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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Wholesale IPhone And IPad Guide From AppleWholesale.com Helps Entrepreneurs Profit From Sales
Sterling, VA (I-Newswire) January 3, 2012 - 
In this regard, it is the least surprising that people are seeking to leverage the popularity of the iPad and iPhone. Entrepreneurs are scouring the world for the right information when it comes to wholesale iPhone and wholesale iPad suppliers, but are often tricked to associating themselves with scammers.
AppleWholesale.com offers wholesale Apple supplier information, including the tested tricks on how to make money selling iPhones and iPads. The website features the eBook "Wholesale iPhone and iPad Guide", which details how to purchase iPhones and iPads at rock bottom wholesale prices that enable resellers to make profits within 24 hours.
Dennis O'Briens from Austin, Texas, enthuses about AppleWholesale.com: "After having the Wholesale iPhone and iPad Guide for almost a month, I made a huge profit ? not revenue ? that is better than I thought I would be doing. I am currently studying the iPad market and that looks just as profitable."
According to AppleWholesale.com, getting in the business of selling the iPhone and iPad, as well as making a decent profit, entails knowing the right people and keeping exclusive contacts. As such, the website presents a comprehensive list of wholesale iPhone 4s and will be updating its contents with the release of wholesale iPhone 5 and wholesale iPad 3 sources, so visitors can make profits from the latest i-devices. The guide help users get their items shipped directly to their door no matter where they live in the world.
In particular, AppleWholesale.com offers the wholesale supplier list and a world of tips and insights so as not to get scammed by some Chinese phone makers. All in all, it offers everything an entrepreneur should know when starting out on the Apple device reselling business.
People interested in selling iPhones and iPads should visit http://www.applewholesale.com and make some serious money using the right information for the lucrative business.
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Apple Wholesale provides a guide that provides consumers with wholesale apple supplier lists and how to sell items for a considerable profit.
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Source: http://www.i-newswire.com/wholesale-iphone-and-ipad-guide/149243
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Man dies from bird flu in China
HONG KONG -- A man in southern China died of bird flu Saturday, the state news media reported, in the country's first reported human death attributed to the virus in 18 months.
The death came about a week after two dead birds tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus in nearby Hong Kong, causing the government to cull thousands of birds.
Saturday's victim, a 39-year-old bus driver, died from multiple organ failure at a hospital in the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province, according to the Xinhua News Agency, citing the local health department. The department said that the man began developing symptoms Dec. 21 and was hospitalized last Sunday with pneumonia; he subsequently tested positive for the virus.
Reuters, citing the newspaper the Southern Daily, reported that 120 people who had had contact with the man had developed no signs of sickness. In the month before developing symptoms, the man appeared to have had no direct contact with poultry and had not traveled outside Shenzhen, a city of more than 10 million north of Hong Kong.
The H5N1 virus passes easily among birds and becomes more active during cooler periods of the year. It rarely infects humans, but when it does, the virus has a 60 percent mortality rate, scientists say. Hong Kong experienced the world's first major outbreak of avian flu among humans in 1997, when six people died.
The World Health Organization says 573 people have been infected worldwide
with H5N1 since 2003, and 336 have died.Dec. 21, Hong Kong health workers slaughtered more than 17,000 chickens after a carcass infected with bird flu was found at a poultry market. The government also imposed a 21-day ban on the sale and import of live poultry. About a week ago, a second dead bird in Hong Kong was determined to have been infected with H5N1.
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_19653163?source=rss
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Monday, January 2, 2012
As St. Paul Ford plant waned, many workers were slow to prepare for layoffs
ST. PAUL ? When the last Ranger pickup truck rolled off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Co. plant here in December, it came five years after Ford announced plans to close the plant. And yet it managed to catch many employees unprepared for life's next step.
It's a theme that's become all too familiar for union leaders at shuttered plants around the country who have watched workers cling too long to high-paying jobs.
For Travis Johnston, 36, of River Falls, Wis., it made sense to ride with Ford as long as he could. He often worked more than 50 hours a week for $28 an hour plus overtime, leaving him exhausted and with little incentive to find a job that would almost certainly pay less. After 11 years with Ford, he only recently updated his resume and began looking for another job.
?Honestly, the biggest part of it is the pay,? he said.
In 2006, Ford announced it would shut down the plant and offered its employees buyouts. Then the company brought back hundreds of workers under special terms and kept the plant running.
?We kept getting these extensions,? Johnston said. ?When we didn't get it (this summer), it really started to sink in.?
The plant had about 1,800 hourly workers in 2006. In 2007, the state's dislocated worker program started signing up employees, helping them write resumes, network and sharpen their interviewing skills, while acting as a gateway to subsidized job training.
State figures show 1,050 employees enrolled and more than 300 finished. Of those who finished, 90 percent got jobs and 96 percent of them were still employed six months later. Forty-six percent of those who finished earned a diploma or professional certificate through the program's training benefits.
Anthony Alongi, director of Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's dislocated worker program, said such programs never get all employees in a mass layoff. Many transfer to other plants, he said, some retire, others get jobs on their own, and some simply refuse to seek help.
He said more workers might have completed the program if Ford hadn't granted so many extensions keeping the plant open.
?If you were a Ford worker, you could be forgiven for thinking that maybe it would stay open a little bit longer,? he said.
Wayne Young, supervisor of the dislocated worker program for Ramsey County, which contracts with the state to provide services to the workers, said the number of Ford workers who showed up for registration events spiked as the final closing date neared.
?It's not unusual for people in large-scale layoff situations to be a bit in denial that it's ending,? he said. ?I kind of got that feeling from the folks we have been seeing on the past couple of registrations.?
Ford spokeswoman Marcey Evans said about two-thirds of the 800 employees can transfer to other Ford locations, including assembly plants in Chicago and Louisville, Ky. Employees who took a $100,000 lump-sum buyout in 2006 cannot transfer, a restriction that affects Johnston and many other senior workers.
Greg Audette, who worked at the plant for 20 years, said he now regrets taking the money.
?If I had known it would be like this, I never would have taken the buyout,? he said. ?I would be transferring now.?
Instead, he said as he walked out of the plant and into the cold as the plant closed, he was going to start looking for work.
?I guess I'll go look for job, take some time off, figure it out,? Audette said.
It was a similar situation when Chrysler shut down its assembly plant in Newark, Del., in 2008, said Richard McDonaugh Jr., former president of the local autoworker's union. More than 1,000 workers lost their jobs and only a few of them could transfer to other Chrysler plants. Many who didn't take advantage of job training programs are still looking for work, he said.
?The economy is going down the toilet and they are going down with it,? said McDonaugh, who now works for the Delaware Department of Labor enforcing labor laws. Several families have broken up because of the stress, he said, and at least two former employees have committed suicide.
At Ford's St. Paul plant, Sylvia Rutledge was one of the workers who took advantage of everything the state and company offered. A few days before the plant closed, she had plans A, B, C ?and C? and D,? she said. ?If one plan falls through, I've got another to fall back on.?
Rutledge passed up the $100,000 buyout and picked a Ford severance program that paid for college tuition. She used it to get a medical assistant's degree, studying on a laptop during breaks when she was called back to work. She figures she's only a year of study away from earning a nursing degree.
Once her daughter graduates from high school in the spring, she might try for a transfer to the medical department at Ford's Louisville plant, work as a medical assistant or go back to school to finish her nursing degree.
?I got a few options,? she said. ?That's what everybody should have done because we've been knowing about this for five years. I don't plan on being caught unaware.?
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Source: http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/56945/
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In GOP race, Gingrich struggles to stay on message
As he scrambles to stop a slide in Iowa, Newt Gingrich?s strategy amounts to this: hammer home a message about jobs and the economy while wrapping himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan. But the loquacious former House speaker keeps struggling to stay on message.
On a 22-stop bus tour of Iowa, Mr. Gingrich finds himself unloading on his GOP rivals and reviving talk of a Greek cruise that nearly sank his campaign earlier this year. He fields questions about his work for mortgage giant Freddie Mac, ethics allegations and whether his three marriages make him a polygamist.
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The economy? Jobs? Those issues sometimes have been lost in the mix.
?It?s been wild and woolly,? Mr. Gingrich acknowledged to a voter as his wife, Callista, collected a double cappuccino at a Sioux City coffee shop.
If there was ever a time when Mr. Gingrich has needed the discipline he?s long lacked, it?s probably now, as polls show his support tumbling in Iowa in the wake of a storm of ads assailing him as a Washington insider who used his influence to line his pockets.
He now trails rivals Mitt Romney and Ron Paul in Iowa polls and, even if he does manage to score in the top three in Tuesday?s caucuses, he is still struggling to build an organization needed for the state-by-state primaries that follow.
Mr. Gingrich argues that his economic pitch is the key to victory, and he doubled down on it Thursday ?or at least tried to.
He appeared in Storm Lake with noted Reagan economist Art Laffer, who praised Mr. Gingrich as ?far and away the best person to bring this county back to prosperity.? Mr. Gingrich outlined his tax-cutting economic proposal and implied he was the heir to Reagan?s supply-side vision. But he also strayed into long-winded digressions on the federal government?s regulation of particulate matter load and conflict in the Strait of Hormuz.
His trademark spray of ideas leaves some voters impressed ? but overwhelmed.
?He has so many,? said Ruth Lawlor, 76, who came to hear Mr. Gingrich speak at a chocolate store in Algona this week. ?It?s hard to keep track.?
Mr. Gingrich?s predilection to go for the jugular also has tripped him up, earning his self-described ?positive? campaign headlines that he didn?t want. In an interview on CNN this week, Mr. Gingrich took the bait.
He not only blasted Romney and Paul but used some of the most incendiary language of the campaign so far. Romney wasn?t ?man enough? to own up to the negative attacks launched at Mr. Gingrich, the former House speaker said. He placed Paul ?totally outside the mainstream of every decent American.?
Just days later, Mr. Gingrich seemed to be suffering from selective amnesia.
?The strategy of focusing on jobs and economic growth, staying positive and being pretty relentless in answering questions at every meeting is working,? he said Thursday.
At his campaign events, Mr. Gingrich encourages his audiences to fire away with questions about allegations made in attack ads.
In recent days, he?s been asked about an ethics fine he paid as speaker and his work for Freddie Mac.
?I don?t understand numbers with all those zeros,? said a man in Thursday?s crowd, referring to the $1.6-million Mr. Gingrich?s company earned from Freddie Mac.
Mr. Gingrich explained that he didn?t take in all that money himself and that he fought to improve regulations and not increase funding for the government-sponsored entity.
The candidate argues that such forums give him an opportunity to set the record straight on issues that have been distorted. But they also dredge up the controversies.
One example came in a telephone town hall meeting Wednesday night when a caller likened Mr. Gingrich?s three marriages to polygamy.
?Jesus very specifically states in the Bible that divorced people are really still married, which I think technically means now that you?re a polygamist, and I?m wondering what you?ll do to legalize polygamy in the U.S. if you were to be elected president,? the man said.
Mr. Gingrich labeled the question ?fairly unusual? and said he would oppose any effort to legalize polygamy.
The former Georgia congressman acknowledges his tendency to stray off script.
At Mabe?s Pizza in Decorah he was asked why his Republican rivals have been so eager to embrace government intervention in the economy.
He paused and an impish smile crept across his face.
?I?ll just get in trouble,? he said.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Newly released files detail Thatcher's 1981 crisis (AP)
LONDON ? Rioting on Britain's streets and criticism from colleagues during an economic crisis tested the mettle of Margaret Thatcher. Government documents released Friday detail how early challenges shaped the woman who dominated the country's political life for 11 years.
Official records for 1981 released by the National Archives depict a prime minister grappling with violent dissent, rising tensions in Northern Ireland and sharp criticism from her own allies. The papers were being made public just five days before the London premiere of "The Iron Lady," the film about Thatcher's career starring Meryl Streep.
The documents were made public under Britain's policy of withholding sensitive official documents for 30 years.
Elected in 1979, Thatcher ? now aged 86 ? early on cut public spending and prioritized efforts to tame Britain's rocketing inflation rate, bringing a dramatic fall in industrial output and pushing unemployment to 2.5 million. In London's ethnically diverse Brixton neighborhood, and in the impoverished Toxteth suburb of the northern city of Liverpool, anger over joblessness helped fuel the country's worst riots in decades.
Undeterred, the government's March budget had introduced a new financial squeeze, with Treasury chief Geoffrey Howe announcing plans to raise taxes.
That led to a crisis July 23 Cabinet meeting in which Thatcher was confronted by internal critics ? known as the "wets" after the private school slang for "weak" ? who advocated an abrupt change of economic policy to appease public anger. According to minutes of the meeting, Thatcher's critics, many of them supporters of her predecessor Edward Heath, laid out a detailed attack.
"With unemployment totals rising to 3 million later in the year, and following the recent rioting in a number of cities, the tolerance of society was now stretched near to its limit," the critics argued, according to the note.
"To give people renewed hope and confidence for the future, it was essential to take new and constructive action urgently," the document said the leader was told.
Thatcher's combative press secretary Bernard Ingham fired off a memo warning his boss that she led "a manifestly divided and warring Cabinet."
In her memoirs, Thatcher described the meeting as "one of the bitterest arguments on the economy, or any subject, that I can ever recall taking place at Cabinet."
She was not deterred.
Thatcher fired education secretary Mark Carlisle; Christopher Soames, the leader of the House of Lords; and Ian Gilmour, a senior foreign office minister. She switched Jim Prior, then the employment secretary, to the Northern Ireland Office, to stifle his influence over economic policy.
The move calmed loyalists who had feared that Thatcher could be swayed by her opponents.
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5 New Year?s Resolutions for Your Station?s Facebook Page
By Vince Duffy, RTDNA Chair Elect
I?m not going to name any names, but there are some station Facebook pages out there that are pretty Lame. (That?s lame with a capital L on purpose.) There are some small stations with small audiences that have active and interesting Facebook pages, and there are big stations, with large audiences, whose Facebook pages have fewer friends and less activity than my Mom?s page.
The key to an active Facebook page for your station is the same as it is for your own personal page or those of your friends. If you have interesting things to say and engage people in conversation, your Facebook audience will grow and the participants will value the page. If your Facebook page is used as a marketing tool, and the only way you get ?likes? is with contests, nobody is going to bother with it.
There are some pretty basic things you can do to improve the number of fans and the activity on your station?s page. Some of you will read these suggestions and say ?Duh,? others of you may recognize something you?re not doing and should resolve to do in the New Year.
1. Dust off that dictionary. Sure spelling doesn?t matter on the air, but just like on your web page, you look foolish when you spell things incorrectly on your Facebook page. Facebook doesn?t have spell-check, so you may actually have to look things up. Do it?look it up. Your station loses credibility every time you spell something wrong.
2. Provide an appropriate amount of material. I found a major all-news radio station in a top 25 market whose most recent Facebook post was on December 20th. The post before that was written on November 28th. Is it any wonder they have only 131 people who ?like? their page??
The flip side of this is a news station that posts a link on Facebook to every story on their website. That?s fine (I guess), but and they all show up within five minutes of each other. If I?m a fan of your page, this is just as annoying as Farmville and Mafia Wars posts, because they show up like spam on my page.
Try to post at least three or four quality items a day, and unless there is breaking news that must be announced, try not to post more than once an hour.
3. Talk to me! People use Facebook as a community. You should do more than just push your stories or tease a chance at winning a prize if people ?like? your page. Use your stories to generate discussions. Ask for people?s opinions. Be a friend in the community, not a billboard.
You know those real estate professionals and website operator friends who only use their Facebook pages to promote their business and nothing else? That?s what your station page looks like if you only post links to your stories.
4. Pictures, pictures, pictures. Visuals on Facebook pop out and get noticed. If you post a link to a story on your web page, put the photo in the Facebook link as well. Post pictures from station events, behind the scenes, of your talent, or your community.
5. Participate in the conversation.? Your Facebook fans will ask questions on your page. Some of them will be intelligent and some will be annoying. Make an effort to answer any questions and respond to comments within 24 hours. If you ignore the people who ?like? your page, they will soon ignore you.
Simple stuff really, but it?s amazing how many stations don?t do it.
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