This was connecting them in a way that they actually want to go and do something that's actually, you know, tangible and happening.
This approach – known as "tangible computing" - would allow anyone to interact with computers using physical "things" rather than through special input devices.
First the good news: Citi is significantly boosting a key capital measurement, known as tangible common equity, by converting $25 billion worth of preferred shares into common shares at a discount.
Last month, Citi took steps to shore up that base by arranging for the government to trade its preferred stock holdings to common shares, which count toward a measure of financial strength known as tangible common equity.
Why are we willing to strap on a pink hat, grab a protest sign, and hit the streets to the tune of "We are women, hear us roar," but not get out to the ballot box at some point during a 12-hour period to make our voices known in tangible, policy-and-local-government-altering ways?
Despite the fact that most of us who venture into the world wide web on a daily basis wouldn't bat a desensitised eyelid at "Dirty Cumsluts IV: Grandma Gets Horny" getting advertised in the corner of our smartphone screens, we know that tangible proof a female MP once showed her nips in public is enough to embarrass her out of politics for ever.
I do know that tangible assets are better than dollars, which lost 20% of their value in 2003.
Basically, this lets you know the tangible things the company owns, like buildings, land, lab equipment, and the like, and what it owes the bank.
A sister of the painter Mary Cassatt, Lydia, when she died of Bright's disease, a kidney ailment, in 1882 at 45, left behind no known letters, no tangible creations.
"The measures are an opportunity for people to make their views known in a tangible way, to generate some rumble at the grass roots," said Clint Bolick, a lawyer at the Goldwater Institute who helped devise the idea.
