The US VALS™ Survey. What is your VALS survey?

My VALS™ Type is:Thinker/Striver

Your primary VALS™ type is Thinker, and your secondary type is Striver.

The primary VALS type represents your dominant approach to life. The secondary classification represents a particular emphasis you give to your dominant approach.

Would you be willing to take another short survey? See below

Take the US VALS™ Survey! Find the link below.

To Take the Survey:

• Click "Take The Survey" below (it will open in a separate browser window).
• Answer the questions. No answers are right or wrong; just select the answers that best describe you.
• Click "Submit" at the bottom of the survey page to view your VALS types—the type that you are most like and the type that you are second-most like.
• We will not e-mail survey results to you.

VALS Type Accuracy

By design, the questions are for use by people whose first language is American English. If you are not a citizen of the United States or Canada, residency should be for enough time to know the culture and its idioms.
If you do not meet these conditions, your VALS type will not be valid.

Take the survey

If You're Having Trouble Taking the Survey:

• Java, Javascript, and cookies must be active; please check your browser preferences to make sure that they are.
• Company and personal firewalls sometimes interfere with the survey. You may need to disable your firewall.
• You may also need to turn off your computer's or web browser's automatic pop-up blocker.

About the US VALS™ Survey

The purpose of the US VALS™ survey is to identify the VALS type of the person taking the survey. That's it. To find out about a person's product ownership, media preferences, hobbies, additional demographics, or attitudes (for example, about global warming), the questions in the VALS survey integrate into larger questionnaires that ask about these topics. For example, the VALS questions integrate into GfK MRI's nationally syndicated Survey of the American Consumer, which enables us to see the media preferences of each of the eight VALS types. The VALS questions also integrate into our own Consumer Financial Decisions' MacroMonitor survey, giving us in-depth information about how each VALS type uses, invests, and saves money.

So go ahead. Take the VALS Survey and find out your own VALS type.

resource from:

http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/vals/presurvey.shtml

1. What does VALS stand for?
   VALS is not an abbreviation. Originally, VALS was based on social values, and at that time VALS was an acronym for Values and Lifestyles. However, currently, VALS is based on selected psychological traits and key demographics instead of values, so we dropped Values and Lifestyles but retained the VALS brand.
2. What is VALS used for?
   U.S. VALS segments English-speaking adults ages 18 years and older on the basis of psychological traits that correlate with purchase behavior and key demographics, enabling users to understand not just what, but why consumers exhibit certain preferences and attitudes. Marketers, strategic planners, new-product designers and others use VALS to:
   • Segment their customers and prospects
   • Select targets
   • Position brands, products, and even policies to the targets
   • Develop communications that resonate with and motivate targets to take action.
   Imagine, for instance, that a company must design a new kind of software program, knowing only that most of its potential users are between 30 and 40 years old and have a college education. VALS goes beyond the demographics to add the human psychological details: preferences for control or freedom, tradition or novelty, information or stimulation, hands-on activity or intellectual abstractions.

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Why my android can not sign in using gmail?

Sign in using application-specific passwords

The codes that you’ll get with 2-step verification don’t work with all applications. There are a few applications that use information from your Google Account that require application-specific passwords (ASPs).

Using application-specific passwords

Examples of devices and applications that use ASPs include: Email clients such as Outlook, Apple Mail and Thunderbird, and Gmail and Google Calendar on your phone. Below are two examples of what you might see when using an application that requires an ASP.

Apple Mail

Android (versions 2.3 and below)

How to generate an application-specific password

1. Visit your Google Account settings page.
2. On the left, click Security.
3. Under the "2-step verification" topic, click Manage your application specific passwords.
4. Under the Application-specific passwords section, enter a descriptive name for the application (label 1) you want to authorize, such as "AdWords Editor – Desktop," then click “Generate application-specific password" (label 2).
   
   You'll then see the ASP you just created (3). You'll also see the name you wrote in for the device (4) and a link toRevoke (5) -- or cancel -- the code.
   
   Once you click Done, you’ll never see that application-specific code again. But don't panic: You can generate a new one whenever you’re prompted for an ASP by a non-browser device or application -- even a device or application you’ve authorized before.
5. When you sign in to an application requiring an ASP, enter your ASP in the password field, and make sure you check the "Remember password" option if you want the application to remember the code.

resource from Google help

Carlsen Signs World Championship Contract

• FM MikeKlein
 
• on 9/7/14, 9:11 AM

World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen has signed the contract to defend his title according to his manager, Espen Agdestein.

The match will take place as scheduled in Sochi, Russia from November 7-28, 2014.

Both Carlsen and Agdestein are in St. Louis following the 2014 Sinquefield Cup. Agdestein made the announcement to Kaja Snare of TV2 in Norway.

You can read the full transcript on TV2's web site here.

Snare translated some of the interview with Agdestein for Chess.com.

Manager Espen Agdestein confirms that Carlsen will play

"We have sent in the contract today. Magnus is playing in the world championship. He wants to play. His experience from last year is very was good. He is the world champion and he is a chess player and he wants to defend his title."

The contract was faxed to the FIDE office in Athens, and FIDE has confirmed that it received the contract. Here's their official statement:

“FIDE is happy to announce that both the World Champion Magnus Carlsen and the Challenger Vishy Anand have signed the World Championship Match contract and preparations are proceeding as planned.

The World Championship Match will take place in Sochi, Russia between the 6th and the 27th of November. The FIDE President is planning to invite both Prime Ministers of Norway and India to the opening ceremony and to the "first move". The FIDE President has also decided to invite all World Champions to the ceremony, which will take place on November 7th.

FIDE wishes both players and all the chess world a great match.

Gens Una Sumus”

In the third week of August, news came out that FIDE had denied a request from Carlsen to postpone his world championship match with Anand. Carlsen was not happy with the match taking place in November in Sochi due to “much uncertainty about it”, as stated by his manager.

However, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov made clear at a press conference that the deadline would be upheld. Meanwhile, Anand had already signed, and was ready to play in Sochi.

Then, the Carlsen team wanted to postpone the decision whether to sign the match contract or not until after the Sinquefield Cup. FIDE's initial reaction, by Vice President Isreal Gelfer, was negative but later Ilyumzhinov agreed to postpone the deadline to September 7th (today). 

Now that both contracts have been signed, Anand-Carlsen Part II is on. The match is scheduled to take place November 7-28, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

Reference

retrieved from

http://www.chess.com/news/breaking-carlsen-signs-world-championship-contract-3044

BCG matrix with example

by Mayur Narole , Student at University of Pune

on Sep 03, 2013

BCG matrix with example from Mayur Narole

How to factory reset LG-MS840 from metro pcs

The factory reset is very easy,following the next few step

step 1-locate the volume control bottom at its left side and the power bottom on its top
step 2-press volume down + power while it is turning off
step3-keep pressing same bottom until you see how it will turn it on
step4-wait to see the following message in the screen,refer to pic above and below to be familiar

step5-read it and then press power if agree

step 6-read the next message and then press power again

step7-follow the introduction new setting for your new LG-MS840 from Metropcs

Amazing technology to avoid accident on the road "SDS"

I wonder how our safety technology will be in the future

Depending on the system, Safe Drive Systems uses advanced radar and camera technologies to constantly monitor your distance to vehicles ahead of you, as well as help keep you from drifting from your lane. The real-time analysis and warning of the potential dangers ahead of you can prevent crashes and serious or fatal injuries to yourself and others.

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