November 19th, 2009
Breaking News
America Online Inc., said November 19, once break away from the U.S. media giant Time Warner Inc., they will laid off 1/3 of employees, nearly 2,300 employees will be unemployed. America Online hopes that this initiative can achieve annual savings of 300 million U.S. dollars cost.
Time Warner, November 16, said that America Online will be split out on December 9, end the nine-year mergers and acquisitions.
Who’s the America Online?
American Online is the U.S. subsidiary of Time Warner, the famous Internet service provider. 2000 America Online and Time Warner announced plans to merge, January 11, 2001 The Federal Trade Commission confirmed this transactions.
The operation of the merger and subsequent information, see Time Warner.
November 19th, 2009
Breaking News
One million people could lose unemployment benefits in January if Congress doesn’t extend federal aid, according to a report released Wednesday.
The report is likely to turn up pressure on lawmakers and the president, who earlier this month enacted a record-long extension of federally paid benefits. But the law only helps those who exhaust their lifelines by year’s end.
jobless benefits
As it stands now, the deadline to apply for federally paid benefits is Dec. 31. So while unemployment benefits now run as long as 99 weeks, depending on the state, not everyone will receive checks for that long a stretch.
“Congress has less than four weeks left on its schedule to legislate this year, and unless it acts to renew the unemployment provisions during this period, the clock will run out for a million workers,” said Christine Owens, executive director for the National Employment Law Project.
Those who run out of their 26 weeks of state-paid coverage in 2010 will not receive any additional benefits. The jobless currently receiving extended federal benefits, which are divided into tiers, will stop getting checks once they complete their tier.
In addition, come Jan. 1, workers will no longer receive the $25 boost in benefits or be able to apply for a 65% subsidy to continue their company health insurance coverage under the Cobra program. These benefits, along with the Dec. 31 deadline, are part of the $787 billion stimulus program passed in February.
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November 18th, 2009
Breaking News
Ukraine outbreak of “super flu” has caused at least 328 people death. The patient did not die from pneumonia, but the virus highly toxic and can destroy a person’s lungs.
Ukrainian Ministry of Health said that since October 30 announced an outbreak of influenza outbreak, there have been 145 thousand people get sick, about 8.3 million people hospitalized for treatment. As the evening of 17 local time, Ukraine flu death toll has climbed to 328 people, including the number of deaths within 24 hours add 12.
World Health Organization yesterday issued the communique said, In the territory of Ukraine did not find Influenza H1N1 influenza virus variants,
For major infections in patients with influenza is influenza H1N1 influenza viruses.
Ukraine’s 27 administrative regions, has 16 large-scale infection, Kiev has been the number of new infections increased to 104,154 people from 4964 people to hospital had increased to 78326 the number of people.
How to prevent influenza?
At present the primary protective measure is wearing a mask, which can be increased by 30% of the protection. If you bring goggles, wind mirrors and the like can be increased by 40%, as the virus can pass through mucous membranes. Improve the human immunity is necessary, not only now, but long-term. Avoid to go to crowded places, the number of infections could be less.
November 18th, 2009
Breaking News
A dramatic final night of World Cup qualifying has seen 31 of the 32 places decided with European powerhouses France and Portugal going through.
They were joined from Europe by Greece and Slovenia, while the African playoff saw Algeria beat Egypt 1-0 in a dramatic match in Khartoum.
The tournament already promises to be the greatest ever, with top teams of the caliber of Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, England, the Netherlands, Ivory Coast and Ghana sealing their places previously.
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November 18th, 2009
Breaking News
Nothing like a good disaster movie to bring in a lot of coin at the box office.
At least that was the case this weekend with Roland Emmerich’s end-of-the world tale “2012,” which took in an estimated $65 million stateside and an additional $160 million overseas.
The John Cusack thriller brought in more than its $200 million budget in its opening weekend, a huge win for Sony Pictures. Add in the spectacular limited release reign of “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire” and the weekend was a solid one even if it couldn’t surpass last year at this time when Sony’s “Quantum of Solace” was top dog on the list.
In second place was Disney’s “A Christmas Carol,” which despite opening softly last weekend, held up well in its second weekend in theaters, dropping only 26 percent. The Robert Zemeckis, CG-animated film grossed $22.3 million, with 14 percent of its tally coming from IMAX’s 182 runs. Its total cumulative now stands at $63 million.
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November 18th, 2009
Breaking News
Iran will not send its partially enriched uranium abroad to be turned into material for medical research, its foreign minister said Wednesday, rejecting a key plank of a deal designed to ease international fears that Tehran aims to build nuclear weapons.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran might allow its nuclear material to be reprocessed inside Iran, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
The deal hammered out last month with the help of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency aimed to reduce the amount of raw material Iran has to build a nuclear bomb.
Tehran denies that it wants to do so, saying its nuclear program is to produce civilian nuclear energy and do medical work.
