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Former trooper James Bonard Fowler, who contends he fired in self-defense in a struggle over a gun, was charged with first-degree and second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson.
The first-degree charge is for a killing that is intentional, while the second-degree charge is for one that is unintentional. Both carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Fowler, who is 73 and lives in Geneva in southeast Alabama, was allowed to remain free on a $250,000 property bond.
"You must understand this, he is not a man of means," said Fowler's attorney, George Beck, of the bond.
Fowler said little other than to describe himself as a farmer.
Beck said the case is prejudiced against his client because of the passage of time and the death of witnesses, and he said he would seek to have the charges dismissed.
"Everyone has the right to justice, and that includes Mr. Fowler," Beck said.
When Beck was asked further about Fowler's background, including a shooting in 1966 in Alabaster, the attorney said, "I will not comment on Mr. Folwer's background."
Beck, when asked about an incident in which Fowler was reported to have beaten a supervisor in 1968, said, "That beating was because he had taken time off to mourn his brother, who had just died."
He also said that his client suffers from diabetes and possible exposure to Agent Orange.
No arraignment date had been set as of this afternoon. Beck said he will likely ask for a change of venue.
A Perry County grand jury returned the sealed indictment against Fowler on Wednesday in the 1965 killing in Marion.
He is accused of shooting Jackson in Mack's Cafe, where a number of people fled after troopers and other law officers broke up a protest on the night of Feb. 18, 1965. Witnesses said the officers were clubbing people in an out-of-control attack that continued into the cafe, where they said Jackson was trying to protect his mother and grandfather when he was shot.
Accounts by troopers say the crowd refused orders to disperse and, when the street lights suddenly went out, they were pelted by bricks and bottles.
Fowler has said he was assisting a trooper who had been struck when Jackson hit him on the head with a bottle. He said he fired the gun when Jackson tried to grab it.
"He was up here quelling a disturbance and someone was killed," Beck said. "It's very unfortunate but it's certainly not murder. Under no circumstances could it be intentional murder or murder. The shooting was justified and the evidence will show this."
District Attorney Michael Jackson, who is not related to the victim, said Thursday that in probing the four-decade-old case, he learned that Fowler also shot a detainee to death in 1966 at the city jail in Alabaster and struck his superior officer in 1968.
Alabama Department of Public Safety records show that Fowler was fired on Sept. 30, 1968, but do not indicate the reason.
Fowler did not comment on the matter Thursday. Beck said he was uncertain about details of the Alabaster shooting, but he said the 1968 altercation occurred when Fowler was mourning the death of his brother in Vietnam and there was a disagreement over sick pay.
"That guy called him out and hit him, and I think he hit him back," Beck said.
The Anniston Star first reported Thursday on Fowler's 1968 firing for striking his superior officer, T.B. Barden, and the 1966 fatal shooting of Nathan Johnson Jr. in Alabaster, which Fowler told the newspaper occurred when an intoxicated Johnson grabbed his billy club and began hitting him.
The shooting of Jackson inspired the "Bloody Sunday" protest at Selma on March 7, 1965, which set the stage for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march later that month.
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a protest leader who was clubbed to the ground on Bloody Sunday, said he was gratified to learn of the indictment.
"It was the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson that provoked the march from Selma to Montgomery. It was his death and his blood that gave us the Voting Rights Act of 1965," Lewis said in a statement. "This indictment will lead to closure. It will lead to healing. It will lead to reconciliation."
The indictment is the latest in a series of civil rights-era prosecutions across the South that have been resurrected after lying dormant for decades. Prosecutors have won convictions in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four black girls and in the 1964 killings of three civil rights volunteers near Philadelphia, Miss.
Doug Jones, a former U.S. attorney who won murder convictions of two ex-Klansmen in the Birmingham church bombing, said that unlike his case, the Marion case hinges on motive.
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Like the F30 3 Series, the 4 Series coupe will be available in "Lines" but it does not appear to be … CONTINUED
We bring you the latest sighting of the 2014 BMW 4 Series (F32) Coupe. What we're seeing here is a 435i Coupe showing clearly for the first time LED headlights and large parts of its interior front cabin.
The optional LED headlights feature squared off coronal rings (angel eyes) much like the optional LED headlights seen in other recent BMW models. Sadly however, the optional LED headlights will not feature the special design seen on the BMW 4 Series Concept's LED headlights which featured hexagonal lights with the corona rings leading out from the inner headlight tube to form a visual link with the inner headlight and the kidney grille.
As we've already seen in past spy photos, the 4 Series interior remains close to the … CONTINUED
As its more hulking brother, the BMW M4 Coupe (F82) drops some camouflage, so too has the 4 Series Coupe (F32).
This group of 4 Series Coupe prototypes are the most revealing we have seen yet, with heavy camouflage now removed from the headlights, C-pillar, and front fender areas. What's revealed is no surprise, but does give us a better preview at the final product.
We can now see the headlights connected to the kidney grilles, the hoffmeister kink in the rear windows, and the opening for the boomerang front fender vents. We also get the first look at the interior of the production 4 Series Coupe.
We will see the production F32 4 Series Coupe revealed sometime this Summer (with an auto show debut in the Fall). … CONTINUED
BMW Insider Scott26 provides a preview of the upcoming F33 4 Series Convertible:
We will shortly be seeing FEP (final evaluation phase) F33 Cabrios very soon as they have arrived for camouflage application at the FIZ , some other new unseen models have arrived in order to begin public testing.
In the meantime we know what the car will bring.
The 4er Cabrio will be launched six months after the Coupe later this Spring.
Which means we will see it later this year with a debut set for the NAIAS in 2014. Before arriving in early 2014.
Instead of a request by the North American market to utilise a soft top so customers could distinguish the Coupe from the Cabrio. BMW responded to the reaction of the Chinese … CONTINUED
It's no secret that the upcoming BMW 4 Series Coupe (F32) has its sights set squarely on competing with the Audi A5 coupe, and we've now spotted the F32 being tested directly against the A5.
Seen here is a F32 435i prototype (powered by N55, at least initially upon the model's introduction) parked next to the Audi A5, following some direct testing and during a lunch break for BMW engineers.
The photos give us a first look at how the 4 Series Coupe looks compared the A5, as well as a glimpse of it next to the F30 3 Series sedan. It's difficult to judge exact dimensional differences from the photos, but it's interesting to see the similarities and differences between the two directly competing models – … CONTINUED
BMW launched a new international advertising campaign focused on design in Germany last weekend. The integrated global campaign highlights the dynamism of BMW design and features a TV commercial that portrays the BMW Concept 4 Series Coupe in a highly dynamic way, using a surprising visual effect that is revealed at the end of the spot. Design and dynamics are also the focus of the print campaign. Ropes are used in the image to create the motion blur effect normally seen in real driving shots. Internet users have also been able to view a special online presentation on design at: www.bmw.com/design since November 2012. Videos, animations and a historical timeline provide insights into the design process, history and vision of BMW design. The online special … CONTINUED
While the BMW 4 Series Coupe will not see its debut until this Fall, the concept model (which debuted late 2012) is now being used in promotional material and events to build up anticipation for the production F32 4 Series Coupe.
The F32 4 Series Coupe will begin production this July 2013, to appear in dealers beginning August-September. The F33 4 Series Convertible begins production in November 2013.
The US will get the 428i and 435i coupes, in RWD and xDrive versions. The European model lineup can be seen in this previous post showing VIN model lookup results.
The coupe and convertible models will be joined by the 4 Series Gran Coupe model in 2014.
Directly below is the first TV ad that is airing for the 4 Series … CONTINUED
Our crafty F30POST member reveals the potential 2014 BMW 4 Series model lineup by use of a VIN search, which has uncovered either all (or most) of the upcoming 4 Series Coupe (F32) lineup. Of note was that there was no 440i found, and the 435i is listed with the N55 engine (and not a successor engine as speculated).
Here is the list of F32 models found (separated by US and European market):
US 428i manual – F712500
US 428i auto – F710500 (N20) and F718000 (N26)
US 428i xDrive auto – F715500 (N20) and F720000 (N26)
US 435i auto – F729000
US 435 xDrive auto – F730000
US 435i manual – F774000
US 435i xDrive manual – F784500
EU 428i auto – F785500
EU 428i manual – F778500
EU 428i xDrive – F715000
EU 428i … CONTINUED
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He is still hanging in there. On antibiotics, still 'gallumpin' around, and letting the vet know he was wrong, "I ain't goin soon or easy". The massive swelling near eye is down and barely noticable, he does have a discharge from the eye, but nothing the doc is worried about. The cancer is still there but no longer enlarging. He enjoyed his day at the vet, and is now home and happy again.
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(I wish WordPress can read my mind and format accordingly, but until then what we have above is a pair of dots with an arrow going from the dot on the left to the dot on the right and another arrow going from the dot on the right to the dot on the left.)
With an eye on sharing–on communicating–my thoughts with my fellow gypsies, I think of describing–think of bringing my thoughts into being–of endowing my finite thought a material existence using a systematic procedure–a reproducible method.
I start with naming. Given my messianic complex I label one of my two dots, say, the one on the left, 'true.'
Reflecting on my thought I notice that if I start with truth and go (along the arrow going from the dot on the left to the dot on the right) to the dot on the right, and then going from the dot on the right along the arrow going from the dot on the right to the dot on the left, then I return to the 'true' I started out with; all of which pleases me so much so that I write it down (even if it means invoking a negation a couple of times):
not (not (true)) = true
Of course I could have penned a [slightly] different script i.e. a different opening line naming the dot on the right as 'false' and then rewrite the whole story as
not (not (false)) = false
What we have here is a slow-moving plot of a finite [dynamical] system with two descriptions:
Description 1.
Generator G: true
Labels L: true, not (true)
Relation R: not (not (true)) = true
Description 2.
Generator G: false
Labels L: false, not (false)
Relation R: not (not (false)) = false
What about the 'defining interpretation' that you advertised in the title? Please don't tell me you have to go away now–to go study. I'm sorry to disappoint you again, but I need to study (seriously; for my own [selfish] good):
An important method of defining an interpretation of one presented structure into another is in terms of mapping generators and verifying relations.
A prerequisite for understanding the above method is an even more careful study of the Presentations of dynamical systems in Conceptual Mathematics; pp. 182 – 6, 250 – 3.
Much of the above is to protect myself from falling prey [yet again] to scandalous brain theories that the Society for Neuroscience shamelessly palms off on the unsuspecting public all the while refusing to acknowledge an important thesis of science, which is absolutely necessary for the advancement of science–a sincere means of making sense of the 'blooming buzzing confusion,' simply because it is scared of learning.
Sad, a sad state-of-science. Please don't get me wrong: technology is going great even if it means engineering deans have to spend a lot of time scratching their heads–whom to call in which company (google, facebook, twitter… so many—so confusing)–to figure out what to "teach" their students.
Tailpiece: One–only one–sensible brain theory, according to someone claiming to have coined computational neuroscience, in the study of brain, is the one he heard from his preteen daughter at their dinner table: Brain, while sitting on top of you, steals all the food you eat. It sort of makes sense not only in terms of energy, but also in light of my feeling–wasted :-(
Before I go, let me [leave you, in the spirit of the joyous season, on a happy note] thank Professor F. William Lawvere for the best Christmas gift (Algebraic Foundations of Physics and Engineering) I ever got :-) Thank you Professor Lawvere!
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This trip was very challenging, but it's a great experience. The love and respect the community of La Cuchilla gives you is delightful. The trip helps you meet new people and experience a new shine of light. I got so much from this trip. --Michelle Soto
Going to La Cuchilla for my second time was everything I expected and more. Not only did the group of students work well together, but the people of La Cuchilla are incredible. They welcomed us all with open hearts and arms. They accept you as one of their own from the moment they see you. Seeing the kids at school and the families in the community creates this warm feeling of love which keeps you wanting to return and spend more time in the area. The sense of unity throughout the community builds hope of a better future. Instead of focusing on the materialistic things which most people in the community lack, the families focus on the important non-materialistic features of life such as family, friends, and love. The BRIDGES service trip to La Cuchilla instills opportunities of love, hope, and change. I am very grateful to have been a part of this amazing mind-altering experience. --Anna Kulacz
Service in the mountains of La Cuchilla and Jagua opened my eyes to the love and humbleness of these people. The children are full of life and eager to learn. I learned that money is not the root of happiness and greed is present in everyone's life. I had a wonderful, worthwhile experience.
--Laura Arias
Before we left for the trip, I was really nervous and I wasn't as excited as some of the other people. Even at the retreat house, I was nervous about going up to La Cuchilla. But once we got up the mountains and met our family, I immediately felt relieved. All my doubts about the trip were gone after I spent some time with my family and after the first day at school with the kids. It is so much fun to be with them doing crafts because they all love it so much. I do wish that I spoke and understood more Spanish so that I didn't have to rely on my translator as much. Even though she was good, I just would have liked to have been able to speak to my family directly. In the two weeks, I got so attached to my family and the community that it was hard to leave. I will be coming back though, so that made it easier to handle. The people up there are so grateful for everything and it is such an amazing experience. I can't wait to come back and be with my family again. --Erika Conlon
Going on the BRIDGES trip was a blessing for me. I expected to help the community, but I was caught off guard when the community ended up changing me. They showed me that family always comes first and by adding me into the family they loved me as if I was one of the family. The kids in the community showed me just how much I really want to be a teacher, just by seeing their faces change from frustration, when they didn't get something, to excitement when they finally got it. --Amanda Bean
This trip has truly been amazing. The people are so warm and welcoming. What they lack in material wealth, they make up with the love and sense of family. The children are just so precious and I couldn't imagine the trip without them. I thought the language barrier would be difficult, but it made no difference. The trip has changed me only for the better and I plan to come back to help and be helped in return. --Jessica King
When I first got to Dominican Republic, I was very nervous about meeting my family and being in another country. But once I met my family those feeling went away and I loved my family right away. They welcomed me into their family like I was one of their own. I am so grateful that I was able to come on this trip. I really think I made a difference in these peoples' lives. The one negative thing about this trip was that I don't speak Spanish. When I come back next year, I hope to have learned. This was such a great experience that I will remember forever.
--Ann Prusinowki
I am forever grateful for taken part in this beautiful experience. The emotion and changes that will happen internally are indescribable. One's point of view of the world will change dramatically after visiting and helping the community of La Cuchilla. The community is truly sent from above and will do everything in their power to ensure your happiness, peace, ease and comfort. The best way I know something is by taking action and experiencing it for yourself. If you are thinking about coming, just go for it. You will be so pleased and surprised. You will gain a family, strength, inner peace, and unlock certain mysteries of your being. Best of luck and hope you will be up the mountains soon. --Katie Mirro
This was my second time coming on this trip and the people of La Cuchilla still manage to impact my life and heart! It felt so good to see my family and friends. Once I got there it was like I never left. It was funny because I went there wanting to give everything, even the shirt on my back if I needed to. I was always surprising people that I was close to with gifts here and there. I was really surprised when a 5 year old little girl that u fell in love with at the school walked 15 minutes up the mountain to visit me after school when I was sick and gave me a gift. I felt like crying because I didn't realize how much of an impact that I made on certain people. It was an honor and a pleasure to go back for a second time. I never thought I would become so attach to people that I barely knew, but I did! They will always have a spot in my heart! --Melanie French
The first time I came on this trip it was amazing, and I got so much out of it. The second time around it was even better. Just feeling the love from the community was refreshing. Being in La Cuchilla for a second time put me in such a better mind-state; to cherish what I have and to mature even more. --Carlos Garcia
My overall experience has been phenomenal. My foreshadow of the trip has been met but a great and more developed version was breeched. I did exactly what I said I would do, which was to walk away with the knowledge of knowing that I have impacted so many lives, and leaving tears on faces from people who have grown to love me and have offered a tremendous amount of hospitality for two weeks of my stay. Now I can only continue to please these wonderful people who I have met and make sure that I can give help and happiness to better someone else's life.
--Gerald Washington
Being able to go on this trip for a second time was amazing. I waited a year to go back and visit my family and friends. I was overwhelmed with all the love they gave. I was surprised that most of the people remembered me. It also made me glad to know that I had an impact on them the first time. I felt right at home as soon as we got there. My mom was waiting for me outside and as soon as we got there, her love was just overflowing. I was so happy to be back and be able to play with the kids and do fun activities with them at the school. It was like I never left. The comfort, the joy and the happiness that I felt during this trip was like the last time, if not more. I was able to get a lot closer to my mom and the rest of the kids. We had a lot of heart to heart moments that will stay with me forever. This only made leaving La Cuchilla harder for the both of us. I got to know everybody in the community a little better also. They all wanted me to come back, which hopefully I will be able to do.
This trip has taught me so much about life and myself. It was a great way for me to take a step back and reevaluate my life; look at what I've done so far and what I plan on doing in the future. It's a great way for one to get out of their comfort zone a little bit and take a chance for the better of oneself. It's a life changing experience that I was able to re-experience this time again. I have learned to love more, to give more and more importantly to appreciate the little things I have, just like the people in La Cuchilla. It's amazing to see people who have so little, be so happy and still have enough love and happiness to share with others.
I would strongly encourage anyone who wants to participate on this trip to take a chance and just go for it. You will come back a different person. I don't think that one can go on this trip and not fall in love for the people in La Cuchilla.
--Patricia Pauyo
Having the opportunity to be a part of this trip is an experience I am glad I took. At first I wasn't sure what to expect, but once I saw the family welcome me with open arms, I knew I would be fine. I not only saw new things and made new friendships; I gain a new family from this experience.
--Catalina Amarillo
When I woke up this morning and walked into the small kitchen in the corner of the house and saw everyone who had come to see me off, I realized that I was not only leaving La Cuchilla but I was leaving a whole new family. People talk about the tragedies of third world countries through statistics and text books, but I have lived it. I allowed myself to fall in love with the people who live it every day. I know their names and I know their faces. But in meeting these people who live it every day, I didn't see poverty, I saw true beauty. They have a true and compassionate love that I have never before experienced and I will be thankful every day of my life to have been made a small part of it. The people in La Cuchilla will be forever in my heart and mind as a reminder of the way life should be lived.
--Ashley Cummings
Here is a list of some of the things we were able to accomplish as a direct result of your generosity:
1. Collected, transported, and distributed 1,500 pounds of new clothing, bedding, medicines, vitamins, and books, to various rural communities.
2. Cemented the area from the La Cuchilla school to the outhouse; constructed two cement speed bumps in front of the school, to slow down motorcycles; painted the school's iron gate; built a tall cement light post in front of the chapel.
3. Painted the doors/gate and decorative lettering in the Jagua school.
4. Painted the inside of the La Cuchilla chapel, adorned it with 4 murals, and painted its iron gate; enclosed the chapel's tabernacle with a decorative protective iron grate so that the chapel can be kept open; provided materials to construct a permanent cement altar; repaired its 20 benches.
5. Provided materials to lay 600 additional feet of reinforced cement on the steep dirt access road from Dojima up to La Cuchilla.
6. Purchased 200 cinderblocks to complete one house, and gutters and barrels to collect rainwater for 2 homes with no running water.
7. Installed two additional rural homes with inverters to provide continuous electricity during the daily blackouts.
8. Provided funds for 2 rural families to upgrade their motorcycles; provided one family with a new washing machine.
9. Provided $700 of food a month for the 30 students, from various rural communities, who live in La Casa Madre Maria in Juncalito from Monday through Friday, so that they can continue their studies.
10. Provided special medical assistance for 3 rural people.
11. Paid the tuition for 3 college students, assisted 2 additional college students with transportation money, and provided uniforms and school supplies for a dozen rural students.
12. Together with key school officials from La Cuchilla/Jagua/Janico, had a very positive meeting with the regional Director of Education in Santiago to secure approval of a "TV Centro" high school for La Cuchilla, to serve students from four rural communities; provided the Director with a letter of intent to build the high school building, once the project is officially approved.


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The village of Villa Lucci is 3,81 kilometers far from the same town of Leonessa to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Leonessa also belong the localities of Albaneto (9,56 km), Casali Frati (3,52 km), Casanova (2,35 km), Casanova Madonna della Strada (2,05 km), Casanova Madonna Pace - S Giovanni (2,46 km), Colle Organo (6,92 km), Colleverde (6,65 km), Corvatello (14,00 km), Monte Terminillo (11,03 km), Ocre (4,20 km), Pianezza (9,98 km), Piedelpoggio (3,74 km), Ripa Dicorno (3,29 km), Sala (9,13 km), San Clemente (5,59 km), San Clemente di Leonessa (-- km), San Giovenale (10,08 km), San Vito (11,47 km), Sant'Angelo (11,80 km), Terzone (13,37 km), Terzone San Pietro (13,52 km), Vallimpuni (5,79 km), Vallunga (4,94 km), Viesci (8,72 km), Villa Alesse (3,09 km), Villa Berti (4,07 km), Villa Bigioni (2,88 km), Villa Carmine (3,47 km), Villa Ciavatta (4,93 km), Villa Climinti (3,09 km), Villa Cordeschi (2,93 km), Villa Gizzi (3,84 km), Villa Immagine (4,56 km), Villa Massi (2,65 km), Villa Pulcini (5,41 km), Villa Zunna (2,58 km), Vindoli (8,02 km), Volciano (6,95 km)
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The locality of Villa Lucci rises 904 meters abobe sea level.
The population of Villa Lucci counts 40 inhabitants.Please find in what follows:
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Notice the subtle sleight of hand?Raise taxes on "top 2%"?!What happened to the top 1%? Remember "we are the 99%" and the Occupy protests?
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Income tax and the commerce clause, have allowed the behemoth we now call the federal government.
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This is what the people voted for. It´s true and while we don´t have to vote for it - we really cannot stop it.The more important thing to stop is the EPA´s and the Dept of the Interior´s attempts to engineer ENERGY SUICIDE for the country.
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Redistribution is upon us.
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"Broad Mandate"??? Really??The vote was 51% to 49% and a heck of alot of that was questionable, like with 56 districts in Philadelphia taking about 65000 votes and not a single one was for Romney!? There was no mandate Hauser, you union thug! Unless of course you mean that there was a mandate at the union hall.
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Start with the labor bosses. Hey, Obama! fork it over! Clintons, you multi-millionaires, you, too! shovel it over (fork would be too small for anything over 10 mill). Let all the loudmouths who think looting the rich will do the trick, let them see how ridiculous this is.Here´s what´ll happen: before long, "rich" will be defined down again and again.This is what happened in the Soviet Union. Once all the aristocrats, bourgeoisie, manager class were drained (and/or killed, driven into exile or escaped), they had to turn to the only group still about, namely the peasantry.So before long, kulaks (peasants) became the hated exploiters, the "rich." A rich peasant might have a cow AND a pig, or two farm implements rather than one.To put it another way, "sooner or later you run out of other people´s money."Now, if we were to cheer these people on, give them the ok to tax the Hollywood crowd, all of BO´s buds, all of those in Congress who´ve been pushing for this, let it be voluntary! (we know compulsion will follow)
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Undercover employee: A day on the job at three best companiesJanuary 20, 2011: 7:00 AM ET
It takes an awful lot to make it onto our list of the Best Companies to Work For. But what does it take to work at one of these vaunted places? To find out, we sent our writer to three standouts. The answer: superior bag-stuffing skills, a thing for heights, and a well-developed inner ear. Read on for his account of three jobs -- and three Best Company cultures. (And then see who made the list this year.)
By David A. Kaplan, contributor
Your new $18.99 Monopoly is depending on me. Here at Hasbro's old, sprawling industrial plant for board games just outside Springfield, Mass., I'm spending a winter day as a make-believe employee. My mission: to see why this company's so good to work for -- George Plimpton puts on the overalls. In a factory that produces such classics as Scrabble, Operation, and Mousetrap -- combining printing, plastic molding, case making, and bookbinding in a highly mechanized dance -- I'm merely a cog.
At Cell No. 7 we're in the last stage of making a Monopoly set, the most successful board game of all time. I'm at the back end of the assembly line, doing quality control. On a conveyor belt that mercilessly keeps advancing to my left comes open Monopoly box after Monopoly box. My dual task -- every 1.81 seconds, give or take an instant -- is to place a plastic bag of dice and game tokens in a tray, while also ensuring that each box includes a container of 12 hotels and 32 houses, instructions, and a shrink-wrapped stack of money. I know just how Lucy and Ethel felt when they couldn't keep up with the chocolates at the candy factory -- except I can't stuff the accumulating boxes in my bra. And apart from manual dexterity and automatous concentration, the job requires an attribute that surprised me: a refined inner ear. Who knew you could get motion sickness on an assembly line?
"The trick is to not move your head back and forth," explains "Peaches" Belanger, a factory firebrand who's worked the line for 32 years at this plant of 600 employees, the last Hasbro manufacturing site in the U.S. "Try to keep your head straight with your eyes looking down at the box." I last four minutes before my stomach flips and I'm ready to add an ingredient to the boxes that's, well, the same color as the Monopoly houses.
Belanger thinks this is a riot. But she acknowledges that her position on the assembly line -- along with the similarly nauseating task of fitting a cover on each Monopoly box racing by -- is the toughest for most employees. Still, she loves the plant and the place, even turning down an attractive buyout a few years ago. "I love just having a job!" she says with an edge, though adding, "I love being part of this." In a world of ruthless outsourcing -- and in fact more Hasbro games are made in South China than in the U.S. -- the Western Massachusetts plant is an anachronism. It used to be owned by Milton Bradley, which became part of Hasbro in 1984, and it still has the feel of a familial operation. Many employees have never known another job; some spouses both call Hasbro home; sons worked where fathers once did. Average seniority is 21 years. Even after downsizing and union concessions, employees speak with affection about a company they realize could well have given up on them, rather than committed $40 million in factory capital upgrades over five years. It's all part of the reason Hasbro is on Fortune's 2011 list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.
In recent weeks I visited three of the companies: NuStar Energy, a leader in pipelines, storage facilities, and asphalt refining (No. 30); Aéropostale, an apparel retailer aimed at teens (No. 94); and Hasbro, the toys and games icon that's also making a play in Hollywood (No. 59). Of course I'm now an expert in the toxicity of hydrogen sulfide, the politics of fitting rooms, and the inner life of Mr. Potato Head. More important -- in an age of double-digit unemployment and unrelenting job insecurity -- I learned a few things about how to treat employees right. NuStar, Aéro, and Hasbro show that corporate America can still be a pretty excellent place to work.
NuStar Energy: top treatment at the bottom of the barrel
Ever drive the New Jersey Turnpike and wonder about that rotten-egg smell near the mammoth oil tanks and steam-spewing stacks? Welcome to the NuStar Asphalt Refinery and Products Terminal in Paulsboro, N.J. Here, just across the river from Philadelphia, 100 employees take Venezuelan crude oil delivered from big ships -- 12 million barrels annually -- and turn it into heavy, sticky asphalt goo. P.U.! In a different facility across town, a mostly automated terminal operates as a giant filling station: allowing tanker trucks to load up from the nearby storage tanks with generic gasoline, home heating oil, and jet fuel. Both sites are part of the NuStar (NS) Energy empire, which has two asphalt refineries, along with 8,417 miles of pipeline and 88 storage facilities in eight countries that allow for storage of 93 million barrels of oil. The publicly traded partnership, based in San Antonio, is the second-largest liquids-terminal leasing operator in the nation and the third-largest asphalt refiner. Its 2010 revenues were more than $4 billion.
My supervised jobs at the Paulsboro sites involve basic maintenance and testing. That's a good thing because these are dangerous workplaces -- asphalt is hot and toxic, and fuels like to burn. Nobody's died here, but people can get hurt. I'm wearing my PPE (personal protection equipment): Nomex flame-retardant suit, hardhat, earplugs, shatterproof glasses, and steel-toed boots -- and, lumbering around, I figure this is what the Apollo astronauts felt like.
Even with the inevitable workplace risk, the employees seem to be a contented lot. That's because NuStar not only provides them with unusually generous compensation and benefits for the industry, but also prides itself on a collegial environment that concentrates on morale. On Christmas Eve an employee in the Midwest -- already on medical leave -- had her house burn down. Though she had homeowners insurance, NuStar immediately sent $3,000 to hold her over. When Hurricane Ike in 2008 struck the Texas Gulf Coast -- where NuStar has many facilities -- employees from across the country arrived to repair their colleagues' homes, cook meals, and distribute free gasoline. In 2010, NuStar's 1,400 U.S. employees logged more than 75,000 volunteer hours, and its per capita corporate United Way gift was roughly $2,200 per employee -- which United Way says is the highest in the country.
It's an ethos created by Bill Greehey, the nonexecutive NuStar chairman, who's been the key player in NuStar and its predecessor companies for 30 years. Early in his career he'd seen places that treated employees shabbily, and he knew the kind of company he didn't want. Greehey once fired a talented senior executive because he continually berated his subordinates. From 1980 to 2006, Greehey was CEO of Valero Energy Corp. (VLO), which he transformed from a regional natural-gas pipeline operation into the largest refiner in North America and a No. 15 ranking on the Fortune 500. Then, in a complicated series of transactions, NuStar was spun out as a separate entity five years ago by Valero, but NuStar maintained Greehey's style. There are family days, safety celebrations, barge rides on the San Antonio, and a Friday the 13th happy hour. Executives still visit dozens of NuStar field locations in the U.S., Caribbean, and Europe to strap on aprons and serve up Texas barbecue.
"Caring and sharing" is NuStar's unabashedly earnest mantra. But it's less about charity than utility: Machiavelli can have a heart. Just ask CEO Curt Anastasio, a Greehey protégé. He says a beneficent workplace yields numbers that Wall Street craves. Over the past three years NuStar has produced a total return for investors of nearly 65%. That's "a direct result of our employee-focused culture," Anastasio says. "If you take care of the employees, they'll take care of their communities and the investors."
NuStar surely takes care of employees -- way past the barbecue pit. Health and dental insurance are free. Everybody gets a bonus -- or nobody does; recent bonuses ranged from 4% to 35%, or about $1,100 for a mailroom clerk to about $70,000 for a vice president. (Unionized workers, about one-tenth of the company, have their own bonus deal.) There's also merit pay; in 2010 the average was 3%. And there are equity grants. Last year half the company got them, with amounts ranging from $2,000 to $113,000. Of the $13.6 million awarded, $12 million went to employees below the executive level. A compensation consultant told NuStar's human resources vice president: "You guys are doing it wrong!"
There's even an old-fashioned pension plan. With it -- as well as Social Security and 401(k) withdrawals -- a typical NuStar worker who retires after 30 years will get 117% of his salary; the company-funded pension accounts for almost half of that. "For every dollar a NuStar employee receives in compensation," Anastasio says, "he or she receives an additional 45¢ in benefits." No wonder the turnover rate is 2%.
Most dramatically, NuStar says there's never been a layoff. "The quid pro quo," the 54-year-old Anastasio says, "is we expect the workforce to be flexible." Last summer, he says, "we had a rough patch in our asphalt business. One reaction could have been to lay off 10% of the workforce. Instead, I said we had a problem and asked for suggestions how to solve it." The result was a self-driven employee crackdown on efficiency -- from tighter power consumption at pipelines and terminals, to better procurement, to reduced travel and longer hours. The bottom line went up $25 million. "If you're not supportive of employees and their families," Anastasio says, "where do you think they'll be when the company has a downturn?"
Asphalt accounts for about a fifth of NuStar's business. After crude is boiled and distilled -- light fuels like gasoline separate to the top -- you get asphalt at the bottom of the barrel. NuStar ships the goo out to independent "hot mix" companies that add crushed stone and gravel to produce the actual "asphalt cement" put down on roads. At the NuStar refinery in Paulsboro, in a bone-chilling wind, I'm climbing a 25-foot "caged" vertical ladder: Look, Mom, no harness! I'm on a circular platform surrounding the Unit 2 asphalt-processing tower, installing a yellow spring-loaded safety gate to prevent accidental plunges. "Did I mention I don't like heights?" I ask my supervisor, Mike Caprice, who's worked here 27 years.
"Me neither!" he tells me. Caprice urges me, "Don't look down or around," though the view of Philly across the way is indeed spectacular.
Later in the morning I put on insulated gloves to help draw a sample of 363° polymer-enhanced asphalt from a 5,000-barrel carbon-steel tank. We'll test the blend to ensure it meets industry standards. Come afternoon, I move to the NuStar Terminal to verify the proper level of home heating oil in Tank No. 2047, which pretty much means putting a very long dipstick in at the top -- which is three stories up. The 41 roundabout open stairs ascending the tank are even more fun on the trip down. Though all three of my NuStar tasks are fairly safe -- unless you fall or spill the goo on you -- the work environment is safety-obsessed. "No matter who you are," says Phil Scott, a longtime supervisor at the terminal who went up the tank with me, "you can always say, 'I won't do that job because it's not safe' -- and that's it. They'll honor that." That kind of corporate attitude helps keep NuStar employees happy -- and alive.
Aéropostale: Keep smiling and keep the line moving
Just whose idea was this? It's 6 in the morning on Black Friday, and I'm due for eight working hours of retail on the busiest shopping day of the year. But here at the Paramus mall complex in suburban New Jersey, with the lights of Manhattan twinkling on the horizon, I can't find a parking space. There are supposedly 10,796 of them. I finally find one on the perimeter -- it seems like Delaware -- and race to the Aéropostale clothing store on the second floor. There are more than 150 people waiting in front -- some asleep on the linoleum -- and I'm quite certain each just beat me to a better parking spot.
Inside, store manager Tom Mathis gives me my uniform -- a red Aéropostale polo -- and gets the 52 employees and me ready to face the Pamplona Rush of the Teenagers at 7 a.m. While everything's on sale today, the clientele want the best selections on the $10 hoodie specials, and they want it fast. "This is our most important day of the year," says Mathis, a seven-year Aéro veteran. "But we're going to have fun." The goal is to top last year's one-day store haul of $167,000. Tom Johnson, the goateed 52-year-old CEO, who's here to cheer on the troops, adds, "Keep a smile on your face!" Since the average age of store employees is 20 -- many of them holiday temps -- such saccharine sentiment seems a tough sell, all the more so at dawn. Yet the employees hoot and holler.
"Ten … nine … eight …" Mathis counts down before the doors open.
"Line tamer" is my first assignment. Even at 5,400 square feet, the store isn't particularly large, so when the horde's ready to pay, there won't be enough cashiers -- thus a segmented, serpentine line that runs down shopping lanes and across aisles. I need to keep it organized, moving, and absolutely no reentering the line. Two hours later, after I'm a greeter at the entrance and a sales associate in men's graphic tees (please don't ask for a Blue Inlet in medium), I take a turn as a bagger at the cash register. Folding merchandise is a pipe dream, so I aim only to get the clothing into a red-and-white Aéropostale bag as quickly as possible, making sure to ask if the customer wants any red gift boxes. It's a good thing they're not Monopoly boxes. Customers who spend at least $100 get a free stuffed bear, assuming I remember.
The cashier at my station is Angelina Perez, 19. She's quicker on the register than I am with the bags, so stuff piles up. She can't decide whether to be more bemused than concerned, but she loves the "excitement." (As with all the real workers I talked to, I eventually tell her I'm not really an employee and am instead with Fortune.) Johnson stops by to remind us, "Bag it, box it -- fast, fast, fast!" On a Black Friday several years back, he saw long lines and got up on the counter and motivated the cashiers by announcing, "I'll give everyone in line a free hoodie if you're not out in 10 minutes." The cashiers cleared the line. In the first hour today, the store takes in $15,814, which is 8% more than the prior year (though we won't wind up beating 2009's Black Friday).
The Paramus site is one of about 900 that Aéropostale (ARO) operates in the U.S., including in Times Square. (It also has several dozen P.S. stores, which aim at tweens.) Founded in 1982 as a private label within Macy's (M), Aéro opened its first store in 1987 and last year hit $2.4 billion in revenue. Its merchandise is known for being inexpensive and logo-happy, and its stores are distinctive for their open floor plan and oversize backlit photographs of happy Aéro-wearing youth. Although it's had turbulent moments on Wall Street and in the executive suite -- Mindy Meads unexpectedly resigned as co-CEO in December -- the company remains a fashion favorite for teens and a prized place to work.
In the cramped, cluttered storeroom in back -- amid mangled mannequins and shelves overflowing with inventory -- employees gather to share doughnuts, Hawaiian Punch, and the pizzas Johnson has brought in himself. During breaks, they'll tell you why they adore the place. Aéro offers flexible hours, which is attractive to part-timers and students. So is an hourly rate typically above minimum wage. Temps sometimes become full-time, 59% of current store managers were promoted into that role, and women make up 73% of management.
All full-time managers are allowed unlimited sick days. Even so, traditional benefits like health and life insurance don't matter as much because the overwhelming majority of Aéro's 28,000 employees (as of this month) are seasonal or part-time. What these employees want are such perks as clothing discounts of at least 30%, on-the-spot "bear hugs" for exceptional performance (good for additional discounts), and summer parties. Employees also say they appreciate the company's community outreach and charity programs, like "Teens for Jeans," which last year collected and donated 625,000 pairs of jeans for the homeless.
Cindy Martinez, the 23-year-old assistant manager, started as a sales associate when she was 18. "Where else can you talk to the boss over pizza?" Martinez asks. Johnson, who during high school worked as a part-time custodian, likes to say he's made it "from bathroom to boardroom" and understands the working class. "We don't act like jerks."
No, they do not. A few years ago the chairman, Julian Geiger, learned that the young spouse of a store manager in suburban Philadelphia was dying of cancer. "Pack up your stuff today -- and take all the time you need to be with your husband," Geiger told her. When they hear such stories, Aéropostale employees have good reason to smile.
Hasbro: Morale isn't just a roll of the dice
Hasbro, too, is an employee-friendly place to work. Compensation and benefits are solid. Equity grants and bonuses are increasing. Almost everyone gets four paid hours a month to do volunteer work for children. There's a company store with deep discounts on merchandise and, in return for an extra four hours of work between Monday and Thursday, everybody but shift workers gets Friday afternoons off. These two widely loved policies -- which cost the company relatively little -- earn enormous goodwill from the workforce. So does the Edy's frozen-yogurt machine in the cafeteria requisitioned by the CEO.
But the chief reason the 3,100 folks enjoy working at Hasbro is that it's fun. Every new employee gets a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Head. (I asked for the Star Wars collectible, Darth Tater, but was denied.) Due respect to a mall store or the refinery business, few employees come home to a wide-eyed kid asking, "Hey, Mom -- just how was asphalt throughput production at the plant today?" It's a lot different when Dad makes Tonkas, Twister, Easy-Bake Ovens, Candy Land, Clue, Cranium, Nerfs, and FurReal Friends Squawkers McCaw Parrot (batteries included). "It's impossible not to have fun here," says Brian Goldner, 47, Hasbro's CEO since 2008. "That's what the place is about."
If Hasbro's games plant in Western Massachusetts is a vestige of American manufacturing power, its corporate headquarters in blue-collar Pawtucket, R.I., reflects the reinvention of a mighty $4 billion international brand. The combination of old and new is central to the Hasbro ecosystem. Not that long ago, Hasbro's core properties -- toys like G.I. Joe and Transformers, as well as games like Battleship -- were languishing; a company founded in 1923 by the Hassenfeld brothers was too focused on licensees like Pokémon and Batman. It was accepted wisdom that the toys and games business was subject to fads, and products had a natural life cycle, including oblivion.
What Goldner saw was a strategic opportunity to exploit Hasbro's own brands across a range of media -- not just in new platforms like iPads, but on TV and in film. Two Transformers movies -- Goldner was an executive producer -- have grossed $1.5 billion worldwide; Hasbro (HAS) gets a small piece of the action and lots of merchandising booty. The third and final Transformers installment will be out July 1. And you thought Battleship was just an antiquated board game at the ski lodge? Next year Battleship the $200 million naval war film opens nationwide, starring Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna; it's got something to do with aliens, "blind reveals," and endless chances to proclaim "You sunk my battleship!" Coming soon: Battleship cereal, where the marshmallow flotilla doesn't float for long.
"We are reimagining and reigniting brands that people grew up on and doing it for the next generation," says Goldner, whose office is a shrine to Hasbro tchotchkes. "We have a vault of 1,500 assets. We are not just in the toys and game business -- we're in the intellectual-property and entertainment business." Hasbro now has its own film office and TV studio in Los Angeles. Goldner talks about the mythology of, and storylines behind, Hasbro characters in a way that almost makes you believe Care Bears have literary import.
Hasbro especially treasures its designers, who are charged with reaching into Hasbro's vault to shape something new. Rob Daviau, 40, is one of them. He specializes in board games -- Risk, Trouble, Trivial Pursuit -- and snickers at the idea that a board game is just a board game. "A game is about storytelling," he says. When you modify the rules, add or subtract dice, you "change the dynamics of a conflict." The game of Risk, for example, is "fundamentally about revenge: You did it to me, so I'm going to do it to you." He, of course, spent his childhood doing it to his two younger brothers.
Daviau, who majored in classical civilizations at Tufts, spends his days thinking of how to reinvent Hasbro games. He's worked on Risk: the Lord of the Rings, Risk: 2210 A.D., Risk: Black Ops, and the upcoming Risk: Legacy. He's also the guy already responsible for the elimination of four countries from Risk -- Quebec, Congo, Siam, and Ukraine -- to keep up with geopolitics. And he's been a judge at three Monopoly world tournaments (top prize: $20,000). He can't believe that Hasbro pays him to do this kind of work. "I'm lucky. I figured out that there are fewer full-time games designers in the country like me than there are professional shortstops in baseball." Yeah, and they don't even have a frozen-yogurt machine in the dugout.
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