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The ILSS cars were back in action on Fri Night at the Lincoln Speedway and Springfield hot shoe Korey Weyant won the 16 car Speedway Motors Feature Event. Weyant and Andy Baugh who won heat races were disqualified for not coming directly to the weigh scales after their 8 lap heats were complete and had to start the 20 lap event from the rear. This would put Mitchell Davis and Larry Eastin on the front row. Mitchell would take the lead at the drop of the green Eastin, Brent Burrows in tow and Robby McQuinn in 4th. Weyant and Baugh would start thier run to the front and start to pick off cars every lap. Mitchell would lead until lap 10 when Weyant took over with Andy moving to 3rd. baugh would get by Mitchell on the next lap and get by Weyant on the backstrech. Andy would spin on the next lap in turn 4 and Weyant would regain the lead. On lap 12 Rookie Robby McQuinn took a nasty end over flip in turn 4 and came to rest on his wheels. Robby was okay and was able to restart the event. A hard battle for 3rd went on between Austin Archdale and Gedd Ross as Andy had worked his way from the back to the runner up spot behind Weyant. Austin would squeeze out Ross by the front bumper at the finish and Mitchell Davis would finish in the 5th spot. Mitchell Davis and Brent Burrows would win the Keizer Wheels 8 lap heat races.
Keizer Wheels 8 lap heat #1: 1.Brent Burrows 2.Larry Eastin 3. Jeff Mallonee 4.Dave Baugh 5. Lucas Eastin 6. Terry Bolen 7.T.J. Bolen 8 Korey Weyant
Keizer Wheels 8 lap heat #2: 1. Mitchell Davis 2. Robby McQuinn 3.Austin Archdale 4. Jake Sollenberger 5. Gedd Ross 6. Andrew Funk 7. Brad Funk 8.Andy Baugh
SPEEDWAY MOTORS 20 Lap Feature Event
1.#7x-Korey Weyant�Springfield
2.#6B�Andy Baugh�Mason City
3.#2-Austin Archdale�Brimfield
4.#51R-Gedd Ross�Havana
5. #56-Mitchell Davis�Auburn
6.#5-Jake Sollenberger�Canton
7.#31J-Jeff Mallonee-Davenport Ia.
8.#7-Dave Baugh�Bloomington
9.#51-Brent Burrows�Lewistown
10.#71-Lucas Eastin-Oakland
11. #09-Robby McQuinn�Springfield
12.#8�Andrew Funk�Morton
13.#17-Larry Eastin�Atwood
14.#42�Terry Bolen�Morton
15.#75�T.J. Bolen�Peoria
16.#4�Brad Funk�Morton
The ILSS cars and stars will be in action on Fri Night July 25th at the Jacksonville Raceway with the MOWA 410 Sprint Week and then to the Mighty Macon Speedway on Sat Night July 26th with MOWA Sprint Week . Fri night is a wing race and Sat night is a non wing race. Any chain drive lightning sprint is welcome to come and get some of the action.


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School of Pharmacy
Robert Schatz
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Robert ("Bob") Schatz
Associate Professor of Toxicology
MS at Northeastern in Pharmacology and Toxicology, 1968
Where did you grow up?
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
What do you teach at the School of Pharmacy?
Toxicology, but I'm retiring this year. I was also the Director of the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences from 1988-2010.
What is your educational background?
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, BS in Pharmacy, 1961-66
Northeastern University College of Pharmacy, Master of Science, 1968
University of Rhode Island for Pharmacology and Toxicology, PhD, 1971
Why did you come to Northeastern?
For my masters degree. Northeastern had just started a masters program so I came here. And in those days the masters program was a day program with co-op. Also, I came back for family. My parents were in Massachusetts and now my children live in Maine.
Where did you have your co-ops, and how beneficial were they?
I ended up working at the Army Lab in Natick. My boss there had been my advisor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. My co-op experience was what made me go get my PhD.
What have you done since your time at Northeastern?
Then I worked at the Psychiatry Department at the University of Michigan from for 10 years as a biochemist in a lab. In 1981, I came back to Northeastern as an assistant professor.
How has your experience at Northeastern been?
I've been very happy here.
How frequently do you get to speak or meet with other Northeastern alumni or students living in the area?
Often. Not so much now, but when I was in closer in age to the students, they would stop by.
Since you are retiring this year, where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
Hanging out with my granddaughters.
What would you say to a student who is considering attending Northeastern?
I think that based upon my own experience, co-op is extremely important and that is one of the beauties of this university.
What is your fondest memory of your time at Northeastern and the School of Pharmacy?
Getting the Society of Toxicology's Education Award in 2006. Alumni essentially got together and wrote a bunch of letters to the Society of Toxicology, and they gave me all the letters written on my behalf.
What has changed the most at NU?
This place has become attractive. More than half these buildings didn't exist in 1968 when I got my masters.
What has been your favorite hang-out spot around campus?
I used to spend a lot of time at Our House.
A Few Words of Advice:
Find something you like doing because you're going to be doing it a long time.
Anything else?
I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here. It's the most fun I've ever had with my clothes on!
Contact Info
School of Pharmacy
140 The Fenway
Mailstop R218TF
Tel: 617.373.3380
Fax: 617.373.7655

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Hockey legend Bobby Orr appeared on Off the Record with Michael Landsberg on Friday to discuss an array of topics, including fighting in the NHL.
The Hall of Fame defenceman told Landsberg that he believes fighting still has a place in today's game, but thinks staged fighting needs be outlawed.
"I just think that the fear of getting beaten up is a great deterrent from all of a sudden becoming a tough guy," Orr said. "I really believe we have to get rid of the staged fighting and get rid of avenging the legal hit, but I think that we have to leave (fighting) in there. I just think a lot of guys will all of a sudden get real brave and I think that it will lead to more violence in our game."
Orr was asked about the hit by Buffalo Sabres forward John Scott to the head of Loui Eriksson of the Boston Bruins and called it outrageous, adding that fighting is needed after illegal hits such as Scott's.
"(The hit) made no sense," said Orr. "Loui Eriksson's a pretty good hockey player and very important to the Bruins. I mean, Scott goes after Phil Kessel and that's outrageous. Why do you do that? This is why I believe that the fear of getting beat has to be there and a 'policeman' has to be there if there's a reason to fight."
Orr, who won Stanley Cups with the Boston Bruins in 1970 and 1972, said that times have changed and the game has to evolve with the changes.
"Hey, we did things back in the day that if we did today we'd probably be in a lot of trouble," said Orr. "It's changing now. The new fan we're trying to attract doesn't want to see some of the foolishness. But I really think we have to be careful with eliminating (fighting) completely.
Orr credited the NHL for doing a great job with punishments on head hits and blindside hits, as well as the new hybrid rule.
"I think the league is doing a great job with the hits from behind and the high blind spot hits, and I think hybrid icing is a wonderful rule," said Orr. "It's a changing world and we've got to make changes."
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Provo • The BYU Cougars discovered a potential shooting star on Saturday night while ending their four-game losing streak. But more importantly, they might have also stumbled upon the identity that will ensure another lengthy skid doesn't happen again anytime soon.
Making his first career start in the place of struggling guard Matt Carlino, junior college transfer Skyler Halford lit up San Diego for a career-high 28 points on 11-of-16 shooting and Cougars got back on the winning track against their West Coast Conference nemesis from last year. They ripped through the Toreros 87-53 in front of 15,760 at the Marriott Center to improve to 1-2 in WCC play, 9-7 overall.
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Halford, who learned during practice that he would get the nod at the starting shooting guard spot, was easily the story of the game — but not just for his offensive explosion. He also drew the assignment of slowing down San Diego star Johnny Dee, and did just that, as the second-leading scorer in the WCC had just eight points on 2-of-10 shooting, all in the first half.
"The basket just keeps getting bigger and bigger," Halford said, after making 4 of 8 3-point attempts, part of the Cougars' 8-for-17 effort from beyond the arc. That after BYU was just a combined 4 of 21 from 3-point range in WCC-opening losses to Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine.
Coach Dave Rose said he started Halford over Carlino because of the momentum the team had in the second half of the second half of the 80-74 loss to Pepperdine on Monday.
"We just wanted to build on that. Sky was a big part of that, and so that's kind of how we made the decision to start him tonight," Rose said.
It might also have been a signal that the coaching staff is going to insist on better defense from its frontline players. With the Cougars harassing them on almost every possession, the Toreros (0-3, 9-7) were just 34.5 percent from the field and 11.8 percent (2 of 17) from 3-point range.
"I really think this team has kind of identified themselves with their offense, and tonight it was totally different," Rose said. "We were a defensive team, playing with urgency on every defensive possession. We need to bottle that and make that become a huge part of the identity of this group. Hopefully, we can."
Halford said he couldn't take all the credit for shutting down Dee — who picked up his second foul with about eight minutes remaining in the first half and played just 24 minutes — but figured he could do it as well as anyone because he could match the high-scoring junior's energy.
"He is racing around the floor all the time," Halford said. "It was a big team effort on containing him."
If there was a sour note from a game in which the Cougars led by as many as 37 points and won the rebounding battle 45-27, including 25-10 in the first half, it was that freshman center Eric Mika suffered a hip contusion and left the game in the second half with 13 points.
"I don't know," Rose said when asked about Mika's condition. Head athletic trainer Rob Ramos "told me what the situation is, and right now I can't tell you if that is good or bad. We will just have to see."
Offensively, the Cougars racked up 25 assists on 31 buckets, after having combined for 26 against LMU and Pepperdine, combined. It was only the third time this season that Tyler Haws (17 points) hasn't led the Cougars in scoring in games in which he has played. Kyle Collinsworth added 12 points, eight assists and seven rebounds with just two turnovers in his fourth game as the starting point guard.
"I think we saw a side of this team which we haven't seen, which is encouraging for us, moving forward," Rose said.
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Before & After: Under Stair Storage Redo
Like many other small space dwellers, we have almost no closet or storage space in my home. The tenants before us took the first step to maximize the dead space under the stairs by removing a partition wall to open up the area, and installed a drop down hatch under the stair. Unfortunately they didn't install a railing and instead only those awkward, sharp rectangular boxes — after several falls down the stairs it was painfully obvious something needed to change!
I'm sure there are people who prefer the 'before' design, and we really did appreciate the previous tenant's efforts, but it wasn't really our style, and wasn't functioning well. The exterior grade painted treads were really slippery, and without a railing to grab on to, we'd tumble down into the edges of those sharp boxes. So we ran with the original concept, but totally overhauled the implementation:
• Replaced painted plywood treads with stained oak
• Boxes and out-of-scale newel post were replaced with new railing and handrail using scrap wood
• Structural post was recovered with finish-grade stained wood
• Drop-down hatch was replaced with better functioning, and more discreet doors
• Reinstalled some old hooks and a closet rod to hang out of season coats
We could've gone really fancy and further customized the storage, but we wanted to keep the space flexible for our constantly changing storage needs. For us, refinishing the under stair storage was a much needed improvement on an already good concept.
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So much better
Looks great! Really lightens up the space plus makes it look cleaner.
Great transformation and in my opinion, much needed. I don't even UNDERSTAND the before. Way to add storage and class.
that's a zillion times better. well done!
Nice job. What were they thinking?? The before would never pass code.
Muuuuuch better. Wonderful job.
The before was so unfabulously 80's. Much better now! You won't believe what people rig up in their homes that are not to code. I won't even get specific about my dad, don't want to get him in trouble lol!
Surprise it sold to you without meeting code standards. Love the after!
Oh wow! This is exactly what I have been trying to design on paper for the useless space under my stairs as a DIY project. My space has so much potential for better use of this storage space, but I don't want the ugly small door that is currently there, as I have to crawl through it, to get to my stuff...a big hassle. ;(
Any chance you can provide tips or instructions on how perfectly you got the doors to meet up so evenly? I love how clean and simple the doors are and especially how they open up without having to crawl into a tight space to access items.
Thanks so much for sharing!
MUCH better!!!
Looks awesome! You are very generous in your assessment of the 'before'.
Just curious: I assume you are renting? Did your landlord share costs with you and was it difficult to get him or her on board? Also, curious to know the price tag for this. We would love to talk our landlord into something like this.
So much better now ! I don't get the before either !
Very nicely done! Really pretty and probably also better in terms of functionality.
It looks like it's much safer now as you have a banister.
piano hinges?
Well thank god that was changed. What a mess in that before picture!
bravo! (im w julia- "i don't even UNDERSTAND the b4...")
Much better! Love the after :-D
This is truly an improvement.
Lovely. I bet the previous owners probably fell down the stairs too but just didn't quite know how to make it better. A vast improvement!
Improvement in terms of hodge-podgey-ness, but rather bland. Was hoping there would be some personality/uniqueness/eccentricity to the re-do.
I'm so scared to come across my "brilliantly planned renovation" 20 years later in a blog as a "before" photo... haha. This looks great.
All -- thanks for all the lovely compliments! We really did appreciate the idea the tenants before us had, but yes, it needed some tweaking. We do own - it's a duplex condo in a 12-unit historic building, and for some reason we're the ones who've taken advantage of the under-the-stair space!
We did not use piano hinges for the doors, they're just heavy duty cabinet/institutional style hinges. While having the top edge of the doors sloped is not ideal, it was the best way to maximize the door openings. And, it took a little readjusting and sanding through the seasons to get it to open smoothly.
Because our stair 'redo' was actually a smaller part of a larger renovation project in our unit, I'm not actually sure of the cost. I designed the remodel, but we worked with a woodworker/contractor colleague of mine who did all the rough carpentry work, while my husband and I shared all the finishing duties.
So much better!
What a difference, looks great!
That is a world of difference. The white looks so clean and sophisticated.
way awesome! thank you for changing it...that before frightens me.... >>


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The image of It's a Wonderful Life has undergone a complete transformation since its 1946 release. In its own time, Frank Capra's comedy-drama about the dark side of human nature was a modest failure, neither a box-office success nor a critical favorite, though it garnered some recognition in the form of 5 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. For the next 28 years, the movie remained a cult favorite among movie buffs and Capra fans. Then the movie's copyright was allowed to lapse and suddenly, during the early 1980s around Christmas (the season in which the film is set), it seemed possible to flip on the TV at random some nights and find the movie playing somewhere on the dial, and that went double for Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, and New Year's. The public came out regarding the film as a lost classic; Capra lived just long enough to reap some of the belated acclaim, and his estate later benefitted from the sales of the films that he owned outright, such as Broadway Bill and Lady For a Day. The movie is in fact a dark, disturbing look at small-town American life between the two world wars, rife with class envy and fears of modernity, and featuring a before-its-time portrayal of George Bailey's middle-aged sense of failure that seems more appropriate for an American film of the Seventies. It is at once nostalgic and angry, and its reputation as a holiday chestnut has been mercilessly parodied for its conclusion on good spirits and generosity; Saturday Night Live, in particular, had vicious fun with it in a post-end-credits parody in which the people of Bedford Falls lynch Mr. Potter when they realize that he has the money.
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If, less than a week into the Christmas season you're already sick of lonely reindeer, misfit toys and Charlie Brown's crummy tree, take heart. Television has enough mayhem afoot this week to satiate even the most ravenous inner John Dillinger.
TNT's Mob City, set in the underutilized 1940s heyday of Los Angeles gangsterism — when organized crime and political corruption were at high tide — is a lovably cynical crime noir. And the documentary An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story, airing on CNN, is downright horrifying in its sadly factual recounting of a man who spent 25 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.
Mob City is a bit of an odd television duck: It's based on a nonfiction work of history (journalist John Buntin's 2010 book L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City) but riddled with imaginary characters and plots. And it was shot as a series but is being screened as a miniseries, with back-to-back episodes airing on three consecutive Wednesdays.
Mob City's other distinction is that it's the first show from executive producer Frank Darabont since he was mysteriously dumped from the zombie-apocalypse drama he developed, The Walking Dead, although it was a big hit with both viewers and critics.
He has certainly made the most of his opportunity. Mob City is gloriously aswirl in all the classic trappings of the gangster movie, from slinky barmaids to cemetery-eyed wiseguys to warrant-what-warrant? cops to hardboiled True Detective magazine dialogue. (Reluctant shamus to seedy potential customer: "You don't know me. Why ruin a good thing?")
The show starts off in 1947, when mobster Mickey Cohen ran the Southern California underworld with help from his Las Vegas pals Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky and little interference from the notoriously corrupt Los Angeles police.
The central character and narrator of Mob City is a (fictional) homicide detective named Joe Teague (Jon Bernthal, who played the wife-coveting sheriff's deputy Shane in the first three seasons of The Walking Dead). Teague returned from World War II a decorated hero, but his years in the notoriously corrupt Los Angeles police have left him cynical and cautious.
"White hats, black hats," he muses. "That's what they always wore in the old westerns we watched growing up, so we could tell the good guys from the bad guys. ... Most of us have to make do somewhere in the middle. We live in a world of gray hats."
Some of the black hats — Cohen (character actor Jeremy Luke) and his murderous pals Siegel (indie writer-director Edward Burns) and Sid Rothman (a fictional Mafia killer played by Robert Knepper of Prison Break) — are easy to spot.
So is the main white hat, a police captain named William Parker whose ambition to make chief rests on his ability to get the city's gangsters under control.
The color of Teague's headgear is harder to discern. When a petty crook who's blackmailing a mob capo offers Teague some quick money to act as the muscle where incriminating photos are exchanged for a payoff, the detective reports it to his superiors — but only after learning that his meeting with the extortionist was spotted by police surveillance. Did he tell because he's a good cop, or because he thought they already knew?
As that question remains tantalizingly unanswered, the cops decide to turn the blackmail payoff into a sting where they can grab the photos and use them to prosecute whichever gangster boss they implicate. But when the exchange goes sideways, Teague finds himself walking a tightrope between his bosses and the mob, one that stretches back into his own past.
Mob City would be better if it were just a little bit more raw — there's something amiss when a putative sleazy jazz dive looks like you could eat off the floors.
But its proudly pulpy sensibilities (Los Angeles, notes one doomed character as he gazes at the nighttime skyline, is "like a sky-full of stars, but only from a distance — up close, it's all gutter") and its startling plot twists make it a whiskey-and-a-shot pleasure.
There are many words that can be used in connection with An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story — infuriating, sickening, dismally depressing — but "pleasurable" is hard to apply to a documentary that recounts such a grotesque miscarriage of justice.
Michael Morton, a 32-year-old Texas grocery-store manager, was convicted in 1986 of beating his wife Christine to death in their bed. There were no witnesses and scant evidence of any kind, but a politically ambitious prosecutor pressed hard. And jurors — a couple of whom bravely agreed to be interviewed for An Unreal Dream —said he just didn't seem very sad, which was enough for them.
His conviction not only sent Morton to prison for life but cost him his 3-year-old son Eric, who as he grew older, stopped visiting. "It wouldn't have made sense to love him if he had killed my mother," Eric explains.
Nearly two decades later, when attorneys learned that cops had withheld evidence that could have cleared Michael — including an eyewitness account of the murder — the prosecutor who sent him to jail launched a scorched-earth campaign to keep him there that succeeded for another six long years.
DNA tests on a bloody bandana found near the crime scene finally proved the guilt of someone else, and Morton was released. The film ends with a clip of his testimony at a legal hearing to bring charges against the prosecutor who used him as a career scalp, urging the court to "be gentle." I learned a number of things from An Unreal Dream: the vulnerability of the criminal justice system when police and prosecutors lie; the fickleness of jurors; and, most indelibly, that Michael Morton is a kinder human being than I could ever be in my wildest dreams.


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Thanks for clearing that up, although this annoys me a little bit. It's so inconvenient for me to have to just go back to the store the next day to pick up the same exact thing for the same exact price. Ugh.. who thought this up?
To clear up the gift card confusion, the gc will activate 6 hrs after purchase. So no, it cannot be used on that purchase or a few minutes later. Six hours.
And FoS, thanks for thinking of me, but I don't think I can do a good enough job. I like to contribute when I can, but I am not qualified to run to whole thing. You did a great job though, and I thank you. I found out about more deals from this thread than I did by working there.
For some reason they like to put me on ticket now & I'm never in r-zone anymore.
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I think we have discovered a form of the beast known as... El Hoardo!
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Sorry. My sarcasm detector must be broken today. Either that or I'm just getting MORE crotchety in my old age. I just turned 36 today, so I guess I must just be extra irritable.
I was just messing with you IATCG.
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Posted 13 November 2010 - 12:00 AM
So my Jaysapathy esque updated thread will now be closed as such it should and I know we'll get a better thread with Kay running things. Thanks everyone... I will miss having some meager amount of importance in the community.


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What Is Bullying?
Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior that is intentional, hurtful, (physical and psychological), and/or threatening and persistent (repeated). There is an imbalance of strength (power and dominance).
The above definition includes the following criteria that will help you determine if a student is being bullied:
What Does Bullying Look Like?
Direct Bullying Behaviors
Physical Bullying (a few examples)
Verbal Bullying (a few examples)
Indirect Bullying Behaviors
Social/Relational (a few examples)
Other Bullying Behaviors
How Are Boys and Girls Different in Their Bullying?
Both boys and girls use verbal aggression (such as mocking, name-calling, teasing, mean telephone calls, verbal threats of aggression) and intimidation (such as graffiti, publicly challenging someone to do something, playing a dirty trick, taking possessions, coercion) (Garrity, Jens, Porter, Sager, and Short-Camilli, 1996). Nevertheless, there are some differences.
Boy Bullies:
Girl Bullies:
How Frequently Does Bullying Occur?
There are different estimates of how often children are bullied or engage in bullying:
When and Where Does Bullying Usually Occur?
Why Do Students Keep Bullying a Secret?
Why Must Bullying Be Stopped?
Are There Different Types of Victims?
There are two types of victims. Parents and school personnel should avoid speaking about these characteristics as weaknesses.
Typical Characteristics of Passive or Submissive Students who are Bullied:
Typical Characteristics of Provocative Students who are Bullied:
For a detailed description of these types, see Olweus (1993).
What are the Warning Signs that a Child is Being Bullied?
What are the Warning Signs that a Child Might Bully Someone?
What Does the Research Say about the Response of Adults who are Aware of the Bullying?
References and Other Valuable Work and Resources
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Beane, A. L. (2008). Protect your child from bullying. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.
Beane, A. L. (1999). The bully free classroom. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit.
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It is no surprise that many fearful American workers see the call center operator in Bangalore or the factory worker in Guangzhou as a threat to their jobs. The emergence of China and India (along with other, smaller developing countries) as economic powers has doubled the supply of labor to the integrated world economy. Economic theory suggests that such a dramatic increase in the supply of labor without an accompanying increase in the supply of capital is likely to exert downward pressure on wages for workers already in the integrated world economy, and wages for most workers in the United States have indeed stagnated or declined. In this book, leading economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Alan S. Blinder offer their perspectives on how the outsourcing of labor and the shifting of jobs to lower-wage countries affect the U.S. economy and what, if any, policy responses are required.
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"While the global crisis has brushed most topics aside, offshoring is one that that will come roaring back whether the crisis persists (and unemployment mounts) or ends mercifully soon. The notion that 40 million American jobs are up for competition from low-wage workers is simply explosive. This book provides an excellent guide to the issues, organized in the form of a lively debate. Alan Blinder sounds the alarmoffshoring US service jobs to India will cause massive disruption: unemployment, falling wages, etc. Jagdish Bhagwati, Robert Lawrence, and Doug Irwin present evidence and arguments that Blinder has oversold and oversimplified his point. People who care about 'big ideas' need to read this book and make up their own mind."
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"Outsourcing has become synonymous with losses of jobs and income in the US popular debate. But the views on outsourcing among academic economists are much more diverse. Reflecting this divide, this book provides an entertaining discussion, conducted by distinguished economists, of the likely effects of outsourcing in the years to come."
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"This is a well-informed and brilliant debate by two experts in the field. One could not find a better analytical discussion with lively agreement and snarky contention by the authors and commentators. Not a platitude to be found."
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Ethical Parenting Is More Than Possible. It's Essential, for Parents and Children Alike.
Don't break the rules just to help your kids get ahead. Teach them to be mensches by setting an example with your own behavior.
New York magazine ran an article by Lisa Miller last week called "Ethical Parenting." At first I thought it was going to be a serious piece about the tough choices we parents have to make to raise mensches. Instead, it was a self-justifying piece of entitled crap wrapped up in fake hand-wringing. The central question: Can you be a decent human being and a parent at the same time? Miller's answer—spoiler alert—is no. Let me quote some of Miller's assertions so you can see why I'm drooling in fury on my keyboard right now.
"Parenthood, like war, is a state in which it's impossible to be moral."
"Always be kind and considerate of others, except in those cases where consideration impedes your own self-interest or convenience. Then, take care of yourself."
"Parenthood means you cannot possibly behave as though society's rules and norms apply equally to all."
Shut up.
Now, New York magazine frequently makes me want to move into a Unabomber cabin in the woods. (Ditto the New York Times's T Magazine, which I'm pretty sure did a feature on artisanal bespoke Unabomber cabins made by Bushwickians with luxuriant civet-conditioned beards.) But there's always been just enough of a nudge-nudge, wink-wink element to the publication's portrayals of wilding teens, entitled hedge-funders, and the next hot neighborhood you already couldn't afford. We were supposed to be horrified by these caricatures of human beings; we normal people were actually all in it together, gaping at those who were destroying society. This piece seems to start in a homologous us-vs.-them vein, pretending to offer up "the corrupt child-rearing customs … of the aggressively rising class: the mother who, according to Urban Baby legend, slept with the admissions officer (with her husband's consent!) to get her child into the Ivy League, or the one who sued an Upper East Side preschool for insufficiently preparing her 4-year-old for a private-school test," but then it goes on to argue that the rest of us are pretty similar. "Schadenfreude elides a more difficult existential truth, which is that ever since Noah installed his own three sons upon the ark and left the rest of the world to drown, protecting and privileging one's own kids at the expense of other people has been the name of the game. It's what parents do."
No, it's not. And you did not just compare giving a fake address to get into a better public school district, or sending a kid to school with lice so that she won't miss a state standardized test, to the Noah story. Let's review: God ordered Noah to build an ark because the earth was full of wicked people. The people who deliberately lie and cheat so their kids can get ahead are the wicked people. Noah's ark-building impulse did not come from a realization that there'd be less competition for Harvard if all the other teenagers drowned.
Let's ponder what an article on ethical parenting that didn't make you want to give up hope for the future of humanity might say. It would say that, of course, we want to do whatever it takes to ease our children's way in the world, but that it is possible to examine and sometimes even push back against those feelings. In the long term, not succumbing is usually better for our kids, for us, and for society.
We all are subject to nasty, competitive thoughts. That's the nature of being human. But in Judaism we have a name for a primal impulse that is evil. We call it the yetzer hara. And you know what you do when it calls to you? You look to your yetzer hatov, your good impulse, the one I pray still exists in some tiny part of you that is not a small-batch-bourbon-drinking, status-obsessed ass-clown.
An ethical parent lets his kid experience consequences. If you do not study, you fail the test. If you do not put away your toys, they are taken from you and put in quarantine like furry tuberculosis victims. An ethical parent conveys to his kids, in word and deed, that being kind is more important than being right. An ethical parent does not excuse his child's bad behavior—or his own—but rather uses it as a teachable moment for both.
I do not want to hold myself up as a parenting model; I'm writing this on Josie's birthday, and I just hissed at her through gritted teeth and with what I'm pretty sure were terrifying narrowed rodent eyes for not returning her grandfather's call to wish her natal felicitations. But I think all the time about how not to be a cretin and how not to make my children into cretins. I may fail, and I certainly fall short of the mark a lot, but I do not weigh my children against the balance of humanity and think mine deserve more, and therefore it's fine for me to do their homework for them and never let them feel a moment's moral discomfort and buy them everything their secret, greasy little hearts desire. (That last bit was a Little Shop of Horrors reference, by the way, a show that's a pretty good lesson in not justifying your bad behavior in service to a perceived greater good, because if you sell your soul to a man-eating plant or an SAT tutor or a zillion-dollar bar mitzvah, you will still end up dead, gross, compost.)
There's a reason my kids both go to diverse public schools I did not lie to get them into. It's not just that I want them to know that lying is bad. It's that I think these schools are better for my kids. I fervently believe the research on the downsides of calling kids gifted. I know that tightly wound Jewish parents think that if their kids aren't in the "best" elementary school they won't get into the "best" college and they won't be successful in life, but we need to think about our definitions of "best." Maxie's school received a "D" on the Department of Education's last school report card, and I would stack her education up against that at any fancy private school in the city. Yes, she's learning reading, writing, and arithmetic. But she's also learning about cooperation, collaboration, and community. Her teacher Colin is obsessed with Paul Tough's book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character, a pretty great book to be obsessed with. Tough argues that the qualities that actually lead to happiness and accomplishment aren't linked to test-acing or being surrounded by fellow privileged white children. Conscientiousness, self-control, curiosity, and perseverance are better indicators of success and satisfaction and the kind of future we want for our kids.
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The star's cellphone wasn't working in the more remote parts of the country, and it wasn't until he journeyed to the coast that he was able to receive calls. Gere, who previously won a Golden Globe for the 2002 movie musical "Chicago," was flooded with messages when he eventually switched the device on, and he initially feared something bad had happened at home.
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"We will work as long as it takes. We will not stop until the violence stops. V-Day is a fierce, wild, unstoppable movement and community," April Carlson '05, President of SARN and director of "The Vagina Monologues," said.
Ninety percent of the proceeds from "The Vagina Monologues" will be donated to the United Nations International Womens Development Fund (UNIFEM). "We wanted to make the focus global, so we are donating the proceeds to UNIFEM, a fund of the United Nations created to help women all over the world," Carlson said.
The other 10 percent will be going to the V-Day parent organization in New York and its spotlight campaign, which focused on women in Iraq this year.
Though the first event the Vagina Soiree in Larson Coffee House, with St. Olafs improvisational group, Scared Scriptless took place Feb. 19, V-Week officially began on Feb. 21. Monday, the first day of V-week, included Survivor T-Shirt Making in the SARN Office and a Wellness Center Program led by Tasha Brua '06 entitled, "Sexual Violence: Facts and True Stories."
Feb. 22 began with a chapel talk given by V-Week coordinator Carolyn Albert 05 entitled, "Women Hold Up Half the Sky." The speech was accompanied by an improvisational dance to music by pianist Sam Lee 05 and a community art installation.
Participants in the art installation were asked to write a brief tribute to the female gender on blue strips of fabric which were then hung up and can be seen in the breezeway between Buntrock and Boe Chapel.
Later that evening, about 30 students attended a presentation and discussion hosted by Anne Sabo, assistant professor of Norwegian, and other faculty members called, "Reconsidering Pornography" in Trollhaugen Dining Room. The talk dealt with how pornography might be reenvisioned to empower female sexuality.
The sole event on Feb. 23, sponsored by Gay, Lesbian, or Whatever (GLOW), was the movie "Venus of Mars," which was followed by a discussion in Viking Theater.
The events on Feb. 24 shed light on some global issues with "Women of Afghanistan," a Wellness Center Program lead by Natalie Rigelman 06 in Buntrock room 144 at 8 p.m. and a movie in Viking at 9 p.m. called "Until the Violence Stops," followed by a discussion led by Feminists for Change.
On Feb. 25 the celebration will reach its apex; the evening is the opening night for both the "Second Skin" Improv Dance show at 7:30 p.m. and the centerpiece of V-week, The Vagina Monologues, at 9 p.m.; both are to be held in Dittmann Studio 1. In addition, there will be a V-Day Party on second floor Dittmann between shows.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Students and faculty at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, can easily recognize first-semester student Putti Sok riding her longboard, often with a flower in her hair. Some would say her passion for Jesus Christ and evangelism is even more recognizable.
But just a few years ago, she had not even heard the Gospel message.
Sok's parents are both Cambodian, but she was born in Long Beach, Calif., and grew up in Dallas. Despite being raised in the United States, the Cambodian culture still influenced her life.
"My identity as a young girl, I saw myself as a Cambodian Buddhist girl," Sok says. "Why? Because my parents told me."
Cambodia is about 95 percent Buddhist, Sok says, and her family continued to carry out the religion's traditions when they came to America. But those traditions meant little to Sok.
"As for the meaning behind what we did in the Buddhist belief, it was confusing to me," Sok says. "I didn't really understand it."
Sok considered Buddhism a ritual that came with the culture, just as she saw Christianity as a religion only for Americans.
In junior high and high school, Sok began to see religion is a decision and not inherited culturally. But instead of choosing between Buddhism and Christianity, she became an "evangelistic atheist." She would ask others what they believed about God, challenging them to try to convince her that God exists.
Beginning her college education at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2008, one of Sok's goals was to build deep relationships. She succeeded in that as she made many friends, several of them Christians and active in the Baptist Student Ministry on campus.
Despite the differing beliefs, Sok participated in Bible studies and attended church with her friends, whom she says were faithful in telling her about Christ.
"They shared the Gospel with me over and over again," Sok says.
At times, Sok would even serve others in their community alongside her Christian friends, doing chores or other projects for those they met. While her friends would tell those they served that they did it because they wanted to show Christ's love, Sok could only say that she was doing it because of her love.
"It wasn't until later that I saw everything I was doing was becoming meaningless and in vain if it didn't have eternal meaning," Sok says.
Sok began to realize during her sophomore year that if God was real, He would be able to hear her prayers. Each night, she began to pray that He would help her understand what she heard from her friends and read in the Bible because it seemed like foolishness to her.
Then one day, Sok entered a closet in the Baptist Student Ministry's (BSM) building that had been turned into a prayer room.
Inside, she found a bowl filled with pieces of paper with the names of students' lost friends. One after another, Sok looked at the slips of paper, and over and over again, she found her own name on the slips.
Witnessing the faithfulness of her friends after a full year, despite her previously telling them not to pray for her, Sok burst into tears that day in the tiny prayer room.
"I [had] told them," Sok says. "I was very adamant about it -- 'Stop praying for me. I'm never going to become a Christian; that's never going to happen.' God was softening my heart then, and I started asking God, 'God, please allow me to have this faith that I do not have.'"
The very next day, Sok went to a retreat center with the BSM where they heard from a guest speaker.
"I felt that God was asking me to respond," Sok says. "All my questions and concerns and doubts that I had, I finally laid aside, and then that night I prayed to receive Christ."
The next morning, Sok still felt unsure that her decision was enough or genuine, but in her time over the previous year with the BSM, she had heard that there would be fruit of her faith. Such fruit became evident in her life after returning from the retreat and returning to campus.
"All of a sudden, I just had a desire to go and share with people," Sok says. "God is real, and He has changed my heart."
After making that decision to follow Christ, Sok also decided to follow His leading into ministry. Upon completing her undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Arlington, Sok served as a campus missionary for a year, led the BSM's Friday evangelism group and a dorm ministry, and this year is serving as a BSM intern, discipling student leaders as well as new believers.
But Sok also believed that to continue in that ministry she should continue her education at a theological school to equip and prepare her.
"I looked at different seminaries and felt God was really leading me to Southwestern," Sok says. "I love it."
Taking just one class this semester, Sok says she looks forward to being a full-time student studying missiology in the fall and getting involved with the evangelism opportunities the seminary provides.
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Michelle Tyer is a news writer for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Where should we go?
Definitely not the movies, because then we'd just sit there for two hours and not get to know each other. Let's do something active, like skiing.
Wanna go out and get some food afterward?
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Do you ever approach guys?
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A slew of people have been asking me out on Twitter lately. It's just weird.
Do you have any hidden talents you can show off on a date?
I can't do that cherry thingy, if that's what you mean.
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And I went straight to tying a cherry stem with my tongue. Nice.
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Film, for sure. I'm a huge Bond movie fan. My mom turned me on to them when I was little, so I grew up watching all the Sean Connery and Roger Moore ones.
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Smoking is a huge turnoff. Kissing a guy with that kind of breath? Blech!
We don't smoke, so do we get a kiss at the end of the night?
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