Selasa, 03 Januari 2012

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Senin, 02 Januari 2012

NW Ind. city's mayor floats idea of selling water to Illinois communities to generate revenue


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HAMMOND, Ind. ? A mayor in northwestern Indiana wants to turn his city into a water merchant he predicts would collect millions of dollars by selling water from Lake Michigan to communities in adjacent Illinois.

Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said Friday that the city is exploring the possibility of selling water to Illinois municipalities on its own or by privatizing Hammond's water company.

"It's an amazing opportunity," he said. "We would be one of the wealthiest cities in the state, if this goes through."

The Times of Munster reported (http://bit.ly/vBfzmO ) that McDermott's idea would capitalize on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed water rate increases on Illinois communities that buy Lake Michigan water through Chicago.

McDermott said Hammond would be able to sell lake water to those communities at prices 20 percent lower than Chicago's prices and still earn a profit. He said the money generated would help buoy Hammond's finances and lessen its reliance on gaming money from casinos.

"This is it," McDermott said. "This is our future."

McDermott said Hammond's geographical location between Lake Michigan and the Illinois state line puts it in the perfect position to profit from water sales.

To sell water to Illinois, East Chicago and Gary would have to go through Hammond ? which the city would not allow ? or go around Hammond, he said.

But routing around Hammond would be costly, and the communities that currently buy water from Hammond would not be at liberty to allow water from Gary or East Chicago to be piped through their municipalities.

"We're the only city that can sell to Illinois," McDermott said.

He said that within Indiana, the city has to sell water at a regulated price, but there is no limit on the rate if the city wants to sell water across the state line at a higher price.

If the proposal is approved, Hammond could put the money from the water sales in a trust and use the interest generated to help pay for its $55 million in annual operating costs, McDermott said.

He said it could also permanently fund the city's college scholarship program and allow the city to slash property taxes. City officials would ensure that reasonable water rates are locked in for Hammond residents, McDermott said.

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Hosni Mubarak Trial Resumes

CAIRO -- The trial of Hosni Mubarak resumed on Monday amid speculation that a recent acquittal of policemen tried for killing Egyptian protesters could be a prelude to the dismissal of charges against the ousted leader.

Mubarak faces charges of complicity in the killing of more than 800 protesters during last year's uprising that toppled his 29-year regime.

The 83-year-old ailing Mubarak was brought by helicopter to the Cairo courthouse from a hospital where he is held in custody. He was then taken into the defendants' cage on a gurney, wearing dark sunglasses and covered by a green blanket.

Another Cairo court on Thursday acquitted five policemen of charges of killing five protesters during the Jan. 25-Feb. 11 uprising in the capital's district of el-Sayedah Zeinab. The court said three of the defendants were not at the site of the killings while the other two fired against protesters in self defense.

The ruling angered families of the victims. Activists demanded that the killers be brought to justice and complained that similar cases are languishing in courts in several Egyptian cities.

On trial with Mubarak are his two sons, Gamal, his one-time heir apparent, and Alaa, along with the ousted leader's former security chief and six top police commanders. The Mubaraks face additional corruption charges in the same case.

The trial began Aug. 3 but has since been bogged down in procedural matters, including a demand by lawyers for the victims that the presiding judge, Ahmed Rifaat, be removed. That request alone took a separate court about three months to rule on.

The acquittal of the police officers in el-Sayedah Zeinab and the relatively long time the Mubarak trial is taking before even starting to deal with the core of the charges against him have led many activists to brand the proceedings a farce, organized by the generals who took over power when the longtime leader was ousted.

The generals are led by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's defense minister for the last 20 years he spent in office.

The activists believe the generals remain beholden to the Mubarak regime, and only placed the former president and his two sons under arrest after mounting pressure by protesters. The Mubaraks were arrested in April, two months after the ouster of the regime. Activists believe this was long enough for the three to conceal evidence of their alleged involvement in either the killings or corruption.

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#SoLoMoDEN Social, Local and Mobile Innovation & MADE project launch on the agenda for next DEN meetup on 23 Feb in Media City, Manchester

Innovations in Social, Local and Mobile news top the agenda for the next Digital Editors Network meeting from 1-5:30pm on Thursday, 23 February 2012, at Media City UK in Manchester, followed by a networking reception and launch of the MADE project, the UK winner of the International Press Institute's inaugural News Innovation Contest sponsored by Google.
 
Leading the discussions on Social, Local and Mobile Innovations are:

Greg Hadfield (@greghadfield) on how the rise of open-data cities is giving local media a chance to re-invent themselves – and why it could be their last lifeline. Greg, a former Fleet Street journalist and internet entrepreneur, is director of strategic projects with Cogapp, an award-winning digital agency in Brighton and Hove.





Paul Bradshaw (@paulbradshaw) on opportunities for news enterprises to co-create content through new HelpMeInvestigate initiatives. Paul is author of the Online Journalism Handbook, founder of the Online Journalism Blog, HelpMeInvestigate and Hacks & Hackers Birmingham.






Sarah Hartley (@foodiesarah) on how news innovators can use the Guardian Media Group’s nOtice.com platform for local content, communities and commerce. Sarah is Managing Director of TalkAboutLocal and Community Strategist for GMG.






François Nel (@francoisnel) on the how local newspapers are doing on the 4Cs of mobile news - content, channels, content and commerce – and why they’re in danger of making some grave errors. François is digital media business researcher and director of the Journalism Leaders Programme at UCLan.






François also recently became the only UK winner of the inaugural International Press Institute’s News Innovation Contest funded by a grant from Google. During the networking reception that will follow the DEN meeting at 5:30, François will briefly explain the Media And Digital Enterprise (MADE) project which aims to equip digital innovators with the cutting-edge knowledge and skills required to start up and sustain innovative new journalistic enterprises in the public interest. The MADE project hopes to support individuals, groups and organisations in- and outside of the mainstream media (To stay in the MADE project loop, see http://bit.ly/thXQiy ).



The discussion will be chaired by Nick Turner (@nickincumbria)Bold, Head of Digital Content for the CN Group and a co-founder of DEN.





You can register for one of the 50 spaces at the next #SoLoMoDEN or to only join for MADE project launch HERE.



Since 2007, the Digital Editors Network has worked to link media innovators, whether they work inside, outside or alongside mainstream media organisations. You can connect with DEN by liking our Facebook page , joining our Linkedin group, or following us on Twitter @DENupdates or this blog. DEN is supported by the School of Journalism, Media & Communication at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK, home to the UK's oldest journalism programme.
If you'd like to contribute ideas, speak, host or sponsor a future DEN meetup, don't hesitate to contact the convenors Nick Turner nick.turner @cumbrian-newspapers. co.uk or François Nel FPNel @uclan . ac . uk

Minggu, 01 Januari 2012

Taking a punt on Chinese Spring and demise of the euro

It is never the inevitable, always the unexpected, said Keynes. And few years could have illustrated that maxim better than 2011. The Arab Spring and the euro on the brink of collapse were not prominent in many pundits' predictions 12 months ago. Yet these are both major items of unfinished business. After the outpouring of grassroots-led democracy in North Africa and the Middle East, we are still uncertain where the Arab Spring is heading and what the consequences will be. Syria looks to be going from bad to worse: Islamists are set to dominate new parliaments in Egypt and Tunisia; where else will the Arab street rise up?

The only prediction one can make with confidence is that Israeli/Palestinian relations will at best be becalmed this year. With the US presidential elections due in November, no candidate will advocate pressurising the Israeli government to halt settlements or make any meaningful concessions to enable progress to be made on this most intractable and long-running of territorial disputes. The arc of instability running from North Africa to the Chinese border poses a range of other problems. Beside Syria, Iraq now unoccupied by foreign military for the first time in eight years shows every sign of descending into civil war as the majority Shia, prompted to some extent by Iran, seek to reverse the iniquities of the Sunni-dominated Saddam era. Revenge attacks can in turn be expected from al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia.

Which brings us to Iran. Israel has successfully prosecuted an undeclared war against Iran's nuclear weapon ambitions by assassinating several key Iranian nuclear scientists and sabotaging some of the key Iranian nuclear installations. Yet they are incapable of doing more than delaying Iranian plans. It will require a sustained and intense military action to destroy the whole nuclear programme. And the consequences would extend far beyond the immediate region. It would take a bolder figure than Obama to order a pre-emptive strike on Iran -- though if Iran were to attack Israel as a result of some real or imaginary offensive, that would be a different matter.

Further to the North and East in the sweep of the arc, Afghanistan and Pakistan start the year in dreadful shape. You wouldn't want to bet too much money against another military takeover in

Pakistan, though the dire state of the economy makes the prospect a particularly unappetising one. For the rest of the international community an unstable nuclear-armed Pakistan is another nightmare scenario. In Afghanistan the western allies keep lowering the bar of the definition of a successful exit. Power-sharing with the Taliban wasn't part of the original script. Certainly few women's groups will be happy at the outcome; and for the widows and families of the war dead, the inevitable question poses itself. What was it all for? For President Obama facing re-election the essential requirement will be the further drawdown of US troops as he promised two years ago in the same breath he announced a surge.

In Russia Vladimir Putin will be hoping to resume the presidency he gifted to his protege Dmitry Medvedev in 2008. Russian voters angry at the electoral fraud in the parliamentary elections in December may want to register their displeasure at being taken for granted.

Two other Security Council permanent members may see changes in their leadership in the next year or so. China's communist party will appoint a new premier, almost certainly a more orthodox conservative figure, to succeed the reformer Wen Jiabao in early 2013. While the communist party's Faustian pact with its people -- we guarantee rising living standards but will never relinquish the party's monopoly on political power -- is not at immediate risk, China's ever patient population cannot ultimately be denied their access to the Chinese Spring. Whichever year that will be; even if 2012 is not it.

And then there is the French election and its importance for the euro. Mr Sarkozy is at a low ebb in the polls. But his main challenger, the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, suffers from an Ed Miliband-like charisma deficit. The outcome of this election is perhaps the most critical for a Europe faced with a meltdown of the euro. Hollande is unattracted by the financial treaty Sarkozy and Merkel cobbled together last month and has promised to renegotiate it. He may find an unlikely ally in David Cameron or even Enda Kenny. But the European Union and the eurozone are now in thrall to the markets and credit-rating agencies. They may not have the patience to wait for the EU's typically laborious treaty negotiations (never mind renegotiations) to conclude.

If the euro does implode, with dire consequences for both its members and its major trading partners, especially the UK, it's likely that a new hard currency will emerge from the wreckage. This time there will be no accommodation for those whose public finances are less than robust or for those who flout the new ultra-strict criteria. Ironically it is the current arch priests of financial orthodoxy, Germany and France, who were among the first to break the Maastricht criteria and being 'bigs' did so with impunity in 2005, unlike Ireland which was hauled over the coals. Unfair. But the world is unfair, which is why it's not fanciful to think of or plan on the return of the punt.

Sir Ivor Roberts is President of Trinity College, Oxford, and a former British ambassador to Ireland, Italy and Yugoslavia

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Verizon's $2 convenience fee inconveniences the FCC

Just like hard working humans, giant companies like to get paid consistently and on time for services rendered. But Verizon's method for motivating customers to pay up -- in the form of a $2 convenience fee -- isn't sitting so well with consumers, or the FCC. A Federal Communications Commission official confirmed that the fee hasn't gone unnoticed, saying "on behalf of American consumers, we're concerned about Verizon's actions and are looking into the matter." The $2 "payment convenience fee" is scheduled to hit consumers beginning on January 15th, but if the FCC doesn't step in before then, you can still skip the toll by signing up for AutoPay, or making your way to a different carrier.

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