a lot of free traffic from Google to your website. Traffic means visitors, i.e, potential buyers. You will also learn how to get traffic (free and paid) from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus.
You will learn how to create videos and rank them on YouTube and drive free traffic to your website. You will learn how to drive traffic using paid advertising methods, such as Google adwords and Bing ads (PPC).
You will learn how to increase conversions of your website using email marketing. You will learn how to get more traffic using social outreach strategies.
All these strategies work very well if you dedicate time to implementing these strategies. It will take time and effort but reward is great in terms of traffic and income.
Now I want to answer your question: Does Wealthy Affiliate work? Yes, it does work! But it works differently for different people.
First, it depends on your consistent effort and the amount of time you dedicate to your online business.
Second, it makes wonders for some people while it makes sense for others. What I mean is that your website traffic (number of daily visitors) is the main source of your online income.
The more traffic you have the more income you can earn. Some people are good at applying strategies they have learnt and accordingly they get awesome results.
They make a few thousands dollars per month. Other people are not so good at applying the strategies or have no much luck and they earn way less.
Like I said above, level of your website income depends on Google rankings ( making your website appear on the first page of Google).
The truth is that Google doesn't rank all websites equally. And it's not always a matter of quality content alone that makes your website to the top of Google.
If you have no much luck with Google rankings then you will have to use other strategies, such as paid advertising, email marketing, social marketing, social outreach, video marketing.
That's why people have different levels of success. Not all, but almost everyone makes money if they work hard. For example, I joined Wealthy Affiliate in September 2013 and started following the certification course and creating content (material) for my website.
One year later, in October 2014 I launched my website. For two years (October 2015 – January,February 2017) I made $12.232.
This is not net income because I made some investment in paid advertising. My net profit is between $500 – $700 per month.
Not so much compared to other members that are making between $3000-$5000 per month. Anyway, I think it's not bad. And here is another screenshot of my income ( $425.55) that I made as a direct result of Wealthy Affiliate training.
As I said above, Wealthy Affiliate has everything you need to get started online. When you get started, you need to learn the basics of making money online and you need to learn it through a simple step-by-step process. This is possible within Wealthy Affiliate platform.
You need to build your website without html coding. You don't need to be a programmer once you're inside Wealthy Affiliate. You can build your website in 4 simple steps inside Wealthy Affiliate.
Step 1. What kind of website do you want to build?
Step 4. Build Your website now!
You need a web-hosting service to host your website and you need to buy a domain name (yourwebsitename.com) for your website.
You can do this thanks to Wealthy Affiliate Site Hosting and Site Domains service. It also includes SSL certificates for your site, site backup, email accounts, sitehealth and site analysis.
You need a keyword research tool in order to be able to find keywords related to your website topic and get your website ranked under those keywords in Google's top 10/20. This will allow you to get free traffic to your website and monetize that traffic.
You need to know about all updates related to your online business, such as Google updates, social media updates, YouTube updates, new advertising strategies, new tendencies in online business space and more.
All this becomes possible thanks to Wealthy Affiliate's weekly live video classes and interaction with other successful and experienced members.
You need support in case you have something unclear to you. There are a lot of additional trainings within Wealthy Affiliate that will answer almost all your questions. You can also get support through private messaging, live chat and forum.
Any of these two courses can make you money. My website is around WA Bootcamp Course. I also plan to build another website around my passion.
You can choose any direction and become successful. It depends on how badly you want it.
Why I love Wealthy Wealthy?
I love Wealthy Affiliate because of their realistic and honest approach. They provide high quality service and support AND they never give you false promises.
In fact, many other programs like Wealthy Affiliate provide the same type of service but they make unrealistic claims, such as making a lot of money in X amount of days.
People believe them, join their programs and then quit soon after joining. Wealthy Affiliate is DIFFERENT.
Their team has realistic approach to business and honest approach to people. They always clearly explain that success takes time and effort.
I think I was able to prove that Wealthy Affiliate works and it works for me too.
My results are not the best results one can achieve but you now have an idea of what you can expect from this program.
If you put some effort and dedicate some time to it you will be doing alright.
Just stay positive and surround yourself with successful people that you will find inside Wealthy Affiliate.
Hi, I am a beginner who only started late last year. I would be jumping through the roof if I had your results right now. $700 a month surely isn't much, but one could move to a cheap place like Thailand and still live pretty good. Thats the reason I want to do this affiliate marketing stuff, to have the freedom of living.
You are correct, WA is legit. Also correct that they will not hold your hand like a baby, one has to do the work for themselves. All WA is that they supply you with the information, it is up to the individual to take it and use it. Nice article, I am inspired by your results.
I'm really glad you are positive and working hard to achieve success with your online business. Yes, I agree that making $500 -$700 isn't that much. But to be honest, I thought I would make WAY more. Like I said in my post, the amount of your income depends on the amount of traffic you have. Google ranks some sites to the top while doesn't favours other sites in the same way. And believe me, it's not because those sites that outrank you have better content. Not at all. And because the have a ton of quality backlinks. It's the way how Google randomly ranks sites. That's the true reality and we can do nothing about it. Anyway, making the amount I'm making is still a win win situation and I shared this info so other reading WA reviews could see what they could realistically expect from the idea of making money.
Awesome review of Wealthy Affiliate Rufat.
I love reading about success stories and yours is a great read. So would you say a person needs at least 2 years of hard work and posting content every day to get to $500 a month? I am willing to give it that long.
You have covered all of the important aspect that make this what I think is the best business school on the planet. The training and support is amazing.
You can try other programs but you will eventually end up back at Wealthy Affiliate. Thanks for this, continued success and keep working hard!
Not at all Peter. You don't need to post every day. For two years I posted 350 posts. Now I'm posting once a week. That's it. And I'm still making money. That's the beauty of online business. You do the work once and then earn a consistent income for a long time. Some people start making WAY more that I'm making within a year or so. Everyone's experience is different. I agree with you that many people that leave Wealthy Affiliate then come back here because they can't get the same type of quality info in other places. Plus support at Wealthy Affiliate is so great and responsive that makes them come back here. I wish you success with your business Peter.
That is a very thorough Review and your results are great, showing it works if you just work at it. Too many people look for a quick fix and it really doesn't exist. You have to put in the time and the beauty of Wealthy Affiliate is it provides all the tools you need to be successful!
That was the idea of my Wealthy Affiliate review. To make it as realistic as possible so other people could make an informed decision without any exaggeration. Like you say, many people look for a quick but they don't understand that easy money doesn't exist. If you don't put your effort into something you can't expect something in return. Wealthy Affiliate like you say, provides all the tools and info on how to start and turn your site into a money generating machine. You can make a lot of OR some money but it will your own and consistent income. I believe WA is worth the time you put into it.
What a wonderful and thorough post. I have been a member of WA for just 2 months today. I find it to be an absolutely incredible place to learn and get support from many different areas within the community.
Everything you say here is correct and very true. I don't believe anyone reading this article will think that you are just another online salesman trying to take their money.
Your realistic presentation should be enough to motivate anyone that is looking for new way to succeed online and especially those that have been burned by the many scams that are out there everyday.
I think the best part of Wealthy Affiliate is that besides quality training, it provides a fantastic support without which one one can succeed online. I'm glad you find my review correct and honest and I tried to be such to the best of my ability. I wrote my review this way to let people know exactly what they can expect from this amazing program. And like you I believe my review will motivate many other people. I didn't hide any info here. I showed my real income that's not huge. But these numbers are real and I think it will let people have the right expectations. They need to know and realize that success requires time and patience and some investment.
You made a very informative and honest review of Wealthy Affiliate.
I think in the online world, people are quick to call a program a scam if it does not work for them, if someone joins Wealthy Affiliate and does not follow the training, they give up them shout scam, but like everything out there nothing is for free and WA is not different.
Like you mention in your post, Wealthy Affiliate works and it can work for anyone who follows the tutorials and take action, this is another problem many people learning online have, they keep learning, creating content but then do not take action on the other things they learn from WA or any other program and I think this is another reason for failure.
I can see you make some good income as a result of the good training you got from WA, im sure you`d not be making the same if you had tried it out then given up too soon to look for shiny objects that promise some insane amounts in days.
Thanks for sharing really inspiring.
I completely agree with you Roamy. I always explain to my visitors that there is no way to guarantee their success but if they like you say follow the training at Wealthy Affiliate and take action they will definitely start making money. It will happen sooner or later. The main thing here is not to give up too soon. And the great thing about Wealthy Affiliate is that it gives you a chance to try their program without paying anything so you can see how it works and what you will be doing for making money. I agree that a lot of folks don't take action. They start and the quit after a couple months. This way it won't work. You have to be consistent in your effort. I personally learnt a lot of stuff at Wealthy Affiliate for what I'm very thankful to them. This is the only program that taught me how to make buck online. And you are right that if I quit too soon I wouldn't see an income that I'm making now. It takes time, dedication and patience before you start making real buck online. I'm glad I came across such a program as Wealthy Affiliate and I have no plans to leave it.


I'm back at work – day two now – after my long vacation. I'm actually full time now. I was contracting prior to this, but fortunately, the company decided they couldn't live without me and brought me on full time. Okay, so I'm being sarcastic. They could live without me, it just wouldn't be as pretty.
Honestly, though, I'm just grateful to have a job. This is a great company and I feel fortunate to be a part of what's going on here.
Thanksgiving was just fine. Got to see a lot of the family I haven't seen in a while. With all the drama in my family, it's always a little awkward. People are sort of fake, and don't say what they're really thinking, but perhaps that's because they want the holidays to be a happy time. I wonder what's better… a fake happiness, or no happiness at all.
Anyhow, no big dramas occurred this past Thanksgiving and all in all, things went off fairly well. Grandma sent me home with my normal portion of leftovers in cool-whip containers. There's nothing like serving myself up some mashed potatoes and stuffing from her kitchen – yummy!
Otherwise life is just okay right now. Nothing special. No big catostrophies. Nothing really exciting. I seem to be a little restless, but maybe that's just because I tend to be drawn to drama and there's none of that going on right now. Just need to learn to be comfortable with the status quo.
There are a couple of guys on the prospective dating horizon, so we'll see where that goes.
My sponsor tells me that I've still got a little over two months before I can even consider it, so I'm in no rush.


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U.S. Cellular's Galaxy Note II to cost $299
Scott Webster
U.S. Cellular is the first carrier to announce its price for the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Note II. Expected to arrive in "late October", the 5.5-inch smartphone will run$299.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. In a bit of goodwill, U.S. Cellular will change that to an instant rebate for those of you who pre-order the device. For what it's worth, this model will be the 16GB Titanium Gray version of the quad-core device.
U.S. CELLULAR CUSTOMERS GETTING THE SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE II IN OCTOBER
Online presales begin today
CHICAGO (September 19, 2012) – U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the United States, have announced the 4G LTE™ Samsung Galaxy Note™ II will be available for customers to preorder today at uscellular.com/note2, and it will be in stores and online in late October. The 16GB Titanium Gray Galaxy Note II will be $299.99 with an instant rebate for those who purchase during the online presale. It will be $299.99 after $100 mail-in rebate when it arrives in stores.
Customers who purchase the Samsung Galaxy Note II from U.S. Cellular receive benefits no other carrier offers, including new devices faster without continuously signing contracts, free Battery Swap and the only points-based rewards program in the industry. The Samsung Galaxy Note II joins U.S. Cellular's cutting-edge line-up of devices that also includes the award-winning Samsung Galaxy S® III.
Galaxy Note II is designed to enhance the standards of performance, productivity and power in a unique device that combines a powerful smartphone with the best functionality aspects of a tablet. The Galaxy Note II's brilliant 5.5 inch HD Super AMOLED™ touchscreen allows for easy viewing of websites, video, crystal clear pictures and videos with vibrant color rendering. Smooth multitasking, fluid gaming and faster navigation will also be noted with the U.S. debut of Samsung's Exynos 1.6 GHz quad-core processor in combination with Android™ 4.1 (Jelly Bean). The S Pen creative tool, a long-lasting 3,100 mAh removable battery, an 8-megapixel rear-facing and a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera with HD video recording and an additional 64GB available with microSD™ card are just some of many features users will enjoy on this premium mobile device.
"The Samsung Galaxy Note II on the fast 4G LTE network provides our customers with a unique experience that can make work and play easier wherever you are," said Edward Perez, vice president of sales and marketing operations for U.S. Cellular. "We are once again excited to work with Samsung to bring this caliber of device to our customers to help them stay connected to the people and information important to them."
The Galaxy Note II is an advanced and versatile device designed to enhance and simplify your life. It is the ultimate multi-tasker, with its unique Pop Up Play picture-in-picture feature allowing users to watch a video while reading an email or sending a text message. Pop Up Note lets users open an S Note instantly as a pop-up window anywhere on the screen to jot down a quick note during a phone call or other live services. Using the S Pen along with Air View, customers can conveniently and quickly browse photos and documents without opening up folders. The device also features S Beam NFC sharing capability and the Smart Stay eye tracking feature made popular on the Samsung Galaxy S III are also available on the Galaxy Note II.
U.S. Cellular, in partnership with King Street Wireless, currently offers 4G LTE service covering 31 percent of their customers in select cities in Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin. Later this year, 4G LTE coverage will expand to cover select cities in Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia. By the end of 2012, 58 percent of U.S. Cellular customers will enjoy faster 4G LTE speeds. For more information about the 4G LTE experience, visit uscellular.com/4G.
Samsung, Galaxy, Note and AMOLED are trademarks of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Other company names, product names and marks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners and may be trademarks or registered trademarks.
Samsung Mobile is the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the United States based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics, North America Handset Vendor Marketshare,Q2 2012.
About King Street Wireless, L.P.
King Street Wireless, L.P. currently holds 700 MHz wireless spectrum in 27 states and is partnering with Chicago-based U.S. Cellular to deliver high-speed 4G LTE service to U.S. Cellular's customers in several of the carrier's markets. King Street Wireless is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia where it is recognized for its involvement in its community both through its economic development and philanthropic efforts. To learn more about King Street Wireless, visit www.kingstreetwireless.com.
About Samsung Telecommunications America
Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets and telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.samsungwireless.com.
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2011 consolidated sales of US$143.1 billion. Employing approximately 206,000 people in 197 offices across 72 countries, the company operates two separate organizations to coordinate its nine independent business units: Digital Media & Communications, comprising Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, and Digital Imaging; and Device Solutions, consisting of Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world's most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.
About U.S. Cellular
U.S. Cellular rewards its customers with unmatched benefits and industry-leading innovations designed to elevate the customer experience. The Chicago-based carrier has a strong line-up of cutting-edge devices that are all backed by its high-speed nationwide network that has the highest call quality of any national carrier. Currently, 31 percent of customers have access to 4G LTE speeds and 58 percent will have access by the end of 2012. U.S. Cellular was named a J.D. Power and Associates Customer Service Champion in 2012 for the second year in a row. To learn more about U.S. Cellular, visit one of its retail stores or uscellular.com. To get the latest news, promos and videos, connect with U.S. Cellular on Facebook.com/uscellular.com, Twitter.com/uscellular and YouTube.com/uscellularcorp.
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