Orlando’s Mountain State University as part of their bachelor of science in organizational leadership program is now offering a criminal justice administration.

Never before have students been offered the criminal justice administration concentration in the campus although MSU offers it online in Beckley on their main campus. This program is due to start September at Altamonte Springs and is aimed to help the students in improving their problem solving, communication skills and critical thinking abilities.

The administration provides for students a greater understanding of the dynamics and nature of criminal justice organizations.Having the students acquire their degree in an accelerated format the program brings students who share common goal and passions together and the structure gives once a week online chats, meetings, assignments and projects both individuals and in group form.

The university was founded in 1933 and is a nonprofit institution which is independent in serving their 8700 students on a yearly basis. Besides their main campus in West Virginia their are also campuses located in Center Township, Washington D.C, Hickory N.C, Orlando, Martinsburg and Mooresville.

The FICO Inc. has provided figures which show that almost 43.4 million people almost 26%, have a credit score of 599 or below which makes them not suitable for recieving loans, credit cards, mortgages or auto loans as banks are now more than ever extremely picky in their candidates.

One of the many reasons for the slow economic recovery is the fact that many customers rely on debt to to fuel their recent spending. One mortgage broker from Melbourne stated that he has lots of business but yet is struggling to stay open, he gets paid for not giving loan applications but for closing. The figures reported by FICO is from the analysis of consumer credit reports as of April of this year. This shows an increase of almost 2.4 million people being categorized in the lowest of credit scored for the last 2 years.

According to chief researcher at FICO Minneapolis Andrew Jennings before the recession the scores which ranged from 300-850 were not as volatile. According to their historical data 25.5 million people or 15% of their 170 million customers fell below the 599 mark. Currently there are millions of people who are out of work and who are underemployed so the rate of people falling to lower credit rates will increase and would take years for them to build back a good credit score no matter what their score was before. However their are those who due to the recession have drastically cut down spending and paid off debts which increased the number of people with a score of 800 and above.

Forcing the abrupt resignation of Mark Hurd last Friday, Jodi Fisher claims she actually is remorseful that the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard lost his job.

Former actress Jodie Fisher, 50, expressed she knew Hurd as a result of work with HP’s advertising department from 2007 to 2009. She generated as much as $5,000 for each function to set up HP functions and then welcome as well as introduce executives.

“I was surprised and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job over this,” Fisher stated in a statement. “That was never my intention.”

Fisher made an appearance in a very few R-rated films and very recently ended up being on a dating show known as “Age of Love,” in which beauties competed to make the attention of tennis celebrity Mark Philippoussis. She has aside from that worked as a saleswoman and an executive within a commercial real estate company. Her attorney Gloria Allred, who might be also representing actor Mel Gibson’s wife, described Fisher as a single mom who’s “focused on raising her young son.” Fisher emphasized that she and Hurd by no means had a love affair, but yet declined to go over information on the harassment claim. Her accusations resulted in the finding of falsified expenditure reports for dinners Hurd had with Fisher and led to Hurd’s pressured resignation Friday.

Fisher accepted that she and Hurd have settled the problem. A source informed The Associated Press that Hurd decided to pay Fisher but wouldn’t expose the size of the payment. Hurd settled with Fisher on Thursday, just before he resigned. The settlement didn’t involve a payment from HP, the individual close to the situation mentioned.

On Monday purchasing managers index stated that manufacturing has been expanded for july but at a slower rate as the months before. From June to July manufacturing has dropped from 56.2 to 55.5 according to ISM, The Institute for Supply Management. While any score higher than 50 is considered growth, reports show that for July growth has been better but at a slower rate.

July showed higher supplier deliveries, employment and prices throughout the industry. In 10 of 18 industries demand is still very strong as July marked the 12th consecutive month in manufacturing growth. Among the 10 industries which reported substantial growth were electrical equipment & appliances and rubber and plastic products.

With the drop of index by 5 points for the last 3 months manufacturing growth has slowed down. In April the reading was at 60.4 which was the highest growth rate in the last 6 years. Paul Dales, a Capital Economics economist said that this slow down is consistent with the economic recovery we are going through. He also noted to investors that the survey done by the ISM for July provides proof of what economists were expecting, a economic recovery until early next year without a 2nd recession.

Another positive sign which has been observed is the employment sections has seen a increase in hiring throughout the industry. This was reported by the chief economist of MAPI Dan Meckstroth. He also stated that some firms are afraid at this time to increase their hiring and so they increase productivity time. This increase in hiring is a sign that industries are sure of incoming contracts and new orders.

The Justice Department on Friday announced that Northwest Airlines will be found guilty and fined $38 million for their conspiracy in fixing cargo rates. The Justice Department stated that $80 million were earned by Northwest Airlines from their cargo services between the U.S.A and Japan after a they had broken federal antitrust laws by fixing the cargo rates. This crime was supposedly committed from between July 04 & February 06 before their merger with Delta Air Lines.

At this time Northwest is in complete cooperation with the current investigation and they are believed to have fired the person whom is said to be the main person responsible for the crime. The Justice Department also stated that besides Northwest others have already pleaded guilty or have agreed to admit their crimes in the investigation. All other companies will pay their fines which would amount to $1.6 billion.

The other carriers are, Korean Air Lines, Pacific Airways, British Airways and Qantas Airways. They also stated that out of the many airlines being charged 4 executive members from British, Qantas Airways and SAS Cargo Group will have to serve prison time while others are being charged at this time. This problem seems to be a nation wide one as investigations are being held with all cargo services. The Justice Department says that there will be justice amongst these services and all who were participants in the exercise to fix cargo rates for illegal incomes.

Next year begins the mark of the new health care legislation which will have employers having to provide employees dependents coverage will the age of 26. This new procedure will have employers already under stress after they are being braced for a 9 percent jump in their health care plans. Companies have now decided to raise their premiums on health care plans and set aside those or are ineligible.

With this soon to happen it is certain that you would be receiving a mail soon asking you to provide proof of your family which would include adoption or birth papers, marriage certificates, proof of any domestic relationships, proof showing guardianship and even proof showing the citizenship of everyone. According to executive VP of Budco, Dave Chojnacki, within the last 90 days they have seen a jump of over 30 percent instead of the normal 5 percent around this time. Budco is known for their dependent eligibility audits for Time Warner CAble, AT&T and Qwest. Even with Chapman Kelly they have seen almost double for the year so far for their representatives such as Avis, Volvo and Marathon Oil.

According to Michael Smith, CEO of ConSova, health coverage for a spouse on an annual basis usually cost employers $5000 and $1900 for those between the ages of 19-25. He also stated that employers usually find about 10-13 percent of health coverage dependents to be ineligible. The typically respond time for these letters providing proof are within 4 weeks and failure to do so will result in the company removing dependents from the health care plan.

On Tuesday BP announced that Tony Hayward will step down from his position as chief executive after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused panic. His replacement as new chief executive from October 1st will be American Robert Dudley. Dudley has been in the oil industry for over 30 years and has been an employee at BP for a long time.

He was put as the head of the clean up operation in the Gulf Coast during June. BP states that Dudley when given the position will mainly focus on what was the cause of the spill and how safety measures can be improved. His replacement for head of clean up would be Lamar McKay, BP America President. Hayward will receive a full years salary amounting to $1.6 million while greater details of his severance package will not be disclosed to the public at this time.

Hayward however would be receive any cash bonuses or any stock awards which are given to past executives. The decision if he qualifies for retirement benefits has still not been decided since his circumstances are unique in nature. Hayward is also to be nominated as a non executive director TNK-BP, Russian gas and oil. What his involvement with TNK-BP would be is still not clear. BP is currently in the process of rebuilding their entire image from scratch as in the second quarter over 17 billion dollars were lost mostly because of the 32 billion dollars which was headed for the oil spill.

Citizens are being forced to leave their apartments due to the cut off or federal unemployment benefits. In San Diego, Kevin Landry and his cocker spaniel have been out of an apartment and are now currently sleeping in his car inside a church parking lot. While there is still hope that checks will be delivered soon Kevin knows that his $475 would not reach him anytime soon.

He stated that he would have to somehow make ends meet after his experience last time congress delayed their payments. Unfortunately Kevin has no choice and has said he has to learn to deal with the disappointment. During the almost 2 month delay before Congress extended the deadline for unemployment benefits almost 3 millions citizens had completely run out of benefits.

With these adjustments that are being made most of the time the system that processes the unemployment payments would need updating which would also add to the long wait for unemployed citizens. The executive director of the National Association of State Workforce stated that the states will try to resume payments as soon as physically possible, but how long will it be? Can people wait any longer than they already have? Some of the States have ordered those who are unemployed to keep sending in their forms so that payments would resume quicker after the systems are set and ready. Reports are saying that all should keep sending in their forms as this would ensure that they be amongst the first to receive checks.

President Barack Obama measured into law the push back of the deadline for the unemployment benefits. The Americans who are currently jobless are getting their benefits back and could not be happier. After a vote of 59 to 39 made by the senate to restore payments it was finally done.

Almost 3 million people were at the edge of running out of any benefits. This was due to a failure of extending the deadline by the senate. Senate republicans along with Ben Nelson, a Democrat from Nebraska prevented it from passing as they stated that it should be paid off first. They stated that for the government to cover $34 billion is not something that would work in their favor.

The unemployment payments lasts up to 73 weeks and would start after the state funded 26 weeks. The benefits are divided into tiers and those who are unemployed would need to apply after every tier. Experts have said that the payments would be different as compared to the deadline on the 2nd of June and that it would take about a month for the state to resume the sending of checks.

Many people have gone through hard times and have missed receiving those checks. One woman, Lynda Kahn said that she has been out of work for a long time and depends on these checks. After not receiving any she tried to apply for Medicaid buy was unfortunately turned down. Currently she is receiving $200 a month from a local charity.

According to various sources a contract which is said to be signed by Mark Zuckerberg who created Facebook giving ownership to a business man from New York may actually be real. This was acknowledged on Tuesday by one of the Facebook lawyers. Lisa Simpson, a Facebook lawyer told Judge Richard Arcara that Facebook founder Mr. Zukerberg did in fact have a contract with the New York businessman.

Mr. Ceglia However, Facebook officials believe that the contract Paul Ceglia presented in court was not authentic. Whether or not the contract was in fact signed by Facebook founder is unsure. A lawsuit was made against Facebook and its founder by Mr. Ceglia last month on the claim that he was the one who hired Mark Zuckerberg to do 2 business ventures in 2003. Once was to maintain and develop and web application for StreetFax and the second being to further develop an already existing project which was made specifically for the students of Harvard to work with a type of yearbook function and the title Face Book.

The judge hears Mr. Ceglia and granted his request that Facebook be stopped from making any further decisions on selling or transferring their assets. Mr. Ceglia’s attorney said that an agreement was made which covered both the projects which Ceglia’s had offer to Mr. Zuckerberg and also a project which he stated he was working with on the side. It is obvious that with the success of Facebook there will be some confusion between the two and it is only a matter of time to hear the ruling made by the court.