Time Warner Cable se asocia a la Liga de Ciudadanos Latinoamericanos Unidos (Lulac por sus siglas en inglés) para capacitar a las comunidades latinas en tecnología

July 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Time Warner Cable otorgará U$S200.000
NUEVA YORK Y ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.–(Business Wire)–
Time Warner Cable y la Liga de Ciudadanos Latinoamericanos Unidos se han
asociado a fin de extender la capacitación en tecnología de Internet de banda
ancha a las comunidades latinas que carecen de dichos servicios en todos los
Estados Unidos. Los U$S200.000 que otorgará Time Warner Cable durante tres años
sustentarán a centros de tecnología que ofrecen servicios de capacitación,
tecnología y soporte en las comunidades latinas a las que dicha empresa presta
sus servicios. Conforme al acuerdo, los centros recibirán beneficios
tecnológicos tales como una amplia serie de equipos de tecnología que incluyen
computadoras de escritorio, impresoras láser, acceso a Internet de alta
velocidad, proyectores LCD y programas de estudio sobre tecnología.

Los centros – situados en San Antonio, Texas; Kansas City, Misuri (existente);
Waukesha, Wisconsin (existente); Charlotte, Carolina del Norte, y Cincinnati,
Ohio – fueron seleccionados mediante una competencia para la obtención de la
beca que tuvo lugar a nivel nacional, en base al progreso competitivo de cada
sitio, su nivel de necesidad a fin de servir mejor a la comunidad y su
aplicación innovadora de la tecnología. Los cinco centros serán parte del
programa Capacitar a Hispanoamérica en Redes de Tecnología de la LULAC – el cual
actualmente ofrece acceso de banda ancha gratis a 100.000 visitantes por año.

“LULAC está muy complacida con el enorme apoyo y la alianza que ha desarrollado
con Time Warner Cable a fin de llevar las tecnologías más recientes a la
comunidad hispana,” dijo la Presidente Nacional de LULAC, Rosa Rosales. “Los
estudios han demostrado una y otra vez que aquéllos que cuentan con acceso a los
recursos tecnológicos les va mejor en la vida que a aquéllos que no los poseen.
Con esta financiación, podremos abastecer a aquéllos que tienen más necesidad de
recibir estos servicios.”

Los centros de tecnología comunitarios de la LULAC ofrecen acceso e
instrucciones acerca de, tecnología de computación moderna, además de ayuda en
la preparación de currículos, preparación de solicitudes para ingresar a la
universidad, preparación de certificados de equivalencia, investigación sobre
ayuda financiera, y programas de ciudadanía y búsqueda de empleo en línea. Los
participantes del programa utilizan acceso a Internet de alta velocidad, equipos
de computación y software de aplicaciones de oficina básico a fin de desarrollar
habilidades laborales, investigar acerca de oportunidades profesionales,
oportunidades educativas, y acceder a los programas de gestión de dinero, lengua
inglesa y ciudadanía en línea.

El cincuenta y ocho por ciento de los hispanos utilizan Internet con
regularidad, a comparación del 79 por ciento de los blancos, (Proyecto sobre
Internet y la vida estadounidense del Centro de Investigaciones de Pew del año
2009). Los clientes a los que se les presta el servicio son personas de bajos
ingresos y/o la primera generación de jóvenes y adultos hispano-estadounidenses,
la mayoría de los cuales nunca han utilizado una computadora personal y carecen
de una en sus hogares. Capacitar a Hispanoamérica en Tecnología apunta
directamente a eliminar la brecha digital y combatir las inequidades
proporcionándoles a los hispanos las habilidades necesarias para competir en los
lugares de trabajo orientados hacia la tecnología de hoy.

“Esta asociación profundiza nuestra relación con las comunidades a las que
abastecemos llevándoles los beneficios esenciales de la tecnología, a la vez que
cumplimos con el compromiso de Time Warner Cable de involucrar a personas
jóvenes para que participen en nuestro programa Conectar un Millón de Mentes,
diseñado para inspirar a los estudiantes a fin de que vayan en pos de
oportunidades de aprendizaje y carreras profesionales en los campos de la
ciencia, la tecnología, la ingeniería y las matemáticas,” mencionó Fernando
Laguarda, Vicepresidente de Asuntos Externos y Asesor de Políticas de Time
Warner Cable.

Acerca de LULAC

La Liga de Ciudadanos Latinoamericanos Unidos es la organización que brega por
los derechos civiles de los latinos con el apoyo de sus miembros más grande y
más antigua de los Estados Unidos. Mejora las condiciones económicas, los logros
educativos, la influencia política, la salud en el hogar y los derechos civiles
de los hispanos estadounidenses mediante programas comunitarios, operando en más
de 700 consejos de la LULAC en toda la nación.

Acerca de Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable es el segundo operador de cable más grande de los Estados
Unidos, con sistemas avanzados en términos tecnológicos y bien agrupados,
ubicados en cinco áreas geográficas – Estado de Nueva York (incluida la Ciudad
de Nueva York), las Carolinas, Ohio, Sur de California (incluida Los Ángeles) y
Texas. Time Warner Cable presta servicios a más de 14 millones de clientes que
se suscriben a uno o más de sus servicios de video, datos y voz de alta
velocidad. Time Warner Cable Business Class ofrece una gama de servicios de
telefonía, Internet, Ethernet y televisión por cable a empresas de todos los
tamaños. Time Warner Cable Media Sales, el brazo publicitario de Time Warner
Cable, brinda a empresas nacionales, regionales y locales soluciones de
publicidad innovadoras que son específicas y accesibles. Hay más información
disponible acerca de los servicios de Time Warner Cable en
www.timewarnercable.com, www.twcbc.com y www.twcmediasales.com.

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LULAC
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Time Warner Cable
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Bulls on the run in shortened week

July 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

(Reuters) – Bearish bets in the equity options market, coupled with an increasingly sour view from a technical perspective, suggest stocks will struggle to break from a vicious two-month downtrend this week.

With few catalysts on tap, it could be difficult for investors to find a reason to buy even as recent declines and a jobs report that did not confirm investors’ worst fears present the opportunity for a short-term boost.

U.S. markets will be closed on Monday for Independence Day, and the holiday is expected to depress volume during the week, making equities more vulnerable to large swings following the worst week for the S&P 500 in two months.

“Only about 30 percent of stocks are above their 200-day moving averages, so the vast majority are on a downtrend,” said Frank Gretz, a market analyst at Shields & Co in New York.

“The market needs to prove itself with a rally on strong volume, and that’s going to be hard to get with the holiday and the bad news we’ve seen creating more pessimism.”

Last week, the Dow fell 4.5 percent, the S&P lost 5 percent and the Nasdaq shed 5.9 percent.

Over the past couple of months, markets have been beset with a string of negative data showing weaker-than-expected retail sales, consumer confidence and plunging home sales. The data was capped by Friday’s weak payrolls report.

BETTING ON DECLINES

Options activity on exchange-traded funds (ETF) that tracks the S&P 500 benchmark and the Nasdaq suggest that investors are betting on more declines.

“The most actively traded options on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF are the July $100 puts, suggesting traders are hedging for potential losses,” said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer’s Investment Research in Cincinnati, Ohio. The ETF (SPY.P) slid 0.6 percent to $102.20.

Similar activity was spotted on the PowerShares QQQ Trust ETF (QQQQ.P) which tracks the performance of the Nasdaq 100. The most active trades were on July $41, $40 puts. The ETF closed 0.3 percent lower at $42.47.

“We are in a tremendously oversold situation, but that doesn’t mean we can’t sell further. Options activity shows that the bears are in control and that the trend will continue,” Detrick said.

As of late Friday, 133.94 million shares traded on the SPDR S&P 500 fund, and on Thursday 382.92 million shares exchanged hands, the highest volume since May 21. The three-month average trading volume is 266.34 million shares.

“When the volume is high on a down day like yesterday (Thursday) and (Friday), it confirms that this is a bear market and that the sellers will be in control.”

The QQQ Trust ETF traded 46.19 million shares as of late Friday, but the volume reached 158.69 million on Thursday, compared to a three-month moving average of 103.50 million.

The June U.S. nonfarm payrolls report showed a fall in overall employment while private payrolls rose only slightly, a sign the recovery continues to struggle to gain traction.

But some analysts say the market’s recent sharp declines and positive elements in Friday’s unemployment report could give stocks a short-term boost.

STOCK BOUNCE POSSIBLE

“Investors were worried that the report would show the economy melting down, and clearly that didn’t happen,” said Charles Lieberman, chief investment officer of Advisors Capital Management LLC in Paramus, New Jersey.

“The psychology was just too negative about the labor market and the economy in general, so we could be due for a bounce.”

The S&P’s 14-day relative strength index fell below 30 on Friday, indicating it could be oversold in the near-term. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index .SPX fell to 1,022.58 on Friday. The benchmark could find technical support near the 1,008-1,010 level, this year’s low and also the 38.2 percent Fibonacci retracement of the advance from the low in early March 2009 to the high in April 2010.

One of the few indicators on tap for this week is June same-store sales, which many retailers will report on Thursday, giving insight into the state of consumer spending.

“Consumers are very cautious right now, and we’re not looking for much incremental growth at all,” said Thomas Nyheim, portfolio manager at Christiana Bank & Trust Co. in Greenville, Delaware.

Nyheim added that discount retailers could be among the few sectors to see improved sales as consumers “trade down” to lower-priced merchandise.

Discount retailer Family Dollar Stores Inc (FDO.N) is scheduled to report quarterly results on Wednesday, the sole S&P 500 company to report this week. The third-quarter earnings reporting season begins in earnest with Alcoa Inc (AA.N) on July 12.

“Family Dollar has seen some positive trends of late, and they’ve been picking up market share from other retailers,” said John Massey, portfolio manager at SunAmerica Asset Management in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Despite the lack of scheduled reports, a number of companies could give guidance about earnings this week. John Butters, the director of U.S. earnings for Thomson Reuters, said that the week before the start of earnings season “will be the time companies will come out and say, ‘This is what we’re going to do.’”

As the earnings season nears, Butters noted that there were 1.2 negative company preannouncements for every one positive. Historically, the ratio has been two negatives for each positive.

Also on tap for this week is the Institute of Supply Management’s services sector survey for June, which is expected to contract slightly from the previous month but still show expansion.

(Reporting by Ryan Vlastelica and Angela Moon; Additional reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch and Matthew Lynley; Editing by Kenneth Barry and Maureen Bavdek)

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Hewitt loses to Federer in Cincinnati Masters

August 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Mason (Ohio, US), Aug.22 (ANI): Lleyton Hewitt bowed out of the Cincinnati Masters quarter-finals, but said his performance had whet his appetite for the US Open.

“The US Open is somewhere I’ve played extremely well in the past,” said Hewitt after losing to Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4.

“I’d like to think if things fall my way I’ve got an outside chance there. Hopefully I can get deep in the second week,” the Courier Mail quoted Hewitt, as saying.

“I didn’t play this time last year, so everything is a bonus right at the moment,” he said.

He seemed less concerned that Federer maintained his dominance in their long rivalry than he was pleased with his overall form.

“He’s always a tough opponent,” Hewitt said.

Hewitt’s 2009 season so far has included his 27th career title, his first in more than two years, at the US Clay Court Championship in April. (ANI)

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Genetic analysis reveals what makes us look old

July 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, July 1 (ANI): A genetic analysis of human skin has revealed what makes us look old, say American scientists.

According to scientists, the finding could throw up ways to smooth away wrinkles and provide a quantifiable way to test claims made for skin products, reports New Scientist.

Rosemary Osborne of Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio, and colleagues used DNA microarrays, common in the drugs industry, to measure the expression of thousands of genes in skin of different ages.

The researchers compared gene expression in skin samples from the buttocks and forearms of 10 young and 10 older women.

In older skin, they found a decrease in the expression of genes involved in cholesterol and fatty acid synthesis.

The researchers also found that the opposite was true for genes associated with inflammation and other components of the immune system, suggesting that the immune system may play a role in ageing.

Treating the older skin with niacinamide, which helps skin retain moisture, damped down expression of genes related to inflammation.

The researchers say that targeting this inflammation might one day help to keep wrinkles at bay.

The findings appear in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology. (ANI)

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Germany hopes for quick decision on Demjanjuk

April 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Berlin – The German government hoped Wednesday for a swift decision on the fate of alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, hours after a last-minute US court ruling temporarily blocked his deportation to Germany.

A spokesman for the German justice ministry said Wednesday they were prepared for an imminent decision, although they had “no updated information” over the internal US deportation process, which he said Germany was not involved in.

German officials would become involved from the minute Demjanjuk set foot on German soil, the spokesman added.

The US Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, granted Demjanjuk’s stay Tuesday, hours after federal agents removed the 89-year-old from his home in the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills in anticipation of sending him to Germany.

Demjanjuk’s lawyers argue that he is too ill to stand trial and that his medical condition would worsen in incarceration.

The president of Dachau concentration camp memorial site, Max Mannheimer, expressed disappointment Wednesday at the delay.

“I don’t think it’s acceptable, because he had no pity with the victims,” Mannheimer said, adding, “We don’t want revenge, but justice.”

German authorities allege that the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, then 23, worked from March-September 1943 as a guard in Poland at Sobibor concentration camp, where at least 29,000 Jews died during that time.

Prosecutors in Munich issued an arrest warrant for him three weeks ago. (dpa)

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Court stays deportation of alleged Nazi war criminal – Summary

April 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington – A US federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the deportation of an alleged Nazi death camp guard to Germany, where he faces war-crimes charges. The US Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, granted the stay hours after federal agents removed John Demjanjuk, 89, from his home in the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills in anticipation of sending him to Germany.

German authorities allege that the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, then 23, worked from March-September 1943 as a guard in Poland at Sobibor concentration camp, where at least 29,000 Jews died during that time. Prosecutors in Munich issued an arrest warrant for him three weeks ago.

Demjanjuk’s attorneys had failed in attempts to halt the deportation in previous court motions, and a US Board of Immigration Appeals on Friday cleared transporting him back to Germany.

The Court of Appeals quickly granted a stay because Demjanjuk’s deportation appeared imminent, allowing more time to review the case. His lawyers argue that he is too ill to stand trial and that his medical condition would worsen in incarceration.

Immigration agents wheeled Demjanjuk from his home and took him into custody. Earlier, his attorney, John Broadley, could not confirm that his client was en route to Germany.

“I have no idea what they are planning to do with him,” Broadley said, adding that he assumes “they will be trying to bundle him on a plane as soon as possible to get him out of the jurisdiction of the American courts.”

Broadley did not immediately return phone calls seeking reaction to the Court of Appeals ruling. The US Justice Department would not comment on Demjanjuk’s status.

Following World War II, Demjanjuk lived in Germany as a refugee until 1952 when he changed his first name from Ivan to John and moved to the United States.

Demjanjuk was acquitted in 1993 by the Israeli Supreme Court of charges that he worked at a different death camp, Treblinka, saving him from the death sentence of a lower court in Israel.(dpa)

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Convergys opens 3 new call centers in Philippines, AS

April 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

MANILA, Philippines (AP) A U.S.-based call center company opened three additional facilities in the Philippines Thursday and plans to employ 4,000 more workers by the end of this year, its top official said. Dave Dougherty, president and chief executive of Cincinnati, Ohio-based Convergys Corp.

, joined Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and other officials in ceremonies to inaugurate a new call center Thursday in a technology park in Laguna province near Manila. Convergys opened another call center in suburban Quezon city and a third in Cebu city in the central Philippines also on Thursday.

Dougherty said two more call centers are under construction in the country and the company “continues to see growth and development” despite a slowing economy. He said that Convergys already employs over 16,000 people in 12 call centers in the Philippines including the three facilities just opened only five years after starting operations.

The company’s workforce will reach 20,000 by the end of the year, he added. Dougherty said the availability of well-educated and English-proficient employees who have a “strong understanding of U.S. culture” are the key to the company’s success in the Philippines.

Convergys, which has 74,000 employees worldwide, provides call center and billing services for communications and technology companies. The new contact centers will provide general support and advanced technical help desk services.

Trade Secretary Peter Favila said about 450,000 people are employed by business outsourcing operations in the Philippines with over half of those workers in call centers. “It continues to expand,” he said.

“Because of the global meltdown, there are companies overseas that would still look for the cost-efficient ways of running their businesses for which the Philippines is very strong and solid.”.

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FBI may use jihadist video to solve Somali-American terror case

April 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 3 (ANI): A 30-minute video posted this week on a jihadist Web site may be used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to solve a terror-related case involving Somali-Americans.

According to Fox News, the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area and elsewhere in the United States who traveled to war-torn Somalia to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group known as al-Shabaab.

One top-ranking official said it’s “clear” that the Internet played a role in radicalizing and recruiting these young men.

The video is a highly polished production, featuring anti-American hip-hop and sporadic images of Osama bin Laden. In much of the video, a man dubbed “The American” purportedly leads a group of al-Shabaab militants in an ambush of Ethiopian forces, which oppose an Islamic state and have backed the new Somali government.

The Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has identified “The American” as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, and described the video as a “clear appeal to foreign youth, especially in English-speaking countries, to join the jihad in Somalia.”

The FBI investigation into how young American men were recruited to join al-Shabaab in Somalia is active in Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; Boston; Seattle; and San Diego, according to testimony from counter-terrorism officials and others at the Senate hearing last month.

But reports from around the world suggest young Muslims from other Western countries, namely Canada, Australia and England, are also being recruited to join the fight in Somalia.

U.S. officials declined to comment specifically on whether officials from those countries have been working with the FBI. (ANI)

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US homegrown Somali radicals back after terror mission

March 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): Many of the Somali-American men who were recruited to join an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group have returned to the United States, but the FBI still has not revealed publicly if it is pursuing arrests in the case.

The FBI had warned that that the US is facing its most serious instance of domestic terrorism till now. A second generation of Somali immigrants are becoming increasingly radicalised and could pose a growing threat to security, according to US officials.

Al Qaeda radicalised a group of 20 young Somali American men who returned to their war-torn homeland

“Some of the guys who were missing aren’t missing anymore. Some of them got blown up and some of them came back, and some of them are still there in Somalia,” FOX News quoted a source, as saying.

For several months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area who travelled to Somalia, where some of them trained and fought with an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group known as al-Shabaab, according to counter-terrorism officials.

Asked to characterize how many of those men are now back on American soil, the source would only say that “several” have returned.

Federal authorities believe the men went to Somalia to join al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.

Minneapolis has become the hub and the media focus of the FBI’s investigation. But the FBI is casting a wide and growing net across the country, even in places hundreds of miles away from Minneapolis.

Testimony from counter-terrorism officials and others at the Senate hearing last week suggested that the FBI investigation is active in Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; Boston; Seattle; and San Diego. (ANI)

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