Washington State Election Results 2011 Update

Washington State Election Results 2011

In Franklin County, Proposition 1 is passing. Initial results show 62% of voters said “yes” to the county’s criminal justice and public safety tax. 38% voted “no.” The measure would increase the sales and use tax in Franklin County and the City of Pasco 3/10 of one percent.

As for Pasco council members, the only two contested races show Al Yenny is beating Andrew Johnson, with 61% of votes. Johnson has received 39%. The second contested race has Rebecca Francik with 66% of votes and John Talbott with 34%.

In Benton County, the City of Kennewick Council position 7 shows Mayor Steve Young is winning with 70% of votes, beating out controversial candidate Loren Nichols who received 30% votes. Nichols was known for his stance on immigration.

WA Election Results 2011

Ohio Election Results 2011

The vote buoyed Democrats, who are hoping to rebound from their sweeping losses in 2010, though experts agree the economy is still the biggest issue. “If the economy were to turn around in the next year, that’s going to matter a lot more than what happens in ballot issues,” said one political analyst, Justin Buchler.

Ohio’s bill went further than a similar one in Wisconsin by including police officers and firefighters, and was considered by many observers to be a barometer of the national mood on the political conundrum of the day: what is the appropriate size and role of government, and who should pay for it.

Its defeat is anticipated to energise the labour movement, which largely supports the Democrats, ahead of Barack Obama’s re-election effort.

The result indicated that voters in the industrial midwest may be growing disenchanted with the Tea Party-backed Republicans voted into office in 2010, who have advocated deep spending cuts and opposed tax increases.

Faced with budget gaps and Tea Party pressure to curb spending, Republican governors around the country have sought to limit unions’ influence. The new law repealed in Ohio would have severely limited the bargaining rights of more than 350,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public employees.

The law had not yet taken effect. It would have permitted workers to negotiate wages but not pensions or healthcare benefits. It banned strikes for public sector workers, scrapped binding arbitration and dropped promotions based solely on seniority.

With about a third of the vote tallied, the repeal effort was leading 61% to 39%.

The vote is a blow to the state’s new Republican governor, John Kasich, who pushed strongly for the legislation after Republicans gained a firm hold on the Ohio legislature in 2010.

Labour and business interests poured more than $30m (£18.5m) into the nationally watched campaign, and turnout was high.

Kasich and supporters in the business community promoted the law as a means for local governments to save money and keep workers. The largely union-funded opponent coalition painted the issue as a threat to public safety and middle-class workers, running TV ads filled with images of firefighters, police officers, teachers and nurses.

Ohio voters also approved a proposal to prohibit people from being required to buy health insurance as part of the national healthcare overhaul supported by Obama. The vote was mostly symbolic but Republicans hope to use it as part of a legal challenge.

In Maine, voters repealed a new state law supported by the state’s new Tea Party-backed Republican governor that requires voters to register at least two days before an election.

The elections also include governors’ races in Mississippi and Kentucky. Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Steve Beshear, was re-elected, becoming the second Democrat to win a governorship in 2011. He won despite high unemployment, budget shortfalls and an onslaught of third-party attack ads.

In Mississippi the lieutenant governor, Phil Bryant, appeared poised to keep the governor’s mansion in Republican hands, succeeding Haley Barbour, who toyed briefly with a run for president. The Hattiesburg mayor, Johnny Dupree, is the first black major-party nominee for governor in Mississippi, but an upset win for him is not on the cards.

2011 NECO RESULTS

NECO Results have been released, NECO has  released the eagerly awaited results of its June/July 2011/2012 examinations.

Candidates that sat for the NECO June/July 2011/2012 examinations can now check their results on the neco website: www.mynecoexams.com.

HOW TO CHECK YOUR NECO RESULTS

- After accessing the NECO website: http://www.mynecoexams.com/results/default.aspx

1.	Select year Examination Type
2.	Select year of examination
3.	Enter your card PIN number
4.	Enter your Examination Number
5.	Click on “Check My Result” button

Good Luck

NECO Results 2011

NECO Results have been released, NECO has  released the eagerly awaited results of its June/July 2011/2012 examinations.

Candidates that sat for the NECO June/July 2011/2012 examinations can now check their results on the neco website: www.mynecoexams.com.

Another mass failure has been recorded by students across the country in the just announced 2011 June/July Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results.

Registrar, Chief Executive of the Council, (NECO) while announcing the results in Minna Friday, exonerated the Council from  the poor outing of students nationwide, adding that structures that ensured that appropriate standards of excellence and transparency were maintained before, during and after the examinations were put in place.

A breakdown of the results shows that out of the 1,190,393 that registered for the English language, 1,160,049 actually sat for the examinations while only 2,119 or 0.18% came out with Distinction and 263,777 or 22.16% came out with Credit pass, 76,224 or 6.40% failed while there 51,312 malpractice or 4.31% was recorded.

In Mathematics, 1,190,365 registered for the subject while 1,156,561 sat for it with only 3,356 or 0.28% obtaining Distinction and 295,961 or 24.86% with credit, 7, 7,395 or 60.27% pass, 89,023 or 7.48% failed while 50,826 or 4.27% malpractice was recorded.

Core subjects like Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Further Mathematics also recorded mass failure with high degrees of malpractices also recorded.

Answering questions from Journalists on the continous mass failure in external examinations, Registrar/Chief Executive of the Council, Professor Promise M. Okpala attributed the continous mass failure to a lot of variables which he said include the learners (Students) themselves, the various schools across the country, parents and even the society.

He said while the Federal government and some states have already taken bold steps to improve on the educational standard, all stakeholders will have to be patient before reaping the good results adding that “the high expectations cannot be achieved  immediately because change in the behavioral pattern of the children take time”.

Professor Okpala identified quality teaching on the part of teachers and intensive learning by the students concerned as the only way out if the dwindling academics and poor results in the country have to be drastically reduced.

On whether the Council has an approved syllabus for its candidates and whether schools are being monitored in strict compliance with the approved syllabus, the Registrar said, “in as much as NECO has an approved and standard syllabus, strict compliance with it rest sorely in the hands of each school to ensure that the syllabus are met in terms of teaching.”

According to him,” it cannot be proper for any external examiner to go into schools to analyse how they are teaching their students and for the same examiner to oversee the markings of answer sheets of such students.”

Okpala emphasized on the markings of examination scripts of students saying, “we embark on centralized marking and those engaged in our markings are qualified teachers who teach in various secondary schools across the country and I want to assure you that we don’t award marks randomly but according to ability and capability of each student.

A total of 1,190,393 candidates registered for the examination out of while 1,160561 actually sat for the examination.

NECO Results 2011

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Apartheid in South Africa

With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized. Race laws touched every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, and the sanctioning of “white-only” jobs. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified into one of three categories: white, black (African), or colored (of mixed decent). The coloured category included major subgroups of Indians and Asians. Classification into these categories was based on appearance, social acceptance, and descent. For example, a white person was defined as “in appearance obviously a white person or generally accepted as a white person.” A person could not be considered white if one of his or her parents were non-white. The determination that a person was “obviously white” would take into account “his habits, education, and speech and deportment and demeanor.” A black person would be of or accepted as a member of an African tribe or race, and a colored person is one that is not black or white. The Department of Home Affairs (a government bureau) was responsible for the classification of the citizenry. Non-compliance with the race laws were dealt with harshly. All blacks were required to carry “pass books” containing fingerprints, photo and information on access to non-black areas.

In 1951, the Bantu Authorities Act established a basis for ethnic government in African reserves, known as “homelands.” These homelands were independent states to which each African was assigned by the government according to the record of origin (which was frequently inaccurate). All political rights, including voting, held by an African were restricted to the designated homeland. The idea was that they would be citizens of the homeland, losing their citizenship in South Africa and any right of involvement with the South African Parliament which held complete hegemony over the homelands. From 1976 to 1981, four of these homelands were created, denationalizing nine million South Africans. The homeland administrations refused the nominal independence, maintaining pressure for political rights within the country as a whole. Nevertheless, Africans living in the homelands needed passports to enter South Africa: aliens in their own country.

In 1953, the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act were passed, which empowered the government to declare stringent states of emergency and increased penalties for protesting against or supporting the repeal of a law. The penalties included fines, imprisonment and whippings. In 1960, a large group of blacks in Sharpeville refused to carry their passes; the government declared a state of emergency. The emergency lasted for 156 days, leaving 69 people dead and 187 people wounded. Wielding the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the white regime had no intention of changing the unjust laws of apartheid.

The penalties imposed on political protest, even non-violent protest, were severe. During the states of emergency which continued intermittently until 1989, anyone could be detained without a hearing by a low-level police official for up to six months. Thousands of individuals died in custody, frequently after gruesome acts of torture. Those who were tried were sentenced to death, banished, or imprisoned for life, like Nelson Mandela.

Woolworths South Africa

The first Woolworths store opened its doors to the public in Cape Town in October 1931. Since then, we’ve been building on our reputation for superior quality, exciting innovation and excellent value.

Founder Max Sonnenberg faced uncertain economic times when he captured the public’s imagination with a dynamic store policy that set Woolworths apart from its competitors. Three years later, a second branch opened in Durban, with another two in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg a year later. Over the past 80 years, our unique formula has seen the number of stores grow to over 400 across South Africa, Africa and the Middle East.

Keen to attract and retain the best retail professionals, Woolworths was among the first local retailers to offer employees a pension fund, medical aid and maternity leave.

Not just a forward thinking employer, Woolworths was also an early adopter of technology. A lease agreement for the first computer was agreed to with National Cash Registers (NCR) in the late 60s, and Woolworths was already using a computerised merchandising system by the early 1970s.

This dynamic thinking extends to Woolworths product offering as well. For example, in 1974, Woolworths became the first South African retailer to introduce ‘sell by’ dates on food packaging. Convenience, too, has long been a watchword at Woolworths: we were the first South African retailer to offer pre-washed lettuce and machine-washable wool clothing to consumers.

Throughout our 80-year history, though Woolworths has grown, evolved and adapted to the changing world, the brand has remained true to its core values of quality and style, service, integrity, value, energy, innovation and sustainability.

In April 2007, we launched our Good business journey – a bold plan to make a difference in four key areas on our journey towards sustainability. Our comprehensive plan sets targets across four priority areas: transformation, social development, the environment and climate change. We are exceedingly proud to have been named international Responsible Retailer of the year in 2008 and 2010 in recognition of our efforts to help shape a better future for generations to come.

 

Woolworths Career Options

In the dynamic world of Woolworths retail, careers can be developed in a number of specialist areas including Foods, Clothing, Homeware, Buying, Planning and Technology, and opportunities leading to General Management in Stores and Head Office.  Support areas include careers in Administration, Finance, Information Systems, Audit, Marketing, Corporate Governance and Human Resources.

If you require any assistance using our site, please contact us on 0861 227337 / 0861 Career.

See detailed below some of the exciting Career Options at Woolworths:

MERCHANT OPPORTUNITIES IN BUYING AREAS -

For those who are really excited about product, there are exciting opportunities for Buyers based at Head Office who procure a balanced range of the most wanted goods for Woolworths.  For those with meticulous attention to detail and highly developed analytical skills, the Planning role offers great challenges.  Planners control and monitor the allocation of the right goods to the right store at the right time. For those who are innovative, creative and passionate about working with foods, the Selecting role offers great challenges.  Selectors develop product, drawing from international trends and customer needs.

a day in the life of a product developer:

The product developer of our sweets and snacks department gave us a glimpse into her working life.  She visits Belgium, Switzerland and Germany to explore their home-made chocolates.  She also attends the sweets fairs to examine trends and emerging concepts which are then adapted to meet our customer needs.  The product developer investigates the marketing opportunities and with innovative supply bases they develop concepts which lead the confectionery field in this country.  Our sweets product developer studied Food Nutrition before joining Woolworths on an apprenticeship.

MERCHANT OPPORTUNITIES IN SELLING -

For those who have high energy and motivation and are passionate about trading goods and providing exceptional customer service, then a career as a merchant in one of our stores is a fantastic opportunity. In our stores, there are exciting general management opportunities for passionate, talented and committed retailers who have the drive to make a successful career in this challenging and demanding field.  We have extensive training and mentoring for the right people who will be the leaders of the future.

a day in the life of a foods manager:

Talking to one of our foods managers at a Food stand alone is difficult as they never stand still!!  This is the face and home of Woolies and where our merchants put money in the till.  They are very busy dealing with early morning deliveries, ensuring the store is 100% ready for trade and ensuring our customers are part of the family – satisfied and happy shopping at Woolies.  The people component is part of everyday management, from recruiting and developing staff through to coaching and ensuring food supply chain disciplines are followed through.  With a number of stores opening, there are great opportunities for growth.

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SERVICE AREAS -

For those with specialist skills we offer a variety of challenging careers in this vital area of our business.  Systems are an essential part of our competitive edge in retail and we need talented employees to develop the future with us.  You would need relevant qualifications and experience and a drive to succeed.

a day in the life of an analyst programmer:

As an analyst programmer you day will involve a lot more than simply writing code.  Your day will be filled with testing and supporting systems, investigating queries or bugs and fixing them, testing functionality and analysing impacts of new changes on other systems.  Each day presents a variety of challenges, including providing the technical requirements for changes to existing systems.

 

SUPPLY CHAIN, OPERATIONS -

Supply Chain forms the backbone of our business, and ensures the fast and efficient transport of goods from supplier to stores, supported by well-designed systems and processes.