Archive for January 3rd, 2012
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit – 1-1-2012
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
“Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit” and Happy New Year!
This was not the first thing I said today. I went to Facebook and said “Happy New Year” on our office page (as our office page, Real Living HER Worthington.) I went to a past clients page and said “Happy New Year” and “Happy Anniversary.” And I stayed to read about their dog having puppies last night. Happy New Year!
This blog says “Rabbit , Rabbit, Rabbit the first thing each month for good luck. I often pre-write the posts. No such luck this month.
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Get More Information On How To Obtain Infant U S Passport
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Traveling with young children is not only hectic but also tedious. When traveling with a baby, there are several challenges encountered from ensuring that all baby’s requirements are packed to ensuring it is comfortable. If the kid is uncomfortable during the trip, you are sure you will not have peace too. An infant passport will also be required. It is mandatory for everybody traveling in or out of US to have passports including children. Some ways on how to obtain infant U.S. passport are discussed below.
Infant Passport
The procedure of obtaining passports for infants is a simple one. At the same time, it is an involving process and requires total dedication to complete it easily. The procedure is just like that of adults and older children. Obtaining forms for application from the immigration office is the first thing to do. These forms can be got through the government’s website or other travel service providers. You can even get pasport expedite services.
Citzenship
The other thing that follows is giving evidence that your child is a citizen of the United States. This is done via presentation of the birth certificate or the naturalization certificate if the baby was born outside the US. These vital documents must be presented alongside certificate of citizenship.
Passport Photos
You have to provide official passport photographs of your child that has to be of the specified measurement. They have to be two in number measuring 2 by 2 inches. It is worth noting that only photos taken by certified professional photographer are accepted. Your photos risk rejection if this rule is not adhered to. If you do not need it urgently, you will accompany these documents with fees of application.
Parental Documents
The other “must do” thing is submission of documents proving parental relationship to the infant. With the high rates of child trafficking, the government has taken such steps to ensure that no child is smuggled inside or outside the US. Among the documents needed as proof include a court order establishing custody of the child, parent’s identification and the child’s birth certificate bearing both parents names.
Parental Acknowledgement
Before the approval of the documents, parents are obliged to issue parental consent for issuance. This is very critical and must be done even if the baby is single parented. The available parent must provide authorization notarized by the other parent in case still alive or the death certificate if one parent is dead or a court order granting sole custody.
Renewal
A parent will have to renew the traveling document for his child after five year. All the parent needs to do after the expiry date is to go through this same procedure again. Please note that the physical presence of the child together with its genuine parent is still important in even in the second time of obtaining this document.
Cash mobs support local business, but can they create change?
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
(Broadside Bookshop)
The Wall Street Journal reports on cash mobs, a variant on flash mobs in which groups of people show up to spend money at a selected locally owned small business:
The first known cash mob was the brainchild of Chris Smith, an engineer for Oracle Corp. The 37-year-old from Buffalo, N.Y., says the idea stemmed from his realization that consumers, including his wife, tend to flock to smaller establishments when a bargain is available through the daily-deal social-networking sites including Groupon Inc. and LivingSocial Inc.
“Why do we need a discount to support good, solid, local businesses?” he asks.
He used Twitter and Facebook to rally more than 100 people to purchase wine at City Wine Merchant on Aug. 5. Business that day tripled, according the store’s president, Eric Genau. “We have clients that would have taken a lot longer to get here or never would have gotten here at all if not for that,” Mr. Genau says.
This is a nice, feel-good idea, and several small business owners are quoted saying similar things—sales doubled or tripled for a day. But is there potential here for broad-based change? Occupy Cleveland’s blog is quoted saying cash mob “isn’t a political or social organization … or meant to be an answer to economic crisis,” and they have a point. At the same time, it could be a political or social movement-building action, and it doesn’t have to be limited to local small business.
One of the problems with consuming virtuously or intentionally as an individual is precisely that it happens as an individual, and no one necessarily knows why you bought as you did. If you buy Seventh Generation toilet paper, there’s a good bet you did so for environmental reasons, but if you shop at Safeway rather than Whole Foods, it might be because of location or cost or any of a number of things other than that Safeway is a union employer and Whole Foods most emphatically is not. Just as our individual small contributions to political candidates gain meaning when they come through the Orange to Blue list, where candidates know both what general principles put them on that list and how many small contributions have come in under that umbrella, a cash mob makes visible a set of consumer decisions and what aspects of a business these people have embraced. It can be local small business or union employers or environmental considerations or anything else.
Doubling the sales of one store on one day isn’t a recipe for social or economic change. But using the cash mob concept to start reshaping people’s shopping habits in a visible way within a social context that supports the change and gives it public meaning—at some point that does turn into change, in a move your money kind of way.