Inter-Minority Racism

Inter-minority racism is sometimes considered controversial because of theories of power in society. Prejudiced thinking among and between minority groups does occur, for example conflicts between blacks and Korean Americans or between blacks and Jews in various urban environments, new immigrant groups or towards whites.

There has been a long running racial tension between African Americans and Mexican Americans. There have been several significant riots in California prisons where Mexican American inmates and African Americans have targeted each other particularly, based on racial reasons. There have been reports of racially motivated attacks against African Americans who have moved into neighborhoods occupied mostly by Mexican Americans, and vice versa. There had also been cases in the late 1920's California in which Filipino immigrants have been victimized for moving into a predominantly white neighborhood, or for working in an overwhelmingly white workplace. Recently there has also been an increase in racial violence between whites and Hispanic immigrants and between African immigrants and American blacks.
The Aztlan movement has been described as racist. The movement's goal involves the pursuit of repossessing the American southwest. It has also been called the Mexican "reconquista"(re-conquest) whose name was inspired by the Spanish "reconquista" which led to the expulsion of the Moors from Spain.

According to gang experts and law enforcement agents, a longstanding race war between the Mexican Mafia and the Black Guerilla family, a rival African American prison gang, has generated such intense racial hatred among Mexican Mafia leaders, or shot callers, that they have issued a "green light" on all blacks. A sort of gang-life fatwah, this amounts to a standing authorization for Latino gang members to prove their mettle by terrorizing or even murdering any blacks sighted in a neighborhood claimed by a gang loyal to the Mexican Mafia.In Britain, tensions between minority groups can be just as strong as any minority group suffers with the majority population. In Birmingham, there has been a long-term division between the Black and South Asian communities, which were illustrated in the Handsworth riots and in the smaller 2005 Birmingham riots. Tensions between Muslims and Sikhs - two groups who have a history of bad relations - have flared in Slough and at some colleges to the west of London. In Dewsbury, a Yorkshire town with a relatively high Muslim population, there have been tensions and minor civil disturbances between Kurds and South Asians.

Responsible Drug Use

The concept of responsible drug use is that a person can use recreational drugs with reduced or eliminated risk of negatively affecting other parts of one's life or other people’s lives. It has to be noted that, irrespective of how responsible consumers believe they are, the use of illegal drugs, as well as the illegal use of some legal drugs, has effects that could hardly be considered responsible. For example, illegal trade of cocaine has caused tens of thousands of violent deaths in South America, corruption of government officials in producing countries, and social consequences derived from addiction in consumer countries.

The philosophy of responsible drug use, which applies to alcohol, tobacco, and medical products as much as to any other drugs, asserts that to use drugs responsibly one must adhere to the following principles:

• Understanding and educating oneself on the effects and legality of the drug being consumed
• Measuring accurate dosages and taking other precautions to reduce the risk of overdose
• Taking the time to chemically test all drugs being consumed to determine purity and strength
• Not driving, operating heavy machinery, or otherwise being directly or indirectly responsible for the safety or care of another person while intoxicated
• Having a trip sitter when taking a drug with which one is not familiar; or which may radically alter a user's perception of the physical world, such as a strong hallucinogen
• Not attempting to trick or persuade anyone to use a drug they are not willing to use
• Not allowing drug use to overshadow other aspects of one's life
• Being morally conscious of the source of one's drugs

Responsible drug use is emphasized as a primary prevention technique in Harm reduction drug policies. Harm reduction policies were popularized in the late 1980s although they began in the 1970s counterculture where users were distributed cartoons explaining responsible drug use and consequences of irresponsible drug use.

Quality Management System

Quality Management System (QMS) can be defined as a set of policies, processes and procedures required for planning and execution (production / development / service) in the core business area of an organization. QMS integrates the various internal processes within the organization and intends to provide a process approach for project execution. QMS enables the organizations to identify measure, control and improve the various core business processes that will ultimately lead to improved business performance.

The concept of quality as we think of it now first emerged out of the Industrial Revolution. Previously goods had been made from start to finish by the same person or team of people, with handcrafting and tweaking the product to meet 'quality criteria'. Mass production brought huge teams of people together to work on specific stages of production where one person would not necessarily complete a product from start to finish. In the late 1800s pioneers such as Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford recognized the limitations of the methods being used in mass production at the time and the subsequent varying quality of output. Taylor established Quality Departments to oversee the quality of production and rectifying of errors, and Ford emphasized standardization of design and component standards to ensure a standard product was produced. Management of quality was the responsibility of the Quality department and was implemented by Inspection of product output to 'catch' defects.

Application of statistical control came later as a result of World War production methods. Quality management systems are the outgrowth of work done by W. Edwards Deming, a statistician, after whom the Deming Prize for quality is named. Quality, as a profession and the managerial process associated with the quality function, was introduced during the second-half of the 20th century, and has evolved since then. Over this period, few other disciplines have seen as many changes as the quality profession.

Mobile Phone Human Health Impacts

Since the introduction of mobile phones, concerns have been raised about the potential health impacts from regular use. As mobile phone penetrations grew past fixed landline penetration levels in 1998 in Finland and from 1999 in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, the Scandinavian health authorities have run continuous long term studies of effects of mobile phone radiation effects to humans, and in particular children. Numerous studies have reported and most studies consistently report no significant relationship between mobile phone use and health. Studies from the Institute of Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute and researchers at the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen for example showed no link between mobile phone use and cancer. The Danish study only covered analog mobile phone usage up through 1995, and subjects who started mobile phone usage after 1995 were counted as non-users in the study. The health concerns have grown as mobile phone penetration rates throughout Europe reached 80%–90% levels earlier in this decade and prolonged exposure studies have been carried out in almost all European countries again most reporting no effect, and the most alarming studies only reporting a possible effect. However, a study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer of 4,500 users found a statistically significant link between tumor frequency and mobile phone use.

One study that reviewed the link between cellphones and sperm quality found that heavy mobile phone users (>4 hours per day) had significantly less viable sperm (WHO morphology score was less than half of the lower time cell phone users). A prospective study of 13 normal men found that significantly increasing their cell phone use (>6 hours each day for 5 days) caused a marked reduction of sperm quality.

This is considered to be a thermal effect, since the testes are vulnerable to heating by RF energy because of poor circulation and heat is known to have adverse effects on male fertility. The eyes are the other part of the body known to be poor at dissipating heat. Experiments have shown that short duration exposure to very high levels of RF radiation can cause cataracts in rabbits.
The non-thermal effects of RF radiation are an area of active study.

In 2007, it was reported that a mobile phone battery exploded killing a man in Korea, but it was later discovered to be a lie.

How to Find Good Rental Agents

When you are looking for Orlando apartments to rent, finding a good rental agent is important for you. Most agents offer similar services, but there are a few things that should be considered when searching for the rental agent to best meet your needs and tastes. If this is your first time, then begin by setting up as many meetings as you possibly can with different agents at their offices. This way you should be able to get a feeling for the company. Make sure that they are well aware of current laws. Let your lawyer to examine the agreement, when the lease agreements are drawn up. This way you will know that you are well protected and have your rights as the lessee protected. Request all the information the agent needs with regards to the screening process when they qualify tenants.

Ask whether they are keeping records of monthly rental payments and how the required payment is collected each month. In connection with late payments, enquire what the penalties would be and what actions would be taken if you should, for whatever reason, not able to pay your rent before or on the specified date. Inspections should be done before and after you move in and out of the premises. Request that the written reports be provided to you. This is your money after all, so you need to take care when spending it.