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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Isaac is likely to cause substantial flooding along the US Gulf Coast, but losses should be a fraction of what they were when Hurricane Katrina ploughed the same path in 2005, disaster experts said yesterday.
If anythin...
DATE: Aug 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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(Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. researchers spent four years developing Watson, the computer smart enough to beat the champions of the quiz show “Jeopardy!” Now they’re trying to figure out how to get those capabilities into the p...
DATE: Aug 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Technology
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The name comes from a circle. There are 360 degrees in a circle.
The basic idea is that input into an employee’s performance comes from a circle of sources. It was originally known as ‘multiple-rater’ input. It is also known as ‘multi-source’ feedba...
DATE: Aug 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Works
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Blue moon. Though it is not that rare, it is not that often we have a blue moon, that is, two full moons in the same month.
This week we will have the second full moon in August. It is coincidence but over the weekend Neil Armstrong, the first man t...
DATE: Aug 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Works
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OSLO (Reuters) - Bermuda-based offshore oil driller Seadrill said it saw an increasingly tight ultra-deepwater rig market and planned for additional newbuild units as it reported second-quarter earnings roughly in line with forecasts.
“The board is i...
DATE: Aug 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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TBi said it plans to fight a Telecommunications Commission ruling ordering it to shut down its WiFi service in Dockyard and Hamilton.
The service, heavily used by visitors to Bermuda, especially cruise passengers, was rolled out in Dockyard in March,...
DATE: Aug 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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KeyTech traded 105 shares on the Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday, closing at $5.55 with no change in share price.
Ascendant Group also traded 74 shares, closing at $12.05 with no change in share price.
Overall, the BSX closed at 1,058.78, with 179 s...
DATE: Aug 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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Credibility is often considered to be at the foundation of leadership. Regardless of how smart, sophisticated and savvy you might be, if your colleagues or direct reports don’t believe you, then they won’t willingly follow.
People have to believe th...
DATE: Aug 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Works
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Philadelphia Financial Group hopes to add to the strong growth the company has achieved this year through its two new subsidiaries in Bermuda.
Ken Kilbane, an executive vice-president of the Philadelphia-based provider of life insurance products for...
DATE: Aug 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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Ascendant Group has come to the assistance of the Department of Conservation Services with the ongoing restoration of Nonsuch Island Nature Reserve by the donation of a propane-powered refrigerator for the Conservation Officer’s cottage.
Working wit...
DATE: Aug 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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