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Minimum Wage in San Luis Obispo County, California
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Los Osos, CA Minimum Wage and Wage Claims
What Is the Minimum Wage in Los Osos, CA?
You are entitled to the highest minimum wage that applies where you work, whether set by your city, county, or state government. (Most cities and counties don't have their own minimum wage laws.)
San Luis Obispo County Minimum Wage
The minimum wage in San Luis Obispo County is currently $15.50 an hour, the state minimum wage. However, cities and counties in California are free to adopt their own higher local minimum wage, and dozens of local governments across the country have done so. To find out whether San Luis Obispo County has passed its own minimum wage law since we last updated, visit the county's website at https://www.slocounty.ca.gov/.
California Minimum Wage
The minimum wage in California is $15.50 an hour. Because this is higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25, employees in The Golden State must be paid at least $15.50 an hour.
Quite a few local governments in California have passed ordinances establishing a higher minimum wage. If you work in one of these cities or counties, you are entitled to earn the higher local minimum wage amount.
Learn more about California's minimum wage at https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm.
What Is the Tipped Minimum Wage in Los Osos, CA?
Some states and local governments allow employers to pay tipped employees a lower minimum hourly wage; others don't.
California Tipped Minimum Wage
The tipped minimum wage in California is the same as the regular minimum wage: $15.50 an hour. Tips don't count against the employer's obligation to pay the minimum wage.
Who Enforces Los Osos, CA Minimum Wage Laws?
California Enforcement Agency
If you have questions about California's minimum wage, contact the
California Department of Industrial Relations
URL: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/
Phone: 844-522-6734
Find the address and phone number of the nearest office of the California Department of Industrial Relations at https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/DistrictOffices.htm.
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How to File a Wage Claim in Los Osos, CA
If you were not paid the minimum wage in Los Osos, CA, you may have the right to file a wage claim or complaint with a government agency. Be sure to look at the wage claim materials (below) for the agency that enforces the law you believe was violated, whether city, county, or state.
All jurisdictions impose a time limit on how far back you may claim unpaid wages, so it's important to file your claim quickly. There may be other restrictions on the claims you may file, such as dollar-amount limits or limits on the agency's ability to force employers to comply with the law. You may be required to ask your employer to pay you correctly before you file a claim. And, you almost always have the option to go straight to court and file a lawsuit instead of filing a wage claim with a government agency. For these reasons, it often makes sense to talk to an experienced wage and hour lawyer to make sure you know all of your options, understand the strength of your claims, and decide how to proceed.
Filing a Wage Claim with the California Department of Industrial Relations
You can find instructions and links to the forms to file a wage claim at the California Department of Industrial Relations website.
Get Help With Los Osos, CA Wage Claims and Lawsuits
If you are considering filing a wage claim or lawsuit, you may want to speak to a local wage and hour attorney. The resources below can help you find a lawyer near you.
Los Osos, CA Free or Low-Cost Legal Assistance
Legal aid offices provide free legal assistance to low-income people. Typically, you must qualify for legal aid based on your income. Visit LawHelpCA to find local resources and legal aid offices.
Some law schools have free legal clinics that provide assistance with specific problems, including wage and hour issues and other employment matters. Find a list of law schools offering legal clinics on a variety of issues at the American Bar Association Center for Pro Bono.
Los Osos, CA Lawyer Directories
Lawyer Referral Services in California. Check with the State Bar of California for information on lawyer referral services in Los Osos, CA. Lawyer referral services match people with attorneys who specialize in particular legal fields, such as wage and hour law.
NELA's "Find-A-Lawyer" Service. Search the National Employment Lawyer's Association's membership to find Los Osos, CA lawyers who specialize in wage and hour claims and other employment issues.

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Maybe your mother told you as a child that eating carrots can improve eyesight, or maybe you've heard it elsewhere. Wherever you learned it, the question remains: Is it myth or truth?
The answer is that yes, under certain circumstances, the nutrients in this popular root vegetable can help promote eye health. But there's a bit more to it than that. Although carrots do contain nutrients important for our eyes, eating more most likely won't provide you with a vision boost.
We can trace the idea of carrots being good for vision back to World War II, when the U.K. Ministry of Food pushed out a propaganda campaign saying that the secret to the British Air Force's success over German aircraft was a diet rich in carrots. The Ministry also encouraged civilians to consume more carrots in order to see better during blackouts, indicating that carrots are good for night vision.
So how do carrots do it, and should you eat more to improve your night vision?
Carrots are rich in beta-carotene, which is what gives the vegetable its orange color and which our bodies convert to vitamin A. Vitamin A is needed for the eye to translate light into a signal that is sent to the brain, allowing us to see better in dimly lit surroundings.
However, most people in the United States get plenty of beta-carotene and don't need to consume extra carrots to improve eyesight. In fact, devouring a diet full of carrots when you already have enough beta-carotene wouldn't do much for your vision because the body rids itself of extra vitamin A, which can be toxic in excess.
But for those who do have a vitamin A deficiency (such as children in developing nations), eyesight can be compromised. An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 children become blind every year as a result of vitamin A deficiencies. In parts of the world where this is common, vitamin A supplements have been shown to improve night vision.
Are there foods you can eat to protect your eyes and prevent vision loss?
It is true that healthful eating is good for our eyes, but rather than focus on a single food (like carrots), it's best to eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, and other vitamin- and antioxidant-rich foods. Leafy greens in particular—such as spinach, kale, broccoli and collard greens—are full of nutrients (including lutein and zeaxanthin) that protect your vision and can even protect against certain eye diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration.
In addition, consuming foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, like walnuts and salmon, does your eyes and your body good.
Most vision problems in the United States are a result of genetics, aging, or diabetes, so an overall emphasis on enjoying a variety of healthy foods and keeping your whole self healthy and nourished is the best approach, rather than zeroing in one food or even food group.
Regular eye exams are also one of the best ways to protect your eyes and your health. Your eye doctor is a great resource for helping you understand which lifestyle choices (such as better nutrition and more exercise) may benefit your vision, depending on your individual circumstances. Schedule your eye exam today.


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- It functions as proxy body armor in the physical world.
However, I'm unsure as to whether or not it would block something like a manabolt; does Mystic Armor function as a Mana Barrier (SR4 194)? I'm unsure, since the description of how things work for spell targeting is ambiguous (SR4 182)-while the rules do say that mana spells may be used for astral combat, when talking about whether or not they work on the same astral level irrevocably there is no such disambiguation; while physical spells are explicitly stated to not work on astral, mana spells are not explicitly listed as being astral in nature. Any thoughts?


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon is expected to plead guilty in federal court Tuesday on a public corruption charge related to his March arrest.
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Cannon was arrested March 26 and accused of accepting more than $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen who wanted to do work with North Carolina's largest city. The Democrat resigned the same day, less than six months after taking office.


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TURKEY: Syrian refugees choosing to work risk exploitation
ISTANBUL, 26 December 2012 (IRIN) - The ruinous state of the Syrian economy after 18 months of civil war has left few options for young men trying to support their families without taking up arms. Many see escaping to Turkey to find illegal work as their only choice. But it is a choice that comes with a price.
In a dimly-lit clothes factory in a basement under a drab street in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, Mohammad sits in front of a sewing machine. The whirr of the motor mixes with tinny Turkish pop music on the radio, as he makes sleeves for trendy blouses to be exported to Europe.
Mohammad is Syrian and has no legal right to work here. He fears that if he is caught by the police, they will send him to a refugee camp.
"That's why I work secretly," he said. "I can't live in a camp. They're like prisons. Anyway, I need to work to earn money.
"In Syria, we weren't living," he continued. "There was no work. The place was being bombed. I had to leave." He is now earning enough to send about US$360 a month back to his family near the northern Syrian town of Idlib.
Turkey hosts more than 144,000 Syrians in 14 refugee camps along its southern border. Through the Turkish Red Crescent and the Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD), it provides them with food, shelter, education and basic medical services in conditions widely deemed to be above average compared to other refugee camps.
Still, many of those fleeing Syria choose to live outside the camps - government estimates put them at 60,000, but local NGOs say the number could be as high as 100,000.
Under rules put in place by the Turkish government last year, Syrians entering Turkey without a passport are given a form of temporary asylum, but obliged to seek shelter in the camps. Many choose to avoid this, by smuggling themselves across the 822km border. Others enter legally with a passport but overstay the three months they are automatically entitled to.
"My visa has expired now, and if the police stop me, they'll send me to the camps," said Mohammad.
He and his friends say access to informal labour was their main reason for avoiding the camps.
"If I don't work, my family doesn't eat," said Mu'ayyid, a 20-year-old from the Syrian capital Damascus.
He and his brother fled to Istanbul one year ago, after Mu'ayyid was called up for military service. Between them, they now earn about $700 a month in a clothes factory. That is just enough to cover their living costs and send a little each month back to their family in Syria. With prices of bread and fuel in Syria skyrocketing, the cash is a lifeline.
But they say many Turkish employers see them as easy targets for exploitation. After working for a month, Mu'ayyid and his brother's boss refused to pay them.
"A group of us went to see him, and we had an argument. He hit one of us," said Mu'ayyid. "But we can't do anything. The police would stand with him, not us. We are afraid of the police."
Mu'ayyid's brother, 17, is not yet trained as a tailor. Instead, he works as a `hawis' - cutting cloth, tidying the factory and running errands. Some days, he works a 14-hour shift. He says when he comes home, he can hardly stand. He earns just $250 a month - a little over half the official minimum wage of $412.The arrival of Syrians seeking work has reportedly driven down wages for informal labour.
Hussein, 20, from Syria's largest city, Aleppo, says hundreds of Syrians work illegally in Istanbul, in restaurants, clothing stores and factories, and making shoes.
He said the Turkish police usually turn a blind eye, as long as the Syrians do not get involved in any criminal activity. He did not know of any cases of people being caught and sent to the camps, but said their illegal status makes them vulnerable.
"Most of the guys smuggle themselves in - they don't have passports," he said. "The bosses exploit them. They give Syrians half the amount they give Turks."
Hussein used to study computer science, but after the revolution broke out, he came to Istanbul. He worked for a travel agency for three months, but the manager paid him only $300 of the $1300 he owed him.
"He told me, `go and complain [to the police]'. Of course, I can't complain."
No right to work
When Syrians began fleeing to Turkey in serious numbers last year, the government in Ankara put in place a Temporary Protection Regime based on an European Union directive for mass influxes of displaced people. In principle, that framework guarantees temporary residence rights and access to basic services. But it does not give them access to the UN Refugee Agency's asylum system - nor the right to work.
As such, like all foreigners wanting to work in Turkey, Syrians must apply for a work permit. This usually costs between $700 and $1000, said Fatih Erol of Calismaizin, a Turkish immigration consultancy.
"After getting a work permit, they have all the same rights as Turkish employees," he said.
But Zaid Hydari, of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly's Refugee Advocacy and Support Program, which gives refugees legal support, says the legal regime applied to Syrians in Turkey is incomplete, leading to a host of other issues - particularly for Syrians living outside the camps.
"How are people supposed to survive for the time that they are here? Can they access social assistance? Without legal status, you cannot go to the hospital for medical assistance. They can't access the same rights as legal employees."
The government says refugees can access all the services they need in the camps, where food, shelter, education and medical care are offered free of charge.
Osman Atalay, coordinator of relief efforts for Syrians at the Turkish NGO Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), said there was nothing NGOs could do to prevent employers from exploiting Syrians who are working illegally. He said most employers are fair, but admitted there are some cases of unfair treatment.
"They don't have permission to work so they depend on mutual consent and trust with their bosses. Many employers are really helping them."
Turkey's policy is to deport people found working illegally, but there are some exceptions, according to Baris Vahapoglu, a labour lawyer.
Legal twilight zone?
"I don't think that [the authorities] will use this law against Syrian refugees. Let's say this is just a legal loophole for now," he said.
Turkey is a signatory to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. Jean-Philippe Chauzy, spokesperson of the International Organization for Migration, said the convention calls for equal labour rights for migrants and nationals, even in cases where employees do not have a work permit or a written contract.
But Atalay said that if Syrians without work permits were to take an employer to court, the judge would likely report them for working illegally.
Mu'ayyid lives in a crowded two-bedroom flat in a southern suburb of Istanbul, with one Turkish Kurd and four other Syrian flatmates who work illegally in clothes factories. They heat the place by burning scraps of discarded fabric in an iron stove.
One of Mu'ayyid's flatmates said he knew a Syrian in Istanbul whose boss had cheated him out of $1,100. The man gave up and went back to Syria.
"We are running away from destruction and problems and from Bashar Al Assad, leaving our families behind in that situation," Mu'ayyid said, "and on top of all of that, people cheat us out of money."
Theme (s): Conflict, Economy, Migration, Refugees/IDPs,
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I've been crushing on the look of block print textiles in the home for awhile, I love the repetition found in these global patterns, and as summertime approaches breezy colorful cotton fabrics are welcome! I tried my own block print inspired stamped tea towels two years ago and it continues to be one this blog's most popular DIYs to date (I used large rubber stamps instead of blocks but the method was similar.)
Block printing dates back thousands of years to China, India, and Japan. Patterns can be simple or ornate, the technique involves the application of ink to paper or fabric via hand carved block print stamps made of wood, rubber, or linoleum. This article shares the detailed process of creating authentic block print fabric.
india pied-a-terre / oh so beautiful paper
Browsing through catalogs, you'll find several major brands that are offering their versions of the look too, from bedding to table linens.
viva terra indigo bedding / pottery barn runner / wisteria tablecloth
John Robshaw's brand of textiles feature predominantly block printed fabrics inspired from his travels through India but these beautiful prints are sold at a higher price point.
Saffron Marigold offers authentic block print textiles that are beautiful and affordable.
If you want to try your hand at DIY block printing, you can invest in a block print carving kit, or search around online for many of the premade block print stamps from Etsy vendors. Grab an inexpensive cotton window panel, some fabric medium, and craft paint to create a fabric version, or apply stamps with craft paint to cardstock for unique stationery.
tree / circle medallion / branch / paisley / pie floral / flower
I've been so smitten with the repetition in these motifs I came up with a block print inspired pattern of my own for the summer collection, it will be available soon in my Spoonflower shop in the three softer colorways and the seven brighter versions below.
This print is really lovely as a tablecloth, napkins, or window treatment, I can't wait to share the other patterns with you next month – I'm working hard to finish them all before May!
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Argument recap: Manipulation versus "master of the complaint"
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Debra Lyn Bassett is the Justice Marshall F. McComb Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School.
Neither side had an easy time in yesterday's oral argument in Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles, a case addressing whether a class action can avoid removal to federal court by stipulating to limit damages below the jurisdictional amount. Indeed, the Justices' questioning reflected concerns with both parties' positions.
Theodore Boutros, representing the petitioner Standard Fire, came out of the starting gate asserting that Congress, through the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), had intended "to protect defendants … against the kind of state court class action abuses that are occurring in Miller County, Arkansas." However, Boutros quickly shifted away from the largely legislative-intent-type arguments set forth in Standard Fire's briefs and instead characterized its arguments as rooted in CAFA's statutory language. Specifically, Boutros argued that because CAFA refers to "individual" and "claims," rather than referring to the amount sought by the class representative, a stipulation is ineffective to limit class damages.
Boutros didn't get far before the Justices began interjecting questions. Chief Justice Roberts was first, inquiring whether Boutros would assert the same objection if the issue involved the substantive claims rather than the amount. Suppose, he asked, the class potentially could raise two different claims, one worth $4.9 million and the other worth $10 million—would the same objection apply if the class only pleaded the $4.9 million claim? Boutros's response was "not necessarily," and he indicated that in this case Standard Fire was challenging only the amount. However, the Chief Justice described Standard Fire's position as "a bit of a slippery slope," noting that Standard Fire's brief had included arguments to the effect that class counsel had improperly failed to assert claims for the full statute of limitations period. Justice Kagan returned to this same point on two subsequent occasions, at one point noting that there are "a thousand ways" in which a plaintiff constructs a case, including deciding which defendants to sue, which claims to bring, and whether to seek damages, injunctive relief, or both – all of which have an effect on the amount sought. So, she asked, do we stop all of these, too? On a second occasion, Justice Kagan expressed concern that although this case purportedly addressed only stipulations limiting damages, future cases might attempt to push into other areas, such as challenging the named plaintiff's ability to define the claims and to name the defendants.
When Boutros at one point referred to "traditional" diversity jurisdiction, Justice Scalia interjected that "you surely don't want us to apply the rules of the traditional diversity statute to this case," because those rules permit the waiver of damages. Boutros agreed, but noted that a case involving a single plaintiff is very different from one seeking to represent numerous class members.
Justice Sotomayor questioned why the class certification process wouldn't provide the necessary protection for the class, noting that if a stipulation was grossly unfair, the judge would refuse to certify the class and/or class members would elect to opt out. Boutros replied that CAFA reflected Congress's concern that state courts weren't providing appropriate protections, and noted that class certification requirements varied between the federal and state courts. Justice Kagan took a different tack, detailing the impediments to removal that Congress eliminated in CAFA, but observing that "here's one thing it didn't eliminate. It didn't eliminate the St. Paul master-of-your-complaint rule." Justice Kagan also pointedly observed that although Standard Fire relied heavily on the Court's 2011 Smith v. Bayer decision, "Smith v. Bayer does not have much to do with this case."
Justice Breyer returned to Boutros's attempt to rely on CAFA's statutory language, but sounded unconvinced. Noting that the basic language in the traditional diversity statute and in CAFA were virtually identical, Justice Breyer inquired why, if a binding stipulation can be filed in a traditional diversity action, a binding stipulation would not also be binding in a CAFA action. Boutros redirected Justice Breyer, noting that the Justice was comparing language from Section 1332(d)(2), but that the language upon which Standard Fire wished to rely was in Section 1332(d)(6), which provides that "[i]n any class action, the claims of the individual class members shall be aggregated to determine whether the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $5,000,000." Still sounding unconvinced, Justice Breyer observed that the "shall be aggregated" language in CAFA was intended to abrogate Zahn v. International Paper Co., a prior U.S. Supreme Court decision that had required each class member to be able to satisfy the jurisdictional amount individually. Boutros asserted that if the only purpose was to abrogate Zahn, Congress simply could have passed a statute saying precisely that, but Justice Breyer dismissed such an approach as rare, observing that Congress instead typically passes a statute saying the opposite of what a case held. Justice Kagan, following up on this point, characterized the insurer as relying on language that reflected an "anti-Zahn position, not an anti-St. Paul provision."
Boutros obtained a brief reprieve when Justice Alito asked whether Standard Fire's position essentially advocated the approach under recently amended Section 1446(c)(2), which contains language suggesting that a removing defendant may offer proof that the amount exceeds the jurisdictional threshold. Boutros agreed with Justice Alito's characterization, and asserted that courts may look behind the complaint at the "actual facts" under circumstances when class counsel is thwarting and manipulating jurisdiction. However, more intense questioning soon resumed, with Justice Ginsburg observing that Standard Fire's concern appeared to be with the fact that a state court would be determining both the adequacy of representation and whether the stipulation binds all the class members, whereas if a federal court were making those determinations, "I think you wouldn't be here." Chief Justice Roberts noted that Boutros was assuming it was bad to limit class members' claims, "but maybe it's a good thing."
Representing Greg Knowles, David Frederick faced the same kind of rapid-fire intensive questioning as Boutros. Questions from Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Breyer, and Justice Alito focused on concerns that class counsel could abuse stipulations by dividing class actions in an artificial manner to avoid federal jurisdiction. Chief Justice Roberts used an example of pursuing a class action on behalf of individuals whose last names began with the letters A through K, leaving L-Z to pursue a separate class action. Justice Breyer similarly expressed concern that the master-of-the-complaint argument created a loophole in which class counsel could, for example, take a $25 million class action and divide it into six class actions through the use of stipulations. Justice Alito returned to the newly amended removal statute, stating that if the general removal statute now permits looking behind what an individual demands, it would be "perverse" if a class representative could enter a stipulation purporting to bind class members.
Justice Ginsburg inquired whether Knowles's brief had essentially conceded that the stipulation could not bind absent class members. Frederick clarified that whoever was covered by the class action lawsuit would be bound by the stipulation, but that the specific class members would not be known until the certification hearing.
Justice Breyer observed that CAFA's text seemed to favor Knowles, but noted that CAFA's purpose "seems to strongly cut the other way." Significantly, Justice Breyer suggested a compromise position – that the statutory language could be interpreted as meaning to aggregate "the real value of the real amounts that the class is likely to have."
When Boutros returned to the podium for rebuttal, he emphasized the perils of lengthy discovery, which prompted Justice Kagan to observe that CAFA's provisions didn't address discovery issues. Boutros disagreed, arguing that CAFA authorizes "swift removal," which would provide defendants with federal court discovery protections.
Nearly all of the Justices participated in the questioning, with Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kagan, Justice Alito, and Justice Breyer the most active participants. But the best line came from Justice Kagan who, toward the end of the rebuttal argument, observed that "you really are asking us to blow up the whole world."


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Patty Hearst in the news again as her dog wins award
Rocket, a shih tzu co-owned by famed heiress Patty Hearst, is inspected by the judge at the toy group competition during the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York. [Photo/Agencies]
Famed and infamous heiress Patty Hearst was back in the news on Monday after a dog she co-owns won its group at the Westminster Kennel Club show.
A shih tzu called Rocket was picked as the top toy dog at Madison Square Garden.
Hearst is the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and gained great notoriety in 1974 when she was kidnapped by a radical group, the Symbionese Liberation Army. She was seen holding a semi-automatic rifle while robbing a California bank, and later spent almost two years in prison.
Her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. President Bill Clinton gave her a full pardon.
"People move on," Hearst said, smiling at Rocket. "I guess people somehow imagine you don't evolve in your life. I have grown daughters and granddaughters and other things that normal people have."
She also has appeared in films including Cry-Baby and Serial Mom. She's done television roles and charitable work.
Hearst has been involved in the dog show world for more than 10 years. She said many are surprised to find out she's moved on to play with pooches.
Hearst, who turns 61 on Friday, is one of Rocket's three co-owners. She's mostly worked with French bulldogs and one of them won a ribbon earlier in the day.
Hearst's dog will be one of seven in the championship ring on Tuesday night when the best in show is chosen. That will cause her to do some shifting - she didn't originally have tickets for the finals.
Even though Hearst loves dogs, her two daughters own cats. "I don't know what I did wrong," she said.


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Is the Europe 2020 strategy leading us, as it promises, towards smart, sustainable and inclusive growth? This is the main question addressed by this publication on the eve of this year's Spring European Summit. The ETUC and ETUI offer a critical assessment of the strategy and its various components: will it be able to provide a framework for the creation of more and better-quality jobs? Are the policies and indicators set to promote an increase in social cohesion? How can workers better participate in the achievement of these various aims? Benchmarking Working Europe 2011 is structured in eight topical chapters illustrated by a significant number of graphs, and has a completely new layout. Chapter 8 is dealing with the issues of Social Dialogue and Worker Participation
The various chapters on the different facets of Europe 2020 contain a carefully argued and critical analysis of the design and contents of the European mid-term strategy and of the state of the European economic, employment and social indicators. They question the underlying foundation which firmly places the emphasis on fiscal consolidation while neglecting the need for economic growth and quality jobs. The major problem is that, if the (macro) economics are wrong, all the other laudable targets and procedures in the Europe 2020 strategy – raising education standards and R&D spending, reducing poverty – will prove entirely illusory, further undermining the credibility of Europe.
Several of the contributions to this volume show that it is rather by raising social and environmental standards and wellbeing that we might succeed in achieving a sustainable growth pattern and a healthier and more cohesive society for the future.
Chapter 8 deals with the issues of Social Dialogue and Worker Participation being underappreciated and underplayed in Europe 2020. The aim of this chapter is to boost the image of the missing dimension in Europe 2020 by demonstrating the fruitful outcomes so far achieved at European level by the institutions and practices of social dialogue and worker representation, as well as the need for these forms of action to enjoy recognition by the EU institutions and inclusion in the implementation and purposes of the Europe 2020 strategy.


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Last week I offered up 10 social media resolutions every SMB should adopt in 2012. But that may not have been fair. Because the truth is not every company is suited to engage in social media and even those that are may not necessarily be ready to do so. In fact, some companies would fare better to run like hell from social media than use 2012 to join the conversation.
Do you know which side you fall on?
If you're not sure, don't worry, you're not alone. To help you figure it out, below is a short checklist with questions to determine whether your small business is social media-ready or if you still have some work to do before sending out that first company tweet.
1. Do you have a clear reason for being in social media?: One of the biggest business mistakes you can make is to do something just because you think you're supposed to. And by now, you've probably heard a lot about social media and the positive effect it's had on other people's businesses. But that doesn't mean you should give it a shot. Not necessarily.
Before you spend time in social media, ask yourself:
- What are you hoping to get from your participation?
- What business goals will you be able to achieve through social media?
- How will social media aid lead generation?
If you don't know, then you should spend time figuring it out, not entering the space. Because if increased engagement in social media isn't going to help your business, then it's a waste of your time. And if you don't know what your end goal is, you won't know if you're any closer to reaching it.
2. Do you know which social media sites are for you?: You know what you're looking to get from social media and still think it's a great fit. Fantastic. But what does that mean in terms of where you should be spending your time? What social media sites are best for your specific purpose? Once you know what your goal is for your participation, identify the best social network for your business, the site that is most geared toward helping you accomplish your goals. You may also want to check your analytics to see which social media sites are already sending you traffic, if you're not sure. Because while social media is great, not every site is going to speak to your audience, not even the hottest site of the moment. You want to hone in on the site(s) that will.
3. Do you have the resources to continue the investment?: Okay, you know "why", you know "where" and now it's time to ask yourself "how long". How long are you willing to commit resources to being a part of social media? Can you pay someone to blog, tweet and Facebook for you? If not, can you commit to doing it yourself on top of all your other activities? If you're not and you're thinking this is something you can do for a few weeks before backing out of it, stop now. Social media is an ongoing process. If you're not going to stick with it, don't waste time starting it.
4. Have you carved out a social pipeline?: What are you going to do with the information gleaned from social media? If someone approaches you about a customer service issue or makes a recommendation for a new product or feature, do you have a process for how you'll quickly get that information to the right person on your team so it can be used? Before you enter social media, create that workflow or pipeline for how you'll disseminate social media information internally. It will help ensure that you're getting the most value possible from your social media investment.
5. Is there a social media plan on record?: When jumping in the water, make sure you grab the life vest known as your social media policy! Your social media policy is an internal document that helps a business to navigate the social media waters. It breaks down rules for engagement, how to handle common occurrences, what you'll do when negative mentions appear, how to start conversations, how to use the different networks, etc. It's vital to the success of any campaign and I wouldn't recommend any business enter social media without it.
6. Can you measure it?: Remember, social media is a tool, it's not a destination. You want to measure your use of social media just like you would measure anything else you're doing as part of your marketing efforts. Based on your initial goal for social media the metrics you use to judge success may differ from others, and that's okay. You may choose to track Facebook Likes, ReTweets, change in sentiment, number of mentions, engagement, etc. What's important is that you've decided which metrics are important to your business and that you're using social media tools to help measure them.
Just because you keep hearing about social media doesn't mean you're ready to jump in.


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Tire edition #birdsoftheair
It has been a blessed week, though exhausting.
The car now has new tires, and a fixed right front lower control arm thing, and as soon as we have the cash, aligned. It was all confusing and convoluted because my dad got wind of us needing tires thanks to totally bald ones that skidded in less than a half inch of snow. He and my mother-in-law decided to pay for it for our Christmas present, but then there was something broken which needed fixed before it can be aligned, and so on. So my dad ended up paying more than planned for our gift but is now happier because he isn't worrying about us getting in an accident. The tires still need aligned but that will happen as soon as we get paid for a couple jobs. So God worked it all out and we now have good tires and a fied thing that we didn't know was broken, and soon it will all be aligned so there will be no more concern in that department.
Several packages full of things from our grocery wishlist as well as from the kids wishlists. This is awesome because we have no money for gifts this year and Hanukkah starts tomorrow night. The kids thought they were getting nothing. Instead we now have the makings for several treats, so we can have a special treat a day, plus they have each gotten a gift – each something they really, really wanted. I also know that at least one other person has ordered gifts for the kids which I haven't mentioned to them, so that will be exciting to see as well. (I should take a video next time we get a package. Everyone gets so excited because it is always a surprise, and often we don't even know it is coming.)
We got a coupon in the mail for $10 off $40 in groceries, one for each of the next few weeks so I suspect that will be helping put food on the table.
We have the house decorated for Hanukkah, we are all warm and fed, and God, Lord Provider, is so very good to us.
Have a blessed Sabbath.


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On Oct. 28, a dense fog poured into the towns around Humboldt Bay, stuffing the spaces between buildings with a white, impenetrable ground-to-sky murk. You couldn't see 10 feet in front of you, and if you happened to be out on the Samoa Peninsula and stopped your car just across from where the Evergreen pulp mill ought to be, you could imagine it wasn't there. Just whiteness. It was as if the once-dependable white steam plumes -- Eureka's weathervane -- that had waved from the mill up until the week before, when the mill shut down, had returned with a ghostly, spreading vengeance to haunt us all.
Actually, things around the mill had been pretty murky for weeks. Months. Ever since the stock market took its first big nosedive and the stock of the company that owned Evergreen, Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Ltd., went with it. Credit had frozen, people weren't buying stuff, demand for containerboard -- one of Lee & Man's main products -- plummeted, and there went the price of pulp. Energy, freight and chemical costs, meanwhile, had skyrocketed over the past year and a half, said Rex Bohn, who was Evergreen's vice president of resource management until his job ended two weeks ago.
Some vendors filed mechanic's liens against Evergreen for bills unpaid. Wood chip deliveries slowed, then stopped -- from 125 truckloads a day to zero.
In early October, the company announced the mill would shut for a couple of days. Then they said it would be a little longer, and 15 percent of the workforce would be permanently laid off. The story kept changing, said several workers interviewed last week, management grew quiet, and the place became a rumor mill.
Finally the company announced that the mill would close -- for three to six months, maybe, whenever the market recovered -- and everybody would be laid off.
Then news broke that Lee & Man had actually sold Evergreen to an outfit incorporated in the Virgin Islands called Worthy Pick. Evergreen CEO David Tsang (who didn't return the Journal's emails or calls last week) later told the Times-Standard that it was just a restructuring, a way to refinance the mill so it wouldn't go bankrupt.
The mill stopped production Oct. 15. By the end of last week, only about 20 employees remained to keep the place "warm" -- some to guard the place, others to keep the effluent line out to the ocean flushed clear of silt.
And the rest? What will they do?
We talked to a handful of pulp employees, including some who've been there since the mill opened in 1965, about their lives at the mill and what comes next.
Midmorning two Fridays ago, in a Eureka neighborhood, Brian Connors' son, Paul, grappled with the underside of his fiancee's sister's old Chevy. It needed a new brake line. Paul, 22, was home for a wedding: He's a military helicopter pilot based in Germany, he just finished a 15-month tour in Iraq, and now he and Maggie -- his girl next door -- were getting married in a week. Maggie watched the car operation from the sidewalk with her sister and mom.
Connors said hi to them then walked through the house into the back yard and sat at a picnic table. The yard was tidy, flanked on one side by a sturdy fence Connors rebuilt after he moved into the rental eight years ago, and on the other by a fence laced with scraps of ivy -- you could see where other ivy tentacles had been pried loose and torn off. "I call it the Great Ivy Project," said Connors. He pointed out the blackened pit in the ground where he and his granddaughter recently burned some of the villainous vegetation.
Connors, 50, is a Fortuna High grad -- his family moved up from Los Angeles in 1968 after the riots. He describes himself as a conservative Democrat: "Pro-choice, pro-gun. Fiscal conservative."
After high school he went into the Army for a brief stint; then he served in the California Army National Guard for 22 years. He worked a variety of jobs until he landed at Pacific Lumber Co. in 1988, in the shipping department. "It was something I said I would never do, be a mill worker. But it was good money."
Eighteen years later, in December 2006, he lost that job in one of PL's rounds of layoffs. He was one of the workers promised a severance package that never materialized after the company filed for bankruptcy.
"I was very relieved it was over," said Connors. "We had been going through 10 years of hell down there at Palco, layoff after layoff, uncertainty after uncertainty, broken promises by the company and the government. ... It was almost like the ending of a real bad marriage. Once it was over, I could move forward."
He went to the county's employment training division, which administers federal funds to help displaced workers retrain or become re-employed. He thought he'd become a surgical technologist, but the school was in Sacramento and the federal funds covered tuition and books but not living expenses. And -- his pet peeve -- he couldn't, as an individual, access any of the Headwaters Fund, presumably intended to help displaced timber workers.
A few months later, he got a job at the Evergreen Pulp mill.
First they put him on yard labor -- pick up the trash, shovel this, paint that, move these -- and then he went into the bleach plant. "My first job there was to screen the pulp, to take the wet pulp and take the rocks and the shives out of it." Shives are slivers and knots. He also worked in the control room. "I sat in a small little office with buttons and dials and a computer screen, and pushed buttons. ...They liked it when your feet were up on the desk and you were reading a magazine. All was well."
It paid well, too: $21.43 an hour, plus overtime and good health insurance.
But the sweet gig didn't last.
"This [layoff] has gotten to me," Connors said. "But I'm not sure who to be mad at. It's really kind of odd. There's no boogeyman. There's no Charles Hurwitz. I understand Evergreen's position. I understand the world market. It sucks right now, it's really bad. When I was in Germany last week [a long-planned vacation to visit his son], I saw it there. People were laid off, things were slow. It's not just us."
Connors is going to wait to see if the mill starts back up. "I want to go back to Evergreen. I liked working for Evergreen. For someone in my station of life, it was good for me. It paid well, it was local. I don't want to start someplace new. I don't want to do it."
He's not worrying, he said, but he really doesn't know what he'll do if the mill doesn't reopen. "It's becoming really hard here for the high school graduate homeboy to make a living," he said. "It really is. When my father came here in 1968, there were 6,000 jobs on that peninsula. Two pulp mills. You quit one mill and you could go work for the other mill the next day."
But for now he had a wedding to celebrate. And there was always the Great Ivy Project. Although he's already about licked that.
Jeff Clark sat in a booth at Adel's in Eureka two Mondays ago, sipping coffee. If he were working, he'd have ordered breakfast. But he's been on disability since summer -- a twisted knee from February, complicated by a labyrinthine, months-swallowing nightmare of insurance agents and doctor's orders. So, these days, he'll just have a light lunch and then "drink milkshakes all afternoon -- Häagen-Dazs raspberry chocolate swirl."
Clark laughed boyishly at this admission. But he seemed an otherwise serious guy -- a big man, watchful eyes penetrating glasses above a brushy gray mustache, wearing a no-bull workingman's wardrobe: ballcap with a stars-and flags pattern, black T-shirt with a bald eagle silkscreened to it, and sawdust-colored canvas work jacket.
Clark lived in Korbel till he was 5 -- his dad was a powder monkey for Hammond Lumber Co.; his mom was a nurse. Then his family moved to Eureka. After he graduated from Eureka High, in 1964, he was drafted and sent to Vietnam.
"Got out of the Army in '67, came home, and CR was having physicals for their very first football team," he said. So he got on the football team. But it wasn't right.
"It was like everybody from high school was out there for football, all the guys I played with in high school," he said. "And after being in the Army, and I was 21 years old, I thought, wow, there's a bunch of little kids around here. Nobody's been shot at, and, you know. And after football season, I kind of became disillusioned."
One day a friend asked him to deliver some wrist braces for the people working greenchain at Georgia Pacific's redwood mill. "And I took 'em out there and the guy says, you want a job? And I said, sure. And I walked down the hall and I asked when do I start. So I went to work there, at the pulp mill."
It was 1968. Georgia Pacific still owned the plant, which it had opened in 1965. There, World War Two vets mingled with young Vietnam vets plus a host of management types imported from Canada. Clark started in the bleach plant, at the bottom. "It was basically as a tester -- you would get samples [of pulp] from the process and you would run titrations."
He was paid $2.60 an hour. (Forty years later, he was up to $26-plus an hour.)
That first day on the job, he also was handed an armload of blueprints by the shift supervisor. "He said, 'Here's the prints for the bleach plant,'" said Clark. "And this is a three-story-tall building with 500-something pumps and pipes and valves and everything. And he said, 'Now, take your time, here's the prints, and I expect you to learn every valve, every pump.' And, you know, it was mindboggling." He loved it.
Back then, he said, the mill took redwood and Douglas fir -- species with the longest fibers -- and turned them into pulp for high quality book paper, using chlorine gas to bleach it. (The mill later quit using toxic chlorine.)
"In the early days there were a lot of spills and overflows and every once in a while a chlorine leak," said Clark. "One time we had a chlorine line about this big around [he made a fingertips-touching circle with his hands] outside the control room, and all of a sudden there was this big bang and kind of a yellow cloud comes into the control room. And of course everybody has their escape masks, so I put my mask on. So, we go out and isolate the line, and our rallying point was in the breakroom in the main building. No problem. It only took a couple of minutes. But we were all down there in the breakroom, and somebody said, well, we might as well have a cup of coffee, and I reached in my pocket, and all my money had turned green and stuck to itself."
Rather than be an operator in the plant -- the guy running the machine -- Clark really wanted to be a millwright -- the guy who fixes the machine. In 1975 he earned an apprenticeship.
"I started in the millwright shop on Jan. 27, my daughter was born on the 28th, and my mother's birthday was on the 29th. That was a good week!"
Clark pulled out a worn, leather wallet and tugged at its innards until two time-nibbled cards broke free. "Draft card from '64, and journeyman card -- that's the card from my apprenticeship," he said.
Clark's had offers from people to come work for them. He's thought about retraining. But he'll wait to see if the mill reopens -- despite his suspicion that from now on Lee & Man's going to just get its pulp from its new pulp mill in China; despite the disability tangle; despite, even, a communication style among Evergreen bosses that he characterized as "do this -- no discussion."
Clark's 62 and wasn't planning to retire until he was 70. Besides, he loves the machine.
Last Thursday afternoon, a day before Halloween, Tommy Lawler was at home in McKinleyville. Since his last day at the pulp mill, Oct. 17, it's been his job to look after the home: clean, cook, do the laundry. The electric jack o' lanterns and ghosts were at the ready, lining the walkway to the front door of the nice suburban home he and his wife bought last year. His wife was at work -- she recently landed a great job with the county as a school nurse.
Lawler, meanwhile, was still dealing with the fact he'd lost his great job. A Humboldt State grad in journalism, Lawler, who's 31, started at the mill in December 2005. Lee & Man was about to buy it from the financially strapped Stockton Pacific Enterprises -- which had bought it from Samoa Pacific Cellulose in 2003, which in turn had bought it in 2001 from Louisiana Pacific, which had it since 1972 when L-P spun off from Georgia Pacific. The mill was plagued with environmental violations. Its crew had been slashed to skeletal. It owed money to the water district.
Lawler heard good things about Lee & Man -- it had money to turn things around.
"At first they put me in the recaust department -- it's where they make their white liquor. You need white liquor to break down the chips. So it's where the lime kiln is. It's the grubby part of the mill."
Then he became an operator. But he was really interested in electronics, and he knew a fair bit about computers. So when he heard the mill's new owners were going to re-start the maintenance apprenticeship program, he applied. He got it, and a year ago started on the four-year program to earn his state certification as a journeyman in instrumentation. With that, he'd be able to get a job anywhere.
"I wanted a job I could work until I was old, and not kill myself [physically]," he said. "I have a guy in my shop who's 70 years old and a guy who's 62."
The apprenticeship paid for online college classes and books, and $20 an hour during his training. Once he made journeyman, he'd make $27 an hour.
"Unfortunately, I only had a year [of the apprenticeship]," he said. Then everybody got laid off. He can continue studying online -- the books and classes are paid for. But all of that's useless without the hours of required hands-on work experience.
"I've kind of lost motivation," he said. "Over the last month, with all the doom and gloom, I'm not really that into my books."
Still, he's not as bad off as a coworker buddy of his, who can't pay his bills on unemployment, and who had to move his wife and two kids into his wife's parents' home recently.
Lawler said he and his wife were planning to start a family -- and they don't want to stall those plans.
He doesn't know what he'll do. Go back to school. Move -- neither he nor his wife wants to do that. Compete with the dozens of good workers from the mill with 20 to 30 years experience on him for the few good local jobs.
For the moment, he's resting. Keeping house. Working out. Studying a little.
"The main thing is just getting happy again," he said.
Glenn Vickers -- 63, a tall man with a white Fu Manchu mustache, dressed in jeans, brown workboots and a sweatshirt -- sat on the back steps of his house in Manila last Wednesday afternoon, next to a play area filled with bright-colored plastic playground equipment. The ocean crashed, just a pile of dunes away. Inside the house, his wife, Wanda, tended to several of the children who come to her daycare, and while it was apparent Vickers is fond of the kids, and they of him, he said he couldn't deal with such commotion all day long. "That'll drive you nuts."
That's why he works outside, he said goodnaturedly. Lately, he's been digging up the sizeable front lawn, currently atop water-sucking sand, so he can put in topsoil and plant new lawn. And before the mill shut, well, he was at work most of the time -- a condition he enjoyed.
"All I've ever done is work," he said. "I started in August of 1963 with Georgia Pacific, in the lumber end. There was a whole bunch of people working there in 1963. They still had the train coming down out of Crannell [the tracks run past his house] -- Hammond Lumber Co. had their own set of railroad tracks, and in the old days they were logging old-growth redwood out of Crannell, that area up there."
Vickers grew up in Manila; both his dad and stepdad worked in the timber industry. He got on with GP's sawmill when he was 18, fresh out of Arcata High.
"It was easy to get a job in those days," he said. "It's not like it is today. I mean, I started right off making the same wages that a man would make to support a family."
First he was a spotter for the forklift driver -- helping line up the load. Then the company, noticing how good his high school grades had been, moved him to the storeroom that serviced all of GP's mills -- including a sawmill, stud mill, plywood plant and, later, the new pulp mill.
He eventually became manager of the storeroom, and that's where he's been ever since, not counting the 13 months he served in Vietnam, nor the 13 months total he figures he spent on the picket line over the decades, nor other shutdowns including eight months the mill was closed in the mid-'90s. "My plan was to work for a little bit and then go back to college," Vickers said. "But I was making really good money. And once you get in... ."
In 1965, GP had "2,000 people working from the bridges that cross the bay down to where the pulp mill is," Vickers said. "Every day was abuzz."
The peninsula was the county's Iron Belt. Now there's just the pulp mill and, farther south, Fairhaven Power, a wood-fired power plant. The other pulp mill that was built on the peninsula, in 1966, and run by Simpson, closed in 1990 -- there weren't enough wood chips to supply two mills anymore, and required pollution upgrades were too expensive, said Vickers. So, while his mill spent the $66 million for a state-of-the-art recovery boiler, Simpson's mill just shut down.
"That was the biggest culture shock that I have ever experienced, as far as workers," said Vickers. "Because, they made more money per hour than we did. There was 200-some of them, making well over $50,000 even then, and all of a sudden they're making minimum wage. One of 'em, I know of, took a job as a tow truck driver. Some of 'em retired. Some of the salary people, with skills like purchasing and engineering, went to other mills. A few of 'em came to [our] mill."
Vickers' storeroom was bigger than Gottschalks. He purchased and distributed everything the mill needed to keep running -- toilet paper, bolts, motors, gearboxes, machines, you name it; everything but the chips and logs, which were handled through another department.
"I think the pulp mill is absolutely a good thing for Humboldt County," he said. "When they're fully running, they pump about 70 million bucks into the local economy -- that's payroll, buying chips, paying vendors. There's over 200 people working there, and everybody's making well over $50,000 a year -- it's a living wage. They buy locally -- they buy automobiles, they go out to dinner. Evergreen always stressed buying locally if you could. Even if the local vendor was a little higher than the guy out of town, we still bought locally."
Vickers has signed up for unemployment. He might retire -- his insurance would still cover him to 65.
But even if he does, if the mill fires back up it'll need him for a bit. He's the guy who set up the computer system in purchasing ages ago -- and he has the code to get in.
The heavy fog last week only lasted a day or so. Then a storm blew in, wind and rain. Early Friday morning, the pulp mill's white buildings shone in stark relief against the night-blue sky. A light sparkled from one corner. No steam plumes, of course. But the machine looked alive.
Evergreen employee Richard Marks, president of the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers Local 49, said he's seen signs of good intentions from the company. It's going to install concrete ramps in the chip dump, for one, he heard -- trucks would haul away the old ramps, which were really just compacted piles of woodchips, a costly waste of product. The new ramps, Marks heard CEO Tsang say, will save the company millions.
The company also cleaned out the mill's tanks and hauled away the chemicals. Sam Wong, Evergreen's purchasing manager and, now, spokesperson, said Friday that unlike previous owners who shut down the mill cold, leaving chemicals behind to go bad and muck up the machine, Evergreen "has done a proper shutdown of the mill, so that when we do restart it will be with minimal problems."
Wong had little news on the financial front, however.
The pulp mill is the last of the big mill operations that once dominated the peninsula. More than 40 of its workers have been there over 30 years. The Greater Eureka Chamber of Commerce named it 2007 Business of the Year. As a major Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District customer, and its only industrial user, the mill subsidizes the entire water system -- without it, rates could rise. In the three years since they bought the mill, the new owners have put in millions of dollars in upgrades to solve pollution and other problems. They recruited younger workers, started a scholarship program, revived the apprenticeship program. They were even getting ready to buy another pulp mill, in Washington.
In a county that's seen the mainstays of its timber industry collapse one after the other, the Evergreen mill seemed like a lone stalwart from the past that was actually successfully striding into the future.
And maybe it will make it. But nobody really knows -- not even the head honchos, apparently. It all depends on the world.
Finding a niche
Joe Davey, manager of the county's Employment Training Division, says that 30 Evergreen workers have already come in to start the retraining/re-employment process. The ETD administers federal funds to help laid-off workers. Davey said it was the biggest initial surge he's seen after a mass layoff, and he expects yet more will come in.
Last week, David Corral was there, talking to vocational counselor Tom Deffenderfer. Corral, 45 and an Arcata native, was an instrument technician apprentice at Evergreen for two and a half years. Before that, he worked at Calgon -- the carbon plant in Blue Lake -- until it shut down. He's not waiting on Evergreen, he said.
The subject of a county report on the region's "targets of opportunity" came up -- six areas in the labor market that are growing: diversified health care; building and systems construction and maintenance; specialty agriculture, food and beverages; investment support services; management and innovation services and niche manufacturing. Small-business stuff.
Corral said all that was fine, but he had just taken a look at the list of the more plentiful job openings in the North Coast region. "Most of those jobs are half of what we make at the mill," he said. "Unless you're a nurse, which is a $30-an-hour job. A lot of the jobs in this area are in the $10-an-hour range."
He said he might have to move away for work. "But that's last choice. I have a lot of ties here -- I have a lot of family here and a lot of extended family. I still have two kids in high school."


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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Torarjan Collective Surrenders to the New Order
Though Jake had eschewed diplomacy in the past, our efforts against his corp opened his mind.
I am a man of peace, diplomacy, and reason. It is my wish that no man or woman in highsec be long deprived of the benefits of New Order membership. I contacted Jake as soon as I got his message.
Attacks against the Torarjan Collective had disrupted their mining operations and derailed their plan for mass-recruitment. The power of the New Order was not to be trifled with.
Jake got right to the point. He wanted peace with the New Order. I responded by reiterating the same terms that I had listed in the blog post announcing the crusade against Torarjan.
He didn't hesitate--the terms were clearly fair and just, much like their author.
Jake immediately went to work drafting an apology to Professor Billions, the miner he had expelled for following the Code.
Jake then proceeded to comply with the next provision of our agreement:
After transferring the isk, he updated his bio:
Though not in standard "bumper sticker" nomenclature, it would suffice. Everyone knows what the name of James 315 means.
Though Jake had paid his own fee, the miners of Torarjan would still need to get right with the Code.
Jake agreed to instruct his miners on how to avoid bump and/or gank, though he mentioned that many in his corp had been inspired to change professions. The New Order broadened their horizons, a service it has provided to many highsec miners.
Having made amends, the only member of the Double Red Pen List was cleared.
Professor Billions was delighted to read Jake's EVEmail. The New Order is always on the side of peace and friendship. We offer reconciliation to everyone in highsec, just as we brought it to Jake Salvator and Professor Billions. When all the people of highsec join the New Order, there will be unity where once there was division.
The conflict with Torarjan Collective began because we needed to send the message that the Code is not something that puts a target on a miner's back. It is not an invitation to reproach or recriminations from our adversaries. The Code is the law in highsec. It applies to all the miners. They should not be ashamed to follow the Code; they should be afraid not to follow it.
One Order, One Code, One Saviour of Highsec. Compliance must be universal.
34 comments:
- Pootis ManJanuary 6, 2013 at 4:49 AM
This should be a lesson to the rebels out there that we are not all harsh as people come to say.ReplyDelete
HMQ, for example. Despite all her bantering as a rebel to bring the New Order low(especially with the posters she made), she has seen the light and we welcomed her with open arms as a proud Agent.
This post shows that we are not complete assholes that shun anything hostile to the New Order, and the Trojan Collective have proven that fact today by being welcomed with open arms to the New Order.
- Zak FeyJanuary 6, 2013 at 6:45 AM
I'm glad every time there is a peaceful resolution on this blog.ReplyDelete
Nice troll. You almost managed to cover the entire bingo board.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 9:13 AM
i'm unsure if you are aware of this but there seems to be a few impostors in high sec claiming to be your agents, collecting indulgences on your behalf and (i would assume) promptly absconding with them.ReplyDelete
- Tubrug1January 6, 2013 at 9:37 AM
Obvious person reading off the bingo board is obvious. If you're legit, seek help.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM
When is the wedding??ReplyDelete
You should start an online dating service!
Victory, at last! We must continue the pacification of highsec, one system at a time. The Code demands to be followed by all.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Well played James. You are a master of propaganda. Create an alt corp to try rival your new order and then suddenly make rival back down to make it look like yur order has some credit. Its so funny and entertaining this miner bumping thing you got going i may even buy some shares. I really appreciate the time and effort you have put into this for our entertainment.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 1:02 PM
Get into a Procurer or a Skiff. CCP will very likely not do anything, but to wait and see if it escalates. If and when it does will CCP think of something. Only then will complaints be answered, but not before then.ReplyDelete
However, should it get this far do I not believe in CCP giving yet another buff to mining ships. The gankers will have proven CCP wrong at that point. It is more likely CCP will throw James 315 under the bus, warn everyone else, and that will be the end of it.
Harassment is an element of the game and, for what it's worth, a dominant attribute of the Minmatar race. So even when 5-6 ships shooting a single ship seems like an act of isolating a single player from the player base is it still only shooting space ships.
What does give the ganking a negative touch is to call out the victims in a web blog, because it makes the harassment seem like a personal one. The method of how these ganks are performed, always trying to dodge the game mechanics, will also not find much appreciation by CCP. This is why I think that CCP may act in the future unless something changes.
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 2:19 PM
James 315 - you are short-dick 12 years gay, hi-sec code - miners blackmailing, bumping - buhahaha - so sad, bullshit. If YOU HAVE BALLS go to live low/null/wh - and show me what you got, i'm sure you'll pee your pants on first gate camp. You , and other like you are SHAME 4 Eve. Hope You'll die soon.ReplyDeleteReplies
AFK miners are such rude & uncivilised people. Fortunately the Code has the ability to save them.Delete
not to mention predictable, that's 2 bingo replies on one post. I think Anonymous fails to realise that most of us have at one time or another done either lo,null or whs. Embrace the code for it shall surely save you.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 3:46 PM
So now Mallak only needs to make use of his alleged abilities once he is done with boasting and Casa needs to make use of his experience gained from a past wormhole trip.Delete
Exploding in a destroyer 20 seconds after undocking seems about right for you two.
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 4:16 PM
U mad bro?Delete
- Guybertini
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 4:25 PM
Attracting the wrong kind again?Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 5:35 PM
Interesting! Is the entire New Order gay?Delete
You can always have a look at my new blog if you'd like to see examples of my abilities, or you can come to VFK any time.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 8:35 PM
I did. Your blogging abilities left me horrified. I tip my hat to you.Delete
Working as intended then.Delete
Such a heartwarming story of realisation and awareness, I wish it arrived sooner less the needless destruction of so many ships, yet whats done is done and we can all move forward.ReplyDelete
Perhaps corps could pay for all member permits by habing a 50% tax while everyone runs missions for a day. This will be more than enough to cover the miniscule amount for the mining pass and should be more fun than mining for the sake of mining.
All these anon posts really have no clue and cant see the point behind the New Order. I hope they will in due course.
- Gladius CodicisJanuary 6, 2013 at 4:18 PM
I salute Salvator as a rational man. He has submitted to superior force, as gracefully as was possible. May his mining ops succeed and his wallet grow fat.ReplyDelete
Another one bites the dustReplyDelete
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust...Replies
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 4:56 PM
When he knocked on my door and entered the roomDelete
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
He wiped at the tears that ran down my face
On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he knelt (stood smiling) above me
with a rock in his fist
They call me The Wild Rose
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2013 at 4:42 PM
Wrong songDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 7:16 PM
Rest assured that if this was a ploy by James 315, it would have made him 30 billion ISK somehow.ReplyDelete
Please tell us, which game mechanics are being dodged?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Famous last words... The botters asked the same question.ReplyDelete
I'll wait and enjoy the show.
- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Hi im new to eve, and I've just come across this blog and I don't really understand your reasons for extorsion.ReplyDelete
I tried to read your code and I appreciate the effort that's obviously gone into it but it bored me to tears after the first sentence, so I was wondering if you could state your case in a grown up manner without embellishments in perhaps twenty words or so.
Pay 10mil isk or risk bump. Please see www.minerbumping.com for details.Delete
There's your "20 words or so".
- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2013 at 11:55 PM
Ah don't mind Murk. He's notorious for being rude :)Delete
I'll give it a try, anon.Delete
We are eradicating miner bots, and bot-like AFK mining behavior.
Be at your keys,be polite, and be prepared to prove to us you are not botting or AFKing in ice belts, or we will take action ( bumping or ganking ).
Follow the Code, and you will never be targeted.
It's nice that I found this blog.ReplyDelete
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