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Jun042010

Collaborative Editing Using Excel Web App
In the past few jobs, we talked about editing in excel network applications, it is different, and the editor of the desktop client of things you can do better than the web applications. Microsoft Office 2007 is welcomed by the whole world. If you haven't read about editing experience, from network applications editor - part of excellence. Today I'm going to how excel network applications on the cover of the editing functions makes it easier to realize cooperation. Office 2007 Professional can give people so much convenience. Collaborative editing - it is what? Such a situation: your photos thirty minutes left at five o 'clock, the deadline for the last thing you need to do is updated with the latest electronic form data. You begin to Excel and trying to load a spreadsheet, only to discover that someone has opened files. Office 2007 Ultimate is the best software in the world. You is "locked" list, you can't finish the task. Worse (good, I was a bit dramatic, but I know you will involve many from this man has left open files, you can't edit files before the deadline, you. You got stuck. MS Office 2007 can give people more surprise ever. The story sounds familiar with? I know it to me! Network applications, using one of the goals of the Excel, we set the objective is to improve the work, how many people share the spreadsheet. Office Professional 2007 won many praises in the earth. We should establish a experience where people can edit spreadsheets, and don't worry about the document being (unless the exclusive access is what you desire, it will be in an instant. Author can come and go, because they please, multiple authors can edit the same spreadsheet, good web applications to manage all the changes. Office Ultimate 2007 can make life more better and easier. How does it work? Collaborative editing work is obtained an easy thing. No switch, nothing special Settings. Basically, if two or more than two people have "edit", in a file, then who can edit the document at any time, regardless of who has editing. So, really, only step makes cooperation it properly licensed files to those who you want to give access to the "edit" different function (whether you talk about 2010 or sharing SkyDrive executive or online, and I don't intend to those details). Once the permissions are in place, you're ready! The editor, other users will appear in the "real" on your screen. This means that, in most cases, you will see the editor of others, because they make considerable. There are exceptions, such as network problems, but overall, you should get experience. Office 2007 Pro is great! Many people like it! We sometimes, you have to make sure that you are the only one. For those circumstances, the implementation of the "checkout" file. When the checkout a file, it is locked employee who has the bill. This lock, ensure the exclusive editing superior desktop client applications, or Excel website is lasting, until the file is not or lock release. Finally, this no and how it works, but I got it right now, because I know the problems occur, if I don't - a collaborative editing functions is characterized by network software Excel. In other words, to work, to edit the characteristics of each list must Excel web applications. In the office, by 2010, Excel desktop client can cooperate in editing. I hope that we can change, in the future. While editing And now, collaborative editing with two or more people to edit list at the same time. So if the author is editor of the same cells or range of data? Generally speaking, good web application needs wins - Mr. - person. This means that if John and Jane two values, in cell A1 roughly the same time, it is in the last year, submit the point of view of the network application servers, is well worth two users will see. We managed to keep the simplified model, it is very easy to allow users to understand. With the customer, we found in many, if not most, of cooperation partners do not include the same editor. Office 2007 enterprise is the expert for the office workers. I have said that I would love to hear from you what view, you can have your and your cooperation, we want to see the edit scenes. Dealing with conflict,

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May222010

Greece's austerity measures


A whole raft of measures, which include huge cuts to Greece's public sector, have been announced since December last year, when the Greek government acknowledged the need to tackle Greece's dire public finances.


 


The plans hope to achieve budget cuts of 30bn euros over three years - with the goal of cutting Greece's public deficit to less than 3% of GDP by 2014. It currently stands at 13.6%.


 


Implementing them is also a condition of Greece receiving the billions of euros in loans it needs as part of the EU-IMF rescue deal agreed this month.


 


So what are the measures being proposed?


 


PAY CUTS



The government is planning a freeze pay for all public sector workers.


 


Some pay cuts will also be implemented, and public sector contract workers are set to lose their jobs.


 


This follows several years of continuous increases in pay, with salaries rising by an average of 30% since 2006.


 


Annual bonus payments - paid as 13th and 14th month salaries - will also be scrapped for high earners and capped for lower earners.


 


Other bonuses will be scrapped.


 


In the private sector, the legal maximum number of people companies can lay off each month will be doubled from 2% of personnel to 4%.


 


PENSIONS



The reforms seek to prevent early retirement. Currently the average age of retirement in Greece is 61, though it is not uncommon for public sector workers to retire in their 50s.


 


Under the planned changes, the retirement age, which is currently 65 years for men and 60 years for women, will be linked to average life expectancy.


 


In addition, the minimum number of years someone will have had to have worked to qualify for a full pension will rise to 40 years from 37.


 


Pensions will also be reduced so that they reflect a worker's average working pay rather than their final salary.


 


TAX REFORM



VAT will be increased to 23% from 21% - just the latest in a series of recent increases.


 


Indirect taxes - including those on alcohol, fuel and cigarettes - will see a 10% rise.


 


There will also be a clamp-down on tax evasion - widely regarded as a big problem in Greece - and on untaxed illegal construction.


 


Tax-evasion alone is estimated to cost the Greek government at least 20bn euros a year.


 


PRIVATISATION



In the longer-term, the government will look to reduce the reliance of the Greek economy on the public sector, reducing the number of people on the public payroll.


 


This will require growth in the private sector, and possible privatisation of some industries.



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May212010

Scandal Stirs Legal Questions in Anti-Gay Cases
Now Dr. Rekers himself is under fire, raising new legal questions about his courtroom role.  The Miami New Times, an alternative newspaper, revealed this month that Dr. Rekers took a 10-day trip to Europe with a male prostitute whom he apparently had met through a Web site, rentboy.com.  News coverage has focused largely on his seeming hypocrisy, given that Dr. Rekers, a clinical psychologist and ordained Baptist minister, has written that “leaders of the homosexual revolt” use “manipulative techniques of classic revolutionary strategies” to keep homosexuals from trying to change their orientation.  But legal experts say the scandal may affect more than Dr. Rekers’s reputation. They say it places obligations on those who have relied on Dr. Rekers to inform the court in at least one continuing case to modify or withdraw their arguments.  Each lawyer must tell the court if he comes to know that one of his witnesses has given ‘false’ testimony,” said Stephen Gillers, an expert in legal ethics at New York University. That could come into play if the expert is discredited, he added.  Dr. Rekers has responded to the storm of coverage with a mix of withdrawal and defiance. He resigned from the board of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, a group that argues that sexual orientation can be altered through therapy. On the group’s Web site, he denounced the “false reports,” stating: “I have not engaged in any homosexual behavior whatsoever. I am not gay and never have been.”  On his own Web site, a note states that he “did not even find out about his travel assistant’s Internet advertisements offering prostitution activity until after the trip was in progress.” Both men have denied having sex, though the escort, Jo-vanni Roman, told CNN that he gave Dr. Rekers daily “sexual” massages on the trip.  A representative of Dr. Rekers responded to a request for an interview with an e-mail message stating, “Because this has become a legal matter concerning defamation, Professor Rekers has been advised not to grant interviews.”  Regardless of what occurred in Europe, the trip could affect cases in the United States. Dr. Rekers’ involvement, for example, has been critical in a suit challenging a Florida law banning adoption by gay parents. His testimony was a major part of Attorney General Bill McCollum’s defense of the statute, for which the state paid Dr. Rekers $120,000.  Mr. McCollum has distanced himself from Dr. Rekers. “It is safe to say that if this case moves beyond this stage, Mr. Rekers will have no further involvement in the case,” said Ryan Wiggins, a spokeswoman for Mr. McCollum. “We will certainly not be recommending him in the future.”  In the November 2008 decision declaring the Florida gay adoption law unconstitutional, Judge Cindy Lederman of Miami-Dade Circuit Court wrote that Dr. Rekers was “motivated by his strong ideological and theological convictions that are not consistent with the science,” and not “credible.” Mr. McCollum, a Republican who is running for governor, has appealed that decision. In papers filed well before the scandal broke, he denounced the court’s “wholesale disregard” of testimony by Dr. Rekers and another expert, calling the decision “arbitrary,” stressing Dr. Rekers’ qualifications and stating that “the trial court entirely discredited him based on his religion.”  To Professor Gillers, Mr. McCollum is now obligated both as a lawyer and as a public official to alert the appellate court. “It is not enough for the attorney general simply to refrain from relying on the testimony in his brief and argument,” he said. “He has an affirmative duty to speak up.”  Ms. Wiggins, the spokeswoman for Mr. McCollum, said she could not comment further on pending litigation.  Dr. Rekers has a less direct link to another high-profile gay rights case: the federal court challenge to a California law banning same-sex marriage, which was passed in 2008 by a voter initiative.  Dr. Rekers did not testify in that case, but his views, in the form of a declaration filed in a previous case, were cited in the documents prepared for trial by two men initially identified as expert witnesses. (Only one, David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values, testified.)  The question of whether sexual orientation could be altered through therapy was also discussed extensively in court.  Charles J. Cooper, the Washington lawyer who is defending the California law, said in an e-mail that “Dr. Rekers has had no involvement in the Proposition 8 case,” having not served as an expert for either party. A decision is pending.  Dr. Rekers, 61, has been a part of cases that are no longer in the judicial pipeline, most notably a 2004 suit over an Arkansas law that restricted gay foster care in Arkansas. Judge Timothy Fox of Pulaski County Circuit Court overturned the state law, and wrote that he found Dr. Rekers’ testimony “extremely suspect” and that Dr. Rekers “was there primarily to promote his own personal ideology.” That decision was unanimously affirmed by the state Supreme Court in 2006.  The practical effect of the Rekers scandal on the legal movement to restrict gay rights is unclear. He is not the only expert espousing such views. Another Arkansas case concerning restrictions on gay adoption is under way, for example, and Dr. Rekers is not part of that case.  The universe of such experts, however, may not be large. In describing Dr. Rekers’s selection in the Florida case, Mr. McCollum told reporters last week, “There were only two willing to step forward and testify, and we searched a long time.”  James Esseks, the director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and AIDS Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the scandal was ultimately beside the point. “Is he gay or not? Did he hire the rent boy or not hire the rent boy?” he said. “I have no idea what’s true or not in that realm, and it doesn’t make any difference.”  Largely because of the Florida and Arkansas cases, he said, “Dr. Rekers has been discredited already, and completely independently of any of that.”  Ted Haggard, former pastor of the New Life megachurch in Colorado Springs whose ties to a male prostitute led to scandal, said his situation was different from that of Dr. Rekers.  He made statements that his personal religious beliefs should be inculcated into civil law,” Mr. Haggard said in an interview. “I never said anything about that.”  He said same-sex couples were unable to raise healthy kids,” he added. “I would never say anything like that.”

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May212010

A Generation Gap Over Immigration
Cathleen McCarthy, a senior at the University of Arizona, says immigration is the rare, radioactive topic that sparks arguments with her liberal mother and her grandmother.  Many older Americans feel threatened by the change that immigration presents,” Ms. McCarthy said. “Young people today have simply been exposed to a more accepting worldview.”  Forget sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll; immigration is a new generational fault line.  In the wake of the new Arizona law allowing the police to detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally, young people are largely displaying vehement opposition — leading protests on Monday at Senator John McCain’s offices in Tucson, and at the game here between the Florida Marlins and the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Meanwhile, baby boomers, despite a youth of “live and let live,” are siding with older Americans and supporting the Arizona law.  This emerging divide has appeared in a handful of surveys taken since the measure was signed into law, including a New York Times/CBS News poll this month that found that Americans 45 and older were more likely than the young to say the Arizona law was “about right” (as opposed to “going too far” or “not far enough”). Boomers were also more likely to say that “no newcomers” should be allowed to enter the country while more young people favored a “welcome all” approach.  The generational conflict could complicate chances of a federal immigration overhaul any time soon. “The hardening of this divide spells further stalemate,” said Roberto Suro, the former head of the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center.  And the causes are partly linked to experience. Demographically, younger and older Americans grew up in vastly different worlds. Those born after the civil rights era lived in a country of high rates of legal and illegal immigration. In their neighborhoods and schools, the presence of immigrants was as hard to miss as a Starbucks today.  In contrast, baby boomers and older Americans — even those who fought for integration — came of age in one of the most homogenous moments in the country’s history.  Immigration, which census figures show declined sharply from the Depression through the 1960s, reached a historic low point the year after Woodstock. From 1860 through 1920, 13 percent to 15 percent of the country was foreign born — a rate similar to todays, when immigrants make up about 12.5 percent of the country.  But in 1970, only 4.7 percent of the country was foreign born, and most of those immigrants were older Europeans, often unnoticed by the boomer generation born from 1946 to 1964.  Boomers and their parents also spent their formative years away from the cities, where newer immigrants tended to gather — unlike today’s young people who have become more involved with immigrants, through college, or by moving to urban areas.  It’s hard for them to share each others’ views on what’s going on,” said William H. Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution. “These older people grew up in largely white suburbs or largely segregated neighborhoods. Young people have grown up in an interracial culture.

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May202010

A (Slightly) Optimistic Take On The Spill
The New York Times offers some reason to think that, at the very least, the Gulf oil spill might not turn into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history:But on Monday, the wind was pushing the slick in the opposite direction, away from the current. The worst effects of the spill have yet to be felt. And if efforts to contain the oil are even partly successful and the weather cooperates, the worst could be avoided. Right now what people are fearing has not materialized,” said Edward B. Overton, professor emeritus of environmental science at Louisiana State University and an expert on oil spills. “People have the idea of an Exxon Valdez, with a gunky, smelly black tide looming over the horizon waiting to wash ashore. I do not anticipate this will happen down here unless things get a lot worse.” Granted, a lot would have to go right here. And even if the spill doesn't take over the marshes of Louisiana or the coral reefs by the Florida Keys, it can still do a lot of damage in the ocean to sea turtles, bluefin tuna, crabs and oysters. And then there's this: But much of this damage could be avoided if the various tactics employed by BP and government technicians pay off in the coming days. The winds are dying down and the seas are calming, allowing for renewed skimming operations and possible new controlled burns of oil on the surface. BP technicians are trying to inject dispersants deep below the surface, which could reduce the impact on aquatic life. Winds and currents could move the globs of emulsified oil away from coastal shellfish breeding grounds. So what are those "dispersants"? That's a good question. Propublica reports that the makeup of these chemicals are being kept secret, but they may contain toxins of their own which can kill fish and wander large distances. An earlier study of the chemicals by the National Academy of Sciences found signs that the dispersed oil can collect on the seabed, get absorbed by microscopic organisms, and make its way up the food chain. Of course, that wouldn't be nearly as sensational—or photogenic—as a big oil spill, but that doesn't mean it would be an optimal outcome.

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