The purpose of this blog is to expose the Arthur Group for what it is.
The Arthur Group, with offices in Minneapolis and Chicago, claims to help people secure a new position in exchange for a percentage of the first year's salary.
Please leave your comments about your experience with the Arthur Group. People need to be aware of the kind of business this is.
Bad Barry
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«Oldest ‹Older 1601 – 1800 of 3410 Newer› Newest»Wow all this anger is going to kill you remember it is only money. they got my money (4500.00) to, but wow take a breath.
You are only stiring up anger with in you writing this stuff, my shrink told me to just forget about it.
I did file with the AG but thats all.
Good Luck to us all!!!!!!
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
Jobless Report Is Worse Than Expected; Rate Rises to 9.8% Sign in to Recommend
Published: October 2, 2009
The American economy lost 263,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, the government reported on Friday, dimming the prospect of any meaningful job growth by the end of the year.
The Labor Department’s monthly snapshot of unemployment dashed hopes that the pace of job losses would continue to slow as the economy clawed its way back from a deep recession. Economists had been hoping for 175,000 monthly job losses.In one bright spot, fewer jobs were lost in August than riginally reported — with 201,000 positions gone instead of earlier figures of 216,000.
But overall, the report offered little good news for the 15.1 million unemployed people in the United States. The number of hours worked stagnated. Overtime hours slipped in many industries. And temporary help companies — typically, among the first to rebound after a recession — shed 1,700 jobs.
Indeed, while many businesses are making money again and seeing new orders trickle in, most are not ready to hire back the workers they laid off, even part-time.
To economists, that suggests that unemployment could remain at historically high levels through next year, if not longer.
“It’s a little bleak,” said Marissa Di Natale, senior economist at Moody’s Economy.com. “We’re not going to see job growth until the second half of next year. And even when it does start to grow, it’s going to be slow.”
The economy has been bleeding jobs every month, without interruption, for nearly two years. More than 15 million people in the United States are now unemployed, and more are working part-time jobs for less pay, or have given up looking for work altogether.
“This is still severe,” said Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project. “It’s not going to be turning around as fast as people want.”
At the same time, other measures of the economy are beginning to waver, signaling that the initial phase of the recovery — a sharp rebound from a deep bottom — may be giving way to a long grind higher, marked by uncertainty and pain for many.
For Democrats, a slow recovery — and an unemployment rate at a 26-year high — could quickly become a liability ,if businesses are not hiring by next year’s mid-term elections.
The Obama administration has said job losses would be even worse without the tax credits and spending projects from the $787 billion stimulus, but Republicans have pilloried the programs as ineffective.
In Elizabeth, N.J., Stephanie Wheeler has been watching her savings and unemployment benefits run out. A year after she lost her job at a data processing company, she has $800 left in her savings account and six more weeks of $379 unemployment checks. After that, she said she does not know what to do.
“It’s terrifying,” Ms. Wheeler, 56, said. “I have an apartment. I’ve been here for eight years. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m petrified of being set out on the street.”
She said she has been applying for work as an administrative assistant, receptionist and in customer service, and resorted to paying an online agency $206 to update her résumé, after she said she was guaranteed a job or her money back. So far, she has gotten neither. She said she has been paring back her expenses as best she can, starting with meals.
“I try to eat less,” she said.
Some 52 percent of unemployed people have exhausted state jobless benefits, and some are reaching the end of the makeshift strands of emergency extensions. The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would provide another 13 weeks of benefits, but a similar bill has stalled in the Senate over questions of whether it should only cover people in the hardest-hit states.
On Thursday, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, nodded at the problems that long-term unemployment creates for workers, saying that they risk losing skills and becoming less employable if they detach from the labor force.
As a construction worker, Richard Hall, 44, of Winter Springs, Fla., spent two decades pouring concrete, framing buildings and helping to erect glittering high-rises, but it has been a year since the company he worked for him shut down. He said he has found no other building jobs in Florida, and his final unemployment check, for $235, arrived on Wednesday. Now, he said, he and a friend drive around in a pickup truck and pick up old washing machines, ovens and loose metal from the street and sell it for scrap.
“They pay you by however many pounds,” he said. “It’s better than sitting around doing nothing. That gets old real quick.”
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That question is reverberating through Wall Street and Washington after the abrupt resignation of Kenneth D. Lewis, the bank’s beleaguered chief executive. On Thursday, a day into this remarkable boardroom drama, bank insiders and a rapt audience in the financial community were grasping for a clear answer.
No sooner did news of Mr. Lewis’s resignation break Wednesday evening than the handicapping began. Wall Street odds-makers tossed out the names of half a dozen possible successors. But Bank of America directors, many of them stunned by the turn of events, have only just begun to consider their options. The search is expected to take weeks.
For all the names being floated, few banking executives have the skill and experience to run Bank of America, a coast-to-coast giant with nearly $1 trillion in deposits — and a bunch of giant-size problems.
Some executives with the right résumé have, like Mr. Lewis, fallen from grace during the financial crisis. Few would come without baggage. While federal regulators will not handpick the successor, they will effectively have veto power of the board’s choice, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Whoever gets the job will face the daunting task of guiding Bank of America into its post-bailout future. The bank has yet to repay the many billions of taxpayer dollars that propped it up during the worst of the crisis.
Its controversial takeover of Merrill Lynch, which nearly undid both companies, remains problematic. And the bank’s legal troubles — and Mr. Lewis’s — are formidable.
So while Mr. Lewis transformed Bank of America into national behemoth, his successor must grapple with this troubled legacy. The new leader must repair the bank’s strained relationship with its regulators, and perhaps, set it on a new course.
“It is not only the choice of who is going to be the captain, but also what direction the ship needs to sail,” said Rakesh Khurana, a leadership and corporate governance professor at Harvard Business School.
Mr. Lewis, who intends to leave on Dec. 31, did not groom an heir. Indeed, his resignation came just two months after Bank of America’s board drew up a list of deputies who might fill the top job — but then refused to select one, believing that Mr. Lewis would stay, according to two people with knowledge of the board’s actions.
Now the board, in a state of upheaval, is moving quickly to interview several internal candidates. It plans to designate a group of directors on Friday to lead the search for Mr. Lewis’s replacement. It also plans to hire an executive search firm to review outside prospects.
One controversial option under consideration would be to name an interim chief executive, someone who might stay in the position for two or three years. An interim leader might be viewed as a lame duck — a significant risk, considering the bank’s challenges — but it would give Bank of America time to cultivate another executive to take over.
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Federal employees will not be allowed to text while driving, according to an executive order signed Wednesday night by President Obama.
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Department of Transportation Secretary Ray H. LaHood on Thursday announced the measures aimed at curbing what he called a deadly epidemic of distracted driving.
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The order covers federal employees when they are using government-provided cars or cellphones and when they are using their own phones and cars to conduct government business.
Separately, the federal government plans to ban text messaging by bus drivers and truckers who travel across state lines, and may also preclude them from using cellphones while driving, except in emergencies.
Ray H. LaHood, the transportation secretary, announced those and several other measures on Thursday, aimed at curbing what he called a deadly epidemic of distracted driving.
He made his announcement at a conference in Washington that included 300 academics, law enforcement officials, legislators, telecommunications and automobile industry representatives, as well as families of people killed by motorists who were talking on cellphones or text messaging.
“This meeting is probably the most important meeting in the history of the Department of Transportation,” Mr. LaHood said at the end of the two-day conference. He added that the order to restrict text messaging by federal employees behind the wheel “sends a very clear signal to the American public that distracted driving is dangerous and unacceptable.”
A spokeswoman for the Transportation Department said the order took effect immediately and involved 4.5 million federal employees, including military personnel.
According to the National Safety Council, a nonprofit safety advocacy group, several hundred companies have banned employees from using their cellphones while driving. That group says such bans improve safety, help limit the liability of employers when accidents do occur, and free employees from feeling pressure to respond immediately while they are behind the wheel.
The rules affecting interstate truckers and bus drivers will take longer to put in place and may be more nuanced.
Mr. LaHood said the rule would “ban text messaging altogether” by such drivers. But Rose A. McMurray, acting administrator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates the trucking industry, said there would first need to be a definition of “text messaging.”
The question facing the trucking industry in particular is what will become of the computers that thousands of long-haul truckers use in their cabs to communicate with dispatchers and do other work.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Cisco Systems continued to show just how serious it was about videoconferencing, announcing late Wednesday night the $3 billion acquisition of Tandberg, a Norwegian video communications company.
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Times Topics: Cisco Systems Inc.Cisco sells companies expensive, room-size videoconferencing systems known as TelePresence systems. Tandberg has similar technology but also sells smaller, cheaper conferencing units. In addition, Tandberg has specialized software for managing videoconferencing systems and for creating connections between systems that rely on different underlying technology.
“It really enables us to build out our portfolio,” said Ned Hooper, a senior vice president at Cisco.
Cisco’s corporate videoconferencing products require the company to outfit a customer’s conference room with several large display screens, networking equipment and even special tables, chairs and wall paint. By contrast, Tandberg has a range of gear, including high-definition video systems, that can sit on desks or be used with personal computers.
The all-cash tender offer has been recommended to Tandberg’s shareholders by that company’s directors and stands as an 11 percent premium over Tandberg’s closing price on Wednesday. Tandberg reported $809 million in revenue last year, and has close to $200 million in cash.
In recent years, Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif., has been one of the technology industry’s most aggressive companies when it comes to acquisitions. It has bought close to 40 companies in the last five years, including the $6.9 billion purchase of the set-top box maker Scientific Atlanta and the $2.9 billion purchase of the Web meeting software maker WebEx. This year, Cisco bought Pure Digital, which makes the popular Flip video camera for consumers, for $590 million.
The acquisitions have suited Cisco’s mission of backing products that generate more Internet traffic, which in turn drives demand for the networking hardware that has long been the core of its business.
The deals have also thrust Cisco into new markets like consumer electronics, business collaboration software and computer servers where the company now finds itself in direct competition with its traditional business partners, like Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and I.B.M.
During an interview last week, Cisco’s chief executive, John T. Chambers, boasted that the company had managed to move into 30 new markets through acquisitions and its own internal product development.
“We are involved in things that may shock you,” Mr. Chambers said, referring to things like smart-grid technology for municipal power systems and the construction of entertainment and networking systems for sports stadiums.
With $35 billion in cash — the most among technology companies — Cisco appears set to continue with this expansion.
“You will see us move with a lot of acquisitions over the next year,” Mr. Chambers said.
Still, companies like Cisco, Dell and EMC must find ways to match the heft of Hewlett-Packard and I.B.M., which have huge technology services businesses to complement their hardware and software pursuits.
Rather than acquiring a large services company, Cisco will continue to partner with independent players like Accenture and Wipro, Mr. Chambers said.
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Times Topics: Cisco Systems Inc.Cisco sells companies expensive, room-size videoconferencing systems known as TelePresence systems. Tandberg has similar technology but also sells smaller, cheaper conferencing units. In addition, Tandberg has specialized software for managing videoconferencing systems and for creating connections between systems that rely on different underlying technology.
“It really enables us to build out our portfolio,” said Ned Hooper, a senior vice president at Cisco.
Cisco’s corporate videoconferencing products require the company to outfit a customer’s conference room with several large display screens, networking equipment and even special tables, chairs and wall paint. By contrast, Tandberg has a range of gear, including high-definition video systems, that can sit on desks or be used with personal computers.
The all-cash tender offer has been recommended to Tandberg’s shareholders by that company’s directors and stands as an 11 percent premium over Tandberg’s closing price on Wednesday. Tandberg reported $809 million in revenue last year, and has close to $200 million in cash.
In recent years, Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif., has been one of the technology industry’s most aggressive companies when it comes to acquisitions. It has bought close to 40 companies in the last five years, including the $6.9 billion purchase of the set-top box maker Scientific Atlanta and the $2.9 billion purchase of the Web meeting software maker WebEx. This year, Cisco bought Pure Digital, which makes the popular Flip video camera for consumers, for $590 million.
The acquisitions have suited Cisco’s mission of backing products that generate more Internet traffic, which in turn drives demand for the networking hardware that has long been the core of its business.
The deals have also thrust Cisco into new markets like consumer electronics, business collaboration software and computer servers where the company now finds itself in direct competition with its traditional business partners, like Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and I.B.M.
During an interview last week, Cisco’s chief executive, John T. Chambers, boasted that the company had managed to move into 30 new markets through acquisitions and its own internal product development.
“We are involved in things that may shock you,” Mr. Chambers said, referring to things like smart-grid technology for municipal power systems and the construction of entertainment and networking systems for sports stadiums.
With $35 billion in cash — the most among technology companies — Cisco appears set to continue with this expansion.
“You will see us move with a lot of acquisitions over the next year,” Mr. Chambers said.
Still, companies like Cisco, Dell and EMC must find ways to match the heft of Hewlett-Packard and I.B.M., which have huge technology services businesses to complement their hardware and software pursuits.
Rather than acquiring a large services company, Cisco will continue to partner with independent players like Accenture and Wipro, Mr. Chambers said.
“I think that is a more scalable, faster-speed and less confrontational model,” he said.
As Cisco moves into new areas, it faces the difficult task of trying to find businesses with profits that can match those gained from its networking hardware. Cisco’s routers and switches produce 65 percent gross profit margins.
Mr. Hooper stressed that Tandberg had gross margins of 66 percent. “It fits squarely into our operating model,” he said.
Tandberg has had most of its success selling videoconferencing systems to large companies in North America and Europe. Cisco plans to use Tandberg’s technology to help it pursue smaller companies and eventually to sell to consumers, Mr. Hooper said.
A number of companies make videoconferencing systems. Like Cisco, H.P. sells large systems aimed at companies that need sophisticated tools for their video meetings, like the ability to display graphics and movies.
Microsoft and I.B.M. have focused on adding PC-based videoconferencing to their collaboration software lines, while start-ups like LifeSize have tried to undercut the larger players on price.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a confession in her blog on the college Web site.
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Ms. Kim said she read the M.I.T. blogs in high school. “They painted a picture of what life would be like here.”
“There’ve been several times when I felt like I didn’t really fit in at M.I.T.,” she wrote. “I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn’t a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind.”
Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea feels right at home at the institute — she loves the anime club, and that her hall has its own wiki Web site and an Internet Relay for real-time messaging. As she wrote on her blog, a hallmate once told her that “M.I.T. is the closest you can get to living in the Internet,” and Ms. Chinea reported, “IT IS SO TRUE. Love. It. So. Much.”
Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in official messages and statistics than in first-hand narratives and direct interaction with current students.
But so far, none of the blogs match the interactivity and creativity of those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they are posted prominently on the admissions homepage, along with hundreds of responses from prospective applicants — all unedited.
Not every admissions office has been so ready to welcome uncensored student writing.
“A lot of people in admissions have not been eager for bloggers, mostly based on fears that we can’t control what people are saying,” said Jess Lord, dean of admissions at Haverford College, which posted student bloggers’ accounts of their summer activities this year, and plans to add bloggers this spring to help admitted students hear about campus life. “We’re learning, slowly, that this is how the world works, especially for high school students.”
M.I.T.’s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to four hours a week, offer thoughts on anything that might interest a prospective student. Some offer advice on the application process and the institute’s intense workload; others write about quirkier topics, like warm apple pie topped with bacon and hot caramel sauce, falling down the stairs or trying to set a world record in the game of Mattress Dominos.
Posting untouched student writing — and comments reacting to that writing — does carry some risks. Boring, sloppily written posts do nothing to burnish an institutional image, college admissions officials say, and there is always the possibility of an inflammatory or wildly negative posting.
Pomona has considered having student bloggers, but so far has felt that the risks outweigh the benefits, said Art Rodriguez, senior associate dean of admissions.
“Blogs can certainly help humanize the process,” Mr. Rodriguez said. “The flip side is that a few anxious high school students may think and worry too much about what someone wrote on their blog, and present themselves in a slightly different way than who they really are. And there’s always the concern about the political ramifications, that bloggers may open up an issue or topic that starts something negative.”
But Mr. Lord of Haverford said prospective students’ interest in the summer bloggers calmed his worries.
“High school students read the blogs, and they come in and say ‘I can’t believe Haverford students get to do such interesting things with their summers,’ ” he said. “There’s no better way for students to learn about a college than from other students.”
Many high school seniors avidly follow student blogs at the colleges they are interested in, and post comments. Luka, one of dozens responding to Ms. Chinea, for example, wrote: “I didn’t know about the anime club. I would have never guessed that people at M.I.T. are interested in anime. Oh well ... +1 on my ‘Why should I go to M.I.T.’ list.”
M.I.T.’s student bloggers said they had read the blogs when they were applying, posted comments and connected with other applicants.
“I was blogging myself, almost every day, when I was in high school, and I read the M.I.T. blogs all the time,” said Jess Kim, a senior blogger. “For me they painted a picture of what life would be like here, and that was part of why I wanted to come.”
Ben Jones, the former director of communications at M.I.T.’s admissions office, began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era, and noticed high school students responding right away. “We saw very quickly that prospective students were engaging with each other and building their own community,” said Mr. Jones, who now works at Oberlin College, where he has added blogs to the Web site.
The M.I.T. student bloggers have different majors, ethnicities, residence halls and, particularly, writing styles. Some post weekly or more; others disappear for months. The bloggers are sought out as celebrities during the annual “Meet the Bloggers” session at Campus Preview Weekend.
M.I.T. chooses its bloggers through a contest, in which applicants submit samples of their writing. “The annual blogger selection is like the admissions office’s own running of the bulls,” said Dave McOwen, Mr. Jones’s successor in the admissions office, in his message inviting applications.
This year, 25 freshmen applied for four new spots, and, Mr. McOwen said, it was hard to choose.
“You want people who can communicate and who are going to be involved in different parts of campus life,” he said. “You want them to be positive, but it’s not mandatory.”
And not all posts are positive. Ms. Kim once wrote about how the resident advising system was making it impossible for her to move out of her housing — expressing enough irritation that the housing office requested that the admissions office take her post down. Officials refused, instead having the housing office post a rebuttal of her accusations; eventually, the system was changed.
But most of the blogs are exuberant, lyrical expressions of the joys of M.I.T. life, like last month’s post on returning as a sophomore:
“Something’s changed,” wrote Chris Mills. “Now you know what you’re in for, you know the sleepless nights and frustrations are never far away, but this knowledge can’t seem to remove the exhilarating smile on your face. And it’s in that masochistic moment that you realize who you are. That this is what you’re made for.”
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Published: September 12, 2009
IT’S always fun to hear hiring managers recall the most boneheaded mistakes they have seen job seekers make during an interview: showing up in flip-flops, say, or taking a cellphone call while meeting the company president.
But that kind of cluelessness is rare. More common are the subtle missteps or omissions that can cause one candidate to lose out to another. If one person is sending out the right signals and behaving in the right way through each step of the process, he or she has a much better chance of landing the job — even with an inferior résumé.
Now here’s the tricky part: there is no single set of rules. While certain standards of courtesy always apply (be punctual, treat everyone you meet with respect), your success may depend on the company’s culture and the preferences of the people doing the hiring. Your ability to sense, and to act on, these factors could make a big difference.
When Susan L. Hodas, director of talent management at NERA Economic Consulting, is hiring, she looks for the right cultural fit as much as the right experience. To some degree she goes with her instincts, she says, but she can also identify certain preferences. Here is one: “They should come in a suit,” she said.
Body language is also important, Ms. Hodas says. She is looking for an assured but not overly casual demeanor, along with good eye contact. She is also looking for people who can enunciate their words (mumblers beware) and who can communicate their thoughts and ideas clearly.
Over all, she says, she is looking for people who are “confident but not cocky.”
She says she and her colleagues apply “the airport test” to candidates. They ask themselves: “Would I want to be stuck in the airport for 12 hours with this person if my flight was delayed?”
It seems that just being yourself — albeit a formal, polite, alert and attentive version of yourself — is the best way to behave during interviews. You don’t want to do such a great job of faking it that when the company discovers the real you, it comes to regret ever hiring you.
That said, there are certain things you can do — both during the interview and afterward — to give yourself an advantage.
You should always research the company thoroughly (easy to do on the Internet), and be prepared to give specific examples of how your experience relates to the job. Also be able to describe as concretely as possible how you made a difference in your previous jobs.
Researching the company will help when the interviewer asks whether you have any questions. Do have questions, said David Santos, executive director of human resources for Interbrand, a brand management firm. Not having any shows a lack of interest and preparation, he said.
Make sure your questions show knowledge of the company and your interest in contributing to its success. You’d be surprised how many people focus on themselves, not the company, by asking right off about things like salary, benefits and bonuses, said Annie Shanklin Jones, who manages United States recruitment for I.B.M.
Try to establish common ground with your interviewer so you stand out, Ms. Shanklin Jones said. Maybe you went to the same college or you pull for the same sports team, she said. During the interview, “leverage your referrals,” she said, finding ways to highlight the people you know within the company.
What if you don’t have these advantages? Ms. Shanklin Jones said that one candidate for a sales position, after his first interview, sent a file listing his software certifications and showing that he had exceeded his sales quotas quarter after quarter. This was an important factor in the decision to hire him, she said.
Depending on the job you apply for, you may be called back for an interview several times. How you follow up after each interview is crucial. Not following up at all shows a lack of interest. Following up too much, or in the wrong way, could take you out of the running.
Mr. Santos says he looks for prompt follow-up by e-mail that shows the applicant was listening attentively, that mentions names of people the candidate met, and that reaffirms the candidate’s work experience and understanding of the company. Much less impressive is a generic e-mail that could be sent to any company, he said.
Follow-up letters can do as much harm as good, Mr. Santos said. If they are too casual, or too pushy and demanding, for example, the writers show that they don’t have an understanding of the company and the hiring process, he said.
Paper or e-mail? Mr. Santos’s preference shows how tricky this can be. He says that for a company like his, which is more digitally focused, it would show a lack of awareness to send a traditional thank you note through the mail. On the other hand, he does expect candidates to show up for interviews with printed copies of their résumés.
Given that all companies and hiring managers are different, getting through the interview process can seem like walking a tightrope. But common courtesy, combined with common sense, plenty of research and a dose of intuition can go a long way toward bringing you safely to the other side.
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Since their debut with "Blood Simple" in 1984, Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen have created an innovative, iconoclastic, idiosyncratic body of work that reflects their unique sensibilities. They have also been filmland's main interpreters of Minnesota's culture, ethnicity and behavioral tics to the outside world.
Returning to the state last weekend for the regional premiere of "A Serious Man" -- which opens today at the Uptown Theater in Minneapolis -- they discussed their careers, their image and the importance of their regional roots.
Q You guys are at the top of your game right now. What's the best thing about this job you have?
Ethan: One thing that's really good is the travel for every movie. We've revisited a couple of places, Minnesota being one of them, but going around to different places to shoot a movie is interesting. It's one of the things that keeps us stimulated. The gypsy thing, there are bad things about it, but it's part of what keeps us stimulated, as well.
Q What do you think is the most annoying misapprehension people have about you?
Joel: There are things that have dogged us for 25 years and you think that. ...
Ethan: The film geek thing. ...
Joel: Everything we do was copying other movies, but the movies we supposedly were influenced by or were copying were things we'd never seen. The reviewer had, but we didn't.
Ethan: Yeah, that got repeated from reviewer to reviewer but then it faded away. We don't get that much anymore.
Joel: The misanthropic, "you hate your characters" thing has always been a little bit bizarre. And then there are other things that dog you in interview situations. You know, "Do you guys fight a lot?" and that kind of stuff. You kind of go, 'it seems to me we've been answering that for at least two decades. The answer must be somewhere that these people can find it!'
Q How do you think coming from Minnesota is connected with your identity?
Obamas make personal appeal for Chicago's Olympics bid, assuring that world will be proud
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They always think it's all about them, don't they?
Michelle Obama told the IOC that the games should go to Chicago because it would mean a lot to her deceased father. Especially because he … read more had multiple sclerosis. Does she really think that giving the IOC the chance to please her is all that is necessary? Does she think that she is that important?
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COPENHAGEN - Combining hometown pride and political muscle, President Barack Obama lobbied Olympic leaders on Friday to give the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, saying a nation shaped by the people of the world "wants a chance to inspire it once more."
The president and his wife, fellow Chicagoan Michelle Obama, put their capital behind an enormous campaign to win the Olympics bid. Never before had a U.S. president made such an in-person appeal.
"I urge you to choose Chicago," Obama told members of the International Olympic Committee, many of whom he later mingled with as some snapped photos of him on their cell phones.
"And if you do — if we walk this path together — then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud," the president said.
Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo have been making their cases to the IOC for more than a year, but many IOC members were believed to be undecided about which city they would vote for Friday.
By the time the winning bid is announced, the Obamas should be back on a plane to Washington.
The president's whirlwind trip put him in the Danish capital for less than five hours Friday, with Chicago-backers hoping that would be sufficient to give Obama's adopted home town the advantage it needed to win the close, four-way race to become the host city of the 2016 Summer Games.
But the compressed time frame did not shield Obama from Republican criticism that he shouldn't be hopscotching to Europe in Air Force One when there were so many pressing issues to deal with at home.
Asked by a reporter how he thought his pitch went, Obama gave a thumbs up — and he said the video montage of Chicago during the U.S. presentation made him miss home.
"Obviously now it's up to the IOC members, but we are just grateful for the incredible hospitality," Obama said.
He joked that only one part upset him: "They arranged for me to follow Michelle — that's always bad."
OH Please !!!!
Obamas make personal appeal for Chicago's Olympics bid, assuring that world will be proud
By JULIE PACE , Associated Press
Last update: October 2, 2009 - 8:01 AM
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They always think it's all about them, don't they?
Michelle Obama told the IOC that the games should go to Chicago because it would mean a lot to her deceased father. Especially because he … read more had multiple sclerosis. Does she really think that giving the IOC the chance to please her is all that is necessary? Does she think that she is that important?
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COPENHAGEN - Combining hometown pride and political muscle, President Barack Obama lobbied Olympic leaders on Friday to give the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, saying a nation shaped by the people of the world "wants a chance to inspire it once more."
The president and his wife, fellow Chicagoan Michelle Obama, put their capital behind an enormous campaign to win the Olympics bid. Never before had a U.S. president made such an in-person appeal.
"I urge you to choose Chicago," Obama told members of the International Olympic Committee, many of whom he later mingled with as some snapped photos of him on their cell phones.
"And if you do — if we walk this path together — then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud," the president said.
Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo have been making their cases to the IOC for more than a year, but many IOC members were believed to be undecided about which city they would vote for Friday.
By the time the winning bid is announced, the Obamas should be back on a plane to Washington.
The president's whirlwind trip put him in the Danish capital for less than five hours Friday, with Chicago-backers hoping that would be sufficient to give Obama's adopted home town the advantage it needed to win the close, four-way race to become the host city of the 2016 Summer Games.
But the compressed time frame did not shield Obama from Republican criticism that he shouldn't be hopscotching to Europe in Air Force One when there were so many pressing issues to deal with at home.
Asked by a reporter how he thought his pitch went, Obama gave a thumbs up — and he said the video montage of Chicago during the U.S. presentation made him miss home.
"Obviously now it's up to the IOC members, but we are just grateful for the incredible hospitality," Obama said.
He joked that only one part upset him: "They arranged for me to follow Michelle — that's always bad."
Vikings: Our turn for a new stadium
With the U playing football on campus and the Twins headed downtown, the drive is on again to replace the Dome.
By MIKE KASZUBA, Star Tribune
Last update: October 2, 2009 - 8:08 AM
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yes, the idiots of minnesota are out yelling no stadiums for millionairs again. These millionairs bring in more money to the state than … read more the losers complaining. What the vikings need is a state wide hotel and rental car tax. Once the stadium is paid for, the tax is eliminated. Easy, if arizona can do it, we SHOULD be able to. Yeah we are getting dumber by the day with the anti-stadium crowd leading the way but a few bright people should be able to get this done.
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With an undefeated team, a megastar quarterback and a big game coming up Monday, the Vikings were back at the State Capitol on Thursday to spark interest in the one thing they do not have -- a new stadium.
Vikings spokesman Lester Bagley again told legislators that the team would not renew its Metrodome lease, which expires after the 2011 season. Bagley also said that owner Zygi Wilf is increasingly battling pressure from other National Football League owners.
"They don't ask how's [star running back] Adrian Peterson doing," Bagley said. "They ask him how is the stadium doing, because the NFL is subsidizing this market to the tune of $15 million to $20 million a year."
The Vikings, who are seeking an estimated $700 million in a "public-private partnership," have made their pitch to the Legislature on repeated occasions, to little effect.
But on Thursday they talked not finances, but football, highlighting star quarterback Brett Favre's game-winning touchdown pass Sunday, the team's always-high TV ratings and the feverish interest in Monday night's televised game against Favre's old team, the Green Bay Packers. Vikings officials even briefed legislators on how Vikings players had helped with a campaign to distribute flu shots.
Public subsidies unpopular
Team and stadium officials concede that little regarding their stadium situation has changed and that there remains scant evidence that public subsidies for a new stadium have gained traction among legislators. Metrodome officials even acknowledged that an economic benefit study presented Thursday was the same one shown to legislators in February.
But, they maintained, many Minnesotans do not want to see the Vikings leave.
"When you look at the upcoming Monday night game, you'll see that there's just a tremendous amount of interest in the Minnesota Vikings and the need to keep them here," said Roy Terwilliger, the chair of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, which owns the Dome.
Rep. Joe Atkins, chairman of the House Commerce and Labor Committee, which held the hearing, said he wanted to gauge the Vikings' economic benefit to the state, asking, "Does it make any difference to us to not have the team?"
After the hearing, Atkins, DFL-Inver Grove Heights, said he did not know whether a Vikings stadium would be pushed during the 2010 legislation session. Asked whether he might sponsor legislation for a stadium, Atkins smiled and said that "[I] haven't even given it a thought."
With Minnesota still reeling from the worst recession since World War II, many legislators have remained cool toward backing a heavily-remodeled Metrodome that could cost up to $954 million, two-thirds of which the team wants the public to pay for.
The 2010 legislative session is still four months away, and with a state budget deficit and upcoming gubernatorial race likely to dominate its proceedings, Thursday's presentation by the Vikings seemed to stir little emotion.
Only one legislator had questions for team and Metrodome officials after they finished talking.
Bagley said Thursday that the Vikings were not exploring leaving Minnesota, but continued to draw interest from other cities interested in having a pro football team.
Under a scenario outlined by Terwilliger, a major remodeling of the Dome -- the Vikings' home for 27 years -- would take up to three years and require the team to temporarily play elsewhere, probably at the University of Minnesota's on-campus football stadium, which is new this year.
Bagley said that the actual cost of a remodeled Metrodome with a new roof might drop by 10 percent because the existing site would be used, and he said the cost to taxpayers could be $50 million annually to retire the project's debt.
"It's a little more manageable," Bagley said of the annual debt payment figure.
But of late, the Vikings have done much better on the field than they have at the State Capitol. Three years ago, the Legislature rejected a financing plan for a Vikings stadium even though it approved funding for a university football stadium and also authorized a sales tax increase in Hennepin County to help fund a new park in Minneapolis for the Minnesota Twins.
Continued: Vikings: Our turn for a new stadium
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yes, the idiots of minnesota are out yelling no stadiums for millionairs again. These millionairs bring in more money to the state than … read more the losers complaining. What the vikings need is a state wide hotel and rental car tax. Once the stadium is paid for, the tax is eliminated. Easy, if arizona can do it, we SHOULD be able to. Yeah we are getting dumber by the day with the anti-stadium crowd leading the way but a few bright people should be able to get this done.Close comment
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With an undefeated team, a megastar quarterback and a big game coming up Monday, the Vikings were back at the State Capitol on Thursday to spark interest in the one thing they do not have -- a new stadium.
Vikings spokesman Lester Bagley again told legislators that the team would not renew its Metrodome lease, which expires after the 2011 season. Bagley also said that owner Zygi Wilf is increasingly battling pressure from other National Football League owners.
"They don't ask how's [star running back] Adrian Peterson doing," Bagley said. "They ask him how is the stadium doing, because the NFL is subsidizing this market to the tune of $15 million to $20 million a year."
The Vikings, who are seeking an estimated $700 million in a "public-private partnership," have made their pitch to the Legislature on repeated occasions, to little effect.
But on Thursday they talked not finances, but football, highlighting star quarterback Brett Favre's game-winning touchdown pass Sunday, the team's always-high TV ratings and the feverish interest in Monday night's televised game against Favre's old team, the Green Bay Packers. Vikings officials even briefed legislators on how Vikings players had helped with a campaign to distribute flu shots.
Public subsidies unpopular
Team and stadium officials concede that little regarding their stadium situation has changed and that there remains scant evidence that public subsidies for a new stadium have gained traction among legislators. Metrodome officials even acknowledged that an economic benefit study presented Thursday was the same one shown to legislators in February.
But, they maintained, many Minnesotans do not want to see the Vikings leave.
"When you look at the upcoming Monday night game, you'll see that there's just a tremendous amount of interest in the Minnesota Vikings and the need to keep them here," said Roy Terwilliger, the chair of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, which owns the Dome.
Rep. Joe Atkins, chairman of the House Commerce and Labor Committee, which held the hearing, said he wanted to gauge the Vikings' economic benefit to the state, asking, "Does it make any difference to us to not have the team?"
After the hearing, Atkins, DFL-Inver Grove Heights, said he did not know whether a Vikings stadium would be pushed during the 2010 legislation session. Asked whether he might sponsor legislation for a stadium, Atkins smiled and said that "[I] haven't even given it a thought."
With Minnesota still reeling from the worst recession since World War II, many legislators have remained cool toward backing a heavily-remodeled Metrodome that could cost up to $954 million, two-thirds of which the team wants the public to pay for.
The 2010 legislative session is still four months away, and with a state budget deficit and upcoming gubernatorial race likely to dominate its proceedings, Thursday's presentation by the Vikings seemed to stir little emotion.
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The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
TO EVERYONE ON THIS BLOG AND BARRY:
A few days ago, I posted a message on here telling everyone who I am.
I am Barry’s niece and I am asking all of you to please read this.
I admit I was angry and sadden to learn that he was at his scheming and lying again. My rage welled up and I wanted revenge on him. I wanted him to hurt as he hurt me and to be punished like I was all those years ago. I lost friends, I lost my innocense and I was shunned from my church.
I DO NOT have closure from all those years ago and probably never will get the closure I need until he can apologize to me.
I admit that I had a spirit rise up in me that was not good. I emailed his story to everyone I could think of, I obsessed over this day and night…. 24/7, I searched and search repeatedly for any news that I could find regarding him.
I have had a hard time functioning....I could hardly eat anything; I haven’t been able to sleep because I wanted the worst for him. Nevertheless, let me tell all of you what I realized this morning when I suddenly woke up out of a dead sleep......
I was compelled to read scripture...Barry has been shoving it down everyone’s throat on here so I thought I would share what I read .......
Romans 12:19
Do not take revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me. I will pay them back, declares the Lord."
Now, this was a word for ME. I believe this is a part of my healing process and something I needed to read. I do however hope that you will consider what it says.
From my experience, calling Barry names is not going to help any of you. It may make you feel good for a short time but all it is doing is hurting his family. Regardless of what he did to me, his wife is still my aunt and his kids are still my cousins. I feel such sadness and embarrassment for them at this time.
I beg all of you to use this blog for what it started for.......THE ARTHUR GROUP SCAM.
I know Barry isn’t a good man, I know Barry needs help but us speaking ill of him and bringing up his father (who by the way passed away)and family isn’t the right thing to do. Barry will get what is coming to him and that is obvious since the Attorney General is involved AND since Barry knows his scripture…he knows God is waiting for him and WILL judge him.
I have had the opportunity to speak to a few of you via email and as I told a couple of you…I am not trying to make this about me. This is about what he did to all of you but I wanted you all to know that name calling and bringing up his shameful, horrible past and what he did to me is not going to do anything to hurt him or help you.
He doesn’t care about what he did to me and obviously doesn’t care what he did to any of you. I am confident that you will all get your money back and more.
It is now public what he did in his past and what he did recently. All any of us can do now is pray that justice prevails and good will over come this evil.
Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts and suggestions and I pray for all of you and for a positive outcome in court.
I want to thank Mike and so many others for your kind words and as I said before, feel free to contact me.
Carissa
You are not Carissa
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
WASHINGTON -- Employers eliminated more jobs than expected last month as the unemployment rate climbed to 9.8%, another sign that a rapid recovery in the labor market is unlikely.
Employers eliminate 263,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate climbs to 9.8%. Plus, health executives feeling the heat on pay and funnyman David Letterman alleges extortion. The News Hub brings you the latest.
.Nonfarm payrolls declined by 263,000 in September, the Labor Department said Friday, noting that the largest job losses were in construction, manufacturing, retail trade and government. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires survey had expected a 175,000 decrease.
The unemployment rate, calculated using a survey of households as opposed to companies, grew 0.1 percentage point to 9.8%. Just last year, in July 2008 for example, the unemployment rate was under 6%.
Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has increased by 7.6 million and the unemployment rate has doubled to 9.8%.
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.Average hourly earnings were up $0.01 last month at $18.67.
Even before Friday's dismal report, the consensus expected a very weak job market. Federal Reserve staff forecasters, for instance, told officials in August that they expected the unemployment arte to increase "somewhat" during the remainder of 2009 and to decline only gradually in 2010 officials.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Thursday said even 3% economic growth would leave the jobless rate above 9% at year end 2010.
The International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook predicts U.S. unemployment will average 10.1% in 2010 and said the jobless rate won't hit 5% until 2014.
"Continued household deleveraging and rising unemployment may weigh more on consumption than forecast, and accelerating corporate and commercial property defaults could slow the improvement in financial conditions," it said. The jobs outlook in Europe is worse: The IMF sees unemployment rising close to 12% in 2010 and retreating only gradually to 9.5% by 2014.
According to Friday's report, employment last month in manufacturing fell 51,000.
Construction employment, meanwhile, was down 64,000.
Employment in the service sector -- the main source of U.S. jobs -- fell 147,000. Business and professional services companies shed 8,000 jobs. Retail trade cut 39,000 jobs and leisure and hospitality employment fell by 9,000.
The government shed 53,000 jobs.
The average workweek was down 0.1 hour at 33.0 hours.
Factory Orders Decline
U.S. factory goods orders fell in August, brought down by a lower demand for airplanes and snapping a string of increases in a sign manufacturing's recovery from recession will be fitful.
Orders dropped a more-than-expected 0.8%, the Commerce Department said Friday. Wall Street predicted a 0.6% drop. July orders rose 1.4%, revised from a previously estimated 1.3% gain.
Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft fell 0.9% during August. The orders are seen as a barometer of capital spending.
Durable goods dropped more than first thought, down 2.6%. Last week, a preliminary estimate said durables fell 2.4%. Durables are expensive goods made to last at least three years, such as cars.
August nondurables rose 0.8%, perhaps reflecting higher petroleum prices.
The 0.8% decline in overall orders marked the first drop since March. August unfilled orders, a sign of future demand, fell an 11th month in a row, decreasing 0.4%. Shipments of all factory goods dropped 0.3%.
A key, more recent measure of the manufacturing sector slipped, a report this week said. The Institute for Supply Management on Thursday said its manufacturing index for September moved to 52.6, from 52.9 in August and 48.9 in July. Readings above 50 mean the sector expanded. Still, the small decline -- meaning the index failed to progress further -- drew concern about the economy's recovery.
Friday's factory data said manufacturers' inventories in August receded a 12th month in a row, down 0.8%.
By industry, August demand for transportation sector goods fell 9.1%, with orders for commercial and military aircraft dropping. Excluding the transportation sector, August factory orders rose 0.4%, with gains in metals and machinery. Ex-transportation orders in July retreated by 0.6% in July.
August capital goods fell 6.3%.
Non-defense capital goods dropped 7.6%. These include business equipment meant to last 10 years or more.
Defense capital goods climbed 1.0%. Defense capital goods industries include, among others, communications equipment, aircraft, and missiles.
Excluding the defense sector, all other factory orders declined 0.7% in August, after rising 1.0% in July.
Jobs Cuts Unexpectedly Accelerate
WASHINGTON -- Employers eliminated more jobs than expected last month as the unemployment rate climbed to 9.8%, another sign that a rapid recovery in the labor market is unlikely.
Employers eliminate 263,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate climbs to 9.8%. Plus, health executives feeling the heat on pay and funnyman David Letterman alleges extortion. The News Hub brings you the latest.
.Nonfarm payrolls declined by 263,000 in September, the Labor Department said Friday, noting that the largest job losses were in construction, manufacturing, retail trade and government. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires survey had expected a 175,000 decrease.
The unemployment rate, calculated using a survey of households as opposed to companies, grew 0.1 percentage point to 9.8%. Just last year, in July 2008 for example, the unemployment rate was under 6%.
Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has increased by 7.6 million and the unemployment rate has doubled to 9.8%.
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Econ: Disappoints Usually Reverse Themselves
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.Historical Unemployment Rate
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.U.S. Unemployment: Track the rate since 1948.
.Average hourly earnings were up $0.01 last month at $18.67.
Even before Friday's dismal report, the consensus expected a very weak job market. Federal Reserve staff forecasters, for instance, told officials in August that they expected the unemployment arte to increase "somewhat" during the remainder of 2009 and to decline only gradually in 2010 officials.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Thursday said even 3% economic growth would leave the jobless rate above 9% at year end 2010.
The International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook predicts U.S. unemployment will average 10.1% in 2010 and said the jobless rate won't hit 5% until 2014.
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate Finance Committee turned back Republican-led efforts to tighten abortion restrictions in health-overhaul legislation, and the Senate's top Democrat said he wants to bring a sweeping bill to the floor in two weeks.
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said Wednesday that he expected to begin Senate debate the week of Oct. 12, which would be the biggest step forward yet for legislation designed to accomplish President Barack Obama's goal of extending health-insurance coverage to tens of millions of Americans.
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Senate Finance Committee members, from left, John Kerry (D., Mass.), Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) talk Wednesday on Capitol Hill prior to the panel's hearing on health-care legislation.
.Many hurdles remain before the bill is ready for debate in the Senate. Mr. Reid must referee a blending of the Finance Committee package with a more liberal bill approved by the Senate health committee. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office must come up with a price tag for the bill. And Mr. Reid must solidify support among Democratic centrists worried about the cost of the bill, which is estimated at between $800 billion and $900 billion over a decade.
Mr. Reid, however, put the Senate on notice that he wants to move quickly, saying he is canceling a planned recess the week of Columbus Day. "I think with health care, which is really beginning to ferment, it wouldn't be right for us to be gone," he said.
In the House, Democratic leaders continued efforts Wednesday to nail down details of a bill to bring to the House floor. House leaders want to include a government-run insurance plan and are considering a proposal to require it to negotiate payment rates directly with health-care providers. That would be a concession to moderate Democrats, who had complained about a proposal to tie payments to low rates used by Medicare.
The Senate Finance Committee bill reflects efforts by Chairman Max Baucus to steer a moderate course on health policy, and the Montana Democrat said he was confident that the measure would win approval in committee.
The committee is expected to wrap up action on amendments late this week. But a final committee vote might not come until next week, aides said. The delay would give the CBO time to complete its analysis of the bill. Among other things, the legislation would expand coverage by creating a network of nonprofit health cooperatives to compete with private insurers, instead of creating a government-run health plan, which Mr. Baucus joined committee Republicans in voting down on Tuesday.
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.The sparring over abortion Wednesday underscored the sweep of the health legislation, which not only makes fundamental changes to a key segment of the U.S. economy, but also inflames passions on a range of social issues.
Mr. Baucus said he didn't want to add abortion to the debate. "This is a health-care bill," he said. "This is not an abortion bill. We are not changing current law."
The legislation sets up subsidies for lower-income people to buy insurance and makes the subsidies subject to existing limits on federal funding of abortion. Those limits, enacted annually in routine government spending bills, bar the use of federal funds, except in cases of rape, incest and saving the life of the mother. Under the Baucus bill, private health plans would be required to prevent federal insurance subsidies from mingling with any private funds used for abortions.
But Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) said the limits in the current law could easily lapse. He called on Mr. Baucus to fold the language into the health bill, making it permanent law. "Let's codify it," he said.
Abortion-rights supporters said the rights of women were in danger. "This is not maintaining the status quo," said Sen. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.). "It is a major, major change, and a poison pill."
The Hatch amendment failed 13-10 on a mostly party-line vote. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R., Maine) joined Democrats in opposing it, while Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota was the lone Democrat in favor.
The panel also rejected an amendment Mr. Hatch said was needed to ensure the government doesn't discriminate against health-care providers who refuse to perform abortion procedures for moral or religious reasons.
Insurers Drop Some Medicare Plans As Rules Tighten
WASHINGTON–More than 660,000 seniors next year will lose the private Medicare plans they now have because some insurers are dropping coverage in response to tougher federal requirements.
Most of those beneficiaries are enrolled in a type of Medicare Advantage plan called Private Fee for Service, where enrollment has surged from about 820,000 three years ago to more than 2.44 million today. PFFS enrollees, unlike those under other Medicare Advantage plans, can see any doctor they like as long as he or she accepts payments through their plan. Medicare Advantage plans are subsidized by the federal government and run by insurance companies; most operate with networks of providers.
Congress, alarmed by the high cost of PFFS plans, voted in 2008 to require the plans to establish networks of providers beginning in 2011. Companies such as Humana Inc., which has established networks that can cover at least 80% of PFFS enrollees, are doing just that.
But Medicare officials acknowledged Thursday that others are pulling out. Plans with a total enrollment of 667,000 people are scheduled to be canceled next year, they said.
WellCare Health Plans Inc., for example, is canceling its PFFS plans for about 110,000 enrollees. Spokeswoman Amy Knapp said the company saw expanding networks to meet the new requirements as an unwise investment. The company, she said, will focus on its HMO and prescription-drug plans.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. is no longer offering PFFS plans to some 2% of its members in markets where no other UnitedHealth Medicare Advantage plan is available.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that manages Medicare, beneficiaries can choose other private plans or go back to traditional Medicare. The agency said 99% of beneficiaries have access to at least one Advantage plan offered in their area.
Medicare announced Thursday that the premiums for Medicare Advantage plans are rising to an average of $39 a month from $32 a month this year. Premiums for standalone drug plans will be $30 a month on average, up $2 from this year.
The changes are adding fodder to the health-care debate. President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress have proposed more than $100 billion in payment cuts to private Medicare plans over 10 years to help pay for expanding coverage to the uninsured. They argue that the private insurers are overpaid -- Advantage plans cost the government 14% more on average per beneficiary than traditional Medicare -- and the cuts will help control Medicare costs.
"Today's announcement demonstrates the real impact that policy changes can have on the health security of seniors in Medicare Advantage," said Karen Ignagni, president and chief executive of America's Health Insurance Plans, the trade association for insurers. The proposed payment cuts "will put the entire program at risk and cause seniors to face even higher premiums, further reductions in benefits and fewer health-care choices."
For now, however, Medicare data show that most insurers are still participating in Medicare Advantage, though the number of plans is shrinking. Seniors can choose from about 3,500 Advantage plans next year, down 18% from this year. They can also get their drug benefit from 1,576 standalone drug plans, 111 fewer than this year. Many of those plans being eliminated are small plans deemed by Medicare officials to be too similar to other plans.
Insurance Executive Pay Curbed in Health Bill WASHINGTON – Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee voted Thursday to encourage limits on the compensation of insurance executives, responding to charges that expanding health insurance coverage would enrich insurance companies.
The action came as the influential panel brought debate to a close early Friday morning on sweeping legislation that would overhaul the nation's health system, setting the stage for a pivotal panel vote next week on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
Voting 14-8, the committee approved an amendment that would limit the tax deductibility of compensation for insurance executives to $500,000 a year. The limit would apply to executives at companies that get significant business generated by the bill's mandate that nearly all Americans must have insurance. Under current law, businesses can deduct up to $1 million a year in compensation for executives.
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Sen. Jim Bunning, right, and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus discuss amendments to health-care legislation on Thursday.
.Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D., Ark.) said the limit is needed because insurance companies are going to reap a windfall of new customers under the legislation. "This is the right thing, and the right message to the American people," said Sen. Lincoln, who is up for reelection next year. The amendment was supported by all Democrats on the panel, plus Sen. Olympia Snowe (R., Maine).
Sen. Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.) said the limit – which echoes of the curbs imposed last year on Wall Street executives -- represented an overreaching of government authority. "The American people are tired of Congress meddling in the private sector," he said.
Earlier, the panel voted 12-11 to reject an amendment from Sen. Mike Crapo (R., Idaho) that would block any tax or fee from hitting individuals who earn less than $200,000 a year and families earning less than $250,000.
Republicans said the bill breaks President Barack Obama's pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. "The taxes are for real and they are going to hit squarely on the middle class," Mr. Crapo said.
Democrats countered that the change would gut the health bill and wasn't necessary because the legislation overall would lower most Americans' health costs. By 2017, the bill will result in an annual tax cut of $40 billion, according to a staff estimate for Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D., Mont.). "What we are doing in this legislation is taking away a hidden tax that folks are paying in higher premiums right now to pay for the uninsured," added Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.).
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.Sen. Lincoln broke with her party to vote with Republicans on those amendments.
In an indication the Republican charges were taking a toll, Democrats took other steps to ease the bite of the bill. The committee approved an amendment by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.) to allow states to use federal money to buy private insurance plans for low-income people who aren't poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. The aid would be capped at families of four earning $44,000 a year. The vote was 12-11, with all the Democrats except Ms. Lincoln voting for it.
The committee also approved a proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) to ease the penalty imposed on people who don't buy insurance. The Schumer proposal, approved 22-1, would create an exemption for families and individuals who can't find insurance that costs less than 8% of their income, down from the 10% threshold in the bill. Moreover, he proposed to phase in the penalty over five years, rather than having it kick in fully in 2013, as provided in the bill.
TO EVERYONE ON THIS BLOG AND BARRY:
A few days ago, I posted a message on here telling everyone who I am.
I am Barry’s niece and I am asking all of you to please read this.
I admit I was angry and sadden to learn that he was at his scheming and lying again. My rage welled up and I wanted revenge on him. I wanted him to hurt as he hurt me and to be punished like I was all those years ago. I lost friends, I lost my innocense and I was shunned from my church.
I DO NOT have closure from all those years ago and probably never will get the closure I need until he can apologize to me.
I admit that I had a spirit rise up in me that was not good. I emailed his story to everyone I could think of, I obsessed over this day and night…. 24/7, I searched and search repeatedly for any news that I could find regarding him.
I have had a hard time functioning....I could hardly eat anything; I haven’t been able to sleep because I wanted the worst for him. Nevertheless, let me tell all of you what I realized this morning when I suddenly woke up out of a dead sleep......
I was compelled to read scripture...Barry has been shoving it down everyone’s throat on here so I thought I would share what I read .......
Romans 12:19
Do not take revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me. I will pay them back, declares the Lord."
Now, this was a word for ME. I believe this is a part of my healing process and something I needed to read. I do however hope that you will consider what it says.
From my experience, calling Barry names is not going to help any of you. It may make you feel good for a short time but all it is doing is hurting his family. Regardless of what he did to me, his wife is still my aunt and his kids are still my cousins. I feel such sadness and embarrassment for them at this time.
I beg all of you to use this blog for what it started for.......THE ARTHUR GROUP SCAM.
I know Barry isn’t a good man, I know Barry needs help but us speaking ill of him and bringing up his father (who by the way passed away)and family isn’t the right thing to do. Barry will get what is coming to him and that is obvious since the Attorney General is involved AND since Barry knows his scripture…he knows God is waiting for him and WILL judge him.
I have had the opportunity to speak to a few of you via email and as I told a couple of you…I am not trying to make this about me. This is about what he did to all of you but I wanted you all to know that name calling and bringing up his shameful, horrible past and what he did to me is not going to do anything to hurt him or help you.
He doesn’t care about what he did to me and obviously doesn’t care what he did to any of you. I am confident that you will all get your money back and more.
It is now public what he did in his past and what he did recently. All any of us can do now is pray that justice prevails and good will over come this evil.
Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts and suggestions and I pray for all of you and for a positive outcome in court.
I want to thank Mike and so many others for your kind words and as I said before, feel free to contact me.
Carissa
Barry give people a chance to read this
just stop!
TO EVERYONE ON THIS BLOG AND BARRY:
A few days ago, I posted a message on here telling everyone who I am.
I am Barry’s niece and I am asking all of you to please read this.
I admit I was angry and sadden to learn that he was at his scheming and lying again. My rage welled up and I wanted revenge on him. I wanted him to hurt as he hurt me and to be punished like I was all those years ago. I lost friends, I lost my innocense and I was shunned from my church.
I DO NOT have closure from all those years ago and probably never will get the closure I need until he can apologize to me.
I admit that I had a spirit rise up in me that was not good. I emailed his story to everyone I could think of, I obsessed over this day and night…. 24/7, I searched and search repeatedly for any news that I could find regarding him.
I have had a hard time functioning....I could hardly eat anything; I haven’t been able to sleep because I wanted the worst for him. Nevertheless, let me tell all of you what I realized this morning when I suddenly woke up out of a dead sleep......
I was compelled to read scripture...Barry has been shoving it down everyone’s throat on here so I thought I would share what I read .......
Romans 12:19
Do not take revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me. I will pay them back, declares the Lord."
Now, this was a word for ME. I believe this is a part of my healing process and something I needed to read. I do however hope that you will consider what it says.
From my experience, calling Barry names is not going to help any of you. It may make you feel good for a short time but all it is doing is hurting his family. Regardless of what he did to me, his wife is still my aunt and his kids are still my cousins. I feel such sadness and embarrassment for them at this time.
I beg all of you to use this blog for what it started for.......THE ARTHUR GROUP SCAM.
I know Barry isn’t a good man, I know Barry needs help but us speaking ill of him and bringing up his father (who by the way passed away)and family isn’t the right thing to do. Barry will get what is coming to him and that is obvious since the Attorney General is involved AND since Barry knows his scripture…he knows God is waiting for him and WILL judge him.
I have had the opportunity to speak to a few of you via email and as I told a couple of you…I am not trying to make this about me. This is about what he did to all of you but I wanted you all to know that name calling and bringing up his shameful, horrible past and what he did to me is not going to do anything to hurt him or help you.
He doesn’t care about what he did to me and obviously doesn’t care what he did to any of you. I am confident that you will all get your money back and more.
It is now public what he did in his past and what he did recently. All any of us can do now is pray that justice prevails and good will over come this evil.
Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts and suggestions and I pray for all of you and for a positive outcome in court.
I want to thank Mike and so many others for your kind words and as I said before, feel free to contact me.
Carissa
Not Barry covering this lie
From staff reports
U.S. athletes and Olympic sports officials expressed their surprise and disappointment Friday that Chicago lost its bid to host the 2016 Summer Games.
Chicago went out in the first round of voting by International Olympic Committee members. In the final round, Rio de Janeiro won with 66 votes to Madrid's 32.
2008 Olympic women's basketball gold medalist Candace Parker was practicing with the women's national team in Washington when she heard the news of Chicago's loss.
"I can't believe it," said Parker, whose hometown is the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Ill. "We sent Obama and Oprah. We had a lot of people behind our bid. I'm disappointed but it will be great to go to Rio."
Parker said she enjoyed playing in the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Barueri during the 2006 world championships, where the Americans beat Brazil for gold.
Her sentiments were echoed by Jayne Appel, a center at the University of Stanford who also attended the fall camp for the national team. Appel played on the U.S. gold medal-winning team in Rio for the 2007 Pan American Games.
"It's a fun city," Appel said. "There's a great fan base there. Our games were packed. There should be a lot of excitement."
USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus called Chicago's loss "a great disappointment" to the federation and the U.S. Olympic movement."
"To weather the significant time passage between domestic Games, our organization, as well as other U.S. Olympic sports, will have to be vigilant and committed to the promotion and advancement of our sport," Wielgus said in a statement. "USA Swimming is prepared for the challenge."
The last Summer Games to be held in the United States were in Atlanta in 1996. Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in 2002.
Said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics, in a statement: "The Windy City has become an Olympic city through this process and we look forward to a continued partnership to build on the progress they have made over the past few years."
From staff reports
U.S. athletes and Olympic sports officials expressed their surprise and disappointment Friday that Chicago lost its bid to host the 2016 Summer Games.
Chicago went out in the first round of voting by International Olympic Committee members. In the final round, Rio de Janeiro won with 66 votes to Madrid's 32.
2008 Olympic women's basketball gold medalist Candace Parker was practicing with the women's national team in Washington when she heard the news of Chicago's loss.
"I can't believe it," said Parker, whose hometown is the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Ill. "We sent Obama and Oprah. We had a lot of people behind our bid. I'm disappointed but it will be great to go to Rio."
Parker said she enjoyed playing in the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Barueri during the 2006 world championships, where the Americans beat Brazil for gold.
Her sentiments were echoed by Jayne Appel, a center at the University of Stanford who also attended the fall camp for the national team. Appel played on the U.S. gold medal-winning team in Rio for the 2007 Pan American Games.
"It's a fun city," Appel said. "There's a great fan base there. Our games were packed. There should be a lot of excitement."
USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus called Chicago's loss "a great disappointment" to the federation and the U.S. Olympic movement."
"To weather the significant time passage between domestic Games, our organization, as well as other U.S. Olympic sports, will have to be vigilant and committed to the promotion and advancement of our sport," Wielgus said in a statement. "USA Swimming is prepared for the challenge."
The last Summer Games to be held in the United States were in Atlanta in 1996. Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in 2002.
Said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics, in a statement: "The Windy City has become an Olympic city through this process and we look forward to a continued partnership to build on the progress they have made over the past few years."
Chicago went out in the first round of voting by International Olympic Committee members. In the final round, Rio de Janeiro won with 66 votes to Madrid's 32.
2008 Olympic women's basketball gold medalist Candace Parker was practicing with the women's national team in Washington when she heard the news of Chicago's loss.
"I can't believe it," said Parker, whose hometown is the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Ill. "We sent Obama and Oprah. We had a lot of people behind our bid. I'm disappointed but it will be great to go to Rio."
Parker said she enjoyed playing in the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Barueri during the 2006 world championships, where the Americans beat Brazil for gold.
Her sentiments were echoed by Jayne Appel, a center at the University of Stanford who also attended the fall camp for the national team. Appel played on the U.S. gold medal-winning team in Rio for the 2007 Pan American Games.
"It's a fun city," Appel said. "There's a great fan base there. Our games were packed. There should be a lot of excitement."
USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus called Chicago's loss "a great disappointment" to the federation and the U.S. Olympic movement."
"To weather the significant time passage between domestic Games, our organization, as well as other U.S. Olympic sports, will have to be vigilant and committed to the promotion and advancement of our sport," Wielgus said in a statement. "USA Swimming is prepared for the challenge."
The last Summer Games to be held in the United States were in Atlanta in 1996. Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in 2002.
Said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics, in a statement: "The Windy City has become an Olympic city through this process and we look forward to a continued partnership to build on the progress they have made over the past few years."
From staff reports
U.S. athletes and Olympic sports officials expressed their surprise and disappointment Friday that Chicago lost its bid to host the 2016 Summer Games.
Chicago went out in the first round of voting by International Olympic Committee members. In the final round, Rio de Janeiro won with 66 votes to Madrid's 32.
2008 Olympic women's basketball gold medalist Candace Parker was practicing with the women's national team in Washington when she heard the news of Chicago's loss.
"I can't believe it," said Parker, whose hometown is the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Ill. "We sent Obama and Oprah. We had a lot of people behind our bid. I'm disappointed but it will be great to go to Rio."
Parker said she enjoyed playing in the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Barueri during the 2006 world championships, where the Americans beat Brazil for gold.
Her sentiments were echoed by Jayne Appel, a center at the University of Stanford who also attended the fall camp for the national team. Appel played on the U.S. gold medal-winning team in Rio for the 2007 Pan American Games.
"It's a fun city," Appel said. "There's a great fan base there. Our games were packed. There should be a lot of excitement."
USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus called Chicago's loss "a great disappointment" to the federation and the U.S. Olympic movement."
"To weather the significant time passage between domestic Games, our organization, as well as other U.S. Olympic sports, will have to be vigilant and committed to the promotion and advancement of our sport," Wielgus said in a statement. "USA Swimming is prepared for the challenge."
The last Summer Games to be held in the United States were in Atlanta in 1996. Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in 2002.
Said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics, in a statement: "The Windy City has become an Olympic city through this process and we look forward to a continued partnership to build on the progress they have made over the past few years."
By Vicki Michaelis, USA TODAY
COPENHAGEN — As Michelle Obama walked through the lobby of the International Olympic Committee's hotel Wednesday, she shook hands and exchanged greetings.
The first lady's on-the-ground campaigning for Chicago in advance of Friday's IOC vote on the 2016 Summer Games host had begun.
When Obama reached IOC member Nicole Hoevertsz, she gave her a thumbs-up sign and a hug. Hoevertsz said later that Obama knew Hoevertsz had just been selected to a key government position in Aruba.
It was a peek into the playbook of Olympic bid campaigning in the post-Salt Lake City scandal era.
Before the scandal revealed the excesses being showered on IOC members by candidate cities, the members were allowed to visit the cities. Now that visits are no longer allowed, "It comes down to very little details," Hoevertsz says.
TOUGH VOTE: IOC members agonize over choice
FRIDAY: Chicago's 2016 bid up for vote
Presuming the candidates have technically sound bids, foremost among those details are personal connections and assurances, and cities are bringing even more high-profile figures to make those. The candidates of Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo among them will have two presidents, two prime ministers and a king as well as the queen of talk shows (Chicago's Oprah Winfrey) in Denmark.
"I'm stumped to think of another organization in the world that has that array of talent coming to present to it," British IOC member Craig Reedie says, "and President Obama will be the icing on the cake."
Before he arrives, Michelle Obama will hold several meetings with IOC members. "The one-on-one meetings are important," says White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who accompanied the first lady. "That's why the first lady came a couple days early, so she would have a chance to meet people. I think when you look into her eyes and you see the spark and energy, that's very telling."
IOC members are characterizing the 2016 race as one of the closest ever.
"Momentum in this game is earned in the lobbies of the hotel in the last two days," Reedie says.
Reedie knows. When the IOC awarded London the 2012 Olympics four years ago, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair was applauded for connecting with members. London edged Paris by four votes.
It will be critical to persuade members to vote for Chicago through every round of voting, which is by secret ballot. Members often cast sentimental votes to prevent a city from going out with a low total; Madrid could draw many of these because of ex-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, a Spaniard.
By Vicki Michaelis, USA TODAY
COPENHAGEN — As Michelle Obama walked through the lobby of the International Olympic Committee's hotel Wednesday, she shook hands and exchanged greetings.
The first lady's on-the-ground campaigning for Chicago in advance of Friday's IOC vote on the 2016 Summer Games host had begun.
When Obama reached IOC member Nicole Hoevertsz, she gave her a thumbs-up sign and a hug. Hoevertsz said later that Obama knew Hoevertsz had just been selected to a key government position in Aruba.
It was a peek into the playbook of Olympic bid campaigning in the post-Salt Lake City scandal era.
Before the scandal revealed the excesses being showered on IOC members by candidate cities, the members were allowed to visit the cities. Now that visits are no longer allowed, "It comes down to very little details," Hoevertsz says.
TOUGH VOTE: IOC members agonize over choice
FRIDAY: Chicago's 2016 bid up for vote
Presuming the candidates have technically sound bids, foremost among those details are personal connections and assurances, and cities are bringing even more high-profile figures to make those. The candidates of Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo among them will have two presidents, two prime ministers and a king as well as the queen of talk shows (Chicago's Oprah Winfrey) in Denmark.
"I'm stumped to think of another organization in the world that has that array of talent coming to present to it," British IOC member Craig Reedie says, "and President Obama will be the icing on the cake."
Before he arrives, Michelle Obama will hold several meetings with IOC members. "The one-on-one meetings are important," says White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who accompanied the first lady. "That's why the first lady came a couple days early, so she would have a chance to meet people. I think when you look into her eyes and you see the spark and energy, that's very telling."
IOC members are characterizing the 2016 race as one of the closest ever.
"Momentum in this game is earned in the lobbies of the hotel in the last two days," Reedie says.
Reedie knows. When the IOC awarded London the 2012 Olympics four years ago, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair was applauded for connecting with members. London edged Paris by four votes.
It will be critical to persuade members to vote for Chicago through every round of voting, which is by secret ballot. Members often cast sentimental votes to prevent a city from going out with a low total; Madrid could draw many of these because of ex-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, a Spaniard.
Britain plans to outlaw annual bonuses for bankers
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By David Stringer, Associated Press Writer
BRIGHTON, England — British Treasury chief Alistair Darling said Monday that annual bonuses for bank executives will be outlawed in an attempt to curb excessive risk-taking in the country's huge financial sector.
Darling told the governing Labour Party's annual conference that legislation to restrict how the payments are made will be introduced in Parliament within weeks.
Leaders of the G-20 group of rich and developing countries agreed last week to limit executive bonuses, but did not set specific caps. Darling said bankers in Britain will in the future be offered bonuses for their performance over several years, rather than over 12 months.
"We won't allow greed and recklessness to ever again endanger the whole global economy and the lives of millions of people," Darling said.
He told the conference that laws would include a claw-back provision and help to "end the reckless culture that puts short-term profits over long-term success."
"It will mean an immediate end to automatic bank bonuses year after year, it will mean an end to immediate payouts for top management," Darling said.
The plans, to be included in a new business and financial services bill, will be formally proposed in November, when Brown's government sets out a legislative program for the next parliamentary session.
Darling told the conference that Britain's economy has not yet recovered from the financial crisis, but he predicted the country is likely to come out of recession by the end of the year.
"Germany, France and Japan are showing signs of growth. There are many independent forecasters now believing too that the U.K. is coming out of recession," he said. "I think it is too early to say so with total confidence."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party trails badly in polls. A national election must be called by next June.
Brown said Sunday that his party could recover if the economy rallies and the public gives him credit for averting a worse financial crisis.
"Electorally, we are in the fight of our lives," Business Secretary Peter Mandelson told the conference. "And, yes, we start that fight as underdogs."
Mandelson announced that Britain will extend a car-scrapping plan to cover an extra 100,00 cars and vans. The plan, similar to the cash for clunkers auto rebate program in the United States, offers discounts of 2,000 pounds ($3,225) to new car buyers who trade in a model more than 10 years old.
In recent weeks, Brown has acknowledged that the government will need to cut public spending to reduce mounting government debt. But he has insisted the Labour Party will protect key services.
"Once we are through the recession — and only when this is clearly the case — we will tackle the deficit without eating into the fabric of people's lives," Mandelson said.
Darling said the main opposition Conservative Party, which is expected to win Britain's next election, would put the country's economic recovery at risk by making fast and sweeping cuts to spending.
"If we followed the Tory route now, recovery would be put at risk, prospects for growth damaged, borrowing would in the long run be greater. We cannot and must not let that happen," Darling said.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Britain plans to outlaw annual bonuses for bankers
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By David Stringer, Associated Press Writer
BRIGHTON, England — British Treasury chief Alistair Darling said Monday that annual bonuses for bank executives will be outlawed in an attempt to curb excessive risk-taking in the country's huge financial sector.
Darling told the governing Labour Party's annual conference that legislation to restrict how the payments are made will be introduced in Parliament within weeks.
Leaders of the G-20 group of rich and developing countries agreed last week to limit executive bonuses, but did not set specific caps. Darling said bankers in Britain will in the future be offered bonuses for their performance over several years, rather than over 12 months.
"We won't allow greed and recklessness to ever again endanger the whole global economy and the lives of millions of people," Darling said.
He told the conference that laws would include a claw-back provision and help to "end the reckless culture that puts short-term profits over long-term success."
"It will mean an immediate end to automatic bank bonuses year after year, it will mean an end to immediate payouts for top management," Darling said.
The plans, to be included in a new business and financial services bill, will be formally proposed in November, when Brown's government sets out a legislative program for the next parliamentary session.
Darling told the conference that Britain's economy has not yet recovered from the financial crisis, but he predicted the country is likely to come out of recession by the end of the year.
"Germany, France and Japan are showing signs of growth. There are many independent forecasters now believing too that the U.K. is coming out of recession," he said. "I think it is too early to say so with total confidence."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party trails badly in polls. A national election must be called by next June.
Brown said Sunday that his party could recover if the economy rallies and the public gives him credit for averting a worse financial crisis.
"Electorally, we are in the fight of our lives," Business Secretary Peter Mandelson told the conference. "And, yes, we start that fight as underdogs."
Mandelson announced that Britain will extend a car-scrapping plan to cover an extra 100,00 cars and vans. The plan, similar to the cash for clunkers auto rebate program in the United States, offers discounts of 2,000 pounds ($3,225) to new car buyers who trade in a model more than 10 years old.
In recent weeks, Brown has acknowledged that the government will need to cut public spending to reduce mounting government debt. But he has insisted the Labour Party will protect key services.
"Once we are through the recession — and only when this is clearly the case — we will tackle the deficit without eating into the fabric of people's lives," Mandelson said.
Darling said the main opposition Conservative Party, which is expected to win Britain's next election, would put the country's economic recovery at risk by making fast and sweeping cuts to spending.
"If we followed the Tory route now, recovery would be put at risk, prospects for growth damaged, borrowing would in the long run be greater. We cannot and must not let that happen," Darling said.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
By Vicki Michaelis, USA TODAY
COPENHAGEN — As Michelle Obama walked through the lobby of the International Olympic Committee's hotel Wednesday, she shook hands and exchanged greetings.
The first lady's on-the-ground campaigning for Chicago in advance of Friday's IOC vote on the 2016 Summer Games host had begun.
When Obama reached IOC member Nicole Hoevertsz, she gave her a thumbs-up sign and a hug. Hoevertsz said later that Obama knew Hoevertsz had just been selected to a key government position in Aruba.
It was a peek into the playbook of Olympic bid campaigning in the post-Salt Lake City scandal era.
Before the scandal revealed the excesses being showered on IOC members by candidate cities, the members were allowed to visit the cities. Now that visits are no longer allowed, "It comes down to very little details," Hoevertsz says.
TOUGH VOTE: IOC members agonize over choice
FRIDAY: Chicago's 2016 bid up for vote
Presuming the candidates have technically sound bids, foremost among those details are personal connections and assurances, and cities are bringing even more high-profile figures to make those. The candidates of Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo among them will have two presidents, two prime ministers and a king as well as the queen of talk shows (Chicago's Oprah Winfrey) in Denmark.
"I'm stumped to think of another organization in the world that has that array of talent coming to present to it," British IOC member Craig Reedie says, "and President Obama will be the icing on the cake."
Before he arrives, Michelle Obama will hold several meetings with IOC members. "The one-on-one meetings are important," says White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who accompanied the first lady. "That's why the first lady came a couple days early, so she would have a chance to meet people. I think when you look into her eyes and you see the spark and energy, that's very telling."
IOC members are characterizing the 2016 race as one of the closest ever.
"Momentum in this game is earned in the lobbies of the hotel in the last two days," Reedie says.
Reedie knows. When the IOC awarded London the 2012 Olympics four years ago, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair was applauded for connecting with members. London edged Paris by four votes.
It will be critical to persuade members to vote for Chicago through every round of voting, which is by secret ballot. Members often cast sentimental votes to prevent a city from going out with a low total; Madrid could draw many of these because of ex-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, a Spaniard.
Is Working Online At Home The Way to Financial Freedom?
As part of a new series: "Jobs and the Recession", we examine a booming industry that could prove to be recession proof.
by Melissa J, published on Wednesday, Sept 30 2009 and filed under Jobs and the Recession.
Are online jobs the next big thing? For Nicole Johnson it sure is. Nicole, a mother from Minneapolis, MN is thriving in the middle of an economic recession, working in the comfort of her own home.
From her website: "I get paid about $25 for every link I post on Google and I get paid every week... I make around $5500 a month right now"
Nicole's story is a very familiar one in these tough times. She lost her job as an account rep for a manufacturing company and a few days later her husband also was laid off from his job as part of cutbacks due to the bad economy.
"We knew we had to do something, so we put our heads together and started trying online job opporuntities." Nicole and her husband Jason wound up getting caught up in a few get rich quick business opportunities that were nothing more than pyramid schemes before finding something that really worked.
"I realized the best thing to do is instead of hoping that a company that you are looking at is going last, why not go with a big, reputable company. After looking at several different companies, I picked the safest bet... Google!"
Online giant Google is a publicly traded company and is worth an estimated $100 Billion (with a b). The company has pioneered online search and has changed the way we use the internet.
In a matter of weeks Nicole and Jason had a steady stream of income coming in via checks that were delivered to their home. They happened upon a system called "Online Cash Success Kit" that taught them how to make money posting links online.
Online Cash Success Kit is a free course that can teach anyone, regardless of computer skill level to start making money online with Google. It's available for free* at Online Cash Success Kit.
"We were doing pretty good and then we discovered the real trick to making money. We combined " Online Cash Success Kit " with another free course called "Google Biz Kit" that's where we really learned the extra tricks so instead of making a couple of hundred bucks here and there we started maximizing the amount we made."
Nicole even shared with us a picture of the kind of checks she gets from Google each month:
For those of you that have seen the 'scammy' sites on the internet that promise you can make millions of dollars online Nicole warns that this is not the promise being made here and that most of those sites are false representations of earnings you can make.
"We never tell anyone they'll make millions of dollars, in fact I think this is the ONLY online system that says you probably WON'T get rich overnight, but you can generate a legitimate income from home like I do that replaced my full time job."
Getting started is simple. Following these simple steps below is all you need to do to get started.
Step 1: Click here for Online Cash Success Kit (Promo code "cash4me" reduces shipping from $2.95 to $1.00)
Step 2: Click here for Google Biz Kit (Pay Only $1.95 for Shipping)
Step 3: Follow the directions on Online Cash Success Kit and Google Biz Kit that basically shows you how to set up a Google account. You need both kits, as they teach you different things. They will give you the website links to post. Start posting those links. From then on, Google tracks everything.
New details have emerged about the alleged $2 million extortion plot against David Letterman.
In a press conference held by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau Friday morning, prosecutors identified the suspect in the plot as CBS News producer Robert "Joe" Halderman and outlined the case against him but declined to comment on his possible motives.
Morgenthau said that Halderman, a 48 Hours producer, had been charged with attempted grand larceny between the period of Sept. 9 and Sept. 30.
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The D.A. said that Halderman waited outside Letterman's Manhattan apartment Sept. 9 at 6 a.m. to give him a package and say that he needed a "large chunk of money." He was hoping to sell a "screenplay treatment" and told Letterman that his life was about to collapse around him.
The one-page treatment mentioned "your beautiful loving son" [Harry, born in 2003] and said Letterman's "world was about to collapse around him." He also referred to "ruined reputation and severe damage to his professional and family lives."
Halderman allegedly said he should contact Letterman by 8 a.m. to further discuss the matter. Letterman immediately called his lawyer. Halderman and the lawyer met at the Essex House hotel on Sept. 15, at which point Halderman allegedly attempted to extort $2 million from Letterman, 62, in exchange for keeping quiet about sexual activity between the Late Show host and female employees of his program.
In all, the suspect and Letterman's lawyer (but never Letterman himself) met three times. The suspect was arrested after he tried to cash a $2 million check the lawyer provided in Connecticut on Sept. 30.
One of the women at the center of the case is Stephanie Birkitt, Letterman's former assistant, according to the search warrant obtained by FOX 5 New York. The warrant says Birkitt was Halderman's girlfriend.
On Late Show Thursday night, Letterman admitted to having "had sex with women who work with me on this show" and said that he had testified against his alleged extortionist before a grand jury earlier that day.
The warrant says that the package Halderman sent Letterman – who married longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko in March – contained copies of parts of a diary and correspondence belonging to Birkitt.
An arraignment is scheduled for Friday at 2:15 p.m.
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Gilles Marini's Birthday Present for His Wife – a House
By Monica Rizzo
Originally posted Friday October 02, 2009 02:15 PM EDT
Carol and Gilles Marini
Photo by: Chelsea Lauren / WireImage
Husbands, take note: French actor Gilles Marini knows what a woman wants for her birthday – a new house.
Marini, 33, surprised his wife Carole at her 32nd birthday party Wednesday night by giving her "the house she has dreamed of for years," he tells PEOPLE.
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"We have lived in this [apartment] complex for about five, six years, and every day we walk around the neighborhood," Marini says. "She always saw this one house on our walk and said, 'This is my dream house.' A month ago we saw the house was for sale."
Marini, who was a sensation on Dancing With the Stars last season and who has a recurring role on ABC's Brothers and Sisters this fall, went so far as to have the couple's real estate agent tell Carole that the four-bedroom, 3,000-sq.-ft. house in Studio City, Calif., had already been sold to someone else.
Gathered with family and friends at Carole's birthday dinner Wednesday night – the couple are parents to son Georges and daughter Juliana – Marini presented her with a birthday card.
"Inside I put a picture of the house and a poem I wrote her," says Marini, who first made a splash in the U.S. with his sexy shower scene in the Sex and the City movie. "It goes: Eleven years of sweat, blood and tears. You never gave up ... It is a small way of showing you how I'm feeling. I love you, my wife, my soul, my everything."
Carole's reaction? "She pretty much died inside out," Marini says. "I was crying. Everybody at the table was crying ... It was one of the best days of my life."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's policy of engaging Tehran received a fillip after talks between Iran and six world powers in Geneva on Thursday produced some tentative deals on its nuclear enrichment program.
In various capitals, there was a wave of "cautious optimism," a phrase rarely heard in Iran's protracted nuclear stand-off with the West.
DO GENEVA TALKS MEAN OBAMA'S OUTREACH TO IRAN IS WORKING?
It is too early to say.
Given Iran's track record in past nuclear talks, Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both sounded cautious after the meeting. Obama called it a "constructive beginning", while Clinton said its success could only be judged on what the Iranians did next.
One test will be whether Iran abides by its agreement in principle to send uranium to Europe for further processing and allow U.N. nuclear inspectors unfettered access to the newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant near the holy city of Qom.
The fact that the two countries were at the same table in their highest-level direct talks for 30 years, could be seen as progress in itself.
It was the most concrete example to date of Obama's policy of diplomatic engagement with Iran and follows a period of increased tension after Iran's disputed presidential election in June and a violent crackdown by the authorities on opposition protesters.
Iran had rebuffed Obama's outreach efforts, which represented a break with his predecessor George W. Bush's policy of isolating Iran to force it to give up its nuclear enrichment program, which Washington fears could be used to make a bomb.
The administration will likely hold up Thursday's meeting as a breakthrough of sorts, but past experience has taught that dealing with Iran is complex and it is best to keep their expectations low.
SO ARE SANCTIONS STILL ON THE TABLE?
Obama made clear on Thursday that Iran, which insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, has little time left to open all its facilities to international inspection. Washington's "patience is not unlimited," he warned.
The United States is readying measures that will make it difficult for Tehran to do business with the outside world if negotiations fail, including sanctions targeting Iran's gasoline imports and its banking system.
Washington's two-track strategy of diplomacy and sanctions aims to convince Iran to give up nuclear enrichment. Analysts say that after Geneva, Obama must define what would constitute success and decide how long to pursue diplomacy before deciding on sanctions.
The administration favors negotiations because it knows getting Russia and China, which have United Nations veto power, to agree to tougher measures will be difficult. The third option, military action, is not favored by the Pentagon. Continued...
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro will stage the first Olympics in South America in 2016, the International Olympic Committee decided on Friday, delivering a stunning rebuff to U.S. President Barack Obama and favorites Chicago.
IOC President Jacques Rogge announced the decision to give the Games to Rio after three rounds of voting which produced a landslide victory for the Brazilians in a final showdown with Madrid.
Chicago, despite a speech to the IOC by President Obama, who had put his credibility on the line by flying in to address the IOC just before the vote, went out as fourth and last in the first round of voting, one of the biggest shocks in an Olympic ballot.
Chicago had started as front-runners and most Olympic observers had expected the Obama factor - first lady Michelle Obama spent two days lobbying in Copenhagen and also addressed the IOC session - to be decisive.
The fourth candidate, Tokyo, was knocked out in the second ballot.
CHEERED WILDLY
The Brazilian delegation at the Bella Convention Center, including Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and soccer great Pele, cheered wildly, then broke down in tears of joy and began singing as they hugged each other and celebrated a momentous victory.
Lula's impassioned appeal to the IOC to stop its habit of awarding Olympics to Europe, North America and the Far East and give Brazil and South America a long overdue chance clearly touched the right buttons as did an appealing video display, showing beaches, mountains and a joyous people having fun.
Rio's Copacabana beach erupted in joy after the vote was announced, kicking off a carnival-style celebration in front of the big stage and screens broadcasting events from Denmark.
In the final round of voting by 98 eligible IOC members, Rio picked up more than two thirds, winning by 66 votes to Madrid's 32 with one abstention.
Madrid had led the first round by 28 votes to 26 for Rio with Tokyo on 22 and Chicago last on 18.
After Chicago's elimination, there was a strong switch to Rio in the second round, the Brazilians almost winning an outright majority, picking up 46 votes to 29 for Madrid and 20 for Tokyo.
STRONG APPEALS
Though the U.S. President and his wife produced strong appeals in the day's first 45-minute presentation by Chicago, they were almost certainly undone by the emotional tugs provided by Lula and former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch for Madrid.
Lula raised the emotional stakes in his speech. "This is a continent that has never held the Games," he said. Continued...
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Lights out in Tokyo after early exit
Fri Oct 2, 2009 2:34pm EDT
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's failure to win the 2016 Olympic bid triggered groans but few tears from officials and partygoers at Tokyo Tower when the result was announced well past midnight local time on Saturday.
"I thought South America would be favorite -- or Chicago. That's the way it goes," 32-year-old photographer Takashi Imai told Reuters after Tokyo lost out to Rio de Janeiro in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote.
Odds-on favorite Chicago was the first to be eliminated, drawing bigger gasps from those gathered than Tokyo's subsequent rejection moments later in the second round.
"At least we beat Chicago," said Akiko Shindo, a 27-year-old cheerleader. "We wanted Tokyo to win but we would like to support the winners and hope the 2016 Olympics are a success.
"I wanted Rio to win -- if we didn't. The people there seem to have Olympic fever."
Tokyo was quoted as 25-1 to win by some major bookmakers, behind Rio de Janeiro and Madrid.
An impassioned plea by bid leaders underlining Tokyo's environmental credentials and a bulging bank balance failed to convince the IOC.
LIGHTS OUT
As Tokyo bid leaders and new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama put on brave faces in Copenhagen, 8,700 kilometres away in the Japanese capital people packed up and left before the winner had even been announced.
"I need a drink," said top Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto. "But it was a good experience."
Tokyo hosted Asia's first Olympics in 1964 but many considered they were a long shot after Beijing hosted the Summer Games last year.
In a country where cutting edge robot technology and centuries-old rituals merge, news of Tokyo's defeat prompted a mixture of sadness and resignation.
"Really? said Masaru Toda, a 58-year-old fishmonger, when told the result. "I'm not surprised. I remember the 1964 Games. It was right it went to South America."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers unexpectedly cut more jobs in September than in August, underscoring the fragility of the economy's recovery from its worst recession in 70 years as businesses remain cautious about the future.
The Labor Department said on Friday non-farm payrolls dropped by 263,000, marking the 21st straight monthly decline, and helping to lift the unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8 percent from 9.7 percent in August.
While the contraction in employment was worse than the 180,000 drop economists surveyed by Reuters had predicted, many believed it did not signal the start of a reversal in the trend toward stabilization of the labor market.
Economists said September's reading was distorted by a 53,000 drop in government employment, likely reflecting cutbacks by state and local governments, many of which are facing deep budget problems caused by the recession.
"We are more inclined to view September as a temporary setback than as a signal that the decelerating trend in job losses has stalled out," said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at RBS in Greenwich, Connecticut.
U.S. stocks fell on the data, but clawed back most of the losses as investors snapped up technology and financial shares after upbeat broker reviews on some companies in the sectors.
Shares slipped this week as some data pointed to a leveling off in the recovery from a recession that began in December 2007.
U.S. Treasury debt prices initially surged but then gave up those gains, with investors taking profits after a rally.
While the United States reported higher unemployment,
Japan, the world's No. 2 economy, reported an unexpected fall in the jobless rate last month from a record high in August. But economists cautioned Japan's domestic spending outlook was uncertain.
BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA
The jobless numbers might be bad news for U.S. President Barack Obama's attempt to reform the U.S. healthcare system, as Congress will want to limit spending on a health sector overhaul if the economy is taking longer to recover.
While Obama's overall approval ratings have stabilized at 50 percent or above since August, deepening unemployment could drag them down, and polls continue to show significant opposition to his handling of healthcare.
Vice President Joe Biden described the employment report as "tough news" but appeared to indicate the economy, which received a $787 billion spending package this year, might not need a second stimulus package.
"We are still working on finishing the first one and doing it right. We also know all along that the recovery was going to take a long time," Biden told reporters at the White House. Continued...
The government revised job losses for July and August to show 13,000 more jobs were lost than previously reported.
A turnaround in the jobs market is viewed as the missing link in recovery from the longest and deepest slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The economy is believed to have started growing in the third quarter.
Since the start of the recession, the number of unemployed people has soared 7.6 million to 15.1 million, the department said. While the pace of job losses has moderated from early this year, companies are still not hiring on a big scale, likely waiting for a signal that the recovery is sustainable.
STILL ON TRACK FOR RECOVERY
"I don't think it argues against a modest recovery in the U.S. economy ... but this is why we are not in a rapid V-shaped recovery," Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh.
Among the main culprits behind the big drop in non-farm payrolls in September was the service providing sector, which shed 147,000 jobs. Retail employment fell 38,500.
A gauge of labor market slack that measures both the officially unemployed and discouraged job seekers rose to a record 17 percent in September from 16.8 percent in August. The report also showed 5.4 million people had been unemployed for more than six months.
Some analysts reckon the unemployment rate would have breached the 10 percent mark last month were it not for the fact that the labor force fell by 571,000, a sign that some discouraged job seekers had given up the search for work.
The labor market slack and the anemic rise in wages suggest that inflation remains a distant threat for now and the Federal Reserve will probably delay withdrawing some of the support it is giving the economy.
Still, there were a few encouraging spots in the report. Manufacturing unemployment slowed and the number of newly unemployed people in the country eased to 2.97 million, the smallest in a year.
"It's yet another sign that the pace of layoffs has been slowing," said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group, Princeton, New Jersey.
The average workweek, which closely correlates with overall output and gives clues on when firms will start hiring, dipped to 33 hours from 33.1 in August. Average hourly earnings inched up to $18.67 from $18.66.
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(Additional reporting by Lisa Lambert and David Alexander; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
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You’ll hone your skills by completing five adventure dives that introduce you to:
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One reason you’ll love the Advanced Open Water Diver course is that you and your instructor choose from 15 types of Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can try your hand at digital underwater photography, wreck diving, night diving, diving with underwater scooters, peak performance buoyancy and much more.
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The PADI Underwater Navigator Course
Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.
The Fun Part
Finding your way is not a matter of luck! When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a shipwreck, they’re having a great time – until it’s time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.
Get College Credit
You may be able to earn college credit for the PADI Underwater Navigator Course.
What You Learn
Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you master the challenge. You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass.
You learn
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The Scuba Gear You Use
You will use the basic scuba diving equipment, some scuba accessories such as a dive slate and an underwater compass.
Check with your local dive shop or resort about gear rentals and packages offered with this course. You can find most everything at the scuba diving shop
The Learning Materials You Need
Accurate navigation is based on thoughtful preparation. With that in mind: PADI’s Navigation crewpak includes everything needed to complete the Underwater Navigation specialty. The manual and DVD preview the navigation skills you’ll practice with your instructor both on land and underwater. Use the Nav-Finder to track where you’ve been and chart the most direct route back to the boat or shore.
To purchase these products, contact your local PADI Instructor, dive shop or resort.
Prerequisites
You must be:
•A PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
•At least 10 years old
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Underwater navigation is an important skill no matter what type of scuba diving you’re doing. It’s especially useful when night diving, wreck diving or when you’re searching to recover a lost item underwater
The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Course
Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost “treasure”? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up.
The Fun Part
Find lost items and lift them to the surface. It’s fun to use the lift bag. Not only are these skills fun, but very practical and ultimately useful because eventually, you’ll lose something in the water. As a Search and Recovery Diver, you’ll know how to search for and recover it.
Get Credit
You may be able to earn college credit for the PADI Search and Recovery Diver course.
What You Learn
•Search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems
•How to locate large and small objects using search patterns
•How to use a lift bag and other recovery methods
•Limited visibility search techniques
The Scuba Gear You Use
You will use the basic scuba diving equipment, an underwater compass and a lift bag.
Check with your local dive shop or resort about gear rentals and packages offered with this course. You can find most everything at the scuba diving shop
The Learning Materials You Need
The Search and Recovery crewpak (DVD and manual) includes everything needed to prepare for the PADI Search and Recovery Specialty course. The manual includes a search pattern reference guide, knot-tying diagrams and an overview of how to organize a search. The video on DVD provides additional information on performing search patterns and how to plan a search in variety of conditions.
To purchase this product, contact your local PADI Instructor, dive shop or resort.
Prerequisites
To take the PADI Search and Recovery Diver course, you must be:
•A certified PADI (junior) Advanced Open Water Diver
•A PADI (junior) Open Water Diver and a PADI Underwater Navigator (or equivalent certification from another organization)
•At least 12 years old
Your Next Adventure
Because you often need to navigate to specific spots to find lost items, the Underwater Navigator course can help you perfect your navigation skills.
Open Water Diver
Get Certified! Take a Scuba Lesson with the PADI Open Water Diver Course
Get your PADI scuba certification. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, discover new adventures or simply see the wondrous world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.
The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle. Start your scuba certification online.
What You Learn
The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
•Knowledge Development (online, home study or in a classroom ) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
•Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
•Open Water Dives to review your skills and explore!
If you’ve tried diving through a Discover Scuba Diving experience or resort course, the skills you learned may be credited towards a portion of the full PADI Open Water Diver course certification.
Prerequisites
To enroll in the PADI Open Diver course or Junior Open Water Diver course, you must
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The Fun Part
The fun part about this course is . . . well, just about all of it because learning to dive is incredible. You breathe underwater for the first time (something you’ll never forget) and learn what you need to know to become a certified diver. During the course, you’ll make at least five pool dives and four dives at local dive sites under the supervision of your PADI Instructor.
Get College Credit
You may be able to earn college credit for the PADI Open Water Diver course!
The Scuba Gear You Use
In the PADI Open Water Diver course, you learn to use basic scuba gear including a dive computer, and standard accessories. The equipment you wear varies somewhat, depending upon whether you’re diving in tropical, temperate or cold water
Check with your local dive shop about the gear you’ll use during this course. You can find most everything at the scuba diving shop in your area.
The Learning Materials You Need
PADI offers a variety of home-study materials for the Open Water Diver course. While eLearning is the most convenient option, you may also chose a book and DVD package or a multimedia DVD-ROM.
PADI’s Open Water Diver materials cover what you need to know about basic scuba diving skills, terminology and safety procedures. For each concept you’ll read a description and watch a video demonstration. Then you’ll jump in the pool (or pool-like environment) to practice these skills with your instructor. Later, as a certified diver, use the course materials as a reference guide for future diving adventures and to review what you learned.
Note: Enroll in the PADI Open Water Diver Course Online for immediate computer-based access to the manual and video integrated into seamless, guided online learning.
To purchase these products, contact your local PADI Instructor, dive shop or resort.
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Scuba Community
My PADI Scuba Community
Welcome to PADI's scuba diving community where you can
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•browse cool underwater photos and videos
•see what's new on the PADI blog.
Thank you to all of you who have participated in the My PADI survey to provide input and feedback about what features you'd like to see in the new online scuba community! We received some excellent advice about what you expect as a user.
Currently we are fine-tuning the scope to reflect your input. The scope will be finished this Fall and beta testing should begin the end of 2009 with a full launch coming early 2010.
Existing My PADI users can still log into the PADI online community, however due to recent database upgrades, new members will have to wait to join until the new community launches in early 2010. In the meantime, please join the PADI Facebook page to stay up to date on community developments.
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Supreme Court Overturns Arthur Andersen Conviction
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WASHINGTON — In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court (search) overturned the conviction of Arthur Andersen (search) for destroying Enron Corp.-related documents before the energy giant's collapse.
Justices said the former Big Five accounting firm's June 2002 conviction was improper. It said the jury instructions at trial were too vague and broad for jurors to determine correctly whether Andersen obstructed justice.
"The jury instructions here were flawed in important respects," Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist (search) wrote for the court.
The ruling is a setback for the Bush administration, which made prosecution of white-collar criminals a high priority following accounting scandals at major corporations. After Enron's 2001 collapse, the Justice Department went after Andersen first.
Acting assistant Attorney General John C. Richter said the Justice Department was disappointed with the decision and was considering whether to re-try the case.
"The Justice Department's decision to charge Arthur Andersen was based at the time on the determination that the substantial destruction of documents in anticipation of an investigation by the
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Enron crashed in December 2001, putting more than 5,000 employees out of work, just six weeks after the energy company revealed massive losses and writedowns.
Subsequently, as the Securities and Exchange Commission (search) began looking into Enron's convoluted finances, Andersen put in practice a policy calling for destroying unneeded documentation.
Government attorneys argued that Andersen should be held responsible for instructing its employees to "undertake an unprecedented campaign of document destruction."
But in his opinion, Rehnquist noted that jurors were instructed to convict Andersen if the accounting firm had an "improper purpose," such as an intent to impede or subvert fact-finding in an "official proceeding." He noted jurors were instructed to convict, even if Andersen mistakenly thought it was acting legally.
Like a mother who advises a son to invoke his right against compelled self-incrimination out of fear he might be convicted, "persuading" an employee to withhold information is not "inherently malign," Rehnquist wrote.
The instructions also diluted the meaning of 'corruptly' so that it covered innocent conduct," Rehnquist said.
At trial, Andersen argued that employees who shredded tons of documents followed the policy and there was no intent to thwart the SEC investigation.
The probe into Andersen led to just one guilty plea, from the firm's former top Enron auditor, David Duncan. But the conviction of the Chicago firm forced it to surrender its accounting license and stop conducting public audits. Some 28,000 workers had to find other jobs, and the company was left a shell of its former self.
A ruling against Andersen could have had onerous consequences for businesses, whose discarding of files is an everyday occurrence. Experts say companies would have had to keep all files for fear that any disposal, however innocent, could subject them to potential prosecution.
According to Andersen attorneys, notes and drafts of documents were thrown away under the firm's document-retention policy in part because they were preliminary and could have been misconstrued.
Andersen's appeal was backed by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. It argued in a friend-of-the-court filing that broad characterization of "obstruction" used in the jury instructions would also unfairly punish criminal attorneys who advise their clients to withhold evidence in legal ways.
Such a broad reading could open defense lawyers and others to prosecution if they merely advise clients of their rights to assert legal privileges or review document retention policies, the criminal defense group said.
The case is Arthur Group v. U.S., 04-368
UK to Extradite 3 Ex-Enron Bankers
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
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LONDON — The UK is to allow the extradition of three former NatWest bankers to the United States to face trial over fraud charges relating to U.S. energy company Enron (search).
The three are "devastated but not surprised" and will appeal, said their spokeswoman, Melanie Riley.
Britain's Home Secretary Charles Clarke upheld a ruling by a UK judge last October that the three could be extradited.
The bankers' case falls under UK legislation in force since January of last year, which was originally designed to speed up the transfer of suspected terrorists to the United States.
This law has left the Home Secretary with only limited powers to overrule court decisions on extradition.
Former bankers Gary Mulgrew, Giles Darby and David Bermingham -- who worked for NatWest Bank (search), which is now part of Royal Bank of Scotland (search) -- have been fighting the extradition, which would require them to face trial in Houston, Texas.
The three, who deny the fraud allegations, have argued that they should face trial in the UK.
They are alleged to have conspired with Enron executives, including former finance chief Andrew Fastow (search), over the sale of a stake in an Enron entity in 2000
The Business of Congress: All Work, Low (Really Low) Approval Ratings
Thursday, October 04, 2007
By Karen Kerrigan
PrintShareThisWASHINGTON — If 89 percent of your customers thought you were doing a lousy job, wouldn’t that lead you to do some serious soul searching?
The latest Zogby survey shows the 11 percent approval rating of Congress is another record-book low. But Congress appears oblivious to it all.
“You really [must] work hard,” said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, at the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council policy conference last week, to hit those numbers.
Yep, you really gotta want it.
Democrats blame their low approval ratings on “the war” — that is, they contend they haven’t been able to use their power to get the U.S. out of Iraq. But could it be that the public has picked up the “business as usual” M.O. on Capitol Hill? Partisan sniping, investigatory overkill, and the pork – yes, earmarks both hidden and blatant — live on!
Congress is missing key deadlines to boot, which could end up costing taxpayers more (much more) than federal elected officials publicly admit they’ll actually spend in the coming year.
Passing the budget is Congress’ most basic responsibility. The fiscal year ended September 30, and not one appropriation bill landed on President Bush’s desk. He is supposed to sign twelve separate bills. Since Congress missed its deadline, they quietly passed a continuing resolution (CR) that keeps the government running at current spending levels until November 16.
This innocuous sounding process is infamous for producing some of Congress’ finest “pork” moments. The CR is passed, and another one follows. Then, Congress simply slams all the bills together in one big omnibus package and sends it to the president for his signature. If one big spending package is sent to the White House this year, it will amount to over $1 trillion. You can pack a lot of pork into that baby.
"So far, this Congress isn’t even close to demonstrating fiscal responsibility. Instead of doing their jobs, addressing the critical financial burdens facing the nation, members of Congress have been scrambling to find new ways to slink off with more pork,” slammed Citizens Against Waste President (CAGW) Tom Schatz in a September 28 press release.
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•Click and Tax? Nov. 1 Deadline Could Open Internet to New Taxes
•What to Do If You Get a No-Match Letter From Social Security Administration
•It's Tax and Spend Time on Capitol Hill -- for 'The Children,' of Course
•Financing Government, Congress Style
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Democrats pledged to clean up the earmark mess, but things have not gotten better. In fact, vote trading for pork (remember the troop funding bill?) and a CR in February containing hidden earmarks demonstrated how quickly the Democrats bellied back up to the pork-pork bar.
This past summer Republican House Leader John Boehner from Ohio, and his colleagues introduced legislation that would require every earmark to be publicly disclosed, subject to challenge and then open to a debate on the House floor. Because House Republicans have hit the wall with regards to trying to work with Democrats on bringing the legislation up for a full vote, Boehner filed a discharge petition on September 20. It would force an up-or-down vote on the earmark reform bill if 218 members sign the petition. To date, 196 members of the House have signed the petition.
Over in the Senate, CAGW is calling out the Senate leadership for rolling back the earmark transparency and accountability provisions of S. 1, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (which was only passed two weeks ago!). The bill establishes a challenge process for earmarks placed in appropriations, tax bills and authorizations. According to CAGW, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is claiming that only earmarks included in appropriations bills can be challenged on the Senate floor.
“Senate leaders are manipulating the process in order to maintain secrecy and stuff earmarks into as many bills as possible. In addition, someone is peddling pabulum to the media about a miraculous 50 percent reduction in congressional earmarks,” Schatz said.
Schatz added that the proof will be exposed once the process is complete as “all indications are that members of Congress, particularly the usual spendthrifts in the Senate, are getting ready to lard up federal spending bills as much as ever.”
Wow, and Congress preaches to the business community about how to run their firms and spend their hard-earned dollars. At least, in general, the discipline of the marketplace takes swift, corrective action against entrepreneurs who don’t treat their customers, employees and resources with care. Congress, however, is buffered by the election cycle. But, just as they feverously worked to get to 11 percent, they are really going to have to pour it on to move those numbers in the opposite direction.
Update on Internet Taxes
Beltway Small Business Report readers emailed me about the looming Nov. 1 expiration date of the Internet tax moratorium. (Click and Tax? Nov. 1 Deadline Could Open Internet to New Taxes). I received scores of comments, which can be summed up by the following two reader observations:
From P.C.M.:
“I am for the ban, permanently. I cannot imagine a worse concept than local and state governments being given the power to tax at will with little or no oversight or accountability. I have heard a gambit of how locals think the money will be used, yet at the same time, the recent tobacco tax has mysteriously gone elsewhere and no one seems to mind. What if the local and state governments decide to tax on both the sending and receiving end? The Internet works because it is controlled by the greed of business people rather than the greed of politicians. At least the greed of business has benefits to the consumer — the greed of politicians does not serve the majority of constituents.”
From John, Retired U.S. Navy:
“Some cities want to use the Internet for health care…no new taxes needed on anything! We the people are tired of it…fed up…had enough.”
A Congress committee is discussing the tax Wednesday, demonstrating a heightened awareness that something needs to get done. Although no firm vote date has been set, extending the moratorium (but not making the Internet tax ban permanent) is the type of issue that could pop up overnight. The hope is that the bill is a “clean” one, with no extraneous measures attached to it.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich, and Ranking Subcommittee Member Chris Cannon, R-Utah, introduced an Internet tax moratorium extension bill. The bill, H.R. 3678, would extend the moratorium another four years.
“While I would have preferred to make the Internet tax moratorium permanent today, this extension is necessary to prevent the circling tax vultures from descending on American families. New taxes would stifle economic growth. Ronald Reagan said of government’s view of the economy: ‘If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.’ This legislation preempts that cycle before it starts,” Rep. Cannon said.
Over in the Senate, Republicans are turning up the heat on the pending deadline, and Democrats respond that eventually something will get done. Well, at least it’s on the radar screen. That’s progress in Congress.
Karen Kerrigan is president & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a research and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. that works to protect small business and promote entrepreneurship. She is also founder of Women Entrepreneurs, Inc. , an association helping women business owners succeed through education, networking and advocacy. Kerrigan can be reached at kkerrigan@sbecouncil.org .
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How to Make Sure You'll Have Enough Money for Retirement
Monday, October 08, 2007
Gail Buckner, CFP
PrintShareThisDear Friends-
Guess what some of the richest families in America are worried about? Not having enough income in retirement.
A 2005 survey by PNC Bank found that among households with at least $10 million in “investable” assets, (i.e. excluding real estate) 1 in 5 said they were concerned they won’t have the income they’ll need to live the lifestyle they’re looking forward to when they retire.
OK, OK. I’m not exactly pulling out the crying towels. The point is, sweating out the cost of a retirement that’s likely to last 30 years or more is clearly an issue that spans the entire wealth spectrum. Just because someone has what most of us would consider a ton of money, doesn’t make him or her immune.
In addition, the amount of income you’re going to need in retirement is relative. You might be worried about whether you’ll be able to pay your Medicare premiums and put gas in your car when you’re 65, whereas those who are affluent may be worried about replacing the family yacht every three years.
When you think about it, “retirement” is the last financial frontier an individual faces. What makes it particularly thorny is that, unlike other financial goals you might have over your lifetime-like saving for a child’s college education, a new home, etc.- it’s impossible to know with any precision how much you need to save to finance your retirement years. One of the biggest wildcards is your health, since medical bills can eat up a big portion of your income.
In addition, “retirement” is the only financial goal you have that doesn’t have a time horizon attached to it. For instance, if your child is 6 years old, you know college tuition bills will be popping up in 12 years. Unless you’ve got a standing date with Dr. Kevorkian, you don’t know how long your money will need to last in retirement.
"You gotta have heart," the baseball team sang in the musical, Damn Yankees, and that's just as true for every small business owner. But you also "gotta have a Web site," because most people will look up a company online before they will pick up the Yellow Pages.
Having an internet site is as basic as having a business card to hand out to customers.
"Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com's Small Business Center.
Without either one, you're doing a disservice to your business. A site can make a big difference, even if it has only basic information (name of business, phone number, location with map, and business hours) along with a description of what you do and the products you have for sale.
But just throwing one together haphazardly can also do you a disservice. Overall, your Web site must make it easy for your customers and suppliers to find the information they need.
Not flashy, but professional. Not busy, but informative. Not trendy, but classy.
It might sound easy, but all in all, you probably have neither the design skills nor the time to create such a Web site on your own. But there are people who do, called graphic designers, and they can help your business with a well-designed look and feel for your Web site.
Part Two: Fuel Costs Burning Your Business?
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Susan C. Walker
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There's no magic wand when it comes to raising prices to cover the increased cost of fuel.
Some small business owners go boldly, while others set forth gingerly. Either way, the 66 owners who responded to my query about how small businesses are dealing with higher costs sent good information. I thought it would be useful to print verbatim some explanations of how they have passed costs on to the customer.
A computer services provider in Connecticut has an algorithm set up on his Microsoft Excel program, which shows that "when $3.50 per gallon for low-priced gasoline occurs, my surcharges have to change. Gasoline at the cheaper gas stations in my region is about $3.20 per gallon now…. I keep watching my figures."
Locksmith in Texas : "I raised my service call fee at the first of the year in an effort to offset the rising fuel cost. I have not heard much of any complaints from my customers. And the ones that did complain were okay with it once I explained how I could no longer absorb the ever-rising gas prices."
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Gourmet products wholesaler in Florida: "We haven't raised prices for some time, however, we are charging a $20 delivery fee due to increased fuel and shipping costs. Majority of customers recognize the increased cost of doing business in this environment. Others complain. However, we are in business to make money. Our competitors have higher product prices, therefore, we strive to maintain excellent relationships and communication with our customers."
Small business owner: "Instead of adding a fuel surcharge, we have raised our hourly and project rates. So far, few customers have complained about the increase. The impact of the increase in fuel prices is really starting to hit now. I am all for the government keeping their hands out of things, but I do believe they need to impress upon the oil companies the importance of keeping businesses alive. One day, our greed will come back to haunt us when we no longer have the business structure to keep this country going. Of course, the executives making the decisions now will be long gone by then. How sad it is to have that attitude."
Stamp dealer in Pennsylvania: "Dealing with higher fuel costs: Buy gas at cheapest price offered, cut back on mileage by consolidating trips as much as possible, moderate price increases to cope with gas costs, discounts offered have been lowered for the same reason, increased emphasis on mail-order by pointing out to my customers that they get the same great service from me and save the money they spend on gas driving to shows."
Wholesale battery specialist in Pennsylvania: "We have a minimum delivery charge of $5 and a maximum of $25. Basically, we add 5 percent and put a ceiling on it. If the customer [complains], we tell them to go to hell or Wal-Mart, whichever is closer."
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The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
Minnesota AG sues employment firm The Arthur GroupMinneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal - by Chris Newmarker Staff Writer
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The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office is suing now-defunct employement firm The Arthur Group Inc. and its owner and CEO Barry Trimble, claiming it misled clients who paid thousands of dollars for its services.
Prosecutors allege the Minneapolis-based firm decieved customers who paid up to $4,500 apiece for assistance in finding a job. Unemployed Minnesotans who signed up for it had little to show for it when The Arthur Group shut down its Web site and closed its doors last month. Some allegedly hadn’t had a single job interview or lead.
The lawsuit, filed in Hennepin County District Court, claims that the defendants violated the state’s consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices laws. It seeks restitution, injunctive relief and civil penalties against Trimble and his firm.
“With our unemployment rates at record-high levels, many people are out of work and looking for jobs. It is unconscionable for a company to take advantage of people’s understandable trepidation about being out of work by charging them hefty fees but giving them little help,” Attorney General Swanson said in a news release.
Swanson’s office says The Arthur Group posted ads for attractive job openings on Web sites such as CareerBuilder.com, only to tell the person at the time of the appointment that the posted job was no longer available.
Prosecutors also claim the firm had a “Featured Candidate Program” that didn’t produce job leads, and misled job seekers into believing that the fees they paid would eventually be reimbursed by the employers for whom it served as a search firm.
A call to a phone number listed for the firm wasn’t immediately returned
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IN THE BEGINNING
1 In the beginning Barry Trimble created The Arthur Group.
2 Now the Group was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Barry was hovered over dark offices.
3 And Barry said, "Let's scam some people," and there was the SCAM.
4 Barry saw that the SCAM was good, and separated clients from their money.
5 Barry called the SCAM "employment representation," and the lack of SCAM they called "unacceptable." And there was a child molestation, but that's beside the point.
6 And Barry, "Let there be an expanse between our lies to separate money from our clients."
7 So Barry made the lies and separated the money from clients with lies and deceit. And it was so.
8 Barry called the expanse "just business." And his clients "nutburgers and unemployables."
9 And the Attorney General said, "This guy is a crook. Let's bust his ass." And it was so.
10 The AG called the action "justice," and the regathered money she shall call "restitution." And she has seen that Barry was bad.
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Hilarious! Now what about the ending....Barry goes to prison?
I still laugh at the paperwork that BarryCo gave me back in the days. They wanted $12,500 fee and the contract was so ridiculous that I had laughed the bozo sales rep out the door.
I would like to know how the person that said "I am not Carissa" knows that I am not.
I gave out my email address and I came forward and am willing to discuss anything with anyone.
sounds to me like you are afraid that I really am.
try me....ask me anything that only i would know
Your not you are Kevin just confirmed it from your web IP address
Kevin is my dad.
I am under his name.
not really smart now are you.
You know what, this is really childish and you shouldnt assume things when you dont know..............you just make your self look like a larger fool than what you really are Barry.
I am done with this conversation and the people that need to know who I am already know and I have been in contact with them.
IP Address? Track this you fucking homo Barry...Call me on the stand and i'll testify that you touched me as an employee and threatend to fire me if i told anyone. The sick thing is, i'm a dude you sick, child molesting bastard. Carissa, i'm sorry you have to see this, i'm sorry Barry did that to you but he will go to prison...Again, Barry track me...I'll meet you in an alley and smack your fat face in......
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About Thomson ReutersReport says Iran has data to make atom bomb
Sat Oct 3, 2009 7:18pm EDT
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7:04pm EDTWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A confidential analysis by staff of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has concluded that Iran has acquired "sufficient information to be able to design and produce" an atom bomb, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
The Times report was posted on its website hours after Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived in Tehran for talks on a timetable for inspectors to visit a newly disclosed unfinished nuclear enrichment plant.
Iran, which rejects Western charges that it is seeking to build nuclear weapons, held talks with six world powers in Geneva on Thursday. Western officials said that in the talks, Iran had agreed "in principle" to ship out most of its enriched uranium for reprocessing in Russia and France.
The analysis, according to the Times, says the IAEA "assesses that Iran has sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device" based on highly enriched uranium.
The Times said unnamed senior European officials had described the document's conclusions to the paper. It said the report was written earlier this year and had since been revised, and quoted one official as saying the text was "not ready for publication as an official document."
It said the report, titled "Possible Military Dimensions of Iran's Nuclear Program," described a complex program run by Iran's Defense Ministry "aimed at the development of a nuclear payload to be delivered using the Shahab 3 missile system."
The report said the program apparently started in 2002. It suggested "the Iranians have done a wide array of research and testing to perfect nuclear arms, like making high-voltage detonators, firing test explosives and designing warheads," the Times said, but it did not say how much progress they made.
"The agency's tentative analysis also says that Iran 'most likely' obtained the needed information for designing and building an implosion bomb 'from external sources' and then adapted the information to its own needs," the Times said.
The paper said a dispute had erupted in recent months over the report between the IAEA's senior staff and ElBaradei, the agency's outgoing director who opposes adopting a "confrontational strategy" with Iran.
"In recent weeks, there have been leaks about the internal report, perhaps intended to press Dr. ElBaradei into releasing it," the Times said.
(Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Peter Cooney)
Obama's Olympian gamble collapses
Fri Oct 2, 2009 2:34pm EDT
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Friday, 2 Oct 2009 10:56am EDT By Steve Holland - Analysis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's politically risky Olympics gamble failed to bring home the gold on Friday when international organizers rejected his personal appeal and denied Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Games.
The president, whose even-tempered personality has earned him the nickname "No Drama Obama," broke from that mold to make an overnight dash from Washington to Copenhagen to lobby for his hometown.
Obama and his wife Michelle had taken their star power to the Danish capital to make Chicago's case, ignoring the carping of Republican opponents who charged it was a bad time to go with foreign policy challenges in Iran and Afghanistan and the U.S. Congress bogged down in a domestic healthcare debate.
"I'm asking you to choose Chicago. I'm asking you to choose America," Michelle Obama told committee members.
Her husband said, "If you do, if we walk this path together, then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud."
All that was for naught as Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting, a decision that brought gasps from the Chicago contingent at the Copenhagen meeting.
Rio de Janeiro won the Olympics two rounds later.
"Early exit stuns Chicago," said the headline on the Chicago Tribune's website.
The Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, was unsparing in his criticism of the Democratic president in a statement ahead of the decision and on a day when the U.S. jobless rate rose to 9.8 percent, a 26-year high.
"As President Obama travels to Copenhagen to bring the Summer Olympics to his hometown seven years from now, Americans back home are increasingly concerned they won't have a job seven months from now as they see more and more of their neighbors and friends lose jobs today," Steele said.
WILL IMPACT LINGER?
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said he believed the issue would not linger.
"It's a classic political hullabaloo that will fade quickly," he said. "I think it actually points up a problem the Republicans are having, which is focusing the unhappiness and disagreement they have with Obama. In politics you have to be able to complain about the right things."
Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, defended Obama's trip, saying it was not a huge investment of time, and that he had the opportunity to meet U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, who has requested additional U.S. troops for Afghanistan against the wishes of many Democrats.
Of the criticism Obama received for making the trip, Axelrod told Fox News: "If the president hadn't gone, they would've said he should've gone. That's just the nature of the business."
G7 presses for stronger yuan
Sat Oct 3, 2009 2:43pm EDT
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Group of Seven rich nations urged China on Saturday to strengthen the yuan, but gave no sign of how it might overcome Chinese resistance to that suggestion or resolve other tensions over global currency rates.
The G7 dominated economic policymaking for two decades, but Saturday's meeting underlined that it could no longer solve global problems without the cooperation of fast-growing economies in the developing world such as China.
G7 finance ministers and central bankers, in a statement after they met in Istanbul, said Beijing should boost its tightly controlled currency to help correct imbalances in global trade, which have been blamed for fuelling the financial crisis.
"We welcome China's continued commitment to move to a more flexible exchange rate, which should lead to continued appreciation of the Renminbi in effective terms and help promote more balanced growth in China and in the world economy," the G7 said.
But China, while insisting it intends eventually to free up the yuan, has kept the currency essentially flat against the dollar since the global financial crisis began worsening in July 2008. The G7 statement's wording on currency rates was identical to language used when the group last met six months ago.
China showed no sign on Saturday of heeding the G7's pressure.
"Our exchange rate policy is very clear," Yi Gang, a Chinese central bank vice governor who was in Istanbul for meetings of the International Monetary Fund, told Reuters. He said the policy would continue to emphasize stability.
Asked whether China had been facing more pressure from other countries to let the yuan appreciate, he said: "We will continue our policy setting."
The G7 also gave no sign of breaking new ground in resolving tensions among its members over weakness of the dollar, which has depreciated about 12 percent against a trade-weighted basket since March.
France and Canada have expressed concern in recent weeks that a weak dollar could hurt their exports. A G7 official, who declined to be named, said there was heated discussion of this issue in Istanbul.
But Saturday's G7 statement offered nothing new to allay concern over dollar weakness, merely repeating language used six months ago, that too much volatility in exchange rates tended to threaten economic stability.
DECLINING POWER
The G7, comprising Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, has been eclipsed during the financial crisis by the larger Group of 20, which includes rising powers such as China and India.
Meeting in Pittsburgh last month, leaders of the G20 agreed in principle to work toward cutting global imbalances and to tighten financial regulation.
"The G7 is not quite dead, but it is losing its relevance," the IMF's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was quoted as saying by Emerging Markets magazine. "It's on its way to extinction."
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
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Now raising intellectual capital« Previous Post13:18 October 3rd, 2009
Ireland puts the EU show back on the road
Post a comment (1)Posted by: Paul Taylor
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The EU show is back on the road. Sixteen months after Irish voters brought the European Union’s tortured process of institutional reform to a juddering halt by voting “No” to the Lisbon treaty, the same electorate has turned out in larger numbers to say “Yes” by a two-thirds majority.
This is an immense relief for the EU’s leadership. After three lost referendums in France, the Netherlands and Ireland, and a record low turnout in this year’s European Parliament elections, the democratic legitimacy of the European integration process was increasingly open to question. The Irish vote will not completely silence those doubts. Opponents are already accusing the EU of have bullied the Irish into voting again on the same text, and of blackmailing them with economic disaster if they did not vote the right way this time.
Try this for size from a British Euro-sceptic, Lorraine Mullally of the Open Europe think-tank:
This is a sad day for democracy in Europe. The Lisbon Treaty transfers huge new powers to the EU and away from ordinary people and national parliaments. EU elites will be popping the champagne and slapping each other on the back for managing to bully Ireland in to reversing its first verdict on this undemocratic Treaty. But most ordinary people around Europe will not welcome this news, as they were never given a chance to have their say on the Treaty. We should all be deeply worried about the way in which EU leaders have gone about forcing this Treaty on us. Polls show that the majority of people across Europe want to be consulted on major transfers of power such as this - but politicians in Brussels aren’t interested in what the people want.
The fact that the turnout in Ireland was higher, and the majority larger than in the first referendum may blunt such arguments. But EU leaders will clearly learn one key lesson from the Irish precedent: the days of grand treaties on ever closer European union are over. With unanimous ratification by 27 member states required, the probability of at least one country rejecting change is just too high.
For better or worse, the Lisbon treaty will be Europe’s rulebook for a generation. I reckon there won’t be another major overhaul of EU institutions for 20 years. Any further integration will take the form either of closer cooperation among groups of like-minded countries on issues such as defence, justice or taxation, or perhaps of limited, specialised treaties on policy areas such as energy and climate change.
The Lisbon treaty, and its predecessor, the defunct EU constitution, were never the federalist blueprints that their opponents claimed. But Lisbon does offer he prospect of somewhat more efficient leadership and decision-making in an enlarged Union. More decisions will be taken by majority vote instead of unanimity, notably on justice and home affairs. The directly elected European Parliament will have power over more legislation. And national parliaments will have a better chance to scrutinise, and send back, EU legislation.
September 23rd, 2009
9:15 pm GMT Your posts are always full of cleverage!
And I think it may actually be “Melon” … the marketing and art teams use Microsoft for spell-check and I’m we awl no how gud that wurks.
- Posted by JD
September 23rd, 2009
11:52 pm GMT Blog guy - you lied in that other thread. There are no mugs in this post!
- Posted by Little Miss Random
September 24th, 2009
4:04 am GMT @Miss Random, I dunno. That’s quite a mug on Mathers if you ask me.
- Posted by JD
September 24th, 2009
5:21 am GMT I don’t see the cleavage on Jerry Mathers. Care to explain, Rob?
- Posted by Jimmy
September 24th, 2009
12:01 pm GMT Bill’s version of mugs in the 3rd pic…
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September 25th, 2009
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The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h] 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h] 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
Jobless Report Is Worse Than Expected; Rate Rises to 9.8% Sign in to Recommend
Published: October 2, 2009
The American economy lost 263,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, the government reported on Friday, dimming the prospect of any meaningful job growth by the end of the year.
The Labor Department’s monthly snapshot of unemployment dashed hopes that the pace of job losses would continue to slow as the economy clawed its way back from a deep recession. Economists had been hoping for 175,000 monthly job losses.In one bright spot, fewer jobs were lost in August than riginally reported — with 201,000 positions gone instead of earlier figures of 216,000.
But overall, the report offered little good news for the 15.1 million unemployed people in the United States. The number of hours worked stagnated. Overtime hours slipped in many industries. And temporary help companies — typically, among the first to rebound after a recession — shed 1,700 jobs.
Indeed, while many businesses are making money again and seeing new orders trickle in, most are not ready to hire back the workers they laid off, even part-time.
To economists, that suggests that unemployment could remain at historically high levels through next year, if not longer.
“It’s a little bleak,” said Marissa Di Natale, senior economist at Moody’s Economy.com. “We’re not going to see job growth until the second half of next year. And even when it does start to grow, it’s going to be slow.”
The economy has been bleeding jobs every month, without interruption, for nearly two years. More than 15 million people in the United States are now unemployed, and more are working part-time jobs for less pay, or have given up looking for work altogether.
“This is still severe,” said Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project. “It’s not going to be turning around as fast as people want.”
At the same time, other measures of the economy are beginning to waver, signaling that the initial phase of the recovery — a sharp rebound from a deep bottom — may be giving way to a long grind higher, marked by uncertainty and pain for many.
For Democrats, a slow recovery — and an unemployment rate at a 26-year high — could quickly become a liability ,if businesses are not hiring by next year’s mid-term elections.
The Obama administration has said job losses would be even worse without the tax credits and spending projects from the $787 billion stimulus, but Republicans have pilloried the programs as ineffective.
Jobless Report Is Worse Than Expected; Rate Rises to 9.8% Sign in to Recommend
Published: October 2, 2009
The American economy lost 263,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, the government reported on Friday, dimming the prospect of any meaningful job growth by the end of the year.
The Labor Department’s monthly snapshot of unemployment dashed hopes that the pace of job losses would continue to slow as the economy clawed its way back from a deep recession. Economists had been hoping for 175,000 monthly job losses.In one bright spot, fewer jobs were lost in August than riginally reported — with 201,000 positions gone instead of earlier figures of 216,000.
But overall, the report offered little good news for the 15.1 million unemployed people in the United States. The number of hours worked stagnated. Overtime hours slipped in many industries. And temporary help companies — typically, among the first to rebound after a recession — shed 1,700 jobs.
Indeed, while many businesses are making money again and seeing new orders trickle in, most are not ready to hire back the workers they laid off, even part-time.
To economists, that suggests that unemployment could remain at historically high levels through next year, if not longer.
“It’s a little bleak,” said Marissa Di Natale, senior economist at Moody’s Economy.com. “We’re not going to see job growth until the second half of next year. And even when it does start to grow, it’s going to be slow.”
The economy has been bleeding jobs every month, without interruption, for nearly two years. More than 15 million people in the United States are now unemployed, and more are working part-time jobs for less pay, or have given up looking for work altogether.
“This is still severe,” said Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project. “It’s not going to be turning around as fast as people want.”
At the same time, other measures of the economy are beginning to waver, signaling that the initial phase of the recovery — a sharp rebound from a deep bottom — may be giving way to a long grind higher, marked by uncertainty and pain for many.
For Democrats, a slow recovery — and an unemployment rate at a 26-year high — could quickly become a liability ,if businesses are not hiring by next year’s mid-term elections.
The Obama administration has said job losses would be even worse without the tax credits and spending projects from the $787 billion stimulus, but Republicans have pilloried the programs as ineffective.
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The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
Britain plans to outlaw annual bonuses for bankers
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By David Stringer, Associated Press Writer
BRIGHTON, England — British Treasury chief Alistair Darling said Monday that annual bonuses for bank executives will be outlawed in an attempt to curb excessive risk-taking in the country's huge financial sector.
Darling told the governing Labour Party's annual conference that legislation to restrict how the payments are made will be introduced in Parliament within weeks.
Leaders of the G-20 group of rich and developing countries agreed last week to limit executive bonuses, but did not set specific caps. Darling said bankers in Britain will in the future be offered bonuses for their performance over several years, rather than over 12 months.
"We won't allow greed and recklessness to ever again endanger the whole global economy and the lives of millions of people," Darling said.
He told the conference that laws would include a claw-back provision and help to "end the reckless culture that puts short-term profits over long-term success."
"It will mean an immediate end to automatic bank bonuses year after year, it will mean an end to immediate payouts for top management," Darling said.
The plans, to be included in a new business and financial services bill, will be formally proposed in November, when Brown's government sets out a legislative program for the next parliamentary session.
Darling told the conference that Britain's economy has not yet recovered from the financial crisis, but he predicted the country is likely to come out of recession by the end of the year.
"Germany, France and Japan are showing signs of growth. There are many independent forecasters now believing too that the U.K. is coming out of recession," he said. "I think it is too early to say so with total confidence."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party trails badly in polls. A national election must be called by next June.
Brown said Sunday that his party could recover if the economy rallies and the public gives him credit for averting a worse financial crisis.
"Electorally, we are in the fight of our lives," Business Secretary Peter Mandelson told the conference. "And, yes, we start that fight as underdogs."
Mandelson announced that Britain will extend a car-scrapping plan to cover an extra 100,00 cars and vans. The plan, similar to the cash for clunkers auto rebate program in the United States, offers discounts of 2,000 pounds ($3,225) to new car buyers who trade in a model more than 10 years old.
In recent weeks, Brown has acknowledged that the government will need to cut public spending to reduce mounting government debt. But he has insisted the Labour Party will protect key services.
"Once we are through the recession — and only when this is clearly the case — we will tackle the deficit without eating into the fabric of people's lives," Mandelson said.
Darling said the main opposition Conservative Party, which is expected to win Britain's next election, would put the country's economic recovery at risk by making fast and sweeping cuts to spending.
"If we followed the Tory route now, recovery would be put at risk, prospects for growth damaged, borrowing would in the long run be greater. We cannot and must not let that happen," Darling said.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Britain plans to outlaw annual bonuses for bankers
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By David Stringer, Associated Press Writer
BRIGHTON, England — British Treasury chief Alistair Darling said Monday that annual bonuses for bank executives will be outlawed in an attempt to curb excessive risk-taking in the country's huge financial sector.
Darling told the governing Labour Party's annual conference that legislation to restrict how the payments are made will be introduced in Parliament within weeks.
Leaders of the G-20 group of rich and developing countries agreed last week to limit executive bonuses, but did not set specific caps. Darling said bankers in Britain will in the future be offered bonuses for their performance over several years, rather than over 12 months.
"We won't allow greed and recklessness to ever again endanger the whole global economy and the lives of millions of people," Darling said.
He told the conference that laws would include a claw-back provision and help to "end the reckless culture that puts short-term profits over long-term success."
"It will mean an immediate end to automatic bank bonuses year after year, it will mean an end to immediate payouts for top management," Darling said.
The plans, to be included in a new business and financial services bill, will be formally proposed in November, when Brown's government sets out a legislative program for the next parliamentary session.
Darling told the conference that Britain's economy has not yet recovered from the financial crisis, but he predicted the country is likely to come out of recession by the end of the year.
"Germany, France and Japan are showing signs of growth. There are many independent forecasters now believing too that the U.K. is coming out of recession," he said. "I think it is too early to say so with total confidence."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party trails badly in polls. A national election must be called by next June.
Brown said Sunday that his party could recover if the economy rallies and the public gives him credit for averting a worse financial crisis.
"Electorally, we are in the fight of our lives," Business Secretary Peter Mandelson told the conference. "And, yes, we start that fight as underdogs."
Mandelson announced that Britain will extend a car-scrapping plan to cover an extra 100,00 cars and vans. The plan, similar to the cash for clunkers auto rebate program in the United States, offers discounts of 2,000 pounds ($3,225) to new car buyers who trade in a model more than 10 years old.
In recent weeks, Brown has acknowledged that the government will need to cut public spending to reduce mounting government debt. But he has insisted the Labour Party will protect key services.
"Once we are through the recession — and only when this is clearly the case — we will tackle the deficit without eating into the fabric of people's lives," Mandelson said.
Darling said the main opposition Conservative Party, which is expected to win Britain's next election, would put the country's economic recovery at risk by making fast and sweeping cuts to spending.
"If we followed the Tory route now, recovery would be put at risk, prospects for growth damaged, borrowing would in the long run be greater. We cannot and must not let that happen," Darling said.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."[l]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt4X7zFfv4k
Interesting read about the deceptive Arthur Group!!
http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2009/09/30/job-board-industry-should-have-stopped-barry-trimble-before-minnesota-had-to-sue-him/
did you all know that his wife had no idea what was going on? And still really doesnt!
His Wife knows everything !!
http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2009/04/07/stay-away-from-sites-that-charge-a-fee-for-recycled-job-listings/
http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2008/12/03/november-jobs-data-by-industry-from-linkupcom/
http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2008/12/03/november-jobs-data-by-industry-from-linkupcom/
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 24(This was before John was put in prison.) 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew[i] over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
27To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ[j] but am sent ahead of him.' 29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30He must become greater; I must become less.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[k] gives the Spirit without limit. 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him
Hi Joel -
Welcome to this mini-course on how to speak the secret language of your prospects.
Most people save these lessons so they can refer to them again and again,
quickly and easily.
So please, create a new email folder to store the lessons I'll be sending you.
This will allow you to easily look up techniques when
you need them.
Many subscribers love the simplicity of the presentation once we know what "color
language" our prospect understands.
Here is a quick chart to help you remember exactly what each personality wants to hear during the presentation. Remember, it is polite to talk to prospects about the things they are interested in - and impolite to talk to prospects about the things they are not interested in.
Our strategy is to simply talk about the things this "color personality" is interested in. That makes our presentation really short - and our prospects will love it.
Yellow Blue Red Green
How the product/service helps people X
X
Travel and incentive trips
X
X
Compensation plan, money
X
X
Simple, isn't it? (Unless you are talking to a "green" who insists on every piece of data in the universe.)
So when you are inviting prospects to a presentation, or giving a presentation, simply focus on exactly what they want to know. That's why the "red script" I gave you works so well for the "red" personality. I only concentrated on the money.
If you haven't heard the "red invitation script" - go listen to it now. The entire explanation including the script is less than three minutes long. Just go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQH9MfFaePQ
And a quick word about the "yellow personality" and how to talk to them.
You can learn the magic language of the "yellows" quickly. All you have to remember is one word.
Help.
That's it. You are now totally fluent in the "yellow language."
You will simply talk about how the nutritional product helps people save their livers from those evil pharmaceutical drugs, how the products help grandmothers have the energy to take their grandchildren to the zoo, how the opportunity helps young mothers stay home with their children, etc.
It's not so hard, is it?
We will simply talk to people in their "color" language, and they will understand the benefits of our business quickly and easily.
Wish someone would have taught us this in high school.
Here are two things you can do now to become better at speaking the "secret language of prospects."
1. Find a "yellow" personality and just listen to that person talk. Notice words in that person's conversations such as:
help, contribute, assist, feel, care, etc.
Then you will start to understand the vocabulary you need to communicate your ideas to "yellows" so they understand you.
2. If you don't have the two-CD set, "How to Speak the Secret Language of Your Prospects" already, then decide to learn the language now. Simply go to:
Have a great recruiting week!
P.S. You'll also enjoy the two extra free CDs at:
http://www.fortunenow.com/products/item13.cfm
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PO Box 890084
Houston, TX 77289 USA
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Welcome to Part 2 on how to speak the secret language of your prospects.
Many subscribers, after listening to my two CDs, have submitted questions about exactly how to use the "Secret Language of Prospects" skills. So, let's get started.
Q. If a "blue" personality calls me on the phone, what words should I listen for to quickly figure out he is "blue?"
A. Check this conversation out.
"I don't find my job fun anymore. It's the same old
thing day after day. I am looking for something where I
can meet interesting people and not be stuck behind a
desk."
Catch it?
"Blues" like meeting new people, traveling, adventure, trying new things, having fun. So once you have determined that this prospect is "blue" from the above conversation, all you have to do is to recite the 3 or
4 sentences for "blues" and you're done!
Q. Why do the "red" sentences work so well? They seem to get the "red" prospect to come meetings pre-sold, or ready to join immediately. What's the magic?
A. If you are not a "red" personality, you won't understand this. Only "reds" understand these sentences. To them, when you say these sentences, it's like reading their minds. They are in agreement, nothing more to discuss.
Go back watch the video again. It's less than three minutes long. Go to:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lQH9MfFaePQ
You will be amazed.
Q. I used the "yellow" script, and my prospect almost took the pen out of my hand. Unfortunately, this new distributor will add one more "yellow" product lover to my group. I need business-builders. Do I need to look for the other color personalities to get more sponsoring in my group?
A. True, "yellows" are not concerned about the money and business-building, but you can fix that easily.
Simply promote to the "yellows" on your team how your business opportunity helps young mothers to stay home with their babies, raise funds for the needy, saves the environment by reducing commuting, etc. Now you will have "yellows" sponsoring with a missionary spirit.
Q. You explained how to use the "secret language" to motivate the different personalities. Can I also use this secret language to motivate prospects to give me some pre-sold referrals?
A. Yes, and the "secret language" should save you a lot of time. Remember to ask the "yellows" for help and to challenge the "reds" - and have your pad of paper ready to take down the names of those referrals.
Now, here is my best advice. Find out what color personality the referrals are before you call them.
You'll gain instant rapport. So ask your prospect to describe the person he is referring. Use that description to quickly identify the personality, then simply use that language when calling. Works like magic.
Here are two things you can do now to become better at speaking the "secret language of prospects."
1. If you have the CDs, think of one person in your life for each of the four personalities. Then, listen to the CDs again with that person in mind. It will bring a smile to your face, and money to your pocket.
2. If you don't have the two-CD set, "How to Speak the Secret Language of Your Prospects" already, then decide to learn the language now. Simply go to:
http://www.fortunenow.com/products/item13.cfm
Part 3 of this mini-course will arrive in your email in a few days.
Have a great recruiting week!
Tom "Big Al" Schreiter
P.S. You'll also enjoy the two extra free CDs at:
http://www.fortunenow.com/products/item13.cfm
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Fortune Network Publishing
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Welcome to Part 3 on how to speak the secret language of your prospects.
Here are some more questions on exactly how to use the "Secret Language of Prospects" skills.
Q. You are right. The "blue" personality is by far the
easiest personality to recognize. But the "red"
personality - what would be some quick clues to look
for to know the prospect is a "red" personality?
A. Here is an easy clue.
If you are talking to a prospect, and the prospect
says:
"Stop the chit-chat. Get to the point. How many people
do I have to sponsor to make $1,000?"
Now, that's "red"!
Some clues and traits of the "red" personality are:
1. They are "bottom line" people. They want you to get
to the facts, especially the facts about money.
2. They are "all about the money" - they use money to
measure their success in business. So when you say "big
money" - you are speaking their language.
3. They are great organizers, and that's why you need
"reds" on your team. Who else would organize the meetings
and the trainings?
4. They like to be the boss. They are at their best when
they are in charge. "Reds" make lousy followers. They love
telling other people what to do.
Got the clues?
Okay, now go back and watch this video of what to say
to the "reds" and you will see why we are talking their
language. Go watch it now. It's less than 3 minutes
long. Go to:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lQH9MfFaePQ
Makes sense now, doesn't it?
You will want lots of "reds" on your team because the
"reds" make the most money in network marketing. Why?
Because they are all about the money. That's how they
measure their success.
The "reds" will have their own system, their own team,
their own campaigns - and your job is to stay out of
their way and support them any way you can.
They are going to do it "their way" because they know
exactly how they want their business to be duplicated
in their downline.
Q. I used the "green" script, and it was easy to get
"greens" to come to the opportunity meeting. They loved
the invitation. But, once the opportunity meeting was
over, the "greens" seem to want to think it over. What
can I do so that the "green" personalities will make an
immediate decision?
A. "Greens" are the best of all the personalities. Why?
Because I am a "green" personality :)
Okay, just kidding. Remember the description of the
"greens." Well, you aren't going to change their
personality. They will almost always want to think it
over. Even if you give the "greens" your best "One-
Minute Presentation," they will want to ask you
question after question.
"Greens" are thorough. They want to make sure they will
make the right decision. On the plus side, once they
make a decision, they will stay with that decision. You
will have a loyal, long-term worker on your team.
So use the information technique you heard on the CDs.
That's the best, most comfortable way for the "greens"
to make a decision. And you want them to make their own
decisions, so don't try manipulating or forcing them to
make that immediate decision to join.
And, forget about motivational techniques too. :)
Here are two things you can do now to become better at
speaking the "secret language of prospects."
1. Find a "red" personality and just listen to that
person talk. Notice words in that person's conversations
such as:control, charge, money, boss, power, image, etc.
Then you will start to understand the vocabulary you
need to communicate your ideas to "reds" so they
understand you.
2. If you don't have the two-CD set, "How to Speak the
Secret Language of Your Prospects" already, then decide
to learn the language now. Simply go to: www.fortunenow.com/products/item13.cfm
Part 4 of this mini-course will arrive in
your email in a few days.
Welcome to Part 4 on how to speak the secret language of your prospects.
After listening to my two CDs on the "Secret Language of Prospects," readers have submitted even more questions on exactly how to use the skills. Here is a popular question.
Q: I am beginning to understand exactly how to recognize "red" prospects. The keys you give make it easy. But what about "blue" personality? What are some good examples that I can give my downline so they can quickly identify the "blue" personality?
A: The "blues" are the easiest of all the personalities to recognize - because they are always talking. :)
They talk from the time they wake up in the morning until they go to sleep, and they even talk in their sleep!
When you get on an elevator and a stranger is standing next to you, and just starts talking to you about his life, that's a "blue" personality.
Do you know somebody who is always talking? Chances are that person is a "blue" personality.
These are action people. They love to have fun. They have lots of energy. They love to party, travel and try new things.
But the easy giveaway is that they love to talk, and talk, and talk.
I bet you can think of a "blue" personality in your life right now.
Just remember the "200 miles an hour" principle for the "blues" and you will be able to communicate with them using the "blue" script.
So look around. Notice all the "blue" personalities in the world.
It's just that easy. The hardest part is done. Now just use the "blue" script when talking to them.
What do I mean by a script? If you don't have the CDs on the "Secret Language of Prospects" - just go watch this short 3-minute video. You will see the script for inviting the "reds" to an opportunity meeting. Now, "reds" are completely different, but you'll enjoy the video, especially if you are a "red" personality. :)
Just go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQH9MfFaePQ
Here are two things you can do now to become better at speaking the "secret language of prospects."
1. Find a "blue" personality and just listen to that person talk, and talk, and talk. Notice words in that person's conversations such as:
fun, excellent, awesome, travel, new, etc.
Then notice how they are not listening to you!
:)
Now, get ready to use your "blue" script really, really fast!
2. If you don't have the two-CD set, "How to Speak the Secret Language of Your Prospects" already, then decide to learn the language now. Simply go to:
http://www.fortunenow.com/products/item13.cfm
Have a great recruiting week, and thanks for completing this mini-course on how to speak the secret language of your prospects.
Tom "Big Al" Schreiter
P.S. You'll also enjoy the two extra free CDs at:
http://www.fortunenow.com/products/item13.cfm
Tom 'Big Al' Schreiter
Fortune Network Publishing
Phone +1 (281) 280-9800
http://www.fortunenow.com
PO Box 890084, Houston, TX 77289, USA
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Touching children, playing executive and lying to your wife. How much do your neighbors like you? Daddy never found out what a little pervert liar Barry was. Your happy he died aren't you Barry. You still have to keep lying hard to your wife and kids though. Like you write the scriptures you filthy fucking heathen.
The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office is suing now-defunct employement firm The Arthur Group Inc. and its owner and CEO Barry Trimble, claiming it misled clients who paid thousands of dollars for its services.
Prosecutors allege the Minneapolis-based firm decieved customers who paid up to $4,500 apiece for assistance in finding a job. Unemployed Minnesotans who signed up for it had little to show for it when The Arthur Group shut down its Web site and closed its doors last month. Some allegedly hadn’t had a single job interview or lead.
The lawsuit, filed in Hennepin County District Court, claims that the defendants violated the state’s consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices laws. It seeks restitution, injunctive relief and civil penalties against Trimble and his firm.
“With our unemployment rates at record-high levels, many people are out of work and looking for jobs. It is unconscionable for a company to take advantage of people’s understandable trepidation about being out of work by charging them hefty fees but giving them little help,” Attorney General Swanson said in a news release.
Swanson’s office says The Arthur Group posted ads for attractive job openings on Web sites such as CareerBuilder.com, only to tell the person at the time of the appointment that the posted job was no longer available.
Prosecutors also claim the firm had a “Featured Candidate Program” that didn’t produce job leads, and misled job seekers into believing that the fees they paid would eventually be reimbursed by the employers for whom it served as a search firm.
Featured Candidates? How about featured screw jobs. Barry had no relationsips with any company he bragged about. He is a low-life wanna be executive fat child molesting lying pile of bullshit! A chronic liar unable to decipher the truth if it hit him in his pedophile incestous nutsack.
No, his wife doesnt know everything. She knows a little bit, she thinks it a misunderstanding!!!!!!! She has no idea the extent of it. She didnt even know he was being sued until it was on the news.
He is covering his lies up with lies to his wife!
He is down playing this and making it seem as though everyone else is wrong and they are the people making a big deal of nothing.
She WILL know the truth soon.
Good luck to those that have court today for this! I hope it goes well.
Court today?
What time and Where?
I dont know where she has it but it is small claims court against Barry and it was some time this morning
That person is full of it about Court today !!
if there was he / she would have posted the time and date long ago!!
People here are just making stuff up!!!
Here comes 1800 post !!
Supreme Court hears first appeal
The Supreme Court's first case was selected for its importance to the public
The first hearing in the new UK Supreme Court is a challenge to government powers to create laws without a vote in Parliament, it has been argued.
Five men suspected of financing terrorism claim a Treasury freeze on their assets breaches their rights.
Tim Owen QC said the case involved "fundamental constitutional issues" about ministers making laws without parliamentary debate or scrutiny.
The court allowed one of the defendants to be named as Mohammed al Ghabra.
Mr Owen, representing three of the men, said the government had imposed "a draconian, intrusive regime which destroys the individual's power to live any sort of normal life without any conviction in a court".
"It is an abuse of executive power," he said.
The five suspects, four of whom cannot be named, have not been convicted of funding terrorism.
FROM INSIDE COURT ONE
Daniel Sandford, home affairs correspondent, BBC News
We have started on time at eleven o'clock sharp.
The court is packed in a way no Law Lords hearings had been since the days of the General Pinochet case. All the lawyers have the nervous excitement of children on their first day at school.
Grandees including the Duke of Wellington stare down from the portraits on the Portland stone walls below the hammer beam roof.
The room has the feel of a medieval banqueting hall, but what is taking place here is a modern legal milestone. It is the first time that the UK's final court of appeal has heard a case outside Parliament.
It is very different for the media too. We are allowed to use laptops and PDAs (including the one I am writing on now.) Small TV cameras sit discreetly in the four corners of the room. Almost everything that happens here today (barring anything particularly sensitive) is available to be broadcast.
But the Treasury has blocked access to their bank accounts, welfare benefits and other assets.
They are allowed a small amount of money for basic expenses, must account for their expenditure, and anyone providing them with "an economic resource" is liable to face criminal proceedings.
Ministers argue these powers were legitimised by adopting UN Security Council resolutions intended to tackle global terrorism.
The asset-freezing powers were introduced in 2006 - but were never scrutinised or approved by Parliament, which the men's lawyers say is unlawful.
Mr Owen said the lawfulness of the restrictions depended on analysis of the United Nations Act and UK powers allowing such measures through an Order in Council.
"It was not intended to be an enormous, unlimited delegation of the legislative power by Parliament," Mr Owen said.
"Parliament did not deliver a blank cheque to the executive."
This was the first time the courts had had a chance to consider these questions, he said.
Far-reaching implications
The Supreme Court has taken over from the Law Lords as the final court of appeal for UK civil cases and criminal cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The £59m court is based at Middlesex Guildhall in central London.
Its creation was intended to make the judiciary independent of Parliament by ending the House of Lords' judicial role.
The casework that will be dealt with by the Supreme Court is exactly the same as that which came before the justices in the Lords.
It will deal only with cases that the justices consider to be the most important and where rulings have far-reaching implications.
The first case was chosen as it deals with human rights and anti-terrorism powers.
Supreme Court hears first appeal
The Supreme Court's first case was selected for its importance to the public
The first hearing in the new UK Supreme Court is a challenge to government powers to create laws without a vote in Parliament, it has been argued.
Five men suspected of financing terrorism claim a Treasury freeze on their assets breaches their rights.
Tim Owen QC said the case involved "fundamental constitutional issues" about ministers making laws without parliamentary debate or scrutiny.
The court allowed one of the defendants to be named as Mohammed al Ghabra.
Mr Owen, representing three of the men, said the government had imposed "a draconian, intrusive regime which destroys the individual's power to live any sort of normal life without any conviction in a court".
"It is an abuse of executive power," he said.
The five suspects, four of whom cannot be named, have not been convicted of funding terrorism.
FROM INSIDE COURT ONE
Daniel Sandford, home affairs correspondent, BBC News
We have started on time at eleven o'clock sharp.
The court is packed in a way no Law Lords hearings had been since the days of the General Pinochet case. All the lawyers have the nervous excitement of children on their first day at school.
Grandees including the Duke of Wellington stare down from the portraits on the Portland stone walls below the hammer beam roof.
The room has the feel of a medieval banqueting hall, but what is taking place here is a modern legal milestone. It is the first time that the UK's final court of appeal has heard a case outside Parliament.
It is very different for the media too. We are allowed to use laptops and PDAs (including the one I am writing on now.) Small TV cameras sit discreetly in the four corners of the room. Almost everything that happens here today (barring anything particularly sensitive) is available to be broadcast.
But the Treasury has blocked access to their bank accounts, welfare benefits and other assets.
They are allowed a small amount of money for basic expenses, must account for their expenditure, and anyone providing them with "an economic resource" is liable to face criminal proceedings.
Ministers argue these powers were legitimised by adopting UN Security Council resolutions intended to tackle global terrorism.
The asset-freezing powers were introduced in 2006 - but were never scrutinised or approved by Parliament, which the men's lawyers say is unlawful.
Mr Owen said the lawfulness of the restrictions depended on analysis of the United Nations Act and UK powers allowing such measures through an Order in Council.
"It was not intended to be an enormous, unlimited delegation of the legislative power by Parliament," Mr Owen said.
"Parliament did not deliver a blank cheque to the executive."
This was the first time the courts had had a chance to consider these questions, he said.
Far-reaching implications
The Supreme Court has taken over from the Law Lords as the final court of appeal for UK civil cases and criminal cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The £59m court is based at Middlesex Guildhall in central London.
Its creation was intended to make the judiciary independent of Parliament by ending the House of Lords' judicial role.
The casework that will be dealt with by the Supreme Court is exactly the same as that which came before the justices in the Lords.
It will deal only with cases that the justices consider to be the most important and where rulings have far-reaching implications.
The first case was chosen as it deals with human rights and anti-terrorism powers.
The UK's Supreme Court replaces the Law Lords in Parliament as the most powerful court in the country. It is the last court of appeal in all matters other than criminal cases in Scotland.
The £59m court is situated opposite the Houses of Parliament at the renovated Middlesex Guildhall. It has three courtrooms which it's claimed have been "specially designed for their purpose: discussing important points of law in the atmosphere of a learned seminar, rather than the adversarial environment of many other courts".
Two of the courtrooms have retained the traditional original Victorian-Gothic fittings, while the third has been completely modernised, refitted and opened to light.
In all courtrooms, Justices sit at a crescent-shaped desk. Most cases will be heard by five Justices although nine will sit to rule on the most important cases. Opposite them will sit the legal teams - with six spaces for advocates.
The air of formality is lifted by the bright carpet, designed by Sir Peter Blake, a pop artist best known for his work on the cover of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band album. The carpet, and the court's more formal-looking logo, depict the four emblems of the constituent parts of the UK - the Welsh leek, English rose, the Scottish thistle and the Northern Irish flax.
India pilots in mid-air 'scuffle'
Air India has ordered an inquiry into the incident
Pilots and cabin crew have come to blows on an international flight bound for India, media reports say.
The scuffle is said to have begun as an argument in the plane's cockpit over claims of sexual harassment but spilled into the galley, startling passengers.
One pilot and one air hostess suffered bruises, as punches were thrown.
The incident took place over Pakistan on an Air India flight from the United Arab Emirates to Delhi, with 106 passengers and seven crew on board.
Indian police are investigating the incident, which took place at around 0430 local time on Saturday (2300 on Friday GMT).
The cabin crew alleged that pilots sexually harassed a 24-year-old air hostess, who filed a complaint once the plane landed.
But the Times of India newspaper said the pilots made a counter-claim, saying that the harassment claim was an attempt to divert attention from accusations of misconduct against a male flight attendant.
Air India said it had ordered an inquiry into the incident, and had grounded all the staff involved.
Jet Airways reinstates 800 staff
The retrenched crew rejoined work on Friday
India's biggest private airline, Jet Airways, has reinstated more than 800 of its employees whose dismissal on Wednesday sparked public protests.
Its chairman, Naresh Goyal, said the move had been his alone and apologised "for all the agony you went through".
Reports suggest that the government persuaded Mr Goyal to take back the employees, but he denied this.
The company had announced it planned to lay off a total of 1,900 staff in the coming days in an effort to cut costs.
India's once booming aviation sector has been hard hit by soaring costs, mainly due to global fuel price rises.
Earlier, Air India said it was planning to offer nearly 15,000 of its employees leave without pay for up to five years.
A spokesman for the state-owned airline stressed that the offer would be voluntary.
'Tears in the eyes'
Jet Airways had announced on Wednesday that some 800 cabin crew who were recently recruited for a planned expansion programme would be laid off, and that it expected to cut a further 1,100 jobs.
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