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- Bernanke comments offer support to Asian markets.
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Asian stocks mostly rose Wednesday as comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke helped improve risk sentiment, though Tokyo shares continued to be weighed by a strong yen.
Speaking at his semiannual report to Congress, Mr. Bernanke said that the central bank's bond buying program was helping the economy by keeping long-term interest rates lower. The speech was interpreted as Mr. Bernanke remaining in favor of continuing the central bank's stimulus measures.
"Mr. Bernanke confirmed the Fed's commitment to continue quantitative easing until unemployment falls, and U.S. economic data are clearly improving," said Martin Lakos, division director in Macquarie's Private Wealth division in Australia.
The news helped most markets in Asia rebound after they took a beating on Tuesday as inconclusive results from Italy's election revived concerns over the European debt crisis.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.6% and South Korea's Kospi Composite rose 0.2%.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index added 0.5%, while the Shanghai Composite in mainland China gained 0.6%.
Some high profile Asian companies were higher after releasing their latest earnings reports.
In Malaysia, AirAsia Bhd soared 78.0% after announcing that its net profit more than doubled in the fourth quarter. The stellar earnings of Southeast Asia's largest discount carrier by fleet size were helped by higher passenger fares, increased passenger volume as well as lower taxes.
In Hong Kong, AIA Group rose 2.9% after the Asian insurance heavyweight beat estimates by reporting a 27% rise in new business value in the 12 months that ended Nov. 30, with strong growth in Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.
Bucking the regional trend was Japan, where stocks continued to fall as the yen remained strong. The Nikkei Stock Average was down 0.8%.
The U.S. dollar gave up its early gains against the yen, and softened a touch as the morning progressed. The greenback was recently at Y91.77 compared with Y91.97 late Tuesday in New York and much weaker than the Y94.77 intraday high it reached on Monday.
It has been an extremely volatile week in Japan, where the Nikkei leaped 2.4% on Monday after reports that the government was planning to name Asian Development Bank president Haruhiko Kuroda as a nominee for the next Bank of Japan governor, before sliding 2.3% on Tuesday after uncertainty over Italy's elections strengthened the yen.
Among companies in focus in Tokyo, Nissan Motor fell 1.4% after the president of its joint venture in China said that its wholesale sales in China may fall 20% on-year for January and February.
Canon fell 2.4% on profit-taking. The company held its 2013 strategy briefing, which revealed that it is targeting annual sales growth of between 7% and 8% on a local-currency basis.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who won a Nobel Prize in physics but came under questioning for his handling of a solar energy loan, is stepping down.
Chu offered his resignation to President Barack Obama in a letter Friday. He said he will stay on at least until the end of February and may stay until a successor is confirmed.


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The officer, who is assigned to the city police's special operations section, was traveling north on 795 near Owings Mills Boulevard at 8:18 a.m. when his motorcycle struck the metal connecting portion of the roadway between the road and the overpass. His motorcycle began to sway back and forth, and to avoid striking other vehicles, he laid his motorcycle on its side, causing it to slide on the pavement, according to a Maryland State Police press release.
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The Lady Knights gave first year varsity coach Greg Carbone an early Christmas present Wednesday night when they beat Barnstable 50-30. The victory was the team's first of the season and coach Carbone's first as a varsity coach.
Sandwich got off to a slow start and allowed the Red Raiders to build a 12-6 lead by the end of the first quarter. But in the second quarter the Lady Knights went on a 15-4 scoring run, cruising into the half with a 21-16 advantage.
"We were sleep walking in the first half," Coach Carbone said. "Their press bothered us. Give Barnstable credit, they came out with a lot of energy."
It was a new ballgame in the third quarter for the Knights as they opened with a Caroline McKenna lay-up off a pass from Kasey Noonan. Megan Reardon added a free throw and Carly Whittle had a putback as Sandwich pulled out to a 10-point lead.
Defensively the Lady Knights were not giving Barnstable any good looks and between Shannon Mosher, Whittle and McKenna, SHS was controlling the boards. It wasn't until midway through the third quarter that the Red Raiders picked up their first points of the second half.
A Noonan jump shot and lay-up off a fast break kept things rolling for the Knights.
McKenna stepped to the line and hit a couple of free throws and Kay Stanton hit a jumper as the Knights took a 34-20 lead with a minute left in the quarter.
With 25 seconds on the clock, Heather Goddard buried a 3-pointer from the left-side base line. The Sandwich defense quickly turned the ball around and went for the hoop, with Mosher slamming the ball home at the buzzer to give the Knights a 39-20 lead.
Goddard opened the final eight-minute quarter with another 3-pointer, a carbon copy of the one she had hit with 25 seconds left in the third, giving the Lady Knights a 22-point lead.
The SHS defense then slowed, allowing Barnstable to pull down some rebounds and get some extra chances. After allowing BHS back-to-back baskets, Whittle changed the momentum with a pull-up jumper off a fast-break pass from McKenna. Lea Adams and Mosher then scored, with Adams making a pretty lay-up off a pass from Mosher to give Sandwich their largest lead of the night at 48-24.
Barnstable picked up a couple of baskets down the stretch, but did nothing to threaten the Sandwich lead. Stanton topped off the night for the Knights with a jump shot in the final seconds.
"Defensively we were pretty good," Carbone said. "We struggled at times rebounding. I thought Shannon Mosher played a very good game. She was a presence on the floor."
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Monday Sandwich suffered a 76-52 setback to Brockton.
The Knights traded points with the Boxers through the opening half and took a lead in the second half, but could not hold on against the tough Brockton squad.
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Is Wal-Mart letting you down?
Customers are complaining that stores have too little help to keep the shelves stocked. Has that been your experience?
This post comes from Karen Datko at partner site Money Talks News.
Everywhere you look, it seems, there's an article about empty shelves and bad service at Wal-Mart. "Hey, Wal-Mart, it's hard to make sales when store shelves are empty," chides a headline for a Brad Tuttle column on Time.
An oft-cited statistic is that while the Bentonville, Ark.-based mega-retailer has increased its number of U.S. stores by 13% in the past five years, its workforce has shrunk by 1.4%. A March article by Bloomberg says there are too few workers to reliably move the trucked-in merchandise from the storage area (what Wal-Mart calls "the steel") to the shelves, where people can buy it. That observation is based on interviews with Wal-Mart employees (called "associates" in Wal-Martese).
And, Bloomberg reported: "Last month, Wal-Mart placed last among department and discount stores in the American Customer Satisfaction Index, the sixth year in a row the company had either tied or taken the last spot."
A Wal-Mart spokesperson told Bloomberg that store stocking has not been in decline.
That Bloomberg story prompted a large reader response. "More than 1,000 emailed complaints signal that Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s restocking challenges are more widespread than the world's largest retailer has said," a follow-up story said.
This time, Wal-Mart responded that its own much larger sampling shows that things are better than ever. "These customers continue to tell us they have had a positive shopping experience and those numbers have trended upward over the past two years," the spokesperson told Bloomberg. "Our in-stock shelf availability is at historically high levels and averages between 90 and 95 percent."
But, The New York Times says, Wal-Mart executives are concerned, particularly about the stocking of fresh foods like produce.
Internal notes from a March meeting of top Walmart managers show the company grappling with low customer confidence in its produce and poor quality. "Lose Trust," reads one note, "Don't have items they are looking for -- can't find it."
Analysts have noticed too. "In its larger supercenter stores, Wal-Mart can't keep the shelves stocked, and that is driving customers away," Terrie Ellerbee, associate editor of grocery industry publication The Shelby Report, told the Times in an email.
We'd like to know: Has that been your experience? Are you getting the goods you're looking for and the prompt customer service you want at checkout and elsewhere in the store? Has your Wal-Mart shopping experience been in decline in the last year or two?
While we're at it, here's another thought: Some research says retailers are better off if they provide decent pay and benefits, which keeps and incentivizes workers. But raising its low wages would require Wal-Mart to raise prices.
Which would you prefer: cheaper goods or better service, including fully stocked shelves and quicker checkout? (Did you know that members of the Walton family, whose late patriarch founded the chain, held four spots on Forbes' 2012 list of the 10 richest Americans?)
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I cant stand Wally-world. They move everything in the store every 5 seconds and THEN when you do find something you need, it takes you 2 weeks to check out. I complained to a manager about having 24 check-out lines but only 2 were open and he said - "well we have plenty of self service checkout lines". He got a real "deer in the headlights" look on his face when I asked if I got the 10% discount for working for Wal-mart.
More than once have I left my intended purchase because there was no one ringing up the sales.
I HATE WALMART AND THE OWNERS ARE ANTI-AMERICAN. They will do anything for more money as if they don't already have enough.
I do not shop at Walmart and I do everything I can to discourage everyone I come in contact with not to shop theor either. They sell refurbished as "NEW" electronics. Everything there comes from CHINA and they no longer support the American ideals. They underpay their employees so that we, the taxpayers, are supporting their WELFARE Bills and FOOD STAMPS.
They DO NOT PAY TAXES AND ARE A SERIOUS BLEMISH ON AMERICA.
What's wrong with Wal-Mart?
1. Lack of help in the store to wait on customers.
2. Long waiting at check out ,too few cashiers.
3. Substandard fresh produce.
4. Stores are not clean and neat like years ago.
5. Prices are not always the lowest.
6. Chinese made products that are not built to last.
Customer service has declined markedly in the last 10-12 years ,its not the pleasant shopping experience anymore
Have called the corporate office so much with complaints I'm surprised they even answer my calls. Were I live they are about the only store without driving about 40 miles. Have bought dirt 3 times and got my money back 3 times because no one there to load. On one of the occasions talked with manager and informed him he worked for Wal-Mart and could load dirt just like any other employee. The look on his face when I told him that in front of other employees was priceless. I go only when I haven't got the time to drive the 40 miles to go somewhere else. They have put too many small american owned with american made products out of business. They move everything around all the time and when you look for something that they stocked a month ago all of a sudden " we don't carry that item". So if I can, I avoid Wal-Mart like the plague.
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Senator Mary Landrieu's campaign today released a list of four debates Senator Landrieu will participate in over the next several months of the campaign. Her campaign also said it participated in the Louisiana Municipal Association (LMA) Convention this past Saturday.
It's not surprising that Republican state Rep. Paul Hollis announced his exit from the U.S. Senate race this fall, because it never made much sense for him to enter it in the first place if he thought he could win.
That's not because Hollis is not a conservative, with a three-year average score on the Louisiana Legislature Log voting index of just under 75 (well above the chamber and a bit above the GOP legislative averages, where 100 shows always voting for the conservative/reform preference). That's not because Hollis has not demonstrated that he can win elections and has experience in a significant elective office, as he got himself elected to his position in 2011. It is that he got in the contest later than the two other Republican candidates who carved out space in both of these areas.
Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy has proven conservative credentials and almost six years' experience in national government, including putting into law a significant item or two (for example, being one of the main forces behind getting markedly higher flood insurance rates for some homeowners delayed and lowered). But if somebody doesn't like that Cassidy didn't vote the conservative issue preference every single time and/or that he's been in Congress all that time, then for you there's absolutely politically inexperienced Republican Rob Maness who claims he can vote more conservatively than Cassidy.
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Due to the 22nd amendment to the U.S. Constitution, President Obama is barred from serving a third term as President. This is a godsend since our country may not survive another four years of Barack Obama in the White House. Fortunately, more Americans are realizing the damage he has done to our country. This explains why his approval numbers are mired in the low 40's and the prospects for the Democrat Parity in the mid-term elections are not very rosy.
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Many of the Louisiana political antennas rose on Thursday when Bernie Pinsonat and SMOR's (Southern Media and Opinion Research) issued its fall statewide poll numbers.
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World Wetlands Day 2004 -- Austria
Austria designated five new Ramsar sites for World Wetlands Day
The Governments of Austria and some of its provinces have taken the opportunity of World Wetlands Day to name five new Wetlands of International Importance, four of them mires in the hills above Salzburg and the fifth a limestone mountain national park in Upper Austria. Here are site summaries prepared by Ramsar's Estelle Gironnet, with captions by Andreas Gärtner.
Mires of Pass Thurn. 02/02/04; Salzburg; 190 ha; 47°19'N 012°26'E; Nature monument. A complex of 13 peatlands (40 ha) on the southeastern slopes of the Pass Thurn mountain (between 1160-1600m), showing all typical features of mires of the Central Alps. The changing steepness of the slopes results in a very diverse pattern of different hydrological conditions - fens with mesotrophic calcareous water on the upper slopes turn into subneutral transitional mires or even acid bogs. The plant communities of the mires and marginal forests are endangered, and Dactylorhiza traunsteineri, a rare orchid, has one of the biggest populations in these mires. Noteworthy for the biogeographical region of the Alps is the occurrence of the boreal species Betula nana (Dwarf Birch). The mires of Pass Thurn are near-natural except for one site, the Wasenmoos, from which peat was cut chiefly for use as litter for stock-breeding in the valley; restoration work was undertaken there in autumn 2002. Ramsar site no. 1367.
Mires of the Sauerfelder Wald. 02/02/04; Salzburg; 119 ha; 47°07'N 013°54'E. A mountain range south of the Überling, with mires that are less numerous than in the Überling, but very different, thus adding importantly to the wetland diversity of the region. The subalpine continental climate is similar to boreal conditions. The hydrogenetic mire types are percolating mires, flush fens, spring fens and bogs. In most cases, the vegetation indicates acid conditions. Outstanding is the prevailing spruce-peatmoss community (Pino mugo-Sphagnetum magellanici, facies of Picea abis) of the bog, rare in the Alps and only known from very few other places. Remarkable for the biogeographical region of the Alps is the occurrence of the boreal species Betula nana (Dwarf Birch), Vaccinium microcarpum (a cranberry species), as well as the Empetro hermaphroditi-Sphagnetum fusci (Crowberry-Brown peatmoss community). The mires of the Sauerfelder Wald are all natural, not even affected by grazing; their only use is for hunting. The Ramsar Site should be extended over the whole mountain range in the next few years. Ramsar site no. 1368.
Mires of the Schwarzenberg. 02/02/04; Salzburg; 267 ha; 47°05'N 013°47'E. In the subalpine continental climate similar to the boreal, the plateau summit of the Schwarzenberg (1730m) has offered ideal conditions for the development of a natural mire complex of about 80 ha showing typical features of both boreal and alpine peatlands. Paludification mires, spring fens, percolation mires, Aapa mires and bogs present a high biodiversity of plant communities. Boreal vegetation such as the Dwarf Birch (Betula nana), bog cranberry species (Vaccinium microcarpum, Vaccinium oxycoccos) and the Crowberry-Brown Peatmoss (Empetro hermaphroditi-Sphagnetum fusci) are frequent occurrences, as is typical peatland vegetation like Carex pauciflora, Drosera rotundifolia, Menyanthes trifoliata and numerous Sphagnum species. The management authority (Austrian Federal Forestry) intends that there will be no peat extraction, no drainage of mires, no building of forestry roads affecting them, but a non-intensive forestry in the marginal forests and the preclusion of grazing and trampling of the mires. Ramsar site no. 1369.
Mires of the Überling. 02/02/04; Salzburg; 265 ha; 47°10'N 013°53'E; Natura 2000. The largest peatland concentration in the Alps, with 117ha of mires which present all typical features of mire types representative the boreal zone. Many of these peatlands belong to the boreal Aapa mire type, unique in the Alps, but also spring fens and terrestrialisation mires. One lake, Gstreikel Moos, remains almost covered by the biggest floating mat in the Alps. A large number of plant communities associated with boreal conditions add an important value to the biodiversity of the region, including Dwarf Birch (Betula nana), cranberry species (Vaccinium microcarpum, Vaccinium oxycoccos), Chickweed Wintergreen (Trientalis europaea) and Crowberry-Brown Peatmoss (Empetro hermaphroditi-Sphagnetum fusci). The mires are all natural or near-natural except for one bog-site, the "Moor SE Überlinghütte", which was drained in the 19th century for pasture. In a joint project of the landowners and NGOs, a rehabilitation project financed by the Austrian Federal Forestry was begun in 2000. In the next few years the Ramsar Site should be extended over the whole mountain range of the Überling and cattle grazing should be completely removed from the mires. Ramsar Site no. 1370.
Nationalpark Kalkalpen. 02/02/04; OberÖsterreich; 18,532 ha; 47°35'N 014°25'E; Important Bird Area; Natura 2000 site; National Park. Part of the northern limestone alps, the greatest part of the site is karstified and has a tight network of gorges and canyons, a total of 470 km of natural, pure brooks and some 800 springs which represent hotspots of biodiversity. More than 300 different species of fauna have been described in these springs and among them, new ones such as the molluscs Belgrandiella aulaei and Bythiospeun nocki (family Hydrobiidae). The area, the largest forested reserve in Austria, presents the rare forest associations Alnion glutinoso-incanae, Tilio-Acerion and Cephalanthero-Fagion, hosts the brown bear (Ursus arctos) and the lynx (Lynx lynx), and is an important place for birds (22 listed in the European Birds Directive), autochthonous stocks of brown trout (Salmo trutta), amphibians and insects. Although forestry activities have influenced the area, since 1997 it is under a strict management plan which prohibits any economic use. The National Park administration runs a water analysis laboratory and has developed a karst research programme including the monitoring of springs and meteorology. Ramsar site no. 1371.
|"One example for management activities: On an alpine meadow, where the water gets into the carst-system (the rocks) itself we had problems with microbiological pollution. The water was polluted by faecal germs coming from the cattle there, and therefore in the spring on the basement of the mountain we measured high amounts of these germs. We solved the problem by building a fence on the alpine meadow around the wet areas and the sinks where the water enters the carst system. The difference inside and outside of the fence can easily be recognized."
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Usually the spring is not very spectacular, only a little amount of water comes out from a small cave about 2m above the river and the second higher cave which can be seen on the photo is dry."
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"The most important type of wetlands here is the carstified area, where you find the water beneath the surface in the rock itself. The mountains have a lack of water, and on the basement of the mountains a lot of big springs can be found. Usually the water stays only for a very short period in the carst system (sometime only hours) and the springs have a short time of reaction on rainfall." -- Dipl.Ing. Andreas Gärtner, Nationalpark O.ö. Kalkalpen GmbH


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16 U.S. Code § 13 - Medical attention to employees at isolated places; removal of bodies for burial
The Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, is authorized to provide, out of moneys appropriated for the general expense of the several national parks and national monuments, medical attention for employees of the National Park Service located at isolated situations, including the moving of such employees to hospitals or other places where medical assistance is available, and in case of death to remove the bodies of deceased employees to the nearest place where they can be prepared for shipment or for burial.
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Trimipramine, a tricyclic tertiary amine pharmacologically related to imipramine, which was the first pharmacological agent noted to treat panic disorders (1), provides significant rapid antipanic effects with minimal side effects at a low dose. Tricyclic drugs are less widely used than selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) because tricyclic drugs generally have more severe adverse effects at the higher doses required for effective treatment of panic disorders (2). This is a case report about a man with a 20-year history of panic disorders who was unresponsive to all agents tried, with the exception of imipramine, which was discontinued because of side effects. Tripramine at 50 mg/day induced remission of the panic attacks without adverse effects.
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Having taken a few pictures that others think are "wonderful" does not make you a photographer. Nor does serving drinks to your friends at a home party make you a bartender. There is one difference between you being a professional photographer or the bartender at your local pub: Training.
The spark that gave Hank Belden the idea to start a hospitality training school - a female bartender he hired when he opened the Marker 32 in 1984.
He thought he was going to get swamped, even though he now had three bartenders. That night he had an assistant do the things he was going to do and decided he was going to help the new girl when she "got in the weeds" (bartender talk for getting swamped).
As he observed they indeed were very busy and he expected any minute to have to step in and help her. He saw that all the customers had a drink, but he guessed people weren't drinking their drinks was the reason she wasn't busy.
But, Mr. Belden said, "At the end of the night, I rang out her cash register and she'd doubled the sales that all three (bartenders) made two nights before."
After he got over his initial shock he asked her how she did that. She said, "That's my secret. I like to work smart, I don't like to work hard."
Mr. Belden agreed with that philosophy but he'd been in the business 20 years and said, "I don't know how you did that." She said she'd give him another secret. She said that she could have done that all by herself two nights ago; the other two bartenders just got in her way.
The upshot was Mr. Belden would not let her leave until he learned her secrets. She worked with him for several years and after Mr. Belden learned her "tricks" he started the school.
That was 30 years ago and today he teaches prospective bartenders much more than how to mix a drink. He teaches how to relate to the customers, the proper placement of your "tools" behind the bar and how to get a job.
Upon walking into the Institute you are immediately transported to a bar, set up the exact way a bar should be set up. Students are trained in the "classroom" by Mr. Belden personally. He said he teaches how to do all the "little" things, as well as all the "secrets" he learned from his "inspiration" plus his own wealth of knowledge from 40 years in the profession and working all over the world. A recently added portion of the course is called "Flair" bartending or "flairtending." Flair was made famous by the movie "Cocktail," starring Bryan Brown and Tom Cruise.
As for his perfect student - it isn't someone with some bartending experience whom he has to first "un-teach" all his or her bad habits. His preference is "people with good attitudes that like people, that have an easy smile and good conversation. It's not only speed and accuracy, it's time and motion and having the bar set up correctly. Half of the battle is getting the drinks out, but the other half is customer service."
Perhaps the most important feature of his business is job placement, a service Mr. Belden provides to any graduate, no matter how long it's been since the student became a bartender. "Job placement to me is just as important as signing up a new student," he said.
The course costs $998, and when asked about the length of training Mr. Belden said the short answer is, "As long as it takes." The course goal is to teach a person how to be a "super star." Each individual class is for two hours.
The training school is the only one in the Ormond Beach/Daytona Beach area. There are several in Orlando. But his course syllabus is so complete and covers so many unique secrets that Hank Belden stands alone in the world of hospitality training.
It is not greed, but reality speaking about the most important thing his school teaches - "How to make money," he said.
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Off The Tee: U.S. Open Recap, Goodbye to NBC, Can Tiger Come Back?
Last week's U.S. Open at Pinehurst was exactly what you'd expect from golf's second major, a beautiful, challenging course, near par scoring, and a very competitive leaderboard.
For everyone in the field not named Martin Kaymer.
The German lapped the field, finishing nine under par, good for an eight shot win, to capture his second major tournament.
In this installment of 'Off The Tee', 4 Deep Golf's Joel Harrington examines what exactly Kaymer did right in North Carolina to distance himself from the best players in the world:
The U.S. Open did signal the end of an era for televised golf, as NBC broadcast its' final Open, with FOX taking over the tournament coverage next year.
I asked Joel about the move and whether NBC, and outspoken lead commentator Johnny Miller, will be missed by golf fans:
A lot of the talk about the conditions at Pinehurst centered around how brown the coure looked compared to previous U.S. Open courses. That will be on display again this week at the Women's U.S. Open takes over the course.
Joel says the 'brown look' is all part of the US Golf Association's master plan:
Tiger Woods missed yet another major as he continues to recover from back surgery, but the former #1 player in the world was back in the news this week, when his agent announced that Tiger was taking full golf swings for the first time as part of his rehab.
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US boss held captive by Chinese workers cries foul
They want severance. He says they're not fired. The standoff highlights the vulnerable position foreign companies are in.
A drama playing out in a Beijing suburb where an American boss is being held hostage by his Chinese employees offers an insightful snapshot into growing labor issues inside the People's Republic.
Chip Starnes, the 42-year-old co-owner of Specialty Medical Supplies, has been blocked from leaving his company's Chinese facilities since Friday. His Florida company makes disposable medical supplies, such as the alcohol prep pads used to clean skin before injections.
"They are demanding full severance pay, but they still have a job," Starnes, stuck in his office, told NBC News. "That's the problem."
The layoffs were prompted by plans to move part of the company's operations to India. But a local union official told The Associated Press the workers believe the entire plant is closing down and that Starnes would "run away" without paying his employees -- not uncommon in China.
One plant employee told AP she hadn't been paid for two months and wanted to quit, but she also wanted her salary and compensation. Starnes denies he's closing his China operations or that his staff wasn't being paid.
"That's ridiculous," he told The New York Times. "They were all paid on Monday."
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing is monitoring the situation, and for the moment Chinese law enforcement appears to be taking a hands-off approach to the dispute. But Starnes says local officials are pressuring him to pay off the disgruntled workers.
"The union just wants to do anything that will calm the people," he said in a phone interview with the paper. "They are asking me to commit business suicide."
Starne's predicament underscores growing discontent among China's labor force, in which employers sometimes cheat workers out of their salaries and employees have little legal recourse. The nation's slowing economy, coupled with widespread demands for better salaries, is also creating new workplace tensions.
The standoff highlights the often-vulnerable position of foreign companies doing business in China.
"It's easy in China to agitate around a foreign employer," a business executive in Beijing, who asked not to be named, told The New York Times. "This society is accustomed to using tools of mass mobilization, and when a spark erupts in the wrong place, things can quickly get out of control."
have to hand it to the chinese.it never occured to me to not let the coe go when he told us the factory was moving to mexico.brilliant.i guess the chinese workers must be getting sick of being paid slave wages while the corporation grows fat.lol.i love it.the chinese government let snowden go and they arent rescuing an america ceo.dam youd almost think they were communists and didnt answer to the united states government......well go on ship more jobs there fools
...and people complain about unions in this country (as I have sometimes, if I feel their demands are outlandish), but our unions don't take their bosses hostage the way these Chinese workers have, well, maybe we do have something similar, i.e., when teachers' unions hold the children hostage when they threaten to strike over pay raises, you could say that is a form of hostage taking.
But I got a kick out of what triggered this....Chinese jobs being outsourced...TO INDIA! Yeah, how's it feel getting it up the wahzoo! Makes me wonder though, after the workers in India are no longer cheap enough for the companies, what's next? Maybe the corporations will hire scientists to train monkeys and gerbils to perform work and services. The gerbils of course will be reserved to meet the needs of the CEOs and their upper management teams.
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If your blood hasn't boiled in awhile, you must have missed the AJC story earlier this week about Range Fuels — a multimillion-dollar lesson in why taxpayers usually lose when billionaires with hare-brained schemes sidle up to politicians.
It's been about a year since Range Fuels shut down its facility in Soperton, the South Georgia town where it had promised to turn our state into a world leader in turning wood into ethanol. There was just one problem: Range didn't actually know how to turn wood into ethanol. The resulting failure cost taxpayers $64 million in federal loan guarantees and another $6 million in state funds.
This past week, the AJC's Dan Chapman reported the sale of Range for a mere $5.1 million. The lucky bargain shopper? A New Zealand firm bankrolled by Vinod Khosla — the former tech executive who just happens to have been one of the main backers of Range.
Too bad Georgia didn't invest in one of Khosla's other ethanol endeavors: In its 2011 ranking of the richest Americans, Forbes described Khosla as "the rare Silicon Valley venture capitalist able to generate profits from a clean tech portfolio." I'm sure his portfolio's profitability has nothing to do with the fact that taxpayers shoulder losses by the million on dogs like Range Fuels.
To the degree the public is upset about inequality, the anger seems to stem less from the existence of inequality — which we've always had, and always will — and more from the belief that the inequal gains were ill-gotten. The belief that the system is being rigged.
The Occupy movement blames this chiefly on bankers and big business generally, the tea partyers on big government. They are both right when they notice the overlap between their respective targets.
Both parties are guilty of enabling this overlap. Range Fuels was handed money by a GOP governor, Sonny Perdue, and the Republican Bush administration; solar-panel flop Solyndra by the Democratic Obama administration. Both George W. Bush and Barack Obama oversaw bailouts of financial firms and auto makers. Need I go on?
And while failures make headlines, the relative successes line private pockets with public largesse, too.
The timing of this lesson couldn't have come at a better time. As Georgia's leaders mull ways to spur the economy during the 2012 legislative session, Range Fuels should be an indelible reminder of the folly of using taxpayer dollars and tax-code loopholes to enrich private firms and individuals.
That goes for the CAPCO scheme, which hands money over to private companies to invest without retaining a stake for the state.
That goes for any other effort that calls for the state to invest directly in private firms — an enticing opportunity for corruption now and years into the future.
That even goes for using hotel/motel tax revenues, once they are freed up from paying off the Georgia Dome, to build an outdoor stadium that will accomplish little besides cannibalizing the Dome's business and making a lot more money for the Falcons.
The hidden danger of economic downturns is that they invite all manner of bad decisions made with scarcer-than-ever public monies, all in the name of "jobs."
Yes, Georgia needs jobs. And, yes, there are things Georgia's leaders can do to encourage their creation. But we don't need more "friends" like Vinod Khosla, or more misadventures like Range Fuels.
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January 6th, 2012
5:54 pm
We need to track this more closely, not just make it a macro story. The details need to go out so we don't do this again. I am afraid states and federal governments are like the community S&Ls who are not equipped to be making these big discussions. I bet there is not but a hand full of people in this state that could be qualified to think in these terms and none of them are politicians.
That is a landfill plastic recycling operation in Cordele that had the same fate. Grass root small business that grows organically is the door out of this recession. These huge numbers for public offers or half baked ideas like Range or the landfill is not how business evolves. Follow the money and I bet it ended up in the pockets of Wall Street not main street. And they will tell you they earned it.
January 6th, 2012
6:01 pm
Georgia has the best legislators money can buy. And they are cheap cheap cheap because they are stupid stupid stupid.
January 6th, 2012
6:11 pm
Wood into ethanol indeed.
January 6th, 2012
6:19 pm
I'm tired of stuff like this. Let me add to your list, Kyle: That state tax write-off for donating to a tuition fund for many private schools (K-12). It takes money away from public needs and converts it to private schools–it is WRONG!
January 6th, 2012
6:27 pm
kyle….this article is most welcome. it should remind commenters like td that republicans are just as into gommint giveaways "in the name of jobs" as are democrats. i seem to recall that many free-marketeers believe that a company should stand or fall on its own rather than getting gommint handouts. soooo….where was the outrage among georgia repubs when this company got those handouts? i guess such handouts are totally nifty so long as the g.o.p. does it.
January 6th, 2012
6:27 pm
i shall see you all again at 9 when lunch break comes!
January 6th, 2012
6:35 pm
So is Mitt a tycoon or a politician..!?!?
January 6th, 2012
6:39 pm
To that point exactly…..you would be FOR or AGAINST the Keystone XL pipeline…!?!? Because there's some pretty heavy hitting going on with both tycoons and politicians on that one….
Personally, I support the pipeline…and I supported Range Fuels as well as Solyndra…the road to energy independence is not going to be smooth, but we have no choice….
January 6th, 2012
6:40 pm
Almost forgot….Johnson/Paul…2012….
January 6th, 2012
6:45 pm
Our elected need leave the financing of new or old enterprise to the venture capitalist.Remodeling old motels, converting celluose,peanut hulls,kudzu whatever to fuel.I think corn to ethanol still being susidized.at a cost of more to produce,than energy gained.
January 6th, 2012
6:51 pm
January 6th, 2012
6:54 pm
When tycoons and politicians do business, taxpayers lose
That's why government needs to stay the hell out of business and picking winners and losers. No subsidies, no tax breaks, no nothing.
If Vinod Khosla making out like a bandit on this isn't illegal, it damn sure ought to be.
To the degree the public is upset about inequality, the anger seems to stem less from the existence of inequality — which we've always had, and always will — and more from the belief that the inequal gains were ill-gotten. The belief that the system is being rigged.
Kyle, you hit the nail on the head there Bud. All of us in the Great Unwashed know that things are never going to be equal, we just ask them not to piss in our ear and tell us it's raining.
January 6th, 2012
6:56 pm
who in their right mind would not support the pipeline?It means work for us.But we do not want to contaminate our water.When done do safely.
January 6th, 2012
7:00 pm
The government understands the scarcity of oil…Most folks don't….Do you think they would be building a "TAR SANDS PIPELINE" if you could just turn on the oil faucet..? VC won't invest money until they can get returns……The government has to act BEFORE oil gets to $500/barrel….and they're not all going to be winners….
Do you think the TVA didn't have problems…It's still having problems…National Labs, The Hoover Dam, the Pentagon…Lot's of discussion went into all these…But I'm glad they pushed forward….One the other hand.."Star Wars" was a pretty big flop…I'm still looking forward to that one….The Road to Nowhere..!?!? Not so much….
January 6th, 2012
7:01 pm
Biodiesel is a better renewable answer than ethanol anyway….
January 6th, 2012
7:05 pm
Come November, Vote all incumbents holding public elected office OUT!!!!!!
January 6th, 2012
7:07 pm
Find and follow where your rep,sen,personally investing,buying property.Do same.
January 6th, 2012
7:08 pm
I'm not sure I have all the crooks and turns of this story straightened out. Let's see.
Ranger Co. says it knows how to make ethanol from pine trees. Wants to build plant in Georgia.
One participant & financier in Ranger is Khosia. He's rich but not a builder.
Ranger tells Gov. Perdue they are good, make jobs, raise money but can't build their own plant without help ($$$$)..
State & Federal money in the millions is found and given to Ranger. Plant built. Ranger CANNOT make ethanol. Investment totally lost, mostly State & federal money.
Bankrupt plant sold for far less than money borrowed. Buyer is Khosia who was one of the origianl pushers of Ranger. He now plans to produce ETHANOL and any profit is his.
Fed & state money *taxpayer's $$$" is long gone.
This sounds more crooked than a snake, any way you put it. We've been took by a crook!
January 6th, 2012
7:22 pm
You never get too old to learn.Did not know VC only invested when they were getting returns.How many gallons in a barrel oil?Is it a valve or faucet.Tarsands pipeline,mean they gonna pump sand.How is a pentagon shaped?Where is TD to answere all these questions.
January 6th, 2012
7:26 pm
From glimpses of enlightenment like this, I think we may be able to eventually turn Kyle into somewhat of a progressive yet. It just may take a long, long, long time to fully deprogram him.
January 6th, 2012
7:34 pm
Sorry to be late to the party today but I had some customers that thought they were libs and were entitled to services without having to pay for them and I had to go convince them (Georgia redneck style) that this is still America and one has to pay for services rendered.
I found this quote for all the whiners on this blog that only know how to complain and never provide any answers.
"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors."
January 6th, 2012
7:41 pm
You libs sound like crony capitalism is what conservatives are all about. Bunch of BS (Barbara Streisand). As Kyle pointed out this is going on on both sides of the political spectrum. This is what happens when you vote for people who think government has a role in every part of peoples lives and think governments role is to create jobs.
January 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Thankfully, Mr. Khosla the billionaire won't have to pay much tax on his ill-gotten gains since we still have the Bush tax cuts.
Jobs created? Zero, zed, nada.
January 6th, 2012
7:49 pm
That outdoor stadium absolutely is the biggest boondoogle ever to hit this state. If the State Gov provides one dime to the Arthur Blank enrichment fund, I think I may move. There is nothing wrong with the Dome. The SEC says they will move the SEC Championship if they have to play it outdoors. The Peach/Chick-Fil-A bowl was a loser before the Dome.
Blank snickers when he says he needs a smaller outdoor venue. He wants less seats to sell, so that he can charge more per seat, and create competition for the seats. That means he will have less incentive to keep the fans happy, just let them quit coming, he has a waiting list of stupid people wanting to buy a ticket. He wants more suites, he gets paid for those on an annual basis, and when corporate fans get disgusted and quit filing up the suites no one notices and he still gets rent.
Government needs to get out and stay out of corporate affairs. Green energy will never catch on until we get close to running out of cheap and reliable oil. Given permission to explore and develop that is years in the future. Stop the money for these green energy boondoogles.
January 6th, 2012
7:56 pm
I don't care what kind of stadium Arthur Blank has or where he builds it, as long as there is not one dime of public money involved.
January 6th, 2012
8:19 pm
Well said.
January 6th, 2012
8:22 pm
Range didn't actually know how to turn wood into ethanol.
And we didn't know that beforehand!!??!! You can bet a venture capitalist wouldn't have invested before researching THAT little detail.
Stories like this give me gas.
January 6th, 2012
8:26 pm
Agree 100% with your comments, but … not really appropriate to put "auto bailouts" in the same bucket with the rest of these fiascos. Whether you think it was government's role to intervene (and I respect the views of anyone who says it wasn't) the auto bailout has been pretty damn successful. I'd hate to think where our unemployment figures would be right now if GM and Chrysler had gone belly up. Instead, there's a lot of people working for them and their suppliers today, and profitability is coming back. All in all, not the same kind of deal as Range or Salyndra or CAPCOs.
January 6th, 2012
8:28 pm
Perhaps you can explain how Sonny Perdue left the Governor's office a richer man than when he entered it. Here's a hint: the "libs" (whoever they are) didn't do it.
January 6th, 2012
8:34 pm
Ole Sunny involved ? Well that answers everything.
January 6th, 2012
8:34 pm
Why justify the auto bailouts by claiming jobs were saved. If that is so, why is Oblamer laying off 500,000 soldiers and Marines, maybe we should bail out the Def Dept.
If these bailouts were so successful, why are we subsidizing the Chevy Volt by $250,000 per vehicle. Seems to me Kyle is right, Gov throwing good money after bad.
January 6th, 2012
8:34 pm
The Snark
January 6th, 2012
8:28 pm
If you had been reading any of my post for the past several years then you would know that I thought Sonny was nothing more then a RINO. If it was not for the job he did with reducing the budget and hurting k-12 education the least amount as possible without raising taxes then I would think he was no better of a governor then Roy Barnes.
January 6th, 2012
8:46 pm
Stories like this give me gas.
Must be why The Snark left us!
January 6th, 2012
8:59 pm
Why did Ranger NOT know how to make ethanol? Is that not what the owner now, the infamous Mr. Khosia is planning to do ? Make ethanol at the same plant? Or does he have other plans? It seems that this plan with pine trees to ethanol is something that can be done. But not Ranger!!!
I think Gov Perdue got fooled just like a lot of other people and he wanted jobs. He was rich before he became governor. Surely all the agencies that were involved investigated this plan. As @@ suggested, surely some venture captalist must have taken a better look at this project.
Although a lot of people were fooled completely, we cannot grow without new ventures.
But, as Hillbilly suggested, build anything you want but don't use taxpayer money to do it.
January 6th, 2012
9:14 pm
stories like this one (and thousands more which are similar) make me wish i could just retire from a business world which is, in my humble opinion, ethically and morally bankrupt….and shot clean through with cronyism and corruption.
o well….just gotta keep doing what i do. gotta do something with my all energy!
January 6th, 2012
9:15 pm
by the way….cronyism knows no political party. just ask jon corzine
January 6th, 2012
9:22 pm
As @@ suggested, surely some venture captalist must have taken a better look at this project.
Surely they did. Private investors lost about $150 million on the boondoggle and the aforementioned Khosla is a VC. That's what he does for a living after making millions helping to start Sun Microsystems.
January 6th, 2012
9:24 pm
BTW, Kyle, this column has a much more defensible position than the one you took a few days ago where instead of giving it directly to businesses you wanted to give state pension money to VCs who somehow wouldn't screw it up.
January 6th, 2012
9:38 pm
Must be why The Snark left us!
Happy to help.
January 6th, 2012
9:46 pm
Soperton and the failed Chevy Vilt are what happens when the government tries to replace free markets.
Big, expensive fail.
January 6th, 2012
9:47 pm
the auto bailout has been pretty damn successful.
Yeah, for the UAW union!
I hope they like the car company we U.S. taxpayers bought for them. Good to see they're making those GM cars (the ones that catch fire) in China as well.
Then again, these are the reasons is why I now only buy Hyundai (parent company of KIA) made right here in the good old USA (Alabama and Georgia) by well paid non-union American workers.
January 6th, 2012
10:07 pm
TD @734 what you are describing is theft and liberals do not excluvisly own that title.
January 6th, 2012
10:09 pm
The Washington Post is out with a story and quite telling graphic that shows the number of billionaires that have donated to each of the presidential candidates including the president.
The big winner – Mitt Romney with 40. Follow with 30 by the President (you know, the guy who represents the 1%). And in last place, Ron Paul with 0 donations from billionaires.
Here is the link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/billionaire-donors/2011/12/05/gIQAa3spXO_graphic.html
Now Ron has plenty of donations from millionaires, but way more from the common man. You know, in this day and age, you can become a millionaire with hard work, some good investments, and the like, but it takes manipulating the government tax structure, regulatory apparatus, subsidy mechanism, and protectionist trade system to become a billionaire. I mean even Bill Gates made tons of money off government contracts. The US government owns 25% of all the PCs in the nation, and if you want to do business with the government you need to share files, etc. and they must be compatible. Don't tell me that didn't help sales of Microsoft products.
I guess if you are in agreement at all with this article, its obvious who the uncorruptible one is – but that has always been the case – Ron Paul. Ron Paul 2012. The last hope for america.
January 6th, 2012
10:13 pm
Oh, and by the way, the biggest contributors to Mitt Romney's and the presidents campaigns (and their PACs) are Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other major banks. Shock, huh?
As a group, the biggest contributors to Ron Paul's campaign are current and retired members of the US military. Check it out. Last quarter there were stories all over the internet from news organizations that spanned the spectrum from conservative to liberal that supported the evidence that is available on the Federal Election Commission web page.
I guess they like his foreign policy – but why wouldn't they? They are the ones being sent to die for the empire and the military industrial complex rather than in defense of america.
January 6th, 2012
10:13 pm
The folly of using taxpayer funds is the measure of whom or what is being enriched, Kyle. Not all government funding of market ventures are boondoggles, though admittedly, more seem to fail than succeed.
We might want to tie future government funding (or bulk thereof) to the actual results produced by a project, – not to the sales pitch or the rosy promises made – before we turn over taxpayer money to these people.
January 6th, 2012
10:16 pm
[...] When tycoons and politicians do business, taxpayers loseAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)The Occupy movement blames this chiefly on bankers and big business generally, the tea partyers on big government. They are both right when they notice the overlap between their respective targets. Both parties are guilty of enabling this overlap. …and more » [...]
January 6th, 2012
10:30 pm
It's Obama's fault!!
Thought I'd get that out the way.
January 6th, 2012
10:37 pm
January 6th, 2012
10:30 pm
Well, at least it is an honest start.
January 6th, 2012
11:17 pm
Kyle is right on this one. Unfortunately, this is an old old Georgia tradition with no party label.
January 6th, 2012
11:22 pm
Yes, by golly, you "got it", Kyle. As one example: How fair would have it been of Georgia to have exempted corporate jet parts from sales tax, just to turn around and start taxing LABOR for auto repairs? Not very.
Seeking fairness, is not inherently class warfare.


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