Meteors Blazing Across Cuba, San Francisco, Japan, What?s Happening?

Russia, Kazakhstan, Japan, Australia, Cuba, South Africa, Morocco, Germany, Switzerland, northern Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, all report fireballs blazing across the sky low in the atmosphere, in the last two days. Can this be a coincidence with the passage of large Asteroid DA14, which apparently passed by Earth safely in the same time period? The coincidence seems just too extraordinary! What if all these cosmic events which impacted or almost impacted Earth, were connected and therefore no coincidence, despite what the "experts" say?

First, a few facts: In Cuba, a scenario similar to that in Russia?s Ural region apparently unfolded. ?On the same day, February 15, 2013, as Asteroid DA14 passed by Earth safely,? residents in the central region of Cuba reported that an object had fallen from the sky. It exploded with a great noise, which shook houses and broke windows. This was learned from witnesses on local television. The town in the province of Cienfuegos, witnesses described a very bright light that grew to a large size comparable to that of a bus, before exploding low in the sky.

Oddly, mainstream media has reported on other fireball-meteors around the world but tends not to mention Cuba?s experience, which was second only to the disaster in the Urals of Russia.

A huge fireball was reported by a number of witnesses over Belgium, Netherlands and Germany on February 13, 2013. The sight usually is said to have lasted from 10 to 20 seconds. There were two separate parts to the fireball, witnesses said. Apparently this one was part of Soyuz rocket, but what a coincidence that it happened on the day when all the other fireballs crossed the skies! A Soyuz rocket was launched but on February 11^th. Scientists and authorities are still trying to unravel this one.

An exploding fireball was also reported over the sky of Japan on February 14, 2013, and was captured on video. A fireball is also on video over San Francisco on February 15 and was covered by CBS news.

Regarding the Russian meteorite hit, I reported that it was ten tons, which was what officials said; now some reports think this object weighed fifty tons. A relatively small hole in circumference in a frozen Ural lake is said to be the meteorite?s last resting place. Some people feel the hole is so small, it might indicate a missile rather than the huge meteorite created it. However, the meteor is said to have split into nine fragments as it streaked for impact over Earth.

The Russian meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia. Yesterday?s meteor entered the atmosphere at 40,000 mph. Energy released by the impact was in the hundreds of kilotons. The meteor, which was about one-third the diameter of Asteroid ?DA14, which apparently passed by Earth safely, was brighter than the sun. Its trail was visible for about 30 seconds, so it was a grazing, shallow impact.

So, now let?s look at the possibility that all these cosmic events which impacted or almost impacted Earth, were connected and therefore, they are not coincidences, despite what the "experts" say:
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Question One: ?Did UFO occupants blow up DA14 to protect Earth, and what is falling to Earth are its fragments? If so, why didn?t they divert it earlier so as no fragments would hit Earth, either?

Question Two: ?Did the human ?breakaway civilization? or its military wing Solar Warden (as reported by computer hacker Gary McKinnon), blow up DA14? Why didn?t they do something earlier?

Question Three:? If you think Questions One and Two are far-fetched, what if NASA blew up DA14 or part of it, in order to divert it? Yes, they say they have it spotted now heading away from Earth, but NASA has lied before.

?There was an ?expert? on CBS News who seemed to try to put us into a Valium-like state of complacency who said, ?This happens all the time.?

?No, it does NOT.

He also stated that asteroids and meteors are no problem anyway because, "NASA would just land on them and place a small charge which would divert their trajectory away from Earth.?

My recent article with information from NASA itself, illustrates the folly of this ?expert?s? statement. http://www.ufodigest.com/article/killer-asteroids-what-us-worry

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/comets-2013-2013-be-what-2012-was-not

The U.S. has landed a probe on an asteroid but we have not ?landed on asteroids? every day and not with a manned craft, at least, according to NASA. To set off a ?small charge? and change a trajectory is, in my opinion, not very realistic. As usual, the attempt has been made to lull the ?common people? into a state of a nearly comatose lack of awareness.

Question Four: Is it merely that Earth is passing through an extra heavy debris field? If so, why don?t they simply let us know via mass media? DA14, the big asteroid, would be traveling, therefore, with a whole swarm of smaller meteors (also considered mini-asteroids).

Does NASA know that we are passing through a particularly thick debris field or can they only see DA14 because the smaller fragments are too small to be viewed?

One more strangeness: The area around Chelyabinsk, Russia, as well as Chelyabinsk itself, was once off limits to foreigners and the world?s media because it was Russia?s nuclear center. Chelyabinsk was where top secret nuclear research took place, from the 1940s onward. A serious nuclear catastrophe happened in 1957 at the fuel reprocessing plant near the city which caused deaths. The entire province was verboten to all foreigners until 1992. A British medical team did gain entrance following a two-train rail explosion in the mid-1980s.

Out of all this confusion, I do believe one thing is clear: The multitude of fireballs blazing across Earth skies on February 14^th and 15^th, are NOT unconnected from Asteroid DA14, which came so close to Earth on February 15, if it still exists. Maybe we can figure this out when DA14 is said to be returning in 2110!

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Source: http://www.ufodigest.com/article/meteors-blazing-across-cuba-san-francisco-japan-what%E2%80%99s-happening

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GOP Senators May Delay Hagel Vote Over Benghazi

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What Does HR Look Like In The Office Of The Future?

What does the future hold for human resources as the workforce becomes increasingly fragmented, as more people work around the clock and as ?the office? ceases to be a fixed location? In two previous posts we have examined the death of the office and what these changes mean to workers themselves. This post will attempt to answer a few questions about what a changing workplace ? and workforce ? means for HR.

According to Aimee Groth and Max Nisen, the authors of this?Future of Business series sponsored by SAP, outsourcing, an increasing use of freelancers and contract workers, the rise of global Internet adoption and ever-improving mobile tools will fundamentally change the workplace.

They say that words such as freedom, autonomy and flexibility will be spoken at all types of companies, and not just tech start-ups.

The transformational changes aren?t limited to technology tools, office spaces and office hours though.

I recently gave a presentation to the Twin Cities Human Resource Association, a large chapter affiliated nationally with the Society for Human Resource Management. My topic was how to make first impressions last, and what happens when HR ?pros think of themselves as sales people and a touchpoint for the brand.

David Gee speaking at TCHRA

During my talk, I referenced some eye-opening statistics from the new Daniel Pink book To Sell Is Human. In a chapter called ?Entrepreneurship, Elasticity and Ed-Med,? he writes about the future of the workforce.

• The research firm IDC estimates that 30% of American workers now work on their own, and that by 2015, the number of freelancers, contractors, consultants and the like will reach 1.3 billion.
• Some analysts project that in the U.S., the ranks of these independent entrepreneurs may grow by 65 million in the rest of the decade and could become a majority of the American workforce by 2020.
• According to research by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 54% of the 18-34 age group wants to start their own business or has already done so.
• In 16 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Countries (OECD), including France, Mexico and Sweden, more than 90% of the businesses in those countries have fewer than 10 employees.
• Economist Lawrence Katz projects that middle class employment of the future won?t be employees of large organizations, but rather ?self-sufficient artisans.?

This obviously has some significant ramifications for HR pros and hiring managers. To fill your jobs of the future, you might not be competing with other companies down the street, or even across the country. You might be competing with the idea your potential job candidate has of making a living working from a local coffee shop or shared space with their smartphone and a tablet.

Steve Jewell

Steve Jewell is a recruiter for SRF Consulting Group in Minneapolis, and has over two decades of progressive recruiting and human resource experience across a range of business sectors and industries. He is also the volunteer VP of Member Engagement & Retention for the TCHRA and was the one who asked me to speak.

He says he sees the following as some of the most important challenges facing the profession:

• Aging workforce/knowledge transfer as 10,000 Baby Boomers retire and leave the workforce every day.
• How to manage work/life choices with an increasingly multigenerational workforce.
• Outsourcing of classic HR functions such as payroll/HRIS, benefits administration and even recruiting services.
• How to incorporate and best utilize tablets, smartphones, WebX, Skype, the cloud, etc.
• How to manage the cost ? and delivery ? of health care, both as an employe benefit and a cost of doing business.

Beth Petersen, Human Resources Manager at GTN Shared Services in Minneapolis, was also at the TCHRA event, and shared a couple of her thoughts on future challenges for HR.

Beth Petersen

?Recruiting is only going to get more difficult with the changing demographics of the workplace,? she said. ?Shortages in highly skilled areas such as IT, Engineering and Finance to name a few, are giving candidates a wide variety of options, so organizations really need to be cognizant of their ?employment brand? and how they live out that brand.?

And that, she says, leads to the next challenge. Namely, engagement and retention of those employees.

?The statistic you shared in your presentation about more and more of the workforce being solopreneurs is a trend I believe will continue to rise,? said Petersen. ?Younger workers simply aren?t staying with companies as long as previous generations. Keeping your current workforce engaged and progressing in their careers is a huge issue for HR practitioners to tackle. But it?s also an area where we can have a real impact by consulting with leadership at our companies and organizations and implementing programs to address these areas.?

Another person I met at the TCHRA event, Katie Farley, is Director of Business Development at Dolphin Group Companies, and the new member orientation team lead at TCHRA.

Katie Farley

Farley says keeping up on employment law-related issues is a constant challenge for the industry.

And she, as well as Petersen and Farley, all agree that organizations such as TCHRA, and other SHRM chapters, can help them face those challenges through speakers, events and the chance to share ideas and talk openly about best practices and lessons learned.

What do you think are some of the biggest challenges ahead for HR? Are there some things that didn?t get mentioned that loom big in your world?

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Source: http://www.staffingtalk.com/what-does-hr-look-like-in-the-office-of-the-future/

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New virus hits 12 globally with new British case

LONDON (Reuters) - A fourth person in Britain has contracted a potentially fatal SARS-like virus which was unknown in humans until a few months ago, but health officials said on Friday the risk to the population remained very low.

Confirming the third British case this week of infection the new virus - known as novel coronavirus, or NCoV - the Health Protection Agency said the patient was one of a cluster of three in the same family.

This latest case brings the total number of confirmed cases globally to 12, of which four have been diagnosed in Britain, the HPA said. Of the total, five have died. Most of the infected lived or had recently been in the Middle East.

NCoV was identified when the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an international alert in September 2012 saying a virus previously unknown in humans had infected a Qatari man in Britain who had recently been in Saudi Arabia.

The virus belongs to the same family as SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - a coronavirus that emerged in China in 2002 and killed about a tenth of the 8,000 people it infected worldwide. Symptoms common to both viruses include severe respiratory illness, fever, coughing and breathing difficulties.

The HPA, which earlier this week said the other two patients from the same family were being treated in intensive care units in separate hospitals in northern and central England, said the third case in the cluster was mild.

"The patient ... is recovering from a mild respiratory illness and is currently well," it said in a statement.

John Watson, the HPA's head of respiratory diseases said that despite this, the HPA was advising the patient to self-isolate and limit contact with other people. Health officials are currently following up other household members.

Coronaviruses are typically spread like other respiratory infections such as flu, travelling in airborne droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

"We would like to emphasize that the risk associated with novel coronavirus to the general UK population remains very low," Watson said.

When a second case in this cluster was found on Wednesday, Tom Wilkinson, a senior lecturer in respiratory medicine at Britain's University of Southampton, said that if NCoV turned out to be like the previous SARS outbreak, it may prove quite slow to spread from one human to another.

"But it's early days to make any definite statements because viruses can change and mutate very rapidly, so what is right today may be wrong tomorrow," he said.

Among the 12 laboratory-confirmed cases of NCoV to date, five are in Saudi Arabia, with three deaths; two are in Jordan, where both patients died; four are in Britain, where three are receiving treatment and the latest one is described as well; and one was in Germany in a patient from Qatar who has since been discharged from medical care.

(Editing by Michael Roddy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/virus-hits-12-globally-british-case-190947342.html

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Lawmakers probe shortfall in Job Corps program

WASHINGTON (AP) ? House and Senate lawmakers are investigating a nearly $100 million shortfall at the federal Job Corps program that has prompted the Labor Department to freeze enrollment at all 125 job centers around the country.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has called on the agency's inspector general to investigate "serious questions about the management by the department" that will prevent 30,000 disadvantaged and at-risk youth from getting job training this year.

Last month, the Job Corps announced it would stop accepting any new enrollees from Jan. 28 until at least June 30. Some exceptions are being made for applicants who are homeless, runaways or in the foster care system.

"If there were mistakes made that led to this problem, the ones losing out here are going to be young people at risk," Casey said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. "Apparently, Labor Department officials were admitting that they made some kind of mistake with the budget" to people working at the Job Corps centers.

Labor Department spokesman Carl Fillichio said the Job Corps began taking steps last year to reduce operating costs, such as curtailing contracts, reducing administrative costs and slashing the national TV advertising budget.

"Unfortunately, the savings from these efforts have not been sufficient to meet the budget demands of the current program year," he said. "The decision to suspend enrollment was not made lightly."

The Job Corps, which began as part of President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" program in the 1960s, offers free education and vocational job training for students ages 16 to 24. It serves about 60,000 students each year with an annual budget of $1.7 billion.

The goal is to help steer young people away from poverty and crime into productive careers through a program that includes supervised dormitory housing, meals, medical care and counseling. Those enrolled usually complete training within a few months to two years and receive help making the transition to new careers or getting further education. The government pays private contractors to run the job centers.

In 2011, the Labor Department announced a $39 million funding shortfall in the Job Corps program. The agency then took emergency steps to fill the gap, such as transferring funds from other employment and training programs.

But the shortfall continued and increased to an additional $60 million in 2012. As a result, the Job Corps announced on January 18 that it was suspending all new enrollments at centers nationwide.

A total freeze on accepting new students is virtually unprecedented in the nearly 50-year history of the program, said LaVera Leonard, president of the National Job Corps Association, a group that includes private contractors and labor and community groups that support the Job Corps' goals.

Leonard said she made a number of cost-cutting recommendations in the past year ? to no avail ? to Jane Oates, who heads the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration, which oversees Job Corps.

"We were trying to be proactive and the cost savings that we recommended would not have hurt students, would not have meant staff layoffs," Leonard said. "We got no response and were totally caught off guard when the announcement of a nationwide enrollment suspension occurred on Jan. 18."

Fillichio, the Labor Department spokesman, said the agency did consider recommendations made "by work groups that included representatives of the Job Corps contractor community."

He said Job Corps is conducting an exhaustive review of its current operating costs in order to make changes that ensure program costs "are sustainable in the future."

In a letter last June to Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the Labor Department said the 2011 shortfall happened in part because of a lack of "program monitoring tools and internal controls to sufficiently analyze" spending trends by operators and contractors.

The freeze on new enrollment has caused alarm in congressional offices around the country, with lawmakers concerned about the loss of hundreds of jobs among those working at the centers and the loss of opportunity for young people looking for work.

"It's clear the management and oversight of the Job Corps program has been deficient, and it's unfortunate and disappointing that our nation's disadvantaged youth will suffer the consequences of this failure," Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a Feb. 6 letter to acting Labor Secretary Seth Harris.

Minnesota Rep. John Kline, chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, launched an investigation of the program earlier this month. He asked for an explanation of why the shortfall happened, saying his committee is growing "increasingly concerned with the ability of the department and its contractors to manage the program's budget in the short and long term."

The Labor Department had not yet responded to Kline's request as of late Friday.

Casey, who heads a panel of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, pledged to hold a hearing on the matter within the next two months.

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