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Poe: "They are leftists, dedicated to overthrowing our Constitutional system," and "they will go to any length to conceal their radicalism from the public." Understanding the Alinsky Method of "Community Organizing" Written by Bob Dill Sep 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM Meet the Real Obama and Cult of Alinsky " The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV) It is becoming readily apparent that the "change" being proposed vaguely by Sen. Barack Obama is...

It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability. Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away.

New Kodak camera technology could make dark, blurry photos as thing of the past Eastman Kodak Company today announced what it considers a “groundbreaking advancement” in image sensor technology that will help reduce the accidental taking of dark and blurry digital photos. Kodak claims its new sensor technology provides a two- to four-fold increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two photographic stops) compared to current sensor designs. “This represents a new generation of image sensor technology and addresses one of the great challenges facing our industry – how to capture crisp, clear digital images in a poorly lit...

Kodak posts wider 2Q loss of $282M ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Eastman Kodak Co., undergoing a tough transition to digital photography, posted a wider loss of $282 million in the second quarter Tuesday — its seventh quarterly loss in a row. Largely because of $214 million in restructuring costs, Kodak lost the equivalent of 98 cents a share in the April-June quarter, compared with a loss of $155 million, or 54 cents a share, a year ago. Hurt by a rapid slide in film sales, revenues fell 9 percent to $3.36 billion from $3.69 billion in last year's second quarter. Excluding...

To: National Desk, Energy Reporter Contact: Peter Flaherty of National Legal and Policy Center, 703-237-1970; Website: http://www.nlpc.org WASHINGTON, June 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), today told British Petroleum, PLC to ignore a boycott called against the oil giant by Jesse Jackson this week at the annual Rainbow/PUSH conference in Chicago. BP is listed in the conference program as a Bronze Sponsor, a designation costing $10,000. Flaherty said, "Jesse Jackson is bluffing a foreign company. He has virtually no ability to affect the consumer habits of Americans, or even African Americans....

Canon to stop making single-lens camera TOKYO - Japan's top camera maker, Canon Inc., will stop developing new single-lens reflex film cameras as more people abandon film for digital, company officials said Thursday. The Tokyo-based Canon's move followed a similar move by its closest Japanese rival, Nikon Corp., which announced earlier this year it would stop making seven of its nine film cameras and concentrate on digital models. Canon will continue making film cameras already on the market as long as their demand remains. Whether to withdraw from the film camera business will be "decided appropriately by judging the market...

I bought the Kodak P850 I was interested in. With my focus on wildlife I needed the 12X, and the image stabilization is an extra bonus. The learning curve hasn't been bad, but the P850 has enough external buttons to keep any button pusher happy. The original file will print out far larger than I will ever need.

On this special day, the Radio Equalizer can't think of a better place to spend time than at Mike Anderson's 1969 Vietnam memories site, found here. Anderson, a Vietnam vet, former St. Louis radio personality and current publisher of radio information site STLMedia.net, has hundreds of photographs and stories from his 1969 tour. "The memories will be a constantly updated part of the website," Anderson notes. "Thirty-six years after the fact, it's not unusual that not everything comes immediately to mind." Putting the site together wasn't so easy, he admits....

WASHINGTON - Cindy Sheehan and other peace activists plan to "die symbolically" for the next four days outside the White House to represent the American soldiers who have died in Iraq. Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq last year, organized the vigil as the U.S. military death toll in the war neared 2,000. "I'll be laying down and not getting up," Sheehan said Tuesday to a small crowd in which the number of journalists exceeded the number of protesters. "When they let me out, I'll do the same thing if I get arrested."

ROCHESTER NY--There used to be a saying. As Kodak goes, so goes Rochester. For years the photo giant was Rochester's top employer. That's no longer the case. According to the Rochester Business Journal, the University of Rochester and Strong Health top the list. “Over the years as manufacturing has fallen, these knowledge-based economies and service sector jobs have just really been growing,” said Sharon Dickman, U of R spokesperson. “And that's what we do really well.” Kodak analyst John Larish points to Kodak's move toward digital products, and the company's ongoing cost cutting. He also says the decline may merely...

Eastman Kodak Co., which turned picture-taking into a mass-market pastime a century ago, is quickly making up for a sluggish start in filmless photography in the 21st century. Its digital sales, which surged 40 percent in the fourth quarter, will eclipse revenues from film and other iconic, chemical-based businesses for the first time in 2005. Less than four years after launching its EasyShare cameras, which are priced from $99 to $499, Kodak now appears to have closed the gap on Japanese front-runner Sony Corp. in the U.S. point-and-shoot digital camera market. Digital cameras, which began outselling film cameras in the...

Eastman Kodak Co. will return to U.S. District Court next week to seek $1 billion in damages from Sun Microsystems Inc. now that a federal jury has ruled in its favor in a dispute over the Java computer language. The jury decided in Rochester on Friday that Sun infringed on technology belonging to Kodak when it developed and introduced Java more than a decade ago. The computer language is now used heavily by software developers, on the Internet and in computer schools. Kodak praised the verdict and said it was part of an aggressive push to convert innovations — both...

I'm a novice when it comes to computer drivers, cables, etc. and need some help. I have a Kodak 3400 digital camera, just took a bunch of pictures. Went into my Photo software and clicked on Edit, Twain Acquire. I get a little box that states "Invalid Class String". When I click OK (no other choice), it goes back to my main page Photo page. The camera is connected. I went to the Kodak webpage and downloaded the updated software. I don't know what a Twain is and I don't know what/where my drivers are. Any help is greatly appreciated!

<p>JOHN Kerry has found a theme for Super Tuesday: the economy. The Dem front- runner is targeting voters in New York's struggling Upstate communities with a new pitch - "State of New York Under Bush: Bad for Workers and Families." His campaign will hit Upstate this weekend with custom-made statistics and purported solutions - but the candidate's proposed economic fixes don't withstand much scrutiny. On Tuesday, Kerry threw a bunch of numbers up on his Web site to prove that President Bush is squeezing the Empire State. While Bush resolutely doles out "tax cuts for the wealthy" and toils at "sending jobs overseas," says Kerry, New Yorkers are suffering.</p>

<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Eastman Kodak Co., struggling to find its footing in new digital photography markets as its signature film business fades, said today it will cut 12,000 to 15,000 jobs, or up to 23 percent of its global work force, over the next three years.</p>

MASSIVE LAYOFFS AT KODAK Number may reach 15,000 worldwide; local job losses uncertain By Ben Rand Staff writer PAULINA REID and KEVIN M. SMITH Eastman Kodak Co. said today that it will eliminate 12,000 to 15,000 jobs worldwide over the next three years because of accelerating declines in film sales and a need to be more aggressive in digital imaging. When the dust settles, the cuts likely will trigger an epic change in Rochester’s economic landscape as its share of the work force, historically the largest among local employers, continues to decline. [Day in Photos] (January 22, 2004) — NEW...

Eastman Kodak said Tuesday it will stop selling traditional film cameras in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, another move by the photography company to cut lines with declining appeal in favor of fast-growing digital products. With sales of digital cameras poised to overtake film cameras for the first time this year, Kodak is redefining itself in an effort to keep pace. But the No. 1 maker of photographic film will continue to sell one-time use cameras in the West and expand its sales of these and other film-based cameras--and film--in emerging markets where demand is on the...

Companies Rated on Their GLBT Policies Tuesday, August 26, 2003 Twenty-one companies received a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign for their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and consumers, almost doubling the number of companies with the same distinction last year. "What we see this year is improvement in every category measured, from written nondiscrimination policies to domestic partner health insurance benefits and beyond. Corporate America continues to be a leader in the quest for GLBT civil rights," says HRC Education Director Kim I. Mills, who oversees HRC WorkNet, the organization's workplace project. "The bottom...

07/31/03 Kodak is sending more jobs out of town. The company this morning told nearly 900 workers that they will soon be out of work. Production and finishing of the famous Kodak-yellow boxes for film will be moved to Mexico and China. The job cuts are part of a cost-saving plan announced last week that will mean the end of as many as 6,000 jobs worldwide. Half of those layoffs are to be at company headquarters here in Rochester. Kodak says its actions are a response to a permanent decline in film sales, the rising popularity of digital cameras and...

Some day, as corporations that honor marriage and family are hounded out of business or prosecuted, it will be accurate to say: "This was brought to you by the executives of Anheuser-Busch, Kodak, ChevronTexaco, Wells Fargo, Philip Morris Companies Inc., and other corporations that promoted perversity for short-term gain." - Robert Knight, Culture and Family Institute 1/14/2003 The Culture and Family Institute reports five corporations are being honored this month in the pro-homosexual "OUT" magazine for their aggressive sponsorship of homosexuality, including funding homosexual political groups and transgender activism, promoting homosexuality in the schools and even underwriting "gay" rodeos....

<p>"A representative of Kodak called me late this afternoon," Doyle said.</p> <p>Kodak said some 400 jobs could be affected, Doyle said. He said the company did not provide a timeline of when a shutdown would occur.</p> <p>"The ironic thing is we had a meeting with the community leadership 10 days ago, and there was no mention of closing an entire unit," Doyle said.</p>

Kodak recently fired veteran employee Rolf Szabo over a memo he wrote expressing opposition to the homosexual agenda. His simple response to a company email, which promoted the Human Rights Campaign's "Coming Out Day" on October 11 each year, cost Szabo his job. That's how tough it's becoming for Christians in coercive corporate culture. In the Kodak memo, company officials ordered employees to be supportive of those who want to use that occasion to "come out" as homosexual, bisexual or transgender. Management called for any anti-gay comments to be reported to company authorities and warned a violation of Kodak's diversity...

Rochester, NY - A Greece man, who was fired a few days ago from Eastman Kodak, said giving his opinion in an e-mail lead to his termination. Kodak's diversity group sent out an e-mail asking employees to "be supportive" of colleagues who choose to come out on Gay and Lesbian Coming-Out Day. Rolf Szabo replied to the memo telling the company not to send him this type of information and that he found it "disgusting and offensive." "I said it and I meant it. I'm not going to take it back," Szabo said. Although Szabo does not condone the gay...