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AP Interview: Tunisia ready for elections
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? Tunisia's foreign minister said Tuesday his government is ready for Oct. 23 elections, the first since a rebellion overthrew the country's longtime dictator sparking an unprecedented wave of pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world.
Mouldi Kefi expressed hope in an Associated Press interview that Tunisians anxious for democracy would put aside their "egocentric" demands, protests and strikes and focus on the best interests of the country.
Tunisians launched the Arab Spring uprisings against autocratic rulers when they toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January ? and they will be the first to hold elections where more than 100 parties will be contesting seats in parliament.
The elections "will be really a landmark in the modern history of Tunisia" and will mark a return "almost to our roots," Kefi said, because one of the first constitutions to be signed in history was in Carthage, about 2,000 years ago, and one of the first constitutions in the Mediterranean region was also signed in the country in 1865.
While there are security concerns, he said, the government is counting on "the wisdom of the Tunisian people" for a smooth political transition not only for the country, but for the international community which will be watching the results of the first elections resulting from this year's Arab Spring.
"It (is) probably going to be a bellwether model for the others if the Tunisian experience takes root and succeeds," he said.
But Kefi stressed that all revolutions have ups and downs.
"It's not only honey, butter and milk. It is tears and blood, and we went through difficult times," he said.
Because strikes and unrest have continued in some parts of Tunisia, the government was forced to reintroduce emergency laws that the ousted regime had relied on, he said.
But Kefi quickly added that the demonstrations and strikes have eased in the past three weeks and "the situation (is) stabilizing and calming down."
"With the elections approaching ... the Tunisian people are beginning to put Tunisia's broader interests above (their) selfish or narrow interests," he said.
Kefi said the government has worked hard to prepare for the elections and has done its "homework," including preparing voter lists, and reaching out to many in the international community, in eastern Europe and elsewhere, for advice.
Campaigning is slated to begin Oct. 1 and there are over 100 parties, he said, but roughly half are smaller parties that have formed coalitions, and about 40 percent of the candidates are independents.
In the wide-ranging interview, Kefi said he was confident that Libya's National Transitional Council would work hard to ensure that the unrest there would not spill across the border to his country.
"The destinies of the two people ... are interconnected, intertwined," he said, pointing to strong cultural and geographic ties and to the welcome that Tunisians gave the 650,000 Libyans who crossed the border to flee the fighting.
Kefi expressed hope that the remnants of forces loyal to ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi "are going to be dealt with" in "a matter of days or weeks."
"I'm sure that tomorrow, the two peoples are going to work hand in hand for reconstruction of Libya," he said.
Kefi appealed for international help to help Tunisia deal with a host of challenges.
The first challenge, he said, is to ensure that the Oct. 23 elections "will put Tunisia on the path for democracy to which we all aspire."
Tunisia also needs to kick-start its economy which, like Egypt's, was ravaged in the wake of the uprising.
Kefi said that it would be "a very big accomplishment" if economic growth hit 1 percent this year. He said the government was hoping for a recovery to about 3 percent GDP growth in 2012, and about 5 percent the following year.
The third challenge, he said, is finding jobs for 7 million unemployed people, including 150,000 with advanced degrees.
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How to Get a Job in America [Job Search]
President Obama wants to spend $447 billion to boost the economy. The American Jobs Act will cut taxes for employers and most families, build roads and renovate schools, and provide unnamed assistance for the unemployed. But it remains uncertain if any of that is going to lead the jobless to rewarding gigs that make full use of their talents.
We all know that finding a job these days isn't easy, and it isn't much like how your parents found jobs. Depending on how you count it, the unemployment rate is stubbornly stuck somewhere between 9 and 16 percent. To get ahead, and get in the right slot, you need to think beyond searching Monster.com and showing up with a suit and tie. In 2012, you'll need to build your brand, become the kind of consummate networker you never thought you were, and think differently about work.
Here's advice from the front lines of the battle for the next paycheck.
Join a coworking space
Coworking is an open-plan office space where remote workers and freelancers gather and reap the camaraderie benefits of an office without the Dilbert-esque drawbacks. More and more cities are seeing coworking spots (or more informal Jelly get-togethers) rise up. Stopping in and making friends not only gets you away from your pets and your way-too-close fridge, it can give you rare, unique leads among the small businesses and startups that are the best sources for jobs.
A new overview on coworking and where it's headed, "Working in the UnOffice," is peppered with stories of small firms picking up workers from within their coworking space, or through contacts made around the coffee. The founders of Integrum Technologies tell the authors that they've hired 10 people out of the Gangplank coworking space. "[These hires were] freelancers or individuals who [came] in and started to be part of the community, which made it very easy for us to identify their character and their strength, to see if they were a good fit on our team."
Run your own tiny PR firm
Steve Rubel, executive vice president with public relations firm Edelman, sees the first step in "uncovering the hidden job market" as becoming the consummate networker, in addition to having the decent static web profiles covered above. Dig in to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Google+. Engage thoughtfully with people in the positions you want to be in, Rubel suggests, and look for industry events where you can advance your relationship beyond short pings.
In the meantime, identify the thing you know better than anybody else, and start working it. Write blog posts, preferably on a service where others can find and share your work, like Tumblr. Write for other sites, Rubel says, and point to your own blog address, and think beyond words?use graphics and video when possible. In other words, create a small but smart brand around yourself and the thing you want to do, and you'll stand out from those who just want to be hired for a job, any job.
Embrace dead industries, take temp jobs, ignore your parents
A controversial blogger on Gen-Y careers and culture and founder of the Brazen Careerist recruiting network, Penelope Trunk isn't so much contrarian as sick of the usual, ineffective advice. Scouring work-related websites? You're better off spending your time making friends who might know about jobs. Escaping into grad school? Oh, come on.
Trunk's suggestions for those who feel like they've looked everywhere:
- Look in dead industries. If you've just lost a newspaper gig, you might constrain yourself to the major news chains and big independents. But consider where you can get in on the other side of the media equation. Independent web ad network Federated Media, for instance, hires journalists to do their marketing, as they know the storytelling terrain. Know the market, and you put yourself on the right side of a fault line.
- Take temp jobs. "People are looking at jobs that used to be considered terrible because they were "dead-end jobs," Trunk says, "but every job is a dead-end job in today's workforce. Nobody really climbs the ladder." So consider how a security guard, nanny, or part-time tutoring position keeps money coming in, prevents gaps on a resume, and gives you the flexibility to hunt other jobs. "The only stigma of these jobs these days is that your parents don't brag about you."
Be a mercenary for local small business?and forget about job titles
Beyond the web and tech-connected coworking spaces, consider what's available right around the corner, says workplace author and speaker Alexandra Levit, author of the forthcoming Blind Spots: 10 Business Myths You Can't Afford to Believe on Your New Path to Success. Small businesses are where the jobs are, and "the key here is relying less on the (web) and focusing more on word of mouth, as that's how small business owners hire."
And forget about job titles, as the nature of everyone's work has become more collaborative and immersive. "Any way you can underscore your ability to work hard, impress customers, and mobilize a small team to get results quickly will earn you points," Levit says. Be sure to convey a team player attitude."
Cover your social media and online bases
If you're eminently employable, people will find you one way or another. But there's no reason not to give those arriving at your online home something new and slick to check out.
- Put your volunteer experience on LinkedIn. The online resume/headhunting service even created a new "Volunteer Experience and Causes" section, noting that some 41% of workers considered their volunteer experience as valuable as their paid gigs, and 20% of hiring managers made a hiring decision based on volunteer work.
- Search out words within a job, not the job itself, on Twitter and other networks, Trunk suggests. "Non-profit marketing" is a big tent that garners a lot of ads and me-too sites. "Increase in donations" or "fundraising campaign" gets you closer to people who actually do the work you're interested in. It's usually pretty easy to ping them, then move the conversation over to email or other mediums.
- Flank your opponents by reaching back to the original streaming media: RSS. It's a feed that almost every site puts out (including Twitter feeds), so you can monitor job posting boards, news from the companies you're scoping out, and the blogs of people you want to connect to. Good magazine's community board has a great guide to tracking job boards with Google Reader, and take note that Reader can monitor nearly any page, RSS feed or not
- Run a few Google searches on your name, look yourself up on Twitter, and do a basic online background check on yourself. One handy trick: pretend someone whose very name you loathe is applying to work for you. Run all the kinds of searches, checks, and look-ups you would use on them to run them into the ground, then turn the same tools on yourself. More and more, your potential employer is doing the exact same thing.
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Qualcomm and BSQUARE announce the Dragonboard - a reference platform for the S3 Snapdragon series
Qualcomm and partner BSQUARE announced the APQ8060 S3 reference development Dragonboard today. Besides having a cool name that conjures up images of Bruce Lee, it's a great way for hardware and software developers to work with Qualcomm's latest and greatest gear without the bulk (and locked hardware silliness) of the typical OEM Android phone. The Dragonboard includes an APQ8060 processor (think the T-Mobile Galaxy S II or HP TouchPad), and two pre-installed daughterboards with sensors and wireless (802.11 b/g/n Wifi and Bluetooth) complete with a full build of Android and all hardware drivers for just $299. Other packages include a 480x800 touchscreen, camera, and earpiece for $199, or you can get the whole bundle for $498.
The benefit of using this type of kit for design and testing is the wide open hardware, and the ability for expansion. The board has all the connectors we're used to on our phones, like USB, as well as test points and a JTAG connector. You wouldn't use this to build your next custom Android ROM, but it sure would be handy when designing and building an Android powered home automation system, or even the mythical Android powered toaster. If you're interested in more details or purchasing, hit the source link and have a look.
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How will space station fall to Earth?
If a dead bus-size satellite's crash-landing can cause such a stir, global panic may well ensue when it's time for the enormous International Space Station to come down to Earth.
But that panic would be misplaced, NASA officials say. Though the orbiting lab is far larger than the space agency's defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), which made an uncontrolled re-entry through Earth's atmosphere late Friday night, the station's eventual demise will pose little threat to folks on Earth.
That's because ? unlike UARS ? the huge structure will be deorbited in a controlled way, with its debris shower aimed into a stretch of empty ocean. [ Complete coverage of NASA's falling satellite ]
"We've done a lot of studies," said Kirk Shireman, deputy manager of NASA's space station program. "We have found an orbit and a change in velocity that we believe is achievable, and it creates a debris footprint that?s all in water in an unpopulated area."
Guiding the station down
UARS had a mass of approximately 6.5 tons. NASA officials estimate that about 1,170 pounds of that bulk survived re-entry and smashed into Earth's surface. [ Video: Amateur Photographs Doomed, Tumbling Satellite ]
Judging by its size, the International Space Station would seem to pose a much bigger threat to folks on the ground than the UARS satellite did. The $100 billion orbiting lab is as big as a football field and tips the scales at 431 tons, so its re-entry debris shower should dwarf that of UARS.
NASA and its international partners plan to operate the space station through at least 2020, and perhaps until 2028 or so. But when the orbiting lab's time is up, managers won't just let it drift toward an uncontrolled re-entry. Rather, they'll guide the complex to a fiery death over large stretches of trackless ocean, so that any surviving pieces will not conk anybody on the head.
"We've been working on plans and update the plans periodically," Shireman told SPACE.com. "We don?t want to ever be in a position where we couldn?t safely deorbit the station. It's been a part of the program from the very beginning."
The plan to deorbit the space station
Bringing the space station down is a long and involved process that will begin in earnest about one year from its planned re-entry, NASA officials have said. Around this time, managers will let the station's orbit start decaying from its normal 240-mile altitude.
They'll also dock one or more unmanned spacecraft to the station then, to get ready for future deorbit burns. The station is so massive that it'll need some help to make these maneuvers.
Officials aren't sure yet which vehicle(s) will be called into service, Shireman said. It might be a cargo craft, such as a modified Russian Progress spaceship or a European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV). NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), which is still in development, might also do the trick.
Before the station circles too low, its crew will be evacuated. When the space station gets down to about 115 miles above the Earth, engineers will perform a series of deorbit burns with the docked vehicle(s) to take it even lower, Shireman explained.
One final burn will send the gigantic structure tumbling toward Earth's atmosphere, hopefully over a wide-open stretch of ocean. [ 6 Biggest Spacecraft to Fall Uncontrolled From Space ]
"There's a nice long track from the South Pacific up off the West Coast of the United States, almost 6,000 kilometers of water," Shireman said.
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Learning from Mir and other experiments
The Russian space station Mir was deorbited purposefully back in 2001; operators ditched the 135-ton station into the South Pacific.
NASA officials watched Mir's managed re-entry carefully and learned from it, Shireman said.
NASA has also closely examined how spacecraft break up in Earth's atmosphere. For example, two robotic space station resupply craft ? one European ATV and one Japanese H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) ? were loaded up with instruments, then studied as they made their fiery descents through the atmosphere and disintegrated.
"All those things will help us better pinpoint how [the space station] will break up and, consequently, where the debris will fall," Shireman said.
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So hopefully none of that debris will endanger anyone when the massive complex falls to Earth in 2020 or beyond. But if you happen to be on a well-placed boat in the vast Pacific when the station does come down, be sure to look up, as the descending outpost could put on quite a show for interested skywatchers.
"It would be amazing if they saw it," Shireman said. But, he added, "it would be just blind luck, because we can't predict where it's going to be and exactly when."
SPACE.com Senior Writer Clara Moskowitz contributed to this story. You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter:@michaeldwall. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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UUUFFFF, I?m still full just thinking about it!
Thanks to my beloved?s all encompassing summer job (of which we?ll hear more later), I don?t get to spend many weekend evenings with him between May and October. At the beginning of summer it?s great ? I get to watch rubbish on TV, rent chick flick DVDs, eat what I fancy, read my book on the beach until whenever, window shop in Marbella and so on. By about mid May, I?m already bored of my own company.
So you?ll understand my excitement when I arranged a ?date night? with him last Friday night. One of the concert tickets I won in the summer came with an ?invitation? for two to eat at a well-known themed restaurant in Puerto Ban?s. You know, the one with walls covered in memorabilia which shakes and shudders in time to the reverberating rock music, while beautiful waiters and waitresses with dazzling smiles (who can?t ever eat there) serve giant meals to their unsuspecting victims.
We?ve been once before so knew what to expect and more or less starved ourselves during the day. Well, I had a bowl of cereal and some fruit. He only ate half a loaf of bread with cheese and pickle instead of a whole loaf. Anyway, with hindsight, it was so not the right thing to do.
Miss Dazzling Smile took us to our table and explained that our ?invitation? gifted us a starter to share, main course each, dessert each and drink each. Fantastic! We ordered our drinks and decided to share a portion of nachos before our main courses. Big mistake. Both starving from our day of abstinence, we demolished the scrumptious nachos and were then completely full.
The dog was thrilled when we got home with our doggie bag filled with most of a chicken club sandwich and rather large beef burger. He particularly liked the smelly blue cheese slathered over the burger and the crispy bacon with hint of guacamole!
Suffice to say, I can?t tell you anything about desserts as we were both doubled over in embarrassed ?stuffed to the gills? discomfort when asked if we?d like to order something else. I couldn?t even bring myself to have a coffee ? sacrilege!
The next morning, still suffering the consequences of our over indulgence, I had lost the will to ever eat again. It was the perfect time to go food shopping; healthier for my body and my bank balance than doing it when I was hungry! And thankfully I recovered just in time to share a fantastic paella at a friend?s house later on that evening, and bake him a birthday cheesecake in the meantime. At least I wasn?t tempted to lick out the bowl.
We had a great evening in Puerto Ban?s and it was lovely to see the place again without having to fight our way past inebriated tourist party goers as is often the case in the peak summer months. It was great sitting in the restaurant enjoying each other?s company and watching the beautiful people walk by. Of course, the meal was hugely enhanced by the fact that we only had to pay for a couple of extra drinks and the car park! Would we go again? Right now, I?d say probably not but I know that in a few months I?ll have forgotten how full I felt for most of the next day and will be hankering for some of their nachos. After all, it will be winter by then and we all need our comfort food from time to time!
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Run a User-Submitted Photo or Video Contest On Your Site With Olapic (Mashable)
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Olapic
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Quick Pitch: Olapic helps online publishers add galleries of user-contributed images.
Genius Idea: Pooling images in a database of social content.
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83% of Americans own a smartphone, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet Project. Most of those phones, even the "dumb" ones, are equipped with some kind of camera. More cameras equal more photos, which can be a great opportunity for publishers -- if they can find a way to leverage it.
Olapic's product is one way to do this. The startup makes it easy for site publishers to collect and display user's photos through widgets they can embed on their sites. Visitors to the publications can either drag and drop files into a box on the site, choose to upload photos from social networks like Facebook or Instagram, email their photos to a special address or tweet their photos with a specific hashtag. Publications get a centralized moderation dashboard. As soon as they approve photos, they appear in a Gallery on the site.
New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune and Styleist have either used the widget on their site or purchased a white label version [Disclosure: Mashable is a customer of Olapic's]. Olapic charges a monthly fee based on each customer's number of monthly unique visitors.
The majority of Olapic's customers are news organizations, but co-founder Jose de Cabo said he also thinks the application has a future with sports teams and event organizations. One soccer team, the New England Revolution, already uses it to collect fan photos on its Facebook Page.
From a revenue standpoint, advertising seems to be an even more promising route than subscription fees. Olapic is, for instance, coordinating a branded Facebook version of its widget for Pepsi. It's an instant campaign that engages consumers, and it can work well for hosting a branded contest. Eventually it may also share revenue with publications for ads the company can incorporate into the gallery widget.
But the startup's grand vision extends far beyond interactive galleries.
"We're building a very large network of sites that have video and photo-sharing," De Cabo says. "What we want is to have this network where users can contribute with photos and videos, and get more exposure to their pictures."
In other words, any website could search the entire database for material to publish. It sounds like a convenient solution for publishers, but will site visitors be eager to share their photos with the world without compensation? De Cabo says their excited reactions to the widget so far suggest that they will. That, and what he calls "vanity coins."
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Patio Decks ? Building Railings With the Correct Tools and Process ...
Most people undertake small maintenance or building tasks in the home, such as adding patio and decks, themselves, but for larger jobs we tend to be wary of carrying out any larger jobs ourselves, and employ a professional. You can build some nice things for your home, so start with something relatively easy and inexpensive.This kind of task does not have to be such a big deal, however, especially if you do some research first either on the internet or elsewhere.
The best thing to get started with is railings for your patio deck. These will greatly enhance the appearance of your patio deck designs. Designs for these patio deck railings are quite easy to plan, as well as to make. First you should check out the styles and designs which would best suit your house. Even the beginner carpenter can feel like a professional with a job like this. You do however need to plan your project, as well as have the correct tools and measuring implements.
To Begin
The first thing to think about is the layout of your patio deck, and the certain style of railings that you have in mind. Discuss these decisions with the other members of your family, and when you have decided, the next task is to procure the necessary equipment for the job.
The Tools, and the Process
You are going to need some basic carpentry tools to build your railings, including caulking gun, drill, balusters, wrench, saw and hammer. You should also ensure that you take the necessary measures for keeping yourself protected. For example, your eyes should be protected from sawdust and other flying debris by some kind of eyewear. You will also need to have equipment for measuring up, such as measuring tape, and something to mark distances with.Be careful in the way that you use your tools, and in your measurements, and you should be able to build the railings you wanted for your patio deck, just as you planned.When you have collected the necessary equipment, the next thing is to start building. Follow your plan, and the overall design concept you have in your mind, as well as the dimensions you have worked out.
Finishing Off
You can now put some finishing touches to your creation. Mainly, you will need to choose a paint which will suit the overall color and style of your home, and then you might want to buy a few accessories. Your patio deck railings should now be waterproofed, so that they do not suffer damage from the changes of weather that come your way.
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Quebec City, September 22, 2011 -- Boosting up microprocessors -the heart of modern computers- at the speed of light, reducing consumptions and costs, may now be a reality thanks to the development of a new high-performance chip, the results of which have been published in Nature Photonics. Fruit of an international scientific team effort, this important step forward has been made by Alessia Pasquazi, a postdoctoral fellow with the team of professor Roberto Morandotti of the Energy, Materials and Telecommunications Centre at INRS. With this new chip, Dr. Pasquazi has ushered in a new era for the Internet, and paved the way for myriad applications in metrology and optical telecommunications.
The new device was created using SPIDER technology, renowned as an exceptional tool for characterizing pulses. It allows users to measure the intensity and phase of ultrafast optical pulses without requiring the use of unwieldy or expensive equipment.
The research received financial support from the Australian research council, Fonds qubcois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERCC), and INRS.
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Quebec City, September 22, 2011 -- Boosting up microprocessors -the heart of modern computers- at the speed of light, reducing consumptions and costs, may now be a reality thanks to the development of a new high-performance chip, the results of which have been published in Nature Photonics. Fruit of an international scientific team effort, this important step forward has been made by Alessia Pasquazi, a postdoctoral fellow with the team of professor Roberto Morandotti of the Energy, Materials and Telecommunications Centre at INRS. With this new chip, Dr. Pasquazi has ushered in a new era for the Internet, and paved the way for myriad applications in metrology and optical telecommunications.
The new device was created using SPIDER technology, renowned as an exceptional tool for characterizing pulses. It allows users to measure the intensity and phase of ultrafast optical pulses without requiring the use of unwieldy or expensive equipment.
The research received financial support from the Australian research council, Fonds qubcois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERCC), and INRS.
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Research on Influencing Factors and Dynamic Mechanism of Business
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?Abstract? Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has penetrated into every continent since Hammer et al. presented this theory. However, the facts suggest that reengineering projects have a high failure rate more than 70%. Researchers have found that the problems largely lay in business process change management. The implementation of business process change management is concerned both in theoretical and industrial fields. In this dissertation, we try to do some research on influencing factors and dynamic mechanism of business process change management.First, we provide the influencing factors model of business process change management from "hard" and "soft" views. We conclude the key influencing factors based on change management and business process change management literature review, which are strategy, process, infrastructure, people and culture. And then, we analyze these factors thoroughly.Secondly, we verify and amend the influencing factors model based on empirical study. We have done a survey on the implementation of business process change management in China, and then conclude some key successful factors of business process change management for Chinese companies. Based on the survey results, we use principal component analysis method to verify and amend the influencing factors model, and then analyze the relativity between each influencing factor and project objectives.Then, we introduce the chaos theory into process change dynamic mechanism based on the enterprise life circle. We analyze the commonness between chaos and business process change management, and demonstrate the feasibility to use chaos theory in business process change management. Also, we suggest the four stages model of process change from dynamic view according to the life cycle theory. Using the chaos theory, we find that there are bifurcations and chaos during the life circle using Logistic function, and analyze qualitatively the different effect of each factor in different stage.At last, we describe two cases that have implemented business process change management projects during their informization history to validate the rationality of the business process change management dynamic mechanism.
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The Payroll Department of a Human Resources Department ...
The fact is that the Payroll Department of Human Resources is a very important facet of the Human Resources Department. Payroll tasks are not just for the human resource, it is up to all the other persons who are employed in the organization. Recording the amount of employees of the company will conclude the volume of work that needs to be added to payroll.
Payroll involves not simply printing checks or handing out pay stubs; it also includes benefits, taxes, the insurance, worker?s compensation and funds for the pension. It is a complex and exhausting process and calls for specific bookkeeping training.
You?ll learn there are a lot of different software and program that can give the staff with classes in payroll.
Please read this article thoroughly, the situation and the suggestions have many types of varieties. Payroll is usually an entry level placement within human resources. It?ll many times depends on the type of business it?s and how they work. When educating the staff do not forget to show them accounting techniques along with some payroll procedures. Infact, if the business is sizable enough, there could be a single human resource worker whose only mission is payroll.
The individual in control over the payroll for human resources must contend with the numbers and should additionally be able to deal with the people employed for the company. The worker that handles the paysheet should be capable to talk the unhappy workers whom are complaining about mistakes in hours and issues with their pay. Having the payroll workers on the staff gives workers a easier method of get issues listened to and problems fixed immediately.
Another in expendable part of the primary payroll worker of human resources is to be educated to narrow down the trouble on the employee checks and fix them. In theory they should be capable to joining together all of the numbers from the payroll check to their record books.
Payroll might become a lot more difficult for the human resource associate, so if there happen to be a huge number of deductions, badly recorded hours, or an outside account firm that processes the checks and stubs , it?s the sole liability of the human resource payroll department employees to correct and update, records prior to giving payroll off to the accountant. Efficiency is a critical element for the people on the payroll staff and making details timely for the accountant is worth a great deal.
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Emma Watson: I Wear Too Much Makeup! (omg!)
From chopping off her hair into a short pixie in 2010 to rocking dramatic Black Swan-inspired eye makeup at this year's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 premiere, Emma Watson is no stranger to experimenting with her look.
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But even the gorgeous Brit, who always appears polished and chic, admits that even she's prone to a makeup mishap from time to time.
"Wearing too much makeup has been my biggest beauty faux-pas," she told Britain's Hello! magazine. "I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within. You can only really look beautiful if you feel beautiful on the inside. It shows through your face, the way you move and the way you hold yourself."
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Watson goes on to admit that despite her down-to-earth approach to outer beauty, she still covets cosmetics.
"The funny thing about me is that I do have a lot of products -- I've always loved makeup and its ability to transform you," she said. "But I don't actually wear a lot of it, so there is an irony that I own so much of it but wear so little. But I do love beauty products."
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And besides skipping the layers of makeup, Watson's other live-by beauty rules are: "Don't over-pluck your eyebrows and always take your makeup off before you got to bed!"
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First fluorescence-guided ovarian cancer surgery
ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2011) ? The first fluorescence-guided surgery on an ovarian cancer patient was performed using a cancer cell "homing device" and imaging agent created by a Purdue University researcher.
The surgery was one of 10 performed as part of the first phase of a clinical trial to evaluate a new technology to aid surgeons in the removal of malignant tissue from ovarian cancer patients. The method illuminates cancer cells to help surgeons identify and remove smaller tumors that could otherwise be missed.
Philip Low, the Ralph C. Corely Distinguished Professor of Chemistry who invented the technology, said surgeons were able to see clusters of cancer cells as small as one-tenth of a millimeter, as opposed to the earlier average minimal cluster size of 3 millimeters in diameter based on current methods of visual and tactile detection.
"Ovarian cancer is notoriously difficult to see, and this technique allowed surgeons to spot a tumor 30 times smaller than the smallest they could detect using standard techniques," Low said. "By dramatically improving the detection of the cancer -- by literally lighting it up -- cancer removal is dramatically improved."
The technique attaches a fluorescent imaging agent to a modified form of the vitamin folic acid, which acts as a "homing device" to seek out and attach to ovarian cancer cells. Patients are injected with the combination two hours prior to surgery and a special camera system, called a multispectral fluorescence camera, then illuminates the cancer cells and displays their location on a flat-screen monitor next to the patient during surgery.
The surgeons involved in this study reported finding an average of 34 tumor deposits using this technique, compared with an average of seven tumor deposits using visual and tactile observations alone. A paper detailing the study was published online in Nature Medicine.
Gooitzen van Dam, a professor and surgeon at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands where the surgeries took place, said the imaging system fits in well with current surgical practice.
"This system is very easy to use and fits seamlessly in the way surgeons do open and laparoscopic surgery, which is the direction most surgeries are headed in the future," said van Dam, who is a surgeon in the division of surgical oncology and Bio-Optical Imaging Center at the University of Groningen. "I think this technology will revolutionize surgical vision. I foresee it becoming a new standard in cancer surgery in a very short time."
Research has shown that the less cancerous tissue that remains, the easier it is for chemotherapy or immunotherapy to work, Low said.
"With ovarian cancer it is clear that the more cancer you can remove, the better the prognosis for the patient," he said. "This is why we chose to begin with ovarian cancer. It seemed like the best place to start to make a difference in people's lives."
By focusing on removal of malignant tissue as opposed to evaluating patient outcome, Low dramatically reduced the amount of time the clinical trial would take to complete.
"What we are really after is a better outcome for patients, but if we had instead designed the clinical trial to evaluate the impact of fluorescence-guided surgery on life expectancy, we would have had to follow patients for years and years," he said. "By instead evaluating if we can identify and remove more malignant tissue with the aid of fluorescence imaging, we are able to quantify the impact of this novel approach within two hours after surgery. We hope this will allow the technology to be approved for general use in a much shorter time."
Low and his team are now making arrangements to work with the Mayo Clinic for the next phase of clinical trials.
The technology is based on Low's discovery that folic acid, or folate, can be used like a Trojan horse to sneak an imaging agent or drug into a cancer cell. Most ovarian cancer cells require large amounts of the vitamin to grow and divide, and special receptors on the cell's surface grab the vitamin -- and whatever is linked to it -- and pull it inside. Not all cancer cells express the folate receptor, and a simple test is necessary to determine if a specific patient's cancer expresses the receptor in large enough quantities for the technique to work, he said.
Ovarian cancer has one of the highest rates of folate receptor expression at about 85 percent. Approximately 80 percent of endometrial, lung and kidney cancers, and 50 percent of breast and colon cancers also express the receptor, he said.
Low also is investigating targeting molecules that could be used to carry attached imaging agents or drugs to forms of cancer that do not have folate receptors.
He next plans to develop a red fluorescent imaging agent that can be seen through the skin and deep into the body. The current agent uses a green dye that had already been through the approval process to be used in patients, but cannot easily be seen when present deep in tissue. Green light uses a relatively short wavelength that limits its ability to pass through the body, whereas the longer wavelengths of a red fluorescent dye can easily be seen through tissue.
"We want to be able to see deeper into the tissue, beyond the surface," Low said. "Different cancers have tumors with different characteristics, and some branch and wind their way deeper into tissue. We will continue to evolve this technology and make improvements that help cancer patients."
In addition to Low and van Dam, the paper's authors include George Themelis, Athanasios Sarantopoulos and Vasilis Ntziachristos of the Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging at the Technical University of Munich in Germany; Lucia Crane, Niels Harlaar, Rick Pleijhuis, Wendy Kelder and Johannes de Jong of the division of surgical oncology of the BioOptical Imaging Center at the University of Groningen; Henriette Arts and Ate van der Zee of the division of gynaecological oncology at the University of Groningen; and Joost Bart of the Department of Pathology and Molecular Biology of the University Medical Center of Groningen.
Low is the chief science officer for Endocyte Inc., a Purdue Research Park-based company that develops receptor-targeted therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Endocyte holds the license to the folate receptor-targeting technology and is spinning this technology off into a new company called OnTarget.
Ntziachristos led the team at the Technical University of Munich that developed the camera system. A startup company named SurgOptix BV is working to commercialize the camera system.
The clinical trial was funded by Endocyte Inc. and the University Medical Center of Groningen.
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The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations by ScienceDaily staff) from materials provided by Purdue University. The original article was written by Elizabeth K. Gardner.
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- Gooitzen M van Dam, George Themelis, Lucia M A Crane, Niels J Harlaar, Rick G Pleijhuis, Wendy Kelder, Athanasios Sarantopoulos, Johannes S de Jong, Henriette J G Arts, Ate G J van der Zee, Joost Bart, Philip S Low, Vasilis Ntziachristos. Intraoperative tumor-specific fluorescence imaging in ovarian cancer by folate receptor-? targeting: first in-human results. Nature Medicine, 2011; DOI: 10.1038/nm.2472
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The most prominent credit card counseling service is Consumer Credit Counseling Service. They have locations all over the United States as well as in thirteen countries. You can find them online as well as in your local Yellow Pages. They have a proven reputation for helping people get out of credit card debt and back on their feet.
There are other consumer credit card counseling services available to Joe Public and they can most often be found on the Internet. Just do a Google search for consumer credit card counseling services and you will find many, many companies to choose from. You?ll need to be cautious, however, when picking a company blindly like this.
Take a moment to ask questions about their company. Check with the Better Business Bureau to see if there have been any complaints filed against them. If you think they are reputable and decide to use them to get out of credit card debt, make sure that all of their services are spelled out on paper and read the fine print.
A reputable consumer credit card counseling service will advise you of your rights as a consumer as well as a customer of theirs. They will outline up-front what services you can expect from them and have everything in writing so you will know that you are protected. Be sure you look for an ?out clause? that allows you to cancel your contract if you are unhappy with their services.
You will pay a fee for their services, but it?s often quite a manageable fee. The consumer credit card counseling service will then call your creditors and negotiate re-payment of the account. They can often get the credit card company to lower the amount due if the account will be paid in one lump sum. They also can often get your financing percentage rate lowered which can lower your monthly payment to them.
Consumer credit card counseling services provide a great option for people who have gotten themselves in over their heads with credit card debt. Proceed carefully and be a smart consumer. You will soon find that you can enjoy a debt free life!
If you are interested making efforts to knock out your debt, you might want to consider hiring a consumer credit counseling service to help you. They can not only help you knock out debt, but they can also get you on the road toward financial independence and keep you out of the spending habits that got you into trouble in the first place.
A consumer credit counseling service will work with your creditors to knock out your debt and make repayment arrangements as well as possibly reducing the amount of interest that you are currently paying. The consumer credit counseling service has agreements with many companies and they work with them to make repayment terms that you can stick to and get back on track.
It can be difficult to knock out your debt on your own. That?s why consumer credit counseling services were founded and today, with more and more Americans deep in debt, they are becoming big business. Not only do they charge you a small fee for their services, they also receive a percentage of your payment from the credit companies they work with.
One of the largest and oldest consumer credit counseling service that exists to help people knock out debt is CCCS (Consumer Credit Counseling Service). They can be found online at http://www.cccsintl.org and can even do an online consultation with you regarding your debts and what they can do to help you out.
If you want to use another company, they abound ? especially on the Internet. It seems like you can?t turn on the television or the radio without hearing about another company that promises to knock out your debt and make you financially solvent again.
When choosing a consumer credit counseling service to knock out your debt, you?ll want to choose carefully and make sure you are getting service from a reputable company. Do some research into their background and be sure there are no complaints that have been filed against them with the Better Business Bureau.
They are required to advise you of your rights when it comes to credit counseling and everything they will do to help you should be in writing. This should include an ?out clause? that would allow you to cancel their service if you are dissatisfied with their performance.
You can try to knock out your debt on your own, but securing the help of a consumer credit counseling service is a better option ? especially if you are deep in debt. They have a little more pull with creditors plus it looks good on your credit report showing that you are trying to not only get out of debt, but stay out of debt for good.
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Time for Obama to 'panic' and 'fire a lot of people'? (The Week)
New York ? James Carville argues that Obama needs to clean house, indict bankers, and panic ? lest we wind up with "a crazy person running our nation"
Democratic strategist James Carville has some advice for President Obama: "Panic." Also, "fire a lot of people" ? especially in his economic policy shop ? stop talking up "the Republican austerity garbage," and indict "people in American finance who haven't been held responsible for utterly ruining the economic fabric of our country." The "ragin' Cajun" ? who ran Bill Clinton's surprisingly successful 1992 campaign ? says that after Democratic losses in Tuesday's special elections, the time for explanations and talking points is over, and the stakes ? a Republican victory in 2012, Carville says, would result in "a crazy person running our nation" ? are too high for Obama to hew to the same course. Should Obama listen?
Panicking is a terrible idea: I'm all for prosecuting the financial criminals of 2008,?says Jason Linkins at?The Huffington Post,?but I don't see how any of Carville's other prescriptions would solve Obama's big problem ? the economy. On top of that, "I'm pretty sure that The Complete History Of Unambiguously Effective Presidential Manic Panic Freakouts?is a zero-page book," and Obama's cool in 2008's crisis is a big reason we elected him over the panicky John McCain in the first place.
"Carville advises Obama to 'panic,' fire people..."
And cleaning house won't help:?These suggestions are "petty and insignificant,"?says Elias Isquith at?The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Firing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner won't make any difference for Obama in 2012 if unemployment is still through the roof. Regardless, Carville's advice is impractical. "It's quite likely Obama?would?have fired somebody ? somebody who holds a high profile ? if not for the fact that there's no chance of getting" a replacement confirmed by the "filibustering, posturing, meandering" Senate.
"James Carville's bad advice"
Actually, Obama needs Carville's tough love: The problem is that "the president and his team think they've done a fine job,"?says John Aravosis at?AmericaBlog,?and "firing staff isn't going to help when the boss is part of the problem." Carville is right that Democrats are past the point of privately telling Obama he needs to shake things up. Obama needs to take off the gloves, and that means he needs "an intervention before we get a GOP president, Senate, and House."
"Carville says it's time for Obama to panic, and fire a lot of people"
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2012 International Gaming Awards Revealed | Online Casino ...
As a way of highlighting the best of the best in the gaming industry, the International Gaming Awards (IGA) started four years ago to provide both the sector and consumers a look at companies who were making positive changes. And now it has been revealed that 2012 will note the fifth consecutive awards, with the event taking place at London?s Sheraton Park Lane Hotel on January 23rd. Bringing professionals from all over the world together to celebrate the gaming industry, the IGA include both online and real world casino operations, offering gamblers the ideal place to find which companies really are going from strength to strength.
Online Gambling Categories
For those in the online gambling sector, the 2012 categories will be of great interest as companies look to make their nominations before the October 18th closing date. iGaming Software Supplier, won this year by Playtech, will highlight firms which have shown originality, innovation and competitiveness in the software which has been offered to online casino operators. Meanwhile, Mobile Operator of the Year will focus on the integration, access, reliability and simplicity of platforms, whilst the Socially Responsible Operator of the Year Online award will be of particular importance as it highlights companies who have customer support, safeguards and safety procedures in place to help consumers.
Online Casino Operator of the Year
One of the most anticipated categories will be that of Online Casino Operator of the Year. The winner of this group will be of particular interest to online gamblers around the world who want to know that they?re playing in a safe, competitive and innovative establishment. Looking back over the past year, the IGA team of experts will asses casinos marketing, brand identity, game variety, consumer interface and payment processing. PartyGaming received this year?s award, and with similar categories including Online Poker Operator of the Year, Online Bingo Operator of the Year and Online Sportsbook Operator of the Year, winners of these awards can expect to note increased demand from customers.
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As the gambling industry gets set for some of the most important awards in the yearly calendar, the IGA also revealed that they will be highlighting and donating towards Care International and Children with Leukemia. And whilst the January 2012 awards will highlight prestigious companies around the world, they also look to give something back to those in need.
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Snakes in underwear smuggler fined $400 (Reuters)
MIAMI (Reuters) ? A Brazilian man who was caught at Miami airport trying to smuggle seven baby pythons and three baby tortoises concealed in his underwear and pockets was fined $400 by a U.S. judge on Wednesday.
Simon Turola Borges, 30, who had been detained since August 25, pled guilty to smuggling and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patricia A. Seitz to time served, two years of supervised release, and a $400 fine. He was ordered to be deported.
Prosecutors said Borges initially denied having anything hidden in his pants when Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at the airport pulled him aside for a further search after he went through a body scanner while preparing to board a flight to Brazil last month.
"Subsequently, he was asked to empty his cargo pants pockets, and he removed two hatchling pythons tightly wrapped in nylon pantyhose," prosecutors said in a statement.
When he was asked to remove any foreign objects from his groin area "Borges pulled his underwear away from his body and removed two nylon pantyhose containing numerous snakes and tortoises," the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida added in the statement.
The seized live animals, all hatchlings just weeks old, consisted of three Ball Pythons, three Carpet Pythons, one Children's Python, one Indian Star Tortoise and two Leopard Tortoises, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.
All of the creatures are protected under the CITES convention that restricts trade in animal species without special permits.
The judge ordered that the fine should go to the Miami Science Museum to help protect reptile species.
(Reporting by Pascal Fletcher and Tom Brown; Editing by Greg McCune)
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Workers Compensation is a Win Win Game For Both ... - Insurance Site
For the entrepreneurs workers compensation insurance is an expense that can sometimes turn out to be a bit too heavy. Its an integral component of a business and an employer cannot forgo it at any cost. Workers can get injured while carrying out their jobs and if they have some sort of medical coverage they can rest in peace. A workers compensation is a win win game for both the employees and the employers. It?s a great stress reliever for both of them.
When an employee gets injured while on duty he/she becomes eligible for cash benefits. Depending upon the injuries sustained and the condition of the injured person there are various types of benefits that a worker can receive. Broadly an injured worker can receive:
Medical Treatment
Temporary / or Total Disability Payments
For example, if an employee after being injured misses three days of work he/she receives disability payments of up to 2/3rd of his/her average weekly wage. Likewise, if a worker is unable to work or remains absent continuously for more then 14 days he/she receives payments for the first three days of work missed.
There is a third situation wherein employees can receive compensations. Sometimes a worker can have a permanent impairment. A situation may arise when there is no change or little improvement in the injury even after the worker has received complete medical treatment.
A worker who has a permanent impairment and this condition of the worker has happened as a result of a work related injury are eligible to receive monetary lump sum payment. Such a payment received by the worker is known as ?impairment payment?. But, to receive such a payment workers are required to have their permanent impairment assessed. Specially trained doctors who are also called Independent ?Impairment Assessors? can only assess permanent impairment.
Workers in order to become eligible for lump sum monetary benefits have to lodge an impairment benefit claim. All such workers who have filed a compensation claim are required to get themselves examined by an ?Independent impairment Assessor?. There can be a case when a worker has sustained multiple injuries from an accident that has occurred while he/she was working. In such situations the injured worker in order to make himself/herself eligible for compensation may need to attend more then one impairment examination.
Although, there are some discrepancies in the way these claims are settled still they are good for both the employer as well as the employee.
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