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As you interact with your fellow participants at Modifyre, you may notice something peculiar – everyone you meet seems to be part of a crew...
Even that dude you saw dancing wildly last night – now he's wearing a high-vis, asking if you're doing okay. Participation is key at Modifyre. We are ALL participants and co-creators; we are all crew. There are no passive consumers, no spectators, no corporate production company pulling strings in the background. Every single participant, from the site manager to the toilet paper guy, is a volunteer and a ticket-holder.
As an entirely participant-driven event, the success of Modifyre relies on YOU (and you, and you) to get stuck in. There are loads of important roles to fill, so have a look on the right and find the crew that's right for you!
WARNING: Joining a crew may result in excessive fun
REMEMBER - Everyone buys a ticket! There is no distinction between 'crew', 'volunteers' and 'festival-goers'. We all make Modifyre, by crowd-funding it, co-creating it, and taking care of it. So even if you're volunteering, you still need to buy a ticket.
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Although no money changes hands at Modifyre, we must face the unpleasant truth that without money, the event simply cannot happen. As a crowd-funded event with no sponsors and no commercial activity, the margins can be pretty tight. The art of Modifyre might seem ambitious, but if you want to see truly incredible feats of wonder, watch as our crack team of accounting wizards, budget bosses and number crunchers balances the books year after year!
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Although Modifyre invites us to create the world of our dreams - a world where boring stuff like insurance and contracts do not exist - the edges of our dream still come into contact with reality. This is why the legal entity BURN Arts, Inc. was set up, as an intermediary between Modifyre and the "default" world. When it comes to our legal obligations, we need people who know how to talk the talk and walk the walk.
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As we move into our beautiful new home, we will be getting to know the neighbours. This includes the local Council, business owners, schools, community groups, farmers and anyone else who might have a stake in the success of Modifyre over the long term. It is a key part of our mission to build lasting and meaningful relationships with the community that hosts us. If you like to forge strong connections with other humans, please get in touch!
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
New Start
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I found your blog from the store Nina's blog when you visited Chicago. I just wanted to say that your photographs and work are both incredibly beautiful. And I'm glad that you loved my home so much.ReplyDelete
nice subtile colors!ReplyDelete
Beautiful colours. :)ReplyDelete
I am not sure about that part of "handling our shops so well..." Mine is more in neglect at this point. I am preparing myself for a "re-opening", more for real this time. I started out by printing out the complete ETSY set up manual. It is very informative. Gives good advice. If you haven't read it you should. Start right there and you will do just fine dear. :D Good luck on another yummy blanket!♥♥♥ReplyDelete
Was lovely to catch up on your blog. Always a pleasure. Designing and crafting outdoors on lovely days sounds wonderful. Happy day to you!ReplyDelete
Super blanket - what a lovely design! Gorgeous mix of colours too ;-)ReplyDelete
Spring is arriving in the UK too.
I'm sure your web shop will be amazing - can't wait for it t open.
Carole x
Muito lindo.ReplyDelete
Amazing colors! Looks so cozy to sit outside in the sun crocheting :). I only have a french balcony so I really can't sit out there...ReplyDelete
I always love the color combinations you make. Very inspiring.ReplyDelete
Miami colors rock! Have fun watching this beautiful blanket come together. Looking forward to your etsy store opening.ReplyDelete
Wishing you much success.
Fijn dat jullie in Canada ook al van de zon kunnen genieten! Je hebt weer prachtige kleuren wol/katoen uitgekozen!ReplyDelete
Een fijn weekend & lieve groet,
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Producer KL Narayana said, "All of us put in good efforts and it feels good to get positive response. Rakhi got maximum appreciation among the films made on our banner."
I would have rejected Rakhi - Rajamouli
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NTR shown tremendous maturity in Rakhi - Dasari
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I give credit of my performance to Krishna Vamsi - NTR
Hero NTR said, "I felt really happy when Dasari appreciated me after watching Rakhi. It made me realize my responsibility. I put my efforts sincerely for each and every film. I would like to give the credit of my performance to director Krishna Vamsi. After long time it gave me satisfaction that I worked for a good film. Devi Sri Prasad gave very good music and rerecording. Just now Kota said that the role in Rakhi is memorable. I am sure that my role in next film (in Rajamouli's direction) is going to be even better than this."
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Life Lately: Where have I been?!
So I promised myself I would blog right after Valentines Day. Obviously that date flew by.
We painted this love tree with our thumbs and made banana pops. We also went to Darcie's birthday party (she is in remission right now by the way! <3 )
Then I said for sure I would post about my birthday. My mom came to visit and watch Austin so we could go on a date to my favorite restaurant.
But then it snowed and we had to cancel our plans and order pizza and stay in our pajamas instead. Actually it won't stop snowing. Please stop snowing.
If you follow my Instagram feed (a great place to keep up) you know I've been dieting and exercising more.
More is in an understatement. I post my meals and work outs almost daily. Keeps me accountable! (To whom I don't know but … I feel like YOU ARE WATCHING! 🙂 )
I've been running a lot to burn calories and fat (about 2 miles, 5 days a week) and lifting weights. I've lost 10 lbs! I weigh close to what I did when Nick and I got married, but I am actually a little more toned then even then. That's just crazy right?
So, let me start by saying that I am not trying to sell you anything. It's really not in my nature and I have too many jobs to start another one, but I did the Advocare 24 day Challenge and it changed my life. All you mamas out there looking for a little more energy so you can make it to the gym (and maybe even blow dry your hair and do your make up after!) Check out some of their products. I'm in love with Spark and Catalyst!
I can't believe I am one of those people with all these supplements and calculating protein intake all the time. But hey … I can't wait for tank top season.
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Healthy weekday meals instead of boozy, high calorie treats for awhile? Woomp, woomp.
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I am weak.
His pirate ship bed comes next week. I will have to be stronger then.
Something tells me there is a lot more Starbucks and Spark in my future. More posts coming soon. I won't be a stranger for this long again. Thanks for being nice while I took my bloggy break!
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3 Responses to "Life Lately: Where have I been?!"
Yay! Happy to see a post from you! I think you should blog about whatever you want! Congrats on the weight loss! That must feel amazing.
HI! Michelle, I am a mom of 4. My oldest is 27 and youngest is 13, and in the middle there are twins of 22 (today!). I read your comment, "I have to be stronger", and thought… I remember! Maybe because today it's th4e twins birthdays. You see…there was a time, I never thought I would make it as a mom. My oldest. Shy, wonderful, and now 27 who is independent and a lot more outgoing. You see…she outgrew it. Which brings me to the — she will never stop crying all night!
I would like you to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6mCIwm5o1M.
WE LIVED IT! It was nuts. I would hold my breath while I set her into the crib & tried to get out of the room. Of course this was after I read to her in the rocking chair, rocked her to sleep, and then slowly held my breath until I stopped rocking only to stand up (still holding my breath) and walked over to the crib (while holding my breath) and set her into the crib ever so gently, then removing my arm underneath her to ever so quietly walk out of the room, closing the door as I held the knob, to take one step away from her room to hear her SCREAM bloody murder.
I did go into her room to comfort her and thought…I need to be stronger …
What a wonderful time it was. Today she needs me very little as I raised a woman to be strong and good.
Enjoy your time Michelle with your Austin. "THEY" are right, it goes so quickly…just the nights are forever!
P.s. This 4th of July – jello shots! (because my kid cried all night as a baby)…it's only been 27 years!
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The Human Faces of God: polytheism in pre-exile Israel
Review: The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries to Hide It)
Author: Thom Stark
Wipf and Stock, 2010
Chapter 4: "Yahweh's Ascendancy"
Stark describes this chapter as an overview of "how Israel's theology mirrored the various theologies of their neighbors, and how it was adapted over time in order to accommodate the changing socio-political fortunes of Israel" (p. 86).
He brings out the best wine first with a part of the payoff promised in chapter 2, the tantalizing bit about Yahweh as "son of a mountain god". Stark begins by describing indigenous Canaanite religion contemporary to early Israel, a system that will seem familiar to most of us acquainted with Greek or Roman mythologies: a pantheon of gods and goddesses, all of whom were under the authority of a kingly chief deity who was the father of most of them, and many of whom were claimed by inhabitants of certain regions. Inerrantists will say, "Yes, the Bible is quite clear that there were practitioners of those pagan cults in Israel. But they were condemned by followers of Yahweh." That is true, but it's not so simple as that: the question is, when were the indigenous Canaanite religious ideas and practices condemned by followers of Yahweh?
Stark's answer: not nearly so early as inerrantist and other conservative Christians are taught to think. This chapter attempts to demonstrate that early Israelite Yahweh-worship shows itself to be an "orthodox" subset of Canaanite religion within our own Bible, even within those writings that formulate standardized Israelite religion par excellence, the Pentateuch/Torah: enter the Song of Moses.
We know from other ANE texts that in early Palestine the deity over their pantheon was the mountain god suitably named God Most High, or Elyon. Stark shows how the original of Deut 32.8-9 was literally glossed over in the surviving copies of the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text in two quite different ways so as to remove traces of this passage's polytheistic pedigree; one or the other of these obscured readings is all too naturally what we find in our modern English translations. But in the earlier Dead Sea Scrolls, the original situation is transparent: El Elyon divvied up the earth and gave each of his sons a portion:
When Elyon divided the nations,
when he separated the sons of Adam
he established the borders of the nations
according to the number of the sons of the gods.
Yahweh's portion was his people,
Jacob his alloted inheritance.
Stark provides details as to how this sort of polytheism is precisely what we find in other Canaanite religions of the time. To my mind, there is nowhere to hide from this analysis.
He takes some pains to answer typical objections, such as an appeal to the first commandment, or to the statement, "I am Yahweh; there is no other god besides me," which he demonstrates to be a claim of superiority, not exclusivity of existence (cf. Babylon in Is 47.8, Nineveh in Zeph 2.15).
Here let me point out that this chapter has by far the healthiest – and most needed – set of footnotes in the book so far. Helpful explanation of many background concepts and terms are joined by references to sources and suggested further reading.
I found his section on the famously mysterious "Sons of God and the Daughters of Men" passage of Genesis 6 to be immensely satisfying. After briefly describing the weakness in three competing explanations of the identities of the sons of God (angels, the kings of the earth, and the sons of righteous Seth), Stark lays out an infinitely more plausible explanation. The key phrase, usually read as "sons of God", is the same we saw in Deut. 32.8 and should here again be read as 'sons of the gods'. Why? "The same phrase appears in Ugaritic, Phoenician, Akkadian, and Aramaic inscriptions, and in all these cases it means, unequivocally, 'junior deities' " (p. 78). The nephilim, their offspring with human women, were "heroes of old, men of renown": in short, they were demigods, much as Hercules, Perseus, etc. Despite the discomfort such a reading will produce in inerrantists, there can be little doubt that this makes the most sense of the passage on its own terms, once we stop imposing upon it the interpretive constraints gained by our beliefs on topics such as monotheism or the Bible's historical accuracy. This is not to say that this passage cannot be analyzed in ways that downplay anything controversial about it (in fact, the bizarre sons of Seth and daughters of Cain interpretation is championed because it happens to support another sparsely substantiated traditional Christian doctrine, which I won't get into here), but can we truly say that we are treating the text with honor if we do so?
Another example of a polytheistic mindset alive and well within our Scriptures is found in 2 Kings 3.4-27, a narrative that unsurprisingly doesn't make it to many felt boards: the great prophet Elisha's failed prophecy promising a victory over the Moabites. Israel, Judah, and Edom join forces to oppose King Mesha of Moab. Elisha assures Israel's King Jehoram that Yahweh would fight for their side. And things were looking good, until Mesha in desperation sacrificed his firstborn son to Kemosh, causing "wrath" to come upon Mesha's enemies and overpower Yahweh's forces. This is troubling under a view that recognizes God as the supreme deity, let alone the only deity, but it makes perfect sense as an artefact of historical Canaanite religion and a stage in which Yahweh was the "god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob", the god to be favored and worshiped by his local devotees, but not the only existing God.
So how did we get from there to here? Stark highlights several waypoints on the erstwhile war god Yahweh's march from tribal deity to only existing God, traced through differing snapshots in Psalms primarily, progressing past his merger with Elyon as God Most High, a promotion to chief deity of the pantheon. Eventually, "just a few decades before the Babylonian exile," Yahweh emerges as the only God. "Perhaps conveniently," Stark suggests, this came about the same time as the reforms of Josiah, "in which the high places of worship (which were normative from at least the time of David on) are torn down, their priests are slaughtered en masse by Josiah and his military, and strict religious centralization (a novelty in Judean religion) is imposed" (pp. 82-83). Jeremiah 10.1-16's satirical polemic against pagan gods and their idols reflected an early, if not the first, conception of Yahweh as so transcendent above all gods that they were denied the dignity of divinity — and even existence. With such conceptualizations, monotheism finally arrives, and it's there to stay. Stark outlines several compelling historical reasons for this shift, which I won't spoil for you here.
Readers like myself unaware of the underlying timeline of Old Testament writings would benefit the most from this chapter if a table roughly outlining different writings' relative dates were provided. Indeed, even as someone more or less convinced by this sketch of the history of Israel's theism, I found the passage hopping necessary to illustrate the posited stages of development to be bewildering at times. When was Deuteronomy 32 written relative to Exodus? to the rest of Deuteronomy? Where was the author of 2 Kings exactly in the process? If even I, a like-minded reader, struggled to put it together, I strongly suspect that the passage citations will look like cherry picking, clever proof-texting to those more predisposed to be skeptical. No, the whole of scholarship on the dating of OT authorship and redaction history would be neither possible nor necessary, but a table that at least charts out where modern critical scholarship is coming from in the passages cited strikes me as not only preferable, but perhaps nearly indispensable.evangelicalism • henotheism • Inerrancy • monotheism • mythology • Thom Stark
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Prince Releases 'Breakfast Can Wait' Video, Sends Model in His Absense
The Great Purple One is back and he doesn't have time for waffles. Prince has just unveiled his video for 'Breakfast Can Wait,' his recent single. Starring model/actress Danielle Curiel, the new clip doesn't feature the Minneapolis funk-rock legend, but it does include plenty of sexed-up choreography and, well, breakfast food items.
Released on Aug. 14, 'Breakfast Can Wait' became an instant viral hit due to its cover art, featuring comedian Dave Chappelle dressed as Rick James. The comedian's famous impersonation of the late singer originated from his days on the 2000s series Chappelle's Show.
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dress/skirt - Threadsence/chictopia; tee//sneakers - H&M
Turn Yourself Away - Rooney
Hey guys!
I decided to try out a more sporty-comfy look and the tee plus the sneakers seemed to fit perfectly!
I'm wearing my striped Threadsence dress as a skirt! I love in how many ways you can wear a dress!
To see the complete dress (and it's great cutout on the back!) go here.
The pics were taken in our beach resort.. you know.. during my stay at the seaside!
I promise you, this was the last bunch of pics taken at the beach! That's typically me - taking so long to
upload anything :)
Anyway, i still have some a lot of pics from my professional photo shoots which i'd like to show you...
how about turning next week into a photo shoot week? where i uplaod pics from my shoots only? :)
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Fellow Travelers' Advisory from Anne Feeney - MAY 2007, VOLUME THREE, #2
Fellow Travelers' Advisory from Anne Feeney - MAY 2007, VOLUME THREE, #2
May 1st - Haledon, NJ
May 4th - Harrisburg, PA
May 5th - Troy, NY
May 11-13th - Darlington, MD
May 19th - Chicago, IL
ACTIVELY BOOKING CA, OR, WA, BC in June/July!! Find a hole in the tour dates below and invite me to play!!!
Do you live near any of these places? I hope to see you at one of these upcoming shows! check out http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html for continuously updating tour dates.
Do you know anyone who lives near any of these places? PLEASE spread the word. This is a word-of-mouth 'career' I have... I count on you to let folks know I'm performing in their hometowns!
I'm very excited about the Darlington, MD Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival... It's a camping-optional festival located halfway between Baltimore and Philadelphia at the charming Ramblewood Resort. This year's lineup is fantastic!
And if you have friends in Chicago, please send them to the People's Church for my May 19th concert. This is the same wonderful room where we had the 100th anniversary of the IWW concert a few years ago with Utah Phillips, Charlie King, Len Wallace, Mark Ross, Rebel Voices, Citizens' Band, Mark Ross -- what a night!!
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Your interest in my music and your support makes my so-called career possible. Please forward it widely!
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I try very hard to keep my tourdates current and accurate. It's always a good idea to check with the venue, though.
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MAYDAY, MAYDAY that's the real workers' day
Labor's History says, "Don't give our day away!"
It's time that the working class says
"Stick Labor Day up your (somewher appropriate)!"
And ain't it great to celebrate on the glorious first of May!
This Mayday I'll be at the National Labor Museum in Haledon, NJ. The Botto House was generously offered by the Botto family to the strikers during the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 as a meeting place. You can read a memoir of that strike by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (Joe Hill's "Rebel Girl") here:
All over the world today workers will sing "The Internationale" and they will honor the memory of the Haymarket Martyrs. If you don't know the story of Mayday, here's a terrific article I found on Portside, a great digest of labor news. If you like the article, you can subscribe to Portside at http://www.portside.org/subscribe2
By Dick Meister
May Day. A day to herald the coming of Spring with song and dance, a day for children with flowers in their hair to skip around beribboned maypoles, a time to crown May Day queens.
But once it also was a day for demonstrations that were crucial in winning the most important right ever won by working people -- the right demanded above all others
by the labor activists of a century ago:
"Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight
hours for what we will!"
The changing economy has forced many workers in recent years to regularly exceed the eight-hour workday that their predecessors won. But eight hours for work nevertheless remains the standard in the United States and every other industrial nation and at least an aspiration in others.
Winning the eight-hour workday took years of hard struggle, beginning in the mid-1800s. By 1867, the federal government, six states and several cities had passed laws limiting their employees' hours to eight per day. The laws were not effectively enforced and in some cases were overturned by courts, but they set an important precedent that finally led to a powerful popular movement.
The movement was launched in 1886 by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, then one of the country's major labor organizations. The federation called for workers to negotiate with their employers for an eight-hour workday and, if that failed, to strike on May 1 in support of the demand.
Some negotiated, some marched and otherwise demonstrated. More than 300,000 struck. And all won strong support, in dozens of cities -- Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Denver , Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Washington, Newark, Brooklyn, St. Paul and others.
More than 30,000 workers had won the eight-hour day by April. On May Day, another 350,000 workers walked off their jobs at nearly 12,000 establishments, more than 185,000 of them eventually winning their demand. Most of the others won at least some reduction in working hours that had ranged up to 16 a day.
Additionally, many employers cut Saturday operations to a half-day, and the practice of working on Sundays, also relatively common, was all but abandoned by major
"Hurray for Shorter Time," declared a headline in the New York Sun over a story describing a torchlight procession of 25,000 workers that highlighted the eight-hour-day activities in New York. Never before had the city experienced so large a demonstration.
Not all newspapers were as supportive, however. The strikes and demonstrations, one paper complained, amounted to "communism, lurid and rampant." The eight-hour day, another said, would encourage "loafing and gambling, rioting, debauchery, and drunkenness."
The greatest opposition came in response to the demonstrations led by anarchist and socialist groups in Chicago, the heart of the eight-hour day movement. Four demonstrators were killed and more than 200 wounded by police who waded into their ranks, but what the demonstrators opponents seized on were the events two days later at a protest rally in Haymarket Square. A bomb was thrown into the ranks of the police who had surrounded the square, killing seven and wounding 59.
The bomb thrower was never discovered, but eight labor, socialist and anarchist leaders branded as violent, dangerous radicals by press and police alike -- were arrested on the clearly trumped up charge that they had conspired to commit murder. Four of them were hanged, one committed suicide while in jail, and three were pardoned six years later by Illinois Gov. John Peter Altgeld.
Employers responded to the so-called Haymarket Riot by mounting a counter-offensive that seriously eroded the eight-hour day movement's gains. But the movement was an extremely effective organizing tool for the country's unions, and in 1890 President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor was able to call for "an International Labor Day" in favor of the eight-hour workday. Similar proclamations were made by socialist and union leaders in other nations where, to this day, May Day is celebrated as Labor Day.
Workers in the United States and 13 other countries demonstrated on that May Day of 1890 -- including 30,000 of them in Chicago. The New York World hailed it as "Labor's Emancipation Day." It was. For it marked the start of an irreversible drive that finally established the eight-hour day as the standard for millions of working people.
Copyright © 2007 Dick Meister, a San Francisco writer
who has covered labor issues for four decades as a
reporter, editor and commentator. Contact him through
his website, http://www.dickmeister.com.
Read the full article at the link below, or the excerpt included here, and then send me your most creative idea for retaliating against this mean-spirited greed machine. Refusing to patronize Circuit City somehow doesn't seem to be punishment enough. The three or five most creative ideas will be published in next month's Fellow Travelers' Advisory, and the person submitting the best idea will win an appropriate prize.
Circuit City Cuts 3,400 'Overpaid' Workers
By Ylan Q. Mui
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 29, 2007; Page D01
Circuit City fired 3,400 employees in stores across the country yesterday, saying they were making too much money and would be replaced by new hires willing to work for less.
The company said the dismissals had nothing to do with performance but were part of a larger effort to improve the bottom line. The firings represent about 9 percent of the company's in-store workforce of 40,000.
"Retail is very competitive and store operations just have to contain their costs," said Jim Babb, a Circuit City spokesman. "We deeply regret the negative impact that was had on these folks. It was no fault of theirs."
The company gave the dismissed workers severance pay and told them that after 10 weeks they were free to apply for any openings. Employees reached by a reporter said they were notified yesterday morning and told to leave immediately.
The firings, along with several other moves, are expected to reduce expenses for the electronics retailer by $110 million in fiscal year 2008 and $140 million a year starting in fiscal 2009. Circuit City said sales would be volatile for the next several months as the company adjusts to the changes.
"It's definitely going to have some cost-savings, but I think the bigger impact could be seen in weaker, poor service," said Timothy Allen, an analyst with Jefferies & Co. "I have a feeling the people they're letting go have probably been there longer, have more experience, more product knowledge."
Steven Rash, 24, said he was one of 11 workers fired at a Circuit City in Asheville, N.C. The store manager broke the news during a meeting at 8:15 a.m. and escorted them out of the store. Rash said he has worked for the retailer for seven years and was one of the most junior members of the affected group.
He said he earned $11.59 an hour and worked from 15 to 20 hours a week. He received four weeks of severance pay. Though he has a full-time job at Bank of America, he said he needs to find part-time work to help pay his student loans.
"It's not just a part-time job," he said. "It's about paying the bills."
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average hourly wage for retail salespeople was $11.14 in May 2005, the latest data available.
Circuit City chief executive Philip J. Schoonover received a salary of $716,346, along with a $704,700 bonus last year. He also has long-term compensation of $3 million in stock awards and $340,000 in underlying options, according to company filings.
My visit to Champaign/Urbana was a total blast... thanks to the very hard work and creative ideas of Dave Johnson and the music of the amazing "Orn'ry Duffers" - the kickass backup band assembled by the wonderful Paul Kotheimer ... It was so much fun to perform with a band!!!
But the most touching moment of the day was when Deneen Sigler of the striking Conn-Selmer workers took the stage.
230 union musician instrument makers at the Conn-Selmer Vincent Bach plant in Elkhart, Indiana have been on strike since April of 2006. This is the longest ongoing strike in the United States. The company which owns this plant, Steinway Musical Inc was taken over by Dana Messina and other speculators who got their "training" under stock manipulator Michael Milken. They have sought to destroy the health care and pension rights of the workers and drive out those workers who were over 50 years of age. In an effort to break the strike, 120 scabs have been brought into the plant and management has obtained injunctions severely limiting picketing by striking workers.
Send your donations to:
Food 4 Strikers
58558 Ardmore Dr.
Elkhart, IN 46517
An injury to one is still an injury to all!
A year after their fabulous victory with Taco Bell, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers managed to sign McDonald's on to the Fair Food Campaign. McDonald's will pay an extra penny a pound to the workers who pick their tomatoes, and will be involved in a campaign to improve living and working conditions for tomato pickers. YES!!!
Now, on to BURGER KING!!
more good news...
Chez Panisse among restaurants leading bottled water backlash
BERKELEY, Calif. Bye-bye bottled water. Hello tap.
Chez Panisse (shay puh-'NEES) in Berkeley is among several upscale Bay Area restaurants that are ditching bottled water in the name of conservation.The bottled water backlash is being spurred by environmental concerns over the energy used in transportation as well as the disposal of all those containers.Chez Panisse stopped serving bottled non-sparkling water last year and expects to stop serving bottled carbonated water in a few weeks.
May 2 (I think) - High School Sweetheart Bill Deegan
May 3 - Pete Seeger and my sister Kathleen
May 13 - cousin Kevin McCahill
May 15 - Utah Phillips
May 23 - cousin Terry Donovan
and on May 6, my cousin Bill Feeney celebrates 35 years as a Catholic priest!
and coming up on June 4th, my Aunt Claire's 88th birthday! Send her a card:
Claire O'Connor
325 Magnolia Lake Court
Aiken, SC 29803
The Tour:
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 7:00 PM
Mayday!!! Botto House American Labor Museum
83 Norwood St
Haledon, NJ
Friday, May 4th, 2007 8:00 PM
PA ACLU Statewide Convention
Radisson Hotel
Camp Hill, PA
Saturday, May 5th, 2007 8:00 PM
The Eighth Step@The Sanctuary presents:
A Capital District May Day 2007 Concert
with Anne Feeney and Evan Greer
Sanctuary for Independent Media
3361 6th Ave
Troy, NY
(518) 434-1703
Price: $15
Friday, May 11th-13th
Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival
Ramblewood Resort
2564 Silver Road
Darlington, MD 21035
Saturday, May 19th, 2007 8:00 PM
Benefit Concert for People's Church
People's Church
941 W. Lawrence St
Chicago, IL
Price: $10-20 suggested
and bring a tax-deductible check to support People's Church - your voice for social justice in Chicago!
Sunday, May 20th, 2007 10:00 AM
Music to Inspire Agitators
People's Church
941 W. Lawrence St
Chicago, IL
for more information -
May 24th-June 5th
At the Kerrville Folk Festival
Kerrville, TX
this camping festival lasts 18 days. It's mecca for songwriters and a great reunion for us road warriors and veterans of this 36 year old festival.
June 18th-20th
30th Anniversary of UAW Local 2320 - The National Organization of Legal Services Workers
Circus Circus
Las Vegas, NV
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 7:30 PM
Music for Troublemakers
Presented by Longevity John
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Duncan, BC - Canada
firstname.lastname@example.com is the contact
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 7:30 PM
House Concert
Ken Orchard and Sharon Hazelwood's
Victoria, BC - Canada
Price: $10-20 suggested
firstname.lastname@example.com for more info
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney in concert!
Sirens - Water St
Port Townsend, WA
Price: your generous tips!
Friday, June 29th, 2007 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney in concert!
tba - Bellingham, WA
Betsy Pernotto is organizing this show
Sunday, July 1st, 2007 9:00 AM
2007 Summer School for Union Women and Community Activists
The Evergreen State College Labor Center
2700 Evergreen Parkway
Olympia, WA 98505
This conference begins on June 27th and it's a great opportunity for women activists, union members and community leaders...
Sunday, July 1st, 2007 8:00 PM
Adam & Kris and I do the big Canada Day + Anne's Birthday Show at
Sam Bond's Garage
Eugene, OR
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 9:00 PM
with Adam and Kris!!!
Alberta Street Pub
Portland, OR
more details soon
Friday, July 6th, 2007 8:00 PM
Music for Troublemakers
Cafe Mundo
NW Coast and 2nd St
Newport, OR
more details soon
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 8:00 PM
House Concert!
Ken and Janet Bates' place
Bandon, OR
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 7:00 PM
Anne Feeney "Sing for Justice" Library Concert
The LibraryBromley Room-Siuslaw Public Library
1460 9th St
Florence, OR 97439
997-3132 (Library)
Price: $donation for justice
July 13th-15th
Oregon Country Fair
Veneta, OR
Friday, July 20th, 2007 8:00 PM
Women United for Action - 26th Annual Western Summer Institute for Union Women
UC Clark Kerr Conference Center
2601 Warring St
Berkeley, CA
Contact: Karen Navarro
Phone: (510) 643-0910
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Saturday, July 21st, 2007 3:00 PM
House Concert
Watsonville, CA
Price: $10-20 suggested
Amy Newell is coordinating
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 10:15 AM
Live on "Please Stand By"
KPIG-FM - streaming live at the URL listed below
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney with special guest Jon Fromer!
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705
Price: $10
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Back in the days of mechanical typewriters, handwriting held out against the odds in countries such as Japan and China because of the vast number of characters and the difficulty of designing an effective mechanical means of writing.
As a result, the fax machine was an instant success in Asia because it enabled handwritten documents to be transmitted easily. There should no longer be such considerations now that computers have enabled Japanese, Chinese and other languages such as Korean to be typed quickly and efficiently. Even the iPhone sails through Mandarin quicker than we can tap out our western words.
For some reason, though, the fax is still loved in Japan when it is rapidly becoming a curiosity in the rest of the world. The reason for this lies not in an aversion to technology but in a simple love of handwriting.
This BBC story outline's Japan's love affair with the fax machine and explains why handwriting is still a necessity, even in business:
the culture of handwriting is firmly rooted here. For example, the majority of resumes are still handwritten because Japanese employers are said to judge people's personalities from their writings.
Here in the west with our measly but convenient 24 or 26 characters, which promoted the early adoption of the typewriter, we are rapidly losing the art of handwriting. I know from my own experience. I was once proud of my calligraphic skills. But now I write so seldom by hand that I'm losing the ability to write fluently and neatly. Once I loved fountain pens; now I avoid handwriting because I find it a strain. My collection of Mont Blancs and Pelikans lies neglected. I just don't get enough practice.
In this, I believe, the Japanese have the right idea. We shoul return to the undoubted art of handwriting whenever possible.


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On Sept. 17, 1888, about 5,000 people braved ankle-deep mud to view the dedication of a Civil War monument in front of the old Somerset County Courthouse.
Organizers can only hope for a similar turnout this weekend.
On Saturday afternoon, officials will re-dedicate the old Civil War monument at the corner of East Union Street and North Center Avenue. They also will dedicate a new Civil War monument honoring the soldiers of the 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
About 260 of the regiment's 935 members were from Somerset County. The infantry was commanded by Col. Robert P. Cummins, a former Somerset County sheriff who was laid to rest in Somerset Borough.
Fittingly, the statue will be unveiled between the existing courthouse and the old Somerset County Jail.
"This monument tells a story of Somerset County men who gave their all to save a divided nation," said Richard Sturtz of Lambertsville, an event organizer and Civil War re-enactor with the 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Living Historians.


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[OFFICIAL] Episode 506 "Consumed"
Directed by Seith Mann and written by Matthew Negrete.
20 minutes in, this is shaping up to be a great episode. Daryl and Carol are great together. Excellent flashback to open the show. Could have done without the music, but the episodes are so much more tense when you are invested in the characters and their history.
Andrew New YorkThis was a markedly better episode than the previous two. However, I just wish the writers would do a better job getting characters from A to B. They completely disregard reality in most situations to perpetuate the plot. Here a just a few examples:
The car that Carol and Daryl were following had the cop drive past the spot where Carol and Daryl parked. He got out, looked at the walker attacking the window of the car that wasn't there when he drove past the location 20 seconds previously, and he thought nothing of it.
Noah steals their weapons, but Carol still has a gun and, ostensibly, her knife. We only see Noah take the rifle and the crossbow. A few scenes later, when they're in the back of the van, they have NO weapons to kill walkers with, forcing them to fall off the bridge.
Daryl and Noah find a truck right where their car was "tapped out" the night before.
This is all fairly silly and, if the two characters didn't perform so well, might be nearly comical.
Yeah... on my second watch the holes bothered me more, but it's like I always say with suspension of disbelief, it's much better to have a good idea for an episode executed competently with a few holes than have an okay episode that is shitty and also has plot holes. Like, if you can get me 20 minutes in and I haven't rolled my eyes out of my skull, you're ahead of the game.
Joe_Bear BostonI think there was some mention in the insta-cast about smoke in Carol's flashback. It seems to signal (smoke signal) Carol doing something violent, or something she is ashamed of. The last one has her wiping her face clean of mud and probably some ash. Interesting to note would be Daryl's comment about them not being ashes yet, and then that finale scene where he inhales the smoke from the cigarette, then decides they need to leave Noah in order to save their own asses - an action very similar to Carol's character moments in her flashbacks. There can only be one conclusion: the Smoke Monster got off the Lost island, and he's bringing the plot holes with him.


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CANNABIS CULTURE- So our wonderful progressive Green-NDP BC government have seen fit to ask the public about their plans to legalize.
They are trying to pretend cannabis is a hard drug when the reality is it's a very soft drug.
As a pot activist, I try and set an example for others to follow. I don't think cannabis needs to be treated as strictly as tobacco or alcohol. In fact, I think it sends the wrong message to our young people – the message that "old people don't know what the fuck they're doing".
If cannabis was regulated like fair-trade, organic coffee beans, all of the potential harm-related concerns could be addressed with the current education and regulation systems already in place to prevent impaired driving, ecological irresponsibility and exploitative work environments.
The BC Government has created a multiple-choice test that reminds me of my Jewish grandfather (my Zeda) and the games he played with me as a child: "Do you want to go to bed without a story, or would you prefer on the other hand, if you had your way, to go to bed without a story?" Instead of short-changing us on bedtime stories, they're holding back on the dignity and "equality with the users of other herbal medicines and soft drugs". "Do you want a legalization model with next-to-no dignity? Or would you rather perhaps prefer a legalization model almost entirely lacking in dignity? A) Next-to-no dignity. B) Almost entirely lacking in dignity. C) Don't know / no preference. I'm exaggerating, but only a little bit.
The BC Government also left some room for comments – I have provided screenshots of what I said. I encourage you to let it all out – your true feelings about what the regulations are doing to you personally if you are too young or too poor to be considered legitimate. They are more likely to use your comments productively if you refrain from swearing and name-calling, which I just managed to do with all the will power left in me.
And if you want some handy facts to back up what you tell them, this website might be useful – it's just the best, most useful facts available to those who want an inclusive legalization model:
Just to let everyone know – this isn't the last battle of legalization. We get the model we settle for. We can still keep breaking the laws we don't think are based in reason – just like we always have. And it only takes one judge – somewhere in Canada – to recognize the truth – that cannabis is as safe as coffee beans.


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We escaped without bushfires for the first year in a long long time. Floods have ravaged parts of the State of Victoria.
The garden has remained green all summer. I'll miss those first rains in Autumn when you see the grass growing in the paddocks day by day.
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