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Smyrna, Georgia – Team GLOCK's Tori Nonaka once again captures the USPSA Lady's Championship, taking the Limited Class and B Division National titles home for 2014
The Back-to-Back ladies champion took the Limited 10 title in 2013 marking the record books as the youngest female competitor (now age 19) to win a National title... more on Nonaka's win at the USPSA Lady's Championship
Smyrna, Georgia - Nearly 1,350 competitors and enthusiasts attended the
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becoming the most highly participated action pistol match in World history.
The weekend-long match held outside Conyers, GA at the
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exceeded participation expectations. The level of attendance reaching 1,350 people, making it the most highly attended GSSF event in its 21 year run.
R. Lee Ermey, the "Gunny" presided over his namesake match and was assisted by this year's celebrity guest shooter, Film & TV star Clifton Collins, Jr. who is most known
for his roles in the films Pacific Rim, Star Trek, and Capote, which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Smyrna, Georgia – Team GLOCK Captain KC Eusebio and Tori Nonaka competed in the last remaining Area Championships. They continue to ramp up for the USPSA Nationals that will be held September 24-28, 2014, in St George, UT.
The Area 4 Championship was held at the Old Fort Gun Club in Fort Smith, AR. In the 13-stage match, Nonaka shot a penalty free match to secure her High Lady title for the match. Nonaka commented, "I really enjoyed competing at Area 4. The match was well designed with no shoot targets and difficult shooting positions. I like the challenge of determining when to speed up orslow down depending on the difficulty level of the target."
The following week Team GLOCK advanced on to Dartmouth, MA, for the USPSA Area 7 match. The nine stage, 204+ roundcount match found Nonaka once again standing on the podium collecting yet another High Lady award, while Team Captain, KC Eusebio swooped in with an incredible performance to capture the OPEN title for the Northeastern Classic. "I was incredibly focused at this match. Everything came together as I attacked each of the stages. I was keenly aware of whom I was competing with and I worked a combination strategy of speed and accuracy to pull this win off," commented Eusebio.
The Team will return to Georgia to train and prepare for the USPSA Nationals. Shooting tips from the Team can be viewed on the GLOCK website at us.glock.com/confidence/university.
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The GLOCK GROUP is a leading global manufacturer of pistols and accessories. GLOCK's superior engineering has produced a pistol with only 34 parts and a rugged polymer-frame, providing industry-leading reliability shot after shot. GLOCK is renowned for its pistols which are safe, featuring three safeties; simple, offering a low number of components to provide reliability; and fast, with no encumbering parts to slow the speed to fire. This combination makes GLOCK pistols the first choice among consumers and law enforcement, with approximately 65 percent of agencies within the United States choosing to carry GLOCK. Austrian-engineered, the group has manufacturing facilities in the United States and Austria. Based in Smyrna, Ga., GLOCK, Inc. is an advocate for our nation's law enforcement and military personnel, as well as all citizens' Second Amendment right to bear arms. For more information, please visit http://www.glock.com.
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GLOCK Inc. teams up with Brownells, Inc, the
largest supplier of firearms accessories, to bring consumers greater access to
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lives up to their credo of "selection" as they are now to
carry hundreds of GLOCK components.
very excited to be partnering with Glock to offer their full line of parts,"
said Pete Brownell, CEO of Brownells. "This is a great example of two legendary
industry companies teaming up to serve Glock pistol owners and enthusiasts
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Marietta, Georgia – Executives from GLOCK, Inc. Traveled to Marietta City Hall on Wednesday to Recognize the Marietta Police Department for their Outstanding Representation of Public Safety Awareness in Partnership with GLOCK's Gun Safety Campaign.
GLOCK launched June National Safety Month with an online pledge drive to promote gun safety and awareness to the general public. GLOCK asked for the community and the industry to join them in making the same commitment to safety, which they uphold and is at the core of GLOCK Confidence.
More on GLOCK's work with the Marietta Police Department ...
Fort Benning, Georgia -
Not only were titles, medals and bragging rights on the line, but for Junior shooters in these events, the chance to represent the United States at the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Championship in Granada, Spain
was also up for grabs.
Garrett Spurgeon (Canton, Missouri) claimed yet another National Title today by winning the Junior Men's Air Rifle event.
Tim Sherry (Highlands Ranch. Colorado) once again claimed the silver and
Brandon Muske (Burton, Texas) won bronze.
Seems Spurgeon and Sherry are often atop the Junior Men's Rifle podiums together. The pair has been gold/silver and vice versa since earlier this year when Spurgeon won gold and Sherry won silver in Men's Three-Position Rifle at the
National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships (NJOSC). In Men's Air Rifle at NJOSC, Sherry instead would win the gold.
At this National Championships, Spurgeon also won the Junior Men's Three-Position Rifle title and silver in Junior Men's Prone. Sherry took silver in Junior Men's Three-Position Rifle and bronze in Junior Men's Prone.
More on USA Shooting's National Rifle Championships ...
Fort Benning, Georgia - Two Shotgun shooters from the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) took home medals in Double Trap at the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) Munich World Cup June 9.
Staff Sergeants Glenn Eller and Jeff Holguin claimed the silver and bronze medals, respectively, continuing an impressive run by USAMU Soldiers in the discipline.
More on the US Army Marksmanship Unit at the ISSF World Cup ...
Columbus, Georgia - Heckler & Koch introduced its new striker fired pistol, the 9 mm VP9 to the U.S. commercial and law enforcement markets today. The VP9 has been in development for more than four years and its debut marks the return of HK to striker-fired models. Heckler & Koch pioneered striker fired handgun designs with the HK VP70 and P7 pistols more than 35 years ago.
More on HK's new 9mm VP9 Striker Fire pistol ...
Duluth, Georgia - BPI Outdoors, owner of the CVA brand,
has announced the launch of a new and improved CVA website. The site can be
accessed now at www.cva.com.
"We wanted a website that properly
reflected CVA's position as America's # 1 selling muzzleloading brand,"
said Thomas MacAulay, BPI's Director of Digital Media. "The new site is
very user friendly, and has been designed with much attention to ease-of-use
with smart phones and tablets."
While the website provides consumers with a convenient
way to compare CVA's many gun and accessory products, major emphasis was also
placed upon content relevant to the practices... more on the new CVA website ...
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Being myself an Immortelle freak I expected to dig Eau Noir but, unfortunately, that didn't happen. Where Sables pushes to the very limit the boldness of Helichrysum by introducing a massive dose of amber, Eau Noir focuses on its gourmandic/syrupy aspect adding a liqorice effect and a strong vanilla base that bring this composition towards a cloying territory that's very far from my taste. The remarkable lavender note experienced during the opening it's too volatile to properly balance the fragrance sweet heaviness while the general syrupy vibe leans somewhere between the coca-cola effect and sweetened stale coffee.
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Thats exactly opposite how I thought it worked. I thought the thermocouple was suppose to shut off the fuel line if it got too hot. Either way, I cant imaging the thermocouple is even replaceable as I don't even know who made the unit. I assumed it was made by Bristol but it may have been manufactured for Bristol by someone else. There are no markings on the unit to be found.
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When it's not "on the house." (employee theft in the food service & restaurant industry)(includes related information)
INFORTUNATELY, WHAT SHOULD BE SIMply an evening's entertainment in front of the television is a sad fact of real life. Employee theft could cost American business as much as $300 billion a year.
Though no one likes to talk about the problem, the statistics are staggering. The US Department of Commerce estimates that employees stole money, goods, and property valued at $50 billion in 1988, 10 times the total lost to street crime-and the figure increases 15 percent every year.
The profile of the thieves themselves makes the inside job an even more frightening problem for food service operators. Employees who have worked two years or less commit two thirds of all thefts. Young employees, aged 16 to 22, commit 67 percent of thefts. The food service industry's constant need for relatively inexpensive, unskilled labor is a magnet for employees matching this description.
"Some jobs attract people who believe they can enrich themselves through theft," says Ryan Kuhn, president of Reid Psychological Systems, a Chicago-based marketer of employee attitude surveys. Jobs where employees have ready access to cash or merchandise, such as those in food service, are more likely to attract thieves. In large-scale, anonymous surveys, for example, the company has found that about 26 percent of manufacturing employees admit to stealing, but the number admitting to theft in retail establishments rises to nearly 42 percent.
"Employee theft is a constant problem in the restaurant business," says James Walls, cofounder of Stanton Corporation in Charlotte, NC, another paper-and-pencil test marketer, "partly because employees tend to be so transient. It's hard to do background checks. The business also has traditionally lacked good controls. "
According to the National Restaurant Association (NRA), employee theft accounts for four cents of every food service dollar, meaning operators expected to lose about $8.6 billion in revenues in 1989. That figure is far more conservative than the 15 percent the Commerce Department estimates is added to the cost of retail goods by employee theft. About 75 percent of inventory shortages can be directly attributed to employee theft, according to the NRA. Operator profits are literally walking out the back door or being eaten up.
"Employees say to themselves, 'It won't hurt the restaurant, and $100 will help me big time'," says Jeff Ruby, owner of The Waterfront in Covington, KY. "It's an ongoing game of strategy. Every time you put a policy, procedure, or system in place, some employees try to figure out a way to beat it. "
The Waterfront has been plagued with theft, Ruby says, and just when management figures out how one employee is stealing, another employee finds a different way to profit from lax controls or a weak link in the system. Ruby's problems have ranged from a broiler cook selling expensive strip steaks to employees for $3 apiece to a cashier who skimmed nearly $800 in cash from the register when the power went out one night.
Sometimes the problem becomes so pervasive that operators shrug their shoulders in helplessness. Bill Hannan, administrator of nutrition services at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, says employees there have been on staff so long that they're in collusion not only with each other but also with vendors.
"We have a large operation, with nearly $4 million in food going through annually," Hannan says. "Because theft is a problem throughout the hospital, we have a preventive security department, but they can't catch it all. We've had trucks deliver only half of what we ordered. The other half was split between the receiving clerk and the driver and sold on the street. A neighborhood citizen called in to tell us what was going on. We learned that the ringleader was stealing to support his drug habit. "
Surveillance teams and spotters on receiving docks have not been much help, Hannan says, because there is too much camaraderie among employees and drivers. The employees know when they're being watched. Hannan's problems are aggravated because the hospital is a union shop, making it more difficult to fire dishonest employees without conclusive proof of guilt.
EMPLOYEES ARE OFTEN AS CREATIVE as they are daring when it comes to theft, according to the manager of a chain unit in Indianapolis. In one incident, a discrepancy in liquor costs led to the discovery that an employee was stealing two bottles of liquor a night. Every day, the employee came to work wearing cowboy boots, then changed into work shoes. At the end of his shift, he hid the bottles in his cowboy boots, then stashed them in a duffel bag. In another case, a cook took chicken breast fillets and steaks off the line, put them in plastic bags, and stuffed them inside his uniform.
More and more operations are using sophisticated, computerized, point-of-sale (POS) registers to control when and how food is issued from the kitchen, and to keep track of inventory and food costs. But many operators warn that hopes of reducing employee theft should not be pinned to computer technology. For computer-wise employees, in fact, new systems can open the way to new varieties of theft. Management still needs to keep on its toes.
Many young employees are not only resourceful when it comes to theft, but also computer-literate, making manual backup methods imperative to ensure the accuracy of computer systems. A determined thief can find a way to outwit a computer, whether through sophisticated technique or simple sabotage.
Voided checks or items on a check are one easy way for staff members to steal. Many POS systems have a lockout feature that prevents anyone but managers from using the void key, but some employees find a way to outwit the lockout feature. (See accompanying box.)
"We had one waiter who would routinely spill soda on one of the POS terminals, causing it to go down, " says Ruby. Once the terminal was down, the waiter was free to void items on manually written checks, skimming extra money from his customers until the terminal came back on-line or was repaired.
There are probably more ways to steal from an operation than management can imagine. "Recognize that every item in a restaurant can be of some use to someone," says John Buchanan, managing partner of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises in Chicago.
"You can't control or diminish a dishonest employee's need to steal, " agrees Ruby, "but you can lessen the opportunity."
Operators with the least amount of internal theft generally have tightest control of their operations. " You can't pay people the wages we do, tempt them with lax systems, and expect them not to steal," says Art White, assistant to the vice chancellor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. "The first commandment of food service should be: Thou shalt not tempt.
With 130 full-time food service employees and as many as 600 part-time employees during busy times, White says he can't take chances. Storerooms in all areas are kept locked and many have automatic alarms. Once food is issued from a storeroom, it becomes part of food cost, and flash reports are issued weekly to flag food-cost problems.
"We let employees know that we will conduct surprise audits and unannounced cash register counts, " White says, "and we tell students to be sure that employees ring up sales and give them a receipt."
"We take inventory daily, " says the Indianapolis chain unit manager, "and conduct a weekly accounting in all cost areas. " Supplies needed for a shift are pulled under supervision.
Keeping inventory under close surveillance also helps pinpoint a problem, whether it is theft of inventory or cash. "We've substantially reduced our inventory," says Doris Melzarek, manager of food services at 3M Company in St. Paul, MN. "We don't order any more than we need. " This not only makes it easier to monitor inventory, but missing inventory is more easily noticed.
Taking a frequent physical count of inventory also can help point out where a problem lies. If physical inventory matches and is accounted for in an operation, then there may be a cash problem, and reviewing register tapes may reveal the cause of a revenue leak.
Proper inventory control begins before products even enter the back door. "We check deliveries to be sure weights are proper and that what we're getting is what we paid for," says Dean Vlahos, owner of Champ's, a sports bar in Richfield, MN. Ordering and receiving duties also should be separated. If one person is doing both, the inventory can easily be padded for personal gain.
Voided checks must be examined carefully, even when using a computerized POS system. "Check voids in our operation are cross-checked against inventory at the end of the night; referenced as an error, a customer complaint, or as a promotion; and must be signed by the managers," says the Indianapolis manager.
Limiting employee access to and egress from a facility can lessen the amount of inventory that walks out the door. In some restaurants, employees must enter and leave through the front door, past both customers and managers. Others have only one exit for employees, and managers let them out at night or after a shift.
Random checks also discourage employee theft. "We physically watch to see that employees aren't walking out with things in bags," White says. Announcing the fact that duffel bags and purses will be checked at the end of a shift often puts an end to incidents without revealing the identity of a thief, according to some managers.
Cash handling procedures should be reviewed, too. As protection against both internal theft and robbery, Domino's Pizza in Ann Arbor, MI, has instituted a number of safeguards, including drop boxes for drivers, drop safes in the units, limited access to cash registers, and a policy of not letting drivers leave the store with more than $20.
"We also have an internal security group to train personnel on security and safety," says company spokesperson Kerry McNuity. "Most are former police officers who can establish a rapport with local law enforcement and serve as a liaison with the community. "
ON DEVELOPING HONESTY TESTS, we've found three key factors that determine why employees steal and what they take: need, opportunity, and personality dimensions," says Dennis Joy, director of security and productivity testing at London House in Park Ridge, IL. People who are inclined to theft, he says, spend a lot of time figuring out ways to beat the system without getting caught.
"But employees often don't perceive themselves as dishonest, " he says. "By seeing themselves as honest people in a dishonest world, they give themselves a rationale for their activity. High-risk personalities tend to blame organizations for their behavior, not themselves. "
Employees use the excuse that everybody is doing it" to rationalize their own dishonest behavior. In an anonymous survey of employees at two fast-food companies, researchers at London House found that 6 percent admitted taking money, 22 percent admitted taking equipment or merchandise, and 23 percent took supplies for personal use. But 52 percent believed that other employees were taking between $10 and $100 in money, food, or supplies each week.
"An environment conducive to theft, " says Kuhn, " is one where there is a failure to listen to employees and implement their ideas, and a failure to reward effort and ideas." Employees who would otherwise never consider stealing might have second thoughts in the wrong environment. "There's strong motivation when employees feel mistreated, when they feel that management itself is dishonest, or when they see that dishonesty goes unpunished," says Walls.
"My honest employees have been forced to quit," agrees Ruby, "because they wouldn't participate. They would rather leave than be called snitches. And some employees who are exemplary in other ways have admitted to stealing. "
If determined thieves can sabotage even the most sophisticated systems, what hope do operators have? Internal controls and security measures can never completely eliminate the opportunity for theft. The operator's best weapon against internal theft is the employees themselves. And management must set the tone.
As the first step in this endeavor, an operation should give employees a written policy on theft, spelling out guidelines and penalities. Stealing is stealing, whether it is a piece of pie eaten on the sly or money skimmed from the register each night.
Sometimes theft is difficult to prove, and employers are reluctant to risk lawsuits for falsely accusing employees. "Obviously, we wouldn't charge an employee with theft unless we could absolutely prove it, " White says. " But if we catch a cashier not ringing sales, for example, we will discharge that person based on poor performance. We spend a lot of time letting employees know that we will not tolerate theft. " If a restaurant can prove beyond a doubt that an employee is on the take, he or she should be prosecuted-not only as a matter of justice, but to show other employees that theft will bring retribution.
"We hold daily staff meetings to discuss problems and ideas, " says the Indianapolis chain unit manager. "If we've had incidents of theft, we make a big deal of it, so employees will know to watch out for it. You have to put it into perspective for the employees. If someone will steal steaks, then that person is just as likely to steal money from another employee's purse or wallet. The employees appreciate all of our safeguards. It makes them feel that they work in a safe environment. "
"Open communication is one of the best ways to deter theft," agrees Melzarek. "We treat our employees with respect, and we expect the same in return." Meizarek's staff of 175 serves 6,500 meals daily in 15 cafeterias and four executive dining rooms. All are 3M employees. "They talk to each other when they see something irregular happening. They keep each other honest. " Minor incidents are documented and made part of an employee's evaluation. Fortunately, says Melzarek, major forms of punishment, such as dismissal or prosecution, have never had to be used. "The fact is, employees really run your business, " says Vlahos. "My employees have made a lot of money for me, and I treat them with a lot of respect." But he, too, lets his employees know that dishonesty is taboo.
HIRING AND KEEPING HONEST EMployees is important to the health Hand morale of an operation. Until recently, many operations used polygraph tests to screen applicants and maintain the integrity of their employees. But the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, passed by Congress in late December of 1988, sounded what many believe was the death knell for so-called lie detector tests. Polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and related truth detection equipment can no longer be used for preemployment screening.
Employers can still use polygraph tests to investigate specific incidents of theft, but the new law limits even this use. Employers must have a reasonable suspicion that a worker was involved in the incident and must give the employee advance notice of the time, place, and line of questioning involved in the test.
As an alternative, more employers are turning to employee-attitude surveys, a pencil-and-paper honesty test. A few are experimenting with graphology, or handwriting analysis. Unlike polygraphs, which test an employee's admission to past or present dishonest activity, these instruments help predict an employee's future behavior.
"We had the usual problems of employee theft, " says Gordon Heiss of La Casa Sena in Santa Fe, NM, despite the fact that the restaurant employs fairly rigorous security measures, including a POS system, locks on all walk-ins and storerooms, and a closed-circuit television camera on the back door. "Now we have employees turning in cash found on the locker-room floor. "
Heiss attributes the honest environment, in part, to applicant screening with attitude surveys. The restaurant also does an attitude survey annually to reveal employees' attitudes towards management, use of drugs, job satisfaction, and other factors. The review identifies potential problems and helps management improve systems.
"We have all the inventory control systems and locks in place. " says John Hawes, a human resources director with Gilbert-Robinson in Kansas City, MO. "The employee attitude survey was a piece of the puzzle that we felt was missing. "
Gilbert-Robinson uses the tests primarily for employees who are applying for positions that involve handling cash and goods: receiving workers, bartenders, cashiers, and managers. The company's director of loss prevention also conducts manager training sessions on security issues in Kansas City.
"The attitude survey gives us confidence in an employee's overall character, not just integrity, " Hawes says. But employers should not base hiring decisions solely on honesty tests. Most operators say that checking references thoroughly is an indispensable step in screening applicants. Applicants also should be interviewed by more than one person, so that managers can compare notes, catch any discrepancies in the applicant's job history, and get a feel for how well the employee will work out in his or her operation.
Operators can clean house, even when employee theft seems so pervasive that they despair of ever running an honest business. They must be committed, however, to their own policies and systems.
"If the problem is really pervasive, says Stanton Corporation's Walls,
employers should implement a post-employment attitude test to find out who's potentially dishonest, and who's not. Then management should interview employees whose attitudes reflect dissatisfaction with dishonest activities that may be occurring. Get their feedback and ideas. "
Once the operation has used the survey to narrow down the list of suspect employees, and internal systems have been checked to see where theft could be occurring, management should bring in an investigative firm to prove guilt, Walls suggests. Document the dishonest activities, fire dishonest or poorly performing employees, and hire thoroughly screened employees in their places.
While few operators like the idea of employing spies, they often are used as a last resort. "Since our controls are pretty tight, usually we only have a cash problem when there's been a change in staff," says the Indianapolis unit manager. "If we suspect a cash problem, occasionally we'll bring in a spotter to watch an employee."
"We have an outside agency come in twice a week to audit our entire system," Vlahos says. "They rate us on everything, from the friendliness of our reservations person to ambiance, cleanliness, staff appearance and knowledge, and speed of service. We let the employee know this is going on. We're trying to keep the restaurant on its toes, not catch anyone in the act. But they'll spot a problem if it exists."
While operators may differ in their handling of theft-related problems, the constants among those who have a low incidence of internal crime are tight controls and unflinching intolerance of dishonesty.
"That doesn't mean you should be paranoid," says Lettuce's Buchanan, "but don't be naive, either."
Managers cannot be just good guys or bad guys. They almost have to be parental figures, policing their operations, but listening to and understanding their employees as well.
"We have to be psychologists as well as police," according to the unit manager in Indianapolis. "If employees are having personal problems, I'd much rather they come to me and try to work them out than steal. "
"If you help your employees, your employees will help your restaurant," Vlahos agrees. "I've even put some of my people through drug-rehab programs in the past few years. "
All believe, however, that the same courtesies should not be extended to dishonest employees. Creating a corporate culture where honesty is fostered means unfailing discipline of dishonest employees. The bottom line is that operators' businesses are at stake. Unchecked, the inside job can easily cause a business to fail. The operator who doesn't take steps to put preventive systems and procedures in place may well be next year's statistic.
About the Author . . . Michael Sherer, owner and operator of Sherer Communications, is a public relations a marketing consultant. He writes for a number of food and food service trade journals. Sherer is a former restaurant manager and a member of the International Foodservice Editorial Council.
Creating a Positive Work Environment
RYAN KUHN, PRESIDENT OF REID Psychological Systems in Chicago, outlines these nine guidelines to establishing a positive internal culture:
* Select honest employees by using an effective preemployment screening system.
* Make employees feel they are part of a team. Encourage their contributions and ideas with incentives, awards, regular performance reviews, and active listening.
* Develop a manager's code of ethics, drafted by the managers themselves.
* Write antitheft policies and communicate them often to employees.
* Use attitude surveys to identify disgruntled employees and to find out whether employees think their work environment is honest.
* Establish timely and accurate internal controls, including inventories and smart cash handling practices.
* Develop a grievance system that provides due process and treats all employees fairly.
* Reward employees with cash bounties and recognition for reducing theft. Profit sharing gives employees a stake in maintaining the profitability of the operation.
* Recognize and reward excellent performance.
Screening Applicants
USE AS MANY OF THESE SCREENing techniques as possible, and standardize them for all applicants, particularly for the same job category; otherwise, discrimination suits could result.
* Job application form: Read carefully. Red flags include a lack of professional references, fictitious addresses, conflicting dates of employment, unexplained reasons for leaving jobs, lack of a signature, or skipped portions of the application.
* Attitude survey: Designed to evaluate a prospect's integrity, this pencil-and-paper test can be administered before or after the first interview.
* Initial interview: Ask candidates probing questions about their backgrounds and goals.
* References: Check thoroughly. Although many employers are reluctant for fear of opening themselves up to legal action, questions about the prospect's strengths and weaknesses may elicit an opinion.
* Second interview: Have another manager conduct the second interview, to confirm the initial interviewer's perceptions of the applicant's abilities, motivation, sense of responsibility, and initiative.
Security at No Cost THESE SIMPLE PROCEDURES TO tighten internal security require only an investment of time and commitment:
* Lock all storage areas and limit access to keys. Only managers should have masters or submasters. Give employees keys to specific storage areas only when something is needed or require that they be accompanied by a supervisor.
* Put away inventory when it arrives and do not allow vendors to deliver at peak hours. * Know what you use and hold unscheduled inventories frequently. * Reduce your inventory, keeping on hand only what you need in the near future. Any inventory that disappears will be more noticeable. * Limit employee access to the premises. Watch employees on the way out at night by standing near the door and saying goodnight. * Do regular checks of employees' packages and bags.
Are You at Risk?
IF A REVIEW OF THE SECURITY checklists in this article suggests that your operation may be vulnerable to internal crime, take action.
The Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association offers a security management course as part of its self-development series. Called "Protecting Restaurant Profits: Managing Security," the course is based on a text developed by Steve Miller, associate professor in Boston University's Hotel and Food Administration Program.
The course of study is organized into four lessons: screening and hiring, warning signs of dishonesty, and explanations of why employees steal; types of internal theft and theft control techniques; good communication procedures, including effective questioning of suspects; and external restaurant security risks and prevention. More information is available from The Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association, 250 South Wacker Drive, Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60606; 800/522-7578.
Cash-Handling Tips
CASH IS MORE TEMPTING TO A POtential thief than almost anything. As with inventory, the tighter the controls, the less opportunity there is for thievery.
* Carefully compare cash taken in to product inventories and sales for that day.
* Limit the number of employees handling cash.
* Conduct unannounced register audits.
* Use drop safes, and clear registers after each shift.
* Make cash deposits daily and use different managers to make them.
* Change locks and safe nations on a regular basis.
Loss of $120,000 Teaches Gladstone's to Avoid the Void Scam
THE COST OF SELLS INCHED UP from the usual 37 percent to 40 percent over a three-month period. It was management's first clue that something was seriously wrong at Gladstone's, a 490-seat restaurant. "We thought we were dealing with a back-of-the-house situation, " says Robert Morris, president of Mor Food 'N Fun in Santa Monica, CA.
Off-duty Los Angeles police officers scanned the loading dock with nightscopes to make sure employees were not operating a wholesale food market at the back door. " Deliveries were double-checked, surprise inventories became a part of the routine, and employees were accompanied when emptying garbage. Managers scrutinized procedures for signs of excessive waste and longrange cameras brought every corner of the kitchen into sharp focus, 24 hours a day.
Finally, Michael Cunningham, vice president of operations, noticed an abnormally high number of voids. He traced the cause to a ring of 15 servers who were systematically defrauding the restaurant by collecting cash from guests, voiding some of the items on the point-of-sale computer system, and walking away with the difference.
Although only managers were authorized to void checks, the ringleader had discovered that he could memorize the code on a manager's security key when it was in view. After requesting and receiving a security key from the computer company, he punched out all the holes with a heated paper clip, then used moistened bread to fill in all but the holes corresponding to the manager's code.
As servers noticed what was going on, they were brought into the ring and the key manufacturing method was repeated until nearly every manager's security key had been duplicated. By the time the scam was discovered, the group had taken Gladstone's for a total of 120,000$48,000 of which bad gone into the ringleader's pocket.
Morris was outraged by the breach of trust. "Our policy is that if you're hungry, we'll give you food. If you steal, you go to jail, " he says. Laboriously, managers worked back through the records, identifying suspect checks and documenting fraudulent voids. The most heavily involved waiters were prosecuted and convicted, and several did time in jail. Others were dismissed in return for cooperating in the case. All are making full restitution.
In the wake of the scam, Gladstone's more rigorous security precautions include requiring managers to produce void reports each day. But Morris thinks computer-related theft will always be a threat: "The kids who work for us were raised with computers. They're quick to see the weaknesses in any system and the ones who aren't honest will exploit them."
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Weather to watch
Indianapolis Colts at Washington Redskins: A 60 percent chance of rain could make this Week 3 preseason clash a wet and sloppy one.
Washington Nationals at Philadelphia Phillies: A 30 percent chance of a thunderstorm at first pitch. The threat of precipitation increases to 50 percent throughout the evening.
Who's hot?
The San Francisco Giants. The Giants are riding a five-game win streak into Saturday afternoon's contest with the Braves.
Who's not?
The Cleveland Indians. The Tribe has dropped nine straight contests heading into Saturday's tilt with Hiroki Kuroda and the Yankees. Cleveland has recorded a pair of losing skids of at least nine games this season. That run of futility marks a first in the franchise's 112-year history.
Key stat
Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre is the second player in MLB history to hit three home runs in a game and a cycle in a seven-day span. The other - Joe DiMaggio in 1948, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Game of the day
Atlanta Braves at San Francisco Giants (-150, 6.5)
Injury that shouldn't be overlooked
Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Chad Billingsley left Friday night's game against Miami in the fourth inning with pain in his right elbow, an apparent recurrence of an injury that landed him on the DL for most of July. The Dodgers are waiting for the results of an MRI taken last night. Billingsley entered the contest with a 6-0 record and 1.29 ERA in his previous six starts.
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"The NFL really needs to kiss and make up with the refs, these replacements are horrible. Frankly, it's kind of embarrassing."- Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe after the team's 12-10 loss to the Chargers on Friday.
Betting news and notes
Houston Astros interim manager Tony DeFrancesco admitted that he would have no issues welcoming veteran hurler Roger Clemens to the team, should that move come about. "If the Astros feel that it's time for him to come up here, then it's their decision, but I have nothing against Roger - he's a Hall of Fame pitcher," DeFrancesco said.
The Blue Jays pushed Left-hander Aaron Laffey to the bullpen to open a rotation spot for Brandon Morrow. Laffey had gone 3-5 with a 4.78 ERA as a starter and could start again when Toronto shifts to a six-man rotation in September.
A potential blockbuster trade circled involving the quartet of Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett and Nick Punto being sent to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a package of prospects on Friday. The deal was finalized Saturday morning. Beckett was scheduled for Saturday's start against the Royals but will have to be replaced. The Red Sox will pay just $12 million of the over $270 million owed to Beckett, Crawford, Gonzalez, and Punto
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Looking for some action and the most interesting events of the weekend? There are seven NFL preseason games this weekend. Here is a brief look at the top four important matchups of the weekend along with a glance at future odds.
1)Indianapolis at Washington, NFL Preseason Week 3, FedEx Field, 4pmET, Saturday
It doesn't get any better than this for preseason. Robert Griffin III vs. Andrew Luck. This is a match made in NFL Preseason heaven. Both teams are 1-1 in the preseason. The Colts have covered both of their games though they lost to Pittsburgh 26-24 last week on the road. The Skins are coming off falling to Chicago, 33-31 last week on the road. Last year, the Skins beat Indy on the road in preseason, 16-3. Washington is 8-1 ATS in Week 3. Washington is a 3.5-point favorite and the total is 43.
2)Houston at New Orleans, NFL Preseason Week 3, Superdome, 8pmET
This should be a high-scoring preseason game. Houston won (SU and ATS) their first two games, beating Carolina and San Francisco. New Orleans has played three games and has lost 2 of 3. Last week, they fell at home to Jacksonville, 27-24. Last year, Houston beat the Saints in Week 2 of Preseason, 27-14, getting 2.5 at home. New Orleans is 5-0 ATS in Week 3. The Saints are 3-point favorites and the total is 44.
3)San Francisco at Denver, NFL Preseason Week 3, Mile High Stadium, 4pmET, Sunday
Peyton Manning faces one of the toughest defenses in the NFL on Sunday for his second home game. Denver split their first two games as they fell to Seattle last week at home, 30-10. San Francisco is 1-1 in the preseason, falling at Houston, 20-9 last week. Denver is 10-0 ATS off a home loss. Denver is a 2-point favorite and the total is 40.5.
4)Carolina at NY Jets, NFL Preseason Week 3 MetLife Stadium, 8pmET
The Jets will show up on Sunday night but will there offense show up? Carolina split their first two games, winning last week at home against Miami, 23-17. The Jets lost both games and have scored just nine points in two games. Mark Sanchez needs to put some points on the board. NY Jets is 8-1 ATS off a SU loss as a favorite. The Jets are a 2-point favorite and the total is 40.5.
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Here are the latest odds to win the U.S. Open from 5dimes. Serena Williams is the women's favorite even though she is the fourth seed. Novak Djokovic is the men's favorite but Roger Federer has an excellent shot to win back-to-back Grand Slams, But he has to get past Andy Murray, who defeated him for the gold medal in the Olympics.
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The Search for BP's Oil
Being out in the open gulf today, I find it is impossible not to be awed by nature's capacity to cleanse and renew itself. At the height of the disaster, I had looked down at these waters from a Coast Guard aircraft. What I saw changed me. I realized that I had always counted on the ocean to be a kind of outer space on earth, too mysterious and vast to be fundamentally altered by human activity, no matter how reckless. Now it was covered to the horizon in gassy puddles like the floor of an auto repair shop. Shouting over the roaring engines, a fresh-faced Coast Guard spokesman assured the journalists on board that within months, all the oil would be gone, broken down by dispersants into bite-size morsels for oil-eating microbes, which would, after their petroleum feast, promptly and efficiently disappear—no negative side effects foreseen.
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At the time I couldn't believe he could feed us this line with a straight face. Yet here that body of water is, six months later: velvety smooth and, according to the tests conducted on the WeatherBird II, pretty clean, at least so far. Maybe the ocean really is the world's most powerful washing machine: throw in enough dispersant (the petrochemical industry's version of Tide), churn it around in the waves for long enough, and it can get even the toughest oil spills out.
"I despise that message—it's blindly simplified," says Ian MacDonald, a celebrated oceanographer at Florida State University. "The gulf is not all better now. We don't know what we've done to it."
MacDonald is arguably the scientist most responsible for pressuring the government to dramatically increase its estimates of how much oil was coming out of BP's well. He points to the massive quantity of toxins that gushed into these waters in a span of three months (by current estimates, at least 4.1 million barrels of oil and 1.8 million gallons of dispersants). It takes time for the ocean to break down that amount of poison, and before that could happen, those toxins came into direct contact with all kinds of life-forms. Most of the larger animals—adult fish, dolphins, whales—appear to have survived the encounter relatively unharmed. But there is mounting evidence that many smaller creatures—bacteria, phytoplankton, zooplankton, multiple species of larvae, as well as larger bottom dwellers—were not so lucky. These organisms form the base of the ocean's food chain, providing sustenance for the larger animals, and some grow up to be the commercial fishing stocks of tomorrow. One thing is certain: if there is trouble at the base, it won't stay there for long.
According to experiments performed by scientists at the University of South Florida, there is good reason for alarm. When it was out in the gulf in August, the WeatherBird II collected water samples from multiple locations. Back at the university lab, John Paul, a professor of biological oceanography, introduced healthy bacteria and phytoplankton to those water samples and watched what happened. What he found shocked him. In water from almost half of the locations, the responses of the organisms "were genotoxic or mutagenic"—which means the oil and dispersants were not only toxic to these organisms but caused changes to their genetic makeup. Changes like these could manifest in a number of ways: tumors and cancers, inability to reproduce, a general weakness that would make these organisms more susceptible to prey—or something way weirder.
Before we left on the cruise, I interviewed Paul in his lab; he explained that what was so "scary" about these results is that such genetic damage is "heritable," meaning the mutations can be passed on. "It's something that can stand around for a very long time in the Gulf of Mexico," Paul said. "You may be genetically altering populations of fish, or zooplankton, or shrimp, or commercially important organisms.... Is the turtle population going to have more tumors on them? We really don't know. And it'll take three to five years to actually get a handle on that."
The big fear is a recurrence of what happened in Prince William Sound after the Exxon Valdez spill. Some pink salmon, likely exposed to oil in their larval stage, started showing serious abnormalities, including "rare mutations that caused salmon to grow an extra fin or an enlarged heart sac," according to a report in Nature. And then there were the herring. For three years after the spill, herring stocks were robust. But in the fourth year, populations plummeted by almost two-thirds in Prince William Sound and many were "afflicted by a mysterious sickness, characterised by red lesions and superficial bleeding," as Reuters reported at the time. The next year, there were so few fish, and they were so sick, that the herring fishery in Prince William Sound was closed; stocks have yet to recover fully. Since Alaskan herring live for an average of eight years, many scientists were convinced that the crash of the herring stocks was the result of herring eggs and larvae being exposed to oil and toxins years earlier, with the full effects manifesting themselves only when those generations of herring matured (or failed to mature).
Could a similar time bomb be ticking in the gulf? Ian MacDonald at Florida State is convinced that the disturbances beginning to register at the bottom of the food chain are "almost certain to ripple up through other species."
Here is what we know so far. When researchers from Oregon State University tested the waters off Grand Isle, Louisiana, in June, they found that the presence of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) had increased fortyfold in just one month. Kim Anderson, the toxicologist leading the study, described the discovery as "the largest PAH change I've seen in over a decade of doing this." June is spawning season in the gulf—the period, beginning in April, when enormous quantities of eggs and larvae drift in nearly invisible clouds in the open waters: shrimp, crabs, grouper, bluefin tuna, snapper, mackerel, swordfish. For western Atlantic bluefin, which finish spawning in June and are fished as far away as Prince Edward Island, these are the primary spawning grounds.
John Lamkin, a fisheries biologist for NOAA, has admitted that "any larvae that came into contact with the oil doesn't have a chance." So, if a cloud of bluefin eggs passed through a cloud of contaminated water, that one silent encounter could well help snuff out a species already on the brink. And tuna is not the only species at risk. In July Harriet Perry, a biologist at the University of Southern Mississippi, found oil droplets in blue crab larvae, saying that "in my forty-two years of studying crabs I've never seen this." Tellingly, this vulnerability of egg and larvae to oil does not appear to have been considered when the Macondo well was approved for drilling. In the initial exploration plan that BP submitted to the government, the company goes on at length about how adult fish and shellfish will be able to survive a spill by swimming away or by "metaboliz[ing] hydrocarbons." The words "eggs" and "larvae" are never mentioned.
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Already there is evidence of at least one significant underwater die-off. In November Penn State biologist Charles Fisher led a NOAA-sponsored expedition that found colonies of ancient sea fans and other coral coated in brown sludge, 1,400 meters down. Nearly all the coral in the area was "dead or in the process of dying," Fisher told me. And he echoed something I heard from many other scientists: in a career of studying these creatures, he has never seen anything like this. There were no underwater pools of oil nearby, but the working theory is that subsea oil and dispersants must have passed through the area like some kind of angel of death.
We may never know what other organisms were trapped in a similarly lethal cloud, and that points to a broader problem: now that we are beyond the oil-covered-birds phase, establishing definitive links between the spill and whatever biogenetic or ecological disturbances are in store is only going to get harder. For instance, we know the coral died because of all the bodies: ghostly coral corpses litter the ocean floor near the wellhead, and Fisher is running tests to see if he can find a definitive chemical link to BP's oil. But that sort of forensics simply won't be possible for the much smaller life forms that are even more vulnerable to BP's toxic cocktail. When larval tuna or squid die, even in huge numbers, they leave virtually no trace. Hollander uses the phrase "cryptic mortality" to describe these phantom die-offs.
All this uncertainty will work in BP's favor if the worst-case scenarios eventually do materialize. Indeed, concerns about a future collapse may go some way toward explaining why BP (with the help of Kenneth Feinberg's Gulf Coast Claims Facility) has been in a mad rush to settle out of court with fishermen, offering much-needed cash now in exchange for giving up the right to sue later. If a significant species of fish like bluefin does crash three or even ten years from now (bluefin live for fifteen to twenty years), the people who took these deals will have no legal recourse. Even if a case did end up in court, beating BP would be tricky. As part of the damage assessment efforts, NOAA scientists are conducting studies that monitor the development of eggs and larvae exposed to contaminated water. But as Exxon's lawyers argued in the Valdez case, wild fish stocks are under a lot of pressure these days—without a direct chemical link to BP's oil, who's to say what dealt the fatal blow?
In a way, the lawyers will have a point, if a disingenuous one. As Ian MacDonald explains, it is precisely the multiple stresses on marine life that continue to make the spill so dangerous. "We don't appreciate the extent to which most populations are right on the edge of survival. It's very easy for populations to go extinct." He points to the sperm whales—there are only about 1,600 of them in the northern Gulf of Mexico, a small enough population that the unnatural death of just a few whales (which breed infrequently and later in life) can endanger the community's survival. Acoustic research has found that some sperm whales responded to the spill by leaving the area, a development that oceanographers find extremely worrying.
One of the things I am learning aboard the WeatherBird II, watching these scientists test for the effects of invisible oil on invisible organisms, is not to trust my eyes. For a few months last year, when BP's oil formed patterns on the surface of these waters that looked eerily like blood, industrial society's impact on the ocean was easy for all to see. But when the oil sank, it didn't disappear; it just joined so much else that the waves are hiding, so many other secrets we count on the ocean to keep. Like the 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico, and the network of unmonitored underwater pipelines that routinely corrode and leak. Like the sewage that cruise ships are entirely free to dump, under federal law, so long as they are more than three miles from shore. Like a dead zone the size of New Jersey. Scientists at Dalhousie University in Halifax predict that if we continue our rates of overfishing, every commercial fish stock in the world could crash by midcentury. And a study published in Nature in July found that global populations of phytoplankton have declined about 40 percent since 1950, linked with "increasing sea surface temperatures"; coral is bleaching and dying for the same reason. And on and on. The ocean's capacity to heal itself from our injuries is not limitless. Yet the primary lesson being extracted from the BP disaster seems to be that "mother nature" can take just about anything we throw at her.
As the WeatherBird II speeds off to the third research station, I find myself thinking about something New Orleans civil rights attorney Tracie Washington told me the last time I was on the Gulf Coast. "Stop calling me resilient," she said. "I'm not resilient. Because every time you say, 'Oh, they're resilient,' you can do something else to me." Washington was talking about the serial disasters that have battered New Orleans. But if the poisoned and perforated gulf could talk, I think it might say the same thing.


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AC Milan primavera coach Filippo Galli is the latest Rossoneri official to gush with praise for new Brazilian signing Alexandre Pato.
Galli oversaw a bounce game between the first team and youth players yesterday, which featured Pato and also fit-again Ronaldo, and was full of praise for the young striker.
Galli said: "Since he arrived, I have always seen Pato working hard in training. He has goals inside him, and beyond this is a player who works hard for his teammates, it is always something important for the team.
"It is not easy to find players of this calibre. Obviously, we are talking about seeing him in training, but also in other games played against the primavera team, or with other clubs, he has proved to be an extraordinary player."


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Clumps Come Up Trumps
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods.
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Whether you're craving a thriller or a tearjerker, this list has a book for every afternoon spent in the sun. Throw one of these page-turners in your bag and prepare to lose yourself.
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There's nothing better than relaxing at the beach or by the pool with a good book in your hand. This summer kick back with one of these new release by our favorite authors from our sister company Simon & Schuster.


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translation and definition "offset", English-Arabic Dictionary online
Translations into Arabic:
- ,بوبنأ يف ءاوتلا ,تابن نم ةليسف ,ضوع ,سفوأ ةعابط يف ئجافم ريغت ,فاجلا ريغ ربحلا لاقتنا ,نزاوملا ,ءاوتلاام ئش داعبأ
- حيد[حاسوب]
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offset printing
Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
difference in memory addresses
(obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
to compensate for something
compensating equivalent
To compensate for something.
To move an object from its initial X, Y, and Z (three-dimensional objects only) coordinates to new coordinates.
The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another
(international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
(programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
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|حساب مقابل
|offset entry
|إدخال مقاصة
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A Pair of Paleys
Sunday, July 11, 2010
A quirky odyssey and memories of a father, in two stories by the late, great, Grace Paley.
Grace Paley can be said to have been the Founding Mother of SELECTED SHORTS, allowing her work to be featured in our earliest programs, hosting short story evenings at Symphony Space, and introducing us to new and still unsung writers. Paley influenced a generation of young writers in New York and at the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop, and her many literary honors, in a writing career spanning more than half a century, included the Rea Award for the Short Story.
In a number of her works, which include the collections Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and Collected Stories (a Pulitzer Prize nominee), Paley writes in the voice of a fictional alter ego, Faith. Both stories on this program—which is our hail and farewell to our old friend and colleague—are Faith stories. First Laura Esterman reads "The Long Distance Runner," a fantastical account of Faith's encounter with the people who now live in her old apartment.
Another recurring theme of Paley's fiction was her loving but challenging relationship with her émigré father, and our second work, "A Conversation with My Father," has Faith's feisty parent scolding the author for her non-traditional narrative style. The actress who starred in the Broadway drama "Night Mother," Anne Pitoniak, treats us to Paley's attempts to "just tell a simple story."
"The Long-Distance Runner," by Grace Paley read by Laura Esterman
"A Conversation with My Father," by Grace Paley read by Anne Pitoniak
The musical interlude is "Paper Planes" from the soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire, performed by M.I.A. The SELECTED SHORTS theme is Roger Kellaway's "Come to the Meadow."
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Wonderful story; HORRID reading. Ms. Esterman's voice for the Black characters in the Paley piece is beyond irritating and quite insulting. Has she ever spoken to an atual Black person? I'm sure Grace Paley would roll and roil in her grave if she heard the manner in which this reading was so sabotaged by Laura Esterman's small-mindedness.
What a disappointment.
Wonderful! thanks. Changed our evening.
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Ferrer, Almagro Finish Strong In Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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World No. 4 David Ferrer rallied for a 2-6, 6-4, 6-0 second-round victory over David Nalbandian on Thursday at the Copa Claro in Buenos Aires. In the final set, the top-seeded Ferrer won all 12 of his service points to finish off the Argentine in one hour and 31 minutes.
Ferrer, the defending champion, is bidding to lift his second trophy of the season, following a successful title defence at the Heineken Open in Auckland (d. Kohlschreiber). He will play sixth seed Fabio Fognini in the quarter-finals. Fognini ended the campaign of Argentine lucky loser Marco Trungelliti with a 7-5, 6-2 win in one hour and 35 minutes.
Second seed Nicolas Almagro finished strongly to defeat Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov 7-6(5), 6-2 in 83 minutes. The Spaniard is bidding to reach the final in Buenos Aires for the third time and saved all seven break points he faced to deny Kuznetsov his second Top 20 win of the season.
The 27-year-old Almagro won one of his 12 ATP World Tour clay-court titles in Buenos Aires in 2011 (d. Chela) and finished runner-up to David Ferrer in last year's final. Almagro goes on to face qualifier Federico Delbonis, who defeated Albert Montanes 6-1, 6-4 in 61 minutes, dropping just five points on serve throughout. World No. 123 Delbonis won an ATP Challenger Tour title in Bucaramanga last month.
Third seed Stanislas Wawrinka beat Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-1, 6-4. Wawrinka won 50 per cent of his return points to break serve four times. The Swiss will play another Spaniard, eighth-seeded Albert Ramos, in the quarter-finals. Ramos overcame Argentina's Leonardo Mayer 6-3, 7-6(3) in one hour and 39 minutes.
Former champion Tommy Robredo defeated Diego Sebastian Schwartzman 6-3, 6-1 in 65 minutes, breaking serve four times. The Spaniard, who lifted the trophy in 2009 (d. Monaco), is through to his first ATP World Tour quarter-final since July at the SkiStar Swedish Open in Bastad (l. to Ferrer). He will face Germany's Julien Reister, who battled past Aljaz Bedene 6-1, 1-6, 6-2.
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Algeria attack poses fresh security issues
BP and Royal Dutch Shell, whose employees in Nigeria have been the targets of gangs of kidnappers and militants, would not comment on security arrangements in Algeria. But Ted Jones, the CEO of specialist evacuation company Northcott Global Solutions in London, noted companies alarmed by the attack are scaling up their physical security, moving from unarmed to armed operations, and shifting nonessential staff to safer locations.
Companies can become complacent after a period of safe operation, he said, then change course when something terrible occurs.
"Suddenly something like this happens and they realize they're much closer to the danger ... and there's a sort of panic response, which is perfectly natural," he said.
The energy industry is not a new target. McCredie recalled that significant changes in security followed terror attacks in Saudi Arabia, including a 2004 hostage-taking incident at oil industry compounds at Khobar which ended in the deaths of 22 people.
"There have been all sorts of attacks in other places, Yemen, Syria, Iraq. These attacks are not unusual. What's unusual about this one is it was a big surprise. It shouldn't have been," McCredie said. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb "had been making these threats for a long time. No one thought they had the capacity."
But, he said there are limits to what even extra security forces could accomplish in the battle against terrorists.
"They are mobile, it's a huge vast area, very, very difficult to police, and difficult to keep up surveillance, so a small number of people can have the element of surprise," McCredie said. "Security forces can't patrol the whole area."
AP reporters Gregory Katz, Jill Lawless and Cassandra Vinograd in London and Greg Keller in Paris contributed to this report.
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