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0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Nov 22, 2009 | by SIMON MULLOCK
LIVERPOOL 2
Skrtel 50, Benayoun 77
MAN CITY 2
Adebayor 69, Ireland 76
IF YOU believed Rafa Benitez and Mark Hughes, their sides are both still on course for a top-four finish.
Don’t believe the hype. Despite the stellar names on show, the thrills and spills of an enthralling second half and a point apiece that will satisfy both men, this was a day when the flaws of both Liverpool and City were brutally exposed.
The home side lost Glen Johnson in a pre-match fitness test before Daniel Agger (below right) and Ryan Babel both went off with head and ankle injuries inside 20 minutes
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0 Comments | Wireless News, Nov 23, 2009
CTIA-The Wireless Association announced it has opened the process for speakers, moderators and presenters to apply for consideration during International CTIA Wireless 2010 taking place March 22-25, 2010 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
According to CTIA, the summit offers educational programming during its trade shows to highlight the topics, trends and policy issues that are affecting the wireless ecosystem.
Some of the proposed educational session topics for International CTIA Wireless 2010 include:
– Augmented Reality
– Intelligent Transportation
– Location Aware Applications
– mHealth Solutions
– Mobile Marketing & Advertising
– Mobile Music & Games
– Retail & Mobile Payments
Submissions will be accepted until December 11th.
CTIA is an international association for the wireless telecommunications industry, representing carriers, manufacturers and wireless Internet providers.
More Information:
http://www.ctiaspeakers.com
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11.23
0 Comments | Xinhua News Agency – CEIS, Nov 19, 2009
Chinese FM, Japanese Diet Speakers vow to enhance ties
TOKYO, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met with Japanese Speaker of the House of Representatives Takahiro Yokomichi and President of the House of Councillors Satsuki Eda on Thursday to discuss bilateral ties.
Yang said after the new Diet was formed after the Aug. 30 general election of Japan, leaders of the two countries have met under many circumstances to reach important consensus on strategic mutual beneficial relations
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11.22
Business Wire, April 07, 2009
Consumers have more options to meet their insurance needs
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Today, Ameriprise
Auto & Home Insurance, a division of Ameriprise
Financial (NYSE: AMP), will begin offering auto, home and personal
liability umbrella insurance in Massachusetts.
Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance is now one of only 21 companies to
offer personal lines insurance in Massachusetts. We are thrilled that
drivers and homeowners in Massachusetts have another option to consider
when selecting personal lines insurance, says Ken Ciak, President of
Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance.
Mr. Ciak says the company is eager to offer consumers in Massachusetts
the rare combination of low rates, exceptional coverage and responsive
service. This is a fantastic opportunity for our company as well as the
people of Massachusetts. Our intention was to find a way to deliver
cost-effective products paired with outstanding service, while meeting
all regulatory requirements of the state and weve achieved that goal.”
Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance now offers insurance products in 43
states and has more than 500,000 policyholders.
A.M. Best, the leading independent rater of insurers in the country, has
provided the Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance group of underwriters with
an “A” (Excellent) rating, demonstrating financial strength, stability
and soundness of operating performance.
The Ward Group rated Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance as one of the top
50 providers of personal auto insurance in the country in 2008.
About Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance
Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance, a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial,
Inc. has been providing low-cost, high-quality insurance for nearly two
decades. Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance, headquartered in De Pere
(Green Bay), Wisconsin, is a direct response affinity based
property/casualty company selling and servicing automobile, homeowners
and umbrella insurance
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11.22
0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Nov 21, 2009 | by Laura Hancock Deseret News
LAYTON — At times when he was running for his life, only a few steps ahead of the Soviet KGB, Mike Ramsdell always considered himself a “farm boy from Bear River City, Utah.”
Ramsdell spoke Friday at the Utah Farm Bureau Federation at the Davis Convention Center about the most harrowing ordeal of his life, which he also described in his book, “A Train to Potevka.”
Ramsdell could acquire foreign languages easily and after an undergraduate degree at Utah State University and graduate studies at the University of Utah, he began to work for the U.S. State Department as an intelligence officer during the Cold War.
As the Cold War was winding down, the United States dispatched Ramsdell and other spies based at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to Siberia to detain a former Soviet legislator whom the U.S. government wanted for alleged embezzlement, he said
As Ramsdell and his spy colleagues were closing in on the former legislator, their cover was blown. Ramsdell’s colleagues flew back to Moscow, but Ramsdell, because he had better language skills, remained in the area to “sanitize” the apartments they had rented in the area. He was to destroy all documents “so that if the Soviet secret police or the KGB came in to those apartments, they would not be able to tie (together) anything about who we were or what we were doing,” he said.
While Ramsdell sanitized an apartment, a Russian mobster protecting the former legislator found him. They got into a fight, and Ramsdell barely escaped the area by train to a “safe house” the U.S. maintained for spies in Siberia.
Ramsdell nearly starved to death on the train and in the house, having lost massive amounts of blood in the fight and going about a week without food.
“And then one particular afternoon, I remember being the lowest in my life, because I knew I was not going to make it,” he said.
He began writing good-bye letters to his family.
“I thought, at least I’ll be able to see my mom and dad again,” he said.
Food arrived and Ramsdell was able to return to Moscow
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11.22
0 Comments | Wireless News, Nov 21, 2009
Dmailer, a software provider specializing in backup and synchronization solutions for portable storage devices, has appointed Bernard Gidon as Vice President of Sales for EMEA.
Gidon will be responsible for managing sales, developing new and existing relationships with customers and driving the company’s sales strategy in the EMEA region.
“With an increasing presence of Dmailer’s customer base here in Europe & in the Middle East, it became essential to appoint seasoned sales executive dedicated to this important region. Bernard’s impressive track record of achievement, along with his in-depth knowledge of the EMEA region, makes him a fantastic asset to our team,” said Lucas Leonardi, CEO of Dmailer. “He will play a key role in the strategic development of EMEA sales while helping establish stronger and closer relationships with current and new Dmailer customers.”
Prior to joining Dmailer, Bernard Gidon was Head of Business Development EMEA for Plantronics/Altec Lansing, where he was responsible for setting up and developing OEM and Carriers’ business and Alliances in EMEA. Prior to that, Gidon was Sales Director of the South European Region for AdventNet, where he managed all sales activities in the Telecom and IT markets
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11.22
0 Comments | Wireless News, Nov 21, 2009
The Ethernet Alliance announced the results of the SFP subcommittee plug fest of 10G SFP Direct Attach Copper products based on the SFF-8431 industry specification.
Member participants included AppliedMicro, Amphenol, Broadcom, ClariPhy, Cortina Systems, FCI, Intel, Molex, Panduit, Tyco Electronics, Vitesse and Volex.
The plug fest was held Oct. 19-23 at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) in Durham, NH. The event focused on interoperability testing of SFF-8431 Specifications for Enhanced Small Form Factor Pluggable Module (SFP ), Annex E. The SFP form factor with its low power, low latency, and high density (up to 48 ports in 1U) was developed to provide the market with a low-cost 10 Gigabit interconnect.
According to the Ethernet Alliance, the participants conducted multi?vendor interoperability testing of SFP copper cable assemblies with each host port physical layer (PHY) or network interface card (NIC)
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11.22
0 Comments | Times of India, The, Nov 15, 2009
WARDHA: For government agencies the plight of farmers seems to be a non-issue as the growing numbers of suicides by ryots or their family members are not admitted as the direct outcome of deaths due to poor crops or debt. The mechanism for determining the farmers suicide in government records is so difficult that they are deprived of the government aid.
38 suicide cases were reported in the district in the last three months. But 28 cases were not identified under the category of farmers’ suicide while six are still under scrutiny to decide the nature of the case. “We have certain criterion to decide the nature of the case. If true, then it is an alarming situation in view of the large number of suicides taking place three to four years after the Prime Minister’s relief package was announced,” says Anup Yadav, district collector of Wardha.
However, the leaders and agriculture experts do not have faith in the mechanism for confirmation of the nature of cases and say it is like ignoring seriousness of the problem. “This is the reason which curbs policy-makers to think about the growing suicide cases
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11.21
0 Comments | Wireless News, Nov 21, 2009
Global Cash Access Holdings announced that the company will be presenting at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Credit Conference on Thursday, December 3, at The Crowne Plaza Hotel in New York, New York.
The presentation will begin at 4:20pm EST.
Investors and interested parties may listen to the live audio webcast of this presentation by visiting the company’s website at gcainc.com at the appropriate time. A replay of the webcast will be available following the conclusion of the presentation.
Las Vegas-based Global Cash Access. (GCA), a subsidiary of Global Cash Access Holdings, is a provider of cash access products and related services to over 1,100 casinos and other gaming properties in the United States, Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America and Asia.
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11.20
Business Wire, Nov 19, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — KB Home (NYSE: KBH), one of Americas premier homebuilders, today
announced that John Reeves has been named president of the Companys
Washington, D.C. Metro division, which includes the states of Maryland
and Virginia. In this role, Reeves assumes responsibility for all of the
Companys homebuilding operations throughout the Washington, D.C. metro
area, from land acquisition and construction to sales and customer
service.
Johns broad experience in land acquisition, planning, development and
operations, combined with his deep knowledge of the vibrant local
housing market surrounding our nations capital, will help KB Home offer
a top notch Built to Order homebuying experience to area residents,
said Vince DePorre, regional president of KB Home.
Most recently, Reeves was chief operating officer of the Silver
Companies in Virginia, a commercial and residential real estate
investment and development company. As COO, he successfully managed the
commercial side of the business comprised of over 30 active projects.
Prior to Silver Companies, Reeves was with Pulte Homes for eight years,
where he served as president of its Washington Division, one of the
largest operating divisions in the company.
Reeves graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree
in Economics and received his Masters of Science Degree in Public
Accounting from the University of Hartford.
About KB Home
KB Home, one of the nation’s premier homebuilders, has delivered
hundreds of thousands of quality homes for families since its founding
in 1957. The Company is distinguished by its Built to Order
homebuilding approach that puts a custom home experience within reach of
its customers at an affordable price. KB Home’s award-winning homes and
communities meet the needs of first-time homebuyers with flexible
designs that also appeal to move-up buyers and active adults
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