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Deal shows how much Angels value Trout
Let's hear it for cooler heads.
A year after using their leverage to give Mike Trout a minimal raise, the Angels are giving him baseball's biggest salary for a non-arbitration salary. And the $1 million contract for 2014 is only today's news.
Let's hear it for cooler heads.
A year after using their leverage to give Mike Trout a minimal raise, the Angels are giving him baseball's biggest salary for a non-arbitration salary. And the $1 million contract for 2014 is only today's news.
Soon, perhaps even very soon, the Angels will give the 22-year-old Trout -- who is on the verge of replacing Derek Jeter as the face of baseball -- a deal that makes this one look like tip money. Yahoo Sports and others have reported that agent Craig Landis and Halos general manager Jerry Dipoto are working on a deal that would be the biggest for a player not yet eligible for arbitration.
The figure being thrown around is $150 million over six years, which now appears likely to kick in for 2015, not this season. That would secure Trout throughout his three arbitration years and three potential free-agent seasons, and it would give the Angels three position players averaging more than $20 million in salary.
Few thought owner Arte Moreno would let Trout get away, but you wondered what the team was up to when it renewed his 2013 salary at $510,000, only $20,000 more than Trout had made when he challenged Miguel Cabrera for the American League MVP Award in '12.
The Halos held that right again this year, but by paying Trout a seven-figure salary, they essentially said, "OK, you called our bluff." Trout did that by repeating as the AL MVP Award runner-up to Cabrera, who has had two of the best back-to-back seasons in history.
Trout hasn't commented on the ongoing negotiations -- even saying "no comment" last week when asked if talks were ongoing -- but he has made it clear that he is focused on one thing: getting the Angels back into the playoffs.
"It all comes down to winning," Trout said when he met reporters before his first workout of Spring Training. "You can have all the best stats in the world, but if you're not winning, it really don't mean nothing."
With Jeter retiring after the season, Trout seems perfectly positioned to pick up the torch. He's the same kind of uncomplicated, baseball-first superstar as the Yankees shortstop.
While Moreno went onto the free-agent market to land Albert Pujols after 2011 and Josh Hamilton a year later -- giving them contracts worth a combined $365 million over 15 years -- it's the homegrown Trout who will be their best weapon in trying to go head-to-head with the Dodgers in the dynamic Los Angeles market. There may be no better matchup in baseball than when Clayton Kershaw pitches to Trout.
Moreno and Dipoto understand better than anyone what they have in Trout, and all they can see is a long run of strong teams built with his combination of speed and power, not to mention the defense he'll provide in center field. Trout wasn't crazy about moving to left field at the start of last season, but like the contract renewal, he made the best of it. Trout is going to be in center for the long haul now with Peter Bourjos having been traded to St. Louis.
Can Trout get better as he heads toward his third full season?
"Oh, sure, there are ways anybody can get better," Dipoto said. "Mike had a terrific defensive year in 2012, and last year we started him out in left field, which wasn't comfortable. It was a bit of a struggle. Moving back to center field once Peter Bourjos went down with injury was another transition. [But] I don't know if there's a lot that we can expect Mike to do that he hasn't already done. All we can ask for him to do is stay healthy and remain consistent. He's a great player."
Stay tuned for the contract that quantifies just how great of a player he has become.
Phil Rogers is a columnist for MLB.com.

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A consolidated partnership between UNDP, Government, private sector, donors and MFI's to boost youth empowerment and innovation in YemenOct 31, 2013
Fifty-five journalists attended the UNDP press conference, to discover how Yemen's youth were going to help build the future of the country through their innovative ideas and creative business solutions.
UNDP, through strategic partnership building, has succeeded to actively engage the Government, the private sector, micro-finance institutions and donors to work together with a common goal, building the resilience of Yemeni youth and bringing innovative initiatives to a country that is currently reshaping its future.
Over the past months, UNDP and its partners have engaged thousands of young people around the country into the "Youth Innovation and Creativity Award", to come up with innovative business ideas that bring concrete solutions to the country's development challenges while making substantial and durable improvements to people's lives.
Following thousands of applications received and a thorough selection process in three rounds, the press conference announced and honored the sixteen winning ideas which will receive $20,000 each and implementation support from UNDP.
Among these creative visions, who would have thought that used cooking oil could become a performant additive to diesel energy? Did we think of mixing wood chips and plastic to work both as soundproofing material and heat insulator? Do we know that some young Yemeni agricultural engineers can build solar powered green houses relying on 100% organic methods of production for fertilization and pest control? And that a Yemeni woman from Hodeida will manage a plumbing business?
At the press conference, all partners demonstrated their active involvement to boosting youth entrepreneurship and business innovation for Yemen: Hayel Saeed Anam Group of Companies, leading Industrial and Trading Group in Yemen, and Yemen LNG, the largest industrial project, both provided $20,000 for a prize and support the implementation through incubation and private sector mentors to the youth. Tadhamon Bank, micro-finance institution, announced their support to the winning ideas with loans, at low interest rate and without the draconian guarantee requirements still common in Yemen. The CEO of the bank told the youth, " the fact that you have UNDP endorsement is better than any guarantee". The Minister of Industry committed his support to the immediate implementation of the businesses, including through the licensing and copy right of the ideas. Shabab TV announced a contribution of $5000 to each youth winner to highlight the ingenuity and creativity of their ideas that can inspire others. The donors Japan and South Korea expressed their continuous commitment to youth empowerment in Yemen.
To support the Government and the people of Yemen in this unprecedented transition, UNDP has made youth economic empowerment a priority, addressing one of the root causes of conflict in putting a strong focus on youth, within the context of a strategic alignment undertaken by the CO to dedicate its resources and capacities to the priorities of the transition, in line with the Transitional Programme for Stabilisation and Development (TPSD) and the Mutual Accountability Framework (MAF), as well as with the new UNDP Strategic Plan placing particular emphasis on youth.
A national dialogue and an electoral process without youth participation and increasing job opportunities could put the transition at risk. Without the youth, it will be rather difficult to conceive and conduct transformation. They are the most resourceful agent of change. These awards have been but one further tangible demonstration of the youth's potential to become a primary player for positive change... if they are given the chance.


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Emilio's perfect storm
Is the arch-dealmaker and indefatigable head of Banco Santander finally about to come unstuck?
Most mornings in Somosaguas on the northwest fringes of Madrid, neighbours who are awake can spy a spritely, diminutive septuagenarian taking a 6am stroll around his home or on his treadmill. Later he might play a round of golf or go to the gym. In between he runs continental Europe's biggest bank.
Meet Emilio Botín, head of Banco Santander and king of Spain's business community. Seventy-eight years old, quietly spoken and 5ft 8in tall, Botín looks like a man who could have retired 10 or 15 years ago. He doesn't travel the world delivering tub-thumping speeches. He rarely gives interviews and only seldom meets investors, analysts or journalists.
This is the man who has turned Banco Santander from a small regional Spanish lender into one of the biggest banks in the world – from Barcelona to Britain via Brazil. Today he presides over an institution with assets that come close to the GDP of Spain. And after 26 years as chairman, he has become the longest-serving head of any big bank, providing continuity of management at a time when the global financial crisis has burnt through bank bosses like wildfire. Most extraordinary of all for a group that is valued at nearly €70bn, and is 98 per cent owned by outside investors, Botín and his family still have huge influence over the running of the business, with the chairman himself often scrutinising individual loans."El presidente" ("the chairman"), as his colleagues and even members of his family call him, is certainly understated. But he has the swagger of the long-successful businessman about him, nonetheless: the pristine grooming, the thinning but still jet black slick of hair, the tell-tale Spanish strut.
Some of Botín's success must stem from his sheer physical energy. A friend recalls seeing him at the Monza Formula One Grand Prix a couple of years ago, when Ferrari – sponsored by Santander – swept to victory with Spaniard Fernando Alonso at the wheel. "Emilio had a little Ferrari flag and as soon as the car was over the finish line, he leapt out of his box waving it furiously and then sprinted along towards Alonso. He ran for 200m. He's incredible."
Quiet but calculating, Emilio Botín's acumen has been his other key asset. Born into banking like his father before him, he did not rest on his laurels, but saw repeated opportunities to grow, expanding the business with an appetite unmatched by even the most brazen Wall Street giant. In the process, he created one of the world's leading banks and a vital artery of the Spanish economy. "Emilio is now the most powerful person in Spain," says one rival banker who knows him well. "He runs the country completely," he jests.
Botín's story and that of the banking group he has built are, by any standards, pretty extraordinary tales of success – all the more so, given the economic misery that currently engulfs Santander's home market of Spain. After more than 50 years at the bank, half of them in charge, his empire extends across 10 countries, with hefty operations in Latin America, the US and the UK to offset the more troubled domestic market. Excluding (mounting) bad debt charges, the bank makes an astonishing €25bn profit year in year out. By a variety of measures – operating profits, dividend yield, market value, balance sheet size – Santander is one of the top 10 banks in the world.
Yet there is a problem. Despite Botín's remarkable record to date, investors are losing faith in the Santander story. "They have had a good crisis but it's a question of the future," says one big asset manager who no longer holds the bank's shares. "You don't invest looking backwards but looking forwards." As that kind of mentality has taken hold, shareholders have been deserting the bank. Even since the strong autumn bounce in the stock market, Santander's shares are barely up, underperforming rivals at home and abroad.
The reason? Santander is facing a perfect storm. Its domestic market lies in tatters – annual results next week will show the extent of the damage. Questions are increasingly being raised over the bank's financial strength. And the chairman himself is now 13 years beyond normal retirement age without a clearly communicated succession plan. Trouble is looming, whichever way you look at it, for Botín and for Spain's biggest bank.
Emilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y García de los Ríos, Marquis Consort of O'Shea was always going to be a banker. His grandfather (Emilio I) had been chairman of Santander from 1909. His father (Emilio II) took over in 1950. And, sure enough, in 1958, as a moneyed 23-year-old aristocrat with degrees in law and economics, Emilio III joined the family firm too.
Botín's apprenticeship taught him the business from the bottom up: he analysed credit risk, he represented the bank on the boards of the many industrial companies that the bank owned, and built a network of valuable business contacts in the process. Robert Tornabell, a professor at Barcelona's Esade business school, has known the Botíns for years. "A key moment for young Emilio came in the late 1970s when he helped the group avoid the banking crisis in which Spain lost 57 banks," says Tornabell. "It was the banks' industrial shareholdings in troubled mining companies and steel companies that killed them. But Emilio understood the risks of owning those stakes and told his father to sell them."
Despite such flashes of influence, swaths of Botín's first 28 years at the bank passed by in a mix of boredom and frustration, as the heir-in-waiting found himself routinely kept in check by an overbearing father. "He was always asking questions, he was always very curious," recalls one contemporary. "But he wasn't given much responsibility, he kept a low profile and he never challenged his father. He was just hanging around waiting." Towards the end of that period, one friend remembers Botín – a "frustrated rich kid with nothing to do" – almost in tears, complaining that his father never delegated anything to him.
But the tough treatment appeared to motivate the young Emilio, rather than break him. In 1986, at the age of 52, his then 83-year-old father finally deemed it time to hand over the chairmanship. This was the son's chance to realise a far more ambitious vision for the bank than his forebears had ever had – and he did not hesitate. Like a coiled spring set loose he has committed his life ever since to expanding Santander, taking it multinational, turning it into Spain's biggest bank and elevating himself in the process into a legendary public figure with a vast personal fortune (Forbes puts it at $1.1bn).
Aided by behind-the-scenes networking, Botín now commands such status that even his critics believe him to be untouchable. The chairman prides himself on his political connections – and there was an especially close relationship with the former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. In late 2011 the outgoing PM even pardoned Botín's chief executive, Alfredo Sáenz, following a criminal court guilty verdict that was set to see him barred from banking for three months.
There are conspiracy theorists, motivated in many cases by professional envy rather than fact, who allege far worse against the Santander chairman. But there does seem to be a darker side to Botín: there have been several legal scandals over the years, most recently when a secret Swiss bank account dating back to 1937 was exposed by a whistleblower, triggering a swift €200m settlement with the Spanish tax authorities.
And yet much of the domestic press portrays Botín as a faultless national hero, rarely reporting anything negative about him or the bank. Critics suggest that they may be keen to protect the advertising revenue on which the Spanish media is unusually dependent. "The pressure he exerts is incredible," says one senior banker.
Whatever else he may be, Emilio Botín is a consummate banker. In contrast to many rivals who have tripped up through the financial crisis, he has excelled at the two basic disciplines of banking – risk management and cost control – often delivered through top-notch IT.
On a picturesque hillside a few miles from the bank's original home town of Santander on Spain's craggy north coast, the bank has just thrown up a clutch of brutalist buildings. The new €250m Cantabria data centre is one of five being erected around the world to help cut costs and improve risk control by giving managers live information on loans in all the markets where the bank operates.
The newfangled systems are buttressed by an old-fashioned approach. "In August, we spent three days locked away in the town of Santander, assessing all our exposures of over €50m country by country and counterparty by counterparty," says Matias Inciarte, 64, who heads responsibility for risk.
Controls like this helped Santander ride Spain's boomtime growth in the decade before the financial crisis, without the level of subsequent loan defaults that finished off many of the country's smaller, less sophisticated lenders. But Botín's success is twin-engined. Alongside his obsession with the finer details of banking is a wilder streak.
The business of buying up rivals has always got the chairman's blood racing – and enhanced his power at home and abroad. Combining charm and ruthlessness, he struck his first decisive deal in 1999, when Santander merged with Spanish rival Central Hispano. Botín – already nudging normal retirement age – was supposed to share power with his opposite number, perhaps bowing out after a year or two. Instead, within weeks he had seized control, controversially spending more than €160m of bank funds to persuade Central Hispano executives José Amusátegui and Angel Corcóstegui to go quietly.
Similar drive was also on display a decade later in what was at the time the biggest ever bank takeover – and has since become the most notorious. The three-way acquisition of Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2008 – an unmitigated disaster for RBS and the Benelux-based banking group Fortis – was a triumph for Santander. One senior RBS executive of the day recalls how his now humbled CEO, Fred Goodwin, was outsmarted by the Spaniard. "Emilio played Fred like a Stradivarius," says the banker. "He used to put his arm around him and say, 'Fred, you're such a brilliant CEO,' and at the same time, metaphorically, he was picking his back pocket."
While RBS was left with the most toxic parts of ABN, which subsequently contributed to the bank's failure, Santander not only secured ownership of a prized Brazilian operation but also pulled off one of the most brazen "flips" ever seen in the world of mergers and acquisitions, selling ABN's Italian unit Antonveneta on to Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena for €9bn only days after acquiring it for €6.6bn from the Dutch bank.
The dealmaking bravado has worked in reverse, too, with Botín shedding bits of the group to raise cash and help it through the deepening Spanish crisis. In December 2011, executives of the bank gathered in the bowels of the five-star Botín-owned Hotel Real hard by the family seat in Santander town. On the agenda was one special item: how would they respond to the unprecedented call from European regulators – spooked by the deepening eurozone crisis – for €15bn of fresh capital?
People at the meeting recall Botín's no-nonsense insistence on tackling issues head-on and fast. Within weeks, Santander had raised the money – it sold its Colombian arm, floated a stake in its Chilean subsidiary and accelerated a convertible shareholding sold to Qatari investors in Santander's Brazilian subsidiary. "Santander is at its best when faced with a crisis," says one senior figure at the bank. "It moves very quickly when it smells a problem."
Such speed of response stems from the family. It is a century since a Botín first chaired Santander. Three generations on and the family influence is clearer than ever. The Botíns' ownership might have dwindled to barely 2 per cent, from 40 per cent in the 1980s, but they are still running the show and command three seats on the board.
Botín often starts his working day by 7am, haranguing executives with demands for the latest operational data. One former colleague describes his office – at the hub of Santander's 250-hectare campus headquarters in Madrid – as "like a Bond villain's lair". "He almost has a home there, with a kitchen and a bed where he takes a siesta sometimes. It's perched at the top of the main building. From it he can see everything." Below is a vast boardroom, where Botín meets visitors. At a recent breakfast appointment with the FT, he arrived – a polite five minutes late – proffering a gift: a Bulgari tie, Santander red, identical to those worn by staff right up to board level (including Botín himself) in an almost cultish devotion to the brand. The chairman, presumably nervous of probing questions about the bank's exposure to the troubled Spanish market, had refused an on-the-record interview but he was a gracious host nonetheless, and evidently firm in body and mind despite his age. As at most meetings, he was quietly dominant, the revered patriarch.
Botín leads a model healthy existence these days – he is virtually teetotal, eats carefully (picking at scrambled egg whites and fruit for breakfast) though he has one vice that is a key source of energy, says a friend: a taste for caffeine. "He always has a can of Coke in his hand. Sometimes he'll even show up at an evening function with a Coke and a packet of nuts."
Colleagues say Botín's work ethic and long hours away from home – not to mention his passion for F1 – have led to an increasingly distant relationship with his long-time wife, Paloma – a pianist and founder of a music college. Yet the Botín family remains tight-knit. Jaime Botín, the chairman's brother, part-owns and heads another of Spain's big lenders, Bankinter. Javier Botín, the youngest son – tainted by a big misjudged investment in the infamous Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme – helps run the family foundation and sits on the main bank board.
But the pivotal family relationship is between Botín and his eldest child. Ana Patricia, currently head of Santander's UK subsidiary, is the only top-notch banker among the Botín offspring and the chairman's most likely heir. Friends say that there is also an element in their relationship of the tough love Botín experienced at the hands of his father. "Whatever Emilio expects from most people who work for him, he expects twice as much from Ana," says one. He sometimes appears to treat her both in public and in private like "the truculent teenage daughter", adds a former colleague.
Ana Patricia is 52, and an ultra-elegant, modern, international version of her father. Educated in the UK (at the Catholic boarding school, St Mary's Ascot) and in the US (Bryn Mawr college in Philadelphia, then Harvard), she began her career as an investment banker at JPMorgan, before switching to Santander 24 years ago. Her broad banking experience, perfect English and more transparent manner suggest she might even make a better chairman than her father. People she has worked with praise an impressive ability to combine toughness with the charm vital to court clients and foster staff loyalty. She has a mixed record of success within the group, however. Her early management roles were less than impressive – attempts to build a Santander investment banking operation and push rapid Latin American expansion both had to be reined in. But her last post, heading Spanish subsidiary Banesto, went well – profits nearly doubled over the seven years to 2008. In her current job at Santander UK, she has overseen a sharp decline in the bottom line, albeit amid a difficult economic environment.
Today Ana Botín – rebranded for the British market without the complicating "Patricia" – is working harder than ever. Following her father's model, she rises early, at 6am, trains intensively on a home workout machine then heads to the London office. She has a home nestled between Kensington and Victoria, though she still takes weekly trips to Madrid for executive board meetings. Invariably immaculate, she has refined tastes – often breakfasting (on tea and a croissant but nothing more indulgent) at an exclusive SW1 hotel, and at evening events sipping champagne in preference to wine (though never much of that either).
The Botíns' regal lifestyle includes the use of Santander's two private jets. There are homes in central Madrid, in Santander town and 100 miles south of the capital in Ciudad Real (a classical finca, with horses and thousands of hectares of hunting land). Emilio Botín's favourite holiday destination is Tanzania, where he spends large sums on big game hunting. Friends say he has even shot elephants and relished the thrill of the chase and the felling of a giant adversary.
Now, though, the grandiosity of the chairman's lifestyle is in stark contrast with a stagnant share price, as critics have begun to notice. Nowhere is the Botín ego clearer than in Santander's physical presence. At that Cantabria data centre, the windowless control hub is like a Nato war room. More opulent still is the Madrid headquarters – with an orangery-themed reception area, golf course, tennis courts and 1,000-year-old shipped-in olive trees. Arriving at the campus is like entering another nation state, so stiff is the security, and in the futuristic welcome centre, visitors are greeted and chaperoned by 3ft-high multilingual robots.
On March 30 last year, a revolution against the Botín way of doing things began in earnest, as investors filed into the bank's annual meeting at the modernist exhibition centre in Santander.
Ahead of the AGM, the family and the rest of the bank's management had been expecting the usual resounding support from shareholders. But this meeting was set to be different. Many of Santander's long-supportive individual investors were seething – 140,000 of them had bought an aggregate €7bn of so-called valores, a kind of mandatory convertible bond, which had been issued to help finance the ABN deal but was now about to convert into shares worth less than half the amount they paid for them.
At the same time big institutional investors were preparing to rebel over what they saw as an over-cosy boardroom. Opposition was fuelled by a global mood of protest over pay and governance – this was the so-called "investor spring". As usual, Botín's powers were buttressed by the many small shareholders who routinely waive their voting rights, transferring them instead to the family. Even so, Botín's re-election to the board was opposed by nearly a quarter of investors in protest at the bank's lack of independent directors.
Santander claims that half of the 16-member board are independent. But in reality only two would qualify under the governance standards of many countries – not only are there three Botíns, the remainder have been on the board for at least 10 years. "Governance is a sham," reckons one long-time investor. "It's just the family running things." Another comments: "That kind of structure can often work well and to investors' advantage. But the danger is that sentiment can change." Critics draw parallels with the status of the Murdoch family within News Corp – once the power base of the media empire, now more of a problem. Another quirk at Santander is that while a standard company might have a chief executive whose management actions are policed by a non-executive board, Botín has retained for himself an unusual degree of power as executive chairman.
A sprinkling of board members concede that governance needs improving, but the official Santander position is unapologetic: "The bank's successful growth and steady performance through the crisis is due in large part to its corporate governance, and not in spite of it."
Some of those who protest about Santander's shortcomings in the boardroom do so on ideological grounds. Others criticise dangerous practical knock-on effects from what they see as a regime that allows Botín's ego to go untrammelled. Take acquisitions and dealmaking, which one investor describes as an "obsessive compulsive disorder" in Botín. "He's like a private equity guy," says another disaffected investor, criticising Botín's sweeping strategy of turning Santander into a holding company for subsidiary banks around the world, reducing its ownership of its fastest-growing units in Brazil and Mexico in a dash for cash. That in turn hurts the value of shareholdings in the group as a whole.
Investors' other big beef is with the bank's dividend policy and what many see as Botín's obstinacy in maintaining a payout even as bad debts mount at home and abroad, weakening profits. Payouts for 2012, analysts forecast, will amount to more than 160 per cent of profits – dwarfing a typical company payout ratio of 20 to 40 per cent. "Santander doesn't need to pay out so much," says one top 10 investor. "They should reset the dividend at a lower level. That would strengthen the balance sheet."
Undeterred, Botín trumpets the fact that Santander has maintained its dividend at around 60 cents a share right through the financial crisis. The payouts, he argues, reflect an old-fashioned desire to be a steady income source for investors – particularly the bank's 3.3 million small private shareholders, many of whom are also bank customers.
But there is a second big driver for the dividend – and also another example of the potential conflict of interest that comes with the Botíns' dominance at Santander. In May, the family took a €15.5m cash dividend on their shareholding, with a further €1.9m paid out in stock. A clutch of wealthy family friends, who are among the largest individual shareholders, also value the payouts. According to people who know the family well, they rely on the flow of dividends for much of the income that supports their lavish lifestyles. There have also been debts to service. As Santander's share price has fallen amid the crisis, Botín and other family members have bought close to €90m of shares, Bloomberg data show – often with borrowed money, people close to him say – not to mention the burden of that €200m tax bill.
The ego that critics point to in Botín is also an overarching reason for the dividend strategy, they say. "The dividend policy is unsustainable," says one investment banker who knows the chairman well. In his view, "Botín would be well advised not to sustain it. The only real reason he does it is to show he has cojones."
Many of these issues remain annoyances and niggles for the time being. But as the bank's underperforming share price suggests, worse may lie ahead. There are three big risks which excite progressive degrees of alarm among investors, and any of them could wreck the Botín success story.
First, the regulatory threat. The recent €40bn bailout by European authorities might have helped the country's more troubled banks, but the EU's quid-pro-quo demand – that bank supervision should move from a national to a pan-eurozone level – could prove costly for Santander. Though the bank insists its capital position is strong, analysts at Barclays reckon Botín might be forced to fill another black hole of up to €18bn as the relatively soft-touch Bank of Spain regulators give way to a tougher European Central Bank.
Worse still, of course, would be a further deterioration in the Spanish economy and even, at the unlikely extreme, some form of sovereign default. House prices have already tumbled 50 per cent from their peak and unemployment has spiralled above 25 per cent. If the Spanish government found itself unable to repay its debts, too, all of Santander's other troubles would pale into insignificance. Over the past year, rather than reduce its risky exposure to Spanish sovereign debt, Santander has actually increased its holdings of government bonds – from €24bn a year ago to €30bn – lured by high yields and under pressure to help out the Spanish state.
Combined – and in the absence of deeper EU intervention – that all distils down to one simple equation: if Spain fails, Santander fails.
Yet more inevitable than any macroeconomic crisis is the threat posed to Santander by Botín's own mortality. Given his quarter-century of dominion, how Santander will adapt when the chairman can no longer lead the bank is a pressing question – but one that Botín himself, much to investors' frustration, always refuses to address when quizzed. His supporters suggest he may want to stay in the job for another five years. "Emilio's father had such an influence on him," says one friend, "that 83 is the natural milestone that he will be focused on." All the same, a succession plan will have to be put into action at some point. And herein lies a problem – redoubled because Alfredo Sáenz, the bank's 70-year-old chief executive, has been toying with retirement for years. Botín's other key lieutenants – the Inciarte brothers – are widely seen as too old (Matias) or too gung-ho (Juan). An earlier favourite for the CEO job, António Horta-Osório, left Santander in a surprise defection to Britain's Lloyds Bank two years ago.
The only obvious remaining choice to succeed Botín – his daughter Ana – would preserve dynastic control. But Ana, whose role heading the UK subsidiary was supposed to complete her apprenticeship for the top job, has her hands full with a struggling business. Nearly two years into her role, significant profit growth looks elusive and an acquisition that would have turned Santander UK into an important small business bank has fallen apart. That in turn makes a float of the UK operation – seen as a prospective rubber stamp of Ana's eligibility to succeed her father – look like a distant hope.
Botín's dilemma comes down to this: he does not want to retire, yet failing to hand over the reins soon to his daughter could undermine family control of the bank. "If Emilio dies in the job," says one associate, "Ana may not have the level of backing internally to succeed him."
After decades of spectacular success, Emilio Botín and the multinational family firm he created are showing signs of unravelling. He might head a dynasty of great bankers, shrewd networkers and decent dealmakers. But even "el presidente", powerful as he is, is not omnipotent.
Patrick Jenkins is the FT's banking editor


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A philosopher, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and scholar of black American literature and Buddhism, Dr. Charles Johnson's novel Middle Passage won the National Book Award in 1990 — the first time such an award was given to an African American male since Ralph Ellison in 1953.
A popular professor, Johnson retired in 2009 after 33 years of. teaching at the University of Washington. He continues his work as an editor, cartoonist, and journalist.
Born in Evanston, Illinois, Johnson began his career as a cartoonist and illustrator. After studying with cartoonist Lawrence Lariar, he began publishing stories and comic art at the age of seventeen. His two collections of political cartoons, Black Humor and Half-Past Nation Time, published as he was completing his bachelor's degree in journalism, were acclaimed for their subtle but pointed satire of race relations, and their success led to Charlie's Pad, a 1970 how-to-draw series on public television that Johnson created, co-produced, and hosted.
Johnson published his first novel, Faith and the Good Thing in 1974. Since then he has authored 17 books, more than 20 screenplays, 1000 drawings, and numerous essays, articles, short stories, literary reviews and works of criticism. A Ph.D. in philosophy, and a practicing Buddhist who specialized in phenomenology, aesthetics, and eastern thought, Johnson is the recipient of many awards, including NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, a Writers Guild Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. His novel Middle Passage has just been leased by D.C. Comics to become a graphic novel in the near future.
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LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to seven years' probation for using a phony diploma to get counseling jobs.
The Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era reports a judge sentenced 37-year-old Jalon Faherty on Monday on two felony counts of fraud. Lancaster County Judge David Ashworth told her: "You can't just go out and buy a diploma."
Prosecutors say Faherty paid England-based Canterbury University for a college diploma, with master's degree certifications, but that it turns out no such school exists. Authorities say she used the fraudulent credentials to bolster her resume, working for TeamCare Behavioral Health of Lancaster and Pennsylvania Counseling Services Inc. in Lebanon from 2007 to 2009.
A weeping Faherty, who pleaded guilty in November, apologized in court. She's paid back more than $80,000 to her employers.


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Time Warner CEO Says Having Game Of Thrones As 'Most Pirated' Is 'Better Than An Emmy'
from the starting-to-realize dept
Well, Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich might want to chat with Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner (owners of HBO), who just pointed out that unauthorized watching leads to more subscribers and is "better than an Emmy."
Yes, in response to a question about whether the network kinda-sorta regards the extensive theft of HBO's flagship show, Game of Thrones, as a compliment, Bewkes said, "I have to admit it, I think you're right." The much-discussed fantasy series is HBO's most popular, and "if you go to people who are watching it without subs, it's a tremendous word-of-mouth thing," the exec told investors. "We've been dealing with this for 20, 30 years—people sharing subs, running wires down the backs of apartment buildings. Our experience is that it leads to more paying subs. I think you're right that Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world," he said. "That's better than an Emmy."Of course, plenty of people have been pointing out for years and years and years that infringement is a signal of unmet demand, so it's nice to see them catching up. Of course, now let's see if Time Warner still backs the next ridiculous and draconian copyright enforcement expansion...


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There's Always A Way To Compete: Competing With Google By Being Human
from the you-can-compete dept
We've talked in the past, for example, how Google's closed nature could be its Achilles heel. But another area in which Google has a clear weakness, as we've documented over and over and over and over again, is that it's horrible at customer service. From the outside, to the average user, Google often appears as a big white monolith, with little hope of getting a human response to issues. This is not universally true, of course. I've seen many Google employees personally reach out and respond to problems, but it often feels sort of ad hoc, and the number of stories of problems falling through the cracks is certainly noticeable.
So it doesn't surprise me that others are beginning to recognize this as well. JJ sent over a blog post by Jesse Noller, picking up on this point and suggesting that the way to compete with Google is by being more human, friendly and personable. That is, building up brand loyalty by actually being nice, rather than technically efficient but cold (as Google often appears). It's a good read for anyone in a space where they may end up competing with Google (actually, it's a good read for anyone who thinks that there's any company that is competition proof). Here's just a snippet, but I recommend reading the whole thing:
You can only do these things -- building a brand -- and building a "cult" by doing the things Google -- given its robotic failings -- cannot do. Love your users, infect them with your passion -- not just your technical prowess or ability to scale or release new web codecs, or give them the right search results, or giving away source -- infect them with your passion for what you do. Support them, respond to them -- even if you're giving it away for free -- after all, nothing is free.Of course, there was a time that Google created such passion, but mainly from the quality of its products, not from its human touch. But that's the point. Every company has its weaknesses, and no company is competition proof.
Passion, compassion -- connecting with other humans, people are always looking for a place that accepts them and makes them feel welcome. They want to get real support instead of emails that get sent to unknown voids and are never answered. Making things warm, inviting both in language and in the feel.


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onOne Software Announces Perfect Photo Suite 7
September 10, 2012 12:35 am
Tags: 2D, onOne Software, Perfect PhotoSuite, Photography
New version of all-in-one software suite offers photographers the easiest way to develop stunning black and white photography, more ways to create images with impact, improved portrait retouching, layered file workflow, image resizing tools and more
Portland, OR – September 5, 2012 – onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative, time-saving solutions for professional, advanced amateur and hobbyist photographers, today announced Perfect Photo Suite 7 for Adobe® Lightroom®, Photoshop®, Apple® Aperture® and as a standalone application. Improved to give photographers even more ways to maximize their creativity and solve common problems in digital photography, Perfect Photo Suite 7 now offers new easy-to-use, yet powerful tools to develop stunning black and white images, enhance, stylize and correct images, retouch portraits and prepare all images, including mobile snapshots, for enlargement and print. Perfect Photo Suite 7 includes the brand new module Perfect B&W, Perfect Effects 4, Perfect Portrait 2, Perfect Layers 3 and Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro–powered by Genuine Fractals technology, Perfect Mask 5.2 and FocalPoint 2.
Improved workflow integration and a significantly redesigned user interface allow photographers to focus on their image editing while working seamlessly within their preferred workflow. Users can select their image from Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or Aperture, send it directly to the Perfect Photo Suite 7 module of their choice, make adjustments, then immediately return it to their original photo editing or organization application.
The new modules in Perfect Photo Suite 7 also include the new Perfect Brush giving users the ability achieve precise edge-detected masking quickly. It smoothly applies or removes adjustments to the specific areas being worked on without crossing over the edges around it. A redesigned browser with Search functionality and a Favorites panel allow users easy access to the specific effects and presets they're looking for. Photographic effects, designed by industry experts specifically for onOne Software, are also easily accessible alongside manual controls to give photographers the option to create professional looking images with one click or fine-tune adjustments to create the specific look they desire.
"We are very excited about Perfect Photo Suite 7," said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. "It is the result of what our customers have been asking for so they could work more quickly and easily, yet still create high quality images. The addition of Perfect B&W and the improvements to Perfect Effects, Perfect Portrait, Perfect Layers and Perfect Resize now give photographers even more creative options and trusted results."
Perfect Photo Suite 7 includes full versions of the following onOne Software products:
Perfect B&W (New!): Perfect B&W is the completely brand new module that helps photographers develop stunning black and white images quickly and easily.. It includes powerful and intuitive tools that add dramatic, elegant, and classic black and white looks to images instantly and offer users complete creative control to reproduce time-honored black and white processing techniques.
Perfect Effects 4 (New!): Perfect Effects 4 extends the creative power offered by the popular PhotoTools and provides even more ways to create images with impact. Perfect Effects 4 delivers an extended library of photographic effects, frames and edges, and presets designed by industry experts, via a flexible new browser with keyword search functionality and Favorites selection. New blending modes and paint-in brush effects offer even more creative options for how effects are combined and applied.
Perfect Portrait 2 (New!): Perfect Portrait 2 offers simply power portrait retouching, now improved with more accurate automated feature detection and enhancement tools to smooth skin, remove blemishes, brighten eyes and teeth, and correct skin color. Faster processing speeds also allow photographers to retouch images more quickly for simply stunning portraits.
Perfect Layers 3 (New!): Perfect Layers 3 gives photographers the ability to combine images and extend their image editing options in a layered file workflow without Photoshop. Create and edit multi-layered files with Perfect Layers directly from Lightroom, Aperture or as a standalone application. Included are new blending modes, textures, borders, PNG file support, and the powerful new edge-detecting Perfect Brush.
Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro (New!): Perfect Resize is the industry standard for image enlargement. It is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size well over 1000% without the loss of sharpness or detail that is normally expected. Now, proven Genuine Fractals technology has been applied to new algorithms that optimize the clarity and detail of different image types, including mobile snapshots.
Perfect Mask 5.2 (Improved!): Create high quality masks quickly and easily with automated functionality and powerful tools that make selecting subjects and isolating backgrounds for removal extraordinarily accurate. Redesigned user interface allows you to focus on your image editing while keeping your most used tools readily accessible.
FocalPoint 2: FocalPoint 2 allows photographers to put the focus where they want after the shot. It's the best way to add the most realistic depth of field and selective focus control to any image after it is photographed. Choose from a selection of lens presets to produce specific bokeh or adjust the amount and kind of blur you want.
To learn more about what's new in Perfect Photo Suite 7, daily videos offering sneak peeks of the new software are being posted prior to its ship date. The videos may be viewed on the onOne Software Coffee Talk series at http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/suite7/coffeetalk.
Availability and Pricing
The new Perfect Photo Suite 7 will ship in late October 2012. Pre-orders are available immediately and will include a complimentary Perfect Photo Suite 7 Creative Companion DVD with purchase through September 20, 2012. The Creative Companion DVD includes training and inspirational videos, Photoshop templates from Graphic Authority and unique presets for the suite ($140 value). Owners of Perfect Photo Suite 6, Perfect Photo Suite 5, and Plug-In Suite 5 or earlier can upgrade to Perfect Photo Suite 7 for $149.95. Perfect Photo Suite 7 is available to new users for $299.95. Pre-orders may be made at http://www.ononesoftware.com/store. For more information on Perfect Photo Suite 7, please visit http://www.ononesoftware.com.
For those who have purchased Perfect Photo Suite 6 on or after August 1, 2012, onOne Software will issue a complimentary upgrade to Perfect Photo Suite 7 via download when it is available in late October 2012.
About onOne Software
onOne Software®, Inc., a leading developer of innovative software tools for photographers, develops time-saving software solutions for professional and advanced amateur photographers. onOne Software solutions have been created to help photographers spend more of their time behind the camera taking pictures instead of the computer workstation. Such solutions include a wide range of easy-to-use standalone applications and plug-in enhancements for Adobe® Photoshop®, Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom®, Apple® Aperture®, and iPhone® and iPad® applications. Founded in 2005, onOne Software is a privately held company located in Portland, Oregon. For additional information, visit http://www.ononesoftware.com or call 1-888-968-1468.
©2012 onOne Software, Inc. All rights reserved. onOne Software, the onOne Software logo and Focused on Photography are registered trademarks in the United States, and are the property of onOne Software. Perfect Photo, Perfect B&W, Perfect Portrait, Perfect Layers, Perfect Effects, Perfect Mask, Perfect Resize, FocalPoint and Genuine Fractals are trademarks of onOne Software. Adobe, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Lightroom are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. Apple and Aperture are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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Michael Dell didn't receive any equity awards or bonuses in the 2010 fiscal year
Steve Jobs
In 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs refused to receive new stocks, option awards, bonuses or perks except for his customary $1 salary. He holds about 5.5 million shares of Apple's stock and has never sold a share since rejoining Apple in 1997. According to the company's proxy statement, his total compensation is only $1 per year.
It is believed that Mr. Jobs's level of stock ownership significantly aligns his interests with shareholders' interests
Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt received a pay package worth $313,219, up 28% from $245,322 in 2009, in his final full year as Google CEO including customary $1 salary, $311,433 in perks, a $1,785 cash bonus and other compensation. Google, meanwhile, reported $29.3 billion in revenue, up from $23.7 billion in 2009.
Eric Schmidt also awarded a $100 million stock package
Steve Ballmer
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in 2010 received a pay package of $670,000 salary, $670,000 cash bonus, as well as $11,121 in perks and other compensation, increased 6% to $1.4 million from $1.3 million in 2009. His company's revenue hit $62.5 billion, up 7% from $58.4 billion in 2009 in the 2010 fiscal year that ended on June 30.
Ballmer didn't receive any new equity awards in 2010
Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis
The two co-CEOs of Research in Motion, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, received identical pay packages including a $1.1 million salary; $987,931 performance-based cash bonus; stock awards valued at $2.5 million; $9,443 for retirement pension savings as well as $9,893 in perks and other compensation.
While RIM's CEO pay packages declined slightly, the BlackBerry maker achieved revenue and income increases of 35% and 30%, respectively, in its fiscal year ended on Feb. 27, 2010
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison's 2010 pay package included a $250,001 salary, option awards valued at $61.9 million (down from $78.4 million in 2009), a $6.5 million performance-based cash bonus as well as $1.5 million in perks and other compensation. His company grew revenue 15% from $23.3 billion in 2009 to $26.8 billion in 2010 in its fiscal year ended May 31.
Larry Ellison often ranks among the highest-paid tech CEOs
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For those pyramid enthusiasts that would like to follow the excavation *there are great pics on this site*
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Posted 09 May 2006 - 02:29 PM
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Posted 09 May 2006 - 04:58 PM
im going to visit it if posible, becouse im from croatia and bosnia is nex to it. and i have some family there.
like to know more before i go there. thanks
Posted 09 May 2006 - 05:05 PM
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Posted 10 May 2006 - 09:59 AM
Adramelech, if you cant find what your looking for in the links i've provided then try this one Bosnian Pyramids Wikipedia and do let us know of your trip
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Posted 11 May 2006 - 07:37 PM
When I had first read about this particular discovery, I had honestly wondered how it had stood there for so long with no one knowing about it. WEll, now that I've been doing some reading, I kinda understand....time and nature ended up making it look like a hill and until the archeologists rediscovered it, all that remained of the knowledge about it was legends in a region often overlooked by scholars unless it has to do with the undead.
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Posted 11 May 2006 - 07:51 PM
Seems to me after doing a bit more reading that the man in charge is noted for not being the most professional nature. First off, he claims that the Bosnian Pyramid was built after the Mexican and South American ones....by the same people...and while there is always the possibility of evidence down the road indicating something along those lines, frankly I think it's a bit out there.
And with his dating of the structures to 12,000 years ago....well.....
Boston University's Curtis Runnels, an expert in prehistoric Greece and the Balkans states that, "Between 27,000 and 12,000 years ago, the Balkans were locked in the last Glacial maximum, a period of very cold and dry climate with glaciers in some of the mountain ranges. The only occupants were Upper Paleolithic hunters and gatherers who left behind open-air camp sites and traces of occupation in caves. These remains consist of simple stone tools, hearths, and remains of animals and plants that were consumed for food. These people did not have the tools or skills to engage in the construction of monumental architecture."
From my point of view, while there is indeed a series of pyramid structures there, buddy went in with pre-conceived notions and is fitting square pegs into round holes. I would sincerely hope that someone with real credientials takes over before he damages the site beyond all hope of real research.
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Posted 11 May 2006 - 08:33 PM
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Posted 11 May 2006 - 08:40 PM
I'm really shuddering now, this guy is NOT a professional, trained archeologist, and it certaintly looks as if genuine sites are about to be lost forever, which makes my soul shudder with horror. Eastern Europe has a rich and rarely published history, why on earth do we need these bizarre and unfounded theories to muddy the waters and why is the Bosnian government allowing the verifiable history of their nation be swept over/aside/destroyed?
Oh, and I didn't sign the petition linked in the article, as I really don't agree with the other things they were protesting.
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Posted 11 May 2006 - 08:52 PM
I also didnt realize all the other causes that were listed in the petition till after I posted this...didnt sign it either.
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Posted 11 May 2006 - 09:19 PM
But yea, I fully agree, there are still spots in this world it seems where they'll let anyone dig, and that's just wrong. Archeology is a science and an art, and it's painstaking, long hard dirty work with little to no real reward in the material sense. The important thing is that it reveals to us our real history, through even the tiniest of artifacts. And to this day I wish I had gone to school for that. I might actually do it one day......
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Posted 11 May 2006 - 11:23 PM
*grabs spoon and passport* anyone wanna go to Egypt with me
I love your sense of humor. You should know with all of the studying that you've done of Egypt and archeology that you need more than just a spoon. You need a brush too
As for Bosnia, I'm tired, but let me see if I can make this post make sense.
Why would they let some unknown, or untrained person do the digging? Although I don't know the person personally, I do know a fair bit about that area. Bosnia is run by the mob. It's not a case of "who is most qualified", it's a case of "who do you know", and "how much money do you have?". It's also a case of, "who can the government control?" If they were to let one of the world's leading archeologists do the dig, they wouldn't be able to control him/her, or what they tell the media.
Why haven't they been discovered before now? They may have been, but Yugoslavia was run by the communists after WWll, with a socialist government put in place to control the area. Technology wasn't what it is today, and it was probably pretty hard to get granted a work visa to go into there and dig for artifacts. Add to that the fact that Tito had many tunnels dug throughout a lot of the hills and mountains, and I'm sure that he wouldn't want somebody to "stumble" across something that they shouldn't.
Up to modern time... why nothing was done until recently. Umm, the main reason that I can think of is the war. There's not a lot of archeologists willing to go and dig up the countryside in the middle of a war. Add to that the fact that the warring nation would not want people who were from outside agencies coming to their country to dig (the word "spy" comes to mind). Imagine an archeological team trying to uncover something in Iraq as the troops were storming across the land. Oh, and of course the area is riddled with minefields that aren't marked nor mapped. While I was serving there, we were trained that you don't step off of the pavement onto the grass, or you could lose your life. It took months after coming home before a lot of people could even walk on the grass while going for strolls, and even something that we take for granted like mowing the lawn, was a chore, because you had to walk on the grass to do it.
The area is quite mountainous and hilly, and the roads are not the best. Travel is a challenge at the best of times, so how do you pick out the right hill? You need permission from the Govt, (along with some money), you need technology to point you in the right direction, you need to make sure that the area is safe, and you need to keep the locals happy.
Do you know that if you happen to kill a chicken or a goat while there, that you are financially responsible for not only that animal, but for the generations of animals that it would have given birth to?
The country has a bad reputation from the war and the atrocities that happened. They are trying to recover, so the fact that they have some historical sites is positive media, and can help them on the road to looking more "globally involved" It doesn't matter if they have the best archeologist in the world, or somebody whose only experience digging is scooping the litter box every day.
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