Angola's Social Welfare Ministry staff this Friday, in Luanda, will present their yearend compliments to the incumbent minister, Joao Baptista Kussumua, reads a document from the institution.
During the ceremony, the minister will inform the workers on the Angolan government's ongoing actions and others for 2008 which are mainly relating to children, senior citizens, disabled people and the sustainable reintegration of Angolan refugees.
Joao Baptista Kussumua will also speak on the social, professional and economic reintegration of ex-soldiers from UNITA, MPLA and FNLA parties, as well as on the demining process taking place throughout the country.
The ceremony will be attended by national directors, department heads and general-directors of public institutes functioning under the umbrella of the Social Welfare and Reintegration Ministry.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200712280529.html
Saturday, December 29, 2007
New Britain Resident Honored In Ceremony
John Gwiazda, a resident at the Jerome Home in New Britain, was recently honored at a medal ceremony. Gwiazda served in World War II as a pilot for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Six Plainville High School students were selected to perform in the Connecticut Music Educator's Northern Regional Music Festival. Jeffrey Ciarcia, Richard Reola and Kendra Valliere will perform in the chorus. Patrick Haggerty will perform with the orchestra. Marc Levandowski will perform with the jazz band and Jaclyn Neveu will perform with the concert band. The festival concert will be held Jan. 19 at New Britain High School.
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Elsie Patton recently joined Loureiro Engineering Associates Inc. (LEA) of Plainville as technical director of regulations and permitting. Prior to joining LEA, she had been employed at the state Department of Environmental Protection for 26 years.
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The Cooperative Nursery School of New Britain held a coat drive at First Church Congregational on Corbin Avenue. Lisa Leavenworth and Cindy Ferraguto coordinated the event. The coats were donated to "Button Up Connecticut" and later distributed to charitable organizations throughout the state.
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Fran Pitaro, a Bristol native, currently serving as the Chesterfield County, Va. deputy county administrator for management services ,will retire Jan. 1, 2008. Pitaro will relocate to Colorado Springs, Colo., where he will work as a consultant with Zelos, a firm that specializes in helping government agencies achieve better results through performance management.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-faces1229.artdec29,0,6512221.story
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Six Plainville High School students were selected to perform in the Connecticut Music Educator's Northern Regional Music Festival. Jeffrey Ciarcia, Richard Reola and Kendra Valliere will perform in the chorus. Patrick Haggerty will perform with the orchestra. Marc Levandowski will perform with the jazz band and Jaclyn Neveu will perform with the concert band. The festival concert will be held Jan. 19 at New Britain High School.
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Elsie Patton recently joined Loureiro Engineering Associates Inc. (LEA) of Plainville as technical director of regulations and permitting. Prior to joining LEA, she had been employed at the state Department of Environmental Protection for 26 years.
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The Cooperative Nursery School of New Britain held a coat drive at First Church Congregational on Corbin Avenue. Lisa Leavenworth and Cindy Ferraguto coordinated the event. The coats were donated to "Button Up Connecticut" and later distributed to charitable organizations throughout the state.
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Fran Pitaro, a Bristol native, currently serving as the Chesterfield County, Va. deputy county administrator for management services ,will retire Jan. 1, 2008. Pitaro will relocate to Colorado Springs, Colo., where he will work as a consultant with Zelos, a firm that specializes in helping government agencies achieve better results through performance management.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-faces1229.artdec29,0,6512221.story
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Ceremony to introduce kids' program
A program to help the city's children opens at 10:30 a.m. today with a ceremony in the National Liberty Museum, 321 Chestnut St.
Called KidZone Philadelphia, it is a 10-year initiative of Foundations Inc. that will be pioneered in Northwest Philadelphia and will spearhead a movement to unite communities throughout the city to ensure the success of future generations. Foundations Inc. is a nonprofit, educational organization that manages several Philadelpiha public schools.
About 400 people from Philadelphia and surrounding areas are expected to turn out for the ceremonial launch of KidZone, which will be located at 7157 Ogontz Ave.
Along with a number of special guests, including Gov. Rendell and Mayor Street, others expected to attend include civic-policy makers, opinion leaders in the field of children, youth and family services, leaders from numerous neighborhood organizations and children and families from four schools in ...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km4470/is_200604/ai_n16312799
Called KidZone Philadelphia, it is a 10-year initiative of Foundations Inc. that will be pioneered in Northwest Philadelphia and will spearhead a movement to unite communities throughout the city to ensure the success of future generations. Foundations Inc. is a nonprofit, educational organization that manages several Philadelpiha public schools.
About 400 people from Philadelphia and surrounding areas are expected to turn out for the ceremonial launch of KidZone, which will be located at 7157 Ogontz Ave.
Along with a number of special guests, including Gov. Rendell and Mayor Street, others expected to attend include civic-policy makers, opinion leaders in the field of children, youth and family services, leaders from numerous neighborhood organizations and children and families from four schools in ...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km4470/is_200604/ai_n16312799
Fencl ceremony bittersweet
The George Fencl Award ceremony is usually a light-hearted event - an evening filled with plenty of laughter, gratitude and Kodak moments involving many of the city's finest.
During last night's ceremony, held at Swan Caterers in South Philadelphia, the jovial atmosphere was tinged with sadness, as tribute was paid to slain Officer Gary Skerski.
Tears flowed when the Fencl Committee presented Skerski's family with the first-ever "Spirit of Service" award. Skerski, 46, was gunned down responding to a bar robbery in the Lower Northeast on May 8.
Fighting back tears, Skerski's wife, Anne, spoke softly as a roomful of cops and media members gave her a standing ovation. "I just want to say it's an honor to receive this award for Gary, because he meant so much to us and to everyone else," she said, as her son, Robert, 13, and daughter Nicole, 10, looked ...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km4470/is_200606/ai_n16471684
During last night's ceremony, held at Swan Caterers in South Philadelphia, the jovial atmosphere was tinged with sadness, as tribute was paid to slain Officer Gary Skerski.
Tears flowed when the Fencl Committee presented Skerski's family with the first-ever "Spirit of Service" award. Skerski, 46, was gunned down responding to a bar robbery in the Lower Northeast on May 8.
Fighting back tears, Skerski's wife, Anne, spoke softly as a roomful of cops and media members gave her a standing ovation. "I just want to say it's an honor to receive this award for Gary, because he meant so much to us and to everyone else," she said, as her son, Robert, 13, and daughter Nicole, 10, looked ...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km4470/is_200606/ai_n16471684
Is this Pope John Paul II waving from beyond the grave? Vatican TV director says yes
This fiery figure is being hailed as Pope John Paul II making an appearance beyond the grave.
The image, said by believers to show the Holy Father with his right hand raised in blessing, was spotted during a ceremony in Poland to mark the second anniversary of his death.
Details appeared on the Vatican News Service, a TV station in Rome which specialises in religious news broadcasts.
Service director Jarek Cielecki, a Polish priest and close friend of John Paul II, travelled to Poland after hearing an onlooker had photographed the image.
Father Cielecki said he was convinced the picture showed the former pontiff.
"You can see the image of a person in the flames and I think it is the servant of God, Pope John Paul II," he said.
The pictures were being broadcast continuously on Italian TV and also posted on religious websites, some of which crashed as thousands logged on to see for themselves the eerie figure formed by the flames.
The bonfire was lit during a service at Beskid Zywiecki, close to John Paul's birthplace at Katowice, southern Poland, on April 2 - the second anniversary of his death.
Hundreds had attended the ceremony. Gregorz Lukasik, the Polish man who took the photographs, said: "It was only afterwards when I got home and looked at the pictures that I realised I had something.
"I showed them to my brother and sister and they, like me, were convinced the flames had formed the image of Pope John Paul II.
"I was so happy with the picture that I showed it to our local bishop who said that Pope John Paul had made many pilgrimages during his life and he was still making them in death."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=487764&in_page_id=1811
The image, said by believers to show the Holy Father with his right hand raised in blessing, was spotted during a ceremony in Poland to mark the second anniversary of his death.
Details appeared on the Vatican News Service, a TV station in Rome which specialises in religious news broadcasts.
Service director Jarek Cielecki, a Polish priest and close friend of John Paul II, travelled to Poland after hearing an onlooker had photographed the image.
Father Cielecki said he was convinced the picture showed the former pontiff.
"You can see the image of a person in the flames and I think it is the servant of God, Pope John Paul II," he said.
The pictures were being broadcast continuously on Italian TV and also posted on religious websites, some of which crashed as thousands logged on to see for themselves the eerie figure formed by the flames.
The bonfire was lit during a service at Beskid Zywiecki, close to John Paul's birthplace at Katowice, southern Poland, on April 2 - the second anniversary of his death.
Hundreds had attended the ceremony. Gregorz Lukasik, the Polish man who took the photographs, said: "It was only afterwards when I got home and looked at the pictures that I realised I had something.
"I showed them to my brother and sister and they, like me, were convinced the flames had formed the image of Pope John Paul II.
"I was so happy with the picture that I showed it to our local bishop who said that Pope John Paul had made many pilgrimages during his life and he was still making them in death."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=487764&in_page_id=1811
Bloomington Herald-Times articles
IU cutting 47 jobs on campus; Move is necessary to pay for staff, faculty pay raises, keep top faculty here, officials say, citing tight budget, pressure to limit tuition increases
By Steve Hinnefeld
May 4, 2006
Indiana University is cutting 47 jobs on the Bloomington campus to balance its budget and pay for salary and benefit increases, IU officials said.
A majority of the jobs will be eliminated through attrition, but there will be some layoffs, Michael McRobbie, the Bloomington interim provost, told IU trustees today.
"No one welcomes having to make these decisions," he said.
Staff will get pay raises of between 2.5 percent and 3 percent. For Bloomington faculty, salary increases will average 4 percent — boosted by $1.4 million allocated to keep top faculty from leaving for other schools.
"These would be our very best faculty: top research performers, national academies members, people we can't afford to lose," McRobbie said.
IU officials said the cuts are brought on by reductions in state funding and political pressure to limit tuition increases. Undergraduate tuition and fees for IU Bloomington will rise 4.9 percent this year. Graduate and professional students face steeper increases.
IU officials explained the $2.32 billion university budget for 2006-07 Thursday to the trustees' finance and audit committee. Trustees are expected to approve it at their business meeting today in the Indiana Memorial Union.
Judy Palmer, the IU vice president for finance, said it's a tight budget that forces campuses to find savings and in some cases to rely on reserves.
"We've drawn the safety net a little tighter," she said.
McRobbie said results at IU Bloomington will include:
• More classes will be taught by part-time faculty.
• Maintenance spending will be cut by $400,000 at a time when many buildings are showing their age.
• An adult fitness program is being eliminated, saving $200,000.
• The Law School froze spending for admissions and career services.
• The School of Education shelved plans for a P-16 education center.
• The Optometry School cut its equipment budget.
Administrators said they're trying to manage the budget without hurting research and teaching, but trustees said across-the-board cuts will work for only so long. Trustee Tom Reilly said IU may have to look at eliminating programs — as well as increasing tuition.
"You're talking about double-digit tuition increases no matter what you do, but that's not all you do," he said.
Pat Shoulders, another trustee, said state officials shouldn't expect universities to fuel the knowledge economy without money. "We ought to flat-line their expectations," he said.
But Reilly said government leaders "really think we're on the fat side" and are likely to cut deeper in the budget the Legislature approves in 2007.
"The footnote is, the party's over after this budget," he said.
Early start of garage meeting called illegal
by Steve Hinnefeld
May 5, 2006
Buff Brown left work early Thursday to hear the Indiana University trustees talk about building a parking garage south of campus.
But not early enough. The trustees, without giving notice, started the meeting of their facilities committee at least a half-hour earlier than scheduled.
By the time Brown arrived, the panel had approved the garage at the corner of Atwater and Fess avenues. The full board is scheduled to vote today.
Brown, an opponent of project, was miffed.
"I think that they have an obligation to the public to notify them of these decisions and to make the decisions when they say they will," he said.
IU officials said the trustees finished an earlier meeting sooner than expected, and board president Steve Ferguson convened the facilities committee to save some time. The meeting was posted to start at 4:15 p.m. It apparently started by 3:45.
Steve Key, counsel for the Hoosier State Press Association, said what the trustees did violated the state Open Door Law, which requires that the time and place of public meetings be posted 48 hours in advance.
The trustees don't routinely take public comment, and garage opponents wouldn't have been allowed to speak. But Key said that doesn't matter.
"The idea is, you give people an opportunity to observe and record" the meeting, he said.
Key said people could challenge the changed meeting time in court. They could ask a judge to order IU to not violate the law again. They could even argue that any action resulting from the meeting - such as final approval today of the parking garage - is illegal.
IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said that if the meeting wasn't legal, it was an innocent mistake.
"It certainly was inadvertent," he said. "It only happened because the board was trying to work a whole lot of things into one day, including a bus tour of some university facilities."
Trustees discussed the garage and heard objections from Elm Heights residents in November, when they approved its design. The $10.9 million, 5 1/2-level structure will provide space for 560 vehicles and IU Parking Operations offices. Officials want to start construction this summer.
Trustees told to spend in order to double minority students
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/3436.html
By Steve Hinnefeld
May 4, 2006
Indiana University is cutting 47 jobs on the Bloomington campus to balance its budget and pay for salary and benefit increases, IU officials said.
A majority of the jobs will be eliminated through attrition, but there will be some layoffs, Michael McRobbie, the Bloomington interim provost, told IU trustees today.
"No one welcomes having to make these decisions," he said.
Staff will get pay raises of between 2.5 percent and 3 percent. For Bloomington faculty, salary increases will average 4 percent — boosted by $1.4 million allocated to keep top faculty from leaving for other schools.
"These would be our very best faculty: top research performers, national academies members, people we can't afford to lose," McRobbie said.
IU officials said the cuts are brought on by reductions in state funding and political pressure to limit tuition increases. Undergraduate tuition and fees for IU Bloomington will rise 4.9 percent this year. Graduate and professional students face steeper increases.
IU officials explained the $2.32 billion university budget for 2006-07 Thursday to the trustees' finance and audit committee. Trustees are expected to approve it at their business meeting today in the Indiana Memorial Union.
Judy Palmer, the IU vice president for finance, said it's a tight budget that forces campuses to find savings and in some cases to rely on reserves.
"We've drawn the safety net a little tighter," she said.
McRobbie said results at IU Bloomington will include:
• More classes will be taught by part-time faculty.
• Maintenance spending will be cut by $400,000 at a time when many buildings are showing their age.
• An adult fitness program is being eliminated, saving $200,000.
• The Law School froze spending for admissions and career services.
• The School of Education shelved plans for a P-16 education center.
• The Optometry School cut its equipment budget.
Administrators said they're trying to manage the budget without hurting research and teaching, but trustees said across-the-board cuts will work for only so long. Trustee Tom Reilly said IU may have to look at eliminating programs — as well as increasing tuition.
"You're talking about double-digit tuition increases no matter what you do, but that's not all you do," he said.
Pat Shoulders, another trustee, said state officials shouldn't expect universities to fuel the knowledge economy without money. "We ought to flat-line their expectations," he said.
But Reilly said government leaders "really think we're on the fat side" and are likely to cut deeper in the budget the Legislature approves in 2007.
"The footnote is, the party's over after this budget," he said.
Early start of garage meeting called illegal
by Steve Hinnefeld
May 5, 2006
Buff Brown left work early Thursday to hear the Indiana University trustees talk about building a parking garage south of campus.
But not early enough. The trustees, without giving notice, started the meeting of their facilities committee at least a half-hour earlier than scheduled.
By the time Brown arrived, the panel had approved the garage at the corner of Atwater and Fess avenues. The full board is scheduled to vote today.
Brown, an opponent of project, was miffed.
"I think that they have an obligation to the public to notify them of these decisions and to make the decisions when they say they will," he said.
IU officials said the trustees finished an earlier meeting sooner than expected, and board president Steve Ferguson convened the facilities committee to save some time. The meeting was posted to start at 4:15 p.m. It apparently started by 3:45.
Steve Key, counsel for the Hoosier State Press Association, said what the trustees did violated the state Open Door Law, which requires that the time and place of public meetings be posted 48 hours in advance.
The trustees don't routinely take public comment, and garage opponents wouldn't have been allowed to speak. But Key said that doesn't matter.
"The idea is, you give people an opportunity to observe and record" the meeting, he said.
Key said people could challenge the changed meeting time in court. They could ask a judge to order IU to not violate the law again. They could even argue that any action resulting from the meeting - such as final approval today of the parking garage - is illegal.
IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said that if the meeting wasn't legal, it was an innocent mistake.
"It certainly was inadvertent," he said. "It only happened because the board was trying to work a whole lot of things into one day, including a bus tour of some university facilities."
Trustees discussed the garage and heard objections from Elm Heights residents in November, when they approved its design. The $10.9 million, 5 1/2-level structure will provide space for 560 vehicles and IU Parking Operations offices. Officials want to start construction this summer.
Trustees told to spend in order to double minority students
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/3436.html
People’s Choice Awards gets canned
Red carpet cancelled amidst writers’ strike
The People’s Choice Awards ceremony, which was set to take place Jan. 8, has been cancelled.
It is reported that the show won’t be rolling out the red carpet this year for the annual live ceremony. Instead, a pre-recorded taping will be aired that evening.
CBS will broadcast the new magazine-style format, which will include previously announced host Queen Latifah. “The show will go on,” CBS said in a statement. “The People's Choice tradition on CBS will continue and we plan to introduce some new ideas in the process.”
The 34th annual awards show will broadcast pre-recorded acceptance speeches from stars receiving awards as voted by fans.
Awards spokesperson Jeannie Tharrington told The Associated Press the changes have been brought on by the two-month-long Writers Guild of America strike. It was unknown whether presenters and nominees would show up for the ceremony, which has been boycotted by striking writers.
"We realize there are pressing issues facing the entertainment industry, including the WGA strike, and out of respect for everyone involved this provided an opportunity to pilot a new format this year," she said.
Fans can still vote here for their favourite entertainers, movies, songs and TV series. Voting ends Dec. 31.
http://tvguide.sympatico.msn.ca/TVNews/Articles/071220_peoples_choice_SZ
The People’s Choice Awards ceremony, which was set to take place Jan. 8, has been cancelled.
It is reported that the show won’t be rolling out the red carpet this year for the annual live ceremony. Instead, a pre-recorded taping will be aired that evening.
CBS will broadcast the new magazine-style format, which will include previously announced host Queen Latifah. “The show will go on,” CBS said in a statement. “The People's Choice tradition on CBS will continue and we plan to introduce some new ideas in the process.”
The 34th annual awards show will broadcast pre-recorded acceptance speeches from stars receiving awards as voted by fans.
Awards spokesperson Jeannie Tharrington told The Associated Press the changes have been brought on by the two-month-long Writers Guild of America strike. It was unknown whether presenters and nominees would show up for the ceremony, which has been boycotted by striking writers.
"We realize there are pressing issues facing the entertainment industry, including the WGA strike, and out of respect for everyone involved this provided an opportunity to pilot a new format this year," she said.
Fans can still vote here for their favourite entertainers, movies, songs and TV series. Voting ends Dec. 31.
http://tvguide.sympatico.msn.ca/TVNews/Articles/071220_peoples_choice_SZ
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