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Friday, August 5, 2011
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Florida's Political Rising Stars for 2012 (ContributorNetwork)
Florida is usually a closely watched state during election years. With its flamboyant and controversial politicians currently on the rise, 2012 promises to be no exception. The Republicans have the often-outspoken U.S. Rep. Allen West and current Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos. The Democrats have West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel.
Allen West won a tight, contentious 2010 victory over Democrat Ron Klein to represent District 22 in the U.S. House. A former U.S. Army colonel and current Tea Party star, he's gone on to make waves in his first term as the African American Republican who bucks the system.
He's already in trouble with moderates and liberals (but lauded by the Tea Party) for calling down President Obama's ideology that allegedly doesn't label extreme Islamic terrorism what it is, and contradicting Harry Reid for saying the Tea Party won't last. He's on the bad side of conservatives who are already trying to impeach Florida Gov. Rick Scott through several Facebook campaigns, and for siding with Scott on his refusal to accept federal dollars for high-speed rail.
West's website shows him strong on energy, job creation, remaining friends with Israel, and tough on terror ("Liberals in Congress have provided nothing but lip service while the rest of the world continues to condemn this nation's right to defend itself against continued terror").
Klein announced to D.C.'s Roll Call that he won't run against West again, but West will have a new Democratic challenger in Lois Frankel.
Frankel has reached her term limit as West Palm Beach mayor. She's a match for West with her forceful style and a contentious record, having been slammed in her first mayoral term, then cleared, of links to corruption by two of her city commissioners. Frankel boldly challenged the two-term mayor rule by collecting petitions to run a third term. That effort was unsuccessful.
On March 22, she announced to Palm Beach's local news channel 5 that she'll run against West.
Frankel served in Florida's house for 14 years before her successful bid for mayor. Her official mayoral website boasts the six-time house re-election, a landslide re-election as mayor, her rejuvenation of downtown Palm Beach and public safety budget.
Her "Lois Frankel for Congress" site has one page with one headline: "Contribute," and a link for volunteer sign-ups.
An early Viewpoint Florida poll shows West ahead of Frankel, and the poll speculates this could make him a target for the Democratic National Committee.
A third up-and-comer, but with his sight set on the U.S. Senate, is Senate President Mike Haridopolos. He will try for Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson's seat. Haridopolos' 2012 campaign website is already up and running, stating on the homepage that he wants to revitalize the economy by "empowering individuals, not governments, and by preserving opportunity for families and innovators, and not power for bureaucrats and politicians."
Haridopolos was first elected to state senate in 2002. He demonstrated leadership by forming a caucus against more state taxes. He most recently made headlines in early March with his statement to Newsmax (still proudly listed on his website) that Washington D.C. is broken and the government is "spending us into oblivion."
Why no Marco Rubio among these Top three rising stars?
Marco Rubio, the surprise winner of the U.S. Senate seat representing Florida over former Gov. Charlie Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meeks, has been on the GOP wish list to run for president in 2012. But Rubio has repeatedly stated he won't run for president, and confirmed that as recently as this morning to The Hill's Briefing Room.
Rubio states he is happy in the U.S. Senate and wants to continue doing the best job he can for Floridians...in fact, going so far as to say he wants to be the best U.S. senator Florida's ever had.
Now they're asking, how about VP?
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Why Business Need Some Safety Training? - Free Content, Documents ...
It is well known fact that these days there are some categories of jobs are considered to be rather risky by their origin and yet still are quite vital to be handled. It is well known that that fire, ambulance and police experience a constant risk each and every time they need to drive through the heavy traffic in high speed towards the place of an incident. Firemen are risking their health and lives when stepping into the burning buildings to save human beings lives. In all the situations of the type some element of danger comes as a vital part and parcel of the work they need to handle. But the truth is that yet nobody should ever suffer of some risk that is absolutely unnecessary.
The fact is that the potential dangers are normally present in almost any type of working life. If you search the WWW your will doubtlessly find a good deal of stories about people in what were hurt in the most harmless situations. The truth is that there will always be some freak accidents of the kind in any type of life, but it is a smart idea nevertheless to take some effective precautions to minimize the possibility of them occurring. For example for workers involved in building it is a smart idea to have some type of scaffolding training.
It goes without any sayings that health and safety is about more than just preventing potential accidents. In a great deal of jobs workers have suffered long-term malady or illness as a result of some lack of basic protection and unsatisfactory working conditions. But the most recent reason why people get hurt in their working place is their negligence and lack of necessary skills. So, if you want your workers handle their duties effectively it is a wise thing that they attend scaffolding training that are freely available nowadays.
It is true that any person running a business that employs human labour will want to reduce the potential risk of injury to his employees in the case it is any possible. This is done both from a general sense of responsibility and naturally in order to minimize lost work time as well as the challenges of compensation claims and legal action. Nobody wants to get involved in a legal responsibility.
In order to achieve relevant safety at work most major organizations and companies employ dedicated health and safety managers, whose job is basically to make certain that the requirements and need of health and safety legislation and general practice are considered. For small to medium sized organizations it frequently makes a truly good sense to get the work of scaffolding training of an independent, external provider. Having a safe business is indeed the dream of all businessmen.
Source: http://articlesblogs.info/business/workplace-safety/why-business-need-some-safety-training/
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Monday, August 1, 2011
Late attempt at debt-limit deal to avert default
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appear at a news conference as the debt crisis goes unresolved on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, July 30, 2011.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appear at a news conference as the debt crisis goes unresolved on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, July 30, 2011.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks during a news conference on debt ceiling legislation on Capitol Hill on Saturday, July 30, 2011, in Washington. White House aides said Obama would receive an update Saturday from Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, returns to his office from the House floor as the debt crisis showdown continues on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, July 30, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The White House is seen through an iron fence, Saturday, July 30, 2011 in Washington, as the debt crisis remains unresolved. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks to reporters following a Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, July 30, 2011.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House and Republican congressional leaders made significant progress toward a deal to avert a potentially catastrophic first-ever government default threatened for early next week, according to officials familiar with the talks.
Under a plan negotiated late Saturday night, the nation's debt limit would rise in two steps by about $2.4 trillion and spending would be cut by a slightly larger amount, the officials said. The first stage ? about $1 trillion ? would take place immediately and the second later in the year.
Congress would be required to vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, but none of the debt limit increase would be contingent on its approval. The officials who described the talks did so on condition of anonymity, citing their sensitive nature.
President Barack Obama is seeking legislation to raise the government's $14.3 trillion debt limit by enough to tide the Treasury over until after the 2012 elections. He has threatened to veto any legislation that would allow a recurrence of the current crisis next year but has agreed to Republican demands that deficits be cut ? without tax increases ? in exchange for additional U.S. borrowing authority.
Without a compromise in place by Tuesday, administration officials say the Treasury will run out of funds to pay all the nation's bills. The subsequent default could prove catastrophic for the U.S. economy by causing interest rates to rise and financial markets to sink, sending shockwaves around the world, they say. With financial markets closed for the weekend, lawmakers had a little breathing room, but not much. Asian markets begin opening for the new work week when it is late Sunday afternoon in the U.S. capital.
"There is very little time" Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. He called for an end to political gamesmanship, saying "the time for compromise on behalf of the American people is now."
One official commenting on the late night negotiations said the two sides had settled on general concepts, but added there were numerous details to be worked out ? and no assurance of a final agreement.
Still, word of significant progress after weeks of stalemate offered the strongest indication yet that an economy-crippling default might be averted.
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid postponed until Sunday a test vote on a his own debt limit proposal that had been scheduled for shortly after midnight to give negotiators time to work out an agreement.
"There are many elements to be finalized," he cautioned. "There is still a distance to go."
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said at a joint news conference with House Speaker John Boehner earlier that he was confident a deal could be reached "in the very near future and resolve this crisis in the best interests of the American people."
Reid, after a meeting at the White House with Obama and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, initially disagreed with that optimistic assessment.
Obama needs Congress to approve an increase in the government's borrowing authority, known as the debt ceiling. Past increases have been routine, but Republicans, citing the giant U.S. deficit, have demanded huge spending cuts as a condition for approving the increase.
After weeks of intense partisanship, there was renewed talk of compromise that contrasted sharply with earlier developments as both the House and Senate convened for unusual Saturday sessions.
McConnell and Boehner held their news conference shortly after the House of Representatives rejected a Senate Democratic bill drafted by Majority Leader Harry Reid to raise the government's debt limit by $2.4 trillion and cut spending by $2.2 trillion.
The House vote was 246-173, mostly along party lines and after debate filled with harsh, partisan remarks. The vote was unusual in that Republicans lined up to kill Reid's legislation even though it hadn't even cleared the Senate. It was orchestrated as political payback because late Friday Reid had engineered the demise of a House-passed bill hours after it passed.
Shortly after the House vote, Obama stepped back into the debt-ceiling talks, calling Democratic leaders Reid and Pelosi to the White House for a meeting.
Before the House vote, Republicans said the Reid spending-cuts plan was filled with gimmicks and would make unacceptable reductions in defense spending.
Pelosi said Boehner "chose to go to the dark side" when he changed his own legislation to satisfy tea party-backed Republican lawmakers and other critics, prompting catcalls from the Republican side of the aisle.
Not even Democrats seemed to like Reid's measure very much, although many emerged from a closed-door meeting of the rank and file saying they would vote for it.
With their votes, many Democrats signaled their readiness for compromise by voting to cut spending without raising taxes. Many Republicans insist taxes must not be raised to cut into federal deficits, even for the wealthiest Americans and for big oil companies.
There was no doubt about the outcome of Sunday's planned procedural vote in the Senate, either, unless compromise intervened. A total of 43 Republicans sent Reid a letter saying they would block the bill from advancing, enough to prevent it from coming to a final vote under Senate rules.
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Associated Press writers Donna Cassata, Matt Yancey and David Espo contributed to this story.
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