| Atwal’s legal fate to be decided soon
ORLANDO, Fla. – After a nearly 11-month investigation, former PGA Tour player Arjun Atwal should know his legal fate within weeks regarding a fatal accident last year near Orlando. The Florida Highway Patrol has found the death of a central Florida businessman to be “a vehicular homicide'' and forwarded its investigation to the State Attorney's Office. According to the FHP, witnesses said Atwal, 34, who lives in nearby Windermere, and John Noah Park, 48, a video-company production executive, were racing March 10 at speeds in excess of 90 mph when they lost control of their vehicles on a four-lane road in southwest Orange County. Park was killed; Atwal was not injured. No arrests have been made, and it is up to the state attorney as to whether to follow the FHP report's recommendation.
Greed will drive Premier League to more than 39th Step
If you work at a company of substantial size, chances are that there will be an employee whose job it is to cut the budget. He will probably be incentive-rewarded, too, perhaps with a small percentage of the money he has saved. His job will be dressed up as having something to do with efficiency or better use of resources; in the old days he would be called a time-and-motion man. The bottom line is that if the budget — and I’ll make it easy because this is an E-grade mathematics O-level student you are reading here — is £100 million, his job is to get it down to £90 million. And the next year, when the budget is £90 million, to make his bonus, he again has to cut it by 10 per cent. Now it is £81 million. And his job hasn’t changed and he’ll want to hit that target in time for Christmas next year, too, which is probably why you can never get a seat on a Ryanair flight these days and every Travelodge is rammed Monday to Friday.
Logging off: Gates says farewell to CES
On Sunday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates gave his 11th, and last, keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas; in future he will focus his efforts on the Gates Foundation and its fight against disease. So, after 14 years, we can look back and ask: how did he do? Well, he gets a mixed report. He did well for the show, reasonably well in tracking the industry, and badly when launching new products. (Transcripts of Gates's speeches from 1996 to 2008 are on Microsoft's site at tinyurl.com/2a8nox; the first from CES is the 1998 one.) Gates was very successful in attracting large audiences, and in helping to get CES reported - which is basically how he got the gig in the first place. Plenty of people wanted to see the world's richest man (as he became in 1995).
China tops India again
Inida's call center is established "purely" because of cheap labor. If it's not cheap, why would American companies go there?! Talking about brand names, lenovo and Haier are the names that would come to my mind. This just shows how ignorant you are. Show me one thing in the American household today that's made in India. None! In America, people use stuff made in America, China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, sweden, switzerland, Finland. Do you know how many multinational corporations there are in China, such as Siemens technology, Motorolla, volkswagen (Chinese use volkswagen cabs), audi, BMW, mercedes benz, sony, sam sung, LG? Do you know China has been the leading participants of cancer treatments in the world?! Look at the British industrial revolution, it starts with making general stuff then you can afford to build your brand names.
Primer 3: Recreation
The Forest Service is halfway through a four-year process to designate routes for off-roaders in every national forest. In Utah, the BLM is revising its management plans to limit riders to designated trails rather than continuing to allow unfettered cross-country use. It remains to be seen whether the agencies will succeed in creating workable plans that provide reasonable access for off-roaders and other recreationists while also conserving land and wildlife. But giving them sufficient funding to do the job is the obvious first step in preserving the Wests recreation legacy. Listed below are links to some of High Country News best recreation stories in recent years. .
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