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WE USE Third Party Servers, Hosts, and our Editor-In-Chief prefers to use WordPress.

Theresa J. Thurmond Morris is Editor-in-Chief and is also a syndicated Columnist known worldwide on the Internet.

Theresa who prefers to be called TJ has been writing articles and investigative reports since 1967 when she began in Houston, Texas with her first written report for Percy Foreman, attorney at law on her own personal case. Theresa was then assigned the Joan Robinson Hill Case and befriended Dr. John Hill, and Dr. Grady Hallman of Houston, Texas, USA. TJ joined ACIR in Nasa area, Clear Lake, Pasadena, in 1968. TJ worked for Larry Allred, and Buddy Hansen. TJ alson known as Jan short for Janette joined NBS Enterprises, and Newton B. Schwartz, Attorney. TJ transferred to New York and worked for Cucci, Welch, Collichio, and Welch. TJ later worked for Benton Musselwhite, attorney. TJ kept her lifetime affiliation with ACIR. TJ joined the U. S. Navy Reserves as a Sea Air Mariner in 1985. TJ joined DOD, USN, and OPM in 1987. TJ Transferred to Hawaii 1988 and remained active duty until 4-29-93. TJ had positions as contracting CEO in J.B. Cork, and Jungle Beach Corporation, Psychic Network Incorporated, and later Ace Folklife nonprofit Inc, and was the first CEO elected president of the newly formed Civitan Club in Ohio County in 2005. TJ was affiliated with Civitan International in West Monroe, Louisiana when Civitan sponsored her sixth grade graduation at Ransom Elementary. TJ said her awareness of fellowship was emphasized as an Ambassador of Goodwill through sponsors mentoring throughout her life. TJ was first given the official title of an Ambassador of Goodwill in May 1967, when it became official in the local Houston Chronicle Newspaper with her high school graduating class and the Houston Spinnerettes before attending Washington, D.C.

Theresa attended Alvin Community College then transferred to University of Alabama when she was recruited to Investigative Reports

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We are a family of authors, writers, in various categories and genres. We appreciate all our contributing authors, investigative reporters, journalists, readers, writers, and the entire global community.

We are striving to work hard to provide customer service in the public awareness of communication and education in all of the following in our ACE FOLKLIFE CULTURAL COMMUNITY:

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The American News Magazine family of online publications is dedicated to a vigorous discussion of the issues of the day, whether political, educational, social, cultural, artistic, civic, scientific, or technical.

We have readers that are artisans, engineers, scientists, philosophers, author, writers, web publishers, bloggers, and any and all types of people. We support the global community and american culture international relations. We refer to our publications as american news and american culture international relations. We are about people synergistically involved and positive motivation for the future of humankind.

We are about media online press and support the GNU, DCMA, and open source publications for the betterment of online information. We promote wikipedia and all web browers. We are in cooperation with all those who share in the Internet, and Web. We share the online education and promote awareness. We are considered educational.

We have various RSS feeds and links. We also share in other family publications online. We are creating our own Media Online Press (MOP)

We seek to enlighten our readers and to stimulate their minds. For this reason, we encourage writers of all stripes to contribute to our websites. However, we demand that all submissions be truthful and civil, and that they be free of personal attacks and hate speech. Our editorial voice is evolving, and we want that voice to be inclusive of various opinions and viewpoints, but we will not tolerate the use of our website to publicize profane, hateful or factually inaccurate submissions.

In fulfillment of these generalized goals, we have developed the following author guidelines:

Political Writers.

Our policy prohibits caustic attacks on elected leaders, government officials, politicians, and non-elected (appointed) policymakers. We expect your submissions to be truthful, civil, and well mannered, following the established traditions of polite society and good taste.

If you are not able to write about important issues of the day and, instead, repeatedly make personal or insulting attacks on anyone, your account will be closed.

In addition, if you are unable to provide a source or reference for a questionable statement, your submission will not be published and/or deleted. Do not request an author account with the intention to personally attack, denigrate, or defeat politicians, candidates or propositions because (a) we are not interested and (b) your articles will be deleted. The opportunity to submit articles is a privilege and we request that you treat this opportunity as such.

Repeated violations of this policy will result in your account being closed and your articles deleted. When an article is deleted from our site, it is replaced with a “Page Not Found” message that includes links to other websites in our network, providing our affiliates with additional traffic they would not otherwise receive. So do not waste your time, energy, or money putting articles up on our site when they will be immediately, easily, and gladly deleted when a violation of our policy is established. Only honest, reputable, and legitimate writers should request an account. In some instances, we may demand that a PDF of a verifiable image of your driver’s license and/or other identification be sent to us by email before your account privileges will be extended. Submission of an article does not guarantee publication.

We may refuse to publish articles for any reason. Submission of work for publication constitutes that you have read and agree to abide by our Author Agreement. If you are unable or unwilling to abide by this policy, then do not submit work to us because we do not want your articles on our site. If you believe a particular article on the site violates our Editorial Board Contributor Policy, please inform the editors using our Reader Feedback page and please identify the author, article title, article number, and paragraph.

Promotional Writers.

We are delighted if you wish to submit a variety of articles about your products, services, or websites with our family of online magazines, and you are certainly welcome to do so. Legitimate articles about legal and honest products or services are welcome. Moreover, you may include a few active links in your articles to your websites for the specific purpose of promoting your products or services. However, we will not tolerate the submission of plagiarized articles, copyright violations, or the spamming of our site with articles that duplicate articles previously submitted to us for creating countless active links on our websites to your websites.

The opportunity to submit articles is a privilege and we request that you treat this opportunity as such. Violations of this policy will result in your account being closed and your articles deleted. When an article is deleted from our site, it is replaced with a “Page Not Found” message that includes links to other websites in our network, providing our affiliates with additional traffic they would not otherwise receive. So do not waste your time, energy, or money putting articles up on our site when they will be immediately, easily, and gladly deleted when a violation of our policy is established. Only honest, reputable, and legitimate writers should request an account.

In some instances, we may demand that a PDF of a verifiable image of your driver’s license and/or other identification be sent to us by email before your account privileges will be extended. If you are unable or unwilling to abide by this policy, then do not submit work to us because we do not want your articles on our site. If you believe a particular article on the site violates our Editorial Board Contributor Policy, please inform the editors using our Reader Feedback page and please identify the author, article title, article number, and paragraph.
Copyright Violations.

You are responsible for the content of your articles. Do not submit articles that violate the copyright of others. If you quote from other articles make sure that you cite the article properly using html code, a reference in the text, or a footnote.

If you believe that an article on our website violates the copyright of another person, please inform the editors using our Reader Feedback page and please identify the author, article title, article number, and paragraph. We delete articles that violate the copyright of others. Violations of this policy will result in your account being closed and your articles deleted.

When an article is deleted from our site, it is replaced with a “Page Not Found” message that includes links to other websites in our network, providing our affiliates with additional traffic they would not otherwise receive. So do not waste your time, energy, or money putting articles up on our site when they will be immediately, easily, and gladly deleted when a violation of our policy is established.

Only honest, reputable, and legitimate writers should request an account. In some instances, we may demand that a PDF of a verifiable image of your driver’s license and/or other identification be sent to us by email before your account privileges will be extended. If you are unable or unwilling to abide by this policy, then do not submit work to us because we do not want your articles on our site. If you believe a particular article on the site violates our Editorial Board Contributor Policy, please inform the editors using our Reader Feedback page and please identify the author, article title, article number, and paragraph.

Additional Information. This is a “G-Rated” site. Accordingly, no adult or foul language will be tolerated. We do not publish articles that include curse words, sexual content, rude material, uncouth comments, or links to pornographic or illegal sites.

Nor do we publish articles that denigrate our advertisers, affiliates, or contributors. You may submit opinion or feature articles that disagree with our contributors; however, you may not denigrate them. Do not request author bylines with names that are not truthfully your own. In some instances, we may demand that a PDF of a verifiable image of your driver’s license and/or other identification be sent to us by email before your account privileges will be extended.

All articles must be full-length feature articles with a minimum of 300 words.

Please visit our Author Information page to learn the distinction between articles and blogs.
Please do not submit blogs to your article account.

Conclusion. If you disagree with our policy prohibiting hate speech, vitriol, and caustic attacks on others, or if you disagree with any of the classifications identified above, or if you disagree with any of the demands made in this policy statement, then do not submit work to us. If you think your submission may reasonably be considered hate speech, vitriol, caustic, or prejudicial by anyone who may read your article, including people who might be “too sensitive,” then do not submit that work either because we are simply not interested.

If you believe a particular article on the site violates our Editorial Board Contributor Policy, please inform the editors using our Reader Feedback page and please identify the author, article title, article number, and paragraph. The Reader Feedback Page is the same as our Comments Page.

Hate Speech and Personal Attacks Will Not Be Tolerated. Hate Speech is bigoted attacking or disparaging of a social or ethnic group, or a member of such a group. It is hostility and aversion usually deriving from ignorance, fear, anger, or a sense of injury. It involves extreme dislike or antipathy. Hate speech is intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence, discrimination, or prejudicial action against people based on:
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Hate Speech NOT TOLERATED
Hate speech includes degrading or otherwise prejudicial action or statements against others for the exercise of their constitutional right of association, including such things as religious affiliation, union membership, party affiliation, or participation in strikes, boycotts, or demonstrations. Hate speech can be either written or oral communication.

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Submissions
Submissions that include hate speech or intend to encourage discrimination against people based upon any of the classifications above will not be published. Individuals who repeatedly submit articles that include hate speech will have their accounts closed. Individuals who send email that includes hate speech will be permanently moved to a “Blocked Senders” list. If you believe a particular article on the site includes hate speech, please inform the editors using our Reader Feedback page and please identify the author, article title, article number, and paragraph. Submission of work for publication constitutes that you have read and agree to abide by our policies and authors agreement whether an author, journalist, investigative reporter, writer, or any other title one might feel that is owed to the contributor. Each person that chooses to share information is treated equally based on our published terms on this website and in this notice to the public.

If you disagree with our policy prohibiting vitriolic language, then do not submit work to us. If you think your submission may reasonably be considered vitriolic by anyone who may read your article, including people who might be “too sensitive,” then do not submit that work either because we are simply not interested.

If you disagree or you think your submission may reasonably be considered hate speech or a personal attack by anyone who may read your article, including people who might be “too sensitive,” then do not submit that work either because we are simply not interested.

If you disagree with our policy prohibiting hate speech or if you disagree with any of the classifications identified above, then do not submit work to us. Vitriol Will Not Be Tolerated.  Vitriol is language of extreme bitterness and malignancy of temper. It includes rancor as deep-seated ill will and/or spiteful, poisonous, or noxious language.

Individuals who repeatedly submit articles that include vitriol will have their accounts closed. Individuals who send email that includes vitriol will be permanently moved to a “Blocked Senders” list. If you believe a particular article on the site includes vitriol, please inform the editors using our Reader Feedback page and please identify the author, article title, article number, and paragraph.

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Wholesale Information:

TIMELY MANOR BOOKS is proud to be a wholesaler to many fine Spiritual & Educational Shops & Internet businesses.

We pride ourselves in dealing in Art, Culture, Education, Science, and Technology in our fields of expertise.

We are the creators of the ACE Folklife Society and our services are provided to our members.

We define ourselves as authors and publishers.
We are Morris Publishing and our imprint is Timely Manor Books.

Below we would like to outline our policies / requirements.

Please use the link below to contact us should you desire to offer our products or if you have any general questions not answered here.

We do not authorize any wholesaler, to merchandize for sale, our books/items on an auction site. If a book is purchased through a retail pricing/means, then the property of the owner – purchaser – has the right to do with what they purchase, as they like. No wholesaler will be approved unless a valid Internet Retail Website, (a non-auction shop/site), or Brick/Mortar shop information is provided.

  We make our Books, unlike other bookmakers; we do contract out our work to other bookbinders. Our designs are our own original pieces or those authorized for use by the artist who created them.

Please be advised we do offer artwork from other artist so please respect the copyright law for them as well. Our Books ARE NOT ALLOWED to be sold on EBay or any other auction site.

Our books are copyright to us and anyone found duplicating our work would be prosecuted fully of the law. We will not sway with this issue. Please understand, we do not place this here to be rude. We obviously do not wish this to happen but there are some folks out there who are not as honest as the rest so we simply need to protect our work.
 
Regular wholesale: We are happy to supply books for your brick & mortar store. We can offer either the books we have listed, a book of your own design, or custom orders from your customer. (Please contact us for rates). All wholesalers are required to sign a wholesale agreement that states our guidelines and practices. 
 We DO NOT offer Wholesale on non-book items,  

Drop Shipping: We are also happy to offer drop shipping if you sell on the internet and do not wish to stock our Books in your inventory space. Drop Shipping = from us to your customer’s door. The shipping is calculated properly when the ship to address/zip-code is entered. Please remember: Domestic shipping is via FedEx = all points within Continental United States; International shipping is via the United States Postal Service-USPS = all points outside of the Continental United States. For ALL international shipments we require a phone number to be furnished to us – this will help with any Customs questions/issue that may arise.

Also, include any pertinent information that will help process your international order through Customs. Please be advised it is up to you to make your customer aware of time frames, our books, unless purchased from our clearance page or one of a Kind page, are NOT made. They DO take time to create, as we are extremely busy and no longer able to guarantee a 6-week ship time. We do our best to put our wholesalers at the top of the list so rest assured your wait would no longer be eight or more weeks. We work very hard everyday to meet and try to meet deadlines, but like any custom item crafter, this may not always be the case. Please make your customer aware that delays can and do happen.

There are no extra drop shipping fees.

Minimum Orders: There are no minimum order requirements at this time for all Brick & Mortar Shops who are ordering for there own Inventory or for those who drop ship.
Requirements: In order for us to offer these programs to you, we must either obtain your website and/ or your storefront information as well as your business tax id or resale number. We simply need to see that you are in fact a business. We reserve the right to cancel any account we feel is abusing the wholesale discount.
All books must remain Timely Manor Book’s.

Meaning no book shall be purchased & resold without credit being given to Timely Manor Books on it as publisher as the crafter of said book….i.e…(stating it is yours or using language such as “Timely Manor Books, Uplifting the Soul” in your advertisement). Should this policy be violated your wholesale account will be deleted. Our pictures are NOT to be used without our direct permission. Permission is given when you become an approved wholesaler. Clearance items are not reduced further.
 
All of the above information is subject to change. Please check our site for updates. All prices, books and book descriptions
 subject to change without notice. The Wholesaler is responsible for checking our site for updated pricing changes. 
Effective February 1st, 2010 some of our book prices have changed. Please take note of these changes.
Please Contact us for rates & more information.
Please see below and or our Shipping & Payment info page for more info.

 
Time Frame & Shipping:
 
Time Frame: Please be advised books can take anywhere from 4 to 18 weeks to complete then Ship. Un-expected delays can occur with leather & paper. We will do our very best to notify you of any issues that may arrive, please remember to add us to your safe list so you can receive our email, on occasions there can me missed emails or miss communication.  We CANNOT control our suppliers. We do our best to have all papers on hand that we may need, but please keep in mind our marbled papers come from overseas and are hand made. A lot of time goes into this process of making these papers and we have no control over the time it may take the artisans to fill the order. If a paper is popular, like our bookbinder marbles or Florentine papers, the time needed to fill our order on rare occasions can stretch into months. This may be a long time but their work is the best we have found and we only use quality products to construct your book. 

For those that are needed immediately we use 60# white paper provided by our outsource drop and ship to your as is edited and accepted from first copy submitted to TJ Morris direct on her email and approved for publishing.

Again, we will email you and let you know if this is the case, or if you choose one, we will use your second choice for marble papers.

Please be sure to make your first and second  choice selections so that way there will be no delays with your book, again this allows us to serve you and/or your customer to the best of our ability.  We want to express all of these things to you so you know how many wonderful artisans actually play a part in your book’s creation. 

This is why our product is unique and completely custom. With custom items, there can always be possible hold ups. We WILL do our best to insure a timely delivery of your book to your and/or your customer.

As we say these books are born and we believe them to hold, and need to be created, with the type of energy required to be a powerful item for your magical path.

You will not find any Mass Produced bargain store constructing here.  Please keep in mind that we are just two people and one of us does work full time as well as working for Timely Manor Morris Publishing, so we do our very best to contact you as fast as possible.

Please be sure to be as specific as possible in all emails, that way we can serve you to the best of our ability in making your dream become a reality.

We do our very best to get all books done within a timely manor but we are also a small family run business so please keep this in mind.

Hand made items are time consuming and our books are born with the intention of you and your needs so please understand the wait involved.

 All books are created as ordered unless otherwise stated. As there are small differences in leather and papers, we cannot guarantee the exact color seen but it will be the closest we can get it. We have many techniques of dying leather so rest assured you would receive the best coloration as possible.

Shipping:  We are not responsible for damages that happen in shipping, all books and items are insured so if any damage has occurred please let us know and we will help you to file any claim that may be necessary. We use FedEx, Ups and USPS to ship our packages. Please be sure your address is correct, as we are not responsible for lost packages. Also, please be aware all shipping periods are estimates given by the shipping company and are not guaranteed times. We do not control their policies, but we will do our very best to work with you on any issue you may have. We process our shipments once a week; Labels are done on one day & the item will be picked up by, or dropped off at, FedEx that same week. You will receive an email with tracking info once your item has been shipped &/or processed.  
Overseas Shipping: Please be sure to let us know of any issues for your countries customs. We like to be sure we have all needed info before shipping so we do not have any problems getting you your book as fast as possible. For example, some countries require you to declare the value, but not all do. Please let us know if anything like this is required for your country. Please note should a book be returned to our country do to an invalid address provided by the buyer – The buyer must pay an additional shipping charge to re-send the book. ALL international orders MUST have a valid phone number in order to ship. 
Regular in stock items: Ship ASAP; any item not in stock will be ordered at time of purchase and shipped all together with the entire order. Shipping on these could be around two business weeks. If they are any item, you ordered that is on back order or not in stock we will let you know and order it right away. If for some reason our supplier has a back up or issue with an item we will notify you ASAP so you are aware of the issue.

Spell Scrolls & Oils are made when ordered so please allow the allotted period for each to ship.
 
Order & Contact Info:
At Timely Manor Books of Morris Publishing, we do our very best to work one on one with our customers.
We are a small family run company & for this reason, we do sometimes get behind or are unable to respond as quickly as we would like.

We do not ignore our customers so please feel free to email as often as you like. We do our best to answer emails everyday but please allow 24 to 48 hours for contact.

Our staff consists of two people and the occasional Helper/Apprentice; we do from time to time use our Apprentices for book creation, as we need it. Each book is special to us as is each customer. All we ask is the same respect we give in return. We know how very hard it is to trust people these days so please any questions you have or any references you may need do not hesitate to email us. Please do not assume we are ignoring you. We respond to everyone and if you have not heard from us please understand that there are many factors that may be hindering our reply such as email difficulties or in some cases an email may not be received by us or yourself ( again please be sure you allows our emails to be accepted through your Spam blocking and or virus protection. This is the internet age, but the internet is not fool proof and mistakes and or miss-haps with emails can occur. 
 
We can be reached via the following email address:

publisher@americannewsmagazine.com
TJMorrisACIR@gmail.com
MsTJMorris@aol.com
TomMorrisAuthor@aol.com
TJ@theresamorris.com

(If you have an address change – put ADDRESS CHANGE in the Subject line of the email)
(If you have warranty issue – put WARRANTY ISSUE in the Subject line of the email)
(If you have a return – put RETURN in the Subject line of the email)
 
Please be aware that we will do everything in our power to make your book the way you want it. We know, as we are only humans that not every book will come out just right, & for this reason, we have our wonderful warranty that comes with every book & covers it for 6 months after you buy it. If you get your book & you feel there is a mistake or error in it’s construction, just shoot us an email, we will be happy to take care of it & remake it if need be.

Here at Timely Manor Books, we know we are not perfect as nothing really is, we are aware that from time to time things may not work as planned, only through working together with our customers can we begin to make sure your book is all you dreamed it would be.  We like it very much when a customer brings to our attention a possible issue or problem as we feel we can only grow and change what needs to be, again through working together to make a change. We do honor our warranty & do our very best to make you as happy of a customer as is possible. On very rare occasions, we may not be able to either work with a customer on their project or we may be un able to accommodate the customer’s needs. In these cases we will do our very best to take care of the situation and come to an agreement to suit all.
 
Returns:
Timely Manor Books will take returns within 7 days of receipt of any item except all Books of shadows, Grimoires, Journals or custom-made items. All Damaged or Clearance items are sold as is and are not returnable. Should you wish to cancel your order with us once it has been placed, you will be subject to a 20% Material charge as we order supplies for your book and most items cannot be reused for another book.  These refunds will be issued within 30 days of request. All other items can be returned. Simply send the item in question back to us and we will gladly credit your card (Minus shipping) and /or send a check or money order refund to you. You may also request a store credit if you so desire or simply exchange it for another item. If you have any questions please feel free to email us and we will be happy to help. We want you to be happy with every item you purchase from us.
 
Privacy Policy.
Your name, credit info and contact info will NEVER be given out to anyone unless you authorize it to be so or we are given a court order to do so. TJ Morris, Morris Publishing, Timely Manor Books uses a secure server for all our credit card transactions. We do not supply names or sell info to any source of any kind. We value your privacy and will protect it at all costs.
Effective June 1, 2010 TJTM

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Trouble in FarmVille: Facebook, gaming company face lawsuit over deceptive ads
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For the players of Mafia Wars, Vampires, FarmVille and a handful of other Facebook games, the temptation of earning "virtual currency" by clicking on the various offers that popped up on the page was too much to pass up. Unfortunately, what these gamers didn't realize at the time was that the advancement of their virtual characters came at the expense of their own personal bank accounts.

Now, some are fighting back by filing a lawsuit against Facebook and Zynga, the maker of the games. The suit, which is seeking class action status, claims that some offers in the games prompted a series of unauthorized charges or triggered enrollments in programs without the user's knowledge. More than 100,000 people fell victim to these offers, losing more than $5 million, the lawsuit claims.

Among several other examples, the lawsuit cites an IQ test that requires the user to provide their cell phone number. After doing so, some were billed for a text messaging service. Another example from the lawsuit involved an offer that asked consumers to sign up for a "risk-free" trial subscription to a green tea herbal supplement program. Yet somehow that trial became a difficult-to-cancel subscription that every month delivered tea and pills from China.

The only named plaintiff in the lawsuit, Rebecca Swift of Santa Cruz, Calif., said she was charged more than $165 for two months' worth of pills and tea before she was allowed to cancel. She said she first tried to cancel during the trial period, for which she was supposed to pay $5.95 to cover shipping.
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In a written statement to WalletPop, a Facebook spokeswoman said the company was not involved in the ad placement and didn't profit from it. She also said Facebook has been working to clear its pages of scam ads and the company is committed to fighting the suit.

"The ads in question appeared in third-party applications, were not from Facebook, and provided no benefit to Facebook," she wrote. "However, we are concerned about any potential threat to our users' experience. As a result, we have, and will continue to, take action against both the ad networks and developers who violate our principles or policies. We do not see any merit in this suit and we will fight it vigorously."

Facebook said it is committed to banning ad providers that deliver content in violation of Facebook "principles or policies" and already has cut off four providers.

Zynga, billed as the most popular social gaming company, is in a different situation. Its CEO had the misfortune of being videotaped explaining that his hunger for cash outstripped his interest in keeping his users from being subjected to unsavory offers.

In the video, CEO Mark Pinkus said: "I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this ... toolbar which ...I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it. We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business."

A Zynga spokesperson said the company would not comment on the lawsuit, but said it will no longer let scam ads appear with its games.

"Our mission is to provide users with the best possible experience. We deeply regret any difficulty this may have caused users and to make sure we continue to offer the best user experience, we took all offers down," a Zynga spokesperson said in an email to WalletPop. "We take our responsibility to our users very seriously and will continue to take steps to ensure they have a fun and positive game play experience."

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Ethics dictates that business be conducted with integrity, fairness, and openness, which require open communication within and among both buying and supplying organizations, ensuring a competitive procurement, and thereby give any organization a chance to compete for contracts and win. It seems like a week does not go by without one hearing a story demonstrating lapses in business ethics stories, where lucky contract winners share close friends in strategic places, as was the case of Halliburton, which was awarded billions in federal no-bid contracts during the years when Dick Cheney was its chief executive officer (CEO).
Recognizing this longstanding problem of competitive procurement becoming the exception, the US government launched the Federal Acquisition Regulation(FAR) more than twenty years ago, to help federal agencies manage procurement more efficiently. FAR is an official document setting forth procurement policies and procedures that US Federal agencies should follow when soliciting offers (bids or proposals) for goods, products, services, or construction from qualified suppliers. Rules are delineated into eight chapters:
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In response to competition becoming the exception rather than the rule in procurement, Part 6 of the FAR, Competitive Requirements, incorporated the Competition In Contracting Act (CICA). It seeks to establish full and open competition (FOC) as the standard, in order to eradicate partiality, favoritism, political lobbying, and bribery.
In light of these corporate scandals and the heightened scrutiny over corporate practices, FAR will have a greater impact on business. It contains key elements that all organizations should be aware of, whether they are conducting business with a government agency, or with private entities. Using the policies and procedures outlined by FAR, we will
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The purpose of competition is to benefit your enterprise, and competition should not be promoted for the sake of competition. Indeed, in some cases, it may cost more to enter into a competitive procurement to do business directly with a supplier because of the unicity of the requested products, theinadequacy of other sources, the immediacy of your needs, or the emergencyor legitimacy of circumstances. In other words, competitive procurement should be promoted pragmatism, with other methods thus becoming exceptions.
Competitive procurement is the contractual acquisition (purchase or lease) by an organization of any kind of asset, whether material (goods, products, or construction) or immaterial (services) with appropriated funds, enabling all deemed responsible sources to compete in a fair and open environment. Competitive procurement is also known as full and open competition (FOC), orcompetitive solicitation.
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