The major goal of the Five Day Weekend is simple: We want to reverse the U.S. workweek so that Americans clock in for two good days of work, followed by five well-earned days off.
Why? Because overwork has become a major problem for Americans, and it's getting worse by the year. The two-day weekend was created in 1930, and despite decades of unparalleled technology growth, our people are actually working more and more each year.
Check out the stats:
* Americans wasted more than 570 million vacation days in 2006(1) * Unlike 96 other countries, the U.S. has no law governing vacations * U.S. workers receive an average of 14 vacation days but only use 10 a year(1) * By comparison, French workers receive 39 vacation days, and Germans get 27(1) * Americans have increasingly worked more days a year since World War II(2) * A nine-year university study recently found that not taking vacation can increase the chance of heart attack or coronary disease.(3) * In 2006, members of the U.S. Congress clocked 104 days in session – which means they worked exactly two days a week.(4)
We want to stop this trend and begin to reverse it. So we're aiming high and going for a Five Day Weekend.
Oh wait... our government spends money like water and taxes the hell out of us.... so we work more for less....
Hardee's celebrates Booty-Less Women with pancake butts
Topic: Miscellaneous
10:06 pm EDT, Jun 20, 2007
It seems Hardee doesn’t need any reason to celebrate. Be it flat buns, blessed boops or sexy butt; Hardee knows the art of respecting the virgin territories.
The recent launch of a saucy style site viz. FlatBuns designed by Hardee gives reverence to the beauty of flat-bun gals with no ass. But I think the other way around. Ass can be seen as a beauty symbol that two-folds your demand. It’s like having a sexy figure that can be clad in easy-going attire and doesn’t demand the elite outfits to tag you as a hot babe.
The sensual element of the personality of the cheeky chic resides in the blessed boundaries of the body. Commemorating pancake butts, Flat Buns assures that every female isn’t born with a Jennifer Lopez or Hayden Panettiere-like butt.
Am waiting when Hardee would be making an effort to craft a site that would invite rising beauty to spread their charm via Patty Melt Thick Burger shaped butts.
Americans overwhelmingly approve of legislation to prevent hate violence. In fact, three in four (or 68%) support expanding hate crimes laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity and giving local law enforcement the tools and resources they need to investigate and prosecute these tragic acts of bigotry.
I am confident that you will champion the will of voters in your community and the majority of Americans, and bring our federal hate crime laws into the 21st Century, by ensuring that all of our citizens are protected against senseless hate violence.
While a random act of violence against any individual is always a tragic event, we know that violent crimes based on prejudice are meant to terrorize an entire community.
As Americans, we must defend our neighbors from becoming victims of bias-motivated violence.
So get out there and send a message. I am not gay or part of any alternative lifestyle but there is no place for violence in our country even if you think what someone else is doing is wrong. There are other ways to express your views and violence is not the way.
Thousands of Ham Radio operators will be showing off their emergency capabilities on June 23rd and 24th. Over the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio operators providing critical communications in emergencies world-wide. During Hurricane Katrina, Amateur Radio often called Ham radio - was often the ONLY way people could communicate, and hundreds of volunteer hams traveled south to save lives and property. When trouble is brewing, ham radio people are often the first to provide critical information and communications. On the weekend of Jun 23rd and 24th, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with these ham radio operators and see for themselves what the Amateur Radio Service is about. Showing the newest digital and satellite capabilities, voice communications and even historical Morse code, hams from across the USA will be holding public demonstrations of emergency communications abilities.
This annual event, called "Field Day" is the climax of the week long "Amateur Radio Week" sponsored by the ARRL, the National Association for Amateur Radio. Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and back yards around the country. Their slogan, "When all else fails" is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in acrisis. More than 30,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year's event.
"We hope that people will come and see for themselves, this is not your grandfather's radio anymore," said Allen Pitts of the ARRL. "The communications networks that ham radio people can quickly create have saved many lives in the past months when other systems failed or were overloaded.
In the Coffee County area, the Middle Tennessee Amateur Radio Society will be demonstrating Amateur Radio at Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park, on June 23rd and 24th, 2007. They invite the public to come and see ham radio's capabilities and learn how to get their own FCC radio license before the next disaster strikes.
There are 660,000 Amateur Radio operators in the US, and more than 2.5 million around the world.
Through the ARRL, ham volunteers provide emergency communications for the DHS Citizens' Corps, the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, FEMA and thousands of state and local agencies, all for free.
To learn more about Amateur Radio, go to www.emergency-radio.org. The public is most cordially invited to come, meet and talk with the hams. See what modern Amateur Radio can do. They can even help you get on the air!
Presenting Organization
Name - MTARS (Middle Tennessee Amateur Radio Society) Contact Name - Gavin Groce KE4TVV Phone - N/A
Venue
Old Stone Fort State Park 732 Stone Fort Drive Manchester, TN 37355
Start Date - 6/23/07 End Date - 6/24/07 Times - Setup 11AM SAT, OPS 1PM Sat to 1PM Sun, (24hrs)
A shock-wave went through the corporate world 25 years ago when a couple of bright young management consultants detailed organizational excellence in seven basic qualities.
In Search of Excellence… by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman became a world-wide best seller, a first and only for a book on management.
Peters and Waterman had significant scholarship behind them, coming from the Stanford business school, located in midst of what the world knows as Silicon Valley. They began with the premise that an excellent organization – company, charity, government – rises above the others by serving all its stakeholders – customers, shareholders, employees, civil society. What they attempted was a quantification of excellence.
What Peters and fellow McKinsey consultant Waterman learned from big organizations and small was success came more and more from knowing rather than simply making or doing. They wrote about customer satisfaction, nurturing the creative and managing by wandering around.
Management science – from the days of Edwards Deming – has long trained executives from two similar disciplines: engineering and finance. Peters and Waterman, both from engineering disciplines, foresaw the coming of knowledge organizations where solutions are found inside customers’ heads.
Media has always been in the knowledge trade, though not articulated until the dot com boom. Publishers viewed their success in the number of copies sold or amount of advertising sold. Broadcasters invented audience measurement to convert a quantifiable approximation of audience size into money from advertisers.
Statistical and survey methods perfected more than two generations ago founded the currency of media measurement still, mostly, in use today.
Product managers measure brand strength in many of the same terms Peters and Waterman used to quantify excellence.
In the two decades since Peters’ equally famous article “What gets measured, gets done”, managers have focused on the obvious: measure everything. Measure everything and we’ll figure out later whether or not it means anything. Companies like Oracle make fortunes facilitating the storage and manipulation of vast amounts of data. In the media business, nothing is more frightening than a junior media buyer with a PowerMac and version 12 of SPSS.
There is another side to this popular incitement to measurement: What we measure is what we do.
Holy Grails…hardly.
The long running discussion about passive media measurement provides a superb example of curing a problem by changing the patient.
Although the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season had yet to begin, a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) alert for the fictitious "Hurricane Susan" in late March sent special teams of Army Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) emergency responders scurrying to duty stations from Miami to Houston and beyond. Dubbed "Operation Sidewinder," the drill aimed to test a new HF digital backup communication link for airports in case a weather or terrorist event ever compromised conventional telecommunications, as Katrina did in 2005. For this first comprehensive trial run, Army MARS mobilized a new Winlink digital communication system, with Air Force and Navy-Marine Corps MARS members providing active support.
A former Dell kiosk manager writes us to share helpful tips about doing business with Dell. He has no particular problems with Dell, he just wanted to share some helpful tips for consumers looking to get the best deal. He includes info on getting the best deal from the website, different kinds of promotions the Dell offers, insider details on how the kiosk sales reps are compensated, what coupons and deals they have to offer you to close the deal, the email format for Dell in case you're thinking of launching an EECB, where to take your Dell credit card complaints, which extended warranties to avoid, how to get a domestic tech support rep... and more. It's very comprehensive. Enjoy!
NOW talks to director Chris Paine about his upcoming documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" The film looks at the hopeful birth and untimely death of the electric car, an environmentally-friendly, cost-saving salvation to some, but a profit barrier to others.
In a film that has all the elements of a murder mystery, Paine points the finger at car companies, the oil industry, bad ad campaigns, consumer wariness, and a lack of commitment from the U.S. government.
"[The film] is about why the only kind of cars that we can drive run on oil. And for a while there was a terrific alternative, a pure electric car," Paine said.
In 1996, General Motors (G.M.) launched the first modern-day commercially available electric car, the EV1. The car required no fuel and could be plugged in for recharging at home and at a number of so-called battery parks.
Many of the people who leased the car, including a number of celebrities, said the car drove like a dream.
"...the EV1 was a high performer. It could do a U-turn on a dime; it was incredibly quiet and smooth. And it was fast. I could beat any Porsche off the line at a stoplight. I loved it," Actress, Alexandra Paul told NOW.
After California regulators saw G.M.s electric car in the late 1980s, they launched a zero-emissions vehicle program in 1990 to clean up the state's smoggy skies.
Under the program, two percent of all new cars sold had to be electric by 1998 and 10 percent by 2003.
Photo of Alexandra Paul in her EV1, G.M.'s electric car. Actress Alexandra Paul in her EV1, G.M.'s electric car. But it was not to be. A little over 1,000 EV1s were produced by G.M. before the company pulled the plug on the project in 2002 due to insufficient demand. Other major car makers also ceased production of their electric vehicles.
In the wake of a legal challenge from G.M. and DaimlerChrysler, California amended its regulations and abandoned its goals. Shortly thereafter, automakers began reclaiming and dismantling their electrics as they came off lease.
Some suggest that G.M. -- which says it invested some $1 billion in the EV1 -- never really wanted the cars to take off. They say G.M. intentionally sabotaged their own marketing efforts because they feared the car would cannibalize its existing business. G.M. disputes these claims.
Take a trip with us this week as we find out more about why the electric car slipped off the road. Next time on NOW.
Dam I would kill for a call that would let me drive the low 60 miles per charge. I drive less than 20 odd miles to work each day so what is the big deal? And they said that 100-120 miles per charge if GM would have started with, what at the time was new, the NMH battery.
My father wants to build an electric motorcycle but we would have to find a sponsor. I see that it has already been done, but this would be a good way to get to and from work.
Here’s something a little more light for a Friday afternoon, but demonstrates the mainstream media’s biased view of the world.
Among the "Quick Hits" on CNN’s "American Morning" on Friday was a brief on how the drought in the Southeast is affecting the production of Jack Daniels Tennessee whiskey in Lynchburg, Tennessee. The water levels in the cave spring that supplies the Jack Daniels distillery are "dangerously low" according to the brief by co-host John Roberts.
After giving the brief, Roberts and substitute weather forecaster Reynolds Wolf began the weather report with the following exchange:
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JOHN ROBERTS: "Reynolds Wolf is here with a look at the weather forecast, and somebody said to me this morning that that will get Southern conservatives interested in global warming." (Laughs)
REYNOLDS WOLF: "There's no question about it. Absolutely."
I guess the "secret" is out that left-wing media thinks that Southerners are a bunch of hillbilly drunks, and don’t care about climate change like "enlightened" liberals do.
