NH Hotels opens the NH Olomouc Congress hotel in Moravia, Czech Republic. The new NH Olomouc Congress Hotel is the second NH Hotel to be opened within the Czech Republic; however it is the first of the chain to be operating under a new management agreement.
The new hotel includes a wide range of entertainment features and a comprehensive wellness and health centre – the Omega Sport Center – which has 13 tennis, badminton and squash courts, golf facilities, as well as providing fitness and maintenance programmes in its gymnasium and a fully equipped spa area with a water area, sauna and Turkish bath. The NH Olomouc Congress hotel restaurant ’Sal de Mar’ can also offer excellent cuisine from Petr Zucek, who has already achieved two Michelin stars for his restaurant in London. The new menu combines international cuisine, with traditional Spanish tapas and many of the best recipes from around the region.
The NH Olomouc Congress Hotel is located just a short walk from the medieval centre of what is regarded as being the prettiest city in Moravia containing the second largest collection of historic monuments in the Czech Republic. Highlights include the City Council building, the Gothic Cathedral of Saint Wenceslas and the Column of the Holy Trinity, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Olomouc has had a rich religious and political past and was one of the first Jesuit missions in Central Europe. This provides a city with a genuine catalogue of artistic and cultural treasures. Its large university population also makes it a young, bustling city, with shops and clubs of a kind usually only to be found in the most cosmopolitan of cities.
The combined functionality of its 137 modern and comfortably furnished rooms or suites, large number of convention rooms and location within the heart of the bustling Moravian city’s business centre should make this hotel ideal for both tourism and business.
Consistently with the NH Hotels environmental strategy and in accordance with its slogan Wake Up to a Better World, this new Czech hotel has been designed and works in a highly environmentally aware way.
About NH Hotels:
NH Hotels is the third largest business hotel chain in Europe with hotels in Valencia and hotels in Berlin as well as Milan hotels and Madrid hotels in their repertoire. NH Hotels has 394 hotels with 58,982 rooms in 25 countries in Europe, America and Africa. NH Hotels now has 35 projects for new hotels under construction, which will provide a further 6,000 rooms.
A key feature of NH Hotels is the desire of its employees to give service and seek the satisfaction of guests through the quality of services and constant innovation. The establishments of NH Hotels offer state-of-the-art technologies to help customers with their communications, work and entertainment.
The restaurant facilities are another of the priorities for all the hotels within the chain with famous restaurateurs such as Ferrán Adrià and Paco Roncero creating pioneering spaces, such as ’nhube’, ’Fast Good’ and ’Estado Puro’ which combine restaurants, leisure and innovation for hotel guests.
For further media information please contact:
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www.nh-Hotels.com

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New York, New York, June 29, 2010, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: We continue to strongly support the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act that had its first Senate Hearing today and commend Senator Gillibrand on her efforts to move the legislation forward. We believe the bill can and should work together with the WTC Amended Settlement Process Agreement that was approved by Federal District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein last week and that will provide guaranteed, timely and fair compensation to 10,000 police, firefighters and other rescue workers who sustained injuries from their work at ground zero after 9/11.
We also continue to believe that the benefits of Zadroga should be available to individuals who participate in the settlement, and call on Congress to amend the bill so that our clients will not be penalized for participating in a settlement for which they have waited for years. This can easily be accomplished and there is Congressional precedent.
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) of 2000 – federal legislation providing compensation to certain workers who were exposed to hazardous materials at nuclear facilities – requires that compensation received under the bill be offset by any payments received from other sources, including settlements of legal claims.
Congress should amend Zadroga and adopt the EEOICPA language so that the heroes of 9/11 are not forced to make such an unnecessary choice.

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VIENNA, Va. (June 29, 2010) –TMA Resources www.tmaresources.com, a leading provider of association management software, today announced company employees, customers, partners, and friends will participate in the inaugural Wilson Bridge Half Marathon to raise money for Autism Speaks. The race will take place on September 19, 2010.
Members of “Team TMA Resources” will volunteer by running, cheering, and handing out water at the TMA Resources’ water station, located on the Virginia side of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Team individuals will collect donations that will go toward TMA Resources’ goal of collecting $10,000.00 by August 15, 2010.
“TMA Resources is proud to be a sponsor of this event. It’s a fun way to work together and more importantly raise money for a great cause,” said Edi Dor, TMA Resources President and CEO.
Autism Speaks is North America’s largest autism science and advocacy organization. The organization is dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families.
“We at Autism Speaks are so grateful for the support and enthusiasm of TMA Resources,” said Ann Gibbons, Executive Director of Autism Speaks’ National Capital Area chapter. “With the prevalence of autism now at 1 in every 110 children, we need autism to become everyone’s cause. We are especially proud of our TMA Resources runners, who are training for a significant challenge. Their support means so much to our families and their loved ones struggling with autism every day.”

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Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests said the MRV on finance assumes urgent importance in Climate Change negotiations. Making a statement at the 7th Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Rome, Italy today, he reiterated the main points he made earlier on operationalising on Para 4 and 5 of the Copenhagen Accord relating to MRV ((Measurement, Reporting and Verification). These were found useful by MEF participants.

The Minister aid, “Para 4 of the Accord enjoins the COP to develop appropriate guidelines for MRV of actions of developed country Parties. This is important to recall and stress since the entire focus in the MRV debate over the past year has been on developing country mitigation actions. It is also important that such an MRV regime includes not only MRV of emission reduction commitments but also MRV of the targets, timeframes and regimes related to the transfer of finance and technology to developing countries. The MRV on finance assumes urgent importance for all of us need to know very clearly how much of the additional $ 30 billion pledged by the developed countries during 2010, 2o11 and 2012 has materialised so far, how precisely are disbursements to take place, what the mix between bilateral and multilateral assistance is and to which countries and for what purposes are the funds going to flow. The one area where there is some clarity is REDD+ where $4.5 billion has been pledged.”

He further told, “Referring to four crucial action points are embedded in Para 5 of the Accord which are Mitigation actions of non-Annex I Parties to be communicated to UNFCCC Secretariat through NATCOM consistent with Article 12.1(b), every two years, on the basis of guidelines to be adopted by COP, Mitigation actions taken by Non-Annex I Parties will be subject to their domestic measurement, reporting and verification (DMRV), the result of which will be reported through their NATCOMs every two years and Non-Annex I Parties will communicate information on the implementation of their actions Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions of Developing Countries (NAMAs) through be recorded in a registry along with relevant technology, finance and capacity building support. They will be subject to international measurement, reporting and verification in accordance with guidelines adopted by COP.”

Shri Jairam made suggestions to put these four action points into practice. Elaborating these suggestions he informed, “International consultations and analysis as envisaged in action point # 3. Above must be based on country implementation reports (derived from the respective NATCOM) prepared by the individual countries themselves so as to fulfil the “respect for national sovereignty” promise contained within action point # 3 itself. A chapter/issue format for such reports can be agreed to by the COP.”

Giving details of second suggestion he said, “ The frequency of international consultations and analysis can be somewhat akin to the graded system adopted by the WTO for its trade policy reviews—some countries get reviewed once every two years, some others once every four years and most others once every six years or more depending on share of world trade.

There has to be a multilateral anchor for the international consultations and analysis process. The Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI) of the UNFCCC should consider, sooner rather than later, how this process should be set in motion. SBI functions under the Convention to perform this kind of work and has fairly well laid out procedures in respect of reports of both Annex I and Non Annex I countries. We should allow SBI to get on with this task and fulfil the expectations resulting from our current state of negotiations.”

“It bears repetition that the regime for MRV for Non-Annex I countries cannot be more onerous than that for the Annex I countries either in form or content or the consideration of their actions. Non-Annex I countries should have a regime that is subject to consideration in terms of Article 10. 2 (a) of the UNFCCC,” the Minister said.

Emphasising the issue of MRV he explained that it cannot be seen in the absence of another critical issue in the climate change discussions – the issue of equity. Without a working paradigm of equitable access to carbon space, what exactly will be the role and nature of MRV is far from clear and cannot be agreed. The issue of equity, equitable access to the carbon space / equitable burden sharing, should be back into the mainstream, he added. He further said that MRV must include a determination of an allocative principle and an equitable allocation of carbon space. This is particularly relevant in the context of the adequacy of actions of developed countries. Referring to the June 10, 2010 text of the AWG-LCA text, that was rejected by most Parties regarding to meet objective of deep cuts in global emissions, the minister put forward two observations.

He clarified that it has no reference to the foundational principle of CBDR and respective capabilities, which is enshrined in UNFCCC and it omits the need for a paradigm for equitable access to precede any agreement. The Minister said this is unacceptable. Any discussion on a global goal – whether for limiting temperature increase or emissions reduction – is incomplete, meaningless and impossible in the absence of such a paradigm. There is no substitute for the equitable access paradigm. Unilateral pledges, for example, do not and cannot substitute for this paradigm.

Shri Jairam said, “Equitable access has been an integral part of previous texts in the AWG-LCA, for example in the LCA Chair’s text in Copenhagen that was adopted in Copenhagen and was also in the present Chair’s May 2010 text. The previous text said in two places: (1) that a goal for emissions reduction as part of the shared vision must include “taking into account historical responsibilities and an equitable share in the atmospheric space” and (2) that Parties recognise the broad scientific view that the temperature increase should not exceed 2 or 1.5 or 1 degree, “preceded by a paradigm for equal access to global atmospheric resources. I therefore strongly propose that all of us agree to restore these texts in the relevant two places and send the message to our negotiators. Moreover, it is vital that these principles be operationalised so that the equity paradigm in sharing atmospheric space is spelt out in practical terms. Carbon space is development space and therefore we must agree on an appropriate methodology to determine carbon space that has been used up and that can be used in future, the rights and allocations for this space between developed and developing countries, including the implications for finance and technology transfers to developing countries.”

Talking about poor countries he explained that a country with low per capita income, with little infrastructure, few climate-friendly technologies and little organisational capacity requires a higher per capita emissions entitlement compared to a developed country with well developed infrastructure, technology and capacity. Thus the carbon space concept also means that poorer countries need more carbon space in order to achieve the same level of per capita income than richer countries. The carbon budgets approach, made explicit by think tanks in Germany, UK, Brazil, China, India and other countries as well as the South Centre, Geneva, provides a useful basis for conceptualising and operationalising equity, and must be brought to the mainstream of our discussions and negotiations.

Informing about an international conference on “Global Carbon Budgets and Equity in Climate Change” that India hosted in Mumbai two days back, proposals on equity and carbon budgets were discussed in great detail. He expressed the hope that the BASIC Group which is meeting in Rio de Janeiro in late-July will have a technical workshop on equity related issues. This is time to bring these concrete proposals from the margins into the core of our negotiations and to the other members in the UNFCCC. The Minister said that India would be delighted to host a meeting before Cancun to enable this discussion.

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Construction can be a tricky business. People want things done now, done yesterday, with maximum speed and minimum disruption. They want the best building they can get but they don’t want to have their route home closed for weeks while the building is being built. They want the top stuff, the ultimate money can buy, but they don’t like spending money to get it. And they want to know why they’re being charged for that whacking great crane that seems to be sitting around all day doing nothing. With crane hire, at least, that’s one complaint they can’t make.

Hiring cranes of all types is frankly the only way to fly, if one is a building contractor. Why spend days messing around with a huge, unwieldy and really rather dangerous static crane (which takes forever to assemble and is extremely hairy while so doing), when one could simply hire a mobile crane to come in and do lifts as required? There’s really no answer to that question that doesn’t sound daft. Why indeed? Getting in a mobile crane for the days on which lifts are needed cuts down on build time (one doesn’t have to take three days off to build a crane, if one’s crane hire company is just going to drive a mobile unit in on a specified day and get everything done) and expense (one doesn’t have to pay daily for a static crane that isn’t being used). Hiring mobile cranes also frees up acres of site space – space that would otherwise have been choked by the makings and foundations of a static lifting gear.

That’s not the only space saved by hiring cranes. If one hires mobile cranes, one can work in situations that simply couldn’t have been managed, while using the standard static arrangement. Mobile cranes – and, therefore, mobile crane hire – let builders work in narrow streets, in awkward areas and in previously impossible to get to sites. The lifting gear on a mobile crane is pretty much as good as the boom arm on a static – but the vehicle it’s attached to can get practically anywhere. Modern mobile cranes, after all, are mounted on a bunch of movable axles – so they can turn from anywhere, get in anywhere, and manoeuvre anywhere once they are in.

Also: if a company chooses to go down the road of crane hire, they don’t need to worry about maintenance, inspection, MOT – all of the costly stuff that comes along with owning a crane. The hire company covers all that stuff – which means anyone who has hired a crane knows it will be in tip top condition when it’s delivered. It’s really the same thing as hiring a car, only on a much grander scale. Why risk driving an old banger the length of the country, paying a fortune in fuel and garage bills, when a hire car could do the same journey for less and in much greater comfort? Crane hire is, quite simply, the only logical way to build. No wonder the business is booming.

n 2008 Nicolar Carr published a bestseller called “The Big Switch: from Edison to Google,” it’s central thesis being the strong correlation between the electrification of industry, a hundred years ago and the cloud computing industry today.

The Internet as Utility

As electricity became available via power lines, industry abandoned costly in-house infrastructure such as waterwheels and coal furnaces.

Nicolas Carr sees the same thing happening with the trillion dollar information technology industry “switching” to the cloud computing grid and ridding itself of costly in-house servers, on premise software and in-house IT labor to maintain it all.

Conceptually, I think Carr is on the right track.  The internet is becoming technical electricity. Applications and massive virtualized server farms are far more efficient and less expensive to maintain.  The IT industry will go through a dramatic transformation (again) over the next 10 years with plenty of business “disruption.” Industry titans will become obsolete and new upstarts will transform into industry titans.

Perhaps what is most exciting is the availability of a wave of valuable software applications, information and computing power at a fraction of the cost.  In other words, a lot more people/businesses will benefit from technology, have more access to valuable information, be more knowledgeable, perform fewer manual tasks and be more productive. And in the long term, keep our affluent society, affluent!

I still see organizations spending six and even seven figures customizing and implementing on-premise software. Why are these companies still implementing expensive in-house infrastructure? My answer: they budgeted for it years ago, the capital expense has been approved and its part of the 3-5 year “technology strategy.”  This approach will change.

Just as Software as a Service vendors have had to change from long development cycles to short iterative cycles that take months instead of years, businesses will also learn that there is a rapidly changing supermarket of inexpensive cloud computing technology available for them to “plug into” at anytime, for a fraction of the cost.

BRIDGEVILLE, PA, June 30, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — Geoff Davey, co-founder of FinaMetrica, and Andy Frommeyer, fi360’s director of products and services, announced they have entered into an alliance to further support fi360’s Toolkit subscribers. “Now, more than ever, advisors must have a complete understanding of their clients’ risk profile,” said Davey. “With fi360’s organizational focus on helping advisors execute their fiduciary responsibility, this new alliance will serve to further their objectives.”
One key duty of a fiduciary is to diversify assets according to the risk profile of the investor. Finametrica’s risk-profiling process provides a low-cost, easy to understand tool for gaining insight into clients’ financial attitudes, values, motivations, preferences and experiences.

“Finametrica fits in as another tool available to fi360 Toolkit users to help manage a prudent investment process,” said Frommeyer. “Our users have been asking for a well-crafted risk tolerance questionnaire. By partnering with FinaMetrica we are adding much more than a questionnaire – we are making available a best-in-class process for measuring client risk that is backed by years of research.”

Adding a Finametrica subscription to an existing fi360 Toolkit subscription provides advisors with:
- Improved quality of advice
- Enhanced regulatory and common law compliance
- Improved client understanding of financial risk and their personal risk profile
- Confidence from using an independent, expert third-party psychometric tool

“Typically, risk has been expressed as statistical measures that are difficult for investors to understand and which fail to adequately communicate the potential negative consequences an investment strategy can have on the client’s ability to meet investment objectives. Now fi360 Toolkit subscribers will be better equipped to address this critical topic with clients,” added Frommeyer.

About FinaMetrica
FinaMetrica specializes in risk tolerance and risk-related matters. The FinaMetrica risk profiling system is based on a psychometric test of personal financial risk tolerance. Psychometrics, a blend of psychology and statistics, is the scientific discipline for testing attributes such as risk tolerance. Psychometrics provides international standards for the development of tests and for evaluating the qualities of developed test. Numerous academic studies have employed the FinaMetrica test and/or FinaMetrica data. The system enables advisers to make valid and reliable assessments of their clients’ risk tolerance, incorporate those assessments into the financial planning process and explain risk meaningfully. More information: www.riskprofiling.com.

About fi360
Fi360 offers a comprehensive approach to investment fiduciary education, practice management and support that has established them as the go-to source for investment fiduciary insights. With substantiated practices as the foundation, fi360 offers world-class fiduciary training/education, tools, and resources that are essential for fiduciaries and those who provide services to fiduciaries to effectively and successfully manage their roles and responsibilities. Fi360 assists those who rely on their fiduciary education programs, including professional AIF and AIFA designees, by providing web-based analytical and reporting software and resources to achieve success. More information: Visit www.fi360.com or follow @fiduciary360 on Twitter.

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BLACK DIAMOND, WA, June 30, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — Most traders know the popular price oscillators: Stochastic, RSI, Williams %R, Price Rate of Change, etc. Price Oscillators are second only to MACD in popularity and use by retail traders. But few traders know or use a far more important category of Oscillators: The Volume Oscillators.

While price oscillators are used mostly to reveal overbought and oversold price conditions, with a high and low percentage range, volume oscillators are used to help identify the energy behind the move. To read more go to the Stocks and Commodities Magazine July 2010.

Other Stocks and Commodities Magazine Articles by Martha Stokes C.M.T.

2006-10 Issue – Your Toolkit of Indicators
2007-01 Issue – Trading Systems
2007-02 Issue – Position Trading
2007-04 Issue – The Missing Cycle
2007-09 Issue – Angle of Ascent
2007-11 Issue – Let the Indicator Fit the Market
2007 – Bonus Issue – Trading Styles
2008 – 01 Issue Forward Testing
2008 – 05 Issue The Missing Link- Options
2008-06 Issue – Robotic Trading

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NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND, June 30, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — Boots Travel Insurance has announced that it is covering claims resulting from the closure of airspace due to volcanic ash. Boots Travel Insurance will not invoke any exclusion relating to “closure of airspace by the CAA” and all the conditions and exclusions in the customer’s policy will remain unchanged.

For those policyholders waiting to go on holiday, it means that they may be able to recover the costs of their trips or journeys that would not otherwise be recoverable from another source such as the airlines, tour operators or hotels.

The same stipulations apply for those are who are left stranded abroad. Boots Travel Insurance revealed that travellers left stranded may be reimbursed a travel delay benefit which is designed to contribute towards additional costs incurred such as accommodation, depending on the length of the delay.

Boots Travel Insurance volcanic ash assures travellers visiting locations both in Europe and worldwide that they are covered in the result of any delay. However, this is only if the flight has been delayed for 12 hours or more.

Boots offers three separate cover areas; bronze, silver and gold. The bronze cover offers GBP20 for the first 12 hours and GBP10 for each extra 12 hour period the customer is delayed while the silver cover offers reimbursement of GBP30 for the first 12 hours and GBP25 for each additional 12 hour period of delay. The gold cover offers GBP40 for the first 12 hours and GBP25 for each extra delay of 12 hours.

If a Boots customer’s flight has been delayed for over 24 hours, they are then entitled to claim for pre-paid travel and accommodation expenses, pre-paid excursions, tours and activities which are non refundable from any other source. In this situation, the bronze cover claim can be as much as GBP2,000 in total while the silver and gold cover offers GBP3,000 and GBP5,000 in total respectively.

Please note that the sums referred to above relate to each person insured on a Boots Travel Insurance policy.

About Boots:
Boots UK is the UK pharmacy-led health and beauty retailing business of Alliance Boots.

Boots Pharmacy Superintendent is responsible for healthcare advice provided in relation to Pharmacy medicines and other healthcare advice located within the Boots Pharmacy pages of Boots.com. Boots.com is the trading name of Boots UK Limited (registered number 928555) a member of Alliance Boots. All other information and advice on boots.com is the responsibility of Boots UK Limited.

Boots insurance also offers customers a range of insurance options including boots dental insurance and travel insurance.

Website: http://www.boots.com/

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