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you can shake your bones -MP3-
First one is the Wrinkar Experience from Lagos with "sound way", starts out kinda popish but then develops into a heavy, headnodding beast of a funk song with some nasty organ grinding...
Please excuse the bad sound quality of "sookie" by Docteur Nico but this recording is so raw, loud and bursting with energy, I don't think the cracks and pops really deminish it's impact. This is the very hard to find 45 version of this track that is exactly one minute, one drum break and numerous shouts and grunts longer than the edited version that later was released on the green Fiesta LP.
Also dirty and crackly sounding is the next one, super obscure garage soul banger "do you ray mbanda" by Beninoise Les Elytes de Cotonou.
As you can see, quite a lot of Poly Rythmo tracks on this one... "wodeka doe" a thundering psych funk monster with some of the most violent drumming I've ever heard.
It's impossible to match this energy level so we have to take things back a notch or two with Picoby Band d'Abomey and their incredible "honton ve zoun". Where does this psych influence in Benin's music come from?
Next one are the mythical Black Santiago with "bani wo dzo" how other should one describe this music if not "Voodoo Funk"?
The Anos Band comes up next with their bass driven "boro non andou nan".
MFB from Lagos with "boredom pain" offers some nice, soulful crossover. "you can shake your bones or you can shake your flesh you can turn around or you can move your waist" definatly counts to some of the most ingenious lyrics I've heard in a while. Throw in some space guitar for good measure, never leaving the stone cold groove... love it!
Gnonnas Pedro is probably Cotonou's most well known singer and in the 1970s certainly had his share of international exposure with his Cuban flavored brand of afro latin. He also recorded a few Afrobeat tracks like the self-produced and self-released "dadje von e von non" as well as "how much love naturally cost?", both are included on this mix.
I really like Houn Pierre from Ivory Coast, my wife hates him because "he sounds like that guy from the Talking Heads" but hey, I got enough time to sit on the terrace, drink pineapple daiquiris and listen to his records while she's at work...
Asiko Rock Group is a pretty wild record... they also released another one that was recorded in Germany of all places, the LP this track is from was recorded in Lagos though.
Some more Poly Rythmo niceness rounds up the mix. I hope you all have a great time listening to this! Have a look at the covers of these records on the Record Finds November 2006 entry.


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Meet Beulah Thompson
Meet Beulah Thompson. She was born in Lincoln, Mo., in 1909. Yes, you read that right. 1909. She recently celebrated‡* her 104th birthday at St. Andrews Church‡ in Kansas City, where she has been a member for more than 70 years. Another fun fact is that she's been a UMB customer for more than 50 years.
To this day, Beulah is a strong yet kind woman who is no stranger to hard work. She started working in her early teens, washing clothes for 60 cents a day.
"Then I got a raise, and they paid me 75 cents a day!" she joked.
Eventually she worked for the Sullivan family and took care of their children. She worked for the Sullivans for 23 years, helping raise all seven of their children. To Beulah, the Sullivans were more than an employer. They were her family.
One day Beulah was talking to a friend, a customer of City National Bank and Trust Company (which would one day become UMB Bank). The two were chatting about running errands and paying her bills when her friend suggested Beulah open a checking account at City National Bank and Trust.
More than 50 years later, Beulah still banks with UMB. Until recently, she was a regular at the branch in downtown Kansas City at 10th and Grand. She doesn't make it in to the bank as often as she used to, so she's embraced convenient bank technology like direct deposit and bill pay. She still writes her own checks to pay some of her bills and says she's always been happy with UMB.
"Everyone is so nice when I go to the bank. And when I call in they're very pleasant and nice as they can be," Beulah said.
Today, Beulah enjoys an active life of going to church, visiting friends, reading The Kansas City Star as well as several national newspapers and magazines. She says she wants to know what's going on in the world. She also enjoys doing crossword puzzles and watching her favorite team, the Royals, on TV.
Beulah has a lasting impact on everyone she meets. To this day, the Sullivan kids still say, "I'm one of Beulah's kids." She talks to them on a regular basis and continues to give the advice she has lived by to this day: "Don't say you're going to do it; do it."
Born at the beginning of the 20th century, Beulah has watched the world change as we entered the 21st century, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Even today, she is still fiercely independent and a fighter. As she said, "I've been through it, honey, but I'm still kickin'!"
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hi there, i have not been able to get upload to work. i get error no such file or directory.
Now is there anything else i need to do in bt4 ?
i am trying to send files to a w2k sp4 wrk station i have 11 sessions open
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Morgan • Jake Miles awoke from the uncomfortable sleep and rolled over. The feeling immediately enveloped him like a sickness deep in his stomach. As he lay in his bed, unmotivated to rise, the Morgan guard replayed in his head the previous day's game, a loss to Hurricane that had knocked the Trojans out of the playoffs.
Miles had been Morgan's top scorer throughout the season, and the Trojans had cruised undefeated through Region 11. They had been primed, it seemed, to make a deep run in the Class 3A tournament and perhaps even deliver the school's first title since 1974.
But Hurricane's speed had been too great and their physicality overwhelming. The Tigers held Miles to 11 points, eight under his season average, and beat the Trojans 54-43 in the second round of last season's playoffs. In his bed, Miles thought about missed opportunities.
"At that moment, it seems like nothing else matters," Miles said. "In perspective, there's a lot of things more important than a basketball game, but at that moment, you feel like you're a failure. I was devastated."
It was there, before his roommates finally dragged him from his bed, that he determined there would be a different ending to his senior season. He was ready to work even harder, to become an even better leader. He vowed the Trojans would be the last team standing.
"You're thinking you've only got one more year left," Miles said. "That fire started burning in me to go get a state championship."
Miles is making good on that vow 11 months later. The senior has upped his scoring average to more than 26 points per game. Entering the week, he has scored 30 or more points six times and his low is 18 this season.
"Sometimes you just wonder, 'Man, how does he do that?'" Morgan coach Jim Wiscombe said. "When we played Tooele, he played 17 minutes and had 39 points. How do you do that?"
And Morgan is winning. At 14-2 entering the week, a trip to the playoffs likely awaits. It is there, in the postseason, where Miles will judge the Trojans. Only then will he be able to truly see how far they have come since the loss to Hurricane.
"I don't care how many points I average. I don't care about my stats," Miles said. "I just want a state championship."
But the story of how Miles got here, among the state's top scorers and leading a team good enough to view anything but a title as a disappointment, did not begin in his bed on a cold morning in late February a season ago.
It started when Miles was in second grade. It was then that his father introduced Miles to the shooting program that would turn him into one of the premier shooters in the state.
There are 18 stations marked on the large court on the side of the Miles home. To move from one station to the next, one must make five in a row. Miles did this morning after morning, year after year, even after he'd become a high school star.
"[My dad] would always come home from work, and he'd say, 'Did you do your workout today?'" Miles said. "If we said no, he'd just be like, 'Welp, I guess you don't wanna be good.' It was just a guilt trip."
Those long hours spent on the concrete next to the house may earn Miles an opportunity to play in college. He's been in contact with Utah State, Dixie State and Utah Valley, and after an LDS mission, there's nothing he'd rather do once he graduates than continue playing basketball.
Before any of that, though, there still is this season, an opportunity laid at his feet. But until he takes the court in the playoffs, all Miles can do is hope. Hope he is ready to lead the Trojans like he couldn't a year ago. Hope the work will pay off.
"I was never the quickest in my grade or the most athletic," Miles said. "I could never jump the highest. But I've worked hard."
Editor's note: The story has been changed to correct Morgan's opponent in last season's playoffs.


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Los Angeles World Airports' governing board has approved a resolution establishing the guidelines for the potential sale of L.A./Ontario International Airport to the city of Ontario.
The Board of Airport Commissioners agreed Monday to negotiate a letter of intent between LAWA and the Ontario International Airport Authority establishing terms that would result in LAWA divesting of ONT through a sale to OIAA. The board is asking that the deadline for the letter be no later than April 1.
The resolution includes ensuring that LAWA would not be financially responsible, that ONT would remain a commercial service airport, and that the sale would have a minimal impact on city employees. It also requests that the commissioners receive monthly updates on the process.
"The guiding concepts and principles are an initial road map for the terms of divesting ONT," said Gina Marie Lindsey, LAWA's executive director. "It's a solid place to start."
Steven Martin, the chief operating officer for LAWA, cautioned the Board of Commissioners that LAWA is setting up these guidelines so that if the airport is sold, it does not result in "falling into less-than-ideal financial condition." The goal is that the airport be operated so that it is self-sustaining and that LAWA is not "called on to bail it out."
He was referring to the original transaction between the two cities when Ontario could no longer afford to maintain the runways and opted to bring in Los Angeles to operate the airport.
If a sale were to occur, Martin told the commissioners that it would most likely be a long process starting with the letter of intent, which would also need approval by the Los Angeles City Council. From there, all the documents would have to be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration. Martin warned that that could be the hardest hurdle and longest part of the process.
The remaining steps would be to ensure the Ontario International Airport Authority can fulfill its financial obligations and close the sale, Martin said.
LAWA's governing body, to date, has not endorsed any sale of ONT, but it is following the recommendations of the city administrative officer and City Council, commissioner Fernando Torres-Gil said.
"This wasn't anything we initialized or wanted. Circumstances put us in this situation," he said.
Michael Lawson, the president of the commission, reiterated that ONT is an asset of Los Angeles and that the governing body must negotiate in the best interest of the citizens.
In late September, Los Angeles' top administrator, Miguel Santana, urged Los Angeles and Ontario officials to begin negotiations.
Since Santana's recommendation, LAWA has been forthcoming about discussing negotiations with Ontario officials.
Ontario officials have been attempting to regain control of the airport from LAWA for four years, saying the agency has not done enough to reverse declines in passenger traffic.
On Monday afternoon, Ontario Councilman Alan Wapner said he agreed with what was outlined, adding it is exactly what Santana recommended in his report earlier this year.
But Wapner, who is also president of the airport authority, said ONT has been operating as a self-sustaining airport and that nothing would change under OIAA ownership.
"It certainly can't be managed any worse than it's been managed in the past," he said. Passenger traffic has declined to levels not seen in two decades.
Wapner said the authority, which is backed by Ontario and San Bernardino County, has the fiduciary means to handle ONT.
Wapner said he hopes in the new year the two sides will meet more frequently because the goal was to complete a deal before the end of 2012.
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Earlier in the year, I wrote about memory waste issues in Caveats of the JS Module Pattern. I'd like to offer a new pattern as a solution to those issues.
First, a reminder of why we like the module pattern: it provides an elegant way to have private methods and variables. For most singleton objects, there is no better option. I'll use Christian Heilmann's Revealing Module pattern for my examples:
var currencyExchange = function(){
var currencies = {
usd: 1,//always 1, base currency
gbp: 0.631552356,
aud: 0.99980004,
cad: 1.0072999
var convert = function(fromCurrency, toCurrency, amount){
var amountInUsd = (fromCurrency === 'usd') ?
amount : amount / currencies[fromCurrency];
return (toCurrency === 'usd') ?
amountInUsd : amountInUsd * currencies[toCurrency];
var changeRate = function(currency, rate){
currencies[currency] = rate;
return {
convert: convert,
changeRate: changeRate
The memory waste problem occurs when you use this pattern to create object instances:
var employeeFactory = function(name, salary){
var giveRaise = function(percent){
salary = salary * (1 + (percent/100));
return salary;
var fire = function(){
//long, drawn out legal process that takes 5000 lines
return {
giveRaise: giveRaise,
fire: fire
var employee1 = employeeFactory('Bob', 30000);
var employee2 = employeeFactory('Mary', 21000);
We now have created two identical but separate versions of the giveRaise and fire functions, wasting CPU in generating the duplicates, and memory in storing them.
SMIRF it down to size
Looking at the singleton example, the elegance of it is that the functions are created once as the script is first run. The reason we can't easily do that with instantiation is that the functions need to be declared in the scope of the state variables (name and salary) that they're operating on.
The SMIRF pattern provides a way to have the outer, static module which provides methods shared across all instance objects, avoiding most of the CPU and memory waste.
We still need to create tiny, one line "wrapper" methods for each method on an instance, but the footprint of these is minimal in comparison to that of reproducing large methods for each instance.
var employeeFactory = function(){
/* These are STATIC functions to hold the majority of code.
* They should be run in the context of the instance via "call",
* and the first arg should always be iVars.
* The "this" keyword and iVars are the only ties these methods
* have to the object!
var giveRaise = function(iVars, percent){
iVars.salary = iVars.salary * (1 + (percent/100));
return iVars.salary;
var fire = function(iVars){
//long, drawn out legal process that takes 5000 lines
return function(name, salary){
//This is essentially a constructor function
var iVars = {
//Instance variables. All state info should be stored here
name: name,
salary: salary
var instance = {
//This will be our actual instance object.
//Fns here are thin wrappers for memory efficiency
giveRaise: function(percent){
return giveRaise.call(instance, iVars, percent);
fire: function(){
return fire.call(instance, iVars);
return instance;
var employee1 = employeeFactory('Bob', 30000);
var employee2 = employeeFactory('Mary', 21000);
Note that the methods on the instance object will never vary much from what you see above. They simply run the static methods in the context of the instance, passing the instance variables, and pass back the returned value.
All private variables should be stored in iVars, so that the static method signature is always the same. Publicly accessible variables, of course, would simply be on the instance object itself, accessible via the "this" keyword in the shared static methods.


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The rightful Champion having never lost it lol.
The rightful Champion having never lost it lol.
I know there are UFC fighters that Barnett can beat, but I have no interest in seeing him back in the UFC.
Not like he's going to be champ or anything.
Sherdog.com - The number one MMA site on the web today!
Pleased for him although your right in what you say all I can hope for is he has enough left in him to at least go out with a bang and put on a few good shows feel he deserves that much.
Barnett although a great fighter is a multiple drug cheat and doesnt deserve to be in the UFC
What he says is correct though, he has been a top 10 dude for as long as I can remember.
Hard to pass comment, he fought 4 times in the UFC without failing a test before winning the title and then failing a test, whether he took them for the title fight who knows. Despite 3 losses to a prime Mirko Cro Cop the dude has only to a prime Pedro Rizzo who'd just fought and lost in a title fight, a prime Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira who he had recently beaten and the 2nd best heavyweight in the world currently, he's beaten everybody else. How many times as he failed a drugs test?
Did he win those fights because he's a talented Heavyweight, or because he's a blatant drugs cheat who got away with it more often than he got caught? Not saying other guys aren't juicing, but he's the one's who has been caught repeatedly & unfortunately that will taint his entire career & it's all his fault.
There are a lot of fighters on drugs that are or were the best fighters in the world.


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Teaneck Public Library
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Tour of "Bridge that saved the Nation"
By Howard Prosnitz, Staff Writer
Teaneck Suburbanite, April 22, 2009, p. 3
If British General Lord Cornwallis had heeded the warning of one of the German mercenaries in his service and fortified New Bridge Landing, the American Revolution would have been stopped in its tracks: America would have remained a crown colony and we might all be British subjects to this day.
Captain Elwad, a German serving in the advance guard of the British troops, reported to Cornwallis that Washington's army was scalling the Palisades and scattered throughout today's Fort Lee.
Cornwallis's response was basically to let them go.
"For Cornwallis the revolution was over." said historian Kevin Wright "He saw the rebels not as an army any longer, but as a disorganized rabble."
Cornwallis was also motivated by financial concerns. A battle would have meant mercenaries being killed, and the British were obligated to indemnify the German princes for every dead Germany mercenary.
Wright, former president of the Bergen County Historical Society, explained the history of the new Bridge landing on Sunday on a tour of the area sponsored by the Friends of the Hackensack River Greenway.
"When you turn your televisions on tonight and you see news of all the imperfect democracies in the world, including our own, keep in mind they all descended from the march over the bridge at New Bridge landing," Wright explained.
New Bridge's history
Not only New Jersey, but Bergen County was also the crossroads of the revolution. The old portoon bridge, which was located where the present bridge is, has been called the "Bridge that Saved the Nation."
The narrows at New Bridge was the only crossing over the Hackensack River at the time. Washington and his 6,000 men made their way across the bridge on Nov. 20, 1776.
The British arrived at New Bridge the following night and a battle ensued, but rebel snipers were positioned in houses on both sides of the road and delayed the British pursuit. The British army crossed the bridge the following day, but the rebel army was already on its way to the Passaic River.
Had the army been stopped on Nov. 21, 1776 the revolution would have ended.
The Tour
Beginning his tour with a discussion of the geographical history of the area, Wright explained that only 17,000 years ago the entire area was under deep ice.
On the Teaneck side of the river are the remnants of the beaches of former glacial Lake Hackensack which once covered the entire meadowlands area. Wright noted that a former resident of River Road, who had observed development of the area, is quoted as saying that "the River road and surrounding area had been a huge sand dune."
"We are standing in the bed of glacial Lake Hackensack," said Wright. "If the glacier had not come, and in melting away, dumped tons of clay we would be standing underwater in one of the deepest inlets along the atlantic coast." The clay continues down 200 feet before hitting bedrock, he said.
Until the 1920s new Bridge was a white sand beach. Benson's Campground, a summer resort for New Yorkers, was located along the river in today's lower Brett Park. Foundations of some of the cabins are still visible in the park.
Over time the Hackensack River became polluted, not by the creation of the Oradell reservior, as is sometimes supposed, said Wright, but by dumping of raw sewerage into the river as the area was developed.
In 1921 the City of Hackensack outlawed swimming in the river after children became sick.
The Hackensack has become dramatically cleaner the mid 1980s when New York City built a water treatment center along the Henry Hudson Parkway.
Previously New York City had been one of the great exceptions to the Clean Water Act, said Wright, dumping more than 400 million gallons of raw sewage daily into the Hudson, which connects with the Hackensack River at Newark Bay and the New York Harber.
Until about 1905 commercial fishing of shad, herring and smelt prospered in the Hackensack. But these species disappeared as the river sewer trunk lines were built into the river.
Wright, the former curator of the Zabriskie/Von Steuben house on the River Edge side of the New Bridge Landing, lived in the house for 15 years. His forthcoming book, "1509," is about Henry Hudson's visit to the New World. The year 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Hudson's voyage.
Wright noted that the cove in Brett Park, known as the Old River, once extended to the New Bridge Road.
A large sycamore tree near the cove is said to have been the dooryard tree that provided shade and cooling for the home of Abraham Von Buskirk, a colonial physician and one of the leading Tories in Bergen County. After the Revolution, Von Buskirk fled to Nova Scotia. He was joined by hundreds of African American, former slaves who had been promised their freedom by the British for fighting on the crown side.
The British relocated the former slaves to towns in Nova Scotia, where their decedents live today.
Although Dutch was the spoken colonial language, less than a quarter of the inhabitants of 17 century Bergen County were of Dutch origin, Wright said.
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The bounty on suspected cop killer Christopher Dorner could grow by another $100,000 if the Riverside County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday decides to offer a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the former Los Angeles police officer.
An unprecedented $1 million reward is already being offered for information leading to Dorner's arrest and conviction.
A special meeting of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors will take place at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. The board will discuss offering the $100,000 reward in addition to the $1 million reward, bringing the total bounty for Dorner to $1.1 million.
"We are asking alert citizens to turn in any information about this suspect's whereabouts before he kills again," Supervisor John J. Benoit said in a statement today. "Supervisor John Tavaglione and I are proposing Riverside County make a contribution to the $1 million multi-agency reward that governments and other donors throughout Southern California are providing in hopes of bringing this tragic manhunt to a close."
Dorner is suspected in the Feb. 3 shooting deaths of Monica Quan and her fiance Keith Lawrence in Irvine and the Feb. 7 shooting death of Riverside Police Officer Michael Crain and the wounding of his partner. He is also suspected of shooting at two Los Angeles police officers in Corona on Feb. 7, prior to the Riverside shootings, injuring one of the officers
The Riverside District Attorney's Office on Monday charged Dorner, 33, with one count of murder and three counts of attempted murder in the shootings of Crain, his partner and the two Los Angeles police officers.
Anyone with information on Dorner's whereabouts should contact the Joint Information Center at 213-486-6860.


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A father had a photoshoot with his children a while ago. The results turned out pretty sweet. Check this out if you haven't already seen it!
A Father Who Creatively Captures His Kids (20 photos) - My Modern Metropolis
When developing color film at home, one can come into many different defects and errors. The development of color film requires good temperature monitoring and development timing. If you're just beginning to develop your own film, do not be discouraged when you get bad results. It's a learning process and not every roll of film is going to be the same.
Check out this website below! It includes some examples of the results you may get when developing your own film, and the possible cause of each result. The website was very helpful to me when I began developing my own film. It also helps for those who mail-in their film because it gives them an idea of why their prints are looking quite strange. Sometimes the camera is faulty, and other times it's the film development process.
Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer: Photomicrography - Color Negative Film Processing Errors


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malcom1July 6, 2011, 7:45pm (report abuse)
Issa is a Jerk
ChristopherAugust 17, 2011, 3:01am (report abuse)
Issa and the rest of our gov't can't even run the United States Budget. Who would ever believe that he could solve the problems of the USPS. Fat Cat republicans have wined whenever the post office has raises rates by a few cents while of course they say nothing whilest Fed Ex is extorting multitudes of dollars for performing basicaly the same service. The difference, the people see the USPS as a public service, business sees them as a cheap way of sending information or advertising. The reality, the Post Office may perhaps be... subsidising business needs. I think the public would be surprised to find out that the average price for a letter is less than 15 cents. WHAT ! Yes. Issa, you want to bust the union and change everything what the post office is. Perhaps poorly run by management, but not by its union employees. Issa perhaps doesn't want the public to know what massive subsidies business is getting from the Post Office.
MildwestValuesSeptember 19, 2011, 5:10pm (report abuse)
Decades of unmanageable labor costs and excess infrastructure have left the United States Postal Service (USPS) in financial ruin. The USPS lost $8.5 billion in 2010 and is projected to lose $8.3 billion in 2011, followed by another $8.5 billion in 2012. In April 2010, Postmaster General John Potter announced that the USPS will lose $238 billion over 10 years. Furthermore, the agency expects to hit its $15 billion debt limit by the end of the year. In order to avoid another massive taxpayer-funded bailout, the organization must be fundamentally restructured.
H.R. 2309 would modernize the USPS and reform its outdated business model to cut costs and return the USPS to fiscal solvency.
Thus expecting the USPS to function under the same conditions that those "Fat Cats" expect private SOLVENT companies like FedEX and UPS to work within. The USPS will now have to update its business model instead of relying on the continuous stream of Gov't handouts and bail-outs to remain afloat.
AllenSeptember 21, 2011, 10:59am (report abuse)
The postal service does not need Government handouts or a bail-out. The postal service is in the shape it is in because of the burden congress put on it back in 2006, mandating it to pre-fund future retiree health benefits for the next 75 years and do so within 10 years at a cost of over 5 billion dollars a year. does fedEx and UPS start out the year 5.5 billion in the hole every year, I don't think so. Congress made this mess, and lawmakers can fix it, without using a dime of taxpayer money. house Bill 1351 does just that without destroying the postal service as we know it today. Don't make it out to be more than it is.
jcSeptember 21, 2011, 11:27am (report abuse)
the reason congress is so upset they spent the money already paid in
T.C.3September 22, 2011, 3:08pm (report abuse)
All who believe that HR2309 is the way out..... educate yourselves. Please. Bill 1351.
snowiteduvSeptember 23, 2011, 3:01am (report abuse)
USPS is being ripped off by the govt.USPS overpaid civil service retirement plan $50-75 billion and federal employees retirement plan $7 billion.They do not recieve any taxpayer money.They also have to pay $5.5 billion for future retiree health plan annually, no other company in USA is required to do that.Now the govt wants to tear it apart, close shops, lower pay and benefits, cut down on home deliveries, including stopping some home delivery altogether, just to hurt the working class. Create another committee(costs $20million more for usps), yeah grow govt. Tell your representatives, to give usps back their overpayments to cover their yearly debt(last year $9 billion debt, drop in bucket compared to usps overpayments to pension plans) and to stop with the $5.5 billion mandate. Stop putting the working class down. The USPS does not cost taxpayers a dime, but the govt adds that $5.5 billion to their budget.Stop messing with workers and customers
SARSeptember 23, 2011, 5:26pm (report abuse)
midwest and allen, you obviously have no understanding of the issues dealing with the postal finical burden. While snowitduv is explaining that the postal service is not needed a bailout, it needs to be taken out of the restrictions made by congress in 2006. HR 1351 and HR 2769 are designed to do just that. Unfortunately there are not enough people that will take the time to educate themselves on the real issues. Please research the issue then respond
whitewolfSeptember 24, 2011, 4:26am (report abuse)
The USPS is a cash cow that the Congress continually rips off.This started in 2006 by requiring a pre-funded retirement health benefits account for employees WHO AREN'T EVEN BORN YET!That money is more than likely aleady gone.Put all this aside though.Instead,pray that you don't work for a company that relies on USPS business because there are hundreds of thousands of ancillary jobs worth millions that are created by the USPS and yours might be one.HR 2309 is the beginning of the end if passed.It will effectively gut the USPS.What do you think will happen to shipping costs once they're gone?What do you think will happen to your job if say you work for a magazine or a catalog company or a paper company?Better start rehearsing as a Walmart greeter!HR 1351 is the answer.IT IS NOT A BAIL-OUT--THAT'S REP ISSA'S LIE.It simply gives the money back.Please contact your congress members if you value your livelihood.And remember,not a single cent of taxpayer $ has gone to support the USPS.
Mario EvangelistaSeptember 26, 2011, 7:12am (report abuse)
I can't believe the level of ignorance of our government on the basic issues at hand. Both the Dems and Reps take their turn but this time it's the Republicans.
The Post Office is the only government angeny other then the IRS that brings revenues into the US government. In fact if the congress would stop rapeing the PO it would be making a profit to this date.
In truth paid postage covers all operating cost and no government moneys come into the Post Office, but billions go the other way every year.
The American people have to check the facts on this issue because this is not just an attack on the the Postal Service but the very foundation of collective bargaining and contractual law.
Mario Evangelista
Oldman FSeptember 27, 2011, 2:45pm (report abuse)
Congressman Issa quotes the constitution as a source to "ruin" the USPS. That source only has to do with establishing Post Offices, the right to close them belongs to the PMG. Comgressman Issa should know the difference between helping the Postal Service and crippling it further. The Post office and its employees that signed a valid contract. If he wants to show the public what its like to deal with congress, in that it can void legal contracts at will, require rediculous "payments" just have them read the last two Postal "reform" bills along with the current one. Basically puting 100,000 more people out of work will not help the economy. That is not a great republican plan.
Terrence SchoenekaseOctober 16, 2011, 2:12pm (report abuse)
Congress is creating another control monster. Just release the Postal service from all the garbage regulations and let the existing Board of Governors approve a five day on even a three day delivery service. They also should be authorized to close facilities. A separate commission to do these things isF totally unnecessary. Congress should start to listen to the voters. I personnally will vote against my representative if he votes for this bill.
Doug(logged-in user) October 18, 2011, 8:30am (report abuse)
why doesn't someone sugest congress cut some or a lot of their ridiculusly high salaries and benefits and try living on the same things they impose on the public . After all they do work FOR THE PEOPLE
Scott RawlingsOctober 25, 2011, 12:45am (report abuse)
give the USPS the 75 billion back from overpayments....but the magot Republicans won't. ISSA is bad blood. VOTE H.R. 1351
buzzquickNovember 9, 2011, 2:29pm (report abuse)
The USPS is designed and over time is to survive on $$ generated by services and revenue created from those services. The USPS has not changed with the times. E-mail and Auto-Bill pay have reduced the USPS to delivery junk mail. Now the USPS is trying to promote MORE junk mail to bolster revenue. The model has to change and accept the notion that the model today is not working, it is necessary to revamp. Have panel of proven models, UPS and Fed-Ex for example to think outside the box and make new views and ideas that will not be gutted by members of Congress, to be responsible enough see that change is necessary. The tax-payer is supporting an outdated, same as yesterday is good for today mentallity in a yesterday model. Do the right thing, change is neccessary.
Kathy in San DiegoNovember 9, 2011, 6:00pm (report abuse)
Issa is as crooked as they come. He just wants to privatize the Postal Service. Don't change the USPS, get rid of Issa instead. How dare he?
Karen F. SmithNovember 10, 2011, 3:58pm (report abuse)
H.R. 2309 does nothing to address the problems caused by Congress in 2006 with the passage of the 2006 Postal Accountability law which mandates that the USPS prepay health benefits for employees 75 years into the future for employees not born yet. How Absurd! No other gevernment agency or private sector business has to prepay health benefits. Benefits are paid on an pay-as-you-go basis.
What H.R. 2309 will do is force the closing of many Post Offices causing the lose of 200,000 job and treatening the $1.3 trillion mailing industry that employees 7.5 million jobs. And, if that is not enough, H.R.2309 will create a "Solvency Authority" with the power to unilaterally cut wages and benefits. Who needs another unnecessary federal bureau staffed with the "yes men" of Congress. H.R.2309 should never have been proposed. Instead repeal the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement law and let the US Postal Service live as it has for 235 years as provided by the US Constitution.
Randal CoonNovember 11, 2011, 9:27pm (report abuse)
The GOP didn't mind the postal service, until President Nixon banned striking,adding binding arbitration. That finally raised salaries to private levels.As long as the workers were satisfied with minimum wage, but required to maintain the standards of civil employees--[Be there all the time, on time, make no mistakes, or face reprimand and then firing, and the fact that they were required to maintain packages-of drugs, gold, diamonds, who knows what, and sign for it at each levels.
I'm a lawyer, but when I was young, my first boss--knowing my Dad was a letter carrier, mentioned more than once that they, and other workers not deemed worthy of life by him, much less health care and wages, called them "just grunts." Didn't get my feelings hurt, because I knew that that is the way he felt about most anyone other than himself. But that attitude has been pervasive in the GOP for years, and easily explains their need for dividing the top 1%, and the rest of us. DEFEAT HR 2309, PLEASE!!!!!
Randal CoonNovember 11, 2011, 9:41pm (report abuse)
I recalled one more important matter about postal workers that Congressmen no doubt have forgotten--if they were ever aware of it. I don't think Congressmen have to pass a Civil Service Test prior to being CONSIDERED for employment.
I am not sure of what the exact statistics or the scores are. I know that when I took the CST in 1975, I made a 99.6%. It greatly involved having to remember large blocks of addresses and codes, after seeing them a few seconds. Other parts too.
At 99.6, I was offered a mail-sorting job, which paid decent, but not great wages, and made lots of requirements on my time.I was offered the job 3 times, and my friends thought I was crazy to turn down such a job. Admittedly, being 19 1.it made it easier for me to have rapid recall, and 2.I was less interested in jobs with the night time restriction. But I was about to be married. Even tho it resulted in my marrying with no job--just a degree, I quickly found a sales job paying more than the postal job.YAY
Vicki DavisonDecember 5, 2011, 6:15pm (report abuse)
How can anyone speak about government bail-outs and taxpayer dollars in the USPS crisis? What part of "NO TAX DOLLARS go to the USPS" don't people understand. But the loss of income taxes from 200,000 postal employees will impact tax-payers. The millions of dollars the USPS spends on operations each year are going to be missed by an uncountable number of their service providers, building purchases and rents (also not paid for by taxpayers), equipment including vehicles and mail processing machines. Jobs associated with mail service are in the millions. The impact of not having a reliable postal service is uncharted in this country. Through wars, disasters, civil unrest, and terrorist threats the USPS has always continued to serve.
Political forces are making moves to destroy the USPS. Will this impact you? Read about HR 2309, S 1789, and HR 1351.
Let your representatives know what you want them to support and whether they will have your support when election time rolls around.
john jordanDecember 14, 2011, 2:19pm (report abuse)
If we would like crime to pay, just
let the government run itydj5s
ELIZABETH MCCAFFERTYDecember 15, 2011, 12:58am (report abuse)
Ike DaughtryDecember 19, 2011, 1:24pm (report abuse)
This is a bill that would hurt the postal service not heolp it but Issa is just dumb to get it right and how much money would he get to line his pocket for this crazy bill .
Doug WellsDecember 20, 2011, 6:08pm (report abuse)
Any company that is failing first fires all upper management.When will the USPS realize that promoting from within is a complete failure.
Mike3332July 12, 2012, 4:20pm (report abuse)
Its funny how ppl act so hysterical when the opposing party makes a proposal. Try not being partisan idiots for a change. If any of you happened to listen for 2 seconds to the postmaster general explain why there is a revenue problem with the post office you'd realize that these changes are exactly what he claimed is needed. Reducing the operating days, take the excessive pension funding regulations out, those are both right out of the postmaster generals mouth. They would also like the ability to close offices that only serve a handful of ppl. Of course anytime common sense cost cutting measures are proposed we have listen to temper tantrums and stories of woe from the big government sheep and greedy politicians throwing common good of the country under the bus to garner a few local votes from their constituency.
CoryJuly 16, 2012, 8:18am (report abuse)
Just a comment about Issa and the rest of our government not being able to run a budget. We have not had a budget for the last three years. Budgets are passed to the Senate by the House, but Reid tables them and offers no other budgets.
AlanJuly 18, 2012, 9:34am (report abuse)
within a 5 mile radius there a dozen tiny postal offices. It does not make economic sense to keep them open. I rarely see anyone going in or out of them.
BobbyJuly 19, 2012, 7:53am (report abuse)
The USPS could learn from FED EX if they would just watch how efficiently FED EX operates.
franciscoG'-RIV'cal'P.O.July 29, 2012, 8:50pm (report abuse)
HR2309 is a misguided attempt by ISSA to stroke his own ego. The most critical aspect of this bill(pre-funding of retiree benefits is ACTUALLY INCREASED) and that prefunding in a short amount of time is unheard of in any American company. The USPS would've been in the black the past 5yrs. and futture years as well! NO,NO,NO! TO HR2309.
cstipek_49thAugust 29, 2012, 3:50pm (report abuse)
The way to kill HR 2309 is to get Issa out of Congress. How? Vote for or contribute to his Democratic challenger, Jerry Tetalman.
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Last month, the Kent Shindig All-Stars performed at the Kent Cider Festival. They enjoy jamming for crowds who might not be familiar with their genre, but learn to love it by the end of their performance.
"We think it's really fun to share this music with families who don't know that much about it," Badagnani said.
The group meets once a month at Europe Gyro, a Kent pizza place and bar, to practice standards most Old-Time players know. If they have an official event, such as the Cider Festival, they practice standards, but know most musicians who show up will learn the songs on the spot, even if they've never heard them.
"Anywhere you go in America, and even in foreign countries, there are groups like ours that have a regular meeting where they jam, and we play a couple of standards, like Oh, Susanna," Badagnani said.
One of the newest standards Badagnami learned was popularized four years ago, and was titled "Obama's March to the White House." It found popularity on YouTube and became a modern hit.
"A lot of time we'll learn the tunes the first time through," said Rob Rhamy, a fiddler who joined The Shindig All-Stars at the Cider Festival. "They'll play it one or two times through, and after awhile, the better musicians can learn it."