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im pretty sure god and religion, and who's god is right is at the center of these two knuckle head bomber brothers......please lets keep god out of this and keep your god to yourself. Right and wrong have lives of their own without any help from religious fanatics.
Harrison Hospital is a buch of greedy crooks and perfect example of how badly the healthcare system screams for change. If you don't die from your sickness or injury, once you get the bill you wish you were dead! If you make it to the emergency room they dont even wanna know your name or what's wrong....they wanna know how you gonna pay...if you have ins.
I went down to the Bremerton School districts office to look around and see whats going on down there. They have over forty different departments each with a "director of" or "superintendent of" for each department, many of them are overpaid. Many of the departments could be consolidated. There is fat everywhere in the system. You must understand it is not about education and kids for them...its about building and empire off of homeowners backs in the form of levies. As a lifetime career carpenter, I don't even wanna hear how hard and unfair it is the teachers and schools. You can throw all the money in the world at the school system and it will never be enough if we don't address the cost of goods, services, and compensation. The school system is phoney and overpriced. A majority of the states budget goes to education in addition to levies...and according to every school district in our area, It's not enough. They need more more more!
Nothing against Judges except they are way overpaid. It would be bad to be out of touch with the "common folk" when you are making rulings affecting their lives.
Sometimes I get my popcorn and watch BKAT public channel and watch Bainbridge Island's city council meeting. It hilarious! They cannot even agree on what day of the week it is. I listened to that Bill Knoblock go on for 10 minutes and not say goddamned thing. I was thinking to myself if I lived in Bainbridge I would have to have a lawyer with me at all times just to safely navigate and understand how things work up there each day. They are highly educated and overpaid, but short on any intelligent leadership. I have read that throughout history Island people tend to be more savage...true or not, I have no ideal, just sayin
You cant really tell em to get a job...they got one! Sticking their hand out. But they should not be allowed to screw up traffic at busy intersections. There is a difference between a "hand out," and a "hand up." Lots of folks here in the county do not understand that. When people give a $20 out the window, they might feel better having "made a difference," but they actually hurt the panhandlers, by encouraging them to stay stuck where they are. You also enable their drug and alchohol problem many of them have. I live by they highway 3 and Kitsap way exit...I see the choices these panhandlers make and the things they do...not good. If you are gonna make them dependent on your self-righteous $20 then do it in your neighborhood please.
99% of all gun owners successfully navigated another day legally and without incident. Lots of ignorant people do not understand or recognize all the good legitimate reasons to keep and bear firearms and they are using this to let their ignorance shape policy. I bet if the trooper was able to come back to life he would oppose all that are using this incident to ban guns in one form or another. Fear the Government that fears its citizens the right to keep and bear arms. I know the Natzies (once just a political party) would not have been able to go door to door as easy as they did if the jews had the right to keep and bear arms. This is still the land of the free and the home of the brave, right? Or are we just a legal backwater in diapers?
There is no place to zero in my scope and practice shooting my rifle! Hundreds of acres for motorcycles and ATV's but nowhere to shoot! Just insane. We have so much wilderness and forests but you cannot shoot anywhere. How irresponsible of our lawmakers! Out of touch with the citizens. Too busy being greedy. Government should grant gun club owners property and expenses to get a large shooting area up and running.
Right on, Good to see local businesses do well. Pulling money and closing accounts from big national banks and using and supporting local banks is so important in so many ways. It helps our community. It also sends a message to the mega-giants in banking that overpriced services and unethical business practices are not something that has to be lived with. I realize that nothing is perfect, but I also understand the benefits of keeping my banking local.
Say hello to the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause too.
"it's all about safety." Ha, what a liar! Slamming on the brakes or putting the petal to the metal....ya, sure $afty.
in response to dahl#245857: Lots of reasons this country is in debt up to its ears. The main reason is because there are so many who think like you who feel that government is the answer to every problem and therefore more bureaucracy and a bureaucracy that wants to spend money. Just try and cut a bureaucracy and hear the howls of protest. Like taking a new bone from a dog, the claims will go out such as "throwing grandmother in a wheelchair off a cliff". In this case, we are all gonna die if we don't clean up Puget Sound. News Flash: We are all gonna die whether Puget Sound gets cleaner than clean or not.
in response to dahl#245857:
Lots of reasons this country is in debt up to its ears. The main reason is because there are so many who think like you who feel that government is the answer to every problem and therefore more bureaucracy and a bureaucracy that wants to spend money. Just try and cut a bureaucracy and hear the howls of protest. Like taking a new bone from a dog, the claims will go out such as "throwing grandmother in a wheelchair off a cliff". In this case, we are all gonna die if we don't clean up Puget Sound. News Flash: We are all gonna die whether Puget Sound gets cleaner than clean or not.
Oh ya, the answer is letting capitalism and cororate america make all the rules, and trust them to work everything out. You sound like part of the problem. Government cannot solve every proble, true. But I would rather have an elected representative of the people looking out for us and our issues. The size of the grant dont bother me...but the administration costs do. There is somebody with the title of "Director of" or "Superenindent of" that is way overpaid. You could provide a dozen of families livable wages for what they are paying one person...with similar results I bet. You dont need a fancy degree to beg for money money to throw around.
You kow how i know your a religious wing-nut? cause you cannot or will not recognize the obvious difference between a medical proceedure terminating an embryo or unborne fetus vs. "killing" as you say, a real actual borne human. The inability to recognize the difference for whatever reason makes you a religious wing-nut. Keep your religion to yourself. My God tells me that whatever I do or dont do is exactly what is supposed to happen, whether i like it or understand it, or not. My God told me to stop playing God and stop trying to push my beliefs on others in law and politics.
More actual real born people die in the name of God and religion than all of the next top ten combined...ban religion, and keep your god to yourself. The world would be a much better place.
Maliscious mischief? That is it? Jeeze...How about tresspassing, felony eluding, attempted theft? The hammer needs to come down for something like that. That is weak.
Oh no! Does this mean speed limit has to be reduced to 10 mph and diaper? The only good news out of this is that hospital will wil benefit greatly by charging a kablillion million spagilloin. I mean come on...wouldn't you give up all you hopes and dreams to pay that much, just to stay alive? Its legitimate because no one can challenge how much they charge..that would be socialism.
Its kinda weird we got all this forest and wilderness here in Kitsap/Mason county and there is no place you can go out practice shooting your rifle and zeroing in the scope each year for hunting season for free. Thousands of acres for motocross and atv's wich we hear about folks being taken to the hospital all the time....but hardly nowhere you can shoot. I just hate going to one of the two shooting ranges that have rifle accomidations. If it aint full, YOu get to be stuck in some 200yard stall with all kinds of nuianses to deal with like we all need a diaper or something. All of the little rules you have to go through you could make good arguments for. But most of them are things you wouldn't do if you didnt have to and still be safe and incident free. There is definatley a need for more places to shoot. lets have some public land available where shooting is not prohibited....hold your jokes...haha
There needs to be a through way....a highway with off ramps. Its grueling getting across town. Lots of folks just wanna commute from Bremerton to Silverdale or hook up to highway 3 not suffer through a bunch of street lights and low speeds. I say no to speed indicator signs unless you issue a diaper to each driver that passes through. Prayers to the injured. And what does a flight to Harbor view cost? A million at least. I know personally that a ambulance ride to Harborview by Olympic Ambulance from here is at least $2300 Dont even try to tell me Government regulation of healthcare costs is socialism..otherwise you'll have to hear say $2300 for an ambulance ride is robbery. Off topic I know...thanks for letting me vent, haha
Very annoying these signs. Like I dont know how fast im going. Why dont the traffic police just do their jobs? Why do we have to have an electric "den mother" off the side of the road? Traffic around here can be frustrating enough without having to have an electric "nag" machine. How's the song go? Signs signs everwhere theres signs...blocking out the scenery ...do this dont do that cant you read the signs....There are so many real problems here in the county that scream for change...and more traffic signs is what we are focusing on? Vote out all incumbants I guess is the messege.
What's the lesson? That Kitsap County Depeartmen Of Community Development are a bunch of jerks? And I just love how the Kitsap Sun has once again managed to facilitate local government no matter what. Where was the quote of the kid who said. "I think its none of DCM's business about my tree house on my property', 'And my neighbor is a jerk."? Someone needs to give DCM a class on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuite of Happiness, and property rights. Kids all over the world have built tree houses without the divine intervention of the Kitsap County DCM. There needs to be a huge housecleaning at DCM, They have created a mean spirited, overpriced, over reaching, overyly complicated, menace to our community.
Absolutely no excuse for shooting anything other than game in season for wich you have a tag for. I have hunted for many years. You always have to know for sure, exactly what your shooting at. Again, I say absolutely no excuse. To argue otherwise is a clear sign of denial about reality. You have to do a lot of things wrong to shoot someone and have questionable hunting ethics. Ya its a sad lesson for all. But ultimately worth it if it makes hunters do the right thing. I had some knucklehead shoot a round in my direction last year. Heard the darn thing wizz by. I can assure you i didnt have horns and was not in season. Really made me mad, never did find the guy.
Kind of ironic that regular citizens can rattle off a dozen sensible things to help the budget, yet the government acts like its rocket science. The biggest problem with the budget is our elected officials wanna tax, tax, tax, but never address the cost of goods, services, and compenstaion. No matter how much money you throw at something, it is never enough if you dont address cost. There are a lot of overpaid people writing their own checks, so to speak. There is more than enough money to go around. There is already a class war going on. The greedy are sticking it the "have nots" everyday. The Francis Hadden Morgan center will shut down next year destroying the lives of many who are already the lowest of the low, meanwhile a football coach at a public university will make over two million dollars in a single year. And there are thousands of washington state employees with the title of superintenden, and "director of" before their name that will make well over six figures, plus retirement, healthcare, sick leave, vacation leave, pensions, holiday pay...So why should state official and government employees get those things unless the rest of us do? We obviously cannot afford it. The budget problem is a phony bunch of nonsense. Its not a budget problem its a ethical problem, a class warefare.
The right temperment and demeanor are very importannt to be a cop, and the right training. If your a police officer you cant just shoot someone because they dont do what you tell them to do. For an egotistical "hot-head" cop comunication skills, or waiting it out a little are not options. There are many ways to de-fuse a situation other than simply shooting someone because they dont follow directions. Was making up a story to defend shooting someone to death less work than using your head a little at the time? Was it just a "CYA" type of story/report? IDK, but it reminds me of the Deputy that pulled her gun instead of her taser when there was a mentally disturbed guy acting all crazy up in a tree. Either the gun or taser was wrong. Everyone got caught up in the alleged mistake of taser vs. gun...but did seem to pay any attention to the fact that at the time the guy was not a emminent threat him or anyone else. Get down out of the tree or ill shoot is prime example of someone who has no business in law enforcemt at all. Waiting untill they come down off whatever drugs they are on or calling in crisess negotiator are some of many acceptable options. Even if the deputy had used the taser instead of the gun it still would have been grounds for termination and law suit, because there is a pretty good chance of serious injury or death when you are imobilized and fall out of a tree. I been in law enforcement. I think some guys get caught up in peer pressure of having the biggest balls so to speak and not letting any alleged criminal ever defy their authority have the upper hand....gotta be careful with that kind of attitude. I also seen guys that seemed to lazy to use communication skills. So insted of talkin a little bit and listening and giving a little respect...the cop empties his can of mace, clubs the guy and spends the rest of the night or shift writing reports. Which was easier? Which was less of a liability? Was it right? or was it wrong are question asked after the fact if an officer thinks he might not make it home alive. I totally get that. Hard job. Thankless job at times. Takes the right demeanor and training.
Ok, our turn...B-Town says, "Jeeze, keep it classy Port Orchard." Haha
What a bunch of crap. Police! Police! I'm being robbed! Ya, the suspect is wearing a suit and a tie, he had a brief case, i last seen him at the government building. Get that scumbag! I guess we have to riot in the streets. Whats next a tax or fee on the air we breath?
You see it as your home, the city sees it as their tax-parcell/cash cow. City building department and the Kitsap Community Development Department continue to arbitrarily over step their bounds. If you need a building permit, or an inspection, its all about being back logged and understaffed, and endless delays. But if joe-blow neighbor wants to be a jerk, the city is right there, johnny on the spot to check it out. It makes you wanna burn you city tax parcell to the ground if you know your going to move or die. Let the city be arbitrary over a pile of ashes....I should have the final say over how im gonna park cars on my property or how my handrail is gonna be, if i decide to have one at all and so on, and so on. I gotta have the right to be somewhat wrong with my life and my property. The City sits around all day and stares at their computer and make up new ways to manage my house and property....there has to be a more of a middle ground.
If you dont want to conform, or try all ya gotta do is tell social services a scenario that will label you as having post trama stress disorder and you can get a free ride....all the way from housing to food. Its mostly a scam. Many feel it beats the hell out of trying and following the rules. Its a common slicky boy routine. The state counselors and case worker love it cause it keeps their overpaid cushy jobs secure.
It aint about two cents for a candy bar...its about litterally dozens of other goods, services and neccessities that are taxed as well....add them all up, and there aint muchl left. There are 20 different departments in the school district with each dept having a superintendent or director of they are all way above the average income, not to mention the six figure a year School supperintendent....and no matter how much money you throw at them, its never enough...nobody ever challenges the cost of compensation....even healthcare. There is all this talk about healthcare reform, but you will very rarely hear someone say this proceedure or that treatment costs to much, it should only cost this much...there should be a limit to how much something should cost and how much, and when it can increase. CONTROL THE COST!
Seems strange to put a lot of effort in salmon management, then turn around and let a bunch of people hoard around the mouth of the river and let folks throw giant buzz bombs (fising lure) at them as they come in to spawn.
Dogs with idiot owners have been the source of a lot of hate and discontent in my neighborhood. Sounds like we are not alone with that sort of problem. I gotta laugh when a dog owner says, "oh dont worry bout my dog, he's a cup-cake." But you can clearly see his drug dealer type dog is showing teeth and its hair raised on end. Dog owners cant judge their dog on how they treat them, they gotta judge their dog on how they are with others....hello? Me myself I dont wanna dog that people have to back away from. I dont need a tough dog, I aint got nothing to prove. A tough dog dont make a guy tough...it just leaves him with a higher risk of liability, hello? Oh, one more thing. If a dog can yap all day in a dense neighborhood with no recourse, then for sure folks should be able to have a few hens. ya.
Most of the homeless people i met are that way because they dont wanna conform to society. They dont like people telling them what to do, or how to live their life, refusing treatment and self improvement requirements, and unwillingness to go to work. A lot of them take great pride in being self-made "slicky boys" "getting over" getting a free ride. Why should they try when they can get a handout? Ah yes, big difference between handout and hand up. Not all are like that but many are. So dont tell them to get a job, becuase they already do. Its called looking for the handout. Many of them suffer from a mind set of terminal uniqueness, ("you dont know what its like" "you dont understand.") Gosh if you are indigent there are options and opportunities, and jobs....but not if you are drunk, high, or otherwise non-compliant. It aint a matter of someone being better than or less than someone else. I do realize that not everyone is created equal in running the so called "rat-race" that society has set up. Not everyone has the same intellect, and mental capacity. I know those people matter too. I suppose it is ok if dedicated, and talented people in our community want a better life for many of the homless more than they do...however, you gotta scratch your head at the effectiveness. I guess if you reach even just one in a hundred to turn his or her life around you could make an argument. You need a license to drive, or fish, but anyone can have a child with no training, requirements, or conditions. Random thoughts.
in response to michael#212864: I can't take much more of this global warming!
in response to michael#212864:
I can't take much more of this global warming!
Oh ya, all that global warming is such baloney. Since August all the way up to now in October the temperatures have consistently gotten colder, thus confirming global warming is a bunch of bunk...cmon man, really?
Get the health department out of the building permit process, then you could pay the superintent or director of the health department a billion dollars a year instead of a mere, measly, million. What else would pay the best and the brightest, entitled? Hell the rest of us dont need to eat. We dont deserve to for not being proffessional stdents for years with a bunch of overpriced fancy degrees that you need to simply ask for more money. You could make the Depatment of Community Development handle weather or not to allow an existing deck to be replaced on someone's private property. because of concerns over the proximaty of a drain field that has had no issues or problems for decades, but now is a big deal to justify the ever expanding rate of compensation and B.S.
The problem is religion keeps brainwashing peole that homosexuality is a shameful sin, or an imoral choice. That is why so many people are oppressed and suffer, just like all the war and killing goin on all over the world, it all can be traced back to religious beliefs, because someone else is right, so everyone else is wrong; cause god told them, and god needs their help so they become soldiers of christ and so on. A lot of the muslim and arab world hate us because of our judism ties with Irael and our morals. The world would be a much better place if did away with churches and religion all together. You could grow up and never set foot in a church or hear the word God, and still know the difference between right and wrong. All the truths in the world dont come from the bible or any other book....but those types of books and many like them insist on claiming exclusive rights to plain and simple human truths. As an army vet I would say that there were soldiers who were had a different sexual orientation than me, but i never seen it affect their duty, and it never made me feel uncomfortable. I have never felt that I was better than anyone cause of my sexuall orientation...that just nuts, hahah
fraud waste and abuse, over paid b.s. jobs. overpriced healthcare and pension plans. The government lives in a world where everyone can just write their own checks for goods, services, and compenstation......
They are not concerned with protecting anything but future, potential profits. An influx of new homes could hurt values of existing ones and make the existing homes harder to sell. So it is mostly about wealth management for those who control the game. I just letting them know I aint buying it when they say buffer zones and enviroment protections and all that other baliney they try and sell. Tax parcells! Government and key players need to control the tax parcell game.
Department of community development is one of the worst agencies you will ever have to deal with. I could rattle of at least a dozen changes that need to be made there. Im a gen contractor here in town and I had a job where I was going to simply replace a existing deck for a homeowner and it turned out to be a nightmare. Dozens of trips, months went by, all kinds of crazy expenses, lots and lots of frustration, lots of hard feeling and hard words, lots of rediculous steps and processed and endless delays. I got so fed up one morning there that they called the police on me simply for wanting to know whtat the hold up was and what was needed next to proceed. When the police got there I said, "Thank goodness your here, arrest these people!" 'They have taken my money and wont let me build." Im the only one who laughed. Lary Lindquest, and his people should all be fired immediatley. The other part is so many people just wanna block anyone else from doing anything because they dont wanna share the neighborhood with any one. Classic cases of got mine, to heck with you. (Usually religious church types). Lots of people think they have exclusive right to some sort of shire that no one else should ever have access to but themselves. So they have a bunch of phony processes and blocks....it really is a fight facilitated by the DCD. There is a resident on Virginia Point Rd. who put up a barracade with all kinds of nasty things put on it, just to TRY block his neighbor from having a dumpster put on his lot so she can tear down a delapitated old garage. To bad you cant throw someone in jail for being a jerk, heh? High density is all about greed and increasing revenue. All about protectin well to do folks from neighborhods encroching into their private shires. There are ways to fight back in addition to sueing.
Unions stand for a livable wage and and civilized working conditions, ya know? the ones that brought you the 40 hour work week...the ones that stood up against child labor. However these days the unions are part of the problem because they turn a blind eye to healthcare costs...who is getting rich and how rich are they gonna get? I think most unions are in secretly and no so secretly teamed up with extremely wealthy healthcare insurance companies...workers strike against employers when it is really about health insurance companies writing their own checks. I spoke of in terms of some unseen ghost or something, "well that just the cost nowadays" "They, or the Industry sets the cost amount" Like its some unseen all powerful wizzard of oz that just make up and figure they want and we all just have to accept it. B.S.! Workers need to strike and pickett against an overpriced phoney healthcare system.
For every 24 year old Philip Markoff there are thousands of murderers that have nothing to do with sex: where is the effort and outcry? Since we are so immature about sex in this country we have people oppressing others based on their often hypocritical self-righteous religious beliefs. We are still under that King-James , Puritan, TV Evangelism oppression. Gluttony? ok...Greed? ok...Sloth? ok...the rest of the common so-called sins dont even get the time of day... But God help you if you want a little "touch' or T n A....We are immature as a country when it comes to sex. We all pay for it one way or another wheather you know it or not. Paying for sex, if one is so inclined, is way more honorable than so many other "trades" Healthcare, Insurance, Religion, Politics are way down the honor list compared to the oldest proffession on earth. Having prostitution illegal insures that there is a lot of crime and disease, and opperating it the unsafe shadows. I bet the lawyer from conneticut is a church going, closet bi-sexual that pays for sex all the time...wouldn't suprise me a bit. Whatever happened to land of the free? and Live and let live?
in response to dardena: Gee, imagine that. Someone actually has to pay 20% of the bill for their healthcare. Maybe we ought to get the Murray/Obama team to give free lollypops (and healthcare) to everyone! I know! we can make those mean old greedy rich people pay for it! And we wonder why this country has become the welfare slum for the rest of the world. Terry
in response to dardena:
Gee, imagine that. Someone actually has to pay 20% of the bill for their healthcare.
Maybe we ought to get the Murray/Obama team to give free lollypops (and healthcare) to everyone!
I know! we can make those mean old greedy rich people pay for it!
And we wonder why this country has become the welfare slum for the rest of the world.
Ya that's 20% of lousy coverage (if any at all, lots of stuff aint covered), co-pay, and deductables.......20% of a overpriced wall street game. Healthcare for profit is barbaric. I guess everone that cant make the grade should just dry up and blow away. I would rather have the game fixed for the good of everyone, instead of "got mine, up yours" aka free, unregulated market. You work hard and have lots of success? good for you, now take care of those who aint as good at running the rat-race for whatever reason.
you guys got it all wrong, and healthcare companies are laughing their butts off. This aint got nothing to do with coca cola inc. or the unions...this has everything to do with phony overpriced, greedy cost of healthcare. Its not a ghost unknown somewhere out there....it is the board of trustees and cooparate healthcare providers that are making piles and piles of cash,...they are the ones causing all of this. They are the ones that should be picketted against. They are the one that should have to hear NO! coverage will not cost 200% or 300% more this year..its already overpriced. Striking against coca cola is like biting the hand that feed you. Picketters need to go to the homes of the the healthcare trustees the ones that vote on the price and profit), and healthcare CEO's. Those are the ones that need to be called out and challenged. Just because they want to double their profits does not mean coke has to co-sign that B.S. Life and death, pain and suffering all come down to profits, extremely high greed. Like i said everyone is missing the mark, the point here.
Wow! very few comments that reflect the problem here...Healthcare companies want to cut coverage and raise premiums. The worker should be picketting the healthcare insurance building and the "wealthy beond belief" CEO of that healthcare ins. co. Striking against Coca Cola is like biting the hand that feeds you. How much you wanna bet the CEO of coca cola's insurance company claims to be a Christian? and goes to church? Helthcare for profit is obscene and makes us the phoniest country on the planet. You go into the emergency room or doctors office and they dont even wanna know what wrong or what your name is...The number one question is, "who is your ins. co. So life and death and pain and suffering all depend on profit and the standard and poor 500. Like i said, obscene. Repbublicans are opposed to trying to change this. Its all about wining a rat race and gettin rich. Takin care of folks less equipt for life in the fast lane...and dog eat dog kind of society can just dry up and blow away for all they care..go republicans, and god bless you.
The street lights in Bremerton are "dumb" at lots of intersections. To name a few, north bound kitsap way if you want to turn left up the hill on national ave, you can see traffic for a quarter of a mile and still its left on green arrow only. That should be flashing yellow most of the day. How about weaton way and lebo? by the hospital. Say you wanna go left on lebo from wheaton way, like if your going to lion's park, the city needs to get rid of that left on green all together, that light wastes many hours a year just sitting there for no reason, waiting for a green left turn arrow. How about Marine Dr and Kitsap Way? half of the day that needs to be flashing yellow, not left on green arrow only. And speaking of that intersection, if you are going to allow left turns with the green arrow left turn light, it needs to let more than three or four cars through, there are a lot of homes and businesses down thre, schools, you name it. You get a four second green light and a tickett camera to boot...jeeze break it off in our.....why dont ya? How about turning left off off 6th street downtown onto washington like if you are heading to the manette bridge? that light has gotten stupid....you can wait there forever even though there are no cars coming.Whoever is in charge of the operation of those lights aint earning their pay thats for sure. Its grueling getting across town here.
Oh no! Thurston Howell III's oysters were disturbed. Trouble in all those exclusive estate type gated communities. Mercy sakes! They should have somebody do something. Shut down the navy, fence off the canal. There goes the surf n turff for tonight......dont like the waves, dont live on the water. Wish i could gate of my road/neighborhood, just because i live there...im jealous.
It not about the kids.....its about wish list of everyone that works in the school district. They want to build and empire off the back of your mortgage. They could care less about weather you get to keep your home or not. You cant fund schools by letting them write their own checks because there will never be enough money. You cannot fund the schools by by taking from one group. I pay almost $2000 a year to the school dist according to my tax assesor's statement and it still aint enough. I dont even have kids. I dont care if you have a house or not everyone should have to pay a direct scool fee...not just homeowners. Its also b.s. that they bring someone in from out of state and give them an obscene amount of money just to have the title of superintendent. Bremerton school dept has over 20 departments and guess what the superintendent of this dept. and the director of that dept and the chief of that dept are all over paid positions. The incessent demand for more money aint got nothing to do with the kids untill the kids parent cant afford to stay in their house. I met the C.K. superintendant...not impressed. Why pay someone 165,000 dollars a year to simply cry for more money all the time? Dont need fancy degrees for that. He is part of the problem
in response to heybooboo: Interesting how the "tyranny of the majority" argument is ignored when touting the passage of health care "reform" and other bills without bipartisan support. It's great to be able to pick and choose when to apply this concept, and then blame the minority (as being "party of no," etc.) the other times.
in response to heybooboo:
Interesting how the "tyranny of the majority" argument is ignored when touting the passage of health care "reform" and other bills without bipartisan support. It's great to be able to pick and choose when to apply this concept, and then blame the minority (as being "party of no," etc.) the other times.
majority of people did not oppose healthcare reform. the republican made it suck a viscious, nasty opposition of lies and fear that the "majoriy of americans" just were confused and did not like the tone. but bringging a pillow to a knife fight made things worse, dems and pres were forced to fight for a fundamental right of affordable healthcare for all. bill aint perfect thanks to crooked, greedy republicans, but the bill is a shot across the bow and a good starting point. For generations no one even dare questioning the healthcare industry writting it own checks at the expense of many lives. Pres. Obama is and will be a national hero forever starting and winning this first battle. People's lives and health cannot be contingent on the progress of the fortune 500. Deal with it.
Spending money on jobs and healthcare, putting a cap on greed with a lil regulation.....gosh what horrible thing. Sounds like something jesus would do. Wait,I thought it was the Repulicans who always try and play the Jesus card during election time...but they hate things that help regular common folk that are no so well equipt at running the rat-race. You always have to remind the republicans that Jesus kicked merchants and money changers out of the tabernacle, not be in their back pockets. Republicans ran our country into the ditch and now they wanna complain about the cost of the tow-truck to pull us out. You cannot vote for a republican because they could care less about America...for them, its all about the Republican party. The Natzies were once a political party just like the republicans. A lot of President Obama's problems stem from the fact that a lot people cant handle a black man being the Pres, hatred and racism, plain and simple. Obama will always be a hero of mine for going into a den of vipers (repulican chambers), during the push for healthcare. He sat surrounded by hate and venom from those getting piles and pile of cash from the Insurance companies and flat out put them in their place and left them with no option but to look like lying crooks that they are. May be the lesser of two evils but im going Dems at state level and higher. Exept I voted for Tim Sheldon, gott like him he's cool. Kathy Haigue...out, all she wants to do is let everyone write their own checks on the back of my house payment. Good luck out there. Think!
No matter what religion....God needs tax-free cash. The churches are laundering money through very secretive associations here in kitsap county. Churches are enjoying tax-free status while funding political campaigns and visual terrorism with bloody fetus pro-life signs. If the church cant keep its unreasonable fanatacism to itself then strip tax free status and start taxing them. Unreasonable? We share the same air and roads with people who know you are going to burn in hell forever because you dont believe like they do. Unreasonable? A big buddy in the sky rocketed himself to earth on a suicide mission to a virgin to save us from the guy in the red cape and pitchfork?....Ya unreasonable. And you cant reason with someone who is hard-wired from birth to believe such nonsense. You can grow up and never hear the word god or religion and still know the difference between right and wrong. These "soldiers of christ" in our communinty are dangerous, shady, fanatics. They claim exclusive rights the truth, cause a lot of suffering and persecution, and profit greatly. Its predatory to feed, house, extend help to someone who is down and out on the basis of having so-called "gods word" crammed down you throat. Hey! what do you know?...No lightning.
On Saturday's in Silverdale a large percentage of folks totally ignore the traffic light when it turns red. Especially at Silverdale Way and Kitsap Mall Blvd. When the light turns red it common to see three or four cars continue through the intersection even after its red, deyning people who are waiting to take their trun a chance to go. It is like a zoo as far as traffic goes in Silverdale on Saturdays. I would like to see deputies enforce the traffic lights there and write some ticketts. But I wanna see the Deputies do it...not a red light camera. Too bad Bremerton is too dumb to employ flashing yellow light for left turns...those are really cool. Bremerton insists on left on green arrow only...so you end up waiting at an intersection for now reason with no cars coming, unable to turn. A couple of bad ones are Kitsap Way and National, that needs to be flashing yellow at most times during the day. Also Lebo Blvd and Wheaton Way by the hospital, that one screams for a flashing yellow for left hand turn. And on of the worst is 6th and montgomery, you can see a quarter of a mile if traffic is coming or not at 25 mph and you will wait there for the longest time waiting to trun left. Im sure some overpaid stick in the mudd has some reason why we cant have some common sense at those intersections.
How to fund it? Oh that's easy...just tack on another couple of hundred dollars to your mortgage payment. And a handful of the key players can get piles and pile of cash off the deal. After all my home is just a tax parcell/cash cow for the county, the city, the port, the fire dept, the school dist, police dept....and on and on. Heck, just come and take my house. Where would I sleep? The parking garage?
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Below are photos and narratives in relation to the various instruments and other equipment I use for astronomical observation. These have been acquired over a periof of years, mostly sourced with care through ebay's Telescopes and Binoculars section, sometimes privately, occasionally via UK Astronomy Buy & Sell, and one particularly fortuitous purchase via Sky at Night Magazine online classifieds forum. That particular purchase included the ETX-125EC and the mySKYTM unit, along with a second set of Meade® 4000 series eyepieces in an aluminium case.
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Meade® LX50 EMC (8" SCT)
I bought this SCT on ebay in 2010, guessing it to be 10+ years of age. The seller's photographs of the 'scope looked stunning, the reality proving the same, and the optics were pristine. It came complete with the LX200 field tripod, the Meade® Equatorial Wedge, a Meade® 26mm plössl eyepiece, a Meade® #1401 tube balance and weights for 8" SCT, and a ScopeSaver BB200 observing table. Since acquisition, I have further added:
All of the above together would have been fairly high-end back at the turn of the century, but by today's standards, it is fairly modest kit obtained at a similarly modest cost. To acquire all the component parts above has taken me some two years plus, simply by being prepared to bide my time, but acting swiftly as the opportunity of a good deal arose. PDF documents:
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GSO GSD 200C (200mm Dobsonian)
My dobby (ebay sourced in 2006), was my second telescope. Nowadays, reference to "My Dobby" conjures up in most minds a certain house elf belonging to one Harry Potter. Hence the picture adorning the side of my 'scope! John Dobson, the creator of the mount that carries his name, won't have had this in mind all those years ago. Dobsonians somehow lend themselves to DIY mods. Other telescope types tend to be viewed by many as "finished products", suitable for accessorising only rather than modding. So, here are my mods / additions that I have undertaken.
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Sky-Watcher® Evostar-120 (120mm refractor on Celestron® CG5 RA driven mount)
This setup comprises two separate ebay purchases, beginning with the CG5 mount complete with RA drive. When it arrived, I found the latitude bolts were absent, so I fashioned new ones using high quality stainless steel bolts, cut to length and ground round on the ends that make contact with the latitude bar. Suitable handles were attached to the bolts. A lucky purchase on the UK arm of astrobuysell.com secured a Sky-Watcher® polarscope to complete work on the mount. Early in 2012, About four months after acquiring the mount, I finally spotted on ebay a Sky-Watcher® Evostar 120 OTA, which fitted my requirements admirably. Winning this was another lucky break, for I expected the OTA, tube rings and dovetail bar, to go for £30 more than I had as my maximum bid. Only a few additions to the OTA have been made, as follows:
The use of the AC695 unit mounted on the 'scope is with a view to achieving an approximation to collimation between the mySKYTM and the EvoStar 120. This is likely to be rather less than precise, serving as a rough guide only, but has the potential to prove useful at star parties and the like. PDF documents:
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Meade® ETX-125EC UHTC (5" Mak)
The sole purpose of this 'scope is to become my remote control observatory. As can be seen from the adjacent photograph, it has had the finderscope removed, a Meade® #1247 electric focuser added, as well as a Kendrick anti-dew heater band. When inside the micro-observatory, the 'scope will be mounted upon a heavy gauge steel Astro Engineering AC021 wedge shown in picture alongside. No longer available, this was a lucky find heavily discounted for it came sans the tabletop adjuster legs. The wedge has been locked to my latitude using a digital inclinometer which measures down to a tenth of a degree. When mounted in the observatory, simply ensuring that the base of the wedge is truly level, again using the digital inclinometer, should ensure latitude accuracy. This will leave only the rotation of the wedge to point directly at true north, affording me an absolutely spot-on perfect alignment. OK... I can dream... for of course, the theory of all this will be complicated by the truth of reality I am sure! The intended micro-observatory to house this, will be mounted on the south facing corner of my house at first floor level. The galvanised steel support framework for this is already in place. It is a concept that I have not seen used elsewhere, but I find it difficult to believe that no one else has ever attempted this. Why have I done it? That is quite simply down to the limitations of my garden. I certainly did not want to lose the many trees that I planted some 20 years ago, and although I could just about get a small roll-off roof observatory in a corner of the garden, there would be little free space left. The trees seriously limit the available sky from there, so hence the idea of going "up", and using my house as "the pier". When completed, the whole setup will be controlled from a computer in my garage, and in turn controllable from other computers on my home network. Ultimately, I hope to offer control of the telescope over the internet. PDF documents:
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Meade® ETX-105PE UHTC (4.1" Mak)
This is my "grab and go" telescope, a role originally fulfilled by an ETX-90EC model, my very first 'scope. Upgrading to a PE version, the aperture choices available were 90mm, 105mm, or 125mm. After due consideration, I plumped for the 105 as the the best compromise, for the following reasons:
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Antares 1.25" binoviewer head
Last two pictures courtesy of scopesnskies.com (Link to original webpage: here)
Opticron Observation 11x80
Adler Wildnis 9x63 (on bino-mirror)
Last three pictures courtesy of pulsar-optical.co.uk (Link to original webpage: here)
Bresser® Travelview 10x50
Last three pictures courtesy of scopesnskies.com (Link to original webpage: here)
Bushnell® Waterproof / Floating 7x50
ScopeTeknix SolarZoom 8-24x50
Last four pictures courtesy of scopesnskies.com (Link to original webpage: here)
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Meade® mySKYTM GPS personal planetarium
Last three pictures courtesy of scopesnskies.com (Link to original webpage: here)
ScopeTeknix Binoflex ST50 mirror mount employing Adler Wildnis 9x63 binoculars
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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
The idea behind IKEA
Economic development claims are bogus -- it's all about politics
Over the past couple of months, the energetic people at IKEA Canada have done their best to get Winnipeg excited about the opening of the chain's first Manitoban store.
As far as marketing efforts go, this wasn't exactly a tough task, given how many people in this city seem to care an awful lot about new brand names, franchises and big-box stores.
If you're not an obsessive shopper, the consumerism can seem a bit much. But there are 22 million reasons you should pay attention to the opening of an IKEA store.
Partly due to pandering, a wee bit out of cynicism and largely out of misguided economic-development policy, the city and province plied IKEA Canada and co-developer Fairweather Properties with $22 million worth of infrastructure subsidies to build a new big-box shopping district at what used to known as the Tuxedo Yards.
Back in 2007, when Mayor Sam Katz and former premier Gary Doer giddily announced IKEA was coming to Winnipeg, the deal was sealed with the help of what was originally pegged at $18.5 million worth of public funds.
At the time, the mayor and premier tried to characterize this subsidy as speeding up existing city infrastructure plans. This was an abject lie.
"The widening of Kenaston Boulevard and Sterling Lyon Parkway is already included in the city's Plan Winnipeg, but would be accelerated to accommodate IKEA's development plans," Katz and Doer said in a 2007 press release titled Province, city to accelerate capital plans as part of proposed IKEA site.
Winnipeg's capital plans, however, did not call for the $26.5 million worth of work that was eventually conducted. The specific work conducted by IKEA and Fairweather, which included new traffic signals and turning lanes to accommodate future shoppers, did not appear in the city's capital-budget forecast, the city's long-term transportation plan or even in Plan Winnipeg, the city's old long-term planning framework.
The political claim about speeding up nonexistent plans was made simply to avoid the appearance of looking like both governments were doling out straightforward development subsidies. Katz's office, to its credit, conceded as much when asked to demonstrate which existing city plan called for widening Kenaston to 12 lanes near a future IKEA store.
Doer's staff, however, insisted vague Plan Winnipeg language about economic-development incentives justified the political claim, even though the actual portion of Route 90 listed as the first priority for widening actually lies between Taylor Avenue in River Heights and Ness Avenue in St. James.
To be fair to Katz and Doer, they didn't have to make any ridiculous claim. Given the enthusiasm about an IKEA store in Winnipeg, they could have called a spade and spade and suffered no political fallout for eventually agreeing to pay back $22 million of the $26.5-million infrastructure tab.
By pandering to shoppers, who make up a large component of the electorate, Katz and Doer could do little political wrong. Spending money to bring IKEA to Winnipeg was deemed to be such a popular move, Katz highlighted the IKEA development during the 2010 civic election campaign as his main economic-development achievement and continues to do so. The NDP government, now led by Premier Greg Selinger, gave IKEA prominent play during last week's throne speech.
On Wednesday, city council's executive policy committee will meet 45 minutes later than usual to allow Katz and other officials time to attend the IKEA opening. The city is clearly proud of its role in stimulating the Tuxedo Yards redevelopment, which will include not just an IKEA, but other big-box stores and a mall called Seasons of Tuxedo.
The belief at city hall is the subsidy is a good deal, as the development will generate new property taxes. That opinion is based on the assumption there will be no drop in property-tax revenue or business taxes anywhere else in Winnipeg as a result of the IKEA-led development. That is possible but hardly certain, as it would be foolish to assume consumers will not change any shopping habits after IKEA and other nearby stores open.
As uncertain as IKEA's effects on the retail market may be, a subsidy for a furniture store does not represent a sound economic-development strategy. The next time a developer considers building retail in Winnipeg, will the city and province be just as willing to pony up for the infrastructure costs? Normally, it's up to developers to pay for the new roads, sewers and watermains.
Like it or not, the IKEA subsidy sets a precedent for retail-district development. The political math would assume the public simply does not care. And perhaps we would not, if the city and province had anything that remotely resembles an economic-development strategy.
The province has placed a lot of its eggs in CentrePort, the Winnipeg trade hub that competes with every other trade hub in North America. The city has left the task to the likes of Yes Winnipeg.
But there is nothing resembling real leadership from either Selinger or Katz when it comes to economic innovation. Both leaders, struggling as they are with a shortage of operating revenue, seem too preoccupied with budget headaches to worry about long-term strategies for their respective governments.
IKEA itself is a dubious beneficiary of a government subsidy. IKEA Canada and co-developer Fairweather already are extremely successful entities. And IKEA's parent entities are especially adept at minimizing their exposure to taxation around the world, thanks to a brilliant but byzantine ownership structure investigated over the past decade by The Economist. At the heart of the onion layers lies a charitable entity, the British magazine first reported in 2006.
IKEA nonetheless maintains a positive corporate image, untarnished even by the recent revelations of the use of prison labour by a supplier. To the brand's credit, IKEA accepted responsibility and apologized.
There is no reason to protest the opening of a new retail store at the former Tuxedo Yards. The total value of the overall development could be $400 million by the time it is complete. The location, between existing Tuxedo residential homes and Kenaston commercial buildings, cannot be accused of constituting sprawl.
And there are many, many Winnipeggers who feel a sense of pride when a new brand shows up in town, as shallow as that sentiment may be.
So, celebrate the arrival of IKEA if you like. Or don't shop there. Just don't assume this furniture chain's arrival says anything about Winnipeg's economic status.
Fairweather's brilliant Michael Nozick offered IKEA Canada a development deal the chain would have been foolish to refuse. The city and province sweetened the pot.
Time will tell whether the $22-million subsidy was worth it.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 25, 2012 A8
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Why some people still fall for Onama's BS about "affordable"healthcare is beyond me. Although that dingbat Justice Roberts voted Obamacare was constitutional, at least he called it what it is - a tax. Of course Obama and the Dems are still denying the truth that it is the largest tax in U.S.history - and a tax on everyone who works, not just the rich.
Wait til we get socked with the real money bomb in 2014 - Obama is saving that for after the election. He knows that anyone who believes him now would never vote for him if they knew the truth of this Big Government scam.
Romney insn't perfect - he's made s few mistakes. But no human being is perfect . But Romney has accomplished more good to balance the few errors he made in the past. He has created many jobs and he is an honest man. Nobody can say that about Obama - he has succeeded in destroying jobs and trying to win the election by using the votes of illegal aliens, among other crooked deals that he does.
Gov. Romney has also promised to repeal Obamacare , and I believe he will do his best to fix the mess and the misery created by Obama and the Dems in congress.
I admire Mark Levin but I also believe that Mike Savage has made some good points against the corruption of Obama, the Dems, and the liberal media. If Savage's blunt way of speaking of reporting offends some, so be it. He makes a lot more sense than all the liberals combined, and deserves to be heard,
Thanks for this info Mr.Limbaugh. This clearly shows how President Obama has abused his power. It seems that I've heard of quite a few times that Obama has invoked his executive privilege. Since the TV has shown by numbers how many times that previous previous presidents used their executive privilege, I'd like to know of Obama's record on this.
Kudos, Michelle! Wish everyone had your courage to expose the corruption of the DemocRATS - from Obama on down.
There are 2 cabdidates for presidenr in the 2012 election - Mitt Romney, Republican and Barak Obama, Democrat. There is a world of difference on where they stand on every issue from taxes to healthcare,
If you want 4 more years of Obama's socialist big government telling you how to live your life, vote for him.
If you want to keep your freedom that our ancestors fought for, then Romney is your man.
After almost 4 years of Obama thr Dictator, we could use this bit of encouragement. Praise the Lord and pass the amunition.
God be with you Jioe. Every American should be praying that the bird brain voters in Ohio finally see the light and vote for a conservative Republican like you.
They'll get rid of the Dem Socialists if they know what's good for them.
David Limbaugh is right on. Mitt Romney should stop saying that Obama is just some good guy who means well but lacks enough experience. Most Americans won't buy that bull.
Obama is a socialist who hates the Anerican system of free enterprise and he's doing his best to systematically destroy our freedom and prosperity.
Romnry needs to tell the truth about Obama's real socialist dream, and how the Dems in congress and the liberal media are working with Obama to accomplish it.
Michelle .as usual. is right on the mark. These minority groups are acting like schoolyard bullies. Everyone knows that if you won't stand up to bullying you are encouraging them to continue.
Have a physical checkup and if this young lady has no health or drug problems, make her do her own chores. Ask her what sort of work or hobby she likes, and help her find a suitable occupation.


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Select an individual below to link to the Kellogg Faculty Publication System for a complete listing of books, chapters, cases, conference papers and articles.
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Entrepreneurs Are Made Not Born by Lloyd E. Shefsky; McGraw-Hill, Inc. ISBN: 0-07-057025-6
Shefsky interviewed 200 entrepreneurs and draws on their experiences to highlight targeted lessons in entrepreneurship.
To order a copy, please email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Family Business as Paradox by John L. Ward, Ph.D., Amy Schuman and Stacy Stutz
Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and, synthesize...
Building A Successful Family Business Board: A Guide for Leaders, Directors, and Families
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Best practices for creating a board of directors for family businesses from the experts in the field
When Family Businesses are Best: The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success
This book explores how effective planning and communication helps family businesses around the world address growth challenges as they strive to become high...
Why Others? Philanthropy as Opportunity
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Why me? Wealth: Creating, Receiving and Passing it on by Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez, Thierry Lombard, Matthieu Ricard, GABS, and John L. Ward, Ph.D.
Eminent family enterprise authors bring humor to their vast knowledge of this subject.
Family Values and Value Creation
(Introduction & Chapter 5 "How Values Dilemmas Underscore the Difficult Issues of Governing the Large, Enterprising Family")
edited by Josep Tapies and John L. Ward ISBN: 978-0-230-21219-01
The study and research of the role of family values and their impact on the creation of values.
Perpetuating the Family Business: 50 Lessons Learned from Long-Lasting Successful Families in Business
by John L. Ward, Ph.D ISBN: 1-4039-3397-9
A framework of insights and principles in which 50 lessons for family businesses are presented using international examples, cases, essential tools and checklists of best practice.
Strategic Planning for the Family Business by Randel S. Carlock and John L. Ward, Ph.D ISBN: 0-333-94731-2
The authors introduce the new concept of the Parallel Planning Process, explaining how to integrate the needs and expectations of the family and business systems in order to create an organic and entrepreneurial unit.
Family Business Key Issues
by Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez and John L. Ward, Ph.D ISBN: 1-4039-4775-9
This book is collection of articles by leading thinkers and practitioners on family business and it covers such issues as ensuring a healthy family business, family strategy, governance and succession.
Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises: Meeting the Challenges of Continuity and Competition by John L. Ward, Ph.D; Jossey-Bass ISBN: 1-55542-352-3
This book shows how to build a dynamic board of directors that can enhance the ability to conduct business of owners of small to midsized private and family firms.
Unconventional Wisdom: Counterintuitive Insights for Family Business Success (IMD Executive Development Series) Order from efamilybusiness.com Order from Amazon.com
by John L. Ward, Ph.D (Editor) ISBN: 0-470-02165-9
"IMD - International Institute for Management Development - has been the global meeting place for families in business since 1988..."
Managing Complexity in Global Organizations (IMD Executive Development Series)
(Chapter 18) Managing Complexity: The Family Business Experience by John L. Ward, Ph.D.
Mastering Global Corporate Governance (IMD Executive Development Series)
(Chapter 8) How Governing Family Businesses is Different
edited by Peter Lorange, Fred Neubauer, John L. Ward, Ph.D., Bill George, Ulrich Steger ISBN: 0-470-09041-3
Family Education for Business-Owning Families. Strengthening Bonds by Learning Together
by Amy M. Schuman and John L. Ward. © 2009 ISBN: 1-891652-27-5
This book aims to inspire you and your family to initiate a family education program that is suited to the needs of your family.
From Siblings to Cousins: Prospering in the Third Generation and Beyond by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John L. Ward, Ph.D.
If you are a sibling owner, this book will help you create the circumstances to help your children become successful team—if it's the family's goal to continue in business together. This is a how-to book aimed at helping the cousin generation continue working together successfully.
The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business
by Daniela Montemerlo and John L. Ward, Ph.D
The two most effective practices implemented to protect and preserve the family business are "1) to build an independent board to strengthen the business and 2) to draft a Family Agreement to strengthen the family." This book is about the latter.
Family Business Ownership: How to be an Effective Shareholder by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John L. Ward, Ph.D
This book explores the far deeper rewards--spiritual, psychological, intellectual, emotional and financial-- that can come from being an effective shareholder in a healthy family business.
Make Change Your Family Business Tradition by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John L. Ward, Ph.D
The current rapid rate of change makes ongoing success in a family business an increasingly more difficult challenge. This book provides a framework for all constituents to embrace change for the success of the family enterprise.
Preparing Your Family Business for Strategic Change by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John L. Ward, Ph.D Responsible and disciplined strategic integration of family and business goals, strengths and values produces powerful results for family firms. Significant strategic change is crucial ...
Generation to Generation: Life Cylces of the Family Business by Ivan Lansberg et al.; HBS ISBN: 978-0875845555 O.ne of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family businesses face as they move through their life cycles...
Defying the ODDS: Case Studies of Nigerian Organizations that have Survived Generations
Foreward by John L. Ward, Ph.D
Family Business Through Darwin's Theory of Species
by Corinne Chaponnière and John L. Ward, Ph.D The purpose of this book is to explore with the reader whether Darwin's theory of evolution is a valuable metaphor for family business continuity. Is there, possibly, a "family business biology"? Do Darwin's concepts of struggle for life, adaptation, variation, mutation, natural selection, procreation and inheritance provide helpful insights for family business owners?
Les Enterprises Familiales (French)
Family Enterprises
edited by Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez and John L. Ward, Ph.D
ISBN: 2-13-054607-2 Paris: Presses Universitaire de France, 2004, 127 p.
Como Escoger y Trabajar Con Consultores En Empresa: Como Obtener El Mejor Asesoramiento Profesional Para La Empresa Familiar (Spanish)
How to Choose & Use Advisors: Getting the Best Family Business Advice
by Craig E. Aronoff and John L. Ward, Ph.D
México: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 1999. 69p. (HD69.C6A7e) ISBN: 970-10-2464-8
La Prueba Suprema de La Grandeza; La Eleccion Del Nuevo Lider (Spanish Translation)
Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness
México: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 47p. (HD62.25.A712e) ISBN: 970-10-2696-9
La Sucesion En La Empresa Familiar: Un Nuevo Lider, Un Nuevo Heroe (Spanish Translation)
Another Kind of Hero: Preparing Successors for Leadership
México: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 63p. (HD62.25.A713e) ISBN: 970-10-2697-7
Optimizando El Potencial En La Empresa Familiar; Como Evitar Los Juegos De Poder (Spanish Translation)
Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential
México: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 61p. (HD62.25.A71e) ISBN: 970-10-2753-1
Juntas De Trabajo Exitosas Para Formar Empresas Familiares Muy Solidas (Spanish Translation)
Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business
México: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 1999. 53p. (HD62.25.A7e) ISBN: 970-10-2463-X
Como Desarrollar La Empresa Familiar: Planificacion Estrategica De Crecimiento, Rentabilidad & Liderazgo Familiar Duraderos (Spanish Translation)
Keeping the Family Business Healthy. How to Plan for Continuing Profitability, and Family Leadership
by John L. Ward, Ph.D
Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1994. 216p. (HD62.25.W3e) ISBN: 950-02-3626-5
Di Padre In Giglio: L'Impresa Di Famiglia; Come Preparer Il Passaggio Generazionale E Assicurare Continuita E Prosperita Alle Aziende Familiari (Italian Translation)
Keeping the Family Business Healthy. How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability, and Family Leadership


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Apparently there's an actual name for Brodie's eye color: gooseberry green. I learned this while reading about Egyptian Mau cats. My guys are mutts, not Maus, but seeing as the distinguishing features of all known cat "breeds" came from random-bred populations originally it's totally unsurprising to see modern random-bred kitties expressing traits commonly associated with particular types of cats.
It's difficult to get good photos of cats' eyes, but the one below (of Brodie, if that wasn't obvious!) is pretty accurate color-wise:
Cats' eyes commonly change color as they grow. My youngsters all had greyish eyes when first adopted, and like most kittens probably had blue eyes at birth. Now they've all got different hues going on in the ocular region: Cora's eyes are a deep amber, Shadow's are bright yellow with greenish bits toward the center, and Brodie's are, well, gooseberry (or, as I've previously described them, "clear limeade green").
Brodie also does actually look vaguely Mau-ish in other respects too...these Flickr Mau-cats remind me of him a fair bit. He's more striped than spotted but he's definitely got the long body and the wedge-with-rounded-points head shape.
Anyway, definitely a frivolous observation but cat traits and genetics are just something that fascinates me, so I thought I'd post about it.
Monday, March 7, 2011
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missmoppet: Oh cool re. gooseberry bush. I've only seen gooseberries a few times; they're not super common in California, USA I guess (and I've only seen them in grocery stores, not growing outside). They are pretty though, and I can see the resemblance to eyeballs, especially light green kitty eyeballs!
And yes Brodie is indeed a handsome guy! He's a very statuesque cat, at least when he's sitting still...when running around he's still a bit of a klutz, though he's getting more graceful as he matures.
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Step back a bit from your computer and see if this dog's snout doesn't appear to be otherworldly.
Cool, huh? (Thanks, Claire!)
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42 Responses to "Skull Dog"
Anonymous says:
Thank you all!
I thought there was something wrong with me — all I see is a black-and-white photograph of a big black Lab laying in the shade, with just his note getting any sun.
saint_al says:
Okay, I saw a laughing 'Grey'. Responses here will reveal something about the responders~ file under "inkblot".
Wonder what the dog sees… -
misterdna says:
Funny, I didn't see it all… Then I walked away from my computer, and when I returned, I was like, "what is that creature on my computer screen?"
Lobster says:
Meth is a hell of a drug. Shawn, I hope you didn't cut the devil out of that poor animal.
dbarak says:
Ahhhh, scoot back about five feet and squint. It's a skull with its mouth wide open. Not an exacting image, but close enough.
Bender says:
I saw it.
Maybe some of you are just crabby cause it's a Monday.
Pauliebaby says:
Not really seeing it but enjoy it if you can. Life is fleeting.
nehpetsE says:
i agree. not skull. laughing grey. but with a cro-magnon jaw.
LeavingHalfway says:
eeees so cuuuute and fuzzzzzzy and
ZOMGWTF is that!?
holyalmost says:
This image would probably be more affective if it were a large print in a large space, such as an art gallery with plenty of room to stand back from it. The screaming skull would be huge and a lot creepier.
Hentosz says:
Yep. Looks like Jack Skellington giving Lock, Shock and Barrel hell over snagging the Easter Bunny.
It's like a Magic Eye that slobbers and poops.
Bevin says:
My nine-year-old daughter and I think this is really cool! Thanks for sharing.
Jaan says:
Awwww jesh, this is like one of those "3D" posters from the 90′s isn't it?
I see a sailboat…
Secret_Life_of_Plants says:
Here's a better one…face or cat?
Anonymous says:
Also get teh effect a little if you squint your eyes
kiltreiser says:
OK, I don't see a skull but that is a hell of a weird photo. There's something about the dog's eyes that sends a wee shiver up my spine.
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I don't see anything either. I'm like totally not in the click.


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