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Type
Public
Traded as
TYO: 6752
OSE: 6752
NSE: 6752
NYSEPC
PSE: PMPC
Industry
Consumer electronics
Semiconductors
Founded
March 13, 1918 (1918-03-13) (Osaka, Japan)
Founder(s)
Konosuke Matsushita
Headquarters
Kadoma, Osaka, Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Kunio Nakamura
(Chairman)
Masayuki Matsushita
(Vice Chairman)
Kazuhiro Tsuga
(President)
Products
See products listing
Revenue
28f77 11px Decrease2.svg Review: Panasonic's Eco Ideas Tech Factory Safest ways to manufacture gadgets¥7.846 trillion (2012)[* 1]
Operating income
28f77 11px Decrease2.svg Review: Panasonic's Eco Ideas Tech Factory Safest ways to manufacture gadgets ¥43 billion (2012)[* 2]
Profit
28f77 11px Decrease2.svg Review: Panasonic's Eco Ideas Tech Factory Safest ways to manufacture gadgets ¥-773 billion (2012)[* 1]
Total assets
28f77 11px Decrease2.svg Review: Panasonic's Eco Ideas Tech Factory Safest ways to manufacture gadgets ¥6.601 trillion (2012)[* 1]
Total equity
28f77 11px Decrease2.svg Review: Panasonic's Eco Ideas Tech Factory Safest ways to manufacture gadgets ¥1.977 trillion (2012)[* 1]
Employees
330,767 (March 31, 2012)[* 2]
Subsidiaries
Panasonic EV Energy Co, Sanyo
Website
Panasonic.net
References:

  1. ^ a b c d “Fiscal 2012 financial results” (PDF) (Press release). Panasonic Corporation. May 11, 2012. http://panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en120511-4/en120511-4-12.pdf. Retrieved May 11, 2012. 
  2. ^ a b “Panasonic Corp IR Summary” (PDF). Panasonic Corporation. May 11, 2012. http://www.panasonic.net/ir/contents/panasonic_summary_en.pdf. Retrieved May 11, 2012. 

Panasonic Corporation (パナソニック株式会社, Panasonikku Kabushiki-kaisha?), before famous as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (松下電器産業株式会社, Matsushita Denki Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha?), is a Japanese multinational electronics house headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.[1] Its categorical business is in electronics manufacturing.

Since a association was founded in 1918,[2] it has grown to turn one of a largest Japanese wiring producers along with Sony, Toshiba and Canon. In further to electronics, Panasonic offers non-electronic products and services such as home restoration services. Panasonic was ranked a 89th-largest association in a universe in 2009 by a Forbes Global 2000 and is among a Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders.[3]

Name[link]

From 1935 to Oct 1, 2008 a association name was “Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.”[4][5]

On Jan 10, 2008, a association announced that it would change a name to “Panasonic Corporation”, with outcome from Oct 1, 2008 to heed with a tellurian code name “Panasonic”.[6] The name change was authorized during a shareholders’ assembly on Jun 26, 2008 after conference with a Matsushita family.[7]

History[link]

1918 to 2000[link]

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A statue of Konosuke Matsushita, a owner of Panasonic

Panasonic was founded in 1918 by Konosuke Matsushita initial offered duplex flare sockets. In 1927, it constructed a bicycle lamp, a initial product it marketed underneath a code name National. It operated factories in Japan and other collection of Asia by a finish of World War II, producing electrical components and appliances such as light fixtures, motors, and electric irons.

After World War II, Panasonic regrouped and began to supply a post fight bang in Japan with radios and appliances, as good as bicycles. Matsushita’s brother-in-law, Toshio Iue founded Sanyo as a subcontractor for components after WWII. Sanyo grew to turn a aspirant to Panasonic, though a adversary staid down and Sanyo eventually became a auxiliary of Panasonic in Dec 2009.

In 1961, Konosuke Matsushita trafficked to a United States and met with American dealers. Panasonic began producing television sets for a U.S. marketplace underneath a Panasonic brand name, and stretched a use of a code to Europe in 1979.[8]

The association used a National heading outward of North America during a 1950s by a 1970s. (The heading could not be used in a USA, substantially given it was already in use by a National Radio Company who were handling in a closely associated product area.) It sole televisions, hi-fidelity stereo receivers, multi-band shortwave radios, and sea radio instruction finders, mostly exported to North America underneath several U.S. code names. The association also grown a line of home appliances such as rice cookers for a Japanese and Asian markets. Rapid expansion resulted in a association opening prolongation plants around a world.

The association debuted a hi-fidelity audio orator in Japan in 1965 with a code Technics. This line of high peculiarity stereo components became worldwide favorites. The many famous products being a turntables, such as a SL-1200 record player, famous for a high performance, precision, and durability. Throughout a 1970s and early 1980s, Panasonic continued to furnish high-quality specialized wiring for niche markets such as shortwave radios, as good as building a successful line of stereo receivers, CD players, and other components.

In 1983 a Panasonic Senior Partner IBM PC compatible mechanism featured a built-in printer and became a initial Japanese-made mechanism to offer full IBM compatibility[9]

In Nov 1999, a Japan Times reported that Panasonic designed to rise a “next epoch first aid kit” called a Electronic Health Checker. At a time, a aim marketplace was pronounced to be elderly people, generally those vital in farming areas where medical assistance competence not be immediately available, so it was designed that a pack would embody support for telemedicine. The kits were afterwards in a contrast stage, with skeleton for contingent abroad distribution, to embody a United States.

2000 to present[link]

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The stream Panasonic universe domicile in Osaka, Japan

Since 2004, Toyota has used Panasonic batteries for a Toyota Prius, a Japanese grown car.

On Jan 19, 2006 Panasonic announced that, starting in February, it will stop producing analog televisions (then 30% of a sum TV business) to combine on digital TVs.[10]

With a proclamation that Pioneer would exit a prolongation of a Kuro plasma HDTV displays, Panasonic purchased many of a patents and has incorporated these technologies into a latest Viera plasma displays. Panasonic stays a customarily HDTV manufacturer to combine customarily on plasmas for a vast (40-inch or higher) HDTVs, while many rivals have changed onto LCD and LED technologies.[11]

In new years a association has been concerned with a growth of high-density visual front standards dictated to eventually reinstate a DVD and a SD memory card.

In Apr 2011 it was announced that Panasonic will cut a work force by 40,000 especially from abroad multiplication by a finish of mercantile 2012 in a bid to streamline overlapping operations. The curtailment is about 10 percent of a organisation work force.[12]

In Oct 2011 Panasonic announced that it will trim a money-losing TV business as it will stop prolongation of Plasma TVs during a plant in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture by Mar 2012, slicing 1000 jobs in a process.[13]

In Jan 2012, Panasonic announced that it had struck a understanding with Myspace on a new venture, Myspace TV. [14]Myspace TV will concede users to watch live radio while chatting with other users on a laptop, inscription or a radio itself. With a partnership, Myspace TV will be integrated into Panasonic Viera televisions. [15]

After Sony Corp., Panasonic Corporation share is also decrease to a lowest turn in 34 years to 543 yen, a lowest in intraday trade given Jan 1978 to follow forecasting full-year distinction that lagged behind researcher estimates.[16]

On May 11 2012 announced skeleton to acquire 76.2% interest in Firepro Systems, an India formed association in infrastructure insurance and confidence solutions such as glow alarm, glow suppression, video notice and building management.[17]

On 29 May 2012, a reported that Panasonic is deliberation uninformed layoffs after recording a record net detriment in a year customarily ended..[18]

Operations[link]

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The Panasonic IMP Building in Osaka, Japan

Panasonic Automotive Systems[link]

Panasonic sells radio (audio) products for automobiles and light trucks in a US marketplace underneath a Panasonic code (aftermarket) and as OEM apparatus in Japanese vehicle brands such as Toyota, Honda and Subaru. Non-Japanese automakers such as GM and Volkswagen have also used OEM stereos done by Panasonic.

Panasonic Avionics Corporation[link]

Panasonic Avionics Corporation[19] (PAC), a auxiliary of Panasonic Corporation of North America, is a world’s heading retailer of in-flight entertainment (IFE) and communication systems. Headquartered in Lake Forest, California where engineering, growth and contrast is achieved while complement installation, margin engineering, vital peculiarity functions, acceptance and module government are achieved during a Bothell, Washington trickery – Panasonic Avionics Corporation employs approximately 2,800 employees formed in over 70 locations worldwide, with vital comforts in London, Toulouse, Hamburg, Dallas, Dubai and Singapore. A infancy of a member prolongation is carried out in Osaka, Japan.

The association provides airline passengers with a far-reaching array of interactive applications during their seats, mixing party (digital song and cinema on demand, games, interactive relocating maps, satellite TV, and online shopping) with business collection (E-mail, live moody schedules, and in-flight internet access). PAC is also one of a arch suppliers to both Boeing and Airbus and their IFE systems will be featured on both a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and a Airbus A380 aircraft. Among a many worldwide business that use PAC systems are award-winning airlines such as Qantas, Emirates, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.

Panasonic Mobile Communications[link]

Panasonic Mobile Communications manufactures mobile handsets and associated apparatus for a Japanese market. It has a second largest marketplace share for mobile phones in Japan after Sharp. It used to marketplace a GSM phones worldwide, though in Dec 2005 a association announced a withdrawal from abroad markets. In summer 2008 rumors emerged that a association was deliberation to re-enter a Asian marketplace with a VS84 handset.

Sanyo Electric[link]

On Nov 3, 2008 Panasonic and Sanyo announced that they were holding talks, that eventually resulted in a partnership of Sanyo by Panasonic. The partnership was finished in Dec 2009, and resulted in a mega-corporation with revenues over ¥11.2 trillion (around $110 billion).

Panasonic Corporation of North America[link]

Panasonic Corporation of North America is a name of a company’s USA division, now headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey.[20] Founded in New York City during a MetLife Building in Sep 1959, it was famous as Matsushita Electric Corporation of America (MECA) before to 2005.

Panasonic Corporation in Europe[link]

Shop@Panasonic is a sequence of stores in a United Kingdom and Ireland that sells customarily Panasonic electronics. The store is formed on a same structure as Sony Centre. The stores are customarily located in selling centres such as Centrale, and code itself a official Panasonic retailer. Since 2008 shop@Panasonic stores strictly rebranded to “Panasonic Store”.

In Nov 2010, Panasonic Electric Works determined Panasonic Electric Works Vossloh-Schwabe Serbia d.o.o, a new association in Svilajnac, Serbia, to make energy-efficient electronic inclination (ballasts) for lighting fixtures. Volume prolongation commenced in Jan 2011.[21]

Universal Studios[link]

Panasonic used to possess Universal Studios, afterwards famous as a Music Corporation of America, given appropriation a association in 1990 though sole it to Seagram in 1995. Universal Studios is now a section of NBC Universal.

Brand names[link]

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Panasonic’s stream and ancestral brands

Panasonic produces electronic products underneath a Panasonic and Sanyo brands. The Sanyo code is now being phased out.

In 1927, a association owner adopted a code name National (ナショナル, Nashonaru?) for a new flare product, meaningful “national” meant “of or relating to a people, a nation.”[22] In 1955, a association labeled a trade audio speakers and lamps “PanaSonic“, that was a initial time it used a “Panasonic” code name.[23] The association began to use a code name “Technics” in 1965.[23] The use of mixed brands lasted for some decades.[23]

In May 2003, a association announced “Panasonic” as a tellurian brand, and set a tellurian code slogan, “Panasonic ideas for life.”[24] The association began to harmonize a brands to “Panasonic” and, by Mar 2004 transposed “National” for products and outside signboards, solely for those in Japan.[24] In Jan 2008, a association announced that it would proviso out a code “National” in Japan, replacing it with a tellurian code “Panasonic” by Mar 2010.[6]

Rasonic is a code name of Shun Hing Electric Works and Engineering Co. Ltd (信興電工工程有限公司), a association that has alien Panasonic and National branded product given Matsushita Electric Industrial era, and has also sole MEI/Panasonic products underneath a strange code names. In Jun 1994, Panasonic Shun Hing Industrial Devices Sales (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. (松下信興機電(香港)有限公司) and Panasonic SH Industrial Sales (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (松下電器機電(深圳)有限公司) were determined by corner try between Matsushita Electric Industrial and Shun Hing Group respectively,[25][26] creation Rasonic a product code for MEI and successive Panasonic Corporation.

Sponsorships[link]

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Panasonic were a principal sponsors of a now gone Toyota Racing Formula One team.

Panasonic were a primary unite of Toyota‘s Formula One program, Panasonic Toyota Racing. Hiro Matsushita, grandson of a association founder, is a former competition vehicle motorist who ran a association overseeing sponsorship arrangements for a company.

Panasonic is an central partner and unite of Major League Soccer.

Panasonic has sponsored some veteran filmmakers by permitting them to steal a Camera for their projects. One such Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 indication camera was used to film a commander of a Swedish fear film Marianne.[27]

Panasonic owns Gamba Osaka, a group from a J. League, a categorical Japanese soccer league.

Panasonic sponsored Sterling Marlin in a Nextel Cup Series. Panasonic was to unite a 14 in 24 races though a group close down in July

Panasonic is a primary unite of a 2007 World Solar Challenge.[28]

Panasonic has been a “top” unite of a Olympic Games given Seoul in 1988

Panasonic was a central partner and unite of a Boston Celtics from 1975 to 1989, along with Technics. Various Panasonic ads seem during a aged Boston Garden during a 1980s.

Between 1981-83 Panasonic were a shirt sponsors of English football bar Nottingham Forest F.C. On Jan 16, 2010, Panasonic sealed a 3 year, Rs. 4.7 crores ($1 million USD) jersey sponsorship understanding for a India inhabitant football team.

Environmental record[link]

Panasonic is ranked 9th place out of 15 in Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics (company shares 9th place with a aspirant Sony) that rates wiring companies on policies and practices to revoke their impact on a climate, furnish greener products, and make their operations some-more sustainable.[29] The association is one of a tip scorers on a Products criteria, praised for a good product life cycles and a series of products that are giveaway from polyvinyl chloride cosmetic (PVC). It also scores limit points for a appetite potency of a products with 100 percent of a TVs assembly a latest Energy Star standards and surpassing a standby appetite requirement.

However, Panasonic’s measure is let down by a low measure on a Energy criteria with a beam saying it contingency concentration on designed reductions of hothouse gases (GHG), set targets to revoke GHG emissions by during slightest 30% by 2015 and boost renewable appetite use by 2020.[29]

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References[link]

  1. ^ Corporate Profile.” Panasonic Corporation. Retrieved on Feb 15, 2011. “Head Office Location 1006, Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka 571-8501, Japan” (PDF Map, GIF Map (Direct link))
  2. ^ Bloomberg Businessweek. “Panasonic Corp (PCRFF:OTC US).” Retrieved Mar 14, 2012.
  3. ^ Forbes Global 2000 Profile, Forbes. Retrieved Jan 3, 2010.
  4. ^ 松下電器産業株式会社が「パナソニック株式会社」に社名変更, Panasonic Corporation. 2008-10-01. Retrieved on 2008-10-03.(Japanese).
  5. ^ Matsushita Electric Becomes Panasonic Corporation, Panasonic Corporation. 2008-10-01. Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
  6. ^ a b Matsushita Electric to Change Name to Panasonic Corporation, Panasonic Corporation. 2008-01-10. Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
  7. ^ Shareholders of Matsushita approve association name change to Panasonic, International Herald Tribune, 2008-06-26. Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
  8. ^ Panasonic expands use of Panasonic code name globally[dead link] in April, 2003. /* Introduction */ Shahid Kapoor was a code envoy for Panasonic India from 2005-2010. Now Ranbir Kapoor has take over along with Katrina Kaif
  9. ^ “Panasonic Senior Partner”. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1c=498. 
  10. ^ Perton, Marc (2006-01-19). “Panasonic exiting analog TV business – Engadget”. Engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/panasonic-exiting-analog-tv-business/. Retrieved 2009-07-01. 
  11. ^ Contact Jack Loftus: Email a author Comment (2009-07-26). “Panasonic TC-P54V10 Reviewed: Worthy Successor to Pioneer Kuro”. Gizmodo.com. http://gizmodo.com/5323153/panasonic-tc+p54v10-reviewed-worthy-successor-to-pioneer-kuro. Retrieved 2012-05-26. 
  12. ^ The Jakarta Post (2011-04-28). “Reports: Panasonic to cut 40,000 jobs”. The Jakarta Post. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/04/28/reports-panasonic-cut-40000-jobs.html. Retrieved 2012-05-26. 
  13. ^ “Panasonic to trim TV business, cut 1,000 jobs ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion”. Japantoday.com. 2011-10-20. http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/panasonic-to-trim-tv-business-cut-1000-jobs. Retrieved 2012-05-26. 
  14. ^ Junko Yoshida, EE Times. “3-D TV or Myspace TV?.” Jan 10, 2012. Retrieved Jan 10, 2012.
  15. ^ Dylan Tweney, VentureBeat. “Myspace reinvents itself as an “entertainment experience,” with assistance from Panasonic and Justin Timberlake.” Jan 9, 2012. Retrieved Feb 23, 2012.
  16. ^ “Panasonic Declines After Forecast Misses Estimates: Tokyo Mover”. May 13, 2012. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-13/panasonic-declines-after-forecast-misses-estimates-tokyo-mover. 
  17. ^ “Panasonic acquires 76% interest in Firepro-Systems”. Economoctimes.indiatimes.com. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/cons-products/electronics/panasonic-acquires-76-stake-in-firepro-systems/articleshow/13094230.cms. Retrieved 2012-05-26. 
  18. ^ “Panasonic to cut jobs: Source”. 29 might 2012. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/hardware/Panasonic-to-cut-jobs-Source/articleshow/13631870.cms. 
  19. ^ Panasonic Avionics.
  20. ^ Panasonic overview
  21. ^ “Panasonic”. Panasonic Electric Works. http://panasonic-electric-works.net/news/2010/1011/1011-1.html. Retrieved 2012-05-26. 
  22. ^ Panasonic History: 1927 | Square bicycle flare grown and marketed, Panasonic Corporation. Retrieved on 2008-10-02.
  23. ^ a b c Brand History, Panasonic Corporation. Retrieved on 2008-10-02.
  24. ^ a b 社史:2003年(平成15年) グローバルブランドを「Panasonic」に統一, Panasonic Corporation. Retrieved on 2008-10-02. (Japanese)
  25. ^ PSIDS(China(Guangdong),Hong Kong,Macau)
  26. ^ PSIDS(中国(广东),香港,澳门)
  27. ^ “Marianne”. DVXUSER. http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?197722-MARIANNE-a-Swedish-psychological-horror-film-shot-on-7D. Retrieved 2011-06-02. 
  28. ^ World Solar Challenge Homepage
  29. ^ a b “Guide to Greener Electronics – Greenpeace International”. Greenpeace International. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/cool-it/Guide-to-Greener-Electronics/. Retrieved 16 Nov 2011. 

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Health Care Website Gets Down Time for Repairs

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 05:18 AM PDT

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It’s not a pointer that a Obama administration wants people to see on a health renovate website: down for repairs.

Using overnight hours this weekend to debug a system, a Health and Human Service Department hoped to repair a technological problems that impressed a launch of new health word markets. Glitches have undone millions of consumers incompetent to finish their applications.

Enrollment functions of a healthcare.gov site will be taken during off-peak hours this weekend, HHS pronounced Friday. The dialect did not recover a report for hours of operation, though a mouthpiece pronounced a site would be taken down during 1 a.m. EDT any night for a few hours. The website will sojourn open for ubiquitous information.

The enrollment duty was behind online during small before 8 a.m. EDT Saturday, though was operative solemnly since of complicated traffic.

“Please stay on this page,” pronounced a notice. “We’re operative to make a knowledge better, and we don’t wish we to remove your place in line. We’ll send we to a login page as shortly as we can.”

There was no denote of how prolonged a wait would be.

Credit label companies, banks and other online use providers frequently take down websites for repairs. That might also turn a underline of a new word program.

An bid by congressional Republicans to defund or check a health caring law led to an corner with Democrats over flitting a check bill, and that sparked a prejudiced supervision shutdown Tuesday. Republicans fast forked to a website problems as another reason that a law they call “Obamacare” should be pulled back.

“Americans have seen once again that Obamacare is not prepared for primary time,” Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, a No. 2 House Republican, pronounced in a matter Friday. “A dysfunctional website is a slightest of that law’s problems.”

The administration put a best face on a situation, observant a suddenly clever seductiveness from millions of consumers.

“Americans are vehement to demeanour during their options for health coverage, with record direct in a initial days of a marketplaces,” pronounced a recover announcing a designed fixes.

The matter was headlined: “Health Insurance Marketplace Open for Business – Week One Success.”

The state-level markets were designed to be a gateway to health word for people who don’t have entrance to coverage on a job. Middle-class consumers will be means to buy government-subsidized private plans, while a bad and near-poor will be directed to Medicaid in states similar to enhance a program.

Federal and state websites gifted problems this week. Some states, including Maryland, have also announced they are scheduling repairs.

The sovereign site, that serves 36 states, drew millions of users, an denote of clever consumer interest. Yet many people were incompetent to get on a site. They encountered a shade that told them to wait, and they did, infrequently for hours. Refreshing a shade usually sent them to a behind of a line.

Quite a few got hung adult perplexing to emanate confidence questions to strengthen their accounts. The drop-down menus providing a questions would not populate. As a result, consumers could not allege by a focus routine and learn if they were authorised for a taxation credit to assistance compensate premiums, most reduction collect a plan.

Some who did make it by were timed out since they took too prolonged comparing plans.

High justice takes note of vulgarity in movies

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 05:18 AM PDT

Life songs

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 05:18 AM PDT

I had to buy a unison ticket. we coudn't let my singing idols perform in Cebu though saying them. It was a reunion of 70s to 80s hits and a get-together of members of dual challenging low-pitched bands approach behind afterwards – The Circus Band and The New Minstrels. These were a voices to beat. Theirs are a songs that have stood a exam of time.

When a initial chords struck for a strain of Eugene Villaluz and Louie Reyes of a New Minstrels, we wasn't a usually one who sounded off a honeyed whine and energetically approaching to hear a strain again. we knew it by heart. we knew a pretension before a dual singers could deliver it.

"Nothing we Want More" was a grand esteem leader of a vital strain festival in Manila in 1982. It speaks of a man's good adore for a woman. we was in mid-college, really most in love, so a strain strike me tough that night. My mind rushed behind to memory line and we was singing aloud with a audience. And all voices joined into one common song.

Isn't life a unison of many voices too, including your own? Your parents' voice is authority, your small sister's voice is one of dependence, your beloved or girlfriend's voice stirs your emotions.

And afterwards we join in and sing your partial too. You wish to let your peace ring with a rest. Before we know it, everybody is indeed singing together with you…living a life with you.

Truly if someone sings beside you, it creates like easier, don't we think? Moving forward, we will comprehend that a songs that we have been singing together simulate a moments we had together. This creates any balance a life song.

Listening to life songs never fails to make me demeanour behind on smiles and songs I've common with others, and creates me grin and sing some more.

I was spiteful when a attribute incited green and Burt Bacharach's "House is not a Home" reminds me of that impulse of mislaid emotions: "Darling, have a heart. Don't let one mistake keep us apart. I'm not meant to live alone, spin this residence into a home when we stand a stairs and spin a key. Oh, greatfully be there still in adore with me."

When a late thespian Karen Carpenter's voice sings "Close to You", we can't assistance though shake my conduct with annoyance remembering my childhood days when we would be asked to sing this strain in front of my parents' visitors: "Why do birds unexpected seem each time we are near? Just like me, they prolonged to be tighten to you."

But a strain that tugs during my heart not usually since it's my late husband's favorite though since it speaks of my everlasting purpose as a primogenitor is George Benson's "The Greatest Love of All" – "I trust a children are a future. Teach them good and let them lead a approach . Show them all a beauty they possess inside."

The best songs bond tellurian emotions. The good strain transports we to a time we common an critical impulse with certain people. The connection, a pity impulse is what gives life a best harmony.

Would we afterwards skip those times when we could have helped someone sing their life songs or authorised another chairman to strech out and assistance we sing yours, too?

Don't be balance deaf. Don't only lay there and listen. Sing your life strain with others. Let them share a balance with you. You'll see, life songs sang together, with love, never destroy to move out a best in all of us.

Even in times when a hearts are uneasy and we are pang , a some-more we need to sing during a tip of a voice to a tip Choirmaster of them all- a God! He will ease your heart, though continue singing to him heaps of praise. "Is anyone among we suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise." (James 5:13)

So, what is your life strain to a Choirmaster today?

How to Generate Ideas For Your YouTube Videos

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 11:17 PM PDT

In his book Entrepreneur Magazine’s Ultimate Guide to YouTube for Business, selling and open family consultant Jason Rich uncover we how to master a secrets of successful “YouTubers” and put your brand, product or use in front of millions of intensity viewers. In this edited excerpt, a author offers a list of questions we should answer to assistance we come adult with ideas for your YouTube videos.

Ideas for new YouTube videos can come from anywhere. Look for impulse in your daily life, and be certain to find out ideas from friends, coworkers, employees, customers, and clients. You'll also wish to deposit time exploring YouTube by examination copiousness of opposite forms of videos that other companies and people have produced.

The core concepts for videos that we beget should mount out and excite we (as good as your dictated audience). They need to be original, creative, interesting, thought-provoking, entertaining, and/or informative, and, during a same time, be of proceed seductiveness to your dictated audience. One proceed to start your hunt for ideas is to establish what your foe is already doing, and afterwards figure out how we can do that improved or differently within your videos.

With so most calm already accessible from YouTube, entrance adult with truly singular ideas is going to be difficult. Instead, concentration on ways to set your ideas detached from what's already out there. Don't be fearful to burst on a bandwagon and use now renouned videos as your inspiration, as prolonged as you're means and peaceful to supplement a unique, original, or constrained twist. If we opt to use other videos as inspiration, make certain you're not violating anyone else's copyrights, egghead properties, or trademarks when we furnish your possess videos.

Once we have a ubiquitous thought about what your altogether goals are for YouTube, have tangible your audience, and have summarized your primary message, it's time to brainstorm ideas for particular videos. Start by last what we wish to say. Then, formed on your video prolongation skills, equipment, and capabilities, cruise a really best proceed to benefaction that content.

For any intensity thought we come adult with, ask yourself these questions:

  • Is my thought unchanging with what I'm perplexing to accomplish on YouTube?
  • What is a best proceed to take with my thought within a video?
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  • Do we have a skill, knowledge, and correct apparatus to furnish a video I'm envisioning and do it well?
  • Can a video be constructed within my budget, though compromising prolongation quality?
  • How do we wish a assembly to conflict to a video? What will be a call to action?
  • How do we expect a assembly will indeed conflict to a video?
  • Will examination this video tempt a spectator to watch other videos already published on my YouTube channel, to somehow make hit with me or my company, and/or to place an sequence for my product/service, if applicable?
  • While someone is examination a video, or immediately after it's over, will they be encouraged to click on a "Like" button, give it a good rating, write and post a auspicious comment, and/or share a video (or a couple to it) with their online friends (via Facebook, Google+, or Twitter, for example)?
  • Does a video, a message, a call to action, and a altogether proceed fit with what I'm already doing for myself or my association elsewhere online, regulating Facebook, Google+, and/or Twitter, for example?

During a whole pre-production phase, and afterwards after when intent in post production, go behind and ask yourself these questions again and again to make certain you're on target.

As we answer any of these questions, you'll mostly learn a need to fine-tune or tweak your strange ideas to renovate them into something that's some-more viable or on-target with your message, call to action, and altogether goals. At a same time you're evaluating your ideas, however, cruise about creative, off-beat, and strange ways we can benefaction your calm in a fun, unusual, or noted way.

Then, before investing too most time or income as we pierce brazen in a pre-production phase, rebound your ideas off other people who are informed with you, your company, a products/services, your aim audience, and your online goals. Sharing ideas with other artistic people whom we trust will assistance we cruise things from opposite perspectives that could impact how your videos are viewed and/or supposed by your audience.

If your thought is to launch a YouTube channel and stock it with new videos on a unchanging basis, during this early proviso of thought generation, rise a list that outlines concepts for your initial 10 or so videos. Then, as we brainstorm ideas in a future, be certain to write them down so we can after impute behind to your ideas.

Make certain that what we intend to do with your YouTube channel is tolerable and unchanging with your brand, online business reputation, and altogether business model. For example, we might have good ideas for your initial few videos, though what will we do to say and build your assembly several months or even several years down a road?  

Why is Kangana Ranaut going B-grade?

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 05:16 PM PDT

By Rachana Sheth, Glamsham Editorial

Bollywood is not a cakewalk for everyone. Not each aspirant becomes a star. But there are few who after a prolonged onslaught make glorious entrance and afterwards suffer well-developed success and stardom. But afterwards comes a time when we are unexpected out of a chosen league, for that we toiled so tough to grasp it.

It seems, something identical is function with a lanky Bollywood singer Kangana Ranaut. She was hailed as a subsequent large thing in Bollywood, when she stepped in films. Though she was primarily criticized for her looks and accent, Kangana close her detractors with her superb opening in a films like WOH LAMHE, GANGSTER, LIFE…IN A METRO, FASHION, RAAZ – THE MSYTERY CONTINUES, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAI, TANU WEDS MANU. The FASHIONista went on to bag a desired National Award for her behaving bravery in Madhur Bhandarkar’s film. We suspicion a lady is quick inching towards being a grand singer by doing some essential stuff. Where other actresses were doing unchanging naach and gaana or dancing around trees or for that matter being used a column in a films, Kangana had emerged as a performer and started giving Goosebumps to topnotch actresses of Bollywood.

But now looking during her choice of a arriving film RAJJO, where she plays a mujrewaali, it appears her concentration and career is derailed. Though she might have pondered while holding adult RAJJO as being an event to join a bandwagon of a likes of Rekha, Vjayanthimala, Meena Kumari, etc, who played mujrewaalis or kothewaalis during one indicate of time and warranted soap-box reviews for their portrayal, Kangana looks miscast in this outing. The film smells zero reduction than a B class wannabe masala transport with Kangana Ranaut’s trite expressions and stiff dance!

Well, a singer needs to rethink about where she’s headed!

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Posted: 05 Oct 2013 11:16 AM PDT

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Multimedia Games’ 2013 National TournEvent® of Champions™ Crowns Nation’s First Ever Best Slot Tournament Player

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 11:16 AM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Multimedia Games, Inc. ("Multimedia Games" or "the Company"), a leader
in container contest systems, announced currently that following a nationwide
debate of over 30,000 miles to 77 casinos opposite 17 states, Maria Lindell,
who represented Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Onamia, Minnesota, was
crowned champion of a 2013 National TournEvent
of Champions
®, a first-of-its-kind national slot
contest powered by a Company's award-winning TournEvent®
container contest system. Ms. Lindell was awarded a tip esteem of
$100,000 in money and a championship ring on Sep 25, 2013, during
a final eventuality during Lagasse's Stadium during The Palazzo in Las Vegas and was
famous as a nation's best contest actor from a margin of nearly
200,000 initial entrants nationwide. Other tip winners from a final
eventuality included:

  • 1st Place – $100,000 – Maria Lindell representing Grand
    Casino Mille Lacs
  • 2nd Place – $50,000 – Sheila Ewing representing Newcastle
    Casino
  • 3rd Place – $25,000 – Lawrence Cason representing Lucky
    Star Concho

"On interest of Multimedia Games, I'd like to honour Maria for her
stirring feat as good as all a finalists who assimilated us final week
in Las Vegas to assistance make a 2013 National TournEvent of Champions
a resounding success," pronounced Patrick Ramsey, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Multimedia Games. "With approximately 1,000
participants, family members, friends, employees and partners in
attendance, a final eventuality was filled with implausible appetite that
combined an unmatched atmosphere wise for this singular event. We
trust a National TournEvent of Champions combined an entirely
new knowledge for players and supposing a participating business with
a absolute selling apparatus to emanate fad on their container floors
during a in-casino subordinate tournaments.

"TournEvent is a truly innovative, warden container tournament
resolution that is proven to beget benefaction floor-wide buzz, higher
building trade and increasing income opening when in use. As we look
brazen to a 2014 National TournEvent of Champions, we are
ramping adult a prizes, adding a second furloughed train and awaiting even
larger levels of appearance as casino operators have a possibility to
attend not usually in a unusual fad of a final event
in Las Vegas though also by a in-casino subordinate events over a course
of some-more than 4 months of uninterrupted action. We demeanour brazen to working
closely with a business to safeguard that successive year's eventuality takes a TournEvent
of Champions
to a whole new level."

Ronda Weizenegger, General Manager of Grand Casino Mille Lacs, added,
"At Grand Casino, we are always looking for opportunities to bring
sparkling new promotions and special events to a guests. We are
anxious that Maria not usually won a Grand Casino Mille Lacs event, but
went on to win a tip esteem during a National TournEvent of Champions
Finals."

Multimedia Games also announced final week a launch of a 2014
National TournEvent of Champions, that a Company expects will
ramp adult a contest experience, fun and accessible money prizes.
Beginning in May 2014, casinos from around a republic can move The
Money Man
and a fad of a National TournEvent of
Champions
to their casinos and give their players a possibility to
contest for over $500,000 in guaranteed money prizes and a outing to Las
Vegas for a championship eventuality on Oct 1, 2014. Two TournEvent
of Champions
busses will crisscross a republic in hunt of the
country's tip contest player, while bringing a best of tournament
party to casinos national and formulating a hum on a casino
floors around a in-casino subordinate and finals events.

Linda Trinh, Director of Marketing and Promotions for Multimedia Games,
concluded, "The Multimedia Games promotions group combined history, as our
roving train brought a fad of TournEvent to casinos
opposite a country. We saw an implausible escape of unrestrained among
players and casinos for a National TournEvent of Champions and
trust a eventuality generated a poignant hum during any of a 77 host
casinos. We again honour Maria on her feat and wish she joins
us successive year to urge her pretension as nation's best contest player, as
we flog off a 2014 National TournEvent of Champions in May
2014."

About TournEvent

The Company's award-winning TournEvent container contest complement is
commissioned during 188 casinos national as of Jun 30, 2013, offering
industry-leading functionality that has revolutionized a slot
contest experience. It was named "Best Slot Theme" in a 2012
Southern California Gaming Guide Reader's Choice Awards and was awarded
third place in a "Best Consumer Service Technology" difficulty by Global
Gaming Business in a 2012 Gaming Technology Awards. TournEvent
provides players and operators with a energetic and interactive tournament
knowledge distinct any other. With TournEvent, casino operators
can switch networked gaming machines from in-revenue live standing to
out-of-revenue contest standing during a hold of a symbol – eliminating
a con of chip changes, appurtenance moves, or apart contest areas.

Visit www.tourneventofchampions.com
or follow a contest on Facebook
and Twitter
to find out some-more about a 2013 National TournEvent of Champions.

About Multimedia Games Holding Company, Inc.

Through a unconditionally owned subsidiary, Multimedia Games, Inc., Multimedia
Games Holding Company, Inc. (MGAM) ("Multimedia Games") develops
and distributes gaming technology. The association is a creator and supplier
of extensive systems, calm and electronic gaming units for Native
American and blurb casinos. Revenue is essentially successive from
gaming units in operation on revenue-sharing arrangements. The company
also offers and generates income from a sale of gaming units and
systems that underline exclusive diversion calm and diversion themes licensed
from others. Multimedia Games also reserve a executive determinant
complement for a video lottery terminals ("VLTs") commissioned during racetracks
in a State of New York. The association is focused on posterior market
enlargement and new product growth for blurb and genealogical casinos
and VLT markets. Please revisit www.multimediagames.com,
twitter.com/MultimediaGames
or facebook.com/MultimediaGames,
where Multimedia Games discloses critical information about the
company, a sales, and a business.

About Grand Casino Mille Lacs

Grand Casino Mille Lacs and Grand Casino Hinckley are owned by a Mille
Lacs Band's Corporate Commission. The casinos underline gaming,
accommodations, dining, contention and party facilities, live
entertainment, and The Grand Harmony Spa and Grand National Golf Club at
Grand Casino Hinckley. The casinos directly occupy some-more than 3,000
people and cover some-more than 4,000 people with their word plan. The
Band taxes these entities during 100 percent and utilizes a revenues to
yield health care, education, and other programs and services to Band
members. The Band also invests in infrastructure and economic
growth that directly advantage a whole community.

Cautionary Language

This press recover contains forward-looking statements formed on
Multimedia Games’ stream expectations and projections, that are
dictated to validate for a protected bay from guilt determined by
a Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words
“believe”, “expect”, “continue”, “intend”, “plan”, “seek”, “estimate”,
project”, “may”, or a disastrous or other variations thereof or
allied vernacular as they describe to Multimedia Games and its
products, plans, and markets are dictated to brand such
forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are formed on
stream expectations and projections of destiny events.

These forward-looking statements simulate a stream views, models, and
assumptions of Multimedia Games, and are theme to several risks and
uncertainties that can't be likely or competent and could cause
tangible formula in Multimedia Games’ opening to differ materially
from those voiced or pragmatic by such brazen looking statements.
These risks and uncertainties include, though are not singular to,
technical, contractual, regulatory, licensing, scheduling or other
problems in implementing and completing a TournEvent of
Champions
as good as actor and patron response to TournEvent and
other association product. Please impute to a Company's many new Form
10-K and successive filings with a Securities and Exchange Commission
for a serve contention of risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking
statements done herein are competent by these cautionary statements and
there can be no declaration that a tangible results, events or
developments referenced herein will start or be realized. Readers are
cautioned that all forward-looking statements pronounce usually to a facts
and resources benefaction as of a date of this press release.
Multimedia Games specifically disclaims any requirement to refurbish or revise
any forward-looking statements, either as a outcome of new information,
destiny events or otherwise.

 Multimedia Games' 2013 National TournEvent® of Champions™ Crowns Nation's First Ever Best Slot Tournament Player

How Good Is The Good News About Healthcare Inflation?

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 11:16 AM PDT

Recent news reports have excitedly announced that medical acceleration seems to be underneath control. In 2012, for instance a cost of health word premiums rose usually 4% for a standard American family, a insignificant figure compared to a roughly 10% annual increases gifted a decade or so ago. But only how good is this good news?

Look during a figure below, in that we map annual boost in medical costs as good as ubiquitous acceleration rates in a US economy. As we can see, medical costs are still rising faster than inflation. In fact in 2012, a year everybody seems to be celebrating as an instance of health caring cost containment, medical costs rose roughly 4%, while a consumer cost index rose approximately 2%. For those, like me, who are not veteran mathematicians, that means medical costs rose roughly twice as quick as a normal consumer good.

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This design shows some really good news. The red line and a immature line are removing most closer together, it seems, than they used to be – with a difference of 2009 when we gifted deflation in a economy. But we are distant from taming a savage of medical inflation. We can't continue to see medical costs grow twice as quick as a rest of a economy. While it positively would have been worse if medical costs had continued to arise during 6, 8 or 10% annually, we substantially can't go most longer with medical costs rising during double a rate of altogether inflation.

 

How quick should medical costs grow, compared to other consumer goods? There's no candid answer to that question. There are wrong answers of march – medical costs can't continue to arise twice as quick as other costs but crowding out spending on other critical goods; medical expenditures can't continue to take adult an augmenting commission of a GDP but abating a ability to accommodate other critical amicable goals, like educating a children, fortifying a inhabitant interests, and safeguarding a environment. The volume a multitude should spend on health caring will substantially always sojourn a quarrelsome issue.

But one emanate is clear. We should not applaud a slack in medical acceleration but holding notice of how medical acceleration compares to altogether inflation. And when we demeanour during these dual pieces of information together, a good news about medical costs isn't utterly as good as it used to be.

We are distant from carrying medical costs underneath control.

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