How Non-Profit Entities can keep themselves from getting Ripped-Off

I spent 90 days working for a for-profit fund raising company which was a major division of one of America's premier magazine publishing companies. The parent company has since gone bankrupt, but before they did, as a sales rep for one the fund raising divisions, we were lectured to keep informing our prospective education market fund raising targets, just how ethical our home office company was. This was in spite of also being told how our real mission was to get as much profit as possible from every school fund raising program, we could sell, with our real goal of selling the schools any fund-raising program so that they made as little profit as possible.

This is not an anti-cookie selling sales message its actually a message to all non-profits ( schools, churches, bands etc. ) to never do business with any for profit fund raising companies. And, by the way, I also found the worst offenders in short-changing the non-profits on fund-raising profits, were ex-educators ( ex-local school board members, ex-local principals, and ex local teachers.) All of whom used there supposed empathy with their ex-colleagues to further their own un-ethical goals.

My New Kindle

Hi,
So my children bought me a kindle and even though I have only just begun to use it I can see I will love to pieces. Which leads me to believe I must buy a cover for it, its not hat it seems flimsy it just seems that it would need a protective skin, since I will be dragging it around all the time. My friends back in PA who were the first kindlium ( plural of kindle?) that I knew, have given me three kindle user tips:
1. read all of the manual
2. buy sample books before I buy a full edition.
3. get a cover
So, we are now getting closer and closer to being full time Oregonians, we just got our first local newspaper subscription, and filled out forms to vote in OR.
We also received our new Seally mattress, amazing what a new mattress will do for a person's outlook on life.

Municipal Unions

Municipal unions serve no function other than to protect their members & union officials from economic reality. When municipal unions collectively bargain with our elected or appointed state county, or local officials they are bargaining with themselves. Municipal unions have fostered the idea that municipal workers (policeman, fireman, teachers, etc. ) work for the state, they don't, municipal workers work for the taxpayers, and the taxpayers have no-one to represent them in any collective bargaining between any current municipal unions. As some one once said " if you want to control someone first appear to serve them."