The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) announced today that Carlos M. Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, will provide a keynote address at The Cable Show ’08, on Monday, May 19 at 4:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time. The comments of Secretary Gutierrez, the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce, will come at the top of the Monday General Session at the Show.
NCTA also announced details for other panels and sessions focusing on important public policy issues during its 57th Annual Convention and International Exposition to be held May 18-20, 2008, in New Orleans.
The Cable Show ’08 Public Policy program will kick-off on Sunday, May 18 with a luncheon, hosted by ARRIS, featuring former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairmen and Commissioners commenting on the 2008 Presidential election and the regulatory outlook for telecommunications under each of three potential administrations. Each panelist will represent the views of one of the three major Presidential candidates:
Bill Kennard, former Chairman, FCC (Obama)
Susan Ness, former Commissioner, FCC (Clinton)
Michael Powell, former Chairman, FCC (McCain)
Moderated by Kathleen Abernathy, former Commissioner, FCC
In addition to Secretary Gutierrez’s address at the beginning of Monday afternoon’s general session, a Public Policy luncheon on May 19 will feature:
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell
Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Jon Leibowitz
NTIA Acting Assistant Secretary Meredith Baker
Moderated by Dan Brenner, Sr. Vice President, Law & Regulatory Policy, NCTA
On Tuesday, May 20, the Public Policy luncheon will feature a discussion between cable and broadcast chief executives on the digital transition:
David Rehr, President and CEO, National Association of Broadcasters
Paul McTear, President and CEO, Raycom Media
Jack Sander, Senior Advisor, Belo Corporation and Chairman, NAB Joint Board
Paul Karpowicz, President, Meredith Corporation Broadcasting Group
Glenn Britt, President & CEO, Time Warner Cable
Bob Miron, Chairman & CEO, Advance/Newhouse Communications
Moderated by Deborah Lathen, former Chief, FCC Cable Services Bureau
All three Public Policy Lunches are “invitation only” but employees of NCTA member companies that wish to attend should email their request to caroline@ncta.com. Space is limited and each requestor will receive a personal response as to whether he or she can be accommodated. The lunches are open to news media, and there will be a sign-up sheet in the MediaCenter at MorialConvention Center in New Orleans.
Other highlights of the Cable Show Public Policy Agenda include the following sessions:
Regulatory Review: Bureau Chiefs & Legal Advisors on Media Matters
Tuesday, May 20, 11:00 a.m.
Elizabeth Andrion, Interim Legal Advisor, Office of Chairman Martin, FCC
Matthew Berry, General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, FCC
Representative Brian Patrick Kennedy, Rhode Island - Chair, House Corporations Committee, Vice Chair - NCSL, CFS & IC Committee
Representative Joseph Miro, Delaware, President, NHCSL
Representative Phil Montgomery, Wisconsin - Chair, Energy and Utilities CommitteVice Chair - NCSL, CFS & IC Committee
Representative Rene Oliveira, Texas - House Committee on Regulated Industries
Senator Jeff Plale, Wisconsin - Chair, Senate Committee on Commerce, Utilities and Rail
James Bradford Ramsay, General Counsel, NARUC
Senator Donna Stone, Delaware, President, NCSL
Michael Talbett, Chair, Telecommunications & Technology Steering Committee, National Association of Counties (NACo)
Nicol Turner-Lee, Ph. D., VP, Digital Inclusion, One Economy Corporation
Moderated by Ken Ferree, President of the Progress and Freedom Foundation and former FCC Media Bureau Chief
21st Century Communications Policy: The Role of the States
Monday, May 19, 3:00 p.m.
John Burke, Member, Vermont Public Service Board
Tony Clark, Commissioner, North Dakota Public Service Commission
Maureen Harris, Commissioner, New YorkState Public Service Commission
Philip Jones, Commissioner, Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
Michael Moffet, Commissioner, Kansas Corporation Commission
Anthony Palermino, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control
Moderated by Rick Cimerman, Vice President, State Government Affairs, NCTA
Safety First: Child Online Safety and the Role of State Attorneys General
Tuesday, May 20, 11:00 a.m.
FCC Commissioner Deborah Tate will be a guest speaker
Mike Cox, Attorney General, State of Michigan
Marsali Hancock, President, Internet Keep Safe Coalition
Lisa Hicks-Thomas, Deputy Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia
Patrick Lynch, Attorney General, State of Rhode Island
Moderated by Amy Cohn, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Cox Communications, Inc.
They’ve Got Issues: State & Local Policy Roundtables
Tuesday, May 20, 2:45 p.m.
Carolyn Coleman, Director, Federal Relations, National League of Cities
Chad Hume, Acting Telecommunications Director, New YorkState Public Service Commission
Michael Morris, Director, Video Franchise and Broadband Deployment Group, California Public Utility Commission
Neal Osten, Director, CFS & IC Committee, National Conference of State Legislatures
Joseph Sutherland, Executive Director, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
United Health
EXCELth, Inc., Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans and United Health Foundation announced today that the Daughters of Charity Health Center at St. Cecilia has received a $133,500 commitment from GlaxoSmithKline to support the expansion of community outreach efforts to help prevent and manage diabetes. At the same time, the United Health Foundation announced that the clinic is meeting or exceeding national benchmarks for quality and clinical care.
UNO Arena
After being dormant for more than two-and-a-half years, the UNO Lakefront Arena will open with the New Orleans debut of High School Musical - The Ice Tour, May 2-5, 2008.
Seventeen graduation ceremonies are scheduled in May including the University of New Orleans’ commencements on May 16 and 17. These will be UNO’s first commencement ceremonies at the Lakefront Arena since May 2005.
Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the UNO Lakefront Arena, on average, contributed $1.4 million in revenue annually to the University of New Orleans. The Lakefront Arena consistently ranked #1 among university arenas worldwide and in the top ten for public assembly venues prior to Katrina.
Jobs
The Louisiana Department of Labor’s Rapid Response unit will conduct orientation sessions to assist the 83 workers who will lose their jobs when shirt manufacturer Kenneth Gordon closes its Harahan facility on June 8.
Workers will have a choice of attending either an 8:30 a.m. or a 1:30 p.m.
session on Monday, May 5, or at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, May 6, at the company’s facility at 1209 Distributor’s Row.
A worker transition center will be open at the facility from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, May 19, through Friday May 23.The center will offer computers and Internet access and will assist the affected workers with job searches, skills assessments, training information and résumé preparation.
“Many of the employees affected by the closure of Kenneth Gordon have been with the company for 15 years or more,” said Greg A. Anders, state Rapid Response coordinator.“We are working with agencies within Jefferson, Orleans and Plaquemines parishes in efforts to inform potential employers of the stability of these workers.”
A petition has been filed with the Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance to determine if the plant’s closure is the result of increased imports.
If approved, the workers may be eligible for additional services through the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, administered by the U.S.
Department of Labor.These services could include training, income support and job search and relocation allowances.
Rapid Response assistance is available to workers affected by major layoffs and plant closings. The orientation sessions are designed to inform affected employees about the services available to them through the Louisiana Department of Labor’s Rapid Response Program.
assistance information, occupational retraining, trade adjustment assistance, debt counseling, out-of-area job search assistance, relocation assistance, on-the-job training, unemployment insurance and other supportive services as needed.
Rapid Response services are offered at no cost to the employer or the participating employees.
More information about Rapid Response is available on the Department of Labor Web site at www.LAWORKS.net.
Hispanic Population
The nation’s Hispanic population continued to grow faster than any other group increasing to 1.4 million to reach 45.5 million on July 1, 2007, or 15.1 percent of the estimated total U.S. population of 301.6 million.Members of racial and ethnic minorities now account for more than one in three Americans.Population projections also indicate that minority groups will constitute a majority of the nation’s population by 2050.
More than one in every three Louisiana residents belong to a minority group.The total minority population of Louisiana has reached an estimated 1,619,485 million (37.7%).Blacks represent the largest minority group here, with more than 1.4 million people.Second was Hispanics, with almost 137,000 people (3.2%).
Overall, the nation’s minority population reached 102.5 million in 2007 — 34 percent of the total. California had a minority population of 20.9 million — 20 percent of the nation’s total, Texas had a minority population of 12.5 million — 12 percent of the U.S. total. Four states and the District of Columbia were “majority-minority” (i.e., more than 50 percent of their population is made up of people other than single-race non-Hispanic whites). Hawaii led the nation with a population that was 75 percent minority in 2007, followed by the District of Columbia (68 percent), New Mexico (58 percent), California (57 percent) and Texas (52 percent). Next in line, were Nevada, Maryland and Georgia, each with a minority population of 42 percent.
Hispanics remained the largest minority group, with blacks (single race or multiracial) second at 40.7 million in 2007. The black population exceeded 500,000 in 20 states. The Hispanic population exceeded 500,000 in 16 states. Blacks were the largest minority group in 24 states, compared with 20 states in which Hispanics were the largest minority group. Nationally, Blacks were followed by Asians, who totaled 15.2 million; American Indians and Alaska Natives, who totaled 4.5 million; and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, with 1 million. The population of whites (single race and not of Hispanic origin) totaled 199.1 million.
From 2006 to 2007, the Hispanic population grew by 3.3 percent, compared with 2.9 percent for Asians, 1.3 percent for blacks and 0.3 percent for non-Hispanic whites.Since 2000, the number of Asians increased even faster than Hispanics in 14 states, generally those with large Hispanic populations, including Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. Since 2006, the greatest gains in blacks were made by nine Southern states, reflecting the continued migration there from other regions. Florida led the nation in black gains in the two previous decades, but Georgia is poised to be first in this decade. Selective growth of both Hispanics and Asian-Americans was driven by immigration and higher birth rates. While about 15 percent more births than deaths were recorded among whites since 2000, more than eight times as many Hispanics, four times as many Asians and twice as many blacks were born than died.
AGE:
Members of racial and ethnic minorities have become a majority of children under 15 years in two of the nation’s fastest-growing states, Florida and Nevada, with Georgia, Maryland and New York following a similar pattern. The shift was more pronounced among minority children under 5. As a result of migration and immigration, the number of children under 15 years of age declined in 31 states. This age group declined by 11 percent in Louisiana, decreasing by more than 113,000 from the 2000 census count.
The estimates show changes in the electorate, both in the ethnic and racial minorities of voting age and in disparities in where people are growing older.From July 1, 2006, to July 1, 2007, the proportion of Americans 65 and older increased to 13 percent, from 12 percent. Since 2000 older baby boomers (over age 62) have been moving into several of the fast-growing states, including Arizona, Florida, Idaho, and Nevada, and also to Arkansas, the Carolinas, Delaware, Georgia, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota and Utah. A higher proportion of these baby boomers are white, compared with the general population.
Selective migration by state has been driven by available employment and housing as well as retirement options.The varying changes in race and age by state are affecting the electorate, the labor force and labor force needs, schools, housing and health care in diverse ways.
The Office of the State Register has published the following title of the Louisiana Administrative Code:
Title 34, Government Contracts, Procurement and Property Control
Last amended December 2007, compiled through March 2008
Title 40, Labor and Employment
Last amended December 2007, compiled through March 2008
Title 46:XLIX, Professional and Occupational Standards: Nursing Facility Administrators
Last amended November 2007, compiled March 2008
Title 46:LIII, Professional and Occupational Standards: Pharmacists
Last amended July 2007, compiled March 2008
Title 67, Social Services
Last amended February 2008, compiled March 2008
Title 70, Transportation
Last amended July 2007, compiled December 2007
To order certified copies from the Office of the State Register, visit:
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/product.pdf
To view and/or print the Internet version, go to:
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/books.htm
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