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Fluidly and cleanly the white flakes had fallen, cascading in elaborate patterns as they tumbled to the earth. She liked to think they were dancing, twirling and diving in an attempt to please whosoever chose to watch. From behind a pane of frozen glass she could watch their movement, mesmerised by every ethereal twist and turn. They were so beautiful, so untouched and perfect, virginal tears of the sky, reincarnated from the multitude of oceans and streams that littered the planet.
As a grown woman, she should have known better. She should have learnt by now, how to control her whims and impulses, but the frozen sky was too enthralling, too enchanting a sight for her to sit watching from this glass prison. Breath misting up the window, a dreamy sigh parted her lips as she drew herself to her feet, fabric swaddling her figure as she bundled herself up in the necessary clothes to venture outside. A sweater was followed by a coat, a scarf and mittens added in a shade that far from matched her booted feet. She didn't mind though, any colour would soon be lost in that unimaginable blur of untainted snow.
Sufficiently layered up, the Cetra gave a cautionary glance around her humble abode as she checked that her young charge was in capable hands. Smiling brightly, into the frozen world she departed, the chill crackling against her lips as every exhalation conjured a cloud of misty white. She could get lost in this, so very lost amidst the blankets of white. She wondered if they'd embrace her like she imagined, chilling her body from the inside out, until she sprouted icy wings and became a part of the earth. To be part of something so pure again, seemed almost impossible, and yet the opportunity was there, calling to her as much as the tiny life she called her own, beckoned in the dead of night.
Tugging the door closed, she moved carefully, wading through the ankle deep surface that crunched beneath her feet. Twirling in awe, luminous green opticals drifted to the sky, drinking in the falling flakes as they grazed her skin, burning her cheeks until they flushed red, her peachy pallor now glowing, partly in happiness, and partly from the simple biomechanics of it all. Laughing she began to move, diving and leaping, making angels and snowmen, an alternate reality suddenly existing, concocted entirely from her imagination.
It was wonderful in every sense of the word; a true Winter wonderland, exactly as nature had intended.
And that fact alone made her want to share it.
As if reading her mind, it was fate that had led the Professor into her line of sight, his research still paramount despite the adverse weather conditions. Did he really need to work all the time? She wondered if he'd be happier with a break. A little bit of time to enjoy himself and remember what it was to live. He might soften then, if only she could find a way to thaw him out. He still had a heart, a beautiful untouched thing that beat alone, without comfort and without a friend. Hadn't Lucrecia managed to find a way once? Or was that too merely an illusion in which Hojo had been nought but a pawn? No. That wasn't fair. She was reading too far into events that were beyond her understanding.
Drawn back to the present, Ifalna followed his movements from her stealthy vantage point, peering over a snow strewn wall to watch his steps near the building. He looked so wound up, so tightly bound by whatever thought was plaguing him. He needed to forget. He needed to have fun. And who was she to deny him that? She was a healer by nature, a compassionate soul in search of every elusive smile she could possibly find. So it was mostly out of kindness and with only a little mischief that she had acted on impulse. Scooping up a handful of snow, delicate hands scrunched it into a ball, the unparalleled cold infiltrating her mittens as she raised her arm and sent the snowball on a one way collision course with Mr.Hojo's head.
The icy projectile collided with speed, dazing the Professor as his hand shot up instinctively to reach the back of his head. and left him staggering. Unkempt ebony strands cushioned none of the blow and that was before he'd even factored in what it felt like to have ice dripping slowly down the back of his scarf, grazing his skin and…Without warning he shivered, the simple organic process unavoidable considering the stimuli. He looked incredulous and far from the ecstatic reaction she'd been hoping for. It made Ifalna's heart sink; plummeting right down to rock bottom as guilt stirred behind those eyes. Had she just hurt him?
Emerging reluctantly, swift footfalls brought her to face him, a sheepish expression screaming apology as she matched midnight blue with her own startled emerald. She opened her mouth to speak, but he was already there, looking at her with an unreadable expression that made her weak at the knees. "Aren't you a little old to be playing games?" He asked her flatly, a thinly veiled layer of something besides utter contempt present as she raised a hand tentatively to his head.
"It depends on the game." Her lips curved into a serene smile as she removed her mitten to further assess whatever damage she may have inflicted. Fussing admirably, she smoothed her digits through the pitch coloured strands, melting the clumps of ice that lingered with a warm and soothing touch. "Are you alright?" She asked him reluctantly, her concern growing with every moment of passing silence. Even something snide and biting would be enough to reassure her, and yet nothing came.
It was only after a long silence and a considerable amount of coddling on her part, that finally Hojo spoke, turning from her with an authoritative persona that reminded her distinctly of a teacher unwilling to look at a failed pupil. "I'm fine, Ifalna." He told her with little emotion, although beneath the walls of indifference a sheet of ice had melted, something akin to affection almost bubbling to the surface. It had been a long while since anyone had truly cared, and here was the Cetra, his most prized project offering him the world with a simple gesture of kindness. It made him smile, almost, the faint twitch of his lips gladly unseen to her observant eyes.
Faced with only his back, Iffy frowned, something pulling in the pit of her stomach as she stepped forwards, arms wrapping around his waist as she bowed her head, eyes squeezed tightly shut in a display of relenting apology. "I'm sorry." She whispered into his back, her heart drumming in it's own arduous tango as the snow continued to fall. "I only wanted to see you smile." She admitted even more quietly, the ghost of her breath on the wind, as soundlessly neither of them moved, forever locked in an embrace of Ifalna's making.
It was a good ten minutes before she finally let go, the analytical scientist shooting her the most quizzical glance imaginable as he came face to face with her features once more. Had he forgiven her? Had he let her one act of momentary insanity slide? Would he truly allow her the benefit of a second chance in light of her juvenile motivations?
The handful of snow that ended up down her back five minutes later; implied a rather resounding yes.
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GRAYSON, Ga. — Robert Nkemdiche, the nation's undisputed No. 1 overall college football prospect, officially de-committed from Clemson on Thursday. You can get a quick recap here.
The 6-foot-5, 284-pound defensive end from Grayson High School had been committed to Clemson since June.
At Grayson on Thursday evening, Nkemdiche looked upbeat as he exchanged hugs and high fives with coaches as the team's football practice concluded. Nkemdiche politely declined interview requests, but did say he had not re-activated his Twitter account and that somebody was impersonating him.
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Megan works with conservation, agency and industry partners to identify and pursue strategies for conserving and restoring federal, state and private land within the Southwestern Crown of the Continent.
Prior to joining The Wilderness Society staff, she coordinated grassroots, collaborative conservation efforts in the Clearwater Valley of Montana. She holds a B.S. in Recreation Management from the University of Montana and an M.S. in Forestry from Northern Arizona University, where she studied natural resource policy and forest restoration.
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Next week will bring many retailers' earnings reports, giving markets a fuller impression on the strength of the consumer during the start of the year. Also, A123 Systems Inc.'s (AONEQ) bankruptcy proceedings are expected to move forward.
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A large grouping of retailers will be releasing their earnings results next week, amid a relatively slow time for quarterly reports.
One of the most notable companies reporting is Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST), whose sales have routinely topped Wall Street's expectations in recent quarters, thanks in part to a shaky economy encouraging shoppers to make bulk purchases at its warehouse clubs. But like many other retailers, Costco has faced rising costs for merchandise. The company is expected to post improved fiscal second-quarter earnings Tuesday.
Teen apparel retailer Hot Topic Inc. (HOTT) is also slated to report next week, coming on the heels of its deal to be taken private by New York-based private-equity firm Sycamore Partners for about $600 million in cash. Shares have surged on the $14-a-share offer price, a 30% premium to Hot Topic's closing price just before the deal was announced. Analysts project its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings will rise.
Other retailers reporting next week include Urban Outfitters Inc. (URBN), Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. (DKS), Bon-Ton Stores Inc. (BONT), Cache Inc. (CACH), Men's Wearhouse Inc. (MW), Aeropostale Inc. (ARO), Zumiez Inc. (ZUMZ), Coldwater Creek Inc. (CWTR), Express Inc. (EXPR) and Buckle Inc. (BKE).
A handful of U.S. retailers this week reported moderate sales for February, as they dealt with mixed factors like payroll-tax increases and later income-tax refunds that were countered by a rousing stock market and better housing reports. Thomson Reuters said 11 retailers still issuing monthly same-store sales, excluding drug stores, on average posted 3.9% same-store sales growth for February. This compares with a 7.4% rise for the 11 a year ago.
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Chinese social-networking company Renren Inc. (RENN) and Chinese online-game maker Perfect World Co. Ltd. (PWRD) are both expected to report next week. They will join fruit and vegetable producer Dole Food Co. Inc. (DOLE), doughnut chain Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. (KKD) and Scientific Games Corp. (SGMS), which sells instant-ticketing systems to lotteries.
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A123 Systems Inc. (AONEQ) next week will ask a bankruptcy court to let its creditors begin voting on its plan to pay them from the proceeds of its asset sales.
The Wilmington, Del., bankruptcy court on Wednesday will consider A123's disclosure statement, or payment-plan outline, which creditors rely upon to cast informed votes.
The maker of batteries for electric cars sought Chapter 11 protection last fall and later sold the bulk of its assets to China's Wanxiang Group for $256.6 million.
To avoid concerns about a Chinese company getting the assets to A123's military contracts and taxpayer-funded technology, A123 sold its government business separately. Navitas Systems of Chicago won the bidding with a $2.25 million offer.
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The pictures are heartbreaking, showing another sad case of someone charged with starving a horse to death in the Tampa Bay area.
The photo pretty much sums up what happened to the horse named "Mary."
This is the latest in what seems like a string of neglected and starved horses in the Bay area in recent months.
This time, it was a horse in Floral City in Citrus County.
The pictures aren't easy to look at, but this was the condition a Citrus County deputy found the horse in on Thursday. The little Arabian horse named Mary was too far gone and had to be euthanized.
The woman who owned her says she tried different feeds but couldn't keep weight on the horse.
But neighbors told the deputy they offered to help, to allow the owner to let the horse graze in their overgrown pasture -- and were turned down.
One neighbor says she saw the horse eating bark off a tree.
A woman who identified herself as the original owner says she offered many times to take the horse back and treat her for whatever might be the problem, and the new owner refused.
That owner is Tammi Kampman, who is charged with one count of misdemeanor animal cruelty. Her bond was set at $500.
We asked experts how much it costs to feed and care for a horse.
They tell us it depends on different factors like the size and breed of the horse.
We spoke with the head of RVR Horse Rescue in Riverview. Shawn Jayroe says the cost of hay has gone up dramatically. Her hay is running around $18 a bale, and the average horse eats a bale a week, minimum.
Then there's grain: some horses need it, some don't. But Jayroe says it costs about $200 a month for feed.
Owning a horse comes with the costs of the farrier to care for their hooves, and there's also the expense with dental care and vaccinations.
If you have fallen on hard times and can't take care of your horse, there is help available. R-v-r rescue has launched what they call the CLEAR campaign: Care, Learn, Educate, Act and Rescue.
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An Analysis of Canadian Unemployment
AbstractThe paepr reviews different reasons for the emergence in the 1980s of an unemployment gap between Canada and the U.S. We develop a small equilibrium model ofthe Canadian labor market to quantify and evaluate these reasons. We conclude that the gap is essentially due to the liberalization of the benefits system in 1971, the effects of which have often been masked by raw-material booms. The huge increase in unemployment in 1981-82 appears to have been due to a sharp monetary squeeze, exacerbated by a fall in the price of exports.
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As the winter Meeting of the National Governors' Association winds down, President Obama and Vice President Biden hosted a meeting of the governors in the White House. The First Lady and Dr. Biden also addressed guest in the State Dining Room event.
The meeting focused on the economy, as many states see manufacturing picking up and unemployment dropping.
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A doctor teaches sign language to a young deaf and mute woman. Now able to communicate with the people around her, she attracts both good and bad attention from the small Nova Scotia town.
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Thor #339, 1983, by Walt Simonson.
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Musings on BLUE VALENTINE
This film has stayed with me. Small scenes, some lines, a moment pops into my head every now and again and I have been trying to figure out why. I found it moving but it also explored a subject that is universal, that effects everyone in one way or another – the nature of love, the fleetingness of it, the importance of it, the destructiveness of it, the creativeness of it, the support it gives and all that it takes away. Old themes for sure, themes that have been explored time and time again, yet this film still manages to make me think, to point out something new about the huge conundrum, perhaps because it does it in a way that doesn't suggest what is right, or who was wrong. There are no should haves, no what ifs, no why didn't yous, it is more fatalistic than that, it simply charts the fact that people fall in and out of love. There are never any reasons, love is a feeling and it doesn't abide by reason. It just happens. Or it doesn't. It's chemistry. The film investigates it without offering any answers; it just shows the joy and sadness of it all. I read a poem by Galway Kinnell the other night, perhaps even the same night I watched the film, which seems to say all that the film says about the cyclical nature of love, the falling in and falling out like the seasons or waves on a shore, like everything else in nature that is inconsistent and changing and beautiful.
The Feast
Juniper and cedar in the sand,
The lake beyond, here deer-flesh smoking
On the driftwood fire. And we two
Touching each other by the wash of blue
On the warm sand together lying
As careless as the water on the land.
Now across the water the sunset clooms.
All the pebbles wearing each other
Back into sand speak in the silence;
Or else under the cliff the surf begins,
Telling of another evening, and another,
Beside lapping waters and the small, lapped stones.
The sand turns cold – or the body warms.
If love had not smiled we would never grieve.
But on every earthly place its turning crown
Flashes and fades. We will feast on love again
In the purple light, and rise again and leave
Our two shapes dying in each other's arms.
By Galway Kinnell
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 46 million of Americans or 21 % of the American population engaged in smoking which makes aging and smoking a hot topic. It was noted that smoking affected the process of aging. In this case that smoking can be prevented, it is vital to know the facts regarding aging and smoking.
About Aging
Aging is a natural process that affects human beings as well as other living things and as Princeton defines, it is "the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age." There can be changes in all the body systems and body parts which include the skin. Physical activities of these people are also affected. The effects of aging can quickly occur and the effects are very visible.
About Smoking
Smoking is the process of inhaling smoke and fumes from a cigarette, cigar or pipe. This habit can be addictive because of the nicotine content of the tobacco. The fact is there are more than 420,000 people who died of smoking and there are 50,000 non smokers who are killed by secondhand smoke. They say that nicotine provides a pleasant feeling to a smoker which acts on the brain and central nervous system's chemistry. Because the nicotine sends dopamine to the reward center, this makes the user crave for more. It was also found out that smoking is very common on young people that include about 20% of U.S. high school students.
Smoking on Aging
In a study conducted in 2009, they found out that smoking hastens the process of aging as it makes the outer skin appears older and affects the biological aspect of aging. Smoking damages the cells in the body which accelerates aging process. It also damages the cells within the lungs which usually aids in repairing damage. Smoking does not only speed up the aging process but shortens the lifespan of a smoker by as much as 10 years.
Effects of Smoking
Because smoking slows down blood flow, it can hinders the healing process thus making the skin appears older as it causes wrinkles. The cells that are being exposed to smoke tend to break down and because they have less collagen it causes the skin to sag. Although wrinkles are a natural part of aging process, smoking causes them to appear prematurely. The skin has also the tendency to become gray and appears pale. Lastly, since nicotine makes ones blood pressure to increase, it reduces the blood flow to the body which can lead to slow digestion.
It is a fact that smoking can accelerate the aging effects especially in the skin and there's no way of having a safe smoke. Although damage sometimes does not show after several years of smoking but once it shows the damage, there's no way to stop it. However, the aging process can be eased by eating a healthy diet, getting adequate sleep, exercising properly and by avoiding stress. Of course, at the end of the day, you should already think twice about smoking. It may relieve you of stress but can lead you to your way to the aging process.


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MVOTC: M___ V____ Of T___ C_____ ?
When I met the band in Singapore, I asked them if they can tell me what MVOTC stands for. They refused, but Ezra was kind enough to tell me what O stands for—-"of". Hopefully Ezra wasn't lying (lol) and I'm looking forward to more clues~~
Ezra talking about LP3 (via inSing.com)
I: What are some of the lyrical themes you're going for?
Ezra Koenig: I don't want to give too much away before our fans get a chance to listen to it. Hearing fan interpretations of songs and seeing which lyrics they gravitate towards is one of my favourite parts of the band/fan relationship. I think this album is our most romantic (in all meanings of the word).
I: You mentioned in an interview that it's going to be "darker"? But the song 'Unbelievers' seems pretty upbeat…
Ezra Koenig: "Darker" is a tricky word. We always like things with multiple layers. It wouldn't be a Vampire Weekend album without moments of joy but this album is maybe just a little deeper.
I: Was there much thought about how the third album would differ from 'Contra'? What are the influences behind it?
Ezra Koenig: Yes, we want every album to be a distinct world unto itself. We're not very good at repeating ourselves anyway. This album feels more American to me. Definitely not "Americana" but more American.
I: Can you think of a song that went into a direction that you wouldn't have anticipated?
Ezra Koenig: There's a song called 'Diane Young' that went on a real journey. We always had the heart of the song but a few last-minute decisions made a big impact.
I: What's your work process like?
Chris Baio: It depends on the song, there are never any rules. Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmanglij are the songwriters in the group so sometimes a track will start with them writing on a piano or in front of a computer. At different points, drummer Chris Tomson and I will make suggestions and bring some arrangement ideas in. On our new record, we worked with an outside producer for the first time, the mighty Ariel Rechtshaid.
I: What can fans expect of your next album?
Chris Baio: Our next record is darker than anything we've done previously, but also has some real pop moments. Listening back, it also feels like our warmest record to me.
At what stage of completion is the record at? Do you guys have a title yet?
Rostam: We do have a title, we can't announce it yet but we're very, very close to done.
From Rolling Stone:
- Unbelievers - a jittery pop tune on par with fan favorites like 2009's Cousins.
- Hudson - spare, spooky track
- Diane Young - rockabilly-styled, includes a section where Koenig's voice is digitally modulated so he sounds like a pompadoured robot on the fritz
Vampire Weekend in Rolling Stone magazine: Vampire Weekend Find New Direction (photo via @starwart1)
On Vampire Weekend's level of excellence and image (From FasterLouder interview, 2013)
PC: Because the first two albums were so acclaimed, do you feel you have a level of excellence to maintain?
Rostam: We definitely have a level of excellence to maintain. That's why we didn't put out a record a year ago, we could have, and it would have been filled with some great songs and some mediocre ones, and we knew that was not the time. So we scrapped a lot of things, which is something we've never done, it's been a much more organic process in the past of knowing exactly which songs go on album and maybe one doesn't make it, but with this album I feel like there were a lot of ideas that we threw against the wall and then it sort of became clear which ones we should leave on the cutting room floor. Which I think is important for every artist. I think every artist has to do that as the make more and more albums, that's crucial for us. And so the answer is yes. [laughs]
PC: Since the beginning you guys have been penned as this sort of band of preppy Ivy League scholars with learned lyrics and themes, is that something that's ever bothered you, or is it something you embrace and try to stick to? Is that the Vampire Weekend image?
Rostam: I think it's something that's going to be interesting to see on this next record. I think that lyrically it's simpler, but at the same time it's deeper. It's simpler and deeper, and I think that's true of the music too. In some ways it's much more simple but I feel like there's a lot of depth. A lot of the musical decisions I made on the record were just very instinctual, there wasn't very much thought in a calculated way. So much of it was improvised and in the past I feel like there's always been a kind of improvising on how we've written songs, but on this record there was a lot of trusting the gut. I feel like over the years I, and we, have developed a way of approaching writing music, and it's very much internalised at this point. There's definitely references, and a lot of uniqueness, but we were sort of inspired by classic songs, and we wanted to make an album of classic songs. Like I said it's going back to the roots of music being made by bands in America.
On LP3's album cover (From FasterLouder interview, 2013)
PC: You had some legal issues with your last album cover? Have you selected a cover for the new one? And were you a bit mindful in choosing it this time around?
Rostam: My fingers are crossed that we can get the image that we wanted for this album. With the last one it was sort of this insane situation, we couldn't have possibly have known how to clear the image given the deception that was involved. But on this one, we're very mindful [laughs]. I really think we have an amazing cover right now and I hope we can get it; it's really special, it feels really deep to me. When I found it, it felt like something I'd both never seen before but felt like I had been looking at it my whole life, and that's how I felt about Contra.
PC: Are you sticking to the Polaroid theme?
Rostam: I don't want to say too much.
On LP3's sound and lyrics (From FasterLouder interview, 2013)
PC: Does it still sound like classic Vampire Weekend?
Rostam: From what we've gauged when I've played for friends I think there's a mixture. Our albums are always going to be diverse because we're just not capable of making albums that aren't, but I think that it's definitely darker. Which is not to say that it's without energy, but there's a lot of dark energy, I would say that.
PC: How much of a lyrical input have you had on this one?
Rostam: On Contra I wrote some of the lyrics, but a lot of the lyrics on this album came out of a song writing team between mean and Ezra, where I would write music and he would write lyrics and melody on top of it. He wrote pretty much all the lyrics on this album, compared to in the past where it's been more collaborative on lyrics or music. I don't know if you'd call it a new school or old school song-writing approach, but that was a system we found that worked and we got a good rhythm. We even did some writing retreats, which is something we've never done before.
PC: Whereabouts?
Rostam: We went to this island of the coast of Massachusetts called Martha's Vineyard and we went in April and it's kind of like this summer island but it has this sort of dark, desolate vibe during the winter off-season. Even though it's April it's still pretty cold up there. We started about six songs up there and three of them made it onto the record. We were amazed and happy by the quality of what we wrote up there.
On LP3's vibe and theme (From FasterLouder interview, 2013)
Perrie Cassie: Contra had an '80s vibe to it. How does the new album evolve or differ from?
Rostam Batmanglij: I think it's fair to say that vibe is gone. [laughs] I think there was new ground to cover, new things to explore and new sounds that excited us.
PC: What sort of themes are you dealing with on this one? What has inspired it? Are you producing and if so, what have you done differently this time around?
Rostam: I worked with my friend Ariel Rechtshaid [Usher, Major Lazer, We are Scientists] – we produced it together, that's a new element, having somebody new in there. Musically there are a lot of organic tones. There are some old sounds that have been around forever, like the sounds that bands in America started with, like going back to the roots of music being recorded or being played in a room by a band. Lyrically it's a bit darker, a bit spookier at times. I think it's dealing with the consequences of actions and I think it definitely feels more nocturnal than anything we've done before.


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Just for the record, I've found my inspiration for the s/s project. Which will be:
"Simplicity theory"
Starting this online brief for my upcoming projects, one is going to be for f/w 13, and the other one is for s/s 14. soy the tags will go accordingly.
The f/w 13 project has for inspiration "Coffe", and the s/s 14 stil doesn't have inspiration per se.
I'm going to tag the post as "brief *season*" in order to have more control over the inspirations and research.
The first thing in a brief is the general objective of it, which will be the first post for each project, it has to includes the reason of the project, the main inspiration, the style you're pursuing and what do you want to achieve.
The second step are the specific objectives, they're the things you have to do in order to achieve the general objective.
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As the Christmas trees are being put back in storage, it's time for HR to start planning for the next big event in 2013 – Chinese New Year.
Known as the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year celebrations are a must for most offices in Singapore. In addition to a feast where yusheng, a quintessential Teochew-style raw fish salad, is served, some companies even organise a display of the traditional Lion Dance to usher in good fortune and wealth.
"Chinese New Year is a very important festival, especially in an Asian culture," says Noel Hawkes, Vice President, Channel Development and Attraction Sales, Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). "Many companies use it as an occasion to thank their clients and staff and to kick-start the new year with renewed hopes. It is also well believed that celebrations during Chinese New Year will bring prosperity and usher in an auspicious lunar new year ahead."
Aside from the emphasis on luck, Chinese New Year is also about reunions – celebrating the bonds of friendship between colleagues. It is a great way for firms to build team camaraderie.
With both local and multinational corporations placing so much significance on the celebrations, it is important that HR starts planning for the event in advance. Chinese New Year begins in February, and restaurants are already taking reservations for the season.
Flavours of Spring
One destination to consider holding the Chinese New Year feast at is RWS. With so many venue options available, companies are spoilt for choice in this particular resort. Aside from Chinese restaurants such as Feng Shui Inn, RWS is extending corporate dining to its other restaurants as well, including contemporary Chinese cuisine with bold new flavours at Forest restaurant, helmed by well-known Singapore celebrity chef Sam Leong.
For companies that are keen to have some fun before their meal, Universal Studios Singapore will also be rolling out ride and dine packages for guests. This means that employees will get the opportunity to ride some of the theme park's exciting attractions before indulging in a Chinese New Year feast, making the celebration a multi-sensory experience that everyone will remember.
Special "Prosperous Fortune Packages" will also be rolled out for corporate dining, starting from S$738++ per table, with special dining venues that include The Maritime Experiential Museum, and banquet rooms in the Equarius Hotel, set amidst lush greenery on top of the Resorts World Convention Centre.
Restaurants across the resort will be offering special menus, with special dishes just for the occasion. Some exceptional dishes include the Giant Gold Ingot, which envelops a tantalising mix of abalone, fish maw, scallops, sea cucumber and other premium ingredients, at Feng Shui Inn.
There is also a special twist on the traditional yusheng dish, with an assortment of special creations such as the Flambe Salmon Lo Hei, Japanese Top Grade Sea Cucumber Lo Hei, and Imperial Bird's Nest, Fish Maw and Salmon Lo Hei, also at Feng Shui Inn.
"A must for everyone is the tossing of yusheng, while shouting out auspicious greetings," says Hawkes. "It is believed that the higher you toss and the louder you shout, the more prosperous the following year will be. It is often that competition ensues between tables, but all this is in the name of fun."
Hidden jewel
For companies that are keen on a quieter affair close to nature, one of the restaurants in The Jewel Box should be high on the list for consideration. Nestled in lush surroundings atop Mount Faber, it is located just 10 minutes away from the city and houses four restaurant venues: Black Opal, Sapphire, Empress Jade, and Moonstone. In addition, there is also a Diamond Palace Ballroom and the Singapore Cable located in the same area.
One big plus for organisating your Chinese New Year event there is the serenity and views the venues offer. Situated at the edge of the hill at 105m above sea level, one can see the magnificent ocean and hear the gentle rustling of the trees and chirping of birds.
For companies that prefer a semi-formal setting, Empress Jade has a contemporary mix of East-meets-West, serving delightful Cantonese delicacies, presented in the perfecting setting of long tables with a touch of traditional jade accessories that make it quite appropriate for a Chinese New Year meal.
Firms that prefer a touch of luxury might look to Black Opal, which offers a fine dining experience and provides the perfect setting of a sleek and lavish décor set against the lustrous backdrop of Singapore's harbour, the city and Sentosa Island. Black Opal showcases ornate furnishings and table settings that exude a toned opulence that will please the fussiest of employees.
To further impress employees and give them a night to remember, arrangements can be made for travel to The Jewel Box via Singapore Cable Cars. The cable car experience presents an inspiring and fun way to travel up in style. Alternatively, coaches and valet services are also available.
Any restaurant can be booked ahead of time, and even the entire Jewel Box can be reserved exclusively for corporate functions.
Top tips for Chinese New Year
There are many ways of spicing up the traditional Chinese New Year Party. Here are some suggestions from HRM:
• How about coming up with a theme? Asking staff to dress up in Chinese New Year colours can get boring. But a theme like Shanghai Nights, or Flower Power may add some punch to the party
• Book a restaurant venue early – this cannot be emphasised enough
• Plan a programme that will be enjoyed by everyone. Don't forget to include your expatriate or non-Chinese staff in the organisation process
• If the yusheng is going to be held in the office premises, make sure there are plastic sheets covering the tables, or be prepared for a really arduous clean-up session. You have been warned
• Surprising staff with little gestures like oranges, and even an ang bao, may do wonders for employee engagement
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Wednesday 23 January, 2012
Protesters measure at Mount Jersey as enormous trees targeted for woodchipping.
For the second time this week, controversial logging operations at Mount Jersey in far East Gippsland are the site of protest activity.
"This morning thirty volunteer conservationists have entered the logging site to measure the size of trees being logged there," said spokesperson for the group, Lauren Caulfield.
Trees as large as eleven metres in circumference have been felled and will be carted to the woodchippers.
"It is not a rational use of our natural resources to have these magnificent assets utilised for a low value product such as woodchips. And all at great cost to the taxpayer too."
Last year Baillieu government loggers VicForest posted a loss of over $900,000.
"As the state's environment minister, how can Ryan Smith stand by and allow this wasteful use of our resources?" asked Lauren Caulfield.
The conservationists will compile their findings and expose the Baillieu government's wanton approach to forest conservation.
"Despite the forestry Minister Peter Walsh's recent efforts to deter volunteer conservationists from monitoring tax-payer funded logging, protests have continued on site."
"It is no longer viable for any state government to prop-up the logging of our forests. To log trees as large and magnificent at those on Mount Jersey is not sustainable, by anyone's book," concluded Ms Caulfield.
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MIDAS (operating system)
MIDAS (Microsoft Interrupt Driven Asynchronous System (aka My DOS), MDOS or M-DOS as it was named before 1980) refers to an operating system that was designed by Marc McDonald of Microsoft in 1979.[1][2][3] It was designed for the 8080/Z80 microprocessors,[2][3] popular due to CP/M at the time.
The Microsoft Disk Operating System was designed to use terminal input/output and offered the following features:
- Terminal interrupts for input and output
- Ability to turn output terminal interrupts on and off without sending garbage characters
- Clock interrupts used for MDOS/MIDAS scheduling and time accounting
- Disk interrupts taking advantage of multiple sector I/O
- 8,[3] 10, 12, and 16-bit[4] File Allocation Table
MDOS/MIDAS was designed as a single user version as well as a multi-user version (using relocation hardware).[5] It was modelled closely on TOPS-10 on the DEC System-10.[3] As such it was designed to offer the following commands:
- Continue - Continue execution until CTRL-C or exit.
- DELete - Delete file
- Deposit - Deposit value into location
- EArom - Modify EAROM parameters
- Examine - Examine location
- DIrect - List file directory
- Load - Load program into memory
- Mount - Mount diskette
- REMove - Remove diskette
- REName - Rename file
- Run - Run file
- Save - Save user program
- TErm - List/change terminal characteristics
- Type - List file on terminal
It also included the following new commands (which at the time of design had no abbreviations):
- Memory - List amount of memory being used
- Hex - Make typein/type-out in Hex
- Octal - Make type-in/typeout in octal
- Assign - Assign device to user
- Deassign - De assign device from user
- Resource - List available resources
- Map - List users and locations
- Perform - List MDOS/MIDAS performance data
MDOS/MIDAS included many systems calls (more than 65). Its interrupt driven design enabled the system software to use idle I/O time (when slow devices are being accessed) to do other tasks. It was designed to use structures (similar to structures in the C language) to keep tabs on every user and every task. Thus a high priority operation could stop a user task and restart it without losing anything. MDOS/MIDAS was designed to occupy only 9 kilobytes for its code and 2-3 kilobytes for its data.[citation needed] Multi-user installations would need additional 50 bytes/user and 550-600 bytes per terminal. Upgrading the single user version to the multi-user would be no different from a program.
MDOS/MIDAS was designed to run on any 8080 or Z80 processor (and even support the 8086 and the Z8000 processors at a later stage). It used data blocks such as a File Data Block (FDB) handling device independent I/O, a Unit Data Block (UDB) for physical disk I/O, a Structure Data Block (SDB) for logical data I/O and a Line Data Block (LDB) for Terminal I/O.
Every job contained a Job Data Area in the first 256 bytes (400 octal) memory locations (similar to MS-DOS). The user program starts at 100 hex (400 octal) and runs until the top of user memory (called .JBLOW).
MDOS/MIDAS also introduced the idea of memory garbage collection (implemented in Unix systems) for personal computers. Pointers to the free areas were arranged so that areas closer to the base of the area would be used first, and areas within larger free areas would be deleted and the larger area adjusted accordingly. Garbage collection would take place in single user mode, as free memory would be accessed.
Microsoft abandoned MIDAS when they bought a Unix license to release as XENIX. The unrelated QDOS/86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products borrowed the FAT concept from Standalone Disk BASIC-86 and later became MS-DOS, shipped as PC DOS with the IBM PC in 1981/1982.
Although MS-DOS has a command structure where the old (file name, action etc.) precedes the new, MDOS/MIDAS followed the CP/M syntax where new precedes the old. For example the copy command would be:
- COPY 〈new file〉=〈old file〉
instead of the MS-DOS
- COPY 〈old file〉 〈new file〉
See also[edit]
- ^ Conversation between Marc McDonald and Tim Paterson in June 1979 as recounted by Paterson.
- ^ a b Manes, Stephen; Andrews, Paul (1993). Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry—and Made Himself the Richest Man in America. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-42075-7.
- ^ a b c d Duncan, Ray (1988). The MS-DOS Encyclopedia - version 1.0 through 3.2. Microsoft Press. ISBN 1-55615-049-0.
- ^ Marc McDonald. Structure in MIDAS manual specifies bits over 8 for cluster size. I can probably hunt down the original data structure definitions.
- ^ At that time computers offered memory with bank switching, similar to the relocation hardware referred here
- Microsoft Disk Operating System (MDOS), Copyright 1979 Microsoft, Bellevue, WA
- Microsoft Disk Operating System Technical Manual (MDOS), Copyright 1979, Microsoft, Bellevue, WA
- Microsoft Interrupt Driven Asynchronous System, User's manual, Copyright 1980 Microsoft


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An interactive video installation that illustrates how technology is used to display images on screens.
It separates live video into red, green and blue, with a delay on the green and blue components.
With movement this shows the layers of the RGB colour model, separating the image in real time.
Ported by George Profenza
Exhibited at Stockport College, June 2008
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Former #Colts GM Bill Polian on this year's rookie QBs...
"What it tells us is, we have the most talented class since the (Dan) Marino, (Jim) Kelly class of '83. That's number one. Number two, we know it's a quarterback-driven league. Number three, with all respect to another network, this is still the football apprentice. These guys are apprentices. They are learning on the job, and it will be three years before we know whether or not any of them have the capability to take a team to championships. They're all talented. They've all earned the spots -- on collegiate play and talent, but they're young and they're going to make mistakes just as Peyton Manning did. Just as Dan Marino did when he first came in after even sitting a while. It's going to take them some time. In three years, we'll know."
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Not long ago the few weddings that did take place aboard cruise ships were small in numbers. As often as not the cruise ship ceremony was for a renewal of vows attended by only the couple a very few friends.
That has all changed. Just as there has been explosive growth in sun destination weddings, the all in one wedding and honeymoon has become important to most cruise ship lines. The wedding can take place on board the vessel or at a romantic location in one of the countries where the ship has a port stop.
All of the major players in the industry offer wedding packages, including Carnival, Celebrity, Costa, Holland America, Norwegian, Premier, Princess, Regal, and Royal Caribbean International. In fact Carnival has stated that they will have over 2000 on board weddings this year.
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- 10 reasons to say 'I do' to a Vegas wedding
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Most of the lines have now added specialty organizers for the wedding market and can, working with your travel agent, arrange almost every detail. Like sun destination weddings, there is often an extra cost for a private reception for the wedding group. Prices will vary based on the lavishness of the event.
Depending upon the country in which you plan to marry it is important to plan well in advance, to make sure proper licensing can take place. Some countries have residency requirements which could affect your plans in certain ports of call.
While some ships still require you actually marry at a specific port, others allow and encourage on board ceremonies. Likewise some cruise lines require you to bring along your own minister or other authorized individual to perform the actual marriage. Often cruise lines are able to arrange for a clergyman in a number of cruise ports where the countries laws allow.
There are some differences between a cruise and resort wedding. Often the all inclusive resort is not only the base, but frequently the guests languish around the pool and the beach, not taking advantage of the attractions around the area. Shore excursions seem to be part and parcel of the cruise ship wedding, with couples and guests sharing in the exploration of the countryside's they discover together.
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Yay guys, as of today I have officially completed one month of classes here at good old Penn State. There is already so much I have learned, about what my favorite hangover food is, the PSU Alma Mater and fight songs, how stupidly rainy it is here but also how beautiful it can be, how frat houses are scummy and drunk girls are all kinds of slutty. I've seen and heard it and learned it, but there are more important things that have already come out of my time spent here.
1.Oh my god if you're not happy with yourself stop expecting people to be falling all over you.
This is actually a message to myself in the midst of my "oh why does no one like me here omg guise I'm so fugly." And for me it's that I know that I'm not quite comfortable in my skin yet here. I've always been a little slow to get adjusted fully and I'm still taking my time. But I'm learning very quickly that until I get out of my silent (and not so silent-sorry friends) moments of what the fucking fuck is wrong with me that no guys even notice me, that no one will actually notice me.
2. But it's okay not to be noticed. And stick to whatever values you came here with, or decided to cling to.
I'm grouping these together mostly because I have nothing better to do. But I came here understanding that I'm one of a few virgins (wahh my roommate the other day was making fun of me for being a baby cause I'm one of the 2 virgins in the room) and one of the few girls not yet ready to lose that magical V card. I guess that's kinda random, but I also came here knowing that I didn't want to randomly, drunkenly, stupidly, hook up with random guys. I came here in a committed relationship that has since ended (oh my more to come) but my mind hasn't changed. So I don't dress scantily when we go out and I don't intend on throwing myself at anything with a dick. So that does change a lot of the attention, or lack of it, that gets placed towards you. It's a matter of being ok with your decisions.
3. Do what makes you happy.
This is so easy it sounds stupid and I'm sure you've heard it so so so many times that it maybe makes your ears bleed a little. Sorry, but I had to say it. If breaking up with your boyfriend because he doesn't talk to you enough and it makes you sad will lead to your eventual happiness do it, (ahem) if hooking up with some random drunk frat guy makes you happy do it (but carefully please oh god), if you want to get piss drunk and give yourself alcohol poisoning and spend the rest of the night with an intimate relationship with the garbage can fucking do it, shout out to my roommate who did that last weekend and threw up 20 times..poor child. Really though, stop telling yourself that you're doing the wrong thing. If you're acting within the bounds of adult than live with no regrets.
4. Go to class
Lord this shouldn't be hard. I've only been here a month, haven't missed a class. But my one roommate never goes and it's so obnoxious because like its 20864720468720467n402496 times ten million dollars to be here.
5. Don't get all butthurt about whatever it is people are doing around you
I'm kind of tired of people complaining about the "slutty girls" floating around campus or the dudes who just want to get it in. So what..they're hormonally charged young adults in the prime of their life who are about to make some really shady decisions while under the influence but god just let them do what they want. That being said don't look down upon the quiet virgin (ahem ahem) or the loud flirt who's in a long distance relationship. Just let people live without getting upset. It's that simple. Unless said person is your significant other and they're upsetting you, you need to take a good hard look at yourself, reevaulate your priorities and move the fuck along.
Thanks for anyone that stuck through that :]
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Did A California Company Just Prove Marx Right?
Morning Star is a California company that is responsible for processing 40% of California's tomato crop. They also have no management. (Via Reason.tv):
Morning Star has many of the usual positions that one would expect at an ordinary company: there are floor workers, payroll personnel, folks that handle the mail and outside communications, and so on. The difference is that, from a bird's eye view, no single person at Morning Star is anybody else's boss. The entire operation appears to thrive on the power of collective expectations, and by giving workers a direct stake in the success of the company. Workers at Morning Star make their own decisions about how to perform their job, what tools they need to keep the machines running, and how to structure their work day to keep production running smoothly. As one employee put it, there is no bureaucracy that he has to fight through if he needs something for his lab. He just goes out and purchases it.
To some, this may seem like a frightfully inefficient way to run a business. If employees can make instantaneous discretionary purchases of lab equipment on the company dime, then where is the cost control? Such a system seems doomed to failure without a hierarchy of some sort to check potentially unwise exercises of indiscretion.
The answer is that these checks are built into the system of collective expectations. As another Morning Star employee put it, Morning Star's business model presumes that employees who are closest to a particular business process are the most qualified to make decisions about how to keep that process running efficiently. Thus, one would expect an unwise purchase to be met with scrutiny by one's peers on the factory floor. Morning Star's firm model thrives by ensuring that one individual is never and uncontested decision-maker solely responsible for decisions related to a business process at the company. Every worker has a stake in the outcome of everybody else's labor. The threat of discipline from management is unnecessary to achieve desired outcomes.
Morning Star is not the first company to adopt this business model. Valve Corp., a wildly successful Video Game company that currently dominates the Video Game industry through it's Steam platform, also has no formal management. Gore Inc., the makers of Gore-Tex, are an 8,500 strong company that has no company organization chart. Though Gore does retain a few corporate officer titles for various purposes within the company, those officials have little direct power over other employees in the corporation. Those same officers are also not unilaterally chosen by the Board of Directors, but rather, in a more democratic fashion:
In Gore's self-regulating system, all the normal management rules are reversed. In this back-to-front world, leaders aren't appointed: they emerge when they accumulate enough followers to qualify as such. So when the previous group CEO retired three years ago, there was no shortlist of preferred candidates. Alongside board discussions, a wide range of associates were invited to nominate to the post someone they would be willing to follow. 'We weren't given a list of names – we were free to choose anyone in the company,' Kelly says. 'To my surprise, it was me.'
Other firms have shown that "non-management management" approach is feasible. At IDEO Corp., a Palo Alto engineering company responsible for such ubiquitous inventions as squeezable toothpaste tubes, or the mouse you are using to point & click things on your computers, there are no bosses, and no management structure. Sun Hydraulics is a $170 million dollar manufacturing firm with no job titles, no organization chart, and even lacks job performance criteria for its employees. There is a Plant Manager, but their job is not to supervise employees: it's to water the company's plants.
How are so many companies, in areas as diverse as tomato farming, hydraulics production, and video game production, running successful businesses without traditional management? In a society built on Capitalism, the common wisdom is that productive firms require managers with coercive authority to motivate people to do their jobs. Most ordinary people are shocked when they learn that there are companies who stay profitable with no bosses. How can this be an efficient way to run a company?
As it turns out, there's a lot of evidence that top-down management is an inefficient form of firm organization. Gary Hamel, writing for the Harvard Business Review, noted several reasons to abandon traditional management hierarchies, one of which is the fact that managers add both personnel costs and unnecessary complexity to a firm:
A small organization may have one manager and 10 employees; one with 100,000 employees and the same 1:10 span of control will have 11,111 managers. That's because an additional 1,111 managers will be needed to manage the managers. In addition, there will be hundreds of employees in management-related functions, such as finance, human resources, and planning. Their job is to keep the organization from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. Assuming that each manager earns three times the average salary of a first-level employee, direct management costs would account for 33% of the payroll.
Top-down management also centralizes risk-taking in the hands of fewer decision-makers, which increases the likelihood of a disastrous event:
… As decisions get bigger, the ranks of those able to challenge the decision maker get smaller. Hubris, myopia, and naïveté can lead to bad judgment at any level, but the danger is greatest when the decision maker's power is, for all purposes, uncontestable. Give someone monarchlike authority, and sooner or later there will be a royal screwup. A related problem is that the most powerful managers are the ones furthest from frontline realities. All too often, decisions made on an Olympian peak prove to be unworkable on the ground.
The personal whims of managers can also kill or disincentivize ideas that are good for the company, especially when ideas have to be filtered through multiple levels of management:
…[A] multitiered management structure means more approval layers and slower responses. In their eagerness to exercise authority, managers often impede, rather than expedite, decision making. Bias is another sort of tax. In a hierarchy the power to kill or modify a new idea is often vested in a single person, whose parochial interests may skew decisions.
Then there's "the cost of tyranny:"
The problem isn't the occasional control freak; it's the hierarchical structure that systematically disempowers lower-level employees. For example, as a consumer you have the freedom to spend $20,000 or more on a new car, but as an employee you probably don't have the authority to requisition a $500 office chair. Narrow an individual's scope of authority, and you shrink the incentive to dream, imagine, and contribute.
The success of these business models demonstrate one of the fundamental criticisms of traditional Capitalist modes of production that Marx attempted to illustrate when he was writing Das Kapital. While Marx was wrong (in my opinion) about quite a few things, the success of the companies above demonstrates that Marx was correct to point out that divorcing employees from management decisions related to their own labor is an inherently inefficient means of production. Divorcing employees from the product of their labor separates them from one of the primary motivating forces to perform that labor. This process of alienation itself is what creates the necessity for "bosses"—employees whose primary purpose is to oversee & discipline other employees in their assigned tasks.
Thus, what we really see in Marx's Theory of Labor Alienation was, inter alia, an argument about firm management: the need for "bosses" in the workplace only arises when employees are completely divorced from the means of production. When workers have a direct stake in the final product of their labor, they no longer need the threat of coercion from superiors to do their job. An employee's direct interest in the outcome, combined with the power of collective expectations of their peers in the workplace, replaces the threat of, and need for, discipline from above.
With all this being said: I am not attempting to argue here that the success of non-managed firms proves that stateless socialism is viable, or validates Marxism writ large. Indeed, I'm sure that the folks at Reason have a much different view on Morning Star's success than I do—and moreover, I remain, as I have always been, a fan of mixed economies.
What I think is clear, however, is that Marxist theorists are right to point out that there is nothing inherently "natural" or "necessary" about the way the workplace is organized in most Western societies today. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that top-down hierarchies in the workplace are neither necessary for profitability, nor an extension of natural human activities. Indeed, if Gary Hamel's observations about the inefficiency of management are true, we appear to have been doing it wrong for quite some time. Though perhaps we could have come to the same conclusion more easily by just reading Dilbert comics:
MLK vs "right to work" laws.
"The so-called 'right-to-work' laws — they don't have to do with economics, they have everything to do with politics. What they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money."
President Obama • During a speech in Michigan today, clearly laying out his views on a new law that will make Michigan the 24th "right to work" state in the country. Michigan's House of Representatives is expected to review the bill on Tuesday, and Gov. Rick Snyder could sign it into law by the end of the day. Massive protests took place at the capital building, and union workers opposed to its passage say they'll be back tomorrow. source (via shortformblog)
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The term "McJob" has come to epitomize all that's wrong with the low-wage service industry jobs that are growing part of the U.S economy. "It beats flipping burgers," the cliché goes, because no matter what your job might be, it's assumed to be better than working in a fast-food restaurant.
Today in New York City, though, hundreds of workers at dozens of fast-food chain stores are walking out on strike, demanding better of those jobs. At McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, KFC, Taco Bell, and Domino's Pizza locations, workers have been organizing, and today they launch their campaign. They want a raise, to $15-an-hour from their current near-minimum wage pay, and recognition for their independent union, the Fast Food Workers Committee.
Saavedra Jantuah, who works at a Burger King on 34th St. in Manhattan, explained that the $7.30 she makes per hour after two years on the job doesn't pay her enough to support her son. "I'm doing it for him, I'm going on strike so I can bring my family together underneath one household," she said. "A union can help us get to where we can make it in New York."
McJobs Should Pay, Too: It's Time for Fast-Food Workers To Get Living Wages - Sarah Jaffe - The Atlantic
Cannot even express how thrilled I am about this story. I'll be on the picket lines with the workers in a couple of hours, with photos and more stories. Service jobs don't have to be lousy jobs—respect and a decent wage would do a lot.
(via differentclasswar)
Food workers need this SO desperately.(via stfuconservatives)
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"The host societies of migrant Filipina domestic workers should also be held more accountable for their welfare and for that of their families. These women's work allows First World women to enter the paid labor force. As one Dutch employer states, "There are people who would look after children, but other things are more fun. Carers from other countries, if we can use their surplus carers, that's a solution.""
The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Economy by Rhacel Salazar Parrena
Most receiving countries have yet to recognize the contributions of their migrant care workers. They have consistently ignored these workers' rights and limited their full incorporation into society. The wages of migrant workers are so low that they cannot afford to bring their own families to join them, or to regularly visit their children in the Philippines; relegated to the status of guest workers, they are restricted to the low-wage employment sector, and with very few exceptions, the migration of their spouses and children is also restricted." These arrangements work to the benefit of employers, since migrant care workers can give the best possible care for their employers' families when they are free of care-giving responsibilities to their own families. But there is a dire need to lobby for more inclusive policies,and for employers to develop a sense of accountability for their workers' children. After all, migrant workers significantly help their employers to reduce their families' care deficit.
I'd like to draw the attention of white feminists here. Why are immigrants' rights, and the rights of domestics who are women of color, not an intregal part of your platform? Why isn't Caitlin Moran, Jessica Valentine, or any other major white feminist talking about the care crisis in third world nations as impoverished women facing daunting lives move to entirely new worlds to take care of WHITE CHILDREN so that WHITE WOMEN can go to work?
Your advocacy, your movement, is built on the backs of THESE WOMEN and Black women who have had to IGNORE THEIR OWN FAMILIES, THEIR OWN CHILDREN, SO THAT YOU COULD LEAVE THE HOUSE.
If there is ever an issue that is FOUNDATIONAL to the lives of well-to-do white women or Western feminists in general, it is the appalling way domestic workers are treated. While that Caribbean nanny, Black mami, or Filipina au pair takes care of your child, did you ever stop to think about their families and the lives they've left behind?
How without immigrants or women of color, white women wouldn't be able to work at their own leisure? That white men wouldn't enjoy the knowledge that there is no such thing as a care crisis in America?(via rafsimon-murderer)
Three points about Twinkies
1. It is sick that people are focusing on the possibility that there might be a few less options in the snack food aisle rather than the fact that thousands of people are going to lose their jobs due to the Hostess liquidation.
2. Twinkies are probably not going to disappear. Some other company or companies will buy Hostess's assets (like they tried to the last time Hostess went bankrupt due to inept management). The labeling on the box will change but the product will still be available.
3. Fuck your Twinkies.
wow attitude
I have 0 sympathy for people who knowingly ruin a company because they want a raise
1. You're a smug prick.
2. You're also an ignorant prick. Inept management tanked the company, not the strike. Hostess has been in trouble for years.
3. You value junk food over people's jobs and lives. You're a terrible person.
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Open battle between striking teamsters armed with pipes and the police in the streets of Minneapolis, June 1934
The citywide Minneapolis Teamster's Local 574 strike began on May 16, 1934. The fundamental issue in the strike was over the open or closed shop with regard to transportation and warehouse unionization in this Midwestern city.
After facing off against cops, bosses' goons, business union misleaders, two-faced politicians, the Citizen's Alliance and the National Guard, the Teamsters broke the back of the formerly open-shop citadel, Minneapolis, ushering in what became a union city.
Four workers died by cops' and goons' guns and/or other weapons during this strike. Illuminating features of this strike were the willingness of the strikers to independently fight on their own terms, many times physically, and also form military formations, drawing on the experience of many of the strikers who were WWI veterans.
Thus, the strike leaders, anticipating that they would be facing naked state oppression eventually, led the strikers to set up and run infirmaries, soup kitchens, flying squadrons and the like.
Furthermore, a critical aspect of this strike was the formation of the Minneapolis Organization of the Unemployed. The Minneapolis Teamster's leadership made it a priority to include the unemployed organization as a formal part of their union. Thus the unemployed as well as sympathetic farmers were life-and-death allies of the strikers and played valuable tactical and strategic roles in the strike and thereafter.
The successful conclusion of this strike by Local 574 led to the unionization of over-the-road truckers and other workers throughout the Midwest and nationally.
Bryan G. Pfeifer, "Lessons of three strikes from 1934 needed now"
"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool."
Abraham Lincoln (via cognitivedissonance)
Supporters of Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement) revolutionary trade unions prepare for the 2012 May Day march in Manila, the Philippines.
Photos: KMU
"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole." - Mao Zedong, Introductory note to "Women Have Gone to the Labour Front", 1955, The Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside, Chinese ed., Vol. I.
"The People's Poet" Make His Transition: R.I.P. Louis Reyes Rivera
Our community has lost another great artist. Louis Reyes Rivera, prolific writer, poet, and activist, has passed.
For those who may not know much of Rivera, he was an influential educator and artist. Steeped in a Pan-African outlook and dedicated to teaching those around him, Louis made numerous literary contributions. Despite earning many accolades, he was always approachable. The winner of many literary awards came to be known as "The People's Poet" through his embrace of issues of everyday folks. One of his sharpest points of focus was on the connection between African-American and Latino culture.
Rivera was born in New York City in 1945. Raised in Brooklyn, he would come to do some vital things in the world of activism. He was a key person in the struggle of Black and Puerto Rican students back in the 1960′s. Louis was a student leader in the 1969 takeover of City College, and the co-founder of The Paper, a student publication for people of color. Without the efforts of Rivera amongst others, generations of people of color would not have had the opportunity for higher education.
Always willing to reach back into the community and share his wealth of knowledge, Louis could often be found at a workshop or classroom. He would teach on the finer points of poetry, knowing your rights as a writer, and carrying forth the history of the oppressed through artistic means. He was a member of the National Writers Union and performed a piece at the 30th anniversary of the organization late last year. He held workshops at the Harlem Book Fair, and performed on Def Poetry.
Louis Reyes Rivera was a conduit of information, and inspired many artists and activists. He will definitely be missed. For paving the way for countless students of color to gain access to public higher education, I must say Rest in Power, and thank you. Rivera was 67 years old.
-Marc W. Polite
(Source: revolutionary-afrolatino, via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
There is no such thing as a pacifist labor strike. There has never been one in history. The success of a strike comes with the bosses' knowledge that strikers will physically keep/push out scabs.
Labor historians and union folk need to publicly speak up about this when this debate is raised.
Even strikes in which no scabs are brought in and the strike is successful without violence only happen because the boss knows that the union has and will physically force their issue. It's kind of like Mike Tyson calmly telling you to move out of the way at a nightclub. He doesn't have to actually lay hands on you, but you know what will happen if you don't, and the interaction can not be classified as non-violent.
There would be no unions right now if the union movement had been a non-violent movement. We would all be working 18-hour days from the time we were 8 years old."
Boots Riley (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
Reuters Campaign Finance Correspondent Alina Selyukh sent in this photo from CPAC where Occupy protesters and unions are demonstrating.
Crowds of people were chanting "We got sold out" and "We are the 99 percent" in a demonstration dubbed the "War on workers."
Another protest is planned for later this evening, Selyukh reports. [REUTERS/Alina Selyukh]
(via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
The shameful deeds of the British State in Derry on January 30th will always be remembered as Bloody Sunday, but often forgotten are its shameful deeds of January 31st 1919, or 'Bloody Friday'.
"On Friday 31 January 1919 upwards of 60,000 demonstrators gathered in George Square in support of the 40-hours strike and to hear the Lord Provost's reply to the workers' request for a 40-hour week. Whilst the deputation was in the building the police mounted a vicious and unprovoked attack on the demonstrators, felling unarmed men and women with their batons. The demonstrators, with the ex-servicemen to the fore, quickly retaliated with fists, iron railings and broken bottles, and forced the police into a retreat."
"An estimated 10000 English troops in total were sent to Glasgow in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of George Square. This was in spite of a full battalion of Scottish soldiers being stationed at Maryhill barracks in Glasgow at the time. No Scottish troops were deployed, with the government fearing that fellow Scots, soldiers or otherwise, would go over to the workers side if a revolutionary situation developed in Glasgow.
On 10 February 1919 the 40-hours strike was called off by the Joint Strike Committee. Whilst not achieving their stated aim of a 40-hour working week, the striking workers from the engineering and shipbuilding industries did return to work having at least negotiated an agreement that guaranteed them a 47-hour working week; 10 hours less than they were working prior to the strike."
(Source: class-struggle-anarchism, via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)


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The African Children's Choir will perform as part of their 2013 national tour at
7:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, 2013 at Duncan Memorial United Methodist Church, 201
Henry Street on the campus of Randolph-Macon College. This event is free and
open to the public and offered in partnership with Ashland Presbyterian
A freewill offering will be received to support African Children's Choir programs,
such as education, care and relief, and development projects.
The Choir melts the hearts of audiences with their charming smiles, beautiful voices
and lively African songs and dances. The program features well-loved children's
songs, traditional Spirituals and Gospel favorites.
The African Children's Choir is composed of children 7 to 10 years old, many of
whom have lost one or both parents through the devastation of war, famine and disease.
They represent all the children of a continent and demonstrate the potential of
African children to become strong leaders for a better future in their land. The
Choir is a nonprofit humanitarian and relief organization dedicated to helping Africa's
most vulnerable children today so they can help Africa tomorrow.
The Choir has performed at the United Nations, the Pentagon, London's Royal Albert
Hall as part of the BBC Proms series, and before presidents and heads of state,
including a Westminster Abbey performance for Queen Elizabeth II for her Diamond
Jubilee. It has also performed alongside artists such as Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox,
Keith Urban, Mariah Carry, Michael W. Smith, and others. In addition, the Choir
was featured on popular television and radio broadcasts such as "GMTV" and "Blue
Music for Life, the parent organization for The African Children's Choir, works
in seven African countries: Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana and South
Africa. MFL has educated more than 52,000 children and impacted the lives of more
than 100,000 people through its relief and development programs during its history.
MFL's purpose is to help create new leadership for tomorrow's Africa by focusing
on education.
For more information about the performance, contact the Duncan Memorial United Methodist
Church at (804) 798-7224 or visit www.duncanmemorialumc.org.