WEEK 54 The End

Bullied By The Boss Welcome to my blog. My pen name is Eva James. I'm an aspiring writer paying the bills working as a legal secretary. Relentlessly bullied by my boss, I looked for another job but the recession hit. This blog is both a revealing insight into workplace bullying and serves as an example of how comedy can be used to destroy or create. WEEK 1 starts the story and, as the weeks progress, you'll note what starts as laugh out loud banter soon spirals out of control. It's all true and, yes, I'm still there. If this blog demonstrates nothing else – it shows the power of [more...]

Date: 2010-04-14 15:24:00

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Senator Vitter doesn't know if Loving was correctly decided. at ...

Vitter graduated Tulane Law School in 1988. Loving v. Virginia, decided in 1967, was a unanimous Supreme Court decision that declared state anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws unconstitutional. It is one of the bedrock civil rights cases, right up there with Brown. It is simply not credible for any lawyer to claim ignorance when asked about Loving. Anyway, this question did not come out of the blue. Several weeks ago, I invited Senator Vitter to condemn the racist Lousiana judge that refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple. Vitter passed, simply smiling at me [more...]

Date: 2009-11-18 18:33:39

NCCT Newsletter - May 2009

NCCT Specialty Courses. Crossword Puzzle. Another Must See Film. Word Search Puzzle. My Professional Center. Recently Posted Jobs. Upcoming Webinar. Book It! A Good Reminder for Everyone. Applied Phlebotomy Training Series .... Cherry Hill, NJ. Legal Secretary. Cherry Hill, NJ. Medical File Clerk. Cherry Hill, NJ. Medical Billing Coding. Cherry Hill, NJ. Medical Office Assistant. Cherry Hill, NJ. Medical Assistant. Cherry Hill, NJ. Dental Assistant. Cherry Hill, NJ [more...]

Date: 2009-05-05 07:00:00

Last years of prophet Kimball's life was an excruciating, fogged ...

In “Lengthen Your Stride,” Kimball’s personal secretary, D. Arthur Haycock, recalled this episode as a time that Kimball’s mind and body was strengthened by the Lord. “immediately afterward … the fog descended again,” Ed Kimball writes. In September 1981, Kimball suffered a subdural hematoma. There was a long hospitalization, and afterwards Kimball and his wife, Camilla, lived permanently with assistance in the top floor of the Hotel Utah. One of the earliest frustrations for Kimball was his loss of speech. Ed Kimball writes, “Sometimes he could speak fluently, but at other [more...]

Date: 2010-05-07 04:55:06

Picks for the First Obama Cabinet | 2012 Doomsday Predictions

Richardson is a Latino, has a boatload of experience and is just an all-around great story. Make him the first Latino Secretary of State. I’m sure that re-election in 2012 won’t be too difficult. Secretary of the Treasury: I’m going out on a limb here. But I would hope that the Secretary of the Treasury would be a guy like Warren Buffett, someone who knows the markets and is known for his pragmatic approach to business and life. With Buffett’s age and his business, I’m sure it won’t happen, but wouldn’t that be a score for the American people. Another solid pick would be: Jon [more...]

Date: 2010-05-07 02:49:51

BBC - Peston's Picks: The market consequences of a minority Tory ...

Or to put it another way, the warning made during the election campaign by Ken Clarke, the Tory Business Secretary, that the UK could find itself again asking for financial succour from the International Monetary Fund might be prescient rather than alarmist. Here's the painful irony. If there were another election in the autumn, fought against the backdrop of a flight from sterling, it would be all about the detail of how to slash the £160bn-odd deficit. That is the debate that many said we should have had over the past few weeks, but didn't - in the view of some - because the party leaders [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 10:11:35

NATO: Global Military Bloc Finalizes 21st Century Strategic ...

On May 5 its Secretary General Rasmussen delivered his monthly press briefing in Brussels and announced that he and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will hold a press conference on May 17 after NATO's Group of Experts presents its report on the Alliance's new Strategic Concept. The new military doctrine will be the first in this century, the first since the completion of NATO's precedent-setting large-scale air war in 1999 and its transition to fighting a ground war and counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan. It will be the 61-year-old bloc's first global warfighting [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 04:45:12

On Thursday, what's a school secretary to do? | The Education Report

At the OEA emergency meeting, we were told that any member of another union can call their boss and say, “There is a picket line, I don’t feel safe crossing it. I can’t go to work today.” —- and they won’t be docked a days pay. aly Says: April 27th, 2010 at 9:05 pm i’m sorry but that is the lamest excuse ever, and if it’s true then OEA better really think about how it goes about getting what it wants- your colleagues should never make you fear for your safety. i won’t be afraid thursday, but i’ll feel sad and uncomfortable. unfortunately those [more...]

Date: 2010-04-28 03:12:54

Buillding Trust as a Virtual Secretary

Just how virtual does a virtual secretary need to be to be true to the job title? My offices are based in Birmingham and I service clients across the length and breadth of the UK, into Europe, the Far East and Australia. Some of these I have never met and only correspond via email or Skype. Others I meet on a regular basis for client related work or at networking events. The question remains; in rarely meeting our employers how do we as virtual secretaries advertise our services and build a trusted network? For me the answer is simple – referral work. Word-of-mouth advertising means the [more...]

Date: 2010-03-12 23:29:24

Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc ...

Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., aprivate, not-for-profit organization that supports medical research andeducation at the university and the military medical community; and Onconova. 2 Stanislas Wawrinka in the second round of the ATP event in Shanghai.Roddick was leading 4-3 in the first set when he fell and hurt his knee. AuburnMark my words, Gus Malzahn will be a head coach at a BCS school within two years The scary part? He might be running the world within five 24 South FloridaEnjoy your win over Florida State, Bulls fans. They have disappointed fans [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 21:03:06

Shutting Down Free Speech

“We delayed the transition to HDTV and fought a big battle against the whole idea.” The drive to move news and information away from broadcast and similar platforms to broadband would change the paradigm of how content is created he explained. “eople will be permitted to create audiences that demand content instead of waiting for content to pull them together to shape an audience .” Hundt did not elaborate on his remarks. However, he did admit that the NBP is a stark departure from the current way of delivering news and [more...]

Date: 2010-05-06 09:57:17

In The Rear View Mirror: MOMs The Word

And you have to admit, the man knows how to shop a bargain!! DREAM SEQUENCE (DS). These are random, off-road detours along the lookout ledge of our own private Idaho. We also like to call these “Crazy Ivans”. HANK. 74th Secretary of the Treasury, Henry S. Paulson, Jr., nominated by President George W. Bush on 06/19/2006 and officially appointed on 06/28/2006. Former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. AKA 2008 Cannibal King contender. I-ROB. John A. Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch who resigned on January 22, 2009, right before Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis could sack him. Mr. Fix-It [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 05:18:00

Stabroek News - The Amaila Falls Road Project – whose synergy?

It is difficult to say which element of the award of the contract is – to borrow a word from Dr Roger Luncheon – more ‘sinister,’ the method and the vehicle used by the government first to direct and then defend the contract to the awardee, or the attempt by the awardee to mask its incredible incapacity to perform such a contract. There is big money involved, if not from this phase of the project, then later from the real prize, the construction of the hydro-power plant with a price tag of several hundreds of millions of US dollars. The characters in this extravagant saga make an [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 09:11:19

The Early Word: Primary Results - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

And in North Carolina, Senator Richard M. Burr easily won the Republican race, while Elaine Marshall, the secretary of state, and Cal Cunningham, an Iraq veteran and former state lawmaker, are headed for a June 22 runoff for the Democratic nomination. On the House side in Indiana, Representatives Dan Burton and Mark Souder narrowly won their Republican contests. Kate Phillips has the roundup, and Carl Hulse provides perspective. The next set of big competitive Congressional primaries will be held on May 18 in Arkansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. While we’re on the topic, The Wall Street [more...]

Date: 2010-05-05 12:48:13

Our MM Mothers at Mormon Matters

She was a top-notch executive secretary, but she walked away from employment to raise her children.  When her first four pregnancies ended in miscarriages and a still-born daughter, my parents almost gave up having any biological children – but she wanted to try one more time, so my dad agreed.  The birth of my sister, followed by me 13 months later, followed by twins 11 1/2 months later led to a diagnosis that almost stopped the growth of their family again – but she wanted more children, so my dad agreed.  My mother had eight children, and I never heard her yell or raise her voice [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 11:15:57

Exposing Liberal Lies: She Shares the Views of Average Americans

And 'What I would say to them is, is that if the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are comfortable with it, I'm probably going to take my advice from them and not from Sarah Palin.' Palin came back, quick as a flash, sarcastically honoring 'the vast nuclear experience that he acquired as a community organizer, part-time senator, and full-time candidate.' Within hours, Obama was retracting his original statement. Finally, Palin has come down squarely on the side of Israel, Israel's right to expand, and a united Jerusalem. She fully supports Israel's right to [more...]

Date: 2010-05-04 02:27:00

AP review finds Obama's response to oil spill response evolved as ...

The fresh concerns would be outlined by the Coast Guard at a news conference that evening. It was not until the next day — nine days after the explosion and five days after first word the well was spewing oil — that the government would declare it a "spill of national significance."Critics have asked why the administration did not move more quickly on that declaration, even though the real-world impact is viewed by many as largely symbolic.This came from Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.: "The American people deserve to know why the administration was slow to respond, why necessary equipment was [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 18:50:14

Cagle Blogs » Who Is The Real Obama? A Uniter or Divider?

Who Is The Real Obama? A Uniter or Divider? By Morton Kondracke | May 7th, 2010 | Comments: 6 | PERMALINK President Barack Obama certainly is not a socialist — let alone a communist — as some of his far-out detractors claim. But he and his aides certainly are in populist “whack industry” mode. >From BP to banks, health insurance companies to special interest lobbyists, Obama & Co. pass up no opportunity to slash and bash — except when they are asking for industry cooperation or appealing for national unity. The dichotomy between one rhetorical mood and the other is so pronounced [more...]

Date: 2010-05-07 21:38:38

Baltimore Nonviolence Center: White House Is Being Pressed to ...

But some of the administration’s leading liberal insiders, like Harold H. Koh, the State Department’s legal adviser, are pushing for the United States to join the ban. And even some Pentagon officials are said to favor a change. In a sign of the effort’s urgency, the White House is holding regular meetings with officials from the Pentagon and State Department. The administration has summoned outside experts, like Karl F. Inderfurth, a former senior diplomat who led the delegation to Ottawa in 1997, where the United States watched as 120 other countries signed the pact. “I’m [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 23:35:00

AWB Secretary General Embarrasses himself on TV | South Africa Rocks

The lady in the video does a good job of making her point, I can’t fault her debating skills or approach towards the AWB Secretary General. Yet he just can’t believe that this woman (I’m not sure whether it’s a sexist or racist disbelief) is interrupting him. He then storms out and in the process get’s the presenter so worked up that he has just about launched a new online me with: “Touch me on my studio” and the Secretary General’s guard responds with “I touch you on your studio,” is absolutely comedic. Now I do feel the need to commend the presenter on his reaction. He [more...]

Date: 2010-04-08 08:21:25

Count me in for the Death of Cursive « The Loadstone Rock

A recent article at Newsweek.com discussed the falling of cursive handwriting into disuse among the schoolchildren today.  Many of the parents interviewed in the article seemed to applaud the end of cursive writing, arguing that it held their children back as a skill no longer needed nor necessary in the contemporary, computer-oriented world.  In the comments section were the rebuttals of a number of individuals whose reaction to the article must have been something like unto that of the Inquisition when faced with rank heresy.  There was outrage, contempt and a considerable amount of [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 02:35:49

The Legal Blotter » Blog Archive » The Center for Legal Studies: A ...

They currently offer Paralegal, Legal Nurse Consultant, Legal Secretary and many other programs through more than 100 institutions nationwide. Students are able to choose any one of the many prestigious schools that are partnered with the center. upon completion, certificates are issued from the students school of choice to market themselves toward gainful employment. The purpose of these courses is to provide a quick, effective and affordable method of entering a new career field. The mission of The Center for Legal Studies has never been more relevant than it is today. with unemployment [more...]

Date: 2010-02-06 15:15:10

Treasury Secretary Geithner Makes The Case For Financial Reform ...

March 22, 2010 6:41 PM Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner today made his strongest argument yet for why Congress must enact the most sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulations seen in generations. “We are still living with the same financial system that brought us to the edge of collapse, and the success of the crisis response, without financial reform, will make future crises more likely,” Geithner told the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington. “That system,” he said, “produced terrible failures in consumer protection, failures that eventually [more...]

Date: 2010-03-22 22:41:37

The Mexican Invasion and Occupation: Who Pays? ANOTHER FORM OF ...

HOMELAND SECURITY UNDER OBAMA IS NOW THE Dept. of HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP Through Our Open & Undefended Borders Facts Contradict That Border Is More Secure Than Ever Last Updated: Mon, 05/03/2010 - 11:50am In the same week that the nation’s Homeland Security secretary assured Congress the southern border is more secure than ever, an Arizona sheriff deputy got shot by Mexican drug smugglers and an illegal immigrant drop house got busted in separate areas. Is it possible that Janet Napolitano misspoke at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when she confidently [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 16:33:00

Pajamas Media » More Global Warming Profiteering by Obama Energy ...

Surprising documents made available to this author reveal that Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi has a huge financial stake in companies likely to profit from the Obama administration’s “green” policies. Zoi, who left her position as CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection — founded by Al Gore — to serve as assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, now manages billions in “green jobs” funding. But the disclosure documents show that Zoi not only is in a position to affect the fortunes of her previous employer, ex-Vice President Al Gore, but that she [more...]

Date: 2010-04-26 07:00:30

masterwordsmith-unplugged: THE POWER OF ONE WOMAN WHO NEVER VOTES

How queen gets last word on UK election After an election that left no party with a clear majority, the final decision over who becomes Britain's next prime minister could lie in the hands of one woman who never votes: The queen. As a head of state, Queen Elizabeth has numerous traditional roles when it comes to elections and government, yet these are usually no more than ceremonial. However, as with Thursday's vote that saw the opposition Conservatives secure more seats than Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party but not enough to form a working government, the queen's position becomes [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 13:06:00

Our Sovereignty Secretly At Risk

The three heavyweight co-chairs of the secret meetings were former Alberta Conservative premier and strong pro-FTA advocate Peter Lougheed, former U.S. secretary of state George Shultz and former Mexican secretary of the Treasury Pedro Aspe . .... Does anyone think a single person in the entire Harper government has uttered a similar word of complaint? Not a chance. An insider's notes. On the surface it may appear that not much happened at the August 2007 SPP meetings at [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 00:04:24

Political Pistachio: Orly Taitz vs. Damon Dunn for California ...

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - - John Adams Political Pistachio is the Blog Home of the Writer and Blog Talk Radio Host, Douglas V. Gibbs. Join the Political Pistachio Radio Revolution radio show at 7:00 PM Pacific on the Weekends at BlogTalkRadio.com/PoliticalPistachio. Contact us at douglasvgibbs [more...]

Date: 2010-05-05 03:47:00

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