Jobs boost following firm's ?8 million investment

AN ?8 MILLION plus investment in new plant equipment means that over 100 jobs will be created by the Hawk Group, which has sites at Prees and Wem.

The move will expand the group?s plant hire fleet and create jobs throughout the company, with the aim of winning more business from international companies.

Sixty new hydraulic excavators and 20 telehandlers have been purchased, increasing the fleet by ten per cent.

The Hawk Group, based in Wem, has placed the order for excavators with manufacturers Marubeni Komatsu.

The purchase is part of the renewal and expansion programme for the light plant division to meet customer?s demands for the latest equipment.

The excavators vary from three to 14 tonnes. The firm has also bought 20 new telehandlers from industry giants Caterpillar.

Mike Hawkins, chairman of The Hawk Group said: ?We are making a major investment in equipment to ensure our customers are getting the latest technology with the advantages of lower emissions, reduced fuel consumption and promoting greater efficiency.

?Along with our large investment we will create new jobs in the UK and overseas, offering opportunities for a variation of skills both office and site based.

?The investment is being made to provide an enhanced range of equipment to our clients and to continue the development of our business as one of the leading plant hirers in the global market.?

Equipment will be offered to clients throughout the UK and international customers on projects throughout the world.?

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Source: http://www.whitchurchherald.co.uk:80/news/109237/jobs-boost-following-firm-s-8-million-investment.aspx

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Are We Lumberjacks?: Cute -- How Pets Play

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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio might be just the ticket for vice president

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Here's a question that's being raised none too soon: Whom will Mitt Romney select as his running mate?

Several names have been suggested, including Condoleezza Rice and Sen. Rob Portman, of Ohio. Rice's interest isn't clear and Portman, despite his personal qualities and swing-state bona fides, would merely add a snooze button to Romney's campaign.

Latest to the list is the young and junior senator from Florida, Marco Rubio. His political resume: nine years as a state legislator, including two as speaker of the Florida House; enormous popularity with tea partiers who sent him to the U.S. Senate over Republican Gov. Charlie Crist; a Cuban heritage and, thus, his presumed appeal to Hispanic voters; he's young at just 40 and, it never hurts, attractive.

Add to the above that Florida is a crucial swing state, the population of which is 22.5 percent Hispanic.

No one is ever perfect, of course, and Rubio critics will cite his chronologically challenged rendition of his parents' exile from Cuba. Rubio claimed that they were driven out by Fidel Castro when, in fact, they left Cuba before Castro took over the island nation. Rubio later explained that the date, though incorrect, didn't diminish the family's experience of exile when, upon Castro's rise to power, they didn't feel they could return to Cuba.

For Cubans who had to leave their homeland with empty pockets and broken hearts, their homes ravaged and their belongings confiscated by revolutionary rebels, Rubio's exaggeration no doubt stung. But fatal for Rubio? Not likely. It is possible to imagine that growing up in south Florida, where Spanish is a first language and displacement is the Cuban community's core identity, Rubio can be understood to have embraced the larger cultural narrative as his own. As he put it in an editorial for Politico, "I am the son of exiles. I inherited two generations of unfulfilled dreams. This is a story that needs no embellishing."

Of perhaps greater value to Democrats is Rubio's attractiveness to tea partiers. Thanks to media portraits of tea party members as tantrum-throwing ignoramuses with racist tendencies, the argument would be that Rubio can't appeal to a broader spectrum of voters. This argument has some merit, but only if you haven't heard Rubio speak or paid attention to his message. Rubio isn't just a poster boy for the shrink-government contingent. Much like Barack Obama, he's a monument to the American Dream. Like Obama, he speaks often about the privilege of being an American and of possessing a birthright that allows the son of a bartender and a maid to become a U.S. senator. Only in America.

But unlike Obama, Rubio condemns rhetoric that seeks to divide the American people against each other. He shuns the idea that some are worse off because others are doing better. In a year-end address to the Senate about his first year in office, Rubio articulated a conservative road map that is equal parts tough love and compassion and that combines the conservatism of Ronald Reagan with the conciliatory charm of Bill Clinton. He is a human composite of sunny optimism and urgent realism. If it wasn't a stump speech, it should be.

Saying we're not a nation of haves and have-nots, but a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, Rubio pointed out three obstacles to prosperity: a "crazy" tax code, complicated regulations that kill small businesses, and a national debt that exceeds the economy.

Obama inherited a bad economy, Rubio conceded, but, mathematically speaking, the country now is in worse shape with higher debt, unemployment and poverty. Rubio said that clearing these obstacles and creating a realistic plan to reduce the debt and deficit would lead to greater prosperity, which would lead to more jobs, which would mean more taxpayers and therefore more revenue for, among other things, Medicare funding and infrastructure repairs.

You won't find a Republican who doesn't agree with this assessment, but you also won't find any who can deliver the argument with greater passion or less-divisive rhetoric. This is the Rubio that Democrats should fear, and to whom Romney no doubt is well attuned.

Washington Post Writers Group

Kathleen Parker is a syndicated columnist.

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Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0105-parker-20120105,0,5045042.story?track=rss

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How To Unlock and Root The Verizon Galaxy Nexus (Easy Way)

One of the nice things about the Galaxy Nexus is the ability to unlock the bootloader and install custom ROMS and modifications.

I showed you how to unlock the Galaxy Nexus already, but I found a much easier method for unlocking and rooting the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon.

Read: Galaxy Nexus Review

This guide will show you how to unlock and root the Galaxy Nexus on a Windows PC or a Mac, and takes significantly less time and effort.

Before you unlock and rot your Galaxy Nexus, know that it does void your warranty and there is a possibility of breaking your phone. If that happens we are not responsible.

What You Need

1. Verizon Galaxy Nexus
2. SuperBoot
3. Samsung Driver
4. Additional USB Drivers
5. A Backup of your files

This process will erase?everything?on your phone. Before you unlock your phone, be sure to backup your photos and files to your computer. If you are on a Mac, you?ll need this guide to connect the Galaxy Nexus to a Mac.

How to Unlock and Root the Galaxy Nexus

Before we start, turn on USB Debugging on your Galaxy Nexus by going to Settings ? > Developer Options -> Turn on USB Debugging.

1. Unzip Superboot.

2. Open the folder and copy all of those files by pressing Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+C.

3. Go to My Computer, Go to Your C: drive and create a folder called root.

4. Paste those files in this new folder.

5. While in your root folder hold shift and right-click. Choose Open Command Here.

On MAC

? Open Terminal.

? Type cd C:/ and press enter.

? Type cd root.

6. Turn your phone off.

7. Plug it into your computer.

8. Hold Volume Up, Volume Down and Power until it boots into bootloader mode. You?ll see a screen shown above.

9. If the drivers do not install correctly, you will need to open up Device Manager on your computer and choose the Samsung USB drivers.

- Unzip the Samsung Drivers you downloaded to somewhere you can find, the Desktop is a good place.

- Click Start and choose Control Panel.

- Click on System and Security

- Choose Device Manager

Once in Device Manager, look for an entry that says Android 1.0 with a yellow exclamation point next to it.

- Double click to open it up.

- Click on Update Driver.

- Choose Browse my computer for driver software.

- Navigate to the driver folder on your desktop and click Open.

- This should install the file and allow your computer to connect to your Galaxy Nexus.

10. Go back to the Command Prompt you opened up earlier.

11. type fastboot-windows oem unlock and hit Enter.

On Mac ? ./fastboot-mac oem unlock in Terminal

12. When your phone asks if you want to ?Unlock Bootloader?? use the volume button to choose yes and press power to select.

13. You?ll be back at the Bootloader screen, but?should?see unlocked at the bottom of your phone?s screen.

Don?t unplug or restart your phone yet

14. Open up your root folder on your computer and double click on install-superboot-windows.bat.

15. Your phone should root and go to the Black Google Screen shown below.

16. Your phone will stay on this screen for 5 to 15 minutes. Do not pull the battery until at least fifteen minutes have passed or you could break your phone. I had to wait 15 minutes and pull the battery to get this to work.

If your phone gets stuck in the boot sequence, flashing the Google startup color sequence, do not pull the battery. Wait the 10 ? 15 minutes and try to turn off the phone by holding the power button. If all else fails, you can try?pulling?the battery, but only after you have waited 10 t 15 minutes.

You are now unlocked and rooted. If you want to know what to do next, I suggest you check out Chris?s Custom Galaxy Nexus setup.

Thanks to Cyber Warrior on Android Central for the base of this Guide.

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Boeing wins $3.48 billion U.S. missile defense contract (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Boeing Co beat out Lockheed Martin to retain its position as the prime contractor for the U.S. long-range missile shield, the Pentagon said on Friday.

The U.S. Defense Department said it was awarding Boeing a $3.48 billion, seven-year contract to develop, test, engineer and manufacture missile defense systems.

A team led by Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co had vied with Boeing to expand and maintain the Ground-based Midcourse Defense, or GMD, hub of layered antimissile protection.

Boeing partnered with Northrop Grumman Corp to retain the work.

"We believe the government conducted a fair and open competition, making the right decision for the future of the program," Norm Tew, Boeing vice president and program director of GMD, said in a statement.

Lockheed said it was "honored" to have participated on the bid, a company spokesperson said in a statement on Friday.

The GMD contract's value to Boeing will have been about $18 billion from January 2001, when it formally became the system's prime contractor, through the end of this year, Boeing has said.

GMD uses radar and other sensors plus a 20,000-mile fiber optic communications network to cue interceptors in silos at Fort Greely, Alaska and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

The shield has been shaped initially to guard against ballistic missiles that could be fired by Iran and North Korea. It is the only U.S. defense against long-range missiles that could be tipped with chemical, biological or nuclear warheads.

(Writing by Patrick Temple-West; reporting By Jim Wolf and Karey Wutkowski; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/usmilitary/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111231/bs_nm/us_boeing_missiledefense

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Provider of Technology Solutions for Legal Profession, EPIQ ...

EPIQ Systems, Inc., a provider of technology solutions for the legal profession, has acquired De Novo Legal LLC, a U.S. e-discovery provider, for an approximate $70 million.

For 2011 on a pro forma basis, De Novo represents an estimated 30 to 40 percent revenue increase to Epiq?s projected standalone e-discovery segment.

Christopher Olofson, president and COO of Epiq Systems, was quoted as saying in the December 28^th nasdaq.com press release: ?Today?s acquisition further advances Epiq?s leadership position in the attractive e-discovery space. With a strong customer base and extensive track record for successful client engagements, De Novo is an excellent addition to our e-discovery business. We see a significant opportunity in 2012 and are positioned well for strong growth.?

The company?s credit facility funded the closing consideration. As well, the transaction includes a deferred cash component and an opportunity for contingent consideration based on future revenue growth.

Epiq said De Novo Legal has particular prominence in managed review services.

Epiq, headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas, had originally introduced an organically developed service extension for managed review in 2009. Epiq said the De Novo acquisition further strengthens its global e-discovery franchise, providing corporate legal departments and law firms with full-service capabilities to manage electronic information for discovery, investigations, regulatory issues, compliance, and related legal matters.

Epiq said De Novo has document review centers in key strategic locations in the United States and is among the largest providers of managed review and staffing services. De Novo also offers clients e-discovery processing and hosted review platforms.

Epiq has full-service e-discovery operations in New York and Phoenix domestically, and London and Hong Kong internationally.

Epiq Systems is a leading provider of integrated technology products and services for the legal profession. Our software applications and Web-based platforms offer case management and document management solutions for electronic discovery, legal notification, claims administration, and controlled disbursement.

Top law firms, corporate legal departments, bankruptcy trustees, and other legal professionals rely on Epiq Systems for full lifecycle support of administratively complex matters spanning bankruptcy, class action, settlements, financial transactions, litigation and regulatory compliance. We offer clients extensive professional services based on deep subject matter expertise and years of firsthand experience working on many of the largest, most high profile and complex client engagements.

Epiq Systems, Inc. has fourteen locations in the United States, Europe and Asia and trades on the NASDAQ national market under the symbol EPIQ.

De Novo Legal was founded in 2001 and is solely focused on operating the entire lifecycle of E-Discovery projects. Its full service solutions offer the legal industry?s only Integrated Electronic Discovery platform available on a dedicated national footprint. De Novo Legal?s clients enjoy a single point of accountability to manage and operate the full lifecycle of E-Discovery projects, wherever required.

The company?s strategic goal is to work with a limited number of national clients in order to provide extraordinary service. By having fewer clients, data can be processed within hours and document review projects can begin the next day. Clients cannot wait for projects to start and we have invested heavily in dedicated resources to insure that they don?t.

De Novo Legal?s sole focus on Integrated E-Discovery solutions provides an extraordinary amount of high-level service to law firms and corporate legal departments. De Novo Legal has the proven experience and depth of knowledge to assist with the daily operation of projects, thus relieving the burden currently overwhelming a legal organization?s own staff. De Novo is flexible to the changing needs and future trends of E-Discovery and Document Review and has made the large investment required to offer highly available and scalable solutions.

Source: http://www.jdjournal.com/2011/12/29/provider-of-technology-solutions-for-legal-profession-epiq-systems-acquires-de-novo-legal-e-discovery-provider/

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