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New Mexico special session for Tesla eyed
March 18, 2014
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez said her office is mulling whether a special legislative session should be held to help the state win a Tesla Motors facility.
In a speech to an Albuquerque area commercial real estate development association on Monday, Martinez said her office is evaluating whether a special session is necessary to complete a package of economic incentives being crafted to help make New Mexico more appealing to Tesla, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
"If it's necessary, we are open to whatever we can do that would even include that sort of thing. I've had legislators say, 'If it's necessary, we'll come,'" Martinez said.
New Mexico is one of four states identified as finalists for a lithium-ion battery factory that would supply the company's Fremont, Calif., assembly plant. Others are Arizona, Nevada and Texas.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tesla says it will invest $2 billion in the 10 million square foot factory, which will cost between $4 billion and $5 billion. Its partners will invest the rest.
The new factory will provide enough batteries to supply 500,000 vehicles by 2020, Tesla said. Tesla expects to produce 35,000 vehicles this year.
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Martinez wouldn't discuss details of the negotiations with Tesla, but she said New Mexico is in the running for the project in part because of taxation changes that the state has made.
Democratic legislative leaders said a special session to woo Tesla would be unprecedented, and appropriate only if New Mexico has evidence that it was Tesla's pick.
"If there is a possibility of a special session, I believe there's going to have to be some pretty concrete evidence that what we would do here would mean that Tesla would, as a matter of fact, come to New Mexico," said Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen.
The House majority whip, Rep. Antonio "Moe" Maestas, D-Albuquerque, who unsuccessfully sponsored legislation during this year's session to provide reduced electricity rates to lure companies such as Tesla, said the Legislature could get a deal done if called upon.
"These are high-level negotiations with the executive branch. If there was some certainty with regard to Tesla's commitment, then I'm confident the Legislature would do what it takes," Maestas said.
Tesla currently sells just one vehicle, the Model S sedan, which starts around $70,000. But it plans to begin making a crossover, the Model X, later this year, and wants to bring a lower cost, mass market vehicle to market in 2017. Tesla said the factory would help lower its battery costs by around 30 percent.


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Hillman selected as Standish's interim city manager
City to continue search for full-time manager
STANDISH — The City of Standish has its interim city manager.
Curt Hillman was selected by the Standish City Council as interim city manager by a vote of 5-0, during a special meeting held Tuesday, Aug. 30. Council members Tosha Tunney and Doug Ireland were absent. The position is currently part time and Mayor Mark Winslow said he will meet with Hillman to discuss a contract sometime this week.
The vote comes after a 3-2 vote was made during the city council meeting on Aug. 18. The vote did not pass because the council needed four votes to pass the motion according to the city charter.
Hillman said he was pleased with the council's decision and is looking forward to taking over the position.
"We are definitely ready to hit the ground running," he said. "I hope to sit down with (Mayor) Mark Winslow and get the details hammered out."
Hillman said one of the things he wants to begin work on right away is the city's financial position.
"Our financial position needs to get better; it has to get better," he said. "We can't allow the state to come in here and take us over. We have to find ways to save money and we have to be creative doing so."
Although the council selected Hillman to step in on a part-time basis, members of the council also expressed that they want to continue a search for a full-time city manager.
"We have to spend money to make money," said Jerry Nelson, mayor pro-tem. "If it takes us six months, eight months, a year or whatever, we still need a full-time manager."
Winslow said he has reached out to the Michigan Municipal League, a non-profit organization that supports municipalities across the state, to see what candidates may be available. He added that seven candidates have come forward with interest in the full time position.
"We definitely are going to get some feelers out there to see what is available," he said.
Hillman, who is the owner of Arenac Abstract and Title and is also the Standish Township supervisor, said he is interested in pursuing the full-time city manager position.
"I would not have taken this position without thinking there was a future down the road," he said. "I know we needed an interim manager now, but I would like to go for the full-time position."
Hillman said he checked with lawyers and legislators on the state and local levels to be sure there would be no conflict with him becoming the Standish city manager at the same time he is the Standish Township supervisor.
"The city manager position is a hired position, while I am in an elected position in Standish Township. Therefore there is no conflict," he said.
Hillman also said that he would consider selling Arenac Abstract and Title, but at this time he believes that he can handle both positions.
"I have talked with my wife and others about this and I would not have applied if I thought this was something I could not handle," he said. "If I were to be hired full-time, I would have to look at doing something with my business."
Council member Ed Reno voted in favor of Hillman, but stated some concerns with having him take the position, in regards to Hillman's role with the Prison Watch group, which was designed earlier this year to dispel rumors surrounding Standish Maximum Correctional Facility.
"Our last city manager spent a lot of time in his office working with that group and that is something I do not want to see," Reno said. "It's (Standish Max) closed. Period. It's going to stay that way. We don't need a city manager working on something that does not involve us right now."
Reno said he wants Hillman to focus on the issues of the city.
"We need to focus on the city, its finances and finding ways to improve," he said.
Other candidates who interviewed include Kimberly Karpinski of Sterling, Rodney Neubecker of Alger and Vicky Chmura of Twining.
Hillman said he is ready to get started.
"There are going to be some tough decisions ahead," he said. "Hopefully we can all work together as a team to get the city of Standish into the best financial situation possible."
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Monday, August 13, 2007
Lazy Monday
So, let's throw up an open thread here and see what happens.
Here's my question for everyone: What is your prediction on Michigan's record for the 2007 season? Explain.
21 comments:
- not said...
I believe Henne and Hart will get injured --they will accidentally run into each other. That will then bring in Mallett and Minor and who will guide the Wolverines to an undefeated season, big 10 championship, lopsided win over OSU, and will squeak by a win over USC.
- August 13, 2007 7:51 AM
- lane said...
don't really have a clue about the record - and only 'really' care about one game.
i think the bigger storyline behind this years 'big blue' season is 'WHAT'S ON THE LINE?' for UM this season.
-possibly LLoyd's last season - eggs in a basket type thing.
-several UM 'superstars' going out with how many bowl wins? how many OSU wins?
this could be a gut wrenching season for the maize & blue. i understand every game is a must win situation in the BCS era, but there is going to be a lot of 'squirming in your seat-type' Saturday afternoon/evening for Wolverine fans.
'must win' won't due it justice - promise i won't stare!
- August 13, 2007 7:54 AM
- CR said...
Barring a major injury to one of our horses, 13-0 is very realistic. Sure, I'm a Big Blue honk, but really, Henne, Hart and Long have something to prove. They'll compensate for an average (by U/M standards) defense and outscore everyone. tosu has got theirs coming this year.....20 point blowout minimum.
- August 13, 2007 8:24 AM
- Andy said...
How is this for low expectations: One or Two losses. Defense lets us down in one B10 game (We lose to someone other than Ohio State, perhaps Wisconsin?) and we keep our bowl momentum.
- August 13, 2007 8:59 AM
- Out of Conference said...
As an outsider looking in, I think Oregon gives you a tougher game than what you'd normally expect. You squeak that win, but lose one to either Penn State or Wisky. I don't see tOSU as a challenge except you can throw out expectations, skill, records ,etc. and add head games when that game comes around. With your schedule, I don't know that I see Michigan playing in the MNC this year even with an undefeated record unless either SoCal or the SEC team dejoir has 2 losses or Michigan freaking absolutely dominates every team it faces- possible with your talent and the weak B10 brethren. I really would love to see a Michigan v. SEC championship game.
- August 13, 2007 9:18 AM
- MGoBlue93 said...
I'm with you OOC... I cannot believe how many national articles there are which are trumpeting Michigan's schedule. Why?
Another thing I'm seeing a lot of in the press, SEC nation getting down on Les Miles. What has Les done wrong?
- August 13, 2007 9:46 AM
- One Man Gang said...
We're going to beat OSU and Wisconsin (Wisconsin can't beat us, where have you people been), but it's not going to matter because we're going to drop a game we really shouldn't. Oregon stands out as especially dangerous. Penn State too.
Defense wins Championships and we don'tt have the defense to go 13-0.
- August 13, 2007 12:44 PM
- El Pendejo Grande said...
- August 13, 2007 1:40 PM
- srudoff said...
I predict another indecent exposure arrest....oh wait, that already happened!!!
- August 13, 2007 2:35 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
Well, since the poll folks put you in the point position figure on having the big target on your back. I'm glad it's you guys this time around. I see it as the kiss of death.
With that said and your coaching issues, I would estimate two or three losses. If you lose to Wisconsin, I don't think your boys will have enough heart (Hart) left to stave off an OSU team that smells blood in the water. Consequently, three loses.
If you don't beat tOSU with the advantages you have this year, I would predict a suicide spike the week after the game.
Beware Notre Dame. They're looking for respect. Mucho peligroso.
- August 13, 2007 2:54 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
coming out of the stadium following our win in the 100th M-Tosu game, as pleased as i was w/ the win, i couldn't help but be disappointed by the overall season.
we had a great team, good enough to play for, maybe even win a national championship in the sugar bowl. we had beaten ND, TOSU, won the conference title, and were headed for the rose bowl.
but we also had a couple of stupid ass losses to teams, Oregon & Iowa, that were both decent but not really top 10 caliber. in both of those losses, we had really played a great game on offense and defense, statistically dominated, but couldn't punt or cover punts, had a kick or two blocked, and had lost by a close score when the comebacks came up short.
had we avoided either (not both) of those losses, Michigan would have play OU in the Sugar Bowl.
i guess this my long winded way of saying that i'm optimistic about the season, predicting some big wins, a conference title, and a bcs bowl, but in the end, it's the same Lloyd Carr we've had the last 5 or 6 seasons. even in the good years, he finds the way to drop one or two we should have won.
he'll do that this year, too.
- August 13, 2007 2:59 PM
- Dongshow said...
an early loss to oregon or PSU will have me ready to jump off a cliff before the team goes on a great run. A big win vs OSU and a narrow bowl victory will have us claiming we should have had a shot at the title.
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- August 13, 2007 4:46 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
ah, for those of you who haven't taken a look @ EDSBS, you probably should: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=3707.
LYAO funny...
- August 13, 2007 6:19 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
Okay. Notre Dame wins 30-27 or 30-29 or 29-27 or you can take what's behind curtain number three.
Poor guy.
- August 13, 2007 6:53 PM
- mmacrn said...
I don't see any offensive weaknesses. I have watched Michigan football for thirty years, and only recall a limited number of suspect defenses. I think they have the potential of going all the way. I would like to see the "big three" end their college careers on positive notes. I think many will be surprised by the tenacity of The 2007 Michigan DEFENSE !
- August 13, 2007 8:24 PM
- not said...
I predict UM will go undefeated heading into the BCS NC game in a rematch against USuCk. USC will again win but not with the same devastation as before. And we'll see Donovan Warren make ROJO look like the fool that he is.
- August 13, 2007 8:31 PM
- Dan Mexico said...
1-6, bitches!!!
Had to be said...
- August 13, 2007 10:45 PM
- Lee said...
As a Buckeye Fan, it pains me to admit that I believe that Big Blue will go undefeated at least through the regular season. I think the team will much resemble that of the 2006 OSU team, but hopefully not the same results in the Title Game.
Good luck in all but one game this year.
- August 13, 2007 11:33 PM
- Rolox said...
No. 20 stays healthy all season long, dispelling any lingering myths that he is prone to injury...
No. 20 vintage!
I'm very excited to see Manningham play a full season too...
No. 86 deep threat!
I guess, when it comes down to it, I am most worried about injuries. This season has disappointment written all over it, but moreso because there is a huge potential for big things this year. NT game or bust in 2007!!
- August 14, 2007 4:03 PM
- Mike said...
No Defense = No Championships.....and THAT's the bottom line.....
- August 16, 2007 9:04 AM
- Rob said...
In an odd twist similar to 1997 and Tom Osborne, Lloyd announces his retirement late in the regular season. However, since no one likes Lloyd, Michigan actually drops in the polls unlike Osborne. The drop causes Michigan a shot at the BCS. You read it here first...
- August 17, 2007 10:52 PM


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Jim McAllister Talks Romance at the Salem Witch Museum?Just when you think you've heard it all, the finest tale of passion in Salem's history will be told at the Salem Witch Museum this Tuesday, February 10th at 7:30 pm (weather permitting). We're honored to host our city's official historian Jim McAllister as he shares "Nathaniel and Sophia: the Hawthorne Love Story" as part of his "52 Weeks 52 Lectures" Series and celebrating Salem's So Sweet. Get in the Valentine's Day mood with Jim's telling of a great, and, at times, complicated,19th century American romance that unfolded in the very shadow of Washington Square. For reservations: firstname.lastname@example.com or 978.979.5907 Tickets: $12
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Kim Kardashian loves the UAE-style "Vampire facelift"
Kim Kardashian reportedly counts on this new treatment to keep her looking young and Oscars attendees could well get bitten by the bug after receiving a voucher in their goodie bags.
Now the 'Vampire facelift' has glided its way into the UAE - but the man who brought it here said There's nothing Bram stoker about it. There are no bats, coffins or crosses anywhere near his clinic, says Dr Allen Rezai of Elise Cosmetic Surgery Group.
He said the treatment simply involves taking 10ml to 30ml of blood from a patient's arm and injecting it into their face to make the skin "tighter and looking fresher".
The Swedish surgeon insists the treatment - officially called Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) skin rejuvenation therapy - is a winner.
"There's nothing Dracula about it," he said laughing. "It's from your blood and goes back to your body - so there is no risk of allergic reaction."
celebs love it because it only takes 45 minutes to an hour to do, leaving just a small bruise. "After three hours you can put your make-up back on," says Dr Rezai.
Results will be seen after three to four weeks with "the real difference" noticeable after two to three months. While it will sort out the wrinkles, it will bite a chunk out of your bank balance. A 'Vampire facelift' costs Dhs4,000 a go. The good news is, its effects are said to last up to one year.
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Even though watching the replays of his season-ending ankle injury last fall at Georgia Tech might induce others to feel sick to their stomachs, Hurricanes receiver Malcolm Lewis said he doesn't cover his eyes or even wince in disgust when he sees it.
According to the sophomore standout from Miramar High, he's taken the video of his pain and suffering and used it both as a learning tool and as motivation when he fully recovers to keep playing the game the way he always has.
"I watch it and see what I could've [done] to prevent the injury," Lewis said Tuesday -- about a month since he began individual work and route running on his own.
"I should have kept my feet chopping instead of letting it sit in the ground and roll... It was just a football play -- fighting for extra yardage. Something tragic happened. But there's nothing you can do. I'm still going to be the same player, fight for extra yards every time."
Last week UM coach Al Golden called Lewis' return "a medical miracle." Truth is, Lewis said, he's about a month ahead of schedule. Doctors first told him at the end of September it would take him about eight months before he would finish rehab.
He said while his teammates have been practicing this spring he's been lifting light weights while gaining strength back in his ankle. He said he's progressively been lifting heavier weights over the last few weeks as his ankle strength has improved.
"It felt weird [at first]," Lewis said of running routes at the start of camp. "Now that things have been going on and on I've been feeling better."
He said he expects to be fully cleared for contact next month and ready to go in the fall.
"It's a blessing just to be back on the field and doing what I can," Lewis said. "[Doctors] didn't know it wouldn't be happening this fast. I shouldn't be running this quickly. I should be rehabbing right now. But my leg is feeling stronger.
"I'm just going to try to pick up where I left off, do the best I can."
> Golden said defensive end Dyron Dye has an Achilles injury, but didn't rule him out from returning this coming season.


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Raymond "Ray" Hillard
Raymond "Ray" Hillard, formerly of Kane, passed away early Thursday morning, June 7, 2012 in Palm Coast, Fla. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Lois and their son Darrel. He proudly served his country as a second lieuetant in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Mr. Hillard retired from the timber management division of the U.S. Forest Service before moving to Florida to spend time with his family. He enjoyed woodworking, gardening and bird watching during his free time. Ray always appreciated the true beauty of nature and spent as much time as possible outdoors. Memorial contributions can be made to the Arbor Day Foundation or your local Humane Society.


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On behalf of Governor John Kasich, welcome to "MY OHIO PLATE." Ohio's new license plate and driver's license will showcase how Ohioans feel about Ohio. Please select the one slogan, phrase or fact that you think best describes Ohio. The deadline for submitting your recommendation is January 8, 2012. We'll review your suggestions and unveil the final version later in 2012.
Folks are then presented with a list of options to choose from including (and no, we're not making these up):
* 1st Traffic Light
* White Trillium (which is not the substance the bad guy is trying to obtain in the next James Bond movie, it's a flowered plant)
* 40,948 Square Miles
* State of Perfect Balance
* Rubber Capital of the World
They also have Tosu-centric choices such as "The Horseshoe" and "Woody Hayes" (we're guessing somebody tried to get "Fuck Michigan" on there but was unsuccessful).
Sure, some of these are okay. I mean, who wouldn't be bursting with state pride driving around sporting "1st Traffic Light" on their license plate. But none of them really capture what Ohio is. Luckily, there is a way we can be neighborly and help Ohio with this important and difficult decision. At the bottom of the BMV page with the choices is a blank write-in box under the heading "What does Ohio mean to you." Naturally, we have very strong feelings about that one. So, after giving it some thought, we here at the MZone came up with a couple suggestions:
* The Buckstache State
* I believe in hell, I live in Ohio
* Ohio: It's like Michigan...only without the class or scenery
* Speed Trap Capital of the World
* Ohio: Round ends, high inside. Just like its residents
* It could be worse, I could live next door in Kentucky
* Who farted?
Anyway, we're still trying to figure out which one to submit. And make sure you do your part for Ohio by giving them a suggestion. Let us know what it is in the comments section.
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ASHVILLE - Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards joined watershed professionals and BOCES students recently to oversee the final stage of the stream bank stabilization project on a portion of Goose Creek along 4904 Route 474 in Ashville.
The $40,000 project is funded through the County's 2 percent Occupancy Tax Grant, which supports projects dedicated to the enhancement and protection of Chautauqua County's lakes and streams.
This grant was awarded to the Chautauqua County Soil and Water Conservation District and was approved by the legislature for funding in 2012. It enables the CCSWCD to help eliminate severe erosion along a portion of Goose Creek and to prevent the discharge of sediment loads from the stream bank into Goose Creek and Chautauqua Lake.
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County Executive Greg Edwards, center, helps BOCES students plant willows during the final stage of the stream bank stabilization project on a portion of Goose Creek along 4904 Route 474 in Ashville.
Chautauqua County Watershed Coordinator Jeff Diers, who manages the 2 percent Occupancy Tax grants and contracts, said Dave Wilson and the staff at CCSWCD have been instrumental in this project and many other 2 percent grant projects by providing much needed technical expertise on stabilization projects in the county.
To fix the bank's severe erosion, the CCSWCD installed 125 feet of limestone rip-rap along the lower bank. It also created an education experience for conservation students from Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES' Hewes Educational Center in Ashville as students were able to observe the rock rip-rap being installed and see firsthand the important techniques used to preserve our waterways.
The conservation students helped in the final stage of the project as they planted willows donated by Double A Willow in Fredonia. By incorporating this bio-engineering technique, students were able to help stabilize the upper reaches of the eroding slope.
"This project has been an excellent learning experience for our conservationists of tomorrow," Edwards said. "The Chautauqua County Soil and Water Conservation District has not only done a remarkable job in stabilizing the stream bank to preserve our waterways for recreational use, but they have also provided BOCES students with a lesson on conservation techniques."
The 2 percent Occupancy Tax Grant is funded through Chautauqua County's five percent occupancy tax or "bed tax" for the rental of lodging units within the county. Three-fifths of this revenue is utilized to increase tourism and special events while the other two-fifths is utilized to enhance and protect lakes and streams.
The Goose Creek Stream Bank Stabilization Project is one of various projects that are funded through this 2 percent Occupancy Tax Grant.
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Taylor Swift Pens Tune With Foster the People Frontman Mark Foster
After claiming writing credits for her entire 'Speak Now' album, Taylor Swift seems to be taking a completely different creative approach to her next studio album. The country superstar has added Foster the People's Mark Foster to her long list of collaborators, recently penning a tune with the punk band frontman and rumored love interest. The new pairing is one of many confirmed creative partnerships for the upcoming release.
In an interview with Fuse during Tennessee's famed Bonnaroo concert festival, Foster spoke about the the new tune, solidifying the pair's work together. "It's a really cool song, you know?" says the singer. "We kind of just went into it casually, like let's just jam and just have fun, and something really cool came out of it."
"It was a lot of fun working with her. She's super talented," remarks Foster. "We'll what happens with it." With no official track listing for the album — expected to be released later this year — it remains to be seen whether the new songwriting team's track will be included on the upcoming project or a future one.
Speaking on her new album, Swift says, "Being so busy, there's not a lot of time to stop in the middle of the day and just kind of think about this feeling that you just realized about a relationship you had a year ago," Swift reveals. "The ones I love the most end up happening very quickly." The 'Safe & Sound' singer admits the new album will be full of "sad" songs.
Foster joins a list of eclectic Swift collaborators, which includes British rocker Ed Sheeran, producers Butch Walker (P!nk) and Dan Wilson (Adele) and singer-songwriter Lori McKenna. Nathan Chapman — the producer responsible for her first three multi-platinum album — will also help Swift craft her newest project. No specific release dates have been announced.


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Across California on April 10, activists demonstrated for immigration reform and articulated a sharply different version from any currently obtaining in the US Congress of what that reform entails.
In San Diego, California, nine activists completed a six-day hunger strike outside the Mission Valley Hilton Hotel on April 10 - the day demonstrations took place across the United States demanding immigration reform. Hunger strikers were protesting the firing of 14 of the hotel's workers, after Evolution Hospitality, the company operating the Hilton franchise, told them that it had used the government's E-Verify database to determine that they didn't have legal immigration status.
"The company says that E-Verify is making them do this, even though many of the workers have been working here for years," said Sara Garcia, a supporter and hunger striker from House of Organized Neighbors, a local community organization. "But they started firing them when the workers were organizing a union."
"I clean 16 to 18 rooms a day, and they pay me $8.65 an hour. No one can live on that," explained Leticia Nava, a fired worker. "I'm a widow with three children who depend on me. What is happening is not just. We are immigrant workers, and the only thing we're asking is to work. That's not hurting anyone."
Garcia and Nava accuse the company of using E-Verify in order to retaliate against 14 women for their union support. But they also say that the E-Verify system is used much more extensively, to fire workers even where no union organizing is taking place.
"Many companies are doing the same thing. They're manipulating the system because what they're really interested in is low wages," Nava charged. "This isn't the first time this happened to me. I was fired the same way two years ago. Now my children are all scared because they see it's harder for me every day. Tomorrow, I'll have to go out and find another job, and E-Verify makes that more and more difficult. The impact on us is not just money - it affects all aspects of my life."
Nava and Garcia joined the tens of thousands of immigrants and immigrant-rights activists who demonstrated on April 10 calling for the reform of US immigration laws. Yet on the same day, legislators drafting reform proposals in the US Senate proposed changes that would make Nava's experience more widespread than ever; the changes showed up in a bill they introduced a week later.
Both Garcia and Nava agreed that getting rid of E-Verify should be part of immigration reform. "This part of the law is inhumane and unjust," Garcia says. "It has economic, psychological and even moral effects. Instead of children worrying about schoolwork, they're worried about how they'll survive, or even just eat." Nava declared simply, "This part of the law should be eliminated."
Congress, however, proposes to exact a price for the legalization of undocumented immigrants. The "Gang of Eight" senators drafting the reform bill announced they intend to expand the E-Verify system to cover all employers and make its use mandatory. This was only one of a number of measures that would increase the severity of many of the anti-immigrant measures already part of US law.
The Hilton workers and their supporters, as well as the union helping them, UNITE HERE, all believe that immigration reform should include a legalization process. They want one that would give the 11-12 million undocumented people living in the United States a quick and accessible way to gain legal status. That demand ran through all of the hundreds of demonstrations around the country, from the 30,000 people on the mall in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, to the thousand marchers in downtown San Francisco. It was a demand voiced by hundreds of janitors and security guards in Silicon Valley, and by teachers and elementary school students in Berkeley, California.
The senators, however, are proposing a plan that would require undocumented people to spend a decade in a provisional status before even being able to apply for permanent legal residence. Then they would have to maintain that status for another three years before they could apply to become citizens and gain basic political rights. Moreover, only people who've come to the United States before Jan 1, 2012, can apply for provisional status, and, significantly, the legislation says that no one can apply for provisional status until a plan for "securing" the border has been drafted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which could take another six months.
The citizenship process is so overloaded that processing applications now takes months, even years. And instead of anticipating the logistical bottleneck of millions of people applying for citizenship at the same time, the senators declared that legalization applicants would get no dedicated process.
People seeking legal status would have to "get in the back of the line" - their visa applications would be processed only after all other pending applications. That could have people waiting still more years. Today, the government is still processing visa applications for some relatives of US citizens and residents that were filed over two decades ago. The undocumented would only become eligible for residence if they learned English and if they or a family member were continuously employed for ten years.
The senators further announced they would charge each applicant a penalty of $500 to file an application, another $500 six years later, and a further $1,000 before an applicant could apply for residence, on top of fees to cover the costs of the program. Leticia Nava, for instance, would have to raise $2,000 right away for herself and her children and would acquire an additional obligation of $6,000 plus fees. At $8.65 an hour, paying it off would be hard. The idea of long waiting periods and obstacles was criticized by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who warned, "Families, including siblings and children, must not pay the price of our broken policies."
An even greater shift in US immigration policy is in the works, however. The senators chipped away at the family preference system itself. They announced that there would no longer be a category allowing visa applications for the brothers and sisters of US citizens. At the same time, their bill would create a new program eventually giving 120,000 visas a year to people with the work skills demanded by US employers, rated on a point system. The undocumented could apply for these "merit-based" visas, but would compete against others.
This moves US immigration policy backward in time. Through the cold war, it was structured to allow employers to bring workers, called braceros (manual laborers who worked with their brazos, arms) to labor on the railroads and in the fields. At the same time, ferocious immigration enforcement led to the deportation of as many as 1 million immigrants a year - called "wetbacks" - who tried to work outside of that guest worker program. The civil rights movement abolished the bracero program, and with the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, a family-based system replaced it.
"Even before the braceros, we had contract labor, like the system that brought my ancestors, Chinese farmers, to build the railroads and set up irrigated agriculture here," explained Reverend Deborah Lee of the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights in Oakland, California. "Whether we were Chinese migrants or braceros, we were just labor. Companies could spit you out and send you back home. They still can - we still have programs like that. We need to recognize the humanity of people. We're not just workers - we're human beings. We need a system in which we can create families, have our spouses come, raise our children and be part of society. So the senators are really changing the definition."
Even more direct labor supply schemes will be part of the senators' bill. Currently, the three main official guest worker visa programs, H1B, H2A and H2B, allow employers to recruit about 250,000 workers outside the country every year and bring them with visas that require them to work in order to stay. Some allow workers to change jobs (H-1B), while others require them to remain with the employer who contracted them (H-2A and H-2B). Some, but not all, visa programs require employers to recruit locally first (H-2A), and allow workers to eventually apply for residence (H-1B).
In parallel with the senators' deliberations, the AFL-CIO and the US Chamber of Commerce announced agreement on yet another such program, called the W visa. It would allow employers to recruit workers to fill labor shortages documented by a new federal commissioner, require them to recruit locally first and peg wages of guest workers to an employer's existing wage scale or to prevailing wages in the industry in which they're recruited. Workers would be able to change jobs but could not remain out of work for longer than 60 days or they'd have to leave the country.
Ana Avendaño, assistant to AFL-CIO President Trumka and director of immigration and community action for the AFL-CIO, wrote that under this proposal "employers have the comfort of knowing that, as the economy picks up, workers - foreign or domestic - will be available to fill jobs that will fuel economic growth. Workers have the comfort of knowing that local workers will have the chance to apply for those jobs."
Making a deal on a new guest worker program is a means to win over Republican senators and representatives who respond to employer lobbying. In its mobilization efforts around the country, the AFL-CIO and other Washington DC-based lobbying groups have announced their central priority is a "pathway to citizenship" - that is, a legalization program for undocumented people.
This goal is painted in broad strokes. "There is absolutely no distinction," said Trumka at an event kicking off an April 10 rally, "between workers who were born in this country and those who came here to build a better life. We're all in the same boat, every one of us who works for a living. We rise or fall together."
Other organizations, however, have been critical of those aspects of the senators' plan that will increase enforcement and expand labor supply programs. Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen warned that, "CWA will monitor any proposed changes to visa programs like the H-1B visa, which are sought after by business but have cost US technicians and other workers tens of thousands of jobs." The Senate bill would raise the numerical limit on those visas. Columbia professor and former labor organizer Mae Ngai noted in The New York Times, "From the agricultural 'Bracero Program' of the 1940s and '50s to the current H-2 visa for temporary unskilled labor, these programs are notorious for employer abuse."
In Washington State, Rosalinda Guillen, director of Community to Community Development, a farm worker group that organizes cooperatives and advocates for immigrant rights, worried that once undocumented agricultural laborers gained legal status, they would face competition from guest workers brought into the country by growers. She noted that the state's agricultural lobby is pushing intensely for guest workers. The Senate bill transforms the existing H2-A agricultural guest worker program into two new ones - W2 and W3 - and sets up a special legalization process for farm workers in exchange for making the programs more attractive to growers.
"Farm workers deserve an opportunity to begin building healthy, sustainable careers in the food system," Guillen explained. "As long as corporate agriculture is allowed to legally bring in an exploitable workforce, our food system will continue to decline and farm worker families will continue to be the lowest-paid workers in the country, working one of the most dangerous jobs, so consumers can eat cheap food and corporations can continue to get richer!"
Many of the April 10 rallies highlighted other problems with US immigration law. In Berkeley, California, a group organized by teachers and the Alameda Labor Council lined a pedestrian bridge across the freeway. They were led by children from Jefferson Elementary School, who spoke to the crowd. One, Kyle Kuwahara, read a letter he'd written to President Barack Obama, protesting the decision by US immigration authorities to refuse to allow fourth-grade student Rodrigo Mendoza, along with his family, to return home to Berkeley after a vacation in Mexico.
"He has been in our school for five years and he is a friend of mine," Kuwahara wrote. "Rodrigo is not free to come back. In school we are learning about all these important people like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks who fought for people's civil rights and freedom. So what about Rodrigo's freedom? Who is fighting for his freedom?"
The Mendoza family's crisis highlighted the massive enforcement wave of the last four years, in which over 2 million people have been detained and deported. Almost all the April 10 rallies demanded a moratorium on mass deportations while Congress debates reform proposals. Some even demanded that the huge system of privately run immigrant detention centers be dismantled.
Many in the Berkeley crowd had been engaged in a long fight to save the jobs of workers at a local foundry, Pacific Steel Casting. In December 2011 and January 2012, 214 undocumented workers were fired after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency examined company records in a process called an I-9 audit. After identifying workers who had no legal immigration status, or "work authorization," ICE then sent the company a letter demanding it fire them. The same process has led to the firings of hundreds of thousand of workers across the country during the Obama administration.
City councils throughout the East Bay sent letters to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano pointing out that the firings would not only be a disaster for the families involved, but would also damage local communities. Political pressure succeeded in delaying the firings but couldn't stop them. Richmond, California, Mayor Gayle McLaughlin accused ICE of undermining her city's already devastated economy in the middle of a recession. "Their firing is a violation of [the workers'] human rights," she said at the time. "When they say that [immigration] raids are targeting criminals, it's not true. People who are just trying to make a living are being targeted, big time."
The company and the workers' union, Molders Union Local 164, released a joint statement in which Pacific Steel declared, "These terminations were not only devastating to the workers and their families, but also to the workforce at PSC ... [We] implore the protestors to direct their attention to the Department of Homeland Security and federal policy makers." The union also criticized "the broken and unfair laws used by the government to disrupt and destroy the lives of many of our friends and colleagues."
A month before the April 10 demonstrations, one union even went on strike over the firing of three workers in an E-Verify check. The three workers lost their jobs when Waste Management, Inc. fired them for lacking work authorization. The company sent them the notice in the middle of a bitter conflict over the union contract with Local 6 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).
"I believe the company is trying to intimidate workers," said ILWU organizer Agustin Ramirez. "For a long time, workers didn't fight with this company. But recently they decided to terminate the contract, which expired years ago. The company was threatening their jobs, and by terminating the contract, they could go on strike.
So WMI [Waste Management Inc.] used this way to try to stop them," Ramirez continued. "It was like WMI was telling the workers, 'Since you dare to question what we do, then we'll question your documents.'"
The ILWU filed an unfair labor practice charge, accusing the company of "unilaterally implementing the E-Verify employment eligibility verification program" and "terminating employees for alleged lack of authorization to work in the United States," among other charges. Then the workers struck for a day over the company's legal violations.
"While the company is using immigration law for retaliation," Ramirez said, "the real problem is the law itself, because it makes firing the punishment for lacking legal status. The reality is that all the workers have families here and are trying to stabilize their situation. One even came to the US when she was only three, and has an application for the DREAM Act program [which defers deportation for students for two years and gives them work authorization]. The company fired her anyway."
Fights against the use of E-Verify have grown over the last two years - at Hilton and Waste Management, at the Mi Pueblo supermarkets and at many other worksites. Immigrant workers have organized marches and demonstrations against the I-9 audits, which have hit not only union molders at Pacific Steel, but union janitors in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Minneapolis, Seattle and other cities, and nonunion workers at Chipotle restaurants and the American Apparel clothing factory.
In the 1990s, a similar wave of firings directed against unions and organizing drives gave political weight to immigrant activists inside the AFL-CIO, as they fought for a pro-immigrant policy. They argued that "employer sanctions," which refers to the law that provides the legal basis for E-Verify and I-9 audits, was an inherent violation of workers' rights to organize and to work and support their families. At the AFL-CIO convention in 1999, they were able to convince the federation to call for repealing the law.
In 2009, however, the AFL-CIO executive council adopted a document known as The Labor Movement's Principles for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Point two calls for, "A secure and effective worker authorization mechanism." Yet the massive wave of immigration-related firings is characteristic of how work authorization is actually enforced. Local fights against firings inevitably question support for sanctions in Washington, DC. They suggest that instead of treating increased enforcement as something to be traded for legalization, ending it should be part of labor's immigration reform program.
Reverend Lee of the Interfaith Coalition predicts that unions and immigrant rights organizations may eventually be divided over whether to support Congressional reform proposals, since they call for vastly increased enforcement. "A lot of families are suffering now because of earlier immigration deals trading legalization for enforcement. We need to think long-term if the deals today are going to create more problems for families in the future."
In some communities, anger against previous tradeoff deals is palpable. The Coalición de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Coalition) in Tucson called comprehensive immigration reform "primarily a vague promise used to attract immigrant and Latino voters, [while] border communities have suffered the costs of irresponsible and brutal enforcement policies, resulting in death and violence." Increased border enforcement was part of the tradeoff for immigration amnesty in 1986, and was beefed up again in the Clinton administration immigration reform package of 1996.
A recent study by the Migration Policy Institute found the federal government spends more on border and immigration enforcement than on all other law enforcement agencies combined. The bill drafted by the Senate Gang of Eight would spend at least another $3.5 billion immediately on border enforcement,with the possibility of spending another $2 billion later. Enforcement would include building more walls and using drones and other means of electronic surveillance. Moving forward with some aspects of legalization would only come after the government made plans for surveillance and curtailment of undocumented migration and showed efforts to implement them. The special court in Tucson that tried 70 young migrants, brought before judges in chains and sentenced to time in a federal lockup for border crossing, would be expanded to process 210 people per day.
Derechos Humanos also called for the repeal of employer sanctions and the E-Verify system. It advocates ending guestworker programs because they increase job competition and pit resident workers against those brought to the United States by employers. Instead, "job creation and training programs should be implemented for all unemployed workers, ensuring a healthy and robust workforce," according to a recent statement responding to the Gang of Eight proposal.
Rising demands for a more rights-based reform than the one on the table in Washington will certainly make negotiations more difficult. In the past, those calling for one have been accused of undermining efforts to achieve what's "politically possible," at least according to the Beltway calculations. But these voices won't be easily shut out of the national debate.
Jon Pedigo, a priest at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in San Jose, organized a breakfast for people of faith as part of the April 10 actions in the heart of Silicon Valley. In his homily the Sunday before, he told parishioners, "The authorities will try to silence these voices by dismissing them as irrelevant. We have learned through these 50 years of organizing campesinos, low wage workers, and immigrant families that you cannot shut down the conversation. You cannot silence the truth of our woundedness. We must confront authorities with stories of children's fearing that their parents might be taken away from them and deported. The voices of mothers whose children have been torn from their arms cannot be ignored."


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Mrs. Louise Bullard, age 69, of Taft, died Sunday (Oct. 14, 2012) at her residence. A native of Jacksonville, Fla., she was the daughter of the late Chauncey Leroy and Olive Christine Duggan Smith. She was a housewife and a member of the Friendship Stateline Freewill Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband, Jimmy D. Bullard of Taft; daughters, Christine Lanee Higginbotham of Sugarland, Texas, and Suzanne Louise Newman of Ardmore; sons, Gerald Curtis Goodwin and Clifton Leroy Goodwin, both of Hartselle, Ala., and Jimmy Delton Bullard, Jr., of Sikeston, Mo.; sister, Jaqueline Kerce of Yulee, Fla.; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Friendship Stateline Freewill Baptist Church with Bro. Rusty Lincoln officiating. Burial will follow in Golightly Cemetery. Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Vicky Leen McKin Cramer, 53, of Ardmore, died Monday morning (Oct. 15, 2012) at her residence. She was a native of Lincoln County and the daughter of Aaron McKin and the late Frances Holt McKin Collier. She was a homemaker and a member of the Church of Jesus. Survivors, in addition to her father, include her husband, Randall Lee Cramer of Ardmore; daughter, Keisheila Cote of Nevada; grandchildren, Carryn, Deante, Justice, Chase, Charley Ann, Aubrey; sister, Diane McKin Hunt of Ardmore; brother, Stanley (Katie) McKin of Fayetteville; sister, Jeanette McKin of Fayetteville; sister, Debbie Payton of Toney, Ala.; and several nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. at Lincoln Cemetery. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Bernice Jane Edwards, age 80, of Fayetteville, went to be with the Lord Saturday (Oct. 13, 2012) at Lincoln Medical Center, surrounded by her husband of 62 years and children. Graveside services were to be conducted Monday morning in Campbell Cemetery with Richard Rogers officiating. Bernice was born June 12, 1932 in Chillicotte, Ill., the daughter of Alexander and Badia Ayoub Lakis. She married John Edwards on June 18, 1950. Surviving are one daughter, Patricia Dillon of Fayetteville; two sons, David (Donna) Edwards of Fayetteville and Victor (Pat) Edwards of Baton Rouge, La.; 14 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, George, Louis and Victor. She worked as a comptroller for many years. Bernice was a member of Liberty Church of Christ where she was active for many years before becoming disabled. Bernice enjoyed cooking and preparing Mediterranean foods for her loved ones. Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Mildred Shelton Gault, age 87, of Fayetteville, passed away Friday afternoon (Oct. 12, 2012) at her daughter-in-law's home in Estill Springs. She was a native of Lincoln County and the daughter of the late Clarence Wilson and Maude Osborne Shelton, a retired nurse and a member of the First United Methodist Church. Survivors include her grandson and special caregiver for more than three years, Jason Gault of Greenville, S.C.; sisters, Louise Raby of Fayetteville and Velma Marty of Meridianville, Ala.; and brother, Eurcil Shelton of Fayetteville. She was preceded in death by her son, Ronald Gault, her sister, Odell Patrick, and her brother, J. D. Shelton. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at Higgins Funeral Home with the Rev. Tom Ward officiating. Burial followed in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband, Ira Goodrich Gault, who passed away in 1976. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Jack Eric Hall, age 86, of Fayetteville, passed away passed away Thursday night (Oct. 11, 2012) in Donalson Care Center. He was a native of San Pedro, Cal., and the son of the late Fred C. and Adelaide Cobb Hall. Mr. Hall was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force serving during WW II. He was a former truck driver and was a speech and hearing consultant for the State of Tennessee. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Kidd Hall of Fayetteville; daughter, Margaret Ann Hall Roman and husband Brent of Santa Cruz, Cal.; granddaughter, Claire Elisabeth Roman of Santa Cruz, Cal.; brother, Fred C. Hall, Jr. of Cookeville; brother-in-law, James and Roberta Kidd; and sister-in-law Jessie McFerrin. A graveside service was conducted Saturday afternoon at Lebanon Cemetery with Dr. Calvin Todd officiating. Higgins Funeral Home is assisting the family of Jack Eric Hall.
Fred Allen Higgins, 63, of Fayetteville, died Tuesday (Oct. 9, 2012) at his residence. A native of Lincoln County, he was the son of the late Allen Edward and Jewell Higgins Higgins. He was a brick mason. Survivors include a daughter, Jazmon Higgins of Birmingham, Ala.; two sons, Vince and Kevin Higgins, both of Fayetteville; three sisters, Judy Tucker, Lynette Carlisle and Nancy Price, all of Fayetteville; two brothers, Bobby Joe Higgins and Calvin Edward Higgins, both of Fayetteville; and three grandchildren, Morgan, Sloan and Ally Higgins. Graveside services were conducted Thursday afternoon at Carter Hills Cemetery. The family requests memorials be made to the Coldwater Methodist Church. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Hilda Irene Edmison Hudson, age 91, of Chicago, Ill., formerly of Kelso, passed away Sunday (Oct. 2, 2012) in Chicago. Mrs. Kelso was a native of Lincoln County, the daughter of the late Rufus and Lillie Hargrove Smith. She was a housewife. She was the loving mother of six children, Shirley Siedlecki, Fay Garrett, Freeda Mangano, Geri Ciparine, Lee Earl Edmison, Jr. and Gail Juarez; 16 grandchildren; and 33 great-grandchildren. She was formerly married to Lee Earl Edmison of Kelso. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon in the chapel of Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home. Burial followed in Kelso Cemetery. Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Linda Gayle Privett, 60, a resident of Ardmore, Ala., died Saturday (Oct. 13, 2012) with family by her side. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home, Ardmore, Ala., with burial in Gatlin Cemetery, also in Ardmore. Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Leslie Riddle Sapach, 40, of Fayetteville, died Saturday (Oct. 13, 2012) at Vanderbilt Hospital. A native of Harvey, Ill., she was the daughter of Lester Riddle (Nancy) and Brenda Worsham (the late Howard Worsham). She was an LPN at Lincoln Medical Center. Leslie was preceded in death by grandparents, Clarence and Abbie Lillian Riddle and Carl Boren and Isabelle Dye (Bill). Survivors include a daughter, Ariel May of Huntland; sisters, Lisa Posey (Thomas) of Fayetteville, Lori Yarborough (Lee) of Fosterville and Terri Riddle of Indianapolis, Ind.; brother, Jason Riddle (Amy) of Indianapolis; special friend, Doug Humphries of Fayetteville; and many nieces and nephews. A memorial service is set for Tuesday (Oct. 16) at 11 a.m. at Parks City Baptist Church.
Jax Warren Scott, infant child of Zachary Scott and Tabitha Broadway Scott of Toney, Ala., died Friday (Oct. 12, 2012). Graveside services were held Sunday afternoon at Gatlin Cemetery in Ardmore, Ala. Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Bobby Louis Smartt, 58, died Tuesday (Oct. 9, 2012) at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Bob was a native of Lincoln County, but had spent the past 30+ years in Lewisburg. He was the son of the late Robert Smartt and Mardell Smartt. A brother, Phillip Smartt, also preceded him in death. Bob was the owner and general manager of WAXO 1220 AM, FM, and WAXO TV in Lewisburg. He was a graduate of the Tennessee Institute of Broadcasting. He was instrumental in raising over a million dollars for various civic groups, school groups and charities over the past 20 years. The Lewisburg Elks Lodge named him "Citizen of the Year" in 2012. Bob was a devoted member of the Berean Baptist Church where he also played piano and was the church videographer. According to his daughter, Jeanne Kay, "It's a great day in Heaven." Survivors include his wife, Sharrin Lusco-Smartt of Lewisburg; six children, Terri Lynn (Scott Shoemake) Berry of Huntsville, Ala., Robert Eric Smartt of Madison, Ala., Jeff Carter of Lewisburg, Jennifer "Pie" Carter, Sarah Smartt, both of LaPorte, Ind., and Jeanne Kay Smartt of Lewisburg. Also surviving are six grandchildren, Aaron Berry, Raven Smartt, Savannah Smartt, Avery Carter, Ethan Carter, Paxton Martinez, two sisters, Jackie Hamlin of Fayetteville, Connie Mayhall of Huntsville; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Friday from Lifesong Family Church with Bros. Rick Stephens, Tim Atkisson, Rocky Cunningham and James Kinslow officiating. Burial followed at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fayetteville. Serving as pallbearers were Ronald "Ronnie" Robinson, Troy Cashion, Scoop Troop, Lanny Bradford, Bobby Hurt, Greg Bradley, David Orr and Norman Dalton. Honorary pallbearers were Joe Boyd Liggett, Chris Gilbert, Todd Ferguson, Hunter Ferguson, Possum Trot Bubba and all WAXO employees both past and present. Memorial contributions may be made in the name of Jeanne Kay Smartt at Bank of America or Heritage Community South Credit Union or the Bob Smartt Memorial Fund from Berean Baptist Church in care of First Commerce Bank. Bills-McGaugh Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Linda Squires, age 59, of Taft, passed away Friday morning (Oct. 12, 2012) in Lincoln Care Center. Mrs. Squires was a native of Plainfield, N.J., and the daughter of the late Otto and Teresa Martinkovic Nodes. She was employed as a sales clerk. Mrs. Squires' funeral arrangements will be conducted in Plainfield next week. Survivors include her daughter, Teresa Bain and husband Jeff of Taft, three sons, Edward Squires and wife Sharron of Fayetteville and Thomas and Dan Squires, both of Taft. Higgins Funeral Home is assisting the family.
Philip Wilson Tucker, age 78, of Fayetteville, formerly of Nashville, passed from this life Saturday (Oct. 13, 2012). Mr. Wilson was born Dec. 22, 1933, in Corders Crossroads to the parents of Earl Wilson and Pauline Phillips Tucker. He was preceded in death by his father, Earl Wilson Tucker in April 1943, mother Pauline Tucker Petty in June 2004, step-father A.B. Petty December 2004 and his only brother, Robert Earl Tucker, in December 1953. He was a 23-year veteran of the United States Air Force and later retired from Orkin Pest Control of Nashville. He grew up in Nashville and at age 17 entered the military, spending 23 years touring the world before coming back to Nashville where he spent 39 more years until his illness and was moved to Fayetteville where he passed from this life. He leaves behind many cousins. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Visitation with the family will be from 10 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens in Nashville where he will placed beside his brother, mother and step-father. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Robert Gary Watson Sr., 63, of Pulaski, died Monday (Oct. 8, 2012) at his home. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home with Todd Sharp officiating. Memorial donations may be made to the Thomas E. Pardon Memorial Scholarship, P.O. Box 1, Frankewing, TN 38459. Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.


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Ok, so we have a few bumps with 4.6 KDE and we are working hard to resolve them as soon as possible.
An issue with the skel file is black text on black background, this is fixed in app-misc/sabayon-skel-5.5-r2, but the problem is, we don't touch your home folder, so you need to manually do this
equo update
equo upgrade
That will pull the new fixes, but here is what you need to do next
as USER, not root, from konsole:
cp -a /etc/skel/.kde* ~/
and than restart KDE
This will copy the default Sabayon skel files to your home directory and reset your KDE and things will be all pretty again
Issues with magneto, multiple instances. We are aware of this and working on it. For now, can uninstall it or just right click on the extra ones and choose exit.
System-Settings - Startup and Shutdown - Session Management and check the Start with an empty session click apply and logout and than log back in, I only get one magneto


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If that's true, then who's misspelling the captions on all those cat pictures?
Your friendly neighborhood dog [unc.edu] I suppose?
If that's true, then who's misspelling the captions on all those cat pictures?
People who are smarter than 20% of Americans
...are by definition below average intelligence.
Why would we think that 100% of people would be able to use the internet on their own? Or get a higher education for that matter?
No, the definition is 50% are below median. The median doesn't necessarily have to equal the average, although for a typical bell curve like intelligence it usually is pretty close.
Its not terribly hard to find a distribution where median and mean are not the same. Stereotypical heartbeat rate in a morgue. Video game level/skill/score.
The almost blindingly obvious reason 1/5 of the population doesn't use the net is its almost impossible and fairly pointless if you're functionally illiterate. Which is probably a good description of about 1/5 the population. I had a former boss who "bragged" about not reading a book since high school... punchline was he had gray hair. Probably not a amazon/kindle customer, etc.
That hypothesis doesn't explain why 94% of people age 18-29 use the internet, unless intelligence and/or literacy rates have massively increased.
A simpler hypothesis is that old people don't use the internet, and young people do, and other factors are minimal.
That's not what the statistics in the linked report show; they show a much bigger age difference than an education or class difference. 41% of people 65+ are online, whereas 94% of people 18-29 are online, a difference that completely swamps the other factors.
What is the distribution of reported percentages of seniors using the internet? Of 18-29 year olds?
That depends upon whom you ask.
This, and some of what you said in your previous leads me to believe that you were aware of multiple studies on this topic (of course, you might have just meant that there were conflicting studies in general). This is why I asked for a distribution. Did one study put the percentage of 18-29 years at 94%, and another at 89%, and yet a third at 95%?
Ask an old functionally illiterate guy like my long ex boss, if he reads books and he's all "f no". He did read a book once while 18 in high school, but he says "no"
I do not think its possible to go thru high school in the 00s 10s and not use the internet. Ask a 19 year old supermarket cashier who hasn't used the internet since copying and pasting a wikipedia article into a high school book report, and she'll say "yes" because it was recent.
Also I think functional illiteracy is in strong decline in the US
The almost blindingly obvious reason 1/5 of the population doesn't use the net is its almost impossible and fairly pointless if you're functionally illiterate.
Wait, you're telling me 1/5 of the internet using population isn't functionally illiterate?
I prefer Miss South Carolina's explaination of why 20% of Americans aren't on the internet:
"I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are unable to do so, because uh, some, people out there, in our nation don't have computers. and uh...I believe that our education like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as...and, I believe they should uh, our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us."
Do you have a link to this?
I saw the link. Strictly speaking, it was Miss Teen South Carolina.
50% of people...
...are by definition below average intelligence.
True of the median, not of the mean. If you measure intelligence by IQ, which is designed so that the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 15, it is perfectly possible that over 50% of the population scores above the mean. Or below it.
The distribution of IQ is defined (in modern tests anyway) as a normal distribution--the median is 100 w/ a sd of 15, and the median is equal to the mean. It is not even slightly possible to have over 50% on either side of the mean.
But the GP said that we might not have average and median intelligence coincide, which is different from having average and median IQ scores coincide.
I agree. I think that the huge influx of laypersons onto the Internet has been both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, having more people of all social, economic and education backgrounds has encouraged a more rounded environment. It has allowed websites to flourish which otherwise may have been little more than a niche sites back when it was mostly university geeks and researchers. But on the other, we have a subset of people who are more open to scams, who place a larger burden on support resources and who are unable to deal with issues such as compromised computers infected with Trojan horses.
But the bigger and darker issue is that the Internet is much more about user feedback than at any time before. It is a place where every voice and opinion can receive an equal audience. What happens when you have millions of uneducated riff-raff joining in the conversation, especially when the topic is political in nature? It often drags the quality of the conversation down. You end up with people parroting their worldviews rather than thinking about the subject at hand. Unless that environment is heavily moderated, it will end up sullied.
As to the groups of people who are underrepresented on the Internet, I'm relieved that is the case. While some of them may begin to change their worldviews from being exposed to more ideas, I think the benefit to society would be greatly outweighed by the damage such people would cause. But the genie is already out of the bottle. Costs will continue to drop and more services will simply require Internet access in order to procure them. Internet penetration will continue to climb. I think that it is inevitable that everyone will have access, and we as a society will just have to adapt to it, for better or worse.
If you remove the single largest factor for non-adoption (age), the rates are generally pretty high, and the other factors mentioned make less difference. That's why I wish these surveys focused more on multi-factor analysis instead of these easy-to-do but less-useful analyses where you just pull out single factors. Sure, people with lower incomes are less likely to be online, and people with lower educational attainment are less likely to be online, but those two factors also correlate strongly, and matter differently for different age cohorts. Which factors have independent effects after controlling for the others? That's the kind of analysis that would be more helpful...
So yes, 22% of Americans don't use the internet. But a large proportion of those are over 65: in that age group, 69% of people don't use the internet. That's just generational change.
If we look at young people, age 18-29, a full 94% use the internet. There is probably some education/income effect in there, but a much weaker one: only 6% of total young people, even including the poorest and least educated in the statistics, don't use the internet.
Note also that educational attainment isn't separate from the age effect, because going to college used to be less common in my grandfather's generation than it is today, so there are some confounds baked into those numbers, too.
In short: Where are the goddamn crosstabs?!?
If you remove the single largest factor for non-adoption (age), the rates are generally pretty high
so you're suggesting Logan's Run [wikipedia.org] as a solution to improving the rate of internet usage?
Who are you? some kinda liberal/commie/lefty who embraces Obamacare and is just itching for the death panels to get up and running?
Logan's Run is such a panacea, really. Not only would it increase internet adoption, but imagine the other statistical benefits: It'd raise our percentage of college graduates, increase the average physical fitness of both men and women, improve our per-capita GDP, and even decrease cancer rates.
Logan's Run is such a panacea, really. Not only would it increase internet adoption, but imagine the other statistical benefits: It'd raise our percentage of college graduates, increase the average physical fitness of both men and women, improve our per-capita GDP, and even decrease cancer rates.
Damn you for taking my trolling post and converting it into a reasonable argument!
I've got family that live out in the country, and their dial-up service was so slow and noisy that they could only reach 14.4Kbps for 5 minutes at a time. Naturally they dropped service and haven't tried it since.
I get all the gossip I need from my neighbors, bartenders, and hair stylist
Were they included? Most everyone i know in ALL economic segments have one.. and those are "online".
You have a very narrow social group. The same Pew survey found smartphone penetration is only about 35% of the population.
They are wrong. My group spans from people that make millions, to people on disability.
Only 44% of the residences which can get cable TV actually buy it. [ncta.com] In comparison, 68% of US households have broadband access. [doc.gov] (3% are still on dialup.) That's impressive reach for an industry that barely existed a decade ago.
Bear in mind that a significant fraction of the US population barely reads. 14% of the US adult population has "below basic literacy skills." [ed.gov] They are not likely to find a computer very useful. Another 15% of Internet penetration and everyone who can read will be connected.
Measured by a different study, the most connected major countries are at 80%, +- 2%. The US and Japan are at 78%, Germany is at 80%, Korea is at 81%, and the UK is at 82%.
>> One in five of those who are not online today think that they just don't know enough about technology to use the Internet on their own.'"
Curious, in that you can make the same statement regarding genitalia and birth control.
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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Bangladesh's government also agreed to allow garment workers to form unions without permission from factory owners. That decision came a day after it announced a plan to raise the minimum wage in the industry.
The collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza factory building April 24 focused worldwide attention on hazardous conditions in Bangladesh's garment industry, where workers sew low-cost clothing that ends up on store shelves around the globe, including the U.S. and Western Europe.
The tragedy came months after a fire at another garment factory in Bangladesh killed 112 workers.
Swedish retailing giant H&M, the biggest purchaser of garments from Bangladesh; British companies Primark and Tesco; C&A of the Netherlands; and Spain's Inditex, owner of the Zara chain, said they would sign a contract that requires them to conduct independent safety inspections of factories and cover the costs of repairs.
The pact also calls for them to pay up to $500,000 a year toward the effort and to stop doing business with any factory that refuses to make safety improvements.
Two other companies agreed to sign last year: PVH, which makes clothes under the Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Izod labels, and German retailer Tchibo.
"This agreement is exactly what is needed to finally bring an end to the epidemic of fire and building disasters that have taken so many lives in the garment industry in Bangladesh," Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, one of the organizations pushing for the agreement.
Meanwhile, the search for bodies at Rana Plaza was called off Monday evening. For more than 19 days, the rubble pile in the Dhaka suburb of Savar had been the scene of frantic rescue efforts, anguished families and the overwhelming smell of decaying flesh. The last body was found on Sunday night.
"Now the site will be handed over to police for protection. There will be no more activities from the fire service or army," said Mohammed Amir Hossain Mazumder, deputy director of fire service and civil defense.
Reshma Begum, a seamstress who survived under the rubble for 17 days on cookies and bottled water before she was rescued last week, told reporters at a hospital Monday that she never expected to be rescued.
"I will not work in a garment factory again," she vowed.
The Rana Plaza owner and eight other people, including garment factory owners, have been detained in the investigation. Authorities say the building owner added floors to the structure illegally and allowed the factories to install heavy equipment that the building was not designed to support.


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