The Legal News

The weather in California is shifting for the better.

As you know the fires raging in Southern California are destroying everything in their path and the weather has been fueling them for days, on Saturday the winds were 101 miles per hour and now the winds have have shifted to come from the ocean, brining humidity. They have also slowed down to 50 miles per hour.

This is an optimistic change from the dry winds that were much faster. Fire fighters are hoping this trend will continue. I do too. The amount of damage and injury they have seen in California is enormous.

It is a scientific fact that most people learn best by doing, from experiencing what is hard to explain. This is where educational travel enters in. We can talk about a monument without the listener ever really understanding. You can not really understand a culture without partaking in the culture. Traveling there, meeting the people, changes that. you are not only aware of the culture, you become a small part of the culture that was only in a book until you traveled there.

I am a huge fan of traveling for educational reasons. How can there be a better way to learn other than first hand knowledge? This is akin to the greatest field trip ever and I support it. If enough people try this we may be able to stamp out some long held misconceptions.

Fortent is a high regarded company, which is based on and specializes in, risk management. Hired by banks and financial institutions around the world to ensure compliance with the highest standards of security, Fortent is easily recognized for their excellence in the industry in which they are a part.

One of Fortent’s specialization is delivering a risk assessment. They examine how you business performs and records certain things and based on that can determine how secure you are against crimes like identity fraud, money laundering, and how well your own employees will notice and detect things of the same nature.

Fortent actively works with more than 100 nations, and instructs governments, banks, brokers, corporations, and other compliance specialists. They in many cases are the de facto standard in these matters, the stick against which all else is measured.

Every modern business uses data, and to be competitive requires internet connectivity and all the exciting features found with that. In an effort to save money many enterprises will begin with a very small tech footprint, meaning, getting just the essential high tech equipment.

One way to do with would be to purchase a refurbished AS/400 or two. Just as good as brand new but significantly cheaper. This allows you to have hardware of a mid range IT department with less cost than your average corporate data center. Its certainly a smart way to handle that.

If you do not have an online presence you will lose a hefty portion of your market, and if your organizations network is distributed you will require some servers and properly configured data lines. It is possible to host your own web server, on your own location. Soem businesses do, others just buy hosting. Either method is acceptable.

The state of Louisiana has elected a new governor, and its set some fascinating records. Bobby Jindel was elected by a landslide, he had 53% of the vote, beating 11 others. The closest percentage to him was 18%.Jindel is America’s youngest governor, and he is the first non-white since Reconstruction. Jindel’s parents came to the states form India to find the American dream. They did well, their son is now a Governor.

Jindel ran in 03, against Blanco, who decided not to run this time through as she received a lot of blame surrounding the hurricane recovery fiasco’s.

Congratulations to the new governor!