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North Korea joke slips over China's Great Firewall

BEIJING (AP) ? How did a spoof article about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un being the sexiest man alive end up as a real news item in China? Turns out it was a case of telephone, or Chinese whispers, in the digital age.

Hong Kong media picked up the piece by U.S. satirical website The Onion a week ago while explaining to readers in Chinese that it was a farce. But from there, it jumped over the Great Firewall and landed into the official, irony-free Chinese media.

When Hong Kong's Phoenix TV website, ifeng.com, ran its story on its fashion channel on Nov. 21, the story's second paragraph clearly stated: "The Onion is a satirical news organization."

But, when state-run Yangtse.com picked up the Phoenix piece a few hours later, it had morphed into straight news. The piece never mentioned that the original was a joke, instead plucking comical reader comments attached to the Phoenix story and running those.

"A man with so much fat on the face, and the double chin, and the excessively white skin. And they call him the sexiest. They do deserve the name Onion. I can't help but shed sad tears."

The editor cited for the story, Yang Fang, could not immediately be reached ? and two employees who answered the phone at the Nanjing media outlet said Wednesday they weren't even sure if Yang still worked there.

Five days after the Yangste piece, Beijing's Guangming Daily website took the story for a spin, trimming its length and citing Yangtse.com as its source. The Guangming piece was still online Wednesday and the story's editor told The Associated Press that she had not realized it was a joke until the AP called.

The editor, Wang Miaomiao, said she wasn't worried about the gaffe.

"Even if it was satire, the report itself was true. The content is not made up. Also, we have to go through a procedure to take something down from the website," Wang said. "In addition, it is not a fabricated report, and it does not jeopardize society."

The story next made it to the flagship paper of the Communist Party, the People's Daily, on Tuesday along with a significant upgrade: a 55-photo slideshow of Kim. An editor at the People's Daily website who refused to give his name said the story was picked up from the Guangming Daily site, running on three channels in Chinese and English.

Upon realizing it was a spoof, the People's Daily decided to take down their versions on Wednesday. But not before The Onion updated their original piece with a link to the People's Daily and a shout-out: "For more coverage on The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive 2012, Kim Jong-Un, please visit our friends at the People's Daily in China, a proud Communist subsidiary of The Onion, Inc."

"Exemplary reportage, comrades," The Onion wrote.

It is not the first time China's heavily censored media have fallen for a fictional report by the just-for-laughs The Onion.

In 2002, the Beijing Evening News, one of the capital's biggest tabloids at the time, published as news the fictional account that the U.S. Congress wanted a new building and that it might leave Washington. The Onion article was a spoof of the way sports teams threaten to leave cities in order to get new stadiums.

Jeremy Goldkorn, director of Danwei.com, a firm that researches Chinese media and Internet, said that one of the peculiarities of the Chinese news business is that stories can be freely shared by any other media outlet in their entirety, or edited, as long as the original source is credited somewhere on the page.

"It does mean that stuff gets circulated a lot more widely because you don't have intellectual property restrictions on articles that you would in the U.S. for example," he said. "So when you mix that up with this culture of no fact-checking and not really having a news editor whose main job is seeking truth, then what you get is The Onion being taken seriously in the People's Daily."

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Not-So Silent Night - Business Management Daily

Every year around this time in workplace across the globe, the Ghost of Christmas Parties Past comes clanking down the hallway, dragging in its wake a chain of dread for employers and employees alike?drunken exploits, gag gifts gone wrong, ill-advised sexual overtures and the ever-present threat of bad dancing.

And you can expect even more if it in 2012.

Better economy = more parties. After several years of restrained revelry, employers are looking to party harder. More than 83% of employers are planning year-end holiday parties this year, up from 68% in 2011, according to an annual survey by workplace consulting firm Challenger, Gray & (appropriately) Christmas. (The percentage of party-hosters still runs behind pre-recession 2007 levels, when about 90% of companies put on holiday parties.)

?For many companies, 2012 probably feels like the first time in a while that there is reason to celebrate,? says Rick Cobb, executive VP of Challenger, Gray & Christmas. ?Holiday parties are a relatively low-cost morale builder ? they do not have to be full-blown extravaganzas to be meaningful to employees.?

In fact, 55% of party-hosting employers said the event is held at the company premises, up from 30% last year. ?

Rudy, the red-faced accountant. Wherever holiday parties are held, they?re notorious for bringing out the most inappropriate, weird and legally dangerous behavior in employees, resulting in a lot of embarrassed faces on Monday morning. ?

How weird do they get? A survey of employers by the Creative Group, a staffing agency for marketing execs, dredged up dozens of real-life examples of employees being naughty, not nice, at company parties and outings. Among those are the employee who:

1. Rode naked on a ferris wheel
2. Drove a golf cart into a river
3. Snooped through co-workers? desks while the party was going on
4. Brought all of his relatives to the office picnic
5. Threw his co-worker into a lagoon
6. Attended the party with his pet python
7. Was caught loading his car with all the leftover food from the holiday party
8. Left the party wearing a co-worker?s shoes
9. Brought his cocker spaniel to the party, and the dog proceeded to relieve himself near the refreshment table.
10. Held a ?dance off? with a co-worker to decide who was the better dancer. (It turned into a fist fight and both were fired.)

Want to make sure your employees stay in control (and you stay out of court) this holiday? Here are 12 tips for your upcoming festivities:

1. Make sure invitations stress that attendance is voluntary. Avoid conducting business, such as awards ceremonies, during the party.

2. Keep the festivities culturally inclusive. Avoid religious references and symbols and try to choose a time that does not conflict with employees? religious observances.

3. Invite families. People tend to behave more responsibly in a family setting.

4. Follow up with a reminder to all employees that your company?s alcohol and drug abuse, sexual harassment and professional-conduct policies apply during the party. Word the reminder positively, noting that responsible behavior will ensure that all employees can fully enjoy the party, but also state that violations will result in discipline, just as they do during working hours.

5. Issue a ?gag? order. Lawsuits are frequently spawned by offensive gifts, games and pranks. Include in your professional-conduct notice a reminder that off-color jokes and games are strictly off-limits.

6. Consider an alcohol-free party. Nobody says you can?t offer punch, fancy coffee bars or smoothies instead of cocktails.

7. If you do serve alcohol, consider serving beer and wine instead of liquor. Daytime parties also tend to discourage excessive drinking. Issue tickets rather than holding an open bar, which is an invitation to overindulge. Close the bar at least one hour before the end of the party, and take precautions to ensure that no underage employees have access to alcohol.

8. Hedge your bets: If you serve alcohol, provide transportation. Don?t just offer to call a cab. Hire taxis or private drivers and have them waiting to give rides.

9. Serve food, and plenty of it. Emphasize eating over drinking.

10. Ask supervisors and managers to help ensure that employees behave professionally. Designate one manager as the person to approach during the party if problems arise.

11. Don't shrug off complaints. Treat complaints arising out of the party just as you would any other workplace complaints.

12. Plan activities to ensure that guests have something to do besides drink and chat.

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The first step to overcoming alcohol dependence or a drug addiction is obvious: Get professional help from a quality treatment facility ? sooner than later.

But what about the next step, the one that follows initial treatment?

As the recovery process is a life-long pursuit ? and a difficult one, at that ? many recovering addicts find both hope and comfort from a support team of friends and peers who have ?have been there and done that.? Indeed, establishing relationships with other recovering alcoholics and addicts who know, first-hand, just what challenges befall the road to recovery can be the key to a successful, life-long victory over substance abuse woes.

This ?family? has a special, common bond that serves its members, both in happy times and, especially, when challenges arise, after an initial visit or stay at a drug treatment center. When those in recovery meet, play, volunteer, learn and socialize together, they have an opportunity to facilitate the healing process. Also, they know that they are never alone ? a realization that wields significant clout in the quest to beat alcohol and drug addiction.

The Mayo Clinic calls this ?family? by a name: The social support network. By definition it is a circle of people in like circumstances who, by interacting, increase the sense of belonging, purpose, and self-worth among its members, while promoting positive reinforcement and improved mental health. [Source]

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German unemployment drops slightly in November

BERLIN (AP) ? Official figures show the number of Germans unemployed ticked down slightly in November, even though growth in Europe's largest economy is coming off the boil.

Labor Agency head Frank Weise says Thursday the numbers show the job market in Germany remains "robust."

Overall, 2.751 million people were out of work in November, down 2,000 from October. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.5 percent.

When adjusted for seasonal factors the number of jobless increased slightly, leaving the rate at 6.9 percent.

ING economist Carsten Brzeski says the German labor market appears to be "gradually losing steam," but that the slowdown may be "gradual" and "short-lived" if the external environment improves quickly.

German growth has moderated as many of the country's euro partners struggle in the face of their big debts.

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An ocean away: Two new encrusting anemones found in unexpected locations

ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2012) ? As a result of field work by associate professor James Davis Reimer and two graduate students from the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan has found two new species of encrusting anemones, or colonial zoanthids, in unexpected locations. The species belong to the genus Neozoanthus, which was previously known only from a single species in the Indian Ocean. Surprisingly, the new species were found in the Pacific Ocean, in southern Japan and on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys.

The only previous species of Neozoanthus was described in 1972 from Madagascar, and subsequently it was not seen for almost 40 years, until recent research had ascertained that new Pacific specimens likely belonged to Neozoanthus (Reimer et al. 2011, in the journal Marine Biology). The new study formally describes these new specimens as two species.

The members of this genus are small, with individual polyps no more than 6 mm in diameter, and have red, gray, blue or purple oral discs; all inhabit coral reef ecosystems in areas with strong currents and some siltation. Both new species and the species from Madagascar contain symbiotic, photosynthetic, single-celled algae that can provide them with energy from the sun.

"We were very surprised in 2008 to discover Neozoanthus in the Pacific, in Japan," said Reimer, "and initially thought that perhaps these were very rare." However, further research in southern Japan by graduate students Yuka Irei and Takuma Fujii, co-authors on the new paper, revealed that the Japanese species was locally common. A further surprise came during the Census of Marine Life's Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems (CReefs) surveys on the Great Barrier Reef in 2009 and 2010, when similar encrusting anemones were found thousands of kilometers away from both Madagascar and Japan.

"These findings can be explained by the fact that there are very few zoanthid researchers in the world. These species are not particularly hard to find, but there was no one looking for them," Reimer added. "This research demonstrates how little we know about marine biodiversity, even in regions relatively well researched."

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Judge bows out of 'pink slime' suit over ABC ties

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ? A federal judge has recused himself from presiding over a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against ABC because his daughter-in-law works as a producer on one of the network's morning shows.

Judge Lawrence L. Piersol recused himself from hearing the defamation lawsuit filed by South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. against ABC because his daughter-in-law works as a producer on "Good Morning America."

The case has been reassigned to Chief Judge Karen Schreier.

Beef Products Inc. sued ABC in September over its coverage of a meat product called lean, finely textured beef. Critics have dubbed the product "pink slime." The meat processor claims the network damaged the company by misleading consumers into believing the product is unhealthy and unsafe.

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Oprah Reveals Breast Cancer Scare | NBC Chicago

Oprah Winfrey revealed a breast cancer scare to a Los Angeles audience.

The queen of all media had a recent brush with her own mortality.

According to the New York Times, Oprah Winfrey told the audience at a Los Angeles conference last month that she had a breast cancer scare the week before, but it turned out to be a false alarm. The revelation was also news to her best friend, Gayle King, who was also on stage, and King reportedly grew visibly upset.

Many of the audience questions at the event pertained to Winfrey's struggles with her OWN cable network, but one woman chided her for not blindsiding King with the breast cancer news in public.

Past health problems for Winfrey have included a 2007 thyroid problem that she said contributed to weight gain.

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US budget deal hopes give markets a boost

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012, file photo, James Dresch of MND Partners Inc. works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stocks declined for a third day on Wall Street Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, as investors waited for signs of progress on the "fiscal cliff." (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)

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LONDON (AP) ? Hopes that U.S. political leaders may be inching towards a budget deal that will avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases have given markets a big boost Thursday.

Comments by President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner that a deal to avoid a budget crisis could be reached before the year-end helped U.S. markets turn around on Wednesday and that momentum carried through into the Asian and European sessions.

Getting a deal done before the year-end is necessary to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic spending cuts and tax increases that many economists think could push the U.S. economy, the world's largest, back into recession.

"Any comments like this between now and then end of the year are likely to provide a boost, irrelevant of whether they are realistic or not," said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Alpari.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 0.9 percent at 5,856 while Germany's DAX rose 0.7 percent to 7,397. The CAC-40 in France was 1.1 percent higher at 3,555.

Wall Street was poised for a solid opening too, with both Dow futures and the S&P 500 futures up 0.6 percent.

Whether the momentum will continue over the coming days could be dependent on how the negotiations go. Past experience suggests that the discussions may go down to the wire.

"As actions speak louder than words, the risk of sudden sharp corrections will remain as this no doubt drags on towards the New Year," said Mike McCudden, head of derivatives at Interactive Investor.

The focus of attention will likely remain on the U.S., especially now that Greece's euro partners and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to carry on funding the near-bankrupt country. With an imminent default of Greece off the table, investor worries over Europe have diminished this week.

That's helped shore up the euro, which is heading back towards the $1.30 mark. It's up a further 0.3 percent to $1.2987.

Earlier, Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 1 percent to close at 9,400.88. Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 1 percent to 21,922.89 and South Korea's Kospi added 1.2 percent to 1,934.85.

But mainland Chinese stocks extended their slump to a fourth day. The Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.5 percent to 1,963.49, the lowest closing since Jan. 16, 2009. The smaller Shenzhen Composite Index lost 1 percent 743.43.

Oil prices tracked equities higher, with the benchmark New York rate up 62 cents to $87.11 a barrel.

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After One Month, MyShoebox Tops 13M Photos Stored, Averaging 3,275 Per User

Toronto-based cloud photo storage startup MyShoebox today announced a major milestone: the company has already stored and indexed 13.4 million photos from its users, in just its first month of availability, which represents more pictures than are stored in the entire Library of Congress. MyShoebox is also now storing an average of 3,275 photos per user on average, up significantly from the 2,600 it was managing for each user after its first week. Founder and CEO Steve Cosman took the stage today at Extreme Startups Demo Day, where MyShoebox was among the accelerator’s current cohort. Cosman shared his startup’s impressive early traction, which represents strong performance for a company ostensibly entering a competitive space that includes Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox and other heavy hitters. In fact, it captures 27 times more pictures than Flickr. MyShoebox offers a cloud photo storage service that goes beyond what most of those other companies provide, however, with a tool that can scan every photo on your computer (or in specific subfolders only), upload those to the cloud and make them available across devices for later viewing, complete with automatic organization options that group photos by location, the type of device they were taken with, dates and more. It also uses a clever implementation of natural language processing for easy search and filtering of your images. For free, MyShoebox offers access to 1024 max pixel width versions of all your photos from its servers. For a $5 monthly subscription, you can upgrade to a premium plan that allows access to full resolution versions of all pics stored on the service. Users signed up for the service so far are all still on free trials, since the service launched less than 30 days ago, but the payment system for the product went live two days ago, and already the company is starting to see its first revenue roll in from users. While it’s too early yet to talk about conversion rates, Cosman explained why he has high hopes that free users will turn into paying customers. “The more photos a user has in the system, the more likely they are to convert to our Pro plan,” he said. “MyShoebox was created to unify your photos across all your devices, so our product design aligns to our business. The more places you install MyShoebox, the more value you see and the more likely you are to pay for

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Sara Tye, serial entrepreneur and top 500 international PR,?founded redheadPR over ten years ago.

The company?s broad range of client experience includes; organic chocolate brand Green & Black?s, Frangi Tie Rack, Blue Dragon, Nokia and Raleigh International, amongst others.

Sara built two previous PR agencies, running international brands from Packard Bell to Nokia, all with 360- degree stakeholder communication plans and online and social networking strategies.

With over 20 years of communications expertise, Sara was a finalist in the first Cosmopolitan Women of the Year Awards 1999 and has been?voted ?Green PR of London? by the Evening Standard.

Sara spent three years managing the personal PR initiatives at home and abroad of its eminent founder, the late Dame Anita Roddick. Sara took The Body Shop online ? one of the first companies globally. This role also involved working in crisis situations and running campaigns such as the Ken Saro- Wiwa campaign?against Shell at The Body Shop with some of the most senior global figures in politics, industry and journalism, working out of Glenys Kinnock?s office in Strasbourg.

Sara has experience of all forms of media, on and offline and has worked with most global outlets, from The Philippines Inquirer, to 60 Minutes Australia, to the Financial Times, through to Pamela Wallin Live in Canada.

TNW: What kind of PR strategy would you advise for female entrepreneurs with limited time and budget??

ST: To start with, social media. All journalists, especially woman, are great networkers and the web is a brilliant tool for them. Social media is one of the best tools for spreading messages. Most leads come via social media now.

Secondly, networking face to face. This is also something women are very good at, making it highly effective and excellent value for money. ?

Lastly, PR and media relations. It?s a fraction of the cost of other methods and, let?s face it, social media is PR. Getting good coverage online and in magazines is worth so much and helps publishers provide good content.

TNW: redheadPR is the third PR agency that you have built. What aspects of running a business have you kept the same throughout all three companies, and what have you done differently through experience?

ST:

I am much calmer now. I went through boom, bust, boom and now bust again. I wouldn?t be where I am now if I hadn?t kept pushing the boundaries and moving the goal posts.?

Every experience I have had has given me the opportunity to be the best consultant, to train great staff and run a very successful business of my own. I have worked hard and in return have been privileged to work with, meet and be friends with some of the most awesome people on this planet.?

TNW: You have worked a lot with sustainability and green PR. Do you believe that entrepreneurs have a heightened responsibility for the future of the planet? Which environmental issues would you most like to see tackled by entrepreneurs in the next ten years?

ST: Yes, entrepreneurs do, because they need to be frugal and stay frugal. They started the social enterprise movement, where the profits go to good causes. Belu is a good example.

I think the alleviation of poverty and human rights problems through natural economic growth and movement is inextricably linked to environmentalism. The people of the Amazon are good examples.

As for environmental issues, I can?t stand waste.? We don?t waste anything at redheadPR - we reuse every envelope and elastic band. We minimise travel and use technology as much as possible to make our work sustainable.?

TNW: Tell our readers about your experience working with Body Shop and specifically Anita Roddick. What did you learn from working with such a hero??

ST:

Anita was amazing; kind, different, loud, quiet, a maverick. She used all the styles and techniques to do things differently. You needed stamina to work with Anita.

If you weren?t one step ahead you would get left behind. You had to be interested in changing things. You needed to be questioning and not frightened to do things differently. You needed to be able to speak out and not be scared. She stood up for the vulnerable and those who were not listened to. Sometimes we were criticised, but in the end Anita was right. If she was alive now she would still be banging on about animal, human and environmental rights and people would still listening because we have a long way to go to improve things. At least now people are starting to get it. It?s not fringe anymore. Anita also loved skin care and women ? and I loved that about her. She was also a great story teller so we had some fantastic evenings.

TNW: You worked on the Ken Saro Wiwa?campaign for The Body Shop. What an amazing and humbling experience that must have been. Can you tell our readers a little about it?

ST: We were thrust into a story and an issue that was global and of the highest level. The story was about the potential abuse of people in a beautiful and richly resourced area of our planet. We campaigned very hard beyond our day jobs, sleeping in the office at The Body Shop or working out of Glenys Kinnock?s office in Strasburg.

We had an audience with Boutros Boutros Ghali, the then Secretary General of the United Nations. That was probably my biggest PR moment ever as these audiences are rarely granted.?

I also worked with Gavin Grant, now CE of the RSPCA. He was an amazing role model.

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A/C's ultrasonic waves shoo away mosquitoes

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Even in the cold darkness of winter, a hot muggy mosquito infested day sounds miserable. Thankfully, there?s now an air conditioner that doubles as a mosquito repellent. The repellent comes in the form of ultrasonic waves, which make a sound that drives away the pesky insects.

The high-tech gizmo from LG Electronics sounds like a must-get for the wealthy Florida retiree on your holiday shopping list, but it?s intended as a potential game-changer for parts of Africa where malaria, a mosquito-transmitted disease, is a major public health threat.

In tests, the unit deterred 64 percent of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes within 24 hours and 82 percent overall.

The company even took Africa?s notoriously unreliable power supplies into consideration as it designed the Anti-Mosquito air conditioner. It is outfitted with technology meant to withstand the electric current fluctuations associated with repeated blackouts and extreme operating conditions.

Yes, air conditioners are a relative luxury, but with research on anti-malaria vaccines stumbling and low-cost mosquito nets becoming less effective, an air conditioning unit that shoos away a good portion of the deadly mosquitoes today is that much cooler.

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EB CAREERS - Eaton Technology Application Engineer/Technologist

November 26, 2012 - Eaton is a diversified power management company with more than 100 years of experience providing solutions to manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power. It has about 73,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 150 countries. Eaton is currently seeking a:

Technology Application Engineer/Technologist

located in Delta, B.C.

Description:
The Technology Application Engineer/Technologist provides highly responsive pre-sale and post-sale advanced application and technical product support for internal customers such as Field Sales & Eaton Plants, and external customers such as Distributors, OEMs, Systems Integrators, End-User Customers and Consultants.

Main Responsibilities:
? Provide advanced pre-sale application and technical product support for advanced or technology products, determine possible alternate solutions and assist in analyzing and recommending solutions that best fit the customer?s needs. Assist in warranty determination.
? Provide advanced post-sale application and technical support by helping internal and external customers to solve problems or troubleshoot new or existing installations.
? Assist in determining how our products will operate and interface with 3rd party manufacturers products.
? Deliver product training seminars and product demonstrations to Field Sales, Distributors, Eaton Plants, OEMs, System Integrators, End-User Customers and Consultants.
? Devise and write application notes to assist customers in properly applying our products.
? Provide timely emergency support after working hours in support of Eaton Electrical Services Department.
? Perform all job functions with adherence to Eaton?s Philosophy and Values as well as the Safety and Environmental standards.

Minimum requirements:
? 5-7 years of field engineering or technical support experience.
? Diploma in Electrical Technology.

Preferred requirements:
? Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering
? P. Eng., CET or C. Tech

Knowledge, competencies, skills, attributes required:
? Ability to work independently and as part of interdisciplinary, multifunctional teams.
? Excellent interpersonal skills required to build relationship and influence decisions that will be beneficial for all parties involved.
? Ability to develop and deliver technical presentations to internal and external customers.

Other:
? Relocation is not offered for this position. Candidates outside of the immediate geographical area will not be considered for this position.
? All candidates will be required to undergo a criminal and background check process prior to an offer of employment being extended

INTERESTED? Candidates can apply for the position online at www.eaton.com/careers.

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Experts: Melting permafrost being ignored at climate talks

Dec. 30, 2011: For thousands of years, permafrost has trapped Siberia's carbon-rich soil, a compost of Ice Age plant and animal remains. But global warming is melting the permafrost and exposing the soil, causing highly flammable methane to seep out. NBC's Jim Maceda reports.

By Miguel Llanos, NBC News

All the back and forth over climate change negotiations hasn't dealt with a looming problem: melting permafrost could account for more than a third of all warming emissions by 2100, experts warned Tuesday, and yet nations haven't factored it into reduction targets.

"Permafrost is one of the keys to the planet?s future because it contains large stores of frozen organic matter that, if thawed and released into the atmosphere, would amplify current global warming," U.N. Environment Program Director Achim Steiner said in announcing the report by top permafrost scientists.

"Continuing to ignore the challenges of warming permafrost" is not an option, he added.

The report was released as nations gather in Doha, Qatar, this week for the latest round of climate treaty talks that aim to limit warming by the year 2100 to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures.

"Permafrost has begun to thaw," lead author Kevin Schaefer, a researcher at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado-Boulder, told a news conference in Doha.

"Permafrost emissions could ultimately account for up to 39 percent of total (greenhouse gas) emissions," he warned.?"This must be factored into treaty negotiations ...?or we risk overshooting the 2 degrees Celsius maximum warming target."

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Permafrost, defined as ground that stays frozen for at least two years in a row, stores vast quantities of carbon dioxide and methane, both gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect warming the Earth.

United Nations Environment Program

This map shows one scenario of permafrost melt using climate models. The scenario shows a nearly 59 percent loss in near-surface permafrost by 2100.

Widespread thaw would create a vicious circle, since the release of more CO2 and methane would trap more heat in the air and in turn accelerate the melting. That, in turn,?could bring an irreversible, runaway effect.?

The experts predicted an irreversible loss of between 30 and 85 percent of permafrost near the surface. That was based on a forecast of Arctic temperatures rising by 6 degrees C (10.8 F) through 2100.

The permafrost report follows reports by the World Bank and the U.N. Environment Program warning?that rising world greenhouse gas emissions, even without permafrost contributions, were on track to push up temperatures well beyond 2 degrees C by 2100.?

At Doha, nations are negotiating around extending the Kyoto Protocol ? a legally-binding emissions cap that expires this year.?

Many rich countries such as Japan, Russia and Canada have refused to endorse an extension and want a completely new treaty. The United States was the lone industrialized country not to join the original pact in 1997 because it did not include other big emitters like China.?

The frozen ground that covers the top of the world has been thawing rapidly over the last three decades. But there is cause for concern beyond the far north, because the carbon released from thawing permafrost could raise global temeratures even higher. NBC's Anne Thompson reports for "Changing Planet," produced by NBC Learn in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

Japan insists it would be better to focus on a new treaty by 2015.

"Only developed countries are legally bound by the Kyoto Protocol and their emissions are only 26 percent," Masahiko Horie, speaking for the Japanese delegation, said in Doha. "If we continue the same, only one quarter of the world is legally bound and three quarters of countries are not bound at all."

Related story: Rich-poor split persists at climate talks

But developing countries like Brazil are warning that it will be difficult for poor nations to do their part if they continue watching industrialized nations shy away from legally-binding pacts like Kyoto.?

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Child Education: Early Children Education

Education for children is composed of the first eight years of life. Education is very important at this stage and help to correct the development. It is usually based on learning through play method. The study shows that the first eight living children are crucial, and this time, their brains are developing a lot. Education for children helps Child's brain develops in a healthy way.

Education plays an important role in society. It's also very important to invest in training their children. While learning in school, children associate with other children and their families. Training to help them understand the world and to develop good behavior and attitudes. The teacher should focus on the world around them games they play, and create links. Educational game to help children learn about and develop the business skills and ethics.

There are several benefits you will see early childhood education. Has a positive effect on children. Education common that children are very curious to learn everything and react according to what they are seeing, hearing and touching. This ability to learn and to change the teacher should monitor the early stages of children die better people.

Education for Kids helps the children to communicate. It helps you understand others and express themselves well. It helps to understand the world and have good communication skills. The children are comfortable with children the same age, and find friends who are to them and interact with them.

Education teaches children the importance of teamwork and interacting with other children. Education in early childhood is carried out mainly in sports and recreation for children to improve their physical and mental. Early Childhood Education is a building block for the child to thrive in all aspects. It is also important for parents to care for their children at this age to be a good person in the world. They must spend time playing with their children.

The early children education much more interaction between researchers. Children will be taught in the allocation and, alternatively, friends, and develop their language and numeracy. By the end of 3 years of age a child is expected to collect and put away what he used. Ideally, pre-school classroom, things are arranged so that children can take things they need to start a game or complete a project and after the game / project is finished you can take these things back. In short, the early childhood education must include a disability component of appropriate training.

The national study in the United States has concluded that children who received early childhood education, child care or care of the head a quick start capacity to enter schools of higher education than other children who were supported by parent at home, family care or nannies.

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Detecting Cancer...With a Cellphone?

Smartphone technology is often seen as much of nuisance as it is a convenience, but having that kind of communicative power at our fingertips has a surprising advantage; it?s serving as a bridge, bringing healthcare to third world countries that had previously been too remote and too costly to reach.

The Kilimanjaro Cervical Screening Project is spearheading one use of smartphone technology in a way that?s surprisingly simple, but could end up saving thousands of women's lives.

Armed with screening kits, treatment tools and cellphones, teams of non-physician medical workers will visit remote locations in rural Tanzania to screen women for cervical cancer. Instead of the swab method used in the typical Pap smear, workers will use their cellphones to instead photograph a patient?s cervix, text the image to a physician and then receive back a diagnosis and treatment recommendation.

But can it really be that simple? Dr. Karen Yeates?of Queen's University, who is the lead investigator of the project, told CNN, "That's the beauty of it. For early grade cancers, those will be able to be treated right in the field, right in the rural area.?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), rates of cervical cancer in Africa are up to ten times those in developed countries, and among those diagnosed, about?50,000 women die from it annually.

Though cervical cancer has very low mortality rates in developed countries like the U.S., those rates are generally due to our regular screenings, which catch the cancer in its earliest and most treatable incarnations.?However, in countries like Tanzania, women in remote villages obviously don't have access to those types of preventative measures. In fact, the WHO estimates that by the time most African women are diagnosed with the disease, they?ve already advanced into its latest fatal stages. But regular screenings could put a stop to that.?

The project is another way that the medical field is reimagining cellphones as a means of making healthcare rather effortlessly mobile in order to expand the world's access to it. Earlier this year, high school student?Catherine Wong discovered how to turn her cellphone into a portable ECG machine. Her invention will?bring heart monitoring capabilities to the most remote locations with results that could be beamed to doctors no matter how far away.

The Kilimanjaro Cervical Screening Project recently gained its funding from being named one of the 68 finalists in Canada?s Grand Challenges, a fund awarded to medical innovators who?ve invented new systems or products to bring healthcare to the poorest parts of the world. The project's $100,000 prize will allow it to begin its initial trials.

So much of good healthcare rests on the early detection of illness and now that geography and cost aren't the impediments they once were, patients in developing countries have real opportunities to survive illnesses once believed to be fatal.?

Do you expect that "mobile healthcare" may eventually become the standard method of care in countries like the U.S. as well? Let us know what you think about it in the Comments.

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Hamilton wins pole position for Brazilian GP

SAO PAULO (AP) ? Lewis Hamilton won the pole position for the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix on Saturday, while Formula One leader Sebastian Vettel will start fourth and title challenger Fernando Alonso eighth.

Hamilton set a lap of 1 minute, 12.458 seconds with his McLaren at Interlagos, just .055 in front of teammate Jenson Button.

Vettel's Red Bull teammate Mark Webber will start third after a lap of 1:12.581, with Vettel behind him following a run of 1:12.760.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa was fifth after clocking 1:12.987, while teammate Alonso only managed a lap of 1:13.253, hurting his chances of overtaking Vettel for the championship.

Vettel needs to finish fourth or better on Sunday to become F1's youngest three-time champion at age 25. Alonso, also seeking his third title, needs at least a podium finish to have any chance of overcoming a 13-point deficit in the standings.

Vettel said a mistake at the end of the qualifying session cost him a chance to start closer to the front, but he didn't think the result was "a disaster."

"Maybe it's not the best position that we could've gotten, but still we can be quite happy" he said. "I think there are more people behind us than in front of us. If we were 24th, than that would be disappointing, but I'm happy with fourth and there's plenty of opportunities for tomorrow in terms of tactics."

Hamilton, who won the 2008 championship at Interlagos, will be driving his last race with McLaren before joining Mercedes next season. He is coming off a victory at the United States GP last week.

"I think we put ourselves in a really good position and we are just going to do the best that we can from here, working together as a team," Hamilton said.

McLaren has been strong all weekend and seems set to play a role at the title showdown between Vettel and Alonso. Hamilton led the practice times on Friday and Button did the same earlier on Saturday. Vettel was always close behind the McLarens, while Alonso was well behind the pace.

Drivers had faced very warm temperatures during practice but it dropped significantly for qualifying. It started raining about half an hour before the timed session but it stopped by the time the cars hit the track. The top teams waited several minutes to avoid the slippery conditions at the tricky 2.8-mile track in South America's biggest city.

Michael Schumacher, preparing for his final race before retiring for a second time, couldn't do much with his Mercedes and will start 14th.

Mexican Sergio Perez, taking over Hamilton's seat at McLaren, will start 13th with his Sauber.

Lotus driver Romain Grosjean didn't make it past the first qualifying session after running into the back of Pedro de la Rosa while trying to make a pass at the front straight. He got off the throttle to avoid running into the slower HRT but it was not enough, forcing him to return to the pits for a new front wing.

Vettel enters the deciding race in a comfortable position to win his third title. He has been dominant recently, finishing on the podium in the last six races and winning four of them.

A fourth-place finish will be enough on Sunday even if Alonso wins the race. And if the Ferrari driver is second, Vettel can clinch the title by crossing the line seventh or better. The German driver holds the tiebreaker because he has more wins than Alonso ? five to three.

Vettel has a chance to become the first driver to win three titles in a row since Schumacher won five straight from 2000-04. The only other driver to win at least three consecutive titles was Juan Manuel Fangio from 1954-57.

Alonso hasn't won a race since the German GP in July, but he finished on the podium in six of the final seven races, including the last four.

It will be the sixth time since 2005 that the F1 season will be decided at the Brazilian GP. Alonso won both of his titles at Interlagos in 2005 and '06.

Red Bull has won the last three races at the track, with Vettel second to teammate Webber last year.

Schumacher, F1's most successful driver, retired for the first time in 2006 after winning seven world titles. He returned in 2010 with Mercedes, but struggled and managed only one podium finish, at the European GP in July.

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