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In this article,we discuss about Windows Azure For Developers Task 5: Configuring Virtual Machine sizes.
We can specify the size of virtual machine on which Role will be deployed. Size of VM defines
1. CPU core 2. Memory capacity 3. Local file system
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Through Service definition file
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FRC To Hold Joint News Conference On HHS Mandate At National Religious Broadcasters Convention
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council ( FRC) will host a news conference at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) annual convention in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 5. FRC President Tony Perkins and FRC Executive Vice President Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin will be joined by Janet Parshall, radio host for Moody Radio, and Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), to discuss the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate that employers cover abortion-causing drugs, sterilizations and contraceptives in their health insurance plans, even if those employers have religious convictions against such coverage.
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Last year FRC hosted a news conference at the NRB convention to release a petition signed by over 2,500 religious leaders in opposition to the HHS mandate.
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Watchung Hills Victorious over Delaware Valley on Senior Night, 58-43
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 • 10:10pm
WARREN, NJ - Anthony Rocchietti led Watchung Hills with 14 points in the Warriors' 58-43 boys basketball victory over Delaware Valley on Senior Night.
The five seniors--Justin Howell, Josh Goetz, J.P. Davis, Matt Rodriquez and Max Kabat--were introduced with their parents and then all started the game.
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Surprise! Bees and Ants More Closely Related Than Most Wasps
Who would have thought?
Who would have thought that ants are more closely related to bees than they are to most wasps?
In ground-breaking research to be published Oct. 21 in Current Biology, a team of UC Davis scientists and a colleague from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, has found that ants and bees are more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps such as yellow jackets and paper wasps.
"Despite great interest in the ecology and behavior of these insects, their evolutionary relationships have never been fully clarified," said senior author and noted ant specialist Phil Ward, professor of entomology at UC Davis. "In particular, it has been uncertain how ants—the world's most successful social insects—are related to bees and wasps. We were able to resolve this question by employing next-generation sequencing technology and advances in bioinformatics. This phylogeny, or evolutionary tree, provides a new framework for understanding the evolution of nesting, feeding and social behavior in Hymenoptera."
The researchers used state-of-the-art genome sequencing and bioinformatics to produce this significant research.
The six-member team: Ward; molecular geneticist and assistant professor Joanna Chiu; honey bee scientist and assistant professor Brian Johnson; doctoral student-researcher Marek Borowiec of the Ward lab; and postdoctoral researcher Joel Atallah of the Johnson lab, all with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology; and visiting scientist Ernest K. Lee of the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History.
Ants, bees and stinging wasps all belong to the aculeate (stinging) Hymenoptera clade -- the group in which social behavior is most extensively developed.
Said Chiu: "With a phylogeny or evolutionary progression that we think is reliable and robust, we can now start to understand how various morphological and/or behavioral traits evolved in these groups of insects, and even examine the genetic basis of these phenotypic changes."
Said Johnson, whose lab studies the genetics, behavior, evolution and health of honey bees: "Using transcriptomics we were able to resolve a long standing question regarding the evolutionary relationships between stinging wasps, ants, and bees. We found that ants and bees are more closely related than previously thought. This result should be important for future studies focused on eusocial evolution, as it suggests that morphology may not be a good indicator of evolutionary relatedness in these groups of organisms."
The abstract: "Eusocial behavior has arisen in few animal groups, most notably in the aculeate Hymenoptera, a clade comprising ants, bees, and stinging wasps. Phylogeny is crucial to understanding the evolution of the salient features of these insects, including eusociality. Yet the phylogenetic relationships among the major lineages of aculeate Hymenoptera remain contentious. We address this problem here by generating and analyzing genomic data for a representative series of taxa. We obtain a single well-resolved and strongly supported tree, robust to multiple methods of phylogenetic inference. Apoidea (spheciform wasps and bees) and ants are sister groups, a novel finding that contradicts earlier views that ants are closer to ectoparasitoid wasps. Vespid wasps (paper wasps, yellow jackets, and relatives) are sister to all other aculeates except chrysidoids. Thus, all eusocial species of Hymenoptera are contained within two major groups, characterized by transport of larval provisions and nest construction, likely prerequisites for the evolution of eusociality. These two lineages are interpolated among three other clades of wasps whose species are predominantly ectoparasitoids on concealed hosts, the inferred ancestral condition for aculeates. This phylogeny provides a new framework for exploring the evolution of nesting, feeding, and social behavior within the stinging Hymenoptera."
A bee and an ant; they're more closely related than they are to most wasps. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ants and bees are more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps, such as this yellow jacket. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bring on the Butterflies!
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days--three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain," wrote John Keats in Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne.
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne
An Irish blessing reads:
"May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun
And find your shoulder to light on,
To bring you luck, happiness and riches
Today, tomorrow and beyond."
From time immortal, we humans have depicted butterflies in our art. There's something about the ballet of butterflies that soothes our mind, brightens our spirit, and captures our soul.
So it is with the talented artists exhibiting their work at McCormack Hall during the five-day Solano County Fair, 900 Fairgrounds Drive, Vallejo. The fair opens Wednesday, July 31 and ends Sunday, Aug. 4.
Vallejo resident Yoko Warncke cross-stitched butterflies for her needlework exhibit. Another Vallejo resident, Tina Waycie, crafted a paper butterfly and flowers.
Trudy Molina of Fairfield depicted "The Hungry Caterpillar" in a baby quilt. It's a quilt sure to be treasured. It reminds us of the quote by Richard Buckminster Fuller: "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
No, indeed!
Vallejoan LaQuita Tummings quilted a beautiful bee, dragonfly and ladybug, so spectacular that you just want to sit and study it.
We watched Gloria Gonzalez, superintendent of the McCormack Hall building and her adult and youth assistants hang many of the displays. They're involved in the Sherwood Forest 4-H Club, Vallejo, throughout the year, but in the summer when the Solano County Fair rolls around, they're at McCormack Hall accepting entries, recording results and displaying the work.
Insect art is just a small part of the displays in McCormack Hall. You'll see photography, collections, table settings, clothing, baked goods, jams and jellies, and even some farm equipment.
It all ties in with the fair theme, "Home Grown Fun."
Gloria Gonzalez (left) of Vallejo, superintendent of McCormack Hall, Solano County Fair, and assistant Iris Mayhew of Vallejo hang a quilt by LaQuita Tummings of Vallejo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of blue-ribbon quilt by LaQuita Tummings of Vallejo. It features a bee, dragonfly and ladybug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Iris Mayhew of Vallejo, an assistant at McCormack Hall, Solano County Fair, with "The Hungry Caterpillar" quilt by Trudy Molina of Fairfield. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This paper art, of a butterfly and flowers, is the work of Tina Waycie of Vallejo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Great Field Guide to Bees
If you've studied bees, you know that there are approximately 20,000 described species of bees in the world.
Most people are familiar with honey bees and bumble bees, but they don't know about "those big black bees" (carpenter bees) or "those green metallic bees" (sweat bees).
Harvard University and the Encyclopedia of Life to the rescue!
Jessica Rykken, Ph.D. of the Farrell lab at Harvard University, and editor Jeff Holmes, Ph.D. of the Encyclopedia of Life, Harvard University, have just published a field guide to bees that is simply outstanding.
The field guide, titled "Bees," is comprised of observer cards that are "designed to foster the art and science of observing nature," Rykken writes.
It's a guide that looks at bees much the way we all first started looking at bees. It's divided into anatomy, foraging, lifestyles, pollination, nesting habits, behavior, life cycle, associations (such as hitchhiking) and techniques (collecting and conservation).
Under nesting habits, you'll learn about the miners, masons, leafcutters and carpenters.
Under anatomy, you'll learn about body plan, look-alikes, size and shape, body color, antennae, wings, males ves females, pollen transport, tongue length, pilosity, stingers. Pilosity? What's that you ask? It means the density and pattern of hair on their bodies.
Lifestyles? No, not of the rich and famous. These point to social bees, solitary bees and cuckoo bees.
Rykken asked permission to use two of our photos, and they're in there, too. One is of Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology being stung by a honey bee (Apis mellifera), and the other is a chunk of plum tree wood drilled by valley carpenter bees (Xylocopa varipuncta). A Davis resident brought the plum tree wood into the Bohart Museum of Entomology for insect identification. Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum (home of nearly 8 million specimens) and UC Davis professor of entomology, told him that valley carpenter bees (females) drilled the holes. The female valley carpenter bees are solid black, while the males are blond with green eyes.
The field guide can be downloaded for free on the Encyclopedia of Life website at http://eol.org. Or, just download this link to the PDF.
This photo, appearing in the field guide, is of Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen being stung by a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This photo in the field guide shows a chunk of plum tree wood drilled by valley carpenter bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bugfest at Dixon May Fair
You'll not only see honey bees in a bee observation hive, but specimens of bumble bees, cuckoo bees, carpenter bees, long-horned bees, squash bees, plasterer bees, mining bees, leafcutter bees, wool carder bees and sweat bees.
The exhibit is in the Southard Floriculture Building on the May Fair grounds, located at 655 S. First St., Dixon.
Participating are the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility and the Bohart Museum of Entomology, both part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology; and the newly formed UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, headquartered at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.
Beekeeper Brian Fishback of Wilton, owner of BD Ranch and Apiary and a volunteer at the Laidlaw facility for several years, is providing the bee observation hive, a glassed-in box that enables viewers to observe the activity that goes on inside a bee hive.
Fishback, a past president of the Sacramento Area Beekeepers' Association and member of the California State Beekeepers' Association, is an educator as well as a beekeeper. He speaks about bees at schools, organizations and festivals. His daughter, Emily, 2, accompanies him on many of his talks.
"Emily loves bees," said Fishback, who keeps 125 hives on his property in Wilton. She knows that a bee has six legs, four wings and five eyes, and that each bee has three body parts: the head, thorax and abdomen. She knows that a honey bee eats pollen and nectar, pollinates flowers and makes honey."
UC Davis graduate students, including squash bee expert Katharina Ullmann and area beekeepers (among them Jesse Loren of Winters and Lindsay Weaver of Sacramento) will be available during part of the fair (weekend) to share their experiences with fairgoers.
Children attending the Dixon May Fair on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 12 can make a "Honey Bee on a Stick," an arts and crafts project that doubles as a hand-held fan and puppet. Executive director Amina Harris of the Honey and Pollination Center, an area beekeeper and a former school teacher, will help the children create the take-home art. The free activity is from from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Southard Floriculture Building. Harris crafts the bee art using a yellow paper plate, duct tape, googly eyes, a stick, and pipe cleaners (for antennae).
The Dixon May Fair's floriculture building, staffed by superintendent Kathy Hicks of Dixon, includes stunning garden displays and a myriad of plants and cut flowers. It is open from 4 to 10 p.m. on Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Beekeeper Brian Fishback shows his daughter, Emily, his bee observation hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sunny Sunflowers
If you enjoy sunflowers--and the seeds and oil--thank a bee.Sunflowers, native to the Americas, are spectacular, especially when you encounter a field of them. If you look closely, you'll see honey bees, sunflower bees and bumble bees working the flowers.
It's pollination at work.
To encourage backyard gardeners to grow sunflowers and collect data about the bees that visit them, the Great Sunflower Project provides free seeds and educational information.
You can obtain the Lemon Queen sunflower seeds from the Great Sunflower Project, from a local nursery or from a seed catalog.
Associate professor and biologist Gretchen LeBuhn of the University of California, Santa Barbara, started the project in 2008 as a way to get citizens interested in bee pollination.
"In 2008, we started this project as a way to gather information about our urban, suburban and rural bee populations," writes LeBuhn, considered "the queen bee" of the Great Sunflower Project. "We wanted to enlist people all over the U.S. and Canada to observe their bees and be citizen scientists. We asked them to plant sunflowers in their gardens so we could standardize study of bee activity and provide more resources for bees. Sunflowers are relatively easy to grow and are wildly attactive to bees."
Since 2008, the Great Sunflower Project has expanded its list of plants studied to include bee balm, cosmos, rosemary, coreopsis (tickseed), and purple coneflower.
"It's time to turn off your television, take off those earphones, shut down that computer, go outside, and rediscover the wonder of nature," LeBuhn says.
Good advice.
That's one small step toward improving bee habitat--and human habitat, too.
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Former U.S. President spearheading women's health issues in Africa Comments
While former U.S. President George W. Bush faces some often harsh criticism as commander in chief from those who claim he led the nation into unpopular wars and additional criticism from opponents who claim he initiated failed economic policies, he has taken on a new role as an advocate for women's health in Africa. Both he and his wife Laura Bush have recently opened a women's health clinic in Kabwe, Zambia. Continue Reading
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Press hatred for Bush cannot be quieted by anything he might undertake or accomplish. They are virulent and single-minded in this regard. Note that no individual took responsibility for this hit piece. They lack the courage of their foolish convictions. And with America's prospects today falling off a cliff, they nevertheless all will vote for Obama in November. You can't fix stupid.
2 years ago
I would expect more from this news organization than to start the story with the general left wing slanted rhetoric. Why not just tell a positive story dealing with this issue? I thought Caholics were pro life as President Bush was, and believed in compassion as President and Laura Bush have always shown. Shame on the author of this article, You should know better!!!!
2 years ago
The opening paragraph is both unneeded and not at all pertinent to the subject . Liberals even Catholic ones are simply unable to give this President any praise, without some bashing up front. I am a Catholic and this appearing in a Catholic news outlet is saddening.
2 years ago
It amazes me that the current president has not lifted one finger to help even his estranged family but a white, supposedly racist, war mongering ex president seems to find the time to help thousands in Africa.
2 years ago
Your bias shines through in the first sentence!
2 years ago
While Bush is a Progressive and was wrongheaded on so many domestic issues- illegal immigration, JUSTICE ROBERTS!- and may have mishandled the Iraq war, he is a good and decent man who's heart is in the right place. Nor is he the dummy that the left likes to make out.
When it comes to AIDS in Africa, he did more and is still doing more, than the two doofus' that preceded and followed him into the White House.
A white man doing more for Africa than a black man with Kenyan roots...I am surprised the author didn't call him 'racist'! -
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May God Bless him and his wife, they are truly deserving of all Gods Love
2 years ago
Why do you feel the need to use the first paragraph of your story to bash Bush? People know what they think of him, one way or the other. Some of us remember unemployment at 6%, and some of us recall going into the "unpopular" war with the backing of 90% of the population.
Will your next article on Obama begin: "Even though some people view him as the man who squandered a trillion dollars on a "Stimulus Bill" that didn't work, misled the nation about how transparent his administration would be, and forced through a healthcare bill that "needed to be passed so we could find out what's in it," President Obama now has a new role as ... x..."
Let's see how fair you are. You cannot serve both Christ and Politicians, my friend.
2 years ago
Instead of leading with the fact that Bush has given more U.S. money to fight AIDS in Africa than any other President in U.S. history, you choose to make "criticisms" in your opening statement. I'd always thought that I'd be a "craddle to grave" catholic, but over the past few years I now only identify myself as a Christian, because of the increased left wing stances the church now associates itself.
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Zambia must be one of the few countries that doesnt have warrants issued for the arrest of boy george bush as the mass murdering war criminal that he is. he's been convicted in abstentia of war crimes in one country and is under indictment for war crimes in 112 other countries. he must have been drunk or coked up to be hugging on little black folks b/c his family has very little respect for the 3rd world or africans, other than for a foto op. 118 countries have war crimes arrest warrants for cheney.
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Perth housing stocks depleting rapidly
PUBLISHED: 12 Jul 2012 00:16:36 | UPDATED: 12 Jul 2012 05:50:50PUBLISHED: 12 Jul 2012 PRINT EDITION: 12 Jul 2012Jonathan Barrett and Natalie Gerritsen
A rapid fall in the number of residential properties on the market in Perth has sparked fears that the resources boom town will once again experience rapid price rises and shortages.
There are now fewer than 12,000 Perth properties on the market, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia, representing a 30 per cent drop in just over a year.
Gavin Hegney, of valuer Hegney Property Group, said the speed of the shift was disconcerting as policymakers would have little chance to respond. "The numbers are correcting very quickly," Mr Hegney said.
"There's no way you can respond to that because the housing market is a slow, lumbering market."
Vacancy rates have also tightened quickly, dropping to 1.7 per cent.
The figures are still well above the shortages at the height of the boom in 2006 and 2007, when there were only 4000 properties on the market.
Realmark managing director John Percudani said there was no threat of a return to 2006 conditions.
He said 2006 was an anomaly, a quick catch-up in values following a long quiet period which was also fuelled by an abundance of finance.
Mr Percudani said the drop in stock levels was significant but was unlikely to fall much lower as the market was now more normalised.
"In some respects a lot of that stock that had been sitting on the market has been removed and placed on to the rental market," he said.
Most property experts believe equilibrium is achieved in Perth's residential market when there are about 12,000 properties on the market.
In a peculiarity of a boom town, builders and renovators could be in short supply by as early as 2013, even though they are now offering competitive prices to win business in a slow market. The supply problems are seen to be caused by resource projects in the state's north competing with local building companies by hiring skilled labour such as concreters, electricians and earth movers.
Mr Hegney said the residential building skills crisis might occur at the exact time Perth would need more homes to cater for the growing population and demand.
"There's a chance people will be able to buy a block but won't be able to build a home in 2013," he said.
Dale Alcock, Australia's second- biggest builder, said the market was improving after three subdued years, although he added that an approvals backlog stemming from the state's new Building Act was frustrating. "Sales levels have improved and we're seeing sales and applications increasing," he said. "But starts have decreased and subcontractors are not getting consistent work, so any future boost will create pressure in the market."
The Building Act has been blamed for a dramatic drop in approvals since it was introduced in April. The government is working with industry to amend the legislation.
The state government is aiming to avoid a repeat of the housing pressures experienced before the financial crisis through a policy that seeks "in-fill" improvements – encouraging subdivision and apartment developments – in a city known for its urban sprawl.
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Organizers of the Eastern Sierra Certified Farmers Market are hoping that the third time's the charm.
The Farmers Market/marketplace has moved again, this time to the area next to the gazebo behind City Hall.
The market had been held Saturday mornings in the Bishop City Park for years. At the beginning of this year's season, organizers and some participants wanted to move the market to Friday nights on Main Street, next to Talmage Park. The market will still be from 5-7:30 p.m. Fridays until mid-November, weather and harvests permitting.
The new location offers the event more room to grow, if needed, plenty of parking and a major component the other location lacked – shade. Some growers were having to invest in ice chests and ice to transport their fresh-grown goodies and keep them from wilting in the relentless summer sun.
And, as expected by one of the market's organizers and all-around Bishop business advocate Dee Younger, the market has grown to include a little bit of everything.
This past Friday, members of the Bishop Paiute Tribe were selling raffle tickets to support their many Elders programs.
The advocates for a Dog Park in the City Park were on hand telling interested folks what was happening and what the group wanted. The advocates are looking to raise $20,000 for sod for the proposed 1.5-acre park. The park will be a place for dogs and their humans to socialize and stretch their legs.
Each week also includes artisans showing off their art, in person. Bishop Union High School senior Wendy Parmenter, a knitter, has taken to spinning her own yarn. With wool from Goat Hollow Farms, Parmenter spins her own yarn, not as part of 4-H or other group, but for herself and her own products.
Kellie Bell of Sierra Suds and Scents, a collection of soaps and other good-smelling items, can be found selling her goods at the market.
Katy Hemler of Keriam Luma has been making and selling jewelry for four years and she said she appreciates a place to display and sell her necklaces, bands and feathers.
Emily Fischer of Alpine Glow had a collection of hand-sewn knits and other crocheted items on display last Friday.
When asked why he has pushed to see the market expand, Younger said, "I really want to see something happen."
He said he has even more plans. Norm Matoza has generously donated the use of a commercial barbecue, and Younger said he's hoping someone will have the know-how and proper licensing to fire it up. Younger said he wants the market to be a place where the community can come together and bring their families. He said he wants to see kids and parents having fun, listening to lots of live music, enjoying picnics and sitting around in lawn chairs.
Younger moved to Mammoth to open his T-shirt business Mountain Apparel in 1989 and moved to Bishop in 2000.
His passion for promoting business in Bishop and his wealth of ideas is unmatched, according to more than one vendor.
For more information about the market or to be a produce vendor, call the City of Bishop at (760) 873-5863. Non-produce vendors may contact Younger at (760) 872-4655 or (760) 258- 7314.
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- Player: Peyton Manning, Denver
- Yards: 1,507
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- Player: Jamaal Charles, Kansas City
- Yards: 551
- Comment: Charles is first in the NFL in this category and he is a workhorse coming off a major injury.
- Player: Demaryius Thomas, Denver
- Yards: 513
- Comment: He is explosive, but he needs to stop fumbling.
- Player: Derrick Johnson, Kansas City
- Total: 38
- Comment: The Chiefs are quietly improving on defense.
- Player: Justin Houston, Kansas City
- Sacks: 6
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- Player: Brandon Flowers, Kansas City; Antoine Cason, San Diego; Eric Weddle, San Diego
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The two PwC partners that were responsible for the Satyam audit have confessed their involvement in the fraud. S. Gopala Krishnan and Srinivas Talluri, were arrested on January 24, 2009, and remanded to judicial custody until February 6, on charges of fraud and criminal conspiracy. While in custody and during an intense interrogation, the two India based partners, revealed .
that Ramalinga Raju, the founder and former chairman of Satyam Computer Services, held meetings with top Satyam managers on a regular basis. During these meetings, Raju plotted the manipulation of the corporate books through the inflation of cash balances. These two partners have been auditing Satyam's books since 2000-01. They face maximum sentences of life imprisonment.
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Katherine didn't like to think of herself as sad. It had a defeatist ring about it. It lacked the pizzazz of, say, rage or mania. But she had to admit that these days she was waking up sad a lot more often than she was waking up happy. Weekends were worst; workdays varied. The weather was largely inconsequential.
Time in front of the mirror didn't help. She got ready in a rush, then adjusted incrementally later. She hadn't been eating well. Things were happening to her skin that she didn't like. Her gums bled onto the toothbrush. It struck her that she was becoming ugly at a grossly inopportune time. Breakfast was frequently skipped in favour of something unhealthy halfway through her working morning. She couldn't leave the house without a minimum of three cups of coffee inside her. Recently, she had started smoking again. It helped cut the gloom.
For the past two years, Katherine, having moved from London to Norwich by mistake, had been the facilities manager at a local telecommunications company. Her job centred on the finer points of workplace management. She was paid, she liked to say, to be an obsessive–compulsive. She monitored chairs for ongoing ergonomic acceptability and suitable height in relation to desks and workstations, which she checked in turn to ensure compliance with both company guidelines and national standards for safe and healthy working environments. She performed weekly fire-alarm checks and logged the results. Each morning she inspected the building for general standards of hygiene, presentation and safety. She fired at least one cleaner per month.
She was widely resented and almost constantly berated. People phoned or messaged at least every hour. Their chairs, their desks, the air conditioning, the coffee maker, the water cooler, the fluorescent strip lighting – nothing was ever to their liking. The numerous changes Katherine was obliged to implement in order to keep step with current health and safety legislation made her the public advocate of widely bemoaned alterations. Smokers had to walk further from the building. Rooms had to be rearranged. Breaks had to be renegotiated. Her job allowed no flexibility, meaning that she frequently came off as humourless and rigid. She took comfort, however, in the ease with which she could write off enmity as a response to her job role, as opposed to her personality.
Aside from the basic majority of colleagues who couldn't stand her, there also existed a splinter group comprising the men who wanted to fuck her. Some of them wanted to fuck her because they liked her, and some of them wanted to fuck her because they hated her. This suited Katherine reasonably well. Sometimes she fucked men because she felt good about herself, and sometimes she fucked them because she hated herself. The trick was to find the right man for the right moment, because fucking a man who hated you when you were actually having a rare moment of liking yourself was deeply counterproductive, and fucking a man who was sort of in love with you at the peak of your self-hatred was nauseating.
To date, Katherine had fucked three men in her office, one of whom, Keith, she was still fucking on a semi-regular basis. The other two, Brian and Mike, had faded ingloriously into the middle distance, lost amid the M&S suits and male-pattern baldness. Brian had been first. She'd broken her no-office rule for Brian and, with hindsight, it hadn't been anywhere near worth it. She'd broken her married-man rule too, and the rule about men with kids. She resented this because it afforded Brian a sense of history he in no way deserved. The reality was, at a time in her life when Katherine had made a conscious and not entirely irrational decision to jettison so many of the rules by which she had up to that point lived her life, Brian had been in the immediate vicinity, and, moreover, had been a living exemplar of several of those rules. Hence the sex, which had happened quite suddenly one Tuesday afternoon after he'd given her a lift home from work, continued through to the following month, and then ended when Katherine began wondering if some of her rules had in actual fact been quite sensible. Brian was fifty-something (another broken rule, now that she thought about it), fat, and in the midst of an epic crisis. He drove a yellow Jaguar and had a son called Chicane. They never finished with each other. Katherine simply ceased to acknowledge his existence and the message was quietly, perhaps even gratefully, received.
Mike was, on the outside at least, different. He was Katherine's age (thirty, although there was room for adjustment depending on her mood), single, and surprisingly good in bed. Even more surprisingly, Katherine found him to be capable of several almost-full-length conversations when the mood took him. Their affair (it wasn't really an affair, but Katherine liked to define it as such because it added value to the experience and because she'd not long previously fucked Brian and was hoping that she might be in a phase of having affairs, which would of course completely legitimize her sleeping with Mike) lasted almost two months. It ended when Mike found out that Katherine had slept with Brian. Much to Katherine's irritation, Mike turned out to be in possession of what he proudly called a moral compass. Katherine was not impressed. As far as she was concerned, morals were what dense people clung to in lieu of a personality. She told Mike as much after he tried to annex the high ground over the whole adultery issue. He ignored her. He couldn't respect her, he said. Katherine would always remember him walking away from the drinks cooler, shaking his head and muttering softly.
All this had been a while ago, and there had been other, non-office-based men floating around during the same time period. Nothing had gone well. She'd been waking up sad a lot more often. The thing with her skin had started. She'd gained weight, then lost it, then lost a little more. Sleep was becoming increasingly difficult. Once, during a stretch of annual leave she'd taken purely to use up her quota, she'd swallowed a fistful of pills and curled up in bed waiting to die, only to wake up five hours later in a puddle of vomit, many of the pills still whole in the mess. She had words with herself. She got dressed the next day and did her make-up and went into the city and collided with Keith, who suggested coffee, then food, then violent, bruising sex in his garage, her stomach pressed against the hot, ticking metal of his car bonnet.
'I remember once . . .' said Keith, lying back against the car afterwards, Katherine beside him, both of them smoking and waiting for the pain to subside. 'What was I . . . Fuck it, it's gone.'


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Are you serious? Trendlines are not made by comparing terminal values and concluding based on that. If you'd actully put the data from 1998-2011 into any spreadsheet and took an effort to superimpose a generic trendline on those data you'd see that even though the first data point is a bit of an outlier (1998 was exceptionally warm) and the last data point is slightly on the low side, the trend is still rising - by 0.01C per annum.
Point is, a small increase of Himalayan glaciers in last couple of years says little about a general warming trend.
There is no consensus on global warming, if there was then we wouldn't have so much debate, or attempt at debate. Frankly the true believers in global warming generally refuse to debate the subject.
Also, since when are we looking to The World Bank as an authority on global warming? I thought the IPCC was the recognized authority?
I believe there is only one country where it continually exists debates on whether there is any climate change caused by humans or not.
In the same country people rather live in city suburbs and drive their car to work instead of living in city center and bike or take the metro. Children go by school bus instead of walking or biking.
It is also in the same country where high-speed trains doesn't exist despite a huge population density and wealth in certain regions, because people rather drive their car for hours or take the airplane.
This is a country where a president candidate can argue in favor of more dirty energy without being controversial.
If you could guess which country I mean I would be interested to see if anyone that oppose the whole idea of global warning comes from another country!
Don't feel bad, there's a lot of money to be made in GLOBAL WARMING. Think about it, even the Oil Companies profit from it.
It is ultimate egotism to believe we can change the climate even if it is warming. We have the science the wrong way around. We should be working on ways to deal with climate change if any rather than trying like King Canute to make the waves stay back.
If you don't understand something, you could just look it up:
Not everything worth knowing can be found on Wattsupwiththat.com
People has become so crazy that value everything by profits, including the environment. If the unique earth is destroyed to a situation that cannot get recovered, how does economic activities work?
This comment applies to this and other articles: could The Economist please limit comments to 500 instead of 5000 characters? I often find there are very good points raised but just don't have the time or inclination to read through the long posts. After all, The Economist prides itself on its use of plain language, clarity and getting to the point in its own articles!
Yes, the truth can be annoying. But if you did not lie, you certainly did misrepresent the facts.
You wrote: "we learn today that Himalayan glaciers have actually been INCREASING in volume". That is not supported by either of the sources you refer to.
Your quote from The Guardian shows that there was actually a loss, although it was near zero. Likewise, The Times of India reports that "good spells of snowfall in last three years have changed the trend with glaciers almost growing to their original size".
I trust you will gentlemanly admit you were in error.
Sense Seeker might like to read the "Times of India" on the Himalayan glaciers:
Let us hope that Sense Seeker does not dismiss empirical data from Indian scientists as "lies" as he abuses other correspondents such as myself. (He rather makes a habit of it and certainly has displayed continuing abusive form.) He ought to appreciate that rational discussion is not helped by calling people liars.
On the Greenland icesheets, I did not say that Greenland is not losing ice, and would rather prefer that Sense Seeker have the decency to actually read what I wrote. One reads his words "...you give no evidence for your statements, and that is because you know full well that none exists." I now have provided evidence on the glaciers. One can only ask (as I have on many other occasions) that he desist from attributing base motives to his opponents, though it is sadly only too typical of ideologists. I repeat that global temperatures have NOT been rising for 16 years. Sense Seeker writes "clearly, the temperature is still rising." I have asked him on many occasions previously to provide the gradient of the relevant temperature figures fer the 16 year period. He has not complied. He writes "In contrast, I gave links that back up every statement I wrote." OK then, could we have a reference please, that denies we have been experiencing a temperature increase hiatus these past 16 years and gives us a figure for the gradient? Please use satellite data.
Satellite observations show the rise is more than twice your 1.5 mm/yr, at 3.11 mm/yr since 1993 (http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators#seaLevel).
The fact that you think you know the results of an analysis that has not been done is telling.
We seem on track for a 50-80 cm sea level rise by 2100. Maybe we're lucky. It would be unwise to count on that and dismiss the scientific estimates.
There are other costs, of course, than those which can be measured in money.
Children will grow up not knowing all sorts of flora and fauna, because it has gone extinct.
The psychological wellbeing that contact with nature brings will be diminished.
Our health will suffer.
Finally the liberal regressives got their storm, years after hurricane Karina hit New Orleans in 2005. Since then, there has been a remarkable paucity of hurricanes (unlike predictions made by the Global Warming crowd). The whole Global Warming myth (now ironically called Climate Change) is the biggest spin story ever told. Hats off to ol' Al Gore -- he's the only person in history to have made millions selling hot air.
PS: And yes, the Climate Changes. Duh.
I kind of see your point, but you need to focus your thoughts into much more coherent sentences so that readers don't think you are just venting frustration at every opportunity.
The US often considers itself a world leader in many regards and the fact that it is not championing the cause fighting climate change is somewhat disheartening as a US citizen myself. I understand there are many people who feel research into climate change and global warming is not an exact science, and they may have some good points. But that doesn't mean that some of the prescribed remedies would not serve any other worthwhile purpose. So what if the earth is due for a period of warming, how many people live in cities choked with pollution or washed with acid rain? Is the only purpose for a forest or jungle to decrease our atmosphere's CO2 levels or?
Cutting down on humans environmental footprint in any way means promoting a future where our children's children's children can appreciate more of the natural beauty Earth has to offer. The more we see "worst-case scenarios" as the only justification for reducing, reusing and recycling our produced waste, the further we get from truly understanding just how precious our renewable and non-renewable resources are.
I hope the US can stand a little more united on this issue, as I am American and would be proud to see such pragmatic foresight guiding our country's policies. But the US is not totally ignorant of the importance of resource preservation. Standing around pointing fingers at non-compliance or even bringing in unrelated arguments is merely distracting. The way I see it, the whole world should see this as a threat worth uniting against and any country taking the lead should be acknowledged for its efforts and made an example for others to follow.
The reason for the current climate change is not debatable unless you are willing to ignore observations and basic thermodynamics.
Try to understand, crops do not grow well outside of a certain set of environmental conditions, and large areas currently under production will leave those conditions as the climate shifts. True, there will be other areas that can increase their productivity, but do not expect areas like the Canadian Shield or recently thawed permafrost to be able to make up for the losses elsewhere. In short, the planet at 4 C warmer than it is today will simply not be able to produce enough food for the current population. None of your market platitudes will change that.
To be frank, I am aghast that The Economist would sound so cavalier about the fate of millions of people who have done nothing to contribute to global warming but will, almost inevitably, suffer horribly.
It's very easy to take a relaxed attitude toward North America and Europe - it's probably true we won't suffer unduly over the next 100 years.
What about tens of millions of Bangladeshis flooded out of their home? Where will they go? In the most likely scenario, they will become refugees or become involved in wars with India and Burma over dry land.
What about millions of Africans facing worsening drought every year? Where are they supposed to go as the deserts expand?
If we in the developed countries won't curb our pollution, I would say we have a moral obligation to take in hundreds of millions of refugees and help them adapt to a new life.
Indeed - for the climate deniers, let's make it into a long-term bet (payable by our great-grandchildren): If sea levels rise by more than a meter by the end of the century, each Republican household (as a proxy for climate deniers) agrees to take in one extended-family of Bangladeshi coastal dwellers or African farmers, etc. If sea-levels don't rise, we'll bequeath our coastal real estate to you.
This model is based on rather simplistic assumptions of how climate change will play out. The rational assumption is that land productivity will shift towards the poles, and shorelines will shift inward. If those were the only two impacts of climate change - sure, people & cities would just relocate inward and upward.
However - although there is no doubt truth in both of those assumptions, they by no means offer a complete picture of the potential affects of climate change.
There really are too many variables for us to accurately predict what will happen with any certainty.
Sure - financial managers, computer programmers, and electrical engineers could all move North, and resume their activities with no great change in productivity. But it is unlikely, for instance, that a 'clean shift' of agricultural land towards the poles will result in equivalent levels of production.
The article brings up a good point at the end. Poorer families moving to areas with affordable housing in disaster-prone areas could lead to a humanitarian crises. We saw the tragedy of Katrina - and Hurricane Sandy wasn't particularly pleasant either.
Hopefully policy changes will protect citizens from the destruction we are bringing upon ourselves and the true environmental changes will move slowly enough to give us time to catch up.
The views of SCIENTISTS on global warming is unimportant because most don't study the climate. Now climatologists, their opinions are more important and overall they're split. The consensus you speak of is a political consensus cooked up by people who want to exploit the idea of global warming for an agenda.
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Eight US lawmakers have withdrawn their support for anti-piracy laws, after "blackout" protests on thousands of internet sites.
Two of the bill's co-sponsors, Marco Rubio from Florida and Roy Blunt from Missouri, are among those backing away.
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia and blog service WordPress are among the highest profile sites to block their content.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has branded the protests as "irresponsible" and a "stunt".
The MPAA, Hollywood's primary advocate in Washington and a key supporter of the legislation, is led by former Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Dodd.
Both bills focus on responding to online piracy, specifically illegal copies of films and other media.
The bills would also outlaw sites from containing information about how to access blocked sites.
The BBC's Jonny Dymond says that with Mr Rubio and Mr Blunt withdrawing their support, the Senate bill - Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) - that had looked likely to pass, now appears to be in trouble.
Mr Rubio is a rising star in the Republican party, and is often suggested as a viable vice-presidential choice for this year's Republican presidential nominee.
Bi-partisan backlashRepublicans and Democrats were among the lawmakers rowing back on Wednesday.
The list of senators no longer backing Pipa includes Mr Rubio and Mr Blunt, and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, all Republicans, as well as Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland.
In the House of Representatives, Republicans Ben Quayle of Arizona, Lee Terry of Nebraska and Dennis Ross of Florida said they were no longer supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa), joining Pennsylvania Democrat Tim Holden.
Mr Ross tweeted that he was no longer supporting Sopa, because as "a true free marketer, I want IP protected correctly".
In a Facebook posting, Mr Rubio said he and fellow Senators "heard legitimate concerns about the impact the bill could have on access to the internet".
Mr Hatch called Pipa "not ready for prime-time" and said he would remove himself from the bill's list of sponsors.
Blackout on the webThe US news website Politico estimated that 7,000 sites were involved by early Wednesday morning.
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The US bills are designed to block access to sites containing unauthorised copyright material.
Content owners and the US government would be given the power to request court orders to shut down sites associated with piracy.
Advertisers, payment processors and internet service providers would be forbidden from doing business with infringers based overseas.
Sopa also requires search engines to remove foreign infringing sites from their results, a provision absent in Pipa.
Google did not shut down its main search but is showing solidarity by placing a black box over its logo when US-based users visit its site.
Online marketplace Craigslist asks site visitors to contact their representatives in Congress before moving on to the main site.
Visitors to Wikipedia's English-language site were greeted by a dark page with white text which said: "Imagine a world without free knowledge... The US Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia."
If users tried to access its other pages via search sites, the text briefly flashed up before being replaced by the protest page. However, people were sharing workarounds to disable the redirect.
When the protest ended at 0500GMT on Thursday, Wikipedia carried the message: "Thank you for protecting Wikipedia".
In pictures: Sopa protests
WordPress's homepage displayed a video which claimed that Sopa "breaks the internet" and asked users to add their name to a petition asking Congress to stop the bill.
"The authors of the legislation don't seem to really understand how the internet works," the site's co-founder, Matt Mullenweg told the BBC.
Other net firms that have criticised the legislation decided not to take part in the blackout.
Twitter's founder, Dick Costolo, tweeted that it would be "foolish" to take the service offline.
'Gimmick'The moves were described as an "abuse of power" by one of the highest-profile supporters of the anti-piracy bills.
"It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information," Mr Dodd said in a statement, calling the actions taken by the high-profile websites "yet another gimmick".
In addition to the MPAA's support for the legislation, the US Chamber of Commerce said claims against the legislation had been overstated.
Around the world, with Britain's Digital Economy Act, France's Loi Hadopi, and now America's Sopa, the story has repeated itself. The media industries claim the new laws will provide them with vital protection against the scourge of online piracy, the web community maintains that innocent victims will be harmed by blunderbuss legislation that will usher in a new era of censorship.
What we are lacking, of course, is data on their impact on illegal file-sharing or on the open internet. There is none from the UK - nearly two years after the Digital Economy Act was rushed into law, it still has not been implemented, held up by legal challenges.
"[The sponsors] announced they would roll back the provisions of these bills designed to block foreign criminal websites, striking a major conciliatory note with those who raised legitimate concerns," said Steve Tepp, chief intellectual property counsel at the chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center.
"What remains are two pieces of legislation that are narrowly tailored and commercially reasonable for taking an effective swipe at the business models of rogue sites."
The proposed legislation would allow the Department of Justice and content owners to seek court orders against any site accused of "enabling or facilitating" piracy.
Sopa also calls for search engines to remove infringing sites from their results. Pipa does not include this provision.
Google posted a blog on the subject claiming that the bills would not stop piracy.
"There are better ways to address piracy than to ask US companies to censor the internet. The foreign rogue sites are in it for the money, and we believe the best way to shut them down is to cut off their sources of funding."
The events coincided with news that the US House of Representatives plans to resume work on Sopa next month. The Senate is expected to start voting on 24 January on how to proceed on Pipa.
Even if Congress approves the bills, President Barack Obama may decide to veto them.
The White House issued a statement at the weekend saying that "we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global internet".


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Andrew Luck begins his NFL career by playing in Chicago. The NFL season starts tonight as the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys play the first game.
In this file photo a person participates in CPR training by the Red Cross. Over the weekend a cheerleader for a minor league football team revived a coach who had collapsed on a field in Indianapolis.
A young boy receives oxygen after being overcome by chemical fumes while swimming at at the Garfield Park Aquatic Center in Indianapolis on Thursday. Officials said 71 people, many of them children, were treated at local hospitals.
Christopher Alan Carlson, 45, of Indianapolis was convicted of child abuse for taking his three young grandsons on two long, gruelling, August hikes in the Grand Canyon without sufficient food and water.
Workers from Sign Craft and Sport Graphics erect giant Super Bowl XLVI letters on the south side of Monument Circle in Downtown Indianapolis on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. The Super Bowl matchup between the New York Giants and New England Patriots will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Feb. 5.
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Peyton Manning has talked about a TV career when he retires from the NFL.
Indiana Fever's Tammy Sutton-Brown, left, battles Connecticut's Tina Charles for a rebound during the fourth quarter of a WNBA game in Indianapolis. Connecticut won 77-68.
Butler University fans get excited for the championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The NCAA tournament's culmination tipped off Monday night at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Duke's Blue Devils, the last No. 1 seed left after two weeks of upsets, met fifth-seeded Butler, a would-be Cinderella playing some five miles away from campus.
Duke maintained a small lead for much of the game, driven by Final Four Most Outstanding Player Kyle Singler's 19 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. Butler took the final shot, a desperation heave that clanked off the rim, sending the Blue Devils into a frenzy. Their 61-59 win will go down as one of the greatest national championship games of all time.
Many of the Boilermakers are from Indiana and with this year's Final Four in Indianapolis, they know the time is now to make a run toward a title.
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Hungry lion is a puzzle game full of action and adventure.
You play as unicorns and your aim is to capture the lion. The lion is hungry and ferocious and will attack you as soon as it gets a chance. So beware!
There are 5 maps:
Water of Life
Heat of Desert
Ruins of Temple
Gates of Castle
Mystery of Caves
Each map has 6 levels.
We also have colorful, more powerful unicorns which would be locked initially. Keep playing to unlock these magically colored unicorns. As mentioned in the rules of the game, after earning a certain number of stars in 6 levels of a map, you can unlock the unicorn of that map!
The game is a nice brain teaser puzzle game. The puzzle is about capturing the lion. You will be having a certain track on which the unicorns can walk. The point on the track marked by stones are the vertex points where any animal can rest. You can move your unicorns by selecting the unicorn and then selecting the stone. The constraint of the puzzle game is, you can move any unicorn only to adjacent point on the track. Lion has the same constraint, but there's an exception in this brain teaser game. When unicorn is standing adjacent to lion, and there's and empty point behind the unicorn in a straight line, lion will jump and kill the unicorn. And hence, this is your challenge in the puzzle. You need to avoid such situations, or back up your unicorn with another unicorn. So keep moving your unicorns until you reach a position where lion has got nowhere to move!


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Arizona credit unions reported the highest return on average assets in the country during first quarter 2012, according to the NCUA's Quarterly U.S. Map Review. But despite 123 basis points worth of profit, things aren't completely sunny in the Copper State.
With two new credit union partners, CO-OP Financial Services is continuing its push into debit processing and ATM management.
Austin, Texas, based CU reaches out on auto loans.
A new solution to allow mobile administrators to securely view email attachments has been deployed at the $783 million TruWest Credit Union in Tempe, Ariz.
TruWest CU in Tempe, Ariz., is now using a new tool to allow its mobile administrators to securely view email attachments.
NEW ORLEANS -- After regulators told TruWest Credit Union to either reach positive ROA by June or budget using last year's expenses, TruWest Credit Union Senior Vice President Jason Scott made the difficult choice to eliminate 12 full-time positions.


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London, Dec 29 Actress Elizabeth Hurley's nine-year-old son Damian is already planning to take up acting as his career.
"Oh lord, my son is begging me to find him an agent so he can become a child actor," she wrote on microblogging site Twitter.
The actress, who is engaged to Australian cricketer Shane Warne, revealed Damian caught the acting bug when he visited her on the set of "Gossip Girl", when she was filming scenes for her role as Diana Payne, reports femalefirst.co.uk.


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This management style is great when you are dealing with experienced employees or employees that are highly skilled. Sometimes the employees know more about the technical aspects of the job than the manager does and having this approach with those employees gives them respect and makes them more likely to come up with a great idea.
The only downside is that the manager is dependent on his employees to come up with a solution and some people view this style of management as being slightly weaker than other management styles.
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Why do Foreigners come to America?
Why do Foreigners come to America?
There are many reasons for the foreigners to come to United States. One of the reasons for the outsiders to come to United States is for employment. They also come here to earn more and keep their families happy. Another reason for the foreigners to come to United States is for educational purpose as well as to be away from extremely bad political scenarios and war. Each immigrant will have his own reason for having come to United States. But, most of them come for employment purpose.
Some people were found to be entering America illegally on foot or by a car. Some of these people will be identified as illegal immigrants while some are not recognized. Most of the foreigners enter the United States legally by taking permission from their government authorities as well as keep necessary documentation required for their check. Some people come to United States by marrying the citizen of United States. The legal immigrants of USA enter this land by aero-plane.
People immigrate to go high up in their social classes by earning some money. The immigrants who come to America for up lifting their families economically take the risk in their lives, for their families. The immigrants risk their lives to get a better life. Some people were found to have immigrated to escape from religious pressures, poverty and political dangers. People immigrate to United States to get better opportunities and better lives and they get freedom to live in the way they like.
The actual reason for the people to enter United States is for prosperity. Economic growth easily surpassing the population growth in countries like United States has fulfilled the dreams of the people who liked to have better lives. United States has provided the life the immigrants aspired for. The immigrants apart from getting benefit from the country also contributed to the economy of United States. It was reported that the immigrants contribute around $10 billion every year to the US economy. Hence, immigrants are definitely a plus to the US economy.
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