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My November 2009 Vacation

I submitted my vacation request on 8 May 2009, let’s see how long it takes for it to be approved. On May26, a new vacation calendar was published, with me being absent during my requested dates. However, I have not yet received a copy back from HRD. For my November Vacation (actually my vacation starts on 31 October until 4 December), I [...]

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• And here is a sad story from today's news... ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away. The Eastman Kodak Co. announced Monday it's retiring its oldest film stock because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age. The world's first commercially successful color film, immortalized in song by Simon, spent 74 years in Kodak's portfolio. It enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s and '60s but in recent years has nudged closer to obscurity: Sales of Kodachrome are now just a fraction of 1 percent of the company's total sales of still-picture films, and only one commercial lab in the world still processes it. Those numbers and the unique materials needed to make it convinced Kodak to call its most recent manufacturing run the last, said Mary Jane Hellyar, the outgoing president of Kodak's Film, Photofinishing and Entertainment Group. "Kodachrome is particularly difficult (to retire) because it really has become kind of an icon," Hellyar said. Read the complete story here. #