Tuesday, May 29, 2012

How To Present Confidently to Business Colleagues, Peers, and ...

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Beijing prices bottomed up School District home school district to be ...

As once a year students enrollment is about to begin, due to different schools of education quality difference, many parents to school choice and distress, always in short supply in the school district room once again become the focus of attention.According to the causeI love my family(Blog,Micro-blogMarket Research Institute) statistical data, since March 2012, school districtHouse pricesGrid lead bottomed, nearly three months prices gradually up slightly posture. Among them, urban school district housing fold has returned and over the last year before the price regulation; suburban school district housing fold has not yet returned to control before, but after April, prices rose faster than the preceding two. In addition, no matter how policy shortly after the deduction, three-ring within the school district room price or will always maintain the trend of rising slightly.On the future of the school district room judgment, cause I love my family group vice presidentHu JinghuiAnalysis indicated, Beijing ordinary property buyers will be ?education? as the important reference index for housing, school district housing demand has been greatly; however, existing key school house,The second-hand houseA relatively limited supply, future inside a paragraph of period, the school peripheral housing market still maintain ?shortage? situation, the school district room turned up momentum will continue, especially in city center district housing prices rising trend may be more obvious. Suggest a school district housing purchase intentionHomeSeize opportunity, limited availability, lower market prices as soon as possible into the city.Once a year the school district room in the trading season, cause I love my family also remind purchase school district housing needs of families: because each school district, school admissions standards, purchased the school district room would not get admission, their risk is particularly worrying, the purchase of the school district room to treat.??Beijing buy a house entrance requirements are mainly which to have?Cause I love my family group vice president Hu Jinghui: the Beijing city school district to buy a house entrance planning is not completely uniform, so the various regions are not the same, but the main provisions may have the following several points: general will require residence in the school district, some schools also some special requirements, such as requirements of parents in the house property certificate; parents and children in more than 3 years; the survey identified in the film, parents and children living within etc.. Buy a house before buying the best advice people to get to know the local specific buy a house entrance regulation, investigate the move to buy again.Buy a house after the discovery of school district, adjacent to the school but not change the phenomenon such as the main entrance, is what causes???Cause I love my family group vice president Hu Jinghui: First, buy a house before the primary school districts do enough to understand.The school year are likely to be on this scribing region make slight adjustment, buy a house if not fully detailed understanding of the real school area details, it may lead to buy a house and found not on the right school. So, to remind the majority of property buyers to take the initiative to the admissions office, the subdistrict office or the neighborhood, as well as the integrity of large brand intermediaries understand the new focus on primary school enrolment rules.Second, pay attention to individual school unique provisions.For example, the parents and the children in need of more than 3 years; an investigation, determine the parents and children in on-chip residence, if the school requirements must be settled more than 3 years, and you buy a house in less than three years, then even if you distance close to the school, even if you are in the school area, you also have no chance for. So, to remind the majority of property buyers to take the initiative to the admissions office, the subdistrict office or the neighborhood, as well as the integrity of large brand intermediaries understand the new focus on primary school enrolment rules.Third, buy a house, in the entrance quota on the effectiveness by the owners or conduit company.May the purchase to purchase housing do in school effective area, but as the housing entrance quota has been occupied, or not use, led to buy a house cannot use ended the school situation. Therefore, suggest the majority of property buyers in the purchase contract signed, the contract can indicate the seller must guarantee the house never children in this, or that a certain school ended the school effective (unoccupied), to avoid future disputes; in addition, also suggested that the majority of property buyers in Nadaochanquanzheng, pay payment before, both go to the police station, requires the seller to move out of account, his family into account, with title cards so that the police station see without the child had been settled in here. In order to guarantee the house ended the school?s true and effective.Beijing school districts housing fold

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Australia denies Corby deal with Jakarta

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Lockerbie bomber's death 'doesn't close the book'

Ismail Zitouny / Reuters

Men prepare to bury the body of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi at a cemetery in Janzour, near Tripoli, on Monday.

By msnbc.com staff, ITV News and news services

NEW YORK -- The death of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has left some victims' relatives relieved and others raising questions about his guilt and whether others went unpunished.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence official,?died Sunday of cancer, his family said. His death renewed pleas from some victims' relatives for further investigation of the bombing.

"It closes a chapter but it doesn't close the book. We know he wasn't the only person involved," Frank Dugan, president of the group Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, said from Alexandria, Va.


Al-Megrahi was convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988. The bombing killed 270 people, including 189 Americans. Syracuse University in central New York was particularly hard hit: 35 students on the way home for Christmas break died in the bombing.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, died after a long illness.? NBC's Richard Engel reports.

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Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi handed over al-Megrahi and a second suspect to Scottish authorities after years of punishing U.N. sanctions. In 2003, Gadhafi acknowledged responsibility, though not guilt, for the bombing and paid compensation of about $2.7 billion to victims' families.

Some relatives attended al-Megrahi's trial in the Netherlands. When he was released to Libya from a Scottish prison in 2009 on humanitarian grounds ? he was supposedly close to death ? they were outraged when al-Megrahi returned to a hero's welcome from Gadhafi and then lived far longer than the few months the doctors had predicted.

Susan Cohen of Cape May Court House, N.J., whose daughter was among the Syracuse University students on the flight, said al-Megrahi deserved no compassion.

"The fact that he was able to get out and live with his family these past few years is an appalling miscarriage of justice. There was no excuse for that," Cohen said Sunday. "He should have died in the Scottish prison. He should have been tried in the United States and faced capital punishment."

Dec. 21, 1988: Pan Am Flight 103, exploded over Lockerbie Scotland killing all 259 people on board as well as 11 on the ground. It was not immediately known a bomb exploded on board. NBC's Tom Brokaw, Peter Kent and Robert Hager report.

The views of other victims' families on al-Megrahi's role in the bombing vary widely.

"Megrahi is the 271st victim of Lockerbie," said David Ben-Ayreah, who represents some British families of victims. He attended the trial and still believes al-Megrahi was not responsible for the bombing.

'Very happy'
But Eileen Walsh, a Glen Rock, N.J., resident whose father, brother and sister died in the explosion, said she was "very happy" to hear about al-Megrahi's death. She had just attended Mass on Sunday when she received numerous text messages.

"I'm glad he's gone, but there's no real closure. There's nothing but a bad taste in my mouth," she said.

"My mother died of cancer in 2004, and because of him, three of the most important people in her life weren't there to help her in her time of need," Walsh said.

Al-Megrahi was found guilty under Scottish law of secretly loading a suitcase bomb onto a plane at Malta's Luqa Airport, where he was head of operations for Libyan Arab Airlines in December 1988.

The former Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of taking part in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing but was released after eight years for health reasons, has died in Libya of prostate cancer. NBC's Jim Maceda reports from London.

The suitcase was transferred at Frankfurt to another flight and then onto New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 at London's Heathrow airport, concluded Scottish judges sitting at a converted Dutch military base selected as a neutral trial venue.

Al-Megrahi, who was handed over by Gadhafi under a U.N.-brokered deal, always insisted he was merely an airline executive, not a Libyan intelligence agent as prosecutors charged.

Miscarriage of justice?
Al-Megrahi's co-defendant was acquitted of all charges. Al-Megrahi insisted he also had nothing to do with the bombing. Those who believed him got a boost in 2007 when a three-year investigation by a Scottish tribunal found that new evidence ? and old evidence withheld from trial ? suggested that al-Megrahi "may have suffered a miscarriage of justice." Its 800-page report prompted an appeal on al-Megrahi's behalf, but by then his fate was in the hands of politicians in London, Tripoli and Edinburgh, all of whom jockeyed for position as Libya rebuilt its ties with Britain and al-Megrahi's health deteriorated.

Still protesting his innocence, al-Megrahi dropped the appeal in a bid to clear the path for his release on compassionate grounds.?

Al-Megrahi's death should not be an excuse to stop trying to find out who was behind the bombing, Cohen said. She called on U.S. and British officials to "dig even deeper" into the case.

The Scottish government said Sunday that it will continue investigating the Lockerbie bombing.

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, visiting the United States on Sunday, said that al-Megrahi should never have been freed.

However, Britain's ITV News reported that Cameron dismissed calls for a new inquiry into al-Megrahi's conviction, saying the?court case was "properly run and properly dealt with."

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Bert Ammerman of River Vale, N.J., lost his brother in the bombing. He blames the U.S. and Britain for failing to track all leads in the case and noted that Gadhafi's former spy chief was arrested in March in Mauritania.

"He holds the key to what actually took place in Pan Am 103," Ammerman said. "He knows what other individuals were involved and, more importantly, what other countries were involved."

After Gadhafi's fall, Britain asked Libya's new rulers to help fully investigate but they put off any probe.

"Ironically, 24 years later, I now have more confidence in the new Libyan government than the British or American governments to find the truth because I believe Libya would like the truth to come out to show that they were not the only country involved," Ammerman said.

Jim Swire, whose 19-year-old daughter, Flora, died in the bombing, is a leading voice for some of the British families who believe al-Megrahi was innocent. Swire, who attended the trial in the Netherlands, asked for further inquiry from the Scottish government.

''I've been satisfied for some years that this man had nothing to do with the murder of my daughter and I grit my teeth every time I hear newscasters say 'Lockerbie bomber has died,'" Swire told the BBC on Sunday. ''This is a sad day."

'Smelled of a deal for oil'
Al-Megrahi's brother Mohammed told Reuters that a funeral would take place on Monday.

"My brother was surrounded by his wife, children and his mother as he took his last breath.?He was too sick to utter anything on his deathbed,"?his brother?Abdulhakim added.?"We will always tell the world that my brother was innocent."

Senator Charles Schumer of New York, who wanted the Libyan government that took over after Gadhafi's ouster and killing by rebels to take al-Megrahi into custody, said his return to Libya was a major injustice.

"The whole deal smelled of a deal for oil for this man's freedom and that was almost blasphemy given what a horrible person he was and the terrible destruction and tragedy that he caused," Schumer said.?"I don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom of it now."

Msnbc.com staff, ITV News, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Gold hits 4-1/2 month low on Greece turmoil

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold extended losses on Wednesday to slip to its weakest level since late December after the collapse of efforts in Greece to form a new government, prompting investors to cut exposure to the precious metal.

Bullion has this year been moving in tandem with assets that are perceived to be risky, shedding its status as a safe haven in times of economic instability.

Concerns about upheaval in the euro zone hit the euro and sent share prices lower across Asia as Greek political leaders meet Wednesday to form a caretaker government that will lead the country into its second election in just over a month.

U.S. June gold futures, which often dictate spot gold, dropped more than 1 percent to a low of $1,529.2 an ounce, their lowest since December 29. Cash gold was also at a 4-1/2 month low.

"Everybody is rushing to buy the U.S. dollar. A strong dollar is negative for gold for the time being," said Ronald Leung, director of Lee Cheong Gold Dealers in Hong Kong, adding that demand from jewelers was limited due to volatile prices.

"Jewelers don't know what to do. Maybe when the price has stabilized at some level, they will start to re-enter the market. There's a bit of scale-down buying."

Spot gold was down $13.34 at $1,530.76 an ounce by 2:39 a.m. EDT, having hit an intraday low of $1,529.43.

Gold rallied to a record of around $1,920 an ounce in 2011, when investors flocked to the metal as a safe haven during the debt crisis in Europe. But bullion is moving with riskier assets this year as investors turn to the safety of the dollar and the euro hits multi-month lows.

"It's risk aversion caused by concerns about Greece. Tokyo stock exchange also fell today, so everybody requires the dollar," said a bullion dealer in Tokyo, adding that investors cashed in gold to cover losses in other markets.

Money managers in gold futures and options slashed their net long positions by 20 percent to the lowest level since December 2008, as investors aggressively unwound their bullish bets in the precious metal after a sharp price pullback.

The euro hit a four-month low on Wednesday, a day after Greece called a new election that may hand victory to leftists opposed to the terms of an EU bailout and raise the risk of the country exiting the euro zone.

Party leaders will convene at the presidential palace at 2 p.m. (1100 GMT), but said they had little hope President Karolos Papoulias's offer would resolve a political crisis that has fuelled speculation Greece's days in the euro zone are numbered.

In equity markets, the Nikkei lost 1.1 percent, while MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.miapj0000pus> extended losses for the fourth consecutive day, sliding nearly 3 percent to a new 4-month low.

In the physical market in Singapore, jewelry makers from Thailand snapped up gold on the lower prices, while buyers from top consumer India could also return after buying some gold overnight.

"Definitely physical buying has gone up, although demand is not overwhelming. Indonesia has slowed down because there's a public holiday tomorrow, while Thailand is buying," said a dealer in Singapore.

"India did buy gold last night. They are not really in the market yet today, but I am sure they will be buying."

The wedding season is underway in India and will taper off by the end of the month. Gold jewelry is an essential part of the dowry Indian parents give to their daughters at weddings.

(Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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