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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Alleged Galaxy S IV Cases Sprout Up On The Web
A handful of cases seem to have leaked out for the forthcoming Galaxy S IV smartphone from Samsung. Since the phone has not yet been announced, we should approach each and every one of these cases with a hearty helping of salt. However, sometimes case makers get their hands on information we don't quite have, such as dimensions, meaning their cases can shed some light on what's coming next. In this particular case, the Galaxy S IV cases are coming from "a trusted Chinese case manufacturer," according to MobileFun, and are ready to support a phone with a 5-inch display.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/17sNaNUzsQA/
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Research and Markets: Ford Motor Company- SWOT Framework Analysis 2013
DUBLIN--()--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/p89lq2/ford_motor) has announced the addition of the "Ford Motor Company- SWOT Framework Analysis" company profile to their offering.
SWOT Analysis, is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective.
The aim of any SWOT analysis is to identify the key internal and external factors that are important to achieving the objective. SWOT analysis groups key pieces of information into two main categories:
Internal factors - The strengths and weaknesses internal to the organization.
External factors - The opportunities and threats presented by the external environment.
The internal factors may be viewed as strengths or weaknesses depending upon their impact on the organization's objectives. What may represent strengths with respect to one objective may be weaknesses for another objective. The factors may include all of the 4P's; as well as personnel, finance, manufacturing capabilities, and so on. The external factors may include macroeconomic matters, technological change, legislation, and socio-cultural changes, as well as changes in the marketplace or competitive position. The results are often presented in the form of a matrix.
The report is also available in other formats. Please contact us for further information.
Key Topics Covered:
A. Executive Summary
B. A Brief Profile of the Company
C. SWOT Framework Analysis
C.1 Strengths to Build Upon
C.2 Weaknesses to Overcome
C.3 Opportunities to Exploit
C.4 Threats to Overcome
D. Glossary of Terms
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/p89lq2/ford_motor
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NCAA Says Pennsylvania Wants to FilchIts $60 Million Child Abuse Endowment
?????HARRISBURG, Pa. (CN) - Pennsylvania on Wednesday passed a law intended to steal $60 million from a Penn State University fund to help victims of child sex abuse and dump it into the state treasury, the NCAA claims in Federal Court.
?????The National Collegiate Athletic Association sued Gov. Thom Corbett Jr. and three other state officials, claiming the state's money-grab, "Act No. 1 of 2013," violates the Constitution's Contracts and Commerce Clauses.
?????The money stems from Penn State's settlement of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.
?????Pennsylvania calls its new law the Institution of Higher Education Consent Decree Endowment Act aka "the Act of February 20, 2013, Act No. 1 of 2013." It allows the state to grab the $60 million that Penn State will put into the fund for victims of child abuse, and give it to the defendant state treasurer. The NCAA filed its lawsuit the day the act was codified into law.
?????The NCAA claims that Act No. 1 is intended "to disrupt interstate commerce by attempting to legislate where private parties spend their money, and to confiscate funds intended for the victims of child sexual abuse nationwide to be used solely for the benefit of Pennsylvania residents, at the direction of Pennsylvania officials."
?????It adds: "The Act, by its terms, purports to permanently appropriate to the Pennsylvania Treasury the full $60 million dollar fine, even though the contract requires that the penalty be paid into the NCAA's endowment."
?????Gov. Corbett sued the NCAA in January, claiming it "exploited" the Sandusky child abuse scandal to impose "crippling" sanctions on Penn State University.
?????Corbett said in his complaint that the NCAA was using the case of the serial child molester to "force the university to endure harsh, unjustified, and unprecedented punishments."
?????After an investigation led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, Penn State entered into a consent degree with the NCAA. "Among other sanctions, the NCAA imposed, and Penn State agreed to pay, a $60 million fine, 'equivalent to the approximate average of one year's gross revenue from the Penn State football program, to be paid over a five-year period beginning in 2012 into an endowment for programs preventing child sexual abuse and/or assisting the victims of child sexual abuse,'" the NCAA says in its complaint, citing the consent decree.
?????The NCAA adds: "Upon information and belief, Penn State has already paid $12 million into an account to be transferred to the NCAA's endowment when it is established.
?????"Upon information and belief, Penn State has the financial ability to pay the full $60 million fee without using state-appropriated funds.
?????"Penn State has made clear that no state funds will be used for the endowment."
?????Penn State is able to do this, the NCAA adds, because its disgraced football program is so profitable: "in 2011-2012, the Penn State football team generated $50,223,498 of income to Penn State, but only $17,205,605 of expenses. The football team produced a profit to Penn State of $33,017,893."
?????In its complaint, the NCAA says that "authority to dispose of university property is not within the purview of the Commonwealth, and that Penn State exhibits 'characteristics of a nonprofit corporation chartered for educational purposes - not an agency of the commonwealth.'"
?????NCAA members "agree that a member institution that commits a 'major violation' of the NCAA Constitution or Bylaws shall receive a severe penalty, which may include ... '[p]rohibition against specified competition in [a] sport ... or a '[f]inancial penalty," according to the complaint.
?????The NCAA appointed a child abuse task force in September 2012, to oversee the endowment to be funded by fines from the consent decree.
?????Three months later, state Sen. Jake Corman circulated a memo to other senators with the title, "NCAA Fine Endowment for Pennsylvania."
?????"As Senator Corman's memorandum and the Act's provisions make clear, the obvious and explicit purpose of the Act was to seize the NCAA's fine and redirect it only to Pennsylvania causes," the complaint states.
?????Act No. 1 "provides that money that an institution of higher education is obligated to pay to a private endowment or other third party instead becomes the property of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," the complaint states.
?????"The Act directs the Pennsylvania Commission of Crime and Delinquency to 'expend the money of the endowment' ... [and] does not permit the NCAA, the NCAA Task Force, or any third party chosen by them to direct that the endowment's funds be expended upon beneficiaries of their choosing."
?????Sorry, the NCAA says: "Funds paid to the NCAA's endowment are not owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
?????"The Act, by its terms, purports to permanently appropriate to the Pennsylvania Treasury the full $60 million fine, even though the contract requires that the penalty be paid into the NCAA's endowment.
?????"By directing Pennsylvania officials to collect and take payments to which it is not entitled, the Act amounts to taking of private property without just compensation."
?????The NCAA seeks declaratory judgment that Act No. 1 is unconstitutional, and an injunction preventing its enforcement, plus attorneys' fees and costs.
?????It is represented by Thomas Scott with Killian & Gephart in Harrisburg.?
The lifetime journeys of manure-based microbes
Feb. 22, 2013 ? Studies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are shedding some light on the microbes that dwell in cattle manure -- what they are, where they thrive, where they struggle, and where they can end up.
This research, which is being conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists at the agency's Agroecosystems Management Research Unit in Lincoln, Neb., supports the USDA priority of ensuring food safety. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.
In one project, ARS microbiologist Lisa Durso used fecal samples from six beef cattle to identify a core set of bovine gastrointestinal bacterial groups common to both beef and dairy cattle. She also observed a number of bacteria in the beef cattle that had not been reported in dairy cows, and identified a diverse assortment of bacteria from the six individual animals, even though all six consumed the same diet and were the same breed, gender and age.
In another study, Durso collaborated with ARS agricultural engineer John Gilley and others to study how livestock diet affected the transport of pathogens in field runoff from manure-amended soils. The scientists added two types of manure to experimental conventional-till and no-till fields at 1-, 2-, or 4-year application rates. The manure had been collected from livestock that had consumed either corn or feed with wet distillers grains.
After a series of simulated rain events, the team collected and analyzed samples of field runoff and determined that neither diet nor tillage management significantly affected the transport of fecal indicator bacteria. But they did note that diet affected the transport of bacteriophages -- viruses that invade bacteria -- in field runoff.
Gilley also conducted an investigation into how standing wheat residues affected water quality in runoff from fields amended with 1-, 2-, or 4-year application rates of manure. The scientists found that runoff loads of dissolved phosphorus, total phosphorus, nitrates, nitrogen, and total nitrogen were much higher from plots with residue cover. The team also observed that runoff from fields amended with 4-year application rates of manure had significantly higher levels of total phosphorus and dissolved phosphorus than fields amended with 1-year or 2-year manure rates.
Results from these studies have been published in Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, and Transactions of the ASABE.
Read more about this research in the February 2013 issue of Agricultural Research magazine: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/feb13/cows0213.htm
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Trump Twitter mystery! Who hacked The Donald?
In what appears to be the latest in a minor wave of attacks on Twitter accounts belonging to out-sized corporate entities, an out-of-character tweet from Donald Trump's verified account set the Internet abuzz, and then disappeared, shortly before noon ET on Thursday.
"These hoes think they classy, well that's the class I'm skippen," read the suspect remark issued from @realDonaldTrump. It was a glaring non sequitur following tweets such as "Republicans must be careful with immigration?don?t give our country away," and "Wow, Macy's numbers just in-Trump is doing better than ever ? thanks for your great support!"
"Yes, obviously the account has been hacked and we are looking for the perpetrator," Rhona Graff, senior vice president, assistant to the president of the Trump Organization, told NBC News via email.
This confirmation was quickly echoed by Trump himself, in a tweet that read, "My Twitter has been seriously hacked ? and we are looking for the perpetrators."
Cut off after a single rogue tweet, the Trump Twitter anomaly was far shorter than the Burger King and Jeep takeovers earlier this week. On Monday, Burger King's Twitter account was hacked and renamed McDonalds, and over the course of a hour, sent out 53 tweets (and garnered 73,421 retweets) making light of the situation. The Tuesday attack on Jeep's Twitter account ? which included the erroneous announcement that the car maker had been taken over by Cadillac ? ceased after just 10 minutes and 13 tweets.
Soon after @Jeep regained control, the Twitter accounts of MTV and BET appeared to be compromised. The MTV account tweeted claims the network had been taken over by BET, and BET tweeted it was now owned by MTV. This turned out to be a publicity stunt by the networks, both owned by Viacom. As NBC News reported on Tuesday, the account of a PR representative warned of the hack ahead of time on Twitter and then both MTV and BET copped to the scheme after the "hack."
NBC News has asked the Trump Organization how Trump was able to regain control of his Twitter account so quickly, and will update this story if we receive a response.
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Bulgaria faces deadlock after government quits
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday accepted the government's decision to resign in the face of anti-austerity protests, opening the way for an early election that may benefit fringe parties and make it hard to form a stable government.
Outgoing Prime Minister Boiko Borisov, praised by investors for cutting the budget deficit, lost support from voters in the European Union's poorest state over his failure to raise living standards or stamp out graft.
After mass protests set off by high energy bills, Borisov stepped down on Wednesday -- the latest administration to fall in Europe's four-year-old debt crisis.
Parliament voted on Thursday to accept the move and President Rosen Plevneliev will now ask the three biggest parties if they want to form a government to rule until a parliamentary election due in July.
But both Borisov's GERB party and the main opposition Socialists have said they do not want to participate in a caretaker cabinet, so Plevneliev could schedule an election for as early as April. Opinions polls put both parties on about 22-23 percent, suggesting no clear majority in the new parliament.
"We are open for dialogue with all parties but GERB, who ruined everything," said Socialist leader Sergei Stanishev, whose party was level in polls with Borisov's before the protests and may have benefited from the unrest.
The cabinet's departure brought some calm after a chaotic week of rallies against the government and foreign-owned power utilities and a threat by Bulgarian officials to strip one of them, Czech power group CEZ, of its license.
Boriana Dimitrova, an analyst with pollster Alpha Research, said it could push voters towards the political fringe.
"The two key political powers are not strong enough to form a stable government," she said. "The recent protests indicate there is growing support for radical, populist parties, which will also make it harder to form a cabinet."
CALM, FOR NOW
Borisov, a former guard to Soviet-era dictator Todor Zhivkov, won adoration from voters by building highways and improving roads so badly pot-holed that cars could lose wheels and travel across the small country could take up most of a day.
Around 2,000 Bulgarians waving GERB party flags, including farmers driving tractors and a truck full of pigs, cheered in front of parliament in support of Borisov.
"If all possibilities are exhausted...I will form an interim government, quickly and responsibly," said Plevneliev.
Borisov's administration also impressed foreign portfolio investors by freezing wages and pensions and cracking down on the grey economy by digitally linking firms ranging from the largest factory to the smallest kiosk to the tax office.
But those moves angered many in the Black Sea state of 7.3 million, who are also frustrated at his failure to make good on his 2009 election pledge to stamp out endemic corruption and reform inefficient healthcare and education systems.
"Am I pleased with Borisov's resignation? He's just the same as the ones before. They're all corrupt and they don't care about people," said Filip Ivanov, a 37-year-old taxi driver.
Borisov's popularity has suffered due to growing frustration over the slow plod from poverty of a country which has failed to grow convincingly since recession hit in 2009. Living standards are about 45 percent of the EU average, the bloc's lowest.
For many here, where wages average about 400 euros a month and pensions about half that, the final straw was winter power bills which at times exceeded incomes due to price rises that began to bite as temperatures fell.
In protests this month, tens of thousands blocked roads and some clashed with police and attacked offices of power distributors CEZ, Czech Energo Pro and Austrian EVN. The utilities say the increase was in line with a government approved hike in prices last year and said they had done nothing wrong.
Borisov's threat to strip CEZ of its power distribution license has also put Sofia at odds with fellow European Union member the Czech Republic and raised eyebrows over its adherence to the bloc's stipulation that its members follow due process.
But Bulgaria's power regulator appeared to soften its stance slightly on Wednesday, saying CEZ may be able to keep its license if it reverses violations of the public procurement law. CEZ shares fell 2.8 percent on Thursday to a four-year low and Prague urged the European Union to step in.
Before stepping down, Borisov tried to appease voters by sacking Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, a lightning rod for criticism for his leading the charge on belt tightening, and promising a cut in power bills as of March.
For their part, the Socialists have pledged to raise taxes on the rich and scrap a flat 10 percent income tax rate it introduced in 2009 They also want to raise the minimum wage, restart the Russian-backed Belene nuclear power project and to impose strict control on utilities and fight monopolies. that has been a draw for foreign investors.
(Editing by Philippa Fletcher)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bulgaria-faces-deadlock-government-quits-162715010--business.html
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