Networking Tips
Posted on May 15th, 2012
Networking is a lot of fun! Business networking is when a group of like minded business people gather and help each other. If you check, you will surely find a networking group in your area. The networking group can meet as often as they wish, as is convenient for the participants.
Regretably, most people start with a networking group by looking for immediate gains…. that is, for favorable results for themselves. If this is what you are trying to achieve, you are networking for the wrong reasons and will be sticking out like a sore thumb.
Many people think that the size of a networking group makes the difference in networking. When groups start falling in size, members will say, “we have to build up our numbers.” Now, what numbers are they referring to? Is it the number of participants?
House spares Pentagon, homeland security from cuts
Posted on May 5th, 2012
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans controlling the House are sparing the Pentagon, military veterans and most homeland security programs from the budget knife as action begins on a set of spending bills setting the day-to-day budgets for federal agencies.
Foreign aid programs would absorb a 5 percent cut in legislation released Tuesday, while the FBI would receive a 2 percent budget hike in a separate measure.
At issue is much of the nuts-and-bolts work of Congress, going line by line through the agency budgets funded each year through 12 appropriations bills.
Old Amway Arena to go out with a bang on March 25
Posted on April 18th, 2012
Orlando will blow up the abandoned Amway Arena early on March 25, but without the pyrotechnics that came with the implosion of the old City Hall 21 years ago.
The demolition plan announced Thursday by city officials will be much lower key. It calls for bringing down the roof and center of the building with “a series of controlled explosives” over 10 to 15 seconds with noise similar to fireworks.
If all goes as expected, only the four corners of the building and the columns supporting the roof will be left standing.
Compare that with City Hall in 1991, the destruction of which was used in the opening scene of the movie “Lethal Weapon 3.” When it blew, there was a loud rumble and fire shot out of the windows, but it was only for show and had nothing to do with the actual destruction of the eight-story building.
The current City Hall, a scant five feet from the old building, was largely untouched, with four windows broken.
The old Amway Arena, known to many as the O-rena, will be taken down at about 7:30 a.m. Read full article…
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Your way to success – Magical ways to live a frugal life and eliminate debt
Posted on April 13th, 2012
With housing expenditures, gas prices, and many more vital things on the rise, it’s really essential to live a frugal life. It’s not simply something that you may practice once in a while; it’s a complete alteration in your lifestyle. However, we cannot forget that times are tough and a lot of Americans are drowned in a sea of debt. While they look for various ways to become debt free, they often ignore the option of leading a frugal life and eliminating their debts. Once you make an attempt to live frugally, you’ll be able to get your finances under control. Frugal living means simply making calculated choices with your daily expenditures. A majority of your spending choices must be intended and with your fiscal targets in mind. Following are a few simple but miraculous ways to help you live a frugal life. Read full article…
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Starting Business in Canada on Work Permit
Posted on April 10th, 2012
No. And yes. No, because to legally start a business in Canada as an individual, you need to be a Canadian citizen or a landed immigrant and as a foreign worker here on a work permit in Canada, you are neither.
And of course, as Canada work permits are usually valid only for a specified job, employer, and time period, you would violate the conditions of your work permit by starting a business in Canada. This means that you are not legally allowed to do work “on the side”, or even do other work for the employer listed on your work permit.
Yes, because this doesn’t mean that you can’t apply for immigration to Canada under the Canadian Experience Class of Immigration or apply for business immigration to Canada.
Under the Canadian Experience Class of immigration to Canada, a temporary foreign worker with at least two years of full-time (or equivalent) skilled work experience in Canada or a foreign graduate from a Canadian post-secondary institution with at least one year of full-time (or equivalent) skilled work experience in Canada who has gained his or her experience in Canada with the proper work or study authorization can apply for permanent residence in Canada.
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NASA’s Kennedy Space Center gets message from Hill on cyber
Posted on March 30th, 2012
NASA took some lumps from Congress and its inspector general over the security of its technology systems. But if there is a silver lining to the Hill lashing, the message that the space agency needs to do a better job securing their systems got through loud and clear.
The best way to measure the impact of the hearings is to look at what the NASA centers are doing outside of Washington. For example, Mike Bolger, the Kennedy Space Center chief information officer, made encrypting all laptops a much larger priority this year.
“There is an agency plan to get our laptops encrypted by the end of the year,” Bolger said. “At Kennedy, we had about 500 laptops encrypted and those were users who self identified they had sensitive information on there. Unfortunately, that didn’t work for us.”
NASA has had more than 5,000 computer security breaches in the last two years, according to Inspector General Paul Martin.
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GE engine faulted for crash that killed nine
Posted on March 26th, 2012
PORTLAND, ORE. An Oregon jury ruled Tuesday a problem with an engine was responsible for the 2008 crash of a helicopter that killed nine firefighters during a wildfire in Northern California.
The jury in Portland reached its verdict after a pilot who survived and the widow of one who was killed sued General Electric for $177 million.
The plaintiffs argued the company knew the engines it made for the Sikorsky S-61N helicopter had a design flaw making them unsafe.
GE countered that the helicopter crashed because it was carrying too much weight when it took off after picking up a firefighting crew on the Iron 44 wildfire on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest near Weaverville, Calif.
?They?re heroes,? said plaintiff?s attorney Greg Anderson of the pilots, William Coultas and Roark Schwanenberg. ?They saved as many people as they could.
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