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Beginning today, we’re making it easy for Google+ users to share webpages with their circles, directly from the +1 button,” Google SVP of Social Vic Gundotra announced in a blog post. “Just +1 a page as usual and look for the new ‘Share on Google+’ option. From there you can comment, choose a circle and share.”
In the past, clicking the +1 button only shared content to a tab on a user’s Google+ profile. This is in contrast to the Facebook Like button, which posts an article on a user’s Facebook wall. Now that Google has its own social network, the search giant can match Facebook’s button functionality.
Google also announced the addition of +snippets to the +1 button. A +snippet is simply the link, image and description automatically generated when a link is shared on Google+. These +snippets make content more engaging on the Google+ social network, which is why the search giant is giving publishers the ability to customize their snippets. Publishers can customize the code of their +1 button to tweak what gets displayed in a +snippet.
Monday 12 September 2011
Bradley Associates - The query of Greek readiness
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Discuss with restructuring Greece’s debt is improbable to fix this country’s financial issues
Bradley Associates has developed an extensive network of professional resources. We select from among an array of carefully chosen managers to structure portfolios that meet the needs of our clients. We help our clients stay competitive in the constantly changing markets of the modern world.
Bradley Associates diversified strategies are designed to target attractive risk-adjusted returns and lower volatility than most traditional asset classes. These strategies aim to be achieved through a highly diversified combination of allocations to hedge fund managers and customized vehicles. Bradley Associates innovative approach to portfolio construction also allows for enhanced flexibility in asset allocation across sub strategies.
SOVEREIGN-DEBT restructuring can be a common account for the third world but the much developed economies as the results of the WWII. European politicians have anxiously attempted to preserve that history by giving bail-out capital to troubled euro-area members. Sheltering these types of debtors in the markets offers them room to correct their own financial situation, the discussion goes. Significantly, still, the action appears right up. However the actual issue is when the euro-area dilemma started, in Greece.
The Greek government nevertheless declines every intent to restructure their financial debt. The European Central Bank (ECB) will be adamantly contrary, worrying chaos involving European financial institutions subjected to these nations involved. However the motion restructuring are getting pored in Europe and also at the IMF. In Germany each Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister, as well as Werner Hoyer, minister for European matters, triggered consternation recently through publicly increasing the potential of a financial debt restructuring. Markets go through: ten-year Greek government-bond promise strike a euro-era record of 14.6% on April nineteenth. Credit expenses with regard to different countries elevated, as well, Spain’s one of them.
Discuss with restructuring Greece’s debt is improbable to fix this country’s financial issues
Bradley Associates has developed an extensive network of professional resources. We select from among an array of carefully chosen managers to structure portfolios that meet the needs of our clients. We help our clients stay competitive in the constantly changing markets of the modern world.
Bradley Associates diversified strategies are designed to target attractive risk-adjusted returns and lower volatility than most traditional asset classes. These strategies aim to be achieved through a highly diversified combination of allocations to hedge fund managers and customized vehicles. Bradley Associates innovative approach to portfolio construction also allows for enhanced flexibility in asset allocation across sub strategies.
SOVEREIGN-DEBT restructuring can be a common account for the third world but the much developed economies as the results of the WWII. European politicians have anxiously attempted to preserve that history by giving bail-out capital to troubled euro-area members. Sheltering these types of debtors in the markets offers them room to correct their own financial situation, the discussion goes. Significantly, still, the action appears right up. However the actual issue is when the euro-area dilemma started, in Greece.
The Greek government nevertheless declines every intent to restructure their financial debt. The European Central Bank (ECB) will be adamantly contrary, worrying chaos involving European financial institutions subjected to these nations involved. However the motion restructuring are getting pored in Europe and also at the IMF. In Germany each Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister, as well as Werner Hoyer, minister for European matters, triggered consternation recently through publicly increasing the potential of a financial debt restructuring. Markets go through: ten-year Greek government-bond promise strike a euro-era record of 14.6% on April nineteenth. Credit expenses with regard to different countries elevated, as well, Spain’s one of them.
Friday 19 August 2011
Altlantic International Partnership Headlines: MGM gets more time to sell 50 percent ownership in Borgata casino
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ATLANTIC CITY – MGM Resorts International is getting more time to sell its 50-percent stake in Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa as part of a settlement with New Jersey gaming regulators to leave the Atlantic City market.
The state Casino Control Commission voted Monday to extend the sale deadline by 18 months, from Sept. 24, 2011, to March 24, 2013.
MGM representatives told the commission that the company simply needs more time to sell the casino amid the weak regional and national economy. They said New Jersey’s recent regulatory overhaul of the casino industry, combined with Gov. Chris Christie’s creation of a new state-run Tourism District to make Atlantic City safer and cleaner, should help to entice potential buyers in the future.
“We’re very optimistic that all of the changes implemented in the last six months or so will be very helpful,” MGM attorney Nicholas Casiello Jr. said.
MGM has agreed to sell off its Atlantic City holdings after the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement objected to the company’s partnership in a Macau casino with a Hong Kong businesswoman whose father has alleged ties to Chinese organized crime. Pansy Ho and her father, Stanley Ho, have denied any mob links.
The DGE supported the commission’s vote to extend the Borgata sale deadline, but reiterated the findings of its 2009 investigative report that called Pansy Ho an “unsuitable” business partner for MGM.
“We want people to understand that nothing has changed with our opinions in that report,” said George Rover, an assistant state attorney general who represents the DGE.
The remaining 50 percent of Borgata will continue to be owned by Boyd Gaming Corp. Up to this point, Boyd has not shown any interest in buying MGM’s share.
Last October, MGM announced it had received a $250 million offer from an undisclosed potential buyer for a half-share of Borgata, but that deal fell through. The Press of Atlantic City and the Bloomberg news agency reported that the offer came from the Los Angeles-based buyout company Leonard Green & Partners LP.
Altlantic International Partnership Headlines: Province sees dollars and ‘sense’ in partnerships with China - Saeo
Altlantic International Partnership Headlines: Province sees dollars and ‘sense’ in partnerships with China - Saeo
Education Minister Jody Carr says appointing Dennis Cochrane as president of Atlantic Education International for the next two years will help the company grow educational partnerships on the international stage.
Cochrane, a former educator, provincial Progressive Conservative leader and interim president at St. Thomas University, has already started the part-time position that pays $30,000 annually.
“There’s a lot of growth potential for AEI, but growth needs to be done strategically and with a co-ordinated approach,” Carr said in an email.
“Dennis Cochrane’s experience, knowledge and proven track record make him well suited to oversee the execution of AEI’s mandate and the development of a business and expansion strategy for international education in New Brunswick.”
In addition to the N.B. International Student Program and a teaching abroad initiative, Atlantic Education International oversees operations at the Confucius Institute in New Brunswick and maintains partnerships with schools in China that use New Brunswick curriculum.
The first partnership was put in place in 1998 under the Liberal government. Since then, five schools have started teaching New Brunswick curriculum, including one that opened in July with a capacity for 3,000 students.
But while department officials say Cochrane’s appointment will be good for Atlantic Education International, one man said he wonders what selling educational services to countries such as China means for the integrity of the New Brunswick curriculum.
Charles Burton, a professor at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ont., has had two postings in China as a diplomat.
In the past, Burton has spoken about the curriculum compromises made at the New Brunswick Confucius Institute, a program that teaches New Brunswick students the Chinese language and culture, but under the terms of the Chinese Ministry of Education.
He’s never taught at a school that buys New Brunswick curriculum, but Burton said the unified nature of Chinese education would mean even though Chinese students walk away with a New Brunswick diploma, that doesn’t mean they’re educated the same way as New Brunswick students.
“Anyone who has gone through the schools you’re talking about has to have had the Chinese curriculum, and that includes a few things like the politics and that interpretation of history that the Chinese government requires the children learn,” he said in an interview with The Daily Gleaner.
“There’s no question about it, it is a bit problematic that they’re not getting the same education as New Brunswick students get in New Brunswick because New Brunswick students in New Brunswick are not learning the things about how the Communist party saved China from Western colonialism and that kind of thing. And certainly free democracy is not going to be taught. The civics content is not going to be the same.
“There’s no way that they would allow that aspect of the curriculum to be dominant in the education of the Chinese children in China.”
Christina Windsor, communications director for the Department of Education, said students at the Concord colleges in China are required to take a number of courses in English, including social studies, as part of their New Brunswick diploma requirements.
But speaking on behalf of Atlantic Education International, Windsor said the goal of the courses is to focus on meeting New Brunswick curriculum outcomes – that means the student’s ability to learn what the course is designed to teach.
“Course content is a vehicle for reaching the curriculum outcomes, therefore many of the materials used can be adapted to suit the interests and needs of the students,” she said.
Windsor said in addition to receiving positive feedback from teachers and students who have participated in the China experience, the provincial government also made $3 million in revenue last year.
Upon returning from a trip to China in July, Carr said $3 million isn’t a lot of money but it’s some.
Carr said he expects to see more revenue from the partnership as a result of his visit, where he officially opened the fifth school and attended meetings about potential future partnerships.
“But (South Korea is) interested in having us partner with them in teacher training. Teacher training and culture experience. So they would like to send some of their teachers in South Korea to our schools here in New Brunswick.”
Carr said he also met with representatives from Cambodia who are interested in buying N.B. curriculum.
But while Burton sees benefits to the partnership, he questions leaving out the less favourable elements of Chinese history but still giving students a New Brunswick diploma.
“It does give students a New Brunswick diploma who are not getting the same education as in New Brunswick,” he said.
Altlantic International Partnership Headlines: MGM gets more time to sell 50 percent ownership in Borgata casino
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ATLANTIC CITY – MGM Resorts International is getting more time to sell its 50-percent stake in Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa as part of a settlement with New Jersey gaming regulators to leave the Atlantic City market.
The state Casino Control Commission voted Monday to extend the sale deadline by 18 months, from Sept. 24, 2011, to March 24, 2013.
MGM representatives told the commission that the company simply needs more time to sell the casino amid the weak regional and national economy. They said New Jersey’s recent regulatory overhaul of the casino industry, combined with Gov. Chris Christie’s creation of a new state-run Tourism District to make Atlantic City safer and cleaner, should help to entice potential buyers in the future.
“We’re very optimistic that all of the changes implemented in the last six months or so will be very helpful,” MGM attorney Nicholas Casiello Jr. said.
MGM has agreed to sell off its Atlantic City holdings after the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement objected to the company’s partnership in a Macau casino with a Hong Kong businesswoman whose father has alleged ties to Chinese organized crime. Pansy Ho and her father, Stanley Ho, have denied any mob links.
The DGE supported the commission’s vote to extend the Borgata sale deadline, but reiterated the findings of its 2009 investigative report that called Pansy Ho an “unsuitable” business partner for MGM.
“We want people to understand that nothing has changed with our opinions in that report,” said George Rover, an assistant state attorney general who represents the DGE.
The remaining 50 percent of Borgata will continue to be owned by Boyd Gaming Corp. Up to this point, Boyd has not shown any interest in buying MGM’s share.
Last October, MGM announced it had received a $250 million offer from an undisclosed potential buyer for a half-share of Borgata, but that deal fell through. The Press of Atlantic City and the Bloomberg news agency reported that the offer came from the Los Angeles-based buyout company Leonard Green & Partners LP.
Altlantic International Partnership Headlines: Dennis Cochrane lands in education post
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Former St. Thomas University president Dennis Cochrane has accepted a two-year position as the president of Atlantic Education International, an appointment geared at boosting the provincial government’s foreign education program.
Cochrane, the former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and a member of Premier David Alward’s transition team, has already started in the new position, which is a two-year appointment that pays $30,000 annually.
Education Minister Jody Carr said Cochrane’s experience in building relationships will be important in his new position in growing the institute.
“There is a lot of growth potential for AEI but growth needs to be done strategically and with a coordinated approach,” Carr said in a statement.
“Dennis Cochrane’s experience, knowledge and proven track record make him well suited to oversee the execution of AEI’s mandate and the development of a business and expansion strategy for international education in New Brunswick.”
Atlantic Education International is an arm’s length organization that offers international learning opportunities. It has a series of partnerships, including the China partnership, N.B. International Student Program, a teaching abroad initiative and overseeing the operations of the Confucius Institute.
While AEI has a board of directors, its sole shareholder is the Department of Education.
Last year, the institute made $3 million for the provincial government.
The institute has four schools in China with roughly 3,000 students. The Anhui Concord College will open in September and has a projected student population of 400.
Cochrane has a long background in the education sector. He was a high school principal in Moncton and he also served as the deputy minister of education in both the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia governments.
His political resume includes terms as a city councillor, the mayor of Moncton, federal Progressive Conservative MP and a Progressive Conservative MLA. He served as the provincial party leader from 1991 to 1995.
Cochrane returned to New Brunswick in 2009 as the interim president of St. Thomas University, the Fredericton-based liberal arts institution.
Cochrane provided two years of leadership after a period of labour unrest under the previous president, Michael Higgins.
As president, he also raised the university’s profile in many public policy issues.
After the Alward government won the 2010 election, he was asked to be a part of the transition team.
He has also been a proponent of moving toward four-year funding plans for universities, which is being adopted by the Alward government.
Other members of Alward’s political circle have moved into government positions. Robert MacLeod, Alward’s campaign co-chair, is the new president of Invest New Brunswick, and Daniel Allain, the other campaign co-chair, is the president of NB Liquor.
Altlantic International Partnership Headlines: Province sees dollars and ‘sense’ in partnerships with China
http://altlantic-internationalpartnership.com/
Education Minister Jody Carr says appointing Dennis Cochrane as president of Atlantic Education International for the next two years will help the company grow educational partnerships on the international stage.
Cochrane, a former educator, provincial Progressive Conservative leader and interim president at St. Thomas University, has already started the part-time position that pays $30,000 annually.
“There’s a lot of growth potential for AEI, but growth needs to be done strategically and with a co-ordinated approach,” Carr said in an email.
“Dennis Cochrane’s experience, knowledge and proven track record make him well suited to oversee the execution of AEI’s mandate and the development of a business and expansion strategy for international education in New Brunswick.”
In addition to the N.B. International Student Program and a teaching abroad initiative, Atlantic Education International oversees operations at the Confucius Institute in New Brunswick and maintains partnerships with schools in China that use New Brunswick curriculum.
The first partnership was put in place in 1998 under the Liberal government. Since then, five schools have started teaching New Brunswick curriculum, including one that opened in July with a capacity for 3,000 students.
But while department officials say Cochrane’s appointment will be good for Atlantic Education International, one man said he wonders what selling educational services to countries such as China means for the integrity of the New Brunswick curriculum.
Charles Burton, a professor at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ont., has had two postings in China as a diplomat.
In the past, Burton has spoken about the curriculum compromises made at the New Brunswick Confucius Institute, a program that teaches New Brunswick students the Chinese language and culture, but under the terms of the Chinese Ministry of Education.
He’s never taught at a school that buys New Brunswick curriculum, but Burton said the unified nature of Chinese education would mean even though Chinese students walk away with a New Brunswick diploma, that doesn’t mean they’re educated the same way as New Brunswick students.
“Anyone who has gone through the schools you’re talking about has to have had the Chinese curriculum, and that includes a few things like the politics and that interpretation of history that the Chinese government requires the children learn,” he said in an interview with The Daily Gleaner.
“There’s no question about it, it is a bit problematic that they’re not getting the same education as New Brunswick students get in New Brunswick because New Brunswick students in New Brunswick are not learning the things about how the Communist party saved China from Western colonialism and that kind of thing. And certainly free democracy is not going to be taught. The civics content is not going to be the same.
“There’s no way that they would allow that aspect of the curriculum to be dominant in the education of the Chinese children in China.”
Christina Windsor, communications director for the Department of Education, said students at the Concord colleges in China are required to take a number of courses in English, including social studies, as part of their New Brunswick diploma requirements.
But speaking on behalf of Atlantic Education International, Windsor said the goal of the courses is to focus on meeting New Brunswick curriculum outcomes – that means the student’s ability to learn what the course is designed to teach.
“Course content is a vehicle for reaching the curriculum outcomes, therefore many of the materials used can be adapted to suit the interests and needs of the students,” she said.
Windsor said in addition to receiving positive feedback from teachers and students who have participated in the China experience, the provincial government also made $3 million in revenue last year.
Upon returning from a trip to China in July, Carr said $3 million isn’t a lot of money but it’s some.
Carr said he expects to see more revenue from the partnership as a result of his visit, where he officially opened the fifth school and attended meetings about potential future partnerships.
“But (South Korea is) interested in having us partner with them in teacher training. Teacher training and culture experience. So they would like to send some of their teachers in South Korea to our schools here in New Brunswick.”
Carr said he also met with representatives from Cambodia who are interested in buying N.B. curriculum.
But while Burton sees benefits to the partnership, he questions leaving out the less favourable elements of Chinese history but still giving students a New Brunswick diploma.
“It does give students a New Brunswick diploma who are not getting the same education as in New Brunswick,” he said.
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