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WAKEUPWALMART.COM LAUNCHES 2006 ""CHANGE WAL-MART, CHANGE AMERICA"" CROSS-COUNTRY BUS TOUR
NATIONWIDE EVENTS PLANNED WITH PROMINENT POLITICAL LEADERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS FROM COAST-TO-COAST/ BUS TOUR TO VISIT 19 STATES, 35 CITIES IN 35 DAYS
Washington D.C. – WakeUpWalMart.com, America's campaign to change Wal-Mart, is taking its national movement, and headquarters, on the road in a non-stop cross-country tour hitting 19 states, 35 cities, in 35 days. The nationwide bus tour, titled the ""2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America Tour,"" is an unprecedented and exciting new move in the group's campaign to change Wal-Mart into a responsible and moral employer.
The tour launches on August 1st in New York City and ends in Seattle on September 4th, Labor Day. During the tour, the WakeUpWalMart.com campaign will hold a series of events each day with supporters and political leaders to build public awareness about the need for Wal-Mart to change into a better corporate citizen. Some of the nation's most prominent civic and political leaders will take part in the tour, including former Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate and former U.S. Senator John Edwards, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Sherrod Brown, Maryland U.S. Senate candidates Congressman Ben Cardin and former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont, Connecticut Governor candidate, John DeStefano, Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Anna Burger, President of the Change-to-Win labor federation, and many others. Additional announcements concerning speakers and event details will be made ahead of each of the tour stops.
""Whether it is at community meetings of 20 people, town halls, busy public squares, metro stops or state fairs with thousands of people, we are taking our campaign to change Wal-Mart directly to the American people because we know by joining together we can change Wal-Mart and change America for the better,"" said Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com.
On the ""2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America"" bus tour WakeUpWalMart.com will be holding a series of events and actions all across America, including townhalls, community meetings, canvasses, as well as a summer membership drive at sporting events, state fairs, public squares, and at various Wal-Mart stores. In addition, as part of the 5-week tour, WakeUpWalMart.com will also release a new 30-second ad, titled ""One Mission"" that will air in cities across the country in coordination with the tour stops.
""From the East Coast, to America's heartland to the West Coast, we are asking Americans to join the fight for a better America where workers have good paying jobs and affordable health benefits. Our goal is to unleash an exciting new grassroots movement to hold corporations accountable, empower the American people, and make Wal-Mart a responsible corporate citizen that provides affordable health care, pays a living wage, protects American jobs and reflects the best of our values,"" added Blank.
The star of the ""2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America"" tour is a 55-foot long bus (more like a monster billboard) nicknamed ""Smiley."" The bus will be wrapped side-to-side and front-to-back in a patriotic American flag emblazoned with the group's website, WakeUpWalMart.com, and the name of the tour, ""2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America Tour."" In addition, on each side of the bus, the central messages of the tour will be highlighted for all to see – including ""Join America's Fight for Health Care,"" ""Join America's Fight for Good Jobs"" and ""Join the Fight for a Better America.""
A unique feature of the tour will be a new power point presentation which will be unveiled at various town halls and community meetings. The power point, modeled after Vice President Al Gore's recent documentary is titled, ""A Costly Truth,"" and will serve as a powerful tool to educate the American public about why Wal-Mart needs to change, the national cost we are paying because of Wal-Mart's business model, and how Wal-Mart threatens America's middle class.
During the 35-day tour, the details and location for each day's planned events will be made available at WakeUpWalMart.com in a special section which will chronicle the groups adventures and experiences, as well as provide a video blog, photo updates, and a journal of each day's events and experiences.
A list of the cities, events, and tour dates are below. Please visit WakeUpWalMart.com to learn more about details of events and get updates on any last minute changes.
1-Aug New York NY
2-Aug Bridgeport CT
2-Aug Philadelphia PA
3-Aug Baltimore MD
4-Aug Pittsburgh PA
5-Aug Detroit MI
6-Aug Toledo OH
7-Aug Cleveland OH
7-Aug Elyria OH
8-Aug Columbus OH
9-Aug Cincinnati OH
9-Aug Dayton OH
10-Aug Springfield IL
11-Aug St. Louis MO
12-Aug Andersonville IL
12-Aug Chicago IL
13-Aug Milwaukee WI
14-Aug Madison WI
15-Aug Minneapolis MN
16-Aug Davenport IA
17-Aug Waterloo IA
18-Aug Iowa City IA
19-Aug Des Moines IA
20-Aug Council Bluffs IA
21-Aug Omaha NE
22-Aug Denver CO
22-Aug Pueblo CO
24-Aug Albuquerque NM
25-Aug Phoenix AZ
26-Aug Las Vegas NV
26-Aug Los Angeles CA
27-Aug Santa Ana CA
27-Aug Rosemead CA
28-Aug San Francisco CA
29-Aug Oakland CA
29-Aug San Jose CA
30-Aug Sacramento CA
1-Sep Salem OR
2-Sep Portland OR
4-Sep Seattle WA
Despite multiple headlines in October 2005 which read ""Wal-Mart Urges Congress to Raise the Minimum Wage,"" Wal-Mart announced today it does not support raising the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
According to an article in this morning's Roll Call, Lee Culpepper said Wal-Mart's CEO Lee Scott's statement was 'misinterpreted,' and that 'Scott was not calling for Congress to raise the minimum wage.'
""Wal-Mart's flip flop on the minimum wage is a cynical about-face which hurts America's working families,"" said Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com. ""This is hypocrisy at its worst and the American people are the ones that will pay the price,"" continued Blank.
In this morning's article, Lee Culpepper insisted, ""I think what he (Mr. Scott) said was clear."" Mr. Culpepper is right. Mr. Scott's statement was clear. He said the minimum wage was 'out of date with the times' and therefore should be raised.
Here is what Mr. Scott said in October 2005, ""The U.S. minimum wage of $5.15 an hour has not been raised in nearly a decade and we believe it is out of date with the times…while it is unusual for us to take a public position on a public policy issue of this kind, we simply believe it is time for Congress to take a responsible look at the minimum wage and other legislation that may help working families.""
Blank continued, ""Wal-Mart's flip-flop proves the company's publicity stunts are nothing more than a sham. Wal-Mart will say anything, even lie about its position on the minimum wage, in order to try and salvage its declining public image.""
Critics: Wal-Mart Flip-Flopped
By Tory Newmyer
Last October, Wal-Mart chief executive Lee Scott made waves by urging Congress to consider raising the federal minimum wage – something many retailers had long opposed.
He noted that the store's own customers are ""struggling to get by,"" then added that ""while it is unusual for us to take a public position on a public policy issue of this kind, we simply believe it is time for Congress to take a responsible look at the minimum wage and other legislation that may help working families.""
The declaration came as part of a broader push by the low-cost retailer to put a friendlier face on its often troubled corporate image.
But now, with both chambers of Congress mulling hikes to the federal pay standard, Wal-Mart's critics are charging that the company has abandoned Scott's pledge to support a higher wage. They say that after reaping good public relations from Scott's statement last fall, Wal-Mart has cynically dumped the issue, even as major trade groups it belongs to, primarily the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Retail Industry Leaders Association, help lead the fight against a higher minimum wage.
""They did this for PR reasons, and then the true colors come out when the talk no longer meets up with that action. In this case, it's pretty obvious,"" said Chris Kofinis, spokesman for Wake Up Wal-Mart, a group that's critical of the company's practices.
Wal-Mart officials acknowledge, and several Congressional aides confirm, that the retail giant is sitting out the debate on the minimum wage increase. But the company disputes the notion that the move amounts to an about-face from the position Scott represented last fall.
Instead, Lee Culpepper, the company's top lobbyist in Washington, D.C., said the chief executive's statement was misinterpreted. Scott was not calling for Congress to raise the minimum wage, Culpepper said – he simply was asking lawmakers to consider the issue.
""We haven't said anything more or less,"" Culpepper said on Tuesday. ""I think what he said was clear. He said Congress should take a look at it. If reporters want to report differently from that, I can't speak to that.""
Culpepper said the company's lobbyists have communicated Wal-Mart's position on the issue to its trade groups.
""We've just made them aware that we've encouraged Congress to take a look at an increase in the minimum wage,"" he said. But he said the company has not gone so far as to ask the trade groups not to lobby on the issue, leaving it up to them ""to determine their association position.""
To Wal-Mart's critics, the company's inaction, combined with the robust opposition to a wage hike thrown up by trade groups it belongs to, add up to a backdoor push by the nation's largest employer to stifle a higher pay standard.
Wake Up Wal-Mart, a group primarily funded by labor groups, last week challenged the company to endorse raising the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour, after plans put forward by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), and then to lobby in support of the change.
With any such outcome facing long odds, the company's detractors are trying to tell the story of what they call Wal-Mart's ""Potomac two-step"" on Capitol Hill.
""We want to hold Lee Scott to his word,"" said Nu Wexler, spokesman for Wal-Mart Watch, another labor-funded group targeting the company.
Tom Kiley, a spokesman for House Education and the Workforce ranking member Miller, said Democrats are disappointed with Wal-Mart's absence from the debate.
""At the time [of Scott's statement], we welcomed that,"" he said. ""Since then, we haven't heard from them at all. That's unfortunate, obviously.""
This sparring comes as the company, expanding into urban areas dominated in Congress by Democrats, has stepped up its outreach to members of the minority party.
Wal-Mart in recent years has directed an increasing portion of its political donations to Democrats, giving them nearly 30 percent of their political action committee dollars so far this cycle. That's still just a fraction of what the company gives to Republicans, but it's up from the minuscule 2 percent a decade ago, according to figures available from PoliticalMoneyLine.com.
Scott, the chief executive, huddled with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in February, and top Wal-Mart officials met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus last spring.
But Republicans have remained the company's most stalwart defenders on tax, health care and labor issues, among other things. And this summer, debate over a minimum wage increase has taken on a highly partisan tone. While most GOPers argue bumping up the pay standard would hurt small businesses, Democrats counter that the current wage, untouched in a decade, traps millions below the poverty line.
The minority party is rallying around the issue as an antidote to flag-burning, gay marriage and estate tax debates stoked by Republicans to rile their own base for the upcoming elections.
Last week, eight Senate Republicans joined 43 Democrats and an Independent in supporting a wage hike, but the votes fell short of the 60 required to clear its passage. Senate Democrats are vowing to keep the issue front and center, with Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) now tying the matter to a Congressional pay increase.
On the House side, Democrats are trying to attach a minimum wage increase to spending bills. After successfully adding it to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, House Republican leaders pulled the bill from the floor schedule. House GOP leaders are signaling they will not allow a floor vote on the minimum wage this year, and it is unclear how that standoff will be resolved.
In addition, a flurry of minimum-wage initiatives may end up on ballots nationwide, designed both for their ability to improve Democratic voter turnout as well as for the goal of improving pay for low-income workers.
For his part, Wal-Mart lobbyist Culpepper said he remains available to explain Wal-Mart's position on the wage issue.
""One of our key missions is to meet with Members on Capitol Hill to correct the record about what our critics have said about us,"" he said.
WAKEUPWALMART.COM RUNS A FULL-PAGE AD WITH AN OPEN LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS STATING
Bentonville, AR – Today, WakeUpWalMart.com, America's campaign to change Wal-Mart, released a letter to Wal-Mart's shareholders entitled, ""Wal-Mart Can Do Better."" The letter will be handed out to shareholders at Wal-Mart's annual shareholder meeting and will run in a statewide, full page ad in the Arkansas Democratic Gazette.
The ""Wal-Mart Can Do Better"" letter reminds shareholders of Sam Walton's 10 rules for success. Rule #2 on Sam's list was to value your associates. The letter states, ""Sadly, Wal-Mart's current management has abandoned Sam's vision and forgotten Sam's rule #2 – value your associates.""
In the last few months, Wal-Mart's current management has decided to dramatically slash workers' hours, cut over 200,000 employees from full-time to part-time, leave 54% of Wal-Mart's workers without company health care, not to adopt a ""zero tolerance policy"" on child labor or address the fact that 1.6 million female employees are suing Wal-Mart for gender discrimination.
""Rather than value Wal-Mart's employees or reflect the best of Sam Walton's vision, Wal-Mart's current leadership has decided to invest in right-wing war rooms and make store changes that are destroying worker morale and putting Wal-Mart's public image at risk,"" said Paul Blank, campaign director, WakeUpWalMart.com.
The letter calls on Wal-Mart's shareholders to join with WakeUpWalMart.com and join the movement to change Wal-Mart into a better business ""on behalf of its employees, its shareholders and the American people.""
The letter states, ""What we are asking for – paying 1.3 million employees a living wage, providing affordable health care, and creating a safe and just work environment – is not only the right thing to do, but will make Wal-Mart a more successful company.""
The full text of the letter is below and is available at www.WakeUpWalMart.com.
""WAL-MART CAN DO BETTER""
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
Rule #2, Sam Walton's 10 Rules for Success
Dear Wal-Mart Shareholders,
One of Sam Walton's guiding principles that made Wal-Mart a success was to value the company's associates. Sam Walton believed Wal-Mart's success would rise and fall based on how well, or poorly, Wal-Mart treated its workers and their families. Sadly, Wal-Mart's current management has abandoned Sam's vision and forgotten Sam's rule #2 – value your associates.
The truth is the American people and their elected representatives have a hard time understanding why Wal-Mart, with $11.2 billion in annual profits, has a record which fails to reflect the best of America's, and Sam's, values.
We believe, and we think Sam Walton would agree, ""Wal-Mart Can Do Better.""
Wal-Mart has an incredible opportunity to ""seize the moment"" and pursue real change on behalf of its employees, its shareholders and the American people. What we are asking for – paying 1.3 million employees a living wage, providing affordable health care, and creating a safe and just work environment – is not only the right thing to do, but will make Wal-Mart a more successful company.
Just as Sam Walton understood, large profitable corporations, like Wal-Mart, have an important social responsibility and economic interest to not only be as good and great as they can be, but to be as good and great as their size and wealth affords.
In that spirit, we're calling on all Wal-Mart shareholders to join with us at WakeUpWalMart.com in our national movement to change Wal-Mart and change America for the better.
We hope you will join with us.
NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS WAL-MART WORKING CLOSELY WITH RIGHT WING ATTACK GROUP
GROUP CALLS ON WAL-MART TO FIRE BOB MCADAM AND LEE CULPEPPER AND END RELATIONSHIP WITH RIGHT WING ATTACK DOG, RICK BERMAN
Washington, D.C. – WakeUpWalMart.com, America's campaign to change Wal-Mart, has uncovered a close and working relationship between high-ranking senior Wal-Mart executives, Bob McAdam and Lee Culpepper, and right-wing radical Rick Berman.
Earlier this year, Rick Berman, a well-known right-wing radical and defender of mercury poisoning, drunk driving and Big Tobacco, launched a campaign attacking hard-working union members. At the time of Berman's launch, Wal-Mart spokesman, Sarah Clark, publicly denied any involvement or connection between Wal-Mart and Berman's group, the Center for Union Facts. According to the Los Angeles Times, Clark said Wal-Mart had ""never heard"" of Berman.
Now, Wal-Mart publicly admits it has not only heard of Berman, but has been working with him. The Detroit Free Press reports, ""Wal-Mart said it has a relationship in which it exchanges union information with Berman, the group's head."" [Detroit Free Press, 5/24/06
In addition, an investigation by WakeUpWalMart.com confirms that two senior Wal-Mart officials, Bob McAdam and Lee Culpepper, have worked closely with Berman on ""special projects"" that have related to defending Big Tobacco, defending mercury poisoning, and other right-wing causes.
For example, Bob McAdam worked with Phillip Morris at the Tobacco Institute during the same period of time that Phillip Morris contributed $900,000 to Berman's pro-tobacco campaign. Lee Culpepper worked at the National Restaurant Association. The NRA's members contributed to Berman's pro-mercury poisoning campaign. In fact, Lee Culpepper, while working at the National Restaurant Association described his relationship with Berman in these glowing terms, ""I've worked with Rick for years, and indeed he is a lightning rod. People have strong feelings about him, but he helps the industry.""
""Under the leadership of two new senior officials, Wal-Mart has turned to the radical right-wing to try and salvage its declining public image,"" said Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com.
Blank continued, ""The American people will be deeply disturbed to learn Wal-Mart has developed such a close relationship with a right-wing fanatic like Rick Berman.
It appears Bob McAdam, best known as Big Tobacco's liar-in-chief, has created a culture of lies and deception at Wal-Mart that threatens the company's credibility with the media, consumers and the American people. Since Bob McAdam joined the company, Wal-Mart has misled the public on its health care statistics, lied on its banking application, and falsely claimed it didn't know it was hiring illegal workers. Lee Culpepper's relationship with Berman is equally reprehensible.
America must wonder why Wal-Mart wants to be associated with three individuals who have spent their careers lobbying against the public interest including defending mercury poisoning, drunk driving, and big tobacco.
Unless Wal-Mart wants to be forever associated with these abhorrent causes, Wal-Mart needs to immediately fire its right-wing attack dogs Bob McAdam and Lee Culpepper, end its disgusting association with Rick Berman's group, and issue an apology to all of the hard-working families demonized by Mr. Berman.""
WAKEUPWALMART.COM EXPOSES WAL-MART'S NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN FOR PART-TIME WORKERS
DOCUMENTS EXPOSE WAL-MART'S SECRET PLAN TO CUT WORKERS' HOURS, SHIFT TO A MAJORITY PART-TIME WORKFORCE, AND CUT BENEFITS FOR FULL-TIME WORKERS ""TRANSITIONED"" TO PART-TIME
Washington D.C. – Today, WakeUpWalMart.com, America's campaign to change Wal-Mart, released copies of Wal-Mart's new health care benefits plan for current part-time employees and full-time employees ""transitioned"" to part-time. The health care documents were given to the group by Wal-Mart employees concerned about the terrible effects that Wal-Mart's new policies, in particular the drastic transition from full-time to part-time, are having on employee morale, customer service and store performance.
The first document, a 7-page booklet, titled ""My Benefits: New Peak Time Benefits: Making a Difference for You,"" details the specific changes to Wal-Mart's health care benefits which the company announced last month. The second document is a memo from Wal-Mart's ""administrative committee"" to all ""full and peak-time hourly associates,"" titled a ""Summary of Material Modifications to Associates' Health and Welfare Plan.""
Both documents were given to employees as part of a special enrollment period which runs from May 15-26, 2006. The special enrollment period, however, is not open to all Wal-Mart associates. Only associates who are part-time and have more than 1 year of service but less than 2 years of service (part-timers with more than 2 years of service are only eligible if they enroll their dependent) and full-time employees who were just 'transitioned' to part-time status, are eligible to enroll.
""Based on these new documents, either Wal-Mart falsely claimed it would offer its low cost plan to 50% of its Associates, or Wal-Mart has 'transitioned' many more workers to part-time than has been reported publicly. Either way, Wal-Mart's rhetoric doesn't match reality, and Wal-Mart workers are paying way too high a price,"" said Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com.
Based on the two documents, it is obvious Wal-Mart's ""new health care changes"" will do little to expand health care coverage for many of its 1.3 million employees. Rather, Wal-Mart's health care changes are clearly structured to cut health care costs and minimize the public relations disaster from slashing over 200,000 full-time jobs and replacing or transitioning them with low paid part-time workers.
According to a JP Morgan report issued in January 2006, as well as the infamous internal health care memo authored by Wal-Mart Executive Vice President Susan Chambers, Wal-Mart publicly states it intends to shift hundreds of thousands of full-time workers to part-time status. In the two health care documents, Wal-Mart coldly refers to this shift as a ""transition"" and now describes part-time workers as ""peak-time"" employees.
Under the new health care changes, all 'transitioned' employees lose most of their benefits, including dental, life insurance and disability immediately, and will lose their health care benefit after one year. In addition, part-time Associates are unable to enroll their spouses. The lack of spousal coverage is consistent with Wal-Mart's desire to cut health care costs by decreasing spousal coverage. As Chambers states in the memo, ""spouses are by far the most expensive plan members to cover.""
Unfortunately, Wal-Mart's new health care plans continue to remain unaffordable for the average Wal-Mart employee. Wal-Mart's most affordable health care option, the Value Plan, has a $3,000 deductible for family coverage and several other deductibles for prescription drug coverage and hospital procedures. Based on all of the premiums and deductibles in the so-called 'Value' plan, a part-time Wal-Mart employee could have to pay up to 58% of his/her salary for an individual plan and up to 93% for family coverage.
Most disturbingly, newly transitioned employees who take advantage of this special enrollment will lose any money they have already spent on their deductible and will once again have to pay the full $3,000 deductible.
""For the sake of Wal-Mart's workers, their families, and the American taxpayer, we call on Lee Scott and Wal-Mart to propose real health care changes that don't dangerously discriminate against single, uninsured part-time workers and exclude health care coverage for spouses. Wal-Mart's plan to expand health care coverage to employees while making it more unaffordable through lower pay and less hours is deceptive and a national disgrace,"" added Blank.
Based on the two leaked health care documents, Wal-Mart workers will face significant restrictions under the new health care changes, including:
1) Only uninsured part-time Wal-Mart workers, who also insure their dependents, are eligible to enroll during this special enrollment period.
""If you are a peak-time hourly Associate who has been employed by Wal-Mart for more than two years and are not currently enrolled in any medical coverage option offered by the AHWP, you may enroll yourself in any of the available peak time medical coverage options (except HSA Qualified or HSA Qualified Performance plans), but only if you enroll your dependent children."" (Memo: Summary of Material Modifications to Associates Health and Welfare Plan; p. 2)
2) Spouses of part-time associates will not be eligible during this enrollment period.
""Your spouse is not eligible for Medical coverage."" (My Benefits: New Peak Time Benefits Making a Difference for You: page 3)
3) Former full-time workers, now reduced to part-time workers, will lose an array of additional benefits.
""Dental, Optional Life Insurance, Company-Paid Life Insurance, Dependent Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Short-term Disability, Short-term Disability Plus, and Long-Term Disability – will stop at the end of the pay period in which you transition."" (My Benefits: New Peak Time Benefits Making a Difference for You: page 4)
4) Former full-time Wal-Mart workers, now reduced to part-time workers, who change plans during this ""Special Enrollment"" period will lose credit for any money they have already spent against their deductible. Therefore, a worker could have to pay as much as $3,000 in deductibles twice.
""If you switch Medical plans, or if you change your deductible during the Special Enrollment or within 60 days due to your transition, your annual deductible will start over. Amounts already incurred toward your annual deductible will not carry over to your new plan option or new deductible."" (My Benefits: New Peak Time Benefits Making a Difference for You: page 4)
5) Wal-Mart made no changes to the cost of the deductible for family or individual coverage on any plans. Deductibles on Wal-Mart's most affordable plan are as high as $3,000 for family coverage and $1,000 for individual coverage.
Copies of the two Wal-Mart health care documents describing these health care changes are available for download at www.WakeUpWalMart.com.
Secret Wal-Mart Memo Obtained by WakeUpWalMart.com Exposes Wal-Mart Front Group
Today's New York Times reports on a 'secret Wal-Mart memo' obtained by WakeUpWalMart.com which shows how Wal-Mart is exerting corporate pressure to force suppliers to join a right-wing front group bought and paid for by Wal-Mart.
Unbelievably, though, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, Working Families for Wal-Mart, more accurately described as 'Wal-Mart for Wal-Mart,' still claims that it is ""autonomous."" But, the truth is the group is 100% controlled by Wal-Mart and run out of the same office as Wal-Mart's war room. Even 'Wal-Mart for Wal-Mart' steering committee member Martha Montoya, when asked if the organization had received money from anyone other than Wal-Mart said, ""No, not that I know of.""
""This just exposes what a sham Wal-Mart's publicity stunts have become. Wal-Mart has become so desperate it is even willing to cross the line and intimidate its suppliers to try and salvage Wal-Mart's faltering public image,"" said Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com
The memo, authored by Terry Nelson (the former National Political Director for Bush-Cheney 2004), asks suppliers to join Wal-Mart's front group because, ""Wal-Mart is under attack, and Wal-Mart and Sam's Club suppliers have the power to do something about it and help protect their business.""
Unfortunately, Wal-Mart's memo to suppliers makes no mention of the fact that Wal-Mart's image is declining because the company pays poverty level wages, provides unaffordable health care, helps ship U.S. jobs overseas, is being sued for discrimination, and continues to get caught for child labor violations.
Rather than address these serious issues, Wal-Mart is now using its own personal right-wing front group to try and deceive the American people. The group, in conjunction with two right-wing firms, The Herald Group and Crosslink Strategies, is running a smoke and mirrors campaign, complete with paid steering committee members and canvassers, to create a false impression that there are people willing to defend the indefensible.
We hope this memo will expose 'Wal-Mart for Wal-Mart' for the sham that it is and will begin to force the company to address the real issues in this campaign. Until Wal-Mart changes, WakeUpWalMart.com, on behalf of the American people and its 231,000 real grassroots supporters, will continue to build the largest grassroots campaign to change a corporation in history proving the power we all have to change Wal-Mart and change America for the better.
To download a copy of the memo please visit www.WakeUpWalMart.com.
WAKEUPWALMART.COM RELEASES FIRST NATIONAL WAL-MART CRIME STUDY – ""IS WAL-MART SAFE?""
57 COMMUNITY GROUPS SIGN JOINT LETTER CALLING ON WAL-MART TO IMPROVE SECURITY BY MOTHER'S DAY
Washington, DC – Today, WakeUpWalMart.com, America's campaign to change Wal-Mart, released the first national study on Wal-Mart and crime. The study, entitled ""Is Wal-Mart Safe?"" analyzed the official 2004 police incident reports (i.e. calls for police service) at 551 Wal-Mart store locations. Among the key findings of the study, include:
In 2004, police received 148,331 calls for service for the 551 Wal-Mart stores analyzed, averaging 269 reported police incidents per store.
For just the 551 stores sampled, there were 2,909 reported police calls for ""violent or serious crimes,"" including 4 homicides, 9 rapes or attempts, 23 kidnappings or attempts, 154 sex crimes, 550 robberies or attempts and 1,024 auto thefts.
Based on the number of reported police incidents for the sample, it is estimated police responded to nearly 1 million police incidents at Wal-Mart in 2004 costing taxpayers $77 million annually.
Wal-Mart stores have a significantly higher number of reported police incidents than nearby Target stores. For the sample, the average rate of reported police incidents at Wal-Mart stores was 400% higher than the average rate of incidents at nearby Target stores.
The full study ""Is Wal-Mart Safe?"" and the official police incident reports are available for download and review at www.WalMartCrimeReport.com.
""The high number of reported police incidents at Wal-Mart stores is shocking and outrageous. Wal-Mart's customers and the community have a right to know whether or not their Wal-Mart is safe. Wal-Mart should immediately fund an independent study to explore the issue of crime at Wal-Mart stores nationwide and immediately take the necessary steps, including putting in roving security patrols and staffing security cameras, to ensure the safety of its customers at every Wal-Mart store,"" said Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com.
WakeUpWalMart.com released its study, ""Is Wal-Mart Safe?"" as part of a nationwide initiative called ""Help Make Wal-Mart Safe by Mother's Day."" As part of the initiative, WakeUpWalMart.com and 57 community groups released a joint letter calling on Wal-Mart's management to immediately address the public safety issues and concerns of its consumers – 70 percent of whom are women shoppers – by taking all of the necessary steps to improve security at all of its stores by Mother's Day.
""Public safety and crime are serious issues. Despite internal warnings about crime at some of Wal-Mart's stores, it is clear Wal-Mart still has a high number of reported police incidents at too many stores. As our nation's largest retailer, Americans deserve to know the truth about whether or not Wal-Mart is safe,"" added Blank.
As a service to the general public, WakeUpWalMart.com also launched a new website, WalMartCrimeReport.com. WalMartCrimeReport.com will collect and disseminate Wal-Mart crime data to the general public. The website allows customers and the general public to download copies of the official police incident reports sent to us by local police departments. The WalMartCrimeReport.com website will also provide a variety of documents that chronicle statements by Wal-Mart officials on public safety, including internal Wal-Mart memos on public safety issues.
WakeUpWalMart.com is a national movement of 225,000 Americans in all 50 states who have joined together to change Wal-Mart into a responsible and moral corporation.
WAKEUPWALMART.COM CALLS ON WAL-MART CEO LEE SCOTT TO ""WORK TOGETHER"" AND ""SEIZE THE MOMENT FOR TRUE CHANGE""
ANNOUNCES GOAL OF 1 MILLION GRASSROOTS SUPPORTERS BY DECEMBER 2008
Rogers, AR – In anticipation of CEO Lee Scott's speech before the national media, WakeUpWalmart.com, America's campaign to change Wal-Mart, called on Wal-Mart to ""seize the moment for true change"" and ""work together to make Wal-Mart a better company."" The group, again, offered to sit down with Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott, and his executive team, to find specific, fair and just solutions that would improve the lives of its 1.3 million workers, their families, and help change America for the better.
WakeUpWalMart.com also announced it will be holding rallies in 35 cities all across America next week featuring its new national campaign slogan – ""Change Wal-Mart, Change America."" Beginning next week, WakeUpWalMart.com will launch a series of initiatives across the country based on this new message and theme. As part of this new grassroots push, WakeUpWalMart.com, already one of America fastest growing movements in America with over 212,000 grassroots supporters, announced it is setting a goal of at least 1 million supporters by December 2008.
As part of this new initiative, Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalmart.com issued the following statement:
""Now is the time for Wal-Mart to seize the moment for true change. The American people are tired of publicity stunts, half-truths and empty words that have become synonymous with corporate America. Americans wants Wal-Mart to change for the better, to be a responsible corporation, and to reflect the best of our values.
We renew our offer to work together with Wal-Mart on specific, just and fair solutions to help make Wal-Mart a better business, and we remain committed to our goal of making sure Wal-Mart pays a living wage, provides affordable, comprehensive health care to all of its workers, adopts a zero tolerance policy on child labor, ends discrimination, protects American manufacturing jobs, and addresses the community concerns of crime, traffic, congestion and sprawl associated with a Wal-Mart store.
The debate over Wal-Mart is now a major political, moral and economic issue in America, and our campaign for social and economic justice cannot and will not end until Wal-Mart changes. In the coming months and year, we will grow our movement from 212,300 supporters to 1 million supporters who believe, like we do, the American people have the power and the responsibility to 'Change Wal-Mart and Change America'.""
WAKEUPWALMART.COM CELEBRATES 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Washington D.C. – Today, WakeUpWalMart.com celebrated its one year anniversary by announcing more than 210,000 supporters have joined America's campaign to change Wal-Mart in its first year – including 25,690 in just the last month alone. As part of the first year anniversary celebration, WakeUpWalMart.com also released a new 8-minute grassroots video/DVD, entitled, ""America's Campaign to Change Wal-Mart."" The video/DVD will be a key organizing tool for grassroots supporters and will be used to launch our new monthly, local community meetings called WakeUps to reach out and recruit new supporters.
In addition, WakeUpWalMart.com announced a new goal of reaching 1 million supporters by the end of 2008.
""Thanks to our supporters, we had an incredible first year. With 210,000 supporters, we have made Wal-Mart a key public issue, exposed the negative impact Wal-Mart is having on its workers and our communities and forced Wal-Mart to respond. If we could accomplish this with 210,000 people, imagine what we will be able to do with 1 million Americans united to change Wal-Mart,"" said Paul Blank, campaign director, WakeUpWalMart.com
Since the campaign's launch on April 5th, 2005, WakeUpWalmart.com has become one of fastest growing social movements in America. WakeUpWalmart.com has led the national campaign to change Wal-Mart by running 15 separate mini-campaigns on themes such as ""Stop the Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis,"" scrutinizing Wal-Mart in the national, state and local media, conducting extensive research on Wal-Mart's business and employment practices, and holding thousands of grassroots actions in dozens of cities and states all across America.
""During the next year, our supporters are going to grow WakeUpWalMart.com into the most powerful force for change Wal-Mart has ever seen. On behalf of the American people, we will not stop and we will not rest until Wal-Mart changes into a responsible and moral corporation. We can only hope Wal-Mart finally wakes up and pursues the kind of real change the American people are waiting for,"" added Blank.
We launched many mini-campaigns over the last year, including : the ""Fair Share for Health Care"" campaign, where one brave Wal-Mart worker, Cynthia Murray, helped pass Fair Share Health Care legislation in Maryland; a 5-week Holiday Campaign with over 1,400 actions in at least 25 states; our ""2006 March Madness-Tournament for Change"" membership drive, where over 25,000 new supporters joined our campaign; our ""Nothing's Scarier than Not Having Health Care"" campaign, where over 113 Halloween candy fundraisers were held in 91 cities in 31 states to raise health care money for Wal-Mart workers; the ""Send Wal-Mart Back to School"" campaign, where WakeUpWalmart.com joined with America's two largest teachers organizations, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers; the ""Make Wal-Mart Care About Health Care"" campaign, where grassroots supporters held 120 house parties in 38 states and community leaders held nine press conferences in 9 different states; the ""Stop the Wal-Mart Nazi Ad"" campaign, where our grassroots supporters forced Wal-Mart to apologize for using a Nazi image; and the ""Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart"" campaign, where over 21,000 supporters pledged not to buy their Mother's Day Gifts from Wal-Mart.
WakeUpWalMart.com Statement About Wal-Mart's ""Jobs and Opportunity Zone"" Initiative
In the face of a faltering public image, Wal-Mart seems determined to launch almost daily public relations stunts that speak loudly about change, but fall terribly short.
What the American people want is for Wal-Mart to start addressing why so many of its employees are paid poverty-level wages, why hundreds of thousands of its workers and families are provided unaffordable health care or left uninsured, and why town after town must struggle with crime, traffic, sprawl, and the loss of both small businesses and good-paying manufacturing jobs. If Wal-Mart really believes in real change, these are the issues which Wal-Mart must first address.
We would hope that in the future Wal-Mart will effectively address the very issues that the American people care about and which have led to Wal-Mart's poor public image. We can only hope that for the sake of a better America, that day comes sooner rather than later.


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By Andrea Morris
Pro-lifers are rejoicing over the latest report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which shows a steady national decrease in the number of abortions.
The CDC reported there were 619,591 abortions in 2018 and 612,719 abortions in 2017 – a drop of nearly 57 percent from the record high in 1990 with a total of 1,429,247 abortions.
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The numbers haven't fallen this low since Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. That year 615,831 abortions were reported.
However, the numbers reported by the CDC aren't entirely accurate.
The agency requests abortion data from 52 regions (50 states, Washington, D.C., and New York City), but their contribution is optional. In 2017 and 2018, California, Maryland, and New Hampshire refused to submit their statistics.
The CDC continues to obtain data on abortion-related deaths for 2018 but reported there were two abortion-related deaths in 2017 and eight in 2016 – indicating a decline.
Additionally, the 31 regions that submitted data on race and ethnicity show that Caucasian and African-American women still account for the largest percentage of abortions.
Non-Hispanic white women – 239,782 estimated abortions
Non-Hispanic Black women – 208,183 estimated abortions
Hispanic women – 123,918 estimated abortions
Non-Hispanic women or other race – 47,709 estimated abortions
But, some say the drop in abortion numbers is worth celebrating.
Dr. Michael New with the Charlotte Lozier Institute tweeted there was a 2.5 percent decrease in the US abortion rate and that it's fallen by 24.2 percent since 2009.
Good news! New abortion data from @CDCgov indicates that the U.S. abortion rate continues to fall
-Between 2016 & 2018, there was a 2.5% decline in the abortion rate
-The abortion rate fell in 29 of 45 states reporting data
-Since 2009, the abortion rate has fallen by 24.2%
— Michael New (@Michael_J_New) November 25, 2020
"The decline was widespread. Of the 45 states that reported abortion data in 2016 and 2018 — 29 saw their abortion rates decline," Dr. New explained. "Since 2009, there has been a 24.2 percent decline in the abortion rate and a 21.8 percent decline in the number of abortions performed. The U.S. abortion rate has declined by over 50% since 1980."
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He added that the primary cause for the drop in abortions is likely due to pro-life resources and the legal measures that have been taken.
"The main reason why abortion rates are falling is not because there are fewer unintended pregnancies," New said. "In fact, the unintended pregnancy rate has fluctuated since 1981. An important reason is that a higher percentage of unintended pregnancies are being carried to term. This shows the pro-life educational, service, and yes, legislative efforts have all been effective at reducing the incidence of abortion."
Pro-life activist Lila Rose tweeted, "Continue educating, supporting, advocating & legislating until every life is safe!"
Amazing data from @CDCgov:
*The number of children killed by abortion has declined by 57%
*More women are rejecting abortion in unplanned pregnancy situations
Continue educating, supporting, advocating & legislating until every life is safe!https://t.co/qDrkkPmP48
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) December 1, 2020

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The mother and sister of a man charged with murdering worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand are in a safe house, while relatives in NSW have said sorry to the victims.
Terry Fitzgerald, the uncle of Brenton Tarrant, has apologised to the families of the victims in the terrorist attacks allegedly committed by his nephew.
"We are so sorry for the families over there, for the dead and the injured. What he has done is just not right," Mr Fitzgerald said on behalf of his family to Nine News on Sunday.
The apology came as Tarrant's grandmother Marie Fitzgerald revealed Tarrant's mother and sister had been taken to a safe place for their protection.
"The police will do their duty and keep them protected which is what they need and no phone contact, they have said you can't contact them," the 81-year-old woman said.
Mrs Fitzgerald said the family was "gobsmacked" to have learned Tarrant had been charged with murdering Muslims at mosques in Christchurch.
"It's just so much of everything to take in that somebody in our family would do anything like this," she said in the NSW town of Grafton.
"It's only since he travelled overseas I think that, that boy has changed completely to the boy we knew," Mrs Fitzgerald said.


The fanfare from La Peri was written in 1912 by French composer Paul Dukas, who championed modern music of the time, joining noted composers revolting against artistic formalism. Dukas wrote this fanfare for his ballet La Peri, and scored it for 3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones and tuba. The Fanfare holds a unique place in the brass ensemble repertoire and is likely one of the most notable brass fanfares of the past century.


You can also sign up for Patreon, which allows you to launch membership-only video channels through YouTube at a small fee per month for regular rewards. Just imagine how much a YouTube channel could generate if it has the 1,000 subscribers required by the YPP. Charge $1 for a new channel with new content, and you could be looking at a solid monthly revenue stream.


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OPINION: Will of People in Southeast Ukraine a Decisive Factor
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MOSCOW, May 14 (RIA Novosti), Daria Chernyshova – The will of the people in southeastern Ukraine will become a key factor in the future of the Donetsk and Luhansk self-proclaimed republics, President of the American University in Moscow Edward Lozansky told RIA Novosti.
"In the end, it is the will of people in southeastern Ukraine that will be a decisive factor," Lozansky said. "Taking into account that there are huge numbers of miners and steelworkers I would not underestimate this will. I am surprised they did not appeal to the Western miners and steelworkers for support. One would assume that the left should support them all the way," he added.
The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics held referendums on self-determination last Sunday with over 90 percent of voters supporting greater autonomy. Leaders in the republics said they would not take part in the upcoming May 25 presidential election.
"There is no way that the Western powers will recognize these referendums, moreover it does not look that they will advise the so-called Kiev government to seriously consider federalization of Ukraine," Lozansky told RIA Novosti.
He also noted that Donetsk and Luhansk are likely to unite in one entity and would not abandon their aspirations for independence. "It looks like we are in for a long East-West confrontation with more sanctions and threats against Russia."
"The whole point of the EU association idea and of bringing down Yanukovych when he refused to sign it was to have Ukraine firmly in the Western orbit and as far away from the Eurasian Union as possible," Lozansky said, adding that Hillary Clinton once said that the US would try "to figure out effective ways to slow down or prevent" resurrection of the Soviet Union in remarks about the Eurasian Union.
Both republics declared themselves sovereign states on Monday. According to local officials in Donetsk and Luhansk, some 90 percent of voters in both regions supported the measure to secede from Ukraine and become independent sovereign states during referendums on Sunday.
Moscow said it respected the will of the people in Ukraine's southeastern provinces and hoped the regime in Kiev would do the same. The US and EU denounced the results of the vote.
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Cruinn's latest album Stòras is available to buy from this page (via Bandcamp). This album was released in October 2014 and has received high critical acclaim.
The final track on this album, Manus Mo Rùin was nominated for Traditional Track of the Year for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015.
Cruinn manage the difficult balance of staying true to their roots and retaining the spirit of the Gaelic culture, while also making their music accessible to a wider audience. Their work is a pleasure to listen to - emotive, heartfelt, but highly professional. A CD to be replayed frequently.
The stark repetition in group name, album title and label belies the imagination at work in the beautiful music that Cruinn create. Featuring four strong and distinctive Gaelic singers from Scotland and Ireland, the group draws on both original and traditional songs as well as material from some surprising sources on this lovely debut.
Most surprising will be the conversion of the English parlour song Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes into a surrogate Gaelic psalm-love song, Oran Celia, of remarkable soulfulness, although Brian Ó hEadhra's Gaelic reading of a Hungarian folk song, Éirich Isean Éirich, runs it close with a superbly grainy performance.
Elsewhere, Mackenzie and Ó hEadhra with fellow singers Rachel Walker and James Graham, and producer Jim Sutherland, conjure up a Clannad-like sound on Gun Dóchas and generally marry marvellous lead and backing vocals, cannily deployed percussion, guitar, double bass, keyboards and whistles in a programme that's strikingly contemporary but rich in the character and warmth of the Gaelic music tradition.


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PFL champ Rob Wilkinson confident he would've caught fire in UFC but happy where he is now
Rob Wilkinson is confident he would have turned things around in the UFC if he was given the chance, although it doesn't really matter anymore.
Wilkinson (17-2) lost twice in the octagon, including to former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, before he was released by the promotion in 2018. He hasn't lost since and eventually found a home with the PFL where he became light heavyweight champion.
Wilkinson, who debuted during the 2022 PFL season, finished all four of his fights, including a doctor's stoppage TKO of Omari Akhmedov at the 2022 PFL Championships this past Friday to win the 205-pound title and $1 million at 30.
"I have no doubt I would have gone on a win streak if I was given another opportunity to be in the UFC," Wilkinson told MMA Junkie Radio. "Losing those two fights, I definitely learned a lot and definitely it drove me, not being able to fight regularly and only had two MMA fights over a four-year period before signing with the PFL. I managed to improve a lot without actually competing too much. So I would have been improving in the UFC, and I believe I would have won a lot of fights, but it is what it is, and I'm happy where I'm at right now."
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Although Wilkinson captured a title in a major promotion, he doesn't think he'll be ranked as one of the top light heavyweights in the world. However, he'd be happy to prove it.
"I'd happily fight any of those top guys in the UFC or any other promotion," Wilkinson said. "But I understand that most people won't be considering me one of the best light heavyweights in the world. Like I'm not gonna be probably in the top five rankings in any website or anything like that, but that is my goal. I'm gonna keep fighting, keep winning until I'm considered the best light heavyweight in the world. That's exactly what my next goal is."
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie's event hub for the 2022 PFL Championships.
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Q: Notification at the certain time from an android application with a reminder broadcast (API 33) While I was writing, I found a solution to my problem (my problem and solution are at the very end of the article), I want to share certain time notification function as relevant solution for API 33 in the Java language.
2023 year.
In the manifest, I created 2 new classes and the receiver
        <activity
            android:name=".mechanics.ReminderBroadcast"
            android:exported="true">
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.app.lib_name"
                android:value="" />
        </activity>

        <activity
            android:name=".mechanics.NotificationUtils"
            android:exported="true">
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.app.lib_name"
                android:value="" />
        </activity>

        <receiver android:name=".mechanics.ReminderBroadcast"/>

in your xml:
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/nottificationBatton"
        android:layout_width="48dp"
        android:layout_height="48dp"
        android:onClick="reminderNotification"
        android:contentDescription="nottification Batton"
        android:tooltipText="настроить отправку уведомления в заданное время на устройство пользователя"
        app:srcCompat="@android:drawable/ic_menu_recent_history" />

in your main class:
    public void reminderNotification(View view) {
        NotificationUtils _notificationUtils = new NotificationUtils(this);
        long _currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        long anySeconds = 1000 * 2;
        long _triggerReminder = _currentTime + anySeconds; //triggers a reminder after 10 seconds.
        _notificationUtils.setReminder(_triggerReminder);
    }

"anySeconds" is set to +2 seconds after the current time.
dont forget import here:
import com.Me.MyProgect.mechanics.NotificationUtils;
then we create new classes:
package com.Me.MyProgect.mechanics;
import static android.app.PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT;
import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.AlarmManager;
import android.app.Notification;
import android.app.NotificationChannel;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.ContextWrapper;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Build;

import androidx.core.app.NotificationCompat;

import com.Me.MyProgect.R;

public class NotificationUtils extends ContextWrapper {

    String CHANNEL_ID = "Уведомления от Генератора Цитат";
    String TIMELINE_CHANNEL_NAME = "Цитата дня";

    private NotificationManager _notificationManager;
    private final Context _context;

    public NotificationUtils(Context base) {
        super(base);
        _context = base;
        createChannel();
    }

    public NotificationCompat.Builder setNotification(String title, String body) {
        return new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, CHANNEL_ID)
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_poetry) // тут пояснение для тупых (как я) нужно обязательно выставлять значение в этих полях, ибо закомментировав что-то получишь фатал эрор. Ищите значок любой в своем проекте
                .setContentTitle(title)
                .setContentText(body)
                .setAutoCancel(true)
                .setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_DEFAULT);
    }

    private void createChannel() {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            NotificationChannel channel = new NotificationChannel(CHANNEL_ID, TIMELINE_CHANNEL_NAME, NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_UNSPECIFIED);
            channel.setLockscreenVisibility(Notification.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC);
            getManager().createNotificationChannel(channel);
        }
    }

    public NotificationManager getManager() {
        if (_notificationManager == null) {
            _notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        }

        return _notificationManager;
    }

    public void setReminder(long timeInMillis) {
        Intent _intent = new Intent(_context, ReminderBroadcast.class);
        @SuppressLint("UnspecifiedImmutableFlag") PendingIntent _pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(_context, 0, _intent, FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

        AlarmManager _alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
        _alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, timeInMillis, _pendingIntent);
    }
}

one more class:
package com.Me.MyProgect.mechanics;

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;

import androidx.core.app.NotificationCompat;

public class ReminderBroadcast extends BroadcastReceiver
{
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
    {
        NotificationUtils _notificationUtils = new NotificationUtils(context);
        NotificationCompat.Builder _builder = _notificationUtils.setNotification("ГЕНЕРАТОР ЦИТАТ ГОВОРИТ:", "ААААА я что-то сделалЬ");
        _notificationUtils.getManager().notify(101, _builder.build());
    }
}

The code above is working.
I made a detailed description for stupid people like me.
and I had two mistakes. Firstly, I commented out the line where they select a small icon for notification, I thought it would work without it (which I didn't have at that time), but it won't, the small icon is needed.
Secondly, I caught such a message in logcat
2023-02-10 10:05:39.002  1806-1806  Layer                   surfaceflinger                       E  [Surface(name=AppWindowToken(непонятная херь и описание пути к программе)] No local sync point found
The problem turned out to be that the flag was not set in Notification Utils
        @SuppressLint("UnspecifiedImmutableFlag") PendingIntent _pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(_context, 0, _intent, FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
It also needed.
I am learning programming and even the obvious things cause me difficulty.
I hope my article will help anyone to implement a similar function.
I read stackoverflow, watched logcat, the problem is solved

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What is Protektoid for Businesses mobile-app?
Protektoid is an android application that simply tells you which applications can access your phones privacy and data at any moment.
You can review each application individually, check each permission it is using and take actions such as trust, disable permission or uninstall the app.
You can also check by permissions and find out which applications are using it and take actions.


In a new PhD thesis, gender researcher Gilda Seddighi studies public expressions of grief in the social media in Iran following the riots in 2009, and looks at how these expressions reflect gender norms and norms of sexuality.
In particular, she has analysed three Iranian Facebook pages dedicated to dead or incarcerated Iranians. She discusses these pages in light of the term 'grievable lives' – which lives are worthy of grief – and what may be characterised as political actions.
"In 2008 I went to Iran in order to gather information for my master's thesis about the Iranian feminist movement. I was interested in how gender equality was perceived in Iran internally within the feminist political networks," she says.
According to Seddighi, the Iranian feminist movement is now network based. It distinguishes itself from previous feminist movements precisely by building networks with other movements, by trying to include these in their own activities, and by being a common platform for all.
In 2009, shortly after Seddighi had submitted her master's thesis, massive demonstrations broke out following the presidential election, protesting against rumours of election fraud and demanding democratic reforms. The revolt came to be known as the Iranian 'green movement'.
Seddighi was interested in how the revolt might affect the feminist movement.
"People discussed whether the feminist movement should take part in the revolt or not," she says.
In 2009, however, many women activists took part in the protests.
"An important part of the revolt was to create new identities, new 'grievable lives' that might represent the face of the revolt," says Seddighi.
She states that the social movement that drove forth the revolt was not an homogenous movement: it had no formal leaders or organisation and tried to work based on both online and offline networks in Iran and abroad.
Seddighi began her work on her doctoral thesis in 2011, but already from 2009 and 2010, she had followed how the green movement created their identity. However, a lot had changed in only two years.
Calling someone a martyr and mourning someone who has been characterised as a martyr may be perceived as a political act.
When Seddighi began working on her PhD, there were no longer any activities in the streets. The attempts at forming organisations had been smothered, and there was much internal conflict within the movement.
Seddighi chose Facebook groups she could follow contemporaneously.
Of the three Facebook groups Seddighi chose, the first was in memory of a democratic activist who died in her father's funeral: 'We are all Haleh Sahabi'. Another was in solidarity with the famous human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was arrested and went on hunger strike in prison. She was also the object of an Amnesty International campaign. The third group was established by Iranian asylum seekers in Harstad in Northern Norway in solidarity with grieving mothers: 'The Supporters of Mourning Mothers of Harstad'.
"Haleh Sahabi was labelled a martyr. Women are rarely characterised as martyrs, so this is very interesting," says Seddighi.
She says that at the time, suspected rebels were attacked to such an extent that many were afraid to write about 'martyrs' on Facebook.
"Calling someone a martyr and mourning someone who has been characterised as a martyr may be perceived as a political act even when it is understood as 'apolitical' by the participants themselves," says Seddighi.
According to her, in Shia Muslim culture the term 'martyr' is used particularly in relation to the story about the prophet Mohammad's grandchild, the imam Hussain. The term is highly politically charged, and according to the researcher, the story of Hussain's martyrdom is central to political theory within Shia Islam. Individual techniques and rituals have been developed for mourning Hussain's death: 'Martyr' is not just a word; it also refers to a practice that draws attention to a person's life and death.
"Traditionally, women have played the grieving part, or the part that publicly expresses grief through grief ceremonies," she says.
Precisely the question of who are worthy of being mourned, what lives are considered 'grievable', has been a central point in Seddighi's thesis.
Since 2009, we have seen that more women are mourned publicly as martyrs. This shows that they have become accepted as political players.
The Facebook group for the human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was, until Sotoudeh was eventually released from prison, run by an Iranian man who had been in Iran during the protests and subsequently escaped to Europe.
However, due to the strict censorship and the suppression of activists, many activists were reluctant to show up for interviews with Seddighi.
The researcher sent out more than a hundred invitations for interviews, but only a few responded. From the first Facebook page, Seddighi only got a response from eleven people. From the other page, she interviewed a total of thirty people.
The feminist movement was behind an important campaign during the protests in 2009 called 'Mourning Mothers'. Here, people gathered to publicly mourn those who had been arrested and killed. Seddighi studied activities in solidarity with the mourning mothers on a Facebook page established by Iranian asylum seekers in Norway.
Even the groups who largely leaned on human rights argumentation, such as those supporting incarcerated activists, played on the techniques from the martyr stories, according to Seddighi. For instance through exaggerating the mourning and through references to family affection.
Family affection is highly important in order to draw attention to a person whose life is considered 'grievable'.
"Family affection is highly important in order to draw attention to a person whose life is considered 'grievable'," says the researcher.
Whether the groups appealed to human rights or martyr stories, grief was largely related to family affection. Family in this connection is used to refer to the conventional family. The grief becomes visible through women's role in the family, the mother in particular.
While the notion that women may be attributed the role of martyr implies that the gender roles are changing, the references to family affection contribute to the reproduction of the dominating norms for gender and sexuality," says Seddighi.
According to Seddighi, these norms contribute to shaping the idea of what is understood as a political action.
In the Mourning Mothers network, the term 'motherhood' was expanded to include various social and political groups in the grief practices. Eventually, the network not only included mothers who had lost their children; everybody who wanted to participate were welcome.
Some nevertheless still struggled to take part in the network and in the idea of motherhood, such as the asylum seekers behind the support group in Harstad. Those who created the network Mourning Mothers had taken for granted that everyone who took part in the transnational movement in the social media were still entitled to citizenship.
Many of the participants in the groups that Seddighi studied in her thesis described the groups as 'apolitical'.
Many described it as dissociating themselves from conventional politics, says Seddighi. 'Apolitical' was a way of saying that what they did was not institutionalised or hierarchical, but rather horizontally organised.
Gender researcher Gilda Seddighi recently defended her PhD thesis "Politicization of grievable lives on the Iranian Facebook pages" at University of Bergen.
In her thesis, Seddighi analyses three Facebook pages that concerns themselves with the lives of Iranians who are either dead or in danger of being killed. The pages deal with various aspects of women's roles such as martyr, human rights activist and grieving mother.


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Eye 30th Anniversary show on Robyn's 67th Birthday!
Robyn Hitchcock is one of England's most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers. A surrealist poet, talented guitarist, cult artist and musician's musician, Hitchcock is among alternative rock's father figures and is the closest thing the genre has to a Bob Dylan (not coincidentally his biggest musical inspiration).
Since founding the art-rock band The Soft Boys in 1976, Robyn has recorded more than 20 albums as well as starred in 'Storefront Hitchcock' an in concert film recorded in New York and directed by Jonathan Demme.
Blending folk and psychedelia with a wry British nihilism, Robyn describes his songs as 'paintings you can listen to'. His most recent album is self-titled and marks his 21st release as a solo artist. Out on April 21 2017, the album is produced by Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs). Hitchcock describes it as a "ecstatic work of negativity with nary a dreary groove."
It has received rave reviews from UNCUT, Rolling Stone, Paste, Tidal and more.
"A gifted melodist, Hitchcock nests engaging lyrics in some of the most bracing, rainbow-hued pop this side of Revolver. He wrests inspiration not from ordinary life but from extraordinary imaginings…" – Rolling Stone
"These 10 gems slither, rock, roll, glide and shapeshift, coalescing around Hitchcock's typically anxious, strained but striking and immediately identifiable vocals." – American Songwriter
"Beloved of everyone from Led Zeppelin to REM, Hitchcock has only enhanced his status with this wonderful outing." – Hot Press
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Q: Publish event is getting triggered before producer is ready I have written a node module to connect to Kafka.
kafka-connect.js
var kafka = require('kafka-node');

var Producer = kafka.Producer,
    client = new kafka.Client(),
    producer = new Producer(client);

module.exports = {
    producer
};

KafkaService.js
const {producer} = require('./kafka-connect');

producer.on('error', function (err) {
    console.log('Producer is in error state');
    console.log(err);
});
producer.on('ready', function () {
    console.log('Producer is ready');
});

const KafkaService = {
     sendRecord: (kafkaTopic, data, callback = (err, data) => console.log(err)) => {
        var sendingData = {};
        sendingData.event_data = JSON.stringify(data);
        sendingData.event_type = 6;
        const record = [
            {
                topic: kafkaTopic,
                messages: sendingData,
                partition : 0
            }
        ];
        producer.send(record, callback);
     }
};

module.exports = {
    KafkaService
};

Now I am using these two to publish data to Kafka. Following is the code to do so:
const {KafkaService} = require('../kafka/KafkaService');

const {newOrder} = require('../objs/newOrderEvent');

KafkaService.sendRecord("incentive_order_data", newOrder);

But running this file gives error :
{ BrokerNotAvailableError: Broker not available
    at new BrokerNotAvailableError (/Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/kafka-node/lib/errors/BrokerNotAvailableError.js:11:9)
    at Client.loadMetadataForTopics (/Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/kafka-node/lib/client.js:389:15)
    at Client.send (/Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/kafka-node/lib/client.js:562:10)
    at /Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/kafka-node/lib/client.js:241:10
    at /Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:473:16
    at iteratorCallback (/Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:1064:13)
    at /Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:969:16
    at buildRequest (/Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/kafka-node/lib/client.js:257:24)
    at /Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3110:16
    at eachOfArrayLike (/Users/rajat.mishra/self/nodekafka/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:1069:9) message: 'Broker not available' }
Producer is ready

Apparently, publish method is getting called before the producer is ready. I am not able to come up with a solution to this. One way is to bring Promises in the picture, but that is just my hypothesis, exact method might be different.

A: You're not waiting for the producer to be ready.
You'll need to do this
producer.on('ready', function () {
    console.log('Producer is ready');

   // send data here
});


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George W. Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968 to 1973.
George Walker Bush was born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first son of future President George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife Barbara (Pierce) Bush. He has five siblings; John (Jeb), Marvin, Neil, and Dorothy (Doro). In 1953, at the age of four, his first sister, Pauline (Robin), died after fighting leukemia.
After attending primary schools in Texas, George W. Bush enrolled at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1961 to 1964. Upon graduation, he studied at Yale University, completing a bachelor's degree in History in 1968. After college, Bush enlisted in the Air National Guard, serving in Texas and Alabama until his discharge in November 1974. He completed a master's degree in Business Administration from Harvard University in 1975.
George W. and Laura Bush campaigned from the back of a pickup truck for the 1978 Congressional race in West Texas.
In 1977, George W. Bush met and married Laura Lane Welch, a former teacher and librarian, in Midland, Texas. The couple had twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, in 1981.
Before beginning a career in politics, Bush worked in the Texas oil industry, founding Arbusto Energy in 1977. In 1986, he underwent a recommitment to his Christian faith, which had a profound impact on his life. He moved his family to Washington D.C. in 1988, while serving as a campaign advisor and media liaison with his father's Presidential campaign. In 1989, he assembled a group of investors that purchased the Texas Rangers baseball team and served as their managing general partner for the next five years.
President George W. Bush embraced victims of Hurricane Katrina on September 2, 2005 during a tour of the Biloxi, Mississippi area.
In 1978, following his family's distinguished tradition of public service, George W. Bush made his first run for political office to be U.S. Representative of the 19th District in Texas. He lost that race to Kent Hance. In 1994, Bush once again ran for public office and was elected the 46th Governor of Texas. Governor Bush won re-election in 1998 with nearly 69 percent of the vote, becoming the first Governor in Texas history to be elected to two consecutive four-year terms.
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The Bush Presidency changed dramatically with the events of September 11, 2001. In the deadliest attack ever on American soil, terrorists hijacked four airplanes, crashing two into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania after its passengers attempted to overtake the hijackers.
President George W. Bush visited troops and served Thanksgiving Dinner at the Bob Hope Dining Facility, Baghdad International Airport, Iraq on November 27, 2003. (P36047-34)
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In January 2007, President Bush announced his plan for a "surge" of U.S. troops in the Iraq War to combat the insurgency. Following the surge, total violence in Iraq was drastically reduced and the United States established a new embassy in Baghdad in January 2009.
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On January 20, 2009, George W. Bush returned to Texas as a private citizen. In January 2010, he united with former President Bill Clinton to lead a major fundraising relief effort for the victims of the devastating Haitian earthquake. President Bush's memoir, Decision Points, was published in November 2010.
On April 25, 2013, President and Mrs. Bush dedicated the Bush Center located on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is housed inside the Bush Center and it is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a U.S. Federal agency. Five living Presidents and First Ladies attended the Dedication Ceremony.
Since the Dedication Ceremony, President Bush has written two additional books: 41: A Portrait of My Father and Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors. The paintings that were published in Portraits of Courage were also displayed at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, as part of an exhibit of the same name.
President Bush also provided the paintings for another temporary exhibit, called "The Art of Leadership: A President's Personal Diplomacy." The portraits of thirty world leaders were accompanied by reflections about President Bush's relationships with his foreign counterparts, and the importance of personal diplomacy between leaders in shaping international policy.
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package com.tom.defense.item;

import java.util.List;

import net.minecraft.client.resources.I18n;
import net.minecraft.client.util.ITooltipFlag;
import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.inventory.IInventory;
import net.minecraft.item.Item;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.nbt.NBTTagCompound;
import net.minecraft.util.NonNullList;
import net.minecraft.util.math.BlockPos;
import net.minecraft.world.World;

import net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.Side;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.SideOnly;

import com.tom.api.block.IModelRegisterRequired;
import com.tom.api.item.ICustomCraftingHandler;
import com.tom.core.CoreInit;
import com.tom.util.TomsModUtils;

public class ItemProjectorFieldType extends Item implements ICustomCraftingHandler, IModelRegisterRequired {
	@Override
	public void getSubItems(CreativeTabs tab, NonNullList<ItemStack> subItems) {
		if (this.isInCreativeTab(tab))
			for (int i = 0;i < FieldType.VALUES.length;i++)
				subItems.add(new ItemStack(this, 1, i));
	}

	@Override
	public String getUnlocalizedName(ItemStack stack) {
		return super.getUnlocalizedName(stack) + "_" + FieldType.get(stack.getItemDamage()).getName();
	}

	public static enum FieldType {
		CUBE("cube", 6), CONTAINMENT("containment", 6), WALL("wall", 1), TUBE("tube", 4),;
		private final String name;
		private final int walls;
		public static final FieldType[] VALUES = values();

		private FieldType(String name, int walls) {
			this.name = name;
			this.walls = walls;
		}

		public String getName() {
			return name;
		}

		public static FieldType get(int index) {
			return VALUES[index % VALUES.length];
		}

		public int getWalls() {
			return walls;
		}

		public boolean is2DOnly() {
			return this == WALL;
		}

		/** {wallID; wallMode:[0: invalid, 1: onlyEffect, 2: valid]} */
		public int[] getWall(BlockPos pos, BlockPos posMin, BlockPos posMax, int extraNBTData) {
			if (this == WALL)
				return new int[]{1, 2};
			int xStart = posMin.getX(), yStart = posMin.getY(), zStart = posMin.getZ();
			int xStop = posMax.getX(), yStop = posMax.getY(), zStop = posMax.getZ();
			int xC = pos.getX(), yC = pos.getY(), zC = pos.getZ();
			if (this == TUBE) {
				int f = TomsModUtils.getFirstTrue(xC == xStart, xC == xStop, yC == yStart, yC == yStop, zC == zStart, zC == zStop);
				if (f > -1 && ((extraNBTData == 0 && !(xC == xStart || xC == xStop)) || (extraNBTData == 1 && !(yC == yStart || yC == yStop)) || (extraNBTData == 2 && !(zC == zStart || zC == zStop)))) {
					int u = f + 1;
					if (extraNBTData == 0) {
						u += 2;
					} else if (extraNBTData == 1) {
						if (u > 2)
							u -= 2;
					}
					return new int[]{u, 2};
				} else
					return new int[]{0, 0};
			}
			int f = TomsModUtils.getFirstTrue(xC == xStart, xC == xStop, yC == yStart, yC == yStop, zC == zStart, zC == zStop);
			if (f > -1)
				return new int[]{f + 1, 2};
			else if (this == CONTAINMENT)
				return new int[]{0, 1};
			return new int[]{0, 0};
		}
	}

	@Override
	@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
	public void addInformation(ItemStack stack, World world, List<String> tooltip, ITooltipFlag advanced) {
		if (FieldType.get(stack.getItemDamage()) == FieldType.TUBE) {
			int currentS = (stack.getTagCompound() != null ? stack.getTagCompound().getInteger("extra") : 0) % 3;
			if (currentS == 0)
				tooltip.add(I18n.format("tomsMod.tooltip.rotation", "X"));
			else if (currentS == 1)
				tooltip.add(I18n.format("tomsMod.tooltip.rotation", "Y"));
			else if (currentS == 2)
				tooltip.add(I18n.format("tomsMod.tooltip.rotation", "Z"));
			tooltip.add(I18n.format("tomsMod.tooltip.rotationTip"));
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void onCrafing(EntityPlayer crafter, ItemStack returnStack, IInventory crafingTableInventory) {
		for (int i = 0;i < crafingTableInventory.getSizeInventory();i++) {
			ItemStack stack = crafingTableInventory.getStackInSlot(i);
			if (stack != null && stack.getItem() == this && FieldType.get(stack.getItemDamage()) == FieldType.TUBE) {
				int currentS = stack.getTagCompound() != null ? stack.getTagCompound().getInteger("extra") : 0;
				if (returnStack.getTagCompound() == null)
					returnStack.setTagCompound(new NBTTagCompound());
				returnStack.getTagCompound().setInteger("extra", (currentS + 1) % 3);
				break;
			}
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void onUsing(EntityPlayer crafter, ItemStack returnStack, IInventory crafingTableInventory, ItemStack stack) {

	}

	@Override
	public void registerModels() {
		CoreInit.registerRender(this, 0, "tomsmoddefense:projectorModule_" + FieldType.get(0).getName());
		CoreInit.registerRender(this, 1, "tomsmoddefense:projectorModule_" + FieldType.get(1).getName());
		CoreInit.registerRender(this, 2, "tomsmoddefense:projectorModule_" + FieldType.get(2).getName());
		CoreInit.registerRender(this, 3, "tomsmoddefense:projectorModule_" + FieldType.get(3).getName());
	}
}


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Available in multiple sizes and rectangular or round shapes, the Dock & Bay collection offers easygoing style and versatility. Give the lightweight microfiber a quick shake to remove sand before hanging it up by the built-in loop for rapid air-drying.
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The WildHorn Sand Escape provides plenty of room to stretch out on and folds down into an impressively small compression pouch when not in use. It's made of a soft, quick-drying nylon, and features pockets at each corner that can be used for storage or weighing it down.
Made with a cushiony soft fleece top and a waterproof bottom, the Laguna Beach is the perfect choice when you want to cuddle with your special someone to watch the sun set over the ocean. For an added perk, use the stuff sack to store your valuables while you're occupied.
What Separates a Beach Blanket from an Indoor Blanket?
Simply put, the blanket provides a comfortable surface for you to place yourself and your accessories on.
Plastic stakes proved too obtrusive, however, and they were soon replaced by weighted pockets.
A beach blanket functions in the same way that any bedspread would. Simply put, the blanket provides a comfortable surface for you to place yourself and your accessories on.
The term "beach blanket" is broad, of course, as a lot of these blankets are generally used for picnics, parties, or outdoor concerts. Certain blankets are even designed to double as a poncho, or a makeshift table cloth (see the Raqpak Beach & Picnic Blanket above).
What separates a beach blanket from an indoor blanket is the thickness and the durability. Certain beach blankets come with padding, or a fleece lining, or a nylon layer across the bottom to keep any moisture from seeping through.
Beach blankets tend to place some cushion between you and the ground, and they're also designed for extreme weather conditions, which is why a lot of blankets are manufactured by using materials like polyester, as opposed to cotton, or other linens.
The only true engineering involved with owning a beach blanket involves how to keep it from blowing away. For decades beachgoers responded to coastline gusts by placing some type of item (e.g., a cooler, a purse, or a pair of sandals) across all four corners of their spread.
During the 1980s, manufacturers began including plastic stakes with their beach blankets. Plastic stakes proved too obtrusive, however, and they were soon replaced by weighted pockets. Weighted pockets are sewn into the corners of a blanket. They are designed to hold 3-4 pounds worth of sand. Once the pockets are full, the blanket sits in one place. At the end of the day, you simply dump out all the sand.
What Do I Need to Know About a Beach Blanket Before I Buy?
The most important thing to know before you buy is what you plan on using the blanket for.
If you're a shore person, you probably want a wide blanket made of cotton. You'll also want the blanket to be water-resistant (or waterproof), and, if possible, you'll want the blanket to come with either stakes or open pockets, for weighting down loose corners.
If you're purchasing a blanket for one or two people, you'll want a surface that covers at least 5-6 square feet.
If, on the other hand, you'd like a blanket for outdoor concerts and picnics, your best bet might be a polyester blanket that won't let grass stains settle in. Certain blankets are even designed with a nylon bottom. Nylon is water-resistant so you can place it on wet grass.
As a precaution, you'll want to take into account what type of climate you live in. The barometer could determine whether you need a blanket that you can wear like a poncho (assuming you get stuck outside in stormy weather), or one that's designed with fleece-like material, so you can wrap it around you on a 55-degree night.
Assuming you've found a blanket that's got all the right stuff, the final priority becomes taking a look at the dimensions. If you're purchasing a blanket for one or two people, you'll want a surface that covers at least 5-6 square feet. If you're purchasing a blanket for the entire family, you'll want a surface that covers at least 7-8 square feet.
Despite the fact that beach blankets have been used for centuries worldwide, most people consider them to be an American phenomenon.
Why is that? Well, it is due in large part to the west coast surfing craze of the 1960s - a craze that reached its peak around the time an internationally-successful motion picture entitled Beach Blanket Bingo hit the theaters.
There were a ton of surfing movies during that decade, like Surf Craze, Barefoot Adventure, and The Endless Summer, but Beach Blanket Bingo featured Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in what would go on to become their final leading role as a couple (that is until the nostalgic Back to the Beach in 1987). Add Paul Lynde, Don Rickles, and Buster Keaton for comic effect, and you've got yourself a surfing movie for the ages.
All of which brings us back to the beach blanket, which had originally been referred to as a picnic blanket. The culture was changing, and so too were the ways in which we referred to household items. A "beach blanket" became more marketable, as people rarely went on picnics, but spent at least one week of every summer vacationing at the shore.
Despite these bold leaps forward, the modern beach blanket remains a fairly traditional product. Its function hasn't changed, and it has remained a staple of the coastline scene ever since Americans first started vacationing at the shore during the early 1900s.