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Thursday, May 31, 2012
In Alabama, strict immigration law sows discord
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama tomato farmer Darryl Copeland looked out over his seedlings and fretted about this year's harvest.
He was afraid his seasonal migrant workforce might not return for the summer picking season, opting to stay away rather than risk running afoul of Alabama's stringent immigration law. The crew he awaits is picking the Florida harvest.
"I had to cut back my planting not knowing if the labor is going to be available," said Copeland, 47, who planted just two-thirds of his 30 acres on the far side of Straight Mountain in northeastern Blount County.
"I don't know what we're going to do if they run every illegal out of here. It's going to be hard to stay in business."
Fellow Blount County tomato farmer Tim Battles planted just 12 of his 25 acres because of uncertainties engendered by the law.
"I've got $160,000, $170,000 in my crop," he said. "Let's say (immigration enforcement officers) come in July and haul everyone off. I lose it all. What they're doing down in Montgomery (the state capital) is governing us out of a job."
Modeled after Arizona's controversial 2010 immigration law, Alabama's statute and others also passed last year - in Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah - require state and local law enforcement officers to verify the immigration status of those they suspect of being in the country illegally.
Now, Alabama is finding out whether it can live without undocumented immigrants, estimated to number 120,000 in 2010, who flocked to this southern state only in recent decades. They've been working in border states for several generations.
More states are considering their own laws but first want to see how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on provisions of the Arizona law, a judgment expected before the end of June. Based on questions posed by justices during oral arguments heard on April 25, some analysts expect the Roberts court to uphold much of the Arizona law, potentially inviting other states to follow.
A federal appeals court has said it will await the Supreme Court's Arizona ruling before deciding whether to strike down any aspects of the Alabama law, also known as House Bill 56.
Alabama's law requires state officials to be more vigilant about suspected illegal immigrants, denying them public services. Approved last June by the Republican-held legislature and signed by Republican Governor Robert Bentley, the law took effect in September, though sections were put on hold by the federal courts.
"Without question, Alabama's H.B. 56 is the most comprehensive anti-illegal immigration state law ever drafted," said Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state and intellectual author of both the Arizona and Alabama laws, who has consulted with 10 other states on immigration legislation. "It includes just about everything a state can do to discourage illegal immigration."
Kobach, an informal adviser to presumed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is a proponent of "self-deportation," creating conditions so unwelcome that undocumented immigrants leave voluntarily.
By that measure the Alabama law has succeeded, driving tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from the state, according to data gleaned from labor surveys and supported anecdotally by employers, politicians and immigrants themselves.
At the same time, employers have so far escaped sanctions. One section assigns escalating penalties for employers caught hiring undocumented workers, ranging from a three-year probation for the offending company to a permanent suspension of all business licenses in the state. Officials report virtually no instances where such sanctions have been enforced.
"This law is scapegoating the vulnerable population. Cracking down on those people is a lot easier than going after businesses," said Mary Bauer, legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. "I don't see how we can see it as anything other than a civil rights crisis."
WHAT AFFECTED WORKERS SAY
At Gordo's Market in a Birmingham strip mall, Mexican day laborers tell of compatriots who fled after the law was approved, either to another U.S. state or back to Mexico.
"Those with families left," said Abel Trevino, 30, from San Luis Potosi. "They were afraid they were going to get deported and split up."
Proponents of the law boast that with U.S. citizens and legal immigrants taking jobs vacated by illegal immigrants, Alabama's unemployment rate fell from 9.3 percent in June when the bill passed to 7.2 percent in April. That compares with national figures of 9.3 percent and 7.7 percent, respectively, with Alabama outperforming the national rate by a full percentage point or more in January, February and March.
Not everyone agrees the law has helped employment.
"The fall in the unemployment rate is merely because of the shrinking labor force and not because this law helped anything," said Samuel Addy, a University of Alabama economist. A cost-benefit analysis he published in January said the law could cost the state between $2.3 billion and $10.8 billion in annual gross domestic product, based on estimates that between 40,000 and 80,000 undocumented workers would flee.
"Most immigration researchers find a net (economic) benefit as a whole for the nation" when migrants are allowed to work, Addy said.
Each immigrant represents an additional consumer. Some experts, however, say illegal immigrants, just like low-earning U.S. citizens, are a net drain on public finances, largely from the cost of educating their children.
Immigration from Mexico has slowed since the U.S. economy fell into recession at the end of 2007. The estimated population of unauthorized Mexicans living in the United States dropped from 7 million in 2007 to 6.1 million in 2011, said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center.
From 2005 to 2010, he said, as many Mexicans returned home as came to the United States.
"Part of what people are responding to in states like Alabama, Georgia and Arizona is the rapid growth of the undocumented population from the late '90s to 2007, but by the time the response occurred the phenomenon seems to have been over," Passel said.
HELP WANTED
Albertville, Alabama, is home to 25,000 people and half a dozen chicken-processing plants that drew undocumented immigrants to low-wage jobs. The plants run three shifts a day: two to process the chickens and one to clean up after the slaughter.
Once the law passed, illegal workers left the Alabama poultry industry, and U.S. citizens filled those jobs.
As one consequence, Albertville's sales tax revenue increased 9.3 percent from October to April, an increase Mayor Lindsey Lyons attributed to citizens taking those jobs and spending their money locally rather than sending it over the border.
Poultry titan Tyson Foods Inc said it believed its northern Alabama operations were unaffected. "Our company already uses all available tools provided by the U.S. government to verify the documents of the people we hire," the company said in a statement.
Georgia-based Wayne Farms LLC said it had to replace about 130 of the 900 employees at its Albertville plant.
"We can't say for sure that was because of the Alabama law, but the inference certainly was there that we can assume the people left because of their concern about the law," said Wayne Farms spokesman Frank Singleton. "It definitely had a chilling effect on the migrant community."
To attract the new employees, Wayne Farms offered "a little above the prevailing minimum wage" of $7.25 an hour, Singleton said.
"When Wayne Farms had a job fair not long after the bill was signed, there were 250 people standing in line," Lyons said. "The poultry industry has hired a lot more whites and blacks that are glad to have the work."
RESPONDING TO CRITICS
Some, citing Alabama's racist past, see in the Alabama law evidence of bigotry, an argument Governor Robert Bentley rejected.
"As Christians, we are taught to obey the law. There is nothing unkind or unjust about asking people to obey the law," Bentley said in an email to Reuters.
"What took place in the civil rights era was a series of unlawful actions against lawful residents. It was a shameful chapter in our state's history. The immigration issue of today is entirely different. The government is not persecuting people."
Bentley supported removing a section of the law that has been temporarily blocked by the courts: one requiring schools to determine whether students and their parents are legal residents.
Lawmakers led by the main sponsor of H.B. 56, state Senator Scott Beason, voted on May 18 to preserve that provision and added one requiring law enforcement to publish online the photographs and any criminal charges against undocumented immigrants brought to court.
Fifty-four percent of Alabama voters approved of the law compared with 35 percent opposed, according to a February poll by Anzalone Liszt Research.
"We're not talking about a hard-hearted policy," Beason told Reuters in his legislative office in Montgomery. "It's a trespassing issue. Federal law, properly enforced, would be sufficient. If we close the border and enforce the law, states wouldn't have to pass these kinds of laws. It's an issue nationally, and Alabama just had the courage to deal with it."
Farmers simply shake their heads.
Jerry Spencer is founder and chief executive of Grow Alabama, a farm advocacy group that also runs a for-profit business helping farmers market their crops. When farmers complained the law left them short of labor, he spent $3,000 of his own money, he said, on a 30-day experiment to take unemployed workers from Birmingham to tomato farms an hour away.
"It was pretty disastrous. The people that we took were not prepared for the level of arduous work involved. And the farmers were not prepared to teach them what to do," Spencer said.
In a state where one in five jobs is supported by agriculture, other farming advocates seek greater access to seasonal workers on temporary visas, saying the current system is too costly for all but the largest farms, requiring the employer to provide transportation and housing.
"Over the last two generations (of Americans), we just don't have anybody that can do that work, that backbreaking work," said Brett Hall, Alabama's deputy agriculture commissioner.
NOT JUST FARM LABOR
Building contractors, among others who have long depended on undocumented workers, complain the law has also had the effect of driving out legal employees. Families and work crews tend to stick together, so if one or two lack papers, the entire group leaves together.
"My counterparts around the country are saying, ?thanks for sending workers our way,'" said Henry Hagood, chief executive of AGC Alabama, an association of contractors.
"The Republicans took over the Senate and the House, our so-called friends," Hagood said. "From a business point of view, it's a terrible piece of legislation. It's just mean-spirited."
Across Alabama's border to the west, Mississippi considered its own immigration law. The bill passed the state House this spring but died in a Senate committee.
"We saw what was happening in Alabama," said Mississippi state Representative Preston Sullivan, chairman of the state Agriculture Committee, "and we didn't want that happening here."
(This story corrects to show Tyson Foods responded prior to publication, 30th paragraph)
(Editing by David Adams and Prudence Crowther)
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
UN agency has big concerns about Flame virus
A United Nations agency charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures plans to issue a sharp warning about the risk of the Flame computer virus that was recently discovered in Iran and other parts of the Middle East.
"This is the most serious (cyber) warning we have ever put out," said Marco Obiso, cyber security coordinator for the U.N.'s Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union.
The confidential warning will tell member nations that the Flame virus is a dangerous espionage tool that could potentially be used to attack critical infrastructure, he told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
"They should be on alert," he said, adding that he believed Flame was likely built on behalf of a nation state.
The warning is the latest signal that a new era of cyber warfare has begun following the 2010 Stuxnet virus attack that targeted Iran's nuclear program. The United States explicitly stated for the first time last year that it reserved the right to retaliate with force against a cyber attack.
Evidence suggests that the Flame virus may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that took credit for discovering the infections.
"I think it is a much more serious threat than Stuxnet," Obiso said.
He said the ITU would set up a program to collect data, including virus samples, to track Flame's spread around the globe and observe any changes in its composition.
Kaspersky Lab said it found the Flame infection after the ITU asked the Russian company to investigate recent reports from Tehran that a mysterious virus was responsible for massive data losses on some Iranian computer systems.
So far, the Kaspersky team has not turned up the original data-wiping virus that they were seeking and the Iranian government has not provided Kaspersky a sample of that software, Obiso said.
Some skeptical
A Pentagon spokesman asked about Flame referred reporters to the Department of Homeland Security.
DHS officials declined to respond to specific questions about the virus, but an agency spokesman issued a brief written statement that said: "DHS was notified of the malware and has been working with our federal partners to determine and analyze its potential impact on the U.S."
Some industry participants appeared skeptical that the threat was as serious as the U.N. agency and Kaspersky had suggested.
Jeff Moss, a respected hacking expert who sits on the U.S. government's Homeland Security Advisory Council, said that the ITU and Kaspersky were "over-reacting" to the spread of Flame.
"It will take time to disassemble, but it is not the end of the Net," said Moss, who serves as chief security officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, which manages some of the Internet's key infrastructure.
"We seem to be getting to a point where every time new malware is discovered it's branded 'the worst ever,'" said Marcus Carey, a researcher at with cyber security firm Rapid7.
Organizations involved in cyber security keep some of their communications confidential to keep adversaries from developing strategies to combat their defenses and also to keep other hackers from obtaining details about emerging threats that they could use to build other pieces of malicious software.
Additional reporting by Phil Stewart and Andrea Shalal-Esa in Washington.
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Reconnecting Our Future Church | The CKN - Cornerstone ...
In his new book, You Lost Me, researcher David Kinnaman shares why the church is losing the 18 to 29 year old generation. He reports that 60% of these once predominately churched kids are leaving the church? many for good.
But it doesn?t have to be this way. Kinnaman?s research reveals that we can reconnect and rebuild trust with young people if we commit to these three things:
Relationships ? They long for real, honest relationships and real conversations with older people. Last year, a group of young men at Purdue University where I?m involved with a campus ministry asked how much time I was willing to spend with them. I asked how much time they wanted, and they replied, ?As much as you?ll give!?
Career ? Many young people are over-stimulated and overwhelmed by our digital world and struggle to find purpose in it. They are confused and desperately need help connecting their faith, life purpose and career.
Wisdom ? This is the most exposed generation to date. Many have traveled and studied internationally. All have been exposed to diverse religions, value sets and family structures. They long for perspective and are drawn to older people who will help them discern wisdom from shallow facts.
The future of the church in America rests on our willingness to invest and reconnect with this vulnerable generation.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
3 Secrets For Anyone Looking To Start A Home Based Business ...
Posted on 28. May, 2012 by Athar in Uncategorized
If you?re looking for information on how to start a home based business, there are several things that are vital to your success. As someone who has earned 6 figures for the last five years with a home based business, I?ve learned through trial and error what it takes to successfully earn a very comfortable living from home.
In this brief article, I?m going to give you an overview of 3 very important things that you absolutely must do in order to start and success with a home based business idea or opportunity. Hopefully by the time you?ve finished reading this, you?ll have an idea of what it takes to make it in this industry and be better prepared to get the ball rolling.
1. Have a dedicated work space or office at your home. ? Having an area that is classified as your ?home business office? will allow you to stay organized and focused on your daily tasks. There is nothing that is more frustrating than trying to get work done in a common area, where you have to compete with conversations, the television, and more.
2. Turn off the TV. ? When I first started working from home, I would get easily distracted by the television. I would turn it on while having lunch, and before I knew it half my day was gone. I made what at that time was a very difficult decision to discontinue my cable TV subscription, and my income dramatically increased as a result. While this may seem extreme to some, eliminating unproductive distractions has proven to be one of the most valuable decisions I have made in regards to my home based business.
3. Set daily work hours. ? When working from home, it?s very easy to turn into a workaholic. Due to the fact that you?re always home, it can actually be tempting to work too much. While it?s important to become successful, it?s also vital that you live a balanced and healthy life. Set ?work hours? and stick to them, you?ll be better off for it and will avoid the dreaded ?burn out? that many work at home entrepreneurs encounter.
Hopefully this article has given you some good ideas on what it takes to become successful if you?re looking to start a home based business. Working from home isn?t always easy, but it will be the best decision you?ll ever make.
Athar
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Azarenka overcomes terrible start to win at French
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus returns in her first round match against Alberta Brianti of Italy at the French Open tennis tournament in Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Monday May 28, 2012. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus returns in her first round match against Alberta Brianti of Italy at the French Open tennis tournament in Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Monday May 28, 2012. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
Belarus' Victoria Azarenka reacts shortly before defeating Italy's Alberta Brianti during their first round match in the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Monday, May, 28, 2012. Azarenka won 6-7, 6-4, 6-2. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
Switzerland's Roger Federer returns the ball to Germany's Tobias Kanke during their first round match in the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Monday, May, 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Li Na of China waits for the service of Sorana Cirstea of Romania in their first round match at the French Open tennis tournament in Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Monday May 28, 2012. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns in his first round match against Potito Starace of Italy at the French Open tennis tournament in Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Monday May 28, 2012. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
PARIS (AP) ? Only 22, just recently a Grand Slam champion and ranked No. 1 for the first time, Victoria Azarenka is still learning to think like a top player.
So trailing by a set and one point from being down 5-0 in the second at the French Open on Monday, Azarenka's mind was filled with "a mix of things."
"Sometimes I felt it was not my day," she explained. "Sometimes I thought, 'Yeah, maybe I still fight, I still have a chance.' Sometimes it was like, 'You know what? Forget it. I don't want to do it.'"
And yet she did do it, listening to the most positive of those voices and beginning the climb back from a daunting deficit with a gutsy second-serve ace, of all things. Showing how far she's come from the petulance of earlier in her career, Azarenka took 12 of the last 14 games to beat Alberta Brianti of Italy 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-2.
"Before, maybe I would just give up and go home. I was kind of thinking there was a flight straight to Minsk," said Azarenka, who was born in the capital of Belarus. "But I didn't want to leave too soon."
She most certainly did not want to become the only top-seeded woman to lose in the first round of the French Open since the tournament started allowing foreign entrants in 1925. But she needed every bit of fortitude to right things while overcoming a whopping 60 unforced errors, far more than her 32 winners ? a terrible ratio for anyone, let alone a player who considers herself a title contender.
"Bad days happen," Azarenka said with a shrug. "Unfortunately, today I had way more mistakes than I usually do."
The top-seeded man, Novak Djokovic, limited his miscues to when he spoke to the crowd in French after a victory Monday, never even facing a break point while beating Potito Starace of Italy 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-1.
"It wasn't that successful," Djokovic said ? referring to his on-court postmatch interview, not his play, as he began his bid to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to win a fourth consecutive Grand Slam title.
"I'm trying to take it slowly. I'm running out of words," he said. "Who knows? Maybe (in the) next two weeks, I'll learn something more."
It wouldn't be much of a surprise if he's around long enough to face 16-time major champion Roger Federer in the semifinals. They met in Paris at that stage a year ago, when Federer ended Djokovic's 43-match winning streak.
The sport's other leading man, defending champion Rafael Nadal, starts his try for a record seventh French Open title on Tuesday, facing Simone Bolelli of Italy. Day 3 also features fourth-seeded Andy Murray, 13-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams and three-time major winner Maria Sharapova.
Williams normally leads the way for the United States at big tournaments, but now she will be trying to keep up her end of the bargain: All 10 American women who played Sunday or Monday won, giving the country its largest contingent in the second round at Roland Garros since 11 made it in 2003.
Other winners Monday included defending champion Li Na and No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska, who next meets seven-time major champion Venus Williams.
Federer dealt with a few blips, getting broken once in each set, including when serving for the match for the first time. But he defeated Tobias Kamke of Germany 6-2, 7-5, 6-3 to tie Jimmy Connors' Open era record of 233 Grand Slam match wins.
"They're never easy, those first rounds, you know. Last thing you want is to go down a set or (get) in a tough situation, but I was able to stay ahead in the first set. Had bits of ups and downs on my serve," Federer said. "But overall, I'm happy I'm through. That's what I look at in the end. Sometimes you have to come through when you're not playing your very best."
Azarenka managed precisely that against Brianti, a 32-year-old whose career prize money of about $1 million pales next to the more than $4.5 million her decade-younger opponent has earned in the past five months.
But with Azarenka spraying shots this way and that, Brianti took advantage. The Italian later acknowledged being thrown off, though, by what happened when the match was hers for the taking. Already up a set and 4-0 in the second, the 105th-ranked Brianti held a break point and was one point from serving for the monumental upset.
Azarenka called that a "really miserable ... moment." Instead of folding, she fought her way into the match, starting with an ace on a second serve that brought the score to deuce. There would be another break point to save seconds later, and Azarenka did so with a drop shot.
It's the latest sign of a more mature Azarenka, one who has the skill to stay near the top of tennis for years, so long as she keeps her wits about her.
At the 2009 French Open, in the first Grand Slam quarterfinal of Azarenka's career, she was the one who let a big lead slip away against the top-seeded woman, Dinara Safina, falling apart with some double-faults and flashes of temper. After taking the first set 6-1, Azarenka lost the next two.
The next year at Roland Garros, Azarenka lost 6-1, 6-2 in the first round, then was fined $4,000 for failing to attend a news conference afterward.
During Monday's rough patch, her newest mentor, 2006 Wimbledon and Australian Open champion Amelie Mauresmo, sat calmly in the player's guest seats at Court Philippe Chatrier. Almost motionless, she was watching and presumably waiting for Azarenka to take control.
When Azarenka finally ended it, only then did Mauresmo rise from her seat and punch the air and let out a yell of excitement.
"She managed to turn the match around at the last minute," Mauresmo said, "by digging deep and finding the resolve to win."
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Obama honors fallen troops on Memorial Day
Standing in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, President Barack Obama commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.
By NBC's Ali Weinberg
Updated at 3:38 p.m. ET: WASHINGTON --?Speaking at a hallowed site for fallen warriors on Memorial Day, President Barack Obama hailed the winding down of two wars, adding that the country needs to honor its returning veterans as well as those friends and family for whom trips to military graves are a bittersweet routine.?
"These 600 acres are home to Americans from every part of the country who gave their lives in every part of the globe," the president said at Arlington National Cemetery, after taking part in the traditional laying of a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
?Whenever revolution needed to be waged and a union needed to be saved, they left their homes and took up arms for the sake of an idea," Obama said. ?They rest here together side by side, row by row, because each of them loved this country and everything it stands for, more than life itself."
In Washington, President Barack Obama honors those who fought in the Vietnam War. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.?
The president added that it is his obligation and that of all commanders in chief to send soldiers into harm?s way only with a clear mission.
Addressing families of the fallen at the cemetery?s amphitheater, the president said, ?After a decade under the dark cloud of war, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon,? a line he has used recently to tout the end of combat missions in Iraq and a gradual drawdown in Afghanistan.
But, he continued, ?especially for those who lost a loved one, this chapter will remain open long after the guns have fallen silent.?
He said that Americans should remember the individual stories of heroes who reflect the collective experience and sacrifice of the armed forces.
?One thing we can do is remember these heroes as you remember them: not just as a rank or a number or a name on a headstone, but as Americans, often far too young, who are guided by a deep and abiding love for their families, for each other and for this country,? the president said.
The nation pauses to honor fallen troops.
He recalled an Air Force pilot who met his wife on an aircraft carrier, an accountant who joined the military to do something ?more meaningful with his life,? and a young man who just days before he was killed in action told his father how formidable his fellow Marines were.
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The president said that to honor these soldiers and their loved ones ?who carry a special weight? on their hearts, America can ?strive to be a nation worthy of your sacrifice; a nation that is fair and equal, peaceful and free.??
He suggested that part of that goal is the responsible deployment of troops only when necessary, which he said he takes to heart.
?As Commander in Chief, I can tell you that sending our troops into harm's way is the most wrenching decision that I have to make. I can promise you I will never do so unless it's absolutely necessary,? he said.
?And that when we do, we must give our troops a clear mission and the full support of a grateful nation,? he continued.
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Brittany Jacobs of Hereford, N.C., hugs her 17-month old son Christian at her husband, Marine SGT Christopher Jacobs' gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day at in Arlington, Va.
'Serving your country with valor'
Later Monday, the president commemorated the 50th anniversary of the start of the Vietnam War with a visit to that conflict?s memorial on the National Mall.
More than 2,000 Vietnam veterans and family members of soldiers who died were invited to Monday's ceremony marking the beginning of a 13-year program to honor those who served in the Vietnam War and educate later generations about the war.
Standing in front of the veterans and families in the sweltering heat,?Obama said that the ungrateful reception given to many returning Vietnam veterans was a ?national shame, a disgrace that should have never happened.?
?You were often blamed for a war you didn't start when you should have been commended for serving your country with valor,? he said.
?He cited some of the policies his administration is pursuing, including disability benefits, more job opportunities and increased mental health resources as steps the country can take to ensure veterans are always given the respect and appreciation they deserve.
??Let's resolve to take care of our veterans as well as they've taken care of us. Not just talk but action. Not just in the first five years after a war but the first five decades,? he said.
After he spoke, the president laid a wreath at the memorial along with Rose Marie Sabo-Brown, the widow of Army Specialist Leslie Sabo, who recently received the Medal of Honor for his valor during the Vietnam War.
Military aircraft flew overhead as Obama walked back from laying the wreath, holding Sabo-Brown?s hand, and the ceremony came to a close.
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Pets are not allowed in Mumbai apartments | Apartment Community ...
Posted on Monday, May 28th, 2012
Radhe Krishna housing society in Sanpada has banned pet dogs in the apartment. There are residents in the apartment who had taken a flat on rent, but were unaware that pet dogs are not allowed there.
Those residents who have pet dogs were given notice by the society to vacate the flat within a month.
it is reported that the chairman of the housing society too relocated his own Labrador pet dog after the other residents raised an objection.
The activists for animals said that it is silly for certain housing societies to totally ban pets, as pet dogs are not just animals, but considered part of the family.
There are many housing societies in different apartments in Mumbai where pets are not allowed.
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This holiday weekend, you may be traveling to see family, taking a scenic day trip or going to the neighbor's BBQ.
All are good photo opportunities ? whether with a "real" camera or a cellphone.?
Here are some tips to make the pictures better. Nothing too tricky: They assume you use the camera's auto setting or make minor adjustments.?[6 Tips to Use Instagram Like a Pro]
How do I make sure photos are in focus?
Often, something is in focus, but not the thing you wanted. Many modern point-and-shoot cameras and some cellphones have a face-detection mode that you can select to recognize multiple faces and optimize the focus (as well as exposure and color) for them.
If you don't have this mode, or you want to focus on something else, adjust the focus point to be more precise.?
Newer iPhones make this easy: Simply point on the screen to the part you want to be sharp.?
On other cameras, you can often change the default ? which makes a compromise so that everything is sort of sharp ? and instead chose a smaller focus point or area.?
To do this, you may have to take the camera out of auto mode and chose program mode, typically labeled "P" on the selector. [Expect to See Photo-Sharing in Ever-More Apps]
They still look blurry. What gives?
You may still get a blurry picture if you are in low light because the camera has to keep the shutter open for a relatively long time.?
The trick here is to minimize movement. If you are buying a new point-and-shoot, get one with optical image stabilizations (OIS), which moves either the lens or the image sensor to compensate for jitters.
With or without OIS, try holding the camera steadier. Make sure you have firm footing, and keep your arms close to your body when you shoot. If you can, hold the camera against something such as a pole or a tabletop. [What Makes a High-Quality Camera?]
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Crafting Marfa: Family Photos Scrapbook Layout
These are some of the women of my family.? We had an impromptu get together in my house recently, which is a very rare thing these days.? So I jumped at the opportunity to photograph them all together and create a pretty layout.? I used paper by DCWV and Oriental Trading.? Some of the stickers are by Mary Engelbreit.? I?ve had them for more years than I can remember.? Other embellishments are from a Disney?s Cinderella scrapbook set.? The little flowers border is a Martha Steward decorative punch.? I love it!? I even have the matching corner punch.? Then there are pearls and rhinestones.? I used whatever empty spaces I could find on the page to do my journaling.? But by doing it this way it blends in with the rest of the page and I like it.
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WOMAN TO WOMAN BLOG TALK?: Domestic Violence: Stalking as ...
Stalkers are somewhat sociopathic and, to a greater extreme, psychopathic individuals who, more or less, might stop at nothing to get their victim's attention. They may even go as far as trying to destroy the victim's reputation in order to look good in the eyes of those whose favor they are seeking to gain. They never think they are doing anything wrong, similar to the thought pattern of psychopaths. They often do not care about the destructiveness of their acts; their main objective?being to get the victim's attention, and when it becomes paranoia, and escalates, to make the victim pay for rejecting them.
??Stalking has always been a problem, but experts will tell you that it is clearly on the rise.? But whether or not the stalking is regular, or is merely a single one off act, or active or passive, it must always never be taken lightly for the simple fact that it can escalate into more overt violence, even murder of the person being stalked!
?Stalking is a form of mental assault, in which the perpetrator repeatedly, unwantedly, and disruptively breaks into the life-world of the victim, with whom he (or she) has no relationship (or no longer has)?.? (Rokkers)
The cumulative effects of the stalkers activities can amount to mental abuse. As a result, many state laws on family abuse or domestic violence categorizes stalking as a form of domestic violence, and it matters not whether the stalker and the victim are in a relationship.When?a victim?ends a relationship with someone, and in the case of stalking, it might be an abusive relationship (physical, sexual, emotional or psychological abuse), the abuser can continue to try and exert control over the victim they have lost as a partner, by engaging in activities which, despite?are not done on a face-to-face basis, still constitute abuse. Stalking, and more precisely, cyberstalking, is one way in which abusers try to intimidate the partner they are losing or have lost from their life. And with the advent of computer technology and the difficulties posed in order to catch the culprit, these low-lifes can pretty much have a field day.
?And being stalked can be very frightening, regardless of whether or not the stalker?s activities are overtly violent. Physical attacks, even murders, can occur after long periods of ?more passive? stalking activities. Often, the violence is precipitated by the stalker?s being forced to face they have been rejected by their target.?
It is important to note that, ?Besides suffering the psychological damage, and damage to life, reputation, relationships, and options, most stalking victims live in fear that something will push their stalkers over the edge to physical violence.?
?It is extremely important to be aware of the following traits of stalkers. These will alert you to the possibility that a potential suitor or even a friend or acquaintance could become a stalker.?
Somethings to note about stalkers
? Stalkers will not take no for an answer.
? They refuse to believe that a victim is not interested in them or will not rekindle their relationship and often believe that the victim really does love them, but just doesn't know it and needs to be pushed into realizing it. As long as they continue pursuing their victim, the stalker can convince themselves they haven't been completely rejected yet.
? Stalkers display an obsessive personality.
? They are not just interested in, but totally obsessed with the person they are pursuing. Their every waking thought centers on the victim, and every plan the stalker has for the future involves the victim. Ask yourself this. Is the person totally involved in and completely overwhelmed with pursuing someone who has no and never will have any interest in him or her?
? Along with obsessive thinking, they also display other psychological or personality problems and disorders. They may suffer from erotomania, paranoia, schizophrenia, and delusional thinking. According to Professor R. Meloy, "these stalkers have rigid personalities and maladaptive styles. These disorders in themselves are very stable and not treatable." There are drugs to treat certain specific mental disorders, but stalkers, when given the choice, seldom continue with their medication or treatment.
? Stalkers are above average in intelligence and are usually smarter than the run of the mill person with mental problems.
? They will go to great lengths to obtain information about their victims or to find victims who have secretly moved. They have been known to hack into computers, tap telephone lines, take jobs at public utilities that allow them access to the victims or information about the victims, and even to travel thousands of miles and spend thousands of dollars to gain information about or find their victims. Stalkers many times use their intelligence to throw others off their trail.
? Most stalkers don't have any relationship outside the one they are trying to re-establish or the one they have imagined exists between them and their victim.
? Because they are usually loners, stalkers become desperate to obtain this relationship.
? Stalkers don't display the discomfort or anxiety that people should naturally feel in certain situations.
? Normal individuals would be extremely embarrassed to be caught following other people, going through their trash looking for information about them, leaving obscene notes, and other inappropriate behavior displayed by stalkers. Stalkers, however, don't see this as inappropriate behavior, but only as a means to gain the person's love.
? Stalkers often suffer from low self-esteem, and feel they must have a relationship with the victim in order to have any self worth.
? Preoccupations with other people almost always involve someone with weak social skills and low self-esteem.
? Few stalkers can see how their actions are hurting others.
? They display other sociopathic thinking in that they cannot learn from experience, and they don't believe society's rules apply to them. Most stalkers don't think they're really threatening, intimidating, or even stalking someone else. They think they're simply trying to show the victims that they're the right one for them. To the victims of stalking it is like a prolonged rape.
? Stalkers, like rapists, want absolute control over their victims. They don't regard what they're doing as a crime, or even wrong. To them it is true love, with the exception that the victim doesn't recognize it yet. With enough persistence, stalkers believe they will eventually convince the victims of their love.
? Stalkers many times have a mean streak and will become violent when frustrated. How violent? Often deadly.
The above traits remind us that much of stalking involves harassment and annoyance, but never forget that stalkers can also be extraordinarily dangerous. Believing that their victims love and care for them, stalkers can become violent when frustrated in their quest for this love.
Although the majority of cases do not end in murder or grave bodily injury, enough do every year that victims should never brush aside the possibility. Victims of stalking should never take the crime lightly, no matter who the stalkers are or how close they have been emotionally.
Look carefully again at the traits below and be wary if someone seems to fit these:
1. Won't take no for an answer
2. Has an obsessive personality
3. Above average intelligence
4. No or few personal relationships
5. Lack of embarrassment or discomfort at actions
6. Low self esteem
7. Sociopathic thinking
8. Has a mean streak
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I receive quite a few cheap nfl jerseys questions regarding the junior golfer and golfing fitness programs. The concerns are on a variety of diverse topics, however they typically fall into three or four distinctive classes. Commonly the concerns are; at what must a junior golfer begin using golfing health exercises, how often really should a junior golfer put into practice golf health and fitness exercises, and finally what exactly are the ideal golf fitness workouts for your junior golfer Ordinarily this last question would be the most generally asked question. This post is intended to supply some answers to the question; what are the most beneficial golfing conditioning workouts for your junior golfer
Very first and foremost golf cheap jerseys health and fitness exercises might be of good advantage towards the junior golfer provided a few ideas are adhered to in the development of such a golf conditioning program. We?re definitely aware particular workouts are advantageous towards the golfer and others usually are not. Take into account regardless when you are a junior, professional, or senior the exercises within your golf physical fitness program really should middle upon producing the body around the golf swing.
This solitary theory indicates certain workouts are of higher benefit towards the golfer than other individuals. Frequently talking, the exercises ought to focus on developing your body for the positions, movements, and physical specifications of the golf swing. This equates to workouts creating the required flexibility, stability, endurance, strength, and energy necessary from the golf swing. As an example, we are fully aware the golfing swing demands you to create a full shoulder turn. A part in the potential to produce a complete shoulder change is contingent on the golfers flexibility cheap nfl jerseys (regardless of if you?re a junior golfer or not). If you are lacking versatility the potential to produce a complete shoulder transform, the golfing swing will be compromised, and compensations could set into your golf swing. That getting mentioned, a part of one?s golf health workout routines, particularly your golfing flexibility exercises will focus on producing a complete and easy shoulder change.
The junior golfer is genuinely no various than golfers of a various age in regards to the basic principles of a golfing physical fitness plan. The aim from the golf health plan may be the similar, along with the physical elements with the physique to become developed are the same. The objective of the golf physical fitness program is always to develop your body about the golfing swing so that you can generate an additional effective, consistent, and correct golf swing.
The difference for the cheap jerseys junior golfer arrives all the way down to what are the best exercises within every of those categories. Generally the junior golfer is not as physically developed as an grownup therefore altering the workout prescriptions which have been finest for them. Meaning, the classes to develop within the body for your golfing swing are precisely the same because the adult golfer, but modifications in particular workouts are required to counteract the bodily improvement of the junior golfer.
Ordinarily overall flexibility exercises for the junior golfer might be the precise very same as for any other age golfer. Frequently speaking, flexibility instruction is usually substantially less complicated for that junior golfer to perform due to the fact muscle tissues and connective tissues are likely to be more flexible when we are youthful.
Progressing to balance exercises. Often the junior golfer isn?t as kinesthetically created being an adult. Their bodies, control from the limbs, and being aware of exactly where the body is in space tends to become less developed at more youthful ages. For this cause we have to modify some of the balance exercises to a decrease amount of problems. As an example, a junior golfer may well have problems performing an advanced cheap jerseys airplane rotation found in my golfing conditioning ebook. As a result a modification may be required within the exercise. The adjustment could consist of trying to keep the junior golfer utilizing the fundamental airplane rotation and adding additional repetitions to enhance the difficulty.
Yet another adjustment is normally required for that endurance, strength, and energy workout routines for that junior golfer. Golfing fitness exercises discovered within these classes of training are geared towards escalating muscular power, endurance, and energy. In order to enhance these components from the muscle tissue in anyone (junior golfer included) we need to overload the physique with a higher workload than it can be accustomed also. By way of example, in the event you were a bodybuilder and wanted get bigger biceps. You may decide to perform bicep dumbbells curls with a fifty lb. dumbbell. In the beginning this physical exercise might be extremely difficult to carry out. The reason could be the fifty lb. dumbbell is overloading your bicep. Over time the bicep gets more powerful and also the 50 lb. dumbbell gets less complicated to raise. This is an example of how to overload the muscle tissue of the physique to obtain more powerful.
Several of those exercises to create increased strength, endurance, and power can need the usage of exterior resistance: Within the kind of dumbbells, elastic tubing, medication balls, and so on. The mistake with junior golfers is externally loading these workouts too much. By way of example, working with to hefty of dumbbells for a particular exercises. The outcome is often a compromise in type and reduction of benefit from the exercise. For this cause, I?ve located it finest for that junior golfer to make use of their body weight as resistance initially. Then slowly progress to adding external resistance within the type of tubing, medicine balls, etc
This format makes it possible for the junior golfer to progress within the development of their bodies for your golfing swing effectively. It makes it possible for them to concentrate on physical exercise approach and execution as an alternative to the quantity of excess weight lifted.
To recap, modifications for that junior golfer in terms of their plan is required. It is a basic process if they?re not overloaded with resistance or difficulty of physical exercise. The aim for that junior golfer may be the identical as another golfer; create the body about the golf swing. The physical components to be developed by a golfing fitness program are again the identical; versatility, stability, strength, endurance, and energy. The difference for that junior golfer lies within the implementation of the workout routines inside these groups inside the golfing health plan.
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Help Your Home By Following These Great Home Improvement Tips
There are few, if any, homeowners who have never tackled home improvement. However, there are many places where a project can go wrong, especially for a novice homeowner. Read the following useful tips on planning a home improvement project that will be a success.
Before you purchase any wood stove for your living space, ensure that it has the EPA?s seal of approval. New models are all EPA certified. Old models should undergo testing to be sure they are EPA compliant. Carbon monoxide is also a concern when burning wood indoors, so carefully check all stoves for leaks.
If your room is small, or the ceilings are low to the ground, give them the illusion of space. Flood the room with light. Paint the walls a nice, bright color the grabs the eye. The trick to making the ceiling appear higher is to locate the drapes, valance, and curtain rod closer to the ceiling.
You can provide better security and improve your home?s exterior by having motion detecting lights installed. Motion detector lights turn on automatically when an intruder approaches, providing you with the element of surprise and saving you money on electricity! Intruders will be mindful of this when coming to your house, because they know that you?ll be aware of them if the lights turn on.
It is important to work on your home?s exterior appearance. Keep your yard nice by mowing the lawn and doing the edging. Plant some shrubs and make sure they are well placed. Clear your front walkway of leaves and debris. Power wash your roof and exterior walls. Thoroughly clean your windows. These acts leave your visitors with a good first impression.
If there are some cracks in the roof, buy a roll of tape made of aluminum. Place the sticky part of the tape on a surface that is clear of debris. The seal it creates will be waterproof.
Make the entryway to your home useful and attractive by adding essential items. Try a bench to sit on to take shoes off, coat rack, a mirror, and perhaps a basket or tray for keys. This not only adds some aesthetic appeal to the area, but it also helps to make your home functional.
If you are working on your home yourself, make sure to purchase high quality tools and supplies. It might be more expensive in the beginning, but it will save you money for years. Products that are high-quality generally last longer. Even though some quality tools can be a bit expensive, they save you a lot of money in the long run.
As you undergo a bathroom remodel, don?t forget to install adequate lighting. Lighting is just as important as the other fixtures in a bathroom remodel. Design so you can have lights that surround you mirrors and your medicine cabinet, and consider adding ceiling lights that take bulbs that are easily replaceable.
Having information on home improvement is your buffer between the scary unknown and the vision you have for your home. Just think of all of the benefits it has and all of the expenses it can take care of, along with all of the money it can save you in the long run.
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Small Business Forum June 5 | Souhegan Valley Chamber of ...
Are you a business owner or manager that does not have a board of directors, advisors or colleagues that you can run ideas by?
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Do you want to do this for free with no obligation or commitment?
Then the Souhegan Valley Chamber of Commerce Small Business Forum is for you! The format of the Small Business Forum is open office hours where you can come for the whole hour or just a few minutes the first Tuesday of every month from 1:00 to 2:00 at the Chamber Office in Amherst. It is for Souhegan Valley Chamber of Commerce members only. It is moderated by Jay Maiona, a small business consultant and attorney. For any questions or suggestions, please contact Jay at jrm@maionalaw.com or 603 769-3924, talk with May Balsama at the Chamber Office at may@souhegan.net or 603-673-4360.
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Sometimes if a claimant is a case for a large sum of money, the defendant, the lawyer for the plaintiff, or consult a financial planner in cooperation with the settlement, the payment of the settlement in installments over time rather than an amount. Where arrangements are paid in this way is a structured settlement. Often purchasing one or more annuities will create the structured settlement, which is to guarantee the future payments.
A structured solution may provide for the payment in almost all the plans of the parties to choose. So the system can be paid in annual installments for several years, or it can be paid in periodic lump sums every few years.
Benefits of A Structured Settlement
An important advantage of a structured settlement is tax evasion. With the right set-up, a structured settlement can significantly reduce the fiscal obligations of the plaintiff as a result of the settlement and, in some cases, is exempt from tax.
A structured settlement can protect a plaintiff who disappeared settlement funds when they are needed to pay for the future care or needs. Sometimes it can help protect a plaintiff from ones ? some people are just not good with money, or can?t say no to family members who want to share the wealth, and even a large settlement can be quickly exhausted. Minors can benefit from a structured settlement also, as a rule for certain expenditure during their youth, an additional fee to pay for college or other educational expenses, and then one or more payments at adult age. A wounded person on the term, special needs may benefit from regular flat-rate amounts that medical equipment or modified vehicles to buy.
In some situations, the better for a severely disabled claimant to a special needs trust, instead of entering into a lump sum or structured settlement. Any plaintiff, who has received or expected Medicaid or other public assistance, or the guardian or curator received in entering a settlement on behalf of a Department with a disability, should consult with a financial planner about their situation a disability to choose a particular option or system structure.
Possible disadvantages of Structured Settlements
Some people who enter into structured settlements feel trapped by the periodic payments. Maybe they want a new house or other expensive post, but do not have the means, because they can?t borrow against future payments under their settlement.
Some people will do better by acceptance of a standard system, and invest it you. Many standard investments are a greater efficiency in the term than the annuity in structured settlements.
How to sell Structured Settlement Online
A structured settlement cans a person for compensation for the loss of the monthly or annual way to deadline. This period shall be decided on the judgment and cannot be changed without the prior consent of the judge. The alternative to periodic premium is a lump sum at a time and in such circumstances, the third-party who arranged the purchase of the plan and pays a lot of money to the beneficiary of the policy.
The sale deal can be done by means of online transactions, but it?s better to have some of the formalities of the deal say that it can be sold through online transaction.
It?s easy to find a structured solution by simple online calculator to find the specific keywords. This calculator helps you to specifically define the exact value of the annuity value of the structured settlement plan. But one must remember when the annuity value is calculated as a pre-term price would be 50%-65% less. Depending on the average price, it is better to decide on the sale of a part or the entire sales of structured settlement annuity amount.
Finding a reliable company that can purchase the structured settlement plan is again easily by simple search. The websites of the companies are available online and the websites of the negotiations can be done and as an experienced real estate agent is involved in this transaction can also coordinate the whole thing more quickly and professionally. Meticulous search online will help you to different companies assessed by a comparison and choose the best offer with a reputation for caring.
It takes time to get money in the hand when the structured settlement plan will be amended with the approval of the judiciary. Between the companies that the contract will cover all of the formalities and the recipient can expect the money in hand to get through the next 60-90 days.
Sale of A Structured Settlement
If you have a structured solution, you will be contacted by a company interested in purchasing your system, or are curious about the sale of your company in exchange for a fixed amount buyout. About two-thirds of the States have laws governing the sale of structured settlements adapted to limit and the tax-free structured settlements also are subject to the Federal restrictions on sales to third parties. Also some insurance companies will not assign or transfer to third parties, in respect to discourage the sale of structured settlements. As a result, depending on where you live and the terms of your annuity, it is not possible to sell your solution.
Note that companies that purchase structured settlements of plan to take advantage of their purchase, and sometimes their offerings may seem rather low. You can take advantage of the approaching more than an undertaking in relation to the sale of your solution, in order to ensure that the highest payoff. You also want to make sure that the company will buy your settlement is established, ? you don?t want a fly-by-night outfit to the rights to your annuity to obtain, but to disappear or go bankrupt before you pay the buyout money. You may have to go to court before a judge to approve buyout. It is usually a good idea to consult with a lawyer before entering into an agreement to sell your solution.
Special considerations for the sale of A Structured Settlement Any person entering into a structured system must be wary of the potential exploitation in connection with the settlement:
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Excessive commissions ? annuity can be very profitable for insurance companies, and they often have very large orders. It is important to ensure that the committees responsible for the creation of a structured settlement not too much of its main consuming.
Exaggerated value ? sometimes, after negotiating a settlement figure, will defend the overvaluation of the value of a structured settlement. As a result of the plaintiff in the acceptance of the settlement, actually obtains a substantially lower dollar value than was agreed. Some suspects have paid the full nominal amount of the settlement, knowing that later would get significant discounts from the annuity companies that use them. Prosecutors consider comparing fees and commissions for similar arrangements through a variety of insurance packages, to ensure that they actually get full value. The plaintiff wishes to make it a condition of the scheme that the accused actually the full value of the settlement to be paid on the designing of the structured settlement, and that any discounts received by the defendant in the scheme for annuities paid to the plaintiff.
Create yourself ? there are cases where the plaintiff?s Attorney in the insurance and suggests a structured settlement on behalf of a client that does not disclose that the lawyer is to the annuity to buy the farm, or a large Pocket Commission on annuity. There are also situations where the lawyer of the plaintiff refers the client has given a financial planner to set up a structured solution, without the financial planner, notary a referral fee in connection with the account of the paying customer. Make sure you know what financial interest, if applicable, your solicitor has compared each financial services sold or recommended by the lawyer.
Life ? it is a pity, but many people get great personal damage or compensation of workers settlements has a shortened life expectancy as a result of their injuries. It is important to the life expectancy in combination with a structured settlement, to study and consider the desirability of an annuity in which payments will stop after death. Sometimes it is useful to insist on an annuity that a minimum number of payments or who pays the balance in the legacy of the plaintiff, so that the value of the settlement is not lost from an insurance company in the early death of the claimant pays.
Multiple insurance companies ? for larger settlements, it often makes sense to buy an annuity-structured settlement from different companies, the share of the arrangement between these companies. This can provide protection in the event that a company that has issued your annuity settlement package goes bankrupt ? even in the event that one of the companies in arrears, in whole or in part, on your settlement payments, you still have a full payment of the other companies.
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