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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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Olivia Palermo Is A Lady In Red (PHOTO)
WHO: Model, socialite and former star of "The City," Olivia Palermo
WHAT: Johannes Huebl's other half looked like street style bait hailing a cab in Soho earlier this week. The reality star sported a roomy statement coat with leather pocket detailing that contrasted nicely with her skinny jeans (that ankle zip has us thinking of our Guess jeans from the '80s). In true Palermo fashion, she donned sky-high black pumps and an oversized purse. Her cat-eye sunnies protected her flawless skin while her chunky gold watch added just the right amount of sparkle.
WHERE: The aspiring designer was spotted in New York City on December 5th.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/olivia-palermo-2012-photo_n_2259698.html
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Egyptian army takes over security ahead of vote
CAIRO (AP) ? The Egyptian military on Monday assumed joint responsibility with the police for security and protecting state institutions until the results of a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum are announced.
The army took up the task in line with a decree issued Sunday by President Mohammed Morsi. The Islamist leader on Monday also suspended a series of tax hikes announced the previous day on alcohol, cigarettes and other items.
The presidential edict orders the military and police to jointly maintain security in the run-up to Saturday's vote on the disputed charter, which was hurriedly approved last month by a panel dominated by the president's Islamist allies despite a boycott of the committee's liberal, secular and Christian members.
The decree also grants the military the right to arrest civilians, but presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said it was nowhere near a declaration of martial law.
"It is merely a measure to extend legal cover for the armed forces while they are used to maintain security," Ali told The Associated Press.
There were no signs of a beefed up military presence outside the presidential palace, the site of fierce street clashes last week, or elsewhere in the capital on Monday.
Still, Morsi's decision to lean on the military to safeguard the vote is widely seen as evidence of just how jittery the government is about the referendum on the draft constitution, which has been at the heart of days of dueling protests by the opposition and Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood backers. The two sides clashed in Cairo last week, leaving at least six people dead and hundreds wounded in the worst violence of the crisis.
Both the opposition and Morsi's supporters have called for mass rallies on Tuesday.
The opposition has rejected the referendum, but has yet to call for a boycott or instead a "no" vote at the polls.
"A decision on whether we call for a boycott of the referendum or campaign for a 'no' vote remains under discussion," Hossam Moanis, a spokesman for the National Salvation Front grouping opposition parties and groups told the AP on Monday. "For now, we reject the referendum as part of our rejection of the draft constitution."
The military last week sent out several tanks and armored vehicles in the vicinity of the presidential palace in Cairo following protests there by tens of thousands of Morsi's critics. It was the first high-profile deployment by the military since it handed power in June to Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president.
Morsi on Saturday rescinded decrees issued Nov. 22 granting him near absolute powers and placing him above any oversight, including by the courts. He has, however, insisted that the referendum will go ahead on schedule.
Judges have gone on strike to protest Morsi's perceived "assault" on the judiciary and have said they would not oversee the Dec. 15 vote as is customary for judges in Egypt. Judges of the nation's administrative courts announced Monday they were conditionally lifting their boycott of the vote, but they said their supervision of the process was conditional on bringing an end to the siege of the Supreme Constitutional Court by Morsi's supporters.
In exchange for their supervision, they also demanded assurances that authorities would crack down on vote canvassing outside polling stations and offer life insurance policies to the judges.
Morsi's deputy, Mahmoud Mekki, has said the vote could be staggered over several days if there were not enough judges to oversee the referendum.
The court was widely expected to dissolve the panel that drafted the constitution in a session scheduled for Dec. 2. The siege of the Nile-side building in Cairo's Maadi district began Dec. 1.
In a surprise move, Morsi on Monday rescinded a series of decrees issued the previous day to raise taxes on a wide range of items and services, including alcohol, cigarettes, mobile phones, services offered by hotels and bank loans.
The state-owned daily Al-Ahram said the Sunday decrees to raise taxes were issued by Morsi. On Monday, the official MENA news agency carried a statement from Morsi's office saying the president has decided to "suspend" the tax increases.
"The president does accept that citizens shoulder any additional burdens except by choice," the statement said. Morsi, it added, has ordered a public debate on the increases to gauge popular reaction.
"The people will always have the loudest voice and final decision," it added.
It was not immediately clear why Morsi changed his mind about the tax hikes in a matter of hours, but the about-face appeared to have more to do with inexperience rather than a bid by the president to appear sympathetic with the majority of Egyptians who struggle daily to make end meet as the economy's woes deepen. A popular backlash against tax hikes could hurt the chances of the Morsi-backed draft constitution being ratified in the referendum.
Egypt and the IMF last month have reached an initial agreement for a $4.8 billion loan to revive the country's ailing economy. The deal, agreed after nearly three weeks of negotiations in Cairo, will support the government's economic program for 22 months, the IMF said in a statement.
Egyptian authorities said at the time that it intended to raise revenues through tax reform, using the resources generated from new taxes to boost social spending and investment in new infrastructure.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egyptian-army-takes-over-security-ahead-vote-115015693.html
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Communications Network ? Communications Officer (Coverage ...
Location:
Princeton, N.J.
Organization:
The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ?is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Our goal is clear: To help our society transform itself for the better.
Position Description:
The Coverage communications officer is a professional staff member responsible for creating, developing, implementing and managing communications for and about the Foundation?s initiatives to increase the number of Americans with stable, affordable health coverage.? His/her primary responsibilities include: 1) working with the program team director, team members and executive staff to design and implement communications strategies that promote this goal; 2) contributing? to successful foundation-wide communications efforts; 3) initiating and managing ?contracts and other relationships with communications vendors on behalf of the Foundation and its grantees; and 4) helping generate Foundation impact by creating, managing and monitoring communications-related grant deliverables, including dissemination of information about Foundation objectives and outcomes to policymakers, media and other key constituents.
As with staff at all levels of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, communications officers are expected to demonstrate a passionate commitment to the Foundation?s mission of improving health and health care for all Americans and to the guiding principles and promise that undergird that mission.
Essential Duties:
Enterprise-level Responsibilities
- Keeps the Foundation?s editorial calendar updated with team-specific releases.
- Collaborates with colleagues to time releases and announcements to that team releases are coordinated and do not collide with one another.
- Provides communications support to members of senior management in preparation for public appearances; recommends and prepares support materials for meetings and media outreach opportunities.
- Participates in conferences, seminars and other professional development activities to maintain and enhance communications-specific and program field expertise and professional status.
- Ensures that RWJF branding standards are applied appropriately across grantee products and releases.
- Represents the Foundation publicly regarding program communications and grantmaking results.
- Contributes to and participate in the internal Foundation groups and teams and carries out other Communications unit and Foundation-wide responsibilities assigned by executive staff.
- Serves as a contact person for the news media.
- Manages content for the coverage section of rwjf.org and collaborates with communications staff to bring together content from multiple teams to provide information on broad topics of interest to key audiences.
- Writes and edits (and supervises outside consultants and grantees who write and edit) content for the Web, news releases and research summaries.
- Works with department colleagues to coordinate key messages, so that individual team messages support larger Foundation objectives.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.
Team Responsibilities
- Develops communications goals that are aligned with the Foundation?s strategic goals of increasing the number of Americans with health insurance coverage.
- Provides strategic communications guidance to program teams on overall team directions and plans.
- Provides communications support to grantees whose projects involve communications deliverables.
- Reviews grant proposals that the team is considering in order to provide feedback about communications aspects of the proposed projects.
- Participate in strategic planning meetings, and conducts site visits as necessary.
- Prepares oral and written summaries of communications activities.
- Offers input into the programmatic?and strategic aspects of teams? work.
- Participates in team activities, including development of and adherence to team norms and providing support and back-up for team members
- Collaborates with team directors and team members, particularly Research and Evaluation staff, to develop plans for and disseminate research and other products that are important to advancing the Foundation?s goals around coverage.
- Works with staff and consultants to assess, evaluate and disseminate results of programs, projects, and team strategic objectives.? Helps team develop measures of communications impact for major programs and activities.
- Tracks major policy developments in health care to adjustment communications strategy as necessary.
- Maintains a message platform with key messages and proof points related to health coverage.
- Times releases or activities to have the maximum impact on objectives.? This means looking for policy windows to open.
Grantmaking and Contracting Processes
- Executes communications objectives by recruiting and managing consultants and vendors, and by negotiating with grantee staff to ensure that communications objectives are met.
- Screens and assesses prospective communications proposals, works with applicants/vendors to refine plans and project budgets, drafts preliminary summaries of the project (precis) and develops recommendations for program teams and/or senior communications staff, Foundation management and Board approval.
- Understands, implements and follows RWJF grantmaking and contracting processes and policies.
- Analyzes and evaluates all aspects of?team-wide and project-specific communications proposals including?strength of the activity,?value for dollars requested and?the organization?s health and stability.? In supporting recommendations and in monitoring financial status, communication officer works in collaboration with?Communications grants administrators and?other program and financial personnel in the Foundation.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Completion of an advanced degree (e.g. MA, MPH, MJ, JD, MBA) and 3-5 years of relevant experience.? A combination of education and experience may be substituted for the education requirements.
- Familiarity with health reform, health coverage and health policy.
- Experience handling multiple priorities effectively; must be adept at organizing time efficiently; high tolerance for ambiguity; ability to understand and work effectively with team members in the Foundation?s organizational structure.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential to success in this position; able to synthesize material and focus quickly on the essence of an issue; to identify major opportunities in a specific area; to see the big picture.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Knowledge of new media and its uses in communications.
- Strong problem-solving and analytic skills.
- Strong project and people management skills.
- Personally motivated to support the Foundation?s mission and goals; creative, flexible; able to work independently and in teams to think imaginatively about opportunities; to create and respond to novel and innovative approaches to addressing an issue; to inspire others to work towards achieving team goals.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills; collegial, energetic, ethical, able to develop productive relationships with colleagues, grantees, consultants, external funders, and others who contribute to program development and management.
- Demonstrated maturity and sound judgment.? Ability to make decisions, justify recommendations, and is responsive and clear with proposal applicants.
- Ability to travel?including for site visits and representing the Foundation at outside meetings.
- Computer Skills: Is proficient with Microsoft Office and Outlook and comfortable learning new software.
Interested candidates should apply online here.
Source: http://www.comnetwork.org/2012/11/communications-officer-coverage-robert-wood-johnson-foundation/
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Video: First Read Minute
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Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/49822471/
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Video: Jindal to GOP: We can?t be known as ?the stupid party?
Too tough to get sick: Why men won't see the doc
Many American men, such as 28-year-old James Chisum, simply refuse to go to the doctor, ever, either out of male pride, out of white-coat fear or simply out of lifestyle habit.? That mindset could be genetic, experts suggest.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/49811869#49811869
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Friday, November 9, 2012
'X Factor' Recap: Demi, Simon Bicker ... A Lot
Show continues live episodes and welcomes back Diamond White after being eliminated last week.
By Jocelyn Vena
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Photo: FOX
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1696978/x-factor-recap-diamond-white.jhtml
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