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Britain's anti-EU party relishes European election fight
By Claire Davenport and Luke Baker
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's right-wing eurosceptic party, UKIP, believes it can win the largest share of British votes in elections to the European Parliament next year, a prospect that would rattle domestic politics and shake the corridors of Brussels.
Coming off a strong showing in local elections in May, when it polled more than 25 percent, and buoyed by a rising tide of anti-Europeanism, the UK Independence Party is now targeting next May's European elections, when it traditionally does well.
With a blunt message when it comes to the European Union - which UKIP sees as an evil empire that must be destroyed - the party is hoping popular frustration will boost it and like-minded parties across the continent.
"There is every prospect to realistically think that UKIP can mount a campaign on May 22 next year in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland where we could win the election," said Nigel Farage, the party's loquacious and outspoken leader.
"We could have the highest popular vote. I think that is an entirely realistic assumption," he told Reuters in an interview in his smoke-filled parliamentary office, where a coffin adorned with an image of the euro currency stands in one corner.
An ICM survey for the Guardian newspaper on Tuesday put UKIP on only 7 percent, down 5 percentage points in a month, and far too little in Britain's winner-takes-all system to sustain ambitions of claiming even a handful of seats in the national parliament.
But British voters traditionally take European as well as local elections less seriously then national ones, opening up opportunities for the smaller parties, and a first place for UKIP next May is not entirely out of the question.
MEMBERSHIP SOARING
The party has already attracted many disaffected Conservative voters - its membership has risen four-fold to 30,000 this year - and was only narrowly behind Labour and the Liberal Democrats at the last European elections in 2009.
Since then, Europe has been in crisis, with unemployment surging, economies contracting and growth prospects dimming, all of which is expected to fuel support for UKIP and similar "protest parties" in France, Italy, Germany and elsewhere.
Farage dismisses the "protest party" label, saying that disaffection with Europe is strong on the right, left and centre and that he expects that to be reflected in the next parliament.
Some political analysts see the protest vote accounting for 25-30 percent of the 751 seats in the chamber, a proportion that would alter the power balance and greatly complicate how the EU is managed.
Farage will not be drawn on how large he expects it to be, but thinks 30 percent is not impossible.
"Lots of eurosceptic groups with varying shades of euroscepticism will get elected from lots of European countries," he said, adding that the parties were not at this stage coordinating efforts across the 28 EU member states.
"There is no James Bond figure sitting here stroking a white cat and planning the downfall of the European Union. Although I wish there were in some way," he said, laughing.
While the European elections, which take place from May 22-25, are more than 10 months away, they already loom large in conversation and political calculation in Brussels.
If Europe's four traditional blocs - the centre-right European People's Party, the Socialists, the Liberals and the Greens - do badly in the polls, it could make it difficult to form a workable majority.
LIFE MORE COMPLICATED
That in turn will complicate the nomination of the next president of the European Commission, the EU executive, and make the passage of laws on banking-sector reform, data-sharing and environment policy that much harder.
Because eurosceptic parties are so diverse, they are not likely to form a cohesive bloc, but Farage still sees the prospect of some coordination. "It could be great fun," he says with a raucous laugh fuelled by years of smoking.
Asked with whom he feels a natural allegiance, Farage mentions Italy's Beppe Grillo and his Five Star movement. He calls French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen "brave" and admirable, but is uncomfortable with elements of her party.
"The whole anti-Semitic baggage is so great with that party that I don't really see her succeeding," he said.
Mostly, he sees the greatest impact from an anti-EU vote next year falling on domestic politics, where his mind is focused on chipping away at Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives and winning a seat in the British parliament.
Asked if he wants to be disruptive in Europe, Farage dismisses the thought, saying it has never been his aim.
"I am not a football hooligan. I'm a cricket fan," he says. "I like to criticise from the boundary ropes. Pitch invasions with shaven heads and tattoos, that's not for me."
Farage is, however, an agitator in Brussels, and his desire to undermine the European Union and those he refers to as the "bad people" in Brussels never slackens.
"I have no doubt that it won't be here in 30 years," he says. "At some point, patience will snap, and I suspect that what will break up Europe won't be democratic politics, it will be something far less pleasant, I'm afraid."
(Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britains-anti-eu-party-relishes-european-election-fight-162445428.html
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
WiLan shares shrug off negative court ruling in patent suit
(Reuters) - Shares of Canadian patent licensing company WiLan Inc
WiLan said on Monday a jury found Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc , Ericsson Inc WiLan's Nasdaq-listed shares fell as much as 33 percent after the bell on Monday on the news but surged 15 percent on Tuesday. Its Toronto-listed shares rose 19 percent to C$3.91. Some analysts said the company, whose principal source of revenue is from licensing its patent and licensing portfolios on behalf of third-party patent holders, lost a battle, not the war, while others termed the judgment "a bump in the road". "It was a negative announcement but I think I would frame it as one step in a longer process as opposed to the very negative reaction that the markets had gone into yesterday," Canaccord Genuity analyst Robert Young said. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Blair Abernethy said the company has multiple relevant patents in its portfolio of over 3,000 patents and it could initiate further lawsuits to secure licenses. "There is a high likelihood that WiLAN will appeal this verdict," said Abernethy, who maintained a "buy" rating on the stock but cut the price target to C$5.50 from C$6. (Reporting by Shounak Dasgupta and Krithika Krishnamurthy in Bangalore; Editing by Don Sebastian)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wilan-shares-shrug-off-negative-court-ruling-patent-161830183.html
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Apple CEO's stock grant now subject to share performance
By Poornima Gupta
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc> Chief Executive Tim Cook's one-time stock award worth over $413 million as of Friday is now partly subject to the performance of the shares, a move that followed discussions with the company's largest shareholders.
Cook, who has presided over a 42 percent drop in Apple's share price since it touched a high of $705 in September, approached the board to impose a performance criteria on his yet-to-be-vested stocks, according to a filing on Friday.
Under the new system, part of Cook's grant is subject to "Total Shareholder Return", a measure of Apple's stock performance and dividends based on public Standard & Poor's data.
The company's board had in January of 2012 granted Cook one million restricted stock units (RSUs) to signal its confidence in Cook after Steve Jobs turned over the helm of the iPhone and iPad maker to his long-time lieutenant in August of 2011.
"In outreach discussions this year with many of our largest shareholders, we heard that they believe it is appropriate to attach performance criteria to a portion of our future executive stock awards that have been entirely time-based in the past," the filing said.
Apple, beginning Friday, is also including a performance element in new stock awards to all top executives.
Shares of Apple, once among the most desirable of portfolio holdings, fell out of favor abruptly last September on growing uncertainty about the company's ability to fend off unprecedented competition from deep-pocketed rivals such as Samsung Electronics, Amazon.com and Google Inc.
Under Cook, the company has gone through one of its longest recent product droughts, with no new devices. The last device launched was the iPad mini last October, the first all-new product under Cook.
Cook's stock award was previously based on a pre-determined time-based vesting schedule of 10 years. Now of the 1 million, a block of 100,000 shares each will vest in 2016 and 2021.
The rest of the 800,000 shares will vest equally every year, over 10 years and will be subject to the performance criteria.
Half of the 800,000 is subject to the performance of Apple shares. The other half will vest on an annual basis as long as Cook remains with Apple.
Apple said in its filing Total Shareholder Return for a period of time is based on the change in its stock price during that period, taking into account any dividends paid, which are assumed to be reinvested in the stock.
(Reporting By Poornima Gupta; Editing by Bernard Orr)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/apple-ceos-stock-grant-now-subject-share-performance-215506984.html
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
China's latest 'sacred' manned space mission blasts off
By Ben Blanchard
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese manned spacecraft blasted off with three astronauts on board on Tuesday on a 15-day mission to an experimental space lab in the latest step towards the development of a space station.
The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft was launched from a remote site in the Gobi desert in China's far west at 5:38 p.m. (0938 GMT) under warm, clear blue skies, in images carried live on state television.
Once in orbit, the craft will dock with the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1, a trial space laboratory module, and the two male and one female astronauts will carry out various experiments and test the module's systems.
They will also give a lecture to students back on Earth.
China successfully carried out its first manned docking exercise with Tiangong 1 last June, a milestone in an effort to acquire the technological and logistical skills to run a full space station that can house people for long periods.
President Xi Jinping oversaw Tuesday's launch personally, addressing the astronauts before they blasted off to wish them success, saying he was "enormously happy" to be there.
"You are the pride of the Chinese people, and this mission is both glorious and sacred," Xi said, according to state media.
This mission will be the longest time Chinese astronauts have spent in space, and marks the second mission for lead astronaut Nie Haisheng.
It is China's fifth manned space mission since 2003, and was accompanied by the usual outpouring of national pride and Communist Party propaganda, including children dressed as happy ethnic minorities waving off the three at the space centre.
However, some wondered why China was spending so much money exploring space when it was still a developing country with a plethora of more pressing issues, from food safety and pollution to the prevalence of workplace fire disasters.
"Why don't they spend this money solving China's real problems instead of wasting it like this?" wrote one user on China's popular Twitter-like service, Sina Weibo.
China's space program has come a long way since late leader Mao Zedong, founder of Communist China in 1949, lamented that the country could not even launch a potato into space.
But China is still far from catching up with the established space superpowers, the United States and Russia.
Rendezvous and docking techniques such as those which China is only testing now were mastered by the United States and the former Soviet Union decades ago, and the 10.5 meter-long Tiangong 1 is a trial module, not a fully fledged space station.
Still, the Shenzhou 10 mission will be the latest show of China's growing prowess in space and comes while budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back U.S. manned space launches.
China also plans an unmanned moon landing and deployment of a moon rover. Scientists have raised the possibility of sending a man to the moon, but not before 2020.
While Beijing insists its space program is for peaceful purposes, a Pentagon report last month highlighted China's increasing space capabilities and said Beijing was pursuing a variety of activities aimed at preventing its adversaries from using space-based assets during a crisis.
Fears of a space arms race with the United States and other powers mounted after China blew up one of its own weather satellites with a ground-based missile in January 2007.
(Additional reporting by Hui Li; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-latest-manned-space-mission-blasts-off-094410665.html
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By AMY STOCKWELL.
If you want to make a lucrative investment in a futures fund, you should consider investing in our children?s future.
Last month, some important data was released about how well children are doing when they start school. Released in April, the 2012 Australian Early Development Index 2012 measured how well children across Australia are growing up ? it looks at the social, physical and cognitive development of children in Australia who have just started school.
This research shows most children in Australia are on track in key developmental areas. Unfortunately, it highlighted 1 in 5 children starting school have already fallen behind in at least one of these critical areas of development.
Before our children put their uniforms on for the first time, we have a role to play in helping them to develop important skills to help them later in life.
Why is this timing so important? Why must we start before the bell?
International research shows that once a child falls behind they are likely to stay behind. Once a child falls behind, it is almost impossible for them to catch up to their peers.
To understand why, we need to look to neuroscience and the science behind early childhood development.
Every second of a child?s life, a staggering 700 new brain connections are made. By the time a child is 5, more than 80% of their brain has been developed. If a child receives the best support in these early years, they will grow up to be healthy, develop strong language and learning capacities, start school on the right foot, stay in school longer and lead a productive and fulfilling life.
While it is true, the blueprint for a child?s brain is drawn up by genetics, it is the experiences and relationships that babies and children have in their first few years that are the real building blocks for shaping a child?s future. These are the simple things like positive social and emotional connections that we can offer our children for free as frequently as we choose. The quality of our children?s earliest surroundings and the availability of positive experiences at the right stages of development shape their outcomes.
The family and friends that surround our children have a significant influence on our children?s development. The community that children grow up in, the care they get before they start school and the health services they interact with all play a role in supporting optimal development.
Science has given us a window of opportunity for brain-building: before kids start formal school. This is the time when we can have the best chance of ensuring our children learn the essential skills to support their transition to school and build the foundation for lifelong success.
If you return to work and put your child in care (and are lucky enough to find a spot!), whether it is family day care, community based care or formal care, it?s important to ensure what?s being offered is high quality. High quality means they offer a nurturing, caring environment with qualified educators who can support your child?s individual needs for attention and learning.
It?s a relative no-brainer that good early childhood education is good for kids. But this fact is not always enough for governments and industry to make the big investment required to ensure families can access affordable, quality early childhood education.
There needs to be a bigger pay off for such a big investment. And thankfully, there is. It?s the economy.
Early childhood education not only benefits the children who receive care and supports families with their work life balance, but it also strengthens the economy as a whole.
In fact, government investment in early childhood education pays back up to $16 in economic benefits for every dollar spent.
How does this work? Firstly, there are the savings to the public of giving kids a strong start in their education. Quality early childhood education and care has been shown to reduce the need for remedial and special education, reduce incarceration rates, lower rates of teen pregnancy, and reduced health care costs. Kids grow up less likely to need public services and more likely to make positive social and economic contributions ? and pay more tax in their lifetime (hooray!).
Secondly, quality care provides a financial boost to businesses. Reliable and accessible early childhood education increases parents? ability to choose if they want to participate in the paid workforce and in further education. It increases workforce productivity, reduces absenteeism and decreases staff turnover in the workplace ? effectively and practically improving the business? bottom line.
The upshot is that the cost of government investment in quality and accessible child care is recouped many times over due to higher tax income, lower crime rates, and savings in health services.
Government investment in early childhood education is not just good for children. It is a smart investment for governments and businesses who want to deliver a healthy economy and support families choice to return to work. While the Australian Government has made substantial investment in child care affordability and quality over the past few years, more needs to be done to make it affordable and accessible for families.
The National Quality Reforms have been critical in raising the quality of early learning in Australia and ensuring children in care receive the best education and care from qualified educators in safe, nurturing and healthy environments.
We as parents can do everything for our children at home, but if the Government and business really want the best for Australia?s children and the best for our economy, they need to get in at the ground floor with early childhood education and care as this country?s next big investment opportunity.
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Goodstart Early Learning is?Australia?s largest early learning and care provider?with more than 650 centres across Australia. The Goodstart team of 15,000 staff educates?and cares for more than 73,000 children from 61,000 families nation-wide.Our mission is to provide high quality, accessible, affordable and community-connected early learning in our centres and partner and openly collaborate with the sector to drive change for the benefit of all children. We?re for children, not-for-profit and believe the first five years matter and last a lifetime.
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