Bride-To-Be Struggles to Get Wedding Refund after Fiancee Dies
Columbus, Ohio
December 18, 2013, 11:17 PM EST
ABC 6 On Your Side

I can definitely feel for Cassie Kelsey’s loss of her fiancee Adam Schneider but reading this article the contract was fully non-refundable with the company. I’m sure the company has a reason for doing this practice especially with booking events in the future. By definition, “the indefinite time yet to come”, is exactly why this company has a non-refundable contract because one cannot predict the future. Cassie Kelsey herself was aware of the uncertainty of the life span of her fiancee. Should the company have to absorb the loss for this? I think not. Plus the event company did offer a partial refund with the remainder to go on deposit. So I ask this, why doesn’t Cassie take the initiative to find someone else within her network to take over that event time slot instead of asking the company to do so? Marketing and generating business costs money, hence the reason why the event company specifically has a non-refundable contract that they require their customers to sign.

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Although prolonged unemployment is tough for any worker, it’s especially hard on people at midlife who are often forced to dip into retirement savings and change their lifestyles in order to make ends meet. And it’s much more difficult to become employed again. Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, says the situation for those unemployed and over 55 “is very severe. That group has the longest duration of unemployment.”
Although the number fluctuates, Van Horn says there are “at least a couple of million people” over age 55 in the category of long-term unemployed—defined as more than six months–and at least half of those have been unemployed for over a year. “From a national perspective it’s a small number—the labor market is 150 million people—but it’s a small number experiencing a severe problem,” says Van Horn. “In the research we did between 2009-2011 only 15 percent of those we surveyed were able to find a full-time job within a year.”
See also: Over 40? 7 Things Never To Say in a Job Interview
“Even though it’s illegal, this group faces age discrimination, a sense by employers that a younger worker can work harder and will have had more recent training and more technical skills,” says David Blustein, a professor of counseling psychology and an expert in unemployment and career development at theLynch School of Education at Boston College. And if they do find work, older workers will likely be earning less than they did before losing their job.
Still, the news isn’t all doom-and-gloom. Those over 50 often worked in leadership roles before becoming unemployed and have skills and industry knowledge that can’t be replaced. That gives them unique options, says executive recruiter Sharon Hulce, president of Employment Resource Group in Appleton, Wisconsin and author of the forthcoming book, A Well-Done Professional Midlife Crisis.

Unemployment over 50…

Although prolonged unemployment is tough for any worker, it’s especially hard on people at midlife who are often forced to dip into retirement savings and change their lifestyles in order to make ends meet. And it’s much more difficult to become employed again. Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, <http://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/>, at Rutgers University, says the situation for those unemployed and over 55 “is very severe. That group has the longest duration of unemployment.”

Although the number fluctuates, Van Horn says there are “at least a couple of million people” over age 55 in the category of long-term unemployed—defined as more than six months–and at least half of those have been unemployed for over a year. “From a national perspective it’s a small number—the labor market is 150 million people—but it’s a small number experiencing a severe problem,” says Van Horn. “In the research we did between 2009-2011 only 15 percent of those we surveyed were able to find a full-time job within a year.”

See also: Over 40? 7 Things Never To Say in a Job Interview, <http://workreimagined.aarp.org/find-a-job/over-40-7-things-never-to-say-in-a-job-interview/>

“Even though it’s illegal, this group faces age discrimination, a sense by employers that a younger worker can work harder and will have had more recent training and more technical skills,” says David Blustein, a professor of counseling psychology and an expert in unemployment and career development at theLynch School of Education, <http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/lsoe.html>, at Boston College. And if they do find work, older workers will likely be earning less than they did before losing their job.

Still, the news isn’t all doom-and-gloom. Those over 50 often worked in leadership roles before becoming unemployed and have skills and industry knowledge that can’t be replaced. That gives them unique options, says executive recruiter Sharon Hulce, president of Employment Resource Group in Appleton, Wisconsin and author of the forthcoming book, A Well-Done Professional Midlife Crisis.

Whatever happened to educating our youth with a basic skill foundation to be a success but yet encouraging them to develop their unique skills or gifts? We move more and more to an assembly line society and that now includes educating our youth to be drones so that they can best fit in our more and more homogenized society devoid of uniqueness, creativity, and thinking outside of the box. — feeling sad.

Legacy of neglect: Slumlords play the system
Slumlords avoid penalties while bringing down neighborhoods; mayor vows reform The Columbus Dispatch By  Mark Ferenchik ,  Jill Riepenhoff  and  Mike Wagner
Sunday November 10, 2013 5:30 AM
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/11/10/1-legacy-of-neglect.html

I read the above article today in my local newspaper.

This is a strong article and I hope readers will listen and take action. Slumlords are all around us from our neighbors, businesses, public officials, and even our Area Commissions. It’s a tough and disgusting swallow.

First and foremost we all have options and choices when it comes to where we live. I hear time and time again the living conditions that people are faced to live in and that “My grandbabies shouldn’t have to live like this,” but what options or actions have these individuals taken to better there living conditions? Granted we have many slumlords in the City of Columbus that prey on just these individuals as demonstrated by our community blog on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SlumlordWatchColumbusOhio/. As citizens “that drive by” and see these conditions we can and do report it to Columbus311 because it is a violation of our community standard but these individuals have to take action as well. Sure they can call Columbus311 and report the violation or put rent money in escrow but 95% of the time the slumlord is indeed going to take advantage of the system and just kick their tenants out and bring in another tenant thankful and gracious that the landlord took them in “no questions asked”.

Slumlord housing is a disease that is spread willingly, knowingly, advantageously and will continue to prevail until the victims of these slumlords fight back, the communities these slumlords do business in fight back, the City of Columbus gets tougher in being actionable in code enforcement violations, and finally the State of Ohio needs to re-vamp it’s antiquated property ownership laws and put tougher enforcement and penalties on slumlords doing business along these lines especially LLC’s.

Code Enforcement’s job is to enforce code no matter how minor the infraction. It is not our place as citizens to hold off on using the service because we feel that it may burden the system or that it is too minimal to worry about when there our bigger issues. Unfortunately these bigger issues are hindered because the City and the State has no teeth to go after these slumlords, absentee landlords, and abandoned housing. Whether a citizen is a victim or not, we as citizen’s need to continue to report any and all code violations from the most minor to the major. The City of Columbus needs to respond then by taking action on them and hiring more personnel when needed to address this growing disease. Finally, as citizen’s we are responsible as well because we become complacent to these issues and do nothing even though we live right next door to this issue. When countered as to why, one doesn’t do anything, it’s always the same thing, “Well the city won’t do anything anyway so why bother.” Let’s remove that notion and as citizen’s DO SOMETHING. OBSERVE – DOCUMENT – REPORT – FOLLOWUP! As citizens we have these responsibilities when living in an urban setting. Get involved, contact your neighborhood block watch or civic association. Walk the streets in your community, pick up trash, document problem properties and followup. It starts with us first before it can move up the chain.

11/01/13

Got my daily “lower your interest rate” call today. The number used today is: 860-822-7440.

As usual I vent my frustrations out using all kinds of gross things that I will do to the person such as cutting out their private parts and chopping off their head and using it as a bowling ball or using the head to see how far up an orifice I can go up on their body. It’s a definitely a kind of therapy especially if I’ve had a bad day or “just because”. I use all kinds of colorful words. I always challenge the person to call the police on me since I threatened them. They never do, mostly they curse me back or if it is a guy we get into dick size conversations.

When the lady that called me today from “Lower your interest rate” I said that I had a butcher knife and that I was going to ram it up her p*… And then I was going to chop off her head. I said how can you work for a company that scams people like that. I told her that she would only last two months. I kept going off on her. I challenged her to call the police on me since I threatened her. She said go ahead, I said no that she needed to do so from her area because I am threatening her. I offered to wait on the phone while she did so. I told her again and again that she should be ashamed of herself for attempting to fraud people. I said that I was recording this conversation and that I post everything on my social blog. I complimented her for not cursing me back. I said normally you folks have a worse curse mouth than I do. She said that she was only a switchboard (Which is not true because she identified herself as lowering interest rates. She finally hung up on me. I know this tactic may not do too much but hopefully these fraud people will stop doing this or if nothing else I will continue to bring awareness to this so unsuspecting people do not get caught up in their scam to get your credit card information so that they can charge your account.

Of course the number is spoofed either google voice or other internet IP phone. The number never goes thru if you call them back.

These are the other numbers that I’ve documented from them (since they call everyday)

Feel free to add to your BLOCK list.

(253) 246-8534
(417) 800-2363
(904) 425-5642
(479) 274-1769
(770) 733-7690
(403) 905-8000
(708) 417-2636
(701) 671-9447
(263) 989-7373
(701) 671-9224
(773) 340-4844
(251) 725-1770
(702) 514-3335
(575) 513-7814
(402) 982-0422
(313) 347-8168
(310) 599-5774
(818) 539-6135
(757) 852-9899
(252) 669-8800
(318) 474-5828
(225) 523-0870
(701) 283-0872
(931) 414-0907
(601) 532-8022
(573) 942-8047
(719) 263-8570
(208) 679-6017
(540) 625-8740
(202) 206-8474
(207) 846-8047
(928) 467-4719
(860) 822-7440
(765) 998-4712
(641) 726-8406
(801) 647-0293
(702) 514-3335
(424) 273-2029
(704) 206-0013
(216) 400-8002
(802) 230-6357
(503) 468-5531
(920) 602-0879
(512) 501-3637
(713) 705-6926
(305) 202-1132
(312) 800-9037
(203) 998-7000
(865) 259-6702
(606) 950-7080
(608) 534-1401
(662) 720-4709
(208) 313-8014
(214) 682-2723
(575) 487-0952
(643) 985-4734
(662) 291-8540
(530) 429-4755
(938) 223-4720
(256) 332-8741
(228) 295-0760

We are inclined to not recycle for many reasons. Most state how it will benefit themselves or why should one take their own time to recycle when municipalities take away the trash.

Consider this: EVERY single piece of plastic that has ever been created since the 19th century is still SOMEWHERE on our planet. So if it never goes away, where does it go?

Will it benefit you to recycle in your lifetime? Perhaps, perhaps not but what about your children? Just a thought.

http://earth911.com/art-entertainment/angela-sun-sheds-light-on-plastic-problem/

Cher was on the Today show yesterday, 09/23/13, singing away. You have to give her credit for being out there and still doing it but she just doesn’t have the range that she used to and you can tell it wore her out. Perhaps it is best to be remembered during your best times instead of creating new memories of when your not.