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WASHINGTON - A gauge of planned U.S. business spending increased by the most in five months in October, but a fourth straight month of declines in shipments underscored the damage that fears of tighter fiscal policy next year are inflicting on the economy.
The Commerce Department said on Tuesday non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, rebounded 1.7 percent last month after falling 0.4 percent the prior month.
Economists had expected so-called core capital goods orders to fall 0.5 percent.
Shipments of non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, used to calculate equipment and software spending in the gross domestic product report, slipped 0.4 percent. It was the fourth straight month of declines in shipments.
The Commerce Department said there was no indication that superstorm Sandy, which lashed the East Coast in late October, had an immediate impact on factories in that region.
Businesses are cutting back on capital spending, wary of automatic government spending cuts and tax increases, known as the fiscal cliff, that are scheduled to kick in early next year unless the U.S. Congress and the Obama administration can agree on a plan to cut the budget deficits.
The fiscal cliff could drain about $600 billion from an already fragile economy. Business spending is also being undermined by the long-running debt problems in Europe and slowing global demand, especially in China.
Despite the headwinds, the manufacturing sector continues to grow, though modestly. Durable goods orders were unchanged in October as gains in machinery, fabricated metal products, and computer and electronic products offset the drag from automobiles, defense and civilian aircraft.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast orders for durable goods, items from toasters to aircraft that are meant to last at least three years, falling 0.6 percent last month after rising 9.2 percent in September.
Excluding transportation, orders rose 1.5 percent after increasing 1.7 percent in September.?
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By eGov Innovation Editors | Nov 28, 2012
Over 18,000 Gram Panchayats or villages across India's Gujarat have installed Adobe Acrobat for the electronic issue of vital citizen certificates and other official documents under the E-Gram project.
Collaboration between Adobe and the Panchayat Rural Housing and Rural Development Department, the project aims to deliver transformational solutions to its citizens through Common Service Centers (CSCs). It offers a range of services to villages including the electronic issue of certificates of birth, death, income, caste, domicile, property, residence proof, agriculture, tax collection, marriage, family information and land ownership.
At the grassroots level, the process has removed the waiting period for various certificates, documents and application forms to be issued from a few days or weeks to just a matter of few minutes.
It has also proved to be effective in the quick resolution of grievances that previously took a long time to resolve, by providing immediate access to necessary documents and information. In the future, this initiative will be expanded to also provide commercial services to the state?s rural communities.
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Adobe provided training (live sessions and video-on-demand) for most of the Village Computer Entrepreneurs to transition from the old, paper-based system to the digital era ushered in by the project.
The government said through the project, it hopes bridge the digital divide between urban and rural Gujarat by providing citizens access to digital information for all government documentation.
?We wanted to take governance to every level across the state. It was our aim through the E-Gram initiative to provide all the basic amenities that are available in big cities to villages across the state so that citizens do not feel the need to migrate to urban centers. Before, citizens had to travel to the district Taluka for these requirements. Today, citizens across these 18,000 villages can access these services at their gram panchayat. Life has become much simpler for them," said A. K. Rakesh, development commissioner, Government of Gujarat.
Satish Patel, a VCE from Sardhav village, said it would normally take three days to process a document but today, people can immediately process the document. This saves both time and money for us as citizens.
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 Kit B. (294) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 10:03 am (Cartoon image: Jill Sorenson) So I really did see this billboard over the summer, on I-5 in southern Washington. Anyone who travels between Portland and Seattle with any frequency is aware of the cultural institution known as the "Uncle Sam billboard." It always has some extreme right-wing slogan next to a likeness of Uncle Sam. Apparently a farmer started it decades ago, and now the fabled sign is maintained by his son. (I neglected to include Uncle Sam when I drew the cartoon; I was so gobsmacked by the sentiment that I forgot all about him. And the internet tells me belatedly that the exact wording was "Should people receiving entitlements be allowed to vote?", but I'm too tired to fix it now.) Clearly the sign is the handiwork of an ignoramus, but it touches on something that's been bothering me for a while. Many Americans don't understand the term "entitlements." Anyone hoping to preserve the social safety net should avoid the word, which makes Social Security and Medicare sound like frivolous handouts to undeserving snots. The fact that anti-poverty measures like food stamps are also referred to as entitlement programs only adds to the confusion, not that denying voting rights to poor people is any less reprehensible. I wouldn't dismiss this billboard guy as a lone crackpot, either. TPM recently reported on conservative columnist Matthew Vadum, who suggested that registering poor people to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. I smell a meme.
by Jen Sorensen for Daily Kos
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 Arielle S. (252) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 10:11 am In the past year, I've met a woman who would not give her used refrigerator to a black woman because "they get so much stuff". I've heard a retired, wealthy man say that anybody who wants to work can get a job. And I've heard a presidential candidate diss 47% of the people he wanted to represent. Sometimes it's embarrassing to be a human being.... And Matthew Vadum should spend six months or a year as a homeless man - then we'll see how he feels. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Kit B. (294) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 10:11 am This is an older article, one from last year, but no less relevant today. I submit this because I do believe we must have a public discussion about the real issue of entitlements, not the change of the lexicon as presented by one side of this issue. We are all easily influenced by the ongoing political rhetoric that we hear used every day. The word entitlements has now become a word that is used to describe those who wish live from the government teat and not care what it may cost the public in taxation. It's a convenient twist in the true meaning of the word, yet is quickly affecting the national discussion.
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 Barbara K. (87) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 10:53 am Thanks, my friend. The problem is that the word "Entitlement" was cooked up for use by the Tbagggers and Republicans to describe people's "Earned Benefits", just to turn their people against a segment of society who have already worked their years and paid into SS and Medicare and now are receiving the Benefits they paid for. They are not free. The Rs and TPs cannot stand to see the sick, the disabled, the seniors, the students, the single moms, the retired, or anyone not them, to receive any benefits at all. They'd rather we all be out begging in the streets for what we have spent our lives earning, and those who were not able to do so because of disabilities or illness. They are a bunch of selfish a$$es, who cannot stand it that THEY don't have ALL the money. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Roseann D. (151) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 10:57 am Calling them Entitlements is inaccurate since we've EARNED that money and it's set aside for our futures. Now if you want to talk Entitlements, let's take a look at GOP paychecks...what have they done to EARN their money over the past decade? Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 pam w. (177) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 10:58 am It all comes down to the "I've got MINE....not SCREW YOU" attitude demonstrated so ably by the Republicans in our past election. The Constitution talks about "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Are those "entitlements?" How about breathing? Or...how about breathing clean air? Are THOSE entitlements? Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 SuSanne P. (110) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 11:18 am Thank you Kit, although this is just so WRONG. After viewing the actual Uncle Sam Billboard "No Mexican Olympic Teams...All The Runners and Swimmers are Here" I can't even imagine the Hate that has been confusing everyone for so many years. Pam you always impress me with your short and concise words..."The Constitution talks about "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "Are those "entitlements?" "How about breathing? Or...how about breathing clean air? Are THOSE entitlements?" Many feel that way...How pathetic our Gr$$dy politicians are... WE THE PEOPLE is WE the 1% Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Nancy M. (201) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 12:03 pm "TPM recently reported on conservative columnist Matthew Vadum, who suggested that registering poor people to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. I smell a meme." WOW. Such hatred from people. And the comments here. Not wanting to give away a used refrigerator? The "right" jas become so demented, they seem to get worse every day. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Nancy M. (201) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 12:06 pm Clicked on of the links in your article Kit, about the billboard, and found another very interesting article. Here it is about the man who put up the billboard: ""If he graduated, he would have been drafted. He quit early so he could get a deferment, and he farmed instead of going into the service." Like many of his politically like-minded brethren, Hamilton couldn't be troubled to bother actually going to war, despite the fact that later in life he had plenty to say about those who didn't "support" the troops. By not graduating, he apparently continued to seek academic deferments, a favorite of the next generation of conservatives to dodge the draft during Vietnam (Vice President Dick Cheney receivied five)." Even back in WWII, there were people getting out of going? WOW. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Tamara Hayes (121) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 12:56 pm Hate begets hate and so on...."You reap what you sow". Is that an entitlement too? Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Jae A. (287) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 1:02 pm Ditto to all that Pam W said first off. That being said...all great comments and green stars plus applause worthy so far. Thanks kit for sharing. Fortunately for the nation the Teabagger Klans anti-American...ProRacism ...ran out of influence long before the last election...that became clear when the GOP didn't pick any of their favorite guano extremist morons to run against Obama. Their end will come with their last yelps of hate and hyprocracy as they are pushed back into their pits of misery...all the signs of that are currenlty very noticable, not only on care2 but most sites where political catagories are their focus but within even Republican media...except those of the Murdock insanitea chain... Later in the month we will be reading their hyped titles of how the left have declaired war on Christmas...again...but by early Jan. it will be back to 'entitlements'....but without their mentioning of Corporate Entitlements they are so supportive of......... Geee Fricken wizzzzzzzzz...and pass the biscuts please. It's time for some comfort food ..enough of their poisonous snack trays and Teabagger Klan Koolaid....better known as.... rightwing politicans and their rethoric. IN closing...I repeat...Ditto to all that Pam W. said above. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Kit B. (294) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 1:04 pm My own thoughts on entitlements is simple. Should I decide I want to pay for something and then I do that, then that item is something that I am entitled to own. I like most of America paid for Social Security and Medicare, that Congress has over the years abused their privileges and in turn abused and misused those funds is not the fault of those who paid in good faith. I can not in good conscience allow this discussion about "entitlements" to become yet another national discussion about those who wish to abuse the system. Thanks for reading the article and leaving your thoughts, if I can send green stars I do. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Angelikanomail Roll (75) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 1:32 pm When I read it for the first time I also stumbled upon that word, it sure is not the best choice for what it stands for in this context. In German we simply say SOZIALLEISTUNGEN (social benefits) In my view your term points more towards the recipient (is why there can be so much nasty interpretation) while ours expresses more the givers side. (less inviting to twist and smear) Also, the word LEISTUNGEN stands for both sides, i.e. what s.o. ows you or has to serve you with and also your own merits and achievements. One way to prevent such dirty games and abuse for politics. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Angelikanomail Roll (75) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 1:39 pm Kit-how couls Congress abuse and misuse those funds that americas paid for SS? I thought they cannot be touched as they go to a treasury fund? Are you saying they helped themselves taking from that money?? Now THAT would be criminal in my view.-? Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Kit B. (294) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 2:09 pm Maybe that is just more of the many "legends" about Social Security, though there have been reports of the Congress dipping into the Social Security and Medicare funds to finance secret operations for many years. This group that more clearly defines how SS is invested says that is not true. Thanks Angelika for making me back track and correct myself. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3299 Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Angelikanomail Roll (75) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 3:08 pm Alright Kit, that sounds good. And they confirm that media has contributed to that "legend". "The U.S. government has never defaulted on its obligations, and investors consider U.S. government securities to be one of the world?s safest investments." so no sweating there. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Gloria picchetti (139) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 3:41 pm I don't care what you call Social Security but the fact is I worked for it & don't touch it. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Yvonne White (213) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 4:10 pm As a Baby Boomer & an American I feel ENTITLED to Every Right & EVERY Guaranteed benefit that I was Educated to Know was mine! Obviously politics has Down-graded my expectations Somewhat, but what I have known can't be "un-known" as Easily as the young can simply be left Uneducated..so it will be a L-o-n-g time before politicians can Safely screw over the aging masses!;) Or am I alone in this thinking? Gotta find that Gray Panthers recruitment letter..;) Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Diane O. (135) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 4:56 pm I believe what Kit is trying to say is that the word "entitlements" in our country has gotten a bad name. People in America are receiving medicare who have never paid a dime into it. People in America are also receiving social security who have never paid a dime into it. These people feel entitled to receive these benefits even though unlike many Americans who have paid into it they have not paid into it. So, those who haven't paid into anything feel "entitled" to receive the same benefits as people who have paid into it. Don't get me started on the illegals who are also receiving social security and medicare who haven't paid a dime into it. For me personally, I hope I never have to take social security. But, the government tells me I have to start taking it at age 68 or 69. The government also says that I must go on medicare at age 65 when I actually want to keep my private insurance carrier. In fact, I would like it just fine never to have to go on medicare. Save that for the people who need it. Millions of Americans don't want medicare. They can afford private insurance. See how screwed up the system is? If medicare would just allow only those who need to go on medicare apply for it and leave the rest of us alone just think how that would reduce the cost of medicare! But our government insists that all Americans must go on medicare at age 65. And now we have ObamaCare....how lucky can we be? Not only can we not have excellent healthcare that we can afford to pay for it but we must now be told which procedures we can have and which ones we can't because ObamaCare won't allow it. See how ridiculous this is? Leave Americans who can afford private health care alone and lighten the burden on the taxpayers. But, no, that's not the way it works. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Diane O. (135) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 4:58 pm Regarding medicare, I don't even care that I paid into medicare. I simply don't want to be on it. So, keep my money and spend it on one of those Americans who have never paid a dime into it and leave me alone. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Diane O. (135) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 5:15 pm Same with ObamaCare....I want no part of it. I just want the government to leave me alone and let me decide for myself what I feel is best for me. If our country embraced this mentality that millions of Americans don't want to go on a government controlled healthcare plan and can afford to pay for their own private insurance would that no lesson the financial overburden the already overburdens medical expenses facing the taxpayers today? The only way out as I see it is to invest yearly in concierge medicine which is an upcoming option for many Americans. Primary care doctors in this system will continue to see their patients who are forced on medicare whether they need it or not because of the annual fee that is paid to them which pays them what they deserve to be paid for seeing patients. These concierge doctors are dropping down from 2,000 patients a year to 600 patients a year. Finally, the upper tier physicians have found a way to be compensated adequately for the work they do for paying patients instead of what the government/Obamacare tells them they are worth. Works for me. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Diane O. (135) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 5:26 pm There's always a way to outfox the fox. Concierge medicine is doing just that. They have an enrollment period. Only those who pay the fee will see their preferred physician. This gives the physicians the extra compensation they deserve. Why is this important? Because the physicians do not want to be over run with medicare and medicaid patients because the government pays them $20.00 for a visit when they can get $50 to $60 a visit from a paying patient. None of us can blame the physicians. They easily spent well over $200,000 for their medical education and the government expects them to be satisfied with being paid substandard costs? It doesn't work that way in our country. The best physicians are invited into the "concierge medicine" concept. They will be in a position to refer their patients to the "best" doctors when the need arises. What I love about America is that innovation begins here and this is a very good example. The government hates it I am sure but Americans will always resist being controlled by the government. And, that's a good thing. Obamacare should be for those Americans who need it and hopefully with millions of Americans opting for the concierge route it will enable ObamaCare or medicare/medicaid to have the flexibility to offer better care for those enrolled in it. I call it a win/win. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Armand B. (68) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 5:34 pm TU Kit. Are bribes considered entitlements I wonder... Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Kit B. (294) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 5:41 pm Most probably Armand, some consider bribes their proper remuneration for being in a given position,say Congress for one. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Kit B. (294) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 5:42 pm I am certain that Ayn Rand never expected to be dependent on Social Security and Medicare, and yet, she was. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Diane O. (135) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 5:50 pm None of us should be forced to go on Medicare, Kit. Yes, we paid into it but we don't want to have to go on it. Give what we paid into it to those who have never paid into it. It lifts the burden of the escalating costs of medicare to the taxpayers. No, I'm not the 1%. I'm a middle class American who has charted my life course to be personally responsible for what I want in what I consider a quality lifestyle. I'm willing to give what I paid into medicare to someone else who needs it. I not only do not need it I don't want it shoved down my throat. I'll happily give it to someone who actually needs it. What is your response, Kit? I'm sure it will be good. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Angelikanomail Roll (75) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 5:55 pm and she had no shame accepting it? Wow Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Diane O. (135) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 6:06 pm What is not being said here is that the majority of Americans have excellent credit, have paid off their mortgages, have money in savings and retirement investment accounts. Yes, we have paid into social security although we know it was always the worst investment anyone can make financially but we paid into it knowing full well there was no way in hell we could live on one check. When Obama stepped in during the mortgage meltdown and tampered with the natural recovery of the real estate market he was wrong to do so. What he didn't understand that millions of Americans had the credit and money to step in and buy up the foreclosures in record time. However, once he tampered with that natural recovery by realigning mortgages which was responsible for months of red tape meanwhile the values were continuing to drop, Americans stepped aside. Why on this earth would anyone lock into a foreclosure tied up for four months when the value was going to drop another $30,000.00 stay seated at the table? That's how incompetent Obama is. He needed to stay out of the fray but he had something he wanted to prove and unfortunately the only thing he proved was that he didn't know what the hell he was doing. Sadly, the foreclosures sat and sat and sat. Everyone lost on that deal....the banks, the mortgage companies, Americans who would've helped the economy by buying up foreclosures.....what a circus Obama created. And now millions of Americans are still under water because Obama stopped the natural recovery of the real estate market. We've had recessions in America since 1948. Some of you who may be interested should read the study on those recessions. I researched it. I read it. Most recessions in America recovered in 14 months real estate driven and real estate corrected. The subprime debacle presented a different "twist" but Americans with excellent credit could've solved this problem if only Obama had stepped out of the way. Obama gave new meaning to "enhancing a deep recession." Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Kit B. (294) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 6:16 pm No, Angelika she had no shame. She was still selling her drivel as her own delusional facts, even while taking both Social Security and Medicare. And the depression of 1873? How fast was that recovery? How many died of starvation when there was no government intervention? Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 John C. (77) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 6:22 pm So happy to do so, and thank you for your contribution! Please feel obliged to do the same. I cannot see how social security can be insolvent. Illegals must pay in if they work and will never be able to collect. I have paid in all my life and conservative people say the same thing to me. Excuse me but there is a problem here. I only have to count the Ferrari's to see where the problem with that program is. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Diane O. (135) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 6:26 pm Kit, you can hardly compare 1873 to what is going on today. That was way back then and this is now. The world has changed in case you haven't noticed. People died of starvation because there was no government money to make it better. Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged saying that capitalist gave up on society because innovation and hard work were not rewarded by society. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Diane O. (135) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 6:29 pm John, if I'm arguing with someone who is counting Ferrari's I'm arguing with somebody whose concentrating not just the top 1% but the top .03%. Don't be ridiculous, John. The wealth producers of this country don't own Ferrari's. The wealth producers of this country own Cadillacs. when the earn them. The Ferrari owners are Hollywood moguls who get their own tax breaks to keep California economy going on a bandaid. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
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| Roseann D. (151) | Sunday November 25, 2012, 6:36 pm The 1% has their own Entitlement program : BushCo tax cuts. From what I've seen, rather than creating jobs, they used close to 1 Trillion in tax cuts to fund defeating Obama and other candidates they disagreed with. Yet, another great reason to end the Bush Tax cuts. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
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ZURICH (Reuters) - U.S. jazz musician Marcus Miller was injured on Sunday along with members of his band when their bus crashed in Switzerland, killing the driver, police said.
The two-time Grammy winner was travelling with 10 members of his band from Monte Carlo in Monaco to Hengelo in the Netherlands when the bus crashed on the highway near the town of Schattdorf in central Switzerland.
A Swiss police spokesman said the driver died from his injuries. The reserve driver, Miller and the members of his band were all injured but not seriously, he said, declining to give further details.
Miller, who plays keyboard and clarinet as well as electric bass, has collaborated with Miles Davis and Luther Vandross and was on tour to promote his album Renaissance.
Earlier this year, 22 children and six adults returning from on a ski trip organized by a Belgian school were killed in a bus crash in Switzerland.
(Reporting by Emma Thomasson; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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Some Texas parents are upset over a history lesson that depicts the Boston Tea Party as an act of terrorism.
The historical protest against taxation without representation will mark its 239th anniversary next month. But a report by The Blaze, a right-wing site started by Glenn Beck, reveals that as recently as this January, the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative included a lesson plan that portrays the Boston Tea Party as a non-patriotic act, instructing teachers to read a story to their students as a recent news report:
News report: New Act of Terrorism A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the?property of private citizens today at our nation?s busiest port. Although?no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise,?considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the?perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and?apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help?of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities?from the authorities. It is believed that the terrorist attack was a?response to the policies enacted by the occupying country?s?government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens.
The lesson plan then asks teachers to ask students if the event in the news report meets the definition of a terrorist attack, and whether the act is "from a previous time in our history."
The lesson is a product of CSCOPE, a nonprofit offshoot of the Texas Education Service Centers of 20 media and "education service" centers established in 1965 across the state's school districts, playing "an integral role in the provision of necessary and essential services to school districts and charter schools in the implementation of school reform and school improvement." CSCOPE is reported to have received about $25 million in funding last year.
The Texas Education Service Centers have been charged with preparing the state's teachers to meet the state's new, more rigorous State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness standardized exams. The Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative -- the group in question -- was formed by 19 of the 20 centers.
The issue is igniting fury among parents and teachers upset with what they call the state's opaque methods of approving curriculum and lessons. It also echoes a similar battle two years ago, when two civil rights organizations sought federal review of the state's public education after state lawmakers passed curricular changes that the groups said "were made with the intention to discriminate."
The Texas State Board of Education had adopted a social studies and history curriculum that amended or watered down the teaching of the civil rights movement, religious freedoms, America's relationship with the United Nations and hundreds of other topics.
A report out last year by Keith Erekson, an assistant professor of history at The University of Texas at El Paso, says that Texas K-12 standards in history are inadequate, ineffective and "fail to meet the state's college readiness standards." The report notes that the Fordham Institute gave the state's history standards a "D" grade, calling it a "politicized distortion of history" that is "both unwieldy and troubling" while "offering misrepresentations at every turn."
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For the fourth year in a row, business students from around the world rated Google as the company they would most like to work for.?The World?s Most Attractive Employers 2012?report, produced by employer branding firm Universum, asked tens of thousands of business students from the 12 largest economies in the world to identify where they would like most to be hired out of school from a list companies based around the world.
Included on the final list of the most attractive companies are major tech giants like Google, bank holding companies like Goldman Sachs and accounting firms like KPMG. 24/7 Wall St. analyzed company financials, brand valuations, and ratings of these companies by current employees to identify how they manage to be so attractive to potential employees. Based on Universum?s 2012 list, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 13 companies everyone wants to work for.
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One factor many of these companies have in common is the fact that they have been able to market themselves as very innovative. In an interview with 24/7 Wall St., Camille Kelly, Vice President of Employer Branding at Universum, explains that this generation of students in particular prioritizes being on the cutting edge of technology.
?Innovation means to a student that there is going to be new challenges, and that they?re going to continue to be able to work on cutting-edge technology,? she says. Of the 13 companies identified as most attractive for prospective employees, five made the Thomson Reuters list of the 100 most innovative companies in the world. Kelly adds that in the case of Google, which did not make the Reuters list, the tech giant branded itself as a very innovative company.
By far, the industry with the most representation on this list is accounting. All of the Big Four accounting firms -- PwC, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, and KPMG -- are not only all on this list, but in the top 10. Kelly explains that accounting firms have been able to, despite the lack of glamour in their industry, successfully brand the business as well as their specific companies as attractive, lucrative places to work.
The 13 most attractive companies are, for the most part, also powerful global brands. Of the 13 companies voted as most attractive by the students, eight are on Interbrand?s 2012 list of the 100 most valuable global brands. BrandZ, which produces a similar list, also ranks seven of these 13 companies among the 100 most valuable global brands.
Kelly explains that ?there is definitely a strong relationship between a strong consumer brand and a strong employer brand? because any prestige and stability are important to students. As a result, prospective employees are more likely to be attracted to companies with familiar products.
Being financially successful also appears to impact the degree to which companies are considered attractive. Most of the 13 companies reported healthy earnings and strong growth over the past several years. For example, Apple?s revenue has more than quintupled in the past few years.
These companies also tend to have highly regarded workplace environments. Companies like Apple, Google, and Ernst & Young, regularly receive accolades for being great places to work. According to a Glassdoor survey of employees, seven of these 13 companies are in the top 50 places to work in the U.S.
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Based on the World?s Most Attractive Employers, a report by New York-based global employer branding firm Universum, 24/7 Wall St. identified the 13 companies students most-wanted to work for in 2012. We also reviewed?Fortune?s 100 Best Companies to Work For and Glassdoor?s Best Places to Work in order to identify the best workplaces for current employees. We considered two studies on the value of the companies? core brands, one by Interbrand and another by BrandZ. Additionally, we also considered information on the world?s most innovative companies from Thomson Reuters? Top 100 Global Innovators. Revenue and profit listed for these companies was for the most recent full fiscal year.
1. Google
????????? Interbrand rank:?4
????????? Number of employees:?53,546
????????? Revenue:?$37.9 billion
????????? Net income:?$9.7 billion?
Google tops the list of the World?s Most Attractive Employers, a position the company has now held for the past four years. The company also ranks first on?Fortune?s 100 Best Companies to Work For, and it isn?t hard to see why.?Fortune?points out that the company?s headquarters, dubbed the Googleplex, contains bocce courts, a bowling alley and 25 cafes company?wide. ?Employees are never more than 150 feet away from a well-stocked pantry,? one Google employee told the magazine. The company is also generally known for its laid-back corporate environment, with one of the company?s philosophies, ?you can be serious without a suit.? Employees, even those not at the top, have also reaped financial success. Software engineers at Google were paid a base salary of $128,336 in 2012, well above the average of $92,648 for all software engineers.
2. KPMG
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????????? Number of employees:?145,000
????????? Revenue:?$22.7 billion
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For the third consecutive year, KPMG was named by business students as the world?s second most desirable company to work for, according to Universum. Of this achievement, Chairman Michael Andrew noted that ?attracting top students into our firms enables us to bring in the best talent, expertise and knowledge to our clients.? The company earned at least $20 billion in revenue in both fiscal 2010 and fiscal 2011 from its auditing , advisory, and tax services businesses. However, in its survey of top employers,?Forbes?ranks KPMG the lowest among the Big Four accounting firms.
3. Procter & Gamble
????????? Interbrand rank:?n/a
????????? Number of employees:?126,000
????????? Revenue:?$83.7 billion
????????? Net income:?$10.8 billion
Procter & Gamble, the maker of household name products such as Crest toothpaste and Tide laundry detergent, has a host of job opportunities for business graduates in many of its departments. And P&G?s alumni have gone on to very successful careers. Prominent alumni include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, and Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. But the largest consumer goods company in the world has had challenges recently. Profit has declined for the last several years, and the company announced in February it planned to slash 5,700 jobs over a four-year time frame as part of a plan to cut $10 billion in costs.
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4. Microsoft
????????? Interbrand rank:?5
????????? Number of employees:?94,000
????????? Revenue:?$73.7 billion
????????? Net income:?$17.0 billion
Alongside Apple, Google and IBM, Microsoft is considered one of the top five brands in the world by both Interbrand and BrandZ. The company, which offers widely-used products such as Windows, Xbox, Skype and Microsoft Office, has been a top choice among business students in each of the past three years, according to Universum. Further, Microsoft has been listed in Fortune?s 100 Best Companies to Work For each year since 1998, although the company ranked just 76th in Fortune?s 2012 report. Additionally, the company had a mediocre quarter to begin fiscal 2013. Revenue in the first quarter fell by 8 percent and operating income fell by 26 percent year-over-year, while earnings per share fell from 68 cents in the first quarter of fiscal 2012 to 53 cents in fiscal 2013. The company?s stock has risen by 13.8 percent in the last 12 months, about the same as the S&P 500 index.
5. Deloitte
????????? Interbrand rank:?N/A
????????? Number of Employees:?193,000
????????? Revenue:?$31.3 billion
????????? Net income:?N/A
In each of the past three years, Deloitte has been one of the top five desired employers according to Universum, making the consulting group one of just three companies to achieve this distinction. The firm, which provides consulting, audit, tax and risk management services to clients worldwide, employs over 56,000 people and has annual revenues exceeding $13 billion in the U.S. alone. According to?Fortune, which rates Deloitte as one of its 100 Best Companies to Work For, the average pay for a Senior Consultant, the most common position at the company, is more than $86,000. The company has received accolades for military hiring, LGBT equality and women?s advancement.
Click here to read the rest of 24/7 Wall St.'s The Companies Everyone Wants to Work For
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/5-companies-everyone-wants-work-1C7226149
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Windows: If you're getting a little tired of the lock screen images in Windows 8, Chameleon is a free app that'll help you personalize it with new images or constantly-rotating images that change periodically.
Chameleon is available in the Windows App Store, and has built-in support for images from NASA's Astronomy Picture of The Day, National Geographic's photo of the day, Bing's picture of the day, and a number of other popular wallpaper sites. You can tell Chameleon to change the lock screen automatically after a given period of time in the options by itself, or you can browse the collections of images and add them to your own pool of images that Chameleon will choose from.
Windows 8 can automatically rotate wallpapers, so you don't need another app for that, but if you want a little something new and interesting every time you sit down to unlock your Windows 8 PC or tablet, Chameleon can do it for you. Plus, it's completely free.
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Lung cancer and mesothelioma are two illnesses that are typically connected with exposure to asbestos. Pleural mesothelioma refers to a kind of mesothelioma that affects the lining of the chest cavity ad the lungs. Pleural mesothelioma is also called mesothelioma lung cancer.
Mesothelioma lung cancer is the most commonly-occurring kind of mesothelioma, accounting for more than two-thirds of all mesothelioma cases.
Mesothelioma lung cancer? affects the pleura, which refers to the membrane that envelops the lungs and the chest. Like the other kinds of mesothelioma, mesothelioma lung cancer can be tricky to identify as well as being commonly misdiagnosed. Thus, if you have been previously exposed to asbestos, you should notify your doctor in order to properly identify mesothelioma lung cancer.
Even though a finding of mesothelioma lung cancer is definitely grim, it does not mean that the patient does not have options. There are new treatment options available in addition to different clinical trials.
CAUSES
The cause of mesothelioma lung cancer is no other than asbestos. Asbestos fibers are tiny, almost weightless, tough and easily carried by the wind. They are used in different construction and industrial projects.
Asbestos is easily breathed in or ingested and its small size allows it to easily enter the tiniest passageways in the lungs directly to the pleura. Asbestos works by ruining the natural defense mechanism of the body.
Symptoms
The symptoms of mesothelioma lung cancer are non-specific and can also occur in less threatening medical conditions. On the other hand, if have been previously exposed to asbestos, it is advisable to take be proactive and observant regarding the possible symptoms of mesothelioma lung cancer. You should go for frequent checkups with a doctor and take care that he knows of your apprehensions as well as your contact with asbestos.
Mesothelioma lung cancer is dose-dependent which means that you have a bigger risk of getting it the longer and more significantly exposed you are to asbestos. It also has an impact on the speed of your diagnosis with mesothelioma lung cancer though this illness can have long periods of latency spanning ten to forty years from exposure to the asbestos.
Breathlessness
Aside from this, the patient may also experience some coughing. In rare cases, the patient may acquire huskiness or he can cough up blood.
Chest pain
This is typically a nonspecific symptom and it can be felt in the shoulder, arm or upper abdomen. This symptom, along with breathlessness, are the most common symptoms and they are also commony the first symptoms to present.
Weight Loss
Unexplained reduction in weight is mentioned in one-third of all cases of mesothelioma lung cancer.
Pleural effusion
This symptom is caused by an excessive build up of fluid between the lungs and chest linings. Pleural effusion can lead to a difficulty in breathing and chest pain but it may also have no symptoms in which case it can be detected during a physical exam or on an x-ray.
Night sweats
This is an uncommon sign of mesothelioma lung cancer and can be accompanied by chills and fever.
Source: http://lungmesothelioma.net/an-introduction-to-mesothelioma-lung-cancer/
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Kris Kristofferson -- Oxford scholar, athlete, U.S. Army helicopter pilot, country music composer, one-time roustabout, film actor, singer, lover of women, three times a husband and father of eight -- seems ready to meet his maker. At least, that was the clear impression he left with an audience of middle-aged-and-upwards fans at a concert in Geneva this week, a message underscored by his 28th and latest album, "Feeling Mortal" and its coffin-dark cover. ...
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Samsung has never been shy about introducing outlandish new hardware, and so its latest high-end hardware for China shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. The Samsung SCH-W2013 sports a vintage flip phone chassis with up-to-date internals from the Korean manufacturer. Inside there's a 1.4GHz quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, expandable via microSD card. The screens are both 3.7-inch SuperAMOLED dealies at WVGA (800x480) resolution.
On the software side, it's powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Samsung's TouchWiz UI; presumably both have been tweaked to accommodate the unusual form factor. Connectivity comes in the form of two SIM slots -- one for GSM, and one CDMA-flavored.
Even more outlandish is the fact that the W2013 is apparently designed for (and marketed by) actor and martial artist Jackie Chan. Engadget reports that the phone was unveiled at an elaborate charity concert, where Chan was on hand to collect his very own W2013. As for pricing, the phone is a luxury device, and so will reportedly run you somewhere in the region of $3,000 (yes, that's the correct number of zeroes).
Any takers?
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