US adds 173,000 jobs in August; unemployment rate drops to seven year low
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US adds 173,000 jobs in August; unemployment rate drops to seven year low

Monday, September 7, 2015

The US economy added 173,000 jobs in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday. The unemployment rate fell from 5.3 to 5.1 percent, the lowest since April 2008.

Although August job gains were lower than most economists forecast, job growth numbers for June and July were revised upwards by a combined 44,000. Average job gains over the past three months stand at 221,000, compared to March-May’s 189,000 monthly average. Over the past twelve months, job growth has averaged 247,000 per month.

Average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent, or 8 cents, marking the largest increase in earnings in seven months. Hourly earnings had risen by 6 cents in July. Wages have risen by 2.2 percent over the past year.

Job growth in August was primarily concentrated in the health care and social assistance, financial activities, and professional and business services sectors. Those three areas of the economy added a combined 108,000 jobs. Food service and drinking places employment increased by 26,000 over the month, and other economic sectors saw employment hold steady. Manufacturing, on the other hand, saw employment decline by 17,000 in August. A stronger dollar and worldwide economic weakness make US exports less desirable, leading to a flattening in manufacturing employment so far this year after steadily rising in the early years of the US economic recovery.

The solid overall job gains led analysts to slightly raise expectations for a decision by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this month. Investors raised the likelihood of a September rate increase from 26 percent before the jobs report to 30 percent, and stocks dropped by over one percent on Friday. “The payrolls data is certainly good enough to allow for a Fed rate hike in September,” said Deutsche Bank’s head of currency strategy, Alan Ruskin. “The big question is still whether financial market volatility will scupper the plans.”

“This is the first time the market has looked at a Fed meeting and really has no idea what the Fed is going to do,” said Mark Kepner, a New Jersey equity trader with Themis Trading. “Right now you’re looking at the overall uncertainty and that’s what’s hanging on the market. I don’t think this number in and of itself changes how somebody’s going to vote.”

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Sarkozy in UK to mark historic de Gaulle war broadcast
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Sarkozy in UK to mark historic de Gaulle war broadcast

Sunday, June 20, 2010

But has the last word been said? Must hope disappear? Is defeat final? No!Charles de Gaulle broadcast

Nicolas Sarkozy visited the UK today to celebrate the 70th anniversary since Charles de Gaulle made his war broadcast. The French president and the Prince of Wales laid wreaths at the statue of Charles de Gaulle in London.

Earlier, Mr Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni visited the BBC radio studio where the famous broadcast was made on BBC France. The broadcast at the time was said to have been listened to by a very small number of listeners. Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a plaque and viewed a tapestry given to the BBC by France as a note of gratitude after World War II.

Nicolas Sarkozy and British PM David Cameron met with 200 veterans during a ceremony at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Nicolas Sarkozy awarded the Légion d’honneur to six World War II veterans, three of whom were British.

In a short speech, Mr Cameron said the anniversary was a “reminder that Britain and France are not just neighbours in the geographical sense but also in the emotional sense.” Mr Cameron held an hour of talks with the French president at Downing Street primarily focusing on economics, Afghanistan, and other foreign policy matters. The visit is the first by a French president to mark Gen de Gaulle’s broadcast on June 18, 1940. In the stirring radio appeal, Gen de Gaulle declared himself leader of the “Free French”, spawning the French Resistance, which went on to play a crucial role in defeating the Germans.

Mr Sarkozy’s last official visit to the UK was in March 2008, when he was also accompanied by his wife.

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Deer and other animals found dead at Ball State University
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Deer and other animals found dead at Ball State University

Sunday, November 20, 2005

The carcasses of two deer, a coyote, and a possum were dumped in the Delta Gamma Iota fraternity house on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana on November 10. The dead animals were apparently placed in the house while members slept. A repairman discovered the prank while working in the house’s kitchen.

Members left the house for at least a day while the animals were removed and the house was disinfected by the Delaware County Health Department.

The fraternity house is located off-campus and is recognized by Ball State — the DGI house is unaffiliated with the intra-fraternity council, however.

The animals were apparently “roadkill” (struck and killed by automobiles on the road). The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is investigating the incident due to the use of deceased animals in vandalism.

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Life Insurance And The Family

Submitted by: Donald Lusan

Is life insurance something we always think about or do we simply take care of it and move on with our lives? As we navigate the adventure of living there are certain inevitable challenges which must be addressed at some point in time.

You are just getting married or preparing for a new baby or, on the other hand, you may have been married for a while and have grown children. You face the everyday enjoyment of living together. There are some difficulties but you, through force of will, overcome them.

Buying life insurance is never a one time experience for one who has the protection of a family as a primary responsibility, or should I say for one who is aware of the need to protect the family in case of death. The husband needs to consider providing sufficient income for his wife and children in the event of his death. Certainly, he would want the family to live in the same house even if he is no longer there to enjoy it with them. He would want them to continue as if he was still there.

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What about the wife specifically. Would he not want her to be as comfortable as possible after he has gone. We have a saying in the life insurance business which goes as follows. “No man has a right to accustom a woman to a certain standard of living unless he intends to see that she continues enjoying it even after his death”. A man should not only provide for his family while the children are young but should also provide for his wife for the rest of her life. I repeat, for the rest of her life. I believe this is his duty and, above all, a true expression of his love for his wife.

Now, should a wife have life insurance coverage on her life as well? You bet she should! In todays world wives are out there working as hard as husbands in order to provide the best for the family. The standard of living that most families enjoy result from the efforts of two working parents, not only the husband. If the wife should die before her husband the lifestyle of the family always changes. There are certain challenging adjustments that need to be made. In some cases, as a direct result of her income being no longer there, the adjustments are quite drastic.

If, however, there had been a life insurance policy sufficient to replace a good portion of her income life would be much easier for the survivors. Money cannot replace a good wife and mother but it can certainly ease the burden of such a loss.

As we go through life most of us juggle money to meet the financial needs of the family. It is quite possible that we will continue to do so if our life’s partner is no longer there to share the adventure of it all. Should we not make it a little easier for the survivors?

I have only one suggestion. I recommend this because I have seen too many good intentions come to naught. Take the time to thoroughly plan your life insurance portfolio and where wise use the policies to provide income instead of lump sums.

Planning for family protection through life insurance should be an annual procedure. As you progress you may need to make adjustments to your portfolio. If you need advice consult a qualified Financial Planner not some well meaning friend who doesn’t know all s/he needs to know to make an educated decision on your problem. Talk to an expert, give him or her all the relevant facts and make your decision based on the advice you get.

For additional information go to: http://www.lifeinsurancehub.net/familyprotection.html

About the Author: For more than 40 years Donald has been known for his extensive knowledge of the life insurance business. He has represented some of the largest and most admired life insurance companies in the United States as well as Canada. His advice is invaluable. Donald’s website is:

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Venezuela opens granite processing facility in Bolívar
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Venezuela opens granite processing facility in Bolívar

Monday, February 18, 2013

Venezuela’s government has opened a granite processing plant in the state of Bolívar, with the intention of providing about 25% of the granite required nationwide.

Ricardo Menéndez, vice president of the Productive Economic Area, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has yearned for the creation of this project to empower Venezuelan construction. Granito Bolívar is reportedly the most modern Venezuelan granite plant, not consuming community water or electricity, and is also the largest, with a daily capacity to supply enough material for use in construction of about 820 houses.

Menéndez said, “These granite blocks are the natural resources of our country, are the wealth we have as a country and often [some] simply decided to remove this richness from our country and take them to other countries” ((es))Spanish language: ?Esos bloques de granito son la riquezas naturales de nuestro país, son las riquezas que tenemos como patria y que muchas veces sencillamente esas riquezas decidieron sacarlas de nuestro territorio nacional y llevarlas a otros países.

According to Menéndez, with the help of a state plan, Venezuela intends to exploit its 40,000 million cubic meters or more of granite reserves, generating a set of factories. “[T]he central theme is that these plants, all these factories, are for the construction of socialism; that means using our potential, develop the value chain within the country and of course that yields benefits from the point of view of the production system’s organization…. [Granito] Bolívar is not only the vision that historically we had of exposing richness, but the industries, basic industries we have, that level of our workers in the basic industries and in addition the development of the potential we have in the state” ((es))Spanish language: ?el tema central es que estas plantas todas estas fábricas son para la construcción del socialismo, eso significa utilizar nuestras potencialidades, dessarrollar la cadena de valor dentro del país y por supuesto que eso genere beneficios desde el punto de vista de la organización del sistema productivo … Bolívar no solamente es la visión que históricamente se tuvo de exponer las riquezas, sino que son las empresas, las empresas básicas que tenemos, ese nivel de nuestros trabajadores de la empresas básicas y adicionalmente el desarrollo del potencial que tenemos en el estado.

For the construction of the plant, supplied by 23 quarries, the government of Bolívar provided about 30 million bolívares (US$4.7 million) and the national government €2.3 million (US$3 million). Bolívar reportedly has reserves of about 40,000 million tons of red, black, pink and white granite, sufficient for domestic demand for 200 years.

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Athletes prepare for 2012 Summer Paralympics at the Paralympic Fitness Centre
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Athletes prepare for 2012 Summer Paralympics at the Paralympic Fitness Centre

Monday, August 27, 2012

London, England — As Paralympians ready for the Games which are set to open later this week, they have access to a world class fitness center inside the Paralympic Village which is designed to maximise their pre-Game preparations.

According to volunteers staffing the center, instead of being a single large room, as in Beijing, the building has numerous rooms. It, along with the adjacent Village Services Centre, is designed to be converted into a school after the games conclude. Rooms have been structured as a gym, an auditorium, and science laboratories.

Gym equipment is supplied by Technogym, an Italian firm that has supplied gym equipment for the Olympics since 2000. Equipment has been provided not just for for the Fitness Centre, but for gyms at all the Olympic venues. The newest equipment is oriented toward maximum flexibility, allowing athletes to exercise the particular muscles that they most require for their sport.

In addition to the equipment, the Fitness Centre also provides instructors trained in the use of the equipment, the likes of which athletes from many countries have never seen before. There are also a number of instructors available to provide motivational training.

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First Active offer 100% mortgages in Ireland
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First Active offer 100% mortgages in Ireland

Thursday, July 14, 2005

First Active has become the first financial institution to offer 100% mortgages in the Republic of Ireland. The bank previously offered 100% financing to professionals in finance and medicine, but is now to offer this product to anyone who can afford to meet the repayments.

The development is a huge boost for first time home buyers who have been struggling to get on the Irish property market in recent years due to the rapid increase in house prices. A typical first time buyer in Dublin with 92% financing would normally have to put down a deposit of €20,000-€30,000 in cash, but now have the option to produce no deposit.

First Active has said that 100% mortgages will be available across its entire range of mortgage products.

Note however that this is not necessarily an entirely positive development.

The United States and most of Europe have experienced a housing price bubble in recent years. A bubble occurs when buyers purchase a property not because its price is appropriate for its actual value but because they expect the price to significantly rise in the short term permitting resale with a profit.

In other words, the prices people pay for properties becomes divorced from the real value of the property; the purchase is speculative and depends purely upon the expectation that people will continue to buy properties in this way (e.g. without proper consideration of their real value).

The terrible weakness in this is that when the market corrects itself and prices fall to a level where properties are being priced at their actual realistic value, anyone holding a property loses a great deal of money, since the price they paid does not reflect the actual realistic value of the property.

This kind of shock to the housing market is extremely undesirable. Significant write downs in the value of property often significantly depress the economy as a whole.

Less than 100% mortgages force buyers to invest a significant amount of money in the act of purchasing their house, which tends to discourage purely speculative purchasing, thus helping to mediate house price bubbles.

With 100% financing, anyone who can meet repayments can speculatively purchase a property. This naturally encourages pricing bubbles.

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Online Driver Scan The Best Way To Enhance Your Computers Performance

This is caused due to the cluttering up of your devicedriver files which can cause a whole lot of problems like low speed, systemerror and driver conflicts. Hence it becomes necessary to carry out an online driver scan regularly to detectthese problems and correct them immediately.

Anonline driver scan can be consideredas a regular maintenance procedure especially if you have an older PC which ismore susceptible to such damages. These are freely available online and can bedownloaded easily if you have an internet connection. Using an online driver scan, you can delete oldand unnecessary files and also replace them with the current and latest ones toenhance your systems performance. Let us review some of the best device driverscans that can be downloaded from the net.

DriverCureis an online driver scan that isextremely popular and is free to download. Its features include up to datedriver maintenance, backup and restoration, increase in speed and automaticdriver updates. Another feature is that it does not use up memory space andsends you email alerts every time an update is required. The next best scanneris Driver Detective which has very similar features to the first one and inaddition can also upgrade drivers for Windows Vista. It does not send any emailalerts but has a large database covering about eleven million applications.

DriverRobot is another online scan which is also free and can be easily downloadedfrom the net. It can perform offline analysis of your drivers, update them andis compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7. The next one in the list is DriverChecker which is very useful if you need to remove old drivers and install newones. The fifth best online driver scanis Fix PC Errors which promises high performance scanning along with backup andup gradation. In addition to this, it also works as a registry cleaner and isfree to download like others.

Nomatter which type of operating system you have, there is always an automatic onlinescan that is available these days on the internet which can scan and update allyour device drivers regularly to enhance and peak your systems functionalityand capability.

2008 Taipei Game Show review: Variations differ from past years
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2008 Taipei Game Show review: Variations differ from past years

Friday, February 1, 2008

The 2008 Taipei Game Show, organized by the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), ended on Monday, and was different from shows of past years. This could be seen in the gaming population, industry, and exhibition arrangements.

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Fake Scam Stories About Qnet Limited

The headquarters of thecompany is Hong Kong and it has many registered offices in many countries likeIndia, Egypt, Taiwan and Australia. Questnet boasts of a wide ranging productportfolio. The company deals with different kinds of luxury products andcollectibles. It also sells tour and holiday packages, jewelry, nutritionproducts, health and wellness products, energy products and cosmetic products.This company has adopted a multi-level-marketing strategy combined with thecommerce business model in some countries. Questnet trains and then recruitsIndependent Representatives and provides them with a virtual office which theyhave to utilize to promote the company and its products. Their compensationwill depend on their individual sales volume as well as the sales volume oftheir entire team which functions on the binary model. Questnet is also one ofthe members of the Direct Selling Association of Singapore and Malaysia. Itsoffices can be found in different places like Taiwan, Philippines and Indonesiaand it also operates in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. In the recent times, there hasbeen much maligning of the companys name and reputation. Scores of articleshave been published online about the Qnetscam. While many are aware of the Qnet con, not everyone clearly knowswhether the news is genuine or whether these are just malicious rumors beingspread to tarnish the companys image. The Qnet scam articles that have beenpublished on various websites online take of the company operating Ponzischemes.

The firm is accused of operating a fake,product oriented pyramid scheme which is typical of all multi-level-marketingcompanies. In Indonesia and Iran, many of these accusations against the companyforced the founders to shut down the firm after the government officialsstarted arresting the key employees of the company. There is one another aspectof the Qnet scam which had to do with thename of the company. GoldQuest International Corp, a USA based firm founditself in the spotlight due to the negative rumors surrounding Questnet Limitedwhich was earlier known as Goldquest. Questnet was termed by the US Securities& Exchange Commission as a ponzi and pyramid scheme. Often, the Alberta Securities & ExchangeCommission is also mistaken for Qnet Limited. However, the USA based companyhad no whatsoever connection with Goldquest which was later renamed asQuestnet.

Questnet was launched between the period 1998and 2000 and at the time of its launch, it was named GoldQuest. In the year2003, it diversified its operations and extended to wide ranging productportfolio along with different services. The company also went marketingstrategy overhaul and came to be known as QuestNet. GoldQuest, as the name ofthe company was discontinued in the year 2003. The company has not conductedany business under the GoldQuest since 2003. Several reports that have beenpublished online about the scam are largely groundless and the firm claims tobe a registered member of Direct Selling Association of Malaysia and Singapore.Qnetscam is nothing but a manufactured story created by competitors who hadvested interests in bringing the firm down.

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