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The 2014 report provides an overview of the size, structure and importance of SMEs to the European economy and their contribution to growth and jobs. Comparisons with important partner countries outside the EU and with the large enterprise sector are also included.
The pace of recovery of SMEs has slowed in the last three years. While there are some reasons for cautious optimism, conditions remain extremely tough for SMEs and further support is needed to yield sustainable SME growth. The recovery is still both partial and fragile. At the EU level, by 2013, SMEs had recovered to pre-crisis levels only in terms of value added, while employment in 2013 was still 2.6% below levels registered in 2008. In 2013, for SMEs in the non-financial business sector, value added increased by 1.1%, while employment decreased by 0.5% and the number of enterprises decreased by 0.9%. The overall picture, however, does not portray the considerable variations among size classes, sectors and Member States. The Annual Report reviews these differences in detail. The outlook is somewhat positive and a strengthened recovery is on the horizon. Total value added generated by SMEs is forecasted to rise by 2.8% in 2014 and 3.4% in 2015. Employment in SMEs is also forecasted to rise, with another 740,000 jobs.

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"Men can get involved, as long as the women call the shots"
In May 1968, progressive young people revolted. They wanted to fight the status quo and have more of a say. "In Flanders, the protests broke out early on. We were ahead of the rest of the world", explains Chantal De Smet, former "Dolle Mina".
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Even today, may '68 is regularly referred to as a point of departure and a source of inspiration. This troubled time at the end of the 1960s made its mark on history.
It was the first time that young people had spoken up for themselves. In the past, big strikes and campaigns mainly involved the working class. For the first time, young people were protesting against something other than a political programme. Over time this struggle did indeed became a political one, but their demands weren't initially political ones. Or at least, not in the way we would generally understand them to be.
People always speak of "May '68" but the struggle began earlier in Flanders. We were ahead of the rest of the world. On 13 May 1966, the bishops (who were at the head of the Catholic University at the time) decided that the University of Leuven would form a single entity and that the French-speaking faculties would be upheld. The students protested, and this movement led to a political process which coincided with May '68. When the rebellion began in Belgium and Flanders, the French students were still living in something akin to blissful ignorance. The protests ended up affecting not just France and Belgium but the rest of the world, from Berkeley and other American universities to Mexico, Berlin, London and Yugoslavia. This phenomenon went beyond the revolt of the soixante-huitards in Paris, which was incredible but short-lived.
Do you remember slogans from the time?
I particularly remember a slogan that was difficult to chant: "anti-capitalist structural reform". [laughter] But there were lots of others. In France, the slogans were highly creative, including "under the cobblestones, the beach", "it's forbidden to forbid" or "run comrade, the old world is behind you" and "Power to the imagination!"
How did this revolt begin?
It was in 1966 in Leuven, against a system which didn't take account of what students and the population had to say. The problem came from French-speaking faculties which on the site of Leuven University and which formed a kind of bubble, with newspapers, shops, schools etc. all in French. It was like a foreign body in the city. The situation was not easy to live with and the students made it known.
The students of Ghent rose up in March 1969; they wanted another teaching method and better relationships between people. At this time, the students weren't allowed to voice their opinion. Today students are allowed three or four study days before they take an exam. At the time when I was in the first year of university, I must have taken thirteen exams in five days. That's how things were back then. And then there were the teachers, primarily men (I was never taught by a woman), who though they could do whatever they liked because of their status. So, they turned up late, moved lessons around without warning and sometimes didn't even turn up at all. Teacher-student relations were very different from what they are today. The dialogue was inexistent. Little by little, students voiced their demands, which enabled them to get involved in the decision-making process.
In the 1960s it was possible to inverse the trend given the increase in wellbeing: the number of students at university had tripled, the pill was available on prescription and, just like in the USA, consumer society had made its appearance in Western Europe.
But it was also a reaction against this consumer society. As for the number of students, let's not exaggerate. It's true that more students had signed up to university since the war, but there were still just 10,000 in Ghent. At present, there are 41,000 students (and 75,000 if you include the colleges of higher education). The proportion of girls was always inferior (around 17 %). Their number increased by 10 % a decade between 1960 and 2000 and, today, girls are in a majority with a proportion of 57 %. The students from working class backgrounds demonstrated less than those from the upper classes. This phenomenon was also due to the fact that the educational system was different from the one we know today. A failed exam and you had to retake the whole year. Not to mention the fact that the student also lost his grant. For many students, myself included, the rule was simple: if you don't pass your first year at university, that was it, you stopped everything. Whereas today, you see students who are still studying subjects from their first year in the third year of their degree.
Could it be that middle class young people decided to protest to "Pass the time of day"?
I don't think people revolt out of boredom. Why would it be so much more exciting today? This was a generation that was born at the end of the war, five or six years after the liberation; a generation that grew up in a world that was all about restrictions. Then the first opportunities came along, the telephone, the car, the post-war boom and with that, the first criticisms of authority. And vice-versa: as long as you submit, you don't flourish. In the words of Mao Zedong "May a hundred flowers bloom".
Students from Leuven reacted with violence because people told them "That's the only way you can do it", without listening to their arguments. In Ghent, a colloquium was organised on pornography. The pupils wanted to show illustrations but the rector refused. So the students decided to invade the rectory. But rather than talking it through with them, the police threw them out. That of course led to another reaction, and the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy was also occupied. Students weren't reacting for fun, but out of responsibility. At one point they said: "We are responsible! Something is forbidden? OK, but please explain why."
On the course of this protest, the students realised that many of their problems were due to politics. So they decided to get in touch with the workers. France had been victim to numerous strikes by workers, but the situation hadn't been as extreme in Belgium. Over here, these reactions led to the creation of the Workers Party of Belgium, Medicine for the People and, later on, ecological and women's lib movements.
In relation to the actions of The Dolle Mina, in particular, can you see the long term effects they had on today's society?
The Dolle Mina played an important role, because they drew attention, in a rather audacious manner, to the problems that existed elsewhere and which were also experienced by others. So, women from classical parties and organisations started to say to themselves: "These crazy women are right, but we are going to change things in our own way!" Changes such as the chance to stand for election, the matrimonial law or even abortion were introduced and, even today, have a major impact on women's lives. Childcare was partially reimbursed. All these developments are the consequence not of the Dolle Mina initiatives, but of the movements which were inspired by their actions. The mix of "parliamentary and non-parliamentary actions" as it was referred to at the time, had a major impact.
Are you still in favour of male-female quotas today?
Of course. In theory, I'm against quotas, but you can't do without them here. Without quotas, there would be fewer women in politics. In my own college of higher education [Chantal De Smet was director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, K.A.S.K.), part of the Hogeschool School of Arts, Ghent], I often had discussions with the former president. "How come more than 50 % of our staff and students are women, yet the board of directors is exclusively made up of men?" I protested. He replied: "You're right, Chantal. We'll pay more attention next time." Only nothing changed the next time! So I decided to give him a list with the names of twenty female rectors, lawyers, teachers etc. He said to me: "We'll really pay more attention next time." He only did something about it when a decree meant he had to have women on the board of directors of institutes of higher education. If only women could be chosen for their good sense not because of a decree, we wouldn't need quotas. But in reality we're not there yet and even today, men (and even some women!) claim that there aren't enough qualified women. So yes, I'm in favour of quotas... I'm against them in theory, but for them in this instance.
The government mainly concentrates on target figures.
Target figures are not enough. You can't imagine the number of times at school that I've cried out: "It's not possible!" If only because of the image it gives to female students... All the positions of responsibility are taken up by men. It's like saying to every woman: "Dear, don't wear yourself out studying because whatever you do a man will get the post." The president answered me, true to form: "Yes, Chantal, you're right. Next time..." and so on and so forth.
That's a little bit like what coloured people say: white always attracts white.
Exactly. For years I organised projects with Stefan Hertmans at the Studium Generale of the Hogeschool Ghent. In our search for specialists we initially thought of men. We had to make an effort to look further for women. The media always gives the floor to male experts, which means we end up remembering these names, consciously or not. And yet, there are so many female specialists! In the 1990s, the VRT published a book entitled "Zeg niet te gauw, d'r is geen vrouw …" This work, contains the details of more than a thousand female specialists in all manner of domains. So an organisation could say "I'd like to focus on the culture of colonial plants, the history of Bruges in the fifteenth century or the significance of the city of Brasilia" and find a woman specialised in that domain.
In the 1960s, young parisian men wanted to resolve their sexual problems by protesting against the fact that they were forbidden from entering the female students' bedrooms. But, sixty percent of these young women were underage. On top of this the girls could always go to the boys, whichsounds like a perfect situation to me.
It's important to remember that in 1968, people came of age at 21, which means that the majority of students were underage. Co-education only really came on the scene in the 1980s, which also means that most of the students in 1968 came from boys or girls schools. Add to that the fact that the rules were different from one university to another. Things were undoubtedly more lax in Ghent than they were in Leuven, and there were less university halls of residence. In the halls of residence, the boys could go into the girls' rooms but had to leave by 10pm, which is of course totally hypocritical. The students, also in Ghent, protested against these rules. Ah, the evolution of mores! In the mid-1960s, I knew someone who lived with her boyfriend. Her mother was so embarrassed that she told everyone that her daughter lived with a friend. Twenty years later, this girl became a lesbian and moved in with her girlfriend. As a result, her mother told people that she lived with her boyfriend! It's incredible how morals can change! [laughter] "I'm not the child I was back then, I'm someone else", said György Konrád. Times have changed radically. These days, we wonder how on earth we could have got involved in all that...
Do you think we have become more prudish?
No. When I look at today's young people, I can see that they are far more independent but, on the other hand, they rely far more heavily on their parents. When, as part of a student job, I was responsible for the registration of other students, I remember laughing when a young person came with his parents. Things are different today: nobody registers without his or her parents! Parents want to be their children's friends. In my day, we had our parents, who we got on with more or less well, and we had our life. But a lot of things were different: we didn't have a phone at university and no computer, and we didn't know what was going on in the world, current affairs etc. You could study at university without ever opening a newspaper, being totally cut off from what was going on in the world.
Parents are more protective, but is that what young people need?
The world is a difficult place for young people. Today with a smartphone, you can make the world come to you, buy and order all kinds of things. Everything was different back then. Sometimes people ask me: "Why didn't you do anything for third world women?" Because there weren't any, and even if there had been, they were barely visible. Maybe we didn't look far enough, but in my part of town there wasn't a single Turk or African. The few students of foreign origin (no more than fifty in total), had for the most part chosen a specialisation and were not often undergraduates. The big wave of migration only began in the 1970s (Belgium signed an agreement with Morocco to take on Moroccan workers in 1968). You shouldn't look at the past from a present day perspective. And yet everyone does it.
It wasn't down to you to fight the battle for third world women.
No. And I wouldn't have wanted men to fight for my liberation either. Men can get involved as long as the women call the shots. We can congratulate, encourage and help others in their struggles, as far as is possible, but we mustn't fight their battles for them.
And you have to keep on putting these struggles back in the spotlight.
Indeed. But you also have to keep on listening to other people. You might think that everything is black or white, but you can also listen and, who knows, maybe people will realise that things can be grey too? Or in the words of Leonard Cohen: There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.


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How Elliot Rodger Became the Archetypal 'Incel' Rampage Killer
As some of you might know, today (May 23rd) is the fourth anniversary of Elliot Rodger's killing spree in Isla Vista. Elliot was the inspiration for Alek Minassian's recent infamous drive through Toronto- something I have written about recently (link 1, link 2). Those of you who frequent 4chan, 8chan and certain other parts of the internet must also be aware that Elliot Rodger has a pretty large and still growing name recognition in those regions- which is odd considering he killed himself immediately after committing that rampage killing. So how does a guy whose final body count did not even touch double digits become such a major cultural icon after his death? To make matters more interesting, Elliot Rodger was hardly the only 'incel' rampage killer in USA within the last decade.
As I have pointed out in a previous post, the majority of men who go on killing sprees in USA are either completely or functionally incel. And yes, I know about the few prominent exceptions such as Stephen Paddock and Omar Mateen. The vast majority of rampage killers in USA such as Seung-Hui Cho, Adam Lanza, Nikolas Cruz, James Holmes, Jared Loughner and Dimitrios Pagourtzis had abysmal luck with finding female companionship for years prior to their rampage. In fact, with the possible exception of men who went on killing rampages for religious reasons, almost every one had a history of sexual rejection from women. Yet for some reason, Elliot Rodger has had a far bigger cultural impact than men with many times his body count. But why?
Part of answer to that mystery is alluded to in the picture posted above. To refresh your memory, it is a screen shot from one of the YouTube videos he uploaded before his rampage in which he talks about the many reasons he was angry with women of his age and wanted to kill them. To make a long story short, he was a half-white/half-asian who was born into a rich family who was extremely unlucky with women through a combination of his shyness, his perceived non-white status and a family that pretty much ignored his emotional needs. But those videos were only a small part of what assured his posthumous and still growing fame.
The single biggest factor which has made Elliot Rodger famous, and the archetype for 'incel' rampage killer, was his long and very well written manifesto. In it, he describes in great detail the conditions and circumstances of his upbringing and environment that led him to do what he finally did. Do read it, if you have not done so already. It is that manifesto, more than any other thing, which made Elliot Rodger the cultural icon he has become since his death. And one more thing.. Elliot Rodger was perhaps the first rampage killer to methodically and explicitly make the connection between being consistently rejected by women and forced to be incel with his actions.
Elliot Rodger was the first self-identified incel rampage killer in our era, though Marc Lepine sorta said something similar in 1989. Of course, Marc Lepine suicide statement was much shorter than Elliot Rodger's one hundred and eight thousand word production and the public internet did not exist in 1989. Furthermore, incel-dom was far less common in North America in 1989 than in 2014 or 2018. To put it another way, Elliot Rodger' cultural impact is a combination of what he did and when he did it. And yes, I have written a few posts about him in the past (link 3, link 4, link 5). Curiously, most normies dismissed his manifesto at that time. The course of events, however, had other plans and his manifesto quickly became a staple of internet culture.
And that is the short version of how Elliot Rodger became a cultural icon of our era. You can try to mock him, ignore him, defame him.. and it won't matter. The fact of the matter is that he has become far more famous and influential in death than he was in life. If it sounds like something one might say about a saint or religious figure, you are half-right because Elliot Rodger has sorta become the patron saint of incels. And just like other religious figures and martyrs from the past, those who have read his manifesto harbor a very different image of him from those who have not done so. To be clear, I am not suggesting that we will see a church of Elliot Rodger anytime soon, but the magnitude of cultural effect he has had is equally undeniable.
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Washington Hall has been a welcoming place where people gather, create, entertain, and celebrate since it was built in 1908. Over the years it has evolved into a popular live music venue, and is the site of what was possibly the very first jazz performance in Seattle (June 10, 1918). Join Historic Seattle in celebrating that history with an evening of music in the Central District.
Hear from jazz historian Ken Steiner as he journeys through the history of jazz in Seattle and Washington Hall's role in it. And just returning to the States from a European tour, enjoy performances by exceptional pianists Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi, pioneers of four-hands piano in jazz who will perform pieces from ragtime to early jazz on two pianos. A special collaboration with Garfield Jazz will kick start this night celebrating music & history.
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The track takes sonic influence in an eclectic manner, Janes Addiction, Duke Dumont and Drake mainly! However the idea of creating a track like it came from the film "We Are Your Friends." I fell in love with the idea of having one song that really shows what you're about. No holding back. The Sky is too low to be the limit.
How did you approach writing this song?
It was countless hours of experimentation in my bedroom over the Christmas holidays. I played all the parts and produced the song myself. So it was just a matter of locking myself into the mix and to go for as long as I can. I thought the more crazy the better! One of the things that I really want The Nu to be about is being eclectic with the instrumentation. Sounds that shouldn't work together, but do! I also decided before I wrote the track that it was gonna be the next single. I'd never done that before, there was a couple of songs I had lined up andI'd had 'Natural Monsters' (my last release) since I was 19, so it was just like me getting a blank canvas and not stopping till I was happy. Now, I listen back to it and I am over the moon with how it sounds.
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The one thing that I loved (just because I don't really know what possessed me to put it in the track) is at 1:05. There is a water drop sound with distortion. Not sure why it made sense to me, but it did! Like I said, No Rules.
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Innovative rock/dance.
How do you feel your sound has developed from studying at BIMM?
Massively, it's one thing visualising who you want to be in your head, but it's a completely different thing figuring out how to get there and what steps are needed in order to make that happen. Through BIMM, I have managed to bridge this gap. To list off all the ways BIMM have helped me over the years would be a very long list indeed, but I feel that has been the thing I value the most. Through the community, facilities and resources, it's a very special thing to be a part of.
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File Header for Word Documents - Dates & Times
Im looking into a possible email harrasement case. And the email seems to have been editied in a word package.
The question is, can I possibly extract the date from the file header or not? As this is the major point I need help with …
Look forward to receiving some feedback, Cheers.
ps, only have access to a DVD not HDD
That is simply the file identifier which identifies the file as a Microsoft office/visio file that alone has no date or time information. Two things you could try
1) Look for the footer F4 39 B2 71 (00 00) and reconstruct the file simply examining the metadata contained.
2) If only a slither of information is still present then you may have to manually go through the hex looking for remaining metadata.
Extract MetaData for the word document.
Can you explain how I interpret the metadata please? I am interested specifically in creation and modification dates for a raw file recovered during a header search. Is this data in a particular format, and if so where would I expect to see it, as part of the header, footer or somewhere else?
Well the time stamps associated with files are slightly different, such information is held within the MFT (assuming NTFS). Assuming it's a file then you would need backtrack the location to the MFT.
In terms of metadata of word documents this includes creation date, last saved time, revision information etc. Something like Metadata Assistant should be able to help you easily interpret this.
Do you have the word document or the email message? What type of email package is it?
If you have the document try here
I have used metadata asst. successfully in the past. The output is reader friendly.
Please note that there are also programs that support metadata removel. Hopefully that was not run on the doc.
Hey guys, and gals.
Thanks for ya help. eventually I was able to use a program called Catalogue Metadataminer, it interogated 10 files at a time, but there was only one that needed interrogating. Through extracting the information from the disk to a new word document, the metadata was still in tact and produced good results it seems.
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I had to create this blog because the other day a girl who was in my hostel joined a Facebook group and it really offended me.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
The first post of the blog that I have just created, in which I talk about being offended
I had to create this blog because the other day a girl who was in my hostel joined a Facebook group and it really offended me.
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I am so frequently offended. Please be my voice Ally Garrett.ReplyDelete
Excellent post. I look forward to further offences.ReplyDelete
You really fucking rule Ally Garrett, them's the facts. Keep writing so I can keep reading.ReplyDelete
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE xxxReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2010 at 12:13 PM
Just read this post. And this:\ReplyDelete
"Just because it's offensive doesn't mean it's funny, and just because I'm offended doesn't mean I need to lighten up."
Needs to be put on billboards and shouted from rooftops. I'd like to quote you on my blog's Twitter, would you mind? I'll link to this post, and post a link to my Twitter here.
Hey Brittany! I would love you to get quoting. Perhaps I need to investigate the world of Twitter? Thank you for your lovely responses on here!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2010 at 11:10 PM
No problem!ReplyDelete
Twitter is definitely...interesting! I have a personal one, as well as one for my blog. I have a lot of fun with it, though it's not giving me as much traffic as I would like. All in good time, though, right?
Here's my blog's Twitter, where I quoted you: http://twitter.com/ABookishBeemer
Biting and witty. It made me laugh. And think. Your honesty is brave and if only more people took the time to use their brain for interesting pursuits such as this.ReplyDelete


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This project extends the westbound left turn lane at the intersection of West Fairbanks Avenue (State Road (S.R.) 426) and South Orlando Avenue (US 17/92). Additional improvements include milling and resurfacing, widening, sidewalk reconstruction, curb ramp reconstruction, driveway reconstruction, drainage improvements, and signing and pavement markings modifications.


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Getting pulled over is always a stressful experience. If you add to the fact you think you may have had a little too much to drink, then it's even worse. As a criminal defense attorney in Columbus that focuses on DUI law and defense, the question frequently pops up: "Should I refuse to take the breathalyzer test?" This is a legitimate question and that's worth exploring the answer to.
Please take note that what is being discussed in this blog applies primarily to Ohio law. Please consult your own state's laws and seek legal counsel by lawyers who are qualified to practice in your state.
Consequences of refusing a breathalyzer test in Ohio
When a police officer pulls you over for operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and you're exhibiting any of the classic symptoms of drunkenness (i.e. bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, you smell like alcohol), they will most likely arrest you for driving under the influence.
After this, they make ask you to take part in field sobriety tests. Some of which might be a walk and turn test, a one leg stand test, or a horizontal gaze nystagmus. There is also, of course, the breathalyzer test.
In Ohio, you do have the option of refusing to take a police officer's sobriety tests. However, if you do refuse, there are consequences. An individual who refuses a test can have their license taken away on the spot and a suspension begins immediately.
However, if you take the test and are found over the legal limit, you will face the same consequences. In this circumstance, the police officer will have more than just circumstantial evidence against you. This will make the case more difficult to fight in court.
Regardless of which option you choose, you only have a limited window to appeal this administrative suspension, which can be anywhere from one to five years.
So the short answer to the question posed above is "yes." If you believe you are drunk. Even if you don't think you are, it is in your best interest to refuse field sobriety tests, including a breathalyzer test. Circumstantial evidence makes it much more difficult for the prosecution to prove their case against you. While this may seem like a lose-lose scenario, and it is, refusing to take the best
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Drunk driving charges are never easy to deal with. While you should avoid a situation in which you have a run in with the law when it comes to a DUI, we realize these things happen. Probst Law Office specializes in dealing with DUI cases, and we are your choice for a Columbus DUI lawyer you can count on.
If you or someone you know has a DUI charge — regardless of whether they refused the breathalyzer test or not — please schedule an appointment with us. A DUI charge is not something you want to face without competent legal counsel.


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Tennessee Honey designed by Cue IncPosted: Filed under: Food and Drink, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Label Design, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging News, Typography Comments Off on Tennessee Honey designed by Cue Inc
Jack Daniels is a popular brand of whisky produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee and has been owned the by Brown-Forman Corporation since 1956. In a bid to broaden its portfolio and attract new consumers Jack Daniels engaged with brand and packaging specialists Cue Inc to design their new product Tennessee Honey, a whiskey and honey based spirit that is naturally sweet and easy to drink.
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Glue dots is a brand of double sided adhesives that can be applied to a variety of surfaces and generally used for craft based projects. Owned by Glue Dots International based in New Berlin, Wisconsin, the product originally launched in 1995 has recently undergone its first re-brand that will extend across all its packaging and on-line touch points aimed at reinforcing its position as the "everyday adhesive".
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Obituary of Frank Lee Dines
Frank Dines, 82, of Marsing, ID died peacefully at home in the arms of his beloved wife Ellen August 9, 2019. He was born at home in Caldwell, ID to Russell and Faye Dines September 22, 1936 the second of six children raised in Marsing on a farm where he graduated from high school in 1955 and remained for most of his life. Frank married Ellen Snyder in 1958, they were blessed with two children, five grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. Frank delivered milk for Home Dairies, worked in the logging industry in Burns Oregon, Gas Station Attendant at Justo's while Ellen worked in Justo's grocery next door, feed salesman for Moorman's Feed all in his younger years, then he was self-employed as a farmer and dairyman for the rest of his career. Frank was an active member of his community volunteering for the Marsing Fire Department, EMT on the Marsing Ambulance, Chairman of the Gem Irrigation District, Owyhee Fair Board, & member of the Early Days Gas Engine & Tractor Assn Branch 67. Frank enjoyed being outdoors hunting, fishing, camping, and taking his family for long scenic drives. He loved having the grandchildren and great-grandchildren on the farm running free. After retiring Frank enjoyed refurbishing one cylinder engines, traveling the world with Ellen to engine shows, museums & auctions looking for the next great deal. A special thanks to Dr. Keller and Staff at Liberty Dialysis Center for their loving care. Frank is survived by his wife Ellen, brothers Ralph (Margie) Dines & Richard (Sherrie) Dines, Sister in law Jackie Dines, Brother in law Bob Webb, children Dianna (Gordon) Roberts & Craig Dines. Grandchildren, Amy (Jared) Rovig, Emily (Joshua) Bakko, Mykaela Dines, and Brady Dines, great grandchildren RyLee Rovig, Austin Rovig, Amity Bakko & Jackson Bakko. He is preceded in death by his parents, sisters Lucille (Don) Aldrich & Donna Webb, brothers Donald & George Dines & grandson Hayden Dines.
Graveside services will be held Monday, August 19, 2019 at 11:00 AM at Marsing Homedale Cemetery, 4308 Cemetery Rd, Marsing, ID. Lunch to follow at the Marsing Legon Hall, 126 Old Bruneau Hwy, Marsing, ID. Condolences can be given at www.flahifffuneralchapel.com
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|This article is about Formidable, a legendary ship from the 18th century. You may be looking for the 5th century BCE trireme.
The Formidable was one of seven legendary ships encountered by the Assassin-turned-Templar Shay Cormac in the North Atlantic, during the Seven Years' War.
She participated in the Battle of Quiberon Bay, but despite assistance from fire ships, she was sunk in naval combat by Cormac's ship, the Morrigan.
- Historically, the Formidable was captured by the Royal Navy and dismantled in 1768, instead of being sunk during the Battle of Quiberon Bay. It was also the same historical year when the HMS Royal Sovereign, also a British legendary ship, was broken up.
- Like the Couronne, the Formidable used the standard French Man O' War model, instead of reusing the model of one of the legendary ships, such as the HMS Prince, from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag .
- When looking through the spyglass, the Formidable does not display a crew.
- It is possible, though quite difficult, to lead fireships to ram the Formidable, dealing serious damage to the ship.
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The celebration of the World Tourism Day this year focused on Sustainable Tourism as a means of economic development. It has brought to the fore the need for soul-searching on the Nigerian tourism space and the way forward for all stakeholders. Omolola Itayemi reports
Far from a cliche, the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) provides the most appropriate definition of Sustainable Tourism. With emphasis on participation of all relevant stakeholders; this moment couldn't have come at a better time for the improvement of tourism in Nigeria.
According to WTO, sustainable tourism development requires the informed participation of all relevant stakeholders, as well as strong political leadership to ensure wide participation and consensus building.
"Achieving sustainable tourism is a continuous process and it requires constant monitoring of impacts, necessary preventive and/or corrective measures whenever necessary. Sustainable tourism should also maintain a high level of tourist satisfaction and ensure a meaningful experience to the tourists, raising their awareness about sustainability issues and promoting sustainable tourism practices amongst them," adds the WTO.
One other key area relevant to sustainable tourism is the impact on Domestic Tourism – travel, enjoy and respect aspect – which is to the advantage of the host community.
Little wonder, World Tourism Day 2017, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), presented a unique opportunity to raise awareness on the contributions of sustainable tourism to development among public and private sector decision-makers and the international community, while mobilising all stakeholders to work together in making tourism a catalyst for positive change.
In light of this, the WTO definition becomes pertinent and calls to question the numerous gaps that seem to exist in the Nigerian tourism space, chief of which is the lack of a connection between the various stakeholders that should make sustainable tourism in Nigeria a success.
Some of the questions that readily come to mind are: Is there the existence of appropriate data for effective tourism planning in Nigeria?; Do all the stakeholders of sustainable tourism in Nigeria know their roles and responsibilities?; Do we all understand what the word 'tourism' really means?; How can we make tourism go beyond the buzzword that it is at present? What do people think tourism really is? And Are we aware that the words 'tourism' and 'investment' are used interchangeably?
On a national level, sustainable tourism can become more effective when there is more effective inter-governmental collaboration between the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) and agencies like Ministry of National Planning, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Ministry of Information & Culture, Ministry of Transport and Aviation, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Ministry of Education, Ministry of Trade & Investment, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of External Affairs, Nigerian Police, Nigerian Immigration Service, and Nigerian Customs Service. The list can go beyond this.
It is not intergovernmental cooperation alone that is required. Other stakeholders are needed in the tourism ecosystem – banks, insurance companies, medical outfits, transport companies, auto service companies, retail outlets, fashion and beauty operations, barbers' shops, and of course, hospitality and leisure companies.
Interestingly, those who should enjoy this tourism ecosystem are not primordially the visiting investor or tourist. They are the normal Akin, Efe, Rekia or Okonkwo – Nigerians.
According to DG, NTDC, Mr. Folurunsho Folarin-Coker, "The bedrock of tourism is not the big footprint of foreign brands but rather, the many cottage industries manned by passionate indigenes. That is what allows tourism be the largest employer of labour in the world, even over the oil industry."
Nigerians travel on local roads with local transport. As they travel, they visit cities. Then they visit historical and cultural sites and natural areas. They meet people and interact with local businessmen. Some adventurous ones take time out to admire a scenic view, watch animals and birds. Most times, they fly, swim, cycle, walk, eat, drink and sleep.
They go to shops or they attend events. Some of them watch sports, go to shows, hang out at pepper soup joints or attend our famous owambe parties. They would like to visit museums but even the National Museum in Lagos, these days, is either locked up or is without power. They should do and experience what their foreign counterparts enjoy. But as it were, they may never get to enjoy all these in their lifetime if the connective tourism ecosystem is not working – government, market or citizen.
Folarin-Coker is optimistic that Nigerian tourism would work. "We go to celebrate Ramadan and Christmas somewhere; we go for weddings, funerals in other cities outside the ones that we reside in. All those movements are tourism. Our currency is under pressure and it will be silly for us to think that we can grow international tourism without the foundation of domestic tourism. Let us consume more of what we have. NTDC's Tour Nigeria project is focused on domestic tourism. Tourism is the largest employer of labour in the world, even more than the oil industry. Tourism, because the activities in the value chain which includes hotels, restaurants, strategically employs women and youths. It employs 292 million people globally and generates $7.8tn. In our economy, it contributes 1.8 per cent to GDP, so the possibility for growth is glaring. It is just for us to harness our resources to engender growth."
The NTDC boss, while calling on Nigerians to learn to celebrate what the country is blessed with, stressed the need for a restructuring of the laws governing the practice of tourism in Nigeria. Coker said the change in the NTDC bill was to ensure international best practices in the nation's tourism industry, adding that the 2017 bill, as against the extant Act, would open up avenues of collaboration with different stakeholders hoping to enter into partnerships in order to promote the industry.
Coker said: "We don't have the ideal model to have a functional framework compared with some of the countries around the world, but what we have is good. If we compare Nigeria with other countries, especially with regard to cultural destination heritage tourism that we traditionally know as tourism, it is obvious that we are very wealthy."
Hordes of investors and tourists will eventually visit Nigeria and the tourism ecosystem will thrive. The fact is that as they pass through, they will leave money behind. They will, willingly, even happily, part with their hard-earned cash in exchange for a service or a good provided by a local person. It can be an amazingly efficient and painless system for transferring wealth. It will definitely enhance the quality of Nigerian life. But there must be some movement in the Nigerian tourism space to draw them closer. It starts with Nigeria, at least, being an ideal tourism jurisdiction. Only a sound tourism law can ensure that.


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Labor History
New Tactics for Labor-Part II
By Jeremy Brecher
In the face of employer attack, the proportion of workers in unions fell from 27 percent in 1978 to 15 percent in 1996. Many changes contributed to declining union membership. The traditional industrial, cultural, and demographic base of the labor movement in white ethnic urban industrial communities was eroded by suburbanization and deindustrialization. Many middle-income peoplemost of them whitemoved from cities to suburbs; so did most large modern workplaces. People of colorAfrican Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinoswere concentrated in inner cities. Whole metropolitan regions became divided into zones of different classes and ethnic groups. In the Silicon Valley, for example, the homes, labs, and offices of engineers and scientists gravitated to the northwest near Stanford University, while unskilled, largely immigrant production workers were concentrated around San Jose. The working class was divided geographically, racially, and economically into those with low-paid, insecure jobs concentrated in centers of poverty in inner cities or other ghettos (predominantly immigrants and people of color) and those with substantially better-paid and more secure jobs (predominantly white and suburban).
The decline of U.S. economic dominance, the rise of international competition, accelerating capital mobility, and slow economic growth eroded unions bargaining power. The restriction of workers legal right to organize and strike, the growth of non-union industries, declining public support for unions, and a broad cultural emphasis on individualism and consumerism rather than community and participation contributed to organized labors decline as well.
But the long-term decline of organized labor was also due in substantial part to internal characteristics of the labor movement itself. These were not primarily characteristics of individual leaders; indeed, many of the problems went back for a century or more to the era of Samuel Gompers. Top-down control created a gulf between most union leaders and the rank and file. The assumption that it was the members job to pay dues and the leaders job to take care of union business led to apathy rather than active involvement; many unions had increasing difficulty even getting quorums for meetings. The tradition of national union autonomy blocked solidarity among workers even in the same workplaces, companies, industries, and communities. This tradition often made the AFL-CIO appear less the representative of the American working class than a vehicle for protecting the special interests of individual unions (or their leadership). Organized labor, dependent on government protection and an alliance with a business-dominated Democratic Party, was rarely willing to challenge legal limitations on worker action and solidarity. The expectation of cooperative relations with management, in which the role of the union was to administer an established contractual compromise, left unions disarmed when employers "declared class war."
These long-standing problems were compounded as the leadership of organized labor and the institution as a whole lost the vigor to defend their individual and institutional interests, let alone those of their members or the working class as a whole. Most existing unions showed little facility for reaching out to a changing workforce increasingly composed of African Americans, immigrants, and women, or for working on a global scale. The move toward cooperation with management on managements terms only reinforced the impression that unions provided workers nothing worth fighting for.
A minority of labor activists, local union leaders, and national union officials were unwilling to embrace the new forms of labor-management cooperation and began seeking alternatives. Recognizing that conventional strikes, in which workers simply quit working and waited for management to concede, were leading only to disaster, some sought supplemental arenas of action within the workplace itself or in wider communities. Many in the labor movement felt that the abandonment of the PATCO workers by the rest of the labor movement was a catastrophe, and some developed new forms of solidarity that crossed existing union boundaries. In response to globalization, some labor activists began to move beyond national horizons to develop a labor strategy for the global economy. As hired guards, detectives, police, the National Guard, injunctions, and court orders were used regularly against strikers, some began utilizing the techniques of non-violent civil disobedience. Many of these "new" tactics represented rediscoveries of techniques used in the past but largely forgotten in the era of class compromise.
The Inside Game
Employers are always dependent on workers skills, knowledge, and cooperation, and workers have often used this fact to gain some informal power on the job. The Industrial Workers of the Worldthe Wobbliesadvocated "the conscious withdrawal of efficiency" or "striking on the job," a tactic that they were often accused of carrying to the point of "sabotage." Slowdowns and work-to-rules were standard tactics of the Congress of Industrial Organization campaigns of the 1930s. These tactics were revived as conventional strikes grew less and less effective.
In 1981, as Reagan was attacking the air traffic controllers, Moog Automotive in St. Louis, Missouri, demanded major concessions from its UAW workers, a diverse group that was about half black and half white, half male and half female. Management brought in a union-busting law firm and, according to information leaked to the union, pre-screened 400 potential strikebreakers. Jerry Tucker, then a staff member of UAW Region 5 in St. Louis, recalls:
" The tendency amongst some of the bargaining committee was to say, Well, the hell with them. Well just muscle them. But this was a plant that had no long-term orientation for strikes and struggle. It simply would have destroyed them. There were already strikes going on in the community where 10,000 workers would show up to take the jobs of three or four hundred workers who were out on strike. This is 1981, and in each and every one of the cases, those strikes had been broken."
Instead of striking, Tucker and the local union leadership proposed that union members vote down the proposed contract but stay in the plant and conduct a job action designed to "cause the company to rethink its position." The union recruited local leaders, both official and informal, to form a "Solidarity Committee" outside of the official union structure to wage the in-plant campaign; by constant recruiting it grew from a small initial nucleus to 100 of the 500 union members in the company. The strategy, according to Tucker, operated at two levels: "Individuals were going to have to depreciate productivity, and then there were going to be concerted and collective activities to do the same." He told workers that "each individual was going to have to find ways to re-evaluate their work procedures so as to get the companys attention."
Weekly meetings of the Solidarity Committee, supplemented by departmental meetings, shared information on the state of the struggle and planned the coming phase of action. Workers began following every possible rule, performing every procedure according to the book, and taking their time about it as wellin a process the workers came to call "running the plant backwards." "When a machine operator put a machine down, then the maintenance crew would come in and make sure it stayed down," Tucker explained. Workers wore union buttons and T-shirts, distributed leaflets in the plant, and sang union songs during breaks and lunchtime. The union anticipated the company would respond with firings and asked each worker to contribute $5 per week to a "solidarity program." When the company fired seven workers, this fund gave them support and the UAW provided regular strike benefits.
The union called meetings during the work day that stopped production, and other meetings occurred impromptu. The foundry workers, described by Tucker as "a bunch of big, mean, dirty-looking guys," went to demand a meeting with their foreman. When the foreman ordered them back to work, their spokesperson, known as Pee Wee, said, "No, were going to have a meeting with you." "No youre not," the foreman said. "Whos going to stop us?" Pee Wee asked. The foreman sat down and listened to the foundry crews concerns. Skilled trades workers similarly confronted the vice-president of engineering in his office.
After nearly six months, the companys attorney called Tucker and said, "Youve won. The company wants it over." Moog accepted the unions original bargaining position and full amnesty for workers.
The in-plant strategy rapidly spread from Moog to UAW plants from St. Louis to Texas, with many local variations. Workers at Bell Helicopter in Ft. Worth, Texas, for example, adopted the slogan "Worker in troubleall workers assemble" and distributed metal sports whistles to all workers in the plant. When two workers were "taken upstairs" for refusing overtime, whistles started blowing and soon 500 workers were crowding around the offices, leading management to call in the Ft. Worth police.
The inside strategy spread nationwide and was adopted by workers in many different unions. Its use was not limited to single plants or even single companies. A campaign by cement workers, for instance, involved more than 100 locations with half-a-dozen or more employers. When the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO published a manual on workplace actions called The Inside Game, demand was so strong that 100,000 copies were eventually distributed.
Despite their effectiveness, inside strategies raised serious issues for conventional trade unionism. For one thing, they tended to create structures that bypassed existing leadership and lines of union authority. Jeff Stansbury, a reporter for the UAWs Solidarity magazine, wrote: "You need to set up something like the solidarity committee, because in most cases you cannot rely on the existing leadership. You cannot even necessarily rely on the activists of a local, because those activists tend to have been formed under more rigid or predictable circumstances than occur in a slowdown." But empowering workers in the workplace in this way creates a source of power that can potentially be used outside of or even against official union channels. Further, the "inside game" can be used not only to force a company to sign a contract, but also as an alternative to wildcat strikes while a contract is in force, causing further problems for unions that see enforcement of contracts on both employers and workers as central to their function. While inside strategies were increasingly adopted as an alternative to hopeless strikes, the extent to which workers were genuinely encouraged to take their own initiative varied greatly from struggle to struggle.
Community-Labor Coalitions
For much of its history, the labor movement has been rooted in communities as well as workplaces. But the AFL-CIO in the era of George Meany was, in the memorable image of labor historian David Montgomery, like a great snapping turtle, "hiding within its shell to shield the working class from contamination" and "snapping out" at those outside forces that ventured too close. Starting in the late 1970s, unions at the local level began reaching out for allies and participating in a wide range of labor-community coalitions. While no one has tallied them, such alliances must number in the thousands.
Many of these alliances started out as vehicles for strike support; indeed, major strikes without community-labor support efforts became the exception rather than the rule. Perhaps typical was the strike against the International Paper Company centered in Jay, Maine. In Jay, a weekly union-community meeting regularly attracted more than 1,000 people. Caravans of strikers fanned out across New England, building support for a "corporate campaign" against companies with ties to International Paper. In Boston, the caravaners created a network of support groups that included local progressive unions, church groups, university students and employees, and even Central American solidarity organizations. Some of these developed into permanent strike support groups, ready to support workers struggles as they arose.
Local unions increasingly participated in issue coalitions that used public education, lobbying, and direct action confrontations to push concerns ranging from plant-closing legislation to expanded medical programs, housing, voter registration, and electoral reform. In New Haven, for example, a Community Labor Alliance, which grew out of a support campaign for striking Yale workers, pressed for increased contributions from Yale University to the city; use of city pension funds to finance housing; withdrawal of university investments in South Africa; and development of a local school lunch program to provide both nutrition and employment. Many local and state coalitions developed throughout the country to push for legislation regulating plant closings.
Local unions also became involved with community-based economic development. Several dozen coalitions developed to resist plant closings and deindustrialization by promoting worker buy-outs, local economic development authorities, and other means of saving and creating jobs. The Naugatuck Valley Project in western Connecticut, for example, an organization composed of more than 60 local unions, church groups, and community groups, helped workers buy a local plant, found alternatives to the closing of other local companies, started an employee-owned home health aide company, and organized tenants to create permanently affordable housing. A similar coalition, the Tri-State Conference on Steel, campaigned to save steel plants through worker buyouts, developed plans for regional reindustrialization in the "rust belt," and promoted the creation of a public economic development authority, the Steel Valley Authority, as an alternative to private development.
New forms of labor-community cooperation also emerged in the electoral arena. A pioneering effort to put such efforts on a permanent footing was Connecticuts Legislative Electoral Action Program. LEAP is a coalition initiated by UAW Region 9A and the Connecticut Citizens Action Group, a statewide community organizing and lobbying organization representing low-income and moderate-income people. LEAPs member organizations came to include the International Association of Machinists, Service Employees International Union, District 1199 (New England Health Care Workers Union), the Connecticut Federation of Teachers, and environmental, womens, gay and lesbian, African-American, Puerto Rican, and other organizations. LEAP recruited long-term activists to run for state legislature and provided them with training and volunteers. Those elected with its support formed a Progressive Caucus in the Connecticut legislature. A "Northeast Coalition Project" helped set up similar coalitions in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and elsewhere in the Northeast. A similar organization, the Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action, grew out of a coalition of unions, peace groups, and religious groups campaigning to convert military industry to civilian production. The Rainbow Coalition led by Rev. Jesse Jackson, while shunned by most national labor leaders, received considerable labor support at a local level, especially in African-American communities.
An important vehicle for generating community-labor cooperation has been Jobs with Justice. Jobs with Justice was started in 1987 by a group of national unions within the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO to mobilize support for workers rights struggles that went beyond individual unions. The effort was built around a card individuals signed pledging that "during the next year, Ill be there at least five times for someone elses fight as well as my own. If enough of us are there, well all start winning." Within a few years, Jobs with Justice developed an identity of its own, organizing rallies, supporting picket lines, and providing material aid to labor and other struggles in hundreds of communities, many of them areas where unions were weak. In some communities it has initiated Workers Rights Boards composed of prominent citizens who evaluate and hold public hearings on alleged denials of workers rights.
Local coalitions also became vehicles for several massive national coalition efforts. The unexpectedly successful campaign to block the appointment of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court brought together "Jewish attorneys and law teachers and NAACP community activists, white male labor leaders and feminists, libertarians and politically liberal baby boomers, consumer advocates, environmentalists, and small-business leaders." The struggle against NAFTA brought together not only local labor, environmental, farm, religious, human rights, and many other activists, but linked them with activists in Mexico and Canada.
Corporate Campaigns
For much of its history, the labor movement used sympathetic strikes and boycotts to pressure employers. These techniques brought the power of dispersed supporters to supplement the power of those workers involved directly. But the no-strike clauses in union contracts and the restrictions on secondary strikes and boycotts in the Taft-Harley Act severely impeded such expressions of solidarity. Since the late 1970s, unions have developed "corporate campaigns" as a way to pressure companies without violating contracts or the Taft-Hartley Act.
The first corporate campaign to receive wide national attention was developed in 1976 by Ray Rogers and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union to force the giant textile firm J.P. Stevens to negotiate a contract with workers who had organized a union in its plants in North Carolina. Since fewer than a tenth of J.P. Stevens plants nationwide were unionized, the company could easily beat a strike by moving work to its non-union plants elsewhere. The union had organized a consumer boycott, but only about one-third of the companys products could be directly boycotted by consumers.
Rogers reasoned that a corporation was essentially "a coalition of individual and institutional interests that can be challenged, attacked, divided and conquered." The campaigns "power analysis" identified the interlocks between J.P. Stevens board of directors and other businesses, particularly the banks and insurance companies that provided its financing. Most of the workers were black women, and alliances with civil rights and womens groups were actively and successfully developed. Then publicity, demonstrations, and letter-writing campaigns focused on demanding that banks and insurance companies withdraw their support from J.P. Stevens. Supporters ran slates against incumbent officers at corporate annual meetings. They began laying the groundwork for pulling the billions of dollars in union pension funds and members insurance policies out of companies that supported J.P. Stevens.
In 1978, J.P. Stevens board chair and another top official were forced off the board of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. Then the chief executive of Avon resigned from the J.P. Stevens board. Finally, the chief executives of New York Life and J.P. Stevens resigned simultaneously from each others boards, twenty-four hours after the head of New York Life proclaimed that such resignations would never happen.
Five years after the campaign began, J.P. Stevens agreed to accept unionization. Labor journalist A.H. Raskin wrote in the New York Times<D>, "Pressure on giant banks and insurance companies and other Wall Street pillars, all aimed at isolating Stevens from the financial community, helped generate a momentum toward settlement that could not be achieved through the 1976-1980 worldwide boycott of Stevens products or through more conventional uses of union muscle such as strikes and mass picketing."
Corporate campaigns became a common feature of labor struggles over the subsequent decade-and-a-half. In the era of the "dis-integrated corporation" and networked production systems, corporate campaigns made it possible to target a corporations entire network. Many corporate campaigns focused not only on labor issues but on environmental, civil rights, and other abuses committed by targeted corporations. Some were little more than anti-corporate publicity campaigns; others were serious attempts to raise the costs of company behavior.
As capital has gone global, so has labor solidarity. One of the first U.S. labor battles in which international support was critical involved workers at the West Virginia facility of the Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation. In what Business Week<D> described as "an unprecedented global campaign thats likely to be emulated by other labor groups," the United Steel Workers of America "enlisted foreign unions" to force the employers hand.
In 1990, Ravenswood, formerly part of Kaiser Aluminum, was purchased by a group of three investors, one of whom was Swiss-based investor Marc Rich, a fugitive from the United States, where he was wanted for tax evasion and fraud. Less than a year after buying the company, the new management locked out Ravenswoods 1,700 workers and hired replacement workers.
Local 5668 of the United Steel Workers launched an aggressive and ultimately successful 19-month campaign to defeat the lockout and win an acceptable contract. The campaign included strong rank-and-file participation to spread word of the strike around the country and to target end userscompanies such as Coca-Cola and Strohs Brewing Company that used Ravenswood aluminum in their cans.
Strong international pressure focused on Rich and his associates may have tipped the balance in favor of the workers. Under the direction of Joe Uehlein, special projects director for the AFL-CIOs Industrial Union Department, a sophisticated campaign was developed to research Richs financial holdings and embarrass him throughout the world. Uehlein credits strong support from USWA president George Becker, from the International Trade Secretariats, which links unions in the same industries internationally, and from Swiss, Dutch, and Eastern European unions. The USWA hired a full-time European coordinator for the campaign. According to Business Week<D>, the final victory came when "East European unions disrupted Richs expansion efforts in Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Russia." Soon after, "a top Rich employee who owns most of Ravenswoods stock kicked out the aluminum producers chairman and replaced him with another Rich associate. The company then agreed to restart contract talks with the union."
International support played a role in a growing proportion of labor struggles in the 1990s.
Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
Throughout its history, the core tactics of the labor movement have been largely non-violent. Strikes, demonstrations, and picket lines have involved a withdrawal of cooperationdisobedience to established authorityand an appeal for support from the wider community. Despite this, workers actions have been met with violent repression thousands of times and violence in response to repression has been common.
Over the course of the 20th century, social movements from India to Poland to the Philippines have developed forms of disciplined non-violence that have provided a kind of political jujitsu for dealing with repressive violence. Rather than either submitting to repression or responding violently, these techniques resist established authorityfor example by blocking roads, occupying buildings, or demonstrating in violation of injunctionswithout doing physical harm to company guards, police, soldiers, or other human beings who attempt to restore "law and order." Such disciplined non-violent resistance became an important part of American political practice with the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1968, predominantly black sanitation workers in Memphis struck for union recognition. This labor struggle soon became the focus of local civil rights groups, which conducted marches and rallies to demand the workers rights. It was in the midst of supporting this strike that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
Since that time, disciplined non-violent civil disobedience has increasingly been adopted in major labor struggles. Non-violent civil disobedience has helped neutralize repressive violence and the fear it is intended to instill, called public attention to the justice of workers demands, and made clear the willingness to accept personal sacrifice in the interest of broader human purposes that underlies the solidarity of workers.
None of these tactics guaranteed success. Some managers became so frustrated with organized "inside game" workplace strategies that they locked out entire workforces and hired replacement workers to defeat them. Many strikes, such as the one by International Paper Company workers in Jay, Maine, were defeated despite exemplary community support. Many corporate campaigns have been clear failures, and few since the J.P. Stevens campaign have been clear successes. International support by itself has rarely if ever won a strike. Many labor struggles in the 1980s and 1990s have been effectively broken despite civil disobedience on a substantial scale. But these methods did provide workers pinned down by the employers offensive ways to begin recovering the initiative.
This article is drawn from the new concluding chapter Jeremy Brecher has written for the 25th anniversary edition of Strike!, published as the first book in the South End Press Classics Series. Next installment: "Resisting Concessions."


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Walk Like A Panther
Released: 9th March 2018
Directed By: Dan Cadan
Starring: Stephen Graham, Dave Johns
Reviewed By: Van Connor
What do you want to bet the marketing folks couldn't believe their luck when a movie called Black Panther turned into an overnight smash mere weeks before this dulcet turd of a comedy limped its way onto the DHL truck?
Clearly brought to life as the result of a half-baked delusion of crafting Still Crazy for fans of ITV's World of Sport, what Walk Like a Panther most clearly wants to be is a well-balanced working class dramedy along the lines of The Full Monty, what it most closely resembles, however, is Carry On Wrestling – if the Carry On franchise had been revived by the minds responsible for promoting Micky Flanagan's touring career or reconceptualising Cuppa Soups after a weekend spent shopping for bathroom tiles.
So ineptly constructed that it genuinely beggars belief, Walk Like a Panther centres around eighties British wrestling troupe, The Panthers, whose time in the limelight came to an end when their benefactor of sorts chose to endorse American wrestling (which we're told is "fixed") over British wrestling (which we're told is "not"). Now, the band seek to get back together in the wake of their star's death, despite having never been apart in all the years previously, and, in fact, seemingly spending that time together at their beloved pub, the Half Nelson (possibly the film's only actual joke).
Half Nelson landlord and heir apparent, Mark, though, sees the revival as the chance for something greater than the chance to save their fledgling pub – the chance for him to finally step into that limelight himself, proving to the team and his father that he has what it takes to… wait for it, walk like a panther.
Allegedly written with James Corden in mind for the lead. Walk Like a Panther feels often like a picture that fell apart after the first draft of its script were complete, only to then be revived suddenly and with no time for a rewrite, and, boy, would that make all the sense in the world.
No two minutes of this exhaustingly-overlong comedy appear to have been written with the same comedic sensibilities, entire characters exist for no apparent reason, backstories are thinly sketched out and set up for no further exploration whatsoever (including one that would have played as outright "woke" in the current climate), and whomsoever thought the stocky middle-aged Stephen Graham would make for a well-suited lead here is misguided to say the least.
Unfunny would be a result were Walk Like a Panther at least courteous enough to condense its piledriving of British comedy into a serviceable eighty minutes, instead dragging its spandex-clad backside along for what amounts to almost two entirely laughless hours. If it's tonal sensibilities maintained anything approximating consistency, perhaps it wouldn't be quite such a rough and unenjoyable ride, but with its cast divided equally between playing dramedy, slapstick, and what can only be described as an attempt to bodyslam Kenneth Williams in his grave, Walk Like a Panther doesn't walk at all.
It's lifeless and better off being laid to rest in the cinematic graveyard in which it belongs, while those naively tempted to give it the ol' college try (which is to say, wrestling fans and that uncle you have that actually remembers World of Sport) would be better served double-billing Still Crazy and Ready to Rumble, giving you twice the laughs in comparison to the complete void this comedy's rocking.
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Joris Voorn: New Kid on the Block?
Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 3:08pm. (Updated: 11/09/13 at 5:14pm) Add comments
Joris Voorn wanted to start his life as an architect but soon decided to change his life plans, to that of a music producer. He is also an avid reader and loves a good film or book with imagination and meaning. On his MySpace page you find a varied list of his favorites. He was voted favorite Dutch DJ in 2003 and has techno roots. But his sounds range from "atmospheric interludes to broken beats, house and deep soulful techno." He has been producing since 2000 and has been supported by Laurent Garnier, DJ Rush, and Carl Craig. Let's see who he is and what Joris has planned in the near future!
Q & A by Dee Sanae
GLOW: With your list of music, films and books on your MySpace page, which book would you add to the list? Which one would you pick from your current list as the top one?
Joris Voorn: I just finished Ian McEwan's book called 'Solar', very funny and educative. Now reading David Mitchell's 'The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet', which is a beautifully written history of the Dutch in Japan during the VOC time.
GLOW: Have you ever been inspired for one of your tracks by a film or book that you love? If so what track (title) and name what works it is associated with?
Joris Voorn: I've used many quotes from American writer Don Delillo for my Green Records.
The most funny one was 'Coming from the shower after a late night with a failed date'. It was the second EP on Green featuring , MPX_309 and Many Reasons.
GLOW: What's the coolest thing that you wear that UDG has given you?
Joris Voorn: A record bag, back in 2004 I think… I don't think I'm still sponsored, at least I didn't receive anything for 5 years [laughs]
GLOW: On a scale of one to ten, where would you personally gauge where you are in your music career?
Joris Voorn: Hmmm… That's a difficult one… Let's say I'm very happy to have come to where I am today, I would have never guessed!
GLOW: What's this tour based around?
Joris Voorn: It's based around good music 😉
GLOW: What's a quote that you live by every day?
Joris Voorn: "Carpe Diem", it sounds cliché but it works.
GLOW: You are considered one the of the new kids on the block, what do you have in store for this year? How do you wish to continue your image?
Joris Voorn: New kid on the block? It must be because I look young I guess. Funny thing
is that in the US nobody seems to know that I've been doing two albums and one mix CD before 2008.
I'm currently working on a remix of my 2004 (!) hit called, Incident among many other tracks and remixes, looks like it will be a busy summer in the studio.
GLOW: In a recent interview, Simon Dunmore said he thought you one of the most exciting producers. He said, "There are some new kids around, people like Joris Voorn who has some really well produced and solid productions. But I'd like to see him put something on top of what are amazing grooves and
well produced tracks; I'd love to see him put a song or something that takes it that little step further." Do you have any tracks that you are currently working on that would take it a little step further?
Joris Voorn: It's true that many of my latest releases and remixes have been quite groove based. I used to have way more melody in my music, especially in my two albums, but I got a bit tired of that. Right now I'm getting slightly tired of the groove only tracks, so my coming album will be completely different. I love songs, but usually not in dance music, things can get cheesy very easily.
GLOW: Who do you want to collaborate with in the future?
Joris Voorn: I'm working on a track with Green Velvet, my first vocal collaboration, so
we'll see how that goes, but I'm very excited about it!
GLOW: What are your plans for Ibiza?
Joris Voorn: Lots of gigs this year at We Love Space, 6 to be exact!
GLOW: What can you say about CLUB GLOW so far and what can the audience expect from you?
Joris Voorn: Never been there before, so I can't tell, but I'm sure it will be good!
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