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Your complaints: Billing error rectified
Published May 17, 2012 | 
I would like to highlight an issue which I have been facing with du telecommunications company. In April 2010, I bought a new iPhone and along with it, I got a post-paid du connection with a monthly plan of Dh500, which allows me to use the internet for free for one year. In April 2011, I went back to the du office on Hamdan Street, Abu Dhabi, and changed the connection to their Elite 250 Plan.
I didn’t find any issue with their billing for April, May and June. By the end of June, I went on annual leave to India for a month. I was not using the connection in India and when I returned to Abu Dhabi at the end of July, my connection had been cut on the ground that I had exceeded the credit limit. I was confused and paid Dh500 at a du counter in the Abu Dhabi Airport. However, even after paying the amount, the service was not restored. Once I reached home, I paid more and the service was then restored.
In August, I paid a large amount again and by the first of September, I decided to monitor my bill. On September 10, I paid the entire bill, including the unbilled amount, and started monitoring via my balance rewards. I did not exceed any of my rewards, which I can use free as per the Elite 250 plan.
On September 27, I received a message from du stating that I had reached 90 per cent of my credit limit and was requested to pay Dh1,849.22 immediately. I called du’s customer service and they ordered me to pay the amount immediately. After a few minutes, my service was disconnected and in the evening, I visited their office on Hamdan Street.
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Türkiye Finans in $350m murabaha syndicated deal
Published May 16, 2012 | Dubai Türkiye Finans, Turkey’s leading participation bank, has signed the largest murabaha syndicated deal of the participation banking with a sum of $350 million dollars.
Led by ABC Islamic Bank, HSBC, Noor Islamic Bank and Standard Chartered Bank, the consortium included a total of 29 banks from 15 countries.
With this murabaha syndicated loan deal, Türkiye Finans continues to create added-value for Turkish economy by supporting the companies in need of corporate financing and SMEs in particular.
Türkiye Finans, a leading Turkish participation (Islamic) bank, has signed a murabaha syndicated loan deal led by Noor Islamic Bank, ABC Islamic Bank, HSBC, and Standard Chartered Bank.
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Revised Settlement with Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Facility Will Benefit Braintree and Boston Citizens (MA)
Published May 16, 2012 | Release Date: 04/11/2012Contact Information: David Deegan, (617) 918-1017
(Boston, Mass. – April 11, 2012) – Following public comment received on a proposed settlement to resolve hazardous waste violations by Clean Harbors of Braintree, Inc. of Massachusetts, EPA and Clean Harbors have entered into a revised settlement. The revised settlement alters the Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) that was contained in the original settlement, which was agreed to in August, 2011, and provides that Clean Harbors will purchase or ensure the purchase of an aerial platform fire truck for the Town of Braintree, Mass., where the original violations occurred. In addition, Clean Harbors will ensure the planting of approximately 800 trees in Environmental Justice areas in the City of Boston. The original penalty of $650,000 remains the same as in the original proposed settlement.
Under the revised agreement, Clean Harbors is expected to share the cost of a fire truck with Braintree. The fire truck is estimated to cost approximately $900,000, of which Clean Harbors will pay at least $450,000. The fire truck will be owned and operated by Braintree, but will also be available for emergency response activity in surrounding South Shore communities. Clean Harbors will also spend at least $612,500 on a project, which will be implemented by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, involving the planting of approximately 800 trees in targeted low-income, historically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Boston (such as Dorchester and Roxbury) over a two-year period.
“I am pleased that this revised settlement will provide important public safety benefits to the citizens of Braintree, as well as clean air and other benefits to residents in some Environmental Justice neighborhoods of Boston,” said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA’s New England office. “This action also underscores that companies and individuals handling and managing hazardous waste must carefully follow requirements designed to protect public health and our communities.”
EPA identified nearly 30 violations of both the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) at a site inspection of the Braintree Clean Harbors facility that took place in June 2007. Those violations included inadequate waste characterization, the failure to properly maintain its hazardous waste tanks, inadequate secondary containment, and improper storage of incompatible wastes. In July 2007, EPA issued an administrative order directing Clean Harbors to immediately address numerous conditions identified during the inspection that could have posed a danger to human health or the environment. Clean Harbors came into compliance with the 2007 order soon after it was issued. Under the settlement, Clean Harbors also will comply with an enhanced waste analysis plan that goes beyond what is currently required in its hazardous waste permit. This plan will help to ensure that the hazardous waste Clean Harbors receives and generates will be properly characterized and managed. Further, Clean Harbors has installed and will maintain a vapor collection system for its tanks that will collect and treat volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions, which contribute to smog.
The Clean Harbors Braintree facility performs hazardous materials management and disposal services including drummed and bulk waste processing and consolidation, transformer decommissioning, PCB storage and processing, blending of waste used as supplemental fuel by cement kilns or industrial furnaces, and pretreatment of waste to stabilize it before it is sent to permitted landfills.
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- The revised consent decree, lodged in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, is subject to a 30-day public comment period and approval by the federal court. A copy of the consent decree will be available on the Department of Justice Web site at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html
- EPA Hazardous Waste Enforcement in New England: (www.epa.gov/region1/enforcement/waste/index.html)
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Prosecutors release evidence list
Published May 16, 2012 | The eight-page document released to the public contains a list of possible witnesses and law enforcement reports that could be used in the prosecution’s case against Zimmerman.
But it doesn’t include details from those statements or reports, and contains no new revelations about the case, which sparked nationwide protests and reflection on race relations and gun laws in the United States.
The document is part of the routine exchange of information between prosecutors and defense attorneys that occurs before trials.
Defense attorney Mark O’Mara said Monday on the website set up to release information from Zimmerman’s side that his office had received “67 compact discs and numerous hardcopy documents” from prosecutors, including many of the records and statements mentioned in the summary.
“Please remember and understand that it is inappropriate for us to comment on particular pieces of evidence,” O’Mara said in the website statement.
Zimmerman, 28, is accused of killing Martin on February 26 as the African-American teenager walked back to the Sanford, Florida, house where he was staying, after visiting a convenience store. Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, who is a white Hispanic, killed Martin unjustly after profiling him.
Zimmerman, who acknowledges shooting Martin but claims self-defense, has entered a not guilty plea in the case, which has not yet been scheduled for trial.
A timeline of the case against George Zimmerman
The document lists 50 possible law enforcement witnesses, including 28 officers from the 140-member Sanford Police Department. It also lists 28 civilian witnesses, including Martin’s brother, mother and father, two of Zimmerman’s friends — Joe Oliver and Frank Taffe — and his father, Robert Zimmerman.
Prosecutors did not give names for 22 other potential civilian witnesses.
Attorneys have previously expressed concern about publicly identifying some witnesses who may fear retribution for their roles in the case, which has inflamed passions among supporters of both Martin and Zimmerman.
At least one of the witness interviews was conducted by Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump, according to the document.
Evidence taken from Zimmerman after the shooting, including his weapon, bullets, clothes, a DNA sample, medical records and his cell phone data were also included in the disclosure to defense attorneys, according to the document.
The document indicates that police technicians in biological and DNA evidence, trace evidence, gunshot residue, fingerprints and firearms may testify, along with two FBI agents, as well as two audio technicians who analyzed emergency calls made during the confrontation between Zimmerman and Martin in an effort to determine who was heard screaming in the background.
Experts Tom Owen and Edward Primeau concluded that the screams did not come from Zimmerman, who told police that Martin rushed him after they exchanged words, knocked him to the ground and repeatedly hit his head against the concrete sidewalk.
Martin, who lived in Miami, died after a chance encounter with Zimmerman in the gated community where he was staying with his father during a suspension from school.
Zimmerman called police to report a suspicious person walking on the streets of the neighborhood, which had been struck by several burglaries in recent months.
Prosecutors say he disregarded a dispatcher’s advice not to follow the person, who turned out to be Martin, and shot him after a confrontation minutes later.
While Zimmerman supporters have characterized him as a well-meaning neighborhood watch volunteer who was only trying to protect his community, Martin’s family and supporters have said he unfairly profiled Martin as a troublemaker just because he was an African-American teenager walking down the street wearing a hoodie.
Sanford police initially declined to arrest Zimmerman, saying there was no evidence to contradict Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense under Florida’s “stand your ground” law, which allows people to use deadly force anywhere they feel a reasonable threat of serious injury or death.
After weeks of protests demanding Zimmerman’s arrest, a special prosecutor appointed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott filed the second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman. He was arrested April 11 and briefly jailed. He has returned to hiding after his release on $150,000 bond.
Cost Of Cancer Pills Can Be Hard For Medicare Patients To Swallow
Published May 16, 2012 | Story By: by Michelle Andrews
Taking a pill for cancer can cost patients more than getting chemotherapy by IV.
If you’ve got cancer, chances are you’d rather take a pill to fight the cancer cells than sit for hours hooked up to an IV line as the chemotherapy drips slowly into you.
The difficulty is, many of the new cancer pills, which often target cancer cells for destruction but leave healthy cells intact, are pricey, costing tens of thousands of dollars for a course of treatment. And how some insurers pay for treatments means that pills can wind up costing a patient more than chemotherapy given by IV.
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia now require private health plans to cover cancer-fighting pills, if they’re available, to the same degree and without charging patients more than they would for traditional intravenous infusion therapy, according to the National Patient Advocate Foundation.
So, for example, a health plan that has a $1,500 limit on out-of-pocket spending for outpatient services like IV chemotherapy can’t charge more than that annually for their treatment pills.
But Medicare beneficiaries don’t benefit from these laws.
They’re tied to whatever coverage they have through their Medicare prescription drug plan, which may or may not provide affordable coverage for their anti-cancer pills, if they’re covered at all.
High drug costs are a problem for all patients, but those on fixed incomes can be hit especially hard.
One study by researchers at Avalere Health found that about 46 percent of Medicare beneficiaries faced more than $500 in cost sharing for their initial anti-cancer drug prescription. Sixteen percent of Medicare beneficiaries didn’t fill their initial prescriptions for anti-cancer pills, compared with 9 percent of patients with private insurance.
Under the Medicare Part D drug benefit, beneficiaries are responsible for paying 100 percent of their prescription drug costs from the time they reach $2,930 in total drug spending until they hit the $4,700 maximum out-of-pocket limit for the year. Once they’re through that so-called doughnut hole in coverage, they’re usually responsible for 5 percent of their drug costs.
A new lung cancer drug might cost $10,000 a month. “It’s a real problem for people on Social Security who don’t have any other income,” says Len Lichtenfeld, deputy medical director for the American Cancer Society.
En General Motors, las mujeres ascienden en un mundo de hombres
Published May 16, 2012 | Por ALAN MURRAY
Cuando Dan Akerson asumió el liderazgo en los esfuerzos de reestructuración de General Motors Co., muy pocos pudieron predecir el impacto que empezaría a tener casi de inmediato en un frente en particular: papeles más destacados para las mujeres en la automotriz, desde los rangos medios hasta la junta directiva.
Alan Murray, editor de The Wall Street Journal, habló con el presidente de la automotriz estadounidense sobre las contribuciones realizadas por las ejecutivas, gerentes, ingenieras y miembros mujeres de la junta directiva en la reinvención de GM. En el proceso, Akerson rindió tributo a una mujer que tuvo una influencia especial en su carrera, su madre.
Estos son extractos editados de la conversación.
Genesis Photos for The Wall Street Journal
Dan Akerson (der.), presidente ejecutivo de GM, habla con Alan Murray.
Alan Murray: La del automóvil es probablemente uno de las industrias más masculinas. Usted hizo un esfuerzo concertado para promover y atraer a más mujeres. ¿Por qué?
Dan Akerson: No sé si fue un esfuerzo consciente o un mejor reconocimiento del talento. En cierta manera, uno es prisionero de su pasado. Crecí en una casa donde mi madre era una presencia de peso. Tuvo un impacto sobre mí mayor que el que tuvo mi padre, a quien quise mucho. Mi madre era una mujer ambiciosa, talentosa y dada a asumir riesgos. Cuando yo tenía 11 años, empezó a trabajar como cajera de una tienda y terminó siendo la asistenta del gerente. Si no hubiese sido mujer, no lo digo con un sentido peyorativo, hubiese llegado a la gerencia. El propio gerente diría lo mismo. Así que para mí, no se trata del género, sino de las capacidades. Cuatro de los 12 miembros de la junta directiva son mujeres. Mary Barra (vicepresidenta de desarrollo global de productos) es una de las ejecutivas más talentosas que he conocido. Estaba en el departamento de recursos humanos, pero había pasado por las divisiones de fabricación e ingeniería. Dirigió plantas. En una empresa tradicional como GM, el jefe de recursos humanos es visto como la persona detrás del trono… lo cual no me gustaba. Así que ahora es quien dirige el desarrollo de productos a nivel global.
Murray: Tiene que ser la primera mujer con un trabajo de este tipo, ¿no? Quiero decir que es un trabajo donde abunda la testosterona.
Akerson: Sí, hay mucho de eso en la industria automotriz. Yo diría que Mary es tan buena que puede navegar sin problema a través de la burocracia y distingue entre lo importante y lo marginal. Mary trabaja increíblemente bien con la gente.
Murray: Usted fue blanco de algunas críticas por ese nombramiento.
Akerson: Sí. Francamente me sorprendió por el hecho de que la crítica se basara en que yo no tenía experiencia en el sector automotor. Sin embargo, por estos días ser un hombre de la industria no es el mejor de los halagos, porque estos ejecutivos llevaron a la industria al borde del abismo.
Las mujeres en GM incluyen la jefa de Chevrolet Europa; la gerente de nuestro tercer mercado más grande, Brasil; la directora de fabricación global y la jefa de recursos humanos. No quise a las mujeres en los trabajos tradicionales que normalmente se les asigna.
Murray: ¿No trabajos operativos?
Akerson: Sí. Algunas de nuestras plantas más grandes están dirigidas por mujeres; 20% de nuestro personal técnico está compuesto por mujeres. Buscamos líderes con títulos en ingeniería, porque esta es una compañía compleja que se basa en lo técnico.
Murray: Dijo que deberíamos haber mencionado a Mary Barra en nuestro artículo sobre las mujeres que están camino a ser presidentas ejecutivas (publicada la semana pasada). ¿Será ella la próxima presidenta ejecutiva de GM?
Akerson: No lo sé. Es una candidata. No me sorprendería si lo logra. Creo que hay un grupo de candidatos calificados.
Murray: Cuatro de los 12 miembros de la junta directiva de GM son mujeres. ¿Afecta eso la cultura para las mujeres dentro de la organización?
Akerson: Sí. Uno siempre quiere ver a alguien como uno que le vaya bien, que tenga serias posibilidades de llegar a la cúpula. Y eso va paralelo a las líneas de género, raza y etnia.
Murray: ¿Lo presionan para que promueva a las mujeres?
Akerson: No. No me presionan. No sé si la presión me la aplico yo mismo. Sin embargo, ahora hacemos evaluación de talento. Trato de revisar el desempeño de 50 ejecutivos y hablamos sobre posibles reemplazos. ¿Qué estamos haciendo para tener una buena reserva de talento?
Murray: Entró en la empresa hace tres años, justo después de que GM saliera de la protección de la corte de bancarrota. Con todas las cosas por las que la compañía tenía que preocuparse, ¿cómo y por qué hizo de esto una prioridad?
Akerson: No diría que lo hice una prioridad. Fue una prioridad ‘B’. La prioridad ‘A’ era poner a la compañía bajo control. La empresa tenía que nacer de nuevo. Y ahora estamos tratando de transformar una buena empresa en una grandiosa.
Miembro de la audiencia: Tengo curiosidad de saber si tiene un argumento empresarial que justifique que la diversidad de género es importante.
Akerson: Bueno, ¿quiénes son nuestros clientes? Estoy seguro que 60% de las decisiones de compra en un auto son tomadas por mujeres. Así que creo que la base de empleados y la perspectiva de una empresa deben representar de alguna forma su base de clientes. Queremos diversidad, no sólo de género, sino de raza y etnia.
Creating Social Capital in India
Published May 16, 2012 | By RAJEEV MANTRI
Venture capitalists add value to an enterprise at many levels and are not just financial investors. Good venture capitalists invest in smart entrepreneurs and big opportunities, and also bring to the table their network of relationships and connections. India is a preferred investment destination among emerging markets and has oodles of bright and hungry entrepreneurs who have built world-class companies across industries.
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Rajeev Mantri
However, a culture of serial entrepreneurship and mobility of entrepreneurial talent across business sectors is absent. India’s social structure tends to promote business activity between people of the same community, and social class and family birth also influence one’s vocation, resulting in a dearth of what economists call “social capital.”
In the entrepreneurship and startup world, it’s common to hear people talk enthusiastically about “developing the ecosystem,” which is the same as creating social capital. Early-stage venture investing remains very risky and difficult despite the fact that India is burgeoning with first-rate entrepreneurs. I think this is because of the dearth of social capital – social networks in India are centered around family and identity. A culture of trust which encourages cooperation and profit-motivated, self-interested action has only just begun to take root.
Dynastic succession is one of the most pervasive and curious characteristics of Indian society, and can be befuddling to a casual observer. Whether it is business, politics, the fine arts or Bollywood, children inevitably do what their parents did, often with strenuous consequences for both the family and society. Some 3000 years have passed since the great war of Kurukshetra took place between the Pandavas and Kauravas to resolve a disagreement over succession and inheritance, and history continues to rhyme.
Lateral entry into a vocation outside the purview of one’s family and identity remains difficult. As Warren Buffett might put it, capital allocation in India is determined by the “lucky sperm club,” those who are born in certain families and communities.
Dynastic succession is not the most efficient way to allocate human capital. A poet who could have been an effective politician doesn’t necessarily make that choice, and a financier who could have made a better writer doesn’t pick that path. Talent ends up being sacrificed at the altar of societal norm, precisely because the opportunities for realizing one’s potential in “other” fields are very limited. In economist-speak, a Nash equilibrium exists and the net effect is that society becomes inertial and innovation is stifled.
“Not being able to exit even if they want to means that instead of entrepreneurs owning their company, the company owns them.”
The more social capital India can form, the faster the rate of innovation and idea exchange and ultimately, positive change – and this applies as much to politics and Bollywood, as it does to the startup world. We can be sure that such change will be positive because open and vibrant ecosystems allocate resources far more optimally and democratically than the almost-feudal system in existence today.
How can India create social capital? At the macro level, market competition creates social capital and trust. India is notorious among investment bankers for its low domestic mergers and acquisitions activity relative to the size of its economy, and it’s uncommon for small and medium-sized companies to sell themselves to larger competitors. Alok Kejriwal, entrepreneur and founder of Internet company Contests2win.com, recently told me that the absence of markets that encourage M&A and dearth of liquidity events can be a serious innovation-killer. Entrepreneurs who can’t get a good price for their company won’t sell, and pricing is distorted because of shallow markets and an inertial system that rewards continuity rather than change.
Not being able to exit even if they want to means that instead of entrepreneurs owning their company, the company owns them.
The antidote is meaningful economic reforms, which reward productivity gains and encourage competition. India’s legal and economic structures promote inertia, rather than productivity and fluidity. Bollywood, which was recognized as an industry by the BJP-led NDA government in 1998, is one of the most visible and least talked about success stories to benefit from pro-market policy.
In the last decade, the film industry has become more organized and corporatized. Access to finance has reduced the influence of criminal elements and the infamous underworld. New talent has emerged and an industry which was once dominated by a few families is now far more democratic. Increased efficiency in movie production, distribution and marketing have grown the market for all and it has become possible to produce and release small-budget films which would have otherwise been commercially unviable.
This growth can be replicated in other sectors. The Congress-led UPA government has reiterated its commitment on this front, but the question is whether it will actually do enough, or hide behind the excuse of protecting India’s “mango people” once again.
At the micro level, the best way to create social capital is to pursue one’s dreams and ambitions, even if it seems difficult or impossible at first. Getting out of one’s comfort zone and trying new things, forming groups and organizations where none exist, and bringing together like-minded people whose values and ideas are aligned, though seemingly innocuous, can be deeply transformational. The generation of Indians that grew up through the watershed economic reforms of 1991 and the reform efforts of the NDA government from 1999-2004 is now coming of age. As has been captured by movies and popular culture, this generation is more confident, assertive and aspirational. Global investors and India’s “mango people” alike would be better off if they create social capital to dramatically alter India’s curious cultural calculus.
—Rajeev Mantri is executive director of Navam Capital, a Kolkata-based venture capital firm.
Even A Small Slowdown In Obesity’s Rise Would Save Big Money
Published May 16, 2012 | Story By: by Judith Graham
Slowing the rising rates of obesity in this country by just 1 percent a year over the next two decades would slice the costs of health care by $85 billion.
Keep obesity rates where they are now â well below a 33 percent increase that’s been expected by some â and the savings would hit nearly $550 billion over the same 20 years.
Those are two attention-grabbing conclusions from an analysis released this morning at the Weight of the Nation conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers from Duke University, RTI International and CDC prepared the analysis, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
It’s the latest work that shows the health care costs associated with obesity, and the stark financial consequence of the epidemic.
In the new study, researchers estimate that obesity will continue to rise and will affect 42 percent of adults by 2030. (Obesity represents a body mass index score, a ratio of weight to height, of 30 or higher. Separate estimates for children aren’t calculated.)
That projection reflects recent evidence that obesity has leveled off in some groups. So it’s lower than an earlier estimate that just over half of the nation’s adults would be obese by 2030. It also factors in conditions in the states that can affect the prevalence of obesity, such as unemployment, the availability of fast food, and price differences between healthful and less healthful food items.
While increases in obesity may have slowed some, the health trends still bode poorly â especially for people who are roughly 100 pounds overweight, with body mass index scores of 40 or higher.
That rapidly growing group of severely obese people, who have the most medical problems and incur the highest health care costs, will rise from about 5 percent of the population now to 11 percent by 2030, researchers suggest.
The findings are meant to be a call to action, as experts gathered at the CDC conference consider how best to to combat obesity, a public health problem that affects about 78 million adults and 12.5 million children and adolescents.
Proven interventions are now available. “We know more than ever about the most successful strategies that will help Americans live healthier, more active lives and reduce obesity rates and medical costs,” said Dr. William H. Dietz, director of the CDC’s division of nutrition, physical activity and obesity, in a prepared statement.
The fight won’t be cheap. Still, the new study from Duke, RTI and CDC researchers shows that even a small dent in obesity rates could pay off.
Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship
Published May 16, 2012 | his citizenship will help Saverin escape some of the hefty taxes that
he would have to pay on his Facebook involvement, although it is not
known how much of the social media giant Saverin owns.
As recently as 2009, he has owned 5% of the social media company’s
outstanding shares, but he sold of some of those shares since then. He
wasn’t listed among those who owned 5% or more of the company in the
company’s pre-IPO regulatory filings.
The co-founder, who was born in Brazil, became a U.S. citizen in 1998
and has been living in Singapore since 2009, however the U.S. requires
its citizens to pay income taxes no matter where one lives. Saverin has
not played an active role in Facebook for many years, though he provided
some of the company’s initial financing. If Saverin still has any of
his Facebook stake, then renouncing his U.S. citizenship could lessen
his future tax hit, though a spokesman for Saverin said the expatriation
was done for logistical purposes, “not for tax reasons.”
“Eduardo recently found it to be more practical to become a resident of
Singapore since he plans to live there for an indefinite period of
time,” spokesman Tom Goodman said. “He still has very strong ties to
Brazil and is extremely passionate about not only his homeland, but also
the U.S.”
In 2011, 1,781 Americans renounced their citizenship, which is a 16%
increase from 2010 and almost eight times the number in 2008.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg, also one of the original co-founders, is selling
30.2 million shares of his stake to raise $1.1 billion in cash. The CEO
is planning to use most of it to pay off the taxes he expects to owe from using some of his stock options. Many employees of Facebok will
have to pay 45% in taxes on the millions of dollars they will come into
once the stock is publicly traded, which it plans to begin on Friday.
The average tax hit will be $1.1 million per employee.
© 2012, Distributed by NEWS CONSORTIUM.
Al Ain’s under-15 team emulate senior side’s league success
Published May 15, 2012 | Dubai: Al Ain’s under-15 (U-15) side have emulated the club’s senior team by winning the junior championship.
Al Ain club’s sports manager Khalifa Sulaiman was left singing praises of his academy coaching staff after his U-15 side lifted the junior championship with a 5-1 win over Emirates last weekend.
This follows the senior side’s recent clinching of the Etisalat Pro League.
The latest honour celebrated by the academy follows the U-11 squad’s win of the Shaikh Saeed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Championship and U-10, U-12 League wins. Two matches stand between the U-17s and a League and cup double.
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