Ricoh for energy-efficient products awarded Ricoh Europe, a specialist in the area of Office solutions, managed document services and production printing, buyers Lab (BLI) for its energy-efficient products awarded by. The BLI-Award for Excellence went to the most energy-efficient models, which have been tested in the last six months. After evaluating the results of the front-runner in many printer and MFP category BLI has the award-outstanding achievement”(summer 2010) for excellent performance to Ricoh for the A3 multifunction system Aficio MP C5000 awarded has been tested with a Ricoh controller. BLI environmental tests of the energy consumption of the Aficio was C5000 MP in the tested modes, as well as in the standby and hibernation below the average. Thus, the annual energy consumption and the cost of the system are also below average. The energy STAR excellent and RoHS compliant Aficio MP C5000 need also less energy to warm up from the sleep mode than competitive systems. The distinction with “the outstanding achievement of award of the BLI’ for the Aficio MP C5000 because of its low energy consumption is a great recognition of our commitment to the environment”, Harald List, said Manager MFP Department at Ricoh Europe (Netherlands) b.v., this award is a clear signal to our customers that they can meet their requirements for environmental protection with Ricoh.

“Economy meets ecology ‘ is the motto of our market presence.” Consistent color quality and profitability Furthermore awarded BLI his pick “award in the category of single-function inkjet printer” on Ricoh Aficio GX e5550N. The GelSprinter model was awarded for its impressive ease of use, consistent color quality and efficiency. While the industry focuses on, to produce faster and more affordable laser and LED models, experiencing a Renaissance”ink jet products in the Office environment, says senior Test Technician Tony Maceri BLI. The Ricoh Aficio GX e5550N delivers a good color output and one lower page rate for faster test speeds than many of its competitors.

Around 1500 participants celebrate Saxony-Anhalt the network’s biggest party of the year at the first DAK company race. We feeling and networks are more important than the performance! The 1st DAK company run in Saxony-Anhalt is a team runners. In the foreground are the health and the socializing and not the mileage. It applies to present together with their colleagues, their own company. Ever more prominent, the better! “the slightly different network party” should be fun first and foremost. In doing so, companies have the opportunity to create common, especially positive and unforgettable experience for your employees. By the way colleagues get to know each other better.

Employee motivation and morale rise through the feeling. Then business contacts can be establish in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. And that without any barriers, because Managing Director as well as doorman facing in casual, sporty clothes and the business card is available directly on the shirt. The common experience that promotes Communication. The DAK company run shows the economic region of Saxony-Anhalt is as versatile and multi-faceted. Every company has the opportunity to get special attention at the company run.

Whether in large number of participants or the most creative outfit. Are no limits it. Whether as a battery, phone booth, or in the look of the company’s mascot, the eye-catcher is the most creative safe! The companies run Saxony-Anhalt wants to motivate all employees of companies, authorities, associations or other organizations to be. The line is with a length of 5 kilometers chosen so that they can cope without regular jogging, especially since can be tumbled. “Motivate the organizer with the slogan: who runs longer, longer advertises the company!” For more information,

Optimistic economic forecasts to pull Germany out of the crisis! According to the the autumn report of the eight leading economic institutes should occur this year economic growth at 3.5 percent and 2 percent next year. Also tax estimator additional revenue of 30 billion euros expected by end 2011. assumptions according to to the crisis make 2011 overcome. First with little confidence this optimism, more and more citizens believe in now, according to polls in the upswing. The Federal Government does not benefit but because she stuck with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Minister of Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle (FDP) is still in a mood of deep and only 35 percent of voters would opt for the Black-Yellow coalition. Hear other arguments on the topic with Ben Horowitz.

The Internet portal has researched on this topic. Significantly weakened after a long-lasting crisis, grows the Republic comparatively so strongly since the boom of German reunification and reaches the percentage of predicted growth in the Autumn opinion published by the 21.10.2010, which serves as the basis for its own forecast of the Federal Government, the highest levels for 20 years. “Growth and employment go hand in hand and to inspire each other,” Economics Minister Bruderle (FDP), who wants to take advantage of the upswing for the termination of stimulus, optimistic confirmed in Berlin. Thus the labour market and the job should improve significantly, which wages increase and decrease the number of unemployed in the year cut to about 2.9 million. Many German citizens and companies were initially critical, assess the improvement of economic development but now according to a Forsa survey for the “Star” and RTL with 36 percent very positive. Reasons for this are mainly the good situation in the labour market and the promised wage increases.

“The workers in Germany will benefit from the upturn. Wages must do something themselves. But many workers have wage restraint, their contribution to their company in the crisis stabilize.

Conference in Witten ‘New forms in dealing with money’ (pk-k) of Witten/Herdecke, complementary 01.10.2010 – means of payment be used alongside the euro, there are around the world more and more. Bonus miles and points, discount checks and coupons are now all too familiar each probably. There are a few consumers who so something is not used in the own shopping. But there are in addition to the alternative currencies commercially issued by companies including those created by citizens for citizens and be. In Witten, a Conference was held last Saturday, to which the Coinstatt cooperation ring had invited. “The diversity represented by the participants in the Conference was remarkable: Regiogeld, performance-covered clearing units, or a replacement ring were also presented as a scientific elaboration of complementary currencies-typing or developing system for a village within the city”. Coinstatt had not publicly, but personally such people invited from their own expertise the subject of new forms Edit in dealing with money”. The discussions of the presented work results were similarly lively and qualified.

Touch points and interfaces between the various approaches were impressive in it. “Working in many places in your own projects on specific topics, which taken together indicate the actual relevance: civic engagement, to improve the local, regional or even the personal economy on the one hand, but also the democratization of money, on the other hand, to issue their own currency units” goes, were consistent theme behind of the Conference. The Coinstatt cooperation ring, through one of his representatives, presented the idea to build a network for a variety of complementary currencies, where, across a network of single initiatives can take place regions and themes (and should). In addition to the Division of elaborated knowledge, so a composite offers also the possibility to make different currencies convertible. The alternative currency from the Ruhr area would be to use then in southern Germany. The question raised in connection to the appearance of the Coinstatt cooperation ring after a possible integration of peer-to-peer loans on a euro basis should be considered in the current plans for the cooperation ring.

Consumers could lend directly each other, their Konditionen among those involved would be freely negotiable. There are platforms for such initiatives already, but still not self-governing and connected with an own complementary currency. The local government is a central concern of the Coinstatter who want to start a registered co-operative society for it as a legal form. In the diversity of represented what relevance received at the Conference also significantly, the ideas company in the context of relevant social developments by Rudolf Steiner and Silvio. Both, Rudolf Steiner and Silvio Gesell, represented already 100 years ago the ideas, currently for the initiators of complementary currencies the provide scientific foundation for own developments. It is among the currencies of the non-governmental consensus that E.g. no interest will be charged and the management of the clearing units should follow principles of cooperative or associative. The Witten-September Conference”will be repeated in the coming year, the Coinstatt cooperation ring has begun to build the cooperative, which should give a framework for the emerging network. Interested parties are always welcome and can contact like Coinstatt, in further developments to be directly involved. Peter Krause-Keusemann