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Friday, November 30, 2012
White House slams Israel's decision to expand settlements
Palestinians had a major symbolic victory when the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to recognize them, but the U.S. argued the new status could set back Palestinians in the path to peace. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
By NBC News wire services
The White House said on Friday a new Israeli settlement expansion plan was "counterproductive" and could make it harder to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table.
"We reiterate our longstanding opposition to settlements and East Jerusalem construction and announcements," White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said.
Israel plans to build thousands of new homes for its settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, an Israeli official said earlier, defying a U.N. vote that implicitly recognized Palestinian statehood there.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative government had authorized the construction of 3,000 housing units and ordered "preliminary zoning and planning work for thousands" more.
"We believe these actions are counterproductive and make it harder to resume direct negotiations or achieve of a two state solution," Vietor said. "Direct negotiations remain our goal and we encourage all parties to take steps to make that easier to achieve."
Israeli media, including Haaretz newspaper, said the government sought to emphasize its rejection of Thursday's upgrade by the U.N. General Assembly of the Palestinians to "non-member observer state" from "entity."
Israel and the United States had opposed the resolution, which shored up the Palestinians' claim on all of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, saying territorial sovereignty should be addressed in direct peace talks with the Jewish state.
Those negotiations have been stalled for two years, however, given Palestinian anger at continued Israeli settlement expansion. The Israelis insist they would keep West Bank settlement blocs under any final accord as well as all of Jerusalem as their capital.
That status for the holy city has never been accepted abroad, where most powers consider the settlements illegal for taking in land captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
The 193-nation General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the world body to issue what he said was its long overdue "birth certificate."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Online Legal Documents Company LegalZoom Suing Rocket Lawyer
LegalZoom is an online legal documents company that is suing their rival Rocket Lawyer Inc. over violations of Federal Trade Commission guidelines.? LegalZoom is claiming that Rocket Lawyer is using unfair business tactics for ?the purpose of injuring LegalZoom.?
?We think the claims are completely frivolous,? stated Rocket Lawyer?s founder and executive chairman Charley Moore. ?It?s simply an attack on their fastest-growing competitor.?
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in California.? LegalZoom wants Rocket Lawyer to stop misusing the term ?free? in their ads and promotions because it ?is bad for consumers. and bad for the industry.?
LegalZoom is also accusing Rocket Lawyer of trademark infringement and unfair competition because Rocket Lawyer allegedly registered domain names like legalzoomgadget.com.? LegalZoom said that this is confusingly similar to their trademarks.
LegalZoom started 12 years ago and they sell personalized legal documents like wills, trademark registrations, and government filing fees.
LegalZoom recently filed for a $120 million IPO and they have been the subject of lawsuits themselves.? LegalZoom charges a minimum of $69 for wills and $169 for trademark registrations.? RocketLawyer started in 2008 and they are selling pre-paid legal plans for between $9.99 to $39.95 per month.
[WSJ]
Source: http://pulse2.com/2012/11/29/online-legal-documents-company-legalzoom-suing-rocket-lawyer/
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Croatia's bold energy plans face uncertain future
Guy Norton in Zagreb
November 23, 2012
November 23, 2012
Croatia is one of the world's most energy-import dependent countries, yet there's an increasingly mixed outlook for the ambitious investment plans of Croatian power monopoly Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP) following the recent turn of events at both home and abroad.
On a positive note, the state-owned company's preparations for the launch of its first ever international bond in early November managed to survive the disruption caused by Hurricane Sandy in the US, which delayed a number of meetings with potential buyers. Subsequently, HEP was easily able to raise its target amount of $500m from a mix of emerging market and high yield investors, with the five-year issue attracting $2.7bn worth of potential orders. As a result, the company was able to price its debut overseas bond with a coupon of just 6%, the lowest achieved by a Croatian borrower in the international debt markets since the onset of the global economic downturn in 2007.
Unsurprisingly, the then economy minister, Radimir Cacic, greeted the investor interest in the bond and its pricing as a ringing endorsement of HEP's investment plans, telling state broadcaster HRT: "Such great interest is almost unprecedented. This is an extremely important message that indicates that the state has high-quality projects."
Joy over the successful bond issue proved short-lived however, with the resignation of Cacic on November 13 after he had been found guilty of reckless driving that caused the death of two people in a road accident in Hungary in 2010. Cacic was widely viewed as being the driving force behind HEP's plans to invest in a number of new power projects to reduce Croatia's currently high dependency on expensive energy imports, which costs the country HRK15bn (?2bn) a year. As Cacic bemoaned at an investment conference in Qatar shortly before he resigned, Croatia ranks number eight in the world in terms on dependence on energy imports ? a state of affairs which makes it highly vulnerable to increases in global energy prices and makes a strong contribution to Croatia's shrinking economic competitiveness.
Meanwhile, cash-strapped retail customers in Croatia face the unwelcome prospect of higher prices for electricity (up 22%) and heating (up 37%) as HEP looks to recoup the cost of higher energy imports resulting from recent droughts in Croatia that caused a sharp drop in production from its domestic hydroelectric plants.
Not green enough
As part of Cacic's so-called "New Deal" economic strategy, HEP is poised to build a number of new production facilities to alleviate the problem of high energy imports. However, HEP's planned new power plants have already courted a great deal of controversy at both home and abroad, with critics claiming that HEP is poised to embark on a series of ill-planned projects that could ultimately prove to be both economically and ecologically damaging for the country at large.
Already civil society groups led by Zelena Akcija (Green Action) have succeeded in persuading the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to launch a review of its decision in November 2011 to approve a ?123m loan for HEP to help fund the construction of HPP Ombla, a 68-megawatt (MW) hydroelectric plant which is planned to be built near the tourist hotspot of Dubrovnik. According to ecological activists, the HPP Ombla, which will be located at a site which has already been designated for protection as part of the EU's Natura 2000 network of important natural areas, is legally questionable, as the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the planned plant dates from as far back as 1999 and so should not be considered to provide sufficient grounds for HPP Ombla to be given the go-ahead by Croatia's environment ministry.
Furthermore, in an open letter on the subject Zelena Akcija claimed that HEP had failed to sufficiently include the Croatian public in the decision-making process surrounding HPP Ombla, and had also dismissed a member of the commission that evaluated the 1999 EIA because he strongly opposed the project. Zelena Akcija believes that HPP Ombla will have a disastrous effect on the rare species of bats and salamanders that live in the planned construction zone.
Controversy surrounding HPP Ombla heightened on June 8 when the environment minister Mirela Holy resigned, ostensibly because of a scandal involving her sending an email to Croatian Railways requesting that the wife of a party colleague be kept in a job at the state-owned firm. But considering the email was sent three months previously, many local media and civil society groups pointed out that the timing of the revelation was quite a coincidence considering that Holy's ministry was about to decide on the fate of several controversial infrastructure projects including HPP Ombla.
On the day she resigned, Holy also announced the long-awaited results of an independent review that she had commissioned into the 1999 Environmental Impact Assessment for the HPP Ombla project. Out of four experts who reviewed the study, three assessed the study as being inadequate, with the fourth giving it conditional approval. Following Holy's resignation, Cacic, an unashamed supporter of HPP Ombla, rubbished the findings of the independent review on the grounds that it had been done for free, which in his view made it automatically suspicious.
Zelena Akcija has called on PM Zoran Milanovic and the new environment minister, Michael Zmajlovic, to heed expert opinion rather than Cacic's remarks, and cancel the project.
Meanwhile, controversy is brewing over another HEP project - the proposed 500-MW Plomin C power plant in Istria, in northwestern Croatia. Four companies ? Edison (Italy), Kosep (South Korea), Marubeni (Japan) and POL-MOT (Poland) ? have already been shortlisted for the ?800m project, which is due to be completed by 2017. Currently, Plomin C is set to use coal rather than gas as a fuel source, a fact that has provoked protests from green groups which claim it will harm the tourist appeal of Istria as an environmentally-friendly destination. At the end of October, Zelena Akcija and Zelena Istria filed a lawsuit with the Administrative Court in Rijeka against the environment ministry over its approval for the future Plomin C facility.
Finally, HEP and now former economy minister Cacic succeeded in upsetting politicians in neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina with the signing in July of an agreement for the construction of hydroelectric power plant, Dubrovnik II with the Republika Srpska, the ethnic Serbian entity in Bosnia. The ?170m 300-MW project will be built in Dubrovnik, but will use water resources originating in the Republika Srpska and has been described by Cacic as one of the "most potent and highest quality European energy projects'.
However, Bakir Izetbegovic, chairman of the presidency of Bosnia, has fiercely contested the right of the Republika Srpska authorities to independently make deals with Croatia about the construction of the new hydropower plant. And the World Wide Fund for Nature has warned that projects such as Dubrovnik II could have a devastating effect upon the environment and lead to the destruction of areas such as the Hutovo Blato marshes, one of the biggest sanctuaries for migratory birds in the Balkans, and also negatively impact upon agricultural production in southern Bosnia.
Source: http://www.bne.eu/story4280
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Amazon destruction 'at new low'
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Amazon destruction 'at new low'The destruction of Amazon rainforest reaches its lowest level since monitoring began 24 years ago, the Brazilian government says.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Six Tips to Good Business Management | Ghana Herald
You don?t have to be a fortune 500 (or even a fortune 500,000) company to take advantage of these tips for good business practice. In fact, some of the best small businesses have evolved and succeeded by implementing some of these principles.
I will be using the restaurant industry as anecdotal examples throughout this article, but you will see that the principles below apply to any industry. Maybe you will identify some restaurants in your area that aren?t following these tips. Watch them struggle for business, and ultimately close down as a result.
Know-How is Not Enough.
Just because you?re an expert in your field doesn?t mean that you have what it takes to be a business owner. When you hang out that open sign on day one, it is unlikely that customers will flock to you right away just because you know what you?re doing. You?ll need marketing and administration (at the very least) to grease the wheels of your company.
How many chefs or self-professed foodies have you met or known to open a restaurant because they love food and cooking, only to have it close down months or years later because people weren?t beating a path to their door when they opened? Making good food isn?t enough; people have to know about it to experience it. You also have to run a tight ship financially, which requires the advice of tax and financial experts, and ultimately an experienced general manager at the helm.
Hire the Right People.
If you are technically proficient in your field but lack marketing knowledge and expertise for example, then be prepared to hire the right people to fill in the blanks. This will start the trend of people beating a path to your door. The next trick is to keep them coming back and referring their friends.
Don?t Hire your Friends!
This may seem obvious to some, yet I?ve seen it done over and over again. Not only can it compromise (and in some cases destroy) a perfectly good friendship, but it can do the same to the business.
Sometimes, it works. But hire with caution, and a heck of a lot of communication (both in the friendship and business). Be prepared to wear different hats while at work and after work.
Don?t Make Snap Decisions. Planning Strategy is Everything.
I have an acquaintance who recently stepped in as part-owner of a restaurant. The restaurant is well-situated and ultimately successful, but with a slow-down in businesses in the area, they have to work extra hard to keep enough customers walking through the door and keep them leaving happy.
After one particularly harrowing night when everybody in town decided it was the place to dine and not enough wait staff were scheduled, their patio was drowned out with rain, and one of their head chefs walked out, the owners made some snap decisions during the aftermath. One of their decisions was to double the number of wait staff on shift all the time. It is my feeling that they didn?t truly see this idea through to conclusion before implementing it; they now characteristically have way more wait staff than necessary on shift. The hourly wages paid out are increasing exponentially (and unnecessarily). Each servers? share of the tips has significantly decreased, and often a number of them get cut before the night is over. The restaurant will likely lose their best servers because of this.
You may say ?so? Big deal. Hire more servers,? but servers are the front lines of a restaurant. Poorly trained or inexperienced servers can be the death of a perfectly good restaurant; retaining the good ones is crucial. This was a snap decision may be a critically detrimental one.
Hiring/Promoting From Within isn?t Always Good.
Although promoting from within encourages staff to ?reach for the stars? and gives certain personality types something to work for, it isn?t a good idea to categorically hire from within. Sometimes the skill sets just aren?t there within the existing employee base.
A bar/restaurant I know of only hires bartenders from within. If a server has proven themselves with blood, sweat, and tears, they may be so lucky to be promoted to bartender. Sadly though, servers and bartenders are not one and the same. The skills are not transferable, and not all servers understand the finer points of tending a busy bar. Hence, their bartenders are more often than not under-skilled and unprepared for being in the trenches. They don?t have mixology knowledge at their fingertips, they can?t make drinks quickly, and they don?t have the rhythm to manage a fast-paced bar when it gets crowded. They are simply thrown into the fire and made to survive by trial & error or go down in flames, ultimately quitting or being fired.
They are losing business because they insist on promoting servers from within to become incompetent bartenders, instead of hiring proficient bartenders to begin with. And when you?re running a busy bar, a good bartender is an essential element to make things run smoothly.
Good Business is in Consistency.
This could be the very key itself to good business practice. If you do nothing else, be consistent. E-Myth is an excellent book by Michael Gerber centered around this crucial concept.
Consistency is what franchises are built around. McDonald?s pioneered and epitomizes this idea. When you walk into a McDonald?s anywhere in the world, you know exactly what you are going to get when you order a quarter pounder, right down to the exact ingredients, quantities, and order of toppings.
A fledgling restaurant I worked for many years ago liked to think it was fancier than it was. The chef often played around with both presentation and ingredients for their standard entrees, thinking that he was adding variety and constantly improving upon the dish. Unfortunately when I ordered the salmon I never knew how spicy it was going to be, what it came with, and even how it was prepared. You don?t create a loyal clientele or repeat business with discrepancies; you do so with dependability and consistency.
With consistency, professionalism, proper planning of strategies, and alignments with the experts, you can run a top-notch successful business. Don?t reinvent the wheel, or ever find yourself saying ?my business is different, I don?t have to follow that rule?. Because the wheel is pretty darn efficient, and I?m sorry to say, your business just isn?t that different. Good business management equals good business. Period.
Source: http://www.ghanaherald.com/six-tips-to-good-business-management/
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'We're lucky': Nordic land rising faster than sea
Alister Doyle / Reuters
Hans Lindberg, a 56-year-old Swede, points toward an area of reeds that has risen from the Baltic Sea, forming a land bridge to what used to be an island where he spent his summers as a child in the early 1960s.
By Reuters
LULEA, Sweden -- A Stone Age camp that used to be by the shore is now 125 miles from the Baltic Sea. Sheep graze on what was the seabed in the 15th century. And Sweden's port of Lulea risks getting too shallow for ships.
In contrast to worries from the Maldives to Manhattan of storm surges and higher ocean levels caused by climate change, the entire northern part of the Nordic region is rising and, as a result, the Baltic Sea is receding.
"In a way we're lucky," said Lena Bengten, environmental strategist at the Lulea Municipality in Sweden, pointing to damage from superstorm Sandy that killed more than 200 people from Haiti to the United States.
The uplift of almost 0.4 inches a year, one of the highest rates in the world, is part of a continuing geological rebound since the end of the Ice Age removed a vast ice sheet from regions around the Arctic Circle.
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"It's a bit like a foam-rubber mattress. It takes a while to return to normal after you get up," said Martin Vermeer, a professor of geodesy at Aalto University in Finland. Finland gains 2.7 sq miles a year as the land rises.
In the Lulea region just south of the Arctic Circle, mostly flat with pine forests and where the sea freezes in winter, tracts of land have emerged, leaving some Stone Age, Viking and medieval sites inland.
That puts human settlements gradually out of harm's way from sea flooding, unlike low-lying islands from Tuvalu to Kiribati or cities from New York to Shanghai. Facebook is investing in a new data center in Lulea on land that was once on the seabed.
A recent study published in the journal 'Nature' suggests the U.S. may experience a 5 ft. rise in sea level given all of the fossil fuel that has already been burned. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
But rising land also means costs. Lulea is planning to deepen its port by 2020 to let in bigger ships and offset land rise at a cost of 1.6 billion Swedish crowns ($237.86 million).
"Even if we didn't have the ambition to have larger ships we would still have to do it on a smaller scale just to compensate for the land rise," said Roger Danell, head of the port.
Alister Doyle / Reuters
A view of the Swedish Baltic Sea port of Lulea Nov. 14, 2012.
Shallower port
Dredging just for existing ships would cost $60.46 million as the water gets shallower at the port that was last deepened in the 1970s, construction manager Jeanette Lestander said. Main exports are iron ore and the main import is coal.
But a projected rise in sea levels due to global warming means dredging to offset land rise for the next 40 years will be slightly less than in the 1970s.
Splits between rich, poor nations persist as climate talks open in Doha
"The rate of sea-level fall will be slowing," Lestander said during a visit to the port. The future sea fall is estimated at 0.28 inches a year from 0.35 inches.
In the north of Sweden, 125 miles inland and 558 feet above current sea level, archaeologists recently found a 10,700 year-old Stone Age hunters' camp near Pajala that was originally by the Ancylus Lake, the forerunner of the Baltic Sea.
"We carbon-dated burnt bones from a fireplace," archaeologist Olof Ostlund at the Norrbottens museum said. The hunters would have been near the retreating ice sheet that was once 1.9 miles thick.
In the past century, as the climate has warmed, sea level rise has accelerated. Scientists predict it will only increase, and they're studying changes in the ocean and land to better understand how and why the water is rising. NBC's Anne Thompson reports for "Changing Planet," produced by NBC Learn in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
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Experts examined sediments that showed the camp was on the shore of the former giant lake, briefly isolated from the North Sea by land uplift in the south before breaking through again.
Lulea's old town, with a 15th century church and bright red-painted wooden houses, was originally built on an island for safety when it was as an outpost of the then Swedish-Finnish Kingdom to counter Russian influence near the Arctic Circle.
Now the village is high and dry, out of sight of the sea. Sheep graze on a field in what used to be the port. In one spot, Sweden's coastline has risen about 984 feet since the Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago.
Water receding after Biblical flood?
The falling water level puzzled people for generations. Some Christians believed it was caused by still-receding waters after the Biblical story of Noah who built an Ark to rescue the world's animals from a God-sent flood.
Elsewhere in the world, many nations are worried by potential costs if sea levels rise in line with scenarios by the U.N. panel of climate scientists for a gain of 7-24 inches this century after 6.7 inches in the last century.
The panel says that rising temperatures, caused by emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, are the cause.
The U.N. projection excludes the possibility of an acceleration of the melt of Greenland and Antarctica, because that is uncertain.
Even so, many experts expect a quickening thaw and say that sea levels could rise in total by 3.3 feet this century.
Experts say human-produced carbon dioxide is playing a big role in the warming of the atmosphere, which is having a major effect on the world's oceans. Warmer oceans results in rising sea levels and more powerful hurricanes ? but reversing the effects of global warming could take decades. NBC's Robert Bazell reports.
Ice melt found across 97 percent of Greenland, satellites show
Near Lulea, local resident Hans Lindberg, 56, looks out of the wooden seaside cabin that his parents built in 1960 toward what was then the island of Kalkholmen a few hundred yards away.
"We could look out from here and only see the sea," he said, pointing to a muddy bank where reeds are growing and linking the island to the mainland. Residents of the former island say they fear the link may bring unwanted visitors -- perhaps burglars.
Alister Doyle / Reuters
Lindberg shows a family photo from the early 1960s of two girls playing in a sandpit that used to be at his parents' summer cottage near Lulea.
"You can walk to the island now. When I was young my father had a heavy boat that we could pull through the shallow part of the channel. That's now impossible," he said.
As evidence of the change, he shows a faded album with a black and white photo of two young girls -- his sister and cousin -- playing in a sandpit in the 1960s by the cabin.?It shows an open sea with no sign of the muddy causeway.
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Time Management ? goodinformations
There is no one secret to time management. In fact, there are three time management secrets. They are easy to learn and remember. The hard part is making yourself use them consistently. Do that, however, and you will master the time management secrets and you will get more done ? in your business and in your life.
The Three Secrets of Time Management
There are three key elements of time management. You have to focus first on using your limited amount of time on the most important things. You have to use that time efficiently. And you have to actually do those things instead of just talking or thinking about them.
Do The Right Things First
Perhaps the most important of the time management secrets is to do the right things first. It?s easy to lose focus and spend a lot of time on things that are urgent, but not important. The trick is to stay focused on the important things and not waste your limited amount of time on anything else.
- The 80/20 Rule, also known as Pareto?s Principle, says that 20 percent of something always are responsible for 80 percent of the results. For example, twenty percent of the products will have eighty percent of the flaws. This article explains the rule in more detail and tells how you can use it to more effectively manage time and many different aspects of your life.
- You can save time by knowing when to step in and when to hang back if an employee has a problem. Managers need to let employees make their own mistakes so they can learn from them. We can train them and advise them, but actual experience is often the best teacher. A good manager, therefore, will hang back and resist the impulse to jump in every time an employee encounters difficulty.
- One time you can?t hang back is the difficult employee. Many managers struggle with managing difficult employees. You may be tempted to not deal with them and hope the situation will get better on its own. It won?t. These types of tasks will take less time if you address them immediately instead of waiting and then having to spend more time on them later.
Use Time Efficiently
Even when you master the time management secret of only working on the important tasks, you still need to be efficient with your time if you want to get everything done.
- You Can?t Really Multi-task. I used to be a major fan of multi-tasking, but I?ve become a convert to ?chunking?. The name isn?t as exciting, but the results are impressive. Use Chunking Instead of Multi-tasking and you will get more done in less time.
- Many people try using to do lists to help them with time management. Still there somehow never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. You have to use a to do list that helps you stick with your priorities. Here is the system that has worked for me. It can work for you too.
- One final key to using your time efficiently is to not take on more than you can handle. Many times, that means knowing when to say no to your boss.
Get Things Done
You know the importance of doing the right things first and you are good at using your time efficiently. But neither of those will do you any good without the third time management secret ? you have to actually get things done. It is not enough to know what to do, to think about doing something, or to talk about doing it. You have to actually get things done.
- Don?t let ?analysis paralysis? keep you from getting things done. Planning is an important part of the job we do, but it is not an end goal. Don?t let process get in the way of results. Do your planning, but don?t lose sight of the need to get the job done.
Bottom Line
There are three time management secrets. Focus first on the most important things. Use time efficiently. And actually get things done. The more you use these, the more you will get done of what really matters.
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HP investor sues company for handling of 2 deals
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A Hewlett-Packard shareholder has filed a lawsuit alleging the troubled technology company's top executives misled investors about two key acquisitions that have caused billions of dollars in losses.
The complaint filed Monday in a San Francisco federal court comes after Hewlett-Packard Co. stunned Wall Street last week with its own allegations of accounting shenanigans at Autonomy, a business software maker it acquired for $10 billion last year.
The lawsuit filed by shareholder Allen Nicolow alleges HP management concealed the problems at Autonomy and another recent acquisition, Electronic Data Systems, in an attempt to boost HP's stock price.
The stock has lost more than half its value so far this year.
HP, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., declined to comment on the suit.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hp-investor-sues-company-handling-2-deals-000714410--finance.html
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
A film legacy Pt. 2 | Japan Camera Hunter
A film Legacy Pt. 2
Jason Howe from Aperturepriority has very kindly offered to share a piece with us about a series of beautiful photographs by the late photographer Roland G Phillips-Turner. These moving and personal images are a glance into the past. Over to you Jason.
Several weeks ago I posted the first part of this series by the late amateur photographer?Roland G Phillips-Turner, the images were extremely well received and this pleased me immeasurably. I really felt a justification on behalf of the family for permitting the use of the images and my subsequent decision to spend both time and money in making these available for wider viewing. Now as promised I am able to share with you the second installment from the series along with more of my thoughts.
For anyone that missed it the first part of this guest post can be found here -?A Film Legacy ? Pt 1
In my initial post, along with showing some of my favorite images I talked predominant;y about how this little discovery came to fruition. I also explained, how in my opinion these finds would become increasingly unlikely in the future as many of us store digital media on our various electronic devices. In truth I wasn?t entirely sure where I would go with the second installment but this week I?ve had cause to give more thought to those who have shared these images with us and the circumstances under which they have done so.
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Whilst I am clearly no ?spring chicken? I am the product of a generation that has grown up with computers and technology, as a 12/13 year old boy I would sit for hours on end programming my ZX81 to perform the most simplistic of tasks, from this point on there has always been a computer in my life. Now, whilst this makes me part of the first generation to enjoy the benefits of computer technology, ?it also means I?m incredibly comfortable with it. As such, when I made a decision to take ?my own photography more seriously it was an easy and obvious step to utilise the technologies I was so familiar with. Photo Sharing websites, my own Blog along with various forms of Social Media were all easy to put in place and I have no major reservations about sharing my images in them. But??
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What if that were not the case though? what if I was older still, and of the previous generation, or indeed the generation before that and computers weren?t second nature to me, if the internet and Social Media were things that potentially concerned me, then how would I feel? Let?s look beyond this for a moment and add some further reservations, say the images in question weren?t my own, but were the work of a deceased loved one unable to voice an opinion. Not forgetting of course that the person wanting to display them online (ME) is to all intents and purposes a complete stranger to you. It?s only then, when you factor all of this information together that one can fully appreciate both how brave ?a decision it was to share these images and how lucky we are to be able to view them.
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Of course, regretfully I didn?t have the pleasure of knowing the photographer behind these images, though I wish very much that I had done so. What I do know is that through these images I have to some lesser degree gotten to know him, at least photographically. I know what he liked to photograph and to a point I?m able to see how he went about ?it. I also know this, like many of us he loved film photography dearly. I?m prompted to give thought to current plight of film, our photographers films of choice are now obsolete, others could soon follow, I wonder what he would make of this?
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I was motivated to publish these images for several reasons, primarily I thought they were of both photographic and historic interest, secondly I felt the photographer,?Roland G Phillips-Turner?and indeed his family were deserving of recognition in the only form I could provide, by placing it alongside my own work online. There was however another equally important rationale for showcasing these images and it takes us back to the medium of film. I am certain that if making these images available online through various blogs and social media ignites a passion to discover film in just one person, then the photographer behind these images would I see this as a worthwhile endeavor, I truly believe that.
Slide 18 ? Hasselblad 500c ? AGFACOLOUR DIA
Slide 19 ? Hasselblad 500c ? AGFACOLOR DIA
I see it, at least I believe and hope I do??..So, what do I see? I see film consolidating, sure film?s are still slowly but surely disappearing but at the same time there are certainly more people shooting film than there have been in the past few years at least. Will this slow reawakening be enough to ensure it?s long term survival, I really don?t know but we definitely have reason to hope. I believe these images really portray the photographers sense of adventure, a brief insight in to New Zealand life from several decades ago and I sincerely hope people can draw inspiration from them as I have.
Slide 20 ? Hasselblad 500c ? KODAK EKTACHROME
Slide 21 ? Hasselblad 500c ? FILM UNKNOWN
These images, only previously shared by those closest to the photographer have now been enjoyed by thousands of people, thanks to the generosity of the photographers family, who had the courage and foresight to allow me to share these with you.
Cheers
Jason.
Aperture Priority ? Photography by Jason Howe
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Japancamerahunter
Source: http://japancamerahunter.com/2012/11/a-film-legacy-pt-2/
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Monday, November 26, 2012
ICOA Corp. CEO: $400M Google Acquisition ?NOT TRUE. We Never Had Discussions With Any Potential Acquirers? [Update: Now Google Also Confirms]
Chalk it up to process journalism, or to a sneaky "stock promoter." The CEO of WiFi provider ICOA Corp confirmed to TechCrunch -- and Google has now also confirmed -- that it has not been acquired by Google for $400 million - a story that had made the rounds earlier today. "This is NOT TRUE!!" wrote CEO George Strouthopoulos in an email. "Never had any discussions with any potential acquirers!! This is absolutely false!" he wrote in an email. "Someone, I guess a stock promoter with a dubious interest, is disseminating wrong, false and misleading info in the PR circles."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/84W7ZVAYCyk/
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JFK's last night recalled as key event for Latinos
President John F. Kennedy was supposed to just stop by and wave hello.
Instead a group of eager Latinos persuaded him to come inside and speak to a packed room of Mexican-American civil rights activists. And then he persuaded his wife, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, to address the crowd in Spanish.
It was Nov. 21, 1963. Hours later, the president was dead, his assassination overshadowing the significance of a speech that can be seen as the birth of the Latino vote, so instrumental in 2012 in helping re-elect the first black president, Barack Obama.
To historians, Kennedy's appearance at the Rice Ballroom in Houston was likely the first time that a president officially acknowledged Latinos as an important voting bloc.
Though there are no plaques marking the historic occasion, the event is a touchstone for activists even if the spot where Kennedy sat and heard a band play Mexican ballads and where the crowd yelled "Viva Kennedy!" is now a refurbished ballroom in a loft apartment complex that often plays host to weddings.
"That evening ... that's where it began," said Ignacio Garcia, author of "Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot" and a history professor at Brigham Young University. "But because very few people know about the meeting, it's like it never happened."
The surprise visit came after Mexican-Americans in Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona, Illinois and Indiana helped Kennedy win critical swing states in 1960, thanks to an unprecedented voter registration drive in Latino communities. Independent "Viva Kennedy!" clubs sprang up. Sen. Dennis Chavez, D-N.M., and Texas legislator Henry B. Gonzalez of San Antonio, a future congressman, began speaking in Hispanic neighborhoods across the country and positioned themselves as the first recognizable national Latino political figures.
Just as in 2012, Republicans in 1960 did little to woo Latinos to support their presidential candidate, Richard Nixon. Latinos also identified with Kennedy, who was Catholic and Irish-American, a member of an ethnic group that had battled discrimination similar to what Latinos faced in the segregated Southwest.
On Election Day in 1960, Kennedy won 85 percent of the Mexican-American vote.
But during Kennedy's first months in office, Latino leaders expressed dismay that the president had failed to appoint Hispanics in his administration. Chavez even openly criticized Kennedy for his lack of appointments; other leaders embarked on a letter-writing campaign over the slow movement on civil rights.
Sensing another close election in 1964 and hoping to ease tensions, Kennedy visited Texas in November 1963. Advisers suggested that he at least pay a quick visit to Mexican-American activists at a Houston gala sponsored by the League of United Latin American Citizens, then the largest Latino civil rights group in the country.
"The Secret Service told us that he may stop by, but not to advertise it because it wasn't part of his official schedule," said Alexander Arroyos, 76, who was an officer in LULAC at the time. "We could spread it through word of mouth. No one believed us."
Then Kennedy showed up.
The president was greeted at the door by Macario Garcia, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service during World War II. Inside the ballroom, Kennedy and the first lady found an enthusiastic crowd of World War II veterans, civil rights advocates and future elected officials.
Kennedy spoke briefly about foreign policy in Latin America and the importance of LULAC. The first lady told the crowd in Spanish that Texas had a deep history with Latinos. The crowd responded with chants of "Viva Kennedy!" A band played a ballad in Spanish as photographers took photos of the Kennedys and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson.
Before that moment, historians believe that no president had ever acknowledged Latinos as a voting bloc, said Emilio Zamora, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin.
President William Taft, who served from 1909-1913, may have met with a tiny group of Latino activists in El Paso, Texas, Zamora said. President Dwight D. Eisenhower likely shock hands with some Mexican-American voters in a campaign visit to South Texas in 1952. "But I think no president had ever publically thanked Mexican-Americans in that manner," said Zamora.
Fifteen hours after the historic meeting, Kennedy was dead.
Band members who had played for the president the night before wept as the news unfolded. When Arroyos heard about the assassination, he told his boss at an import company he was too upset to work. Arroyos rushed to collect from friends as many photos as possible of Kennedy's visit at the Rice Hotel as he could for a future edition of a LULAC newspaper.
On Election Day 2012, analysts routinely spoke of Latinos finally awakening as a "sleeping giant" by giving Obama around 70 percent of their vote. But Ignacio Garcia said that assessment ignores how Latinos have influenced presidential elections for more than 50 years.
In 1960, for example, their overwhelming backing helped put Texas and New Mexico in Kennedy's column during the tight race against Nixon. The Republican's campaign did not have a presence in Mexican-American neighborhoods and did not have a Spanish language TV ad, unlike Kennedy, who tapped the first lady for it. Kennedy also made promises to appoint Mexican-Americans to his administration.
Johnson enjoyed support from Hispanics who campaigned for him during his landslide victory in 1964, and Mexican-Americans came out strongly for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., during the 1968 Democratic primary in California.
In 2000, then-Texas. Gov. George W. Bush, a Republican, was able to edge Democrat Al Gore, thanks in party to receiving about 40 percent of the Latino vote, according to various estimates.
"The Latino vote did not come of age the night Obama was re-elected," said Garcia. "It came of age Nov. 21, 1963."
The reason the Latino vote is attracting attention in 2012 is that Latinos are now the largest minority group in the U.S. and voter participating rates are up, Garcia said.
Voter participation for eligible Latino voters has gone from 3.7 million in 1988 to an estimated 12.5 million in 2012, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. That number could to double within two decades, the center said.
Arroyos said most of the older activists shrug off the pronouncements that Hispanics are finally influencing national elections even though his generation helped give birth to the Latino vote. Still, he said even those who are still alive and remember that Kennedy speech probably don't even know what role they played that eventually led to the voting numbers in 2012.
"I didn't know that evening was so historic," said Arroyos. "I was just happy that he dropped by and just didn't say hi."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jfks-last-night-recalled-key-event-latinos-130546181--election.html
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Monday, November 12, 2012
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Ohio's labor unions flex political muscle again
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) ? Whether Ohio's blue-collar workers were motivated by the auto bailout or lingering bitterness over a Republican-led attempt to limit collective bargaining, it's clear that the state's labor unions remain a political force when united.
Organized labor claimed credit for President Barack Obama's victory in Ohio after union members and their allies flooded the state with mailers, phone calls and home visits in the days leading up to the election.
Sixty percent of voters from union households in Ohio threw their support behind Obama while the rest of the state's voters were split between the president and Republican Mitt Romney, according to exit poll results for The Associated Press.
Obama also got a slightly bigger share of the union vote than he did in 2008.
The union vote for Obama was even stronger in Wisconsin, where the state's Republican governor also sought to limit union rights for public workers.
The momentum began in Ohio, labor leaders say, when Republican Gov. John Kasich signed a law in 2011 that banned public employee strikes and limited the collective bargaining rights of 350,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and state employees.
The president's political team realized at the time they had a chance to re-energize organized labor in Ohio and other states where anti-union sentiment was growing. Obama's team began working closely with union leaders. And then last November, Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved the repeal of the collective bargaining law, known as Senate Bill 5, which Romney had endorsed.
"There's no question Senate Bill 5 was a unifying moment," said Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga. "It brought out our fighting spirit."
The union federation said its members and volunteers contacted 800,000 voters in Ohio during the four days before presidential election. The AFL-CIO also registered 68,000 new voters in Ohio.
the results showed that labor unions still have the ability to move votes like few other organizations, Burga said.
"When they start attacking our rights and everything else, we're going to get involved," said Chris Weaver, a Youngstown firefighter who's vice president of the union there.
The Republican attempt to limit collective bargaining wasn't an issue that got a lot of notice on the presidential campaign trail, but it did come up quite a bit in talk around firehouses and in literature distributed by labor groups.
"It bought the labor movement back a little bit," Weaver said.
The other big motivator among blue collar workers in Ohio was the auto bailout. Sixty percent of Ohio's voters favored coming to the rescue of General Motors and Chrysler and three-fourths threw their support behind the president.
The downside for labor in Ohio coming out of the election is that exit polls over the past eight years show that the share of voters from union households has dropped somewhat significantly with loss of many unionized manufacturing jobs.
Eight years ago, one out of three Ohio voters said they or someone they lived with was in a union. This year, it was one out of five.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ohios-labor-unions-flex-political-muscle-again-184748310--finance.html
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Payroll Asstistant II - HigherEdJobs
| Job: | Human Resources |
| Primary Location: | Georgia-Atlanta |
| Organization: | Human Resources |
| Schedule: | Full-time |
Description:
Job Purpose: Perform accounting related duties involved in processing the Institute payrolls to include data entry and verification, customer service and preparing schedules and reports.
Major Responsibilities:
- Enter and validate data in Payroll HRMS.
- Respond to customer inquiries regarding Payroll policies and procedures.
- Research and assist all employees with gross to net issues.
- Update paylines for on cycle processing overrides and process weekly off cycle checks.
- Validate employee paperwork for correctness.
- Run ad hoc queries and Excel spreadsheets as directed.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Education: A High School/GED or Vocational School Diploma
- Work Experience: Four to five years job related experience.
- Certifications:
- Skills: This job requires working knowledge of and skill in payroll processing to include performance of data entry, verification, reconciliation, basic analyses and report preparation. Skills in customer service and use of payroll and human resources information systems are required.
Please visit http://www.admin-fin.gatech.edu/human/
employment/080100.html to obtain GT's background and credit policy.
Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Preferred Education: Technical Diploma, Associate's Degree, or two years college course work in accounting, business, and/or computer science related field.
- Preferred Work Experience: Experience
working with PeopleSoft is highly desire.
Impact & Influence: This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Payroll supervision and co-workers, customers. This position typically will advise and counsel: NA. This position will supervise: NA.
Department Description:
Georgia Tech is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Consistent with its obligations under federal law, each company that is a federal contractor or subcontractor is committed to taking affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified women, minorities, disabled individuals, special disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam era, and other eligible veterans.
Source: http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175690948
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Guatemalans huddle in streets after deadly quake
SAN MARCOS, Guatemala (AP) ? Guatemalans fearing aftershocks huddled in the dark and frigid streets of this mountain town wrapped in blankets early Thursday, while others crowded inside its hospital, the only building left with electricity after a powerful earthquake killed at least 48 people and left dozens more missing.
Crews worked through the night in San Marcos, searching rubble for survivors and more dead following the magnitude 7.4 quake that struck Wednesday near Guatemala's border with Mexico.
In the town of San Cristobal Cochu, firefighters picked at a collapsed house trying to dig out 10 members of one family, including a 4-year-old child, who were buried, fire department spokesman Ovidio Perez told the radio station Emisoras Unidas.
Volunteers carrying boxes of medical supplies began arriving in the area in western Guatemalan late Wednesday.
Eblin Cifuentes, a 26-year-old law student, and a group of his classmates already were collecting medical supplies as part of a school drive to provide aid for the only hospital in San Marcos, a poor, mainly indigenous mountain area of subsistence farms. When the quake hit, the group decided to bring everything they had collected.
"Thank God nothing happened to us and that's why we have to help out," Cifuentes said.
The quake caused terror over an unusually wide area, with damage reported in all but one of Guatemala's 22 states and shaking felt as far away as Mexico City, 600 miles (965 kilometers) to the northwest.
It hit hardest in San Marcos, where more than 30 homes collapsed and many of the colorful adobe buildings in its center were either cracked or reduced to rubble, including the police station and the courthouse. The temblor tore a large gash in one of the streets. Hundreds of frightened townspeople stayed in the open, refusing to go back inside after more than five strong aftershocks shook the area.
President Otto Perez Molina said that 40 people died in the state of San Marcos and eight more were killed in the neighboring state of Quetzaltenango.
Hundreds of people crammed into the hallways of San Marcos' small hospital after the quake seeking help for injured family members. Some complained they were not getting care quickly enough.
Ingrid Lopez, who bought in a 72-year-old aunt whose legs were crushed by a falling wall, said she had waited hours for an X-ray.
"We ask the president to improve conditions at the hospital," she said. "There isn't enough staff."
More than 300 firefighters, policemen and civilians dug desperately at a half-ton mound of sand at a quarry trying to rescue seven people believed buried alive. Among those under the sand was a 6-year-old boy who had accompanied his grandfather to work.
"I want to see Giovanni! I want to see Giovanni!" the boy's mother, 42-year-old Francisca Ramirez, frantically cried. "He's not dead. Get him out."
By Wednesday night, firefighters had dug out two bodies from the quarry, including Giovanni's.
Perez flew to San Marcos to view the damage in this lush mountainous region of 50,000 indigenous farmers and ranchers, many belonging to the Mam ethnic group.
"One thing is to hear about what happened and another thing entirely is to see it," the president told The Associated Press. "As a Guatemalan I feel sad ... to see mothers crying for their lost children."
Perez said the government would pay for the funerals of all victims in the impoverished region.
Efrain Ramos helped load a tiny casket carrying the body of his 6-year-old niece from San Marcos' morgue to a waiting pickup truck.
"The little girl died when a wall fell over her," a shocked Ramos told a reporter. He said the girl was playing in her room when the quake hit.
Sobbing uncontrollably, the girl's mother hugged the coffin wrapped with white lace and tulle.
Ramos said the family would escort his niece Rosa's body back home for a viewing.
The quake, which was 20 miles deep, was centered 15 miles off the coastal town of Champerico and 100 miles southwest of Guatemala City. It was the strongest earthquake to hit Guatemala since a 1976 temblor that killed 23,000.
Officials said most of 100 missing were from San Marcos, where people farm corn and herd cattle, mostly for their own survival.
Hospital officials in San Marcos said they had received 150 injured.
Perez said more than 2,000 soldiers were deployed to help with the disaster. A plane had made at least two trips to carry relief teams to the area.
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Associated Press writer Sonia Perez-Diaz reported this story in San Marcos and Romina Ruiz-Goiriena reported from Guatemala City.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/guatemalans-huddle-streets-deadly-quake-063909389.html
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Carrie Underwood & Jimmy Fallon Perform As Country Rap (C'Rap ...
| The Comedy Stylings Of Jim Carrie |
Carrie Underwood stopped by?Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night (November 8) and treated viewers to a playful collaboration with the host. Underwood and Fallon?joined forces as the ?90s country rap (a.k.a. c?rap) duo Jim Carrie. Slapstick costume changes ensued, as did the butchering of hip-hop classics like ?Straight Outta Compton,? ?Nuthin? But A ?G? Thang? and ?The Humpty Dance.? It was silly and we loved it.
Source: http://idolator.com/7262452/carrie-underwood-jimmy-fallon-country-rap-crap-video
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