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It's the number one problem, say supervisors
When asked to name their number one problem with employees, employers of all kinds answer loud and clear: "Poor communication skills!" Whether talking about entry level applicants, recent high school or college grads, office workers or blue-collar workers, the complaints follow a pattern.
"Sometimes the job skills are excellent but the communication skills are another story."
"High school grads, college grads — we have to teach them how to write."
"They're great at using technology, but the content is lacking. They don't know what to say or how to say it."
"They don't know how to talk to people."
What are these all-important "communication skills," and how can we improve our own?
Communication Skills Rule the Working World
Starting with the person who's out of work, or is looking for something better: Job seekers need writing skills to showcase their experience and strengths in cover letters, resumes and in e-mail responses to online ads or company websites. Any applicant who can bring his or her assets to life in words has an edge over the competition.
Your verbal communication skills are like your appearance. In the job interview — and networking — it's the first thing people notice about you. Even the message on your answering machine should be mature and professional.
On -the-job, solid writing skills can produce a professional business letter, report or email. A simple memo has to be organized and clear. Good speaking skills are essential in interacting with supervisors and coworkers, in training a coworker and, of course, on the phone or online with customers and the public.
Do you have management ambitions? You'll need top-notch communication skills to write a business plan, speak to a group, create an effective PowerPoint presentation, negotiate a contract or explain company policy to employees. Every business has public relations needs; it takes high-quality communication skills to project the right image for your company.
In any sales capacity — but especially in retail — communication skills are the key to selling goods and services and turning customers into happy campers.
In American business, the team player is the ideal, but sometimes a man or woman must "speak to power." To stand strong without burning your bridges calls for superb communication skills.
No wonder employers want "excellent communication skills." As one human resources executive puts it, "Poor communication skills can be a real career killer." How can you improve yours?
It's All Relative
Our basic training in communications began in that small world where we grew up — the world of family, friends and early schooling. That's where we learned our "default" vocabulary and grammar, speech patterns, facial expressions and body language. When we leave the old neighborhood and enter the wider world, we find ourselves in a very different environment that asks us to grow as communicators.
Just as a standup comic uses different jokes and language in front of a Vegas crowd, at a women's club or on Letterman or Leno, being a competent communicator means being sensitive to the differences between audiences and adjusting content and language accordingly. To some extent, it happens naturally, but it also takes conscious effort.
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As communicators, most people are the classic diamond in the rough — in need of polishing. Start by envisioning where you are and where you're going. You don't need a crystal ball, just ask yourself a few questions.
• In what field do you think you'll spend most of your work life? Will it be healthcare, computers, teaching, show business, retail, law?
• How high do you hope to climb? Will you be content in a support or staff role, or do you want to become a manager, maybe even a corporate leader?
• What kind of people will you be working with? Businesspeople, blue-collar workers, doctors or lawyers, police or firemen, social workers?
Your ambitions and interests may change over time, but being clear about your goals will give you a sense of what communication tools and style you need to nurture.
• How much formal education will you need in your field? Plan on getting all you can. Those who keep learning keep growing as human beings and gain value as employees.
• In your present or next job, what are the communication responsibilities? Mostly writing, talking to people face to face, working the phones, communicating online?
• Make yourself an insider. Learn the special language of your field. You don't want to appear clueless when your boss or coworkers use industry jargon.
• Monitor your pronunciation, grammar and habitual expressions. Talk any way you want at home, but try to use standard language skills at work.
• If you're asked to produce a document you've never done before, get your hands on a sample. Study and copy it. A big part of building communication skills is imitation and practice.
The benefits of live classes in business communications are structured learning and instructor feedback. But you can learn a lot online as well.
• On the Internet, you can learn free of charge, in a few hours, what used to require time-consuming research. Google "business (or 'workplace') communications." You'll find a lots websites with articles, tips and links.
• Read, read, read. Read the best newspapers and magazines. Read books by modern authors and the masters. Expose your mind to quality language and thinking styles — they will stretch your abilities.
A big part of communicating well is being considerate of the listener or reader. If you speak rapidly or have an accent, consider working on your speech patterns. Be polite to everyone and generous with your smile; treat everyone with respect. These, too, are potent communication tools.
Don't overlook the power of the nonverbal. In every job interview, your body language, facial expressions and manners communicate to the interviewer whether you'll fit into the culture of that particular workplace, whether you'll get along with coworkers and supervisors, and whether you can be trusted with customers.
If your writing, speech or nonverbals are not up to par, probably no one will say a word to your face — but you risk being passed over for opportunities and promotions.
The Silent Skill
There's one more communication skill that goes beyond both words and the nonverbal. The communication avenue runs both ways; it's a sending and a receiving. It's easy to get so caught up in what you have to say, that you forget to listen.
Listening begins when you quietly set aside your own wants and opinions and start paying attention to what the other person is saying.
Listen and you'll find yourself hearing and understanding, maybe for the first time, the other guy's point of view. That's why listening helps in coping with the unhappy customer, complaining boss or upset coworker.
Listening wakes up our intelligence, making it easier to solve problems, understand instructions and pick up on unspoken messages.
Listening tells the other person that you respect what matters to them. It makes compromise and agreement possible. Listening teaches patience and empathy. It's a powerful communication tool well worth cultivating.
Whether or not an employer specifically asks for "excellent communication skills," they all want them in their employees. Anyone who is well endowed with those skills is a giant step closer to their career and employment goals.
Burt Wetanson is a freelance writer who has contributed over 60 articles to Working World. His goal: "To give readers practical tools for success in the tough LA career market."


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Outside the Penn State football stadium stands a statue of legendary coach Joe Paterno, his arm raised in victory. Right next to it, university officials should erect another figure in bronze: a young boy crying out in anguish and being coldly ignored.
Penn State's Board of Trustees commissioned former FBI Director Louis Freeh to investigate how child molester Jerry Sandusky – for years one of Paterno's most trusted and loyal assistants – could have committed his awful crimes under the noses of university officials. The answer is simple and shocking: Those officials simply looked the other way.
"The most saddening finding by the Special Investigative Counsel is the total and consistent disregard by the most senior leaders at Penn State for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims," the report states. "Four of the most powerful people at The Pennsylvania State University ... failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade."
Those four powerful officials include Paterno, who died earlier this year of lung cancer. Almost literally a sainted figure in the world of big-time, big-money college sports, Paterno became aware of seriously inappropriate behavior by Sandusky with young boys at least 14 years ago, according to Freeh's report. Paterno's inaction was shameful.
Most damning is Freeh's finding that in 2001, after an assistant coach saw Sandusky raping a young boy in the showers of a Penn State locker room, an intervention by Paterno was apparently instrumental in convincing university officials to sweep the incident under the rug.
The other three men allegedly involved in the cover-up – former Athletic Director Tim Curley and former Vice President Gary Schultz, both of whom face perjury charges, and former university President Graham Spanier – had decided to notify state child-welfare officials, according to Freeh, who had access to private emails and notes.
But before any action was taken, Curley wrote to Schultz and Spanier that "after giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe," he had decided he would be more "comfortable" meeting with Sandusky, counseling him to get professional help and telling him "his guests are not permitted to use our facilities."
Note the word "guests," which may be one of the most chilling euphemisms I've ever heard.
University officials didn't even follow through on the inadequate response of cutting off Sandusky's access to Penn State facilities. According to Freeh's report, Sandusky "was allowed to have a key for, and continued to work out in" the athletic complex until November of last year. "If university leaders had not granted Sandusky full use of Penn State's football facilities and supported his ways to 'work with young people through Penn State,' sexual assaults of several young boys on the Penn State campus might have been prevented."
It goes without saying that Paterno's legacy is forever tarnished. He was head coach at Penn State for 46 years until being fired last year after Sandusky was arrested and the charges against him made public. Paterno's 409 wins are the most of any Division I coach. His Nittany Lions won two national championships and made 37 bowl appearances. He was especially proud of his football program's record as a model: Penn State avoided the recruiting scandals that involved so many other schools with top-ranked athletic programs, and his football players graduated at an admirable rate.


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President Mugabe yesterday donated 30 state-of-the-art computers to Sabina Mugabe Memorial High and Sacred Heart Secondary Schools as part of his programme to computerise schools. The two schools also received other accessories like print servers, port switches, multimedia speakers and recordable blank CDs. Speaking after receiving the computers at State House, Sacred Heart Secondary School head Sister Ludo Ncube, hailed the President's gesture.
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Viacom sued over Colbert parody on YouTube
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The suit, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in federal court in San Francisco, accuses Viacom of filing a baseless copyright complaint and takedown notice on YouTube, and infringing on the free-speech rights of the makers of the video--activist group MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave New Films.
The tongue-in-cheek clip, "Stop the Falsiness," uses snippets from The Colbert Report, a program on Viacom's Comedy Central, for parody. That approach, the EFF said, is permissible under the "fair use" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, just as The Colbert Report uses excerpts from real news shows in its segments.
"If you watch this clip for 10 seconds it is clear that it's a parody and it is fair use," said Corynne McSherry, staff attorney at the EFF, which is working on the case with Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society.
Under the DMCA, service providers like YouTube, which is owned by Google, are immune from copyright suits if they respond quickly to takedown notices filed by content owners.
However, Viacom says that of the 160,000 takedown notices it has sent out, none of them targeted the "Falsiness" video.
"Your complaint is the first information we have received about this clip. We have reviewed our takedown notices, and have found no record of a takedown notice with respect to this clip," Michael Fricklas, general counsel at Viacom, wrote in a letter to the EFF. "We maintain careful records of all of our takedown notices, so any takedown notice most likely did not come from us."
Viacom reviewed the clip on the "Stop the Falsiness" Web site and has no problem with having it viewed on YouTube or anywhere else, Fricklas said.
McSherry of the EFF said YouTube confirmed that Viacom sent the takedown notice on the clip before the lawsuit was filed. "It may be that (Viacom's) records are confused" given the vast number of takedown notices that they have sent, she said. "I am pleased that Viacom recognizes that MoveOn.org and Brave New Films are allowed to do exactly the same thing that Stephen Colbert does every night, which is engage in parody."
McSherry said she could not say whether the lawsuit would be dropped or not. "As far as we are concerned, at this point we still have a lawsuit pending," she said. "(The clip) was still taken down in the first place. Damage was done."
YouTube itself declined to comment directly on whether Viacom had sent the takedown notice.
The suit seeks damages and attorneys' fees, as well as an order allowing the video to be reposted to YouTube. The EFF also has sent a counter notice to YouTube alleging that Viacom's takedown notice was illegal; if YouTube agrees, the video could re-appear on the site within 10 days, McSherry said.
MoveOn.org Civic Action posted the video to YouTube in August and noticed about two weeks ago that it had been removed from the video-sharing site, according to McSherry.
Viacom has been aggressive in getting its content removed from YouTube, sending the site takedown notices involving 100,000 video clips in February and filing a $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google and YouTube last week.
In another recent DMCA case, the EFF successfully sued a blogger, Michael Crook, who forced Web sites to remove a screenshot showing his face from a TV news show he appeared on. However, unlike the Viacom case where the media company owns the copyright to the video snippets in question, McSherry said, Crook did not own the copyright for the video in which he appeared.
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- Thanks EFF
- Protecting one's legal and just copyright is one thing. Quashing
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- Not misuse
- I don't consider it misuse of the law when Viacom makes demands (outside of court) when Viacom does not have the right to enforce those demands. Let YouTube consider its own rights and choose to concede or refuse. If YouTube gives up more rights than it needs to, then that's YouTube's fault, not Viacom's.
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- You Don't Understand DMCA
- Viacom told YouTube to take down the clips via a DMCA take down request form, which the have to swear under perjury that they own the clips, they violate their copyright, and they must be removed. Under law, YouTube has to take down the requested content until a counter-notification (citing Section 512 of the DMCA) from the original poster is received.
By sending a DMCA take notice to YouTube for non-copyright violating request, Viacom broke the same law they were trying to enforce.
Check out NFL fumbles DMCA takedown battle from Ars Technica for more information. (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070320-nfl-fumbles-dmca-takedown-battle-could-face-sanctions.html)
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- Counter notice (put-up notice) rights
- From another series of articles on the NFL takedown against a college professor who posted the copyright notice from the Super Bowl broadcast, it appears that a properly filed counter notice does NOT require that YouTube agree with the notice. They have to take it as a good faith assertion from the poster, have no alternative under the DCMA not to put it back up (unless it independently violates their own Terms and Conditions), and are still protected from liability once the counter notice has been filed.
In addition, if Viacom simply repeats the takedown notice instead of going to court, that is itself a violation of the DCMA, in that it is a false representation by Viacom.
The college professor in the NFL case is also an attorney with the EFF and the founder of the ChillingEffects website.
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Quarrels are an integral part of showbiz everywhere in the world. It often begins as a means of protecting interests (business and emotions). Two of Nollywood's distinguished actresses, Ini Edo and Oge Okoye, have been at logger- heads for a few years now and the enmity has continued to retrogress, in spite of spirited efforts by mutual friends of the twosome to resolve the matter.
The feud started a few years back when Ini accused Oge Okoye of being behind some of her private issues which appeared in the press, one of which is the abortion tale. Another is that of a certain US-based businessman who was dating Ini, in spite of the fact that his wife was Ini's friend.
"That particular story which found its way into the press was distorted. However, Ini had accused Oge Okoye of being behind the rumuors at the time. Although Oge vehemently denied it, Ini did not forget that experience. It was at that point that she decided to sack her personal assistant and move out of her residence at Anthony Village. That was the origin of the bad blood," the source squealed.
However, Oge Okoye's marriage to Mr. Duru, who is based in Holland, availed her the opportunity to level up. She was said to have inflamed the situation by telling some of her close associates that she was keeping to herself because of her new status as a married woman, insinuating that people like Ini Edo who were not married yet could go on hob-nobbing in social circles.
It was gathered that the peak of the bad blood came when Oge Okoye was excluded from the Globacom Ambassadors' list, the endorsement deal, which is reputed to have fetched each of the artistes N30m. According to the source, Oge Okoye still believes that Ini Edo may have secretly worked to ensure she was dropped from the list.
"The Globacom Ambassadors' deal was brokered with the help of Uche Jombo. The arrangement was originally for members of the clique, which includes people like Desmond Elliot, Ini Edo and Uche Jombo. But the company wanted an expanded list which brought in other artistes. However, people in Nollywood still believe that they did a lot to discourage the company from signing on certain people. I think that is where the problem between Oge and Ini as regards that deal began. She believes that Ini Edo used her connections with Uche to scuttle her chances, but only the managers at Globacom can say what their criteria were for picking who the ambassadors would be.
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If you are an MYOB or AccountEdge user, you may have noticed that it is next to impossible to export your vital accounting information out of your system. For example, export your items list and there is no stock on hand. Export your customer list and there are no balances. This makes it hard for people to migrate from MYOB into a more modern system.
The converter is a free utility that we provide that will (probably) convert your MYOB or AccountEdge data into a MoneyWorks file! Simply run the converter, choose your MYOB file, set a couple of parameters, and a new MoneyWorks data file will be created with most of your vital accounting information in it (at least that is the theory).
First off, you will need a copy of MoneyWorks Gold (or the MoneyWorks Gold demo) installed on your computer. Then simply download (and, on the Mac, decompress) the MoneyWorks Converter application:
MoneyWorks Converter for Mac (3.2 MB)
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Note that you can put this anywhere on your computer (it doesn't need to be in the Applications or Program Files folder).
Now download and read the MoneyWorks Converter Notes.pdf (about 700kb).
And that in theory is all you need to do. You might at some point want to tidy up your chart of accounts to take advantage of the more powerful concepts available in MoneyWorks.
For more detailed instructions, please download the MoneyWorks Converter Notes.pdf (about 700kb).
If you have used the Converter we would like to hear from you, whether it worked or not. Please let us know how you got on by emailing info at cognito.co.nz.
Is it Guaranteed?
Absolutely not. It is provided on a "best endeavours" basis -- it works for us but may not work for you. In particular there can be so many odd things in an MYOB data file that MoneyWorks just will not let happen, and this may thwart you.
What versions of MYOB or AccountEdge does it work on?
Any version from about 2004 up to and including v19.x. There are a plethora of versions (different for every year and country), and we have tried it with Canadian, US, UK, Australian and New Zealand. In principle it should work for any jurisdiction. Note that it has not been tried on FirstEdge or BusinessBasics files.
It will not work on any versions of AccountRight that use the new database format. This appears to be AccountRight 2012 and later.
My MYOB file has heaps of rubbish in the cards and items file. Should I tidy this up first?
Try just sending it through to MoneyWorks. Maintaining your products and names information in MoneyWorks is much, much easier than in MYOB (for example, you can batch delete).
Where does the MoneyWorks file get created?
It will get created in the same directory as your MYOB file, and will have the same name (but a file extension of .mwd6).
What if I need to do it again?
No trouble -- just run it again (but remember that the previous MoneyWorks file will be over-written, so move it or change its name if you want to keep it for some reason).
Why are some of the products in MoneyWorks showing in Red?
The Converter detected that you had dodgy linked account codes (such as a bank account instead of a cost of sales account), so has replaced the code with something more sensible.
Why are some of the accounts and transactions in MoneyWorks showing in Green?
The Converter detected that these involved a foreign currency. The currency handling under MYOB and MoneyWorks is done differently. You will need to add the appropriate currencies into MoneyWorks (at the last exchange rate used in MYOB), and modify the transactions (they are in the dollar value of the foreign currency, not your local currency). For information on multiple currencies in MoneyWorks please refer to the MoneyWorks Manual (page G253 - available under the Help menu in MoneyWorks).


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International Forum: Addressing the World
Since 1993, Amma has been increasingly recognized by the international community as a treasured repository of practical spiritual wisdom, who has the capacity to guide the world towards a better, brighter future.
Amma is regularly invited by international organisations to address the issues of religious differences, the environment, and peacemaking. The Parliament of the World's Religions chose Her as one of three Presidents of Sanatana Dharma (the Hindu faith). In 1995 Her "Unity is Peace" address was a highlight of the Interfaith Celebrations at the UN 50th Anniversary in New York. In 2000 Amma lent the UN Millennium World Peace Summit a unique charm with Her spontaneity, humility, and tenderness. Asked by the press what She would do if She was the ruler of the world, She responded, "I would be the sweeper," so that She could "sweep everyone's mind clean."
Amma called on the need for women and men to come together in unity, accepting, respecting and valuing each other's differences. coming soon
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ALL three divisional Singles leaders in the Molson Coors CDMWDL were successful last week and extended their leads — but all three were losers in the Sixes.
In division one, the top four teams played each other and Mansel Arms' 4-2 win over White Lion takes them three points clear of Castle Youngsters, who beat second-placed Bizz B 4-2.
There were excellent wins for Fox A and Black Lion, with the same scorelines in both sections of division one to take some relegation pressure off them.
Poplars won all six to extend their lead to eight in division two, while Bizz A move into second after defeating Drovers 4-2.
Stag Autos performed the best of the five games in division two when their returned 3-0 and 5-1 wins. The only other team to win both were Bizz A.
Division three Singles leaders Quins' 5-1 win takes them five clear of Fox B, who were held to a draw at Blue Boar. Third-placed Queens B are closing on the top two after a second successive 6-0 win.
All 29 teams have now secured wins in both sections. Last week, the only side not to register a Singles win were Stag's Head. Their 4-2 win also lifts them off the bottom.
Divisions two and three Sixes leaders, Poplars and Quins, Club suffered setbacks, but both still remain in pole position.
Pops just lead Bizz A by a point and the Quins, who lost all three, are joined by Queens B — who won all three — on 25 points and identical game stats.
In Division One Sixes, leaders White Lion, who defeated second-placed Mansel 2-1, hold on to their seven-point lead. Moving into second are Castle Youngsters, who beat the other main contenders Bizz B 2-1.
Div One — Bizz B 1-2, Cast/Young (Havards) 2-4; Fox A 2-4, Boars Head 1-2; AFC (bye); Black Lion 2-4, S/Nomads 1-2; Mansel 1-4, W.Lion 2-2.
Div Two — S/Autos 3-5, NKG 0-1; Poplars 1-6, Fountain B 2-0; S/Head 1-4, Plough 2-2; Drovers 1-2, Bizz A 2-4; Butchers 2-3, Friends 1-3.
Div Three — Queens A 3-3, Railway 0-3; Quins 0-5, Farmers 3-1; Castle A 1-3, Wheatensheaf 2-3; Fountain A 0-0, Queens B 3-6; B/Boar 1-3, Fox B 2-3. Re-arranged game: Railway 2-4, Fountain A 1-2.
Players scoring 180s — 2x180s Mike Bryan, (1) Peter Evans, Paul Jones (Bizz), Ben Davies, Steve Budgie, Paul Emmanuel, Ben Leader, Nick Bowen, Dan Baker, Tom Bryan and Alcwyn Rees.
Best legs of 501 — 15 Ben Davies, Peter Evans, Gary Gordon, Alcwyn Rees, 16 Tom Bryan, 17 Nick Elias, 18 Mike Bryan, Dan Baker.
Three-figure checkouts — 136 Mike Bryan, 120 Andrew Slim, Elfed Davies, 117 Ashley Evans, 112 Matthew Shearsby, 110 Gary Gordon, 107 Stuart Hayes, 103 Andy Race, 100 Ben Davies and Ants Elias.
Sixes standings — Div One: 27pts W/Lion, 20 Cast/Young, 19 Mansel, 18 Bizz B, 16 Fox A, B/Lion, 14 AFC, B/Head, 12 Nomads.
Div Two: 29pts Poplars, 28 Bizz A, 22 Friends, 21 S/Head, 20 Butchers, 19 S/Autos, 18 Fountain B, 16 Drovers, 13 NKG, 9 Plough. Div Three: 25pts Quins, Queens B, 23 Fox B, 20 Castle A, 19 Farmers, 18 Railway, 16 B/Boar, Fountain A, 15 Queens A, Wheatensheaf.


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In the second session of the meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, the leaders were joined by business leaders of Japanese companies and a number of Ethiopian company chief executives. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe opening the meeting emphasizing that " Japan will continue to support Ethiopia's development both at government and private sector level" adding that it was hugely significant to meet "to share Japan's development experience to help Ethiopia propel itself as a regional growth engine" .
The representative of KEIDANREN, Japan's Business Federation for Sub-Saharan Africa highlighted Ethiopia's rapid economic development and underlined the desire of Japanese companies to be part of it. A representative of Japanese universities stressed the primacy that Japan accords to human development. He said "Africa is a treasure box of natural resources; what it needs to unlock this potential is human capacity development."
He added that Japan owed its miraculous growth to human capital development as it wasn't blessed with the riches of natural resources. He noted that Japanese academic institutions wanted to work with Ethiopian academia through the Abe Initiative. This aims to train 1000 African youths within five years. Mr. Kobayshi, representative of the Mistubishi Company which has had offices in Ethiopia for over fifty four years, related the story of Mitsubishi's partnership with Ethiopia and its current plans to introduce MRJ Aircraft to Ethiopian Airlines. Prime Minister Hailemariam, referring to the soaring cost of labor in East Asia, urged Japanese investors to invest in Ethiopia where production costs were lower.
This, he said, would allow them to retain their global competitiveness. He said Ethiopia was a country with a huge youth population, which if properly trained in necessary skills, would be a demographic dividend to development. He added that "Japan's investment was at a minimal level compared to other South Asian investments", but he expected Prime Minister Abe's visit would provide a turnaround in the levels of investment in Ethiopia.
Talking about Ethiopia's Kaizen 'Institute, Prime Minister Hailemariam said Ethiopia would like to make this a pioneer institution for Africa. Mulu Solomon, Head of the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce, also spoke of the prevailing investment regime and invited Japanese investors to invest in Ethiopia on their own or through joint ownership with Ethiopian investors. Tadios Getachew, owner and manager of Kuriftu Resorts said Ethiopia's tourism sector was growing by 13% annually and he invited Japanese investors to take advantage of the tourist sector. Ethiopia and Japan have now signed an exchange of notes for the creation of an air service agreement that will enable Ethiopian Airlines to directly fly to Narita International Airport in Tokyo.


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Other Than the Ring, Nothing's Changed
Joe Flacco on his not-so-wild Super Bowl MVP offseason, big money and—gasp—wearing an orange helmet
PETER KING: What was the most fun thing you did in your Super Bowl offseason?
JOE FLACCO: "The offseason was pretty normal, after the first the week-and-a-half or so. Me and my wife planned on going somewhere. Me, Dennis Pitta and Todd Heap—we went out to Vegas for a few days with our wives. We went out there for a few days right after the Super Bowl and just kind of caught up with each other. Then at the end of the summer, we always go spend a week at the Jersey shore, Sea Isle City. Right after that we went out to Montana.
Todd Heap has a place on Flathead Lake out there. That was pretty cool. I had been out there in the winter. We were actually out there for the Giants-Patriots Super Bowl after we lost a couple years ago. But other than that, no. I've got a little kid now, a 13-and-a-half-month-old, so it's kind of everything revolves around him. Then my wife is due again in September, so, you know that's what we did. It was fun. You've got a little kid. You won the Super Bowl. You've been married for a couple years. It was just kind of fun to hang out, relax, and hang around the family for a little bit. Run around and chase after our little guy, and get excited about having another one."
KING: Then you signed the big contract. Was it surreal to be the highest-paid player in football, even just for a few minutes?
FLACCO: "It's a little surreal any time you sign a contract that's worth the amount of money that I've signed for. I think people still look at it differently than I do. I don't think that I took a gamble [by not signing last offseason for $17 million a year]. I think that I view it one way, and the average fan doesn't quite understand all that went into it. I could have got hurt, yeah. But I was willing to live with that. That's the one thing that my agent [Joe Linta] said when all that was going down. He said, 'Listen, think about the worst possible situation, and if you can live with that, then you're making the right decision.' I said, 'Yeah, I've thought about the worst possible situation, and if that happens? Yeah, I'm cool.' "
KING: If the Ravens didn't sign or exclusive-tag franchise you, did you understand there's a chance the Browns might have gone after you? How strange would it have been to walk into Baltimore once a year as a Cleveland Brown?
FLACCO: "Yeah, that would have been tough. If Baltimore didn't come up to the plate and get something done before they had to franchise me at one of the levels, some team could have stolen me. I'm glad I didn't have to go through that. I don't really want to say too much about that, aside from that I'm really glad I didn't have to go through all that. Because, yeah, Cleveland could have come in and put an offer together that these guys couldn't have matched. They could have paid me a ton of money so that there's no way that these guys could have done anything about it. I would have been disappointed if that happened. I already felt that I had clawed and fought as hard as I could. It would be different. At the same time, you know, I don't think I would have left these guys on a bad note though. It would have been their decision. Really, that's what was crazy about it."
Real tough for me to admit but you have to give Flacco some credit for going out and getting it done. He bet on himself and won big. Personally, I am glad that they had to pay as much as they did for him because it will probably hurt them in signing other players, this is the truth. He still has never impressed me against the Steelers coming up small in some big games and it seemed like he only won when Ben was out. Having said that he has probably turned the corner and put all of that behind him so I look for some even tougher games against the Ravens in the future.
One of the very best QB's in the league. No doubt about it.
Joe's a class act and so are The Ravens. Ozzie's choice of Joe as a first round draft pick wasn't based on statistics as much as it was based on character and Joe's proven work ethic. But that's The Ravens' Way. Despite Joe's modesty, there was no way Ozzie and The Powers That Be were going to let their Super Bowl MVP walk. Joe's priorities this summer prove the team's original assessment of what Flacco's contributions to a well-managed organization would be to still be true despite the money and the accolades.
He plays for the Ravens. The just backed up the money truck. The whole city watches his every move. What's he going to say, "Yeah, playing for the Browns would have been GREAT!"?
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This game must be severely underfunded, for it to have taken them this long to get around to Rohan. I wonder if it has to do with the Tolkien Empire licensing deal.
Maybe that's why they went F2P despite being relatively successful. It just wasn't enough success to make a real profit.Fri Sep 07 2012 6:49PM Report
The Hobbit movies are unlikely to get them a lot of customers unless they suddenly start licensing the assets of the films. which their budget won't allow, even if it's all under WB's umbrella. For whatever reason, movies coming out don't really generate much interest in pre-existing games in the same IP.
Getting half of Rohan now, not even the interesting half, is very disappointing. They've totally squandered the best fantasy IP out there. And it's all the designers faults. It was never a big hit and obviously wasn't turning a decent profit by the time MoM was released. Since MOM they released a semi-expansion, announced the F2P switch with an expansion releasing a full year after the announcment. By the time RoI was released, they had lost most of their hard core raiding population due to waiting so long for content and no longer getting the promised, regular updates.
At this point their pricing plan is a greedy, gouging approach. They've become a pretty despicable developer at this point just ttrying to squeeze every last dollar out of their remaining fans.
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Spain captain Iker Casillas hailed the ability and hard work of his side as they became the first international team to win three consecutive major championships with a 4-0 win over Italy in the UEFA EURO 2012 final.
David Silva and Jordi Alba put the holders 2-0 up before half-time and after Italy were left a man short due to an injury to Thiago Motta, Spain cruised to victory with further goals from Fernando Torres and Juan Mata.
Casillas himself broke a European championship record by extending his run without conceding a goal in the competition to 510 minutes. He told the Spanish Football Federation: "This is due to the talent that we all have and the work that people don't see - the work of the past, with everyone in the academies, and the manager who has given this generational change.
"We are living in the most marvellous moment in Spanish football history. We have been superior thanks to the work of our players and our characteristics. With [Jordi] Alba's goal we almost sealed it, but the third killed it off completely."
The Real Madrid goalkeeper also hopes that success on the football field can bring some happiness to those suffering in the difficult economic times currently afflicting Spain. "I suppose the people will be happy," he said. "They were before and now even more so.
"We have made the difficult look easy. They will think it has been a walk in the park, but we could have been put out in the semi-finals. We have grown, we have gone from strength to strength and we were better. We have to enjoy this moment with all those that have suffered. We have lived four unforgettable years."
Xavi echoed Casillas' sentiments and the Barcelona midfielder was pleased to make a telling contribution with two assists after what had been a frustrating tournament for him personally. "Today I have been decisive," he said. "I was lacking this incisive pass that wasn't going through and today I have had two. We have had a great game and I felt very comfortable.
"The players are very happy. For all of the country it is a joy and for us it is deserved. We have enjoyed on the pitch the best of the EUROs and of the final. We have made history and we have to enjoy that with all the people that followed us here and everyone else.
"We have been very superior. We had possession and, with the goals, more space to play in. We felt very comfortable."
Spain honour those lost
Cesc Fabregas was one of a number of the squad to wear shirts in the post-match celebrations bearing the names of Antonio Puerta, Dani Jarque, Manolo Preciado and Miki Roque, all prominent figures in Spanish football that have died in the last few years.
And the former Arsenal captain believes it was important to honour them at such an important time in Spanish football history. He told AS: "They are people that have left us recently and that left us a few years ago but they are always with us. We will never forget them."
On the game itself, Fabregas admitted that once Italy were reduced to ten men the game was effectively finished but insisted that should not detract from Spain's incredible achievement. "Finals are for winning and on top of this we have enjoyed it a lot on the pitch.
"They were left a man short with the injury to Motta and we were able to play at will but the level of success is brutal. It is certain that the game swung our way with the first goal but we played a great game."


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Daily Encouragement
May 1
As you make your way home tonight, may you pause for a moment to gaze up at the night sky and let your heart communicate with the moon in wordless dialogue. Perhaps you might compose a poem and set it down in your journal entry for today. I would like you to possess such a poetic spirit.
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Prince Rupert, Count Palatinate
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line engraving, published 1662
11 3/8 in. x 7 7/8 in. (290 mm x 201 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford, 1931
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- Prince Rupert, Count Palatinate (1619-1682), Soldier and patron of science; Son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia and Elizabeth of Bohemia. Sitter associated with 45 portraits, Artist associated with 1 portrait.
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- William Dobson (1611-1646), Portrait painter. Artist associated with 54 portraits, Sitter in 9 portraits.
- William Faithorne (circa 1620-1691), Engraver and draughtsman. Artist associated with 712 portraits, Sitter associated with 4 portraits.
- Peter Stent (circa 1613-1665), Printseller and printer. Artist associated with 65 portraits.
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Dobson's oil portrait of Prince Rupert, the nephew of Charles I and one of his principal commanders in the Civil War, is now lost. Both Dobson and the engraver William Faithorne had been apprentices of the artist and printseller William Peake. During the Civil War, while Dobson worked for the court in Oxford, Faithorne fought as an officer in the Royalist army. He was captured in October 1645 at the bloody end of the two-year siege of Basing House, Hampshire. Remarkably, the prints were engraved during his imprisonment by Parliamentary forces.
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The Rainbow Glacier
The Rainbow is one of 3 glaciers that the research team studied on Mt Baker. It is on the north side of the large volcano and will be a significant challenge for the research and documentary team. They had long hard days covering the ground necessary to do the research. Denny Trimble, a climber, photographer [...]
The Columbia Glacier
The Columbia Glacier is an interesting glacier that is rapidly receding. It was the first leg of the trip. We hiked in with the research team on August 2nd. We met the research team and watched them perform experiments on the glacier. This was the first time on crampons for some for some of the [...]
The Easton Glacier
Easton Glacier is on the south face of Mt Baker. It extends from the terminus at 5600 feet to the slopes near Sherman Crater at 9000 feet. Each summer since 1990 Mauri has measured the mass balance of this massive glacier.
The Sholes Glacier
After a long day on the Rainbow Glacier we will wrap up shooting and research on the Sholes glacier. We while on the north side of Mt Baker the researchers will be doing mountain goat counts to help keep track of their growing numbers in the North Cascades.
The Lower Curtis Glacier
After 5 days on Mt Baker we followed the researchers for one day on the beautiful and striking Mt Shuksan, where we camped just past Lake Anne. While on Shuksan the researchers traveled and research on the precarious hanging Lower Curtis Glacier. There are striking differences when comparing the now high, hanging glacier to older [...]
The Lynch and Daniel Glaciers
After a 6 hour long drive from Mt Shuksan the team hiked in to the southern end of the North Cascades. The Lynch and Daniel Glaciers are high on Mt Daniel. We camped past at Peggy's Pond and trekking up onto the glaciers during the day.


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I'm lucky enough to be able to fish with guides from time to time. Most of my guides during the past dozen years have given me an enjoyable, occasionally unforgettable, outing, and I have almost always learned something from each of them. The guide-client relationship in general is a fascinating one.
I don't have a sister, but if I did, I'd want one just like Susan Williams Beckhorn, whose big brother is FR&R Conservation editor Ted Williams. In celebration of Ted's 60th birthday this past summer, Susan surprised him with a self-published book of his fishing adventures as told by about 50 survivors
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Although some authors manage to make it look easy, writing a good short story is damn hard work. In fact, it's been my personal experience that writing even a bad piece of short fiction is no champagne brunch on the beach. Then, when you impose upon a writer some zany restriction--such as that his or
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My catch-and-release habit has been so reflexive for so many decades that it is difficult for me to accurately remember the battle of emotions I underwent to reach this point. But as near as I can recall, just prior to my C&R conversion the devil on my left shoulder was arguing strenuously against the
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Gem Proof 1875 Indian Cent1875 1C PR65 Red Cameo PCGS. Only 700 proof Indian cents were struck in 1875, and Rick Snow notes, "Full Red examples are rare. Cameo examples are prohibitively rare." This well-struck Gem defies Snow's rule on both counts, exhibiting fiery orange-red surfaces and reflective fields that contrast boldly with the frosty devices. No mentionable defects are present, except a tiny planchet flaw (as struck) above Liberty's necklace. This piece is currently tied with just two other 1875 Indian cents as the finest-known Cameo examples at PCGS (12/12).(Registry values: P5) (PCGS# 82314)
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Thank you, Martin for making this whole Irish moto nonsense happen for me. Late last year it was time for me to hit the road again so I bought a round trip ticket to Dublin. Researched the wack world of shipping a bike, and nixed that, partially cause I live in Oklahoma and that adds expense. Contacted Martin on this site, he called me and we talked about what I was looking for and budget. Next day on Donedeal( like Craigslist) he found a cheap 96 Transalp, I have a 89 so it's a natural pick. He called the owner and I agreed to cover the cost of picking up the bike(way north), next day he drove up, sent me pics via iPhone, called me with details on condition, etc. He told me it needed sprockets, chain, and tires. I bought the bike and ordered tires online in England, had em delivered, dug out my spare sprockets and low mileage chain, used my Alp as a template to jiffy-pop some racks to hold off my soft bags. Designed the racks to fit in a pannier. Grabbed some spares, tools, camping gear, etc and voila! I just had crablegs with Eyore.
More on you later, Kim, cool meeting you and your husband.
Martin, Johann and me sending Johann off on his Transalp to Belarus. I picked him up in Belgooly, he put some leads for a gps and heated gear, we all went to the Spaniard pub that night. Here he is headed out for the ferry.
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Case Style: Jeremiah S. Simunek v. Ashley (Simunek) Auwerter
Case Number: 2011 S.D. 56
Judge: Zinter
Court: Supreme Court of South Dakota on appeal from the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, Pennington County
Plaintiff's Attorney: Debra D. Watson, Rapid City, South Dakota for Plaintiff.
Defendant's Attorney: Terrie L. Williams, Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson & Ashmore, L.L.P., Rapid City, South Dakota for Defendant.
Description: [¶1.] Ashley Auwerter (Mother) and Jeremiah Simunek (Father) married, had C.S.S. (Child), and later divorced. Mother and Father agreed to share legal custody, with Mother having primary physical custody. Shortly before Child entered kindergarten, Father moved to obtain primary physical custody. The circuit court granted Fatherâs motion and Mother appeals. We affirm because the courtâs findings and conclusions reflect a balanced and systematic application of the relevant factors governing child custody.
Outcome: [¶18.] We deny both partiesâ requests for appellate attorneyâs fees.
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