'Here You Have' Email Virus Spreading Rapidly

If, as I did, you get a message in your email box today with the subject line saying, "Here you have", do not open it and delete it from your inbox immediately. significant percentage of corporate email users in the United States are being deluged with a strong and quickly spreading virus today that appears to be from somebody in your company and/or contact list. The email implies that they are sending you a link to a document . The body of the virus laden message reads, "Hello: This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here.http://www.sharedocuments.com/.While the origin of the 'here you have' email virus is not yet known, nor is it the extent of its spread known, it is clear that a large number of email inboxes, mostly on corporate email systems have been infected with it.

The motivation of some to create email viruses is not always clear. More often than not, it is a prank, albeit it a serious one as it saps productivity and could cause widespread network problems if not handled the right way.

As the country faces the 'here you have' email virus today, hopefully the word is spreading to as many people as possible to delete the message without opening it. Opening it will generally result in everybody in your contact list getting the message sent to them...allowing the 'here you have' email virus to continue its spread before being shut down.Source: Twitter.com

Labor Day

This Labor Day weekend, job prospects appear about as inviting as the leftover potato salad. But President Obama found encouragement in the Friday jobs report for August.
Despite a rise in unemployment to 9.6 percent and a total loss of 54,000 jobs (farewell, census workers), the private sector created 67,000 jobs actually last month. This is considerably more than economists expected and the eighth month of the private sector increases.
"Jobs are created. They're just not as fast as they need to be made," said Obama. "We just have to accelerate."
No argument there. Indeed, it takes 125,000 new jobs per month just to growth in the number of employees agree.
The president will lay out some ideas on that next week, including, reportedly, tax relief for small businesses that drive job growth. Tax cuts would be a move away from the White House's strategy of stimulus spending by the government-created jobs.
To date, the administration and Congress generally followed Keynesian principles require the government pumps in money when the economy should teach.
Money from the 2009 Recovery Act, which cost an estimated 814 billion U.S. dollars, helped state and local governments to keep public employees on the payroll, unemployment assistance, paid for infrastructure projects, and provided that the individual and business tax breaks.
According to the independent Congressional Budget Office, the Recovery Act created or preserved 1.4-3.3 million jobs in the second quarter.
But it is not a "summer recovery", as promised. Some claim that the Greek debt crisis threw a wrench in the weak recovery from disturbance of the show, then drove down consumer confidence. Others claim that stimulus was the wrong tool - what was needed was the kind of relief that the Obama administration is now apparently considering.

One idea is a temporary tax holiday for small businesses. It would be the employers exempted from payment of social security and other taxes on employees, making hiring cheaper. Depending on factors such as how long the tax holiday would last - if too short, it will not be business concerns about the longevity and strength of a recovery to overcome - it would make the federal budget more than 300 billion U.S. dollars cost.
The administration is also talking about the ongoing restoration of the lapsed research and development tax credit. This incentive rewards companies that research new technologies at home in the United States. That can cost about 100 billion U.S. dollars over the next 10 years.
Given the slow economic growth and persistent unemployment, hoping that Obama was two-pronged support for helping companies to hire and grow in America to find. He must be able, if he offers a way to pay for his ideas. It is important to voters who worry about the deficit pile-on.
Even if Obama can balance the math, the President may be unable to political balance. The subject of tax cuts has generally a wedge issue for the November elections.
Republicans argue that all of the Bush-era tax cuts - set to expire at the end of this year - should be extended. Obama wants to extend tax relief only for those families earning less than $ 250,000. It is time for the rich to pay, says the president, but Republicans replied that "the rich also" many small business owners who would be hurt by an increase in the tax contains.

GOP lawmakers would accept payroll tax relief for small businesses in exchange for the approach of the Bush tax cuts for Obama? Or would they prefer his planned tax increases on higher incomes as a campaign theme?

Democrats would be willing to reduce government spending in order to pay for the kind of business tax cuts the President has in mind (as, indeed, she asks him to make such a sacrifice)?

This is the kind of wrangling that voters can expect to see in the coming weeks. What they want is less bickering, more jobs.

Dubai Plane Crash

Two crew members aboard an American UPS cargo plane are believed to have been killed after the aircraft crashed in Dubai today.

According to a United Arab Emirates official who appeared on local television station al-Arabiya, the plane was attempting to land at Dubai International Airport when it crashed due to technical problems. Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft setting fire to vehicles as it crashed and going up in a fireball. Some witnesses told Al-Jazeera that they had seen a fire on the aircraft before it crashed.

UPS spokeswoman Kristen Petrella said the Boeing 747-400 went down at about 8pm and was en route to the UPS hub in Cologne, Germany. Although the company has not officially confirmed casualties, it said two crew members were on board. "This incident is very unfortunate and we will do everything we can to find the cause. Our thoughts go out to the crew members involved in the incident and their families," UPS said in a statement.

Although local reports said the plane had come down near a busy highway intersection south-east of the airport, posters on the Professional Pilots Rumour Network (PPRN) suggest the aircraft went down near an area known as Silicon Oasis. The state news agency, Wam, reported the crash in an unpopulated desert area.

One poster on the PPRN said: "Just five minutes ago. I heard and saw an aircraft, possibly an airliner going down in Dubai near Silicon Oasis. It has just over-flown my house and [there was] a big fireball."UPS, a courier company based in US city of Atlanta, confirmed in a statement that one of its cargo planes had been involved in an accident in Dubai and said it was working to obtain more details.MrMachfivepointfive wrote on PPRN: "UPS. Declared Mayday. Was on approach 30L and then veered off course. Last radar hit showed descending through 500' doing 250kts."

In October 2009, a Sudanese Boeing 707 cargo plane crashed in the desert outside Dubai, killing six crew members. Emirati regulators have since banned Azza Transport, the plane's Sudanese owner, from operating in the country.