Years ago, as the nonvoluntary subject of a telephone call-demand strategy, the same old hackneyed argument about employees "doing all the work" was repeatedly used to bombard respondents who normally would be busy with their own professions. Perhaps the intent was to increase perquisites for oil-industry workers, who work in dirty and dangerous circumstances. Rather then write up some kind of referendum or public-interest lawsuit, the tack was taken to open up the industry to employee buy-out procedures.
One of the first employee-owned-and-operated businesses was therefore the former Kendall Oil Refinery in Bradford, PA, that was acquired and its title changed to 'American Refining Group'. Gloating and boasting abounded, with visions of international wealth and labor-union accolades predominant.
However, the 'new option' was being touted and implemented within the Business Administration domain of human endeavor, and the reality was that any business could be henceforth petitioned to be an employee buy-out. The belly-buster result was that a Taco Bell franchise restaurant in San Francisco, CA, became the following employee-owned-and-operated acquisition using the new procedures.
ARG continues to operate, with a newly-learned tolerance for direct laughter -- a tolerance become necessary and perhaps used as reference to justify the increase in gasoline prices at the pump.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Wexler's Nightmare -- by Rays
More notes from the regional newspapers and NetZero ISP:
o Stuart News issue dated 5/23/2008 -- 'Sweden tops U. S. in World Cup' (tennis)
o Website Topix. net, Stuart, FL location -- the Palm Beach Post describes the ordeal of a diver certified in 1983, who floated 22 hours in the Atlantic Ocean near Jensen Beach after his "scooter, a motorized device that helps propel divers through water...lost power...exploring an artificial reef...".
o In Bradford, PA, a downtown building has the name 'Ball' painted on it, faded over a time period of decades. Scouts of America family members experience the sudden deaths of local children being "exhorted" during Civil Defense networking, which also threatens trespass charges, both within Bradford environs, in Dubois, PA, and elsewhere.
The Ray-O-Vac company then offers a "FREE WALLoE Rolling Toy by mail with purchase" of its company's hearing-aid batteries, and also advertises the Disney-Pixar film titled 'WALLoE' "only in theatres".
The 'Moo' Graham newspaper story states that the boy is staying with his godmother. Other regional journalism has described the recent discovery of human remains (including a child) in vehicles submerged in canals, some submerged decades without recovery.
o Stuart News issue dated 5/23/2008 -- 'Sweden tops U. S. in World Cup' (tennis)
o Website Topix. net, Stuart, FL location -- the Palm Beach Post describes the ordeal of a diver certified in 1983, who floated 22 hours in the Atlantic Ocean near Jensen Beach after his "scooter, a motorized device that helps propel divers through water...lost power...exploring an artificial reef...".
o In Bradford, PA, a downtown building has the name 'Ball' painted on it, faded over a time period of decades. Scouts of America family members experience the sudden deaths of local children being "exhorted" during Civil Defense networking, which also threatens trespass charges, both within Bradford environs, in Dubois, PA, and elsewhere.
The Ray-O-Vac company then offers a "FREE WALLoE Rolling Toy by mail with purchase" of its company's hearing-aid batteries, and also advertises the Disney-Pixar film titled 'WALLoE' "only in theatres".
The 'Moo' Graham newspaper story states that the boy is staying with his godmother. Other regional journalism has described the recent discovery of human remains (including a child) in vehicles submerged in canals, some submerged decades without recovery.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Welcome to 'Wexler's Nightmare'
The year is 2008 A. D., post-hurricanes.
Today's notetaking from the Stuart News:
o Issue dated 5/26/2008 -- front page shows photo of a fish hatchery at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce holding young fish in an indoor tank; plus a story about the Driftwood Motel in Jensen Beach and an acquisition celebration of brothers from Brooklyn, NY, 50 years ago who own fishing cottages near the Indian River Lagoon; plus description of a wounded manatee in the C-23 canal in Palm City, evading capture near a submerged vehicle at the canal's bottom.
Huh?
o Next, issue dated 5/27/2008 -- front page story detailing real estate attorney Robert Klein's rescue of his sons from rip tides but his own life lost; then, a condensed version of the adoption career of Judith Leekin from New York City, who took Shane 'Moo' Graham "from a Port Saint Lucie apartment in July 2000 and returned a half hour later without him. PSL police have asked for the public's help to locate Graham... ".
Cut to past issues describing the visit of transAtlantic sailor Thomas Grahn from Sweden, in Martin County with his much-older mentor and traveling companion.
o Meanwhile, Bradford, PA, prepares to host its annual 'Stinkfest' which features a focus on leek cuisine. Leeks in the region become available in early summer but are quite small and must be wrested from the soil in Allegheny State Park, NY.
So, is the boy lost in the submerged vehicle?
Today's notetaking from the Stuart News:
o Issue dated 5/26/2008 -- front page shows photo of a fish hatchery at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce holding young fish in an indoor tank; plus a story about the Driftwood Motel in Jensen Beach and an acquisition celebration of brothers from Brooklyn, NY, 50 years ago who own fishing cottages near the Indian River Lagoon; plus description of a wounded manatee in the C-23 canal in Palm City, evading capture near a submerged vehicle at the canal's bottom.
Huh?
o Next, issue dated 5/27/2008 -- front page story detailing real estate attorney Robert Klein's rescue of his sons from rip tides but his own life lost; then, a condensed version of the adoption career of Judith Leekin from New York City, who took Shane 'Moo' Graham "from a Port Saint Lucie apartment in July 2000 and returned a half hour later without him. PSL police have asked for the public's help to locate Graham... ".
Cut to past issues describing the visit of transAtlantic sailor Thomas Grahn from Sweden, in Martin County with his much-older mentor and traveling companion.
o Meanwhile, Bradford, PA, prepares to host its annual 'Stinkfest' which features a focus on leek cuisine. Leeks in the region become available in early summer but are quite small and must be wrested from the soil in Allegheny State Park, NY.
So, is the boy lost in the submerged vehicle?
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Taller but no' wiser -- the scandal continues
The Future Teachers of America was initiated as a organization some decades ago, but as is usual with such start-ups its actual inception has been post-dated. The quickness of the FTA start-up is directly correlated with the lack of student classroom health, where students have been ritually seated in alphabetical order, at least one desk intentionally placed directly in front of the teacher's desk with little or no leeway (i.e., "snug up"). Teachers want more money, or more transfer-out procedures, or the freedom to write up what they can glean from confined student minds and about diverse student bodies.
Each student seated snug up against the teacher's desk remains in the same position for nine months of a school year, and his/her functioning is directly affected by the position. Needing more time than others to 'straighten out' after and between classes, some invariably crumple and are sometimes trampled -- whereupon the other students are attacked by the victim's relatives and aspiring military fanatics. Others so seated have learned to direct angst toward specific students during classroom time, so that names deemed objectionable as a use of assigned history-book readings become the focus of fierce and painful looks, and sometimes ear-searing complaints.
Efforts to articulate the serious physio/psychiatric problems that such seating does cause are countered with debate-style quasi-'oracles' such as "They teach health classes, don't they?" which serve to continue ongoing celebration about the the assumed status of the teaching profession.
*****************
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge is an interesting shoreline park and in theory a visit should be both peaceful and in tune with the balance of nature. However, the situation suggests that ordnance is yet embedded in the sandy parklands such that the term 'wildlife refuge' is a dream made real only in print.
The entrance adjoins a parking lot; there is a small office and a descriptive sign is posted outlining the park rules, which also provides tags for each vehicle and a slot wherein the entrance fee should be placed ($5.00). However, at the present time some political action undertaken in FL has been presented that asks voters to approve a measure that would allow the National Guard to enter and use such parks without paying a fee -- a blithe extension of their free-entry duties during assigned surveillance or taskwork.
Some soldiers are not waiting for the referendum to be placed before the voting constitutency and possibly do not believe that any legal referendum is needed at all. They do not pay and have never intended to pay a park entrance fee -- these are the constituents who also race into local businesses through the back-door when-ever any other soldier tells them to do so, right or wrong.
Our visit to HSNWR was impacted with the sudden arrival of vehicles bearing Michigan license plates whose visitors did not pay a fee and were busy acting-out their own maneuvers as a result from influence-network input (i.e., to introduce two young people to the region, one male bearing the name 'Simon' and the other a female with the name 'Carly'). My daughter and I tried to stroll in the sand and enjoy the ocean breezes while those stalked around in a confrontational way.
Two other young men were fishing in the 'wildlife refuge'; during a later week, two such brothers were reported in local journalism as having "jumped" into the south fork of the St. Lucie River from the causeway beneath the bridge that spans the river from Stuart to Palm City, where they died (one was recovered immediately, the other lost in the waters that flow through the St. Lucie Locks regional parklands a few miles southward).
These are all examples of post-hurricanes activity within Martin County. Will Representative Wexler, hoping to expand the perquisites of military duty in the region, be able to stay 'on track' with overseas-assignment disclosure issues or will the heady prospect of another X-name pasted on a FL county map occasion multiple courts-martial instead?
Each student seated snug up against the teacher's desk remains in the same position for nine months of a school year, and his/her functioning is directly affected by the position. Needing more time than others to 'straighten out' after and between classes, some invariably crumple and are sometimes trampled -- whereupon the other students are attacked by the victim's relatives and aspiring military fanatics. Others so seated have learned to direct angst toward specific students during classroom time, so that names deemed objectionable as a use of assigned history-book readings become the focus of fierce and painful looks, and sometimes ear-searing complaints.
Efforts to articulate the serious physio/psychiatric problems that such seating does cause are countered with debate-style quasi-'oracles' such as "They teach health classes, don't they?" which serve to continue ongoing celebration about the the assumed status of the teaching profession.
*****************
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge is an interesting shoreline park and in theory a visit should be both peaceful and in tune with the balance of nature. However, the situation suggests that ordnance is yet embedded in the sandy parklands such that the term 'wildlife refuge' is a dream made real only in print.
The entrance adjoins a parking lot; there is a small office and a descriptive sign is posted outlining the park rules, which also provides tags for each vehicle and a slot wherein the entrance fee should be placed ($5.00). However, at the present time some political action undertaken in FL has been presented that asks voters to approve a measure that would allow the National Guard to enter and use such parks without paying a fee -- a blithe extension of their free-entry duties during assigned surveillance or taskwork.
Some soldiers are not waiting for the referendum to be placed before the voting constitutency and possibly do not believe that any legal referendum is needed at all. They do not pay and have never intended to pay a park entrance fee -- these are the constituents who also race into local businesses through the back-door when-ever any other soldier tells them to do so, right or wrong.
Our visit to HSNWR was impacted with the sudden arrival of vehicles bearing Michigan license plates whose visitors did not pay a fee and were busy acting-out their own maneuvers as a result from influence-network input (i.e., to introduce two young people to the region, one male bearing the name 'Simon' and the other a female with the name 'Carly'). My daughter and I tried to stroll in the sand and enjoy the ocean breezes while those stalked around in a confrontational way.
Two other young men were fishing in the 'wildlife refuge'; during a later week, two such brothers were reported in local journalism as having "jumped" into the south fork of the St. Lucie River from the causeway beneath the bridge that spans the river from Stuart to Palm City, where they died (one was recovered immediately, the other lost in the waters that flow through the St. Lucie Locks regional parklands a few miles southward).
These are all examples of post-hurricanes activity within Martin County. Will Representative Wexler, hoping to expand the perquisites of military duty in the region, be able to stay 'on track' with overseas-assignment disclosure issues or will the heady prospect of another X-name pasted on a FL county map occasion multiple courts-martial instead?
Monday, July 7, 2008
Hip-Hop Hunger -- A square meal and a raw deal
Some years ago, not too far in the past, the Campbell's Soup Company was 'influenced' to provide a more substantial canned soup. The new soups are marketed with 'Chunky' and 'Select' appellations and feature meat machine-cut into squares. Other soup companies followed the example and frozen plastic-bagged meals also feature the stamped-out meat.
Truly, it has become imperative to determine whether the death rate among such soup afficionados has increased, perhaps with formal academic study, as the paranoia rate among farm animals has necessarily increased. Are more humans smeared over the highways or flipped into bodies of water since the company changed their fare from the predominantly condensed soup line that contains shreds and bits of meat and vegetables -- a change to ready-to-eat canned soups sold in a variety of containers with large squares of meats and veggies?
Campbell has most recently provided a condensed form of lentil soup that is very similar to the Progresso brand ready-to-eat lentil soup with a comparable iron mineral content.
Hurrah!
Truly, it has become imperative to determine whether the death rate among such soup afficionados has increased, perhaps with formal academic study, as the paranoia rate among farm animals has necessarily increased. Are more humans smeared over the highways or flipped into bodies of water since the company changed their fare from the predominantly condensed soup line that contains shreds and bits of meat and vegetables -- a change to ready-to-eat canned soups sold in a variety of containers with large squares of meats and veggies?
Campbell has most recently provided a condensed form of lentil soup that is very similar to the Progresso brand ready-to-eat lentil soup with a comparable iron mineral content.
Hurrah!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Whoa
During my first visit to Stuart, FL's Kingswood Condo complex, I purchased a bag of black-shelled sunflower seeds from Dollar General so as to feed the birds -- many quite large and ranging about the complex. Carrion-eating is quite a ghastly nutritional method, and the seeds are a welcome change from the sight of small mammals being carried away and stripped pelts lying around.
As previously reported, I had discovered a tiny artifact when I was a child and have been constantly seeking an appropriate container to hold it, during the past four+ decades, such as a jar of some kind.
Lo and behold, while removing trash from the nearby preserve-type property, I discovered a black thin-walled bulb-type thing lying in the grass beneath the palm trees -- it appeared to have been a meld of cast-off sunflower seeds, and was hollow as a jar is but very fragile, as if a large bird had swallowed many sunflower seeds, absorbed their inner contents, and then expelled the remaining compressed seedshells from an execretory organ having some volume.
The tiny artifact had been discovered beneath a limestone roadside-rest monument in northwestern Pennsylvania.
As previously reported, I had discovered a tiny artifact when I was a child and have been constantly seeking an appropriate container to hold it, during the past four+ decades, such as a jar of some kind.
Lo and behold, while removing trash from the nearby preserve-type property, I discovered a black thin-walled bulb-type thing lying in the grass beneath the palm trees -- it appeared to have been a meld of cast-off sunflower seeds, and was hollow as a jar is but very fragile, as if a large bird had swallowed many sunflower seeds, absorbed their inner contents, and then expelled the remaining compressed seedshells from an execretory organ having some volume.
The tiny artifact had been discovered beneath a limestone roadside-rest monument in northwestern Pennsylvania.
Military Mobs
To several generations raised with television sets in their homes, the phrase "have gun will travel" seems to be an axiom especially applicable to the large numbers of military-service recruits who use their training to relocate to the environments of their own choice.
With the past few decades, military mobs have taken over a number of international locales after mental transmission of a mental-set of worldwide palm trees. (The term 'mental telepathy' was also removed from some dictionaries.)
Growing up in Bradford, PA, guns were mostly used as a way to secure a fresh meal, when wildlife trespassed on family property, other creatures either curious or because pushed onto personal property as a strategy. 'Trespassing' was therefore a key word within that region and others, since the wanton killing of other species destroyed the balance of nature and ensured fatal conflicts among other species in different settings. 'Trespassing' was also used to intimidate other people, with the inference that the trans-Atlantic immigrant William Bradford might just as well have dispatched indigenous people without the close proximity of turkeys.
The movements of military mobs are documented in housing and employment records, as well as in history books, but the reasoning behind such moves remains largely without explanation. The use of the mental-set of historical palm-trees, said trees now 100+ years old located throughout the planet, is omitted from the public records using the keyword 'private' as rationale--although the word 'secret' is more appropriate as a cause of friction and mob-type damage evident in such regions (including evident hurricanes and earthquakes as a way to clear out interlopers). Military maneuvers have proceeded throughout the planet without explanation or reasoning reported, with a consistent pattern of conflict/warfare resulting.
Those 'crashing' near a special palm-tree have little explanation for their actions and behavior other than some belief that the tree is part of their family history. Military personnel carrying such mental images in their memories are helpless to counteract the kind of strategies that assign them to posts near such trees, or to resist the reactions of inhabitants both domestic and foreign to such a specific focus upon an individual tree, including the hardship of maneuvers to claim and secure such palm-tree locales among well-armed troop members.
Whereever such conflict becomes 'inevitable' during overseas occupations or domestic forays, the actual focus within specific regions should be routinely documented, rather than remain a military or state secret.
With the past few decades, military mobs have taken over a number of international locales after mental transmission of a mental-set of worldwide palm trees. (The term 'mental telepathy' was also removed from some dictionaries.)
Growing up in Bradford, PA, guns were mostly used as a way to secure a fresh meal, when wildlife trespassed on family property, other creatures either curious or because pushed onto personal property as a strategy. 'Trespassing' was therefore a key word within that region and others, since the wanton killing of other species destroyed the balance of nature and ensured fatal conflicts among other species in different settings. 'Trespassing' was also used to intimidate other people, with the inference that the trans-Atlantic immigrant William Bradford might just as well have dispatched indigenous people without the close proximity of turkeys.
The movements of military mobs are documented in housing and employment records, as well as in history books, but the reasoning behind such moves remains largely without explanation. The use of the mental-set of historical palm-trees, said trees now 100+ years old located throughout the planet, is omitted from the public records using the keyword 'private' as rationale--although the word 'secret' is more appropriate as a cause of friction and mob-type damage evident in such regions (including evident hurricanes and earthquakes as a way to clear out interlopers). Military maneuvers have proceeded throughout the planet without explanation or reasoning reported, with a consistent pattern of conflict/warfare resulting.
Those 'crashing' near a special palm-tree have little explanation for their actions and behavior other than some belief that the tree is part of their family history. Military personnel carrying such mental images in their memories are helpless to counteract the kind of strategies that assign them to posts near such trees, or to resist the reactions of inhabitants both domestic and foreign to such a specific focus upon an individual tree, including the hardship of maneuvers to claim and secure such palm-tree locales among well-armed troop members.
Whereever such conflict becomes 'inevitable' during overseas occupations or domestic forays, the actual focus within specific regions should be routinely documented, rather than remain a military or state secret.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
