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Friday, January 20, 2012
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Gingrich daughter's teen job may have been illegal
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Jackie Gingrich Cushman, daughter of Newt Gingrich, speaks at a news conference at the Georgia state capitol last month. Gingrich said in a debate this week that his daughter worked as a church janitor when she was 13.
By Eve Tahmincioglu
During the Republican presidential debate this week, Newt Gingrich shared a story about how his daughter worked as a church janitor when she was only 13.
?I was actually proud of my clean bathrooms,??Jackie Gingrich Cushman said in an telephone interview Tuesday, referring to the janitorial job she held at the First Baptist Church in Carrollton, Ga., in the early 1980s. ?I learned work has value.?
But that work may have been a violation of federal child labor laws that her father has denounced as ?stupid.?
Cushman was 13 when she took the part-time, minimum-wage janitorial job, scrubbing bathrooms two days a week using cleaning supplies and a bucket.?She said working as a janitor was a "great experience."
Asked if she was working legally as a janitor for the church, Cushman said, "I certainly hope so."?
But based on child labor laws in effect now and in the 1980s, 13-year-olds are not allowed to hold janitorial jobs, said Michael Hancock, assistant administrator for policy in the wage and hour division of the U.S. Department of Labor. There are no exemptions for religious organizations and their employees when it comes to child labor laws, according to the agency.
"I definitely see it as a child labor violation," said Reid Maki, coordinator of The Child Labor Coalition, when asked about a 13-year-old working as a janitor. "When you put a kid in a situation that?s designed for adults you're asking for trouble."
Gingrich?s reference to his daughter?s youthful employment is part of an ongoing narrative for the former House speaker: Poor kids should start toiling?as early as 9 years old so they can learn what it means to?make a living. ?I?m going to continue to find ways to help poor people learn how to get a job, learn how to get a better job and learn someday to own the job,? Gingrich said in the debate Monday.
Research has shown that teens who have jobs early in life are more likely to build a strong work ethic. But handing over adult jobs to kids might not be the right way to do that, particularly because there are tasks younger kids are not allowed to perform under U.S. law, including janitorial services.
Under the law 13-year-olds can:
- Deliver newspapers.
- Work as a baby sitter.
- Work as an actor or performer in motion pictures, television, theater or radio.
- Work in a business solely owned or operated by their parents.
It's fine for?14- and 15-year-olds?to?work a janitorial job?in many types of retail and service establishments.?There are restrictions at these ages as well, however,?under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
?They can?t work as janitors in any manufacturing establishment or industries that are deemed too hazardous for the employment of such youth,? according to the Labor Department.
A spokesman for Gingrich seemed unconcerned when informed that 13-year-olds are not allowed to work as janitors.
"Can they work as a clerk in the library?" press secretary R.C. Hammond responded by email.
Gingrich has proposed getting rid of age limits as a way to help build work values and save money because kids can do similar work for less pay than higher-paid adults.
"It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods in trapping children ? in child laws which are truly stupid," Gingrich said in November talk at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, according to the Los Angeles Times. "OK, you say to someone, 'You shouldn't go to work before you're 14, 16 years of age.' Fine. You're totally poor. You're in a school that is failing with a teacher that is failing. I tried for years to have a very simple model. Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school."
Not everyone agrees.
?Substitution of child labor for adult labor is never an economic bargain,? said Hugh Hindman, professor of labor at Appalachian State University, and author of ?Child Labor: An American History.?
?Not only are adults with full-time jobs earning living wages displaced by kids with part-time jobs earning minimum wages, but the competition between children and adults will also depress the wages of those adults who hold on to their jobs,? Hindman said.
Gingrich makes some important points about poor children, however, he said.
?Opportunities for the kind of freelance jobs that teach responsibility and provide pocket money, baby-sitting, mowing lawns, shoveling snow, etc., are disproportionately skewed toward middle- and upper-middle-class kids,? he said. ?Poor kids do need this kind of opportunity, but I'm not sure janitorial service is the ticket.?
Jeylan Mortimer, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota who has researched the impact of work on teens and found it helps them build confidence and interpersonal skills, supports?any attempts to help adolescents get jobs.
?The employment market for high school students has collapsed, largely as a result of competition with adults for teen jobs, and teen employment is now at its lowest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began compiling the data,? said Mortimer, author of ?Working and Growing Up In America.??
The December unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds was 20.3 percent, well above the 8.3 percent overall jobless rate. For blacks in that age group it's?42 percent.
Mortimer isn't big on proposals she?s hearing from the stump to fix the problem.
In addition to displacing adult workers, it would ?likely expose teens to difficult, and possibly hazardous, work conditions, lots of bending and lifting, exposure to harsh cleaning agents, etc.," she said.
She suggests creating a program where students can assist teachers or tutor at schools depending on their achievement level, and that wouldn't displace adult workers but would relieve "overworked educators."
As for Gingrich's daughter, she sees value in all types of jobs when it comes to helping kids learn about work, but she maintained that unskilled labor may do the most character building.
?Cleaning bathrooms taught me a lot,? Cushman said, adding that she worked many menial jobs, including being a rollerblading waitress for the Sonic Drive-In chain in high school. Such experiences, she added, helped her value hard work and ?appreciate and value the people that do the work as well.
Should the nation's child labor laws be relaxed?
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Building A Multi-Touch Photo Viewer Control for Windows Phone
Building A Multi-Touch Photo Viewer Control for Windows Phone
1/18/2012source: sharpgis.net
If you want to view an image on your Windows Phone app, or on your Windows 8 tablet, most people would probably expect to be able to use their fingers to pinch zoom and drag using the touch screen.
Since this is a common scenario, I want to create a simple reusable control that allows me to do this using very little xaml, along the lines of this:
<my:ImageViewer Thumbnail="http://url.com/to/my/thumbnail.jpg" Image="http://url.com/to/my/MyImage.jpg" />
.where Thumbnail is a low resolution image that loads fast, while the full resolution Image is being downloaded.
If you just want to use this control and don't want to learn how to create a custom control, skip to the bottom to download the source for both Windows Phone and Windows 8 Runtime.
First off, we'll create a new Windows Phone Class Library project and name it "SharpGIS.Controls". (or whatever you like)
Here's a preview off what that app looks like:
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Hollywood unions agree to merger plan
FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2011 file photo, actor ad SAG National President Ken Howard arrives at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced Monday they have agreed to a plan to combine their unions. The announcement comes after nine days of talks between the unions in Hollywood and two years of negotiations between the groups to join forces in a bid to gain more leverage in contract negotiations. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)
FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2011 file photo, actor ad SAG National President Ken Howard arrives at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced Monday they have agreed to a plan to combine their unions. The announcement comes after nine days of talks between the unions in Hollywood and two years of negotiations between the groups to join forces in a bid to gain more leverage in contract negotiations. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Two film industry unions are closer to merging.
The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced Monday they have agreed to a plan to combine their unions. The announcement comes after nine days of talks between the unions in Hollywood and two years of negotiations between the groups to join forces in a bid to gain more leverage in contract negotiations.
SAG represents 125,000 actors, while AFTRA represents 70,000 professional performers, broadcasters and recording artists. Some 45,000 of AFTRA's members also belong to SAG. AFTRA supported a merger with SAG in 1998 and 2003 only to see those efforts fail.
SAG and AFTRA split acrimoniously in 2008 and decided to negotiate deals with the studios separately for the first time in three decades. The rift hurt SAG as TV studios sent most of their new work AFTRA's way. SAG maintains exclusive jurisdiction over feature films.
SAG National President Ken Howard and AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon said in a joint statement they are confident their "members will agree that we have created something we can all be proud of ? actors, singers, broadcasters, dancers, voiceover artists, background actors, stuntpersons and all entertainment and media professionals that will be represented by this new union."
The plan will be recommended later this month to the unions' boards.
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Online:
http://www.sag.org/
http://www.aftra.org/
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
LeAnn Rimes Gets Foot Tattoo in Honor of Eddie Cibrian (omg!)
LeAnn Rimes is in love and she's got the tattoo to prove it!
On Sunday, the 29-year-old country crooner debuted her newest ink job, which pays tribute to her husband of nearly a year, Eddie Cibrian.
PHOTOS: LeAnn and Eddie's controversial road to romance
"It's dainty. All of my tattoos are very feminine," Rimes wrote on her Twitter page Sunday, along with a photo of the ink on her foot, which features the phrase "the only one that matters."
PHOTOS: Crazy celeb tattoos
Rimes told her Twitter followers Cibrian uttered the phrase to her during a recent vacation they took together.
Rimes' foot isn't the only place she's had inked with an inspirational phrase. In August, the bikini-clad star showed off the words "Still I Rise" -- the title of a Maya Angelou poem -- on her pelvic bone.
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Though many have declared Rimes too thin, her husband Cibrian says his wife's body is "perfect."
"I think she looks wonderful," the actor has said. "She is very healthy, and to me -- perfect."
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Video: Obama aide targets Romney
>>> while the republicans battle it out on the trail, the president is gearing up for battle himself, preparing for the fall campaign as well as looming fights and unfinished business with congress, which returns from break this week. nbc's mike viqueira has our report.
>> reporter: as rivals hit mitt romney on his record as a businessman, today a top owe balm obama aide echoed that attack. aides see romney as the biggest thread to a second obama term, but so far the president isn't engaging him directly. instead, painting all republicans with the same broad brush.
>> they said they want to reduce the deficit by gutting our investments in education and gutting our investments in research and technology, letting our infrastructure further deteriorate.
>> reporter: both sides expect a tight race in the fall. a recent poll shows among all voters the president's lead over republican challenger has narrowed in last ten months. the sides now dead even at 41%. among independents, a crucial bloc, support is also evenly split. for now, mr. obama 's focus is on building a war chest , holding six fund-raisers last week alone, and raising a total of $68 million over the last quarter of 2011 , keeping roughly the same pace as george bush in his 2004 re- election campaign .
>> house will be in order.
>> reporter: but before the race takes off, more battles loom with congress, returning tuesday after four weeks away. first up, extending payroll tax cuts set to expire in february after a december standoff. and whether to allow the construction of the keystone pipeline , the controversial project opposed by environmentalists, but favored by organized labor and most republicans. today, the senate's top democrat attacked republicans, leaving little hope for a quick agreement.
>> it is all a balance and that's what i think we have to look forward this coming year. we haven't had that balance because we have had one arm of our bicameral legislature that said we'll do nothing but go after obama .
>> reporter: there is more fund-raising on tap for the president when he hits new york city on thursday. but before that on tuesday, first lady michelle obama celebrates a birthday, a fact the president made known in a mass e-mail to campaign supporters asking them to sign an internet birthday card . lester?
>> mike viqueira tonight, thanks.
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46007297/
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Three die after huge Italian cruise ship runs aground (Reuters)
ROME (Reuters) ? At least three people were killed and rescuers were looking for other victims Saturday after a large Italian cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground overnight, took on water and tipped over.
A dramatic nighttime rescue operation involving lifeboats, ships and helicopters was continuing hours after the 114,500 gross tonnes Costa Concordia hit a sandbar near the island of Giglio as passengers were eating dinner.
"We were sitting down do dinner and we heard this big bang. I think it hit some rocks. There was a lot of panic, the tables overturned, glasses were flying all over the place and we ran for the decks where we put on our life vests," passenger Maria Parmegiano Alfonsi told Sky Italia television.
The 290-metre-long ship took on water and started listing.
Pictures taken by rescued passengers after daybreak and broadcast on television showed the shiny, multi-story luxury vessel on its side and about half submerged on the sandbar just a few hundred metres (yards) from Giglio.
Coast guard Captain Luciano Nicastro and police official Giuseppe Lunardi said three people were confirmed dead, fewer than the six reported earlier by Italian media.
But, speaking on live television, Nicastro said rescue workers were still searching the ship, which had just started a winter Mediterranean cruise, and the waters around it.
Lunardi said some people had jumped off the ship while it was listing.
"The rescue operation is still going on," Fire brigades official Luca Cari said on television about 10 hours after the accident.
He said rescue workers were still checking decks that remained above water and that scuba divers would then check the decks that have been submerged.
"This is difficult because the ship is enormous," Cari said, adding that the ship was now listing at about 90 degrees but would likely remain in that position and not sink because of the sand below.
Most of the 3,200 passengers and 1,023 crew on board the ship had been evacuated to the island of Giglio and from there were being taken to the mainland.
Alfonsi said she and other passengers were first put up in churches on the island and later, with only some blankets to protect them from the cold, were later taken to the mainland.
Another unnamed coast guard official on television said the ship was believed to have suffered a large gash on its side.
Most of the passengers on board were believed to be Italian but the cruises are popular with foreigners too.
The cruise ship company said the cause of the incident was being investigated.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Matthew Jones)
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