Beverly Hills, CA. June 21, 2005 - A decision was reached in the complaint of discrimination filed by former Customs and Border Protection Officer Julia Davis against the Department of Homeland Security (EEOC No. 340-04-00317X). The Honorable Administrative Judge Daniel Leach presided in the hearing held in San Diego, CA earlier this year and has found that Julia Davis was subjected to sexual harassment by the Agency’s Senior Supervisor; that she both properly and timely used Agency procedures to complain about the harassment; and that the agency failed to undertake reasonable efforts to investigate and to remedy the unlawful conduct to which she was subjected.

Judge Leach ruled that the Agency failed to protect Davis from her Supervisor’s sexual harassment, stalking, sexual battery and offered no remedial action to correct the situation. Moreover, the Judge determined that the Agency failed to request an investigation by the Office of Inspector General in contravention to the Agency’s own laws and regulations.

According to the Judge’s decision, Department of Homeland Security/ Bureau of Customs and Border Protection high ranking managers not only failed to protect Davis from her Supervisor’s illegal conduct but also attempted to prevent Davis from obtaining a restraining order against Supervisor Kevin Crusilla. High level manager Orlando Chambers, with the knowledge of San Ysidro, CA Deputy Port Director Sally Carrillo, used official agency stationery and submitted a written endorsement of the harasser’s moral characteristics in order to convince the Judge in the state proceedings not to restrain him from harassing Davis.

In spite of such interference by high ranking Agency officials, the injunction prohibiting harassment was issued by the Superior Court in favor of Davis. The California Superior court found sufficient evidence on which to conclude that Davis had been victimized by the ongoing and egregious harassment of Agency Supervisor.

As stated in the ruling, eleven month after Davis reported sexual harassment, stalking and sexual battery to her superiors, the Office of Inspector General completed its investigation and concluded that Davis had been subjected to sexual harassment. The harasser refused to meet with the OIG Investigator, went AWOL and was allowed by the high ranking Agency officials Bruce Ward, Oscar Preciado and Adele Fasano to retire with impunity.

The Judge ruled that Davis was compelled to resign from her position in the face of ongoing harassment and the repeated failures by the Agency to take any action to investigate, much less to remedy the situation. To make matters worse, management officials intervened in Davis’s civil action in order to oppose the court order to enjoin the harasser’s illicit actions.

The Judge found the harasser’s inappropriate conduct and the Agency’s complicity so objectively offensive as to alter the conditions of Davis’ employment. The Judge ruled that given the nature and depth of Agency’s betrayal of Davis, no reasonable person could have continued working in such an employment environment.

Davis has a pending appeal before the Merit Systems Protection Board to be reinstated in her job. EEOC Judge Leach stated, “While complainant’s termination is not before me, I find that based on the record in the case, complainant has established not only that the Agency engaged in illegal conduct, but also that the conduct was intolerable to a reasonable person because it was especially humiliating and included unnecessary harassment. Secondly, I find that complainant’s resignation was caused by, or in response to, the illegal treatment”.

US Senators Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Congresswomen Susan Davis and Mary Bono are monitoring the events, pending future official inquiries. The Judge’s decision reads in part: “…in the course of the hearing it became apparent that the staff of the agency was unfamiliar with appropriate standards of conduct applicable to workplaces comprised of males and females…I found that there exists at this facility a culture which trivializes and minimizes the appropriate status and position of females.”

Davis holds a Masters degree in Aviation and Spacecraft Engineering and fluently speaks multiple languages. Davis also worked as Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie’s stunt double in the feature film “Playing God” during her employment in the film industry, which preceded her federal law enforcement position. Davis stated: “This ruling is a major cornerstone in protecting equal opportunity and civil rights of all female employees.”

For more information visit http://www.DepartmentofHomelandSecurityExposed.com

B. Harris is the Chairman of the Citizens Committee for Constitutional Protection. For more information visit http://www.DepartmentofHomelandSecurityExposed.com

Karl Rove’s candidates have a history
Of benefiting handsomely from conveniently
Cleverly timed federal investigations
Propaganda and the politicization of justice
Compliments of the Bush administration
Rove loves and lives for dirt and degradation
Character assassination and deterioration
Note Rove’s curious political pattern in Texas
Election years were accompanied with a nexus
An F.B.I. investigation of some sitting Democrat
For such trickery, he’d definitely get a hearty pat
On the back for his evil-minded, masterful chicanery
His announcements and leaks to the press
Sure caused for Senator John McCain a mess
An honorable war veteran who has stood the test
Rove’s smear-and-fear tactics pollute and infest
Our national fibre, soul, and collective conscience
The 2000 GOP primary was Rove’s big chance
To hone his skills in dirty politics and dance
With the big boys, while being purely cynical
His lies and smear campaign cruel and unethical
Cherry-pick intelligence to justify war in Iraq
Than stab heroic Ambassador Wilson in the back
For going public on false allegations of WMD
Mr. Rove you deserve imprisonment with Libby
We should get you to sit before a grand jury
Interrogate you about your sly cunning subtlety
Perhaps we can also question VP Dick Cheney
You say CIA operative “Valerie Plame is fair game”
Now tech-savvy puppet master Rove it’s your name.
The sneaky firing of eight United States attorneys
Looks like a political purge full of hypocrisy
The prosecutor purge another suppression
Of Bush-era scandal - a huge abuse of power
Rove, you’d make Richard Nixon green with envy
Soon the national media shall expose you publicly
God will judge you for how you handled Benny
America’s Joseph Goebbels of political machinery
This Karl Rove shall be your unmistakable legacy.

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The American motoring public once again fears the three dollar mark in the price of gasoline. This fear is made even more believable when the price of gasoline in California reaches the three dollar mark. But in response to this, the American Automobile Association (or the AAA) announced that the more than $3 per gallon price of gasoline in the West Coast is unlikely to spread all over the country.

According to the not-for-profit automobile lobby group, the average price of gasoline in the country is at $2.545 per gallon although the average in California is much higher for gasoline now is traded at $3.121 per gallon. The AAA stated that the reason for the high price of gasoline in the West Coast is due to the fact that the region has a limited number of oil refineries. Other reasons that AAA cited are the strict air quality standards in the region and the relative isolation of the West Coast from fuel supplies in the country.

While the AAA said that the price of gasoline outside of the West Coast will not reach the three dollar mark, the organization warned that the price of gasoline will continue to increase in the next few months. AAA believes that apart from the West Coast, the country will experience a gradual increase in the price of gasoline as the demand for fuel increases in the season. They also believe that the price of gasoline will peak well below the dreaded three dollar mark.

For those motorists who are thinking that the price of gasoline in the country will once again reach $3 per gallon in the spring, AAA cited the reasons for the three dollar mark in the past two years. The AAA stated that in the years 2005 and 2006, two events played a major role in the increased gas price. In 2005, AAA cited the Hurricane Katrina which has inflicted damage on the energy infrastructure in the country.

The ravaging hurricane made oil refineries supply less fuel to the market which make the price sky rocket. In 2006, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon played a key role in the price of gas in the U.S. The result of the invasion is a threat to the oil shipments going out of the Middle East.

AAA cited that the reasons present in the past couple of years for the sharp increase in the price of gasoline is not present this year. Although it is expected that the price of gasoline will increase due to the increase in the demand for gasoline, AAA believes that there is no reason to believer that the three dollar mark will once again be thrust into the public this year.

The organization which provides a wide range of information for motorists, as wide as the selection of aftermarket parts from Dee Zee, also stated the average of gas prices for the state with the highest price of gasoline. According to the AAA, California has the highest statewide average gas price at $3.121 per gallon. California is followed by Hawaii with an average of $2.906 per gallon. The third state with the highest gas price average is Oregon where gas is sold at an average of $2.782 per gallon.

Jenny McLane is a 36 year old native of Iowa and has a knack for research on cars and anything and everything about it. She works full time as a Market Analyst for one of the leading car parts suppliers in the country today.

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The healthcare industry, and especially health insurance companies seem to love acronyms; and two you are likely to hear or read a lot more about in the coming years are CDHP and HSA - for Consumer Driven Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts. They are the vanguard of the new movement of consumerism in healthcare. Which after years of insurance companies in command of most decisions regarding healthcare, seeks to return more control to consumers. The idea is that as they have in other areas of the economy consumers themselves can do much to help to control and bring down the costs of healthcare. It is a rather ambitious goal, and yet “we the people” are the only ones in the equation that have yet to have been given a shot at reducing health insurance and healthcare costs, while the insurance companies, healthcare providers, and the government certainly have not done such a great job.

In many parts of the country insurance companies have embraced the idea of Consumer Driven Health Plans. While it is debatable if their motives are truly to empower consumers or just to shift more of the cost of healthcare to them, many of these programs do have merit. The problem is consumers and businesses alike, have been very slow to participate. And this according to experts in the filed is primarily due to a lack of understanding of how they work. The cornerstone of the consumerism model in health insurance is the HSA coupled with another acronym - the HDHP, High Deductible Health Plan. Basically the idea is to set aside funds in pre-tax dollars to pay for out of pocket medical expenses, until you reach a high deductible usually at least 1500.00 to 2000.00 dollars, when the health benefits of the plan kick in. This makes for more affordable health coverage as the premiums attached to the HDHP’s are significantly lower then other policies offering similar benefits. But consumers have not embraced the idea. And those that do, mainly do so primarily for the obvious advantage of the lower premium, and fail to see the other aspect of the concept, the HSA as a Tax Free annuity.

Experts and industry watchdogs agree that it can be complicated, and it falls on the insurance companies themselves to help educate consumers on the advantages and benefits of Consumer Driven Health Plans. And many of them are heeding the call. For example Humana now counts among its customer service staff a telephone robot named Eliza that calls members to tell them about money saving initiatives like low-cost drug alternatives. According to Beth Bierbower, Humana’s vice president of product innovation, Eliza has saved members over $11 million over the last 18 months. Similarly, United Healthcare has initiated a program that tracks the type of care it sees its members are using most often, and provide information accordingly. So for example on monthly statements members with diabetes are reminded to go for annual foot and eye exams.

Putting consumers in the driver seat to make more of their own decisions regarding health insurance and healthcare costs may very well prove to be a great idea down the road. However, getting there safely and efficiently as with any new driver will require some proper training, and that will only come with concerted efforts by the insurance companies, and state and federal officials.

Didier Moujaes is a Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Financial Consultant. Together with his partner created InsuranceBudget.com an insurance marketing company which represents several top rated medical insurance carriers. More about consumer driven health plans

Virginia’s largest city, Virginia Beach is the perfect getaway for a group of any size that wants to enjoy the luxury of the beach and city while taking in significant historical sights along with both natural and technological marvels. Virginia Beach offers limitless relaxation and fun, with over 12 miles of public
beach and three miles of boardwalk. The city also is seeped in historical significance and offers many ways to learn about history and science, making Virginia Beach the perfect place to revitalize your spirit and invigorate your mind.

A new exhibit at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (CAC) will showcase the Magna Carta along with the Emancipation Proclamation, an early broadside of the Declaration of Independence and original notes from the drafting of the U.S. Constitution.The exhibit is in celebration of the 400-
year anniversary of the first permanent settlers landing on what is now called Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, and honors the principles of a constitutional government which were first laid down in the Magna Carta in 1215. The exhibit runs from March 30-June 18, 2007, and is the first time that a version of each of the above documents will be shown in the same place. In April there will be an anniversary celebration, which includes a reenactment of the first landing, a concert series and a boardwalk history festival.

During the warmer months,the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center invites guests to step into the watery world of harbor seals.The Harbor Seal Splash program allows visitors to climb into the seals’ aquarium with a trainer to interact and train with the animals while learning about the natural history and conservation efforts that surround harbor seals. Due to the popularity of the Harbor Seal Splash program, the Virginia Aquarium has developed a new seal experience to accommodate a wider range of guests called, “Seals Behind the Scenes.” This one-hour program allows guests to venture into the restricted Harbor Seal holding building to meet educators, professional animal training staff, and of course a seal or two.

The charming Founders Inn has just opened a newly developed Flowering Almond Spa which offers a wide variety of services including aromatherapy massage,reflexology, European facials, Dead Sea Mineral Masque, Lavender Dreams Body Ritual, Caviar facials and much more. The 10,000-square-foot facility offers six treatment rooms, a private conservatory for relaxation and meditation,personal care stations, expanded fitness center and heated indoor pool.

In 2007, the Town Center of Virginia Beach, which spans over 17 city blocks
providing a mix of upscale retail, luxury residential, a business-class hotel and an array of restaurants, will feature the new Sandler Center for Performing Arts.The center is said to become the cultural centerpiece of the city, containing 1,200 comfortable seats, an outdoor plaza and other spaces for community functions and artistic events.

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Riding the upsurge resulted from telecommunication revolution, mobile phone manufacturers have a plenty to offer to the customers. The market is full with variety of stylish and technologically superior models challenging to better a competitor by virtue of respective features and cost-effectiveness. However, a smart user would grab the model of choice after a thorough understanding of the usability of the phone and its optimum use in a particular life style.

The same psychology of the buyers regulates the vividity in the sale of mobile phones laced with distinguished features. For a businessman, phones with instant internet accessibility, option to run spreadsheets, accounting and office suite, might work perfect to maintain a regular demand of his profession. Where as, for a teenager phones equipped with high-resolution camera and high-definition music player, matches the tone of his happening lifestyle.

The best match however, can be achieved with the selection of a mobile phone deal matching to the need of the lifestyle of an individual. Deals like Pay As Per You Go, SIM free, or the cost effective contract deals are innovative and aptly matches to the requirements of the user.

However, irrespective of the technology assemblage, mobile phones with very minimalistic features like text messaging, other than its calling facility, also plays an important role of communication medium. With every assortment of technology, the ominous ascent in price of a model is sure to make users to compare and think for a cause in making investment to a product. The so decision is bound to comply with certain parameters like cost-effectiveness, ease of use, and future value of a particular model.

For a buyer, there are lots to choose from. A mobile phone bought after a thorough understanding of the features and their usability in catering the requirements of a life style can balance the investment made to the optimum use of the features.

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It is no more a hard thing to travel to Tibet for foreign tourists. You can take flight or train from many cities in China such as Beijing, Chengdu, Xi’an, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc. For the moment, the most convenient places shall be Beijing and Chengdu. Xi’an is also a good choice but due to the limited flight (usually one flight only and not daily) and limited tickets of pass-by trains, it is still not easy to make connection there. You can also take a direct international flight from Kathmandu to Lhasa but which is not suggested except you have a tour there. According to a memo between the Chinese and Nepal governments, foreign tourists must obtain their China Visa in Kathmandu if they would like to enter from there, no matter if they get the visa already in their home country or not. This usually requires three days at least.

No matter which way you take, a Tibet entry permit is necessary for issuing the flight/train tickets.
This permit is released by the Tibet Tourism Bureau to officially licensed travel companies only. You shall provide a copy of your passport and visa with your Occupation info for the permit application. It usually takes five working days but we shall always try to apply for it as early as possible to secure a smooth trip since more and more travellers coming to Tibet making the queuing much longer than before. The cost is around 7USD charged by the government department. If you will travel outside Lhasa and some remote areas in Tibet, some other permits will be applied as well including the Alien’s Travel permit, military permit, etc.

Sherry Jia, an experienced Tibet travel advisor from http://www.toursoftibet.com a local travel agency based in Lhasa with an office in Chengdu handling all on-line inquiries regarding a tour to Tibet and China.

Screen Actors Guild and Screen Actors Guild Pension and Health Plans have been implicated in disclosing protected health information pertaining to Producer/Director BJ Davis, Screenwriter Julia Davis, their relatives and dependents to the Department of Homeland Security. Under the guise of protecting homeland security, Internal Affairs Agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Jeffrey J. Deal and Herbert P. Kaufer have requested and obtained medical, insurance and identification information pertaining to BJ and Julia Davis and their family members, whereby SAG/SAG PHP disclosed to Kaufer and Deal medical information pertaining to a total of eleven (11) persons.

Julia Davis is a former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer, who made serious whistleblowing disclosures involving national security. Agents Kaufer and Deal have been instrumental in the series of unprecedented actions by the Department of Homeland Security, designed to discredit Julia Davis in an attempt to invalidate her terrorism-related protected disclosures, as reflected in the recently published book “Unsafe At Any Altitude” by Pulitzer Prize nominated investigative journalists Joe and Susan Trento.

The disclosure of highly private medical and insurance records by the Screen Actors Guild is the latest in the already long list of unconstitutional actions against BJ and Julia Davis by the Department of Homeland Security. In 2005, ICE and CBP misused government’s anti-terrorism funding to conduct a Blackhawk helicopter raid of the Davis’ residence, complete with twenty seven (27) Special Response Team (SRT) Agents armed with assault weapons, after subjecting BJ and Julia Davis to two years of warrantless surveillance, conducting warrantless searches and falsely declaring Julia Davis to be a “domestic terrorist” and a “murderer”. The DHS was instrumental in organizing two malicious prosecutions and two false imprisonments of BJ and Julia Davis, although all charges against them were subsequently dismissed, BJ and Julia Davis were declared factually innocent, their arrest records were ordered sealed and destroyed and the government was ordered to return proceeds of both warrantless searches. Julia Davis won a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, which the agency is still refusing to honor.

Producer/Director BJ Davis is a thirty year signatory member with the Screen Actors Guild. In addition to releasing protected medical records to the DHS, SAG unlawfully released payroll, tax, medical, insurance and other information pertaining to BJ and Julia Davis to a group of actors formerly employed by Producer/Director BJ Davis in his latest award-winning film.

These and other related events are currently being investigated by the Citizens Committee for Constitutional Protection (CCCP), with a recent request for an official congressional inquiry. In an official statement, CCCP Chairman B. Harris stated: “There is a growing concern amongst American citizens as to the Law enforcement officials’ misuse of the tools designed for fighting terrorism that are instead being utilized to compromise the constitutional rights and violate the right to privacy of all Americans”.

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”. Benjamin Franklin.

B. Harris is the Chairman of the Citizens Committee for Constitutional Protection. For more information visit http://www.DepartmentofHomelandSecurityExposed.com

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2118 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 645
Santa Monica, CA 90403Tel: (310) 281-1831
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Effective communication does not just mean knowing the right words to say. Emotions and body language also play a very important role in getting your message across. In fact, body language says a lot about what you’re feeling and thinking as of the moment. People who are transparent could get themselves in trouble.

Most Hollywood celebrities and salespeople have already perfected the technique of keeping a poker face and staying still in the midst of a major hurdle (as with the case of gossip-ridden movie stars) or if they are being told something quite contrary to their point (as with people in the sales industry).

However, most of us do not have this skill of controlling our reactions to events and things said. Thus, knowing how to read a person’s emotions based on his or her body language and gestures is important for effective communications. Not only will this knowledge be able to help you rise above the pack, but also keep your nose clean.

How do you know if somebody is anxious, angry, happy, surprised, or sad by judging only his body movements? Here are some ways you can read emotions by observing body language.

If a person is happy he…

- smiles a lot. We might even find him doing a little skip as he walks.
- has relaxed facial muscles and fluid movements
- hums or sings to himself

If a person is anxious he…

- has a pale face and dry lips
- starts perspiring profusely
- fidgets a lot and has shifty eyes
- keeps shaking his leg or tapping his foot
- makes sudden movements after a while of being still
- stutters

If a person is angry he…

- pounds his fist on the table and uses a loud voice to speak
- clenches his fist and leans forward when talking to you
- bares his teeth and appears to be snarling as he talks
- has tense muscles

If a person is surprised he…

- suddenly opens his mouth (hence, the expression ‘my jaw dropped’)
- suddenly takes a step back
- widens his eyes or clamps his hand over his mouth

If a person is sad he…

- has trembling lips
- is not able to look you straight in the eye and sometimes even has tears forming
- slumps his body
- uses a rather flat or weak tone of voice

These are only a few of the indicators of the key emotions any human being feels. Some might even overlap. For instance, a person with shifty eyes may be either lying or just nervous; so, in order for you to effectively interpret what he is feeling, you have to take the context of the conversation in point.

When you think about it, part of body language reading is skill and part is sensitivity. There really is no clear-cut rule as to what kind of body language pertains to what emotion, but there are general signals that can be found in most people.

In short, reading body language does not take knowledge of rocket science. Because body language is part of daily living, anybody who does not exhibit any kind of body language is considered wooden, as with a mannequin that has just one expression and pose all throughout. Because we are humans, we succumb to our emotions sometimes. And it is through body language that we convey messages that we don’t have the courage to say out loud.

Michael Lee is the author of How to be a Red Hot Persuasion Wizard… in 20 days or less, an ebook that reveals mind-altering persuasion techniques on how to tremendously enhance your relationships, create unlimited wealth, and get anything you want…just like magic. Get a sample chapter and highly-stimulating “Get What You Want” advice at: http://www.20daypersuasion.com. He is the Co-Founder of http://www.self-improvement-millionaires.com and is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant.

Converging technologies and global connectivity have redefined the way modern enterprises do business, and international giants like IBM, Microsoft, General Electric, British Aerospace, and General Motors have thrived further — thanks to the bottom-line benefits of successful offshore outsourcing to Canada. The competitive advantages bestowed by some of the companies offering offshore outsourcing services in Canada results into reduced development & maintenance costs, greater efficiency, quicker time-to-market, and better focus on core functions. You, too, can benefit immensely from a successful offshore outsourcing strategy that will help build highly efficient, flexible business models and add value to your business.

Outsourcing to Canada is rapidly becoming a management strategy, as international corporations recognize its multiple benefits. The outsourcing budget of global leaders has increased significantly and the worldwide expenditure on outsourcing services is expected to reach $151 billion. Most importantly, corporate giants in the USA, Europe, and Japan prefer Canada for cost-effective and high-quality software development solutions. According to National Association for Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the outsourcing industry is heading towards $1.2 trillion in 2006. And India, as one of the biggest outsourcing services providers, is likely to gain the most from this market trend.

Software Outsourcing helps companies to:

1. Cut application development and maintenance costs.
2. Deal effectively with the peaks and valleys of software demands.
3. Focus on more strategic work.

Canada offers vendor sophistication, as more than 200 companies are quality accredited and serve more than three hundred Fortune 500 companies. Canadian outsourcing firms meet stringent international standards and comply with the ISO & SEI-CMM (Capability Maturity Model) standards. Three out of every four SEI-CMM 5 companies worldwide are located in Canada.
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