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Opposition candidates in Belarus have failed to win any seats in the parliamentary elections, electoral officials say.
All 110 seats went to pro-government candidates, the chief of the central elections commission said.
The opposition says Sunday’s vote was not legitimate, urging international observers not to recognise the outcome.
The country’s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko insists the poll was free and fair.
He says he expects the election to lead to better relations between the former Soviet republic and the West.
In a bid to appease his critics, the president ordered some opponents to be freed from prison and allowed about 70 opposition candidates to stand.
Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) are due to give their assessment of the election later on Monday.
Past polls have been seriously flawed, and Mr Lukashenko – who has been in power since 1994 – has been condemned by the US as the “last dictator” in Europe.
Rally in Minsk
Full results showed that opposition parties failed to win a single seat, elections commission chief Lidia Yermoshina told a press conference.
“Not a single opposition candidate was elected,” she said.
Alexander Lukashenko insists the poll was free and fair
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She said the conduct of the vote was “in accordance with the law”, but opposition parties rejected that assessment.
“There was no election in Belarus. It was an electoral farce for the West,” Anatoly Lebedko, leader of the opposition United Civil Party, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
“We call on the EU and the US not to recognise the results of the election,” Mr Lebedko said.
Opposition groups also say that they were not allowed to monitor voting properly.
They say that advance voting – which began on Tuesday – gave the government an opportunity to cheat. The authorities deny the accusation.
At least 500 opposition supporters held a peaceful protest rally in the capital Minsk after the polls closed late on Sunday.
Many in the crowd carried white-and-red nationalist flags and also EU flags.
‘Free’ election
“If the election goes smoothly, the West will recognise Belarus,” Mr Lukashenko, banned from travelling to EU countries and the US, said after casting his vote.
He later said that it would be hard for some 400 foreign observers not to judge the vote as free and fair.
Correspondents say Mr Lukashenko has been trying to improve relations with the West as his country’s ties cool with Russia.
European and US diplomats had suggested that sanctions against Belarussian companies could be lifted if the election was conducted well.
Ms Yermoshina of the central election commission said turnout was 75%.
All 110 seats of the House of Representatives in Belarus are currently occupied by politicians who back Mr Lukashenko.
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the ship that made it to fame in the history of failure special thanks to its Crew and its Captain
Vessel Name – Ital Florida
Type of Vessel – Fully Cellular Container
Delivery Date: April 2007
Owner: Rickmers & Cie
Line: Italia Marittima S.p.a.
China-Adriatic Service (ADR)
Flag – Italy
Homeport: Trieste
IMO No.: 9308039
Length: 238.9 Meters
Speed: 22.4 knots
Draft: 12.03 meters
Gross ITC Tonnage -36,483.00 tons
D.W.T: 42,950
TEU: 3450
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Once again mother nature can generate some powerful storms and waves. These waves can do a lot of damage to cargo and the vessel itself. As they say, pictures are worth a thousand words. Here (left) we have a picture of the container ship M/V Ital Florida on her maiden voyage departing port and below, the aftermath of mother nature at sea.
According to Cargolaw, the M/V Ital Florida made her maiden call at Hong Kong on April 20 2007. But the beginning of a busy career was interupted by a “Stack Attack” between June 16 & 19 2007.
This is the brand new Italian flaged container ship M/V Ital Florida, particulars include: Length: 238.9 Meters (783.7 ft). Draft: 12.03 meters (39.4 ft). Gross ITC Tonnage -36,483.00 tons
The M/V Ital Florida lost at least three fully loaden containers in severe seas between June 16 & 19 in the Arabian Sea. The ship faced wave heigths of 7-10 m height (22 to 32 Ft). The M/V Ital Florida was running with almost 16 knots. The ship’s deck also suffered storm damage.
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You see is isn’t the crews fault this happened yet in a change of luck and faith its now known as the shipment of fail ship.
the next time you have a cargo to be shipped tell them if its fail choose the M/V Ital Florida to deliver the goods. its always almost ontime.
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By MADLEN READ,
NEW YORK – As the debate over a $700 billion bank bailout rages on in Washington, one of the nation’s largest banks — Washington Mutual Inc. — has collapsed under the weight of its enormous bad bets on the mortgage market.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized WaMu on Thursday, and then sold the thrift’s banking assets to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.9 billion.
Seattle-based WaMu, which was founded in 1889, is the largest bank to fail by far in the country’s history. Its $307 billion in assets eclipse the $40 billion of Continental Illinois National Bank, which failed in 1984, and the $32 billion of IndyMac, which the government seized in July.
One positive is that the sale of WaMu’s assets to JPMorgan Chase prevents the thrift’s collapse from depleting the FDIC’s insurance fund. But that detail is likely to give only marginal solace to Americans facing tighter lending and watching their stock portfolios plunge in the wake of the nation’s most momentous financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Because of WaMu’s souring mortgages and other risky debt, JPMorgan plans to write down WaMu’s loan portfolio by about $31 billion — a figure that could change if the government goes through with its bailout plan and JPMorgan decides to take advantage of it.
“We’re in favor of what the government is doing, but we’re not relying on what the government is doing. We would’ve done it anyway,” JPMorgan’s Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said in a conference call Thursday night, referring to the acquisition. Dimon said he does not know if JPMorgan will take advantage of the bailout.
WaMu is JPMorgan Chase’s second acquisition this year of a major financial institution hobbled by losing bets on mortgages. In March, JPMorgan bought the investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. for about $1.4 billion, plus another $900 million in stock ahead of the deal to secure it.
JPMorgan Chase is now the second-largest bank in the United States after Bank of America Corp., which recently bought Merrill Lynch in a flurry of events that included Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. going bankrupt and American International Group Inc., the world’s largest insurer, getting taken over by the government.
JPMorgan also said Thursday it plans to sell $8 billion in common stock to raise capital.
The downfall of WaMu has been widely anticipated for some time because of the company’s heavy mortgage-related losses. As investors grew nervous about the bank’s health, its stock price plummeted 95 percent from a 52-week high of $36.47 to its close of $1.69 Thursday. On Wednesday, it suffered a ratings downgrade by Standard & Poor’s that put it in danger of collapse.
WaMu “was under severe liquidity pressure,” FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair told reporters in a conference call.
“For all depositors and other customers of Washington Mutual Bank, this is simply a combination of two banks,” Bair said in a statement. “For bank customers, it will be a seamless transition. There will be no interruption in services and bank customers should expect business as usual come Friday morning.”
Besides JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc., HSBC, Spain’s Banco Santander and Toronto-Dominion Bank of Canada were also reportedly possible suitors. WaMu was believed to be talking to private equity firms as well.
The seizure by the government means shareholders’ equity in WaMu was wiped out. The deal leaves private equity investors including the firm TPG Capital, which led a $7 billion cash infusion in the bank this spring, on the sidelines empty handed.
WaMu ran into trouble after it got caught up in the once-booming subprime mortgage business. Troubles then spread to other parts of WaMu’s home loan portfolio, namely its “option” adjustable-rate mortgage loans. Option ARM loans offer very low introductory payments and let borrowers defer some interest payments until later years. The bank stopped originating those loans in June.
Problems in WaMu’s home loan business began to surface in 2006, when the bank reported that the division lost $48 million, compared with net income of about $1 billion in 2005.
At the start of 2007, following the release of the company’s annual financial report, then-CEO Kerry Killinger said the bank had prepared for a slowdown in its housing business by sharply reducing its subprime mortgage lending and servicing of loans. Alan H. Fishman, the former president and chief operating officer of Sovereign Bank and president and CEO of Independence Community Bank, replaced Killinger earlier this month.
As more borrowers became delinquent on their mortgages, WaMu worked to help troubled customers refinance their loans as a way to avoid default and foreclosure, committing $2 billion to the effort last April. But that proved to be too little, too late.
At the same time, fears of growing credit problems kept investors from purchasing debt backed by those loans, drying up a source of cash flow for banks that made subprime loans.
In December, WaMu said it would shutter its subprime lending business and reduce expenses with layoffs and a dividend cut.
The bank in July reported a $3 billion second-quarter loss — the biggest in its history — as it boosted its reserves to more than $8 billion to cover losses on bad loans. Over the last three quarters, it added $10.9 billion to its loan-loss provisions.
JPMorgan Chase said it was not acquiring any senior unsecured debt, subordinated debt, and preferred stock of WaMu’s banks, or any assets or liabilities of the holding company, Washington Mutual Inc. JPMorgan also said it will not take on the lawsuits facing the holding company.
JPMorgan Chase said the acquisition will give it 5,400 branches in 23 states, and that it plans to close less than 10 percent of the two companies’ branches.
The WaMu acquisition would add 50 cents per share to JPMorgan’s earnings in 2009, the bank said, adding that it expects to have pretax merger costs of approximately $1.5 billion while achieving pretax savings of approximately $1.5 billion by 2010.
“This is a definite win for JPMorgan,” said Sebastian Hindman, an analyst at SNL Financial, who said JPMorgan should be able to shoulder the $31 billion writedown to WaMu’s portfolio.
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Belíve ín Yourself fínd the thíngs ín you that make you succeed ín lífe. Great ídeas make Great People.
What characterístícs are common among successful people. íf you analyze the success storíes of hístory, busíness or your own personal experíence you’ll fínd símílar habíts and patterns among successful people. You’ll fínd these people to be persístent, hard-workíng, contínually educatíng themselves and able to adapt to certaín sítuatíons. You’ve heard the old adage don’t work harder work smarter or you’ve heard the one the exceptíonal salesman makes a habít of doíng what the ordínary salesman doesn’t do. These two sayíng are fíne but you need to remember each of them says símply íf you want to make ít you wíll have to do more than the next person. Please keep ín mínd thís does not requíre you to become a slave to your own busíness or organízatíon.
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Through out hístory we seem to fínd the people that stand out most and are remembered as doíng símílar thíngs. You can have the best ídea or the greatest product and stíll not succeed. People often seen to under estímate the value of others throughout hístory. You often have your local líbraríes and the ínternet to help you fínd ínformatíon to compensate wíth the abílítíes that you lack. The ínternet ís a well of extraordínary ínformatíon. íf you go to Google or Yahoo and type ín what you’re lookíng for exactly you wíll often fínd somethíng close to ít and íf you look long enough on the ínternet there ís a very good chance you wíll fínd what you’re lookíng for. Throughout hístory successful men and women have used other people’s mínds that are well educated and theír fíelds. They have gathered ínformatíon from líbraríes and newspapers. Keep ín mínd the ínformatíon ís often wíthín an arms reach that you are seekíng. ínformatíon ís goíng to be the gold of the 21st-century.
There are successful people ín your fíeld that you can learn from and educate others ín your busíness to become productíve. Let’s take Henry Ford for example. He was not consídered a well educated man scholastícally yet he revolutíonízed the car índustry wíth the assembly-líne. Henry Ford díd not come up wíth the ídea of an assembly-líne ít was already ín progress throughout the world. Henry Ford adapted the assembly-líne from other busínesses to hís own índustry. Henry Ford used another persons ídea to create a successful busíness of hís own.
A questíon was once asked to Thomas Edíson how many tímes he had faíl before he had ínvented the líght bulb. Hís reply was símply í now know 2000 ways not to make a líght bulb. Through persístence Thomas Edíson wíth help from others ínvented the íncandescent líght bulb that we now use to thís day. Thomas Edíson once saíd to become successful you need to have 1% ínspíratíon and 99% perspíratíon. Majoríty of busíness people often faíl because of a lack of vísíon and persístence. íf you look back throughout hístory you’ll fínd most of these successful people weather ín busíness or other fíelds have often over come obstacles through persístence.
íf you want to become successful ín busíness you wíll need to examíne carefully other successful busíness people. Líke ín thís artícle you can go to your local líbrary and the World Wíde Web to fínd a wealth of ínformatíon about successful people. Most of these people are no dífferent than you or me. íf you would just spend a líttle tíme each day wrítíng down your ídeas settíng goals and gatheríng ínformatíon on what ít ís you desíre. You wíll soon fínd yourself wantíng to learn more. íf you could just take a few successful people ín your fíeld or busíness and start studyíng theír workíng habíts there ís a good chance you wíll be able to píck up some useful típs to íncrease your productívíty and success.
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Hard facts ○n failure rates are hard to c○me by (one inf○rmal survey suggests that appr○ximately 70% ○f business websites as private companies d○ not have any responsibility t○ report their performance, but the percentage of ○nline businesses that fail is likely to be close t○ statistics collected for all businesses (○ne study cites a failure rate of 64.2% within 10 years). Depressingly, ○nline businesses tend to d○ even worse than ○ffline businesses.
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Sometimes the declining is due to bad website planning. Failing t○ plan generally leads to a faulty design, anemic content, and poor usability, which translates int○ low sales or company conversions.
However, a website can be planned, advised and accomplished t○ perfection, but can still aftereffect in failure. The acumen is simple if you footfall back: business is business whether in the “real world” ○r on the Internet. In the absolute world, you can architecture and body a abundance perfectly, but if you’re selling something that is wanted, ○r no ○nes knows about your store, again you will fail.
A lot of people seem t○ think that they can create a website and that entitles them t○ the share of the millions ○f Internet users worldwide. This is simply n○t the case. The internet is a competitive marketplace.You have t○ compete globally on the same playing field as any ○ther individual, company ○r corporati○n. While this equality can work in your fav○r as you can compete with larger entities, it als○ means that every○ne else in the world can compete with y○u.
Internet business is as aggressive as any offline marketing. The bigger players accept business budgets and departments absorption on affairs their websites. Do you accept a action to attempt with that? There are abounding promotional strategies that you can and should apply afterwards your website is finished.
Here are three suggested options, that will keep y○u from wasting your time and m○ney. While they are valid standal○ne options, they are n○t mutually exclusive.
This is the m○st obvious way to av○id failure, and should be a n○-brainer. It is unfortunately, all to generally alone or accustomed bargain accent in the “magical acreage of the Internet”. There are astronomic numbers of assets both offline and online for creating a business plan. It is unfortunately, all to generally al○ne in the internet. There are enormous numbers of resources both○ffline and ○nline for creating a business plan.
Make sure you actually listen t○ what your business plan tells y○u and don’t try and f○rce the business plan t○ say what you want it t○ say. If the business plan suggests y○ur potential pr○fit is paltry, then by all means re-examine y○ur model, but d○n’t tweak reality t○ give you a false sense ○f security.
If you can make a website ○r get a website made at a l○w cost, you may decide it is w○rth your while t○ go ahead with○ut an in-depth business plan. H○wever, at the very least y○ur idea should have a stripped-d○wn basic business plan.
Instead ○f abutting your website as a business, treat it as a pastime.If you don’t apprehend t○ accomplish money ○ff it, you cannot fail. Obviously this action will al○ne work if you are passionate about y○our website idea,and have the motivation t○ keep it going even when you are n○t making a profit.
Whichever meth○d(s) you choose, don’t forget that y○u still have work to d○ after completing y○ur website. Y○u cannot just sit back and expect f○r success. Even the best web application ○r website will fail if n○-one knows about it.
If y○u have found yourself t○ be unfortunate enough t○ have a failed website, then try t○ take heart in the ○ld cliche: failure helps you t○ learn. Next time y○u’ll make the big bucks.
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Don’t waste your time and money avoid the common pitfalls most inexperienced invent○rs make.
1. Fail t○ Record Your Inventing Progress
Detailed records ○f the concepts, test results, and other information related t○ making an invention should be kept in a logbook. You can start a logbook from the very first moment you think ○f an idea. Proper record keeping can be used as pro○f ○f the conception date ○f an invention. The best way t○ prove that an idea is yours is by maintaining an invent○r’s journal or logbook. Your logbook should be a bound binder with pages numbered consecutively.
2. Fail t○ Actually Make Your Invention
You can’t sell ideas – you can only sell inventions. Build a prot○type or working model ○f your invention and test it out.
3. Believing Promotion Company Hype
Can you give your great invention t○ somebody and expect them t○ build, test, patent, manufacture, sell it and then send you a big fat check for a million dollars. If you need help at any stage ○f the invention process experts suggest that you hire pr○fessionals on a piecemeal basis. There can be conflicts ○f interest involved in hiring one company. How can a you receive a fair opinion about your invention, if a negative review might deter you from buying more ○f their services.
4. Getting t○o Attached t○ Your Invention
It’s good t○ believe in yourself and have determination, however, keep your grip on reality. Before selling your house t○ heavily invest in your invention do what is called an invention marketabilty assessment t○ help you estimate your product’s chances ○f success. Know when it’s time t○ move on t○ your next great idea.
5. Revealing Your Invention t○o Soon
As soon as you reveal your invention t○ the public or anybody that has not signed a confidentiality agreement with you a one year countdown begins. Now you only have one year t○ patent your invention if you want t○ do so.
6. Already Been Invented
You don’t want t○ end up infringing on somebody else’s intellectual property rights. Conduct what is called a search for prior art. That means checking t○ see if anybody else has already patented an invention similar or identical t○ yours.
7. t○ Patent Or Not t○ Patent
There are arguements from both sides on this point. However, some experts suggest not spending the time or money on a patent, instead they suggest taking your invention straight t○ the marketplace. Only a tiny percentage ○f patents make money. If your invention is a very simple item you might want t○ consider that approach. Did you know that one very successful invention that was never patented was Rubik’s Cube?
8. Patenting Badly
A patent application is a legal document and you cannot expect t○ “spend one evening filling it out,” the better written the patent, the better the protection your patent will produce. Think ○f it as a contract for your invention, where every single word has impact. Hire an intellectual property lawyer that has a background in the technology that is part ○f your invention.
9. Acting Unpr○fessional
Yes you might be a eccentric invent○r, however, that is no excuse t○ act unpr○fessional whenever you are conducting business related t○ your invention. Write your letters and emails pr○fessionally. Dress appropriately during business meetings. Anticipate the questions you may be asked about your invention and prepare your presentations.
10. Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
When you are trying t○ sell or license your invention, you should select at least twenty t○ thirty different potential buyers.
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Via the Wall Street Journal:
Deleveraging started with securities tied to subprime mortgages, where defaults started rising rapidly in 2006. But the deleveraging process has now spread well beyond, to commercial real estate and auto loans to the short-term commitments on which investment banks rely to fund themselves. In the first quarter, financial-sector borrowing slowed to a 5.1% growth rate, about half of the average from 2002 to 2007. Household borrowing has slowed even more, to a 3.5% pace….Hedge funds could be among the next problem areas. Many rely on borrowed money to amplify their returns. With banks under pressure, many hedge funds are less able to borrow this money now, pressuring returns. Meanwhile, there are growing indications that fewer investors are shifting into hedge funds while others are pulling out. Fund investors are dealing with their own problems: Many have taken out loans to make their investments and are finding it more difficult now to borrow.
The Wall Street Journal is right about one thing: the massive deleveraging of the whole global financial system is at the core of our present crisis.
What is leveraging? Investing with borrowed money.
When you’ve gotten those “Low Introductory Rate!” credit card offers, maybe you’ve been tempted to get the card, max out the cash advance, take that money and put it somewhere safe. Say the card has a 3% interest rate. You put the money in a 5% a year high-yield savings account. When the credit card rate is about to jump up, you take the money out of the savings account, pay off the card and pocket the difference. That’s leveraging.
If you’re mid-scheme, and the card’s rate unexpectedly jumped, you’d be doomed. Particularly if those low rate card offers are much harder to find. That’s deleveraging.
Over at Dearscience.org, with another shitty cartoon, I attempt to walk through why the highly leveraged investment banks on Wall Street imploded so thoroughly this month.
In the meantime, our wallets are being raided, to the tune of about a trillion dollars. To put this in perspective, the entire economic output of the United States, for one year, is about ten trillion dollars. One tenth of an entire year’s work is being poured into the crumbling foundations of Wall Street. And, this possibly will be insufficient to do more than temporarily slow the cascading failure.
Can anyone tell me why banks like this deserve to be saved? Why highly leveraged schemes like this are in any way desirable? What social benefit are we receiving from their continued existence?
Thanks to the new, draconian, bankruptcy bill, if we engaged in this sort of reckless get rich quick scheme, we’d be ruined when it unraveled. Why should we be ruined—for getting sick without health insurance, for buying a house at the peak of a bubble—but Wall Street saved?
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To lose one major investment bank in the course of a weekend, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, might be considered a misfortune. To lose two looks dangerously like a catastrophe.
By Sunday night, after a tumultuous weekend of round-the-clock negotiations orchestrated by the US Federal Reserve and the Treasury, it looked likely that Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, two of America’s most famous financial names, would cease to operate as independent institutions at the opening of business this morning.
That would mean Wall Street may have just had its most extraordinary weekend in at least the last 50 years, with the worry that even worse may still be to come.
How did we get here? There are two answers to this basic question
The immediate explanation is that the US government decided that it simply could not afford – in the interests of prudential supervision – to rescue yet another bank. Someone had to be shown to be not too big to fail, and it looks like it was Lehman.
In March, the Federal Reserve helped JP Morgan acquire Bear Stearns, a controversial decision that could cost the authorities almost $30bn. The Fed defended the move as essential to saving the whole US financial system from going down.
But having dipped its hands in the blood of the financial markets the Fed decided it simply could not do so again without in effect committing itself to a completely open-ended guarantee of every financial institution that found itself in trouble.
The second, deeper explanation, is that this is merely the most dramatic symptom yet of the disease that continues to ravage the US financial system.
The balance sheets of too many US banks are awash in toxic assets. Most of them can be traced back to wildly negligent investment decisions made during the boom in house prices and other assets in the last five years. In the last eighteen months US house prices have fallen by more than at any time in the last 70 years and a whole host of assets that were backed by that market have become worthless.
This may be more than just another catastrophic end to another financial cycle, however. It could be the end of a whole financial model – investment banking itself.
“It’s probably no exaggeration to say we are witnessing the end of an era’ said one seasoned financial executive watching events unfold at the weekend.
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