This week in logistics News (November 28

Posted on May 16, 2012 by admin

This is the "Pajama Day" at my daughter's first grade class. As a reward for doing a good job the past few weeks, students have to choose between holding a party pizza, watching movies, or wearing Pajamas to school. After much lobbying and debate, advocates for Pajama day won, and my daughter are proud to walk to school this morning wearing her best book ever SpongeBob SquarePants.

Like most software vendors this year, Descartes continued to post strong financial results. Revenue was 10 percent in Q3FY11 compared to the same period last year, and up 17 percent year-to-date. United States accounted for 44 percent of revenues, followed by EMEA (20 per cent, including Belgium), Belgium (16 percent). America (including United States and Canada) accounted for only 1 percent of income.

Latin America has always represented the smallest segment of the market as a whole, and TMS despite strong growth potential, a piece of cake does not seem to grow very much. Why not? A question to ponder and address in a future post. If you are a software vendor, post comments and share Your experiences/perspectives.

Almost three years ago in "understand why companies outsource logistics," I discussed the State of logistics outsourcing in the healthcare industry. Here's an excerpt:

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Super Mario 3D and sword to the shifting of half a million

Posted on May 11, 2012 by admin

Nintendo Celebrates successful Black Friday with a Super Mario 3D land and The Legend of Zelda: the sword of the sky has sold over half a million units since its launch.

Super Mario Land 3D was released in the United States on November 11, and has become the fastest selling game in the history of the portable Mario Nintendo, selling over 500,000 units since its launch. Likewise, The Legend of Zelda: the sword of the sky was launched on Sunday, November 20, and has sold 535,000 units in the US, which makes it the fastest selling game ever Zelda.

The success of the software also has helped sales of hardware, Nintendo of America revealed President Reggie Fils-Aime. During the Black Friday sale hardware is up to a week of 3DS 325 percent compared with the week of November 6.

Nintendo also reported its biggest Black Friday for the Wii, with more than 500,000 units sold during the day.

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Study: Medical Marijuana Laws do not encourage children to smoke more Pot

Posted on May 6, 2012 by admin

Despite warnings from opponents of medical marijuana, legalize drugs for medical purposes does not encourage teens to smoke more marijuana, according to new research that compares the price of marijuana use in Massachusetts and Rhode Island after the state change of the law.

Rhode Island passed a medical marijuana in 2006, but not Massachusetts. "We want to pair the two countries since they have so many geographical and cultural similarities," said Dr. Esther Choo, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and an emergency medicine physician in Rhode Island Hospital.

Choo's deep passion analysis used data collected from 1997-2009 for the Centers for Disease Control and prevention's youth risk behavior survey. The analysis involved nearly 13,000 youth in Rhode Island and about 25,000 in Massachusetts. In each country in a given year, the study found, about 30% of teens reported using cannabis at least once in the previous month.

In other words, while marijuana use is common, there is no significant difference in the price of the pot between the years before and after legalization in Rhode Island. "We found no effect of change in policy," said Choo.

These results are consistent with the 2005 analysis done by Mitch Earleywine, Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York-Albany, for marijuana policy project. He found that between 1996-when California passed a medical marijuana law — and 2004 the previous month, the pot used by ninth graders dropped by 47%. It is a little steep decline than seen nationally during the same period, and found a similar effect Earleywine on all medical marijuana States that he attended.

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Rediff.com» films» watching the kids what KMX expecting him on his birthday

Posted on May 1, 2012 by admin

shah Rukh Khan celebrates his birthday today with the media. Like every year, many from around the nation gathered outside the bungalow ' Mannat ' in Bandra's a suburb in Mumbai to catch a glimpse of the superstar.

Actors who turned 46 today says "I feel blessed that the media is always present for my birthday. I treat all forms of brotherhood media as my family. "

Shah Rukh is currently riding high on the success Ra. One and commenting on the movie box office collection that he said, "I don't really care about the collection. Since the film has been released I have travelled all the way from Los Angeles to Bhatinda (in Punjab) (smile) every person who has been talking about the movie. People who write and speak good things and bad things about the movie, but at the end of the day I felt everything happens as well. "

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Parents help their underage children get on Facebook, survey finds

Posted on April 26, 2012 by admin

A new survey of 1,007 parents have found that 36 percent realized their children join the Facebook before the age of 13 and that a large percentage of parents helping their children lie about their age to join the social networking site.

The survey comes at a time of debate in Washington about whether to modify the children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or Coppa. To comply with Coppa, Facebook and many other social networking sites require prospective new members to identify themselves as 13 or older.

But the survey found that 55% of the parents of 12-year-olds report their child have a Facebook account; 82% of parents know when they sign up minors and 76% of assisted in creating an account. "

The survey was conducted by researchers from academia and from Microsoft Research, which partly funded the study. Microsoft Research is a division of Microsoft Corp., which paid $ 240 million for what it is 1.6 percent stake in Facebook Inc. in 2007.

The two companies compete a little on the market of online advertising but Microsoft customers on Facebook. "This research is independent from Microsoft," said lead author Danah Boyd, who is on staff at Microsoft Research and Research Assistant Professor in the media, culture and communication at New York University.

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