Miner killed in violence at South Africa's Lonmin

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A worker was killed on Monday in renewed violence between rival unions at a South African mine operated by world number three platinum producer Lonmin, the head of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said.

"Early this morning one of our members was attempting to report to duty and he was killed. He was hacked to death," NUM General Secretary Frans Baleni told Reuters. "Our members are under attack."

The killing follows the murder of two security guards on Sunday by an enraged mob that attacked a facility at Lonmin's Western Platinum operation.

The violence is part of a turf war between the NUM, which has long been the labor giant in South African mining, and the upstart Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU).

The latest flare-up began on Friday with an illegal strike by 3,000 rock drill operators at Lonmin's Western Platinum mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, mirroring previous incidents when AMCU has tried to recruit NUM members.

Baleni said bus drivers were being intimidated into not transporting workers to Western Platinum's operations. Allegations of intimidation have marked previous struggles between the unions.

Company officials said on Sunday the mine was operating at reduced capacity but were not immediately available for comment on Monday.

AMCU General Secretary Jeff Mphahlehle told Reuters he was en route to an emergency meeting with Lonmin management on Monday and said members of his union had also been attacked.

The NUM/AMCU rivalry shut the world's largest platinum mine, run by Impala Platinum, for 6 weeks earlier this year.

(Additional reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas; Editing by Ed Cropley)

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(1888PressRelease) Businesses are 43% more likely to close a deal in person than via online advertising, Liverpool Marketing Solutions research reveals.

The rise of modernisation in the 21st century proves communication through mod cons such as the internet; blogs and social media sites are more popular than the old fashioned face to face approach. However Christopher Haynes managing director of Liverpool Marketing Solutions believes there are many benefits to face to face communication. ?I believe face to face communication can help build great relationships not only with our customer base but also the clients we represent? A study by KHR Solutions in 2010 found that 56% of businesses preferred face to face communication, with their customers and workers.

Our research suggests that one of the biggest benefits of face to face communication is that it is personal. ?It is much easier to build a bond or relationship with suppliers and contractors on a face to face basis rather than over the internet or the phone, the last thing I want to be is a faceless business? says Christopher Haynes managing director of Liverpool Marketing Solutions.

Face to face interaction enables people to pick up on nonverbal communication such as body language which could easily be missed via e-mail or a social networking site. ?Anyone I am talking to whether it is my clients or the customers I am working with portrays certain characteristics through their body language such as nodding, smiling or frowning which can add different meanings to the conversation? says Christopher Haynes Managing director of Liverpool Marketing solutions.

It is said that face to face communication also helps in a group dynamic, such as meetings as it enables different dialogue and discussions because of the ability to see and interact with other members of the group.

?I am in a people business; everything I do is down to the people around me and the relationships I have built with them over time. I do not believe these relationships would be as strong if I wasn?t communicating with them face to face on a daily basis? says Christopher Haynes managing director of Liverpool Marketing Solutions.

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Earning their business through expertise in representation, they work exclusively with blue-chip companies in the telecommunication, fundraising, and banking sector. From assisting their clientele in the strategic development of their new promotional sales campaigns, to training and developing their outsourced sales force.

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Belarus arrests two in wake of teddy bear airdrop

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Journalists Irina Kozlik, left, and Julia Doroshkevich show victory signs from the back of a police car on their arrival for a court appearance in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday.

By Reuters

MINSK, Belarus -- Police in Belarus have arrested two journalists for posing for photographs holding teddy bears after hundreds were dropped by air on the country in a pro-democracy stunt, the Belarussian Association of Journalists said Thursday.

Alexander Lukashenko, the country's authoritarian president, also suggested Thursday that the Swedish embassy in Minsk had been involved in planning the July 4 escapade, in an outburst likely to widen a diplomatic rift with Sweden over the incident.

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"Those who came and prepared the violation of the state border worked together with the (Swedish) embassy. We have proof of this," Lukashenko was quoted as saying by the Belarus state news agency Belta.

The journalists' arrest and Lukashenko's accusation underlined the depth of his anger and embarrassment over the stunt and his determination to punish those he views as being responsible for it.

Belarus, Sweden kick out ambassadors as teddy bear war heats up

One of the two journalists arrested, Irina Kozlik, who works for Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, was fined 3 million Belarussian roubles (about $400) by a Minsk court on Thursday, while Yulia Doroshkevich, a press photographer, was to appear in court later in the day.

An official for the ex-Soviet republic's journalist association said that Kozlik, 27, and Doroshkevich, 31, were detained Wednesday evening in the capital Minsk.

The two women were accused of "carrying out an unsanctioned protest," Andrei Bastunets, deputy head of the association, told Reuters. "This (the fine) shows that Kozlik was recognized as being guilty of violating the laws on protests."

Teddy bear "blitz"
The July 4 stunt, in which a light aircraft chartered by a Swedish PR firm Studio Total dropped 800 toy bears carrying pro-democracy messages over Belarussian territory, prompted Lukashenko to sack his air defense and border guards chiefs and expel Sweden's ambassador.

The teddy bear "blitz" was the latest pro-democracy stunt aimed at mocking Lukashenko's iron grip on a country he has ruled since 1994, three years after the Soviet Union's break-up.

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A handout photo provided by Swedish firm Studio Total shows teddy bears falling to the ground over a residential area in Minsk, Belarus, on July 4, 2012.

Once described as Europe's last dictator by the administration of former President George W. Bush, Lukashenko has been ostracized by the European Union and United States over a harsh crackdown on opponents who challenged his re-election in December 2010.

Last summer, opposition groups staged waves of "silent" protests in Minsk in which people engaged in synchronized public clapping and coordinated their mobile phones to ring out in unison to show their disapproval of Lukashenko's style of rule.

Diplomatic rift
With both Belarus and Sweden now pulling all their diplomats out of each other's country, the diplomatic rift has worsened Belarus's already poor relations with the West.

In comments issued by Belta news agency on Thursday, Lukashenko said Belarus still awaited an answer from Sweden and neighboring Lithuania about their role in the airdrop. The plane entered Belarussian air space from Lithuania.

"If these answers do not come according to international norms, we will find an adequate response ourselves ...," he said.

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"Lithuania shouldn't sit like mice under the broom either. They have got to say why they allocated their territory for violating a state border," he added.

In a statement Thursday, the U.S. State Department said the expulsion of the Swedish diplomats only served "to deepen Belarus' self-isolation ... We again call on Belarus to immediately release and rehabilitate all political prisoners, and to put an end to the repression of civil society and the democratic opposition."

Nov. 28, 2011: Natalya Radina, editor in chief of the Charter 97 newspaper in Belarus, was severely beaten and jailed by government forces for reporting on a bloodly crackdown after rigged elections. She was awarded the International Press Freedom Award by CPJ for her courageous work.

It took more than three weeks for Belarus to formally confirm the teddy bear airdrop. It was all the more embarrassing for Lukashenko and his defense chiefs since the incident occurred a day after Independence Day, which also commemorates Minsk's World War II defense against Nazi Germany.

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Strong response
In the wake of the incident, Lukashenko told the incoming border guards chief to use weapons if necessary to shoot down any future foreign intruders into Belarussian air space.

Belarus' KGB state security agency has since charged two Belarussians, Anton Suryapin and Sergei Basharimov, with complicity in the "illegal intrusion" by the Swedish plane.

Suryapin, who is aged about 20, had earlier been identified as a blogger who was arrested after the first photographs of the toy bears were published on the Internet. In the past week, some Belarussian journalists have shown solidarity with Suryapin by posing for photos on the Internet holding miniature toy bears.?

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Scientists generate 281-gigapixel cell map using electron microscope

Electron microscopes can produce incredibly detailed and even 3D views of sub-cellular structures, but often at the cost of losing the bigger picture. Researchers at Liedel University in the Netherlands, however, have leveraged a technique called virtual nanoscopy that enables researchers to observe the whole of a cell and its intricate details in a single image. With the method, the team stitches together nanometer resolution photographs of what's gone under the scope to create a map with adjustable zoom a la Google Maps. Their study created a 281-gigapixel image (packed with 16 million pixels per inch) of a 1.5-millimeter-long zebrafish embryo. If you'd like to take a gander at the ultra-high resolution fish or read up on the group's findings for yourself, check out the source links below.

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Google Updates Results: Small Businesses Suffer | Search Engine ...

In the last few Google updates, there have been some significant changes to how the search results are displayed. The media machine has covered these events extensively as these updates have unfolded. Because of the unique position I?m in, I have an inside look at the ranking trends of thousands of pages and keywords around the web for many small businesses of different industries.

SBA study for Small Business Statistics and Research has shown that 99.7% of small firms represent the US economy, and generated 44% of total US new jobs over the past 17 years. The study also states that Small Business makes up 50.7% of US GDP and the number continue to rise.

With the latest update from Google we all watched as online businesses shut down, consultants started advising customers to get a new domain name and start over, and an untold number of websites lost their rankings in the search results. ?Critics have claimed that the domestic impact of recent Google Updates forcing local businesses into bankruptcy because they are unable to compete with Big Brands such like Amazon and ebay.

Winning Competitive Markets

Whether directed at these businesses or not, the updates Google made in May and June have put a lot of smaller website?s out of the first page (or out of business). What we saw when testing the websites and link factors after the fallout was Google ranking the larger, internal linking, more diverse external link portfolios.

This specifically occurred in keyword verticals that could overlap or perhaps previously ?competed? with large websites. Almost across the board we see Wikipedia beating website?s that previously ranked, and in the Ecommerce space Amazon wins over niche specific web pages.

If you look closely, you?ll see Google starting to show results in favor of larger corporate businesses.

The reasons for website?s losing rankings are pretty obvious after a close look at the data on thousands of keywords. Bad page layouts without relevant information or user experience, repetitive anchor text, and sitewide backlinks all were causes for Google penalization. Even following all of the recovery plan strategies doesn?t put small businesses back in the positions they previously held.

After a few months of the analyzing the Penguin update we started to see improved rankings. This falls right in line with a later Panda update that was publicized and gives indication that Google pulled back some of the updates that shook the industry so hard. But will this algorithm stay?

Major Shifts in Google?s Business Philosophy

Google recently unveiled a major change to its shopping search engine. Starting this fall, product search results for users in the United States will be influenced by how much retailers and advertisers pay, a company executive said.

In the past, product search results were based mainly on relevance and the program was free.

Inc.com columnist Jeff Haden, who has written 40 non fiction books, recently wrote how Google is killing organic search by including a recent study that was put together by wordstream.com.
According to Larry Kim, the founder and CTO at Wordstream Inc, ?click-through rate from Google paid ads outnumbered organic listing by nearly a 2:1 ratio for commercial searches in the US.?

Interestingly enough, Google?s annual Economic Impact Report was released recently and claims to have helped provide $80 billion dollars ?economic activity to businesses in 2011. This is either a well placed piece of Online Reputation Management, or begs the question, ?What businesses? The conglomerates??

Is Google the Gatekeeper of Internet and Threatening Consumer Welfare?

Google was dubbed several times as the ?Big Brother? over the enormous power it has on information that users find. This has made Google a monopoly gatekeeper. ?Google is in position to decide who will succeed and who will fail; this has also characterized Google as the ?Biggest Kingmaker? on this earth.

The overall experience of the search results should be (and I believe Google wants it to be) good for the user. Google is/should be testing whether these updates are useful by measuring click activity and ever changing.

From what I?m seeing in the rankings, there will be more rollbacks to come. For small businesses, this means continuing to update pages with relevant content, gain traction by creating a buzz around the web and in social spaces and you?ll see your organic rankings come back.

Important References, Citations and Resources ?

The Small Business Share of GDP, 1998-2004 By Kathryn Kobe, Economic Consulting Services, LLC Washington, D.C. 20036.

Google Ads and the War on Free Clicks researched produced by WordStream, Inc.

As Google Tweaks Searches, Some Get Lost in the Web By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN And EMILY MALTBY

Economic Impact ? Google Economic Impact by Google

Clayton Wood is a key member of a corporate team who has managed hundreds of SEO campaigns, several online marketing brands and help bring equity to many agencies with SEOReseller.com

Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-updates-results-small-businesses-suffer/47001/

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In addition, home schoolers can easily modify their sessions in case of diseases and household emergency situations or holidays. You do not have to examine university schedules. With your assistance, your children can also set their own routine. You have more independence if they discover it more comfortable to take examinations at night or if you want to take visits in the middle of the week. Students are not restricted by an excellent routine as well. There are no time-consuming throw calls or dealing with certain self-discipline problems of other learners. Thus, effective time management is more efficient when the training occurs at house. You can get all these advantages when you have the right personal university program. You can to to know more about an effective personal?home schooling and other options for the training and studying of your kid.

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