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Polycom® RealPresence® Video and Microsoft® Lync™ Streamline Solutions Communications and Collaborat

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Polycom® RealPresence® Video and Microsoft® Lync™ Streamline Solutions Communications and Collaboration at Denmark’s FLSmidth

FLSmidth is making Polycom video collaboration a best practice for collaborating face to face across its widely dispersed population of 15,000 employees in 50 countries

COPENHAGEN, Denmark–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Polycom, Inc. (NAS: PLCM) , the global leader in open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), today announced that FLSmidth, Denmark‘s leading supplier of equipment, services and expertise for the cement and mineral industries, has implemented Polycom® RealPresence® video solutions and the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform integrated with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 to facilitate communications and collaborations for 15,000 employees in offices distributed in 50 countries across EMEA, the US and APAC.

Since 1882, FLSmidth supplies everything from single machinery to complete cement plants and minerals processing facilities including services before, during and after a construction. FLSmidth has been using Polycom video collaboration for over a decade to facilitate efficient face-to-face communications across the globe. As the technology and quality has improved, more and more employees have used it. Today, over 120 Polycom® HDX® room solutions are in service, serving a range of use cases from executive and staff meetings and HR interviews, to employee training and production status meetings.

Solutors, a Polycom-certified partner, designed and delivered the video network and infrastructure on the foundation of the Polycom RealPresence Platform software infrastructure. FLSmidth chose the RealPresence platform infrastructure for its integration into business process and custom application development.

“We had three main criteria for selecting our unified communications and collaboration solutions: ease of use, high quality of image and sound, and a complete product range to adapt to all our needs and use cases,” said Torben Nordling, IT Project Manager – Implementation & Operations, FLSmidth. “Together, Polycom and Microsoft delivered a complete, standards-based, end-to-end UC&C solution which exceeds our expectations.”

With the combination of Lync and Polycom RealPresence solutions, employees can launch video collaboration sessions easily and intuitively from within familiar interfaces and normal workflows. They simply click a name on their Lync contact list to securely collaborate face-to-face via Polycom video on their desktop or in a conference room-based system. The combination gives employees greater flexibility and a seamless UC solution for voice, video, conferencing and collaboration, from anywhere, anytime.

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Danish teachers locked out after talks fail

Tens of thousands of Danish teachers were locked out of schools on Tuesday after negotiations with municipal authorities over weekly work hours failed to produce an agreement.

The National Teachers Union said 52,000 teachers were barred from entering schools, affecting some 875,000 pupils. Thousands of teachers held impromptu protests throughout Denmark, carrying signs and wearing white T-shirts expressing concern over a possible decline in the quality of education.

The showdown centers on who has the power to schedule teachers’ working time.

The union has refused to accept a new working agreement that is part of sweeping school reform program.

Municipal authorities want the right to determine how much time teachers spend in the classroom, and reject the Teachers Union‘s demand for a cap of 25 hours per week in class, with the rest of their working hours used for class preparation.

Teachers currently spend on average 16 hours a week in the classroom.

“We are prepared to spend more time teaching in the classroom, but we believe there must be a limit,” said union executive board member Gordon Orskov Madesen. “We also need proper time for preparation to offer quality in each and every lesson.”

Michael Ziegler, chief negotiator for Local Government Denmark, an association of municipalities, said local governments should have more say in how teachers spend their working hours.

“We believe that it should not be the Teachers Union who decides how teachers spend their working time,” said Ziegler. “Instead, it should be decided locally and in a dialogue between the individual teacher and school management. Teachers need to have rules regarding working hours that are similar to all other employee groups.”

If the two sides fail to reach an agreement, the central government could step in and force teachers back into schools.

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Pentagon Doles Out $42.1 Million in Navy Contracts

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The Department of Defense announced a series of new defense contracts benefiting the U.S. Navy on Wednesday, with publicly traded companies reaping more than $42 million in awards, including:

  • Raytheon was awarded a $14.9 million firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement. Raytheon will supply 103 Pod Adapter Units and 103 NavFLIR Surrogates for use in attaching Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) pods to Navy F/A-18 E/F fighter jets. The work should be completed by November 2015. 
  • Science Applications International Corp. won a $12.7 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to do IT work in support of the Marine Corps Enterprise Information Technology Services (MCEITS) Operations Capability and Enterprise IT Center Operational Support Services (MOC/EITC) and Systems Integration Environment. This contract runs through March 27, 2017.
  • British contractor BAE Systems was awarded $8 million under a Foreign Military Sales contract to procure and repair Common (Identification Friend or Foe) Digital Transponder (CXP) hardware for the governments of Saudi Arabia, Thailand, South Korea, and Denmark, and also for the U.S. Army and Navy. Completion date: August 2015.
  • CACI won $6.5 million in a six-month option extension of a contract to provide “worldwide logistics services in support of Military Sealift Command fleet operations and readiness” through October 2013.

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Milwaukee to "Scale-Up" Local High Growth Ventures using OPEN for Enterprise Model Commissioned by A

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Milwaukee to “Scale-Up” Local High Growth Ventures using OPEN for Enterprise Model Commissioned by American Express OPEN

—First-Ever Project in the U.S. to Build upon Expert Daniel Isenberg‘s Methodologies to Foster Self-Sustaining Entrepreneurship Ecosystems—

MILWAUKEE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Today, the Greater Milwaukee Committee (GMC), a coalition of the region’s business, labor, academic, philanthropic, nonprofit and civic leadership, announced that Milwaukee will be the first community in the U.S. to develop an entrepreneurship program using a model developed by Daniel Isenberg, founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Projects. The initiative is backed by Governor Scott Walker and Mayor Tom Barrett as part of a bipartisan effort to grow the economy by stimulating high-growth ventures and encouraging job creation.

OPEN for Enterprise: Coalitions for High-Growth Entrepreneurship is designed to help high potential urban communities connect a diverse group of stakeholders, including city planners, private investors, academics, entrepreneurs and public officials, to help maximize the social and economic value of the community’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. Merging their collective expertise, the coalition can help to develop community programs that identify new ways to stimulate, support and “scale up” new and existing ventures.

Milwaukee, with its strong focus on urban planning, engineering and a strategic priority to reclaim manufacturing excellence, is a natural choice for this initiative. Working closely with GMC, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Administration (WHEDA) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), the Coalition will produce an actionable blueprint for Milwaukee that can help lead to a measurable increase in growth driven start-ups and successful scale-ups.

The OPEN for Enterprise model is based on Isenberg’s work in testing and validating entrepreneurship ecosystems abroad, including successful programs in Colombia, Brazil and Denmark to foster policies, institutions and cultures that stimulate long-term economic growth, development and prosperity through programs and workshops. The same assets that exist in these countries are evident in Milwaukee, the first U.S. city to incubate Isenberg’s model.

“By nurturing an environment for scalable Wisconsin-based businesses, Greater Milwaukee Committee‘s partnership with Daniel Isenberg and American Express OPEN will help to support the State’s pledge to bring 250,000 jobs to Wisconsin – one-third of which will come from Milwaukee,” said Governor Scott Walker.

“We have growing companies that need skilled workers, and Milwaukee residents who need jobs,” said Mayor Tom Barrett. “I am proud of this partnership and pleased that Milwaukee is leading the way.”

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TurboTax Maker Fights to Keep It Harder to Do Taxes

By Evann Gastaldo If only it were quicker, easier, and cheaper to prepare and file your taxes. Oh, wait—it could be. Denmark, Sweden, and Spain use a system in which the government pre-fills your tax returns using info from your employer and bank. You tweak whatever is incorrect and you’re done, for… …read more
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Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down

By Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Contributor

On March 18, Dong Energy’s Anholt offshore wind farm connected its 36th Siemens 3.6 megawatt (MW) turbine to the electric grid, thereby bringing the total of Denmark‘s connected offshore wind to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts).  This capacity covers the equivalent of about 1 million Danish households’ electricity consumption.  The Anholt complex itself will include 400 megawatts of capacity when completed.  And Denmark has no plans to stop there, recently announcing that it will invite bids for an additional 1,500 MW of offshore wind.  Denmark now gets almost 25% of its electricity from windpower, and this country of 5.5 million in habitants is planning to double that number to 50% by 2020. …read more
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Pentagon Doles Out $121.1 Million in New Weapons Contracts

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Sequester or no sequester, the Department of Defense continues to find money to pay for national defense — and international defense, too. On Monday, the DoD announced a series of small (in defense contracting terms) contract awards to a handful of publicly traded companies.

  • In the smallest award, L-3 Communications won $12.9 million as a modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery requirements contract. Pursuant to it, L-3 will repair and, if necessary, overhaul, Navy TH-57 “Sea Ranger” helicopters. This contract is due for completion in June.
  • Here and abroad, Raytheon‘s Missile Systems division won a $20.1 million modification to another indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Raytheon will be performing mission support and sustainment work on AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles in the arsenals of Singapore, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Turkey, South Korea, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, and Poland under the Foreign Military Sales program — as well as for the U.S. Air Force and Navy. This contract runs through March 2014.
  • General Dynamics‘ Land Systems was awarded $39.1 million via a firm-fixed-price foreign military sales contract to convert M1A2 main battle tanks (of its own manufacture) to the M1A2S configuration for Saudi Arabia. Estimated completion date: Jan. 31, 2014.
  • Finally, United Technologies‘ Sikorsky Aircraft won a $49 million firm-fixed-price foreign military sales contract to perform engineering and configuration services on four (unspecified) utility helicopters for Saudi Arabia. This contract will be completed by Dec. 31, 2016.

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Denmark court convicts brothers of terror training

Two Danish brothers of Somali origin have been sentenced to six and three years in prison, respectively, for the older brother’s participation in a training camp run by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia.

They were the first convictions under a Danish law that makes it illegal to receive training from a terrorist group.

Danish news agency Ritzau said the men, who are aged 24 and 19 but were not named by the Aarhus court, immediately appealed Monday’s ruling.

The court found the older brother guilty of receiving training to commit terrorist acts while attending a camp run by al-Shabab, an Islamist insurgent group linked to Al Qaeda. The younger brother was convicted of assisting him by providing travel documents, Ritzau said.

Al-Shabab seeks to recruit new fighters from Somali communities overseas.

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Nanowire solar cells raise efficiency limit

Scientists from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institut, Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have shown that a single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity. The results are surprising and the potential for developing a new type of highly efficient solar cells is great. …read more
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German woman convicted for killing her 5 newborns

A German court has convicted a woman of manslaughter and sentenced her to nine years in prison for killing five of her newborn babies.

The 29-year-old woman, whose name hasn’t been released in keeping with German privacy rules, turned herself in to authorities last September. Prosecutors said then that she killed the infants shortly after giving birth in secret at home or in the woods because she worried her husband would leave her if she had any more children.

The state court in Flensburg, on Germany‘s border with Denmark, convicted her Thursday of five counts of manslaughter, the dpa news agency reported. Prosecutors had sought a 10-year sentence and the defense a seven-year term.

The babies were born between 2006 and 2012. The woman has two living children.

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Sweden's Com Hem Chooses SeaChange's Adrenalin Software Platform for Video-on-Demand

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Sweden’s Com Hem Chooses SeaChange’s Adrenalin Software Platform for Video-on-Demand

ACTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– SeaChange International (NAS: SEAC) , a leading global multi-screen video software innovator, today announced that Sweden‘s largest cable television operator, Com Hem, has selected the SeaChange AdrenalinTMvideo platform for its new TiVo service. Due for rollout later this year, Com Hem‘s new offering will include broadcast TV channels, VOD (video-on-demand), catch-up TV and start-over for DVB-based (Digital Video Broadcasting) TiVo set-tops, LAN set-tops, smartphones and tablets.

Com Hem is the fastest growing TV distributor in Sweden. About 40 percent, or 1.75 million, of Sweden‘s households are connected to Com Hem‘s network. This gives them access to Sweden‘s widest range of TV channels, HDTV, and TV on Demand, as well as high speed broadband and fixed line services. Com Hem is the latest European operator to choose SeaChange’s next generation Adrenalin as a foundation for its VOD services. Adrenalin is based on an open service-oriented architecture which delivers a television experience that scales to serve millions of assets to any video device across multiple network types, either deployed in a network or in a hosted model. SeaChange’s customers across Europe serve an estimated 36 million subscribers on televisions, PCs, tablets and mobile phones.

Com Hem will use the Adrenalin video platform to integrate and manage a wide range of third-party components. These include TiVo’s client solution and other third-party vendors in the ecosystem. SeaChange will provide its Professional Services to handle integration, customization and deployment.

Com Hem aims to offer subscribers the latest services in compelling bundles. With SeaChange’s technology and services we can do that. The open Adrenalin architecture means we can integrate our existing equipment and systems effortlessly. And because it’s easy to expand, the back office can grow as quickly as we do,” said Jens Persson, Manager R&D, Com Hem.

“We are delighted to support Com Hem in its rapid growth,” said Andrei Noppe, Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMEA and APAC, SeaChange. “Throughout Europe, customers come to SeaChange for our deep experience and expertise in on-demand service development. Our agreement with Com Hem marks continued expansion of SeaChange’s strong presence in the Nordic and Baltic region, with customers from Denmark to Estonia.”

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Danes pull out soldiers from Afghanistan in August

Denmark says it will end combat operations in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan in August, about six months earlier than planned because the expected timetable for local troops to take over security has been pushed forward.

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said Tuesday that some 350 Danish soldiers will be pulled out, leaving 300 to train Afghan forces. Denmark‘s force is mainly situated in the volatile Helmand province under British command.

More than 40 Danish soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the Scandinavian country began sending soldiers for the NATO force.

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Radiation Therapy For Breast Cancer Raises Heart Disease Risk

Breast cancer patients who undergo radiation therapy have an increase risk of ischemic heart disease within five years; the risk persists for at least twenty years, researchers from Oxford University, England, the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark, reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine)… …read more
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Northrop Wins $174 Million Pentagon Contract

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For the second time this week, Northrop Grumman has won a contract related to its LITENING Targeting Pod System. On Tuesday, the Pentagon awarded Northrop $7.1 million for sensor enhancement work on the system. On Thursday, though, the Pentagon gave Northrop a much more substantial order — $173.6 million in the form of a firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable-no-fee, time and material contract for sustainment of LITENING. Work on this contract is to be completed by December 31, 2017.

Northrop describes LITENING as a “self-contained, multi-sensor targeting and surveillance system” used to “detect, acquire, auto-track and identify targets at extremely long ranges for weapon delivery” (i.e. shooting at). LITENING is also said to be useful for “nontraditional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.”

The targeting pod is in use by both the U.S. Air Force, the USMC, and eight allied foreign countries — Australia, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. It is installed aboard Block 30, 40, and 50 F-16 fighter jets, aboard the A-10C Warthog, the F-15E Strike Eagle, the B-52 bomber, F/A-18 C/D fighter bomber, the AV-8B Harrier, and the EA-6B electronic warfare aircraft.

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Pro-mining opposition wins Greenland election

An opposition centrist party that favors tapping Greenland‘s underground mineral wealth appears poised to win the Arctic country’s parliamentary election.

With some three-fourths of the votes counted, incumbent Premier Kuupik Kleist has conceded defeat in the battle for control of the 31-seat Parliament.

A preliminary vote count early Wednesday showed Aleqa Hammond‘s centrist Siumut party winning nearly 43 percent of the votes, while Kleist’s left-leaning Inuit Ataqatigiit mustered only 30 percent.

Hammond would become Greenland‘s first female head of government if she is able to form a coalition.

Many Greenlanders want to use the island’s mineral resources, including uranium, as a way to reduce dependency on Denmark. Developing a mining industry, however, would require inviting thousands of guest workers, a sensitive topic among the population of 57,000.

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Officials: Michelin eatery in Denmark sickens 63

More than 60 customers who dined at one of the world’s top restaurants in Denmark say they got viral gastroenteritis from eating there last month.

The local food authority says it ordered a cleanup and safer handling of food at Noma, which has two Michelin stars and is a three-time winner of the world’s top restaurant in S. Pellegrino World‘s 50 Best Restaurants list.

The government agency said Friday it had investigated the restaurant in Copenhagen, after complaints from 63 customers who had eaten there during one week in February. It was not immediately clear what food had caused the infection.

Restaurant manager Peter Kreiner said they were trying to track the source of the infection.

The restaurant is widely known for cuisine that relies heavily on fresh, locally-sourced products.

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It's International Women's Day: How Do We Compare on Fiscal Equality?

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When it comes to best places in the world to be a woman, it’s not surprising that the U.S. falls behind nations like Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Scandinavian countries, after all, are famed for their impressive social contracts, with the amazing health care and child care benefits that they provide. But you might be shocked to learn that in at least one key metric, American women are being surpassed by those in Mozambique, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and 13 other developing nations.

The World Economic Forum’s 2012 report on the global gender gap ranked the U.S. as the 22nd best country in the world. But when it comes to wage equality, the land of the free and the home of the brave drops to 61st, behind Madagascar, Cambodia and Guyana. Women in America earned 67 percent of what men earned. By comparison, women in Sweden earned 69 percent, women in Canada earned 73 percent, and women in Ireland earned 77 percent.

Dig a little deeper into the numbers and it becomes clear what least part of the problem is. In many countries, unmarried women earn more than unmarried men. In Ireland, for example, the average woman without a child earns 17 percent more than the average man. After having children, however, Irish women make more than 10 percent less, on average, than men. In America, the female-to-male pay gap jumps by almost 15 percentage points after children enter the picture.

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The reasons for this decline in wages aren’t hard to figure out. Women with children are more likely to leave the workforce, work part time, or otherwise adjust their schedules to deal with child care. Added to this, the high cost of raising a child — a cost that inordinately falls on women — further cuts into household budgets.

In some countries, there are programs to mitigate these factors. Ireland, for example, has government-mandated paid maternity leave. Then again, so does every other country in the world, except for Papua New Guinea, Swaziland … and the U.S.

And these aren’t the only areas in which the U.S. falls well behind the pack. In terms of labor force participation based on gender, the U.S. is 43rd in the world, behind Uganda, Mongolia and Benin. Put another way, 68 percent of able-bodied, adult American women are at work, while 80 percent of able-bodied, adult American men are at work.

Part of this, again, is due to child-rearing, as America’s lack of publicly-funded child care makes it harder for women in this country to juggle family and work. And the situation looks like it’s going to get worse before it gets better. As The International Business Times reported earlier this week, the sequester budget cuts will further erode women’s health care programs, Head …read more
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