Just when we thought distance will tear apart Jesse James and Kat Von D, their love has brought them together again

The 42 year James and the 29 year old LA Ink star are very much together now and engaged for another time.

“Sometimes you are only given one chance in life,” James told a magazine. “It was up to me to open my eyes and see it. That girl is my chance. I will never stop fighting and striving to hold on to her. Showing her how special she is, and how much I love her.”

James recently posted a photo of the two of them together embracing on twitter titled “para siempre” (or “forever” in Spanish).

Last month, the couple called off their engagement despite their love for each other. “I’m so sad, because I really love her,” James said in July. “The distance between us was just too much.”

The couple got engaged in January and had been considering a summer wedding around the one-year anniversary of their first date, which happened just days after James divorced his wife Sandra Bullock.

However, the distance between Los Angeles, where Von D shoots her reality show and James’ home outside Austin, Texas where he resides with his three kids was too much.

But when TLC canceled Von D’s show, “LA Ink,” today after four seasons, the couple headed for a a reunion. Von D had a different take on the situation.

“In an effort to capitalize on my recent breakup, the network has decided to focus their energy on re-editing events that didn’t happen while filming,” Von D told People.

“Regardless of everything I remain grateful,”she tweeted. The couple’s reconciliation comes after a difficult year for Von D.

Before they got back together, when it came time for her to promote the new season of “Ink,” Von D split before a television interview with “Good Day LA” rather than face questions about James.

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A magazine recently organized a ‘management quotes’ contest, where they invited entries from people to submit quotes from their real-life dysfunctional managers.

Tej Kohli brings you the top 10 finalists:

1.“As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks.” (This was the winning quote from Fred Dales, Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, WA)

2.“What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might encounter.” (Lykes Lines Shipping)

3.“E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used only for company business.” (Accounting manager, Electric Boat Company)

4.“This project is so important, we can’t let things that are more important interfere with it.” (Advertising/Marketing manager, United Parcel Service)

5.“Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule.” (Plant manager, Delco Corporation)

6.“No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We’ve been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I’ll let you know when it’s time to tell them.” (R&D supervisor, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing/3M Corp.)

7.Quote from the Boss: “Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say.” (Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)

8.My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died on purpose so that I would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said, “That would be better for me.” (Shipping executive, FTD Florists)

9.“We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees.” (Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division)

10.One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He said, “If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!” (Hallmark Cards executive)

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Tej Kohli extends his heartiest wishes to Cisco Chief Executive John Chambers on receiving an almost 100% hike in his compensation. He brings the report by Wall Street Journal for his readers:

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers received $18.9 million as compensation in the fiscal year 2010, almost double his compensation in the previous fiscal year, according to the company’s initial proxy statement.

The raise was due to an increase in Mr. Chambers’s stock and option awards and cash bonus, as the networking giant recuperated from a deep recession-induced slump. The total pay of Mr. Chamber’s rose form $9.2 million in fiscal 2009, after falling 46% that year from $17.1 million in fiscal 2008, the proxy stated. In the current fiscal year, Cisco’s sales and net revenue rose 10.9% and 26.6% from the last year respectively.

“The core of Cisco’s executive compensation philosophy continues to be to pay for performance,” a Cisco spokesman told Wall Street journal. The stock options were valued at 13.9 million in the recent fiscal year, up from $6.7 million in the 2009. As a result Chamber’s salary rose to $382,212, 1.9 percent from the prior fiscal year. Plus, the CEO also took home a $4.6 million bonus under the Cisco’s cash incentive plan. In 2009, however, he didn’t get any such bonus because the company couldn’t meet certain financial goals set by the board of directors. Instead, he received $2 million discretionary cash bonus.

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After two moths of tussle with Beijing over censorship and alleged hacking into its system, the search engine giant Google closed out its Chinese website and and shifted its base to uncensored Hong-Kong, late on March 22 night. However, those who were rerouted to Hong Kong are still unable to access sensitive websites because the Chinese filters block all the content reaching mainland.

“The Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement,” wrote David Drummond, chief legal officer of Google on his blog. “We are well aware it could at any time block access to our services,” he added.

The daring act of ceasing its operations in the world’s third largest economy, and the biggest online market with almost 384 million netizens, left a big question mark on the Google’s future operations in China.

According to the NYT, china’s biggest cellular communications company, China Mobile, is also likely to cancel its deal to use Google search on its mobile internet home page. Following its footsteps is the China Unicom, the second largest cell phone operator, which will also drop the search function from new phones using Google’s Android mobile operating system.

Now whether the Google’s R&D and Advertising operations with almost 600 employees in Beijing will thrive or not is yet to be seen.

“You sort of make China look like the bad guy and you think you’re going to be selling Google phones? Good luck,” Colin Gillis, analyst for BGC Financial, told Reuters.

Beijing reacted quickly to Google’s announcement calling it ‘totally wrong’ and saying it “violated the written promise”, Google made when entering the China four years ago, assuring to self-censor its online services to conform to the Chinese law. In a recently launched campaign, the Chinese state media has accused Google of trying to export western culture in china.

Thereafter, spokesman for the foreign ministry Qin Gang said that Google fallout would not hamper Sino-US relations, unless some people try to politicise it.

Hong Kong-based expert on Chinese Internet, Rebecca MacKinnon, wrote on her blog, “the ball is now in the Chinese government’s court.”

She said it would be smarter of the Chinese government to leave the situation as it is and stop putting their censorship practices in media glare. She noted that the more this high-profile battle stretches, the greater will be the Chinese Netizens’ awareness about the extent to which their government goes to narrow their knowledge of the world. Chinese government believes its citizens require strict censorship. Earlier, you tube was blocked in 2008 after the Tibet riots. Last year it blocked Facebook and Twitter after Xinjiang riots in July 2009.

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The government of China, on Monday, denied any association with internet attacks and defended its internet censorship, after the US urged Beijing to investigate accusations of cyber trespassing. This dispute has added tension to the bilateral relations.

“China’s policy against internet hacking attacks is transparent and consistent”, stated the ministry of industry and IT, around two weeks after the search giant Google Inc. warned to pull out of china after discovering that the emails of activists had been interfered with.

“Any accusation that the Chinese government participated in cyber attacks, either in an explicit or indirect way, is groundless and aims to discredit China” said an anonymous ministry spokesperson. “We are firmly opposed to that.”

China’s cabinet and the state council, defended the nation’s internet regulation and said that its legal and that other parties should not intrude in Beijing’s reports affairs.

The remark came after the Google threatened to pull out of china unless the government eases censorship laws. The final warning came after Google stated it had exposed a computer attack that tried to plunder its software coding and the email ids of human rights activists protesting Chinese policies.

Although Google attributes the attacks on its system to hackers in china, but hasn’t directly alleged Chinese government or its agents.

Questioning the Google’s allegations that its servers had been attacked by hackers based in china, a Chinese internet security official said that the search giant had yet not reported its complaints to the China National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team.

“We have been hoping that Google will contact us so that we could have details on this issue and provide them help if necessary,” said Zhou Yonglin, the team’s deputy chief of operations.

He also said that majority of cyber attacks on Chinese servers originates from the US, witch hackers infecting systems with malicious software like Torjans, which that enables outside access to the target’s computer system. During last year, nearly 262,000 IPs in China were infected by Trojans planted by approximately 165,000 overseas Ips. Nearly 16.6 percent of these attacks were from the US IPs.

China was the biggest victim of internet attacks. Last year more than 42,000 websites were hacked, while 18 million computers per month were attacked by the conficker worm virus, that slow-down computers and steal personal information.

A week earlier, the US secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized nations involved in internet censorship and pleaded China to look into computer attacks against Google. In a recent speech, Clinton
mentioned China as one of those nations where there had been “a spike in threats to the free flow of information” over last one year.

Chinese Foreign ministry, on the other hand, accused the united states for straining the relations between the countries. A Chinese newspaper even said that Washington was trying to impose ‘information imperialism’ on china. Internet control is a crucial matter of state security, and Beijing shall not offer any sort of concession in the discord with Google.

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