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West Bank vote held to help plug Palestinian democracy gap

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians voted in local elections in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Saturday, their first vote for six years and one with little choice, out of step with democratic revolutions elsewhere in the Arab world.

The results were expected to largely reaffirm the Western-backed, mainly secular Fatah party, which runs a de facto government in the slivers of land not policed by Israel, in the face of a boycott by its Islamist arch-rival, Hamas.

While uprisings brought Arab governments from Morocco to Egypt to accommodate long suppressed Islamist parties, single party rule in the West Bank persists along with Fatah's feud with the more militant and anti-Israel Hamas, which has ruled the coastal Gaza Strip since the two groups clashed in 2007.

"We do not recognize the legitimacy of these elections and we call for them to be stopped in order to protect the Palestinian people and protect their unity," Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said.

Haniyeh, who took office when Hamas won a surprise majority in a parliamentary vote in 2006 - an outcome nullified by the civil war that followed a year later, decried the latest poll as "unilateral elections removed from a national consensus."

Fatah finally found time ripe for the repeatedly-delayed local elections. The party edged out Hamas in university ballots throughout the West Bank earlier this year and opinion polls show flagging support for the Islamist group since it began the uphill task of governing impoverished and crowded Gaza.

With Gaza not participating in Saturday's vote and a majority of West Bank residents living in areas where local councils are running uncontested, the election was less meaningful than in previous years.

Less than half of citizens surveyed by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research said they would vote, and an even smaller number thought the ballot would be fair.

But fissures within Fatah lent some suspense to the polls. Some local leaders struck out on their own after being spurned from official lists in a sign of personal disputes. They may garner a showing giving them an influential say in local councils.

The mood at efficient and well-policed voting stations in schools and public buildings throughout the West Bank was subdued. Palestinians expressed melancholy at their divisions and the seeming permanence of Israel's 45-year-old occupation.

Cars decked with Fatah and Palestinian flags blaring nationalist anthems made noisy rounds among Bethlehem's polling centers, and candidates hoping to win last-minute support greeted and chatted with voters.

"I heard that the Fatah bloc was made up of good people, so I voted for them," said Amani, 29, who declined to give her last name, drying with tissue her index finger dipped in the indelible purple ink of the voting stations.

"I think in the end all parties have their own political and financial interest in mind. But it is my duty to vote, and so I can say that I've done my part," she said.

EARLY TO DEMOCRACY

Palestinian Authority President and Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas emphasized a legacy of democracy as he voted in downtown Ramallah, his capital while Israel denies Palestinian government a seat in the contested holy city of Jerusalem.

"We hope we will be regarded by our brothers in Gaza and everywhere in the Arab world as the ones who first embarked upon democracy, and we continue on this path and we hope everyone will follow us," he told journalists.

Palestinians first held parliamentary elections in 1995, rare among Arab countries at the time and a positive step after the interim Oslo peace accords with Israel the previous year, which have long lapsed and become an albatross for the same, sclerotic Palestinian leadership of the present day.

The Authority faces deepening challenges to its legitimacy. An addiction to foreign economic aid has opened up a financial crisis that exploded into street protests in cities up and down the West Bank last month.

Years of imprisonment and marginalization of Hamas activists in the West Bank have deepened Fatah's near monopoly on power in self-ruled West Bank enclaves.

An aggressive campaign to root out corrupt and insubordinate security officers within Fatah's own cadres this year has further narrowed the ruling clique.

But as economic problems worsen amid the standstill of Palestinians' broader political landscape, many hail the vote as an opportunity to renew institutions and focus on development at the grassroots level.

"Of course, there are positive signs in these elections," the Palestinian al-Quds newspaper wrote in an editorial. "The local authorities have an important role in public services and providing an administration for citizens."

(Reporting By Ali Sawafta in Ramallah and Jihan Abdalla in Bethlehem; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/west-bank-vote-held-help-plug-palestinian-democracy-121754276.html

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Penske Automotive Increases Dividend 8.3% | Benzinga

Penske Automotive Group (NYSE: PAG), an international automotive retailer, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a cash dividend of $0.13 per share for the third quarter of 2012. The dividend is payable on December 3, 2012, to shareholders of record on November 12, 2012.

?Increasing the dividend to $0.13 per share continues to demonstrate our commitment to returning capital to shareholders and the confidence we have in the auto retail environment,? said Penske Automotive Group President Rob Kurnick.

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SF MusicTech Summit 2012 Highlights - How to Get Your Music ...

The SF MusicTech Summit was held at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco?s Japantown on Tuesday October 9th. Dubspot writer John von Seggern attended the summit and brings back some pro tips about making your voice heard above the din of the Internet?s vast music marketplace?

Organizers Brian and Shoshana Zisk started the SF MusicTech Summit in 2008 to bring together thinkers, visionaries, artists and business people in the music technology space, explore the current state of the digital music industry, and look at where the music business might be heading in the future as it continues to evolve. It has been held approximately twice a year since then, and this year?s was the eleventh event in the series.

Having attended the summit last fall?I was invited to join a panel on ?New Technologies for Musical Self-Expression??I was excited to go back this year and hear about some of the latest trends.? Although the panels and talks at SF MusicTech are oriented more towards industry insiders than the general public, I heard a lot of great recommendations this year for musicians and artists trying to promote their work online and make themselves heard by fans. Here were some of the highlights and new things I learned, highlights from the panels on Artist Tools and Digital Marketing in particular.

the Artist Tools panel at SF MusicTech 2012

Get Your Music Heard Online

- Obviously social media channels like Twitter and Facebook are crucial for any artist trying to get heard today, but one thing I heard emphasized repeatedly at MusicTech this year is that it is very important for the artist himself or herself to talk to fans directly through social media. Some artists think that they will get better results by having a publicist or manager post regularly for them and handle online communications, but what fans really want is the direct connection with an artist, and when it?s not really the artist posting they can quickly tell. The Glitch Mob come to mind for me as a recent electronic act who have used social media to communicate directly and effectively with their fans. Most recently the Mob did an interview directly with fans on reddit and answered questions about their creative process and production techniques.

?The more you show who you are, the more the fans will relate.? ? Michael Franti of Spearhead

- Speaking of YouTube, I also heard Theda Sandiford of Universal Republic Records (subsidiary of Universal Music Group) mention that YT is now the biggest source of revenue from streaming music online, bigger than Spotify or any of the other dedicated streaming music services. So even if you release your music through TuneCore or other online music distributor and get it on all the major online retail services (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, etc.), you still need to be on YouTube to promote yourself and to get paid for streams. (You won?t get paid unless you start a channel on YouTube and opt-in to their partner program, so make sure to check this out if you don?t know about this yet.)

?YouTube is the new MTV ? it will one day be the #1 revenue source for copyright holders.? ? Jeff Price, founder of TuneCore

- Twitter and Facebook are essential but it is also important to look for newer media trends that you can use to your advantage?one panelist I heard recommended getting on Instagram right now for example, its user base is huge and getting huger but there are still relatively fewer musicians using it to promote themselves, so more chance to draw attention to yourself.

- The idea of a ?post-literate social landscape? was mentioned as well: words are still important in promoting yourself but videos and images become more and more important all the time. Posting images can be a great way for artists to connect with fans in creative ways; I heard one band mentioned who had taken pictures of themselves having fun or sightseeing somewhere in each city they visited on tour, giving their fans the feeling that the band was actually making the effort to experience each place a bit and not just passing through overnight without caring where they were.

photo of the main room at SF MusicTech taken by Michael Franti (from his Facebook page)

- In connection with promoting your music on Facebook, the concept of Facebook EdgeRank was emphasized. What does this mean? Basically, when you post something from your band?s Facebook Page, not all your fans will see it?Facebook will only show it to a certain % of them in their News Feeds. If you post items that get a lot of ?Likes? or comments on FB, your Edge Rank % will increase, so it is in your best interest to pay attention to the kinds of posts? your fans like. EdgeRank Checker can tell you more about this if you?re interested.

- As far as hosting your music online for promotional purposes, most panelists seemed to look at SoundCloud as a standard at this point. Several mentioned how easy it was to share and embed songs and playlists using SoundCloud so that other sites or blogs could host them when writing about the music, and also said that most people working in music are comfortable with SoundCloud.

- At the same time, in spite of all the social media channels and sites that are available, one panelist also emphasized the importance of maintaining one central web location that ties it all together, hosting your blog, calendar, photos, videos, music, merch, and everything else in one place. Generally this will still be an artist website rather than a Facebook Page or Twitter profile, and WordPress was mentioned as a great free hosting alternative to get started with if you don?t currently have an artist website.

The Bottom Line: Where Are We Heading?

The bottom line I heard from many people last year and this year was that the future of the music industry lies increasingly in selling promotional and other services directly to musicians for a modest fee, rather than investing in artists in return for future income, the old record label model that prevailed before the Internet came along and changed everything. The future for artists is going to be much like the present: using the services available to promote yourself and get the word out about your music, taking advantage of sites like the ones mentioned above as well as services like Topspin, Bandcamp, BandPage, Onesheet, and others. If you don?t know what all of these are, it would be a good idea to start investigating them now and learning about how they can help you make your musical voice heard online.

Watch The Panels Yourself

The next best thing to being there is seeing the video, and fortunately the MusicTech crew have already uploaded some great video of some of the panels and presentations. (Note: I was unable to get these videos to play in Firefox when I last checked but they seemed to work fine for me in Safari, so try another browser if you are having problems.)

As mentioned above, one of the best panels I heard was called Artist Tools, featuring representatives from online music sites SoundCloud and Bandzoogle, digital music business news site Hybebot and others discussing the wealth of tools available for artists to promote themselves these days.

Another highlight of the conference was hearing a talk on the ?future of music and technology? with SF hometown favorite rapper/singer/musician Michael Franti (founder of the band Spearhead), followed by a short guitar/vocal performance. You can watch the whole session online, including Franti?s performance.

Michael Franti of Spearhead

You can also listen to audio from past summits on the SF MusicTech SoundCloud page.


Dubspot editor John von Seggern has been producing and performing music with computers since his first DJ gigs in 1999 with his Hong Kong-based group Digital Cutup Lounge. Since then he has played techno at massive underground parties in China, remixed major Western pop artists for the Indian music market (and vice versa), designed orchestral electronic sounds and effects for the Pixar film Wall-E, and presented his anthropological research on music technology at academic conferences. He has authored two instructional books about computer music production and performance as well as the manual for Native Instruments? popular software synthesizer Massive.

Source: http://blog.dubspot.com/sf-musictech-summit-2012-highlights-how-to-get-your-music-heard-online/

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Newsweek to cease print edition after 80 years

FILE- In this Monday, May 16, 2005, file photo, pedestrians walk past the Broadway entrance to the Newsweek. building in New York. Newsweek announced Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 that it will end its print publication after 80 years and shift to an all-digital format in early 2013. Its last U.S. print edition will be its Dec. 31 issue. The paper version of Newsweek is the latest casualty of a changing world where readers get more of their information from websites, tablets and smartphones. It's also an environment in which advertisers are looking for less expensive alternatives online. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

FILE- In this Monday, May 16, 2005, file photo, pedestrians walk past the Broadway entrance to the Newsweek. building in New York. Newsweek announced Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 that it will end its print publication after 80 years and shift to an all-digital format in early 2013. Its last U.S. print edition will be its Dec. 31 issue. The paper version of Newsweek is the latest casualty of a changing world where readers get more of their information from websites, tablets and smartphones. It's also an environment in which advertisers are looking for less expensive alternatives online. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 1996 file photo, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., holds a copy of Newsweek Magazine and makes comments about President Clinton and the Democratic party in Jackson, Miss. Newsweek announced Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 that it will end its print publication after 80 years and shift to an all-digital format in early 2013. Its last U.S. print edition will be its Dec. 31 issue. The paper version of Newsweek is the latest casualty of a changing world where readers get more of their information from websites, tablets and smartphones. It's also an environment in which advertisers are looking for less expensive alternatives online (AP Photo/Dan Loh, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 4, 1997, file photo, Cashier Mizan Rahman makes change for a customer from behind a display of the latest news weeklies at the Out of Town News stand in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. Newsweek announced Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 that it will end its print publication after 80 years and shift to an all-digital format in early 2013. Its last U.S. print edition will be its Dec. 31 issue. The paper version of Newsweek is the latest casualty of a changing world where readers get more of their information from websites, tablets and smartphones. It's also an environment in which advertisers are looking for less expensive alternatives online. (AP Photo/Julia Malakie, File)

FILE - In this June 23, 1971, file photo, Daniel Ellsberg, holds a copy of Newsweek on CBS television program. Newsweek announced Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 that it will end its print publication after 80 years and shift to an all-digital format in early 2013. Its last U.S. print edition will be its Dec. 31 issue. The paper version of Newsweek is the latest casualty of a changing world where readers get more of their information from websites, tablets and smartphones. It's also an environment in which advertisers are looking for less expensive alternatives online. (AP Photo/CBS, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Newsweek will end its print publication after 80 years and shift to an all-digital format in early 2013.

Its last U.S. print edition will be its Dec. 31 issue. The paper version of Newsweek is the latest casualty of a changing world where readers get more of their information from websites, tablets and smartphones. It's also an environment in which advertisers are looking for less expensive alternatives online.

Newsweeklies have been in an especially tough spot at a time when people don't want to wait a week to read commentary and news digests of big stories, given a flood of instant content available online.

The announcement of the change was made Thursday by Tina Brown, editor-in-chief and founder of The Newsweek Daily Beast Co, and Baba Shetty, its CEO. Job cuts are expected.

"In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format," Brown and Shetty said on The Daily Beast website.

Newsweek's decision does not come as a surprise. Barry Diller, the head of the company that owns Newsweek, announced in July that the publication was examining its future as a weekly print magazine. Diller said then that producing a weekly news magazine in print form wasn't easy.

Newsweek isn't the first to drop its print product. US News & World Report dropped its weekly print edition years ago and now focuses on the Web and special print editions, such as a guide to best graduate schools. SmartMoney announced in June that it was going all-digital. Dow Jones & Co., a unit of News Corp., said at the time that 25 positions at SmartMoney would be eliminated.

Brown said staff cuts at Newsweek are expected, but didn't give a specific figure. She also said that Newsweek's editorial and print operations would be streamlined in the U.S. and abroad.

Newsweek's print edition has been losing relevancy over the years as readers flocked to new, digital sources for news. It did become a conversation piece last month when a cover essay, "Muslim Rage: How I Survived It, How We Can End It," spawned a huge response on Twitter. Newsweek had invited Twitter users to write about the subject using the hashtag "MuslimRage." But most people, many of them Muslim, mocked the subject instead of adopting the article's serious tone. Newsweek, for its part, took the jabs in stride and said its covers and hashtags spark debate on big topics.

Newsweek hasn't been doing well for years. Mounting losses prompted The Washington Post Co. in 2010 to sell Newsweek for $1 to stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman. Harman died the following year.

Before he died, he placed Newsweek into a joint venture with IAC/InterActiveCorp's The Daily Beast website in an effort to trim the magazine's losses and widen its online audience.

Brown and Shetty said the all-digital publication will be called Newsweek Global and will be a single, worldwide edition that requires a paid subscription. It will be available for tablets and website reading, with certain content available on The Daily Beast website.

"We are transitioning Newsweek, not saying goodbye to it," they wrote.

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AP Technology Writer Barbara Ortutay contributed to this story.

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Samsung Mobile Print (for iPhone)

Samsung Mobile Print (for iPhone) offers a decent feature set for a mobile printing app, and it's worth downloading by owners of Wi-Fi enabled Samsung printers and multi-function printers (MFPs) who want to print from or scan to their iPhone. It works better with the latest iPhones, but any Samsung owner can benefit from it.

Basics
Samsung Mobile Print (for iPhone) is available for free through the iTunes app store; the same app is good for both the iPhone and iPad?Samsung MobilePrint for Android version is also available. Samsung Mobile Print lets you print to any Samsung wireless or network-connected printer or multifunction printer (MFP) (including USB-connected models) on the same LAN as your iPhone, and scan from any Samsung MFP on the network. I tested this app using a Samsung CLX-6260FW multifunction printer (MFP) and both an iPhone 4 and iPhone 5.

The app automatically detects Samsung networked printers, but in certain cases (such as if the printer is USB connected), you may have to add it manually, a straightforward process described in the Help menu. Once you've selected the printer, you're ready to go.

At the top of the screen is a bar with four items: Print, Scan, About, and Help, with Print and Scan being the app's main divisions.

Printing
When you touch the Print icon, you enter the printing half of the app, and are presented with six sources: Photo, Camera, Web, Document, Clipboard, and Google Docs.

You can print documents you've saved in your document folder, either ones you've scanned or ones you've imported to your iPhone. Samsung Mobile Print prints documents in standard Office, image, and PDF formats, at a range of paper sizes and thicknesses, in portrait or landscape orientation, in color or grayscale, in simplex (one-sided) or duplex (two-sided) modes. It has a similar range of settings for printing photos. I noticed a couple of issues. Some photos printed with a slight greenish tinge, which was absent when I printed these images to the same printer by other methods. There were occasional misformats; for example, a PowerPoint presentation with line breaks in the middle of words.

Printing from the clipboard is a useful function. You can print text or images copied from Web pages and applications that support copying. Using the Web browser, you can add bookmarks, but you can't import them. The app did reasonably well in formatting Web pages for printing, though occasionally it would crop the top or side of a document. Also, it would sometimes preview pop-ups (after I'd closed them) instead of the the article I was trying to print.

Google Docs is the only cloud-based service directly supported (with a dedicated button) by Samsung Mobile Print. You can print documents shared from some other services such as Dropbox, but you have to either first access the document in that service, select Open In and choose Samsung Mobile Print, or else open the cloud service's URL in Web mode.

In printing, as well as in scanning with my iPhone 4, I occasionally got a Low Memory warning, after which the app would fail to perform the intended function. Sometimes, it was in obviously memory-intensive tasks (like scanning at high resolution), sometimes not. Worse, the app would occasionally freeze. Closing and reopening the app didn't help; I'd have to turn my phone on and off to unfreeze it. I didn't encounter these issues after I upgraded to the iPhone 5 in the middle of testing.

Scanning
Scanning with Samsung Mobile Print on the iPhone is less useful than with the iPad, simply because the screen?even on the iPhone 5?is much smaller and so it's harder to read and view scanned documents. ?That said, you can always offload the scanned images to your PC, or email them elsewhere, when you have a chance.

You can scan either to Documents (a folder solely for scanned documents) or Photos (your photo stream). In scanning to Documents, you can choose between PDF, PNG, and JPEG; scanning to Photos is JPEG-only.? You can choose color or grayscale; low, normal, or high quality; and sizes including 3.5 by 5, 4 by 6, 5 by 7, letter, legal, and A4; and scanning from the flatbed or ADF.

Scanning, by and large, was easy, and it generally worked as billed. One issue I encountered a couple of times is that Samsung Mobile Print would not detect the scanner, even though it had no problem recognizing the printer, even though they're parts of the same MFP. Most of the time, though, the app would both print and scan.

Exchanging Files
There are several ways of transferring files from a computer to your iPhone and the app: through iTunes, a server, a Web browser, or mapping a network drive. They're described thoroughly in Help. iTunes is dependable, and using a Web browser (by entering your iPhone's server URL) is fairly easy.

Help
Tapping on Help brings up a pull-down menu, divided into seven sections: Samsung Mobile Print; Choosing a device; Printing; Scanning; File Sharing; Customization; and Troubleshooting. Touching any of the items within one of these sections brings up instructions, for example, for Printing Content from the Clipboard. I found the instructions to be clear and concise. At the bottom of the page are a Home button, which takes you back to the drop-down menu, and right and left arrows to move through Help item by item.

Conclusion
Samsung Mobile Print (for iPhone) is a worthy app for those who need to print to Samsung printers or scan from Samsung MFPs. Your experience will be better with a recent model iPhone, as I experienced memory issues and crashes with the iPhone 4, but, even with the older model, it is well worth downloading if you have a compatible printer.

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Merkel seeks more EU budget control, French cool

BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany and France, Europe's two central powers, clashed over greater European Union control of national budgets and moves towards a single banking supervisor before a summit of the bloc's leaders on Thursday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded stronger authority for the executive European Commission to veto national budgets that breach EU rules, but French President Francois Hollande said the issue was not on the summit agenda and the priority was to get moving on a European banking union.

Addressing parliament in Berlin hours before the 22nd summit since the start of the euro zone's debt crisis, Merkel sought to slow the race to create a single European banking supervisor, saying quality was more important than speed.

Germany, reluctant to see its politically sensitive regional Landesbanks and savings banks come under outside supervision, insists European oversight should only cover big cross-border banks, and rejects any joint deposit guarantee which could see richer countries prop up the banks in their poorer counterparts.

Hollande told reporters at a preparatory gathering of Socialist leaders: "The topic of this summit is not the fiscal union but the banking union, so the only decision that will be taken is to set up a banking union by the end of the year and especially the banking supervision.

Merkel and Hollande are expected to hold a one-on-one meeting before the summit proper begins, EU officials said, which may provide a chance to discuss their differences.

Merkel skirted the issue of a possible credit line for Spain, which euro zone officials expect Madrid to request within weeks, but reiterated her desire to keep Greece in the currency area despite its chronic debt problems.

In Greece, workers walked off the job for the second time in three weeks, aiming to show EU leaders that a new wave of wage and pension cuts will only worsen their plight after five years of recession.

"We have made good progress on strengthening fiscal discipline with the fiscal pact but we are of the opinion, and I speak for the whole German government on this, that we could go a step further by giving Europe real rights of intervention in national budgets," Merkel told the Bundestag lower house.

A proposal by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to create a super-empowered European currency commissioner was a possible way forward, she said, and more European control should be accompanied by a stronger European Parliament. Such moves would require EU treaty changes, which Hollande is keen to avoid.

French Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac told BFM TV that if the German budget tsar idea required giving away more national power to Brussels, "Francois Hollande has not accepted a new transfer of sovereignty".

Merkel also advocated the creation of a European fund to invest in specific projects in member states which she said could be fuelled by a financial transaction tax which 11 euro zone countries have said they will adopt.

Her call echoed a proposal for the 17-member euro zone to have its own budget - known in EU jargon as a "fiscal capacity" - on top of the 27-nation union's common budget, which mostly funds agriculture and aid to poorer regions.

"FISCAL CAPACITY"

A note circulated by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, who will chair the summit, said the new pot of money could provide countries with insurance against economic shocks, and support structural reforms.

"Every member state, regardless of their income levels, would over time contribute to the fiscal capacity and then benefit from its support," Van Rompuy wrote to EU leaders in a note seen by Reuters. "Therefore, this would not lead to permanent transfers across countries."

Decisions on such reforms are not expected until a December summit, and Merkel's demands appeared to be partly an attempt to shift the agenda away from moves towards a banking union, which have drawn fierce criticism in Germany.

Since the European Central Bank announced last month that it was prepared to buy the bonds of struggling euro zone countries in unlimited amounts under strict conditions, government borrowing costs have fallen sharply and some of the market-led pressure to move rapidly to resolve the crisis has dissipated.

Spain's 10-year bond yields sank to their lowest since February at an auction on Thursday at which it sold 4.61 billion euros of government debt, helped by Moody's decision this week to maintain its credit rating at investment grade.

But rather than signaling that Madrid does not need help, Moody's verdict was predicated on Spain soon applying for a euro zone assistance program to trigger ECB intervention.

"In many senses, it's a very false market because it's not really telling you (whether) people feel comfortable about the outlook for Spain," said Marc Ostwald, a strategist at Monument Securities in London.

Germany has said Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is taking all the right measures to overcome fiscal woes caused by a banking crisis after a real estate bubble burst, but officials say Berlin's resistance to a credit line for Spain is waning.

The leaders agreed at their last summit in June to create a single banking supervisor under the ECB, but the original goal of having legislation in place by January 2013 already looks in doubt, and it may not be fully up and running until 2014.

EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said it was very important the summit maintain the momentum on banking union "which is critical to break the vicious circle between sovereigns and banks".

Joerg Asmussen, the German member of the ECB's executive board, said on Wednesday the central bank would not be ready to start overseeing banks from early next year, and said it was more important to do it properly than to do it quickly.

The latest draft summit conclusions said only that a single supervisor was a "matter of priority" and leaders should have the "objective of completing it by the end of the year".

The deeper the discussion on banking union goes, the more complex and problematic it gets. As well as disagreement over the timeline for a single supervisor -- a prerequisite for the euro zone's rescue mechanism to be able to recapitalize banks directly -- there are disputes about how it will function.

Countries outside the euro zone -- particularly Britain, which has Europe's biggest banking sector -- are concerned their banks could be disadvantaged if no balance is maintained between the ECB and its oversight of euro zone banks and the powers of other authorities to oversee non-euro zone banks.

And if non-euro zone countries join the banking union, as policymakers are hoping, it is unclear what representation they would then have within the ECB, since the central bank is currently answerable only to euro zone member states.

Those complications will not be ironed out this week and may not be resolved for months to come, making it all the more unlikely that the legal structures to establish a single supervisor will be ready by January next year.

(Additional reporting by Stephen Brown and Madeline Chambers in Berlin, Brian Love in Paris, Jan Strupczewski and Luke Baker in Brussels and Gilbert Krijger in Amsterdam; Writing by Paul Taylor. Editing by Mike Peacock)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/merkel-seeks-more-eu-budget-control-french-cool-112014943--business.html

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Dan Pincus, Jim McElhaney, Jack Brand in 'Jazz at Emerson' Oct. 18 ...

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Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center?s next ?Jazz at Emerson? concert with Dan Pincus, Jim McElhaney and special guest Jack Brand is coming up at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 18, at the historic Emerson House, 420 N. Main St., Rockford.

Piano/wind jazz duo Dan Pincus and Jim McElhaney met in the ?70s while attending Northern Illinois University and formed ?Ocean Roads,? a jazz fusion group. After college, the two went their separate ways, but reconnected more than 25 years later and haven?t looked back. They?ll perform this concert with special guest Jack Brand, one of the area?s most sought-after drummers.

Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students. Proceeds benefit the musicians and the Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center.

?Jazz at Emerson? happens one Thursday per month from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., at the Emerson House in the heart of Rockford?s cultural corridor. Concertgoers can enjoy the swinging sounds of jazz, relax with a glass of wine and light refreshments, and meet the performers after the program, which is about an hour-and-a-half in length. Doors open at 5 p.m. Seating is limited.

Posted Oct. 18, 2012

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Fires of Retention HR, Recruiting, Social Media Policies, Human ...

Praise from the Boss

Nothing?feels better at work than your boss turning to you and saying, ?Good job, by the way.? Those that are employees, that report to a higher authority, be it a CEO or Supervisor, understand exactly what I mean. Those who report to themselves, running their?own?business, know how it feels when a client says,??Thank you??or refers a potential client to your services.

It is a great feeling to know you are appreciated or that your?work matters.?We spend so much of our day trying to complete projects or merely fighting to get a simple response that it sometimes feels like our wheels just spin, throwing mud everywhere, but still gaining no traction. ?Going nowhere fast.

A good example

When I was seventeen, I worked for a home-based business. I loved my job, I loved accomplishing tasks that I was assigned and I loved seeing the finished work pile up. My boss was a busy woman who started her own business and never stopped working,?ever.? To this day, having passed her 76th birthday, she still works. She enjoys it, she likes to feel like she contributes. I don?t foresee anytime in her near future that she would stop working; it is just important to her. I spent some time with her not too long ago, back in Indiana and it seems that she still runs circles around me.

Nothing pleased me more than when she admired my work or when she expressed gratitude for a job well done. ?Each of us needs that,?every single one of us,we need to feel that what we provide, what we have shared, the part of us we have given is/was worthwhile, that it meant something to someone.

A Different example

And then there have been?other?bosses or co-workers. ?Those who?rarely?say thank you, those who micromanage ? and not in a good way, those who leave you wondering if you did it right or if you would still have a job the next day. It is a horrible feeling to question every evening as you drive home whether or not you want to drive back the next day.

Where are you?

Whatever side you see yourself on, perhaps you are the boss, perhaps you are the decision maker for your department, maybe you are a co-worker who sees someone else contribute beyond expectations, maybe you are that employee? Whether you have one direct report or twenty, whether you work in a department of one or 500, how do you maintain work satisfaction? How do you exhibit appreciation? Does gratitude cling to your requests or are you eager to order then watch and wait ? looking for a slip-up, a mistake on which you can pounce? ?You weren?t always the boss or supervisor. You weren?t always the decision maker. You may have carried a heavy load or walked up a long and difficult path to get to where you are. You aren?t the only one.
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Last week, my boss turned to me, lifted a glass and said, ?Good job!? ?He is good at it, he has said it before and yet it still catches me by surprise and warms the cockles of my sometimes broken heart. ?I smile when I remember his thank you?s and often think how lucky I am to love my work and be proud of our company, what we provide, and what we are accomplishing ? every single day.

It isn?t that hard

It?s a small thing, you know and a fairly simple way to build loyalty. Pride often breaks loyalty, crushing the traces that ignite the fires of retention. What?s it worth to you? A pat on the back, metaphorical or otherwise, a simple thank you is a pretty small price to pay.

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9/11 mastermind dons camo vest to face Gitmo court

ACLU lawyer Hima Shamsi (background) addresses Judge Pohl, while 9/11 victim family members (left to right): Gordon Haberman, Kathy Haberman, Jo Aquaviva, and Anthony Aquaviva observe from behind a glass barrier at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Wednesday.

By NBC News staff and wire services

The self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks showed up to court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday wearing a camouflage vest after a judge ruled that the military-style garment would not disrupt the proceedings.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was using his attire to make a political statement, which he coupled with a monologue late in the day?s proceedings to condemn what he called prosecutors "elastic" use of national security to justify its actions.

"The government uses national security as it chooses," the Arabic-speaking Mohammed said through a translator while seated at a defense table. "Many can kill people under the name of national security and torture people in the name of national security."

Mohammed was appearing before the military commission for the third day of hearings that will set the ground rules for the trial of the 47-year-old Kuwaiti and four accused co-conspirators accused of planning and aiding hijackers who flew commercial airlines into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,976 people.

All five defendants are charged with terrorism and murder and could be sentenced to death if convicted. The trial is likely more than a year away.

Fashion statement
Mohammed, who has grown a long beard in detention and dyed it with henna, wore the vest over his traditional white tunic and turban. He and a co-defendant had sought to wear camouflage items at their May 5 arraignment, but that request was denied.

At the time, the commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison said the camouflage might make it harder for the military prison guards to gain control if necessary, suggesting the clothing could create confusion about telling the difference between prisoners and fellow troops.

Earlier coverage of the week's Guantanamo pre-trial hearings:
Tuesday: Hearings for accused Sept. 11 terror planners haggle over rights, secrecy
Monday: 9/11 mastermind, alleged accomplices return to Guantanamo court

In Tuesday?s hearing, Military Judge Army Col. James Pohl dismissed the suggestion that the more than a dozen military members in the courtroom would have any problem distinguishing the bearded defendants. But just to be sure, he specifically prohibited them from wearing any items from U.S. military uniforms.

Mohammed considers himself a prisoner of war and wanted the same right to wear a uniform as the Japanese and German troops prosecuted for war crimes after World War II, according to his lawyers.

Mohammed surprised the courtroom midway through the afternoon by raising his hand to request that the court allow him to make a statement.

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Judge?Pohl said defendants are not generally permitted to comment on proceedings, but then granted his request.

"This is a one-time occurrence," Pohl told the defendant after some some back-and-forth.

"We are all human beings," Mohammed said in his brief monologue. "Your blood is not made out of gold and ours is made out of water," he said.

He said that while Americans were sad that 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, the U.S. government has "killed millions of people."

He urged the judge not to be persuaded by the government's "crocodile tears," and complained that the U.S. president can "legislate" assassinations in the name of protecting Americans.

Battle over secrecy?
Earlier Wednesday, the court resumed hearing arguments on the admissibility of testimony that includes information about the period of detention and harsh interrogation techniques employed at secret CIA prisons, prior to the men's transfer to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Even the judge grew frustrated with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay as he refused to answer his questions. NBC's Michael Isikoff reports.

The government has already acknowledged some details about the secret prisons, including the fact that Mohammed was subjected to a near-drowning technique called water-boarding 183 times, but prosecutors have said that restrictions are necessary to prevent the release of information that would reveal information about intelligence sources and methods.

ACLU attorney Hina Shamsi picked up where she left off Tuesday when court adjourned, arguing that the detention information should be part of the public record.

Shamsi said the restrictions were overly broad and intended not to protect national security so much as to prevent the public from learning more details about the harsh confinement of the defendants in the CIA's prisons overseas.

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"We are aware, your honor, of no other protective order that is as radical as what the government is asking you to judicially bless here," Shamsi said.

But government prosecutor Joanna Baltes said the ACLU and other critics of the proposed rules are exaggerating the restrictions. She said the restrictions, known as protective orders, are similar to those in major terrorism cases in civilian courts.

"I think it is a very inflammatory allegation for the ACLU to come in and claim they have never seen anything like this," Baltes said.

The painstaking pre-trial hearings are intended to deal with 25 motions, many of them dealing with security rules and defendants? rights.

On Monday, the court agreed that the defendants could not be forced to attend the pre-trial hearings.

At Wednesday?s hearings, Mohammed, who was born in Kuwait, and Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, a Pakistani, were the only two of the five who attended. Mustafa Al Hawsawi, a Saudi; and Walid Bin Attash and Ramzi Binalshibh, both from Yemen, sat this one out.

Hearings were slated to continue on Thursday morning.

The Associated Press and NBC News' Courtney Kube and Kari Huus contributed to this report.

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