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SpeedPro Imaging: Pioneering the World of Wide-format Printing
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The print industry is continuing to move toward more digital options, with the emergence of newer and more advanced technology. Wide-format printing is the fastest growing segment of the printing industry, as marketers look for bigger and better ways to impact and influence their target audience. SpeedPro Imaging, the leading wide-format printing and graphics franchise, is a B2B solution for professional graphics with more than 20 years of experience.
With a creative eye and passion for stunning presentations, SpeedPro Imaging provides custom marketing solutions that boost bottom lines. As a whole, SpeedPro Imaging brings in more than $65 million in systemwide sales through more than 130 locations in the United States. Its sister company, SpeedPro Canada has more than 50 locations.
Extraordinary Solutions and Services
SpeedPro Imaging is an extension of its clients' marketing teams. The company partners with businesses that want to maximize the efficacy of their efforts via large-scale visuals. The studios of the company work with the clients on projects such as experiential office design, wall murals, Point of Sale and Point of Purchase displays, event graphics, trade show displays, individual and fleet vehicle wraps, and more.
The mission of this organization is "partnering with businesses to achieve success through innovative visual solutions." SpeedPro Imaging's main aim is to bring the clients' messages to life with unmatched timeliness, professionalism and product quality. One of the best representations of the ability to fulfil its clients' needs is the Net Promoter Score of 96, which demonstrates the satisfaction of clients with the SpeedPro studios.
The Winning Strategies
From faster printers to new media, including more eco-friendly and sustainable media, SpeedPro Imaging is constantly looking to expand the products and services. Currently two pilot programs are under testing:
The first is interactive, touchscreen digital signage that is being tested in the SpeedPro studios. This digital signage is a significant value-add for its clients in convention and event spaces that are looking to stand out.
The other is a Direct Color Systems printer that opens opportunities with property managers, sports facilities and architects because of its ability to conform to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant signage. This ultra-violet printer produces textured print by layering ink – very cutting edge.
In order to leverage these opportunities, team SpeedPro is in close collaboration with the studio owners through Franchise Advisory Council, SpeedPro Owner Forum, and their Ask the Owners internal communications network. The company also has close relationships with its most important vendor partners regarding new equipment, media, ink, industry trends and product verticals.
Clients' Attractions
SpeedPro Imaging takes pride in partnering with its clients. The clients are considered as an extension of a company's marketing team. The team of SpeedPro collaborates with each client and determine the right solution for each individual business. The owners work with each other across over 130-studio network in the U.S., sharing knowledge and experience to give each client the best product possible. SpeedPro Imaging works quickly to deliver quality work on time.
Global Recognitions
SpeedPro Imaging was ranked #399 on the Franchise 500 list and #198 on the Top Global Franchises list by Entrepreneur magazine for its outstanding performance in areas including unit growth, brand power and financial strength and stability.
The company was also ranked #23 by Franchise Gator on their 2018 Top 100 Franchises list that focuses on a brand's financial stability, growth, transparency, engagement, continuity and sustainability.
Sketching the Future Roadmap
Apart from the two pilot programs, SpeedPro Imaging has invested heavily in new training programs for its studios and has scheduled completion of a number of new initiatives in the areas of Sales and Marketing, Recruiting and Retention of the important studio team members and production and workflow improvements. "We're looking down the road five to ten years to look at other service and product options that will keep SpeedPro ahead of the competition and provide our clients with the latest innovations in products and service delivery", the company states.
Let's Meet the Dynamic Key Persona of SpeedPro
Larry Oberly became the CEO of SpeedPro Imaging in November 2017. With over 27 years of experience in franchising, both as a franchisee and at the corporate level, Oberly started his career in franchising sector by opening two successful Baskin-Robbins locations in the St. Louis area.
After years as a franchisee, Oberly made the switch to the corporate side of the equation. He joined RE/MAX as a franchise development consultant in 1998, quickly rising through the ranks. Within seven years, he was serving as the vice president of the U.S. regional development overseeing seven regional business units and 1,400 offices. Soon after, he moved to RE/MAX's international division, where he grew the company's network from 55 countries to more than 100 countries and territories, with 3,900 offices outside of the U.S. When Oberly made the move to SpeedPro Imaging in 2017, he found himself getting attracted to the creative industry and a company on the forefront of the digital future.
Words of Inspiration for New Entrants
"Don't go it alone. Join a company such as SpeedPro Imaging that has the power of a network of entrepreneurs that provide the very best to our clients and that is helping us innovate through testing and collaborating around the new ideas", Larry concludes.
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Bloodborne on PC – Why it may not be just a rumour
Bloodborne on PC - Why it may not be just a rumour
When Dark Souls landed, it was a smashing success. Then the same developer, FromSoftware, released Bloodborne in 2015. This phenomenal game was exclusive to the PS5, and still remains to this day. However, recent rumblings from leakers, fans and analysts point to the same thing. Bloodborne, according to many, may finally be getting a PC port soon. Let's take a look at the game's launch history, and why many believe it may find a new home in the PC sphere.
Bloodborne is still a fan-favorite title to this day. Improving upon the core mechanics of the Souls series, the game adds additional weapon versatility in the form of firearms. The setting of the game, an amalgamation of Gothic, Victorian-era London and Romanian architecture, sees the player face powerful enemies using slick weapons and brutal combat. Bloodborne is a highly polished and aesthetically-loaded game, with its own rich lore and art style. Put simply, it is a huge step forward for FromSoftware, and helped create a whole genre of its own: the SoulsBorne style of games.
However, the bitter truth is that the game still hasn't been experienced by legions of interested gamers. Sony, at the time, wanted the developers to make for them an exclusive IP. While that certainly helped boost the PS4's appeal (over the lackluster Xbox One exclusives lineup), it also deprived players on "wrong" consoles. Scores of Nintendo and Microsoft console owners frequently express their desire to enjoy the Bloodborne experience, with no official confirmation of the possibility.
Sony withholding Bloodborne from PC and Xbox gamers all these years is simply ridiculous
Since 2015, plenty of games have come to other platforms after timed exclusivity for Sony. The 2019 reboot of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare came to PS4 first, sure, but it made its way soon after everywhere else. Meanwhile, even Microsoft exclusives like Cuphead started off on Xbox One and PC, but now appear on the PlayStation Store. Last year, in fact, Microsoft made headlines after purchasing the highly popular developer, Bethesda (of the Elder Scrolls and Fallout fame). When asked about its intentions with the upcoming, highly-anticipated Elder Scrolls and Fallout titles, they assured gamers that it wouldn't go much further than timed exclusivity.
This gamer-friendly practice shows a greater commitment to pleasing the gaming community. Meanwhile, other companies like Nintendo famously guard their intellectual properties from even their own playerbase. However, Sony broke precedent a few years back when Nier: Automata launched on Xbox and PC after the PS4. And Horizon: Zero Dawn, too, is a great exception. The game, released in 2017, was a massive hit on the PS4, and just a few months ago made its way to PC. This surprising move came out of nowhere; PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan claimed the move originated in a great financial opportunity. Read: the only reason Sony will ever consider bringing its games to other platforms is if they can profit off of gamers.
The launch of Horizon: Zero Dawn on PC marks a watershed moment for Sony games, and opens up new possibilities
Because Sony has now openly committed to bringing future titles to PC, upcoming games will make it too. The hotly-awaited sequel to Horizon: Zero Dawn, called Horizon: Forbidden West may also make it to PC after an initial waiting period. Furthermore, fans grow hopeful that older games will make it to PC or other consoles too. The recent remake of the original Nier title is just one example of a Sony exclusive fans want. What's to prevent a Bloodborne port to PC, Xbox or even the Switch? Only time will tell.
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COAST GUARD $$ DILEMMA SURFACES ; SEARCH-AND-RESCUES STRAIN BUDGET
By Vince Morris
November 1, 1999 | 5:00am
WASHINGTON – The official government Web site of the U.S. Coast Guard carries an ominous warning about its future:
"Is the U.S. Coast Guard Going Under?" reads the headline, which was lifted from a Neal Matthews article in this month's issue of Boating magazine.
For the Coast Guard, once again called upon to respond to an airline crash in the murky stretch of ocean between Long Island and Nantucket, the article raises legitimate questions over whether the agency has the resources to do its job.
Rear Adm. Richard Larrabee, who is in charge of the latest search, insists the Coast Guard does. He told reporters yesterday that two cutters were in the area and that the search effort for EgyptAir Flight 990 would be supplemented by 11 aircraft and four ships.
"The initial report was we had found seats, seat cushions, the flotation devices on the aircraft, life rafts and some other small parts that are not identifiable," said Larrabee, defending his decision to search for survivors when many observers believe no one could have lived through the crash impact.
But the Coast Guard is struggling with a string of budget cuts as it has shifted to fighting drug trafficking rather than traditional search-and-rescue.
According to Coast Guard and congressional documents, the Coast Guard's duties have expanded over the last 20 years, yet its work force has been downsized by 4,000 positions and its budget reduced by $400 million.
In the last five years, the Guard has closed bases, consolidated commands and trimmed the amount of money it devotes overall to search-and-rescue missions – from about 12 to 9.5 percent.
This year, the Coast Guard asked for $4.2 billion, but got $4 billion. Its uniformed force of 35,000 is at its lowest number since 1963 – a time when the Guard was asked to do far less than it does today.
The Coast Guard spent $375 million on search-and-rescue last year, a third of the $935 million the agency spent on maritime security, such as stopping drug dealers at sea, stopping undocumented immigrants and making sure fisherman don't break the law.
Congress has earmarked $9.4 billion for the Coast Guard for the years 2000 and 2001. But the money is, in large part, aimed at the drug war, with 15 new ships set to be added to the fleet and few new resources destined to improve search-and-rescue efforts.
Yet there are many critics who say the Guard could do far more with its resources.
A recent report by the U.S. General Accounting Office concluded that the Guard could absorb more cuts if it deployed officers more efficiently and transferred personnel less frequently. The Guard rejects the suggestions.
In July, Larrabee oversaw the rescue effort for John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister – a search that included ships, planes and all-terrain vehicles moving over the ocean and Martha's Vineyard beaches.
Larrabee has run the Coast Guard's East Coast district since 1997.
Guard ships from Maine, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Massachusetts are expected to participate in the current search effort.
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Diva Devotee: [Listen] Idina Menzel Covers Mariah Carey's "All I want For Christmas is You"
[Listen] Idina Menzel Covers Mariah Carey's "All I want For Christmas is You"
I don't think I'll ever get tired of Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas. In fact, I think I could stand to hear it all year round. (Something I'm sure Mariah's publisher would also want to see happening). Still, it takes a brave Diva to cover such an iconic song.
Enter The Snow Queen herself, Idina Menzel, who recorded the Christmas classic for her seasonal LP, Holiday Wishes.
With a jazzier production than the Motown-esque original, Idina is given the room to deliver a (complimenting) vocal that is freer and less structured than Mariah's. Certain refrains from the source material are interwoven in, but Idina smartly switches octaves and flips dynamics to mitigate the amount of direct comparisons that could be drawn between the two Divas. It makes for an interesting first few listens. However, on repeated plays, it doesn't quite capture the magic of the original for me- being slightly too long post bridge.
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Home » Travel » Bloke claims flight service was 'abhorrent' after he refused to move for family
Bloke claims flight service was 'abhorrent' after he refused to move for family
A man claims he experienced "abhorrent service" from an air hostess after he refused to move seats to allow a family to sit together.
The bloke claims he paid extra for a seat at the front so that he could have extra legroom for his 10 hour flight.
But a family of six wanted to sit together and so he refused to change his seat, reports the Mirror.
The traveller took to Reddit to all whether he'd really been unreasonable in refusing to move.
He wrote: "I paid a small amount extra for a seat that is in the front of the cabin – the coach seat that has a wall in front of it and extra legroom because it's my second leg in a 20-hour total trip.
"Two adults, two children (8ish?) and two infants would like to fill this row of four. Two adults with one infant each in the bassinet in front of them, and the two middle-schoolers. The attendant asked if I would move to a similar seat so they could sit together.
"I said, 'but I paid extra for this seat.'"
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He continued: "The response was that the other seat was the exact same, so sure. It was not the exact same. It was the same chair, aisle, and class, but it was not with the extra legroom. I said, 'absolutely not.'
"So one of the middle schoolers had to sit by themselves."
He claimed that since refusing other passengers kept shooting him dirty looks.
He added: "Service on the flight for me was abhorrent in comparison to everyone around me."
And, staff "forgot" to serve him and seemed extra slow.
But, posters on Reddit thought that the man hadn't done anything wrong – and that the staff should have come up with another resolution.
One person wrote: "You paid more and planned ahead. They didn't. Too many parents think the rest of us will just give them want they want even if they don't pay or plan for it."
"If the flight attendants had wanted to make it easier for the parents by you moving, they should have offered you a better seat.
"I bet there were a few open in first class," added another.
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I, the Jury
By Louise Ure
I've been on jury duty for the last week and a half and it looks like it's going to go on for another four or five days to come.
You'd think that at least one of my excuses would have worked to keep me off the panel.
• I'm self-employed and don't get paid if I don't write. (Tough. Even writers take some time off.)
• I'm on deadline with my next book. (Okay, so that was a lie. The next book is already turned in and we're at the galley proof stage. But hey, I've only got three months to turn those proofed galleys back in. Isn't that some kind of deadline?)
• I'm a caregiver and have to stay at home. (Well, my care giving is only for the dog, but that still ought to count for something.)
• I'm a mystery writer and one of my books is about a jury consultant. (The prosecutor's eyes lit up at this one.)
• I'm a mystery writer and in some of my books the police are dorky and don't get the right guy. (See above parenthetic statement, and substitute the words "defense attorney" for "prosecutor.")
Now don't get me wrong. I think that all able-bodied (and able-minded) people should serve on juries. It's not just a duty; it can be a pleasure. (I get great character and plot ideas when at the courthouse.) So I don't try to get out of it unless the trial is expected to last an extraordinary amount of time and would dramatically affect my writing schedule.
But I've been called for jury duty five years out of the last seven and it's getting a little old.
That's probably the excuse I should have used with the judge. Or the more valid:
• I have a low threshold of tolerance for stupid people.
• If you waste my time in repetition or pontificating, I will hold it against you.
• The willing suspension of disbelief should be reserved for fiction. Don't try that on me in a courtroom.
That's the truth and it ought to make me unfit to serve. However … none of it worked.
Just call me Juror Number Ten.
Jurors aren't supposed to talk about a trial, particularly when it's still ongoing, so I won't tell you anything about this case except that it is a criminal trial and it has some interesting characters on both sides.
But I will tell you about the jury selection process, in some ways more eye opening than the trial anyway.
About two hundred of us were called from the jury assembly room for this case. That seemed high to me, for a run-of-the-mill felony and a fairly short trial, but J.D. can probably tell us why it's right.
I wore a pair of Levi's, a linen jacket and leather-soled shoes. I was not the best dressed person there. That honor went to an octogenarian with a Swedish accent, perfect makeup and pearls. As for the rest of the group, there was a paucity of undergarments among the women (lots of free swinging breasts) and a surfeit of underwear among the men (jeans pulled so low on the hips that they had to walk sprattle-legged to hold them up.) Anyone not wearing denim was a lawyer.
A full third of the group asked to be excused for "hardship" reasons and filled out forms with long, scratchy sentences full of exclamation marks and cross outs to explain their duress. The judge had a nice rhythm going as he stamped "DENIED" across most of the forms.
• Your employer doesn't pay you when you're on jury duty? Sure they do, they're here on my list.
• You're an immigrant and you only understand about a third of what I'm saying? That's good enough. Listen closely.
• You're elderly and can't sit for long periods of time? Don't worry, we'll take a couple of breaks.
Then we got into the "attitudes and comprehension" part of voir dire.
• Could you follow the law even though you disagreed with it? It's surprising how many San Franciscans wanted to discuss jury nullification in depth and explain with righteous indignation exactly what laws they would find objectionable.
• Do you understand that these defendants are presumed innocent? No, your honor! After all, they've been arrested. Somebody already thinks they're guilty, right?
• Do you understand that the defendants don't have to take the stand, that the burden of proof is on the prosecution? "But I would always wonder why they didn't," one woman said. "I mean, if they didn't do it, why don't they just say so?"
And of course, the case-specific questions:
• Could you be fair to these defendants even though,
A) you're about the same age as the victim,
B) a similar crime happened to you or a family member thirty years ago,
C) the defendant's name sounds foreign to you and your name is already pretty weird, or
D) you say you don't trust X racial group and the officers that arrested the defendants are X.
The questions – and the answers – went on and on. Two days of jury selection. Two days of some of the dumbest, least introspective comments from potential jurors I've ever heard. But also two days of some of the most damning personal admissions I've ever heard aired in public.
Would you admit in a public forum that you were racially biased?
Would you confess that you always take the word of a policeman over a civilian?
Would you dare to say that you couldn't be trusted to make up your own mind, and would probably side with the rest of the jurors just to get it over with?
My fellow prospective jurors said all that, and more.
I hope and pray that they didn't mean it. And I hope that the potential juror in the seat behind me who fell asleep for a full hour during the questioning got sent home for that reason alone.
If these people are, in fact, a jury of my peers then I'm screwed if I'm ever accused of a crime. They'll think I'm guilty, they'll think my glasses make me look untrustworthy, they'll think my name is part of a cuss word, and they'll remember a woman who looks like me who cut them off in traffic six months ago.
On the other hand, maybe they're not so stupid for making these pronouncements. Maybe they're just better at getting out of jury duty than I am.
Lagniappe: One little postcard moment in this week's sea of courtrooms and lines and security measures and waiting. I was outside the courthouse during the lunch break, sitting on a knee-high wall that surrounds the building. A young black man, dressed head to toe in Neuvo Gangbanger Black sat twenty feet down from me, his legs extended and crossed at the ankles. When the sidewalk in front of us was clear, he'd toss a few pennies out then wait to see who picked them up. White guys, every time. Never a minority, never a woman, never a child. Only police officers and others guys in sports coats who looked more like detectives than lawyers. And each of them would say to his companion something like "Must be my lucky day!" or "I'm superstitious; can't pass up a penny on the street" or "Heads! It's an omen!" The black guy looked over at me and winked. "Just like feeding the pigeons."
Okay 'Rati. Got any jury stories? Or lucky penny stories?
This entry was posted in Louise Ure on August 5, 2008 .
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31 thoughts on "I, the Jury"
toni mcgee causey August 5, 2008 at 3:26 am
For the first jury duty, I had to bring my son with me. I had no one to care for him for the during the day. Couldn't afford the day care facilities around us, so that meant he went me. I packed everything he might need–diapers, food, bottles, toys, extra clothes, you name it, I had it in there. My son was being quiet through the introductions of the various people who would be questioning me, when the judge leaned a little, saw what I was holding and motioned me up to the bench, and asked me had I lost my mind, bringing a baby into his courtroom. I pointed out that I had no choice, so if he didn't want to shell out the money for a daycare center, then he was going to be seeing me with my baby every day.
He dismissed me and said to never come back in his courtroom again. I haven't been called back for jury duty since then, so maybe he really meant it.
Barbara Sheridan August 5, 2008 at 7:11 am
If these people are, in fact, a jury of my peers then I'm screwed if I'm ever accused of a crime.
I've been called to jury duty twice and that was my exact thought both times. I don't ever want the people I've been called with deciding my fate.
billie August 5, 2008 at 8:07 am
Louise, I hope you're going to use that guy in black tossing pennies on the sidewalk. What a wonderful scene!
Hope the trial goes quickly and that you get a few more gems for your trouble.
J.D. Rhoades August 5, 2008 at 8:12 am
My "favorite" jury story, thankfully, happened to a colleague of mine in a civil case. It was a personal injury case with clear liability on the part of the defendant (the defendant even admitted she was at fault in the wreck) and pretty bad injuries. The jury, however, came back with an absurdly low verdict, less, in fact, than the total of the plaintiff's considerable medical bills (none of which were covered by insurance). When my friend asked a juror later why the verdict was so low, the juror cheerfully explained that "well, we knew it was the defendant's fault, and we knew the injuries were bad, but we couldn't decide how much to give the plaintiff. So we all wrote down what we though was a fair figure, then we got the average of that. Then we divided that by 12."
Think about that for a moment.
When informed that "averaging" meant they'd already divided by 12 once, the juror looked stricken, then shrugged and said "oh well, her medical bills were covered by insurance, right? I mean, everybody has health insurance."
Think of that the next time some insurance company shill starts yammering about 'out of control juries."
Okay, I'll get off the soapbox.
Louise, I have no idea why they summoned 200 jurors for a routine felony. Maybe that's the usual number?
Wilfred Bereswill August 5, 2008 at 8:30 am
I've been summoned for jury duty just three times in my life. Once, I was out of the country in China, and one time my company just couldn't do without me. I feel slighted.
The one time I served, I wound up as number 13, an alternate. I sat through the entire trial, a snoozefest, by the way, and when the jury retired I was released.
I remember the little speech the judge gave number 14 and I. He told us that as we left the room, we may be asked questions about the case by the lawyers on both sides. We could talk to them or not, our choice.
The moment I was freed, the defense pummeled me with questions. I'm guessing he wanted to know whether he should try to make a last minute deal or not.
I answered a few of his questions and excused myself.
I wouldn't mind getting chosen for duty again. I found it extremely interesting.
Louise Ure August 5, 2008 at 8:51 am
Toni, I should have thought of that! I should have rented a baby for the day!
And yes, Barbara, the only thing that is more frightening than that collection of potential jurors is that among the final twelve, each of their votes was as valuable as mine. A humbling experience all the way around.
Billie, I liked the guy with the pennies. He may wind up in a book, but he'll certainly stay in my mind either way.
JD, that's a horror story. Sounds like they should have divided their IQ by twelve.
Wlfred, I think I'd hate being the alternate. You spend all that time, listen attentively, and then have no say? I'd be frustrated. But I'm glad it didn't sour you on the system.
Jake Nantz August 5, 2008 at 11:05 am
I was an alternate once. It was for a routine crack dealer bust, and the defense attorney essentially had to argue whether he was truly "in possession" of drugs with the intent to sell because he was picked up while going to get them from his hiding place after he'd agreed to sell them to the undercover cop. And some of those idiots on the jury were clearly flummoxed as to what they should do. A jury that was truly of MY peers would have laughed at the defense attorney. Or thrown eggs. Or both.
JT Ellison August 5, 2008 at 11:06 am
See a penny, pick it up,All the day you'll have good luck.See a penny, let it lie,Bad luck with haunt you, by and by.
But only pick up pennies facing heads up. Tails up are bad luck. I've read that it comes from an old pagan tradition about pins — see a pin, pick it up — because then you could use it in your spells.
I've never served, or even been called, for jury duty. I'd love to, I think it would be fascinating — as LU has made clear in this post. But I am a superstitious sort when it comes to coinage.
Tammy Cravit August 5, 2008 at 11:18 am
Being as how I'm not a US citizen, I've never been called for jury duty, but I'm surprised your excuses didn't work, Louise — especially the ones that dealt with your job. Maybe mystery writers just aren't scary enough. 🙂 A friend of mine was called to jury duty for what turned out to be a domestic violence case. He told me later that when he mentioned that he volunteered for our local rape crisis center (which is how I know him), the prosecutor and defense attorney both leapt out of their chairs like their butts were on fire to excuse him for cause.
Karen Olson August 5, 2008 at 11:22 am
I love the Penny Guy. That totally cracks me up. And I would most definitely use it in a book.
I've been called for jury duty but never been picked. Never even been on a short list, or a long list. Just dismissed. Part of me would like to serve on a jury, just to see how it is. But the other part of me would get really annoyed with the things you're telling us, Louise!
ArkansasCyndi August 5, 2008 at 11:39 am
I love the penny guy. Honestly, it has to be a scene in a book. I could see it completely in my mind.
I've been called to jury duty twice. The first time, I never made it out of the general pool. The second time, I made it to the jury pool. Someone didn't like me. I was dismissed. Do you think it was the fact it was a robbery case and I'd walked into my house being robbed or the fact I kept glaring at the defendant?
"If these people are, in fact, a jury of my peers then I'm screwed if I'm ever accused of a crime." Amen, sister
Louise Ure August 5, 2008 at 11:57 am
Jake, you mean offering to sell the undercover cop drugs wasn't enough for them? I was on a jury once where the drug dealer dropped the baggie by his feet when the cops approached. The cops had a video of him dropping it. My fellow jurors? "But it wasn't in his possession then when they arrested him, was it?"
JT: I like your heads-up pennies. My husband does the same thing. You're probably both blessed by good luck because of it.
Tammy, I was pretty surprised that being a mystery writer didn't automatically exclude me, too. But my favorite question? This exchange with the district attorney:
DA: How can you be sure that you'll be able to separate what you hear in court here from the imagined plots you're writing.
LU: It's easy. One is fact, the other fiction.
The folks in the gallery started laughing. I don't think I made a fan of her.
Pari Noskin Taichert August 5, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Louise,I've never been picked for jury duty and would be fascinated to do it — ONCE. I can't imagine how you've managed to be so lucky . . .
Maybe you ought to go for some of those face-up pennies yourself?
Louise Ure August 5, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Karen, I know you well enough to know that you'd be bored to tears with a jury trial. "Get on with it! Just tell the story!"
Hi Cyndi. Yeah, I think the spit wads you were throwing at the defendant were probably a pretty good indication of your state of mind. He's lucky you weren't on the jury.
Pari, I'm on somebody's sh*t list, that's for sure. I may try that penny stuff after all.
billie August 5, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Louise, LOL about the back and forth with the DA!
If you had said "Because I plan to try real hard to get by the mental health center to get my shot on time," you'd probably have been excused. 🙂
Billie, I'm not sure what would have mollified her.
"I'll take notes from the trial on the right hand pages and notes for my book on the left hand side?"
"I never have been able to separate the two?"
"I don't have an imagination so I only write about the things I see in front of me?"
Karen August 5, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I was called to jury duty once. Well, it took 'em three times to get me. The first time, my dad was dying of cancer and I was his only caregiver. A couple years later they summoned me again, but my cat had just had tongue surgery (really) and I was feeding him with a feeding tube 6-8 times a day. I figured no one's going to excuse me for that, so I ignored the summons. What are they gonna do, right? Turns out, they send a Failure to Appear notice and threaten to send a cop to your door. Sheesh. Touchy.
So, after the feeding tube thing, I scheduled myself to come in. Let me say right now, I'm a horrible person — I flat don't want to serve on a jury. It's not so much the crime part as the "compelled" part. Compelled to be someplace and serve? Oh, I don't think so. I vote; I pay my taxes. That's all they get from me.
I ended up in a jury pool for a couple of inmates from Folsom Prison who stabbed and killed another inmate. These two guys are in chains at the defense table with seven correctional officers placed strategically around them. Then the judge says, "Don't read anything into all the security we have for this trial." Ah. I guess I'll just read something into all the gang tats.
Jury selection went three days (it was still going on when I got booted), and we'd gotten just over four hours of actual work done. Seriously – I counted. We'd be in the courtroom for 20 minutes, then recess for two hours. Another 45 minutes inside, then a 90 minute lunch. I thought I was going to slip into a coma waiting in the hall outside the courtroom. But now I understand why justice takes forever in my parts. Finally, I had enough. I asked the baliff to speak to the judge, so I could ask to be dismissed with cause. The judge agreed to hear me, so I sat in a jury seat and told the judge, the attorneys, all the CO's and the two convicts that I wouldn't believe a word that came out of the convicts' mouths because they'd already proven their character and gotten forcibly removed from society for it. I went on with a five minute speech I'd memorized. It was colorful. When I stopped talking, there was dead silence in the courtroom. The CO's were grinning. The judge finally turned to the attorneys and said, "Okay! Questions?" The attorneys said, "Not a one." I heard those magic words "you're excused," and hustled my fanny out of there.
They haven't summoned me since.
Pari Noskin Taichert August 5, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Karen,I'd LOVE to hear even a portion of that 5-minute speech. Louise could probably use a copy of the entire thing . . .
Louise Ure August 5, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Yes, Karen, if you've got that speech, or could recreate it, I'm using it the next time I get called!
And that tongue surgery. Doesn't matter if it's on a cat or a person, you've just defined "horror" for me.
AlisonGaylin August 5, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Love the penny guy, too! Both times I've been up for jury duty, I've been called and sat trial. The second case was a central hudson worker, who was suing for slander after being falsely accused of defecating in someone's driveway, and I have to say… it was a real maturity test. After hearing the man' attorney, in a deathly serious tone, run through nearly every possible euphemism for taking a crap, we were all sitting there, biting our lips and staring at our hands praying for the judge to call a break.
Alison, you must just have that look about you. The one that says "Oh, no, I don't write about gore and murder and suspense. Really, I'm just an open minded citizen!"
But that merde trial of yours would have had me grinning most of the day.
Lorraine. August 5, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I'm late to the discussion, but have lots of jury duty experience – had no kids & was an accountant, so work that can be caught up later. Once, I was on a grand jury – that's no fun at all. One day, sequestered, can't talk to anyone and get marched to lunch like a kindergarden class. Sent the guy to trial.Most interesting was alternate on a murder case that dragged on for months. One young man killed another & heaved his body out onto a snow covered parking lot, went home & scrubbed the interior of his car. It's very hard to get something really, really clean. We (2 alternates) were sent home at the end, but having spent months in the jury room with those folks, I really wanted to know what happened. A nice old guy took my phone number & gave me a quick call when he got home to tell me they found the fellow guilty.A fuuny one was statutory rape. The "victim" was a 14 year old precocious sexpot. When her 20 year old boyfriend had his buddies over to play poker, she served the beer & prezels in the nude.The fun was in the jury room. They gave us a transcript to read, and one of my fellow jurors was a hoitey-toitey society type and she volunteered to read the testimony for us, then had fits because she couldn't possibly say those words. So an 82 year old retired spinster librarian sweetly read us the testimony in the language of the victim and the defendant. He got off. The people that really po'd us was the girl's parents who'd insisted their daughter's boyfriend be tried as a rapist.Last couple of times I was called, got excused because I was acquainted with a witness, etc., but I enjoyed the times I served.
Lorraine, you've got enough jury experience for a whole shelf of crime fiction novels!
The trials I really objected to were the frivolous ones (maybe like your 14-year old rape victim?). In my case they were landlord/tenant disputes in civil court that wasted a week of my life for something that they should have been able to work out between them.
Important trials, like the murder case you served on, would be something else. I wish I could dedicate enough time for one like that.
Jill James August 5, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Like clockwork I get called to jury duty every single year. I've never done jury duty, but I get called every year just before my birthday.
What's with that, Jill? Very strange. Here in SF, jury service is tied to your voter ID (I think), but my summons come at all times of year.
Zoë Sharp August 6, 2008 at 1:57 pm
OK, mental note to self – if by any chance I get the urge to commit a crime while I'm over in America – on NO ACCOUNT get caught.
And Louise, the only thing I loved more than the penny story was the word you prefaced it with – lagniappe is a new one on me, so I had to look it up. Louisiana French?
Dave Arnold August 6, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I think it was the very first time I was called for jury duty – I was about 22 years old and it was a trial involving a black guy who was a con on probation. He had been caught carrying a handgun or some such. The defense attorney asked if anyone in the pool possessed firearms and/or knew someone in law enforcement. I raised my hand and told him I had two shotguns and a .22 rifle at home and was good friends with the State Senate sergeant-at-arms. Dismissed.
Allison Brennan August 8, 2008 at 1:38 am
I'm coming in late to the party, but I was called to jury duty last year. I wanted to be on the jury. The judge asked me a bunch of questions about my books and research. She asked if I wrote a book that had in any way domestic violence (hmm, yeah.) The judge removed a couple jurors for cause (one woman said she would not be able to look at graphic pictures with blood.) But not me. Then the prosecutor and defense attorney asked question of the other jurors (not me) and the prosecutor removed someone (I think this is the preemptory challenges–the ones where you don't have to say why–but JD would know better than me.) Then the defense attorney gets up and knocks me off. I wanted to stay! I wanted to ask why! I was willing to look at the evidence impartially and make an honest assessment as to whether the bastard was guilty of beating his wife nearly to death and kicking her with steel-toed boots. I could be fair. Innocent until proven guilty. I mean, I know people who were innocent who went to prison. Of course, I was very interested in hearing what the defendant was going to say . . . .


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I'll have art in this exhibition connected to themes in the book Station Eleven that revolve around the "artifacts" of a recently collapsed early 21st-century Western society. In this exhibition curated by Nancy Bergmann, members of the Allied Craftsmen of San Diego explore artistic interpretations of commonplace objects that give viewers the experience of artifacts from another time or place.
Opening reception: 2/25/18 from 3 - 6 p.m.
Members of the San Diego Feminist Image Group, Shoebox Projects and the Swedish Group Krogen Amerika present artworks that explore multiple visions of what feminism is today.
*This exhibition will travel to Stockholm, Sweden in May 2018.
Female artists invite a male artist to exhibit work that either complements or contrasts with their own. I have invited Richard Burkett to show with me.
Equally pleased to announce two upcoming shows in Sweden.
Members of the San Diego Feminist Image Group, Shoebox Projects and the Swedish Group Krogen Amerika present artworks that explore multiple visions of what feminism is today, in the context of Southern California and Northern Europe. Artists address the complexity of gender equality through themes such as sexism, body image, class, race, politics, spirituality, domesticity, biology, and history.
Kathleen Mitchell and I will be exhibiting paintings and sculpture on the subject of teaching the arts in prison settings. Kathleen is with Project Paintat Donovan State Prison and I teach Healing Art Process classes at local women's detention facility. Krogen Amerika is the name of a Swedish printmaking group and art gallery located in a 300-year-old red, wooden house in the center of Linköping in the region of Östergötland.


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Gold Subdued As Equities Jump On Trade Hopes; Focus On Fed
Spot gold eased 0.1 per cent to $1,491.72 per ounce as of 0537 GMT, after shedding nearly 1 per cent in the previous session.
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Gold prices were little changed on Tuesday, hovering around the key $1,490 an ounce level as progress in China-U.S. trade talks sent equities soaring, while anticipation ahead of major central bank meetings in the week provided some support.
Spot gold eased 0.1% to $1,491.72 per ounce as of 0537 GMT, after shedding nearly 1% in the previous session. U.S. gold futures dropped 0.1% to $1,494 an ounce.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he expected to sign a significant part of the trade deal with China ahead of schedule.
Further more, the United States Trade Representative, the lead U.S. trade agency, said there could be an extension on tariff suspensions on $34 billion of Chinese goods set to expire on Dec. 28 this year.
Wall Street jumped to an all-time peak after the statements on Monday, while Asian shares scaled a three-month high in early trade on Tuesday.
"There is a broad risk-on sentiment, with U.S. equities hitting a fresh record high. The trade talks are highly unpredictable... It has disappointed investors many times in the past and may repeat again," said Margaret Yang Yan, a market analyst at CMC Markets.
"The market is very positive about it right now, but that also means it is very vulnerable."
Gold was far from losing its sheen, analysts said, as a dearth of clarity on trade talks and Britain's divorce from the European Union (EU) still loomed large.
The EU agreed to a Brexit delay of up to three months, but Brexit hangs in the balance, with British politicians still arguing over how, when or even whether the divorce should take place at all.
Investors also braced for another dose of policy stimulus from the U.S. Federal Reserve this week, where it is expected to cut rates for a third time in a row when it concludes its two-day meeting on Wednesday.
Central banks in Japan and Canada are also scheduled for policy meetings this week, with the former leaning toward keeping monetary policy steady.
Lower interest rates make gold attractive as it reduces the opportunity cost of holding the metal.
Among other precious metals, palladium dropped 0.1% to $1,798.18 an ounce, not far from a record high of $1,808.81 hit in the previous session, as supply concerns continue boosting the autocatalyst metal's appeal.
Silver fell 0.4% to $17.79 per ounce and platinum shed 0.6% to $913.26 an ounce.
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Listen to the birds chirp, the clock tick, the babies giggle, and the wind blow.
A couple of years ago I went out on a first (and last) date with a guy who was maybe full of himself or maybe just nervous; I never determined exactly. Maybe a third option existed. Maybe even a fourth. We had talked on the phone the day before, and for about 30 minutes, all he did was talk. Seriously.
He talked about himself for 30 minutes straight.
Well, not so good, but I thought we at least made a tiny connection, and he offered to take me to lunch the next day. He also offered to drive about 30 minutes to go to a restaurant near my home, one he'd gone to before and enjoyed.
I watched him get out of his very nice car, look me up and down, sort of smile, and then launch back into the "talk till I drop" mode. I think he picked up where he had left off the day before. He had to stop when we got to the front reception desk to give his name, and while we were walking to our table, but then he started up again.
He talked pretty much nonstop for the next 90 minutes.
Did he ask me any questions or exhibit any interest in me at all? Sort of. You see my headline above, right? Yeah, about like that. He hijacked every point I made, each time showing me his version of things for five or ten minutes. It was just easier for me to nod, eat, and plot my escape.
Reality: When we talk about ourselves nonstop, no matter the situation, we turn almost everyone else off. We can come across as anything from arrogant to clueless. Sometimes we get the other person so upset we don't recover the relationship, whatever it was or might have been. Sometimes, when we're talking to a prospective client, we lose a sale.
And this post, which I first published in June 2015, was originally sparked by a story written by Bob Musial. Then, a few days ago, Larry Boyer, a beBee Brand Ambassador, wrote one along these lines, which prompted me to find my original one, dust it off, and republish it for those who never saw it.


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Martin Robinson of Eurogamer writes about how the greatest game story he has ever experienced came from playing Pro Evolution Soccer 6. He and two friends elaborated their game around a particular team way past the point of obsession into outright fantasy. It's an experience, he notes, that more sophisticated football games never managed to capture for all their glitz.
The characterisation of this experience as 'storytelling' is wrong but forgivable because we still tend to legitimise the art of games in terms of other arts. What he's actually describing is a brilliant example of what I call thauma.
Thauma is more than immersion, gameplay, rewards or story. At its most functional a game is a world of actions, rules and strategies. You play, your play brain finds it fascinating and you enjoy the experience of winning. However there is also your other cognitive side, your art brain. It looks for experience, inspiration, and the opportunity to create. When a game gets both sides right then something weird happens.
You notice numina. You infer qualities of the game that are not actually there. You care about it and catch yourself actively thinking beyond the game, to the point that the world seems to have an existence all on its own and you have just been lucky enough to step into it for a time. It becomes a belief engine.
The result is miraculous, a kind of magical engineering, and is why gamers get so into their games in a way that those who don't play often don't understand. It's thaumaturgy in action and when it strikes then there is no end to how wonderful the experience can be.
Thauma is why games are indisputably an art.
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is an autobiographical seinen manga written and illustrated by Junji Ito. Appearing as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine Monthly Magazine Z from the January 2008 issue to the February 2009 issue, it follows the adventures of J-kun, a horror manga artist as he adjusts to life with cats: Yon, whom his fiancėe brings along to their new house, and Mu, a Norwegian Forest cat whom the couple adopts as a kitten. Junji Ito's Cat Diary draws on autobiographical elements of Ito's personal experience with cats. Publisher Kodansha compiled the ten installments of the manga into a bound volume and released it in March 2009.

Kodansha Comics USA published an English-language translation of Junji Ito's Cat Diary in October 2015, which also included the contributions of Ito and his wife to the 2011 collection Teach Me, Michael! A Textbook in Support of Feline Disaster Victims. Upon publication, the manga received a favorable critical and commercial response, debuting in The New York Timess weekly list of the ten best-selling manga volumes. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who enjoyed it as a cat-centered manga whose humor was derived from the emphasis on the behavior of the cat caretaker, rather than the cat. Critical discussions have centered around Ito's use of realism and exaggerated horror to elicit moments of comedy, the manga's relationship to previous works by Ito, and how the artwork depicts the relationship between cats and their caregivers.

Plot
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu is an autobiographical manga that draws on manga artist Junji Ito's personal experience with cats. It features various anecdotes about living with cats, which center on J-kun, a horror manga artist (Ito's stand-in); his fiancée, A-ko (his wife Ayako Ishiguro's stand-in); her family cat, Yon ("Four"); and a Norwegian Forest cat, Mu ("Six").

"Mu Appears" opens with J-kun's move to a new home with A-ko. While J-kun wrestles with his apprehension over living with Yon, A-ko adopts a kitten to keep Yon company. She names the kitten Mu, since he will be the sixth cat her family has kept, with her mother's cat, Goro, being the fifth. J-kun is eventually won over by Mu.
In "Yon Attacks," J-kun dreads the arrival of Yon, whom he believes has cursed skull markings on his back. After Yon's stress-induced illness, however, J-kun accepts him as a member of the family.
"Battle of the Cat Wand" centers on J-kun's unsuccessful attempts to play with the cats.
In "The Events of One Late Night," J-kun tries to bribe the cats to sleep on his bed, rather than A-ko's, to no avail.
In "Yon is a Weird Cat," J-kun, while finishing his manga on a tight deadline one night, imagines that Yon transforms into various beings, including a slug, the supernatural snake-like creature tsuchinoko, and an elderly man. To J-kun's surprise, this leads to an encounter that he hopes isn't a hallucination.
"Yon's Great Escape" centers on Yon's escape from the house. Both J-kun and A-ko search for him, eventually retrieving him from a storehouse.
"King Yon" chronicles Yon's further unsuccessful attempt to escape, his unusual strength, and his position as dominant cat within the household.
"In "Mu's Castration," the couple takes Mu to the veterinarian to be neutered. Despite a brief medical scare, Mu survives.
"Unidentified Creature" centers on a visit from A-ko's parents and Goro, the timid cat they bring along. J-kun initially mistakes Goro for a spirit, while the other cats quickly take a liking to Goro.
In "Tread Not on Poop, Snot, or Cat," J-kun pranks A-ko with fake cat excrement, only to accidentally pick up real cat vomit thinking that it was A-ko's revenge.

Style

Ito used two main artistic styles throughout the manga: a realistic one and a horror-tinged one of exaggeration. Joe McCulluch of The Comics Journal wrote that Ito's transitions between these two styles provided the foundational humor of the manga, in that Ito punctuates scenes of realistically drawn domesticity with exaggerated moments of stylized horror. For example, one scene in which J-kun attempts to play with the cats starts within Ito's realistic style, only to have J-kun quickly devolve visually into a monster as he becomes more upset that the cats respond to his wife's attempts at playing with them but not his; his features become exaggerated and horrific, while the cats, however, lose their sense of motion and activity from earlier and become "stiffly realistic"  at his failed attempts to play with them. Anime News Network's Rebecca Silverman wrote that Ito's realistic art worked to make the cats endearing, while the moments of horrific art served as comedy.

Austin Price, another writer for The Comics Journal, remarked that Junji Ito's Cat Diary incorporates the "conceits and styles" of his earlier manga, such as narrative tone and body horror, to act as a parody of them. According to Price, only the everyday narrative of Junji Ito's Cat Diary delineated it from Ito's earlier works, which suggested to him that a degree of authorial humor was present in Ito's works; Price raised the possibility that "Ito's work was itself a kind of grand joke."

Other critics focused on the art's relationship to depictions of pet caretaking. Josiah Stoup of Otaku USA suggested that Ito's art caricatured "the intense emotions that a pet owner feels," with both the cats and J-kun alternatively being frightened by the other. Stroup interpreted J-kun's periodically monstrous form as how his overwhelming affection appeared sometimes to the cats. Silverman wrote that A-ko's terrifying appearance reflected her love for her cats, in that she appeared "as creepy as many of us cat owners fear we do." A-ko's appearance, with her almost entirely white eyes, has also been noted to share similarities with yokai, supernatural Japanese entities.

Development and publication

Best known for his horror manga Tomie, Lovesick Dead, Uzumaki, and Souichi, Ito was approached by his editor to write a manga about cats, after the editor correctly deduced that Ito had recently acquired a cat through a change in his artwork. Previously, Ito had drawn cats as frightening but had recently drawn a "very cute" cat in a way that appeared to capture the "essence" of cats, thus convincing the editor. Ito used the opportunity to draw on his anecdotes of living with the cats, and his wife advised him on the manga's storyboards and depicting the personalities of the cats. Ito's sister asked that her own longhair cat, Ran-chan, be included in the manga, but he did not have the space for it. His wife was generally fine with her depiction in the manga, but disliked that Ito drew her stand-in with very small pupils and striped pants.

Junji Ito's Cat Diary appeared as an intermittent serial in the Japanese manga magazine Monthly Magazine Z from the January 2008 issue to the February 2009 issue. Kodansha collected the ten installments into a bound volume and published it on 13 March 2009. Kodansha USA announced that it had obtained the manga's license at the 2015 Anime Boston convention, and published the English-language translation in North America on 27 October 2015. The English-language edition also included the pieces contributed by Ito and his wife for Teach Me, Michael! A Textbook in Support of Feline Disaster Victims (2011), a book which was intended to raise support for cat shelters after the Great Tohoku Earthquake. Their contributions consist of Ito's comic, "Yon Went to Heaven," and his wife's letter chronicling the death of Yon from heart failure on 3 February 2011, about a month before the earthquake, and their subsequent grieving. Junji Ito's Cat Diary has also been translated into French by Tonkam and Italian by Panini Comics.

Reception
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu was favorably received by English-language readers, charting in the fourth spot on The New York Timess weekly list of the ten best-selling manga volumes upon publication. In general, the manga was also positively received by critics. Reviewers enjoyed the narrative as a lighthearted window into pet caretaking, where the humor derived from the caretaker's response to the cats, rather than the cats' behavior. Children's librarian Marissa Lieberman wrote that, because of the overlap in the importance of narrative pacing and timing in both comedy and horror, Ito's previous work in horror and gag manga helped to make Junji Ito's Cat Diary unique among other cat-centered manga. Ito's two styles of artwork were generally seen as complementing the narrative nicely, with highlights being the characters of Mu and Yon, the range of character facial expressions, and the timing and content of the gags. The perceived potential audience for the manga was a point of discussion within the reviews, with several critics writing that the manga would appeal mainly to cat caretakers and fans of the author. Faustine Lillaz of Planete BD, in contrast, wrote that the humor of the manga would have a wide appeal.

References

External links
 Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon and Mu at Kodansha's official site

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Steelworkers fight for America's future
December 21, 2001	9:15 AM CST
STEEL CITY SOLIDARITY CAMP – Steelworkers from LTV Steel Corporation took the fight to save their jobs, pensions and health-care benefits to Capitol Hill last week.
"This fight is for industrial America. It's not just about us. It's for our kids, our grandkids and our communities. This fight is about what's right and what's fair," said Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA). "LTV is the poster child for everything that is wrong with America."
The USWA built an emergency tent city – "Steel City Solidarity Camp" – in Silver Springs, Md. at the AFL-CIO's George Meany Labor College. The camp, up from Dec. 12 through Dec. 21, housed the 300 steelworkers, retirees and their families who came from five states to flood the halls of Congress. They lobbied for Congressional support for an emergency government guaranteed loan of $250 million to save the jobs of 7,500 steelworkers and the pensions and health care of 60,000 retirees.
The laid-off steelworkers came amidst the backdrop of a Dec. 19 bankruptcy court deadline that will determine whether it is possible to keep the plants open or if the sale of the company's assets will begin.
Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Stephanie Tubbs Jones, both Ohio Democrats, rushed out of their offices to greet the busloads of steelworkers as they arrived for a briefing session to prepare for lobbying Dec. 13.
Tubbs Jones told the steelworkers their presence on Capitol Hill was critical to getting Congress to take action immediately.
Rep. Ted Strickland (D-Ohio), the son of a steelworker, told the hundreds gathered for a briefing, "Look them in the eyes and let them know how the closing will affect you."
Tony Scott, a pipefitter at LTV's Indiana Harbor blast furnace for 28 years, described the importance of people-powered politics.
"Showing our faces on Capitol Hill, on the TV, on the media makes a difference to [politicians] because it makes a difference to the public. If we get it out to the public, the politics won't be played in favor of those who run this country."
Two Cleveland banks – National City and Key Bank, N.A. – have agreed to offer a loan if it is guaranteed by the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Board, which was established by Congress in 1999 to back loans for the industry.
Their decision on the guarantee will determine whether or not the third-largest steel company will close, leaving families and communities stranded during one of the worst economic downturns of recent history.
The steelworkers visited hundreds of Congresspeople to ask them to sign onto a bipartisan letter initiated by Kucinich and Rep. Pete Visclosky (R-Ind.) asking the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Board to approve the loan. In one day, the steelworkers collected 90 signatures, with 220 more pending.
One of the chief lobbyists for the steel companies is Ed Gillespie, who was an advisor to the Bush campaign. The ultra-right, pro-corporate Bush administration keeps the steel companies' class interests uppermost on their agenda. At its core, the LTV bankruptcy is part of a long-term struggle to save domestic steel production within the framework of the corporate-controlled global economy.
Whole communities face devastation if LTV closes. Rick Miller from LTV's Cleveland Works told the World there were studies done the last time LTV went bankrupt. For every steel job lost, the studies showed, four to five other jobs were lost.
"The ripple effect is amazing and some communities never recover," Miller said. "We went to Youngstown last week during the bankruptcy hearings and talking to people in the streets there – it's a ghost town."
Cleveland will face a major fiscal crisis. "LTV pays millions of dollars in property taxes, said Cleveland City Councilman Roosevelt Coats, "vital for paying for police, fire, education, public health and other vital functions of our local government."
The loss of LTV's property taxes, he said, would lead to layoffs, cutbacks and tax increases.
If LTV's East Chicago plant is closed, Indiana will face the largest layoff in state history. Roberto Acosta, like his father and grandfather before him, works at Indiana Harbor in East Chicago.
"I've got 29-and-a-half years of service there and last week they laid me off. The management retired with millions of dollars in bonuses. We're the ones who pay for it in the end," he said. "I plan to do whatever it takes to win. I'll sacrifice, come to DC, camp out to have us be heard."
Not only will cities be affected, but rural communities as well, explained Jerry Fallos, president of USWA Local 4108 in northern Minnesota's Iron Range. "Right now there are 1,400 people out of work from LTV's steel mining company on the Mesaba Range." Layoffs, Fallos said, create an exodus of people leaving rural areas to look for jobs in cities.
Among the solutions offered by the steel industry are higher tariffs on imports, government takeover of retiree pensions and health plans, and consolidation of the steel industry through larger companies buying up others.
The USWA also supports many of those actions with a fight to maintain union contracts, jobs and retiree pensions and health benefits. But another idea is also being discussed. Some are talking about a form of public ownership – eminent domain – which means running the steel industry for the public welfare. (See story this edition: Steel industry should be publically owned.)
"We need to take the plants over and make steel," said Danny Banyard, vice president of USWA Local 188 in Cleveland. "It could very well be the kind of industry that should be run by the government. If no one else wants to run this company, maybe the city of Cleveland could take it over."
"I think it's an interesting idea, eminent domain. I hadn't heard it before," said Miller. "If the trade laws were properly enforced, it could be very profitable for cities."
It would be a way for them to insure that the jobs stay there and that the people continue to work and they receive their tax dollars, and possibly more, from the profits of the mill."
"We've seen Pittsburgh and Youngstown die," Miller said, "and when they do, there is a whole class of people who are left behind and forgotten."
"Sisters and Brothers, we are going to fight like hell to keep these mills from being damaged any farther," Gerard promised at the tent city's opening night rally.
"If someone comes to take these mills from us and says, 'We will take the mill if there is no union, no contract, no seniority, no retiree health benefits,' I don't give a damn if those gates are chained, you've got to get in those mills."
The steelworkers' struggle is not just their fight but also a rallying call for battles around jobs, public services for communities and the well-being of all working-class families. This struggle, and how to solve the crisis of the loss of industrial jobs, will have an impact on the 2002 and 2004 elections.
John Sweeney, president of the 14-million member AFL-CIO, spoke to the Dec. 14 rally outside the Commerce Department before the signed letter to the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Board was presented. Sweeney called the layoffs and bankruptcies a "national disgrace" and demanded that government leaders and institutions "stop looking the other way."
After the rally, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka told the World, "We have to continuously expose what's happening to the American public. I have an untapped reservoir of faith in the American people that when they know the truth and know what's fair they won't let a company like LTV get away with what they are trying to do."


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Recent research has re-documented that the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) understates retirement income.
Some have wondered if this problem also applies to other surveys and calls into question decades of research that suggest many are ill-prepared for retirement.
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The earnings and wealth gaps between whites and minorities are enormous. The question is how these disparities translate to retirement preparedness.
In 2016, the share of whites at risk in retirement was 48 percent vs. 54 percent for blacks and 61 percent for Hispanics, smaller than the earnings/wealth disparities.
The retirement gap is smaller simply because minorities have a lower pre-retirement standard of living to maintain.
Hispanics were hit much harder than either whites or blacks by the bursting of the housing bubble.
It would be easy to think that the police officer is a figure who has existed since the beginning of civilization. That's the idea on display in the proclamation from President John F. Kennedy on the dedication of the week of May 15 as "National Police Week," in which he noted that law-enforcement officers had been protecting Americans since the nation's birth.
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Election Results Boost North American Stock Funds in November 2016, Morningstar Canada Data Show Français
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Dec 02, 2016, 07:00 ET
TORONTO, Dec. 2, 2016 /CNW/ -- Morningstar Research Inc., a Canadian subsidiary of Chicago-based independent investment research provider Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), today released preliminary November 2016 performance data for its 44 Morningstar Canada Fund Indices, which measure the aggregate returns of funds in various standard categories. Twenty of the 44 fund indices increased during the month, including all indices that track Canadian or U.S. equity categories.
Highlights from Morningstar's November 2016 preliminary performance report include:
U.S. Equity and U.S. Small/Mid Cap Equity were the top-performing regionally based equity categories for the month, with their fund indices increasing 3.9% and 5.1%, respectively. The S&P 500 Index had fallen approximately 2% in the days leading up to the U.S. election on Nov. 8, 2016, but following the victory by Republican candidate Donald Trump, the U.S. stock index rebounded to reach record highs by the end of November, producing a total return of 3.7%.
All five Canadian stock categories had positive results in November. The Morningstar Canadian Focused Equity Fund Index, whose constituent funds hold, on average, approximately 30% of their assets in U.S. stocks, had the best performance in that group with a 2.5% increase, followed by Canadian Dividend & Income Equity, up 2.4%. The Canadian Small/Mid Cap Equity and Canadian Focused Small/Mid Cap Equity both increased 2.3%, while the Morningstar Canadian Equity Fund Index was up 2.2%, matching the total return of the S&P/TSX Composite Index.
The top-performers overall in November were two fund indices that track cyclical sector stocks: the Morningstar Financial Services Equity Fund Index, which increased 7.0%, and Energy Equity, which increased 6.9%. Both sectors got a boost following the U.S. election, as markets expect the new administration's policies to be more favourable to the energy sector and to usher in higher interest rates, which would benefit financial services firms.
Overseas markets generally decreased in November while the Canadian dollar appreciated against several currencies including the euro, the Japanese yen, and the Chinese renminbi. This led to negative results for the fund indices that track several foreign stock categories including Greater China Equity (-0.9%), European Equity (-1.7%) and Asia Pacific Equity (-2.5%). The Morningstar Emerging Markets Equity Fund Index was the worst performer among foreign equity fund indices, down 5.6%.
For the second consecutive month, the worst overall performer was the Morningstar Precious Metals Equity Fund Index, which decreased 16.6%. The price of gold futures dropped more than 8% during the month as new expectations for world markets were priced in following the U.S. election.
With the prospects of rising yields, fixed-income funds posted negative results last month. The worst-performing fund indices in this area were Canadian Long Term Fixed Income and Canadian Inflation-Protected Fixed Income, down 4.3% and 2.0%, respectively. The Canadian Fixed Income and Global Fixed Income fund indices both decreased 1.9%, while Floating Rate Loans increased 0.3%—the only fixed-income fund index in the black.
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This years grape harvest was a nail biter for sure!
We found ourselves right in the middle of the daunting tasting of moving the winery at the exact time the grapes needed to be harvested. It took many late nights and a lot of elbow grease to get this years harvest in as we received key equipment just hours before grapes were trucked in to the winery for processing. Warmer than average September temperatures lead to early harvests of white grapes with excellent yields and great flavor. Cooler October temperatures and several strong storms pushed red harvests a week earlier than expected. Fortunately the red grapes came in with great maturity which translates to huge flavor potential. The wines are now settling in nicely and tucking in for a long winters aging with only a few reds still finishing up before pressing next week.
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