When companies come to the aid of National Education to better support youth in their future educational and vocational guidance. It is the sense of partnership on Wednesday that the sign of the global giant Accor hotels and restaurants with the Minister of National Education, Luc Chatel.

"The group is engaged since 1993 with the Ministry of Education since it was the first French company to sign the foreground job. But today it is a partnership with a major action plan and quantified over five years, "said Christophe Alaux, CEO of Accor in France.

Often highlighted for its ability to set foot in the door for young or unskilled, through comprehensive training courses and tutorials, Accor's commitment revolves around three main areas: promoting the attractiveness of trades hotels and restaurants (it develops over a hundred through its seven brands) among young school students, enhance the employability of its employees and increase the effectiveness of teacher professional sector.

Each of these areas is accompanied by targets. Accor is committed to welcoming and 3500 youth courses each year. The group will also invite every thirty years of college and high school classes to spend a day in a hotel, while half days in the individual hotels will be offered to college students in fourth and third to help orientation. "A measure aimed at young and unskilled in Ile trouble employability provides Accor organizes a week of immersion in a hotel in France followed by a 13-week stay in Britain including four weeks of language preparation and 9 weeks of training in hospitality, "says Antony Recher, the new HR group, stressing that" the group can give opportunities to public school in big trouble. "

Train teachers

Teacher training side of Trades Catering, Accor plans to take several initiatives. For it is true that innovation is a poor cousin of the present teachings. "We will offer two days of training on revenue management and distribution to the Accor Academy, for 30 teachers each year to train for new jobs in the hotel," says Christophe Alaux. The group also make available educational materials teams and teaching tools (including e-learning software). Professors of the third class will also be greeted by complete immersion for a period of 4 days to discover the hotel trades and receive lights on profiles and skills needed in the sector.

The last part of the agreement, the employability of employees of the group, it will be characterized by the rise of APEL (accreditation of prior experience), puisqu'Accor agrees to accompany each year 100 employees in this process. Each brand group will choose a particular function: Novotel for example decided to help its managers accommodation and restaurant in the VAE for obtaining a BTS housing and tableware. Pullman could commit to careers in housekeeper and maids while watching the IBIS technical track maintenance. In 2011, Etap Hotel, Hotel F1 renewed its device VAE for a group of nine directors, who obtained the Bachelor program of Rouen Business School.

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In Britain the meat pies, meat pies – have been at the heart of a new controversy. When presenting its budget, the government cited a 20% tax on all products made from dough and meat served hot and win. A measure supported by the vendors of fish and chips, which they already pay such VAT and enjoy little competition for bakers. But the press and political opponents of David Cameron were quick to assume that the Prime Minister was out of touch, by lowering taxes on the highest incomes from 50 to 45%, while increasing the price of food of the less favored social classes. To not pass a snob, the curator explained that he was also a "pie eater", recounting his last experience in the upscale Cornwall. But Sun has investigated, and, bad luck, the store is talking about Cameron closed in 2007? Suddenly, the Labour leader Ed Miliband rushed at one of the leading meat pies, chain Greggs. He said the government has downgraded the living standards of the British by all possible means. To show that he himself is close to the people, Miliband himself to offer his team eight turnovers with meat for lunch.

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The price of a gallon of gasoline at the pump exceeded $ 4 in many parts of the United States. It is a trauma for Americans who drive a lot and often in vehicles big bike.

Pay more than $ 1 per liter, or 17% more than last year, imposed on their budget. The seasonal nature of gasoline demand likely makes one gallon for $ 5 by summer.

54% of Americans believe that their president could do much to combat this trend trim their buying power and weakening growth. The popularity of Barack Obama suffers 65% of voters are unhappy with how it handles this issue. In this busy electoral context, the presidential candidate began a two-day tour in Nevada and New Mexico. His message: "We operate oil fields everywhere: this is why our dependence on imported energy has fallen every year since I was in power."

Barack Obama has abandoned the slogan that has long repeated: "Oil is the energy of the past." It now claims to support all forms of energy production, not just renewables.

"As long as I am president, I will not give the promise of clean energy," he said Wednesday in Nevada on the occasion of his visit to a field of solar panels. Bankruptcy Solyndra, a manufacturer of solar panels, which received $ 535 million of subsidies, however, undermined the credibility of the presidential message. His promises of thousands of jobs created by "green energy" were not held cheap payday advance.

600,000 jobs created

However, the boom hydraulic fracturing since 2008 has pushed gas production in the United States and depressing prices. Applying this technique to oil shale helps boost crude output at its highest in eight years. Manufacturers responsible for these innovations feel they owe anything to Obama.

Instead, they feel unfairly targeted by the White House. "The Obama administration says it supports the increased production of oil and gas. But it blocked the Keystone XL (which was to supply the Gulf of Mexico oil shale Canadian). It claims to boost domestic production, but permits drilling in federal areas have plunged 44%, "says Jack N. Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute. "Many more jobs have been created by the boom in oil and gas as" green economy, '"says Daniel Yergin, head of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. It amounts to 600,000 the number of jobs created by this revolution. These figures are echoed by Obama today, marking a dramatic conversion of the President of the benefits of a sector that has long disdained.

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The Wall Street Journal, Google will soon be able to understand the meaning of the words searched by the user and to provide "direct responses", in addition to the traditional ties linking to other websites. These responses, semantic analysis results, will be displayed directly below the search form, as is already the case during a search on the term "weather" for example.

With Answers service, closed in 2006, Google had already tried to semantic analysis by the only means then available: human responses. People were then paid to answer questions from users. Today, the issues will be analyzed directly by algorithms. To recognize the user's request, Google will index all the information available online, relevant to the topic, rather than just keywords. The Wall Street Journal takes the example of a search for "Lake Tahoe" that will display directly the characteristics of the lake at the top of the results. If the user wishes to know the ten largest lakes in California, Google will display the list of lakes in addition to simple links.

Keep users on Google

By posting relevant content directly on the results page, Google users will no longer need to visit the pages indexed. Specialized site for The Verge, "provide direct answers instead of links to other pages to meet the new Google strategy, which seeks to keep its users within its walls, as it does with Google + quick payday loans." Google's interest is to increase the visibility of ads by keywords on the pages of results. This activity represents "the majority of $ 37 billion in annual revenues of Google," says the Wall Street Journal.

This innovation features reminiscent of Wolfram Alpha, a search engine capable of aggregating and format of information available elsewhere on the Internet. Wolfram Alpha is at the heart of the wizard voice of the iPhone 4S, Siri, who can ask a question to his mobile and get an answer directly, without needing to click a link or to seek self- same information on a web page. To do this, the software combines speech recognition and semantic analysis to recognize the words of the user and the meaning of his question. Recently, Anthony DiClemente, chief of the division of Internet and media research at Barclays Capital was concerned about the impact of the Apple software on Google: "Siri can bypass traditional search engines and provide the user with responses that originally would have necessitated a search online. "

Google could also put this new feature to good use in Android mobile. According to TechCrunch, Google is preparing to launch in fact a competitor of Siri for Android, Google wizard.

Air transportation emits about 3% carbon dioxide (CO2) released by humans into the atmosphere. But according to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), its emissions have almost doubled (+98%) between 1990 and 2006 and are expected to increase by 63% by 2020. This is due to the strong growth that the EU wished to include airlines in the industries subject to carbon allowances.

Decided in 2008, this "carbon tax air" has been applicable since 1 January to major airlines transiting through EU airports. According to official documents of the end of 2011, 4291 airlines must be submitted to CO2 quotas, including 28 Chinese companies. Brussels has set an emissions cap for each company, who must buy the equivalent of 15% of its emissions, as carbon credits.

This air tax should bring in 2012 256 million euros to the EU, the Commission said. A pittance compared to $ 3.8 billion represented the German Government, by controlling only Airbus Hong Kong Airlines, threatened. Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for the fight against climate change, repeated his refusal to yield to threats and to revisit the legislation.

The profession particularly hostile

From the earliest discussions on the implementation of these CO2 quotas on airlines, the profession has expressed very hostile. Last November, ICAO, the Organization of International Civil Aviation, adopted a resolution recommending to exempt non-European companies of the carbon tax. 26 of its 36 members including China, the United States and Russia, were signatories. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and ICAO call for voluntary measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, implemented worldwide.

In a report published in early 2011, the rating agency Standard & Poor's estimated that the measure Brussels could cost 1.12 billion for airlines in 2012-2013. Since then, the price per tonne of CO2 collapsed on the European market which would reduce the cost to about 700 million euros. But it adds to the severe increase in fuel prices.

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The intervention of Nicolas Sarkozy to save Alstom in summer 2004, to his recent statements in favor of employees of ArcelorMittal Florange site, the head of state has been well arise in the opponent's famous statement Lionel Jospin: "The state can not do everything." At least when it comes to industrial employment. "We must at all costs strangle the flow of blood Industrial France," he repeated again in January. Since 2007, the government frequently intervened in several disputes, most often publicized in order to save jobs. A few weeks before the presidential election, the employees do not hesitate to use the campaign to make their demands heard. Overview of some government promises … and their future.

The success

• Photowatt. The resumption of French pioneer of photovoltaics by EDF no longer in doubt. Next Monday, the commercial court of Vienna should assign the assets of Photowatt to the public company called to the rescue by the Head of State at the end of January. Previously, STMicroelectronics, specialized microprocessors, had been approached. Without success. The next upturn of the SME Isère by EDF Energies Nouvelles is good news for employees: the subsidiary of the electrician has pledged to resume on 430 and 345 to reclassify within 60 km of the 85 remaining employees. "Everybody has a job, I do not see what you could get any better," responded Tuesday a Steward FW, while conceding that "the industrial project is to build". According to the UMP Bourgoin, Alain Moyne-Bressan, must already "put 50 million euros on the table for the coming months."

• Lejaby. Mid-January 2012, the Tribunal de Commerce de Lyon chose Alain Prost, former manager of La Perla and Chantelle, as the buyer of the manufacturer of linen placed in receivership. Only problem: the entrepreneur, who keeps only about 450 195 employees, wants to relocate the entire production in Tunisia. This is sign the death warrant of the factory Lejaby Yssingeaux, and the dismissal of his 93 employees. An announcement of the worst effect when the candidate Nicolas Sarkozy – not yet declared – boasts the "Made in France". "I will not let down the people of Lejaby," he warned on January 29. It is ultimately the luxury group LVMH, requested by the Elysee, which will come to the aid of the factory from Auvergne. The takeover bid, from a subcontractor for Louis Vuitton, the company Sofama, was filed on February 1. All staff should be re-employed on permanent contracts, and converted into luxury leather goods.  

Failures:

• Gandhinagar. February 4, 2008, the Head of State gives hope to the 595 employees of ArcelorMittal factory in Lorraine, then threatened with partial closure in the near future. "The State prefers to invest in modernizing the site rather than paying people to go with either early retirement or unemployed," he explained then. He continued: "I will myself announce it has found the solution." If, despite these promises, 595 jobs will actually be discontinued from 31 March 2009, the city of Gandhinagar, however, benefited from a state investment of 5 million for a learning center, and a contract worth 300 million euros between RFF and the steelmaker Corus. Objective: To produce the rails RFF within its Hayange plant, near the disaster site.

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White smoke comes not yet held Monday in Brussels, where a decisive meeting of the Eurogroup on Greece. It comes from the Italian Presidency in Rome, and the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.

After a phone conversation with Angela Merkel and Prime Minister of Greece Lucas Papademos, Friday, Mario Monti issued a statement encouraging: "At the end of this conversation, which came in the details and which was conducted in a constructive spirit, three participants were confident that an agreement on Greece can be reached Monday, the Eurogroup. "

So far, mistrust prevailed. Especially since the previous Eurogroup, on Greece, was canceled Wednesday. "This time, an agreement is likely," said Jean Pisani-Ferry, director of the Bruegel think-tank in Brussels. "Otherwise it's too late, there will master more technical details …", he adds.

The challenge of this size Eurogroup is: give Greece its private creditors and the green light to launch the second bailout of Greece, estimated at 130 billion euros, to avoid a default in Greek debt falls from 14.5 billion euros on March 20.

That Greece is committed to the reforms demanded by the troika, beyond the April elections, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands had planned mid-week to split the bailout to not pay, firstly, that the sum needed to rescue private, or 30 billion euros payday loans. 

Exchange of debt

But this scenario is complicated, difficult to read for the markets, has been criticized by the IMF and European lawyers, who see it as a source of additional blocking with private creditors, asked to relinquish 70% of the value of their securities. "This option is no longer on the table," said Deputy German Finance Minister, Thomas Steffen. "We are ready to have a solid basis for a decision Monday," says the German Finance Ministry in Berlin.

The European Central Bank has brought his stone to an eventual agreement. Its chairman, Mario Draghi, submitted Thursday night, the vote of the Governors, the exchange of 50 billion euros of Greek bonds, which should allow eventually to redistribute 12 billion euros to Greece, which allocated to debt repayment countries.

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The Act of July 5, 2011 amended the Act of April 2, 1947 Bichet governing the distribution of the press in France. The role of the Supreme Council of the Courier press is reinforced. Its decisions can now be enforced by the Regulatory Authority for the distribution of the press, newly created. To the President of the UNDP, which represents 30,000 newsagents, the way is thus open to the implementation of reforms, as the set.

LE FIGARO. – In the context of fierce competition between Presstalis and MLP, that becomes the sales network of the press?

Gerard Proust. – All the attention is currently focused on the situation of e-NMPP and custodians who act as wholesalers, because they structure the distribution of the press. Their business model is affected by the steady decline in sales. Presstalis responds by reforming its organization, but is being weakened by the departure of titles that will be distributed by mail MLP concurrent capable as appropriate to offer better rates. The trustees seek to rehabilitate their missions and resource to the new situation. But that does not detract from the urgency, at least, the situation of press merchants, who provide the relationship between supply of press and public.

Gerard Proust. – What makes you say that you forget to press the merchants?

When we deplore all the time the crisis of the press, and we do not get lost in the competition by explaining that the paper deliver new technology, we forget that it is primarily to closures of points -500 specialty sales per year! – we should lower the diffusion constant. There is no release that can stand well without a strong sales network. But yet we forget! His compensation is still insufficient to attract entrepreneurs and empower them to adapt to consumer expectations. I'm currently reading the proposals presented to the Superior Council, which suggest that the financial resources of the sector, now rare, be directed first to the other players. So I have every reason to fear we think too late to merchants when they are exhausted. I even saw that Stavros Dimas offer some burdens on traders, then we should be to alleviate the primary concern!

What is their situation?

They are not facing a crisis of paper seen by the overall maintenance of our turnover bookstore or card shop subject to the same competition from the Internet-but a crisis of the dispensing apparatus, which supplies the sales network so that it arrives in this double feat: distracting the consumer and discourage the merchant. Be aware: 60% of our supplies come away with unsold (it's more than half of the volumes delivered that do not meet the expectations of customers of the shop, who are squatting in blighted areas and that the merchant who monopolize would be better served to welcome and advise his client) and 20% of gaps in the sale (it's one in five who has not found among his dealer that he had come in search)! What a waste … Thus the turnover flexes for several years, as broadcasters abandon their profession, and that the sector is thereby destabilized the whole, with its greater risk. 

What are your recommendations?

There is no inevitability to the current situation of the press distribution, means rebound there, going through the procurement reform, for better consumer satisfaction, and improved compensation the merchant, to convince entrepreneurs to focus on our business. Must be provided at point of sale assortment of titles that meets customer expectations, we know such identification. This procurement method is practiced by all modern commercial networks, and even to sell the press in some European countries. It has been long and carefully defined and tested by the entire profession, before his deployment is blocked because he got obviously a handful of "editors" whose abuses led to the exhaustion I described the system.

This reform will suffice?

No! Soon, it will take to change the pay conditions of the merchants, always worse off when compared to their European counterparts, but also to other trade business. We must learn to lock onto them, because they are the ones that attract new entrepreneurs at the expense of being a merchant Press. It is they who come to occupy the commercial spaces, often the most prominent, as my colleagues leave vacant. When the publishing community is concerned about the turnaround of its sector, it must file the compensation of its sales network and not a priority, as I fear, a subject that "come after".

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After the real success of online shopping sites like eBay, PriceMinister, or the Bon Coin, the new trend is for rent on the Net. Many small e-rental sites, as Zilok, Goopes or Consoloc, abounds on the Web, reflecting the popularity of the French for "eat smart", or just how to use a product when it is needed. Today, the market leader and pioneer in France, e-rents, Argus publishes the first charter, based on tens of thousands of locations identified by the site for three years. "The Argus does not set prices, it indicates to users who have no idea of ​​the rental value of their purpose, how it can be rented and how it can bring," said Alexandre Woog, the founder of a start-up incubated with HEC.

So a bike is rented 10 euros per day, a barbecue 8 euros, 5 euros a vacuum cleaner, a hair remover 10 euros, 30 euros a stereo, a battery 45 euros, a snowboard 7 euros, 25 euros a cement mixer, a road car 55 euro, 1 euro a puzzle, etc.. The list is not exhaustive as rental properties are varied and sometimes unusual: there are spy cameras, to strip bars, disco buses, limousines, and even goats to 10 euros per day, to unravel his garden!

The concept of "collaborative consumption"

Woog Alexander, the founder of e-rents, will export its online rental site in Europe.

To listen go to a child who takes her in his arms, is believed to actually hear the words crazy bitch (bitch sort of) in his babbling. Enough to jump to the families who let go on the website of the company and called for a boycott!

"Do not buy!"

"Return the dolls, boycott Toys" R "Us, outraged Sue, of Tulsa (Oklahoma, south) on the website of the chain of toys under the picture of the doll."I'm outraged," exclaims also a grandmother of triplets from Boise (Idaho, north-west). "My girls were 2 and a half years, I do not want her to hear such language,".

"Do not buy," recommends his side Danyelle, Fayetteville (North Carolina, South East) who said he checked with six different people that the doll angelic promise indeed.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Toys "R" Us, said the doll is sold in the United States did not swear, and it was only a "babbling." "We will not sell obviously not a doll swear, "said Jennifer Albano, adding that the brand of toys did not intend to withdraw from the sale.

This is not the first time that toys are controversial within days of Christmas.