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The League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions recognizes October as National Bullying Prevention Month. Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children involving a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and those who bully others may have serious, lasting effects. Bullying remains a serious issue within our society, with some statistics citing up to 77 percent of students admitting to being the victims of some type of bullying. Bullying can include various types of behavior from physical attacks, to destroying one's personal property or clothing, verbal abuse, starting rumors, name calling, and verbal attacks online as well as other forms of cyberbullying.
In February 2012, Governor Mark Dayton established a Task Force on the Prevention of School Bullying, of which the Minnesota Office of Human Rights is a member. The purpose is to ensure that all students in Minnesota schools are provided with a safe and welcoming environment wherein each student is accepted and valued in order to maximize each student's learning potential. Inherent with this responsibility is the assurance that all students will be equally protected, specifically as it relates to bullying, harassment, and intimidation, while engaging in educational pursuits.
The Task Force gathers written and public comments from students, parents, and citizens who have been impacted by bullying, harassment, and intimidation, as well as the testimony of professionals in relevant fields throughout the state and nation, and advises the Governor of recommendations for immediate and urgent action. These recommendations can apply to both students and adults who should be protected from bullying, and who deserve an educational environment in which to participate and thrive. (The full report and recommendations can be found online on the Minnesota Department of Human Rights website at www.humanrights.state.mn.us). This is an incredibly important step towards a safer future for all citizens of our state.
So what can we do to help prevent and stop bullying locally? Bullying can be prevented, especially when the power of a community is brought together. Community-wide strategies can help identify and support children who are bullied, redirect the behavior of children who bully, and change the attitudes of adults and youth who tolerate bullying behaviors in peer groups, schools, and communities.
Bullying doesn't happen only at school. Community members can use their unique strengths and skills to prevent bullying wherever it occurs. For example, youth sports groups may train coaches to prevent bullying. Local businesses might make t-shirts with bullying prevention slogans for an event. School staff might read books about bullying and discuss them. Hearing anti-bullying messages from the different adults in their lives can reinforce the message that bullying is unacceptable.
Encourage anyone who wants to learn about bullying and reduce its impact in our communities to get involved. Consider our local businesses, associations, and adults who work directly with children, parents, and families. Identify partners such as mental health specialists, law enforcement officers, local organizations, service groups, and faith-based groups. Ask about what types of bullying community members see and discuss developing targeted solutions. And don't forget to involve youth! Teens can take leadership roles in bullying prevention among younger children.
Work is being done locally, but we can always do more. The most important thing we can do is talk to our youth and each other to get some of these important conversations going. Some conversation starters might be asking: Who do you think is most affected? Where? What kinds of bullying do you see happening here? How do the kids and adults you see react? What is already being done here in our communities to help? Consider hosting or attending open forums like group discussions with community leaders, businesses, parent groups, and churches to help get information and resources out to those who need them. Tons of information is available from our local schools and organizations like Someplace Safe, and even more can be found online. The Minnesota Department of Health (www.health.state.mn.us) and sites like www.stopbullying.gov are great places to do some research so you are prepared to help your family, friends and neighbors. Bullying doesn't have to be a reality for our future generations, especially if we work together to stop it.
Stay tuned for next week's article on the Minnesota Marriage Amendment and its connection to Human Rights.
- Becki Jordan
Becki Jordan, Director of Development at Someplace Safe, is the Chair of the Morris Human Rights Commission.


text: A day after New York Governor George Pataki proposed sweeping changes to the state's racing laws, the head of the New York Racing Association said the plan would end up hurting the industry."Clearly, this does nothing for racing for a very long time,'' said NYRA Chairman Barry Schwartz.The governor, looking to entice racetracks into beginning the long-stalled video lottery terminal program for the state, on Wednesday offered a plan that shifts more money from the VLT revenues to racetracks. But it does so by eliminating any revenue sharing with purses or breeding for the first two years of the program, gradually phasing in a share over the next decade. But the plan also calls for a sharp tax hike on bets made at racetracks.To further prod the tracks into starting up the VLTs, which state officials say would fill the government with hundreds of millions of dollars in sorely needed revenues, Pataki also proposed letting the tracks operate the VLTs for 126 hours each week during any time period they want, so long as the devices are off for 10 hours on Sunday mornings. The current law permit the machines to be on 12 hours per day. The VLT law would be made permanent, Pataki proposed, eliminating its 2007 sunset provision.Tracks had insisted that the current split – 60 percent for the state's education budget, 15 percent for the state Lottery Division to administer the program and 25 percent for the tracks, purses and breeding funds – made the VLT program a money-loser for them.Beyond the VLTs, the governor also wants to let OTBs simulcast out-of-state thoroughbred signals at night and relaxes current restrictions on telephone account wagering through tracks and OTBs. But the plan also calls for $16 million to be raised by imposing an additional .5 percent tax on the amount of handle retained by the tracks; the money would relieve the state from having to pay for the operations of the state Racing and Wagering Board.The Pataki plan would slowly phase in VLT revenues for purses and breeding programs, but they would get nothing in the first two years."It's giving to NYRA and taking away from the horsemen,'' Schwartz said. He said he recently wrote Pataki and urged him to reduce the lottery division's 15 percent share down to 12 percent, and not, as Pataki proposed, take it out of purse and breeding accounts.Officials with the state's thoroughbred breeders association did not return calls for comment and representatives of horsemens' groups were unavailable for immediate comment.Schwartz insisted horsemen are prepared to give up something to get the VLTs running. "I think they're willing to take a hit, but zero is too big a hit. I just don't think that's fair,'' he said.Schwartz said NYRA doesn't need the full 25 percent split to make the VLTs happen. He said he proposed between 18.5 percent to 20 percent – up from 12.5 percent – as a VLT split for the tracks. Despite his objections, Schwartz said he is encouraged Albany is at least offering ideas to solve the VLT dispute. "All I want to do is make this thing work to be able to fund the building of a first class casino. After that, the revenue should go to the horsemen,'' Schwartz said.Bennett Liebman, coordinator of the Racing and Wagering Law Program and Albany Law School, said there is nothing in state law keeping NYRA from giving more than the zero percent split. If NYRA makes enough to cover its VLT expenses, NYRA and the other tracks could, Liebman said, legally increase purse accounts out of their VLT share.Schwartz said NYRA lawyers would research such a possibility.Liebman, a former state racing and wagering board commissioner, said the governor's racing plan both gives and takes from tracks. While NYRA has opposed expanded simulcasting for OTBs over the years, he said NYRA will be happy to get more options for its telephone account customers. But, the .5 percent tax on handle will, based on NYRA's on-track handle of about $500 million last year, would translate to a tax hike on NYRA of about $2.5 million. The current tax on handle is 1.6 percent, meaning tracks would face a 30 percent hike under the Pataki plan, he said.It remains to be seen who will end up paying for the higher tax, but if tracks are able to pass it on to bettors that "would clearly be bad for racing,'' Liebman said. While the Pataki plan also calls for loosening restrictions that make it harder for tracks to lower takeouts, the higher tax, Liebman added, could also make it too expensive for NYRA and the others to lower takeouts.The Pataki plan, while having a number of plusses, does pose some problems, Liebman said. For starters, horsemen and breeders will surely push to get some of the VLT share immediately, which could lead to the usual annual turf battles among the competing forces in the industry. But, in what Liebman called the "most troubling'' aspect, Pataki does not envision any money coming from VLTs over the next year. He does so at a time when state lawyers are defending the VLT program against a pending lawsuit in state court by arguing, in part, that the law should be upheld because the state's defict-ridden budget needs the VLT revenues."That argument has been lost if no revenue is coming in until at least the second quarter of 2004,'' Liebman said.For the Standardbred industry, Liebman said, tracks will be happy to get more of the VLT revenues. "At the same time, it's placing a fairly heavy tax on them for their wagers and the expansion of nighttime (thoroughbred) simulcasting really hurts them,'' he said.

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DETROIT - The Edmonton Oilers were hoping this time around things would be different.
But the only positive that came out of Thursday was news they may not have to travel to Detroit to face the Red Wings as often anymore.
For the Oilers, realignment can't come soon enough as the same story played out once again, falling 3-0 to the Red Wings at the Joe Louis Arena.
Jakub Kindl, Corey Emmerton and Justin Abdelkader scored for the Red Wings, while Jimmy Howard pitched the shutout in goal.


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I'm locked into a never-ending struggle with my eyebrows. They haven't been the same since The Day My Sister Got Her Hair Cut, which resulted in a fit of jealousy and the mother of all home makeovers. One dodgy fringe, several peroxide 'highlights' and two straggly tadpole brows later, and my transformation was complete. That showed her. Yes, there were tears (most, apart from mine, of laughter), and I've been growing them back ever since.
But it's been a bumpy journey, and I really need professional help. The plan is to get them threaded every second month, and then maintain the shape at home. But come two days past payday, my account is so ravaged I can barely cover essentials like wine and lipstick. Brow maintenance goes out the window.
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70 years since the threat of Fascism was stopped, it seems that there is a resurgence of fascist-like ideals in Europe. This "nationalist renaissance" is especially prevalent in Latvia. During the events of the war, Latvia saw the coming of soldiers from both Germany and the Soviet Union. However, opinions there vary on who were the true "liberators". One of the most chilling reminders of the Nazi occupation is the remnants of the Salaspils concentration camp. Official Latvian history claims that it was a work education camp, but the words of the Salaspils survivors tell a different story – One of nightmare and death. Forensic evidence does prove that thousands of people died within the walls of Salaspils. We hear from several such survivors, who were but children at the time, as they tell about their time there. Nazi occupation of Latvia also resulted in the formation of Latvian soldiers into the Waffen SS, Nazi-aligned military units. We meet one of the last, if not the very last, of these soldiers remaining in Latvia. He unabashedly tells a very different story than that of the Salaspils survivors. In our story, he represents those Latvians who looked favorably upon the Germans, believing that they would free Latvia from the "barbaric" Soviet occupation. Many critics find flawed logic in this new generation of fascists and neo-Nazi groups in Europe, seeing as they were born in the modern age, and didn't experience the war themselves. A great deal of people also believe that the Latvian government is turning a blind eye to what occurred there during WW II. At any rate, this story certainly proves that history is not fact, and is perceived differently by different people.
Sweden has a long history of welcoming refugees from military conflicts all around the world. The current refugee crisis is no exception. However, its scale is unprecedented and the country is still dealing with previous migration issues. Many are now asking if it's all too much, even for Swedish hospitality.
As Russia approaches the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Fascism in Europe, this film reveals disturbing examples of a revival in far-right nationalism in Europe and Ukraine. Among other countries, the Baltic States have once again witnessed nationalists on the march, shouting slogans that sound painfully familiar. Never again?


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Okay, California Pacific Airlines ready again
FAA-certified, but start dates out of Carlsbad airport uncertain (psst, April)
Ken Harrison 8:30 a.m., Nov. 18
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The most expensive dish on the menu features a good portion of the best parts of a Maine lobster, out of the shell, with thick-skinned ravioli filled with pumpkin puree, along with thin slices of lightly cooked fennel root, and a foamy sauce based on a lobster stock reduction barely touched with powdered star anise. It's very good, but not as good as the bass. Few things are.
A venison strip loin was cooked rare to our order -- but alas, since most restaurant venison nowadays is farm-raised red deer from Australia or New Zealand, it's nothing like gamy wild venison. Chef Joe himself was disappointed with its mildness: "Compared to the deer my father used to hunt in Minnesota, it just tastes like a cow," he told me later. Nonetheless, if venison is on the menu, you'll get very tender meat, cooked to order (and please give this fatless meat its due by ordering it rare). It came with purple and green broccoli and cauliflower, all just right. The garnishes were supposed to include pomegranate-juice gnocchi, but the kitchen was all out that night. A black truffle demi-glaze sauce was AWOL, too. In any event, chef Joe is going back to the rack of elk that appeared on earlier menus. Having eaten elk (a delicious meat), and after observing the careful treatment of venison here, I think I can recommend the rack sight unseen.
Due to a printer's error, the menus before us no longer trumpeted the pedigrees of the meats, as previous menus had, but when we tasted the flat iron steak, it was clear that it was Kobe beef. It, too, came rare as ordered, surprisingly tender for this cut, accompanied by caramelized onions, roasted red potatoes, asparagus, and above all else, a zesty chipotle béarnaise sauce that tasted freshly made and (aside from the addition of chilies) true to the classic recipe.
On a return visit, the evening's special was another "difficult" cut of Kobe beef, the short rib. Served boneless in a thick square, it was topped with two rounds of fried onion, crowned by a haystack of buttery slim haricots (French green beans), all plated atop a shallow pond of chipotle barbecue sauce. The meat was tender and rich, its sauce a serious barbecue sauce and not some sweet, ketchupy thing. It was complex and spicy, clearly the product of much thought and experimentation (and a lot of ingredients). The onion rings were coated with panko and seasonings, and my only wish is that the chef would use a sweet variety like Maui, instead of plain yellow onions, to live up to the rest of the ingredients. If you're into wine, go for a big, bold red with this -- the somewhat tannic but fruity Nebbiolo on the wine list might be perfect.
If we're to believe chef/writer Anthony Bourdain, diners should approach "specials" with caution, as they may feature the remnants of some aging ingredient that the chef wants to get out of the kitchen before it spoils. (I think I'd be scared to eat at Bourdain's restaurant.) But at Galileo, the specials are worth serious consideration, because they're where a talented chef gets to exercise more creativity than on the printed menu items. At our first meal, Cheryl's heart was set on a special I wouldn't have ordered, seared ahi with soba and Thai green curry. Surprising the heck out of me, the spicy sauce tasted convincingly like genuine Thai curry, not the usual dumb farang fusion-fakery. I even liked the soba, since it was the carrier of that sauce.
My visits to Galileo 101 were slightly premature, as a dessert chef from San Francisco was hired to start work the following week, with a license to do "edgy," non-mainstream sweets. When I ate there, unfortunately, although desserts were all house-made, the choices were the easy-to-cook standards of restaurants without specialized pastry chefs: various crème brulées, gelati, chocolate lava cake, house-made s'mores. There's also a cheese plate listed among the appetizers, which might have served for dessert if we hadn't already finished our wine. Mainly, though, after both dinners we wanted to leave with the meal's great good tastes still in our mouths.
Googling Galileo 101 turned up almost no previous press coverage. I'd attribute this to the restaurant's tendency (in the language of Galileo-era astronomy) to be a "mutable star," with a shifting identity, plus its location in an obscure corner of the galaxy -- a cul-de-sac where J Street ends at a park. With no foot traffic, the restaurant is invisible except to those who already know about it. But if it's been an undiscovered star, it's now become a culinary star, one that awaits your discovery.
Galileo 101's owner is Jay Amini, in his first venture into the restaurant business. He was originally partnered with a more experienced restaurateur, whose share he eventually bought out. Asked about the restaurant's shifting identity, he says, "We are always improving." One likely improvement is in the skill of the chef.
Chef Joe Craig, aged 28, hails from Minnesota. "I've been traveling around the United States, cooking in high-end restaurants, and I landed in San Diego because of the weather," he says. "I worked under Scott Halverson at Chive for two years, and from there I came here and worked under Danny Salcedo for about eight months, until he left." Craig's interest in cooking stems from childhood. "My father was an awesome cook, and he hunted. He'd cook deer, and boar, and all sorts of wild game. As a kid, I loved to be in the kitchen. So when the time came, ten years ago, I studied cooking at the Art Institute of Minneapolis."
Joe was the one who put the game meats on the menu. "I had some awesome venison, but it didn't have much game flavor...I just took that off the menu and put back a rack of elk. But the owner didn't want us going too crazy on this menu with things like the elk, the venison, the Colorado lamb braised for 12 hours, and the Chilean sea bass with Okinawan purple sweet potato. People were reading the menu and asking, 'What is this?' So I also put some stuff on that people will recognize -- simple things for the San Diego people and conventioneers. I had to put a pasta on the menu, a really good one with shrimps, but it's still pasta. The problem is, you put a pasta on the menu and a tenderloin steak on the menu in San Diego, that's all that people order. That's not fun for a chef. But I can still buy high-end product, like Wagyu tenderloin I get from Snake River Farms for, like, $400 apiece [for about six pounds], and Kurobuta pork, and Jidori chickens. One of the good things downtown, a lot of the guys around here are buying high-end stuff now. People aren't trying to buy and sell garbage around here any-


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Does Denny Heck support new direction, or more of his party's agenda?
Jaime Herrera today praised Congressional Republican leadership for advancing their own solutions and providing Americans a choice by releasing a "Pledge to America" last week.
The pledge offers scores of ideas to put caps on spending, reduce Americans' tax burdens, increase security, improve health care by attempting to lower costs and address some of the root causes of the financial collapse of 2008.
"I applaud Republican leadership for stepping up and providing ideas and solutions for addressing our country's biggest challenges," said Herrera. "There are a number of ideas in the pledge we should seize upon right away that would restore jobs to Southwest Washington: extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts to give small businesses certainty, roll back the 1099 requirements on small businesses passed by Pelosi's Congress, enact market-oriented health care solutions that lower costs, and offer simple small business 20 percent tax deductions."
"Denny Heck's party gave us stimulus spending bills, trillion-dollar health care spending bills, and multi-billion dollar state bailouts -- and he's confessed he'd have voted for each piece of their agenda. His party's leadership has brought our debt up to $13 trillion, and after 20 months Southwest Washington is suffering under double-digit unemployment. Denny Heck says he doesn't like the way Congress is doing business now, so I'd like to ask: does he support the ideas in this pledge, or does he want Congress to keep going in the same direction?"
Source: http://www.jaimeherrera.com/the-news/press-releases/146-herrera-applauds-gop-for-providing-solutions-.html


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Cool is the word that best fits our unusual July weather.
If you're more a fan of the "July Fry," with temperatures soaring over the 100-degree mark, may I suggest any place along the Eastern Seaboard.
This week, it was said, some shied away from Temecula's Fourth of July parade, fearing the 1 p.m. start time ---- backed off from the usual 10 a.m. to accommodate churchgoers and others with Sunday morning plans ---- might result in sizzling afternoon temperatures.
If Sunday's crowd was just a bit smaller than usual, the weather pleads innocent.
With cool temperatures and a nice breeze at 1 p.m., Temecula City Manager Shawn Nelson told me he was fully prepared to accept credit for the parade's fine weather. I assured him he surely would have been blamed had it been 108 degrees at parade time.
The website --- www.temeculaweather.com ---- began keeping July weather statistics in 2000 here in Southwest County.
Since then, Sunday's was the first Independence Day not to crack the 80-degree mark, with the temperature reaching just 77.9 degrees at 4:03 p.m. at the Temecula reporting station, located in the Redhawk area.
At the 1 p.m. parade start, the temperature was just 73.8 degrees.
The previous low high temperature of any July 4 over the decade was in 2002, when the mercury reached just 81.2 degrees.
The warmest July 4 in Temecula was in 2007 when the thermometer soared to 98.3 degrees.
In fact, the three previous Independence Day holidays were the hottest recorded in Temecula over the 10 years, and included a 97.4 mark in 2008 and 95.8 in 2009.
That means the average high July 4 temperature for the previous three years was 97.2, or 19.3 degrees warmer than the high on July 4, 2010.
Before Sunday, Temecula's average July 4 high temperature since 2000 was 91.2 degrees
This week also is cruising toward being the coolest July Fourth period on record.
Since 2000, the high temperature exceeded 80 degrees every day in the week in which the holiday occurred.
This week, the daily high has yet to reach 80 degrees.
The coolest holiday week on record, before now, was an average daily temperature of 85.2 degrees recorded in 2000.
So we're cool, but you know it can get hot.
Temperatures sizzled during the week of Fourth of July in 2006, averaging 96.1 degrees.
The hottest day of any July Fourth week was last year on the Sunday before the holiday, when the mercury hit 100.8 degrees ---- the only time in the decade the mercury has gone over the 100-degree mark during the holiday week.
So what does it all mean?
Probably nothing.
Temeculaweather.com's highest reading ever took place on July 22, 2006, when the thermometer hit 111.6 degrees.
There's still a lot of summer left here in Southwest County.
Call columnist John Hunneman at 951-676-4315, ext. 2603.


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Rangers come close but awful July continues
ARLINGTON, Texas – If you're looking for a highlight to describe July for the Texas Rangers all you have to is watch one play in the top of the sixth inning of Tuesday's game.
It was on that play that a fly ball that would have put an end to an already bad inning hit off the glove of right fielder Alex Rios. It then plunked centerfielder Leonys Martin in the head, allowing the final run of a seven-run inning to score on the three-base gaffe.
The good news for the 2014 Rangers is that at least no one was injured on the play.
The bad news is that play helped dig a hole that the Rangers were never able to get out despite their best efforts. J.P. Arencibia's two homer, four extra-base hit, seven RBI night gave the Rangers a chance but a Texas rally died at the warning track on an Adrian Beltre fly ball in a 12-11 loss.
While the Rangers rallied from huge deficits twice behind the first grand slam of the year for the Rangers (by Arencibia in the seventh inning), it wasn't enough to help Texas secure a two game winning streak. Instead the Rangers are now assured of playing the month without winning back-to-back games once.
That's right. The longest winning streak for the Rangers this month will be one game for a club that dropped to 5-20 this month.
But at least they had a chance to push that number to two Tuesday, scoring twice in the ninth and loading the bases before Beltre flew out to left to end the game.
"We didn't quit," Texas manager Ron Washington said. "We kept fighting. We could have very easily laid down but we didn't. We just kept going. When you keep believing good things happen and we were one thing away from winning that ballgame. If look into the sixth inning I don't think there were many people that thought we had a chance."
Texas had everything working early. Nick Martinez was dazzling through five innings, allowing just one run to the white-hot Brett Gardner on a solo homer. The suddenly resurgent Arencibia was making all his Triple A training look good with a two-run double and a solo homer helping stake the Rangers to a 4-1 lead.
And then the sixth inning happened, when the Rangers went from looking like winning-streak bound to looking like a team with the worst record in baseball once again.
Martinez allowed hits to three of the first five batters of the inning and walked another. Carlos Beltran's RBI single made it 4-3 and then Brian McCann tied the game with a sacrifice fly. With the Rangers needing just one more out to send the game to the bottom of the sixth tied, it wouldn't come for five more batters.
Martinez' night ended after a walk and then Shawn Tolleson allowed back-to-back hits before Gardner came back up to the plate. That's when his flyball to right should have been caught by Rios, who nearly collided with Martin. The ball wound up squirting left off Martin's head as Brendan Ryan crossed the plate.
Martin said he didn't hear Rios call for the ball and blamed the play on bad communication. Washington said that gaffe didn't cost the Rangers the game, but just one run.
More runs followed. The Yankees added three more in the seventh and then blunted Arencibia's slam with a two-run homer by Mark Teixeira in the eighth.
Texas tried to get win No. 6 of July with a run in the eighth and then two more in the ninth. Of course it wasn't enough but at least they had a chance.
"Unfortunately we were one-run short tonight," said Arencibia, who became the first seven-RBI Ranger since Nelson Cruz on May 25, 2012. "I had a good game. I've felt good and confident and made adjustments in Triple A. Tonight it was a testament to the work down there but I want to help my team win. It didn't happen."
The Rangers need a win Wednesday to match the six wins accrued by the club in August of 1973. The only full month in franchise history in which the Rangers had fewer than five wins was in September of 1972 when they went 3-23.
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A draft survey on sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy found that more than 11,000 allegations were made against 4,450 priests, or about 4 percent of the clergy, who served in the United States between 1950 and 2002, reported CNN yesterday.
This unprecedented survey, to be released Feb. 27, was conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in order to better understand the scope of abuse in the Church.
Since no other profession or organization has ever conducted such a comprehensive study on the scope and nature of sexual abuse of minors, the Catholic League emphasized in a recent report the need to place these survey results in proper perspective.
Based on its own research, the league document pointed out that most abuse is committed by family members. It also included some data about the incidence of abuse in Christian denominations and professions, such as teaching and coaching. For more on this study, go to: http://www.catholicleague.com/research/abuse_in_social_context.htm
In an analysis of the draft survey released yesterday, CNN found that more than half of the accused priests had one allegation against them. About 25 percent, or 1,112 priests, had two or three allegations, and almost 13 percent, or 578 priests, had four to nine allegations. About 3 percent, or 133 priests, had 10 or more allegations.
CNN reported that 6,700 allegations were investigated and substantiated, and another 1,000 were unsubstantiated. The remaining 3,300 were not investigated because the accused priests had died before allegations were made.
According to the survey, most of the victims of abuse were teens – 78 percent were between the ages of 11 and 17. About 16 percent were between eight and 10 years old; and about six percent were 7 or younger.
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President Barack Obama made a quick trip to a Virginia bookstore in support of "Small Business Saturday" over the weekend, the Associated Press reports.
Obama took his daughters, Sasha and Malia, to One More Page Books in Arlington, Va. to encourage shoppers to patronize mom-and-pop businesses after Thanksgiving. He reportedly encouraged people to consider "Small Business Saturday" as a local alternative to "Black Friday" or "Cyber Monday."
"From the mom-and-pop storefront shops that anchor Main Street to the high-tech startups that keep America on the cutting edge, small businesses are the backbone of our economy and the cornerstones of our nation's promise," Obama said in a statement Friday, according to The Hill.
"Through events such as Small Business Saturday, we keep our local economies strong and help maintain an American economy that can compete and win in the 21st century," he added.
At the store, Obama held up his BlackBerry, apparently looking up a book title as he spoke with shop owner Eileen McGervey. He said "preparation" was the key to his shopping trips.
But what about the looming "fiscal cliff" that is scheduled to crush this exact type of business? How will they deal with ever-increasing taxes, and the implementation of Obamacare?
Apparently the president brushed off a reporter's related question, saying only "we're doing Christmas shopping."
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The Alchemist that lived here is dead.[edit]
I found a corpse in the wilderness - I believe to the east of the shack - of a character named "Alchemist" — Unsigned comment by 184.108.40.206 (talk) at 14:47 on 25 November 2011
- If you read his journal he talks about going out to study mushrooms. Upstream from Evergreen Grove you will find an alchemist's camp with another journal mentioning the mushrooms and that he intends to follow the river downstream to see what effect the nirnroots are having on the fauna down there. You will find the body of this alchemist on a slab in the middle of the pool in Evergreen Grove. — Unsigned comment by RumblePen (talk • contribs) at 03:17 on 27 November 2011
- Hmm, Evergreen Grove (northwest of Falkreath) is quite a ways west of Helgen and Riverwood - which is to say, it's very far west of the Alchemist's Shack. Across a mountain range even. But unless we find any other dead alchemists closer to the Shack, I guess that's what happened. I suppose the mushroom writings clinch it. -RedKnight 01:26, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Actually I am quite interested to explore where this alchemist has gone. Would you mind adding more details to the page for how to find this alchemist? --Joshua.yathin.yu 16:41, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- I am quite certain that they Alchemists shack (riften area) and the Alchemists camp (N of Falkreath) area are related, and the dead Alchemist in Evergreen grove is in fact the NPC who lived in the shack, the journels read similiarly, and I just get the feeling the two locations are related. It would be almost too coincidental if they weren't related. — Unsigned comment by Esmok Kronik (talk • contribs) at 04:46 on 5 June 2012
The article seems to contradict itself - first it says that the end table and the barrel inbetween the closets are safe, then it says the barrel inside does respawn. Which is the correct one? 220.127.116.11 11:39, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
I can confirm what is and what is not respawnable in the shack. You can do it yourself by placing stuff and then fast traveling to somewhere else. Use the 'set timescale to 99999' command to make a day pass every second or so. (doing so outside is pretty freaky) Wait the 40 days, set timescale back to 20 (which is normal), and travel back to the house.
Anyway, I can confirm that everything you find in and near the house resets to how you found it every 40 days, with the exception of the Alchemist's Journal found on the end table, and the end table its self. Items placed on the shelves will be heaped up in the middle of the house, but things in the end table are safe. 22.214.171.124 05:38, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Duplicate Moved Items?[edit]
The article states that "if you move items from there spot or take them they will respawn in their original spot however the moved item will not disappear meaning you can duplicate the original items." Can anyone confirm that? Usually, items that are moved around will just return to their original location when a cell respawns. Phaid 08:28, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- I think you have to "take" the item, then drop it.--Amsuko 20:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Changes Made: Added "Notable Items" with "Butterfly in a Jar"[edit]
As per wiki guidlines, I am explaining my edit: Another location with a "Bug in a Jar" listed it in a "Notable Items" section. I just used the same format to add Butterfly in a Jar. Does anyone know what the runes on the lid say? (underside of lid) --Amsuko 20:41, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- You only have to explain an edit on a talk page if it's a controversial change or otherwise can't be explained within the space for the edit summary. As for your question, assuming it's in Draconic, try asking one of these people. They'll probably be able to help. – Robin Hood↝talk 21:21, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- It looked more like nordic runes to me, something alike to Elder Futhark, but I couldn't make out what it says. --Alfwyn 21:24, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I had already searched the wiki for a page about runes/languages but could only find a page on the Dragon Alphabet, which didn't match. I agree it looks like Nordic runes, but only 1 or 2 of the letters match. Looks like an angular "PIg" or "6I4" based on which way is "up." But that would be "giant/god-ice-?" or "joy-ice-?", neither of which make sense. --Amsuko 21:49, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- It looked more like nordic runes to me, something alike to Elder Futhark, but I couldn't make out what it says. --Alfwyn 21:24, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Books on the shelf random?[edit]
The article says that on the shelf there's a copy of Mixed Unit Tactics and a copy of Biography of Barenziah, v3. But the first time I entered the shack there was a copy of The Firsthold Revolt and a copy of The Alduin/Akatosh Dichotomy. I reloaded, tried again and the books were different again. So I guess that the books in the shack are random and maybe the article should mention it. --Cirkulis (talk) 02:06, 19 February 2015 (GMT)
- Thanks for picking up on that. The two books are indeed dummy books and randomly generated as per the CK. The only book scripted to be there is the Alchemist's Journal. --Beezer1029 (talk) 14:32, 19 February 2015 (GMT)


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Liverpool fan channel RedmenTV create own version of Pharrell's "Happy" despite finishing 2nd [Video]
Liverpool fans were pretty disappointed this weekend having missed out on the opportunity to win their first Premier League title.
The Reds were pipped to the post by Manchester City but the Liverpool fans have reason to be very happy with their season.
Their second placed finish marked a huge improvement having finished 7th last season.
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Anne Penketh: Iranians don't believe that military strikes are coming
Iran has become accustomed to Israeli threats of military action aimed at halting its nuclear programme.
The Iranians have adopted a two-track response: to warn of the regional conflagration that would ensue, and to try to persuade the world that its intentions are purely peaceful, while insisting on its right to enrich uranium which is enshrined by treaty.
To that end, they point out that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa banning Iran from holding weapons of mass destruction. A senior Iranian official admitted to visiting journalists that his country is well aware that, "if we attack Israel with one bomb, America would attack us with thousands of bombs. It's suicide".
They also know that a renewed Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz would raise record oil prices still higher. The supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that Iran would target US interests around the world in case of military attack. "If there is any attack, the whole region will be in flames," said an Iranian diplomat yesterday. "There would be a very, very strong response."
It is presumed that the targets the Iranians have in mind are the 150,000 US soldiers in Iraq and the 23,500 in Afghanistan. The Israelis must also be prepared for Iran to reactivate its Hizbollah allies in Syria, and Hamas in Gaza, which began observing a truce with Israel last Thursday.
But privately, Iranian officials continue to believe that the talk of military strikes is part of the West's carrot-and-stick pressure tactics aimed at coercing Iran into halting its uranium enrichment programme. They think the US is too tied down in Iraq to risk another military adventure with uncertain consequences. While the Israelis wield the stick, the Europeans and the US are dangling a carrot of a guaranteed fuel supply for a civil nuclear programme, which is what the Iranians say they want, although they insist on a domestic fuel cycle which is still not on offer from a West that fears a possible diversion towards a nuclear bomb.
The latest diplomatic offer to Tehran, endorsed by the US, contains a promise to renounce military action in case of an Iranian suspension. If Iran did agree to halt enrichment, the big powers would reaffirm "the obligation under the UN charter to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state...", the offer addressed to the Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, states.
Although no official response to the New York Times report was forthcoming yesterday, the religious establishment lost no time before hitting back. "If the enemies, particularly Israel and its American backers, adopt a language of force against Iran, they can be sure that they will receive a strong slap on the face from Iran," said a conservative cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami. "The Iranian nation is a logical and brave nation and its reply to logical methods will be logical."
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"On March 8, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria launched its report, The Global Fund 2010: Innovation and Impact, presenting results so far and outlining challenges and new strategies. Since its inception in 2002, the Fund has grown into an impressive force in the landscape of global health initiatives. By its own estimation, the Fund has supported programmes that have saved around 4·9 million lives. It has allocated US$19·2 billion and disbursed $10 billion to 144 countries…."


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He took a deep breath, his lungs feeling raw.
The battle was over for the day, but his eyes wouldn't touch upon the ravaged battlefield. They remained shut, his hands pressed firmly against them.
He could hide from the sights, and the feel. The taste of blood in his mouth was something he eventually learned to ignore; but the smell…
The smell never went away. Half the same blood he tasted, but the machine's senses had linked with his own too thoroughly. The sound, the sight, those could be manually disabled.
He supposed touch could be lessened if he removed his headgear, but there wasn't anything to feel at the moment. Just the smell of scorching, of burns… Of death.
Hands trembling, he took a deep breath. "I will be strong," he whispered. The hands came away from his eyes, and, trembling, took off the clips that rested on his hair. Receptors. To allow him a better unity with… time for that thought later.
Opening his eyes revealed a confused blur, and he had to blink before he could make out the control panels. The sun had moved, leaving him in the darkness. He turned his attention to the controls again. No need for the receptors on this mission.
"Okay," he whispered. "Let's go."
With that, he climbed the earthen wall before him, not resting until he reached the top.
A red panel was depressed gently, and a twisting sensation left him disoriented for a long moment, as the liquid drained from the control area. "Ugh," he groaned, leaning forward enough to cough up the liquid in his lungs.
That done, he climbed up to the hatch, and slammed his fist against another red panel. The hatch opened, suddenly exposing him to alarmingly cold air. "Ah," he gasped, clutching the rim of the portal to maintain his balance.
A gust of hot air ripped his attention away from the rim, and he smelled it more clearly. Charred flesh… Burnt stone… Broken dreams. "Less thinking, more doing," he muttered to himself.
Hoisting himself upward, he peered around, staring disconsolately at the massive crater that had once been a city. The rubble beneath was scattered messily about, and blackened from the force that had been used.
"Madness," he whispered.
The voice made him snap his head around to look. "Father?" he whispered, alarmed. He couldn't see the man, but…
There. Completely across the canyon, a distance far too long for the sound to cross. "Yes, Shinji. It's time."
He sneered at the spot he somehow knew was his father. "Bastard," he spat, "I'll never forgive you for this."
"You think you can destroy me?"
"Think of what I've done, Shinji. Think about my power. Think about how truly dangerous I really am. Do you honestly believe that you can stand in my way?"
Shinji hesitated, considering.
His father's plan was insidious. It was reckless, and it was horrific in its impact. It wasn't what he considered 'clever' by any stretch, but it had worked, and no one had seen it coming.
Sell toys— dolls, pets— something that children would buy. Assemble. Play with. Let into their lives.
Mostly machine, but with a small, hidden organic heart, and the souls… the souls of Angels. The toys remained safe, docile… unable to harm people.
At first.
But they remained docile for only so long, before exploding violently into the dangers that Shinji was trained to fight.
"What the hell," he said recklessly. "I might not win, but don't think for a second that I'm going to let you win either."
"As you wish…"
Shinji dropped into his seat, and sealed the hatch. The chamber was almost completely flooded by the time it sunk enough to reseat itself, leaving him breathing the warm, blood-scented liquid that served as his vehicle's lifeblood.
The visual sensors immediately locked onto his father, magnifying him. Shinji waited, tense. He would not charge— not yet. He would destroy his father's avatar first.
Gendo's hand reached out, with inevitable slowness, and a rumbling began from the depths of the rubbled city. Shinji stooped his machine low, bracing for the shaking, as a giant form began to emerge from the ground beside his father.
Naked… naked as was Adam on his creation… as all things were born into the world.
Shinji bit back a curse, but knew better than to give up. Even her, he could face.
She stood up slowly, easily the same height as Shinji's own machine, and slowly toppled forward. Gendo's voice rang out, sounding across the massive circular crater easily, as he intoned, "With your and my power, the advancement of humanity will come to pass. Angel Rei, fall in."
Shinji just charged, raising an AT field before him. Not that 'Absolute Terror' was what it was called. No, Misato had mistakenly uncovered that before the end. It was a layer of pure quantum essence. But it was the Angels' own best weapon. The Angelic Layer.
Not coming soon anywhere: Neon Genesis Evangelic Layer.
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Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Location: USA, Mexico, Spain, Brasil
• SAP FI-TR (local, centralize and extended). Unit and integral testing, training, Configuration, LSMW, data extraction, finance consolidation process. Local taxes configuration. Argentine Tax
Configuration, Indian, Brazilian and other Tax Codes configuration.
• System support, preparation of documentation for SOX. Government projects.
• Integration with FI-SD,FI-CO, FI-PS,FI-MM, AA-TR-MM-CO
• FSCM with Integration with Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) and Accounts Payable (FI-AP)
• Trade and commodities (FOREX, swaps, and others.)
• GRC, SOX, SOD, Roles authorization
• Electronic banking, Transactions and Risk Management, Cash Management and Liquidity Planner
• Accrual Engine in Leasing Accounting
• Mercury Quality Center for testing
Norvatis Biociencia S.A. From Jul, 2009 to June, 2010
Company: Infosys Technologies (Mexico)
Position: Lead Consultant/ Principal Consultant (Project manager)
Project: Support permanent client of Infosys
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Location: USA, Mexico, Brazil
Clearance: CMMI level 5 security clearance through Infosys, contractor for the Department of Defense.
• SAP FI-CO, NOVARTIS Biociencias S.A., meetings with the client for understanding the requirements (Brazil), Argentine Tax Configuration. SAP global support areas with CMM level 5.
• Total Knowledge transfer SAP FICO for Latin America
• -Billing document blocked, Inflation Adjustment, Libro de Compras y Ventas, Ajuste por Inflacion, Revenue Recognition, Approval Interfaces, Accounting Postings, Accounting (Profitability Segment), Year End Closing Process, Interface AR, Workflow interfece-invoice, Reports, Vendor payment mail,Automatic bar code updating for documents sent by Nexxera file (Varredura), To generate a file with payments information and their respective certificates of IVA to vendors, To print bank check, New Tax Codes for IVA de Terceros, Program Credit or Debit memo automatic Posting interface, Program Inferface Cognos-Outbound-Balance,Program Incoming payment posting,Interface, FI AR Invoices, Interfaces Bank, Cash Pool, HSBC confirming, Changes program to Citibank file,Bank Statement File Conversion, Report program Z from Daily Report AR, Program Transaction To generate a file containing fiscal reporting information for authorities (SRI) and Nota Fiscal, Program Transaction Public System for Electronic Bookeeping, Program to fill up SATI tables in order to complete the transfer data to Fiscal system partner, Program Transaction Related User Exit for Program, Ajuste de inflación, Master Data CC/PC/OI crate in mass, Program Export Internal Orders for Activity Tracking,Programs COGNOS Expenses Interface,Upload posting and how to avoid dump error, Planning Process CO PA/CO PCA,Interface Andromaco, Guidelines Implementation Papers from OTC, AH and PH, Variance in Process Order, Slow Non Movers, Valuation Class, Create Line Items CO PCA, Planning in Controlling, Program (user exit) Internal Order in Sample Orders, Support the workflow scenarios of the e-shop project
Talecris Biotherapeutics (Bayer), From April, 2008 to Jul, 2009
Company: Siemens IT Solutions
Position: SAP FICO senior consultant
Project: Support permanent client of Siemens
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Location: NC, USA
• Fill out the technical documents for the integration of ACL OTC (Auditor's program) application and SAP OTC. Integration of FI-SD in OTC.
• Coordinate and make the SAP configuration of ACH-CTX/CCD/CCP for Mellon Bank and Wachovia Bank for method payment T and IHC payment orders for method payment C.
• Part of the team with ABAP consultant and other specialties of Siemens, IDocs
• Prepare/ Conduct validation preparation tasks
• Prepare/Conduct unit and integration tests (IDoc's-EDI)
• Support of the both implementations.
• Bank communication management
Carl Zeiss AG, From Feb, 2008 to March, 20080
Company: HP Germany and USA (Corp to Corp TechUltima)
Position: SAP FI consultant- (Mexican Industry)
Project: Roll out for a Mexican Company Code
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Location: Mexico City, USA and Germany
• Blue print phase. US- Mexican tax configuration.
• Stay in close contact with the team in Germany who have a deep knowledge of the Customer SAP template and who ensure quality and compliance to the template.
• Good knowledge and experience in Mexican tax laws (IETU, ISR and others).
• Knowledge in how to implement 2 parallel fiscal year periods
( fiscal year: Oct 1 to Sep 30 / legal fiscal year: Jan 1 to Dec 31)
• Design and initial configuration together with the team in Germany
• Travel to Germany for approx 2 weeks for design and initial configuration together with the team in Germany
• Prepare/ Conduct validation preparation tasks
• Prepare/Conduct unit and integration tests
• Prepare/Conduct and execute key-user trainings
• Good knowledge/experience in data migration
• Perform 4 weeks of go-live support
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, From Jan, 2008 to Feb, 2008 0
Company: IBM (Corp to Corp TechUltima)
Position: SAP FI consultant- (Mexican Maquiladora Industry)
Project: Roll out as part of a Full cycle implementation for a Mexican Company Code
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Location: Kansas, USA
• FI Configuration for a Hawker Beech Craft's Mexican maquiladora industry.
• Mexican taxes, import and export, integration configuration MM and PP.
• US and Mexican GAAP, General, Operating and Country Chart of Accounts mapping.
• Specific reports for Mexico, PL statement and balance.
SAP R/3 (FI-taxes, MM)
Computer Associates (CA), From Oct, 2007 to December, 20070
Company: Accenture (Corp to Corp TechUltima)
Position: SAP FICO Consultant- ( Latin America Outsourcing)
Project: CA SAP ECC 5.0 FI-GL and PwC Brazilian SAP R/3 4.7 FI-GL
Environment: SAP ECC 5.0
Location: New York, USA and LATAM
• FI-GL Configuration of 7 Latin America countries (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Chile and Colombia). LATAM tax configuration. Argentine Tax Configuration.
• MM interface Specifications
• General, Operating and Country Chart of Accounts mapping
• Interface between an PwC (vendor) SAP R/3 and CA SAP ECC 5.0
• GAP Analysis between SAP and TOPS, GES, Hyperion.
• Financial Reporting using BI
SAP ECC 6.0 (FI-New GL)
Suffolk County Water Authority (SCWA), From Sept, 2007 to October, 20070
Company: Whitaker Consulting, Inc (Corp to Corp TechUltima)
Position: SAP FICO Consultant- ( AM full cycle implementation project)
Project: SAP ECC 6.0 AM (fixed assets)
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Location: New York , USA
• SAP Fixed Asset configuration (Mater Data, Asset Acquisitions, Asset Transfers, Asset Retirements, Direct Capitalization, Periodic Processes, and Reporting). Legacy Asset Balance Transfer.
• General Ledger Data Conversion (FI)
• Custom Print Program (FI)
• Inventory "Load" program (FI). Depreciation transferred directly to FI Financial Accounting and to cost center accounting and PS module.
• Governor's report (FI). The FI-AA system update for depreciation and for changes to the asset balance sheet value of Asset Management in the general ledger accounting.
• Investments (FI) and FM integration. The processing of tangible assets allows the development of fixed assets to represented and documented for accounting purposes.
Bridgestone / Firestone Corporate, From July, 2006 to August, 20070
Company: Wisconsin Systems, Inc
Position: SAP R/3 Consultant- (full cycle implementation project): Documentation and Training Expert
Project: SAP R/3 Full Cycle Implementation.
Environment: SAP R/3, SAP ECC 5.0
Location: Nashville, USA and Monterrey, Mexico
• SAP Global Strategy for training to be applied in the Monterrey new plant facility (legal regulations included).
• Translations English- Spanish for new implementation ECC 5.0
• Notebooks and RWD Infopaq simulation for training of processes.
• Review of the Best practice processes for the Monterrey project. Local taxes configuration.
• Risk analysis and Inventory of the total transactions.
• Audit and review technical documentation for main configuration in USA and roll out in Mexico: MM, QM, PP, FI-CO (TR), PM
• Determining archiving strategies (Infopak, Solution Manager). Archiving support resource.
• Reporting project status
Conducted comprehensive training classes for student on SAP FI/CO module which includes: -
1. Introduction to user interfaces,
2. Organizational Structure,
3. Financial Accounting Global Settings,
4. General Accounting Global Settings,
5. General Ledger Accounting,
6. Account Receivable and Accounts Payable,
7. Asset Accounting
8. Controlling.
Edited and enhanced SAP FI/CO training material.
Involved in preparation of students lab guide.
Responsible for conducting term-end examinations.
e-Business Systems (a Deloitte Partner) From Mar-03 to July, 2006
Position: SAP Consultant – Configuration, Development, Documentation and Training Expert
Projects: Internal SAP consultant for a SAP partner in Mexico
Business Process Consultant. Developed process flows, BBP's, Concept Slides and technical documentation using RWD InfoPak
• SAP FI-CO for gedas (VW automotive industry).
• SAP FI-CO for HP in Germany-ThyssenKrupp (workshop).
• SAP FI-CO for the City of Houston
• SAP AFS-Quickwear for Crysalis (4 months).
• SAP FI-CO & HR for Pentair Water (3 months).
• SAP FI-CO for SMURFIT (6 months).
• SAP –SD retail using mobile devices, FI, MM, and CRM (SALES AND ANALYTIC MODULES TPM) for NESTLE Mexico's GLOBE program (6 months) also working with Brazil.
• SAP FI-CO, MM, and WM for IMPERQUIMIA (6 months). SAP-SD and FI for GALO GROUP (2 months)
Environment: SAP (R/3 AND CRM [Sales & Analytical Modules TPM] )
Location: USA, and LATAM
• MM Configuration
• SAP FI-CO (Taxation: Warehouse, B-10, IVA, ISR, PTU, fixed assets), PA, CC, AP, AR, AM, besides WM. Functional and technical. Argentine Tax Configuration.
• Specifications for the total implementation of SAP FI. Local taxes configuration.
• Working as a SAP Consultant and Documentation/ Training Expert
• Writing functional and technical or program specifications.
• Configuration of archive objects and corresponding reports to FICO, SD.
• Serving as an Internal SAP Consultant for a SAP Partner in Mexico and Business Process Consultant
• Developing process flows, BBPs, concept slides, and technical documentation using RWD InfoPak
• Working on SAP FI/CO for gedas (VW Automotive Industry) mexican taxation: IVA, B-10, special case for natural resources-production of trees.
• Working on SAP FI/CO for HP Germany (workshop) Taxation: special taxation template considering PITEX, B-10, IVA, ISR.
• Working on SAP AFS-Quick Wear for Crysalis (4 months)
• Working on SAP FI/CO and HR for Pentair Water (3 months) mexican taxation: PITEX, IVA, B-10, ISR, special case for maquiladora industry), MM, PP and SD. Implementation 3 Mexican facilities to the Global configuration, taxes are included
• Working on SAP FI/CO for Smurfit (6 months)
• Working on SAP SD retail using mobile devices, FI, and CRM modules such as Sales and Analytical/ TPM for Nestle Mexico's Globe program (6 months)
• Working on SAP FI/CO and WM for Imperquimia (6 months) Taxation: Warehouse, B-10, IVA,, ISR, PTU, fixed assets.
• and SAP SD and FI for Galo Group (2 months)
• Creating and administering FI/CO chart of accounts that focuses primarily on Profit/ Cost Centers while integrating with Activity-Based Job Costing
• Developing a mechanism to report all progress to the CEO, Directors, and other Project Stakeholders, and in addition, based on the Sarbanes - Oxley law carrying out various activities
• Being responsible for gap analysis
• Participating in designing custom developments
• Conducting end user's training and implementing curriculum design
• Providing functional support and developing functional/ technical specifications
• Being responsible for staffing (Corp2corp) and closing business in Latin America
• Developing of new customers and products
• Implementing SAP ERP and CRM (Sales and Analytical/ TPM)
• Configuration and documentation in the areas of General ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts receivable and Asset management.
• Configured settings for the fiscal year variant, defined the posting period variant, defined the field status groups, and assigned the document number ranges and variants to the company code.
• Defined Tolerance groups for employees, customers and vendors.
• Configured and customized general ledger master records, screen layout rules, document types and posting keys.
• Defined reference accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models.
• Configured business area based on organizational structure.
• Configure incoming invoices and credit memos, defined settings for document, documents holding and parking.
• Created bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts for each bank account.
• Customized settings for cash journal in bank accounting.
• Configured and customized accounts receivable and accounts payable sub-modules including creation of customer and vendor master records, account groups, tolerance groups, account determination, default account assignment and payment advice.
• Created and assigned reconciliation accounts for customer, vendor and assets.
• Configured settings for automatic payment program for outgoing payments, manual payment and payment blocks.
• Defined reconciliation and special general ledger accounts for down payments.
• Identified one time customers/vendors and defined a separate screen layout for them.
• Defined the automatic dunning and interest calculation programs.
• Configuration of lockbox, lockbox file format, lockbox processing and bank statement processing.
• Defined the financial statement version according to company requirements.
• Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, depreciation keys and number ranges.
• Customized and configured asset master records, assets sub ledgers and screen layouts.
• Customized screens for asset acquisition, depreciation and retirement.
• Integrate asset management with general ledger.
• Testing and modifying the field changes as per client requirements.
• Ensured that the system is functioning according to the requirements of the organization.
• Responsible for knowledge transfer to power users.
• Worked with the training group for developing training materials for end users.
• Involved in training end users.
SAP R/3 (FI, CO, SD, WM, AFS, ABC), SAP CRM (Sales and Analytical, TPM)
Rshopping (REYVAL Group) From Jan-01 to Mar-03
Company: London Consulting Group
Position: SAP Project Manager - Configuration, Development, Testing and End-User Training
Project: SAP – Finance-CO, BW, Sales and CRM (Sales & Analytical Modules TPM), WM
Environment: SAP (Finance and CRM (Sales & Analytical Modules TPM))
Location: USA and LATAM
• Worked as a SAP Project Manager and participated in configuration, testing, and end-user training
• Responsible for gap analysis . Local taxes configuration. Argentine Tax Configuration.
• Participated in designing custom development
• Conducted end user's training
• Provided functional support
• Responsible of the international area, developing franchisers all over Latin America and the USA
• Implemented diverse Finance SAP Modules such as AR, AP, AM(FA), MM(PO), and TR
• Implemented SAP Sales and CRM modules such as (Sales and Analytical/ TPM), everything in relation with the franchisers
• Developed and created new IT procedures for the international business for modules AR, AP, FA, PO, and TR
SAP R/3 (FI, CO, WM, AR, AP, AM(FA),MM( PO), TR), SAP BW, SAP CRM (Sales and Analytical, TPM)
Santander Bank, Bogotá- Colombia / Education Ministry of Bogota From Jan-99 to Jan-010
Company: London Consulting Group
Position: SAP R/3- Project Lead (full cycle implementation project): IT and BSI Consultant – Position in parallel with Education Ministry of Bogotá
Project: SAP R/3 Full Cycle Implementation.
Environment: SAP
Location: Bogota, Colombia
• Worked as a SAP Project Leader and IT/ BSI Consultant, a position in parallel with Education Ministry of Bogotá
• Served as a Member of reengineering and SAP implementation team as Systems Analyst
• Implemented SAP Finance modules including AA, AM, CO-ABC, CO-PA, TR, CM, FM, TM, and RM
• Responsible of local accounting analysis with the Bank Finance modules: Deposit Management
• Conducted end user's training on the implemented modules
• Designed and tested custom programs and reports (developing test procedure, configuring SAP FICO)
Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes & business areas.
Extensive configuration in SAP Enterprise Structure, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable, Asset Management and Controlling. Bank Customer Accounts (BCA), In House Cash (IHC) and Payment Orders.
Configuring fiscal year variants with year - dependent periods for year end closing and posting period variants.
Defining document types and number ranges, understanding the concept of posting keys.
Defining field status variant and field status groups for determining field status.
Defined chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for each company code.
Created bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
Grouping the company's vendors and customers to define credit control areas and dunning areas.
Made settings for automatic procedures in payment programs and for interest calculation on account balances and line items.
Created account assignment models for recurring entries.
Created vendor master, customer master and specified number range and screens layout.
Configured vendor/customer master records, tolerance limits for over payments and under payments, payment terms, payment methods and interest calculations.
Worked on various types of special G/L accounts like down payment requests, and down payments for vendors as well as customers.
Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.
Defined house banks, bank accounts and check lots.
Ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for each vendor and Customer.
Created credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers.
Determined how company code must be assigned to credit control areas.
Lockbox processing, defined lockbox accounts at house banks, defined lockbox parameters and defined the lockbox posting data.
Configured Fixed Assets including chart of depreciation, asset classes, depreciation areas, depreciation keys number ranges.
Configured asset master records and asset sub ledger.
Defined transaction types for various business transactions like acquisition, depreciation and retirement of assets.
Controlling area configuration and assignment to company codes, number ranges and maintaining versions.
Configured the standard hierarchy and cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements, developed assessment, distribution cycles in cost center accounting.
Defining the Internal order and postings
Testing the system to ensure smooth functioning across the module.
WALMART – CIFRA, Mexico City From Jan-95 to Dec-980
Company: London Consulting Group
Position: IT and BSI Consultant
Project: Y2K - I was working in this project in parallel with AIAG
Environment: SAP R/3 FI-CO
• Worked as an IT and BSI Consultant
• Worked on this project in parallel with AIAG
• Evaluated all suppliers in Mexico and USA for the Y2K (evaluating vendor products, troubleshooting)
• Responsible of the analysis and implementation of Purchase Orders
• Implemented SAP AA, MM, WM, and AM modules
• Responsible for the gap analysis and checking the local regulations
• Analyzed and implemented local tax accounting for Fixed Assets
• Designed and tested custom programs and reports
• Worked on the SAP Supply Chain module
AIAG - Automotive (Ford, Chrysler, VW, GM, Nissan) From Jan-95 to Dec-980
Company: London Consulting Group
Position: IT and BSI Consultant
Project: People Soft, Lawson and SAP implementations (Logistic)
Environment: SAP (SD) – PeopleSoft – Lawson
Location: USA and Mexico
• Worked as an IT and BSI Consultant
• Served as a Certified Assessor (Audit) and Team Lead in US and Mexico for all the suppliers for Ford, Chrysler, VW, General Motors, and Nissan in Mexico reporting directly to all the Purchaser Managers
• Worked on SAP Supply Chain module
• Creating project plans and documenting system processes.
SAP R/3 (SD, LO, SCM), PeopleSoft, Lawson
PEPSICO/GRUPO GUTIERREZ EMBOTELLADORES From Jan-90 to Jan- 95
Position: Logistic and Sales Manager
Project: Re-engineering and SAP implementation
Environment: SAP (Logistic and Finance)
Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
• Worked as a Logistic and Sales Manager
• Responsible for analysis and implementation of Sales Orders and Account Receivables
• Worked on gathering requirements and gap analysis
• Developed functional documentation and conducted end user's training
• Provided resolution of production issues after the implementation
• Implemented SAP AM(AA), LO, WM, MM, PP-PI, and SD modules (R/2) in coordination with a reengineering and system team
• Worked on the SAP implementation including Accounting and Finance modules wherein carried out the responsibility of Fixed Assets implementation
• Implemented the Activity Based and Costing modules
Alexander Proudfoot Co., Palm Beach, FL From Jan-89 to Jan- 90
Position: Manager of Installations
Project: Re-engineering and productivity systems
Clients: VW, ICA, Automanufacturas, CIFRA (Wal-mart), Datacom
Location: Mexico and USA
• Performed analysis, development, installation and maintenance of productive systems in companies, and programs of cost reduction that embrace all areas of company.
• Specialized analysis of costs and revenues of companies where we work, and application of tools to improve indicators of productivity, determination of workloads, and reduction of personal.
• Administered reduction programs of costs that embrace all areas of the company.
• Performed analysis, development, installation and maintenance of productive systems in companies, and programs of cost reduction that embrace all areas of company.
Bayer Diagnósticos, Mexico From Dec-85 to Dec 88
Position: Warehouse and Distribution Manager
Location: Mexico City
• Performed analysis of times and motions until I was in charge of the administration, planning and coordination of warehouses, transport, and distribution of products, determination of storage costs.
• Evaluated projects for purchase of special items and moved installation of warehouse.
• Elaborated countable systems of information and having computer analyses (pareto technique), pursuit to the personnel, and also visited clients and suppliers. The clients I dealt with were The Hospital of PEMEX, IMSS Sanborn´s and others.
Secretariat of Treasury and Public Credit (SHCP-mexican IRS), Mexico From Jan 84 to Dec 85
Position: Analyst in budgets
Location: Mexico City
• Involved in follow up and budget control, accountability and finance of some government companies for marine port sector among them, like: National Commission Coordination for Ports, National Fund for the Port Development, and Tampico-Altamira System.
• Visited to evaluate viability of purchases made by government companies, pursuit to laws, regulations, and corresponding official federal newspaper. Analysis of the board of CEO, Directors brief for all government companies related.
• Wrote diverse official documents for signature for top member of the government board.
Training Courses
• Diploma in Computers including courses such as Excel, CorelDraw, Works, dBase, Windows 2000, Flowchart, MS Office, and SAE-COI-NOI-PROD, ITC
• Trained on diverse modules of SAP R/3 (by internet), eBS (Deloitte Partner), September 2003- 2006
• Trained on diverse modules that included Fixed Assets and HRMS (by internet), PeopleSoft University, September,2003 - 2006
• Attended IPN Satellite Course on automation of processes and equipment in general for automation, Rockwell Automation and Siemens/ IPN-IPADE, May 2003 - October 2003
• Trained on SAP in diverse modules with specialization in Finance and Accounting/ Fixed Assets, London Consulting Company, Mexico/ Peru/ Colombia, September 2000
• Trained on Sistemas Integrados and MFG-Pro, QAD de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., July, 1999
• Trained on Y2K Evaluator and SAP R/3, Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), USA/ Mexico, October, 1998
• Developed guides for the installation of the Maintenance Planning, Planning Maintenance, principles for maintenance administration, and Administration of Inventories, Factory of World Class, AVE of ITESM Monterrey Campus, Mexico/ South America, September 2000
• Trained on Computer Aided Design and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems – CAPP, Department of Industrial Engineering, Oklahoma State University
• Trained on Automated factory Systems (CAD-CAM-CAPP), ASPEN Simulator for chemical processes (VAX); databases; Computer Aided Systems Engineering; Microcomputers, Industrial Robots and Manipulators for Process Automations; HP, Statistical Package Social for Sciences (SPSS); web education; Parameterization and installation of an ERP such as SAP/ R3 & ECC, Lawson (Vsourcing) and PeopleSoft (PeopleSoft University)
• "Trainer for Entrepreneurs" in Fundes Mexico; in the AVE of the ITESM Campus Monterrey: Guides for the installation of the maintenance planning, Planning maintenance, principles for maintenance administration, Administration of Inventories, Factory of World Class, Develop strategies of service to the client, Market Evaluation for a Location of Business, Measuring and Control of the Continuous Improvement, Control and forecast of losses. Others: Evaluation of projects; Cost reduction programs (downsizing); Technique of supervision; Administration of productivity systems in companies (in Palm Beach Fl, USA); Planning and Control of the Production; Four modules of FORD-ITESM; Analysis of Decisions; Activity Based Costing technique (ABC-ABM-BSI-BPI), ISO 9000; Professional development and motivation: Transactional analysis; Process Control; Economical Analyzes of Chemical Processes; Forex (taken in TX, USA); Investment briefcases; Grant of credits; Diverse courses taken about sales and administration; Phone cables; Two symposiums of industrial engineering and systems; Two mexican congresses of industrial engineering; Project evaluation and fuzzy sets theory in management science; Evaluation of industrial projects inside credit programs, Induction course to the Secretary of Planning Budget; Work Risks: Costs and Financing, administrative Audits and financial reports to the administration board; Legal theory, accountant and financial of the mercantile societies; Grant of international credits, Defensive Driving Course Certificate.
As professor giving diverse courses in the dept. of industrial engineering and systems of ITESM and UNITEC in matters like: MTM, WF, TPM, Just In Time; b) As exhibitor in the seminar of projects of applied investigation of the ADIAT with the topic: "Planning and Control Models"; c) as professor of the course "Administration of Marketing" for the master/PhD. in business administration, Graduate Department at the ESCA-IPN, and "Administration of the Logistic Systems" for the Masters degree in Industrial Engineering, UPIICSA, 1997-2005 d) Exhibitor in the module III. Programmable Logical controllers (PLC) of the Graduate at Distance (satellite): Automation of Productive Processes of the IPN / IPADE; e) Instructor for the University of Phoenix for the Master's degree in Business Administration (2007- 2008); f) SAP FICO trainer for SAP in TFIN50 and TFIN52.courses- New GL and others (2008-2009).
Employment Status
e-BS (Deloitte partner)
Business Manager
Company Size:
Less than 99
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Forensic Accounting - 5 Years
SAP SD - 5 Years
ABC - 10 Years
Business Manager - 10 Years
IT Manager - 10 Years
PM - 10 Years
Productivity - 10 Years
SAP FICO - 10 Years
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