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Part One
Part 1. The Economy
It is often said that you are known by the company you keep. If that is true, then progressive voters should familiarize themselves with at least some of Sen. Barack Obama's advisers and fundraisers, and by this I don't mean Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I mean the real movers and shakers who are the answer to the question: "How does a young, black, first term Senator rise so quickly in politics so as to be standing at the threshold of the White House?" You will see that those who made it possible are
not Weather Underground, or vociferous ministers, but are the people who will insure that Barack Obama will not make any fundamental changes to the way the United States does its business - here or abroad.
The Religion of the Free Market
The Democratic presidential candidate's chief economic advisor is Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago, an economist described by author Naomi Klein as "on the left side of a spectrum that stops at the center-right."1 Goolsbee is very much a home town pick, and not merely because he and Obama both live in Chicago. Obama taught at the law school of the University of Chicago for a decade, and, as Klein says, "is thoroughly embedded in the mind set known as the Chicago School."2 The Chicago School's long time "Headmaster" was the late Nobel Prize-winning monetarist Milton Friedman, who made a secular religion of "the free market." According to Klein, Goolsbee qualifies as a leftist in this group because he acknowledges inequality as a problem. But his answer to it is more education.3 Sound familiar? During his years in the White House, Bill Clinton emphasized retraining for the people who were losing their manufacturing jobs to "downsizing." But, besides the difficulties inherent in retraining someone who had spent a decade or more on an assembly line to be a computer programmer, (and helping him or her maintain a home and family during the process), there was the not-so-little matter of technical jobs also being outsourced to the other side of the world, a problem that has been growing since the Clinton Administration, as the United States loses the ability to make anything except bombs, debts, and rich executives.
Goolsbee got into a bit of PR trouble earlier this year for comments to officials at the Canadian consulate in Chicago that a President Obama would not be as anxious to renegotiate NAFTA as Candidate Obama appeared to be.4 Naturally, the press was alleged to have gotten it wrong, just as it has gotten the exit polls wrong in the last two elections.
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But the Associated Press obtained a memorandum of the meeting written by Joseph De Mora, a political and economic affairs consular officer. Part of it said:
Goolsbee candidly acknowledged the protectionist sentiment that has emerged, particularly in the Midwest, during the primary campaign. [H]e cautioned that this messaging should not be taken out of context and should be viewed as more about political - positioning than a clear articulation of policy p1ans. He also suggested that of the Democratic candidates, Obama has been the least protectionist (unintelligible).5
On NAFTA, Goolsbee suggested that Obama is less about fundamentally changing the agreement and more in favor of strenghtening/clarifying language on labor mobility and environment, and trying to establish these as more "core" principles of the agreement.6
But the people of Ohio, before whom Obama harshly criticized NAFTA during the primaries7, are not interested in labor mobility. They want good jobs in Ohio. What they are getting is more of the same insensitive and nonsensical message that both Democrats and Republicans gave them in 2004: Outsourcing your job is good for the American economy.
Dr. Francis A. Boyle, Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, received his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago, where Obama taught at the law school and Goolsbee is a member of the economics department. Boyle rails against that institution regularly. He managed to stick to his liberal principles there and at Harvard University, where he received a law degree and a PhD. in political science. Boyle had this to say about the University of Chicago's political science and economics departments, and law school in a December, 2005 article:
"The University of Chicago routinely trained me and innumerable other students to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians. That is precisely why so many neophyte Neo-Con students gravitated toward the University of Chicago or towards Chicago Alumni at other universities. ... Integrally related to and overlapping with the Feddies [lawyers who are members of the ultraconservative Federalist Society] are members of the University of Chicago "School" of Law-and-Kick-Them-in-the-Groin Economics, which in turn was founded on the Market Fundamentalism of Milton Friedman....This Chicago gang of academic con-artists and charlatans are proponents of the Nazi Doctrine of "useless eaters." Pursuant to Friedman's philosophy of Market Fundamentalism, the privatization of Iraq and its oil industry [is] already underway for the primary benefit of the U.S. energy companies...."8
Naomi Klein's description of Obama's economic philosophy bears repeating: he "is thoroughly embedded in the mind set known as the Chicago School."9
Obama: Property of the Billionaires
Anyone still harboring any fantasies at this late date of "Change you can believe in" from an Obama Adminstration needs to understand just how badly compromised he is. And that understanding begins with learning about his national campaign chair, Penny Pritzker. She's the one behind his raising a record $500 million-that's half a billion-dollars. (My thoughts on what we could do with that kind of money besides spending it on political campaigns will have to wait for another day).
Penny Pritzker runs Classic Residence by Hyatt, a chain of retirement homes, and The Parking Spot, an airport shuttle service. She's president of Pritzker Realty Group and chairwoman of TransUnion LLC, a credit checking company. She's a director of Global Hyatt Corp., which owns or operates more than 365 hotels in 44 countries.10
All told, the Pritzker empire is worth as much as $40 billion, a person familiar with the situation estimates.11
Much has been revealed by the KPFA-FM's investigative news magazine Flashpoints. (Flashpoints in the the public affairs department. This author works for KPFA's news department). On programs on February 20, 2008 and September 30, 2008,12 Flashpoints focused on Pritzker's role in the the sub-prime crisis that has triggered this nation's and now the world's financial industry meltdown. Bank fraud whistleblower Timothy J. Anderson appeared on both shows to give details of Pritzker's schemes.
Pritzker, through Superior Bank FSB of Hinsdale Illinois, of which she was owner and chair of the board, was among the first to securitize sub-prime mortgages. Superior was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) in late 2001and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Receiver in early 2002. Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein relayed what Anderson told him in February in an article for Consortium News:
"The [sub-prime] financial engineering that created the Wall Street meltdown was developed by the Pritzkers and Ernst and Young, working with Merrill Lynch to sell bonds securitized by sub-prime mortgages.
"The sub-prime mortgages, were provided to Merrill Lynch, by a nation-wide Pritzker origination system, using Superior as the cash cow, with many millions in FDIC insured deposits. Superior's owners were to sub-prime lending, what Michael Milken was to junk bonds."13
Also in February, Earl Offari Hutchinson described the conflict between Obama's speeches against subprime profiteers and his campaign's association with Pritzker in an article for the Huffington Post:
"Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama says he'll crack down on fraudulent sub-prime lenders. If he really means it he can start by firing his campaign finance chair, Penny Pritzker. Before taking over Obama's campaign finances, she headed up the borderline shady and failed Superior Bank. It collapsed in 2002. The bank's sordid story and its abominable role in fueling the sub-prime crisis are well known and documented. It engaged in deceptive and faulty lending, questionable accounting practices, and charged hidden fees. It did it with the sleepy-eyed see-no-evil oversight of federal. It made thousands of dubious loans to mostly poor, strapped homeowners. A disproportionate number of them were minority.
"Obama's home state, Illinois, ranked near the top of thee states in the percentage of sub-prime mortgages. Nearly 15 percent of home loans were sub-prime according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. But that only tells part of the tale. According to the Woodstock Institute, a Chicago non-profit that studies housing issues, the sub-prime fall-out was far higher in the predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods of South and Southwest Chicago.
"The predictable happened when many of those lost their homes. When the bank collapsed Pritzker and bank officials skipped away with their profits and reputations intact."14
On September 30th, Tim Anderson opined to Flashpoints that Pritzker raised the half a billion dollars for Obama because she "wants a seat at the table. She doesn't want to be just a fundraiser."15
She got it. When Obama met with his economic advisers on July 28 in Washington, Pritzker participated along with Warren Buffett, Robert Rubin, chairman of Citigroup Inc.'s executive committee, and Paul Volcker, 80, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.16
Speaking of seats, the Obama family lives on the southside of Chicago. So they have had a ringside seat to the devastation caused by the subprime mortgage debacle. Yet Obama says of Pritzker: "She and I share certain core values about how to run organizations, and hopefully that will inform how we manage the government.''17
How "we" manage the government? Will this subprime queen become the next Secretary of the Treasury?
That ain't all...
Pritzker is not the only ultra-rich Obama backer. Another is George Soros, the wallet behind the faux-progressive MoveOn.org, which called for the censure, but not impeachment, of George W. Bush. Obama has been the beneficiary of Soro's soft money since his days in the Illinois state senate.18
The billionaire currency speculator's hedge fund may have lost at least $120 million on its stake in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., mostly acquired in the second quarter, as the investment bank suffered its worst financial result. Soros Fund Management LLC, which manages $20 billion, purchased 9.47 million shares, or about 1.4% of New York-based Lehman, between March 31 and June 30, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.19
Do you think that maybe Sen. Obama might have an interest in seeing that Mr. Soros can recoup those losses?
Both Obama and Sen. John "Keating Five" McCain, the nominal opponent in this fake two-headed corporate party "election," enjoy huge financial support from Wall Street. Obama has received at least $1.5 million collected by three senior executives at Lehman Brothers.20
With support of the ultra rich such as Pritzker and Soros as well as others at the top of the investor class, is it any wonder Obama and McCain, were joined at the hip on the necessity of a Wall Street bailout? They even issued a joint statement as Congress negotiated the first version of the bailout.
"Now is a time to come together - Democrats and Republicans - in a spirit of cooperation for the sake of the American people. The plan that has been submitted to Congress by the Bush Administration is flawed, but the effort to protect the American economy must not fail."21
After the bailout finally passed ($150 billion more costly and about 300 pages more complicated than the original bill), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) told writer Chris Hedges in a phone interview:
"We face a perfect financial storm. The elements are the deficit spending for the war of 3 to 4 trillion dollars, the trillion and more tax cuts, the war itself and the lack of serious investment in the country. We are being hollowed out. We are going to see more unemployment and more people losing their homes. With $700 billion we could have made a real investment in the country, in jobs, in infrastructure and in homes. Instead, we got robbed."22
Apparently, the American economy Obama wants to protect is the financial interests of the Wall Streeters who bankroll his presidential campaign.
Kéllia Ramares is a journalist living in Oakland, CA. She aggregates news stories and commentaries at a channel called freedomnews at Livevideo.com. Her email address is email@example.com
1 Naomi Klein, "Obama's Chicago Boys," The Nation, June 12, 2008. http://thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein/ This article appeared in print in the June 30, 2008 edition of the nation.
2 http://thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein/
3 http://thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein/
4 Michael Luo, "Memo Gives Canada's Account of Obama Campaign's Meetings on NAFTA," New York Times, March 4, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/politics/04nafta.html
5 http://www.nytimes.com/images/promos/politics/blog/20070303canmemo.pdf
6 http://www.nytimes.com/images/promos/politics/blog/20070303canmemo.pdf
7 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/politics/04nafta.html
8 Francis A. Boyle, Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies and Con-Artists, December 17, 2005.
http:// www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BOY20051217&articleId=1493
9 http://thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein/
10 John Lippert, "The Power of Penny Pritzker," Bloomberg Markets, October 2008.
11 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag/mm_1008_story1.html
12 Podcasts of these shows may be obtained at http://kpfa.org or http://flashpoints.net
13 Dennis Bernstein, "Obama's Sub-prime conflict," Consortium News, February 28, 2008,
14 Earl Offari Hutchinson, "If Obama's For Real on the Sub-Prime Crisis, He'll Dump His Campaign
Finance Chair," Huffington Post, February 29, 2008.
15 Flashpoints, KPFA-FM, September 30, 2008. Podcast is available at http://kpfa.org/
16 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag/mm_1008_story1.html
17 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag/mm_1008_story1.html
18 Ed Hamler, "George Soros buys the Democratic Nomination; Obama Borrows It," EIR, July 4, 2008.
19 Bloomberg News, "Soros Fund Loss on Lehman May be $120M," Sept 11, 2008, as reprinted in the NY Sun
20 Peter Yost, Associated Press, "Wall Street among biggest donors to McCain, Obama," Sept. 18, 2008 as reprinted in SunSentinel.com, Nation/World section on Oct 5, 2008.
21Joint McCain Obama statement, http://thepage.time.com/joint-mccain-obama-statement/
22Chris Hedges, "Dennis Kucinich on the Democrats Betrayal," TruthDig.com, Oct 5, 2005. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081006_dennis_kucinich_on_the_democrats_bailout_betrayal/
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On Tuesday, thousands of honeybees swarmed a heron statue in downtown Houma along the Bayou Walk at the corner of Barrow and Main streets.
The insects landed in a cluster on the statue's beak around 11 a.m., and within minutes, clinging together, they maneuvered further down to the heron's lower body where they remained stationary until a beekeeper came and scooped them up around 3 p.m.
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Luke said there was a queen bee somewhere in the swarm that the other bees were protecting while she rested.
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Re: "Breckenridge to ask voters for child care tax," by Caddie Nath, Nov. 20
How about the obvious missing third choice on subsidized day care in Breckenridge? OK, so we only given two choices to ponder for subsidized day care, a property tax raise or a sales tax increase. I'm surely not the only one wondering why we are not given the third obvious option to consider. I've heard all the reasons we should support subsidized day care but this expensive outlay of taxpayer funds seems as important as the taxes levied for our public school system. I believe the public needs the same consideration and ability to determine its continued support and to what extent.


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The Business of Winning Innovation: An Exclusive Blog Series
By Kerrie Foy on Nov 20, 2012
Business of Winning Innovation" is a series of articles authored by Oracle
Agile PLM experts on what it takes to make innovation a successful and
lucrative competitive advantage. Our
customers have proven Agile PLM applications to be enormously flexible and comprehensive,
so we've launched this article series to showcase some of the most fascinating,
value-packed use cases.
In this article by Keith Colonna, we kick-off the series by taking a look at the science side of innovation within the Consumer Products industry and how PLM can help companies innovate faster, cheaper, smarter. This article will review how innovation has become the lifeline for growth within consumer products companies and how certain companies are "winning" by creating a competitive advantage for themselves by taking a more enterprise-wide,systematic approach to "innovation".
Managing the Science of Innovation within the Consumer Products Industry
By: Keith Colonna, Value Chain Solution Manager, Oracle
The consumer products (CP) industry is very mature and competitive. Most companies within this industry have saturated North America (NA) with their products thus maximizing their NA growth potential. Future growth is expected to come from either expansion outside of North America and/or by way of new ideas and products. Innovation plays an integral role in both of these strategies, whether you're innovating business processes or the products themselves, and may cause several challenges for the typical CP company,
Becoming more innovative is both an art and a science. Most CP companies are very good at the art of coming up with new innovative ideas, but many struggle with perfecting the science aspect that involves the best practice processes that help companies quickly turn ideas into sellable products and services.
Symptoms and Causes of Business Pain
Struggles associated with the science of innovation show up in a variety of ways, like:
· Establishing and storing innovative product ideas and data
· Funneling these ideas to the chosen few
· Time to market cycle time and on-time launch rates
· Success rates, or how often the best idea gets chosen
· Imperfect decision making (i.e. the ability to kill projects that are not projected to be winners)
· Achieving financial goals
· Return on R&D investment
· Communicating internally and externally as more outsource partners are added globally
· Knowing your new product pipeline and project status
These challenges (and others) can be consolidated into three root causes:
- A lack of visibility
- Poor data with limited access
- The inability to truly collaborate enterprise-wide throughout your extended value chain
Choose the Right Remedy
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions are uniquely designed to help companies solve these types challenges and their root causes. However, PLM solutions can vary widely in terms of configurability, functionality, time-to-value, etc. Business leaders should evaluate PLM solution in terms of their own business drivers and long-term vision to determine the right fit. Many of these solutions are point solutions that can help you cure only one or two business pains in the short term. Others have been designed to serve other industries with different needs. Then there are those solutions that demo well but are owned by companies that are either unable or unwilling to continuously improve their solution to stay abreast of the ever changing needs of the CP industry to grow through innovation.
What the Right PLM Solution Should Do for You
Based on more than twenty years working in the CP industry, I recommend investing in a single solution that can help you solve all of the issues associated with the science of innovation in a totally integrated fashion. By integration I mean the (1) integration of the all of the processes associated with the development, maintenance and delivery of your product data, and (2) the integration, or harmonization of this product data with other downstream sources, like ERP, product catalogues and the GS1 Global Data Synchronization Network (or GDSN, which is now a CP industry requirement for doing business with most retailers).
The right PLM solution should help you:
- Increase Revenue. A best practice PLM solution should help a company grow its revenues by consolidating product development cycle-time and helping companies get new and improved products to market sooner. PLM should also eliminate many of the root causes for a product being returned, refused and/or reclaimed (which takes away from top-line growth) by creating an enterprise-wide, collaborative, workflow-driven environment.
- Reduce Costs. A strong PLM solution should help shave many unnecessary costs that companies typically take for granted. Rationalizing SKU's, components (ingredients and packaging) and suppliers is a major opportunity at most companies that PLM should help address. A natural outcome of this rationalization is lower direct material spend and a reduction of inventory. Another cost cutting opportunity comes with PLM when it helps companies avoid certain costs associated with process inefficiencies that lead to scrap, rework, excess and obsolete inventory, poor end of life administration, higher cost of quality and regulatory and increased expediting.
- Mitigate Risk. Risks are the hardest to quantify but can be the most costly to a company. Food safety, recalls, line shutdowns, customer dissatisfaction and, worst of all, the potential tarnishing of your brands are a few of the debilitating risks that CP companies deal with on a daily basis. These risks are so uniquely severe that they require an enterprise PLM solution specifically designed for the CP industry that safeguards product information and processes while still allowing the art of innovation to flourish.
Many CP companies have already created a winning advantage by leveraging a single, best practice PLM solution to establish an enterprise-wide, systematic approach to innovation.
Oracle's Answer for the Consumer Products Industry
Oracle is dedicated to solving the growth and innovation challenges facing the CP industry. Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process solution was originally developed with and for CP companies and is driven by a specialized development staff solely focused on maintaining and continuously improving the solution per the latest industry requirements. Agile PLM for Process helps CP companies handle all of the processes associated with managing the science of the innovation process, including: specification management, new product development/project and portfolio management, formulation optimization, supplier management, and quality and regulatory compliance to name a few.
And as I mentioned earlier, integration is absolutely critical. Many Oracle CP customers, both with Oracle ERP systems and non-Oracle ERP systems, report benefits from Oracle's Agile PLM for Process. In future articles we will explain in greater detail how both existing Oracle customers (like Gallo, Smuckers, Land-O-Lakes and Starbucks) and new Oracle customers (like ConAgra, Tyson, McDonalds and Heinz) have all realized the benefits of Agile PLM for Process and its integration to their ERP systems.
More to Come
Stay tuned for more articles in our blog series "The Business of Winning Innovation." While we will also feature articles focused on other industries, look forward to more on how Agile PLM for Process addresses innovation challenges facing the CP industry. Additional topics include: Innovation Data Management (IDM), New Product Development (NPD), Product Quality Management (PQM), Menu Management,Private Label Management, and more! .
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Hackers claiming to be part of global militant group al-Qaeda overtook Washington State Community's College's public website Friday afternoon.
An image of Osama bin Laden that replaced the front page of www.wscc.edu around 4 p.m. was taken down within minutes, said Claudia Owens, executive director of public relations and marketing for the college.
However, the website remained down as of late Friday night, while college IT staff worked to get the real site back online.
"The IT department is working diligently to get our site back up and working," said Owens.
Because the college is a state agency, officials there called in investigators from the Ohio State Highway Patrol to assist with the matter, she said.
Additionally, Sgt. Scott Parks of the Washington County Sheriff's Office has contacted the state homeland security agency and is ready to assist them as needed, said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.
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An image of Osama bin Laden replaced Washington State Community College's website around 4 p.m. Friday.
The image claimed the site was hacked into by "Al-Qaeda HaCKeR TeaM & TKL."
Investigators from the Ohio State Highway Patrol and Ohio Homeland Security have been contacted to help investigate the incident.
The image was removed within minutes, but the college's website remained down as of late Friday night.
"I actually have been in touch with homeland security and they have an interest in it," he said.
Currently there is no information as to who hacked the site or if it was truly the work of al-Qaeda, said Mincks.
The image that briefly replaced the college's website depicted a black and white image of Osama bin Laden above the words "I swear by Allah..America and who lives in America will never enjoy security."
Along the left are additional black and white images of protesters captioned as chanting "We are all Usama."
Along the right is a rhyming poem which ends:
"America will Face their Worst,
Because We Are All Usama,
We will Show Them How We Burst,
Hear Us Very Well Barrack Obama."
The top credits the hack to "Al-Qaeda HaCKeR TeaM & TKL."
Investigators will be attempting to find who hacked the site, said Mincks.
"(College President) Dr. (Bradley) Ebersole is very upset about this. The college is going to pursue this as a criminal case," said Owens.
There is no time frame for when the public site will be back up, said Owens. But for now, students, faculty and staff still have access to the college's secure website at www.mywscc.edu, she said.
"It won't cause a problem from a standpoint of students needing to take online classes or look at their schedule online," said Owens.
However, it will mean that people visiting the college's website to view upcoming events or look for college information won't be able to, she said.


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Congressman Tim Huelskamp is now accepting applications from college-aged young adults seeking internships in his Washington, D.C. office as well as in his Kansas offices located in Dodge City, Hutchinson, Salina, and Manhattan. The deadline for applications for Summer 2013 is March 15, 2013.
"So much of what happens in Washington today has consequences for the next generation, and so it is valuable for young people to have exposure to Congress and the lawmaking process," Huelskamp said. "I encourage those with interest in the legislative process to consider serving the people of the First District of Kansas in either one of our Kansas offices or in D.C."
Interns may be asked to complete a variety of tasks, including day-to-day office work such as answering phones, writing letters, and assisting with media clips. In addition, interns may be assigned to assist with constituent casework or attend Congressman Huelskamp's public events throughout the First District. This is an unpaid internship.
Additional information about the internship program can be found at http://huelskamp.house.gov/internships.
Congressman Tim Huelskamp represents the First District of Kansas. He serves on the House Small Business Committee and the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. He is a member of the Republican Study Committee.
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BELPRE - After being closed about five years with "caution" tape around the gasoline pumps, the Belpre Mart has reopened with a new owner.
The former Marathon station at Main Street and U.S. 50/Ohio 7 just off of the Memorial Bridge reopened April 1 after a month of preparations by new owner Sunil Joshi, who moved to the area from New Jersey where he worked in casinos.
"I was looking online for a business I could buy and run in a safe area and this store came up," Joshi said.
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JOLENE CRAIG Special to the Times
Sunil Joshi, owner of the Belpre Mart at Main Street and U.S. 50/Ohio 7, stands in front of the store, which opened on April 1 as a convenience store and gasoline station after being closed about five years.
"The first thing I did was look at the crime data and it is absolutely non-existent here," Joshi said. "In coming here, I couldn't have met a nicer bunch of people."
Mayor Mike Lorentz said he is pleased to see the old store reopened four years of being empty.
"If we can support these good, legitimate businesses with our traffic flow, it means we are doing well as a community," Lorentz said. "I just hope it does well for them."
He continued that the people he has met in the past month as he prepared the business to open, are polite and nice.
"Everyone I have met has taken a few minutes to talk," Joshi said. "I am very much impressed with the kindness and politeness I have seen."
While the store has been open only a little more than a week, Joshi said business is picking up.
"Every day a few more people come in," he said. "Traffic coming off the bridge and the four-lane is very, very good.
"I think the problem is that people have been so used to the store being closed, they don't realize we are open and once they realize we are here, they will stop in," he said.
Lorentz said the location of the store in a prime traffic flow area is nice for gasoline stations.
"It is a great location and when the old store was open it was always busy," the mayor said. "I don't know why it ever closed, but now that it is reopened, I think it will do well."
While Joshi is here with is brother-in-law, their families remain in New Jersey until the business is more stable.
"We hope this business does well and if it does, we will move our families here," Joshi said. "I really hope to stay here and bring my family."


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Spa News: Dermalogica Celebrates Women's Entrepreneurship at DWEN
Dermalogica, one of the world's top professional skin care brands that is committed to empowering women worldwide to become financially independent, celebrated women in business and entrepreneurship at the recent Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) "Bold Beginnings, Brave Futures" conference held in Austin, TX. Jane Wurwand, the brand's Chief Visionary and co-Founder, representing the thousands of women entrepreneurs within the skincare industry, spoke before an invitation-only group of more than 200 women entrepreneurs, all of whom spoke upon several topics including how to grow and scale businesses using the newest technologies and resources to produce both immediate results and long-term sustainable social change.
Since Dermalogica was founded in 1986, the brand has supported more than 100,000 professional skin therapists, many of whom have started their own businesses within the skin care industry. In 2011, Dermalogica continued its mission to support women's financial independence through the launch of FITE "Financial Independence Through Entrepreneurship" (www.joinFITE.org), which helps women to start or grow a business across all industries. Since its launch, FITE has helped more than 40,000 women worldwide.
"The professional skin care industry puts more women into business than any other industry in the world" said Wurwand. "Dermalogica supports more than 30,000 salons and spas owners worldwide, most of whom are women. In fact, 98% of professional skin therapists are women. So speaking on entrepreneurship and the importance of supporting women in business is a topic that we are passionate about."
Following the panel at DWEN, professional skin therapists representing top authorized Dermalogica retailers and skin centers in Austin offered guests signature Dermalogica services, including Face Mapping, at the "Relax and Recharge Reception" at the W Hotel. Activation-kiosks, provided by Dell, allowed attendees to instantly make microloans to the hundreds of eligible women entrepreneurs identified worldwide as part of FITE.
The DWEN conference also served as the venue at which Dell announced the findings of its second annual Gender-Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (GEDI) index, which examines opportunities for women entrepreneurs in 30 countries worldwide, and is the only metric index of its kind (for more information about the index, visit: http://dell.to/1pB38AG).
Dermalogica was one of the businesses featured in Dell's award-winning "New Beginnings" television advertising campaign that first aired on January 1, 2014. The ad spotlighted entrepreneurial, "home-grown" businesses which began on a grassroots level.
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Pivot Point and Beauty Changes Lives Announce Endowment Fund
Pivot Point International, Inc. and the Beauty Changes Lives Foundation, recently announced the formation of the Leo Passage Endowment Fund to benefit competition, scholarships and lifelong learning among students and professionals. The announcement was made during a press conference held during "Beauty Week," at Cosmoprof North America in Las Vegas, NV.
The Leo Passage Endowment Fund, established by the Passage family, honors the founder of Pivot Point, industry leader for more than 50 years, who passed away in 2011. The Fund will be endowed with a $1,000,000 donation from the Passage family, and implemented through the Beauty Changes Lives Foundation.
"My father believed wholeheartedly in providing hair, beauty and wellness professionals a thorough and complete education in their craft, as well as how to be successful. Lifelong learning, and the value of competition among hairdressers were also pillars of his philosophy in developing Pivot Point," said Robert Passage, Pivot Point Chairman and CEO. "It gives my mother, Lenie, and me, along with our entire family, immense pleasure that we are able to continue to support his beliefs through the establishment of the Leo Passage Endowment Fund."
"Leo Passage truly lived his life to the fullest," added Pivot Point President Melanie Kopeikin. "He motivated everyone who knew him to do the same. He encouraged everyone he met around the world to follow their hearts and their dreams. His personal life mission became his company's mission: through Pivot Point education Leo Passage inspired more than a million people around the world. His humility was well known and respected — always sharing with others without self-interest and possessing a timeless, creative spirit."
It is in this spirit of creativity that the Leo Passage Endowment Fund will be established to support the following three facets of a student's or professional's career: competition to help launch successful careers for those who follow their passion; scholarships to serve as an entry port for creative people to be part of this exciting profession; and lifelong learning to take careers to the next level. To quote Leo Passage, "No experience is ever fully mastered."
In addition to the establishment of the Leo Passage Endowment Fund, Robert Passage and Lynelle Lynch, president of the Beauty Changes Lives Foundation, announced that the 2015 Legacy Award event would be held in honor of Leo Passage, on Saturday, March 21, 2015 in Chicago, IL, during America's Beauty Show. Leo Passage is the third recipient of the Legacy of Style award.
"Leo Passage was more than an esteemed icon – he was a true visionary," said Ms. Lynch, following the announcements. "His generosity and passion for professional excellence, competitions and lifelong learning will live on, and provide opportunities for a new generation of hair, beauty and wellness visionaries. The Beauty Changes Lives Foundation is humbled, and honored to receive this Endowment Fund. We all look forward to honoring his memory even further at our Legacy Award event in Chicago next March."
Global Spa & Wellness Summit Announces Focus of Global Spa and Wellness Research
The Global Spa & Wellness Summit (GSWS) recently announced that its centerpiece research initiative will focus on three global industry sectors. The report will be released at GSWS's 2014 conference, to be held in Morocco.
SRI International, one of GSWS's longtime research partners, will conduct the "Global Spa and Wellness Economy" research, focusing specifically on the wellness industry as a whole, the spa industry, and the wellness tourism market. In addition, global and regional spa industry statistics - such as information on spa revenue, employment figures, economic impact, key spa industry genres, and the first-ever research on new sub-segments such as the global hot springs market - will be included in the study.
Says Susie Ellis, chair and CEO of GSWS, "So many private and public industry stakeholders have told me how invaluable the GSWS-SRI data on the spa, wellness, and wellness tourism markets has been in shaping their development strategies and in raising their profile with both investors and consumers."
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Published: May 21, 2009, 12:00 AM (CT)
Updated: October 29, 2009, 03:21 AM (CT)
by LSUsports.net (@LSUsports), LSU Sports Interactive
LSU students are not required to use the online transfer process to exchange tickets with another student (although they may use it if they wish). Students can simply give their student ticket to any other student to use provided that the student accepting the transferred ticket presents their most recent valid LSU ID at the Tiger Stadium student entrance and meets the following criteria:
- Be registered as a full time student
- Have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher
Student Priority Points will be given to the student who actually uses the ticket to attend the game, not the student whose name appears on the tickets.
Online Transfer Process (Not Required)
To transfer a student ticket to a fellow student, log into your Student Account via LSUsports.net. To find this link, click on "Student Tickets" under the "Tickets" menu, or visit www.lsusports.net/studenttickets. Once on the Student Tickets homepage, click "Login Now."
1. Once logged into your student ticket account, click on the "My Account" link from the left navigation.
2. Click on the "Transfer Tickets / Items or Cancel Transfers" link.
3. Click on the "Transfer" link for the game you would like to transfer.
4. Select the ticket you would like to transfer by checking the "Transfer" box next to your ticket location. (The location of the ticket is meaningless except for reserved seats. Reserved seat sections are: 104, 105, 106, 221, 222, & 223)
5. Fill in the name and PAWS e-mail address of the student you would like to transfer your ticket to. Then select if you or the recipient will be paying the $2.00 charge. If you will be paying the charge, add your credit card information. If the recipient will be paying the charge, simply select "Recipient" and then "Submit."
6. Click the "Sign Out" button to complete the transfer.
7. Your transfer request has been completed. An e-mail is then sent automatically to the transfer recipient's PAWS e-mail address. The student then has 24 hours to accept the transfer. If it is not accepted in that timeframe, the ticket will revert back to your account.
8. To cancel a transfer, return to Step 2 and use the "Cancel Transfer" option, if the recipient has not already accepted the transfer.
Accepting a Transferred Ticket
1. Transfer recipients will receive an e-mail that includes a link to accept the transfer. The subject line of the email will read "LSU Student Ticket Transfer Invitation." Open your PAWS e-mail, find the e-mail and click on the link.
2. Enter your PAWS email address in the appropriate field and click the "Accept" button.
3. Sign In to your student ticket account using your email address or social security number and password, or click the "register here" link if you have never used the LSU online student ticketing system before.
4. There is a $2 fee associated with this transfer, if not paid by the sender. You will be required to pay this fee to proceed. If so, enter a valid credit card and click "Check Out"
5. You will then receive and email containing your transferred ticket attached to it in the form of a "Print-at-Home" PDF document. Open the email and print out the ticket.
Important notes about transfers
1. A student ticket can only be transferred one time. Transferred tickets cannot be transferred again.
2. Student tickets purchased on Ticket Marketplace are not able to be transferred online.
3. Transferred tickets can only be accepted by LSU students who are:
Full time status for the fall semester
Have at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA
Have all fees paid
4. Adobe Reader version 4.0 or greater is required to open the transferred ticket attachment
5. The deadline to accept a student transfer is 6 hours prior to kickoff on game day.


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MARIETTA - It was not a case of mistaken identity, but rather a daughter in danger that led a Marietta man to stab a complete stranger last month.
That was the claim Tuesday of Ronald W. Fisher, 38, of 715 Greene St., who is awaiting trial on a second-degree felony charge of assault after admittedly stabbing William J. Williams, 45, of 833 Second St. on Jan. 8.
Fisher spoke out during an interview at the Washington County Jail, and said he was considering a lawsuit against the Marietta Police Department regarding its investigation.
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Ronald Fisher, the Marietta man accused of stabbing a stranger in January, told The Marietta Times Tuesday at the Washington County Jail that he had been trying to rescue his daughter.
"My daughter was attacked by that man," Fisher said in reference to Williams.
Fisher alleged Tuesday that police are ignoring his version of events. He said he was acting in defense of his 17-year-old daughter, who Fisher said was being held by the throat by Williams at the time of the stabbing, and that Williams should be charged.
According to a statement of facts provided by the police department, Williams said someone started knocking, then banging, on his door that night. When he started to open the door, Fisher came in and stabbed him in the back of his left leg, then pursued him into the home and continued to punch him.
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* Ronald Fisher, 38, of 715 Greene St., was arrested Jan. 8 after stabbing William J. Williams, 45, at his home at 833 Second St.
* Fisher said he had been accompanying his daughter while she confronted her boyfriend over cheating allegations.
* Fisher alleges Williams grabbed his daughter by the throat, forcing him to stab Williams to free her.
* Williams testified that Fisher had the knife in hand when he answered the door and stabbed him immediately.
* No trial date has been set.
Capt. Jeff Waite of the Marietta Police Department declined to comment on the case, since it is ongoing.
"I'll tell you we investigated the case, and we charged Mr. Fisher with felonious assault," he said.
Fisher said Tuesday he had accompanied his daughter and a second unnamed female to the Second Street residence that night because his daughter wanted to confront her boyfriend, who was allegedly cheating with Williams' daughter, he said.
"Someone kept texting her saying her boyfriend was there with another woman. Well, she was going to go regardless, and I'm not going to let her go alone," Fisher said
His intent had been to stand back and keep a watchful eye as his daughter confronted her boyfriend, he said, but things quickly escalated out of control when Williams opened the door.
"The guy opened the door, grabbed my daughter by the throat, and started punching her," said Fisher.
Fisher said he tried to hit Williams to get him to release his daughter, but when that did not work, he grabbed his knife, which he always carries because of his interest in hunting and fishing.
"I stuck him in the butt because I wanted to get him somewhere where it wouldn't hurt too much. I didn't want to hurt him. I just wanted him to let go of my daughter," he said.
However, Fisher's account of events is starkly different from that of Williams, who said in an interview Tuesday that he saw a flash of silver the instant he opened his door that evening.
"Door open, knife, fists flying," said Williams, describing the night.
Williams denies laying a hand on the teen girl.
"I didn't have time to touch his daughter," he said.
Washington County Assistant Prosecutor Jared Erb added that none of the witnesses at the grand jury hearing backed up Fisher's testimony of his daughter's assault.
"There were a lot of witnesses and those witnesses did not see William Williams strangle anybody," said Erb.
Even if Williams had been restraining Fisher's daughter, using a knife is not justifiable under the law, said Erb.
"You can't meet non-lethal force with lethal force," he said.
Fisher said he regrets the incident and wishes no one in the party had gone to Williams' house that night.
"I just want to go back to school, and get my life back on track," he said.
Fisher, who was released from a four-year prison stint for drug trafficking in June, has been clean since, he said. He was in his second semester in Washington State Community College's digital technology program before the incident, he added.
Besides drug trafficking, Fisher has been arrested for drug possession, domestic violence and driving under suspension.
Williams said he doesn't want to see Fisher go to prison over the incident.
"I don't feel any hardship toward him. I'm a father. I got daughters. It's hard to tell what that daughter told him to get him all riled up," he said.
Fisher is set to be arraigned at 8 a.m. Monday. No trial date has been set. He is currently being held at the Washington County Jail on $35,000 bond.


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Most famously he became a household name on the local Orlando station, WKMG Channel 6, during Casey Anthony's trial last year. O'Mara appeared regularly to air his critique on how the case was being handled.
O'Mara's latest client, Zimmerman, has been charged with the second degree murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was allegedly just walking home from the convenience store to his father's fiancée's home on 26th February. The 28-year-old self appointed neighborhood watch volunteer, Zimmerman, called the cops but before they had arrived he shot the unarmed teenager.
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Uganda won--3 to 2.
Having watched the entire game. AND...
taking nothing away from the positive public's interest re the Uganda team and their players; and the positive PR job resulting for their appearance in this years LLWS; there were several instances in the game today where I felt the Oregon players (purposely) did not play up to their full potential.
For example---1st inning, Uganda batting, soft line drive over F6's head. It apeared very much catchable---with F6 waving at it, ends up as a hit--fielded by F8.
last inning, Oregon down by one run, Oregon runner on 1st, takes off for 2nd, not at full speed, decides to return (even slower) to 1st and is tagged out.
If I'm wrong, I'm okay with that; but just my impression of Oregon's efforts to win the game----with their other 100% efforts scattered thruout the game.
But no question, Uganda players did show big improvement over their 1st two games played and losing by big scores.
But Win or Lose
I will always do my Best" !!!
Persons testifying in courts also swear to tell the truth.
I admit I didn't see the game and did not check the box score.
If it had been my team the kids that were normally subs would have been in for the whole game - the starters would be swapping out - the kids that had been begging to play another position all summer would get to play there - and we'd play like we were at a party celebrating the season - which we would be.
I didn't see the game as any type of a giveaway by the Oregon team. Trust me. No team wants to go to Williamsport and go 0-3. Especially getting beat by a third world country!
For example---1st inning, Uganda batting, soft line drive over F6's head. It apeared very much catchable---with F6 waving at it, ends up as a hit--fielded by F8.
There are plays in every game where I feel that a play could be made if the fielder would have just turned differently. That doesn't mean that the players aren't trying. It means that they're 11 & 12 year olds.
last inning, Oregon down by one run, Oregon runner on 1st, takes off for 2nd, not at full speed, decides to return (even slower) to 1st and is tagged out.
I remember this play very well. On ball 3, the batter thought that he had walked. He turned and tossed his bat toward the dugout. Seeing this, the runner on first started trotting toward second base. The Ugandan catcher alertly ran at the runner and had him trapped between first and second. He was a "dead duck". That's whay he appeared to just trot back to first base, where he was tagged out.
I don't mind if wrong; in fact before the game began I was hoping that Uganda either would win the game or play much better than they showed in their first two games if they lost.
I never in all my years of LL got the "feeling" that a team, and/or individual players, did not (attempt) to play up to their full potential--as I did in watching some, not all, Oregon players, in that game......and some of the action, or lack of it, that took place by individual Oregon players
It wasn't only the two plays I cited in my OP----but other instances scattered thruout the game; sentiment "steamrolling" for the novice Uganda team displayed by the public, the media, and other team's players being what it was going into that consolation game.
At one point, upon the completion of the 3rd inning, I said to my visiting neighbor,..."it looks like some Oregon players are wanting Uganda to win the 1st three innings, and come back and win the last three innings.
But hey........both teams were 0-2 going into that game, for good reason.
Post note: Then, Oregon, in winning the last three innings also winning the game with no blow-out of Uganda as occurred in their 1st two games. Oregon coming up short in winning the game when push came to shove in the last innings.
Frank - it wasn't a "real" game - it was a season's-over-lets-have-fun game. Don't apply the same expectations.
So Rich, what you are saying, my observations re some of the Oregon players not playing up to their "full potential" were correct .
But somebody forgot to tell the Uganda manager and his kids it wasn't a "real" game because he and they, did their damdest to play to THEIR full potential, whatever that level is at this time and place, to win a ballgame.
And Mason-Dixon's statement that no team wants to go 0-3 at Williamsport begs a litmus test.
Not saying that at all Frank. Each individual player was up to his potential - but the overall team potential was limited by the placement of players into positions and the amount of time they played. Joey may be a great CF but a mediocre SS - that doesn't mean if he's placed at SS the fielding attempt was purposely misplayed - it means he couldn't make the play.
And your expectation that a consolation game played at the end of a long, exciting, but tiring summer would be played like it was the championship game are out of touch with reality. More like spring training. There the regulars play part of the game if at all and go home - subs and wannabe's go all put trying to make the team - but for most of them they aren't yet up to the skill level of the regulars. Ugandans are the wannabes - there to make a point. So they went all out. Expected.
I'm letting the subs get their chance to play on the big stage. I'm letting Joey play SS. The subs sat all summer - now it's their reward.
IMHO you're making way too much of a big deal about this.
"IMHO you're making way too much of a big deal about this."
I posted an initial OP which is my right, Rich. Also my right to respond to replies. My responses are "fueled" by replies.
If I'm "making a big deal about this" welcome to the club.....at this time, you are also guilty as charged, having replied 3 times.
With #4 (probably) being "loaded" on the "firing line" at this time.
BTW----"reality'"is and was, a Williamsport baseball game being televised all over the baseball world. Not your "homespun" local last game, with no "standing" meaning at stake, to handle as you say you would handle. In that case----I would do the same thing as you.
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I admit I didn't see the game and did not check the box score.
Neither did I. Hence my heretofore silence on the subject.
Also from RI:
IMHO you're making way too much of a big deal about this.
At the risk of sounding sarcastic Mr. Ives, since when has your opinion been "humble".
I don't agree with you that Frank! was making "way too much of a big deal". He (IMO) was just stating an observation, and then responded to differing opinions. A "way to much of a big deal" take? No it's a discussion, a back-n-forth that we all enjoy.
I would certainly concur that this meaningless game would provoke me as coach to shift the line up/positions, but that does not at all diminish an ability of another observer that might see an otherwise possible outlook, and then pose the aforementioned questions.
I think you, by insuation are making way too much of a big deal of Frank!s observation. (imHo of course)
Time wounds all heels.....
Frank said this in his first post: "there were several instances in the game today where I felt the Oregon players (purposely) did not play up to their full potential."
Note the use of the word "purposely"
He followed thatup with "I never in all my years of LL got the "feeling" that a team, and/or individual players, did not (attempt) to play up to their full potential--as I did in watching some, not all, Oregon players, in that game......"
Lou chimed in with:
"But Win or Lose
I will always do my Best" !!!"
To which Frank responded "Persons testifying in courts also swear to tell the truth. "
To me he was saying they rolled over to the Ugandans - lay down - violated the LL pledge. Cheated.
I disagreed. If that makes me the bad guy so be it.
Rich, you wrote: "I disagreed. If that makes me the bad guy so be it." With that statement...
NOW, I agree with you!
I look upon ANYONE who disagrees with me AS a "bad guy."
Relax Rich!-----Absent controversy, this board would lose interest to most all, if not all, of the participating "players."
BTW--disgruntled/unhappy players, for whatever reason, "dogging" it on the field of play is nothing new.
I have seen it over the years; and probably you have too. LL Pledge notwithstanding!
Not saying the the Oregon players were "disgruntled/unhappy"....For them, IN THEIR MINDS, probably doing it for all the right reasons---one being for Uganda not to lose a 3rd WP game via a "blow-out"--or 10-run rule. [ having lost 1st 2 games by blow-outs.]
I still believe Oregon intended to win the game... but came up short in later innings when push came to shove.
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