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Since this medication is made from human blood, there is a very small chance that you may get infections from it (including viral infections such as hepatitis). It is recommended that you get the appropriate vaccinations (such as for hepatitis A and B) and that people giving this medication handle the medication with special caution to prevent virus infections. Consult your doctor for more details.
During pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.
It is not known whether this drug passes into breast milk. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
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Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand, Jarome Iginla lead Boston to 4-2 win over New Jersey
Brad Marchand and Jarome Iginla scored in a 59-second span early in the second period, and the Boston Bruins beat the New Jersey Devils 4-2 on Tuesday night for their 10th straight win.
Patrice Bergeron and Chris Kelly also scored and Chad Johnson made 20 saves as the Eastern Conference leaders hurt the Devils' postseason hopes by sending them to their third straight loss.
The 10-game winning streak ties Anaheim for the NHL's longest this season. It is the Bruins' longest since a 10-game run in November 2011, and four shy of the franchise record set in 1929-30.
Patrik Elias and Travis Zajac scored for the Devils, who are now in danger of missing the playoffs for the second straight year and third time in four. Martin Brodeur made 27 saves.
Elias had tied the game at 1, one-timing a shot past Johnson with New Jersey enjoying a two-man advantage 29 seconds into the second period.
The Devils had 1:28 left on a delay of game penalty to Gregory Campbell after Elias scored, but it was the Bruins and Marchand who would capitalize short-handed.
Zdeno Chara, who was celebrating his 37th birthday, sent a pass out of his zone to Marchand. He gave the puck to Bergeron as they crossed in the Devils' end and took a return pass for his 22nd goal of the season. It was his league-leading fifth short-handed goal and came less than a minute after Elias had scored his 16th of the season.
The goal had not been announced when Iginla broke into the Devils' zone after taking a long pass and beat Brodeur between the pads with a shot from the right circle. It was his 26th goal of the season and his fifth in the last three games.
Kelly stretched the lead to 4-1 a little more than seven minutes into the third period, beating Brodeur in close after taking a pass from Carl Soderberg.
Zajac snapped a shot over Johnson (15-3-1) a little more than two minutes later. It was his 13th of the season.
The Bruins, who were playing on consecutive nights, dominated the first period, taking the first nine shots. Bergeron put them ahead with 5:27 left in the period when he was sent in alone by Reilly smith and beat Brodeur with a backhander that seemed to slip off his stick.
NOTES: Bruins D Johnny Boychuk missed his second straight game with a leg injury. ... Devils F Ryan Carter missed his second straight with an upper-body injury. New Jersey recalled Tim Sestito from Albany (AHL) to take his place on the fourth line. ... The Bruins had killed off 20 straight penalties before Elias scored with 6 seconds left in the two-man advantage. ... Iginla's goal was the 556th of his career, tying him with Bruins great John Bucyk for 25th place in NHL history. ... Devils F Jaromir Jagr picked up an assist on Zajac's goal, the 1,044th of his career, five behind Gordie Howe for eighth in league history.

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I like using my ereader for things other than books, but aside from Instapaper, converting regular files into ereader format is more hassle than it's worth. Now Amazon's making it easier to send non-book files to your Kindle.
Send to Kindle is a new plugin that lets you send a file right to your Kindle right from the Print menu. You can also store stuff in your Kindle Library to download later, which is nice if you don't want to spam hundreds of files onto your reader, but want access to your junk. Mac support is coming, but for it's just for Windows.
Current plan: send every terrible paper I wrote in college to my Kindle to read during my commute and then jump off a bridge. [Send to Kindle via Amazon]


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Biography:A Produce has been exploring the vast realm of trance-oriented musical expression for several years in rock formats and other styles. In the early '80s, he established the Trance Port label for a series of cassette-only releases, to document the growing local trance music scene. Of the nine releases, three were compilations of local musicians/artists working within the realm of modern-day trance music. Now out of print, the L.A. Mantra series of tapes documented the early-'80s trance scene in Los Angeles. In 1988, A Produce's interest expanded to modern-day synthesizers as they offered a richer palette of sounds, and his first solo album, The Clearing, was released. Self-described as "an album of conceptual space," it featured contributions from several former Trance Port artists. In 1992, he followed with Reflect Like a Mirror, Respond Like an Echo which, like The Clearing, almost defied categorization, neither falling neatly into the new age category nor into the realm of space rock. Rather, both works blended the complementary aspects of several realms of modern-day trance music: ethno-ambient, electronic, new age, and space rock; the ideal vehicle for relaxation, contemplation, even movement.
In 1994, an extended three-track EP entitled A Smooth Surface was released with the intention of exploring the realm of more meditative trance music, taking the ideas first presented on The Clearing and Reflect Like a Mirror to an even deeper level. Later that year, A Produce released Land of a Thousand Trances, his most complete artistic statement to date in the realm of trance music. Joining A Produce on several cuts are former Trance Port artists: processed pedal-steel artist extraordinaire, Chas Smith; Harold Budd associate Ruben Garcia; and synthesist Pierre Lambow. The fifth A Produce release, White Sands, was a retrospective of his musical career in modern trance music; an anthology of pieces from 1988-1994 from his four previous albums, as well as a collection of hard-to-find tracks, alternate mixes, and unreleased pieces. Taking its title (and front cover image) from the National Monument in New Mexico, White Sands reflects the serenity of a peaceful, even meditative place. Indeed, one of the tracks most often played (on radio), "Heart of the Dunes," takes its title from a brochure given to visitors to the monument. Even listeners who have closely followed previous A Produce releases will fine new material on White Sands.
The second half of the 1990s yielded Inscape&Landscape, named after the 1975 book by Pierre Dansareau, a now out-of-print meditation on the human spirit blending with what at the time was a rapidly rising movement in consciousness about the ecology of the planet. On this album, A Produce explores a musical interpretation of these ideas. "I wanted to contrast these two very different, yet similar, environments along the lines of inner and outer space of the individual," he says. The pieces can be broken down into two categories -- "inscape" and "landscape" -- though some can be heard as a blending of both ideas. The next A Produce release was 1997's "special-edition" reissue of Reflect Like a Mirror, Respond Like an Echo. The special edition was remastered with the assistance of Robert Rich, and includes three bonus tracks: the previously-unreleased tracks "The Marble Staircase" and "Sunstream," plus the extended version of "A Smooth Surface" from the out-of-print EP of the same name. A Produce released one of his finest works ever with Altara in October 1999, which was a collaboration with Hypnos Recordings artist/founder M. Griffin. A Produce's long-in-the-works solo album Smile on the Void was finished and released on Hypnos/Trance Port as a joint venture in March 2001. ~ Matt Borghi, All Music Guide
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In the spring of 1988, television and movie writers went on strike. The strike, which lasted for twenty-two weeks, was rhetorically bitter and economically destructive: it cost an estimated half billion dollars in lost revenues and wages and sent network ratings down by nine per cent. But the walkout had only limited impact at the negotiating table: when an agreement was finally reached, it looked very much like a deal that could have been made five months earlier. The strike almost certainly cost both sides more than the sums they had been fighting over.
Twenty years later, entertainment writers are on the picket lines once again. They may do better this time, but history is against them. Walkouts may call to mind labor triumphs like the Flint sitdown strike of 1936-37, which gained union recognition for the United Automobile Workers at G.M., but most don't end that well—nor do they generally end as badly as the 1981 air-traffic controllers' strike, in which everyone got fired. Instead, strikes often end tepidly, with no major gains or rollbacks, and economists have found that, on average, strikes these days have little, if any, impact on what workers get paid. (Paradoxically, unions raise worker wages, but strikes generally don't.) Given the negative economic consequences—lost paychecks for workers and lost business for employers—the economically rational thing for both sides is usually to settle before the walkout starts. So why don't they?
One obvious hurdle to a settlement is that neither side knows what the other's true position is. In economists' terms, strikes happen as a result of "asymmetric information"—when one side knows more than the other about the real economics of the situation. Entertainment writers, for instance, want a share of the revenue generated from their work in new media, including programs streamed on the Internet. Producers insist that they need flexibility with regard to new technologies and that it's too early to know how much they can afford to pay for streaming programs. This may be just a bluff, or it may contain some truth—it's hard for the writers to know the difference. Going on strike is one way to find out. If a company concedes quickly, that's a sign that it was just bluffing. If it's willing to endure a long strike, that may be a sign that it meant what it said. That's why the longer a strike lasts, the less likely it is to produce a big victory for either side: you're willing to cut a deal after a long strike that you wouldn't have been willing to cut before in part because the strike has told you that the other side wasn't just bluffing.
Even if negotiators are acting in good faith, it's still hard to settle. Both sides, to begin with, are likely overestimating their chances of victory, thanks to the well-documented tendency people have toward overconfidence. A strike isn't always a mistake: sometimes workers do win big. But if both sides think a strike will help their cause at least one of them must be wrong. Overconfidence also exacerbates what the economists Linda Babcock and George Loewenstein call "self-serving bias"—the tendency for self-interest to warp our perceptions. In one famous study from the nineteen-fifties, people were asked to watch a Princeton-Dartmouth football game and count the number of penalties they saw committed. Princeton fans saw Dartmouth commit twice as many flagrant fouls as Dartmouth fans did. As the researchers put it, each group of students appeared to be watching "a different game." Similarly, Babcock, Loewenstein, and some colleagues ran an experiment in which people were assigned to the side of the plaintiff or the defendant in a tort case and then asked to analyze the case and simply predict what the judge's award in the case would be. Everyone looked at the same evidence. Yet those on the plaintiff's side predicted a much bigger award than those on the other side did. The way one sees the facts, in other words, is literally shaped by the outcome one desires. So while the networks may be spinning when they claim that showing programs over the Internet (for which writers usually don't get paid) is completely different from showing programs on TV (for which writers do), they may simply have convinced themselves that their cause is just.
And justice matters quite a bit in strikes, which often turn more on questions of fairness than on strict economics. Fairness doesn't matter much in conventional economics, which assumes that, if you and I can make a deal leaving us both better off, we'll make it. But, in the real world, if the deal seems unfair to me I may very well reject it, even if doing so leaves me worse off. The quintessential example of this is the so-called ultimatum game, where participants offered a share of a ten-dollar bill by a fellow-participant will actually turn down the free money if they think their share isn't big enough. In the same way, a capuchin monkey who's being rewarded for working with another monkey will often refuse to participate if she sees her partner get a better reward. And in a series of experiments run by the economists Simon Gaechter and Ernst Fehr people prove willing to pay in order to punish those who act unfairly. Readiness to pay a price in order to enforce an idea of what is right is part of what keeps sides from settling: writers accept the loss of paychecks because they believe they deserve a cut of the revenue from their work, and producers accept the loss of business because they believe that TV shows and movies are their property. The paychecks and the profit-and-loss statements may indicate that the writers and the producers should be able to resolve their dispute quickly. But in labor relations the bottom line isn't always the bottom line. ♦


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What DNA Actually Looks Like
Scientists have developed a new method of imaging the building blocks of life. It involves an electron microscope and a bed of nails.
DNA, we are taught early on, is colorful. The building block of life is not just a whirligig-like twist, its purines and pyrimidines neatly paired and labeled; it is also an explosion of primary reds and blues and greens and yellows, the As and the Gs and the Cs and the Ts linked together to create a kind of modified, twisted rainbow.
Of course, that rendering takes artistic license. Watson and Crick determined DNA's structure [pdf, but a highly awesome one] based on a combination of sophisticated guesswork and, crucially, x-ray crystallography -- and that remains a workable, and powerful, technique for visualizing DNA strands. But crystallography creates its own kind of rendering: It's a technology whose imaging power relies on diffracted light. When we look at those now-iconic images of the double helix, the fuzzy X inside the fuzzy O, we're not seeing the DNA itself so much as we're seeing x-rays deflected from its atoms.
Which makes the image below pretty amazing. Though it is significantly less colorful than textbook DNA, and a tad less tidy than the double helix-demonstrating images produced by x-ray crystallography, it is, in certain ways, much more realistic. It isn't a rendering; it's a direct image of DNA, captured through an electron microscope. Yes. YES.
The image shows a single thread of double-stranded DNA suspended on a bed of nanoscopic silicon pillars. It was created by Enzo di Fabrizio and a team at Italy's University of Genoa, which developed a new technique ("an experimental breakthrough," they call it) for the purpose. The team, New Scientist reports, found a way to snag strands of DNA out of a dilute solution by, essentially, dehydrating them. They developed a pattern of extremely water-repellent, silicon nanopillars -- pillars that would cause moisture to evaporate quickly and leave behind strands of DNA as threads. And then, at the base of their "nanopillar bed," the team drilled tiny (very, very tiny) holes. And through those holes, they shone beams of electrons, which allowed them to capture relatively high-resolution images of the DNA thread.
And here's an even-closer-up view of the strand itself, its base pairs fuzzily evident in the magnification.
The team just published the details of this imaging technique in the journal Nanoletters. And the new system represents a significant step forward for nanobiology and all the fields connected to it, giving scientists a new way to understand DNA. Particularly when it comes to its structure -- the stuff beyond the double helix. "Direct imaging becomes important," the paper notes, "when the knowledge at few/single molecule level is requested and where the diffraction does not allow to get structural and functional information." The technique, New Scientist points out, will help researchers to understand more precisely how proteins, RNA, and other biomolecules interact with DNA.
Which is exciting. But even for those of us who are not researchers, the new approach gives us a whole new way to do something else: to see where we came from.


text: Back Watching Out for Phone Fraud Phone fraud might seem like something you'd never fall for, but it can hit anyone. Many frauds focus on older people on the theory that they're generally more trusting and polite to strangers -- not to mention the fact that many retirees tend to be home during the day to take the calls. Often it's hard to know whether a sales call is legitimate. Here are some tip-offs: If your friendly telephone huckster says you've won a free gift, prize or vacation -- and all you have to do is pay for postage, handling fees or other charges -- don't believe it. It's probably a scam. Your free prize could end up costing you plenty -- and the promised gift may be worthless or nonexistent. If someone you don't know calls and asks you to "verify" your credit card number or bank account number for any reason, hang up. Before you know it, crooks could drain your bank account or jack up your credit card bills. Beware of "charities" that call asking for donations to worthy causes and ask you to write a check for a courier to pick up. Legitimate charities don't work that way. If you're interested in the charity, ask for information in writing. Make sure the organization lists an address and telephone number -- not just a post office box. Don't give in to pressure to "buy now." Always take your time making a decision and never respond to an offer you don't understand thoroughly. A truly good deal can wait for you to think it over. Often, the "one-time-only" offer or "investment of a lifetime" is something you didn't need or want in the first place. Always check out unfamiliar companies with your local consumer protection agency, Better Business Bureau, state attorney general, the National Fraud Information Center, or another watchdog group. Unfortunately, not all bad businesses can be identified through these organizations. Be aware that any personal or financial information you provide may be sold to other companies. Know your rights The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a telemarketing sales rule, which gives you the power to stop unwanted telemarketing calls. The rule requires telemarketers to make certain disclosures and prohibits them from making certain misrepresentations. The rule covers most types of telemarketing calls to consumers, including calls to pitch goods, services, "sweepstakes" and prize promotion and investment opportunities. This information from the FTC can help you determine if you're talking with a scam artist or a legitimate telemarketer: It's illegal for a telemarketer to call you if you've asked not to be called. If a telemarketer calls back, hang up and report the call to your state attorney general. Calling times are restricted to 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Telemarketers must tell you they are making a sales call and identify the company making the sales call before they make their pitch. If it's a prize promotion, they must tell you that no purchase or payment is necessary to enter or win. If you're asked to pay for a prize, hang up. Free is free. They must tell you the odds of winning and any restrictions or conditions of receiving the prize. It's illegal for telemarketers to misrepresent any information, including facts about their goods or services, earnings potential, profitability, risk or liquidity of an investment, or the nature of a prize in a prize-promotion scheme. Telemarketers must tell you the total cost of the products or services they're offering and any restrictions on getting or using them, or that a sale is final or non-refundable, before you pay. It's illegal for a telemarketer to withdraw money from your checking account without your expressed, verifiable authorization. Telemarketers cannot lie to get you to pay, no matter what method of payment you use. Exceptions to the rule The FTC's rule generally does NOT cover you as a consumer if: You make the call in response to an ad. You make the call in response to a direct mail ad that discloses all the information required by the FTC. You make the call to order from a catalog. Where to get help Under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, you can ask that companies put you on their "do not call" lists. If the company calls you again, you can bring action in small claims court. To report a scam, see the National Fraud Information Center. To find out more about telemarketing scams, see the National Consumers League. To check out whether a charity is legitimate, look at the BBB Wise Giving Alliance. To file a complaint or obtain information on consumer issues, visit the FTC.


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Wilbers shock absorber type 634 WESA Dynamic Feedback front BMW R 1250 GS/ Adventure 2018–19
The new BMW R 1200 GS Adventure LC 2017–18 with its active suspension Dynamic ESA is nearly the perfect motorcycle. The suspension is configured extremely comfortable, however in some cases it lacks a bit of fine tuning (feedback-adjustment). Additionally the R 1200 GS (Adventure) has a seating height of 870 mm (Adventure: 890 mm) and therewith is quite tall and not suitable for every rider. Wilbers found the perfect solution with the new WESA Dynamic Feedback and next to the standard height offers lowering solutions of 35 mm or even 70 mm (Adventure: 35 mm, 55 mm, 80 mm). Furthermore it is equipped with a special feedback-adjustment with which – next to the known electronic adjustment – you can modify the feedback of the suspension individually. In the last step the shock absorbers are individually produced, by concerning the rider´s weight, the luggage and the intended purpose.
To get a linkage to the Dynamic ESA-System you have to send in your original shock absorber. The costs are 99. If you want a lowering, you have to pick the front shock absorber as well as the rear shock absorber.
When rebuilding the ESA to WESA the functionality of the ESA adjustments remains completely intact. Dynamic ESA Suspension – Standard length.
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When ordering Wilbers you need to send the questionnaire below with your order. The questionnaire will basically determine what type of shock you exactly need for you and your bike and include questions such as your riding style, weight, how you are using the bike or intend to use the bike, and so on.
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Lasers produce nearly monochromatic light. However, not all applications demand pure, single-color light—digital displays and other devices require a wide range of colors. While it is possible to combine red, green, and blue (RGB) lasers to replicate the whole visible-light spectrum, current technology requires using three different types of lasers.
Researchers have now produced a single material capable of producing several wavelengths of laser light. Cuong Dang et al. constructed a full RGB laser using colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), thin films that produce light via quantum excitations. The size of a quantum dot determines the color of the light it emits, so by overlaying many small patches of CQDs on surface, the researchers observed broad-spectrum emission. While their device is not yet practical, it represents significant progress toward multi-wavelength, single-material lasers.
Quantum dots are small wafers of semiconducting material, and their tiny size means quantum excitations are highly controllable. For example, the light emitted by a quantum dot depends not only on the material it is made of, but also the physical size of the dot: larger dots emit longer wavelengths (redder light) than smaller dots. CQDs are thinner films, often based on a cadmium-selenium (CdSe) alloy.
Many modern digital devices use semiconductor lasers, since they are easily made small. However, producing RGB lasers on a single semiconductor is an elaborate process, since each color must be made of a different material, then patched together. Unfortunately, lasers based on CQDs have been failures up until now, because the energy input required to start light emission tends to create heat rather than laser light.
In constructing their CQDs, Dang et al. coated the CdSe core with a second alloy (Zn0.5Cd0.5S) and a proprietary bonding material with properties that were not fully described in the paper. The second alloy changed the electronic properties, directing the excitations within the material to make light rather than heat the primary output. They produced three different sizes of CQDs (corresponding to RGB colors) as a suspension in liquid, which they spread onto glass; after evaporation, many closely packed quantum dots remained as a film on the glass surface.
To stimulate light emission, the researchers directed short pulses from a laser onto the film. The monochromatic laser light stimulated the three different CQDs to re-emit light of red, green, and blue wavelengths. They applied a filter to remove most of the light from the original laser, leaving only the CQD-produced photons. A final test confirmed that the usual excitations that lead to heat were not present in the quantum dots. Dang et al. conducted the experiment in air (rather than vacuum or inert gas) at room temperature.
The new experiment is not by itself practical for making commercial multi-wavelength lasers, since the stimulating laser is laboratory grade—not something you will see incorporated into consumer devices. Nevertheless, this is a significant advance toward broad-spectrum lasers fabricated from a single material.
Nature Nanotechnology, 2012. DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.61 (About DOIs).
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Rod Blagojevich Found Guilty on 17 Counts of Corruption
A federal jury in Chicago convicted former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich on 17 of 20 counts in his corruption trial. The jury deadlocked on two counts and found him not guilty on another.
A jury of 11 women and one man took 10 days to find him guilty of trying to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Obama when he was elected in 2008. According to the Chicago Tribune, he was also found guilty of wire fraud, attempted extortion, bribery and conspiracy.
Gov. Blagojevich, 54, testified for seven days, maintaining his innocence – claiming prosecutors had twisted his words on secret government wiretapped conversations from his home, office and campaign headquarters. He testified that he was merely brainstorming about who he might appoint to the Senate.
"I had no idea what I wanted," said Gov. Blagojevich, according to The New York Times. "These were all potential scenarios."
Prosecutors didn't buy it though, saying the law focuses on "the ask," not on whether there was a receipt.
Last year, Gov. Blagojevich was convicted of lying to federal investigators and he faces up to five years in prison as a result. He will face significantly more prison time after his conviction today.


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First time for everything, isn't there? This past Labor Day weekend clay pigeon shooting showed up on my "first time" radar, courtesy of a great friend who figured that killing bright orange pieces of clay couldn't be beat for a long weekend of fun.
There are two ways to do this: you simply go to your local shooting range, or you drive a whole day to some wide open space with a complete change of scenery. A while ago, Brian pushed the retirement plan envelope by buying a farm somewhere in the middle of America — you know, the part where you look at the map and all you see are thousands of roads of all sizes running east and west. Well, his farm is where the 377th road from the top crosses the 298th road from the west. Can't miss. And so we drove through a pretty part of America and caught up on a few years' worth of mistakes, bonehead moves and other "educational" events in our lives.
His retirement plan so far is working well. The prices of corn, wheat and this thing they call milo are doing so well the income on his farm is rising, so its value has almost doubled, compared to what he paid before the recession. And he gets to go play there from time to time — as retirement plans go, not that bad.
When we arrived, it wasn't long before we headed outside to invade the domain of dragonflies, cicadas and other heat-loving bugs. I live in a state famous for its hunting, but I'll confess the only thing I've ever fired in anger has been my camera. An education therefore was needed, and an education I duly received.
We looked for the prototypical tin can to shoot at, but our hostess, it turned out, was way too environmentally minded for any stray cans to be lying around: all were safely sealed in recycling containers. So we made do with a few scraps of 2×4 wood, which still met the main criterion: they didn't move.
And then the lessons started.
1. There is such a thing as an easy start
Shooting at a stationary target with a shotgun is easy. It's not a single bullet you're firing off, but a circle of small pellets. With your lousy rookie aim, a single bullet may have missed the target, but with a shotgun, all you need to be is "close" and one of the pellets will fling the little target backward in a dramatic display of your prowess. Cheers all around.
Investing is the same. You can start with something as simple as a savings account or a 401(k) plan at work, and all you need to do is put money in. It doesn't have to be the perfect investment, it just has to be something. And, wonder of wonders, the more money you put in, the more the new account grows.
2. There is a progression
After shooting a few stationary pieces of wood the novelty wears off, and you become ready for a target that actually moves. They have a mechanism where you put in this little orange disc, pull a rope and there's your target flying through the air. You learn to aim on the fly, pull the trigger and… watch the target land in the brush, intact and unharmed. This is not nearly as easy as those stationary little pieces of wood. You need a higher level of skill, which comes from some instruction and some practice.
Investing also has a progression: after you get accustomed to the discipline of saving, the 0.75 percent you earn will get your attention, and you'll notice other investment opportunities out there with better returns. Let's be honest, it's not hard to beat 0.75 percent.
3. Higher rewards take more skill
The feeling when you see that little clay pigeon shatter into a million pieces on your seventh try is hard to beat. With practice, you get better and you get that thrill of success more often.
Of course, you have the option of just staying in the beginner's class and potting the close, stationary targets over and over. If you do that, though, you miss the rewards progression inevitably brings. Same with investing.
If you step up and make the time to develop your investing skill, your rewards will go up. Most people who do well in investing are those who understand this is their own future, nobody cares about it as much as they do, and therefore they make the time to get better. Those are the people who end up in good places (like my neighbor Jim).
4. Pulling the trigger for the first time is intimidating
This was the first time our host's 7th-grade son had a shotgun in his hands, and it took him more than an hour to get over the intimidation of the unknown… especially when the unknown is loud. We took a dinner break (always a good suggestion) and not long after that, little Gareth was firing away like a veteran, doing better than I was.
With investing, the first move can be intimidating. The key is to just pull the trigger, and don't expect the first shot to be perfect. The key to success is repetition, and the sooner you take the first shot, the sooner you become a veteran.
5. Aim ahead of the target
When you shoot at a moving target and you aim at where it is, you'll miss, because by the time the shot gets there, the target has moved on. You quickly learn to anticipate where the target is heading and aim just ahead of where it is.
Managing your money is the same: you have to anticipate where things are going and act not on your current circumstances but on where they are moving toward. This is especially true of debt: based on your current job, taking on a payment of $500 a month may look like a no-brainer. But when you get laid off before the loan is paid off, you miss… and pay dearly. Much better to save the money and buy cash.
How about you?
When's the last time you learned something new, whether it be seeing how a different part of the country lives, or a new way to look at your money?
Not all new things are good but you never know what good things you may be passing up simply because you're not looking.


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Roger Nichols, who has died aged 66, was an American sound engineer and inventor best known for his work with the jazz-rock group Steely Dan, with whom he produced some of the highest fidelity recordings ever made.
Nichols worked with the group throughout their heyday in the 1970s and during later sporadic recordings, as the musicians built a peerless reputation for meticulous attention to detail and exceptional clarity of sound.
He won seven Grammies, six of them for Steely Dan albums, the first being their 1977 masterpiece Aja and, most recently, three awards for Two Against Nature (2000). The other Grammy was for his role as producer of the less fashionable country artist John Denver, with whom he had a close association – based on their mutual passion for gadgets and amateur aviation – from 1980 until Denver's death in a plane crash in 1997.
Among the other prominent artists on whose records Nichols worked were Bobby "Blue" Bland, Johnny Winter, Ricky Lee Jones, Placido Domingo, Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, and The Beach Boys.
During his limited spare time, Nichols was also a Scuba diving instructor and an amateur motor-racing photographer whose work was regularly published . He also designed the Wendel drum machine/sampler, first used in 1979 on Steely Dan's Gaucho album.
The group's core members, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, nicknamed Nichols "The Immortal" because he mysteriously avoided electrocution in a potentially fatal studio accident. Despite the exacting requirements and excessive workload the band placed on him, he thrived on working with them and their producer Gary Katz.
"We're all perfectionists," Nichols said in an interview in 1993. "It wasn't a drag for me to do things over and over until it was perfect. In my own way, I'm just as crazy as they are."
Roger Scott Nichols was born in Oakland, California, on September 22 1944. His father flew B47s in the US Air Force and the family lived all over America, but when he left the military in 1957 they settled at Cucamonga, southern California. There Roger attended the same high school as Frank Zappa, of whose guitar playing he made experimental home-recordings on a basic reel-to-reel deck.
After graduating in Nuclear Physics at Oregon State University, Nichols worked at the San Onofre nuclear power plant as a nuclear operator from 1965 to 1968. He was simultaneously developing a passionate interest in audio equipment, mainly because he hated the "clicks, pops and ticks" he would hear on records.
With two friends he began making recordings at jazz clubs and built a recording studio in Torrance. They started by recording local high school bands and then set up a hi-fi store supplying custom equipment to music industry professionals, thus making many contacts. Karen Carpenter, Larry Carlton and Kenny Rogers were among clients that used the studio, and they eventually began supplying others, including the ABC network.
In 1970, ABC hired Nichols to do studio maintenance and engineering, and the following year Katz arrived with the New Yorkers, Becker and Fagen. Since no one else had much notion of how to deal with them, Nichols began working with them, and they instantly found common ground in their dedication to "hi-fi".
With Katz taking a mostly "executive" role as producer, responsible for getting the best vocal performances out of Fagen, Nichols was responsible for capturing the music on tape, with lustrous results.
Their first two albums — Can't Buy A Thrill (1972) and Countdown To Ecstasy (1973) — were unusual for their lack of EQ (or "equalisation"), a routinely-used technique for manipulating the relative strength of frequencies. Instead, Nichols concentrated on careful microphone placement.
Another of his ideas that became a Steely Dan trademark was double-tracking Fagen's vocals, and mixing one of the unison doubles at around 75 per cent of the volume of the other. This subtle effect gave his vocals the desired "thickness" without being as obvious as other double tracking methods.
Steely Dan soon effectively became a duo, spending months recording each of their albums with the cream of LA's session musicians. Their perfectionist approach meant that they never made backup copies of master tapes (since this would inevitably mean a reduction in sound quality). But this sometimes worked against them. During the making of Katy Lied (1975), one of their 24-track masters was accidentally erased by an assistant engineer, and a song from the Gaucho sessions was lost in another accident; although the group spent $60,000 trying to re-create it, they finally rejected the results.
After Steely Dan announced their split, Nichols also worked on Fagen's first solo album, Nightfly (1982), considered a benchmark of quality by audiophiles. For the follow-up Kamakiriad (1993), Nichols said that two years were spent programming the drum machines to get "just the right feel" to meet Fagen's increasingly fastidious standards. The following year Nichols also engineered and mixed Becker's solo debut, 11 Tracks Of Whack. When Steely Dan re-formed, he worked on Alive in America (1995), Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go (2003).
In his later career Nichols spread his knowledge internationally in "master class workshops" and as a technical consultant. In 2005 he won a National Recording Academy of Arts and Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award and set up his company, Roger Nichols Digital.
Roger Nichols spent the last year of his life battling pancreatic cancer, treatment for which nearly bankrupted his family. He died on April 9, and is survived by his wife Conrad Reeder, a writer and musician, and by two daughters .


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Call me Ebenezer, but Christmas as we know it needs to go... (Jason Miller)
By Jason Miller -- World News Trust
Dec. 18, 2006 -- Bursting forth with renewed intensity, the "War on Christmas" is back in 2006.
So just what does this alleged war against an impalpable enemy entail?
Have "Islamofascists" captured and decapitated Santa Claus?
Did a U.S.-made IDF "smart bomb" strike Bethlehem and obliterate baby Jesus as he lay in the manger?
Did the Grinch go global with his nefarious thievery?
Actually, the answer can be found amongst the corporate media's nearly countless obfuscations and deceits.
Divisive, sophistic arguments crafted by "sage" pundits and readily accepted by genuflecting readers admonish that secular forces are determined to eradicate Christmas and its celebrants' joy with the zeal of a restaurateur exterminating cockroaches. What an ingenious way to divert attention from the ongoing genocide in Iraq and the gutting of our Constitution!
Christmas may not truly be under siege, but our corporate overlords have certainly discovered myriad ways to wield it as a psychological weapon and to administer it as an "opiate of the masses."
While Christmas may only come once a year, the pernicious effects of the Consumerism it manifests to such a high degree are virtually omnipresent in a society premised on acquisitiveness. Consumerism is the tap root of the sprawling and gnarled tree of predatory Capitalism. Like an aberrant black walnut tree of gargantuan proportion, American Capitalism(1) exudes toxins that stunt or eradicate nearly every living thing attempting to grow within the circumference of its expansive root system.
As recently as 2004, major U.S. retailers raked in a staggering $216.3 billion in November and December as each U.S. consumer spent an average of $835.00 on holiday gifts(2).
Making the minimum monthly payment on just $1200.00 worth of credit card debt at an interest rate of 18% would take a mere 22 years to repay(3). Welcome to debt slavery.
What of Santa Claus and Rudolph? Despite Global Climate Change destroying their home at the North Pole, they are merrily leading Consumerism's charge toward humanitarian and ecological disaster. If Santa's scheme is to retire to a palatial estate in Miami, he can forget that. As the polar ice cap melts, most of Florida will be inundated.
While visions of sugar plums are dancing through the heads of many U.S. Americans, Santa's real elves wallow in abject misery. Fifty-seven percent of the toys sold in the United States are imported from China, with Wal-Mart leading the way. In December of 2001 the National Labor Committee issued a report entitled Toys of Misery which profiled the working conditions in Chinese factories that produced Harry Potter and Barbie toys. Working 16 hours a day and seven days a week, young Chinese women received as little as 17 cents per hour to perform repetitive operations more than 3,000 times per day. They languished in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees while breathing noxious fumes in improperly ventilated buildings(4).
Unfortunately for Chinese laborers, more recent reports indicate little improvement in their situation(5,6,7). Evidence compiled just last month demonstrates that suppliers for Wal-Mart, Hasbro, and Disney are still egregiously exploiting employees in Chinese toy factories. Even Dickens would have been shocked at the plight of these wretched souls.
Meanwhile many U.S. Americans are adhering to their indoctrination by acquiring as many material possessions they possibly can. Oblivious to the human or environmental cost, they shop with the fervor of Christian zealots converting the "heathen aboriginals" of Turtle Island.
Global Issues (www.globalissues.org) has compiled some startling and appalling information concerning the diseased phenomenon of Consumerism:
"Inequalities in consumption are stark. Globally, the 20 percent of the world's people in the highest-income countries account for 86 percent of total private consumption expenditures -- the poorest 20 percent a minuscule 1.3 percent.
More specifically, the richest fifth:
-- Consume 45 percent of all meat and fish, the poorest fifth 5 percent.
-- Consume 58 percent of total energy, the poorest fifth less than 4 percent.
-- Have 74 percent of all telephone lines, the poorest fifth 1.5 percent.
-- Consume 84 percent of all paper, the poorest fifth 1.1 percent.
-- Own 87 percent of the world's vehicle fleet, the poorest fifth less than 1 percent."
Global Issues also highlighted some of our grossly misplaced priorities. While in just one year the United States spent $8 billion on cosmetics and the world devoted $780 billion to wars and the military. Global expenditures on basic education totaled a scant $6 billion. That same year the world appropriated a miserly $9 billion to provide people with clean drinking water.
Bear in mind that Global Issues derived these numbers from a United Nations report issued in 1998. However, World Bank data from 2003 reflected little improvement in the glaring disparities of consumption or in our shamefully misplaced priorities.
Anchoring Consumerism as it does, it is patently absurd to believe for a moment that Christmas is the least bit threatened. Consumerism is essential to those stalking the corridors of power in the United States . They need the "Season to be Jolly" to obscure the crimes they have committed (including offenses for which men were sentenced to hang at Nuremberg ) and to ensure that the hoi polloi remains obedient.
No, Consumerism, and hence Christmas, are quite safe. They are essential components of the power structure spawning and protecting beasts like Bush and Cheney.
In his 1999 book, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, Richard Robbins observed:
[T]he consumer revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was caused in large part by a crisis in production; new technologies had resulted in production of more goods, but there were not enough people to buy them. Since production is such an essential part of the culture of capitalism, society quickly adapted to the crisis by convincing people to buy things, by altering basic institutions and even generating a new ideology of pleasure. The economic crisis of the late nineteenth century was solved, but at considerable expense to the environment in the additional waste that was created and resources that were consumed.
With respect to advertising, the deeply compelling psychological mechanism through which American Capitalists entice the masses to buy more and more of what they don't need, Robbins explained:
The goal of the advertisers was to aggressively shape consumer desires and create value in commodities by imbuing them with the power to transform the consumer into a more desirable person.... In 1880, only $30 million was invested in advertising in the United States ; by 1910, new businesses, such as oil, food, electricity and rubber, were spending $600 million, or 4 percent of the national income, on advertising. Today that figure has climbed to well over $120 billion in the United States and to over $250 billion worldwide.
And the Corporatocracy has received a tremendous bang for its advertising buck, as evidenced by more statistics provided by Global Issues:
World consumption has expanded at an unprecedented pace over the 20th century, with private and public consumption expenditures reaching $24 trillion in 1998, twice the level of 1975 and six times that of 1950. In 1900 real consumption expenditure was barely $1.5 trillion.
Given the horrendous fallout from America 's extraordinarily avaricious behavior, perhaps a "War on Christmas", and hence Consumerism, wouldn't be such a calamity after all. But rather than launching a belligerent attack so typical of the United States , what we really need is a non-violent spiritual struggle to establish a meaningful observance of the birth of Christ.
Some view Jesus Christ as a god, some a man, and others a myth. Yet regardless of which concept one embraces, the moral teachings attributed to Christ rank at or near the peak of humanity's ethical evolution. Devoting a day to commemorate him certainly makes sense when one considers some of the other historical figures whom we celebrate.
While it is impossible to be 100% certain, it is extremely unlikely that Christ would find much virtue in the perversion that Christmas has become. I suspect he would demand answers to at least four questions:
1. Why is so much emphasis placed on materialism on a day honoring an individual who devoted himself to the poor and down-trodden?
2. What are we teaching our children by showering them with virtually everything they want (and then some) while 10 million people starve to death each day?
3. Why do we further enslave ourselves to amoral corporations by taking on mountains of debt to buy more of their products for which we have no real need, thus contributing to their ongoing rape of humanity and the Earth?
4. Why do we devote only one of 365 days to "peace on Earth and good will toward men"?
How would one respond to such challenges?
I have been addressing them head on for the last several years and have no intention of ceasing to toil. For me it has been a slow, steady, and humbling progression. Little by little I have been divesting myself from complicity in the multitude of crimes against humanity perpetrated by those atop the pyramid of American Capitalism.
Striving each day to remain free from the addictive, deleterious, and exploitative products of the alcohol, tobacco, soft drink, and pornography industries, I practice a number of the principles of the Twelve Step program along with an eclectic set of moral values I have cobbled together over the course of my spiritual journey, including many of those espoused and modeled by Christ.
Of course I fall down at times, but I am quick to get back up, take responsibility, and make amends. It goes without saying that as a human being I can embody but a percentage of my ideals. Yet I have found that the more vigorously I apply myself, the greater that percentage becomes. Obviously there is a point of diminishing returns in terms of exerting effort. Once I reach that leveling point, I lower my intensity.
Over the last few months, I have stepped up my recycling efforts significantly.
Embracing a somewhat ascetic lifestyle, it is a rare occasion when I buy something simply because I want it.
I have boycotted Wal-Mart for over two years now, paying substantially more for groceries and other necessities than when I shopped there regularly.
I generally shun corporate chains and frequent stores owned by small entrepreneurs or local companies as often as possible.
Rather than taking a second job that would help fuel the engine of rapacious Capitalism, I do volunteer work with homeless shelters. Besides giving my spare time and energy to help the domestic victims of America 's ruthless socioeconomic system, I also donate what little money I can afford and buy my clothes from a thrift store that subsidizes the City Union Mission, Kansas City's largest organization servicing homeless human beings.
This Christmas, I have asked friends and family members who typically give me gifts to do so in the form of money so that I can give even more to the deeply impoverished. I have also chosen to incur no debt in purchasing gifts.
During the 2006 holiday season, I am purging yet another ugly aspect of Consumerism from my being. My effort will involve defying years of inculcation by a society that puts a substantial premium on money, violence and crushing the competition.
For as long as I can remember, I have been an avid supporter of the Kansas City Chiefs, an NFL football team. Yet as a strident domestic critic of American Capitalism and as a person dedicated to a path of spiritual development, I have determined that my time, emotional energy, and intellectual efforts are wasted when I devote them to supporting corporate entities which generate billions of dollars for a handful of wealthy elites or their pampered employees who receive millions of dollars to play a game.
Reflecting on the extent of domestic and world poverty, I have come to view my relatively modest collection of Chiefs apparel and memorabilia as sinfully large. Besides selling these items and contributing the proceeds to worthy causes, I will make a conscious transition from rabid NFL fan to casual observer.
Like the gradual yet steady forces of erosion, appreciable numbers of individuals pursuing moral paths can significantly mitigate the damage rendered by Consumerism. And it is possible for one to pursue such a course without dropping off the grid, self-destructing, or going to the extreme of someone like Diogenes.
So in the spirit of my proposed alternative to "Christmas as we know it," here's hoping that Santa and Rudolph do retire to Florida.
Before it's too late…
Bah, Humbug!
End Notes and Suggested Reading :
(1) American Capitalism is a malignancy that permeates our economic, social, and political systems and institutions. This untreated cancer ravaging the body of civilization is spreading like an unchecked conflagration in a munitions factory. Feudalism didn't die; it simply evolved. Corporatism, Consumerism, wage slavery, debt slavery, free trade agreements, deregulation, and privatization condemn most of the global population to varying degrees of slavery, serfdom or indentured servitude.
(2) http://ask.yahoo.com/20051214.html
(3) http://myvesta.org/pubs/html/post_holiday_headaches.htm
(4) http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/magazine/buyers/79/toysreport.pdf
(5) http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/profile.cfm?id=263
(6) http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/profile.cfm?id=263
(7) http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/toys-m25.shtml
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Cooperation is a fundamental human trait. You may find it bizarre to read a post that begins with such a sentence, but sometimes we do have to point out the obvious.
Competition, we are continually lectured, is the primary driving force animating human beings. It is rarely, if ever, put quite so explicitly, but the prevailing ideology does tell us exactly that. Competition is the fuel of economic growth and progress in a system based on never-ending life-and-death fights to gain dominance at pain of going out of business — so we are told. Competition, conveniently, can be won by only a few heroic figures, who must be given control over other peoples' lives and rewarded with stratospheric pay.
We lowly employees, who can not comprehend the divine will of the market (which is governed by an invisible hand that only the chosen few of the business elite can see because they possess the magic glasses that see what is otherwise invisible), must sit in awe and gratitude of our capitalist masters. In fact, we should turn over the workings of our entire government to them, and be grateful for their selfless attitude in leaving the business world behind so that they can change the laws to benefit the businesses to which they will return.
Yes, I am going to commit sacrilege here. The world of the preceding two paragraphs, despite their continual propagation, does not have to be so. Places where they aren't so already exist. Human beings can cooperate with one another (and routinely do — how would a product or service exist if employees did not work together?). The following is by no means a comprehensive list of successful cooperative enterprises, but represent building blocks toward a different way of organization.
Cooperative enterprises, in which all employees share in all the decision-making and manage themselves, are not pie in the sky. They already exist. Cooperatives are distinguished by higher pay than received by employees in traditional businesses, and studies have shown greater levels of job satisfaction — neither is a surprise when large sums of money are not funneled upward and workers have control and decision-making power over their jobs.
The recovered factories of Argentina
Practical experience in Argentina, where cooperatives have existed in a variety of industries since 2001, has provided a demonstration of worker-run enterprises forging strong links with their communities, with mutual benefit to the enterprise and the community that supports the enterprise.*
Solidarity and community instincts have not disappeared under the stress of competition from the capitalism surrounding Argentine cooperatives. A high level of idealism was necessary to initiate the process and in turn the experience has raised consciousness to new levels. After an upsurge in new occupations in 2009 (the latest year for which I can find a reliable figure), the Argentine movement of worker recovery of factories encompassed about 250 enterprises with more than 13,000 workers. The factory takeovers came in the wake of economic collapse a decade ago.
Néstor Kirchner, upon taking office as president early in 2002, suspended Argentina's foreign-debt payments before agreeing to pay only 30 percent of the crippling debt, an unusual example of a country standing up to the capitalist world's multi-national financial institutions. But Kirchner and his wife and successor as president, Cristina Fernández, did almost nothing internally to disturb the workings of capitalism — Argentina's worker-run factories have contended with hostility from domestic political authorities and from corporate power inside and outside the country.
Most of the cooperatives formed in the worker-run factories began with similar stories — owners failing to pay employees, owners stripping the enterprises of assets, owners shutting down plants with no notice and of police using force to expel workers who had occupied plants for the purpose of getting some of the back pay owed to them after production was halted. The cooperatives were formed when workers maintaining their occupations realized that their factory owner did not intend to restart production, and decided to restart production themselves. The employees doing so first had to overcome their own doubts about themselves, but were able to draw on the experience of those who went first and created national organizations to represent the cooperatives and enable coordination among them.
The president of the national coordinating body National Movement of Reclaimed Companies, Eduardo Murúa, explained this process in an interview published in the book Sin Patrón:
"Since the restoration of democracy [after the 1976-1983 military dictatorship], all the laws that have been passed are against workers' rights. The laws, enacted first by the dictatorship and then by the formal democracy, served to consolidate a global economic model organized according to the [existing capitalist] international division of labor. The changes to the bankruptcy law, for example, had left us without the possibility of severance pay. The reformed law also requires the judge to liquidate a bankrupt company's assets in 120 days. The only way to reclaim the company is to occupy it and show, first the judge, and then the political class, that we're not going to leave the factory. … Certainly, if there weren't so many doubts and fears among the entire working class, there would be many more reclaimed factories. Because of these uncertainties, this process only works in places where there is some level of organization and capable leadership." [pages 214-215]
The largest of these reclaimed factories is the Zanón factory producing ceramic tiles, which is now known as FaSinPat, a contraction of the Spanish-language words meaning "Factory Without a Boss." The process started when the original owner, Luis Zanón, stopped paying his employees, who went on strike in response. Zanón received loans from the provincial government to pay back wages, but pocketed the money instead. Finally, the employees went back in, occupied the silent factory, sought and received community support, and decided to restart production themselves in March 2002.
Despite legal obstacles and police harassment, the collective works. In the first four years of worker self-management, the number of employees increased from 300 to 470, wages and factory output increased, and without the speedups and insensitivity to safety imposed by bosses, accident rates were reduced 90 percent. New workers are not hired hands, but become part of the collective. The collective allies itself with the struggle of local Indigenous peoples, who have donated clay from their lands to the factory. The collective also donates tiles to community centers and hospitals and, in return, the nurses' union donates the services of a nurse during each shift.
The path of the FaSinPat collective was not an easy one — the workers had to physically defend their occupation, with community assistance, more than once and they had to wait eight years before the provincial government passed a law granting the collective legal control of the factory in August 2009. The government also paid off part of the debt incurred by Luis Zanón — much of it owed to the World Bank, which gave a loan of 20 million dollars to Zanón for the construction of the plant, a loan he never paid back. Zanón's creditors had pushed for the eviction of the collective and foreclosure of the plant during the months leading up to the legislative vote.
The cooperatives operate in a myriad of Argentine industries, including "white collar" businesses. One example is a speciality newspaper covering economic and judicial issues in Córdoba. The newspaper, Comercio y Justcia, was sold by its long-time family owners to a conglomerate during the 1990s wave of corporate consolidation of Argentine media. The new corporate owners hired managers at enormous salaries, stopped paying employee salaries and staged a fake robbery that emptied the office of most of its equipment. The workers brought in their own computers so the newspaper could continue to publish, then went on strike when the new owners failed to pay them for five months.
Finally, the workers went back in to restart the newspaper themselves, making it a going concern after a great struggle. In contrast to other media outlets cutting staff and quality, the Comercio y Justcia collective maintained the size of its staff and its quality, more than doubling circulation in its first year.
In almost all of the Argentine cooperatives everybody earns the same amount, and none hires outside managers — the cooperatives are governed by assemblies of the entire workforce with their decisions carried out by managers who are elected from their own ranks and who serve limited, specified terms. In a separate interview in Sin Patrón, one of the Comercio y Justcia collective members said of the new way of working:
"Inside, we have a setup that goes against the logic of capitalism. A humanized work régime, a production arrangement decided by workers themselves. In relationships outside the institution, we can't detach ourselves from the economy's logic, but we give ourselves the luxury of doing work for free and doing what we decide as workers. On the inside the revolution has already happened. And looking externally, our biggest contribution is demonstrating that workers can efficiently run an enterprise." [page 208]
Not all the Argentines who recovered their abandoned companies initially wanted to form cooperatives — there were those who wished for nationalization. There was no interest on the part of the federal or provincial governments to take over factories, so those workforces that initially sought nationalization had no choice but to adopt the cooperative form. Proponents of nationalization argued that cooperatives would be at the mercy of an intact capitalist system and that the cooperatives would eventually be forced to pay the old owner for the recovered factory, an expense they would be unable to meet. Proponents of cooperatives argued that direct worker takeovers would be faster and more practical — the jobs would be saved faster this way, the aim of the takeovers.
The cooperatives — although many successfully bought their factories from the old owners at discounted prices thanks to strong community support and their perseverance through long legal battles and repeated attempts at physical expulsion — remain small islands in a vast sea of capitalism. They are merely tolerated by an Argentine establishment loath to appear too openly to challenge continuing community support, and they represent an example that capitalists everywhere wish to stamp out. These cooperatives must survive in an economic environment that operates on a very different basis than they do and are at the mercy of the powerful forces unleashed by that environment, including boom/bust economic cycles. But they have survived.
Mondragon, the world's biggest cooperative
Based in the Basque Country of northern Spain, Mondragon has more than 83,000 jobs among its many businesses. Mondragon produces industrial components and consumer goods, provides construction services, and operates a supermarket chain, a bank and a university. These are not small operations — the cooperative reports annual revenue of nearly 15 billion euros.
New workers become full members after a trial period of six to twelve months. All ownership is in the hands of Mondragon workers; each buys one non-transferable share upon become a member and sells it back to the collective upon leaving or retiring. In addition to the regular wage, members also share in the profits, with a dividend being paid to each out of the surplus the members' business earns. Thirty to seventy percent of the profits are distributed as dividends, depending on the health of a given business. Profits are also distributed among the individual businesses, set aside for investment and to replenish reserves, and distributed into the overall organization's internal support fund.
Mondragon's English-language web site explains the basis of its workers' renumeration, which are on a very different principle than a capitalist corporation:
"Labour is granted full sovereignty in the organisation of the co-operative enterprise, the wealth created is distributed in terms of the labour provided and there is a firm commitment to the creation of new jobs. As far as the wealth generated by the co-operative is concerned, this is distributed among the members in proportion to their labour and not on the basis of their holding in Share Capital. The pay policy of Mondragon's co-operatives takes its inspiration from principles of Solidarity, which are expressed through sufficient remuneration for labour on the basis of solidarity."
All decisions on working hours, pay, allowable pay differentials, strategic decisions and management are made by a collective vote off all members. The supreme body of Mondragon is the general assembly, in which all members participate and vote on the basis of "one member, one vote." The general assembly elects the governing council, which represents and governs the cooperative — and is accountable to the general assembly. The governing council in turn appoints the executive management team. Management does not act independently, however — a separate cooperative congress, consisting of 650 members delegated by individual businesses, is tasked with "establish[ing] the strategic criteria by which the Corporation is to be administered."
Members are also represented in all internal bodies by the social council, and an elected monitoring commission ensures compliance with accounting principles.
Decision-making power, however, resides with the full membership. According to Mondragon:
"The first and foremost body of participation is the General Assembly, in which rests the full sovereignty of the co-operative. Its most important powers include: appointing and revoking members of the Governing Council and Accounts Auditors by means of a secret vote; examining company management, approving the annual accounts and the distribution of surplus and apportioning of losses; approving the general policies and strategies of the co-operative; approving increases in share capital, the rate of interest to be accrued by capital contributions and the joining fees for new members; modifying the Company Statutes and approving everything implied by a substantial modification in the economic, organisational or functional structure of the co-operative."
Management comes from within; it is not hired from outside. And there are no layoffs — if a business experiences a slowdown, some of its members are transferred to another business that has need of more workers. Mondragon, however egalitarian its internal structure, does have to compete in a capitalist environment against capitalist enterprises, and so continues to expand into new ventures and to, outside of Spain, buy companies. The latter are bought with an eye toward converting them into cooperatives and making the bought companies' personnel worker/owners equal to those in established businesses, but has not succeeded in converting all.
Nonetheless, Mondragon's workers don't face the continual prospect of being laid off every time there is a slight dip in profits. Georgia Kelly and Shaula Massena, writing in Yes magazine, reported on what happened when one of the Mondragon businesses experienced difficult times:
"The worker/owners and the managers met to review their options. After three days of meetings, the worker/owners agreed that 20 percent of the workforce would leave their jobs for a year, during which they would continue to receive 80 percent of their pay and, if they wished, free training for other work. This group would be chosen by lottery, and if the company was still in trouble a year later, the first group would return to work and a second would take a year off. The result? The solution worked and the company thrives to this day."
Nobody votes to send their jobs to a low-wage haven in another country.
The "Cleveland model" starts with anchors
The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative — often referred to as the "Cleveland model" — seeks to strengthen a local community from the ground up through the creation of cooperative enterprises anchored to large institutions. Based on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio – a city that has lost half of its population since 1960 — Evergreen creates worker-owned small businesses that provide products and services to established "anchor" institutions in the immediate area (such as hospitals and universities) and other customers.
The Evergreen Cooperative Corporation, which describes itself as a holding company "leading this initiative," says on its web site:
"The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative is based on a vision of 'community wealth building.' Community wealth strategies aim at improving the ability of communities and individuals to increase asset ownership, anchor jobs locally, strengthen the municipal tax base, prevent financial resources from 'leaking out' of the area, and ensure local economic stability.
The strategic pillars on which the Initiative is built are: (1) leveraging a portion of the multi-billion dollar annual business expenditures of anchor institutions into the surrounding neighborhoods; (2) establishing a robust network of Evergreen Cooperative enterprises based on community wealth building and ownership models designed to service these institutional needs; (3) building on the growing momentum to create environmentally sustainable energy and green collar jobs (and, concurrently, support area anchor institutions in achieving their own environmental goals to shrink their carbon footprints); (4) linking the entire effort to expanding sectors of the economy (e.g., health care, our aging population, local food, and sustainable energy), many of which are recipients of large-scale public investment; and (5) developing the financing and management capacities that can take this effort to scale (that is, to move beyond a few boutique projects or models to have significant municipal impact)."
Evergreen hopes to create as many as ten more cooperatives in the next three to five years, and ultimately create 5,000 cooperative jobs during the next decade. In a city the size of Cleveland, that is a small number, but it represents a model that others can replicate. Success in this initiative would also demonstrate a different, more humane model than that of modern-day capitalism, with its authoritarian top-down structures and vastly unequal levels of compensation and power.
Successful local businesses such as these would also stabilize neighborhoods that suffer when jobs in manufacturing and older industries are moved away.
Cooperative businesses include Evergreen Laundry, which provides industrial-scale laundry services; Evergreen Energy Solutions, which designs and installs solar panels and provides energy-efficiency services; and Green City Growers Cooperative, which operates a hydroponic food-producing greenhouse covering more than three acres (more than one hectare). Local institutions that contract for services from the cooperatives include Case Western Reserve University, the University Hospitals system and the Cleveland Clinic (a local medical center and research facility).
By using local institutions that will not be moving as anchors, the Cleveland model seeks to create worker-owned enterprises that will also stay in the community:
"Rather than a trickle down strategy, it focuses on economic inclusion and building a local economy from the ground up; rather than offering public subsidy to induce corporations to bring what are often low-wage jobs into the city, the Evergreen strategy is catalyzing new businesses that are owned by their employees; rather than concentrate on workforce training for employment opportunities that are largely unavailable to low-skill and low-income workers, the Evergreen Initiative first creates the jobs, and then recruits and trains local residents to take them."
The Cleveland Foundation, a local funding organization, provided capital, guaranteed a bank loan and conducted talks with executives of the anchor institutions to start the initiative. Each individual business received a loan that was subsidized with federal tax credits, and low-interest funding was also provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Using its seed capital, Evergreen provides long-term financing to start cooperative businesses and to provide them with technical support and training.
Similar to Mondragon, on which Evergreen is modeled, employees work a six-month probationary period, then begin to buy into the company through payroll deductions over three years. Evergreen estimates that its worker-owners will build an equity stake of $65,000 after eight years of working at an Evergreen cooperative in a section of Cleveland in which the median annual income is $18,500. When worker-owners retire or leave the company, they relinquish their ownership share and the value of their capital account is returned to them, as their equity stake in the company. Workers also share in the profits generated.
Cooperatives as yet are too small to represent anything other than the smallest crack in the edifice of capitalism. But the bricks of today will be used to build the world of tomorrow. These models could spark similar enterprises or cooperatives on different models — and demonstrate that cooperation can become the standard in a better world.
* This discussion of Argentina is based on an excerpt It's Not Over: Learning from the Socialist Experiment (Zero Books). Among the sources used here are lavaca collective, Sin Patrón [Haymarket, 2007]; Peter Elliot, "Zanon Workers in Argentina Still Waiting for Security," posted June 27, 2006, on the Upside Down World web site, upsidedownworld.org; Ginger S. Gentile, "Argentine Lessons," posted March 8, 2004, on the ZNet web site, http://www.zmag.org; Marie Trigona, "Argentine Factory Wins Legal Battle: FaSinPat Zanon Belongs to the People," posted August 14, 2009, on the Upside Down World web site


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