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2019 KSI Donor/VIP Revamp 01/28/2019After much thought and re-work, the KSI Board is happy to announce the revamped and improved KSI VIP Donor System for 2019. Unlike the past where one donation netted someone the VIP group, now the group will reset on the 1st day of each year. Requirements In order to get re-added as a KSI VIP Donor, you will have to contribute in one of the following ways: Donate $10 to KSI's PayPal Donate at least 1000 bits to KSILive Sub to KSI for at least 2 months Once the new year begins, just donate in any of the 3 above ways and you will receive the 2019 Donor Award as well as the 2019 Donor Group. Just provide proof in the AAP area when you apply. Your donation can be made by someone else, so just have them provide you with the receipt. This only applies for PayPal donations and Subscribing. Bits must be your own. Donations can also add up, so you can contribute $5 for two months and receive it. Just keep the receipts as proof for your request and you will be given Donor access. With this revamp, we have improved the perks of donating to KSI. Because of your financial commitment, we want to reward you for believing in KSI and contributing in that way. Benefits Access to VIP Area on the forums to talk with other donors. 2019 Donor Forums award Special sneak previews of KSI News stories and community announcements Recognized on the KSI Front Page's Donor list Ability to give input on upcoming events, such as Divisional Cup, Spring Break, Spirit Week, Fall Classic, Turkey Bowl, and Award Show. Special Donor-only giveaways during the yearly KSI events A special Donors-Only Weekend Event full of FFAs and Giveaways in August. Overall We want to provide the best KSI experience for all of our members, and those who fund the websites, events, and so much more should be rewarded for contributing and believing in the community. So please enjoy this revamped system and allow us to work with you to forge a better, more inclusive KSI. Thank you, KSI Board of Directors
KSI Gaming 03/26/2019KSI Gaming The 2019 Forums Update is here! And along with it came a brand new KSI Gaming area. Check it out! Everything from Anthem and Apex to Siege and SMITE. Each game subforum has General Chat Thread, an Official Update Thread and an Information Thread. Game Journalists will be keeping track of and updating these threads on a weekly basis. Whether you're looking for details on the latest patch or just wanting to share tips and tricks, there's never been an faster way to connect with other gamers in our community. Our Gaming area is currently broken down into categories: Adventure First Person Shooters MMORPG For more information about the KSI Gaming area or to learn about becoming a Game Journalist, message any of our Web Ops staff! Explore the full 2019 Forums Update layout here: 2019 Forums Update
2019 Divisional Cup Kickoff! 04/01/2019Hello, Friends! As most of you know from last year, Divisional Cup will keep track of divisional participation throughout the year. Starting at Spring Break and ending with January's Award Show, we will be ranking divisions each month by their participation in activities, growth, and officer staff ratio to develop a competition for Division of the Year! The division with the most points at the end of each month will be named Division of the Month. As you can see on the chart above, a list of monthly events will be posted with the meeting notes and in the Div Cup area on the forums, so everyone can be aware of what will count toward points! Divisions can expect to see points counted for Weekend Warfare, Montage and Clip submissions, News Team contests, Twitch Subscriptions, Social Media activity, and OTM/DOTM award periods in the AAP.. plus a couple of other categories weaving in and out throughout the months! Additional events will be added depending on what is happening in and around KSI for that particular month. Same as last year: KSI's large events -- Spring Break, Spirit Week, Fall Classic, and Turkey Bowl -- will count independently and figure into the overall scores, but not the monthly tallies. Different from last year: (Change is good, promise) This year Div Cup will be split into two halves. This means even if your Division doesn't start off too hot in the first half, you can always give them a good kick in the rear at the start of the second half, and finish off strong! Here is an example of how it will look, along with the standings so far. I'm sure you all remember that Divine Warrior's took home the win last year.. so as of right now, they are the Division to beat! I'm looking forward to seeing the activity and participation from all of you! Side note: I took down the names of all the people who supported #billdabear. I'm coming for you.
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In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I discussed how to optimize XML Metadata Extraction in your Alfresco WCM environment, and how (and why) to disable permissions checking, respectively. Besides those two optimizations, there are several other things that you can do to tweak an Alfresco System Receiver (ASR) for better performance, which I will discuss now.
First, optimize your JVM settings! By default, Alfresco ships with a maximum heap size of 512MB of RAM. As such, under high load, an ASR can max out a heap of that size and thus serve content a bit more slowly. So you definitely want to increase the maximum heap size to as high as you can. Also, depending on how you set up your minimum and maximum heap sizes, you may want to adjust the size of newly allocated heap space using the -XX:NewSize command line option. There are a few other things you can adjust as well regarding your JVM like enabling hotspot pre-compilation, and the size of the stack, amongst others. See the JVM Tuning page on the Alfresco wiki for more details. Ultimately for my testing on my Macbook Pro running Alfresco on Windows XP via VMWare Fusion, I used the following settings (in alfresco.bat):
set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms768m -Xmx1536m -Xss1m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Xcomp -Xbatch -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:NewSize=384m -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=80 -server
Speaking of virtualization, that reminds me. Don't virtualize! For best performance, use the actual hardware! Virtualization adds overhead. I have not yet tested ASR performance without virtualization to be able to prove the impact that it has, but I will, and when I do, you can be sure that I'll update this post, so come back sometime soon!
Anyway, now that you've tuned the JVM, what about the database? Increasing the size of the database connection pool will enable your ASR to handle more concurrent users. Therefore, in custom-repository.properties in your extension directory (Alfresco 3.x) or in alfresco-global.properties (Alfresco 3.2+), you can set the following:
In addition to increasing the database thread pool, you should increase the tomcat thread pool as well. This can be done by modifying the following line in alfresco/tomcat/conf/server.xml:
<Executor name="tomcatThreadPool" namePrefix="catalina-exec-"
maxThreads="350" minSpareThreads="4"/>
Now that we've tuned some parts of the server, let's turn off some things we don't need. For example, you should remove the share web application (share.war) that is installed with Alfresco by default, as well as Web Studio (studio.war) and the mobile web application (mobile.war) if you're running Alfresco Community. Be sure to remove (or just move elsewhere) all of the unneeded .war files as well as their exploded directories. The only application you need on an ASR is alfresco.war. Additionally, you may want to download a clean copy of alfresco.war (making sure you have the correct version for your installation), and be sure NOT to apply the SharePoint Protocol AMP file to it. No sense running another listener that no one will ever use! Also, you typically want to lock down an ASR so that content is only accessed by your web application via the web scripts you've authored to expose your web content. Therefore, you don't need to be running virtual filesystems such as CIFS for shared drives, and FTP. This can be done very simply, by setting the following in custom-repository.properties (3.1) or alfresco-global.properties (3.2):
Another very useful exercise is to optimize your web scripts. For example, if you have a page in your web application that has three content areas managed by Alfresco, don't have the web application call three separate web scripts, each of which returns only content related to that area. Network hops are expensive, so they should be minimized to just one hop per page type. In this scenario, performance would likely be improved by having the web application call a single web script per page type which returns all of the content to be displayed by that page at that time.
That leads to the next point: build caching into your web application, or as a layer between your web application and Alfresco, and be sure to determine and implement a cache update strategy. If the web application can simply hit a cache that is local to it while the cache is updated asynchronously via some other process, the web application will fly as compared to making calls to the ASR every single time a user views a page.
To conclude, here's a handy list of steps you can take to optimize ASR performance, from my estimation of decreasing impact:
- Cache
- Turn permissions checking off
- Optimize your web scripts per page type on your web site
- Don't virtualize
- Tune your JVM for performance
- Increase the database connection pool
- Increase the tomcat thread pool
- Remove/disable things you don't need
- CIFS Server
- FTP Server
- Share
- Web Studio
- Mobile
- SharePoint Protocol (SPP) support
- Configure XML metadata extraction so that it occurs on your authoring server, not the ASR
If you have additional suggestions, please share, I'd love to hear them!

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A hedge fund is the worst possible place to get embroiled in a workplace sexual harassment suit. Hedge funders are ruthless and insane. A harassment suit at one hedge fund is now also an extortion case. With nude pixxx!
Russell Abrams runs Titan Capital, a $200 million hedge fund (though it was $375 million two years ago, natch). Two of his employees—Danielle Pecile (pic below via her now-deleted Facebook account), 26, and Cristina Culicea (pic below via her Facebook), 27, have filed a sexual harassment suit against Abrams and his brother Marc, a Titan VP.
But not just your run-of-the-mill harassment! One of their complaints is that Russell Abrams gave Pecile a CD of photos of him and his wife on their honeymoon, and had her drop it off to get developed, and pick it up. Many of the photos of the wife showed her topless or even nude! Not what you would particularly like to do for your boss, in most cases. Pecile says Abrams smirked and said "You liked them, didn't you?" Now he wishes he had not done so:
[The women's lawyer] told Russell Abrams that one of the ways Pecile was harassed was in having to see the topless pictures, and that they had copies of them.
He said they would be returned if the entire case were settled, and that it would take $2.5 million to do so, the Abrams said. The photos were subsequently included as evidence in the EEOC complaint, the suit says.
Haha. You want to make me take your creepy ass nekkid photos to the developer? I will keep copies, then! And demand $2.5 million to give them back to you! Take note—you may be able to use this tactic in your own workplace, should the opportunity arise.
Now Russell Abrams' wife Sandra, who is pregnant, has filed a $1 million countersuit against the women so it's all very messy, but the lesson is, develop nude photos yourself.


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Beast: I am an agent of S.W.O.R.D. Also.
Steve Rogers: Anybody else here an agent of a clandestine specialized covert operation and forgot to bring it up?
Spider-man: I'm a level 27 Rogue on World of Warcraft. Does that count?
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Sometimes I get my thinking done doing something very mundane, such as cutting the grass.
Of course, when I do cut the grass, I've got my earbuds in to muffle the noise from the mower, and that means I've either got music or a podcast on.
Not too long after I mentioned that I didn't have the time to listen to podcasts in a previous blog entry, I began to make time. I have a small collection of regulars in the pencil-and-paper RPG and WoW areas, but I'm always looking to find a podcast with an interesting voice. So, while I pushed the mower along late last afternoon, I listened to the 2 GMs 1 Mic podcast* and became acquainted with the term "murder hobos".
According to one of the hosts of the show, it's a put down of one aspect of old-school style RPGs: your characters move from place to place and kill things. I chuckled at the definition, because not only would characters from old-school RPGs qualify as murder hobos, but those of most MMOs as well.
When was the last time you walked into an instance and didn't kill just about everything? (No, wipes don't count.) Of course, the complexity of interactions beyond the absolute basics keep higher level actions out of the reach of most MMOs., so it isn't quite a fair comparison. We, as players, can interact more between each other (or with a DM) than we can with computer NPCs. And with NPCs programmed to perform only certain duties, it doesn't take very long before interacting with an NPC gets boring.
This got me to wondering whether the "biggest beta ever" for MoP is a good thing or not.
Getting all of the annual subs into the beta is a good thing from a polish and bugs standpoint, but what about from a freshness standpoint?
Some of the beta testers have been playing for over a month now, and we can expect this beta to continue for the foreseeable future. However, how many of those beta players will find themselves burning out on MoP more quickly than if they'd not been in the beta? Could Blizz be feeding the beast by getting everyone into beta so that they'll have seen everything (or enough of it, anyway), only to discover widespread apathy a month or two into release?
Before anyone starts telling me how awesome and cool beta is, I'll point out one thing: I worked in software development for five years. I've been through about six or seven development cycles on a product that took well over 300 developers worth of effort. By the time the product went Gold, we were utterly and completely sick of working on that release and looked forward to the next release.**
If that happens to developers who (supposedly) like to code, why wouldn't it happen for beta testers?
Think about it: people will have effectively been playing MoP since April 2012. Those of us not in the beta won't get to try it out for several months (or later); while MoP will be fresh for us, it'll be old hat for the testers.
And how long did it take before people started complaining about things to do in Cata or Wrath? A few months?
I'm not sure what the consequences of the beta will be (other than a polished product), but what I am sure of is that people wouldn't have thought of them beforehand.
*I've only listened to part of one episode so far, but it's pretty good; I'm willing to listen to a few more podcasts before I decide to pick it up or not. The hosts do use colorful language, so this isn't the sort of podcast to listen where little ears might hear.
**One of the statements that would cause the most anguish in a developer were the words "I need you to work bugs on the current release for a few months."
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Gnu Snowboards' traveling mini-shred tour finished off in grand fashion last weekend at Washington's Summit at Snoqualmie resort. After stoking out kids and parents in a full gamet of conditions at Brighton, Loon Mountain, Mount Seymour and Sierra-at-Tahoe we were treated to broken blue skies and sun during one of the snowiest springs in NW history. This was actually the fist time the GHG has ever had sun in it's five year run at the Summit, and the kids wasted little time in destroying all the features the park crew had assembled. 60 kids from age 3 up to 13 years and 364 days old learned new tricks, met new friends, had lunch served to them by Pete Saari (Mervin Mfg), John Logic (Snowboard Connection) and Johan Malkoski (C3 Worldwide), got pointers from NW Lib Tech shred and sitting Mayor of Tube City Stefan Krumm and walked away with tons of prizes from Gnu Snowboards, Arnette Eyewear, Lib Tech Snowboards, POW Gloves, Poler Stuff, Snowboarder Magazine, High Cascade Snowboard Camp and Snowboard Connection. This was a perfect end to an amazing year of GHG stops…the future of snowboarding is in good hands. Look for even more stops next year!
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Poler Stuff's Parent Jam Top Shred – Kimo Cole
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I think that enough time may finally have passed to make a thread reflecting on the (admittedly few) good things KK2 brought us. I'll say a few of the more commonly remembered ones in my post, and then anyone else can add things (mainly new parts) that came from KK2 and why they consider them good additions to the castle line.
The foremost posetive about KK2 in almost everyone's opinion has to be the Shadow Knights. The face (while sadly Identical across all sets) was cool, the torso stands toe to toe with most of it's predecessors, and the helm is a usefull and viable addition to the castle line. They were easy to get in large quantities, and brought with them a huge supply of black spears and axes, perfect for anyone trying to standardize their armies' weapons.
I would also put forth the Heman swords (the silver ones mainly, the gold and bronze were mildley usefull, but the red blue and yellow stunk) as a posetive, them being to date the only other greatsword than the chrome silver ones. It may be a bit overly streamlined, and it's certainly no replacement for our classic shortswords, but it did add some sorely needed variety to castle weaponry (which hadn't recieved any additions since 1995 at that point). They are good for high ranking soldiers who fall short of being heroes, or at least that's how I use them.
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Police officer shot, killed in New Orleans during patrol
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Police reported an "officer life in danger" around 12:30 a.m.
Chief Michael Harrison says the officer was one of four patrolling the area. There was an exchange of gunfire between the officers and the suspect. The officer was transported to University Medical Center-New Orleans where he later died.
Following the shooting, the 30-year-old suspect ran into a nearby apartment building. Harrison says the suspect later surrendered peacefully and is being treated for multiple gunshot wounds.
"We have lost one of our brothers. NOPD grieves this morning," read a tweet on the New Orleans Police Department's Twitter account early Friday.
"This hurts, I can't begin to tell you how much this hurts," Harrison said.
He and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu met with the officer's family. The name of the fallen officer is not being released until the notification process for the whole family is complete, said Landrieu.
"These are the worst kind of days for the city," the mayor said. "It strikes at the heart of the city."
The New Orleans Force Investigation Team will investigate the officer-involved shooting, according to department protocol, Harrison said.
Authorities are not identifying the officer or suspect at this time.
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The War of the Austrian Succession brought The Black Watch its first Battle Honor, at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745. Shortly afterward, it distinguished itself at the Battle of Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.
At 7:30 p.m. March 11, the Santa Fe Concert Association presents the pipes and drums of the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Scottish Regiment, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe.
Although The Black Watch participated in many battles during the Revolutionary War, it clams no honor for these engagements against its American cousins. The red tackle or plume, which the Regiment considers a Battle Honor, was awarded in 1795. During the 19th century, The Black Watch served all over the world. The Regiment raised 27 battalions for service on all fronts during World War I. Its Battle Honors for the Great War include the Marne, Ypres and the Somme.
The Regiment's service since World War I has sent it to Borneo, Korea (where it fought with the U.S. Marine Corps at "The Hook"), several tours in Germany and, most recently, Hong Kong.
Today,The Black Watch continues to serve as a fully operational Battalion in the modern British Army.
The red hackle worn on the bonnets of The Black Watch was adopted in 1795. In the Regiment, the red hackle is more than a trophy; it represents an honor and on most headdresses is worn in lieu of a regimental badge.
The scarlet doublets (Highland jackets decorated with white "Crown and Inch" lace, Inverness skirt flaps and wings) worn by the drummers of The Black Watch have remained virtually the same since 1914.
Both pipers and drummers wear a regimental pattern white hair sporran (Highland purse) with five black hair tassels.
The regimental dance team, which is drawn from the Pipe Band, wears modified Pipers and Drummers uniforms.
The Black Watch has long been known as a family regiment. Many members of the Pipes and Drums have fathers, grandfathers, uncles, or brothers who served in the past, or are currently in the regiment.
Today, the operational role of the Pipes and Drums is that of Machine Gun Platoon, an elite unit within the Regiment. All its members are fully trained machine gunners who won first place in a 1994 competition among infantry battalions.
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Warm-up: Joint Mobility/Dynamic
KettleBell LP (Double Bell): Week 1
Complete 5 Rounds of the following KettleBell complex working 60 seconds on 60 seconds off. Your 60 second window never changes. If you complete your complex early you bank additional time to rest heading into your actual rest period.
1 Round consists of the following Complex
7 x Double KettleBell Front Squats
7 x Double KettleBell Push Presses
6 x Double KettleBell Cleans
*If you fail to complete your complex in two seperate rounds, lower one bell weight. The complexes do not need to be completed Unbroken but ideally this is the outcome of your training so take that into account as well how little time 60 seconds really is in choosing your bell sizes.
Cool Down: 3-5 Minutes of light monostructural work (row,jog,bike,skip rope,etc)


text: The steel letter / number stamping sets that we sell at Harbor Freight Tools get a lot of mileage with crafters. A little while back I posted about plant markers made from spoons with the help of one of these sets. Today I found an equally crafty idea from Grey Luster Girl. She made plant tags out of soda cans, string, and a Harbor Freight Tool stamping set.


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Labor at the crossroads
"Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade."
Last week, those tough words were uttered not by a fiery union organizer or laid-off worker but by Robert B. Reich, a university professor, economist and author who was Secretary of Labor when Bill Clinton was president.
Reich minced no words detailing the source of discontent that demands a protest march.
"Not only are 25 million unemployed or underemployed, but American companies continue to cut wages and benefits. The median wage is still dropping, adjusted for inflation. High unemployment has given employers extra bargaining leverage to wring out wage concessions," he wrote.
"All told, it's been the worst decade for American workers in a century. According to Commerce Department data, private-sector wage gains over the last decade have even lagged behind wage gains during the decade of the Great Depression."
The diminutive Reich – he stands 4 feet, 10 inches tall, due to congenital Franklin's disease – nevertheless is a giant in the field, a fierce and uncompromising advocate for American workers who spares none in his assessment.
"Perhaps there would still be something to celebrate on Labor Day if government was coming to the rescue. But Washington is paralyzed, the president seems unwilling or unable to take on labor-bashing Republicans, and several Republican governors are mounting direct assaults on organized labor," said Reich.
His essay issued in advance of Labor Day 2011 makes clear why this annual celebration of work comes in a time of crisis for most working men and women.
The title of this piece – "Labor at the Crossroads" – refers not only to members of organized labor unions but to the entire labor force of the United States. While CEO pay and the fortunes of those at the top continue to soar, there is genuine pain in the rank and file. Where it goes from here is the real question, hence the reference to a crossroads that presents a real choice whether this country will continue down a path that has proven so damaging to so many people – or reverse course and begin to narrow the income gap between labor and capital, which has surged to unprecedented levels.
Reich's plaintive declaration packs a wallop. He concluded, "So let's bag the picnics and parades this Labor Day. American workers should march in protest. They're getting the worst deal they've had since before Labor Day was invented — and the economy is suffering as a result."
Reagan v. PATCO
Many trace the current war on organized labor to 1981, when President Ronald Reagan threatened to fire nearly 13,000 air traffic controllers unless they called off an illegal strike. Labor historians are in broad agreement that more than any other labor dispute of the past three decades, Reagan's confrontation with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) undermined the bargaining power of American workers and their labor unions.
Joseph A. McCartin, associate professor of history at Georgetown University and the author of the upcoming "Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America" was clear about the impact of that action in a recent column for the New York Times.
"(The PATCO firings) also polarized our politics in ways that prevent us from addressing the root of our economic troubles: the continuing stagnation of incomes despite rising corporate profits and worker productivity," he wrote.
McCartin noted that by firing those who refused to heed his warning and breaking their union, Reagan took a considerable risk – and the results are still being felt.
"Yet three decades later, with the economy shrinking or stagnant for nearly four years now and Reagan's party moving even further to the right than where he stood, the long-term costs of his destruction of the union loom ever larger. It is clear now that the fallout from the strike has hurt workers and distorted our politics in ways Reagan himself did not advocate," declared McCartin.
Although Reagan had been a liberal Democrat when elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1947, he underwent a political transformation and became a rock-ribbed conservative, touring the country giving speeches for General Electric and campaigning for Barry Goldwater in 1964.
The former union president seemed to be of two minds on the subject when he made it to the White House in 1981, supporting Lech Walesa's anti-communist Solidarity union movement in Poland while crushing the air traffic controllers' union at home.
McCartin noted that while Reagan believed he was justified in destroying PATCO because federal workers were not allowed under the law to strike, in doing so he helped undermine the private-sector rights he once defended.
"Reagan's unprecedented dismissal of skilled strikers encouraged private employers to do likewise. Phelps Dodge and International Paper were among the companies that imitated Reagan by replacing strikers rather than negotiating with them. Many other employers followed suit," he said.
Ironically, Reagan supported government workers' efforts to unionize and bargain collectively as governor of California, then sought and received PATCO's endorsement in his 1980 campaign. But he said he felt their illegal strike forced his hand.
The law of unintended consequences has greatly magnified Reagan's 1981 action in the ensuing decades.
"The impact of the PATCO strike on Reagan's fellow Republicans has long since overshadowed his own professed beliefs regarding public sector unions. Over time the rightward-shifting Republican Party has come to view Reagan's mass firings not as a focused effort to stop one union from breaking the law — as Reagan portrayed it — but rather as a blow against public sector unionism itself," insisted McCartin.
War on public employees
When newly elected Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin earlier this year declared war on public employees in that state, he cited Reagan's actions in the PATCO strike. Walker pushed a bill stripping public employees of collective bargaining rights through a new Republican majority in the legislature in a party-line vote.
"I'm not negotiating," said Walker, staking his political future on a hard-line, anti-union stance.
McCartin reminded that unlike Walker, "Reagan had not challenged public employees' right to bargain — only their right to strike" and observed that with Walker's "militant anti-union views now ascendant within the party of a onetime union leader, with workers less able to defend their interests in the workplace than at any time since the Depression, the long-term consequences continue to unfold in ways Reagan himself could not have predicted — producing outcomes for which he never advocated."
This unrelenting hostility toward public employees and organized labor in general has been exacerbated by the tough economy over the last three-plus years. In 2009, support for unions in the Gallup poll dipped below 50 percent for the first time ever. It got worse in 2010, when a Pew Research poll recorded only 41 percent of those surveyed saying they had a favorable view of unions, lowest in the history of that poll.
It's not just bad publicity, as there is a demonstrated historical correlation between the unemployment rate and the popularity of unions. It is considered an article of faith among many political strategists that the American people are against a raise in pay for anyone except themselves and their family members. This feeling is driven – with some justification – by the belief that any raise for workers will inevitably be passed on to consumers.
One notable exception in recent years was the UPS strike in 1997, when the Teamsters Union took their 185,000 UPS workers out on strike. A central issue was the fact fully 57 percent of the UPS workers were part-time, working 20-28 hours a week.
The demands of the strikers primarily centered on creating full-time jobs for part timers – a not unreasonable request and one that was not financially ruinous to the rapidly growing company. After 15 days on the picket line, the company settled. The final agreement pledged to create 10,000 new full-time jobs over five years. The company also agreed that five out of every six full-time openings would be filled by part-time UPS workers, instead of the previous contract's ratio of four out of five.
Analysts said the Teamsters prevailed over UPS because it was a struggle in which the union was prepared, fought over issues that it defined, and one which relied overwhelmingly on the efforts of the members themselves.
But one intangible factor driving UPS to settle the strike was an unusual level of public support for the striking workers. Rather than a faceless group from some factory or production line, the UPS workers were somebody people encountered on a daily basis that friendly man or woman in the brown shorts who arrived at many workplaces bearing packages. You knew how hard these folks worked, and if they said they needed a better deal, they probably did.But even these occasional success stories occur in a context where full-scale assaults on union employees have become the unfortunate norm.
Motivational 'termites'
Consider one Nathan Jamail, who parlayed success with Sprint for nine years as director of sales in Tennessee, Texas and California into a new career as the author of "The Sales Leaders Playbook" and motivational speaker on the same topic, attempting to follow in the footsteps of Zig Ziglar and the late Earl Nightingale.
Not only does Jamail tout his abilities as a sales guru and operator of three dry-cleaners he owns in the Fort Worth area, but he is also willing to engage in enthusiastic union-bashing should you hire him to speak at your corporate meeting.
Disturbed about foreign products supplanting American-made goods? Jamail knows where to place the blame.
"'Made in China.' The next time you see this on a product you buy, don't blame the manufacturer, store, or even your government. You need to blame the unions," declares the self-proclaimed motivator.
"When unions infiltrate a company, it is kind of like termites invading a home. They destroy the structure, increase costs and manipulate employees to do nothing but take from hard working Americans and great American businesses," he intones.
There is a certain mean-spiritedness about Jamail's screed that makes him seem almost like a Republican presidential candidate sharpening his rhetorical sword for the South Carolina primary.
"Unions promote substandard performance. Period," he insists, offering nothing to back his contention other than his vast experience with dry cleaners and a cell phone company – where he apparently encountered a lot of slackers.
"A hard working employee cannot be paid more based on their performance and if they could the company cannot afford it because they are being forced to keep the slacker employees on payroll," whines Jamail. "We all know there are slacker employees. The difference is that unions protect them and they will never grow, learn or improve."
The point is not that a mediocrity like Nathan Jamail thinks he can boost his speaking fees by engaging in silly talk about termites and slackers, but that there is a veritable army of bloggers, phony think-tank scholars and talking heads on Fox News beating this drum every day, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.While the attacks on labor, organized and otherwise, have become a staple in the Republican playbook, Democrats are not immune from criticism.In a widely quoted speech to the National Press Club earlier this year, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka denounced Republican attacks on unions and warned the Democratic Party that labor would be more politically independent in the future.
"Our role is not to build the power of a political party or candidate," he said in what was considered a warning to Democrats who fail to support union workers. "It is to improve the lives of working families and strengthen our country."
Cut the meat
Sam Walton built Walmart with two overriding principles: Offer products made in America and prevent workers from joining a union. The result is the largest company in the United States today with annual revenues in excess of $421 billion.
By the time Walton died in 1992, the "Buy American" idea had been consigned to the dustbin of history, with Walmart shelves mostly stocked with merchandise made in China, Indonesia and other far-flung outposts.
"I have always believed that we don't need unions at Wal-Mart," Walton once wrote – and tough anti-unionism has remained a core Walmart principle.When workers in the meat department of a Walmart supercenter in Jacksonville, Texas, voted 7 to 3 in 2000 to join Local 540 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), they were the first U.S. workers to vote in a union at Walmart.
It was a pyrrhic victory because within a matter of weeks, Walmart announced it was closing down its meat-cutting operations in 180 stores across six states, and switching to "prepackaged" meat.
The UFCW petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for an injunction to prevent Wal-Mart from cutting the meat cutters.
"Changing the way all of its store sells meat shows the extent to which Wal-Mart will go to keep the union out of its stores," the UFCW told reporters. "Any time management concocts a scheme to ratchet down people's livelihoods, it says a lot about the real nature of the company."
The company and UFCW engaged in a battle that spanned eight years before the National Labor Relations Board and various federal district and appellate courts that failed to resolve the issue. During the interim, Walmart informally settled with at least four of the fired meat cutters, giving them back pay.
By that time, the central processing of meat destined for Walmart grocery departments was a done deal. The company's solution to blocking unionized meat cutters is to have no meat cutters. Those folks in white coats you see in the meat department at your local Walmart are essentially stockers placing pre-packaged meat in the display case.
This so-called "case-ready" meat eliminates the need for in-store processing. Meat is packaged in rigid foam or plastic box-shaped containers at a packing plant or processor. The retail product is sealed in a highly oxygenated mix of gases injected into the container. Before the package is placed in the sales case, the outer, non-permeable layer of film is removed, leaving a gas-permeable layer of film beneath, allowing the meat to "breathe" and "bloom" and assume the colors associated with fresh meat.
In a way, Walmart's aversion to union meatcutters has transformed much of the industry with other large grocery chains adopting similar methods. This eliminated other grocery chains use of union meatcutters, although it turns out at least some of the central processing plants have union hands on meat destined for Walmart shelves.
As for the UFCW, its lack of success in organizing Walmart employees into union locals has not halted its efforts.
A new group, Organization United for Respect at Walmart, or OUR Walmart for short, has signed up thousands of members in 2011 with a lot of help from UFCW, who contributed what the New York Times called "a sizable sum" to help the finance the group.
The company struck back, seizing the incipient group's Web site, OURWalmart.org, which infringed upon Walmart's registered trademark.Visitors to that site are informed, "OURWalmart.org is no longer in service. The union-backed organization which sponsored this domain is not affiliated with Walmart or Sam's Club and does not represent the company nor its associates."
More recently, however, there seems to be a thawing of relations between Walmart and OUR Walmart, which after all is made up of its employees.The non-union union was flying under the radar at first before making a public declaration in June when a large group met with company officials at Walmart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
When the OUR Walmart group, more than 100 strong, showed up at the company gate, Karen Casey, senior vice president, Global Labor Relations at Walmart, came out to meet them. A video recording of that encounter shows Casey clearly extending an olive branch to the group and pledged there would be no retaliation against employees working for change.
In a statement, Our Walmart declred, "Working with Walmart, we can make this company even better – but first, we had to ask the Walmart executives to honor our hard work and humanity by living up to Mr. Sam's promise of 'respect for the individual.'"
As Labor Day approaches, these developments must be seen as a hopeful sign.
In the end, where labor goes from its current position at the crossroads will depend less on propagandists like Jamail or political diatribes from right-wing Republicans but on the resolve of workers being devastated by policies that ship jobs overseas while diminishing wages, benefits and working conditions at home.
On this Labor Day, the words of Robert Reich sound in ringing affirmation that an injury to one is an affront to all – and that it's only a matter of time before a full-throated contingent of American workers "bag the picnics and parades and march in protest."


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Meet ESA, the space agency for Europe
You, together with your 500 million fellow citizens from ESA's 20 European member nations, are the collective owners of one of the world's leading space agencies. The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation, a cooperative coming together of its Member States in their national interest and common good. This new video offers a quick introduction: Europe, meet ESA.


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It's coming!
Yes, you've read this correctly, it's coming! The Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition. And also the patch which you have been sadly waiting for for so long. Over the past weeks and months we have not rested but instead have been working full steam on masses of improvements for the addon of Gothic 3.
We, that is the Community Patch Team which has already been working on the Community Patches for Gothic 3:
Marcel "ANNOmaniac" Trotzek
Level Design
Marco "ArthusofKD" Wernicke
2D Graphics, Concept Artist
Peter "Glockenbeat" Schramm
Producing, Coordination, 3D Modelling
Ralf "Hans Trapp" Schulz
Worldcompile, Technical Infrastructure
Martin "mdahm" Dahm
Gameplay Programming, Scripting
Maik "RoiDanton" Sillus
Game Design, Coordination
Sascha "Supernova" Hübner
2D Graphics Artist, Localization
Marc "Urban" Münchow
Technical Director, Lead Programmer, Texture Artist
Additionally there are a lot of testers and translators involved.
Right here exclusively for you are the first screenshots:
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I am sure you are already itching to ask some questions, here are the most important answers:
- Question: Is this an official patch?
Answer: Yes, it totally is. It will be part of the soon to be sold Enhanced Edition of Forsaken Gods, it's being built by the Community Patch Team, produced by our newly formed game development company Mad Vulture Games and it will be published by JoWooD.
- Question: You have founded a studio for this (Mad Vulture Games) and the patch is being developed under that name?
Answer: MVG is to be looked at independantly from the Community Patch Team. The patch is still developed by the latter.
- Question: But the patch will be for free?
Answer: Of course! The patch will be free for download for everyone. Additionally it will be part of any future release of the addon directly.
- Question: So you are getting paid?
Answer: Yes we do! JoWooD and Mad Vulture Games have come to a mutual agreement, and we'll get our piece of the cake.
- Question: Are you professionals?
Answer: Well that was a big topic in Gothic 3 times . But yes, we are a professional development team which still knows their roots to be in the Gothic community. Which is why we announce this here first.
- Question: How long do you already work on the patch?
Answer: Since quite some time! The first talks have started in April so it's already more than a half year we've been working on fixes so far.
- Question: That means the patch must be HUGE?
Answer: Well, apart from bugfixes, the reworked combat system from Gothic 3 1.74, new balancing, improved graphics, revised ingame models, dozens of adjustments in quests and dialogs, improvements to world design as well as stability and performance improvements there are only few adjustments. ;-)
- Question: Is there going to be new content such as weapons, armors, shields, quests or so?
Answer: No, there are no plans for such things. But that's fine because now the addon may unfold its full potential.
- Question: May I test the patch before it is finally released?
Answer: All tester's seats are already blocked. Therefore you will unfortunately need to be patient until the final release.
- Question: Is there something you can show us? Screenshots? Clips? Wallpapers? Stuffed animals? Baseball caps?
Answer: There will be more material very soon. We will keep you up-to-date!
- Question: How much will I need to download to get the patch?
Answer: Pinpointing this is not possible at this time of course, but we expect to have an end result of about 1,4 to 2 GB in size.
- Question: Are you going to fix the ATI/AMD shadow bug issue?
Answer: We are heavily working on the ATI/AMD hardware shadows mode. What we can say for sure at this time is that the ATI/AMD shadow workaround you already know from Gothic 3 patch 1.74 will be included - with working torch shadows.
- Question: When is the patch going to be release or when will the Enhanced Edition hit the shelves?
Answer: When it's done! But we are planning on a release in Q4 2010.
- Question: The patch is going to be internationally distributed - does that mean I will be able to choose the ingame language?
Answer: Indeed we've changed the system in a way that instead of a split-up string database including all the ingame texts we are now using a complete database. For us this is preferable because administration and distribution will be quite easier - for you this means that you may freely select the subtitle language ingame. English speech with Chinese subtitles? No problem!
Peter "Glockenbeat" Schramm
Mad Vulture Games


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Listen up, Tom Holland and Randy Newman Jr., we, the law-abiding people of the county, are fed up with the way justice is being handled (or not) these days in Lancaster County. We're sick and tired of reading The Lancaster News every week to see where another crime was committed by the same thug who was just let loose on bail one week, one month or one year ago.
In reference to Michael Jedson's letter "Democrats protect all Americans," in the June 1 edition of The Lancaster News, it is clear that he should return to high school. There, in a class on the United States government, he would discover that federal senatorial elections are statewide.
Jedson said in his letter that Lancaster County residents live in Sen. Lindsay Graham's district and could not vote for Sen. Tim Scott.
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott will be on the ballot in November in every precinct in South Carolina.
As former law enforcement officers, we are very concerned with who will be our next solicitor.
For those not familiar with our criminal justice system, the solicitor is the chief prosecuting attorney for our circuit, which includes Chester, Fairfield and Lancaster counties.
The solicitor is in charge of prosecuting all criminals in general sessions court. This includes murderers, child molesters, rapists, armed robbers, burglars, thieves, etc.
The Republican Party's forum for 6th Circuit solicitor was quite eye-opening. Randy Newman made a convincing case for why we should elect him our next solicitor. He has a good handle on the issues facing the circuit, knows what needs to be done to address the issues and brings an innovative approach to the office.
Mr. Newman shows commitment and energy for the job and very honestly stated why he should be elected.
My name is Joe Catalano. I have lived in Lancaster most of my life. I proudly served Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile as a deputy and an investigator. I now attend University of South Carolina Law School. I am writing this letter o express my support for my friend, Tom Holland, as the next 6th Circuit solicitor.
Please consider the negative impact that the proposed development by Mattamy Homes will have on Lancaster County School District and prevent the rezoning of the TreeTops property on Van Wyck Road in Lancaster County.
There is enough interest in keeping this property as a camp for underprivileged children, which is the original plan and best use to avoid overcrowding in the school district.
Thanks for your favorable consideration to keep TreeTops as a camp for children and deny the rezoning plan for new homes.
Alfred Brand,
A few weeks ago, I got a mailer from Team Graham, wanting to help me file an absentee ballot. The form asked for all kinds of personal info, including my voter registration number. My first thought was that information is none of your business, just like my vote.
I have voted absentee for many years. I simply call the Lancaster County Election Commission at (803) 285-2969, and those folks will send you the application. Just as they did recently. As an informed voter, I know how to do this.
This a response to Nick Pasquine's response, "Do Democrats have same response for all issues?," in the April 17 edition of The Lancaster News.
His letter was a response to a letter written by me, Michael Jedson, "Remove tea party burden from Americans." in the April 6 edition of The Lancaster News.
Democrats don't waiver in their support of middle and low income Americans and immigrants. Republicans seem to care about the upper 1 percent and the tea partiers only care about themselves.
Reading Phil Nobel's guest column, "Will June Primary in S.C. be honest?," in the May 16 edition of The Lancaster News reminds me why I no longer vote for any Democrat.
It is nothing but a column full of spins and cover ups to suit his voter-fraud-is-good agenda.
First, he gives a history of voting a couple of hundred years ago which was patterned after those in Europe where the Founding Fathers came from.
We evolved from property ownership to literacy requirements to vote. Guess that did not work too good for Democrats.
The word "no" is a very powerful statement. It can tear you down and make you believe you are near your breaking point. "No, Abby, you can't go back to school – you have a family to raise."
Or the famous, "No, your test results are not up to standards."
It would have been easy for me to believe all the people who told me "no" and to give up on school and my dreams.
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We all know Ronald McDonald, the chief of happiness of the fast-food empire. He's been clowning around for nearly 50 years, while the Ronald McDonald House Charities has been in the serious business of helping sick children and their families since 1974.
The first Ronald McDonald House opened in Philadelphia thanks to Dr. Audrey Evans, Philadelphia Eagles' player Fred Hill (whose daughter had leukemia), Eagles' General Manager Jim Murray and McDonald's Regional Manager Ed Rensi. Since then, nearly 300 houses have been established in 52 countries.
For the past 30 years, due to the work of volunteers and contributions from donors, San Diego's Ronald McDonald House has provided more than 140,000 nights of lodging for more than 14,000 families whose children face life-threatening illnesses and are receiving treatment at area hospitals. Last year, a new 47-bedroom facility—which quadrupled accommodations to serve the needs of 20,000 families per year—was built atop a six-story parking garage.
"The new facility has four times more space than our old one and a large, flat roof—perfect for a solar installation," said public relations representative Mary Schmidt-Krebs. "It made the house environmentally sustainable, but more importantly, the money we are saving on our electric bill now goes to help our families."
The 147,846 kilowatt-hour-per-year solar installation was designed and built by HelioPower and financed by Helio Micro Utility. It consists of 518 Canadian Solar CS6P-220P polycrystalline modules. These modules are top-ranked in the industry's photovoltaic (PV) USA ratings. PV Powered Inc., an Advanced Energy company, supplied the 100-kilowatt inverter. Canadian Solar, HelioPower and PV Powered all made price reductions to benefit the charity.
"Ronald McDonald House decided to pursue solar energy to create a healthy and sustainable environment for the children and families we serve," said Bill Lennartz, president and CEO of Ronald McDonald House of San Diego. "Our partners have been vital to our success as a resource to families in some of the most challenging times of their lives, and we are excited to now be producing clean solar energy to help us provide care to even more families."


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Main characteristics
Alzheimer's disease
Memory loss
Loss of memory can have consequences on daily life in many ways, leading to communication problems, safety hazards and behavioural problems. In order to understand how memory is affected by dementia, it is useful to consider the different kinds of memory.
Episodic Memory
This is the memory people have of events in their life ranging from the most mundane to the most personally significant. Within episodic memory, there are memories classed as short term (having happened in the last hour) and those classed as long term (having occurred more than an hour ago). People with Alzheimer's disease, at the beginning of the illness, do not seem to have any difficulty remembering distant events but may, for example, forget having done something five minutes ago. Memories of distant events although not greatly affected tend to interfere with present activities. This can sometimes result in the person acting out routines from the past which are no longer relevant.
Semantic Memory
This category covers the memory of what words mean, e.g. a flower or a dog. Unlike episodic memory, it is not personal, but rather common to all those who speak the same language. It is the shared understanding of what a word means, which enables people to having meaningful conversations. As episodic and semantic memory are not located in the same place in the brain, one may be affected and the other not.
Procedural Memory
Procedural Memory This is the memory of how to carry out actions both physically and mentally, for example, how to use a knife and fork or play chess. The loss of procedural memory can result in difficulties carrying out routine activities such as dressing, washing and cooking. This includes things which have become automatic. For this reason, some patients who have difficulty finding their words can still sing fairly well. Their procedural memory is still intact whereas their semantic memory (the meaning of words) has been damaged.
The Syndrome Apraxia - Aphasia - Agnosia
is the term used to describe the inability to carry out voluntary and purposeful movements despite the fact that muscular power, sensibility and coordination are intact. In everyday terms this might include the inability to tie shoelaces, turn a tap on, fasten buttons or switch on a radio.
is the term used to describe a difficulty or loss of the ability to speak or understand spoken, written or sign language as a result of damage to the corresponding nervous centre. This can become apparent in a number of ways. It might involve substituting a word which is linked by meaning (e.g. time instead of clock), using the wrong word but one which sounds similar (e.g. boat instead of coat) or use a completely different word with no apparent link. When accompanied by echolalia (the involuntary repetition of words or phrases spoken by another person) and the constant repetition of a word or phrase, the result can be a form of speech which is difficult for others to understand or a kind of jargon.
is the term used to describe the loss of the ability to recognise what objects are and what they are used for. For example, a person with agnosia might attempt to use a fork instead of a spoon, a shoe instead of a cup or a knife instead of a pencil etc. With regard to people, this might involve failing to recognise who people are, not due to memory loss but rather as a result of the brain not working out the identity of a person on the basis of the information supplied by the eyes.
People with Alzheimer's disease have difficulties both in the production and comprehension of language which in turn lead to other problems. Many patients also lose the ability to read and the ability to interpret signs.
Personality changes
People with Alzheimer's disease might behave totally out of character. A person who has always been quiet, polite and friendly might behave in an aggressive and ill-mannered way. Brusque and frequent mood changes are common.
A common symptom of Alzheimer's disease is wandering, both during the day and at night. There are a number of possible reasons for this wandering but due to communication problems, it is often impossible to find out what they are. Other symptoms affecting behaviour include incontinence, aggressive behaviour and disorientation in time and space
Physical changes
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Not sure if I got this right but I got two of these so they flower and fruit. However, im sure one of them has died.
They grow to be really big.
The two small ones have pretty much died so when I saw a big one for sale in Home Depot, I got it for $29, hopefully it will grow.
If I have the name wrong i'll sort it out when I next get there.
Talk about slow. I think one of these is dead but the other is still trying, however, the tiny bit of foilage at the top is hardly conducive of a massive tree. I think its just too hot for it which is a shame as these were to be my center pieces and were my favorites!!!


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The Harbor Mesa Lions are sponsoring a new student club, University High School Leos. The Leos are the teenage branch of Lions International.
Their Charter Night took place late in June with 20 members. Leo club members worked at the Fish Fry in Costa Mesa and are planning to hold some fundraisers and service projects.
Their school Leo advisor is Nora Seager.
"Being a Leo is an opportunity for young people to experience community service and many continue that in adulthood," said Club Leo advisor-sponsor Carol Van Holt. "Our club is very pleased and excited to participate and guide this group of great students."
The new officers of Harbor Mesa Lions for the 2012-2013 year are Eileen Jensen, president; Carol Proctor, immediate past president; Cathy Waters and Charlotte McNamara, vice presidents; Debbie Karlson, secretary; Marianne Allen, treasurer; Van Holt, bulletin editor; Arlene Schafer, tale twister; and Patty McCandlish, lion tamer.
The new board of directors include Jennifer Kelder, Ann McIlroy, Joan Parks, Sue Seager, Lynn Seaholm, Sandi Scheafer, Gina Stansbury, Terri Stoker and Dalila Vaden.
Four members will take positions on the district level including Barbara Hayward, chaplain; Scheafer, treasurer; Van Holt, public relations chairwoman; and Proctor, Zone A chairwoman.
The club meets the first and third Mondays of the month. For more information, visit nhcmlionsclub.com.
Newport-Balboa honors members for service
Outgoing Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa President Bill Hossfeld honored a number of Rotarians at the club's recent transition dinner.
Honorees, along with his board of directors, included first-year member Stephen Williams who was named Ice Breaker of the Year. John Kerr received the Community Service Award. Miyuki Smith-Richardson and Steve Speer received the Bob Callis Award for their support of the president. Speer was also named Rotarian of the Year for his overall support the clubs efforts.
Congratulations to all!
Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions news
Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club President Mike Scheafer welcomed two new members at a recent meeting.
Joining the service club were Nick Romo and Bruce Krochman. At the same meeting, Kirk Bauermeister was named Lion of the Year and John LaVere Rookie of the Year.
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The 95-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Newport Beach Mayor Nancy Gardner. For more information visit http://www.nhexchange.org.
The 45-member Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa meets at the Costa Mesa Golf and Country Club, 1701 Golf Course Drive, Costa Mesa. For more information, visit http://www.costamesakiwanis.org.
The 55-member Rotary Club of Newport Irvine meets at the University Club, 801 E. Peltason Drive, Irvine to hear James Pierce discuss Warren Buffett's investment philosophy. For more information visit http://www.ni-rotary.org.
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As a local group of Birthing Project USA, the Northeast Missisippi Birthing Project [blog] has as its goal improving maternal outcomes and reducing infant mortality. By providing at-risk pregnant women with a sister-friend to help them during pregnancy, mothers and babies have better outcomes. ["At-risk" includes teen moms, single moms, moms without insurance, etc., not necessarily a medical risk.] Our primary goal is the reduction of infant mortality. For more information, click the links I've already given, because the work is really wonderful and the results have been astounding. If you've been looking for something concrete to do to help pregnant women, this is something you really should look into. There are branches all over the United States, so you may be able to find out already started; or you may be able to start one in your area. For a brief overview of what we do, please watch the video below [btw, I made it, so of course I like it! :-)] —
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Grunch of Giants by R. Buckminster Fuller
"Gross Universe Cash Heist (Grunch)" is the theory that large corporations use the government to enforce their economic suppression of the rest of society and steal resources and assets from around the world whenever and wherever they want.
Written by inventor, architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer and philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller in 1981, Grunch of Giants postulates the theory that the United States industrial complex—corporations—are controlling world events for their own ends. Even politicians are controlled by Grunch, a vast invisible empire that includes airwaves and satellites, factories and research laboratories and large cities.
Nobody knows who runs Grunch, but it controls all the world's banks and does just what its lawyers tell it to do. All decisions for Grunch are made in back rooms, with the deciding factors being business and money.
According to Fuller, every day 75,000 humans around the world die of starvation and its side effects, even though more than enough food is produced to support all the people on earth. Grunch did not cause this, Fuller says, but Grunch could easily end it if it so chose.
Grunch, Fuller writes, did not invent the universe. In fact, it did not invent anything. It monopolizes know-where and know-how but is devoid of know-why. It is preoccupied with absolute selfishness and its guaranteed gratifications. It is as blind as its Swiss banks are mute.
In order to understand how the Grunch works, Fuller says you must first study their history and development. In beginning his explanation, Fuller quotes one of his friends, who he called a giant and described as a member of the Morgan family (presumably the J.P. Morgan banker family). "Bucky, I'm very fond of you, so I am sorry to have to tell you that you will never be a success. You go around explaining in simple terms that which people have not been comprehending, when the first law of success is, 'Never make things simple when you can make them complicated.'"
One of the first things Fuller had to do was make a decision: Did he want to try to make money, or make sense, as the two things are mutually exclusive. So Fuller decided to make sense and he used his books to explain how the world works.
This book is not light reading. In fact, it is often difficult to follow and at times quite scientific in its language. Nor is it for the closed-minded, because it challenges conventional thinking and forces the reader to look at the world from a different paradigm.
But if you are willing to consider that things aren't as they seem, and in fact are completely different from what all are taught, then this book makes a good addition to your library.
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Electronic Arts has figured out a way to make peopLe pay indefinitely for the privilege of playing Tetris. A 99-cent version of the classic puzzler just went live on the iOS store but, obviously, you'll want more than the seven Tetrominoes that buck buys you, right? Right?
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The Aquverse 5PH Hot / Cold Bottleless Water Cooler is a complete water station solution with filter; install hardware and water line included.
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