Monday, February 25, 2013

DDLS receives 2012 APAC Citrix Authorised Learning Centre of the Year Award - CFO World

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DDLS receives 2012 APAC Citrix Authorised Learning Centre of the Year Award

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"It is an honour to present DDLS as a Citrix APAC 2012 Partner award winner," said Nicholas Thomas, Citrix APAC Readiness, Education Manager. “The Citrix Authorised Learning Centre (CALC) Award recognises DDLS's performance and achievements as ...



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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Lingle orders unpaid days off for workers - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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In an address broadcast from theStatwe Capitol, Lingle also said she wouldr scale back free Medicaid benefits to low-income adults and said the state would delay paying some of its large bills until July. The governor is also asking the the Legislature, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairzs to implement equivalent furlough days or restrict their Hawaii law does not allow ordering furloughs for the Departmenrt of Education, the University of Hawaii or the Hawaii Healtbh Systems Corporation, but Lingle said their spending will be restricted in an amounty equivalent to the three-days-per-month furlough. The which start July 1, amoungt to about a 13.
8 percen pay cut, or about $5,500 for a worker makinh $40,000 a year. As with Lingle does not have to negotiats the furloughs with any of the unions representinghstate workers. Lingle has said she doesn’t want to lay off workeras because of the disruptive effect of contract rules that wouls enable senior workersto “bump” junioer workers, even if they worked in different state The furloughs will save $688 million. Lingle said the savingas are needed to close a gapof $730 million between now and June 30, 2011, as forecast by the state’s Council on Revenues May 28. All Hawaii is expected to see tax revenue fallby $2.7 billio n over the next two years.
“If we do not implementf the furlough plan, we would have to lay off up to 10,000p employees to realize an equivalent amountof savings,” Lingld said. The state has about 46,000 workers, including 21,000 employeeds of the Departmentof Education. Lingler blamed the fiscal shortfall on thelingerinb recession, rising unemployment, dropping visitor arrivals, a decline in privatd building permits, a doubling of foreclosures, and record bankruptcy levels. The state Legislature ended its session last month by raising tax rates onhotel rooms, high-incomd earners, luxury home transactions and tobacco to help meet the budget shortfall.
But Lingle, a Republicajn whose vetoes of those measurex were overridden bymajority Democrats, said she woulx not ask for additional tax increases. She also rejected calles for legalizing gambling. Lingle noted that 70 percent of state operatinb funds go to labor costs and that the statr had provided employee wage increase of between 16 and 29 percent over the past fouryears “when our economy was thriving.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Fact Sheet: Examples of How the Sequester Would Impact Middle Class ... - Whitehouse.gov (press release)

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Fact Sheet: Examples of How the Sequester Would Impact Middle Class ...

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Sebelius defends NBAF site selection as Texas group threatens legal action - Wichita Business Journal:

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The Texas Research Park in San Antoniok was a finalist forthe lab. The San Antonio Express-Newa reported that a news releases from the Texas consortiumkalleged “serious irregularities in the decision-makinf process, improper political influence and disregard for public Tom Thornton, president of the , said in a statemenr that “(a)fter an exhaustive, three-yeat process that ended with a unanimousa decision by experts in the the federal government chose Kansas as the best home on the merit s for a new researchg facility to protect the American food supply and agriculturd economy.
” Thornton said that “Kansas offera a solution, not a site” to the problej of protecting the nation’s food “and the Department of Homeland Securitt deserves commendation, not litigation, for the extremely comprehensive and fair processe it undertook” to pick the facility’s Research at the facility will focus on protectinb the food supply by studyingy pathogens that are harmful to animals and including potentially life-threatening diseases for which there are no The lab will replace the aging in New Construction of the roughly 500,000-square-footf facility is expected to take four years. Work coulds begin next year.
The laboratory is expected to costbetwee $650 million and $725 million. “Kansas presented a credible pathway to jumpstartthe NBAF’s criticall research mission and committed funding to do Sebelius said. “The Department of Homelanf Securitydeserves commendation, not for their appropriately comprehensive, fair and unbiased selection