The Oregon Working Families Party (Oregon WFP) is a minor political party modeled after the national Working Families Party, but is organized locally and is autonomous. It is recognized by the Oregon State Elections Division as a statewide nominating party.
Established in 2006 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Oregon WFP is headed by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 Secretary-Treasurer Jeff Anderson and Oregon vineyard operator Barbara Dudley as co-chairs.
The Oregon WFP uses electoral fusion, sometimes called 'cross-endorsement', to nominate candidates from other political parties. A lite version of fusion became Oregon law in 2009, see Gov. Kulongoski Signs Fusion Bill. This means that candidates nominated by the Oregon WFP have the words "Working Families" listed by their name on the ballot. Often, candidates will be listed on the ballot as the candidate of two parties: their own, and the Oregon WFP.
The party nominated J. Ashlee Albies for Oregon Attorney General during the 2008 election, and Bruce Cronk for U.S. Senate during the 2010 election. They also endorsed a number of candidates in other state legislative races in 2008 and 2010.
Established in 2006 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Oregon WFP is headed by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 Secretary-Treasurer Jeff Anderson and Oregon vineyard operator Barbara Dudley as co-chairs.
The Oregon WFP uses electoral fusion, sometimes called 'cross-endorsement', to nominate candidates from other political parties. A lite version of fusion became Oregon law in 2009, see Gov. Kulongoski Signs Fusion Bill. This means that candidates nominated by the Oregon WFP have the words "Working Families" listed by their name on the ballot. Often, candidates will be listed on the ballot as the candidate of two parties: their own, and the Oregon WFP.
The party nominated J. Ashlee Albies for Oregon Attorney General during the 2008 election, and Bruce Cronk for U.S. Senate during the 2010 election. They also endorsed a number of candidates in other state legislative races in 2008 and 2010.
Debra Kahn Tolchinsky is a media artist and academic with interests in video installation and documentary filmmaking. She is currently an associate professor of Radio-TV-Film at Northwestern University and associate chairperson of Northwestern University's Department of Radio-TV-Film. She is the founder of Northwestern University School of Communication's MFA in Documentary Media, which she directed from 2013 until 2017. Her films, videos, and installations have been exhibited internationally at such venues as Croxhapox Gallery in Ghent, the Horse Hospital in London, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and The Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, IL.
She has also worked as an assistant film editor on such Hollywood features as Searching for Bobby Fischer and The Doctor. She was an artist-in-residence at the Portland Art Museum's Northwest Film Center, at Oxbow Art Colony in Michigan, and at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont. The Hollywood Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild nominated Dolly and Lucky, two of her video loops, for Golden Reel Awards, and she was a 2006 New Media Fellowship nominee, as part of the Rockefeller/Ford Foundation's Program in New Media. In 2009, she co-curated The Horror Show at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in New York City which was chosen as a Village Voice "Voice Choice for Art" and featured on their blog and which was accompanied by a 32-page catalog. In 2011, she directed and produced the feature documentary Fast Talk, which investigates the accelerated speed of argumentation in college debate. Fast Talk was named best documentary at the LA Femme International Film Festival, best documentary feature at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, was the subject of a symposium at the Supreme Court Institute and has been discussed in such publications as the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, the National Law Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Onion A.V. Club. Recently, she co-curated with David E. Tolchinsky The Presence of Absence sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Council at Hairpin Arts Center in Chicago, chosen by Chicago Magazine as one of the "16 best art gallery shows to see now in Chicago" and described in The Huffington Post as "The space is gorgeous, the art solid, challenging, yet accessible. This is a wonderfully odd, powerful, thoughtful show". Most recently, she was ranked number 7 with David E. Tolchinsky on New City's Film 50 2017: Chicago’s Screen Gems. She is a graduate of USC School of Cinematic Arts (AB) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA).
She has also worked as an assistant film editor on such Hollywood features as Searching for Bobby Fischer and The Doctor. She was an artist-in-residence at the Portland Art Museum's Northwest Film Center, at Oxbow Art Colony in Michigan, and at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont. The Hollywood Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild nominated Dolly and Lucky, two of her video loops, for Golden Reel Awards, and she was a 2006 New Media Fellowship nominee, as part of the Rockefeller/Ford Foundation's Program in New Media. In 2009, she co-curated The Horror Show at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in New York City which was chosen as a Village Voice "Voice Choice for Art" and featured on their blog and which was accompanied by a 32-page catalog. In 2011, she directed and produced the feature documentary Fast Talk, which investigates the accelerated speed of argumentation in college debate. Fast Talk was named best documentary at the LA Femme International Film Festival, best documentary feature at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, was the subject of a symposium at the Supreme Court Institute and has been discussed in such publications as the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, the National Law Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Onion A.V. Club. Recently, she co-curated with David E. Tolchinsky The Presence of Absence sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Council at Hairpin Arts Center in Chicago, chosen by Chicago Magazine as one of the "16 best art gallery shows to see now in Chicago" and described in The Huffington Post as "The space is gorgeous, the art solid, challenging, yet accessible. This is a wonderfully odd, powerful, thoughtful show". Most recently, she was ranked number 7 with David E. Tolchinsky on New City's Film 50 2017: Chicago’s Screen Gems. She is a graduate of USC School of Cinematic Arts (AB) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA).
The CCS Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG is an EMS-Service-Provider with headquarters in Switzerland. The Group has subsidiaries in Austria, China, Hong Kong, Germany, Slovakia, Sri Lanka and Switzerland. Within the region of Switzerland, Germany and Austria the company ranks among the Top10-EMS-companies.
Operations
The CCS Group is an international partner for system integration for European and Asian OEMs of electronic appliances.
It offers services for industries such as general industrial applications, medical, high-tech consumer and transportation (automotive sub-suppliers, traction applications, municipal and special vehicles, ship construction).
Services
Services offered: product conception, development, supply chain management, production and after sales services.
All sites are certified to the standards of ISO 14001.
Subsidiaries
Europe:
* Germany: Aichach, Hildesheim, Sexau (Fr. i. Breisgau)
* Austria: Frankenmarkt, Rottenmann
* Switzerland: Lachen, Lyss, Mendrisio
* Slovakia: Hlohovec.
Asia
* China: Zhongshan, Hongkong
* Sri Lanka: Kochchikade
Milestones
The today's Group evolved from the company Formatest, founded 1985 in CH-Ostermundigen. Founding of CCS Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG in 2003: joining of Formatest AG and Asian Elsuma AG.
In 2011 Private Equity Partner "Zurmont Madison Management AG" became majority shareholder, which led to additional growth:
* 2011: CCS Group new majority shareholder in Adaxys SA (CH-Mendrisio)
* 2012: CCS Group new majority shareholder in Gohlke Elektronik GmbH (DE-Hildesheim)
* 2014: forming of new CCS Holding AG: fusion of AKAtech & CCS Group to the new CCS Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG
Operations
The CCS Group is an international partner for system integration for European and Asian OEMs of electronic appliances.
It offers services for industries such as general industrial applications, medical, high-tech consumer and transportation (automotive sub-suppliers, traction applications, municipal and special vehicles, ship construction).
Services
Services offered: product conception, development, supply chain management, production and after sales services.
All sites are certified to the standards of ISO 14001.
Subsidiaries
Europe:
* Germany: Aichach, Hildesheim, Sexau (Fr. i. Breisgau)
* Austria: Frankenmarkt, Rottenmann
* Switzerland: Lachen, Lyss, Mendrisio
* Slovakia: Hlohovec.
Asia
* China: Zhongshan, Hongkong
* Sri Lanka: Kochchikade
Milestones
The today's Group evolved from the company Formatest, founded 1985 in CH-Ostermundigen. Founding of CCS Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG in 2003: joining of Formatest AG and Asian Elsuma AG.
In 2011 Private Equity Partner "Zurmont Madison Management AG" became majority shareholder, which led to additional growth:
* 2011: CCS Group new majority shareholder in Adaxys SA (CH-Mendrisio)
* 2012: CCS Group new majority shareholder in Gohlke Elektronik GmbH (DE-Hildesheim)
* 2014: forming of new CCS Holding AG: fusion of AKAtech & CCS Group to the new CCS Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG
Arthur Nelder Dawson Jr. (December 18, 1928 - November 18, 2006), was a newspaper executive and civic leader in Alexandria, Louisiana, during the second half of the twentieth century. He was a 50-year career employee of his hometown newspaper, the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, having worked in circulation, advertising, and human resources management. He started with the company as a youthful newspaper carrier and continued to advance up the ranks.
Biography
A board member of the Southern Classified Managers Association and a past president and life member of the Newspaper Personnel Managers Association, Dawson was recognized in 1991 by the Louisiana Press Association with inclusion in the group's "50-Year Club." His later newspaper duties including the recruitment of reporters and photographers, most being recent college graduates who were seeking a start in journalism in the small-to-medium-sized market that Alexandria offers. In that capacity, he often worked with the newspaper's veteran managing editor and later executive editor Adras P. LaBorde, I and business editor Cecil Williams. During much of Dawson's tenure, the newspaper was owned by the family of Joe D. Smith, Jr., and his first wife, Jane Wilson Smith, of Alexandria. Smith, like Dawson, completed a half century with the paper. When Smith retired in 1996, the newspaper was purchased by a firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, which subsequently sold to Gannett. With some 40,000 subscribers, The Town Talk is the largest circulating newspaper in central Louisiana.
Dawson was born in Alexandria in Rapides Parish, to Arthur Nelder Dawson, Sr. (1881-1962), and the former Mary Monk (1905-1993). Dawson was a vestryman of St. James Episcopal Church and a veteran member and past president of the Alexandria Optimist Club. He also served as president of the Alexandria/Pineville Young Men's Christian Association board of directors and was active in the United Way, an organization promoted by The Town Talk.
Survivors included daughters Stacey Blum (born 1962) and husband Alfred M. Blum (born 1960) of Oakland, California, and Catherine Gitter (born 1969) and husband Douglas K. "Doug" Gitter (born 1965) of Jacksonville, Florida, formerly of New Orleans, and his five grandchildren, Max, Ashley, and Polly Blum and Chase and Annie Gitter.<ref name=Obit/>
Biography
A board member of the Southern Classified Managers Association and a past president and life member of the Newspaper Personnel Managers Association, Dawson was recognized in 1991 by the Louisiana Press Association with inclusion in the group's "50-Year Club." His later newspaper duties including the recruitment of reporters and photographers, most being recent college graduates who were seeking a start in journalism in the small-to-medium-sized market that Alexandria offers. In that capacity, he often worked with the newspaper's veteran managing editor and later executive editor Adras P. LaBorde, I and business editor Cecil Williams. During much of Dawson's tenure, the newspaper was owned by the family of Joe D. Smith, Jr., and his first wife, Jane Wilson Smith, of Alexandria. Smith, like Dawson, completed a half century with the paper. When Smith retired in 1996, the newspaper was purchased by a firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, which subsequently sold to Gannett. With some 40,000 subscribers, The Town Talk is the largest circulating newspaper in central Louisiana.
Dawson was born in Alexandria in Rapides Parish, to Arthur Nelder Dawson, Sr. (1881-1962), and the former Mary Monk (1905-1993). Dawson was a vestryman of St. James Episcopal Church and a veteran member and past president of the Alexandria Optimist Club. He also served as president of the Alexandria/Pineville Young Men's Christian Association board of directors and was active in the United Way, an organization promoted by The Town Talk.
Survivors included daughters Stacey Blum (born 1962) and husband Alfred M. Blum (born 1960) of Oakland, California, and Catherine Gitter (born 1969) and husband Douglas K. "Doug" Gitter (born 1965) of Jacksonville, Florida, formerly of New Orleans, and his five grandchildren, Max, Ashley, and Polly Blum and Chase and Annie Gitter.<ref name=Obit/>