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Socialist Origins of Labor Day
The Beatles "School" Occupy Wall Street
Posted on November 12, 2011 by George Scaggs in Video
Irony can be a beautiful thing. While The Beatles are commonly viewed as part of the counter-culture that fueled political unrest in the 60s and 70s, the lyrics of their hit song "Revolution" call into question exactly what their political views may have been.
While the song may have served as a battle-cry for America's counter-culture of past generations, and some of those same antagonists are now part of the nation's Leftist "Ruling Class" (which has undoubetedly helped to fuel the fire that is OWS) it is time to turn the tables. How fitting that those Lennon-McCartney lyrics now serve as an excellent portrayal to expose the utter madness that is Occupy Wall Street.
While I don't pretend to know exactly what message The Beatles intended to deliver, I offer my own interpretation of their expressions to illuminate the matter. One thing is for sure, they didn't seem to care for the evils of Communism, which clearly gives them a leg up over many of the loonies currently "occupying" cities across the land.
A Not-So-Surprising Word Cloud From the #OccupyWallStreet Email Archive
Posted on October 15, 2011 by Brooks Bayne in Articles
I had fun poking around the socialist, Marxist, and anarchist #owslist (a Twitter hashtag I'm using) email archives after Andrew Breitbart published them here. For those who don't know, this is the mailing list that the original Occupy Wall Street leftist organizers have been using for their left-wing vagrant parties, that they refer to as "occupying".
Let's see what a word cloud of the 300,000 lines of leftist email looks like, shall we?
Violence, Marxism, socialism, revolution, class, warfare, labor, union, and… liberty? Huh? One of these things is not like the other.
Same tired old collectivist tropes, different day.
Updated – Occupy Wall Street: "Improve your station by demanding the property of others!"
Posted on October 6, 2011 by Brooks Bayne in Articles
Some misguided people are now trying to claim that the Teaparty movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement have a lot in common, or are similar.
This assertion is absurd.
The Marxist "occupation" (apropos name for a collectivist movement) was organized and funded by hardcore leftist organizations and international socialists. The Teaparty movement, that I helped start, was grassroots, and we didn't take outside money. Hell, I don't even know the Koch brothers. Additionally, it's been 2.5 years since the Teaparty movement started and no Teapartiers have ever been arrested at a Teaparty event, unlike this Marxist "occupation" movement, where thousands have already been arrested in just a couple weeks.
It was reported that big labor and its money is also in the game:
In just the last week several large labor groups have officially announced their support for the occupation. The NYC Transit Workers Union, with nearly 40,000 members, voted to back the protesters on September 28. And the SEIU's massive 32BJ union, which claims to represent over 120,000 property service workers, recently decided to use an upcoming rally to show "solidarity" with the Wall Street occupiers.
The International World Workers union is also endorsing this action (Read more about the criminal, treasonous, and subversive history of this organization here in an earlier piece of mine).
This occupation on Wall Street calls into question the very foundation in which the capitalist system is based, and its relentless desire to place profit over and above all else.
Throughout the world, from Egypt to Greece, from China to Madison, Wisconsin, working class people are starting to rise up. The IWW welcomes this. We see the occupation of Wall Street as another step – no matter how large or small – in this process.
And now the illegal hacker group "Anonymous" has vowed to attack the New York Stock Exchange to support the Marxist occupiers.
The group posted a video message on YouTube declaring war on the world's largest stock exchange in retaliation for the mass arrests of Wall Street protesters, and posted a link to the video on one of several Anonymous Twitter feeds.
International socialists, felonious union organizations, and hackers? Is that the best you can do, Marxist occupiers? Probably. I know, it sucks to be you.
See the occupiers' list of idiotic Marxist "demands" here (Which they've since amended, stating that it isn't an "official" list of demands – now that they've been blasted by every rational non-Marxist on the planet. But from all the other groups and individuals involved, you can easily see that these things are what they really want). $20 minimum wage? Forgiveness of all debt? Free (read: financed by those who actually produce in this country) college for everyone, a living wage regardless of employment, etc… all Marxist tropes.
Leftists in America (you remember Obama's buddy Van Jones, right?) are referring to this as the "American Fall" (fall of America? ironical or intentional?) playing off the name given to the Arab Spring uprisings earlier this year. And who started the Arab Spring uprising? Marxists and socialists. Read my earlier piece on that here.
Don't waste your time lecturing us on the similarities between our grassroots Teaparty movement and these Marxist fools, who are bought and paid for by international socialists and union goons. If these leftist demands were met, you'd see the insolvency of America in relatively short order. However, the Teaparty has been pushing for fiscal responsibility since day one.
I can break down the difference in ideology like this:
#TEAPARTY: Improve your station by hard work and perseverance.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET: Improve your station by demanding the property of others.
Not AT ALL the same as the Teaparty movement, so spare me, and the rest of the country, your ignorant indignation if we thumb our noses at this very anti-American occupation.
UPDATE: Here are the Marxist, socialist, and trade unionist organizations that the occupiers are proud to be protesting with (hardly the 99% – more like 1%):
- United NY
- Strong Economy for All Coalition
- Working Families Party
- TWU Local 100
- Communications Workers of America
- CWA Local 1180
- United Auto Workers
- United Federation of Teachers
- Professional Staff Congress – CUNY
- National Nurses United
- Writers Guild East
- Community Voices Heard
- Alliance for Quality Education
- New York Communities for Change
- Coalition for the Homeless
- Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP)
- The Job Party
- NYC Coalition for Educational Justice
- The Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center
- The New Deal for New York Campaign
- National People's Action
- Human Services Council
- Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State
- Citizen Action of NY
- MoveOn.org
- Common Cause NY
- New Bottom Line
- 350.org
- Tenants & Neighbors
- Democracy for NYC
- Resource Generation
- Tenants PAC
- Teachers Unite
From New Zeal:
Videos Exposing How 'Occupy Wall Street' Was Organized From Day One by SEIU/ACORN Front – The Working Family Party, and How They All Tie to the Obama Administration, DNC, Democratic Socialists of America, Tides and George Soros
Silent No More, Obamunism No More!
Posted on April 3, 2011 by Justen Charters in Opinion, Video
Death to Democracy
Posted on March 23, 2011 by JtowneJeff in Articles
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America; and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, under God, with Liberty and justice for all." We all know this verse as our national pledge. We recite it at court, at school, and at various other gatherings. But how many of us truly understand the words and their import to our form of government?
The American form of government is commonly referenced as a democracy, both among it's citizens and abroad. However, a true democracy has never existed for any length of time in the history of civilization, due largely to that fact that it requires the full participation of the people in all legislative and governmental processes. By nature, individuals will become too occupied with their own daily routines and obligations to make time to participate at the level required by a true democracy. The larger the population grows, the less likely it is to have the people's full participation. The same is true as a society or nation grows in physical size, either through conquest or exploration.
In contrast, a Republic can support the growth of a nation in both size and numbers. One of America's Founders, James Madison, defined a republic in this way: "… a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior." Essentially, the people are grouped together based on population and geography to elect their governmental representatives, who then assemble with the other elected representatives to do the bidding of those whom elected them. In this representative form of government, the mass of the people have a direct voice in the public affairs while not needing to devote countless hours to the process.
Over one hundred years ago, an ideological war was erupting in America, very similar to what can be seen occurring today. In the early 1900's, the spread of socialism was approaching pandemic proportions across the globe. And in 1905, a group of about 100 people gathered together in New York and formed what they called the ISS, or Intercollegiate Socialist Society. This movement spread quickly across America, and soon had charters on over 60 college campuses from coast to coast. One of the ISS co-directors, Harry Laidler, claimed his group's mission to be to "throw light on the world-wide movement of industrial democracy known as socialism." Their slogan was "Production for use, not for profit." However, in 1921, the USSR and the violence associated with their involvement in World War I, had given the word 'socialism' a sour taste, especially in America. It was for this reason that the ISS decided to change it's name to 'The League for Industrial Democracy'. But socialism is defined as government control of the means of production and distribution of goods, quite the opposite of the classical meaning of a democracy. The word 'democracy' was being misused to carry the idea that through the nationalization of production and distribution of goods, all of America's resources would be the property of 'the people'.
Several device were utilized in an effort to convey to the people the distinctions, in fact the sharp contrasts, between socialism and democracy, and republics, including a U.S. Army training manual. Despite these efforts, America continued to be identified as a 'democracy', primarily in the media and in school text books. President Woodrow Wilson didn't help the matter when he declared The Great War to be our effort to "make the world safe for democracy." Of course, Wilson had surrounded himself with many of the ISS' early recruits, who likely encouraged this slogan.
Following World War II, as Americans were readjusting to a normal life, they also began to see the word 'democracy' in a new light. Throughout the war, the Communists, National Socialists of Germany, and other socialist across Europe had all blatantly abused the word democracy so much that had become virtuously synonymous with socialism. Additionally, socialism was beginning to look far less appealing to the everyday American. Between their reputation of violence and vitriol and their fully evident economic shortcomings, Socialist states around the world were proving to be utter failures, as far as Americans were concerned. With this came a very subtle adjustment to the American general way of thinking. Although they still referred to the United States as a democracy, mentally the word was being more and more equated with the traditional Constitutional Republic that America truly is.
Decades have passed since then, and many things have changed and evolved in American political culture. The rise and growth of the Progressive movement, for example, shares many similarities with the League of Industrial Democracy, simply under a new name. 'Progress' has taken the place of 'democracy' in a sense that those in the progressive movement who seek to bring about a socialistic change have realized that there is still a connection between socialism and democracy, and have elected to simply rename the same old story.
Sadly, one need only step foot outside America to realize that the words 'democracy' and 'socialism' are still very much intertwined elsewhere throughout the Earth. Many socialists, though they also refer to America as a democracy, believe that we are not "democratic enough". Their definition of democracy very much mirrors that of the ISS, that by government control, possession then belongs to the people. There are even some in America that share these sentiments; that equate socialism to democracy, and therefore urge the socialization or nationalization of America.
The Union Song "Solidarity Forever" – What It Really Represents
Posted on March 18, 2011 by Brooks Bayne in Articles
The left would have you believe that the teachers union protests in Wisconsin and elsewhere are simply about "the people" and "the middle class". The union supporters have denied that these protests have anything to do with socialism or Marxism, even though we know that America's unions were created by socialists and Marxists. What is the "Solidarity Forever" song that the unionists all sing about? Who wrote it? Who published it? Here are the unionists singing "Solidarity Forever" in the Wisconsin capitol building:
And here they are singing the same song as they're being dragged out of the capitol one-by-one:
By Ralph H. Chaplin, 1915
(Tune: "John Brown's Body")
When the Union's inspiration through the worker's blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun.
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?
But the Union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
But the Union makes us strong.
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush you with his might?
Is there anything left for us but to organize and fight?
For the Union makes us strong.
It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade.
Dug the mines and built the workshops; endless miles of railroad laid.
Now we stand, outcast and starving, 'mid the wonders we have made;
But the Union makes us strong.
All the world that's owned by idle drones, is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skywards, stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own,
While the Union makes us strong.
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn.
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power; gain our freedom when we learn
That the Union makes us strong.
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold;
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand fold.
We can bring to birth the new world from the ashes of the old,
For the Union makes us strong.
Cute, the songwriter, Ralph Chaplin, calls capitalists, "greedy parasites" and then goes on to regurgitate rehashed Marx and Engels in the style of the typical, self-entitled, collectivist everyman – hence why the song is so appealing to the Wisconsin unionists – they can relate to it. What would one expect from unionists living in Wisconsin, "the birthplace of American progressivism"?
Chaplin was originally a communist who would later work for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organization, which was created by two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists. The IWW's members are known as Wobblies… fitting. Later, Chaplin became a socialist, because his communist paradigm was shaken by the fact the Marxist revolutionaries killed people to meet their goals in the Russian Revolution. Ralph was yet another collectivist idealist ignorant to history and human nature.
The IWW had a newspaper named, "Solidarity" and Chaplin, a poet, was one of their leaders and he worked as an editor, "journalist", and illustrator. Chaplin illustrated his first Solidarity cover (top below) in 1915, and he also created the widely used IWW "wildcat strike" icon (middle below). Note the IWW's recent "general strike" illustration (bottom below), in Arabic, marketed to those participating in the socialist uprisings in the Middle East.
"Solidarity Forever" was originally published in IWW's "Little Red Songbook" (songs from which are embedded in a Scribd document at the bottom of the article), the purpose of which is to "fan the flames of discontent" – red being the color of socialists and communists. The song has been recorded by Pete Seeger, Joe Glazer, and the Almanac Singers – all communists. The song has also been performed numerous times by lefty fave, Utah Phillips, another communist. Other songs in the "Little Red Songbook" hail socialism and Sam Gompers, a Marxist, who created the AFL (now the AFL-CIO, America's largest union organization). The IWW's Preamble (which is on the inside cover of every Little Red Songbook) states:
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lookout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old. Knowing, therefore, that such an organization is absolutely necessary for our emancipation, we unite under the following constitution:
The IWW's preamble is straight-up Marxism. And these words are the basis for many legal actions taken against the group because it proves that the IWW is a subversive organization and a threat to American liberty.
Chaplin was arrested in 1917 under the Espionage Act. He, along with 117 others were all charged with 100 crimes, including conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government and impeding America's war effort . The jury returned a guilty verdict for all charged within an hour.
Ironically, there was a minor point of agreement between Chaplin and conservatives. Chaplin, and his hardcore leftist counterparts, were against the industrial union mandates in the Wagner Act, passed in 1935, and not for the same reasons conservatives would obviously be against Marxist ideology (add to the reason conservatives would be against the Marxist inspired Act… the Wagner Act is also racist!), but because Chaplin felt the Act didn't give unions enough control over the means of production.
Now when you hear the word "solidarity" in relation to unions, or hear the song "Solidarity Forever", you'll know what's really going on. The agenda of those who support "solidarity" is at the heart of the battle between supporters of American liberty (conservatives, libertarians, independents) and collectivists (socialists, Marxists, progressives). As the IWW preamble says, the unionists want to overthrow America (they were arrested for such) and give workers control of production.
Please share this article with a union worker. Chances are, he or she only knows part of this story, if any – ironically, this applies to many teachers. Friends don't let friends join unions.
Sound off below! Comments from trolls will be deleted.
Hitler Didn't Outlaw Unions – As a National Socialist, He Went Double-Down On Them
Posted on February 21, 2011 by Brooks Bayne in Articles
Time and time again, the collectivist left in America chooses hyperbole when championing their economy-killing objectives. Most recently, as in the case of the socialist union (yes, they were created by socialists and Marxists) protests in Wisconsin, you see many signs being wielded by the neo-Marxist rubes stating, "Hitler banned unions". The purpose of this urban legend-styled disinformation, of course, is a weak attempt to paint Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as a Nazi, even though the Nazi's were national socialists who subscribed to most of the tenets of modern American leftists.
What are the roots of this "Hitler banned unions" urban legend? We have to understand what was going on in Germany at the time. Any economist will tell you, prior to Hitler's rise to power, that the Weimar Republic struggled under severe hyperinflation. The Weimar's hyperinflation is required study for every college student wishing to become an economist. What is hyperinflation? Webster's defines inflation as, "a continuing rise in the general price level usually attributed to an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods and services", and defines hyperinflation as, "inflation growing at a very high rate in a very short time".
When Hitler came to power, he moved to correct this hyperinflation while keeping his national socialist views front and center. In 1933, the Nazis disbanded the Weimar unions and replaced them with the new and improved union, the German Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF), which was comprised of 2 primary entities, the National Socialist Factory Organization and the National Socialist Trade and Industry Organization. The labor contracts that were Weimar contracts were now DAF-honored contracts. The Nazi's funded the DAF's coffers with the Weimar unions' stockpile of wealth (the existing unions were part of that inflation problem). One of the new unions' most popular programs was the Strength through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF)) program, which developed the KdF-wagen, that later became the Volkswagen, or People's Car.
The primary goal of Germany's national socialists was to "create a classless" society. Hitler's unions were central in this cause. In fact, Hitler gave the unions their long-awaited demand, one that the Weimar unions were never able to pull off, a National Labor Day, May 1, 1933.
"Bless now our fight for our freedom; the fight we wage for our German people and Fatherland." – Adolf Hitler's speech, May Day 1933
The Nazi unions even had this nifty little logo.
And here's Hitler's own words from his book, Mein Kampf:
I think that I have already answered the first question adequately. In the present state of affairs I am convinced that we cannot possibly dispense with the trades unions. On the contrary, they are among the most important institutions in the economic life of the nation. Not only are they important in the sphere of social policy but also, and even more so, in the national political sphere. For when the great masses of a nation see their vital needs satisfied through a just trade unionist movement the stamina of the whole nation in its struggle for existence will be enormously reinforced thereby.
Before everything else, the trades unions are necessary as building stones for the future economic parliament, which will be made up of chambers representing the various professions and occupations.
Yet another leftist urban myth busted!
Revolting Wisconsin
Posted on February 21, 2011 by George Scaggs in Articles
While Wisconsin teachers throwing their own Greek styled socialist hissy fit is both telling and troubling, it also serves as a microcosm of various economic challenges, political battles and societal shifts all taking place simultaneously.
What to say about those lovable teachers and union drones protesting in Wisconsin? I must admit, I consider it bizarre that people believe they have a right to a pension and benefits to begin with, or even a job for that matter. Stranger still, the striking teachers in Wisconsin seem to believe that they have the right to extract it from tax-payers, regardless of whether or not the state has enough money to go around.
But the teachers' egregious behavior went beyond refusing to show-up for work. Some took it upon themselves to infect young impressionable minds with their destructive (progressive) attitudes, dragging students along to their protests.
About now, I'm trying to imagine the position of the average hard working middle-class family in Wisconsin who just voted some grown-ups into office to instill some necessary fiscal discipline into state matters. Working in the private-sector, they probably pay twice as much as state workers do for benefits and receive less.
With teachers and school officials shutting-down the schools in protest, these tax-paying parents now find themselves having to take-off work to be home with a child who should be at school.
In sum, these teachers have provided a perfect example of why public employees should not be unionized. At the end of the day, tax-payers are effectively being held hostage by those intended to serve them.
It requires no more than basic math skills to understand the economic equations here. One only need take a cursory glance at American History to see that it was an independent spirit, not a dependent one, that built this greatest of nations. From Wisconsin, a look across the lake to neighboring Michigan clearly illustrates where union dominance inevitably leads.
Yet, these simple lessons are beyond the people hired to teach the young throughout an entire state, saying a great deal about the misguided priorities of today's public education system. It also raises larger questions. Such as – Just when did we as Americans come to believe that others owe us that which we are not willing to provide for ourselves?
Economic Reality
As we look across our nation, the fiscal state of government at all levels tells us that we have more government than we can afford. What's going on in Wisconsin is just one indication of very real economic challenges confronting America. Taxpayers are increasingly realizing that government must spend responsibly and they're putting people in office who will effectively deal with these issues. To delay is to only magnify the scope of sacrifice that ultimately must be made.
For teachers or any other public-sector employees who genuinely deserve what they believe they have a right to, they would do well to go and seek it out. No one else chose their profession or made career choices for them. There is a free-market out there. If you can find a better deal for what you have to offer, more power to you. You do have the right to pursue it.
With utter disregard, the reactionary liberal retort to dealing with fiscal reality continues to decry "tax cuts" for the "ultra wealthy". Look around the blogosphere and news comment sections; they are infested with angry protestations that are long on emotion and short on validity.
For those who are determined to punish whoever they imagine is "wealthy", they should examine the harsh realities taking place in like states like Michigan, California and New York where productive citizens and business owners are escaping in droves.
In short, the party is over and it's time to tighten the belt.
Tea Party Reinforcements
As is typical, unions working in conjunction with leftist activist groups such as Organizing for America, (formerly Organizing for Obama…ahem!) directed the anti-Walker protest efforts in Wisconsin, complete with comrades bused in from out-of state.
Interestingly, the crowds were reported from 40,000 – 60,000. Surprise, surprise – Big Media is into projecting crowd sizes again, as opposed to the generic "thousands gathered" phraseology reserved for Tea Party events.
What has changed is mobilization on the Right. Conservatives intend to stay engaged, a recent shift that is not going away. Finally, by Saturday a smaller counter-effort was mounted by "Tea Party" groups, intruding upon the sacred protest ground that the Left formerly solely maintained. Though the Right also bused people into the state, it is worthy to note that conservatives muster volunteer troops, unlike their counterparts on the Left.
Teachers and Doctors – Honorable Professions?
We would like to believe that teachers and doctors are honorable individuals who have responded to a higher calling, guided by a desire to help others and care for their fellow man. While chances are likely that this holds true in most instances, let us not assume that it does for every professional.
In Wisconsin, a place known for its progressive activism, throw in a politically charged issue in and voila, suddenly hundreds of teachers and no less than five doctors were openly practicing deception that is shocking.
From an AP story Sunday morning that was quickly scrubbed as the scenario in Madison continued to unfold, we find this gem:
Doctors from numerous hospitals set up a station near the Capitol to provide notes covering public employees' absences. Family physician Lou Sanner, 59, of Madison, said he had given out hundreds of notes. Many of the people he spoke with seemed to be suffering from stress, he said.
"What employers have a right to know is if the patient was assessed by a duly licensed physician about time off of work," Sanner said. "Employers don't have a right to know the nature of that conversation or the nature of that illness. So it's as valid as every other work note that I've written for the last 30 years."
Sanner and a handful of other doctors were found on the street corner soliciting free-passes like they were Halloween candy. In this instance the noble physician's "assessment" of their "patients" amounts to assisting them with filling out a form on the sidewalk. The scene is played out over and over in various videos circulating the web.
This too represents change. Increasingly, the left has become ever more brazen with their tactics, seemingly unhinged as they are challenged from the right. With modern technology, it no longer matters whether or not Big Media cares to share what actually takes place. Conservatives now have the means to routinely expose the cheap stunts of their political adversaries.
Basic Services
Part of the problem of rising health insurance premiums is society's insistence of including elective services in their health plans, made all the easier when someone else pays the bills. For anyone who believes that the demands of public employee unions are limited to tax-payers providing them basic services, think again.
From last August comes a tasty tidbit from Wisconsin, when the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association filed a lawsuit to reinstate benefits for erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra and Cialis. The school district previously cut the benefit from their insurance plan hoping to save nearly $800,000 a year.
According to ABC News, "Officials said too many teachers were using the expensive drugs for recreation, swelling their insurance rates. An estimated 1,000 of the 10,000 school's staff, which includes employees, dependents and retirees, were using the drugs."
Wanna bet that some of the Viagra poppers in Milwaukee were among the throng intent on raiding empty public coffers in Madison last week?
Cairo to Madison (to Rockford?): Egypt-style Revolution in the Midwest?
Posted on February 18, 2011 by Ben Froland in Articles
We pointed out previously that Wisconsin's incoming Governor Scott Walker was facing a daunting task in fixing the state's out of control spending. In addition to lowering taxes and courting new businesses, Walker introduced a budget adjustment bill targeting public union benefits. Highlights include asking union members to contribute 5.8% towards their pension, 12.6% towards their healthcare, and restricts collective bargaining to salary only. This approach helps shore up the budget shortfall while retaining all state workers and avoiding layoffs. The contributions also amount to roughly half of what the average private sector worker contributes.
This didn't sit well with the public unions, particularly WEAC, the very powerful Wisconsin Education Association Council. Their Madison-area teachers orchestrated a "sick-out" on Wednesday with nearly 40% of them absent, forcing the closing of schools. Amazingly many of these same teachers showed up at the capitol to protest while they were "sick." (Can you imagine calling in to work sick and then showing up in front of your place of business to protest your employer?) The "sick-outs" have now extended to Milwaukee and other areas for Thursday and are expected to continue through Friday. This isn't sitting well with parents, even those who support the teachers' cause.
Governor Walker had anticipated that the unions' response would be, let's say, "vociferous." He alerted the Wisconsin National Guard to be ready in case things got out of hand. Of course the unions seized on this as an opportunity to demonize both Walker and the National Guard as a dictator with jack-booted storm troopers.
As if blowing off work and abandoning kids wasn't bad enough, some of the teachers who did show up forced their classes to attend the protests in support. Many of the students had no idea why they were even there.
Unsurprisingly, an angry group of unions and clueless students has also attracted Madison's local chapter of socialists who are always looking for useful idiots to nudge in the "right" direction. They're holding an event next Wednesday titled "From Cairo to Madison" aimed at teaching people to organize against the Republic.
While union members may have congregated in the state capital of Madison to protest, many apparently neglected to vote in Tuesday's primary election. In the race to replace the conservative Walker as county executive in very liberal Milwaukee County, it was another conservative, State Representative Jeff Stone, who garnered 44 percent of the votes in a 5-way race. He now faces liberal millionaire philanthropist Chris Abele who took in 25 percent of the vote in the general election. In the statewide primary for supreme court, sitting Justice David Prosser, another conservative, also coasted to a win and will square off against Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg.
In a showing of their true colors, the minority senate democrats fled the capital today in an effort to prevent senate quorum. That is, 20 members of the senate must be present to proceed with the proposal and the republicans number 19. The capital police and state troopers were sent to retrieve the AWOL senators but they had fled out of state to Rockford Illinois. It is ironic that a party that sprung a member from jail in an attempt to push through union legislation just last December would find themselves skirting the law to prevent passage of the same. Even more amusing was the fact that this cadre of fiduciary fugitives fled a bastion of liberalism only to be sent packing by Rockford's Tea Party.
As I write this, I am receiving text messages from a state representative that read: "All hell is breaking loose down here! Someone tried to storm the assembly chamber" followed by " We have huge numbers of officers here helping. We have to be escorted everywhere." And finally "In this room I am watching history being made. Not just Wisconsin history, this will ripple nationwide and could just change the course of our country."
He has good reason to be cautious. Unlike the Tea Party movement that has been a model of civil discourse, there have been at least 9 arrests at Wisconsin's capital. Signs clearly equate Walker to Hitler, Mussolini, and Mubarak and some read "Death to Tyrants." (with the word 'political' scribbled above as an afterthought.) Imagine how the media would react if a Tea Party rally looked like this:
Not everyone came to support the unions though. This young man is dynamite!!!
Governor Walker held a press conference at the end of Thursday to chastise the absent senators and ask them to return to the work the citizens of Wisconsin pay them to perform. He also reemphasized that he was holding firm to his original proposal and would not compromise. If Walker succeeds, he just may spark a grassfire that sweeps across other states strangled by public sector unions. Furthermore, with the unions spending copious amounts of resources defending themselves at the state capital, will they have anything left in the tank for 2012? Buckle up and stay tuned.
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Whether you're celebrating Valentine's Day or complaining about a Hallmark conspiracy theory, Don't Eat This Candy!!! — It's laced with socialism.


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Views and Voices – June 2011
The annual Relay for Life was held on June 17, 2011, in Abbotsford at the Exhibition Stadium. Once again the Spa Body Therapy students stepped up to give chair massages to the survivors, and supporters of the event. This is the 6th year in a row that the Abbotsford campus has participated, and we are always a welcome site to those who know we're coming. Marguerite, Lorraine, Zenia and I all met at the survivor's tent for 6:00 pm where past participants were already waiting to sign up for their 15 minutes of relaxation and rejuvenation. The massages are free but we do have a donation box on the table, where people are able show their appreciation. This year we collected $123.25 that went toward the cause. Being at the event also gives us an opportunity to promote the spa program and our student clinic.
Dev Community Support Worker – Social Services
Food drive, every student generously donated one bag of food to give to the food drive
We had a new start for the PN program June 13, 2011
We had our assembly today and the theme was:
We did a trivia quiz and the prize was World of Dance Tickets and Ravi Singh won them.
Prize for 100% attendance was World of Dance tickets and Ryan and Jose won them.
On June 9th, 2011 we had our 4th pinning ceremony for the graduated PN students. 18 students attended plus their family and friends totalling to approximately 50 people. We had cake and coffee for refreshments. The PN's lit the candles and then as a group recited the Florence Nightingale Poem.
The Kamloops campus has had a busy month with many students away on practicum, coming back from practicum and starting different courses. Despite this a few of the Instructors and Staff have managed to escape for some vacation time, allowing us to welcome some relief staff to campus.
Although the Canucks may have lost last month in the Stanley Cup finals, it's safe to say that the students had better luck when it came to scoring goals during our Stanley Cup Shoot to Win. Students were given the opportunity to get a goal in the net (which was set up with a fake Tim Thomas goalie of course) in order to be entered to win a Canucks prize pack. Colin M. of the Community Support Work class won the prize pack, but really all the students won when a hot dog day was hosted on Friday. If you roast them, they will come. The nursing students and staff had surprisingly remarkable skills as future hockey players, so we know there is always a potential rookie team in the making during the winter time. They have to de-stress some way after finals, right? And in mentioning nursing students, we have to send out a big giant congratulation to the
March 2011 nursing graduates who passed the National Exam with a 100% pass rate.
Way to go!
The Ktown Campus just keeps buzzing with things on the go! Summer is here and we are looking forward to another year of amazing Okanagan weather, but has that slowed us down? I think not!
Congrats to Kayla B. who won the $100 Starbucks card for our 'Bring a Friend to School' day. At our last assembly, we handed out referral fees and they keep on coming! Big shout out to our current students who truly believe in what they are doing….so much so that they have helped others to do the same.
This is Anni's 3rd year of taking part in the 'Ride to Conquer' cancer. Anni is one of our Practical Nursing instructors who is a cancer survivor! Her passion for finding a cure and 'doing something about it' has spread like wildfire within the campus! With the help of Rhea M. and her fellow classmates, 3 gift baskets were collected and raffled off.
An astounding $740 was raised to help Anni do what she loves to do…which is saving the world!
Janelle B. is June's SUPER STUDENT OF THE MONTH! Janelle's perma-smile and professionalism earned her this award! Janelle is an 'almost' graduate of the AALS program and we here at Sprott-Shaw Kelowna have no doubt about her bright future ahead in the Legal industry! Congrats Janelle!
The Kelowna Campus would like to congratulate all High School Graduates in the Kelowna School District! May your high school graduation be a reminder that you can do anything!
Let the summer fun begin!
Hey all – YAY!!! Summer finally arrived on June 21 (rightly so) and to celebrate we had Tacky tourist Tuesday. Besided Mr/Ms Bones, we had 2 fun loving students and 2 instructors meet the requirements – very, very tacky. In fact, Zola was so tacky she nearly stuck to her chair!
Last Friday the instructors pitched in to host a student appreciation BBQ. Bar-B-Qued dogs, watermelon and home baked cookies – isn't that considered a well-rounded meal The students really enjoyed the change of pace and all the instructors had a great time puting it on.
In response to our "Bring a Buddy to School" draw, MOA student Brandi won the $50 gift card for Mark's Work Warehouse.
We're very excited to be hosting a PN Informational Open House on June 29th. Invitations were sent to Work Zone offices and care facilities from Summerland to Osoyoos as well as to various individuals. An ad promoting this open house will also appear in this week and next weeks' local paper. On the subject of PN's, we are very excited to see our first group of Practical Nurses completing and receiving their PN Pins on June 30. These students are bright and determined, so we know they will have a fabulous career ahead. Will have group photo in next month's submission.
For the students in the Philippines, the month of June is one of the most exciting parts of the year as it marks the start of the school year. In preparation for this schools year's challenges, Sprott-Shaw Philippines conducted a two day team building workshop (June 2 and 3). The objectives of the event were (1) to improve team work and (2) reinforce the leadership skills of each team member. Cheers to Gloria and Santini for organizing a productive and invigorating activity.
In the same event, SSCC Philippines gave a warm welcome to a new member of the family, Ms. Noemi Cancio, initially introduced as the AHLEI Consultant and now Head of the Academics and Operations Department. Ms. Cancio has over 30 years of extensive professional and academic background in the Philippines education industry.
Sprott-Shaw Philippines recently held its 2nd Commencement Exercises last June 23, 2011. The activity was attended by Resident Care Attendant (RCA) students coming from the different SSCC campuses offering the RCA program such as Far Eastern University in Manila, Holy Angel University in Pampanga, and Far Eastern College in Cavite. It was also the first event that brought together the different campuses in the Philippines.
As a culminating activity, Sprott-Shaw Philippines staged a jam-packed seminar with our partner school- Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation. It was attended by over 200 students and nurses from different colleges and hospitals in Quezon Province. It was the first time the region experienced a seminar delivered through the Global Learning Network (GLN). Once again, Sprott-Shaw Community College showcased its innovation towards education. The speakers were our very own Marketing Director Gloria Yang on the topic "Helpful Tips on Heart Attack" and Ms. Kathlyn Palafox, one of Sprott-Shaw's premier Nursing educators in Canada, on the topic "Regulated and Unregulated Health Care Professions in Canada". The event is part of SSCC Philippines' marketing initiatives towards increasing enrollment turn out. Special shout out to Zarah, Daryl,
Chris, and Joash for ensuring the success of the event.
Sprott-Shaw Degree College is proud to announce two new University transfer programs! SSDC students who complete their first or second year can now transfer to DevRy and Royal Roads University with a full transfer credit. For more information contact Colin at SSDC.
June was a busy month for the Surrey campus with so much happening and so much to prepare for! It all started with a surprise birthday for our ECE instructor, Alison – she thought she could keep the secret but it all came out – IN CONFETTI BALLOONS!
We've had many successful students getting employed – two of who are Darren, Pharmacy Assistant and Li, our LPN!
Surrey campus is now preparing for an upcoming Red FM Job Fair happening this weekend along with preparing for a Summer Food Drive.
June was a rainy month for the Vancouver campus.
We had a student assembly where instructors honored some of our students who have had perfect attendance and good marks! At our assembly we got pizza for everyone and we announced our picnic day which will be held for July 28th!
We had our student appreciation BBQ June 9/11, great turnout.
Our summer program will start next month and we are happy to announce that we will be having the Russian, Japanese, and Mexican students so welcome to them all and hope they have a great summer with us.


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Read: John Tortorella On Tonight
During his press conference on MSG, John Tortorella said:
- "I thought it was one of the worst hockey games I have been involved in. Both teams, but they were better than we were."
- "Just two bad teams playing and we were worse than they were."
Henrik Lundqvist said that his shoulder is fine after the PK Subban slap shot.
10:18PM: The Rangers sent through the following quotes:
Henrik Lundqvist on tonight's game…
"It's a game of patience when you play a team like this. They play extremely boring, but they're a smart team and they didn't give up much. They were just waiting for mistakes and we didn't make that many. They're a quick team and I thought we played a pretty good game, we just didn't come up with the big plays in the end."
Ryan Callahan on tonight's game…
"They're good in the neutral zone. They clog it up pretty well. Throughout the game we kept telling ourselves to be patient with it, get pucks in deep. We tried to focus on not turning the puck over. The whole game it looked like we were always going to do that, and be the better of the two teams. Unfortunately in the third, we turn one over, got a 3-on-1 against us, and it ends up being the winner."
Rangers game notes are below:
Team Notes:
– The Rangers were defeated by the Montreal Canadiens, 3-1, tonight at Madison Square Garden to finish their three-game homestand with a 1-1-1 mark. New York is now 8-4-1 in their last 13 contests after dropping their first two games of the season.
– The Blueshirts have posted a record of 8-6-1 (17 pts) overall, including a 6-3-1 mark at home this season.
– Tonight's contest is only the second time in their last six meetings the Rangers and Canadiens have been separated by fewer than three goals.
– The Blueshirts' penalty kill was 1-1 (2:00) in the contest, and have now held their opponents scoreless on the power play in each of the last six games (17 times shorthanded). The Rangers have posted a record of 4-2-1 when holding opponents scoreless on the power play.
– The Rangers and Canadiens combined for eight shots on goal in the first period (NYR – 5; MTL – 3), which is the fewest combined shots in a single period for the Rangers since Feb. 27, 2012, against New Jersey (First and Third Periods). *courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau
– The Blueshirts out-hit the Canadiens, 37-21, led by Brian Boyle's game-high, six hits.
– The Rangers were credited with 20 blocked shots in the contest, led by Marc Staal's game-high, four blocked shots.
Player Notes:
– Anton Stralman notched the game's opening goal at 12:29 of the second period, and was credited with two hits in 16:30 of ice time. He is now tied for the team lead among defensemen with two goals on the season.
– Carl Hagelin recorded an assist to extend his point streak to a career-high, five games (five goals, three assists over the span), and tied for the game-high with three shots on goal in 21:23 of ice time. He ranks fourth on the team in scoring with 10 points on the season.
– Derek Stepan tallied an assist and led all forwards with 22:33 of ice time. He has now registered a point in three of the last four games (two goals, one assist over the span).
– Henrik Lundqvist stopped 15 of 17 shots faced, and is now 7-6-0 overall with a 6-3-0 mark at home this season. He has held opponents to two goals or less in seven of his last 10 games (6-4-0, 1.90 goals against average, .927 save percentage over the span), and is 7-4-0 with a 2.00 goals against average and a .924 save percentage in his last 11 games.
– Brandon Mashinter was credited with three hits in 5:55 of ice time while making his Rangers debut in tonight's contest. He is the ninth player to make their Rangers debut this season, along with Jeff Halpern, Rick Nash, Taylor Pyatt, Brandon Segal, Arron Asham, Benn Ferriero, Darroll Powe and J.T. Miller.


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- Harlem Globetrotters Teams Up with Ticket Galaxy
- Ticketmaster Reverses All-In Pricing Policy
- Ticketmaster Reverses All-In Pricing Policy
- Bitcoin and Ticketing: A Perfect Match?
- Donate to the Wounded Warrior Project and catch a ball game
- StubHub reverses course with "All In Pricing". Is preloaded ticketing soon to follow?
- New College Athletic Ticket Sales Group Completes First Annual Conference in Orlando
- Another NFL Team Cedes to Ticket Broker Lawsuit Pressure
- Warriors Score Big on Playoff Ticket Prices
- Lightning to Tampa Army captain – "You can sell your Stanley Cup tickets, but only to whom we approve"
New Juniper Research report stress global increase in mobile ticketing
PRESS RELEASE: "More Than 1 in 10 Mobile Subscribers to Use Mobile Ticketing in 2014 Globally, Says New Juniper Report"
HAMPSHIRE, England (BUSINESS WIRE) April 6, 2010 - A new study by Juniper Research has forecast that more than 1 in 10 mobile subscribers will either have a ticket delivered to their mobile phone or buy a ticket with their phone by 2014. This represents a five-fold growth over the next five years.
The Mobile Ticketing report found that services are developing fastest in the transport sector, with SMS, bar code and, increasingly, app driven services being offered by rail & metro companies and airlines.
The potential for rail, metro & bus mobile ticketing is shown by early adopter market hotspots such as Japan, Scandinavia and Austria. Global impetus is being added by the rapidly growing number of airlines offering not only mobile boarding passes but ticket booking and payment as well. Beyond transport, mobile ticketing is already seeing traction across a wide range of sporting and entertainment venues including baseball, concerts and movies.
Report author Howard Wilcox stated: "Our research established that ticketing providers are exploiting apps to deliver innovative offerings - not just on smart phones either. One of the keys to widespread acceptance is going to be the ease for users of 'silent' equipping via pre-installation. Telecom Italia's new SIM cards for 2010 are a good example."
Juniper Research gained unique market insight on top trends, issues and likely future developments directly from the heart of the market through its primary research interviews with leading mobile ticketing operators, application developers, consultants and vendors. The report includes a detailed five market forecasting suite covering key market parameters.
Further key findings from the report include:
-Europe, Far East & China & North America regions are all forecast to see double digit penetration by 2014
-Growth constraints include multiple ticket scheme environments such as certain transport markets, with their potential resulting user issues such as support and help
Whitepapers and further details of the study 'Mobile Ticketing: Transport, Sport & Entertainment and Events 2009-2014' can be freely downloaded from www.juniperresearch.com.
Juniper Research provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, providing consultancy, analyst reports and industry commentary.
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The Affordable Care Act's Prevention and Public Health Fund in Your State: New Hampshire
The Prevention and Public Health Fund offers an unprecedented investment in promoting wellness, preventing disease, and protecting against public health emergencies. Much of this work is done in partnership with States and communities. The Affordable Care Act, the health care law of 2010, makes this funding possible.
States and communities are using Prevention Fund dollars to:
Preventing Chronic Disease: A Smart Investment
Chronic diseases – such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes – are responsible for seven of 10 deaths among Americans each year. They account for 75% of the nation's health spending. Focusing on prevention can both improve the health of Americans and help control health care spending. In fact, a report from Trust for America's Health entitled Prevention for a Healthier America concluded that investing $1 in proven community-based programs could yield a return of $5.60.
The Prevention Fund helps New Hampshire tackle the leading causes of death and root causes of costly, preventable chronic disease; detect and respond rapidly to health security threats; and prevent accidents and injuries. With this investment, the Affordable Care Act helps States and the nation as a whole focus on fighting disease and illness before they happen.
How the Fund Improves Wellness and Prevention for New Hampshirites
Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $4.5 million in Prevention Fund grants to New Hampshire and organizations in New Hampshire in efforts related to:
Community Prevention ($964,000): Funding supports prevention activities proven to reduce health care costs and improve healthy behaviors.
- Community and State Prevention ($463,000). These funds support Community Transformation Grants, which empower communities to use evidence-based interventions to prevent heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and other conditions by reducing tobacco use, preventing obesity, and reducing health disparities. These dollars also help support a chronic disease prevention grant program and strengthen evidence-based employer wellness programs.
- Tobacco Use Prevention ($56,000). This funding supports anti-tobacco education campaigns, telephone-based tobacco cessation services, and outreach programs that are proven to reduce tobacco use and those focused on vulnerable populations, consistent with the HHS Tobacco Control Strategic Action Plan.
- Obesity Prevention and Fitness ($445,000). These dollars support activities to improve nutrition and increase physical activity to reduce obesity-related conditions and health care costs. These activities also help carry out recommendations of the President's Childhood Obesity Task Force.
Public Health Infrastructure and Training ($2,578,000): These efforts help State and local health departments meet 21st century challenges.
- Public Health Workforce ($1,237,000). These programs support training of public health providers to improve preventive medicine, health promotion, disease prevention, and epidemiology. The funding also improves access to and quality of health services in medically underserved communities and provides front line care while training the next generation of public health leaders.
- Detection and Response Capacity ($991,000). State and local governments will receive new resources to prevent, detect, and respond to disease outbreaks, including those caused by influenza and foodborne pathogens. It also funds programs that prevent healthcare-associated infections.
- Public Health Infrastructure ($350,000). These efforts help State, local, and tribal organizations improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public health by strengthening the systems for gathering, analyzing, and communicating health data and ensuring they produce accurate and timely information for action.
Research and Data Collection ($1,015,000): Funds support the scientific study of prevention to better understand how to translate research into practice.
- Prevention Research ($300,000). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Task Force on Community Preventive Services conducts systematic reviews of public health interventions to prevent disability, disease, and death, and disseminates the results to the public, clinicians, health officials, and community leaders.
- Health Care Data Analysis and Planning ($715,000). Funds support health data collection and analysis to produce accurate and timely information to help respond to health challenges facing Americans, including the risk factors that lead to poor health, and to identify the best practices that improve health for all Americans.
Building on Other Administration Initiatives that Promote Prevention
The Obama Administration takes a broad approach to addressing the health and well-being of our communities. Other initiatives that promote prevention in States and communities include the following:
- The Affordable Care Act, which expands access to preventive care by removing cost sharing for recommended clinical preventive services.
- The President's Childhood Obesity Task Force and the First Lady's Let's Move! initiative aimed at combating childhood obesity.
- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which provides $1 billion for community-based initiatives, tobacco cessation activities, chronic disease reduction programs, and efforts to reduce health care-acquired infections.
- The Million Hearts initiative to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes in the next five years.
- The Affordable Care Act's National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council, with representation from 17 Federal agencies, and that has developed a National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy.
Last updated: February 14, 2012


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Folder Lock 5.6 User Reviews
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"Product provides basic folder-level security ONLY!"
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
Simple and easy to use interface. Provides basic folder-level protection. Does work to hide sensitive files against most unsuspecting Windows users.
As other reviewers have noted, defeating this product is trivial using Linux and I would not trust it to protect sensitive information against ID theft. Better and FREE solutions are as follows:
CompuSec: (Whole Drive Encryption and much more!)
TrueCrypt: (Open Source Device/Partition encryption)
"Very nice product if you need your files safe"
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
very handy for those that have secret files or if you share your computer and you dont want others to look at it of alter it.
you have to pay for it and thats the only bad part about it that i can see since ive used it.
"Great at first, but "encrypted" data can be opened by moving locked data to Mac"
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
The software worked exactly as advertised. The software creates a subdirectory called "Locker" in the "Folder Lock" main directory. You move files you wish to protect into this folder and then, when you are ready, lock it at 1 of 3 levels of security. The security level dictates the amount of time it takes to lock the product. Following the lock process, the "Locker" directory becomes unavailable on a PC. The software is compact (something like 5 MB), so you can move it even to 128 MB USB drives, allowing you to encrypt all of your portable data. BUT...
I am a PC person who is forced to use a Mac at work. For this reason, I have a portable drive containing personal information that I keep backed up on both computers. I purchased folder lock to protect this data. When I plugged the portable drive into a mac, the Folder Lock directory contained a sub-directory called "Locked". Within the "Locked" directory was a folder with a gibberish name that contained all of my "encrypted" data. I opened the files and was able to manipulate them as usual, even though i had never entered the unencryption password. This was after orignally securing the files on a PC with the highest level of encryption. The same result happend with the lowest level of encryption. The intermediate level has not been tried yet. I don't see how this can be considered security when files can be accessed by simply moving the folder to a mac and knowing to click on the appropriate directory. On a slightly positive note, the locked files did not turn up in a search on the macintosh, perhaps because they were in the folder with a gibberish name (folder lock\locked\�▒╖░╥�)
That means that someone would have to know to look in the gibberish folder to find your data. Before writing this negative review, I described this issue to their support staff and got the following reply:
> Dear dinapolij,
> Currenlty Folder Lock only supports windows operating system but we will work
> on the MAC version very soon.
> Please let me know if I can do anything for you,
> Have a great day!
> Mike Frank,
> Newsoftwares.net, USA,
> Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
I felt that a negative review was warranted after that unsatisfactory reply.
"i hav lost access to my doc....its too strong//"
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
happily working as making me happy..
"Great product and easy to use."
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
I really liked how easy it is to secure files, folders, and thumb drives as well.
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
This thing is great! Works like a charm, makes me feel safer, seeing as I have bad luck in computer things.
All in all not a bad program!
It would be cool if you could change it's skin, you know, make it more custumizable.
"Crashes system and files are not hidden on network."
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
Good idea and good interface.
It crashed my system half a dozen times before I could get my important files out of the encrypted "locker". Finally had to boot in Safe mode to uninstall. Beware.
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
This program looks pretty and easy to use.
bu beware
it just hides folders , not locks them /
"Security in Simplicity.... less than 5 minutes to be efficient in its use.."
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
REALLY simple to use.. plus in stealthmode you can hide the whole program, including any mention of it in the start menu....even from add/remove programs!!! lets just say that if a snooper doesn't know the programs there... he can't find it!
Felt the skins were a bit cheesey... but the program does exactly what it says on the tin.... so who cares about the skins!!
"Looks Pretty, but beware"
Version: Folder Lock 5.6
This program looks pretty and easy to use.
It is not actually very secure, and does not lock folders, it just hides them. This means there is a whole host of ways to access them still (either through Linux, or even via specialist folder browsing software on Windows). This is especially a bad point as it costs allot (maybe as freeware it would be suitable for kids or hiding stuff from inexperienced users). If you want to lock folders, use BCArcive as this actually encrypts your files safely.
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What Is A Gasifyer or Gasifier – How Does It Work?
Is a Gasifier a True Alternate Energy Source?
Heating wood or other organic matter in a gasifyer is done to liberate the volatile elements inside the wood.
These gasses when released can be used for heating, or ignited in an internal combustion engine to make power. The simplest element of the gasifyer is that is a canister that is insulated to hold in the heat.
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What Is A Gasifyer
is the process of turning wood into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material (wood) at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen. Without oxygen, the wood can't burn so it transforms into gas. This gas can be used as fuel in an internal combustion engine.
And is Possibly the most efficient means of converting organic fuels into energy available to the common man today?
What this means is, that the construction of a relatively simple machine, all kinds of organic waste such as, twigs, small branches, wood chips, pine cones, rice and corn husks, even chicken litter waste, can be gasified
to produce a volatile gas which can be burned to make heat, or used in an internal combustion energy to make power?
Industrial business are at the top of the range in technological development. At the bottom. Many basic, level of he gasifier it is truly basic. Merely wood burning gasifier stoves can be made to designs freely offered as templates which can be made practically totally from junk parts discovered in numerous trash can.
The feedstock (gaseous or solid) is fed to an oxygen (or air-blown) pressurized gasifier where it is changed to syngas. The syngas is then passed with a shift reactor which increases the hydrogen and CARBON DIOXIDE content of the syngas.
When you have biomass gasifier and utilize the procedure of gasification system you can really own the power station and you can empower the women too with households who will not have to suffer due to power outages and where the electrical needs of the houses are not satisfied. It can also be a great source of energy for the remote cabin and prove to be a wonderful source of energy carrier.
Some gasifier plant is now likewise being developed which is based on fluidized bed technology with the possibility of the usual and low expense accessibility of almost zero discharges release systems attaining high efficiencies utilizing a host cheap, in your area produced, eco-friendly fuel sources.
You can see that there are many different kinds of gasifiers where gasification systems are made use of. You can get hold of various gasifier suppliers who supply these products and they likewise supply screw press. There are a lot of gasifiers that even produce gas from wood and afterwards at some point burn the gas which would leave no ash and charcoal. The wood chips that are used in the gasification plant and the gas that has to be produced with it are a sort of light in the heating system of the chamber.
Gasifiers can power cars by fitting into vehicle trunks, help power houses or heat them. Effective entrepreneurs, released developers and authors, wish to further the development of gasification as an alternative energy source and welcomes people to join his online area on biomass gasification, biowaste gasification or wood gasification.
In another example a gasifier is the vital element in the Ag Bio-Power Energy System, however it is not the only part. In the patented setup of the system, strong wastes comprising of metals and other non-combustible materials are burned separately while a gasifier is used as a scrubber for the contaminating exhausts because gasification is so efficient burning out these substances.
Water gas reaction can turn steam and carbon monoxide gas into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. This is something that I am very thinking about and you will see me inventing and utilizing this expertise with it in a few of my future gasifiers. I will further show my results as I check the methods and create the very best extraction of hydrogen and co2 with my various gasifier designs.
Jan Becker, Technical Director, of a United States energy company expanding quickly on its gasification skills, included that; "the gasifier is ending up being a crucial factor in the race towards the 'greening of America' as there is more and more awareness that numerous of the substances that America throws away can be gasified and afterwards made into helpful products like electricity, ethanol, methanol, and bio-diesel.".
Just wood burning gasifier stoves can be made to designs easily readily available as templates which can be made nearly entirely from junk parts found in numerous trash bins.
You can see that there are many different kinds of gasifiers where gasification systems are made use of. There are a lot of gasifiers that even produce gas from wood and then ultimately burn the gas which would leave no ash and charcoal. I will further report my outcomes as I check the approaches and come up with the best extraction of hydrogen and carbon dioxide with my various gasifier designs.
An example or real life cars running on Wood Gas – This comes from an old Swedish wartime film of residents who ran vehicles on the gasifier principle because petrol was not available. You can see the manufacture was not a backstreet operation, the ideas were well known and used in a practical way.
All this is well within the lifespan of people alive today and it seems difficult to believe this technology has
virtually disappeared?….
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The wood gas can be burned in a boiler of furnace or used to run an internal combustion engine for transport or to generate electrical power.Converting wood to flammable wood gas releases
more useful energy, in a more usable form, than if the wood was burned directly.
The chemistry of wood gasification was formalised in the 1850′s, having been studied from observations known for centuries to blacksmiths and ironworkers, from their workings with charcoal forges and furnaces and particularly as the process was widely used to make the first gas in gas works and then applied to heating, gas lighting and industrial processes as the industrial revolution exploded.
Gasification was extensively deployed in WWII Europe for running road vehicles when petroleum fell in short supply. Up to 1 million European vehicles were fitted with wood and charcoal fuelled gasifiers.
page:- Assembling a Gasifyer.
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Ventura church, midtown neighbors divided over homelessness services
Midtown Ventura residents described their neighborhood as a "war zone" at a City Hall meeting on Tuesday, with stories of fights in the street, dirty needles found in the park and homeless people wandering onto an elementary school campus.
They blamed all these problems on Harbor Community Church, which is on Preble Street near Blanche Reynolds School. For about five years, the church has run what it calls Project Embrace, providing meals, showers, counseling and other drop-in services to about 100 homeless people a day.
Church members say helping the less fortunate is an essential part of their ministry. The city of Ventura, though, considers social services and worship to be separate "uses" and has told the church it must obtain a permit for the services.
The church submitted an application for a permit this month, and its request will be heard by the Ventura Planning Commission and the City Council. City planners convened Tuesday's meeting to let the church's neighbors be heard in the early stages of the permit process.
More than 100 people attended, and about 30 spoke. The vast majority of them opposed letting the church continue to provide social services on Preble Street.
"I love the church, and I love what they do, but it's not the right location," said Tracy Strong, who lives nearby and runs a home child care center. "It's not right to have it near a school and so many homes."
Matt Bowman, who has lived in the area for 10 years, said he's seen a dramatic increase in crime and vagrancy since Project Embrace started.
"I've had my car broken into a couple of times. The other day, I broke up a fight between an obvious transient and my neighbor," he said. "I've got two little kids that go to Blanche Reynolds School and walk to that park all the time, and they can't use the restroom because it's been covered in blood and there are needles on the floor."
Church leaders said they have taken steps to improve security, including changing the breakfast hours so they don't coincide with the start of school and screening applicants to weed out registered sex offenders.
"We care," said Dave Christensen, a pastor at Harbor Community and the director of Project Embrace. "We don't sit here scoffing at your comments. We talk about it all the time — how we can do a better job. We care about and love all the neighbors as much as we love our homeless church members."
Sam Gallucci, Harbor's senior pastor and founder, said after the meeting that his church has looked for another property but hasn't found one that suits its purposes and budget.
"We're praying on that," he said.
While Gallucci was speaking, just outside the room where the meeting was taking place, a woman interrupted and began talking to him about the problems she's had with homeless people in the neighborhood. She would not give her name.
"Our children aren't safe," she said. "You know what you're doing isn't right. You know it."
"I'm sorry you feel that way," Gallucci said. "We feel that what we are doing is right. This is our calling: to reach the least of the lost."
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Ear Pinning Surgery
At Buckhead Plastic Surgery in Atlanta
For people who struggle with ears that appear misshapen or protrude too far, Atlanta plastic surgeon Dr. Alan N. Larsen performs ear pinning surgery, also known as otoplasty. By accessing the cartilage of the ears, Dr. Larsen is able to reshape ears and normalize their appearance, molding them closer to the head.
Deciding If You Are Right for a Ear Pinning Surgery
Ear surgery can be performed for adults and for children as young as four years old whose ears distract from the normal features of their face. Misshapen or protruding ears are not only bothersome for the patient, but may also lead to teasing and even bullying from others. For these reasons, patients may turn to Dr. Larsen to undergo ear pinning surgery in Atlanta.
If you are interested in ear pinning surgery, you should be a healthy, nonsmoker and have realistic expectations for the results of your surgery. Patients should also expect several days for recovery time. If surgery takes place during the school year, many students may need to take one week off from school for recovery. Because of this, it may be advantageous to undergo ear pinning surgery during a break from school.
How It's Done
Ear pinning surgery is typically performed as an outpatient procedure. For children, a general anesthetic is often used while adult patients may be given a local anesthetic with sedation. For the surgery, Dr. Larsen will make small, inconspicuous incisions behind your ears and in the natural folds of your skin. He will use these incisions to access the cartilage of your ear, which is its support structure.
Through this unique view, he will be able to shape and mold the cartilage into the desired, normalized shape. Dr. Larsen may perform surgery on both ears to create a matching look. When he has sufficiently molded the ears, he will close the incisions with sutures and apply a bandage that will hold the ears close to the head.
What to Expect from Ear Pinning Surgery
When you leave the surgical facility, Dr. Larsen will give you aftercare instructions to follow. You will need to rest for a day or so and will need to keep your head elevated. While you will not be able to resume your normal routine or exercise immediately, Dr. Larsen will expect you to walk shortly after surgery. You will need to keep your bandages fresh and take care to avoid any activities that may put your ears at risk for injury.
After several weeks, you will be fully recovered and able to resume normal exercise routines. You will be able to see the full benefits of your ear pinning surgery. Your ears will be normalized in appearance and will appear closer to your head. You may also experience improved self-confidence.
Risks following ear pinning surgery are rare, but can include infection or scarring. Be sure to ask Dr. Larsen about possible side effects and complications during your consultation if you have questions.
Learn More About Ear Pinning Surgery in Atlanta
If you are bothered by the appearance of your ears, we encourage you to find out more about ear pinning surgery by Dr. Alan N. Larsen in the Buckhead business district of North Atlanta. You can join our mailing list to find out more about this procedure or call us at (404) 367‐9005.


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Here for reading and writing I'm not interested in cyber. Now that that's out of the way I'm a tiny geeky girl who loves to write and read. My display picture is not me but is similar to what I actually look like. I am a submissive but I am not looking to be collared by anyone so please don't ask. I like to meet new people and chat about different things. I have some stories here on Lush and if you take a peek at them I would love to know what you think.
I know this is ask the guys but I couldn't help sharing my view as well. I only read the first book. I didn't really like it to be honest, I only read it because I work in a book store and it was going to be the next big thing so I thought I would give it a try. The writing wasn't all that great (there are countless videos on youtube that show this at it's finest), and there are better books on this topic, with better writing, story, characters, etc. It worries me that this series is so popular because there is miss information in there and it isn't a very good representation of the BDSM lifestyle. There are times when it isn't completely consensual, and if this is a person's only experience/view of this kind of relationship they may think it's alright for these things to happen. I know people say it's just a book/movie and they think people make too big a deal out of nothing but if we can blame/fault video games and movies for real life violence than it's crazy to think that nothing negative could come from a book like this. I have actually had a lot of men get angry at me for selling this book in the store I work at, I'm not sure if it's because their wives/girlfriends are so into it or that they are actually against it but I always find it funny when they scold me as if I have a say in what's sold lol.
I absolutely love it!
I've always been curious about it but I'm not brave enough to try.
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a true newf? :) ya related to stompin tom? ;) Haha no but I did grow up listening to him :D
Maritimes :)
It feels the best for me, doggy is a close second
I relate to Belle from beauty and the beast. I'm a book worm, I try to see past the bad and find the good in everyone, and I often live inside my fantasies.
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Video: Marianne Vos wins Tour of Flanders to consolidate World Cup lead
Dutch rider proves stronger than rivals in finale... also, footage from Elisa Longo Borghini's Trodeo Binda win last week
Previous News
Marianne Vos has extended her lead in the World Cup by winning the Tour of Flanders on a day when cycling's attitude towards women came under scrutiny on two fronts – first, the lack of live TV coverage of the race, secondly Peter Sagan's inappropriate touching of a podium girl following the men's race.
It's the first time Rabobank's Vos has won the race, thereby plugging a big gap in her CV, but instead of being able to watch even the closing kilometres of the race live – at a time when the men's race was yet to explode into life, and with cameras already in situ on key points of the course – fans instead had to turn to Twitter to follow what was happening.
Happily, a short report of the race has now been posted to YouTube, jointly produced for the UCI by Spokesmen and Deadline Productions, showing how the race played out. A more extensive half hour highlights programme will be produced for TV, as will happen for all other rounds of the World Cup.
Rabobank's Vos had to fight off a series of attacks from the three other women who got off the front with her – Orica-AIS rider Emma Johansson, Elisa Longo Borghini of Hitec Products and Ellen van Dijk of Specialized–Lululemon – before outsprinting them at the end.
Last week, amid atrocious conditions in the hills above Lake Maggiore on the border of Italy and Switzerland, Longo Borghini had attacked in the rain to score a fine solo win, her first World Cup victory, which you can watch in the video below - the commentary is in Italian, the 55-minute film being in effect the highlights programme screened on RAI Sport 2 last Sunday.
Such a shame - it could have been a perfect model for TV, set the women off first and cover the finish before the action starts in the men's race. All the logistics are in place, you're only staging one race and the audience is ready and waiting.
posted by CraigS [135 posts]
31st March 2013 - 21:33
Surely it is now time we started referring to Eddy Merckx as the "male Marianne Vos" rather than the other way round...
posted by Otis Bragg [167 posts]
1st April 2013 - 1:59
Looked like a more exciting race too. Spartacus was incredibly impressive, but save for his digs on the last climbs, nothing much happened.
posted by aslongasicycle [368 posts]
1st April 2013 - 11:52
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2nd April 2013 - 8:50


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Life Lessons.
You get what you need, not what you want.
The universe will never give you anything you can't handle.
There is so much love within every single one of us, it's difficult to grasp. So much love. Love is always here. It can never be lost.
Allow yourself to be vulnerable. Risk getting your heart broken. It's worth it.
The earth is part of us, as much as we are a part of it. Caring for nature means caring for ourselves.
Move past your fears. They are here for you to learn. Let go, and only love remains.
Separación no existe. Es una ilusión creado de la mente, por miedo de ser abandonado. Todos somos UNO.
(Caption from my notes during my last trip to Costa Rica earlier this year. Felt the need to revisit this wisdom. It's a good day to meditate on love.)
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Pretty but a little trite. The Universe does give people things they cannot handle and then they have breakdowns etc. Can you somehow address that?
you get what you need and not what you want?? not always true..


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A 26-year-old man was shot in the back while spray-painting graffiti on the wall of a Boyle Heights apartment building, a police sergeant said Sunday.
The shooting occurred just after 9 p.m. Saturday at Michigan Avenue and Soto Street, said Sgt. John Porras of the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollenbeck Station.
"The victim was shot in the back while tagging the wall with spray paint. He was in critical but stable condition after surgery," Porras said. "We don't have suspect information because the victim refused to provide details."
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