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EDITORIAL A billion-dollar hospital project, built by a public agency using taxpayer dollars, just broke ground on the edge of District 10, the corner of the San Francisco with the highest unemployment rate and some of the city's worst economic problems. That's something job-hungry residents ought to be celebrating more than 1,000 construction workers will be earning steady paychecks over the next few years.
And yet, when dignitaries including Rep. Nancy Pelosi showed up for the groundbreaking ceremony, they were met with protests. Bayview residents showed up to complain that very few of those jobs are going to the people who live in the project's neighborhood. In fact, not that many jobs are likely to go to San Francisco residents. That's because the University of California, San Francisco, which is building the hospital at Mission Bay, has no policy whatsoever requiring its contractors to hire local residents. As Sarah Phelan reports on page 11, San Francisco residents may turn out to make up fewer than 20 percent of the people who work on the project.
That's a problem for a significant number of local construction projects financed and managed by government agencies. A recent study released by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Office of Economic and Workforce Development found that only 20 percent of the workers on public works job sites in the city were San Francisco residents.
Obviously, private construction companies can hire anyone they want but when San Francisco tax dollars and San Francisco public land are involved, local residents ought to get a fair share of the work. That's not just a political argument; it's solid economics. Just as money spent at a locally owned independent business stays in town and does more for the local economy than money sent at big chains, local workers are more likely to spend their paychecks here in town.
Sup. John Avalos has introduced a bill that would set a 50 percent requirement for local hiring on projects paid for by the city. It's a great idea, and needs strong support. There's resistance from the building trade unions, which is no surprise the unions want to keep the seniority system in place and give jobs to the members who have been unemployed the longest, no matter where they live. And a significant percentage of the membership of the building trade unions live out of town.
May of the residents of low-income areas like Bayview lack the specific skills for unionized trade jobs. But with so many longtime members out of work, the unions don't want to add apprenticeship programs to train new workers for jobs that don't exist.
But there has to be room for compromise here. The building trades leaders need to understand that San Francisco taxpayers have every right to demand that when they finance public works projects, some of that money will stay in town. And Avalos isn't pushing for 100 percent local hire nor is he trying to undermine the time-honored tradition of the union hiring hall.
The UC project is trickier. As a state agency, UC is exempt from local laws and has a long history of defying San Francisco's efforts to hold it accountable. The Bayview activists aren't asking for 50 percent local hire but they are demanding that the university adopt some sort of enforceable rules to ensure that some percentage of the jobs at the new hospital go to city residents. That's more than reasonable.
San Francisco's state legislative delegation ought to be in touch with the UCSF chancellor and send a clear message: This is a problem that needs to be resolved, now and if it's not, legislation setting local hire goals for all UC projects ought to be on next year's agenda.
I was employed with UCSF for over 10 years (I have been gone for 5+ years) - for fundung purposes when they tore down the golf course near China Basin to start building, they promised to hire within District 10 - I did not beleive it than thus, I am proved correct in my disbeleifs - I am hoping that folks from the BVHP area will show up at Southeast campus for the "Biotech Brunch" on Novemeber 20th,2010, I am but one person, but I am speaking at the brunch & I have a little piece of information that may get some of us in the "biotech" areana
Why would local workers be more likely to spend their money in town? Why would someone who lives in San Francisco and work in Menlo Park or San Jose or Daly City spend an equal amount of money in San Francisco? I would love to see the data that supports this conclusion.
I am a San Francisco resident and construction worker and I have encountered CIty Build people on a public works job sites checking the pay roll for local hires. They were very unprofessional. They came up to workers without identifying themselves and asked why we didn't have more "people of color" on our job although over half of the group was Latino. Why bother they workers without even identifying yourself? They don't do the hiring, they're just trying to do an honest days work to take some money home to their wives and kids. Last time I checked this wasn't a socialist economy, let the best people do the jobs. Construction in San Francisco is expensive enough as it is, can you imagine if what it would be like if people were forced to hire people based on location instead of skill? Ridiculous. Are there local hiring quotas for other tax funded employment opportunities like staff at City College or civil servants at City Hall? I'm truly curious.
The city spent almost 2 1/2 million dollars on the City Build program in 2007-2008 and all they did was place 130 people in construction jobs. See the numbers here: http://www.sfcta.org/images/stories/Executive/Meetings/pnp/pdfs/09sep07/.... Requiring a 50% hiring goal would just waste more money on nonsense projects like this.
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She graduated from Evans High School at the age of 15 and from the Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, Ga., at 19. She taught school in Lyons, Ga., where she met William Mark Watkins. She and Mark married in 1941. They had 3 children, Rita, Bill and John, who they raised in Dublin, Ga., where Mark practiced medicine and Ruth cared for their children. Mark passed away in Athens on Aug. 15, 1997.
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Janet Erickson - Dean of Admissions
Janet Erickson's work in higher education has included both graduate and undergraduate student populations. Before coming to Naropa, Janet was at the University of Denver (DU) for twenty years where she worked in a variety of positions starting in the Office of Financial Aid, then at Daniels College of Business, and most recently in the Morgridge College of Education (MCE) where she served as the Director of Admissions and Enrollment Services from 1979-2012. Regardless of her role in higher education, Janet's work has been guided by her passion to encourage and empower students by listening, understanding, and responding to their needs. Janet has been recognized as a student and staff advocate and has always aspired to create an atmosphere of respect and inclusiveness.
Janet moved to Colorado, from the northeast, to attend the University of Denver where she received her BA in Education and later a Master's degree in Applied Communication. Soon after she arrived in Denver, Janet was introduced to and began a meditation and yoga practice. In recent years, she has worked to make a difference in the lives of families and individuals through her work as a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) and also as a massage therapist.
"I enjoy working at Naropa University where I am able to actuate the merging of my personal and professional experiences to serve Naropa's mission as the premier leader in contemplative education. It is exciting to be part of an educational community that encourages students to follow their passion and to combine it with purpose. To produce graduates who take these values into the world with a strong sense of self is priceless."
Eduardo Viezca - Undergraduate Admissions Counselor
In addition to being the admissions team's youngest member, Eduardo Viezca is also one of the newest to join the admissions team as an Undergraduate Admissions Counselor. Born in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and raised in Denver, Colorado, Eduardo has always had a thirst for being in "intellectual" spaces, so it is no surprise that he now works in higher education. He recently obtained his BEnvd degree in Environmental Design with a minor in Ethnic Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder and is currently contemplating joining the MFA program in Writing and Poetics here at Naropa. Without hesitation he can confirm to you that the book that has influenced his life the most is Gloria E Anzaldua's text, Borderlands/La Frontera, for its having helped him navigate higher education as a working-class, Mexican-American humanist, activist. Before joining Naropa, he worked for Denver Public Schools helping high school students with the college admissions process and assisted with the implementation of other college-readiness initiatives.
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Lexi Rzhanova is an Undergraduate Admissions Counselor who joined Naropa with five years of experience in higher education admissions. She earned her BA in English from Saint Anselm College in 2007, and is currently wrapping up her M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration at Northeastern University. She discovered Naropa through her studies at the Boulder Shambhala center and fell head over heels in love with Naropa's holistic approach to education. Lexi loves traveling, photography, and being immersed in different cultures. She's a black belt in Shaolin Kempo Karate and practices the Tai Chi fan dance. She's passionate about creating a holistic admissions experience for her students and watching them grow and rediscover their sense of wonder and hunger for learning.
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Kelly is thrilled to be a part of the Admissions team at Naropa University! Originally from central Illinois, she earned a Bachelor of Music from Illinois State University and a Master of Music from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is an active performer and has sung extensively throughout the Denver metro area in musicals, operas, and concerts. Kelly is especially interested in helping students pursue their own passion through Naropa's unique and supportive educational environment. She assists in the admission process for the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance, the MA in Somatic Counseling Psychology, and the MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology: Art Therapy programs. In her free time, Kelly enjoys yoga, learning how to cook interesting vegetarian food, and exploring Colorado's great outdoors with her dog, Annie.
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Meghan Schardt feels honored to be working as a Graduate Admissions Counselor with the Kerouac School, Wilderness Therapy, Environmental Leadership, and Ecopsychology programs. She graduated from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with her MFA in Poetry. Meghan is a poet, yogini, and herbal lover from a small farmtown in Connecticut, a funky Vermont lake, and the rocky ocean-stone drop-off of Nauset Beach. She finds great solace in salt and her dreams lay in the architecture of a house on Barley Neck Road in Orleans, Massachusetts. Meghan currently lives in the Rocky Mountains, upward facing the Flatirons of Boulder, Colorado. Most days, you can spot her wearing a burnt orange wool sweater. She has a great passion for Naropa's self-inquiry based contemplative education and feels blessed to be a bridge for students and families interested in exploring their studies at Naropa.
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Alan Taylor joined the Naropa admissions team in September 2012. He is a recent graduate of Naropa's M.A. in Religious Studies, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism concentration, and is currently attending the Tsadra foundation's Abhidharmakosa translator training committee with Khenpo Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, Dr. Phil Stanley, and Dr. Jules Levinson. Alan enjoys cycling, playing guitar, studying Tibetan, and engaging in contemplative practice. Alan assists prospective students in the admissions process with the graduate Religious Studies, Master of Divinity, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, and Contemplative Psychotherapy departments.
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Born and raised in Boulder, Daniel has always felt at peace in the shadow of the awe-inspiring Flatirons rock-formations that overlook the city. A nature lover at heart, the scent of coastal breezes drew Daniel away from the Rocky Mountains and out to Southern California where he earned his Bachelor's degree studying Music and English. After spending time in the Los Angeles community, the forces that be pulled Daniel back to his mountainous roots and into the wondrous world of Naropa. He is a passionate musician that struggles with the urge to dirty his hands in a garden, while protecting the tools that he uses to create. This type of struggle fuels his drive for a dynamic lifestyle that involves being present and open to all that life has to offer. He is thrilled to be in a community that values mindfulness and is thankful to contribute to it on a daily basis.
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Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students from 27 public and independent schools across the Metrowest area, including Weston, will be participating Saturday, Feb. 2, in the competition at Meadowbrook School.
"Mathcounts is a national middle school coaching and competitive mathematics program that promotes mathematics achievement through a series of fun and engaging 'bee' style contests," according to a press release.
The top five teams from Saturday's regional tournament will advance to the state tournament.
The competition begins at 8:30 a.m. and will consist of four rounds: sprint, target, team and countdown. The countdown round "is a head-to-head competition (no calculator, no more than 45 seconds to answer)," according to the press release.
The following students from Weston Middle School will be competing:Participant Grade Andrew Yan
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What was your first paying job?
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If you could do one impulsive thing, unrestricted by cost, what would it be?
"Buy a cream-colored, convertible Mini Cooper! I have no idea why, but I just love those little cars."
What are you guilty of?
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"Undoubtedly. With that many stars in the sky, the odds are certainly in favor of it."
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"My great-grandmother's tea set from Norway. My grandmother gave it to me when I got married, much to the dismay of my aunts."
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"Right now this moment the 'Tennessee Blue Book 2007-2008.' I'm not kidding. Having just moved here from Iowa via Chicago, I'm trying to get a good understanding of government here before the elections."
Who has been the most influential person in the 20th century?
"Albert Einstein because he could focus on a topic until he got it figured out. He was the ultimate puzzle-solver. Rosa Parks because how can you not respect someone who can stand up the way she did? Ronald Reagan because he was able to communicate with anyone he spoke to even if they didn't agree with him. I was blessed to see him in person speaking, and he could touch anyone with words just by talking to them. Franklin Roosevelt because he had polio, and you would never have known what pain he was in. In a time when the world was falling apart, a man who couldn't walk stood tall. Henry Kissinger, they called him a pussycat. You walked away, and he was so quiet that it wasn't until later you discovered he got everything he asked for. He could convince you to do everything he said. That's an amazing skill."
What was your most embarrassing moment?
"At the April Foolies fundraiser this year, after singing "Hey Big Spender" in front of 500 people, I had intended to say, "Please give generously to support these worthy programs, New Hope Advocacy Center and Success By Six." I didn't quite say "Success by Six. All I could do was freeze. Sammy Sawyer, as deputy Barney Fife, came up and arrested me."
What is one word others often use to describe you and why?
"Well, I know my parents would say 'stubborn.' I tend to fixate on a problem until it's solved."
When you were 5 years old, what did you want to be when you grew up?
"A paleontologist. I even went as far as getting my master's degree in geology and did some fossil digs in grad school. I loved and still love do rocks, dinosaurs and the idea that history is trapped in stone and you can come back and see it."
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
"Listen a little better. I tend to get excited and jump in where others are wiser to listen and wait a bit longer."
What is your passion?
"People - young or old; tall or short; rich or poor. People can surprise you. Just when you think society is at its worst, people rise to the occasion and do amazingly kind things for one another."
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What character in a book or movie would you most like to be?
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Growing up in the Boomer generation, and yet not really being a very good hippy, my life was, well, sort of non-experimental. It was more important for me to keep my two feet on the ground, so to speak, so the drug scene wasn't up my alley. Both my brother and sister were the experimental types, and they tried their best to get me to join the crowd, but it was more my style to be on the outside rim observing.
Having heard all the stories, from my older siblings and their friends, about tripping on acid, my journey seemed boring in comparison. Everyone called me straight-laced, and it hurt my feelings, but now that I look back, my siblings always seemed to have a rougher go of it when they had to face the real world. Somewhere along the line I picked up religion and they didn't. It kept me out of trouble
In those days, I was somewhere between a hippy and nerd, because the library wasn't a hang out for me either. Even today it's sort of a once year adventure to go to the library, and as it turns out...... this was the week for that. I'm glad I went, because I just had the most incredible experience of my lifetime. Not something you'd think you could experience from going to the library, and grabbing a book. Not something I would have ever done before losing that religion that kept me out of trouble as a youth. But as I've gotten older, I've opened up a bit more and stepped outside the box to experience more of life. Â
So, I got this book that came highly recommended by some friends of mine, and after reading it, I realized there was a CD in the back cover. The book was basically the instruction manual for taking a "trip." So, I made up my mind up to experience this thing journey with no drugs involved, and tossed the my cares to the wind as IÂ popped the CD in this dinosaur of a computer. Yeah, me, old straight-laced, Ms. Boring.
The instruction manual had said to make a wish before your "trip" so that there would be an intention involved. So, I did make a wish to find out who my spirit guide really is. All through my childhood, I had been told there were angels watching over me, so now, I wanted to meet them, and the book said I could do that.
Windows media popped up on the screen with some, well... "acid trip" graphics accompanied by drumming. I watched as a smoky tunnel appeared before my very eyes. Now, the graphics had a heartbeat all their own, and danced in a circle around the screen with clouds of smoke pulsing to this drumbeat, twisting and turning and ever-changing with various colors of the rainbow fading in and out. The book did not lie, the drumbeat did actually clear the brain chatter away, and I relaxed into the whole "trip." What I saw amazed me.
There were two white doves against a pinkish purple background, their bodies curved to form a circle, with one dove moving in one direction above the other dove moving in the other direction, so that they were kissing. It sort of looked like the symbol for Tao swirling on the screen. Then, as they spiraled in a circle, their wings began to flutter outward, and the two become one bird, but it was no longer a dove. Now, it was the most beautiful Eagle with its wings stretched out amidst a pulsing background of golden clouds.
The drumming came to the 12 minute point, where it began to slow a bit, letting me know it was time to travel back along the path I'd journeyed down, and the tunnel reappeared. I wondered if this was what my siblings saw, or something similar, when they were tripping on acid. But I was grateful that I could go there without the drugs. Not that I'm so straight-laced in my thinking these days, I've opened to up to some new experiences (not drugs), and this one ranks real high in the top ten right now.
Later, I decided to watch the graphics without the sound of the drumming in the background. I never saw the birds the second time around, though the graphics were still quite beautifully pulsing with stunning designs. And I realized the drumming made the whole experience so different, so amazing. I finally understood this ancient artform handed down from our ancestors. Now, I feel the need to go buy the book rather than borrow it because I definitely want to go on a few more exploratory journeys.
Whoa, what a trip! Better late than never!
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"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
Interesting show (I downloaded the MP3). Also interesting to see where progressives and so called "patriots" overlap on concerns. You'll also find this on shows on the Progressive Radio Network.
That's why I say Alex Jones is all over the map but a bit guilty of too much hyperbole. For instance this morning they have an article and Alex RT interview about Bill Ayers wanting to imprison Americans back in the day. Alex probably wasn't even born when Ayers said that (and the source is a questionable FBI informant) and Obama a little kid. I was a college student and most I know just laughed at groups like the Weather Underground as being foolish extremists. Alex, not being around at the time, has little idea how little impact these groups had (he should watch the documentary about the Weather Underground). But it sells a lot freeze dried food and vitamin drinks. :D


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Some of our on-going projects are to investigate the following: (i) the expression pattern and role of the interleukin (IL)-12 p40 family of monokines in secondary progressive MS; (ii) the role of IL-12 and IL-23 in T cell homing to the CNS and epitope spreading during the course of EAE; (iii) CNS expression and functional significance of lymphoid chemokines, such as CXCL13 and CCL21, in driving the formation of organized inflammatory infiltrates during relapsing EAE and MS; (iv) the origin and biological activities of dendritic cells that accumulate in demyelinating lesions during EAE; (v) the importance of regulatory T cells for remission during relapsing autoimmune demyelination; (vi) the role of neutrophils and the chemokines that attract them in blood-brain-barrier breakdown during EAE; and (vii) the impact of b -IFN therapy on the immune system of patients with MS.
Segal, B.M. , Dwyer, B., Shevach, E.M. An IL-12/IL-10 Immunoregulatory Circuit Controls Susceptibility to Autoimmune Disease. Journal of Experimental Medicine 187: 537-546, 1998.
Chang, J.T., Shevach, E.M., Segal, B.M. Regulation of IL-12 Receptor ß2 Subunit Expression by Endogenous IL-12: A Critical Step in the Differentiation of Pathogenic Autoreactive T cells. Journal of Experimental Medicine 189: 969-978, 1999.
Segal, B.M., Chang, J.T., Shevach, E.M. CpG Oligonucleotides are Potent Adjuvants for the Activation of Autoreactive Encephalitogenic T Cells in Vivo. Journal of Immunology 164: 5683-5688, 2000.
Segal, B.M. , Glass, D. and Shevach, E.M. IL-10 Producing Tr1 Cells Mediate Tumor Rejection, Journal of Immunology (Cutting Edge) 168: 1-4, 2002.
Ichikawa , H., Williams, L.P. and Segal, B.M. Activation of Antigen Presenting Cells through CD40 or Toll-9 Receptors Overcomes Tolerance and Precipitates Autoimmune Disease. Journal of Immunology , 169:2781-2787 2002.
Segal, B.M. Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis: Cytokines, Antigen Presenting Cells and Immunoregulation. Current Allergy and Asthma Reports 3(1): 86-93, 2003.
Bagaeva, L., Williams, L.P. and Segal, B.M. IL-12 Dependent/ IFNg Independent Expression of CCR5 by Myelin Reactive T Cells Correlates with Encephalitogenicity. Journal of Neuroimmunology 137(1-2): 109-116, 2003.
Segal, B.M. CNS Chemokines, Cytokines, and Dendritic Cells in Autoimmune Demyelination. J Neurol Sci. 228(2):210-4, 2005.
King, I. and Segal, B.M. Cutting Edge: IL-12 induces CD4 + CD25 - T Cell Activation in the Presence of Regulatory T Cells. Journal of Immunology (Cutting Edge section) 175(2): 641-5, 2005.
Deshpande, P. and Segal, B.M. IL-12 Driven Upregulation of P-selectin Ligand on Myelin-Specific T Cells is a Critical Step in an Animal Model of Autoimmune Demyelination. Journal of Neuroimmunology 173(1-2):35-44, 2006.
Bagaeva, L.V., Rao, P., Powers, J.M. and Segal, B.M. CXCL13 Plays a Role in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis. Journal of Immunology 176(12):7676-85, 2006.
Deshpande, P., King, I.L. and Segal, B.M. Cutting Edge: CNS CD11c + Cells from Mice with Encephalomyelitis Polarize Th17 Cells and Support CD25 + CD4 + Mediated Immunosuppression, Suggesting Dual Roles in the Disease Process. Journal of Immunology 178(11): 6695-99, 2007.
Carlson, T., Kroenke, M., Rao, P., Lane, T.E., Segal, B.M. The Th17-ELR+ CXC Chemokine Pathway is Essential for the Development of CNS Autoimmune Disease. Journal of Experimental Medicine,208; 205(4): 811-823, 2008.
Kroenke MA, Carlson TJ, Andjelkovic A, Segal BM. IL-12 and IL-23 modulated T cells induce distinct types of EAE based on histology, CNS chemokine profile, and response to cytokine inhibition. J Exp Med 2008;205(7): 1535-1541. PMCID: PMC2442630
Segal BM, Constantinescu CS, Raychaudhuri A, Kim L, Fidelus-Gort R, Kasper LH on behalf of the Ustekinumab MS Investigators. Repeated subcutaneous injections of IL12/23 p40 neutralising antibody, ustekinumab, in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, dose-ranging study. Lancet Neurol 2008;7(9): 796-804.
King IL, Dickendesher TL, Segal BM. Circulating Ly-6C+ myeloid precursors migrate to the CNS and play a pathogenic role during autoimmune demyelinating disease. Blood 2009;113(14): 3190-3197. PMCID: PMC2665891.
Segal BM. Getting to the crux of the matter: IL-23 and Th17 cell accumulation in the CNS. Eur J Immunol 2009; 39(7):1713-1715. PMCID: PMC2760599.
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Small businesses also see U.S. on verge of second recession.
The Obama economy is so bad that 77 percent of small business owners do not plan to hire any more workers despite all of Washington's hype that the business climate is getting better. Worse: 64 percent of small business owners in a new survey provided to Whispers see the nation teetering on the verge of another recession.
Most shocking of all in the survey of small and medium sized business owners is that many would like to hire more workers but can't, and new financing rules imposed by hurting banks have made getting loans sharply more difficult than in the past. [Read: What Obama Can and Can't Do to Create Jobs.]
"Despite positive job numbers for the month of October, it is clear that business owners have a differing view of the economy," said Connie Certusi, executive vice president and general manager of Small Business Accounting Solutions, a division of Sage North America. Sage, a business management software supplier, conducted the survey among its 3.2 million customers. [See the 10 best cities to occupy.]
"The Sage SMB Perspective on Economic Recovery survey found that 64 percent of business owners who participated in the survey believe that we are either already in a recession or are headed for one in the next six months," said Certusi. "Not surprisingly, 65 percent of respondents in the Sage SMB Perspective on Economic Recovery said that the negative economy has had an impact on their own business." And, "The most telling statistic," she added, "is that 48 percent of business owners would like to hire additional employees but cannot due to issues related to the bad economy."
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The survey will provide fodder to those in Washington worried most about the economic impact on small businesses, the sector Democrats and Republicans agree is key to creating jobs.
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Countdown has obtained a memo entitled "Action Alert - Auto Bailout," and sent Wednesday at 9:12am, to Senate Republicans. The names of the sender(s) and recipient(s) have been redacted in the copy Countdown obtained. The Los Angeles Times reported that it was circulated among Senate Republicans. The brief memo outlines internal political strategy on the bailout, including the view that defeating the bailout represents a "first shot against organized labor." Senate Republicans blocked passage of the bailout late Thursday night, over its insistence on an immediate union pay cut. See the entire memo after the jump.
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:12 AM
Subject: Action Alert -- Auto Bailout
Today at noon, Senators Ensign, Shelby, Coburn and DeMint will hold a press conference in the Senate Radio/TV Gallery. They would appreciate our support through messaging and attending the press conference, if possible. The message they want us to deliver is:
1. This is the democrats first opportunity to payoff organized labor after the election. This is a precursor to card check and other items. Republicans should stand firm and take their first shot against organized labor, instead of taking their first blow from it.
2. This rush to judgment is the same thing that happened with the TARP. Members did not have an opportunity to read or digest the legislation and therefore could not understand the consequences of it. We should not rush to pass this because Detroit says the sky is falling.
The sooner you can have press releases and documents like this in the hands of members and the press, the better. Please contact me if you need additional information. Again, the hardest thing for the democrats to do is get 60 votes. If we can hold the Republicans, we can beat this.


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billysollocks says:
Like him or not, Casey Stoner has now kicked off a proper debate, fuelling his own self publicity. Rather nifty, given his retirement at the end of the season, no? Yeah, okay, I got splinters in my arse from sitting on the fence but both have provided huge entertainment during their careers.
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Casey Stoner is a big fairy..call that a punch?
He ought to give Val a ring if he wants to know how to sort 'em out proper, not copy what his sister use to do to shut his whining puss up as a little joey.
Do all Aussies fight like that?
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In a fight as well as he does on track but I'm thinking VR would prefer Stoner to use another part of his anatomy instead of his foot!
I'm pretty sure you're having a laugh BBB.
Too many people getting their yellow, orange or blue and white knickers in a twist on here!
I prefer the orange ones!
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stop trying to sound inteligent and diplomatic, we all know from your so called threats to benny boy less than 2 months ago remember?, you nothing more than a tracksuit wearing footy troll.
or has your granny started writing posts for you.
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A cynical piece of manipulation for profit
is what this 'article' has now been shown to be. It's not an interview, it's a collection of out of context quotes used to generate page hits and profit for its various publishers. Mr Birt - you put your name to this - how can you ethically do this?
17 August 2012 05:02"
I wouldn't exactly call it that (the profit comment). I think the only people who buy MCN now are those new to it, who've not seen it go down the tubes, over the last decade, from an objective motorcycling newspaper, to the bike equivalent of the Sunday Sport. Birt's not the only knob on board - in fact, I think there are only one or two half decent journos left, if that.
I wouldn't be surprised if they soon resort to hacking emails. At least if they did that, we might get some facts for a change lol !
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A liitle bit of time-slip here, a little editing there, and voila - an article ripe for reaction.
Casey has said all of these things and should know that they will not always be reproduced in context later on. He was possibly a little embarrased with the fuss the MCN piece has generated and could see that the journalists in the Indy press conference were itching to stir the pot.
Time to move on, methinks.
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While there are several advantages to incorporating a small business, there are also disadvantages that need to be considered. The main disadvantages of incorporation, I think, are the increases in paperwork and cost, which can be substantial compared to a sole proprietorship or partnership.
1. Another Tax Return
When you incorporate your small business, you'll have to file two tax returns each year, one for your personal income, and one for the corporation. This, of course, will mean increased accounting fees. Unlike a sole proprietorship or partnership, corporate losses can't be deducted from the personal income of the owner.
2. Increased Paperwork
There is a lot more paperwork involved in maintaining a corporation than a sole proprietorship or partnership. Corporations, for example, must maintain a minute book, containing the corporate bylaws and minutes from corporate meetings. Other corporate documents, that must be kept up to date at all times, include the register of directors, the share register, and the transfer register. (See Getting Your New Corporation Up and Running for more information on the corporate minute book and other documents necessary for corporations.)
3. No Personal Tax Credits
Another disadvantage of incorporating is that being incorporated may actually be a tax disadvantage for your business. Corporations are not eligible for personal tax credits. Every dollar a corporation earned is taxed. As a sole proprietor, you may be able to claim tax credits a corporation could not.
4. Less Tax Flexibility
A corporation doesn't have the same flexibility in handling business losses as a sole proprietorship or a partnership. As a sole proprietor, if your business experiences operating losses, you could use these to reduce other types of personal income in the year the losses occur. See "8 Tax strategies to Maximize Your Business Tax Deductions". In a corporation, however, these losses can only be carried forward or back to reduce the corporation's income from other years.
5. Liability May Not Be As Limited As You Think
The prime advantage of incorporating, limited liability, may be undercut by personal guarantees and/or credit agreements. The corporation's much vaunted limited liability is irrelevant if no one will give the corporation credit. When a corporation has what lending institutions consider to be insufficient assets to secure a loan, they often insist on personal guarantees from the business owner(s). So although technically the corporation has limited liability, the owner still ends up being personally liable if the corporation can't meet its repayment obligations.
6. Registering A Corporation is Expensive
A further disadvantage of incorporating is that corporations are more expensive to set up. A corporation is a more complex legal structure than a sole proprietorship or partnership, so it's logical that creating one would be more complicated and costly.
Fees for incorporating a small business either provincially or federally range in the hundreds of dollars - and that's just for the set up. I've already mentioned the increased maintenance and related fees, such as increased accounting costs.
Should you incorporate your small business? I've outlined the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating in this article, and you can find more information about how to incorporate your business in my Incorporating A Business library of links, but I strongly recommend that you discuss your personal situation with your accountant and lawyer before you decide. He or she will be able to give you a much more exact picture of how incorporation could benefit your business, and help you see whether or not the trouble and expense of incorporation will be worth it to you.


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Barack Obama, Sarah Palin Already in Dead Heat for Least Popular Candidate in 2012
On the eve of President Obama's inauguration — with angry voters in Massachusetts turning out to hand the GOP a 41-59 controlling interest in the Senate — is it too early to look forward three years and start speculating on his reelection chances?
Almost certainly. But let's do it anyway…
A year into his tenure, a majority of Americans would already vote against Pres. Obama if the '12 elections were held today, according to a new survey.
The Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll shows 50% say they would probably or definitely vote for someone else. Fully 37% say they would definitely cast a ballot against Obama. Meanwhile, just 39% would vote to re-elect the pres. to a 2nd term, and only 23% say they definitely would do so.
Wow! And only a year into his first term. It truly takes a special kind of politician to elicit that kind of reaction in voters. I wonder what did it? Was it the constant stream of acquiescence to conservatives? I'm sure that helped, but I'd put my money on the pissing all over everything his liberal base finds worthwhile.
All this must bode excellent well for the Republican Party's great white white white white presidential hope, right?
[A] new poll shows that [Sarah] Palin's situation is even worse than you might think. This survey, conducted by CBS News, shows that a sizeable majority of Americans — 71 percent — don't even want her to run. 21 percent of respondents, on the other hand, told CBS they do want her to.
Even a majority of Republicans said they don't want her to run. 56 percent of respondents told CBS that, compared with 30 percent who disagreed.
This truly will be a battle of personalities, huh? Looks like we'll finally be getting back to a good ol' American lesser of two evils election. Making difficult and unsavory decisions are what this nation was founded on. It's how our some of Founding Fathers ended up settling in Delaware over New Jersey.
You know, if you think about it, 2012 might actually be Ralph Nader's year. That is if he can eek out a win over None of the Above.
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Houston Early Music extends our sympathy and best wishes to those in our community who have suffered from Hurricane Ike. In the spirit of helping Houston get back to normal, we are planning to present our 26 September concert as scheduled. Please check our web site for the latest news.
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Houston Early Music will open its new season on Friday, September 26, 2008 with a program of Baroque music by Parisian women composers. Boston-based La Donna Musicale (www.ladm.org) will be joined by tenor Aaron Sheehan in ensemble's first Houston performance. The Pleasures of Love and Libation: Airs by Julie Pinel and other Parisian Women recreates the luxuriant environment of an intimate Parisian salon replete with the sounds of voices in solo and duo settings with flute, violin, harpsichord, and viola da gamba. The seventeenth-century salons served as unique gathering places where women artists and intellectuals met to perform and discuss sacred and secular music, as well as literature and fine arts.
In addition to works by Julie Pinel (fl. 1737), the program includes works by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Antonia Bembo. The performance will be at 8:00 p.m. at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1311 Holman (at Caroline). There will be a preconcert talk at 7:00 p.m. by Laury Gutiérrez, Founding Director of La Donna Musicale.
Praised by Early Music America for its "excellent performers…outstanding music stylishly performed," La Donna Musicale is dedicated to historically-based performance of music by women composers of the Renaissance through contemporary periods. The ensemble has given the modern premieres of works by Chiara Cozzolani, Antonia Bembo, Julie Pinel, and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, among others, and these concerts have been chosen as Boston Globe "Classical Picks."
Tickets are $30 for general admission, $25 for seniors, $10 for students, under 15 free. Tickets may be purchased at the door or by calling 713-432-1744.
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This is a DEMO version with 3 scenarios: The Italian invasion of 1940 (no Rommel then!); the arrival of Rommel in 1941 and his conquest of Cyrenacia; Operation Crusader where Rommel was defeated and driven out of Cyrenacia.
The game can be player 2 player hotseat, or 1 player versus the computer/tablet/phone.
Please leave comments/suggestions in the comments or on the Boardgamegeek thread - I am user kerpob2


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3 LSD blotters in foil – the blotter art is a Buddha figure.
Lyserg-Saeure-Diaethylamid (Lysergic acid diethylamide-25) – the
brainchild of Dr. Albert Hoffman. This was the first drug I've ever
taken and I've had about 35 trips of acid since then. Unfortunately,
this substance seems to be rarer these days and I haven't seen it
around for years! LSD is not available in Malaysia (at least I've never
come across it) and even in Melbourne, there's only rumors that acid is
around but no one seems to be able to get hold of any.
I recently managed to get in touch with someone who can actually
deliver this rare (or so it seems) chemical. The best thing was the
price – it's only A$15 for each blotter! It has been 6 years since I've
last tripped on acid, and I'm sure glad to see it around, so I bought 3
blotters. The blotter art is a picture of a Buddha with a green face
and a blue head piece.
I intended to take a single blotter because it's been a while since
I've tripped and these Buddha blotters were said to be strong. I
perforated one blotter and put it under my tongue and listened to some
psy-trance. My past experiences with LSD were always in raves, but I
wanted to take it in a safe environment this time to gauge the
strength. It was strong acid alright, and I made the mistake of
dropping the other two blotters when I felt the first familiar effects
take hold.
I scanned the blotters for a clearer image. This is the front with
the blotter art. The size of each blotter is about 1/3 of your smallest
fingernail if you have big hands and 1/2 if you have average hands.
I thought I could handle the experience but I haven't taken into
account my frame of mind (not so good) at the time. I knew that taking
all three blotters was a mistake when things started getting too
intense and I had to shut off the music. I've forgotten the utter mind-fuck that LSD produces and I spent the night reading the Psychedelic Crisis FAQ [erowid.org].
I knew deep down that everything was alright and it's just the acid
that's fucking with my mind…but if you've taken a high dose of LSD, you
know how things can get out of control inside your mind. :) I'll admit
it, I was terrified. I know that everything would go back to normal in
10 hours, but everything was so intense, so unstoppable that I had a
bad trip. I was utterly blindsided by the strength of these blotters -
taking all 3 was a mistake indeed.
I know that I'm not going insane. It's just the acid, it'll all be
good in 10 hours, I tell myself. I know it's impossible to overdose on
LSD (the LD-50 is very, very high) but I was scared that I'll be insane
forever. I actually seriously considered checking myself into a
hospital! Imagine that! What ludicrous thoughts I entertain in my mind
while under the influence! I know it's just the drugs, and I'm really
glad I had enough experience to stop things from getting really out of control.
This is not the real size of the blotters. The scanning process
enlarges the image and shows more detail. This is the back – plain and
you can see the perforations.
I practically tore apart a blister pack of Xanax (alprazolam) in an
effort to calm down. 2.5 mg of Xanax didn't do anything, so I sedated
myself with a further 15 mg of Valium (diazepam). I shut down all the
lights (to reduce stimulus) and laid in bed with blankets around me,
watching the trails as the blankets moved. Closing my eyes produced
repetitively green geometric patterns flowing and morphing through my
vision and I was getting auditory hallucinations too. I opened my eyes
to see a warped room that I could barely recognize, the proportions
were wrong and things were too fluid.
Finally, the benzos did their magic but I still couldn't sleep. It
was a weird state of feeling like I was floating to sleep, and then the
acid kicks in and I jerk awake into an unfamiliar room. I was pretty
much sedated by then though, so I got up and managed to resume the trip
report I was trying to keep. Hah! :) I don't remember much after that,
but I know I went out to get some food and saw someone and had to avoid
eye contact while getting food. That's about the only thing I
remembered clearly before managing to eat and sleep. Here's the trip
report, in all its unedited glory:
things you might want to know: yes, i licked the scanner after. might be nothing, but eh, i've done nastier things ;)
took 1 blotter
t+30 felt the effects
it was so nice to see uncle sid again
very positive and quite strong and i felt such a positive vibe, i took the remaining two
took the two remaining blotters at t+30
okay, i'm regretting that now. very intense.
okay so regretting it now.
its to intense. like with the codiytion of acid being the way it is
most pepl have never had a full hitt and dose . i'm respectign this
now. i'ved forgotten ny respect for you uncke side
xanax 2,6mg
reduce stimulous going offline and shutting lights down now
psychedelic crisis faq
fuck it i'm aborting
don't want to be a danger to myuself and others
can't abort even with 2.6 mg xanax
still going strong
i'm aware of everything, just wouldn't want anoe to see me in this sate now
wow i underestimated lsd
don't ever do that, if you are, chances are you're not takking a hard
dose or you'll find it hard to conrol even with experience if alone
t + can't think properly
this is reli strong dose to affect this way empahais that if they've
never taken experienced such midn budnering wat is true wat is fiction?
repect it i wonder how many ppl can handle this kind of things alone and still have the reality achor to know themselves
quit this self serviding bullshit and get done
managed to get myself soome food in: i think there was something
that was said abotut men not khlepong another girl take in her stuff,
but sorry thats just coz i was in the middle of a psychedulic crisis
and was trying to aboidinb eye contatct!!! sorry i would have helped
otherwise but not when i'm fucking tripping ballz on lsd. and i dun
even know if you're a fucking polis or somehow related to yes and is
gonna tip me in or something
gosh now that i think about it its scaring me. i acted normal
seems that i can't abort it and the xanax is really mking me feel
less anxtious and forgot about things too thats the bad part but yeah
eveyrthing is fine and dandy
end of story: this has taught me an important lesson. dont think
that you know all there is to a drug and can "hadle" it. given me
repsect on lsd an whe intense warp in can have on everything, antyhing
and evertyhgin
open cevs
you haven't had really good acid unless you're sure you're on it\
think to youself about how we care so much about what others peicee us of
jaw PERMENANTLY CLENCHED
I woke up the next day feeling embarrassed for getting so completely
0wn3d by a substance I thought I was experienced in. I'm utterly
humiliated by what I wrote in the trip journal, but I'm going to post
it anyway, coz it shows how badly strong psychedelics like LSD can mess
with your mind. =D It's disjointed and hard to read, but there you go,
everything I wrote posted as is. Buddha taught me how to write the word
'respect' that day. Oh well, no harm no foul, and I'm going to treat
acid more carefully now. Sure, it's not dangerous, but it definitely
gives you one helluva mind-fuck! :)
P/S – I've finally uploaded my About veritas page. I took the template from Huai Bin's "About me" page and just added my stuff in. :)
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hey just read your report and thought i would say that those blotters you have there a DEFINITELY NOT LSD, there was actually a nation wide warning on these because a few people were hospitalized and one died this all happened about a year ago about the same time you wrote this report up. what you did, eating 3 when you had no idea what was one it is INCREDIBLY STUPID you're lucky your not dead


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You know the feeling.
Its late at night and youre watching TV or wasting time on Facebook before bed, when the power goes out. Youre alert, antsy, feeling slightly adrift and totally in the dark. Thank God your cell phone still works. Theres no one you would call at this hour, but this tenuous connection to the outside world makes you feel a little less helpless.
Its amazing how much a power outage, a computer crash, or a lost phone can screw with your mind. You feel like youre missing something important. You cant think about anything except your current lack of technology until the problem is fixed and youre reconnected.
Sometimes, when I have a choice in the matter, I like switching off. A couple of years ago, I stopped paying for cable and got rid of my TV. At the time, my decision was mostly motivated by a dwindling bank account (cable television is ridiculously expensive) but now, I dont think Id ever go back to traditional TV. My apartment is quieter and feels less chaotic, more like a haven from work and the rest of the world. I dont get sucked into cooking show marathons like I did in college. If Im bored, I read, listen to music or go outside. Eventually, everything you can see on TV is on the Internet anyway. And the Internet is where my problems begin.
My favorite thing is probably Twitter. I dont tweet excessively, but I follow a lot of people and click through a lot of links. Its where I find ideas for blog posts and sometimes columns. I find new recipes I want to try or new books I want to read. I gather a ton of writing advice from journalists and authors. And there are also funny accounts I just follow because they consistently make me laugh in fewer than 140 characters.
But heres the other thing about Twitter and the Internet in general: its easy to waste time and its hard not to feel like your mind is going in 10 different directions at once. At least, thats usually how I feel after Ive spent too much time on the Internet. I cant focus. So I check my email -- again. Heaven help me when I finally get a smartphone (its on my wishlist).
I wouldnt want to go back to the days without easy access to email, Twitter and the Internet. Thats too much free information to ignore and as a reporter, staying connected and in touch with people is crucial -- but so is creating moments where I forget that Internet distractions exist, so I can concentrate, write, do my job and also, maintain my sanity.
You have to have balance. Step away from the computer or put down your smartphone. Facebook will still be there when you get back and anyone that needs to contact you can leave a message. No one likes being disconnected and in the dark, but if you pick the moments when you shut off those Internet distractions, then you feel calm and in control -- and thats a good feeling.
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Reading these lectures is like participating in a conversation, a knack of involving the listener that only the best speakers possess.
So what do we learn from these lectures, which, after all, are meant to present "Essential Lessons" according to the subtitle?
Prescient and Practical
First, we learn how current Peter F. Drucker's thoughts are. We are not reading history here; we are reading about the very problems we face today. Drucker is amazingly prescient in these lectures.
For instance, in one lecture he says,
"...for the last 30 to 40 years, to sit on your rear end and go to school was economically nonrational and counterproductive. The smart thing was to drop out at age 16 and go to work in the steel mill or the automobile factory or the rubber factory, the unionized mass production factory. And six months later, you would make more money than you had much chance of making by sitting on your rear end and getting a high school degree, let alone a college or a graduate degree. That's over" (p. 99).
Sounds like a fair summary of circumstances today, doesn't it? But Drucker wrote and spoke these words in 1989 – twenty-one years ago.
Here's another example that I thought perfectly captured current conditions. In "Politics and Economics of the Environment", Drucker said in 1971:
"Money is no substitute for thinking; indeed, to substitute money for thinking always does damage. I see a lot of bills being passed, a lot of conditions being deplored, yet don't see us making much progress in learning how to manage the environment to make this country and this planet livable for human beings" (p. 50).
Indeed. How little has changed.
The rise of the knowledge worker, globalization, the decrease of manufacturing jobs – these are all things that Drucker foresaw.
Ideas We Can Apply Today
Second, we learn about possible solutions to some of the problems we face today and pick up ideas that we can apply to our own businesses.
In "Knowledge Lecture III", for example, discussing managing employees, Peter F. Drucker presents what he calls the elementary hygiene rules of managing people. As manager, we need to:
- Enable people to perform.
- Refuse to tolerate poor performers.
- Spend time on the placement of people (pp. 115-116).
He elaborates on how to do this within the lecture. But just think how much more effective your management of your staff could be if you focused on these three basic rules.
Another example is Drucker's discussion of the bottom line. Thinking of the bottom line as net income is fine for shareholders, he says. But the true bottom line needs to be based on an enterprise's outside results and depending on what you decide these are, the way you manage resources within your organization will be entirely different (p. 236). Reading Drucker's example of the salespeople and the different results expected by two retail companies will clarify this and get you thinking about what your business is actually trying to do.
While Drucker tends to talk about big issues and sweeping societal changes, there are a lot of ideas for action sprinkled throughout for the thinking reader.
Insights into Drucker
We also learn more about Peter F. Drucker himself. While his life was filled with achievement, what I found most inspiring was his attitude. Drucker, as the phrase goes, walked the walk. He often spoke and wrote about life-long learning, for instance; he was an avid lifelong learner.
"Every three or four years I pick a new subject," he explained. "It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it" (p. 81).
And he was a life-long achiever, too. Drucker obviously saw no need to retire or even slow down as he aged. Two thirds of his thirty-nine books were published after the age of 65. Drucker accredited his indefatigability to (Giuseppe) Verdi, the nineteenth-century Italian composer who wrote his masterpiece, Falstaff, at the age of 80.


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President Bush ushered in an across-the-board 3.1 percent military pay raise, effective Jan. 1, and a variety of other new or enhanced benefits for servicemembers and their families when he signed the 2006 National Defense Authorization Bill into law Jan. 6.
In addition to a pay raise that's a half percent higher than the average private-sector increase, the new budget provides about 20 new or increased bonuses or special pays or benefits, reflecting a trend DoD officials emphasize is becoming increasingly rare in the private sector. For complete details, see What Congress has in Store for You in 2006.
The new law provides a variety of benefits designed to better compensate servicemembers, improve their quality of life, bring reserve-component benefits more on par with those for the active force and promote recruiting and retention, Chuck Witschonke, DoD's deputy director for compensation, told the American Forces Press Service and the Pentagon Channel.
"Not only does it contain the routine annual pay raise, which is one-half percent higher than the raise measured in the private sector, but it also includes a number of increases in ceilings on some very important pays," he said.
Among the law's most significant features are:
- An increase in the maximum reenlistment bonus offered, from $60,000 to 90,000;
- A higher maximum enlistment bonus, up from $20,000 to $40,000;
- A new ceiling on hardship-duty pay, from $300 to $750 a month;
- A doubling of the maximum assignment incentive pay for hard-to-fill billets or assignments, from $1,500 to $3,000 a month, now payable either in a lump sum or installments;
- A new allowance to cover the first $150,000 in Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance premiums for troops serving in Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom;
- A new bonus of up to $2,500 for servicemembers who agree to transfer from one service to another and serve for at least three years;
- An incentive pay of up to $1,000 for servicemembers who refer someone who enlists in the Army and successfully completes basic training;
- An average 5.9 percent increase in housing allowances, with authority to increase set levels temporarily by as much as 20 percent in areas affected by natural disasters or troop surges resulting from force realignments;
- An increase of 2,000 pounds in the household goods weight allowance for senior noncommissioned officers E-7 and above;
- Enhanced death benefits, resulting in a total of $238,000.00 for all deaths not previously qualified for enhanced benefits, and the permanent institution of a policy that continues the basic allowance for housing or government quarters for one year for families of deceased servicemembers;
- Authority to pay the applicable overseas cost-of-living allowance to dependents who remain at their location outside the continental United States when a servicemember deploys from that location;
- Expanded eligibility or increased ceilings for special pays for designated medical and dental officers, and officers with nuclear qualifications;
- A bonus of up to $12,000 per year for both active and reserve members with certified language proficiency;
- Payment of travel and lodging for families of hospitalized servicemembers wounded in combat zones or other designated areas.
The law also provides a variety of benefits specifically targeting members of the reserve components. These include:
- Full housing allowance payments for reserve members called to active duty for more than 30 days, vs. the previous 140-day requirement;
- Income replacement benefits to help offset the pay loss some reservists and guardsmen experience when called to active duty, based on specific guidelines provided in the law;
- Increases in the maximum payment for accession and affiliation bonuses, from $10,000 and $15,000, respectively, to a consolidated $20,000 for enlistment in the Selected Reserve;
- Boosts in the maximum affiliation bonus for officers in the Selected Reserve, from $6,000 to $10,000;
- A bonus that could total up to $100,000 over a career for members with a designated critical skill or who volunteer to serve in a designated high-priority unit; and
- Extension of eligibility for a prior-service enlistment bonus to include Selected Reserve members who previously received one.
Witschonke emphasized that the new law does not guarantee that all servicemembers will qualify for these pays and benefits, or that those who do will receive the highest amounts authorized. Rather, he said, the law gives defense and service leaders the flexibility they need to tailor the force to meet operational, recruiting and retention goals.