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The toll of injured people has doubled after initial reports said that 40 people had been hurt by Sunday night's stampede at Riviera hotspot Juan-les-Pins.
That figure was revised to between 70 and 80, according to varying reports in the French media on Tuesday, with hospital patients ranging from people who had been trampled to people injured by broken glasses from overturned tables.
"My first reaction was just to think about what happened in Nice on July 14th," one witness told BFM TV, referring to the evening when a man ploughed a truck into a crowd of Bastille Day revellers, killing 85.
"But then you don't even think, it's just acting on reflex."
Exactly what prompted the stampede remains unknown, although many witnesses reported that a loud cracking sound resembled gunfire.
Local media reported that someone had thrown firecrackers from a car, although this is yet to be confirmed.
Police were examining CCTV footage and talking to witnesses to determine the exact cause of the incident, although they have ruled out that it was any kind of attack.
However, the local mayor is filing a police complaint suspecting malicious behaviour, reported BFM TV.
However, some kind of noise is understood to have set people in a state of panic, with video footage showing people overturning tables and chairs on the terraces of cafes and restaurants near the beach and people screaming in the stampede.
The incident came amid heightened tension in France after a string of attacks claimed by the Islamic State group, including the July 14th massacre.
A state of emergency was declared in France after November's Isis attacks in Paris which left 130 people dead.
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Rackspace Hosting, Inc., has revealed its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. It appears that total dedicated server count of the hosting provider increased to 101,967, up from 98,884 servers at the end of the previous quarter.
Hosting Journalist thinks that's quite an impressive amount of dedicated servers all together. As Rackspace presents itself as 'the open cloud company', we're also wondering how many instances they have deployed to date.
Net revenue for Rackspace's third quarter of 2013 was $389 million, up 3.4% from the previous quarter and 16% from the third quarter of 2012. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $125 million, a 1.9% increase compared to the second quarter of 2013 and a 3% increase compared to the third quarter of 2012. On a worldwide basis, Rackspace employed 5,450 Rackers as of September 30, 2013, up from 5,272 in the previous quarter.
Seems that Rackspace's steady growth pattern has a downside in terms of net profit development. Net income was $16 million for the quarter, down 27.1% from the previous quarter and 40% from the third quarter of 2012. Net income margin for the quarter was 4.2% compared to 6.0% for the previous quarter and 8.1% in the third quarter of 2012.


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NFL Orders Teams To Hire Minority Or Female Offensive Assistant Coaches For 2022 Season
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The NFL will require every team to hire a minority or female offensive assistant coach for the 2022 season in an effort to ensure more opportunities for diverse candidates.
The policy was adopted by NFL owners during their annual meeting on March 28 and requires all 32 NFL teams to hire an offensive assistant coach who is "a female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority," regardless of whether or not the team already has a coach who satisfies those requirements among their staff.
It is unclear exactly when the policy goes into effect.
According to the NFL, the individual hired will "receive a one-year contract and work closely with the head coach and offensive staff to gain experience."
Teams will receive funding toward the coach's salary for up to two years from a league-wide fund.
"In recent years, head coaches have predominantly had offensive backgrounds. We believe this resolution will assist greatly in continuing to source and identify diverse candidates earlier in their career, providing pipeline depth and furthering developing the diverse offensive pipeline," the updated NFL policy reads.
The policy adopted Monday is an adjustment to the Rooney Rule adopted by the National Football League in 2003 which requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation vacancies.
That rule was adopted based on recommendations by the league's Workplace Diversity Committee in an attempt to "develop a deep, sustainable talent pool at all levels of the organization" and "increase the number of minorities hired in head coach, general manager, and executive positions," according to the NFL.
The Rooney Rule has regularly been updated and expanded since it went into effect.
However, there were just five minority head coaches in the NFL last season: Ron Rivera, Mike Tomlin, Brian Flores, David Culler, and Robert Saleh.
Over 60 percent of the NFL players in 2021 identified as non-white, according to Market Watch, citing data from Statista.
In February, former Dolphins coach Brian Flores filed a lawsuit in federal court against the NFL and three football teams accusing them of discrimination after he was fired as head coach at the end of the season.
"However, well-intentioned or not, what is clear is that the Rooney Rule is not working," Flores said in a legal complaint.
Elsewhere on Monday, the NFL announced a number of other policy changes, which included ownership diversity, to encourage and attract a diverse range of prospective ownership groups.
"Accordingly, when evaluating a prospective ownership group of a member club pursuant to League policies, the membership will regard it as a positive and meaningful factor if the group includes diverse individuals who would have a significant equity stake in and involvement with the club, including serving as the controlling owner of the club," the policy reads.
Officials also announced a Diversity Advisory Committee which is being set up to examine how diverse hiring practices are among the league and its teams.
Outside experts on the committee include former Houston Texans general manager Rick Smith and former New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey, as well as Pamela Carlton, the founder and president of Springboard, ESPN reported.


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If you've never had an Old Cuban, it is very much like a Mojito. The main difference is the use of a dark rum instead of white, and the addition of some sparkling wine. It's still full of minty goodness and feels kind of like a celebratory version of a mojito. Perfect for Spring!
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- ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
- 6 mint leaves
- 1 ounce simple syrup
- 1½ ounces dark rum
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- 2 ounces sparkling wine
- ice for shaking
- Add the lime juice, mint leaves, and simple syrup to a cocktail shaker and muddle until the mint leaves are bruised. Add the rum, bitters, and ice and shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass and top off with the sparkling wine. Garnish with additional mint leaves or lime if desired.
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The nursing program is back after a one-year hiatus. Under the new direction of Carla Christensen, the program offers students a chance to hone their lab skills and intern at hospitals.
"It was pretty much always planned to come back," said Christensen.
According Christensen, the program was put on hold because the then director had just retired and by the time Christensen accepted her predecessors position, it was too late to accept students.
"Some people were surprised and disappointed that we closed," said Christensen. "And some people don't know it was only for the one year."
Christensen has kept the core values of the nursing program, such as learning to work with new technologies and caring for individuals with all manner of ailments, but has brought some new ideas to the table.
"Some of the new things was to get approval from the Board of Vocational Nursing and to get approval from the chancellors office so that students will take one less course in the fall and the spring," said Christensen.
Christensen's goal is for students to have fewer classes to study for at one particular time. That doesn't mean she doesn't expect the students in the Licensed Vocational Nursing (LVN) and Registered Nursing (RN) program to work less.
Students are expected to take a variety of classes, such a psychology, and complete a required number of lab hours.
"We work very hard in our vocational nursing program," said Christensen.
And for the first time in the program's history, students applying to the RN program are guaranteed acceptance.
"The RN program will let them get started even if they don't have their licenses yet," said Christensen.
Christensen has also expanded the nursing program outside of PCC. She has recently landed a contract for nursing students to work at the VA Center in Los Angeles.
"Now, starting in the spring, we will be able to take our students there," said Christensen.
Students also spend 72 hours going over to Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center and caring for the patients there under the direction of a supervisor.
According to Christensen, the nursing program at PCC is one of the best and doesn't require its students to shell out thousands of dollars.
"It has just been really important to me to offer the community a much more affordable cost for a high quality education," said Christensen.
The nursing department will be hosting two informational meetings in February for students who are interested in the application process.
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Saying no–the right way–may be the most powerful skill a CIO can learn. A smart "no" can set boundaries and enhance your leadership position. A stupid "no" can diminish your authority and make enemies.
How a CIO gets to no depends on the context, of course. Telling the CEO he can't connect his iPad to the corporate network is different from letting down an employee keen to be promoted.
Despite the old saw that IT has to stop being the Department of No, reasons to say no abound: a strict bring-your-own-device policy means some devices won't be supported. A new piece of technology won't conform to internal standards. A proposal makes no sense. A proposal makes sense, but there's already too much work and not enough money. The CEO doesn't like it. A request doesn't support corporate goals. A big idea is too much for a risk-averse culture.
Few decisions are black-and-white. But now, as the CIO role shifts into new areas such as revenue generation, turf lines are less clear. CIOs don't want to step on toes, but they also have to offer a clear position on strategic issues. "It takes finesse to look like a firm decision maker," says Bill Deam, a former CIO at Quintiles Transnational and ACNielsen. He was a management consultant at the time he was interviewed and is now CTO of Mapi Group. "You have massive amounts of politics."
Rudy Puryear, who leads the global IT consulting practice at Bain and Co., knows of a financial services company where the CIO was asked to leave after three years of consistent negative responses.
"Too many decisions came back with a 'no' from IT, without well-thought-out reasons," Puryear says. "Hard feelings and disappointment led the business community to press the CEO for a change in leadership in IT, and it was too much of a groundswell to ignore."
An artful "no" is plainly difficult to master. Cleaning up after a predecessor's bad attempts is especially difficult. But veteran CIOs find that by using tools such as skillful conversation, deep governance and sense-and-respond intelligence, denial doesn't have to kill a career.
When 'No' Hurts
Declining what seems to be a quick, simple technology request, such as to build a new analytics tool for the marketing staff, may not be the power play others suspect. CIOs know that new technology carries a 10-year ripple effect of maintenance and improvement costs. It's a CIO's job, Puryear says, to explain that. CIOs have long struggled to avoid infamy for leading an IT group that too often comes up with reasons to not do something.
A reputation for denying requests and dismissing ideas isolates you and your staff from peers and can take you out of key strategy discussions. Shadow IT, we know, is a response to disliking the CIO's answers.
But even worse is when IT is seen as an obstacle to growth, says Tom Phillips, CIO at Elavon, a payment processing company owned by the $20.3 billion U.S. Bancorp.
IT may point to sound reasons for delaying or declining, say, a marketing or sales project. Perhaps staff and money are assigned elsewhere. But that doesn't mean marketing or sales will take it well. "When we say no, it can either directly–or in the eyes of business executives–mean we are inhibiting business performance," Phillips says. "It becomes quite an emotive topic."
CIOs get a lot of heat, but it helps to remain open-minded, he says. If a proposal to use a certain technology must be rejected, acknowledge that there's value in the concept and offer an alternative, he advises. "It's your responsibility to listen to new ideas, even if you do have to say no."
Finding oneself frequently declining requests signals a misalignment between IT and business, according to Deam. A CIO with an effective intelligence operation should pick up on budding frustrations outside IT. Key to good intelligence gathering are business analysts embedded in functional departments, such as finance and human resources, as well as in business units. These IT staff members should know exactly how the company makes money and be able to offer suggestions for streamlining the flow of vital work, he says.
Fix those trouble spots, and rarely will you need to issue a big, fat, political "no," Deam says. "There's no way you should have someone running in with a sudden $30 million request."
Who's the Decider?
Many CIOs are stretching into untraditional areas, including creating new information-based products and services. As lines blur between functional domains, just who has authority over which decisions gets murky. When IT tries to go too far in defining business needs, or business goes too far into making a technology call, problems arise.
A key exercise for the C-suite is to identify the 10 most important decisions the company will make this year and name who will make each call, Puryear says. Many people may influence the discussion, but where does the buck stop?
Delineating those responsibilities and rights leads to more effective decision makers. The company can move faster because people accept the outcome and move on, he says.
Helen Cousins, Lincoln Trust's CIO and a member of its board of directors, advocates a strong hierarchy. If, after being fully informed of the facts and risks in a given situation, the CEO or peer makes a choice that Cousins disagrees with, she goes with it. "It's my responsibility to support the decision 100 percent, and to get my staff to support it. I can't show to the outside world I don't agree," she says. As long as they're not unethical, she says, "you rally behind decisions made in a company."
For several years, Lincoln Trust sanctioned only BlackBerry devices on the corporate network. But when the CEO and head of marketing and sales wanted to use their iPhones for work, Cousins made it happen.
"Now BlackBerry has lost tons of business and iPhones and iPads are the thing," she says. If IT had not figured out how to make Apple devices safe for corporate use back when iPhones were the exception, Cousins says, "we'd be behind the curve now."
Ever logical, CIOs will often insist that if they provide a colleague with all the right facts, he will come to the same conclusion they did. Dispassionate analysis will win the day. Well, not always. It's then you need to understand the nuances of the situation, says Becky Blalock, who spent nine years as CIO of Southern Co., a $16.5 billion utility, before her retirement in 2011. Perhaps there's history or personal bias in play. Or maybe it's plain old whim.
Discuss controversial topics in person, not over email, says Blalock, who is now managing partner at Advisory Capital, a consulting company. People are more rational when they sit down together. "With some executives I've seen, [decisions] are about control and their being right," she says. "Make it so someone's not losing face when you say no."
CIOs sometimes have to do unpopular things, such as shutting down technology that doesn't meet corporate standards, denying requests for upgrades or ending a perk where the company pays for home computers. One of the most memorable for Blalock was having to strengthen password criteria. Many workers complained. "Whoo-ee! Those things do not make employees happy."
Use the Force
CIOs need to do a good bit of foundational work with peers to form trust and build personal and professional credibility for the inevitable day when "no" must be the answer. So when presented with requests along the way, you don't want to turn them all into simplistic yes-or-no transactions, says Jackie Sloane, an executive coach at Sloane Communications. Rather, use these opportunities to have a conversation about priorities and goals.
Perhaps the request is too costly or doesn't support the company's established goals. Don't answer right away, Sloane advises, but ask your own questions to learn why the request emerged. What's the real problem? Why does the person think IT can help? What are the alternatives? In other words, talk about it. Then, she says, position your response the same way a marketer positions a consumer product. "You say, 'Based on what I know matters to you, my suggestion is this is not something you want to do,'" she advises. "People love it when you know what matters to them."
When iPhones first came out, many employees at Southern Co. wanted to use them for work. At the time, Southern paid for employee phones, but iPhones were not on the list of authorized devices, Blalock says. The IT group had to decline these requests. But Blalock cautioned her team to use a positive approach. "We used 'Help me understand' rather than 'No, you can't do this.'"
In such conversations, CIOs will also reveal information about themselves: their style, thought process and leadership philosophy. By doing this over time, Sloane says, CIOs can build a personal force field so others understand their expertise and value their decisions. New CIOs, in particular, tend to want to approve or decline a request immediately, even when there's no need to do that, she says. "Successful people make a lot of requests, so you need to make a lot of requests, too." Being reactionary, she says, "is a legacy from a lower-level role."
A defining moment for Blalock in building her own force field occurred some years ago. She faced what she calls a "corporate bully" situation that she took up the disciplinary chain. She declines to reveal details but says the incident, while painful, reinforced her belief that you must teach people how to treat you. "They won't mess with you if they know you have your facts straight and you have the company's best interest at heart," she says. "You need to correct people who don't know those two things."
Governance Machine
While trying to eliminate a negative atmosphere, CIOs can build the foundation for a positive one, where significant decisions travel through a strong, clear governance process. As CIO of Amgen, Diana McKenzie knew she wanted to tackle demand governance. She wanted to elevate IT decisions from a project-by-project basis, where there are too many opportunities for conflict, and instead encourage discussions of a portfolio of work related to specific corporate goals. But to get there, she realized, IT had to understand much more about operations at the $16.6 billion biotechnology company.
In 2012, she started a mapping project, asking business executives to show IT's business analysts on a map how their unit or department works. They then rated, on a maturity scale of one to five, the strategic importance of each unit's key capabilities and how each one was functioning. This gave IT a working knowledge of each area, provided and endorsed by business peers.
Making the maps took a year, but now interactions concerning technology requests have matured from yes-or-no replies to conversations about where the request fits on the map and how important it is to the company as a whole.
In September, the maps, which were once viewed as an IT tool exclusively, were used in a workshop by the CEO, CFO, business unit leaders and other top executives to define Amgen's long-range improvement initiatives, she says. Such clear governance means she doesn't worry about saying yes or no anymore. "If a project comes forward from a business partner, we can then ask where it fits on the map."
The two years of effort have changed the dialogue for the better, she says. In 2013, for example, one strategic corporate goal was to improve quality and operational efficiency, and IT finished a complex big-data project to detect early signs of manufacturing irregularities. In 2012, one business goal was to expand in emerging markets, which for IT meant supply-chain work and provisioning offices in China.
Using the machinery of governance helps a CIO skirt denials, refusals and other unpleasantries, says Deam, the consultant. He recalls a time at a previous employer when one group asked IT for an expensive new system to house a complex project bidding system. The existing set of spreadsheets had become slow and sometimes unresponsive. "It was a beast. Un-emailable," he says. "People would cut it down in pieces to email and try to bolt it back together again."
Rather than throw more technology at the problem, Deam urged the group find a way to simplify the process and the resulting data behind the bidding system. The group resisted. "We took it to the governance committee. They said, 'Bill suggested you cut it in half. Why not do that?'"
The essence of the reply from the executive in question was that no one in his group could agree how to do it, he says. To which the committee responded that he was in charge of those very people and should, therefore, take charge of the situation.
"We could have done the solution they were asking for," Deam says, "but simplicity is what they actually sought." The magic in good governance is forcing people to make decisions where accountability lies.
To help eliminate the politics that can gum up any governing body, the company would rotate senior executives in and out of committee meetings so it was rare that anyone would be arguing the case for a proposal for their own domain, Deam says. A member attending a given meeting would advocate for whichever idea looked best, regardless of where it originated. The committee published a map each month showing why it picked the one or two projects it did. "The CIO is no longer having to explain him- or herself; the organization has made the choice," he says. "If you want to change what comes out of the hopper, make a better case."
When 'No' Pays Off
It's important for CIOs to teach staff how to say no so that all the good work done at the top isn't negated by unfortunate exchanges below. McKenzie, for example, wants her staff to understand the reasoning behind major decisions–as well as the business background and value of the request.
"If you don't understand the business well enough, you might answer the question wrong," she explains. Whatever happens, she says, "Don't leave the impression that IT isn't going to do something because it's hard."
Bill McCorey, CIO of Universal Parks and Resorts, says he wouldn't be where he is today without a well-contemplated "no," the effects of which reverberated for several years. In 2005, as CIO of now-defunct Circuit City, McCorey put out an RFP for enterprise storage systems. EMC had won the last couple of bids, but McCorey knew he wanted to diversify vendors to keep a competitive landscape. He asked to meet with EMC's area manager.
"I brought him in and explained the situation, straight up so not to waste his time or set expectations that could not be met. He was disappointed but understood," he recalls.
Five years later, when McCorey was at IBM, he got a call from the EMC manager, who had recommended him for the newly available CIO role at Universal. Although the two hadn't spoken for a few years, McCorey says his former vendor referred him because of the way he had told him he would lose the bid: direct, honest and with facts. "This reminds me of how our reputation is built based on all of our actions," McCorey says.
Sloane, the executive coach, agrees. "Having the courage to say no is important," she says. "People will wonder who you really are if you're always saying yes to everything."
Delivering Bad News to Your IT Staff
Saying no to your staff produces a ripple effect much different from that of saying no to peers. A CIO must avoid demoralizing a staff member who won't receive a desired promotion or can't be given a raise.
In such serious conversations, CIOs should be authentic about the reasons for the decision, says Jackie Sloane, an executive coach at Sloane Communications. Reveal what you can about the tight budget that doesn't allow for a raise, Sloane says.
If someone isn't ready for a promotion, use the meeting to outline clearly the actions he can take to earn one, she says, and in what time frame. The idea is to say no, but offer suggestions or options. "When you lay down the line with people, it can be amazing what you see," she says.
Especially with staff issues, avoiding the "no" just brings trouble, says Becky Blalock, former CIO of Southern Co., and author of Dare: Straight Talk on Confidence, Courage and Career for Women in Charge, in which she tells the stories of 28 women in C-level positions. A common mistake they cited was not firing someone soon enough, she says.
These managers knew the person wasn't performing and had tried to bring him up to speed, but could see it wasn't working, she says.
"If he's not competent, he drags the team down." Still, the managers were reluctant to deliver the ultimate bad news. Looking back, Blalock sees that she also made the same mistake during her career as a CIO. "It's very difficult to say, 'No, you're not doing the job,'" she says, "but those things are easier to see in hindsight."
Kim Nash is managing editor of CIO Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @knash99.
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This is a mock UI for a fantasy RPG style game on the iPhone 5. My goal for this exercise was to give a convenient way for the player to buy large quantities of supplies with various item choices using the touch controls. The solution I came up with was to touch on the left red squares to make a slider pop out and then drag it left and right to increase the quantity. The player can also easily scroll through the item list by dragging up and down, and the slider on the right shows the list position. After…
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Sci-Fi ARPG UI
I created a science fiction user interface for an ARPG style game. My focus for this one was applying the detailing and shading that I experimented with while recreating the Starcraft 2 and League of Legends UI.
UI exercise
I've done an experiment to analyze AAA UIs and how they were made by recreating them from scratch in Photoshop. Most of the techniques used were shapes and layer effects, then a bit of painting and texturing over top. I don't know for sure if the original user interfaces were built the same way, but this was quite a rewarding exercise anyways as it has pushed me to think of UI a bit differently and the challenge really unlocked some new abilities for me.
Rocket Defense
I added a page for a game called Rocket Defense in the portfolio section. The page highlights many UI concepts, 2D vector art with animations and descriptions of my goals and process for the concepts. The game was slated for release on the iPad in a collaboration with Dark Acre. As a first time developing for iPad, it was an interesting experience working with such different controls and designing a UI that fits it best. Please check out the page and have a look!
Tris Sponsored
Tris has been completed and sponsored by Tech Rocket and is now online across various websites. You can now play the game at Newgrounds or Kongregate (requires flash).
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Lately I had the pleasure to work at Slant Six Games on Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City in a Design Support position. It was my fist venture in a AAA environment so it was quite an interesting and exciting experience for me. In my role, I worked closely with the lead designers and scripters to create level content for the game. My work included pickup placement and balancing in multiplayer, cover volume placement, intel collectable placement in campaign levels, scripting in multiplayer, and testing and giving feedback to the scripters and designers. One challenge was to balance multiplayer levels to…
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Tris is a forever-runner flash game created in collaboration with Nick Yonge. In Tris you control a shape changing "Tri" that can be pulled to become fast and streamlined or squished to expand like a parachute and slow down. You have to use this ability to survive and gain more points as you're flying though a randomly generated world. My largest contribution to the project was creating the random block generator that can range from being difficult to easy while keeping a constant path for the player. My process was first creating a static one to see how complicated it…
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Since graduation, I wanted to explore deeper into UDK, so I created Mystic Ravine, a new UDK level that is my own take on Myst style adventure games. My goal was to learn more about UDK's other features such as Cascade, Post Process Chains and Material editing. The level features two puzzles and changes from night to day when you venture through a cave.
I graduated with honours few days ago and now it's time to switch from a student to an actual game designer. We had a graduation award ceremony and my game design document, Time Switch, received an award for Best Game Design Document. Some other highlights are, Unseen Island being nominated for Best Level and a cut scene concept of mine getting nominated for Best Machinima.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Lufthansa will have shed 29,000 staff by the end of the year and the German airline will cut another 10,000 jobs in its home country next year as it struggles to cope with the coronavirus, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The airline and its subsidiaries, Eurowings, Swiss, Austrian and Brussels Airlines, have slashed their schedules, fleet and staff, with air travel not expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels before 2025.
Citing unnamed company sources, the Bild am Sonntag newspaper said that Lufthansa would cut 20,000 jobs outside of Germany, while it is also selling its catering unit LSG, which employs 7,500 people, bringing the total staff down to 109,000.
Next year, a further 10,000 jobs will be cut in Germany. It has already burned through 3 billion euros ($3.64 billion) of the 9-billion-euro government bailout it secured earlier in the year, the paper said.
Lufthansa has 27,000 too many full-time equivalent staff, Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said last month, even as the airline promised unions not to make forced redundancies in return for cuts to bonuses and other payments.
A deal to cut costs and save jobs at Lufthansa has won the support of a majority of the Verdi trade union members who work for the German airline as ground staff, according to the results of a ballot seen by Reuters on Friday.
A formal announcement is expected on Monday.
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Get into the festive spirit by making these crunchy, ginger-spiced snowflake biscuits, filled with Bonne Maman's heavenly fruit conserves – we used Strawberry, Raspberry, Apricot, Mirabelle Plum, Blackcurrant and Fig – and beautifully decorated them with icing.
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- Place the butter in a large bowl. In a saucepan, stir together the sugar, syrup, spices and ginger and bring to the boil. Add the bicarbonate of soda (it will puff up) and pour the hot mixture over the butter. Stir until the butter has melted.
- Beat in the egg and slowly blend in the flour. It will look as though there is too much flour but it will blend in. Knead the dough in the bowl until smooth then wrap in clingfilm.
- Using a quarter of the dough at a time roll the dough out between two sheets of baking parchment, to about 3mm thickness. Use a variety of Christmas cutters to stamp out about 24 biscuits of varying sizes. Remember you will need two of each size, to sandwich together. Re-knead and re-roll the trimmings.
- Lay the biscuits out on baking sheets, lined with baking parchment. Stamp out the centre from half the biscuits to create the space for the conserve. Chill the biscuits for a good hour before baking.
- Heat the oven to 170°C, 150°C fan, gas 3. Bake the biscuits in batches until golden and crisp. They will take between 7 and 10 mins, depending on size. Cool on a wire rack.
- While the biscuits are cooling, roll out the fondant icing on a surface dusted lightly with icing sugar and stamp out 3 or 4 snowflakes, using the same cutters. Stamp out the centres, using the same round cutters. Brush the top biscuits with a little conserve and lightly press on the matching icing.
- Brush all the base biscuits lightly with conserve and press on the top biscuits. You should now have about 12 snowflake biscuit sandwiches of various sizes, some iced with fondant and some plain.
- Put the Royal icing sugar in a bowl with 20ml of cold water. Gradually beat the icing until it forms a stiff but pipeable paste. Spoon into a piping bag with a small nozzle and pipe or drizzle icing across most of the biscuits to resemble snowflakes. Leave the icing to set for 10 minutes. Fill the biscuit centres with various flavours and colours of Bonne Maman conserve. Store the biscuits in airtight containers until ready to use.
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In the bankruptcy context, the concept of ESI is relatively new, and not much has been written about it until recently when an ABA Task Force on Electronic Discovery (ESI) Issues in Bankruptcy Cases published its Best Practices Report in the August 2013 Issue of The Business Lawyer. Application of the general principles governing preservation and ESI in the bankruptcy context requires greater sensitivity due to the complex nature of bankruptcy, the number of different constituents involved in the process and the lack of resources available to address ESI. The amendments that go into effect on December 1st will apply in bankruptcy cases based on their incorporation through the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure. The panel will address the new amendments, with particular attention to ESI, and then explore the impact that they will have on parties involved in bankruptcy cases.
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The Boston Celtics are in dire need of help and consistency.
Sitting smack middle of the Eastern Conference, the Celtics are in a state of flux. Stuck somewhere between mediocrity and unfulfilled potential, Celtics head coach Brad Stevens needs someone new he can rely on; someone he can really trust.
For three seasons, Oklahoma City Thunder veteran big man Al Horford was a cornerstone figure for Stevens. Averaging 13.5 points while shooting at a 49.8% clip from the floor to go with his 7 rebounds, 4.6 assists, and 1.2 blocks per game, he anchored the Celtics' defense, could shoot from the perimeter, score in the paint, and distribute.
Highlighted by his All-Star season in 2018, when he helped guide the Celtics to back-to-back appearances in the Eastern Conference finals, Horford proved to be an important piece to Boston's plans of returning to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2010. And now that Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge will attempt to make a move or two, that could drastically increase Boston's chances of transforming into a championship contender, maybe it's in his best interest to take a serious look at Horford.
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According to Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix, Big Al would help Boston in a big way. Mannix, who joined NBC Sports Boston's Early Edition Wednesday night, says due to Horford's consistent production and his familiarity with Stevens as a coach, makes this potential Celtics reunion, a no-brainer.
"It's no surprise to me that Al Horford goes to Oklahoma City, which has a history of putting players like Horford in good positions, and he has turned into something more resembling the Al Horford we saw for many years in Boston," Mannix said Wednesday on NBC Sports Boston's Early Edition. "We know he fits in Brad Stevens' system, he can play the 5, he can play a little bit of 4, he can shoot the 3 which he's done a lot better this year than he did in Philadelphia.
"And let's not forget the Celtics, they wanted Al Horford to come back. They just didn't want to pay him four years, $100-plus million the Sixers were offering. Now he's got two-and-a-half years left on his contract, around $70ish million total on that deal. I would take him back in a heartbeat."
Although Horford, who was a free agent in 2019, picked the Sixers over the Celtics, Mannix doesn't think it'll come in the way of, what would be, a stunning reunion in Boston.
"I understand there were some raw dealings where Al Horford left," Mannix added. "Not just that he left, but that he went to a chief rival in Philadelphia. But if you can let bygones be bygones, I think Al Horford could make a difference on this team."
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In Philly, last season, Horford turned in arguably the worst shooting season of his career. Averaging 11.9 points and shooting at a 35% clip from behind the 3-point arc, many wondered if Al, 33-years-old at the time, had reached the twilight of his career.
For the Sixers, it didn't matter anymore. Under new management — new 76ers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey and a new head coach in Doc Rivers — Horford was on his way to Oklahoma City.
One season into his four-year, $109 million deal, Horford, along with two second-round draft picks and a 2025 first-round pick, was traded to the Thunder in exchange for Danny Green, Terrance Furguson, and Vincent Poirier. In 19 games this season, Horford's production is reminiscent of his All-Star days in Boston.
He's averaging 14.7 points a game while shooting over 45% from the floor, and for the first time since 2017-18, is close to shooting just over 40% from deep.
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Best Buy is ending its gaming subscription services including the Gamers Club Unlocked (GCU) program, which offered discounts on new games for customers, as spotted by SlashGear. The GCU originally cost $99.99 for a two-year membership before being slashed to $29.99 back in March 2015. With membership, customers could receive 20 percent off new games, including pre-orders, and other benefits like better trade-in credits.
According to a memo released to employees and shared on Twitter, Best Buy will shut down its Gamers Club programs including free membership and paid tiers, and will no longer accept new members. Current members will still receive benefits, but won't be able to renew their membership once it ends.
The memo is dated May 20th and states that the company's point-of-sale system has stopped "prompting for enrollment" and that employees should also stop offering GCU to new customers. It's perhaps unsurprising that Best Buy is cutting the program, given that regular customers would be able to recoup their membership fee pretty quickly. That means the subscription service was likely eating into the company's bottom line.
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Sidharth Shukla will be seen playing the role of Agastya and Sonia Rathee will be seen playing the role of Rumi. Sharing the teaser on Instagram, AltBalaji wrote, "Obsession never ends, it shifts. Rumi aur Agastya ki story kuch aisi hi hai. Sometimes what you want may not be what you need. Watch out for the trailer; #BrokenButBeautiful3 streaming on 29th May on #ALTBalaji. We wish the announcement of our show could have come at a better time; still, we hope that #BrokenButBeautiful3 can serve as your break during these testing times. ❤"
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Global Gala Welcomes the World to Pittsburgh
A Pittsburgh native will stage the international event by way of black tie and national dress.
Dr. Shellie Hipsky is a best-selling author, talk-show host, Pittsburgh Fashion Hall of Fame inductee and philanthropist dedicated to inspiring women.
On Saturday, she'll host guests from all over the world at the Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh for the Global Gala, an awards ceremony, celebration and fundraiser for her nonprofit organization, the Global Sisterhood.
Hipsky, of the North Hills, recently founded the Global Sisterhood after women across the world began reaching out to her through her radio show, Empowering Women Radio. Global Sisterhood provides resources and networking opportunities for women, and the gala Saturday is its first.
"How I'm feeling about the event is emotionally delighted, to tell you the truth," says Hipsky, also a former Robert Morris University professor, the president of Inspiring Lives, LLC, and former host of TV Show "Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie." "We have women coming in from all over the world.
"I want for them to walk away knowing what the Global Sisterhood is all about, knowing how we're serving the needs of women all around the world and getting them educated and networking and going forward in their lives. I also want them to have a blast."
The event will feature art installations, dancing, food and a fashion show highlighting models and designs from across the globe. Also on tap is the presentation of the 2016 Inspiring Lives Int'l awards in five categories: Inspiration, balance, empowerment, global sisterhood and inspired organizations.
"There are so many different international pieces being represented," says Hipsky.
For more information, visit www.globalsisterhoodonline.org.


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Newcastle United has agreed a new long-term contract with head coach, Eddie Howe.
The Englishman moved to St James' Park in November after the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund opted to replace Steve Bruce after completing their takeover of the club.
At the time, the Magpies were down at the wrong end of the table and at risk of being relegated from the Premier League.
However, Howe successfully guided Newcastle away from trouble, the club eventually finishing in 11th position in the standings.
In total, the 44-year-old has recorded 13 wins and five draws from his 28 matches in the dugout, and it has proven enough to earn a new long-term deal at the North-East giants.
Speaking to the club's official website, Howe said: "It's a great feeling to commit my future to this incredible club. I'm extremely proud to be the head coach of Newcastle United and have enjoyed every moment here.
"I'd like to take the opportunity to acknowledge my coaching team, the players, staff and supporters. They make it a very special place to be every day.
"I'd also like to extend my gratitude to our owners and to Dan Ashworth. We are still at the start of our journey, but this is an exciting time to be a part of Newcastle United and I'm very excited about the future together."
Newcastle are currently preparing for the start of the new top-flight campaign with Nottingham Forest the visitors to St James' Park on Saturday.
The likes of goalkeeper Nick Pope and defender Sven Botman are expected to make their debuts against the newly-promoted side after leaving Burnley and Lille respectively.
However, earlier on Friday, Howe attempted to play down expectations regarding further new arrivals, suggesting that a new forward may not arrive before the start of September.
Speaking to reporters, Howe said: "Hopefully you can see what I tried to tell you at the end of last season was the truth. FFP will impact us for a number of years. We're not in a position to pay wages or fees, some people think. We have to be creative & smart.
"We're in a position where if any player gets injured, we'll be stretched. But in that area, yes, we do have players who can stand up in [Allan] Saint-Maximin & Joelinton."
Howe has been allowed to spend in excess of £140m on new players since his arrival at the club.
Newcastle United has agreed a new long-term contract with head coach, Eddie Howe.


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Much has been said during the presidential campaign about the issue of immigration. We have heard about walls, deportation forces, open borders, paths to citizenship, and more. The question of immigration is finally a question about boundaries, identity, and control. What does it mean to be a nation? What is the status of national boundaries? How and why do we control passage across borders?
These questions can have various answers, but theologically we cannot answer them without considering what it means to be God's people in the midst of the nations of the world, what it means that our citizenship is in heaven (Phil 3:20) and therefore only in a derivative and secondary way is our citizenship aligned with a particular set of national boundaries.
Karl Barth, the twentieth century Swiss theologian, wrestled with the question of insiders and outsiders, neighbors and strangers, as he wrote his Church Dogmatics amid the tumult of Europe in the 1930s and '40s. In one particularly insightful and challenging section, Barth discusses the topic of "Near and Distant Neighbors" (CD, III/4). Notice the way he phrases the title of the section. He does not write about neighbors and strangers, as he is convinced that in Christ all have been made neighbors to us. The only difference is whether they are near or distant.
So from the start Barth asks us to see the immigrant, the stranger, the other, as a neighbor — not an alien or a criminal, not legal or illegal, but simply and profoundly neighbor.
Barth goes on to say that welcoming the stranger as a neighbor who is, like us, created by God and redeemed by Christ, means we will have to accept that "the concept of one's own people is not a fixed but a fluid concept" (291). He goes on, "One's own people in its location cannot and must not be a wall but a door. Whether it be widely opened or not, and even perhaps shut again, it must never be barred, let alone blocked up. The one who is really in his own people, among those near to him, is always on the way to those more distant, to other peoples" (294).
Barth's sense of the fluidity of peoples and identities presents a stark contrast to some of the rhetoric of this election season. Following Barth's lead, we might affirm that our identity as one nation, people, or language group does not constitute a stable fixture of creation that needs to be defended. Rather, it is a supple, flexible, and ever-changing identity.
Such cultural humility is what is necessary if we are faithfully to follow the God who tells Israel, "The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt" (Lev 19:34).
Barth further suggests that learning a foreign language is an act of discipleship: "Therefore if we are commanded to enter into communication with them, to hear them and speak with them, perhaps to read their books and newspapers," which Barth believes we are, "we must make a linguistic sacrifice. We shall then try to understand and speak this foreign language to the best of our ability, and as we do so in this respect at least a section of the barrier, which seems at first invincibly to separate one nation from another will be removed, and even those who seem to be very distant will become relatively near. … Our own language must not be allowed to become a prison for ourselves and a stronghold against others" (291).
These words have given me a new way to think about and experience our bilingual Eucharist at Seminary of the Southwest every Tuesday. Now as I hear the Spanish words of the liturgy tumble over me (and often right past me), I do not feel frustration that the service is not in my language, nor do I feel guilty that I have yet to learn Spanish; I simply recognize that this is part of my linguistic sacrifice. This is part of how I slowly, over time, make a door where there was a wall. It is a way that I refuse to let my language become a prison or a stronghold. I am invited into a moment of cultural humility.
It is my hope that small gestures like bilingual services go some distance toward creating a cultural climate in which immigrants from our southern border are no longer seen as strangers or enemies, criminals or freeloaders, but as neighbors whom we are commanded to bring near.
How do you think about citizenship and borders in your life?
What small linguistic sacrifice might you make?
In your context, what walls need to be turned into doors?
Scott Bader-Saye (@ScottBaderSaye) serves as academic dean and holds the Helen and Everett H. Jones Chair in Christian Ethics and Moral Theology at Seminary of the Southwest. He joined the faculty in 2009 after teaching for twelve years at the University of Scranton, a Jesuit university in Scranton, PA. His academic interests include political theology, sexual ethics, ecology/economy, and Jewish/Christian/Muslim dialogue.


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NGO/Section 8 Company Registration
Register your dream business in your budget.
Award Winning Interior Designer
I'm Kyle Mills, Interior Designer.
Would you like to start a project with us?
Information Guide.
- ID Proof in form of Scanned copy of PAN Card and Aadhar Card (Self attested) of Directors
- Scanned copy of Voter's ID/Passport/Driver's License (Self attested) of Directors
- Address proof of Directors: Scanned copy of Latest Bank Statement/Telephone or Mobile Bill/Electricity or Gas Bill, not older than 2 months (Self attested)
- Scanned passport-sized photograph of Directors
- Specimen signature (blank document with signature [directors only]
- Address proof of place of Business. Rent agreement with NOC from the owner if rented property or Sale Deed if self owned with latest utility bill copy.
Obtain a DSC of the proposed Directors of the Section 8 Company. After a DSC is collected, file Form DIR-3 with the ROC for receiving a DIN.
Note: Documents for application of DIN – Identity Proof and Address Proof
After DIR-3 is approved, the ROC shall provide a DIN to the proposed directors.
File Form INC-1 with the ROC to apply for a company name. Six names can be applied according to the preference, based on availability one name would be finalised.
After the approval, Form INC-12 will be filed with the ROC – to apply for a licence for the formation of Section 8 company.
Subscription pages of the Memorandum and AoA of the proposed company will be signed by each subscriber together with mentioning his/her address, name and occupation. This should happen in front of a witness who will attest the signature and sign and also add his/her name occupation and address.
After the Form is accepted, a license under section 8 shall be issued in Form INC-16.
Once the licence is obtained, file SPICE Form 32 (with ROC) for incorporation together with the following attachments:
- Declaration of deposits
- An affidavit from all the directors' cum subscribers – INC-9
- Form DIR-2 with its attachments i.e PAN Card and address proof of directors
- Utility bill as a proof of Office address
- NOC in case the premises are leased/rented
- KYC of all the Directors
- Interest in other entities of the directors
- Consent letter of all the directors
- Draft MOA and AOA
A unique Company Identification Number (CIN) and the Certificate of Incorporation is proved by the ROC if he is satisfied with the submitted forms.
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Phone: (310) 671-2471
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Phone: (310) 330-7900
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