What they're saying about Roy Beck ...

"All sides can learn from Roy Beck" — Business Week

"Always balanced and never strident" — Washington Post

"Compassionate, profoundly moral" — Louisville Courier-Journal

"Roy Beck's gentle tone, sympathetic to native Americans and immigrants alike, is a welcome contrast to the strident approach taken by most commentators on both sides of the immigration issue" — Norman Matloff, professor of computer science, University of California, Davis

"No one has made a better case for immigration reductions" — Foreign Affairs

"Virtually irrefutable" — New York Post

"A populist reminiscent of classic investigative writers such as Upton Sinclair" — Vernon Briggs, labor economist, Cornell University

"Beck documents the way employers have used cheap immigrant labor to slash pay or worsen working conditions in blue collar jobs" — Boston Globe

"Gently and in a distinctly democratic and liberal tone of voice, Roy Beck makes the case for returning immigration to traditional levels" — Jack Miles, 1996 Pulitzer-winning author

"Raises the moral and analytical level of the immigration debate" — Herman E. Daly, ecological economist

Computer Tip ...

Managing the Print Queue

Sometimes after sending a bunch of files to a printer, you find that nothing’s getting printed, and you need to check out the printer queue to find out what is or is not going on. Because Windows XP supports background printing, a printer queue can get pretty stacked up with print jobs even when everything is proceeding normally.

To check out the print jobs in your printer queue, you need to follow these steps:

1. Open the Printer window with the printer queue by double-clicking the printer shortcut on the Windows desktop. If you haven’t made such a shortcut, right-click the printer icon in the Notification area (also known as the system tray) on the far-right side of the Windows taskbar and then select Open All Active Printers and Faxes on the pop-up menu that appears.

2. After the window with the print jobs queued up for your printer opens, you can do any of the following things to the contents:

To temporarily pause the printing of the documents in the print queue, choose Printer, Pause Printing.

To remove a particular file from the print queue, select it in the list and then click Document, Cancel. To cancel the printing of all the documents, click Printer, Cancel All Documents instead.

To change the position of a document in the print queue, drag the print queue description to a new position in the list (you can tell where the print job will appear by the appearance of the dark I-beam at the mouse pointer). Note that you can’t move a print job to a new position in the queue if the document status shows that the job is currently being printed.

3. After you finish reviewing and changing the settings for the jobs in the print queue, click the Close box on the printer window.

Windows XP For Dummies Quick Reference, by Greg Harvey, puts Windows essentials at your fingertips.

Mother Nature Loves Coffee Grounds

In an era when we're all doing our best to protect our special planet, reviewing what we throw away is as natural as, well, drinking coffee! As it happens, spent coffee grounds are totally recyclable all year 'round in all sorts of ways.

Toss the grounds into your counter-top composting bin or into large garden or community composts. Worm composts are particularly great places for coffee grounds. Next time you go to the hardware store, check out the many styles of counter-top composting jars. They're nicely designed, offer a great alternative to the garbage disposal, and the compost that results is excellent for both indoor houseplants and outdoor plants, bushes, vegetables or flowers.

Coffee grounds can also play a role now that summer fishing experiences are just around the corner. Worms for fishing can be kept in a jar of coffee grounds; the worms will feed on them until their bait duty.

If composting is not for you, spent coffee grounds can still be used with plants. Mix the coffee grounds with potting soil to transplant houseplants, sprinkle the grounds directly on top of the soil of houseplants or outdoor ones. Acid-loving plants like hydrangeas, pine trees, and berry bushes love the nutrients from ground coffee!

Come wintertime next year, make a note to spread coffee grounds on icy sidewalks. The grounds provide a kind of traction to avoid dangerous falls yet they do not damage deck material or concrete as corrosive salts can do. And, when rain washes the grounds into the grass, your lawn benefits. To avoid tracking grounds into the house, always wipe your shoes on an inviting mat.

Source: SupermarketGuru.com

The Seed ~ Thanks to Mr. Jim Knudsen

A successful Christian business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together.

He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you."

The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued, "I am going to give each one of you a SEED today -- one very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO."

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and, excitedly, told his wife the story She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. Every day, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew.

Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.

The Nature of Success ~ Thanks to Mr. Skip Munson

Very Inspirational

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Creation ~ Thanks Ms. Perrilee Pizzini

On the first day, God created the dog and said: "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years."

The dog said: "That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the other ten?"

So God agreed.

On the second day, God created the monkey and said: "Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a twenty-year life span"

The monkey said: "Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?"

And God agreed.

On the third day, God created the cow and said: "You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years."

The cow said: "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?"

And God agreed again.

On the fourth day, God created man and said: "Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty years."

But man said: "Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?"

"Okay," said God, "You asked for it."

So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the  grandchildren. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you ...

Spring Flowers ~ Thanks to Ms. Florence Pierson

Ponder this ~ Thanks to Mr. John Lopez

In 1923, Who Was:

1. President of the largest steel company?

2. President of the largest gas company?

3. President of the New York Stock Exchange?

4. Geatest wheat speculator?

5. President of the Bank of International Settlement?

6. Great Bear of Wall Street?

These men were considered some of the worlds most successful of their days. Now, 80 years later, the history book asks us if we know what ultimately became of them.

The Answers:

1. The president of the largest steel company. Charles Schwab, died a pauper.

2. The president of the largest gas company, Edward Hopson, went insane.

3. The presiden t of the NYSE, Richard Whitney, was released from prison
to die at home.

4. The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cooger, died abroad, penniless.

5. The president of the Bank of International Settlement, shot himself.

6. The Great Bear of Wall Street, Cosabee Livermore, also committed suicide.

However: in that same year, 1923, and the winner of the most important golf tournament, the US Open, was Gene Sarazen. What became of him?

He played golf until he was 92, died in 1999 at the age of 95. He was financially secure at the time of his death.

The Moral: Screw work. Play golf.