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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Everest will be crowded again days after 4 killed

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 6, 2003 file photo, Mount Everest, at 8,850-meter (29,035-foot), the world's tallest mountain situated in the Nepal-Tibet border as seen from an airplane. Days after four people died amid a "traffic jam" of climbers scrambling to conquer Mount Everest, Nepal officials said a similar rush up the world's tallest peak will begin soon, and there's little they can do to control it. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi, File)

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) ? Days after four people died amid a traffic jam of climbers scrambling to conquer Mount Everest, Nepal officials said a similar rush up the world's tallest peak will begin soon, and there's little they can do to control it.

About 200 climbers are expected to attempt to scale the summit of the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) mountain between Friday and Sunday, Nepali mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha said. Some have been at a staging camp for days, waiting for a window of good weather during this worse-than-usual climbing season.

A similar crowd of 208 climbers headed to the summit last week, and four died Saturday in one of the deadliest days ever on the mountain.

Ha Wenyi of China, Eberhard Schaaf of Germany, Nepal-born Canadian Shriya Shah and South Korean Song Won-bin died on their descents from the summit, apparently from exhaustion and altitude sickness.

Shrestha also said a Nepalese Sherpa guide who had been reported missing reached the base camp safely on Monday. Shrestha said Tuesday the guide was separated from his group and did not have communications equipment.

The deaths have raised concerns about overcrowding above the highest camp on the mountain. The area is nicknamed the "death zone" because of the steep icy slope, treacherous conditions and low oxygen level.

Describing a "traffic jam" of climbers Saturday, Shrestha said climbers were heading to the summit at 2:30 p.m., even though 11 a.m. is the latest start time recommended. That meant climbers were staying too long at high altitudes and exhausting their oxygen supplies because they didn't anticipate having to wait.

Now, with a similarly large number of climbers expected to head up the same trail under similar conditions, Nepalese authorities acknowledged safety concerns but said they can't turn any of them away.

"The climbers have received the permits to climb within specific dates. We cannot say who gets to get to the summit on which dates because of the unpredictable weather. When weather clears up they all want to benefit," said Nepal's Tourism Ministry spokesman Bal Krishna Ghimire.

But he added that it is up to the climbers and their teams to access the conditions and safety.

"We have officials at the base camp but beyond that it is mostly up to the climbers," Ghimire said.

Ghimire said that eventually, the government plans to set up a seasonal office at the base camp equipped with doctors, weather experts and security personnel. Ghimire said they also have plans to give each climber a tracking device.

More than 3,000 people have climbed Everest since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to do it in 1953. Some 225 climbers have died attempting it.

The deadliest day was May 10, 1996, when eight people were killed. The main reason was said to be that climbers who started their ascent late in the day were caught in a snowstorm in the afternoon and lost their way.

The climbing season normally runs from late March to the first week in June, but this year the season's first clear conditions were on Friday and Saturday. A windstorm hit the higher altitudes by Saturday afternoon.

Associated Press

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America's Small-Business Fetish - Reason.com

On February 12, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) sent a message to his 62,550 followers on Twitter:??Small business is the job growth engine in this country and we need to pursue policies that reflect that reality to create jobs.? Cantor was wrong on both counts. Despite overwhelming conventional wisdom to the contrary, small businesses are not the engine of growth. And the small businesses that do create jobs rarely stay small for long, which makes crafting policies that favor those fast-growing firms both difficult and unnecessary.

The cult of the small business is so prevalent that you are treated like a heretic in Washington if you don?t pledge to do something nice for the little guys. Targeted tax credits, special regulatory exemptions, preferential access to government contracts?nothing is too good for America?s DIY manufacturers and social networking startups. Support for the Small Business Administration (SBA), a federal agency tasked with handing out goodies to the modestly sized, remains strong, despite dozens of compelling studies demonstrating that its efforts amount to little more than poorly targeted corporate welfare.

In his 2011 budget, President Barack Obama requested $1.4 billion to fund SBA programs. Most of the agency?s money is spent on special credit programs for small businesses that have difficulty getting loans from regular banks. In fiscal year 2011, the SBA guaranteed $30 billion in such loans, which theoretically don?t cost taxpayers anything. In practice, however, whenever the economy goes south, the SBA can?t cope with the number of small businesses that default on the loans. In 2011 the SBA ended up spending $6.2 billion, a $4.8 billion increase over its requested amount, mainly because so many small businesses couldn?t make their payments.

The idea that small is glorious or that small businesses are the engine of growth is based on bad economics, and the result is bad policy.

The government?s definition of a small business has become absurdly broad. The category officially includes the ?mom and pop? firms with fewer than 10 employees that most people think of when they hear the term. But companies with hundreds or even thousands of employees (depending on the industry) are also eligible for benefits and other preferences; they win the coveted designation by virtue of the fact that they are small relative to other firms in their industry. Based on the federal government?s bizarre classifications, 99.7 percent of firms in America qualify as small.?

The percentage of people who work at these small companies has remained constant during the last decade, holding steady at about 50 percent of the private sector work force. This fact alone should cast doubt on the claim that small businesses account for the bulk of new jobs. If that figure was accurate, it would mean that half of American workers are employed by 0.3 percent of firms. Shouldn?t we instead be cheering the tremendous job creation record of those powerhouse companies??

The ubiquitous statistic that small businesses create 70 percent of all net new jobs is also misleading. The source of this figure is none other than the Small Business Administration itself. In a 2005 study published by the American Enterprise Institute, I noted that to arrive at this figure, the SBA divides net small business jobs?a figure that includes every single current employee of a small business?by the net job creation from all businesses combined. This is not an accurate way to determine the share of new jobs created by small businesses.

The results can be comical: One table published by the SBA in 2005 showed that small businesses created more than 100 percent of new jobs, a truly heroic (if fantastical) result. We should stop using this junk statistic.

Our national obsession with small businesses misses the point. It?s not micro-firms that drive our new, entrepreneurial economy. Young firms?the startups that will grow to be the next Facebook?do tend to be small. But their newness is the relevant factor, not their size.

A?2010 National Bureau of Economic Research paper by University of Maryland economist John Haltiwanger and researchers at the U.S. Census Bureau found there was no consistent link between net job growth rates and the size of a business. Instead, the researchers found that firms younger than 10 years, particularly startups, are the real sources of job growth.?

Another study, published the same year by economist Tim Kane of the Kauffman Foundation, came to the same conclusion after examining more than 30 years of data from the Census Bureau?s Business Dynamics Statistics. Both large and small firms?continuously create jobs, Kane found, but also continuously destroy them. The Kauffman report found that without startups?defined as firms younger than one year old?there would be no net job creation in the United States. As Kane writes in the study, ?Startups aren?t everything when it comes to job growth. They are the only thing.??

Former Obama administration economic adviser Jared Bernstein explained this concept concisely in an October 2011 New York Times op-ed. ?It?s not small businesses that matter, but new businesses, which by definition create new jobs,? Bernstein wrote. ?Real job creation, though, doesn?t kick in until those small businesses survive and grow into larger operations.??

Today, according to Haltiwanger and his co-authors, businesses younger than a year account for 3 percent of U.S. employment but almost 20 percent of new gross jobs. Furthermore, 60 percent of small businesses that have been around more than five years act as a slight drag on the number of jobs available. These older small businesses cut about 0.5 percent more staff than they add in a typical year, according to Haltiwanger.

Real job growth comes not from people dreaming of being small but from entrepreneurs committed to building large and sustainable companies. This shouldn?t be news. A seminal 1987 study by David L. Birch, a former MIT researcher, explained that small-firm job creation occurs within a relatively few firms, the ones he calls ?gazelles.? Gazelles are high-growth entrepreneurial companies that start small and quickly grow larger. This subset of small firms, not small firms in general, is the powerful job creator of every central planner?s dreams.?

Which means that even if it were the government?s role to create jobs, it wouldn?t be able to.?No one can identify a gazelle before it leaps. The label can be applied only by looking at past growth, long after the firm has created those sought-after new jobs. Since no one knows where true innovation will come from, it is impossible to accurately pinpoint the job-creating firms in advance.

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Monday, May 21, 2012

Small Businesses are An Important Factor in the Communication ...

Small businesses are an important factor in its communication system. With this system, the business opportunity to interact with business customers, employees and even other businesses. They may also conduct other business transactions in the office just to call clients and associates. Many small businesses are service bundles or packages, because it is cheaper in relation to other services that large businesses usually buy. They may vary depending on what is included in the package, sometimes several receivers and transmitter phones.

While many business operators choose to use a wireless telephone system, because it allows them to connect to the device or intercom link and still be able to use it while doing other tasks. This process uses the signal transmission.

Small business telephone service is very similar to those that you see used at home.

It consists of a base station, which is a basic phone, caller ID, address book and answering machine. Several phones or phone connection to it is also possible, if that's what you want.

Now, this type of small business phone service to set up and easy to start. Subscribe to a VoIP service account to connect to the Internet using a router and that's all. Think about calling other contacts for business or personal call type calls, it is still very convenient. This is what small business telephone service should be reliable and also economical.

I just need to do is connect the appropriate sockets on the modem and the router, the router connected to the computer from the outlet, then connect the PC to the handset and the base is just about it. You're good to go.

Never forget to ask questions about how to go on and continue this type of service. In addition, ask the right people who have the appropriate knowledge about the type of goods or services. It is important to have the knowledge and back ground with this type of stuff before a telephone agreement, and that it operates effectively. With a reliable small business telephone services, the problem is missing important phone calls or do not know who the caller is sure to be removed.

It's not easy to know in advance how long you expect to spend each month for calls to your cell phone, but to try and assess the way that you can choose a mobile phone plan that gives good rates for that usage level. Incremental tax structure is a single, more minutes of talk time you purchase a cheaper price per minute. You make a call during the day also affects the interest rate you pay, usually at peak days)

Small business telephone service has a lot to offer to call and communicate with other clients and partners around the world, depending on the added features are installed service. Apparently a lot of small businesses benefit from this type of service because it costs more cheaply than by any other well-known phone service is. This simple but highly reliable service is ideal for small businesses in particular are new and growing.

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Illinois Wedding Photographer: Finding the Best

An Illinois wedding photographer can capture best images of a very special event in your life which is your wedding. Some photographers are gifted ones. These photographers didn?t attend a school of photography but are able to produce high-quality pictures. Other photographers, on the other hand, spend months or even years in a photography school. So that you can have the best shots of your wedding, you have to find an expert wedding photographer. You have to bear in mind that your wedding will happen only once. If you are not able to get a good photographer, you will never have something to make you remember of one memorable event in your life.For you to find a good photographer, you should make use of the resources that you have at the moment. If you have friends, who know good photographers, ask suggestions from them. Surfing the internet also for a list of photographers can help you in your search. Aside from friends and internet searches, you can just browse wedding magazines and you can already find a bunch of good wedding photographers.

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Diet Food: Restaurant Franchising - Healthy Food Businesses in the ...

Long gone are the days when restaurant franchising was purely synonymous with fast food burger joints and pizza parlours. The industry has now branched out and restaurant franchises include not only themed food from countries all across the globe, but also internet cafes, coffee stalls, tea shops, sandwich bars and cookie outlets. Many involve several food and drink types, combining coffee, smoothies, juice and other drinks with muffins, bagels, baguettes and wraps. One of the newest restaurant franchising opportunities in the UK focuses on the health trend, with all menu items having some health benefit. Healthy eating venues emphasise their use of fresh, quality nutritionally balanced, high-flavour ingredients and pride themselves on their "green" credentials, their aim being to run a responsible and sustainable business. They may offer organic or free range produce, or items which have a reduced carbon footprint, for example locally sourced meat or home grown vegetables and they will try and use environmentally friendly packaging where possible.

Until recently, healthy eating in the UK had a (possibly deserved) reputation for bland and boring food, bound to leave you still feeling hungry. However, limp lettuce leaves and dry crackers have been consigned to the past, according to one new healthy eating restaurant franchise which is planning to expand across London and the south east and hopes to revolutionise the healthy eating market. To create an exciting new healthy food experience for the UK market, the new business has a large salad and wrap bar with a choice of fifteen house combinations, or customers can create their own. It also has a range of healthy sandwiches and wraps, with full nutritional and calorific content displayed. Their breakfast menu includes a range of toasted granary bread, lean bacon rolls on low GI granary bread, yoghurts and granola as well as fresh juices and fair-trade, organic coffee. In the winter months they plan to serve hot salads and soups, handmade chillies and stews, Scottish po rridge and jacket potatoes.

Prices at restaurants and cafes specialising in healthy food tend to be higher than those at fast food outlets and are therefore usually found in affluent areas, or where consumers are more likely to be health or image conscious, such as health clubs, gyms, leisure centres and private clinics or hospitals. NHS hospitals have in the past rented out their catering spaces to fast food restaurant franchises, but these contracts are mostly due to end within the next two to three years. There is mounting pressure on the Government to take more action on obesity and health lobbyists have been campaigning for an end to fast food outlets in hospitals. It appears, therefore, that there will be a gap in the market and one which healthy eating restaurant franchises will be eager to fill. So it appears very likely that the health food restaurant franchising business is set for success in the UK.

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