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Atricle Dump - Immigation and Mexicans and How To Lie About It
Six Sigma is not just a new term for Total Quality Management (TQM) . They have many similarities and are compatible in many business environments. TQM has brought great improvements and value to many companies. Six Sigma can do more.TQM is the development, deployment, and maintenance of systems related to quality-producing business processes. TQM is a strategic approach that focuses on encouraging a continuous flow of incremental quality improvements. It encourages the establishing of a culture of collaboration among different departments within organization. TQM is mainly a cultural initiative and a style of management toward increased quality.Six Sigma is not just another quality initiative or process improvement program. It is more than that because it is a robust continuous
"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff”.[v]
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[i] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[ii] MEXICANIZATION OF AMERICA; By Frosty Wooldridge May 30, 2005 NewsWithViews.com http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty59.htm
[iii] http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Mexicans:-Disease-Ridden-or-a-lot-of-Hype?&id=42430
[iv] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[v] http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-
Today's so-called reality shows are too staged for my taste. Their contrived situations and semi-scripted actions actually render them somewhat less than real.For unvarnished reality, try listening to a police scanner. You'll hear real cops answering real crime calls. You'll hear police officers as they head into potentially dangerous situations. You'll hear police dispatchers as they try to keep up with everything from fender benders to shootings--all in a standard night's work for many police departments.When the first police scanners came out, my mother bought one so she could hear what was happening in her city, and especially to hear if anything bad was being reported in her own neighborhood.I remember coming in late at night from a date to find her sitting at the
1) “Did you know that “95 percent of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens?” Or that “75 percent of people on the Most Wanted List in Los Angeles are illegal aliens”? What’s more, “Over [two-thirds] of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on [Medicaid] whose births were paid for by taxpayers.”[i]
2) "They’ve run Americans out of countless cities and communities. They’ve trashed school systems and bankrupted 86 hospitals. They’ve thrown trash throughout the park systems. They defy laws by not carrying car insurance, driver’s licenses, and work off the books paying no taxes, brutalize our schools with their language, spread drugs, and more terrifying are the thousands of cases of TB and hepatitis they spread into Los Angeles. " [ii]
Neither of these quotes is true. Though they’ve been heard in countless websites.
The source of quote number one was an email that someone posted online and off it went like a wildfire spreading through a California countryside.
Someone even gave as the source of point number one as the Los Angeles Times newspaper. Quote number two, which I got from the anti-Mexican/illegal-legal immigrants crusader, Frosty Wooldridge, apparently was fabricated.
When I read Wooldridge’s screed, in 2005, I was immediately suspicious and contacted the Center for Disease Control. That, by the way, is what honest writers do. I talked with, Jessica Frickey, Health Communications Specialist. Ms. Frickey said this:
"I am attaching CDC’s most recent fact sheet on 2004 TB surveillance data. You will see that while TB was at an all time low in 2004, progress to eliminate the disease may be slowing. As far as your specific question about illegal immigrants causing a rise in TB, CDC’s data shows that foreign-born individuals – whether illegal immigrants or legal immigrants – accounted for more than half of TB cases reported in 2004. Overall, racial and ethnic minorities also face higher rates of disease than white Americans, with both Hispanics and Blacks at a rate that is 8 times higher than whites and Asians 20 times higher than whites. Despite these numbers, CDC does not have data to show that foreign-born individuals have caused an increase in TB in recent years."[iii]
It would seem that Mr. Wooldridge was a little “loosey-goosey” with the facts. In another article I read Wooldridge pulls the same stunt:
Bill Steigerwald, Associate editor/columnist with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Pittsburgh, observed in 2003:
“Frosty the "snow" man?
Friday, November 21, 2003.
“Frosty Wooldridge has been peddling a screed - a version of which you ran ["Our Country Coming Undone," November 12] - to op-ed pages of newspapers claiming that it was illegal aliens who served up Hepatitis A to folks here at a Chi-Chi’s. Your site carried this b.s.--“You may have read in the newspapers: "... 34 children in a Michigan school tested positive for Tuberculosis"; or in Monaco, Pennsylvania, "Two people died of Hepatitis A," while 1,110 other patrons of Chi-Chi's Restaurants were 'served' the disease by six illegal alien employees.” I don’t know how Frosty the snowman got this info, because we haven’t heard it yet. I exchanged e-mails with him earlier the week of November 10, telling him he was either wrong or lying. (He had sent us an email pitching his op-ed). Health officials here have had no idea how the problem here started (they still don’t whether it came from an employee or a food source, such as green onions); no paper here has said a word about illegal or legal aliens. Frosty’s zeal, as I told him, has gotten the better of him. I wouldn’t trust any of his “facts” without checking them. We’ll never run anything he sends us.”
…he was either wrong or lying”.—Need I say more?
The false attribution to the L.A. Times was found to be sheer fabrication and neither were the claimed “facts” true either. The L.A. Times looked into the so-called facts someone attributed to it and found none could be substantiated. The statistic that is often spouted by those who “hate Mexicans”, and let’s face it—HATRED IS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT—that “62 percent of all births in Los Angeles County are to Hispanic women,”[iv] was also found to be a stretch. This figure applied to AMERICAN CITIZEN as well as to legal aliens from other Latin American countries. What these stats truly represent is often conveniently left out of dialogue and blogs. Or, perhaps not. Maybe it is quoted as a true representation of their hatred of all things Hispanic.
Just what does it take to admit that an awful lot that comes out of the anti-Mexican/Latino/Hispanics movement is nothing but a bunch of bull?
People simply make stuff up. It’s done all the time.
Is this not the case?
And this non-sense that there is a well-organized movement or plot to “take back the American Southwest—reconquista—is too sad to call even laughable.
Perhaps each American who really wants to evaluate this problem critically should read the book, How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff, Irving Geis:
"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff”.[v]
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[i] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[ii] MEXICANIZATION OF AMERICA; By Frosty Wooldridge May 30, 2005 NewsWithViews.com http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty59.htm
[iii] http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Mexicans:-Disease-Ridden-or-a-lot-of-Hype?&id=42430
[iv] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[v] http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-H
Finding affordable long-term care insurance in Connecticut involves more than the cost of the premium being paid to the insurance companies. Affordable long-term care involves finding the right facility to suit the needs of your loved one.It is possible to find inexpensive long-term care that ends up being more expensive in the long run. For example, putting your loved on into a long term care facility that you selected solely because they offered the least expensive option. You depend on governmental regulations and laws in effect to protect the patient’s safety, so price becomes the driving force in selecting a facility.You notice that after two short weeks, your loved one’s physical and mental health is declining. You find that in addition to the facility not taking proper
When I read Wooldridge’s screed, in 2005, I was immediately suspicious and contacted the Center for Disease Control. That, by the way, is what honest writers do. I talked with, Jessica Frickey, Health Communications Specialist. Ms. Frickey said this:
"I am attaching CDC’s most recent fact sheet on 2004 TB surveillance data. You will see that while TB was at an all time low in 2004, progress to eliminate the disease may be slowing. As far as your specific question about illegal immigrants causing a rise in TB, CDC’s data shows that foreign-born individuals – whether illegal immigrants or legal immigrants – accounted for more than half of TB cases reported in 2004. Overall, racial and ethnic minorities also face higher rates of disease than white Americans, with both Hispanics and Blacks at a rate that is 8 times higher than whites and Asians 20 times higher than whites. Despite these numbers, CDC does not have data to show that foreign-born individuals have caused an increase in TB in recent years."[iii]
It would seem that Mr. Wooldridge was a little “loosey-goosey” with the facts. In another article I read Wooldridge pulls the same stunt:
Bill Steigerwald, Associate editor/columnist with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Pittsburgh, observed in 2003:
“Frosty the "snow" man?
Friday, November 21, 2003.
“Frosty Wooldridge has been peddling a screed - a version of which you ran ["Our Country Coming Undone," November 12] - to op-ed pages of newspapers claiming that it was illegal aliens who served up Hepatitis A to folks here at a Chi-Chi’s. Your site carried this b.s.--“You may have read in the newspapers: "... 34 children in a Michigan school tested positive for Tuberculosis"; or in Monaco, Pennsylvania, "Two people died of Hepatitis A," while 1,110 other patrons of Chi-Chi's Restaurants were 'served' the disease by six illegal alien employees.” I don’t know how Frosty the snowman got this info, because we haven’t heard it yet. I exchanged e-mails with him earlier the week of November 10, telling him he was either wrong or lying. (He had sent us an email pitching his op-ed). Health officials here have had no idea how the problem here started (they still don’t whether it came from an employee or a food source, such as green onions); no paper here has said a word about illegal or legal aliens. Frosty’s zeal, as I told him, has gotten the better of him. I wouldn’t trust any of his “facts” without checking them. We’ll never run anything he sends us.”
…he was either wrong or lying”.—Need I say more?
The false attribution to the L.A. Times was found to be sheer fabrication and neither were the claimed “facts” true either. The L.A. Times looked into the so-called facts someone attributed to it and found none could be substantiated. The statistic that is often spouted by those who “hate Mexicans”, and let’s face it—HATRED IS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT—that “62 percent of all births in Los Angeles County are to Hispanic women,”[iv] was also found to be a stretch. This figure applied to AMERICAN CITIZEN as well as to legal aliens from other Latin American countries. What these stats truly represent is often conveniently left out of dialogue and blogs. Or, perhaps not. Maybe it is quoted as a true representation of their hatred of all things Hispanic.
Just what does it take to admit that an awful lot that comes out of the anti-Mexican/Latino/Hispanics movement is nothing but a bunch of bull?
People simply make stuff up. It’s done all the time.
Is this not the case?
And this non-sense that there is a well-organized movement or plot to “take back the American Southwest—reconquista—is too sad to call even laughable.
Perhaps each American who really wants to evaluate this problem critically should read the book, How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff, Irving Geis:
"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff”.[v]
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[i] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[ii] MEXICANIZATION OF AMERICA; By Frosty Wooldridge May 30, 2005 NewsWithViews.com http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty59.htm
[iii] http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Mexicans:-Disease-Ridden-or-a-lot-of-Hype?&id=42430
[iv] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[v] http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-
To make money online, you need to put your heart and soul in your marketing effort so that your online business will grow. Don't get caught with people who tried to trick you saying that you don't have to do anything to make money online - once your website is out, the money will automatically flow into your bank account. This is not right at all.Setting up a website or joining an affiliate program only take 10% of your online business. The other 90% is marketing. Put this 3 words into your mind right now, if you really want to make money online, you will have to do some Promotion, Promotion and Promotion.There you have it, you just need to promote your business. If you are not doing any promoting, there is no way you can make money online.I hope you understood everything
“Frosty the "snow" man?
Friday, November 21, 2003.
“Frosty Wooldridge has been peddling a screed - a version of which you ran ["Our Country Coming Undone," November 12] - to op-ed pages of newspapers claiming that it was illegal aliens who served up Hepatitis A to folks here at a Chi-Chi’s. Your site carried this b.s.--“You may have read in the newspapers: "... 34 children in a Michigan school tested positive for Tuberculosis"; or in Monaco, Pennsylvania, "Two people died of Hepatitis A," while 1,110 other patrons of Chi-Chi's Restaurants were 'served' the disease by six illegal alien employees.” I don’t know how Frosty the snowman got this info, because we haven’t heard it yet. I exchanged e-mails with him earlier the week of November 10, telling him he was either wrong or lying. (He had sent us an email pitching his op-ed). Health officials here have had no idea how the problem here started (they still don’t whether it came from an employee or a food source, such as green onions); no paper here has said a word about illegal or legal aliens. Frosty’s zeal, as I told him, has gotten the better of him. I wouldn’t trust any of his “facts” without checking them. We’ll never run anything he sends us.”
…he was either wrong or lying”.—Need I say more?
The false attribution to the L.A. Times was found to be sheer fabrication and neither were the claimed “facts” true either. The L.A. Times looked into the so-called facts someone attributed to it and found none could be substantiated. The statistic that is often spouted by those who “hate Mexicans”, and let’s face it—HATRED IS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT—that “62 percent of all births in Los Angeles County are to Hispanic women,”[iv] was also found to be a stretch. This figure applied to AMERICAN CITIZEN as well as to legal aliens from other Latin American countries. What these stats truly represent is often conveniently left out of dialogue and blogs. Or, perhaps not. Maybe it is quoted as a true representation of their hatred of all things Hispanic.
Just what does it take to admit that an awful lot that comes out of the anti-Mexican/Latino/Hispanics movement is nothing but a bunch of bull?
People simply make stuff up. It’s done all the time.
Is this not the case?
And this non-sense that there is a well-organized movement or plot to “take back the American Southwest—reconquista—is too sad to call even laughable.
Perhaps each American who really wants to evaluate this problem critically should read the book, How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff, Irving Geis:
"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff”.[v]
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[i] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[ii] MEXICANIZATION OF AMERICA; By Frosty Wooldridge May 30, 2005 NewsWithViews.com http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty59.htm
[iii] http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Mexicans:-Disease-Ridden-or-a-lot-of-Hype?&id=42430
[iv] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[v] http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-
By outsourcing to skilled professionals you'll be able to grow your business without adding overhead.Here are some of the costs associated with growing a business through acquiring staff:* recruitment* payroll and tax obligations* national insurance* employers liability* benefits (pension, car, medical, dental)* holiday pay / sick pay / maternity pay / water cooler pay!* office space* equipment or general office supplies* legal responsibilities that include employee policies on working hours, sexual harassment, sick time, leave of absence, holidays, benefits, performance reviews, grievances, terminations* training* managementDo not underestimate the time and money involved in recruiting and retaining sta
…he was either wrong or lying”.—Need I say more?
The false attribution to the L.A. Times was found to be sheer fabrication and neither were the claimed “facts” true either. The L.A. Times looked into the so-called facts someone attributed to it and found none could be substantiated. The statistic that is often spouted by those who “hate Mexicans”, and let’s face it—HATRED IS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT—that “62 percent of all births in Los Angeles County are to Hispanic women,”[iv] was also found to be a stretch. This figure applied to AMERICAN CITIZEN as well as to legal aliens from other Latin American countries. What these stats truly represent is often conveniently left out of dialogue and blogs. Or, perhaps not. Maybe it is quoted as a true representation of their hatred of all things Hispanic.
Just what does it take to admit that an awful lot that comes out of the anti-Mexican/Latino/Hispanics movement is nothing but a bunch of bull?
People simply make stuff up. It’s done all the time.
Is this not the case?
And this non-sense that there is a well-organized movement or plot to “take back the American Southwest—reconquista—is too sad to call even laughable.
Perhaps each American who really wants to evaluate this problem critically should read the book, How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff, Irving Geis:
"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff”.[v]
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[i] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[ii] MEXICANIZATION OF AMERICA; By Frosty Wooldridge May 30, 2005 NewsWithViews.com http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty59.htm
[iii] http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Mexicans:-Disease-Ridden-or-a-lot-of-Hype?&id=42430
[iv] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[v] http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-
Event Marketing – Ever see those plaza store events, like when a new Harry Potter book is released? All the stores get together and celebrate the launch of the book in different ways. Obviously there’s the bookstore release, but the local video and game rental store gets in the act. So does the family restaurant, ice-cream vendor, and arcade. Even the dry cleaning store can get involved and pump up their business, if they stick to a common theme. And this is all announced ahead of time (with appropriate press releases, etc.) so people coming down know what to expect. “Oh, great, we can get the book for little Sally, I can drop off my suit at the cleaners, my wife can go to the apparel store. What a great time this will be for the whole family!”Start a Talk Show – If you have regular con
"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff”.[v]
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[i] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[ii] MEXICANIZATION OF AMERICA; By Frosty Wooldridge May 30, 2005 NewsWithViews.com http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty59.htm
[iii] http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Mexicans:-Disease-Ridden-or-a-lot-of-Hype?&id=42430
[iv] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/06/09/defending_the_strangers_in_our_midst
[v] http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728/sr=1-1/qid=1166880277/ref=sr_1_1/102-2602290-7132115?ie=UTF8&s=books
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