Memorial Day 2009

President Barack Obama participates in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery Monday, May 25, 2009. White House Photo, Lawrence Jackson

President Obama honored America’s fallen service members at Arlington National Cemetery this morning and said that the men and women who choose to serve their country are the “best of America.”

The president laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington and said the cemetery, which is the final resting place for soldiers dating back to the Revolutionary War, serves as a reminder of the “meaning of valor.”

“With each death, we are heartbroken; with each death, we grow more determined,” he said.

Obama sent a wreath to the African-American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C. He is the first president to send a wreath to this memorial that honors the 200,000 African-American soldiers who fought for the Union Army.

As a vet I believe that we are here because they stood up and where willing like others to gave their last measure.

The President returned from Camp David last night so that this morning he could have breakfast with Gold Star Families in the State Dining Room, participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, and speak at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery:

Here lie Presidents and privates; Supreme Court justices and slaves; generals familiar to history, and unknown soldiers known only to God.

A few moments ago, I laid a wreath at their tomb to pay tribute to all who have given their lives for this country. As a nation, we have gathered here to repeat this ritual in moments of peace, when we pay our respects to the fallen and give thanks for their sacrifice. And we've gathered here in moments of war, when the somber notes of Taps echo through the trees, and fresh grief lingers in the air.

Today is one of those moments, where we pay tribute to those who forged our history, but hold closely the memory of those so recently lost. And even as we gather here this morning, all across America, people are pausing to remember, to mourn, and to pray.

Old soldiers are pulling themselves a little straighter to salute brothers lost a long time ago. Children are running their fingers over colorful ribbons that they know signify something of great consequence, even if they don't know exactly why. Mothers are re-reading final letters home and clutching photos of smiling sons or daughters, as youthful and vibrant as they always will be.

They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor; who waged war so that we might know peace; who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity; who paid the ultimate price so we might know freedom.

Those who rest in these fields fought in every American war. They overthrew an empire and gave birth to revolution. They strained to hold a young union together. They rolled back the creeping tide of tyranny, and stood post through a long twilight struggle. And they took on the terror and extremism that threatens our world's stability.

Their stories are the American story. More than seven generations of them are chronicled here at Arlington. They're etched into stone, recounted by family and friends, and silently observed by the mighty oaks that have stood over burial after burial.

Africa Day 2009

This May 25th is Africa Day, the official day of the African Union. It is an opportunity to celebrate African diversity and success, and join Africans around the world in highlighting the cultural, social and entrepreneurial energy of the continent and that of those of the African diaspora.

This year we will create a financial instruments to invest in the following African ventures:

1. Provide Architectural Design and Environmental along with Professional Engineering, Construction Management and General Contracting Services
   
2. Planned Unit Development centered around a building on such sites a full service Teaching Hospital and Orphanage supporting a K-12 School that specializes in AIDS orphans.
   
3. Water Works Construction
4. Waste Water Plant Development
5. Clean Burn Waste Disposal Solutions
6. Electrical Power Generation Plant Development
7. Electrical Distribution Networks
8. Next Generation Broadband Communications Solutions
9. Creating a in country next generation Internet service and cloud computing solution
10. Safety Support for the above work and other Humanitarian Aid

Obama's first 100 Days

The National Fairness and Growth Conference Call

starting at 12 Noon EST at Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850 Participant Access Code: 570587# lasts till 4PM our time I am on at 1:30 to 2:00 PM

National Fairness and Growth Campaign Steering Committee

• General Chairman Joesph Debro Co-Founder, National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) and Board Member of Housing Assistance Council
  
• Co-Chairwoman Pandora Ramsay, Founding President , Ohio Fairness Campaign
• Co-Chairman Fredrick Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA. former Chairman of Cincinnati Change
• Co-Chairman Irvin Henderson, former Chairman, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and on the board of the CRA Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation
  
• Convener Dr. Robert Day PhD, President, Center for Urban & Rural Redevelopment

Steering Committee Advisor and Panel Moderator
Lawrence Auls, Chairman of MDi, Executive Director LISW, LTD

National Fairness and Growth Conference Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850
Participant Access Code: 570587#

Agenda

9:00 – 9:15 AM	Call to Order and Introductions
9:15 – 9:55 AM	National Growth and Fairness Conference 50 Year Review
9:55 - 10:15 AM	Impact and Solutions as to Prop 209 What is Best Practice Legislation look Like?
10:15 – 10:30 AM	The Emergency Contractors Fund Who? Why? When?
10:30 – 10:40 AM	Faith Based Initiative Briefing and Introduction From the Pulpit to the White House
10:40 – 11:00 AM	Broadband America and LEED Buildings = One Million NAPS in smartHouseholds that creates a broadband means tested network for 200 Million People in the United States
11:00 – 11:15 AM	Break
11:15 – 11:30 AM	ARRA PRP, PRG, PPIP from a Congressional Black Caucus Hearing
11:30 - 11:45 AM	Economic Security Initiatives
11:45 AM – 12:05 PM	Organizational and Community Development Best Practices Review
12:05 – 12:25 PM	Health Policy Options and Telemedicine with the ability to develop a Statewide Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) Laboratory Simulation
12:25 – 12:45 PM	Best Practices Recommendations Review
12:45 – 1:00 PM	Wrap-up

The current host agency is the Emergency Contractors Fund and

we are on the web at http://www.nationalfairnessandgrowthcampaign.org

and you can email us at Email: ldgheg@aol.com

50 YEAR REVIEW & ANALYSIS

Office of Equal Opportunity [OEO], Affirmative Action, Setasides, Affirmative Access, Diversity, Inclusion, New Markets Tax Credits, Business Development Programs, Empowerment Zones, Model Cities, CDBG, DOL Workforce Development Grants, Community Action Agencies, Structures, Approaches, and delivery systems for Opportunity[s] and Capacity Building. The Fairness Campaign will review past political agreements and governing compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment under an Obama Presidency. The Fairness Campaign will also identify and address historic moral gaps.

WHAT WORKED? WHY NOT?
Among the issues to be reviewed -

• War On Poverty: Community Action Agencies, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (Model Cities), Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Black Capitalism, Philadelphia Plan, Selected Contractors Strategy
• Executive Order 8802 Fair Employment Practices and follow-on actions
• Public Law 95-507 and modifications
• Ohio House Bill 584 Set Aside and its descendants such as EDGE
• The Small Business Investment Act and Minority capitalization programs such as Specialized SBIC’s [MSBIC’S]
• Construction Apprenticeship Programs
• Small Business Administration (SBA) and other business economic and technical assistance programs
• CETA, New Careers, Jobs Corps, Military Service, Peace Corps, Vista
• Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones
• Minority, National and Regional Purchasing Councils
• Positive capacity building pass-throughs, joint ventures, and mentor protégés
• Non capacity building pass-throughs, fronts, and joint ventures

1 million LEED Home SDR

$100B SDR...lets be about it.

Change is possible we just got to make it happen. One Million American Citizen Households in change for the better is my goal. Starting in Cincinnati and then Oakland and 48 other places.

Col. [Ky.] Fred Hargrove Sr. PE MBA

My friend Col. [Ky.] Fred Hargrove Sr. PE MBA is a Cincinnati Change Trustee and serves on the Ad Hoc Steering Committee of the National Fairness and Growth Campaign and is the President of Hargrove Engineering & McGraw Daniels, LLC.

My name is Frederick Hargrove Sr. PE, MBA and I am a native Cincinnatian, born, raised and educated here. I grew up in many of the neighborhoods which have now been designated as empowerment zones.

I am the previous Chairman of Board of Cincinnati Change and currently in charge of erasing the development divide in greater Cincinnati.

Some Background: Cincinnati Change understands the Tri-state is politically fragmented and segregated by race and class. Many poor Cincinnati residents have a high degree of desperation and hopelessness along with the belief that things cannot change. Cincinnati Change was created to “change this perception” by taking action to change Cincinnati NOW on June 19th, 2000 and took its first action at the 2000 Black Family Reunion.

In 2001, the founders of Cincinnati Change submitted a request to the Cincinnati Empowerment Corporation (CEC) that they set out procedures to issue $100M (now $130M)of revenue bonds to buy a patent and develop businesses that would have employed over 8,000 people. The request was updated in 2002 and again in 2003 at meetings that were held with the Cincinnati Empowerment Zone.

In 2004, the CEC set the procedures to issue the bonds through the Cincinnati Hamilton County Port Authority. In 2005, Cincinnati Change assembled a team to meet its organizational objectives through creation of a mutual fund to fund its mission in order to Change Cincinnati NOW. On June 19th, 2005 Cincinnati Change received its charter from the State of Ohio and stands ready to change Cincinnati NOW.

Cincinnati Change is creating a limited liability company called Queen City Development Group who will become operational 1 March 2006. On Feb. 25th 2006 Cincinnati Change started to organize the community to develop approximately 15 acres " eight city blocks " of prominent waterfront property that has been pre-assembled, at one time, with the opportunity to tap into surrounding anchors that will, by 2009, generate approximately a million visitors annually to the area. Over 500,000 visits wil happen from kids in the region and foriegn exchange student visits.

Under the Cincinnati Change plan of action is where I would be chairman of a 200 member LLC with the executive board made up of the Cincinnati Change Treasurer, the Rev. Charles Britton, Dr. John Hurlimann, Col. [Ky] Wanda J Lloyd-Daniels of Churches Can Change Cincinnati NOW and a journeywoman in the IBEW, a repersentative from the United Methodist Churches Mens Conference of Cincinnati Ohio River Valley District, the 100 male March Ministries, and a representative from ELMC who will handle technology along with other appointees.

Cincinnati Change has hired three companies I have equity in Lloyd Daniels Development Group, LLC.(where I am President), Hargrove Engineering, LLC (which I own), and Education Learning Management Company LLC.(I am the managing director of this organization in formation), along with Wilson Military Academy and other partners (including a 501(c)3) to be part of the team that proposes that we create a local master developer for the riverfront who will team with global development partnership from Cincinnati.

Under my leadership I see Cincinnati Change forging alliances with the faith based community and others to encourage increased economic stability in Hamilton County. We will do that by helping to rebuild the midwest with the development of a third frontier creative class information highway infrastructure for next generation ICT built into real estate development, energy and transportation next generation grid build development.

I have worked with other founders to create a joint venture company which will provide jobs through the acquisition and development of businesses, intellectual property and real estate properties through this lead developer which is to be called

Hershel Daniels, Junior

http://www.linkedin.com/in/hersheldanielsjunior

• Visionary at National Fairness and Growth Campaign
• Chairman of the Board of the United Methodist Men of Keys of the Kingdom UMC at Keys of the Kingdom UMC
• Trustee at Cincinnati Change, Inc. [in charge of erasing the digital divide in southern Ohio's 3 million people]
  

Hershel Daniels, Junior Specialties

Oceanographic Exploration, Communications Research, Cryptographic Solutions Design, Campaign Design, Broadcast Solutions and Radio Host, CTO to National Diplomatic Reps, Foreign travel and residence, and I have been a past Branding and Creative Director

Hershel Daniels is upto creating a broadband America for 200M people through a million NAP solution through 50 markets, with public and private sector change agent partners.

My professional plan is work the next seven years to create a global 4th Generation Fiber to the Edge Net that will have broadband wireless operations, licensed and unlicensed from a Ohio HQ and backhaul via fiber as well as wireless and satcom.

From my profits from the above goal I will work with my Church, the UMC, along with Cincinnati Change to create coalitions in support of delivery regional dynamic broadband wireless & wireline solutions that Erase the Digital Divide around the world on a means tested basis under new leadership in Washington.

I will create the MDijCOMM Global Total Knowledge Management Systems as content management solution that specializes in multimedia content. We look to content telling the story of African Americans and their history which is the history of the United States of America with our technology.

We are looking to mobilize the members of WAIF into an alliance by Jone 19th that would number 1,000 that support a WAIF Programmer Lead RSS feed sources unified to Erase the Digital Divide as part of a National Fairness and Growth Campaign and Free WAIF Cause on FACEBOOK.

It would be part of what my Blog is about the National Fairness and Growth Campaign Blog at http://nationalfairnesscampaign.blogspot.com/ in creating a means tested broadband America that moves back to number 1 by 2020 in next generation network availability.

Then we implement it in Washington DC and 49 other capitals around the world through the countries I have lived in and or visited and international connections online and in person through the DC Change blog at DC Change at http://dcchange.blogspot.com/

We start implementation on it in Ohio in the three C's Cincinnati [Health], Cleveland [eCommerce] and Columbus [eGovernment] and 49 other state capitals in the USA along with HUD EZ's and Agriculture EC's along with Federal Renewal Zones through the countries I have lived in starting in 2004 at http://cincinnatichange.blogspot.com & picking up off ouff that at http://natichange.blogspot.com

I believe that using technology and through membership in a change organization and or the National Fairness and Growth Campaign that we can Converge to Erase the Digital Divide.

My requirements: Invest in a SOHO that includes a VSAT that supports a smartHOME rack that has a broadband wireless infrastructure built into its cloud computing solution and home management system to come from Commerce, Agriculture, NTIA, FCC, Fed, SBA, Treasury, CDFI's, CHDO's, CDO's, CDB's, PIC, CDC's and other authorized funding partners as a plan of action in greater Cincinnati led by Fred Hargrove, Sr. PE. MBA. who will build the infrastructure so that the world can receive through the internet content created in southern Ohio.