Saturday, September 22, 2012

Syngenta Agri-Business HR Business Partner and East Africa HR ...

Syngenta is one of the world?s leading companies with more than 25,000 employees in over 90 countries dedicated to our purpose: Bringing Plant Potential to Life.?

Through world-class science, global reach and commitment to our customers we help to increase crop productivity, protect the environment and improve health and quality of life.?

We are looking for best talent to join us as:
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Human Resource Business Partner
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HR Business Partner, Agri-Business


The job functionally reports to the Head of Human Resources, East Africa and operationally to the General Manager.


Job Purpose
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Provide HR Leadership & partnership to local unit leaders, their leadership teams and organizations including contributing to business plans while working closely with the Head of HR, Site Managers and HR SBS leads in implementation of HR strategy, policies and processes.
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Key Responsibilities

  • Leading the implementation of the Human Resource strategy, policies and procedures including recommending alignment to global and local internal and external standards and legislative requirements.
  • Ensure good Employee relations at the Farms.
  • Partner and Coach Site Managers in determining Talent priorities and Organization capability to meet the business goals.
  • Partner with local leadership to support and enable change management, leadership competency development and the ongoing implementation of Syngenta?s unique culture.
  • Implementation of robust HR disciplines in Talent Management areas aligned to people development and a result oriented culture.
  • Work creatively with local and regional CEOs and relevant Business Partner colleagues to deliver best practice HR solutions in line with global standards.
  • Partner with local HR Services colleagues to ensure effective delivery of HR Operations in the sites.
  • Lead HR compliance in line with local regulations and standards and to proactively manage business risk in the areas of HR Management.

HR Services Lead, East Africa


The job functionally reports to the HR Services Manager for Africa, Middle East and operationally to the Head of HR East Africa.
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Job Purpose
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Steer project country transformation to the new way of operation and work closely with the country HR managers and the Regional SBS HR leaders in planning and delivery of transformation while coordinating all activities, metrics and relations with Local Authorities relating to HR services provided in- house or by third party.


Key Responsibilities

  • Manage HR operational support for East Africa on different sites with teams in 4 different locations in East Africa.
  • Coordinate and lead SLAs on in-house activities and external providers.
  • Conduct analytics for the different processes and coordinate reporting requirements.
  • Implement Standardised systems &processes and solve User queries in line with guidelines.
  • Lead Service metrics and improvements.
  • Provide feedback from HR services stakeholders on Global HR processes and ensure legal compliance.
  • Deal with local Authorities for HR Services relating issues and audits.

For both the jobs, we are looking for related core Business & HR Skills in Business planning & implementation, Change management, HR strategy & implementation, Talent Management, Employee Relations and HR Operations with core competencies in unlocking People Potential, Team Leadership, Visionary and Results-oriented.
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Academic Qualifications

  • Bachelors Degree.
  • Masters degree in HRM is an added advantage.

Professional Qualifications & experience

  • Higher Diploma in Human Resource Management.
  • At least 5 years? experience in Human Resource function.
  • Experience in industrial relations and employee engagement.
  • Multinational experience in the Agriculture industry is an added advantage.
  • SAP understanding.

Send your application and CV via email to: talentsearch@bpc.co.ke on or before Friday 28th September, 2012.

Source: http://kenyanjobs.blogspot.com/2012/09/syngenta-agri-business-hr-business.html

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Florida State vs Clemson Game Where and When to Watch, Betting Odds, Prediction, and Preview for Saturday?s College Football Game

The No. 4-ranked Seminoles trounced Wake Forest 52-0 last week. Florida State has now held opponents scoreless for 10 consecutive quarters, and only given up three points in their three games.

Senior running back Chris Thompson was unstoppable against Wake, gaining 197 yards and two touchdowns on just nine carries in the contest. The 5-foot-8 speedster scored on runs of 74 and 80 yards successively, which gave the Seminoles a 38-0 halftime lead. Thompson played only 20 minutes and did not see the field in the second half.

The fast-paced Tigers offense scored on five of their first six possessions last week as they drubbed Furman 41-7.

Receivers Sammy Watkins and DeAndre Hopkins and running back Andre Ellington are the core of Clemson?s offense and last week all three showed why against Furman. Watkins missed the first two games with injury, but roared back with seven catches for 95 yards. Ellington contributed 589 rushing yards and two touchdowns.

Hopkins has been quarterback Taj Boyd's top option, as he's caught 26 passes for 319 yards and four touchdowns.

Florida State must have last season's meeting on their mind. Watkins scorched the Seminoles, catching seven passes for 141 yards and two touchdowns in Clemson's 35-30 win.

The game begins at 8pm and will be broadcast by ABC.

Betting Odds: ?Florida State is favored by 15 points; Over/Under:? 56 points

Prediction: The Seminoles have not faced an offense like Clemson?s yet this season, which puts their scoreless quarter streak in jeopardy. Clemson must spread the ball among their weapons, and keep Florida State?s defense guessing. This should be a shootout that comes down to the fourth quarter, and Florida State prevailing by a touchdown.

Predicted Score: ?Florida State 31, Clemson 24

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/florida-state-vs-clemson-game-where-and-when-watch-betting-odds-prediction-and-preview-saturday%E2%80%99s

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Nokia Lumia 510 put under the regulatory limelight, hints low-cost Windows Phone 7.8 on the way

Nokia Lumia 510 put under the regulatory limelight, hints lowcost Windows Phone 78 on the way

Here's a contradiction in action: a Nokia phone that goes down a model number, but up in features. That's what we'll see if regulatory screenings and leaks surrounding the unreleased Lumia 510 are any indication. China's TENAA, the FCC and Indonesia's DG PosTel have all taken a look at the device ahead of time and point to a short, squat design that won't have the budget chic of the Lumia 610. However, if Baidu tips are correct, the 510 may be an ever-so-slight upgrade to its higher-digit predecessor with a larger 4-inch screen and a likely fast track to Windows Phone 7.8. Just don't anticipate more than the existing 800MHz Snapdragon, 256MB of RAM and 5-megapixel camera -- or a US release, for that matter. The FCC has only tested the Lumia 510 against American GSM bands, which hints that its 3G support is meant for China, Indonesia and other countries where low-cost smartphones matter most.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

NASA Mars rover targets unusual rock enroute to first destination

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) ? NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine.

Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway from the rover's landing site, Bradbury Landing, to a location called Glenelg. In coming days, the team plans to touch the rock with a spectrometer to determine its elemental composition and use an arm-mounted camera to take close-up photographs.

Both the arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer and the mast-mounted, laser-zapping Chemistry and Camera Instrument will be used for identifying elements in the rock. This will allow cross-checking of the two instruments.

The rock has been named "Jake Matijevic." Jacob Matijevic (mah-TEE-uh-vik) was the surface operations systems chief engineer for Mars Science Laboratory and the project's Curiosity rover. He passed away Aug. 20, at age 64. Matijevic also was a leading engineer for all of the previous NASA Mars rovers: Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity.

Curiosity now has driven six days in a row. Daily distances range from 72 feet to 121 feet (22 meters to 37 meters).

"This robot was built to rove, and the team is really getting a good rhythm of driving day after day when that's the priority," said Mars Science Laboratory Project Manager Richard Cook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

The team plans to choose a rock in the Glenelg area for the rover's first use of its capability to analyze powder drilled from interiors of rocks. Three types of terrain intersect in the Glenelg area -- one lighter-toned and another more cratered than the terrain Curiosity currently is crossing. The light-toned area is of special interest because it retains daytime heat long into the night, suggesting an unusual composition.

"As we're getting closer to the light-toned area, we see thin, dark bands of unknown origin," said Mars Science Laboratory Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. "The smaller-scale diversity is becoming more evident as we get closer, providing more potential targets for investigation."

Researchers are using Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) to find potential targets on the ground. Recent new images from the rover's camera reveal dark streaks on rocks in the Glenelg area that have increased researchers' interest in the area. In addition to taking ground images, the camera also has been busy looking upward.

On two recent days, Curiosity pointed the Mastcam at the sun and recorded images of Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos, passing in front of the sun from the rover's point of view. Results of these transit observations are part of a long-term study of changes in the moons' orbits. NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, which arrived at Mars in 2004, also have observed solar transits by Mars' moons. Opportunity is doing so again this week.

"Phobos is in an orbit very slowly getting closer to Mars, and Deimos is in an orbit very slowly getting farther from Mars," said Curiosity's science team co-investigator Mark Lemmon of Texas A&M University, College Station. "These observations help us reduce uncertainty in calculations of the changes."

In Curiosity's observations of Phobos this week, the time when the edge of the moon began overlapping the disc of the sun was predictable to within a few seconds. Uncertainty in timing is because Mars' interior structure isn't fully understood.

Phobos causes small changes to the shape of Mars in the same way Earth's moon raises tides. The changes to Mars' shape depend on the Martian interior which, in turn, cause Phobos' orbit to decay. Timing the orbital change more precisely provides information about Mars' interior structure.

During Curiosity's two-year prime mission, researchers will use the rover's 10 science instruments to assess whether the selected field site inside Gale Crater ever has offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

For more about Curiosity, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl. You can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity.

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How to tethered jailbreak iOS 6 and install Cydia

How to tethered jailbreak iOS 6 and install Cydia

If you've already updated to iOS 6 but find yourself missing your jailbreak, the Dev Team's redsn0w developer tool that's already been released will allow you to get your jailbreak on right now.

Before we continue, please note this jailbreak is tethered and you'll also have to manually install Cydia. If you just can't wait for an untethered or more stable version, proceed on. If you can, we recommend waiting though.

Supported devices

If your device isn't supported, please don't attempt to jailbreak just yet. It won't work and you could potentially brick your device or even lose data. Currently the only devices supported are A4 devices, namely the iPhone 4 and 4th generation iPod touch. If you're picking up an iPhone 5 or have an iPhone 4S, 3G, or 3GS - you'll have to hold off for a while.

What you need

You'll need to download redsn0w 0.9.13 dev 4 and the iOS firmware files in order to jailbreak iOS 6. Keep in mind it is a tethered jailbreak for now which means you'll have to plug into the computer and use redsn0w to tethered boot if your phone dies or you turn it off.

How to jailbreak iOS 6

  1. Launch redsn0w on your computer.
  2. Select Extras from the main menu.
  3. redsn0w main menu
  4. Now choose Select IPSW and navigate to the iOS 6 firmware file for your device.
  5. redsn0w select ipsw
  6. redsn0w should confirm that the build was successfully identified. Once it does this, move on to the next step.
  7. redsn0w build identified
  8. Click the Back button to return to the main menu of redsn0w and select Jailbreak.
  9. redsn0w main menu
  10. Make sure the Install SSH button is checked and continue on.
  11. ssh install redsn0w
  12. Let redsn0w do its thing.

Perform a tethered boot

Once redsn0w has finished jailbreaking your device you'll need to perform a tethered boot.

  1. Place your device into DFU mode.
  2. From the main menu of redsn0w select Extras again and then click Just boot option.
  3. Your device should now boot up.

Install Cydia

Now that you've got your phone booted we need to install Cydia since this version of redsn0w doesn't include it.

  1. Find the Wi-Fi address of your device from your Settings and make note of it.
  2. Now open the Terminal app on your Mac with your device connected and type in ssh root@[youripaddress]
  3. It'll prompt you for a password after connecting. The default password is alpine unless you've changed your SSH password.
  4. Now type in the following - wget -q -O /tmp/cyinstall.sh http://downloads.kr1sis.net/cyinstall.sh && chmod 755 /tmp/cyinstall.sh && /tmp/cyinstall.sh and wait.
  5. You'll notice Terminal running some scripts. Be patient and eventually your device will reboot. After it does, you should see Cydia installed.

Credit for Cydia script goes to kri1sis.net

If you run into issues or have questions, be sure to check out our jailbreak and unlock forums!



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