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IT Outsourcing is the most cost-effective way for companies to hire qualified individuals (there are plenty of qualified individuals in the United States looking for work) for specific IT jobs without having to commit to the ever increasing costs of having an in-house team.
It has been a controversial issue in the customer service industry for some time now. Instead of spending on overhead such as taxes, health benefits, and infrastructure, companies now outsource. This means layoffs and more layoffs and the trend has grown exponentially during the last four years.
Hopefully our next Presidential Administration, Congress and the Senate, will see fit to offer incentives to companies–if they're intent on outsourcing–to at least outsource to companies within the United States.
Although cloud-computing is rapidly becoming more attractive solution for storage problems in the world of genealogy, family history, and even for the average user, I doubt that storing our ancestral data on the other side of the world is an attractive solution. How often have you called your Internet Service Provider's help desk and found yourself being assisted by an agent in the Philippines, India, and other countries?
Cloud computing is becoming accessible to everyone and there are definitely pros among the cons.
That said, I've decided to share the following article written by Rachel King in CIO Journal with you in its entirety. I'll provide the link to the CIO Journal at the end of the article:
"Companies are turning increasingly to IT outsourcing as a means of supplementing and, in some cases, replacing internal hires. That's especially true of application hosting. About 35% of companies say they'll outsource more in this area during the next year to 18 months, according to a new report from global consulting firm Bluewolf. Cloud computing is partially driving this growth, as more companies use applications from the likes of Salesforce, Google and Workday.
Companies spend nearly half of their outsourcing budgets on application services including development, hosting and maintenance. Bluewolf predicts that as more companies rely on cloud providers, the outsourcing of applications will grow, whether it's to providers who offer niche services or larger companies like Google or Microsoft.
The growth of cloud computing within the outsourcing market was also detailed in a Gartner report, released August 7. While it still represents just a fraction of the global IT outsourcing market, of around $251.7 billion in 2012, cloud computing services are the fastest growing segment of IT outsourcing worldwide, and are expected to grow 48.7% in 2012 to $5 billion, up from $3.4 billion in 2011, according to Gartner.
For Lien Chen, director for corporate IT at RAE Systems, a company that designs and manufactures gas and radiation detection systems, cloud services are a compelling alternative to using internal staff to oversee applications. The company currently uses Salesforce.com for customer relationship management, Eloqua for marketing automation and middleware from Informatica to connect Salesforce.com to its back-end Oracle databases.
Chen says she likes how quickly she can get cloud services up and running and how easy they are to maintain. When looking at new applications, whether on-premise or cloud-based, she compares features, functions and ease of use. "If everything is equal, at this point in time I would definitely go to the cloud," she says.
Chen acknowledges that using cloud computing is technically considered outsourcing but she doesn't think of it as outsourcing because she's got much more control than if she outsourced an application to another country. "Outsourcing has a bad name," she said, adding, "this is nothing but a platform difference."
Whether you call it cloud computing or IT outsourcing, it's growing. Quickly."
Click on CIO Journal to reach the article.
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This is a good article to reprint and I enjoyed your introduction. I agree. If companies need to outsource it should be to an outsourcing company within the United States. Companies to need incentives not to outsource and more taxes piled on corporate America will lead to even more outsourcing.
People who are out of work right now would love to move into a Level 1 Help Desk postition. Usually basic work with room to learn and move up. Bring the jobs back to the United States.


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When we last heard of the cooking teacher's classes, she was busy getting ready to teach preschoolers their basic shapes and letters as well as some fun cooking skills. This time around the average age of the students was about 9 years old.Keep reading to learn of the newest adventure.
Yesterday was my "Healthy Eating and Cooking" class for a group of 3rd-5th graders from a school very close to the shop where I work. The kids were simply wonderful! They were attentive and a joy to work with. They are also very smart and skilled so I was able step things up a notch from my original game plan. The goal was to include a few different educational disciplines with the healthy eating and cooking. When it comes to cooking, it includes so much math and science so it was easy to pull in those subjects.
First, we started talking about being a chef/cook and all the job opportunities one can have with that training. I did not tell them I was not professionally trained but it didn't seem to matter one bit. I did my research so I was confident in the information I passed along to the kids. Next, we started them off with a few snacks including frozen juice pops, pretzels with yogurt dill dip, apples with peanut butter and fresh, ripe strawberries. The kids were very surprised to learn the dip was made with plain yogurt. One girl thought there were dill pickles in the dip. With a bit of dried dill seasoning I can see why she thought the pickles were in there. Then we dipped some frozen bananas on sticks into melted chocolate. My assistant handled that and what a great job she did. I didn't buy the right kind of chocolate to melt for dipping so she had quite a chore for herself but made it work. I am so appreciative of her and all she did to help me out yesterday.
We moved into making salsa from scratch which I learned from an online source a few weeks ago. It was so easy to make and much more economical. We mixed a can of whole, peeled tomatoes with one can of Rotel tomatoes with lime and cilantro in a food processor until well blended. We then took 1 can of black beans, rinsed and drained, and one can of corn, drained, then mixed those with 1 cup of the salsa for a different type of salsa called "confetti salsa". All the kids were willing to try both of them which was good to see. I made cheese quesadillas with whole wheat tortillas and they dipped those in the salsas.
We also made homemade taco seasoning mix, giving each student their own bag to take home, and I used my sample mix to make taco meat with browned ground turkey. Next we scrambled some eggs and made breakfast burritos using the eggs, tortillas, meat, cheese and salsas. It was fun to see the kids try something new. Before the kids arrived I scrubbed and baked a few potatoes so we could use our Mexican toppings for a baked potato bar. Again the kids were wowed by this and had a lot of fun fixing their potatoes to their liking. When I told them how to save the skins to make roasted potato skins with cheese and some bacon, one girl was shocked to learn the skins could be eaten. At that point some of the kids just starting eating their potato skins. Too funny.
We ended the food portion of the class by serving the chocolate covered bananas and a healthy pumpkin pudding, which I made with a low-fat pudding mix, skim milk, canned pumpkin and cinnamon. It was a new flavor for some but they enjoyed the taste. I have enough for the parents to taste on Thursday when I will teach their class.
Throughout the whole class I asked questions about heart health and answered any of their questions and just listened to their stories. Kids love to talk about their families and their own experiences so I find that if I listen to them, they will listen to me. One demonstration I did was open a bag of those fruit snacks where you get about 11 pieces of sugary treats and show them just how little that looked next to a big apple, or a banana or the big strawberries. I showed them the better snack option and why and they said next time they will try to eat the apple or banana instead of a fruit-y snack of sugary treats.We also talked about exercise, being active and the importance of eating dinner or meals at the table.
On Thursday's class with the parents I will be focusing on stretching their food budget and choosing healthy food options while doing that. It's tough because all the food prices have increased but there are some tricks I can teach them. Again I will be feeding them a lot of food, getting them involved in the cooking and talking with them about their situations and how to improve them.
I truly enjoy doing these classes and hope to be doing more in the future. Who knew this is where I would end up a few years ago?

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Madmen Cocktail of the Week – 5/12/13
Viacom and DirecTV Finally Reach Deal, Blackout Ends As Millions Get Their Channels Back — Dollars and Sense
Viacom and DirecTV have made up. The cable programmer and the satellite broadcaster reached a deal on Friday after a nine-day standstill over a fee hike which led to blackouts.
David Letterman Set to Break Late Night TV Record
CBS's late night schedule is set for the next couple years. On Monday the network announced that 'The Late Show' host David Letterman and 'The Late, Late Show' headman Craig Ferguson have both had their contracts renewed through 2014.
When he completes his new contract, Letterman will have been a late night talk show host for 32 years, which would break the record previously held by former 'Tonight Show' host Johnny Carson.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Suspended Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones sees himself as an innocent bystander in the Las Vegas strip club fight that led to a triple shooting and left one man paralyzed, and he expects to be vindicated.
"And I'll tell you, 'I told you so,'" Jones said in an interview scheduled to air Tuesday night on HBO's "Real Sports."
Las Vegas police identified the Titans cornerback as the "inciter" of the fight around 5 a.m. on Feb. 19 at the Minxx Gentlemen's Club, and he was indicted in June on two counts of coercion.
Jones, who was interviewed on ESPN2 and appeared on another cable TV show last week to promote his new wrestling venture, has declined repeated interview requests from The Associated Press and spoken to local reporters only briefly at three court appearances this year. His attorneys have promised he would speak with reporters once his legal problems are resolved.
Jones told interviewer Bryant Gumbel that he never hit a stripper in the club or threatened to kill anyone. Asked why anyone would lie, Jones said, "I guess I'm the big fish in the little pond.
"I never touched anybody in that -- I never hit no girl. I never told any one of them that I was going to kill them."
In the interview, Jones was shown a photo of a man labeled by Las Vegas police as a person of interest in the shooting.
"I can't tell you who this person is in the world. I never seen this guy, he's never been around me. I don't even know who this is," Jones said.
"Well, if anybody know this guy, please turn him in to the Las Vegas Police. I would thank you for doing that," Jones said.
Gumbel also asks Jones about his friendship with Darryl Moore, a convicted drug dealer arrested last year by Nashville police 90 minutes after leaving the cornerback's house. The drug bust captured money, marijuana and cocaine.
Jones said he didn't know Moore was a convicted drug dealer and was surprised by the arrest. Asked if he felt betrayed, Jones said, "Yeah. Of course I do."
He currently is sitting out his season-long suspension from the NFL, hoping for an early return with his case not due for review until after the Titans' 10th game. Jones told HBO he didn't feel he "got a fair say" in his April hearing with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
Days after he dropped an appeal of his suspension, he was involved with police again. Georgia police were called to an early morning shooting between two cars following a fight at a strip club. Police said they wanted to talk to Jones, who was implicated in the fight at the club.
"I was kind of really upset, upset and I wasn't really thinking about, 'Well, should I do this, or?' My whole thing was like, 'I'm being treated unfairly,'" Jones said.
Asked if Jones cared what Goodell thought at that point, he said: "No, I didn't."
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Yearly Archive: 2012
Game 21 Preview: Sacramento Kings at Milwaukee Bucks
Looking ahead to tonight's match-up in Milwaukee between the Bucks and Kings.
Virginia Beach votes to move forward with arena plan
The beach-front city continues to push its proposal to build a new arena and presumably lure the Kings.
What's happened to Marcus Thornton?
The Sacramento King' guard is struggling to adapt to his new bench role 20 games into the NBA season.
Road Reaction: Dallas Mavericks 119, Sacramento Kings 96
The Kings' three-game win streak ends in blowout fashion.
Game 20 Preview: Sacramento Kings at Dallas Mavericks
The Kings look to extend their win streak to four with a visit to Dallas.
WATCH: Jason Thompson, Sacramento's reliable King
The 26-year-old power forward continues to get better in his fifth NBA season.
Sunday Musings: No free lunches for Maloofs as Virginia Beach shows cracks in arena plan
With Virginia Beach's arena plan hitting a major snag, it's time for the family to make a decision.
Road Reaction: Sacramento Kings 99, Portland Trail Blazers 80
The Kings blow out the Blazers for their first road victory of the season.
Game 19 Preview: Sacramento Kings at Portland Trail Blazers
Looking ahead to tonight's match-up between the Kings and Blazers.
Jimmer Fredette, Isaiah Thomas, Thomas Robinson highlight Sacramento Kings' small-ball success
The Kings' rookie and sophmores underscored the triumph of their undersized lineup.


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How to Sell a Book to Michele Bachmann.
When a writer has a book published one of the responsibilities of the author is to write his/her friends, family, colleagues, and pretty much anyone they might, possibly, kinda know, to tell them about their book that has just come out. These letters have a pretty standard form. They summarize the book, exaggerate how awesome it is, and give blurbs from book reviews to prove said awesomeness. Sending out this letter always made me feel like a shill, so this time I decided to try something different. Rather then send a straightforward letter to my friends, etc, I doctored it a bit and sent one version to Sarah Palin's website and another version to Michelle Bachmann's website, and bcc'd my entire contact list. Here's what I sent them:
Dear Doctor Michele Bachman, Esq.,
I'm writing to alert you about my new book, PARADISE RULES, and see if you'll consider including it on "Michele's Must Read List." You and Marcus will have a gay old time reading it. There's tons of Christian-sanctioned heterosexual sex and it's the perfect escape from the trenches of Reparative Therapy.
PARADISE RULES is almost as provocative as your use of Auschwitz in GUINEA PIG KIDS. The book explores an older woman's sexual relationship with a teenage boy, and while it may be wrong, it is not homosexual. The prose is outrageous, much like a grown woman hiding in the bushes at a gay rights rally.
Though PARADISE RULES may seem chirpy (like praying on the sidewalks outside abortion clinics), the novel does explore deeper topics like forgiveness, family, and faith—in yourself, in the people around you, even in the people living inside your head. The book will make you laugh (like you do behind Sarah Palin's back), cringe (like you do beneath eco lightbulbs), and think (like you did at the O.W. Coburn "School of Law").
The Publisher's Weekly review of PARADISE RULES said, "Gleacher brings levity and wit to a coming-of-age tale reminiscent of Caddyshack." (A movie with no witchcraft.)
Booklist's review said PARADISE RULES is "A sunny, optimistic breeze of a read." (Guaranteed to light up your eyes.)
And author James Frey describes the novel as, "Wickedly funny. I think this will be Gleacher's breakthrough book." (I'm gay for James. Maybe Marcus can fix me.)
I hope you get a chance to read PARADISE RULES and like it so much you become "personally enslaved" to finishing it. If you have any friends who aren't too busy speaking in tongues, please forward this email to them.
PARADISE RULES is available wherever books are sold and you can also order it here at Amazon.
Jimmy Gleacher
p.s. Don't forget to wish Thomas Edison a Happy Birthday on October 18th.
p.p.s. If you'd like to see the version I sent to Sarah Palin, please visit my blog at Elephant Journal.
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2 Responses to "How to Sell a Book to Michele Bachmann."
While I am no fan of Bachmann or Palin, this kind of "humour" is IMO mean-spirited and ignoble. If your approach succeeds in encouraging your contact list to buy your book, well, so be it, but I would caution you against seeing it as a smart thing to do, to be repeated in the future. Please think again.
Well done, Jimmy! Just posted to the EJ facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/elephantjournal/posts/21… Cheers!


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - SAC Capital, the hedge fund accused of insider trading, will pay $1.8 billion in a guilty plea to charges brought by the Department of Justice. The penalty is the largest the U.S. has ever levied for insider-trading offenses. The hedge fund also must close its business to outside investors, meaning it can invest only on behalf of its own employees. Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for Manhattan, called the penalties "steep but fair" and "commensurate with the breadth and duration of the charged criminal conduct." SAC Capital, named for founder Steven A. Cohen, had previously denied wrongdoing.
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A brilliant NEW, ORIGINAL musical comedy with a modern twist! Sparks fly in show business when a magician learns about love and life. Read more
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This project's funding goal was not reached on September 6, 2012.
A brilliant NEW, ORIGINAL musical comedy with a modern twist! Sparks fly in show business when a magician learns about love and life.
About this project
After two years of development, we are proud to introduce Wand, The Musical. A brilliant romantic comedy, written in the style of a large Broadway production, this musical is fully orchestrated with dance numbers, songs, and a modern twist of magic.
Wand will draw the entire cast and audience into the magic of show business. We meet "The Great Macardi" just as his star is rising to professional levels, as his assistants Alex and Angel help him navigate the waters of fame under the guidance of his agent, Drake.
Drake introduces them to a casino booking agent named Kadi and her trusted ally Taylor, and sparks begin to fly - both romantically and professionally. As the magic continues to improve, revelations bring new feelings to light, driving some couples closer while forcing others apart.
When a mysterious stranger reveals more truths, who will choose love, and who will choose fame? Can even a magician find a balance between romance and heartbreak?
The creator, Cyrus Albertson, has a rare mix of talents. As professional magician and musician, he has been a part of over 80 Broadway musical performances, conducting & playing in the pit. In addition, he has written and orchestrated numerous musical pieces for choirs, bands, and ensembles as well as creating musical scores for movies.
We are fortunate to have Brad Henderson, magician & nationally renowned magic consultant collaborating on the magic for this musical. Mr. Henderson performs magic all over the world and has designed and created illusions for several movies, plays, performers and events.
Our very first production will be choreographed by William (Bill) Piner. Mr. Piner, a graduate of Butler University's prestigious dance program, enjoyed a magnificent career in musical theatre and is currently the director of one of the largest classical ballet schools in the country.
This musical has everything you would want and expect in a Broadway musical, as well as the interest of several producers. We are looking for monetary help to launch this on the track to make it all the way to Broadway. In order to get there, one of our first steps is to hire vocalists and musicians as well as pay for studio time to record a demo CD. The music is orchestrated for a full pit (30+) musicians, but can also be performed in a black box with as few as 8 musicians. We hope to exceed our fundraising goal so that we can get as close to a full orchestra as possible and also cover additional costs we will have for printing and distribution.
If you have ever been involved with anything Cyrus does, you have experienced his incredible talent and will be blown away by Wand. Please consider a contribution (large or small) so that soon you will be able to experience this musical as it was intended – on Broadway!
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Business School Cases
In this section of my blog I am going to share some of the business case study/case analyses that I have completed during my course of study at the MBA program at George Washington University School of Business.
All the materials placed here are authored by me only. Some of the written cases are complete final products that have been submitted and graded in my classes. Some others are just my portion of the group project in a very rough preliminary form. Parts of these group projects case analyses have been included into the final group paper, but not necessarily in the same contiguity as was originally submitted by me, some of it has been scraped for the "common good" or the sake of brevity, some portions have been so heavily edited for inclusion in the final group paper, that I could hardly recognize them myself. Usually this editing significantly enhanced the quality of the original submission though.
I am not placing here any final group papers because they are product of the group work, and I don't have exclusive rights for them.
I intentionally do not differentiate which of the business case analysis papers are final products and which are just preliminary write ups. In many cases it is obvious though. However the purpose of sharing these case studies is not for someone just to copy/paste and submit them as their own creation in their respective undergrad/grad classes. The purpose for publishing these business cases write ups is to help you jump start your own thought process, give you some ideas and reference points, and maybe show some different approaches that you have not considered in your own preparation of the case analysis.
I am posting these cases as they become available and the time permits.
Samsung Single Spirit Case Analysis March 2012
Alice Saddy Organization Re-Structuring Case Analysis February 2012
Risk Management Assessment and Evaluation Case Study October 2011
Morris Valley Estate Winery – Case 3 Analysis June 2011
Morris Valley Estate Winery – Case 2 Analysis June 2011
Morris Valley Estate Winery – Case 1 Analysis June 2011
Barriers to Innovation. Sony vs. IPod Case Analysis June 2010
Globalization "The CEMEX Way" Case Analysis January 2011
Nokia and SEMATECH Consortium Case Study June 2011
Decision Making Case Study February 2010
Competitiveness, Productivity and Innovation Case Study June 2011
Zara Online Business Analytics Case Study October 2011
Tzolis v. Wolff Case Brief Analysis June 2011
Hyman Freightways v. Carolina Freight Carriers Corp. Case Brief Analysis June 2011
ApproTEC Kenya Case Analysis December 2010
Emerging Nokia Case Study December 2010
Dahab Plastics Co Case Analysis December 2010
The Nature Conservancy Case Analysis November 2010
Mountain Dew Price Component of Marketing Mix June 2010.
Netflix, Inc.: DVD Wars June 2010.
Kacey Fine Furniture – Consulting Proposal Letter October 2010.
Case Analysis of the Soda Tax Issue. June 2010
Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Korea. November 2010
Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group. October 2010
Business Case Analysis for Safer Chemicals. June 2010
Political Climate in Russia and FDI. January 2010
Citibank: James McGaran Performance Evaluation. April 2010
Harrah's Entertainment: Rewarding Our People. April 2010
Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? March 2010
Case Study of SG Cowen: New Recruits. Selecting the Candidate for Extending a Job Offer at SG Cowen. March 2010
Toyota Recalls and Public Relations Management Crisis. May 2010.
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We have to do something about gun controls. Police license okay for hunting rifle or pistol for anyone without crim or pscho record. No more — Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) July 22, 2012
In the wake of the Colorado shooting, Adam Gopnik makes the case for more gun control laws:
Every country has, along with its core civilities and traditions, some kind of inner madness, a belief so irrational that even death and destruction cannot alter it. In Europe not long ago it was the belief that "honor" of the nation was so important that any insult to it had to be avenged by millions of lives. In America, it has been, for so long now, the belief that guns designed to kill people indifferently and in great numbers can be widely available and not have it end with people being killed, indifferently and in great numbers.
I've long reconciled myself to my adopted country's unique DNA on guns. It's madness, but a madness so integral to the country – like dirt cheap gas – it has to be managed rather than fought. Adam Ozimek doubts gun laws would have saved lives:
One question to ask is, in the presence of stronger gun laws what would the shooter have done? The IEDs and explosives that filled his apartment suggest that strong illegality wouldn't have stopped him, as explosives like this are obviously very illegal. This also tells us that even if all guns were somehow kept out of his hands he would still have had extremely dangerous killing tools at his disposal. But realistically I am skeptical that laws could keep guns out of the hands of those determined to get them.
Fallows looks internationally:
Recently I visited the site of the "Port Arthur Massacre," in Tasmania, where in 1996 a disturbed young man shot and killed 35 people and wounded 23 more. The site is a kind of national shrine; afterwards, Australia tightened up its gun laws, and there has been nothing remotely comparable in all the years since. In contrast: not long after that shooting, during my incarnation as news-magazine editor, I dispatched reporters to cover then-shocking schoolyard mass shootings in West Paducah, Kentucky, and Jonesboro, Arkansas. Those two episodes, coming back to back, were — as always — supposed to provoke a "national discussion" about guns and gun violence. As always, they didn't; a while later they were nudged from the national consciousness by Columbine; and since then we have had so many schoolyard- or public-place shootings that those two are barely mentioned.
Dan Baum counters:
It's true that America's rate of violent crime remains higher than that in most European countries. But to focus on guns is to dodge a painful truth. America is more violent than other countries because Americans are more violent than other people. Our abundant guns surely make assaults more deadly. But by obsessing over inanimate pieces of metal, we avoid looking at what brings us more often than others to commit violent acts. Many liberal critics understand this when it comes to drug policy. The modern, sophisticated position is that demonizing chemicals is a reductive and ineffective way to address complicated social pathologies. When it comes to gun violence, though, the conversation often stops at the tool, because it is more comfortable to blame it than to examine ourselves.
Francis Wilkinson persuasively argues that only "fools believe there are easy answers to the problem of homicide by firearm." Jack Shafer concurs:
The impulse to kill irrationally, and to use whatever means accessible to do so, resides deep in the American grain, perhaps integral to being human. That doesn't mean our situation is hopeless. As Noel Perrin wrote in Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879, cultures can change their violent ways, but building such a cultural consensus takes more effort and persuasion that just passing new gun-control laws.
Mark Blumenthal points out that there is little public support for more gun control, but Nate Cohn thinks it might make political sense of Obama to advocate for an assault weapons ban.
No it wouldn't. This is America. People get shot here all the time. And no one really wants to change that.


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Coweta County Commission
State, county eye safety of intersection
by Sarah Fay Campbell
Coweta County and the Georgia Department of Transportation are taking the first step to make safety improvements to the intersection of Ga. Hwy. 154 and Old. Hwy. 16 in Sharpsburg. Representatives from Coweta's transportation and engineering department recently met with officials from GDOT to discuss road projects, and they talked about the 154/Old 16 intersection.
"We have had numerous accidents [at that intersection]," Coweta County Administrator Michael Fouts told the county commissioners at their meeting on Tuesday. In April, one accident resulted in a fatality.
The intersection is at East Coweta High School near the limits of the town of Sharpsburg. The major safety issue is that the three-legged intersection looks like a three-way stop — but it is not. Traffic coming from Sharpsburg, westbound on Hwy. 154, does not have to stop.
The state, Coweta, and the city of Newnan have embarked on several intersection improvement projects in the past few years, and the Hwy. 154/Old 16 intersection is considered by many to be among the most dangerous remaining.
In the April incident, a driver stopped on Hwy. 154 next to East Coweta High and started to turn left, failing to yield to a westbound pickup truck.
"Several alternatives were discussed," said Fouts. Those included operational changes and reconfiguration of the intersection. GDOT "does have funds available for a safety improvement," he said.
The first step is surveying the intersection. On Tuesday, the commissioners voted to move forward with having Christopher Brothers Land Surveying do the work for a cost of $4,800.
"I've had a couple of calls where people are really concerned about the safety of that intersection," said Commissioner Tim Lassetter.
"How quickly could a stop sign be put up there?" asked Chairman Bob Blackburn.
That was something discussed, Fouts said. But first GDOT wants to "know how much right-of-way would be needed for the intersection improvement."
GDOT has been resistant to the idea of adding the stop sign for traffic coming westbound on Hwy. 154 and making the intersection a three-way stop.
"They want to keep traffic moving," Fouts said following Tuesday's meeting.


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A comparison of health status in patients meeting alternative definitions for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis
1 Griffith Health Institute, School of Medical Sciences, National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases, Griffith University, Parklands, QLD 4222, Australia
2 Gold Coast Public Health Unit, Queensland Health, Robina, QLD, Australia
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2014, 12:64 doi:10.1186/1477-7525-12-64Published: 30 April 2014
Several diagnostic definitions are available for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) that varies significantly in their symptom criteria. This pilot study was conducted to determine whether simple biological and clinical measures differed between CFS/ME patients meeting the 1994 Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria, the International Consensus Criteria (ICC), as well as healthy controls.
A total of 45 CFS/ME patients and 30 healthy controls from the South East Queensland region of Australia provided a blood sample, reported on their current symptoms, as well as aspects of their physical and social health using the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), and the World Health Organisation Disability Adjustment Schedule 2.0 (WHO DAS 2.0). Differences were examined using independent sample t-testing.
Patients fulfilling the ICC definition reported significantly lower scores (p < 0.05) for physical functioning, physical role, bodily pain, and social functioning than those that only fulfilled the 1994 CDC definition. ICC patients reported significantly greater (p < 0.05) disability across all domains of the WHO DAS 2.0.
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St. Lawrence County Sheriffs Department deputies charged Donald M. Carlin Jr., 31, 2785 County Route 24, Russell, with felony counts of second-degree assault and first-degree reckless endangerment. He was also charged with fourth-degree stalking, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless driving and leaving the scene of a personal injury accident and ticketed for failure to keep right, operation of a vehicle with unsafe tires and operation of an uninspected motor vehicle.
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I found this posted on the excellent Alan Slomans blog in the UK.I'm pretty sure he won't mind me posting it here.It will be interesting to see how US folk compare.Try to be honest when filling in the questionaire, and be honest with the result.I was -8.00 on the Economic Left/Right score, and -5.79 on the Social Libertarian/Authortarian scale.The questionaire is HERE
Economic Left/Right: -5.25Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44
I was Economic Left/Right: -3.25 and Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72 Closest to Ghandi but a little more to the right economically.I found the way they posed some questions interesting - using the left's questions about corporations for instance, and applying them to public broadcassting.I'd expect the average European and even the average Brit to land more to the left, because certain big questions in the USA (funding social services, universal health care, high-quality public broadcasting) are more taken for granted when they've been in place for 2 or 3 generations.
Economic Left Right: 1.75Social Libertarian/ Authoritarian: -7.18
I came out a little to the right of Genghis Khan.--B.G.--
Economic Left Right: 4.25Social Libertarian/ Authoritarian: -1.69
I think I broke it, it wasn't prepared for extremes.
Nick, i love you!:)
Economic Left/Right: -8.50Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64Although these bosses have parents on Medicare, collecting Social Security checks, and their kids attend public colleges and universities, etc.
Edited by todd1960 on 02/10/2012 12:38:42 MST.
My score is also the diopter measurement of my glasses. Are bookworms more to the left? And far-sighted hunters more to the right?Todd: I know a lot of "libertarians" like that.
To me, quite a few of the questions were really providing "false choices" -- either this or that when the two choices aren't necessarily mutually exclusive! Regardless, after taking the test, the result jives with how I view myself. Back in my school days, I was a centrist with a slight tilt to the right. Now, I am a centrist with a slight tilt to the left.
I languish in the lower right hand corner. But everyone knows I did not have to take the test to determine that.
Attila the Hun would have been proud of you Nick. ;I'm still waiting on Dan McHale to take up my invite to submit his results.
Economic Left/Right: -3.38Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.46 Very close to Ghandi
lower right for me
I am still waiting for an extreme upper right. C'mon, identify yourself! :)
Economic Left/Right: -6.38Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21 I'm off to hug a tree ;-)
I prefer to think of myself as BEING the compass.Cheers
"I am still waiting for an extreme upper right. C'mon, identify yourself! :)"They can't, they are occupying some street at the moment :)The far, far right and far, far left usually merge in some time/space continuum where the speed is so great and the time spent reducing to zero results in convergence, anarchy and death. Best not to play around with physics.
I lie just a little ways into the lower left quadrant, perhaps a compassionate libertarian Economic Left/Right: -2.38Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.28
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Why do people of the opposite sex act so weird at work?
Anyone who works in an environment where their sex is in the minority knows that men and women are different. Actually, anyone who's ever gone to school, ridden a bus, dated, read a Facebook page, been married, raised kids or walked through a mall knows we're different.
In most cases, it's a good thing. Yet it can pose problems at work, especially if one gender has a set of unspoken rules that the other gender doesn't even know exists.
Shaunti Feldhan, author of "The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions and Secrets Beliefs of Men in the Workplace," conducted a nationwide survey and confidential interviews with more than 3,000 men to produce a startling account of what goes on inside the hearts and minds of men at work.
Or rather I should say, startling to women, because men are usually pretty clear on their rules; most women don't have a clue.
For example, Feldhan found that men, with rare exception, view almost any emotional display as a sign that the person can no longer think clearly. And it's not just crying that conveys emotion. Her research revealed that when men see someone display any type of emotion, they assume that all logic is stopped.
Men don't usually realize that women's brains are wired for multi-processing. For example, when I get passionate about something, my thoughts actually crystallize. I become more powerful and logical as the clutter in my brain subsides and I hone in on one specific topic.
Feldhan says, "Women can process a thought and a feeling at the same time. We can even be getting defensive or hurt, and still be processing rational thought."
She writes, "Because men can't think as clearly when they're experiencing strong emotion, they assume women can't either. They don't realize we can, so they automatically think when you see someone getting emotional, by definition logic has ceased."
According to Feldhan, men are often afraid that they will be out of control and unable to think clearly, and the presence of anyone else's emotion affects them the same way,
A typical male response is, "If she is emotional, my brain is going to shut down, I'm going to be inadequate, I'm going to be humiliated."
Good grief, no wonder my former male sales reps were on egg shells every time I got a little bit miffed about something. They assumed they were dealing with a crazy woman who couldn't think straight.
Feldhan found that the assumption that "emotion" means "you're not thinking" is nearly universal among men.
Her research, www.MaleFactorBook.com, reveals numerous other male-female disconnects. For example, the trendy clothes women often perceive as feminine are viewed entirely differently by men, and not in a good way. The heavy sigh that women use to mean "this is going to be a challenge" is interpreted as belittling and dismissive by many men.
Feldhan says that her purpose in writing "The Male Factor" wasn't to suggest that women have to change to accommodate men but simply to let women know how they're being perceived by their male colleagues. She writes, "The decision of whether or how to apply this knowledge will be very individual and different for every woman."
Bottom line: People of the opposite sex are weird. But if you want to be successful with them, you're better off knowing what goes on inside their heads.
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So hot, Kansas started scholarship talks when he was still in elementary school.
Cowboys running back Joseph Randle was a hot prospect coming out of Wichita Southeast High.
So hot, Kansas started scholarship talks when he was still in elementary school.
"I got a scholarship offer from them when I was in the fourth grade," Randle said Monday, warming up for Saturday's visit to Lawrence.
The Jayhawks were recruiting Randle's big brother, John Randle, and would eventually get him. When coaches from KU and other schools made their in-home visits, little brother used the opportunity to put himself on the map.
"I was the happiest one in the house when they came by," Joseph Randle said. "I'd be popping in my highlight tapes. Not my highlight tape, the regular game. I never came off the field. So it was like the whole game was a highlight tape back then."
The clearly confident Randle wasn't wooed only by the Jayhawks, who were coached by Mark Mangino at the time.
Randle said Missouri's Gary Pinkel and Kansas State's Bill Snyder dangled scholarships at that time, too.
"They all said, 'We're going to offer you when you get of age,'" Randle said. "I was like, 'All right.'
"I was playing hard to get even back then."
At 1-4, the Jayhawks are off to a stumbling start.
So KU coach Charlie Weis is getting his younger players ready … for the future.
That's what the first-year coach said Monday on the Big 12 Conference call, saying, "We practiced without seniors on Sunday. We need to develop younger players for the future."
Quickly, those words set off alarms that perhaps Weis has given up on this season — and his seniors — with OSU due in Lawrence Saturday.
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Cebu prepares for evacuees from Tacloban-A A +A
Thursday, November 14, 2013
CEBU -- At least three public sports centers in Cebu City will be used to shelter evacuees from Tacloban City, who have started to arrive by the hundreds daily to escape a city they no longer recognize.
City Hall's Department of Social Welfare and Services (DSWS) chief Dr. Ester Concha said that some 60 families have been accommodated in the Barangay Tinago gym as of Wednesday. Similar centers in Cogon Ramos and Basak San Nicolas are also being readied.
Health care workers from the Lapu-Lapu City Government and Philippine National Red Cross were fielded to the air base in Mactan to assist the evacuees, most of whom have just endured nearly a week without food, clean water and safe homes.
A communal kitchen will be set up to feed them, consultant Jonji Gonzales said.
A Mandaue City official said City Hall will coordinate with the Provincial Government in providing food, as well as transporting those who have relatives in Mandaue.
"We are not seeing the end yet. We are expecting additional visitors," said Cebu City Administrator Atty. Jose Marie Poblete. Mayor Michael Rama has ordered him to take charge of arrangements for the evacuees.
Aside from the gymnasiums, Poblete said, the City is planning to set up early its Devotees' City, a row of cargo containers turned into temporary houses for the annual Sinulog festivities in January.
2,344 and rising
City Hall had planned to use 130 cargo containers, enough for at least 1,000 individuals, for next year.
The official death toll from Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in the Philippines has risen to 2,344, said the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in figures released Wednesday evening.
It said 3,804 were injured, with a further 79 missing. But an unknown number of bodies wait uncollected in Tacloban's debris.
Some 600,000 persons were displaced, including many residents of Cebu's northernmost towns.
Tents will be put up to house the refugees who are expected to come to Cebu from the different provinces, especially Leyte, said Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III on Wednesday.
Aside from the relief operations for the northern towns of Cebu, Davide said the Provincial Government needs to be ready for the refugees.
Davide said he was worried about reports so far unverified that prisoners who are believed to have escaped from a jail in Tacloban will also move into the province.
"Kuyawan ko'g mangari na sila diri (I'm worried that these detainees might move here).
We have to be vigilant. We need the PNP (Philippine National Police) to be watchful also. Even the military here, (they need) to watch out for these criminal elements," Davide said.
Shared home
More families are expected to join those who are already in the Tinago gym, she said.
An unknown number have joined their relatives in Cebu or flown to Manila through the C130 cargo planes of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
In the Tinago gym, Poblete said, the City will be providing facilities such as portalets and water supply, among others.
As for the food assistance, Poblete said the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will take care of it.
DSWD will also provide mats for the families.
Mayor Rama has instructed the Human Resource and Development Office headed by Atty. Dominic Diño to send City Hall employees to help DSWD repack their relief goods.
DSWD, he said, needs to prepare at least 50,000 bags of relief goods every day.
The mayor has also instructed Poblete to ask if the Cebu City Coliseum can be used as another venue for the preparation of relief goods.
All over Cebu, private groups are preparing food, water and other aid for distribution to the northern part of the province, as well as other areas ravaged by the typhoon.
The air base in Mactan has become a hub for the delivery of help, mostly to Tacloban.
The military cargo planes return with evacuees.
"We will be providing transportation to those who need to transfer to their relatives in Lapu-Lapu City or Metro Cebu," Gonzales said.
In the last four weeks, the preparation of relief goods has become part of countless Filipinos' tasks, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Bohol and Cebu. The devastation Yolanda left has sent this relief effort organized by businesses, schools, families, churches, overseas Filipinos and many others has gone into overdrive.
But amid the now-familiar call for volunteers to help prepare bags of relief goods, another tragic story surfaced in Yolanda's wake.
In the first reported deaths as a result of looting, eight people were crushed and died when a wall collapsed as they and thousands of others stormed a rice warehouse in Leyte, said National Food Authority spokesman Rex Estoperez.
The looters in Alang-alang town carted away up to 100,000 sacks of rice, he said. (With an Associated Press report)
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on November 14, 2013.
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In the western hemisphere including Greenland and the far eastern part of the Eurasian continent that touches Alaska and Japan we recognize a human family spread out, living in different climates and ecosystems. The differences are responses to the place, plants, animals and view of the sky. The sameness of members of a vast family bespeaks a distant root branched out over the continents. There is one family of native peoples making up the whole, but many cultures with different languages, social practices, economic activities, and ways of praising grandmother and grandfather.
Long told in stories and remembered in numerous ways, the connection between native peoples in the western hemisphere have remained a constant. Origin stories, legends, songs and dances reach into the distant past and give in metaphor the details of the passage into this world. Now, according to Science News the biological tracers have been identified by deductive science to affirm what has long been known among the original peoples in the western hemisphere: We are all related.
There are many important differences between native peoples throughout the hemisphere and virtually all have to do with culture; though it is often the case the customs, cultural practices are often similar if not always exactly the same. The use of song, dance, stories, hunting methods, transportation and even sometimes eating habits are the same or very similar.
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F1 star Jenson Button delivers a high-speed Christmas treat for Frome
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Jenson Button promised the people of Frome the loudest noise they had ever heard and they certainly go it when the Formula 1 racing champion screamed through the narrow streets of Frome tonight.
The Frome Flyer returned to his roots, to the town where he was born and brought up, to stand on the podium and switch on the Christmas lights.
And much to the delight of the 5,000 people who swarmed into the town centre, he climbed into the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and took a few spins around the town culminating in some ear-splitting wheel spins outside the Cheese and Grain.
Jenson admitted it was the first time he had "done a doughnut" in the town centre – or as far as he could remember.
He said: "It has been amazing coming home. People can see a Formula 1 car on the television but it is something quite different to have the experience of seeing it in real life and experiencing the smell, the sound and the adrenalin it creates."
He admitted the historic streets of Frome were unlikely to ever qualify as a grand prix race track.
"The streets are far too narrow. But it has been absolutely awesome to see so many people and to have their support, it means a lot."
Tonight's parade was the start of a two-day extravaganza in Frome continuing tomorrow with street performers, stalls and a Christmas fair in the Cheese and Grain. On Sunday the town centre will be closed off to traffic again for the Super Market.
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Actuarial opinion of reserves.
31A-17-503. Actuarial opinion of reserves.
(1) This section becomes operative on December 31, 1993.
(2) General: Every life insurance company doing business in this state shall annually submit the opinion of a qualified actuary as to whether the reserves and related actuarial items held in support of the policies and contracts specified by the commissioner by rule are computed appropriately, are based on assumptions which satisfy contractual provisions, are consistent with prior reported amounts, and comply with applicable laws of this state. The commissioner by rule shall define the specifics of this opinion and add any other items considered to be necessary to its scope.
(3) Actuarial analysis of reserves and assets supporting reserves:
(a) Every life insurance company, except as exempted by or pursuant to rule, shall also annually include in the opinion required by Subsection (2), an opinion of the same qualified actuary as to whether the reserves and related actuarial items held in support of the policies and contracts specified by the commissioner by rule, when considered in light of the assets held by the company with respect to the reserves and related actuarial items, including the investment earnings on the assets and the considerations anticipated to be received and retained under the policies and contracts, make adequate provision for the company's obligations under the policies and contracts, including the benefits under the expenses associated with the policies and contracts.
(b) The commissioner may provide by rule for a transition period for establishing any higher reserves which the qualified actuary may consider necessary in order to render the opinion required by this section.
(4) Requirement for opinion under Subsection (3): Each opinion required by Subsection (3) shall be governed by the following provisions:
(a) A memorandum, in form and substance acceptable to the commissioner as specified by rule, shall be prepared to support each actuarial opinion.
(b) If the insurance company fails to provide a supporting memorandum at the request of the commissioner within a period specified by rule or the commissioner determines that the supporting memorandum provided by the insurance company fails to meet the standards prescribed by the rule or is otherwise unacceptable to the commissioner, the commissioner may engage a qualified actuary at the expense of the company to review the opinion and the basis for the opinion and prepare such supporting memorandum as is required by the commissioner.
(5) Requirement for all opinions: Every opinion shall be governed by the following provisions:
(a) The opinion shall be submitted with the annual statement reflecting the valuation of the reserve liabilities for each year ending on or after December 31, 1993.
(b) The opinion shall apply to all business in force including individual and group health insurance plans, in form and substance acceptable to the commissioner as specified by rule.
(c) The opinion shall be based on standards adopted from time to time by the Actuarial Standards Board and on such additional standards as the commissioner may by rule prescribe.
(d) In the case of an opinion required to be submitted by a foreign or alien company, the commissioner may accept the opinion filed by that company with the insurance supervisory official of another state if the commissioner determines that the opinion reasonably meets the requirements applicable to a company domiciled in this state.
(e) For the purposes of this section, "qualified actuary" means a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries who meets the requirements set forth by department rule.
(f) Except in cases of fraud or willful misconduct, the qualified actuary is not liable for damages to any person, other than the insurance company and the commissioner, for any act, error, omission, decision, or conduct with respect to the actuary's opinion.
(g) Disciplinary action by the commissioner against the company or the qualified actuary shall be defined in rules by the commissioner.
(h) Any memorandum in support of the opinion, and any other material provided by the company to the commissioner in connection therewith, are considered protected records under Section 63G-2-305 and may not be made public and are not subject to subpoena under Subsection 63G-2-202(7), other than for the purpose of defending an action seeking damages from any person by reason of any action required by this section or rules promulgated under this section. However, the memorandum or other material may otherwise be released by the commissioner (i) with the written consent of the company or (ii) to the American Academy of Actuaries upon request stating that the memorandum or other material is required for the purpose of professional disciplinary proceedings and setting forth procedures satisfactory to the commissioner for preserving the confidentiality of the memorandum or other material. Once any portion of the confidential memorandum is cited in its marketing or is cited before any governmental agency other than the department or is released to the news media, all portions of the memorandum are no longer confidential.
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The debt-limit debacle of 2011 created the fiscal cliff of 2012, but the homestretch of this new fight is going to be different than the one that created it. Here's what the next four and a half weeks might look like.
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The race to become the presumed frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination feels awfully hot given that the 2012 election is all of three weeks old. But still, here are the guys ready to make a few tweaks and usher in a new Republican era, like, right now.
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Susan Rice met with the triumvirate of Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte in a closed-door meeting today. And the first few "disturbed" things we're hearing from those senators sound awfully familiar: They're threatening to block her potential nomination as Secretary of State... again.
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Ex-Florida Governor Jeb Bush met with "former staffers" in a hotel conference room on Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday, reports The New Republic. You know what else is on Pennsylvania Avenue, right?
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Citing a charitable sports donation gone bad, Ontario's Superior Court Judge vacated Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's seat on Monday, possibly leaving Canada's largest city mayorless — which is totally fine, if you ask Canadians.
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The controversy was "hyped — by this network especially," Ricks said, before being booted off the air. And that was him being nice.
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With a bit of dubious reasoning, the conservative magazine wants to kill the summer tradition in which Republican presidential candidates spend tons of money and eat unexpected foods on sticks in order to get a little press and raise a little money.
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America's biggest anti-tax advocate has gotten the vast majority of congressional Republicans to sign his pledge to never raise taxes. But with the fiscal cliff looming, some influential Republicans are suddenly offering to break the pledge. Here's why.
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Liberty University will be allowed to appeal Obamacare's individual mandate and a mandate requiring employers to provide coverage for workers.
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The Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF) has a great website called Take Me Fishing. This website has tons of information, photos and video on fish species, where they're found, and how to catch them. You can even get a fishing license through this site.
The Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership Council (SFBPC) created the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF) to implement a national outreach strategy to increase recreational angling and boating and thereby increase public awareness and appreciation of the need to protect, conserve and restore this nation's aquatic natural resources.
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The Prince George's Muslim Association held its "20 Years of Community Service" banquet at the Greenbelt Martin's East on March 23, 2014.
The banquet and fundraiser attracted several hundred area Muslims including leaders from surrounding communities like the Islamic Society of the Washington Area and Imam Faizul Khan.
Headlined by keynote speakers Imam Siraj Wahaj and Dr. Altaf Hussain who helped raise about $200,000, the community celebrated its last two decades and spoke about the need to continue forward with more services and expansion.
Local elected officials attended and presented the community with a proclamation, reproduced below:
A Proclamation: Whereas, started in 1994, the Prince George's Muslim Association is a non-profit Islamic religious organization which serves the needs of thousands of families in Prince George's County and the greater Washington-Metropolitan area and
Whereas, the Prince George's Muslim Association is a place of worship for the daily prayer, lectures, and educational programs for youth and adults alike, and
Whereas, for more than 20 years, the Prince George's Muslim Association has been a growing part of the community offering increased services to the Muslim and non-Muslim community and
Whereas, the Prince George's Muslim Association is committed to sharing the message of Islam through sincere action by developing a model Islamic community based upon and adhering to the teachings of the Qur'an and Sunnah of their Prophet Muhammad (SAW), and
Whereas, the Prince George's Muslim Association's goal is to provide the opportunity for anyone, who is interested, in learning about the religion of Islam, to be able to pray and participate in the community activities offered at the center, and
Whereas, the Prince George's County Council is pleased to have this opportunity to participate in this most important event.
NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Proclaimed by the Prince George's County Council that the Prince George's Muslim Association is congratulated on celebrating its "20th Anniversary," and wished continued success in the future.
Signed: Eric Olson, Council Member - Mel Franklin, Council Chair
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STUDIO CITY (CBS) — A mixologist appeared on KCAL9 News on Monday to discuss a West Hollywood pub's annual Twelfth Night Celebration.
Timmy Kitchens says the event is slated to occur on Jan. 5, at Rock & Reilly's Irish Pub on W. Sunset Boulevard.
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For the past few years, a problematic phenomenon has troubled economists: US job growth has been anemic even as the unemployment rate has steadily dropped, mainly because large numbers of workers are dropping out of the workforce altogether. Now a new Congressional Budget Office report identifies another culprit driving workers out of the workforce: the Affordable Care Act (ACA). CBO finds that the ACA is deterring Americans from holding jobs and will do so much more in the future. Counter-spin efforts have included the White House's argument that CBO's report substantiates that the ACA will cause fewer people to be "trapped in a job" by the need to maintain health insurance. From any reasonable vantage point, the CBO findings are a disaster for the ACA's advocates. Responsible leadership requires addressing the problem, not evading it.


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Just weeks after the Supreme Court largely reaffirmed the Obama administration's immigration enforcement powers in its legal battle with Arizona, federal officials are facing a new, politically tricky clash with local authorities over immigration, this time in Chicago.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he would propose an ordinance that would bar police officers from turning over illegal immigrants to federal agents if the immigrants do not have serious criminal convictions or outstanding criminal warrants.
In contrast to the Obama administration's long-running confrontation with officials in Arizona, who are mostly Republicans, the latest challenge to the president's immigration policies comes from Mr. Emanuel, his former chief of staff, and from other Democratic allies in President Obama's hometown.
"If you have no criminal record, being part of a community is not a problem for you," Mr. Emanuel said, speaking at a high school library in Little Village, a Latino neighborhood. "We want to welcome you to the city of Chicago."
The mayor said the proposal was part of his goal to make Chicago the "most immigrant-friendly city in the country…"
Chicago is governed separately from Cook County. The city's ordinance would give its police department more power to decide which immigrants to turn over to federal agents, but it would not curtail most cooperation as Cook County has done…
Mr. Emanuel did not pose his initiative as a challenge to Mr. Obama. Rather he laid blame on Congress for inaction on immigration. The City Council will consider the ordinance this month.
All these chickens are coming home to roost to pay for decades of diminished responsibility by liberals – coupled with several flavors of activist bigotry from conservatives in both parties.
Over the decades of diminished access to the United States – especially aimed at barring Hispanic immigrants from Mexico and Central America – I wonder how many undocumentados would have arrived here legally? Seems to me that a significant majority of those now here would have had little problem passing through the system if standards were kept to the designs of those who originally formulated our nation's immigration policy.
Senate passes settlement for racist Agriculture Department practices – only eleven years late
Black farmers remind Congress for the umpteenth time to fund the settlement
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The U.S. Senate approved a $1.15 billion measure Friday to fund a settlement initially reached between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers more than a decade ago.
The 1997 Pigford v. Glickman case against the U.S. Agriculture Department was settled out of court 11 years ago. Under a federal judge's terms dating to 1999, qualified farmers could receive $50,000 each to settle claims of racial bias.
"This is much long overdue justice for black farmers," said John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association…
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called the settlements "a major milestone in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's efforts to turn the page on a sad chapter."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, also said the vote gives "long-suffering Americans … the closure that they deserve. The agreement that we reached shows what can happen when Democrats and Republicans come together to do the right thing," he said.
Of course, Democrats and Republicans "came together" to support racist practices against non-white farmers for only a bit more than a century.
The measure will now have to be approved by the lame duck House before moving to Obama's desk to be signed into law.
We hope so, anyway. Certainly there wouldn't be much hope of achieving justice against bigotry when Republican control of the House arrives in the next Congress.
Feds hit Texas factory over racist practices
African-American workers at a Texas pipe factory endured a string of racial slurs and harassment and were targeted by their managers when they complained, federal investigators have determined.
Black employees at the Turner Industries plant in Paris, Texas, regularly "were subjected to unwelcome racial slurs, comments and intimidation, racial graffiti, nooses in the workplace and other symbols of discrimination," the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported.
Black workers also were denied promotions and disciplined more harshly than whites, the agency concluded in a three-page letter in late March. Managers at the plant not only were aware of a "hostile environment," they also targeted workers who complained and disciplined white employees who opposed the harassment, the EEOC found…
Lawyers for the seven Turner employees who went to the EEOC displayed photographs of the slurs, of hanging nooses and threatening notes left for employees at the Paris plant during a news conference…
Paris is about 110 miles northeast of Dallas. The Rev. Peter Johnson, a state civil rights leader, said the problems reported at the Turner plant reflect a "culture of discrimination" that lingers in East Texas.
"East Texas is Mississippi 50 years ago…"
It never seems to end, does it?
Grassroots fools will never relent and cease their bigotry until the companies and corporations, churches and politicians that own their lives, run their towns, are forced to respect law and order. I wouldn't expect common decency to follow along until a few generations have passed through this backwater of ignorance.
IMO members adopt the world's first ship recycling convention
Members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted the world's first ship recycling convention at the end of a five-day diplomatic conference of the United Nations unit in Hong Kong.
The adoption of the International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships was "a new chapter in IMO's history," IMO Secretary-General Efthimios Mitropoulos said at the signing ceremony.
The convention comprises a set of guidelines and legally binding rules governing the ship breaking industry to ensure that "ships, when recycled, do not pose any unnecessary risk to human health, the safety of workers in the industry or the environment."
It was also expected to impact ship building practices worldwide.
This is incredibly overdue and will affect the lives [and deaths] of hundreds who work at ship-breaking around the world. It's a particularly dangerous occupation with some places – like the South Asian coast – long used to get round safety regulations.
The IMO has previously issued a set of guidelines on ship recycling but there had been no legally binding convention on the ship breaking industry, which employs hundreds of thousands, particularly in the developing world.
While it creates many jobs, ship recycling also poses environmental and health challenges due to certain harmful substances typically used in ship building.
This will take a few years to work its way around the world. It will save hundreds of lives plus the environment and future generations in these exploited regions.


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