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Whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, you have a community service obligation.
A recently formed interfaith group in Warrenton wants to take that commonality one step further.
Thanks to the effort of St. James' Episcopal teacher Scott Christian, the Northern Piedmont will soon be home to a chapter of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy.
The Richmond-based center is both a lobbying and educational outfit, communicating regularly with General Assembly members on poverty, at-risk youth, health care, hunger and environmental issues.
Center membership is made up of both individuals and much larger organizations like churches or even dioceses and presbyteries.
There are four chapters across the state with the closest to Fauquier County located in the Arlington-Alexandria area.
Christian was already an individual member and thought that forming a local chapter to address the issues experienced by those in the Northern Piedmont area was a good idea.
"This is our tradition," Christian said of his faith. "We don't need to go too far to realize that social justice is part of our nature."
Along with Christian, both Rabbi Rose Lyn Jacob of Fauquier Jewish Congregation, and Fauquier resident Melissa Hamid, who married a Muslim man, are heavily involved in the group.
Jacob was happy that someone like Christian put a face on the issues that many of the 55 Jewish families in her congregation are already involved with at some level.
"I found so many of our members doing good things in the community, but they weren't doing them as part of the congregation," said Jacob, who lives in Rappahannock County but shares space with Christian at St. James.
According to the center's director of programs Holly Coy, the idea is to start with things like coat drives, then ask "what else should we be doing if we really care about ending poverty in the community?"
Hamid first learned of the organization when she and her husband – a former Green Beret – met Christian at a meeting of the Sunday Supper Club last summer.
The Sunday Supper Club is a group of Piedmont area residents who meet monthly to discuss ways to move the "county, state and nation in a progressive direction."
For Hamid, joining the new Interfaith chapter should be as much about embracing each other's religious differences as it is about combating real world problems.
Experiencing those differences is sometimes difficult when one considers there are no places for Muslims to practice their faith in Fauquier County.
"I have been really pleased to meet very enlightened, open-minded people that are very supportive [of all faiths]," Hamid said of the new group.
The chapter hopes to hold a few events later this year in order to introduce themselves on a larger scale to the Fauquier County community.
The first event will be a simple dinner akin to a meal those who get by on food stamps might prepare.
The second event will likely be more educational in nature, with members from the Richmond office coming to Fauquier County to brief the group on how to go about making their voices heard at the state level.
"It gives them training wheels for people who might not normally do these things," Jacob said.
The group is also hoping to have an impact on the mindset of the local government, Christian wrote in an email.
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With a mission to inspire the community to get back to their kitchens and to empower kids to start cooking, the Big Rig mobile kitchen has created some real food change in Fresno, CA. Since early October, the Big Rig classes have shared essential cooking skills with the people of Fresno, and we wanted to hear some first-hand stories of its impact. We�ve asked one teacher from Tehipite Middle School to share her experience.
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"Being given the opportunity to participate on the Jamie Oliver Food Truck on Tehipite Middle School campus has been a wonderful positive experience for my students. The kiddos that I teach come from a diverse population and also struggle with learning disabilities, such as traumatic brain injury and specific learning disabilities. These kids don�t normally get the opportunity to cook in their own kitchens, so being able to do so on the Big Rig has been a rewarding experience for them. The students come back and tell me what skills they have learned and have been able to apply at home. They are truly able to see how using organic foods and less processed foods can taste much better and, in the long run, help their health. The students want to cook at home and help so that they can apply their new skills in their kitchens. Thank you for this great opportunity that will last a lifetime with my kiddos. I feel blessed that you choose Fresno Unified to make a difference in students� lives."
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After two gay men have sex, sometimes one is impregnated through the anus. The name for a fetus passed through the anus is fecus. It's usually dead, but on a rare occasion, a live fecus may be born. A.K.A. Anal miscarraige.
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Hey Kerry,
I have a question on a video I watched not too long ago and thought maybe you can give some clarification and or give us some stories like always.
So the video I saw was NYR vs BOS, during a timeout CNBC had a mic near NYR bench. Obviously Torts was unhappy (as always) and you can see him yelling at an official. However during the video you can clearly hear the official tell Torts "that's enough" then proceeded to swear at the coach.
My question is, are the officials allowed to swear at the coaches? I was always under the impression that referees were supposed to be held at a higher standard than every other person on the ice. Seems odd that a ref would go as far as swearing at a coach who is already clearly heated in that type of situation. I understand the fact that everyone has their boiling points, and this official was getting tired of hearing Torts yelling at him. However isn't is the ref's job to try and defuse situations rather than add fuel to the fire?
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There is a video circulating of a linesman yelling "Eff you" at John Tortorella. Judging by public image of the Rangers' coach, he probably deserved it. On several occasions, you can read lips of the officials and phrases like "shut the eff up" seem to be pretty common. I'm sure some guys do it more than others but I'm wondering how common and accepted it really is for officials to swear at players and coaches?
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It is inappropriate for a referee or linesman to curse at a coach or player at any time! In the heat of the battle (and as emotions escalate), it is imperative that officials fight the human instinct to engage their perceived adversary. Instead, their objective should always be to defuse the situation by becoming part of the solution instead of part of the problem! The best way to do that is for the official to remain in control of his own emotions. That being said, have I ever slipped up and cursed at a player or coach? Absolutely! After all, there are times when we just can't fight off our human instincts.
I must say, I learned very early in my career that to defuse hostile situations, I needed to remain as emotionally neutral as humanly possible. I also recognized that to be successful, I needed to develop positive relationships with players and coaches through appropriate forms of communication. From a state of calm, I attempted to exert control by creating a "win-win" situation wherever possible. I recognized that every player and coach had distinct and unique personalities and it was my job to figure out what worked best in dealing with them.
Body language and tone of voice are two elements that need to be kept in check as an official enters a debate/confrontation. The first time I came to understand there was a 'better way' in dealing with an out-of-control coach was when Bryan Murray was behind the Washington Capitals bench in the early 1980's. Bryan is an emotional guy and, at the time, led the league in bench penalties for his theatrics in protest of the officials' decisions.
During one game in the Cap Center, the coach was standing up on the dasher boards screaming wildly and waving his arms at me. I decided to try a different approach, since bench penalties didn't seem to be altering Bryan's unacceptable behavior pattern. I approached Murray with both of my hands up in front of me with palms open (a sign of peace as opposed to a finger point) and my monotone voice only loud enough so that I could be heard as opposed to screaming back at the out-of-control coach. I took control of the situation by stating to the coach that I would like to talk with him but in order for me to do so, he must calm down and to please get off the dasher boards. Bryan immediately complied to my polite request as his emotional pitch conformed more toward the one that I had presented to him. At this point, I started the conversation by saying, "You might not agree with what I have to tell you but let me explain the reason for my decision on the play."
I quickly and calmly communicated with the coach what I saw on the play. Murray listened intently and then paused for a brief moment as he chose his words to respond. Bryan said, "Well you're right about one thing, Kerry, I don't agree with what you just said but thanks for coming over and explaining it to me!" In Bryan's post-game interviews, he said the dialogue that he and I had was the first time that a referee ever approached him at the bench to provide an explanation and he really appreciated it. That incident taught me a huge lesson in relationship building.
I also found that it was important for me to think of what I was going to say and actually hear myself before opening my mouth. When my emotions would start to rise and my voice got louder, I would take a breath in an attempt to return to centre or neutral. I can recall stopping in mid-sentence during a heated debate with a player and saying, "I'm sorry I just said that; let me rephrase, what I meant to say was..."
I learned the hard way it was much better to adopt the philosophy as a referee to "treat disrespect with respect" than to engage in or attempt to win an "Eff you" contest. I attempted to set acceptable and achievable limits for game participants similar to those I set for myself.
Lastly, I tried not to take myself too seriously and to find humor in situations wherever possible. I learned that valuable quality early in my career as well when a team was getting their butts kicked at home and became extremely frustrated; especially with me. My response at the time, to their disrespect, was to assess misconduct penalties and as the score mounted near the end of the game, I had four players from the home team in the penalty box with 10's! The coach had enough of me as well and wanted to get thrown out of the game.
He sent his captain over to me at the stoppage who very politely relayed a message for me. The captain said, "My coach wants to know if he can get a penalty for 'thinking'?" Somewhat confused by the question, I responded by saying, "I guess not as long as he doesn't think out loud!" The captain then said, "In that case, he wanted me to tell you he thinks you're an 'Effing A#$%^&*!"
I started to laugh, finding the humor in the statement. The coach, who was waiting for a battle response from me that never came, started to grin and then laugh as well. The game ended without further incident and a positive relationship blossomed with the coach.
Sometimes you just have to find the humor in the situation, Torts!
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Walker is looking to cut down the state's projected $3.6 billion budget by eliminating collective bargaining rights for public employees — including teachers — and cutting aid to schools by $835 million and forcing local school districts to reduce their property tax authority by an average of $550 per pupil — making it extremely difficult for schools to make up the losses in state aid.
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Walker blew his cover and sincerity via the faked call between him and the 'David Koch' imposter. The content exposed him for what he is; ie., another crimpol grifter with an agenda to enable the uber wealthy to get even moreso at the good citizens of Wisconsin's expense by selling off state assets for nickels and dimes on the dollar.
It this were 1880 when men and women had "true grit" he'd be facing an angry horde of citizens with ropes, tar, feathers and a sharp-edged rail for his speedy and summary exit from the state house.
I'm not from Wisconsin, but everytime I even see Walker's mug it causes waves of nausea, me thinking how corrupt this man is via his blatant association with the Koch bros. and that the good citizens must suffer his presence for some time to come. Hopefully their effort to recall some Republican Senators will do the trick, destroying his 'steam-rolling' majority in the representative body, thus neutering Koch's heavy-handed, non negotiable tactics in tryng to dismantle the state.
Carl Nemo **==
"thus neutering Koch's heavy-handed, non negotiable tactics in tryng to dismantle the state." …extract frm post
should read:
"thus neutering Walker's heavy-handed, non negotiable tactics in tryng to dismantle the state."
Talk about a Freudian slip or what…?! Ironically the two can be substituted in the last sentence. / : |
My apologies
Carl Nemo **==
You know, Doug… I think it's time you replaced the slogan on the masthead with something more… progressive?
Wake up America. It's time to regroup.
Read "Common Sense 3.1" at ( http://www.revolution2.osixs.org )
We don't have to live like this anymore. "Spread the News"
Socialism !
Some of the quotes in this piece make me laugh. Hahaha.
Wake up America. It's time to regroup.
Join the Revolution (sorry, don't like to shout. Makes you look dumb)
Fight the cause – Not the symptom
Individual liberty. Self-determination. Free and fair markets. Sound currency. The things that built us. No web2.0 hocus-pocus populist rhetoric.
I see photons of conservative shucks yaa'll I'm just a country boy a shill,
a wanna be terminator undoubtedly shrill, corporate like.
Hey Sahara sarah , campaign for me his visage whines,
carefully crafted visage, so benign
OOps ! SHhhhhhh. Shalom, more wine
She's mideastern now to be vetted and dined.
I do so hope she has time to part the Mediterranean.
What I meant to say is,
media will dust this prick off with a fox tail brush
whilst after fewer fruitful than painful years, his clones will still haunt.
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List of streets of New Orleans
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New Orleans, Louisiana includes such notable streets as:
- Audubon Place (private access only)
- Basin Street
- Bourbon Street
- Canal Street
- Carrollton Avenue
- Chef Menteur Highway
- Claiborne Avenue
- Decatur Street
- Desire Street
- Earhart Boulevard
- Elysian Fields Avenue
- Esplanade Avenue
- Exchange Place (pedestrian only)
- Frenchmen Street
- Magazine Street
- Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard
- McAlister Place (pedestrian only)
- Rampart Street
- Royal Street
- St. Charles Avenue
- Tchoupitoulas Street
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Julie Jansen of Gertrude Press takes a look at Julie Perini's Big Film. Excerpt from article below:
"Big Film is the title of the work on view, shown in conjunction with Julie's video Collaboration with the Earth. The process used to create Collaboration with the Earth is particularly interesting to me. Julie is experimenting with the material properties of celluloid film. In this case, the film is appropriated footage from a General Electric advertisement. During the summer of 2011 she cut the film into two-second strips and buried them in the ground. Over the course of twenty days, Julie unearthed one strip of film at a time, then she reassembled the footage. Gradually both sounds and images deteriorate as a result of the amount of time the film spent underground. In a statement about her work, Julie explains that she "makes public…privet encounters with her collaborators: dirt, worms, water, and other earthly forces".
The film itself depicts a middle-aged woman nervously walking down a dimly lit street. There is a slightly ominous tone to the film as the woman glances several times over her shoulder and her pace quickens. As viewers, we are trained to expect the unknown person or thing lurking in the shadows, the catalyst that incites her fear, to emerge; we predict disaster. Towards the end of the film, there is a close-up of the woman's face as she gazes up toward a streetlight and breaks into a relieved smile. Then the words "General Electric" along with the G.E. logo flash across the screen, layered on top of an image of a house. This reminds us of the appropriated nature of the footage."


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Alcohol is involved in more than 20% of all deaths on the road. Kentucky State Police are teaming up with local bars and restaurants in a new program to get people who will be out drinking to make sure they have a designated driver.
"Just drinking and driving, ever so slightly impacts your ability to react effectively to avoid a wreck from happening, to avoid killing someone else or yourself," said Sgt. Rick Saint-Blancard with Kentucky State Police.
KSP is signing up designated drivers with the HERO Campaign and focusing on prevention to keep drunk drivers off roads.
"We want people to think about what they're doing, and know that their life is very valuable and very unique and you don't get it back," said Saint-Blancard.
Kentucky fatalities to date: 2013 - 471 2012 - 539 2011 - 527 Between October 2011 and September 2012 there were 5,287 collisions in Kentucky involving the suspected use of alcohol resulting in 2,541 injuries and 129 fatalities. Between October 2012 and September 2013 there have been 4,867 collisions involving the suspected use of alcohol with 2,336 injuries and 117 fatalities. In Fayette Count, between October 2011 and September 2012, there were 568 collisions with 186 injuries and six fatalities involving the suspected use of alcohol. There were 543 collisions with 211 injuries and two fatalities from October 2012 through September 2013 involving the suspected use of alcohol.
Statewide arrests for DUI from October 2012 through September 2013 were 25,100 resulting in 78,983 charges.
The HERO Campaign's mission is to end drunk-driving fatalities, injuries and accidents nationwide by promoting designated driving and reminding the public to drive sober.
"Restaurants and bars and the Kentucky State Police have to shoulder the burden to help society remember, you've got to make good choices and that's what this program is about, it's about making good choices," said Jason Morgan, owner of JDI Grille and Tavern, a restaurant participating in the HERO Campaign.
HERO Campaign partners will be asked to participate and support Kentucky HEROES in the following ways.
1. Bar and Tavern Owners
2. Alcoholic Beverage Distillers and Distributors
3. Package Good Stores
4. Law enforcement
5. Division of Highway Safety, NHTSA and Division of ABC
6. State and County Government
7. Municipal Police
8. Colleges
The HERO Campaign was established by the family of U.S. Navy Ensign John Elliot who was killed in 2000 in a head-on collision with a drunk driver.
For more information on the HERO Campaign, visit http://kentuckyheros.org/ .
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I am a serial entrepreneur (not always fun). I am into real estate, information technology, niche products and other fun stuff. Real Estate Investing Mentor, Business Coach, IT Guru, Social Media King, Affiliate Marketer & Visionary.
I am working on new projects, revamping old projects and keeping the money maker projects going!
What interests me about all business is the like mindedness of people who are entrepreneurs as we are opportunity seekers.
One of my best business skills is networking and socializing though leadership and encouragement. Somehow I was blessed with the charisma to motivated people to do their best.
The skills sets I need to tune the most is time management and picking the proper and most efficient and profitable tasks. Ignorance isn't bliss anymore when I willing choose the wrong tasks, ha.
Strong! OKC Entrepreneur Group is the premier #1 TOP group of Oklahoma!
It was great meeting you tonight Ron. I appreciate you hosting the group. It was inspiring to hear everyone's feedback.
Hi Ron, Phill and I are very excited to see that you have joined and are a member of Oklahoma City -Rich Dad -Cashflow -Game Meetup! We look forward to seeing you at a meeting and hopefully Angelina can find time; although I know from visiting with you both your time is limited, as many of us have very little time these days, but it would be awesome to play a game with you and or Angelina. Ron a Huge Welcome and Thank You for joining.
Great to have you join us in Bitcoin OKC Ron. Look forward to meeting you soon!
This is the 1st OKC Entrepreneur Group Meetup I have attended. I was very impressed! I am curious at you typical events do you review or discuss current business startup statistics that maintained by groups like the Kauffman Foundation?
Ron: Could you please let me know where I have only signed up on the OKREIA email list if or not there is a link on the OKCREIA website to post real estate investment properties listings<
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I just recent joined as a member OKC REIA and was wondering if you have a link on the OKC REIA website to post properties that I have in Colorado Springs, CO ...????
.... We have a rental vacancy rate less than 2% due to the demand for rentals and financing at 10% down for investor.
Please be so kind to let me know if you can help.
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Didn't know I did that. I do know Kris and know he is a disciple of Maxwell but I'm missing the link between you, he, & me.
Thanks Ron, I look forward to meeting you and the rest of the group members.
Thanks for reaching out. I will try my best to be actively involved in the group. Regards
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When I was four-years-old, my dad left my Mom for another women and broke her heart and soul so badly that it triggered a dormant mental illness that would plague the rest of her life…and mine.
I heard my aunt and uncle talking when I was 4 1/2 that if I did not stay with my Mama, the doctors thought that she would "not make it". She became my responsibility for a lifetime. Throughout my childhood I was shuffled around to different people's homes when Mom was hospitalized. In between I often hid under clothes in hampers, closets, and just plain faced her when "the voices" where telling her to "send Joy to Jesus". She had a paring knife that she carried around for protection, and it occasionally was pointed towards me. I have a small scar on my upper left arm where it pierced me once when I didn't get away. The shock of what she had done was so much that she immediately broke down crying and apologized profusely telling me that she was confused. I pet her head and told her it was okay…I was okay.
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Here's how good Michael Lewis is: Even though his latest feature in Vanity Fair — a primer on everything that is going wrong with California — is probably among his least-impressive outings in recent memory, it's still a great work of journalism that has a lot to teach us.
Let's start from the top and work our way down.
The beginning is one of my least favorite things about this piece, but it's there for a reason. (We'll get to that in a bit.) Deep breath: It plunges immediately into the U.S. credit downgrade by the S & P, winds through some financial analysis, travels back in time (weirdly) to a Dec. 2010 episode of 60 Minutes, hovers over an analyst named Meredith Whitney, quotes New Jersey governor/presidential anticandidate Chris Christie, goes to Whitney again, and then leaps into a section break. "Gary Robinson died hungry" this ain't. Every time a story plunges into a couple hundred words of pure finance, I always feel just a little lost, like I've walked into a small, quiet room filled with people I haven't met.
Fortunately, we soon start digging into a story. Whitney (correctly) forecast a municipal finance calamity in 2007. Nonbelievers riddled her with flak. Then the housing bust led to the 2008 financial bust, and Whitney won redemption.
But enough of that. From there, Lewis whisks us to (!) a helter-skelter 7 a.m. bike ride with former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Why? Why not!) The section, a profile in miniature, oozes color:
It isn't until [Schwarzenegger] is forced to stop at a red light that he makes meaningful contact with the public. A woman pushing a baby stroller and talking on a cell phone crosses the street right in front of him and does a double take. "Oh … my … God," she gasps into her phone. "It's Bill Clinton!" She's not 10 feet away, but she keeps talking to the phone, as if the man were unreal. "I'm here with Bill Clinton."
"It's one of those guys who has had a sex scandal," says Arnold, smiling.
"Wait … wait," says the woman to her phone. "Maybe it's not Bill Clinton."
Before she can make a positive identification, the light is green, and we're off.
Lewis lingers a while over the Governator's doomed tenure and the self-destructiveness of California politics. And then we're off again, to the city of San Jose, first at a city council meeting, and then in Mayor Chuck Reed's office, where the surreality continues, both in interview and in fact, courtesy of a pension-funding crisis that has torpedoed the city's budget and staff levels:
By 2014, Reed had calculated, a city of a million people, the 10th-largest city in the United States, would be serviced by 1,600 public workers. "There is no way to run a city with that level of staffing," he said. "You start to ask: What is a city? Why do we bother to live together? But that's just the start." The problem was going to grow worse until, as he put it, "you get to one." A single employee to service the entire city, presumably with a focus on paying pensions. "I don't know how far out you have to go until you get to one," said Reed, "but it isn't all that far." At that point, if not before, the city would be nothing more than a vehicle to pay the retirement costs of its former workers.
Then, near the close of the section, Lewis gets Reed to take it to the next level:
I ask him what the chances are that, in this pinch, he could raise taxes. He holds up a thumb and index finger: zero. He's recently coined a phrase, he says: "service-level insolvency." Service-level insolvency means that the expensive community center that has been built and named cannot be opened. It means closing libraries three days a week. It isn't financial bankruptcy; it's cultural bankruptcy.
"How on earth did this happen?" I ask him.
"The only way I can explain it," he says, "is that they got the money because it was there." But he has another way to explain it, and in a moment he offers it up.
"I think we've suffered from a series of mass delusions," he says.
I didn't completely understand what he meant, and said so.
"We're all going to be rich," he says. "We're all going to live forever. All the forces in the state are lined up to preserve the status quo. To preserve the delusion. And here—this place—is where the reality hits."
(Interviewing observation: Notice Lewis goading Reed with broad, playing-dumb questions to open him up.)
From there, we spirit away to the doomed city of Vallejo, population 112,000, bankrupt and barely filled with anything resembling government anymore, with a city manager who has one assistant who has to lock the door every time she leaves the office because she's the only one who's there. Then Lewis winds around again, and we land, finally, on Vallejo firefighter-cum-fire chief Paige Meyer, who represents the lowest, saddest peg on the financial crisis totem pole. The story ends with Meyer trying to figure out, like the rest of us, how to Do More With Less, except when Meyer tries to Do More With Less, he could get killed because of it. He's got the burned skin tissue to prove it.
What makes Lewis one of our most brilliant writers is that he figures out how to take an abstract idea and turn it into a story about people. Schwarzenegger isn't just a failed governor; he was a cultural force who, almost completely by accident, could have been California's best chance to save itself from built-to-fail partisan gridlock, but failed. Chuck Reed isn't just San Jose's mayor; he's the forlorn captain of a big shiny ship that looks like it's sinking into the River Acheron. And Paige Meyer isn't just another pension-hungry public servant; he's a dumb-luck guy who loves to fight fires who's now figuring out where's the best place to stick his thumb with all these cracks in the dam. We need more financial writers who can do this. The funny thing is, when you make a big story about small people, it actually says a lot about the big picture. As photography legend Diane Arbus once put it, the more specific you are, the more general it'll be. That's how Lewis can write a story about a finance-savvy monastery — "Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds," Oct. 2010, one of the most remarkable magazine pieces I've read in the past two years — and somehow sum up the whole Greek financial crisis.
Lewis' narrative here seems picaresque, but it actually has a very linear structure. Lewis starts with the biggest abstraction — shaky bond markets — and focuses the loupe, with greater and greater magnification, down to the abstraction's most granular surfaces, from federal, to state, to local, pointing toward a final question: Who pays the people who put out our fires, and what happens when we can't do that anymore?
But the biggest problem with Lewis' piece is its ending — a lone paragraph stapled haphazardly after the end of a bit about Meyer — sticking out like some kind of missing-dog poster on the bottom-right corner of his Guernica:
When people pile up debts they will find difficult and perhaps even impossible to repay, they are saying several things at once. They are obviously saying that they want more than they can immediately afford. They are saying, less obviously, that their present wants are so important that, to satisfy them, it is worth some future difficulty. But in making that bargain they are implying that, when the future difficulty arrives, they'll figure it out. They don't always do that. But you can never rule out the possibility that they will. As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.
Break cookie, receive fortune. This somehow feels all wrong, too schlocky and easy, too much telling and not showing, and that leads me to the parenthetical in this post's title: The financial crisis is still totally terrifying.
When I first read this piece and tried to decide what I thought about the wandering narrative, I saw a similarity with the Odyssey: We're all strangers in strange lands these days, trying to find our ways home. Yet the Odyssey has an end; Odysseus returns to his wife in Ithaca and slays her suitors. Wait, I thought, this is more like Dante's Inferno. Lewis is taking us on a descent through hell, with each circle more calamitous than the next. But that wasn't right either. In the final circle of hell, Lucifer presides over Vallejo, not book-writing, Bible-loving city manager Phil Batchelor.
When you start chasing the money around, you start seeing that all the tops of things are connected to their bottoms, which is why I like Lewis' story so much. But money doesn't run up a totem pole; it runs on a loop, even when some sides of the loop control most of the movement. The Occupy Wall Street movement rightfully demands additionally scrutiny of the institutions that so helpfully lashed us to the masts of our sinking, shiny ships. But during the run-ups of the last decade, there was a considerable amount of consent also required: more credit to purchase a larger home when a smaller one sufficed; more student loans to go to better schools when we would have afforded more average ones; and that twisted anticonsent of agreeing with each other never to let our representatives raise taxes, ever, to pay for anything we want but were going to get anyway. I think the real end of this story comes before its halfway point, when Lewis guides us to a book by Joe Mathews and Mark Paul called California Crackup:
…Arnold Schwarzenegger's experience as governor was going to be unlike any other experience in his career: he was never going to win. California had organized itself, not accidentally, into highly partisan legislative districts. It elected highly partisan people to office and then required these people to reach a two-thirds majority to enact any new tax or meddle with big spending decisions. On the off chance that they found some common ground, it could be pulled out from under them by voters through the initiative process. … California state government was designed mainly to maximize the likelihood that voters will continue to despise the people they elect.
But when you look below the surface, [Mark Paul] adds, the system is actually very good at giving Californians what they want. "What all the polls show," says Paul, "is that people want services and not to pay for them. And that's exactly what they have now got."
No, Lewis' piece isn't the Odyssey or Dante's Inferno. It's more like No Exit, where the characters wait in hell for a torturer who never arrives, and who fill the time by making hell for themselves and each other. California, here we come.
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Illinois: CCs hope to add 4-year degrees
Illinois community college leaders tried to add four-year degrees eight years ago, reports The Southern. Now they're trying again, arguing that offering four-year degrees at two-year colleges will enhance access and affordability.
Robert L. Breuder, president of College of DuPage, is leading the campaign.
"We spend time, money and effort recruiting and retaining students and then we ignore how they can best contribute to their local community's economy and quality of life," Breuder wrote in a March 26 letter published by the Chicago Tribune.
"We shouldn't lose them because we couldn't offer the baccalaureate degree in a field that no public university cares to offer despite a documented need within the districts the community colleges serve."
Nursing, construction management, electronics and healthcare administration would be possibilities at John A. Logan College, says President Mike Dreith said. But he doesn't want to endanger the college's "extremely sensitive" relationship with nearby Southern Illinois University, which strongly opposed a baccalaureate option at community colleges eight years ago.
It's time to let community colleges offer four-year degrees in technical fields, writes Jim Nowlan, a retired senior fellow with the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs, in the News-Gazette.
A full-time community college student pays about $3,500 a year in tuition and usually lives at home, he notes. A state university student pays $10,000 to $14,000 — before room and board fees.
College of DuPage enrolls 28,000 students — more than any campus in the state other than the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Students take courses in 90 certificate programs and 59 associate degree occupations.
Breuder wants to take advantage of COD's strong position to offer low-cost, four-year degrees in fields like information technology, public safety management, advanced manufacturing, auto technology management and, especially, nursing.
Twenty-two states have approved four-year degrees at community colleges, writes Nowlan. Illinois should too.
Get the job, then train for it
The trucking industry needs to hire 95,000 new truckers every year, but training programs turn out only 75,000 and half the job applicants are ineligible due to recent drunk driving convictions. A startup called WorkAmerica is trying to fill the gap: The company vets would-be truckers and places them in community college training programs — with a guaranteed job offer.
"No student should enroll in a vocational job program without having a job guarantee," said Collin Gutman, WorkAmerica's CEO and co-founder. "We get jobs for people before they start a college class."
"A growing number of startups want to play the matchmaker role between community colleges and employers," reports Inside Higher Ed.
WorkAmerica plans to forge partnerships with community colleges and expand into high-churn fields such as welding, medical assistants, and IT and HVAC technicians.
Employers pay the company to screen prospective hires. If they meet the company's requirements, they get a job offer good if the applicant completes the academic program in good standing. Community colleges, which pay nothing, "get a pipeline of students without having to spend on marketing," reports Inside Higher Ed.
Maryland's Hagerstown Community College is considering a partnership with WorkAmerica for the college's eight-week trucking program. The company is talking to Anne Arundel Community College , also in Maryland, about pilot programs in several fields beyond trucking, Gutman said.
Another company, Workforce IO, has created a technology platform to link employers with job trainers such as community colleges, nonprofit organizations, mentors or bosses.
Workforce IO hinges on being able to vouch for the reliability of entry-level job candidates. It does that by having created a "library of skills" in various fields and offering digital badges for those skills, said Elena Valentine, a co-founder of the company.
Workforce IO has collaborated with Grand Rapids Community College, in Michigan, as well as an Illinois campus of Everest College, a for-profit institution.
Colleges create competency-based pilots
Competency-based programs in information technology are in the works at 11 community colleges. Western Governors University, a pioneer in online competency-based education (CBE), is helping with the pilots with financial support from the U.S. Labor Department and the Gates Foundation, write Sally Johnstone, WGU's vice president for academic advancement, and writer Thad Nodine on Inside Higher Ed.
Most of the pilots are starting with certificates in fields such as computer system specialist, business software specialist, networking and programming. Students will be able to build on their certificates to earn degrees.
In competency programs, students progress at their own pace as they demonstrate mastery of knowledge and skills. Learning– not time — is they key variable. At all 11 colleges, faculty members developed the new CBE courses, sometimes working with industry representatives.
For example, faculty at Sinclair Community College revised the curriculum to align with new Ohio standards in information technology and with industry certifications. Working with instructional designers, faculty members "mapped competencies to content and assessment items."
In comparison, faculty at Washington's Columbia Basin College are using existing student objectives and textbooks, write Johnstone and Nodine.
"Mapping course objectives to student learning outcomes to achieve student success; that is not new," said Gina Sprowl, workforce education chair and professor of accounting (at Lone Star College in Texas). "But taking the course and building it to achieve specific outcomes from the outset, that was new."
Alan Gandy, assistant professor at Lone Star, said . . . faculty are "breaking down the competencies, matching them to the assessments, so the student will see what piece they are working on in the puzzle. They'll see the big picture, why they're studying this and how it matches to the overall competency."
While instructors are "content experts and mentors,"their roles have shifted "from delivering lectures to providing timely academic tutoring and engagement," write Johnstone and Nodine.
Some colleges are adding support services. At Edmonds Community College in Washington, a "mentor" will check in with each student weekly and serve as a "coach, troubleshooter, strategist and enthusiast."
Not all apprenticeships are equal
Apprenticeships are hot, but not all lead to middle-class jobs, writes Mark Schneider on The Quick and the Ed.
Last month, President Obama announced a $100 million fund to support apprenticeship programs in fields such as information technology, health care and advanced manufacturing. For all the praise of apprenticeships, the number enrolled is much lower than 10 years ago. Completions are down from 52,000 in 2002 to 44,000 today.
The White House says that 87 percent of apprentices find jobs that average more than $50,000 a year in pay. This is an exaggeration, according to Florida data. The median wage is $37,252 for registered apprentices, who typically study at a community or technical college.
Graduates with an associate degree in science earn the most, with the associate in applied science coming second and apprentices a close third. Graduates with a bachelor's degree start at only $33,652.
Starting wages are much higher for apprentices in jobs that "keep things working" than for those in cooking and early childhood education. Elevator construction mechanics start at $67,565.
"The best training is on-the-job training," says Linda Poage, program manager at the Apprenticeship and Journeyman Training Center at Spokane Community College. Community College Daily looks at existing college-linked apprenticeship programs and plans for expansion with new federal dollars.
Biden touts credits for apprenticeships
Giving college credit for apprenticeships will boost graduation rates and develop skilled workers, said Vice President Joe Biden at the American Association of Community Colleges' annual convention. He announced the Registered Apprenticeship College Consortium, which includes community colleges, businesses, labor unions and industry organizations.
The Obama administration hopes to "scale up to the national level the thousands of existing agreements between a single college and regional employer or union to provide credit for apprenticeships," reports Inside Higher Ed.
The American Council on Education and the National College Credit Recommendation Service already evaluate apprenticeship experience and "make recommendations about how the apprenticeship experience translates into the traditional academic unit of credit hours."
Consortium members will promise to accept those recommendations.
The Departments of Education and Labor will run the voluntary consortium.
Biden proposed expanding the apprenticeship model to fields such as allied health and information technology, says Matt Reed, who attended the speech. It's not clear how this would work.
In allied health fields, students already can "move up the ranks through well-designed stackable programs," earning as they learn. At his college, Holyoke, the Foundations of Health program is "conspicuously successful."
But I honestly don't see how the apprenticeship model would work in IT. Apprenticeships work well when the craft takes time to learn, the roles are well-defined, and the field is structurally stable. Pipefitting is like that; moving water from here to there is still essentially the same process it was a generation ago. Apprenticeships also generally happen in unionized industries. Construction tends to be heavily unionized, so it lends itself well.
IT doesn't fit either bill. The content of the field changes rapidly, and its structure is in constant flux. It's relatively indifferent to credentials — in part because the field is in such flux — and it's not exactly a hotbed of unionization. IT has adopted the internship model much more than the apprenticeship model, both because interns are cheaper and because the industry doesn't rely on clearly defined roles. The field is rife with startups, which are notoriously averse to the kind of rankings that apprenticeships presume.
Another question: Do industry-trained apprentices need college degrees?
Revving up for Detroit's rebound
Detroit is losing jobs and people. The city is bankrupt. Hopes for an economic rebound center on job training provided by the Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD, reports Community College Daily.
"When economic times get tough, community colleges do much more because we have to," said Shawna Forbes, vice chancellor for WCCCD's School of Continuing Education and Workforce Development.
Many manufacturing companies want employees with associate degrees. WCCCD worked with Detroit Employment Solutions Corp. (DESC) to select 100 people for a 19-week program that combines job training with internships at local companies. "We're looking at quickly moving people along a career pathway," said WCCCD Vice Chancellor George Swan. "People are not going to get a certificate and that's it."
WCCCD is "incredibly important in job growth," and the planning and implementation of the strategic plan is clearly informed by the role the college can play, said Dan Kinkead, director of Detroit Future City.
The district is stepping up job training in growth areas such as advanced manufacturing, information technology and health data management.
A new science center specializes in training surgical technicians (pictured), dental assistants, phlebotomy technicians and nurses. The center also offers health exams to community residents.
Last year, WCCCD created a fast-track "IT boot camp" to train people for jobs with Infosys, Compuware, Quicken and other companies. "The program focused on people who worked in office automation or technology in the automobile industry and had been displaced or had worked with older computer systems and now need to upgrade their skills," reports Community College Daily.
The college will open a center this winter for cybersecurity training.
Right Skills Now, launched last year, enables students to earn certifications in metalworking, then go on to train on advanced manufacturing equipment. Employers provide advice and work experience.
. . . the college is also gearing up for training people to work on a new light rail line that will link downtown Detroit to Pontiac, Mich. Construction on the highly automated, computer-based system is expected to start this spring, and there will be jobs for people trained in electromechanical systems, as well as signaling and communications systems.
New bus and shuttle systems will be linked with the light rail line, and a new high-speed rapid bus system, running in dedicated lanes, will link Detroit to Jackson, Mich. Two cohorts of 30 students each are in a WCCCD program on the operation and maintenance of these systems.
Detroit has seen growth in recent years in manufacturing, logistics and food and beverage processing. Quicken Loans moved to downtown Detroit in 2010. But the city lacks a skilled workforce. Twenty percent of residents haven't completed high school.
Texas stacks energy credentials
Texas community colleges are creating stackable credentials for oilfield workers, reports Inside Higher Ed. Oil and gas workers can qualify for an entry-level job, then return to college for more training.
Community colleges are working hard to keep up with petrochemical companies' demand for workers. The jobs pay well, and many associate degree-holders earn $50,000 to $70,000 a year right out of college.
Students can start at one college, move to follow the jobs and enroll at a new college without losing credits.
Several community colleges have teamed up to create a central core of 36 credits toward a 60-credit associate degree aimed at oil and gas workers. Those courses, which include 15 credits' worth of accreditor-mandated general education requirements and 21 credits of specialized soft and mechanical skills training, are designed to transfer around the state.
Each credential "stacks" on the one before. "Courses for shorter-term certificates count toward degrees," notes Inside Higher Ed.
A "marketable skills achievement award," which takes 9 to 14 credits, leads to an entry-level job.
Next up is a "level one" certificate, which usually takes a year to complete. For example, a basic certificate in process technology at Brazosport is 15 credits. Others can be more involved, with 18 or more credits.
Level two certificates follow. They tend to be somewhat-specialized 30-credit programs. Eventually students can wrap up 60-credit associate degrees in production or processing technology.
That's not even the last step. Some community colleges have partnered with four-year institutions to create transitions to bachelor's programs for oil and gas workers. Brazosport, for example, has a transfer agreement with the nearby University of Houston at Victoria for a bachelor's in applied technology.
Large employers, such as Chevron and Dow Chemical, require an associate degree for new hires. But they'll hire interns who are working on a degree for as much as $22 an hour.
Texas colleges plan to create stackable credentials for other fields, such as allied health careers and information technology.
North Carolina's community colleges have created a "green jobs" pathway.
4-year grads turn to 2-year schools for job skills
Underemployed four-year graduates are enrolling in community colleges to learn job skills, reports the Chicago Tribune.
In 2010, Jessica Underwood graduated from Carthage College in Wisconsin "with a stellar academic record, a can-do attitude and a newly minted business degree." Her bachelor's degree was "just like a ticket to nowhere," Underwood told the Trib. Despite sending as many as 10 job applications a day, she found only low-wage, low-skilled office, retail and telemarketing jobs.
Three years after graduation, Underwood decided that she needed to reboot — and fast. At the College of DuPage, she enrolled in the paralegal certification program, which offered a robust hiring outlook, but also the chance to reinvent herself in only 18 months.
She owes $60,000 in student loans for her business degree.
Illinois community colleges are touting accelerated programs to help the underemployed get a fresh start.
At Prairie State College, the "Career in a Year" campaign boosted enrollment by 50 percent in programs training home inspectors and dialysis and pharmacy technicians.
Harper College's launch of a "fast track" advanced manufacturing program — certification in one semester, followed by a paid internship with a partner company — attracted a standing-room-only crowd.
More than ever, companies want people adept at communicating, critical thinking and problem solving — all hallmarks of a liberal arts education. Studies continue to show that people with a four-year degree earn more, on average, over the course of their lifetime than those without college degrees. But employers say there's often a mismatch between what traditional colleges are producing and what they need.
"Middle-skills" jobs, which require a certificate or associate degree, can qualify graduates for middle-class paychecks. Demand is high in health care fields, information technology and manufacturing, reports the Tribune.
Iowa colleges focus on retraining, retention
Retraining adults for high-demand jobs and improving graduation rates are the priorities for Iowa community colleges, reports the Gazette. Half the students who enrolled in 2009-10 earned a credential or transferred within three years. Colleges are trying to improve that number.
Des Moines Area Community College is among the schools that now requires an orientation course for all students, said Jeremy Varner, administrator of the community colleges division with the Iowa Department of Education. Other colleges are putting resources into more advising and early-warning programs for when students begin to struggle, he said.
"Getting more through to graduation — that's where a lot of that focus is," Varner said.
Kirkwood Community College hopes its math "emporium" will improve retention, 'said Math and Science Dean Lori Woeste.
Students work in a computer lab where an instructor is always on hand for one-on-one discussion, and the students work at their own pace. . . . students signs up for the Prep for College Math course, where they demonstrate competency in the "modules" they are confident about and then focus their time on the areas where they need work, Woeste said.
College officials hope state funding will improve next year, easing the tuition burden on students and funding job training. Iowa is focusing on training workers for jobs in nursing, information technology and advanced manufacturing.
Job certificate students denied aid
More students are trying to earn vocational certificates, but most don't qualify for federal student aid, reports the New York Times. Federal aid "goes overwhelmingly" to students in degree programs, while many certificate students have to pay their own way.
Federal financial aid, like Pell grants, is not available to students who take noncredit courses, and many certificate programs, whether to be a certified nurse's aide or to fix air-conditioners and heating systems, are not for credit.
Suri Duitch, dean of continuing education at the City University of New York, said federal programs often treated certificate students like second-class citizens. "These programs are less expensive than the degree programs at many four-year schools, but this student population generally has fewer resources," said Ms. Duitch, whose university has more than 220,000 students in nondegree programs.
Federal job training funds are limited and workers who want to upgrade their skills may not qualify.
Vocational certificates are growing in popularity. In a few months to a few years, workers can improve their employability and earnings significantly, especially in technical fields. Men with certificates in computer/information services earned $72,498 a year on average, more than 54 percent of men with bachelor's degrees, according to a Georgetown study; women earned more than 64 percent of women with bachelor's degrees.
Yet, Northern Virginia Community College dropped plans to offer information technology certificates because too few students could afford the course. NOVA also had to delay its program for certified nurses' aides to give students time to come up with the money. Ana Bausher, who earns $250 a week as a part-time clerk for United Parcel Service, "had to save up six, seven months" to afford the $1,600 fee for the four-week course.
Anthony P. Carnevale, the director of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce and the chief author of its study on certificates, questioned whether it was the best use of federal money to give Pell grants to students at four-year colleges who pursue majors in fields like philosophy, with little economic payoff in employment and earnings. Why not, he asked, provide aid to students who take noncredit certificate courses that often translate quickly into jobs and higher pay?
"If you want to take four years of Shakespeare, that's up to you," he said. "Is that what the public sector should support? The bottom line is, given the budget situation, we ought to be more concerned about preparing people for the job market."
Despite high unemployment, employers complain they can't find skilled workers. Few are looking for philosophers.


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The neutron irradiation facility developed at the McMaster University 3 MV Van de Graaff accelerator will be employed to assess in vivo elemental content of aluminum and manganese in human hands. These measurements will be carried out to monitor the long-term exposure of these potentially toxic trace elements through hand bone levels. This thesis addresses two important issues regarding in-vivo neutron activation (IVNAA) of the hand; the first relates to the optimization of operating conditions at the McMaster University 3 MV KN Van de Graaff accelerator to produce neutrons via the ⁷Li(p, n)⁷Be reaction for in-vivo neutron activation analysis and the second relates to the evaluation of the total dose equivalent delivered to the patient hand undergoing irradiation using a 1/2" diameter tissue equivalent proportional counter (TEPC). The operating conditions at the 3 MV KN Van de Graaff accelerator have been optimized by employing a long counter designed for this study to monitor the neutron fluence and a NaI(TI) detector to measure the ⁷Be activity produced as a result of (p, n) interactions with ⁷Li. It was observed that inefficient target cooling and the presence of oxide layers on the target surface resulted in lower measured yields than those calculated. The computational method described in this work to estimate the average radiation dose equivalent delivered to a patient's hand during irradiation employs the neutron and gamma doses measured using a 1/2" diameter TEPC and the quality factor of the neutron beam calculated by using the Monte Carlo radiation transport code, MCNP4B. Based on the the estimated doses delivered to a patient's hand, the proposed irradiation procedure for the IVNAA measurement of manganese in human hands (Med Phys 29(11) (2002) 2718) with normal (1ppm) and elevated manganese content can be carried out with a reasonably low dose of 31 mSv to the hand which is less than the recommended maximum permissible dose equivalent limit (50 mSv) for such diagnostic procedures. 63% of the total dose equivalent is delivered by the non-useful fast neutron group (>10 keV); the filtration of this neutron group from the beam will further reduce the dose equivalent to the patient's hand.
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I found Phillip's interaction with his sister very telling. He was weird with her, too, and not that warm or "normal" acting. I wonder what his family thinks of his antics on the show - if they're used to it?
Ho hum, no drama, no surprises, no nothing ... again. If you didn't know Andrea was next then you haven't been watching. Oh and Steve was next to the jury. How very underwhelming.
Has anyone ever gained any favor with the jury by giving away the family visit like Mike did? And to give it to those little #?*! who will vote him right back off if given the chance. Nincompoop.
So Phillip will have us believe that showing his butt and acting like a jerk was his strategy all along. Hey Phil, if I believed that I'd be as dumb as you. And his sister looked just as looney as he is.
As much as I don't like Rob, I'm actually rooting for him to win so maybe in the future Survivor won't recruit so many donkeys.
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I am a huge Rob fan but I was not pleased he hear he and Russell were coming back. I prefer a season with no "stars." It is just a better show.
What would be nice, since we all know what is going to happen next, is if the show mixes it up somehow. Possibly bringing back all of the Redemption Islanders and having a multiple elimation episode would be about the only way to inject some life into this season's corpse. It's going to be an incredible lackluster bore watching Rob and his toadies blindside each other until Rob makes it to the final three and everyone concedes what a Survivor prodigy he is and bequeaths to him his deserved million.
Rather than who will be this season's Survivor, I am more curious about how the reunion show is going to go down. Will it be a, let's not interview the Survivors but instead interview random celebrities colossal suck-fest, like last season? Most likely it will be the all hail the almighty divine superhuman brilliance that is Rob and his equally adept matriarch Ambuh and their Survivor phenom offspring who could win Survivor right now if the survivors were given formula instead of rice.