Annual reports for business and nonprofit entities are due June 3 ...

By Ramona Du Houx

May 14th, 2013 ? Filed under: Business & Innovation, Community Maine ? No Comments

Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap reminds all business and nonprofit entities on file with the Secretary of State?s office as of December 31, 2012, their 2013 Annual Reports are due June 3, 2013.

Business and nonprofit entities can file quickly and easily using the Secretary of State?s online filing system. To file online, go to https://www10.informe.org/aro/index_on.html . Payment may be made by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, electronic check or with a subscriber account.

The Annual Report fee is $85 for domestic business entities, $150 for foreign business entities and $35 for domestic or foreign nonprofit corporations. Entities that filed online in a previous year will be able to review the information provided at that time, and will simply need to update that information as necessary prior to filing this year?s report. For account subscribers, the online filing service includes additional functionality to assist with managing multiple annual report filings.

Another online service allows noncommercial clerks or noncommercial registered agents to change their addresses. Additionally, this service allows an authorized individual of a foreign entity (organized outside Maine) to change the principal or home office address. Anyone wishing to make these address changes separately from the online annual report filing service, should visit: https://www10.informe.org/icrs/change/ .

For entities that prefer to file a paper annual report, a preprinted form can be downloaded at: http://www10.informe.org/aro/form_download.html .

A substantial late-filing penalty will be assessed, and may not be waived, on all reports received after June 3, 2013, the legal filing deadline.

The Secretary of State?s Corporations Division is available to answer questions regarding Annual Report filing or changing an address. The division can be reached at (207) 624-7752 or by email at cec.corporations@maine.gov .

Source: http://maineinsights.com/perma/annual-reports-for-business-and-nonprofit-entities-are-due-june-3-2013

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'Spirit of the Cold War': Russia says US diplomat was ... - World News

Ryan Fogle, a 29-year-old U.S. Embassy employee, was reportedly caught trying to recruit a Russian intelligence official to work for the CIA. ?NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.

By Anna Nemtsova, Robert Windrem, Alastair Jamieson and Erin McClam, NBC News

Evoking the spy games of the Cold War, Russia said Tuesday that it had detained an American diplomat who was carrying cash, two wigs and technical equipment and was trying to recruit a Russian intelligence official to work for the CIA.

Russia ordered the expulsion of the American diplomat, whom it identified as Ryan Christopher Fogle, third secretary of the political division of the U.S. Embassy. The State Department said only that an officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow had been detained and released.

American officials said they did not expect a rift in U.S.-Russian relations. U.S. officials are trying to improve those relations, and to persuade Russia to help resolve a civil war in Syria.

FSB via AP

Wigs and spy gadgets that the Russian Federal Security Service says were carried by American diplomat Ryan Fogle.

Russia used stronger language, calling the matter provocative and in the spirit of the Cold War.

A statement by the Russian Federal Security Service, the successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, said that Fogle was taken to the service?s headquarters and then to the U.S. embassy after his arrest Monday night.

The security service, known as the FSB, released to Russian media photographs of the American?s arrest and what it said were items he had with him, including the wigs, a torch, a compass and a wad of 500-euro notes, each worth $650.

Russian television also displayed a letter it said was found on Fogle, printed in Russian and addressed ?Dear friend.? The letter offered a $100,000 payment as ?an advance from someone who has been highly impressed by your professionalism, and who would highly value your cooperation in the future.?

The statement from the security service said that the U.S. had ?repeatedly attempted to recruit employees of Russian law enforcement bodies and special departments? recently.

The U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, was participating in a question-and-answer session on Twitter when the detention was announced. He was summoned to Russia?s foreign ministry, The Associated Press reported.

Experts expressed surprise at the old-school nature of the alleged espionage, but they noted that intelligence-gathering had not stopped just because the Cold War ended more than two decades ago.

FSB via AP

In this photo provided by Russian Federal Security Service, a man claimed by the service to be Ryan Fogle is seen at the service's offices in Moscow.

?If anything, it has increased,? said James Nixey, head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the British think tank Chatham House. ?The methods have changed ? or so we thought ? because it?s more about industrial espionage and corruption these days.?

Besides the diplomacy over Syria, there have been questions about whether Russia gave the United States enough information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the attack on the Boston Marathon.

Russian officials asked the U.S. for more information about Tsarnaev, who was born in what is now Russia and traveled to Russia early last year. Russia suspected that Tsarnaev was becoming radicalized, American officials have said.

The FBI interviewed him in 2011 and turned up nothing, and when the FBI asked Russia twice for more information about its concern, Russia failed to respond, the American officials said. Tsarnaev was killed April 19 in a shootout with police.

President Barack Obama later said Russia had cooperated since the attack but noted: ?Old habits die hard. There are still suspicions sometimes between our intelligence and law enforcement agencies that date back 10, 20, 30 years, back to the Cold War.?

The incident would not be the only intelligence blunder in Russia. Britain admitted bugging a Moscow park in 2006 by disguising a recording device as a big rock. The FSB saw a British diplomat picking it up and walking away with it.

Related:?

Full Russia coverage from NBC News

Editor?s note: This story includes a correction.

This story was originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 7:59 PM EDT

Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18247597-spirit-of-the-cold-war-russia-says-us-diplomat-was-trying-to-recruit-for-cia?lite

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Henley Business School - ICMA Centre

The ICMA Centre ? Henley Business School will be hosting the 2013 European Financial Management Association (EFMA) annual meeting on 26-29 June. The?conference program?includes 252 research papers that will be presented by authors from 36 countries and 5 continents. Among the 84 parallel sessions that will take place over the 4 days of the conference, 4 will be completely dedicated to the financial crisis, 5 on bank management and regulation, 4 on risk management and related issues and 12 on corporate governance and management compensation. Other topics that will? be discussed at the meetings, which span all areas of finance, are portfolio management and asset allocation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, commodities, behavioural finance, currency markets and exchange rates, derivative securities pricing and hedging and law, ethics and finance.

Professor John Campbell, Chair of the Economics Department at Harvard University, is the keynote speaker for the 2013 meeting and will talk on the timely topic of ?Understanding Volatility Risk?. Plenary session organisers and speakers include Dr Co-Pierre Georg, Deutsche Bundesbank, on ?Transparency and Systemic Risk?, and Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, on ?Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance?.

Research that will be presented and discussed at the conference has been authored by top finance academic and industry practitioners. Represented academic institutions are Harvard University, Stanford Law School, Stern School of Business, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Boston College, Cornell University, Wharton, INSEAD, University of Carlos III, Bocconi University, Athens University, Erasmus University, Fudan University, Goethe University, Hanken School of Economics, Hong Kong University, IESE Business School of Barcelona, Imperial College, Indian Institute of Technology, London Business School, LSE, Peking University, Schulich School of Business, Singapore Management University, Stockholm School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, University of Sydney, Tilburg University, Tokyo Keizai University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Bras?lia, University of Oxford, University of Toronto and Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Represented regulators and corporations include the Federal Reserve Board, European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, Bank of Canada, Banque de France, BM&FBOVESPA Stock Exchange, China Credit Rating Co., CONSOB, Edison SpA, Fidessa Group plc, J-POWER, Newedge, Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, and UNIQA Capital Markets.

The opening ceremony of the conference will be held on 26 June at the Reading Town Hall and will be hosted by MP Rob Wilson. All delegates and guests will convene for a gala dinner on 28 June which will take place at the majestic Henley Business School Greenlands Campus, one of the selected venues visited by HM Queen Elizabeth II for her Jubilee celebrations last June.

The ICMA Centre ? Henley Business School gratefully acknowledges the help and support of the conference sponsors and award sponsors including, among others, the Bank of England the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and the New York Stock Exchange ? Euronext.

For more information about attending the conference, the speakers or to enquire about the numerous sponsorship opportunities available in connection with the event, please contact the conference chair at?efma2013@icmacentre.ac.uk

Simone Varotto Programme Chair 2013 Meeting ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom ? Part of the triple accredited?Henley Business School, the ICMA Centre was formed as the first active collaboration between the securities industry and a university finance department. We offer a range of undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education, as well as professional and policy development research and consultancy. The ICMA Centre?s aim is to deliver the highest standard in financial markets focused teaching, learning and research.?Our unique integration of theory with practice is achieved through the use of the Centre?s three state-of-the-art dealing rooms. All equipped by Thomson Reuters, the terminals run the latest industry simulation software as well as the Centre?s own simulation software platform; ICTrader. ? Email:?efma2013@icmacentre.ac.uk?/?s.varotto@icmacentre.ac.uk

Source: http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/major-international-finance-conference-at-the-icma-centre-henley-business-school.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=major-international-finance-conference-at-the-icma-centre-henley-business-school

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Just 14% of businesses say their CMS gives a complete view of ...

Two of the major digital trends of 2013 have been content and inbound marketing, both of which rely to an extent on having an effective content management system (CMS).

New research from Econsultancy and Adobe shows that although organisations are very aware that their ability to implement an effective content strategy is tied to the integration of their CMS with the other technologies, the promise of the technology far outstrips their current reality.

The data shows that 94% of businesses believe that it?s ?quite? or ?very important? to tie content management together with the ability to measure its performance on site (i.e. web / mobile analytics).

Digital asset management (91%) and personalisation (88%) are also seen as key areas that need to be integrated with the business? CMS.

But despite these results, only 14% of responding businesses say that their ?CMS enables them to have a complete view of engagement across all channels.?

The new Econsultancy/Adobe Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing, entitled ?From Content Management to Customer Experience Management?, is based on a web content management survey of more than 1,000 business professionals spanning marketing, web development and other business departments, carried out in March 2013.

How important is seamless integration of CMS with the following types of digital marketing platforms or technology?

The survey also asked respondents to rate the ability of their current CMS to integrate with various platforms and technologies.

No one area stands out as a strength, with only web/mobile analytics breaking the 10% mark for ?excellent" ratings. On average, fewer than 30% of respondent organisations describe their integrations as being ?good? or ?excellent,? which is exceeded by those describing them as ?poor.?

How do you rate the ability of your current CMS to integrate with the following digital platforms and technologies?

Looking at which factors present the greatest barriers to successfully implementing a CMS, the most common reasons among business respondents were ?CMS technology limitations? (36%) and ?lack of integration with the rest of the business? (35%).

Conversely, the most common answer among agency respondents was ?poor alignment with business needs? (38%).

What are the greatest barriers to successfully implementing a CMS?

David Moth is a Senior Reporter at Econsultancy. You can follow him on Twitter?or Google+.?

Source: http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/62730-just-14-of-businesses-say-their-cms-gives-a-complete-view-of-engagement-across-channels?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=blog

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The Brooklyn Bridge Has Never Looked So Beautiful

Brooklyn and Manhattan were still two different cities when construction on the Brooklyn Bridge wrapped up in 1883. And in the 130 years since, this iconic span has inspired poets like Jack Kerouac and Walt Whitman, been named a National Historic Landmark, and carried countless of Gothamites across the East River while slowly becoming one of the best known and oldest suspension bridges in America.

This documentary short from filmmaker Harrison Boyce (who has produced many a famous SNL Opening Sequence) and Academy Award-winning actor and director Fisher Stevens (Short Circuit, My Science Project) celebrates the quiet dignity of the stone span.

[Vimeo via Nowness - Wikipedia]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-brooklyn-bridge-has-never-looked-so-beautiful-506033698

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Tiny Craft Room Uses RV Storage Ideas ? Doreen

A craft room is a great place to keep hobby items that would otherwise clutter up your family?s living space or home office. Craft rooms tend to be very small though,aion kinah, some no more than the size of a walk in closet,aion gold, so storage becomes a key concern for those hobbies that require lot of accessories and components. The best solution for a tiny craft room is to use RV type of storage.

Like a small craft room, an RV (recreational vehicle) tends to house a lot of items in a very small space. These not only have to be housed,aion kinah, but secured so that everything does not get tossed about or broken when the RV is moving during travel,aion gold. For that reason, RV storage is the ideal solution to tiny craft room storage.

Storage Ideas: Apothecary

The biggest thing that accumulates in a tiny craft room is paraphernalia. Whether you are a scrapbook fanatic, love to sew, create photo collages, or build model cars, it requires a host of items in order to make projects flow smoothly. The biggest challenge in the room is to find a home for the myriad of little parts and pieces that you need in order to have fun with your hobby.

One great answer is an apothecary, which is very similar to a wall of drawers used in a medicine shop to store a lot of medicines and medicine equipment. They can be as shallow or deep as you need them to be, and floor-to-ceiling drawers are stylish and a handy means of storing everything. Labeling the drawers will help you find what you are looking for when you work your hobby, and everything stays neat and organized.

Storage Ideas: Cube Storage

Cube wall shelves are another simple and helpful idea for storing some types of craft materials, such as paper, felt, tape, paint, and similar items. Much like a picture frame, they are cubes that hang directly on the wall with room to insert a few accessories. Size and depth are based on the cube, and varying sizes can create depth in the room while still maintaining style and sophistication.

Similar to an apothecary, a cube storage system offers many different units to hold multiple items securely. However, many cube storage systems are customizable, whereas the apothecary?s cubes are all the same size. With a cube storage system, you can tailor the size of the cube to meet your needs, and some systems come with doors that can be closed on scissors, glue, and dangerous items that should be kept away from children or pets.

Making Every Inch Count

Finally, the best RV storage for a tiny craft room is to make every square inch of storage space count. Build storage drawers or cabinets under your desk. Take a cabinet with a door, such as a medicine cabinet, and appropriate it for craft room use. Hanging baskets are great, but they spill easily and aren?t always the best option for storing small items. Use them for yarn or other material that will not fall out easily and make a mess.

Source: http://doreen.daocguides.org/?p=505

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Realty Mogul Launches Crowd-Funding Platform for Real Estate ...

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.Just in time for the recovering real estate market, here's Realty Mogul. The company helps bring investment capital to a variety of commercial and multi-dwelling residential real estate projects.

"Realty Mogul is a marketplace for investors to pool money online and buy shares of pre-vetted investment properties like apartment buildings, office buildings, and retail centers; it's crowd-funding for real estate.

Realty Mogul is demoing the full transaction life cycle of an investment, from account creation through electronic documentation to funding via ACH. We are also demoing what it looks like to be an active investor and how to monitor investments via a dashboard."

Product Launched: March 2013

HQ Location: Los Angeles, California

Company Founded: May 2012

Metrics: $500,000 capital raised in seed round; 4 FTEs; pre-revenue

Twitter: @Realty_mogul

Presenting Jillene Helman (CEO)

Source: http://finovate.com/2013/05/realty-mogul-launches-crowd-funding-platform-for-real-estate-investing.html

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