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[knowledgeleader.com] KnowledgeLeader Updates for May 26, 2008: CFO.com was researching an article on the evolving role of internal auditors when an opportunity arose to interview Michael Fung, who since 2006 has been senior vice president of finance for Wal-Mart Stores and CFO of the company's U.S. Wal-Mart-branded stores. He credits a mid-career detour into internal audit, which could have been seen as a backward move, as a key to landing and succeeding at his current job.
[The Cleveland Plain Dealer, News] ACLU to discuss torture, surveillance: Olmsted branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, 277403 Lorain Road. Frank Kunstel, a local national security expert, will be the speaker.
[Damonht's Weblog] Summary of discussion titled “Is Lebanon Sliding Toward a New ...: On one hand, government didnt realize that their actions would provoke Hezbollah to use their arms against Lebanese, something they vowed they would never do; on the other hand, Hezbollah, feeling these actions were significant threats (their telecom network was key to their success against the Israeli’s in the 36 day war) by using force passed a rubicon, which is their vow that they would never use their arms against Lebanese and thus they lost legitimacy
[SWJ Blog] 26 May SWJ News, Op-Ed, Events & Blog Roundup: Assuming that the international community may well face future operations characterized by regional, borderless “wars among the people”, the centres at Queen’s University and their partners propose convening a distinguished group of approximately 200 experts from academic, military, governmental, and international institutions to examine how best to prepare commanders, military units and governments to plan for and conduct complex, multi-dimensional stability campaigns in this new environment.
[ACLU Blog: Because Freedom Can't Blog Itself: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union] Joan McCarter: Torture: The “Professional Disease” of our Nation: Hmm let’s see they are the people behind bringing this all to light, savior to our enemies maybe, but I would bet big money or at least your life that our terrorist friends from over yonder will know that our torture is but a game and will play that card accordingly. It’s just like the illegal listening in on our phone calls,,,, I don’t have anything to hide and I have NOT heard of anyone being arrested unjustly from one of these wire taps, HAS ANYONE HEARD OF ANYONE BEING UNJUSTLY LOCKED UP FORM ONE OF “THESE BAD MR.
[Corrente] An Exercise For Memorial Day: Read Bill Moyers' "Message to West ...: My father-in-law, Joe Davidson, was 37 years old with two young daughters when war came in 1941; he enlisted and served in the Pacific but I never succeeded in getting him to describe what it was like to be in harm’s way.
[ACLU Blog: Because Freedom Can't Blog Itself: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union] Rights Groups Meet International Monitor: Civil rights activists gathered yesterday at the ACLU Washington Legislative Office to meet with United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Mr. Doudou Diène.
[Canadian Dimension Blog] Canada’s “human security” agenda in Kosovo: The bombing, Axworthy hoped, “would quickly bring Milosevic to the bargaining table.” After sustained NATO bombing, Axworthy writes: “Once it was obvious that there wouldn’t be an immediate capitulation, efforts turned towards finding a resolution.” The order here is also telling. Efforts “turned towards finding a resolution” only after it was realized that severe bombing did not lead to “immediate capitulation.” Surely the first resort would be to finding a resolution instead of bombing if “human security” is to be in the best interests of human security, but the opposite is true for Axworthy.
[Iprcast blog] Senate Moves Forward on Orwellian “Violent Radicalization and ...: Harman’s ludicrous pronouncement is considerably ramped-up by the Lieberman and Collins report, based on-what else- “expert testimony” during hearings held by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
[SWJ Blog] 11 May SWJ News, Op-Ed, Events & Blog Roundup: On Thursday, May 15, Donnelly, Kagan, and Kathleen Hicks of the Center for Strategic and International Studies will discuss these and other questions about the size, shape, and costs of the land forces the United States will require in the years ahead.
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[Livinglies's Weblog] The Federal Truth in Lending Act: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: . However, some courts have been uncomfortable with enforcing the statutes’ first step as well””the voiding of the security interest. For that reason, I have never forced a lender to remove their security interest prior to tender. I generally require the lender to indicate an acceptance of the rescission within the required 20-day period. Once the rescission has been accepted, I work with the lender to determine the amount of tender. Generally, clients refinance or sell their property to fund the tender. Sometimes lenders agree to rewrite the loan at the new loan balance. Either way, the lender submits a payoff demand, equal to the tender amount, into escrow and title insurance is obtained.
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