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Immigration reform has been a long time coming. It has been decades since the United States last tackled the issue in a comprehensive, coherent manner.
The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill which deals with the tough issues – including what will happen to the 11 million Americans in waiting – and outlines a commonsense policy to take the place of the current patchwork of laws, policies, and practices that have evolved over the past quarter century.
The game changer this time around is the DREAMers—young people who came to this country when they were children, now stepping into the light, organizing, and advocating for a system that would work for them and their families.
It is time for us to recognize that migration is a natural part of our human existence in this global economy, in this world today, and historically for all time, said Michele Garnett McKenzie, director of advocacy for The Advocates for Human Rights, in a June 29 interview with the New York City CBS radio station, WNOW, and host Bob Salter.
The values of equal rights and dignity and that one can work hard to build a good life are at the bedrock of our country, and it's time that these values are reflected in immigration laws and policies, she said.
"Having an immigration policy that doesn't move with our economy, that doesn't meet the needs of our families, that doesn't meet the needs of our businesses, that doesn't fulfill our obligation to provide protection to people fleeing persecution are failures we can correct, and we need to move forward doing just that," she said.
Garnett McKenzie urges people to pick up the phone and call or email members of the U.S. House to urge them to move forward with humane immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship.
To listen to the entire interview, click here.
By: Susan Banovetz, communications director, The Advocates for Human Rights
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Welcome to the June edition of Authentic Parenting Blog Carnival: Vacation and Travel.
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Authentic Parenting Blog Carnival hosted by The Positive Parenting Connection and Authentic Parenting. This month our participants are sharing ideas, inspiration and information on travel and vacations! Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
A little background information … My dear Mama is a teacher. A kindergarten teacher which means every activity can easily be morphed into a learning adventure.
Looking back at my childhood I have countless memories of such adventures. Some of the fondest ones include summer trips. I hesitate to call them vacations, because now, as an adult, I know what a true, relaxing vacation really is. What my sisters and I encountered during grade school was nothing of the sort. On our summer trips we rose at school time (bright and early) and were busy until sundown … or later!
My sisters and I are all three years apart, so these three trips spanned 6 years. The first trip, Pennsylvania, was filled with historical wonder as we visited Philadelphia on the 4th of July, toured the battlefields of Gettysburg, and wandered around Amish country – even staying at a real Amish farm! We also visited Coalport … a mini city in western PA where my grandma was born. We found the old pharmacy her dad owned and after visiting with the current owners we marched into the basement and found old prescription forms with my great-grandpa's signature!
New Mexico wasn't my idea of a fun trip, but my sister, Katie, was enthralled with Native American and Mexican culture and boy did we get our fill! Santa Fe and Ruidoso were two of our most favorite stops. We also visited the aliens at Roswell and ate mountains of delicious food. Looking back, New Mexico was one of my favorite trips – the dry heat, Old Town walks, and beautiful landscape are treasured memories. I would really like to go back!
Last, but not least, my baby sis, Hannah, chose to study Louisiana. We were there in April 2005, just months before Hurricane Katrina and it still boggles my mind to see pictures of the devastation in places I walked. In Louisiana I fell in love with beignets, bread pudding, the monstrous plantations, and the sweet fireflies. The Deep South is a land in and of itself and after years of being intrigued by Civil War fiction I felt honored to see it come to life before my eyes.
Not all families are fortunate enough to pack up and fly across the country every few summers. I know we were blessed to have these opportunities. But, whether it's journey across state lines or an adventure in your own backyard, learning opportunities abound!
Points of Interest – Many of our stops were quite unique … a Tabasco farm, crayon factory, pretzel factory, historical venues, agriculture farms, etc.
What other educational elements could be added into my trip curriculum?
Now that my sisters and I are grown we're still trying to convince our parents to continue this traveling tradition with the 6th grade assignment … country reports. I'll keep you posted on whether or not we jet off to Scotland, Romania, and Tanzania in the coming years! A girl can hope!
Traveling with a Sick Child — Jennifer at Hybrid Rasta Mama shares her tips and tricks for traveling with a sick child based on firsthand experience.
Educational Travel | Pennsylvania, New Mexico &; Louisiana — That Mama Gretchen relives three childhood trips while outlining a plan for future homeschooling adventures.
Babymoon: A Cruise in Europe — Bianca from The Pierogie Mama writes about the babymoon that she and her husband took to Europe, via a week long cruise through the Western Mediterranean..
I Just Can't Do It — aNonyMous at Radical Ramblings describes the nightmare it is trying to travel with her daughter, and how for the moment day-trips to local areas will have to suffice.
Carnival: Travel and Vacation — Macgyvermama rounds out her "Travel Light with Babies and Kids" series with some juicy tips on how to travel light and stress free with your moving and grooving Toddler!
Traveling: Adventure, Nature, Family — Brenna at Almost All The Truth shares her hopes and fears for her Great Summer Camping Road Trip with her three small children.
Frustration Free Flying with Kids — Based on her extensive experience flying with her family, Laura at Authentic Parenting shares tips on how to make the trip fun for you and your children.
12 Awesome Toys To Bring Along When Traveling With Children – Ariadne over at Positive Parenting Connection is sharing about toys her children love and playful ways to use them that make travel with children more fun and less stressful for the whole family.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Hannah caught on to your parents' game early and chose her state accordingly ;) what a fun family trip idea! My parents also loved to take us on and we visited the south west and even took a road trip to Chicago once, which is the farthest I've ever gone in a car. Adam and I are saving our trip to the Grand Canyon when our littles can appreciate the geology.
This post hit close to home – I did my state report on Rhode Island as a 5th grader, and when I finally got there as a 21 year old, I felt like a kid in a candy shop! There's a picture of me standing in the Providence airport next to a sign that says "Rhode Island", and you can literally feel the happiness through the picture. Even thinking about it makes me smile. The state was ok – I didn't find anything there that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen – but just getting to finally go and complete that 10 year old's project was priceless!
Thanks for sharing your childhood travel experiences. I found it really interesting to read about the link between travel and home education, especially your summary at the bottom. We're planning on home educating our little boy. It is great to hear about other families who are also planning this, who like to travel and see these experiences as valuable, rich educational opportunities. Well done.
Travel is such a rich experience for families whether they primarily homeschool or just do it as a supplemental activity during the summer. I can't wait!
That would be super fun too :) A tour of people and the cultures/states they represent!
We popped into Rhode Island during the PA trip … my only memory: almost getting hit by a car in the crosswalk :( It definitely deserves another trip as I'm sure it has a lot more to offer me!
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Focus on Employee Communications
Internal Communications: Balancing Old Methods with Millennial Generation
By Ariel Parrella-Aureli
Office communications used to happen largely via one channel — email. But nowadays, email has many helping hands to spread information.
Whether it's an internal messaging app such as Slack or a private message board like Seedly, new ways of communicating to diverse employee populations — and finding which platforms work — are growing, especially due to the tech-savvy millennial presence.
A recent study by email marketer Poppulo (formerly Newsweaver) and corporate communications firm Ragan Communications revealed that email, while it may be overused by some companies, won't be phased out anytime soon, though its effectiveness as a go-to internal communications tool may be waning. Some 60 percent of the 615 respondents in "Exploring the use of email for internal communications" said internal communicators send emails to employees at least once a week, with 14 percent hitting the send button daily. Not surprisingly, 80 percent of those surveyed said email overload is a problem in their organization, and many would like to reduce its constant flow.
Internal communicators can find themselves in an unenviable position and often criticized because they don't want to overwhelm employees with a constant stream of email but also must distribute information to keep them informed.
The Value of Communication
But Priya Bates, president of Inner Strength Communication Inc. and an expert on internal communications, thinks the profession is not so much criticized but undervalued. When an organization has a communication problem, their usual solution is tactical, like hiring an intermediate or junior professional to write a newsletter. Instead, Bates said it is important to think about what the company is trying to achieve to create a communication method for improvement.
The best way to do this is for internal communicators to develop a strong relationship with the management and HR leaders of the company, Bates said.
"We help them massage how they are going to have the best impact on their programs and how they deliver on those programs," said Bates, who had 20 years' experience leading internal communication in retail, tech, aerospace and mining before starting her own firm. "We are constantly listening to them and understanding what the strategy is and the direction they are going and we are really using communication to help them deliver their results."
When she assists businesses in communications, she teaches them the five I's for successful internal communications: implementation, influence, interaction, integration and impact. Balancing face-to-face communication is as important as is social media and behind screens, and finding that balance with traditional methods and social media is crucial to the success of any internal communication role as well as the organization. Bates argued that clear, concise communication is even more crucial when talking about financial information and benefits.
HR professionals who have communications reporting to them need to be mindful of their interaction with internal communicators so the line stays strong between both parties, she said.
"When there are barriers to that relationship, it's like playing broken telephone — HR professionals who have communications reporting to them need to open those doors and allow for that content and relationship to be built," she said.
Bates is currently working with the Ontario Nurses' Association — Canada's largest nursing union — to integrate new communication tools with younger members and employees in mind.
With more millennials entering the industry as baby boomers retire, new communication tools to are emerging. Bates said a newly launched Nurses' Association app will better serve employees and members, along with a nurse-themed podcast to inform employees and members on industry news and advocacy opportunities, which can be accessed via the ONA website. Bates said the approach
"It's not a matter of either or, it's a matter of having a variety of vehicles that will resonate with those different generations and choosing the right one," she said.
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Alicia Johnston, brand communications manager for Sprout Social, a Chicago-based social media management and engagement platform for business, sees internal communication mixed with active engagement as a solid approach to keeping internal channels clean and streamlined effectively.
As workplace technology evolves, she noted that internal communications have lagged. Sprout Social, which launched in 2010, created social media and internal platform Bambu commercially in August 2015. The platform now serves over 12,000 users, according to the Bambu sales team.
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She said it helps internally with providing company information in one place for employees in the office or those working remotely by sharing videos from meetings and talking points covered, and also amplifies social recruiting, marketing and sales by how employees choose to share information.
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With more mobile usage, more remote workers and new tech platforms popping up to better serve internal communications, they are balancing the speed of change with personal connection. Several companies are now focusing on strengthening internal communications among their teams, whether that means using platforms such as Bambu or other navigable tools companies have been using.
"We found there is really this need to do internal comms better and catch up with where people's workforces are in terms of technology," she said.
Ariel Parrella-Aureli is a Workforce intern. Comment below or email editors@workforce.com.
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The history of our manufactory
Brass instrument manufacturing for more than seven decades - how it all began
After the war and the expulsion from the Sudetenland, Adolf and Josef Kühnl founded the company together with Emil Hoyer in the municipality of Markt Erlbach in 1948. The municipality made the clubhouse of the rifle association available to them as a production site. The starting capital of the three company founders was – apart from the at that time sparsely available tools – the traditional knowledge about the construction of brass instruments, so that the production of trumpets with piston valves and the repair of brass instruments could be started.
Success was not long in coming
After the currency reform, the factory equipment was adapted to the technical progress and the production range was expanded. Due to the continuous increase in demand for Kühnl & Hoyer instruments, an expansion of the production facilities became necessary and was realized by a new building of the production plant in 1952. With, for that time, technically sophisticated production rooms and the preservation of the art of instrument manufacturing by hand, the company remained on the road to success. As early as 1957, an extension was added to the factory building to enlarge it once again.
Four generations - a joint life's work
Co-founder Emil Hoyer retired from the business in 1962, which was initially continued by the remaining owners Adolf and Josef Kühnl before they handed it over to their successors and the next younger generation of the Kühnl family. In the meantime, the company is managed by Dieter Kühnl as managing director. He is supported by his daughter Manuela Kühnl and his son-in-law Ralf Waidhas-Kühnl. Together, they are preparing to take over the management and responsibility for the tradition-rich business. The valuable heritage of the Kühnl & Hoyer families has the best prospects for a continued bright future.


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In supply chain management, the best defense is a good offense
By Jennifer Bisceglie
No matter how "smart" a cybersecurity system and program is, there will always be a vulnerability if it's designed to play defense.
Attacks on supply chains are a growing threat to global organizations -- and every organization's supply chain is global at some level. As organizations grow, their supply chains become more complex and intertwined. And as their supply chains become more complex with every added tier, they become more vulnerable to attacks. In fact, KPMG estimates that up to 80% of all security breaches originate in the supply chain.
Identifying, tracking and addressing vulnerabilities in a global supply chain -- like that of a federal agency -- requires the ability to think quickly and act decisively, but too often decision-makers are caught with a deficit of information from which to make informed business decisions. They know there's trouble but, unable to process its dimensions and locate its source, they hesitate until it's too late.
Once an attack activates, the impacts ripple throughout the supply chain -- upstream and downstream --leading to potentially massive losses in real dollars and time. No matter how "smart" a cybersecurity system and program is, there will always be a vulnerability if it's designed to play defense. According to PwC, 40 percent of all cyber-breaches originate with past partners and Symantec has estimated that 20 percent of all attacks target the manufacturing and service sectors, with victims embedded deep in the supply chain. But these attacks don't take place in a vacuum. The numbers do not tell us what external factors could make an attack more likely and where the "hot spots" are at any given time.
After all, a global supply chain may have hundreds of dynamic partnerships and may include dozens of manufacturers or service providers, each with their own multi-tiered supply chains. Without the ability to visualize your entire global supply chain, including third-party suppliers, it's virtually impossible not to get caught off guard regardless of how sophisticated your security program is.
Let's take a fictitious government light rail project as an example. For the system to work, there is an interconnected network of thousands of vendors, from electronics OEMs and their suppliers; fuel sources and the associated procurement networks; heavy machine manufacturers and suppliers of steel, glass and HVAC units; construction firms who must order new equipment; contractors who furnish the inside of cars. Perhaps you have millions of dollars riding on the delivery of 50 new cars by the end of the quarter. One day, you learn that there was a mass workers' strike in the Asian city where the seats are manufactured, forcing a closing of the factory where your seats were being made. Not only did you not know there were labor issues to begin with, but you then learn that the accounts payable systems were not properly patched when the workers walked out. There was a cyberattack. All activity downstream from the seat factory is shut down until the situation is sorted out. Even if it's just a matter of days, you'll still be looking at a huge financial setback.
The key to preventing or mitigating such scenarios is to understand the context in which attacks often take place and position resources ahead of time so you can ensure resiliency. With the use of artificial intelligence it is more possible today than ever to map every node in your supply chain and identify new external conditions -- weather, geopolitical conflict, labor and economic trends -- that could result in increased vulnerability to attacks. The ability to model the impact of various plausible scenarios allows you to determine when, where and how to deploy preventive measures, which is an economic game changer. Quite simply, a supply chain risk management program cannot meet the demands of today's global operational environment without an increased level of visualization and dynamic insights publicly.
There are tens of thousands of real-time data sources that a good platform can aggregate in order to produce a picture of the external environment surrounding each point in an organization's web of relationships and digital connectivity. A good visualization platform can map this entire global network, dozens of tiers downstream and back upstream. It can then aggregate global data from tens of thousands of databases -- including those that are publicly available, commercially available, transactional, or social media-based -- in order to assemble a picture of the local forces that could translate to an elevated risk of attack for your environment.
Most importantly, we've learned that doing this with people to create reports and 25-page supplier assessments don't work anymore -- the world and businesses in it are constantly changing. Real time alerts, on top of this information, positions you for proactive versus reactive operations. If you read about it in the paper, it's too late. We all know that great offense is the best defense, especially in protecting your supply chain. The good news is you can play offense -- and you can play it decisively with tremendous precision.
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# of Ratings: 106
Theatrical Release Date: 01/12/2007
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Actors: Bruce Willis, Matthew Barry, Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Harry Dean Stanton, Fernando Vargas
Plot: A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.
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FSUNoles27TS - wrote on 11/21/2012
While this is a terrible, hard to watch movie that plays out like a B-movie; it is a must watch due to the shocking ending. Wish this would have been casted better because the story is a disturbing one that keeps you watching. WORTH a watch. Will never re-watch.
tecnoandre - wrote on 12/06/2011
Crime drama film written and directed by Nick Cassavetes, first screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2006, with a wide release the following year on January 12, 2007. The film is based on the true story of the kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz and related events in 2000. It portrays the involvement of Jesse James Hollywood, a young middle-class drug dealer in California.Extremely rough and unpleasant movie.
dukeakasmudge - wrote on 09/21/2011
NOT as good as I hoped it would be
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The true life story of a young drug dealer who kidnaps the younger brother of a fellow gangster in order to make him pay his debts. As grim as that sounds, most of the film's light tone and constant frat style partying makes it look more like Almost Famous with wannabe gangsters. It is a promising premise for a gangster movie, but the script full of bored middle class white kids with nothing to do but get wasted and play at being hip hop style street criminals shows little insight as to how they became who they were, and the dialogue basically just constantly rearranges the words "suck", "my", "dick", "bitch" and "faggot". The bland performances all around also completely fall to draw you in, apart from Sharon Stone's turn as a kind of manic witch of the west in a fat suit which is just …
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Emile Hirsch is pimp in this movie! As embarrassed I am to say that, I believed him to be the leader of the pack. Even though he was short, he overpowers everyone because his character has the money and his limits extended more than anyone (arguably). Critics loved Justin Timberlake in this movie and I must agree with them. He gave heart to this movie and in the end he ends up to be the one audiences got to know most. But I must say I also loved Anton Yelchin's performance. His character's innocence was demolished during the last thirty minutes of the film and the way he did it took my breath away because he was so convincing. Even though the dialogue is kind of "ghetto," I advise you to not let that hinder your decision to watch this amazing sleeper film. I can't recommend this film …
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