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OpenText Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program
At OpenText, we're committed to contributing to sustainable development with environmental and societal goals. The foundations of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program align with our corporate values: to foster trust with our customers, employees, partners, and shareholders; demonstrate excellence; continually innovate; cultivate the Company as the best place to work; and to ensure our customers are successful.
Our Corporate Social Responsibility Program is modeled on the seven social responsibility core subjects of the International Organization for Standardization Guideline for Social Responsibility (ISO 26000).
One of the seven social responsibility core subjects in ISO 26000 is Organizational Governance, which depicts how an organization acts and its ability to behave in a socially responsible manner. This core subject guides organizational decision making and influences how individuals within an organization achieve their objectives for governance. In the context of social responsibility, Organizational Governance ensures decisions are not solely weighted on financial gain. In addition to Organizational Governance, the other six social responsibility core subjects are: Community Involvement and Development, the Environment, Human Rights, Labor Practices, Fair Operating Practices, and Consumer Issues.
Organizational Governance
OpenText has developed a system of processes, practices, and policies which reinforce the guiding principles that employees operate under, including, but not limited to, ethical conduct and workplace safety. Trust is one of our core values, and is vitally important to maintaining our company's position as a market leader. OpenText continues to nurture and maintain the trust of all of its stakeholders, including the communities in which we operate.
Gaining trust starts with understanding the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Policy and then putting it into practice every day. This policy explains our ethical standards and how we conduct business on behalf of OpenText.
Community Involvement and Development
OpenText and its employees are dedicated to our roles as responsible corporate citizens. As a global leader in our industry, we have a great responsibility to give back to our communities around the world, whether it be through monetary support or voluntary commitment, to efforts which better our communities. Through numerous initiatives, we support education and innovation for global change, community involvement, children and families, and global disaster relief programs. Our corporate giving programs help ensure we direct our resources where the most impact will be made.
The Environment
OpenText is committed to protecting the environment and reducing waste. Wherever possible, OpenText promotes the efficient use of energy and natural resources, innovative solutions to reduce emissions or pollutants, and environmentally safe disposal methods. To this end, OpenText:
- Routinely assesses the impact that its activities have on the locations where it operates, its generation of pollution and waste, as well as its impact on natural habitats.
- Implements programs based on a sustainability perspective to assess, avoid, reduce, and mitigate the environmental risk and impacts of its activities.
- Follows the principles of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle as the primary initiative to support our environmental responsibilities. For example, in various locations, OpenText has:
- Implemented recycling programs in our offices
- Installed drinking water filtration systems to reduce the use of bottled water
- Provided shuttle services between facilities to encourage energy conservation
- Constructed Site Leader programs to assist in monitoring employee environmental impact
- Deployed our own software technology wherever possible to enable employee and team collaboration across the globe reducing the need for business travel
- Encouraged employees to take additional actions, both big and small, to help protect the environment. For example:
- During Earth Week, we challenge employees to do one thing for the environment and post and share achievements on our internal social network
- We recognize employees for their participation in the community or environmental projects during Earth Week with Champion of the Environment Awards
- We encourage employees to participate in the Earth Day Clean Up on our property and surrounding areas
- We participate in Earth Hour
As part of our mandate to help organizations thrive in a digital world, OpenText is proud to have significantly reduced the world's reliance on paper and physical storage facilities through the implementation and use of our software solutions. Our Enterprise Information Management solutions decrease the business requirements for paper by making electronic documents readily available to people from anywhere using a laptop, a smartphone, or a tablet. Over 150 million users access our solutions across the world, each one performing their work on documents or online media and contributing to the reduction of waste, unnecessary recycling, and the reduction of physical facility storage space to minimize their carbon footprint.
Human Rights
At OpenText, our human rights policies and efforts are focused on respecting the rights of all employees. We encourage a healthy, open, and inclusive working environment in which employees, suppliers, partners, and customers respect the value of human life and support social progress. OpenText has policies in place to support human rights, including:
- The Occupational Health and Safety Policy applies to all employees and ensures that employees are provided with a safe and healthy working environment. OpenText recognizes that an effective health and safety program is an integral part of every job activity in all of its operations.
- The Whistleblower Policy is committed to maintaining a workplace in which employees, officers, and directors can raise concerns on a confidential basis, free from discrimination, retaliation, or harassment, anonymously or otherwise.
- The Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, or religion, or other basis, protected by applicable laws. We believe that a diverse workforce positively impacts our ability to innovate.
- OpenText Talent Acquisition principles and processes support the equal treatment of applicants and/or employees. Being an equal opportunity employer has significant positive results in attracting and engaging talent.
- The Accommodation Policy and Accessibility Policy ensures that employees with a need for accommodation are recognized and barriers to their performance are removed wherever possible.
Labor Practices
OpenText values and respects its employees. We are committed to providing direction for and leadership to our own people through the development and support of labor guidelines, policies, and practices designed to benefit both individuals and the company. We encourage the organizations we do business with to follow these principles and respect the privilege and responsibility to uphold them as employers. To this end, OpenText:
- Is frequently recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers based on provisions for working conditions and a family-friendly environment.
- Creates an environment based on respect for individuals and their needs, recognizing that a culture based on mutual respect is conducive to higher levels of productivity, teamwork, and collaboration.
- Supports an "employment equitable" work environment, free from discrimination of any kind. All employees share in this responsibility. Our working environment will, at all times, be supportive of the dignity and self-esteem of its employees.
- Puts policies in place to prevent discrimination, communicates these policies, and ensures that all employees participate in training. The Workplace Harassment & Discrimination Policy explains that harassment or discrimination of any kind undermines the integrity of our culture and will not be tolerated. All individuals have a right to work in a harassment-free and discrimination-free workplace.
Fair Operating Practices
Open Text is committed to conducting its business ethically and in compliance with the letter and spirit of all applicable laws. Each OpenText employee is responsible for maintaining this standard of excellence by acting with courage, integrity, honesty, and respect. OpenText pledges to conduct business fairly, to promote fair competition, and to hold itself accountable for its own ethical practices.
The OpenText Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Policy:
- Explains our ethical standards, how we apply fair operating practices, and how employees conduct business on behalf of OpenText.
- Covers topics such as, but not limited to:
- Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery
- Compliance with Laws and Trade Laws
- Insider Trading via the OpenText Insider Trading Policy
- Commitment to providing full, fair, accurate, timely, and understandable disclosure in all public communications, including the reports and documents filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other applicable regulatory bodies
- Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing
- Corporate Giving
- Anti-Trust
- Data Privacy via the OpenText Data Protection Policy and Email, Internet and Social Computing Policy
OpenText has built active controls to comply with Export Control & Compliance requirements and Sanction laws from various countries, including those of the United States, Canada, and the member states of the European Union to ensure ethical business conduct related to the transfer of goods and services.
Consumer Issues
OpenText supports over 100,000 global companies in 114 countries and 12 languages to bring people together, share knowledge, protect sensitive information and achieve excellence. Combined with our Human Rights strategy, OpenText endeavors to provide world-class customer service, so that our customers can maximize their investments in OpenText solutions and services.
Our relationships with our customers are central to our success. Specific programs that nurture these include:
- The Voice of the Customer program, through which we gather customer insights and incorporate them into our everyday business decisions.
- The OpenText Customer Care program brings decades of software expertise to our customers through a variety of programs and services focused on helping them plan, deploy, and maintain their OpenText solutions.


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Six Grade Morning Star Academy Students take 6 Full Year Online Homeschooling Courses. The following is a suggested 6th grade course of study.
Your Child is an Individual, Not a Grade
We honor the individuality of your child. The Morning Star Academy online homeschooling program allows you to customize a course of study that perfectly suits your child's interests, strengths and weaknesses.
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Our Registrar's office is always happy to review the options with you and help you individualize your child's list of online homeschooling courses.
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Friday, April 19, 2013
7J4 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 4
I possibly spoke ill of John Nathan-Turner in the previous post, but, really, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is one of his greatest triumphs as a producer. Threatened with cancellation thanks to asbestos removal in BBC Television Centre, JNT rallied the troops and managed to remount the production on the parking lot at BBC Elstree when no other recording situation seemed possible. He even suggested the somewhat bombastic title for this story, and it speaks more that it suggests: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. It reflects Nathan-Turner's great love and passion for the show he was running, even though he longed to leave its glitzy grasp and had been looking for new and different opportunities for years.
The star of this episode though, and the whole story, is Sylvester McCoy. Wonderfully talented enough as he is, he adds magic tricks to his already impressive repertoire here, and there has never been a more iconic image for his Doctor - for any Doctor - than McCoy casually and confidently strolling out of the Psychic Circus tent seconds before it explodes in a massive display of pyrotechnics. It's a stunt that would never, ever be performed today because of the insurance risks involved, but McCoy, always keen to do his own stunts, performs the stunt flawlessly, especially when you consider that, with the set being destroyed by the explosion, the scene could only have been done on a single take.
Much like Stephen Wyatt's other story though, Paradise Towers, I have a hard time deciding whether this story is a creepy pantomime or just pantomime, which is another one of Nathan-Turner's loves. It's also, more or less, the last story of its kind, the small sub-category dubbed by fandom in subsequent years as "oddball stories". Season 26 took on a slightly darker bent, then the franchise got even more dark and grim in the original novels that followed in the 1990s, an approach that carried on through to the new series. I could never say I was a fan of these oddball entries into Who lore, but I appreciate them for what they are - yet another different approach to storytelling that Doctor Who has somehow managed to pull off to remain fresh over the decades. Even in its 25th year on television, it was trying to do something weird and wonderful, and for that, and for many other reasons, this story and the programme that it's a part of is just lovely.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
7J3 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 3
My recent extended hiatus during the progress of this blog allowed for enough time for Richard Marson to research, write, and publish his excellent biography on producer John Nathan-Turner. (As I type this, the first batch of copies of this are being sent out to people who pre-ordered the book; I strongly recommend picking it up, and you can place an order here: http://www.miwkpublishing.com/store/index.php?_a=product&product_id=30). To say that the book has altered my perception of the John Nathan-Turner era is an understatement. It hasn't changed the way I enjoy the episodes in a superficial fashion, but knowing what was going on behind the scenes at the time brings some verisimilitude to onscreen events.
The character of Whizzkid had a more prominent role in an earlier draft of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, but various script changes ended up making the character somewhat redundant. Whizzkid lived on, although he was now transformed from a boy genius looking to impress the crowd at the Psychic Circus, into a thinly drawn parody of a typical obsessive Doctor Who fan. For years, I thought this was a harmless little joke. However, knowing that Nathan-Turner and his partner Gary Downie used to thrive on going to Doctor Who conventions in the United States in the 1980s (and partake in some fairly rambunctious activities, as outlined in Marson's book), sometimes at the expense of helming the very show they were producing, makes me think that the satire was directed towards fandom with a little more acidic approach than initially thought.
Gian Sammarco, who plays Whizzkid, was 18 at the time this story was being made. (His costume is actually prescient: the pullover could be seen as an homage to Sylvester McCoy's own garment, but the bowtie, shirt, and glasses wouldn't look out of place on a current day Eleventh Doctor cosplayer). He may or may not have been viewed as a "doable barker" by JNT and Downie, but Sammarco is handsome looking enough. I am not for one second implying that Sammarco was cast for clandestine reasons (he was a talented actor at the time, having just come off a successful stint as the lead role in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole), but his appearance as Whizzkid seems to sum up both aspects of fandom that JNT and Gary Downie would have encountered at the many Doctor Who conventions they attended at the time.
I used to think that JNT unequivocally cared about the fans at the time. He may well have indeed, but his suggestion of the Whizzkid character smacks of a blatant disrespect to the fanbase that had elevated Nathan-Turner to near superstar status. Never before had the show's producer have as much of, if not more so, a public profile than the lead actor playing The Doctor himself. Whizzkid may also be a reaction to the treatment that those same fans were now giving Nathan-Turner at the time as the pages of Doctor Who Magazine and, especially, DreamWatch Bulletin, were filled with angry letters demanding his resignation for supposedly ruining their favourite show. Whatever the reason, the character of Whizzkid represented a troubling time for both the state of Doctor Who, and the status and mindset of its longest serving producer.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
7J2 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 2
Doctor Who had always flirted with popular music over the course of its long history, from The Beatles' off-key caterwauling in 1965's The Chase to the character of the DJ spinning classic records in 1985's Revelation of the Daleks. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, though, sees Doctor Who take some tenuous steps into the world of rap music, not just as background music, but worked into the narrative. Performed by Ricco Ross as the Ringmaster, it actually comes off not too badly, even if the backing music sounds like an approximation of what a white guy thinks rap music sounds like.
And that white guy is Mark Ayres, who makes his musical debut in Doctor Who with a very unusual score, certainly in comparison with his subsequent scores in Season 26. Ayres relies on his drum machine for the backbone of a lot of the music, but Ayres's device is much more subtle and tasteful than the bombastic digital percussion that Keff McCulloch employs. The score is offbeat, no pun intended, just like the story it features in, which is as precise and perfect a matchup between story and score as heard in the series up to this point.
And I've been resisting the urge to talk about how chillingly awesome Ian Reddington is as the Chief Clown because I could include something exemplary that he does in each episode review. The best aspect of his performance might be the different registers he speaks in depending on what he's talking about and whom he's talking to. He's got the creepy clown laugh down for his public persona, welcoming guests into the tent, and his "normal" voice when he's directing his robot clowns or asserting his authority over the rest of the troupe of the Psychic Circus. But it's his hoarse whisper when he's threatening Ace or demanding answers out of Bellboy that is downright frightening. When Ace escapes after being surrounded by clowns and interrogated about Flower Child's earring, instead of barking an order at his minions to catch her, he merely utters a quiet "After her!", which is much more effective than any ranting villain performance could have done. Reddington is just wonderful, and provides one of the top guest performances seen in some time.
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Damper also available as upgrade, DH forks add 27.5-inch version
Video: RockShox Product Manager Jeremiah Boobar talks about the new BoXXer DH fork.
It seems suspension maker RockShox knows a good thing when they see it—or in this case feel it. The Charger Damper—the key ingredient in their acclaimed Pike all-mountain fork—has found its way into their new version of BoXXer, the company's flagship dual-crown downhill fork. And should you have recently purchased a BoXXer, worry not—RockShox has made the Charger Damper, as well as the new version of its Solo Air spring cartridge, available as an aftermarket upgrade for existing BoXXers.
It's raining suspension options from RockShox as of late. The BoXXer is the latest to get a revamp.
The new BoXXer comes in three versions—World Cup, Team and RC—and sports 200mm of travel. The $1,700 World Cup includes the Charger Damper and Solo Air spring, while the $1,275 Team version ships with the Charger and a coil spring. The $865 RC comes with a Motion Control IS damper and a coil spring. All three shocks feature Fast Black, Rock Shox's friction-reducing stanchion coating, as well as Maxle Lite DH thru-axels. All are available in 27.5-inch wheel size versions for an extra $35.
Charger Damper and Rapid Recovery
Like the shorter-travel version of the Charger Damper, the DH-specific variant purports to give the fork better consistency and small bump sensitivity resulting in a more supple feel and better traction. It's also 100g lighter than the prior BoXXer damper, making it much sought after by world cup competitors—including world champ Stevie Smith—who rode prototypes of the system for part of the 2013 season.
The Charger uses a single compression adjuster and a beginning stroke rebound adjuster with a factory set Rapid Recovery tune to dial-in its settings while internal shim stacks can be re-tuned for light or firm compression and rebound settings.
Putting a new Charger Damper in your old BoXXer is sort of like a Dukes of Hazzard suspension upgrade.
RockShox has put more emphasis on the Charger Damper's Rapid Recovery system on BoXXer than they did for Pike, though the tune exists on both. The idea behind it is to keep more travel available on successive hits by quickly cycling back up through the travel to avoid suspension pack-up. RockShox says the system maintains ride height for more available suspension, helps keep the wheel on the ground for better traction and decreases impacts to the rider.
Video: RockShox Product Manager Jerimiah Boobar explains the new upgrade kits to keep older BoXXers on the cutting edge.
Charger Damper and Solo Air upgrade kits for older BoXXers
RockShox has made the Charger Damper for BoXXer available as a $379 upgrade for 2010-14 model year forks that use a 35mm chassis—BoXXer Race, Team, RC, R2C2 and World Cup.
Similarly, the new Solo Air spring with revised spring curve can be used in model year 2011-14 BoXXers with a serial number later than 16T11XXXXXXX. It's compatible with the company's Bottomless Token air volume adjustment system and costs $188.
Bottomless Token air volume adjustors for BoXXer, Pike
On both BoXXer and Pike, RockShox has made its Bottomless Tokens available as a means to adjust the spring rate in order to give the forks a "bottomless" feel, as the name suggests, by reducing the air volume. The tokens thread into the air spring top cap and allow adjustment for weight and riding style.
Video: Though this video was made for the Pike, Bottomless Tokens work the same way for BoXXer forks.
Domain Dual Crown goes 27.5 as well
RockShox's more value-minded Domain Dual Crown DH fork remains essentially unchanged, but the company has added a 27.5-inch wheel version of the fork to their lineup in both the RC and R versions. Both feature steel upper stanchions and coil springs packaged in RockShox's 35mm tubes.
The R is an OEM-only option, while the RC can be had as an aftermarket purchase for $733 as a 26-inch fork and $768 as a 27.5-incher.
Though it lacks the BoXXer's high-end features, the value-minded Domain Dual Crown is hard to beat on a punch-for-price basis.
RockShox BoXXer Pricing/Availability
BoXXer World Cup 26-inch: $1,700
BoXXer World Cup 27.5-inch: $1,735
BoXXer Team 26-inch: $1,275
BoXXer Team 27.5-inch: $1,310
BoXXer RC 26-inch: $865
BoXXer RC 27.5-inch: $900
Available: August 2014
RockShox BoXXer Upgrades Pricing/Availability
Charger Damper Upgrade: $379
Solo Air Upgrade: $188
Available: June 2014
RockShox Bottomless Tokens Pricing/Availability
Bottomless Tokens (set of three): $19.00
Available: Now
RockShox Domain Dual Crown RC Pricing/Availability
Domain Dual Crown RC 26-inch: $733
Domain Dual Crown RC 27,5-inch: $768
Available: June 2014


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May average retail pricing for 7W LED light bulbs (equivalent to 40W incandescent) in the China market rose 4.2% on month to CNY37.4 (US$5.90), while 9W models (equivalent to 60W incandescent) increased 2.7% to CNY45.80, according to Digitimes Research.
Average retail prices for 40W- and 60W-equivalent LED light bulbs in Japan in May stood at JPY1,662 (US$16) and JPY2,423, respectively, with the former dropping 0.4% and the latter 9.6% on month, Digitimes Research indicated.
May average retail prices for 40W- and 60W-equivalent LED light bulbs in other markets were: KRW12,344 (US$11.10, down 13.2% on month) and KRW16,470 (up 0.7%) in South Korea; US$19.30 (up 0.5%) and US$22 (up 1.9%) in the US; and EUR13.4 (US$18.80, down 1.5%) and EUR14.3 (down 2.1%) in Europe.
LG Electronics' 40W-equivalent LED light bulbs and Osram 60W-equivalent models available in the South Korea market had the highest average lumen-price ratios of 71.0lm/US$ and 98.8lm/US$, respectively in May. In terms of luminous efficiency, Toshiba 40W- and 60W-equivalent models for sale in the Japan market had the highest average levels of 74.6lm/W and 97.4lm/W, respectively.
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DALLAS, March 10 (UPI) -- Kari Lehtonen made 31 saves while putting together his third shutout of the season Saturday in the Dallas Stars' 2-0 victory over Anaheim.
The Stars have turned their season around by winning five in a row and nine of their last 10. The lone loss in that run was in overtime.
A month ago Dallas appeared likely to miss the playoffs for the second straight year but the Stars have used the streak to move in front in the Pacific Division. The Stars began the night three points ahead of second-place Phoenix.
Lehtonen outdueled Jonas Hiller, who suffered a hard-luck loss while being beaten only once in 22 shots.
Brenden Morrow scored on the power play 2:37 into the second period, his ninth goal of the season. Michael Ryder put the puck into an empty net with 46 seconds left in regulation.
Dallas has not suffered a loss in regulation since a Feb. 19 setback against Nashville.


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Monday, September 19, 2011
The potluck solution
I get a headache from worrying and stressing and then my husband gets a headache by default (thanks to all my kvetching) and then I invariably forget (or neglect) to work ahead and by the time Sunday morning rolls around I'm frantically running around the kitchen trying to throw something together while still doing the regular Sunday morning prep and—well, it's quite the drama.
So at the last church potluck, I tossed creativity to the wind and made our regular Sunday lunch: waffles. That meant I carted all the waffle stuff—irons, ladle, spatula, batter, syrup, fruit, whipped cream, etc—to the park and set up shop on one of the picnic tables.
At first people didn't have a clue what I was doing. I got lots of blank-confused-bewildered looks, but then they started catching on and by the end people seemed pretty jolly about the whole thing. I think they thought I was being inventive and going all out or something, which was totally wrong. I was just doing the lazy, old hat thing. Waffles are programmed into my Sunday personage. Waffles I can do.
But not all potlucks come with an outlet and space for last minute cooking. 'Tis a shame, I know.
The last potluck I was at was the first meal of church retreat—Friday evening supper. It was much more doable than a Sunday potluck because:
1) I'm normally planning an evening meal so an evening potluck fit into my day easy-peasy.
2) There was no church and Sunday school separating the cook time from the eat time. That wait time always throws me something fierce.
(For the detail hungry among you: I made two dishes. The first was a pan of leftover baked potatoes, chopped up and fried with some bacon and then topped with pepper-jack cheese and baked till melty. The second dish was a casserole dish of pasta with ground sausage, feta, and roasted tomato sauce topped with a layer of blackened zucchini rounds and then mozzarella cheese. I was using up leftovers—can you tell?)
Now I'll be the first to admit (actually, my husband is usually the first—he's such a dear) that I have a bad habit of doing complicated things at potluck time. Like tostados (frying the tortillas at home, and then, at site, topping them with refried beans, salsa, cheese, and a squirt of sour cream from the corner of a cut plastic bag), or waffles (see above), or beignets (talk about a crazy Sunday morning!). If I'm not going complicated, I go simple-boring: applesauce, brownies, and a bag of chips. I need to find middle ground.
So clearly, it's high-time I made a list of potluckable foods. Foods that can be made ahead of time. Simple foods. Yummy foods (who wants to bring home leftovers after all those people have hovered/touched/salivated over it, huh?). Nutritious foods. Foods that can sit and be none the worse for wear. Foods that don't take much brain energy to prep and transport.
I'm dividing my list, not by food category, but by the temperature at which the foods need to be served and/or the appliances needed for serving. You know, like an outlet or a stove or a refrigerator.
But before I get to the food, one word about tools. When indulging in the potlucking lifestyle, good tools are a big help. Though that's kind of a silly thing to say because I don't have much of what I consider necessary and I still potluck, so whatever. But if I were to make a list of important tools, this is what it would include:
*a trusty crockpot
*an insulated carrier, with hot and cold packs (the zipper's busted on mine so I don't use it as often as I might)
*stainless steel trays (potluckers everywhere, be envious!)
*a pie carrier (I'd be more inclined to bring pies if I had one) (hint, hint, darling husband-o-mine)
*a basket that fits a 9x13 pan (want!)
*matching stainless steel cups (again, want!)
*a big basket for hauling all the pans, trays, and cups (though a wash basket will work in a pinch)
(Hm, that was more a wish list than anything. Proof I am a not a potlucking expert.)
Now, for the food!
Room temp (stuff that can sit out for several hours and be okay):
I mention specific cakes, pies, etc, when, in fact, many kinds will do, because I am less stressed when I have details to jumpstart me.
oatmeal muffins
scones (too many to link to)
bread, with butter and jelly
ants on a log
pepperoni rolls
spicy Indian potatoes
peanut noodles
spinach-cheese crepes
pumpkin cake
rhubarb cake
caramel popcorn
elf biscuits
earthquake cake
shoofly cake
apple pie
sour cherry crumb pie
Chilled, via cooler or refrigerator:
deviled eggs
mustard eggs
hummus and pita chips/crackers
chips and salsa
fruit salad (though if the fruits are frozen, they can sit out for several hours, thus landing this salad squarely in the room temp category)
veggie tray
pesto dip and crackers
potato salad
cabbage slaw
fresh tomato salad
Greek pasta salad
zucchini pasta salad
rhubarb cream pie
Oven-hot (dishes that can be prepared at home and then baked on location):
Of course, many of these dishes can be baked at home and then rewarmed just prior to eating, or kept hot in an insulated carrier.
baked hash brown potatoes
breakfast enchiladas
egg-and-ham casserole
baked French toast
waffles! (irons and outlets required)
cottage potatoes
macaroni and cheese
baked spaghetti
sweet and sour lentils
tortilla pie
lasagna (I can't believe I haven't shared my recipe with you yet!)
baked lentils with cheese
Indian chicken and rice
baked corn
beef empanadas
Crockpot-hot (foods to be prepared at home, then transported and kept warm in the crockpot):
Quite a few of the dishes in the oven-hot category can be adapted to fit into this category.
potatoes in cream with Gruyere
baked beans
braised cabbage
Indian-style corn
potatoes and onions
golden chicken curry
barley and beans with sausage and red wine
That's my list! If you have suggestions/ideas, feel free to shout them out in the comments (don't forget to include links). I'll edit and change this list as needed, and there will be a link for this post on the sidebar. I expect it will get lots of hits on Saturday nights, right around 9 o'clock.
Happy potlucking!
This same time, years previous: cornmeal whole wheat waffles, hard knocks, Greek pasta salad
6 comments:
This is wonderful. I hate thinking up potluck meals, too. You're a smart cookie putting together a list like this. Thanks for sharing it.ReplyDelete
yeah, I keep a list too, along with a list of meals I've taken to sick folks or people with new babies - easy to like meals.ReplyDelete
My guidelines for a potluck dish is that it has to be recognizable and not contain any special, expensive ingredients that I can't discuss with my anonymous eaters.
We had a potluck yesterday at church. I took pepper cabbage and a squash casserole from Moosewood (squash, feta, yogurt, onions, peppers with walnuts on top).
My fallback hot dishes, if I can't think of anything else, are baked beans and baked corn. 7-layer salad is a favorite. My ultimate potluck salad, however, is this couscous one:
You forgot something very simple yet savored by many. Something you and I take for granted because it's always there, but something many others can hardly get enough of. A loaf of homemade bread, butter and homemade jam. It's one of those no-brainer, fall-back-on-if-all-else-fails "dishes". People probably won't be knocking down your door to get the recipe, but there will be only crumbs left and no germ-laden leftovers to cart home.ReplyDelete
I like to take a hot potato salad, German style. Although, one time I overcooked the potatoes so they were all smooshy and people thought they were fancy mashed potatoes and they tried to eat them with the gravy that was nearby. They were not impressed with the vinegar-y potatoes and gravy.ReplyDelete
Good guidelines, Margo.ReplyDelete
And Amber, I DID have that listed but the link was wonky. Fixed it now.
Teekaroo, this is one of my fears: that potluckers won't know HOW to eat the food I prepare and so they won't actually know what it tastes like. It all just gets mixed up on the plate anyhow.
If you brought nothing but macaroni and cheese to every single potluck, you'd be a hit with all the children I know.ReplyDelete
Frankly I think you are working much too hard at this.


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Based on AMD's HD 7970 GHz Edition, or Tahiti XT2 GPU with 2048 stream processors, the Club 3D HD 7970 royalAce has been set to work at 1050MHz for the base and 1100MHz for boost GPU clock with 3072MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6000MHz and paired up with a 384-bit memory interface.
Club 3D's packaging is miniature yet tough enough and also has plenty of info on it. Of course, the emphasis is on the GHz Edition of AMD's HD 7970 but the fact that it's a special Club 3D RoyalAce SuperOverClock version wasn't ignored either.
The box holds the graphics card, driver CD and a CrossFire connector. Similarly to what we've seen from XFX in these past years, Club3D decided to bundle a knob hanger saying "Do Not Disturb, Gaming in Progress", for gamers who don't like interruptions.
HD 7970 royalAce graphics card is special for its cooler, which is based on Cool Stream technology. Unlike reference cooling, where the fan is located towards the end of the card and blows through the card, Club3D opted for two fans that push air downwards, straight at the heatsink. As a result, some of the heat may be released inside the case so you might want to make sure your in-case airflow is adequate.
Both fans are connected to the same 4-pin power connector and the RPM can be regulated in Catalyst Control Centre.
The company used thick heatpipes that transfer heat to the farthest parts of the heatsink with ease. Due to the tall heatpipes, and the way they're bent, the cooler is a few centimeters taller than the standard cooler. Still, although it exceeds the height of the PCB, even the most traditional of cases shouldn't have problems fitting it inside. You can get a better idea of how tall they are when the card is viewed from the back.
Just like the reference card, the card uses one 6-pin and one 8-pin power connector.
Three heatpipes go through the cooler but Club 3D made sure they're bent in a way so as to provide five contact points.
You can see where the GPU touches the base, as well as the fact that the HD 7970's GPU is rotated by 45 degrees. The cooler is held in place with four screws only, but we didn't notice any instability or vibration.
The card has 3GB of Hynix memory, which we've grown accustomed to seeing on pretty much hall AMD and Nvidia cards. The memory is rated at 1500MHz and this card is no exception.
The I/O panel has one dual-link DVI, standard HDMI out and two mini DisplayPort outs.
HD 7970 royalAce comes with two CrossFire connectors, meaning that it's possible to daisy chain up to four cards for some fierce CrossFireX muscle. Although the shroud hides the CrossFire connectors, it will not be a problem as CrossFire bridge connectors are flexible.
The Club 3D Radeon HD 7970 royalAce comes with a toggle switch. This switch allows you to switch between two separate BIOS versions, 1) factory defaults and 2) unprotected. The graphics card comes standard at 1050 MHz GPU clock speed with overclocking headroom up to 1.1GHz and beyond.
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CPU Cooler: Thermalright HR-02 (Thermalright-Europa Distri www.PC-Cooling.de).
Memory: 8GB ADATA DDR3 1600 XPG Gaming series
Harddisk: OCZ Vertex 2 100 GB
Power Supply: CoolerMaster Silent Pro 1000W
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Overclocking the core by additional 110MHz was a pretty nice result, seeing as how the card already runs 50MHz faster than the reference 1GHz. After our overclock, GPU Boost clock was 1210MHz. We squeezed out another 80MHz from the memory (240MHz effectively). We left the fans in AUTO mode – there was no need to speed them up manually since the temperatures went up to 78°C after our overclock. We'll discuss thermals in more detail next.
Thermals and Noise
Thanks to the CoolStream technology, which involves a large heatsink, two fans and specially bent heatpipes, Club3D's solution outperforms the reference one. The feat is all the more impressive considering we're talking about a factory overclocked GPU here .
When idle, the GPU was around 39°C and the fans were quiet. After longer gaming sessions, temperatures climbed up to 76°C. When the card got hot, we could hear the fans easily (they ran at about 2900RPM), but they were still music to our ears compared to the overly loud reference solution.
We had to remove the thermal paste that was on the base of the cooler, because it seems that the screws were a bit loose, which caused the paste to harden. Our first attempt at testing resulted in temperatures over 90°C, which was a clear indicator that something went wrong somewhere. Luckily, we fixed it and the cooler started showing its real face. We had no need for manual RPM settings, not even after overclocking, because auto-regulation ran just fine and temperature never exceeded 78°C. Our additional overclock made the fans louder, but not to the point where we'd call them too loud.
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AMD HD 7970 GHz Edition can draw significantly more power than the initially launched HD 7970 cards, which run at 925MHz.
Club3D launched three cards in its HD 7970 Poker series – royalAce is the fastest (1050MHz GPU), followed by royalKing (975MHz GPU) while the slowest in the series is the royalQueen (925MHz GPU). All the cards are special for the dual-fan cooling, which performed well on our tests.
Club3D produced an ace from its sleeve when it decided to strap the HD 7970 with special cooling, especially in the case of its highly overclocked HD 7970 royalAce SuperOverClock card. The cooler isn't as quiet as the GTX 680's, but it isn't too loud either, which is more than we can say for AMD HD 7970 GHz Edition's reference cooler that's already drawn enough criticism in this respect.
Thanks to the 50 MHz higher GPU clock than that of the regular HD 7970 GHz Edition, the royalAce card beats the GTX 680 in most games.
If you're the kind that obsesses over the power bill, then HD 7970 GHz Edition probably isn't your cup of tea since the cards consume significantly more than reference HD 7970s. Additionally, performance-per-Watt ratio on high end graphics cards is something where Nvidia takes the cake, at least when it comes to the last generation of graphics.
In conclusion, the HD 7970 royalAce is definitely a card that any gamer wouldn't say no to. Ultimately, our decision is well backed by our testing and we're looking at one of the fastest single GPU graphics cards on the market, with a factory overclock, special cooling and further overclocking headroom.


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Newest offer adds 50 cents to initial cash offer of $7 a share
GTSI Inc. has again turned thumbs-down to a persistent suitor.
A statement released Sept. 30 by Eyak Technology, said the Herndon, Va., government systems integrator has told Eyak that it still is "not interested" in pursuing a takeover transaction.
EyakTek increased its initial cash offer of $7 a share to $7.50 after GTSI publicly rejected the original offer.
"GTSI has again refused to negotiate a proposal that offers GTSI stockholders exceptional value and an immediate realization event in an otherwise illiquid stock," EyakTek said in a statement.
"Nevertheless, EyakTek remains firmly committed to pursuing a transaction with GTSI and continues to consider all options available to it to ensure that GTSI stockholders have the opportunity to receive the maximum value for their investment," it added.
"There is no response from the board of directors to the latest Eyak press release," Paul Liberty, GTSI vice president of corporate affairs and investor relations, told Washington Technology.
GTSI filed suit in a Delaware court to stop the takeover bid.
Following the initial offer in mid-September GTSI adopted a new shareholder rights plan which the company said was designed "to encourage the fair and equal treatment of GTSI's shareholders in connection with any initiative to acquire effective control of the company."
The plan is also intended "to ensure that, in the context of a tender offer, the Board of Directors has sufficient time to explore and develop alternatives for maximizing shareholder value, to provide adequate time for competing transactions to emerge and to ensure that shareholders have an equal opportunity to participate in such a bid," GTSI said.
The plan expires Sept. 12, 2011, unless redeemed earlier by the company, it added.
As it continues to pursue GTSI, EyakTek and parent company Eyak, an Alaska Native Corporation, have come in for criticism in the press.
Today's Washington Post uses Eyak as an example of the controversial and explosive growth of ANCs over the past decade.
GTSI, of Herndon, Va., ranks No. 59 on Washington Technology's 2010 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors. Eyak, of Anchorage, ranks No. 65 on the list.
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Thoughts on having an opinion on techPosted: 02/18/2014 Filed under: architecture | Tags: architecture, opinions 1 Comment
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What the Heck is an Architect?Posted: 02/16/2014 Filed under: architecture, coding, DevOps, open source | Tags: architecture, devops, infrastructure, infrastructure as code, silicon valley, software will eat the world, time managment 3 Comments
I was never one of those little kids that told mommy and daddy what they wanted to be when they grew up. I didn't even start officially working in the "IT" industry until 1996. I just kind of fell into the career because I enjoyed fixing other people's computers all the time. The closest I ever came to wanting a particular job as a teenager was being an architect. You know the traditional kind like the dad the "Brady Bunch"? In my mind an architect was always an engineer with a big desk, rulers, calculators, knowledge of complex math, physics, and materials science. They also were visionary creative types that could come up with amazing designs like the Chrysler building, the TransAmerica Tower, or Falling Water. In my mind these architects could do designs in an office, but also go out in the field and do some of the engineering work themselves.
Fast forward to today when the job title of architect can take on a variety of constructs: software, infrastructure, political, health care, network, security, traffic, etc. The job title has morphed into any type of senior design position in some fields. I myself am part of this trend with the job title "Infrastructure Architect" currently. However, due to my admiration for the "traditional" architect job, I feel an obligation to at least try and transfer my ideas of what skills translate from the traditional architect into the modern IT infrastructure engineering space. This has been the cause of some stress for me over the past three years. I will freely admit that today I worry about what it takes to be proficient in this modern "infrastructure as code" world. After having a few beers, I sat on my porch and tried to jot down some notes on what troubled me personally and what the causes might be. I think I have narrowed them down: personal expectations versus market expectations, time management, and ambition.
Personal Expectations vs Market Expectations
I would be lying to you if I did not admit that I struggle every day personally to try and meet what my own expectations are for an architect in the infrastructure space. Infrastructure has several "silos/towers" that represent some traditional capability areas. These are things like servers and virtualization, storage, networking, security, databases, service buses, application hosting, as well as monitoring and performance metrics. Having deep knowledge in more than one of these towers is what I would say an architect should have. Due to the amount of knowledge needed to know multiple silos this can take years of work. In my case this journey has spanned over 17 years since 1997. There is no formal curriculum so to speak for "architect" so it kind of materializes via technical jobs you take and a little serendipity.
My architect journey kind of materialized like so…
- Hardware phase (servers/PCs/peripherals)
- DOS phase (batch programming, emm386 fun days)
- AS400 and VAX/VMS phase
- Token ring and ethernet (10base2-10000) phase (jiggle it just a little bit)
- Novell phase (3 to NDS)
- Windows phase (over a decade of windows troubleshooting madness)
- The whole certification industry treadmill phase (mcse/cne/ccnp/blah thank goodness this is dead)
- The DBA phase (SQL server and Oracle)
- Network engineering phase (ethernet to satellites to sonet rings to mpls and vpn)
- Unix/linux phase (Solaris, Slackware, mandrake and RHEL)
- The Perl/CPAN/Sourceforge phase
- The php/html/css everything phase
- The slashdot addiction phase
- The AWS and Rackspace IaaS phase (ongoing)
- The OSS and Github revolution phase (ongoing)
- The ruby and cm transformation (ongoing)
- The Hacker News addiction phase (ongoing)
The presumed belief is that the more you stuff you learn the more valuable you become from a holistic experience lens. This is likely true in that you learn over time how multi-level dependencies and other design issues can affect resiliency, performance and scale. Eventually the need for this kind of holistic knowledge was enough that the modern job titles of "architect" in the IT space arose. In some ways, the architect position is seen as a more senior role (even though many organizations don't have an HR job code with architect in it. To be sure, I'm ambivalent on whether the job title even needs to be official). The flip side is that going deep in n+3 or more capability silos becomes increasingly difficult to do well given the other responsibilities that often fall on the shoulders of an "architect". The funny thing is that these "other responsibilities" often begin to take upwards of 70% or more of the time of an architect type person. There is a constant balancing act going on where one foot is on the hands on (development/testing/research) side of the fence, and the other foot is in things I call CCE like (collaboration, communication, and evangelism) or leadership side of the fence. The latter half inevitably results in meeting hell.
Why do these other things increasingly take over the time of an architect type person? I have thought a lot about this, and I believe it likely boils down in part to the holistic experience thing (others may only have a single silo view of the world and hence need help with understanding about why something could be better another way) and partly because the architect (even though the role may not even be official on paper) is saddled with the overall responsibility that things work cohesively within a given capability area. When someone has a job responsibility to "make things work" together, it implies that they ideally understand and have proficiency in the technologies involved. This gets increasingly difficult the more technology areas you are expected to know. I will be the first to admit that this knowledge responsibility only works when a federated model of architectural ownership is in place. By this I mean that having multiple architect roles within infrastructure is important and many more within an enterprise is absolutely a necessity. The old mindset of someone having the job title of 'Enterprise Architect" is a farce. It is a feat of impossibility if you expect to have actual architecture efficacy in an IT organization. The archaic "ivory tower" approach to managing architecture in a top down model is just not feasible. To be sure, I don't think it ever was actually effective; and so in my mind the "Enterprise Architect" is dead and has been for a while. The point I want to make here is that there is just too much to know to be truly effective outside the limited scope of a major capability area. The ability to be hands on and also do requisite CCE I feel is best within a more manageable size capability area.
"The 'Enterprise Architect' is Dead"
Pretty much since 2007 the infrastructure as a service revolution inspired by AWS has been a massive snowball of change. This change has and continues to be awesome. I have wholeheartedly embraced it and have been taking part in the transition for years now. The changes have in part re-invigorated the popularity of the open source movement and with it has come unparalleled opportunities for startups. It has inspired the creation and success what has become a literal tidal wave of open-source projects on Github. All one has to do is look at Hacker News on any given day and see that some new project was announced that "fixes this" or "closes this gap in functionality". One could argue that a business could start and run without much if any proprietary commercial products today (short of the client devices). It is an amazing time that we are living in that maybe 30 years from now will be mentioned in history books as the tipping point for mainstream open-source adoption and innovation. All of this is super cool, especially if you are a small to medium sized startup, and can get everything you need infrastructure-wise from something like AWS or Rackspace or Digital Ocean using an API. Even better, modern configuration management and containerization sits on top of these IaaS platforms and allows you to install packages and manage build outs rapidly using "infrastructure code" as well. If you are a software developer and need to be productive in the infrastructure space (even if you don't know it well) you can do so effectively with just the knowledge of a given API.
Marc Andressen's famous callout in 2011 that "software is eating the world" has never been more true than in the IT infrastructure space. I have felt it every day for the past 5 years now. The challenge, specifically for me, is staying productive, efficient, and helpful in a space that is increasingly more software. Software development to be precise. Let's be honest, even with the cloud NaaS revolution, most enterprises still run the bulk of their infrastructure in house. Part of this is dealing with legacy apps and the baggage they bring, part of it is a pure cost play where the bandwidth and storage used by an enterprise can still be less in house than using AWS or Rackspace, and finally, part of this is security and performance concerns. So with many enterprises trying to take part in this "infrastructure as code" revolution while still maintaining significant internal hardware, the need for someone to know both traditional infrastructure management and new code based approaches is critical. To be sure, a software based management abstraction layer (api) is increasingly meaning that the work an an infrastructure architect does is more dev and less ops. Since I want to be an architect that does both hands on coding and traditional architecture work (to remain relevant), I need time to focus on development. Getting the time to do the work and focus is a real challenge. But dude, the thing is I have to do this to enable infrastructure to provide any value for the app dev teams in the enterprise. If I can't help make internal infrastructure as easy to consume and programmable as Amazon AWS, then the Devs increasingly see me (vis-a-vi infrastructure) as a blocker and I don't blame them. At least for now, because of the need for supporting legacy and all the painfully inflexible COTS packages (hello Oracle), Infrastructure ends up also having to play a type of luxury one-on-one concierge service for app teams. I don't know how long this "concierge" style need will last, but I'm gonna be pushing as much self-service infrastructure via API as fast as I can make it happen. Things like Openstack and SDN are making this possible for me, but doesn't address everything needed.
Pressure on Myself in the Valley
If you buy into the software will eat the world argument (and I feel like I do) then the question becomes: How can I be the best at my job as an infrastructure architect?
More precisely:
- What is valuable work?
- What are valuable skills?
If the answers are only writing code, then there are lots of questions I have the keep me stressed. First off, is this thing endemic to Silicon Valley only or is more widespread? I feel like the mass transition is already well underway. Right now the change is already prevalent in Silicon Valley. There may be a three to five year delay before it hits middle america, but its probably coming. But how will these changes (for all their merits) scale? Are all the old sysadmins that can't code pretty much SOL? I think perhaps so. I said the traditional sysadmin was dead in a paper published last year, but I wonder if middle america can keep up. I mean this stuff is not exactly easy. Is this an example of the robotization of everything? If everyone is writing code, then who is spending time communicating and collaborating (remember this takes a buttload of time) and who maintains the code down the road? What about all these small IT consulting companies that handle outsourced IT for the space between mom and pop businesses to the enterprise? Is the "Geek Squad" of the near future going to need staff that are polyglots understanding CI pipelines and Git? Writing code takes a singular level of focus and time that is already a challenge for even seasoned developers. The needs for the people (often architects) that sit at the event horizon of software development and collaborative design and communications won't simply go away. The difference is now I think they need to be doing both. Architects, as I have mentioned, often have a lack of time due to the immense gravitational pull of CCE (collaboration, communications, and evangelism) that needs to be done with all the stakeholders/customers of infrastructure. If I were to surmise that my ideal job time split between "hands on keyboard" time coding and CCE were 50/50, then I'm gonna have to change the way I manage my time. The balancing act of hands on work and meetings is just way fracking hard. I may have to start being more selfish with my calendar and time. I'm just not sure how best to solve this yet.
"The balancing act of hands on work and meetings is just way fracking hard."
Another issue I struggle with is the perception that the ability to do both hands on development and CCE or leadership well is commonplace in the valley and elsewhere. This is buttressed by the examples of exceptional people like Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, and Max Levchin as bellwethers for how to work. I feel like these guys and others like them are truly exceptional people. They garner media attention because they are success stories, but the translation in the valley is perhaps that their skills are as obtainable as riding a bike. I feel like this is just not the case. I don't necessarily want to lend too much credence to the Malcolm Gladwell "10k hours" argument, but this shit is just not easy. The competition here is high, especially if you truly want to make a difference and want to think of yourself as good at your job. Perhaps I am just too hard on myself, but here lately I have gotten to where my blood pressure rises, I get hot, and feel overwhelmed when I read HackerNews. Sometimes I feel like all the article titles are flying by my eyes like data in the matrix making me feel more inadequate by the minute (the Oracle said I was not "the one"). Is this is the bane of type A personalities who want to be the best and are competitive? I rarely think of myself as an "expert" at anything even if I am kicking ass at something. Sometimes this personality trait of mine helps me and drives me to be better, while other times it exhausts me and gets me down. Am I a little out of balance with incessantly wanting to be a better programmer, a great speaker and leader, a great skateboarder, up to date on all the latest geopolitics, and be able to write eloquent comments on HN? Maybe. I might need to wean myself off HN for a little bit for my own mental health. I think when you start to get jealous of the gas station cashier for having a simple and less stressful job, it might be time to level set. Than again, I just want to do a good job in this rapidly changing infrastructure as code landscape. So what is a modern infrastructure architect? Is it a software developer, a shoe salesman, or a crisis negotiator?
Wait, sorry I have another meeting to attend. Let me know if you approve and merge what I perceive to be a market pull request.
SF Skyscraper UpdatePosted: 12/16/2012 Filed under: skyscrapers | Tags: architecture, San Francisco, skyscrapers Leave a comment
Periodically, I like to check out this site to find out what the latest is with the San Francisco skyscrapers. Sometimes these projects don't materialize, but it is still fun to check them out. I really, really like skyscraper architecture and am continually fascinated by the architects who design them and engineers that build them. Here is the latest for proposed buildings in SF.


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June 12, 2010
|The ultimate result of an economic situation created by the state.
New York Gov. David Paterson is warning that if he is forced to shut down government next week chaos and anarchy will rule in the state.
"No one knows the full ramifications of a government shutdown," said Paterson. "It would create unimaginable chaos around the state and the greater metropolitan areas," reports WCBS TV.
The legislature in the Empire State has failed to pass a budget and this will result in doomsday, according to Paterson.
"Such chaos includes closing all state parks, motor vehicles offices, courts, and even the lottery. Public assistance payments would not be made and unemployment payments might also be held up," reports Marcia Kramer for WCBS.
No state registration (and fees) of motor vehicles! No courts to convict people for violating myriad laws imposed by the state and throwing the victims into the prison-industrial complex! No state lottery to fleece the plebs! No bureaucrats collecting fees at state parks and ticketing people for littering or double parking! Chaos, indeed — for the parasite state. A time out for just about all other New Yorkers.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
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Except the dependent class of welfare "recipients" receiving "public assistance" (receiving stolen goods) and millions reduced to going on the dole thanks to the bankster manipulated economy that creates and destroys jobs.
Naturally if cut off from the "insurance" teat many of these folks will go into the street and break and burn things. Can you blame them? Slaves often rebel.
Paterson has called New York politicos who will not go along with his budget plan thugs. Republicans want more cuts than those offered by the gov. Paterson's piecemeal cuts include delaying "welfare grant" (stolen goods) increases, denying welfare to folks who do not meet employment requirements (as if there are any jobs to be had in New York or anywhere else), and reducing what bureaucrats call a "personal needs allowance" for drug addicts (the CIA ships in the drugs and the tax payers are forced at gunpoint to fund expensive programs to get them off the drugs — an endless cycle).
New Yorkers need not worry though — for now. It looks like Paterson and the lawmakers will come up with a deal by Monday and the budget problems of the state will limp along until something finally breaks and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.
Only martial law will stop the anarchy and chaos after that happens.
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