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Paul's online supporters helped him raise almost $20 million last quarter, most of it online. But it looks like there might be a new champ in town. Or maybe he's just reclaiming his title. TechPresident reports that in the past two weeks, the Barack Obama campaign (which has had a great track record online since Obama announced his candidacy last February) says it has raised money from more than 100,000 donors via the Internet. The report is based on an e-mail sent out by the Obama campaign Wednesday afternoon. "After the New Hampshire primary last week, we set a goal of 100,000 online donors in 2008 - a goal we hoped to reach before the Nevada caucuses on Saturday. Last night we got there five days early. Think about that: 100,000 donors in 15 days." As TechPresident notes, that is a huge number of supporters.
The bank most likely to walk into a sharp object
What these investors didn't know was that CIBC was preparing to write down an additional $2-billion in a matter of weeks, enough to make it one of the costliest misadventures in Canadian banking history. Mr. McCaughey, whose entire tenure to this point had been geared toward erasing the taint of previous scandals, methodically stripping away risk and rehabilitating the bank's maverick reputation, knew that he would have to make senior management changes, and was already in secret negotiations to recruit his close friend Richard Nesbitt, who runs the Toronto Stock Exchange, as a replacement for Brian Shaw as head of the gaffe-prone investment bank, CIBC World Markets. Mr. Shaw, who probably suspected at this time that his days were numbered, nevertheless remained in Toronto while his family went to Mexico on vacation, helping to carry out one of Mr.
What's Happening for Jan. 19
The Goldminers ball will be Saturday, Jan. 19 with music by Jim Halsey and the Nighthawks from 7:30-11 p.m. at the Ehmann Home, 1480 Lincoln St. Tickets are $40 couples, $25 singles and include: two drink tickets and hors' d'oeuvres. No host bar. Dress like a miner, gambler, saloon girl or a mule. Prizes for best costume. Sponsored by Butte County Historical Society. FFA Dinner The 6th Annual FFA Scholarship and Leadership Steak and Crab Dinner "fund-raiser" is Jan. 19, at the Oroville Municipal Auditorium, 6 p.m. Buy tickets early. There is a silent auction, raffle and gun raffle. Tickets are $30 and available at D & J Feed in Oroville. This event sold out last year. Sponsored by the Las Plumas FFA at Las Plumas High School Agriculture Advisory Committee. Fund raising magic show The Kent Family Magic Circus will be performing a fund raising stage show filled with illusions, juggling, bullwhip tricks, fire-eating, side-show stunts and mind-reading on Jan.
Political background to the CPE protests
We are reposting the following series of articles on the revolt of the French working class in November-December 1995 in the hope that it will help to clarify the political background to the present upheaval in that country. The ongoing revolt by millions of youth and workers is a further response to the effort by the French ruling class to slash or eliminate entirely the social gains made in decades of struggle. In November-December 1995, the working class revolted against efforts by the right-wing regime of Prime Minister Alain Juppé to reform the social security system, just as today the government of Dominique de Villepin is reforming Frances labor laws. In 1995 millions of workers, led by the transport workers in particular, rejected the claims made by the government and the media and recognized the maneuver for what it wasan attempt to shift the burden of the social costs on to the back of the working population.
Deborah Carter
We even have a new full-time HSA support person in each high school. It's crazy. Watch the BoE wrestle with setting the academic calendar sometime, as they try to accommodate everyone while entire months are pre-empted by the state for their tests. I've said it before: I signed on to be a teacher, not a test prep technician. The more experience I have in the field of education, the less satisfied I am with traditional tests as a means to measure what students have learned. It isn't just because of my own personal observation, although every year shows me more about how differently each child learns; we also have increasingly more information about the way the human brain functions. Tests have their place. In Latin, I need to know how much vocabulary a student has memorized, and tests are an easy way to find out.
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