Saturday, December 29, 2012

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Metamorphosis:Chapter one

You can't trust anyone here...you can't even trust yourself...Science...Blame science and technology they turned me into a monster...and they'll turn you into one too.

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Burgess only wanted the wireless music streaming capability of AirPlay and he didn't care about the video. His solution is a Rasberry Pi and a USB WiFi adaptor. The process itself is really simple. Once you get the WiFi set up, you just need to install a few things to get AirPlay functionality working and add iOS 6 support. Once you're done, you've essentially created a tiny Airport Express where you can send music from your iPhone to your stereo wirelessly. Burgess points out the sound quality isn't fantastic, but it's totally functional and a cheap solution. Head over to Burgess' site for the full guide.

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Of the many injuries and work related diseases, mesothelioma is perhaps the one that draws much attention. Mesothelioma is a cancer that is almost always caused by earlier exposure to asbestos, approximately in ninety percent of cases. In the United Kingdom alone almost 2300 people a year are diagnosed with mesothelioma. At least 3,500 people in Great Britain die every year from asbestos related lung cancer and mesothelioma as a result of past exposure to asbestos fibers.

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Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie's Tropical Holiday Getaway At Designer Donna Karan's Turks And Caicos Retreat (PHOTOS)

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Life?s a beach when you?re Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

The Brangelina brood is reportedly staying at the serene Caribbean retreat of fashion designer Donna Karan in exotic Turks and Caicos for a holiday getaway.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Kazakh military plane crashes, all 27 on board killed

ALMATY (Reuters) - A military transport plane crashed in southern Kazakhstan on Tuesday, killing all 27 people on board, including the commander of the Central Asian nation's border guards, local media and the KNB security service said.

The twin-engine Antonov An-72 jet disappeared from radar screens at about 1900 local time (1300 GMT) as it was making a descent near the city of Shymkent, the capital of the South Kazakhstan Region.

Kazakhstan's Channel 7 television showed early footage of charred and mangled fragments of the airplane scattered around a cordoned off area in a raging blizzard.

Kazakhstan's KNB security service said the plane, bound for Shymkent from the capital Astana, belonged to its border troops.

The commander of the country's border guards, Turganbek Stambekov, was among those on board, it said on its site (www.knb.kz). The plane was carrying a crew of seven as well as 20 servicemen.

The passengers also included senior border guard officers from southern Kazakhstan. The border guards had been due to make a stopover in Shymkent and then fly to the Uzbek capital Tashkent for talks with Uzbek colleagues, local media said.

The plane plunged to the ground in bad weather from an altitude of about 800 meters as it was making a fourth circle, trying to land, Kazakh television channels said.

KTK channel broadcast footage of an eyewitness saying he had heard a loud explosion and had seen flames at the crash site.

Quoting Kazakh air traffic controllers, Channel 7 said the plane had crashed into an open-cast mine some 21 km (13 miles) from Shymkent, and rescue teams could not immediately reach the crash site.

(Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; Additional reporting by Mariya Gordeyeva; Editing by Myra MacDonald)

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Fireworks warehouse in Nigeria explodes, killing 1

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ? A massive explosion ripped through a warehouse full of fireworks in Nigeria's largest city on Wednesday, sparking a fire that threatened surrounding city blocks and sending a plume of thick smoke high into the sky. At least one person died and 15 others were wounded, emergency officials said.

The blast occurred around 9 a.m. in the Jankara area of Lagos Island, a neighborhood of narrow streets and tall cement buildings holding shops and housing people sometimes a dozen to a room in the megacity of Lagos. The force of the explosion echoed miles away and shook windows.

An Associated Press journalist saw members of the Nigerian Red Cross treating people with minor cuts and bruises a few blocks from the site. Later, rescuers pulled out a badly charred corpse from the still-smoldering structure.

Many people were injured when they stampeded through the area's narrow alleyways, said Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency.

"The explosion was not suspected to be a deliberate attack to cause confusion as security agencies have commenced their investigations," Shuaib said in a statement later Wednesday.

Casualties, however, could rise as rescuers continue to clear debris from the fire. Smoke still rose over the neighborhood as the sun started to set Wednesday over Lagos.

Rubble-strewn streets surrounding the burning buildings were covered in the spent shells of fireworks. Several police officers and security officials found large, mortar-like fireworks in the building, the kind wired to explode as part of a large arrangement put on by professionals.

Nigerians commonly shoot off fireworks and firecrackers to mark Christmas and the New Year, with hawkers roaming in traffic with fistfuls of the small explosives to sell to passing drivers.

Local government officials have tried to ban fireworks this year, in part due to safety and in part due to the fear they can cause in a nation where a radical Islamist sect is carrying out shootings and car bombings. Nevertheless fireworks have exploded across the country in recent days to mark the holiday season.

Immediately after the blast Wednesday, thousands quickly filled the streets surrounding the burning buildings. Others ran away as fireworks continued to explode inside. A half-dozen firefighters arrived at the scene with two trucks and locals also ran fire hoses from the trucks to nearby buildings to try to beat back the flames.

The trucks quickly ran out of water. One man even scooped up water from a puddle with a bowl in an attempt to fight the blaze. One firefighter briefly fought with a young man who took his firefighting helmet off his head and ran away into the swarming crowd. The firefighter shrugged and went back to his truck as the building continued to burn.

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Russian parliament approves ban on American adoptions

An employee at the Social Security Administration?s Baltimore office has been formally reprimanded for ?conduct unbecoming of a federal employee,? specifically for disrupting co-workers ?by passing gas and releasing an unpleasant odor.? According to the letter, issued in December and obtained by the Smoking Gun...

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A few months ago the HOPE Financial Dignity Center, New York (HOPE Center New York) implemented the Small Business Incubator (SBI), after conducting an assessment with input from local business owners in the Harlem community and the obstacles facing them as they work to grow their businesses.

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The HOPE SBI assists small business owners in reaching their business goals by providing meeting space for client and staff sessions. The conference room is used for presentations, workshops and business events and the cyber cafe is solely in use to business owners who are working on their business plans, grants, proposals and presentation material.

More and more HOPE Center entrepreneurs, as well as the local business?community, are taken advantage of the HOPE SBI program. The business owners are able to get technical and financial assistance and the opportunity to network and cross promote with other business owners.

?The demand for the HOPE SBI is growing. We believe it has, and will continue to be, an effective tool for the HOPE Center that will create?positive business outcomes.

Some HOPE SBI clients include, Ina Norris, HOPE Center Entrepreneur?Training Program graduate and CEO of In-A-Women Production; Andre Jones, Chairman, Founder and Owner, Jones Associates; Julius Hollingsworth, HOPE Center Entrepreneur Training Program graduate, Founder and Director of Arts and Culture for Harlem4; and Ulysees McCray, CEO Rich Kid Entertainment.

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

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Saturday, December 22, 2012

'Jersey Shore' finale filled with pranks, tears

By Bruna Nessif, E! Online

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The cast of "Jersey Shore" said so long on Thursday night's series finale.

This is it -- the very last episode of "Jersey Shore" ever. Sigh. Before we had to say our goodbyes to Sitch, Snooki, Pauly D, Sammi, Ronnie, Vinny, Deena and JWoww, the group put together one of their biggest parties to-date with a bonfire on the beach.

Between getting the hard wood (which Vinny was great at doing), carrying all the supplies down to the beach and making a fire, creating this farewell party was not easy, but everyone's friends and families joined in, which made it all worth it.

Fun fact: If Jionni was about three feet taller and 100 pounds heavier, he could play on the NFL. Boy's got some football skills, and even outran Mike, who was in "the best shape of my life." Or so he said (time and time again).

The next day was their last work day at the Shore Store. It was bittersweet and somber, but Snooki said she wouldn't mind if Lorenzo worked there, so maybe he'll be pressin' shirts someday, too.

Meanwhile, Paula, the girl that Mike played mind games with for three summers, left a card and cake for her ex to celebrate his upcoming birthday. Super sweet, but c'mon, girl, what were you thinking? He doesn't deserve that. However, we found out she had an ulterior motive. Stay tuned.

The Jersey Shore gang "definitely ready to move on"

In an attempt to get Sammi back for her "prank" of locking the guys out upstairs, Vin and Pauly decided to take Ron's air mattress and put it outside, except they committed the ultimate fail: Vinny accidentally popped the mattress. And you should know, Ronnie cared about that mattress more than anything in the world.

They rushed to put it back in the room, hoping the couple wouldn't find out what happened. When Ron and Sam got back, they thought the prank was just deflating the bed. Poor Ronnie tried to fill it back up with air for forever. In the end, he got mad at Sam for pulling her "lame" prank in the first place. Vinny with the win.

The next day was the Fourth of July and celebration of Mike's and Pauly's birthdays. There was cake, fireworks and a dramatic movie starring Ron and Sam. It had been a while since we've seen one of those. Ronnie still wasn't over the bed situation and wanted Sam to apologize, but she felt she didn't do anything wrong. As with all of their fights, it quickly escalated to them saying they should just break up.

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Don't worry, they didn't. Instead, Ron and Sam just said sorry, kissed and made up. Whew!

Remember how we said Paula was up to something with that cake? So, during their GTL sesh on the last day, the group went tanning and Paula's coworker at the salon asked Mike's roomies (while he was in the tanning bed) if they ate the cake. Everyone said no, since only Mike, Deena and Pauly ate some, and she shared a photo taken of some guy putting his testicles on the cake. Yup, that happened.

Is Paula the new prank war champion? We think so.

Mike tried to call Paula to confront her about that situation, but she kept pretending she couldn't hear him. That apparently got Sitch really P.O.'d, because he threw the duck phone on the ground and smashed it. No! Not the duck phone! RIP.

Read last week's recap!

Their last night together was spent with everyone gathered on the deck to reminisce and reflect on all the memories they've created since season one -- from using the hot tub the first night, to Snooki getting punched in the face by a guy at the bar, to Pauly and Jenni's hookup, to welcoming Deena into the house.

Grab the Kleenex.

Alas, bags were packed and loaded into cars, and tearful goodbyes were said (yeah, even Mike cried), and that was it.

Peace out, Seaside.

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10 Hot PC Game Bargains for the Holidays

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Human resource management (HRM) | The WritePass Journal

Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent draw to the management of an organization?s most appreciated assets ? the people working there who individually and collectively put into the getting of the objectives of the business. The terms ?human resource management? and ?human resources? (HR) have mainly replaced the term ?personnel management? as a description of the processes involved in managing people in organizations. In plain language, HRM means employing people, developing their capacity, utilizing, maintaining and compensating their services in melody with the job and organizational requirement. Harshly

Human Resource Management can be described as ?The comprehensive set of managerial activities and tasks concerned with developing and maintaining a?qualified workforce ? human resources ? in ways that contribute to?organisational effectiveness.? (DeNisi and Griffin, 2004)

Human Resource Management (HRM) is the role within an organization that focuses on staffing of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in the organization. Human Resource Management can also be performed by procession managers.

The Human Resources Management (HRM) tasks include a range of manners, and key among them is deciding the recruitment needs of a business and whether to use sovereign contractors or employ employees to fill these requirements, recruiting and training the best workers, ensure that they are high performers, dealing with performance issues. Activities also include managing your approach to employee remuneration and reparation, employee accounts and personnel policies. Usually small businesses have to carry out these actions themselves because they can?t yet afford part- or full-time help. However, they should always ensure that employees have?and are aware of?personnel policies, which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form of employee manual, which all employees have.

Case Study of British Gas The role of human resource management

To control a successful large business involves acquiring, developing and maintaining a wide range of assets. These capitals include materials, buildings, land, equipment, technology and, people. Any establishment needs good workforce who has the right skills to get the company?s aims and objectives. Human resource management (HRM) is the business function that focuses on the people characteristics of an organisation. It is responsible for ensuring that an organisation has the right people to carry its overall business plan. Centrica, the parent corporation of BGS, has to deliver long-standing productivity. Its shareholders expect the business to show a return on their investment by making profits, now and in future. BGS needs to add to these profits. This means time after time meeting the needs of its customers with comparatively priced products and services that give good returns to the company. BGS?s core customer base is housing consumers across the country. These customers suppose to top-class service at fanatical prices. If BGS does not meet this model, the company may lose business to competitor. To ensure customer liking, BGS engineers must have the technological skills to undertake work to the obligatory standard and the people skills to take away good customer service. Through its engineer enrolment team, the British Gas Academy must therefore ensure that the company attracts and retains the best engineer. This involves several harmonizing tasks. It requires setting up to assess the BGS?s future needs for skilled employees. It requires a recruitment and selection programme to bring new people into the company. It requires a training operation to prepare new recruits and existing employees with the right skills.

Case study of Scottish Power The role of Human Resource Management

People are one of the most important resources used by any organisation. Scottish Power recognises that it is ?powered by people?.

Human Resource Management (HRM) is apprehensive with organising and looking after people in the place of work. On a day-to-day basis this includes recruitment, selection, training and development and assessing staff presentation. An important part of HRM is staff planning. This involves getting the right people in the right position at the right point in time. It also involves identifying the numbers of people required to enable the business to operate at full effectiveness. These people need to have the right skills to do the profession.

Part of labour force planning therefore involves planning growth opportunities. Growth increases the skills of the current workforce. The energy industry is changing quickly which means it is important to recruit and train people with the ability to carry out new jobs. This is particularly essential in the growing renewable energy sector.

Scottish Power aims to offer a positive recruitment and selection experience for every employee and potential employee. Scottish Power is committed to equal opportunities for everyone regardless of factors such as race, sex, age or disability.

The significance of HRM?s historical development

History of Human Resource management

The history of human resources management had startedapproximately end of 19th century when the protecting representatives had come into life form they are all women?s and are only Worried about the defence of rest of the women?s and children effected their harshness of industrial conception had an effected

coupled with pressures arising from the extension of the franchise, the power of trade unions and the labour association, and the disturbance of progressive employers, often Quakers, for what was called ?industrial betterment?. As the role grew; there was some stress between the aim of moral defence of women and children and the needs for higher output.

The First World War accelerates change in the growth of personal management with women being recruited in huge numbers to fill up the gaps absent by men going to battle, which in turn meant reaching agreement with trade unions and accepting unskilful women into craftsmen?s jobs and changing manning levels.

During the 1920s, jobs of ?labour manager? or ?service manager? came into being in the business industry and other industries where there was a large industrial unit, to handle absence, recruitment, dismissal and queries over bonuses and so on. Employers? federations, mostly in engineering and shipbuilding, negotiated general pay rates with the unions, but there were local and regional variations, and it was a lot of scope for disputes.

During the 1930s, with the economy started to pick up big corporations in these newer sectors saw the value in improving employee benefits as a way of recruiting, retaining and motivating employees. However, older industries such as textile shipbuilding, etc. which were hit by the worldwide recession did not adopt new techniques, seeing no need to do so because they had no difficulty in recruiting labour.

The 2nd World War brought about interests and staff work on a permanent basis at all establishment manufacturing war materials because an extended Ministry of Labour and National Service insisted on it, just as the Government had insisted on voluntary workers in weapon factories in the previous clash. The government saw the specialist personal management as part of the drive for greater efficiency and the number of people in the personnel function grew significantly; there were around 5,300 in 1943.

By 1945, employment supervision and voluntary work had become included under the broad term ?personal management?. Experience of the war had shown that output and productivity could be influenced by employment strategy. The role of the Human function in war time had been mainly that of implementing the rules demanded by large-scale, state-governed production, and thus the image of an emerging profession was very much a bureaucratic one.

Following the development of poor industrial relations during the 1960s a Royal Commission under Lord Donovan was set up. Reporting in 19681, it was critical of both employers and unions; personnel managers were criticised for lacking negotiation skills and failing to plan industrial relations strategies. At least in part, Donovan suggested, these deficiencies were a consequence of management?s failure to give personnel management sufficiently high priority.

During 1960s and 1970s employment started to develop considerably. At the same time personnel techniques developed started using theories from the social sciences about recruitment and selection, motivation and organisational behaviour etc. Selection testing became extra broadly used, and management of training long-drawn-out. During the 1970s, speciality fields started to develop, with reward and benefits.

Around the mid-80s, the term ?human resource management? arrived from the USA. The term ?human resources? was an interesting one: it seemed to propose that employees were an asset or resource-like machinery, but at the same time HR also lead to highlight employee commitment and motivation.

Today?s HR profession encompasses a number of specialist disciplines, including diversity, reward (including compensation, benefits, pensions), resourcing, employee relations, organisation development and design, and learning and development. Most recently, in developing the new CIPD HR Profession Map, the CIPD has defined ten ?professional areas? covered by the HR profession.

Human Resource Management

The Human Resources Management (HRM) now a day?s functions include a variety of manners, and key between them is deciding what staffing needs you have whether to use independent contractor or hire employees to fill those needs, recruiting and training best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various set of laws. Activities also include managing your move towards to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. The organisation should always ensure that employees have ? and are aware of ? personnel policies which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form of employee manuals, which all employees have

Human resources management comprises several processes like ?

  1. Recruitment
  2. Orientation and Induction
  3. Training and development
  4. Performance appraisal
  5. Retention

Recruitment:

Recruitment refers to the method of screening and selecting people for a job or post within an organization. Staffing is the process of attracting qualified individuals for a specific job. The assignment of recruiting new staff is a vital but time-consuming process, so companies often prefer to hire an expert agency to source suitable candidates. The objective of a recruitment consultant is to build relationships with clients, source job vacancies, and find suitable candidates for each role.

Now there are various types of methods where a company can recuruit employees

  • Traditional recruitment agency
  • Online recruitment websites
  • Head-hunters
  • In-house recruitment

Traditional recruitment agency

Recruitment agencies in the past have a physical location. A candidate visits a local branch for a short interview and an appraisal before being taken onto the agency?s books. Recruitment Consultants then try to match their pool of candidate to their clients? open positions. fitting candidates are with potential employers.

Online recruitment websites

Online recruitment websites have two main features: job boards and a r?sum?/Curriculum Vitae (CV) database. Job boards allow member companies to place job vacancies. on the other hand, candidates can upload a r?sum? to be included in searches by member companies. Fees are charged for job postings and access to search resumes.

In recent times the recruitment website has evolved to encompass end to end recruitment. Key players in this sector provide e-recruitment software and services to organisations of all sizes and within numerous industry sectors, who want to e-enable entirely or partly their recruitment process in order to improve business feat.

Head-hunters

Head-hunters are third-party recruiters often taken when usual recruitment efforts have failed.

Head-hunters are usually more belligerent than in-house recruiters. They may use higher sales techniques, such as firstly posing as clients to gather employee contacts, as well as visiting applicant offices. They may also purchase expensive lists of names and job titles, but more a lot will generate their own lists. They may arrange a candidate for the interview, help negotiate the salary, and conduct conclusion to the search.

In-house recruitment

Larger employers tend to take their own internal recruitment, using their Human Resources department. In addition to coordinate with the agencies stated above, in-house recruiters may advertise job opportunity on their own websites, coordinate employee referral schemes, and/or focus on campus graduate recruitment.). Otherwise a large employer may choose to outsource all or some of their recruitment process.

Orientation and Induction

New employee orientation is the process you use for salutation a new employee into your organization. New employee orientation, often spearheaded by a meeting with the Human Resources department, generally contains information about security, the work environment, the new job account, benefits and eligibility, company culture, company history, the organization chart and anything else relevant to working in the new company.

Traning and Development

In the field of?human resource management,?training and development?is the field anxiety with organizational action aimed at bettering the performance of individuals and groups in?organizational settings. It has been known by several names, including?employee development,?human resource development, and?learning and development.

In simple terms, training and development refers to the instruct of unambiguous skills, capacity and information to an employee. A formal definition of training & development is? it is any attempt to improve current or future employee performance by increasing an employee?s ability to perform through?knowledge, usually by changing the employee?s attitude or increasing his or her skills and knowledge. The need for training & development is determined by the employee?s performance shortage.

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Latina magazine:

Calle 13 has never been one to remain silent on societal issues.

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Some Democrats call for action on gun control after Connecticut shootings

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after the Connecticut elementary school massacre, a senior congressional Democrat on Saturday called on U.S. lawmakers to pass sweeping new gun control measures including banning assault weapons and high-capacity clips, saying, "Politics be damned."

Representative John Larson, chairman of the House of Representatives Democratic Caucus, gave a list of specific policies he wanted the U.S. Congress to vote on quickly after the mass shooting in his home state of Connecticut.

U.S. lawmakers have not approved a major new gun law since 1994, and they let a ban on certain semiautomatic rifles known as assault weapons expire in 2004.

Hours after Friday's rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, President Barack Obama called for the federal government to prevent mass shootings "regardless of politics," but did not offer details on policies he would seek. He reiterated his commitment to "meaningful action" during his weekly radio address on Saturday.

Twenty-eight people died in the incident - 20 schoolchildren and six adults shot at the school, one woman at another nearby site and the gunman.

The incident put renewed pressure on Obama and other Democrats to reverse their years of caution about gun control laws and address the easy availability of firearms. However, gun control supporters face a Republican-led House that could block such measures.

"There may not be a single cure-all for the violence in our nation, however we must start the process and begin the deeper and longer conversations that need to take place. Politics be damned," Larson said in a statement.

"Of the 12 deadliest shootings in our nation's history, half of them have happened in the last five years. And there is not a single person in America who doesn't fear it will happen again."

BACKGROUND CHECKS

Larson said Congress must quickly vote on measures that include requiring background checks for all gun sales, closing "loopholes" on the terrorist watch list and banning assault weapons and high-capacity clips.

Other Democrats, including Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, New York Representative Carolyn McCarthy and California Representative George Miller, are calling for stricter gun control after the shootings.

Blumenthal and Miller said they believe the nation should have a "conversation" about gun control, but Blumenthal declined to discuss his ideas at depth so soon after the shootings, saying he wanted to show respect to the families of the victims.

McCarthy, whose husband was killed by a gunman on a commuter train in 1993, said in a statement: "I agree, now is not the time to talk about gun laws - the time for that conversation was long before all those kids in Connecticut died."

McCarthy and other Democrats, who traditionally support gun control, voiced skepticism about the call Obama made for "meaningful action," mostly because of his lack of specificity.

"I'm not sure if the president meant it or if it was just more rhetoric," a senior Democratic congressional aide said on Saturday. "But if anything is ever going to happen on gun control, now is the time. He is in a perfect position to act."

The aide said Obama should take advantage of having just won a second term, which means he can act without worrying about voter repercussions in the polls or donors withdrawing dollars.

Faced with intense lobbying by the National Rifle Association and other gun groups, and fearful of a backlash from gun-owning voters, most Democrats have stopped trying to pass new laws.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the NRA did not donate money to Obama during this year's presidential election but sent funds to his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

In total, it donated $634,146 to Republicans during the 2012 election and $85,450 to Democrats.

(Additional reporting by Thomas Ferraro, Steve Holland and David Ingram; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

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Have you thought about starting your own ACN multi level marketing business?

If that?s a yes, you?ve most likely taken a very close look at ACN multi level marketing business plan, and if you have come this far you could have very possibly reached the conclusion that it would be a terrific method to better? your family?s finances as well as your quality of life. However if you haven?t learned what goes into building this kind of business thoroughly, your foray into this sort of marketing could end up in financial disaster and be a full waste of your time! So we?re going to lay down some relevant points beneath.

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The ACN business model is basically? no different from other network marketing systems. The company sells a wide range of common consumable products that the majority of ordinary people use every single day. All you have to do to earn commissions is to promote these products to people you know or who might be interested to learn more. To develop your business further you?ll want to go on to recruit a team of other people from whose sales you also earn commissions.

At the organization level the ACN multilevel marketing business is fine. ACN sells internet services, telecommunications services, wireless, and utilities. It?s also rated as among the list of leading 20 direct marketing firms within the United States by the Direct Selling Association.

ACN stands for American Communications Network and has grown to serve the telecommunications and internet demands of more than 23 other nations worldwide, which includes the Pacific, Asia, Europe and North America. The firm was founded in 1992 by Robert Stevanowski, Greg Provenzano, Tony Cupisz and Mike Cupisz and since 1993 its network marketing sales force has been developing by leaps and bounds from 20 core distributors.

But does this mean this business opportunity is right for you personally? Not necessarily?

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Even when you only comprehend the basic fundamentals of ACN multilevel marketing business you realize that in order for any business to create profit, they ought to sell products. In order for an independent distributor to accomplish the same point ? i.e. make a living, he must do specifically the same ? sell products. Have you thought how you will go about promoting ACN?s particularly specialized menu of services? Remember, in order to make a great living you?re going to have to sell plenty of them!

Behind every network marketing opportunity is? the promise of generating a big team of distributors from which you will earn a modest commission off of their time and effort. The idea being that out of these people, every single one is? doing a bit which? will add to the volume of sales. This sounds fantastic in theory, but like many great theories, does this realistically work?

Bottom line? Most people who get involved in MLM don?t even make their initial investment back. This? is not because the business, products, services or compensation plan leaves something to be desired, but rather because? most people do not have any sales or marketing knowledge and after all? MLM is really a direct marketing business.

One of the most frequent points that most new network marketers are told is always to promote to buddies, family and people they know. But what takes place when they run out of willing ears or just don?t have that several close friends and relatives? Obviously it tends to make sense to promote to people you happen to know, but what do you do when every single name in your list is scratched out?

Even while you?re going via the method of working down your ?warm? market place list you need to be researching ways of reaching other people once that list is exhausted. That does not mean talking to a few people a week ? you will in no way create a sizable team or even a decent revenue that way ? you are going to have to discover approaches of acquiring your message across to hundreds or even thousands of people every week. And that requires a great deal of marketing knowledge and organizing.

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Egypt evacuates 4,000 people from Syria

(AP) ? Egypt's Foreign Ministry says that Cairo has more evacuated more than 4,000 of its nationals and their family members from Syria over the past several months.

The Sunday statement did not provide a more specific time frame for the evacuations. It cited one recent instance of 90 people, including Egyptian nationals and their Syrian spouses and children, who were given special passage through the Syria-Lebanon border before being taken to Beirut airport.

Fighting has recently intensified around the Syrian capital. Egypt's national air carrier halted all flights to and from Syria late last month due to the deteriorating security situation around Damascus airport and the roads leading to it.

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Google Maps for iOS: The best map app ... since Google Maps

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As the brouhaha over Apple Maps failures reached fever pitch, rumors spiked about a new app in the works. Made by Google, it would run natively on the iPhone, bringing all of the previous features of the Google-powered Maps together with free navigation, the one thing it had been missing all these years. It seemed like a dream. Today, it is real.

It is what it sounds like, a return to?those friendly yellow streets and orange highways, set in a soothing tan backdrop checked with green and blue bits of nature. But the app's interface is enhanced, and it syncs with your Google account so it can remember past searches, even if they were on other devices. And now it tells you where to turn as you drive, just like Apple Maps, and just like those $40 competitors in the App Store. Only it's free.

I don't want to overdramatize it, but it's hard not to. When the iPhone 5 came out, I decided to put my primary phone service on a Samsung Galaxy S III instead. After a few months of mounting annoyances, with only a few "oh, that's cool" moments to make up for them, I decided to switch back to the iPhone. My only misgiving: That I would lose the?native?Google Maps app. Yet the very same?night that I switched my phone?service to an iPhone 5 ... Lo! The Google Maps app did appear in the App Store.

It's not exactly the same as the one you get when you buy an Android phone. There are no swooping 3-D views, there seem to be fewer stalkery uses of Street View photography,?and instead of a?multitude of layers, there's?just traffic, satellite view and public transit. But that's all that is needed ? that and Google's own powerful local search engine ? to be instantly superior to Apple's own troubled Maps.

The thing about Apple Maps isn't that it can't take you to an address you plug in ? generally, it can. The problem is, the database of "points of interest" is so lousy, both in quantity and quality, that you end up yelling at the phone, "Yes, there is a Chuck E. Cheese on Johnson Street, don't tell me there isn't!!!" In a world where we are rapidly forgetting phone numbers and street addresses, the outcome is the same: You don't get to where you're going, and it's the Maps app's fault.

The other big Apple Maps?problem, one that just seems like a profound oversight, is the lack of public transportation info. Google already earned the respect of straphangers with its comprehensive realtime public transit data, and you better believe that's all integrated into this new iOS?app as well.

Yet?Google is no dum-dum. Even though it has a monster head start over Apple in mapping, with 80 million POIs around the world and five million miles of road photographed by the Street View crew ? not to mention "tens of thousands of updates" made to the database every day ? it too has the occasional point-of-interest failure. It knows Apple's iPhone?users are frothing at the mouth right now, and one false geotag could get it bit, too. So it displays this unprecedentedly comprehensive warning before you get to navigating:

Well, that's no vote of self-confidence! Some of that language may be required by law, but a lot of it sounds like covering one's rear end.?Still, it's Google. Anything it does in mapping is inherently?going to be better.?

Look and feel
The Google Maps user experience is smooth and, for the most part, intuitive. Searching couldn't be easier, whether it's a particular restaurant or shop,?a general POI search ("gas station") or an actual address. All of it goes into the same smart?window, unlike some more cumbersome navigation apps out there.

Once you've decided on a destination, you navigate by tapping the little car icon. If you last took a trip by public transit, you will see a bus icon instead, but regardless, you can change your mode of transit on the next screen. Once you've picked your mode (and, in some cases, your route), you hit the Start button and you're off.

While driving, you see a much cleaner interface than Apple's. Over time, what ended up bothering me more than anything about Apple Maps was that even though it looked pretty, the screen was often crowded with words. Designers need to keep it spare, because I'm driving over here! I'm not going to read your novel. Google gets it right, with just the necessary information tucked neatly around an easy-to-read map.

Overall the look seems up to date, yet it sticks to the simplicity that everybody loved about Apple's old Google-powered Maps app. I am sure that?as I use it I will find out things I dislike ? and that I will also notice cool tricks I don't know about yet. But in this first look, I can already tell that we're in much better hands than we were with Apple Maps, and that's enough to breath a huge sigh of relief. (And for you people still on iOS 5 to upgrade to iOS 6, for Pete's sake!)

And oh yeah, it's even got a little Siri power. At least, you can enter searches with your voice rather than typing, and to fire up the app, you can tell Siri "launch Google Maps." She may not like it, but she complies.

Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science?editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Gift Guide: Books for Kids and Teens

By Marie Cauley

It can be difficult to buy books as a gift, especially for children and teenagers. You want to get them something that will interest them, but you also want to make sure the book is age appropriate and ? especially for teens ? does not contain explicit language or destructive habits. What you really want is something they will enjoy and will be inspired by, without being condescending. You want a book that catches your eye right as you open it, rather than a book that causes the familiar ?eye roll.?

So what can you get for your kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews, or godchildren that will make them happy?? Hope has a few recommendations for this holiday season:

Ages 4 ? 6

It?s never too late to teach kids to think positive thoughts. Tiger-Tiger, Is It True? written by Byron Katie, and illustrated by Hans Wilhelm (Hay House), teaches children that they shouldn?t let things that happen to them control their thoughts about life or about themselves. In the book, a wise owl asks the tiger four questions, and when the tiger truly thinks about the answers, he realizes his life is not actually falling apart. This is a great way to teach children that just because you have a bad day at school or somebody says something mean, you don?t have to suffer ? you can turn it around into a positive thought. This book is ideal for children who can read, but I also recommend it for the parents and family of children who cannot yet understand all of the words. By reading it aloud to your children or relatives, you can instill the positive thinking. The earlier children learn to think positively, the better.

Ages 6 ? 9

Children in this age group may enjoy reading the Bible, but many of them would rather read little stories that make them feel good.? I suggest Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Jago (Zondervan/Zonderkids) to bridge the gap. Lloyd-Jones takes her expertise in crafting children?s Bibles to a new level, with 101 different tales that will inspire the kids. Each story includes a very short Bible passage, so kids can still make the connection between the story and Scripture in a fun way while still learning about God. The illustrations by Jago are vivid and beautiful; it?s almost as if they could jump off the page right into your child?s mind. The combination of words and pictures really brings the positive anecdotes to life. The best part: children will be drawn to this book over and over again.

Ages 10 ? 14

The middle school years are always tough, and kids this age really need to boost their confidence to deal with the process of growing up. Many of them may also be dealing with bullies in some form, and need a way to feel good about themselves while being able to say no to things the ?bad kids? may be trying to talk them into.? A Kid?s Guide to Being a Winner by C. D. Shelton (Choice PH) can help with all of that. With simple illustrations by Greg Gillespie, the book explains how to be a winner by choosing to be responsible, respectful, and thoughtful, going into detail about what all of those things mean and what to do to achieve them. It also delves into having an attitude of appreciation about the good things you have, while learning from the not-so-good things and developing a positive mindset that will help you overcome challenges. Not only will it answer questions that this age group has, but it will boost their self-esteem and become a reference tool whenever an issue might come up ? especially if they are not in the mood to talk to their parents about it.

Ages 15 and up

This is a really tough group to buy for, whether it be books, clothes, or anything else for that matter. The kinds of stories teens are drawn to don?t necessarily mesh with good morals, and they prefer fantasy over true-to-life books for the most part. The Guardian by Heather Burch (Zondervan) tells a story of humans and half-angels which provides plenty of fantasy, but, as Burch says, ?minus the cuss words, drinking, and smoking?. These characters have high moral standards along with adventures. Teens will appreciate that life can and will be exciting even as they stick to their values. Don?t worry, the book is still filled with mystery and romance.

The Guardian is the second book in the Halflings trilogy, but can be read on its own without needing to read the first.? If you would like to start your favorite teen out at the beginning of the series, both Halflings and The Guardian are available.

Books are a gift that keeps on giving all year long and beyond. And if you pick positive ones, the gift of knowledge will carry children well into adulthood. Take the time to really look at the books you are choosing for the kids in your life to make sure they?re getting the right message.

Marie Cauley is a freelance writer who also pens inspirational romance with hopes of soon being published. Her interests include health, music, dance, spinning, and Pilates.? You can also check out her blog http://www.mtclosetowin.blogspot.com where she writes about faith, fitness?and the connection between them.

Source: http://hopeforwomenmag.com/lifestyle/gift-guide-books-for-kids-and-teens

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