Happy GPS Anniversary MJ Sorrell!
Happy GPS Anniversary MJ Sorrell!
Show Me Your Green!
Show Me Your Green!
Check out the GPS Staff above sporting their GREEN in honor of St. Patrick’s Day! Clockwise starting in top left corner…Karen Smith (GPS Corporate), Georgette Sandifer (Gallman Consulting), Smith Richardson (GPS Columbia), Shana Martin (GPS Columbia), Debbie St. Mark (GPS Corporate) and Laura Garland (GPS Newberry)!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!
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St. Patrick’s Day 2016: 29 Quotes, Blessings And Toasts To Share For The Irish Holiday
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Every March 17, revelers take to the streets to celebrate Irish-American heritage. For those who plan to celebrate, 29 quotes, blessings and traditional sayings are listed below, courtesy of BrainyQuote and IrishCentral. Check them out to help spread the luck of the Irish:
Quotes
1. “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” — Tennessee Williams
2. “Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.” — Colin Farrell
3. “That’s what the holidays are for — for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way?” — Lara Flynn Boyle
4. “Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.” — Pope John Paul II
5. “Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.” — Shane Leslie
Sayings
6. In heaven there is no beer. That’s why we drink it here!
7. May the luck of the Irish be with you!
8. There are only two kinds of people in the world, the Irish and those who wish they were.
9. Lose an hour in the morning and you’ll be looking for it all day.
10. Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.
11. Better good manners than good looks.
12. You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was.
13. Irish diplomacy is the ability to tell a man to go to hell so that he looks forward to making the trip.
14. Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord — and it makes you miss him.
15. May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
16. I complained that I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
17. Life is like a cup of tea; it’s all in how you make it!
Blessings
18. May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
19. An old Irish recipe for longevity: Leave the table hungry. Leave the bed sleepy. Leave the bar thirsty.
20. May God bless and keep in good health your enemies’ enemies.
21. If God sends you down a stony path, may he give you strong shoes.
22. May the Good Lord take a liking to you … but not too soon!
23. Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue. But never forget to remember those that have stuck by you.
24. May the blessings of each day be the blessings you need most.
25. May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.
Toasts
26. “Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one/ A pretty girl and an honest one/ A cold beer — and another one!”
27. “When money’s tight and hard to get, and your horse is also ran, when all you have is a heap of debt, a pint of plain is your only man.”
28. “When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven!”
29. “May your home always be too small to hold your friends. Here’s to me, and here’s to you. And here’s to love and laughter. I’ll be true as long as you. And not one moment after.”
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Happy Birthday Suzanne Young!
Happy Birthday Suzanne Young!
Please join Gallman Consulting and GPS in wishing a very Happy Birthday to a fabulous woman and a great colleague!
Suzanne, may all your birthday wishes come true, today and every day. All the best!
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Let’s all celebrate Suzanne!
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Departments of Labor and Justice launch initiative to cooperate on investigation and prosecution of workplace safety violations
Departments of Labor and Justice launch initiative to cooperate on investigation and prosecution of workplace safety violations
From OSHA Quick Takes
January 4, 2016, Volume 15, Issue 1
The Department of Labor and the Department of Justice have established a new initiative to prevent and deter crimes that jeopardize the lives and health of workers. The initiative strengthens the ability of the two departments to investigate and prosecute employers who fail to provide a safe workplace for their employees. Deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu joined Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in signing the agreement during a ceremony at the Dept. of Justice on Dec. 17.
The Memorandum of Understanding calls for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices to work with the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Mine Safety and Health Administration, and Wage and Hour Division to investigate and prosecute worker endangerment violations. The worker safety statutes generally provide for only misdemeanor penalties, and the new initiative will encourage them to use the federal criminal and penal code and environmental offenses, which often occur in conjunction with worker safety crimes, to enhance penalties and increase deterrence.
Fed’s Mester prefers a bit quicker U.S. rate-hike pace
Fed’s Mester prefers a bit quicker U.S. rate-hike pace
Markets | Sun Jan 3, 2016 10:36pm EST
SAN FRANCISCO | By Jonathan Spicer and Ann Saphir
Reuters/Lucas Jackson
One of the Federal Reserve’s hawkish officials said on Sunday that while she prefers a slightly more aggressive approach, she is not opposed to her colleagues’ view that the U.S. central bank needs to raise interest rates only four times this year.
Loretta Mester, president of the Cleveland Fed, told Reuters in an interview she does not need to see clear evidence of inflation to back more policy tightening after an initial rate hike in mid-December. The Fed could act at any policy meeting, including one later in January, she said.
After lifting rates for the first time in nearly a decade, the Fed said further moves would be gradual and dependent on how the world’s top economy performs. The central bank last month forecasted four rate hikes in 2016, based on the median projection of its 17 top officials.
“I’m pretty comfortable with the median path … I think that’s not a bad description,” Mester, who votes on U.S. monetary policy this year under a rotation, said on the sidelines of an American Economic Association meeting.
“I’m probably a little steeper than that in the near term, just because I have a higher growth forecast.”
Mester expects the U.S. economy to grow at a 2.5 percent to 2.75 percent pace this year, slightly stronger than the 2.4-percent rate median forecast of her colleagues. That optimism allows her to view more than four rate hikes as appropriate, she said.
The comments from Mester, one of 10 voters on policy, suggests that while she leans toward marginally tighter policy than Chair Janet Yellen and others at the Fed, she may not be compelled to dissent.
“I think it’s reasonable to move on a gradual path, and I’m going to look at the data that comes in between now and the next meeting,” she said.
Last month’s rate hike from near zero was much anticipated but could yet upset world financial markets as the Fed weighs when to make another move. Traders in futures markets are predicting only two or three hikes this year.
Like most Fed officials, Mester, who has run the Cleveland Fed for a year and a half, expects inflation to rebound as the effects of weak oil prices and the strong dollar wane.
“I don’t see anything in the data that has changed the dynamics of inflation,” she told Reuters.
Evidence of inflation is not necessary for her to back another rate hike as long as her forecasts hold, Mester said. “Right now my forecast is that we will gradually see inflation move back up to 2 percent.”
The Fed’s target for inflation, which has been below target for years, is also 2 percent.
(Reporting by Ann Saphir and Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Dan Grebler)
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
One of the pleasures of each Holiday season is the opportunity to say “Thank you” for your business and team work which has made Gallman Consulting a successful company. When GPS started 30 years ago, we did not envision that our company would be the organization it is today.
It has been 30 years of empowering individuals, developing a staff team and business partners of which we are proud to be associated, and most importantly, working together to make a difference in the lives of all the people that surround us and whom we associate with every day. We are all truly privileged to work in a job where we can make a difference in the lives of others every day.
Wishing you and your loved ones all the wonder and magic of Christmas only to lead you into a very prosperous 2016!!
Blessings,
Charlie Gallman & Gallman Consulting Staff
Happy GPS Anniversary Karen Smith!
Happy GPS Anniversary Karen Smith!
Karen, we appreciate all of your hard work and dedication to GPS over the last 17 years!
We all could not do ALL of our jobs without YOU!
Enjoy your day, your way!
Happy Birthday Georgette Sandifer!
Happy Birthday Georgette Sandifer!
Georgette, you deserve a carefree day!
Your birthday is a promise that life has more to offer you, more plans to make, more goals to reach and more dreams to see come true. It’s a pleasure to wish you a happy birthday!
Let’s all celebrate Georgette (Senior Director of Placement at Gallman Consulting)!
GPS Elf on the Shelf!
GPS Elf on the Shelf will last 24 days!
Be sure to visit our Gallman Consulting social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) to view our scenes each day from our staff!
All GPS Branches (GPS Corporate, GPS Columbia, GPS Newberry, GPS Orangeburg, GPS Charleston, GPS Hot Springs and Gallman Consulting) will be participating with different Elf on the Shelf scenes each day!
Scene from Debbie St. Mark, GPS Corporate “Hermey loves Spirit!”
Gallman Consulting Gives Back!
Gallman Consulting Gives Back!
Gallman Consulting encourages our staff to Give Back to their community by volunteering. Each Gallman Consulting team member is encouraged to volunteer 8 hours between now and the end of the year…this will be a paid working day by Gallman Consulting.
We will continue Gallman Consulting Gives Back into 2016 by allowing each team member to volunteer one day per quarter through the year.
Thank you Charlie and Becky Gallman for giving back!
Pictured above: Charlie Gallman volunteering for Harvest Hope! Charlie and Becky Gallman manning the WIS-TV phone bank on Thanksgiving for Families Helping Families!