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Canada adds 12,500 jobs in modest July rebound
A job is a regular activity performed in exchange for payment. A person usually begins a job by becoming an employee, volunteering, or starting a business. The duration of a job may range from an hour (in the case of odd jobs) to a lifetime (in the case of some judges). If a person is trained for a certain type of job, they may have a profession. The series of jobs a person holds in their life is their career.
Jobs for people
Generally people spend a good portion of their time doing a regular occupation. Some exceptions are being a student, disabled, retired or being/working in a creative field.
Types of job
There are a variety of jobs: full time, part time, temporary, odd jobs, seasonal, self-employment.
People may have a chosen occupation for which they have received training or a degree.
Those who do not hold down a steady job may do odd jobs or be unemployed.
Moonlighting is the practice of holding an additional job or jobs, often at night, in addition to one's main job, usually to earn extra income. A person who moonlights may have little time left for sleep or leisure activities.
Day job
The expression day job is often used for a job one works in to make ends meet while performing low-paying (or non-paying) work in their preferred vocation. Archetypical examples of this are the woman who works as a waitress (her day job) while she tries to become an actress, and the professional athlete who works as a laborer in the off season because he is currently only able to make the roster of a semi-professional team.
While many people do hold a full-time occupation, "day job" specifically refers to those who hold the position solely to pay living expenses so they can pursue, through low paying entry work, the job they really want (which may also be during the day). The phrase strongly implies that the day job would be quit, if only the real vocation paid a living wage.
Notable figures who had day jobs include the Wright brothers, who held full-time employment as bicycle repairmen while they experimented on powered flights.
The phrase "don't quit your day job" is a humorous response to a poor or mediocre performance not up to professional caliber. The phrase implies that the performer is not talented enough in that activity to be able to make a career out of it. Getting a job Further information: Job hunting and Employment
Getting a first job is an important rite of passage in many cultures. Youth may start by doing household work, odd jobs, or working for a family business. In many countries, school children get summer jobs during the longer summer vacation. Students enrolled in higher education can apply for internships.
Résumés summarize a person's education and job experience for potential employers. Employers read job candidate résumés to decide who to interview for an open position.
Use of the word
Labourers often talk of "getting a job", or "having a job". This conceptual metaphor of a "job" as a possession has led to its use in slogans such as "money for jobs, not bombs". Similar conceptions are that of "land" as a possession (real estate) or intellectual rights as a possession (intellectual property).
The Online Etymology Dictionary explains that the origin of "job" is from the obsolete phrase "jobbe of work" in the sense of "piece of work", and most dictionaries list the Middle English "gobbe" meaning "lump" (gob) as the origin of "jobbe". Attempts to link the word to the biblical character Job seem to be folk etymology


text: The Game Developers Conference may have started yesterday, but Tuesday is when it really picks up. Today, I'll be covering mostly EA stuff with a few titles sprinkled in such as MLB 11(11 a.m. PST), inFamous 2 (2 p.m. PST) and Skullgirls (5:30 p.m.). Check out my Twitter feed below to find updates.

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Posting damage meter on trash is considered impolite in WoW. There were even posts where this was considered "jerk" behavior, since "properly specced" DPS can't compete with a tank or a DPS who has a stupid AoE spec he made clearly to top the meters.
This is bullshit!
In a "modern" 5-man, doing the instance or not is not a question. Wiping in a 5-man is a sign of multiple failures on huge scale. These instances were soloed by bored DKs and Paladins. The "job" in a 5-man is doing them fast. The time of doing it is (denizens_sum_HP / DPS + walk time). Walk time can be decreased by hunters, however the monsters are usually chainpulled, the group is always in combat, so it doesn't work. So speeding up the 5-man depends on increasing group DPS. About 90% of the denizens_sum_HP is trashmob HP. They are usually in packs or can be chainpulled into big packs.
The job is mostly to AoE down these packs. The guy who does it better is better DPS. However people have the stupid sense of social status. They believe they are above the "lowly" job of AoE-ing trashmobs. The name "trash"mob betrays this thinking. Why are these monsters considered "trash"? They are part of the world, just like players and bosses, their loot is not bad either. I mean considering their power, killing them gives higher G/hour than killing bosses. However, since they don't drop epics (status symbols), they are considered lowly and grinding them is also lowly.
These people believe that grinding the "trash" is a job for lowly "n00bs" and it's an insult from Blizzard to force them to pollute their noble hands with such lowly job. Of course it's a lie. If they are "noble raiders" as they think they are, why are they in a "lowly 5-man"? Because they are not so "noble" to miss on the 2 frost emblems, that's why! They want the reward but don't want the work.
The guy who goes to a 5-man with single-target optimized spec is like the guy who go to a raid in PvP spec. Can be done, but sub-optimal. Obviously the latter would be ridiculed. If the PvP-specced guy would reply with "but i can pwn lot of nubs lol and u cant", he'd be kicked instantly from the raid. However the same guys don't bother to give their maximum in a 5-man, yet they refuse to be called slackers and abuse those who carry them! Funnily they act the same as the 1500 DPS DK in the raid: "lol 5manz r not srius bzns" is no different from "lol its just a game i hav life cant farm gear to make 3K".
The job in the 5-man is to AoE down lot of easy enemies. The guy who does it better is better player in the actual aspect of the game. Your performance in different aspects do not count here. Of course you have every right to not play this aspect. But if you choose to, you are expected to pull your weight and others have every right to call you a moron or a slacker if you can't/don't. The only DPS meter that matters here is the "overall damage done" at the end of the instance.
Clarification: I don't say anyone must have instance-AoE spec. I'd just like to point out that the same people who demand min-maxing in one aspect of the game are rejecting the same min-maxing on another one. I'd like to stir discussion about min-maxing, just like Klepsacovic did. Also "5-mans are just bit slower with raid spec" is not an answer to the question. The question is not "Is it acceptable to come in single target spec to a 5-man?" It is. The question is "Why do people abuse those who beat them in a 5-man, instead of accepting that they slacked a bit?".


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Saving Hard
One of the key pillars of my overall Retirement Investing Today strategy is to find ways to earn as much as possible while finding ways to spend as little as possible by living healthily and intentionally well below my means. The difference between the two is savings that can be invested to start working for me. So how have I done on this front given that to be successful I need to maintain a savings rate of 55% of gross earnings, which I define as Savings plus Employer Pension Contribution divided by Gross Earnings (ie before HMRC takes their portion) plus Employer Pension Contribution? Against that 55% target I've actually averaged a savings rate of 53.9% over the last 6 months.Note that here I don't include any investment returns, EBay sales, savings account interest, credit card cashback or 5p coins picked up on the roadside as earnings. I do however make it hard on myself by counting the tax from both my salary and investments/interest as spending which encourages me to structure my finances as tax efficiently as possible.
On a chart my savings look like this:
So I've failed to meet this objective but I'm actually still happy with the result. Why, because you'll see the savings dip occurred just before and just after the end of 2014 during which time as a family we conducted some Early Retirement research by spending some time in one of our preferred Early Retirement locations – Puglia, Italy. We went in the depths of winter as we know that part of the world is beautiful in summer as a tourist but we're talking about living there permanently and so wanted to see it in its worst light. The conclusion? As a tourist location it's still a pretty impressive part of the world:
However we were more interested in the town centre and back streets of where we might live:
Still somewhere that would be great to live and we'll likely spend 6 months there before making a final decision but at this moment on balance we think Malta has its nose in front.
Investing Wisely
So I'm slightly behind on the savings front. It's all up to my investments now. Here I am planning on receiving a real (after inflation) investment return of 4% annually over the very long term. In comparison over the past 6 months I've received a return of 2.3% against an inflation rate of -0.2% for a real 6 month return of 2.5%. Investments are ahead of the game.Financial Independence and optional Retire Early (FIRE)
Combining both my savings and investment returns since I started on this journey yields the following:Which charted as progress towards FIRE yields:
This chart is calculated as the amount of wealth I have accrued, divided by the earnings I need from my investments should I choose to retire, multiplied by my planned withdrawal rate.
As I write this post I have 82.7% of the wealth I need to retire early. From here if I can save 55% of gross earnings consistently and receive a real 4% investment return then I am exactly on target to be able to retire in 18 months (scarily my Excel sheet tells me this is the case to 2 decimal places – 1.50 years). If this pans out I will have gone from no hope to FIRE in slightly less than 9 years by which time I'll still be 43 years of age. That will be a result I'll be very happy with, particularly in an environment where Ermine is telling us that Working for The Man post 45 is a risky business and I work for The Man.


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3 Surprising Biases That Could Hold You Back These factors could be against you when you're trying to get ahead. Here's how to overcome them.
By Harrison Monarth Edited by Jason Fell
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Getting your startup funded, snagging a juicy promotion or getting hired at a "best-place-to-work" company is a long shot these days. Stiff criteria and even stiffer competition can keep your dreams of launching a business or managing one just out of reach.
But are the reasons some of us don't get ahead always fair or even rational?
Bias, unconscious or not, often creeps into the decisionmaking that determines the fates and fortunes of entrepreneurs and aspiring executives.
See if one of these biases could potentially trip you up on the ladder to success.
Related: 3 Ways to Boost Your 'Executive Presence' While Pitching for Funding
Pardon my French. A recent study by Wharton management professor Laura Huang could spell bad news for English speakers with a non-native accent. In her paper in the Journal of Applied Psychology titled "Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Non-Native Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions," Huang finds that entrepreneurs and aspiring executives with foreign accents are passed over for startup funding and management positions far more than their competition.
This xenophobia-tinted glass-ceiling is the result of the greater business community's perception that non-native English speakers lack "political skill," including "effective and competent communication" as well as "the ability to be perceptive and influence others," according to Huang's research.
Piling on to this bias is angel investor and co-founder of Y Combinator, Paul Graham, who recently said that one of the "tells" in determining whether a startup's going to boom or bust is a CEO's foreign accent. Graham was quoted as saying, "One quality that's a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent."
For those looking to get ahead, the implications are clear: A foreign accent can be a show-stopper if the speaker is indeed difficult to understand, at which point language lessons and dedicated practice can yield better outcomes. But if clear communication is not an issue, turn it into a positive by pointing out the diverse perspectives (most companies these days acknowledge the value of diversity) you bring to the table and assure that your cultural background will be an asset.
Are you invisible? Leadership positions often call for individuals who are visible in the organization and publicly take a stand for issues they believe in. For introverts, these behaviors are neither natural nor easy to exhibit. As a result, those with quiet personalities and shy demeanor are often seen as lacking drive and ambition by their superiors, as a recent Wall Street Journal article reports. Many experience being passed over for promotions to upper management due to what is perceived as an inability to influence and project executive presence.
Related: 5 Must-Know Public Speaking Tips for Introverts
For those who feel out of place among extraverts, realize that you don't have to change your personality. Instead, take small steps in changing your behavior by speaking up more often, participating in meetings and taking opportunities resulting in increased visibility. It may not be comfortable, but it will become easier with repeated effort and should soon show results.
Careless social media activity. Hiring managers and corporate decision-makers are all digitally tuned in these days and actively seek intel about candidates that would inform their recruiting decisions.
Inflammatory tweets and risqué Facebook postings pose obvious challenges, though absence of any information online about accomplishments can also cast doubt on your judgment and potential value to an organization. At minimum, a profile on LinkedIn is expected to show you've not missed the technology train entirely.
A LinkedIn profile, however, isn't going to do you any favors unless it is well organized, updated to current status and optimized to make clear what you bring to the table.
Mind your photo too. A recent study by TheLadders.com, a New York City-based employment website, shows that recruiters spend about 19 percent of their time on a profile analyzing the picture. In a minute of profile scanning, that's a long 12 seconds (try it yourself) of judging a book by its cover.
So exchange that profile picture that looks like a back-to-the-walls hostage photo to an approachable smile in a professional headshot.
For those who are in a hiring or other decision-making function, it helps to realize that we're probably not aware of our biases. Therefore, we ought to get feedback from others and check our assumptions rather than give in to snap judgments. Remember, we're all human.
Related: 3 Ways You Might Be Screwing Up Your LinkedIn Profile and How to Avoid Them


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Lawyers for Amanda Knox filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy with the European Court of Human Rights, as her third murder trial was underway in Florence.
The slander conviction was based on statements Knox made to police in November 2007 when she was being questioned about the slaying of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in the house they shared in Perugia.
Knox says she was coerced into making false statements blaming the slaying on bar owner Patrick Lumumba.
"The interrogation took place in a language I barely spoke, without a lawyer present, and without the police informing me that I was a suspect in Meredith's murder, which was a violation of my human rights," Knox said in a statement released Monday as the appeal was filed.
Knox was convicted of slander at her first trial in December 2009. That conviction was upheld during the appeal that resulted in her 2011 murder acquittal.
Knox has returned to Seattle, where she is a student at the University of Washington. She is not attending the third trial being held in an appeals court in Florence.
The European Court for Human Rights is an international court in Strasbourg, France, that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights.


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NEW YORK – The company that pioneered commercial space travel by sending "tourists" up to the
International Space Station is planning a new mission: rocketing people around the far side of the moon. The price of a round-trip ticket: $100 million.
The first mission by Space Adventures could happen in 2008 or 2009 and is planned as a stepping stone to an eventual lunar landing by private citizens.
"For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon," Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson said at a Manhattan news conference Wednesday, a day after space shuttle Discovery safely returned to Earth. "This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens … our youth."
Anderson said he already has prospective "private explorers" who are interested in the trip and could afford the ticket.
The initial travelers would be the first to orbit the moon in more than 33 years, according to the Arlington, Va., company. Only 27 people have ever made such a journey.
The trip, aboard a modified Russian spacecraft, will offer the chance to see the Earth rise from lunar orbit and a view of the far side of the moon from an altitude of 62 miles.
The far side of the moon has a special appeal, Anderson told The Associated Press in an interview, because it takes most of the hits from asteroids, meteorites and other objects from deep space. That results in many more craters than on the side seen from Earth.
"It's much more interesting to look at than the near side," he said, adding that the lunar orbits will be done when the far side is illuminated by the sun.
Space Adventures plans to offer multiple trip itineraries aboard Russia's Soyuz TMA spacecraft. One possibility is a 5 1/2-day lunar flight and up to 21 days at the International Space Station; another is a nine-day mission with three days of free flight in low-Earth orbit and the rest flying around the moon. In both cases, the spacecraft would dock with a booster, carried up by a separate launch vehicle, to propel it to the moon.
The Soyuz was originally designed for lunar missions, although none ever occurred. Anderson called it the most reliable craft in the history of space travel.
It has 10 cubic meters of crew space, about the size of a large SUV. The cosmonaut and two passengers will sleep in reclining chairs, said Nikolai Sevastyanov, president of rocket maker Rocket and Space Corporation Energia.
Space Adventures has a partnership with the rocket maker and the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation, through which they have sent American businessman Dennis Tito and South African Mark Shuttleworth on a Soyuz for stays on the space station.
The next mission is slated to send a team up to the space station for 10 days starting Oct. 1. One of the crew members is Gregory Olsen, a New Jersey scientist who has been training for the mission in Russia on and off since 2004.
"Who wouldn't want to go to the moon?" said Olsen, 60, a surprise guest at the news conference. "I'm really interested, but one flight at a time."
Modifications to the Soyuz will include altering its docking system and installing an 18-inch window so passengers can take high-resolution photos of the lunar surface.


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I don't really care how much the latest superhero film took at the box office, although I'd probably know if you asked me. When I watch a film the main thing I am looking for is a good story. I like it when I look up at the big screen and can see a part of me staring back at me. More than anything, I am still looking for Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder in every film I see.
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If you reside in a high-tax state, you may want to consider using non-grantor trusts to soften the blow of the $10,000 federal limit on state and local tax (SALT) deductions. The limit can significantly reduce itemized deductions if your state income and property taxes are well over $10,000. A potential strategy for avoiding the limit is to transfer interests in real estate to several non-grantor trusts, each of which enjoys its own $10,000 SALT deduction.
Grantor vs. non-grantor trusts
The main difference between a grantor and non-grantor trust is that a grantor trust is treated as your alter ego for tax purposes, while a non-grantor trust is treated as a separate entity. Traditionally, grantor trusts have been the vehicle of choice for estate planning purposes because the trust's income is passed through to you, as grantor, and reported on your tax return.
That's an advantage, because it allows the trust assets to grow tax-free, leaving more for your heirs. By paying the tax, you essentially provide an additional, tax-free gift to your loved ones that's not limited by your gift tax exemption or annual gift tax exclusion. In addition, because the trust is an extension of you for tax purposes, you have the flexibility to sell property to the trust without triggering taxable gain.
Now that fewer families are subject to gift taxes, grantor trusts enjoy less of an advantage over non-grantor trusts. This creates an opportunity to employ non-grantor trusts to boost income tax deductions.
Non-grantor trusts in action
A non-grantor trust is a discrete legal entity, which files its own tax returns and claims its own deductions. The idea behind the strategy is to divide real estate that's subject to more than $10,000 in property taxes among several trusts, each of which has its own SALT deduction up to $10,000. Each trust must also generate sufficient income against which to offset the deduction.
Before you attempt this strategy, beware of the multiple trust rule of Internal Revenue Code Section 643(f). That section provides that, under regulations prescribed by the U.S. Treasury Department, multiple trusts may be treated as a single trust if they have "substantially the same grantor or grantors and substantially the same primary beneficiary or beneficiaries" and a principal purpose of the arrangement is tax avoidance.
Bear in mind that to preserve the benefits of multiple trusts, it's important to designate a different beneficiary for each trust.
Pass the SALT
If you're losing valuable tax deductions because of the SALT limit, consider passing those deductions on to one or more non-grantor trusts. Consult with us before taking action, because these trusts must be structured carefully to ensure that they qualify as non-grantor trusts and don't run afoul of the multiple trust rule.


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June 12, 1963 Medgar Evers assassinated
In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
During World War II, Evers volunteered for the U.S. Army and participated in the Normandy invasion. In 1952, he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As a field worker for the NAACP, Evers traveled through his home state encouraging poor African Americans to register to vote and recruiting them into the civil rights movement. He was instrumental in getting witnesses and evidence for the Emmett Till murder case, which brought national attention to the plight of African Americans in the South. On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was killed.
After a funeral in Jackson, he was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. President John F. Kennedy and many other leaders publicly condemned the killing. In 1964, the first trial of chief suspect Byron De La Beckwith ended with a deadlock by an all-white jury, sparking numerous protests. When a second all-white jury also failed to reach a decision, De La Beckwith was set free. Three decades later, the state of Mississippi reopened the case under pressure from civil rights leaders and Evers' family. In February 1994, a racially mixed jury in Jackson found Beckwith guilty of murder. The unrepentant white supremacist, aged 73, was sentenced to life imprisonment.


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6 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups chopped dates
4 cups chopped walnuts
2 cups sugar
1 cup white grape juice
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
4 pounds candied fruit (optional)
2 cups raisins
1 cup butter
4 eggs
3 cups applesauce
Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.
Grease 6 9x5 loaf pans OR 3 tube pans.
Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, soda and spices.
Measure out fruit and nuts, dates and raisins in a very large bowl.
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and beat well.
Alternately add dry ingredients and grape juice to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
Mix in fruit, nuts and applesauce.
Pour into prepared pans weighing about 2 pounds each.
Bake for about 2 hours, or until pick comes out clean.
For a fruitier cake: may also add 2 pounds of cherries and 2 pounds of candied fruit.
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We began our ministry in Haiti in 1968 with the Child Sponsorship Program. In 2003, we started the Survival Program for babies and their caregivers.
In 2008, we celebrated our 40th anniversary in Haiti. During 40 years of ministry, we have transformed school projects into child development centers. We have also networked with other nongovernmental organizations in Haiti and have raised awareness within the church and community about the need to be involved in issues affecting children.
Country Director
In 1997, Guilbaud Saint-Cyr joined the ministry in Haiti as a program facilitator and became the operations coordinator in 1999. He was appointed country director in 2003. Before coming to our ministry, Guilbaud was a certified public accountant and the founder of the accounting firm COGEFISC Plus, which promotes financial integrity and accountability within various nongovernmental organizations and private businesses.
Guilbaud taught management in various vocational institutions and helped launch several child advocacy agencies, including ROCHEPE, a Christian organization for child development. He serves as president of the Evangelical Press Council, is a board member of the Micah Challenge and currently serves as a Sunday school teacher and itinerant preacher.
Holding a bachelor of arts degree in business management and a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the State University of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Guilbaud also has a diploma in Advanced Leadership from Haggai Institute of Singapore and a diploma in Micro-enterprise Management. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in organizational leadership from Azusa Pacific University, California.
Implementing Church Partners
Implementing Church Partners are local churches in Haiti with whom we work to deliver child development programs and ministry in the field.
- Spiritual Climate
The influence of Voodoo is still strong in Haiti. Christian leaders live in constant spiritual warfare. Churches are growing numerically, but not necessarily in terms of spiritual growth because of the combining of the Christian faith with Voodoo and other cultural influences. - Unique Challenges
One challenge unique for implementing church partners in Haiti is how to set up their budgets in order to address children's need for formal schooling. In Haiti, 5 percent of schools are public and 95 percent are private, meaning the cost of schooling is higher.Another challenge for church partners is sanitation. Often the church infrastructure is not sound. Also, the government does not provide health services. Therefore, we are obliged to use about 20 percent of sponsorship funds for health and the physical aspect of development in the Child Sponsorship Program and 30 percent for the Child Survival Program. - Contributions
Implementing church partners take care of the facilities and the maintenance of the buildings. They are responsible for the construction costs for any needed facilities. They also contribute to the health care of children from the elementary schools associated with the child development centers.Some denominations in the southern and northern areas of Haiti and the city of La Gonave have medical centers, which provide health care for children in need. - Partner Development Activities
Compassion Haiti develops partners through training, regional conferences, facilitation, and networking.
Survival Program
- Caregiver Literacy
Through the Survival Program, we evaluate the literacy level of the mothers. In response to this, we establish each mother in an implementing church partner literacy class.These classes include writing, reading and simple math skills. The classes are held twice a week.
- Caregiver Literacy
- Income-Generating Skills
Generally, we organize sewing, cooking, and craft classes for mothers twice a week for two hours. - Health Care
For the prenatal period, mothers go to the hospital for a consultation and laboratory tests. Twice a year, each child development center organizes a mobile medical clinic with a pediatrician, an internist and a medical practitioner or an obstetric doctor. Most of the mothers deliver at a small local hospital.For special health cases, we recommend them to a specialized medical center. The child development center staff covers the expense, and then the Compassion office reimburses 80 percent of the expense on a monthly basis.For immunization, children receive some vaccines from the State Health Department for free. But other vaccines, such as hepatitis B, typhoid, pneumonia 23, and meningitis, are provided by us, as they are expensive but crucial for safe child development.For health screening, we have a health implementer who received training from the Child Survival Program specialist and from the State Health Department. The health implementer is responsible for monthly health screenings and submits reports to the Survival Program specialist for appropriate follow-up.
- Income-Generating Skills
- Nutritional Support
Once a month, each mother receives a dry food kit containing rice, beans, sugar, milk, oil, spaghetti, etc. Most of these moms live in a family of at least seven people, so this kit only lasts for two days.Because of this we have established income-generating activities for 20 Child Survival Programs in order to help provide food to these families and help them become economically self-supporting.
- Nutritional Support
- Involvement of Fathers
In general, fathers participate in the graduation ceremony, training on family planning, annual spiritual retreats and birthday celebrations. In some cases, if the mother isn't available to participate in regular activities, the fathers will attend meetings. - Transitioning Out of the Survival Program
Implementing church partners evaluate the development of each child based on the four areas and indicators of the Survival Program manual. This information is submitted in a report to the Survival Program specialist for appropriate follow-up.Based on this evaluation and on one year of accomplishment in the program, we decide whether or not they will graduate. Then, the Survival Program implementer fills out the appropriate form and sends it to our office for follow-up. After this, the mothers and children participate in a graduation ceremony. - Areas of Expansion for the Survival Program
We will open additional Survival Programs throughout areas of Haiti that are more prone to flooding, hurricanes and earthquakes. Also, children in these areas are vulnerable to potentially fatal but preventable diseases, such as malaria, typhoid, diarrhea, intestinal parasites and tuberculosis.
Child Sponsorship Program
Your sponsorship of a child in Haiti provides a variety of benefits.
- Meeting Times
The child development program schedule depends on the needs for each particular center. Below is a typical schedule for the child development centers in Haiti.- 3 to 5 year olds: 1 hour a day, from Monday through Friday, and 3 hours on Saturday
- 6 to 8 year olds: 2 to 4 hours after school and 4 hours on Saturday, adding up to 6 to 8 hours a week
- 9 to 11 year olds: 2 to 4 hours after school, and 4 hours on Saturday, adding up to 6 to 8 hours a week
- 12 to 14 year olds: 2 to 4 hours after school, and 4 hours on Saturday, adding up to 6 to 8 hours a week
- 15 to 18 year olds: 2 to 4 hours after school, and 4 hours on Saturday, adding up to 6 to 8 hours a week
- 19 +: 2 to 4 hours after school, and 4 hours on Saturday, adding up to 6 to 8 hours a week
- Nutritional Support
When attending child development center activities, each child receives a snack, such as sandwiches and juice or milk, during the week, or a hot meal, which consists of spaghetti or rice, beans, vegetables, meat and juice.Often, children come to the center without having eaten, so we feed them to help them learn well. Some centers provide hot food during weekly activities, some don't. That depends on the financial capacity of the each center. We have a special nutritional approach for malnourished and the neediest children. - Vaccinations
We make sure that each child benefits from basic vaccines given by the State Health Department. Unfortunately, the implementing church partners can't afford all of the expensive vaccines for the children, such as hepatitis, typhoid and meningitis. - Extracurricular Activities or Community Service
There is a special program held during the summer in which groups of children from different centers participate in a knowledge competition. We hold spiritual retreats during Carnival and Easter time.We also have spiritual decision day on special occasions and have musical bands perform for the children at special events, such as graduations, funerals, etc. - Vocational Activities
Student clubs are held each Saturday from 9 to 12 or 1 to 5 p.m. Vocational activities available are based on the local child development center. These activities can include painting, crafts, sewing, computer, music, photography, videography, cooking, foreign language classes, etc.The choice of programming for adolescents depends on the resources available in the community and in the interest of the children.
- Child Sponsorship Program Alumni Activities
The alumni group has existed since August 2000. Members are involved in our ministry doing things such as talent shows, knowledge competitions and art contests. They also help with disaster recovery, regional training and conferences.Many alumni helped in the disaster recovery process in Haiti after hurricanes and after the January 2010 earthquake.Compassion center staff and volunteers provided disaster relief including food and hygiene kits after the August 2021 earthquake. - Parent Involvement
Once a week we have parenting classes, parents' club, and income-generating activities for the neediest parents. - Areas of Expansion for Child Sponsorship Program
We would like to expand in the northern, western, southern, and central plateau areas of Haiti. These are the neediest areas and we have many potential partners in these regions.
Complementary Interventions
Our core Child Sponsorship Program, while comprehensive, does not address all obstacles to a child's healthy development. Complementary interventions provide additional services, such as our AIDS Initiative, Bibles for all children, disaster relief and water projects.
Some of the complementary interventions we offer in Haiti are:
- Education
Nonformal education, vocational training for the Child Sponsorship Program and youth development activities - Health
Educational sanitary training, health care and prevention, and water wells purification and treatment - Recapitalization
Micro-credit, small retail trade, pig or goat distribution, and hen houses - Infrastructure
Computer laboratory centers, osmosis inverse water system, school buildings and latrines
Highly Vulnerable Children
In our context, we have educational and vocational training for the needs of highly vulnerable children. In order to meet these needs in a sustainable manner, we intend to create a semi-industrial center where the children can learn to produce goods for the market and we will find new markets for them.


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by: CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret)
Obama is NOT Article II constitutionally eligible to be the President and Commander of our military. Obama is NOT a "natural born Citizen" to constitutional standards. Obama's father was NOT a U.S. Citizen. Obama's father was not an immigrant to the United States. Obama's father was a foreign national, a British Subject. Obama is the child of an alien father who was sojourning in the U.S. attending college. Obama was born a British Subject via his father and is still such to this day. Obama has never conclusively proved he was born in Hawaii. Obama's paternal family in Kenya, Kenyan government officials, and newspapers in Kenya say he was born in Kenya. Obama's maternal grandmother likely falsely and illegally registered him as born in Hawaii to get him, her new foreign-born grandson, U.S. Citizenship.
History shows us that a popularly elected, but ineligible, chief executive in the executive branch of a government can be legally and constitutionally removed from office, e.g., Governor Thomas H. Moodie of North Dakota was a prime example. After he was sworn in and serving as Governor, the North Dakota State Supreme Court ordered Governor Moodie removed from office, after it was determined that he was constitutionally and legally ineligible to serve in the office to which he was popularly elected.
Also, two U.S. Senators although popularly elected and sworn in to the U.S. Senate were subsequently removed from office after it was learned that they were NOT constitutionally eligible when they were elected.
Albert Gallatin [U.S. Senator seating unconstitutional and annulled]:
James Shields [U.S. Senator seating unconstitutional and annulled]:
Thus it is very clear that winning a popular election does not trump, amend, or nullify the constitution of a state or the U.S. federal constitution. We are a nation of laws, not men. We are a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy where the current political whims of the the political majority can over rule the U.S. Constitution by a simple popular vote. Obama is not constitutionally eligible to be the President and Command in Chief of the military and should be removed from office and his election, confirmation, and swearing in annulled.
Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., Commander USNR (Retired)
Lead Plaintiff, Kerchner v Obama & Congress
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