Friday, March 30, 2012

Pope ends Cuba trip, calls for 'basic freedoms'

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider Wins ?Merger Control Matter of the Year- Americas? and ?Lawyer of the Year? Awards from Global Competition Review

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Romney, Santorum head to Ill., next battleground

BAYAMON, Puerto Rico (AP) ? Looking toward the critical primary in Illinois, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney wrapped up a shortened campaign trip to Puerto Rico on Saturday as he prepared for more tough contests against chief rival Rick Santorum.

The former Massachusetts governor dramatically curtailed his trip to the U.S. territory, which holds its primary Sunday, in favor of spending more time in Illinois, where polls have shown him slightly ahead of Santorum. Romney had planned to spend the weekend and visit a polling place Sunday, but instead left the island immediately after a morning appearance.

Santorum left Puerto Rico earlier this week and spent the morning in Missouri, where he already won a primary that awarded no delegates. Missouri Republicans were meeting in county caucuses Saturday, the first step toward choosing delegates to the national convention who are committed to specific candidates. Santorum then headed to Illinois Saturday afternoon, where he went on the attack against Romney.

"If you want to know where Mitt Romney's going to be, just watch the Weather Channel," Santorum said in a high school gymnasium in the town of Herrin.

Romney campaigned Saturday morning with Puerto Rican Gov. Luis Fortuno, shopping for tropical fruit and meeting with voters a day after a massive, energetic rally in San Juan celebrated his arrival here.

"It was Ronald Reagan who very famously in our party said that it was important for the people of Puerto Rico to have the choice to become a state, and if the people of Puerto Rico choose that path, I will be happy to lead that effort in Washington," Romney said after the crowd began chanting "Statehood now! Statehood now!"

The island's political status ? statehood, independence or no change ? is the critical issue underlying Sunday's primary. Puerto Ricans will vote on the island's status in November.

Romney has support from much of the establishment here, including Fortuno, who supports making the island the fifty-first state, and Romney is confident about his prospects for winning many of the island's 20 delegates.

Santorum campaigned here earlier in the week and said he would support statehood if the November vote were decisive. Santorum also spent days explaining his comment that English would have to become the island's main language for Puerto Rico to realize statehood. That's an emotional issue because only a fraction of Puerto Rico's residents speak English fluently, and many feel strongly about controlling their own cultural and linguistic identity.

Puerto Rico's delegates will be split proportionally among the candidates, though if someone wins more than 50 percent of the vote they'll receive all 20.

As he shopped for tropical fruit ? including papayas, mangoes and clementines ? Romney said he was "cautiously optimistic that we're going to do well in Puerto Rico."

He was less certain about Illinois.

"You know, I hope that we're going to do well there as well. But I'm going to be there this afternoon, so we'll see," Romney said.

Romney wasn't initially supposed to be in Illinois on Saturday. That was before he lost Mississippi and Alabama to rival Santorum, ratcheting up pressure for him to do well in Illinois. Romney has eked out victories over Santorum in Michigan and Ohio, two other critical Midwestern states, as he has struggled to stave off the former Pennsylvania senator's challenge.

Much of the public polling shows Romney ahead in Illinois, and aides say he's helped by urban and suburban voters in and around Chicago.

But they say that after the ups and downs of the past few months, they're not taking the state for granted.

"This is not a cycle for confidence. This is a cycle for hard work," said Ron Kaufman, a top Romney adviser.

To that end, Romney added an extra Illinois stop Friday morning, and he will campaign in Edwardsville, near St. Louis, Mo. He now has a full day of campaigning in Illinois on Sunday, with three campaign stops and an appearance on Fox News Sunday.

Speaking to voters in southwestern Illinois, Romney seized on rising gas prices and called on President Barack Obama to fire Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator.

"This trio of his energy team has been working like crazy to drive up the price of gasoline," Romney said. "The gas hike trio ought to resign."

Santorum, campaigning in the southern part of the state as well, was looking to lay the ground for another primary shocker on Tuesday, lumping fellow Republican Mitt Romney and Obama on everything from health policy to fossil-fuel regulations.

"People ask me why I am the best candidate to run against Barack Obama," Santorum said. "I feel like in some respects like I am running against Barack Obama here in this primary because Mitt Romney has the same positions as Barack Obama in this primary."

Earlier Saturday Santorum attended at a rally of about 100 people in the gymnasium of a Christian school that was to host a caucus a couple hours later. He spoke less than four minutes and shook hands for another 10 before heading out to another caucus site. He arrived earlier than scheduled and left before some supporters got there.

Acknowledging there would be no winner Saturday, Santorum told a reporter that Missouri's caucuses still were important.

"Delegates. It's as simple as that. They matter," Santorum said.

Romney leads Santorum in delegates nationwide 495 to 252, according to the latest count by The Associated Press. At his caucus-site visits, Santorum noted he was being outspent by Romney but said he can overcome that.

"We don't have the money," Santorum said at a grocery-store caucus site in Wildwood. "We have you, and I'll tell you what ? I'll take you over the money any day of the week."

___

Associated Press writers David A. Lieb in Town and County, Mo., Jim Salter in Wildwood, Mo., Brian Bakst in Effingham, Ill., and Steve Peoples in Collinsville, Ill., contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-santorum-head-ill-next-battleground-181927002.html

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

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It is undeniable that the spanish speaking population of the United States is getting bigger every day. However, most small business marketing experts are neglecting this fact. While some large retailers, such as for example ?Best Buy? offers their home page in both english and spanish most small business owners are only offering their website and social media in english. Some new research from Forrester may shed some light on the user patterns of hispanic social media users.

What I found most interesting about this research is that hispanics have taken to social media much more than their non-hispanic counterparts ? which is especially visible with the use of hispanic grandmothers compared to non-hispanics.

According to a Forrester study, ?Social Media Is Mainstream For Online Hispanics,? Hispanics are actively more engaged across a number of social media channels. In comparison to non-Hispanic adults, Hispanics online are more likely to create, critique and collect content.Additionally, Hispanics are more likely to join groups or act as spectators to on-going open online forums. Given the manner in which technology has evolved how we communicate, social media has provided a channel for Hispanics to make their voices heard. The age of Hispanic social media is here and here to stay.

At this time this website is only available in english ? but we do run some other sites which are available in multiple languages. Do you offer your social media and websites in other languages? Let me know in the comments below ? and please don?t forget to share.

Source: http://www.smallbusinessmarketingstuff.com/2012/03/17/small-business-social-media-marketing-for-a-spanish-speaking-population/

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N. Korea to launch long-range rocket

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? North Korea announced plans Friday to blast a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket, a provocative move that could jeopardize a weeks-old agreement with the U.S. exchanging food aid for nuclear concessions.

The North agreed to a moratorium on long-range launches as part of the deal with Washington, but it argues that its satellite launches are part of a peaceful space program that is exempt from any international disarmament agreements. The U.S., South Korea and other critics say the rocket technology overlaps with belligerent uses and condemn the satellite program as a disguised way of testing military missiles in defiance of a U.N. ban.

[Related: U.S. condemns satellite plans]

The launch is to take place three years after a similar launch in April 2009 drew widespread censure.

Japan urged Pyongyang to abandon the latest launch, calling it a violation of a U.N. resolution restricting the North's use of ballistic missile technology, and South Korea called the plans a "grave provocation."

The liftoff is slated for between April 12 and 16 from a west coast launch pad in North Phyongan province to test satellite technology, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said in a statement carried by state media.

The plan comes as North Korea prepares to celebrate the April 15 centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung. Kim's grandson, Kim Jong Un, has led the nation of 24 million since his father, Kim Jong Il, died in December.

"The window for the launch is important in terms of the domestic politics of the North," said Daniel Pinkston, an expert on North Korea's weapons programs at the International Crisis Group. He said the launch serves to underline North Korea's military capabilities and reinforce Kim's fledgling rule.

Kim Jong Il had been grooming the son to take over as leader since suffering a stroke in 2008. Footage aired Friday on state-run TV showed Kim Jong Un observing the 2009 rocket launch.

Such a launch aims to reinforce unity at home by provoking new tensions that will allow its leadership to portray the country as beset by hostile forces. A third nuclear test could be next, Pinkston said.

The launch also jeopardizes the recent food aid deal with the U.S., he said.

"I can't see how the U.S. is going to deliver this food aid," he said. "I think this is going to kill it."

North Korea agreed last month to suspend uranium enrichment, place a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests, and to allow back U.N. weapons inspectors in exchange for much-needed food aid. Uranium enrichment is one way to make atomic bombs. In the past North Korea has also weaponized plutonium for nuclear devices.

[Factbox: North Korea's missile, satellite programs]

North Korea called the April 2009 launch a bid to send a communications satellite into space, but it was widely viewed in the West as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibiting North Korea from engaging in nuclear and ballistic missile activity.

Shortly after the 2009 launch from an east coast station, Pyongyang declared that it would abandon six-nation negotiations on offering the North aid and concessions in exchange for nuclear disarmament. And weeks later, North Korea tested a nuclear device, the second in three years ? earning the regime tightened U.N. sanctions.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura told a news conference Friday that Japan has set up a crisis management taskforce at the Prime Minister's Office to monitor the situation and is cooperating with the U.S. and South Korea.

"We believe a launch would be a move to interfere with our effort toward a dialogue, and we strongly urge North Korea not to carry out a satellite launch," he said.

Japan is part of the now-stalled six-party disarmament talks aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons program. The U.S., South Korea, China and Russia also are parties to the talks.

North Korea is proud of its nuclear and missile programs, which it claims are necessary to protect itself against the United States, which stations more than 28,000 troops in South Korea and has thousands more troops as well as nuclear-powered warships in Asia-Pacific region.

North Korea and the United States fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953. They have never signed a peace treaty.

North Korea is believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for four to eight "primitive" atomic bombs, according to scientist Siegfried Hecker of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

Pyongyang also announced in 2009 that it would begin enriching uranium, and revealed the facility to Hecker and North Korea expert Robert Carlin during a November 2010 visit to the Yongbyon nuclear complex.

The North Korean space committee spokesman said a Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite designed to orbit the earth will be mounted on an Unha-3 rocket from the Sohae station in Cholsan County. He called it a "working" satellite that was an improvement over two previous "experimental" satellites.

The spokesman said North Korea would abide by international regulations governing the launch of satellites for "peaceful" scientific purposes and that an orbit was chosen to avoid showering debris on neighboring nations.

North Korea provided similar notice in 2009, but launched the rocket over Japan despite warnings from world leaders that it would set the nation on a path of isolation.

In 2009, North Korea said an experimental communications satellite mounted on a three-stage Unha-2 rocket was sent into space playing "Song of Gen. Kim Il Sung" and "Song of Gen. Kim Jong Il."

The U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command and South Korea's Defense Ministry said no satellite made it into orbit.

In Seoul, the Unification Ministry said it had no comment Friday. South Korea is due to host the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul in two weeks, and North Korea's nuclear program was expected to be discussed on the sidelines of the gathering of world leaders.

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Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee, Stephen Wright and Sam Kim contributed to this report from Seoul, South Korea and Mari Yamaguchi contributed from Tokyo.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-says-launch-long-range-rocket-042546009.html

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