tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24022347448080513782024-03-05T14:37:52.639-08:00Whitewhiteheadmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640951841508137932noreply@blogger.comBlogger2866125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402234744808051378.post-79921633457172740722013-10-10T18:06:00.001-07:002013-10-10T18:06:08.671-07:00Weekend of a Champion: London Review<div readability="34.5"><br /><br /><div class="main_article_syn_bottomline" readability="32"><br /><h3>The Bottom Line</h3><br /><p>"Rush" - the documentary.</p><br /></div><br /><div class="main_article_syn_participants" readability="37"><br /><h3>Venue</h3><br /><p>London Film Festival press screening, September 26</p><br /><h3>Starring</h3><br /><p>Jackie Stewart, Roman Polanski, Helen Stewart</p><br /><h3>Director</h3><br /><p>Frank Simon</p><br /></div><br /></div><div readability="100.502962963"><br /><p>LONDON - The gladiatorial golden age of Formula 1 motor racing is currently enjoying high cinematic interest thanks to <strong>Ron Howard</strong>’s rubber-burning bio-drama <em>Rush</em> and <strong>Asif</strong> <strong>Kapadia</strong>’s heartbreaking 2010 documentary <em>Senna</em>. A fly-on-the-steering-wheel profile of Scottish three-time F1 champ <strong>Jackie Stewart</strong> at the peak of his career, <em>Weekend of a Champion</em> is a vintage documentary produced and presented by <strong>Roman Polanski. </strong>Shot at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1971, it offers an insider’s view of this high-risk, high-octane sport during its most lethally dangerous period.</p><br /><br /><p><strong><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/portraits-chris-hemsworth-superhero-slims-620944">PHOTOS: Exclusive Portraits of Chris Hemsworth: Superhero Slims Down to Play Formula One Racer</a></strong></p><br /><p>Screening at the London Film Festival this week, <em>Weekend of a Champion</em> was a minor project that Polanski made between his breakthrough American movies, <em>Rosemary’s Baby</em> and <em>Chinatown</em>. It never received a full U.S. release, and was largely forgotten until the negative came to light recently. Now this restored and expanded version, which features new contemporary footage, has been bought by the documentary arm of <em>Rush Hour</em> director <strong>Brett</strong> <strong>Ratner</strong>’s production company Rat, which plan to release it through Netflix.</p><br /><p>Granted special access as a personal friend, Polanski shadows Stewart and his wife Helen across four days of tense training runs, glitzy social functions, cheerful meetings with competition winners and autograph hunters. The pair also blast around the compact Monte Carlo circuit together, as the affable Scot explains the precision technique involved in every curve and gear-shift. Despite heavy rainclouds and the ever-present threat of fatal accident, the race itself ultimately passes without serious incident.</p><br /><p><em>Weekend of a Champion</em> clearly will clearly have most appeal to hardcore motor racing fans, who will appreciate the forensic precision that Stewart puts into every decision, a Jedi-like level of expertise that later served him well in his post-championship careers as a commentator for ABC and safety campaigner. Casual F1 fans may also enjoy the cameos by legendary drivers including <strong>Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss</strong> and Stewart’s former team-mate, <strong>Graham Hill</strong>. Other celebrities of the period also make fleeting appearance, including <strong>Princess Grace, Ringo Starr</strong> and <strong>Joan Collins</strong>. As a flashy tax haven for the super-rich, Monaco has long been the most glamorous race of the season.</p><br /><p><strong><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/rush-london-premiere-chris-hemsworth-620718">PHOTOS: 'Rush' London Premiere: Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde Hit the Red Carpet</a></strong></p><br /><p>Rakishly dressed and shaggy haired in the dandyish <em>Austin Powers</em> style of the period, Polanski appears sporadically on screen throughout. He also co-stars in a new 20-minute coda, reuniting with Stewart 40 years later in the same hotel suite to reminisce on old times. This is the least dramatic or dynamic part of the documentary, but in some ways the most revealing. Stewart reflects ruefully on all the fallen comrades he lost during an era when racing drivers had a one-in-three chance of survival. One of them was his handsome French team-mate <strong>François Cevert</strong>, a fleeting presence in the film, who died in a crash in 1973.</p><br /><p>Thanks partly to Stewart’s dogged campaigns to make the sport safer, the number of fatal crashes has declined dramatically in recent years. “In the 1970s, motor racing was dangerous and sex was safe,” he quips, a line that surely carries an extra sting for Polanski. <em>Weekend of a Champion</em> begins as a motorsports movie but ends up a portrait of two wily elder statesmen who have survived into their seventies by skill, stealth and sheer luck.</p><br /><p><em>Production company: RP productions</em></p><br /><p><em>Producer: Roman Polanski</em></p><br /><p><em>Starring: Jackie Stewart, Roman Polanski, Helen Stewart</em></p><br /><p><em>Director: Frank Simon</em></p><br /><p><em>Cinematographers: Bill Brayne, Pawel Edelman</em></p><br /><p><em>Editors: Hervé de Luze, Shawn Tracey, Derek York</em></p><br /><p><em>Sales company: Pathé International</em></p><br /><p><em>Unrated, 93 minutes</em></p><br /></div>Source: <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thr/reviews/allreviews/~3/zuo1Lcor3zg/weekend-a-champion-london-review-646254">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thr/reviews/allreviews/~3/zuo1Lcor3zg/weekend-a-champion-london-review-646254</a><br />Related Topics: <a href="http://www.promotionworld.com/search.html?cx=009329588331191856335%3Aizahy4t4gzm&cof=FORID%3A11&client=pub-2764696834666748&channel=8418868514&q=polished+concrete+floors&sa=Search&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&siteurl=www.promotionworld.com%2F&ref=&ss=1871j1034177j8&site">tom hanks</a> <a href="http://www.sitelistings.net/index.php?q=auckland+headstone+supplier&x=0&y=0">cnn</a> <a href="http://www.sitelistings.net/index.php?q=Polished+Concrete+Solutions&x=0&y=0">Gareth Bale</a> <a href="http://socialcanal.com/story.php?title=auckland-web-design">taylor swift</a> <a href="http://sociallywebbed.com/story.php?title=auckland-web-design">ben affleck</a> whiteheadmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640951841508137932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402234744808051378.post-11928953947509955702013-08-05T12:03:00.001-07:002013-08-05T12:03:05.239-07:00Google Nexus 7 Essentials Kit[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>Source: www.incipio.com --- Saturday, August 03, 2013<br /><img src="http://dbky5wl4i40xj.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/75x75/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/b/c/bcf-023_3.jpg" & width="75" & height="75" style="margin: 5pt 10px 0px 0px; float: left;" border="1" align="left" alt="" />Everything for your Google Nexus 7 in one kit. 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Scoreboard Sunday in the second Twenty20 match between Sri Lanka and South Africa at Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium:</p> <p>Henry Davids b Kulasekara 7</p> <p>Quinton de Kock st Sangakkara b Senanayake 19</p> <p>Faf du Plessis b Malinga 12</p> <p>JP Duminy c Mathews b Senanayake 30</p> <p>AB de Villiers run out 15</p> <p>David Miller c Chandimal b Kulasekara 36</p> <p>David Wiese not out 7</p> <p>Wayne Parnell not out 10</p> <p>Extras: (2lb, 7w) 9</p> <p>TOTAL: (for six wickets) 145</p> <p>Overs: 20.</p> <p>Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-44, 3-48, 4-86, 5-105, 6-132.</p> <p>Did not bat: Morne Morkel, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe</p> <p>Bowling: Nuwan Kulasekara 4-0-22-2 (1w), Lasith Malinga 4-0-32-1 (1w), Sachithra Senanayake 4-0-18-2 (5w), Angelo Mathews 4-0-32-0, Ajantha Mendis 4-0-39-0.</p> <p>Sri Lanka: Dinesh Chandimal (captain), Kusal Perera, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Lahiru Thirimanne, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Sachithra Senananyake, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Ajantha Mendis.</p> <p>Series: South Africa leads three-match series 1-0.</p> <p>Toss: South Africa.</p> <p>Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz and Ruchira Palliyaguruge, Sri Lanka.</p> <p>TV umpire: Raveendra Wimalasiri, Sri Lanka. 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Neither the House nor the Senate will come close this year.</p><p>The House has passed four of the 12 budget bills.</p><p>The Senate has passed none of them.</p><p><span>As of Thursday afternoon, the Congress had sent only 23 bills to President Obama for his signature, the latest being a bill that rolls back a recent increase in student loan interest rates.</span></p><p>One thing I've talked about for years is how much less work is being done by both the House and Senate - and figures produced by one of my colleagues bears that out.</p><p>Lisa Desjardins of CNN went back through the last five years, and found that 2013 has had the least amount of Congressional activity.</p><p>For example, in 2009, the Senate met for 113 days before the August break - 24 more days than in 2013.</p><p>Think about that - basically the Senate worked five more weeks in 2009 up until this point of the year, than Senators did in 2013.</p><p>The difference in the House was 19 days - almost four full work weeks.</p><p>Seems pretty logical to me that if you aren't in Washington for work in Congress, you aren't going to get much done in the House or Senate.</p><p>The last time the Senate voted on a Friday was in March. ?</p><p>The House didn't schedule one five day work week on the floor for the entire year.</p><p>For the next five weeks, the Congress is out. 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She also shocked Serena Williams in the opening round at last year's French Open. </p><p> Her semifinal opponent will be fifth-seeded Samantha Stosur, who bumped off two seed Agnieszka Radwanska 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 in a 2-hour, 31-minute match. Radwanska, who was the runner-up in Stanford last week, titled here two years ago and was the Carlsbad runner-up in 2010. </p><p> The 2013 Carlsbad titlist will claim $125,000. </p> <p>? 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Other Maps users have been equally puzzled<u>.</u></p><p>You can't blame them: Google didn't mention this subtraction in its post about the new look, although it did spell out the removal of the Latitude location-sharing feature that many people never bothered to try.</p><p>It also has yet to revise its old instructions for requesting a multiple-stop itinerary. They include a sample link which yields the old maps interface, plus a small caption at the top explaining that you were switched back to the prior version because you requested a feature the new one doesn't support.</p><p>But using the search syntax shown on that page ("from:first place to:second place to:third place") didn't work to request new multidestination directions. If you've opted into Google's new maps site, your only workaround on the desktop is to go to the blue "Help & Feedback" button at its top-right corner and select "Return to classic Google Maps."</p><p>Or you can pick up your phone ? not to use Google's Android and iOS apps, but to use the mobile version of its website.</p><p>It seems almost inevitable that Google will restore this feature (a Google spokesman didn't want to comment on the record), but in the meantime this is a lesson about how not to introduce a new product. Sometimes a company has to drop a useful feature to get other things to ship on time ? but why let users discover its absence when it could have explained things upfront?</p><p>It may also be an opportunity for Google users to try other mapping sites.</p><p>For the past few years, Google's strongest competition has come from Microsoft. Its Bing Maps site matches many of Google's features (bicycling directions are a notable exception) and was first to introduce others, such as a bird's-eye view from a much lower altitude than the usual satellite imagery, and it still allows multiple-stop directions.</p><p>AOL's MapQuest does as well but looks much more cluttered. Yahoo Maps has a cleaner appearance but only does driving directions.</p><p>These competitors, however, have yet to match Google's vast "Ground Truth" effort to augment and expand its cartographical data. As one result, Microsoft only recently updated its database to reflect the permanent closure in January of a stretch of Interstate 395 in Washington, while Yahoo did not know about that as of Wednesday.</p><p>(Google misses things, too. Although its overhead view shows how Columbus Circle in front of Union Station has been straightened out, its map view shows the old, tangled alignment. Please remember to trust your eyeballs regardless of what mapping app you use, lest errant guidance drive you to do something embarrassingly stupid like, say, driving a mile up a bike trail.)</p><p><b>Tip: Gmail's offline mode lets you read without bandwidth ? or ads</b></p><p>If you use Google's Chrome browser, you can install an app for its Gmail service ? open a new tab, click "Web Store" at the bottom right corner and search for "Gmail Offline" ? that lets you read and respond to your messages without an Internet connection.</p><p>That's a huge upgrade by itself, putting Google's Webmail service on a par with separate programs like Apple's Mail or Microsoft's Outlook in allowing you to catch up on old messages while offline. (Google Docs got a similar upgrade last summer, which I used to write part of this column on a Wi-Fi-free flight.) 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It was the first time since 1987 that an administration had overturned a product ban like this one.</p> <p>The commission should ?examine thoroughly and carefully on its own initiative the public interest issues,? Froman wrote.</p> <p>Samsung can, however, take Apple to court, Froman wrote.</p> <p>The ruling was a victory for Apple in its ongoing battle with Samsung over patent infringement.</p> <h6 class="tagged">SHOWS: World News</h6> <!-- outbrain begin --> <!-- outbrain end --> <!-- end related-stories --><p>Source: <a href="http://feeds.abcnews.com/c/35229/f/654827/s/2f86dd42/sc/21/l/0Labcnews0Bgo0N0Cblogs0Cpolitics0C20A130C0A80Cwhite0Ehouse0Eoverrules0Eban0Eon0Eapple0Eiphone0E40Eipad0E20C/story01.htm">http://feeds.abcnews.com/c/35229/f/654827/s/2f86dd42/sc/21/l/0Labcnews0Bgo0N0Cblogs0Cpolitics0C20A130C0A80Cwhite0Ehouse0Eoverrules0Eban0Eon0Eapple0Eiphone0E40Eipad0E20C/story01.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.projobspot.com/story.php?title=newcastle-escort">illinois primary</a> <a href="http://daf-mn.org/story.php?title=newcastle-escorts">trayvon martin 911 call</a> <a href="http://portaiscolaborativos.itshare.com.br/redesocial/maphank65">kiribati</a> <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/liphome79">vernal equinox</a> <a href="http://globalmanagementtrends.com/profile/deonman98">mr rogers</a> <a href="http://whitelionhouse.com/vecindad/mapveil46">jamie lee curtis</a> <a href="http://whalleyrange.org/carrotveil79">spring equinox</a> </p>whiteheadmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640951841508137932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402234744808051378.post-73826954825426732552013-08-04T00:36:00.001-07:002013-08-04T00:36:30.523-07:00New jobs disproportionately low-pay or part-time<p class="first">WASHINGTON (AP) ? The 162,000 jobs the economy added in July were a disappointment. The quality of the jobs was even worse.</p> <p>A disproportionate number of the added jobs were part-time or low-paying ? or both.</p> <p>Part-time work accounted for more than 65 percent of the positions employers added in July. Low-paying retailers, restaurants and bars supplied more than half July's job gain.</p> <p>"You're getting jobs added, but they might not be the best-quality job," says <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375561369371_4">John Canally</span>, an economist with <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375561369371_5">LPL Financial</span> in Boston.</p> <p>So far this year, low-paying industries have provided 61 percent of the nation's job growth, even though these industries represent just 39 percent of overall U.S. jobs, according to Labor Department numbers analyzed by Moody's Analytics. Mid-paying industries have contributed just 22 percent of this year's job gain.</p> <p>"The jobs that are being created are not generating much income," Steven Ricchiuto, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375561369371_2">chief economist</span> at Mizuho Securities USA, wrote in a note to clients.</p> <p>That's one reason Americans' pay hasn't kept up with even historically low inflation since the Great Recession ended in June 2009. Average hourly pay fell 2 cents in July to $23.98 an hour.</p> <p>Among those feeling the squeeze is <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375561369371_1">Elizabeth Wilkinson</span>, 28, of Houston. After losing a $39,000-a-year administrative job at Rice University in January, Wilkinson found work at an employment agency for $15 an hour. Yet she's had to supplement that job with part-time work as a waitress.</p> <p>"This morning I put $1.35 worth of gas in my car because that is all the money that I had," Wilkinson said via email. "It's very difficult to survive on $30,000 (a year), and I am living paycheck to paycheck."</p> <p>Part-time work has made up 77 percent of the job growth so far this year. The government defines part-time work as being less than 35 hours a week.</p> <p>Analysts say some employers are offering part-time over full-time work to sidestep the new health care law's rule that they provide medical coverage for permanent workers. (The Obama administration has delayed that provision for a year.)</p> <p>Weak economies overseas have also reduced demand for U.S. goods and, as a result, for better-paying U.S. jobs in manufacturing. Government spending cuts have taken a toll on some middle-class jobs, too.</p> <p>Many employers have also discovered that they can use technology to do tasks more cheaply and efficiently than office workers used to do. And some have found that they can shift middle-class jobs to low-wage countries such as China.</p> <p>By contrast, most lower-paying jobs ? from waiters and hotel maids to store clerks, bartenders and home health care aides ? can't be automated or shipped abroad.</p> <p>"You're always going to have jobs in the retail sector," says Michael Evangelist, a policy analyst with the liberal National Employment Law Project, which advocates on behalf of low-wage workers.</p> <p>Consider Mike Ulrich, 30, who earned a master's degree in public administration in May from the University of Colorado. Ulrich hasn't been able to find work that requires a college degree. Instead, he works at a hardware store in Spokane, Wash., earning the state's minimum wage: $9.19 an hour.</p> <p>Not all July's new jobs were low-paying. Local schools hired more than 10,000 teachers and other employees. Financial firms added 15,000.</p> <p>And <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375561369371_6">Scott Anderson</span>, chief economist at Bank of the West, thinks concerns about the surge in part-time work might be overblown. The government's figures on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375561369371_3">part-time jobs</span> are highly volatile, Anderson notes. The big gain this year could quickly reverse, he says.</p> <p>Yet for the most part, Daniel Alpert, managing partner of Westwood Capital, wrote in a report last month, "the only folks engaging in meaningful hiring are doing so because labor is cheap."</p> <p>The low quality of the added jobs could help explain something that has puzzled economists: How has the U.S. economy managed to add an average of roughly 200,000 jobs a month this year even though it grew at a tepid annual rate below 2 percent in the first half of the year?</p> <p>Some are proposing an answer: Perhaps a chronically slow-growth economy can't generate many good-paying jobs ? but can produce lots of part-time or lower-wage retail and restaurant work.</p> <p>Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial, recalls that the robust economic growth of the late '90s generated millions of middle-class jobs. 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A topping out ceremony was held Saturday for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375508161594_4">China</span>'s <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375508161594_1">tallest building</span> in the financial hub of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375508161594_5">Shanghai</span>.</p> <p>At 632 meters (2,073 feet), the Shanghai Tower in the city's Pudong district is the world's second-tallest building, surpassed only by Dubai's <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375508161594_6">Burj Khalifa</span>, which soars 829.8 meters (2,722 feet).</p> <p>Topping out means the final beam has been placed at the top of the building. Once completed next year, the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375508161594_7">Shanghai Tower</span> will have retail and office space, and a luxury hotel. It was designed by the U.S. architectural firm Gensler.</p> <p>China's booming economy has fuelled a building frenzy, including some of the world's <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375508161594_3">tallest buildings</span>. The Shanghai Tower replaces the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375508161594_2">Shanghai World Financial Center</span> ? completed in 2007 ? as the country's highest building.</p> <p>The Shanghai Tower is the last piece in a group of super-tall skyscrapers in Shanghai's Pudong, which includes the Shanghai World Financial Center and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375508161594_9">Jin Mao Tower</span>, both among the tallest in the world.</p> <p>And in the south-central city of Changsha, developers are in the midst of building Sky City, an 838-meter (2,749-foot) structure that would overtake Burj Khalifa.</p> <p>This summer, China also unveiled the world's largest building in terms of floor space in the western city of Chengdu. The New Century Global Center edged out the previous record-holder, the Dubai airport.</p><p>Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-tallest-building-nears-finish-shanghai-053442291.html">http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-tallest-building-nears-finish-shanghai-053442291.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.the-news-release.com/story.php?title=mistress-in-london">netanyahu</a> <a href="http://www.bookmarklayer.com/story.php?title=mistress-in-london">aipac</a> <a href="http://www.pukkabookmarks.com/story.php?title=mistress-in-london">vanessa minnillo</a> <a href="http://linkfeeling.com/story.php?title=mistress-in-london">super tuesday</a> <a href="http://seolinkrad.com/story.php?title=london-mistresses-2">epidemiology</a> <a href="http://www.bookmarkingbug.com/story.php?title=london-mistresses">total eclipse of the heart</a> <a href="http://www.bookmarksilver.com/story.php?title=london-mistress">jionni lavalle</a> </p>whiteheadmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640951841508137932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402234744808051378.post-74393075341234717582013-08-03T01:08:00.001-07:002013-08-03T01:08:20.223-07:00Florida job cuts decline in July, health care sector hurting<!-- Start Component ID: 4471 - Article Page: Video Player Main Asset --> <!-- End Component ID: 4471 - Article Page: Video Player Main Asset --> <!-- Start Component ID: 146 - Article Page: Image Gallery --> <meta itemprop="name" content="Florida job cuts decline in July, health care sector hurting - South Florida Business Journal"/><meta itemprop="description" content="Florida ranked fourth in job cuts in the South in July, but still has the highest..."/><meta itemprop="url" content="http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/morning-edition/2013/08/florida-still-has-highest-amount-of.html"/> <p class="caption">Florida job cuts decreased in July.</p> <!-- End Component ID: 146 - Article Page: Image Gallery --> <!-- Start Component ID: 3981 - 5.2012Marchex --> <!-- Marchex Enabled:0 : BLOGA --><!-- End Component ID: 3981 - 5.2012Marchex --> <!-- Start Component ID: 172 - Article Page: Video Player --> <!-- End Component ID: 172 - Article Page: Video Player --> <!-- Start Component ID: 1821 - Article Page: Embedded Video --> <!-- End Component ID: 1821 - Article Page: Embedded Video --> <!-- Start Component ID: 154 - Article Page: Google Map --> <!-- End Component ID: 154 - Article Page: Google Map --> <!-- Start Component ID: 173 - Article Page: Related Links --> <!-- End Component ID: 173 - Article Page: Related Links --> <!-- Start Component ID: 144 - Article Page: Content --> <p>Florida ranked fourth in job cuts in the South in July, but still has the highest amount of layoffs this year, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.</p> <p>Employers in the Sunshine State announced 785 cuts in July, down from 2,260 cuts in June. A total of 13,651 layoffs have been announced in the state this year. Tennessee, South Carolina and Louisiana had higher amounts of job cuts last month, according to the data.</p> <p>The job cut figures are based on public layoff announcements, such as Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices filed with the state of Florida.</p> <p>In July, planned layoffs in South Florida included 74 jobs at The National Hotel in Miami Beach. The hotel was closed after it failed a safety inspection from the city. The hotel was required to send its workers home until it could pass the inspection.</p> <p>Nationwide, planned job cuts declined slightly in July, as employers announced workforce reductions totaling 37,701 during the month, down 4.2 percent from 39,372 planned layoffs in June. While the job cuts were declining last month, the pacing was still 2.3 percent higher than a year ago, when 36,855 planned job cuts were recorded.</p> <p>Employers have now announced 296,633 job cuts since January 1, which is 7.3 percent fewer than the 319,946 job cuts announced in the first seven months of 2012. At the current pace of downsizing, which is averaging 42,376 job cuts per month, 2013 will come in below the 2012 year-end total of 523,362, which was the lowest annual total since 1997 (434,350).</p> <p>July workforce reductions were led by the health care sector, which announced 6,843 planned job cuts. That represents the highest number of cuts for this sector since 9,558 health care job cuts were recorded in November 2009. Health care organizations have now cut 29,794 jobs this year, 59 percent more than the 18,770 planned job cuts announced by this point in 2012.</p> <!-- begin Pagination --> <!-- end Pagination --> <blockquote>Shaun Bevan covers tourism, hospitality, retail and restaurants.</blockquote> <!-- End Component ID: 144 - Article Page: Content --> <!-- Start Component ID: 273 - Article Page: Tags --> <!-- End Component ID: 273 - Article Page: Tags --><p>Source: <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vertical_32/~3/W8bpdV-ESiE/florida-still-has-highest-amount-of.html">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vertical_32/~3/W8bpdV-ESiE/florida-still-has-highest-amount-of.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bp-cgo.com/plus/guestbook.php">veterans day</a> <a href="http://www.ginobarone.altervista.org">When Is Veterans Day 2012</a> <a href="http://www.abnehmenundmeer.net/gbaum/gb.php?gb_task=new_entry&range=245?PHPSESSID=v18qc7fjrhau96d5m5eas8dbot179m6f?">brooke burke</a> <a href="http://www.nanakwameampadu.com/guestbook/">Alexa Vega</a> <a href="http://www.schoenerurlaub.eu/gb/gb.php?gb_task=new_entry&range=13?PHPSESSID=7713188690a03c7ec9e8d6029261380a?">Bram Stoker books</a> <a href="http://flohfan.kilu.de/gb/gb.php?gb_task=new_entry&range=109?range=109&PHPSESSID=8dcee282f37a34e0071dc1df49ab61b1?range=109?range=109&PHPSESSID=fb332ee313cda7301893bc7419f4cafe">Paula Broadwell Photos</a> <a href="http://www.agrodobino.eu/index.php">Veterans Day 2012</a> </p>whiteheadmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640951841508137932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402234744808051378.post-70338510637106985022013-08-02T22:21:00.001-07:002013-08-02T22:21:16.588-07:00Post Office mulls booze deliveries to raise cash<span class="category">consumer</span> <img class="avatar" src="http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/streams\2012/November/121101\1C4560398-aplogo-reasonably-small.blocks_desktop_avatar.jpg"/><p> <span class="byline-name">The Associated Press</span> <span class="byline-affiliation">Staff</span> </p> <p class="time"> <span class="value">10</span> hours ago </p> <img src="http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/streams/2013/August/130802/6C8489357-130802_booze_hmed_0449p.blocks_desktop_small.jpg" alt="Someday...this could be a booze-mobile. A U.S. Postal service employee leaves the loading dock to deliver mail from the Los Feliz Post Office on Febru..."/><p>Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images</p><p> Someday...this could be a booze-mobile. A U.S. Postal service employee leaves the loading dock to deliver mail from the Los Feliz Post Office on February 6, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. </p><p>Special delivery from the post office ? beer, wine and spirits, if Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has his way.?<br/></p><p>In an interview with The Associated Press, Donahoe said Thursday delivery of alcoholic beverages is on his wish list as the agency considers ways to raise revenue and save money after losing $16 billion last year. He also said he endorses ending most door-to-door and Saturday mail deliveries as a way to help stabilize the service's finances.?</p><p>Donahoe said delivering alcohol has the potential to raise as much as $50 million a year. He mentioned how customers might want to, for example, mail bottles of wine home when they tour vineyards. Donahoe said his agency has looked at the possibility of using special boxes that would hold two, four or six bottles and ship for a flat-rate anywhere in the country.?</p><p>"There's a lot of money to be made in shipping beer, wine and spirits," Donahoe said. "We'd like to be in that business."?</p><p>The Postal Service says mailing alcoholic beverages is currently restricted by law. Customers are even told to cover any logos or labels if they use alcoholic beverage boxes for shipments.?</p><p>The agency is also urging changes in how it delivers the mail. A House committee has passed legislation to stabilize the Postal Service's ailing finances that would cut letter deliveries to five days and phase out door-to-door deliveries over 10 years. The bill does not include a provision to allow the agency to deliver alcohol.?</p><p>The Senate passed a postal reform bill last year that included a provision allowing the agency to deliver alcohol. The bill would require that such shipments would have to comply with any state laws where the shipment originated and was delivered. The measure also said the recipient would have to be at least 21 years old and would need to provide valid, government-issued photo identification upon delivery.?</p><p>The agency faces $15 billion in losses this year and is working toward restructuring its retail, delivery and mail processing operations.?</p><p>"We don't want to take any more debt on," Donahoe said. "We want to be able to get profitable, pay it down, just like any other business would, so that you stay strong for the future."?</p><p>The service's losses are largely due to a decline in mail volume and a congressional requirement that it make advance payments to cover expected health care costs for future retirees. About $11.1 billion of last year's losses were due to the health care payments.?</p><p>Donahoe said over the last decade, the mail volume at his agency's trademark blue boxes has dropped 60 percent.?</p><p>"That's our most profitable mail," he said. "That will continue to drop off because people pay bills online. And we understand that, it's easy, it's free, and so we have to continue to make changes."?</p><p>On a bright note, Donahoe said the volume of packages the service handles has grown considerably in recent years, a trend he expects to continue.?</p><p>The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently approved a plan for the service to gradually shift from door delivery to cluster box and curbside delivery, which includes mailboxes at the end of driveways. The agency has been moving toward curbside and cluster box delivery in new residential developments since the 1970s.?</p><p>About 1 in 3 mail customers has door-to-door delivery. Some lawmakers have complained that ending home delivery in many densely developed urban areas would be difficult and pose hardships for many people, including the elderly and places where the weather can be harsh.?</p><p>"We'd work with the communities," Donahoe said, adding there would be special hardship exemptions for those physically unable to get their mail at centralized locations. "We want to figure out how to do it so people don't get mad."?</p><p>Donahoe said there are ways to install centralized mail boxes that fit in well with the neighborhood and also don't cause a lot of hardship for customers.?</p><p>Some 30 million residential addresses receive delivery to boxes at the door or a mail slot. Another 87 million residential addresses receive curbside or cluster box delivery.?</p><p>Door-to-door delivery costs the agency about $350 per year, on average. Curbside delivery costs average $224 per year for each address, while cluster box delivery averages $160.?</p><p>The service earlier this year backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery after running into opposition in Congress. It has tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully over the past several years to persuade Congress to approve ending Saturday mail delivery.?</p><p>The National Association of Letter Carriers has said ending Saturday delivery would in particular hurt rural residents and the elderly who depend more heavily on the mail for prescription drugs and other goods. Donahoe said there would be a six-month implementation period to help smooth out any problems and that medicines would still be delivered on Saturdays.?</p><p>The Senate last year passed a bill that would have stopped the Postal Service from eliminating Saturday service for at least two years and required it to try two years of cost-cutting instead. 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Just to recap, I've pulled together a list of some of the positive press that Memphis has gotten in the past seven months:</p> <p>- The Score praised the FedExForum for having the best in-game music in the NBA.</p> <p>- Spencer Hall wrote one of the greatest articles I've ever read about Memphis for SB Nation. He gets us more that we get us.</p> <p>- Kiplinger declared Memphis one of the 10 Cheapest Cities to Live In.</p> <p>- Travel + Leisure ranked us as one of the best U.S. Cities for Affordable Getaways.</p> <p>- The New York Times Hominy sloved Hog and o much that they wrote a massive feature review.</p> <p>- Speaking of Hog and Hominy, its head chefs, Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman, were nominated for Food and Wine's Best New Chef.</p> <p>- They also appreciate that you can do Memphis on the cheap.</p> <p>- MSN named Memphis one of the Top 20 Travel Destinations for 2013.</p> <p>- BuzzFeed thinks we're quite hospitable.</p> <p>- Both Le Bonheur and St. Jude were recognized by the U.S. News and World Report.</p> <p>- Grantland wrote a ton of wonderful things about the Grizzlies, but their season recap is one of my favorites.</p> <p>- Adam Richmans' Fandemonium came to the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.?</p> <p>- Forbes praised our emerging downtown.</p> <p>- The U.S. News and World Report bowed down to our barbecue and declared Memphis the Best Barbecue City in America.</p> <p>- Lastly, National Geographic Travel listed Memphis on its list of the Top 20 Places to Visit in the World.</p><p>Source: <a href="http://ilovememphisblog.com/2013/08/they-like-us-they-really-like-us/">http://ilovememphisblog.com/2013/08/they-like-us-they-really-like-us/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.wellnesshealthcenters.com/se/profile/carsraul8">atlanta braves</a> <a href="http://republicanpush.pinksweatroom.com/profile/carsmole5">Happy Easter</a> <a href="http://brokenhearted.co/profile/eugenehope6">Game Of Thrones Season 3</a> <a href="http://www.capslockoff.com/edisonraul3">campfire</a> <a href="http://www.faceofnewzealand.com/dougmole4">Kordell Stewart</a> <a href="http://bigfish365.com/edisonkim5">cesar chavez</a> <a href="http://audioboo.fm/bikeswm1">Wichita State</a> </p>whiteheadmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640951841508137932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402234744808051378.post-48096227270683063602013-08-02T06:28:00.001-07:002013-08-02T06:28:16.628-07:00From Fields to Fevers: Are Farms Breeding Deadly MRSA Infections?<p id="articleDek">Microbiologists are trying to work out whether the agricultural use of antibiotics is fueling the human epidemic of drug-resistant bacteria</p> <p class="articleInfo"> <span class="byline"> By Beth Mole and Nature magazine </span> </p> <br/> <p class="in-article-image"> <img src="http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/from-fields-to-fevers-are-farms-breeding-mrsa_1.jpg" alt="Pigs" width="277"/> <img src="http://assets.pinterest.com/images/pidgets/pin_it_button.png"/></p><p><span class="imageCaption"><b/> Pigs carrying methicillin-resistant <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> were found on US farms for the first time in 2007.</span> <span class="imageCredit">Image: DANIEL ACKER/BLOOMBERG/GETTY</span> </p> <h3><img src="http://www.scientificamerican.com/assets/img/SAFSGbooks.png"/></h3> <ul class="contentList" readability="23.1428571429"><li readability="2.77714285714"> <img src="http://resources.macmillanusa.com/jackets/186W/9780374709853.jpg" class="bookCoverImg"/> <h3/> <p> Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 will change the way...</p><p><span class="moreLink"><strong>Read More?<span class="linkArrow">?</span></strong></span> </p> </li> </ul> <p> The sight of just one boot coming through the doorway cues the clatter of tiny hoofs as 500 piglets scramble away from Mike Male. ?That's the sound of healthy pigs,? shouts Male, a veterinarian who has been working on pig farms for more than 30 years. On a hot June afternoon, he walks down the central aisle of a nursery in eastern Iowa, scoops up a piglet and dangles her by her hind legs. A newborn piglet's navel is an easy entry point for bacterial infections, he explains. If this pig were infected, she would have an abscess, a lump of inflamed tissue, just below the navel. ?In human terms, she'd be an outie instead of an innie,? he says, rubbing the pig's healthy, pink belly button.</p> <p> Nearly six years ago, an outbreak of 'outies' at this nursery marked the first known infection with methicillin-resistant <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> (MRSA) in pigs in the United States. MRSA has troubled hospitals around the world for more than four decades and has been infecting people outside of health-care settings since at least 1995 (see <em>Nature</em> <strong>482</strong>, 23?25; 2012). It causes around 94,000 infections and 18,000 deaths annually in the United States. In the European Union, more than 150,000 people are estimated to contract MRSA each year. Its first appearance on a US farm signalled the expansion of what many believe is a dangerous source of human infection.</p> <p> Male investigated the infections with Tara Smith, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who has since launched one of the most comprehensive investigations yet of where MRSA lives and how it spreads into and out of agricultural settings. She has surveyed farms and grocery stores as well as people's homes, noses and pets. Her findings could help to end a raging debate about whether farms' use of antibiotics is contributing to the rise of drug-resistant bacterial infections in humans.</p> <p> Scientists and health experts fear that it is, and that drug-resistant bacteria from farms are escaping via farmworkers or meat. Last year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended more restraint in the use of antibiotics in livestock, following the lead of regulatory authorities in other countries (see <em>Nature</em> <strong>481</strong>, 125; 2012).</p> <p> But the meat and agricultural industries are fighting those restrictions. They claim that MRSA and other drug-resistant bacteria that cause human infections arise in hospitals, and that meat production includes safety measures, such as sanitation rules in slaughterhouses, that prevent resistant bacteria from spreading to and infecting people. ?There's a long way between the farm and the table,? says Ron Phillips, a representative for the Animal Health Institute, a trade organization based in Washington DC that represents veterinary-medicine companies.</p> <p> The major problem has been lack of data. Many farmers are reluctant to allow scientists access to their facilities, and farmworkers ? many of whom, in the United States, are undocumented immigrants ? are wary of anyone who might want to sample them. But Smith and a small group of researchers are starting to fill the void. They have ?really shaped the state of knowledge in the United States?, says Christopher Heaney, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Smith's current research, says Heaney, could allow officials to ?truly say where these bacteria in people's noses are coming from?.</p> <p> <strong>Profit and loss</strong><br/>At a concentrated animal-feeding operation (CAFO) about an hour's drive west from Ames, Iowa, the usual din of the nursery is punctuated by the sound of piglets sneezing, thanks to an outbreak of H1N2 influenza. Craig Rowles, a veterinarian and the farm's manager, surveys his charges, some of which have mucus dripping from their snouts. ?It's just like when you bring kids to a day-care centre,? he says. ?After a while, they're going to come home with a snotty nose.?</p><p>Source: <a href="http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/biology/~3/gFFStzl3gl0/article.cfm">http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/biology/~3/gFFStzl3gl0/article.cfm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.click2protection.com/story.php?title=amsterdam-escort-girls-">Mitch Lucker</a> <a href="http://democratie-ouverte.fr/story.php?title=amsterdam-escort-services-">Red Cross</a> <a href="http://www.free-bookmarking.com/story.php?title=amsterdam-escort-services-">CMA Awards 2012</a> <a href="http://e-onlinecoupons.biz/story.php?title=amsterdam-escort-services-">election day</a> <a href="http://pligg.oyunuaraba.com/story.php?title=amsterdam-escort-services--2">Electoral College map</a> <a href="http://www.onlinenewsbuzz.com/story.php?title=amsterdam-escort-services-">nyc marathon</a> <a href="http://www.link.odeskanswers.com/story.php?title=escort-in-amsterdam-">nyc marathon</a> </p>whiteheadmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640951841508137932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402234744808051378.post-25952479623174976432013-08-02T04:11:00.001-07:002013-08-02T04:11:19.925-07:00Insight: For nuns and analysts alike, bank commodity earnings are a mystery<!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p class="first">By Cezary Podkul</p> <p> NEW YORK (Reuters) - When the Reverend Seamus Finn got an email from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375333574262_1">Goldman Sachs</span> last week, the giant Wall Street bank was addressing an issue that was already on his mind.</p> <p> "We were getting ready to go back to them and talk to them about <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375333574262_9">commodities</span> anyway," said Finn, who heads up faith-consistent investing for the Missionary Oblates, a Washington DC-based Catholic group that owns Goldman shares.</p> <p> Driven by a determination to invest in a socially conscious way, Finn's group has been concerned about banks' commodities activities since 2008, when a spike in energy and agricultural products caused food riots in Africa. The issue is whether banks' trading activities artificially drive up food prices.</p> <p> The pre-emptive message from Goldman, sent ahead of last week's Senate hearing on banks' commodity activities, asserted that the firm's investments in physical assets such as aluminum warehouses do not drive up prices. But it left unanswered many of Finn's questions about what the bank is doing in the sector.</p> <p> (Goldman moved on Wednesday to address criticism of its Metro International metals business, announcing it would offer customers immediate access to stored aluminum.</p> <p> The statement sent to Finn and later released widely did not address one of his broader concerns: that no one outside the banks themselves knows for sure how big their <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375333574262_2">commodity trading</span> arms are, how much they trade, or how much money they make.</p> <p> "We would like more disclosure on that," Finn said.</p> <p> He is unlikely to get his wish. While the country's largest banks are required to disclose their activities in some consumer-facing businesses such as mortgages, there is no similar requirement for them to do so on the commodities side.</p> <p> Commodity "revenue" figures reported to securities and banking regulators can differ wildly - and may not provide an accurate reflection of the size of the business.</p> <p> Most banks report some numbers, but one of the biggest - <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375333574262_3">Morgan Stanley</span> - hasn't put a dollar figure on its commodities revenues in more than a decade, reporting only the year-on-year percentage change in its securities filings. None provide cost, salary or bonus figures, making it impossible to guess at relative profitability.</p> <p> "I don't think you have any banks that are properly disclosing commodities revenue," said George Kuznetsov, head of research and analytics at Coalition, a British consulting firm that employs more than 100 researchers to scrutinize public disclosures and conduct interviews to estimate trading revenues for investment banks.</p> <p> The issue is becoming increasingly important as politicians press the banks for more insight into the risks they are taking by owning metals warehouses or chartering oil tankers, and as some seek buyers for their physical commodities holdings. On Friday, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375333574262_8">JPMorgan</span> said it was selling out.</p> <p> "Their physical commodities activities are not comprehensively or understandably reported...they're often buried in arcane regulatory filings," Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat for Ohio, said at last week's hearing.</p> <p> AS INSTRUCTED</p> <p> The lack of clarity over trading operations has long been a vexing issue across other desks as well, such as foreign exchange and equities. But the current debate over whether banks should be allowed to continue trading so actively in raw material markets has only sharpened focus on this area.</p> <p> In sum, it's big money: the top ten global banks collectively made about $6 billion <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375333574262_5">trading commodities</span> last year, down 24 percent from in 2011, according to Coalition.</p> <p> The banks say that they are providing regulators and investors with all the information they are required to give.</p> <p> "Our disclosures are in line with all relevant reporting requirements and provide investors with all material information," said a spokesman for Morgan Stanley. He said the bank provides data on the main drivers of results across its three core business lines but does not break down earnings to a "product" level like commodities.</p> <p> Critics say the disclosures still leave much to be desired.</p> <p> "They really don't tell us much," said Robert McCullough, an energy economist who spent six years litigating an electricity market manipulation case against Morgan Stanley.</p> <p> "If you wanted an estimate of what their position was in electricity in 2001, six years of litigation was not sufficient to get it," he said.</p> <p> In terms of financial system risks, the Federal Reserve, which regulates banks, has the power to make on-staff visits and request data sets from the banks on their commodities activities. The agency also keeps on-site staff at the banks who are dedicated to monitoring commodities.</p> <p> But that is not enough, according to some former examiners.</p> <p> "There's a sophistication gap between the regulator and the bank that they regulate," said Mark Williams, a former Federal Reserve bank examiner and energy executive who now teaches finance at Boston University.</p> <p> "The commodities are where the more sophisticated transactions take place," he said.</p> <p> Y-9C? BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO</p> <p> One bank filing collected by the Fed is called "FR Y-9C." The detailed questionnaire requires banks to tell the Federal Reserve everything from how much money they spend on postage to how much money they make trading commodities.</p> <p> But because regulatory accounting rules may vary from the way banks report their earnings to investors, the Fed's questionnaire can often bear little resemblance to banks' Securities and Exchange Commission filings.</p> <p> Goldman Sachs, for instance, reported only $100 million in "commodity and other" trading revenues to the Fed in 2012. In a separate filing with the SEC, the bank said it made $575 million trading commodities. Industry sources actually pegged Goldman's commodity revenues closer to $1.25 billion for the year.</p> <p> Asked about the different figures, a spokesman for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375333574262_4">Goldman Sachs</span> said: "We disclose figures in the way we are required. That may not correspond to the way we actually measure the performance of certain trading businesses." He declined to provide a figure for the bank's <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375333574262_6">commodity trading</span> revenues.</p> <p> JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup Inc provide similar commodity trading figures to the Fed and the SEC. But like Goldman, both banks warn investors in their SEC filings that the figures don't fully represent their performance because they exclude earnings on interest, an "integral" part of trading revenue.</p> <p> JPMorgan reported nearly $2.4 billion in commodities trading revenues for 2012, which on paper was more than Goldman and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375333574262_7">Morgan Stanley</span> combined. But several analysts say actual revenues are likely closer to this year's $1.5 billion target.</p> <p> Spokesmen for JPMorgan and Citi declined comment.</p> <p> With so much uncertainty around the headline numbers, attempting to separate banks' paper bets on commodities from physical trading - the segment most at risk from regulators - is all but impossible. Analysts at Deutsche Bank estimated in a report last week that JPMorgan's physical book accounted for somewhere between a third and two-thirds of its overall commodities trading operation.</p> <p> Some other banks have taken the view that their commodity businesses are too small to merit much attention.</p> <p> At Deutsche Bank and Barclays Bank, commodities revenues may show up in an occasional earnings transcript or investor presentation, but neither bank discloses in filings how much money it makes trading in the sector. In its 2012 annual report, Deutsche Bank simply notes commodities "revenues were lower" compared to 2011. Barclays makes no mention of the segment's performance in its annual report.</p> <p> Spokespeople for Deutsche and Barclays declined to comment.</p> <p> ANALYSTS VS. NUNS</p> <p> The lack of detail on banks' commodity trading revenues does not seem to worry some on Wall Street. It's just one part of a mosaic of items analysts look at in evaluating the firms.</p> <p> "It's just not been a significant issue for me," said David Hilder, who covers banks for brokerage Drexel Hamilton.</p> <p> And some experts say even the limited disclosure by banks is better than the alternative. Many of the big global commodity traders, such as Vitol and Trafigura, are privately held and therefore subject to no disclosure at all.</p> <p> "The (trading) activity will not go away," said Randall Guynn, a banking lawyer at Davis Polk, who testified at last week's hearing. "You're better off having it in regulated companies where there is some disclosure."</p> <p> That hasn't stopped some influential groups from calling on banks to step up their reporting.</p> <p> Last year, the CFA Institute - which confers the Chartered Financial Analyst credential to investment professionals worldwide - endorsed a report calling for banks to improve their risk disclosures to investors. Banks' trading books, in particular, remain "very opaque" to investors, said Vincent Papa, the institute's director of financial reporting policy.</p> <p> "In many cases, they give you a figure which they deem to be meaningless from an internal management standpoint," Papa said. "They just give it for compliance reasons. That's not beneficial to investors. It's about giving relevant information, rather than just ticking the boxes."</p> <p> For some of the banks' investors, commodity trading data is very relevant indeed. The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) represents $100 billion worth of institutional investors like Finn, the DC reverend. The group openly calls for corporations to avoid speculating on food commodities.</p> <p> But with disclosures being so lacking, ICCR members like Sister Nora Nash of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia have little idea whether their investments in big banks like Goldman Sachs comply with this philosophy.</p> <p> "I would absolutely hope that they would disclose what is happening to those of us who are shareholders," Nash said.</p> <p> (Additional reporting by Douwe Miedema in Washington D.C.; Editing by Claudia Parsons)</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><p>Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/insight-nuns-analysts-alike-bank-commodity-earnings-mystery-050444040.html">http://news.yahoo.com/insight-nuns-analysts-alike-bank-commodity-earnings-mystery-050444040.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1h2a8o/london_mistress/">National Ice Cream Day</a> <a href="http://www.webshare.co/url/?i=512171&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.restoredinc.com%2Fmember%2F771215">pippa middleton</a> <a href="http://imlemesitesi.com/story.php?title=asian-escorts-london-">helen thomas</a> <a href="http://www.thisnext.com/item/BF2DEAFD/236261AD/Mistress-in-London?share=1">Rosy Esparza</a> <a href="http://www.humsurfer.com/mistress-in-london-1">Bbc News</a> <a href="http://www.plurk.com/p/it6dto">queen elizabeth</a> <a href="http://bookmark.softhc.com/story.php?id=23034">Catching Fire trailer</a> </p>whiteheadmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640951841508137932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402234744808051378.post-49656840244190869342013-08-02T02:10:00.001-07:002013-08-02T02:10:02.449-07:00Apple does offer upgrade pricing in the App Store. It's full retail pricing they've obliterated.<div id="comment-wrapper-nid-19631"></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img src="http://cdn.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2013/07/logic_pro_mac_app_store_upgrade.jpg?itok=WiQkgXyM" width="620" height="465" alt="Apple does offer upgrade pricing in the App Store. Always. It's full retail pricing they've obliterated." class="image-large aligncenter" /></p> <p>When Apple released <a href="http://www.imore.com/tag/logic-pro-x">Logic Pro X</a> as a new, $200 app a couple of weeks ago, I immediately thought that it might finally <a href="http://www.imore.com/apple-puts-its-price-tag-where-its-policy-charges-full-price-logic-pro-x-mac-app-store">answer the question of where Apple stood on the issue of upgrade pricing</a>. Instead of adding a mechanism to the App Store to allow existing users to <a href="http://www.imore.com/ios-5-app-store-demos-upgrades-subscriptions">upgrade at a discount</a>, Apple, like Tweetie 2 back in 2009, simply released the new version as a separate app and asked anyone and everyone, new and existing customers alike, to pay in full, and for some, to pay <em>again</em> in full.</p> <p>Only it wasn't really "in full". Logic Pro X on the App Store, like Logic Pro 9 before it, was substantially cheaper than the full retail version of Logic Pro that used to come in a box. Likewise, when Final Cut Pro X first his the App Store, it's $200 price tag was far, far cheaper than the $1200+ full retail price tag of the Final Cut Pro version that preceded it.</p> <p>Indeed, the price Apple was asking for both Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro, and other pro apps like Aperture on the App Store, was far closer to their previous upgrade pricing than anything they ever asked at retail. In other words, if you bought Logic Pro 9 on the App Store and then bought Logic Pro 10 again (like I did), you essential paid the equivalent of what was previously an upgrade-level price for the new version.</p> <p>So, it's not that Apple has failed to create a mechanism for upgrade pricing on the App Store at all - it's that they've succeeded in obliterating full retail pricing. Everything is now upgrade-level pricing, all the time, for everyone. No upgrade sales, just "everyday low prices" for all.</p> <p>That might take first-time buyer profit out of developers pockets, and irk existing customers who don't think new customers deserve the same "deal", but it also simplifies the process on the store side and lowers the barrier to entry for those new customers.</p> <p>There are a ton of arguments many have already made about the <a href="http://www.imore.com/true-cost-free-play">continued devaluation of software</a> on the App Store in general, so I won't recapitulate them here, but it very well could be that part of the devaluation, or commoditization - or the mainstreaming of software, if you prefer - isn't that upgrade pricing hasn't been implemented for existing customers, but that it's become the new normal pricing for everyone.</p> <p>That might be annoying for those of us who grew up in a time before iOS, when upgrade pricing was commonplace. I'm not sure it'll even be a consideration for those growing up now on iOS. It'll just be the way things are.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/app-store" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">App Store</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/upgrade-pricing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Upgrade Pricing</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-category field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/editorial" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Editorial</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/featured" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Featured</a></div></div></div><img width='1' height='1' 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Plane</td> </tr><tr readability="0.323232323232"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/12/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Mercosur Members Recall Envoys to Protest Europe?s Treatment of Bolivia's Morales</td> </tr></table><table width="468" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td height="19">?</td> </tr><tr><td><table width="468" height="20" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><tr><td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#E6EFF8">?<img src="http://www.laht.com/images/01.gif" width="27" height="16" align="absmiddle"/>Central America</td> </tr></table></td> </tr></table><table width="468" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" readability="1.51807228916"><tr readability="0.477611940299"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/25/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Panama Seeking Experts and Middle Managers in Spain</td> </tr><tr readability="0.623376623377"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/24/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Honduran Police Rescue 5 Kidnap Victims, Including 3 Children</td> </tr><tr readability="0.470588235294"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/24/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Guatemalan Court Suspends Canadian Miner?s License</td> </tr><tr readability="0.774193548387"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/24/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Tot, Grandmother Slain by Robbers in Guatemala</td> </tr><tr readability="0.592592592593"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/22/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Costa Rica Aims for Zoos without Cages</td> </tr></table><table width="468" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td height="19">?</td> </tr><tr><td><table width="468" height="20" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><tr><td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#E6EFF8">?<img src="http://www.laht.com/images/01.gif" width="27" height="16" align="absmiddle"/>Cuba</td> </tr></table></td> </tr></table><table width="468" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" readability="1.21037463977"><tr readability="0.463768115942"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/25/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Cuban Band Hipnosis Requests Political Asylum in U.S.</td> </tr><tr readability="0.390243902439"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/22/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Cuban Dissident?s Colleagues Seek Independent Probe of His Death</td> </tr><tr readability="0.581818181818"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/20/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Cuba Renovating Havana Airport Terminal</td> </tr><tr readability="0.415584415584"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/19/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Cuban Exiles Protest Migrant Abuse at Cruise Ships to Bahamas</td> </tr><tr readability="0.533333333333"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/17/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Cuba Pursuing Immigration Dialogue with U.S.</td> </tr></table><table width="468" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td height="19">?</td> </tr><tr><td><table width="468" height="20" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><tr><td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#E6EFF8">?<img src="http://www.laht.com/images/01.gif" width="27" height="16" align="absmiddle"/>Uruguay</td> </tr></table></td> </tr></table><table width="468" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" readability="1.17142857143"><tr readability="0.564705882353"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/25/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Fidel Castro ?Continues to Be Brilliant,? 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width="468" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td height="19">?</td> </tr><tr><td><table width="468" height="20" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><tr><td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#E6EFF8">?<img src="http://www.laht.com/images/01.gif" width="27" height="16" align="absmiddle"/>Caribbean</td> </tr></table></td> </tr></table><table width="468" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" readability="1.05263157895"><tr readability="0.470588235294"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/24/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Solar Energy Plant Inaugurated in Dominican Republic</td> </tr><tr readability="0.438356164384"><td width="80" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="textoazul" align="center">?7/23/2013??</td> <td width="392" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Brand Puerto Rico Aims to Strengthen the Island?s Image</td> </tr><tr 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Yesterday, July 24th, the House of Representatives nearly ratified the most brazen amendment to completely cut off funds for any broad NSA spying program (failing 205-217). With more time to build grassroots momentum and craft a less brute-force law curtailing NSA spy powers, the next bill will likely have enough support to win the day. With only a few days to prepare, Representative Justin Amash managed to gain traction for an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that would deny the NSA the ability to use funds toward programs that broadly spied on Americans. The surprise was that a majority of Democrats bucked their own leader, President Obama, in support of the Amendment, 111-83. Since the revelation that the NSA was collecting phone records and Internet browsing behavior en masse, supporters of the the Domestic spying program have worried that the laws would not be renewed. Specifically, the NSA gets its legal authority from section 215 of the 9/11-era Patriot Act. Section 215 expires at the end of 2015,” Patriot Act author Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, told his colleagues during a Congressional hearing this month. “Unless you realize you’ve got a problem, that is not going to be renewed. There are not the votes in the House of Representatives to renew Section 215″. In other words, come 2015, Congress will be unlikely to renew the law that permits the NSA’s controversial program. Over the past month, there have been a few laws proposed to limit the NSA’s ability to spy on Americans. Representative Steve Cohen’s FISA Accountability Act, for instance, would require both Congress and the Supreme Court justices to appoint new judges to the court that approves NSA spying request (FISA), rather than give conservative Chief Justice John Roberts the authority to appoint them himself. The FISA Court approves nearly every single NSA spying request, and this would, in theory, appoint judges who are more 4th-Amendment friendly (currently, there are 10 Republican judges and 1 Democrat, according to Wonkblog). Unfortunately for NSA critics, none of the proposals came up to a full vote, so Congressmen never had to declare whether they were for or against the status quo. Now, we have definitive evidence that nearly half Democrats and Republicans support a radical reduction in NSA surveillance capabilities. 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That's a sharp reversal from 8% growth in the prior quarter, and a gain of 67% before that. </p> <p> On a conference call with investors, CEO Tim Cook had answers for most -- but not all -- of the recent China problems. </p> <p> Cook chalked up most of the decline to bad timing. </p> <p> The iPhone 4S started selling in late March 2012, which led to a big boost in iPhone sales in last year's third quarter. iPhone sales this time around would of course be down from that. The iPhone 5 was released in December 2012, so its boost came earlier this year. </p> <p> Related story: IPhone struggles to gain ground in China </p> <p> Cook also said that Apple's sales looked worse than they actually were because the company better managed its Chinese inventory. The company sold fewer iPads and iPhones to retailers than it did a year earlier, which dragged down revenue considerably. But the sales those retailers made to Chinese consumers declined only 4%. </p> <p> Cook said that "sell-through" rate was even less troubling if you exclude Hong Kong, which had a big 20% drop. The sell-through rate was actually up 5% in mainland China. </p> <p> So what happened in Hong Kong? Cook didn't have an answer. </p> <p> "It's not totally clear," said Cook. </p> <p> Whether this was some one-time weirdness or a trend, what's clear is that Apple needs to improve its iPhone sales in China. Its share of the Chinese smartphone market remains less than 10%, and the iPhone ranks behind Samsung, <span>Nokia</span> <span>(<span class="inlink_chart">NOK</span>)</span> and a host of local brands, including Lenovo, Coolpad, Huawei and ZTE. </p> <p> <span class="inStoryHeading">Related story: Apple profit falls 22% but beats gloomy expectations</span> </p> <p> Cook said the iPhone is growing in importance to China, noting that the company pays half a million app developers in the region -- by far the most of any country including the United States. But he conceded that iPhone and iPad sales "are currently lower than where we would like them or need them today." </p> <p> Though he didn't acknowledge rumors that Apple is working on a low-cost iPhone to attract users in growth markets like China, Cook hinted at it when he said that Apple is working "very cautiously with what we want to do with great quality." </p> <p> Cook maintained his optimism about Apple's business in the region. </p> <p> "I continue to believe that in the arc of time here, China is a huge opportunity for Apple," Cook said. 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I?m not sure if my latest phone came with the same warning, because I used that first phone and every single one since while it was charging, up to and including my iPhone.</p> <p>But a 30-year-old man in Beijing plugged his iPhone into the wall and was electrocuted badly enough to end up in a coma in a hospital. After plugging in his iPhone 4, Wu Jian Tong shouted to his sister that he was being shocked and she pulled the off-brand charger out of the wall. The shock was bad enough that Wu became unresponsive and wasn?t breathing when the ambulance arrived. He remains in a coma.</p> <p>It takes 35 volts to feel a shock, but mobile phones only have an output of around three-five volts, so the danger of getting electrocuted by your phone when it's unplugged is pretty slim. If something were to go wrong while the phone is charging, Chinese outlets have a 220 volt output, which is roughly twice what we have here in North America. Early reports state that Wu?s wall charger was a third party, non-Apple made charger.</p> <p>Just last week a Chinese flight attendant was killed by the shock she received while talking on her plugged-in iPhone 5. Her sister said that she was using the charger that came with the phone, but articles covering the story point out that fake Apple stores abound in China.</p> <p>Apple?s iPhone cables have always been specific to Apple products and the computer giant therefore has sold them at a frustratingly high mark up. This creates the space for a thriving market to offer non-Apple made imitations for much cheaper.</p> <p>Apple, of course, knows this, and encourages other manufacturers to get in the game via a licensing program, which allows companies to boast that an accessory was ?Made for iPhone,? in exchange for paying a licensing fee. Of course, there were still companies willing to skip the licensing fee too?to pass the savings on to you, the consumer, no doubt?and just rip off the 30-pin iPhone/Pod cable.</p> <p>With the iPhone 5?s new cord, the smaller ?Lightning? cable, Apple made copying the cable much harder, via its smaller size and an authentication chip. The cables are also still expensive, so there is still an incentive to sell imitations at a discount. Is it a faulty imitation that is at fault in the death of the flight attendant?</p> <p>Apple, for its part, has agreed to comply with all investigations, while remaining confidently at a distance from any culpability. 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The U.S. P..."/><p>ERIK S. LESSER / EPA, file</p><p> Letter carrier Letonya Lawson makes deliveries in Avondale Estates, Georgia, 31 July 2012. The U.S. Postal Service will no longer deliver to the door of new homes and will leave mail at the curb or in cluster boxes. The change might be expanded to all existing homes. </p><p>You've got mail -- but come and get it from the box yourself!</p><p>Under a cost-saving plan by the U.S. Postal Service, people moving into newly-built homes will not have mail delivered to their doors and will instead have to pick it up at the curb or neighborhood cluster boxes.<br/></p><p>The Postal Service began the change in April, and Congress is considering an even bolder shift that would also affect existing houses. It's unclear if delivery to the door will eventually be eliminated entirely. </p><p>"Converting delivery away from door delivery to either curb line or centralized delivery would enable the Postal Service to provide service to more customers in less time," Postal Service spokeswoman Sue Brennan said Tuesday. </p><p>More than 30 million American homes get delivery to the door and another 50 million get mail dropped at curbside mailboxes. </p><p>But the Postal Service, which is buckling under massive financial losses, sees savings in centralized mail delivery. Door-to-door delivery costs the Postal Service about $353 per address each year. </p><p>Curbside delivery costs $224, and cluster boxes cost $160 per address. With cluster boxes, mailboxes for individual addresses are grouped together at a central neighborhood location. </p><p>The move is one of many cost-cutting steps the Postal Service is trying as it continues to plead with Congress for permission to overhaul its business and avert a bailout. </p><p>The agency also proposed eliminating Saturday mail delivery but was forced to back off that plan this year after lawmakers and some industries balked. </p><p>Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican who has spearheaded Postal Service reforms, has introduced a bill that would completely do away with door delivery and require curbside or cluster boxes for existing residences with an exemption for people with disabilities. </p><p>The legislation was to be considered on Wednesday by the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform. </p><p>A senior committee staffer said the legislation could realize annual savings of $4 billion from switching to curbside and $6 billion from cluster boxes. </p><p>Last year, the Postal Service lost $16 billion, mostly due to dwindling mail volumes and payments into a mandatory fund for its future retirees' healthcare. </p><p>The agency, which does not receive taxpayer funds, is under pressure to modify its business model and raise revenues or risk requiring a bailout of nearly $50 billion by 2017. </p><p>The Postal Service's efforts to require cluster boxes for new residences are being received with trepidation.<br/></p><p>Cranberry Township, 25 miles north of Pittsburgh, recently received a letter from the local postmaster saying that all new homes would be serviced by cluster box units rather than door-to-door or curbside delivery. </p><p>Most new residential construction plans have already been approved and the change would require going back to the drawing board, said Ron Henshaw, the town's director for community development. </p><p>"Our board supervisors who actually run the township are very concerned about this," he said. </p><p>Since April, residential developers can no longer choose between curbside or cluster box delivery, agency spokeswoman Brennan said. 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