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under a federal court settlement announced this week, the Maryland health care corporation that fired Whitledge in 2009 will send a letter of condolences to her survivors - along with a check for $160,000.

The closely watched lawsuit that produced Wednesday's settlement marks an important test of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and is likely to change the way employers treat ailing employees, attorneys said Thursday.

"This decision demonstrates the (government's) commitment to aggressive enforcement of the ADA," said Doug Christensen, chair of the labor-employment group at the Dorsey & Whitney law firm in Minneapolis. "It shows employers the importance of engaging in an individualized, interactive process with employees who are potentially disabled."

North Carolina has been transfixed this past summer by the gripping, tragic testimony of victims of its eugenics program, which forcibly sterilized some 7,600 state residents from 1929 to 1974.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, it might be instructive to recall that foundation’s contribution to North Carolina’s shameful past.

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This social might is now moving toward your company. We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. A few have joined cause with WikiLeaks and its terrifying stepchildren, upending the once secure corridors of the U.S. State Department and Pentagon. But most are ordinary people with new tools to force you to listen to what they care about and to demand respect. Both your customers and your employees have started marching in this burgeoning social media multitude, and you’d better get out of their way—or learn to embrace them.

The institutions of modern developed societies, whether governments or companies, are not prepared for this new social power. People are changing faster than companies. “I don’t think it’s crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak,” says Gary Hamel, one of business’ most eminent theoreticians of management. “The elites—or managers in companies—no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.” Says Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com: “This isn’t just about Arab spring. This is about corporate spring.” 

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Nothing can change things except the utter collapse of the US economy and the burning of its cities, a singularity the other side of which is not visible. Any possible sollution would require a decision. The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither make money nor stop spending it, neither stop immigration nor assimilate the immigrants. Washington can beat its thumb with a hammer, yes, and notice that it hurts, but it can't stop beating its thumb. That would take a decision, and Washington doesn't do decisions.

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Preventions writes that this health trick has been shown in 40 studies to effectively reduce nausea from motion sickness. The technique is to:

Press between the two tendons on the inside of your wrist, about three finger breadths below the base of your palm

Today, the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) will host its first National Diversity Forum at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center,.  This event is part of Add Us In – an initiative with the main goal of identifying and developing strategies to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities in small business communities.  This specifically entails those located in or serving underrepresented and historically excluded communities, including those owned and operated by ethnic and racial minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals; veterans; women; and people with disabilities. 

Add Us In is not only a project that is a priority for the department, it is also a project that is very close to my heart.  Like so many of you, my life has been profoundly impacted by my various identities and experiences.  Disability, race, gender and sexual orientation have all shaped the person I am today.

As the U.S. averted default with approval of a last-minute compromise plan to raise the ceiling on the nations $14.3 trillion debt while cutting spending and certain entitlement programs, National Disability Institute brought its economic empowerment agenda for people with disabilities to Capitol Hill on Aug. 2 as host of the 2nd Annual Disability Economic Advancement Policy Forum. Joined by congressional representatives as well as disability and asset development organizations at the Rayburn House Office Building, National Disability Institute made the compelling case that now, amid fiscal reform legislation, is the time to address and remedy the enforced poverty of the majority of Americans with disabilities.

“One in seven Americans lives in poverty. But for people with disabilities, that number jumps to one in three. Sixty-five percent of people in long-term poverty have a disability,” said Michael Morris, National Disability Institute’s Executive Director. “Due to a lack of policy alignment, people with disabilities are forced to stay poor to keep receiving public benefits.”