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Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – President Barack Obama submitted a video for the “It Gets Better” project, which has featured gay and gay-friendly celebrities speaking out to youths about the current bullying and gay suicide epidemic. President Obama wants to fight against discrimination, against LGBT Americans or anyone.

“Like all of you, I was shocked and saddened by the deaths of several young people who were bullied and taunted for being gay, and who ultimately took their own lives,” President Barack Obama said in the video. “As a parent of two daughters, it breaks my heart. It’s something that just shouldn’t happen in this country.”

“We’ve got to dispel the myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage—that it’s some inevitable part of growing up. It’s not,” President Obama continued. “We have an obligation to ensure that our schools are safe for all of our kids.”

Since the “It Gets Better” project launched, from “Savage Love” columnist Dan Savage, the award-winning project has received videos from celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, Tim Gunn, and Kathy Griffin. In their videos, they all encouraged young LGBT adults and anyone currently affected by bulling to stay strong.

President Obama’s video was posted both by Savage on his blog as well as on the White House website.

“I don’t know what it’s like to be picked on for being gay,” President Obama said.” But I do know what it’s like to grow up feeling that sometimes you don’t belong. It’s tough.”

“But what I want to say is this. You are not alone,” he continued.” You didn’t do anything wrong. You didn’t do anything to deserve being bullied. And there is a whole world waiting for you, filled with possibilities. There are people out there who love you and care about you just the way you are.”

But Savage also challenges President Obama to not just say it gets better, but to make things better. The video comes amidst the administration’s appealing of recent “don’t ask, don’t tell” efforts and the Defense of Marriage Act.

“The president of the United States has the power to do more than assure LGBT kids that it will get better,” Savage said on CNN Friday. “The president of the United States and his administration have the power to make it better.”

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Sick Project Symptoms

Some of the sick project symptoms include:

• Excessive hard work;
• No time is allowed for taking breaks from work;
• Senior management are avoiding you;
• Sense of denial by team members that things are fine;
• Errors are compounding;
• The team people are tired and irritable; and
• No fun is being had by the team.

Project Failure Factors

There are also two levels of factors that lead to project failure. These are:

Level 1 factors – These factors guarantee project failure [or in street jargon, they are showstoppers]. That is, the project will fail to deliver quality, added value and professional satisfaction on time and in budget.

Level 2 factors – There are a number of other factors, which may not prevent the project from delivering on time and in budget, but will generally result in substantial degradation of quality, added value and professional satisfaction.

Project Management Experts

If you want to make sure that your project doesn’t die an untimely death, you need to get a reliable project management training firm. Based in Australia, Thomsett INTERNATIONAL is recognised as one of the most innovative and effective project management groups. They provide consultancy and education in a number of areas including business project management, business analysis, project team management and mentoring at all levels in the above areas.

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Allen James has been a business analyst with a firm in Australia for seven years before moving to the field of writing full time. Today he writes a number of articles in which his experience of the field he worked in is reflected.

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