Esquea Dice el PRD precisa hoy más que nunca la unidad interna para encabezar una oposición firme y útil.

    Dr. Emmanuel Esquea Guerrero 

SANTO DOMINGO.- “El Partido Revolucionario Dominicano precisa de su unidad interna, no solo para encabezar una oposición firme y al mismo tiempo útil a los mejores intereses de la sociedad, sino también para devolverle al país un instrumento idóneo capaz de superar la crisis y reorientar el rumbo de la Nación Dominicana”.

Al formular el planteamiento, el doctor Emmanuel Esquea Guerrero sostuvo que además de su unidad el PRD necesita una dirección institucional  que respete y haga respetar la disciplina, que garantice reglas claras en los procesos democráticos internos, y que sus decisiones y orientaciones sirvan a los propósitos de cohesión modernidad y desarrollo  que demanda el pueblo dominicano.

Expresó que las enseñanzas del doctor José Francisco Peña Gómez valen hoy tanto como ayer, recordando que el fenecido líder perredeista tenía en su entorno más íntimo a dirigentes políticos probados, a intelectuales de la más encumbrada élite, a amigos entrañables, a compañeros y compañeras de toda la vida.

Sin embargo, al momento de escoger a quien debía sucederle en el mando, el doctor Peña Gómez tomó la decisión de proponer como presidente del Partido, a un dirigente que garantizaba la disciplina y el respeto a los principios del PRD.

Manifestó que garantiza la integración del liderazgo partidario a las tareas políticas, las reglas claras, la disciplina interna, la transparencia, la distribución equitativa de los recursos del partido para todos los organismos y las candidaturas en los años de elecciones

El aspirante a dirigir de nuevo esa organización dijo que PRD necesita ser relanzado, mediante la articulación de un proceso de educación política e ideológica, aunando a sus dirigentes y militantes, con el propósito de emplear las tecnologías que le permitan servir con eficiencia y eficacia al pueblo dominicano.

Expresó que el PRD, junto a la sociedad civil organizada: los empresarios industriales y agrícolas, gremios de profesionales, trabajadores organizados, jóvenes, amas de casa, está llamado a gobernar, orientado por un Plan de Nación que propicie el desarrollo armónico y equitativo de la sociedad Dominicana. 

Fuente: El Periodico Digital de Esquea http://www.esqueaprd2013.com/

y en Facebook: Esquea PRD 2013

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Nieto de Trujillo incursionaría en política de República Dominicana.

Nieto de Trujillo incursionaría en política de República Dominicana.

     L. Ramfis Dominguez Trujillo 

      Nieto del Presidente Trujillo en la Republica Dominicana

      Durante el Periodo 1930-1961

      
MIAMI, Estados Unidos.- Un nieto del dictador Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina está contemplando seriamente la posibilidad de incursionar en la política activa de la República Dominicana.
Se trata de Ranfis Domínguez Trujillo, hijo de Angelita Trujillo (su nombre completo es María de Los Ängeles del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús), laúnica sobreviviente de los hijos del hombre que con mano dura gobernó 31 años (1930-1961) el país caribeño.
Ranfis, quien lleva el mismo nombre del mayor de los hijos del Dictador (ya fallecido), sopesa los pedidos de que se lance a la arena política, hechos por personas radicadas tanto aquí como en la República Dominicana, quienes dicen estar preocupadas por los altos niveles de inseguridad ciudadana, de endeudamiento y de desatención a las necesidades prioritarias en el país.
La última reunión de esos promotores tuvo lugar el sábado último en la mañana en Casa Larios, de la ciudad de Miami, donde prácticamente cerraron un ala de dicho restaurante por la cantidad de participantes que se presentaron, según supo ALMOMENTO.NET.
Esta no es la única vez que tiene lugar este tipo de actividad. Otras se han efectuado en Puerto Rico, Nueva York y Boca de Ratón. En este último lugar de La Florida se dice que está el mayor apoyo económico a este nuevo movimiento.
Además de Angelita, el dictador Trujillo tuvo otros dos hijos con su última esposa, María Martínez. Son ellos Ramfis, quien murió en diciembre de 1969, días después de un accidente automovilístico en España, y Radhamés, quien murió en Colombia ejecutado en un ajuste por el Cartel De Cali en fecha no precisada.

Autor: SAUL PIMENTEL
Fuente: alMOMENTO.net

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Peter's Club: A Cocktail Of Inner Sounds, One Image, Then One Sound.

Peter's Club

The bianca Story & Jan Blomqvist LIVE.

Peter's Club

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GM: Global IT Command Center. Google, Facebook and eBay.

GM Channels Google, Facebook and eBay With New High-Tech Data Center

Joann Muller, Forbes Staff

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GM's new global IT command center

General Motors GM -1.34% today unveiled a state-of-the-art $130-million enterprise data center at its Technical Center in Warren, Mich., and said it will open a second, mirrored site at its Milford, Mich., vehicle proving grounds — part of a sweeping overhaul of its global IT operations.

For nearly three decades, the automaker has outsourced 90 percent of its information technology management to companies like H-P, Cisco and others at a cost of up to $3 billion. But when chief executive Daniel F. Akerson joined GM’s board after its 2009 bankruptcy, he quickly realized that one of the reasons GM struggled to compete was that it didn’t have a good handle on critical information, which hampered decision-making. His goal is to reverse that, and bring 90 percent of its IT management back in-house.

“If we are going to win, we must turn IT into a competitive advantage and not treat it as something that is just a utility,” Akerson said Monday at a press conference marking the opening of the new data facility.

“Having a single nerve center for our global operations will get newer vehicle designs and technologies into our customers’ hands quicker and improve the bottom line,” he said. “IT is back home where it should be, and it further drives unnecessary complexity from our businesses while improving our operational efficiency and better supporting our business strategy.”

The reversal in strategy also presented GM with an opportunity to benchmark the best data-handling companies in the world, including Google GOOG -0.28%, Facebook FB +0.52% and eBay, to ensure that its new data centers would employ the most modern and energy-efficient infrastructure.

The new Warren IT hub, for instance, is designed for future expansion to handle the increasingly complex computer simulations needed by GM teams working on vehicle design, fuel economy, safety, and quality requirements. Mainframe computers, servers and networking equipment are stored in four rooms, or quads, each about 10,000 square feet. Two of them have been completed so far. The Milford data center announced Monday will be identical, providing redundancy to minimize risk.

To cool all those computers, GM chose to blow air into the room from cold water pipes running through the sub floor instead of relying on traditional air conditioners. Backup power comes from unique rotating flywheels and diesel generators to ensure uninterrupted electrical power. The company expects a 40 percent improvement in energy efficiency and is hoping to achieve the LEED Gold environmental standard.

The two centers will replace 23 separate IT sites worldwide and will connect all of GM’s global operations through a secure, private cloud. GM said between the two centers and the new equipment, it will spend about $546 million.

Separately, GM is opening four IT innovation centers around the country, where thousands of newly hired tech workers will develop new software programs to help GM with its mission to “design, build and sell the world’s best automobiles.”

“Our data center consolidation is just one of the initiatives driving the transformation of GM’s business,” said Randy Mott, GM vice president and CIO. “It’s part of an overarching strategy to transform not only information technology but also allow GM’s business operations to be more responsive to our customers, quicker to market and deliver on our objectives to shareholders.”

The data center includes a 5,040-square-foot IT Operations and Command Center, with 48 work stations and a 955-square-foot video wall composed of 28 configurable screens that monitor data use across all of GM’s worldwide operations, including product development, manufacturing, marketing, sales and OnStar.

souce: FORBES

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Christine Lagarde Warns Against ‘3-Speed’ Recovery.

Monetary Fund Chief Warns Against ‘3-Speed’ Recovery

By ANNIE LOWREY

Published: April 18, 2013

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, called for moving the world into a “full-speed recovery” at a news conference on Thursday at the opening of the fund’s annual spring meetings with its sister institution, the World Bank.

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Christine Lagarde at the opening of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's spring meetings in Washington this week.

Ms. Lagarde, echoing an earlier warning, expressed concern about what she called a “three-speed” global economy, with developing nations growing rapidly, the United States healing faster than most other advanced industrial countries, but Europe continuing to suffer from insufficient demand and incomplete government policies.

“It’s not the healthiest recovery,” Ms. Lagarde said. But “we believe that we have avoided the worst, and the economic world no longer looks quite as dangerous as it did.”

She added: “The pickup in financial conditions, financial markets, is clearly not translating into a sustained pickup in growth and jobs.”

The news conference came shortly after news broke that a French court had ordered Ms. Lagarde to appear at a hearing on her handling of a financial scandal during her time as finance minister in Paris.

Asked about the affair at the news conference, Ms. Lagarde said that she had known of the possibility of being interviewed by the investigative commission for years. “There is nothing new under the sun,” Ms. Lagarde said, dismissing any concerns that the inquiry would affect her position as the head of the I.M.F. “I will be very happy to travel for a couple of days to Paris. I look forward to it.”

The investigation, which led to a police raid of Ms. Lagarde’s apartment in Paris last month, concerns her decision in 2007 to refer to an arbitration panel a decades-old dispute between Bernard Tapie, a wealthy friend of France’s president at the time, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the state-owned bank Crédit Lyonnais. The panel ultimately brokered a settlement that awarded Mr. Tapie, the flamboyant former owner of the Olympique Marseille soccer team, about $580 million, including interest.

The court’s summons of Ms. Lagarde could lead to the opening of a formal investigation of her role in the affair. But in France, being placed under formal investigation does not necessarily lead to charges and does not imply a presumption of guilt. Ms. Lagarde has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the Tapie matter.

At the news conference, Ms. Lagarde gave her blessing to recent actions taken by the Bank of Japan to help bolster growth. She also said that the European Central Bank had more room to aid the recovery in Europe, where many countries are still undergoing economic contraction, unemployment is still rising and the credit markets remain broken.

“Of all the major central banks in the world, the E.C.B. is the only one who clearly still has room to maneuver,” Ms. Lagarde said.

Asked if Spain needed more time for fiscal adjustment, Ms. Lagarde replied that it did. She added that the country needed to put a budget-tightening plan in motion, but that it need not be “upfront, heavy duty” fiscal consolidation.

At a separate news conference, Jim Yong Kim, the head of the World Bank, which focuses on economic development, laid out his vision for a “two-pronged approach for a world free of poverty.”

Dr. Kim has called for eradicating extreme poverty by 2030 and for fostering income growth for the bottom 40 percent in every country. “For that second goal,” he said, “we also mean sharing prosperity across generations, and that calls for bold action on climate change.”

Nicola Clark contributed reporting from Paris.

source: http://global.nytimes.com/

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Supreme Court Supports Monsanto.

Supreme Court Supports Monsanto in Seed-Replication Case

By ADAM LIPTAK

Published: May 13, 2013

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that farmers could not use Monsanto’s patented genetically altered soybeans to create new seeds without paying the company a fee.

The ruling has implications for many aspects of modern agriculture and for businesses based on vaccines, cell lines and software. But Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the court, emphasized that the decision was narrow.

“Our holding today is limited — addressing the situation before us, rather than every one involving a self-replicating product,” she wrote. “We recognize that such inventions are becoming ever more prevalent, complex and diverse. In another case, the article’s self-replication might occur outside the purchaser’s control. Or it might be a necessary but incidental step in using the item for another purpose.”

But Justice Kagan had little difficulty ruling that an Indiana farmer’s conduct in the case before the court, Bowman v. Monsanto Company, No. 11-796, had run afoul of patent law.

Farmers who buy Monsanto’s patented seeds must generally sign a contract promising not to save seeds from the resulting crop, which means they must buy new seeds every year. The seeds are valuable because they are resistant to the herbicide Roundup, itself a Monsanto product.

But the Indiana farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, who had signed such contracts for his main crop, said he discovered a loophole for a second, riskier crop later in the growing season.

For that second crop, he bought seeds from a grain elevator filled with a mix of seeds in the reasonable hope that many of them contained Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready gene.

Seeds from grain elevators are typically sold for animal feed, food processing or industrial uses. But Mr. Bowman planted them and sprayed them with Roundup. Many plants survived, and he replanted their seeds.

Monsanto sued, and a federal judge in Indiana ordered Mr. Bowman to pay the company more than $84,000. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, upheld that decision, saying that by planting the seeds Mr. Bowman had infringed Monsanto’s patents.

Justice Kagan agreed, suggesting that Mr. Bowman had been too clever for his own good.

Mr. Bowman’s main argument was that a doctrine called patent exhaustion allowed him to do what he liked with products he had obtained legally. But Justice Kagan said it did not apply to the way he had used the seeds.

“Under the patent exhaustion doctrine, Bowman could resell the patented soybeans he purchased from the grain elevator; so too he could consume the beans himself or feed them to his animals,” she wrote.

“But the exhaustion doctrine does not enable Bowman to make additional patented soybeans without Monsanto’s permission,” she added, and went on to say that “that is precisely what Bowman did.”

Justice Kagan said that allowing Mr. Bowman’s tactic would destroy the value of Monsanto’s patent. “The exhaustion doctrine is limited to the ‘particular item’ sold,” she wrote, “to avoid just such a mismatch between invention and reward.”

Mr. Bowman acknowledged the general principle that he had no right to make a new product with Monsanto’s seeds. But he said he had used the seeds precisely as they were intended to be used — planting them “in the normal way farmers do,” Justice Kagan wrote.

Accepting that theory, she wrote, would create an “unprecedented exception” to the exhaustion doctrine. “If simple copying were a protected use,” she wrote, “a patent would plummet in value after the first sale of the item containing the invention.”

Mr. Bowman also argued in briefs that soybeans naturally “self-replicate or ‘sprout’ unless stored in a controlled manner,” meaning that “it was the planted soybean, not Bowman,” that created the new seeds.

Justice Kagan rejected what she called “that blame-the-bean defense.”

“Bowman was not a passive observer of his soybeans’ multiplication,” she wrote, adding: “Put another way, the seeds he purchased (miraculous though they might be in other respects) did not spontaneously create eight successive soybean crops.”

“It was Bowman, and not the bean,” she wrote, “who controlled the reproduction (unto the eighth generation) of Monsanto’s patented invention.”

source: www.nytimes.com

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