Business Generation

Oregons seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 9.5 percent in October, essentially unchanged from 9.6 percent in September. The unemployment rate has been below 10 percent for the past seven months, since March, when the rate was 9.9 percent. The recent low point for Oregons rate was in May, when it reached 9.3 percent.  In October, 177,350 Oregonians were unemployed. This is 20,761 fewer individuals than in October 2010, when 198,111 Oregonians were unemployed.

At 1,626,400, Oregons seasonally adjusted nonfarm payroll employment has risen for three consecutive months following a loss of 3,300 in July, reflecting the recent trend of modest yet uneven job growth. Employment rose by 800 in October, following a revised gain of 2,700 in September. October job gains were led by professional and business services (+2,300 jobs), government (+1,400), and trade, transportation and utilities (+1,300).

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FAS assessment forms part of the UK government-funded Financial Assistance Scheme available to members of collapsed company pension schemes.

To date, more then 18,000 pension scheme members have received payments of up to 90% of their pension entitlement. Just over 1,000 pension schemes have qualified for Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) help.

The FAS, which is administered by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), concerns itself with defined benefit schemes such as final salary schemes. It was set up to help members whose pension scheme collapsed or began to wind up between 1 January 1997 and 5 April 2005.

When a scheme applies for FAS, it goes through a five-stage process, notification, qualification, provision of member data, assessment and payment.

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What the heck, I said this morning, it’s Friday, the last Friday before a holiday week next week, so let’s have some fun. I set out to explore the creativity embedded in blog comments that are distributed en-masse but disguised to look like they’re actually individual comments for individual posts.

I see patterns. Comments like this…

Good stuff… Just killing some time browsing searches and found your post. Great looking website. I’ll have to save the page to come back. Cheers

…look reasonable at first glance. But then you discover they’re posted in excruciating mass repetition on multiple posts on multiple blogs, to embed links and gain artificial search engine advantage. That exact same

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Users can collaborate, share files while working in multiple locations by scanning images directly to the cloud, says the company

Document management company Xerox introduces a new document scanner DocuMate 3125 that converts paper documents, plastic cards and forms into searchable digital files that can be securely saved to a computer or in the cloud.

The company said users can collaborate and share files while working in multiple locations by scanning images directly to the cloud.

The Xerox DocuMate 3125 scans up to 25 pages per minute (ppm), 44 images per minute (ipm) in duplex mode; includes a 50-page automatic document feeder (ADF) that accepts various-sized items from business cards to A4 documents.

It also includes double feed detection (DFD) technology that notifyies the user if more than one page is scanned at a time and prevents unexpected dropped pages due to forgotten staples or adhesives and includes Visioneer OneTouch, a software utility to make scanning from the unit’s front panel easy and flexible with the touch of a button.

The new scanner includes the Visioneer CONNECT for Visioneer OneTouch that enables users to scan and upload paper documents to popular cloud destinations with the touch of one button.

The DocuMate 3125 includes bundled software that improves information accessibility, management and collaboration by protecting sensitive information such as contracts & pricing, agreements and human resources employee files, streamlining expense report and receipt submissions and increasing security and control of paper document and ID card capture for Healthcare applications.

The software bundle includes Visioneer Acuity to provide advanced image enhancement and Visioneer DriverPLUS to enable integration with user operating system and applications.

Visioneer Marketing vice-president John Capurso said the new Xerox DocuMate 3125 was designed to meet corporate compliance requirements, streamline workflow and improve overall office productivity.

“It is an extremely affordable solution for organizations looking for ways to constantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations,” said Capurso.

Popular online gaming company Zynga faces an unexpected scandal in advance of its upcoming initial public offering after The Wall Street Journal accused the company of forcing workers to return stock options.

Like many other technology startups, Zynga attracted higher quality employees by offering a company shares in place of higher wages. However, the company hoped to avoid a situation where early employees wound up with far more in stock than their work merited, so The Journal reports that the company began demanding some employees give up their rights to unvested stock or be fired.

The news source suggests that the practice could open up Zynga to potential lawsuits and also threatens an important foundation of Silicon Valley.

Fortune, however, portrays the practice differently, noting that Zynga makes a habit of offering under-performing employees an opportunity to step down in the company rather than being fired. Read more…

Should you attend Blog World 2011?

There are good reasons why people who really make money from blogging REFUSE to go

Here are 11 reasons why one full time blogger WONT be attending Blog World 2011  this year

I think youll find the reasons actually MAKE SENSE.

If youre looking for an excuse to hit a resort area go for it.

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