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President Obama, Will You Heed Archbishop Tutu's Call to Action?

HIV infections and 7.4 million deaths in less than ten years and critically that 'the additional investment proposed would be largely offset from savings in treatment costs alone.'

Invest now, save millions of lives, protect millions of families and save millions of dollars. A solid deal.

The day after Tutu's op-ed, International AIDS conference organizers announced the theme of the July 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington DC: 'Turning The Tide Together.'

In their press release sharing the theme, conference organizers assert that 'By acting decisively on recent scientific advances in HIV treatment and biomedical prevention, the momentum for a cure, and the continuing evidence of the ability to scale-up key interventions in the most-needed settings, we now have the potential to change the course of HIV and AIDS.' We are fundamentally in a different place.

We can see an end to a disease that has killed 30 million people and infected 30 million more.

We can see an end to a disease that has destroyed families, overwhelmed health systems and devastated economies.

All the facts show that this is the time to ramp up efforts, not slow down. Besides reducing the spread of HIV, antiretroviral therapy dramatically reduces the chance of a person who is living with AIDS developing and dying

Kolleen Bouchane Director, ACTION

Archbishop Desmond Tutu often speaks eloquently about what is possible.

Recently, he stuck to the facts.

In Tutu's op-ed in the Washington Post 'An end to AIDS is within our reach,' he called on the Obama Administration to demonstrate leadership to end AIDS by increasing PEPFAR's (the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) treatment goal from 4 million to 6 million people by 2013. Tutu also called on Obama to stand up and 'issue a challenge to other leaders -- of donor nations and those countries most affected by HIV/AIDS -- to scale up their contributions.'

The conversation about AIDS has fundamentally changed. In June the Lancet noted that we are seeing a 'strategic revolution in HIV and global health.' This followed research in May which electrified the HIV/AIDS community by demonstrating that treatment as a prevention strategy reduces the chance of passing HIV to an uninfected sexual partner by 96 percent.

A strategic revolution is the very best kind - the most important recent work guiding us to the end of AIDS is research on a financing strategy which clearly demonstrates that making investments now would avert 12.2 million new

from active tuberculosis (TB), a curable disease that kills 1 in 4 people with HIV. The Stop TB Partnership estimates that an additional 1 million lives could be saved by 2015 by treating and preventing TB among people with HIV. Eight years ago, then-President George W. Bush took a crucial step by establishing PEPFAR and promising 15 billion dollars over 5 years, which supported treatment for 2.1 million people. It has been described as the 'largest and most successful bilateral HIV/AIDS program ever.'

While campaigning, President Obama promised to expand PEPFAR 'by $1 billion a year in new money over the next five years' and provide $50 billion by 2013 to fight HIV/AIDS worldwide. We are not on track to see even those promises become reality. We are not on

track for the leadership to change the course of HIV and AIDS that Tutu has called for.

As we look forward to the first U.S.-based International AIDS conference in July 2012, the end of a global public health nightmare is within our reach. Are we confident that U.S. leadership on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis will acknowledge the evidence about what is possible and rise to this challenge? Will President Obama heed Archbishop Tutu's call to action and do his part to end AIDS? Kolleen Bouchane is the director of ACTION (Advocacy to Control TB Internationally), an international partnership of civil society advocates working to mobilize resources to treat and prevent the spread of tuberculosis (TB), a global disease that kills one person every 20 seconds.

More Than a Pink Ribbon While I was growing up, October meant my birthday and my mom's homemade Halloween costumes. When I was 21, it became the month Mom found a lump in her breast. The year I turned 23, it was the month I lost my mother to inflammatory breast cancer.

When I was first diagnosed with cancer back in 2006, I have to admit that it was initially a very lonely experience. I knew that my family loved me and would help me through it, but I knew I would have to handle what it would do

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to me on my own and I wasn't sure what that would entail. They say that you are born alone (although, as a mother, I would argue that point) and that you leave this world alone. I just want to say that after that initial moment of hearing my diagnosis, I have never felt alone again.

My mom wrote those words on April 22, 2009. Six months later, on October 29, 2009, she became one of the approximately 39, 500 women in the United States to die from breast cancer each year.

Every October, much of America is draped in pink for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But it's not enough to purchase pink kitchen appliances, flip flops, or keychains; we need to look beyond the ribbon and have honest, open talks with the people we love living with this disease.

My mom's lasting gift to her daughters, family and friends was making cancer something you could talk about. She wrote about her journey through breast cancer on a journal she created on CaringBridge.org, a site created for people battling serious illnesses to share the stories.

When someone we love is sick, the things we'd ask before -- "how are you?" -- or confide to them -- "I had a bad day at work today" -seem inadequate or inappropriate. For my mother, enabling people to say these small things was to continue to be the woman she was before her diagnosis. When up against an illness that threatens so many outward signs of womanhood -- the ability to bear children, if the chemo causes you to go through menopause prematurely, as it did my mother; your curves, and often your breasts; even your eyelashes and eyebrows -my mother maintained her core identity as a wife, a mom, a funny, loving friend, and a confidante.

Mom was a "talker" before she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, and her gift of telling stories and connecting with people helped her stare down a disease that takes away far too many women each year. And she refused to go down quietly.

Writing in her journal, my mother explained her reasons for recording her experiences: My humorous take on all things cancer is my way of dealing with this illness. I would like to make people comfortable enough to ask questions and to demystify ... this disease. It needs to have a spotlight pointed at it so it can be seen for what it is and then creep back into dark corners like the cockroach it is (sorry, guess I should have had that second cup of coffee, after all).

Know that I love you all and my wish for you is that you always stay strong and never lose faith.

Love, Linda Humor became a weapon in her battle to remain herself while lightening the load on hardworking physical therapists, helpful family members, doctors, and her fellow patients lined up in waiting rooms for treatment. Here's what she had to say after major sugery: Well, I haven't decided what pajamas I will be wearing for the red carpet on Sunday when I watch the annual Academy Awards.

And here are a few more of her reflections: In January, I scheduled an appointment with a local orthopedic specialist named Dr. Wack (would I make this stuff up?) and I told him I have a history with doctors with unusual names going back thirty-some years, when I had all my wisdom teeth removed by Dr. Payne.

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I’ve Made More Mistakes Than Anyone I am convinced that if a survey were taken of all the mistakes Black business owners have made trying to build their businesses, I would lead the pack. I own the most prosperous business in the biggest industry known to Black history. The barber and beauty businesses are the oldest business industries in Black America.

Black barbers and beauty shops were set up even during slavery. Blacks had to groom the Master, the Misses, and their children. The art of grooming is the oldest form of commerce known to Black America, during times of both slavery and freedom.

With that said, it concerns me that this business is not shown more respect. I have often wondered why this great legacy that still exists unto this day does not seem to catch the attention of our leaders and our historians. I’ve concluded that the barber and beauty businesses continue in the same lane and circle, that of a servant that has to take a backseat to the law profession, school teaching, and nursing – even though the barber and the beautician serve all of these professionals at one time or another.

I have made a ton of mistakes. I had to write a Black barber book when there was none.

Where did I get my references? I was in a majority white barber school with white textbooks and a white man telling me how to do Black hair even though he never had actually done it before. What kind of second-class education was that? So I had to write the script, edit the script, and practice the script. When I was wrong I had to suck it up, pick up the pieces, and try again. Oh yes, I told myself that it wasn’t my responsibility to do all of this thankless work, but I could not pull myself away from the responsibility of writing and demonstrating my theories. Can you imagine how many times I had to step back, reload, aim, focus, and re-fire only to get it wrong again? Oh yes, I revisited the pity parties. But I didn’t live there. I have always said that a struggle without a void is in vain. I would rather struggle to fill a void then live a life of emptiness.

Let me remind you of the story of the first African pick comb I ever laid eyes on. Robert Bell brought it back from Africa and asked me

EDITORIAL if I could make it. I said sure, confident that I could do it. It was only made out of one piece of wood, so I went to Dwyer Furniture deep in Logan Heights to get some wood and started carving. Days later I still didn’t have a comb, only cuts and bruises. Carving one comb a week wasn’t going to work. The civil rights activists that needed a tool for their Afros couldn’t afford a $300 comb. I looked at a pencil and figured out that if I glued pencils together I could make a model. I used my country ingenuity and bought a big sander to sand the teeth down. I jimmy rigged it together and it worked. I built a vocation the same way my predecessors did. They made something out of nothing.

I remember visiting the San Diego Urban League where John Johnson had invited the founder of Jack in the Box and some of his wealthy friends to meet me. They wanted to give me approximately a quarter of a million dollars to start a hair company. They asked me if I could do it, which I said “Of course, but I’m going to make some mistakes.” They didn’t seem to like that answer, so I asked them what would happen if I did make a mistake. They Continued on page 22

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Odds and ends…

By Brian Pollard First I must commend the City on finally improving the Transit crossway near the corner of Euclid and Imperial. In the past it has been even more rough on the cars than the normal poor condition of our roads. It is a much smoother ride……for now. At closer examination the material they have used to repair the track-road access is the same material that is used to repair our roads. My hunch is in a couple of months we will be right where we started, which means a rough ride over the tracks of the trolley. On the positive side, at least we will have a few months reprieve.

CNC update: The Coalition of Neighborhood Council which meets monthly and is designed to support the numerous Town Councils throughout our District in civic engagement and other neighborhood issues seems to be moving closer to their original mission……to support the Town Councils. There are a couple of new members on the Board of Directors, and they seem to be digging their way out of the financial mess they have found themselves in over the past few years. However, the “jury is still out” and the next few months are critical in their development as an effective tool to assist the District in pulling together. Please support them in attending your Neighborhood Town Council meeting or the CNC membership meeting held once per month,(contact Councilman Young’s office for a schedule of meetings; 619236-6644).

Jacobs Center: Well it has been a couple of weeks since the Jacobs Center went through some major leadership changes, I have noticed they put an ad in the monitor recruiting for a new HR Manager….. I don’t think that has been done before. They are currently accepting resumes for the HR (for JCNI) and Sales and Marketing (for Market Creek Events and Venues) posi-

tions, they have not started the search for the CEO position and will probably not refill the COO position. They indicated they will continue to meet with residents from the community and are gathering input as they lead into the leadership transitioning work. They do plan on having a large community meeting (Village Center meeting) towards early November.

They currently have the Big Box Guide Team that is meeting every two weeks and their work is to make the decision on whether Wal-mart is a go for the Hillside Property site.

The Guide Team is made up of residents, and Jacobs staff and Board. Theye also continue to meet quarterly on our sunset planning. The sunset planning group is made up of about 60 people and they are looking at the work and roles that the Jacobs Center is currently doing and will help them develop a plan on how to transition the work and roles in the future.

City’s plan for a Market Street/Euclid redevelopment project: The City Planning department has had its second ‘working meeting’ to discuss the redevelopment changes surrounding the corner of Euclid and Market streets. A link to the project can be found on; http://www.sandiego.gov/ planning/community/profiles/encanto/euclidmarket/index.shtml The Euclid & Market Village Master Plan was awarded to the City of San Diego through the 2009-2010 fiscal year funding cycle with the intention that the development surrounding the Euclid Avenue Trolley stop would serve as a model for integrating land use and transportation and smart growth development.

To my delight, numerous residents attended the meeting and were updated on the progress of the project. Please stay close to this one so we can continue to provide input to the City on Continued on page 22

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‘DISMAL’ Study: Most States Fail At Teaching Civil Rights Movement Southern Poverty Law Center found appropriate to assess the state of education about the civil rights movement in the U.S. Findings from a study -- "Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education 2011" -- released this week by the SPLC's Teaching Tolerance program show that nearly three-quarters of states fail at teaching the civil rights movement. An indicator: just 2 percent of high school seniors in 2010 could fully answer a basic question about the Supreme Court's landmark decision in the historic Brown v.

Board of Education case.

When given the following quote and asked the following question: “To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority … that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. … We conclude that in the field of public education separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” —1954 Based on the quotation [above] and your knowledge of history, describe the conditions

that this 1954 decision was designed to correct. Be as specific as possible in your answer.

—Question on the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress U.S. History Exam Just 2 percent of the 12,000 12th graders who took the NAEP exam could correctly identify the two points the question was seeking to earn a full score of "complete" -- that the case and decision were sparked by segregation, and that the segregation was an issue in schools. They were not required to identify the case as Brown v. Board of Education.

Contrast that with the 73 percent of testtakers who either didn't answer the question at all or left an "inappropriate" response by restating the question or giving irrelevant information.

The study assessed states' curriculum by scoring them based on the comprehensiveness of standards for teaching the civil rights movement. Across the country 16 states do not require any instruction on the movement and 19 cover the topic minimally.

Overall, researchers determined that states

"mistakenly see it as a regional matter, or a topic of interest mainly for black students," according to the report. Of the 12 highest scoring states for civil rights education, 9 are from the former Confederacy. The further from the South and the smaller the black population in a state also meant less focus on curriculum including the civil rights movement.

The study's findings also reveal that states that do include lessons on the movement tended to avoid conflict and teach what the report

calls "sanitized versions" of the movement by focusing more on who the leaders were and what events took place, and less on obstacles many faced through the movement, like racism and white resistance.

“For too many students, their civil rights education boils down to two people and four words: Rosa Parks, Dr. King and ‘I have a dream,’” SPLC Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello, said in a statement. “When 43 states adopted Common Core Standards in English and math, they affirmed that rigorous standards were necessary for achievement. By having weak or non-existent standards for history, particularly for the civil rights movement, they are saying loud and clear that it isn’t something students need to learn.”

The findings from SPLC's study reveal a deep issue in a broad report issued by the National Assessment of Educational Progress in June. The NAEP report studied students in the 4th, 8th and 12th grades across the U.S. and revealed low performance on history assessments across the country as test scores stagnated. Just 32 percent of 8th graders could identify one advantage American troops had over the British during the American Revolution, and only 9 percent of 4th graders could identify a photo of Abraham Lincoln and state two reasons for his importance.

But history isn't the only area where students are falling behind. A 2009 study showed that U.S. students ranked 25th among 34 countries in science and math -- behind foreign counterparts in China, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Finland.

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PINK Continued from page 2 all my years on this planet. I was overjoyed that I had gained a few pounds since last week! It was a Bridget Jones' Diary entry in reverse!

Today I will be having a visit from a physical therapist who will be putting me through my paces. I hope she has forgiven me my question during her last visit. I'm afraid I asked her if she had ever been a Marine.

Mom wrote and talked about cancer like it was just this thing she was handling, refusing to let it stop her from doing the things that meant the most to her. Mom had a mastectomy two months before I graduated from college but was in the stands supporting me as I received my diploma. Her femur was replaced with a titanium rod when her breast cancer spread to her bones and compromised her ability to walk, yet she still traveled, five months later, to visit my sister Morgan in Germany, hiking up hilly terrain with a cane until the effects of the chemo

caught up with her and she was forced to use a wheelchair, which my sister pushed to the sites they wanted to see together. Through all of this, Mom kept writing, because she was determined that nothing, absolutely nothing, could keep her from being around for as long as possible for her daughters: The first weekend I told the girls about my cancer in 2006, we went up to my bedroom and tried on scarves and hats for my upcoming new look when I would lose my hair during chemo.

We also tried this new look on Winston, our Jack Russell, and Chuck took pictures of us. We named the pictures 'All for One, One for All.' ...

My girls lessened my sense of unease and I hope they will always remember that scary stuff isn't quite so scary when you can laugh about it.

In her last months of life, Mom told me she was writing something about cancer that she thought could help other people who were sick feel less alone. After we got home from the hospice the day we lost her, I searched frantically through her computer, through the drawers of meticulously labeled correspondence, searching for a last message from Mom. The only thing I

found? A one-page outline for an intended screenplay she never began. I was heartbroken.

It was then I realized I already had so much of my mother already recorded in her funny, inescapably Mom voice: her journal, the place where she spoke about what the chemo felt like in her veins, the place she wrote tributes to and thanked the people that drove her to countless treatments, and the place she made all of us laugh, even though we were aching at the thought of losing her.

Writing in her journal on April 22, 2009, Mom quoted a line from one of her favorite movies, "Waking Ned Devine," showing how her journal had become not just a way to keep a big family up-to-date, but a lifeline: 'What a wonderful thing it would be to visit your own funeral, to sit up at the front, and hear what was said. Maybe say a few things yourself.' I realize after reading messages on this website, and notes and cards -- that I do not have to wonder about the wonderful people around me and what they would say. I feel as though I have been given a great gift.

Mom didn't get to speak at her own funeral, but she sure as hell got to say some things about cancer. Whenever I reach for the phone and

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Mom wrote about choosing lupine flowers for her blog's background over the pink breast cancer ribbon theme expected of her. I always believed it was a nod to a book she read to my sister and me when we were little, "Miss Rumphius," the story of a little girl who goes out to make the world more beautiful and achieves this as an old woman by spreading her beloved flowers around the globe. In her post, Mom made a joke about having trouble growing lupines, and hoping that "wasn't a bad omen."

The last photo taken of me with my mother is of us standing in front of our childhood home with my little sister. Mom has a pink hat covering her head, once again hairless as an infant's from chemo. But behind us, Mom's lupines rise up as tall as our waists, and they grow back bigger and more beautiful every year.

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CBCF PHOENIX AWARDS DINNER AND PRESIDENT OBAMA’S WAKE UP CALL TO CBC LEADERS

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ach year the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) hosts the Annual Legislative Conference (ALC)—a four-day event held in September at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. And each year, the ALC attracts over 12,000 attendees to the Washington, DC area, providing a platform for collaboration and policy development—amongst international, national, state and local leaders and their constituents—through regional forums, national summits, and policy-oriented conferences. I had the privilege to attend this conference (visiting few of its forums): meeting leaders from Paris and shaking hands with celebrities like Cuba Gooding Jr. However, the highlight of this conference was, of course, President Obama’s appearance at the Phoenix Awards Dinner and his controversial wake-up call to the leaders of CBCF. The Phoenix Awards’ Dinner celebrates the conclusion of the four day conference, as part of ALC’s 41st annual conference—convening the nation’s largest gathering of policy makers, business and community stake holders, activists, and local, state, regional and national grassroots individuals. More than 4,000 people attended this event and among the 4,000 were four distinguished individuals who received the prestigious Phoenix Award.

The “Phoenix Award” was named to echo the statement from 1901 by Rep. George H. White when his departure from Congress commenced a 27-year drought of black representation in the House. In his farewell speech he said in part, “phoenix-like the (Black members of Congress) will rise up some day and come again.” And so contributing to this ideology, four distinguished leaders were recognized for their tenacity and leadership, improving the human condition for African Americans: EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson; Athlete, Entrepreneur & Humanitarian George Edward Foreman, Sr.; Civil Rights Activist The Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery; and U.S. Representative and Civil Rights Activist John Lewis.

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what passionate and questionable speech. In the beginning of his speech, he passionately preached on jobs in America, and his fight against the House Republicans to pass his American Jobs Act— reminding them that black business owners were also small business owners too.

But it wasn’t till the very end that he led many people, mostly leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus, in query.

“I am going to press on for jobs,” he said. Then told those in the room, “I expect all of you to march with me and press on. Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying.”

Representative Maxine Waters, D-CA, found the comments “curious,” and speculated that the president had gone “off script.” Many attendees and leaders felt the same too. A White House official said that in fact it was an ad-lib moment, but insisted that “it was meant as a rallying cry,” and added that the audience gave the president more than a warm embrace. Honestly, I thought it was a great speech; the Spirit was in him. It may have sounded eccentric, but what other choice do they [or we] have?

Unemployment is skyrocketing—African Americans have the highest unemployment rate out of all ethnic groups in America: double digits. And now with the growing strength of House Republicans, and support of Republican presidential candidates, we are losing. So, if you do care about Jobs, Education, and Entitlement Programs that help the elderly and disabled, then I encourage you to get active and participate in politics. Vote for your districts that support these issues. Remember its Congress and not the President that can ultimately shape our country’s fate.

Vote for both Barack Obama and his political supporters. These are very hard economic times, and it’s important that your vote counts.

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LOVE Your Neighbor, As YOURSELF. $ave Trillion$ of Dollar$ in Healthcare – With Your Mouth!

All this talk about healthcare reform and “Obamacare” is distracting us from the real issue.

What did you have for breakfast this morning? How about lunch? What about dinner? You probably just cost this country a million dollars with your mouth.

The Huffington Post reported that according to Fidelity Investments, the average couple retiring today at age 65 will spend $250,000 on healthcare (sickcare) before they die. Will you have $250,000 to keep you alive after age 65? There are more than 70,000,000 baby boomers retiring over the next 18 years. $250,000 times 70,000,000 is…a whole lot of money – trillions of dollars. ($17,500,000,000 to be precise). That’s 17 trillion, 500 billion DOLLARS! That’s money we could be using for roads and schools and homelessness and hunger.

Most of these Americans (us) will be obese (not just overweight – OBESE) and suffer from one or more of the following: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, kidney failure, clogged arteries, and some form of cancer. What do you have? Do you even know? Even after spending $250,000 most of us/them/you will still DIE PREMATURELY from heart attack, stroke, cancer or kidney failure. What a way to go! L That’s the bad news. Now the GOOD NEWS!!

You don’t have to live this way, and you don’t have to die this way!

And you don’t have to spend 17 trillion dollars of your money, and trillions more in tax money, to stretch out a slow and painful death, made tolerable by expensive and deadly drugs.

(What kind of side effect is “death”??) I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I believe there are 5 PILLARS OF HEALTH: 1 - EAT FOR NUTRITION, not for flavor, fullness and fun.

There are other articles in The Monitor News and Business Journal that can help you with this.

2 - EXERCISE REGULARLY – enough to sweat daily for half an hour if you can. Build up to it. 3 - GET 8 HOURS OF SLEEP EVERY NIGHT! 4 - DETOXIFY YOUR BODY REGULARLY. Consult a practitioner on this one. You wouldn’t change the dirty oil in your car by yourself the first time, would you? Same goes for your body. 5 - MANAGE YOUR STRESS! We need a whole article on this last one.

You make your money with your body and brain. You are throwing away your money if you blow it on healthcare when you not really old, just broken down and trying to stave off death at a young age of 75 or 80. Finally, you’re wrecking the economy –with your mouth! Don’t you LOVE YOURSELF? Join me on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:00 p.m at the Urban League. Let’s talk about it.

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Greg “The Internet Guy” Wilson In the web development world, they use words like landing page, or squeeze page to identify a very important part of a successful online marketing strategy; this is the “face” of your company.

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Are you Networking for Profit or Networking for Pleasure?

Jackie Martin Small Biz Consultant/ Enthusiast

“Cha-Ching.” Listen again. . . “Cha-ching” . . . it is the sound of profit! It is heard in every corner of the world, in hotels, restaurants, on the greens, at the beach and all the places people gather, to close and communicate about the deal! It is an exciting opportunity! Something good is about to happen! We call it business networking.

Networking is the exchanging of information and establishing mutually beneficial relations with others. It’s people making connections, supporting, providing contacts and linkages to resources. The purpose is to generate money and support to achieve our goals and to enjoy our lives.

Consider profit as an advantageous gain or return, often declared by entrepreneurs as the bedrock and purpose of business. In networking, it is the positive force of two profit centers and interrelated components: (1) economics and (2) pleasure.

Economic profit is information gained from others that improves our business, such as, an untried solution to a business challenge, money saving ideas, a referral of new clients or customer. It is learning of resources, opportunities, magnificent tips or sometimes, where to find the best bargains. It is the foundation for alliances and partnerships. the buying/selling of businesses or even real estate. Possibilities abound!

Pleasure profit is derived from information that supports all areas of our lives, the quality of our work life and personal relationships. It is giving and receiving, providing assistance and enjoyment (receiving pleasure) and the feel good experiences in what we do.

In networking, these profit centers are in operation simultaneously, requiring a balancing act in socializing and business connecting. The process demands conscious awareness of the purpose and motivation for engaging in a con-

versation. Most significantly, it demands attention to keeping track of time and subtly, the potential for profit.

Networking Dollars In business networking, there are two kinds of currency: 1. Social Dollars results in developing and increasing social contacts (pleasure profit).

2. Business Dollars results in increased business (economic profit).

From this perspective, it is a good idea to reflect on the ROI (return on investment) of your networking encounters and budget accordingly. If you are networking to increase business and the result is little business, you used social dollars.

Determine what percentage of your expenditure is for business or social purposes and make adjustments accordingly.

The Networking Budget There is a cost (usually food and beverages) associated with business networking. Regular participation in the networking process can exceed your monthly grocery or cell phone bill!

There are organizations specifically formed for the purpose of networking and making business contacts. Often there are membership dues. They offer an array of supportive services, guest speakers, workshops and professional growth opportunities. What is the cost?

Is it a line item in your budget? What is the benefit? How can you profit?

Additional cost includes the invitations we extend to those we desire more time with.

Often we invite them, at a minimum to Starbucks for coffee or most likely, breakfast or lunch that can extend the time. Again, food!

The good news, with record keeping, networking is to your tax advantage, it is the cost of doing business!

Often, ask yourself, am I balancing expenditure of social dollars and business dollars? Are my networking activities contributing to my economic or pleasure bottom line?

The Networking Plan of Action The purpose of business is profit.

Networking demands a plan of action and con-

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scious awareness of the economic and pleasure aspects of business. As you make contacts and converse, listen for information that will indicate that the person is a resource for you or can support your goals. What is your outcome?

What should you listen for?

Simply, ask yourself these questions: Does this person have a business, career or profession that can support my goal?

Does this person appear to have contact to other sources or resources that will support my goal?

Is this person in a position to support my goal?

Does this person indicate a desire to support my goal?

Conversely, listen for clues that will aid you in supporting their goals or needs. Provide them with ideas, tips and resources.

Networking with Integrity The word profit implies that someone received an economic advantage through a business deal or that someone lost in order for another to gain. It doesn’t have to be that way.

While networking, it is important that people not experience thoughts or feeling that they

were used, manipulated or deceived, after providing information. Sometimes, the over use of social dollars are interpreted as a desire for a continuous personal relationship, when intent was strictly business, economic profit. Be genuine and sincere in communications when establishing new business connections and receiving or requesting information from others.

The essentials of economic and pleasure profit in business networking are: Connecting with others to balance economic and pleasure profit.

To give and to receive.

Listening to others.

Having clarity about your own motives.

Monitor and balance the personal expenditures of social and business dollars.

Creating value for others.

Keeping agreements and commitments.

Meeting the behavioral needs of others.

Maintain, respect and take tender care of relationships developed in the networking process. By doing so, you will enjoy, benefit and profit in many ways, for years to come.

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We Are The Future of Black Wealth

By Arielle Loren According to a recent report in Ebony magazine (August 2011), black American wealth has taken a hard hit from the recession. As unemployment, pay check to pay check lifestyles, and the subprime mortgage crisis consume black communities, it’s clear that “struggling” and “black” remain synonymous in terms of finances.

Money Coach Lynnette Khalfani-Cox writes for Ebony, “…in 2009, the median net worth of Black households was $2,200, compared with a median net worth of $97,900 for White households.

Just a decade ago, in 2001, the median net worth for a Black household was $12,500, $124,600 for a White one. Less than .01 percent, or about 112,000, of Black households in the United States have a net worth of $1 million or more. Even at $500,000 Eddie Price in net worth, only 333,000 Black households make the cut. So for Maketing Director every Black billionaire, such as Oprah Winfrey or Bob Johnson, or every well-paid athlete or celebrity, there are scores more AfricanAmericans simply struggling to pay the bills.”

619-616-5890 Financial success boils down to good priorities. But truthfully, I’ve made a conscious decision to prioritize entrepreneurship over becoming debt free. Would a financial planner smack my knuckles? Probably. But I’m aware of the repercussions of my financial decisions. To pay down my debt, I’d have to work a 9-5 and lose focus on my business ventures. While it’s costing a grip in interest, I do plan to immediately pay down my debt once my business steadies. And if it fails, I’m prepared to walk back to the 9-5 world or full-time consulting to maintain and strengthen my above 650 credit score. I still pay all my bills on time, more than the minimum, and create budgets, so my entrepreneurial and personal spending don’t spiral out of control.

I’m privileged to know right from wrong in terms of finances, even when I choose to do the latter. While I’ve placed entrepreneurship at the helm of my financial priorities, I know that buying a luxury car before a house is unacceptable, living beneath your means versus above is better, and shopping for frivolous items isn’t part of my tight budget. Thankfully, I’m also childless and husband-less, so I don’t have a family to carry. But when I do get there, I hope to be one of many families to rebuild wealth in black communities. If debt is modern day American slavery, black Americans have a long way to go.

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Just Keeping It Real With Angela Harris Relationship Coversations

Is he your spouse or your room mate?

I was at a women’s luncheon and a lady sat next me to and made the following state, “Me and my husband co-habitat, we simply co-exist. ” I thought “wow that’s deep”. Then I began to wonder how many more couples feel or live this way? My highly imaginative mind decided to put together a very visual picture of exactly what a co-habitating situation would look like. Both come home, maybe you speak maybe you don’t. If you do it’s cold, reactionary, and cordial. You don’t really care how each other’s day was, but out of some form of responsibility you inquire half listening. You may have a joint account to pay bills, or you have each taken certain bills stating your intent to pay them. You sleep in the same bed or you sleep in separate rooms. When the kids are around you don’t pretend to be in love and you also don’t act as though you can’t stand each other. You both have separate friends; go on separate vacations, If you have questions you would of course only when the kids aren’t involved. There is abso- like answered or topics discussed, lutely not intimacy, bottom line your time together is one of please send all questions to facebook.com/connectwithangelahartolerance.

It begs the question, how does one get to this point. Without ris or email: having had the privilege of probing deeper I am going to take theharrisgroup@cox.net or liberal writer’s license and look into my crystal ball and deduce twitter@KeepingitealAH. this situation. Whatever the original attraction was, that For more articles brought you both together, has not been nurtured throughout www.keepingitrealwithangela the relationship. So many times what we thought we liked harris.blogspot.com about a person, soon fades and we find ourselves asking, “What in the world did I find attractive about this person in the first place.” Maybe the person was a brick house and now she’s simply a house. Maybe the person had sex two or three times a week, now one or the other has become a sex camel, learning how to go without for long periods of time and when you do finally come together it’s not necessarily for mutual gratification but for individual sexual release. Maybe he was romantic, caring deeply about the needs and desires of his wife, and now he could care less. Or maybe he never was romantic and that boyish quality has now soured and you want more than what was promised. Maybe each has grown a part, goals and dreams have changed without consulting and including both in the change process. Maybe you tried over a long period of time to make the marriage work but the other was non-responsive so you reached a place of “screw it”. The list can go on and on and yet at the end of the day the bottom line is both have said, “I want out. There’s got to be more to marriage than what I have.”

This is an extremely dangerous place to be. Both parties are very vulnerable. It always seems the grass is greener on the other side just remember grass not tested may turn out to be turf (fake). It’s takes two to tangle in any relationship. Both parties have played a role in their demise. Both parties checked out, one sooner than the other, nonetheless they both have checked out. Both have given up, and yet through a sense of responsibility you decide it’s best for the kids, or it’s cheaper to keep her or him. This situation can only be salvaged if both parties desire it. Believe it or not one or the other can initiate and recapture many of the things that were lost. It only takes one to begin the rekindling.

Here are some quick suggestions geared to repairing what is truly not irreparable: Look deep inside and spend some time analyzing yourself, your motives, your desires, and what value you bring into the life of your spouse.

Spend time looking deeply into the heart of your spouse. Reintroduce yourself to him or her.

Ask your spouse’s forgiveness for having checked out on him or her and state your desire to engage in conversation to re-evaluate where you both go from here.

Expect skepticism. In the mind of another, “what is he/she up to? What is her/his agenda? “ Be patient. Whatever it took to get you both to this place didn’t happen overnight and it will not take one attempt to right a ship that has gone wrong.

Find ways to spend time together with a focus on what the other would like to do. Once again you can’t go in like gangbusters’; you have to make the change noticeable but not overly so.

Get counseling. Find a counselor that both can embrace. There is nothing worse than going to a counselor that appears to be taking sides. It would be nice to find a male and female, who are already on one accord, to mediate the proceedings. When in counseling, don’t accuse or berate, or complain, simply state the facts without making it personal. By talk about how things made you feel and not crucifying the individual leaves some room for honest assessment, consideration, and possible reconciliation.

And above all remind your spouse that you truly do love him or her. More importantly remind yourself.

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WHAT CAUSES AUTOIMMUNE ILLNESS PART 2 OF 4 ON GETTING YOUR HEALTH BACK!

By Lady Topaz This is Part 2 in a 4 part series geared towards helping you understand the root causes of many autoimmune diseases and how to effectively address them in a healthy and holistic way.

Last week we covered how the immune system falters and begins identifying some of the body’s own tissues as being harmful, or unnecessary, causing it to attack and eliminate these tissues through an inflammatory response which can cause pain and discomfort in many forms explaining how autoimmune illness develops.

This week ….

T HE C AUSES OF A NTIGEN -A NTIBODY C OMPLEX F ORMATION AND E NSUING INFLAMMATION Perhaps the most common cause of excessive formation of antigen-antibody complexes is having an unhealthy digestive tract.

From your mouth to your anus, your digestive tract is one long tube that is meant to extract nutrients out of your food and allow these nutrients to slip through into your bloodstream so that they can nourish your cells. While your digestive tract is designed for proper digestion and assimilation of nutrients, it is also designed to protect your blood and inner cells against undesirable substances that can become antigens that lead to antigenantibody complex formation in your blood.

If you abuse your digestive tract long enough with poor dietary and lifestyle choices, it can begin to lose its ability to prevent harmful substances from entering your blood.

The lining of your digestive tract can begin to break down, and the population of microorganisms that line your digestive tract can shift from being predominately health-promoting and protective bacteria to largely microorganisms that can break down your digestive tract lining, such as yeast, bad bacteria, and even

parasites.

This state – where your digestive tract lining loses its ability to keep harmful substances out of your blood – is often called “leaky gut syndrome.”

Leaky gut syndrome can cause incompletely digested food to enter your bloodstream. And the most problematic incompletely digested food group in autoimmune illness is protein.

Your body expects to receive amino acids – the smaller constituents of protein – into its blood supply, not bigger molecules of protein (several amino acids linked to one another).

So when incompletely digested protein enters your blood supply through an unhealthy digestive tract lining, your immune system identifies these molecules as being foreign and potentially harmful. Your immune system will quickly move to create antibodies that can attach onto chains of incompletely digested protein, forming antigen-antibody complexes. And you know what happens next.

While your immune system will do its best to eliminate these complexes from your body, if enough of them form– because you continue to have a dysfunctional digestive tract and you continue to eat large amounts of protein, some of these complexes will get caught up in various tissues in your body, leading to inflammation and pain.

Incompletely digested protein is not the sole group of substances that can contribute to autoimmune illness in this fashion. Any substances that your body cannot use for nourishment can potentially trigger the production of antigen-antibody complexes and ensuing inflammation. This is why it is important to be aware of common household and environmental toxins, and to do your best to decrease your exposure to them.

For example, great care should be taken to avoid unnecessary exposure to conventional cosmetic products. Lipstick, lip balm, and other products that are typically used around large pores have a relatively easy pathway to your blood supply. It is a well established fact

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Are you Balling on a Budget? If so, there are many inexpensive restaurants that you can take potential customers to and get the results you need, a signed contract. We all should know by now that the restaurant industry has taken a deep financial cut as Americans have turned to their home kitchens instead of forking out extra money to eat and tip the waitress. We have seen TGIF Friday’s introduce 2 for $20 where you get an appetizer, an entrée for two people and a dessert to share. Applebee’s has stepped up the beat by adding an happy hour from 3 pm until 10 pm where all of their appetizers are half off and their signature drinks Long Beach Ice Tea and Margarita’s are only $3 a piece in addition to their 2 for $20.

If you have a home office like I do you can always introduce the client to a home set up where you cater the food, or pick up something from your favorite restaurant in order to give your client a sense of trust. Do you have a business and want to get more clients? I suggest that you should include 3 gifts to the client that include food, gift certificates, or a bottle of wine. When you do this it keeps the client aware that you are listening and gives them a feeling that you are not “Only” after their money (You’re really after their Referrals).

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THE SAN DIEGO BROTHERHOOD LIONS CLUB REPORT Clando Brownlee President & Founder of The San Diego Brotherhood Lions Club a newly chartered club of Lions Clubs International and the first African American club in the State of California with his Kool Climate Kids group attended the “Moving San Diego to a Clean Energy Future Rally” September 24 2011 was part of the worldwide rally organized by 350.org to demand solutions to the climate crisis with excitement building in over 2,000 events in 171 countries!!! And on that day we were able to share our Green the Block for clean air campaign with many who attended.

Over the past two years Kool Climate Kids / SD Brotherhood-campus club has Provided their waste collection & recycling services on a volunteer bases at more than 60 local events, with their separate at the source system which reduces the weight and cost to haul waste. Benefits are: revues-steam from recyclables, liter transports of waste, less emissions and cleaner air. The money saved is shared with us & those funds are to be used for eco-retrofits of residents living in lowincome multi-unit complexes. We’ll perform the free Installation of faucet aerators, low flow showerheads, CFL light bulbs, water heater blankets, sealing cracks & drafts, changing out air & heating filters and many other small home repairs this volunteer work will be performed by the SD Brotherhood Lions Club campus club members, to foster a “we serve” attitude while creating a training environment for youth to be introduced to the entry level jobs of the future, the green collar jobs of our new economy.

Kool Climate Kids is conducting a series of E-waste events in the San Diego area to raise awareness, funding and support for the San Diego Green the Block for clean air campaign.

FREE - E-Waste Drop Off: Kool Climate Kids & partners Our partners have the breadth of services, depth of resources and nationwide alliances with facilities capable of serving the recycling needs of all industries they go above and beyond all EPA regulations / guidelines and honor the clean air act for handling e-waste. Our partners carry 3-5 million dollars in insurance coverage. All of the electronic products we handle are recycled and processed within North America using American owned processing centers and other responsible recycling partner facilities. Who does not send anything to developing nations for processing! The more events we do the greater need to hire processors “Green Jobs” now!!!

Electronic waste is a name given to electronic equipment that is at the end of useful life. Some of these products can be resold, refurbished, or dismantled to reduce the need for virgin materials in manufacturing. In late 2007, there was 4.6 billion pounds of e-waste in the United States. But, less than 900 million pounds, under (20%) of that waste was recycled. Most of it still ends up in landfills in the United States or shipped to other countries such as Malaysia, China, India and Pakistan.

September 2008, there was legislation introduced that would call for a ban on the export of toxic electronic waste to developing nations.

The House adopted a similar legislation. “Domestic recycling of our own e-waste can create U.S. jobs and prevent contamination of the air at home and abroad.” According to the Commerce Department, as much as 80% of e-waste collected for recycling is still sent overseas.

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Is Philanthropy an Exclusionary Term in African-American Communities?

Cecilia T. Capers Lawyer, Writer and Former Teacher Twitter: www.twitter.com/C2esq or most people involved in the work of doing good, they have participated in various debates concerning the different viewpoints, as well as interpretations, of philanthropy and charity. The mere utterance of these two words in a sentence is sometimes met with the same level of passion as a debate on the floor of the House of Representative. In AfricanAmerican communities, there are various interpretations of each word as well as the activities and individuals associated with charitable or philanthropic work. By taking a look at how the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the two words, it is evident that the debate is not unfounded: Cha - ri - ty: benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity 2 a : generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering; also : aid given to those in need b : an institution engaged in relief of the poor c : public provision for the relief of the needy Phil - an - thro - py: goodwill to fellow members of the human race; especially: active effort to promote human welfare 2 a : an act or gift done or made for humanitarian purposes b : an organization distributing or supported by funds set aside for humanitarian purposes Although some people might believe that philanthropy and charitable giving as synonymous terms, based upon these traditional definitions, charitable outreach seems to be assigned to a lesser position that its loftier, seemingly more noble sibling -- philanthropy. As I read the words defining "philanthropy" and "charity", I feel a sense of discomfort. There appears to be a difference. If you look at examples of both words, engaging in charitable work would seem to be the appropriate noblesse oblige of churches, grassroots activists, and nonprofits in our communities; while philanthropy is ascribed to doing work for colleges, universities, artistic institutions, museums and other similar institutions.

Regardless of the manner in which the general population may describe philanthropy and charity, across the diverse communities of African Americans there are wide-ranging opinions on what philanthropy and charitable giving means. For many educated and/or affluent African Americans, engaging in philanthropy is a natural progression after attaining a level of socio-economic parity with their non AfricanAmerican counterparts. News and magazine articles often discuss African-American philanthropists, especially celebrities, athletes, entertainers, and business leaders in the context of their affluence and wealth.

Emerging circles of young African-American professionals see themselves as participants in the new philanthropy movement and/or the new wave of philanthropy that are more inclusive (socially and economically) as well as innovative than traditional philanthropy. For the new African-American philanthropists, they are not waiting to make their

first million or for an invitation to join the board of an established nonprofit. Instead, these young, African-American philanthropists are mingling among influential individuals of all races and using their connections to help wide variety of social, intellectual, and economic causes.

Discussing philanthropy and charity in African-American circles is not necessarily problematic, for instance, when it is conducted in the context of asking for donations after a major natural disaster or sponsoring a bus trip for teens to visit colleges. The conversations I have engaged in with colleagues and friends invariably become more heated when someone asks members of the group if they have done any charitable work to help the vulnerable members of our society such as individuals who are out of work, underemployed, living in poverty, or combating violence in troubled communities. Some of these conversations become peppered with innuendo regarding the lack of motivation of the people living in precarious situations to improve their circumstances.

On several occasions, I have listened to people interject that they earned their money so why should they give it away to someone who might not deserve it. Although those people seemed selfish as well as misguided, they expressed a sentiment that is not uncommon. In this context, a person elects to "qualify" whether or not a charity is worthy based upon their opinion of the people the charity seeks to serve.

As I pen these words, I am reminded of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s timeless words concerning philanthropy: "Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."

Dr. King tied philanthropy to addressing economic injustice, thus, he viewed philanthropy within the context of extending a charitable hand to lift up the poor, separate-and-unequal members of any society.

Within the context of Dr. King's quote, a philanthropist is an activist -a catalyst for change. Dr. King admonished philanthropists not to place themselves in such a lofty, exclusive position that they could not identify with people experiencing economic disparity. He clearly understood that underlying all the other inequities within our society is economic inequality. According to Dr. King, it is imperative for philanthropists to effectuate change. Such a characterization takes the philanthropists out of the ivory tower and puts him and her onto the highways with the other "Good Samaritans" who are challenging the status quo and uplifting the disenfranchised.

Regardless of the term used, improving humanity is at the core of philanthropy as well as charity. It is only when individuals polarize the causes or the individuals intended to benefit from the causes that philanthropy can become a seemingly "exclusionary" term in the AfricanAmerican community.

The first step in removing any misconceptions regarding philanthropy and charity is to promote dialogue about doing good for the sake of doing good. We live in an age where a person does not have to be a multimillionaire or an affluent member of society to be a philanthropist.

In these times when so many people and institutions are in need of financial as well as moral support, building bridges are more valuable than constructing bulwarks.

Ohio granny stops thief with a frying pan Flossie Tabor has a "don't mess with me or my family attitude."

On Saturday, the 74 year old went to her son's home in Warren, Ohio to take him some fresh fruit.

What she found was a broken window, the door open and two intruders inside.

"I walked in on them and asked them where's my son, and he said I live here. I said, "you don't live here, this is my house.

He grabbed a knife and said don't come near me. I said where's my son?" Tabor explained.

The grandmother said that that the teen appeared to be about 16.

He then pulled a butcher knife on the grandmother.

She explained that she surveyed her surroundings, shielded her grandson by placing him behind her and then grabbed a skillet.

"The first thing I could see was a skillet, and I grabbed and hit him across the head as hard as I could, then he ran out the door.

The little one said, let's go, let's go," said Tabor.

Tabor said she wasn't scared, just angry, and that's when her instincts and past work as a bounty hunter came back to her.

"My daughter had a bonding company in Atlanta, Georgia, so I worked for her and used to go out hunting criminals," explained Tabor.

Tabor says if you fight, you have a fighting chance.

Oakland School Board Threatens Closures, Parents Protest On Tuesday night, hundreds of parents, teachers and students crowded an Oakland School Board meeting to protest proposed shutdowns and consolidations that would affect 13 Oakland elementary schools. According to Oakland North, the closures will force 959 students to relocate.

The plan would close five small elementary schools (Lakeview, Lazaer, Marshall, Maxwell Park and Santa Fe schools), and consolidate eight others, and would save the district about $2 million.

According to SFGate, the five elementary schools are too small to qualify for crucial state funding, leaving the district to pick up the cost.

The state distributes funding per student, so smaller schools end up with dramatically less money. To make matters worse, the schools are underperforming.

"The real reason for this is we have too many schools for the number of children we have," said Superintendent Tony Smith to ABC7. "If we were outperforming in those districts, that would be one thing." But 17 percent of students are not passing the high school exit exam.

"That's not OK," said Smith at the meeting. "We are stretched way too thin and we gotta figure out how to better use our resources."

But many parents point to the high number of also underperforming charter schools in the

district that have drained students from public schools for the lack of funding. "There are 35 charter schools in Oakland," said one parent.

"That's why our public schools are underenrolled."

At the meeting, parents complained that closures would break up school communities and force Oakland families to travel too far from home to get their children to school. Several parents even threatened to remove their children from the district -- a nightmare for the Oakland Unified School District, since state funding is based on attendance.

A final decision will be made by the School Board on October 26.

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By Morgan Lee, Reporter A proposal by San Diego Gas & Electric to raise gas and electric rates by $1.1 billion over the next four years will get public hearings next week in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Utility regulators are evaluating the general rate case that affects 1.4 million customers — spanning homes, factories, farms and street lights from the Mexican border to southern Orange County.

Every three or four years, California’s investor-owned, state-regulated gas and electric monopolies make their case for how much money they need to operate safely and reliably, while still earning a profit for shareholders.

SDG&E said it will require an additional $231 million for 2012 — and $1.84 billion in total — to pay for the distribution of gas and electricity and for utility-owned generation.

That translates into an average rate revenue increase of 5.3 percent for electricity and a 4.1 percent increase for natural gas, after allowances including commodity costs, according to SDG&E. Consumer advocates and special interests are contesting those business needs in filings with the California Public Utilities Commission, offering vastly different visions for SDG&E’s near future.

The Division of Ratepayer Advocates, an independent section of the California Public Utilities Commission, spent 10 months analyzing SDG&E’s facts and figures.

It concluded that a 3 percent rate revenue decrease is in order, with no cumulative increase through 2015.

The price of infrastructure Based on regulations dating to 1982, utilities cannot make money on gas and electricity itself.

By law, commodity costs are passed along directly to the consumer to eliminate any financial incentives for greater energy use.

Instead, SDG&E and its peer utilities make their money off the operation and maintenance of infrastructure — pipelines, power lines and power plants — based on a formula determined by regulators. Mild weather and relatively low energy consumption in Southern California translate into higher rates per kilowatt hour compared with the rest of the United States, explained Lee Schavrien, vice president of regulatory and legislative affairs

for SDG&E. “It’s the same infrastructure,” he said, “with less sales.”

But individual power bills in San Diego remain close to the national average, he said.

Public hearings Hearings by the California Public Utilities Commission on SDG&E’s general rate case will be held at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. for the following dates and locations.

Monday, Oct. 10, in San Diego: Al Bahr Shriners Center, 5440 Kearny Mesa Road.

Tuesday, Oct. 11, in Chula Vista: Comfort Inn & Suites, 632 E. Main St. Wednesday, Oct. 12, in El Cajon: El Cajon City Hall Council Chambers, 200 E. Main St. Thursday, Oct. 13, in Oceanside: Civic Center Library, 330 N. Coast Highway.

The general rate case offers a detailed accounting of where that money goes in terms of operations, outlined in thousands of pages of written testimony.

The California Public Utilities Commission — with input from the public and consumer watchdogs — is responsible for closely reviewing the utility’s revenues, expenses, and investments in plants and equipment and for deciding what is necessary.

Revenue requirement increases this year are being driven by the cost of medical and wildfire insurance, the deployment of smart-grid technology and improvements to system reliability, SDG&E said in a presentation to shareholders.

The insurance costs are fallout from three devastating 2007 wildfires that investigators blame on SDG&E equipment.

Operations and maintenance, the biggest chunk of the rate case, includes everything from upkeep at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Generating Station ($120 million) to meter reading.

Also factored in to the rate case are taxes and the rate of return at the subsidiary of Sempra Energy.

Profits of $357 million were built into required revenues, based on an 8.4 percent return rate that was set at separate proceedings and won’t be reviewed again until 2013.

The utility will strive, of course, to make even more money than that each year to stay competi-

tive as a publicly traded Fortune 500 company.

Money-saving innovations that initially reward investors should, in theory, benefit ratepayers in the long run as regulators review subsequent general rate cases for cost efficiencies.

Watchdogs and special interests The nonprofit watchdog group Utility Consumers Action Network said it alone has documented $142 million in inflated costs within the SDG&E rate case.

UCAN Executive Director Michael Shames said those increases were spread across the utility’s operations rather than in select accounts to guard against regulators focusing on any one aspect of operations.

Average electricity rates by the kilowatt hour, he said, have crept above those of the state’s two other major investor-owned utilities.

“After enriching its managers and shareholders, Sempra pleads poverty in the current rate case, claiming that extremely pressing needs justify double-digit increases above inflation in many cost categories, including the very operational expenses that management cut in 2010,” Shames testified in filings to the CPUC. SDG&E spokeswoman Stephanie Donovan said more revenues are necessary to keep up with surging premiums for medical and liability insurance on top of fixed costs and infrastructure growth.

“I think that anybody who owns a business or runs a household knows that costs have gone up,” she said. “There is no difference for SDG&E. Our costs as a business have gone up.”

The Division of Ratepayer Advocates has argued that ratepayers are being asked to pay too much for long-term stock options and incentive programs, recommending a $45.6 million reduction to SDG&E’s compensation request. A critique of the rate request by union officials raises other issues about staffing and reliability in the wake of the utilitywide power failure on Sept. 8.

“SDG&E faces looming shortages of workers able to respond to power outages, yet had hired no new entry-level workers in the 18 months ending in June,” the Coalition of California Utility Employees said in its filing with state regulators.

SDG&E told the union that it has more than 600 gas and electrical workers who can restore service in case of emergencies.

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Page 22 - August 27, 2011May 7, 2011 that women suffer from autoimmune illness at a significantly higher rate than men; I have come to believe that this is, in part, due to the widespread use of countless cosmetics among women.

At this point, I hope that it is clear that autoimmune illness, no matter which specific one you are concerned about, is not a local problem in your body; it is a systemic problem that has multiple causes and should be addressed as such.

The bottomline is that if you want to maximize your chances of experiencing a full recovery and being free of autoimmune illness for the long-term, you must take care of every aspect of your health on a daily basis.

Be sure to pick up next week’s edition of The San Diego Monitor News & Business Journal for Part 3, of this 4 Part series, on Getting Your Health Back. Part Three will introduce the guidelines of how to prevent and address the root causes of autoimmune illness.

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Mayor’s Debate: The Coalition for a Better San Diego Presents... San Diego Mayoral Debate! Thus far here is the status of the candidates; Representative Bob Filner (Confirmed), Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher (Confirmed),Councilmember Carl DeMaio (Invited), District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis

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