Tuesday, March 5, 2019

March 9, 2019. Washington, D.C. Feed the Hood Project. Volunteers Wanted.



Volunteers Needed
Volunteers Needed! Join us this Saturday, March 9 at Barry Farms Recreation Center. Feed the Hood is a monthly grassroots project coordinated by NBUF and its community partners to ensure the less fortunate have access to food, clothing, personal hygiene items and medical supplies. During the event, NBUF, in collaboration with volunteers and community service groups, prepare an average of 200 care packages that are distributed to homeless men and women that reside in NBUF-DC's sponsored park, Shepherd Park.   Register to volunteer or bring supplies via the link below. 


Monday, March 4, 2019

Unfold a chair, sit at the table. Will you help lead Sister Cities International?


“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late.  Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity . . .This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos or community.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
‘Where Are We Going From Here:  Chaos or Community’.
  
Get involved with SCI: Join our Board of Directors      


Sister Cities International Now Accepting Applications for Open Positions on the Board of Directors

Sister Cities International’s Board of Directors is elected by its voting members—local sister city organizations. The board elections include both electronic voting as well as in-person voting at the Annual Business Meeting held during Sister Cities International’s Annual Conference each year.


Nine (9) At-Large Board positions as well as the Young Professional position will be filled by election. Seven (7) of the positions are for full three-year terms (2019-2022), one (1) is for a two-year position (2019-2021) and one (1) is for a one-year position (2019-2020). The three-year positions will be filled by the 1st through 7th place candidates, the two-year by the 8th place and one-year by the 9th place. The Young Professional position (under 35 years old) will serve for the normal two year term.

It is the policy of Sister Cities International Board of Directors that each candidate applying for the above positions, including current Directors running for second terms, must submit their application materials and all supplemental information by Monday, April 15th to Shelby Bunker at sbunker@sistercities.org. Applications received after this date will not be considered.

If you have any questions about running for the board, please reference our FAQ below. You may also visit our Board Elections page and our Board Elections FAQ page for additional information.


Sunday, February 24, 2019

Corruption. Corruption is a global issue. February 2019


Corruption.  
Corruption is a global issue. 

In the U.S. Systems designed with at a minimum three major components:   monitoring\detection, prosecution, and incarceration. 

Other nations do have monitoring\detection established, but little if any prosecution or incarceration.   Without use of entire components corruption has an appearance of cultural acceptance and a way of doing business. 

Make the change.

BEMA International



Ex-Montgomery County official gets 4 years in federal prison for embezzling $6.7 million



Peter Bang, front, walks into the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Greenbelt on Friday with his lawyer, Gerald W. Kelly Jr. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)

February 22
Byung Il “Peter” Bang, the former Montgomery County economic development official who admitted to stealing $6.7 million from the county, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
In a hearing that stretched for more than two hours, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis underscored the seriousness of the offense — which she called a “doozy” — while also noting Bang’s role as a devoted husband and father, and his efforts to seek help for the gambling addiction that prosecutors say motivated him to steal from government coffers.
“This was a purposeful plan that involved the largest theft in Montgomery County history, and I cannot look away from that,” Xinis said.
Bang pleaded guilty Nov. 16 to two federal charges — one of wire fraud and the other of fraud and false statements — and to state charges of a theft scheme over $100,000 and misconduct in office. Sentencing in the state case is scheduled for next month.

In the moments before Xinis made her ruling, Bang addressed the court, repeatedly saying he took “full responsibility” for the years-long theft. But he quibbled with some points raised during the hearing, arguing, for example, that a shell company prosecutors say he set up to further the scheme was actually initially created for legitimate purposes.
“At this point, I have no excuse,” Bang told the judge, lawyers and spectators in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Greenbelt. “I want to express remorse, shame and offer apologies to my former employer and colleagues.”
He said he hasn’t gambled since 2016 and has been undergoing treatment with a psychologist, who diagnosed him as a “compulsive gambler with deep-rooted emotional and mental issues.”
Prosecutors had asked Xinis to sentence Bang to five years on the first federal charge, with an additional three years to run concurrently on the second.
Xinis imposed a 48-month sentence for the first charge and 36 months for the second, to be served concurrently. She said his state sentence also should be served concurrently.
“He has arguably put a black mark on Montgomery County,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Sullivan, noting that Bang stole from a department tasked with bringing economic development to the Maryland suburb of 1.1 million people. “Are businesses going to come to Montgomery County when they know this type of malfeasance has occurred?”
Bang’s wife, Youn Jung, and his pastor both spoke at the hearing, emphasizing his role as a family man, albeit with psychological issues.
In a soft, halting voice, his wife recounted her life with him. “I asked him why, and my husband said, ‘I don’t know,’” she said as Bang stared straight ahead, his fingers interlaced before him.
Bang’s attorney, Gerald W. Kelly Jr., of Columbia, had requested three years in prison for his client.
“A gambling addiction and untreated mental health condition directly related to his conduct,” Kelly said to the judge. “Mr. Bang stands before this court with sincere remorse for his crimes.”
But Deputy County Attorney John Markovs, speaking for Montgomery County, called Bang’s crime “a case of public corruption at the highest level.”
“While Mr. Bang may be a loving husband and father, that belies his intentions,” Markovs said. “His embezzlement of county money is not a victimless crime.”



Friday, February 22, 2019

Destroy an organization from within. A few hinders. February 2019

Many hinders organizations should avoid.

BEMA International was conceived to avoid these pitfalls at all costs.

CDS.  CEO BEMA International

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/02/how-to-destroy-an-organization-from-within?fbclid=IwAR3yJVMOG3r8mRGMdGPnEP40G-t2AO6b2Gre7I0wxl1n0D5R6nsF2hGddRQ

HOW TO DESTROY AN ORGANIZATION FROM WITHIN  
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·        Insist on doing everything through “channels.”  Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
·        Make “speeches.”  Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.
·        When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.”  Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.
·        Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
·        Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
·        Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
·        Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
·        In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers.
·        Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.
·        To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.
·        Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
·        Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.
·        Work slowly.
·        Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can.
·        Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.
·        Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.
                                              



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