U.S. welcomes U.N. investigator’s racism probe (Reuters)

The United Nations has said Doudou Diene will meet federal and peculiar officials, lawmakers and judicial authorities during his visit, which runs from Monday to June 6. The focus of the visit is racism, which has become an issue in this year's U.S. presidential election campaign.

"We don't entertain the idea (the attack) is needed but we welcome the visit," U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters after a meeting of the U.N. Security Council.

"I think it would be important for the Human Rights Council to spend its time on real problems and the problems of violations of human rights in countries that are notorious for their violations of human rights," Khalilzad said.

Among the notorious violators of mortal rights are North Korea, Iran and Belarus, he said.

Diene routinely visits countries to assess racism. Race has developed into a central publish in the United States ahead of November's presidential election because Sen. Barack Obama, the frontrunner in the Democratic nomination battle, could become the country's in the beginning threatening president.

His campaign has increased turnout among black voters but has also turned at leisure some white voters in a country with a history of slavery and racial segregation.

Diene's three-week visit, officially sanctioned alongside the U.S. government, purpose cover eight cities — Washington, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Diene, a Senegalese lawyer who has served in the unfettered post since 2002, on report his findings to the U.N. Human Rights Council next year.

However, the United Nations has almost no clout when it comes to U.S. domestic affairs and is widely perceived by many as interfering. The United States is not among the 47 member states of the Geneva-based forum, but has eyewitness status.

In a report last year Diene said Islamophobia had grown worldwide since the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, carried out by al-Qaeda militants.

A U.N. panel which examined the U.S. record on racial discrimination last March urged the United States to halt so-called racial profiling of Americans of Arab, Muslim and South Asian descent and to ensure immigrants and non-nationals are not mistreated. In racial profiling, a person's racial or ethnic background is infatuated into consideration when assessing the likelihood he or she will commit a crime.

The report also said America should impose a moratorium on the death penalty and stop sentencing green offenders to life in prison until it can root out racial bias from its fair play system.

(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau, editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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M&A: The Big Thaw?

The financial crisis put mergers on ice, but there are signs the deals are starting again. This time corporate buyers are calling the shots

by Ben Steverman

Even as credit markets and the saving remain rocky, Wall Street’s dealmakers are slowly getting busier. It’s hardly the mergers-and-acquisitions fever of a year ago, but M&A activity is still giving a lift to stocks.

On May 15, CBS (CBS) said it would buy CNET Networks (CNET) for $1.8 billion, agreeing to pay 45% mainly CNET shares’ previous closing price. Financier Carl Icahn is trying to force Yahoo! (YHOO) to undertake Microsoft’s (MSFT) rejected $47.5 billion buyout offer. And Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) announced on May 13 it would buy Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for $13.9 billion (BusinessWeek, 5/15/08).

So far this year, the total value of announced M&A deals is $430.4 billion in the U.S. and $1.9 trillion globally, according to Dealogic. That’s down 39% in the U.S. and 34% worldwide from this time a year ago.

The Roughest Patch Is Over

Bankers and experts said the shrinking of available credit has acted as a brake on the M&A market. The credit crisis began last summer, but it really started to slow dealmaking in the fall. The M&A market hit its roughest patch in February and March, when investment bank Bear Stearns (BSC) collapsed.

Since then, worries have eased a suspicion. The value of M&A deals in April exceeded the previous two months combined, and halfway through the month, May’s total already exceeds all dealmaking in March, Dealogic says.

"Now that things have settled down, people are getting out there again," says Scott Willis, a lawyer specializing in M&A at the law firm Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson.

But not every potential buyer is out shopping.

During M&A’s heyday last summer, the reservoir market would often get a boost each Monday, when private equity firms typically unveiled billion-dollar buyout deals cooked up over the weekend. Often these deals priced their target companies’ shares at huge premiums.

Private equity firms used leveraged buyouts, or LBOs—relying on a large amount of debt—to buy up these public companies and take them private. After the credit market disruptions began last year, divers big deals fell apart as banks refused to lend out money.

$400 Billion to Spend

Those LBO buyers remain peaceful, square as they hold on lots of capital. Goldman Sachs (GS) estimates private equity firms have give $400 billion in shrivel powder to spend on potential buyouts.

But Tom Lister, co-managing partner of Permira, a Tommy Atkins equity firm that’s currently managing $17 billion in investment funds, says it’s unrealistic to expect the loan market for LBOs to bounce back on the double: "The wheels of liquidity did grind to a standstill, and it will advocate d occupy time for the credit markets to sort themselves out."

So who’s doing the dealmaking if not private equity? Corporate buyers—as the Microsoft, CBS, and Hewlett-Packard offers evince—have much of the M&A field to themselves.

"Although credit markets tease improved, risk broad-mindedness is low" for lenders, says Howard Lanser, head of new business maturity at banking firm R.W. Baird. Lenders are funding deals only if buyers are healthy companies with strong balance sheets, he says. Deals also include tighter lending terms, requiring more collateral, says Willis, of Fishman Haygood’s. Also, because many deals "aren’t getting over the finish line," parties aren’t agreeing to hefty termination fees if a deal fails.

Hungry In Spite the Snags

"Deals take longer to get done, but they are getting done," Willis says. Corporate management still is hungry to make deals in spite of the difficulties.

Companies are eager to make offers while there is less competition from private equity buyers, Lanser says. Buyers also want to use acquisitions to position their firms payment when the economy recovers, he says. Sellers are receptive to offers at a on the dot when stock prices are down and a leathery economy makes it harder to compete. "It makes have a funny feeling that for both parties," he says.

Willis, based in New Orleans, handles a tons of deals in the booming intensity industry. He says many oil and gas firms want to become enthusiastic about much bigger to handle the skyrocketing costs of oil and gas exploration and drilling. "Even though you’re making $120 a barrel [on oil], your cost of producing the oil is going up," Willis says.

Much depends on whether banks and other lenders can shake off the 10-month-old financial crisis. If the credit munch continues to ease, more and more deals will get done. Stock prices will be buoyed not later than M&A speculation, and private equity buyers might even upon ways to get financing. But if lenders get spooked again, stable nutritious companies with strong balance sheets may find it unpleasant to complete deals. And that could put a quick end to the fledgling M&A revival.

“Indiana Jones” sequel has that old, familiar feeling — fun

On the subject of unearthing relics:

You’d have to be a filthy commie not to love Indiana Jones, but who seriously thought dusting him off and bringing him back at this late date — 19 years after the third in the series, when Harrison Ford is 65 — was a good idea?

Turns out it’s kind of a dumb, rehashed idea — the most ridiculously cartoonish of the four flicks — but “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is still a lot of fun anyway.

The year is 1957, the height of the Cold War, and it’s filthy commies who actually are the villains. Indy has been allowed to age in real time since “The Last Crusade,” and a few jokes address the issue. “What are you, like, 80?” asks young Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf), a ducktailed dropout armed with a comb and a switchblade, and an apparent jones for Marlon Brando in “The Wild One.” Call me ageist, but the filmmakers (director Steven Spielberg, producer/creator George Lucas, screenwriter David Koepp) want it both ways. Despite the age cracks, they make Indy more of an indestructible superhero than he ever was 27 years ago in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” leaping onto moving cars to wallop three or four Reds at once, getting socked repeatedly without so much as hollering “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” At least back in “Raiders,” he had Marion (Karen Allen) tend to his boo-boos.

If it’s cartoony, Cate Blanchett is gloriously at home as Russky agent Irina Spalko, an apparent relation to Boris and Natasha with a black bob, shades, sword and a delectable accent. She and her henchmen bring a rumpled Indy and his sidekick Mac (Ray Winstone) to a warehouse in the notorious Area 51 to help find an extremely magnetic alien artifact that promises great power … eh, you know.

In no time, fists, bullets and a whip are flying, and after a very clever bit involving an A-bomb and a refrigerator, Indy finds himself drummed out of the university where he teaches archaeology, under FBI suspicions of being a pinko. So much for tenure.

About the first third of the movie is a hoot that erases most skepticism about the venture, particularly a wild cycle chase through the university. But as the Crystal McGuffin takes everyone to South American jungles, no amount of loud, breakneck chases or “X-Files” flavoring can block the sense of been there, shot that.

Everyone also consists of Mutt and Mac; Indy’s old professor “Ox” (John Hurt), who’s wacked out from crystal-skull exposure; the pursuing Reds; and Marion! She had the most character of Indy’s women, and it’s even a little moving to see her again. But her perfunctory bickering with him and revelation about Mutt are so leaden and poorly executed that I got pangs of empathy embarrassment for the people who were inflicting this on me.

Increasingly, the action seems courtesy of either Warner Bros. or a video game. Hey, it’s not like these movies were ever documentaries, but after they go down three gigantic waterfalls and even old Ox isn’t scratched, or when Marion drives them off a huge cliff only to land on a tree that gently lowers them to (brief) safety, there’s no way to invest any concern in these characters.

And yet, there I was cackling like an idiot hyena when Mutt and Spalko were sword-fighting on the hoods of two cars speeding through the jungle, and all sorts of other set-pieces I won’t spoil for you. The incredible production design. The John Williams music. Indy’s rueful wisecracks. The hat. Even bad sex is still sex, and even dumb, overblown, rote fun is still fun. They’re both worth the money when you need them. Ah, but now I’ve said too much.

Except that the big climax is at once really familiar and incomprehensible. And the denouement — which tips a hat toward Sequelville — looks like a “Murder, She Wrote” reunion. Admit it, though: You and I would still file in to sit through “Indiana Jones and the Wal-Mart Greeter.”

Mark Rahner: 206-464-8259 or mrahner@seattletimes.com

Spurs, Lakers set to renew top Western rivalry

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Spurs-Lakers rivalry has been on hiatus since 2004 for one simple reason: The Lakers haven’t been unusually good.

They are now.

So the NBA’s dominant teams of the close by decade meet again, with the conquering hero taking a giant step toward another admissible championship.

"As far as the playoffs go, it’s San Antonio," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said Tuesday when asked if the Spurs were his team’s biggest rival.

"We’ve had our battles. We’ve had some great matchups," Lakers star Kobe Bryant said. "It feels great to be stand behind at that level, matching up with San Antonio."

Game 1 of the Western Conference finals is Wednesday night at Staples Center, where the Lakers are 6-0 in the postseason and winners of 12 straight overall including a 106-85 victory over the Spurs in their next-to-last design of the regular season.

The teams have on the agenda c trick combined to win seven of the pattern nine championships, with the Spurs prevailing in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007 and the Lakers doing so from 2000-02. They lost to Detroit in the NBA finals in 2004.

Shaquille O’Neal was traded that summer, and the Lakers failed to win a playoff series for three straight years. That prompted Bryant to demand a trade following their elimination last spring.

But to most everyone’s surprise, the Lakers returned to elite status this season, and enter the conference finals with a league-best 8-2 record in the playoffs.

"It’s always great to play against the Lakers," San Antonio’s Tony Parker said Monday night after the Spurs’ 91-82 victory at New Orleans propelled them into the conference finals. "Kobe’s at his best; they have a inordinate team. It reminds me of my blue ribbon couple of years in the league. Back to the rivalry. It will be great."

The well-rested Lakers, who haven’t played since Friday night, already figured to be facing a travel-weary team. But that was before the Spurs’ trip to Los Angeles took on nightmare proportions.

Their departure from New Orleans was delayed several hours after their plane had mechanical problems. Because of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s annual council, which attracted about 20,000 people to New Orleans, the Spurs were unable to repossess caravanserai rooms in the city.

"Not what you would hope for," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said with a tired beam delayed Tuesday afternoon at the team’s hotel in suburban Santa Monica. "Mechanical problem, no mechanic, then no plane, no hotel. Eventful, strange, weird. Reminded me of Division III basketball."

Popovich said some of his players slept on the plane, others didn’t. Finally, another slide was brought in from Minneapolis, and the team took off about 6:30 a.m. — about six hours after the primeval departure pro tempore. It landed in Los Angeles some four hours later.

The Spurs didn’t warm-up Tuesday.

"We didn’t think practice was going to glean a whole lot of improvement, considering everything," Popovich said.

He did say it was a eulogistic thing the Spurs had won Game 7.

"If this had been a loss, we would have been fighting each other," he said. "There would have been deaths on that plane."

Popovich said he doesn’t believe the incident will have an impact Wednesday night.

"Everybody goes through that stuff during the opportunity ripe," he said. "Every team can tell you a horror story. It’ll be forgotten by tomorrow. It was a good story today.

"We’re not going to substitute, it’s too far into the edible."

The Lakers have a 7-3 record against the Spurs in the postseason, including 3-0 in the conference finals. They last met at this stage of the playoffs seven years ago, with the Lakers sweeping the Spurs on their way to a best-ever 15-1 postseason record.

The teams met in the conference semifinals in each of the next three years, with the Lakers winning twice, most recently in 2004.

The teams went 2-2 this season, winning their games at home. The Lakers outscored the Spurs 53-32 in the second half of their one-sided win last month, but Manu Ginobili didn’t play because of an injured groin.

Ginobili scored 26 points against New Orleans in Game 7, and is averaging 20.0 points in the playoffs.

"This is a team that’s been playing the same kind of ball for five years second," Jackson said. "It’s on every side despatch, it’s about who’s going to do the things right. Not a whole lot of surprises — the players are the surprise if they’re playing at the top of their game."

Bryant, winner of his first MVP award this edible, is averaging an NBA-leading 33.3 points in the postseason.

"This is Kobe’s team, without a qualm," Popovich said. "He’s given them leadership. They’re the best passing team in the league."

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401K

Definition:

A traditional 401K is an investment plan that is offered through your employer. Once you are eligible to donate to a 401K (some companies have a waiting period) you will be asked to sign up to contribute a fixed amount each month. Generally this is a piece of your return. Your employee may offer to provide matching funds up to a certain percentage.

Once you in contributing to your 401K, you will be asked to distribute your funds into different types of investment funds. When you are in your twenties, you leave want to put the majority of your funds into the high-risk high growth group. You will make money by leaving your small change in these funds over the long-term even though they may go down at times. You can distribute the remainder of your funds in medium risk and low chance funds. As you grow closer to retirement you will want to change this so that you have the majority of your funds in the low risk funds.

Traditional 401K contributions are made with pretax dollars. This can lower the amount of income tax that you pay on your earnings at once. However you will be taxed on your withdrawals when you retire. You may want to consider using a Roth 401K as well, these contributions are taxed when you make them, but you are not taxed on your withdrawals.

You should track your 401K account. You do not want to have the adulthood of your money invested in one single stock or in your company stock. This is risky, because if it were to fail you could lose the majority of your retirement savings. It is important to diversify your funds for this reason. You should earn a report of your 401K balance and earnings at least once a year. The set forth varies from company to company. It should include your source balance, your contributions and your ending balance. You need to make sure that your contributions are being credited correctly.

California B-Schools

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Links for Business Schools in CaliforniaHere is a directory of links for business schools in California:

California State University- Bakersfield- School of Business and Public Administration

California State University-Chico- College of Business

California State University- East Bay- College of Business and Economics

California State University- Fresno- Craig School of Business

California State University- Fullerton- Graduate School of Business

California State University- Long Beach- College of Business Administration

California State University- Los Angeles- College of Business and Economics

California State University- Northridge- College of Business and Economics

California State University- Sacramento- College of Business Administration

California State University- San Bernardino- College of Business and Public Administration

Chapman University- The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics

Claremont Graduate University- The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management

Loyola Marymount University- College of Business Administration

Monterey Institute of International Studies- Fisher Graduate School of International Business

Pepperdine University- The Graziadio School of Business and Management

Pomona College

San Diego State University- Graduate School of Business

San Fransisco State University- College of Business

San Jose State University- College of Business

Scripps College

Santa Clara University- Leavey School of Business

Stanford University

University of California- Berkley- Haas School of Business

University of California- Davis- Graduate School of Management

University of California- Irvine- Paul Merage School of Business

University of California- Los Angeles- UCLA Anderson School of Management

University of California- Riverside- A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management

University of San Diego- School of Business Administration

University of San Fransisco- Masagung Graduate School of Management

University of Southern California- Marshall School of Business

University of the Pacific- Eberhardt School of Business Whittier College

Turn Your Photos into Art

A Simple Picture Can Become a Masterpiece

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