LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour party is to accuse supermarket giant Tesco and clothing retailer Next of turning away British workers where possible to exploit cheaper migrant labour.
In a speech that will drag the firms into a politically-charged immigration debate ahead of a 2015 election, senior Labour lawmaker and immigration spokesman Chris Bryant will accuse the companies on Monday of deliberately excluding British people.
"It is unfair that unscrupulous employers whose only interest seems to be finding labour as cheaply as possible, will recruit workers in large numbers in low wage countries in the EU, (and) bring them to the UK," Bryant will say, according to advance extracts of his speech.
Polls show immigration is one of the subjects that worries British voters the most and any perception that retailers are deliberately disadvantaging locals could damage Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives as well as the firms themselves.
Cameron is trying to stop an exodus of voters to the anti-immigration UK Independence Party before the 2015 vote.
Bryant will accuse Tesco of favouring workers from Eastern Europe over British ones and of relocating one of its distribution centres in a way that discouraged local employees to continue working for the firm.
He will also accuse Next of bussing in workers from Poland to skirt British labour laws that would make hiring comparable local workers more expensive.
Next said in a statement on Sunday it did hire Polish nationals to work in Britain at busy times, but said it did so because it couldn't find enough Britons to fill vacancies and that it was not doing anything unethical or illegal.
"Mr Bryant wrongly claims that Polish workers are used to save money. This is simply not true," it said. "We are deeply disappointed Mr Bryant did not bother to check his facts with the company before releasing his speech."
Tesco could not be reached, but a Tesco spokesman told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper it was wrong to accuse the supermarket giant and that it tried hard to recruit local people where possible.
Bryant's intervention comes as Labour's opinion poll lead over the Conservatives narrows and its leader Ed Miliband faces criticism from colleagues for what they see as a failure to communicate the party's policies clearly or strongly enough.
"We're not suggesting any law has been broken," a Labour source told Reuters. "Tesco and Next are anecdotal examples," the source added, saying the party wanted to spotlight the problem so it could be solved.
Separately, Labour cited research that showed Britain had seen one of the biggest falls in real wages of any EU country since 2010.
Young or old, song sparrows experience climate change differently from each otherPublic release date: 12-Aug-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Kristen Dybala kedybala@ucdavis.edu 415-218-9295 University of California - Davis
What's good for adults is not always best for the young, and vice versa. At least that is the case with song sparrows and how they experience the effects of climate change, according to two recent studies by scientists at the University of California, Davis, and Point Blue Conservation Science.
Both studies show the importance of considering the various stages and ages of individuals in a species -- from babies to juveniles to adults -- to best predict not only how climate change could affect a species as a whole, but also why.
"To learn how climate change is expected to affect an individual population, you have to look at demography," said lead author Kristen Dybala, a postdoctoral scholar in the UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. "If you don't break it down by these different stages, you get a different understanding that may be misleading, or worse, that's just wrong."
For example, in the study published in print today in the journal Global Change Biology, climate change had opposite projected effects for adult and juvenile song sparrows in central coastal California. The researchers found, not surprisingly, that adult survival was sensitive to cold winter weather.
"Even though we rarely see freezing temperatures on the coast of California, it was clear that an adult bird's chances of survival were lowest in the coldest winters," said co-author Tom Gardali, Pacific Coast and Central Valley Group director of Point Blue Conservation Science.
They expected a similar response from the young. However, warmer, drier winters translated to less food for the juvenile sparrows during the following summer.
"Before they can get to winter, the juveniles have to survive their first summer, when they're sensitive to how much food is available," said Dybala. "So as winters get warmer, we expect adults and juveniles to respond in opposite directions."
In another recent study of song sparrows published in the journal Ecology, lead author Dybala found that parents provided a buffer against the weather for baby sparrows still dependent on them for food. However, independent juveniles that were newly out on their own were more sensitive to changes in the weather because they lacked the skills and experience of their parents.
While that vulnerability has existed for as long as offspring have been leaving the nest, climate change is expected to exacerbate those already uncertain conditions, Dybala said. This sort of variation in juvenile survival can significantly impact a species' population growth.
Both studies were conducted at Point Blue's Palomarin Field Station in the Point Reyes National Seashore in California. While song sparrows are found throughout North America, the local population is nonmigratory, and Point Blue (formerly PRBO Conservation Science) biologists have collected survivorship data on them for 34 years. Dybala combined that information with weather data collected at the field station to see how different weather factors influenced survival rates over the years.
The scientists said that efforts to understand or project demographic responses to climate change could be used to inform climate change adaptation plans, help prioritize future research, identify where limited conservation resources could be best spent and help soften the impacts of climate change for individual species.
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The studies were funded by the National Park Service's G.M. Wright Climate Change Fellowship, UC Davis Graduate Group in Ecology, Point Blue Conservation Science, and ARCS Foundation scholarships.
The study in Global Change Biology was co-authored by John Eadie of the UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology; Gardali and Nathaniel Seavy of Point Blue Conservation Science; and Mark Herzog of the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center. Read the study at http://bit.ly/17DeA1c.
The Ecology study was co-authored by Eadie and Gardali. Read the study at http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/12-1443.1.
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Young or old, song sparrows experience climate change differently from each otherPublic release date: 12-Aug-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Kristen Dybala kedybala@ucdavis.edu 415-218-9295 University of California - Davis
What's good for adults is not always best for the young, and vice versa. At least that is the case with song sparrows and how they experience the effects of climate change, according to two recent studies by scientists at the University of California, Davis, and Point Blue Conservation Science.
Both studies show the importance of considering the various stages and ages of individuals in a species -- from babies to juveniles to adults -- to best predict not only how climate change could affect a species as a whole, but also why.
"To learn how climate change is expected to affect an individual population, you have to look at demography," said lead author Kristen Dybala, a postdoctoral scholar in the UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. "If you don't break it down by these different stages, you get a different understanding that may be misleading, or worse, that's just wrong."
For example, in the study published in print today in the journal Global Change Biology, climate change had opposite projected effects for adult and juvenile song sparrows in central coastal California. The researchers found, not surprisingly, that adult survival was sensitive to cold winter weather.
"Even though we rarely see freezing temperatures on the coast of California, it was clear that an adult bird's chances of survival were lowest in the coldest winters," said co-author Tom Gardali, Pacific Coast and Central Valley Group director of Point Blue Conservation Science.
They expected a similar response from the young. However, warmer, drier winters translated to less food for the juvenile sparrows during the following summer.
"Before they can get to winter, the juveniles have to survive their first summer, when they're sensitive to how much food is available," said Dybala. "So as winters get warmer, we expect adults and juveniles to respond in opposite directions."
In another recent study of song sparrows published in the journal Ecology, lead author Dybala found that parents provided a buffer against the weather for baby sparrows still dependent on them for food. However, independent juveniles that were newly out on their own were more sensitive to changes in the weather because they lacked the skills and experience of their parents.
While that vulnerability has existed for as long as offspring have been leaving the nest, climate change is expected to exacerbate those already uncertain conditions, Dybala said. This sort of variation in juvenile survival can significantly impact a species' population growth.
Both studies were conducted at Point Blue's Palomarin Field Station in the Point Reyes National Seashore in California. While song sparrows are found throughout North America, the local population is nonmigratory, and Point Blue (formerly PRBO Conservation Science) biologists have collected survivorship data on them for 34 years. Dybala combined that information with weather data collected at the field station to see how different weather factors influenced survival rates over the years.
The scientists said that efforts to understand or project demographic responses to climate change could be used to inform climate change adaptation plans, help prioritize future research, identify where limited conservation resources could be best spent and help soften the impacts of climate change for individual species.
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The studies were funded by the National Park Service's G.M. Wright Climate Change Fellowship, UC Davis Graduate Group in Ecology, Point Blue Conservation Science, and ARCS Foundation scholarships.
The study in Global Change Biology was co-authored by John Eadie of the UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology; Gardali and Nathaniel Seavy of Point Blue Conservation Science; and Mark Herzog of the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center. Read the study at http://bit.ly/17DeA1c.
The Ecology study was co-authored by Eadie and Gardali. Read the study at http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/12-1443.1.
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hola buenas el motivo de la pregunta es el siguiente , trabajo en un despacho de lunes a viernes y los fines de semana de camarero en un restaurante ambos trabajos dado de alta en la seguridad social, este pasado finde he tenido un accidente laboral en el restaurante, por lo cual tuve que acudir a urgencias y me diagnosticaron rotura del 5 metacarpiano de la mano derecha, con el respectivo informe de baja laboral, el lunes acud? a la mutua a entregar el parte de urgencias, y les comente que tengo otro trabajo entre semana, me dijeron que tenia que pedir la baja tambi?n, por lo que mande la misma documentaci?n a la gestor?a del trabajo y me dijeron que ellos se hac?an cargo de mandarlo a su mutua y que les comunicara que me ivan a hacer las revisiones en la mutua del trabajo donde tuve el accidente, la pregunta es, a la hora que cobrar sab?is como funciona? no me an tenido que operar pero estar? de baja un mes aprox. Un saludo y muchas gracias.
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Eydie Gorme, a popular nightclub and television singer as a solo act and as a team with her husband, Steve Lawrence, has died. She was 84.
Gorme, who also had a huge solo hit in 1963 with "Blame it on the Bossa Nova," died Saturday at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas following a brief, undisclosed illness, said her publicist, Howard Bragman.
Gorme was a successful band singer and nightclub entertainer when she was invited to join the cast of Steve Allen's local New York television show in 1953.
She sang solos and also did duets and comedy skits with Lawrence, a rising young singer who had joined the show a year earlier. When the program became NBC's "Tonight Show" in 1954, the young couple went with it.
They married in Las Vegas in 1957 and later performed for audiences there. Lawrence, the couple's son David and other loved ones were by her side when she died, Bragman said.
"Eydie has been my partner on stage and in life for more than 55 years," Lawrence said in a statement. "I fell in love with her the moment I saw her and even more the first time I heard her sing. While my personal loss is unimaginable, the world has lost one of the greatest pop vocalists of all time."
Although usually recognized for her musical partnership with Lawrence, Gorme broke through on her own with the Grammy-nominated "Blame it on the Bossa Nova." The bouncy tune about a dance craze of the time was written by the Tin Pan Alley songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
Her husband had had an equally huge solo hit in 1962 with "Go Away Little Girl," written by the songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King.
Gorme would score another solo hit in 1964, but this time for a Spanish-language recording.
Gorme, who was born in New York City to Sephardic Jewish parents, grew up speaking both English and Spanish. When she and her husband were at the height of their career as a team in 1964, Columbia Records President Goddard Lieberson suggested she put that Spanish to use in the recording studio.
The result was "Amor," recorded with the Mexican combo Trio Los Panchos.
The song became a hit throughout Latin America, which resulted in more recordings for the Latino market, and Lawrence and Gorme performed as a duo throughout Latin America.
"Our Spanish stuff outsells our English recordings," Lawrence said in 2004. "She's like a diva to the Spanish world."
Gorme and Lawrence, meanwhile, had an impressive, long-lasting career in English-language music as well, encompassing recordings and appearances on TV, in nightclubs and in concert halls.
Throughout it, they stuck for the most part with the music of classic composers like Berlin, Kern, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and other giants of Broadway and Hollywood musicals. They eschewed rock 'n' roll and made no apologies for it. As they like to put it: "no punk, no funk, no rock, no schlock."
"People come with a general idea of what they're going to get," Lawrence said of their show in a 1989 interview. "They buy a certain cereal, and they know what to expect from that package."
Soon after their marriage, the pair had landed their own TV program, "The Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Show," which was a summer replacement for Allen.
Not long after that, however, Lawrence entered the Army, and Gorme went on the nightclub circuit as a soloist until his return to civilian life two years later.
After his discharge, Lawrence and Gorme quickly reteamed, and their careers took off.
They appeared at leading nightclubs in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Las Vegas, combining music with the comedy bits they had learned during their apprenticeship on Allen's show. In Las Vegas, the showroom sweethearts played the Sands, the Desert Inn and headlined for 10 years at Caesars Palace.
"Oh God, it was the best," Gorme told The Associated Press in 2003 about that period. "After the shows, we would all get together and hang out. If it got later, we would all get together for breakfast."
With nightclubs dwindling in popularity in the 1980s, they moved their act to large theaters and auditoriums, drawing not only older audiences but also the Baby Boomers who had grown up on rock 'n' roll.
Gorme, who was born Edith Gormezano on Aug. 16, 1928, began to seriously consider a music career while still a student at William Taft High School in New York City's borough of the Bronx, where she had been voted the "Prettiest, Peppiest Cheerleader." The daughter of Turkish and Spanish parents, she grew up speaking Spanish at home.
After graduation, she worked as a Spanish interpreter for a time but also sang on weekends with the band of Ken Greenglass, who encouraged her and eventually became her manager.
Her first big break came when she landed a tour with the Tommy Tucker band, and she followed that up with gigs with Tex Beneke, Ray Eberle and on radio and television. Among her radio appearances was one on a Spanish language show, "Cita Con Eydie (A Date with Eydie)," which was beamed to Latin America by Voice of America.
Early in her career, Gorme considered changing her name, but her mother protested.
"It's bad enough that you're in show business. How will the neighbors know if you're ever a success?" she told her, so Gorme decided to keep the family name but changed her given name from Edith to Edie.
Later, having grown tired of people mistaking it for Eddie, she changed the spelling to Eydie.
She is survived by Lawrence, her son David and a granddaughter. Her other son with Lawrence, Michael, died of heart failure in 1986 at age 23.
The developing world has fallen big time for all-American exports like Footlongs, Big Macs and Extra Crispy Chicken Tenders and seems less concerned about the health risks of the high-fat, high-sodium fare that many Americans now seek to avoid.
By John W. Schoen,?CNBC Economics reporter / August 11, 2013
Labourers clean the external wall of a KFC restaurant in Huaibei, Anhui province in June. The emerging global middle class has developed an appetite for American fast food.
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Along the upward journey to middle-class status, a growing number of people around the world are working up quite a voracious appetite. The developing world has fallen big time for all-American exports like Footlongs, Big Macs and Extra Crispy Chicken Tenders.
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Despite early signs that a fast-food diet is no healthier in Beijing than it is in Boston, consumers who are new to middle-class dining seem less concerned about the health risks of the high-fat, high-sodium fare that many Americans now seek to avoid.
As the U.S. economy slogs along at a tepid pace, household incomes in much of the developing world are leaping ahead. Over the next two decades, those gains are expected to introduce billions of new consumers to menus from fast-food chains that are among some of the most iconic American brands.
And as many chains have saturated the U.S. market (and American tastes have shifted) the fast-food industry is finding a hungry market in far-flung locations?from Malawi to Mongolia.
"A lot of domestic chains are completely refocusing their business on the international market," said IBISWorld Industry analyst Andy Brennan. "And most of them have been quite successful at it."
IBISWorld pegs global fast-food sales at $190 billion but does not break out non-U.S. sales.
That is because for most fast-food chains, the formula that worked at home?low-cost menu items, prepared consistently and served quickly?seems to translate well for foreign consumers with newfound disposable income
These companies are also riding a wave of global brand awareness, thanks to increased international travel and the powerful reach of the Web.
For many new arrivals to middle-class life, a meal at an iconic American fast-food outlet also bestows a level of prestige, according to Brennan.
"It's a real status symbol to be eating in an American restaurant in Asia," he said.
Yum Brands?the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell?generated more than 70 percent of its profits, or $1.1 billion, outside the U.S. last year, up from just 20 percent 15 years earlier.
BPA Gallery First Fridays Art Walk: "Doors, Windows and Walls", featuring photography and mixed media by Marilynn Gottlieb, is set for Friday, September 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Bainbridge Performing Arts (BPA).
Stop by the BPA Gallery in September for "Doors, Windows and Walls," a photography and mixed-media exhibit by Marilynn Gottlieb. Marilynn Gottlieb's pieces are the result of collecting images of doors, windows or walls in specific locations. Each piece invites a comparison of the individual pictures as well as creating an abstract collection. The mixed media artwork combines photography with re-purposed materials such as slide frames or surplus circuit boards. Visit Marilynn online at www.marilynngottlieb.com.
Join us in the BPA Gallery for the First Fridays Art Walk July 5 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. for a special artist reception and a fun evening of art, food, and friends. Gallery hours througout the month are 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday - Friday plus one hour prior to each performance.Admission is free at BPA, 200 Madison Avenue North, Bainbridge Island.
The BPA Gallery showcases regional artists in monthly rotating exhibits in the C. Keith Birkenfeld Lobby and participates in the First Fridays Art Walk nearly all year. Contact Dominique Cantwell at 206.842.4560 with gallery inquiries.
Check us out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BPAonline, or find out more about BPA at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org. Check online for the latest on theatre and symphony auditions, complete theatre school and adult class offerings, performance listings, tickets, promos, and more. Click on "About BPA/Get Our Newsletter" to receive electronic performance announcements and behind-the-scenes news.
August 10, 2013 10:00 AMText Size: A . A . A Summertime, and with surf fishing the dining can be as easy as tossing hooks and a sinker into the saltwater a few feet from your towel. "Chunk a hunk of shrimp into the waves and you never know what's going to bite?that's what people love about it," says Ryan White, owner of fishing outfitter Hatteras Jack in Rodanthe, N.C. "Kick back on the beach and catch a few rays while you catch dinner. Now, that's living."
You don't have to fish deep to fill a cooler. Flounder, redfish, and blues feed in three key spots: next to sandbar breaks, where wave action scoops out the beach profile, and in ?channels bordering sandbars. But having the right rig is important. Here's how to put together three: a pair that target brawny fish such as striped bass and blues, plus the basic double-drop bottom rig that catches nearly every pan-size fish found under the breakers.
1. Fishfinder Rig
The bait line slides up and down the main line, allowing live bait to swim freely. That's crucial for fish that carry their prize some distance before swallowing. Use a circle hook?a hook with the barb bent back toward the shank?and the fish will hook themselves. An added bonus: Fish rarely swallow circle hooks, making it easier to release fish and let them live to fight another day. Targets: Redfish, striped bass
2. Fireball Rig
Brightly colored floats on the dropper lines lift the bait off the sea bottom so it can't be picked apart by tiny fish and marauding crabs. The fireball rig attracts fish that hunt by sight. Targets: Bluefish, striped bass
3. Double-Drop Bottom Rig
Extend two dropper lines, each tipped with a hook, from the main line. A sinker anchors the rig in place. Some bottom rigs use colored beads, which make them more visible in rough, roily waters. Bait with fresh shrimp or live mole crabs. This is the go-to rig, White says, "if you just want to catch whatever's out there." Targets: Atlantic croaker, flounder, spot, whiting, speckled trout
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