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Starting April 25: New TSA Rules on Carry-On Items

March 8, 2013

(c) redjar@flickr.com The Transportation Security Administration announces new rules allowing passengers to carry small knives and some sports equipment aboard airplanes. This new rule shall allow the TSA Officers to better focus on finding higher threat items such as explosives. The blades can be up to 6 centimeters (2.36 inches) long and no more than…

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Rack Room Shoes expands its corporate headquarters in Charlotte

March 8, 2013

(c) freedigitalphotos.net Rack Room Shoes will expand its corporate headquarters in Charlotte and relocate the headquarters of its subsidiary Off Broadway Shoes, from Georgia to Charlotte. The company is going to establish new retail stores and sales over the next five years. Currently, 49 of 450 stores are located in North Carolina. The main reasons…

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Plastics company “Otto Environmental Systems” invests to expand in Charlotte

March 6, 2013

(c) photo: freedigitalphotos.net Otto Environmental Systems North America, Inc. (OESNA) will invest $7 million USD expand its Charlotte, North Carolina manufacturing plant, adding equipment and creating 32 new jobs. OESNA traces its roots back to 1934, when the original company was founded in Kreuztal, Germany. It is a subsidiary of Otto Industries North America, Inc.…

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Highest level since 2007: Regulators cracking down on U.S. companies

March 5, 2013

(c) photo: freedigitalphotos.net U.S. companies have to handle with more regulatory investigations in 2012 than in any year since 2007 referred to an annual report by Fulbright & Jaworski, a large national law firm. About 60 percent of U.S. companies hired outside counsel to represent them in such investigations compared to 55 percent in 2011…

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German Bundestag Approves Downgraded Version of a New Copyright Bill

March 4, 2013

(c) photo: freedigitalphotos.net Online aggregators like Google News are usually listing various links to articles of different online newspapers and combine them with short excerpts of these articles. On Friday, March 1, 2013, the German “Bundestag” approved a copyright bill concerning these reproductions of excerpts of online newspaper articles. If the new law passes the…

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Pax Tecum

March 4, 2013

I remember the day, not so long ago, in April 2005, when Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger, Cardinal of Munich and Freising and Dean of the College of Cardinals, was elected Pope. The first German Pope in almost 500 years! So he offended Muslims when he cited a Byzantine emperor saying that Islam brought things “evil and…

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Olympic Dreams for Charlotte?

March 2, 2013

(c) freestockphotos.biz Charlotte put itself on the map when it successfully hosted the National Democratic Convention in September 2012. Next step… the Olympics? Charlotte’s mayor Anthony Foxx, together with the mayors of 34 other cities, received a letter from the United States Olympic Committee intended to gauge interest in hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.…

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Freddie Mac Reported First Profit Since 2006

March 1, 2013

For the first time since the disastrous financial crisis struck in 2007, Freddie Mac just reported an $11 billion annual profit for 2012 — its largest ever annual gain and first profitable year since 2006. Fannie Mae, which has not yet posted its annual results, reported $9.6 billion in profit during the first three quarters…

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Impending Sequester Cuts in North and South Carolina

February 28, 2013

(c) freedigitalphotos.net On February 24th, 2013 the White House released a state-by-state report of $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board cuts to the federal budget that would go into effect on March 1st and run through the end of September if Congress and President Barack Obama can’t reach a deal to reduce spending by the end…

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Gelockerte Zuwanderung nach Deutschland für ausländische Fachkräfte

February 28, 2013

(c) freedigitalphotos.net Die Beschäftigungsverordnung von Bundesarbeitsministerin Ursula von der Leyen hinsichtlich einer Einwanderung ausländischer Fachkräfte ohne Hochschulabschluss wurde am Mittwoch vom Kabinett beschlossen. Die neue Verordnung betrifft gezielt Fachkräfte aus Staaten außerhalb der Europäischen Union und ist dazu gedacht, den Engpass in gewissen Ausbildungsberufen anzugehen. Bewerber aus den Drittstaaten sollen in Deutschland arbeiten dürfen, wenn…

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