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Kolhan University Recruitment 2017 Office Asst Posts has released a latest govt jobs notification for 2017-2018 and recruitment for Office Asst Posts Recruitment 2017 posts interested candidates can apply for the Kolhan University Office Asst Recruitment 2017 and also check the eligibility criteria and apply online before 10-07-2017.
Kolhan University Recruitment 2017
Kolhan University Recruitment 2017 Office Asst Posts in various departments Office Asst Posts Recruitment 2017 and applications are invited through online mode up to Kolhan University Office Asst Recruitment 2017 for admission to the written examination. For the direct recruitment against the vacancies for the years 2017-2018 for following posts included in Kolhan University Recruitment 2017.
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Name of the Post: Office Assistant
Educational Qualification: Candidates should possess B.Com (Hons.) or B.Com General with 55% marks from any recognized Institute. Knowledge of Accounting packages like MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) Tally.
Selection Process: Candidates will be selected based on applicants performance in Written-test.
Application Fee: Applicants required to pay Rs. 500/- for GEN/ OBC category, Rs. 300/- for ST/ SC category through Demand Draft from any Nationalized Bank in favour of "Registrar, Kolhan University, Chaibasa" Payable at Chaibasa.
How to Apply: Eligible candidates can send their application form in the prescribed format along with application Fee & necessary documents by Reg. Post/ Speed Post/ Courier to The Finance Officer, Kolhan University, Chaibasa, Pin-833202 on or before 10-07-2017.
Last Date for Receipt of Application: 10-07-2017.
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I Used To Believe newsletter: April 2005
you might think that there's nothing untoward about watching a sunset, eating out or playing a board game but this month's beliefs prove that even here, children are a never-ending source of gruesome invention. there's also a lesson for would-be soothsayers: check your calendars first.
have fun,
I remember asking my mom if the doctors could sellotape your head back on if it was chopped off; she re-assured me that they could.
When I was little I used to think that the handicapped spaces were for people who needed to go to the bathroom really badly. I thought that the picture of the person on the wheelchair was someone sitting on the toilet.
When I was little, my older sister and I were looking at a sunset. She told me that the sky was red from the blood of all the dead people in heaven. I believed that for a long time.
When I heard the stock market reports on the radio, I thought they were buying and selling chairs, not shares. Millions of them, with the price changing all the time.
When I was a child I used to believe that stand up pianos actually told jokes as well as playing music.
I used to believe that the stretch marks on my dad's stomach were really the result of his fight with bears, which he won of course.
I used to think that the ages on game boxes was how old you had to be to legally play that game. Whenever my family was playing a game with someone who wasn't old enough and I heard sirens, I just knew that the police were coming to arrest us all.
A friend told me once that when she was a kid, she used to think men had leaves as private parts. She had only seen naked statues and they all had leaves there.
When I was a kid the most popular dessert to order in fancy restaurants was chocolate mousse. The first time I ate it, there were pieces of what I now know was chocolate in it. At the time I was convinced they were actually pieces of moose.
I used to believe that my parents relied on me to make the traffic lights green. I would do this by absorbing the green from trees and grass with my eyes and beaming it into the traffic lights. If I was given enough time I had a 100% success rate.
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I used to believe that the lines down the middle of the road were painted on by someone leaning out the passenger side window of a car. I just assumed you had to have a really steady hand and long arms to get hired for the job.
I used to sleep in my bed all rolled up in a ball because I was afraid that someone would break into our house and upon seeing my incredibly comfortable bed, steal the bottom half of it. I slept balled up to make sure that my legs wouldn't get cut off when he cut my bed in two.
I used to think that vanilla was the absence of chocolate, not a flavor in its own right.
I used to think that bookmakers made books and could not understand why there were so many of them or why they had stained glass windows of horses. I was 18 before I found out they were betting agents and that Scotland wasn't a great literary capital of the world.
As a kid I desperately wanted to be a Girl Guide but I thought you had to be born one, like being an Orthodox Jew. I couldn't wait till I grew up and could convert to being a Girl Guide so I could wear a blue uniform all day and earn badges.
My father had false teeth and my oldest sister had a glass eye. When I was little, I used to believe that people could be taken apart to be cleaned.
At one point growing up, I became convinced that the world would end on February 29, 1997. It didn't matter what I did, what I achieved, or how I lived my life because come February 29, 1997, the whole world would blow up and utterly extinguish all life on earth. I believed this until one day I realized that 1997 wasn't going to be a leap year.
I used to think that meat was taken from animals by an operation and that they recovered afterwards. I was horrified when I discovered the truth and I'm now a vegetarian.
I used to think that, on your birthday, you didn't actually turn a year older until you ate some birthday cake.
My dad always told me the ice-cream van was the manure truck and said "isn't it so nice of them to play music for the kids and bring healthy manure for everyone's gardens?" I didn't know otherwise until I moved to the US and a friend told me they sold ice cream.
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How I Created … Lovibonds Sour Grapes
Lovibonds Sour Grapes
by Jeff Rosenmeier
Doing beer checks one day in the brewery, I noted that the last batch of our Henley Gold wheat beer was slower to start than normal, but the beer had finally formed a kräusen and it looked like the fermentation would carry on as normal.
Two days later and the story had changed dramatically. As anyone who has brewed with a true wheat beer strain will tell you, this yeast can really go for it, often jumping out of the tank.
What I saw in the FV was something I had never seen before. There was still a vigorous fermentation going on, as you could see the surface of the beer 'boiling', however, there was no kräusen.
I pulled a sample and, before I got it anywhere near my nose, I knew it was sour. I'm not sure I can put into words the feeling brewers have when the inevitable happens in their brewery.
Sure, losing the money spent on ingredients and wasting a 12-hour brew day sucks, but the biggest problem, when brewing at capacity, is that that beer is already sold. I knew in two weeks we would run out of our best-selling beer and have to deal with the consequences.
A look at this beer under the microscope confirmed that it was loaded with lactobacillus bacteria, which must have finally out competed my weak yeast pitch. After much thought, we decided not to dump this beer down the drain. It wasn't Henley Gold, by any stretch of the imagination, but it tasted really good.
Tasting Room Trials
One of the great things about having a tasting room is that you can use your regular customers as guinea pigs. We produced a few kegs and the regulars liked it as much as we did. Cider drinkers got it, white wine drinkers got it, even the normal beer drinkers got it, albeit with some raised eyebrows. Sour Grapes was born.
We knew we could sell a couple kegs over our bar, and maybe a couple to the few accounts that would understand this beer, but what to do with the rest of it? The sourness was pretty much spot on, what was missing was the funkiness you'd get from a spontaneously-fermented Belgian gueuze, so I went on the hunt for some wine barrels.
I got really lucky and tracked down three barrels with a great pedigree, recently emptied of ageing Pinot Noir. We are fortunate to have a 200-year-old cellar in our building in Henley that is perfect for this sort of stuff. Once we figured out how to get the barrels and the beer down there, we filled them with 75% Sour Grapes and 25% Henley Gold.
Over the next couple weeks we made up three different starter cultures from: a) dregs of a Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze, one of my favourites; b) dregs of a Oud Beersel Oude Geuze; and c) a commercial vial of Brettanomyces bruxellensis. We pitched a starter into each barrel, bunged them up and closed the cellar door.
From about a year onwards, these barrels started tasting really good and we began to pull some out for meet-the-brewers events, beer launches or other occasions, all to rave reviews. When we did pull a keg or two from the barrels, we would simply top them up with freshly fermented Henley Gold in a haphazard, solera-type way.
Nearly three years after dropping this beer into our cellar, it was time to package it and we did some blending trials. Sadly barrel number 2, with the Oude Beersel starter, didn't make the grade as it had acquired a very strong sulphur aroma that spoilt every blend.
In the end we decided that a 50/50 mix of barrels 1 and 3 gave us the most complex blend of sour and funkier Brettanomyces aromas and flavours.
Full Circle
The World Beer Cup is organised by the US based Brewers Association and held in conjunction with their Craft Brewers Conference (CBC). It costs a lot of money to enter these competitions, but I had already made plans to attend my first CBC, so I thought I would roll the dice and enter a couple of our beers. Little did I know that my life was about to go full circle.
I started homebrewing after buying Charlie Papazian's Complete Joy of Homebrewing book. Charlie now heads the Brewers Association and is partly responsible for getting so many people brewing in the US and the craft beer explosion that has followed.
After a week in San Diego, tasting so many amazing beers, I pretty much wrote off the competition and in no way expected anything to come of it.
The awards dinner for the World Beer Cup is a bit of a whirlwind as Charlie rushes to present over 250 awards on the night. I happened to look up just as the Wood and Barrel Aged Sour Beer category hit the big screen.
Bronze to The Bruery in California and silver to Snake River from Wyoming. I thought, oh well, I've had an amazing week, there is always the next competition and – KABOOM! – gold award to Lovibonds Sour Grapes.
I shed tears of disbelief for what seemed like a mile walk to the stage and accepted the award from the very person who was responsible for getting me into beer some 15 years earlier. So far, the best moment I've had in beer.
And that is how we created Sour Grapes. We've since come up with a method to sour our wheat beer intentionally in the brewhouse and have refilled the two original barrels and purchased an additional seven barrels, all of which are progressing nicely.


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The Garland Youth Council (GYC) hosts regular meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month; at City Hall, 200 N. Fifth St. Garland, Texas 75040. Meetings begin promptly at 5:30 p.m., and all teens are welcome to attend. (Dates are subject to change for holidays, etc.) For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 972-205-2877.
Meeting Schedule
Dates, times and location subject to change. Email firstname.lastname@example.com with interested in attending.
Teens ages 13 to 18 are encouraged to attend to have their voice heard, share your ideas, get involved and make a difference.
Topics include: Teen/Police Relations, Education, Teen Health, Active Transportation, Media and Homelessness.
Following the event, members of the Garland Youth Council will be headed to the Downtown Garland Square to have lunch, shop and play games. All teens are encouraged to attend.
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"Culture is the cement that binds
Europe together."
European Union
Culture Policy
EU Institutions
José Manuel
Doris Pack
Culture is, and always has been, the cement that binds Europe
together. It is an essential part of the very foundations of our
European project and must remain firmly entrenched in our ideals if
we are to succeed in achieving a more united, a stronger and open
Culture is also a tool of diplomacy. It is about connecting with people
all over the world. It is about universal values and inspirations.
Indeed Europe's global influence also lies in our cultural openness to
other societies, our openness to the world. (...)
Creative sectors play indeed a crucial role for the sustainable
development and social cohesion of our regions and cities. Culture is
a driver for urban and regional regeneration. (...)
Our aim is to help artists, cultural professionals and cultural
organisations so that they can work across borders and ensure that
their works reach as many people as possible. Creative Europe will
also contribute to improving access to finance through the creation
of a new loan guarantee facility.
Indeed spending on culture is not a luxury but a sound investment
and not only for the distant future. Culture is not a "nice to have",
but a "need to have". If Europe is to emerge stronger from these
difficult times, we need more than ever to stimulate a new model of
growth, underpinned by knowledge and creativity, research and
innovation as its key drivers. Cutting spending in such key areas
would be exactly the wrong thing to do. This would be the shortest
way to lower growth and fewer jobs in the future. (...)
We need all the representatives of the arts and culture, because
culture is the thread that links us together in our diversity and which
allows us to take ownership of our shared European destiny.
(Speech at the opening of the 3rd edition of the European Culture Forum, Brussels, 4 Nov. 2013)
President of the European Commission
José Manuel Durão Barroso


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Place des Vosges is the oldest (and most beautiful) square in Paris located in the Marais in the 4th aarondissement. It was built by Henry IV and is a symmetrical square measuring 140m x140m. Stepping inside the square one almost seems to leave the city behind and revel in its tranquility. This is the perfect spot to lay on the grass and relax under a tree on a lazy Sunday afternoon. There is also a fabulous fountain (named after King Louis XIII) inside the park where many Parisians go in for a "dip" during the summer season. Surrounding the park are early 17th century architecture buildings and on the street level are galleries, boutiques and cafes which are cradled by beautiful arcades. If you're lucky, you can see live musicians performing under the arcades (mainly strings) - hearing an opera singer there is a real bonus - the acoustics are fabulous! Writer Victor Hugo famous author of "Les Miserables" lived here and its possible to visit his home (free of charge! open 9:00 - 18:00, closed Mondays)
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In September 2016, I went to visit my past Disney Roommate, Claudia! She still lives in Florida (lucky ducky!)
In Day 5, Claudia had class in the morning. To take advantage of the day, I headed to Magic Kingdom on my own to see Festival of Fantasy and to take some photographs around the park. I met up with my past co-workers at the Art Cart on Main Street. Below, you can see a picture of Megan working on a silhouette. I also had an AMAZING photopass photographer notice I was by myself and offered to take some photos of me on Main Street. After all, it was the "Best Day Ever!"
Part 2 is coming soon, and that's when Claudia meets up with me!
Here are some photos from that evening to extend the magic of this video:
Hugs, kisses, and thanks for watching and reading!


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Dr Marian Quigley
A former art teacher and Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Marian returned to painting following her retirement and began exhibiting her work in 2009. She has lived both on Phillip Island and San Remo since 1987.
Using acrylics on canvas and a hard edge technique, Marian employs abstraction, vibrant colour and flowing line in her interpretations of the rhythms inherent in nature, the human form and blues music. She adopts a minimalist approach in her representations of landscapes and seascapes which are often devoid of human figures and wildlife. In this way, she seeks to highlight the elemental and spiritual nature of her environment. Memory is also a theme in some of her most recent work – recalling her childhood migration across the sea.
A finalist in the 2017 & 2016 NAB Flanagan Art Exhibition, St Patricks College, Ballarat and the 2017 & 2015 Annual Maritime Award, Mission for Seafarers Victoria, she has held two solo exhibitions and participated in a number of group exhibitions in Gippsland, Euroa and Melbourne.
Marian's recent awards include Best Contemporary at both the Artists' Society of Phillip Island Cup Weekend Exhibition, 2016, at the Rotary Club of Leongatha Art and Photography Show, 2016, and Best Portrait at the Phillip Island Artist's Society Exhibition 2018.
Marian is represented by Mingara Gallery, Cowes and Town & Country Gallery, Yaarragon. She was previously represented by the former Muse Gallery in Beechworth/Milawa. She has exhibited at Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn and Cambridge Studio Gallery, Collingwood.


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In Aquaculture & Marine Biotechnology, the emphasis was on the development of new technologies and enhancing the production in aquaculture system shifting its focus towards the non-food sector. The research was targeted towards development of enzyme based aquaculture feed, spawning agents, surveillance, study on molecular markers and epidemiology for disease resistance, development of viral diagnostics, immunostimulants and anti WSSV compound. Aspects on molecular cloning and gene expression for alkaline protease and molecular epidemiology of white spot shrimp disease were pursued. DNA vaccines against Aeromonas spp. and immunodot-based diagnostic kit for detection of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in shrimp and prawn were also developed. An ELISA-based kit developed for detection of IgM of Indian major carps against Aeromonas hydrophila infection. Anti-WSSV formulation was made as a prophylactic measure in shrimp health management. Bio-surfactants production was standardised from marine wastes employing the Acinetobacter strains. Molecular fluorescent dyes attempted from sea cucumber tissues bioactive compounds for use in biomedical applications. Cell lines developed in brackish water species to stable cell lines useful in virus isolation. A protocol on better aquaculture management practices was developed through recirculatory and raceway system. In service training programme in molecular biology supported for fisheries scientists received good feed-back of training scientist to work in molecular biology. Marine biotechnology to harness new pharmaceutical, enzymes, biomolecules, therapeutic proteins, bio-markers, bio-sensors and bio-prospecting received greater attention. An Indo-Norway collaboration project on vaccine development for finfish and shellfish continued. The recombinant protein found highly immunogenic to freshwater fish species common carp and shown high potential for its vaccination. Vaccine development for seabass was carried out and antigenicity of outer membrane proteins (OMP), extra cellular protein (ECP) and Lipopolysaccharride (LPS) were evaluated. Development of Biopharmaceuticals, by product and bio-process development were given high priority. Major programmes on whole fish genome sequencing, marine actinomycetes and in service training programme for fishery professionals are being identified as the major priority during the Annual Plan-2013-14 for funding support.
The implementation of the project in various sectors of Aquaculture & Marine Biotechnology has created good impact among the Marine scientist in perusing research in molecular biology with a dedicated programme on in service training programme in molecular biology for fisheries and marine scientist. A technology know-how developed to prove techno-economic viability of aquaculture of non-traditional species for diversification in aquaculture has created good impact in the sector with strong inputs on vaccines and diagnostics to promote the sector. Marine resources have been exploited for high value commercial important product and process development. During the last plan (2007-2011) good number of publication amounting about 179 has been brought out in well reputed journals. 14 patents have been filed for product/ process development and about 90 JRF, SRF and Research Associate have been produced. 07 technologies have been successfully transferred to Industry for commercialisation. The research leads have been validated and refined technologies have been pursued for dissemination to the end users through training and demonstration activities through social development programme of department. New initiatives have been taken to set-up National Institute of Marine Biotechnology (NIMB) as an autonomous institute under the DBT to harness the full potential of the emerging marine biotechnology with strong foundation in basic research with a focus on translational research and technology development. The proposed institute will provide an interface between research and commercialisation of technology and will be an incubator for start-up companies. The theme areas will be dealt under the institute are Genomics, marine Biodiversity, Model organism, Marine extremophiles, Bio-energy, Bioremediation, Biosensors, Biomaterials, Bio-organisms and Bioinformatics including various business development model.


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Play with the Pros at BYF's Scramble for Skills Golf Tournament
Golf tournament returns to Construction Conference
NCCER's Build Your Future initiative is excited to host its sixth annual Scramble for Skills Recruitment Drive and Golf Tournament on July 31 at Potomac Ridge Golf Course in Waldorf, Maryland. The event takes place prior to the 2016 Construction Industry Institute (CII) Annual Conference as a way to highlight the need for the construction industry to strengthen its recruitment efforts and promote construction careers.
This year, Scramble for Skills has expanded to include contractors, educators, associations and government representatives. Attendees will have the opportunity to network and play a round of golf alongside PGA professionals while supporting a worthy cause. A demonstration clinic, individualized instruction from PGA professionals and a long-drive exhibition hosted by two-time world long drive champion Jamie Sadlowski will take place prior to the start of the tournament. The event concludes with a reception and awards presentation.
All proceeds from Scramble for Skills will benefit industry recruitment efforts through Build Your Future's scholarships, resources, videos and career days. The deadline for registrations and/or sponsorships is July 15.
For more information, visit byf.org/events or contact Ashleigh Potuznik at email@example.com. CII members can register for the event at construction-institute.org/ac/2016/golf.cfm, while non-members can register at eventbrite.com/e/2016-scramble-for-skills-golf-tournament-registration-24628788369.
About the Author
Jennifer Wilkerson is the Director of Marketing for NCCER.


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Monday, March 12, 2018
The year I drove a BMW
It was a $600 20 year old four door 317I with over 340k on the clock. I wanted to escape the small town trouble I was getting into and follow the national off road WORCS series. I found that my bike fit quit nice into the back seat after I removed the wheels, forks and handlebars. At 40 mpg the I wonder why I don't still travel to races in such a fashion. I would arrive to a race pit swarmed with giant semi trucks and grey hound bus sized RV campers and easily find room for my bike stand. While I would assemble my bike with a special pride. Some people would strike up a conversation about how I was keeping the soul of the sport while most people would just stare. At round 3 of 12 such a conversation was struck with the Maxxis tire support truck and before I knew it I had a job spooning on 50-100 tires at every round of the series. At $10 a tire I was now paying my entry fee and some of the travel expense. By the halfway point of the season I was a known face at the WORCS races. The races were spread across the western USA; SoCal, Utah, Arizona and up to Washington state. Washougal MX was the first destination of many for my then 6 week old Border Collie pup Baja. I remember showing up to the locked front gate in the middles of the night and like always I slept out beside my car in my old mummy bag. I tied some nylon chord around my pup and held it in my hand but when I awoke to the procession of big rigs entering the gates my pup was gone. As soon as crawled out of my fart sack to the laughs of passer bys my little black and white buddy came leaping out of the dense forest to lick my face with the pungent stink only puppy kisses hold. I ended up taking a job in Seattle for a month and a half followed by two weeks working in Vegas on a big trade show while being put up in the now demolished Sahara casino. I returned home to Colorado a man that the boy I was could never have become but from following a dream. That summer I stuck that little Beemer axle deep in Pismo beach as the tide came in and filled my floor boards as the local Cali bros filled my pockets with hashish in admiration for my mode of travel. On a lonesome blistering hot stretch in Nevada I punched out my broken sunroof in a desperate rage to get cool air. Within a mile the pulsing wind made me turn around to retrieve my sunroof and duck tape it back into place. I would often pull off into truck stops, driveways, and vacant fields and dump out onto the ground to sleep only to awaken to a bustling California fruit stand or a lot lizard in a crack come down frenzy. Many a midnight songs were cranked through that CD player. Many friends were made at the races. Even a pit tootsie or two snuck some naughty in that little car. My hard sweating work on the tire truck changing tires between my races helped my push myself. My racing results were on par with some of the top racers. I was invited to eat diner with the best of people in the paddock from the everyday mom and pops to people like Destry Abbot. The late Nathan Woods once let me sleep inside the back of his toy hauler. I was pickep up by some sugar daddies to race for Team USA in an FIM Asia Enduro round in Thailand. Simply because of how I did things. By the final round of the year I won an amateur over all class championship. All this with no real source of finance. Just the desire to race. That winter I bought a van and since then I have chased my never ending dream. The adventure will always be whatever we make it to be…
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It's been ages since I posted a rock playlist... so... here we go.
Rock is such an interesting format. It ebbs and flows in popularity and in style more than many other kinds of music. Hard rock and art rock in the 70's, followed by corporate rock and then hair bands of the 80s, and of course grunge and alternative rock of the 90s. Between the 1950s and the 90s, each decade brought radical changes to rock music, but that hasn't really happened since grunge faded away. Indie rock is just alternative rock by a new name, which isn't to say it isn't great. A lot of it has been excellent. I just can't help thinking the Next Big Thing hasn't come. Instead, there has been a rehashing of all that's come before. And that's not a bad thing. The Black Keys are covering the same blues rock ground Led Zeppelin and others covered decades ago. And it still sounds fantastic. It's hard to listen to Gary Clark Jr. without recognizing a link back to artists like Jimi Hendrix and Cream. I'm not saying Pickwick sounds like Bad Company, but come on... the resemblance is there. All that's old becomes new again, but will there be anything from this era that will prove to be unique to this era?
Has rock evolved through the years to the point where there's no new ground to cover? Surely not.
Only time can tell.
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Choosing a school is one of the most important choices expats make in Singapore. For many parents of children with special needs, it is a complex and stressful search to find a suitable fit. Katie Roberts talked to parents and educators about the current situation and the options at hand.
Chendo Chavarria moved from the US 18 months ago with his wife and their nine-year-old son Victor who has Asperger syndrome. Academically bright, but easily stressed in social situations, Victor had successfully attended a public school in the US with weekly speech therapy to work on pragmatics – the connections between language and social interaction which kids on the autism spectrum have trouble with – and had a shadow teacher in mathematics.
When enrolling him at a large international school here, his parents were upfront about his condition, and the school was willing to accept him. But, says Chendo, they underestimated the move for him from a small school of 500 to one with thousands of pupils. Combined with the stress of moving house and country, this made Victor very anxious and after a week his parents began receiving regular calls from the school about his behaviour.
"Basically, the school was not set up to deal with his 'meltdowns' in class. Everything got too much for him and the school, so we agreed to him having a shadow teacher."
At approximately $4,000 a month, this was a disappointing experience for Victor's parents. "We ending up paying a lot of additional money for someone who was sending a report every night of all the things that had gone wrong during the day. So we chose to leave voluntarily; the situation was escalating, and there are only so many phone calls you can take."
The school helped the family look for alternatives and, Chendo says, the counsellor was very supportive. He adds that considering the school had no obligation to do so, it made a decent attempt at providing support for the family.
Victor is just one of an unknown number of expatriate children in Singapore who do not fit the mould required to enter one of at the numerous mainstream international schools and cope once they're there. Like many other children, Victor has been diagnosed as having a condition on the autism spectrum. Others have dyslexia, ADHD, Down syndrome or other conditions characterised by specific learning differences that require assistance and intervention. For many families, finding appropriate education options to suit the needs of their children is extremely difficult.
Unlike the government-funded schools in the UK, Australia, the US and other Western countries, there is no legislation or regulation stipulating that international schools must accommodate the needs of diverse learners. There is no government funding to provide for additional learning support in an expatriate child's existing school environment. There are facilities within local schools and several well-established specialist schools, but even Permanent Residents find these almost impossible to access due to their long waiting lists. Some mainstream international schools have learning support units and some allow shadow teachers and external learning support in the classroom, but on the whole the options are limited.
Critics say the admission processes can be selective, inflexible and discriminatory and that the "one size fits all" approach does not accommodate different learning styles. When Expat Living asked what options were available for children with special education needs, only four of the 15 international schools contacted responded.
Education consultant Sarah Bowler, who has met with many families struggling to find a school, puts it this way. "There is a grey area for children who fall between the two spectrums – too high functioning to need a specialist school, but too low functioning to fit the mainstream criteria and flourish in a mainstream environment." She says it is frustrating that there is so little support for those students who are not fully independent, be it academically, socially or emotionally, but not completely dependent either. "There is a huge gap in the market and this is coupled, unfortunately, with the stigma of not being good enough to attend a mainstream school. But in many cases, that's simply not true."
Sharon Solomon, Principal at The Winstedt School, agrees. "Kids in any classroom learn differently. Not everyone learns and processes information in the same way. In large classes, it is easy for a child to skate through the system without teachers picking up a problem, but the gaps do get wider and wider the more they progress." All concur that it is essential to deal with the situation, and not sweep it under the carpet. Sarah Bowler says: "Parents should not panic, there are choices." Here are some of them.
Mainstream with a shadow teacher in classroom
Under this option, which nine-year old Victor experienced, the parent pays for a teacher to shadow the child in the classroom. Sarah Bowler says that some schools will allow this support. "Others with their own in-house learning support, however, tend not to want to take an external shadow, even if the parents are keen and willing to fund it." Choosing this option depends largely on the needs of the child and what the school feels able to accommodate. Its success also rests somewhat on the relationship and communication between the teacher, shadow support and parent.
Mainstream with in-house learning support
Some parents find that with the right teacher, and some external support, the mainstream system works for them. This is the most sought-after option, as it allows children to function in a mainstream school environment while still getting the support they need. However, there are few schools offering this support with immediate availability.
Dr Vanessa von Auer is Principal at the Integrated International School, which runs both a mainstream and a support programme. She says: "In a big school, the time and resources to continuously support students with learning difficulties are limited. If the teacher-to-student ratio is 1 to 25, for example, it is impossible to provide unlimited intervention or support, especially if student behaviour includes aggression toward others or themselves.
"More often than not in such cases, children will be asked to leave. Also, it often happens that in large classes students may fall behind because they don't want to call out and attract attention to themselves in case they are pointed out as incapable."
She says small class sizes work for both mainstream and support kids when the curriculum is tailored to the children's needs. The support approach is offered for children who need more support such as behavioural intervention, a modified curriculum, or speech or social skills training. Mainstream kids, who are used to functioning independently, can also benefit from small class sizes. "Integration is key to both mainstream children and children with special needs, and everyone derives enormous benefits from shared learning experiences."
Specialised school with mainstream curriculum
Sarah Bowler says some kids simply need a couple of years of support to get back on track, and then they are able to reintegrate into mainstream schools. "Options for this route are The Winstedt School, the Integrated International School and Dover Court Preparatory School. Parents can also access intensive support services through DAS International Services, Brain Train, Dynamics and numerous other independent institutions."
The Winstedt Academy's Sharon Solomon says the majority of children she accepts have found that a bigger school did not work for them. "In many instances, families come here feeling helpless and desperate. There is so much misinformation and so many empty promises out there, that they don't know what to do.
"Some parents find it hard to accept that their child has a learning difficulty, but children are not unaware that they have a problem. They are extremely observant of their peers, and are often more aware of their own inabilities than their capabilities. This can really take a toll on a child, and you cannot cocoon and protect them from it."
She believes that small class sizes, capped at 15 – which is the direction that the US is heading – provide a learning environment that does not short-change children. "Education is not just academic. It is also social and emotional, and about meeting the needs of the child. We focus on a teacher nurturing a child, rather than delivering content. It is about instilling a lifelong joy in learning."
This is an option that an increasing number of expat families are following. The one-on-one K12 programme follows the American curriculum and combines online and textbook learning. Chendo says that after his experience in a mainstream school, Victor has settled into the programme, finds the curriculum challenging enough for his above-average aptitude and is supported by his mother as learning coach. They have attended gatherings with other Singapore-based children doing home-schooling and have found that very beneficial.
The Way Forward
Everyone interviewed for this story agreed it can be challenging to find appropriate schooling options for the needs of individual children, but that there are options. Here are five tips to help guide you through the situation:
1. You are not alone. Find a support network with other expat families who are confronting similar challenges. They can not only serve as a sympathetic sounding board, but also offer valuable advice.
2. Advocate for your child effectively. Engage the school openly and constructively
to determine whether it is a good fit for the requirements of your child. Though this might result in disappointment, it may be preferable to withdrawing your child at a later date.
3. Provide extracurricular support. In Singapore, there is no shortage of therapists qualified to deliver a broad range of services for kids with special needs or learning differences. They offer ABA, speech and occupational therapy, behavioural intervention, counselling and more.
4. Beyond the academics. If your child doesn't do well in team-based sports or athletics activities, one-on-one instruction can be a good option, but it's important to be very open from the start with the provider or instructor.
5. When school doesn't work. Look at home-schooling, which delivers a self-paced, individualised education programme. This is well suited to kids with special needs or learning differences who do not do well in the hectic environment of an international school.
Canadian Karen Lay has three children and has lived here for over 10 years. Her first child, Keaton (10), was born prematurely and diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy. He is in a wheelchair and cannot speak, although he can communicate through sounds. "Through that," Karen says, "we know when he is happy or sad". They employ two helpers who provide round-the-clock care, something that she says would not be financially possible in Canada. Keaton attends Rainbow School on weekday afternoons. A public school, it is equipped for physically disabled children and was accessible to them because they are PRs. Karen also recommends Kaleidescope for therapy services.
Integrated International School
Two streams – a main stream for children who function independently and a support stream for children with learning differences who need intervention and extra assistance – are offered in one inclusive environment. The school does not believe in a "one size fits all approach" and encourages children to develop critical thinking skills. Its small size allows an emphasis on academic goals with flexibility to accommodate every student's learning pace. Counsellors, behavioural therapists, psychologists and other specialists are on staff.
Curriculum: Australia's New South Wales curriculum for primary school; accredited as a Cambridge Certified School to offer IGCSE and AS/A levels.
Educational approaches: mainstream and support
Class size: 1:8 (teacher-to-student ratio in main stream); 1:4 (in support stream)
Ages: From four to 18 years
School size: 70
6235 9602 | iis.com.sg
The Winstedt School
Offers a one-stream curriculum that is academically and socio-emotionally focused on the learning experience of the child. Aims to meet the needs of learners of average and higher cognitive ability, the gifted and those who may have been diagnosed as having a language-based learning difficulty. Committed to providing support to learners who have emotional or behavioural problems related to educational frustration. Students work with in-house professionals such as occupational therapists and speech pathologists where appropriate.
Curriculum: International Primary Curriculum (UK); a Cambridge Certified School for IGCSE (2015 cohort)
Class size: 1:6
School size: 50
Ages: 4.5 years to 11 years (2013 enrolment)
6836 1128 | winstedt.edu.sg
Tanglin Trust
Follows the English National Curriculum. Has a dedicated learning support team for infant, junior and senior schools and a full-time Educational Psychologist on staff. Placement is subject to the school's capacity to provide appropriate individual support.
6778 0771 | tts.edu.sg
DAS International
A specialist arm of the Dyslexia Association of Singapore, it provides a one-stop referral point for a range of special needs learners, including psychological assessments, a pre-school intervention programme and specialist tuition. Assistance includes literacy, numeracy and writing skills, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, individual curriculum support, study skills and exam preparation, behavioural and social support. The specialist Bridging Programme is for children who are experiencing difficulties in learning that affect their ability to independently access a mainstream curriculum.
6336 2555 | dasint.org.sg
Dover Court
6775 7664 | dovercourt.edu.sg
Chiltern House
6242 8368 | chilternhouse.com.sg
Live and Learn
6329 6464 | liveandlearnasia.com
Genesis School for Special Education
St Gerard's School
SSNAP, a support network for parents of children with special needs who live in Singapore.
ssnap.info | firstname.lastname@example.com
Chendo Chavarria, expat parent and advocate blogger for autism spectrum families
Sarah Bowler, educational consultant
8268 5232 | www.jsjconsulting.asia


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Anyone who works from home—whether as an entrepreneur, freelance writer, consultant or distributor for a company—should take the time to understand the ins and outs of taxes and how to properly utilize deductions. This article will address various steps that individuals who work from home can take in order to get a grip on taxes and deductions.
Getting a Grip on Taxes and Deductions
As an individual who works from home, it can seem overwhelming to have to be totally responsible for your taxes yourself rather than having an employer make the process simpler for you by deducting taxes from your paycheck. However, understanding taxes and deductions doesn't have to be rocket science.
1. When in Doubt, Seek Assistance
One first rule of thumb is to be smart and know when you need help. It's better to seek assistance with your taxes and understanding deductions than to majorly mess up and end up with an IRS audit. One major difference with an individual who works from home and someone who is employed by an employer is how the taxes are reported to the IRS. Regarding the former, your income is reported on a 1099 form and for the latter, the income is reported on a W-2 form. Susan Lee, EA, CFP is a tax and financial planner who has written an excellent piece of advice for freelancers regarding taxes and reporting income and expenses. Additionally, you can find a variety of resources and help on the IRS website regarding downloading forms, filing assistance, payments, and refunds. You can also find out the contact information for your local IRS office and your local taxpayer advocate office.
2. Follow the 3 Basic IRS Considerations
When it comes to recording expenses for deductions, it is important to understand the IRS regulations. According to Lindsay Angus from Bench, there are three basic concepts that the IRS considers with regard to taxes and deductions: "exclusivity, regularity and precedence". Basically, you must have an area that is specifically designated for your office workspace. It must be utilized regularly for your home business and this space is required to be the actual "home" base for your business.
3. Make a Tax Plan and Stick to It
When working from home, it is important that you make a tax plan and stick to it. You don't have an employer to rely on for deducting taxes from your regular paycheck so it is vital to find a way to be consistent with your own system. Once you have begun to pay in your estimated taxes, you should receive declaration forms for the quarterly taxes you need to pay in. As you pay your estimated taxes each quarter, you should have enough paid in so that you won't have to pay more taxes when you file the following April. You can find out more information on estimated taxes regarding how to pay, who must pay, who doesn't have to pay, how to figure out estimated taxes and when to pay them, and penalties for underpayments for estimated taxes.
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Some individuals seek the advice and counsel of certified accountants throughout the year and when filing taxes. Finally, make sure that you follow the proper IRS guidelines with regard to deductions and properly classifying them. If they are not properly classified, the IRS may disallow them.
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A contract is any agreement between the University and another party that creates an obligation, right, or liability. Income, expense, or zero dollar activities may require a contract. This includes agreements for services (personal, professional, or consultant), catering, hotel room blocks, tradeshow booth rentals, conference room rental at hotels, international travel groups, software purchases, etc.
Any agreement (regardless of the amount or title of the document) that requires a signature for terms, conditions, rules, or liability should be sent to FIO for processing.
All agreements should be submitted to Jennifer Hicks in FIO when they are first received and allow sufficient time for the review process. This can be done weeks or even months before the start date.
FIO will review the agreement, prepare the appropriate documentation, and submit to the campus contracts office for legal review and vice chancellor signature.
Purchase of any good(s) or service(s) equal to or over $10,000 requires a contract or purchase order, and must be acquired through the university competitive bid process or approved by purchasing through non-competitive justiciation. Additional lead time is required to process either the bid or the non-compete justification.
The same procedure for processing contract invoices should be followed as for regular invoices except the contract number should be referenced on the invoice and GL Account 437500 should be used.
More in depth details regarding contracts can be found on the UT Fiscal Policy website.
Please contact Jennifer Hicks at firstname.lastname@example.com or (865) 974-6735 for more information about Haslam College of Business contracts.
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Calories 289cal
Protein 19g
Total fat 12g
Saturated fat 5g
Carbohydrates 25g
Sugars 5g
Dietary fibre 3g
Sodium 500mg
Calcium 120mg
Iron 1.5mg
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Posted by cheekos in Investment Primer on August 20, 2017
If you read one book this year, let it be "I Was Told to Come Alone," by Saoud Mekhennet, This book is the culmination of the author's journey to analyze and answer a question by Maureen Fanning, the widow of a New York City firefighter who had died in the collapse of the World Trade Center, on 9/11. Mrs. Fanning directed the title question toward Saoud who, although German-born, is of Turkish/Moroccan descent.
There are two key factors in Ms. Mekhennet's background that, perhaps, make her the ideal person to even attempt to understand this multi-facetted dilemma:
- As the child of immigrant "guest workers," Saoud felt the harsh reality of discrimination, oftentimes not being considered "German, German," even though she tutored other German students in "German". Many young Muslims in Europe, who perceive being rejected by society, are prone to radicalization!
- Ms. Mekhennet's parents were born into different sects within the Sunni/Shia schism; however, she and her family had always lived as secular Muslims. In fact, Saoud only came to realize the problem in her later teens, but without any emotional biases. The religious instability caused by the Schism back home, merely fuels the flow of Muslims to the West, further compounding the growth of Terrorism–especially among the young!
Ms. Mekhennet's journey took her to various countries within the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Western Europe, during which, Saoud interviewed a number of al-Qaeda, ISIS and Taliban leaders. Even though those interviews placed her at considerable personal risk, as a journalist, she knew that they were vital to her understanding–and explaining–of both sides of the issue.
A considerable amount of this book is devoted toward Ms. Mekhennet's attempt to understand how and why young European Muslims have become radicalized, and join the Jihad. Is it a legitimate cause, necessary to save the Islamic way of life, or is it a false reality, based on a hijacked version of Islam–merely replacing one version of beliefs for another?
Throughout the book, Ms. Mekhennet also questions the false assertions behind such ideas as Weapons of Mass Destruction, false intelligence reported by various Western agencies, and the lack of concern for civilian deaths. Basically, if we throw off our parochial views and narrow-mindedness, we might begin to understand that there is plenty of blame, for the entire terrorism issue, to go around.
As somewhat of a summation to her journey, Saoud Mekhennet points out that "…some people in Western countries don't see the hazards of setting standards for others, as if our way is the right way and the only way. This is the same argument that ISIS makes."
NOTE: And oh, by the way, toward the very end of her journey, Ms Mekhennet solved one of those pesky questions that was on everyone's mind, when she unmasked "Jihadi John", who played a key role in those ISIS videoclips!
Posted by cheekos in Investment Primer on April 30, 2017
Today, the last Saturday in April, commemorates one of the darkest days in American history, especially for Japanese-Americans and, as it appears–today's Muslims. We Americans always seem to act like we're the Good Guys, in the White Hats; but, save that for the movies. Because, that's just not really US!
Just consider a few of our Crimes Against Humanity: widespread Human Slavery from pre-Colonial America, through the mid-19th Century; stealing the ancient tribal lands of Native Americans, and relegating them to barren reservations, barely capable of sustaining life; and the massacre of 550 Vietnamese old men, women, and even nursing babies, by the "Men" of the U. S. Army Americal Division, at My Lai4, in 1968.
The following Op-Ed from the NY Times, "Internment, America's Great Mistake", by George Takei (""Mr. Sulu", on StarTrek), beautifully conveys the sorrow and hardship, that many Japanese-American had to endure—by someone who was there. As Mr. Takei noted, he was expected to "Pledge Allegiance to the Flag", every morning, while living in such a "Camp". And to add the harshest insults to War Heroes, when Japanese-American men returned to their Homeland, after fighting in World War II, they too were placed in the same "POW" Camps, with their families!
Along with the many Japanese and other Americans remembering that Darkest Day on America, many of whom were born after The War, there are also a number of Muslims. Just two days ago, eight Iraqis were deported to Iraq, and many other Muslims wonder if they, too, might be sent "back" to a land they had never known. Once again, is this what Humanity is all about?
As Donald Trump has reached Day #100, we can only be happy that he hasn't blown -up the planet yet. But, as each day passes, I can only think how wonderful it would be to have a Parliamentary Government, and with a "No Confidence Vote" scheduled first thing on Monday! morning
Posted by cheekos in Investment Primer on March 18, 2017
As the Irish are one of the oldest, and most easily assimilated groups of immigrants, St. Patty's Day has come to be a day of celebration, not only for the Irish, but for many Immigrant groups.Ω even those who might seem to be flying under the radar—because they are of European stock. But they realize that Trump's racially-motivated immigration ideas today could turn against all other groups tomorrow. So, they stand together!
Sure, Donald Trump might have toasted Irish Prime Minister Enda Kelly with green beer, on Thursday, and both men had-on green ties, and the fountain on the White House's south lawn glowed green, for a day or two. The undocumented Irish find little solace in those hollow events, however, due to the fact that they entered the U. S. on perfectly legal Visas, and remained here after they had expired. Besides the Irish, many others, like the Polish, the Mexicans, Nigerians, Filipinos, etc., are hard-working taxpayers, who are raising families here.
Perhaps the Irish won't be the first group to be deported; but, how can they ever be sure that, as Trump or some other demagogue like him, works their way down the list of nationalities that, at some point, they might be next! As much as Trump talks about creating jobs, he doesn't realize that immigrants often are the reason for economic expansion as they add (usually) younger workers, entrepreneurial and technological skills, and they also increase the consumer base, as more spenders can grow the economy exponentially.
Undocumented immigrants normally enter the U. S. incrementally, and they are eventually assimilated into our society. Unfortunately, racist actions do make it difficult for some, such as today's Muslims, and of course blacks after centuries of living in America!
In 1981, 120,000 Cubans came ashore in Miami, in just two months time, and they were quickly assimilated into the local, very large Cuban-American community. That many refugees, arriving in one area, and being quickly assimilated was, of course, an aberration. Even though some of those "Marielitos" were, as Donald Trump would say, "Bad Hombres", their proportion generally pales when compared to the overall percentage of criminals in American society.
So, while Mr. Trump was toasting Prime Minister Kelly at the White House, Joe McHugh, Ireland's Minister for the Diaspora and International Development visited the Aisling Irish Community Center, in Yonkers, N. Y. Aisling is one of a number of community centers that provides social services, health screenings and other assistance to, what it calls, the "forgotten Irish". Staff members at Aisling, and other such centers, say that anxiety is peaking because of Trump. Minister Joe McHugh, said, after his visit: "They live in fear." But why?
Is this what America has come to: like those billionaires, who have more money than they could ever hope to spend, and they just seem to want more? Everyone of us are descendants of people who had come from somewhere else–even the Native Americans. And for all of those "god-fearing Christians", I surely wonder how you can mouth the words: "Do unto others…"
Posted by cheekos in Investment Primer on February 26, 2017
NOTE: This is an open-letter that Nicholas Kristof wrote, in his regular NY Times column, to awaken all Trump Voters:
Dear Trump Voters,
You've been had. President Trump sold you a clunker. Now that he's in the White House, he's betraying you — and I'm writing in hopes that you'll recognize that betrayal and hold him accountable.
Trump spoke to your genuine pain, to the fading of the American dream, and he won your votes. But will he deliver? Please watch his speeches carefully. You'll notice that he promises outcomes, without explaining how they'll be achieved. He's a carnival huckster promising that America will thrive with his snake oil.
"We're going to win, we're going to win big, folks," Trump declared Friday at the CPAC meeting, speaking of his foreign policy.
Great! Problem solved. Next? He then outlined his take on drug trafficking and what will surely be his outcome:
"No good. No good. Going to stop." Wow! Why didn't anyone else think of that?
Similarly, all looks rosy for tax outcomes: "We're going to massively lower taxes on the middle class," Trump said. But that seems like a classic shell game.
The Tax Policy Center estimated that Trump's tax plan (to the extent that there is one) would hugely increase the federal debt and give middle-income households an average tax cut of $1,010, or 1.8 percent of after-tax income — while the top 1 percent would save $214,690, or 13.5 percent of after-tax income.
Trump made more than 280 campaign promises as a candidate, and a few — such as infrastructure spending to create jobs — would be sensible if done right. But there still is no infrastructure plan, and The Washington Post Fact Checker is tracking 60 specific campaign promises and found only six cases so far of promises kept.
It's still early, and Trump has nominated a smart conservative to the Supreme Court and followed his campaign line on issues like barring refugees.
But while you voted for Trump because you put faith in his gauzy pledges, I bet he will do no better with campaign promises than with marriage vows.
Health care will be one of the greatest betrayals. On Friday, he described his plan: "We're going to make it much better, we're going to make it less expensive."
Yet the steps that Republicans seem likely to take on health care will hurt ordinary Americans.
For example, Trump seems poised to weaken the contraception mandate for insurance coverage and curb funding for women's health clinics. The upshot will likely be more unintended pregnancies, more abortions, more unplanned births — and more women dying of cervical cancer.
The biggest Trump bait-and-switch was visible Friday when he talked about giving Americans "access" to health care. That's a scam his administration is moving toward, with millions of Americans likely to lose health insurance: Instead of promising insurance coverage, Trump now promises "access" — and if you can't afford it, tough luck.
This promise of "access" is an echo of Marie Antoinette. In Trump's worldview, starving French peasants wouldn't have needed bread because they had "access" to cake.
Many of you voted for Trump because he campaigned as a populist. But instead of draining the swamp, he's wallowing in it and monetizing the presidency. He retains his financial interests, refuses to release his taxes or explain what financial leverage Russia may have over him, and doubled the fee to join Mar-a-Lago to $200,000.
The greatest betrayal of all will come if, as some of his advisers recommend, he "reforms" and tears holes in some of the big safety net programs like Medicaid, Social Security or Medicare. Medicaid is particularly vulnerable.
Trump howls at the news media, not just because it embarrasses him, but because it provides an institutional check on his lies, incompetence and conflicts of interest. But we can take his vitriol: When the time comes, we will write Trump's obituary, not the other way around.
Let's not get distracted by his howls or tweets. What's most important at this moment is not Trump's theatrics, but the policies he is putting in place in areas like health care and immigration that will devastate the lives of ordinary Americans.
Trump's career has often been built on scamming people who put their faith in him, as Trump University shows. Now he's moved the scam to a much bigger stage, and he boasts of targeting Muslims, refugees and unauthorized immigrants.
Please don't cheer, or acquiesce in these initial targets. The truth is that among the biggest losers from Trump policies will be you Trump voters, especially those of you from the working and middle class. You were hoping you'd elected a savior, and instead Donald Trump is doing to you what he did to just about everyone who ever trusted him: He's betraying you.
The sooner you recognize that, the sooner you can fight back and push for policies that will protect your health care and Social Security, defend the integrity of our election system and protect your own interests. You have a false savior, and you will have to turn on him to save yourselves and our nation.
Note from Mr. Kristoff: I invite you to sign up for my free, twice-weekly email newsletter. Please also join me on Facebook and Google+, watch my YouTube videos and follow me on Twitter (@NickKristof).
Posted by cheekos in Investment Primer on February 13, 2017
Americans tend to be low-key when it comes to politics, then they become more enthusiastic during the Presidential Elections, and they fall back to just monitoring the local happenings afterward. Since June of 2015; however, the venom has spewed much hotter and heavier than usual, among and between the citizenry. Donald Trump hit a nerve when he appealed to those who feel that they had been left behind in the economic recovery, and they believed him. when he said that only he could "Make America Great Again!"
Donald Trump is someone who you either love, or you hate, and neither side can understand the other's passion–either for or against him. And neither the haters, nor the lovers can understand this disparity, nor refrain from verb ally spewing their frustrations on one another. And since the November Election, and even since his Inauguration, Donald Trump has done nothing whatsoever to bring the two sides back together again!
Trump appears to be frustrated that he is following a Black man, President, Barack Hussein Obama. This fact might have just added to the Racism, Bigotry and Fear that he has been spewing all along. Fear is a primary tool that demagogues use to divide a Nation, one group at a time—as Germany realized back in the 1930s and 40s.
Trump also has a hot temper, which seems to always be simmering just under his skin. When the Ninth Circuit Court rebuked his Anti-Muslim Ban, he washed-out by attacking the overall Judiciary. Then, Donald ordered raids to round-up and arrest peaceful undocumented immigrants, and prepare them for expedited deportation.
Toward the end of his campaign; however, Trump had promised to tone-down his vow to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, and he said that he would only deport those with police records. Tomorrow, we'll probably be told that, since they were arrested, they were subject to deportation, since they then had police records.
The problem, as I see it, with a divided American Population is that things have become emotional. If the various individuals were aware of the facts behind each of the issues—Immigration, Health Care, Income Inequality, etc—there might be room for discussion. With politics being mostly an every-four-years event: however, many Americans today rely exclusively on TV and digital media for their news.
I intend to contact the local County Democratic Party office, and offer my services to form with a team of like-minded, issue-oriented people. After Donald Trump bamboozled America with demagoguery, perhaps we can appeal to their current frustrations with common sense!
Posted by cheekos in Investment Primer on February 12, 2017
Over the past couple of years, the political environment among many Americans has become heated. Friend against friend, neighbor on neighbor, they are now embattled; but, they often know little more than the political slogans or the soundbites, and there is little focus, if any, on understanding, either the underlying causes, or finding possible solutions.
Over the next several weeks, I intend to describe some of these issues—how they appear on the surface, and what, I believe, the underlying problems might be. If Americans wish to work together, we can possibly find workable solutions. But first, we need to take the political boxing gloves off, and discard our biased emotions.
For some of these problems, I have already posted blogs: the Infrastructure Scam; the impact of Immigration Policy on our economy; Institutionalized Racism in our Public Schools, etc. But, only when we consider these issues, as part of a greater, and even more important, problem—Preventing the Destruction of America—might we possibly find solutions!
I don't claim to have all of he answers or, perhaps, even know all of the questions. But, if America keeps festering from within, What Will We Become?
Posted by cheekos in Investment Primer on February 11, 2017
Toward the end of the 2016 campaign trail, Donald J. Trump seemed to take the edge off his vow to "Deport 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants". He narrowed his pledge, in time, to evict only "Illegals with Police Records." Recently; however, Trump has been rebuked at several stages, by the Federal Judiciary, with regard to his anti-Muslim Ban. But, Trump doesn't accept defeat easily: its just not in his DNA! Accordingly, Donald has reverted back to his schoolyard bully persona.
There have been numerous protests, especially at some of America's major airports, which apparently turned-up the fire in Donald's belly, even more! He then ordered raids in various cities, literally grabbing undocumented people off the streets or from their homes, and is scheduling them for deportation. Are there any bets as to whether these undocumented immigrants will be afforded "due process," under our Legal System? In effect, they can be deported under the guise of his "kinder, and gentler" declaration; because. they now have police records.
What impact will these raids, and expedited deportations, probably have on America? Actions generally do cause results, Donald, and not necessarily positive ones! California, for instance, produces an extremely large portion of our Nation's supply of fresh fruits and vegetables. Under Trump's mass deportations, there will be a shortage of farm workers. Farm crops are mostly harvested by low-paid workers, performing back-breaking work. The same goes for Washington State apples, Florida fruits, vegetables and sugar, and the same problem will effect the economies in many other states. So, get ready for higher prices and a shortage of fresh produce in America!
The prices of many other products and services, which we buy or use, would increase substantially without the immigrant workers. Consider: lawn services; restaurant kitchen help; construction workers; road crews; hotel household staff, etc. A drastic reduction in the labor supply would only result in an equivalent spike in expense for those products and services. Once the workers are deported, the Trump Regime can fine the employers, all he wants; but, there would still be a labor shortage!
Just consider a major stumbling block that China, Germany, Japan and other countries are beginning to face—an aging workforce! As national economies have improved, the birth rate naturally declines. China's One-Child Policy (since 1980) has truly devastated its supply of young workers, and the Japanese and German economies have similarly been effected. Germany's labor pool, however, has had a resurgence, due to the migration of rouge workers, due to the European Union's Open Borders Policy.
America—pre-Trump—had always been considered the Model of Democracy, Capitalism and Humanity. America has benefitted over the centuries, from wave-after-wave of Immigrants from Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, South America and Africa. Many of those flocking to our shores—whether economic or political refugees—have worked hard, raised their families, fought in our wars, paid taxes and, in other words—have always continued to Make America Great, Again and Again!
Might we be delivered from this Trumpian Plague? The GOP has been saying, all along that it can control what they have allowed to develop. Well, as more and more Americans become disgusted with Donald J. Trump, perhaps the Republican Party will be ousted from its majority roles, in both the House and Senate. That might enable the Democrats to put a muzzle on Trump, but, one question still comes to mind: Might the schoolyard bully be contained before he destroys America?


text: Hurricane Sandy Federal Funding Will Help NYS DEP Make Reservoir Repairs By Allison Dunne • Dec 7, 2016 Courtesy of NYC DEP Listen Listening... / 0:40 Federal funding is headed to repair damages from Hurricane Sandy at a reservoir in Westchester County. Gillibrand To Introduce Flood Insurance Reform Bill By Associated Press • Oct 25, 2015 Zach Malloy U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is announcing legislation to require the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be more accountable to property owners who file claims. Northeast Hurricane Risk Is Low, But Public Urged To Prepare By Paul Tuthill • Jul 24, 2015 NASA/Public Domain Hurricanes are rare here in the Northeast, and forecasters say this year's Atlantic hurricane season will be relatively inactive. But emergency preparedness officials are urging people not to become complacent when it comes to hurricanes. WAMC"s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Peter Judge, the spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. FEMA Funding Will Help Rebuild A Village Hall Destroyed By Sandy By Allison Dunne • Mar 27, 2015 Wikimedia Commons Lawmakers from New York say federal funding is headed to rebuild a village hall in Rockland County that was severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Federal Dollars Head To Metro-North For Sandy Repairs By Allison Dunne • Feb 11, 2015 Flickr / MTAPhotos Congressional officials from New York have announced an investment in Metro-North Railroad for capital improvement projects from Hurricane Sandy. Sandy-Damaged Park Gets Funding Help By Allison Dunne • Jan 28, 2015 Courtesy of Westchester County New York's two U.S. senators have announced federal funding to help a Westchester County park recover from Hurricane Sandy. 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'Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy' By Kathryn Miles By Joe Donahue • Oct 27, 2014 Listen Listening... / 15:09 Initially a tropical storm, Sandy had grown into a hybrid monster. It charged across open ocean, picking up strength with every step, baffling meteorologists and scientists, officials and emergency managers, even the traditional maritime wisdom of sailors and seamen: What exactly was this thing? By the time anyone decided, it was too late. And then the storm made landfall. Sandy was not just enormous, it was also unprecedented. As a result, the entire nation was left flat-footed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration couldn't issue reliable warnings; the Coast Guard didn't know what to do. In Superstorm, journalist Kathryn Miles takes readers inside the maelstrom, detailing the stories of dedicated professionals at the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service. 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HV Congresswoman Calls For Funds To Stay In Sandy-Affected Areas By Allison Dunne • Apr 23, 2014 A congresswoman from the Hudson Valley wants some federal disaster funding to stay in Hurricane Sandy-affected areas. She is among a number of federal lawmakers from New York City and the suburbs making such a call. Cuomo, VP Biden Meet On Infrastructure Rebuilding Plans By Karen Dewitt • Jan 7, 2014 Karen DeWitt Governor Cuomo hosted Vice President Joe Biden to talk about new ways of rebuilding infrastructure after damaging storms. The two are potential Presidential contenders in 2016, if Hillary Clinton doesn't run, but they had nothing but praise for one another. New York State received $6 billion dollars in federal aid after Superstorm Sandy, and Governor Cuomo invited Vice President Joe Biden to the State Capitol, to show him how he's spending the money. 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