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The USS Roosevelt was a Federation starship that was in service with Starfleet in the mid-24th century.
In 2367, Roosevelt saw action against the Borg at the Battle of Wolf 359. During the battle with the Borg, some of the ship's crew were assimilated, including science officer Dr. Riley Frazier. (VOY: "Unity")
The Star Trek Encyclopedia (2nd ed., p. 420) stated that this vessel was an Excelsior-class starship, with a registry of NCC-2573. It further noted that the ship was named after American president Theodore Roosevelt.
Startrek.com reuses the image of the USS Saratoga to represent the USS Roosevelt at Wolf 359, suggesting this ship was also a Miranda-class starship.[1]

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Frustrated with the same old job boards? Don't be frustrated because there are plenty of Geomatics related jobs, you just need to know where to look. And do not look for all of them to be posted on the same site, it just doesn't happen, so you will need to make a habit of surfing several different key sites (not all but more then one or two) – like the saying "All your Eggs in One Basket".
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The large generic job board sites will definitely provide you with more exposure to your resume and allow you to find many more jobs, but chances are they will not be anywhere related to want you spent all your time in school working on and those years of building that great career related experience.
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GISjobs.ca – Started in 2004, we still only post Canadian GIS and Geomatics related jobs – also have a popular GIS & Geomatics jobs LinkedIn group where employers have been posting geomatics jobs and allowing job seekers to announce they are looking for GIS employment
Geojobs.org – They do not restrict them selves to only GIS jobs but also have Remote Sensing, Cartography and other Geomatics based jobs
GoGeomatics.ca – lots of quality Canadian jobs in geomatics and surveying (you will need to sign in to get the details)
GISjobs.com – A large GIS dedicated site that has been online for 10 years (but mainly USA based jobs)
GISjobs.org – this site allows employers and jobseekers to post, edit, & delete GIS related classified ads and resumes for free for up to 60 days
GIS Jobs Clearinghouse (gjc.org) -Started in 1992, the GJC has helped thousands of GIS/RS professionals find positions.
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There are virtually hundreds of job board sites on the internet where you can find jobs and post your resumes for potential employers to find but theses are ones that have been known to be the most successful. If you know of any great ones that we do not have here and would like to share them with others then we would like to hear about them, so feel free to contact me with them.


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DreamWorks Animation has implemented an HP solution based on a service-oriented architecture that simplifies and consolidates key business operations.
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an approach to building and managing IT infrastructures using standards-based software and services as autonomous, re-usable components.
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Other DreamWorks business services that have been migrated to the SOA include company directories, employee bulletin boards, vacation requests and even cafeteria menus. The inherent flexibility of the SOA architecture positions DreamWorks to add additional business applications and support ongoing enhancements.
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As part of the implementation, HP's Linux Reference Architecture offering of integrated software and hardware stacks, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS), helped DreamWorks realize cost-savings and facilitated its efforts to deploy open source technology on industry-standard platforms.
HP's expertise in SOAs spans several years and encompasses partner offerings, world-class server and storage products and leading management software, including HP OpenView SOA Manager. In addition, HP Services has several thousand worldwide professionals able to implement and deploy open source technology and SOA-based solutions.
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Padma, Tom and Gail are all going to melt down their Emmys to make some wicked grills to cover all those teeth
Did you watch the Emmy Awards last night? I did. Not by choice, necessarily, but because my darling wife Laura celebrates exactly four holidays around our house: Christmas, Thanksgiving, the Emmys and Oscar Night. These are big deals for her and, by extension, for me. And while Christmas and Thanksgiving may be fairly simple days to negotiate (gifts, a dinner, easy stuff), the awards shows are different. There's pre-show and post-show, the red carpet, dresses to make fun of, hosts to mock. One has to have one's pop culture chops in sharp working order, and seeing as I'm bad with names and faces and know almost nothing about anything that's actually popular (when was the last time a zombie movie got nominated for an Oscar, exactly?) save restaurants, I'm generally hopelessly lost by about five minutes into the first of the arrivals specials.But last night, the Emmy voters threw me a bone by not only nominating Top Chef for an award in the category of Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. Here, finally, was something (other than Lost, which won precisely nothing) that I knew something about. And one thing I knew for sure?
Top Chef has about as much relation to reality as a mysterious, time-traveling island full of smoke monsters and Egyptian fertility statues.
Seriously, I used to watch this show obsessively. First couple seasons, I was all over this thing because, in terms of cooking shows (of which there were plenty) Top Chef actually was the closest thing out there to the actual reality of kitchen work. It was fast and hot and weird and filled with bizarre challenges that, in some cases, actually mimicked (in a TV kind of way) the sorts of things that a chef might experience in a kitchen not filled with TV cameras and former supermodels and about a billion dollars in ingredients and gear.
But as the years went by and the seasons stretched on, the show just kind of...slipped. Product placement, chef-testants who seemed barely capable of holding a knife without hurting themselves, bizarre, hyper-regional challenges, Las Vegas. It all just kind of got away from the producers as, in an effort to keep things fresh, they stepped completely away from anything even vaguely resembling cooking and just turned the thing into a gameshow. The chefs, understanding that the way to survive the first eight weeks or so was simply to fuck up less than the next-worst guy on stage, became timid and boring in their presentations. And if I had to see one more episode where the white jackets were forced to cook for a band/cook for a bunch of preening vegan celebrities/cook for some other chef with a cookbook to hawk, I was just going to snap. Instead, I just quit watching.
Now obviously, when it comes to TV, I am an idiot because even as I was finding the show less and less interesting (in direct relation to how much cooking --as opposed to judging, crying, kissing, shrieking and celebrity cameos--actually got shown per show), the Emmy folks and the American public were finding it more and more fascinating. Top Chef has scored nominations in this category every year for the past four. And this year, it won.
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Welcome to the Online Selling and ecommerce Group here at the 48 Days community. I just looked at your site. Love the niche and the site. Both are great examples of the new online selling. It's not a picture and a price. Instead it's about answering someone's problem, building trust and offering something of so much value that people want to purchase it from you. Old fashion selling is dead, now it's about helping your customer purchase. Excited to have you as part of our growing group.
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Hey, Brian, thanks for posting on 48days.net.
The forums are specifically a place to ask questions and get advice from folks. I'm assuming your post is looking for guidance somewhere, but since you're not asking for anything and just leaving a link to your website, we consider it spam.
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Columbus residents who were saddened by the loss of the Dolly Madison bakery have reason to be excited by the bakery property's rebirth as a grocery store.
Kroger Co. considered the property at 3060 N. National Road to be a perfect fit for its strategy for Columbus. That's a great benefit for the city and its residents.
Kroger is planning a $20 million investment to redevelop the property into the flagship of its Marketplace stores. The Marketplace concept features stores of about 125,000 square feet with a broad selection of departments, including a deli and bakery, health and beauty, home fashion, Baby World, Kitchen Place, Fred Meyer Jewelers, toys and fresh flowers.
Most importantly, the Marketplace store will employ 325 to 350 people. Kroger's current, smaller store employs 151.
The Columbus Plan Commission liked what it learned of Kroger's plans and approved a request to rezone the 11.5-acre site from industrial to commercial. The Columbus City Council will have an opportunity to do so at its June 3 meeting.
For Kroger, this represents a new chapter in its history in Columbus. The company opened its first store here in 1926 and has been located in its 56,000-square-foot building at 3110 N. National Road since 1977.
The company likes the Columbus market and believes it can set sales records here.
Understandably, the decision by Flowers Foods to sell the Dolly Madison property to a non-competitor tugged on the hearts of Columbus residents. The bakery's roots dated to 1948, when it started as a small, locally owned operation known as Sap's Donuts.
But after Flowers Foods acquired the Dolly Madison bakery in the bankruptcy sale of Hostess Brands assets in November 2012, it never could find a use for it.
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It is for Columbus, too.


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Do you use a normal cog on the back for belt drives?
I vote no then, it doesn't seem like it's worth the cost and there's not much versatility. I just looked up the price and the first cog i saw was $82 gtfo.
I don't see the purpose of those things, except on "casual" bikes. But then again, if you carry your bike up and down narrow stairs, it might be just the ticket. So, as with others here, I'd say "it depends".
The main advantage of belt drive is the system is virtually no maintenance. Unlike a chain it never needs to be cleaned or lubricated and wont rust. When properly adjusted it also has less friction than a chain drive system It is also very quiet. The downsides are the belts can only be used with internally geared hubs (Rohloff for example) but that is obviously not an issue for SSFG. You must also have a frame that is specifically designed for belt drive. The rear triangle must have a joint / break in it so the belt can be threaded in (unlike a chain it is one continuous piece that cannot be broken or adjusted in length). I also believe that in certain instances if you want to change your rear cog you must also change the belt given the belt is synchronized to the teeth of the cog. It definitely has advantages in certain applications (harsh, muddy wet conditions) but as you can see there are downsides as well.
It's ridiculous to me. The belt needs a good bit of tension to keep from slipping and this provides noticeable drag and inefficiency in the drivetrain. The couple bikes I have ridden were not as quiet as the marketing leads you to believe, either. One of our customers even switched back from belt to chain-drive after noticing the same shortcomings. I was once quite curious about it, but no longer care to ride it. There is even a specified procedure for removing a new, coiled belt from its packaging to avoid kinking it and causing it to fail. Dumb.
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For the same price to get a belt system up and running I could get any crankset I desire'd. I use budget Andel cranks and a $12 chain, and I don't see any cons as to what i'm using now. I don't mind wiping my chain off and spraying some lube on it every few weeks. Those belt drive systems and dumber than me.


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SEATTLE -- A Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation concluded that an "excessively loaded" hold, an unsecured door, and an "imprudent decision" to push into a huge storm contributed to the Oct. 22, 2008, sinking of the Seattle-based Katmai that killed seven crew members.
The report's recommendations include calls for mandatory training of fishing-boat captains, mandatory inspections of all fishing vessels, and improvements in crew training.
Some of these recommendations were also suggested after the 2001 sinking of the Seattle-based Arctic Rose that killed 15 crew. But the Katmai report notes that those proposals have yet to be acted upon.
The Katmai had a crew of 11 people. The four survivors underwent a nightmarish nearly 16-hour ordeal in a life raft that repeatedly flipped over, dumping them into the huge seas.
The investigation was conducted by a three-man panel led by Cmdr. Malcolm Rob McLellan. He could not be reached Friday for comment.
Investigators took testimony from survivors, reviewed stability reports and also commissioned a detailed stability analysis. The report has been sent to survivors and family members of the deceased and was obtained by The Seattle Times.
It is scheduled for public release later this month.
The Seattle-based Katmai was built in Florida in 1978 and initially outfitted as a trawler to pursue shrimp. Like many vessels, it was modified for other fisheries, eventually being used to fish with baited traps for cod in a remote fishing ground off the Aleutian Islands.
In most major maritime disasters, lots of things go wrong. The sinking of the Katmai was no exception.
A key decision came when the skipper, Henry Blake, opted to push across Amchitka Pass to try to unload his catch of cod at Dutch Harbor, despite a major storm forecast to produce hurricane-speed winds and huge seas.
Blake reviewed an e-mailed weather report. But he may not have grasped the full strength of the storm that produced 100-mph winds because the Katmai's weather fax, which produced graphic images, was not operating, the report stated.
Two other, larger vessels in the area opted to wait out the storm in the lee of islands.
The Coast Guard investigation concluded Blake "unnecessarily exposed" the crew to the storm.
Investigators also concluded that cargo weight was a factor in the disaster. The Katmai had an out-of-date 1996 stability report that made no specific reference to the maximum amount of cargo that could be put in the hold. But the calculations in that report were done with a cargo load of about half the weight of fish that had been piled into the hold.
The big load made the Katmai sit lower in the water, and thus more vulnerable to flooding in rough waters.
Testimony by survivors indicated a watertight door to a stern compartment was not securely fastened, allowing water to flood into a sensitive area and shut down steering controls.
There was also major flooding in the engine room, the cause of which could not be determined. The below-deck area where fish were processed also may have flooded, and Coast Guard models indicated that would have caused the vessel to capsize.
Investigators also examined a 1994 life raft the survivors, as well as three who later died, climbed into after evacuating the flooded Katmai. That life raft had less ballast then newer models and it repeatedly flipped over.
Investigators recommended the Coast Guard should decide whether an age limit "should be imposed on existing life rafts to ensure proper operation in all marine environments and to ensure that all life rafts are compliant with the most current safety requirements."
But that recommendation was rejected by the office of Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Thad Allen. "Such a limit could result in many perfectly good, serviceable (and expensive) life rafts being discarded simply because they had reached the arbitrarily established date," the Coast Guard said.
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Winter:Print Edition Guest Art?Journal Entry: Thu Feb 2, 2012, 8:46 PM
So I'm getting the Winter storyline printed in book form, this is mostly because I personally wanted a copy of my blood sweat and tears compiled in a nice neat little book. A few people have expressed interest in buying it when it's finished so I figure what the hell, if people want it I'll make it available to everyone.
Unlike the Mini Comics which were standard comic sized, this book will be standard manga sized and will be like an actual small trade paperback. It should be around 100 pages long and will contain the following:
Winter Part 1
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bonus content (not sure what all this will entail yet)
I'm not sure when it will be released yet but I'm estimating April.
For my previous book people did guest art, so if you guys would again like to do guest art you're more than welcome to! It just needs to fit this template ka-blam.com/printing/templates… and be 300 dpi. It can be full color or black and white, it just needs to be RGB if you do color. I do have to stress that it does have to be the proper size, last time a few people had their work printed at a fairly small size because they weren't the correct resolution. Obviously the guest art must be related to the Winter story. All entries must be submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com please include your name and a URL on your image so you get credit!
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I gotta draw up some guest art for you this time. I love the Winter story so far.
I think I'd like to get in on this!
I'd love to be able to do guest art again, and I'll make sure it's on the correct size.
ah! this sounds awesome~
Don't think I can do guest art, but I'd be interested in the book itself. Though do you have any estimate on how much it might cost? I didn't have any money around the time your last book was out, but I might be able to get some this time around.
Don't think I can do guest art, but I'd be interested in the book itself. Though do you have any estimate on how much it might cost? I didn't have any money around the time your last book was out, but I might be able to get some this time around.
Care if i give another go? Ive got a Angie transforming through tears of rage just begging to come out all 'Banner' style.
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The Thermals will be opening for Gossip and Sonic Youth on Saturday night at Capitol Hill Block Party, and according to lead vocalist and guitarist Hutch Harris (pictured at right), they couldn't be more excited. Touring in support of their latest project, Now We Can See, their lo-fi, high energy, from-the-basement-to-the-mainstage pop-punk-fun-times sound is not to be missed. We chatted last night about their transition to Kill Rock Stars, why Portland's nothing like Seattle ten years ago, and how their next album will sound a lot like New Order.
How are you guys feeling about Capitol Hill Block Party on Saturday?
Really good. We just played Pitchfork on Sunday and it was really good, so we'll be playing a similar set at Block Party. Nothing particularly new, but a lot of covers. We have a Nirvana song, and got The Breeders and Green Day... We usually do play "100%" by Sonic Youth, but it's a little tacky to play another band's song when they're playing two bands after you.
How did your transition from Sub Pop to Kill Rock Stars come about, and how has it affected your production and touring process?
Touring is exactly the same since we have the same agent. Kathy and I manage the band, so a lot of the stuff we do has stayed exactly the same. Sub pop offered us a second contract, but... we love Sub Pop, we're still on good terms with them, but we were looking for something different. Kathy and I financed the record ourselves, so we had a finished record to deliver to Kill Rock Stars right away. We were on our own when we made it. And working with Kill Rock Stars has been great. We talked to a lot of labels, and Kill Rock Stars had just moved to Portland... there's a lot of smaller labels here but they've never had one strong indie label, so that was a big factor in our decision. A lot of labels come at us with a contract where they had decided all the terms, but this time we were writing our own contract and more looking for a label to sign it, and so Kill Rock Stars gave us exactly what we wanted.
What's going on in Portland that you're really excited about?
A lot of the Kill Rock Stars lineup is made up of Portland bands: Shaky Hands, Horsefeathers, Panther, and they just signed Explode Into Colors, they're really great, really good, they're coming out with a few songs than a full-length later this year. In Portland there's just a ton of music--a lot of bands come up here, and a lot of more established bands move here, like Modest Mouse and The Gossip. And then you have bands like us, The Decembrists, Blitzen Trapper, who are from here or lived here for a while. It's a cheap place to live and a good place to make music.
How has the economy affected Portland and the music scene there?
I mean, a lot of people don't have a job. I certainly wouldn't want to be looking for a job now. Portland has had a [high] unemployment rate for a while, even before things were going south. At the same time, you don't have to work as much. Rents are a lot cheaper. There are some things we've seen--Touch and Go Records went out of business--but you know what they say, sports and entertainment are the last things to suffer in a recession, since people will still spend the money they have going to shows. Selling records, that's different; people download records for free rather than paying for them.
Any idea of how that's affected your last release?
It's hard to say, but every record we've put out has sold more than the last one. I mean, I wish everyone would buy my records. People will say since they love music, they should be able to get music for free on download, and we get music from our publicist... I've downloaded a lot of stuff for free, but I don't go on a torrent and download whole albums. But you know, we grew up copying tape to tape. There's a long history of copying music, even going to cassettes. I mean, I got Run DMC's Raising Hell at a flea market, and that was a bootleg! Now you can get a perfect copy because it's digital, but even so some of the albums online are shitty compressed MP3s.
What's your impression of the Seattle music scene?
The history with the music scene in Seattle is way different than it is here, especially after grunge hit. The city was really picked over, bands blew up, and the scene crashed because it got a little commodified, and that hasn't happened in Portland. About ten years ago, the city just seemed really burned out, but then Death Cab came up, you know, and now people are really excited about music again. There was a downtime just because... scenes get fucked by the media, you get a lot of trashy people moving into town, trying to ride the coattails of other bands, and that's a big worry that people have about Portland: People look to what happened in Seattle, [with] lots of sleazy industry people trying to find the next Nirvana, but that really hasn't happened here. Grunge was so easily labeled, and the media tried to sell it to the nation and fit a lot of bands in. In Portland you've got a lot of bands, but no one sound you can package and sell to people.
Any favorite Seattle bands?
I haven't been keeping up as much, since when we play in Seattle we usually play with Portland bands. But my favorite Seattle bands are the ones who have been around for a while, [like] Death Cab and Minus the Bear. It's like in Portland: You come back from tour and there's a million new bands you've never heard of.
It looks like after this, you'll be heading to Europe for a while.
After this West Coast leg, we'll be playing a lot of festivals in Europe. We've already gone to England twice this year, which has been great. Usually we go once a year.
Have you found a difference between Europeans and American audiences?
There's not really a difference by country; it more varies by town and city. In Germany the crowds will get really rowdy, and in some towns people will be more laid-back, more analytical. We love Berlin, Amsterdam and actually we've been going to Spain a lot. Barcelona was really cool. And of course London and Glasgow too.
What are your next steps after Europe in August?
We've been writing a lot this year already, and we're gonna do another West Coast trip again in September, so hopefully just starting to record another record.
How is this record going to be distinct from your release in April?
There's a lot of bass--Kathy's been writing a lot of the new songs, so a lot of songs like "How We Know" where the guitar is just going to come in and out. There's an English feel to it, like really early New Order, not their electronic stuff... kind of like that and also kind of like the stuff we always we do, big rock songs.
Anything else?
We're really stoked to play Capitol Hill Block Party, we played in 2005... or 2006... and we got the see the Presidents of the United States and they were so, so good. One of the better shows I've ever seen. And to play on the same set with The Gossip and Sonic Youth... I mean, when we saw that lineup we were thrilled. The Gossip is great and Sonic Youth we've loved forever, obviously. We've never played with either of those bands before so it's really exciting for us.


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Try this first - Reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.
This works for some users. Not sure why.
Go to Settings>General>Date and Time> Set Automatically>Off. Set the date ahead by about a year.Then see if you can connect to the store.
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MoJo obtains their travel records—and finds them briefing corporate lawyers in Aruba, Cancun, and elsewhere.
The FTC commissioners' visits to ABA antitrust section meetings are also potentially problematic. The antitrust section largely consists of lawyers who get paid handsomely to advise big companies on how to stay out of trouble with the FTC or to defend them when they do. Their business meetings, like those in Aruba in 2007, are closed to reporters and the public; the FTC doesn't list them on its public calendar. The ABA says the meetings are closed because they simply involve dull association business. Yet three out of the five commissioners journeyed to Cancun in January 2008 for the ABA's gathering—including Majoras, who quit the FTC to work for Proctor & Gamble several weeks later.
In fact, the ABA frequently pays for some of the commissioners' travel to resort locations. Federal rules allow the ABA to pick up the tab because it is a nonprofit entity, and also because it isn't regulated by the commission. However, the commission does regulate many of the companies represented by the lawyers who run the antitrust section. Its leadership includes Kovacic's wife, Kathryn Fenton, a partner at the Jones Day law firm who represents big companies in antitrust cases.
And on antitrust issues, the ABA is hardly a neutral voice: It has taken public positions on legislation and other issues that conflict with those of the FTC. For instance, the commission has long opposed big drug companies paying manufacturers to delay producing a generic drug. The ABA thinks this practice is fine. Another example: Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) recently introduced legislation that would reverse a Supreme Court decision loosening restrictions on corporate price fixing. At a May hearing, the ABA advocated against the bill; the FTC testified in its favor.
When FTC commissioners attend private ABA meetings, they are giving exclusive briefings to representatives of the companies they regulate. "It's too damn cozy. It's held in places that people would consider exotic and it's away from the press," says Art Amolsch, publisher of FTC:WATCH, who has unsuccessfully sought access to the meetings. Amolsch, who worked in the FTC's public affairs office during the Nixon and Ford administrations, says that telling corporate lawyers what the government intends to do is a cheap form of regulation, because the lawyers then advise their clients to follow the law. But when the commissioners travel to swanky resorts and meet privately with corporate attorneys, he adds, "The scandal is in the secrecy."
Max Blecher, a prominent California antitrust lawyer who represents plaintiffs, says, "I think the regulators should keep their distance from the regulated." He believes FTC rules should not allow the ABA to cover the commissioners' travel tabs. "That should be a conflict. I don't think they should be guests of a group that is really anti-antitrust," he says.
FTC chairman Leibowitz, who has attended some ABA meetings and says he will probably attend more, disagrees. He argues that the meetings "give them some insight into what we're doing. If we abandoned the field, that would be worse."
Most FTC watchers contacted for this story were surprised to hear how much time the commissioners spent abroad, particularly Kovacic. Whether the travel is appropriate depends on whom you ask. People who know Kovacic describe him as a hard worker, an expert who has spent most of his career spreading the gospel of antitrust regulation and helping foreign governments set up enforcement regimes. Albert Foer, president of the American Antitrust Institute, a nonprofit group devoted to supporting antitrust regulation, believes that Kovacic's travel provides value to the American public. "He gets an enormous amount of work done. He's not a guy to take junkets or enjoy himself on these trips. I don't think the taxpayers are getting shortchanged," he says.
Consumer advocates are somewhat less charitable. Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says it's useful for Americans to learn from other countries. But during the Bush administration, at least, that wasn't all that FTC commissioners did. Silverglade cites a 2006 meeting in Brussels that he attended of the EU's Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. Representatives of many Eastern European countries were desperate for information about how to protect consumers from the hard edges of capitalism. But then-FTC chair Majoras instead delivered a speech on the beauties of self-regulation in food marketing.
Kovacic defends the commission's record (and his own travel), noting that the FTC was far more aggressive on the antitrust front than the Justice Department during the Bush administration. But given that the Bush DOJ went seven years without bringing a single monopolization case, that's not saying much. The Europeans and other Asian governments have been much more proactive in enforcing antitrust laws. Take Intel, the world's largest computer-chip manufacturer, which has been accused of engaging in shifty practices to shut down its only major competitor. Last year, Korea fined the company $25 million for antitrust violations, and on May 13, after probing Intel for more than a decade, the EU fined the company a record $1.45 billion and ordered it to change its practices. The FTC only opened an investigation into Intel last year. (Some observers expect the agency to become more aggressive under Leibowitz, a proponent of tougher antitrust enforcement.)
It's also hard to point to a specific regulation or policy development that stems directly from any of the commissioners' work abroad, a point that Kovacic acknowledges. Much of what he does overseas, says Kovacic, is create the infrastructure for pursuing global investigations and enforcement actions. He also says that part of his job has been to correct the impression that the US no longer enforces its antitrust laws. Kovacic argues that if Justice had been doing its job, he wouldn't need to spend so much time on the road. "A major part of what I try to do in these presentations is to say we're doing our damn jobs," he says.
Ultimately, says Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the propriety of the commissioners' travel should be weighed against the FTC's performance record, and like many consumer advocates, he finds that record wanting. "The FTC could have done a lot," he says. "Maybe if they didn't spend so much time at the beach we'd have better consumer protection law."
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"Boehner calls on Obama for new 'fiscal cliff' plan" (Associated Press, Dec. 8) explicates our current political intransigence with Republicans calling for budgetary restraints while President Obama is demanding an unfettered-by-Congress ability to raise the debt ceiling with both sides agreeing on the need to increase taxes. Now would be a good time to examine the motives underlying this dilemma wherein rights (which by definition can be exercised with no infringement whatsoever upon your fellow citizen) are confused with entitlements (which necessarily do infringe on others since they usually involve goods of some sort). Rights are intrinsic. Entitlements are extrinsic. They necessarily infringe upon successful actions and usually involve an increasing sense of security.
Edward Gibbon once wrote, "In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life. (They) wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them and the freedom they cherished most was freedom from responsibility." He wrote that in 1789 regarding the fall of Athens, yet it ably informs us today that the real choice isn't as trivial as whose ox will be gored but rather the balance between the freedom to dream, work and achieve and the freedom from responsibility. If history is correct it shall be the most important decision that we, as a people, will ever make.
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Tata Group would never favour a hostile takeover, its former chief Ratan Tata has said. "Yes, I've said that and what I mean is that if a company doesn't want us, we're not going to take it by force," Tata told CNN in an interview, which would be aired on Sunday
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Tata Group would never favour a hostile takeover, its former chief Ratan Tata has said. "Yes, I've said that and what I mean is that if a company doesn't want us, we're not going to take it by force," Tata told CNN in an interview, which would be aired on Sunday
"What we do before we acquire a company is spend a lot of time looking at the human chemistry, and the management and the work ethics and the -- and the manner of working of that company," he said. "If there's a chemistry problem, or a business policy deviation from us, we have walked away from companies which would be good business fits for us, but its method of operation would be too alien, so we have stayed away from it," Tata said.
Responding to a question, Tata said it is not true that the Tatas are a family company and that the proceeds of these industrial operations go to the Tata family. "It does not. The family owns about two per cent, collectively, of Tata Sons," he said.
"And the 60, 65 per cent that goes to charity, has always been seen as a noble usage of the wealth we have created from our companies, it goes back into education, medical, elevation of poverty or rural development. "So, in a manner of speaking, it has always been our driving force that what we're doing is really for plowing it back to the people of India," Tata said.
Tata agreed that the group has a tough policy against corruption. "We have 450,000 employees and I am quite open in the statement that I can't guarantee the integrity of every one of them," he said. "What we do, when somebody breaks that code, how we deal with that person, I think, is the true index of what we will do and when we have had a major rogue officer or director, we have actually prosecuted that person and the person has actually gone to jail. "So, I think we have walked the talk in terms of what we have advocated; we practice what we have preached, as a matter of fact," Tata said.
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