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Kinetic Concepts Inc. has reached a settlement with a former executive it recently sued after he agreed to work for rival wound-care company Smith & Nephew. Under the terms of the settlement, Israel Vierma — who had been KCI’s regional vice president of Latin America and Brazil — can work for Smith & Nephew but is barred from being directly involved in the company’s Latin American operations for almost the next two years. Vierma also can’t directly assist London-based Smith & Nephew in China, Japan and India for the next 60 days. Terms of the settlement are confidential, but certain details were revealed in a permanent injunction KCI and Vierma entered into and filed on Sunday in federal court. The injunction was signed by U.S. District Judge Harry Lee Hudspeth on Monday. KCI spokesman Mike Barger declined to comment on the settlement. Vierma’s lawyer and a Smith & Nephew spokeswoman each did not respond to a request for comment. Smith & Nephew was not named in the suit. Vierma lives in Miami. KCI sued Vierma last month, seeking to prevent him from working in any capacity related to the development of emerging markets for Smith & Nephew. The case originally was filed in Bexar County district court but was moved by Vierma to federal court last week. The San Antonio company argued in its complaint that a noncompete agreement Vierma signed bars him from working for any of KCI’s competitors. Smith & Nephew was among the competitors identified by name. “Vierma acknowledged in the … agreement that his exposure to KCI’s confidential information gave him a ‘competitive advantage’ in the highly competitive medical technology marketplace,” KCI’s complaint states. Vierma also acknowledged, the suit added, that “disclosure of KCI’s confidential information ‘could place [KCI] at a serious competitive disadvantage and could cause serious damage, financial or otherwise, to the business of [KCI].’” Both KCI and Vierma agreed that the noncompete agreement is valid and “supports the entry of (the) permanent injunction.” According to the injunction, Vierma can work as Smith & Nephew’s vice president of strategic marketing for negative-pressure wound therapy in emerging and international markets. However, his duties can’t be specifically directed at the wound-care markets and negative-pressure wound therapy for the specified time periods. KCI generated $14.5 million in sales in Latin America and Brazil last year, according to a signed declaration Vierma submitted in the case. KCI is owned by London-based private equity firm Apex Partners and affiliates of two Canadian pension investment management firms.

Let me elaborate:
I’m 30 years old. I’m an Inventory Control Coordinator for a large 3rd Party Logistics company that is the main distributor for a big box store in Canada. I never graduated from high school. Almost everyone I’ve met in my profession thinks I’m smart, but very few of them know that I never finished secondary school.
One of my mentors keeps telling me to go back to school and get a degree in something, but I have absolutely no interest in learning anything new right now. I’d spend hours a day for a week searching and browsing courses and degree programs online that are offered at local colleges and universities, but nothing peaks my interest.
And to top it all off, I don’t even have much of a desire to continue working in the field where I have created a niche for myself. I’ve been doing this for almost 15 years now. With no direction. No goals. But enormous potential – as others often remind me of.
This notion has led to many drug and alcohol related issues that I have dealt with and now, no longer have a problem with. But the void is still there. With no desire to achieve anything specific. Nothing interests me enough to pursue a degree for.
What should I do?

I’m not going to be sexually active, I just need to control when my period comes. I’m going on a two week vacation…I planned it around my period so I would just have finished it when I leave and it should start the week after I get back. I feel odd asking my mom for pills because I don’t want her to think anything. I’m convinced that she’s convinced that I have a “secret boyfriend” (she asked me a couple times) so I don’t want to…reestablish….that idea. So as a 16 year old, could I just go to a super market, get a pack, and go the the check-out yourself line and buy them?

When ecologist G. F. Gause raised two species of Paramecium (protists) together in laboratory cultures with limited resources, he found that one species (P. aurelia) persisted in his cultures while the other species (P. caudatum) disappeared over time. This is best described as an example of:
Select one:
a. character displacement
b. fundamental niche reduction
c. resource partitioning
d. competitive exclusion
Evolution by natural selection can result in changes in a species’ niche over time.
Select one:
true or false

I’m already in the process of trademarking my business name. I got my website & facebook up. My business is an internet business.
It started with my facebook like page (that I thought would go no where) & is not almost up to 150k likes. My page has been up since august of 2012. I basically post about fashion, make up, hair styles & alot of other really girly stuff (kind of like the page dresses & fashion & what girls like except I show where to get them). & when I hit about 40k likes I was getting contacted by business to post about their make up or clothes or interior design. I created my website, twitter, instagram & website. I also have business cards
I also get paid from google adsense ppc & affiliates on my webite. And I get paid for promoting other business through my facebook page
$75 for a post every 3 days in the month
$100 for a post every 2 days of the month
$125 for a post every day of the month
My paypal account is FLOODED with money but I haven’t spent it & don’t plan to until the beginning of the year because of taxes. I also work ALONE on this, up to 5 hours a day but next year I plan on hiring a 2 or 3 people to help me manage all of this since I’m in school full time and work as a nurse part time.
Since this is getting more out there to people I was wondering how I can make this an established legitimate business. I’m getting between 7000-10000 likes a week now. I plan on taking some business classes in the summer. I can’t take them now because I’m in school for nursing (MSN). This internet business is really just something I do on the side to turn a little extra cash. But I do wanna make it legit.

Okay so I set up a beauty blog around 3 weeks and well not really all beauty but like writing about everyday issues blah blah blah but I was wondering is there any tips to get more followers? I have no followers and get around 50 views everyday but is there easy ways to get followers? Once I get followers I wanna set up the advert so I can advertise and get some money to buy products to review and then get someone to do my blog up! Thanks in advance!